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> Whatever floats your pompous self-righteous boat.

> I may be curt, strident, and critical, but you don't really have high ground when it comes to condescension. You went straight to childish insults. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6679901

Not me. Try again.
This reminded me a case in Malaysia, were local devs were trying to get fastest public transport traveling problem solved on mobile app, but they couldn't get bus schedules even on the end points of the routes as it is "confidential information". Literally no one except probably bus drivers or daily travelers would know when the bus leaves/arrives, personally I failed to find a single timetable myself, so usually you just stand there for 30-60 minutes waiting for the next bus to arrive. Coming from Lithuania it was big challenge to understand such as mindset and business logic as here you can snap QR code in bus stop and see real time traffic information that actually encourages you to hop on the public transport.

Eventually USPS will have to share all that information or someone will come up with alternative to ZIP code numbering that is constant and public...
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http://www.geonames.org/ has free geo data that includes zip codes.
This still puts you at greater risk of exposure than creating a Gmail account through an anonymizing proxy.

I note that you've specifically gone to the most extreme case of the state looking to track you rather than some other private entity. The NSA/FBI looking at camera footage at the point of purchase for a cash card is just as likely as the NSA de-anonymizing your proxy (well probably less likely given what the NSA has been up to). However, for private databases nobody is going to make those efforts. But what they will do (and do all the time) is cross-reference web activity to minimize anonymity and increasing "targeting."

Advertising is an inextricable part of the global economy. It would take a revolution to change that.

That's circular. My point is that the industry's overwhelming movement toward advertising as a payment system starved out the development of alternative payment systems, micropayments, e-cash, etc. Hell, paypal could be so much more privacy preserving simply by not disclosing your email to the seller but they don't make that trivial effort because they have no competition.

I think this is deeply wrong and I wouldn't be working for Google if I thought we were heading in this direction.

If you think I am specifically talking about Google, you are mistaken. Go install Ghostery and watch how simply visiting a web page like The Verge gets you into the databases of at least 7 different trackers other than Google. If Mike Hearn was arguing that google should have a monopoly on advertising because google currently doesn't deliberately share its secret stash with anyone, then that opens up a whole different line of disagreement.
http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/04/just-like-one-week-ago-wh...

"Google's Motorola Mobility, which prefers litigation even though it's a grossly unsuccessful strategy for Google "

and

http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/04/setback-for-google-german...
I'm not a constitutional scholar, whatever that even means, but I've always wondered why the authority "To establish Post Offices and Post Roads" is interpreted as the authority to forcefully implement a monopoly on postal service (now, just a near-monopoly on first-class mail).
No, there is a full DCT decoder in ORBX.js, the encoder is built into the Amazon AMI, and can use CPU or GPU for encoding (the GPU encoder is pure OpenCL - so one day ORBX.js could support encoding in the browser through WebCL). If you send raw data down to the browser, you would need a 1 GB connection . We are targeting 4G/LTE speeds at 8-12 Mbps for HD @ 60 hz, with support going to 1-3 Mbps for 1024x768 @ 30- 60 hz..
> Scrolling seems very laggy when scrolling with the mouse wheel, although dragging with the scrollbar seems fine. This only seems to be happening in the Popular (Now), view. This is under 10.9.

OK, we'll check it out.

> When I favorite songs, they don't show up in the favorite section although they did after relaunching the app.

The app doesn't auto-update favorites yet. For now you can manually update via pull-to-refresh.

> It would be nice if when you moused over a song in the list if it scrolled the full song name into view - at the moment they get cut off and you can't see the full name.

Agreed, we're working on this one.

> The song list scrollbar on the right is obscured by the controller at the bottom. I like what you've done with having the songs scroll underneath the slightly transparent controller but the scrollbar should really end where the controller starts.

Good point, i'll have to look into that.

> I don't seem to be getting notifications from the app even though it's listed in the Notifications app list under the Notifications section of System Preferences.

If the app is out of focus you should get a notification popup. We don't store notifications in notification center though, since it doesn't seem useful to keep a history.

Thanks for the feedback. Hit us up @plugformac if you want to get in contact with us in the future.
I don't know. What do you think they would've done to suppress dissenting political opinion?

Which is where this whole conversation goes to hell - the trailed off sentences where people assume they actually have a clue what dangers they're talking about.

