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Escape Goat dev has some thoughts on AppStore/XBLA vs. Steam pricing game on his blog http://www.magicaltimebean.com/2012/02/escape-goat-price-dro...
Is this one of Paul Graham's Frighteningly ambitious startup ideas in the making? http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html

Is AOL's current position that of an incumbent or a disruptor?
The importance of gratitude
> Its where everybody under the age of 30 gets the news from.

I hope you're wrong because that's terrifying.

The Daily Show is a comedy show. Jon Stewart frames and simplifies the issues according to his personal views and what the audience wants to hear.

What's wrong with NPR and PBS News Hour?
Google share price plunges 9% after earnings fall short of expectations
That would suggest people in charge know what they're doing.
I have already seen a website which use "ie=☠" in the URL.
I think the same attitude exists in Australia. Lots of people start small businesses, but the actual startup scene is very small. People who do go out on their own tend to stick to established business models. Nothing wrong with that I suppose but it inevitably leads to less innovation. The other factor here is the almost total absence of VC funding. Startup culture needs a critical mass of entrepreneurs and money.

[edit] - the other big issue in Australia is there's less social tolerance for businesses failing.
No. He stated that his uncle, the current leader, was a dictator.
Or screw tops. A few years back a bunch of major winemakers in Australia said "screw it, we're not using corks anymore!" (pun intended)

People told them they were crazy, that the market thought screw tops were for cheap junk wine only, but they did it. And it worked. Now only bottles going to export markets use corks.

You lose the ritual of uncorking a bottle, but it's a lot more practical to open and there is no danger of the wine being corked.
Nearly every reasonably popular site on the internet gets DDoSed. It's embarrassing that Github goes down every time they're targeted.

Honestly, grow a pair, fellas. It's part of doing business on the Internet.
>BBB must be a bunch of scumbags too

Er... they are.
Medical expenses weren't what they are now all that long ago, either.
Can you give any comparable examples of reverse-engineering having occurred in the last decade? It seems to me as though it's easier than ever to halt that sort of thing. For example, embed some form of DRM in the device/firmware and then the reverse engineering attempt becomes a DRM circumvention attempt. Or, embed some bit of patented software and claim patent protections.

The example that comes to mind is George Hotz's PS3 "hacking" which brought about a massive lawsuit from Sony.
Coursera is booted out of Minnesota
Wow.
I have to respectfully go against the crowd here and disagree.

When you're leaving your job to start a business, the assumption is that you have some money saved. You're guaranteed not to be turning profit for a certain period of time. Depending on how lucky and how good you/your idea are, that could be anywhere from a month to a year or two.

Not having government health insurance just means you'll have to get your own. I am speaking here from experience: I quit my job, posted about it on HN, bought myself health insurance, and started my own software company.

How much did the health insurance cost me? 200 dollars a month. (Edit: yes, this is in the USA. IL to be exact.)

Yes, 200 dollars is not nothing. Yes, it would be nice to not have to pay that. But then again, I'm paying 1200 for my apartment, 80 for my cellphone, 80 for electricity, and I'm sure I can come up with some other monthly obligations that I have. Health insurance is maybe ~10% of my "maintenance costs" that I can't avoid.

Why aren't we arguing that the government should provide apartments for everyone so they don't have to worry about finding a place to live when they take the risk of leaving their jobs? Or require special restaurants that are publicly funded so that you don't have to worry about that, either?

I know a lot of people will take issue with this, but, keep in mind, I am not saying I'm against government health insurance. I'm saying that this isn't a very good reason for it. Going off on your own is and always will be a risky situation, unless you're already independently wealthy. By definition, it involves giving up a cushy job and steady pay for the chance of striking it rich on your own or (as in my case) doing what you love. That's the nature of the beast, and that's why we have both entrepreneurs and employees.
i suggest doing A/B testing. its a great design but your entering price point is a bit high.
all the best
It's interesting to see SQL injection techniques reworked to attack Mongo, but not really surprising. Not following good coding practices is going to cause problems regardless the language. Nosql, SSJS and the like won't protect you from yourself if you don't sanitize user input.
great point... try getting remind.er or anything close to name
I don't expect to see much difference in my day-to-day browsing, I can barely remember the last time I encountered a Java applet - most of the time I see them they are some sort of unimportant and old technology demo.

However, I'm of the understanding that in Europe, a lot of bank websites use Java applets as their primary way to do online banking, in which case I can see this decision affecting a lot of people.
Why apple wana do with Oracle/Java ?
There just is an infinite list of things wrong with bank websites aren't there.
They allow you from replacing the firmware on the x86 devices (and it's similar on ARM: https://plus.google.com/109993695638569781190/posts/6MDhf9Hu...). From there, you can do whatever you want.

