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I have a couple of applications exclusively marketed for WP7 and Windows 8. The biggest benefit I have seen is that the lack of apps in both markets makes a it prime ground for building a brand. It is still sparse enough to where you don't even need an original idea, just fill in an obvious gap. At the same time it is a gamble whether or not it will pick up, but I think both platforms have much promise. It is also good to note that Pubcenter (Microsoft's ad platform) beats most everything else out there, as in >.60 eCPM averages. A buddy of mine did a Pandora client for WP7 is reporting ad revenue of > $100 a day. I'm personally hitting somewhere around $30 a day. It's definitely harder to hit numbers like that in competing marketplaces. I imagine that if they pick up my buddy and I will be in a nice position which is what developing for an upcoming platform is really all about.
Features description sounds too marketing and too bullshit.

1) Where are real usage examples?
2) Where is even one use-case?
3) What can be built on top of it?
I remember reading Cryptonomicon in high school, and being fascinated and terrified by the Perl implementation of this in the book. It was a perfectly rectangular, quarter page quote, with no spaces and a terrifying proliferation of sigils.
I get what they're trying to do, but the fact of the matter is that it's one person. Alexis is talking about this as though it's going to revolutionize the music industry, when in fact it really won't. It will certainly help Lester Chambers, who almost certainly deserves some love, but to think that this will turn around an industry is absurd. It just seems to me that they're putting this profound label of "beating the music industry" because that's what's popular right now, and will generate more buzz. If you want to support the guy, by all means go ahead, but don't think that you're changing anything about the way the music industry works, you're just supporting the artist.
Ask HN: Which VPS do you use/recommend?
I'm looking to switch from Bluehost shared hosting to a VPS for my personal website (couple of blogs, photo album, some private web apps). Which VPS do you use and recommend?

I was naturally looking at Linode, but their offering seems a bit pricey given that they cap you to 200GB/month transfer. Actually, with 4 CPUs and only 20GB of storage it smells like a solution for computing applications rather than web servers.
A (Outlook?)Hotmail and Yahoo! loyalist here like a few others Hi fellow Yahooistas ;-)

I love the concept of creating directories to categorise mails (Thumbs up to Hotmail and Yahoo just for that). The tabbed email feature is also a very big plus for me in Yahoo. Hotmail's quick clean up and other nifty features are also really good.

Anyhow, the changes haven't come to my inbox yet, but the wife showed me her "brand new" Inbox. WoW. Kudos to them. Really really nice..... Very responsive and sleek. I had really appreciated the new changes on Outlook/Hotmail so far, and now this from Yahoo!. Yahoo! ;-)

I have always had a soft spot for Yahoo!, because they were among the first when the internet boomed, to build new software infrastructure technology around it, and they also built it to scale (well). So much of the internet infrastructure that is both standardised and taken for granted is, in one way or another, thanks to Yahoo!'s early and pioneering efforts.

So, I am actually a little bit grateful for what they've done to move the Internet forward. Seems like they are back in contention along with Hotmail in ret(g)aining their user base. I sincerely wish them well.

P.S: I've never got spam on Yahoo! mail as well.
Let's hope you are not right then, for our sake.
great quote. will reuse with my dev team.
The term "jailbreaking" has has effectively become one for piracy, which is incredibly disappointing. Teams of extraordinarily talented developers developing the exploits are seen now as just filthy pirates, and I truly dislike that.

It's to the point where hackers like Steffen Esser seem unwilling to release anything lest it be used for rampant piracy.

Possibly worse still, iOS apps can be easily pirated by exploiting Apple's developer tools. I imagine they will soon crack down on that, they must be aware of the amount of piracy that goes on.
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ARM64 isn't required for > 4GB physical memory. The cortex-a15 can already address up to 1TB and is already shipping. Only the per process limit is locked to 4GB on a 32 bit core.
Though where is the ERP software for mom and pop shops?
Contact your local Windows Phone champ if you have one. (Attend a .Net user group and ask around) I have received 4 devices free as a result of partnering with my regional resource.
The app they are updating there is incredibly simple and using few of the APIs and similar changed from WP7 to WP8. Updating a real app that is actually functional (like say, actually updates you with the GPS when your phone is stolen and not just showing a banner, seriously?) would be far more difficult.

