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No need for outright lying. Just consider the wording of the denial: "Any suggestion that we were complicit in transferring user data to any third party is incorrect"

Last.fm does not deny that information was passed to the RIAA. They're just saying we have nothing to do with it, and CBS refuses to comment. Now, to me, this looks very much like Arrington has got it right this time. If no information was passed to RIAA, Last.fm and CBS would issue a joint statement to that effect.
Right, but for kittenauth you need to "burn" 9 images to achieve one authentication. (Three kitties and six non-kitties, as I recall correctly.) With the rotational thing, a single source image can be algorithmically manipulated to generate dozens or hundreds of challenges -- kitty at a 90 degree angle to the left, kitty at a 90 degree angle to the right, etc.

Figuring that, conservatively, you can get a dozen challenges out of an image, that makes this technique about a hundred times more efficient than kittyauth in terms of how many challenges you can issue for the size of your library. Then you pair it with a large set of images (cough Flickr Creative Commons license cough) and you're off to the races.

(The Flickr Creative Commons option isn't abused to nearly its potential by startups.)
Are the people who said Apple is "Evil" going to withdraw the insult now? Apple may be a little bit of a bumbling fool, but that's not evil. If Apple knew how to avoid these things happening, surely they'd do it.
The catch is that Eucalyptus really isn't controversial.
I submitted 12 almost identical applications (code was identical, data was not). They were all approved.

Then, I submitted updates for all 12 of these applications. 2 were rejected.

These were city maps, so it's not like they were controversial. The process is just broken.
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Jamie worked at Apple. So did I. So did the guys who did the iReddit app. We've all had rejections, and it's not like nobody at Apple knows who we are.
Aside from the lack of full transparency, are you saying that generalized second-price auctions are not really auctions or that auctions with reserve prices are not really auctions?
I think the Europeans have problems just as bad as the Americans, but it looks different because of national organization. Most of the problems in America are in California, Florida, and Nevada. If these were separate countries rather than separate states, then the situations would look more similar with some having crushing problems (like Iceland and Britain) and others seeming relatively unscathed locally but affected by the global nature of the downturn. European banks have taken a huge beating, and there have been multiple bailouts. I also consider it likely that there are still unacknowledged problems in other banks that seem healthy so far. The pain filters down more readily to average Americans and Brits because they were the ones borrowing money for houses they couldn't afford and because continental political systems have stronger social support systems. I expect that it will likely take the European economies longer to recover than the Americans unless the US government borrows so much money that it starts to affect its de-facto credit rating.
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I'm not a CG guy, but I'm guessing it's pretty simple and efficient to recognize which of a set of images a given image is a rotation of. So the ability to create lots of rotations doesn't buy you any security.
An ebook reader that accesses Gutenberg is not controversial in the least.

Most apps aren't denied. But the ones that are denied aren't always denied for logical reasons. Baby Shaker was approved. Eucalyptus was denied. That's messed up.
"Why does Google give away products like its browser, its apps, and the Android operating system for mobile phones? Anything that increases Internet use ultimately enriches Google, Varian says. And since using the Web without using Google is like dining at In-N-Out without ordering a hamburger, more eyeballs on the Web lead inexorably to more ad sales for Google."

Very silly. Google's browser generates searches in the title bar for free which Google pays Firefox and the others for. Mail, Talk and the apps are vehicles for showing ads to people. The extra internet use is just not the primary purpose of these things. What confuses people, even Wired, who should know better, is that not everything Google does has an immediate payoff every time. They're willing to develop something, like maybe Android, which can make them money later, maybe.
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Me either, I just think the "bash arrington" meme seems to go too far at times, but to be fair - your points implied dislike for arrington (given the negative tone) even if you don't
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Thousands of people saw Apple's bad move when this story made its way across the web. Apple doesn't think twice when it's someone small who can't make a fuss.

It's the same kind of deal we saw with the Google Checkout story a couple months ago. Honest people get caught up in overzealous protection methods and companies just take it as a loss.

Search for "iPhone app rejected" and you will see this isn't an isolated incident. A lot of the rejected apps probably broke the rules, but plenty have not, and Apple doesn't seem to care unless they have a big soapbox to shout from.

