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Devices on Planes Are Dangerous Because of F.A.A. Rules
Embedded linux, which is a vast majority of those installs, never DID use typical shells for smaller targets.
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In Saunalahti's case they differentiate by offering different connection speeds, all at flat rate. I'm not really sure if what I suggested is implemented anywhere, just playing devil's advocate. :) One possible solution might be to combine it with stateful filtering, dropping a unidirectional ingress flow after some number of packets if the device never responds. My point was mainly that something must be broken if the customer is getting billed due to the environment beyond their control.

In the case of power management I'm not sure it's that simple, it's at least true that the HTC Dream would not usually respond to pings while the display was off (haven't experimented with other devices). Presumably the application processor only awoke when a kernel timer fires, which only applies to client sockets the device itself created. Actually it makes sense that random inbound data traffic wouldn't wake the phone, otherwise you risk your OS getting a bad reputation because of some crappy telcos sending ARP every 1 second or something.
It uses JavaScript as extension language, just like… Firefox? Impressive!

I'm always annoyed when people don't realize that Firefox is basically Emacs: the actual engine is called XULRunner and has a renderer called Gecko and supports stuff like sockets. Firefox is on top of it, implemented basically in JavaScript and the UIs are described by the XUL format which can be compared to GTK+'s Glade-files, Qt's UI-files or XAML.
13 Technologies You Won’t See in 2013
You can't have both free (or extremely cheap) services and have highly available tech support. I'm not sure if you've ever been part of a company building a call center for tech support in the US but it is a nightmare. It can easily be one of the most expensive elements of having a service-oriented business.
Is this new? Very thin content, and I can't see how you nominate links.
Your post needs a giant asterisk. Everything you said is completely fair, excluding AdWords -- which is where Google actually makes its money. As an Adwords customer, I have absolutely no problem getting my account rep on the phone if I have a problem.
The author cherry picks scenarios to support his viewpoint. I'm sure that San Franscico residents are aware that a 2 mile bus trip makes no sense for an able-bodied person, but those are two very specific criteria. Where is his evidence that 2 miles is the distance that the majority of people need to go? What happens when you do need to go more than two miles?
One policy I've implemented in my group at an SF startup is when I want to promote someone into a new role, I first put them in the role before giving them the title and raise. That gives them a chance to evaluate how much they actually like the role, while giving both sides outs if the role doesn't end up being a good fit.

I've done this with two lead PMs and an engineering lead so far, and it's been met with a positive reception.
Doodles Lead to New Jersey Student's Arrest
Touch beats pens, keyboards, and mice in the respect that you don't have to carry around a bunch of peripherals. Nearly everybody has fingers and spent the first couple years of their lives learning to use them.

Your complaint about touch interfaces probably has more to do with buying a really shitty MP3 player than anything inherent about touch.
Its not about spending $5, it's about spending $5 x 10,000. Same reason credit card validations are $1 (which then gets credited back to the card a few days later).
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Remembering Richard Crandall (1947-2012)
There is a huge difference though : there are no lives on the line. Nobody will die because they couldn't pirate the latest Harry Potter.
Apple is a retail business and they can deliver tech support at scale by doubling their retail locations into support centers.

It's unfair to compare a retail company's availability to a SaaS provider such as a Google. It would be wise for Google to start opening retail locations if it intends to get into the retail game for this very reason.
I had a friendly human call me shortly after I signed up for a trial for work, and had good impressions of the onboarding process. But they didnt give contact numbers before that initial contact...
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FreeBSD 9.1 Release Announcement
As I recall, the 1991 version of me thought a lot of things that the 2012 version of me doesn't. I presume this is true for most humans, including Vice President Biden.
Nice write up... I think one thing to keep in mind is that generating a PDF this way is great but is making a browser based request - so it's good to avoid doing this within the scope of an existing request. When possible, put the generation into a background queue and email the results or poll for the result... At least if your in unicorn rails stack
With this brillant project, is it the end of nodejs hype ?
Heroku Buildpack for Hammer sites
I think one place where a franchise differs is that you are buying the brand as well. People are more likely to go into a Subway than a Ma and Pa sandwich shop. People are no more likely to buy real estate (or web apps) from you because you read book X or went to seminar Y.
The quietest and most constant of friends
Forgive my ignorance, but could this have any application as a kind of sandbox? For example adding a plugin capability to an app that allows user-submitted code to be run safely?
I had a similar issue with my Apple Developer License. My address wash Spanish, my credit card from the UK (as I was working there in that time) and they systems locked me out of everything because it wasn't normal.

I shot a mail address using a contact form and in less than 24 hours I got a phone call which solved all my issues in that same call.

