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Windows 7 Advanced Power Management
Microsoft has always been inclined towards encouraging its consumers to save power. With Windows 7, the latest operating system from Microsoft, they have taken it one step further, allowing the user to tweak the power options to the minutest detail. For novice users, there are predefined settings that take the hassle out of power management. On the other hand, advanced users can make sure exactly how power hungry their PCs or laptops should be. Here’s the lowdown on this excellent feature.

In order to set up power management for Windows 7, follow this procedure:

1. Click on the Start button, and then point to Control Panel.
2. In the window that opens, click on the option All Control Panel Items.
3. In the next window, click on Power Options. You may also click on System and Security, and then on Power Options. Either way, you will end up in the same place.

Now, you will see a window with the text “Select a Power Plan” given near the top. You will also see two options immediately visible, namely, Balanced, and Power Saver. The first option, when enabled, will turn display off after 10 minutes of idle time. It will also put your PC into Sleep mode after 30 minutes of inactivity. Power Saver will do the same things, but only after half the time.

You will notice an option given below the two default choices, namely, Show additional plans. Click on it to reveal a third choice made available to you, the High Performance profile. This one turns off the display after 15 minutes of idle time, but will never put the system to sleep.

Apart from these default options, you are free to create a new plan of your choice for your PC or laptop. You can configure every individual setting, as well as define a function for the power button, which will be either Sleep or Shut Down.

If you wish to have even greater control over the power settings of your laptop in an easy manner, you can download a free-of-cost, power management tool known as Power Plan Assistant. It will add extra functionalities to the power settings, so that you can configure the power settings of your laptop in an easy manner. When you install the tool and run it, you will get several options to optimize the power settings.

For instance, you can alter the power settings to make sure that the laptop works in High Performance mode when the power cable is plugged in. Similarly, it can be made to switch to Balanced mode automatically, if the power cable is disconnected, and to Power Saver mode if battery power falls below 40%. Now that’s the way to save power, and protect the environment at the same time.
Very nicely put together. The layout presents your information in a smooth and inviting way while providing some really nifty instruction. Most sites offering info similar to yours are very cluttered and distracting. I hope you'll consider doing more of these.
This may be a regional thing (or a bias thing), but I've found that most of the really talented developers around here tend to develop on Macs and keep a Windows VM handy for testing there when necessary.

At a previous job, it was assumed that the developers wanted Macs, but they had the choice if they wanted. I don't think I once heard someone say "I'd really prefer to work on a PC". This was primarily a web development firm, so it didn't really matter which environment you used. There was a smaller group that was developing some .Net desktop software, and even they preferred to use Mac+Windows VM than to have a PC.
Behind the Google CEO Shakeup
But only supported in some regex implementations (I think it started only in Perl?). Maybe support in modern implementations is wider spread. I think that the sed that was commonly distributed with Linux distros around 2000 didn't support it, I have a vague recollection of spending a frustrating afternoon getting sed to imitate what my Perl regexes did.
Developers Share Mac App Store Sales Figures
As a side note, all startups will be incorporated in the UK, no matter what city they apply to. Does that answers your question? :)
Google founders regularly divest million of dollars of GOOG
> It's just a side project that went big.

I thought you handled it extraordinarily well, and this should be a case study on what to do when you've got a successful project on your hands that you aren't inspired by... a number of people fall into this circumstance, and usually they just let the project languish and die a slow death. I think you handled this really well and I'm inspired by it.

Congratulations and I'm hoping this is a sign of things to come when people have side projects go big.
They only work on the UK :)
GWT aims to accomplish this.
Awesome job!
Has the amount been disclosed?
The first is Spring MVC. the rest of Spring can go die in a fire for all I care

Just curious, but which other parts of Spring are you referring to here? The core dependency-injection container?
In layman's terms here's what I was trying to say: think of the set of (scientific, which could be a muddy distinction) questions to which currently there's no clear explanation, e.g. do magnetic monopoles exist, what is the nature of dark matter, etc. The question is whether eventually this set will be getting smaller (or even zero, because there might a finite number of things to know in the universe, and once we explain everything, that's it)
To be clear: It isn't true that we where not paying any rent until now. Our monthly costs are ~1000EUR a month at the moment and we are able to afford that.

