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The only reason he doesn't like copyright law is because it stands in the way of him living the life he wants.

This guy absolutely disgusts me -- he doesn't give a shit about free speech, he just wants to live in his enormous mansion and eat far too much food and drive expensive cars and show off his trophy wife.
not as jaw-dropping as the good old kimble.org but still. anyone who remembers it?
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He's updated it to say:

* I have a $7 educational discount and I buy $12 plan on GitHub, normally they don’t offer a $5 plan.
Do...
...mention it if they wish to arrange subsequent interviews and you need to speed things up because offers typically have a deadline.

...if you like the job but the offer is grossly under the other one you have already.

...if it's a direct competitor. Tell them that you're only telling them as a professional courtesy in case they may not want to divulge sensitive information during this stage of the negotiations.

Don't...

...mention it early in the interview for no relevant reason as this clearly makes you look arrogant.

...mention it at all if you're not even interested in this job.
Also with Windows 8 and Windows RT devices Xbox music will have a free ad supported version.
Here's something I've been doing for the past 3 years ago since I've gone indie.

I have a text file which I keep open in vim, called "wip" which I have loose sections of content. Let's call them section 1, section 2 and section 3.

I list TODOs which I want to accomplish recently in section 3. When I start working on an item, I might expand on it and add additional sub-items, indented. I mark items I'm working on with a "@" and when they are finished, with a "". Sometimes I'm on several items at the same time (too many is not a good sign), I will add a few @@@@ to the start of a line I'm really* on, no biggie.

I mentally group my items into projects/types of activities like Project1, Project2. Each time I start working on Project1, I add a new line which says Project1 and the start time to section 2. When I stop working with Project1, I add the end time to that line.

Every morning, I run a little script which scans through section 2 in "wip" and extract out the time I spent on each project and inserts that at the bottom of section 2. I then copy section 2 and section 3 of "wip" into a new file giving yesterday's date as the filename. Then I go into "wip" and remove all the items marked with "" as well as section 2 and then copy section 1 into section 3 as well. Section 3 contains things that I want to do daily, such as stretch myself in the morning or to manually check if a specific service is up (enough till I automate them or build a habit out of it).

A great side-effect — the files that are created everyday becomes my work log. I can run scripts to generate how much time I've spent on a specific project or how much time I've work in a given year.

My wip file looks like:

section 1 - template TODOs

section 2 - projects and their start-end time

section 3 - TODOs (each like might start with a @ or and might be indented to various levels, seldom more than 2-3 levels). I don't keep the entire project here.
Unfortunately that is not an option right now, because it's my production machine with Windows7 as a host and some other VMs currently running. The machine should be powerful enough with a Quadcore i7 and 12GB RAM, though. Perhaps it really is a VirtualBox issue.
We have been working on this in the last few months, think we are up to something technologically cool, and now applying to YC.

Pretty exciting!
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I'm not sure this ought to be on HN. To me, it just seems like a guy's throwing a hissy fit. Publicly.
I meant cheapest. Also, I saw your comment above about once you are out of beta. I wouldn't wait. Set it at $9 or above and see what happens.

The longer you leave it at $3, the more expensive it will look when you raise it (and I really think you should raise it).
Yup! Agreed.
Exactly. I've tried selecting text on an iPad, and it's not easy. Maybe you can perfect rolling your finger to do it, with practice, but it's not as intuitive as a mouse for precise selection. Fingers are too big. Actually, just having cursor keys on an iPad would be an improvement.

However... game console controllers are also not as good as a mouse, and yet they now drive game sales and development.
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HFS is producing errors all the time. Run Disk Utility to see them. They may not be fatal, but they happen.

Apple computers with HDDs do get unusably slow once they start swapping. So much so that it is usually impossible to terminate the memory-hungry application. With SSDs the computer becomes usable again. Just ask some plastic MacBook users.

So, what exactly is untrue about what I said? Just claiming that it is not is not very productive.
The only thing their continued presence at their respective companies tells us is that they think they can do better by staying than leaving. Mark Pincus might be staying at Zynga because he thinks he can turn around the stock price and make it a sustainable company, or he might be staying because he thinks there is plenty of profit to squeeze out of the company as it dies. There are reasons to stick around besides goodwill towards the company.
When will we see somebody starting to bundle the services from different providers? Throw in number of useful services, give some discount.
Not to mention the fact that he had a copy of Office Preview. Stuff can still get changed in the software until the final version, and from my personal experience with Microsoft products it almost always fixes these kind of bugs.
This may be a matter of semantics but it seemed to me he pretty clearly avoided the word "cloud" in favor of "the network".

Based on his post it seems like he's looking for something that's a bit more robust from an infrastructure standpoint than what most cloud offerings are today. Eg, not "stitching together little microcomputers with HTTPS and ssh".

