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Is it going to be that confusing? Most people have their choice made for them by their PC manufacturer which is usually the home version unless their IT department specifies something else.

Most of these editions won't be widely available on the shops either I bet, there will be specific versions for enterprise users or for ARM etc. The real choice will come down to 2 versions (or so) as it has with win7.

If you are buying the OS itself as an upgrade then it is probably because you want specific features and your going to want to be able to choose the edition you have.
It was a more of a 'dude, calm down'. You're shouting and swearing and getting angry

Swearing? You mean the "have you read the fucking article" kind of swearing? And shouting? You mean emphasizing "real world" with uppercase, because HN doesn't allow bold? ...

at a couple of guys who's declared motive was to try and fix the information exchange model for everyone and make the world a better place. I assume none of us here are naive enough to think that there's not a chance that at some point in the future it might get worse, but their actions so far show nothing to be concerned about.

One of them has already quit. VC money are in. Since you agree there is such a chance, then I merely pointed out that it's reasonable to "be concerned about" it.
I like the article. I'm kind of at that point in my software development career where I have gained enough confidence in my abilities using particular technologies and frameworks that I feel perhaps it's time to start "giving back." I always immediately turn to blog posts as the way to help... I never think to run a workshop. I've enjoyed sharing my knowledge with the few friends and family that have "tech" interests.

Hmm... any people in the DC area want to meet up and talk about Grails?
Working often with american programmers, I can tell they often have a hard time including globalization in their code. On the other side, they are usually also quite capable folks, and once they get it they apply it consequently and efficiently. But possibly the culture is not there yet at the beginning.

Still I don't get why not expanding aggressively globally, as the code base exists and the cost of delivering in additional countries should be marginal for most. Too much VC money flowing in maybe?
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I hope i can do one in Frankfurt before the Startup Weekend Rhine-Main in June.
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The machines are very sensitive to vapors offgassed by green dyes, but it is a psychosomatic allergy, much like RSI. (That's why cabs are yellow in color.) If you politely explain to the driver (within earshot of the machine) that you do not have cash, the machine will recover temporarily.
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> I estimate the chance of a legitimate file being deleted by this process at 1% or less.

That's not very comforting for customer who might want to pay to store files there.

Especially not given the long stream of high profile cases of mistaken takedowns at sites like Youtube.
But the fact that they make the dumps available shows that they do in fact "give a flying @#$! about the community" and they don't "only care about keeping the community happy enough that they keep giving them intellectual property for imaginary currency so they can sell it for real currency".

The community would be happy enough by just getting a decent alternative to EE - the data licensing and dumps go well over and beyond that.

The blog post is essentially criticizing them not for something they did, but for having the mere possibility of doing something to screw up the community, even when they took important steps to reduce that risk. Seems completely unfair to me.
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Hungry is the problem and eating is the solution. You are solving the problem, so I would go along the lines of eating.
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Not a bad article, but it misses the key two words of the whole thing:

Price discrimination.

Price discrimination is attempting to get the maximum price a person or organization would be willing to pay.

Apple doesn't do that -- they just go 100% upmarket. Microsoft has the challenge of trying to get top dollar from wealthy people using top-notch machines while also preserving all their market share at the low end of the market.

It's hard to say which model is better. Apple's is sexier and wins more spectacularly, for sure, and I love Apple. I'm all-in on Apple. But the Apple model is also immensely more prone to catastrophe. Two bad product cycles in a row, or missing an emerging trend and it might be curtains for Apple again. Well, they have the huge cash position. But it could get pretty ugly if they miss the boat, whereas Microsoft can even endure a mess like the huge delay post-XP followed by the heavily-panned Vista, and still be okay.
Since it happened slowly, over decades, with real help from external forces like terrorists, and we did not "wake up" then, we certainly are not going to suddenly wake up now.

The world is slowly sliding towards a semi-free market/totalitarian government like Singapore has.

Totalitarian states like China are moving towards a bit more free markets. Formerly free states like the US and western Europe are moving towards more totalitarian state powers.

The key seems to be as long as the economy is OK people don't revolt. Look at the Arab spring vs. how prosperous and peaceful Singapore is.

