skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to sales though, digital downloads of music is still seeing year-over-year growth. It's crutching the record industry right now. But I agree with your overall sentiment, I think sales will soon catch up (or down?) to what is going to be an obvious consumer behavior shift. Paying for music downloads will soon ride out the backside of the late adopter curve soon enough.
How long until someone installs OS X on this?

I've been running 10.5 on my Dell Mini 9 for almost 3 years without a single problem. I'd love the bigger screen.
Awesome.. Great points to take to heart, since his site and my idea are actually so similar. I'm a little ashamed of myself for not knowing about his site before I started working on 9things.

It's ok though.. He's got a job and a rep. I don't have either, so I've got to make it work for me :)
My apologies if anyone was offended by the original title - I should of course point out that it is satire :)
I reuse passwords for websites like that, but the other places I use it are similarly throwaway.
$149? That's cheap. You get what you pay for: According to the article, this thing has 8 GB of storage.
It's probably not legal, but Apple's options to stop it are limited.

If Apple really wanted to, they could probably get an import injunction against these devices like they've done with HTC and Samsung over phone IP issues (with varying degrees of success: http://www.pcworld.com/article/257109/samsung_htc_spar_with_... ).

Then it'd be up to the customs office to actually catch shipments of these into the US - with HTC and Samsung, it's easy, as they properly declare the contents of their shipments and try to remain above-the-level. With Chinese sellers shipping individual units to US buyers, it's unlikely a customs officer would notice or care - just another random electronic good marked as a "Gift: Electronics Item" on a custom form.

Apple could also try to prosecute the manufacturers in China but their success in that endeavor is highly unlikely.

So basically, it isn't legal, but don't expect that to stop these devices from showing up at your door if purchased from eBay and other online sellers.
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the device's build quality certainly isn't up to Apple's standards

That sounds like a huge understatement. A good phone is $500, so I'd expect an ARM laptop to have a similar price. For $150 they must be cutting a lot of corners.
This guy's hardware is from 2008. I don't think refusing to support four-year-old hardware counts as forced obsoletion.
So I treaded on the dark side at one point, and was hired to write a Craigslist spam application. It was pretty simple and would automatically post to all the Erotic Services sections in all the U.S. localities with randomized (a huge set of varying titles, descriptions and photos - that could all be localized specifically to where it was posting) postings, randomized emails, obfuscating the text further by using shades of black for each letter - then solving the captcha and auto-responding to the email to publish the posting. It would do this every 20 minutes, 24/7.

The results for spamming adult dating affiliate links was pretty interesting. On average it would earn $1k a day, with most holidays jumping up to $2k a day. One very religious holiday in particular (won't mention which one to single any group out) brought in $3k. In one single day.

As long as spamming people with affiliate links will work, and makes them money - someone will do it.
But why ignore this incredible source of culture?

No blu-ray releases where I live, I don't know anyone who owns blu-ray and don't have one.

So there is no reason to not torrent them.
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OS X doesn't run on random ARM SoCs.
Most people reuse passwords across services. If that's the case, a breach in any one service becomes a foothold into a panoply of other accounts.
With 1 GB of RAM and 8 GB of storage, I don't think installing OS X on it would be very beneficial.
Does OS X support ARM yet? If I remember correctly iOS devices use ARM and iOS is a fork of OS X. Still feels kind of distant you would be able to install it.
Last.fm is the latest site to suffer a password breach
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"herbicide attacks particular plant functions which are expressed by specific genes. So there is no 'wiggle' room around other people wanting to create the same capability without infringing the patent."

I don't think that's true, immediately I'm thinking of enzymes that could cleave the herbicide, or making plants resistant to a different herbicide.

Monsanto is primarily a maker of herbicides not GM crops, GM crops are a compliment to it's business and Monsanto designs plants to work well with their products. If you want to use a different herbicide and a different gene sequence you're completely welcome to, what your not allowed to do is use a specific genes that confer resistance to monsanto's own products.

I think the parallel development of eyes in many species proves that nature is rather flexible in how solutions can be implemented.

It's completely possible to make herbicide resistant plants with out infringing on Monsanto's IP. It just might be a little more difficult to make one for RoundUp.

Also, the Roundup Ready soybeans patent is due to expire in 2014, so in 2 years farmers all around the world get Roundup Ready soybeans for free, just as the patent system intended. By the time this gets infront of a judge the farmers could go plant all the patented crop they want.

Monsanto makes a tidy profit on the development, farmers eventually get the seed for free, Monsanto sells lots of roundup, which pollute the environment less than other herbicides, win, win, win.
I am increasingly surprised that anyone bothers to make Android apps.

I have a successful kids app on iOS that I recently ported to Android. The Android version made 5% of what the iOS version made last month.