Th problem is also not the money we have to pay for rent. It is the money we need to pay for moving and renovation costs.
I only post this because the media is acting like Eric Schmidt divesting 300 million is odd. I've been watching them do this since IPO, Sergey, Eric and Larry all regularly divest millions of dollars on a regular basis.
Before SOAP we had... XML-RPC. And before that other ways (albeit not as formalized) for over-network communication. XML did bring some ease of cross-platform exchange to the scene, no doubt, but don't give SOAP too much credit. :/
But why? Handbrake can convert most video formats to something Apple TV-compatible and play them on the Apple TV through iTunes.
I thought the article was going to be on an older "self-healing" plastic at first. I seem to recall hearing about it in the early 2000s, but the furthest back I can find is 2007: http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.asp...

Suffice it to say, the new polymer is much more impressive.
No anger at all - I'm merely stating what I'm sure you follow every day: If we're going to be pragmatic about exploring the truth (i.e. not wasting our limited time) we should explore claims with more proof than "I believe this to be true".

When someone says, "clearly false", it should be (and in this case is) referencing the absence of any proof at all for the extraordinary claims. In this case, people who defend religion have a burden of proof here. Perhaps more precise wording would be: "arbitrary and totally unverified".

This is why I brought up fairy tales. They are just as arbitrary and unprovable. Do you think we should seriously explore them as well? If not, why does religion get a pass - because so many believe it? Let's not have science by vote of the masses. After all, the scientific consensus is that religion is false ;-)
Well, you probably missed the whole "fined for not carrying workers' compensation insurance" episode. He spouts one thing and does another in practice. I would say that is fairly disingenuous.
Hardware and OS choices tend to follow technology choices already made.

These can be related to the languages in use, some languages will dictate setup (.Net will be Windows, iOS will be Mac).

If language doesn't dictate it, then whatever is most commonly in use already is normally continued. There's not much point in having every developer use their own bespoke setup as you want to spin up dev environments quickly to be able to deal with growth, disaster recovery and just good practise like having your dev environments resemble your production environments.

Macs make good choices because on a Mac you can dev anything with VirtualBox.

At work I'm on a Mac Pro and dev inside of Ubuntu VMs with a Windows VM set aside for testing.

Anyhow, I don't think it matters so much about the individual, the selection of one or the other is usually to help normalise the dev environments and to keep things maintainable.
You even have to be careful in mathematics.
A full commitment's what i'm thinking of...
Little Wisdoms
Try reading it as opinionated writing, rather than a mathematical proof of something that is offensive to you personally.

IMHO one should be able write without the pretense of neutrality and be judged holistically rather than dismissed out of hand.
If you wait about 6 months, Apple will most likely release rev. 2 of the ARM based AppleTV, which is rumored to contain the A5 processor, which is based on ARM's dual-core design A9 architecture, and is supposed to be fully capable of hardware accelerated 1080p playback.

The newer hardware should be much more future-proof. It remains to be seen whether it will be easily jailbroken, or whether Apple will get tougher with security.
Not good if you operate on several different computers & browsers.
Is supergluing your framework to the dom really a feature?
The XBMC library mode is much better than iTunes. XBMC is living-room ready, wife-approved media player (one of the best on the market, in fact).

As a bonus, you don't have to convert anything.
You're perfectly right. Let me rephrase "prove" with "have a satisfactory theory about"
JQuery Performance Tips And Tricks
The thing is, if these screenshots are interesting, they'll spread from HN to blogs to the programming subreddit, and your iMac will just keep failing.

