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Firefox with FoxyProxy, using ssh -D as a SOCKS5 proxy, and with DNS lookups remoted through the proxy rather than done locally (this is a setting in Firefox which I don't think is exposed in the normal UI, but is exposed by FoxyProxy). Flash in Firefox seems to respect the browser's settings just fine.

I run the ssh on a general purpose server I have here at home, in a loop, using ssh-agent for passwordless logins, in a loop, and connecting to a screen session, so that things reconnect relatively seamlessly when the VPS provider terminates TCP connections, as it does at exactly 10am my time every morning. I'm also using the relevant TCPKeepAlive on the server and ServerAliveInterval on the client.
What automated testing should a startup have during the first six months?
>If M$...

I thought Hacker News was above the juvenile 'M$' but guess I was wrong.

>Is Windows Phone 7 going to be another cathedral, a bazaar, or will it be a half-assed combination of the two?

Right now it looks like a good combination. Good variety in hardware(for example, phones with real keyboard unlike the iPhone) while still retaining the ability to directly update the software(no shipping of old versions that take ages to get updated, if they get done at all, like Android).
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the problem is that Sun/Oracles patent license only covers implementations that passed TCK.

Conversely, by not passing TCK you don't get their patent license. Many of the patents in question are difficult (if even possible) to work around if you were to create your alternate implementation.

This means that using any non TCK implementation of Java makes you liable for patent lawsuits (as seen with the Google case).
Why I agree that the everything-is-a-file approach that Plan 9 takes is pretty great, and it would be great if that would find a greater use in Linux or the BSDs (beyond /proc etc.), one has to take those comments about the size and quality of the code with a grain of salt.

Once again, the last 20 percent of performance take 80 percent of the effort, and quite often about as much lines of code. And Linux/BSD had to be that highly optimized, or it would have failed in the server sector, probably wouldn't support as many architectures and weird hardware parts.

Having said that, I guess that a lot of people would be happy with the level of support and speed Plan 9 supports, as hardware tends to merge (RIP MIPS, Sparc, 68k, PA-RISC, S3, Tseng, Token Ring…), and Moore's Law takes care of the rest.
Does anyone know if it will sync with Macs?
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I would also add the question: If I'm running Java on the server to deliver Web services, who cares? It's still open source, I have no plans to distribute MyPersonalVM that can run Java.

Google is the one that wants to keep it's advertisement machine going. It matters to them that over the next few years an open and mobile competitor is around. It doesn't matter to me.
Wow, so self-delusion is alive and well in the UK!

"The only time its a slight issue"???

How about manufacturing, shipping, selling, storing, repairing, and paying for that overdesigned eyesore? How about looking at it? How about moving the couch out from the wall so the dang thing will fit back there?
I think this is the first time a mainstream battery company bringing to market at charging pad. They seem to be targeting it at large number of popular smart phones. It will be interesting if it can gain traction.
HN feels quite usable to me. The only problem is the few remaining links based on closures (x?fnid=...), because they expire and it's just dumb. I may be mistaken, but I think closure-based links have been slowly phased out over the lifetime of HN, and now they seem to be used only for "more" and "logout". Why not throw them away completely?

About possible enhancements: ajaxifying the "reply" link, as billswift suggested, would help. Ajaxifying the "edit" and "delete" links would definitely help. LW does both and it's much more convenient. Making the vote buttons light up on hover would make the interface feel more consistent, because links already react to hover.

One thing HN does very right (compared to Reddit and LW) is that users' "comments" pages are threaded, not flat.
I don't think it will at launch. But they're supposed to be working on support for Zune desktop for the Mac.
Just assume it doesn't.
Ah, so anyone using GCJ in a product could be sued the same way Google was sued. I didn't know that.

The right conclusion to make seems to be that software patents are bad.
Well, it's got a new steward, Oracle, that's not exactly engendering trust in certain areas such as hemorrhaging key employees and suing Google's Dalvik using VM patents (and the company does not exactly have a nice reputation). Plus as the grandparent noted, Sun's broken promise is clearly going to stay broken and I'll note that various Oracle positions have completely changed now that they own Java(TM).

On the other hand, one might say that shedding some of these employees is OK or better and finally getting decisive on moving forward on Java 7 is good ... and the two might not be entirely unrelated.

I don't know the inside story and who's to blame, but it's patently obvious that Sun's stewardship of Java was serious failing at the time of the acquisition and for some time before then. Java 7 wasn't converging on getting finished in the foreseeable future and as I understand it the JCP process wasn't being used for it. Note that in a couple of months it will have 4 years since the release of Java SE 6 (prior to 7 the releases 3 through 6 each took 2 years (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history)).
"After all, before OpenJDK, GCJ and lots of other free Java implementations released fine without TCK."

