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Months ago I went through that list and couldn't find one I liked. Half are not todo lists, a lot of them are downloadable which I didn't want and most were way too complicated. The few that had the features I wanted were too complicated. Do you use one of those?
Fuck that.

I think doing knowledge-worker things on an Android-alike, let alone an iOS-alike, would be _awful_. My workflow sometimes involves "have the pdf of the research paper with the equations in it over here, matlab open over here, emacs with some C++ code integrating with matlab in it open over here, and a terminal open over here to build the C++, all arranged so I can see each and every thing (actually emacs and the terminal are transparent so I can see the research paper through them)". I break into a cold sweat thinking about trying to do something like this on iOS, and this is far from the worst case scenario - I do scientific computing, so most of the applications involved, apart from matlab, are pretty integrated into the OS (e.g. compiler, terminal, general dev tools). But what if I were a mechanical engineer, and I have Pro-E/Katiya/AutoCAD, whatever piece of crap windows application I use to program a CNC mill, and whatever other piece or crap windows application (LabView if I'm lucky) I use to integrate with the fucking DAQ, and, of course, Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint?

Being able to see and copy/paste between multiple windows simultaneously is crucial. "Mobile" OSes just _seem_ more user friendly because people only try to use them to do dipshit pseudo-productive tasks. Engineering on one would be awful.
Only people in certain countries matter. Most of the world just pirates software.
You may want to give it a shot now. I'm translating one of my favorite Jules Verne novels from French to English using vim and google translate (http://voyagesextraordinaires.tumblr.com/ if anyone cares). The machine does a fairly crap translation and I then puzzle over the French until I figure out what it means.
Everything that gets synced -- bookmarks, preferences, etc. -- or just passwords? Do you have a source for that? I can only find evidence that passwords are encrypted client-side.
The great thing about Sarbanes-Oxley is that it is large enough to get away with blaming everything on it. Oh, you can say, my accounting team says Sarbanes-Oxley requires this 40% markup. Then if anybody actually calls you on it, you can refer them to their lawyer, who will charge them $15,000 to research the question. Since they can't read it either, they'll give you a maybe.

The real amusement to the law degrees, I'm sure, is that Sarbanes-Oxley doesn't really do anything and it's just a scare word, like Communism.

/s

All kidding aside, just look at that lead-in on Wikipedia. I needed a shot at the end of that, and that's not even a section. I'm curious why this would be the case myself, and I'm still looking, a couple hours later. On a Wednesday night.
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I'm helping to put college students and grads into jobs and internships that they never would have found without http://www.onedayonejob.com/ and http://www.onedayoneinternship.com/
I have a fabfile I made to deploy to EC2. https://gist.github.com/860576
Edit: It takes a lot less than 1 hour
Can you explain what's nice about that (compared to alternatives)?
Speaking as someone who does not live in the Valley, if this is a bubble it's a great deal smaller than the 1999-2000 one, in the intangibles at least. Buzz may be up in the Valley but it's nonexistent out where I am.

I do think there may be a rush to declare bubble. You know, a lot of the promises that powered the first bubble are still true. The Internet really is going to revolutionize every business. Opportunities really are everywhere. It just was and is going to take a bit longer than initially expected, and 1999 infrastructure really couldn't support it. (Remember, in 1999, your top-of-the-line server chip is a Pentium III Xeon, built on a 250nm die, at 600MHz or so, and let's not even talk about the price of one of these. Or how your non-very-tech-savvy customers are supposed to get to your very expensive server.)
It's my understanding that ASLR has been in OSX since 10.5, but its a poor (in comparison) implementation. Interestingly, the recently released iOS 4.3 has it.

I really don't think that these security researchers as prioritizing based on winning a $1200 laptop. Given that this competition is time-based, I'd, again, say that they prioritize based on speed.
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I am on a 1024x768 laptop and apart from the horizontal scrollbar being a little annoying, I can only see "Ch" something link in the top-right of the screen.

Its your choice as to what screen sizes you support, but it seems possible to accommodate dinosaurs like me with little extra effort.

Nice site otherwise, listening now.
I found it very interesting how he applied data-analysis techniques [at time 12:33 in the video] to provide teachers with a better and correct understanding of each student's shortcomings (probably from his insights from his earlier profession on the Wall St.) that will take the student/tutor interaction to a new level!
Or, more succinctly: The page should open with the about info pre-opened.

