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> But the other side, just as important, spelled out in the law, is not operating your service with foreknowledge of infringement. It isn't enough just to wait for copyright holders to send takedowns.

> By actively courting piracy, MegaUpload forfeited safe harbor protections.

You are segueing between talking about DMCA "red flag" knowledge and the inducement standard from Grokster in a rather confusing way.

If we're talking about DMCA "red flags", one needs knowledge (not foreknowledge) of specific acts of infringement, not merely knowledge of infringement in general[1]. There may have been an email proving that, as it's been quite some time since I read the indictment, but I don't remember one offhand involving Kim Dotcom himself. Then you talk about something that sounds like inducement. That's something the Supreme Court invented in Grokster and it's a different standard altogether. It's a theory of vicarious liability that relies on "purposeful, culpable expression and conduct" while "mere knowledge of infringing potential or of actual infringing uses would not be enough here to subject a distributor to liability." [2]

I should also point out that Viacom had some incriminating emails from YouTube staff, which I believe you can find in some of the old Ars coverage of that case, but which I don't know the proper link to. But YouTube largely won the perception battle because of the obvious non-infringing uses of the site and because they went well above and beyond their DMCA obligations (though Viacom still sued them).

Mega is losing the same battle of perception because almost all of the non-infringing uses of their site were private (people sharing files among friends, rather than with the general public), while all infringing uses of the site were necessarily public. So even if they had a million innocent users and a thousand pirates, you'd only see all the files put up by the pirates and the million users would be largely invisible, because they had no interest in sharing their home movies (or whatever) with the world.

[1] "UMG v. Veoh held that generalized knowledge of infringement, without more, is not enough for red-flag knowledge" -- http://www.ipinbrief.com/dmca-contributory-infringement-vica...

[2] http://www.law.duke.edu/publiclaw/supremecourtonline/comment...
> The Android hardware business is a horrible business for all but a few of the manufacturers.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/android-and-apple-market...

In terms of operating revenue, Motorola died in 2007, Sony Ericsson died in 2008. That left Nokia, RIM, HTC, Samsung, and Apple.

Apart from Apple, the only companies to make more money after Android was released were Samsung and HTC, because they were the only viable phone makers who switched to Android. Motorola and Sony Ericsson were already toast - they couldn't compete with HTC and Samsung.

RIM and Nokia are the other two viable handset manufacturers. If they switch to Android, I think they'd make more money.

> I don't see what the benefit for them would to compete in the hardware business when they can deliver their software on top of 95% of all smart phones instead.

"If we can capture just X% of this huge market, we'll make out like bandits!".
This is my preferred solution to single page apps:

http://www.enyojs.com
No idea why you need a signup... You don't even ask for an email address. You should try and remove this requirement.

Anyway, after running through the game, I really like it. It's good fun. I'd probably say that the round was about 10 seconds longer than I wanted it to be though. UI is nice. It's pretty fast, so didn't notice any problems.
It always involves some amount of suffering. Entire generations of people have found themselves in a life dedicated to an obsolete skill. Does that mean we should limit the use of, say, printing machines so that people may be gainfully employed manually copying books?

What you're suggesting seems to be to limit innovation for the sake of comfort. A society that buys such a line of thought is far more doomed than the one who may or may not innovate themselves obsolete.
People loved their hardware, they could have kept a huge chunk of the enterprise market and been one of those few manufacturers. If they had maintained their peak market share, it might have been worth it. At the very least it would have been a much easier change for the company to make than cutting half of their workforce and completely changing their business strategy.
Thanks for your answers. I don't think it warrants the attack on their company, but this is the first really damning evidence I've seen against MU since they were raided. I just thought they were considered an easy target because of their CEO's unsavory past.
Only to the same extent that you are persistent in evasion. So let me take this moment...
Tau is a fad.
This is why I recommend only Nexus devices.
"It's just semantics" is a horrible, useless phrase.