Because if your problem is "oh, someone might find out about someone's mistress and tell the media..." well - the problem begins and ends with the fact that their voters turn out not to be ok with that. But they're still voters who's votes matter.
Maybe in Mexico they do this. Here there are investors who buy up a dozen houses through shell corps and hire one grower who sets everything up, and is paid a lot of money. The grower then hires people to maintain and protect the grow usually for pretty good money as well. http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/3268.html
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So who's going to write bug reports for HTML5? Heh, just kidding. There's no such thing.
Generally the allegation is that there are two groups who want the post office privatized:

1. Hard-line libertarians who argue that, since a post office is neither a national defense nor a means of enforcing contracts, it is beyond the scope of government and thus doomed to fail so long as it is run by government, and

2. Private entities who compete with the post office on package delivery, and would like to see that competition reduced by demonstrating how much more "efficient" (i.e., profitable) they are than a government-run delivery service.
They are, in fact, a government agency. Government agencies that are funded entirely through user fees -- which is what postage is -- aren't entirely uncommon. (Of course, given the way that it is funded in part by "loans" from the Treasury that are made without any indication that the Postal Service will ever have a business plan that enables them to be repaid, its kind of questionable to even put the Postal Service in the category of purely user-fee funded government agencies. Its really just a plain old regular tax-and-user-fee-funded government that has been cloaked in some misleading smoke-and-mirrors.)
Robot Rock was like an anthem in the early days of facebook, or so I've heard.
This isn't strictly true. I work in education and for a large part of our state the network and operating environment is managed by the education department, but services are largely left up to schools. This means we're left with IE9 as the default web browser but lots of students use Google Docs for their work (not to mention staff). I know other states look at or are using Docs across the board.
Oh, you mean like all the apps of Facebook that (the users) just get "Accept" clicked so you can share your Cookieland Adventure scores with everyone that doesn't care.

(If there's a real app named Cookieland Adventure, I'm sure it's awesome, this was just a made up example, if you, your spouse or someone you vaguely remember talking to works on a Cookieland Adventure game for FB, I am sorry to associate your app with the scum of the earth)
Yep, time after time I carefully plot out a short and don't have the balls to go through with it. I've lost millions on paper at this point. :) Sigh. :(
Except you know, in that case the person actually did have classified documents of an allied nation on a thumbdrive on them.

Which you know - is still illegal to have. Though it's funny how the Guardian thoroughly underreported that fact.
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Ah, by "on the road" I meant out and about, not specifically on the street. By "cycling infrastructure" I meant separated bike paths and lanes.
Any metrics you can share about the team size, any esoteric skill sets found to be crucial, or overall cost? Some sense for those who wonder "what would it take to create or recreate something like this?"
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Microsoft's divisions (most notably Xbox) have always had a huge dilemma: Do we act in a way that's best for our division, or do we maximize value for MSFT. From my time at Xbox, I can say with certainty that the implied actions for each choice are often not the same.
Sorry, but lower your pricing on the 2nd and 3rd tiers by at least half and I'll consider the purchase.

Too bad the pricing is nuts, because this looks like an excellent resource. But there are comparable quality resources available all over for much less or free.
Is there someone out there maintaining a list of the various databases and the use cases for each?
I'm reminded of a scene from The Assignment, where two characters are arguing at an official function:

- How about "fuck you, pal"?

- I'd believe it, if it was louder.

In other news, I'm a bit sick of public figures coming out against the War on Drugs after their careers are functionally over.
If politicians understood basic economics, ACA website wouldn't be a problem
Seems like a good opportunity for someone to buy the blockbuster brand on the cheap and re-build the company from the ground up as a video streaming platform. Of course there's a lot of competition in that arena but maybe amazon or someone else could utilize the brand?
Like button? Thanks to Facebook, 'like' usually means 'share' now days. You don't always want to share things, or at least I don't.
>If running a postal service that reaches all of the country is a money losing proposition, that's a terrible reason to privatize it, if you think it's in the national benefit to have a postal service.

Your analysis assumes the public implementation is equivalent with a private one.

The reality is that without the enforced monopoly of the USPS and the Congress to protect it, a private business would be profitable.

They'd also charge more to achieve it.

But that's Capitalism, and by all means mail is most likely artificially priced far below what the market would naturally support.
The fiber doesn't run straight into a Google datacenter. It's operated and managed by the company which lays the cable under the sea, which means it goes through their stations at the coast and probably through quite a bit of other non-exclusive routing hardware.

