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That is interesting, but Mozilla needs to focus on making its browser consume less memory and CPU when idle. These are the things that are killing its marketshare and leading users to switch to alternatives. Every time I see initiatives like the password account manager, iOS apps that use web view, a browser based editor and what not I just scratch my head because Firefox marketshare is plummeting and the old refrain "just wait until the next version" was tired since 3.0. Instead the general response is to get defensive and list new features. Yeah and are those new features stopping the user drain? Nope. Firefox is a sluggish memory sucking heap of software that drains resources even when it isn't being used.

I love and cherish Firefox as a product and a brand, because you have achieved a lot in your past. But now you are failing and it is depressing to see this happen.
I can't forget an inspiring and landmark conference communication given by Sebastian Thrun last January that struck me deeply:

http://youtu.be/SkneoNrfadk
Show HN: Hone for iPhone 4S - never lose your keys again
Hone is a Bluetooth low energy device for the iPhone 4S and new iPad that erases the annoyance of losing your keys - my partner (Louis Gerbarg) and I built it for ourselves, and then decided to put it on Kickstarter. It lasts for 6+ months on a CR2032 battery, has a 50 meter range, and we're making the whole thing in the USA - case, PCB, and component assembly. We've gotten lots of help and support from HN users (esp. Eric Migicovsky's Solid State Hardware talk, curtgeen's hardware design guide) and we'd love feedback now that we're launching.
I've been using Windows 7 on and off. It's largely OK, but not great. Cygwin is awful, the open-source community is nascent (at best!), the development tools are a OK, but semi-free (VS Studio Express is free, but if you need more, Visual Studio is expensive).

Integration with tools like git and svn are only through 3rd party solutions, and aren't as polished as one would like.

I could get by with it, but I would prefer not to. However, I'm also not particularly happy with the idea of going back to Linux, and my work still requires a Mac. Thus, stuck on Mac OS X.
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Those look really nice. Seems that they understand what the mainstream market want: something that look nice, work nice, are durable and don't cost too much.

Too bad that they are using a mobile gpu for their desktop computer, and that it "just" have a 1080p resolution instead of something bigger (1440p or 1600p would be perfect for me).
Apple "Just works"
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The coming mobile eruption: Will you be cleansed or part of the new growth.
I'd already heard about IBM supplying the Nazis, but not South Africa. Interesting to know..
"I guess that means that each e-book only has to be sold once in your country?"

No.

It means that you can read a book and, if you really like it, you can buy it. It means that you can discover new authors, topics and so without a huge investment.

This can sound demagogic: I have never had enough money to buy the books I wanted, nor to waste it trying to discover new books and topics. But with downloaded books I learned about tech and other fields. Eventually, I bough more books (a lot from U.S) than if I had not discovered these topics.

Allowing private sharing (as long as there are not profit) and supporting authors are not in direct confrontation. In my humble opinion and personal experience, they are correlated.
One of the early versions of docopt (0.1) was ported to bash: https://github.com/colinta/bocopsh

It should be relatively easy to update it to work with 0.4; if you can make it work with 0.4 it would be great if you make a pull request to the project above.
It should be if you're coming from overseas. 2 sets of lawyers and accountants. The hours rack up pretty quick.

It's also good to have at least one of the sets on hand via retainer for best practices for tax and legal issues. That's if he's making enough to deal with these costs.

(A company I was a co-founder in a couple of years ago did everything bootstrapped - even our terms of service we kind of slapped together quickly with sections of other company's terms that we re-wrote. We found out pretty quickly you can get blindsided by legal trouble that you never thought was possible.)
I don't get this post. It just leaves me with a giant WTF.

It has no content. It has no message. It's just a weird form of worship. And my head is all confused to what prompted you to write this.

I don't mean to be rude or offensive. Just some (in my view) constructive criticism in case you want your readers to return.

I know I wont.
Let's wait until their PC products are on the market before calling this a success story.
Great, a new browser for the iPad. Not so great: encoding the video demo in a format that doesn't work in Safari on the iPad.
All this hardware is strikingly similar to Apple's.
You are bang on with this. Well said.
Terrorists win.
"We need better teaching of fractions" sound like a dangerous cargo-cult solution to the problem of poor understanding of math. If the teaching of fractions would be better, than the understanding of fractions would simply become a worse predictor of long term math success.

The main problem of math teaching is not, that students do not understand fractions (they could easily learn them later), but that they do not understand that math is a (sometimes really helpful) way to think about problems.
I've heard Firefox is snappy again, though I haven't seriously used it myself, but the damage is done.

Firefox still doesn't isolate separate web pages in different tabs from each other and the main browser UI. If you open a group of tabs and one of the pages is slow to load, or later you have an AJAX request going on in some tab that takes a long time to get a response, your whole browser UI will often go into a trance.

