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I wonder if he will talk about it in this lecture [1].

[1]: http://events.ccc.de/camp/2011/Fahrplan/events/4555.en.html
Could someone explain what this means?
Left Firefox for Chrome
I love Firefox. Love it to pieces. I love the basic browser, and the addons that make it my personal browser.

But I can't bear the memory situation any longer. I have to restart it at least daily to make it give back memory. And after it's been running awhile it makes my low end laptop work so hard it sounds like the Batmobile spinning up its turbine.

I don't much like Chrome, but that's mainly because it isn't my customized Firefox; Chrome is a decent browser overall. The lack of tagged bookmarks is maddening, but I'm going to have to live without them.

I usually have a lot of tabs open, and as I close some I open more. Queue up a bunch of HN tabs and gradually work through them over the day. That's likely the root of my version of this problem, but it's my way of operating and so it's a problem for me. Maybe I'm holding it wrong.

But Chrome doesn't break a sweat, with 25 tabs open (not unheard of for me) or even 50 (my perverse experiment). And the beautiful thing is, as I close tabs, I can watch Chrome giving memory back.

I'll miss the vertical tabs, which I can't get to work on Ubuntu. I'll miss the self-contained It's All Text addon. I'll miss the just enough vim in vimkeybindings.

But I won't miss the screams and cries of my laptop.

Let's not say goodbye, Firefox. Let's just say au revoir.
Where did my consciousness come from?
no. i resize with sizeup (macosx) and the right frame with all the control elements is just a tad too big (in height) than half of my screen. i would have to resize with my mouse which - plain and simple - sucks.
At the end of the day, CSS frameworks like this generally aren't as useful for web developers as they are for developers like me who don't do web development full time an just want something that takes the pain away. The reason you don't see a need for it is because you're not the target audience for most of these frameworks.
White House, congressional leaders reach debt deal
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I'm using a chef's gel floor mat bought at Lowes or Home Depot (not sure of the store or brand, my wife got it for me). The standing desk experiment almost ended on day three with seriously aching arches, but the gel mat solved that problem entirely.
Thank you. That photo made my night. So that's what all these bins of clothes are for!

What brand treadmill is that? Is any particular brand best for a treadmill desk?
Agreed, this is my favorite too. And, after you encrypt your primary drive, you can either leave your Time Machine drive alone (which seems silly, but it's an option now, whereas before using FileVault created an encrypted disk image, which meant Time Machine could no longer backup changes-only, defeating the purpose of TM), or you can go into TM settings and encrypt your TM drive too.

You can also encrypt secondary disks on the command line. It all runs silently in the background until encryption is done.

There is a 20-30% disk performance hit (that I haven't noticed, on an SSD): http://www.anandtech.com/show/4485/back-to-the-mac-os-x-107-...
Used to be lots, but I'm aggregating more and more into Google Reader. Why waste time hunting when I can have it packaged and delivered? Fixing things like that is what computers are for.
> And angry mobs coming to lynch you? Give me a break, such a thing is unprecedented

Maybe you've never heard of the French revolution. Such a thing is definitely not unprecedented.
Have you read this new story at all? It's about other man and TC published photos of his ransacked apartment along with emails and talked to him over the phone. No need to speculate. And this new story just confirms what EJ has written in her blog posts. It adds up perfectly.
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The OP said he knows graph theory, it should be trivial for him then.
This just highlights major flaws with the AirBnB business model. I think a more accurate quote would have been that it's "a case study demonstrating that a niche group of people with shared goals can act in a fundamentally good way", translating that to the general population is where AirBnB will have it's growing pains.
Ask HN: Anyone else seeing Anonymous flyers posted today?
I was walking around southwest Portland today and every telephone pole had a flyer from Anonymous ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/turoczy/5996008552/ ) posted on it.

I'm wondering if this is an isolated incident, only happening in PDX, or if others have encountered these flyers?
Um, this is not part of the bitcoin block-chain? The bitcoin blockchain started way back in 2009. Nice try?

Perhaps this guy is Satoshi Nakamoto?

I am confused.
What are the penalty for not doing so?
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I think it got voted down because it has nothing to do with the forum post. The post talks about a "green address" system, not their strange techniques for security, and your comment makes no distinction. I had no idea what you were talking about until a couple hours and several similarly-cryptic comments later, and going to Instawallet's site and seeing it for myself.
She "backtracked" once the co-founder started talking to her about taking down her blog or changing it to put a positive spin on things. Before that she was only talking to the CS reps/CS manager, who were offering support (emotional mostly it seems) & asking how she was doing, etc.
How the debt was acquired?

