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I started using arch recently and it was certainly intimidating working through the installer, my first install attempt led to me not being able to boot into arch or my windows partition and it took a fair amount of googling to figure out how to get windows back. I think it took me like 3 days to really get it to the point of being productive.

That said I think the arch wiki is truly amazing. I never expected such great documentation from a linux distro. I learned a ton while installing it and I'm still learning constantly. It may be unfriendly in that you'll need to generally configure things yourself before you use them, but the documentation is incredibly friendly.
two of them (fire) are from me. Seriously doubt that I would buy another ipad again.
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/12/28/apples-continued-patent-...

I think they point they are making is 'don't fight .. cash in'
This applies to all criticism. Far more people judge than do because it's that much easier. That doesn't pull the rug out from under their complaints though. Few claim they could do better when they say XYZ sucks; they are just saying it sucks. Media critics, political pundits, even non-developer Steve Jobs do/did little more than evaluate others' work while creating none of their own. That doesn't render invalid their criticisms though.
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In anti-trust cases the EU has fines tied to the earnings of a company. I believe they can go as high as 15% so for large corporations like Microsoft it can become quite the sum. I believe Microsoft were fined 1.5 billion euro before they gave in to the demands.
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Kindles are incredible. I read so much more because it is so much more convenient.

The sad truth is that these devices will do to book publishing what iPods did to music publishing. Piracy will suck a lot of cash out of the market.
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Except most client-side applications are distributed in binary form. Grokking obfuscated assembly language is an order of magnitude harder than doing the same thing with Javascript.
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"Their products are deliberately engineered to make it painful to seek affordable alternatives when you need new parts."

Some of apples products have RAM directly soldered to the motherboard. This has legitimate engineering trade-offs. Of the ones that don't do this: Are there any that deliberately void compatibility with alternatives. It looks like most of their cables have alternatives too. Their stuff is expensive sure. But are they deliberately locking you into using their accessories?
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So fix the bit that's broken - the government.
Companies are just playing by the rules.
Hey I'm Ben, the other founder of MongoHQ.

Encryption is a common request for mongo and you can actually compile it with ssl support (scons --ssl), but it just isn't in the build by default.

Since most of the drivers support ssl already we leverage that and do offer encrypted mongo in a beta. If you would like to use an encrypted version of mongo in the cloud then shoot us an email to support@mongohq.com
It is a risk. But perhaps the Congress would decide that discretion was the better part of valor and back out of many issues that they really aren't adding alot of value to.

I live in New York, so one of my Senators is Chuck Schumer. He's a pretty good guy, but he loves the limelight. So he sticks his nose into anything that will get him on the local TV news. Right now, for example, he's very concerned about some some of caffeine inhaler that "the children" are going to be harmed by.

I'm pretty happy with him as a Senator, but I'd rather he think about things like SOPA/PROTECT-IP than caffeine mist. Maybe organized mass outrage would help in that area?
That road leads to the dark side. It won't be long before they notice that while the profit margins on tablets are great, the profit margins on settlements are even better, and if you sell fewer devices, you pay fewer taxes yourself while raking in the cash from people who actually make and sell things.
This article says NOTHING. Why would you post this here?
I'm late to the party, but I found the details interesting so thought I'd do the best technical summary I could:
An attacker precomputes a lot of different values that hash to the same value, then posts them in a web request and it eats CPU on an N^2 operation of processing the form variables due to its hashtable now being N^2 since all hashes are the same. There are some optimizations that make it easier than brute force to calculate collisions against the hash algorithms in use by almost everybody today, see [1].

The interesting part is this is a precomputed attack which relies on hash algorithms being well known and invariant.

Ruby has fixed this by initializing their hash function with a random seed each time an app runs, so an attacker can't do the pre-compute step - a collision calculated on his system won't necessarily be a collision on the server. [2]

Other workarounds include limiting the size of post requests so the dictionary can't get too big, limiting the CPU time available to a single web request, or using a balanced tree instead of a hash table.

[1]: This is a great link on the problem: http://www.nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdf

[2]: Ruby's fix: http://osdir.com/ml/ruby-talk/2009-05/msg00167.html
So basically, you are griping because Apple hasn't chosen to be a mass seller of RAM upgrades who keeps large stocks and is willing to sell it for very small profit margins.

Heard of damning with faint praise? I'd say this amounts to praising with faint damn.
There are many less friendly Linux distributions around than Arch.

