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> - That one-time setup fee is a lot of cash. I could come up with it but, again, why is this thing so much better than what I already have?

If you are getting the free tier you can pay the one time fee in monthly installments of $25. One thing to consider about low income neighborhoods is not that people have $19.99/mo DSL/Cable and are happy with it, but that they may have NO internet connection at all because $20/mo is food money. My wife teaches in a low income neighborhood with a very high rate of homelessness and most of her students have no computer and those that do typically don't have internet access.
256kbps AAC (comparable to, if not slightly better than, 320kbps MP3). Close, but no cigar.
Great answer - thanks - and I see it on the leanpub page too. But maybe move it up top in case your comments there scroll it off the bottom of the Disqus section?

I am actually resident in the UK and buying a copy shortly!
Teach a Kid to Argue
Lance Armstrong Issues Statement
To be quite honest, I don't think Lance has anything to worry about if he truly is innocent. If those people that were witnesses to his doping where not telling the truth, at some point one of them is going to get smart and realize they can make a butt load of money by coming forward to talk about how corrupt the doping agency is and how they were convinced to tell a lie. It may not happen right away, but it will happen (if they did indeed lie).
This is a pretty mediocre article, but the specific topic is interesting. I've gone from being bummed on the verdict -- to me, it's like Kraft getting exclusive rights to make cheddar cheese (they really don't do it well) -- to being kinda stoked on it.

Virtually everybody on this forum (except Nathan Myhrvold's paid agents, perhaps) knows that the US patent system is completely fucked; still, there's been little hope of getting even 1% of Americans to appreciate the problems with it.

But, this Apple case, I think, breaks it down in a way such that many more people can see the flaws in the system. And the jury errors probably increase that understanding (even though they logically shouldn't).

Nobody thinks that any company should have exclusive rights to pinch-to-zoom, the steering wheel, or cheddar cheese. And this case is actually helping to simplify that proposition for a lot of people who don't have a technical background or a lot of extra time to ponder such issues.
If you're just sending e-mails, check out Amazon SES. We've been using it and it works well.
I read articles like these hoping they'd contain more interesting distributions that would challenge the status quo. Projects like GoboLinux, NixOS and such are far more alien from the average Linux distribution, which tend to be more alike than they are different. There's strong viewpoints behind them that are offering new looks at how we all could be doing things, even if they are merely one or two radical changes here and there.

On some level I think that people who try new things with Linux tend to get shouted down, usually with intense appeals to tradition -- and unless you're working on Fedora, chances are it won't see light of day. I actually view this as pretty unhealthy. It doesn't matter if these new hypothetical alien Linux distros are actually good or bad, what's important is that people are constantly trying new things for all of us to learn from.

If someone asks me about the 'perfect Linux distribution' and they only want to talk about the mainstream distributions, it means we're not dreaming big enough.
This seems disingenuous to me. Already by calling what's essentially rhetoric "arguments", he's building a huge strawman.

You're being funny right? I mean it has to be intentional that you are opening this contrary reply with a statement in the form of what TFA calls "The worst argument int he world" .

In case you aren't, or other posters don't see it:

The term argument has a technical and colloquial meaning. Technical means it is a well thought out, logically built position in a debate. Colloquially it means roughly "a statement in opposition". Rhetoric as used above largely means "statements meant to sway a person to one position, based on a mixture of fact and emotional response". Of course this is regularly a big part of rhetoric, but it also is the act of clear communication via careful composition of words. My rhetoric classes in college never taught me to pander to emotion, but rather lay out my statements in a clear way to make my point - techniques that are required for both clear logical argument (technical sense) and populist panderings (the common connotation of statements like "mere rhetoric"). So how does the parent's statement follow the form of WAITW? Well it says that the "arguments" (second form) are mere rhetoric, therefore discussing how to deal with them with logic must also be mere rhetoric. It completely misses the part where these types of 'argument' are common to daily political discourse in the US and many other places as well, so learning to not make the argument and to counter it is productive in helping people understand the actual issues.
I'm Tired of this Google Ad-NonSense
Agreed, but you're missing an important point. An influx of workers who move into the community will ultimately yield an increase in grocery stores and amenities.

