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Strong agree that we need to reform copyright terms! (I'd also be happy with compulsory licensing of some sort, so there'd be some transparency in licensing and, more importantly, so that lawful access would become more convenient [with more providers offering services] instead of fighting losing battles against piracy).

But of course, this memo doesn't just say "reform copyright terms". It also says, "we need to address the problem of DMCA abuse" (everyone in the content industry and lots of reasonable outsiders, although by no means most of them in Internet circles, would say the opposite --- that's it's so hard to address blatant outright "no copyright intended" infringement today that new vectors for suppressing piracy are needed) and "we need to enable DJs".

I like Girl Talk O.K., and "It Takes A Nation" is among my favorite albums, but the needs of DJs and remix artists are (a) not at the top of the national agenda even for copyright reform, and (b) mostly not a real problem given the economics of electronic/remix music today anyways, most of which isn't and, like most music, can't be compensated through traditional label-style recorded music sales anyways. It's not like DJs are being raided at live shows for their samples.
That is an interesting and difficult problem. What if it were framed a little differently, though: Suppose there were a federal licensing tax. You'd pay, say, 5% of licensing revenue to the IRS for the first 20 years, 25% for the next 20 years, 60% for the 20 years after that, and so on. Obviously these are made-up numbers, but the idea would be that an increasing fraction of the license revenue would go to government.
I was in a similar situation (majored in pure Math.) The best answer is to learn something like SAS. It only takes a few weeks to learn the language and get certified, but it gets you past a lot of the bullshit keyword filters and lets you start actually working on interesting Statistical work in a corporate environment, which also opens the doors to a lot of jobs that seriously value your Scientific background.
Straight Talk is a scam and they'll block you (not throttle, block) once you pass a pretty small usage threshold. Their own forums are nothing but people complaining about getting cut off.

Remember that all of those carriers are reselling service. They cannot possibly offer it for truly cheaper than the big guys. They are just buying in bulk in hopes that you don't use much.
> With the implants though, they don't try to stimulate via
> pressure, they just send electrical impulses through the
> electrodes. The resulting electric field is what
> stimulates the nerve.

Yes, it is true that electrical stimulation skips a few steps in the signaling cascade, but I don't think that matters, in principle, since the end result for both cases is the generation of action potentials.

In normal hearing, the pressure waves affect perception by mechanically deflecting the stereocilia (hairs) on the hair cells, which open ion channels, which lead to the production of action potentials. Electrical stimulation, on the other hand, opens the ion channels directly (either on the hair cells themselves or a synapse or two upstream), bypassing the mechanical action of the stereocilia entirely. This is actually a good thing since in sensorineural hearing loss it is often the hairs or hair cells that are damaged or malformed. By interfacing with the nervous system so peripherally, the vast majority of the neural processing in the auditory system is preserved, as opposed to auditory brainstem implant or stimulation of cortical auditory regions.

Of course there are technical limitations to electrical stimulation: the spatial and temporal spread of the electric field is only a very rough approximation of the pressure waves caused by sound, even with sophisticated acoustic models of the cochlea. But with smaller electronics and increased numbers of channels it should be possible to make the match closer, and perhaps someday indistinguishable for most individuals. These are differences in degree not in kind.
Yes, I agree 100%. The elephant slaughter was enough to move all my domains and recommend all my clients do the same.

I also refuse to support a website that registers GoDaddy, although I will do project work (cuz, hey, I need the money). They just won't get technical support from me and they are told upfront about that.
If that was the case before I don't believe it is now. I had an account using my email address and was able to sign in from the iPhone app.
The justice system is not supposed to be driven by the market. In theory, they could have done this entirely without paying any lawyers: I doubt the paperwork by itself would have cost too much for a normal company.

In practice, the problem with the justice system is that it's too large to navigate without lawyers, and lawyers must be paid. That's an indictment of the market's inability to force lawyer fees down to a reasonable level, not the justice system.
What are the ways to gain revenue using the website DDG uses?
Having been a freelance web designer myself, I can say that in my experience, people don't just click and buy web design services. If you are selling pre-made websites, your prices better compete with the cheap WordPress template sites (<$50). If users see a higher price, they'll bail. If you are selling something custom, users will bail when they don't see a phone number or when they see you aren't local to them (they want to meet you in person to discuss the details).
Sometime's I feel like I'm the only person who understands code. Seriously, I don't look at comments, api docs, or commit logs unless I am unsure what the diff or code is telling me. I mean, joking with something this trivial is not really a big deal. There is no hidden motivation to change it, no hard to follow changes, no clever bits of code that are subtly altered. An output string is now without a typo. Big whoop.

