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Microsoft kills Autorun for security reasons in critical update
English, Dutch, and some German, Frisian, Swedish, Italian and Czech. :+
Yes it makes sense that even in the case of a not real 'startup' as HN it still is too valuable to perform drastic actions. Thanks for sharing your point of view.
WSJ today said "next couple of months" http://on.wsj.com/dYaPqw
This is a slight tangent, but my dream service - and sadly I'm only half joking - would be:

* Enter in a list of all those family members I'm obliged to send birthday and Christmas cards to, including some basic demographic info

* Upload an image of my handwriting

* I'm reminded at the appropriate times to pick from a filtered selection of cards and enter a personalised message

* Printed & sent (bonus points: handwriting looks real)

Someone build this please!
> Always compare results with a null model that reflects luck.

If nothing else, playing poker has taught me this.

It's possible to win lots of money based on making exceedingly poor bets and getting very lucky. There's one card left to come, there's a 5% chance an Ace will come, but if it does you'll have an unbeatable hand, if not, you have a hand that beats 66% of the possible hands. Do you bet? What happens if the Ace doesn't fall?

A poor player who gets lucky will attribute his success to his obvious skill.

A skillful player who gets lucky will chide himself for making a poor decision.
Bing is almost as good as Google

It's easier to be a follower (or ahem, copy search results). Also if I'm going to switch away from Google it must be something truly better (like the difference I experienced when trying out Google after using Altavista).

and have a better way to handle spam by avoiding it completely

I like Blekko, but avoiding spam is an impossible dream. If there are search engines (or any filtering method, automatic or based on peer reviews) out there with less spam, that's because right now only Google matters. The only way to fight it is to be a moving target, which is what Google is doing.

Unfortunately spammers are also very creative, so it's a tough battle.
I'm asking how the police knew it was him before they grabbed him.
Business Intelligence Tools for the iPad
With your definition, anarchy is mainly a function of where you draw your borders.

yes, if you draw the borders arbitrarily. But it wasn't me who drew Somalia on the World Map.

In what way does a warlord differ from a government?

in what way feudal lord differs from a government? well, for one he's more likely to be enforcing his will, than any widely recognized laws.
HP unveils TouchPad, Pre3, and Veer - and hints at webOS on PCs
package managers like Apt and Arch Linux's pacman.
Doesn't the military still rely heavily on GPS? I have a hard time believing they'd tolerate any kind of interference with such a crucial system.
My first thought was that the name didn't make sense. When I think of "stack" I think of a software stack (LAMP, etc). I'm not even sure what a non-hacker would think of. Stack of pancakes maybe.

Also without diving into the application, the front page seems a bit long. On my 20" widescreen monitors I didn't even see the countdown timer until I scrolled. I think you could widen it, move stuff up.

I like the orange username idea. Makes me wanted to sign up (didn't have time to right now - at work). Also showing how many slots are left may backfire in this case. It looks as if you started off with 10,000 slots and only have registered a few users. You could try padding that number to give us the feeling that slots are flying off the shelves.

Good luck!
You know what’s cool? It’s not 100K registered users
I guess people feel at home with a double-brackets template engine. It mimics what exist server side for ages.
A pity as HTML in the browser is a DOM, not a sliced string.
Maybe the name signals an attempt to position it between the iPod Touch and the iPad?
haha, everything you just said is already in development! great minds think alike :)
Ask HN: What OS do they use at NASA?
I'm of two minds on the subject. On the one hand any professional working in this field who doesn't appreciate that change is a constant is just plain dumb. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to appreciate that the computers of next year are going to have faster cpus, more ram, more hard drive space, etc, and that this will continue, as it has, exponentially over time.

On the other hand, it's difficult to plan for the future. Even knowing that the hardware would be different it's hard to know how that will affect patterns of use and what variety of new uses will come about.

