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I don't know too much about LGAs vs BGAs, but the Wikipedia article mentioned that sockts are "less reliable". How does the reliability compare between BGAs in a socket vs LGAs in a socket? The wikipedia article mentioned that BGAs can move heat around better; is this lost when a socket is used?

I hope Intel doesn't go the socket-less route. This seems like it would alienate the Linux server market for high-reliability servers that depend on CPU hot-plugging. Perhaps this only applies to the consumer market?
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This is looking pretty good, especially considering how absolutely terrible Apple has increasingly managed to make iChat/Messages recently.

A huge feature for me and my team would be the ability to use encryption, specifically private/public key pairs. If all messages could be encrypted on the client, then your servers would never store plaintext, and then I think I wouldn't even mind whether you hosted it or not.
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If your site is much bigger than a personal blog, turning on SSL by default will cost you a a fortune. Your hosting bill will be virtually unchanged, but the CDN costs are ruinous.

Akamai charges about 10x as much for custom SSL service as for regular. Amazon Cloudfront just won't do custom SSL -- you have to use their domain and risk ugly browser warnings.

I don't know about other CDNs, but given the nature of the technology, I expect their cost structures to be similar. (over 40% of clients do not support SNI, so each custom SSL certificate requires a dedicated TCP port, which drives up costs for the CDN. Worse, a lot of clients will reject ports other than 443, forcing you to use a separate IP for each custom certificate.)
This reminds me of HP. Eons ago at a shop, I purchased an HP IPAQ Palmtop. As we opened it inside the store to check, it had a blue dead pixel. The store clerk, promptly closed the box and picked another one for me. We opened it and boom, another dead pixel. We tried five IPAQs, they all had 1 dead pixel. He phoned HP and told them that. HP answered that 1 dead pixel was okay by their quality standard. The clerk made an ugly face and turned to me and said: "at least you can choose the location of your dead pixel from these five available choices".
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Same, at first I thought it was an awfully hard to work out acronym.
On the other hand, sometimes tough love is indeed the adequate response and makes the SO to notice (s)he's being childish. Especially if said SO is generally mature enough to notice.
Here's the commentary:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4837223
I really dislike "mystery meat employer" recruiter contacts. Just like charities, if I can't research it myself I'm not even a tiny bit interested.

I wonder why this is, is it to prevent the employer and potential employee cutting out the middle man? I can say with great confidence that I have never responded to any email/LinkedIn contact where the company name is not mentioned.
Excellent example and use of crowd funding with no upfront costs
Hah, that would be because I copied the line from a blog/example somewhere and just replaced a few of the words without really looking at the script.
Thanks for the heads up - should be fixed now!
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"article" also means "item, object, thing". By that definition almost everything is an article, including the linked piece.
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Congrats on switching. I switched about a year ago and get a lot more delight from my elegant Jekyll setup than a convoluted WP install with thousands of LOC I don't need.
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I was trying to do the same thing - please let me know how your worked. Contact me HackerNews @ OpenDomain dot Org
While I'm sure that there are probably thousands, if not tens-of- and hundres-of, perfectly happy and valid sales of high-value electronics on eBay every day using Paypal, I would rather give something like that away as a Christmas present than try to sell it on eBay.
Hmm.. We seem to differ.

MB choice today seems to be rather simple for me: What _socket_ do I care for, plus what kind of slots and ports do I need (memory, pci-e, random ideas about the minimum required numbers of USB ports, whatever).

But for me the socket came always first. I upgraded my CPU quite often and would like to keep that option in the future. In the past there was no need to throw away your board for a faster (clock speed) CPU and it made sense to me that way.
What's the equivalent in other languages to Perl 6's Whatever object?
I don't know. I thought it was because if you pipe into "less," it will wait for you to hit 'q' until letting you carry on entering commands. But "more" does not have this behavior.
One of my co-workers had the same problem OP posted about. He was really excited about the Retina screen, but as compared to every other LCD he's been using for the last 5+ years, it had a significantly worse ghosting issues. In the end, after at least one display swap, Apple let him swap it out for a comparable non-retina Macbook Pro. Problem went away. I think they did good in not telling him his only option was to pay for a screen replacement, but I know he would have been far happier if he could have ended up with one of the Retina models minus the ghosting issue.

So, I don't think those first retina monitors were within the reasonable limitations of LCD technology unless this was somehow specific to the ultra high resolution displays which are relatively new. If they figured out how to fix it in a later iteration, they should pick up the slack and offer to replace the monitors with ones that don't have that issue. The ONE selling point of that computer over any other Macbook Pro is the display. For that reason, they should put every effort into ensuring that it is good as it can possibly be for anyone that pays for it, no matter the cost.
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You're talking about very different things, though. Not every journalist is a TV, camera-facing talking head. Are you really suggesting that the most journalists ever contribute is the 45 second segments on the evening news?