The difference between "robot" and "postlapsarian" is "just semantics", after all.
I think you must have lost your train of thought halfway through this comment. Did you just try to show how Google's cloud service is worse than Amazon's by comparing it with a dedicated server from Hetzner? AFAIK all cloud services are more expensive pound-for-pound than Hetzner's dedicated servers.
They have newer metal (Sandy bridge), that's all I see right now. I think seeing smaller instance slices may appear later, they probably just want to ensure it's stable right now.
Slightly off-topic, but why is the Nexus Q streaming media player more expensive than the tablet?
Show HN: Android app that allows you to send a one-time viewable message/image
I just launched a goofy little app called Privy that allows you to send a message to another Android user that is only viewable once. It's free (ad supported) and there is no signup required.<p>https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appidio.privy<p>Basically, you compose a message and/or take a picture. When you send it the message is uploaded to Amazon S3 and a link is texted to the recipient. When the recipient follows that link it downloads the message (never saves it) and then deletes the image from S3.<p>I would love to hear your feedback and questions. Thanks!
Clickable link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appidio.pr...
"students seem to have an easier time remembering and understanding 2 pi r and pi r^2"

Are you speaking from empirical experience as a math teacher?

What makes 2 pi r easier to understand than tau r?
I can, but the number is dwarfed by the number of people I wish I had not pissed off.
Coming from New Zealand, I've always wondered how eBay became so popular while being so hideous, even ignoring paypal.

www.trademe.co.nz is our 'local eBay', and is both intuitive and attractive. It's totally baffling to me that the auction giant with tons of money doesn't have a clue how to hire competent designers.
emacs 24.1 has just been released.
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Google only believes in algorithms. With app engine they started charging me like $800/month after their price hikes. There was no way to speak with anyone. I basically sent an email from the link from the admin console only to get a lame reply the following week.

In contrast, at least in regards to other amazon services, their customer service is very high.

Amazon has experience providing customer service and are not ADD like google. When they do something, they stick with it and ensure success across the board.

After my experience with the Google App Engine, I will never trust google with anything else anymore, especially anything that is vital to my business.
usuable for regular people - that's awesome technology.

Maybe Nokia could have made a technically competitive smartphone in 2008 but they didn't. Why not? They thought they were competing on technology and that they had time. They weren't though. They were in the middle of a market changeover and they didn't see it.

If they came out with a phone that was technically competitive I don't think people would have bought it. They have one today and it's sales are disappointing.
That depends on how well and deeply you understand the current business model in Europe. If you don't know it well, then you won't be able to copy it. Not to mention that there are several other variables such as whether the market translates into South America, income levels, culture, local business policies, taxes and so much more.
>They were ready to ship QNX when they were bought

What does that mean? QNX is an RTOS meant for embedded devices. They were already shipping and still shipping QNX for medical devices etc.
People said the same thing about Apple and look where they are. However, I think without changing the top 2-3 layers of management they are doomed.
Split panes are actually beautifully easy. You just select both files that you want in the sidebar (command-I) and they show up. To change the individual file you can click on the name in the bottom of the window. The bigger find for me was holding option and clicking to get multi-cursor editing. Can't wait until a manual is published to see what else I missed.
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You're far from the only one. Reported HN salaries are a lot like internet-penis sizes.
Personally, I already have a 12" laptop and no smartphone (my wifi-less S60 doesn't really count), so a cheap and small tablet would cover the "really portable media/web viewing" nicely.

A 7" fits in my trouser pockets; for a 10" I'd need to carry my satchel, and then I'd just bring my laptop instead.
Unlike on Android, where pushing an app live is almost instantaneous, on iTunes it takes 24 hours for apps to propagate through all the various content distribution nodes.

It's much more likely it's this, since knowing Apple's review teams I would strongly suspect when they saw the "Google Chrome" app in the review queue they raised it up the management chain.

There is no rhyme or reason to this, it's just how it goes in the crazy world of iTunes Connect and the app store.
I know that as a kid I was all too sensitive to things in math "making sense" in a deep way. Any semi-arbitrary conventions that made my understanding less elegant, or which obscured the beauty of a concept, were fiercely protested.

So, up with tau!
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I always could tell that Michael had some sort of preternatural gift for great startup advice and just being a generally nice dude, but I had no idea that part of that was from starting a tech company back when he was 19.

Looking back, it makes total sense...
English is not my native language, but yes, those are subsidies too.
To add to the pile I'll give you a couple others that I know of. There's http://www.aeolusproject.org/ which is actually based off of Deltacloud which someone else already mentioned. It's basically a nice GUI/toolset for working with multiple clouds... and quietly backed by RedHat, so there is that.

