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I think a smaller screen size is better for productivity. It keeps me focused on the task at hand since the screen size constrains what I can have on screen. With larger screens, there's too many other apps that can grab my attention.

In regards to coding, I also prefer the smaller size screen. Writing code on smaller screens forces me to write smaller methods since I don't want to scroll to read a method. Obviously, I could just resize my editor window to fix this, but then this exposes other applications which are distracting.
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Interesting aside: what are the legal consequences of donating to an organization that is branded a "terrorist organization"? Can you be punished retroactively?
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It annoys the hell out of the rest of the team.
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If you are not a US citizen, of course.
Self-absorbed, sexist, and stupid. Slate just keeps getting worse.
The ars technica article which was posted yesterday has more on this:

"The fair-use issue came up as the judge berated prosecutor Allen Chiu’s proposed jury instructions, which included the assertion that the government need not prove that Crippen “willfully” breached the law, in what is known as “mens rea” in legal parlance. The judge noted that the government’s own intellectual property crimes manual concerning the 1998 DMCA says the defendant has to have some knowledge that he was breaking the law.

“The first prosecution 12 years later, and you’re suggesting a mens rea that is akin to exactly contrary to the IP manual: that ignorance of the law is no excuse?” the judge barked."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1960161
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/12/judge-in-xbo...
There's truth to that, but don't forget that NAFTA and "house for every family" also came from Clinton. Obama has done a few things differently than Bush to be sure, but not as much I think most would have suspected given a majority in the House and Senate.
> Mr. Adams says he's a fan of conspiracy theories, but I don't think so, since he suggests conspiracy theories are typically "any wild story" engineered to sound feasible.

But how are those wild stories engineered? By collecting all facts and half-truths that seem to fit. (... and often by inventing additional "facts" as appropriate.)

So of course those stories are partly based on observations.

> This definition goes against the whole reason for including the word "theory" which is supposed to suggest underlying assumptions are at least in part based on observations.

For the reasons above, I think that your definition is almost equivalent to the definition of Mr. Adams.
Two things:

1. You're a woman, and men will hit on you, and that's not a bad thing; it's biology.

2. If you think SF men are aggressive, then obviously you haven't been out much. I don't think I've been anywhere in the world that's LESS aggressive than SF when it comes to dating/mating. Go to Brazil and see what aggressiveness is.
For me it's not an underdog issue. Although on a purely humanistic level I can't but admire him.

Assange could have done anything with his life. Clearly he is an extraordinarily intelligent person with an ability to execute, and a belief that the general populace is being shepherded in our thinking.

I don't have a problem with that belief, nor do I have a problem with Julian putting everything on the line in an attempt to demonstrate, or at very least, test his belief.

After all, the actual leak absolutely does not constitute a breach of national security. ONLY BECAUSE, if someone is prepared to deliver wikileaks the wholesale database, can you just imagine how many less scrupulous, security cleared people (remember there are 3 million of them), are profiteering from the very same data?
Internet trends for 2011
With the New Year approaching people are often recap on the year past and what they learned from the events that transpired. Another important exercise is to analyze the signs that give us an idea of what to expect from the year ahead.
> I wonder how he knows what they're downgrading him for?

She. And yes, probably she knows. One usually has the feeling which part of the interview they fail.
How a personality test designed to pick astronauts is improving customer support
Get the Google cop outta my shopping cart
>As for charging money for software, the market changed.

I do not agree. Nothing is free, its just that costs continually get shifted else where into abstraction. If you pay money to advertise your service then you and (others) are all indirectly paying for your software (and others') so you can be able to offer your software 'free'. If you say, choose to monetize by ads.

Really there has not yet emerged an economic model that beats simple old just charge money for it in terms of ease of implementation and use, reliability and path to profitability for someone starting off.

Sell Ads, take a minuscule rent to display ads other people bought, micro-payments, licensing, charging for support (urgh!), free (crippled) version to bait to a paid version are actually all more of the same. Except that all but the last requiring a large amount of traction in activity, reputation, users or both. Something very not easy to get, requiring a much longer runway than is feasible for most.unless they wish to seek investment, which is its own can of worms.

But I do agree, this direct charging is not going to work much longer than this decade I don't think. It is going to be very interesting to see what sort of new economic models evolve to support consumption and greed. These are interesting times. I hope to be part of it.
The big impact on humanity will come from the seemingly small things. E.g. clean water for all and better health education. These are not 'sexy' and so don't seem like BIG ideas but most of humanity doesn't give a toss about a Mars mission and never will.
Look at their hobby projects. And/or contributions to the public projects. Good programmers nearly inevitably leave some visible trace.
0 o'clock could be interpreted as 12 o'clock too.
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The article does come across as though she's acting very much the 'self-involved woman pirate whore' she's trying to avoid, but it's her site, her prerogative.

