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I would agree, that if Apple had somehow managed to obtain a monopolistic position in mobile, such that people didn't have any real alternative to their platform, and they had to chose iOS if they wanted a smart phone, that it might be reasonable to put some restrictions on what they enforced people to do with their ecosystem. With monopoly market power, comes greater responsibilities (at least in the United States - but similar legal theories exist in other countries).

But, I think we can all agree, that Apple does not have a monopoly on the mobile platform, and, there is in fact at least one reasonable alternative (Android) - Some might go so far as to suggest that Microsoft's "Windows Phone" platform, and, for that matter, even Blackberry could be considered reasonable alternatives to the iOS platform.

And, regardless, 5.6 is pretty clear, ""Apps cannot use Push Notifications to send advertising, promotions, or direct marketing of any kind."" - If anything, Apple has simply failed to chase down all of the other apps that are doing this.
Is it a professional investor? Have they led before? Do they actively invest?

If the answer is yes to at least any one or more of the questions, move on, they aren't seriously going to invest. When you unpack the statement, they are really saying, "We aren't willing to put our money where our mouth is." Then, they add something like, "If you find a lead, come back to us." What they are really saying is, "If someone who is better at this than we are, more famous / notable than we are or can put together a syndicate of people we are interested in getting to know, then we MIGHT invest."

Your best bet is to get back to work and / or find serious investors.

Good luck!
So.... AT&T can actually do this if they try and have competition threatening their ologopoly (which they and Comcast claim doesn't exist...)
water to turn on when i step in the shower, turn off when i walk out or give some sort of signal
As long as you pay tax its fine, anyway for the bar they are accepting USD. Bitpay accepts the transaction and pays USD to the bar, Bitpay worries about the BTC they collected.

(The bar never sees any BTC from a customer)
>>I want to give them money and get a product in return.

Then either your market analysis is better than theirs and you need to convince them starting all the SSD laptops/desktops and scrap all other ones OR fund a laptop which is made just for you because if everybody doesn't want it then Dell and elk are not betting all their money on one horse. As parent commenter said they too buy them SSDs and an SSD makes a laptop costlier and a costlier laptop puts people off especially those who don't know what is XOR gate.

>>look at the Chromebook

When you buy something from Google it's not the end of story. You keep buying from Google. Just like Android which is actually free(OS I mean). But Dell? You bought a laptop, end of story - they will provide you support for an year and that is in laptop's price already. So, a Chromebook and a Dellbook are different in this way too.
> Its kind of depressing for me, because it seems to mean being showy, and having a good PR facade is worth far more than people doing the actual work.

Marketing is a huge part of the startup world. There's a reason people are told to stop building at MVP - what you build isn't really important, and you're really likely to throw away what you built and switch to something else.
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I think this happens more often than most people think. Brad Feld gives some good advice on how to handle these situations: http://www.askthevc.com/wp/archives/2008/06/ive-got-angels-w...

Best of luck and let us know how it turns out!
>Make it one, Google will almost certainly close shop soon after AT & T does theirs.

It's more likely Google proceeds b/c they have a better business model with higher ROI on expanded fiber access for the whole country, ATT doesn't.

For Google this is a loss leader that will pay off if it gets more people watching more videos (and ads) on Youtube, and using other Google properties. Iirc, something like 90%+ of their revenue still comes from ads of various sorts.

Without something similar, ATT will have to gorge customers, meter and cap usage, and other things customers love so much.

Only way ATT can win this is by playing dirty, and I have no doubt they will. Hope Google is ready for it.
That's not going to fly long term. Microsoft created Windows and Internet Explorer while you could use Linux or Mac OS - the DOJ was not happy about it. Android is a god send for Apple in that regard, if Apple had 90% of the market and Blackberry was the only other game in town, the DOJ would be all over them by now.
Forking is easy. Maintenance can be extremely hard.

Since Satoshi left, Bitcoin has evolved dramatically in terms of security and functionality. Thanks to the core developers and the whole community. Aside from the core Bitcoin system, peripheral infrastructures like exchanges, end-user software clients, and online wallet services, etc., have been and will be created and improved. None of these is easy work. There are many forks of Bitcoin as of now and will probably be more, but it could be hard for all of them to survive in the long run.
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Can a case be made that YouTube is abusing it's effective monopoly on web video? I'm genuinely curious.
I didn't say it was Apache's problem. For various reasons one project does not have HTTPS at all, and I understand how the web server handles things and the reasons why. My point was that a cheaper option from Linode would let me spin up a new VPS to host that small side project, instead of cramming it on a server that also hosts HTTPS; but $20/month for a not-for-profit side project just to edge around new browser defaults is steep for some of us.

