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Tell HN: It's Christmas
Some of you may celebrate Christmas, others may not. However, I want to ask you all to consider that it might be a good time to think about others who may be less fortunate than you. If you already have a favorite charity, please consider donating. If not, here are some that I personally consider decent:

- Doctors Without Borders (http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/) does great work in over 60 countries by helping those who are threatened by violence, neglect or catastrophe due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, natural disasters, exclusion from healthcare, etc. They have consistently high ratings from watchdog organizations and at least as of 2006 had over 86% of their donations go directly towards helping those in need [1].

- Donors Choose (http://www.donorschoose.org/) is an American online charity where public school teachers post classroom project requests and donors decide which project to sponsor. 100% of your donation goes directly to the beneficiary (unless you specifically give something to DC) [2]

- Vitanna (http://www.vittana.org/) is my personal favorite: less of a charity and more of a micro-loan marketplace, where you get to choose students to whom you make loans at no interest to help them complete their education. Once the student pays you back, you can either re-lend the money, give it to Vitanna to cover overhead or simply cash out. I see it as investing in global education and therefore global wealth. Once again, 100% of what you give benefits the students directly [3].

If there is another charity you think is worth sharing, please post it in the comments so others may partake.

Lastly, if you cannot afford to donate or simply do not wish to at this time, I'd like to make another request. On this day, please spend a few minutes thinking about some of the problems facing our world: hunger, epidemics, natural disasters, armed conflicts, poverty, etc. Hacker News is an amazing community with some of the world's most innovative and talented entrepreneurs and engineers. Even a few minutes of our collective time and attention could result in solutions to some of these problems. That is why I would like to challenge you to spend just a few minutes of your day on thinking about how we could make our world a better place.

[1] http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/donate/faq/#q2234

[2] http://www.donorschoose.org/help/user_agreement.html

[3] http://www.vittana.org/howitworks

Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with any organizations mentioned in this post.
Also, is it possible for GoDaddy to register a bunch of domain names for themselves so to make it look like the difference (outgoing - incoming) is not that much? This will certainly cost them a lot but feels like right now they are more concerned about saving the brand name than the money. Also, in the long run they can sell those domain back (or even better for them - put the domains on auction).
James Fallows may be wrong, but he's certainly not a troll. He's been writing about these issues for at least 25 years. I've been reading him for twenty of them. He's one of my favorite writers, so I'm biased a bit, but he's been doing a lot of good journalism about a lot of topics (not just Japan) for a long time.

Plus, he's excellent about responding to email. Send him a note with your comment and I guarantee you'll get a respectful reply.
Seems like a whole bunch of big name brands were told by the chamber of commerce that they were signing on to oppose the sale of counterfeit merchandise online. Which you know they aren't unless they're planning to SOPA shutdown eBay.
Absolutely. My experience was the same: my mother loved to talk to me about my intelligence and curiosity as if they were rare and therefore special.

Maybe it was true, but by telling me that, she accidentally laid the foundation of the rest of my life: I started distancing myself from my classmates, and eventually my peers.

The result? I now have a skillset roughly equivalent to Carmack's, but no chance to capitalize on it. No one believes nor cares.
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By setting myself apart, I likely ruined myself without even realizing it. It turns out that my skills don't matter. A Carmack without a company is no Carmack at all. And now I've no ability with people, as he does.
Where do you guys organize the meetups? I'll be moving to Osaka in February but would love to come down and hang every now and then.
The author makes some good points, but it's a bit of a tautology. Louis CK is successful because he's really good at what he does, works really hard, and has been doing it for a long time. Yes, he gets mainstream media exposure. Because that's what happens when you're a successful entertainer.

Obviously, not every comedian can do this overnight. But neither did Louis CK. He's been working at it for over twenty years, doing a lot of standup at clubs all over the country. Building his career brick by brick until one day he has enough star power to sell his stuff direct.
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It couldn't be seen by Caucasians, recored by cameras or video and (apparently) wasn't detected by Western satellites or any Western technology. But, according to hundreds to (now even) thousands of the city's blacks (preceded by the sound of trumpets) the magnificent and prophesied City of Gold (better known as New Jerusalem) appeared over the downtown area and awed all who were able to behold her.
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Well, he made the error and immediately corrected it when it became an issue.
I'm not a big fan of contests with big rewards for top 3 and no consolation for anyone else. I would much rather participate if it was distributed over 10 or 20 winners, because then it would seem like I had a better shot at winning.
Comments like yours is why I didn't post my callsign.

We've discussed what my proposal was with the 2 local ham groups. One person works for the FCC and finds non-compliant stations. From what he indicated, as long as I put "EXPERIMENTAL" on the device, and watch for interference (iow: be a good amateur operator), I can do this.