Casting that aside for a moment, biology happens. I'm a guy, married and have been hit on in the past (my best defence was to stop working out and put a few pounds on, hasn't been a problem since then although it may have introduced new problems which I'm now working on).

It's natural for men and women to flirt, to hit on each other in an attempt to achieve evolution's goal. It's what we're all wired for. However, having said that as long as boundaries are made clear it shouldn't be a problem.

I'd also like to say that I have both been 'that guy' and been hit on by 'that woman'. In both cases there are worse things in the world to worry about. In the case of 'that woman' I made a pretty good friend and business associate, in the case of being 'that guy', you chalk it up and move on, or in my case make friends with someone who you wouldn't have perhaps spoken to if you weren't initially attracted to.

I'd also second the context. A woman being hit on in SF is nothing like being hit in Cairo, Delhi or even Paris.
He did so, in the first paragraph.
Leads to a 404 page. Here's the working URI:

http://blog.binarybalance.com.au/2010/12/01/is-it-time-to-ch...
I see her point, but I don't blame any of those guys. The hottest chick at the party is going to get hit on in every way possible and there is really nothing you can do about it. "My wallet's too small for my fifties and my diamond shoes are too tight."
Yes, something like the idea of a Virtual Private Server is what I was looking for, thanks.

I wonder what's people's experience for single-user, private daily use.
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"The web is becoming the ultimate blub."
Are you suggesting the web is becoming the ultimate you?
There are definitely no 10.000 programming environments on par with .NET/VS. 10 perhaps.
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You can do that for wind, but what does it mean?

An equally valid measure for wind would be to take the absolutes, and average their squares. That'll give you a measure of the average energy in the wind.
+ random facts:

Q: How many identical acks need to be received for fast retransmit to occur?

The DUPACK threshold is a configurable parameter. Linux uses a threshold of 2 (sysctl: net.ipv4.tcp_reordering).

Q: Name one of the men described as "The Father of the Internet."

Apparently, Leonard Kleinrock is also one of the fathers of the Internet: http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~lk/.
I remember I used to buy 2600 when I was a kid. One of the biggest technical bookstores in Athens (Greece) only brought two copies of each new issue and it was basically a race to get it. That being said, it was severely overpriced but I enjoyed reading it.
Very unusable in mobiles too
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It's going to work for B2B for a long time to come.
Bruce Schneier: We need ‘cyberwar hotlines’ to match nuclear hotlines
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Which developer tools are you building?
Rhino itself is very slow. Sometimes it is 50-100 times slower than node. You can check it by running some of benchmarks from V8 suite in node and Rhino runtimes (just save .js files and redefine listeners in the runner code): http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/data/benchmarks/v5/run.html

While Java provides many solid and useful frameworks, you may have difficulties with them if you're not a Java guy.Node's module base, on the other hand, is very variegated and the code is awful sometimes (and lacks any documentation except README). But Node community is very responsive and open. Finding help with Java maybe a very complicated task.
Heck, if this really works, I would take a personality profile test for free to save me from the pain of annoying customer service reps and save companies the hassle of trying to figure out my personality type. Go ahead.. stereotype me..
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How much did you "train" to get to that speed? I moved to dvorak a couple years ago and I'm actually at 80-90wpm. I used atypetrainer4mac to get to 50-60wpm, then I did this http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadsunrise/4338226640/ and I'm up to 85-90 but to get slightly faster now I have to invest too much time.
I'm not making any games (yet) but I wonder if you'll provide similar services for mobile development platforms and frameworks (unity, corona etc).
yeah, what a horrible problem to have in the first place.
Thoughtful comment, but there's a practical problem with your last point: how can YOU (as a hiring manager at this "some smarter company") effectively filter through the enormous set of screened-out candidates that Google rejected and find those productive, creative misfits that you want to interview/hire out of the teeming throng of vocational misfits?

Of the people actively applying for jobs at any given point in time, the "truly excellent" are under-represented as compared to the total population of programmers.

I'm not a Joel fan boy, but I think http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/01/27.html states this problem more clearly than I can in a few paragraphs on HN.
This reminds me of my Cambridge University interview. I thought I'd done terribly because I couldn't provide the answer to most of the questions they asked, but I did explain how I would find that answer if they gave me 10 minutes and some paper. I passed the interview, and many of my peers that were able to recite the formulae by rote when prompted (and thus felt they had done well) did not.
I do something similar with my Sony Reader; save to instapaper, instapaper to epub, epub to ereader. Obviously the book has to be hard-wired through USB for this to work, but then it also doesn't cost me anything.

