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This is an important point that I think some people are forgetting. I use Verizon. They already have access to all of my text messages. I send my text messages to Verizon, who then forwards them on to the person I'm talking to. Just as Google first gets my email.
get's 4-5 times more expensive because of lack of demand?

Why would that happen? Tablets are simply low power PCs wrapped in a touchscreen LCD. If these tablets were optimized for performance instead of battery life many of them could outperform most consumer PCs.

My point is that PCs won't disappear, their functionality will simply transition into tablets as they become capable. A tablet + keyboard + mouse = a PC.
I currently rate 1756 karma and I contribute nothing of value to news.yc.

Getting karma here happens with little effort. I have trouble losing karma! It generally only happens when a comment really strikes a nerve[1] like in the suicide thread. My top level comment went pretty far negative (surprises me to see it back to 0 points). My nested comment with nearly the same sentiment as the top level currently sits at +29.

I never check a user's krama on HN prior to giving his opinion any weight. You have less karma than I do. Does that change anything whatever about this discussion? In fact you have a bunch of replies telling you how you get it wrong, and your dissenting comment has done just fine.

1 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3231574
Fair enough. Let me try and understand this. Facebook is a social network for sharing with close friends or family. Path, on the other hand, is a social network for sharing with close friends or family.

Understood.

Addendum: I hope Path finds it's "path" to success. I sincerely do. I just don't think it has enough differentiation in the social media space.
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Saving Chanel, but losing the web
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okay, where do you pay your taxes? because this is all that really matters in terms of business.
I really wish maps like these would display their data on cartograms related to population - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartogram. The open west always makes my eye come up with false conclusions at first glance.
What useful metric would keystrokes be part of? "Users tend to press the T key a lot..."
Not sure what it means for a particular technology to "die". A lot of "dead" technologies are "alive" and kicking in the Enterprise world. Perhaps "undead" is the word you're looking for...
I remember when a friend of mine got his first i-pad. We're both developers and he said he could do some basic editing with one of the included apps. First thing I thought was, "Oh yeah, I'm going to write code on a 7" screen as opposed to my 23" monitor."

The PC isn't dead and it won't be for a long time. Although there are a lot of lines being blurred between devices (tablets vs. smartphones vs. laptops), there's still a TON of people working at large corporations who you'll have to pry their PC's out of their cold, dead hands.
Well, we have all that on http://www.kendoui.com/, but unfortunately we didn't post this news piece.
I'm not concerned with Mozilla being non profit.

Here are some advantages of non profits: http://grantspace.org/Tools/Knowledge-Base/Nonprofit-Managem...

In exchange for being a non profit, the government gives non profits these advantages, and that relates to the public supporting the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.

Yeah, there are other mozilla foundations in other countries. There's some listed on the mozilla foundation wikipedia page.

I feel a little trolled, and have other things to do, and I also think this conversation is going nowhere - so am not responding any further.
Rdio has the same API, except it's web based so you can integrate into websites.
I miss the good old days when I could only send friend requests, not receive them. I guess clicking ignore every time isn't so hard. It was better back when people simply could find the "Add Friend" button though, there wasn't any risk of them being offended.
Saw your presentation at Montréal-Python, it was very good.

Have you played with pointfree (http://markshroyer.com/docs/pointfree/latest/module.html#mod...)? What do you think about it compared to Moka?
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My hunch is it's not really possible to choke like this unless something important in his life has gone seriously wrong.
Where did you get 10GB per day from? They boasted about PETABYTES of data they've collected.

"Carrier IQ, which in the second quarter of 2011 passed the petabyte milestone in processed analytics data"

-- http://www.carrieriq.com/company/PR.LarryLenhartCEO.pdf
JwanToo, jgrahamc and tptacek are questioning point 1. That is, they're pointing out reasons why it may not be a vector. We don't have enough information to know.
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It means "Our last major phone model had 3 in its name". Apple isn't going to go from iPhone 4S to iPhone 6, it'd just look like they can't count to most of the public.
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I'm pretty sure he was already a professor at CMU when he created and sold reCaptcha. Also of note, he won a MacArthur Genius award shortly after reCaptcha became mainstream.
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Vehicle density is itself a cause of increased accidents. If you normalized by it you would lose accuracy.
To make it more clear, 10 cars on the same road would increase the chance of an accident non-linearly. It would be more than 10x more likely to have an accident occur there simply because there is more chaos.
I was surprised to learn that Facebook has a "3 trusted friends" method for recovering your account without the original email or security question response.