Wasn't freedom nice while while it lasted? I wonder what our grandkids' reaction will be when we try to tell them how things used to be.
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You still don't know whether or not the other 9 instances are infringing.
I'm expecting someone to produce a fully open hardware stack sooner or later - there's already a freely available sparc processor design, and I recall some open-source people working on a fully open graphics card. (Of course you still have to trust your fab, but that's not very different from trusting your compiler).
Their article is missing the source link

http://windows8beta.com/2012/03/exclusive-windows-8-sku-reve...

A week back there was this rumour of only 3 editions:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/seo/windows-8-skus-mentioned-on-hp...
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The same thing happens in Japan too .. http://camp-fire.jp/
It seems like it would be feasible to split the coins across wallets, with more hassle surrounding the wallet with most of the coins.

I can't think of any huge disadvantage to manually managing the float on the transaction server.
The management-heavy buying process still applies, however - as support and service contracts become extremely important for large organisations, and are essential to their operations.
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It's startups all the way down!

/inception
I've been using this tool for a while, and I really think it captures the needs and concerns of a consultancy (Are we going to make our time/budget) in a way that tools like Pivotal Tracker just can't match.
"that group of recent and fashionable databases which are primarily key/value stores with some traditional database features added in to varying degrees" is exactly what the term means.

So I guess it works.
At some point Stack Overflow may turn 'evil' but I personally have received a lot of value out of the site and I am willing to give it the benefit of the doubt that will be able to come up with a business model that will not alienate users and contributors. I personally feel a little bit more concerned with the changes being introduced by Quora (the point currency stuff) than what Joel and the rest of the team has done with Stack Overflow so far.
"Blossom is licensed under the GPLv3 for non-commercial use; commercial licenses will be available soon"

Is there anything in GPLv3 that would disallow a commercial website using the library?

(Blossom can also be used to generate native mobile apps, in which case you obviously need to buy a license for closed-source apps.)
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Depends on the jurisdiction, especially whether or not they have provisions for backups or other personal use.
When you talk to them you realize that on Stack Overflow, answering questions is about learning

I want to reiterate this point, for a while I would make it a point to check the latest questions on Stack Overflow for various languages I was decent at and try to answer a couple every day. There were lots of questions in which I knew 80% of the answer, and the process of discovering the last 20% always helped me learn something new. Between just reading answers to random questions and doing that, I found it to be a really awesome way to become a more knowledgable developer.
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Why use a captcha in a login page?
Your summary elides quite a bit of the quackery of that article... Illuminati, Jesuit secret agents, Federal Reserve...
Breaking the law is against someone's religion? Whose?
I think the typical argument is by analogy to theft.
I do not believe implementing something like you describe is viable right now.

Although, AFAIK, bitcoin 0.5+ support keys encryption. I am not sure if this available only through GUI or through API as well, but even if it is not available through API, it might be good idea to implement.
That's solid advice. AND it JUST happened to me. Another entrepreneur with ZERO credibility in the space that I'm operating in flat out told me that another company is ALWAYS going to deliver a feature better than we are. My knee-jerk thought was "Who do you think you are? Jeff Bezos?" I disagreed and later said I would think about options.

I should get into the habit of stepping back and absorbing what just happened or what was just said. Although I still disagree with the delivery of the message, I do see some insightful gems from the casual conversation. And you always have to have thick skin in the startup game. Nay-sayers are everywhere but there is wisdom all around you. You always need to listen for it.
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I think the culture is too different, I also think their education system has something to do with it, relatively few go the gymnasium and then to university(thus study formal computer science) where as in the US, university is something everyone is expected to do. I am not sure how their vocational education is for computer science, or even if their expected or encouraged to start up on their own.
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They could have just hired someone with a little design sense at oDesk. A designer from Philippines would have probably cost them like $5/hour. All they would have to do is approve the selections already made by the review guy(s).
Definitely not. Furthermore you must be able to proof that you actually lost the money according to Danish legislation, so you will have a hard time sue'ing for millions of dollars for a short outage caused by an accident.
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Would definitely be in, let's keep the event dead simple: No long date + time discussions, just pick a date ~2 weeks from today (weekday!) and choose a nice location, where we can make a reservation. Maybe something in the "Uni-Viertel"?
I wasn't trying to be clever.

Copying is 99% of most businesses as it should be I guess.

airbnb werent the first to come up with this concept they just happende to be the ones who became successful with it.

