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If anything you should thank them for forcing on you the very measures that might have saved your business.

But of course, conspiracy theories and big companies being unfair against the nineteny-nine-percent, are all much more newsworthy than reality.

Hence goes my last post on HN. I'll come back when - if - reason someday prevails over sensationalism.

Then, maybe the correct course of action for the EFF would be to work on improving the warrant system, rather than working on keeping alleged drug-dealing, unlicensed gun owners, illegal immigrants out of legal trouble?

<sarcasm>Wow. Save (an alledged) drug trafficker from incriminating himself in plain view. They really did the public a huge favour here. </sarcasm>

As much as I support the rule of law, there's no way I can interpret that as benefiting mankind in any way.

> That's why I claim that online revocation checking is useless - because it doesn't stop attacks.

Doesn't mean there are "no" cases where it works. It just means any attacker dedicated enough can work around the CRLs.

I don't see any reason why one should throw the baby with the water. In this case, I just see Chrome guilty of FUD and hiding behind an intractable problem to justify their incorrect position.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals'_Problem if you want to convince yourself the problem is intractable.

Been there 20 years ago. Almost dropped out of CS on my last year, average dropped from 3.8 to 1.5 at the time.

Your mentor has my vote. Drop out, rebuild yourself first and foremost. You have successfully learned to work, but you haven't learned to live. Your work has become an obstacle, so no'w the time to relearn to live, love and laugh. Then you can think of working and building on what you know.

Good luck mate.

Well... nobody can say the title is misleading.

I'd bet on 3) Levine isn't interested in just "more of the same", and his mission (Irrational's) is to create. I'm sure someone else can license the names and characters if what they want is "more of the same".

Best of luck to the new team, looking forward to awesome stuff...

> What if the movie came with the full set of trailers (preview, theatrical, etc.) [...] could even throw in an entirely different ending for the movie [...]

Awesome idea! Throw this in a locked device with some kind of DRM to make sure our viewer has a fully immersive uniform experience, and I'm ready to throw my life savings at it.

(Apologies for that, I couldn't resist pointing out to you where that train of thought has taken the market. ;) )

...which is precisely what is meant when one says "there's no market for this". At this point, content owners have the choice of either being permissive, or clamping down on the community using IP laws.

Beyond that simple statement, I'd agree with Jason. My first impression upon reading their webpage was "why?" Scrolling through I didn't find an answer. No differentiator in apps, function, power, memory or price.

I've often been wrong when I wondered that about a product, for this once I genuinely would like to know if there's an answer to the question. Why a new phone called Jolla?

> interception of a “large number” of calls placed from Washington when a programming error confused U.S. area code 202 for 20, the international dialing code for Egypt, according to a “quality assurance” review

Oh please give me a break. This is the worse they could come up with, a typographical error that produced large swaths of unusable data for analysts? Seems like a normal part of any computer systems: a typo will cause unintended consequences.

Sensationalist reporting and blatant exploitation of minor plot twist shouldn't make it to any serious news outlet, let alone HN. Let's keep it serious guys.

Because life is hard. You might think yourself part of an advanced civilization, but the moment you step out of society, you live in a jungle.

"No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

Illness will come, hardship will come, childbirth will come. Anything you won't be able to handle by yourself, by cause of weakness, incompetence or lack of resources, you will need the support of others to get through it. That support will be available if you're a well-integrated part of society.

I was lucky enough to know illness early in my career. I've been thought by this that I can't cut myself off from society, I can't go very far from hospitals without risking my life.

You are not a servant. You are part of a society, of which you need the services to get anywhere past your 40's. Serving others makes you worth being served.

Sad post IMO, which will unfortunately and unduly tarnish Microsoft's reputation. I would suppose it was written by a developer who has just become senior enough to see some of what's going on, but has not yet realized it's everywhere like that. One day, he'll understand that those challenges too need to be managed.

Growing pains, all around.

In principle you'd be right, although Google/Youtube have never(?) made any promise about data retention. I've started to notice a number of older inactive links (say 5-10 years) have become stale, so I'd suspect they started to clean-up their database on that side.

I could say the same about being enamoured with Google's "Don't be evil" motto to the point as to disregard general management... and accusing me of being childish for recording predictions publically. But hey... if we can't have an adult debate on this entreprenerial forum, you might be right when you say it "doesn't say much about us as a community".

So, coming back to the topic at hand, no this is not "clearly of benefit to the user". If I want my succession to be handled properly, I'll take care of it myself. There's nothing good about breaking a promise they made when they opened the service; that's called bait-and-switch. And breaking promises, to me, is a cardinal sin.

Have they made it the default? I don't know. Will they? I know even less. Neither do you. So please, stay civil if you're going to defend them.

GMail, 2004: "keep giving people more space forever", in stark contrast to Hotmail and all other providers who delete your data after a few months of inactivity.

GMail, 2013: "You can tell us what to do with your Gmail messages and data from several other Google services if your account becomes inactive for any reason", and only offers to safeguard your data for a year: "after three, six, nine or 12 months of inactivity". Sprinkled with some fear of digital privacy after your death, for good measure.

