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> I dont think that it comes as a shock to most that people buy tablets mainly for basic web browsing and social networking

I hate exactly these two activities on my iPad, I type too much on Facebook and I use the keyboard a lot even when browsing. (cmd+L, tab, cmd+F, ...) - To me it seems natural that people would read eBooks and play games.

Nothing beats (or would beat) hard data.
Yes, the official blessing of a mechanism for caching would open the door to browsers using it

I like file schmantics because it gives us access control and an api that is straightforward to use
Would you really be worried if AirBNB had a QR code which took you to http://airbnb.com/qr because it might be a redirect which could take you anywhere?
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GDI international business offers you a capital way to get residual income and also with GDI you have your own website, for life!
If getting the potential employee to offer a number is genuinely, purely in the interest of not stringing them along, why don't you offer the first number? "This is the salary allocated for the position. Is this a salary you would be comfortable with?"

Now you have a way to both not string them along if you're $20K apart and to not let them accidentally undervalue their own worth by a significant amount.
If this is such a concern, you can always have your browser ask you for permission before it follows a redirect. Any URL anywhere could potentially redirect.
Sorry, I was writing more in context of permanent outposts due to recent political rhetoric.
Better post stuff like this to dzone.com .
Separating Data from Puppet Code
If you can spin up the HD, read the file into RAM, and spin down the HD, it will take a lot less energy than reading the file slowly over the course of an hour.
I was mainly responding to the "Connecting the Dots, What is a PaaS?" section which I thought was the weakest part of your article. Otherwise well done.
Why does sci-fi hate ordinary people?
Editorial: Innovate Without Mercy Is the Lesson of RIM’s BlackBerry
It's not Wi-Fi, it's whitespace wireless.
Cool, thanks for clearing that up.
Currently, no. But I would be mad if they sold a redirect to someone else and it took me where I didn't expect. And if that happened often, then I would get more suspicious of redirects over time.
It's not illegal, but it is against Netflix's TOS:

> You may not circumvent, remove, alter, deactivate, degrade or thwart any of the content protections in the Netflix service.

Using a VPN to access content from another region would be considered circumventing content protections.
Upvote back to +1, just because I think it's interesting how words fairly arbitrarily acquire strong signed (positive or negative) meanings, e.g. awful vs. awesome, collaboration vs. collusion. It's not at all stable across languages. If you call someone a "collabo" (collaborator) in France, that's a huge insult (referring to Nazi collaborators in the Vichy era).
I'm told there's a Lisp machine in a museum somewhere on campus. I'd find that interesting.
incredible blog. guy really can write well. are there any similar blogs from astronauts or is this the only one?
Show HN:What does your name look like?
There's probably more overhead in the request via HTTP than there is via IMAP, to be honest. I can't see any reason to make this switch other than being able to support port 80.
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OK, copyright infringement isn't stealing. It's copyright infringement. And copyright infringement is illegal.

I am sorry that some people are "frustrated" because they cannot see their favorite programs at the same time that people in other parts of the world can see them. But what a remarkably morally shaky ground upon which to break the law! My great-grandfather stole food once; his father died when he was eight, and his mother couldn't support the family. Today, people steal--sorry, copyright infringe--Downton Abbey because they can't wait to find out whether Lady Mary is going to marry Matthew.
No. My doctors regularly don't read the forms I fill out before the visit. (I know this because they ask the same questions that were on the forms and act surprised at the answers.)
"The impact of humanity on Earth is humbling from orbit. Our greatest cities appear to the bare eye as minor gray smudges on the edges of continents—they could be the fingerprints of Atlas, from the last time he handled the globe. They are hardly distinguishable from volcanic ash flow or other geologic features. If you didn’t know it was a city, it would be difficult to conclude it was the result of human design. Under the scrutiny of the telephoto lens, things appear different. Like ants moving crumbs of dirt, we are slowly changing our world. You realize that Earth will do just fine, with or without us. We are wedded to this planet, for better or for worse, until mass extinction do us part."

This is profound to me. Human design is powerful, especially when amplified with our ability to create and use tools. We use our tools to make games and another photo sharing app. How can we use these same CPUs and resources to design a better world that we are wedded to?
So it sounds like you don't have a problem with "conspiracy theories" after all. Neither do I. Conspiracies happen all the time, as you say.

When you talk about shadowy mansions and orgies, it sounds to me like you're invoking a straw man conspiracy. But real conspiracies are plenty shadowy (isn't that the whole idea?) The upper level meetings of the very powerful seem to be quite secretive, with great security, be they in boardrooms or at parties in Aspen.