That appears to be one reason he's not buying that people have moved into the space.
What? No!
He's not pushing for a move to the cloud. He actually did criticize the way we're building the cloud today:

> "This is 2012 and we're still stitching together little microcomputers with HTTPS and ssh and calling it revolutionary. I sorely miss the unified system view of the world we had at Bell Labs, and the way things are going that seems unlikely to come back any time soon."

To understand what he's talking about, keep in mind that Pike was a lead engineer on Plan9, a project aiming at creating the exact environment he's describing. And although the project never left the lab, it did affect the lives of the scientists working there. There are many reasons why Plan9 never went mainstream, but one thing is sure it was not technical inferiority.

I don't think Pike is pushing for any agenda. I tried Plan9, and I see what he's talking about. Lack of widespread support and the relatively small number of available apps make it difficult to be the "primary" OS I use, but the design concepts like "everything is a file", union mounts or 9P are amazing and work like he describes.

When a world renown OS scientist is asked about his "ideal setup", what answer would you expect? "I wish I could get the latest version of MacOSX and the newest chip by Nvidia"??
Seems like a decent idea. Please include a pitchback url so we can "submit real, anonymous feedback about your startup."
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Most of my paid SaaS plans are closer to the $9-$19 dollar per month range.

Examples: Freshbooks, HootSuite, MailChimp, KISSmetrics, Dropbox
Hah! Not all :)

http://usesthis.com/interviews/windows
http://usesthis.com/interviews/linux
That and the fact it has a fan.
Great suggestions! # of steps included is something we haven't thought to implement, will do!
Alright. Done. I'm setting at $9. Updated now.
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Android doesn't have nearly as many tablet apps for full-size tablets as iPad has, but it definitely has an app ecosystem. Windows RT is starting almost completely from scratch -- like previous marketplace failures like the Playbook and the TouchPad.

If Metro apps take off, then in 6 months to a year, Surface could be a completely viable iPad replacement. But right now, you would have to have a pretty limited set of needs to be satisfied with a Surface.

Worse, I've read more than one review claiming that the software is still glitchy. While understandable in a 1.0 product, that's a huge disadvantage when compared to the famous stability of an iPad.

So while I'm sure there will be some interest just because it's a cool-looking product, I don't think more than a small minority of users will find it a realistic substitute for an iPad.
Although it's one of the worst models for startup. If volume is possible that means too many players in that market. Startup is already a risky business, why make it even harder by going into a space where you have to fight with lots of other big / small / medium players?
Not sure why an entry called "Kim Dotcom" linking to kim.com - a site that most that are interested in the Megaupload case already know and have visited numerous time - has to be on this site.

Nothing even has changed - i found no new information about anything on his site except maybe a new video (and i wasn't on it for at least a few weeks).

So i don't get it. I am surprised by the number of comments and up-votes for this imo completely worthless HN entry
First Order of Business: The thought police have to weed out the service providers that won't play ball. We can't have any rogue independent thought enablers like Kim Dotcom floating around.

So for now, while there are enough bit players and small-time shops floating around, people are still wary about losing their data to fly-by-night operations.

Unreliable SSD's and Stuxnet infected flash drives have shaken user confidence in personal storage, but not enough. And it still doesn't seem possible to create enough doubt in HDDs, while selling the con job of cloud storage. Also, there're enough data breaches floating around, but most people just shrug, and whether they understand what it means, or even care is hard to discern...

Anyway, once all the captains of industry are on board, with their poster children like Pike parroting the party line, and when the all the "OMG LYFETIEM DATA GUARANTEES" seem more reliable than the normal hard drive warranties available to the common prole, it'll finally be possible to memory-hole the fuck out of anyone that steps out of line. (I'm looking at you, Mr. Assange)

C'mon man. The name of the game is "Boiling Frogs". It has to be done slowly, and carefully. I shouldn't have to explain this.
You are right that the components used in phones/tablets could (will) become cheaper due to scale.
But the effect will be the same as when laptops drove 3.5" drives - desktops started using those components.

It's the same as when workstations were displaced by PCs (and Sun died): PCs are now used as workstations (also, used as minicomputers, servers, mainframes). The usage won't disappear, because keyboards and desks remain useful.

Soon, "desktops" will be displayed by devices that look like phones, but are used like desktops. Some will double as phones; some will be dedicated (like Apple TV); some will be desktops, like those USB computers. It's already begun.

As a comparison, by one benchmark, the iPhone 5 is 3x as powerful of the first eeePC 701 - which I use as a desktop, with HD screen, full keyboard and mouse.
I remember the first time I learned of Kim - 10+ years ago.

From the early days, his questionable 'projects', his legal troubles back home, his money making schemes, him defrauding people on BMW M5 forums, etc. Then I didn't hear about him for 10 years.

