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A large enough market share for Chrome means that developers can target more of the features in modern browsers. For example, companies can write WebGL games knowing that the majority of installed browsers support it. Google can add new features to Chrome and since everyone gets the automatic update, and Firefox will soon follow, the feature becomes mainstream.
Thank you for the link. It was extremely interesting. This explains why my two favorite games on iOS (Canabalt and The Impossible Game) were never quite as popular as Angry Birds.
They have good and well written articles that cover local, national and international subjects and they have a nice website and a very good mobile website. And their office is just next to ours :) Nice to see them on the yc frontpage :)
If you focus on mobile you can safely ignore Microsoft's browser. Why do think web developers love mobile devices.
Another option available since Mercurial 1.5 is to put the large files in a subversion repository and reference it as a subrepository.

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I'm trying it right now, and it has a beautiful color scheme and slick transitions, but is lacking in features. For example, it doesn't open my *.m Matlab/Octave files with the proper highlighting and I couldn't fix this in 15 minutes. I wonder if I shouldn't look for a nicer color scheme for Geany instead of a new editor.
(1) Trolls are definitely a problem, but so is apple, MS, and Oracle. Hell we saw what happens when Samsung got pissed off, they decided to start suing for patents the world needs to implement cell phones. Samsung may have failed, but MS may not.

(2) Patents are good, as long as they are NON-OBVIOUS. In the realm of software, a lot of things are obvious. In fact most of what is patented is obvious. The problem is that its non-obvious until an engineer needs to solve it, then it will become obvious as it is on the path to the solution. Software patent problem: SOFTWARE IS ALGORITHMS; MATH! You cannot patent equations. We have lots of proof that software is just an equation, though more complex and in a different form. Hell implement it in Lisp and you have lambda calculus. That's the point.

Software is mathematics. End of story. Cannot be patented.

(3) President is not in full power, but not powerless either. He can put pressure via the citizens.
The disks are quiet, but the cooling fans they often require are not (at least that's what I've learnt from having a Drobo with four 3.5" disks in my living room).
Sweden basically never spend this amount of efforts and resources to get 'normal' people extradited

I've heard this claim before, but is there any data to back it up. If Sweden believes a sex crime has been committed on its soil it has the right and the duty to seek to prosecute the perpetrator.
Judging by the tone and language of this critique, it sounds more like a bitter ex-employee who "didn't feel appreciated for his brilliance" than an honest effort.
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However, it must be by several seconds out by now. There were several 'leap seconds' introduced since 1970.
Conspiracies are pretty rare, but opportunistic behaviour by governments is not hard to believe. Pissing off governments is like running for president; your transgressions will be dug up and used against you.

Are you finding it hard to believe that the US government is trying to disrupt Wikileaks by unusual means, outside of any potential legal proceedings? But this is not theory, it's known fact - both Visa and Amazon dropped Wikileaks after pressure. It's been successful too.
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Google are doing the same in reverse, making billions by pushing the web platform on the desktop and mobile.
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I'm lucky that I live in the Boston area where we have "You Do It Electronics"!

It's like what RadioShack used to be, except many times larger.
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thats why i use an ultra-silent 140mm fan ... running it at 5V (instead of 12V) makes it practically unhearable.
Apropos, sorta: do I ever identify with Jobs' statement about "getting the curiosity beat out of you" in school. I was "the smart kid" until I decided I wanted to fit in, so I stopped going after the math and science as aggressively. I've always felt like I gave part of my brain away to be "cool" that I'll never get back.
10 watts per year is 87.6 kW h... how much are you paying for your electricity?
You are correct. Innumeracy raises its ugly head again.

Powering a 3.5" disk drive costs about $4/year.

Remember the rule of thumb: Each watt that you run all year long costs you $1/year in electricity.

(Also, Backblaze drives probably spend most of their time spun down and thus use nearly no electricity.)

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Some data:

Model WD20EARS[1] WD10TPVT
Size 3.5" 2.5"
Cap 2TB 1TB
R/W 5W 2.5W
Idle 3.4W 0.85W
Standby 0.7W 0.25W
Cost $83 $118

So, figure the drives are mostly idle, but spinning, you would be $4/year for the 3.5" and $1/year for the 2.5", but you might need twice as many of the 2.5" drives to get the storage if you really need 2TB, but if you don't, then it will be 10 years to recover the savings on electric, but that is your own fault for not figuring out how to spin down your drives, and not understanding opportunity cost, you can invest that $30 you saved and make $1.5/year forever, even after your drives detect the end of their warranty and fail in 3 years.

