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You hit the nail on the head. As an Arch user, I find pleasure in configuring a clean system, and indeed I've been continually doing it for years. Since it's natural behavior for me, I find it all too easy to forget that most people, including the technically inclined, consider such constant tweaking to be undesirable. So as much as I want to say, "Folks, stop using Apple products -- for their SOPA support, for .DS_Store, for being un-Unixy, for an endless list of other reasons", I have to recognize that my values as a computer user are completely out-of-line with the people who find Apple's selling points to be attractive. The OP, however, sounds like he may be ready for a Linux or BSD.
>The difference is MS stopped having people work on IE once Netscape was out of the picture.

IE's rendering engine and JS/CSS, to be more precise. (Look at the IE6 in Longhorn pre-releases and IE6 in XP SP2)
They will be more careful next time. Also, there are interests behind many of these. One rich group could spawn dozen of various "alliances" and "associations", just to hide behind diversity. The money flying here are billions, so how much does them cost to run 20 agencies each with 2 or 3 people employed?
Another optimization criteria not mentioned is energy efficiency. I would guess that elevator manufacturers try to prevent elevators from consuming excess power. It would probably be bad if an elevator went back and forth between the same floors many times with no one inside it, just because it expected a slightly higher chance of finding a passenger at the destination.
My favorite feature in Firefox (aside from deeper extensions) is keyword searching.

I can right-click a search field, bookmark it with a simple title e.g. wiki, g, i, imdb and then search from the address bar by typing the keyword and then the query.

I like this method because it is reliable and doesn't change the look of the address bar. I use Chrome about 25% of the time on Windows and the thing with searching different sites from a blank tab is that it is unreliable for me.
Ok I can relate to that myself I am kind of curious can you list those skills
Confirmation - those are words. This game is not based on words. It's based on money. Ask them if the lobbyist company refunded them.
opensubtitles hashes only the initial and final 64kB.
Gift HN: Annual Tekpub subscription
This is at least tangentially on-topic, so I hope it's ok to post this here.

I had planned on signing up for an annual Tekpub subscription (Tekpub is a developer training video site for those unaware), but before actually doing so I managed to get a free subscription.

I'd still like to give them my money (as it's a site that I quite like), so I figured I'd buy a gift subscription for someone on here.

I have no idea the best way to go about it (it being 3:15am on Christmas morning where I am), so I figured I'd post it here:

If someone out there in the HN-verse would like a free annual subscription to Tekpub, email me with a subject line consisting of just a prime number (one of the first 500 primes). My email address is listed in my profile.

I feel bad doing first-come-first-serve considering it's Christmas day, so I'm thinking I'll randomly select a prime, and see who is closest to it. I'll figure something out if more than one person picks the same one. I'm heading off to bed, but will pick a winner when I wake up.

Happy Holidays, and I hope this can be of use to someone on here.
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You must be thinking of the Linux fantasists registry, not the real one, as the real registry has Windows ACLs and users can only write to HKCU by default, admin rights are needed to write to HKLM or HKCR.

And "one of the worst ideas of all time" provided a system-wide centralised, standardised configuration database accessible from vbscript and command line, as well as app code, with user specific settings migratable between computers, values configurable by group policy from a central company wide location with MS supplied or customisable templates. A huge improvement on the previous .ini files and something still unmatched in the Mac or Linux worlds with config in arbitrary locations and formats (which, incidentally, let anyone write anything anywhere in a similar fashion).
In my experience an even more pernicious problem is unit tests that are unreliable or too expensive (in time especially). Devs too easily come to allow unit test suites that routinely take reruns in order to get to 100% passing. Similarly, when build verification tests or CI tests get too bloated it can be hard to pick where to draw the line.
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> bad guys

know 'em when you see 'em, huh?
I'd be really interested to see what proportion of the hn crowd is running Linux as their primary os.
That might just add to the pressure, though, if you think about it too much.

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he had been dead for five years.

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Thank you for taking your time and writing such a beautiful post.

A lot of people should take a few minutes out of their day and help someone they don't know. Whether it's leaving a few extra bucks at the grocery store and telling the cashier to give it to someone who seems like they can use it, or randomly paying a bill for someone in need.