Far from impossible, but not a simple 'press button, app upgraded' as with iOS or Android. Plus this is apparently changing even further for the new MS Blue sometime in the future.

You seem to have some strange idea of FUD too.

Pass.
Funny, I remember these people eating their sandwiches when the photo was taken, the view from my desk is on these steps / garden, and we wondered who they were ;)
And /again/ I'd point you to the words you used in your argument that depend SOLELY on human judgement:

accountable

immoral

bad people

All of these words mean nothing until someone assigns them meaning. Your meaning might be different from another persons. I've already come up with my meanings of who "immoral", "bad people" are and I'm comfortable with the mechanisms for "accountability". And I vote. And my vote counts just as much as yours does.

So where does that leave us?
More detailed explanation here: http://lwn.net/Articles/508865/
Thanks Anuj, it's been our vision from the start.
The demo is along these lines, and is coming soon.

Thanks for the notice too.
My "ultimate" office setup is 2 person offices with laptops + lots of big displays. Prefer pairing of the two folks in the office, although not required 100% (I think there are diminishing returns after a certain point). A few empty offices with laptop stands, keyboards/mice, and displays. If you want to pair with someone who isn't in your immediate office, pick up your laptop and head into one of the spare offices so as to not disturb the other office occupant.

Lots of shared space for meetings (with high resolution projectors!) and general chit-chat/hangout time, but any actual work-work is designed to happen in the offices. Not that you couldn't take your laptop into the "lounge", but it wouldn't be optimal.
perf trace will show the events associated with the
target, initially syscalls, but other system events like
pagefaults, task lifetime events, scheduling events, etc.

I'm excited.
You could do a lot of things with $185,000. You could live off of the $185,000 for at least a few years testing minimal viable products.
As a professional storage engineer, your comment strikes my heart with horror. A reproducible bug that causes a crash/hang/loss of data in your file system in patently unacceptable.

We labor to design a system that stores data safely to a stable medium. This is done while acknowledging that we are not perfect and cannot get everything right. HOWEVER, when we know that we have done something wrong and it can gravely affect a user, we do not ship. Ever. Period.

"Software has bugs" is the lamest excuse to ship something with bugs. Do you think that pacemaker firmware leaves the factory floor with known bugs? I doubt it.
It mentions that he posted that picture in the spring - I think it's a bit dated. Though the Vice article cited in the Kickstarter makes it seem that the 99%/Occupy references were serendipitous - he would have been trying to publicize what happened regardless (http://www.vice.com/read/screwed-over-by-the-music-industry-...)
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>Now, you may not agree that propertization is the right tool for inventions, but the fact remains that when you're discussing a property right it's irrelevant what someone trying to enforce that property right otherwise does with the property.

While it may not be relevant from the point of view of the law, it is certainly relevant from the perspective of common sense and decency. If the law allows for abuses like this then the law is wrong.
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Use cases and hands-on demos are coming really soon.

What can be built on top of it is up to your imagination.
I tend to have a little look every few years to what open source ERP alternatives to SAP are brewing out there. I come away from the exercise disappointed each time. I know it will happen one day and the time should be soon, not necessarily an open source product but at least some kind of disruption on price/model e.g. a popular SaaS system. I'll give Workday a look.
Well, assuming there's no price collusion, which there's a good chance of the implicit type. "Charging appropriately" isn't the best measure pro-socially, AIDS medication was still selling well in the West as millions died.

FedEx could be prohibiting whole business models that are waiting to be profitable with cheaper shipping.

Yes, I know it's speculation, but what we often forget here is that capitalism is a deal of state-based enforcement of your property rights so that you create value for society. If your company, like Comcast, is systematically overcharging / under-delivering, you're not holding up your end of the deal - so the state might just step in to ::realign your interests::
It will certainly make testing early access silicon from AMD more interesting. But that nice benefit aside, having a large virtual address space is really handy for a lot of things.
You just have to do something
What's the name of that pandora client / link? That's one of 3 apps I was sad wasn't on wp8 so far.
The latter is what we are going with.