In fairness, they are working to improve this, but Firefox is several years behind the curve in this area. Until this is fixed, it really hurts any benefits from otherwise useful features like having tabs and bookmark folders in the first place.
Ditto - FreeNAS is FTW. A new RC of 8.2 was just released in the past week and it's awesome. The web interface was moved over to Django with the 8.x line from 7.x. It's minimal, but feature rich and "just works".

For my home setup I actually run FreeNAS in an ESXi environment. I have 4 different physical disks that I carve up space on and allocate to the FreeNAS VM. This allows me to snapshot upgrades on the base OS and when I'm testing an upgrade I can disconnect the ZFS pool - validate the upgrade went fine, and then reconnect the pool for a ZFS upgrade (if needed). The nice thing about this approach is you can physically move around system very easily if all you need to do is ship out the disk store - and since I have one beefy box for virtualization at home I have my storage system contained within which makes power and space a bit more efficient.

My suggestion to those who are considering this is if you stick about $500-$1000 into a BYOD system you can generally get a high end quad core system with 32GB of RAM and 3-5TB of disk space (with an SSD boot). At that rate I would carve up a few TB for backup and SAN (FreeNAS) and the rest would be for on-box VMs. The FreeNAS VM doesn't need more than 1 proc and about 2-4GB of RAM if you're dealing with a lot of file transfer. You can easily get away with 2GB.

Long story short:
ESXi + FreeNAS = 1-box solution for most at home geeks. My motivation was that I was starting to have "box sprawl" and power consumption was getting a bit out of hand. I also run PFSense on my box as well - but in that regard I also have a low power physical system that acts as the primary gateway device in my network. But there's a PFSense running as a VM as well for failover when I do upgrades. Far better than any SOHO gear you can buy for far too much $$$.
The full title is more accurate: "Vizio reboots the PC: a quiet American success story takes on sleeping giants"

It looks like the character count was reduced to fit HN's title limitations.
Let's put this to bed. Returns and refurbs alike are binned into lots of, say, 50 units. Third party repair companies bid on them. The winner takes possession, runs triage according to apple protocols and apple diagnostic tools, performs any needed repairs out of pocket, and then places them up for sale linking in to Apple's web store. The products may also be sold in-store.

Any purchase of a refurb is fulfilled from the repair shop with generic packaging. Warranties are reset to day 0. The end.
I would love to know what version of Firefox (and what platform) you are on. Firefox's total memory usage is in my personal experience better than Chrome right now (OS X 10.7 and Windows 7).

As someone mentioned below, Firefox doesn't get due credit when things improve. With Google's massive marketing muscle Chrome ate up a lot of Mozilla marketshare, but to call Firefox failing is completely unfair. If you love and cherish Firefox, contribute to the project. Contributions can be as minimal as being a test pilot.
Selecting a smartphone has become way to technical whereas usability primes
It looks to me like it's using jQuery specific functions. It could be done with a simpler selector engine, but in this case, it looks pretty clear that it's either jQuery or a compatible library like Zepto.
Is there any scope in our developed economy for inventors to maintain influence over who it is that gains from their creativity? Or is that hope completely lost?
I think the authors point is that Apple used to lead, but with iOS 6 you can clearly see Apple being the laggard.

That makes him uneasy about Apple's (and iOS's) future. Remember how Microsoft used to kick ass? Remember how they used to drive/dictate how the entire PC industry was supposed to run? You remember that?

Slowly but surely they stopped doing that. Anti-trust lawsuits didn't help either. And where has that landed Microsoft today?

A cautious company, almost afraid of releasing a new version of MSIE, a web-browser, a minor component of their OS, which isn't 100% standards-compliant and with only the correct draft-specifications included, because last they they released something which did something differently than Firefox, the entire internet hated them for it.

A software company afraid of releasing software. At this point they are a turtle hiding in their shell. Not a very interesting thing to follow.

Apple isn't quite there yet, but it has been clear from the last years' (lack of) progress and development, that iOS is at a clear standstill. It makes you wonder why and what the future holds.

So his point was not if iOS 6 is terrible or not. His complaint is basically that he expected better from Apple. And now Apple is seemingly no longer able to deliver that.
Oh, and scuzzy remanufacturing shops will sell the truly fucked unrepairable gear in-store and try to pass it off as new. Get caught and Apple will annihilate you.
If every AIP must have a single unique designation, there must be an organization handing them out.