These small things in life can have a big impact on peoples lives. It doesn't have to be a big gift, we only ask to donate a few dollars or a unopened presents that you don't need.

Please think about others who may be less fortunate than you.

With that said, I hope all of you have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Years.

Thank You.
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did we just re-invent waterfall? a lot of clients don't actually know what they want. when you get them to agree to something without some kind of prototype in front of them, you're wasting everyone's time ...
It's entirely possible that ios's shitty performance is due to me rescuing it from brick state via oven, but I don't really buy it. The phone works perfectly, except that it's very slow and experiences the occasional hang. It's. Ertainly nowhere near as smooth as my buddy's 4s. I don't expect it to be, but I do expect it to unlock without a 4 second lag.
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Wait, there is a config setting for thumbs.db? Care to share the location? How do I disable it?
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Even if by some miracle you could make it happen, "taking money out of politics" won't work, either, unless you somehow include, e.g., AARP, both public- and private-sector unions, and every "underrepresented" minority voting bloc, not to mention anyone rich enough to own a media company. That isn't remotely an exhaustive list, and in any case I fear that the savviest special interest groups are far too clever to be stopped by mere campaign finance reform. Unfortunately, the root of the problem is one level deeper than Lessig, et al., are prepared to dig.
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God, those are a nightmare. And unlike DS_Store you cannot safely delete them. Some apps/formats store critical info in them. (some fonts and some fcp projects, at a minimum. Good thing we had backups.)
Start your own damn company! You don't have to be best friends to hire an employee.
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We do our meetups in Tokyo, usually nakameguro. If you want, sign up to the mailing list or subscribe to our blog RSS where we announce them. We submit the blog article to Hacker News but sometimes it doesn't make the front page so it's more reliable to be on the list:

http://www.makeleaps.jp/blog/en

Hope to see you there.
If only GoDaddy was this genius.
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If SOPA passes and you've moved your domain to namecheap, you're still stuffed.
Suddenly all those Libya domains(.ly) doesn't sound to stupid!
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I'm completing a demo of my web-app to show off to incubators and seed investors. Mainly because a lot of applications for their Spring intakes open around February. Also because I've been in contact with a Toronto based incubator who is excited to see my app.

I'm glad to say it's been a good end of the year and that 2012 will be extremely busy for me (In a good way, I hope).
Works well though some directions would definitely be useful. First make sure you mention that logging in through Twitter is required. Even better, don't make it needed at all. Tinychat currently lets you join and broadcast anonymously.

Second, make sure you mention that after changing settings for which camera/mic to use you need to turn the broadcast off and on again. Another option is to use a divider and put those in a settings box, then have an update settings button.

Otherwise, I really like the design! It seemed to have stopped working as I'm typing right now. Settings options aren't showing up and the chat doesn't work. Working on it right now?
Where on earth do you get this idea? Please see this link http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/paye/rates-thresholds.htm

It is 13.8% for employers!
If this is a one-off attributable only to Louis's popularity, how do you explain the success of the various Indie Bundles? At least in some form, the low-cost no-middlemen wide-reach movement seems to be gaining steam on all fronts. Maybe it didn't work for In Rainbows, but Bandcamp seems to be going great guns.
> Suddenly all those Libya domains(.ly) doesn't sound to stupid!

I don't see what they change, the problem of SOPA is the DNS block, where your website is hosted (or registered) does not matter if all US ISPs blacklist your site in their name servers.
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A couple lines of particularly dense Perl can make life pretty terrible, e.g. compared to many thousands of lines of getter-setter Java. You can pack more language features into a smaller area with a more expressive language. It follows that a smaller area might hold more complexity and likely more opportunities for errors, and therefore bugs.

At the very least, we can say "the LOC-bug relationship doesn't necessarily hold across languages". It's a useful rule-of-thumb, not a universal law.
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Is that sarcasm? Native client is one of the best things that will ever happen to the web since jQuery made it possible to write cross-browser javascript.