GCJ is old... and OpenJDK does have access to the TCK IIRC...
Sweden had a similar amount, but it was only lowered to about 5000€.
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NOt fair! Do you know they are "unfused", "fragile" or dangerous? You made that up!

As for ganging plugs, this approach has an advantage over other (e.g. American" standards - there is the possibility of keying the "ganged" plugs by rating, so for instance only 10-amp plugs could be ganged to the 40-amp main, thus preventing fusing issues.
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I am more interested in who did the animations. I need such animations to describe our software.
OF course it would happen over time. ITs not any huge issue - certainly not bigger than the issue of selling different appliances every 1000 miles across Europe.
Adapters are 10-cent items in bulk.

In America we have more than one standard we live with every day - two-prong plugs, 3-prong plugs, 220-volt plugs vs 110. You hardly every even think about it, except when you're shuffling through the pantry drawer, looking for an adapter.
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.NET can even act as a direct replacement, because .NET's type-system is a superset of Java and because of http://www.ikvm.net/

(because of it, projects like Eclipse and Apache Derby have been seen running on top of Mono :))
But there are non-noncommercial CC licenses, and I'm sure there is a lot of content licensed using them. The "mildest" CC license merely asks for attribution. So why the blanket ban?

On a related note: the definition of noncommercial use is quite malleable in that it is not defined in detail in the license. In the 3.0 version of the license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode ) , it states:

[You may not use the Work] in any manner that is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation.

I've found that what that actually means in practice is a bit of a grey area. A very insightful survey was conducted by Creative Commons asking "What is non-commercial use?". The results make for very interesting reading:

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17127

My favorite gem: On a scale of 1-100 where 1 is "definitely noncommercial" and 100 is "definitely commercial" creators and users (84.6 and 82.6, respectively) both rate uses in connection with online advertising generally as "commercial"” However, more specific use cases revealed that many interpretations are fact-specific.
Monthly direct debit / monthly credit card tx, like any sane person.
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GCJ is old, but is there any other implementation that can compile to native code? (Mainly good for simplifying distribution and better interfacing with native code instead of JNI.)
I've been using CakePhp for about 3 years, on sideprojects.

Planning to learn a Java/Scala based 'equivalent'.
Safest? The euro plug is a compromise, so that it will fit in a wide variety of existing sockets, and the standard version isn't even grounded. It's mostly for pretty small devices.

There's IEC 60906-1, but I don't think any country ever adopted that.

It's much easier to unify currencies than to change every existing socket. As most adapters solve most of the problems, and it's easy to manufacture country-specific devices, this isn't really a big deal in my opinion.
Yes, I believe they are engaged now (can't find a confirmation link though).

Also, I think a lot of people need to remember the movie only goes through 2005-ish when they got their 1,000,000th member and Sean Parker was forced out after the cocaine bust (which I gotta believe did not happen in the same day like the movie portrayed). This movie does not touch anything about current day Facebook and all the recent privacy issues or anything. It focuses on the ramp up and all the hurdles Zuck crossed to get there (regardless of whether he created those hurdles for himself or not).
What the CBC seems to miss however is that even NC CC music can still be used for commercial purposes- you just have to get a licensing agreement, as you would for any other music out there.

Most CC artists would be thrilled to be used on the CBC and would probably charge very little for that usage. They just won't want it on a Budweiser Superbowl commercial without their knowledge, consent or compensation. Or at least that's my view on commercial usage of my work.
Nice. I hope it gets the google love it deserves. Googling for ubuntu-specific problems can become quite painful since forum threads are often full of outdated or useless statements.

Q&A Sites seem to be the answer of the problems that forums and wikis suffer from.
I think "stock photography" is the phrase you're looking for.

> Does the picture of the lady with the headset really make their operation that much more trustworthy?

Actually, yes. I would definitely bet that that style of corporate stock photography is what their target audience associates with "trustworthy".
I doubt it will take that long.

30 years ago the vast majority of cars didn't have airbags, ABS or even ECU's and technology develops exponentially faster now than it did in the 80's so in my opinion we will see the first mass production fully automated road legal vehicle within 10 years.
A source would be nice, and since your account is a day old, you arent being given the benefit of the doubt.
The other possible fix would be for a Java/Android related alliance to get formed by companies with relevant patent portfolios and sue the crap out of Oracle.
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For longer than I can remember, it was very rare to find a European appliance that didn't work in the UK (and vice versa). The only recent developments have been in tighter regulation so that all electrical products produced in the UK must be guaranteed to work in Europe (and vice versa).