[1] Don't buy this drive. Something went horribly wrong in WD QC land. 1/3 of these that I bought failed their S.M.A.R.T. conveyance tests right out of the box and more failed in the first few months. The reviews at NewEgg suggest this is not an isolated experience. But, they are the ones I'm saddled with and know their data. Mine live out their lives happily spun down but for a few minutes a day and are closely monitored and mirrored, so their admittedly high risk of failure is acceptable.
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> I seriously do not understand why people come/stay here given the way they are treated by our government. You must be masochists.

The immigration thing definitely sucks, but other things probably make up for it. You're probably underestimating the good parts of living in the US, especially from the point of view of someone who comes from a poorer country or, in some cases, for an entrepreneur who lives in a developed country but doesn't have access to places like Silicon Valley and NY.

Also note that, with the possible exception of Canada and Australia, most other developed countries are at least as restrictive as the US regarding immigration from developing countries.

I'm from Brazil, which is considered one of the leading countries among the "emergent" countries. Yes, things have been improving in the last 20 years. But it still sucks. For instance, consider that the GDP per capita in Brazil is still far lower than places like Portugal and Greece, which are not exactly booming. In fact, there's a significant number of Brazilian immigrants in Portugal even though they're not exactly welcoming us with open arms.

In another area: half of slums in Rio are now dominated by drug gangs, and the other half by paramilitary militias. One of those militias recently killed a judge. A state congressman had to flee the country due to death threats from militias. I'll take your bureaucratic nightmares anytime. ;-)
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Sorry, but that isn't saying much. Average power consumption doing what? Or is that range meant to be the minimum and maximum draw, ie. idle power draw 10W, loaded power draw 20W? I don't see why the device should draw 10W with idle disks, much less with spun-down disks.
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That's true. But, again, though - that requires Congressional action, and Congress is most decidedly not part of the executive branch of the US government. My point is that this is a Congressional (legislative branch) issue, not a Presidential (executive branch) issue.
This is amazing. How come ID can consistently release top quality engines as open source and other games companies cannot?
Of course! largefiles is a direct descendant of kbfiles (our initial, Kiln-specific version of this functionality). We are really happy to see it integrated into the official Mercurial release, and will be supporting it within the next couple of weeks. We're just working on making sure that the switch is painless and transparent for everyone who's currently using kbfiles.
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Rule of law trumps everything. Once you start giving special treatment for individuals you do not know where you will end up. I am not saying that this is not happening at all, but law needs to be uphold. Assuming his stay is against the visa law he should definitely leave, and he did the right thing to leave. I am not saying that the laws are perfect either. It took me 9 years to get my permanent residency, so I am someone who has been through the process.

I also found article a bit biased, in the sense that it does not give proper detail about his visa status and in what terms he was allowed to the country and why he was asked to leave. Article is emotional.

I think the biggest merit of starting a company in US is the aura of credibility it gives. The other is the huge market size. Ask this question yourself, would you be willing to give your credit card number to a (for no particular reason) Hungarian or an Israeli company or to a company from US? How much sense of security do you feel?

Of course, ventura capital and startup culture in US is leaps and bounds ahead of the rest of the world.
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"Several" billion? That's half the world's population.
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Ok, so if the term "singularity" already hasn't lost all of its meaning, now it officially has.
Supporting evidence, from when we first tightened immigration:
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So, I'm guessing from the specs on the page the hardware is:

SheevaPlug - http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-22-sheevaplug-dev-k...

Then some sort of 1 to 5 eSATA / SATA multiplier like this - http://www.amazon.com/5-Port-Port-SATA-II-Multiplier-SiI4726... . I didn't know these even existed until I was trying to figure out how you attached the 5 drives to 1 eSATA port. I'm guessing this is powered by running a connection over from the Sheevaplug

120 MM Fan

Then all of the metalwork and clips. I like the design on that.

This definitely something I am going to build to decommission the ATOM nettop I am currently using to share a stack of external drives.
I wonder if this is true in regards to marketing. I told my one of my kid sisters that she could get Angry Birds a year ago on my iTunes account, and she got excited. This was before the marketing (I assume).
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That options work fine, provided that all of your binary assets sit at one location in the tree, and that you just happen to have a Subversion server lying around at the time. largefiles allows you to put your assets where you want, and allows you to avoid setting up a Subversion server.
"Secret trial" is a bit of stretch, but it's the way Assange's lawyer is spinning it: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-07/assange-lawyer-tell...

