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If this makes it into real hardware I expect the EU to reopen their case against Microsoft fairly quickly on anti-competitive grounds. There are to many governmental institutions and businesses dependent on linux for their day to day work for this to go unchallenged.
It's been fun watching this comment's points go up and down like a yoyo. At one point it was at -1; it's currently at 10. This is clearly an issue that divide HN readers.

I obviously fall in the against camp — though I can see the argument for it (and many good points have been made).

There is no simple answer other than very clear labelling.
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This story almost makes me want to buy a Mac. Almost.
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The main factors are whether each addition will incrementally add to P&L, and fit with the rest of the group.

One key point in my business is that most of our wage costs are variable (we can see the direct P&L impact of every hire : there are no 'hidden' producers), so finding people who can find a niche is the main challenge. The principal benefit of being in the States (compared to Europe) is 'employment at will', so that hiring mistakes can be undone quickly.

As for taxes, paying more is a good problem to have (assuming that all your competitors are on a level playing field).

OTOH, healthcare costs are a huge burden : It would be far better for my business if they were variable (i.e. taxed as a % of wages).
Oh lookie, a strawman!

The argument isn't that we are doing something new and therefore it's bad. The argument is that the readily available information makes us lazier about remember things, and thus when we aren't at a computer, we're dumber.

And it's probably actually true... It just doesn't matter. Unless we're worried about Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome happening, then we'll have access to computers.

And the stuff we do repeated, even with the help of Google, will be memorized anyhow. Just for efficiency. It's just the least important stuff that gets left to Google to remember.
> Well I doubt any App user is expecting that to happen anytime soon. In any post about Google+ today, there is an App user within the top 5 parent reply posts bitterly complaining how, yet again, they have been neglected.

Doesn't that just show the incredible demand for such a service?
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From last year:

When you hear the word “startup”, you most likely think of an Internet startup. Maybe it’s funded, maybe not, but its burn rate almost for sure puts it in the red each quarter. Obviously, Microsoft is not a startup. Nor have they been a startup for a long time. But what if you thought of their Online Division as an Internet startup? One funded by Microsoft. The thought it terrifying. Or it should be. To Microsoft.

Microsoft released their Q1 2011 earnings today. The results were very good except for one very big blemish: the Online Division. Last quarter, the division lost $560 million for Microsoft. That’s better than the previous quarter when it lost a staggering $696 million, but it’s much worse than a year ago, when it lost $477 million. In the past year, Microsoft has lost well over $2 billion from the division.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/28/microsoft-online-business/
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I read similar rumors on MacRumors.

A shame but maybe the new MBP in 2012 will incorporate Ivy Bridge.
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I must honestly say that I forgot where I got this from, which is not a good thing. Thanks for pointing this out.

That said,
http://mashable.com/2009/06/07/blindsearch/ (apparently based on http://delicategeniusblog.com/?p=839) suggests that in a blind three-way test in 2009 both Yahoo's and Bing's results got picked as the best regularly (Google gets 41%, which is a substantial but not overwhelming advantage.) Note that that guy works for Microsoft, too.
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Ask HN: How do you manage/read/find time for your RSS
Hello HN,

I'm having kind of a dilemma here, and I was wondering what other people are doing.

I've been using RSS for years now, but these days it's like a race against the news.

I try to dedicate some proper time to read my RSS feeds, usually morning / lunch time and evening.

Added up it's taking around 2 hours a day.

I've recently started to use Feed Fever, but it's still eating some times on the time, that I could use on pet projects or just read technical books.

My questions are:

- How often do you guys read your RSS feed. Is it multiple times a day? Once a day? Once every 2 or 3 days?

- I've been thinking going RSS less for a month, and maybe just keep HN, few planets feeds and Twitter as main source of information. Is anyone doing this?

- Do you have any tips for managing your RSS and not stack up too much?

Thanks a lot :)
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Where's there's pain, there's profit potential. Forms are pain. They are a pain in the ass to create and fill out. That's double pain - and double the business opportunity.
Interesting. I always hit the space bar with my right thumb, too.
Yeah, who needs evidence? Vigilante justice every time!
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Google seems to be interpreting prev/next wrongly. Suppose you are searching for the 2nd episode of your preferred TV series. Episodes are sibling resources, and this concept might be represented with prev/next. However you would expect to get to the right page, not the 1st episode, when you click on the link.
What Google could do, is showing a separate link to the first item in the series, and let the user to decide. Later monitoring the clicks it could provide a customised experience per user.
I got tired of missing things which were going on around me, and my scanner was more annoying than helpful at times, so I threw a bunch of software (and a bit of hardware) at the problem. Questions welcome!
What happened to Hacker News
Cue the requisite 3 days of grousing about News Feed changes before everyone gets used to it.

