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If a large enough group of tor servers resides on Amazon's network what is going to keep Amazon (or the government) from being able to reverse the anonymization? Isn't this exactly why Tor asks people hosting multiple machines to label them as in the same "family" to prevent them from directly communicating?
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Are people outside of Google using closure to develop apps?

I used the closure compiler with Jammit but I've never tried the library.
Yes, Sony and Dell are especially notorious for shoveling garbage onto their laptops. The worst is the pseudo OS X-style dock they all put in there in a failed attempt to make it feel like a Mac. Terrible.

Lenovo isn't too bad. I recently bought a Lenovo laptop for running Windows7 and the only thing I recall having to disable at startup was a boot optimizer (which helpfully had a 'Dont run again' button on it)
Not so if you're an American. You need to keep filing each year. The good news is that the US has tax treaties with most developed countries, so as long as you're paying as much tax as you would if you were working in the US, you won't have to send a check to the IRS. For example, if the tax rate in your new country is 40% and you would be in the 35% bracket in the US, you will owe no US taxes.

The IRS website suggests that there doesn't need to be a tax treaty if you live in another country for a full tax year. Even if I live in a tax free country for a full tax year or 330 days out of any 12 consecutive months, the first $90k+ are tax free. I think that is reasonable, given all that being an American citizen or resident will benefit me even while abroad (embassies, defense, etc).

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/international/article/0,...
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I think technology (proprietary or not) moves rapidly enough that any developer over the course of their career will have to learn new technologies and abandon dying ones.

Good developers will be able to adapt quickly.
The X220 with the IPS option is a nice screen:

http://www.the-hikaku.com/pc/lenovo/ThinkPad-X220.html#displ...
I believe Apple have been designing their own trackpads for a couple of years now (IIRC it started with the clickwheel iPods)
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By that logic they should have never released the source code for any of Android, since Android is shit on desktop PCs.
Or if the genes were expressed after the age of bearing offspring passed...
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I'll swap you my UK passport for your US one :)
Sony does iterate...this is the 4th iteration of the Z series

I believe the author is delineating between "iterating" being small improvements to a relatively static product as opposed to "versioning" which are fairly significant changes between releases. Compare the 2008 MacBook Air 1 to the 2011 MacBook Air 4.
I can easily do 60-70 hour weeks as long as I use the weekend too, but 16 hour days are ridiculous. I can't believe that the guy is able to give his 100% every day for 5 days a week at both companies. The most a normal person would be able to do is a half-assed job, but perhaps Jack is just an ubermensch.
On CBC Radio One there was a good discussion of how people use different names or characters in their everyday life.

You may be know as Bob to your mother, B-man to your friends and rocketBoy55 online. Your demeanor is different depending on the situation, you wouldn't act or talk towards your mom like you do when you are online as RocketBoy55 or vice versa.

It's unreasonable to expect people to act the same all the time and go by the same description in all areas of their life.
AFAIK, these proprietary GPU drivers have been around forever.
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Isn't it ironic...
I didn't see anything in this article that mentions that the natural language understanding is done in the cloud. May be I am missing something, but I don't understand why everyone is jumping to the conclusion that the NLU is also done in the cloud and downvoting other's comments that said so.

From what I've seen, Siri sends compressed audio to the cloud which translates that to text. What happens to the text and how does that translate to action? Where is this being handled? Is there any proof that this is done in the cloud?
True. I think that is what happened but insisting someone go by there firstname instead of their middle name is going a bit overboard.
I feel really bad for you having to deal with stuff like huge voting rings and people making sockpuppet accounts but sometimes I wish you'd just keep stuff like this behind the scenes.

He's astroturfing... a thank-you note?

There's real manipulation on HN. This wasn't it. Look at the comment thread you jumped into more carefully.

This place just gets more and more frustrating. It must be 10x worse to own it, but still.
I've tried various methods, but a little notebook seemed to always work the best. Of course you can always transfer some data to a spreadsheet if you want a chart or something, but the only thing I really ever check is "the last time I did this exercise for this target reps what weight did I use and how many did I get?" Use that number to determine what to do today. Checking takes about 20 seconds. I now have years of weight training workouts in my little notebooks :)
I did and before that I even mentioned it first in a different reply above since I knew it would be brought up.

