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My major use of my desktop is my browser and I don't really see a valid need to upgrade (even though I can upgrade any time). You throw additional memory to a decent hardware and things just work. There are people who raise security red flags on XP but I keep things tidy through my browser use (Ghostry, Adblock and occasional Spybot checks along with usual watch of firewall logs).
I would pay for this. If anyone is interested please contact me to discuss.
it's an achilles heel that tldr's two-sided marketplace relies on one side being busy/hurried enough to sacrifice content for convenience while the other is expected to have available time and generosity of heart to write meaningful summaries.

for me at least, the problem isn't "too much to read", it's having a sense of the quality of an article before deciding to spend the time reading it. hence why i skim HN comments before deciding to click through.
Cool project! Your readme would be greatly helped by the addition of a picture of LEDee
Ughh..this is terrible! I wanted to buy one badly, but considering how expensive it is, and considering the fact that I can't upgrade anything on the 21" models despite being expensive, I just decided to go for an Alienware X51 instead. By no means it's a fair comparison, but it fits me needs perfectly (3d Modeling and Rendering + some occasional gaming) and is completely upgradeable, including the GPU!
If you don't want to install a font, you can use slashes. Works pretty well.

for (;;) { write-host -n (get-random /,\) }

It's kind of nice with _ and | too :

for (;;) { write-host -n (get-random '_','|') }
I understand what you're saying but its not nearly as difficult as you make it out to be. The exact mechanic we plan on using for inventions like the one in your example is a novel one and I'll have to be vague until I'm farther along in the project.

As for balance issues, IMO, that's a silly notion that have evolved from poorly constructed MMOs; MMOs that have been constructed from obsolete mechanics and limitations. There wont be balance issues (of that sort) in this game. Just to step back a bit, I still like playing MMOs of today, they're great fun, but balance issues are a natural issue in their design, not ours.

There will certainly be shifts in power as technology breaks a barrier in one place and not the other. But equally, shifts in power can emerge in other ways like, via a well controlled government or army.
You seem to be assuming that simply because something is a crime it is therefore morally wrong. I don't think piracy needs justification because copying something is not morally wrong. OTOH, stealing a car (without justificaiton) is morally wrong.
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I'll stick with Xsyon, until this project has some real content to show. http://www.xsyon.com/content.php
Maybe the modern equivalent of "boot straight in to a REPL." is starting a browser, everybody and his grandma knows how to do that, and if that is done, Javascript is closer than any other programming language. I can imagine a default, browser based Javascript REPL just being one mouseclick away. that can be done and probably will be done sooner or later.
Caching plugins are a prerequisite for Wordpress to survive heavy traffic though, even on much more powerful servers. Anyone who knows what they're doing is using one.
I definitely agree with you regarding the fully immersible quality of games in 1000 years. :) But how frustrating would it be to be in such an amazing experience where the gameplay is limited like MMOs are today? I would simply be unnecessary to cap game mechanics at where they're at today.
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Thoughts?
Performance of family firms vs. professionally managed companies (in Japan)
I've been waiting to buy an iMac for my house/kids but I held off until I saw a teardown and how hard it would be upgrade the RAM / HD. Glad I did, having to unglue the screen just to get to these components is a non-starter for me.
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>I've built a Logo[2] implementation so that we can move into writing modular, reusable procedures and play with graphics.

I've always felt that it's hard to go against Logo. When I was a kid, there was a direct connection between what I did on the keyboard and what the turtle would do.

That language changes your brain, not your data. Thus, it is one of the most important languages.
They seem to be doing more or less OK with "nothing special," regardless of what any of thinks of their techniques for doing so. What's to stop them from copying yet another business and surviving on that?
I know it's not illegal, I didn't say that at all. I said it's the same strategy. Although a customer that can move from RHEL to CentOS can be seen as a problem, I think it's just an investment.

Look at the consequences of CentOS. There are mailing lists, forums, IRC channels, blog posts, lots of people providing support and training for free.

That rich ecosystem is translated into business for Red Hat.

EDIT: ate a word.
Show HN: Alternate Pocket (Read it Later) Reading List That Skips "Article View"
This problem has been solved on paper(though will require some experimentation to get right).

Totally disagree with the reason why civilization has arisen though.
The major problem with all static generators is that, by design, they can't host comments. And using a 3rd party source for comments ain't exactly what I'd be looking for (self-contained)

The minor problem is that all the ones I used so far are a lot more complex to use that dynamic generators, for some reason. (Even thus I write templates, css, etc for the dynamic ones as well). It seems like a "it has to be complex" syndrome :p
You're right, the purpose of the video is to garner interest while the game is still in development. We're releasing this video as a means to find those interested in such a game early so that when we have something more to show in a year or so, we'll be in a much better position.

As for whether or not we're capable of doing it, I time will tell. :)
A small app to "scratch my itch" - when using Pocket they insist on showing you their "article view" and not the original site on the first click, making you click again for the original. This alternate reading list shows you the original article on the first click.
At the inactivation ceremony a couple hours ago, the Secretary of the Navy announced (via video) that the next nuclear carrier after the Gerald R. Ford will be named Enterprise. Cheers went up.