Remember when Facebook first introduced the News Feed and there were News Feed protest groups with over a million users sperging out about it?
I guess the obvious question is: what does this offer that you don't get from connect/express?
There are a few problems with this, chief among them being that tinting the screen with amber probably requires some iOS API hack that's probably not public.
I don't think they'll muddy the waters with that at an iPhone / iOS launch event. MBP refreshes would either distract from the iPhone or be ignored, neither are something that Apple would want.

Refreshes have frequently gone out in the past without any sort of event and I'd guess that this would be the case this time.
> I think Google is right here. If you mark something as a sequence, it is reasonable to presume that the start of the sequence is the normal entry point, in this case the front page of your blog.

I disagree. Just because the rel="prev"/rel="next" commands provide the ability to browse forward and backward through a series of documents doesn't mean that the only possible entry point is the beginning of the series. It doesn't mean that there even is a single well-defined first entry in the series. There's nothing to stop a series of links connecting into a closed loop, or to stop a single page from having multiple rel="prev" links because it appears in multiple series, or multiple rel="next" links because a previously linear series bifurcates and the user has multiple choices.
Yahoo was always blacklist happy in my experience of working on projects that send large volumes of email. This always impacted users of BT's online services too (btinternet etc) as they use Yahoo's mail servers. It was always a massive hassle to get emails through.
Assuming I'm understanding the double tax correctly... wouldn't that still be taxed at the corporate tax rate and then taxed again when it's paid to the employee? I can't imagine a situation where that would be less expensive than being taxed one time, even at the highest income bracket.
Isn't this more of a problem with rel="start" than rel="next" and rel="prev"?
That's pretty standard for postgrad salaries in the UK in the public sector. The various agencies aren't high payers.

You will get pretty much no help from anyone including social or subsidised housing so you'll be stuck in a flat share or a crap rental.

You'll get a worthless pension though.

Go private sector!
Though it will mean that other people are more likely to start their own one or more man operation.
I don't think I'd ever buy a physical server and plug it into the wall unless there was a regulatory requirement or I was going to be a cloud hosting provider.

Physical servers are a pain and there are too many options in the cloud to go down that path at this point.
hopefully they'll do away with glass face that shutters from 1 foot drops on the sidewalk.
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Yeah good call.

They will probably come out this Tuesday the 27th with an announcement on the website.
Without wanting to turn this into a Google Apple war, I'm not sure Google can really teach Apple too much about media launches. Whatever you think of Apple, they do launches very very well and I'm not sure they'd think they should be taking anything out of Google's playbook on this one.

It's a media event, you use it for maximum media impact, not thanking the staff. If the guy who headed that team is the best person for the job then you give it to him, if he's not then you don't.
Yes. It is a true statement to say that most small businesses only employ the owners.

But if everybody created only one job -- their own -- isn't that enough? If I were getting started, I would love to be around a bunch of guys making 200-400K per year. I'd detail their cars, take care of their lawns, help them with taxes -- all those people not creating jobs? There are a lot of jobs they are creating while they are not creating jobs.

I think a much more interesting question would be: why? Instead of the lecture about evil Republicans, how about addressing the reason so many businesses don't want to employ anyone? Is it something we could fix?

I've ran a corp for about 20 years now. To me, you'd be an idiot to employ people in the regulatory and tax nightmare the United States is in right now. Much better to have a "lifestyle" business and stay under the radar. I'm probably an outlier -- I guess. I'm sure others have their own reasons. Getting at those reasons seems like a much more productive use of energy than grandstanding.
You will get nothing at all.

You can just about survive in London on that.
What happened to Hacker News? It evolved.

It's not like some evil troll is upvoting Google and MS stories.
This may happen every time you are working with contractors and freelancers. You obviously know they are focused on something else, like their own careers, but still, it makes sense to hire them because they get your stuff done.

