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picklefish··on “In-browser and email notifications as you near the 300 GB per month limit”
Yes, in Nashville you get 3 50gb overages you can use them all at once or spread out.
picklefish··on “In-browser and email notifications as you near the 300 GB per month limit”
Nashville and somewhere else where the cities with caps in 2012
picklefish··on Meatspace Chat
scroll broken on chrome, works on FF though
picklefish··on Google Chromecast
Opening it on my phone said "We are out of inventory. Check back soon.". Opening on PC said "Coming soon" and a refresh of the page let me buy it. Hope that helps.
picklefish··on Fitbit for Dogs
The only thing I could see something like this doing is alerting the owner if the dog is barking all the time while they're out or something. You could always just set up a webcam for that though. Also, I wonder how much you have to charge it. Can it survive rain and mud?
picklefish··on _why's site is updated
Here is the previous HN post detailing the previous printouts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5015087
picklefish··on Lord British launches “Shroud of the Avatar” on Kickstarter
While UO was my favorite game of all time, this is not UO. I won't be helping fund this. Garriot does not have a track record anymore. He's had failure after failure post-UO.

He needs to take a step back and look at the successful games that have taken off recently that have roots in UO. My best example is DayZ. You run around with items that if you die fall on your body. Weapons have low relative value like UO. You can trust no one. People love the hell out of this game and it embodies what UO was to a lot of people. Unforgiving and harsh, but so much fun.

I'm disappointed where he's going with this but with what he's made post-UO I'm not surprised. I never expected him to create the next UO.

picklefish··on Lord British launches “Shroud of the Avatar” on Kickstarter
He was rich. He spent most of his money fulfilling his lifelong dream to go into space. (His dad was an astronaut...) He has a half-built "castle" in Austin which he had to stop building because of his space endeavor. He hasn't had a successful game in a long time. Since UO, really. He may have gotten some money from NCSoft lawsuit / settlement recently but I don't remember which way it went.
picklefish··on Facebook's New Feed
This is great news. Along with a feed that shows you EVERYTHING the people you follow post.
picklefish··on The Pirate Bay is now hosted in North Korea
PRESS RELEASE, NEW PROVIDER FOR TPB

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 3 MARCH 102, 평양 (PYONGYANG).

The Pirate Bay has been hunted in many countries around the world. Not for illegal activities but being persecuted for beliefs of freedom of information. Today, a new chapter is written in the history of the movement, as well as the history of the internets.

A week ago we could reveal that The Pirate Bay was accessed via Norway and Catalonya. The move was to ensure that these countries and regions will get attention to the issues at hand. Today we can reveal that we have been invited by the leader of the republic of Korea, to fight our battles from their network.

This is truly an ironic situation. We have been fighting for a free world, and our opponents are mostly huge corporations from the United States of America, a place where freedom and freedom of speech is said to be held high. At the same time, companies from that country is chasing a competitor from other countries, bribing police and lawmakers, threatening political parties and physically hunting people from our crew. And to our help comes a government famous in our part of the world for locking people up for their thoughts and forbidding access to information.

We believe that being offered our virtual asylum in Korea is a first step of this country's changing view of access to information. It's a country opening up and one thing is sure, they do not care about threats like others do. In that way, TPB and Korea might have a special bond. We will do our best to influence the Korean leaders to also let their own population use our service, and to make sure that we can help improve the situation in any way we can. When someone is reaching out to make things better, it's also ones duty to grab their hand.

Posted 24 mins ago by Kim Jung-Bay

picklefish··on The Story of Bageshwori, Watsi's First Patient
I'd like to see them add a "monthly donation" where someone can just set their cc / bank account up to fund $50 a month. They'd allocate the money to specific cases and send you an email to the one(s) they used your money to fund.
picklefish··on ISPs Now Monitoring for Copyright Infringement
Why would ISPs monitor for content they don't own? They have no incentive to kick their own customers off their network for content the ISPs don't own. I'd love to see a source for "everything you've heard".
picklefish··on Microryza (YC W13) Is A “Kickstarter” For Scientific Research
I think they'll need a re-branding if they want to be successful. Kickstarter is a very easy word to say, spell, and understand. It can also be used as a verb ("Did you kickstart that project?"). Microryza has none of those things. That said, hopefully they can do better than petridish, which seems to have floundered.
picklefish··on Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works Shooting for 100 MW Fusion Prototype by 2017
Should probably get rid of whatever crap site this is... but here is the direct youtube video. He basically talks about a new kind of fusion reactor they've been working on in skunkworks and how it's different from the reactor people have been trying to build forever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAsRFVbcyUY

picklefish··on The Chromebook Pixel
Hrmm. I don't know. I was just curious and looked it up. It appears that microsoft has their own patent for a magsafe-like connector: http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/14/microsoft-magnetic-patent... from http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/19/microsoft-surface-power-c...
picklefish··on The Chromebook Pixel
Maybe this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagSafe

Apple exclusively owns US Patent No. 7311526 ("Magnetic connector for electronic device", issued in 2007) and does not license the MagSafe connector or the patent.

picklefish··on Meteorite crash in Russia
This one uploaded shows the actual meteor, because it's from a dashcam: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuKtVGdPESM
picklefish··on Android Play Store Privacy
Having a developer calculate tax seems odd. Does this mean every single developer who puts a paid app on android store needs to figure out the intricacies of digital download tax for every single state / country? Sure big companies can hire someone to do it but that seems excessive for an individual developer.
picklefish··on TorBirdy: Torbutton for Thunderbird
This is a silly point to make. Exit nodes ARE shady, you should assume that with Tor and encrypt everything. That is not the purpose of Tor.
picklefish··on Why Would You Ever Give Money Through Kickstarter?
I'm in this same boat. However, I give very little to kickstarter. I think I've helped fund 2 or 3 things at the lowest teir (like tim schafer's). For most things I am interested in I let other people fund them while I wait for them to hit retail with absolutely nothing lost.
picklefish··on Introducing Amazon Coins: A New Virtual Currency for Kindle Fire
I would prefer the "wallet" method that steam uses. You require people put at least $5 in the wallet tied to their account. It's easy to remove the leftover balance because the first time you buy something over $5 it takes money from the wallet and charges you the rest leaving $0 in wallet.
picklefish··on Who Does Skype Let Spy?
Would it be possible to dll inject skype and automatically encrypt all text / video between you and another person running the same injected dll?

I imagine that's against TOS or something though. I've just always wondered if it was possible.

picklefish··on How an unsigned rapper changed music
One of their songs on The Heist is about being offered a record deal by Jimmy Iovine (head of interscope), but it being more like a loan and thus turning it down.
picklefish··on Dungeons & Dragons Classics - Every edition available again
It is Wizards of the Coast and they are selling high quality scans of the old classic books. (So not free.)
picklefish··on Lego mindstorms ev3
CNET has a bit of a longer writeup http://ces.cnet.com/8301-34441_1-57562323/get-ready-to-progr...
picklefish··on A Tor proxy that runs in your browser
You are not an end node, so nothing but encrypted data is passed between a Tor user and another Tor node. These bridges help people in countries who block access to the tor network enter the Tor network. They don't use you to access any actual content.

That said. Don't go to websites that put the iframe in if you don't want to be one. It's not like it's going to be a common practice to throw that on your webpage.

picklefish··on Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek
What if the future of grade school textbooks was this. Learning would be fascinating. What a great design.
picklefish··on Your C# App on 66 Million Macs: Announcing Xamarin.Mac
What did you try in? MonoDevelop? I downloaded MonoDevelop and the trail for ANDROID this weekend and was able to make an android app with no issues for free. The limit basically being that I could only use the emulator and not test on a real device. I'm not sure how they limit the mac version though. If you want to check it out maybe try out the iOS or android trial which definitely lets you build.

Also you could try MonoMac which is almost the same thing, and is OpenSource. The Xamarin version is supposed to have Wider API coverage and do a bit more (for the cost).

picklefish··on An Alternate Universe (Microsoft Surface)
I came here to post this. This article is so grossly biased by someone who made up their mind a long time ago. The writing is so poor and clearly attacks the silliest stuff that is unrelated to the product itself. This person is clearly jealous? of microsoft copying the apple store approach. It's such a weird article to make it to the top of hacker news. I guess that's a late Friday night for you.
picklefish··on Google's "Bacon number" search
Me too. I had to go to foreign child actors. Found a 4 with Kåre Hedebrant who played the kid, Oscar, in "Let the Right One In" (The original swedish version of Let Me In)

Edit: However, oracle of bacon says he's only a 3...

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