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That's just terrible. As such TechCrunch is very biased and now you have an Apple salesman on board (MG Seigler). I'm just waiting for someone to tear this organization apart, because what they are doing to Journalism is terribly wrong.

You see, Journalism has advanced to a huge extent in the online world. In the real world, a journalist would have to travel places, arrange interviews, and so forth. It's much much hardwork than 'online journalism'. Organizations like TechCrunch and Gizmodo are basically thieves. They don't have to travel anywhere to get the news, they just 'steal' it from goodwill communities like Hackernews and Reddit and make the titles misleading or 'attractive' so they can get more clicks and add bias to it, insert ads wherever possible, and write articles favoring companies that sponsor them. I can list you so many articles that Gizmodo spins up from Hackernews. Less than 10% of their blogposts are fair and original. The rest are just rip-off from non-profit communities like HN. That is just plain wrong.

TechCrunch has never been afraid of admitting being sponsored by companies, infact, Matt has once admitted that he was sponsored by Apple to write a post favoring their technology over a competitors' based on meaningless grounds.

And Gizmodo, needless to say, are pro-apple, no matter what. What is so bad about these organizations are that they are unfair. They are deceiving people. They spend initially huge amounts of time and effort to build this trust with their audience and they just misuse it by writing unfair articles in favor of companies sponsoring them later. They are killing fair journalism. That is just plain wrong.

These organizations are just a shame to Journalism itself. As a journalist, your duty is to report the news as it is, not what you think of the news. No one gives a fuck to what you think of the news. We all have our own opinions, right? Especially infront of a huge audience, there is a moral obligation to be honest, unbiased. You will never find such ethics with TechCrunch or Gizmodo. For example, recently on Gizmodo, you will find pro-Apple articles suggesting comparisons between every single device on this planet concluding Apple is superior in all aspects, but, never any of its disadvantages. iOS was hacked recently (Security hole). When was the last time you read that on TechCrunch or Gizmodo? You didn't, because they didn't write it. Why didn' they write it?

That is why I am not a fan of MG Seigler or Jesus Diaz or anyone else from these shady organizations. They are just a shame to the Journalism community and they share our knowledge and profit out of it by wrong means. They think they are intelligent, but an average HN reader has more knowledge about tech than these biased, paid writers.

I hope TC falls off soon.
I have a few questions about HA AWS deployments. Anyone know the answers?

It seems obvious that multi region for HA is ideal, but the reference architecture for web apps on the aws architecture page only uses multi AZ for HA. How do you bridge that disconnect? Route53 with super low ttl? Wouldn’t route53 then be a single POF?

Also, is dynamodb multi region? If you have to use MySQL, how do you replicate cross region in a time and cost efficient manner? Isn’t S3 also only multi az, is there even a way to make s3 cross region? Or do you just “hope” dynamodb, route53, and s3 don’t fail?

Thanks,
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If they can (and do) I fear that this will discourage the USPTO from invalidating any other patent review cases for fear of being sued out the yang.

If there is a plus side, this may affect the passability of future patent requests but I figure this will be less likely to occur and more likely that the USPTO will simply stop invalidating patent review cases. For the good of the country (world) I hope I'm wrong.
and then, the data provider sells the credit card information you gave them to buy this list in another market... Do YOU feel safe?
Whenever someone talks about Windows 8, the question that pops up in my mind is: why include metro in the PC version?

Why would I use anything but the Desktop mode? I can already make apps fullscreen if I want, but I definitely don't want to be limited to only fullscreen mode.

So what advantage does Metro have for a desktop user?
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+1 - I love Rubular and use it whenever I have to write regular expressions for fun or profit.
I have to strongly disagree with comparing Groupon to any of the OP's failed examples. Groupon may well run into the ground, but consider that:

a) It was the first big success in its space
b) at its peak, hired dozens (hundreds?) of actual employees, even copywriters from journalistic institutions.
c) Had a huge, huge base of customers

Groupon's leaders should be faulted for the various strategies and actions that have put the company where it is. But Groupon did create a vibrant service out of something that seemed quite pedestrian (can't you just get coupons from the weekend newspaper?)...and a lot if its downfall comes from how easy it is to copycat it.

Color, in contrast, had none of the above.
Screw you. Mike you are such a troll, screw you. I'm not kidding, screw you, you asshole, screw you. I'm being very serious Mike. I'm infuriated that you would imply that because I had a review unit, that would influence me... screw you... I'm throwing you all off—fuck you guys.

I'm not kidding. I'm done. We're going into reruns.