Textbook "evil", no. But, it wouldn't be hard to stop these things. Apple takes a calculated approach because they know the few wrongfully rejected apps won't cost them as much money as implementing a beefier review process across their whole app store. When this policy gets bad press by influential bloggers, like with this app, they can spend a minimal amount of resources to reevaluate the app. It's cold and calculated.
I think his viewpoint is a tad pretentious, and what we’re seeing here is really a company who is afraid to put itself in a new position, be it out of fear or some sort of analytical paralysis that says if it’s new, it might not work. I think good ‘taste’ comes from a willingness to change--rather, an insistence on change for the better leads to what comes across as tasteful.
It's possible to get a PayPal account with just a bank account, so that's one solution.

Alternatively, perhaps a "submit a paragraph explaining why you want an account" screen could also be used for people who won't/can't pay $1. Someone would have to weed through the entries, though (maybe make it open to votes, like stories).
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As I imagine a lot of people have Macs here, I thought it appropriate to post this. It's a desktop app for ripping videos from the web and converting movies to a format suitable for iTunes & iPod. So those bittorrent videos can finally find a place in iTunes & your iPod. You can rip movies straight from YouTube by dragging the url icon into the app.
This line threw me too, but success is something that can be defined in a lot of ways. If you define success in terms of growth rate and speed from idea to market dominance and massive profits, then Google is right up there.

It all depends how you weight growth and total profit when you talk about "success." The growth curve of oil as a business took hundreds of years, whereas Google became a billion dollar business in a few years.
The economic system of Argentina as described sounds like the one of Zimbabwe prior to the farm seizures.
I come from a country where it is usual to offer 3 year degrees (NZ). It does come at a price of killing general ed requirements but I agree with this. Reasons:

(1) It destroys the separation of compulsory secondary school and voluntary tertiary school.

(2) Dumbs down core courses, as the general ed students flock to easy courses or convince lecturers to make the class easier.
Chat history should be a separate, non-critical path.
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Nice! That's great to hear, since it's always perplexing when native code ISN'T the fastest... Kind of makes you have to ask, "If there is a better way, why isn't that the native way?" But, for Tamarin, that question will be moot.
A few things:

Your site needs a favicon

I don't understand how to get videos off the web.

From your web page, it's not clear to me what your product does. Convert & transfer movies from your computer and the web. could be simplified to something like "Get your movies anywhere."

When I open the app, nothing happens. It should open the "Open" dialog by default, I think.

The site looks great, and the app is quite clean. Nice work!
Not many people read techcrunch compared to real newspapers, so it might be hard to prove any damage to reputation.
I like the window that says "Drop movies, folders, or movie links" with a big drop icon, no need to have the open dialog by default =]. I would probably hate having a dialog open right when the app starts.
chat history for you should be on a seperate, non critical path,

sometimes the auditability of being able to say you sent the message is as important as sending the message itself, banking / telecoms etc.

sometimes you want to search your logs in "real time", ala twitter search

and as I alluded to above, more than often message delivery should be done seperate to persistence, but that doesnt strictly mean outside of a database.
Thanks for the feedback about the clarity & the ease of use. I'll definitely look on making it easier and clearer.
clanging a buncha silverware in a drawer has the same effect for me

pretty sure biting rocks doesn't sound like that though...
Is Mike Arrington a Dick?
The highest bid does win every time, if you realize that a bid in this situation constitutes more than just price. Price is one way to motivate a seller to perform a service for you. In this case, another way is to have a great site to match your service, which contributes to the overall reputation of the AdWords program. There are also other ways to motivate, and all the secret sauce you commented on is probably to handle them. Add up all of this motivation and call it a bid, and the highest bid wins always, even though the highest price may not.
That's a pretty silly point.

"Just do it"? "Don't bother to analyze things"? Yeah, that really sounds like a recipe for success.

The author even contradicts himself within the article:

Take whatever action you feel needs to be done to grow your business. Do whatever you feel you should do to make your relationship work the best you can.

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What is the right thing to do is usually difficult to commit to because it doesn’t feel comfortable. It tests your willpower and how much you can trust your own judgment.

So you're supposed to do what feels right... even when it doesn't feel right?

I'm not trying to put down the importance of gut feeling and intuition, but jumping into everything without thinking is not, imho, the way to business success. There is such a thing as too much analysis - and there is such a thing as too little analysis.
Also, why doesn't Apple have an app store for Mac software? That would be pretty cool (of course they'd still have to allow people to download/buy the traditional way -- the Mac App Store would be optional)
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I'd says he's got a fair point overall.

There's so much advice and analysis posted here that one wouldn't get any work done if one tries to digest all of it.

