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but wouldnt that also include uploading 35gb of data and finally downloading xxGB (result size)? i think when you add this time you can just take your multicore desktop and let it run over night.

is there any specific reason that you dont link to the site [1] directly but instead use some sort of redirect using (possibly) your own domain (8n=hn i guess)?

http://phpabtest.com/

well its what a common household would pay for that kind of electricity. i think starting from 5k kwh per year the local power company will start offering "power user" quotes (even for normal households). hetzner is one of the biggest server providers in germany so i imagine that they have huge datacenters and thus huge power consumption. its not entirely impossible that they can get below 0,1 €/kwh if they guarantee to take several 100k kwh. additionaly they can cut deals to bring the price even lower if they take the same amount around the clock (electricity is a lot cheaper at night).

>>Does Germany have cheaper power than I have?

i highly doubt that. they proud themselves that they only use power from hydro [1] .. so lets see. if i were to buy this kind of electricity for my home i would pay 0,2049 €/kwh without taxes. thats the ceiling for what they possibly pay.

[1] http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/unternehmen/umweltschutz/

i dont know which 5 he means but i guess:

http://www.hetzner.de/ http://www.server4you.de/ http://www.strato.de/ http://www.hosteurope.de/ http://1und1.de/

interestingly enough its rather cheap to do this now and is becoming cheaper every year. i doubt that this will only be a concern for apple employees as industrial espionage seems to be quite lucrative.

thats right. i had no idea what the app would do "find lyrics. share them" isnt very descriptive.

where? maybe for 7-10 year old kids but even low games that have only 1 referee will be played with offside (at least thats my experience playing until the age of 16) i think the DFB (german football association) requires 3 referees starting from the 7th or 8th league. and below that they just dont have the manpower.

well the ryanair flights seem to be there partially.

for example: LBC is only listed with two possible destinations but there are at least 6.

do they list the airlines somewhere? they dont seem to be listing ryanair for example.

i think the point of starting the video was just to show that he can read data from usb.

the numbers he mentions are all piracy. his app involves a server-side so he counts the users on the server-side and the actual paying users per platform.

something like buysellsads?

open letter to you:

it's open source, submit a patch.

i think the 1000€+ "entry fee" in form of a macbook is a much larger damper.

link to original webcomic:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/websites_stop

"We've written to Trend Micro explaining that we're actually neither a spammer nor an individual end user, but rather an honest website that's kind of a big deal, and they sent us a form letter explaining how to configure Outlook Express and encouraging us to ask our ISP for further information."

ahh the joy of robot-email-responders.

well they already sell those ...

http://shop.skype.com/phones/

i think i even saw some phones branded as "skype ready" or something similar in brick and mortar store

the problem is that they bundle it with so much bullshit and you cant just get bundesliga alone so you end up paying 35€ minimum :(

for 60€ you can get the whole sky package which includes all the live sports (bundesliga, premier league, cl, euro, formula 1, boxing, basketball whatever ...) all the movie channelns, all the side channels (discovery, disney etc) and all the hd channels (movies, sports, disney etc).

so add the ~16€ you have to pay for basic digital cable access and your at 76€ ~ $100. voila :) but on the other hand i know maybe two households that have this setup here in .de

sort of ... it's called "heute show" (and thats not a terrible translation but rather a pun because there's a famous german newsshot called "heute" on the same channel) and airs weekly on one of the public stations. it is heavily influenced by the daily show and far better than an earlier attempt by RTL that was called "freitag nacht news".

great! thats martin sonneborn at his finest. he's a german satirist and is notoriously know for pulling of stuff like this.

additional info: this is taken out of the german equivalent of "the daily show".

yes! you could even charge a small amount of money for that! most of the time i'd gladly pay a small amount instead of waiting several days for the scrape/api to finish!

or you could scrape it and sell it on this yc datamarketplace thing ... was it datamarketplace.com?

i think they talked about this in the past. they thought it was a problem that almost nobody picked the storys up in depth so they thought about changing the release model. they talked about releasing stuff a few days earlier for the press so that they can have people digging through the (often enormous amounts of) releases to prepare articles.

we have a shared bank account where everybody transfers his share of the combined flat and from this bank account the rent/utilities are paid. takes 10min to setup ONCE and never has to be touched again (until the amounts change but thats at most once a year)

for one they block a lot of useless spam sites that show up in certain querys and i personally really like the zero click info!

and why dont you just ship compiled versions and add some sort of licencing into your program? or does the contract state that you have to give the sourcecode along with the programm (that would make it "some software you built on contract for a company" and not "your product"!)?

so you're shipping the code with the product or is the code the product (website/app)?

funny how it doesnt work the other way around ;) if there's something advertised as 99$ its almost always 99€ in europe.

very nice! but why isnt there a tooltip for the hn posts?