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Although paradoxically, if circumstances had been such that he could - there wouldn't have been as much demand to invent computers !
No-fly zones tend to be sensitive areas. In fact, the only way they could get away with something like this would be to put them in out of the way unrestricted airspace. If you're in an area where visual flight rules (VFR) apply, then you're far less likely to have trouble with aviation authorities. Try and fly something in a no-fly zone, restricted airspace or controlled airspace and you're instantly breaking all sorts of laws.

In practice, in the UK, anything under 7 kg flown under 400 ft and within 500 m of the operator is legal without any certification or permission from anyone. It's possible that if you chose to fly your servers over no territory (international waters), and stayed out of accepted airways, then you'd have a little more leeway.
I'm not sure what your point is? The Fidelity fund would go up in value by the dividend. They could just buy more AAPL...
The vast majority of XBox 360 users don't really interact with the UI that much, though; they just stick the disk in.
Say for a minute that Congress announced a moratorium on tax of repatriated foreign funds. Do you believe this would be viewed as "evil" companies gaming the system, or do you think that the huge influx of funds back into the U.S. would actually help spur economic growth?
> Edit: And don't see why this wouldn't apply to iOS, too.

While iOS's UI has changed somewhat since release, the changes have generally been extremely subtle; the _largest_ was 4 to 5, when a few of the widgets changed a bit.
This not feasible for two reasons (and many more). Lipo batteries won't last long enough for it to make sense. Carrying server equipment is also not feasible and further reduces battery / gas life.
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I think one can be a great communicator without being a great speaker. True passion for a subject comes through, even if a person says "ummm" a lot. It might be harder to be a good "listener" than a good speaker when it comes right down to it.
jroseattle is right, I'm not competing on features. But I assure you that there will be more features than there is today. I'm just getting started.

jroseattle: It is tough to say that it will be around forever but that is exactly what I intend to do. I have the means to run the service myself, even without payment, forever. So far there have only been dozens of sign ups. So I'm not too worried about cost yet. And, if it got too pricey I could turn off sign ups.

For now my goal is to get enough users so that feedback on how the service should mature comes in steadily. We will take it from there once that happens.
Buy backs.
It seems worse than it is. I've had to switch every recurring bill I have to different banks/cards multiple times, and it always ends up taking less than an hour, probably less than half. Just pull up one month's statement and you have a list of every business you pay on a monthly basis. Go to each website (or call) and fill in the new payment info.
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I mean an addition to TOR where a user is explicitly paying each hop for transit. To do this (without buying nHops*nNyms count of unconnected red lobster gift cards), it must be possible to split a single source of value into two unassociable parts.
> Aren't we talking about the latter case here?

No. When someone upgrades to Vista, they go out and buy a Vista CD. When they upgrade to ICS, they just press 'yes' in the dialog asking if they want to upgrade (or in extreme cases, do nothing; a few Android vendors have at least occasionally pushed out upgrades which happen without user intervention).
Something related happened a few months ago. A heap of old papers which have long since entered the public domain, but where locked behind paywalls, were leaked. There's a statement accompanying the torrent[1], speaking up against the outrage that is the academic publishing system. It's still quite well seeded, me being among the people who spare bandwidth for it.

[1]: https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6554331/Papers_from_Philosop...
Dropbox is the only "big" tech company Apple should buy, and they had their shot.

I don't even understand the Twitter integration into Apple's products. It seems like it's defensive, just to protect from Google+ being well integrated into Android and thus somehow making Google+ plus Android more successful than iOS (3 jokes there!), or Facebook doing some deal with Microsoft or building their own phone of some sort and leading to the same.

iMessage/iCloud seems like it could easily grow into something just as useful for Apple as any Twitter integration.

Twitter the company (except for Jack Dorsey) would also be culturally incompatible with Apple. I could maybe see Square working out as part of Apple, though.

Actually, buying Flickr from Yahoo and turning it (plus iPhoto, Camera Roll, etc.) into a photo sharing competitor to Facebook, and growing social networking features from 1) strong photo sharing 2) real identity 3) iTunes/iCloud accounts 4) iMessage IM/group IM, would probably be the way for Apple to have a social alternative to Facebook or Google+, if that ever really were an Apple objective.

But, as you've said, Apple is horrible at online services (iCloud is barely ok, and only because most functionality is hidden infrastructure -- MobileMe was horrible) and at advertising and really at everything except making devices and operating systems/apps for those devices, so this would be a bad path for them.
Solar cells can generate around 80% their peak energy even on cloudy days.
Why, always before how.

A question I like asking is, "Teach me why this needs to be improved".