It's often better to just go and try something, as experience is the best teacher.
By "easy to stop" you mean "costs so much money (i.e. human effort) as to be even more costly than bad PR", in other words "takes TONS of effort to stop".
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Why is this on HN? What does it really bring to the table except copious amounts of character assassination and snide, not-so-witty bullshit?

Yeah okay, I get it, we don't agree with TC very much, but this is entirely unnecessary, juvenile, and downright unprofessional.

Keep this trash off HN please.
flagged, this is immature and low to personally attack someone like this. even if he makes up stories, maybe you should call him out on the facts instead of attacking him personally.
Now there's an idea, mind if I use it?
I didn't read the article, but the first quote you gave says "feel needs to be done" and the second says "feel comfortable". So, from your excerpts, it appears he's saying something to the effect of "do what needs to be done, even if it feels uncomfortable".
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I was pleasantly surprised when dragging a Youtube link into the drop area worked exactly as I had hoped. The video even downloaded in 1280 x 720. The next time I need a video off Youtube, Evom will be the app I use.
I agree, but it might be a whole new interesting game altogether. Once we get used to the idea of undo, our strategies would become very different.

Chess variants like suicide chess, i did find fairly interesting.
I'm saying that if the auctioneer can assign prices unrelated to the content of bids received, then yes, that is not an auction.

Compare with eBay, a true auction:

Single bid at 5 cents, hidden reserve of $1 (eBay): no sale takes place.

Single bid at 5 cents, hidden reserve of $1 (Google): no sale takes place.

Single bid at 5 cents with maximum bid of $1, hidden reserve of $1 (eBay): no sale takes place.

Single bid at 5 cents with maximum bid of $1, hidden reserve of $1 (Google): sale takes place at $1. (I think almost nobody knows this happens.)

Two bids of 5 cents and $1 (eBay): the bid of $1 wins.

Two bids of 5 cents and $1 (Google): the side who Google says wins, wins, at a price which is somewhere between 0 cents and $1.
The video he posted is particularly germane to HN.
Here we get dozens of posts a day telling us how we should
do things. Mainly, I'm convinced, by people who haven't done
things themselves. Cultivating taste would help a lot of people
here.

But even if they have done things, having done something doesn't
necessarily give you knowledge to pass on to others. Ask any guy
who's really really good with women how he does it. The answer
will probably be "just be yourself" (Unless the answer is "Ferrari".)

Point being, you may not know what you know. Even if you're successful
you may not know what has made you successful. So "just shut up
and do it" isn't horrible advice.
I have no idea where you are pulling these quotes from. I said none of those things.

I said said they could stop it if they wanted to. It might cost a little extra, but it also wouldn't completely screw over a bunch of small developers. Developers who already paid money to Apple and further invested their time and money into making an application.

Based of how prevalent iPhone app rejections are, you would think the least Apple could do would be to release a comprehensive list of things they do not like.

Would it really cost 'TONS' of effort just to create a set of guidelines and stick to them?
So if someone steals a car, then gives you it, it's fine?

(I'm just talking morally, not legally).
And that is why Wired seems to have become Gawker or Valleywag. There used to be some good journalism on Wired in the 1990s. Now it's a geek version of Vanity Fair...
I have seen a few of this types of apps come through the Business of Software forums. Generally, a large portion of the enthusiasm for applications like this seems to be that people want to go to Youtube and download movies for free. These people are, for obvious reasons, not the best people in the world to sell software to.
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All he says here is: "Just do what feels right."

Great companies and great software are built by great (and careful) thinkers - not people who make off-the-cuff decisions based on their emotions.

I think this post gives bad advice.
Freudian slip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znZkxN0Ks0M#t=13m20s

Hope you all have your shorts in and your stops tight.
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Seems like a bit of a fluff piece. I doubt it will change one iota.

Mark Shuttleworth, bizarelly, hits the nail on the head with his blog entry about University generally called "It’s the ability to learn tools, not the tools themselves":
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/28

"I hated economics at university because it epitomised the disposability of old knowledge. The problem was that first-year economics was basically a history lesson disguised as a science lesson. We learned one classical set of ways of looking at the world, and how to apply them to assess an economy. This was a bit like learning science circa 1252 and being told that you need to be able to draw up an alchemical recipe for lead-to-gold conversions that could pass for authentic in that era.