Sure there are other options but I'd rather not have accounts all over the place, and I like Linode.
> National currencies are much less volatile than Bitcoins have shown themselves to be.

I think Zimbabweans, Argentinians, Russians, Mexicans, Romanians and a handful of other nationalities would disagree with you.
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There's amplification and then there's amplification. Strings vibrating within a hollow body cavity is a form of amplification, but I was referring to amplification via an external amplifier and speaker as most guitarists would imply and know when using the word amplifier.
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If you wait for one confirmation, it's possible that the attacker may find (or have found) a block by chance before anyone else does.
to quote reddit: "because I haven't seen it before"
I've seen many games that let you "earn" ingame currency by downloading apps or completing surveys. A few of these games _indirectly_ require you to download the incentivized apps by providing very few coins in the actual game, or making the ads the only way to get coins (other than with real money). Apparently that's sneaky enough for Apple.
That's an interesting question and I think it's hard to say.

If by "stabilize", you mean reduce volatility, I would bet no. I would say we could possibly see even more volatility once leverage and shorting enter the picture.

But, if by "stabilize", you mean put some downward pressure on the price, then I would guess maybe or even likely.

Under the traditional rules I would have more confidence in the latter than just maybe, but with bitcoin, it seems like we've long ago tossed the traditional rules.
Sure, but would a tiny startup get exclusive rights?
Laundry.

Even with modern technology, the process is ridiculous. Collect the clothes in a hamper, carry clothes over to washer/dryer (sometimes this means walking down the street to a laundromat if you live in a large city), select all the right settings so you don't ruin your clothes, add detergent/fabric softener/bleach/etc, start first load, wait 30-45 minutes, move everything into a dryer, clean the vent, select the right cycle, wait another 30-45 minutes, put clothes back into a hamper, and repeat. Finally once it's all done, carry the clothes back to the closet and fold/hang everything.
One thing I've been dreaming about for years is a stacked washer/dryer where the washer is on top. Once the washer is done, the bottom opens up and it transfers into the dryer and then the dryer starts automatically.

It is probably impractical for many reasons, but I'd be the first in line to buy it if it existed.
Maybe that would be too overt. Maybe they needed to get a way to get a license with SRI that didn't look like a me too act and also nullify existing licenses.

If SRI actually had equity in Summly, then this is a way to pay off SRI, grab the license for Summly and potentially get SRI to make a change to its licensing agreement with other companies in Yahoo's best interest.

However, I thought that Apple wholly owned SRI, which would make my speculation BS...
You make a valid point, but I was referring more specifically to web based services and more tightly controlled micro-commerce platforms and operating systems. Considering the high market share of Android I can't fathom ever not building both an Android and iOS version of an app, regardless of cost you have one or the other to fallback on. If both fail however, then you have a mega problem.
I have a N4 and I'm not noticing the issue at all. I've been using Vonage and GrooveIP.

I would normally pick up on it from the 3 years of VoIP and other real time audio work I did.

I didn't get a chance to read everything but as a I recall some of the codecs used could have some serious echo side effects. Did someone mention the codecs being used?
Thanks for your insight!

No to all three. He contacted us out of the blue a while back and we've just kept in contact. He did assume that we had other people in a round (but we haven't really been talking to anyone for a long time haha).

Yeah when he told us, I immediately thought : "Oh thats nice, nothing has changed". We're going to keep in touch so thats that i guess.

Thanks!
>>completely unrelated issue

Technically, yes. One deals with AG, RIL and call app another deals with Notification management.

>>caused by your carrier

No, it's not. The carrier has to send the updates. It's upto OS on how to handle it and they ought to handle it the way other mobile OS do.

>>Why are you posting it here?

Because the nature of issue is same and so is the reason/origin. Left by google. OP's issue is old. Used to crop up in Galaxy Nexus too. I worked on an OEM work around for Europe model and it was there in S3 too.
This is duplicated infrastructure. What a waste of money and effort. Australia's National Broadband Network seems a much better way to handle this kind of thing.
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Not really. The transaction arriving over the Bitcoin network, which takes around 10 seconds, is the first pass of authenticity testing - it won't work unless the account has the money and the sender has the rights to that account and the nodes forwarding the transaction haven't seen any other spends of that coin since the last block. At that point, doing a double-spend reliably is already hard enough that anyone who can do it probably has much better things to do with the ability than try to skim $20 worth of drinks at a bar.