(I was a nuclear-engineering officer on this Enterprise.)
When I see an email that's just a bunch of unloaded images, I immediately weigh the benefit of loading the images (so I can see it the way the sender intended me to see it) versus the cost (loading images = telling the sender, “I just opened your email!”). The former often loses.
Thank you. Right now LEDee is very simple so no picture is really needed. Once it evolves a bit I will update with pictures.
Are there any in NYC? If not, does anyone want to start one?
World Web War III. Reminds me of Game of Thrones, "Winter is coming!"
Well, I must admit that when I was a kid I taught myself how to use most of the Creative Suite via pirated copies (back then it was the Macromedia Suite plus whatever Adobe was calling its software at the time). I'm now employed because of those skills, and my employer has to purchase annual copies of said software for me to use.
Thats fair. I haven't even hinted at anything particularly new or novel because I'm afraid we're a bit too early in the project to go to that depth. The video is meant to find those interested in the concept. We'll be revealing more about how it works when we're closer to a release.

Sorry I can't divulge more just yet. :/
> The major problem with all static generators is that, by design, they can't host comments. And using a 3rd party source for comments ain't exactly what I'd be looking for (self-contained)

I have initiated work on talkatv (http://talka.tv).

It's written in Python using Flask. You might find it useful and I hope you'll be able to help me expand it, since I havent found much time to do so myself.
I tried that, but the scripts already weren't doing anything. Turns out systemd handles those things now, edited my logind.conf file and everything is fine now :)
That reply is wrong on so many levels.

First of all, everyone wants the benefits of HTTP/2.0, obviously. Else I'd be using gopher, thank you very much.

Then, startssl is a company, that happens to give free certs. For one single sub-domain. Got two subdomains? Gotta pay.
They can also decide to make those non-free at any given moment, if they feel like it.

The only part I agree with, is paying for EV certificates. But you should NOT need to pay and you should NOT need a third party to be responsible for YOUR certificates if you do not want to.

And again, there's quite a few distributed trust models around that work well and do exactly that, but get great push back from vendors, since, by nature, they don't bring as much money back.
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Becuase saying piracy is theft has truthiness, whereas saying piracy is genocide does not.
I built this tool to learn the japanese alphabet, what do you think?
A very impressive demo. Almost equally impressive is the fact that this can be done in less than 100 lines of (relatively readable) Javacsript.
Yip, awesome!
If people weren't eating up your "stealing a car" example, I doubt the "violently kidnapping and holding for ransom" example will fare any better.

How about this: a young woman has a sick child in a jurisdiction without universal health care. Her income is insufficient to pay for his treatment, so she has sex with some rich men in exchange for money. Sadly, prostitution is illegal.

Is it ever right to break the law in order to improve your prospects (or those of your family)? Some would say it is a moral imperative.
I also published my own static website generator. (Excuse my albeit-related shameless plug.)

https://github.com/shazow/composer

Composer is framework for building your own static site generator. It's not opinionated about what kind of website you want, or which templates you want to use, or what kind of pre/post processing you want to do, etc.

For example, shazow.net is composed by pulling metadata from a git repo and using author/timestamps those as variables in each Mako template container for Markdown+Pygments processed text.

Composer comes with a bunch of pre-built filters for convenience (Mako, Markdown, Jinja2, RST, Pygments—adding your own is bordering trivial), a site compiler and auto-reloading server, and some other reusable components.

If you're interested in doing something completely custom, this might be a good starting point. I haven't worked on it in several months but I like the core philosophy and design—I think others might too. Forks and pull requests welcome.
It's semantics and is irrelevant every time this topic comes up because no one is actually talking about legal definitions. Pirates always seem to miss that it's a moral argument when they trot out these familiar lines (the irony isn't lost on me). Whether or not you're guilty of petty theft, shoplifting, larceny, or burglary is for your lawyers and the courts to determine. For me and others from my position it is much simpler, you're still a thief and it's still wrong.
To my very limited knowledge, the most difficult software to crack was Steinberg Cubase. Such a PITA the hackers decided not to do it ever again. They quoted a ridiculously large figure for the amount code devoted to detect cracking (~30%), and having a significant impact on performance.

I had links about about bypassing anti-debugging techniques, I'll see if I can get my hands on them again.
Was it a pre-order? They still have a price-drop guarantee for pre-orders, if the price drops between when you place the order and when the product becomes actually available. That's the only guarantee I can still find mentioned on either the .com or the .co.uk pages.
Looks like the tweet has been deleted. But this was posted https://twitter.com/SlixMe/status/274987675944095744 and its XSS on softipedia.com not softpedia.com
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The difference with your homeless person is that these people are stealing education.

You're committing an act of classism. Please check your rich whiteboy privilege.
I think it was a pre-order. That makes sense, then.
I'm not sure if you're just intentionally being ridiculous or mistakenly thinking that you've got a good reductio ad absurdum argument going on. In any case, why exactly are you conflating "wildly popular" with "extremely valuable?"

Even if the grandparent post was about popularity, your statement is as unconstructive as this argument would be:

A: "You're intentionally putting way too many non-criminals in jail."