The only complaint that makes sense is "it's not that funny".
You Know What Else Started Out Like Apple TV? The iPod.
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Copy the headline and Google it in an incognito window.
Reference counting in general has been an interest of mine since even when I'm writing server-side software it's usually pathological-case latency rather than raw throughput that really matters.

It's a pity that it's mostly C++ (smart pointers) and Obj-C (ARC) that have access to this.

( I say this realizing Python is hybridized. )

Edit: Most of my hesitations regarding using the JVM have to do with how incredibly finicky tuning it can be.
Sure, it's great! It's somewhat funny and really long.

It will take up lots of time for those dumb enough to try to find bugs by reading commit messages rather than use a the proper tool for the job which would of course be: git/svn bisect.
Show HN - an iPhone app to create messages which color blind people can't read
I made this iPhone app primarily to annoy a friend of mine who is colour blind, but it could also be used as an educational tool, for parents to test their kids etc

I'd love to get any feedback / ideas / comments (both on the app, and whether I'm crazy to position it as a tool to annoy people)
Your second paragraph was huge for me. I think that's a critical learning point for someone making the jump from Python to Ruby.

I'll probably still have some frustrations, but knowing that gems are written to look natural by design rather than by accident will likely keep me from throwing my computer at the wall. Two completely different communities operating here.
YouTube (though the monetization came after acquisition by Google) and Twitter come to mind
Does Heroku's Postgres implementation run with a server-side connection pooling tool like pgpool or pgbouncer?
a) can you name a government program that is not "more expensive than necessary"?

b) the cost of something (in a competitive market) is determined by supply and demand, not by the amount of profit a supplier makes (or doesn't make).
I've bought lots of websites from Flippa, but never sold one. Looks like too much work for not enough money IMO.
T-Mobile's tethering block works like this: They sniff your unencrypted HTTP traffic for user agents that look like they came from a Windows machine, and if they find one they hijack the connection and redirect you to their tethering upsell page. They can't sniff HTTPS connections, so HTTPS continues to work. For HTTP you can change your user agent, or just use a Mac (which their sniffer isn't smart enough to detect, yet).

If their sniffer becomes smarter in the future you can always switch to a VPN for your tethering traffic, which they wouldn't be able to distinguish from a VPN connection made by the phone itself.

Ultimately, as long as you have full control over your phone they can't stop you from doing what you like with the data you're paying for. Of course, I wouldn't recommend relying on routine tethering without paying your carrier for it, but it's really nice to have on occasion.
People are free to live their lives however they want to within the law. If you want to smoke, eat or drink your way into an early grave, you're free to do so, and I don't think that the law should change in this regard.

That being the case, I for one am perfectly happy for people to give me unwarranted, evidence-based advice on any subject, especially when it comes to health. I also welcome any direct or indirect manipulation if it helps me take action to improve my quality of life.

If I'm not convinced by what you have to say, I'll filter it out.
In 2000 Backus was still right, but not so sure about 2020. Much more of science has moved to other languages, indeed science that uses computation has got broader too, using R, perl, python, all sorts of stuff.

Now of course all communication links are still called ethernet, despite the lack of connection between 10Mb and gigabit, almost nothing in common bar the name.
That was a terrible pun and you are a bad person and should feel bad.
See this: http://whitequark.org/blog/2012/12/06/a-language-for-embedde...
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http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/Packages/ValuePackages.aspx

2 lines, each with 1000 min, unlimited text, unlimited data $99/month.

The phone subsidy is costing at least $600 over two years, so it may a reasonable choice if you're saving more than $300 per phone.
Not sure how to feel about this. The core feature of the free Google Apps was that you could use GMail with your own domain without having to run a dedicated mail server yourself.
It's a terrible commit message, but for the case it was fixing, seriously, why care? If I found it in something I was working on, I'd laugh and move on with my life.
If they themselves quote a price for the iPhone starting from 650$, how is 99$ + 20$ a month for 20 months = 499$ dollars total full price? I'm still 150$ short and that's assuming a 0% interest rate.
This is really a logical step. If you are an individual and don't really see the value in $50 a year, you can forward your own domain to your regular Gmail account and set the reply to email address to whatever you want.

If you run a business and need the Google Apps platform, then $50 a year really shouldn't be a barrier for you. If it is, time to rethink your business priorities.
Why hasn't Google offered an option to increase from the default 25GB of email storage? Drive has an option to increase upto 16TB, but Gmail is locked at 25GB? What gives?
Please note this change has no impact on our existing customers, including those using the free version.

I give it six months before they start strong-arming free users into paid accounts.
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Except users can(and likely did) get hurt regardless of how the disclosure was preformed.
"RMS hates something."

"Woz disagrees with something Apple does."