One confirmation, that is, being included in one block, takes anywhere from a few seconds to 15 minutes, probably averaging 5-7 minutes. With that, it's already virtually impossible to double-spend without having enough mining power to take 51% of the current mining network. That's a bit more hashing power than the entire current mining network combined. That'll earn you hundreds of thousands of dollars a day just doing honest mining, and potential double-spend activity well into the tens of millions or more. Again, why bother with that to rip off a $20 bar tab? Or even a $2,000 bar tab?
Also: people go to work to get away from their houses. This sounds like the pipe dream of some antisocial introverts.
Very few first year CS students do any concurrency your first year. Your first year you're just learning Java.
Awesome! This helps a lot, Thanks!
Would you rather it happen automatically or after you give a voice command such as "Shower On" or something similar? Having the water pre-heat would be very cool. The problem would be knowing when to start heating the water. Assuming the home owner doesn't follow a perfect schedule, a voice command would be the most effective. Another possible solution is that the water starts heating when you enter the bathroom. Motion detection isn't that difficult, so the latter might actually be the better solution. It would depend on how long it takes to heat the water to the desired temperature.
It's actually already possible with our architecture, and we are using it for other markup/frameworks in some specific applications of the Jetstrap code. For the time being though we want to focus on Bootstrap for Jetstrap.
> "Swiss bank account" to hold your bitcoin keys

Sounds like a startup idea
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This is crazy; of course it is a real possibility that someone could beat Google search. It could be a big competitor who grows over time to challenge them wholesale, or it could be a collection of smaller, smarter mobile apps that nibble away at their marketshare from every direction.

You must be fairly young...when Google originally launched, few people thought that a plain white page with a search box could unseat Altavista, let alone Microsoft.
The case can be made that Google does not have an effective monopoly on web video actually.
You could look into integrating Google Analytics with your application if you have not already done so.

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...

I have not done this myself so I am not sure if Google Analytics is any better than Flurry.
well if we're going down that route, the water should start heating up as i step into the bathroom.
Class is short, you get one shot. Scheme or Java, not both.
New doctors actually have a hard time getting jobs in major markets (big cities) because they are saturated. The only place they have mobility is rural underserved areas. In fact, I would argue that reality is the opposite: doctors and dentists are often envious of people like software engineers who can get jobs in almost any big city in the world where they have the legal right to work.

Of course, if small towns are your thing, medicine would be better.
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They're outside my house right now!
This is one of the issues keeping Android from being an excellent platform for music applications. Coupled with the general hackability of Android devices (Accessory Development Kit, etc.), it could be an amazing platform for digital audio workstations, synthesizers, samplers, and audio effects processing.

iOS is better in this regard, but still not perfect. Audio routing between applications is a dicey affair (done through a 3rd party app that runs in the background), and it's not possible to charge while using USB accessories, like audio interfaces or MIDI keyboards.
What if I just want to collect emails and passwords, and with a free cert and a funky domain harvest (email, password)'s? I thought the whole point was to be password less?

Second, I wanted to play a crossword puzzle. I click login and am greeted with a popup window, I put in my email, then it asks for a password (ok whatever). So now I have to go to my email, and it says that I click the link and can go play the puzzle, but then it takes me to some persona account manager thing. I go back to my email, click the link again, this time with an error an no puzzle :(

Whats new here? That you guys plan is to just store logins for people? Do you share my email with the webapp I wanted to use? Seriously, whats new here?
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Thanks! Exactly what I needed and entertaining too!
I have a Nexus 4. I use it with GrooveIP. I don't experience the issues described in this issue.
Right before opening this page I knew this type of comment was going to be one of the top comments and was not disappointed. Why oh why can't the whining stop?
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That should say "go off campus to eat", rather than "go off campus to work"
Oddly enough, the most difficult part of this would probably be folding the clothes. Take a towel for instance. When I want to fold a towel, I begin by searching for the corners of the towel. As it turns out, this is a rather difficult problem for robots to solve.

Unfortunately, however, robots might be the most practical solution to this problem.

It could definitely be achieved, it's just a matter at engineering a new type of washer/dryer. What I don't understand is why washers and dryers are separate entities. Yes, engineering a machine that both washes and drys clothes would be difficult, but I'm confident that it could be done.

This is definitely one of the more difficult options!
For that matter, what about the labels? Is there not something like copyright misuse that prevents them from leveraging the copyright on music into a contract for the suppression of fair use?

Or what about these guys: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion_Originators%27_Guild_of...
Even better, the shower should be able to recognize that a person has entered the bathroom and also be able to identify that person. In a multi-person household, each person will have a certain temperature they prefer for showering. What if your shower could identify you and adjust the temperature of the water based on your preferences? Machine learning applied to the bathroom!
Is seems quite practical to each one of the most used languages in the world. You can then go and pick almost any other language.
Here's a tool that converts images to themes, for those who want something new: https://github.com/mlaugharn/swatch
I don't think that it is impractical at all! Certainly it would take a feat of engineering, but it is certainly possible. Check out my response to gatsby.
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Not much of a heads up.
> Oh, please.

