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You use vi on a smartphone? I love vim, but I think it would be excruciating without a full keyboard.
That world is not completely gone! I use VI to connect to amazon AWS servers over a satellite link. It is faster than 1200 baud but with horrible latency. VI is the only editor that works.
As I read the article, "Joy leaves a lasting legacy " gave me a small shock, causing me to fire up Bill Joy's wikipedia page to ensure myself that he hasn't passed away. Phew, thankfully he's fine. Too many great people are dying these last few years.
This is a very serious issue, in a place like India where the soil is fertile, the farmers can raise decent profit from traditional crop with a little assistance from technology (like bore/well water when monsoon fails)

It is sad that GM crops are pushed to farmers with huge promises on returns, most of which are not true. The companies selling them have researchers/personnel from prominent agricultural colleges to support their claims and recommend their products to innocent farmers as a cure to their current issues.

There is another aspect concerning the people who consume such products, the companies claim that they are safe, but I doubt those claims, the long term effects are yet to be seen.

There are so many ways to make profit why do such companies risk the life of innocent people? they could have studied the effect of GM crops for a longer duration before giving it a go.
Do you need to worry about the cookie crisis?
Buzz words do not a viable service make.
Aren't "the cool kids" "so over" 4sq yet?
Nonlinear is not a hypothesis
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... and this is why we can't have nice things: when people point out how the computing world's ability to innovate is being destroyed it is immediately attacked as supposed ideology. This attitude, that we can't talk about controversial topics among nice company, is what allows our rights to be stolen.
They are reasonably good. Its definitely not a bad book, but its not one I would recommend as almost all of the information it gives is in the manuals. If you have programming experience, you're better off reading the manuals. I didn't when I started learning R, but even then I felt somewhat cheated by the reams and reams of man pages included with a text which I had paid for.
So, was Comet burning a recovery disc on behalf of their customers? Therefore, you need a Windows machine for the disc to recover? Doesn't every IT tech carry a recovery disc in their wallet in case of an emergency?

Think I've missed something and the title seems a little misleading. Comet haven't been selling dodgy Windows knockoffs, just giving their (non-techy) customers a way to recover their (expensive) PC when (not if) it goes wrong.
Bill Joy is greek? Perhaps Joy is short for Joyalakinakis?
Thank you for the tips.

I don't have much of a problem with HTML4, but when given a blank page and asked to design something pleasing, I have absolutely no idea where to begin. Most of my colour combinations are awful. I am not sure about page utilisation etc.

I'm learning CSS and jQuery whenever I find time.
Maybe games are more "things" than "speech" (although they are protected as speech by the First Amendment; see the recent decision

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/08-1448.pdf

It would be pretty ironic if in order to free games from the demands of public domain advocates, you also stripped them of free speech protection).

But how is a movie not speech? How is it not a work of art, how is it fundamentally different from a book or a song, or a painting?

Because it costs a lot of money to put together?

For one, this argument is not going to hold for long, as producing a movie at home for next to no money is becoming not only possible but commonplace (The Blair Witch project was shot in 1999 and at the end of principal photography the total cost of production was under $20k (not a typo)).

But secondly, just because the form of art one decides to express themselves with is costly, doesn't justify that the public domain be amputated, or that the public abandons its freedom, more than is strictly necessary for a functioning society.

The right of the public to be informed or educated, or simply to have any conversation they please, should come before the "right" of individuals to make a living in a manner of their own choosing.
I've bought and sold a couple dozen pre-WWII violins on eBay. The violin I play (which I suck at) is labelled "Antonio Curatoli", which sounds old and Italian, but that name was just marketing by the German workshop that made the violin in the 1920's. I think of violin labelling as like the fake non-working decorative shutters in American suburban homes.
I thought vim was a better choice, specially when you don't have a full keyboard. No need for arrow keys or Home, End.
A service like foursquare can be useful to different people in different ways. Some people use it as a personal record, some people use it for discovery, some as a social app, some like the game, etc… Many people might initially come for the game and stay for the deals.

For example, when I lived in NYC I used to enjoy the game aspect and knowing where my friends were. When I moved to Tokyo, these weren't that useful to me. Now I still heavily use the application because I find their venue locations to be more accurate than google maps.

