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At a fundamental level, they're still very similar to every computer on the market. They're very nearly IBM architecture, and the security features you're discussing are added after the fact (not inherent to the architecture itself).

An operating system can only do so much.
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I don't think the next big thing will be a new operating system -- that's thinking too shallow. We've tried dozens over the years, and right now we're dividing between consumer experience and server work (and poorly at that; no Linux distribution these days bothers to pretend they're separate any more). Plan 9 also swam as far as it could off to the deep end and didn't catch on, for a few reasons; it's a genuinely good model but as we know from this startup game, the good ideas don't always take hold.

I suspect even if you designed something better than Plan 9, which would be a feat, the smart minds and money are already thinking past Intelville. Getting past The Architecture (what do we call it? IBM?) that's been a staple of computing for decades is the next big thing. That's what the author is hinting at, I think, and I'll be interested to read his paper.

(ARM isn't what we're looking for, it's just a better Intel. Same architecture.)

One of my deep-seated beliefs is that backward compatibility can hurt more than benefit, and this is sort of a corollary.
> I would ask that you offer the option to set the threshold at which we "Automatically add recipients of sent messages to the address book". email clients over the years have made my contacts completely worthless with this email-once-add-to-contacts-feature because there are tons of people I email once or twice and never speak to again, but at some point (5 emails in perhaps) ... its a good idea to add that person to your contacts.

Settings > General Settings > Address Book > "Mark automatically added contacts important" : "After 5 sent messages"

Is that what you wanted?
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Very cool, at least from the code. Is there a demo page?
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That grumpy BSD guy: DDOS Bots Are People (Or Manned By Some, At Least)
I used it in one of my learning projects (https://github.com/neebz/real-time-notice-board) and it was having troubles with html attributes having hyphens (e.g. data-bind). I wonder if they have fixed that. Otherwise it was really good.
As an early employee of a startup, what keeps me here are my stock options. REAL ownership of a company.

I didn't join the company to get a vacation or a title bump. I joined because I believe in the vision, the people and the hope that some day my stock will be worth something.

If you can create a meritocracy where employees understand that the company's success translates to their own personal success, then they're much less likely to leave.
I've used other people's Android phones and seen the voip call option, perhaps it depends if you have a sip account configured.
Ask HN: What entrepreneurs had their initial success during times of crisis?
There is a saying: when it rains, some people take cover, others sell umbrellas.
Surely there are examples of entrepreneurs that made their fortunes during times of crisis (economic crisis, wars, etc).
What are some examples?
Right, but they also store the decryption key -- your Inky password. Which is (presumably?) encrypted… somehow? Maybe?
Are you doing the same kind of thing the NYT is — 10 articles a month free, or unlimited if you're referred by a popular site? Or do you have a different strategy?
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Thanks for chipping in. You guys do absolutely great work, and I'm sorry that these discussions usually turn to avoiding paying your employer for that work.

I know a couple people that are getting picked up by newsrooms for "startuppey" digital lab work, data visualization, that kind of thing. Your publication is definitely setting the pace for the field at large these days, and it's a good thing.
There is no such thing as a policy that can replace personal interaction with one's manager, a good rapport between coworkers, and good self-management on the worker's part.

Perks or vacation quantities really have little to do with it.
Can't wait for mine to arrive !
Back when I was living in Seattle and hadn't even conceived of coming to Silicon Valley I started to follow industry blogs. These are the ones I love, from my pristinely manicured Google Reader account (still the best "social" Google ever did). It is amazing how prolific these writers are since it is not a full time job for most of them.
If they lived to retirement age.

Life expectancy of a 35 year old male in the 1920s was about 67, for a woman 68. It's about a decade more now. Source (expressed as years of survival): http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005140.html

And as I recall, promises of life-long employment hit a bit of a reef in the late 1920s.

That said, yes, we've exchanged greater life expectancy for much reduced employer loyalty.
The author goes to conclude that Windows RT is an example of 'Flat Design' and doesn't even justify why.

FYI: In my opinion, the author's $5.99 EBook on design is the best example of 'Flat Design' (I bought one). He claims to teach you to design a web app from scratch, but whereas the book is more of a walkthrough for a basic app than a 'how-to' (which is what he claims). Once you purchase his book, you realize it was a 'flat-design' and not a curvy one.

The author is an Apple fanboy himself, bashing out the new Windows Metro UI under the guise of a design article. Two years from now, I'd love to meet the author and see him claim the same thing. The author has a blind-folded belief that 'Apple knows what they're doing' or rather the 'Apple can do no wrong' mindset. I guess that's why you never saw any articles on Apple maps on his blog.