Even just an archive of these uploaded somewhere with a server would make them accessible.
Oops: Android contains directly copied Java code, strengthening Oracle’s case
At least some aspects of NoSQL are novel from an algorithmic perspective, so it's unfair to dismiss it as a buzzword. The underlying gossiping protocols that enable no single point of failure are fairly recent developments (Chord is a recentish gossiping algorithm if I remember correctly). Just think about writing a distributed database system without any designated master/control nodes-- all kinds of fun algorithmic problems will pop out: randomized algorithms, random graphs, distributed indices, decentralized search, ...
That 'b' is a fucker if you are a left handed touch-typist. I never fully got into the habit of consistently using the right index finger.
The problem with your logic is that HTML / CSS ... is the most powerful API ever invented for building interfaces.

It is so powerful that similar APIs are being brought to mobile phones, e.g. Silverlight / Qt Quick; but for the record, even Silverlight / Flex are a pain compared to plain HTML / CSS (try building customized components sometimes).

The only problem with HTML / CSS is the browser inconsistencies involved and I'm obviously biased here, but it's nothing compared to what I experienced while developing / testing with Java Swing or wxWidgets.

Cross-platform is a bitch, trying to solve it is nice and all that, but you're going to quickly run into the problem of "leaky abstractions". And for the record, I tried GWT and other web frameworks that tried doing this ... I completely hated every minute of it.
That wouldn't be good for Linux distributions which have their own package management system. For example Fedora offers the following packages: mozilla-adblockplus, mozilla-vlc, mozilla-noscript etc.
Maybe they aren't evil and keeping it from you (not "releasing" it), instead, don't have a working version they could just press a button and release?
finally! an accelerator that is friendly to graduating students...
I recently wrote a little throwaway blogpost that used the embed ability of jsFiddle (http://breakfastdinnertea.co.uk/blog/keep-those-rows-line-li... - excuse the pig ugly design et al). I found it an absolute joy to work with. It also provides nice fork abilities for any ensuing discussion / counter arguments on Twitter or wherever.
I don't get it. If the probabilities are fixed, you might as well do the complete prepocessing on the server side.
Introducing Sexy.js - Make your Node.js code Sexy with ECMAScript 5 Proxies
I have nothing but respect for Alex's work. However, as a coach at the Aalto Venture Garage and the upcoming Springboard in the UK, I think calling it the first true accelerator is borderline insulting.

Need I remind you that The Difference Engine had foreign teams? Geogoer is Lithuanian.

The startup programs at the Aalto Venture Garage have had teams from Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia.

I'm not too familiar with HackFWD but I believe they're been international as well.

I think StartupBootcamp is awesome. And there's great ambition there. But I think calling each others programs better or worse (or truly european or whatever) is counter productive.
> As a bonus, you don't have to convert anything.

And that's the biggest bonus imho. Most people will watch pirated content on XBMC (torrented TV shows etc) and transcoding everything is pretty annoying.
Yeah. My point is that amortization vs fixed cost can be a hard analysis to do.
Eh, tech snobbery, hate it. Wouldn't want to work for someone so closed minded.
Public Beta launch of TestFlight: iOS beta testing on the fly
Makers of Key Ring Raise $1.75MM
I don't consider WPF or Silverlight cool.

I actually like .Net a lot and my comment said "those of us". My product runs on .Net and I use SQL Server 2008 and C# 4.
Ask HN : Which opensource project for beginner python developer
I like python and consider myself at beginner level. I've never contributed to an open source project, hence not sure how things go. But want to start now.

Need some advice on the below points -

1.) What are the projects available at my level. If you know one from the top of your head, great !

2.) Apart from my own interest (algorithms, frameworks, monitoring systems). What should I be looking for in an open source project ?

I checked github, the number of projects out there are huge, to say the least. Need something to start/get my feet wet, then I can dive full force in a month.