What about the written reports? The field journalists in Gaza, talking to the groups on the ground and giving first-hand accounts of the violence? That's important. Relying on cheap recording devices in the hands of locals is a terrible idea- they are the very people least likely to be impartial. To use the Gaza example, there would be thousands of recordings of Israeli strikes, but very few of missiles being launched the other way because no-one would want to record it. We'd end up with entirely biased coverage.

Who would be writing something like this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/24/world/middleeast/israel-ga...

?
Not really - basic psych says that a person who needed repairs and had them done in an emotionally pleasing way will be happier about the supplier than a person who didn't need repairs and so didn't care.

But rationally it's quite clear that it is better to not need repairs (=waste time) in the first place.

It's the same as in many jobs - saving the day in a disaster will get more praise than preventing a disaster from happening; but, of course, prevention is far more valuable.
I strongly suspect that the testing mania you get on all the technical support lines comes from a mania by companies to control/pressure their customer support people and those people more or less passing along this pressure. "You have to prove you have a problem here because I've got a lot of people I have to help". The last technical support call I had for a Windows network problem (which I had isolated to the OS before I called), I could strongly sense the guy was inching to cut me off with either "not our problem", "not a problem" or "I can't help you 'cause won't listen to me". The implicit threats were strong enough that the table turn from "I'm here to help you" to "you're here to prove there's a problem...". It seems like it's a symptom of making technical support a large, low-wage, heavy control work environment.

Edit: It doesn't help that with large systems like Windows 7 (or modern OSX), there's no "here's the explanation of the problem", it is only "try this generic solution recipe, now try this other one..."
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It doesn't make sense, because I asked specific questions, and you seem to focus more on showing off your vocabulary than answering them. Let me rephrase:

Forget for a moment about technology/capital upgrades, and assume that the ISP wants to give everyone as much speed as possible. The customers collectively try to download as much as they can, as fast as they can. Naturally, they'll hit a limit. At what point does the limit affect their usage, and how can the ISP fiddle with access so as to discourage overuse? And why is my solution not one possible method (if suboptimal)?
haha look forward to seeing it! Letme know when you get it up and running @mutlu82
Never going to happen, even though I wish it would.
Note, I think PayPal are in many cases some sly devils doing some nasty things, in this case it sounds like they went to bat, had the credit companies say 'nope' and that's that. Credit card companies will usually go in the favour of the buyer, because technically the buyer is them. This is an odd, and bizarre situation, but its why you always should buy fancy items on credit cards, as the credit companies don't like their money being mucked about with. The situation is heavily broken though, scammers on every side, the only option becomes taking legal action and that's very much a minefield.
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I had one nebulous recruiter call my company's front desk and try to get me consider taking a position with his talent pool after I ignored his message on LinkedIn.

To my limited understanding, the way the recruiting market works is recruiters build up a bank of talent they can submit for client jobs and they get a % commission of the meat err recruit's base salary as compensation. Ergo, the incentive is to build as big a stable of developers as possible that you can keep submitting for jobs. I personally ignore all the meat market recruiters on LinkedIn, it just gets absurd after a while.
Yea, I'm curious what's with the coin based pricing, it's incredibly complicated IMO.
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I'm stuck with $680 in chargebacks on paypal.

One gamer used a bank account to deposit funds into his account. 2-3 months later, he uses that same bank account, then files a chargeback for $680.

Even though he'd used that same bank account months earlier, on the same site without filing a chargeback somehow this time around he won the chargeback dispute.

I have no idea how that is common sense possible
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"This has nothing to do with being for or against any vendor."

I think it has everything to do with that specific vendor (not your comment, the unpaid ad). When was the last time you saw a landing page featuring an Acer or Asus laptop?

"Brands communicate emotions, it's risky to expose yourself to that. Or is that on purpose?"

It's clearly on purpose. The (desired) communicated emotion is along the lines of "we're hip and trendy and use only the cream of the crop".
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> rMBP owners: Please do share your insights into the mean level of abuse your units have handsomely survived.