Follow this issue if you're interested in it:
https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/2054
It looks much better than the previous iteration. One thing I don't understand is why businesses reveal a product like this before making it completely available. For those who don't already use it, how many are actually going to check openerp.com in ten days? It seems like the spotlight is wasted with these sort of unveilings. That being said, I might, if I remember.
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> Have you optimized your landing page to get a paid search quality score above 7?

Anyone can explain this? What's the "paid search quality score"?
This certainly sounds interesting. I signed up for priv. beta...Let's see what happens on 1/1/13.
From his wikipedia page:

> His Facebook posting received over 2,500 "likes" and over 2,000 "shares" in the first 15 hours on his "Wall"

Clearly the problem has already been solved.

\s
Don't let reality get in the way of your anecdote about what your friends use!

+1 for the way you framed it. :-D

I might be reusing it as well.
This sucked and was the reason i stopped using them. I dont care enough to try them again now, purely because I lost mail this way
But in practice people buy houses with heavy leverage (often only 20% down), meaning that price appreciations have the potential to multiply their capital and more than make up for the price gap widening.
Honest question - before you complained, did you make any effort to understand the origins of Hacker News, and why it exists? Before stomping on a flower, you might endeavor to understand something about the soil it sprang from; as well as whether it is rare or common, and what nutrients it needs. If you do that, you will understand why HN needs startup posts, but probably not you (or me).

HN exists to serve the needs of a specific startup community. There is nothing wrong with this. If the flowers bring forth fruit that can entice we who do not have the needs of that community in mind to eat it, and spread the seeds, fine. But asking the organism to bear forth, say, twinkies, is a waste of time.
An Angry Birds movie coming in 2016?
Assuming you're US, but you might want to give Bytemark or Bifolk here in the UK a go (I've been a Bytemark customer for 10+ years now with a VPS)
Also building your own isn't too difficult.
Is Dropbox really that cheap? I'm paying $10/mo for a 100gb quota. The next plan up is $20/mo for 200gb, which I don't currently need.

They're free to raise their prices, and until they do, there's absolutely no reason to consider them "cheap."
But after loads of early adopters start buying it, couldn't we expect the price to drop a few more thousand dollars?
Yeah, it's a very unfortunate error.

A couple of years ago, Google Maps placed Sunrise, FL in Sarasota, FL -- a 200 mile error, so somewhat larger than this one. But not as dangerous.
I think age is the wrong metric, you're right registering before someone doesn't mean jack.

What does mean something is intent, and telling people how to exploit HN brings in people intending to ... exploit HN!

It's a shitty trend and it's why we get so much generic-startup-story garbage from startups who've decided to make us their studio audience.
It very much does matter if you're protected by the "safe harbor" provision of the DMCA. The problem is that Kim Schmitz and his team did things, including paying contributors to upload copyrighted material, that forfeited their protections. Prosecutors didn't make this stuff up; the requirements for claiming service provider protections are right there in the law. The prosecution has Schmitz and associates in their own words conspiring to break the law; they left it all in plaintext email.

This is one of the most virulent misconceptions about copyright law on HN. The DMCA does not say that you are protected as long as you honor takedown notices. In addition to honoring them, you must not have any specific knowledge of infringing use of your service that you fail to act on. If any idiot can hit the front page of your site and see that it's used mostly for piracy, law enforcement will take an interest in you once you get big. If, during discovery, they find email messages showing you conspiring to keep copyrighted material on your site, they'll charge you criminally.
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Bear in mind that Gmail by default doesn't display images, so their tracking won't work for gmail unless users click "Always show images from ...".

I don't know whether Yahoo displays images by default or not.
If you're on Android, such functionality can be gained by installing something like Airdroid[0] which gives you something approaching a desktop experience of the contents and functionality of your phone. I use it to type out messages from my browser rather than trying to do so from the much smaller and less practical keyboard on my phone.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sand.airdr...
It's possible to distinguish natural diamonds from synthetic diamonds because diamonds can't be melted down and recast, so the impurities and flaws of natural diamonds set them apart.

Gold, on the other hand, is routinely melted down and recast.
Is this the sucker price and most people somehow get around paying all of this or is this what people actually pay?
If real estate development was a free market, and a true commodity, then I would agree with you. The problem is, it isn't either thing.