Maybe the article author meant "popular" or "well known"? But even then the Arch community is friendly and they've produced some nice documentation.
Commercialisation of TV White Spaces in 2012?
Will TV white spaces be launched commercially in 2012? What happened within TV White Spaces in 2011?
Well, the point of that change was to prevent a hostile user from DoSing your server with malicious GET/POST requests.

I imagine it would actually be fairly difficult to accidentally recreate this issue, or let it slip through testing. No amount of patches in the world will protect you from idiots with access to your codebase
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I worry in the US that fees like this would be accused as being 'job killers' by their friends in politics.
I was just clarifying. Some benchmarks would be nice for comparison purpose though...another time, another thread. Maybe I'll take the time to set up a dev machine and do some testing myself.
but the RAM is just plain old laptop RAM. You can buy it from anywhere.

Similar to the external hard drive market, anything labeled "apple compatible" costs extra, but is basically the same thing.

Find the RAM you machine needs, and search for that directly on Newegg or similar.

How to find what RAM you need: (on OSX Lion)

1. Click the Apple (top left corner of your screen)
2. Click "About this Mac"
3. Click "More Info..."
4. Click the "Memory" tab

Note: there are memory upgrade instructions in this window as well :)
"Surprising" doesn't mean non-deterministic. So you're saying anyone who has simply used JavaScript shouldn't be surprised by that snippet you posted? It's a glowing example of surprising semantics.
I don't really get what you're saying here. Some Android devices have locked bootloaders, but that doesn't affect the openness of AOSP. If anything, you're making an argument for GPLv3 which would require Android OEM's to allow for open bootloaders and (S-OFF (htc)).

But I can assure you, my Galaxy Nexus is running a CM9 alpha that I built from source last night.
Link/citation/source? Very interested in this.
* Still make HUGE kernel updates every few days on RHEL 6.x

which, while you're reading made me wonder. we bump into kernel issues from time to time due to update, and I always wondered why the policy was what it is.

basically it seems like backports while retaining the same kernel major/minor version numbers... because a lot of it aren't just bug fixes

Note that as I have been maintaining a Debian spinoff for years I highly value RH's packages quality, and have generally been picking from RH packages for patches and stuff "that just works" (incorporating that in the debs)

Still the kernel case puzzles me ;-)
Yep, but I wouldn't equate slipping on occasion in some bullshit to have bullshit at the very core of your operation, as is the case with these three companies.

I know I do all I possibly can not to bullshit anyone. This may limit me in some respects but so do all principles.
When I look back over the sea of boots that have stomped the sea of necks over the past year, I'm not really overwhelmed by all the IP lawyers I see doing the neck stomping.

Maybe in next month's issue of Wired:

2011: The Year a Campus Police Officer's Desire to Pepper Spray a Kid in the Fucking Face Trumped Civil Liberties

2011: Another Year a Federal Government's Tantrum Over Thwarted Desire to Hide Information from Its Citizenry Trumped Bradley Manning's Civil Liberties

2011: The Year Cops Shot Some More Family Dogs in the Process of Systematically Violating Large Swaths of the Population's Civil Liberties

2011: The Year the U.S. Military Finally Sort of Withdrew from Iraq After Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Iraqi Civilians in the Process of Nominally Protecting Their Civil LIberties (and Mine!)
Computers have had to deal with multiple currencies from their inception, so the technical aspects of euro conversion were fairly minor. But they have never had to deal with an actual change in the rules of the calendar.
I'm gently disappointed that TinyCore doesn't get a mention. I'd like to see more devs on that; DSL has been dead for several years and Puppy is "odd".

Other minimal distributions, like Slitaz, are also worth a look, especially if internationalization is important.
Ask HN: What flavor of Linux do you run in the cloud and why?
We have been working with Red Hat (yeah, big enterprise), however I'm inclined to advocate for a switch to Amazon's Linux. Like to hear others perspective.
Well.. The article saved me a some time by putting the bias and 'hate' right into the first couple of paragraphs.
That allowed me to drop from reading mode to skimming right away.

- I doubt these shootouts make any sense, whatsoever. Without a clearly defined target and some backed up metrics (see shin_lao's comment) this is a random 'I like x' page and could've compared Britney to Madonna for all I care

- Gnome 3 was excluded from the start, because of the author's impression of it killing the desktop or something. While this is a matter of personal opinion, this disqualifies the entry as relevant for me (again, _my_ personal opinion).

- Lots of remarks continued to reduce the quality. I remember a couple of stabs at Gnome again, arguable comments about Arch and a little snark against Fedora. Probably more.
Really? An operating system that is cheaper to OEM manufacturers (and thus cheaper per-device costs) as well as a vastly expanded variety of physical hardware isn't a benefit?
> Kindles are incredible. I read so much more because it is so much more convenient.

