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There's something more important here than just controlling a TV with a fancy box. With modern digital TV's literally being about as good as a big monitor, and decent computers being small and cheap, it's just moving computing to the more comfortable chairs in the living room. Google and Apple have both realized this, and in the last few years a few TV manufacturers have made halting attempts at the same.

Except the software we can run on these has access to (theoretically) a vast streaming library of content with a robust, mature distribution channel and gigantic data pipes.

But I think it's only a little bit of time before these devices simply become part of game consoles. The Wii probably has the best nascent take on this (even calling apps, "channels").
So the "Surfing" app will make a mint.
For 9 bucks/month, I'm saving more than enough money to justify the service. When I want to find new music, I use Turntable.fm or Pandora.
is it works also with prepared statements ? or only with really lame code ?
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The problem isn't the networks, it's the infrastructure owners. They don't want to sell commodity bits through a dumb pipe, they want to provide premium content bundles.
IMO, you drive the roadster for the 0-60, not the top speed.
As I remember, $160 covered the first machine and bag of gumballs. We don't spend a lot on Christmas, so this was her "big" present that year. It was interesting listening to her telling her friends about what she got!

It took her about six months of operating to save up enough for the second machine. Once that machine was operational, it took another 4 months for the third machine, and so on. (I think the fourth was a birthday present). It's been a great applied lesson in exponential growth.

To answer the other commenter's question, she placed the machines in places she visited once a month anyway. Civic groups, local hairstylists, etc. A couple of these spots didn't work out, so she had to find new places.

I would be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed that these two are sitting at home (even though she still manages to weasel 1 or 2 sales a day from the family, the little rascal) and I've wanted to talk to her about placing her machines where there is lots of foot traffic, but I've been biting my tongue. Mostly. I figure you can't motivate somebody from the outside. Every month when she comes back home with her and mom holding a big bag of quarters, I feel like that should be feedback enough.
I don't know the details here, but I do know that Pandora has some patents in this area.
Haha true, but I'd always rather see 50 than none
If you enjoy reading long prose articles, with plenty of human content, do not let the following tl;dr: spoil this article for you:

tl;dr:

A cylinder of cobalt, probably used in a medical instrument. Things like that are understandably very expensive to properly and legally dispose of. Somehow it ended up in a heap of scrap copper.
Totally agree. Another thing is that your task is not always creative and flaring. Yes you've completed the proof of concept for the task everybody thought undoable, whooray, but now you have to cleanup the mess in the code, refactor everything and deliver something to the client or your boss. And this task involves doing some routine job like writing logs in exceptional cases, making application fool proof and etc.
"Simple substitution cipher" is a cryptographic jargon, that means substituting single characters for other characters or symbols, independent of their context or position.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution_cipher#Simple_subs...
This page was sent out to a bunch of YC founders before posting it here. Just scanning the list I see at least two YC alumni (and usually three or more) at every meal except for La Fiesta, where it's apparently just me so far!
Looks like it's still going strong: http://www.lightningcarcompany.co.uk/Lightning/Lightning.htm...
I think the gist of DF et al isn't that no one ever does it until Apple does it, but that no one ever does it right until Apple does it. Which I find myself agreeing with about ~70% of the time. Apple is rarely first or on the cutting edge, spec-wise, but they're almost always 2-10 years ahead of everyone else in terms of UX.
In my case, the punishment is that my new submissions are ignored. I can see them in the "new" section only if I am logged in.
Filters are quite a lot of fun, but they can't turn a crappy photo into a masterpiece. At best, they turn a bad photo into a mediocre on, or a decent photo into a good one. You can alter the mood, but in the end the subject matter needs to be interesting.

Not to say that filters are inherently bad. The "Mastergram" blog (http://mastergram.tumblr.com/) has some excellent examples of how masterpiece photos can be altered by Instagram but still retain that je ne sais quoi that made them masterpieces in the first place.
Screengrab equivalent for FF7?
Now that screengrab add-on is not supported for Firefox-7 and up, which add-on(s) are you all using?
Pulling mirror data:

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I've been using Spotify for 2 weeks now after using Rdio for 6 months and I rather like Spotify's Radio feature a lot. The recommendations I get from it seems no better or worse than Rdio's (for me) but I don't mind it and skipping tracks seems so seamless that I barely notice it. What really sold me on Spotify was Boxee support.
Even when fraud occurs they are not interested in going after the source unless that dollar amounts are high enough. I know this from personal experience on an e-commerce site. We detected blatant fraud happening, and the banks/card companies/processors don't care because the scale is too small. (lots of ~$100 purchases on many, many credit cards all to the same two or 3 addresses)
Making an amazing product doesn't always lead to turning a profit, especially in a business with as high fixed costs as the automotive industry. Note the many financial plagues of high-end automakers like Lamborghini/Bugatti/etc.