EDIT: tried to find a better source for that, came up with https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-security/national-cy...

Looks like the feature is still being rolled out, and the attacker doesn't get to choose which friends he trusts.
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I'm not much of an entrepreneur, but I'm planning to move just across the border to Vancouver so I can live with the Canadian I've been dating for eight and a half years (it's not totally impossible for us to live together down here but it's just so much more of a hassle that it's not worth it).

Unfortunately when I last checked a few months ago no one was really looking to hire iOS developers up there.
The Law of Demeter applies here, even if traditional objects aren't being used. If the library that uses it encapsulates everything about it, or at least documents things that aren't encapsulated, it tends to work out just fine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Demeter
Well, this sure puts a different spin on the arrogance of the US Government. The new Aristocracy, those with "clearances", receive and can act on information that the rest of us can't be allowed to have. The Fed's "We just know better than you" attitude probably derives directly from this secret pool of knowledge.

But why would you divide up information into 15 or 20 categories? I bet that even at "Top Secret" levels, the narrowness of view is stultifying.
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Perhaps a "legacy" option to disable cascading?
The obvious (and fun) solution is to force these private equity markets to operate EXCLUSIVELY inside casinos. This would be the best way to get the masses to understand the realities of angel investing.
I'm not sure that your last sentence is possible. That is, if a device explicitly has an option to go outside of the garden, then I think most consumers will expect to still have full support.
You think Apple cares about locking down a device just for the sake of taking advantage of the ignorant masses?

The truth is a lot simpler than that. They aren't trying to enslave humanity. They are just control freaks with a culture of creating art. It's ingrained in their corporate culture that people shouldn't decide how to use Apple's products. They believe that they should control that.

Whether you agree with that or not is your own choice. But it's just plain stupid to say that there is some kind of plot against "freedom" here.
You nailed it — talent is a good starting point, but it takes much more than that!
First you claim that iOS is bad because a user could visit an untrusted website that runs the equivalent of the jailbreakme code and then later you claim that your web browsing is safe from zero-day vectors because you do not visit untrusted sites. Perhaps if iOS users were assumed to follow similar habits they would have similar security; if so then the problem is not with the device but with the person driving it. The two common solutions to this problem are user education (hasn't worked so far...) and pre-emptive blocking at the browser. Would you now argue that for the sake of security we need more of a walled-garden approach to the web so that general users can enjoy the same level of security that you do?
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The reactor is explicit. "Explicit is better than implicit." You don't have to always be in the reactor, if you don't want to. It lets people use Twisted to build GUIs and other things, without always being in the reactor's context. Twisted is a general-purpose networking library, not a tiny-web-servers-only networking library.

An example used to illustrate and educate does not necessarily result in the shortest code sample. That sample does not use twisted.protocols.wire.Echo, because it was decided that things should be explicit and obvious in the samples on the front page.

The reason for separating protocols and factories is simple: Sometimes you need to store per-connection state, sometimes you need to store per-server state. The separation permits developers to store things in factories instead of in global objects. Node doesn't have this distinction, and as a result, things like tracking all connections currently made on a server are cumbersome.

Another thing is testing. How should a person test the Node example? Every bit of the Twisted example is trivially instrumentable; I can access the protocol, the factory, the reactor. I could, if I wanted, replace the reactor with something mocked. There's no place to do that in the Node example.

I was gonna type out an IRC bot, the favorite exercise of novice coders, but I felt that would be petty, since there's no IRC library included in Node.
Oh, I'm quite familiar with sales models, and they don't really matter much here. Authorized distribution is a glorified honor system.

I can buy Chanel, Hermes, LV, or other luxury products and resell them at any super-low, cheap-as-dirt price I wish. There is no arrangement in which you can determine "by definition" that the products I'm selling at a ridiculously low rate are knockoffs.

I could be a moron business person and lose my ass. I could have decided to violate my retail agreement and do what I wish. I could have received a box of the stuff from a friend & resell it for $20 a pop. I could have stolen a shipment of goods or procured them in some other non-authorized fashion and yet still be selling, by definition, the genuine article.

