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Amazon may have been DRM free because the music companies wanted to hedge on a competitor to test the waters. Just FYI.
Take a look at http://www.openwebanalytics.com/ and https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow
I'm not sure about Perth, but from AWS Sydney I'm seeing pings of around 400ms to AWS Singapore.
Actually, yes, stealing bitcoins will increasingly require physical access as technologies for storing them offline evolve: brainwallet, paper wallet, credit-card sized electronic bitcoin wallets (at least 2 in development).

I personally think the latter is what will propulse mainstream adoption of Bitcoin, as it will make it impossible for inexperienced users to leave unsecure bitcoins on their computers.
As someone born & raised in Iowa, I'm glad to see them embrace the startup culture. Iowa is a great place to live, and it could use some new sharp minds to help it grow.

As for the people complaining about prizes --- why don't you donate something more enticing than cow, chicken, and rooster?
Which is my point, if you don't involve yourself at all in the discussion, then it is going to be logical that sometimes a decision will be taken which didn't take some issue you had into consideration.
Do you believe Samsung has benefited from Apple's R&D?
Just to add to this, which I agree with, I also think conflict resolution is huge.

You really gotta get that bad stuff out in the open, talk about it, yell about, whatever it takes. Don't be pissed off about something for weeks on end (even more than a day is too long). To keep a marriage strong, both partners have to learn to deal w/ each other's idiosyncrasies and communicate about perceived grievances, annoyances, and so on. Extreme stubbornness, selfishness, all these things are pretty much incompatible with a healthy marriage.
You know, I had forgotten about the real money auction. Point three was valid a few years ago but probably not so much today.
Maybe we need to think of 'JavaScript' as a term representing a set of uncompiled languages targeting the browser runtime environment. With that definition I would say, sure - 'JavaScript' has a very bright future.
If that's real, that's... what are they thinking? I mean, I know prompt() may not get a whole ton of use, but it does have its uses... I really hope this is just a bug and not a feature..
Nice, congrats on getting this out the door. I'm thinking about creating a curated list of music related apps and websites. I'll add this bad boy to the list. Congrats again.
US != North America.
Minor point: It would be nice to be able to click those screenshots and get bigger versions. It's currently very difficult to see what the application looks like.
> Samsung Electronics has a long-term contract to supply APs to Apple until 2014

But Samsung was able to raise the price in the middle of the contract? Is this typical?
Answered the "why" somewhere below, I think you're more concerned about the "how".

Place your tab bar on the left (vertically) and make it wrap to multiple lines (or columns, in this case). I have two columns at the moment, the second one with room for more tabs. Combine this with tab stacking and you have a winner.

You can have your tab bar wrapped to multiple horizontal lines but it's not as efficient given today's widescreen monitors. On lower resolutions (e.g. laptops) it's harder to put as many tabs, but the system is the same and you can still get a decent amount open.

Give it a try, 4-5 tabs is nothing.
It's better than passing along the costs to consumers of Samsung products.
The antiquity argument has its problems. There has been a long history of many things that we don't do anymore.

A better argument would be that the animal doesn't care (because it is an animal).
Are those protected contents stored in a computer that can be carried away?
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From the article: "Iraq will be the biggest contributor to new oil supplies, raising production to 6 million barrels a day by 2020."

So Iraq's oil is our (US) oil? Or am I misreading that statement? I guess they could be saying that overall Iraq will see the biggest jump of all nations? Not sure.
That did make me laugh; however, I think there is some truth to it, in that it helps to dislike the standard way to do something in order to innovate.

After all, if you like the standard way, and practice it, what you are going to get is standard results - which are mostly average. Yes, there exist crazy creative innovations, but the vast majority of successful business are not new inventions - but rather, a better way to do something everyone is already doing. It's evolution -- sometimes a big step, but still, way more often evolution than revolution.
Skimming this, I noticed a few mistakes.

Also, the story started a little too late for me. I would have loved to have heard about pg's earlier inspiration...I often wonder if he drew it from the same places as me: the classrooms of Doc Shultz, John Drumm, Adrienne Kapisak, Laura Mikesell, and Linda Sproull, and of course the computer lab and chess club at Gateway High School. I wonder how he ended up in computers instead of history, art, or literature. Funny how time flies. We've both come a long way since Monroeville, Pa.

Perhaps a future blog post?
A better question might be to flip that around, has Apple benefited from Samsung's R&D?
Lady Gaga's entire career has been an A/B test. She started out as a singer and songwriter who actually poured some meaning into her music, and had no success. Then she seized the common pop chords, added a heavy back beat, stripped her songs of any meaning, and started wearing meat dresses. I'd say that B worked for her.
Consumers are not the issue here really. It's cargo that's the concern. That's where most of the pollution is (from oil anyways) and that's where the price of oil affects the economy. I don't think people realize just how much the US is dependent on oil for it's goods. Most consumer products are made overseas, shipped into a port, offloaded onto a train, and then delivered to retail locations via trucks. On top of that, it's already an incredibly efficient process, so it's going to take a major shift before industry moves to another solution (sorry, don't have a better link right now): http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/05/how-efficient-is-a...