I've been locked out of my AdSense account for breaking the TOS, but they won't tell me which point of the TOS I've broken (which, as far as I can tell, was none) and the only way to get around this was just to create a different AdSense account. Which is against their TOS BTW.

PS.
That interaction with Apple was not the first not last, but the only related with an online service. They've fixed hardware, dealt with recalls and even took care of stuff outside warranty.
Alright..Can you develop New Software's?
Older and wiser.
The for loop works fine. Performing word splitting/wildcard expansion/etc on a variable will, well, split it into words/expand wildcards/etc, whether it was introduced by a for loop or not.
Did Intel & Samsung give up the Tizen & all the contests held for it?
Nice offer, I'll pass it on to some of the British Java guys I know. ;)
Yes, everything except physical health becomes better with age. Oh, better add mental health to the list of exceptions:

http://www.cdc.gov/aging/pdf/mental_health.pdf

http://www.livestrong.com/article/186637-about-senile-dement...

Wait a sec.. if you're declining physically and mentally, then what else is there?
I'm in Austria, a C/C++ developer (Java, Android variant too, but I'd rather not work in it) with systems programming experience, and now 4 years of mobile work. The salaries around these parts are close to the GP scale, but not quite there ..
Gnome shell is not too bad now, and if you are looking for a modern desktop environment then I would recommend it - however it still has many problems, especially when it comes to configuration. Gnome gets this complaint a lot, and most of the time it is coming out the mouth of a "power user", however there are a lot of problems that still effect even the most basic user.

The printer configuration is a prime example of this - they have simplified it, and broken it horribly. It does not work in 99% of cases where the printer is not directly connected to the computer. You may argue that this is an edge case and that most printers are directly connected, but I think you would be surprised by how many printers are networked today. My parents have a wireless printer, it is not directly connected to anything, and it is impossible to set up using Gnome 3 control centre because the name has a space in it. Want to change the name so you can install the printer? Tough. You cannot do it unless you install the much older "system-config-printer" package.

Other things, such as being unable to set your desktop wallpaper to something outside of the root Pictures folder (It is not recursive, so a photo in ~/Pictures/Holiday-Shots/ cannot be set as your wallpaper), are what upsets me about Gnome - it could be fantastic if so much work was not going into removing features at the sake of making the UI a little simpler.
i don't understand why decent comments are being downvoted.
How about a raspberry pi with a bunch of DS18B20 1-wire temp sensors - stupidly cheap if you can handle the wiring.

I'm sketching out the design for a raspberry pi-based central heating controller with a web interface, mix of sensors and an lcd display - should cost around 75-85UK pounds, including the pi
Or LXDE. But I run Xubuntu personally. Wife's netbook has Lubuntu on it and she's had no problems. Cinnamon's nice, too.
Silicon Valley is wrong about college
I would like to know the privacy aspects of this - does the text gets stored in the server? What about the "report false positive" button- is it entirely algorithmic or actually goes to a human? If the latter, how much of the text is visible to him/her?

Of course, I am not going to use it for anything confidential, but knowing how much privacy I can expect would be nice.
Thank you. I'm covering the base on that. just had a read on the contents list. I think i should get round to it sooner than i had planned.
For Adsense, in contrast, the user is told:

>We offer email support for our higher-earning publishers. To find out if email support is available for your account, visit How can I contact AdSense support? [1] Publishers who have access to support via email will find a contact form where they can email our specialists.

It turns out I'm lucky enough to be "eligible for email support". How flattering!

[1] https://support.google.com/adsense/bin/request.py
This isn't an unfair comparison at all. From the consumer's perspective both provide many similar services. And products, for that matter.

And (serious question) what's stopping Google from providing support, when other SaaS providers can (and do, profitably) and other ad/media companies can and do?
What non-real ingredients do you think they use? Hamburgers are pretty simple. It's not like Kraft selling guacamole made with food coloring instead of avocados.
Have you ever heard of the Spanish Civil War? It was kind of important. General Franco? Fascism? Does that ring a bell?
Given that for Ireland the word is 'Northern' (as in 'Northern Ireland') I assume the person who made the map excluded the country's name.
"Got a chance to reboot my education, which was something I really needed to do. I had a professor in my freshman year of college who showed me that my mind could do math. And from there, I took charge."

How important do we think Maths education is?
I just searched all our applications from our past four batches (our first two batches didn't have a formal application), and we never got an application from anyone with your email address. I also did queries on your first and last names and didn't find any matches.