What frustrates me is that "conspiracy theory" has just become code for "thing that can't possibly be even considered". This is the message that comes down to us whenever people want to discuss, e.g. income equality, or the reasons for going to war. People internalize this, making it difficult for them to evaluate the real everyday conspiracies that take place around them, and, of course, benefiting conspirators.
What's really annoying to me is that they post previews for the upcoming episodes of for example The Big Bang Theory, make you watch the ads and then tell you that the video is not available in your region.
I think my comment is valid and on-topic. People make fun of conspiracy theories, but the fact is that conspiracies go on all the time. There is even a crime called "conspiracy", after all. It would be better to say "implausible crank theories" or something when that is what one refers to.
And yet, so many of the players in different categories are owned by the same companies. It's an oversimplification but it's not a gross one.
Not a call to be irresponsible, but guy does have a point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScDfYzMEEw
Well, in Germany it usually takes at least 3 to 6 months and those are mainstream series like Desperate Housewives or Grey's Anatomy.
And in more positive news, people might have learnt a valuable lesson about redundant storage of valuable data.
"Click the "Like" button to get your tricked out Facebook photos!"

Nope. Closed the window, never going back. If I like your service, I'll tell my friends about it. I won't promote it just to try it out though.

(Yes, I saw the "Already liked us?" button. It doesn't negate the intent to spam people's timelines.)
It also stored our collective culture of the last 2 DECADES.

Umm, no. I don't think MegaUpload was that big...
It isn't a problem with Twitter or Gmail, it is a bug in Chrome.

Chrome leaks memory. Check memory usage again after force-quitting Chrome and relaunching it. I have to restart Chrome daily to regain 3-5 gigs of swap.
frequently, your boss-to-be, at the salary negotiation level, is just a go-between.

At most larger corps this is very true, I was a VP at a large company and I would project my personnel need, I would also give a top end salary, which I would provide as market + 10%. From there I never heard about salary, I gave a go no go on hiring and HR worked out salary. It is a pattern that I have seen a good deal in larger orgs.
Ok, I understand your point of view. But if you look at the current high quality shared hosting offers, you have managed dedicated MySQL instances included and many of such add-ons.

Anyway, we created this PaaS because it brings us real benefits and a competitive advantage. For our case (not the usual one as we need to run scientific computation with specific hardware and software) it is better to have full control of our hardware. We are outliers and most of the people would be better going with a good PaaS provider.
I don't get it! Google image search does this!
Downvoted on Hacker News for proposing a bold startup? Some dudes started the economy airlines in Europe, too. Somebody has to be the first. Complaining about existing airlines is unlikely to change anything.
I hate these kinds of questions about ram usage. Os developers and browser developers are smarter than you give them credit for. They will do garbage collection when memory becomes tight. You are slowing yourself by clearing ram when you might need it and you still have free ram.

Browsers have sub second back buttons, how much pre-rendered ram space do you think that takes up?
Should have thought of that! good point
PROTIP: Use noscript to take RAM requirements back to 2007.

I'm on a 2GB Laptop with XP typing this and the fan is silent. SILENT. The second I turn noscript off it overloads, then of course, crashes. Some scripts are running constantly in the background, with click tracking and even mouse motion tracking becoming more commonplace.
Absurd. When the library of Alexandria burnt, knowledge and culture was lost, never to be recovered.

When mega upload shut down, it just meant you had to switch which service you used. I seriously doubt there was a single bit of knowledge or culture that was on megaupload that still doesn't exist today on some hard drive somewhere.

Yeah, shutting down mega upload raises some pretty serious questions. But the library of Alexandria it ain't.
Should be marked NSFW, James returned several images with tits.
Bing image search API: http://www.bing.com/developers/s/APIBasics.html
It should also be pointed out that you have to use iTunes to drag MKV files etc. onto the iPad, but you don't need to add them to iTunes and sync them from there.

iOS apps can accept and offer file drag&drop and this bypasses the iTunes library. It's still not as easy as having a folder pop up on the desktop, though.
It had textfiles from the old BBS days together with SNES roms. Thats 2 decades if not more. Together with "old" movies (Ghostbusters 1 for example). Trust me, that rabbit hole went deep.
The copyright industry, which should be termed the intellectual monopoly industry, ought to get a taste of its own medicine. They control "intellectual property", so they charge monopoly prices for their content. If the copyright industry monopoly wants the search engine monopoly to modify their service, they should pay Bing, Google and Yahoo monopoly prices for it. Otherwise they should for once innovate instead of demanding subsidies from the world and figure out for themselves how to protect their own miserable content.
They ripped off the concept and idea of the pricing table, yet they didn't flat out take the design and just modify the text. These guys took every single element, changed no style.
Any URL can send you anywhere. If you trust the origin of the QR-code, there's no reason to not trust going to /qr.