"Why this wildly successful and profitable company is doomed. Someday."

"Commonly-used technology is obsolete."

"You are not cool enough to succeed, especially if you are in any way successful. Please develop impostor syndrome."
This is unfortunate indeed. The free Google Apps offering was a substantial value. What viable alternatives are there?
Sensationalist title. The change will not affect individual users, but rather small companies with less than 10 employees using google apps. Now those companies will have to pay $50/user/year.
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Maybe this will drive alternatives that are cheaper than $50 per user per year.
Contrarian view...

by offering <50 email accounts for free, Google essentially destroyed the market for any other startups or companies to come into the market and offer non-enterprise B2B email services... thus limiting competition and innovation.

One could argue that the removal of the free tier at this point is simply because they've created an entrenched position, but one could also suggest that this creates a modicum of opportunity for another player to try to enter this space.

Certainly until today the $ size of the addressable market in the small business email space was practically $0 given Google's position.

[discuss :)]
And? You want this to be free? It clearly costs money.
http://dronegames.co/ doesn't state what the judging criteria is. If it's "survive to the end" then why not heavily shield your drone, bolt it to a fixed stand, affix a heavy EMP generator, and fry all the other electronics in the room? Your drone won't be able to do anything useful as it's bolted down but its shielding will at least allow the electronics to blink some lights and technically you could win on that fact alone.

Presumably such a tactic would violate the spirit, which I take to be demonstrating cool and unique capabilities without having to deal with hostile threats. However, I haven't been following, so perhaps drone to drone interference is actively encouraged and expected.
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You could pay for it?
I see ads on my free google apps account...
He missed an option: disclose privately to Onity's major customers, and give them some time to assess the situation and deal with Onity.
Any other decent, free IMAP hosts out there? Ever since the Gmail UI shit the bed and mail clients grew an archive button I don't really need Google Apps itself anymore anyway.
Wow. Google Apps for Your Domain is a huge thing for a lot of hackers. I run my entire family's email using it. Is google just giving up on supporting custom domains? That would be a huge disruption for me =(
The stuff in your house that "switches to DC internally" isn't switching to 100,000 to 800,000 volts[1], which is what the HVDC is that the article is talking about. Running DC in your house isn't going to eliminate any voltage conversions that are already going on, they will just be DC-DC converters with 48vDC (or whatever) input rather that 120vAC input.

Most of the stuff in your house isn't even running on the same voltages internally... most of the electronics nowadays use many voltage "rails":

* 17-19v laptop chargers (the voltage has to be higher than the battery's voltage in order to charge the battery)

* 12v for older hard drives

* 5v for not quite so older hard drives and older logic

* 3.3v for newer logic and newer hard drives

* A veritable plethora of sub-3.3v rails for CPU chips and other high tech chips.

* 120vDC for "universal" motors unless you replace all your appliance motors with 48vDC (or whatever) motors

In addition, the current requirements of running at a non-lethal DC voltage inside your house would require much larger wire gauges than your current wiring in order to keep the resistive losses reasonable[2]. The rewiring costs would be staggering.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current

[2] Charts for 12v wiring, 48vDC would be 4x better, but still not good - http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/WestAdvi...
>"It's not semantics to call it "not cash""

Yes, it is.

I take offense to stating that people who use the term "cash" don't know what they're talking about. They, in fact, do know that "cash" doesn't imply Apple has a Scrooge-McDuck-type vault loaded with hundred dollar bills.

>"If i own a million shares of apple stock, I don't own cash or a cash equivalent"

Commercial paper, short-term debt, preferred stock, T-bills, option contracts are all cash equivalents. This is where Apple is putting its money (they aren't buying tens of billions worth of common stock). It's "cash".
> The change will not affect individual users

It affects individual users who wish to use their own domain name instead of gmail.com.
For free? Probably nothing.
Valid point. Question: When congress makes infringement a criminal matter, do you think false and fraudulent copyright claims should be treated a criminal matter (since they would be, essentially, false police reports)?
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GOD

DAMNIT

I was literally 10 minutes away from signing up.
It's not totally w/o precedent...

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/12/insurgents-intercept...

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/10/hack-proof-drone/
This might suck for the power user who had his own domain, but I am betting the free version was abused by a lot of business unwilling to pay a few bucks for the service.
Expect them to start including "Upgrade now to a paid Google Apps account!" ;-)
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I wonder if the cause of this is the support costs required for the free accounts? Obviously personal GMail is plug-and-play, but for someone who can't spell DNS, setting up a domain account was never quite drop-dead-simple enough. I suspect the goal here is to create a barrier to entry and prevent the inevitable support load of free users.

