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Facebook WiFi doesn't take over HTTPS traffic, so I can continue to browse HN comments without Facebook signin. Actually following links doesn't work as well on average (even with HTTPS Everywhere).

Mentioned elsewhere in the discussion — Tesla is fighting to take the dealer out of the equation.

But that's exactly what Rockstar does. From the article:

> Part of the company's strategy is avoiding a patent-countersuit by not having any operating businesses. Essentially, Rockstar wants to enjoy the same advantage patent trolls have, even though it's owned by direct Google competitors like Apple and Microsoft.

For those wanting a hilly work out — check out http://www.walkscore.com/bike/CA/San_Francisco and pick your own combination of hills and availability of bike lanes.

As claimed by someone who...

> haven't worn Glass.

So there's Walk Score. Apartments near (Washington) metro example — http://walk.sc/YPUq1a

This doesn't really solve the problem of Craigslist hoarding all their data to themselves (as pointed out numerous times already), but there are enough other sources to make it usable.

I actually got the same email for being in the "top 10%".

For me, it's: "well-priced, DRM-free copy of Indie Game: The Movie (Soundtrack)". So far it's been a pretty good album as background music for work.

They don't yet break out AWS revenue, keeping it in the "Other" category "Includes non-retail activities, such as AWS in the North America segment, advertising services, our co-branded credit card agreements, and other seller sites in both segments."

Q3 financial reports this "Other" category at 1.582 billion over 9 months. http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol...

I bet that Target and Walmart have a very different ratio of Engineers to labor workers, than what Amazon has. Comparing revenue per employee is very misleading here.

While at it, is "2.8 million bottles of 1966 Dom Perginon[sic]" supposed to be easier to understand than something as abstract as 5.6 billion dollars?

And the competition has quickly sued the government over Wind not being Canadian enough. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/tech-news/court-sc...

Where are you sourcing the exchange rate data from? Since August CAD has been above USD, but the app shows it at ~$0.98 instead.

The use of Android/iOS app stores likely ties you into the U.S. jurisdiction, which allows for an Australian company to sue a Swedish company in the state of Texas (Uniloc v. Mojang).

> I told them both I'd work for low/no pay remotely to prove myself before I relocate.

Interns get paid more than "low/no pay". I can't know this for sure, but that point might have came across as "desperate for experience" rather than "excited about [company] in specific".

Don't undersell yourself; and as others have pointed out -- build something to show to the founders (prototype, experiment, or just something they would find neat).

Amazon Cloud Drive has recently launched in UK, DE, FR, IT, ES (and Cloud Player is available in UK, DE, FR). It's certainly not just in US.

Described design hack in action -- http://xkcd.com/993/

Crazy shipping prices would only happen with shady 3rd party merchants. Filter with "Prime eligible" to only get items that are shipped out of Amazon's fulfillment centers.

Amazon Cloud Drive is also hiring -- http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?ie=UTF8&docId=100...

The typical answer is: "it depends on the team". Is there a particular part of Amazon that you are interested in?

The post seems to discount using EC2, for it being lumped together with Heroku's free tier as the same kind of a PaaS.

The post also does not talk about elasticity (the E in EC2) -- how easy is it to add (and later remove) that extra dedicated server to handle a spike of traffic from HN/elsewhere?

Pff, try "1st ave", "1st avenue south", and "1st ave N.". Yup, 3 different (albeit connected) streets in Seattle.

Why is it any kind of "evil" to get objective input?

Here you go: "Musical training-induced functional reorganization of the adult brain: functional magnetic resonance imaging and transcranial magnetic stimulation study on amateur string players."[1]

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15449354

This is really really messed up. Besides the usual patent troll options of:

- (costly) settle

- (costly) fight

There is now a third option of:

- (profitable!) join the bandwagon, not get sued (by this particular company), strengthen your own IP defence position by gaining licenses to the entire portfolio that was threatening you in the first place. There's even profit-share for settlement revenue!(Edit: profit-share might be for "board" seats only, but it sounds like it costs IP contributions to get in anyway.) All for a low low cost of transferring over some patents (that are just licensed right back to you). Of course this just enables more of the other companies to get sued.

This has a potential to get really out of hand, really fast. :(

I think they defer to the fact that both Apple[1] and Google[2] also have the same feature in their App Stores.

Edit: [1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3358134/Apples-Jobs-co...

[2] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/07/google_remotely_kill...

2008+ version -- throw your assets into CloudFront (or another CDN of choice), let CDN handle the caching. ;)

Spinning off research as a business is somewhat different than entrepreneurial students starting their own ventures. At the very least, it sounds like the University gets to hold on to the IP.

Besides, it's #1 (by whatever metric) out of just 9 schools examined.

At the "$150,000 per work infringed" valuation, I think one could claim a _much_ larger number. 34 individual songs would break $5 million claimed.

This isn't confirmed yet: http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/630801--facebook...

> "... but nobody at the city, Facebook, the company redeveloping the buildings or the high-tech community could confirm it."

Besides, RIM has very little to do with it. Though keeping an eye on the growing cluster of startups and competing with Google for UWaterloo's co-op / recent-grads talent makes Kitchener/Waterloo an excellent position for Facebook.