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If a G+ or Facebook achieve 90% of communication volume, it means that anonymity isn't an important factor for most people and you could in fact argue that the high market share is due to the fact that there are less problems with spam and abuse because there is accountability. If a significant amount of people desire anonymous communication, there will be a communication platform for them.

Also you can avoid G+ and the big-4 telecoms much easier than you can avoid living in a state. The need to live is much greater that need to have internet access, no matter how you slice it.
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True. However on Linux and Windows I don't need to use the touchpad as often.
Probably just me being an idiot, but if AskScience were separated from Reddit, I'd join to contribute questions and basic answers. Duplicate questions aside, I think it's awesome and should be a definite bookmark for anyone curious about our world. Rest of Reddit is pretty trashy though.
The reason it's a mailing list:

http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2010-March/0...

Also touches on the discoverability problems with using mailing lists like this. I wish I'd been reading this list thirteen years ago when it was started.
JFTR the X220 does not have a 13.3" (that would be the X1 or X301 iirc) but 12.5"
Slate & the NYT Magazine are the only mainstream news sources I have in my RSS reader. I certainly don't read everything but I think it's important to at least glance at the headline to every article they publish.

I'm sad Jack Shafer, Timothy Noah and June Thomas are now all gone as they were all wonderful writers :(.
I haven't bought any magazine or newspaper since I bought iPad.

Online content monetization is in a bad state at the moment. Advertising CPMs continue to decline and most users won't pay for content.
You are correct, sorry I was thinking about the Air.
Every time I see one of these "Why I don't want to work at Google" articles I think to myself, "Don't worry, they don't want you to work there either."
I think it was just an example of companies changing the web for the worse little by little, that was the point of the article.

And to be honest, I share his feelings. The web is getting more and more closed with "The Big Four" reigning.

But it is ironic that there was a lot of backlash when Apple announced there were going to be only Web apps back then that caused them to release the SDK and App Store: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/06/11iPhone-to-Support-...

However, at the same time I like the whole "Apps" (AppStore, Steam, Market) concept because it helped create whole businesses. Lots of small people making real money in the age of piracy...

But I digress, this is completely off topic.
Samsung QX411 actually looks a lot like the macbook air. It costs around 800$ with i5 and 6gb of RAM. Its very light for a 14' laptop and battery is pretty good too.

I own one and just love it, at first I installed Ubuntu but video and clickpad drivers didnt map well.. then found out I could just run Ubuntu inside VirtualBox with seamless performance .
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You can avoid living in a particular state more easily than you can avoid internet access, I'd argue. In 2011, the hardship of going without internet is much higher than the hardship of moving from California to Nevada, for example.

I do agree that national-level laws are more coercive, in part because many countries are just very large, and in part because immigration laws make it hard to move.
It's definitely mistitled, and a better title is sitting right there in the article:

the grand experiment in free online content has failed

Although ad-supported is not quite the same thing as free, so that is also subtly wrong.
Just for the interested reader: when the first command line is changed into

pi:~$ echo 'foo bar' | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 2

it also outputs 'bar'. The -s (for "squeeze") option of tr turns every sequence of the specified character (space in this case) into one instance of this character.

Of course, the awk solution is more succint and elegant in this case - I just think that tr -s / cut -d is handy to know from time to time, too.
Good question, I don't run a lot of those apps but I do Ruby/JavaScript development on it and it feels faster than my i7 MBP (probably because the MBP has a 5400rpm hard drive). My guess is that you'd be fine, the only thing I can think of is that the Intel video card might slow you down in graphics intensive work in Photoshop.
This may lead to a herd mentality and few users will flag every post they can find to earn karma. The bad content does not get up votes and automatically goes down hill.
battery life seems pretty bad
I guess everything I know about Yoga comes from (academically) studying Hinduism, plus watching movies like Enlighten Up or whatever. Every time I hear people talk about it it's usually in the same breath as meditation, or else they're talking about opening up their Chakras or whatever.

I've never actually done Yoga but I generally have really wonky interests, so that's generally my bias.
> Generally, people may be offended as they pass by but there's no real harm done

Which reminds me of another quip: "you do not have the right to never be offended."

e.g if the street-corner preachers don't offend you, the atheist billboards will. Suck it up and move on.
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This thing won't replace https anyway, because if transferred over http, Javascript code could be intercepted and modified by adversary before it reaches client browser and before it is actually executed.

