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You may be right that Facebook has not peaked, but saying Facebook overthrows countries is kinda like saying the inventor of the quill wrote the Declaration of Independence.

Civil dissent overthrows governments. Ubiquitous communication methods certainly help organise civil dissent - but let's not forget that the French in 1789 managed it with pamphlets and soapboxes.
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I found #3 to work great for me. Take on a 'management' position or another position that does not require you to spend mental cycles on programming during the day, then code at night.
If the "normal person" is incidentally using Ubuntu and Cyanogenmod, all we have to do is plug the phone in via USB, turn on tethering on the phone, click "HTC Android Phone" on "the two computers on the screen" (nm-applet), and that's that.

This hasn't been my experience. Mine is similar, except you don't even have to click anything: the usb network device is detected, and network-manager immediately attempts to get an IP address. Then you're online.

There is no way it could possibly be easier.
Hmmm. "More capitalist" would be to eliminate local sales tax to allow businesses to compete.
Honestly, I'm tired of the way companies try to market Internet to the masses. Too many people/articles focus on "1Gbps, blazing download speeds". Yeah, for a day, maybe. With bandwidth caps, you can't actually use your connection at full potential all of the time, so I question the way they market it as "1Gbps". Call me when it's confirmed that the 1Gbps package comes with no bandwidth cap, that would be something to write home about.
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You're dodging the essence of the question. Give us one real world example of a case where tax evasion has been A Good Thing.

yummyfajitas, it frankly sounds like you're econtrolling. I looked at your profile and you seem like a smart, educated person, so I'll respond in good faith so you can see how weak your arguments sound.

> Taxes are compulsory only to prevent freeloading

Says who? This sounds like a stylised model from Econ 101.

> A tax shelter is only inefficient if it allows a company to consume services while forcing others to pay for them.

Prove it.

> Amazon doesn't enjoy the benefit of the CT state police.

I don't use the Merritt Parkway but that doesn't mean I don't owe tax on it.

> Pareto efficiency is a purely theoretical construct.

This from someone who just boiled the entire political economy of Connecticut down to a prisoner's dilemma?

> If a company does not consume those services, it is inefficient to force the company to pay for them.

What is your reasoning?

Perhaps you are sharing these thoughts before giving them a sound-check? I don't mean to be rude but what you're saying doesn't make sense coming from someone of your educational background.
Most people that use window managers like Awesome have no need for a composited window manager. Yes, they make window moving smoother, but you don't move windows in Awesome, so it's just a waste of resources.

Similarly, I use VDPAU output for mplayer and full-screen it, taking the window manager and compositing manager out of the equation entirely.

Not everyone wants OS-X-style eye candy.
Somebody could try creating a Linux distro that focuses on certain hardware and "just works" on that hardware. Something like "Lenovo Linux" that only works on high-end Lenovo laptops.
you're using electrical equipment barefoot?? that's not too smart...
I think everyone is missing the biggest factors here - faith and integration. The way something becomes currency, is that people believe it will still have value in the future, and it becomes widely accepted for goods and services. These are, by far, the two largest factors that could drive even a digital currency into use, by themselves. This is why Bitcoin is so risky - nobody knows if the general public (albeit the entire public) will eventually accept Bitcoins for their product. I'm pretty sure that if certain companies had not started accepting them as valid currency, the Bitcoin would already be worthless. But because companies, which are large groups of people, believed enough that the Bitcoin would be worth something between the time that it was received for a product and then spent again, Bitcoins survived and even increased in value. Since there is no way to know if people will want to use these other than to throw currency to the wall and see what sticks, it is extremely risky. I would NOT recommend anyone pay for Bitcoins with an already-tested currency such as cash or credit. If you are, however, interested in acquiring a few of these Bitcoins, try getting free ones for online services, such as "mining", completing surveys, answering captcha's, etc.
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but there will always be winners and losers in any economic game

I believe you mean to say 'financial' here, in place of economic.
And I made a price comparison chart with fiat currency conversion: http://fnoose.com/bitcoin/arbitrage/
It can be a nightmare for a engineer like myself to fix problems, even though I've been using Linux since the mid-90s. An unsophisticated user would be finished.

I hear this a lot, but nobody ever actually describes the problem they have. You mentioned priting. On my minimal Debian box, you point your web browser at http://localhost:631 and click shit and then the printer works. (If you want to improve print quality / feature support, then you probably need to google to decide which driver is best.)

On my Ubuntu 11.04 box, you type "printing" into the thing at the top left, click "add printer", click "network printer", click "find", and click "ok". That's it. Then you have that printer in every application, and from the command line via lpr.

