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Ya. This would have been perfect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwJtYfF72Io
May I ask what software did you write ?
Just out of curiosity.
you're doing it wrong.
The ethics of the matter is frankly tangential to the original point, massive amounts of money per little tiny chunk of data (be it song, or sms), is nothing new.

Anyway, this is probably pointless, but I'll give this another shot: Yes, the entire point of the settlement is "I think I could get more out of you, but we can both avoid the court costs if you pay me less than what a court would award me."

The "[what] I think I could get you [for]", in the case a few dozen songs. They think they can absolutely ruin you for a few dozen songs, so they are offering you a settlement of several thousand dollars. For our purposes, this is effectively a settlement of hundreds of dollars per song.

Ethics comes into this as a tangent in that I think, if they correctly labeled the settlement, people would not have stood for it. In doing it the way that they did they paint a (in my opinion crap) narrative of being reasonable.

Regardless, massive amounts of money for single SMS messages/songs should by no means be surprising. Even ignoring the pre-litigation letters situation entirely, they were being awarded ludicrous amounts of money for individual songs.
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Tools in your toolbox. Yea why not. I've always been an OOP composition-only guy. It was always the model that made the most sense to me. It's efficient and clear. I'm amused that just now people are coming out and saying that this is the best model. On the other hand, I've had a project once where I needed to apply a different function to different objects. No need for function pointers with polymorphism, much much easier so I used that. I'm still against templates to this day, although I use some parts of the STL sometimes when I'm lazy ^^
There's no way to browse the products available without logging in. Maybe I'm missing something?
The vision's to create a global arena, where as devs we can compete and build projects that matter.
Hah, no. I just mean that when I'm done with it, it'll ideally feel like butter on a Raspberry Pi. :P
MATTER: First article out today for $0.99
The Kickstarter funded project for high-quality journalism, released their first article today.
It looks like only Javascript devs are welcome. :\
You're not the only one. I like it too. But we're the only two.
Not sure how it's communicating with the phone.

Maybe it's the tech from that company that uses songbird-like sounds to communicate back and forth?
Lot's of people also don't look at the toilet paper after they wipe, to be sure they got everything. I believe this also stems from people not discussing their bathroom habits.
Not a bad article, but obviously not written by someone who has much background in Finance nor Business. Saying that "Sony has a culture where it is OK to fail" is laughable, for example. How many companies out there are widely successful? Most of product launches are so-so or fail to meet their objectives, yet you do not see companies firing everyone every 6 months. Iterations are necessary until you hopefully find a good proposition. It takes time to get a hit. Now that's no excuse for Sony to keep pushing bad products out of their chains, but of course, every company allows employees to fail at least a few times. R&D is about trial and error.

Then I think the author is deeply wrong about quoting iSupply as a reliable source for the cost of hardware. iSupply has NO idea of what the hardware actually costs. They simply open a parts catalog and check how much each part would be sold, one by one, and add it up. That is downright ridiculous, because when Sony buys chips for their Playstation, they tell the supplier: "Make me THIS price because I will buy 10 millions of your chips" and they have huge advantage in negociations. So, iSupply and nobody else apart from the supplier and Sony themselves know the real Bill of Materials. The rest is pure speculations.

And saying Sony does not care about budget and is focused on engineers only sounds false to me. If that was the case why would they produce their Playstation outside of Japan? The Playstation 1 and 2 were the examples of frequent cost reduction through their lifetime - just like the PS3 did as well, with a big step down in price from the earlier years. I am pretty sure Sony does not LOSE money on PS Vita either, and probably keep some margin there to reduce the price later. Net, they are not losing money with the Vita, and there is no need to "kill" it. They may need to further invest in it, rather, for it to become a reasonably successful machine, but I am afraid they do not have much cash to heavily support it seeing their overall financial shape.

Finally, showing Return of Assets alone is meaningless. You have to compare Ra from one business to another business in the same fields. Ra only makes sense in comparison.