Maybe you're confusing us with a different program (or could you have applied with a different name)?
I'd recommend just doing vimtutor every day for a couple of weeks to get some muscle memory in.
Debian testing with LXDE
Good point - your answer is what I was looking for. I was wondering how on earth he could have little in the way of savings when earning a million a year. This might be how.
As many others have stated, I appreciate the honesty and am inspired by the success. My question is how much of these revenues from products (info and SAAS) are paid out to affiliates? I would guess the numbers are significant.
What's interesting was that it was a last minute addition to an omnibus crime bill.

The same thing is still happening today where amendments attacking internet freedom get tagged onto existing bills under the guise of targeting "terrorists, drug dealers, pedophiles, and organized crime" aka "The Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyps...
"Figures don’t mean anything when they can’t be compared. So here are the same images (browser, os and Windows) from another website."

Figures don't mean anything when you don't give us the site they're from, either.
"Social media a hotbed of bad behavior – flame wars, bragging, bashing and crimes against grammar, among other misdeeds."

I would regard leaving out the copula as a venial sin of omission, not a crime.

But the main reason I checked out the story was to see whether it had the standard set of social-networking items on it. And indeed, I can share it on Facebook, tweet it on Twitter, endorse it on Reddit, and click if I wish on a couple of buttons I don't understand.
Just did that.
The most common word with a meaning seems to be СССР (USSR)
the next one (barring country name) is война (war).

No surprises here.

In case of Russian language doing it properly is noticeably harder because Russian is an inflected language.
Spend enough on Adwords or google appss and you get a dedicated rep. Buy a nexus and you get a 24/7 phone number. Post something about google virtually anywhere on the Internet and Matt Cutts will probably reply to it.

Stop spreading this nonsense meme.
$0 - unless AppSumo counts.
I wonder if Biden is whispering similar ideas into Obama's ears, and if it's why Obama is so keen on trampling on the 4th amendment these days.
Trusty old Debian with no fancy window manager.

But I'm planning on playing around with the new Enlightenment when I have some more free time.
From what I recall xxd is actually part of the vim distribution, so it's common, but not everywhere. An approximate standard (coreutils) alternative is `od -x' (although it doesn't include the ASCII readable char column at the right, which can be annoying)
We all share in this emptiness. Many hide it well. Love of life lies not in shared happiness but shared pain. No one wants others to know how vulnerable we are so we limit our intimacy to a select few. If we were all honest we'd all be more understanding & compassionate. If you are truly at the edge reply to this comment & I will help however I can.
Specifically, paid support would be nice.
IOW, you get what you pay for. That said, Google could do much better in customer service -- they indirectly make money on the backs of these customers. It seems deceitful to let people invest heavily in your ecosystem, knowing you won't help them when stuck (and they're so entrenched they just can't leave).
If you are comparing Unity to Mac OS X then of course you are going to be disappointed. IMHO and in those of many others, OS X has one of the most polished UIs out there, thanks in part to the fact that it is more than a decade old. Unity is relatively young by all standards.

1) I don't really understand what is the problem here. Could you be more explicit? Perhaps this is not your gripe, but since the switcher threw me off at first, this is what I have learned: if you want to switch b/ windows of the same application Alt-` will do the trick, same as in a Mac. If you press Alt-Tab and leave focus over an application with multiple windows the view will expand and show thumbnails of each one, if you can't wait you can switch from Tab to ` without releasing Alt and it will do the same thing.

2) I have never incorrectly pressed the Alt key, but alas, this is just me.

3) System Settings panel, to get there press the Win key(or equivalent) and start typing "settings", it should come up as the first result. You might perhaps find the different setting panels lacking in options sometimes, but a quick google search and a short trip to the command line has always worked for me.

4) I am assuming you mean to say that you have a launcher icon on the dock for a certain application and when you click it it spawns a new icon. This has happened to me mostly with applications that invoke a bash script to start (Matlab in my case). It is more of a problem of integration of external software with the Unity interface. This is to be expected for a relatively young platform.

5) See 1.

6) I don't know about Chromium but Google maintains their own repository so getting Chrome and keeping it updated is relatively simple. Perhaps there is a similar solution for Chromium? The Amazon thing really pissed me of at first, but uninstalling it was as simple as executing "sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping". There is also a setting in the Privacy settings panel that I think that does the same. Also 12.04 doesn't seem to include the Amazon lens.

I understand not liking Unity but there is no need to go in a self-described nerdrage rant. You could have found the answers to all of your questions with a quick google search, just like I did.
That's far from true in the iOS ecosystem.
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I notice a lot of hostility towards "entitlement of culture" on Hacker News. While it sucks that artists aren't always being fairly compensated, I think there are some other factors to consider, starting with one major question: Would the people pirating these works have bought them in the first place?