The fact that routing hardware exists means you can pretty easily tap it.
It's always been a mix of public/private since Benjamin Franklin won the contract to deliver mail between the colonies. Perhaps more public than private but the USPS history is fascinatingly complex.
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Seems low looking at other values here in the thread, exactly what I'd expect.
An $18 billion valuation for a company with dramatically accelerating losses, currently at the rate of over $20M per month. What could possibly go wrong there?
I've been using your app a little bit since I saw it mentioned on HN. Really well done. It's simple, intuitive, and gets out of the way as soon as I'm done using it. Thanks.
Have you tried using google news api to find articles in your market? You can turk out compiling a authors contact list and prepare a press release package for the few hundred writers to publish. Some will not respond but some my write for established sources or even many. This will help get attention and increase your ranking.
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I hate to put a negative comment, but hey, bad reviews travel 10x faster than good ones for a reason, right? Did anyone else get the chat model pop up baiting me into reading another article? Completely pulled me out of the engaged reading of the article. Poor form. I exited the window and don't believe I'll be going back to the site. </rant>
Call of Duty: Ghosts ships over $1 billion at stores worldwide as of day one
The one glaring problem with anonymous purchasing of items is assassinations / hits that people seem to be hired for through it. There are other bad things too. Society could become a very fucked up place - even more so than now as people gain trust for that system.
I understand that the post is more about the USPS holding onto something seemingly trivial. Kinda like when we tell google to block out certain places of security. But we already have so many ways to get around it, like going there and taking a picture, or renting a plane, who knows. Or the Streisand Effect kicks in and everything is a mess.

At any rate, I have had to do a lot with zip codes in the past, long before anything like an API was a common term let alone something every company was happy to let you hook into and use their services. Heck, this was back when it costs a few grand to take CC's on a website and had to deal with that awful Authorienet API. That used to be thought of as crazy talk. Now we have amazing stuff like this: http://www.geonames.org
Nice! Great to read your experience from creating a product to launching it. Also glad to win over another developer to not thinking that all marketing is BS ;-)

Some tips from a marketer:

+Get analytics set up! I see that you've only mentioned the top of the funnel (traffic) and the bottom of the funnel (downloads). I'm assuming you don't have tracking for the full flow (traffic > install > activation > day 1-30 retention > Sales). Get this set up pronto. It's crucial to understand where the bottlenecks are and to also segment traffic to know which efforts are working.

+Marketing starts before you launch. You'll get a far stronger reaction from blogs, sites, and other people when you contact them 2-3 weeks before launch. Creates a sense of exclusivity and plus gives you some momentum to develop an installed base from Day 1. In light of this, perhaps you should call the current app an 'alpha' and re-launch to get some buzz :-)

+Major sources for you to consider:
Organic: SEO
Referral: Blogs, 3rd Party App Stores, Tech Sites, Forums, Quora, Stack Overflow, and where ever people who have the problem you're trying to solve is asking for help.
Partner: App stores, resellers, etc...
Paid: Facebook, AdWords, LinkedIn, GDN (I advise you to do thorough research before starting. It's easy to launch poorly designed campaigns and get the misinformed idea that these channels don't work)
Viral: Add any social sharing anywhere you can.

+App Review sites review 100s of requests each day. I ran FreeiPadApps.net for 2-years and received 20+ app review requests/day. Mostly from indie developers, agencies, and bots. Try instead to reach out directly to an editor or writer by email/twitter/linkedin.

+SEO: Get up to best practice (title tags, headings, kw research and mapping to content), but don't bank on it. The gold rush for SEO growth circa 2007 is largely over :-(

+Look heavily into any type of 3rd party app stores for free promotion.

+Not sure of JIRA/Github has any 3rd party app pages. Worthwhile to look into this and seeing if you can get included.

With all that said, doing everything above will get you on par with what everyone else is doing. To separate yourself from the pack, the awesomeness of the product needs to take over :-)

Best of luck!
> Congress cut its taxpayer funding, and directed it to run itself like a business, not like a public service.

Not really. Congress forced the PO to run itself like no other business or government entity with the goal of ruining it. The 109th Congress wanted to promote the belief government can't do anything efficiently. It was called the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act and intentionally places huge burdens on the USPS which no other business has. Without those, estimates show the PO would still be hurting, but no where near its current state. So Bush can say "Mission Accomplished" about one thing and be right about it.
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It's not Google:

http://googlesystem.blogspot.ca/p/about-google-operating-sys...
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I don't give 2 shits about the drivers that pay enough attention to see what I'm wearing. I care about the drivers not even looking.
It's very clearly rape by that definition. It's sexual assault.
While I agree with you in principal, your comment sounds a lot like the "no true scotsman" fallacy, which could be a source of the downvotes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
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Yay! A mixture of political ideology ("socialism", "socialist", and "socialistic" are used 14 times in the post) and Econ-101-simplified-assumptions-means-that's-actually-the-way-things-work-in-real-complex-situations ranting against the broad policy of Obamacare (and nothing, contrary to the headline here -- which is not the source headline, but presumably something made up just to draw attention from the HN audience -- to do with the ACA website as such.)
Valued the same as Tesla. Is there anyone here who would rather own Twitter instead of Tesla five years from now?
Why not have this cover more of the body? E.g. a vest or something?
100Gbps is nothing for a company at the scale of Google. They are probably closer to 10-100Tb/s on there backbones.