Let me add as well that comparing liabilities between Software heavy companies (like Google and Microsoft) does not make ANY sense, since Google and Microsoft do not own plants and manufacture much themselves (their may businesses are advertising and second, software). It would make much more sense to compare Sony's liabilities with Panasonic, Sharp, Mitsubishi... while there is not actual company that covers the exact same range of businesses as Sony.

Seriously, when you have no understanding of finances, writing this kind of articles using numbers you do not understand rather makes you look like a fool.
Thanks for the feedback! Our next deploy (later this afternoon) will allow anyone to browse the auction list page before signing up.
The difference in email strategies is very interesting.

However, this article assumes that the outcome of the election proves that one strategy is better than another. Is this true? If true, how much better is it? People vote for candidates and email campaigns are one part of the whole campaign machine. I'm not saying that the article is wrong, but it is hard to draw conclusions from it without knowing more information.
The start of my career was based on following directions on some forum until "Never mind, fixed it!" half the time.
The panic button reminds me of Gary from Team America... "It's me! It's me!"
Your Solr cluster kicked the bucket at 150QPS?

Jesus dude. I couldn't reproduce that with my single or multi-node ElasticSearch clusters if I wanted to.

How were the EBS backing stores setup for these EC2 nodes?

Edit: Also, when I was talking about "them" falling apart, I meant Postgres or Sphinx, not Solr/ElasticSearch.

Well-configured Solr and ElasticSearch clusters can work very well for most people.
All devs are welcome! We just had to start somewhere for the tests but the community is language agnostic.
Load balancers can insert cookies to identify clients uniquely. (That solves the proxy/single-ip-multiple-clients problem - multiple clients from one proxy IP can still be uniquely tracked this way.) The newer load balancers (F5/iRules for e.g.) are also capable of doing per resource, per client throttling using the inserted cookies or session table.
Totally agree - my new Sony Blu-ray player may be electronically OK, but boy the software/firmware is awful. Horrible interface, slow startup, crummy remote, and an obtrusive software update notice that pops up a few minutes into a DVD. My new flat screen TV was a Samsung - I'm just not going to buy any more Sony gear, and I don't think they will survive.
I know why I don't want one - the water will splash poop particles over my butt and legs, and no amount of added dryers is going to convince me that it is clean.
I actually did address the point as well.

The fact that Rob Pike wrote a usable language that is not OOP in the sense that the commenter thinks of OOP, in which you have composition without inheritance is direct evidence against the commenter's point of view that to do composition you need to be doing OOP.
As someone (college student!) who's been skeptical about free online courses for quite sometime - I'm finding that as I finish up Martin Odersky's "Functional Programming Principles in Scala" course [0] on coursera, I've learned more in the span of 2 months than I have in 90% of my college classes thus far. One could argue 100%.

I'm really looking forward to seeing where this goes.

[0]: https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun
AdWords truly is just to get your number of hits up and maybe get ranked on search engines - but it's unlikely anything useful comes from it.

Sounds like a person who never really did anything on Adwords.
The graphic is trying to show the distribution of support for secession by state.

I'd say that a map is exactly the right way to present the data.
Everspin ships first STT-MRAM based DDR3 DIMM
Unless cyanogenmod.com had already been taken by a squatter, who was selling it for a few hundred dollars.
More on the Fiscal Cliff Notes (LOL)
Awww man, I thought this article was going to be about Mark Cuban's comments on the Facebook IPO.
I think you're spending too much money (just base on this and the adwords campaign) and less on being scrappy and getting as much done yourself as possible.
A very nice feature of epoll is that an epoll file descriptor (which monitors a set of file descriptors) can itself be monitored via epoll/select/poll. This means that if epoll is available, a library can abstract all its I/O via a single file descriptor. Think of a complex operation that involves multiple sockets and timer events. All the user needs to do is monitor this one file descriptor in his event loop, and call a function in the library which determines which of its own file descriptors have become ready, and reacts appropriately, possibly by calling callbacks if the user needs to be notified.