Beware of people predicting doom because it doesn't solve their pet-problem. I can't tell you how many friends I have that initially signed up with twitter, posted 5 or 10 tweets and then went dark for months or years only to become active again. Twitter failed to solve a problem for those users initially. What held twitter through (besides tons of investment money) is a core user group that loved the service as it is today. Foursquare has that.
That's why PayPal insists on you destroying the counterfeit item and providing proof that you did.
<quote>there are overtones picked up by the ear that you can't capture with a microphone.</quote>

I am confused. I think you're claiming that, for example, a KSM-137 has frequency response in some part of the audible range that is so terrible that there are sounds it just flat out isn't capturing. What frequencies?
> The point of an MVP, generally, is to determine whether or not there's a market for your application, and whether it actually fills a need.

I've seen people use MVPs as a fund-raising tool too, while making their pitch to potential investors.
MS have frequently insinuated that rescue disks are not clearly within the shrinkwrap TOS. For example, from Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_live_CDs:

> Microsoft representatives have described third-party efforts at producing Windows-based Live CDs as “improperly licensed” uses of Windows, unless you use it solely to rescue your own, properly licensed Installation. However, Nu2 Productions believes the use of BartPE is legal provided that one Windows license is purchased for each BartPE CD, and the Windows license is used for nothing else.[http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/licensing/]

I hope that Comet wins this one. What Comet was doing I think, in essence, follows the intuition that Nu2 gave. In any case, pushing back against these kinds of IP restrictions is basically a win for our freedom to tinker.
> there are overtones picked up by the ear that you can't capture with a microphone.

Is that true? Shannon-Nyquist seems to disagree.
tarsnap is the only one that stands out in terms of security.

http://www.tarsnap.com/
On OSX, you just have to put all your files in a 256-bit AES encrypted sparsebundle disk image in your dropbox folder.
> sign-ups close once the course starts.

Where did you get this information? During the first iteration, the AI course closed, but the machine learning couse stayed open for at least a while (I signed up after the second week).
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Sorry, about staying in tune, I don't physics, mechanics, can support that teacher's belief. Do the pegs slip? That's adjustable. Are the strings crappy? Replace them. My experience is that there is a lot of false belief and superstition about violins including among violin teachers.
That doesn't make them the primary target market for HDTVs, and it doesn't mean that some HDTV manufacturers won't do something stupid that affects gamers while still serving the needs of their primary target audience. In particular, the filters that cause video lag also implement more feature bullet points for their primary audience.
I still think paying more than a few cents per song is insane. Who set these prices? They're not based on actual scarcity or supply and demand.
A lot of my non techie friends love using Foursquare!

There is such huge potential for serious monetisation with local deals, time is running out to really capitalise on that though.
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Facebook messenger for windows..
Not really. I might prioritise the 'Find us' page and the staff biographies in the mobile site - bring them front and centre in navigation. By contrast, case studies are unlikely to be so important to the mobile user, but that doesn't mean that someone evaluating a company isn't interested in them.
I'd imagine it's an implementation bug. Once the iterator finishes, the file should be closed and the file handler freed.
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Regardless of whether it's true that MVPs need more polish, it's just not true that it's difficult for a product to stay under the radar. The reason Instagram and Path make good examples of companies gaining publicity right at launch is because they happen to be the companies that gained publicity right at launch. You can't really make a counter-example because by definition we haven't heard of the thousands of companies that are still under the radar.

I'm sure there are plenty of people on Hacker News (including myself) that would love to have the "problem" of too many people discussing our product on Twitter.
> Now that computers are so much faster than you can think, nobody understands this anymore.

Are you kidding me? Only vi is much faster than I can think. I still have to wait for Eclipse. Hence, I use vi, because there's too much friction in waiting for my editor. I find that I miss lots of the convenience features of Eclipse, but when I can alrady get productive in vim by the time Eclipse has loaded, it's too easy to just work in vim.
Good ideas, I've been trying to get my company to jump on this bandwagon but they haven't been too 'responsive'... seriously.
Thanks for the clarification. They only demote the URL and not what it linked to.
I don't really see Foursquare's use case being for tourism. I see it as more of a Yelp replacement. And for that, I thoroughly enjoy it more. The problem with Yelp is that it feels like a restaurant review app that happens to have a location aspect, rather than a location based app that does restaurants.

Foursquare answers a basic question: what around me is worth doing? (Mainly that is eating for me). Popping up explore this morning gives me a list of interesting coffee shops and breakfast places in my neighborhood. It's truely an awesome feature.

One mistake I think Foursquare made was that their MVP and/or product guidance was too minimal. A lot of my friends have abandoned the product because they didn't see enough initial value. I felt the same thing at first. "I checked-in, now what?" Their social features are only good if you have friends on the service, that are active, AND live in the same area. Their explore, radar, and lists features are awesome, but they came a bit too late and their website is only now catching up to the mobile experience. I also think they still have work to do on the social aspect.

