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I have serious doubts that there will be a Windows 9. There will simply be no market for it.

This one statement about Windows 9 speaks volumes as to your viewpoint. This statement is so colossally and obviously incorrect that it actually brings into question your every opinion on this topic.

Here's the thing - Microsoft has been working on Windows 9 since November of 2012. Here's just one citation on that:

http://www.windows9update.com/2012/11/windows-9-development-...

It's been speculated for a while that Windows 9 would be released in 2014. Did you not hear that Microsoft is more rapidly releasing operating systems going forward? In fact I've seen roadmap documents for both Windows 9 and Windows 10 and know that they have R&D departments working on features for both concurrently.

And this brings me to my main point... You know nothing about Microsoft of today. In your entire resume, you list one Microsoft technology - SQL Server. Can you just admit that you're completely ignorant about what they offer today? Your arguments are a mix of 1996 to 2011 rants and product complaints based on things you've heard and not experienced. It's intellectual dishonesty to be so critical of a company and their products when you have not used modern versions of what they offer.

Windows has a 92+% operating system market share as of July of 2013. The next release of Windows is going to be released in the next 12-18 months. So let me ask you - your honest opinion is that Windows market share will go from a virtual monopoly to low enough where Microsoft will just give up on operating systems and not release the next version? I refuse to believe that someone who can log into a computer can actually believe such a ridiculous thing as that.
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> >Win8 is hated/feared more than Vista was.

> True and obvious among techies but not sure about the average joe.

I've actually noticed the opposite. Techies seem to largely think "eh, interesting but I'm not interested" while regular consumers nearly pass out ranting about it. That's my take-away from talking with coworkers/peers, and my extended family.

The sales figures probably bear this out.. it isn't techies avoiding Windows 8 that is causing those poor numbers.
You know what. I read that Bloomberg article multiple times and I've never seen it anywhere else on the Internet. As I googled to make sure I wasn't making a grave error, the term "Azure $1B Revenue" has quite a few hits.

I must gracefully admit my error here. It's possible that they're counting comped time on the system as revenue, but it's much more unlikely if they're using the term revenue in public.

Edit: The only leg I have to stand on is the comment about the cost of software being included in Azure revenue. That's smelly accounting IMHO, but maybe I'm missing a detail.
I'm holding out for the tumblr userbase to protest by marking all their blogs as nsfw, and watching tumblr completely disappear from web searches.
s/posted/replied/ - there fixed that for you.

Even the Dragon Ball wiki mentions the origin of the name: http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Kamehameha. Given that the Japanese often vacation in Hawaii, the connection is not surprising.
> iCloud+Core Data on the other hand allows custom conflict resolution on the clients.

The new APIs in iOS 7 do, but then you lose all the value of "transparent distributed store" and it winds up being a pretty sizable hassle.
Why not just open source the code?
After seeing "Top Gun" ca. 1986, I said to those I went with that Hollywood had forgotten how to make movies. It knew how to make commercials (TG is full of sequences that would fit right into a Navy recruiting commercial) and music videos ("You've lost that loving feeling"), but that was about it. The rest of the movie was negligible, though perhaps I should have added in video games to allow for the fighter-jet stuff.

But was it ever that different? The stuff we still watch is the exception. Hollywood cranked out a hell of a lot of stuff 80 and 70 years ago that nobody but a film studies graduate student could bring himself to sit through. Read for example S.J. Perelman on how the studios worked.

As for "adolescent men coming to grips with who they are", arrested development is one of Hollywood's favorite subjects. I noticed this in watching "Sideways", but would Dean and Brando have ever made their names without it?

[Edit]

On consideration, isn't "adolescent men coming to grips with who they are" a large theme in Western literature? (And I suppose, but can't cite, other literatures also.) The Odyssey kicks off with Athena inspiring Telemachus to independence. Shakespeare's Henry IV plays are all about Prince Hal becoming Henry V. War and Peace follows three men from adolescence to maturity, and one of them, Prince Andrei, to a couple of levels. And I think one could find examples of literature following adolescent women through.
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By your line of argument, tumblr doesn't owe any user anything.
STFU idiots. Who cares!
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Thanks. My next post is on the "Joy of Being Small". Most people have goals to get HUGE, but there's huge freedom in doing your startup as a "second job", and keeping it small. ;-)
I have read this book 3x and it has always been a favorite.

The thing is, as soon as you read this book, you'll recognize the formula in most movies you watch, including movies that came out before the book and especially family + rom-com movies.

Personally, I doubt the book is responsible. It just heightened awareness. After all, Hollywood rarely likes to take risks. If a formula works, they're going to green light such projects.
You can create a key/node with Read-Only permissions. Also when something gets deleted it goes to the .SyncTrash folder but keep in mind it doesn't take into account file corruption.
AFAIK, you can sync over LAN with Dropbox for a while now.
i thought it was funny.
fog doesn't seem to be a CLI. Tugboat (by Jack Pearkes) is a very good CLI for managing DigitalOcean services.
>for instance: we have medicine! but we only value it because we fear death, etc.