If rankings are anything to go by then virtually nobody can be making money from paid Android apps. During its first week, my app peaked at 50 sales in one day on the Amazon app store. That put it at #120 of ALL PAID APPS and #3 in kids apps just under some Dora app. The app is now idling around #400 of all paid apps with around 10 sales a day. By way of comparison, I need to sell around 100 copies a day to break into the top 400 of all paid apps in the US on just the iPad rankings.

So, from a purely financial perspective, why are people writing Android apps?
Apple has design patents on the designs of their products, so anything that looks exactly like a Mac is likely to infringe those patents.

http://www.theverge.com/policy/2012/6/7/3068355/Apple-design...
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If it ran Linux, I'd be all over it, but with Android, I'd much rather just use a smartphone or a tablet. It's essentially a tablet without a touchscreen as-is.
Same. 127k songs since '05, and I still cruise through the site regularly and look at what i was listening to on this day in 20xx.

I briefly paid for the site's radio functionality before it was crippled. It feels to me like they've died a similar death to Flickr (acquired, core team left, innovation stopped). Such a shame.
It hasn't gone to court yet, but yes, Apple have gained protection for all aluminum clamshell laptops of a certain shape : http://www.theverge.com/policy/2012/6/7/3068355/Apple-design... .
I'd guess the fact that hackers are not often painfully forced to test software with products from other tech companies makes a big difference.
I saw this in another thread today, and I am never NOT using it again:

http://supergenpass.com/
It's not the clamshell design that's the problem, I think. I think it's other parts, like the charging apparatus.

The magsafe-like charging connector is pretty much identical in appearance to Apple's design. I would be surprised if Apple doesn't have an industrial design patent on that.

The keyboard is similar, but I don't think there's a problem, considering all the other Chiclets-style keyboards out there.
That depends on the signal-to-noise ratio you're expecting.
What if you don't live in the US?

You hear about these fantastic shows coming out of the States, try to find where you can watch them...wait for months if you are lucky, otherwise pirating is your only option if you want to see them. A highly seeded, HD torrent is usually available hours after the show aired in the states. That's what HBO is really competing with. Until they address this latent international demand, piracy will continue. Most internet users are outside the US[1].

In a way they should be grateful they're producing great shows that boost the HBO brand (for free), at least then they can monetise the pirates down the line if they're smart. A bigger problem would be if people simply started watching shows from rival networks.

[1] http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&#...
However, the cable operators are beneficiaries of monopolies, so there may be anti-trust issues at hand (using their monopoly to control distribution of the 3rd party service).
Last.fm passwords are unsalted MD5 confirms ex-developer russss
Why exactly do we need IOS slaying apps? The IOS slaying part (which the Google CEO didn't seem to get) is that pretty much all apps work on both IOS and Android. Android's going to win because it has price and selection on its side. But there's no need to slay Apple. Apple is always going to be a niche product for a certain type of customer. Just like there are people still very much in love with their Blackberries.
If these were "natural processes" They wouldn't cost billions of dollars in R&D

But don't take my word for it, just read the wikipedia on Genetic Engineering.

It's clear that GE technology should be socialized. Having a patent on this technology is not in anyone's best interest.
thanks.

love the idea.
I gave up on TAOCP after the proof of the first algorithm (which is around 2-3 pages long!) It's still on my TO-DO list :P
But why it should be my (or parent) problem?

If they can't do their job by figuring it out, why do they feel entitled to anything?
A great deal of the Linux userland is available. On my Arm based phone, I can vnc into an X windows session on the same device.
For server-side, how about password DB implemented as hardened information appliances? This would make the acquisition of the password database harder. White-box techniques could be used to hide a modified salting technique, making cracking much more labor intensive. Such a service could be offered by cloud and virtual server providers, perhaps for a small additional fee. (Which would still be almost all profit.)
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Yeah I confirmed mine was retrieved, fortunately I use a distinct password for services like LinkedIn so there will be no fall out from it for me. I just changed my password and moved on.
Touchscreen with on-demand physical buttons
Agreed. Last.FM is such a trove of data. It is fascinating to see what I was listening to and when, and especially looking at macro events and seeing how that influenced the worlds listening habits.

It took Last.FM until 2012 to implement the ability to find your friends from Facebook. Seriously. It really is such a shame; they're a service that needs to be spun out.
Why, why, why? Why do people want Android on a non-mobile/tablet device? It's not designed for a mouse, arguably not even for a keyboard...

Ubuntu would rock on that thing. Okay, maybe not Ubuntu, maybe something a bit better tuned for 1GB of RAM, but still, this would be fun to have for $150.