What a... what a jerk. I've had it with Mike Arrington. He is the most trollish person I've ever worked with.
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Well, having spend all my day on an Xterminal, I think you are stuck in Windows mentality. Unix mentality is network transparency. Just inform you about plan9. In unix, you do not care where your program is running, it just runs and you can interact with it on your X server. VNC is windows mentality and it just happen to be useful on unix because X toolkit layers are network hogs.
Disk encryption comes to mind (ie you might not want the OS to persist keys that should only exist in RAM), although I haven't investigated this further on Windows 8 yet.
There are a couple reasons app developers should strive for originality.
Copying Github's design only reminds me of how your app is second to Github. That Github was the one who thought of the beautiful interface and that by using your app I will be using a copy and not the original. The copy is inferior to the original in my mind and I will never see the app as an equal. This really dampens the excitement I have for it because it might never be able to compete with the experience Github provides.

Another example is Open Office, everyone uses it and it does the job. But no one loves it, because its a copy. Its not the original and it will never be the same as using MS Office. Now compare that with Apple's iWork. Its not a copy; its an original. When I use it, I feel comfortable in knowing that Apple has worked to provide an experience that is second to none.
Because it isn't. Who writes for TechCrunch is not front page worthy news.

EDIT:
There always seems to be some air of schoolboy drama surrounding TechCrunch.

For example:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2011/sep/15/techcrunch-a...

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505124_162-43452680/techcrunch-d...

And I'm sure that this news will spur some, too. Who cares?
None.

Zero.

This is why I don't understand, say, the Verge's positive Windows 8 review. Sure, the desktop is still "usable." If you ignore Metro, it becomes an over-engineered full screen start menu.

And somehow, having the most massive upgrade to Windows be, at best, ignoreable on desktops and laptops doesn't make Windows 8 instantly a massive failure?
"So if the ease of shipping hardware even approached the ease of shipping software, we'd see a lot more hardware startups."

So what kind of startup can facilitate that change?
MS say Windows 8 eliminates most reboots needed by OS upgrades. Great, but didn't they already say that for Win7 ?

The new Task Manager looks great though, and the document history might be proven to be useful.

I think I'll wait Windows 9 to upgrade my desktop & laptop.
But for some reason, I strongly doubt Amazon will ban him...

And the point is that even if they ban him and try to delete his library, they will fail because he has backups without DRM.
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It seems to me that there is nothing inherently wrong with these talented pitch men, people that get everyone excited about some venture even if there is no clear path to long term growth.

If you could marry these people with others who have a proven track record of creating sustainable businesses maybe you would have some unstoppable force?

But then again, maybe in order to pump and dump, you have to make certain decisions that are bad for building a company and good for raising funds.
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They're pretty clever. When I started programming in 2009, I wrote a small scraper that would create accounts, friend people and steal their info if they accepted. (I never released it past my own friends list and never sold the data).

There were the obvious checks for CAPTCHAs when too much activity was detected, but other subtleties as well. If you looked at too many people's profiles, emails wouldn't be displayed as text, but as images. A person would be unlikely to notice as the pages looked identical, but dynamic changes like that make it harder to scrape some things. Introducing even rudimentary OCR requirements is enough to turn away a lot of programmers.

I'm not saying it's not possible to pull off. But Facebook has set it up so any money you might make this way will likely not be worth the development time required.
When MG and Arrington distanced themselves from pandodaily it felt like they kept moving closer towards techcrunch. Now this certainly solidifies it.

I'm not sure what to make of the news to be quite honest. All that drama...much ado about nothing?
If Michael Arrington returning to TechCrunch isn't HN-worthy news, I don't know what is!
Shutdown /r does the same.
Good point. I withdraw grandparent.
As did I. Hang on there, as the second series was commissioned July of this year.
True, but cassette tapes are also the past and present of big data storage. If you have gobs of data you need to stash somewhere, tape is still massively more cost-effective than disk, and this is no secret.
It all comes down to the end user agreement you agree to when purchasing the ebook. Content providers are within their right to define how they want their copyrighted works to be used - though a judge could potentially throw out the end user agreement in court.

So, if Amazon stipulates that you should not tamper with or remove the DRM from the ebook, it's a violation of your purchase agreement if you do.

Basically, you agree to not remove the DRM when you pay them for their content. The only legal alternative is to not buy from them.
Did you entirely miss "simply select Restart from the shutdown menu" in those instructions?
When I look at personal websites pre-Facebook, I see a different world. People seemed to be freer to be different. Maybe that's just nostalgia, and maybe that's just the effect of popularization.
But what Arrington is up to is worth noting.