So when a question like this takes us 8 hours a week, every week, comes up, you can say we can save 416 man hours a year if you let me work on this for 40 hours.

I'm not sure whether or not there's paper prototyping. I use a lot of different tools, the most important of which helps me whittle down an idea to it's essence. For me that magic happens on whiteboards, and on paper first.

I've recently started doing it using a stylus on an iPad and a Galaxy Note with increasing success. I almost prefer the iPad or Galaxy Note because I can keep erasing and refining to get the perfect layout/design.
There's a difference between the syntax of your code and the program as a whole.

We're all able to express our ideas perfectly (or near-perfectly) with the English language. Subjects, nouns, punctuation - those are relatively easy things. But I challenge you to ever find one perfect idea expressed by those rules. The same is true for software.
We mention this patch, in an updated version of our work (currently under review, and not yet online).

This patch goes a substantial way to mitigating one of the big issues we discuss; the issue is that, in the protocol, separate balances, when used as inputs to the same transaction, are revealed to be controlled by the same individual.

As the official client does not allow balances to be selected individually, many of the addresses within a wallet end up being revealed to be controlled by the same individual user, which users do not expect; this patch goes a long way towards fixing that.

I still would not assume it is sufficient to guarantee anonymity, with Bitcoin. There may be other forms of information leakage that allow accounts be linked, or linked with a certain degree of confidence, but the fact that it shows key linking to users, will go a long way towards helping users understand that they may have linked accounts without meaning to.
> But one day a VP of e-commerce dropped by and said that A/B testing was showing that landing pages with technical data like processor power, RAM, disk size were working better than bare shiny pages. It turns out users are becoming more tech savvy every day.

It would have been interesting to do further testing to determine whether a page with nonsense words that looked technical did as well as tech specs. There is indeed evidence that consumers _like_ tech specs, and especially they like _larger_ tech specs; hence the race to increase megapixel counts, even at the cost of quality, and AMD's "Pentium equivalent" numbers (at a time when the Athlon 64 did more work per cycle than the P4, AMD would give a number intended to compare to the P4, rather than the chip's actual frequency).

There is, however, very little evidence that the user has the first clue about what the numbers _mean_.
I think you've misunderstood my point.

If you're advertising crack in Yuma, the Feds really aren't going to care if you're selling it in Mexico. Either way, you're going to end up in prison.
I love Pirate Bay for pushing the envelope with everything they do. Personal opinions on piracy aside...the approach these guys take to to solving their problems, are always innovative. They push us to really think outside of the box of what is possible.

Most 'sane' people would be burned out by constantly fighting "the man" for so long. But these guys seem like they are machines.

Love it!
Let me introduce you to my dad. He still thinks the computer is the keyboard, and the big box is just the power supply and the Compact Disc player he plays music with.

He runs XP. He uses IE, Hotmail, Messenger and even figured out how to sign up for Facebook on his own. Way back when, he learned some Word and Excel to track his DVDs and write his memories. Sometimes I believe he is reasonably savy for an old, non-tech person.

Then I remember the time I moved his "internet" icon to a different spot on the desktop, and he freaked out because the computer didn't work anymore.
I would fully except there to be people with deep pockets paying more often than others, but that's an interesting thought. How much would that affect the content being produced.

The pay wall was exactly what I was thinking. It would get users used to paying for upvotes, and then when that money runs out, their credit card is already linked, and makes it easier to fill up.

The main goal is to create a market which supports high quality/high cost content.
Does that mean Windows 8 is doomed to fail?
Apple's bags of cash vs the S&P 500
138 Billion Units (Apple's Cash Position)
even if it's not locked into apple devices, apple currently has the most desirable devices for consuming digital content. if they make something that causes people to switch from paper to digital, they're going to sell a more iPads.
I've been trying to find it to no avail, but I read somewhere that listeners are more apt to remember something if they required effort to hear it, almost as if the work it took reinforced the memorization of it.

Anyone familiar with that assertion and remember its source? Perhaps I should have had someone whisper it to me in a strange accent.
Does the new iPad have a heat problem?
"Sometimes I have to pause when I lose my train of thought."

In speaking, pause can carry meaning. A lot of it. It doesn't need to be a calculated pause; the fact that you're lost there can tell "what you really are" to the audience, if you're totally engaged to the act of presenting yourself.

I don't speech a lot but I act. It is often emphasized in acting that words don't matter much. It is often the case that you convey messages that's even opposite from what you actually say. In tech speech you don't want too much subtext, but still, there are more bandwidth in nonverbal channels than the actual content of the speech. If you only look at the words it might be less than well thought-out writings, but in speech there is other information.