Sorry, but there is no way for me or anyone else but you to know that. Anonymity comes with a price (in this case, credibility).
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Your parent comment said the hipster parts of east Austin, so we're not talking about rundberg and the areas that the cops are swearing they'll clean up. There are parts of the east side that are friendly and cheap. There's a nice pocket of neighborhoods around 51st street that's low on crime and just a long bike ride from downtown.
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True or False? Or just commenting is of course ok :)
You might be thinking of VEVO (which is for major label music videos)..
Please.

There is a reason why most reasonable people don't actually seriously consider implementing such tax schemes.

I know it's hard for people with good lives and great salaries to understand why, but please ask the people who clean your desks next time you see them what would happen to him/her, if fuel was taxed higher.
Self-cleaning bathrooms is a good start, because bathrooms are typically dirty. Why stop there though? As we go farther, the problem gets substantially more complex, but imagine a system where cleaning bots were small enough to travel through your walls. They clean while you sleep, so as not to inconvenience you.

One possible problem would be transporting the cleaning materials. I think small in-wall robots would be very effective, but they wouldn't be large enough to carry a lot of cleaning fluids. Having to travel back and forth to a central hub to reload could be costly as far as time is concerned, but poses an interesting path-finding problem.
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Or how about the student can sit through the whole class to sample it? That's what I did. I got to sample pretty much everything. And I didn't need to traipse out to another subject after 30 minutes - I could just go to the next full lecture of the second subject.
Nothing happened to Google.

Michael had a bad time, for reasons that most people believe were due to his own impatience, and now he likes to talk about Google as if his situation is the norm. It's not.

No one minds if Michael talks about his own bad experiences at Google. People just get upset when he pretends his experience is representative of Google as a whole.
Why not have communal workspaces in your neighborhood? Have friends over to work at your home, or vice versa? I'm an extrovert working from home, and occasionally struggling with it, but I can see where it would work beautifully.
At the 1 minute mark he says "some other.. form.. of documentation.. which I don't know what that is". So either he misspoke, or he didn't actually even develop that original app.
I hope this makes its way into ReFS or some other Windows filesystem. A friend who used to work on the NTFS team told me ReFS was B-tree based, which disappointed me as B-Trees are ill suited to SSDs.

It was almost like MS completely missed the technology shift due to their glacial release cycles. But maybe I was wrong.
5) You are now $10,000 poorer.

You are now $5,000 poorer. You received $5k from selling the BTC in step 2, which must be netted out against the $10k cover cost.
And also adjust the showerhead spray setting based on the individual.
Because its better to write a long wall of text where you describe things in detail than it is to write a one sentence statement that doesn't accurately summarize your position...?
That's a little pedantic, no? It's just a "catchy" title. He also notes that 10,000 hours might have been just as apt.
I've thought about this too but rather than having two machines...

Why not have a washer/dryer work in one machine? Put your cloths in and it starts to wash, once the water is rinsed out it begins to dry.

Edit: So apparently there is such a thing! http://goo.gl/CWgKD (redirects to sears.com listing of such machine)
Oh wait, this is Hacker News. Pedantry is implied.
... and this is why we had Pounds, Shillings and Pence (£./.d) in the UK until 1971. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_Day

Much more mathematically interesting, and tortured schoolchildren for many years, to their great benefit. Twelve pennies in a shilling, and 20 shillings to the pound sterling.
Coins were at or soon before decimalisation: Farthing (1/4d), ha'penny (1/2d), penny, threppence (3d), sixpence or tanner (6d), shilling, florin (2/), half crown (2/6), and the crown (5/). The first paper note was the ten-bob note (10/), tequivalent to 50 new pence, followed by the Pound (20/). Until 137 there had been sovereign and half-sovereign coins instead of the 10/ and pound notes.
All of the articles I've read about Summly have a bit at the end where the author bends over backwards to not appear to be crapping on a 17yo. I read that passage the same way.
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From my anecdotal observation and discussion with people who aren't so obsessed with these details, the story has been pretty misinterpreted by the masses though. Everyone was telling me how cool it was that some kid sold up his business for so much money.

I was talking to my friend and I kept on having to stop him every time he went down the "some 17 year kid created..." No one else he chatted with about it was clearing the smoke from the mirrors. Small sample, I know. I just don't buy that this was a Yahoo! story so much as a story about some 17 year old who build "some news summary app."
Google is still the default search engine on the iPhone. They just removed the "google" button and replaced it with "Search"
Considering how much heat gizmodo got for calling out the same kid two years ago, I'm not surprised.