Companies like Quicken (mentioned in the article) provide significant incentives to get their 4k+ employees to relocate downtown. And it's working...
... sounds like a personal problem.
I guess this hasn't been seeded everywhere? 15 is still in beta according to the website.
Firefox only sandbox plugins like Flash, but they have plans for more sandboxing. No idea what the status is though.
How the Apple-Samsung case could push OEMs closer to Google and stock Android
Problem is, that if you have to look at the local culture in different places, becoming globally famous becomes much more difficult anyway.

Sure. No-one said running a business with a global market was going to be easy. :-)
A friend of mine was in dire straits a couple of years ago and had to take up residence in a hostel. She couldn't get a proper Internet connection, so she bought a Kindle just for the free 3G connection.
Personaly, I was doing a search on something like 'The best websites for developers', and I think it's on StackOverflow that I found people mentioning HN and reddit/programming among other websites. I heard from Y Combinator by Alexis Ohanian at CUSEC 2012, so the URL of HN stood out. And of course, same thing for reddit.

The content at that time was luckily quite interesting, but both website appeared to report the same articles. After a week sight seeing on both, I concluded that HN was usually of better quality than reddit. I think that articles on reddit tend to cover more trivial subjects than on HN, making for an easier, more casual reading, which is usually not what I'm looking for.

I want to participate because I would like to be part of a community of 'doers'. And every time I participate and post something, I'm at risk of getting my face slapped and hell-banned by the readers, which makes for a harsh but effective learning experience.
Completely agree (and that TC headline is terrible). We're an email startup (not the delivery side). I had the pleasure of speaking with Ev @ Mailgun early on in our life. He gave us tremendous help figuring out how not screw up delivery.

That conversation also made me realize we didn't want to worry about all of the things that companies like mailgun do well. I'm more than happy to leave the intricacies of email delivery to the experts.
How? It's not architecturally even similar. That's like saying phpbb is just like reddit or usenet.
The implications of this are huge. Any network traffic, including iMessage, Mail and more gets proxied through this service. Users don't know how much they're opening up to a company that they really have no reason to trust.
The Great Discontent: Jeffrey Zeldman
Viral growth statistics with and without Facebook Login
Fruit comes with fiber, which has suppressing effect on appetite, whereas confectionery items are usually made with pure white flour, which due to insulin spikes actually leads to an increased appetite.
>Here’s an idea, if raising money is such a bother than build products that don’t require you to do it.

There has been a lot of talk on HN that you don't need a non-technical cofounder. Bryce makes a good case for why a business-savvy partner can be a huge help.
^ Wayne Westerman, 1999. Hand Tracking, Finger Identification, and Chordic Manipulation on a Multi-Touch Surface

http://www.ece.udel.edu/~westerma/main.pdf

Edit:

Ref, note [1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FingerWorks
Yes: while Spotify is trying to win the US market, Deezer, its French competitor, is targeting every other country of the world. They can remain unknown in the USA and still become huge (they're owned by Orange[1] which is also inexistant in the US).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(telecommunications)
I'm using Firefox 17a1 on Linux and with 6 tabs open plus NoScript and Adblock, I'm getting about somewhere in the low 200s for mb of RAM used.
It's not just email deliverability. Mailgun's email API is super useful and worth learning because once you do you'll realize you can now do things with transactional emails in your app you never considered doing before. A few ways in which they are better than Sendgrid: (1) much better inbound JSON parsing of emails that can be used with any "route"; (2) On the fly route creation, modification and removal; (3) Pass through routing of individual mailboxes to your GoogleApps account for corporate email addresses. This is better than the Sendgrid approach because it allows you to put Mailgun in front of Gmail instead of the other way around. That could mean a noticable difference in speed of delivery of transactional emails reaching near real time relative to what you'd normally expect with email (<20 seconds).