Two keys on opposite ends of the keyboards requiring two key presses not exactly ergonomic.
Power supplies. I've got a copier paper box full of Sony power supplies. Every product they make has to have a different battery, plug, voltage, wattage, whatever so you MUST buy a new one if break/lose it, at a princely sum comparable to the price of the device.

Sony has 90% great, like awesome, design - then screws up the remaining 10% with either "meh, screw the user" or "hey, dig into his wallet" wrecking the rest. I've had two of their ultraportables, and try as I might to love them there's just one neurotic breakdown after another; my next is a MacBook Air.
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totally is a driver issue
i use the linux driver and scrolling works like a charm
much better than on the previous Z on top of that. it works as well as the mac trackpad, except its smaller. but it really works very well otherwise.
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> All operating systems manufacturers need to understand that the vast majority of users have used Windows and are used to Windows' UI conventions.

Umm, no. I've always tried to avoid windows and it's unbelievably annoying UI conventions. Well, at least until Win XP the last windows version I have used.

And after using Linux almost exclusively for 14 years OS X feels great. And the best part is: I don't feel like I have to spend days and days trying to figure out which of the myriad of available settings I have to change to feel at home.

And the missing maximize button: Big deal. So I have to pull some windows by hand to the size I want them to have. Most applications save the last window state.
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http://serverfault.com/questions/330557/is-cherokee-probably...

So.. my answer is: pick one and learn it. It doesn't matter which you pick, just pick one. In the time you've spent posting this question to various places, you could have been up and running with either one of them. Hell, you can be up and running with Nginx in under a minute with any sort of modern Linux distribution.
I simply don't understand the whole doom and gloom talk around Silverlight and Flash. AIR is still alive and uses all your Flash/ActionScript skills. Same with Windows 8 using XAML and C#. Your .NET knowledge isn't suddenly obsolete.

As for me, I will be coding in Flash for a long time in the foreseeable future. Flash is huge in the UX research space and I don't see HTML 5 replacing it any time soon unless the tools reach the sophistication and speed of the Flash IDE. There isn't even a standard graphics library yet for Canvas. How long did it take for the industry to standardise around jquery?
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This article isn't a review of the Z21 - its a statement on the nature of design problems at Sony. If you want to argue with the review its over here

http://www.wired.com/reviews/2011/11/sony-vaio-z/

The whole point of the review was as a lead into the part about the keyboard changes. All the posts arguing about how the Z21 is awesome are missing the point of the article.
I gotta also mention that I have an AZERTY keyboard.
The AZERTY keyboard is a standard mapping.

The QWERTY Keyboard has a slightly odd mapping for the shift key indeed. Likewise, US laptops might have slightly more crapware /w Windows that I had (?)
I've found pretty much all of this to be accurate, also running on Linux full time, although I have a cheaper setup.

The really fast hard drive access time is particularly nice, especially since I regularly need to run tests involving IO-intensive database calls.

EDIT: Also, can you tell me which distro you're running?
Quote therein: "there is no known malware for iOS".

This thing just sniffs for malware whose transmission vector may by coincidence pass thru an iOS device, like PDFs and Dropbox.
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Cuteness aside, the out of the box experience with a mac is really good. Everything is polished and there are no nag screens when you first boot up. The first experience with a new Apple device seems carefully engineered to make the owner feel almost emotionally attached to it.

Contrast this to a lot of Windows laptops where your first boot requires running the gauntlet of nagware & cruft. The device itself might be just as capable (or more), but you've already either confused or annoyed the new user and reduced the likelihood of that immediate emotional attachment.

I know there are real business reasons why the cruft gets included, but I would argue that there are far more compelling reasons to leave it out.
Huge win for Pulse as well as Amazon. If you're an Amazon Prime subscriber you've now got news, movies, tv, and books from the instant you boot up. Genius move on Amazon's part.
The article mention every single bad point of the review of the Z21 as a basement of how Apple is awesome for not changing design over the years.
Besides not being true; the basement; is totally flawed. (regardless of being more technical than pure design)
Thus everyone criticizes that base. Makes sense to me. No base, no article.
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I haven't gotten into them myself in that way, but many people who are into MMORPGs have a significant social aspect to it, not just level-grinding. I'm ambivalent about the question overall, but it doesn't seem inherently worse than the many other ways that people socialize and entertain themselves.
That little box was one of the delights of previous social websites i've toyed with, G+ flipped it into an anguish box.. amazing.
Given the sensitive nature of this conversation, how is downvoting suivix's comment justified?
The code we are talking about is under an Apache 2.0 licence, they didn't have to release anything.