I've passed their kind requests, along with publishing what I am doing and with what wattage I am transmitting. I am also monitoring my emissions as I usually do when operating.

I'd also like to remind you that an evil device called a microwave oven transmits more as static on 2.4GHz broadband than my narrowband wifi.
Google's browser efforts started with Gears. At the time browser development was stagnant an Google needed the technology to advance in order to improve their web applications and compete with the old desktop software model.

Chrome is an extension of that effort and has played a large part in driving adoption of new web technology.

But I don't buy the part about Google not being as interested in having users. Chrome is the operating system that runs the Google applications. They have increased their marketing spend this year by 69% to $4.9 billion dollars.

Google, marketing, something they never used to do and were known for not spending on. A lot of that marketing is for the chrome brand. The reason so many average PC users know about chrome is because of the market. They even hired Lady Gaga to do a Chrome ad, and I don't think they would go to the trouble of doing that if they were not interested in attracting users.

It is ok that Google want users for Chrome - nothing wrong with it. They have done so much to help users and the web with their investment in browser technology that there is no shame in marketing the product and wanting the world to use it.
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It's flawed only in the sense that it says nothing regarding the topic of artists rising to fame with this business model. Who ever said that was the point? This is like saying a clinical trial for a cancer treatment is flawed because it says nothing about seat belt safety.
Most (all?) of the law firms that had been on the original list have been removed. I see you mark them as needing confirmation. Here's confirmation for Davis Wright Tremaine LLP:

http://twitter.com/#!/DWTLaw/status/150019649130606592
This guy doesn't get it. Here are his two main misunderstandings:

1) Every artist who's made an online release of their content in a desirable format (without DRM, etc) has seen sales in proportion to their general popularity. Every single one, without even one exception. The author claims Louis got an "inordinate" amount of attention, but I'm not sure this is the case. I suspect the same level of buzz would have been generated had he somehow managed to produce a DVD at the $5 price point with identical content.

2) Popularity is derived from interesting media products. There's no mumbo-jumbo about old media/new media. If you've produced something interesting and compelling, people will want to talk about it. Attributing the acquisition of fame to "traditional media" is brainless. Old media is no different than so called new media -- they both carry stories of interest relative to the level of interest.

And there are countless examples of folks who've generated their own buzz by producing a compelling product, as folks on HN should know better than anyone. You can buy a bit of publicity, but it's compelling, interesting and memorable content that creates a true monetizable spot in the public's consciousness. This is very repeatable and it is done daily.
SMPlayer [1] searches opensubtitles.org with a simple hash [2].

[1] http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/

[2] http://trac.opensubtitles.org/projects/opensubtitles/wiki/Ha...
Yes, a well NYTime article on the effects of the lost decade:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/business/worldbusiness/22j...

Quote: "And the nation is losing interest in cars; sales have fallen by half since 1990."

Another article about the Japanese youth sleeping in Internet cafes:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/05/07/us-japan-cyberhome...

"A by-product of the economic crisis that hit Japan and its lifelong employment guarantees in the 1990s, freeters drift between odd jobs.

"Earning around 1,000 yen ($8) per hour, they often struggle to pay the rent in Tokyo, one of the most expensive cities in the world where a modest 30 square meter (320 square foot) flat in a central location can easily cost 150,000 yen ($1,250) a month."
I don't think that's the answer. It sucks on Mac too.
As someone who has to deal with coworkers who keeps sending me .DS_Store files in every compressed archive, folder, and new project commit. I agree, this must die.

I even have a script built around just cleaning .DS_Store from these items. This should not be something that I need...
The domains that I'm not sure about using all get registered on a yearly auto-renewing basis. That's most of my domains. I'd assume that most domains are registered that way, which means that it's probably at least half a million in yearly gross revenue that just went away for each of the coming years, not counting any services that went with those domains.

Edit: Assuming that that headline is accurate and that's a net loss attributable to this whole fiasco. Also, I'm sure their profit margins on domains are razor thin, so the profit lost might be pretty low.
> the primary goal of Chrome is to make the web advance as much and as quickly as possible. That's it.

ok what does that even mean? they are trying to make the "web advance" because if they won't, the desktop will come back and advance instead? or do they mean advancing new web standards and features to replace older non-standard technologies (say like flash)? ( i am not trying to be sarcastic just wondering the meaning is ).
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in a case sensitive regular expression replacement, all of the it's should be corrected to its. I agree that the It's is correct, but most regex engines are case sensitive
That's interesting... The PC equivalent is thumbs.db, which can be disabled through a simple OS option. One of those rare occasions where a PC is actually more user-friendly than a Mac. Oh wait, did I just open Pandora's box?
Radiohead tried a similar experiment to Louis C.K.'s back in 2007 with their album In Rainbows. But after 3 months they decided that the online sales weren't working out and that they should pursue the more traditional avenue of selling CD's out of retail stores. Two similar stories with vastly different outcomes.