Unfortunately if you're trying to be portable, you can't do this, and instead have to implement a complete event notification abstraction (unless you know you will only ever be dealing with this one file descriptor). E.g. user of the library needs to implement functions like addWait(fd, io_type, callback), delWait(wait_id), addTimeout(milliseconds, callback), delTimeout(timeout_id).
Next Step in 3D Gesture Control Phones
A single GFCI outlet on a circuit protects all outlets on that circuit: it will interrupt the circuit on a ground fault at any outlet wired in parallel. It is customary if not universal for the GFCI outlet to be closest to either the entrance to the room or the sink (often both). In such a case the fact that the outlet nearest the toilet doesn't appear to be a special GFCI receptacle isn't actually a problem.
So is the problem Uber / Lyft / whatever, or is problem a lack of licensed taxis? If there were more licensed taxis available, women wouldn't have to take a shady unlicensed cab.
Building an iOS app for Hacker News in a week
The iOS 6.0 podcast bug apparently caused huge overages for GiantBomb as well. They're discussing it right now on one of their live streams; it apparently was so bad that their corporate/finance people are upset with them.
Japanese oral hygiene is fine. It's cosmetic dentistry, braces etc that they don't really get.
Haha, yea it does remind me of that!
Granted you have to start somewhere, but the second challenge (appears) to not only be JS-specific, but specific to the Prototype JS library.
Making Things for the Web [COMIC]
Why Woz Worries Microsoft Is Now More Innovative Than Apple
Warm seats seem like a pointless luxury if your bathroom is properly insulated and heated, but the vast majority of older Japanese housing is neither.
It is painfully simple to find some example of tradition or technology focused engineering without regard to price in almost any piece of Sony hardware. Be it custom Sony ASICs in almost anything, overly complex mechanical constructions, PCB layouts that are optimized for obsolete manufacturing processes (there is certain Japanese layout style, which leads to boards that are insanely expensive to manufacture, at least anywhere outside Japan) or proprietary formats (ATRAC, UMD, MemoryStick ...) and overly complex interfaces (compare Game Cube and PS1/2 controller interface), and tendency to have hardware support for almost never used and often even never implemented features (just look at how much things were dropped in slimed-down versions of each playstation, or for how long did Bravia TV's had MS slot, USB and even later Ethernet ports marked "service only")
Part of the reason it comes up frequently is that a large number of educated, experienced programmers have decided that a toolbox without OOP is a better toolbox, than a toolbox with OOP.

But, it is difficult to throw out a bad tool when there appears to be no alternative that delivers its benefits. When that happens, when a tool is devised that delivers what OOP delivers without the problems -- such as the diamond problem, or the problem of having to decide "where" to put functions, or the problem of generic functions of more than one argument -- then at that time those very problems will become much easier for everyone to acknowledge.

The same thing will happen to classes and synchronous message passing, that happened to inheritance. In that case it took a while but an alternative came in the form of interface subtyping or predicate based subtyping, and then it was easy to see that inheritance was more trouble than it was worth.
Not sure if that's the case. Most people he was impersonating himself to probably don't know enough to find and check PGP signatures; especially since most email does not come with PGP signatures, the lack of a signature is not something that would cause anyone to bat an eyelash.
Data Visualization Reveals a Less Divided States of America
The Unity people specifically endorsed the Ouya Kickstarter by saying that Unity will support the Ouya through their Android publishing.
NODE Chroma, an accurate Bluetooth 4.0 color sensor
Folk give Linux flack for it's driver problems, but I've noticed OSX does have it's own issues. :)

I'll be looking forward to testing this out, since it'll be more convenient than wireless tethering in some circumstances.
Interesting how Uber is lumped in with Lyft and SideCar. Uber drivers at least have (towncar) licenses. I haven't figured out yet how Lyft/SideCar are anything more than illegal taxi services that rename "fare" "donation".
Maybe Apple was trying to stimulate the economy.
BTW There is no such thing as a flushable wet wipe. They claim you can flush them, but they actually clog pipes frequently, and don't disintegrate like they should.