If the makers of windows 95 could truly have foreseen the future of the pc in just a few years (such as the prevalence of the internet and writable large format media) they would have not merely avoided the mistake of autorun they would have built a different product. But even so, making a product that would be viable in 5 years may not result in a product that's viable on the market immediately, it can be a tricky trade-off.

Windows 95 as it existed was a huge compromise on a variety of technological issues, largely to make it suitable for the consumer market of the time. The small ram footprint was very much due to significant security and fidelity compromises in running 16bit code, for example. Even after many of those reasons had gone away, the windows 9x code base was still difficult to fully replace, a classic example of the difficulty of any "full rewrite" project at scale.

As I said, the biggest mistake of that decision was in failing to appreciate the longevity of design decisions. Design decisions take on a huge amount of inertia, due to a variety of factors, even when they are recognized as being poor decisions they can be difficult to change.
Yes if you could actually get Galileo receivers !

Galileo changed the frequency to be slightly different to GPS to allow selectively blocking one or the other - but it's still close enough for this to interfere.
Why public monitoring is important (a follow-up on the EC2 issue yesterday)
Just to address point 3, your lawyer is compelled to break priveledge if you discuss a plan to commit murder (or another crime). The situation in this regard is similar, since his clients were committing on-going fraud.
This isn't just a clerical error, this is the very reason the FCC exists at all.

This would be like the FDA accidentally approving a new drug that gave everyone in a 1 block radius cancer.
The nook color has no market place access.
The problem is that the rest of the world will instead follow the clock. So for instance my son will still exit school at 2:10 pm, I'll need to prepare something to eat, and then we could spend some time to the park, but it's already too late to get some decent sunlight.
Yes - without it's operation many senior members of staff would be forced to learn map reading to find their way around Washington (or at least their drivers would)
You mean only the amount past (standard deduction - state taxes), right?

Even a low 6-figure income for a single person will get you pretty close to the standard deduction in a number of states (California, say) for just the state taxes.

Now if you're married, you have a lot more standard deduction headroom. But you might also have two incomes.
Ugh, c'mon, people. The FCC isn't planning to destroy GPS. I hate the FCC as much as the next guy on the Internet, but that's too ridiculous for consideration.

What they're trying to do is balance the legitimate right that one user has to a piece of spectrum, with the legitimate right that a lot of users have to some that's adjacent. They'd be looking at nothing but an endless series of lawsuits if they told LightSquared that they couldn't use their spectrum (which they have a license to), particularly since LightSquared has a proposal which -- yes, on paper, but what's on paper matters -- says they'll not interfere with GPS.

It looks much more like the FCC is giving LightSquared an opportunity, either to show that they can make the system workable, or to come up with enough rope to hang themselves, one way or the other. If LightSquared can't resolve the interference issues, then the FCC will have a much better case for an enforcement action than they currently do. (Although an enforcement action might require a rule change, because it's not clear that they would actually be in violation of the rules; front-end overload is typically the receiver's problem, not the transmitter's.)

I'm all for spectrum users being vigilant, and perhaps GPS users need an organization analogous to the ARRL (which protects the Amateur Radio spectrum, and successfully defeated the shitty BPL implementations that were kicking around a few years ago) to nip these things in the bud. But the conspiracy-theorizing is a bit rich.
So I'm required to divulge information to stop you from spreading false claims?

You said "they're just a prettier bing." I have ~100K lines of code in front of me right now that has nothing to do with UI, although I think UI is tremendously important and has been a primary focus as well.

Nevertheless, I've talked about all of this at length numerous times -- in videos, on HN, my blog, etc. Bottom line though is you can compare for yourself. We do certainly draw on Bing, but its importance will heavily vary per query and for many queries we'll look completely different. It really depends.
Agreed. I meant degrade to regular URLs, not the #! thing. IMO you don't need the #! for something as simple as switching articles.
How much bandwidth would that save?
You might look in to the 青空文庫 http://www.aozora.gr.jp/
$400. I might pay a bit more, but I'd love to see it at a $299 price point. Or perhaps an ability to buy in bulk for client projects at $299.
Math help on OpenStudy, like right now
Mostly Windows, but I have seen Macs too.NASA is not only rockets.It has lots of offices and labs.
For me personally, google is much, much worse than before. I don't find what I need.

