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netcraft confirms it ...

I can't help but feel that this is part of a bigger reaction which itself will slowly kill the company as Google loses its way.

Was a public reason ever given besides "streamlining" ? If Google's business is getting eyeballs, you'd think an already built service would be a no-brainer to keep in maintenance mode. I can't imagine it used so many resources as to make it a net-negative, but perhaps I'm wrong.
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I agree it's tricky to start with. Though if you've got a funnel with numbers that work, it's the difference between making a few cents per customer, vs a few dollars per customer.
That's the point of the suit. The DMCA leaves you open to penalty if you submit false claims.
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Not a comment specifically on your app, but I found it amazing how quickly I closed out of this when the tutorial video showed up. I hadn't really thought of this before, and it might just be me, but most tutorial videos make me want to leave your site as quickly as possible.
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I bought a Mac to partially do Java development, but I also do .NET development on a Windows VM via Fusion. I've been extremely happy with the setup. I also do Ruby development, and was working in Windows with an Ubuntu VM. I would do Java and .NET on Windows and Ruby (and some Java) in the Ubuntu VM.

With the new consolidation, I've got a solid Unix OS as my primary, and just drop into Windows when I need to work on Windows-specific stuff. It's been great. I don't think I could quite settle for Ubuntu as my primary OS, but Mac OS is a pretty solid day to day operating system. The only thing it's really missing that I haven't settled on is Visio (I know about Visio alternatives, but I need an app that can read and WRITE Visio format).
Not yet, but these things are converging. There are already fledgling implementations of a lot of these tools available for iPads.
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Just listing a state (e.g., Utah) in a drop-down list could get you sued there
I put that in there because I write Objective-C all day and worked at Apple for a year and, so yeah, I'm a fan of the comedy option. That reminds me I need to check out gnustep.
how often do you use that feature?
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> there almost seems to be correlation between popularity and sketchiness in this field, and I can't figure out why

Domains are a commodity; people want them cheap. Expensive things signal high status—so, conversely, low-status things signal cheapness.
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Sweet and simple hack. Nice work fellas.
Oracle will be able to keep Solaris alive for a long time. The hardware supportability and start/stop/start on Intel platforms really hurt them, but it will survive in niche markets and still has advantages (ZFS, dtrace to start, I'm sure you'll find more if you dig).

If you have "regular" hardware (1-4 sockets), you pay 1k/server/year. No "I know what I am doing" with this OS, but meh. 5+ sockets is 2k/server/year.

This is really, really too much if they want to re-kindle Solaris as mainstream thing. FreeBSD seems like a safer bet then OpenSolaris.
The Android feature is actually more robust than that: Click "Install" in the browser on your desktop, and seconds later, the app is installed on your phone. Without having to ever touch the phone.
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If you're looking for general data points, this is my primary means of installing applications on my Android phone. Only ~1/5 of my apps were installed using the on-device Market app.
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http://codesearch.google.com/codesearch#&exact_package=c... is a specific instance of codesearch for Chrome code. It even cross-references code to its users/implementations, something that it doesn't do for other code.
Fuckin god damn right. Use some common sense m-fers. ;)
Same problem on my iPad but I found the solution: use 2 fingers to scroll.
I can't disagree more. I am the kind of person that is very unlikely to ever sign up for a site that doesnt have some kind of demo or a video. It takes only a minute or two to passively watch a video to see if something might be interesting, where signing up to use some new service is way past my level of interest. A video is a much lower barrier to entry than much else.
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Are you aware of the automated "content-infringement" detection systems that youtube uses? If you post a clip from a movie or tv show that youtube has in its library of "stuff not to be infringed" then your video will automatically be taken down.
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I don't think streamlining was ever even public ally mentioned. It just became know that's Jobs said that to Page. More to te point, they weren't /getting/ enough eyeballs. Their revenue is more or less through ads, and since the main listed reason was financial...
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Just as if the whole situation weren't complex enough already, a lot of online "file locker" services deliberately make it difficult to mass-download content -- one common practice, for instance, is to throttle users to one download per IP per hour or so unless they've registered and/or paid. While this is ostensibly to encourage users to register/pay/not download excessively, I can't imagine it makes things any easier for rights holders.
I didn't see this in the comments above, but the whole time I'm thinking to myself: 50k at the 40% bonus tax rate == 30k. That's still nice, but that's significantly less than if they just paid you that over the course of 5 years.
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> But we're not talking about search.