If you don't want to dive _that_ deep, the developer switch still disables signature checking on kernels, so you can replace that one as well, but with their specialized bootloader, it's somewhat more difficult to get a system onto there than on a regular system (expectations on SSD partitioning etc)

(edit: clarified bootloader/firmware situation on ARM after finding appropriate link)
I'm seeing the 500 Internal Server Error message "We're sorry, but something went wrong." too.
The Market Sides of the Mobile Ecosystem
Can you please say from who? I'm gearing up for this and I wouldn't hesitate at 200 a month.
What Is the Difference between Game Design and Web Design?
It's interesting when I lived in the US
it was surprising how many of my coworkers on their early twenties were averse to risk... they wouldn't start a new business venture and their reasons were:
- I have student loans
- I need health insurance
- I need to build a foundation so that my kids can go to college.
- After the economic crisis, it isn't worth it....

But living in a contry were:
- You don't have student debt
- Your health services are warranted
- Your kids can go to college and even great colleges for free...

Makes being an Entrepreneur SO much easy...
that you wouldn't believe.
That isn't what I'm comparing though. My use case is obviously different. For me, I'm working on software, I'm compiling software. On an ARM machine with no moving parts, this is a silent activity. On every other machine, this is far from silent.

I brought up the Air mostly because I didn't know what the noise was when he started the game. I thought that the Air didn't have any moving parts. In fact, I'm still debating getting one, but a machine that's silent at 250 that can do what I want it to is a much faster decision than one that is ~1000.

I know my use case isn't typical, but it is the one I rely on when deciding what to get for myself, and silent is good for my needs, and how much noise the computer makes when I've got all cores running on a compile is a factor, for your needs it may not be, or you may not do the same type of work.

The point I'm getting at is that no matter what I do on a machine with no moving parts, it's going to be silent. An older laptop on eBay may be more useful for some people, and I'll never fully move away from a workhorse machine until ARM performance is on par, but it's still nice to have when she's sleeping and I'm still mulling over a fix.
Russian keyboard layout does not have any Roman letters so apart from obscure even in their time, Soviet-devloped languages like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapira, reaching for shift+4 for ';' is going to be the least of your concerns if you try to write code using Russian layout.
How did software get so reliable?
I too received this email, more specifically about JavaScript. Obv tacky & tasteless but probably working for him.
it also compiles fine under cygwin, so you can run it under windows :)

interesting gameplay!
Could it be that some of the propaganda we hear about North Korea is propaganda!?
Interview with M.D. McIlroy
I don't like this submission at all. It IS acceptable to reach out to people on HN, and other communities like it, to see if you can work together or their startup can help you out. I love getting mails like that, especially from a 2+ year old member that is asking for advice or a chat, along with introducing what he's working on.

Presumably that's why you have an e-mail in your profile when there's nothing compelling you to share that. That someone actually used that e-mail should not result in public defamation and linking their business name with spam. Networking is something lots of professionals do -- and you can opt out by simply not giving out your e-mail, or saying so in your profile.

Now we can see that he also sent the same mail to some other people. That's much less 'cool', and I agree that businesses shouldn't harvest profile e-mails just to market to us. But you gave no indication you knew that when you came here to call it spam -- and you should really be sure before making serious claims that could have ramifications for his company for years. This submission is gonna be in search engines forever with his company name and his target keywords in it.
StarDock develops software to bring back "Start" menu to Windows 8
User vs. Customer: Does It Matter?
You are cherry picking parts of the narrative to fit your beliefs.

Your assessment on the causes of the fin crisis overlook other more significant factors.

Primarily the effects of deregulation and under funding the SEC.
Those choices playing out against the development and evolution of CDOs as risk transferring instruments.
The utter rapacious greed with which the financial services industry reacted to its incentives.

In a thread about risk, it's worth remembering that total dislocation from risk led to NINJA loans, and mortgages being sold to people who would never have qualified other wise.

I find the narrative that subsidies were the cause to be amusing when I remember that loan salesmen were fully aware that they were both, selling junk, and selling it to people who they knew they could out talk, out think and out educated.

In my country we usually call that exploitation.
Oh wow! Awesome!
The race to make everything smart
If one were to create a phone compatible with iOS apps, would there not be a lawsuit following?

Maybe we use different laws to enforce it but the basics of what you can expect to do today are different.
The BBB is one of the worst examples for this. They are an awful organization. Hell, this very site has talked about their horrible morals before.

And I'll leave politics alone.
The alternativees aren't GNOME, and many liked GNOME until very recently. (Well, it's been a year or 1.5 now, I guess, from the end-user perspective. Longer in development, I guess.)