And if this JS code is transferred over https, what's the point of it? Don't we already have crypto in this case?
Diaspora was/is a hint of the future for distributed social networks, but too bad it was/is a bit poorly executed.

To be honest, I had hopes that Google+ would be part of an open platform with federation, considering Google Talk already uses XMMP and Google Buzz used OStatus partially (just for broadcasting, not for receiving, though). I even commented about that, right here on HN.

The real-names policy changes all that, I lost my hope on Google leading a social network decentralization, so it's all a bit sour for me.
I have asked this question and done this research a number of times and all the links here are the paths you want to look down.

The Asus lowkey links, the Samsung 9 series (you can get this at Costco), the Sony Vaio Z series and the small end Lenovo ThinkPad's (which some friends have told me are a bit too small cause of the higher res screen).

When I looked the Samsung 9 had some serious touch-pad sensitivity issues. The Sony Vaio Z series is packed and quite expensive if you really load it out.

I would point out that the scrolling/zooming/multi-touch experience in Windows 7 on these other devices is no where near as fluid as the MBA; I don't know how important that is to you, but once I realized how herky-jerky it was going to be that was a turn off for me and how I was using my laptop.

Also the hardware loadout in the MBA compared to some of these other devices actually ends up making the MBA really competitively priced, especially when you add the SSD to the likes of the Sony Vaio Z which got quite expensive.

As always it depends what you want to do with the laptop (gaming? programming? web?) but just know that if OS X/Win isn't an issue the hardware on all these high end ultra lights is within the same ballpark and not night/day different.
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Pretty cool. A lot nicer than running node.exe directly. I heard MS was working with Joyent to get Node running on Windows but I didn't think devs at MS would actually dedicate cycles to it and provide native IIS support. Awesome!

I played with node.exe a few weeks ago when it was first released and it worked well enough. The only problem was the lack of Windows-compatible packages. Most assume you're on *nix. Node without NPM is handicapped.
I don't think counting Python 3 support is really important for Web frameworks. All of the major server distros are still on Python 2.x anyway (last I checked, Arch is the only one where "pacman -S python" will get you Python 3 instead of 2), and the question of WSGI is still up in the air if you want to handle encoding properly instead of just fudge it.
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Much of Kragen's vision for the future is in line with where I think our world is heading.

It actually inspired me to draft up a blog post: http://blog.matthewghudson.com/post/9497957290/the-public-an...
I believe Intel is coming out with a new motherboard spec soon (or already did?) to build Windows computers that basically imitate the Air. So wait 6 months and you should have some good choices. Couldn't find link, sorry.
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Forget lowering prices, if you cannot get customers into your business than you really need to take a step back and review your current marketing efforts.

What can be done to get more of your target customers in the door - and to keep that up on an ongoing basis?
No. If you really pushed the world forward (notice the scale involved), then you logically should have a significant positive effect on the $14.12 trillion dollars of production every year - e.g. increased it by 3% over 10 years. So your contribution to the world economy would be $423.5 billion over 10 years. At that scale, getting $58M is really nothing. In fact, only getting $58M back for $423.5 billion of contribution smells like communism.
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He had me right up to the point where he claimed that Jake Appelbaum has made a significant contribution to anything.
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Couldn't the client verify the integrity of the code against a published hash?
when most consumers want to find something, they do a search. for that most go to google. they dont go to the economist. they dont go to HBR. as a result, if search is done right (quality results), free high quality web content will be found, read, shared, and read again. but there is no loyalty built there for the news source's brand. very few publications will get the status that the economist, wsj, or nytimes enjoy.
"what's the lane?"

four options squeezed together:

-l:
1. "chomps" the input (which here means: removes newlines (if present) from each line, more general explanation:
http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/chomp.html
2. and automatically adds a newline to each output newline (see below how to achieve this in a shorter way with a relatively new Perl feature).

-a: turns on auto-split-mode: this splits the input (like awk) into the @F (for fields) array. The default separator is one (or many) spaces, i.e. it behaves like AWK.

-n: makes Perl process the input in an implicit while loop around the input, which is processed line-wise: "as long as there is another line, process it!"

-e: execute the next command line argument as a Perl program (argument in this case beeing 'print $F[0]').