You don't need appliances here as they can't handle the load, build the encryption into your application.
I was thinking about this same thing recently when I had to do a change of address. It seems like there is a lot of room for innovation around postal mail. I think 80% of the mail I get should be send electronically. If there was a pointer, like you're talking about, you could opt-in to electronic only delivery of mail, and the sender of the mail could then electronically deliver the message straight to the recipient. This would be convenient for both sides of the transaction.
A few notes... Marketing for large enterprises is a different challenge than promoting a product on your own, so insights from working at SUN might not translate into street level marketing.

1) marketing is not sales - This is absolutely incorrect. Marketing is any communication that touches a prospect or customer. Copywriting is salesmanship in print. Sales is absolutely a key ingredient of marketing!

2) Marketing is about perception - Partially true... Branding is about perception, marketing is about much more than just perception.

3)Marketing is Ubiquitous - This time you got it right!!! Marketing is influencing every possible touchpoint with consumers.
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If you have to ask, then you're probably better off rolling your own service with S3. Amazon's not going away anytime soon.
I for one will thank you for your admittance that marketing a product or service to a prospective target audience is indeed hard, and for along time here on HN, many would say oh your just the marketing guy what do you have to offer or bring to the table if it's not marketing and programming then why do I need you on the team? I'm just glad that both sides of the table are seeing that we should all work cohesively to our strengths to reach the end goal of a particular project or startup.
It really baffles me why the share price is reported as if it means anything at all on its own.
That description is pretty accurate. 58% of the market is using Internet Explorer currently. Of Internet Explorer users, the breakdown by version is:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11.0: 2.57%

Microsoft Internet Explorer 10.0: 32.63%

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0 : 16.34%

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 : 37.48%

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 : 2.26%

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 : 8.49%

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 : 0.23%

(Source: NetMarketShare. Note that this is global so skewed a bit by all the pirated copies of Windows XP in China, etc)

IE is a bit of a mess browser-wise because we've nearly always had a ton of users not on the latest version. The reason? IE doesn't automatically update to a later version. Every other browser on Windows and Linux does. The only other exception is Safari on Mac OS X, which has specific versions artificially pegged to the OS like IE is with Windows. That's why we have 38% of IE users on an outdated browser like IE8 and 8.5% on IE6. Like IE8, IE9 is lacking in many important areas that users of Firefox, Google Chrome, etc don't need to worry about. IE9 lacks several CSS3 tags that have been supported for a while by Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. IE9 lacks columns support, animation support, transform, and transition support. IE10 and IE11 properly support it.

In short, Google can keep making Google Apps better by dropping support for dead browsers like IE9. I mean dead as in they're not being developed further. They're stuck with broken or non-existent CSS3 support. And, as pointed out by others, the type of organization that's going to try out Google Apps as a MS Office replacement, isn't the type of organization that's going to be stuck on IE8/9.
The benefits would be that you could query them using full ANSI SQL and could join them with other data sources such as Hive. One of the benefits of Presto's connector architecture is that it allows queries across multiple disparate data sources (after the someone writes the connectors).
Being deceitful about something that a reasonable person could construe as relevant to the value of the corporation in a public document could be a crime. Stockholders have rights.

I think a case can be made that public perceptions about how effectively Apple protects customer data is relevant to the company's perceived value to its customers, and therefore to its stockholders.

There is an interesting question here about whether a judge could order someone to commit a crime. Would he have the balls to put that in writing?

Can the CEO simply refuse to publish his quarterly results because he cannot certify it is accurate and complete under SOX? Sorry, SEC. Go talk to the secret judge.
Exactly. Try delivering your own mail through mailboxes and mail slots and see what happens.
http://gettingstartedwithdjango.com/

Doing the first 2 lessons will not only get your a vagrant powered VM up and running, it will also give you a good feel for normal use. And you'll also be learning Django.
I believe Dish network bought blockbuster because of their contracts of getting movies earlier in order to use it on their own Dish Network On Demand service.

On the other hand, Blockbuster is a tarnished brand name IMO due to the way they treated customers.
Personally, I would shy away from both of them. If you really want to be in one of these companies, at least Facebook has earnings and scale. I've never liked twitter and get no value out of it, so perhaps I'm the wrong guy to ask, but I suspect Twitter is headed the way of MySpace.
Did anyone else have their display get corrupted by opening this site, opening Chrome dev tools, and closing chrome dev tools? My screen started putting up random squares of color and other artifacts and I lost keyboard control.
Businesses aren't subject to FOIAs. If they're a business, why did they even respond? Given that they have responded, they are not a private business (of course). The USPS response here is shameful and we (Americans) should change it!