Coming back to the point, if Apple knows what they're doing, I bet Microsoft knows much better, because they are #2 in the OS arena WORLDWIDE (google for stats). So, this ideology that the Metro UI sucks is just time-limited. It's only a matter of time that people get accustomed to it and they will and MS knows that.
Well, I find this discussion very interesting - esp. because it reveals so many misconceptions about programming in a tiny nutshell.
Let me start by emphasizing that you were reading into the previous comment something the author didn't write. "If your code runs into a broken invariant and you let it continue forward ..." - I don't see anything even remotely associated with it: The claim was just that "abort()" in most cases is too strong a response.
Indeed "ASSERTS ENFORCE INVARIANTS" - but during debugging. And invariants may be enforced using different mechanisms, assert(), as a very general tool/technique is simply and understandably very crude. My view of assert() is two fold:
1. It's a shotgun. In real life not every "crime" deserves capital punishment (and not all broken invariants are the same).
2. All asserts are connected: They can only be turned on/off together (yes, you may use conditional compilation to overcome this problem, but in this case conditional compilation can be used for just a better system - where there are various severity levels for asserts).

All you have to realize is that not all problems need the same cure. Using your example, if it is found that a list broke it's invariant, isn't it enough to stop using this list (isolating it, not freeing it) and then gracefully terminate the program?
There is more to elaborate here, but most readers can draw the correct conclusions. Maybe this discussions exposes how much more we need to learn about software quality - where my page on bad books (the ones I have encountered) is just a very narrow opening to the real problems.
Could you please add an option to minimize Inky in the taskbar? Thank you!
If your startup has done a couple rounds of financing, you might want to start thinking about titles and salary.
Probably bodyweight exercises if they had done any training, but I guess they've just done more manual labor and walked around a lot.
It doesn't sound to me like the switch upgrade was the problem here. Yes, it was the trigger, but the massive failure was caused by the failover setup.

The learning seems to be that if you're going to have automated failover, it must go in one direction only. That means you're guaranteed never to get flaps or mexican standoffs, and determining which node was active is a (relatively) simple question of "did a failover happen?"

I'm sure there's a downside to this, but I can't see one that outweighs the gains from having much simpler failure modes.
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Sorry, hackers don't like Microcrap.
The same argument applies to UPSes. I hear about far more outages caused by UPS failures than by PSU or supply failures.
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UI is really cool! Learned some stuff I didn't know, for instance, Pandora still profitable? The source sited for Mint isn't very credible but kudos for including it. Finally, IMO, your footer can be incorporated in the header without being intrusive.

Very cool!
I'm assuming someone who's pretty out of shape. I was a bit hesitant to put a jump rope in there, but (given coordination) it should be fairly safe.

KB swings are surprisingly aerobic and very low impact.
Wondering out loud..so, when are we going to have a micro-payment standard? i.e. I want to read content on any content provider without having to jump through cumbersome hoops?

I wonder if Rupert Murdoch has been approached by Facebook or anyone..?
Aren't the only systems that are "required" to have UEFI Secure Boot--and to prevent end user disabling of this setting--based on ARM? I was under the impression that nothing had changed for the x86 architecture.
Are you going to accept non-U.S. citizen developer sign ups any time soon ? I guess this is coupled to stripe offering their service outside of the U.S.
By the time employees think about taking a job elsewhere, it's often already too late. A counter-offer only retains the talent temporarily and more often than not, there's some fundamental dissatisfaction with the job.

One begs the question, what should employers do to retain talent?

The author left us with "Have clear and consistent salary guidelines, and regularly give raises to people who are outperforming their pay level." This takes the approach that prevention is key.

In my last job, I thought about quitting months before actually giving the notice. My employer counter-offered with 10% above what the other guy was offering. This temporarily retained me. However, for months after, I wasn't performing at my peak and eventually sought employment elsewhere.
> It seems like such a crime that big companies would delegate these to central departments who barely know how the teams are going or even what they do

It is, but its also an opportunity for smaller business to more effectively compete
Yes, skipping rope is only trivial if you already learned how to do it earlier.

Walking / running up stairs is an easy way to get in intense exercise without much stress on your joints.

KB swings are fine. Just need equipment.

If one is fairly out of shape, than one can benefit from very simplified burpees: just lie on the floor, get up, lie down again. With speed. Add jumping, once you are fitter. Then add negatives of push ups. And full push ups later.
Oh I understand, especially the 'standard of care' issues
Wait. You co-wrote two of the best games ever and now you built a mail client? Ah well, choices in life :) I'll try Inky just because of your credentials. Although it's probably futile; basically the only email client able to handle my 29 gb, ~20 year old inbox is Gmail, the rest (cloud or desktop) just loads forever after importing.
Hmm, I was wondering if there was a good stock buying opportunity here, and then I started reading employee reviews on Glassdoor (http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Marvell-Technology-Reviews-...). So much for that :-\
There is a move to put more of the switching and routing logic in software (google for openvswitch if you're interested) but part of the problem is that general purpose hardware doesn't stand a hope in hell of keeping up with interesting network data rates. You absolutely need to be doing a fair portion of the work in hardware, the CPUs just coordinate it.
What's the surprise?