Full disclosure, I'm doing something similar right now, and the employer we are working for is truly satisfied with what we're doing.
I would see an incentive for hiring people if I didn't have to deal with health care at all. I think employer based insurance is a huge drag on America's businesses. I would happily pay some percent more in taxes if I didn't have to deal with it.
Its not a new feature that people don't like, the interface is completely diferent, and unsable!
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In the last enterprise environment I worked at, users were asked to leave their machines always, largely for software delivery and other updates,

Probably what is different about my setup is that my cpu meters mostly run at 100%.
I'm still hoping for a new Performa… (like they say, hoping for a miracle, but preparing for a Hackintosh)
And how exactly do you expect the evidence to appear? Will the FBI investigate Yahoo for this? ;)
Does it mean "there will be one qc computer on everyone's desk" in several decades?
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I've really been considering learning zsh. The main reason I haven't bit the bullet is because bash is everywhere. I don't want to become as fluent in zsh as I am in bash, only to feel crippled when I inevitably have to work without zsh.

So, for those that frequently shift between zsh and bash (or ash, dash, etc.), what is the experience like?
That makes sense then - I completely misread what you were saying.

I only tried rush poker in passing once. By the time it came around, I had already been out of the online poker game (I pretty much gave it up after PartyPoker withdrew from the market), but if the tracking programs w/ heads-up displays still worked and you could get enough data on the people you were paired with, you could figure out people's pre-flop tendencies enough to probably squeak out an edge. Losing post-flop data hurts though, unless that data was still tracked even though you moved on after folding.
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Exactly the same here. Still check it infrequently but all I see is tumbleweed.
The questionnaire to "to assess your suitability for a role" as an "IT Security Exploitation Officer" is actually pretty good.

https://www.mi5.gov.uk/careers/it-security-test-your-knowled...

You enter the following string into an application:

"AAAAAAAAAAAABBBBCCCCCDDDD"

The program crashes with a message:

"Access violation executing 0x43434343"

a) This is likely to be an example of what sort of security vulnerability?

b) How might this leave a machine vulnerable to code execution?

c) This appears to relate to the use of the strcpy function. What improvements might you suggest the developer
add?

d) Running this application on newer operating system results in different behaviour. Why?
I believe that if you peer at the individual pixels with a strong magnifying glass, you will see there is no blurring going on.

If you're using a recent version of Windows properly set up for an LCD display, it does use sub-pixel rendering, a resolution-enhancement technique (Microsoft calls it ClearType) that increases the resolution of text. Although it can make text look slightly soft, most people agree that it's also easier to read than text that hasn't been enhanced this way.

If your LCD is anything like mine, the fake "sharpness" it adds can un-do the benefits of the sub-pixel rendering. Maybe that is what you are seeing.
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That's exactly what people said about the news feed, and more recently the chat sidebar (when your browser window is wide enough). I found the chat sidebar annoying too, but after a few days it wasn't jarring at all.

People just use Facebook so much that even small changes trigger massive waves of "OH GOD THIS IS COMPLETELY UNUSABLE" hysteria.
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> they sort of winced and said "Linux... ehhh... it's hard to get Linux doing what you want."

I'd say the company you work for has a humongous and probably incurable HR problem. If this is the kind of IT folks they hire, my best advice would be to run away and stay as far from it as possible.

You can also write a very fun book with the stories you probably witness. I'd buy it.
You don't buy a physical server when you buy "dedicated". Dedicated means you rent a bare metal machine, not a virtualized one. It means you don't share it with anybody else.
Yahoo has always been overzealous about spam. I can't email anybody on Yahoo because my entire hosting company is on their block list, and has been for years. So this doesn't surprise me in the least.
There is huge demand in businesses big and small for "Let me actually get my work done without needing to talk to IT." (I suppose this is a subset of the larger opportunity, which is that a) almost all large organizations are pathological in at least one way and b) people do not enjoy dealing with the pathological parts, so they'll pay to avoid it.)

Wufoo solved a real problem which was persistently preventing people from making money or getting their work done. The fact that that problem is perhaps not the most technically difficult is not relevant, as dealing with it is still beyond the capabilities of about 99.95% of people who encounter it.