I've got an idea; let's use two-letter ISO country codes...
Disruptions: Wearable Gadgets Upset FAA Curbs on Devices
Firefox 13, when not overwhelmed by add-ons is the memory champion right now. Seriously, check it out. Download Firefox 13, create a new profile clean from crapware, load up a couple dozen tabs and surf around for a day. Do the same in IE and Chrome. Firefox wins. Firefox 15, just around the corner, has world-beating memory usage and it uses less RAM than any other browser, even when you've got "leaky extensions" installed because we've prevented extensions from causing Firefox leaks.
At risk of speaking for others, I don't think most Americans feel a cohesive group identity as an 'American' or as a white American. Does it make much sense to generalize "you South Africans" including both Afrikaners and Bantus?
nas4free. FreeBSD 9 based fork.
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Great post on the usefulness of cohort analysis (or of experimentation more broadly, which if you think about it, is exactly what cohort analysis is - it just uses the past as a control).

One thought on ways to analyze the follow-on problem of customers canceling after 61 days (a problem similar to what I've seen at every web company I've ever worked at).

First, perform the same cohort analysis you’ve already done, but look at the cancelling customers vs retained customers at day 1, day 15, day 30 and day 45, then use this analysis to figure out your triggers (things like # of Facebook posts needed by day 15, % of profiles claimed by day 30, etc).

Once you have your triggers, you can make proactively calling / emailing problematic customers a key part of your daily routine. While discounts might still be the way to go, this trigger based approach is one I've seen work well. Additionally, because you are in touch with problematic customers it often gives you insight into what do next.
Neo4j: Imperative v. Functional Thinking
Thinking about this problem imperatively, these nodes seem to belong together, but this changes when considering the problem functionally.
Yes, you don't need an ITIN either. A passport and another (any country) credit card with your name on it will be enough.

People on a US student visa often aren't required to file US taxes and therefore do not need an ITIN.
Since I own a small business (freelancer 1 man company), I can assure that if the idea is just to save money on international merchant account etc, the OP should do more research about cost and benefits. To setup any corporation in the US, there are multiple steps which also include cost. Do not go for the online ads that claim you can setup a company for $100. There are far more things like state filing etc. that are usually not included in those. Not to mention that you will be dealing with one of the most dreaded income tax collectors (a.k.a IRS in the US). I say this having lived in 3 different countries including the US.
If you absolutely need a foregin company outside Egypt, look into Asia (Hong Kong or Singapore preferably).
It amuses me that people are considering whether some of this business should be taken out of the private sector. And given to whom? The army?

We're not living the cyberpunk future, yet, but sometimes the only thing I think we're missing are the trench-coats and floating skateboards.
None of my friends under forty subscribe to a newspaper. But they want to know what is happening in their communities, they hunger for it.

Newspapers need to lose the national news, I don't need to read a story 24 hours after it has been disected on the web and cable channels.

I'd also say forget looking for a solution on the web. The answer is mobile with a twitter style continously updating feed of local news and sports.

People don't have or won't take a half hour to read a newspaper but they've got five minutes here and there throughout the day to see what is happening in their local area.

Want total anonymity? Then you can subscribe. Willing to fill out a profile so we can target ads, then your feed is free.

What advertiser wouldn't want to reach twenty something college educated women in Podunk? Fewer, more targeted ads inserted in stream that get better results.
Wow, interesting. Hard evidence that language affects our low level perception of the world. There was always speculation, that different languages influences the way we "think", but I haven't seen such a black-and-white proof yet.
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>> An average United States student is at the bottom quartile level for Singapore, or from another point of view, a top quartile student in the United States is only at the level of an average student in Singapore.

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2009/2009001.pdf

Looking at the US-flattering 4th grade scores, it appears that the Singapore average is 599, whereas the US Asian average is a pitiful 582. 8th grade sees the US suffer: Singapore declines to 593, and US Asians to 549. I don't know how to get a breakdown of US distributional information by race, but your language is, at best, highly misleading. The US 8th grade average all-included is 508, far below Singapore, but I think Singapore (and Taiwan!) are a little closer to 100% Asian.

On the 2009 PISA, US students tended to outscore students of the same race in "native" countries.
http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/12/amazing-truth-abou...
http://www.vdare.com/articles/pisa-scores-show-demography-is...

I've heard nothing but great things about Singapore math, and on a gut level I'm shocked too that US 8th graders were barely able to approximate "almost one plus almost one", but in the big picture it's hard to conclude that our education is failing.
Despite being a heavy computer user I'm positively struggling to fill 1TB even after 2 years of hoarding HD rips, so I'd love to know what you use 62TB for. Also wondering about idle power consumption.
Are they "so popular"?
Yes, Diablo 3 is heavily based on item trading. There is a real-money auction and an ingame gold auction. Due to the loot system and drop rates, users can get much much better items from trading then otherwise. Diablo 3 is going to collide very much so with this new law.
> Firefox is a sluggish memory sucking heap of software that drains resources even when it isn't being used.