Regardless of anyone's opinion of him, he's been a big factor in shaping the startup press world.
"In Windows 8, Metro apps run on top of a new application architecture called WinRT, which is a low-level set of APIs that run just above the Windows kernel. WinRT is the Metro equivalent of Win32, which is the API that Desktop apps use. "

Didnt we just read an article yesterday about how this isnt true? WinRT is built on top of win32, not parallel.
I don't think it's like that at all. A startup that gets a lot of hype and carries that far enough to get acquired or IPO before crashing means that someone else is left holding the bag. TV, movies, games and music are invested in by the company that stands to make the money from them; they're seen through to the end.
Success? GroupOn isn't profitable, it hasn't even returned via income the equity invested + accumulated losses. Anyone can hire tonnes of people, pay them, provide a service/product, and still deliver negative equity returns. Anyone.
Yes, easily. Solar escape delta-v is about 21 km/s from earth orbit (not including earth's gravity). The Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter is designed with a delta-v twice that, 40 km/s, using nuclear-powered ion thrusters. To be used to maneuver within Jupiter's gravity well, moving from one moon to another.

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/jimo2003/hartman.pdf

It's a completely doable project sidelined by budget priorities (NASA thinking space tourism more important than science).
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But it doesn't take any time. I just plug in my Kindle into Calibre (OK yes, there was time to install Calibre and maybe 10 minutes of reading about what it can do etc), and it does the rest. It's incredibly simple.

Just like maintaining a backup of your computer takes a little time up front, but hardly any marginal time, the same can be said of your Kindle.
For people who don't know what this is about: http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/06/ouch/
Did you pay into unemployment insurance? I doubt it very much -- self-employed persons typically don't have to pay into it, unless they in turn have employees.
My understanding is that removing DRM for personal use only is legal in the US.
Setting ClientAliveInterval and ClientAliveCountMax does not disconnect idle users. It's for detecting failed network connections. Your ssh client will still reply to protocol level alive checks even if you are sitting idle at a prompt.

What he's looking for instead is:

echo "TMOUT=300 >> /etc/bashrc

You can argue that this doesn't really enhance security, though...
Rise of? Apparently the author wasn't around during the 90s?
Both other posters in this thread are one hour old. People should really quit astroturfing. It is getting annoying.
Maybe it's just me but I feel that since Arrington & MG stopped writing, the rhetoric in the startup blogging space has toned down.

While some of my favorite tech posts was written by Arrington and MG, I'm not too excited for their return.
That's a scary track record. Seriously, what are the odds? :)
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Neat, I've been using Win8 since the first preview was released and I still learned some new tricks. File History, for instance, looks handy if you can afford the storage space. And I wasn't aware you could refresh from a user-created image; how exactly does it differ from a system restore though?
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Unfortunately it seems like a lot of the time people are building companies for exits, rather than long term products. There's exceptions of course, but how much of that is now the expectation that to get the funding to do something you've got to be aiming for $xm dollars at exit.

I've got no problems with people exiting like that, but it makes me wonder where all the pressure to sell up and move on comes from.
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"Successful reexaminations should be a rare, exceptional case in a properly functioning patent system."

Unfortunately some 70% of reexaminations are confirmed to have some sort of issues. This is very shaky ground to be used to routinely afford millions/billions in damages and effectively "lock up" ideas that are obvious or unpatentable.

edit: add source
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That sentence is from the Phoronix article, not Kristian's announcement, which is quite fluent (http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2012-Oct...). Phoronix writing is always like that.
As I understood it, from having worked at a (successful) startup that sold hardware, the big problem with hardware isn't that it's hard to make. Rather, the two big problems are margin and, worse for a startup, inventory costs. Airbnb can add 1,000 new customers with no infrastructure changes, but for a hardware startup to take on 1,000 new customers, someone will have to finance the inventory, and someone will need to predict the amount of widgets to stock in that inventory, and that gets very expensive quickly.

I don't know how much the inventory issue is mitigated by the fact that YC companies with working offerings seem to be immediately able to conjure up 500k-1MM in funding.

Also, YC's major successes haven't been hardware companies, have they? The last essay I read before this one suggested --- in agreement with the conventional wisdom of VC's --- that a company needs to be Dropbox-successful to move the needle for YC. Not that YC isn't, I'm sure, thrilled to have hardware product companies with traction in their portfolio.

Let me just add a banal point: YC's business strategy is, obviously, "throw everything we can at the wall and see what sticks". If you're considering your first company, that's probably not your best strategy. Even putting aside the big-ticket problems like inventory and margin, there are a lot of other things that suck about hardware: lead times, managing supply chain, QA and managing defects, field recalls, shipping. These problems are so big that major hardware companies have people who don't just have one of those tasks as full-time jobs, but are also famous for being able to deal with them.
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Curious as to why some websites like google.com show the subdomain, but others, like github.com do not. Websites hosted on a github.com subdomain, for example, appear to come from github.com.
Vote me down, but WTF?
The question I have is if malware on your computer can access these credentials or click the link?
I think that he is referring to a second "rise of"
It's good to hear Linn has her stuff back but this doesn't guarantee future situations like this would have similar good endings. What I infer from 'no explanations' is it's mostly a PR plaster.