I don't think that Europlugs are more solid, durable or safer than British plugs either. Comparitively speaking, they're flimsy, unfused, unearthed and the wall sockets can't be made to close up without a plug inserted.
Hobby or insurance?
The other conclusion would be that Sun, and now Oracle, are schizophrenic hypocrites: let's not blame it solely on software patents.
IDNS (Is Dot Net, Stupid) :-)
Off-topic but: what is your recourse here? Can you cancel the charge at your CC company? What's the impact of doing that?
What does this mean?

"The continent" is normally - in English - a shortened form of "continental Europe". Are you saying that you moved from somewhere east of the Urals or perhaps Turkey (if you don't believe that that's culturally European, although the part west of the Bosphorus is indeed part of the continent).

And adaptors are pretty pricy for things with no active parts.
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Why not have socket fuses like you can find in bathrooms sometimes? I'm not arguing history, instead I'm just curious if there's some latent advantage to putting that hardware into the plug. All I can see are losses in convenience, duplication of effort, and weakened robustness.
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You know, prior to the aquisition, the question of "Who do we trust more (distrust less), Sun or Microsoft?" was obvious.

Now it's not quite as clear cut, depending on Oracle's actions going forward.
So do we really need an automated car at all. Our roads were designed for humans as are the signs and lights. I think people are investing way too much into the prospect of an autonomous car and no one is really asking for it.

Google and its researchers are smart. So these concepts are exactly that concepts. But what gets put into a car is completely watered down. Before any autonomous car rolls out the factory I'm sure we'll see a semi-autonomous car.

We don't need autonomous drivers we need better drivers. A car that learns how to handle adverse conditions and can assist the driver is probably more valuable than a car that can do it alone. I believe this is where the real payoff is. Mercedes-Benz already has S-matic in certain cars that can determine the speed of cars in the front and behind and brake accordingly. We've had ABS breaking for decades to assist in hard braking, traction control to assist in tight turns. So where is the car that can keep me on the lane in severe fog, help me drive over black ice, through a blizzard or torrential rain. That's the type of automation people want.

If I needed car that could drive without me I'd call a cab.
> "Hard to imagine this kind of give and take on a National Public Radio page."

What? Why? That seems like a cheap shot. NPR has an ombudsman who addresses issues with programming, and the producers of various public radio programs are easily accessible and responsive. If nothing else, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition frequently air letters that are critical of their coverage and respond to concerns that listeners have raised.
Why would 2x20A wires use less copper than a 40A one? Current capacity is a function of the cross-sectional area.

Or did you mean that you only need to run one set of wire instead of multiple ones to multiple outlets?
I think the problem their is the cumbersome nature of going to individual artists and negotiating terms. The benefit of dealing with an agency is it speeds up the process and makes it easier to manage.
> Ah, so anyone using GCJ in a product could
> be sued the same way Google was sued. I
> didn't know that.

this is exactly the point. And this might also be (one of) the reason(s) why Google PR is calling the suit against them a suit against Open Source in itself.
The author pointed out that Sun/Oracle's posture is not resulting in as healthy an ecosystem as other languages with multiple independent free implementations.
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I think with most places in London you're looking at a 45min-1hour commute, unless you live REALLY close in zone 1 or something.

For me my commute is as follows: -

20 minute walk from house to tube station(could take a bus which would take 10 mins, but I prefer the exercise)
15 mins on the tube to Bond Street
10 minute walk from there to work
Personally, I don't like anything that makes me sign in, with any login. If you're asking this question, you likely realize that, too. I suppose another question you should ask is whether you really NEED that login. If it is absolutely required for your app, and the app provides enough value to the user to overcome the bother of signing in, then okay. However, if there are other apps that fulfill the same purpose as yours without requiring signing in, I personally would just delete yours and go download another option. Any login at all is going to be a hinder to adoption.
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Actually, getting your paper into arXiv isn't that easy - IIRC, it essentially requires you to work at a university.
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It seems a bit disingenuous to say that Apple is "blocking" it. They may be working against it -- and probably are -- but blocking implies Apple has some magical veto. It might be hard to believe, but this sort of thing is pretty normal in the capitalist wunderland.
There's also a second reason British plugs are robust and fused: they're built to carry up to 3 kilowatts at 230 volts. (None of your wimpish American 110 volt mains juice here! Nothing quite makes your hair stand on end like accidentally touching a live pin carrying 230 volts and 13 amps ...)

