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Yep, had 3 devices (double shame on me?). Seems to have one of the least graceful product depredations paths of any mainstream phone manufacturer I'm aware of.

Looks nice, seems to be some good tracks.

Hypem's downfall (in my opinion) was the point where the frontpage started being bombarded with Kanye West songs. Songs like that don't need to be 'discovered', as they're already jammed into our ears at every opportunity mainstream media has. Hopefully 2U can keep a good balance.

Well done nwienert, great launch.

Thanks for linking back.

If your loved one isn't considerate enough to use Ultimate Gift Lists: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4865223

Good to hear. A favorite of mine this year is Arduino kits. Kinda hoping someone might give me one too!

I've got to agree with you an many others in the comments. The thing that "doesn't sit right" is that Google is looking at alternative ways to benefit their company while benefiting the community. There's always going to be a risk of monopoly. In Australia, the fiber roll-out is government owned and funded, replacing a former government telco monopoly with a current government telco monopoly. If the price is right and there's still competition, I think we should be vigilant but happy.

Think how much coding the Vampire Squid can get done with all those tentacles.

I really dislike "<Over-reaching statement>, here's why" headlines. Attending to the actual content of this article, I summarize it to be "I think Google+ will be big because universities are telling their students to use it".

I don't think that's the way the world works, but apparently we won't have to wait to long to find out.

I'm not against Google+ at all, I'm against attention grabbing headlines. I dislike myself a little for upping the comment count.

Not to down play the consumer experience issue, but I couldn't help but chuckle a bit when the author spoke about the issues on NYE.

"Consumers who were used to easy clicking missed the notice and became (reasonably) upset when the bill arrived."

I wonder how many drinks those consumers has consumed when they were ordering their ride home.

I see the Grandma use case, but it's so niche I can't see that being viable. As for enterprise, you'd have to have a pretty "progressive" company... and one that would be very sure that you'll never need a desktop app. Again, I would think very small numbers.

I realise Chrome OS is somewhat still a market experiment, but I think it would've gone a lot further at a better price point. For ~$200 I would put one in my living room for checking the web & controlling my home web apps. I see that as the perfect way to get people familiar with it (thinking of it more like a tablet, a limited utility), then once NaCl goes mainstream, you have a who market who's ready to start replacing their other PCs.

Looks fun, but $329 isn't throw-away money. Given that I don't need another computer, the price just isn't cheap enough to say "yeh, why not:.

Xbox Consoles are up: http://curicon.com/categories/browse/2344

That TC piece on "interest-based" social networks came to mind when I saw this. I think there's a limit to what needs to be segmented, but this happens to be square in my interests and it makes a lot of sense.

Also makes me think of Ravelry, Etsy, etc. With the Facebook /Instagram media saturation of late, it's nice to see some news about something else in the social space.

... hadn't realised I'd missed "Nerd Pride Day".

Had a similar experience. Only it was for a band from my own country! They're shooting themselves in the foot, with shotguns.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4018774

Interestingly I look at this news in almost the opposite way!

I used Opera desktop for something like 10 years too. When I moved to Chrome (maybe 3 years ago?) I was like, "ah, this is what these websites are supposed to be like". I was actually quite sad to say goodbye and I still miss a lot of the features (sidebar!), but it always struck me that Opera was living in a bit of a dreamland where they just hoped the web was 100% standards compliant. Admirable, but unfortunately (in the short term at least) users suffered because so many sites just didn't quite work. This may have improved since I jumped ship.

If a major company could give Opera the resources to catch up to Chrome in that area, then I'd be excited for the potential to create a comprehensively market leading browser.

I once tried to buy a digital album from a local band, without using iTunes (just don't like it).

After searching around (which, to Benn's point, probably took longer than illegally downloading) I found it listed on Amazon. After I downloaded their ridiculous download software (just give me a zip?), I got right up to paying, when I was told that they were not licensed to sell to countries outside the US. Great. I can't buy my country's own product on Amazon. Nice one music industry.

At that point I gave up.

Yep, pretty sure they're being facetious.

Nnnnooooooooo! Here's hoping they don't screw it up. I love LaCie design. Would be a shame to see it compromised.

Must say, hadn't noticed the heavy UI, but now that I think about it, a bit ridiculous that Gmail still has a loading bar.

Can't comment on Google Plus, I kept my account for about 2 days. Not terrible or anything, the value proposition just wasn't there for me.

Interesting point. Realistically, Heinz would prefer that you didn't get all the sauce out, because you'll buy another bottle more quickly if some isn't accessible.

I believe the physics concept behind this is:

- An object will remain in the same state of motion (or rest) unless acted on by a force.

When you hit up on the bottle, you are applying a force primarily to the bottle. The force is applied to the sauce inside to a much lesser degree, so it stays closer to a state of rest. Therefore if the bottle goes up and the sauce stays at rest, it has the effect of moving the sauce down to the neck of the bottle.

This is awesome. Also like his Lego survey stats app http://minimal.be/lab/legoStats/

Ah, I hadn't seen the Scott Sweet quote. Thanks.

Not saying it's not true, but would be nice if there was more than an anonymous source to back this up. Unless I missed something.

Looking forward to 'droids that raise the bar. Android/Sense bit rot is horrible!

I'd agree, that alone would not indicate that someone is a great journalist.

Maybe the group will be discovered and shamed, maybe it won't. I'm guessing the vast majority of Bittorrent users will never be affected.

I had the same thought. TorrentFreak explains it quite nicely: http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-outfits-launch-attack-on...

Those guys really are great journalists.

Depressing. Another HN attention grab. The original article was interesting. This one's just words for the sake of it. The most depressing part is that I've now validated it with a comment.

What a delight. I look forward to playing GTA with a cheese controller.