There are of course also the application management tools like the recently announced CliQr and Rightscale. Both of those work with several different clouds (both private and public).
It's possible but I seriously doubt users would switch to Android because of a browser. Especially when they've already spent a lot of money on iOS apps and are familiar with the iOS ecosystem. I also doubt any mainstream user will understand that Chrome on iOS is slower than it could be because of Apple's rules.
> Consuming this media often involves lots of tapping and zooming.

That depends on your vision. If your vision is good leave everything small and just read it.

If not, put on some supermarket reading glasses to magnify everything and enjoy.

If it has the resolution, you can make a small device appear big by magnifying it to your eyes with glasses, while still leaving the device physically small.
As for scala.
"The only thing that's new is American influence and control extending that far outside the new world."

Well, I think that's my point. US Foreign policy has always distinguished between its allies and its pseudo-colonies/sphere of influence.
"On the other hand, corporate recruiting feels so generally horrid that that industry needs disrupting as well."

I feel like this is largely because right now recruiting is insanely hard. Not only are there not a lot of highly skilled programmers without jobs, but there aren't even good tools to figure out who the most highly skilled programmers are. In fact, recruiting is so hard that it's difficult to even figure out who the good recruiters are, because the success rates are so low even for the talented ones.

That's why I think these free online education initiatives are going to be the game changer, because they are going to provide lots of highly skilled people and also the tools to find them. Suddenly this makes recruiting a lot easier, and it also makes it obvious who the good recruiters and who the bad recruiters are. This in turn makes it easier for companies to justify paying top dollar for the best recruiters in their industry, it makes it easier for programmers to justify teaching themselves new skills, and just creates a whole lot of virtuous cycles all around.
Sure there was. For instance: Kim Dotcom was personally involved in a customer support case wherein a complaint was heard about the video quality of uploads of Showtime's hit series "Dexter"; Dotcom is later observed in Mega emails to be reacting to the complaint by working on improving the video quality. In another similar case, a customer complained to Dotcom about a message from the site they received while watching uploads of "Mythbusters"; Dotcom verified the site was functioning correctly (the site was enforcing bandwidth limits; it was of no concern to Dotcom that the site was also obviously trafficking in infringing content). This is part of a repeating pattern of support and maintenance and logistics email threads Dotcom participated in that make it clear what the site is actually being used for.

That's obviously just Dotcom. When you broaden the inquiry to Mega's key employees, you find instances of them directly handling and uploading infringing content to the site.

Most damning from what I can read is the details of the affiliate program. In emails discovered by the DOJ, we have line-by-line accounting of Mega issuing payouts to people in which the actual line items specify that the activity being rewarded is infringing.

All of these, obviously, are cases in which Mega is shown to have actual, specific, actionable knowledge of infringing activity on their site. Rather than acting to retard infringement on the site, they are shown to abet it, groom it, and in many cases incentivize it financially.

All this should be obvious to anyone involved trying to run a content company on the Internet, of which there are many on HN. Does money fall out of the sky the moment you open a content site? No it does not. Most content companies fail, and portfolios are littered with the bones of companies that tried to make a go of file hosting.

What made Mega so profitable? Come on. We know what made Mega profitable. I don't understand why spend so much time vigorously kidding ourselves about this.

We've talked about this before; we both know that we've both read the indictment. To my mind: Mega is losing whatever "public perception" battle that they're losing because they're obviously a bunch of crooks. I'll happily soak up some downvotes in exchange for the ability to speak plainly. :)

Incidentally: my reading of the law doesn't come from Grokster; it comes from a plain reading of the DMCA, where the steps required to obtain safe harbor status are literally laid out in bullet points.
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Probably best to stick to design/services that allow relatively painless movement to competitors. The competition alone would likely keep prices down so that movement isn't needed.
Interesting - and your 9 DIMM argument makes sense.

The large is exactly 7.5 * 2^30.

The small is about 1.66 on the same scale, which isn't outrageous to round to 1.7. I guess I'll check the state of play on e.g. the 68.4 GB machine, which is where it would really make a difference!
>Apart from Apple, the only companies to make more money after Android was released were Samsung and HTC, because they were the only viable phone makers who switched to Android. Motorola and Sony Ericsson were already toast - they couldn't compete with HTC and Samsung.

What? I don't get your logic. What do you mean by viable and why do you consider RIM and Nokia to be viable when they're deep in the red?

If switching to Android didn't work for Motorola, Sony, LG, and even HTC(revenues and profits are crashing hard), why would it work for Nokia or RIM?