No.

All this shows is when it was acquired.
Who Len was or what the blockchain is?

Len Sassaman was a very prominent member of the cypherpunk community who recently passed away.

The blockchain is the record of all transactions that the bitcoin network has processed. The blockchain is how bitcoin clients know who sent how many bitcoins and to whom.
Try http://hginit.com for a fantastic introduction to Mercurial for people familiar with SVN (or not).

Git was designed to suit kernel development (as shown in the article). For us simple-minded mortals who like SVN, it is much easier to migrate to Mercurial.
Since you are familiar with python why not pick up one of the python web frameworks(i.e. Django, flask, pyramid). As far as being afraid of the security aspects, don't be it is just a game. No one will die if your web game is hacked. On the other hand read up on web app security. Since it is something every web app will have to deal with, frameworks try to make securing your app easy.
Good point. A smart thief would wait a few months before trying to make use of the stolen information.
Love the idea of a Deluxe version. We had actually discussed it, but we were worried about diluting our audience across three versions of the app - it's hard to chart in the App Store if you split your audience three ways. Honestly, it's hard to chart period.

Once the dust of launch settles, we'll very likely revisit this suggestion. Our aim is to get our content in the hands of kids (of all ages!) that will enjoy it...and to make enough money to keep doing what we're doing. Your suggestion is perfectly compatible with that.

As for LMQ not being in your living room...well he is in mine. He's on my TV, in the drive-thru, everywhere...I understand your point, but my point is that I think that IAP is uniquely villainized for doing something very similar to what a lot of other industries have been doing for awhile - building on a branded experience and trying to make money by delivering additional value. But again, you are right - many people share your take, and a deluxe version could help to serve that crowd.

Thanks again for taking the time to share your thoughts on the app and related issues. Very helpful.
tnx for the tip. Turns out that opening finder was clipping off the bottom part where slider is. The only way I found out was by clicking and dragging the window downward an inch or two. Definitely needed that.
Arrington, "in his arrington way", is really out to screw AirBnB now.
Can you explain what Dan Kaminsky is trying to do with the Genesis block?

Edit: corrected for improper terminology. I understand now.
I use a gmail address for edge cases such as you mentioned. I also pre-emptively add people to my "whitelist" so they don't have to confirm.
This one is even more bizarre story than the first one. The part about left cat and stolen computer is hilarious. I'm sure there should be more to this kind of horror stories from Airbnb, EJ was just the first brave person to come forward on her blog. Kudos to her and Mr. Dayton, otherwise such things could happen to many more Airbnb customers including HN crowd. And everybody who is defending Airbnb now should think how would they feel if something like this happened to them or their home.
Nice but unrealistic!

Living at sea full time even surrounded by bright, talented and driven peers comes with many challenges that a start-up probably does not need to deal with (not even addressing the cost issue).

My credentials for saying so: I am a "geek" and a Yachtmaster 200t Ocean Instructor who worked on yachts and sailed across 2 oceans.

On the other hand, using a yacht in a harbour in SF bay, with "crew" on a b1/b2 visa working on startups should be investigated (yet again boats are expensive :P).
Banking != HFT.

I've worked at both a bank and an HFT firm, so I think I have some perspective you might find interesting.

To make a broad generalization from my experience, "Traders" at a bank are mostly non-technical Excel junkies. It seems like in your experience they also went by the title "Programmer", which I agree is a gross misnomer. Besides that, I think the most important thing to realize is that at banks, non-technical people run the show. The technical people are at the disposal of their non-technical overlords, and thus they spend their every waking hour implementing terrible specs like "do {some incredibly specific task}, and make it fast." Even worse, they are far down on the ladder of responsibility; a "banking programmer" has no feel for the big picture. This all culminates in what you describe: highly specialized/one-off/non-generic piece-of-shit code. But whatever, their MBA overlords don't care about the means, just the ends.

To make another broad generalization, "Traders" at an HFT firm are predominantly go-getter CS majors from top schools. Thus, if they have an idea, they implement it themselves. Any delegation of duty is done with strict specs, and bugs or terrible design in the finished product will get noticed. Incentives abound for writing good code: scalability/genericness is rewarded (have something that averages $1k trading symbol XYZ every day? You're a millionaire if it generalizes to many symbols), speed is rewarded (just the nature of the game), and bugs should lose you money (otherwise they are just unknowingly optimized around).

tldr: banking is like you describe, but there is plenty of quality in the HFT world.
If upsidedown smiles count, I would have to say that Launchpad makes me smile with its duplicate entrys and no intuitive method of organization/removal of entrys.
If it is not too personal, why did you stop? Also, do you prefer comments here or on your blog? To answer your last question in the blog: yes please keep going!
I've been standing for about 5 months now [1]. Assuming the research continues to stay the same (that sitting all the time, in spite of getting regular exercise, increases all-cause mortality), I will never go back.