For the record, I agree with reviewing the URL before hitting it, but if the domain matches what I expect, I'd be strongly inclined to trust the rest.
The one argument I get sick of hearing bandied around in cases like these is: "but those companies invested a lot of money in training their employees. How would you like it if you owned a business and trained someone only to have them poached?"

In the words of Dwight Shrute: "False!". Most of the employees in question in this case and probably every other case where poaching is worthwhile are autodidacts. These employees are valuable precisely because they work hard to increase their own value. They know that, and they deserve to be paid accordingly by shopping themselves around.

It is in the market for autodidacts where actions like these are most damaging to the individuals affected.
It's just a Bing image search, e.g. http://www.bing.com/images/search?pq=face%2520of%2520stanfor... There's a button on the side to toggle "face search".
Agreed
Removing links to exclusively pirated content is something I can accept, removing an entire website because it contains piracy I can't.
Even worse is the result manipulation, that is ridiculous, whoever pays more gets better rank?
Yeah now that Megaupload's gone how will we ever watch Ghostbusters or play SNES roms?
Why I Wish Google Circles Were Reversed
Nice. You might want to give some more examples of what each setting does - as someone else mentioned, I wasn't sure what the "Rip Off" setting did.
for the open source chromium, there's a command line option to set how quickly it should release memory to the OS:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chromium_Tips_and_Tweak...
Shouldn't it be the responsibility of the Web dev to realize this and work to minimize it? In a way, it's not much different than building on top of any VM. And here it definitely impacts the UX. I've certainly closed down tabs from sites that I know are bogging my system down.
Also, new JC Penney logo and branding:
http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/jcpenney...
Neither, as I am only looking at private memory, which is by definition not shared. Interestingly, most of my extensions have 0K shared memory, which implies they're all keeping their own version of JavaScript libraries in their own memory space. That might explain most of the problem. It doesn't seem easy to solve a problem like this, without reinventing the shared library and the accompanying "DLL hell".
Design for Hackers by David Kadavy is really good - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1119998956/ref=as_li_qf_sp_...
"Hire slow. Fire fast."

Would fast firing even be possible with long-term contracts? Firing fast isn't something that is done for the sake of saving money. It is done for the sake of avoiding the damaging effects of keeping someone on the team that hurts the productivity of the other team members.
Facebook Hires 'Managing Editor'
Haha..good work Jeremy. It is in fact using Bing as sadly enough Google has retired their image search api: https://developers.google.com/image-search/
Thank you for bringing this fact up. "conspiracy to commit x" is an extremely common charge in our legal system.

The Orwellification of the word is such that, only when we try to apply this term to the powerful do we suddenly become crazy kooks, despite the fact that the powerful are often the ones with the motive, and certainly the means, to engage in conspiracy.
Is there a website where I can go to see when normal retailers have had sales in the past, so that I might predict the arrival of the next one?

Better yet, imagine this data set: the price of every consumer good sold in retail stores, as a function of store and time.

What would be the impact of such a database, if it became widely available, say, from a company whose mission is to organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful?
I agree, I always put the number out there, and it is always top of market + 20%. Doing so sets the stage for accepting nothing less than top of market. I am willing to go to 90% of top of market so it gives them 30% to feel like they got a deal. I have seen that most try to slice 10% to 15% off of my request because they too have researched what the top of market rate is.
Show HN: Fine-grain resourcefulness
> Let's say you have 8GB of RAM and are watching a HD video which is 7GB uncompressed and the rest of your system only really needs 1GB of your RAM, surely it makes sense what whilst you are watching the video you can use spare CPU cores to uncompress the rest of the video and put it into RAM

It makes a ton of sense for all those people (and other species, from different time/space geometries) who can comprehend a movie by experiencing its time dimension as a single event. Ordinary humans may find it less useful, albeit having no delay when skipping back and forth may have some utility for those of us who experience time in a more traditional way ;-)
It doesn't appear terribly novel to me, hasn't big box retailers done this for a long time? I don't recall IKEA doing out-right sales for an example (they have continuous clearances and promotions, of course, but not an "everything is cheaper in January" type sale).

For instance, jewelry and Valentine's Day gifts would go on sale in February, while Christmas decorations would be discounted in November.

Isn't the point of "seasonal sales" to clear stock? So Christmas stock goes on sale in January, Valentines stock goes on sale 15 Feb?
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Hi Aaron I'm interested in this space too, especially around the latter. The issue with money transfers U.S & regulatory practices hindering any innovative development on the international front. What have your experiences been with facecash in that area?
Android 'Swiss Army Knife' hack tool released
They were of course, just examples.

Consider if Youtube were to shut down overnight. Yes we'd lose a lot of generally available content (hop on Ebay for a copy of Ghostbusters), but we'd also lose a lot of amazing content that you can't buy on Ebay or get anywhere else. It's THAT stuff that's a sad loss.