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/video-hub/home--garden/be...
Khmel, did you and Petr graduate from the same university? Quite the alumni base they are building there.
I am a beta tester, and probably the only person who has run this on 10.6, so if you have 10.6-related problems let me know.
Learn one language, any language, and build something with it. Self motivated autodidacts with even embryonic skill sets make excellent hires, particularly if they are open to mentoring. A mentor will point you in the direction of structures and resources to make your life of independent problem solving easier. Beware the guru. A good mentoring-training relationship renders the mentor obsolete within 12-18 months, though mutual affection may seed an enduring professional relationship.
Also the xplatform Celestia: http://shatters.net/celestia/
Not how I intended it. The system was never intended to be used this way; they intended to package up "bad" loans that they get a tax write off for and then wholesale them for pennies on the dollar out to intermediaries. The intermediaries don't get to look at each name on there to see if they are getting a certain debt. It's just given a credit rating and then resold. If the secondary debt collectors can collect on the bad debt for more than they purchased it for they make a profit.

By gaming the system I meant that someone might go into debt, don't pay, wait for them to offer it up on the secondary market and then buy back the debt for pennies on the dollar effectively forgiving their own debt. They might need to have someone else buy the debt for them but it's essentially the same process.
I'm a customer not a lawyer, but Uber certainly feels like a "provider" to me. It's not like they are just a referral service. They dispatch a driver of their choice, they process the payment, and they pay the driver.

And while I think Uber is an awesome service, it's not totally unreasonable for the state to insist that if you are acting as a taxi, you need to have proof of insurance beyond what's required for a normal driver.
So an entrepreneur who is building a business based on facebook marketing is defending facebook. No bias there at all.
You mean people who are snobs tend toward the French way where as people who are fun and warm hearted have no problem laughing at farts.

I would much rather be with a person that thinks farts are funny then one who doesn't. To each their own.
No it doesn't. Those aren't tracking bytes streaming over the internet, but rather web browsers visiting pages.
Who's The Fairest- Equity Splits
The running meme among the engineers at my company is that ElasticSearch is our secret weapon we love to whip out for various problems.

I almost wish it was more of a standard data store. Here's to hoping RethinkDB can fill that void.
JS is a prototype based language. I think the word prototype might be throwing you off but its a core concept within JavaScript.
People also seem to forget how much of Apple's history was spent as a nearly faling tech company. Each little mistake is being reported to the point of saturation and while I think they're worth mentioning, every article seems to be a "beginning of the end" piece. As companies expand and begin to offer more and more products and services, it makes sense that their amount of bugs and mistakes would grow. When looking at gross amount of bugs and mistakes, you have to look at growth in offerings before major concern.
may i ask what ssh client application you are using?
The "Switzerland" of TV Guide apps
FCC Avoids Easy Questions on Data Caps
Because most self-respecting developers do not like to work on a platform where everything is closed source in the hardware... that said, i'm glad a few of the not-so-self-respecting good ones does not see a problem with that.
Sony to raise $1.9 bln to fund Olympus investment
We already have that. It's called real life.

Still I signed up and am present on the leaderboard.
There are hosted services for Solr and ElasticSearch, too. Such as fizx's and my own http://websolr.com and http://bonsai.io
Nice work MicroSoft.
The lawsuit against Uber seems to me like nothing more than taxi drivers upset that their monopoly is being threatened. As the article said, all the Uber drivers are already licensed, and there's no explanation as to why Uber is "unfair".
Going to the toilet is very culturally determined. Take a poo in Germany and when you stand up your poo will be waiting for you on a shelf, in case you wish to examine it (historically to identify health issues). Will that ever translate to the US? No, because it's a different culture not interested in examining their own poo. Same goes for Japan/Korea and the bum washing toilet.
I think its because they grew out of the phone ROM community, which pre-Android, generally meant hacking up a binary blob and distributing them on forums. This was never quite legal, but lots of people did it anyhow. Like any community build around legal grey areas, like Xbox and PS3 modders, there's a lot more anonymity, less professionalism, and the like, than there is, say in the free software world, where people are legally, and in many cases professionally, writing software to run on their own machines.