I think the Model S is a good step along the way to profitability -- a broader-market car that can help amortize more of the fixed costs.
Take a look at SaaSy.com. Recurring payments are supported. No credit card numbers are stored (we utilize tokenization for recurring charges), and we are PCI compliant. We support payments in Canadian Dollars, and the order page is translated into 19 languages. No monthly fee, you just pay a % of any revenue generated. It is extremely flexible.
I would definitely never apply to a job that advertise a "brogrammer" culture, and I do consider it inherently sexist. In fact, I would go so far as to say that any guy who thinks of himself as a "brogrammer" needs to do some serious soul-searching and start reading bell hooks.
Enforced standards of masculinity is patriarchal oppression, just like the objectification of women by those men. Stop defining yourself by your genitalia, get over your homophobia and accept that society is larger than your weird little cultural perspective.
The reason why I switched back to Rdio? They use your computer as a P2P network.

http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/how_exactly_does_s...
Americans didn't enslave Indians for centuries, have a civil war that created deep political fractions till this day, made it illegal for Blacks to read or drink from Whites-only water fountains, and then launch a series of legal structures that prevented Blacks from being treated as human beings.

In actuality, a landmark Supreme Court case was of an Indian man who wanted to own US property but couldn't and his defense was that he was related to Aryans and therefore could be considered White.

Black isn't so much a color, it's both an individual and collective experience, and the experiences of Blacks in America in relations to Whites is what makes race-relations and social, political, economic progress unique to Blacks as opposed to other ethnic groups who have faced discrimination and even oppression but not to the degree of Blacks.

The closest comparison I would make to Blacks and Indians is of the higher Indian castes and the Dalits (Untouchables).
So, yes, Black and Indians can be distinguished from one another and at the same time learn from one another.
What part of this is PG's fault?
I know that these are fundamentally different services, but if you have a decent home internet connection and a digital music collection you can easily set up a streaming server to listen to your tunes anywhere. I personally use Sockso, which made my mind up to not purchase spotify. I heard Subsonic is good as well. I only pay for the most basic cable internet package and I have no issue streaming my tunes anywhere I may happen to be.
I use to be like that. But I found that once I cancelled cable, my habits changed, and now I prefer to watch exactly what I've been looking forward to. Although not everyone will accept that change.
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While I have no problem with anonymous publishing, I much prefer to operate in clear sight under my own name. Not only for the obvious benefits to me (e.g. my work with iTunes jumpstarted my career), but because I strongly feel that what I do is completely in the right, and publishing it anonymously simply gives the wrong impression.
That's cool. But after just returning from a month long road trip across USA (I'm from Slovenia), I'm simply baffled by the lack of security when I'm paying with my Visa card.
In 97% of times I just swiped my card and the transaction was done. 1% of the time the cashier bothered to check my ID, 1% of the time I had to sign the check, and in 1% of the time I had to enter my PIN number. What the hell? I'm surprised any of you yanks still have any money left, considering how easy one can take all your money, if one comes into possession of your card.

Here you always have to at least sign the card (and the cashier checks the signature against the one on the card), but in most cases you have to enter your PIN number. And I live in fricking Slovenia who was, just 5 minutes ago, a part of a communist union ...

Anybody has an explanation for this lack of security in the states?
I have been to 9 grubwithus dinners so far and loved every one of them.. this is a really awesome concept!!
Eventually they should come up with 'Grubwithus Now' where people can join impromptu organized meals with a bunch of random strangers whenever they want to, instead of having to plan the thing in advance.
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Netflix uses 32.7 percent of bandwidth
Actually Skype's motivation is different.

Their system operates under an assumption that all its parts are genuine, and so it places implicit trust into every client and expects it to operate fairly for the system's overall benefit. You open this thing up and there will be 3rd party nodes that do not comply with system's semantics -- supernodes become few and far between (why the hell would anyone be willingly relaying the traffic while on any sort of metered connection?), someone would add an encryption overlay disabling any "lawful interception" provisions they have in place (which they most certainly have or they would've been simply blocked all over the world), someone else would find a weakness in their p2p encryption and start eavesdropping on relayed calls, etc. Does Skype needs this sort of headache? No. Hence the highly obfuscated and encrypted binary with numerous anti-debugging and anti-reversing traps, and their very active suppression of reverse engineering attempts. Skype would basically stop working if it is ever open.
That's not really the case in the software industry. There really are very few women in the field. That's why we need to call out stuff like this — so that female programmers' lack of visibility doesn't become an excuse to marginalize them.