Most people would be surprised at "how little" bodybuilders work out. Sure, they work out much more compared to the average person, but less than let's say your olympic swimmer, volleyball player, etc

It's still a "full time job" but training is not a lot of time compared to other activities (mainly eating)
Working my way through Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs at the moment, and surprised it wasn't on this list.

Also, interesting to note that only 3 out of the 5 books listed are on the 'best programming books' stackoverflow thread - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711/what-is-the-single-m...
Ok, give an example of on actual contract terms that does not contain such part.
I do not think about that until you give some examples or actual records.
Please elaborate, thanks :)
Solution: Lower the water pressure.
Try convincing the women with that. I have no idea where they came up with the belief that lifting weights would make them bulky while it would take a man, on supplements, years and a lot of effort to develop a meaningful amount of muscle to be considered "bulky". They seem to be happy to walk for a half-hour on the treadmill and then run towards the scale as if that half-hour would actually do anything.

It's really difficult to explain to unfit people (who always complain) that the solution is not a pill or some crazy diet you do for a week. It just takes a bit of effort and common sense.
Considering everything that goes into making a hard drive, the two patents[1][2] describe such a tiny detail (a tiny incremental improvement on distinguishing magnetic domains), how can $1.17bn be a just award?

[1] http://www.google.com/patents/US6201839
[2] http://www.google.com/patents/US6438180
The correct solution: foot pedals, as used in hospitals. Avoids contact-spread infections.
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I am currently at work. Will download your app and take it for a spin once I am back home. However, a couple of remarks based on the screenshot:
- Please offer a light theme.
- Indicate the domain hosting the content.
- Differentiate videos from other content.

You can take a look at how Reddit ET does it. I think that's a layout that can scale really well on tablets and desktops.
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My motherboard (a Gigabyte Z77X-D3H) has had Secure Boot added through a firmware update. It allows me to disable Secure Boot, and lets me import custom keys.
My price point is somewhat close to 4-5 USD per month. Since the only things that are really irreplaceable there for me are the Krugman, Collins and Dowd columns. For other stuff there are more tightly focused news outlets that serve my needs better.

Also I have never been fan of the subscription model when it is about consuming content and not providing service.
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Since the jury found the infringement by Marvell
had been “willful,” meaning the company knew it
was using the patented technology, the judge can
award up to three times the verdict amount,
according to a statement by K&L Gates, the law
firm representing Carnegie Mellon.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/27/technology/marvell-ordered...
Nextdoor is an example of more practical/useful local social networking. Social apps/sites can serve greater needs than selling coupon deals and ads, and I hope we see more user-focused development like this (as opposed to advertiser-focussed development).
It's laggy at the first run. and I don't under stand why I must sign up then log in to add my mail accounts?

Like BIS (my good old Blackberry ), I am in China, and be told the BIS service of China Mobile, they will store your email in the database, in plain text. I can't be sure if this is true, though I did not doubt too much. So, as a desktop app, if means "sign up" then will store my email contents on your server? and how about my emails' passwords?

I love the UI but the icons are ugly, I believe you will change them before long.

when I first time to input my gmail address it poped up some dialog warned me that my gmail account was not recognized(?), and suggested me to enable my gmail's IMAP option, of course it's already enabled for years. so I ignored that and entered my password and connected, it also lag a little while, then things went well.
Nice list :) I would add to the top of the list "Make sure you stick to your culture no matter what."
It is too easy to push culture in background when times are busy. Culture should be number one priority in any business otherwise it just fails.
I have a feeling Nextdoor is going to be huge.
"Citation needed" is anything but intellectual laziness. It is a calling out of intellectual laziness, in the form of an unsubstantiated assertion, and need not be a dismissal.

If someone's going to make extraordinary claims, I'm going to request extraordinary evidence (or any evidence at all). It's even possible that I'm interested in the proposition and would like to pursue it further, but with the benefit of a bit of directed guidance from the author to a specific starting point. And if it's an absolute bullshit claim, well then, the onus is on the bullshitter to back themselves up (trivially done if they're not bullshitting), not on me to spend my time digging up countervailing evidence.

Citation: http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2008/01/extraordinary-c.h...
That reminds me of IBM saying that in five years passwords will no longer be used, I think. I going to try and find a citation for that.