To that end, the live and neutral contacts in a British socket are shuttered. The long earth pin on the plug makes contact before the live or neutral pins are in the socket, and once in contact, raises a shutter to permit live and neutral to make contact. And the nether regions of those pins are insulated so that if a plug is halfway into a socket and something bridges the pins, it can't make contact.

This is a great design -- for space heaters and ovens and server racks. It's a bit less useful for the low power consumption devices that have come to dominate the market (where maximum draw is well under 1Kw -- often under 0.1Kw).
Excelsior JET... is an AOT compiler...

http://www.excelsior-usa.com/jet.html

It is licensed...
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I would argue that it's hard to tell when someone replies at all.

While I appreciate minimalism I think the comments page is lacking. Let me preface my complaint with the fact that HN is probably the only site I visit frequently, due to the quality of posts and commenters.

My biggest complaint is this: I enjoy reading the comments of submissions, oftentimes more than the submissions themselves. It's really frustrating to read a post with many comments in the morning (lets say, 40), then come back at lunch and browse the same comments when there are more (say, 45 - I often leave interesting posts open in tabs to look at later). Obviously these numbers are arbitrary - think of 10 new comments on a page with 100 or more! Without a clear indication of what is new after a page refresh, I have to re-read every comment and compare post times (or effectively recall reading that comment previously) in order to see what's new. Compounding that is that the post order can change.

Unfortunately, I'm not aware of anything that can be done to fix this. To me, that is a usability defect. Enough for me to stop visiting? No!
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As far as banks go, I'm really impressed with NAB (http://nab.com.au).
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For those of us that dont always write perfect code on the first try. Or have to clean up after others, refactoring tools such as extract method and intelligent rename are invaluable.
"More generally, I was writing about a very angry and deeply misogynistic group of people. These aren't the cuddly nerds we made movies about in the 80's. They're very angry that the cheerleader still wants to go out with the quarterback instead of the men (boys) who are running the universe right now."

This is a gross overgeneralization, and also the biggest fault of the movie. That Zuck's drive to build Facebook is nothing more that petty revenge against women (Erica) and jocks (the Winklevoss twins) is completely unrealistic.

All people who create things, whether it's a website or a screenplay, do it for the love of creating that thing. Creation is its own motivator. Sure, there may be scores to settle in the process -- that's human nature -- but it's never the driver. It's puzzling that Sorkin never made the connection that Zuckerberg is a creative just like him.
One thing I'd add to the to the list is have someone to talk to. When building large systems it's always important to have the big picture in mind, and being able to get another person's input on what you're doing can often be invaluable. I've saved hours upon hours of time from stupid mistakes just by spending thirty seconds to get another perspective.
Please add the domain name to the RSS feed. Much like the posts on the page it would be Post Title(somedomain.com).
Interesting, it looks like prices are cheaper at the iBookStore than the direct purchases of the eBook from the O'Reilly store (not I only checked 3 books, but all were $2 to $3 cheaper). I wonder if this is just an initial sale or if it will stay that way.

Also, I love the jab about not being able to provide updates, so if you pay only $4.95 more, you can get lifetime updates. Sounds like the SlapChop guy should be doing an infomercial.
This article seems a little under-appreciative of some of the innovations in Android. After using Android I don't think I could go back to a phone that didn't support home screen widgets no matter how good it looked or how pleasant it was to use otherwise. A serious amount of my use of my phone is mediated entirely through widgets now.

Having said that - I totally agree that WP7 is going to be pretty competitive and I'm really happy about that. My hope is that it makes Google go the extra mile with Gingerbread to really sweeten up the UI a bit - but we're going to win (consumers, that is) either way.
The article states that having an IDE with strong refactoring support is impossible for dynamic languages such as JavaScript.

Is this true? in that case why?
> Don't forget minix and the Tanenbaum / Linus exchanges.

That's what my 'microkernels' comment was referencing.

> Tanenbaum was right.

That is not clear to me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_deba...

Microkernels haven't exactly swept the world before them. Apparently, MacOS X and Windows NT based systems have some microkernel in their DNA, but it is my understanding that you couldn't really call them microkernels at this point.
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> there must be something wrong in there.

There sure is. It ships with a browser that's "halfway between IE7 and IE8."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone_7#Web_browser

Ouch.
Yes, it looks like an interferometer. The microphone array looks very symmetric, and usually with radio interferometer's you set up the antennas to not be symmetric, in order to prevent ringing (ie areas on the sky where you get very good signal, and other area's where you get very poor signal. With a circular aperture, you'd get a response function resembling a Bessel function). So I wonder if they could get better results with a less symmetric microphone array.

Hmm... Or maybe the array is large enough that the entire court is inside the central spot, meaning all the ringing is outside the court. I'll have to think about that.