This article focuses on the sheer "access" aspect, because that's the most noble. If you can't legally buy a work, you aren't going to pay for it. If ever the word "entitlement" should be used in these debates, I'd say it's here. For people who aren't able to legally access these culturally significant works, I'd say yes they are entitled to be able to access these in an illegal manner and experience our culture. Note culturally significant. I'm not talking about the artistic merit of Hollywood blockbusters and the top 40 here.

Similar to the "access" argument, there's the "exposure" argument. How many works have been pirated simply because they were free, but not something you'd be willing to risk ~$10+ on? Piracy enables people to get a taste of genres and styles they never would otherwise experience. I grew up in the age of Napster, and I was in middle school going to high school when Limewire was getting big. I listened to a much wider range of music and watched movies I never would have otherwise because they took almost 0 effort to acquire. I am a rather different person than I would have been without piracy. I look at my music library and my taste in movies, and realize almost all of that is because I was able to pirate them. I think the fact that older people tend to be more hostile to piracy isn't only because of ingrained habits, but partly because they weren't shaped by its effects.
Google Now Removing Over 50 Million Pirate Search Results Per Year
Well, that partly depends. There's some talk - I don't know how accurate - that scientific thought is actually updated when the people holding the old views start dying out... If that's really true, and we wind up holding on to the same wrong ideas for 500 years instead of 100, I'm not sure we'd be lots further along. Of course, we might well have noticed the problem and done more about it, or something... or the effect may not be real (or particularly strong) in the first place.
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The chap in the post isn't seeking highly available tech support. And it's not a free service - he paid.

Customers/users should never be left guessing about whether they've been forgotten or not. If you have users, have some flow like this:

1) Receive the customer communication. If you can't fix it immediately, then you immediately respond to the customer to tell them what you're doing, and clearly indicate when they will receive their next communication from you. It might be "we can't even look at this for six weeks", but if you've taken their money you should give it back.

2) Set a calendar event for your team so that they know about this if you get hit by a bus.

3) On the date, you contact the customer. If you haven't fixed the issue, then you indicate what you're doing at the moment, and give a new date by which the customer will hear from you.

If the customer is unlikely to be happy with the resolution then you describe why and describe their options.
The author does a great job of telling you the types of questions to ask to set the stage for value based billing (how will you measure success) but also how to write proposals. I highly recommend this book if you are wasting your life on hourly billing.
While there are many franchises that fall into that category (have a network effect) there are actually many more where the brand means absolutely nothing and it is totally knowledge that you are getting.

Take a look here:

http://www.franchisedirect.com/directory/
2012 "Lessons"
What about paid enterprise services with tech support?
I once had an idea for an "app-aggregating app."

I realized that a lot of apps that I get prompted to download have effectively one-off usage patterns and I'd delete them immediately after downloading and using them. This app would've essentially just allowed for very basic functionality for layouts, buttons, and form input from however many companies built these basic interfaces. That way I wouldn't have to download any more super-special apps, I could just load up the interface and work with that.

As I started thinking about this app more, I realized it was called a "web browser." I wish more companies put stronger emphasis on their mobile site.
I believe they mean the UI is lightweight. I don't think they are claiming that webkit is lightweight.
Software-defined networking and OpenFlow
I'm a big fan of KDE, and it's only been getting better lately. I definitely recommend it.
Catamorphism
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Ship Early. Ship Often.

It's an idea that I am forcing myself to adopt as it seems a little alien at the moment (Why would I want to show users an unfinished product??) but I've always been in two minds about landing pages being submitted on HN. I much prefer 'Show HN:' to be things I can play with.

How do you feel about clicking on a link and getting to a Landing Page with simply a 'Sign up for notifications' or 'connect to Facebook' form?
After assignment "self" does not change even if "this" does.

var player = {
play: function(){
var self = this;
setTimeout(function(){
console.log(self);
});
}
}
From idea to MVP to #1 on Hacker News in 72 hours
It's Early Innings For Digital Pictures
Wow, that is impressive and thanks for the quick reply. Also, how did appsumo work out? Lots of sales?
Thanks for clarifying. With 2M, and if support folks were included, you were getting nice output, actually.

What turned me off consulting eventually (even though the money was good), was the concept of wasting my life bringing other people's ideas to fruition, while neglecting my own. From the moment I realized that, it became an easy decision for me.
The Euclidean Algorithm and Chakravala Method in Ruby
The biggest hurdle (for me, certainly) is having the guts to step off that treadmill and devote all your time to something 100%. Personally, I have a wife who supports me, and even then it's still hard. I have some colleagues in similar situations with unsupportive families, and they will likely never be able to make that leap, not because of finances, but because of emotional/familial situations.