If you're just sending in bulk, go with SendGrid, but if you want to do anything mildly interesting with email-as-an-interface, Mailgun cannot be beat. I'm honestly surprised it has taken other mail providers to offer these same features.
(Probably) No NFC in Next-Generation iPhone
Education is only useful up to a point. A PHD in Aerospace Engineering sounds great, but even in the US there is little demand for such people so they often waste most of that education. The worse the economy / infrastructure / social infrastructure the lower the benefit from high levels of education.

PS: It's been suggested that a balance of subsidizing government services and giving everyone an equal rebate like Alaska may be the best overall approach. However, doing so in a corrupt society often simply breeds government waste so a pure refund is probably the best long term option.
ebooks are outselling physical books now, so maybe not _most_ people, but _some_ people.
> Firefox 99 in 2017?

8.6 releases/year (release every 6 weeks), 2013 will start at Firefox 18, so Firefox 99 will be released in the first half of 2022.
Why does it seem insane? "Release early, release often" has been around for years. Both Chrome and Firefox both update every six weeks. That means over half of the Internet is now upgrading at a nice clip.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-daily-20120828-2012082...

The big question is how to get more people on a 6 week cycle.
Maybe you're right about lowest memory consumption, but what keeps me going back to Chrome is consistency in good performance and the fact that I can easily shut down one tab without having to restart the whole browser to reduce memory if that ever happens.

All browsers do have memory leaks but the fact that FF's memory continually increases to the point where I have to restart the whole browser every day is mentally tiring. This is where Chrome just got it right.
I've heard just one caveat about Amazon SES. One of our russian customers wanted to make sure we didn't use it to deliver mail because apparently it's blocked by a few of the big ISPs in Russia.
I like it. It reminds me of VMS's versioning.

I implemented something like VMS style versioning with Fuse and Perl for a talk/demo a couple of years ago - it simply created a new version on open() if any writeable flags were passed - not robust, but functional enough to demo.

edit Possessed by VMS, not multiple VMSes.
Official FreshBooks App for iPhone
Impressive. I wasn't aware of his visit, wish I could have made it out. What's a good way to get in touch with you? I'd love to have a more formal discussion about where you see the area going and if there's any way I can participate.
How I cracked my neighbor's WiFi password without breaking a sweat
I am a LW customer and their work is high quality. They formatted my ebook for Kindle and it was extremely painless for a good price.

Disclaimer: I have no skin in the LW game. They're a good service. I would recommend them to anyone who is publishing to Kindle. Saves hours of time and costs very little to use.
Real Life with Patrick Rhone
"The post-PC era has been pretty good for PCs so far" - Michael Dell
I did a quick google search for the other two infringing products, and I get nothing for "Kratos 0.12.3". The only hit is the original source.

MagicDocs does get a hit, but the last time it was updated on download.com was 2005, well before Mayan EDMS even existed.
IMHO with this kind of steady release schedule, it'd make more sense to go to year.month version numbers.
This is similar to http://socket.io, right?
Mark Cuban's blog post is a nice eye opener on this I think. Olympics being owned by a bunch of swiss bankers makes me just want to avoid it all.
So, you preemptively assume that anyone defending Apple in this thread or others cannot be a rational individual with valid arguments but surely a "fanboy".

In other words, yours is the only stance that can ever be right in this issue.

Am I getting this right?
Pixmania founders: one to leave France, the other to launch local fund
From what I can tell about the American consumer, that would only shift the blame for patent infringement from the company to the consumer - American's are nothing if they're not resourceful. They would buy the pinch-to-zoom enabled version from overseas. Then, it only stands to reason that in the current atmosphere of punish, punish, punish, the average consumer would be on the line for importing illegal goods or some-other-such nonsense law.