I am not trying to defend the germans and I am not trying to take anything away from the airbnb guys.

Just that it seems a tad removed from reality to not value that a company is able to make money by being fast executioners of proven ideas.

I wouldn't do it myself, I value originality as much as the next guy. But are what they are doing really that despicable?
I think we should just have a Minimum Guaranteed Income and be done with it. Let's stop pretending that full employment if the holy grail of life.

More reading: http://www.xamuel.com/ten-reasons-for-guaranteed-minimum-inc...
My short time with Apple's OS (4 years), I noticed Apple doesn't make drastic changes but rather alot of tweaks and gradual improvements. (From a UI/UX perspective)

Windows on the other hand makes erratic leaps and breaks users' expectation (from previous versions) alot, and have to relearn alot of new flow. (Not just the OS but its Office Suite as well. The Tabbed categorization of Toolbars really frustrated me). Now that with 8, they're shifting their focus, again. Will it work? Who knows – I just know I have to learn everything again, and it's daunting.
I doubt that sending a mimetype which the client has said it can't accept would be on anyone's list of best practices.

This is a good point, though, not sure why it escaped me:

Accept: application/*+json

I think you're using a bad framework.

Probably. This isn't why, though.
It is indisguishable in a sense that all Tor users share the same exit nodes, so you don't know who that was.

However, list of exit nodes is available online and a lot of of sites auto-block it, because abusers like to use Tor.
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Here's a video presentation on Vortex Based Mathematics:

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I can tell you why Rackspace is so expensive: because they hired Robert Scoble! http://scobleizer.com/

A few years ago, I had a couple dozen servers when something major broke in the Texas facility. Every customer was effected and the estimate to fix was 4 days. I just called Scoble up ( he published his phone number on the web) and he got a Rackspace VP to get our application back up in a few hours.

The customer support is well worth the extra money
Not ideal, but get in touch.
In some of the earlier episodes of Stack Exchange Podcast Jeff and Joel were debating whether to localize.

Just to put some of this into perspective.
I applaud these guys.
It's more about the money per se - it's about having a share of company profits. This, I find, is what a lot of companies get wrong. We go by the same old mentality that an "employee" should simply be compensated with a fixed amount. But why? People who work on the product should have a significant share of the profits as well. Allegedly a regular employee is "taking less risk" by having a fixed salary as opposed to the "risk takers" at the top - but in this day and age where there is no more guaranteed long-term job stability, that is not true anymore. And the continuing success of the company's products depends directly on the good work of its employees.
I know the idea behind SETI is great, but I have great doubt about the execution. Here is why:

From: http://www.damninteresting.com/space-radio-more-static-less-...

When any non-focused electromagnetic signal is generated– such as a television broadcast or a cell phone conversation– the energy propagates as a spherical wavefront at the speed of light. When a sphere is doubled in diameter, its surface area increases by a factor of four; but in a spherical wave the “surface area” is the energy itself. This means the signal’s energy is spread over four times more area at twice the distance, resulting in a 75% loss in intensity. To put it another way, in order for a broadcasting tower to double its effective range for a given receiver, it must quadruple its transmitting power.

To demonstrate the degrading effect of distance on an everyday omnidirectional signal, one might imagine a spacecraft equipped with an Arecibo-style radio receiver directed towards the Earth. If this hypothetical spacecraft were to set out for the interstellar medium, its massive 305-meter wide dish would lose its tenuous grip on AM radio before reaching Mars. Somewhere en route to Jupiter, the UHF television receivers would spew nothing but static. Before passing Saturn, the last of the FM radio stations would fade away, leaving all of Earth’s electromagnetic chatter behind well before leaving our own solar system.

And: http://blog.jackadam.net/2011/the-tiny-humanity-bubble/
I want to write software for Amazon and eBay to sale.
I want to create a tool that I can sell. I know Amazon APIs very well, and eBay Finding API.

Something like Product rank by UPC/ASIN or ID, UPC lookup, or Price alert.

I am not sure what would be more useful for Amazon , eBay sellers and Affiliates.

Please suggest me idea for the app.

NOTE: I am not interested in hosting or subscription based Saas Application more. I want something to provide as download. And just web application using PHP and JavaScript.

