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I run Linux for kernel development - having to load binary drivers is a strict no-no. So 2010 Air with its nVidia chip wasn't really a choice and when I tried nouveau wasn't really stable (still isn't - RE is hard). With 4GB RAM limit on the Air I couldn't run Linux in the VM comfortably.

For the 2011 Air - RAM is still an issue and WiFi card is another one - Broadcom is still working on getting a beta quality OSS driver out.

Compared to that x220 on Linux is very well supported.
I can remember using a screwdriver as a hole punch, a paint can opener, a cutting edge to open plastic bags, and a door stop. I'm sure I've used them for other things as well.

When a screwdriver is the only tool handy, you'll often make that work rather than spend the time finding/buying a better tool.
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Ask HN: Is there something like HN for successful entrepreneurs?
I still love to read HN every day. But I also wish there was something similar for people who already built a successful startup. Something where I can discuss things like: How to spend all those $s. How to invest them. How to reduce taxes. How to travel the world. What are great places and what are great things to do there. What are interesting purposes of life after you have accomplished your financial goals.

I know there are some successful entrepreneurs here like Paul Graham, Gabriel Weinberg and Giacomo Guilizzoni. But they mainly talk about how to make even more money. I would like to think beyond that. How to change the trajectory as Derek Sivers once put it. (And even Sivers mainly talks about business. Looks like its damn hard to really change trajectory).

Any ideas?
As far as I can see Google hasn't gone out of it's way to make + a compelling end-all identity integration platform that combines all of my other Google services, (I'm looking at you Reader. Where's my "share with circle" button, hmm?) so I'm not sure where they get this idea that it's going to be one for the web at large is coming from.

I think the phrase "they're going to build future products that leverage that information" gives away exactly who these future products are going to be designed and built for. They very carefully did not say "that are going to allow you to leverage this information."
You are in the unfortunate position of being factually correct but opposed to how most people view their participation in this activity.

Maybe we could create a business where groups of people throw stones on a leather puppet and say it is good for their arm muscles and trains them in track and field.
I don't think newspapers and magazines are good examples. I'm given to understand that the consumer cost of a newspaper or magazine just barely covered materials and distribution. Advertising revenues covered every other expense. This changes your perception of what newpapers and magazines cover, at the very least.
Paper-rich assets inflated by the bubble are being repriced for everyone, not just one guy. An airplane is still an airplane, the fact that its unrealized paper value is less does not change its intrinsic qualities. The tragedy is when you have debt, etc and are forced to sell in a down market.
This would be really interesting, we'll look into it
Bluetooth interface for browsing information and calling via the modem interface is already here. Connecting those devices should be pretty trivial. So the phone and right connectivity is here. The other device is not.
I recently had the need of using multiple hotkeys for a web application I'm building.

I tried jQuery hotkeys but I had to drop it for a number of reasons: First of all is the unbind problem (well documented on their bug-tracker), if you bind N different keys combination, the callback function for each hotkey is called N times, and that's really annoying and there are no easy workaround. Other than that, not all keys combination are supported, some keys just doesen't work, and it also bind keys per value instead of code: it's basically designed for american keyboards only, the same key value might have different key-codes for different keyboard layouts.

So I came up with a simple homemade solution that words flawlessly for my needs: http://jsfiddle.net/2Saj8/

I'm looking forward to try out keymaster.js though.
I've spent a lot of money (mine and clients') on different tools, and I've settled on Keynote. It covers 95% of my needs and I don't have to manage yet another tool.

Being able to sit in a meeting wireframing on Keynote is wonderful. Factor in another $15 for the iPad app and I'm cooking with gas.

Meetings get super-focused quickly when the participants can immediately see output.

I usually upload it to Google Docs post-meeting for the remote participants.

Protip: Save your mockup files as themes so that you can get to them quickly and easily.
Also, here's a JavaScript game done in WebGL: http://www.playtankworld.com/

There're a lot of ways to appreciate a programming language, just like there're lots of ways to appreciate different forms of art. JavaScript is a messy yet versatile language these days. It's not as fast as C, but you can do a lot of things with comparatively very little code in a very accessible way.
Of course in the form/looks department nothing beats the Air so far.