When his name came out during the Megaupload uproar, I immediately remembered his name and his antics and without knowing anything about Megaupload I knew he was guilty as sin just based on his record.
+1

(that was exactly why i instantly wrote the comment All that i can say to this post is "?". I don't know for sure, but i can't imagine that this is the first time for his site to be here and there is no valuable information at all that could be considered new...)
>[Plan 9 exists] because the status quo is bad and something must be done.

That's a strange way to describe research and experimentation (though not strictly incorrect).

>I just wished they focused on making the mainstream better

Plan 9 predates all of today's mainstream operating systems.
At the risk of causing a flamewar, it sounds like he wants Microsoft surface. It has all of those attributes when backed by SkyDrive apart from the fact you can't roll it up.
They're for play. The fact you might be able to get a little work done is a side benefit.
Productivity Level measured when going to sleep:

Overworked - "I still haven't done XYZ..." (fall asleep and work in the dreams as well)

Great - "I did so much today!"

Rhythmic - "Everything went as per schedule"

Bored - "Today was probably same as yesterday"

Lazy - "What did I do today?"

Loafer - " What is today?"
Nobody steals like zynga. The worst part, they steal from small , non-VC-or-SV-connected indie developers and then they sue them. If they were in china or Russia, everyone would call them scum.
This is bizarre. Why is this aimed so squarely at "Mr President" - The Obama Administration was anti SOPA, whereas the republican senate was behind it. Sure, the reality is probably more subtle than this, but if you must pick a single entity, the Republican Senate seems like a better target. Less sexy I guess.
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Kim needs to put out an album already.
The case has big implications for any site that hosts user generated content.

If users start using say github, to share movies, will the github founders be whisked away to jail and the site shut down without any due process?
That's not what marginal cost means to a supplier. The question isn't whether it costs more to acquire 2000 email addresses than it does to acquire 1000 email addresses, the question is whether it costs more to distribute to twenty buyers than it does to distribute to ten.

Thus, the cost of hosting is a marginal cost (probably zero in this world of pastebins and digital lockers). The fee taken by the payment processor is a marginal cost. The cost of finding twice as many emails is not.
Smallish screen size is fine as it can be plugged into another monitor and use either mirroring or dual displays (much as I already do with my ThinkPad).
Don't forget that this is Pike's ideal setup. Presumably in this "ideal" the security issues no longer exist and my "setup" is available at any interface I interact with - instantly.
It is really a shame, bordering on suspicious, that Google Takeout doesn't include any approximately realtime sync APIs for maintaining an off-cloud copy of your life. Even at Microsoft's worst proprietary height, they could never delete your data.
I don't think it's entirely Microsoft fanboys that are trying to champion the Surface.

A lot of people still think an iPad can't be used for content creation (not true at all; the thing has supported a Bluetooth keyboard since day one, there's tons of music being made with the thing, there's tons of apps for content creation at this point...) or productivity purposes (a somewhat fair point, but unless Surface somehow takes off, I can guarantee there will be Office for iPad someday). Ask anyone how they can justify spending the same amount of money as an iPad on a tablet that's smaller, with a far worse screen, with almost no ecosystem to speak of, unproven software, and with no accessory ecosystem, and they'll probably tell you "because this one will let me be more productive!"

I dunno. I try not to get too negative about products. I've come around on a lot of Android tablets; the Nexus 7 is a genuinely impressive device for $200. But the Surface seems not only woefully underpowered, but with Windows 8, has proven to manage to be cross-contaminating, harming the desktop OS that Microsoft had so finely perfected with Windows 7.
Hard to feel sorry for ppl who chose to waste talent and time like that. They could have gone the other route and compete with zynga if they wanted better
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For video editing, sure. But for text editing, the web woks.
You think that's X11 and not _Firefox_?
That's interesting. I found them largely useless, Lemur and TouchOSC aside (Android has TouchOSC support, though I do keep the iPad around if I want to use Lemur--haven't for a while though), but it's cool to see that they're useful for somebody.
Encryption? In the cloud? Only if you deploy your own app stack.
According to a friend at MSFT, these issues are all sorted on office 2013 RTM which only went gold yesterday.
Yeah, I remember it. Back then I was impressed. I knew Flash, but he really put it to the job. Though that impression didn't last long I've to admit.
I suppose Dropbox is just a poor replacement for the completely "on the network" world that Rob Pike imagines.
It's merely more then a convenient backup solution with some nifty tooling around.
The whole "everything in the cloud", "let someone else worry about storage" view, at least the way he promotes them, are more like VCS than let's say Git (or pick another DVCS)... you have a conceptual "central" point of failure, even if this "point" is a network of servers distributed around the world.