Remember, the reason why is because of this: http://mapfrappe.blogspot.com/2011/02/countries.html

Also, there's no need for sarcasm. Please provide a rebuttal if you disagree. My argument is that Russia and the middle east is inherently unstable (I do not care to go into why as I understand fully how much a part the US has in that). The US needs to maintain it's oil producing capacity or else it becomes pretty easy to hurt the US without ever attacking it.
To be clear, I agree entirely. It is a credit that it has lasted this long. But I do think that we are well into a time where C should no longer be your default answer, but rather something you get backed into because there is no other valid choice. (Which still certainly happens.)
That first paragraph is my life. :*(
How about direct from Blizzard themselves?

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/3768752

"We've been hard at work for years now thwarting gold farming tactics, and we know that only a very small percentage of gold is actually "farmed" these days. The vast majority of gold that third parties sell to players is obtained through account compromises. Your friend, guild mate, or family member who had their account hacked was specifically targeted for their gold so that it could be turned around and sold to another player looking to buy some."
There are some bigger screenshots on the about page.
Culture, people, experience, business environment, lack of year-round shorts weather, ....
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600,000 companies are founded each month in the US.
It seems everything the author is concerned about would be solved it there were a centrally/open-source managed, non-profit, DRM out there. The DRM which would be analogous to SSH.

So one thing I've never understood: Is this really not technically possible or is the problem that the people who have the knowhow to create that are ideologically opposed?
Well, that was deflating.

Sent out the link to several co-workers (since we are looking for this sort of tool right now) and then we all get the "We'll let you know when we go live" email.

So thanks for making me look like an idiot.
Link to original report without the bias: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/samsung-hits-apple-with-20-...

Attention-grabbing version: Samsung reacts to recent patent battles by increasing prices to screw Apple.

Likely reality: 20% increase clause was already in the contract (which doesn't run out till 2014) or this 'report' is simply false. Surely Samsung can't just arbitrarily raise the price because they feel like it.

EDIT: I see the moderators have altered the source now, was originally linked to some Android blog.
coinbase.com (YC company) is like Paypal for Bitcoin.
Is there anyone on here from Google that could speak to how these are being used internally? Do they fit a business need at Google? Are they issued to specific business area? Anything! I'm looking for an excuse to buy a Chromebook, but can't seem to peg where it would fit in my arsenal.
What would be the main advantage over awesome?
Does it play well with KDE? I like the pager from kde and awesome integrates well.

I might be too invested in awesome to try it, don't have time. Shout if it's really a quantum leap :)
That's totally your up to you... We'll give it to you anyway you want it.
But I am wondering why you are unhappy with it being given away as prizes?

I can see maybe it marginalizes the value of an animal's life and thus the prize is in bad taste (but then again this is Iowa and these are farmers).
Something Samsung should've done from the moment Apple started suing them, so they can pay for all the frivolous lawsuits.
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I'm sure the animal doesn't care about specifically being a prize. I'm sure he/she cares about the care that follows being treated as an object.
Javelin's site has been like that for over a year now: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Vw_w5lu...

Might I suggest not linking directly to a site you think is hacked if you can help it?
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Media companies do a/b their products, they have test audiences, focus groups, and such. By the time you get to that scale you think like a business, not like an artist.
You're right, I had forgotten Blizzard had an active currency exchange going in D3. Point three was valid a few years ago but probably not so much today.
I would be really excited to try this. Is it live yet? I always think it's better to save Show HN posts for products that we can actually play with. Looking forward to seeing this in any case.
And this is why, boys and girls, we don't do bath salts.
It does, TechStars in particular has a huge number of affiliates around the world.
I guess I should be clearer. The full responses aren't in the HTML at all. The blur effect is just images. Neither you or google see the full responses
Very interesting concept. I do like that you're very global (places like Oceania are underserved). If I were you, I would do two things: 1. Pair up with a designer to lend some eye-candy to your functionality. I like that it's a simple UI but good visuals go a LONG way to sparking interest. 2. When you start marketing, approach websites/bloggers that are in those underserved markets that I mentioned. You never know where you'll be a hit. Just as you've seen yourself, there are lots of underserved areas in tech... Good luck!
>the open source ecosystem essentially does not exist at all in the .NET world

I've been complaining about this for years as a fan of both C# and OSS and now more recently as an employee at Microsoft. It's a problem all across the .NET technology stack. EF gets huge attention everytime they have a new release and add a feature that NHibernate has had for years. If I can't find help on StackOverflow and it's not the 1% of MSDN articles that aren't useless, there's no where to go ask for help. There aren't forums, I've yet to find a reliable IRC room, etc.