It seems like Mint is trying to execute a hostile takeover of GNOME. Of course, GNOME is free software and forkable, and branches aren't necessarily subservient to the lines they branch from, so "takeover" means "establish a reputation as the highest-quality fork"

If the majority of the community begins to respect and support Mint as a better GNOME than the current stewards of GNOME, and Mint "rescues" the good majority of the GNOME software, we can jettison the old GNOME management, welcome the migration of contributors from old GNOME, and carry on.

The switchover is a huge mess of confusion, though.
Note that in the US, health insurance you can actually use, for a family (two adults plus one or more children), is no less than $1000/mo edging closer to $1500/mo. Getting pregnancy/childbirth covered at all on an individual policy is often difficult too. You can get a high-deductible policy if you generally don't need insurance but you personally can't control what your family members will decide they need routinely. That's part of why being an entrepreneur in your 20's is so ideal.
Try having a pre-existing condition or two.
The global menu, meaning the Mac-style menu bar at top?
That works without Unity.
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While $249 is good, ChromeOS should start seeing traction when they get this one out for $199 and an ARM Chromebox for $99.
Even better $49 for ChromeOS on an HDMI stick.
You don't have a pre-existing condition if it only costs you $200/month.

I have a friend who had a serious back injury (near paralysis) in his 20s which requires constant physical therapy and visits to specialists. He can't buy health insurance on the open market at any price (literally), and so he must move carefully from group health plan to group health plan, rather than pursue his interest in startups.

The comparison with apartments is not fair - imagine that the only way to get a place to live was through your employer.
I keep Java disabled in Chrome anyway, so no complaints here.
Some online photo printing service sites use funky Java Applets to let you upload image files by picking from thumbnails generated on the client side.

Other than that I can only see this move as a plus for internet security.
I started my own business right out of school. As a result, I better be damn successful considering I have a lot of student loan debt to mop up. I have wondered, why not offer advantages in these situations to people who start businesses (say a window of ~6-12 months after graduation)? Either some sort of tax break or little to no interest rate on my debt would be handy.

Another big one is health insurance. I've been swimming in open waters without insurance for about a year now. The only plans that I can get are abysmal with 5k plus deductibles (please direct me to a better deal if I'm being naive and something exists).

Even though I've taken the leap to build a business ahead of my peers, I'm getting the crap end of the stick.

Does seem a bit unbalanced.
Would Google have bought Motorola if it had never bought/developed Android? I think not. The former is a direct consequence of the latter.
Breathe New Life Into Old PC -- Lubuntu 12.10 Released
Seems there are different views on this. Maybe you should add something to your profile indicating if you want to receive unsolicited emails from startups.
It's because the more customizations a user has done, the more likely they are have to have made a change that is incompatible with the upgrade process. It's the same for any OS. The only mitigation is to allow less customization of the files that get upgraded during an upgrade.
Nice try, LaunchPad marketing team trying to deflect users from Bitbucket!
I can barely remember the last time I encountered a Java applet

The very-popular SmartSource coupon website uses Java to enable users to print coupons. That's the only thing my household has needed Java for in the last year, but it's high priority for my wife.
At the risk of sounding a bit ridiculous, good for them. The less Java, the better.
#2 is irrelevant in MA. MA already has Obama/Romneycare.

It's not quite that simple. One, the plans offered through the MA Connector may not be as inexpensive as plans negotiated by an employer, so you may wind up paying more for the same coverage. There's alao the issue of finding a plan with doctors in the same network, you may find yourself paying a little more if you have a favorite doctor treating you for a pre-existing condition.

Also, you are only allowed to enroll in MA Connector plans during one (maybe two) "open enrollment" periods during the year, so you may be faced with a gap between losing insurance coverage after quiting a job before being able to enroll in a new plan. Of course there is always COBRA, but again the amount you pay out-of-pocket for the premiums go way up.

But you are correct that insurance co's in MA generally can't reject you for pre-existing conditions.
Right. Some people might well be willing to take a risk for themselves, but not be willing to take a risk with the health insurance for their kids.
Pretty soon, this URL won't be a 404 - http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-java/
What country are you located in?
That's sad. I got the same email (word for word to my eyes), and while I don't mind at all when people email me via HN it's pretty obnoxious that I spent 10 minutes out of my day writing a pleasant and thoughtful response to someone who couldn't be bothered to do the same.

I hope this doesn't cause me to second guess the next email I get from an HN user, since so far this is pretty aberrant in my experience and I've been really delighted to be in touch with the (admittedly few) folks who've pinged me this way.
All that I want is this.

Right after I get a call I don't want, have another number that I can call. If I call that number, I'm telling the government, "My last call was an unwanted robocall."

Trace that call to its source (as best as that can be determined). If that source has generated a lot of calls recently, and is not on a white list, it is blocked. Any attempts from that number to make a phone call go to a recorded message saying that it is blocked, with instructions for how to get unblocked.