Have you tried Firefox recently? It beats other browsers in terms of memory use, for example it won both memory usage categories in Lifehacker's recent shootout,

http://lifehacker.com/browser-speed-tests/

If you do see a memory problem, it might be a specific problem with the addons or plugins you use, please file a bug if so.
In China? Completely legal. Basic English is worth an extra $200 per month at least.
I am going to sound like a broken record, but they should have a linux version.
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I had down voted you (and thereby might be the person whom you are referring to who did so) as you are making an anecdotal statement that is sufficiently far-fetched as to be ludicrous. Now, in your follow-up, you seem to be lumping me (the person who downmodded you) into the category of "moderators", which is technically fine but then useless: I am another member of this site, just like you; the mechanisms here are then no different than they are on almost any other system that ha peer moderation. If you are using Slashdot, reddit, Digg, DISQUS... virtually any modern forum solution, there is a downvote feature, and it works virtually the same way. Yet, now your new comment (which I also "downmodded") seems to be ignorant of this mechanisms on all of these sites, disregards the list of sites procided by DanBC, and continues to not list any other sites thaw here moderation was not a common topic; you seriously just look like you've never used any other websites at this point.
The author confuses feature fragmentation (iOS) with API fragmentation (Android). I'd much rather miss out on Siri than not be able to install the latest hot new app because I'm running an old version of the OS.

I find that #1 and #2 are the only reasonable complaints. They're playing catch up to Android nowadays instead of leading as they did 5 years ago. Even though I'm an Apple fanboy and Android has a lot of problems, I can no longer automatically recommend iOS to someone switching from a basic phone.

My primary concern with iOS is that, now that it is an "established" OS, Apple has fallen into the feature-driven update cycle that plagues a lot of software and hurts usability: adding new features to sell an upgrade instead of fixing old features. I fear that iOS will turn into Windows. There are so many interaction designs that, while amazing, beautiful and intuitive in 2007, are no longer that. iOS has accumulated a lot of cruft over the past 5 years and, more than new features, I'd like to see Apple reinvent the phone again.
An unGoogleable question?
I think he's saying that the route Apple chose is more appropriate in this case given the hybrid nature of ownership of all the various transit systems. And he's just providing (good) examples of why having a centralized system like Google's can and has been problematic.
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One of the follow-up posts to this is going to be on using OSSEC-HIDS which will give you logfile chained checksums. It's not perfect, but again it's about achieving the most value for the least amount of effort.
I learned scheme first, then haskell, then (now) clojure. I think haskell is best for teaching functional programming because it's purely functional and puts focus on that aspect rather than on performance benefits of being functional. after ~1 year with it, I've decided that haskell, while great, is not for me, and I'm switching over to clojure. Clojure is very nice as a language; what it lacks in terms of a type system it makes up for with the presence of macros.

However, I don't think that clojure is quite as great for teaching functional programming, because it is an eager language unless you explicitly tell it to be lazy exactly where you want it to be, so it doesn't have the performance optimizations that haskell has with recursion (as opposed to tail-call recursion) and it's therefore discouraged to not use tail-call recursion.

Now that's my recommendation for a first functional programming language. For a first language in general, I'd recommend the reverse because with clojure you can actually start doing something practical as soon as you get started, where with haskell it takes a while to get to that point.

But the installation process is different with the two. With clojure, the language is designed around being used with a build system as part of java tradition, which means that you normally can't just type `clj` and get a REPL (at least not with the official distribution). Generally the best way to go about doing that is to install leiningen and make a new project and do `lein repl` in the project directory.

In Haskell on the other hand (with the Haskell platform installer) you can just run the installer and type `ghci` and get a REPL. If you want to run a Haskell program to test it, it's just `runhaskell file.hs` and to compile, it's as simple as `ghc --make file.hs`. But when things get more complicated, even slightly so, Haskell can be an incredible pain to deal with (in terms of compiling and such) whereas clojure, being designed around build systems for large project, scales up just fine.
The article-about-South-Africa-writing kind of Americans.
Similar in that their hardware tries to follow a thoughtful and unique design language. Good on them.

I'd say they're the only PC manufacturer that isn't directly ripping off an existing Apple design.
Thank you for the link. I've just finished it and it was utterly enthralling. If you were interested in this article then please do listen to this - exceptionally well researched, beautifully put together and genuinely enlightening.
> we SHOULD have considered allocating more internet addresses to China than we allocated to, say, Stanford University.

That might actually have been a good justification for China being in control of its own addressing scheme (which the draft proposes) if we didn't have IPv6. But now there is no need, since the cost of implementing a nationwide NAT (sort of) might rival, if not exceed, the cost of transitioning to IPv6.
"GNOME 2 is gone."

Who cares? It is a file server not a desktop machine.
This article is more about casting shame on IBM, not South Africa.