There was an excellent post about this a while ago, where a developer reported much better treatment from users after charging a token fee for their app.

As a final thought, maybe Google is catching on to the 'charge what something is worth, not what it costs you' way of thinking. Hosted email solutions for enterprise aren't free, and it seems like Google has realized the real value of their product. Also, ~$4/seat/month is pretty well in line with this kind of SaaS offering.
Is there, like, a link?
I would like to see a breakdown (from google) of how much storage people use. I'd guess a majority use <1 GB, and I can't imagine many people need more than 25GB.
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I really thought this was the coolest thing ever and I'm disappointed no one else did. :(
Yeah, didn't consider that angle. However, that (much like Onity's original approach to the problems) leaves the independent hotels in the cold. Definitely a decent option, though.
For ownership to work you need authoritative registration and settlement of potentially competing property claims.
This indeed is an issue of extreme importance. I'm afraid only Linus Torvalds is qualified to pass a judgement on the quality of this commit message. Fortunately, he isn't quick to judge: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56599... ;)
This will put me in your potential dislike bucket but while I dislike GoDaddy and can't recommend them either, I wouldn't judge others for it. Many may not even be aware of the distasteful things they've done or don't mind their upsells, etc... It's pretty poor to judge sites and people base on the service they use.
It's been nearly six years of free. That's pretty gradual strong-arming.

Note that per user limits continue to apply, so people have as much incentive as they ever did to upgrade, plus for any new domains/projects people will naturally either migrate to other options (then consolidate services around these, moving themselves off Google) or start paying.

Not convinced there's any need for hostility on either side.
You are not alone in this. Scala has had ecosystem problems for a long time and because of the community status, that's unlikely to get much better anytime soon.

One of the reasons I've been preferring haskell and clojure for my work is because scala's toolchain abused me so badly.
As a Googler and for much longer, a Google Apps user for my family, this is sad news.

I wish they had just fixed the experience for "vanity domains" so that they didn't require all the enterprise features, and didn't let administrators have complete control of users accounts. Then they could roll out new features to vanity users without needing the enterprise controls.

I understand that this is a little tricky, and involves no paying customers, but Google Apps was by far the best experience for custom domains. I'm sure it attracted the type of influencers that pull even more users. I used it for my family, bands, friends with very small businesses and more, and the other people on those domains not already using Gmail, in turn migrated their personal accounts to Gmail.
The terrorist virus is simply plausible deniability so the government can continue it's progression towards new world order.

I mean, who really thought Bin Laden had that much power or legitimacy?
Still, $50/user/year doesn't give you that much room for manoeuvre as a startup...
I really hate it when companies try to sugar coat a decision that is all downside for their customers. It may be really hard to do, but Google should just come out and say it: there is no upside for this to anyone except Google. It is not about giving you a better experience or making things more straightforward. It is all about Google deciding to maximize their profits at the expense of their users. That's fine, it's what businesses (ultimately) do (even the ones that pretend they put their users first). Google should just say it - they no longer want to support a free version of their product because they can make more money another way.

When I see ridiculous sugar coating it breeds distrust and disbelief - congratulations Google, I now believe every single future thing you say a little less, well done.
What really struck me was that they're only offering three nines of uptime. I can't see many businesses ditching Excel or Word to go with something that will cost you half a day of productivity every year, especially not for $50 a license.
How about alternatives between free and $50/user a year?
This is an interesting side effect of the U.S. carrier cartel. People simply don't know about the alternatives. Americans have accepted that Verizon and AT&T are the only acceptable carriers, and are no longer price-sensitive, just as long as it feels like they're getting a free iPhone every 2 years.
Takeaways:

* Existing free accounts will remain free.

* New accounts will cost $50/user/year. It sounds like this applies to personal domains with only one user as well.
Fastmail.fm has been around quite a while, and while I still would consider them a success, I don't think they have done much in the form of innovation. Most of the innovation I have seen in email for the year, has been in the form of the client, not the server.
$50 / user / year - still not insane but I know it's put people off in the past.
Well, obviously yes I could and so could my clients. But Free is the best kind of price, especially for startups. I have no problem paying for good software and services. I also have no problem seeking out the next option that compares in value. At this point Google Apps is a paid email option that must compete with all the other countless premium email options.
Doubtful, plenty of people would jump on the chance to create a competitor, especially since they could market it as a cheaper (or free) alternative.
"Google Apps offering was a substantial value"

...yet you are not prepared to pay financially in exchange for that value, and even convey disappointment when the free provision of that value is ceased.

blowing your comment out of context, but this misalignment with value and $ spend is a huge problem in our industry today.
For some applications, Haskell is a big win. For some, Ruby is. Having a diversity of tools is almost always better.