I say that it's similar because both are well established acts in the entertainment industry, releasing their work unencumbered by DRM (or other encryption) via a website. As I see it, the main differences are (in very general terms):

- Radiohead said that fans could pay whatever they wanted for the album, Louis C.K. charged $5
- Radiohead are a band, Louis C.K. is a comedian
- Radiohead tried it in 2007, Louis C.K. in 2011

Of these 3, the most significant difference that I see is that Radiohead didn't set any price tag on their work while Louis C.K did. By some estimates more than half of the people who downloaded In Rainbows did so without paying a penny for it. Louis C.K., on the other hand, charged $5 right up front. The price tag was so low that it was a pretty easy decision for most who bought it, but it was there nonetheless.

I think that speaks volumes about setting customer's expectations appropriately, an area in which the software industry traditionally shoots itself in the foot. Ask your customers to pay something. If you have something of value, they will.
Bosh. Learn! You totally can.
blueharvest is a pay mac os app that does this: http://www.zeroonetwenty.com/blueharvest4/

don't get me wrong, i think this needs to be fixed at a higher level to really squash the trails mac leaves on other servers (just browsing a network share leaves these behinds).
I use TotalFinder as a finder replacement.

It has a feature called "The Asepsis feature" which will redirect .DS_Store files to /usr/local/.dscache. Quite handy.
Since Linux has no such construct by default. Does that make it the most user-friendly?
> 1) Every artist who's made an online release of their content in a desirable format (without DRM, etc) has seen sales in proportion to their general popularity. Every single one, without even one exception.

That's not true. Radiohead pulled the plug on their In Rainbows experiment after only 3 months in 2007. They decided to go the more traditional route instead. Why would they (an incredibly popular band) do something like that if sales were truly in proportion to their popularity?
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Have you read the mythical man month? More less skilled programers do not make things go more quickly. That idea is so wrong on so many levels that I dnt know where to begin.
Does anyone know how the revenue sharing (and other terms) work for the Pokki store?

I'm all for prizes and contests as a means of incentivizing creativity and innovation, but the lack of clarity on the above point (and thus what you both "get" and "give up" for winning) is disappointing.
Unix users are offended by all the useless carriage returns in HTTP too, (and heaven forbid source files) but there just has to be some tolerance if we are all to get along.

You can probably augment your VFS dispatch functions to never report a .DS_Store file and to delete one and retry any time a directory remove fails and you'll never know they exist! Or you could just ignore them the way Unix users ignore carriage returns and Windows users ignore vi's tilde backup files.
Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

Mirror of Google Cache: http://mirror.henriwatson.com/notmine/aorensoftware.com/deat...
So close... add a couple more details:
- Google makes money from ads
- Promoting open web technologies reduces the stack they have to support
- Promoting open platforms removes roadblocks to reaching customers
- Supporting "competitors" that provide revenue generation channels ensures that even when the lose, they win.

Business is not warm and fuzzy. For that, you need to go non-profit. Look at these and you can see that Mozilla is really warm and fuzzy: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefoxlive/
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I think desktop.ini is more like .DS_Store than thumbs.db is.
What? The minimal, tasteful, uncluttered design of HN is one of the top reasons why it has been such an unqualified success.
Maybe I'm confused, but this is written by Eamonn Fingleton, not James Fallows. I see Fallows' picture at the top, but I don't know how he's connected.
One thing I've heard about Japan is that it has lifetime employment contracts.
There are a variety of options that are disabled on the mobile build to save memory and cpu. It's the same core, it just doesn't have all the bells and whistles enabled for a variety of reasons.
Yeah, this is one of those annoying little dinguses that just makes OS X look crappy. In any file share or similar shared space, only one person has to browse it with a Mac to drop these little turds all over the place.
Thanks and it is all my girlfriend's work. Alexandra is an interior design major at Academy of Art University SF - but as good as she is with architectural design programs (e.g. 3d max), she's just as good as a hobbyist painter.

Note: Credit for the original source in my app goes to Dave Taylor (jQuery.kinetic, see: http://the-taylors.org/jquery.kinetic/) and Stephen Hamilton (see: http://stephenhamilton.com/)
Google's business is built on the open web, so they need the open web to flourish. This requires new standards to compete with Flash and other proprietary technologies and platforms.

Pushing Chrome is a way for them to advance the state of the art. By building a genuinely better browser that has enough users it can't be ignored, it puts pressure on other browser vendors to catch up.