Note that the example can be shortened if you use
-E instead of -e. -E enables all extensions and new features of Perl (which aren't enabled with -e because of backwards compatibility). This allows you to use 'say' instead of 'print' which adds a trailing newline automatically and lets you drop the -l option (if you don't need the 'chomp' behaviour explained above):

$ perl -anE 'say $F[0]'

Of course, the AWK command line is still shorter - and that's expected, because AWK is more specialized than Perl.

Still, Perl one liners are often very useful and can do other things better / shorter than AWK - especially if the one-liner uses one of the many libraries that are available for Perl.

A thorough reference of all Perl command line options is available at:

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlrun.html

or just:

$ man perlrun
yes, but hash comparison operator will be executed on client side only if it wasn't stripped away along the path
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Yup, without question. The only thing I'd warn you is that when you're doing heavy work (video encoding or lots of heavy compilation/running) or heavy play (lots of flash), the battery life will probably be just under 5. Not at all like the 7 they claim, which is really only for casual surfing where the processor is bored out of its mind.

(I have the same i5 13", it's been great)
I know both Rachel and Andrew personally. Neither of them work for Groupon and they, as Andrew explained, share an office in Chicago (with an insanely beautiful view that I'm jealous of!).

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I personally have an Acer 3820tg that I've had for about a year now. i5-430, 4gigs of ram, 500gb drive. I upgraded the memory to 6gb (had some lying around) and switched the 5400rpm drive for a 7200rpm. When I have the cash to spare, I'll put in 8gb and a SSD which should speed it up more. I run CrunchbangLinux (debian + xfce) upgraded to Sid repos instead of Squeeze. The only problems I have with it are the video switching can be a pain (solved with a bios mod that lets you disable the ati card, which I don't really use much at all) & the usual annoying broadcom wireless that means you need to connect wired to get the driver the first time or have the .debs downloaded first.

The model is a bit older now but the specs are good and you can probably find them quite cheap now. There is also a second gen version (3830 i think is model?) that has most of the same specs except second gen i5, usb 3 & i think nvidia instead of ati video.
And, yet bizarre, some people will see that as a necessary evil.
'Apple wants to relegate websites to second-class status on their popular computers, and exercises viewpoint censorship on what “apps” they allow in their “app store”.'

It was originally intended that you would make web apps to access on the IPhone and they did not want developers making apps for it. Consumers and developers demanded that feature so you got what you wished for. (not you per se)
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@grovulent: I am willing to engage the idea. But the amount of suppression(of contradictions) your referred post demands is too high(that i did not finish it). I believe it was the same for the other poster. May be you can express it differently and post again.
We used to be loyal to the Economist, WSJ, NYTimes to bring us quality content. Now, we are loyal to google.
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I read most of The Economist every week, although sometimes I do tend to skip a few articles in the Britain and Asia sections.
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That's what i think/guess/glean from the gmail blog posts too.
Who we would expect to be immune to the issues of their gender... why? I bet if you look, there are similar results for managers, that those who trade more damage their returns.
What is your view on copyright?

In 2006 the MPA had a crackdown on tablature and lyrics websites. I am not a lawyer, but I am pretty sure you can't just publish all lyrics, without infringing here and there.

What is your view on scraping?

It is unlikely you entered all lyrics yourself, but used an existing database. I personally wouldn't feel comfortable scraping or fetching my content from a site that hosts advertisements, and then republish those without advertisements. Did you find access to an opensource database, or is the service here more like a reversed Adblock?
Did I miss the demo gh-page ?
Agreed, Economist is very well made. I don't read it every week, but maybe every second - usually when I'm flying and have the time.
Too windowsey? What does that even mean? Does it mean you don't actually have to choose between working AHCI and working sleep in Windows?
Some discussion on this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2932018
I did something similar a while back, in case any-one's still interested ..

https://github.com/agiliq/so-starving
Exactly. Right now for good hackers the job market is such that they can pretty much choose where to work. And the market is even so good that most are able to do these decisions based on matching corporate values and not just salary.
49 comments in 5 hours and almost all of them talk about the technical aspects or about working at Google.

This is about more than that, it's about decentralization as a way to empower people so that in the end we don't need centralized companies or governments to control our data.

Apple (and other companies) control what you're allowed to download. Google (and other companies) control what emails get through to you and your email history. Microsoft (and other companies) control your hardware.

He forgot to mention the larger and more disturbing point; many of these companies are American and so they're under the jurisdiction of the NSA and FBI (and CIA if you're not from around there). With centralization, law enforcement has easy and direct access to things. The only barrier is a warrant and even that isn't a barrier as we saw in the AT&T NSA wiretapping case.