Yes, totally agree.

> The sad truth is that these devices will do to book publishing what iPods did to music publishing. Piracy will suck a lot of cash out of the market.

It's so convenient to get a new book on the kindle (literally a few seconds) that my _paid_ consumption of ebooks increased.

Formatting of pdf's on the kindle is hit and miss, pirating an ebook is _inconvenient_.

I believe (and this is my opinion) that a major cause of piracy is lack of access. I simply can't get a DRM free high quality digital copy of movies (used to be books, except now Amazon has DRM free mp3's) legally.

As long as prices for ebooks remains reasonable (in the minds of most people) I can only see increased consumption of ebooks.
Wow, those are really unfortunate variable names.

I've never seen the term "gook" outside of a racial slur context.
"How we're different" gives me a 404 JS alert.

edit: The GoDaddy SSL cert you're using is a little ironic.
I'm not trying to have an attitude. I said it once but I'll say it again: You're reading too much into whats being said.

I like your analogy. It perfectly exemplifies what I'm trying to say. Can I not use their services and be careful while doing it? Driving my car is dangerous but I do it every day. I'm not trying to say that they're bad. If you're distilling the word "dangerous" down to it's connotation then I can understand your disagreement. Please understand that I'm not doing that.
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We need to stop thinking like everyone needs a "job", like a factory job or being an employee of a huge corporation. Just because 80-90% of the working population does that today, doesn't mean that's always been the case or that it should always be the case. The Internet and decentralized businesses like the ones enabled by 3D printing will help create a lot of entrepreneurs in the future.

People need to think more in terms of how do I use the "cheap labor" (whether by people, or automatized) to create my own business, and less in terms of "let's ban cheap labor to protect our current jobs".

That being said, we should probably expect some new SOPA-like IP laws supported by the big manufacturing companies that will want to "save jobs" and make such technologies illegal.
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I have one, enjoy it and use it very much.

If they get the software figured out (tapping is wonky) this would be a 5 star device, as it is now, it's a 4 star device.
There's a thing called due process. There's law.
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I don't think killing an elephant away from any village or crops proves that the elephant isn't a nuisance for that village, or that it routinely destroys the crops.
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Thanks for disabusing me of my misconception. However, I'm going to have to do more homework on this before I'm willing to concede that you're right.
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Google makes it very easy to leave and take your data with you. Google contributes as much of their internal software to the Free Software community as they can. They do need to make money, but they're trying to do it the old fashioned way: make products people they like.

Interesting, since I would say pretty much the same thing about Apple (certainly with the Mac platform).
A domain registrar's primary focus on the homepage should be a big form with the ability to type in domains and check their availability. It's not clear that search bar is to find domains. There should be TLDs at the end of the form to make it clear.
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I'm using Reliance broadband from India. www.megaupload.com is working for me right now.

Perhaps it's relevant that I'm using 8.8.8.8 for DNS?
>You're reading too much into whats being said.

After reading this last reply, I think I am. Unfortunately, I'm not sure that everyone is thinking about it in the same way you and I are. There are a lot of people (often even on HN) that decry new Google products or features as some sort of "attack". Have no doubt, they want and live on data and ad-intel, but that's just part of the game, at least to me (an informed consumer).
Every time i hear the name Godaddy, i remember the elephant killing.
2012: The Year That Movements Go Mainstream?
Perhaps it's just an accident that edw519 has juxtaposed this comment against a post that's built out of pure tasty linkbait, an artfully constructed pop-music confection of a post that's predictably climbing the HN charts even though it's built out of truisms that old-school HN readers have read one million times each.

But I doubt it.

Yes, of course each one of edw519's bullet points refers to something important and true, just as each of Marco's bullet points refers to something important and true. They were true yesterday, and they'll be true tomorrow, and they'll be true the next hundred thousand times each one of them gets upvoted.

But the point is that the urge to spend time pressing the RIGHTEOUS TRUTH button over and over like a lab rat can become an addiction that ultimately does not serve you.

And with that I'm taking Ed's hint and trying to leave HN for the day. ;) Bugs must be fixed!
Or via POP (getmail4's `getmail_fetch` is easy to use). I did this recently, exporting basically every Google service I use: https://plus.google.com/103530621949492999968/posts/WrCjcBXc...
OK, we get it, we get it, you don't like Gnome 3. Every handful of years things change enough in an OS that it makes people uncomfortable, and a certain percentage then believe it's their duty to beat their chests for a year about just how bad the new stuff is. After about 18 months it's started to quiet down significantly, and before long the same crowd mostly can't live without it.