The tax rules associated with large construction projects, plus that fact that large-scale commercial real estate is a cartel in most US markets means that the actual impact in terms of units doesn't equate to the number of units built. That's one reason why you see economic behavior that doesn't make sense on the surface -- prime urban residental property left vacant or rented out as tenament housing and big commercial properties left vacant for years.

Generally speaking, today, new residential construction in urban areas is pushing affordability out to the periphery of the city, or the aging out ring of suburb outside of the city.

Another issue is that location matters, and we tend to stick to desirable places in a limited area. Few people want to uproot their kids from school every few years or move away from their families and social networks. So the fact that a 3 bedroom ranch in Minneapolis costs 60% less than a 1 bedroom apartment in Queens doesn't really matter.

I'd suggest you read the sections in Robert Caro's "The Power Broker" see how these kinds of shifts impacted millions of people in NYC during the 50s and 60s.
An implementation bug of this scope would require several bugs; in the code itself and in the (hopefully many) test cases.
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I wonder, isn't there something like frivolous contracts? So that even if you sign away the rights to your music while you are young, the law would still somehow protect you?
The MBA is more of a credentialing and marketing expense than an experiential one. For example, some big accounting/finance firms only hire "top MBAs". No amount of garage-startup experience is going to get you in there; remember that not every educational/experiential endeavor can/should be viewed via the "Is this good for a startup?" lens. Don't underestimate the network effects of high-powered rich people who all went to the same school: many companies are unfortunately not meritocracies.
I suppose it depends what you want to do with your life. Some people are happy to pursue an MBA for the signalling effect. At the very top tier of institutions, if you have a particular career track in mind, this is not a bad idea.

It might not appeal to most HN readers but there's still a rational argument for the degree, even at this price.
I sent in a support request last March and received the same response. It's really a bummer, since I feel less "secure" using them without knowing that I can reach someone if something unfortunate happens.
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4GB is the limit with 32bit. It's starting to be used on servers, so that's an issue there. But even on phones:

Moterola Droid 256MB [2009]
Google Nexus One 512MB [2010]
Galaxy Nexus 1GB [2011]
Google Nexus 4 2GB [2012]

It doesn't look like it will be long before we need 4GB or more. I would expect, like with x86, you need 64bit even to access the full 4GB (due to memory mapped devices)
I believe Asimov did apologize for this in print on several occasions, possibly including his autobiography. He attributed it to his utter awkwardness around women that he suffered from at that time of his life.
Making big data smaller
This should lead to fewer family support requests. Thanks Marissa!
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Very well put!
Especially about debugging.

Not to mention iterating or doing changes is easier with modular and tested code than with shitty code.
The catch is that you have to share their link to have access to the demo.

EDIT : you need to go on this page and share http://www.sorrysap.com/

EDIT 2 : or try https://demo1.openerp.com/?ts=1355245099781#page=0&limit...
Are you saying their bike will regain traction in a high speed turn by maintaining the lean angle? It'd be interesting to see how it handles that situation, because it would result in a pretty violent high-side on a normal motorcycle.

In that pull test the straps were attached to the bike below its center of gravity. Regaining traction in a turn would be like pulling it with the straps near the top instead, and it could cause some serious problems if the person inside isn't wearing a helmet when that happens at high speed.
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Treating patents as a property right allowed them to take the invention and "exit" by selling it to someone else.

And what is the someone else going to do with that right that makes it worth $700 million? That's the key question.

If what makes that right worth $700 million is that the someone else is going to manufacture the drug in large quantities and sell it at a profit, great! That's what the patent system is for.

If what makes that right worth $700 million is that the someone else is going to sue anyone who tries to manufacture the drug without a license and collect damages, that's not great. Either the drug won't be manufactured at all, which removes the justification for allowing it to be patented in the first place, or it will be manufactured at an extra cost, the licensing fee and/or damages, which means less of it will be manufactured or it will sell at a higher price.

In other words, a "non-practicing entity" who buys a patent like this one without intending to use it, is basically extracting an extra fee from everyone who needs the drug, without providing any compensating value. The economic term for that is "deadweight loss", and it's not a good idea. That's why patents should be held by those who are going to actually use them.