So as of today, the only difference between the old Hotmail policy and the new GMail, is whether that checkbox is ticked or not.

I'm willing to bet that feature will shortly by enabled by default.

I wish people would stop making such jumps in logic to justify an untenable position. Facilitating the download of illegal content has nothing to do with "speech" or personal opinion, even if the phrase can be rewritten as "telling people where to find warez".

Stupid move, so much that words fail me. "Korea" (as they call themselves, they don't acknowledge the autonomy of the South) has been looking for months for investors to replenish their economy in the face of mounting sanctions. TPB is giving them exactly what they need to become a greater menace to the region.

No need to be sarcastic. I find it interesting that somebody goes through the trouble of creating a new user account, just to confirm a theory that nobody could confirm without getting in trouble.

It doesn't prove anything, but it certainly fits the context. I would say the theory (and the extra bit of information) merit being analyzed further.

FWIW, a "stub copy of iOS" would mean in this context "a copy of iOS where every OS function is stubbed except what's necessary to run AirPlay."

Interesting argument. Seeing as Mason created from scratch a company valued at around $20B using Lefkofsky's seed investment of $1M, it seems to me like a very respectable accomplishment.

Whether the current business model is viable and how much they need to pivot if they do, that's hard to tell without walking a mile in their shoes. But if I only had to bet on one horse, I'd pick the one that has a proven record for a "very respectable accomplishment" and give him the tools he need to succeed.

If Lefkofsky thought the business was so bad, would he have taken the reigns himself?

Dear Andrew,

One bad year and a couple missed objectives, and your boss fires you? Looks like you were dealing with somebody who doesn't invest in training his employees... you'll be much happier working for somebody else.

Love,

an observer

That whole debate is becoming utterly ridiculous. Either it works as Tesla Motors says, or it doesn't.

If it's so hard to get cold temperatures in the States, just send one unit up here a few miles North to Canada, we'll be back in the -20C during the week.

Besides the reasons discussed elsewhere, I see many reasons:

- The device in itself disrupts the mining hardware market. Should they mine by themselves, others would take notice and make their own ASIC hardware. They're in a much better place if they position themselves as the standard supplier for mining hardware, at least in the long run.

- I would see this ROI collapse as soon as this catches on. The market will be flooded with bitcoins, their individual value will diminish, and the bounty will likely decrease compounding the decrease. History says that the return will eventually (and soon) decrease to match the cost. Assuming the hardware is fairly priced (which it seems, given the current low volume), I would say the money value of those 122.83 bitcoins will come down to the same money value you would get out of $14k invested elsewhere.

- Whoever is operating the rig for user 67117, he's doing a hell of a marketing job for Avalon, just by being there. Is there any other offer in the world that can deliver on the promise "Give me $14k and you get $3k a day"? Sounds like a short-term proposition, but there's surely a good amount of money to make while it lasts.

I don't see how the FAA could do differently, given the budget cuts and the rule that prevents them from spending more than 40 hours on a project. Until they can justify splitting up a battery into a multitude of projects (N projects on the anode, N projects on the electrolytes, N projects on the casing, ...), or they are given the means to show their expertise, the checks and balances are engineered for failure from the administration level.

Many people seem to assume that the business proposition in itself is the reason why Google offers FTTH.

I think it should be considered that their main interest might be one of the strategic downfalls of the service (ex. free raw trafic), akin to how GOOG-411 was used to train a voice recognition engine, before terminating it once the training goals were attained.

If it proves to be the case, the media distribution "giants" have nothing to worry about, and people who expect the service to stay might be in for a surprise.

Comparing sales between a phone you find in every shopping mall and could buy without knowing the differentiators, and a new class of device? That doesn't sound like an unbiased argument.

I love it. This may very well be the first monetization attempt I can tolerate from Facebook: it's (finally) a win-win scenario for all parties involved, and it makes a superb use of both the social graph and the fact that nowadays every aunt, uncle and nephew have an account on Facebook. Brilliant.

Looking forward to try it here in Canada.

Call me dense, but why on Earth would this raise a Floating-Point exception in any compiler? That seems wildly misleading considering there are no FP operation going on, the integer division is supposed to stay in the integer domain - or return an integer NaN, which I'll admit is a rarity. Am I missing something?

That's an excellent point. Would you have any advice/thoughts on how to license software in those countries with the same effect as public domain, and also how to plan ahead so that it eventually becomes public domain?

None at all. Save the $700. You don't need to spend it now unless it's literally on fire and burning your hands. Learn to save. You'll be glad you have money piled up when you leave the family nest. It's a tough world.

Have an old desktop? Use it. "Portable" and "development" are contradictory terms anyway. No desktop? Find a cheap/used/refurb one, $200 tops. Web development has one of the smallest demand on CPU power; you'll be just fine with an old desktop, you'll learn how to manage computing resources efficiently, and that will make you better at your trade. You're just 17... you have decades of learning ahead of you. Learn to drive the family car properly before you allow yourself to crave for a race car.

Unless you just want a shiny toy to look cool at Starbucks, and don't care if it's a worthless piece of junk in a year or two. In which case, yeah, Apple.

ObDisclaimer: Been there a very long time ago.