[1] not continuously, lol
The block chain is always growing. This was recently added to it.
IANAL But it seems like this is a straight forward example of contract law. Why try and muddy the waters with copyright law?

In order to claim that you are owed payment for the material the claimant would need to admit that it was a work for hire situation and the nonpaying entity was the actual owner of the intellectual property rights. How can they be in violation of intellectual property law if it is their property?
I'm sorry if you answered this elsewhere, but why did you stop working in HFT?
Trashing is one thing ... but how long until a "guest" leaves behind some hidden cameras?
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I think I may have failed to understand something important. :(
Edit: Never mind, I understand.
I have tried the service and I also understand bitcoin to a certain extent. That is why I recognize that "address" in this context is not a URL but a bitcoin wallet ID or address.
From the earlier conversations on this particular issue, business insurance (i.e. landlord insurance, hotel insurance) is needed. You can't get business insurance to run an unlicensed business in a private residence, particularly if a) your home isn't zoned for it, and b) if it violates your lease (in the case of a rental)/HOA (in the case of homeownership)/local law (in the case of NYC/SF/Paris et al.). Is there an opportunity there for someone to step up and insure Airbnb-style rentals? Yes. Meanwhile, though, these rentals are not insurable.
I think it is interesting that this thread (at the the time of posting this comment) has 62 comments and 122 points, while 3 posts of the Bridgewater philosophy (which is quite interesting and a more substantial read than this article) have a collective 7 upvotes and 0 comments.
Sure it is. You can verify it yourself.

[tsl@pepper ~]$ strings -n 20 ~/.bitcoin/blk0001.dat | tail -3
:TXXXWw,_ "), ,wWT:
::TTXXWWW lXl WWT:
----END TRIBUTE----
[tsl@pepper ~]$

The bitcoin blockchain contains a record of every verified transaction that's happened to date - it needs this information to verify new transactions. Sometime in the last 500 blocks or so, Kaminsky and Goodspeed used a trick to embed this memorial inside a transaction, which is then dutifully stored by all bitcoin clients.
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I do not know what the genesis blockchain is.
When 2/3 of your packets are travelling from one server to another inside the data center, you're not "providing information to consumers" in a way that's meaningful or useful to anyone.

See the fallacy here?

Also, HFT's are present only in very small numbers (relative to the size of the financial industry in general).
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I was surprised that the article did not mention entropy even once. It rather used the term 'information content'.
> You want to buy a house? Well the only reason you can get a loan is that investor (and/or depositor) funds are matched to you.

Is there any reason why this should be enabled, and profited from, by a select few commercial IBs who are "in the know", as opposed to a government entity which reinvests the profits into, say, a low-income housing fund or social security?
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>>> If it weren't for Bill Gates, we might not be having this conversation...

>> but even if they havent, someone other company would've done so.

> Better not to speculate on how things could have moved forward.

It is impossible not to speculate. The GGP is just speculating in the opposite direction as the GP. We simply must back our speculation with reasons. Personally, I like the GP's reasoning.
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Most of this is relevant. It's not my idea that she get a new job, it's hers.
So you won't take a job because you fear a french revolution scenario...

Like I said, melodramatic.
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If I had to guess, 45,000? I've been a pure developer for 25 years with a maybe a couple years off in between contracts when I just worked on my own projects. When I code for myself, I only code around 5 hours a day.
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Absolutely agree. We (AnyLeaf) send a weekly email newsletter to our users, with one-click unsubscribe. Companies that make unsubscribing difficult are ruining it for everyone. Even though we are very clear about the fact that we'll be sending email and make it simple to unsubscribe, we still get users flagging our messages as spam. This seems to be largely because unsubscribing from email newsletters has become so annoying that a significant fraction of users will just mark a message as spam rather than figure it out, even if the message is not truly spam.

It's hard to blame them, especially when huge senders like Target make it so difficult to unsubscribe that the author of this blog post couldn't figure it out:

http://bigfatmarketingblog.com/2011/01/17/adventures-in-emai...