(I'm generally a strong advocate for transparency, but I think you could make a very convincing case for preventing the public and the press from observing every detail of a trial where a rape victim is confronting her accuser.)
I usually just click the grey icon to the right, which opens the link the item points to. The expanded view is still useful though, since for example HN points to the posted link and not the comments page.
For things like this, I suggest S3+CloudFront. I don't know how well it compares to other CDNs in terms of cost-at-scale and performance-worldwide, but it is very good and can be set up without a sales process.
It's not flying in the face of the idea of RaspPi, they are making a profit on each unit sold so want as many people to buy one as possible. The educational aspect of the foundation backed by the hacker community buying them up for their own purposes.

The initial 10k batch may be another matter. They are looking at putting a per buyer limit since demand will be so great.
Actually it looks like the opposite: Internet controlled by the United Nations.

> India’s spokesman, Mr Dushyant Singh, argued that the proposal “should not be viewed as an attempt by governments to ‘take over’ or ‘regulate and circumscribe’ the Internet.”

If a politician says it isn't, then it probably is.

If the Internet is to be ruled the way Indian, South African and Brazilian governments work, expect to pay bribes to be able to do anything (I am Brazilian, I know what 3rd world "governance" means).
This trial happened in a UK court. Not a Swedish one.

If the the evidence is not made public in the Swedish trial, then it is a mockery of justice. How can anyone take the word of the court that it was a fair trial? It is not transparent.

Saying "Asange is an enemy of the people" is not just defending the Swedish legal system.

International law covering human rights applies in Sweden, and those rights will be violated by a secret trial. A country either respects international law and human rights, or it does not. Sweden does not respect this facet of the law, or this human right.

In some countries media can be taken to task for declaring someone a rapist without proof. How many of the media has been taken to task in Sweden for doing so? It is strange how the Swedish legal system has been suspiciously quiet in this regard.

Count the number of Swedish people sticking up for this Human in this thread. I guess flag sales are up in Sweden, because there does not seem to be many Swedish people arguing that the Swedish state could possibly be wrong here.
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In South America, where these stats show Chrome in the lead, the growth seemed to be accelerating up to and beyond the crossover point (the same in the few individual countries where they're leading). What about marketshare particularly should make this unusual or unexpected?

I'd assume some kind of tipping point effect as it becomes "normal" not to run IE and/or to run Chrome that could lead to such acceleration since the barriers to adoption are so low.
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US immigration policy is clearly not motivated by ethnic identity or "xenophobia". The 1965 immigration act and the visa lottery make that clear. But I sincerely ask: why would it be wrong to base immigration policy on such concerns? A nation should have the right to preserve its identity and make-up.
This particular SoC already has RAM built in too, if I remember correctly.
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Yeah, there are quite a few — but do they really look good next to your MacBook Pro?

The drobo does. This looks like a machine shop class project.
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Considering that individual governments are already in a position to screw with internet using legislation (e-parasite, sopa, protect-ip bills), this may not be such a bad idea. When a council of countries are involved, may be governments wont resolve to such unilateral acts.
Most companies probably can, they just don't care enough to do so, seeing it as money spent on a last-gen engine that results in no new revenue streams.

I think id does it mostly because Carmack personally pushes for it. However it arguably makes some sense for them, relative to other game companies, because they've been particularly identified with the "genius hacks to make stuff work" aura, and every source release produces a new wave of discoveries/press about crazy things id did in the guts of one of their engines, which solidifies that reputation. Plus it's probably good for Carmack getting historical credit to put the techniques out in the open once they're no longer most-recent-gen.
I just setup my Tonidoplug yesterday (based on the same basic technology from what I understand). Primarily as a backup server, but the sharing between pc, laptop and mobiles is definitely cool: http://www.tonidoplug.com/tonido_plug.html
The same for Spain. Are we the new India?
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I'm with you. Infrant ReadyNAS, LaCie 4big Quadra, etc., there are a lot of really reliable and known high performance (needed for high volumes of DSLR images or 1080P video) chassis designs out there in the 430 Euro USD 600 price range.
Accidentally downvoted you -- fat iPad fingers, sorry! I'm not opposed to the idea, though it'd probably be a port to OpenGL ES (iPhone?) before WebGL.
This is largely due to John Carmack and his philosophy regarding OSS [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_carmack#Free_software
Simple: because they want to and others do not.