I had no idea what convore is, clicked on "Convore", and promptly ended up at the exact same page (just with the full timeline visible), then finally ended up clicking the tiny "About" link.
Fun little thing to toy around with, for sure. :) The delay did drive me nuts, though, but I imagine that is quite a difficult hurdle to conquer with such latencies. Reminds me of doing music production work before I could afford an ASIO-capable sound card.
You realize that's not a compliment, right? Payola was terrible for music and terrible for musicians. On behalf of myself and all the other musicians I promote: You're hurting music.
Thanks! Note: You are liking the band when you do that, not us. Bands are going to LOVE us. ;)
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you can use special characters like @ and # in front of the labels you want to keep up at the top. you can even use the nested labels gmail lab to group them together.
You're certainly entitled to your opinion. It's just a strong stance to take for something you surveyed for 15 min. and then proceeded to compare to a few things that don't make a ton of sense. But that may very well be due to holes in the docs (hopefully the article did give a motivating example though).

I'd have to check the timeline again (I wasn't involved with rubber from the outset), but I think it predates both puppet & chef. Regardless, we've discussed adding a chef adapter. However, it's unlikely that would ever work with the chef configuration server since a large tenet of rubber is your entire deployment and provisioning configuration is wholly contained in your project.

Re: upgrading. If you want to upgrade to the latest OS packages, you can "cap rubber:bootstrap" or use "cap invoke" to execute whatever command you want on the remote machines. If you're referring to the rubber modules, you just re-run the generator when we issue an update, much like with other generated source projects. Or modify any of the rubber-*.yml files to specify whatever version number you want, since it's in your version-controlled source tree.

Don't get me wrong. I'm highly critical of the projects I'm involved in. It's the best motivator I can think of for improving things. I'm just trying to clear up any misunderstandings to elucidate real issues. I think the rubber mailing list might be a more appropriate venue for a technical deep dive, if you want. Or feel free to email me directly (nirvdrum@gmail). Or we could keep going back and forth here, but it doesn't feel very productive.
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Currently reviewing an E-Commerce site for a possible job. The thing is I can't decide whether to recommend for or against underlined links.

Yes they are ugly, but they make it easier to the non-webinclined to see. Just looking for some more opinion on this. Give me your .02 HN.
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ASLR was in 10.5 and 10.6 but it's not a good implementation at all (in particular the dynamic linker isn't randomized, and has plenty of useful code in it to play with, rendering the randomization basically pointless).

Most ASLR bypasses are when someone's found an application that includes one or more images that was compiled without randomization support and thus has a predictable load address and code to use; with OS X you get one for free in every application by default.

10.7 is supposed to have better ASLR, haven't investigated yet though.
Very interesting, do you have any sources on this? If I forget to set my alarm I can easily sleep for 14-16 hours before I wake, any day of the week. If one possible solution to this is to go on a total sleeping binge for a week or so I'd be thrilled!
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You can reenable the status bar with the Status-4-Evar extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/status-4-evar...
Depends on the location of your users. Quicker to have someone host it is multiple places all over the world (assuming you care about perceived page load speed)
If I do that I wake up at 4 p.m. What is my body trying to tell me?
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These are some great tips on how to find someone, like a family member or friend or even research family history.
That's funny, because one of the main reasons I've stuck to Firefox is its superior Vim emulation support (via Pentadactyl).
Your site looks pretty sketchy. Try to make it look more trustworthy, then re-apply for Payments Pro in 2-3 months. They might reconsider.
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Heh, I ran into Scott Kurnit and he asked me to take a look at it. I guess that's why.
Congrats guys. I have been very impressed with the quality of the music. Going in I figured the music was going to be crap but you do a great job of filtering. Goes to show how much good music is out there that doesn't get played through the typical channels.
For people who like this sort of thing, try ninjam: http://ninjam.com/
By the same dudes who wrote winamp.
Problem is you need a car first.
That's pretty nice...would be certainly helpful if it can allow us to use the different font sizes so we can test a lot more on one shot.
Yeah, ask the Romans why they didn't invent the hot air baloon.
What I found more interesting was that lack of those tools in current teaching. I can't believe no one's made those kind of analysis tools available to teachers before.
Thanks for being upfront about it - finally!

I understand where you're coming from - I wouldn't expect this to take priority. I do however continue to think that having a delete feature / account closure feature is fundamental to any SaaS application today - especially one aimed towards businesses.

What continues to frustrate me is being told that you as Yammer are unable to actually carry out this process yourself. That doesn't make any sense to me - you have access to your servers don't you?

I think there's a gap in what Support is saying and what any slightly technical user knows is possible - even if the "feature" isn't available on the front end.
I hear former Soviet people had to buy US manuals to understand how to program for their copied systems. But they had to claim they were "theoretical" guides, because the copied systems weren't officially copies.