(BTW, as you find more ideas while writing essays, actors find more insights while speaking lines---deeper meaning of lines, or deeper understanding of characters, that sometimes the author hasn't realized consciously. I'd just say they are totally different things. I prefer finding out deeper meanings of a given script by acting it out, to writing a new script.)
Glad you enjoyed. :)

I just wish I wasn't half groggy with a cold when writing it and left some typos in it.
There's https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Filesystem_Hierarchy_St... too.
Probably Arch-specific, but I bet most stuff applies to Unix in general as well.
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If they bought Adobe, then the enterprise marketing at Apple would really be in for a change (Adobe has some big enterprise offerings). AMD / ATI is easily in their range.
"... I'm not a very good speaker. I say "um" a lot. Sometimes I have to pause when I lose my train of thought. I wish I were a better speaker. ..."

I think the speech degrades somewhat with the audience size and formality but not the ideas. If you want to see a good example of pg talking, listen to this great interview where he tears up Berkman fellow David Weinberger interviewing him on, 'taste for makers', 2006 ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2DkhL_Bypo

I'm glad these speeches are recorded because pg punctuates his essays verbally. I often find myself copying this style reading them.
While UEFI is a specification, every implementation I'm aware of is based on EDK. Practically speaking, all UEFI implementations are at least as complicated as EDK, and so are as complicated as the Linux kernel. The SCT is impressive, but only really ensures that an implementation gives appropriate results when well formed input are given to it. That gives very little indication of what the real world issues are in a code base, since we can generally assume that the real world is rather less competent at providing well formed input than a test suite is.

I've hit two real and severe bugs in EDK, one of which merely tended to crash any OS on boot and one of which allowed me to brick any hardware using the EDK BDS implementation to the point where recovery involved physical reflashing of the firmware.

Reality is that any codebase is, practically speaking, untested until it's been exposed to the real world. EDK, Tiano, and basically every real-world UEFI implementation haven't as yet. Putting them in the hands of people is going to find new bugs, and some of those are going to compromise operating systems. That's not a criticism of any part of the UEFI development process. It's a description of reality.
Only if you misunderstand who is insulating the banks from risk and advocate for more governmental restriction.

The capitalist would advocate for the government to stop unconditionally underwriting mortgages under the guise of promoting home ownership.
I hold some AAPL options albeit 2013 ones but this is making me super nervous!
That is exactly my point. The people saying that a dividend is important seem to think that it is 'found money'. My point is that it is really just converting one asset into another (stock to cash).

Another way to convert stock to cash is to sell it.

I realize that there are tax considerations though that make this all a bit more complicated.
The name got me straight away, i wondered if it was someone from indonesia who was building it because i recognized the name as having the meaning of "value" in indonesian (as you mentioned) and what do you know ... its close :).

Good luck with it, hope it goes well. And salam to your dad from one who also has roots in bandung !
Interesting post, but there's a lot that's wrong here. For example, it's really not true that Apple tends towards vertical integration.
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So then why was the UK guy extradited if what he did wasn't even illegal in UK?
Helium is actually pretty much impossible to contain over long periods of time. That's why running out and buying helium tanks isn't a smart investment, even though it's currently being sold at far below its longterm value; by the time everyone runs out of helium, yours will have leaked away.

Of course, in a thin, light vessel suitable for flight, the helium is going to escape much more quickly.

I do not know if this would be an issue for a hydrogen balloon.
Pretty good. I was trying to think of something like they must be high to put things high in the sky.
I don't think latency is that big of a concern. First, these are behind their global proxies. Second, this is all meta-data, so if it takes a second longer to load the magnet link and associated text, meh.

Some of the combination flying wings are getting pretty good flight time (2+ weeks[1]). It isn't an unreasonable direction to start looking, especially if you could use that time to hop from one base to another around the world.

1. http://www.suasnews.com/2011/06/5837/zephyr-the-new-standard...
It could be Adobe. They've dumped Flash. They've embracing the iPad and released some truly innovative apps. Despite the historical rift between them and Apple, their tools are still the go-to suite for virtually every app created for iOS, and a strong contender when users seek alternatives to Apple's offerings like the Final Cut Pro X thing. Then there's this:

"I'm dying to do a blog on ADBE stock but can't do so now (we're in a quiet period). Maybe Monday, after earnings."

https://twitter.com/#!/kasthomas/status/180773095903207425

And the tweet right before that one:

"AAPL still cheap at $585. If you believe in next year's earnings == $50/share and a P/E multiple of 15, the stock should be at 750."

https://twitter.com/#!/kasthomas/status/180772911911682048
Jobs aren't obsolete. There are plenty of jobs. Part time, low wage, no benefits jobs. Careers? Full time, living wage that can support a family, full benefits packages? Those are becoming obsolete, and fast.