I wish there were a lot more Wufoos.
I agree with the statement that this is precisely why we should regulate it.
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I'm still pretty new to the idea of node.js, but a couple things stand out to me. This framework uses a session cookie as a way to store some data, not just as a user/session id/authentication. Thus, they seem to be strongly pushing you towards an external session store such as memcached or a database. (I suppose that is an inherit limitation of node.js, at least as commonly used)

From what I understand, a Node/V8 instance really only utilizes a single CPU, yes? As a request does I/O, some other piece of code is executed until (some time after) the async I/O completes. A CPU can be effectively timesharing over several pseudo-threads, but to use a SMP chip/server, you have to run multiple instances, with a front-end load balancer. I guess this would drive one towards an external session data solution, barring some kind of sticky session and a reason to be sticky.
I wouldn't call it completely different, nor 'unsable'. It's a little different, and people don't like change.
Since both bash and zsh are 'sh' derived shells, it's not a huge context flip. It's analogous to flipping between your highly tuned (vim|emacs) config, vs logging into a new AWS image with the default version's config: You still know how to get around, but all the bells and whistles are turned off.
Most cloud hosting is a scam. It will never compare to the dedicated deals. You should only get cloud if you expect crazy traffic spikes and need to scale quickly. Cloud is easier to manage though, so you might save on the sysadmin costs.
Heck, I spent my first four years programming on a 25*40 screen displayed on a crappy old TV set... When I finally got 80 columns, it seemed like magic.
I believe this is a problem: "A system that ships with only OEM and Microsoft keys will not boot a generic copy of Linux"
The failure I was referring to is essentially having to close doors for financial reasons.
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had the music market sewn up tight,it was all but impossible to break into the music business in the traditional sense without having arecording contract with one of them. This often led to artists becoming broke before their album everactually hit the music store shelves.
It's not on their list, but they're not treating it the same way as OmniWeb either (at least they didn't when I signed up in July).
So how are you going to power this thing once it is built? Wind, water or steam? :-)

Edit: I do hope it will be steam powered! (At least once - just so someone can record what it would sound like).
Be interesting (and other ways to help land a job/internship at a startup)
This is total speculation, and probably easily explainable by any number of things, but: I bought the iPhone 4 the day it came out, subsidized price. I just called *639# to check my upgrade status, and the message says I'm not eligible for a full upgrade now, but "may qualify on 11/25/2011". That isn't any sort of upgrade anniversary for me - at least, I don't think it is - so that's an interesting date.
They say they may. It may also depend how similar the content on the pages is, and how specific your search term is. Eg if there are 10 pages on a disease, one is about symptoms, and your search term is about symptoms you probably want that page, if it is a general search you probably want the start.

Thats my interpretation of them, how it works in actual use we shall see.
It's funny this is what causes people to question AJ credibility. Merely being based in a Monarchy and financed by the ruling family wasn't some cause for concern, you think?

(BBC comparisons commence in 1..)

This is not to say AJ should be ignored. But it should always be taken with several grains of salt. The fact people consider it more ethical than, say, Fox News is ridiculous. It just seems that way since it's closer to what you want to believe, just as the people watching Fox love it since it confirms their biases.
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They removed "Most Recent". That's the only thing that I use, and most people use on facebook.

I don't like the change, but if they are competing with google by making drastic changes to their interface, then they have a problem.
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Steam. The goal of the project is to be historically accurate and it appears that Babbage himself felt that steam would be necessary (unlike the hand-cranked Difference Engine No. 2). Only a small steam engine is likely to be needed and I have had offers from various people of expertise.
The content is dictated by the community. There is still a significant amount of start-up info and stories but you are right on one point, the site has evolved from being almost exclusively start-up orientated to one that contains content of interest to Developers, Hackers and entrepreneurs.

Essentially, popularity happened and the site evolved to reflect the increased deomgraphic now reading HN.
You assume that tools aren't part of human evolution but they certainly are and modem tools are no exception. I assume the cognitive powers used for memorizing trivia will be reallocated to something else, they won't go away.
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Expecting anything more than this from Apple is deluding yourself.

If they can't get fixes out for security holes until they're in imminent danger of being in the spotlight (Pwn2Own - and that's only one example; Apple are especially notorious for only fixing things when it affects their public image), then expecting them to fix issues like this is extremely naive.
If this happens in China, it would be immediately declared an obvious case of censorship and mass control.
But it happened in the very "house of the freedom", so it is obviously a simple error and anyone thinking it was on purpose is a lunatic conspiracist.
I read the comments of people that know nothing about (place the subject -antispamming algorithms-) but they are more than ready to defend (place the corporation or government -Yahoo-), and just an image comes to my mind.
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Blind sheeps.
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didn't they just do an mbp refresh this year?
They could already use the new 2760QM, 2860QM and 2960XM CPUs. It seems they are ~ 15% stronger
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