What I think is sad is that alternative search engines still work almost the same as google.

Of course he's going to find spam if he searches for the most spamable content. But that's now what I usually search for - mostly I search for programming related topics or trouble shooting. The old google would give me the right result straight away, the new google gives me some page on the main vendors site that is unrelated.

There are many ways niche search engines could come up to solve this problem, but none of them seem really interested.
I just reread your original post [1]. I'd like to apologize -- I just skimmed your article and those by Burnette [2] and ars [3]. I came away with a very wrong impression.

The relevant quote is "I have discovered additional material that Oracle might present to the court as examples of copyright-infringing material in the Android codebase" [1]. Which is indeed true. The other articles draw a distinction between code in the repo under unit tests and code that is built and deployed onto devices. Which is helpful to Google, but still much worse than there simply being no Oracle owned code in the repo.

So, my apologies.

It would probably have been better if your original article more clearly distinguished between code in the repo and code that becomes a binary and is deployed onto the android devices, but it was also my responsibility as a reader to pick up on that.

[1] http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-evidence-support...

[2] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/burnette/oops-no-copied-java-code-...

[3] http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/01/new-alleged-...
It's credit-card-sized on its largest, user-facing side. It's the easiest size analogy and one most people can relate to. It is 15mm thick, which is 5mm thicker than an iPhone, but really, the only thing that matters is how it actually handles. We posted a follow-up with hands-on pictures here if you want to get more of a feel for the size: http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2011/02/09/hands-on-gallery-the-...
How about they build it in as a feature of Chrome? The servers can still send the canonical list, using cached results and all, but then it gets filtered down (and perhaps in the future reranked a bit) on the user's machine. As a bonus, it increases the value of switching to Chrome.
I guess I focused in on you placing statelessness as the primary condition. Statelessness isn't the goal or an end; it's a natural consequence of building a society without hierarchy.

Well, first of all I didn't place statelessness as the primary condition. By "state-wide" I meant "country-wide" or "land-wide", not "government-wide".

And secondly, I don't know of any other examples, but in my own country's history we had an anarchist society which had clearly defined hierarchy (that doesn't mean that people couldn't move between different levels of that hierarchy): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Territory_(Ukraine)

true, it wasn't probably a true anarchist society, but it is as close as it gets, again as I said, don't know any better.
And note, if a 'kill switch' is ever required, the agency that will enforce its adoption by ISPs? Just as with wiretap requirements and broadcast language/content censorship, the FCC.

Remember that before cheering on the FCC to have authority over which ISPs are sufficiently 'neutral'. (And don't be surprised when 'neutral' gets redefined over time into 'compliant with the FCC's political biases'.)
Has the FCC ever bothered to actually go after people that abuse bits of the spectrum? Wardrobe malfunctions they are right on top of - but anything that requires technical knowledge seems to escape them.

GPS does have a group that protects it's users - I believe it's called the USAF.
I haven't thought about it. We don't need or want to. But you probably could if you wanted to.
In one of the comments, OP says he is 14, so at least he's found a good resource and has plenty of time to learn...
The only possible way it could be done is if they start charging a subscription for the service. Anything else would pretty much kill it, and adding a subscription probably would too.
Since I can no longer edit this post, please see
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2199496
Which sounds like an exact description of the emotional life of a founder.
Gruber Hints at iPad 3 Coming this Summmer
Now corrected because ping is round trip and distance was one way.
thanks gustaf!
> Well, first of all I didn't place statelessness as the primary condition.

I apologize for misrepresenting your position, then. I still don't fully understand, but this is getting way offtopic anyway.