You're right and this is the key to the whole problem. The Supreme Court has ruled that the Fourth Amendment does not protect a person against a search unless the search violates a person's "reasonable expectation of privacy."

So the police can search through your garbage, phone records, or bank statements because supposedly you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in those things since you've abandoned/given away your garbage to the trash co, let the phone co know who you want to talk to, and allowed the bank to keep track of your money.

So, the reasoning goes, a search of those things is outside of the Fourth Amendment: it's not even a (4th Amendment) search. Even though every non-lawyer normal person knows that it is. A search is just an attempt to look for something. And people normally do expect privacy in their their garbage, phone records, and bank accounts.

So now government can use dragnet software to continually track everyone's phone calls, bank transactions, internet usage, maybe email (people allow Google to read their mail so that Google can serve up relevant ads), maybe unencrypted wifi communications. No doubt in the future government robots will comb through everyone's garbage at the dump looking for evidence of crime. Next to this, planting tracking transponders on a car doesn't seem like such a big deal.

> If you're placed under arrest for any reason, you can be searched, your person can be searched, any belongings you're holding can be searched, and your immediate vicinity (ie, the passenger compartment of your car) can be searched.

I don't think the search incident to arrest is quite that broad. The police can search you and your immediate area for weapons and evidence that may be lost or destroyed, but, for example, I don't think they could search inside a locked briefcase, sealed letter, laptop, or cell phone (see http://www.policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseac...). They also can't search your car for evidence of a crime for which they don't have probable cause if they already have you in handcuffs in their patrol car. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_v._Gant)

> (Lie detector tests are also a psychological ploy; they don't actually do anything.)

Successful passage of a lie detector test has been enough to get prosecutors to drop rape charges in a he-said-she-said case. (I was interning at the public defender's office at the time.)

Thanks for the reply. This discussion helped me to clarify my own thinking.
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Flagged. Also, whoever the other guy is looks like the ass in this exchange.
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In its current form, adding a bookmark on a mobile device or iPad is impossible. You need to find a way to let users do that. You also need to add a way that people can delete there accounts since you're asking for our phone numbers
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"many web apps" do. But they don't have to. That's a choice the developer makes. That's super easy to fix, too.
"To pay off my college loans and car loan, I bought Macs from the bookstore and sold them on eBay. This consumed my life for about 3 weeks."

So you're the reason why they put the limits on education purchases.

Dick move.
This is correct. I have a relatively high karma score on HN. When I post, I usually go to the top of the thread in either the #1 or #2 spot. This is an example of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, not some secret plan to up vote the Patrick.
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thanks for the feedback geuis.

shoot me an email [satjot at appquu dot com] and I can delete your account.
that's not the web's fault... that's the fault of most developers doing the web wrong, refusing to separate content from presentation.

If mobile users only need service-type apps, the web can provide that. Programmers just have to write the screens.

The Web is a dumb terminal. You fill in a form, press XMIT or the equivalent, and get the next screen. Just because someone decided that the content needs to be jammed in a 900px table cell doesn't mean the web can't do mobile too.
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The subject of the talk should have alerted any potential visitor of upcoming profanities. Plus the situation with these conferences is most of the time a mixture of speakers trying to appeal to different levels of audience members-from students to professionals, from academics to business. I think these are two different issues, one the lack of content and the other her complaining on the presentation.

If a talk turns out to be disappointing there is always the option to leave, sneak into another talk, have a break, go outside, bond with other "leavers" and so on. There will always be individual preferences in regards to conference presentations and content but expecting that they have all to fit to ones personal preferences (and values) seems a bit unrealistic.
Agreed. And for some apps, where you need to work offline, native is great. But for apps that require a network connection to work, I don't see the point of a native app.
I found my document/textfile/video/data on your hard drive, and you didn't pay me a ridiculous amount of money for it. So I'm going to sue you for compensation.

Seems like a terrific profit model. Spread your data files far and wide, get millions of people to download it, then make profit doing takedown and settlements. This problem isn't going to be fixed, because if you were to fix it, the people making profits would cease making profits, because then they would be unable to sue anybody for profit, and nobody would buy their lame content for their ridiculous price. Corruption makes me sick.
Get it in writing and make sure it can't be taken away. Google had a leave policy after 5 years of tenure that they yanked during the great shrinking of 2008-9. You could go off for something like 9 months and your options would continue to vest. I think maybe even your health insurance stayed active, too. Then you could come back and keep on going.