Thanks for any suggestions you have.
I'm part of the 1% that believes that turning a profit (i.e. selling goods or services to customers) is not only a good business goal but a personal achievement.
In my opinion, some ION2 nettop with minimal Ubuntu and XBMC would be better option than WDTV. More expensive, yes, but not that much[1] and definitely provides better experience.

[1] Note that I'm in EU-land, where AppleTV is 120 EUR, which is 160 USD. Acer/Asus/Zotac/other nettop vendors do not have the same problem with currency conversion that Apple does.
Vivian Maier: A life's work seen for first time
Also, this is a 3yo talk. At what point do we say, no, no it's not (and I'm a Java guy who really likes Erlang).
Thank you my friend. Thank you.
I've found that people tell me "You're not thinking outside the box" when they want me to accept something fundamentally untenable.
32 GB ram is absurd in ordinary usage - what do you use your computer for?
I published a J2ME app that was bought 20000 times. I also worked for a J2ME games company for a while.

Not sure if I ever bought a J2ME app myself. But then I have only bought one app for iPhone/Android so far: Monkey Island.
Yes, and I agree with that too, and so does Mark (though I don't speak for him of course, but judging by the other stuff he's doing).

It's just that there are more ways than one to achieve that goal and essentially by selling threewords.me Mark just made pretty good profit by selling a 'good' (threewords.me + the work invested) to a customer.
Google’s greatest skill – and challenge
It's likely that the idea was either misunderstood or not expressed properly. That paragraph is kind of true... just written in a very weird way that doesn't really show this process in a good light.

Yes, Erlang embraces failure and provides ways do deal with it by design. No, it's not a replacement for exceptions. Especially that Erlang does have exceptions to deal with the typical "could fail, so we'll just `try` it" programming.
For the average consumer, I think 4gb is more than enough Ram, they don't need anywhere near 24gb. I wonder what percentage of the computer market is scientists who need the massive processing power yours does?
I don't think it has anything to do with Apple or Microsoft or competition. I think it is Google's reliance on algorithms over people that caused them a lot of problems when human interaction is needed.

I see Google's bad PR as pretty much in line with Paypal's problems. A blackbox that people depend on. Paypal is that way because of fraud detection that errors on the guilty side. Google is that way do to lack of support infrastructure and a deep belief in the supremacy of algorithms. Add to this a motto that is easily mocked and makes for great link-baited headlines and you have Google's situation today.

The only thing being a competitor to Apple has influenced this IMHO is that it places Google in the consumer arena where they are not well structured to deal with customers. More avenues for interaction is the problem not the companies they compete against.
Ask HN: Please review the photo sharing service I just launched
I've spent nights and weekends for the last month and a half building out Melts My Heart. It's a simple/beautiful photo sharing service targeted towards parents (specifically moms). One unique feature is that on the child's page you'll be able to select a theme and photo filter which right now defaults to one that makes the photos "pop".

Looking for feedback!!

Here is an example of my son's page, http://tavin.meltsmyheart.com.

You can sign up here: http://meltsmyheart.com.

The premise of the site is that you add your children and then upload photos of them (or select their photos from Facebook/SmugMug). The site determines the age of your child in each of the photos and creates a "timeline" view of their life.

Known issues: Facebook photos suck and if you go with their default low res uploads then they don't expose originals via the Graph API - so no EXIF.
Since it's XBMC based, does this mean we'll see Boxxee soon?
Kinectic in Squeak (Smalltalk)
@vischeck.com, I have two suggestions to make more people want to try your online tool:

1. Put some basic stats next to the options for Deuteranope and Protonope. Percentage of general population affected would be good.

2. Let people enter an image URL as an alternative to uploading.
Better still, and I appreciate that this would be more complicated, let people enter a web-page URL, grab a screenshot of that web page, and process the screenshot.
I think a company will try keep their environment the same, so if they're a ruby shop and everyones on Macs, then it makes sense to keep it that way. If you're a big enterprise shop doing .Net and everyone is on Windows, they're going to keep everyone on PCs. If the shop is really small enough to let people choose which platform they want, I guess that could work, although they make get caught out on some issues like license costs.
I had the fortune of doing a lot of work with Erlang over the last 3 years, even helping to ship a product that relied on it for some middleware. Erlang is great for some tasks, and if you don't know it (and you're of a programming discipline) you should learn it, if only to get comfortable with Actor concurrency.