> it is as close as it gets,

I'm not ultra-familliar with that particular example, but there is a big list here (It's one of them): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_anarchist_communitie...
Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem
I have to admit WebOS on a tablet size screen seems like a thing of beauty. Multitasking on this device is much more of actual multitasking than it is on the iPad. It's one of the reasons I never kept my iPad.
The fact that they did not announce battery life or pricing is of concern. Apple has become a master at controlling their supply chain and unless HP is able to do the same, this thing could end up with Xoom like pricing, which would make it dead in the water. Hope that doesn't happen.

Oh, and HP, its about time to get rid of the physical keyboard on the Pre.
I've yet to see a mainstream mail program except for Thunderbird that has real threading.

The number one thing I look for in a mail program is threading. Then good filtering and usability.
" the stories on the frontpage are not much different from those we'd have had in the first year."

This is the real story. I noticed that about 4 months ago the nature of Hacker News seemed to veer out of its original emphasis and now it's back to what it used to be.
Best Islands in the world
A few years back, a local WISP (in Montana) was shutdown because they were breaking the Part 15 power rule in several markets. Their custom made radios were putting out over 5 watts EIRP, when the maximum legal limit is 1 watt. It took the FCC several years to get out here, but they did do it.
Are the requirements for 'fluent' going down?

I do not think I am fluent in english, sure, I can keep a professional, academic or personal conversation in english for any length of time without any real problem. On the other hand, if I meet a native speaker, I notice how much worse than them I am at finding words and how my language does not flow as it does for a native speaker.

(I know english and swedish, knew french and studied spanish and japanese. Would love to study chinese at some point too, I find their writing system very interesting.)
I'll fudge the remaining slots and see what happens if I reduce the size of the title logo. Thanks!
> It's the easiest size analogy and one most people can relate to.

It's also extremely misleading! I can fit ~20 credit cards in my normal wallet. I can fit 0 of these phones. Given the headline, I think most people were expecting something that is a similar size as a credit card; maybe we could start keeping our phones inside our wallets! So many cool ideas come from this, but they are all destroyed when we realize the phone is actually significantly larger than even a stack of credit cards.

I hope I'm not coming off as mean, or rude, here. I just got so excited, you see! Thanks for the extra link, it does help get a good idea for size.
Wall street:Money never sleeps, or the first Wallstreet?

Money never sleeps was decent, never saw the first one.

Also add Glengarry Glen Ross. Thats where "ABC, Always Be Closing" came from.
Also would be interesting to see how HN points are correlated to page views.
He has a second counter that shows 350,000+ visits, but there's no explanation for the discrepancy.
$450. Has to be cheaper than the iPad2, especially since the iPad2 may come in at 1.25lbs. At $450 they have a hit on their hands. At $600 they struggle to move them.
Very cynical, and wrong. Revenge is carried out by the victim or someone who is emotionally attached. Justice is an objective third party, punishing based on evidence and an established standard which the offender has knowingly agreed to and broken. (By being a citizen of our country, you have implicitly agreed not to murder, for example, or by signing this contract, you explicitly agreed to complete the work.)

Sure, justice gets twisted on a regular basis. But that doesn't mean it doesn't exist, as a concept, as something different from revenge.
Funny enough, if GPS does get jammed, the USAF has a whole lot of equipment that would be almost useless... Like every modern airplane they own.
> I think most of the phones are trending toward a larger display.

Which, as far as I'm concerned, is an utterly terrible idea. I tried a 4.2" phone, I'd need a 4th phalanx at each finger for it to become comfortable (and the real estate in my pants is not sufficient for comfortable wear), even though I believe I have pretty standard hands for 180cm height. First time a device made me think I had small hands.

The thing was unusable single-handed (roughly 25% of the screen was not accessible to my thumb with a standard hold) and not enjoyable when using one hand to hold and one hand to use (hand felt overly stretched)

> I wonder what the appeal of a much smaller device will be compared to most of the industry moving to larger screens.