But for me if I can get function with form I will go with it. Sacrificing function for form is not a luxury I can afford at the moment :)

But the point is - Thinkpads are well built, the x220 is thin if not as thin, and it offers lot of functionality over the Air and even if it doesn't look as flashy it doesn't look that bad - people are used to seeing Thinkpads :)

[ I noticed you deleted the running OS X part - if anyone else was wondering - x220 can make a great hackintosh if you swapped the WiFi card - it has an empty mSATA connection if I remember correctly. Apart from that the hardware should be OS X friendly.]
Im very much into light and small notebooks and I love the Lenovo X301. The big advantage over the air is that it has a matte screen. I run linux on it which works perfectly.
No actual wealth was destroyed. The real wealth may have gone from one rich man's pockets to another's. Or, in this case, a lot of it "trickled down" into the pockets of all the people who built his expensive playground and toys. Money is a representation of value; some of the "wealth" in this story was merely the result of a real estate bubble...it wasn't actually representative of longterm value, and he made poor bets on those properties. Some of it was transferred from one person to another, for the enjoyment of the spender, and resulted in goods that have much lower value to the market in general than to the original purchaser. That's pretty common of luxury goods. A new million dollar yacht will sell for dramatically less a few years later. It's not sad, it's just normal depreciation on luxury goods, and should be expected by anyone purchasing luxury goods. The extreme specificity and quirkiness of his luxury goods spending makes it even more likely to experience extreme depreciation.
If this was remotely legal, Google would have done it 10 years ago.
That's neat. But it's also the first I've heard of it. Do they promote it outside of the business world? I get the impression that they don't think of it as something a CS department or non-profit would use.
And that speaks English.

For example, there is this brand new country called East Timor (1 million people) who decided 9 years ago that the official languages would be Portugese and Tetum.

As for fast internet, while it is north of Darwin, Australia, it is connected via satellite to Miami, Florida. The fastest residential* internet money can buy is 512k/64k (on paper) for 200 USD / month. And that is already unreliable in the capital city.

Using your own satellite dish is around 1k$ for 1Mb/128k.

*Professional speed is up to 2Mbps for 6000$
Interestingly, after a couple dozen lyric searches, I did develop some lyric website loyalty. I'll still come in via search and leave almost immediately after, but I'll actively look for the sites in search results. Criteria include perceived correctness, readability, and not killing my browser (relative to other sites out there).

I also like Songmeanings' comment/user input area, which usually has sensible comments I am occasionally interested in reading.
Well, it's typical Thinkpad design, and Lenovo doesn't compete based on looks.

I suppose if style is the main consideration when purchasing a computer, Apple is hard to beat.
I don't think its pointless. I'm all for taxation, but we should do well to remember that all power comes out of the barrel of a gun, and to be aware of the consequences of how we vote and so be corresponding humble with our power.
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That is almost twice the weight of the smaller Air, with larger dimensions.

Since those are pretty much the defining characteristics of the Air, not really an "alternative".
I was curious - here's some pictures and a map of the place, now called the 'Painted Pony Resort':
http://wikimapia.org/13741915/Painted-Pony-Resort
Fastmail, exactly what I did this month. I'd already had an account on hot standby (it's cheap), I just changed my mail forwarding to fastmail.

I think it's a reasonable practice to spread your services around.
X220, replacing the stock HDD with a SDD. Clean install of Arch.

Points to note: when it first came out, I had to come up with a patch of tp smapi to get it to work. Not sure if that's still the case. You'll get inferior battery life in Linux, even worse than in Windows 7. I'm typically getting 5-6 hours on wireless doing not particularly intense stuff. Also some oddities with the special ThinkPad keys that's simply a matter of not caring enough to fix. Touchpad a bit funky.

It's a solid alternative, though I think I mostly chose it for a superior GUI, not the system itself.
Not an answer to your question, but it is pretty common for people who have "made it" to go traveling for a year or two and then realize they are bored. Then they go back to work. This is pretty common when people retire too. Retire, think they will spend the rest of their life traveling only to find out it gets pretty boring fast.

A lot of people work because they like to work, whether they admit it to themselves or not.
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I think the lesson is that no one has implemented a micro-payment platform that is usable / widespread enough to make a go of it. Credit card fees are killing the idea of buying content at the 5 or 10 cent level.
Interesting that the language of choice is Delphi. Presumably because it is a teaching language and easy to pickup quickly.
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For more insight into McAfee's mind (and a bit of a "before" picture), take a look at Outside magazine's article from February 2008, "Flying John McAfee".

http://outsidego.com/index2.php?option=com_content&task=...
Code that has been written and/or audited by cryptographers would qualify as 'real crypto.' I don't think anybody has a problem with someone putting together this package; the only problem is with the lack of a proper notice that the code hasn't been audited.
There's an interesting problem that is still unsolved in this space. Most people want JS crypto so that webapps can provide "end to end" encryption, relieving participants from having to trust the webapp service with their plaintext. The problem is that trusting you get the correct JS from the webapp for every message you'd like to send is reducible to trusting the webapp with your plaintext.

I think there are probably some novel solutions to this problem, but it would require work to be done by the browsers.
You nailed the problem. It's absolutely possible, even easy, to break even with a blog when the revenue has to pay a salary or two. Much less so when you expect the blog or online magazine to pay for a whole staff of professionals. I don't remember who, but someone popular blogged about this very issue. (A Smart Bear? DHH?)
This looks great! I think it's really important to show that these devices expand creative potential, rather than just fretting about the loss of paper books.

