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> If I opted into using their service and agreed to their TOS that included them keeping my data. Then thats my fault.

You forget that all service providers have these TOS. You don't have a choice.

> Them having my data is hardly going to keep me from continuing to use their service.

If you've been using a Gmail account for several years, good luck closing it if you don't want to lose future emails sent to that address.
not sure, but I wanted to say thanks for the
C as a functional language links you replied with earlier. Comments are off after 14 days so I couldn't say thank you there. The closest was the function pointer one, but it still wasn't the one I remember.
I don't blame the tech. I'm just anticipating all the ways this is probably going to be used and am annoyed at those developers in advance. :D
I'm having a little trouble figuring out what you folks do differently. Can you maybe speak to that?
Very true and is a big factor in the nasel accent, something that is not evident in Seattle.
It's not weird. Plenty of people have not had problems with aluminum wiring in their houses, even when screwed to copper fixtures. Others have had house fires.

The lack of a 100% instantaneous failure rate does not mean there was a good engineering design, or even any engineering design past appearance.

In the case of magsafe, the incidence and number of claims of fraying, actual wire melting, etc, was so high that it was very clearly "bad engineering".
(You are talking about at least tens of thousands of adapters that were actually replaced after actual signs of failure)

The case was settled through ADR 6 months after ADR starterd, and included apple agreeing to replace all adapters that showed any signs of strain relief failure for up to three years from the date of the initial settlement.
He is not straight up in acknowledging failure. He is just quick to cut and run. Did you see any of the footage of him being interviewed about the phone hacking scandal? He is a mercenary liar and a cut throat businessman. There is little to admire in the way Murdoch behaves - ask Milly Dowler's family.
Not as cool as the Magnetic Movie: http://vimeo.com/1166968
I have an opposite plan. Never run Windows again except under VMWare/virtualbox on Linux. If that fails, I will probably switch to Linux + Android + Mac exclusively.
Maps - Web app just like iOS5 Maps, for iOS6 or other devices
Fluentd: Store Apache Logs into Amazon S3
And I find it unimaginable that people divorce over petty issues as well.
This should be the real announcement! Fantastic news for tinkerers.
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Exactly.

I use ownCloud for dropbox-like sync and sharing (it's better than dropbox!), postfix + dovecot + roundcube for email, a Jabber server for IM, and am moving to Kolab for other groupware - Calendar, Tasks, RSS, Contacts, etc - encrypted on my linode instance. All connections are encrypted.

And it's a VM image, so I can always take it out of their system and use it elsewhere.
What I find most interesting about Voyager-1 and 2, that these crafts went to the outskirts of our Solar system because of funding cuts for Mariner program (Venus and Mars research). Marvelous what you can achieve even when you are given less money.
Technically not iPad-only, but if you didn't have an iPad you probably couldn't subscribe. The iPhone version is only available if you own an iPad as well. The Android version is only available on two tablets -- the Kindle Fire and one Samsung tablet... and only if you bought that Samsung tablet from Verizon.
Perhaps better still: make the targets to be found use completely passive RFID tags. (No batteries needed, ever.)

Make the 'finder' unit a powered, portable wand-like device which pulses the tags, and makes sound or light in proportion to how well it is pointed toward the desired target, and how close it is.

(Regress to finding a misplaced 'finder' wand: give the wand a charging base station with the basic push-button-and-wand-beeps behavior. This base station might also include whatever UI selects which target you're seeking.)

With this design bluetooth is probably not involved or beneficial.
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From what I can gather, it's like any other analytics service, except:

1) You have to do all data analysis and visualization by yourself.
2) There are basic data analysis components built in (exposed through their API).
3) You can build (and embed in a website) your own analytics dashboard with custom visualizations from a JavaScript SDK.

Something like Mixpanel will do all the data analysis and visualization for you, and won't let you do any custom analysis or visualization (aside from exporting your data).
Well, nice, really nice idea. Tried it and was frustrated by the poor quality, of the screenshot it produced. Grainy and blurred fonts, nothing I would wanna use.

And the software had obvious problems parsing my css-styles. Some headlines were way of...

Hope you might be able to fix these issues. If not, you are (at least in my case) not usable...
I understand that they provide all the back-stuff to store your metrics data and an easy way to plug to the data to draw charts, analytics dashboard. I find it really cool tough I don't know if people/startuper prefer this flexible solution as Mixpanel one wich gives you already the front end functions. I don't know if they do but they should provide templates for creating a funnel, a retention graphs etc.
Also, short messages cannot contain symbols outsids ASCII (actually - 7bit ASCII), while twitter is 100% unicode.
They released a patch that removes all multiplayer features =[
The issue is annoying to him because he should have known better. Apple always does A/B testing on their v1 products. Early MB Airs came with SSDs from 2 different suppliers, iPhone 3G came with glass from Corning and a few other suppliers. He has the write to complain and I hope he gets a solution, but the writing is just so damn...smug.
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I'm not feeling smug, I'm feeling tired of people using statistical concepts outside the context of statistical evidence.