He wouldn't want to work at Google or many other companies because they're pushing for centralization which brings certain political/social effects that he dislikes.

So can we please have a discussion about the political and social implications of decentralization vs centralizaton rather than the technical aspects??
I thought a bit and then got the idea to use a web tool called "Google"...

http://www.ubuntu.com/certification

I found a couple of laptops which are locally available and suitable.
Unless you are an expert cryptographer and write your own code from scratch, including the compiler and if you are really paranoid building your own hardware, you are always relying on third parties as your source for crypto code and the devices upon which it executes, and you have to trust they they have not inserted backdoors.
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The choice isn't there. I have AT&T for a cable connection. My other option is Comcast, which is just as bad. And Comcast only recently moved into the neighborhood. I know many people who's only choice, literally, is AT&T for any kind of connection. There's simply no one else around.

In terms of cell service, it's pretty much AT&T or Verizon. The other players are tiny by comparison.
Hmm. Binds all events to `document`, which means that if you type something in a text field, it'll still trigger the event. (One of the TODOs is "Make behavior with INPUT / SELECT / TEXTAREA configurable.)

Thing is, jQuery Hotkeys (https://github.com/jeresig/jquery.hotkeys) is more versatile (since you can bind events to any element), works under a wider range of browsers, and is nearly as lightweight (if you already depend on jQuery).

Though, I do like the hipness of using "⌥" and "⌘" instead of "alt" and "meta". I might make a fork of jQuery Hotkeys just for that.
http://songrabbit.com/php/search.php?q=radiohead+i%27m+stuck...

And then it stores the results in a session/cookie of some sort, because you can then access the lyrics for the results by going to

http://songrabbit.com/php/retrieve.php?i=0 (specifying the index number 0 as the offset from the start of the result set)...each result is broken apart by <++>..kind of an odd way of doing things though
I was thinking of a manual check, which would be a hassle, but would only have to be done when the script was changed.
Love it. Both the analysis and "get involved" concluding advice.
So far the "real name" policy is the only major, undemocratic, incident that I've seen from a centralized online service. Does anyone know of any other incidents that make case against centralized servers?

Easy access for law enforcement, easy access for the NSA, CIA, FBI, everyone else. The attack on Gmail by Chinese hackers used the interface that Google provides to law enforcement to use. There's also the commercial access part. Some companies sell their centralized databases to 3rd parties.

About freenet; it encrypts all network traffic so that no one else knows what is being transferred. That causes quite a bit of a slowdown. Also, it's Java and on some machines it can use up a lot of RAM, especially on older machines.

The alternative is encrypting your emails and letting GMail store that. The problem with that is that they still know when you sent an email, and who you sent it to. Just the fact that your email is encrypted can be taken as sign of guilt by law enforcement. But it's still an option.
Google Profiles _is_ the "identity service" that has tendrils into more than just G+ (and the banstick was swinging long before G+ hit the public). Schmidt just didn't generalize his comments enough to point out that subtle but critical difference.

But I did: https://plus.google.com/103653740605668919281/posts/iHugVQvM...
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Why would you store a minified version in the VCS, especially not having it in sync with the original source code? Shouldn't it be an artefact kept out of the VCS and built automatically by, for example, make and UglifyJS?
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This hides a significant range of issues:

And, even on niche sites, the number of salable page impressions required to even break even is huge.

What it means to "break even" varies a lot, though. It seems that the article is focusing on large organizations with fairly large staff, a headquarters building, etc. Basically the "online magazine" style of organization.

A niche publication with two or three full-time journalists working out of their homes has a considerably different break-even point. For example, even before he was bought out by the NYT, Nate Silver's fivethirtyeight.com was more than breaking even, producing relatively low-volume (only a few articles a week), high-quality niche content.
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So would search engines specializing on a certain field be the replacement? Search engines tweaking their code to a niche like astronomy, code (DuckDuckGo), fashion, classical music, etc.

Because Google has started to fail as a general search engine. Then again the abovementioned hypothetical search engines would be as much suspect to fail-by-SEO.

Anyway, niche search engines as a replacement to the traditional publishers. Just thinking aloud.
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More evidence that Google is tone deaf. They lack compassion and understanding for their users and community, and they abuse their power. This a precursor to grand evil - lack of compassion plus grand intentions. Slide? G+ names? What other examples?