"open-source citizen" is in the eye of the beholder, if you are a die hard FOSS advocate then yes, they have failed. If you are happy with code being released when it is deemed ready (of course readiness in this case might have been influenced by marketing factors) then they have been quite successful.
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How on earth can types catches be worse than untyped catches? As a Pythonista, this whole argument makes my head hurt. He's railing against everything considered beautiful about exception handling in the Python community.
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That would do it too. It seems unlikely that this would be the case in humans, since suicide affects so many young people, but it's at least theoretically possible.

I suspect that the genetic components of suicide are side effects from the various genes that help make us smart.
Actually, I see the same notification issue in Facebook. I don't think I ever login to Facebook without my immediate number of notifications being exactly 1 more than they should. The last "new" notification is always what I have already most recently checked. So in this sense, Facebook is also very fast, and also does not have an entirely flawless system.
The Internet is particularly insidious in this respect, because reading HN, looking at the NYT, and so forth can feel work-like without actually accomplishing anything substantial.

It's true, but it also builds vague background knowledge in a hard-to-quantify way (and I'm honestly not sure how it stacks up to the time invested). I very frequently find myself drawing on knowledge that I ran across during internet time-wasting, whether it was a relevant article I found on HN, or a Wikipedia article I found in one of those random-walk-through-link sessions (or the journal articles I found via the Wikipedia articles...). On the other hand, I also spend a lot of time "keeping up with the internet", so it's not free. But it's certainly shown up in papers I've published in my day job.

It's an interesting tradeoff; I'd say I'm less concentrated and diligent than most of my colleagues on what I'm "supposed to be doing", but I'm also more broadly aware of what's going on outside of our little academic bubble. They get more done on their main projects, but I'm the person to come to if you want to be pointed to relevant articles/libraries/demos/posts on $topic_foo. It's not even so much that it saves me time researching later, as that I'm not sure I'd even be able to make some of the cross-connections between subjects without this undirected information-gathering.
I'm not sure why any developer would need access to source code with such a well documented SDK.

Lots of hackers would like the source so they can poach the some code, make a few enhancements then make a quick buck though...
> This release doesn't change Google's strategy nor the
> fact that they will continue to release Android's source
> code in the future with a significant delay compared to
> early-access partners.

As of today there is not a single phone on the market that runs Android 4.0. Besides, open-source does not mean open-development. They have every right to release the code to whomever they want, whenever they want. And because they release the source to most (as of now, 3/4) major releases, that absolutely counts as "open source."
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1. The US government can discover the user, but won't know what the user is doing, unless the user('s client) also chooses US exit nodes reliably / recurrently enough that a successful timing attack or somesuch can be mounted.

2. Presumably, the people who need bridges the most are in countries where Tor relays are censored (China, Iran, the Seychelles?, Cameroon?), and Amazon isn't in those jurisdictions, nor would the US government want to deanonymize them.

But yeah, if you're in the United States and have something to hide from your government, don't use Amazon Tor bridges.
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You want the EFF's coverage? I think it was already on HN, but here you go:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/sopa-hollywood-finally...

Ars Technica also has a discussion of its constitutionality, as debated by famous constitutional scholars, which might interest those with a legal bent:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/famous-holly...
Amazon sent the DMCA on behalf of the copyright owners, I responded with the EULA and a up front response about what I was using my image for, saying if I was in violation I would terminate my image immediately. They said thanks for explaining the situation and I haven't heard anything since then.
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That's true, though I always look essentially the same; my visual image is a sort of a "name".

(OK, yeah, I might wear different clothes in different circumstances. And some of us use makeup which makes even our face look a bit different.)

I guess I'm trying to say that I'm OK[1] with there being a place (Facebook) that requires real names while there are places (Twitter, most of the rest of the web) that don't. Different requirements for different contexts lead to different tones and different conversations.