I don't think it was intentional on the job poster's part, but the fact that he didn't catch how it sounded of proofreading definitely indicates a blind spot to sexism.
Fair enough; just wanted to point this out, as it would be a drawback in a scenario as above, or driving on the german Autobahn.
never thought about that... but it that happens with the two stock chargers, the iphone wall charger, the desktop dock, and with the car charger and running the GPS app.

the car charger+gps app is in fact the worst case, as it will not need touch screen usage to happen. and will happen very fast and all the time. so basically, using the gps for more then 20min, i know i will have to: press power button to turn screen off, press it again to turn screen on, type PIN, press the damn gps button i needed to press 2min ago.
Genuinely curious: Do you have a citation on the percentage CDBaby takes? I didn't notice one on their site, but I've not used them either.
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"I don't know what you mean by 'Albert Pujols lifetime batting average with two outs and the bases loaded'."

"If you like I can search the web for 'Albert Pujols'."

[Search the web]
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Reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiânia_accident
You only covered the "like them" aspect, what about the "fit a pattern that appeals to them" part?

Chinese and Indians fall into "model minority" stereotypes, which have their own set of evils (you are X so you must be good at Y is it's own kind of dehumanization). So someone making a gut call might have underlying prejudices for Asians and against blacks.

In other words, when is the last time a white person has crossed the street to avoid a Chinese/Indian person walking towards them. Ask a black guy when the last time that happened.

I think there are also many cultural differences at play, as well as people's perceptions of those cultural differences.

Startups take their own kind of crazy, and it really helps to be surrounded by people that tell you its ok to be crazy or are at least as crazy as you. And if you are going to be around crazy people, you will probably want to know that they are the same kind of cazy :) Being from different cultures (or assuming you are) will make it harder to sense this.
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LA seems to have none. I did a manual google search for each attendee (after going through individual profiles) and no one seems to be a YC alum. (I could be wrong, just looked quickly through 10 people)

They should just have a separate list for YC alum attending, kind of like you have for speakers at an event.
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Could be worse : apparently my IP is banned for comments and submissions.
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This assumes that talented programmers of each sex exist in fixed quantities. That isn't how the real world works. In reality, if you make women feel unwelcome in programming, many who would have been good programmers will just go into different fields, so the entire market ends up losing access to their talent.
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> Paul Graham (the creator of this site) commented on the App Store himself, and his words were not entirely of ignorant praise like yours are

And you will find just as many people who love the app store oh and 18,000,000,000+ downloads and counting should nicely prove those 2 year old prophecies wrong.
At the last Google I/O (2011) the V8 team mentioned they've done all the major optimizations they could and the focus should now be on DOM/CSS/etc to get more performance. I'm guessing that's why they have the Dart effort, to change the language to build a faster VM on top but maintain legacy support.

So from this point, how much faster can current JS get? Does Mozilla's JIT/VM approach have a higher performance potential than V8?

I think the major problem is the improvement speed of the web. Mobile OSs are rapidly advancing in features, speed and users, while web and its minions are complacent. They point to the old victory of open Web over closed AOL/Prodigy and pretend the situation is the same now - always bet on JS.

JS and the open web have a lot of political clout but I wouldn't bet on the technology improving rapidly when the decision making process is mired in politics. The open web can remain a dominant platform for a decade even if its technology stagnates. It's not much of a bet.

A major feature of Native Client is it allows a part of the web stack to be removed from the political circus. Look at CoffeeScript's popularity and usefulness. What if the creator had to ask Google/MS/Mozilla for their point of view, it would never happen. A piece of the stack, JavaScript, was flexible enough to avoid the open argument circus and be tested in production. What if it was more flexible?

That's what Native Client allows, to agree only on parts where we can't handle disagreement technologically and have more experimentation with the rest.
No, it's a platform I've built for multiple teams within my organisation. So far I have just two instances, but there's a chance that several of them may wish to show geographic information about the availability of healthcare services within the UK, so then numbers could get big very quickly.
You were turned down by one program? You sound really bitter and I can see why they turned you down - you're not ready to be an entrepreneur. As a person running a start up, you're going to get turned down A LOT. So what if YC or TS or any incubator/fund is accepting 1%? You try. You try again. You keep trying. As a woman founder, I face much tougher numbers. I don't stop because the numbers are stacked against me! I keep trying. I figure out ways to monetize without funding. I get feedback on how to be better. When someone tells me an aspect of my product is crap I consider it and improve. I don't write out rants about how someone else was to blame. And yes - YOU NEED MARKET VALIDATION. If you can't prove that people will use your product, why would someone invest in you. This isn't 1998.
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> Black isn't so much a color, it's both an individual and collective experience,
> and the experiences of Blacks in America in relations to Whites is what makes
> race-relations and social, political, economic progress unique to Blacks as
> opposed to other ethnic groups who have faced discrimination and even
> oppression but not to the degree of Blacks.