I was taking issue with the erroneous assertion one could tell, by definition, that a cheap luxury product was a knockoff. There is no way to reliably determine by price alone. A dirt-cheap luxury good can certainly heighten one's suspicions of its authenticity, but the price alone is no defining factor in judging a knockoff from the real thing.
Not a direct mentorship per se, but definitely check out Mike Taber and Rob Walling's "Startups for the Rest of Us" podcast series: http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/

They also have a "Micropreneur Academy" which may interest you. Its basically a more detailed version of their podcast, giving tutorials/screencasts/forums detailing all the stuff you are asking about (niche markets, keyword research, conversion testing, mailing lists, adwords, etc etc)

*For the record, I'm not affiliated with Mike and Rob - I just really like their advice and style. :)
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This is awesome. My only suggestion is to allow the user to switch angles without changing the audio track. Since these are concerts, the audio track is going to be one of the most important things. Often times one video will have significantly better audio than the other ones. It'd be nice to be able to choose that one to stay constant. Alternately, it'd be awesome if there were a way for the bands themselves to upload the recorded concert audio.

I realize that often times getting the recorded audio for a concert can be a finicky matter, but maybe you could partner with one of the many music festivals that are cropping up to make it happen.
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How does this compare to parse.com, stackmob.com, etc..?
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It was the bit about ARM processors that made no sense -- the author since edited it out, since that wasn't the point he was trying to make! :)
I'm a physician. I'd never heard of "Medical Justice" before this story. I'm going to notify my own state Board of Medical Examiners about these kinds of gag "contracts", which in my opinion are completely unethical, if not downright slimy. Medical boards should get involved in investigating dentists and physicians who behave like this, and in taking a closer look at a company who would go after patients like this. I recommend others consider contacting their own state Board.
I use Python a lot. And I encounter these problems often enough for them to be very annoying.

> So can you if you hit "}" or ";" at the wrong time in a braceful language...

The difference is that when you hit "}" or ";" the effect is always the same, it's always visible, and it's always possible to undo by hitting DELETE. If you hit either of those characters N times, you can always undo that by hitting delete N times.

This is not true for the tab key. The effect of hitting TAB depends on the context. Determining whether your last press of the TAB key had an effect or not requires that you remember the previous state, and so undoing the effect (or lack thereof) of hitting TAB requires that you remember the previous state. And if you ever do a block auto-indent at the wrong time you are pretty much hosed.
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He also used a Facebook user's credentials to hack into her (?) email account.
Canadian expat here. You missed one thing: a dramatically smaller talent pool.

The brain drain for coders from Canada to the USA is immense. It's not a trickle, it's a full-on broken dam. I'm making easily double here what I would in Canada, even if you account for tax and cost of living. Software engineers, in general, simply don't get paid well in Canada. The ease of securing a TN visa also means that there is effectively very little barrier to anyone who wants to bail to the south side of the border.

I can't speak for everyone - but amongst myself and my other Canadian expat colleagues, a very large portion of the Canadian coder population that have the chops to get hired have left. What does this say about the talent pool that remains?

That's not a great position to work from.

Disclaimer: I am not at all claiming there aren't masterful coders in Canada, but rather that a lot of the wheat has left the country, leaving an extra heaping serving of chaff.

The funny thing is, among my Canadian colleagues here in the US, it's almost universal to want to return to Canada. The health care is sane, society is more peaceful, and the quality of life is noticeably higher than just about any US city I've been to.

Those conversations inevitably, and always, turn into us sitting around nursing beers, and wondering where in the hell we'd work in Canada that'd satisfy us professionally.

Biggest software names in Canada? EA? SAP? RIM?!

This is somewhat OT from the entrepreneurial side of the question, but also relevant. The job market in Canada has a lot of code monkey jobs, and not a lot of meaty software jobs that hackers crave. Much of the reason why there's such a huge drain of programmers from Canada to the US is not just the pay difference, but also professional satisfaction. I can't move home because almost nothing in Canada will present the level of challenge, the level of impact, that I can have here.
Right. Does this mean that me and two of my friends can just decide to stage a coup on any of our mutual friends' accounts?

EDIT: Yeah, apparently it does. Sweet. Time to scour /b/ for some truly horrible shit to plaster peoples' profiles with. Also highly recommended: changing their birthday to tomorrow.
Not necessarily. In most circumstances there's no duress since a patient can visit a different physician. The case of someone who is in severe pain, has already waited 3 days, and has every reason to think that he might need to wait another 3 days if he opts to see a different physician is an exceptional one.