Screw any politician who crows about "creating jobs". I would support one who can create careers. Won't happen.
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Stuff a styrofoam box with a couple of Raspberry Pi's, an antenna and a battery pack, and tie it to a helium balloon, perhaps?
It's time for Google to give equal power to all national domains if they don't already do it in their search algorithm. Many people still make their websites .com because they know they would be better treated in Google search.
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I like that you have aspirations here, but can the developer please provide some points about how this service will be different than the rest in terms of features.
Characters with speech habits are not necessarily a bad thing -- http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BuffySpeak (warning: tvtropes link)
Sprint is in their range (8.7 market-cap expect a premium on top of that), but they really gotta be committed for that. ARM's business model makes anything but a investment a waste. AMD or NVIDIA would be more interesting.

I just don't know why a dividend would be more than a press release after markets closed.
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iPhone has a nice preinstalled calculator, but no calculator on iPad.
HTML5 enables making its clone as offline web app.
Retirement funds might disagree.
They need to add an education category. There is actually research on education, believe it or not. Here's my signing note:

I do educational research and development, and the lack of open access to research on effective teaching and learning techniques has had far reaching and negative consequences. See for example the book Academically Adrift on how ineffective current college teaching practices are. I currently work at a predominantly engineering school, and faculty don't even have access to most educational and psychological research journals because of the high costs. Think also of the thousands of K-12 teachers - none of whom have any access to most educational research. Imagine if doctors had no access to research, and that's what the practice of education has become.
I dunno, I think the definition of "good speaker" really depends on the audience. I probably speak for many here as an introverted, deeply introspective outlier.

It's worth pointing out that the first sentence is very extraverted. In fact, if you read between the lines a bit, this is a very extraverted post. That's not bad. It's just that it's always interesting to note how extraverted introverts (myself included) can be without realizing it. Vice versa for extraverts.
He's likely referring to #startups on freenode. It's not official, but de facto.
Really?

- Apple bought a semiconductor design company and brought that in-house.

- Apple does all software design, hardware design, industrial engineering, etc in house.

- Apple develops its own processes for manufacturing their computers (unibody).

- Apple built a chain of retail stores to sell directly to consumers.

Those are just a couple examples; the trend is very clear to me.
It would be the end of the essence of HN.
It's not that I don't believe you, but it almost sounds too good to be true. Do you have any sources? What happens during night-time?
Factoring cash into share prices is fine if you're in Econ 101 or you're Warren Buffet, but in practice stocks usually go up when they announce an increase in expectations in dividend payouts. At some point the market does not trust firms to manage their extra cash to line shareholders' pockets rather than their own, and beyond that point the market wants to see dividends paid out.
"It's often a subconscious but deliberate technique for setting an informal mood."

This is interesting, but I doubt it applies to when people do it when speaking in front of a large group of people. Public speaking tends to require a lot more cognitive resources than answering basic questions from supervisors.
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I understood it, but decided to take my response in another direction, with my input still having value for the general discussion. Anyway, DotTEL is British, which means that it will take the US a bit longer to take down than a DotCOM, but since I live in the US, no TLD will matter as far as arrest goes.
Good luck with that. Really, the only airspace they'll be able to fly in will be that of the sovereign nations they'll be overflying. Unrestricted typically means < 300 meters (the altitude that you can fly a model aircraft in). Flying a drone definitely != low orbit.

Way to go to get a lot of press but (ahem) this will never fly.
Cellphones excluded.
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Imminent "six strikes" Copyright Alert System needs antitrust scrutiny
the outstanding question was: do you know of Amazon blocking/banning anyone for that?
Somewhere out there there's a social model that makes a lot more sense and just works, but we can't fathom it right now because we are so busy worrying about competing over pieces on the ground.
I'd love to have grass in the hallways at work.
Is Paul Graham only posting this in reaction to the criticism over his excessive "um"s and otherwise poor public speaking abilities? Is this a good response to that, to downplay speaking itself as an excuse for. Wing poor at it? Honest question.
That's the only example I've heard of, not that I follow Apple news outside HN.
recroad I have a roadmap of sorts jotted down. I haven't used Pinboard or the new Delicious to know exactly how they will be different.

One feature I'm really excited about is integration with Instapaper in a very seamless and meaningful way. The beta testers I've had using the site seem to like the idea. I hope to finish up that feature soon.