That's less pressure to change the obsolete system, and more pressure to prosecute based on antiquated laws.
>This is why I don't buy Apple products in the first place...

So what other company you give money to? Because as far as I know, Google, MS, Apple, Motorola, Samsung, Oracle et al have all sued for patents.
I looked at various options just last week and went with Postageapp. Main reasons were easy Rails integration and the lowest plan lets you use your own domain. (Mailgun's lowest plan is $19; the free plan you have to use a mailgun subdomain.)
Whoops - as of May 2012, TWC no longer blocks the Roku on HBO Go. Last time I tried was in April I think.
i've worked at quickenloans, have lived in the metro detroit area, and have worked in downtown detroit. It needs more lifestyle infrastructure than one or two companies can provide incentives for.

The state needs to take over the city, incent multiple neighborhood businesses (grocery stores, shopping malls, etc) to be relocating within a moderate radius of the downtown area, and incent families to move there (tax breaks, land redistribution, etc). Pull eminent domain on dozens of square miles of abandoned houses, relocate people if necessary, etc. Businesses grow around people, but people have way too many choices as to where to live. If Detroit is going to even moderately survive again, drastic action needs to be taken on multiple fronts - legal/govt, individuals and private businesses.

I applaud the steps QL and others have taken, but it tends to be not enough - Compuware 15(?) years ago moved there and it didn't do much, for example.
From the GPL's perspective, a closed GitHub fork isn't really any different from running your own source control locally.

(I'd say it's that way from any reasonable perspective, too. There's nothing wrong with wanting to do your tinkering in private.)

And even for software that's being redistributed there's never been any requirement in the GPL that you have to make your source control public. The GPL's conditions can just as easily be met by distributing your software along with a tarball of the version of the source that was used to build it.
Making it easier to cast your ballot
DNC Attacks Mitt Romney
Free with purchase of Kindle
BIG For Her Amber Medium Ballpoint Pen (Reviews)
IBM goes big on new mainframe with fastest chip, flash memory
Very observant of you. there are some interesting facts about his life which I thought would be of interest to the community, for example not wanting other people to make money off his name.
Google shutdown their weather API?
This is nothing new.

For a while talking in English in India was considered a sign of being forward and modern. Parents used to take pride that their folks talk in English, even if all they do is swear. It used to look odd, strange and hilarious at times.

And you see this India bashing not just in blog posts and news. But also in Novels and books, giving a bad perspective of India to a already troubled-by-outsourcing west sells well- Because it gives them 'See, we told you...' moments.

Are there problems in India, sure there are! Like every other country in the world. But NRI's talk about India like its the biggest hell in the world. And how they are totally justified in immigrating to a different country. A friend of mine went to do his MS in the US, when he came back for an yearly vacation all he had to say was was how awesome America is and how horrible India is. He seemed to find every reason under the sun why its worth settling down in India.

Well if you want to go out and settle in the west or where ever. Sure you are in full rights and please do it.

But justifying your personal ambitions by talking low of your country and country men to make your ambitions not look greedy is really a cheap way of doing it.
Well, you didn't ask me, but I am a new user.

I'm pretty sure I discovered HN as a source in Pulse and found myself hooked on the frequent stories relating to what I would call "real tech", descriptions of actual engineering challenges and solutions.

That's a rare thing as the majority of sites and communities are "passive" in their topics.

It actually took me a while to recognize HN as more than a news feed.

I'm not sure what drove me to actually participate since I generally try to avoid reading, much less posting comments anywhere.
Ev and Taylor are fantastic :) Those guys live and breathe email. Congratulations to everyone at Mailgun!
"Killed" is a pejorative word in my opinion. The article itself clearly explains that Apple was able to _beat_ Linux by being better at the time, not by employing nefariousness tactics. There are better reasons to hate Apple.
I'm somewhat curious why this spam hasn't been downvoted into oblivion.

user: davidw, created: 2016 days ago, karma: 28646

user: pc86, created: 11 days ago, karma: 20

I really don't mean to be a jerk, but a few quick suggestions:

1. Do a little research before you comment. Check out http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=davidw to see that davidw is one of hn's oldest and most respected members.