It can't get any easier.

The only way you can run into problems is if you buy a printer that's not supported by Linux. And I think that's where most people run into trouble -- they buy something unsupported, and then spend three months googling in the hopes that maybe it's not really unsupported. One time in ten, it turns out that it is. The other nine times lead to stories like "Linux never works".

Nope, shitty hardware never works. Linux just hides that from you less than Windows.
Ask HN: Best day/time to post question to HN?
Based on your experience, when's the best time to post a question EST to get quality answers before it gets buried?

I.E. If your asking a "tech" question for SV types is early morning PST the best time, so about 1PM EST?
Quite not the same (full distro repository vs small amount of ported apps). Easier and useful, though.
Same here in Germany. Everything is underground, even in smaller villages. And there are even plans to put new HV lines underground.
The technology is great! I love the launchd/upstart way of doing things. What is completely unacceptable for a core piece of system software is the pathetic level of documentation. I should NOT have to source dive to write an init script! Whoever let upstart out of the door with the piss poor documentation should be lashed repeatedly with a wet noodle.
Qubes is not a desktop OS for the masses, it's a niche operating system for professionals who need a high security environment. I would doubt it would be discarded based on lack of game compatibility since anyone who has that level of security knowledge is certainly going to be able to dual boot into whatever more game-friendly OS they need.
> It makes absolutely no sense.

The US was first. Everyone else had the experience in the US to learn from.

New areas in the US do use underground conduits, but most cities in the US are pretty old.
Here's why the average Joe should use Linux instead of Windows: it's $200 cheaper. If all you are going to do is connect to Wifi and run Chrome... guess what, you don't need a Windows license.

After that, it's all details. Windows has spyware. Linux has apt-get. But users don't care.
Ask HN: Exercises to overcome learned helplessness?
I had a very controlled childhood. I coped, but my old habits are hurting me as an adult. How can I overcome the phenomenon of "learned helplessness" and use my will again?
For what is worth, Edward Yang is writing an excellent series on space leaks in Haskell:

http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/05/space-leak-zoo/

The series require Haskell knowledge but this summary is fairly readable if you have a good grounding on programming language theory and implementation.
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If you are interested in online political discourse, check out this paper:

Political Polarization on Twitter
http://truthy.indiana.edu/site_media/pdfs/conover_icwsm2011_...

and for more info:

http://cnets.indiana.edu/groups/nan/truthy
That site looks like it's from 1997. (It looks like shit.) There's no way I'd enter my CC#.
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We offer about 20% of our videos for free anyway, so there wasn't a need for a 'free' trial (we already offered it).

You're right about the video format on the video series. Audio would've been sufficient. However, all our other content requires screencasts and graphics to explain.
Thanks for watching! :)
> most devs don't want to write desktop software in C or C++.

What do they want to write desktop software in?
A depression doesn't mean a sudden drop in market prices. It means persistent GDP contraction, which has nothing to do with the value of a currency.

The drop is also not the first bitcoin has had. It's been highly volatile since the beginning.

This is just sensationalism.
I've never had a problem with a dock cable. Also, you can get cheap dock cables for under $5, just not name-brand ones.

For that matter, I've never had a problem with macbook power adapter cords, either.
Ask HN: Aggregator of prices by area, across all services/goods?
Is there no service which aggregates the price of all goods and services by area? Or a database which providers voluntarily upload their data into? A number of ideas could be built on top of such a database which all providers could benefit from.
Great programming tutorials: youtube.com/thenewboston. Search his channel for html, css, php, etc. Check out his website, he has everything neatly organized!
I suppose, yeah. I was thinking that you're essentially betting on the Bitcoin economy if you buy them.
That explains the recent LinkedIn IPO prices, people trying to guess how much the 'average' people value LinkedIn rather than how much you value it (or the value based on certain indicators)
Note that this uses a password known to SecretSync (but not Dropbox) by default (see the FAQ); to be fair, you can use a private password, but...
That's the thing, though: I am skeptical that your "professional who needs a high security environment" is going to be satisfied by this. It's turtles all the way down--while I know Joanna herself was one of the folks behind the Bluepill attack, why trust Qubes to not be vulnerable to its own version of the attack? (This is obviously an oversimplification and executing such a task is nontrivial--but breaking out of a VM was thought to be a lot harder than Bluepill made it, too.)

The closest thing to an answer to that, as far as I can tell, is multiple computers. Assuming Qubes works as advertised, however, it seems as if it doesn't really scratch the bigger itch--the technology seems cool (I haven't dug deeply into it), but does it address the social/usability problem of security, even for these professionals who need that high security environment?