A week or so ago, I was riding my bicycle on the comute from work and had to avoid a psychopath in a car. I'd forgotten to close the straps over the rMBP and it went flying off the back of the bike, skittered along the bitumen for a couple of metres and smashed into a gutter. It's not quite as handsome as it was, but despite landing on the screen corner everything still lines up perfectly, opens and closes perfectly and works perfectly.
I can totally understand that. For example, the Nexus 4 looks like the perfect phone for me, if only it wasn't so ridiculously large. I'm still going to try to get it when they (hopefully) restock in the UK.
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Well, it is already pretty easy to throw out any motherboards that don't correspond to the processor you've chosen. On most PC part picker websites such as ebuyer you can select only motherboards with the correct socket. I don't like what Intel are planning to do as I absolutely love the flexibility of desktop PCs. This move could end them a lot sooner.
great read - I think there's a lack of good PR advice on hackernews.
Strictly obeying someone's instructions is a well known technique for sabotage.

Google really should just comply with any validly formed DMCA request they're given, but put information links about that fact. (Which they do, to "chilling effects".)

And someone really needs to start tackling blatantly false requests too.

Google has already taken big steps to please copyright holders. Their detection stuff is remarkable.
To be accurate, Google doesn't pay directly for most of their own bandwidth. They have lots of their own fiber and peering agreements with most providers. Because of that, providers don't have to pay a backbone to send bits to Google, and Google doens't have to pay a backbone to send bits to the providers.

Of course, Google pays indirectly -- they have to buy, build & maintain those backbones.
I'm not sure to understand why.
In my case, I think that if if it happens that I receive the email in my phone (that is, when I'm not in frond of my computer), I'll make it as 'read', and it will be forgotten in the middle of the not-so-important emails (that is, outside of the inbox, in Gmail).
I only read rss news on my computer, so it's far more likely that I'll read and enjoy it!
I sort of did the opposite. I took all my aliases that were created because I couldn't remember something (commandline switches, non-trivial tool invocations, non-trivial regexes, etc.) and just set the alias to echo the command. Whenever I'd attempt to use the alias, it would just print and I'd have to retype it by hand. Eventually I learned everything I used to have trouble remembering and have became much more fluent with command line utilities and bash.

I still leave convenience aliases intact. Nobody needs to be typing --color=auto every time they ls.
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I've certainly found the experience of talking about Tor to end users quite stressful, but I haven't had the experience of tin-foil hat users. There was an obvious low-level cop asking about the Silk Road at one of them.

In-fact if I look around the room, I'm the one talking about what William Binney has said & Echelon, so I'm probably the tin foil hat.

I agree about the focus. What's interesting is some of the bugs that I've found because I don't often see things from a UI perspective, and talking to end users has made me see some new bugs, also see problems that remain to be solved that I am currently working on.

I think the bay area is unique, there is nothing much of it's kind like this in Sydney.
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> It's quite possible that 99% of MBP buyers would never even notice that ghosting problem

In general your argument makes sense, but I'm pretty sure in this case 100% of customers WOULD notice this particular ghosting problem.

How do I know that? Because it's visible in those crappy photos on a gray background with the naked eye ... and guess what, HN has a gray background.

You'd have to be blind to not notice the ghosting happening for this customer. And at least on a gray background you'd immediately notice that the display is to be blamed, because when watching pictures or something else you'd blame the noise on your crappy camera, on yourself and so on, which IMHO is far worse.
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Wow. As another poster mentioned, this really feels like feature creep. I made it about half-way through the intro before my eyes glazed over and I lost interest because there was so much to absorb. At least I recommend a more streamlined (read: shorter and more compelling) intro.

Personally, I'm going to pass on your product because from your description it feels like it'll be hard to learn, have too many features I'll never use and be slow (due to bloat). :(
Apple Bug #314159 - Display exhibits objectionable retina-like characteristics

Steps to reproduce:

1. Stare at bright checkerboard pattern on screen for 1 minute without blinking.

2. Quickly look away at blank white wall.

3. Observe persistence of image.
"As far as the PC OEMs are concerned, killing off the PC upgrade market would be a good thing because it would push people to buy new PCs rather than upgrade their existing hardware. The PC industry is currently stagnant, partly because consumers and enterprise are making existing hardware last longer."

Maybe the market is stagnant because there really is no need to upgrade. I have a 2009 macbook pro and it's fine. In the late 90's early 2000's I wouldn't go more than 1-2 yeara without an upgrade. I still use an AMD Phenom in my desktop, though I may build a new machine just because of gaming. Nothing is really pushing the limits of modern hardware. Most software is moving to the web and doesn't require the latest processor to run.
ahhh ffs, I drafted out my own vision of this concept just yesterday. Nice work none the less :)
As a big chat room user, there's something that bugs me about this. I think that one of the main reasons the chatroom hasn't changed in so long is because it's so simple. You connect and begin chatting. It looks like this idea is putting a big emphasis on organizing, which means that the user has to do more work, which isn't good. But I'm just being the skeptic here, don't mind me.
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> " If youre thinking of selling an expensive item on eBay, think again. "

I would say, this type of fraud is exclusively targeted at cellphones, ipods, netbooks etc. If you're selling something like an antique grandfather clock, you should be fine. Of course anything that requires collection, or couriering is going to be more traceable and secure.