I could understand that argument when considering prolonging of life when you're already really old and pretty much falling apart, but for completely preventable deaths?

I remember reading somewhere that a cult of death is considered a pretty universal value.
If you're in the US and your data passes through a pipe outside of the country, to say go to an email server, they nab it too. It has to be encrypted locally to be secure.
Because they're banned from doing so.
Whilst I can't condone the sending off passwords over in plain text, if done at the registration stage it doesn't necessarily mean that they're being stored as plain text.
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steven-spielberg-predi...

From the article:
"...half dozen or so $250 million movies flop at the box office and alter the industry forever. What comes next -- or even before then -- will be price variances at movie theaters, where "you're gonna have to pay $25 for the next Iron Man, you're probably only going to have to pay $7 to see Lincoln."
Microsoft got extremely rich thanks to Windows and Office. Windows and Office was pretty much all to profit from back then. It was the whole of it pretty much, they stagnated web browsers with IE6.0 after putting Netscape out of business. Microsoft thrived by being able to control the whole industry.

Windows and Office is not the whole story today.
What's your marketing like? Have you tried approaching relevant blogs like Popehat for a mention? Or trying to get in contact with places where startups congregate, like YC? Or asking if EFF or others who oppose patents for ideological reasons would be willing to give you publicity, advice, or referrals? Heck, a Show HN post might get you some publicity and feedback.

Also, the website is a little unclear about what exactly customers are buying. "Search for prior art" -- it sounds like you're charging people $10k to copy-paste the sentences from their product's specs one-by-one into Google. What exactly are your customers paying for? It's not clear on your website.

Remember, you probably have a decent understanding of patent law if you have a JD, but your customers don't. Your target audience is (I'm guessing) similar to much of HN -- intelligent hackers who have a good business sense but little formal training in law or business. Hackers'll want to know the "how" and "why" of what they're buying, but your explanations don't explain legal jargon like "examining applications," "prior art search," or "ex parte".

Also, I would suggest offering services on contingency-fee basis -- you only get paid if you actually bust one or more patents at least dimly related to your customer's business, or produce some other sort of tangible result for the customer. To make this financially viable for you, you may need to substantially increase your fee for contingency clients, and have cash reserves in case you lose multiple re-examinations in a row.

Also it'd be nice to show patents you've busted. If you don't have any yet, you might consider looking for easy patents to target, and self-funding a re-examination of them, or (if you don't have the money or it's against the rules for a lawyer to bring such a case on their own initiative) approaching the EFF or somebody to ask if they'll fund you.
> Try google search autocompletion of "google apps vs" and the first result is office 365.

"electric refrigerator vs." will get you autocompletes about propane refrigerators. This shouldn't be taken as evidence that propane refrigerators are taking off... propane refrigerators are merely the only sensible thing that could be compared to electric refrigerators. They are the only competitor of note, as uncommon as they are.

Or to put it more directly, what could "google apps vs" possibly autocomplete to other than Office 365 stuff? It is the only logical autocomplete.
Try a fixed amount per week with milestone bonuses. An agreed hourly rate for ad hoc work and changes wouldn't hurt either.
I'll be sharing this article with every person who comes to me with a "great app idea" because "that's where the money is".

This is a great tale of the hard work and perseverance required to launch a game as a solo dev - and I would call it a success. "New car money", though, is not the success so many devs (and would be devs) seem to think comes easily.
The article explicitly states NSFW blogs are still searchable.
In 1683, Prince Eugene of Savoy applied to Louis XIV for a commission in the French army. Louis XIV turned him down flat; whether as not a team player or just as ugly, unprepossessing, etc. I don't know. Prince Eugene turned to Vienna, and spend the beginning of the 1700s winning campaigns and battles against the French marshals, often in cooperation with John Churchill, eventually Duke of Marlborough.

Wikipedia has the dates etc.
Have you considered tying your project in with the Racket folks. Matthies Felleisen (The Little Schemer) and that community have a considerable history in designing teaching languages, and Racket has substantial tools for developing languages tailored for learning, e.g. friendly error messages. It also has done a lot of heavy lifting for graphics, webserving and html.

It looks like Isla might slot in to the front end of the spectrum before BSL (Beginning Student Language).

Their middle school resources are here: http://racket-lang.org/learning.html

The technical reports linked from the page might also provide some background in the design of teaching languages.
Well, it seems it was a glitch + some misinformation (not helped by the said glitch), but I already see two problems with that :

1) As with Facebook, people who will hate it will still hang on because a lot of existing content they've subscribed/favorited/bookmarked etc...