Competing in a race to the bottom with minimal customer loyalty(see HTC's lack of repeat sales) is not really viable.
Right, but when have those commercially-motivated activities extended into the Commonwealth countries or the EU?
Yep, the site may have since been updated, but it now says: $0.10 GB/month
waxman is good people. fact.
Which is basically why they are dead in the water. They don't have an avenue for growth.
Because many of us can afford a single $200 tablet, but not an E-Ink reader plus a 10" tablet?
This is a great news. Groovy becomes more and more mature and efficient.
And then re-do the process every three months when their provisioning profile expires.

I've had a couple apps that were dev-install only because they were banned from the app store. They didn't last long. The friction for keeping them on my phone was too high when compared with the benefit the app brought.
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"Yellow, Yellow", reminds me of piss.
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Nice, very smooth and fun. If you're going to require signup, perhaps at least integrate some way to share/tweet scores and view the leader board without having to go through a round of gameplay first.
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The experience of using a hotspot just plain sucks. That’s why it’s so stupid that hardly any notebooks include 3G/4G.

I used to think that has something to do with stupidly expensive and restrictive US data plans, but you have some decent ones. The situation in Europe is still better, though.
I built a simple cli tool to do cross browser unit testing.

bunyip: http://ryanseddon.github.com/bunyip/
Revolutionary things don't begin with poor management and they sure don't begin after mass layoffs. Besides, they haven't just lost 5,000; maybe they did today but a bunch more will quit voluntarily in the next month (now that this huge red flag has been waved in front of them by management).

The people left over will not be willing to bust their asses to make great products for 2013, even if they're capable of doing so. They will be exercising their skills at printing résumés. What is RIM going to do: give them raises, while they're losing money? More like their Office Space bosses will tell them how greeaaaaaat it would be for them to start coming in on Saturdays. No, RIM has lost whatever chance it had to try something new. The next series of moves will all be drastic and they'll have only golden parachutes in mind.
Eh, I doubt Apple would reject it. IIRC Mozilla already did something similar.
This is great advice. Most tech companies are built by the same people, over and over again. The real "Valley" is an incredibly small group of people.
No HDMI out and no SD card slot make me trends towards the infinity. That and the dock might make it a reasonable email writing tablet.
Don't call this a 'book'. I know it is a great plug but it is simply not true.
They announced this in April: http://googlesmb.blogspot.com/2012/03/fast-accurate-and-affo...
Supreme Court healthcare decision is good news for startups
It’s never worth maximizing this round at the expense of all future rounds.

Couldn't say it any better myself
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I don't think it's psychological. I think both Android and iOS have better hardware that you can do more with. Beyond just apps - I can actually usefully browse websites on Android or IOS; when I tried on a Blackberry a few years ago, it was absolute torture. Bad web browser that didn't render sites well with a stupid trackball instead of a touch screen. I loved the e-mail, but e-mail was the only thing it did well. Maybe they have improved in the past few years, but they're not getting another chance from me, because meanwhile Android's web browser, driving directions, and Swype have -exceeded- my expectations.
Come on. You've had access to the Mega indictment almost since the week they were raided. You don't get to pretend that I just made some dazzling new case about Mega.

Face it: you're a strident defender of Mega, but never took a moment to look past the coverage of this case on sites like "Torrentfreak" to see the actual evidence the DOJ collected.

I'm not picking on you. I can't be: you're exactly like 98% of every defender of Mega on this site.

Happy to help! :)
> So ... the carriers still live. They didn't get what they deserved.

I don't see any way to make carriers "pay" until we have technology that can replace their massive capital investment (partially funded by taxpayers). The barriers to entry are extremely high.
Normally I am opposed to chronic reposting but I have watched this video start to finish 5+ times and it has never been time wasted. It is an eloquent expression of a philosophy that has shaped how I approach problem-solving more than any other. If you've never watched it, you're doing yourself (and those who depend on your ability to efficiently and effectively solve problems) a disservice.
You know for a while it was kinda funny, but now I'm really starting to worry about RIM.

Is like they are trying to commit company-wide suicide, it still has a big chunk of the market, it's not "done for" RIM still has a chance, but it seems its poised to destroy itself.
Most decent smartphones also seem to cost significantly more than $200...
At first glance, the UI feels pretty good. Here's some screenshots of Google Chrome on iOS: http://flic.kr/s/aHsjAhkquN