It runs the epub through calibre convert, because the sony reader has issues sometimes with the instapaper epub file - the conversion fixes it (something to do with chapters over a certain length).

Through the evening, I instapaper save anything interesting to read, then just run this script each day before I leave the house.

This is the particularly rare-groovy batch code if anyone's interested.

@echo off

echo.
Echo Creating cookie...
echo.
curl -c cookies.txt -d "username=youremail&password=yourpass" http://www.instapaper.com/user/login > temp.txt

echo.
echo.
echo Downloading epub...
echo.
curl -b cookies.txt -o C:\Users\Nick\Development\scripts\instapaperbad.epub http://www.instapaper.com/epub

echo.
echo.
echo Converting epub...
echo.
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Calibre2\ebook-convert.exe" C:\Users\Nick\Development\scripts\instapaperbad.epub C:\Users\Nick\Development\scripts\instapaper.epub

echo.
echo.
echo Copying file to device...
echo.
copy /Y C:\Users\Nick\Development\scripts\instapaper.epub F:\database\media\books

rem Cleanup. technically we can keep cookies and re-use.
del temp.txt
del C:\Users\Nick\Development\scripts\instapaperbad.epub
del cookies.txt
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Amazon has had monitoring for their instances for a year now. The only change is in the way that they price it.

It used to be expensive enough that you wouldn't leave it on at all times, but would turn it on to diagnose something or check up on one of your boxes, then turn it back off when you were done. Now you get a baseline low-fi version for free.

I think they just realized that nobody was paying for this service, and that it really didn't cost them anything to provide it. So they just made it free.

As far as Startup Killing goes, I doubt this will hurt any "Cloud Monitoring" startups significantly. If you look at the 5 basic charts they give you, you can see it's in line with their stand on reporting across all their services: They give you the basics, but leave plenty of room for somebody else to step in and deliver something better.
Hey there. I think you could split it into two feeds. The nature and length of screencasts and tech talks are a bit different I think. I watch a screencast now and then during lunch, and most tech talks before I sleep or when I've got a longer time-frame. Thanks for considering.
Wow. I hope that's not what he actually wrote. If it is, and I realise it's a quote taken out of context then it's quite possibly one of the dumbest things I've ever heard him say.

Nuclear hotlines work because there's a certain established protocol for nuclear weapons. Due to Mutually Assured Destruction no-one (at least no-one using hotlines) really wants to start the first strike because it will result in annihilation. Therefore there's a vested interest in having the hotlines to avoid accidentally starting World War III.

With Cyberwar (and I'm referring to Computer Network Attack, not Computer Network Exploitation or espionage) there's no clear cut definition of what it actually is. Cyberwar means different things to different people in the same room, let alone different things to different people with different military structures and doctrines.

CNA is a very exploratory field at the moment, partly because no-one really understands the structure or boundaries and partly because it isn't necessarily contained to a theatre of operations. Add to that the fact that it is extremely cheap (by comparison) to mount cyber attacks (i.e. any fool and a laptop can do it) and the rules of engagement for cyber warfare become murkier than ever.

So to conclude, no I don't think we need cyberwar hotlines, at least until there's a broad military consensus on what cyberwar is, from which people can determine what type of communications they would need for such actions.
I think that the really interesting piece of this article was how often the SO is talking about a "we". This is the really important part of it all - if its not a we, it does not have a very good chance.
Grand unified theory, AI, sustained extraterrestrial presence, human longevity, energy, education reform, ...

Big things tend to really be bunches of little things.
Thanks. It would seem that my blog platform is having a little trouble with dates/times at present.
In my experience that's a distinction iphone owners don't need to make.
What will be the impact of this on third party monitoring apps like CloudKick.?May be they have to provide more value addition on other areas of cloud computing like custom building of servers , automating sys-admin etc.
If you are a US citizen, there's also an agency for that...
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If I'm using off-the-shelf software rather than writing my own, it's because either it's huge and complex or it's not important enough to make time from other projects.

In either case, I'm trading off flexibility for the speed at which I can have _something_ and I care far more about having something that works tolerably well than having something I can change to make it work better. If it breaks, I'll find something else; the software ecosystem is big enough now.