Edit: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/12/ibm-predi...
Can you offer a paid version? And could you please revolutionize PGP usability so that my grandmother can use it?
>Well, it can be argued that any security feature can be circumvented in theory

I don't think that can be argued.
Came across this excellent blog and project from Github's Zach Holman which I'm planning to use, thought I'd re-share it with you all incase anyone else is also planning to tune their mac over the break.
Reminds me of a previous HN submission: http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2012/12/07/local-police-po...

I think the key is using this technique on already established social networks. This seems like it would only target those who have actually had crimes committed against them: I'm not going to be browsing Nextdoor if nothing has happened to me.
Used to work for a Fortune 100 tech company everyone has heard of - and have heard this confirmed from multiple members of first-party HR.

You're under no obligation to believe me, but I've heard this corroborated by people in the know.
How are you guys making out with finding those WMD's in Iraq?
They are moving - just not very fast and unfortunately (at least at the moment) in the wrong direction.
Really? I didn't find that article impressive at all. I thought it was sloppily written, short on in-depth analysis, and really didn't have much of a point beyond "my old job sucked." Note how many times he says "was that too many puns? Oh well." Maybe you'd call that the modern style, but for me all that says is he didn't bother to revise and redraft enough. It shows I think too that he hasn't really thought hard about what he's written because he doesn't have many points to make. If you redraft enough you end up developing your ideas and either realising you had something important to say or didn't. This guy didn't bother.

So he complains about thoughtless, rushed modern culture, but his writing is a case in point. I don't respect that.
Why is this #1? What happened to pizza, Jolt cola and Unix beards?
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Depends on the sink. If you've got a sufficiently large countertop, it's not uncommon to have a steel sink comprised of two basins, one for washing/soaking the other for rinsing.

Older construction with porcelain or enameled sinks often have a single basin. Both this and the finish make a removable plastic washtub useful both to protect dishes and allow for rinsing whilst washing. Some "efficiency" apartments may also have smaller sinks for various reasons and only offer a single basin, again, a washtub can be helpful.
The same thing. I believe he was pointing at the "well-off white male / hipster" smell of it all, not implying that they underappreciated the NYT.
How might we create healthy communities within and beyond the workplace?
For those saying "why not try Debian, mint, etc", I've been running my mother on Debian for the past 18 months and it hasn't been at all easy and I am starting to wonder if I shouldn't move her back to Windows. I gave her fairly simple hardware (an Atom PC) with enough RAM and disk space. I migrated her to Picassa and Libre Office. She's surviving but supporting is a little tedious, there doesn't seem to be a convenient alternative to LogMeIn (any VNC requires mapping ports on the router and teamviewer needs user intervention at the target).
I was also running Ubuntu with KDE on my main laptop at home but I recently bought a new laptop and my wife was delighted that it came with Windows 7 pre-installed. I haven't yet decided if Linux will go back on. Possibly not.

So much in domestic Linux is unprofessional, that is why the professional Linuxes command such money. Linux seems to remain a hobby system with similar process control because it allows everything, if you don't constrain your model then you can't ensure quality. For example: how much testing is done against the kernel? I don't mean beta testing, how about instituting some standards regime with unit testing and interface compliance measurement? Linux depends almost entirely on peer code review, in critical parts that is reviewed by 'experts' but it remains a manual process.
Marvell's stock just took a massive hit, 10% down in under 2 hours[1] and will probably sink a bit more tomorrow. Meanwhile, Carnegie Mellon just doubled their annual revenue from $909m to ~$2bn[2].

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[1]http://www.google.com/finance?cid=664838
[2]http://www.cmu.edu/finance/reporting-and-incoming-funds/fina...
Pardon me, but I've got to get back to not watching the television I don't have.
This is incorrect, there is special allowance for paywalled media to serve the content to googlebot but not necessarily all Google referrals.
Oh yeah, and ACLs are so easy to apply and maintain ....

Ironically, I first ready that abbreviation as CIA, which may be appropriate as well.
I think patents may sometimes have the opposite effect than the one intended. Instead of encouraging innovation and stimulating the economy through entrepreneurship and business, it may have a chilling effect. Who knows what patents are out there that may lead you to also face a steep penalty that could ruin your entire business?
Cannot upvote these leg raises enough. Especially useful for any back pain associated with sitting too long.
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Looks like the real winners are Douglas B. Greenswag and Patrick J. McElhinny of K&L Gates ... Carnegie Mellon's lawyers.
Objective-C categories nowadays can include instance variables :-)
mine:

1. The Dark Tower
2. You Are Not So Smart
Failing fast and 3D printing