It's like a reverse IE strategy. You'll see Google (and Firefox) pushing for more technology built into the browser (e.g., BrowserID, canvas, etc.), but based on open standards.

Anyhow, I think that's what they mean.
TinkerTool allows you to disable the creation of those files on network drivers.. It's free too.

TinkerTool.. let's you tink, without leaving a stink?
http://bresink.de/osx/0TinkerTool/details.html
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Junk files like this being littered across filesystems just wreak of extremely poor software engineering. I would love to see Apple stop writing software and operating systems and just stick to hardware.
That's…not that many.
Ah that makes sense. I thought it was used before but I couldn't remember a specific case; so I didn't want to just spout misinformation :)
Then you're just not getting the joke. They are comedy shows that mock cable news shows. Stewart and Colbert are very clear that they aren't news. Try watching Fox News for an hour and compare that to the PBS News Hour... then you'll get the joke.
But Apple doesn't actually make hardware, and their OS and hardware designs are meant to be paired together.

OS X has some flaws, but I think it's better than the alternatives in the market.
That's probably an AT&T issue then... they have to use the same lines that AT&T does for their DSL service.
Are these stats based on his site's users? If so then I'd expect them to skew towards Apple fanboys, not just Mac users. I use a Mac, but I can't stand to read Daring Fireball. It's like the Fox News of tech blogs.
To prevent .DS_Store file creation over `network connections`, there is a simple method: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1629
You can write to your local county internet/cable charter and complain about the service quality.
>Apple doesn't actually make hardware

I don't understand this comment. Apple absolutely makes their own hardware. They pride themselves on the A4/5 series processors and took meticulous care in designing the unibody styling that their laptops have.
> Disabling the creation of .DS_Store files on remote file servers can cause unexpected behavior in the Finder

Not much of a solution. Also these files should not be written by default, if at all.
Holy shit, I just bought a copy of this app and I don't even care about .DS_Store files. BEST Finder improvement ever. Thanks!
Funny, I'm on a Linux system more often than Mac or Windows and the carriage returns drive me insane. Also, because the Windows users on my team are the ones that can't manage to figure out how to get their IDE or Git to leave our line endings alone. Our least performing team member dominates our git stats because he repeatedly manages to change nearly every line of code in our project.
Ask HN: When do you use brute force vs complexity to solve a problem?
For most problems we face, there's two major ways to solve it.

One is to slowly think of a solution covering all your bases and finding the most efficient way to do it. The other way is just to "throw money at the problem" and put more and more people to it until a solution appears.

How do you know when to use one vs the other? How and when did you learn this skill?
I've been pretty happy with our Sonic.net service since we moved to the Bay Area (Redwood City) from Indiana this fall. One caveat is (at least where we are), is that Sonic has to run over the same copper that AT&T does, so you won't get any better signal than what you get from AT&T. And while you get the best service that Sonic can offer, 20Mbit is the upper limit. We get about 6Mbit. I've been seriously considering getting the paired Fusion service to bump that up to 12.

Overall though, I've been very happy with them. The only reason why I've considered switching is the speed. Cable is usually faster, but it's also more expensive and capped. So far though, I haven't been limited by the speed to worry about switching.
From the TotalFinder preferences menu:

"The Asepsis feature has been removed from TotalFinder since version 1.3.0

If you are interested in this functionality, please check out a separate project asepsis.binaryage.com.

For migration info please read asepsis.binaryage.com#migration."
Organize your notes by page page number and paragraph - then you can label revisions on a separate page pointing to the revised page. Using sections/chapters helps with this as well.
For git users:

echo ".DS_Store" >> ~/.gitignore
git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore

If you spend many man hours dealing w/ .DS_Store files in source code repos you're doing something wrong.
WOW - the best feature here is that Total Finder enables cut-and-paste to move files!

This is the one thing I have missed terribly from Windows. It boggles my mind that Apple thinks all that clicking, rearranging windows, dragging, shifting, and dropping is a sane way to move files. Intuitive yes, but more painful than typing it out at a command line. Sometimes Apple gets stuck in "make it pretty" and forgets "make it useful".
Not to mention motherboards, batteries, keyboards, trackpads, and soon SSDs.

But I still wouldn't want them to stop making software. I really enjoy using a lot of Apple's software and software available for their platforms.
I agree OSX on a whole may have other advantages but that doesn't mean Apple is really any good at writing software (eg iTunes, Quicktime) or gets off the hook for leaving behind stigma like DS_Store.
They are trying to advance the state of next generation web standards support as well as rendering and javascript performance.

Google is in the web application business. Their platform is essentially every browser in the world. It behooves them to push browser technology.

And so far they have succeeded. They have spurred Firefox and IE to advance faster than they would have otherwise.