It's a shame that RFC 2369, which provides a standard for unsubscribing from mailing lists, has never been widely adopted.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2369.txt
I verified it by typing in the command. The ASCII Bernanke is truly hilarious.
I have offered her a few thousand dollars so that she could quit and look for a job.
You are mixing two different terms here: The blockchain is a list of transactions that are linked to each other using cryptographic functions. Each block in the chain links to it's parent block. The genesis block is the first block created, it has no parent block. As proof that Bitcoin wasn't started before a specific date, the block references a The Times headline ("Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks").

Dan Kaminsky figured out a way to embed ascii text into the block chain. I did not try to find out how he did it, but he probably created some transactions that include those strings. If you want to find out more about how he did it, he will give a talk at the Chaois Communications Camp related to Bitcoin.
I used to have yasnippet with some custom snippets, but then I kept using the custom o ones less and less to the point my last install uses the stock yasnippet package from the distro. I intend to rethink my custom, snippets and redeploy the more interesting ones.

That and loading extras and binding keys in a comfortable way.
After reading this I realized how many Meetup.com emails I receive. I've previously tried to navigate meetup's account preferences to unsubscribe without success. I was so annoyed I took the time to write them to tell them to put a one-click unsub button in their emails.

I got a polite "thanks, but not doing that" response. I find it really annoying that they can't or won't make it easy for their users to one-click opt out of group emails. I'd rather drop the service than take the time to figure out how to stop getting emails. Deleted my account just now.
Could you post a link to a product page for these desks, please?
The "excellent studies", which engineering management uses to claim that low salaries, but enough to survive, are optimal, are a crock. Where are the top CEOs making just enough to survive?

Here is the flaw. If you are properly compensated and don't have any other options, giving you a big fat raise doesn't improve your productivity, that's true and that's what the studies measure. Hey are you a developer? Here's an extra ten bucks, will you now come up with a better algorithm? No, of course not, because money doesn't make you a better developer, just as paying existing public school teachers more doesn't make them any less severely incompetent.

However, if you want to attract more productive people in the first place, you have to pay them more money because there is a competitive environment. The "excellent studies" try to prevent readers from noticing that that's not what they looked into, and it's clear they do this intentionally.

Do you think that Google would attract the same caliber of developers by paying what McDonalds pays its line workers? You must believe that if you really believe that these studies are correct in their claims that there is no advantage to paying more than survival wages.

The simple fact is that sustenance wages are not in fact ideal for attracting the best developers, designers, writers, actors and inventors.

If you don't recognize that, but continue to insist that the opposite is true, then you are intentionally seeking to deceive people.
I strongly agree with this. Working at a NYC startup, talking with developers at other startups, and observing the broader tech scene, the focus here is certainly not "technology for technology's sake".

This is one of the fundamental differences between NYC and SF. NYC does have a rather amazing tech ecosystem, but I don't believe its as granular or technologically substantive as SF/Silicon Valley.

I think each region has its strengths and its great to see NYC develop its tech sector. There are some pretty amazing startups here and lots of excellent hackers doing interesting work.
That's quite the memorial. And that ASCII Bernanke is STARING INTO MY SOUL O_O.
I would love to know why my comment above was downvoted. A link to a law review article about bitcoin seems to be pretty apropos to the discussion.
Awesome.

But I never know which side to root for with these things. Too much time spent thinking about how to build it!
Actually there isn't much government stuff here — you see that more around the DC area. Also if you think of the fact that a company like Google depends on ad revenue or that Apple is so focused on the the consumer space the fact that NYC is a media center can be a very good thing. Also while the city doesn't have a recent history with tech hardware if you look at IBM or AT&T they all grew up in the tri-state area.
What laws govern ships in international waters (or planes flying in international airspace)? From my quick research, it seems like the laws where the ship is registered applies, is that right? (and that many ship are registered in a sovereign state, known as "Flags of Convenience" which seems to have no real law?)
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I'd believe this if Patri Friedman were running it, but not otherwise.
Having the entire thread is also a major PITA most of the time it's included.

With a threaded mail client, if it's necessary to send the entire thread to someone, I can select "Attach mail" -> Tag the entire thread -> and forward it as a MIME-attached mbox.

If the recipient has, say, a powerful, thread-capable mail client, they can open the mbox, read it, filter it, search it, expand it, and collapse it in ways that aren't possible with the horribly lossy Microsoft Outlook format.

As I said: it's used extensively. This doesn't mean it works.
That's a really good idea.

Now that you said that, I think I'll build some templates for commonly added files (like importing Django or GAE modules when the file is called "models.py").