Something minor: in the slideshow with all the effects, the 3D effect implied by the shadow gets lost/convoluted by a lack of borders, especially in areas where the background of the slideshow image is the same color as the background of the page, as shown here: http://i.imgur.com/wXHl0.png

Great work!
A comment from that post:

"actually, i think an honest look at the security/privacy mechanisms provided by today’s tools precisely describes a case where ‘a little better than awful’ would be preferred. my mother emailed me some bank account information just last week. there isn’t any exploit required there. security software experts have failed horribly to provide tools that actual living breathing human beings might use and this is why most of them have just given up and use hotmail.

i personally find it astounding that the kind of people who will deny this probably have an actual brand new credit card sitting in their unlocked mailbox and feel perfectly comfortable with this fact.

your information’s security is only as strong as it’s weakest link. this includes the locks on your home, your mailbox, and the granularity you shred your trash with."
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I never said anything like that. I said in the place I live, there are few rentals available, so the decision is to buy in my town or live (rent/own) in the other town (with bad schools). My point was, the savings on private schools makes the "should I buy?" question much easier to decide.
Anyone try a lenovo x1? Seems like a good alternative, but haven't heard much about it.
Perhaps there is a market for some kind of service that allows you to make small 5 or 10 cent charges. All of these charges are grouped together and you make a payment at the end of the month in one go so the the fees are reduced.

Or it could work the other way round, you top up your 'account' with amounts from, let's say, $10 upwards.

This could be monetized by charging businesses to integrate your service into their products.
That's exactly the type of response a sockpuppet would post. :)
"..My father always said, 'Real estate, you can't lose in real estate' ... you know, oddly enough you can."

Mine says it too..
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id be pretty happy with 10M and nothing to worry about.
I imagine if there were such a forum, it would not be public like this because membership would imply "I have money" and that makes people a target.

I think a better approach would be to join forums related to specific interests which aren't dependent upon "I have made it as an entrepreneur." An expensive hobby would likely surround you with other people in similar circumstances in terms of financial success, though they may not have made it as entrepreneurs.
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That's a fair point. The idea that it could be used "for demonstration purposes only", though, seems to go too far in that direction. It seems like a useful library, just not for organizing a coup.
This reminded me of Living Books, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Books_series , which were some of my favorite childhood memories.
Do you buy your laptops primarily to look at them, or to use them?
Another interesting factoid about him is that he didn't start his software company until he was 44.
There are so many experiences to have in life, you would think that people with a lot of wealth would have many of them.

But, as this article points out, it's easy to trap yourself with the things you like. Like fishing? You buy a huge boat. Like flying? You spend millions on a cool plane. Like scenery? You buy several houses.

Pretty soon, all your time and energy goes into the things you own. Or, as people say, the things own you instead of you owning the things. John puts it very well: you can only live in one place at a time.

Once my startups begin to mature, I plan on renting just about everything. That way I can try many different things without the pain of ownership. If I find myself doing something over and over again -- and it would have to be dozens of times -- I might consider buying something permanently. Maybe.

Concentrate on experiences, not possessions (or money)

EDIT: I heard somebody refer to what happened as a "luxury consumption trap." Just wanted to add that nothing about this has anything to do with the amount of money involved. This is more about your relationship to the things you own, however much they might cost. You can tie yourself up with five dollar items as easily as you can five million-dollar items. (It's true, however, that people seem especially blind about this when this happens with larger-ticket items.)
I don't know -- this article at FastCompany linked from Wikipedia puts a different light on his move to Belize: http://www.fastcompany.com/node/1615167/print

Hard to say what the truth is here, but it's an interesting story nonetheless.
Isn't the fact that entropy increases over time itself just a result of a priori statistical laws and the condition of zero entropy at the Big Bang 13 billion years ago, rather than a physical law of the universe?
There isn't. It's just that MS is a bit more expensive than L* (LAMP for instance).
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It means they're commodity hardware. They're made of plastic. They're poorly designed, cheaply made

And yet they're much better to run anything that isn't Mac OS X. They allow you to boot Linux or Windows from USB. They don't disable AHCI just because and force you to apply a sleep-breaking MBR hack if you wanted to use it. An Apple laptop is the worst possible laptop you could get if you wanted to run Windows. Trust me, I have one and I really hate it. This is the last Apple laptop I'm ever going to own.