I want STORAGE ON EVERY DEVICE (not volatile!), and and automatic system to sync it with all my other devices, WITHOUT NEEDING THE CLOUD, just set up and ad-hoc mesh network and sync everyth (yeah, there's gonna be smth like "merges" for OS settings and music collection changes but I can do with that). The "cloud" should be just infrastructure, nothing else added, and I shouldn't be distrupted when my connection to it fails... "Always connected"? No, no, no, I'll always want to be able to work offline and be able to sync/merge/push/pull even my OS, its settings and software (and be able to "branch" my and keep multiple versions of software and all that).

DVCS should be the models for how to do everything in the cloud, with simpler interfaces for different level of user needs/competency.

Rob Pike's ideal of "homogeneity" in computing really misses the distinction between distributed and central syncing, the security and reliability implications etc. ...and large local storage capacity and "enough" computing power on all devices is needed for this. I'd rather be "part of the mesh" than "connected to the cloud mesh", because I think the distinctions are important and they require different things from "client devices" (all devices should be "clients"! no servers "in the cloud" for me please!)
Mouse, keyboard and large display area doesn't automatically preclude tablets, it just requires a docking station.
But... but... nVidia makes the best Linux drivers in the world! Etc.!

You just can't innovate using them.
I wonder how much he paid for that.
I have a free account on github, but I must be a terrible customer, because starting from my account, it took about 8 clicks to find the pricing information. I ended up having to go through the FAQ, and one question happened to link to the plans. Either that, or github has very relaxed attitude about sales. Maybe they only alert you to it when you attempt an action that requires an upgrade (e.g. too many repositories).
Why is there a gitorious.com, a gitorious.org, and a getgitorious.com? :(
It uses Gitolite to create 'virtual' user accounts https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite
At the risk of crying "ad hominem", can you explain why his personal desires render his claims invalid?
I imagine that Dr Pike spends most of the working day in the text editor that he wrote. He stated that he adds as little as possible to a stock Mac OS X install so that he can change the computer he uses easily.

The worldview bit was interesting because Dr Pike regards the way we access computing power as important and that the modes of access we have available may influence our lives. I think that he is right, but I prefer to have control of my stuff, so I tend towards synchronised local storage.
>without knowing anything about Megaupload I knew he was guilty as sin just based on his record.

What a frightening way to think.
Worthless? Matters of international law are at stake.

I've sat and watched USA ring fence "illegal" online gambling, in a massive display of protectionism.

I've sat and watched Guantanamo bay.

I've sat and watched the Weapons of Mass Destruction debacle.

I've sat and watch Disney steal from the public domain and ring fence.

I've sat and watched USA Juries corruptly favour USA companies in patent trials.

Enough is enough.
we may end up disagreeing here, but that is what is supposed to be impressive about an out of the box design.

I'm typing this on a macbook air, and if I spread all the components out behind a 21" display, I'm thinking it would lay pretty flat.
There are 5mm 1tb drives, stick that in the base (it just happens to appear to be about hd size), and you'll probably only add 5mm to the height of the base. I doubt that would be noticeable if designed well.

That's just one idea, but I think somebody will do something cool to make the entire computer that thin.
How do you think client-side window decorations impacts this? It seems to me that it would be difficult or impossible to create a secure GUI if every application gets such complete control over user interaction.
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But, in defense of local storage, if you wanted to use someone else's phone, you had to remember the phone number of who you were calling. This may or may not have been a problem. My mom always carried around a address book with everyone's contact info. Sure, she could call anyone from any phone, but she still needed some local storage with her.
> When I left work and went home, I could pick up where I left off, pretty much. My dream setup would drop the "pretty much" qualification from that.

For me, Dropbox has brought me that.

I still use Github and the like, but my computers now share such a similar setup (all Linux, install Go, install Dropbox, install Sublime Text 2, done) that I can walk out of the office without doing anything special to my machine, go home and pick up literally where I left off.

My git repositories are cloned into my Dropbox folders so that when I move from one place to another but am not ready to check in (local branch in state of flux) I still have that in multiple locations.

As Sublime Text 2 stores the project and file info in a plain text file, that state comes with me too.

My $GOROOT is also in my Dropbox folder, so if I've grabbed something via "go get" that also follows me around.

I view Dropbox as an ever present working cache, not as storage. Things like documents are in Google Drive and accessed via the browser.

On Friday I went to a meeting at 3pm that I thought would just be 20 minutes. It turned out that it took 3 hours, and I hadn't closed ST2 or anything I was working on... no problem, I went home instead of back to the office and my work was exactly where I left off with the same files open in ST2.

I think the only thing that doesn't follow with me are the undo buffers in ST2.
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Stripe does, indeed, rock. I've spent a few hours over the last couple days integrating it's payment and customers API into our product and I have to say using their provided Python module makes things so much easier than using Authorize.NET as we were before.

Sure, there are shortcomings compared to Authorize.NET, but from a programming (and logging/debugging perspective) it kicks ass.