Foursquare is optimized for densely populated urban areas (They are based in NYC), so I'm not sure if it'll reach critical mass like Facebook/Twitter, however, those are still substantial markets. I see it doing very well in Europe.
Facebook official desktop messenger for windows..
Why? Do you think there are plenty of Queens around?
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Smartphones with physical keyboards are sweet.
Ah. Much better.

I had the same problem as other posters--this presentation more or less breaks scrolling (it still works, but is very awkward).

Using the left/right arrow keys to navigate the presentation works quite well. To bad that navigation tip isn't included on the first slide or on that persistent gray bar or something. It makes a huge difference.
Right now I am sitting on a Sailboat in the Bahamas.
Not so nice on the iPhone either
The whole point of this lawsuit is that most manufacturers don't provide recovery disks anymore; hidden recovery partitions are the norm these days.

Comet apparently took it upon themselves to burn these disks for their customers, and this seems to be what Laptops Direct are doing as well, albeit charging for the privilege. If Laptops Direct have an agreement with Microsoft, then fair enough.

The average computer user won't think to burn a recovery disk until it's too late, hence the conundrum.
Average people don't have 6 Android devices laying around, they are almost always bought with 2 year contracts.

> All of this is just speculation.

Yep.
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Point #2 - truly well-said.

>If you do 2, be ready to question your own assumptions; you'll likely get "fresh" questions that will teach you just as much as him.

Bingo, again. Spot on. Having lived on both sides of the equation (hand-coder - 20+ years ago, CXO-type since then,) I can attest to the validity of this whole heartedly.
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This post is rightly empathetic towards the designers at samsung. The drastically different outcomes come down to different corporate strategies.

Apple is a product focused business seeking to sell best of breed products.

Samsung is a sales focused business seeking to maximize marketshare of their products.

Those two strategies yield totally different outcomes when they trickle down through the business. That's the reason samsung makes 143 different cell phones with different screen sizes and software and Apple doesn't.
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You could roll your own with something like: https://github.com/bazaarlabs/gitdocs
There are other services which advertise security, but nothing where you actually are likely to audit the code. Even if their security model is better than what Dropbox is now using, you have to factor in availability issues (Dropbox seems more solid as a business than a lot of the others), functionality, etc. You also need to trust the entire development process, release engineering, and knowing your binaries correspond to the source code. It's not easy.

There is a slight benefit to "must ship trojaned software to recover passphase, then decrypt" vs. "just access data server-side", but in practice, if your threat is the government, there's not a huge difference. If your threat is a server break-in by a third party, then there's some difference.

Overall, probably the best bet, if you don't run your own servers, is Dropbox plus your choice of well tested encryption on top. As for your best well-tested encryption, that's a hard problem too -- Truecrypt has a pretty wide following and some versions have been audited, and source is published. For general purpose use on Macs, I just use Apple's encryption -- it's probably ok, but as far as I know, hasn't really been analyzed by third parties (I'd be happy to NDA and look at it). I rationalize it as if Apple is subverted, and I use OSX, I'm fucked even if third party disk encryption software itself is safe.
The CLR also has different concepts for destruction and deallocation. Not sure what the using block and IDisposable have to do with that.
Actually in this case the only reasonable way to validate it would be with an expert. Do you know how to recognize a badly treated XX century violin from a Stradivarius? I don't.
After dropbox, I use sugarsync and I'm really happy with it
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Show HN: a better visual admin for redis
HN is also an interesting community because of the fact that we all have relatively fast connections. Bungie (guys who made Halo) found out that if you want to be accessible to 99% of connections you need to design around 8kb/s speeds which from what I understand is about 4000baud (see edit).

Edit: I was under the impression that 1 baud = 2bps because I saw this wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_device_bit_rates .
I was wrong.
Nope, america again.
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Wuala - http://wuala.com/

All files get encrypted and are stored redundantly. No one unauthorized - not even Wuala as the provider - can access the files.
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Turn any hard surface into a touch interface with a contact mic
Only when something is broken, it's actually more usable on a phone terminal than any other editor i can think of.
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Which Politician is Winning the Social Media Race?
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Good thing to do. Khan does great work, but to be true, he is quite boring sometimes. Getting somebody else in with better grasp of how to make a video educational and entertaining at the same time would be a great idea.
Or... Instead of checking 5 different websites/apps, I just check one: Facebook.
And reading HN with Lynx?
Is taking 20% of only a few hours with a particular teacher going to be enough? It might be hard for students to do anything worthwhile with such a short timelength split over weeks. I'd go as far as to say it might be frustrating because the idea is awesome but they won't be able to really achieve stuff in this context. Still a great initiative!