It's too bad too, I really kind of like the JS WinRT development model and with some open source grooming could have a lot of neat utilities and kits and layouts built for it. There is huge potential for benefit from a Bootstrap project for Windows 8 apps, but I don't know who would take the time to make it friendly and packaged given the amount that .NET developers seem to love to work in isolation and reinvent the wheel.

edit: Also, the forums are just a joke anyway. Try to post something with some code, or an error, or a log or just something with multiple lines and watch as it's rendered as one huge chunk of text because they're stubborn and force the usage of their tired, unusable RTE.

I'm with you, I'm sitting here thinking that third party developers are the most important thing for Windows platforms right now and they're arguably the weakest. I've seen many complaints (still) about onboarding. They've fractured an ALREADY fractured community of developers further by introducing another runtime that is incompatible (the shim library that ONLY works in C# doesn't count) with .NET and a third MS variant of C++. The examples for WinRT apps are severely lacking, there is broken navigation between them and/or the examples are too trivial to compose into an actual, even just example, application.

(edit: I should clarify. A lot of my frustration in this regard is not with Microsoft, but with the community of Microsoft developers who seem unkeen on using anything but the official Microsoft stack regardless of alternatives. And who seem unkeen on fostering a community the way other OSS projects do. I've received more non-.NET help in a single IRC room in a few hours than I feel like I've ever received from any .NET resource EVER (including a team of MS experts and alumni that were at my disposal for two years).)
Except that Linux pretty much shows that a focused effort has far better chances to succeed. Even after the AT&T/Novell lawsuit, FreeBSD was technically mostly ahead of Linux, it also had a license that was more attractive to business. Still, Linux got ahead and became more popular. Even among companies.
Out of curiosity: what are you referring to?
Of course they aren't the solution, but technological progress typically happens in low volume, niche markets. My point wasn't that a solution is here today. Quite the opposite, but it's disingenuous to claim that people aren't working on the problem or that progress isn't being made. It's also a bit dubious to claim that simply making oil more expensive would solve things. There's a balance. At one end of the spectrum you destroy humanity via global warming at the other, you do so via war. The government has to play both options to strike a balance.
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It's not a norm, exactly.

If you own the house together, you can't force the other person to leave (unless it's a matter of safety and you involve the police.)

As long as things aren't TOO nasty, couples usually figure something out so that nobody goes homeless. If your wife was a stay-at-home wife with no income, and no place to go, you might let her stay in the house.
What kind of cow? How was it raised?
You're comparing something that comes out of the box (Razor) with something you can achieve comfort with after wiring up hotkeys and snippets. That's not a fair, clinical comparison.

Are you kidding me?

Slim looks like something much MUCH better than the crufty old ERB.
Is it me or does it look a lot like AirBnB?
If they're protected by a strong password and backed up, a stolen computer isn't a problem.

For long-term storage of large amounts of value, use redundant flash drives in a safety deposit box.
Why? Fine detail camera control and the interface will probably be just as bad as a normal point and shoot. The phone side of it will be much less pleasurable than with a plain smart phone. Who wants to talk or text someone on their camera?

This is one of the worst examples of feature creep I have seen in quite a while. It combines the worst of the camera world and the phone world.

I can't wait for the Samsung Galaxy bottle opener though, so I can tweet and facebook what I am drinking and take cool filtered instagram shots of microbrew beers!
Seems to me Apple will either just suck it up and deal with this, or will look to internalize their SOC production. Is this something that could have been possible with their PA Semi purchase?
Because I love this shit. Working hard makes me proud of myself. Relaxing and taking holidays actually makes me feel guilty about being 'lazy'. The harder I work, the better I feel. It's weird.
I did write about that once: http://paulgraham.com/heroes.html
I know... I know. I prefer that too.

The trouble is this is for teams, you kinda have to have a team. We wanted to gauge interest so we've done it this way.

If we can we'll go live for collections of people (if there are 2 or 3 people from the same company email domain) this week or next.
That would really not improve my workflow for developing windows phone applications.
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There is a significant risk to Samsung that Apple will abandon them as a supplier which would do horrible things to Samsung's bottom line.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dio...

18.27% of global c02

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/Downloads/ghgemissions/US-G...