From reading about this, it seems as if you could have stopped at "it's a niche operating system," because to my mind it seems like professionals who need a high security environment will just have multiple computers. If a segmented system like Qubes is not going to run the stuff that your hypothetical professional will want to run (games just being an example, and one that seems to have been misleading), then why would it be preferable to just rolling multiple computers? (Cost, which is the only advantage I can think of, doesn't strike me as a significant factor to folks who are actually doing things that necessitate this sort of security.)
Maybe they charge $30 for the cable as a signal that customers should be a little careful with it, even though it comes 'free' with an iPod/iPad/iPhone.
In France there are similar laws which make it hard to fire workers, yet I don't see the same phenomena of young people staying with their family until their late 30s.

A "young" Italian, by living with her parents, doesn't have to worry about rent, food or other basic expenses and can use her modest salary to pay for recreational activities.
Ebay used to have some rich pre-registration features like "watching", but they seem to have been removed in the last year or so. They still track logged-out profiles and tease a login with items that "you might like" and recent search lists. These hang around for years, I expect somewhere in Ebay Towers there's a top ten list of the Ebay identity that has been spread most widely across devices/browser profiles.
You're living in a fantasy world. It may be how you think the software business should work, but it's not how it works.

Your opinion as a software developer means nothing in this case. Ask your customers what they think. You might be able to get away with this strategy for a little while, but it's a surefire way to kill any product. Stop updating an app for a few years and see how great your sales are after that.
Literally every case of tax evasion under a government where the tax rate is too high and the marginal utility of higher taxes is negative.
Take a look at the age distribution for Republicans vs. Democrats. In particular, you're looking for people below 40, 45, or 50.

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-CONGRE...

A quick reminder, for folks who are disinterested in politics: politicians are, as a group, very much not like HN members in several regards, the least of which is age. And you should see the Supreme Court...
I really doubt TSR was a significant factor in this.

Perhaps people are worried about Gavin giving his CIA talk in two days. Perhaps Russians were funneling money again (like with egold when it was shut down) and completed their trial run. Perhaps some investor got wind of this cool thing called Bitcoin and told his assistant to buy in $150k (that alone would move the price +$10), then sold a week later. Or perhaps it was the non-stop increasing media coverage of Bitcoin in the past month. Or perhaps it was the weekend when it's harder to get money into MtGox and the psychological perfect storm of speculators manifested.

TSR was around since February, with steady growth up until the recent spike when they closed to new users. Perhaps that was a factor, but I doubt it was a significant one. I imagine most people who bought coins don't have Tor installed.
The fact that it's in the same industry is probably relevant enough from a legal perspective, and I'd say the wording here is lifted directly from the legal act they're planning on using as the basis of their argument.

IANAL YMMV etc. etc. etc.
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Ahh ok, thanks for the clarification
Nice work, but doesn't this do exactly the same thing as https://showoff.io/ does? And they linked it here a month or so ago I think. [1]

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2467107
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It could be used for anything TCP based at least, not sure if it forwards UDP. :-)
That's probably from people using their laptop too far from the power outlet so the connector is under strain, rather than moving closer to the outlet or using the grounded extension. Or possibly from letting the adapter brick hang from the laptop, rather than setting the brick on the table or another surface.
Ask HN: How much time did you invest in your startup until ramen profitable?
Time.at(ramen_profitable) - Time.at(first_code_line) = ?
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Is there something about your usage, or the way you arrange things, that might contribute? Do you wind the cord tightly?
Is this algorithm for simulating a quantum computer accurate?
yes,especially in area of digital signal processing,people still write the code in assembly and get paid for it.though there aren't many.its a low demand low supply area.
If the only reason to pay sales tax is the existence of CT affiliates, then the affiliate system is not sustainable.

Why not require all internet companies to pay local sales tax, regardless of where they are located? That seems to be the argument here.
Can you give a real example of a case where this has actually happened? (by marginal utility I assume you mean marginal revenue; governments do not have utility)
As far as I know you can use identical name for a different market. The question is how narrow can you define the market. Is it 'anything related to computers and networks', or we can say its 'voip' vs 'online music and documents and ...'.

Their biggest complaint so far seems to be that apple now completely overshadowed them in google's search results. Well, duh! Try to look for apple and see how far down you will find "Apple Corp." - the music label.

The fact that someone comes before you in search is irrelevant.
Could you share more information? A description of the process perhaps? Is there any difference between what BHP was working on and his process? (I realize that you may not have information now that you aren't working there.)