Apparently they had a problem with people taking leave and then never coming back. Instead of fixing the actual problem (people not wanting to return -- wonder why...), they took away the benefit.

This was pretty crappy for those of us who were pretty close to it, or who had earned it and hadn't scheduled it yet.
maybe tutorial videos should have a button on the bottom that says - "skip the video and use the service"
Oh, I see. Thanks, I somehow missed the "any machine" part of the comment.
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In no part of that picture does the reality of the situation change.
Solution for the companies: Recognize that infringements are not uniformly distributed and resign yourself to the fact that enforcement can never be perfect and that you can only knock over the big, confirmed cases.

Solution for society: Recognize that bending the law over backwards to provide perfect security for big content companies has costs in excess of benefits and isn't worth it, especially given the availability of the previous solution.
The motivating factor I've seen is the fact that somehow, people got it in their head that in order to be legitimate, the "app" has to be in the App Store. This is one reason why we have a mobile app, which offers nothing we couldn't already do with jQuery Mobile. We're not using the accelerometer. We're displaying data.

But "being in the app store" is more important to our users right now.
Oh I don't want to delete mine. It just occurred to me that some folks might want to.
Oh sorry I didn't realize my poll came out as trying to seek advice. I'm currently in a PhD program in CS and I'm happy with it. I'm not sure what I would have chosen when I was just entering college though, not knowing really anything about either field.

I talk to a lot of people currently in school and who have graduated from CS who complain that CS didn't prepare them for the real world and there are a lot of concepts they will never use from a CS degree anyway.

My thinking was that CS is to SE as Physics is to EE or something along those lines. That is, CS as its currently taught isn't theoretical enough in my opinion. I could see a pure CS degree dropping such courses as databases and operating systems in favor of more algorithms and statistics or more programming language classes.

I think CS can make a person a very strong programmer but I can see how many people just don't care for the more theoretical aspects.
Profanity when speaking in public shows a distinct lack of respect for the listener and those within hearing distance.

Anyone who tells you otherwise lacks skill, manners and discipline.
things I found 'odd':

* The "exception handling" (or lack thereof). Defer, panic, and recover do provide an interesting means to achieve some similar behavior, but I ended up testing return values _a lot_, and all over the place. It felt very boilerplate and messy. Also, I found it odd that they claimed that the 'try-catch-finally idiom' was convoluted, then came up with defer, panic, and recover. Which calls code on function exit. I liked defer (great way to clean up allocations in reverse on the way out), but I did not find panic-recover as a convenient replacement for exception handling (nor does that seem to be the proper use-case for it anyway).

* new vs make. I don't see why they didn't just unify these in some way. Purity over pragmatism, perhaps.

* goto

* static compilation only (no shared libraries). I know static libraries are safer and sure do make deployment dreamy, but it would be nice to benefit from shared libraries if desired (easier to deploy security fixes, memory savings, etc).
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http://www.newsfeedy.com : news stories, links, and pictures for topics that are trending on twitter or google. It's a quick way to catch up on breaking news. I just added filtering this week.
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I believe you are conflating incomplete information (the game theory term) with probability (statistics).

If a random variable is truly random, there is no information in samples of the variable. Updating your plans in response to a random variable is like blindly betting that the previous dice roll will be the next dice roll -- any successful gambling strategy must rely on real knowledge of the underlying probabilities. However, you _can_ measure the probabilities as you go, updating your "best guess" with each sample: Bayesian models are an example of this.

The author is instead talking about incomplete information. In game theory, a game with incomplete information is not the same as a random variable. Software engineering is a good example of a game with incomplete information: pick your favorite piece of software. But pick one that (as far as you know) has no bugs. With 20/20 hindsight, you can determine how long it took to produce that software.