Also, are those ports empty? ha, Or at least, what is the port that is analogous to the MBA's Thunderbolt port? I don't recognize it.

edit Actually, I'd definitely get down with Chrome OS on this. Is there a usable ARM port of Chrome OS?
Others have taken issue with a 100 year sample size for a definition of "sustainability in practice" but I would not. My family bought its first Diesel tractor quite a bit less than 100 years ago, diskers to seed in the 1950's (I think), 4WD articulating tractors to pull them in the 1970's, and air drills in the 1990's. Started using nitrogen fertilizer instead of manure in the late 1960's. We started using herbicides in the 1970's, insecticides in the 1990's (though never much of them) and fungicides in the 1990's. GMO crops in the 1990's as well. I think we started growing Canola in the late eighties or early 90's and only started growing Soybeans in the last few years.

I am wondering which of the farm practices engaged in right now, in 2012, in any way resemble the "sustaining" of a practice from 100 years ago?
I have mixed feelings about this. I don't think it's necessarily rude since you aren't (necessarily) detracting from the experience of the people around you. It may be rude to the speaker, but it's become common to the point that I'm not even sure about that.

Also, I noticed the use of "between you and I." I really hate this. It's incorrect, and I see it everywhere. Can we put a stop to this? I know this is a bit nit-picky, but we jump all over "your" vs "you're." This is the same, but it's a more understandable mistake.
Years ago, 1996, we had a border router that we inherited and didnt have the password to, nor any way to get it. It was in production and we needed to get the password without killing the config.

David Sifry (founder of linuxcare) was my consultant on the issue - he was able to recover the password after some effort. I'll never forget what it was: Feet4monkey

Your post reminded me of that.
Yes. That's the point.

Not only will they be able to listen to music that I like, they might be able to download MySQL as though they were me or comment on Engadget articles as me.

None of which are particularly concerning. Because those are throwaway accounts for me.
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neither can a console. We're not comparing a mobile to a high end desktop but to current generation consoles.
I briefly read what you typed as something like you would cut yourself on the corners, which also may well be true!
I guess we'll just wait and find out...
The entire thing to me is a little disingenuous. Apparently, according to an orthopedic surgeon, his study shows that people think orthopedic surgeons should be paid $16,000 or so for a knee replacement. And that Medicare "only" pays $1,400.

Let's clarify: Medicare pays the surgeon "only" $1,400. Medicare payments for the surgery are far higher. Equipment, drugs, in patient stay, therapy, anesthesiologist...

Bear in mind, now, that the typical knee replacement takes 1-3 hours. Those 1-3 hours are what lets the surgeon pocket his $1,400 (from Medicare - more if privately/insurance billing).

Although the study is billed as an example of the disconnect of public knowledge, it seems difficult to imagine it as anything less than an attempt to increase Medicare payments to surgeons, which are already in the realm of $500-$1,000 an hour for this particular procedure.
On what planet? They've been the number 1 music retailer in the world (and still are) since 2008.
Amusingly that is my iPhone ringtone.
Sounds quite useful. Was looking for some good tools for sharding and replicas for mysql.
It may be fair use, if you do not distribute the game. Once you distribute it, all bets are off, and fair use would almost certainly not apply.

Many media companies have staff lawyers to police their IP, so it does not usually cost them any (additional) money to send out copyright notices.
But that doesn't mean that someone with experience implementing a proprietary protocol knows nothing and can't contribute to the discussion!
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I think they're failing to appreciate the forces of habit and culture. The longer they wait to offer a legitimate option, the more people will already be habituated to piracy and embedded in communities that exist for piracy.

Or to put it another way, they're doing an excellent job of helping sell the idea of piracy to people who probably otherwise wouldn't bother. Once those people get used to it, it will be that much harder to sell them a pay service.
Get a MacBook Air, thereon run Parallels (or some PC virtualizer), therein run Windows, therewith run Visual Studio.
I haven't looked at DotCloud, but the others are not really competitors.
That's not how fair use works. Simply making a derivative work is not enough to take advantage of fair use. The derivative work must fall into certain categories of use. A lot of fanfic and sprite comics would not fit into fair use, though many would. It is a very fact-specific analysis.
I really like the native development approach for UI, too often the design of ported apps feel like an after thought, unless your on the OS it was originally developed on
It seems this has been disappeared from HN.

Was it flagged too many times, or something?
A partisan wouldn't find it hard to call what happened after the war as a sort of ethnic cleansing, though more on political lines than ethnic.

On top of that, numerous civilians, particularly those in positions of authority, were subject to a sort of low key terrorism, such as being dipped in hot tar or having their homes burned down. Even being a child of such an official was solid grounds for being attacked. And in the South, people were actually murdered for having Loyalist sympathies.

This was actively encouraged by the leadership, by the way, not some decentralized mob violence. On reports that this was happening in New York, for instance, a military official put an halt to it. On hearing this, George Washington immediately intervened to allow it and upbraided the officer for hurting the revolutionary cause.