I don't see anyone making an argument as extreme as saying that tablet native journalism is impossible. I do think people are suggesting that narrowing their market may have been a key factor in exhausting their runway, and I think that's a reasonable question to ask.

But no one is presenting any statistical evidence either way, so a concept like correlation plays no part. We can quote cute maxims all day in order to try to sound smart, but if they aren't applicable to the discussion, what's the point other than as theater: an attempt at rhetorical persuasion by performing familiarity with irrelevant concepts.

As a separate topic, if you'll indulge my own theater:

The phrase "correlation is not causation" is broadly misunderstood as being a stronger criticism than it is. My way of summarizing this is that "correlation is not causation, but causation causes correlation." For a fully rigorous and enjoyable treatment of how causal concepts relate to statistical evidence I recommend Judea Pearl's book Causality, which elaborates the concepts for which he won the Turing prize. If you don't have time for the book, the epilog is up on the web a few different places and is a great summary.
If the whine correlated with what's displayed on the screen, for example, during mouse movement or when displaying high FPS content (you having said it was brightness related has me making this assumption), I think it was not the fan, but the so called "coil whine" which seems to be more apparent on ATI cards. On my desktop 7970 it's quite annoying, but considered normal. People fix it by applying nail polish on certain parts, but I'd rather play with headphones than mess up my 500 GBP kit in such a stupid way. I haven't had an nvidia whine on me, I assume all iMacs are equipped with ATIs now.
I might be going on a tangent here, but I can't help thinking there's something wrong with product names for the past few years. We're now naming things with incredibly common words, changing their very meaning into something else. Facebook, Touché, Bonjour, Spaces, Windows...

For some reason, it's creeping me out. I'm afraid to see one of those next big thing named Lundi, Ball, Tisch or Hora. It's like we're robbing our languages of their meaning, bit by bit, for commercial purpose.

We can do better than that, can't we?
You can have a docking station with a keyboard and larger screen.
Hhahahaha agree
Proponents of the Lean Startup Theory like to cite startups of the past as successes of their theory. That strikes me as dubious. For the theory to be sound it must have predictive value. Where are the great companies that have been built by people consciously taking the theory and applying it? It seems that there aren't any. If there were, advocates wouldn't need this practice of retroactive baptism.

It doesn't follow that the theory is wrong, but there is a large gap between results attributable to it and the grandiose claims being made. Wouldn't the true scientific attitude be to hold off claiming to have a science of startups until significant results have first been produced, then reproduced?

A lot of people badly want this theory to be true. It's easy to see why; it says it is a method to success — not only that, but a quasi-scientific method that has tremendous appeal to the technically minded. But the fact that the desire to believe the theory is so strong is not evidence in its favor; it's reason for doubt.

I'm skeptical of the theory for two reasons. The first is that I keep feeling like I've seen it before, in another risk-ridden field where people badly want a reliable way to get results: the field of corporate software projects. Failure and unpredictability are so common there that people are eager to buy the idea of a repeatable process. Lean Startup Theory seems very much like software process transplanted to startups – so much so, in fact, that a more accurate name for it might be Startup Process. I could be wrong about this, but the sense of deja vu is striking.

If that's a correct analysis, it's possible to describe what it would look like. One would expect to see social clubs of believers who share techniques and inspiring stories about how their process is working. One would expect not to see any decisive outcomes, though people will expend great energy interpreting all outcomes as evidence for their process. One would expect to see gurus and consultants selling the answers that people are so eager for, whether they work or not. (In some cases it's better when they don't work, since one can then sell them repeatedly.) One would expect the gurus and consultants not to have any significant track record of success in the areas that they're teaching, since that's not actually what they're good at. And one would expect many people's desire to believe the theory to be strong enough for them to overlook that anomaly.

The other reason I'm skeptical is that, if the theory is true, it would amount to a science of history. There's nothing intrinsically different between startups and historical undertakings; that's all the word "enterprise" means, after all. Most don't lead anywhere, while a few lead somewhere important. An empirical technique to create the important ones would amount to an empirical technique to create history. That seems unlikely.
discussion from 644 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2270878
Just wondering, is there any technology we've seen actually used today that could produce a hundredth of c within the next 100 years? Would this be something we could see with ion propulsion for example?
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Any chance to see those talks online some day ?
This is such a nonsense article. But within it there is grain of truth albeit very small.