"Transportation activities (excluding international bunker fuels) accounted for 32 percent of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion in 2010."

almost 6% of global C02 emmisions. I think thats substantial, but you are correct that hybrids and teslas aren't going to do much. However if we help push electric vehicles and clean power production there is obviously a substantial benefit to be reaped.
Useful links here:

http://profmattstrassler.com/2012/11/12/first-news-from-kyot...

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=5264

Talk is here (follow password instructions):
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Looks interesting, certainly. I'm curious why there's an HDD in it, though (and a big one, at that). I thought Google was gonna mandate smaller SSD's, for speed, and because the extra local space was unnecessary.
Can you please make it clear on the register page that there is no publicly available product yet?

I had three guys from my team sign up so we could test it out, and only after signing up did we find out that it's not live yet.
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That thing seems to be built for using a fan, and being stuck on desk because of the thickness and terrible battery life.
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Hey. Lots of people suggested this so I added a notice to the blogpost to further explain why I chose these libraries:

> I specifically excluded awesome libs like requests, SQLAlchemy, Flask, fabric etc. because I think they're already pretty "main-stream". If you know what you're trying to do, it's almost guaranteed that you'll stumble over the aforementioned. This is a list of libraries that in my opinion should be better known, but aren't.
That is what I thought. Samsung must have had a stipulation saying if outside suppliers raised their prices they could pass along the cost. I highly doubt this was just Samsung looking for more profit. It would also explain Apples willingness to agree to the deal, if they believed that the cost of unobtanium went 20% up. Does not matter if they go with chip manufacturer X or Y, The supply cost will remain constant (if not more with the little guy, since he cant buy in the bulk Samsung can)
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This article conflates all sorts of loosely connected ideas and buzzwords without really giving a solid explanation of any of them (least of all this new result). A more focused look at this particular (but quite preliminary) result can be found at

http://www.science20.com/quantum_diaries_survivor/lhcb_evide...

From the sound of it, many of the details won't become available until a seminar tomorrow. (Nevertheless, it sounds like this really will constrain many forms of "new physics" by quite a bit.)
3.5 hours of battery? For a laptop in 2012? Seriously?
Yes. The difference is that Apple is paying Samsung for that benefit.
This was a decision that was made with careful thought. Because most of the rebuild was matching feature parity, our current customers would get little benefit from the new platform because they have already launched their site and building their audience. The new suite of features that we're announcing benefit our Customers who have not launched a site yet. Due to the size of the rebuild, this was just not a possibility, unfortunately.
I have no idea what you are trying to say. You don't appear to have read what I said at all. There is no magic "just be focusing" power. You can't just tell people to stop doing what you want, and start doing what you don't want because some random guy on the internet thinks it will make some random software you don't care about more popular. The netbsd devs don't care about making freebsd more popular, deleting 3 of the BSD lineage operating systems won't make a focused effort on the remaining one, the remaining one would still be right where it is now, and the devs of the other systems would simply not be involved. This would be a loss, not a gain, as the remaining system would no longer have 3 other OSes to pull code and ideas from.

You are doing the equivalent of saying gnome developers should just delete gnome and start working on KDE instead. The gnome developers aren't interested in KDE. If they were, they would be KDE developers, not gnome developers. This is the same with the BSD lineage operating systems. NetBSD developers aren't going to become FreeBSD developers just because you think it would make them do better in a popularity contest they didn't enter. If they wanted to develop FreeBSD, they would be doing so.
The easier version would be to just run a crashing script

var i = 1, a = []; while(a[i++] = "a" + a);
keep your wallet file encrypted and back it up to multiple locations on a regular basis (to update the backups with new private keys that are created by your client software).

there are also ways of generating bitcoin keys completely offline as well as producing signed valid bitcoin transactions completely offline. This way you can forward funds to keys that are not on a machine connected to the internet, or keys that are backed up only on paper (in multiple safety deposit boxes if you like). And also you can then put signed transactions from the offline machine onto a usb stick or whatever and then use a networked machine to forward those valid transactions to the bitcoin network.

Coinbase is doing something like this for their storage of customer funds. Coinbase seeks to be a bitcoin bank that wont get hacked or that if it somehow does get hacked (cough inside job, cough) that only very small losses could occur.
Hey, I commented on this a bit further down in the topic:
http://www.crummy.com/2012/1/22/0
Have you thought about the average factory-farmed animal gracing the average piece of pepperoni or sausage pizza at most hackathons? I don't see how this is worse. If anything, it forces people to think about how meat comes from animals far more than the kind of meat usually served at hackathons, which really doesn't even resemble an animal.
Goronmon: a Paypal account is in no way similar to cash. It can be frozen by authorities. It is centralized. It is not anonymous.

Bitcoin is like cash (pseudo-anonymous, nobody can technically interfere with your transactions...) except it is digital while preserving these advantages. This is why it cannot be compared to Paypal.
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