And that they could study Western economics, as long as they filled it under "mathematics".
CS majors love them some Visual Studio.
Sorry, I should have been a bit more clear with my question, I wanted to do this programatically. I can find the latitude/longitude based on US zipcodes but was wondering what would be the easiest and best way to find the same for international locations.
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Historically this was more of a factor though - it's definitely something Miller has mentioned as being a part of his decision making. The prize structure has changed a lot: in 2009 Tipping Point offered $5,000 + the machine, in 2010 it was $10,000 + the machine and now it's $15,000 + the machine.
No, they can't both be right, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're at odds with each other, either. Perhaps some of those students might benefit or feel a hell of a lot better if they did get some sleep. I knew plenty of kids from Caltech and Harvey Mudd who did very well in school and didn't sacrifice sleep every night.

Also, I'm not sure "proverbially" applies to the requirement of constant study in this case.
Two really good (and popular) blog posts on HN by Justin.tv coders in one day. Pretty interesting PR strategy to humanize SocialCam from the bottom up as they ignite the engines for SXSW.
Apple is also apparently sharing an developer version of Lion with security researchers[1], so hopefully it'll be more secure by next year.

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2011/02/26/apple-wises-up-by-sharing-...
It is not true. Distribution and promotion is broken at the moment. By helping find the right audience and right sound $10 at a time, you don't have to be 50cent to evolve your music in the street.

If you are promoting music, is there any reason why you wouldn't use earbits to test new audiences?
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Had in mind Visual Studio Express (heavily crippled vs the purchased editions), the commercial Ada and Lisp IDEs whose free versions have onerous limitations, etc. There's a lot out there beyond the java IDEs.

And before we hold a eulogy for the vast swaths of poor put upon hobbyist devs who can't raise $5 or access the App store, you might want to establish the existence of these people actually having these problems rather than asking us to be outraged at a scenario in your imagination.
You need exercise?
To everyone having concerned about the delay, it's not a network issue. It's because notes play on key-UP, rather than down. (Because we're silly like that).

Let go of the key and the note will show up instantly. Sorry!
How is that an advantage for listeners? Payola was made illegal for a good reason. Pay to play live venues are treated with derision by music fans. I really don't see why any music fan would choose this over a model where music is chosen based on merit alone.
The other referenced blog post:
http://abstractnonsense.com/life-at-a-startup/
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2302214
I didn't mean it either way. Payola existed and still exists in various forms; It's ingrained in the music business as a form of promotion. I would, however, like to see it be a bit more transparent, though.
Why would it now, when gas prices hit higher than present in 2008.
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Just found http://plugbucket.net, they look pretty cool. No weird TOS restrictions, and the flat shipping to anywhere in the world is pretty nice as well. $9/mo with a $150 initial purchase fee or $22/mo with nothing extra upfront.

They're debian 6 boxes, with 100mbps bandwidth and 512mb ram; only downside is all additional storage (besides the 512mb onboard) is mounted over NFS.

Just ordered one, can't wait to play with it
Really wonderful reminder of what just one person can set in motion. I could easily see him becoming considered one of the most important people of this century based on what he is doing for education and its globalization.
I'm kinda in the same boat. I've been blogging about my 'turning hacker' journey at http://pragmaticstartup.wordpress.com. You might find it helpful. I've got some posts on learning Python and why I chose Python as well which might be interesting.
All in all, good luck!
In case you're wondering what 9999 is talking about (like I was) check this wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola
This is the first comment I've seen that actually makes sense. Given Microsoft got hauled in by the EU for millions (billions?) for giving away IE, simply charging a modest fee for your product provides a safety buffer to counter any such claims.
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Preparing for the California Bar Exam was a fascinating experience for me. Not only was it the most mentally challenging endeavor I had ever undertaken, it proved to be the most psychologically challenging as well.

Fortunately, our two bar prep professors were not only licensed attorneys, but also Ph.D.s in neuropsychology. Part of our rigorous training therefore was not simply learning the law, but actually learning how to learn -- in particular, how to store and recall so much data on demand -- and above all, how to manage our time. (It turns out the human brain is actually quite good at writing and storing data, but really bad at what can be best described as "random access memory" operations: recalling random data at will, instantly.)

A great deal of emphasis was placed on structuring extremely precise "living schedules," for example, what to study when, for how long, when to eat, what meals, and above all, how and when to sleep. And how to force ourselves to sleep when we couldn't.

Long story short, forcing ourselves onto regular sleeping patterns was both immediately necessary and yet proved to be one of the hardest disciplines to learn: to force yourself to stop studying at a given hour (typically 10PM) even in the midst of learning something, and allow time to drive home, have a snack, rest, unwind, and then fall asleep by 11PM, to then awaken at 7 and be back at the library at 8... every single day, for 2 months... that was truly an act of willpower. Especially for me, as I've always been the personality type where, once I start doing or learning something, I can't stop until it's totally finished or mastered. Forcing myself to stop studying without having yet completed the particular matter was excruciatingly difficult.