There is something about the parent article that doesn't sit entirely well with me. It might just be my inner skeptic, though.
This assumes that you can't break out of the VM, and that you can't gather information across the VM boundary. From http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2573618:

> ... [C]onsider e.g. http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~hovav/dist/cloudsec.pdf - cross-VM attacks are real, and extremely scary.
Pretty funny, but also disappointing.

Regarding this kind of ignorance: does new media simply make it easy for people to say stupid regrettable things, or does the "stream of consciousness" expose real issues at the root of racism?

I mean these are posted under people's real names and FB accounts, but probably with the expectation that it was private to their circle of friends. I'd wager most would withdraw their statements if they could be publicly confronted. But the fact that it was posted in the first place means it was a deliberate, conceived thought. So is this real racism, or just people "speaking" before thinking?
<tl;dr> C++0x is pretty nice. </tl;dr>

But ultimately, as long as it lacks memory safety, it lives in a mostly parallel universe from Java and everything else. It's not really becoming more Java-like. It's becoming more C++-like. C++0x goes in the direction of having better support for existing C++ idioms.
At work I have the fat grounded extension cord thingy plugged into the strip under the desk, with the end kept above the desk. When I get to work I just hook that to the brick. No need to crawl under the desk.
Localtunnel was around first, it seems: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2468324 (thread from the same post). also it is free.
The transaction show up immediately as 'pending' and will get 'confirmed' after about 10 minutes. Squareware can choose to conditionally accept the 'pending' transaction on the spot because they can simply wait for the transaction to be confirmed before shipping out your stuff.
Not exactly. This has a crucial feature where money stays in your wallet past 5 minutes of use.
Not sure if a strong magnet in your pocket would be good for transit cards or other mag stripe things.
I don't even think you have to go to "extreme" cases of people who are disabled in some way, and use FB to communicate.

The truth is, Facebook obviously provides some value, since people use it. But because of the sheer number of users using it, the value it provides is multiplied by a lot. The overall value to the world is huge, simply because so many people derive value from it.

I do agree that we hear more about FB because it's highly visible. My friend once told me that a startup that could make the world a whole lot better, is to create something that improves traffic conditions by 10%. Especially in countries with heavy traffic, this would literally save millions of hours for people. But it's not a "sexy" field, so it's doubtful anyone would ever hear about it.

P.S. Sorry to hear about your mother, hope she's doing well.
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Money well spent. Anything we can do to increase communications outside of officially sanctioned methods within the borders of these regimes is a good thing in my book.

The article is lite on exactly how communications within a geography link up with the rest of the larger internet but you need to forgive the poor reporters who are obviously in way over their heads technically. I give you nonsense exhibit A:

"Developers caution that independent networks come with downsides: repressive governments could use surveillance to pinpoint and arrest activists who use the technology or simply catch them bringing hardware across the border."

To the four cool dudes hanging out with briefcase gear on L street in DC: Pack those beasties with mesh wifi AND satellite uplinks. Make a few hundred and let uncle sam distribute them/pick up the bandwidth tab.
Because Republicans are always campaigning, I would guess. Same reason they are disproportionately highly represented on the Sunday talk shows.
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No I mean marginal utility. Governments have utility. For example, they do things like give people money to maintain roads. The marginal utility of higher taxes would be the value of the extra amount of road maintainance, and all other changes to the physical universe, that happens as a result. (Edit: So compare the universes where the government rakes in $x and $x+epsilon of revenue. Which is a better universe? There are plenty of governments where $x+epsilon would produce a worse universe. It might depend on who it gets the extra epsilon from.)
I suppose I theoretically could have bought all my ramen with bingo profits after about 2.5 ~ 3 years, although a) I kept working at the job for another year, b) actually doing that would have resulted in an "interesting" discussion with Immigration, and c) you probably shouldn't use this as a comparable since I was very, very part-time on things.
I'm not claiming they're going to be satisfied by this or that the technology even addresses any security problems. My point was that gaming in not a necessary feature or a selling point of Qubes and that the demographic who would a) know what this is and b) have a use for it in their business/research, is not going to use it based on it's ability to run Quake.
2.5 years and counting, for better or worse!
A computer that isn't yours that you have to download an extension and provide a user login?
I wrote this blog-post & essay/paper about HN a couple of weeks back. My finding was that there is not really a best time to post (in general, rather than asking questions) in terms of the number of replies you would get (but I only have looked at it starting the moment posts reach the front page):

http://foundation.logilogi.org/2011/5/9/the-best-time-to-pos...

During busy times thread-churn is higher, but more people read them and reply, while during low activity times threads stay on longer but are read and replied to by about the same number of people, just over a longer period of time.
It's just a joke, don't take it too seriously. The utility behind this is quite good though.