Anyway, this is all a bit beside the point of this post, which seems to just be about an overzealous FB employee demanding a famous person (that presumably they didn't recognize) had to use the name on his ID.

[1] Yes, I'm privileged and have a standard Western-style name and nobody dangerous stalking me that I need to hide from, etc etc.
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So what did you get? Sorry to threadjack, but I don't have one and may need to buy one shortly.
My apologies. The model is the Z21, not Z14.

A letter (or two) followed by digits denoting the series iteration is Sony's standard naming convention. If you google "VAIO S360" or "VAIO Z12" you'll find exactly what you want. But, if you're not looking for your model year, you can google "VAIO S Series" or "VAIO Z Series" and get what you want.

I don't find it very hard, especially since the series names stay pretty consistent over a long time.
Indeed, the other day I heard some guy on the radio talking about how garbage collection should be provided by the private marketplace rather than as a government service paid for by taxes. Look, that might be a cute experiment in New Hampshire where the population is described in terms of villages, but not in any serious metropolis. I probably should have called in and explained the tragedy of the commons.
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You can see from the photos in the linked review that the touchpad is NOT in "the regular spot" but offset to the right. I imagine this is fine for right-handers. (The review also complains it is small. Can't comment, haven't used one. The author is probably addicted to the giant touchpads Apple is putting out these days.)

What Macbook are you finding louder than the Vaio? I have a 2010 MBP and I can't ever recall hearing its fan, even under heavy load.

The central point of the article -- that Sony occasionally stumbles on great design and then randomly iterates away from it for no good reason is telling. Just consider the fact that Apple stuck with one standard connector -- however flawed -- for the iPod since day one, while Sony hardly even manages to release a single generation of MP3 players with common connectors.
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I used to work with some of those guys.

I wonder if Adobe's recent "throwing in of the towel" on mobile flash was the reason for the change.
The first experience with Linux, Ubuntu in particular, is also quite good. I think the reason for this is that, in most people's minds, Windows is the default; everything else has to stand out to even be considered while Windows just has to mostly work.
I'm not sure I agree with the "work of beauty" statement. A browser plugin? Rendering all pages on the client via some massive JS framework? Intercepting all page loads and hooking into browser navigation? Compiling templates into Python & Javascript? Is all this complexity really justified?

I know that web apps is all the rage those days, but given the native plugin, pickiness about browser version, the fact that they apparently not care about being indexed by search engines, and all the trouble they went through to make it all work together - wouldn't they be better off to just implement the whole thing as a native app?
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Paul contrasts two situations, the first exemplified by the "watching TV all day" example, the second by "staying all day at the office doing busywork while not accomplishing much".

Playing MMORPGs all day seems rather like the first, not the second.
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I say that "depression" along with "mental illness" are cop-out concepts used to shift the burden off society and onto the individual, by placing blame on some nebulous, bullshit entity.

I believe that the "root causes" of depression are what actually deserve any attention, and they are a combination of genes, society, environment and psychology that has been ingrained by these factors. Depression is like smoke from a fire, and we're currently treating it by installing fans to blow the smoke away.

This has been supported by research psychology about what makes a fulfilling life: a sense of autonomy, mastery, and relatedness. I guarantee you that someone missing even one of these will be "depressed." What do we say then? We don't think about how the environment he's living in is not encouraging these things, and we don't think about specific actions he can take to improve these factors.

No, we just say "Depression!" and tell him to go the therapist. Most people in modern society have eaten this psychiatry bullshit whole and as a consequence are more fit to tend houseplants than to maintain even the shallowest of friends.

So NO, what made the people who went through living hell different wasn't the fucking fake concept that is "depression", it was the SUPPORT.

I say we don't ever talk about depression. The very existence of the word "depression" pushes real societal and individual shortcomings and responsibility off the table.

We talk about what's going right and what's going wrong in the person's life, and if we don't have good advice on how to fix the things that are wrong, at least stop trying to grandstand and signal your social status with some useless platitudes and endlessly repeated refrains about the benefits of therapy and medication.
Are there enough lawyers and courthouses to take on this potential mass of extra stupid lawsuits?