I'd expect many women to enjoy phones which don't require two hands for usage.
Startup.com and E-dreams are documentaries about high flying startups (GovWorks and Kozmo.com, respectively) from the first dotcom boom.

Interestingly, both document NYC startups rather than Silicon Valley ones. There are some great Sand Hill road scenes in Startup.com, though.
I don't want to reboot every time I want to do something different.

I've tried to dualboot Windows and Linux from time to time, but I end up never doing it because rebooting is a hassle. I can't imagine rebooting just to watch a DVD on my laptop.
Not at all. It's like the FDA approving a drug with a 100 mg /day dose, and a company rolling out a plan for 200 mg /day dose, and trying to convince the FDA that 200 mg is safe. Unless they actually get approval for 200 mg, they're not going to be able to ship.
tangent: isn't Hulu still blocking access from phone-like devices?

Agree that navigating flash sites on a screen this small will be frustrating.
This was instantly what came to mind for me, followed by tab completion in the shell (expanded by the bash-completion package to become utter perfection).
Possible variant: Accept a picture/image of a handwritten message, and apply it (cleanly) to the card / piece to be mailed.

EDIT: I'm thinking of e.g. an image from a cell phone, if you can get sufficient quality. Not something that becomes significant effort for the user. Bonus points if, or necessary that it looks (fairly well) handwritten.
Yes! Some more color or graphics are okay, but just the minimal, please thank you.
Talk to the college, and ask to do a gap year. I think almost every major university allows you to do it. Explain your job opportunities and tell them you want to pursue them. If they are over-enrolled for next year, they might even encourage it. This way you don't lose any of your opportunities.
Try http://tinyprints.com or http://minted.com
I want role models who are happy, not rich
There's quite a difference between an unmonitored event and shooting oneself in the foot. We're a technologically capable, conscious, foreseeing species; things having happened back when we were not are not an excuse to behave today as mere beholders, or worse, as levers of the system instability.
> Something about Sparrow just doesn't feel right.

No search box?

It's buried in the menus though.
Such people are less likely to be promoting themselves hard on the Internet, instead being content not to have "profile".
In that case, the best analogy would have been to say it was "wallet-sized."

It's more accurate, and just as easy to relate to.
Treating super bowl winners and science fair winners differently
I see this one come up time and time again, Accessibility is not implicit to server side rendering and is easily managed via client side rendering. It is one of my companies specilizations we do client side web app accessibility and to be honest building an accessibility layer with client side logic is far easier than dealing with it via the degree of separation that the server creates. There are many tricks that we use to fool JAWS into doing what we want that are just not available via server side rendering. Accessibility is not hindered by client side rendering if anything it can be enhanced.
Printed & sent

That's the big thing I see missing here. "Having it sent" is the goal of the game. Otherwise I might as well snap a personal photo and send it with Postino (which is how I am doing things now - and unscientific sampling shows that is much more likely to stay on somebody's fridge long after the event is past).

Still, wrapping paper has some potential, especially if they offer good quality paper, which Hallmark/Walmart/whatever don't seem to carry much.
HP using webOS for 100 million PC/ Laptops next year
Hebrew Domains Clarified
> If Android is maturing quickly and free-as-in-speech, why wouldn't HP simply adopt that?

1. So they don't depend on an other corporations with views, needs and direction separate from theirs.

2. Because WebOS is a better OS than Android.

3. Because they're tired of their status as a "me too" corporation.
> While an IPO is a possibility, so is an acquisition. Several months ago, while it was doing its funding round, Twitter had incoming interest from Facebook, which lobbed in a $5 billion soft offer, as well from Google.

Wait...what? FB offered $5B to buy Twitter? WTF! I guess that Goldman deal has gone to Zuck's head. That seems a bit crazy to me.

With FB revenues of just $1.2B - $2B, that offer was the equivalent of 2X - 3X revenues. I know that it was probably a stock and cash deal - but still. That's ridiculous, when you compare it to what FB is making. Sounds a bit exuberant if you asked me.