Even once Android came out, there are enough binary blobs, like the actual phone firmware, drivers, the Play Store, the Google Apps, and so on, that a lot of the mods are just redistributions of the binary packages with a few configuration changes and some custom software on top, rather than a rebuild from source of AOSP.
Interesting. I stayed at the Hacker Fortress for Startup School 2012. It's certainly a nice place. It might be worth it for a YC W13 hopeful team to get used to the area before their interview.
When your history is as impressive as Microsoft's, being forced to take risks may well encourage innovation, however it would be nice if that article gave reasons why Woz thinks what he does.
Samsung now makes much more money on mobile than Google makes overall.
Ripe for Disruption
Show HN: Bringing the Consignment Model Online
Would you pitch an item for consignment?
My wife grew up in Malaysia, eating mostly with her hands. Hand, rather, normally the right, but the practicality of this is not (no longer?) related to toilet hygiene -- more just that it's really useful to keep one hand clean to pick up your glass, hold serving dishes and implements, etc.. She was raised to be rather more hygienic than I was, interestingly, and has rules that I still forget and break occasionally.

Nowadays many people are westernized enough that they have switched to eating w/ utensils (either chopsticks or fork/spoon, depending on type of cuisine, and the Chinese segment of the population have been using chopsticks all along), but eating with the hands is still quite common.

The houses where I've spent time in Malaysia had western toilets but often with a bucket & cup or sprayer for cleaning; toilet paper sometimes also present, but not always.
People make that assumption because facebook is filled with social people rather than anti-social people who worry that someone they 'like' might actually talk to them.

In normal social circles there an expectation that the you want to hear about things you 'like'. For instance if in real life I have a friend who 'likes' classical music then when I hear something about classical music I will talk to them about it.

Also like is not like subscribe because the idea behind subscribing is that you receive everything. For instance if I 'subscribed' to a magazine I would be rather upset if they only sent me every 7th issue, or only sent me issues when the newspaper had not arrived.
I did some quick googling, but didn't pick anything obvious up:

Blue Bottle Coffee has 'high-end' coffee shops that disallow laptops?

If so, any reasoning behind this?
I think the article said they were in grad school (MBAs), so they probably had some cash if they worked beforehand. Also, 35k/3 is doable, even if "debt free" means you got an interest free loan from your parents...
The team claim he was not authorized to make such claims and that the project never received these payments.
Sadly I can't sell you a binding pre-order contract. (That would be where you couldn't cancel your order) And for things like the Nexus 4 (where you might engage in a bit of reselling) you will have people 'pre-order' to get a place in line, only to find when they start shipping that you can't sell them for much of a markup on ebay so they cancel their pre-order. Or like the great disk drive crisis of 2011 where people put multiple orders into multiple distributors only to cancel when one of them filled.

Another thing to consider (and this was true of the Nexus 4 and later updated in the article) the article said they 'sold out' but Google didn't. The authors interpreted not being able to get to a sales page as being 'sold out' but later discovered that there was some order rate management going on where the 'overflow' went to the 'coming soon' page and repeated attempts would eventually get you a page you could order from.

Logistics management is a tricky thing, if you are good at it you can pretty much name your own salary because its trivially easy to 'show' how much you are worth with basic accounting techniques. If the company has the volume you can literally say "If you hire me I'll save you $700,000 a year, I'll actually save you $1,000,000 a year but I'm going to keep $300,000 of it as salary."