(And even in the absence of a contract, there's a quasi-contract, so a finding of duress wouldn't obviate the requirement to pay for services rendered.)
Well, for one, because the legion of fandroids would be here raving about the "evil Apple empire" if this story were about Apple, as it is about Android these same fandroids are saying that Apple are just as bad, if not worse.
This guy Lee, who fought back, is a hero to me. Everyone benefits when someone takes on systemic abuses of law and power. Bravo!
That surprised me too. When trying myself I wasn't able to reach that method. I could be "doing it wrong", it could be no longer active, or may not work with an account tied to gmail. Has anyone else been able to do it?
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We're a consumer facing music startup in this summer's batch, are enjoying exponential growth (http://bit.ly/vz9U7v -- 5MM monthly uniques!), and were selected by peers as among the most likely to succeed (2nd of 63). So far, it's just the three founders, and we're looking to hire our first employee. We're keeping our funding stealth, but we'll obviously tell you who we are if we like you!

About You

You're a New York-based ace Rails programmer who can start contributing immediately. You should also be comfortable with certain non-programming tasks, including feature design, communicating with users, and data analysis. We're looking for someone who can grow with the company, with responsibilities scaling up accordingly. It'd be great if you're familiar with Git, Heroku, SCSS, Facebook and Twitter APIs, StackOverflow, & Coffeescript.

We're going to offer great compensation for someone good (salary, significant equity, long list of benefits, etc.).

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If interested, send us a résumé along with the following via email at hugememe@gmail.com --

* A little bit about your technical background, including something brief about what you like and dislike about the technologies you’ve used.

* What have you built online that you’re proud of? We're interested in open source contributions, weekend projects, your own start up, whatever. Bonus points for projects where you did everything start to finish. So a beautifully-written Ruby module is less impressive than the end-to-end implementation of a cool web app (back end, front end,
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* Your website or blog, github account, Stack Overflow account, or any other web presence you're proud of.
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Interesting, looks like the previous owner neglected to tell me that someone was killed in my driveway back in '07.
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Actually, that was in response to a previous request for a dedicate chaining syntax. This syntax is actually more useful for dealing with when chaining is already implemented.
So where does the investor obtain the information to perform due diligence? Are companies required to file reports? If so, with whom do they file them?
Are you being deliberately obtuse? I honestly can't tell.

First of all, I don't trust anyone from my social circle not to be a vector for malware on the Internet, just as I don't trust them to not be a vector for real-life viruses and bacteria. If they have been compromised, they can be an unwilling vector. Toward that end, I have an immune system, as well as additional strategies such as vaccinations, hand washing, good nutrition, etc., to help protect myself.

Websites that have been compromised can be a vector for malware. Even HN could be a vector for malware. You can't simply trust that it isn't.

Second, your "answer" has nothing to do with my question. I asked which websites you trust, not which software repositories you trust. Browsers can and have had flaws that permit malware installation and other arbitrary code execution without an affirmative action on your part.

So I say again, more forcefully, which websites do you trust so completely that you believe they can never be a vector for malware?
Games consoles don't pretend to be anything other than games consoles. They don't try to make it sound like you should service all your computer needs with one.

At least, I've never seen even the faintest hint of a games console implying it could be used to email the boss a copy of the spreadsheet you created on it.
> However, the best games have always been running on PCs first, often with exclusivity. [list]

Confirmation bias. See Mario, Contra, Chrono Trigger, Sonic, Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, Halo, Alan Wake, Uncharted, Metroid, Heavy Rain, Sega Rally, Gran Turismo, Tekken, Street Fighter, Soul Edge, Forza Motorsport and the list can go on.
Turn it into a "website e-card" that people send to each other just by posting the URL on their Facebook walls, etc.

Similar to how people post "www.babynames.com" whenever there's a chance someone got pregnant. Or "www.lmgtfy.com" for easy to answer questions. Be the go-to URL for the 21st birthday crowd.
Thanks for letting us know. I actually have an iPad app currently in the store (approved in October) that only supports top-up portrait. I guess it really depends how picky the reviewer wants to be. I will make sure I fix it before my next update.
Oh there's this thing called SRED which can be double edged sword.

On one hand, you get back half of your expenses paying salary and all that stuff and on the other hand, it makes your balance sheet looks profitable even though in reality, a few companies are actually on the red.

When it comes to paying jobs and cost of living, my idiotic brain usually look at the situation this way (this is by no mean the right way to make a decision but I use it for my own regardless):

Let's take one O'reilly book and turn back to check the price. Canadian is always more expensive right? (Due to currency exchange or whatnot).

Let's take the same job (Software Developer) salary average given the same experience level: intermediate. One might receive about $80-100k in the US while in Canada, they might receive $65-75k. Plus the jobs aren't that many here.

Canada: higher nominal cost of living and lower nominal. income.
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