2) Getting the Tumblr userbase to do anything other than whine is like herding cats into dancing Gangnam Style (I mean real cats, not Psy with superimposed kitty faces).

If you're unhappy with whatever they're doing, a better option (IMO)would be to complain even louder until Tumbler actually changes things. Unlike FB, which is pretty deaf to complaints to begin with and is run by Satan-lite (Zuckerberg), Tumblr was only recently acquired and Yahoo investors don't want to sink the boat.
For the record, the ASA in "Opera Software ASA" is short for Allmennaksjeselskap, the Norwegian term for a public limited company.
Notes on screenplay structures by Reddit's CEO Yishan Wong

http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/things-i-learned-from-my-wifes...

Vladimir Propp was the original pioneer of narrative structures, published the foundational research on fairytale sequences in 1928 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Propp
"Silicon Beach" is here to stay as LA’s startup scene matures
You have to have misworded something here.

Edited to add:

On reflection, I think you may be confusing morality and legality. It is true that you cannot derive morality without some starting point. However, once you have picked what you value, it does not follow that legality should match it precisely. Legality should be such that it optimally produces the most moral (and best by any other criteria, ideally) outcomes.
The "Four Eyes", are USA, Canada, Australia, and England, and are all part of the PRISM program.
Finally, was waiting for another vim vs emacs bout. Bring it on boys.
Note that all of those positions are also approved by the legislative branch through Senate confirmations. The only unique position is the Director of the FBI which holds a 10 year appointment.
There have been monk seal killings on Kauai and Molokai, but I'm not aware of any on Niihau recently.
They probably don't.
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> Maybe one day we'll find a virus-type replicator that also contains ribosomes - and what then?

Mimivirus, another giant virus, has its own gene for an amino-acyl t-RNA synthase, an enzyme that loads an amino acid onto a transfer RNA to be used in making proteins. That's awfully close to a ribosome component.
This makes no sense. Has there ever been a summit at a time when each side did not host a number of defectors from the other? (Not that I count Snowden as a defector in the sense that Philby or Blake was.) Diplomacy would be impossible if states dealt only with states they weren't spying on. Though really, I suppose, summits are more about publicity than about diplomacy.
This is why I love having FB messages delivered via email. I get to read the content without triggering the read receipt, letting me reply that night or the next morning without possibly offending the sender.

The downside is that recently Facebook's emails have been sporadic. Sometimes I get them at the same time as the actual message, sometimes I get a digest form sometimes I get nothing.
> BTSync also does built in versioning which solves the backup issue.

So for example, if a person was working on a thesis document and then accidentally overwrote that with a blank version which gets synced across all the nodes, it would be possible to reverse this action and recover the original thesis document ?
I suspect these days you could achieve something similar using a set of projectors without the heavy weight, large size, and unpleasant power requirements. This kind of technology does seem to be available, but for specialised/high-end applications rather than effective desktop use.

That's really too bad, because if someone did make a good quality display with a physically large viewing area, high ppi, and a gentle curve so it wasn't distorted in the corners, I'd buy it at almost any price. After a bit of experimentation, I estimate that my productivity increases about linearly with the number of large, high-res monitors on my desk up to as many as I've ever been able to try. Unfortunately, the amount of neck pain/stiffness I get also seems to go up rather sharply after a few days if I'm using anything other than one central, ergonomically-positioned display.
You know. I looked at the comment history expecting trite anarchism.

It didn't come off as trite to me (or very anarchic).

I'm gonna have to disagree with you here in general, but the parent post was trite. Yes it was.
If they had said "Windows/Office and nothing else" imagine how much they would be getting slated on HN?

Like if Apple announced an "iPhone and nothing else" strategy.

Companies with billions of dollars in the bank are in the best position to do risky R&D projects and the rest of the industry is better because of it.
What does "owing" have to do with anything?

Microsoft doesn't "owe" you a start bar. If your mother complained about it missing in the initial Windows 8 release would you tell her "So what? nobody owes you a start bar."?

Would you tell people in the 80s "So what? nobody owes you classic Coca-Cola."?
It has neither a membrane nor cytoplasm.
I'm curious about the legal status of this land that was acquired prior to Hawaii even being a state. Are the native inhabitants considered US citizens? Does the Sinclair family have to pay property taxes on this land? I would think not. It's kinda of cool to imagine truly owning land that no one else can lay claim to, even historically.

EDIT:
The native inhabitants may have originally claimed the land but does any government claim jurisdiction over it?
Its more about the launch of their airspace app store.
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Maybe we should set up a tradition of patent-busting bounties.

Some third-party trust or nonprofit or somesuch, so you no longer have control of the money and the patent troll can't force you to give the money to them to pay a judgment against you. 2% - 10% of your contribution can be used for their general expenses, the other 90% - 98% can only be given to a party who gets a specific patent invalidated, which you specify when you donate.