B: 'Ah, but for the purpose of setting boundaries, consider the extreme case where we don't put anyone in jail at all.'
Not necessarily. When you pirate something, you are hurting the owner's chances of selling it to you in the future. If you know that there is no chance that you will buy it, then it is victimless. If however things change and you are in a position where you would buy it, you are far less likely to, which does hurt the seller.
I build it in order to learn angularjs and i'm pretty please with it. The js is about 100 lines, the html 37 lines, and the css 160 lines.
So it's a wrapper that aborts an entire request if an API call made by the code processing that request times out? What am I missing?
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Got to say, disqus is great!
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I was reading it trying to tease out it's core purpose as well. I reached a similar conclusion. The only piece that seems incremental is the way it remembers past performance and will fail-fast if the service is down or failing rather than keep sending every request to the downstream service. Like client-side back-off logic or throttling.
Honestly I don't think this is as much of a problem as it used to be. Both RAM/HDD have stayed fairly static the last couple of years. Provided you have 4GB/SSD then you will likely be future proof for a long while yet.

Interesting that there isn't anything on the software front that is pushing hardware forward.
'A situation is often considered to be ironic (situational irony) if there is an "incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result."' (wikipedia)
Actually, the ladders has been all professional jobs ( not limited by a salary range ) for over a year now.
I like the illustrated map by David Parkins. Good for desktop wallpaper or printing out and framing.

Any other tech-related fantasy style maps out there?
This is how caching works in the real world. Everywhere. For a CMS delivering mostly static data this is a perfectly fine way to do it.
I've decided to buy one for my family this year, couched as a Christmas gift. Ok, that's a lie, I'm buying it as a toy for myself.

32 years ago, my best friends father bought his family an apple II+ (and novation applecat modem!). Well, that's a lie, he bought it for himself.

I think more than it being actually useful as a production device, I'm hoping that having direct access to one of these will instill in my kids the same sense of OMG this is magic, that I had as a kid.

Or, it might just collect dust like any number of other things in my home.

(Hmm, perhaps I could print some sort of dusting device...)
I was considering disqus as a comments engine but one of the major drawbacks was that it's not search-engine indexable.

Also, asking users to enter captcha degrades the experience significantly, so I decided not to do that either.
> browser based Javascript REPL

Cmd-Opt-J[0]. While easy to get to, it's not the same as being forced into a REPL every time you use your computer; you still have to know it's there, lessening the temptation to jump right in and break things.

[0] or insert browser/platform appropriate shortcut for JS console/debugger here
It's completely relevant, especially because the normal intuitions about stealing and property rights here are so ill-defined.

Consider, if you will, that for hundreds of years the concept of intellectual property--indeed, even the idea of land ownership in some places-was foreign. You simply cannot throw up your hands and say "But semantics!" and expect to be taken seriously.

At best, you look lazy--at worst, you appear a sycophant to those who rely on provably unneeded monopolies of information distribution.

You're position is indeed much simpler: you seem to be either unwilling or unable to understand that this ongoing public dialogue about intellectual property, copyright, and related matters is something that isn't cut and dried.
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We are a job matching company. We attempt to match jobseekers with jobs and recruiters with qualified candidates. Due to our history as a more standard job board, we have search tools however, the core of our experience now is matching.
Jobs and job search are a commodity, we are doing a lot behind the scenes to provide value that others can't provide.

I'd be quite happy to discuss via email or gtalk.
Right. This behavior, and a few other things, is nice, but I'd be hesitant to say it belongs in its own library. If this kind of baroque architecture (and the stilted writing demonstrated by the documentation) is de rigueur at Netflix, I don't think I'd ever want to work there.
Or we could just render the satisfaction of owning an object, rather than actually producing the object itself. (One possibility of the whole singularity thing - desire for physical objects may not be satisfied when we lack a physical existence. (For some value of singularity.))
I'm also put off, though I'm thinking of going for maxed out Mini plus Cinema Display.

I wonder why they're doing this with desktops. Having a MBA in a upright stand [1] isn't the look to be aiming for with desktops, even all-in-ones. Ram upgrades aside chasing smaller seems to be done entirely reasonably and successfully.

What's the need for spring loaded cpu sockets? Is that to make sure you get soft contact with the bottom?

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Information wants to be free. Nothing will stop it. Humanity has been copying "proprietary" information forever. People gossip about work and other secrets, copy other people's notes, etc. Computer software is just yet another example of it, the scenery of old Soviet block just puts a bit more contrast to it in comparison to Western experiences. Now, generating a trend, by for example making your information the dominant one (ie. Microsoft and MS Office) is a great tactic, that bears long-lasting fruits.
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This is a really cool initiative. I've been organizing Canada's largest student tech conference for a few years now, and one issue that comes up year after year is selecting engaging speakers (and how to be an engaging speaker is definitely a skill that can be learned). We end up skipping a lot of potentially interesting speakers because we either don't know, or can't be sure a few hundred university students will enjoy their talk(ing style).

The problem is definitely out there, and my best wishes to this project. You may also want to address the burden of proof for speaker qualification.
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