Not actually making the case that American rebels were evil terrorists: just making the case that making such a case wouldn't be too difficult for someone with an agenda, given the standards of how we label things terrorism nowadays.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/05/monsanto... has some cases of their lawsuit fun
I agree. There is a very simple way to do this which I just posted (since it apparently hasn't occurred to Heroku). All they need to do is change the default app error message once they have confirmed they have a platform issue. So within a few minutes of an outage, a better message is displayed to our customers that does NOT make it look like we screwed up. http://blog.pardner.com/2012/06/dear-heroku-dammit-quit-blam...
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Oh yes, obvious conflict and I should have disclosed this major point. I didn't even know it, but that does not excuse me. George Church was an LSRF fellow (independent non-profit fellowship), which are named after the donation company. Thus George was sponsored indirectly by Monsanto in 1984 for working as a post-doc in Gail Martin's lab working on embryogenesis and development.
http://www.lsrf.org/alumni/alumni84.htm

I was 5 years old.

Obvious conflict. Sorry for not disclosing.
Is that a mag connector for the power? I didn't think anyone but apple could use that.
An excellent point. That would certainly be a point in Monsanto's favor. I am not sure I could say the same about the BRCA1 gene for breast cancer diagnosis though. That too is patented. Which reinforces for me how complex this issue is. We often discuss software patents (and as "practitioner of the art" :-) I can relate.) but I am not a biologist, much less a geneticist.
Android from Honeycomb on is quite nice with a mouse/keyboard combination, particularly if the "mouse" is really a multitouch touchpad.

I use my ASUS Transformer in that configuration more than I use it in tablet form, and I find that both the hardward keyboard and the touchpad work perfectly fine. The real downside isn't the OS support, but the app selection. There are still far too few apps built assuming that some percentage of the userbase will be using richer-than-touchscreen-only input methods, but this is beginning to slowly change as more full-featured office apps and IDEs are starting to appear.
Their application used to ask the lowest price you'd be willing to sell for. Seemed really focused on quick flips.

If one wanted to buy you three months in (August 2007), what's the lowest offer you'd take?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27532820/app.html
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To my knowledge, we don't receive funding from Monsanto, nor do we do much plant research that I know of. It's a big lab.
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This is the first time I've heard raving reviews about XAML from people familiar with HTML.

XAML has just been total let down since I've had to learn it for an ongoing Silverlight project.

edit: Some people have asked why I didn't like XAML. My pragmatic concern has to do with the workflow and design of UI elements. You shouldn't need blend to edit validation styles efficiently. I know you don't need blend, but you can't just go in and add a single line to change the color of an invalid toolbox border--the alternative to blend is to (afaik) copy the entire style resource that the element uses from MSDN, dig into it to find the appropriate 10 lines of useless markup that surround one word property.

CSS is infinitely more simple than XAML style resources.

I'm also very partial to the pseudo separation of concerns where HTML is for semantics, and CSS is for style, and JS is for effects. Tying all of those things into one XML based language just doesn't make sense.

That said, the whole MS C# stack has really been great to work with outside of XAML and its default elements.
On a laptop and desktop it does. I would expect it to be relevant for a least 5 years and non-official support but still runs the latest, just maybe not that great, for a few more. We are talking about 4K laptops and desktops here not phones that get recycled every one to two years.
In other news, Windows Phone 7 Marketplace hit 100,000 app submissions faster than Android's Play, and a bit slower than Apple's App Store. http://allaboutwindowsphone.com/news/item/14960_100000_apps_...
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Notice the emerging "Synchronization" category? Apple (and Amazon and Google) thinks iTunes as we used to use it may become obsolete too.
How does this work for employees with families?
Putting Google at Your Fingertips
I will definitely be doing this for my startup. Another great post is Balsamiq's post on their "Work Retreats": http://blogs.balsamiq.com/team/2011/07/03/retreat/
For a while, Rovio postponed making a paid version of Angry Birds for Android because ad revenue * free players was much higher than app price * paying players.

Also, a lot of the apps I use on Android are "companion" apps for services or web apps that I already use. Eye-Fi, Smugmug, Mint, Facebook, Pandora, Tweetdeck, etc.
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Pressing a key 'n' times was a crutch for select boxes without a text filter. This is not needed here and doesn't even make sense.
Ever think about swapping out your own affiliate link for a small percentage of the posts?
That's not a lawsuit, I can't find a suit filed anywhere by Monsanto against the Runyons.

Also if theses seeds blow all over the place contaminating everything then all monsanto would have to do is stand on the side of the road and wait for a seed to blow over. No need to trespass.

Link to court documents not Monsanto PR or GMO protestor PR. What you find in court is a lot different than what GMO protestors say and is actually a lot closer to what Monsanto says IMHO. But again, ignore the Monsanto PR and just look to the court docs which contain facts as determined by a judge and not hearsay.