The same thing proved true for the three-day bar exam itself of course: had to sleep between 9 and 10PM and awaken by 6AM, with virtually no studying at all in between days. At this point, you just had to trust your brain to marinate on all that it had absorbed in the 2 months leading up to those fateful three days.

Looking back on it now, it was due largely to my discipline with sleeping habits that I was able to pass the bar on my first try.
I've noticed this too many times... Insight anyone?
They've got 1300 artists... but so far no one is paying. So that part of the model remains to be seen.

If they can build a huge audience, I'm sure some artists will pay... will certainly be interesting to see how it all plays out (and if any major bands get discovered through Earbits)!
Neither Eclipse nor NetBeans can be called Java IDEs more than Emacs can be called a Lisp IDE. I develop in Python under Eclipse and I prefer Eclipse for general Java development. I prefer NetBeans for JavaME stuff and I absolutely love Emacs for Python, but there are things that Eclipse + Pydev do better (specially App Engine stuff). For what I know, the support for Roby and Rails in NetBeans is also very good.

Of course, Emacs is my Lisp (Clojure) IDE of choice.

As for the idiotic pricing of Xcode 4, I am bothered not by the price tag and the restrictions it imposes on some, but by the fact Apple's accountants interpret SOX in unique and singularly stupid ways.
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The tech biz has had boom and bust cycles for as long as I have been alive. While it's true that some of the bubbles are minor ones we should all be aware of the fact that the bubbles will always pop — it's not a question of "if" but "when" (and "who" does it impact and my favorite "why").

If you accept this simple fact of life you'll always do better when a gold rush does occur. Also the great thing about throwing away your rose colored glasses is that it makes you stay in the field for the next boom.

Yours truly a survivor of the original dot.bomb fiasco who got his first break in the era of HyperCard....
I really like Convore, so far. Hopefully it does't turn into another troll land.
When I started playing with node.js I forked their sample chatroom application to add a shared jukebox. Put on a song in the chatroom and everyone hears it.

https://github.com/akkartik/node_chat
He has stated in numerous occasions that his children use Khan Academy's videos.

I really admire Sal for what he's doing with global education. He is a big inspiration for anyone looking to change the world. Specially hackers.
>paying $5 to offset the bandwidth costs for the 4.24 GB download

That is ridiculous. Netflix would be making a loss just on the bandwidth if you stream more than 10 movies/month on the $8.99 plan.

And it's not as if Apple's hurting for money, they're rolling around in tens of billions in cash, max this will make them is about $20 million bucks.
One of the few good things about the existing music business is that you technically can't just buy your way onto the airwaves.
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Only one category for singer-songwriter? and only three (two of which are quite similar) for electronic? How does the genre-list expand? How big (and who!) is your editorial staff? Also, are online sales through Amazon only?

I'm not complaining as a listener, because my listening needs are already very well met. But as a musician and somebody who would really like to recommend Earbits to other musicians, this information is very important to me.
Hey 9999...I understand your skepticism. The advantage for listeners is no commercials or fees, and flexibility and features that are prohibited when you rely on statutory licenses. We haven't seen that current outlets rely on merit alone, and we're tired of seeing bands waste money on fliers just hoping someone goes home and listens to them online. I think you'll see that the artists on our platform are incredibly talented and high quality, and when you get your first free album by hitting one of our site's triggers, you'll see how working direct with artists benefits listeners.
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Only problem with that is that it's really not true.

ubuntu-10.10-desktop-amd64.iso: 695M

ubuntu-10.10-server-amd64.iso: 642M

natty-desktop-amd64.iso: 681M

natty-server-amd64.iso: 653M

Not sure I would call that "substantially different". Every Ubuntu ISO is a full CD's size, give or take.

Your reasoning for the difference isn't true either. X and X apps are most certainly included in the server ISO. Certainly, there's probably a few more packing the desktop ISO that aren't on the server one, but we're talking very little difference here.
You're looking at it wrong. Why spend $1200 on an Air of the $15000 when you can keep the whole $15k and get an Air. You get $15k with both, difference is if you want the Air on top of that or not.
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Looks great! Like the theme and after a couple of minutes trying it, I can see its uniqueness.

Do you mind mentioning what gems you are using? The hide/unhide of the child tasks looks good, and also like the dragging to reorganize.
Hey grncdr! As you can imagine, when you are building a catalog from scratch and working with every label and artist directly, you can't just fast forward to a massive selection. We wish we could! Almost every artist has been directly recruited, and every album is classified by our team. You can read all about them on http://www.earbits.com/play/#/about_us
Can't agree with this enough. Every time we make a new chart I think to myself, "Well that wasn't rocket science," and then when we show teachers they go absolutely nuts.
Ya, for sure. Bill was as awestruck as the rest of us.