Taking my circle, several of my family have migrated to iPad or android tablets from PC/laptop setups and are not looking back because iPad fulfills all there computing needs.
For me, my laptop recently passed away so I bought a nexus 7
to replace it, and you know what its brilliant for me.
I do obviously still have a development PC,
but for personal use its tablet all the way. So I think desktops and PC sales will suffer loss long term in the consumer market. So Microsoft do need a good product here, and they have a lot of catch up to do, but they have done it before!

The security blanket for Microsoft remains new innovation enterprise, business and maybe cloud. I think they have a long way to go to win back the consumer space.
Same for the Retina versions. Bought a non-retina Macbook Pro a couple of weeks ago before they stop selling these.

My last Macbook Pro lasted almost 7 years because I could upgrade from 1 to 2 GB. Without the upgrade option I expect the halflife to be notable shorter.
Can This $20 Tablet Really Change The World?
This is similar to Melbourne, Australia in that it is pretty rare to have full days of rain and many days where you will get period of rain, with decent sunny periods as well.
Thank you for the feedback. We might have to start generating .png outputs - that will definitely solve the quality problem. Do you mind sharing the site/input you used?
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html2image - http://s3.amazonaws.com/amazon-cl2/LXOTY9N1IMC4BJ3GZU1PCZTNL...
Most open source software licenses contain all-caps legalese disclaiming all forms of warranty. See [1] and [2] for example.

[1]: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

[2]: http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
That is correct

Still, money handling/cheque handling has costs as well.

Cheques are much more prone to fraud, money has some fraud cost (% of fake money, not sure how it is, but it's not that big) and costs of handling and moving the money (hence, cashback reduces this cost)
Nobody is "dismissing Gates' success as due to the resources of his parents." People are pointing out that taking VC funding was unnecessary for Gates due to his family's wealth. Surely you can see this.

Also, Gates was building a software company and Jobs was building a hardware company. Jobs had a lot more need for funding in the first place since his capital expenditures were higher.

Finally, Mr. Jobs made almost half a billion off of Apple in the 1980s (yes... 1980s dollars.) I hardly think that Apple is some kind of parable about how VC funding is a bad idea. Quite the contrary.
"Imagine you could Stick a Stick-N-Find Sticker on your Suitcase. When all the suitcases start coming out on the belt, you can sit down and wait. Once your Suitcase is within Range, your phone will Alert you, you can get up, and take your suitcase."

All I can imagine is the fine that the TSA slap on me when they realise my bag has been on transmit the whole flight...
Why VC firms now take start-ups seriously
Driven by real world task: code reviewing JSP using ruby regular expressions
In addition to that, don't Skimlinks take a cut of your comms? It really seems easier (and more profitable) to use the Amazon Affiliate Program. Someone correct me if I'm wrong though!
Speaking of smugness, throwing around Latin should probably include the proper Latin.
http://yourban.no/2011/02/22/immaterials-light-painting-wifi...
AFAIK it was only a part of that was moved to Scala. The web interface is still written in Ruby.

More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Technology
I can vouch for Edge as an animation tool. We've already started creating commercial work using it.

But I wouldn't touch Reflow if Adobe Muse is anything to go by. Muse produced horribly verbose and unreadable code.
...This is the second Java/Javascript mixup I've seen on TC in the last two days.

The first one was here - http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/30/why-enterprise-apps-are-mov.... The third subheading originally read "Transitioning Developers From HTML To Java."

The worst part? These two articles aren't even by the same author. So TechCrunch has multiple writers that don't know the difference.
120 staff. If the average wage was up around 80k+ with overheads you get a lot of the way there. Then you have fixed costs of office and the cost of actually reporting. Doesn't really surprise me at all.

They should take note that game apps haven't been sustainable on anything near that bloated an operation either.

If they were trying to run it on a much more modest staff, say 20, they would be profitable.
I hope and think so. PyCon 2012 videos are available at:
http://pyvideo.org/category/17/pycon-us-2012
The part of the solution is to switch to secure domain names, each domain name comes with bundled key pair (like SSL) this is why it's easier to work securely with public key encryption under the hood - the signing of the e-mail public key is done under the hood, the user doesn't have to do it manually.
Designing Pragmatic RESTful APIs
McAfee should have known better!
I found that my Logitech RumblePad 2 worked great out of the box, and even better (almost flawless, the 360 controller has one extra button) after going through the button mappings in big picture settings.
Ask HN: Please stop using TL;DR
I've noticed recently some people using the TL;DR abbreviation to give summaries of stories posted here. I don't like this trend because to me the point of HN is to read the articles and comment on their content, not to read a tiny summary and comment on that.

I think commenting on TL;DR will lead to poorer discussions because commenters are relying on the TL;DR being an accurate summary. It could well be that the TL;DR has an editorial slant from the person who makes the summary.

And often the point of stories on HN is not some tiny summary or moral, but a long article with many different points and data that are hard to summarize.