So when the troll tells you that Patent #1234567 is being infringed by your company and you need to pay $100k a year or they'll sue you, you can roll over if it's your own best decision from a risk/reward perspective -- but you can also make a one-time donation of $100k, or whatever you can afford, to the '567 bounty pool.

The troll extorts ten companies, suddenly there's a million-dollar reward for somebody to take them out, and it changes the risk-reward equation for the companies and lawyers involved (especially if companies are investor-backed and aren't the sole source of income for the majority of their owners.)

I suggested this a while ago [1] and it got a lot of upvotes.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5126551
OT, but I'd love your thoughts as an island lover. Which do you consider to be the world's largest island?

(I've always said Australia, but it seems many people exclude it and go with Greenland.)
It makes sense if you think about it. If Party A sues Party B and wins, the federal government is the ultimate top-level "enforcer" who makes sure that B pays up. Now, let's say that party B is the federal government. They get told to pay up, and say "no". What are you going to do about it? Appeal to a higher authority?
The linked paper about n^O(log n) discrete logarithms is nightmare material. Even more so that it didn't seem to reach (my selection of) mainstream news.
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That history is pretty unsatisfying when it first quotes Holmes, presumably a century or so after the constitution was ratified. So next I looked at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity_in_the_Unite... and it cites a case from 1983. This makes me at least wonder at the idea it derives directly from English law at the founding of the U.S.; "you can't sue the King" does not obviously transfer right over in the atmosphere of the time.

ianal or historian.
I know a person who has several games consistently in the top 10. And, him and his team also started out as 'hobbist' game devs. To me, it seemed like they took several years of taking risks, perseverance, dedication, creativity, trial and error, and of course luck to make it big. But, eventually, a blockbuster emerged.
A few more details about Ni'ihau that were left out of the article.

- There was actually one other landowner, a native Hawaiian couple that the Robinsons had to buy out to own the entire island. The story goes that they didn't want to sell, but one of the Robinsons kept placing gold coins on a table until they gave in.

- The Hawaiian that is still spoken on Ni'ihau is probably very similar to the one spoken there from the time of Western contact (James Cook in 1778[*]). However, it is a slightly different dialect than that spoken on the other islands that has become "modern" Hawaiian language.

- The article briefly mentions the Japanese aviator who crashed on Ni'ihau after bombing Pearl Harbor. Some say this small side-story to WW2 had some sigificant impact on the decision to intern the Japanese on the US mainland during the war: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niihau_Incident

- There is no electricity on the island, but the department of education has installed a solar PV system to run computers and refrigerators at the school. I imagine that other houses may be replacing kerosene lighting with solar PV as well now that prices have come down.

- I do not think they have landlines or cell-phones, but I think there is a radio for emergencies.

- I think the Helicopter tour runs about $300-$350, someday I may try it.
I started a side project last year that has over 1K users – now what?
A year or two ago I created a very similar language [1] in collaboration with my kids, then aged 8 and 10. They had a lot of fun writing their own stories and "telling computers what to do". The oldest has since moved on to writing her own HTML and CSS. Hoping to keep the fire alive.

A few more ideas that I never got around to, feel free to take or leave them:

* A simple tool to draw characters. My kids liked Google drawings more than Paint. They didn't mind (at first) that the drawings weren't animated.

* Sharing stories with family and friends

* Drawing backgrounds, moving between scenes, animation editor.

* They liked the idea of writing a story, but very quickly wanted to build a game. An animation editor could introduce looping. Collisions could introduce conditional actions, etc.

Good luck. It's a lot of fun.

[1]: http://kevinbeaty.net/projects/storyturtle/
Is it making money? If not think about monetizing it.

If it is making you money, then see how you can use that money to get more users and more revenue.
Which is a great reason for developers to say "screw Apple" and develop exclusively for Android.

I don't get why so many developers care so much about iOS.
Yes. HN, please keep the discussion going strong. So glad to see the NSA's surveillance hasn't died off the front page.
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What kind of legal recourse does the UN have?

Somewhere in the constitution you can infer that dismantling and reassembling a government that doesn't serve the people is SOP.
I'm going to try to attend my congresswoman's town hall next Thursday to ask questions about NSA surveillance. What "Smart" questions would you recommend that I ask?
No, the court of sound reason is.
Apple teams are much smaller than is often assumed.
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"There, to my knowledge, have never been codified protections for journalists -- just standards."

I didn't believe this so I decided to take to Google...turns out there doesn't appear to be any formal laws. There is section 8 of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (http://www.iachr.org/declaration.htm) but that means nothing.
Because it's a great market
It seems like this would be a reason to release more high-quality work rather than fewer excellent quality work. Although perhaps the excellent work would stand out more.
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