Which is why I'll take "reasonably reliably working" over "I've got the rights to fix it".
Adobe uses js for a lot of application scripting as well as web dev, and have a variety of tools you can try for free. IIRC their newish Flex Builder IDE has js syntax highlighting, debugging, and more, and they have some cross-browser testing tools in their labs too.
> Back then I downloaded a lot of stuff that I never got around to playing / reading / watching.

One could argue that piracy in the above instance causes no economic loss to the producer. If you had to pay for it, you would not have purchased it anyway, therefore the producer is in the same situation in either case.

At the same time companies can hugely benefit from this kind of piracy. In the case of Microsoft, pirated versions of Windows allow them to maintain their dominant position in the market. If the Windows was really piracy proof then the people who could not afford to pay $100(ish) for it would probably switch to an alternative like Linux. That in turn would weaken MS's position since a strong userbase of an alternative OS would develop thus undermining their 'platform' strategy.
I would encourage people like yourself to put enough information your HN profile that you can be reached for networking purposes by other HN readers. Many of us may be in a position to offer interviews for non-suck jobs or pointers towards same, that we aren't going to post in open comments to the entire HN community, but would send targetted to the email in your HN profile.

If you are shy or anti-marketing, you may need to work just a little harder in mediums you are comfortable with to network. (This isn't directed at you specifically, MC.)
Hand waving: I'm guessing that you could make a new vector from the average x and the average y. The direction would indicate the average time, and the length would indicate the certainty, so a length of zero would mean total uncertainty.
How are so many comments misreading things?

She's not complaining about being hit on. She's complaining about a bait-and-switch -- pretextually getting her number or other contact information in a business context, and using it later for personal contact.
But comparing it to desktop apps, mobile apps or console games, I would still say that web development has made it easier to do cross-platform development.

Sure you've got to support IE6 (mainly if you do enterprise stuff), but in desktop apps you have MacOS, Win7, WinXP, all Linux flavours. You can't make a cross-platform game (handheld or console). Mobile apps are divided in iOS, Android and probably WinMo7, webOS, RIM, ...
It's not as clean cut as the article makes it.

The main funding powers in Europe are Germany, France and the UK. The UK has a unique position in that it is a net contributor to Europe, bails other countries out but does not have the Euro. To claim that the UK is somehow insulated from effects of the Euro is disingenuous. A large part of our trade is with Europe, and Europe or the US being adversely affected affects us.

France is another big player in the Euro and will contribute to bailouts, but only so far. Germany will look to the UK to make up the difference where possible, then countries like the Netherlands and so on until it finds someone.

If Germany pulls out of the Euro thats it, the Euro is over. However if the Euro dies overnight then expect massive upheaval in Europe, rising nationalism and the potential for war. This however is unlikely thanks to the Lisbon treaty, a treaty that centralises European power. It is likely that the EC will want to transfer control of financial policy to Brussels for those that receive larger bailouts (as they can no longer be trusted to run their own economies without risking the rest of Europe - this will be one of the reasons put forward) and Lisbon will be the vehicle to do it.

What I would love to see is actual reform of the EU as an institution as well as reform of financial obligations from member states, but sadly it's more likely we'll see the European equivalent of the old republic trying to extend it's reach in order to protect itself.
Wow that youtube video she included was the most annoying thing I've seen all week. I lasted 30s. And yes, she does sound self-involved, as she speculates at the end of the post. Of course she gets to have her rant (why ask?) but I have to wonder why... it doesn't come off very well.
Time, I don't want to spend hours trying to download some album. I'll pay for stuff if I can get it faster/easier/in a higher quality, which is pretty much always. Even better if I can support the artist with it!

That said, I think there are valid reasons to 'pirate' something. For example, when you can't get something from where you're living.

A good example of this are US TV shows. A lot of people in Europe watch them and wouldn't mind paying for them, but there are simply no options other then importing a DVD box 6mo-12mo after release or waiting until a broadcaster licenses the show. You could probably get Hulu or Netflix up and running over a VPN, but this is not something non tech people can really do and it's illegal by EU law as well I believe.
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I've noticed a huge difference between patents and copyright.

Patents keep technology the same.

Copyright protects (at least in intention) an author's work and future works, but not its ideas. IIRC the first usage of a school for wizards was in A Wizard of Earthsea. If Ursula K. Le Guin had a patent on the idea, Harry Potter would never have been able to appear (at least without a huge legal trial and consider that without hindsight this book was considered lucky to get a 1000 book print run) even though the usage and responses are enormously different.

Copyright is essentially a security fence, it stops people breaking in and stealing all your money. While a patent is like constructing a concrete dome over your house and making it criminal for anyone to even look at your house and borrow the architecture.