Imagine how much easier it will be in the future when ever very intensive programs can be written, and run, on the web.
Copyright 2012? Really?
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I do not agree on this. I think this is a step in the wrong direction. Who knows exactly what to build from the beginning? I think it is more important to constantly talk to your client and whenever something is decided that changes the amount of time you have to put into get stuff up and running, communicate that back to the customer and tell him/her how it affects timeline and pricing for the solution.
In this kind of situation, I estimate for each kind of approach: (i) how many problem instances need to be solved, (ii) how complex the instances are, and (iii) what combination of resources (time, money, knowhow, ...) are available. These together give you the practical feasibility of the approaches.

To learn the skill, apply also the other approaches after the problem is solved. All the solutions you manage to produce give reference and verification anchors for your further efforts.
This is a great example of balance and reason in the current hysteria. They separate the issues of piracy and enforceability perfectly. Great stuff.
Or pressing down the "Ctrl" key while drag and dropping normally.
This is a much more coherent argument. Why did you not post this?
I noticed the other day that .DS_Store was already ignored globally, but I don't remember ever telling Git to do that. Is this perhaps just something that OS X Git installer is doing by default now?
And the ratings agencies are downgrading Japan further...
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Name a company in 2011 that designs AND manufactures their own computers.
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tl;dr:
Follow your instinct rather than the herd. Don't do something just because it's trendy. Do it because you believe it's important and will have a long-term impact to the world.
in addition to the other comments: this is why you need evolutionary database design.
Preferences > Manage Search Engines... will do the same thing in Chrome (though it doesn't have the wonderful right-click-to-add ability; you have to enter the URL yourself).
The best original source is probably An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, though it covers much more than the point I'm talking about. The point I'm talking about is that, according to Hume, there's actually no reason to believe that the future will continue to be like the past. Without this premise--which must be accepted without evidence--empiricism is broken. A basic treatment of Hume's argument is available from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy here: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume/#CauIndInfNegPha
I have added several other search for which the search bar is quite handy. But again its just upto person to person. Most of the times "I'm feeling Lucky" works however.
- full stack programmer. My focus is always on the quality and robustness of the final design, regardless of which specific technologies/components are used. I learn them all.

- a deep knowledge of the details. I share Robert Morris' passion for understanding precisely what is going on at every level. My insight into the low-level details of next-gen CPUs came from reading the Intel architecture manuals several times over.

- an ability to achieve high-quality results within a very short period of time, regardless of the project or goal. If you show me a problem, I'll show you a solution by the end of the day, probably with a rough prototype. By a week, I'll have discovered which solution/direction is the best long-term strategy, and will have a working production version 1.

- I have good judgement. This turns out to be rare.

Specific technologies:

- a master of C/C++. I've been coding since age 12, and I'm now 23, so that's easily 30,000+ hours I've spent practicing. I've been writing C/C++ professionally daily since my first gamedev job in 2007. Python is my language of choice; Lua a close second, primarily when performance is of concern (such as in gamedev). But a language is merely a means to an end, and I work with all of them.

- several years of hobby experience writing Rails websites/Javascript. I write Lisp interpreters for fun. I want to write an Arc compiler someday.

- extensive sysadmin knowledge, both Unix and Windows. FreeBSD is my preferred OS for server-side deployment.

- master of realtime 3D graphics; both OpenGL and D3D. Given time and freedom, I can build you a renderer of the finest quality (equal or higher than Rage).

- artistic talent and taste. Several years of 3D Studio Max and Maya modeling and animation experience. I build next-gen character art (high-poly sculpt in ZBrush, then decimate / build low-poly shell in 3D Coat; project detail; touch up textures via Photoshop -> rig in 3DSMax -> animate -> import into game).

Projects:

- in highschool, wrote a game engine roughly equivalent to Quake.

- several game engines / game ideas.

- a full game editor, using C#/.NET WinForms.

- next-gen realtime graphics experiments, including realtime skin rendering (the same technique was recently shown by Epic in their "Good Samaritan" demo).

- several Rails websites. Made a system for schools to administer tests, with the intent of surpassing Blackboard. (JavaScript-based; this was back before "Ajax" was a fancy buzzword.) Tried to apply to YC with it. pg gave valuable advice (selling to schools is like selling to government; quality doesn't always win). Was invited to Hacker School though, which was fun (seeing Anybots' Dexter robot in person walk around on two legs was just awesome).