2. A referral does not necessarily = spam. We love to hear about cool stuff, especially when it was developed by one of us.

3. Language like "downvoted into oblivion" is (a) a lame cliche, (b) an unnecessarily nasty attack, (c) the attitude we're all trying to avoid here on hn, (d) all of the above. Lighten up. Please.

Welcome aboard, pc86. Looking forward to hearing great things from you.
I think you've been drinking kool-Aid, or you don't know how keep the running OS secured with the least minimum requirements (assuming you are talking about a home PC which is mainly used for leisure and sometime typical banking needs).

You can very well (still) run Microsoft's security software which has virus scan. You can occasionally run (still) freely available good spyware scanners. The firewall that came with the XP does its job.

The point I am making, which seem to be lost on everyone here, is that, if you upgrade your relatively decent hardware with enough RAM, and if you remove all the crappy services and EXEs from the startup, you can have a reasonable experience with older OSs and there is no need to go buy new PCs every other year from Walmarts.

But Microsoft is in the business of selling OSs and they knew what they were doing by removing IE9 from XP and they also know what they sell with every new updates of Office (go back to Office97 or 2003 and you can still use the basic function as same as today's Office).

So when it comes to the browsers in today's time, it really does look pathetic with very few choices on hand. You have a corporation owned Chrome which wants to know when did you pee in the morning and what did you eat last night and where. Then you have a decently run Firefox but that is the only choice right now and it is troubling that it is the only choice right now.
There has been a lot of talk on HN that you don't need a non-technical cofounder. Bryce makes a good case for why a business-savvy partner can be a huge help.

That, or one of the techs has to commit to becoming (enough of) a marketing / bizdev / sales / strategy person to do things like articulating a clear value proposition, creating financial models, etc. I'm not actually sure which is the better idea.

At Fogbeam Labs, we don't have a dedicated "business person," and - to date - I've chosen to throw myself into the marketing / business world. But that was kinda easy for me, since I always liked marketing anyway. And even with that being the case, I still find myself wondering if spending a lot of time focusing on marketing is a good use of my time, since that will probably never be my specialty.

For now, my position is basically "if we find the right person to bring on as a sales/marketing/bizdev co-founder, we'll do it. But the fit has to be just right, otherwise I'll continue working on reinventing myself as that kind of person."

Funny thing, even as I'm typing this, I'm listening to a Mixergy interview on "Communicating Product Value". And when I get home from the dayjob tonight, I'll be back to immersed in Chet Holmes videos, learning about building a "core story" and constructing a "stadium pitch" etc. No rest for the wicked...
So on close() ?
Upvoted :) You nailed it, couldn't agree more.
It's not so much self-regulation as the lack of resources in the wild.
I meant replacing commercial usenet servers with commercial/ISP bittorrent caches. Perhaps paying for it would be harder to justify, but it could offer the guarantee of fast download speeds, plus never having to worry that there are 0 seeders. It's also interesting for ISPs because BT traffic costs them money if it has to go through other ISPs (peering agreements), whereas traffic through their cache would be essentially free.
The guy earning 10k per month living with his parents?
Does anyone perhaps have the link to the discussion with the guy earning 10k per month with his marketing sites while still living with his parents?
Yup, I'm working off the same $28.64 number as you. I fudged the numbers so I could do them in my head, and didn't realize that's the highest-paid driver.

Thanks for the correction.
It's still a symbiosis, and it's up to us as the consumers to penalize this type of behavior. When we don't, we indirectly support it.

For example, I wonder why anyone would put up with the logo-censoring "police" after paying (I assume) a lot to get into the games. At least they should think twice before buying their next Olympic ticket.