Then the question is, if it's not commercially available, does it still have any value at all? I argue yes. I've learnt more from free files and videos some random user has uploaded than I have from commercial products. Once gone, I can never access those resources ever again. Ever. Because it's bits and bytes, once erased, it's gone forever.
Knowing that I can pop in at any time and get a fair price is much better for than wondering if I'm getting screwed that particular day. Maybe it's an American thing - it seems that the rest of the world loves to haggle.
1) How do you convince Assad that the US won't just send some Marines to kill him after he agrees to go to Venezuela? Even if the US president gives some sort of personal guarantee, what stops the next president from violating it?

2) What if the national leader you're trying to pay off believes himself to be a true partiot and refuses to surrender his country to US interests?
Why We Write API Documentation
your operating system uses the ram available to it. you see 11.6GB of ram usage because you have 16GB of ram. my laptop has 4GB and short of running virtual machines i've never wanted for more.
Also using RequestPolicy addon on Firefox will dramatically cut down on stuff loaded from 3rd-party websites (including: Google analytics, Facebook like button, ad- and tracking services of all kind)
I want to move the cursor a distance based on the distance I move, not based on the duration I move - it's comparable in wrongness to steering a racing car game with the arrow keys.

It depends on the total amount of pressure, not time... Just as using a mouse or a trackpad depends on the distance and not the time you move your finger. Exactly the same thing.

The difference, in practice, is just that you can't put as much force (comfortably) as you can move your finger/mouse with speed. That's why I consider the index finger pointing stick a complement to a real mouse. The same goes for the trackpad where you must have a low sensitivity to get any precision at all, or you could use acceleration but that's just awful (now the distance you move your finger have nothing to do with how long the cursor will move, now you also have to take time into consideration).

And as a complement the index finger pointing stick is vastly superior to the trackpad since you don't have to move your hands at all to switch between them. And for precision work or stuff that require "performance" a real mouse is the way to go anyway.
Version 2 should "average" the faces of the people with that name. See what the average "Helga" looks like, vs. the average "Brad".
Go to bings image search, put in a name, on the left side select people then select 'head and shoulders'. You'll get the same results without the names quite so prominently placed.

If you inspect this page you'll notice all the images come from bing, this is wrapping their search results via the api.
I would like to add a fourth: There are protests in pretty much all capitals (and elsewhere), be there!

There is power in numbers.
I wasn't talking about the article, but the 'ask for a scientific answer' type service.
That is an awesome idea, thank you Sir.
Whatever happened to that super-high-speed town thing Google was doing?
Richard Wolff: Replace Capitalism
You'll probably see something interesting if you wander through the new Media Lab building, though it's difficult to predict what. :-)
I remember reading you post regarding mass assignment a few years back. Great little read.

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveModel/MassAssignmen...
I'm not sure we really need all those bars. I mean I use this http://i.imgur.com/0U1yW.png everyday and it's perfectly fine/usable (ok we may need to add an url/toolbar for most people, but at least it merge the tab bar and the title bar).

Edit: It also merges the file/tools/help bar in the left button.
One thing to keep in mind is that this cheapens the brand. It's one thing to buy a $10 t-shirt at Gap and another - a $30 T at 60% discount at Banana Republic. They might be identical, but the perceived value of latter is higher.

This is a very ballsy move for the company. Must be desperate times.
Even that's not an absolute assurance, as millions of people who have failed to renew expired domains can attest. And the HTTP status codes have a whole block of redirect codes while just about every web server permits backend proxies. When you visit http://viral.example/ it can already send you anywhere; seeing the URL http://viral.example/qr only tells you that you're getting QR-specific content, and still does not tell you what that content is.
Asus and Microsoft working on a Kinect-equipped laptop
Presumably, your great-grandfather also jaywalked at some point in his life. I think it's valid to argue that we have a moral obligation to obey the law, but I'm not convinced most people act as though we do if the crime may be victimless and there's a small chance of getting caught..
Darpa Wants to Extend Moore's Law
Perhaps for some small part this is why Facebook managed to poach from Google so successfully..
How To Generate A Good Idea
For those who have not seen it, I highly recommend the documentary "Fat Head (2009)". It covers a wide variety of these issues in great detail but in very entertaining way!

Here's a Youtube link to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVEiYwFvKvU
Paulo Coelho advertises on Pirate Bay front page
I can confirm that this program is great! Our startup leveraged it as much as we could. It also includes other free things such as Windows Azure hours.
Nice 'fear the internet' headline writing there.

Man who appeared to be planning terrorist acts jailed.
Oh and he obtained some of his information from the internet.