Experience:

- Simutronics, HeroEngine. Graphics programmer (3 years)

- S2 Games, Heroes of Newerth. Engine programmer (1 year)

My thirst for knowledge is unquenchable in five lifetimes, and I strive for beauty and elegance in everything I pursue.

If anyone feels these claims seem too bold to be true, I'd love the opportunity to work with you to prove myself while serving your interests.
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I found Krusader to be superior to Dolphin, but that's perhaps I'm used to old two-pane way of file management (Midnight Commander, Norton/Volkov Commander, Windows Commander)
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In Mac OS X you can (or could at one time) attach extra meaningful data to a file, classically known as the "Resource Fork". In the pre-OS X days applications were often bundled by placing images, audio, etc. in the application file's resource fork. I remember in the 90's finding an application that had a huge (for its day) multi-megabyte resource fork, but only a few kilobytes of program data in the data fork.

That is what the "_macosx" folder contains, only these days the resource fork is only used to store cached data such as thumbnails, window positions, etc. But it didn't always use to be that way, and for compatibility's sake we're stuck :(
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Travis is investigating physical layer attacks on most popular protocols, including Ethernet. He talked about it at RECon.
Just because forward rates are calculated as a risk free arbitrage does not mean the yen has to appreciate.
Why did they change they article to a link to the google cache? Google has since re-cached the page, and the cache now links to itself.

I was clicking on that link for hours before I realised, what a way to spend christmas.
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This is the same argument that the leaders of my country, Singapore, foisted on us, that we need to have immigration to "close the gap", so-to-speak.

This was in the late 1990's, then they began a program of liberalized immigration which now in 2011, sees over 30% of Singapore's resident population as foreigners. The influx of so many immigrants over two decades has caused severe strains upon the fabric of our country, a tiny island city-state.

Yet the story remains the same. The new immigrants are unlikely to suddenly produce more children [say three or more] and ironically, if they stay on, they will simply add on the the oncoming demographic crunch since they are mostly working class, and we all know how that particular segment of society is assaulted by growing inequality around the world.

[Most amusing, the incumbent political party which has governed Singapore since our independence has largely expended all its political capital. But that's not really relevant to our discussion on aging + demographics]

I suspect Britons in the U.K can tell a similar story, since Blair & co went on a similar tilt after they got in a decade ago.

Thus, I would caution against the popular view that immigration is needed to avoid the oncoming demographic crunch in societies. It probably can't fix the old issue, and instead generate many huge socio-political issues.
I'd recommend talking to the rest of your team to work out a consensus. With git you'll need to agree on values for core.autocrlf and core.eol. Perhaps you can take advantage of the time of year to offer an olive branch?
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Nice weekend project!

My current workflow to sync subtitles is to find one sentence in the beginning of the movie and one near the end, and search the subtitle text for these sentences. The four timestamps are then ran through the perl program subs (see http://search.cpan.org/~karasik/Subtitles-1.03/subs).

Perhaps using a search based interface, instead of letting the user pick from all lines, would be a nice extension.
Very well written! (Unfortunately I don't know if you look amazing)
Another project that uses a hash to search for subtitles on opensubtitles.org is Periscope (see http://code.google.com/p/periscope/), a Python command line program that searches several subtitles websites.
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That future is better known as client/server, and it's a huge step backwards. There was only one client that worked at all, it was terrible, and you couldn't fix it. No, every time an author imposes fixed client behavior rather than writing publically addressible content which can be rendered and repurposed in many ways, the world-wide web dies a little more.
Took us the 1st try though I know people who have tried every year. Just keep trying and improving and keep making it harder for them to say no to you.
I respectfully disagree. I actually stopped using Firefox because my experience with Chrome's Omnibar convinced me to switch full time.

With how the Omnibar works, I no longer need to type in a full URL. It either searched for the site I wanted via Google, via my favourites or via my history and it would get it right almost 100% of the time.
It is a bit stupid... Surely just loading that small article WP must be thrashing their database. This works (for now):

http://viewtext.org/article?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aorensoftwa...