I wish that, starting with high school, most teaching was project-based and schools worked to enable students to discover and learn stuff they care about, rather than shoving knowledge down one's throat. Want to make video games? Learn woodwork? Build an electronic device? Learn cooking? Schools should strive to provide a framework to make those things happen!

I think teaching people to be passive and keeping them from being productive until their twenties is a huge factor in school failure, dropping out and lots of social issues (at least in France where I'm from).
Why Amazon Is the Next Top Tech Company
And yet, it still works great.
Apple to launch iPhone 4S in China and 21 new countries on January 13
If you buy a laptop you are pretty much guaranteed to have make a set of recovery discs as your first task (before cleaning off all the trialware and then trying to find a way to get rid of the hidden partition). Last time I did it the recovery discs weren't even a full windows install as such.

I always buy PCs that are pre-built from components and usually get an OEM disc of windows thrown in, but I gather if you buy a branded PC from a shop you are in the same boat as the laptops.
yeah and LoL has 1.3 mil concurrent players
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/community-grows-32-millio...
Presumably once they ssh in they can install python in a virtualenv or do anything they want basically. I would imagine this would be only a bootstrap problem.
Check out Bootstrap open source project from Twitter on Github. It can give you polished look quick. I supposed Bootstrap is meant for backed coders.
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And more or less impossible with opera mini on iphone.
Signs we're living in the post-privacy era
Wuala: http://www.wuala.com

Data is encrypted with your password on the client side, your password never leaves your PC.
They published a paper on their security implemenation: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=4032...

It allows to synchronize multiple folders and it gives access to a certain number of previous versions.
You can also share folders with friends, publicly or via a secret link.

It's cross-platform: Win, Mac, Linux.

I'm a happy customer since more than a year (it's free up to 2GB though) and I wonder why so few people know about it.
Is it possible to use Truecrypt in Dropbox without issues?
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Most people who think they are getting a deal dropping $300 on an HDTV probably aren't hardcore gamers and likely to notice.

There's a long laundry list of things that the vast majority of gamers won't notice directly that can affect gameplay. They have neither the vocabulary nor the technical expertise to identify or explain the things they experience.

I do agree with you though, 400ms is unsuitable for realtime games. But that doesn't stop people from ending up in that situation. However, one mitigating factor is that if you are buying those super cheap TVs, it is likely that you don't own a 360 or PS3 either.
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I use SugarSync. They just had (or maybe still have) a 50% off deal. If you want I can give you a referral. Free to try and can easily get more space by referring others.
If you look at any of the mobile marketshare charts, you will see that MS never had the mobile market to begin with. They were always way behind Palm, BB, iOS or Android. MS was always a third place platform in mobile.
Does wuala have physical ownership and exclusive, secure physical access to their own servers or is it up on the cloud? If it's cloud, access prevention from snoopy authority cannot be guaranteed, since a single loose warrant could tap every box.

If someone wants to encrypt their data, then they'd probably want to know the physical security around the box holding their data too. Stallman's probably mentioned this at some point.
Sentry classes, which are a generalization of RAII, are used idiomatically in C++ for non-allocation tasks, such as whitespace skipping, logging, and profiling.
Yes, composable data structure editors (lenses) with an overloaded (.) make my day to day work much more pleasant.
Should you diversify or should you specialize?
Yes, it has nothing to do with their Windows monopoly and a total lack of guarantees to any developer who wants to create applications for it.

Do an office suite? Not viable, MS has its own version.

Do a nice application for doing whatever? If it's successful MS will do their own version. And release it for free.

Balmer said it: Developers! Developers! Developers!

But now how can any developer invest in MS without realizing it is suicidal?
My instinct is to agree...

However, I don't think "news" means what it used to any more. Since there are so many sources of information it doesn't mean "new to the world" any more, it instead means "new to the reader".

In that sense, that it is from another year is fairly irrelevant.
Bootstrap from twitter is a good resource for getting a minimalist but still sexy looking frontend going quickly.

I also browsed ThemeForest, searched the "Admin" themes, and then wrote web projects using them. I have found the code quality of all of the themes I have purchase to be very high - all of the components were modular, and I've been able to put high quality frontend stuff together with no design skills :)
Bitcasa is using local encryption:

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