Also because they started the good habit a long time ago and it definitely showed off benefits. (AFAIK, the iPhone port of the DooM engine depends on the open-sourced branch of the DooM engine)
The theme does automatically resize. At the smallest size it's about as compact as the old theme. Another nice space saving measure is that you can minimize chat and widgets to little buttons in the bottom left.

You can also force the theme to use the smallest size via an option in the menu.

The new theme won't show up as a simple entry in the theme menu as it replaces all the old themes. Some have been remade or ported, but they're clearly running on the new theme engine. Alas, the Android theme no longer changes the Gmail UI font to Android Sans.
Took me ten minutes to realize that there are now 2 gear icons on the page. Was continually clicking the one in the "global header", but there is second one on the page where the Display Density options are located. How's that for bad UI design?
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The "ip" command has been the preferred way to configure network interfaces in Linux for a few years now. Most functionality isn't available through "ifconfig" at all.
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http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article12621641.ab is the first example I can find (it's in Swedish). The crime in this case is violent assault. Basically the police caught the guys, who then confessed, but fled the country (back to Ireland) while out on bail. So they have the name and address of the people involved, but can't be bothered to try to get them extradited.

The money quotes from the prosecutor is: "If we where to try to bring home everybody who commits a crime that isn't serious enough we'd never get anything done...It doesn't work like that, we only do that (attempt to extradite) for serious crimes, like murder".
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40k people got comp sci degrees in 1985, and in 2009 that number has not changed! That's shocking.
Depends on your target audience, I haven't done any research, but I'd guess you should aim at Android 2 or several versions back (from now) of Cynagenmod. You just can't expect even a considerable minority to have it by then (if it was on two top selling phones in Q1/Q2, what market share would you expect those two phones to have?)
Thanks for posting that. I love how thorough and paced it is. I'm definitely bookmarking that link, as well as /cs2/assignments.html
-"whereas the Swedes give a shit about peoples rights..."

You must be thinking about the days when we had guys like Olof Palme (who incidentally got shot).

Nowadays we are being run by a right-wing coalition dominated by 'Moderaterna', which is the only political party in Sweden refusing to declare from where they get their campaign money. Just recently they also tried to take credit for being part of the movement for equal vote and against apartheid, when in reality they were against womens right to vote and also was the only party who did not want sanctions against apartheid, hilarious.

Not that our government being right-wing has anything to do with Assange, no matter what government we'd have sitting today (left,right) they would bend to US pressure just as quickly.
According to my parents, at the public elementary school I went to for first grade in Toronto, Canada they taught writing before (or at least concurrently with) reading. Each kid had a diary in which we would at first draw and eventually write about something that happened each day. Kids would start with just pictures and gradually add more and more text. I don't remember any of this, but I can still read and write English even though we moved back to Mexico the following year, so I guess it worked.
He talked about the case, not about the whole system.
Just for fun, here are some power consumption figures (based on data from storagereview.com%):

Idle power draw (3.5in drives): around 5W
Load power draw (3.5in drives): around 6.5W
Spinup power draw (3.5in drives): around 15W

Idle power draw (Samsung 2.5in): 0.58W
Load power draw (Samsung 2.5in): 2.53W
Spinup power draw (Samsung 2.5in): 3.89W

Of course spun-down (as opposed to idling but spinning) HDDs draw far less power. I found a 2008 report# which measured spun down power, and it ranges widely but 10 to 20% of idle seems to be about right. (Not sure if there's a 2.5in drive among those they tested; I only skimmed the report.)

If you disregard the spun-down thing for a moment, you get about 4W savings all the time, ie. 20W for the full array. That's about 175 kWh over a year. Assuming 0.20 EUR/kWh (which seems fairly typical for Germany), that's 35 EUR you save, per year. I guess that number can serve as an upper bound for the savings you can expect, chances are it'll be much lower: not a full array, 50% or more time spent spun-down, your energy prices might be lower.

% http://www.storagereview.com/samsung_spinpoint_m8_review http://www.storagereview.com/western_digital_caviar_green_2t...

# http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~acr31/pubs/hylick-harddrive2.pdf
I live here too. I've never heard of that, though. Seems it's a little far for the kids to bike (from Marblehead). Maybe I should take them out there some day and see if anything "clicks." Thanks for the tip.
"But if you go to the man page for something like awk or bash or grep [...]"

And this is where you are doing it wrong. For GNU tools, the man page is just a stub. The official documentation is maintained in the form of "info" pages.

Now, you may consider this obtuse (I sure do), but it doesn't mean there is no documentation.