It's a bit boring, though, right?

Don't get me wrong, Gnome Shell in 3.0 / F15 was rather rough, but that is how it goes in open source. You don't get nearly enough usage testing until you announce it's gone gold.

While I did switch to ubuntu/unity for the time being as Fedora had some other issues, I absolutely saw enough of a spark in Gnome Shell to know I'll be back checking out 3.2 as soon as I have some time. While Unity is much more stable and polished I think gnome shell shows signs of having a much better usability once the rough edges get sanded down.
Well, Wired is kind of a technology-related publication so it makes some sense that they would focus on that. But it would be nice to have some kind of comprehensive write-up somewhere that goes something like

2011: Another Year of Civil Liberties Getting Pummeled By The "War" on Drugs, The "War" on Piracy, and The "War" on Terrorism

(Civil liberties are quickly becoming my most important political issue, more than jobs, the economy, the deficit, etc...)
The problem is that the "majority" isn't a set thing, and in a "pure democracy", the reality is that the rabble-rousers loudest voices control the mob.

I've had the good fortune of observing the local occupy movement wreck the park that I like to eat lunch in. It started out like a bunch of people getting together in a little -- sort of like a festival concert. After a few weeks though, there clearly were 3-4 people "in charge". They give everyone lip service, but guide the agenda.

Regarding the ethics of the majority... from 1882 to 1968, nearly 200 bills were introduced making lynching a Federal crime. 7 presidents supported such legislation. Three (3) passed the house. None got through the Senate, thanks to the vice-grip of "Solid South" Senators.

Were all white folks in the South supporters of random mobs hanging black people? I hope not. But those random mobs had leaders, and the rest of the population was cowed into silent complicity.
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I can't speak for BlueHost, but bad neighbors are hard to deal with in pure 'shared hosting' environments, and are regrettably unpredictable, and hence harder to mitigate against.

I've had similar problems in the past with Dreamhost and its ilk.

For a little more money, you can switch out to Linode which is at least VM-based instead of fully-shared platform, but the tradeoff is that it is more expensive, and you also have to administer your own services. It's also possible that you lose some of the burstability of a shared hosting platform as the caps are hard caps.
Very nice example of memoization.
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I think this is a great way to find a potential buyer. Nice marketing idea.

BTW I voted open source
I wish they had made that the title. The current title borders on absurd.

Is it time for Apple's patent war to end?

Should we feed our children?

Is it time to stop murdering other people?

Baited questions are a lame rhetorical device.
I appreciate your sentiment with this, and want to be supportive, but it takes more then landing page to be domain registrar. I think you should work on this some more before showing anything. See other comments on what to improve.
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While I admire your enthusiasm, the last thing an experienced web developer wants is a "brand new" domain registrar. The primary aspect you want in your registrar is longevity, because transferring domains is a huge pain in the neck. GoDaddy gets business just by virtue of having been around for so long, thus indicating it's not going to be another disaster like RegisterFly.

Obviously everybody has to start somewhere, but if you're brand new, focus on increasing consumer confidence through things like service guarantees and offering long-term contracts.
good to see more competition. I agree with the other criticisms here, and would add there's nothing about pricing on the site anywhere I can find.

It seems badger is .com and .net only? promote that up front so I don't waste time.

I hope this wasn't put together solely as a "screw godaddy" anti-SOPA thing. I suspect it wasn't, as I'd imagine icann accreditation would take more than a few days, but the "godaddy competitor" in the title makes me think otherwise. Or maybe this is just good pr-timing?
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Paper printers today are far from flawless. They consume a good portion of IT time (in companies and for those of us who are the family tech support).

I'm a tad skeptical of a universal printer. The reliability to print anything of a complex nature (beyond simple plastic molds) is a major concern.

Doing this at scale (putting this in each persons home) is a nice idea, I just don't think it's reliable enough.

I hope I'm wrong.

Somewhat related: Some of Vigor Vinge's touch on the problem of the "universal assembler" and how humanity couldn't substitute a universal assembler for a specialist economy.
Your game looks nice. Do you maybe have a blog post about the making of? Was it your first Unity3D game? What prior experience do you have in game development and in general programming, which languages? How long did the development take?

Sorry for all the questions—I'm about to dive deeper into one of the game/3D dev frameworks and an HN reader's opinion would be highly appreciated!
Recapping 2011: Google eyes Motorola buy in bid for Android control, patent ammo