Any phone number that gets blocked several times in a week is permanently blocked.
Well, not quite the level of praise that "it's worth the hassle of installing", but "not worth the hassle of uninstalling" is worth something, I guess.
"User requests are what computers are for!"
"DOING OUR BUSINESS is what computers are for."
--Tron, 1982
JSON Editor Online
I'm looking for ridesharing from SF too and don't have a car.
I recommend downloading and installing the Java plugin yourself then :-)
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I remember that around that time several other companies were competing with IBM. Texas Instruments made a PC-compatible machine, DEC made a (somewhat) PC-compatible machine[1], etc. And Gateway was founded in 1985.[2] There's a lot more information on IBM PC clones in the Wikipedia article on that topic.[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_100

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway%2C_Inc.

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_clone
Hmm, seems to be working fine for me, have two going right now.
Can I demand, say, that a website doesn't install some virus/spamware/malware, even if it's free?
JSON is certainly easier on the eyes (almost as much as YAML) than XML.
It really should be part of the installation questionnaire.
Gittip, Misunderstood
That sounds like a corrupted EDID on your monitor. dmesg probably spits out some useful errors. OS X is more forgiving of bad EDID checksums, I believe.
> Sometimes people who are actually good guys get confused for bad guys.

The bigger problem is the opposite: Really bad guys come across as good guys, with exactly the traits described in the article.
After about 8 years of screwing around with my window manager and whatnot I switched to Mac OS X and did not find that the lack of configurability was a significant detriment to my productivity. In fact, in some ways it was beneficial, because I spent fewer days trying out new window managers and configuring them. Going back to Linux with Ubuntu, I rather like Unity because it gets me past the hump of all that nonsense and is perfectly adequate at multiplexing browsers and terminals for me.

Back when Metacity was young, you could hardly move without hearing screams from people about how lame a window manager it was, especially compared to things like Sawfish and FVWM. It's really quite surreal to hear people decrying the lack of a built-in power user stuff like Metacity today. Of course we're talking about the whole desktop environment, but still, I hear what I hear.

In any event, if you're a power user, you're going to screw with these defaults until you're blue in the face and I see no evidence that Ubuntu is going to take away that luxury. But I'm back from OS X now because I feel that coming with Apple.
Doesn't change much, since the earlier change to the OS meant you don't even have Java by default.
Hi. I am an entrepreneur, and like you, I sought out my own health insurance. Where I differ from you: 1) I am female. 2) I have a prescription for birth control.

Currently, my birth control prescription is through Planned Parenthood, and it's cost me about $25/month for many years.

When I applied for my own health insurance, they asked me to list any prescription drugs I took. Even though I get checkups and my birth control prescription from Planned Parenthood, I dutifully listed it in the form (knowing, too, that lying about this might cause me to get disqualified if I claimed something later.)

I received a letter from the insurance company that I had been declined for insurance. Reason? Prescription medication. This was the only prescription I was on at the time. Yes, apparently the fact that I have a prescription for birth control makes it worth it for a health insurance company to not insure me. This is completely legal for any insurance carrier to do in the United States if you are a single person applying for insurance. And guess what? Once you've been declined for single-person health insurance for any reason, you're pretty much screwed.

I don't know what the solution is, and I don't think our government got it 100% right when they passed different laws recently. But I also know that something is not right when I can get declined for health insurance for being on birth control (that the insurance company would not have even had to pay for anyway.)

The system is broken, and you are the exception. Let us hope that you never have a spouse who would like to be on birth control, or that you never have to take a prescription drug for any reason for any length of time.
Springer CEO says "free beer" era for Internet ending
Maybe after enough thousands of WebExes get delayed another 15 minutes each, Cisco will take this as a sign.

(WebEx has a totally pointless Java applet that only serves to launch the native client app.)
According to http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/products/compare#f... it is professional for VS 2012. But it is still expensive unless you are dedicated.
I haven't looked at Rust, but the semi colon looks like a decision to make some common verbose or "ugly" syntax to be less noisy. Admittedly most syntax has quirks, and this seems more like a quirk rather than an instance of "clever design". Ignoring the explanation of the differences between statements and expressions, the rest of the discussion is about the presence of a semicolon.
Sensational; Apple planned on passing off Java to Oracle for a while. Oracle now distributes a Java 7 JRE for OS X directly.
They are uninstalling the Apple-provided Java browsing plugin and letting Oracle handle the browser plugin from now on. Sounds good: why keep Java around by default as a potential security hole now that very few sites use it?

They still provide Java for applications like CrashPlan, Minecraft, or JungleDisk which need it.
Or something...!
Nice design.

What customer problem are you solving? Its not clear to me who or why someone would use your site.
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