Then in second year they said “luckily, the world has since decided that those ideas are utter crap, you can’t really manage an economy using them, but here’s a new set of ideas about economics”. So we set about learning economics circa 1910, and being expected to reproduce the thinking of the Alan Greenspan’s of that era. The same people who orchestrated 1929-1935 and all the economic joy that brought the world. We knew when we were studying it that the knowledge was obsolete. And of course, when I looked into the things we were supposed to study in third year, fourth year and masters economics programs the pattern repeated itself."

I'm assuming he studied economics in South Africa, it's the same in the UK. I'm guessing it applies in the US too.
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Awesome, most of these look very interesting, especially the one about Ruby integration (erlectricity)
The story seems like a wankfest on American dogoodery. Argentina and the US had similar economies in the early 19th century. End of story. They diverged after that and Argentina handled one disaster after another very poorly. America chose a different path. But, the author seems to have a very different history book than the one I had. The land wasn't free native Americans had lived on the land. But the policy of Manifest Destiny meant they couldn't be included in the developing country, ever. He also conveniently glides over the role the US had in destabilizing Central and South America.

The US economy has been very successful, but make no mistake there is nothing lucky or virtuous about it. If other countries, people, or economies had to be destroyed to further it's goals they were very good at that.
A quick usability thing... your main icon features an iPod, so my immediate thought was that it was something to manage photos/videos on an iPod/iPhone. That doesn't quite match to your app which is web & desktop based.
Me too. It is delivered with great fun, but there is no truth.
You should package it as an installer rather than a ZIP! Didn't get a chance to try it though.
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The point is that you may not do it well the first time -- but by doing it you will gain experience and know how to improve to make your next go a success. You don't need to be a great (and careful) thinker -- you just need to get expertise at the domain you're doing something in .. and you get that expertise by just doing it!
In what ways do you think the internet will continue to disperse and converge?

i think the internet helps refining the art by feedback loop. i learnt a lot reading success/fail experiments results posted in forums. needless to say, i won't be able to make fert without the internet -- so dissemination of idea goes without saying

Which technologies are still out of reach to most people in terms of price or required technological know-how?

law can be bigger hurdle, especially for chemistry. price is not normally the problem since the raw materials are usually very cheap. 100x markup for commercial ready products is common.

What is the optimal size for hackers to be able to effectively collaborate but not be bogged down by excessive control?

hmmm ... one -- if you can automate the whole process without human presence (it's very doable in web 2.0 -- much less so as things go more physical or from bit to atom spectrum)
Not many people bought houses they couldn't afford in the UK. We haven't had huge numbers of repossessions in the UK (fewer than the 1991 recesssion so far). Our banks were more exposed to the american housing market (than europes), and banking is a large part of our economy so we get hit worse when it goes down the tubes.
Ars Technica recently referred to one of the moments that, according to this account, made America what it was.

They draw a parallel with current filesharing lawsuits and point out that in the past the government favoured thieves ('squatters') over the property owners.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/03/copyright-cr...

It's also a minor subplot in the Deadwood TV series.
"The United States remains the world’s default reserve currency, these experts add, and Treasury debt is still considered the world’s safest investment."

When "experts" make statements like this, it becomes clear why we have the problems we do. The world's safest investment...
I should have been clearer. It's not an article for AI-ignorami simply because it doesn't have depth; it is actively misleading.
You need a text input in the app for pasting urls. Should be next to the Open button. Not everyone has screen real estate to have the browser and your app open.

In FF3, highlighting and dragging the URL doesn't work. I have to drag the favicon.

It worked really well on a couple of test porn videos. =)
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"For Mac and Linux users, there’s still no Google Chrome for you."

You can grab the latest nighly build for OS X here: http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/sub-rel-mac/

It works pretty well and the UI is great. However, there are still some features missing, like the ability to delete bookmarks.
You're partly right, he's partly right. You're right in that planning carefully and executing properly are important. He's right in that you do not know what to plan for if you do not test the waters.

I think the best approach is to get started, discover how things work, then plan carefully on how to proceed based on what input you get.
I forgot that last.fm was in the UK. Why would a company in the UK give a rat's ass about some US lobbying group?
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Hopefully they are now developing for Android, Windows Mobile, or Blackberry, which have many more users, but many fewer hoops to jump through for developers.
Good. Tabs still suck. I remember when content from one would bleed into the other and all the other misc problems caused by re-inventing windowing within apps.

It's gotten better, bit by bit. But I still lose web pages in tabs and while Safari has a Window menu that lists each window, it only lists the frontmost tab of each.
Actually, this was one of the main points I took away from that article -- even if you make good financial decisions, your partner can ruin you. Apparently that is true :)