This is essentially how Magnatune works. You pay $15 per month, can download and stream any amount of music from the Magnatune catalog and 50% of your monthly fee gets paid to artists in proportion to how much of their…
One issue with just using a public key everywhere is that the most common public key authentication protocols result in some degree of non-repudiability. This is desirable for signing in to a bank but not for…
About the Finnish system, you can find an example of the tax return form here: http://www.vero.fi/download/noname/{302EA05D-2530-4021-8931-... And instructions here:…
As an actual example, in the GitHub penis incident, HN seemed mostly supportive of the target: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2601342
In Finland, your income tax rate only depends on your total yearly income. If you estimate your income too low and too much money gets withheld, it will be returned to you the next year. You can also adjust your…
Firefox now comes with a console, DOM inspector and JavaScript debugger out of the box.
Try Sony Xperia U. I have the previous model Xperia ray and have been very happy with it. Great display (3.3 inch widescreen high-DPI), great camera, okay processor, would prefer more memory. It's so small that just…
The Book Depository is owned by Amazon too :)
AbeBooks is actually owned by Amazon now.
Hyperbole, true, but it's equally silly to say that things just fine because it's the same situation in China and Korea. Why not compare to Japan where work permits are not tied to an employer and if you lose your job…
Some metro and train stations have those in Japan too, though they are still somewhat rare sight.
Raw TCP was considered for WebSockets, however briefly. Due to security reasons, WebSocket was designed so that it's impossible for a WebSocket client to spoof any existing protocol. I would argue that things are…
Pure speculation: maybe these apps are actually ebooks or some other kind of static content just packaged as an app and they are generated by an automatic or a semi-automatic process. Assuming that the article is…
I frequent a couple of niche forums where the rule is that you have to write an introductory post of at least X sentences (or come up with original witty answers to a list of questions etc.) before you are allowed to…
This sounds interesting. What Xerox document are you referring to and what is the most relevant part?
This also applies to Freshness Burger and Kua'Aina. I don't understand how the Japanese can pull it off but Americans and Finns can't.
Good advice here. I would like to add two things: When Apple demoes desktop applications, they have multiple computers linked to a keyboard-mouse-monitor switch. If the demo fails on one computer, the presenter can…
I once heard a lecture by Joe Haldeman, an author who was a close friend of a Heinlein. IIRC, he said that Heinlein liked to play by taking ideas to their logical extremes and much of what he wrote should be taken as "a…
Maybe something like this: https://vimeo.com/8569187 A less cynical version: https://vimeo.com/14294054
I'm a big fan of the model of teamwork where everyone is welcome to offer their opinion on and spend a bit of time thinking about and working on any aspect of the product, but there are fairly clearly defined…
"The pixels you buy will be displayed on the homepage permanently. The homepage will not change."
Google could also stop releasing new versions of Android as code drops. Sony is trying to do the right thing and update a large part of their inventory but their ICS ROMs are currently still in beta because they only…
Except that Mobile Safari still crashes if you have a proxy server enabled and try to open a WebSocket: https://github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io/issues/193 Pretty annoying.
There is also WebCL, an effort underway to put OpenCL in the browser, and River Trail, an experiment to execute subset of JavaScript using OpenCL as a backend. I don't know how difficult it is to write a CPU compute…
UDP will be coming as a part of the WebRTC effort. The current spec draft and prototypes don't include arbitary data channels, but they are currently being specced on the mailing list.
This is essentially how Magnatune works. You pay $15 per month, can download and stream any amount of music from the Magnatune catalog and 50% of your monthly fee gets paid to artists in proportion to how much of their…
One issue with just using a public key everywhere is that the most common public key authentication protocols result in some degree of non-repudiability. This is desirable for signing in to a bank but not for…
About the Finnish system, you can find an example of the tax return form here: http://www.vero.fi/download/noname/{302EA05D-2530-4021-8931-... And instructions here:…
As an actual example, in the GitHub penis incident, HN seemed mostly supportive of the target: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2601342
In Finland, your income tax rate only depends on your total yearly income. If you estimate your income too low and too much money gets withheld, it will be returned to you the next year. You can also adjust your…
Firefox now comes with a console, DOM inspector and JavaScript debugger out of the box.
Try Sony Xperia U. I have the previous model Xperia ray and have been very happy with it. Great display (3.3 inch widescreen high-DPI), great camera, okay processor, would prefer more memory. It's so small that just…
The Book Depository is owned by Amazon too :)
AbeBooks is actually owned by Amazon now.
Hyperbole, true, but it's equally silly to say that things just fine because it's the same situation in China and Korea. Why not compare to Japan where work permits are not tied to an employer and if you lose your job…
Some metro and train stations have those in Japan too, though they are still somewhat rare sight.
Raw TCP was considered for WebSockets, however briefly. Due to security reasons, WebSocket was designed so that it's impossible for a WebSocket client to spoof any existing protocol. I would argue that things are…
Pure speculation: maybe these apps are actually ebooks or some other kind of static content just packaged as an app and they are generated by an automatic or a semi-automatic process. Assuming that the article is…
I frequent a couple of niche forums where the rule is that you have to write an introductory post of at least X sentences (or come up with original witty answers to a list of questions etc.) before you are allowed to…
This sounds interesting. What Xerox document are you referring to and what is the most relevant part?
This also applies to Freshness Burger and Kua'Aina. I don't understand how the Japanese can pull it off but Americans and Finns can't.
Good advice here. I would like to add two things: When Apple demoes desktop applications, they have multiple computers linked to a keyboard-mouse-monitor switch. If the demo fails on one computer, the presenter can…
I once heard a lecture by Joe Haldeman, an author who was a close friend of a Heinlein. IIRC, he said that Heinlein liked to play by taking ideas to their logical extremes and much of what he wrote should be taken as "a…
Maybe something like this: https://vimeo.com/8569187 A less cynical version: https://vimeo.com/14294054
I'm a big fan of the model of teamwork where everyone is welcome to offer their opinion on and spend a bit of time thinking about and working on any aspect of the product, but there are fairly clearly defined…
"The pixels you buy will be displayed on the homepage permanently. The homepage will not change."
Google could also stop releasing new versions of Android as code drops. Sony is trying to do the right thing and update a large part of their inventory but their ICS ROMs are currently still in beta because they only…
Except that Mobile Safari still crashes if you have a proxy server enabled and try to open a WebSocket: https://github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io/issues/193 Pretty annoying.
There is also WebCL, an effort underway to put OpenCL in the browser, and River Trail, an experiment to execute subset of JavaScript using OpenCL as a backend. I don't know how difficult it is to write a CPU compute…
UDP will be coming as a part of the WebRTC effort. The current spec draft and prototypes don't include arbitary data channels, but they are currently being specced on the mailing list.