Also, I'd argue that reading a long piece (especially if it contains an illustrative story) is much more memorable than a summary like this.
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Sorry, I was in a snarky mood :)
It seems every 2 months there is another popular blog post about how impossible it is to be a seller and how there is just no way to deal with the fraud. They act like once it involves more than email or phone, it's all impossible.

But, yes, sending to shipping address is unlikely to work.

Paypal will turn over the info if you subpoena them (you will have to open a miscellaneous matter in california and subpoena them there, but this is not a big deal).

If you are law enforcement, they will turn it over much faster, but unlike Google/et al, they generally do not object.

In fact, here's a great example of this:
http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/califor...

"Google has not produced documents, paypal has" :)

They are in a pretty different position, so i can't blame them. Your bank would turn over records in response to a simple subpoena as well.

Unlike your bank, Paypal will give notice and time to object to the guy, but if he objects, he will have to do so in court (and then you'd know who it is or otherwise be able to sue them directly as a doe, and so it won't matter), or paypal will turn over the records.
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This made me play games for the first time in ages, it's a great feature that's a delight to turn on.
People abusing Buyer Protection on eBay is nothing new, and has been getting out of control. But saying you should sell on eBay using something other than PayPal is just not realistic. People expect to pay with PayPal.
"recognition rates approaching 100%" - how many times do we hear this? Basically it doesn't work, except for a set of carefully constructed circumstances.
I'd hope there's open source effort based on bootstrap, with actual human maintainable css/js code generator.
Same in Vancouver. It rains only once, but for 6 months.
This bit in the lede is actually the TL;DR of the article

Marc Andreessen notes that sometimes founders misappropriate the ideas or don’t apply them correctly

... but much less attention grabbing than the headline ;-)

Anybody, for example, who is ignoring sales and marketing is almost by definition not taking a Lean Startup approach.
The worst thing I've ever seen: http://blog.jgc.org/2007/08/why-you-dont-want-to-code-for.ht...
If you are looking for which domain point to 1.2.3.4:

cat domains.txt | parallel -P 100 --tag host | grep 1.2.3.4

Somewhat slower runtime than the go-solution, but may be faster to write.
Having worked in customer service I can tell you that sometimes you have to draw a line where boundaries are not very discrete. Customers can tell me that "their connection is too slow". The only proof I can give them is "it passes the speed test".
This usually happens when the money paid for the service exceeds the service provided.

Although, what I have said is a general reply to general comment above, but i think this does not apply to apple here because they certainly charge enough.
I think you missed the point of a TL;DR. I have always treated TL;DR as an abstract to a paper. It kind of sets the stage and presents the conclusion in a concise way so that if one is still interested in the full content of the paper, they can read in depth. For example, if the title is interesting enough for me to get to the page/post. The TL;DR basically packages and refines the crux of the topic so that I can get the gist of the post.

Of course, it would be plain stupid to try to get involved in a discussion without actually getting into reasoning for the conclusion but then there is no solution to stupidity.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/16/echo-nest-is-the-man-behi...

Not true anymore?
That's evidence?

I also think we all need a lot of options and the disappearance of any will hurt us – UEFI Secure Boot is going to reduce the number of OS options, because it raises the price of being able to boot on generic PC hardware from $0 to $99. Many OS's will work together the way Fedora, SuSE, and Matthew Garrett are working together, so it may not cost each OS $99, but anything more than $0 is a loss.
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And this is why I post things to Hacker News. An intelligent reply with a useful, different perspective.
Same for Dublin

I guess I haven't seen a day (that is, a 24h period) without any sort of water falling from the sky.
I want one that's not tied to the phone since my phone is what I usually need to find or gets left behind outside. So I want a small keychain-able device that alerts or vibrates when my stick-on device, eg. phone is > some distance away.

EDIT: Just read the updates, it has it, nice!

We have added a new app feature:
Reverse Virtual Leash: You put a Sticker on your keys etc, if you forget your phone behind, the sticker on keys will buz.
You have to have the SticNFind app runnig on the backround for the reverse Virtual leash to work. This will work on both iPhone and Android. But remember, you must have the app running on the background, which usually, if you launch an app, is stays on the background unless you close it.
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Exactly.

We're operating at a layer below other analytics products, and we're certainly not as useful out of the box. A good analogy might be:

MailChimp : SendGrid :: Google Analytics : Keen IO

Which is to say, Keen IO is a set of developer API's wrapping hosted infrastructure, whereas other analytics products are end-to-end solutions. We're an agnostic event data backend, and they are each a full product offering with its own focus.

Hopefully that helps explain why we don't think of ourselves as competitors to products like Mixpanel or GA or KISSmetrics -- in fact we plan to build one-click import and export connectors from/to those services and others. We think our position in the ecosystem will actually help them retain customers who would otherwise churn in favor of building in-house.
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