The author says the probabilities come from not knowing everything in advance. Once you know exactly how the software _should_ behave, you've written the software.
The counter point is very valid in so far that if you describe this act as a "Demonstration of Ten Dirty Sex Acts and How to Perform Them" that you will get similar reactions by self-proclaimed saviors of morality as they received to their talk.
Well what other reporting angle are you hoping for? They can hardly have an article which leads off with the launch and then mentions in paragraph eleven that "Oh, by the way, it's stuck in Earth orbit and will probably never get anywhere near Mars, sorry"

On the other hand, it's a bit sad that there was barely any coverage of this prior to the launch. I'd heard of the lander, but had no idea it was scheduled for launch this year, let alone this week.

Here's hoping they fix it.
That is a kind of freedom, perhaps, but it isn't liberty. China is notoriously short on liberty.
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Mostly because we'd had the words "Earth" and "Planet" for a helluva long time before we realised that the Earth was a planet.

The sense of "Earth" which came first was the sense of "soil", so our planet is really just called "Soil". It's interesting to think about the process by which our ancestors figured out that "earth" wasn't just the substance underneath their feet, it was also a place.
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The one child policy of China is pure evil. It's a wonder the forced abortions and these effects don't feature more prominently in this discussion.
There are 3 competing browsers, which will press Chrome to be in shape, flesh was a monopoly.
It'll really be fantastic when media companies like WB are just a bad memory.
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Yes! The Etherpads found an old copy of the underlying file and gave it to the Stypis, who converted it to their representation.
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It started out that Apple wasn't going to support Java and Oracle didn't say anything for a while. Then a month later or so Oracle announced that they had come to an agreement with Apple that would get them the support they needed and they would be supporting Java on Mac OS X from now on.
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My point is that the number of people with engineering degrees in the U.S. is not equivalent to the number of qualified, experienced software developers. As many people work in software development who do not hold a computer science-specific degree, a shortage of people obtaining these degrees should not be used to justify importing foreign workers. That is basically the point I am trying to make but its a complex issue and hard to fit into a few comments. Unless a field has a licensing / credentialed program to qualify for employment (from my understanding this is the case in the "hard" engineering fields) then its my opinion that companies should not be allowed to essentially freeze out Americans who do not hold degrees (but have relevant experience) while, at the same time, importing foreign workers who have foreign degrees. If they don't want to hire people without degrees, that is their own decision to make, but they shouldn't get a "bail out" at the same time by using the "degree argument" to justify importing cheaper labor.
On the other hand, there are theories that the universe is literally infinite (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse#Tegmark.27s_classifi...), in which case the probability that you exist is 1. Actually, an infinite number of copies of you.
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We'll be in Palo Alto next week (11/14 - 11/20) and wanted to check out any startup-related events/meetups in the valley or SF.

It doesn't have to be tech necessarily-- if there's something that's just authentic about the area that we should checkout we'd love to hear it.

If there aren't any responses, we'll just buy a keg and will install a zipline from the chimney of our airbnb house and will hope Justin Timberlake comes to help us raise money.
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I looked around for costs; basically the original copyright holder has to prove damages. Since most people using Youtube, et al, are not making that much profit, the DMCA-issuers won't face significant penalties for misusing DMCAs.

Seems like I won't get much penalties for taking down the trailers because it's hard to prove damages.

http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2010/02/27/the-economics-of-...

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100302/0432448359.shtml
I think it is really important that people understand that stuff like this can happen even when you win the 100 to 1 bet that you are working for the next Zynga and not the next $NAME_A_STARTUP_RANDOMLY.
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My startup, Grosper.com does group buying for home rentals. The way we make money is by taking commissions from users and landlords for every deal that goes through us. However, in terms of scalability, it is a very labour intensive process and thus, we have been looking at different types of business models that are more web friendly and less labour intensive. I was wondering if the hackers here had any ideas on how we could move away from the commission model to a more self serving and scalable solution.
Very cool. Like how lightweight it is, sending me an SMS is slick.

Kind of wish you suggested more than just 4 apps, it'd be fun to browse a bunch and really take this for a spin.

Minor feedback: your "30 second video" is 55 seconds :)
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So not being sexist makes an industry boring? Maybe we need to throw in some racism and make things even more edgy!
I think most people think of data loss as data that is gone forever.

That doesn't excuse a large bug like this from existing, but it doesn't contradict his assertion.
Yes, and often content is misidentified there too. I posted a anti-COICA video made with Xtranormal -- it was erroneously tagged as including content from Comcast Entertainment and banned outside of the U.S. (somewhat ironic, no?)