It's sad that such problems will be solved only by huge exposure to the story. Not something everyone can have all the time. Happy but sad.
Perhaps it's more to do with application compatibility.
If they create 2 separate OSs with different UI systems then you require developers to create 2 different versions of their applications if they want to target tablets and desktops.

A big selling point of Windows has always been "use the same OS at home and at work". If MS are guessing that home users will largely go for WinRT devices over full on Windows 8 boxes they lose that advantage if there is too much fragmentation as you will have completely seperate app ecosystems for each.

It is also an OS for hybrid devices such as the Intel based Surface tablet.
> Rather, the two big problems are margin and, worse for a startup, inventory costs.

You know there was a time long long ago where those were considered barriers to entry, and that barriers to entry were considered a good thing?
What kind of bugs me is why the small start-ups who are actually making money from day one don't really receive much money. I mean, $700,000 (pulled from thin air) in funding is good, don't get me wrong - but if they're making money and they have a decent business plan, why aren't THEY receiving $41,000,000 in funding?
Well, specifically only Voyager 2 did to reach Neptune. Voyager 1 slingshot only Jupiter-to-Saturn, which is available much more often in a much larger set of planetary positions. Pioneer 11 was essentially rerouted on the fly to do that, and Cassini also flew a planned Jupiter-Saturn trajectory.

There's also a bit of a multiple endpoints situation in singling out the 4-out-of-4 giant planets scenario. That is indeed infrequent, but say a 3-out-of-4 lineup with either Uranus or Neptune, or 4-out-of-5 with Uranus and Pluto as the final two [dwarf] planets, also would have made for a fine and successful mission.

OTOH, we could even argue that we were unlucky that the giant planet alignment occured for that 1977 launch window. If it occurred this decade instead, we could send a much better spacecraft with the capabilities of Cassini or Messenger or New Horizons.
Frankly, not a single one.

You'd need:

* Significant improvements in 3D printing

* the ability to construct circuits as part of 3D printing

* a much wider range of materials available.

Essentially, you'd need to be able to ship hardware as a digital good. Which raises the huge question of DRM. The recent years of software startups side-stepped that by going the SaaS approach. (You'll notice desktop software is pretty much dead. There are no major new projects in that area since probably ~2008 or so.)

HaaS is going to be much more difficult. (Not necessarily undoable. Minds on too much coffee have suggested going a biological route, where devices just decompose after a certain time)
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Software can be remade by reloading the page on your dev server. Hardware has to be rebuilt. You'd need to provide a tighter iteration loop on designs.

3D printing could do this, in theory.

There's a company trying to do this for life sciences: https://angel.co/transcriptic
>What we really need is a poll.

Ok, /newpoll...
>Sorry, polls are turned off for a while.

Now we'll never know.
This just in... every web browser is a security back door to all your web apps!

If you sign in to a web service and click "remember this computer", close the browser, get up and walk away, and someone else sits down at your logged in computer they have access to all your web stuff!

This is a non-story. Working as intended.
Even better, it's an informative article from ExtremeTech. Perhaps their editors have been listening to my tirades here on HN every time a biased, unfair, and completely wrong article is posted.

Reading this article, I kept going back to the top of the page to make sure I was still on ExtremeTech and didn't get rerouted to a different site.
No no no no no. If Linux people had to put up with crazy shitstorms over Gnome 3 and Unity, Metro most certainly is going to get it's fair share as well.
I suppose a startup could make it easier for other startups to access contracted design and manufacturing, but I think there's a lot more regulatory barriers too.

As soon as you're selling hardware, you're dealing with customs, FCC (or equivalent) regulations, a lot more safety regulations, etc.
This is a bunch of alarmist nonsense. For starters this is no "backdoor" it's front and center, and the author acts as if the concept of locking a user profile behind a password on the OS level is a completely foreign one.

Client side software devs assume that a user set up a local password because there is only so much that can be done for the user, and otherwise this makes this sort of software very cumbersome to use on a continuous bases.
Were they a good thing for startups? I would think that those barriers to entry are a good thing only for well capitalized existing businesses.
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Live Stream has started. Works fine in VLC with the .m3u8 URL from that.

Although I'm finding I am often suddenly loosing connection, I suggest putting it in a playlist on repeat.
Barriers to entry are a good thing for incumbents and for the market leader. They work against all new entrants to a market, including the entrants YC picks.
Yes, because there aren't national unions for professional engineers, doctors, lawyers, actors, writers, professional athletes, or teachers.

The main role of a union is to provide for collective bargaining agreements.
If you are using third-party disk (or anything) encryption tools, the keys would be stored in userspace RAM, which isn't saved to disk by shutdown. It only persists parts of the kernel, and presumably does not persist Bitlocker keys.