I have sold hundreds or maybe thousands of items on eBay. The only one I ever had a problem with was trying to sell an old iPod. As soon as it was listed the scamming started by fraudsters.
They could ask your ISP for your DNS queries, however. That would at least tell them what sites you're visiting.
I found it frightening that you would approach such a topic as property from a historical perspective rather than a philosophical one. Simply because something has been the case throughout most of history doesn't mean it should be.
You are totally right, this post is only taking up valuable space that could be filled with yet another TechCrunch post.
/sarcasm
Being the grinch that I am, I stopped giving any feedback at all for buying or selling on eBay. The principal being if anything ever goes wrong, feedback is your only weapon.
I thought my case with a virtual product, and a clear fraudulent act was bad. After hearing about this, with a physical product, it makes a local electronics dealer seem much more appealing.
What kind of printing process does TeeSpring use ? Doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere.
It's mostly about how they handle special characters.

http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/man.html#differences_be...
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I didn't know that, I was just parroting the linked article, which stated that:

"Unfortunately Intel doesn’t care about the enthusiast, and unsurprisingly they have moved on. ARM chips are now the focus for that crowd, and they are taking the mainstream geeks with them. "

http://semiaccurate.com/2012/11/26/intel-kills-off-the-deskt...

and it linked to:

http://pocketnow.com/android/droid-overclocking-reaches-30gh...

Taking that article at face value, I speculated that it would indeed drive people off.
To jump on a point totally unrelated to the post's complaint but related to selling smartphones, I've found that if I'm selling electronics (especially generation-behind iPhones for the family) I can do much better than eBay, even before you discount both their listing fee and paypal use fees. And there's comparatively no risk.

For cash: gazelle

For slightly more cash (usually just a few percent), in the form of a gift card: amazon trade-ins
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Have been using plivo for the past month.
Awesome customer support by Keshav and the rest of the team. Congrats on the seed round :)
...eagerly waiting for the steambox announcement.
Supporting Unicode circa 1995 was good, but supporting an outdated version of Unicode incompletely isn't great. Per Tom Christiansen, JDK7 looks like the minimum required Java version to do modern Unicode correctly.

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Working on my chromium in 12.10. Also, I really like how I can jump off of the balls I'm shooting meaning I can basically fly.
I'd like to see the source code/flv too, why not submit a post to HN?
The only way I would sell an expensive piece of electronics would be via local Craigslist, in person, probably for cash that I'd prefer to witness the buyer withdraw out of an ATM.
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I stopped selling things like this on eBay a long time ago because I do not sell things frequently enough to keep up with the scams du jour.

My local craigslist is where my for-sale items now go. Sure, I may get a little less than top-dollar for an item, or it might take a little longer to sell, but I'm never left with some after-the-fact dispute where I have no control (note: I'll only accept cash).

eBay was fun while it lasted, but then it became a giant flea market with basically semi-pro retailers looking to sell things, and a whole bunch of random scammers. Intermixed in all that was the occasional legitimate "amateur" seller.

For the very few times I've purchased something on Ebay in the last few years, it's always been from "pro" sellers with storefront type setups. The hassles of dealing with amateurs selling poorly described items, taking too long to ship, etc. was also not worth the "deal" I was getting.

A true "amateur to amateur" auction type sales website is an area begging for competition...
A few years ago I sold an Android phone on eBay. A scammer bought it, claimed it was broken, and filed a claim with PayPal. The guy sent me back a different phone of the same model that was indeed quite broken. I appealed to PayPal and lost. I got screwed in this case, but frankly I'm not sure what PayPal/eBay is supposed to do about this sort of scam. Dude even swapped the sticker with the serial number from inside the case.
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Email Twilio support, they can help you with that (I used to work there)
Odd. I'm using google DNS, so maybe they're "blocking" it via dns.
In addition to the above, it's worth nothing that parallel also supports running the jobs on multiple remote systems via ssh, giving you an easy way to take advantage of a whole cluster.
Gazelle is worthless and preys on the poor and uneducated. You get less than 50% what you would from selling on ebay.

http://www.gazelle.com/iphone/iphone-4s/at-t/iphone-4s-64gb-...

vs

http://www.ebay.com/sch/Cell-Phones-Smartphones-/9355/i.html...
What's considered a failure? Startups that broke up, shut down or didn't raise? Isn't it too early to tell for most companies?
This much is true, but the only reason a provider would to that is to reduce costs in the first place. It's their call to provide peering.
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