Typing this on a reservation, I would like to dispute your "unique" view. I feel compelled to mention Native Americans didn't exactly have it easy in america (e.g. forced marches, genocide, smallpox blankets, re-education, suppression of language and religion, etc). The death toll among the tribes is pretty high.

[I know the original Indian referred too, I was disputing the "unique" part]
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The real problem your honey-pot suggestion has is that there is a diversity of opinions and expertise across the site, and it's not the case that they're easily separable.

Should you discount someone's technical opinion because they are vocal about their political opinion? Because that's essentially what your system would do. And it would do so without notifying them that this was occurring.
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Chinese were effectively imported as a mass of slave labor, and American Indians were subjected to slavery and genocide. (The European colonies in America joined the African slave trade because the supply of American Indian slaves was being exhausted, as a matter of fact.)
What it means when you say "literally"
That was exactly my thinking when writing it.

I didn't think you (as in ia) was especially defending it, I was just trying to point out the logic was very wooly. Though re-reading my comment I was a little hot under the collar, so apologies for that.
Why? I'm aware of two people I know who don't have Facebook accounts. My sister who lives in a house bus, and a guy I used to work with whom we used to make tin foil hat jokes about.

Even my 80+ grandmother is on Facebook and she doesn't even own a computer, but she check it every week at her friends house. And get this she is thinking of getting a computer to use Facebook (and find recipes and knitting patterns).

Most people I know check Facebook every hour or some leave it open all day long. Many have IM hooked up so they can chat at will. So login rates are far as I'm aware are very high for the average person. I do hear the odd person who doesn't log in very often but I can stereotype them as grumpy sys admins who tend to hate everything and probably don't have the critical mass of friends to make facebook useful anyway. Because in reality it is a useless service if you aren't a people person.

Anyway thats a penetration level I can barely fathom, and from what I understand my experience is actual the norm and not the exception.

If you look at the metrics people pull out every so often, Facebook alone is larger than the entire internet a decade ago. One website is BIGGER than everything. How ridiculous is that? to be that big they could only do it with numbers which analysts are suggesting.
I thought they were phasing these functions out (mysql)? I've been using PDO for the last couple of years.
Google had the best idea. Just search for the show you want to watch, don't worry about the source. Unfortunately, big media companies – in their infinite shortsightedness – decided to torpedo the project.

By contrast, the app solution would be totally voluntary on the part of the content owners, but less elegant.

It would also mean that your access to content would be even more subject to corporate whims than they are now. Say a bug was introduced into the ESPN app. Now suddenly you've missed a quarter of the season because ESPNs app programmers couldn't post a patch fast enough. Or the PBS app gets taken down due to a patent infringement case and you miss the airing of the Prohibition documentary.
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I fell out my chair laughing when I read your comment.

I think it was sexist, but they did say women should apply too. It's hard to spin that one, but I see it as an honest mistake, these guys are obviously new to the "real world".
Heh, I was intentionally not using any of the explanatory metaphors. :) Trust me, in the many years we were at it I tried lots and lots of non-jargony, more-concrete, ways to get the concept across. I never found the one that seemed to click with everyone.

We also had the additional problem of trying to be the "next generation" of using RSS (application platform, dynamic filters, etc...) before anyone other than tech-inclined people "got" the first generation.

Learned lots of painful lessons from that company. :)
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You know what immigrant population, statistically, is even more successful than the stereotypical "model minority" Chinese and Indians? Immigrants from actual Africa.
None of this is PG's fault. I only made that the title of the post, because the financial analyst I talked to said the local fund I applied to said one of the reasons I wasnt eligible is that I applied to YCOMBINATOR. I meant this as a post to show whats wrong with the start up scene in most of the country. I feel that PG and ycombinator are part of the solution not the problem
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God i hope html5 moves fast so we don't have to be tied up behind "app frameworks" for long. Enough damage already
Hahah! Your daughter is going to be your boss someday. :)
Because none of your channels work anymore, they all need iOS 8 and a quad core CPU. Unless your talking about using it as a monitor?
Chinese and Indians are also not "like them"

Yes, they often are. One of the biggest names in the VC world is Vinod Khosla. Kleiner Perkins has a whole team dedicated to China. Accel has multiple Chinese and Indians on their US team (and dedicated China and India teams).

Every major SV VC firm looks like this. White (US), White (European), White (Israeli), Indian, and Chinese.

The "them" isn't just Caucasians, but it includes Chinese and Indians.
Thinking the same thing, right out of Spook Country.
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