Thanks for your time.
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"Most of the early items on SO that made it interesting to me are gone (deleted as not relevant)"

Could you expand on this, I'm curious to know what you're talking about.
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Every password manager sucks - create a good one and be the next dropbox
We just spent a lot of time evaluating the various password managers out there. The present offerings are like file synchronizing before dropbox - lots of products but they all require more effort than they save.

Whoever creates a good password manager first will own this market. I.T. managers at just about every company will line up to buy from you.

But you have to do it right. There are lots of bad solutions (see RoboForm) - don't duplicate them. Keep it very very simple. All we need is save a login & enter a login.

And the other critical piece, when we save a login we can set what ActiveDirectory group or individual to store it against. The group is so we can share company logins, but only with the appropriate people. The individual is so we can store our personal logins for our use only.

And provide synchronization so credentials entered by one person then go to the systems of others in the same AD group. (And to second computers for an individual.)

Implement this so it is trivial to install, administer, and use; and so you have the save by group/login - and you'll have a very successful product. We'll buy a copy for every user at my company.
Legally, there should be libel issues.

How many of your clients are going to continue to want to do business with you when they come across a notice that you're serving child pornography off of your site?

And on a DNS note, I always have at least two alternative DNS servers memorized so that I can continue to get around when providers' DNS goes to hell.
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OK. I watched the whole interview and, I have to say, Sherman seems to understand technology better than I had figured. He even appears tolerable, approachable and maybe even someone who would listen to reason. Is it a front? We have every reason to think it is.

Personally, I never would have thought I'd hear the RIAA talk about millions of songs for $10/month. Question of course is, did the RIAA kill the subscription model and then announce it's failure? Still, $10/month is pocket change in exchange for never having to hunt for music.

There is an invisible sheath of social truth. The elephant in the room. We've all pirated music, software or movies at some point. None of us openly admit it, and if asked we all say "Ya, the artist should be compensated". Then we pirate more music and movies, proclaiming, "They're the thieves! They give artists X% of the profits!". True. But I still don't see an argument for pirating music - or at least, pirating music but pretending you think it is wrong.

I don't think anyone wants to pirate music. What people want is convenience. If the incentive for route X is greater than route Y, route X is destined to be the popular route by default. $10/month vs. searching the pirate bay every time I hear a new song I like? $10/month wins.

The RIAA is generally evil, don't get me wrong. But I imagined a complete jack ass at the helm, and I am surprised to see something different.
how is trusting your fab any different than trusting Intel?

> that's not very different from trusting your compiler

if you were paranoid enough to be worrying about CPU backdoors, why would you trust your compiler?
I think more than anything, the metaphysical view of what money is is totally bizarre. It's like money gets lumped into this special category of its own.

Money is just society's tickets to gain access to the collective productive capital that is the the totality of the economy. Money is just crystallized favors.

Try to replace "money" in your head with "favors" and you will see just how bizarre many beliefs about it are.
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Please don't use the words "wake up" or put quotes around the word 'free.' It's bad writing.

Government is a constant tension between maintaining order/safety and allowing people to do as they like. It is a good thing that we have rules, and it's a good thing that somebody can enforce them; it's also a good thing to have as few rules as possible. Those two realities have to coexist, and it will never be a satisfactory "one or the other."

We're all aware when the balance swings a bit. That doesn't mean we need to... I don't know what you're suggesting; revolutionize? It means we need to push back politically, which we did with SOPA/PIPA, and find ways to maintain our own power, like circumventing the DNS weakness. We're not exactly lost in the wilderness here.

And I haven't even had my coffee yet.
You definitely should ask for permission, but Scoble would be a great example, as he actually "blogs" on G+. Many of his posts are quite long and seem like a good fit for this concept.
This doesn't have to do with different propagation paths. The Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) is an inherent wave property, like Wavelength or Frequency. Just like you can listen to radio on different frequencies (eg 660AM, 1010AM), you can think about this technology as "listening" on different OAM channels.

The twist in the wavefront can be thought of as a newly available subset of channels.

This has been a a field of research that has been primarily been developed in Optics, in fact, my PhD research included creating ultrafast (femtosecond), supercontinuum (white light) vortices that are capable of transmitting information over 2^L channels where L is the amount of twist the light has.
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This content-free shilling is exactly what people disliked about Strata.
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2009. I'm surprised this hasn't been on HN before.

Related - http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html