If all other laptops are too Windowsey, then give me a Windowsey laptop over an Apple one any day.

edit: awww, seems like I hurt the delicate sentiments of a poor widdle Apple fanboy.
I would love to be a part of something like that, but I don't know of anywhere currently. If you want to get away from "new" entrepreneur, why not built a site called entrepreolder.
Yeah, it would rapidly be swamped by various scams intended to separate the users from their money.
I can't agree enough. I used to buy toys all the time (you know, exotic workstations on different architectures, fancy PDAs and so on, you probably know the drill) and realised after a while that I had a whole load of few year old tech that I never really used. These days I cut back. The only thing I really spend money on is travel, accommodation and food. Possessions only tend to stick around for short periods of time. Experiences stay with you forever. I don't think I've ever met anyone who on their deathbed was likely to say, "I wish I had more stuff"
For the time being Apple has a near monopoly on the CNC lathes used to make slick uni-body ultra portables. http://www.tuaw.com/2011/08/04/apples-hold-on-metal-chassis-...
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The author's examples for cherrypy were way more complicated than they needed to be, and they didn't take performance into account. I also find some of the conclusions about its documentation and wsgi questionable. The author also drops some frameworks immediately due to maturity, but then fails to rank the remainder based on that. What about ipv6 and proper Unicode support? What about http/wsgi compliance? And of course, at the end they show all the extras the frameworks have but don't take those into account.
I don't think we will run out, because if it starts to become scarce, the price will raise and so people will stop recording everything, or at least they'll be forced to delete old stuff.

I think eventually we'll have to learn how to do proper data categorization, adding different levels of priority and assigning expiration dates according to them.

I have some hope that distributed data technologies based on non-trusted nodes (Bittorrent and similar being precursors of such) will play a big part on future data storage, though.
Micropayments in general are doomed to fail.

http://www.shirky.com/writings/fame_vs_fortune.html
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The VM/RAM-Problem: We use VMs heavily and have one employee that is really happy with a MacBook AIR with 4GB RAM. On the other hand, we heavily restrict our VMs, so its more usual than not that each only has 512 MB RAM.
Well done, I started on a similar project and figured hey let me just get the first one in the app store only to be denied by apple saying it should be an iBook. :) my issue was finding enough stories to kick off with, glad to see you've got that covered. best of luck with the venture!
Why wouldnt that apply here as well? Some successful guys post here. Do they get hassled?
Macbook Pro 13" for $999, then add whatever SSD you're willing to spring for.

This way you get

* the unibody

* the magsafe

* the battery of the MBP

* the flexibility to easily use OSX if you ever need to (without doing the sketchy hackintosh approach)

* the resale value of the MBP

And you get a lot more machine for the money than the MBA. The one cost you have to accept is the weight. But that's giving you a very sturdy machine, something you might value.

The video performance on this generation of 13" MBP is the one weak spot, but it will suffice if you don't need to be on the bleeding edge.
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I have a Sony Vaio Z21.

So alright alright, it's not, cheap. It's not in the same ball park as the MBA on the performance side (it annihilates it)

But!

- it's slightly lighter than the MBA

- its just as thin and compact

- it has a gorgeous screen that also doesnt reflects everything instead of showing you content

- it runs linux just fine

- you can plug a lightpeak graphic card if you like

- the SSD's are extremely, extremely fast (750mbyte/s sequential writes, and over the gigbyte/s sequential reads. And no, its not mbit/s)
- standard voltage i7

- bunch of options if you like that sort of stuff (fingerprint reader, 3G card, fullhd screen, etc)

- battery sheet if you like 10-12H battery life for a slightly heavier lappy (long courier flights anyone?)

-actual HDMI out, VGA out, ethernet port, no need to carry adapters.

-it still looks pretty cool
When you have a proprietary implementation competing with an open, compatible, one, you can have two scenarios:

1- the proprietary implementation is the dominant one and the open implementation must lag behind its roadmap.

2- the open implementation is dominant and the proprietary vendors who want to compete with it have to offer a superset of its functionality in order to compete.

In case 1, you are at the mercy of the proprietary implementor (in this case, Oracle). In case 2, everybody is free to steer the evolution of the standard without fear of getting isolated in an incompatible niche.

And Oracle's #1 priority is Oracle's profit. They'll get it even if it means turning your life into hell.
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Love the idea. Any plans to bring it to Android? I use an Android based Nook Color and would really like to have something like this for my son to play with.
Quora has many entrepreneurs and intellectuals who are happy to answer questions. It's not anything like HN, but maybe it'll help you.
Interesting idea, but what would they display on this button?

It a way, this is such an old technology. Remember the old flip phones with a secondary screen on the front, displaying time and showing you number of new text messages? Maybe something like this, but then again, why?
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Even if this wasn't browser Javascript and thus totally boned, it think it would still be pretty boned. I'll send a neat looking laptop decal to anyone here who spots any of the flaws in this cryptosystem.

But it is written as browser Javascript and is thus totally boned. Here's my attempt to be exhaustive about why:

http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/