My newest job requires interoperability with a lot of Java code, so I've been working with Akka, using Scala. While I haven't yet been able to examine if it really can scale the same way that Erlang does, so far its been off to a fairly good start so long as you are disciplined.
No, not a typo or a joke, the mentality of an Erlang programmer is to (and this gets beaten to death in books) "Let it crash." It is ok to let processes fail, you build restart strategies for certain processes so that when they do fail, your supervisors know: how often to try to restart, how many times and of course which module.
I feel your text for TDD and Agile is the same used to hype the terms by the proponents.
SOAP - Remote procedure calls (maybe) that use web frameworks and XML when I all really wanted was to know the latest user setting.

CORBA - Remote procedure calls (maybe) for object-oriented programmers who can't agree which language to use, but are expected to agree on how to represent it.

Design Patterns - What to use when your language isn't up for the task.
OK, but the second part of your sentence said that in that respect it is like aesthetics, which I don't agree with.
Biotic Games
With Etoys, Smalltalk is arguably more visual than languages with "visual" branding.
Clickable.

Child's page: http://tavin.meltsmyheart.com

Main site: http://meltsmyheart.com
@Ramine we're not talking about being the first European in terms of the first program in Europe, but in terms of being the first ones that operate on a PanEuropean scale with the same program in 4 different countries. Sorry for the misconception, didn't want to infuriate people or to think it was a PR stunt.
I did not see "DSL" in your list.
I thought you handled it extraordinarily well, and this should be a case study on what to do when you've got a successful project on your hands that you aren't inspired by

And once I find out some kind of number for the sale amount, that's exactly how it will get written up on swombat.com.

Edit: apparently, the figure will not be forthcoming. Oh well.
Twisted seems like a good option. Here is a good question on stackoverflow with some comments: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/117561/what-are-good-open...
Although, you should try to find something you have a personal interest in as well.
I'm learning python as well and would benefit from an answer to this question. A friend suggested building a web scraper, which sounds reasonable, but I'd also want to work on a larger endeavor (but not too big).
I wholeheartedly agree with this speculation ...
This article and the algorithm in it is pretty weak. The trouble is that encodings are commonly misrepresented in the metadata for documents, and that many documents are encoded in ways that aren't quite right.

For instance, it's frequent to find web sites that contain mostly US-ASCII text with a smattering of ISO-Latin-1 and UTF-8 sequences for characters with codepoints > 127. This happens because, with many toolchains, text can get combined in different encodings.
Ranking Economics Schools--A nice format.
Based on the fact that two other people here apparently didn't finish reading the paragraph either before commenting: if it was a joke, it was a bad one. :)
If we're not talking a large number of machines, then I've always thought Macs would be a good choice simply for the lack of virus/security threats alone. Never really seen that expressed though.
Mozilla To Block Skype’s Browser Toolbar – Skype Responds, Recommends Upgrading
I wonder what is the "next Java" then? JavaScript?

(NB I used Java a lot from 1995 to 2002 and I'm now a big fan of JavaScript - the appeal of being able to do client side, server side and DB coding in one language).
Memory is a high margin item on a VPS, so it's just a guess, but this solution would probably buy you a few extra days, but wouldn't be a long term solution. So you are talking about buying up more and more tiers which gets very expensive and there's likely a pretty low max in any case. Your original instinct of efficiency made a lot of sense.
Animals have stopped migrating - and that could cause a disease epidemic
I tried this and was very impressed. However, I'm primarily an emacs user and switching back and forth is jarring. Can anyone recommend a similar Firefox add-on patterned after emacs?