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Firefox consuming 3.5GB...well, there's your problem, must be a memory leak in whatever version you have. Upgrade/downgrade or try Chrome as alternative until the FF issue is resolved.

Agreed re: most users not requiring a high end quad core CPU to browse the net, listen to music, use an email client, etc.

Those cores do come in handy with virtual machines, however. With hyper threading your quad core turns into 8 virtual cores, which can then be dedicated to, and shared amongst, VMs -- very handy as a Linux user needing to test various flavors of Windows without requiring separate physical machines.

SSDs everyone benefits from, novice or advanced user, a useful upgrade (short of storage space of course). RAM, better too much than too little, 8GB with Windows 8 is probably a safe baseline.

and Windows 8 intro screen is a bit baffling at first, a bit like Gnome 3's WTF do I do, is there something wrong intro screen.
Nowadays I only get new laptops when the current one dies, I no longer feel the rush to upgrade like in the 8086 - Pentium days.

My parents are still using my old desktop from 2001 (AMD K7) for their office + web stuff.
"Always on" Microsoft creative director no longer with company.
Google's TrueView Video Ads' Success Shows Promise of AdWords Enhanced Campaigns
I think that ship has sailed.
>>> First and foremost, our clients are the developers.

> No, they're not. Your clients are the people who pay you money. The companies pay you money, then you pay the developers money. The developers are your vendors.

What would be the big problem with the money going directly to the developers, and then the agency billing them for their agent-y services? Presumably, the agency could just help the developers create a a Limited Partnership or something, consisting only of the developers; the clients would pay that LP, and the agency would bill that LP.
Schrödinger's 😻 and outside-the-box naming
It is not as easy as it sounds. Those kind of withdraws (direct debits) needs special accounts to start with, and can be cancelled talking to the bank (during a "grace period", typically 2 weeks). The process to determine if that withdraw was legitimate is done with the money on the original account. If you have more than normal rate of "rejections", your special account will be cancelled, and could be difficult to run direct debits again...

The specifics can change from country to country, of course. I know that in the US direct debits are rare (while in Europe are quite common), so maybe the process changes.

Anyway, your bank account number is still sensitive info, as there are scams that can challenge the whole process (generating lots of direct debits, or trying to duplicate legitimate ones to go "undercover")
The first thing I think of when I hear ambrosia software is harry the handsome executive...
I did it in full-on padded lycra with chamois cream because I am a weak old softie.

On the other hand, in my defence, ... no, there's no defence.

Will be doing it again though, it was hella fun.
> I see people hanging on to these sorts of PCs now because they are the first generation to work pretty flawlessly, ever. People hang on to stuff that works and I don't blame them for doing that.

Actually I think this is a very good point. I've always seen people replacing their Windows machines just because they are 'slow' or 'not working' which could probably easily be solved just by reinstalling Windows. Windows 7 is a lot harder to break in this respect compared to previous versions, so I guess people just don't see the need.
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Then ... you don't have a family or children.
I don't think the age of the company matters much. Incentives can be aligned/misaligned at any age. I wrote a similar post not that long ago that argues many of the same points (albeit with a more incendiary title) http://thenextweb.com/dd/2013/03/12/apis-are-dead-long-live-...
English is my third language(after Arabic and French) and that was still annoying to me. I know it's a nitpick, but I can't help being bothered by misplaced apostrophes.

Props to the author for fixing it so quickly.
There was one called Intersago but it looks defunct: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/1447/is-there-an-...

I came across this project on bitcointalk, which isn't really an exchange but looks interesting: https://github.com/FellowTraveler/Open-Transactions
No, because Mt:Gox would never be able to afford improvements if they did this. Bitcoin is exploding, cut them some slack.
Have you noticed the reflections in your U.S. rankings?
This is basically the paradox of US healthcare innovation. Canada can tell its pharmaceutical companies, "yeah, that cool drug you just invented, we're not gonna pay you what you want for that." And what option does the pharmaceutical company have? Convince healthcare providers to charge retail prices to their patients as an out-of-pocket expense, or... reduce prices accordingly.

Because healthcare payments are not functionally a government-controlled monopoly (ie. socialized healthcare) in the US, this doesn't happen. So Novartis can sell Gleevec for $75,000 in the US, because a healthcare provider will agree to pay and just bill it to private insurance companies, and those private insurance company will agree to pay and just increase their premiums on the customers, who probably won't notice because, assuming they have employer-provided health insurance, their employer won't take anything more out of their paycheck, but then say increased operational costs means nobody can get a raise.

So US healthcare leads the way in innovation because device and pharmaceutical manufacturers can make a lot more money than in countries with socialized healthcare. So these companies make most of their profits in the US, and then they'll grumble and accept lower prices in every other country, because at that point it's just icing to them. After the profits made in the US, getting $2,500 from Indians for Gleevac is better than getting $0.

The US is effectively subsidizing advanced healthcare for every other country in the world. This is pretty crappy, obviously, but this is a complex problem to solve. Because if you move to a cost-controlling system, then you will stifle legitimate innovation. Why jump through all our FDA clinical trial hurdles if there's no promise of a big payout at the end? Why invest in R&D without the protections of patent law to prevent your drugs from being trivially replicated?

I'm not trying to say, "oh, those poor profits of the drug companies." I recognize this may not be a sympathetic argument. But it's likely to be tough to control costs and yet maintain R&D and innovation. Right now, every other country essentially gets the US to pay the bill for the innovation and they reap the benefits at a lower cost, but with US healthcare already consuming 1/6 of our economy, this isn't sustainable.
I hate the demise of the menu bar. It's godawful I can count a full second at least, and usually much longer when paged out, just to bring up a stupid little dialog like "Save As...." in applications that used to have a menu bar. Outlook, Word, et al. What happened? It's hell. Microsoft was crazy to get rid of the menu bar. The elimination of the Start menu was just an even more insane doubling down on the same crap "logic". Total. Loss.
I believe they're targeted towards canada.
MDB in those stats is writing to disk? I assume its some kind of lazy write though where the memory store is eventually persisted? in that case thats fairly impressive for a lot of use cases. Though a k/v store has a lot less to do than something like sqlite3.

I'll look into it (never heard of it before). Might fix fairly well with something I'm working on right now (currently implemented using sqlite3).
Yes

About hummingbird, it's amazing. Really, I found it strange in the first minute. Then I got it

Why? My major peeve with traditional notation is the lines above and below. And I never know what are they talking about after adding some lines above the stave.

About the key signature, 100% agree.

As pretty much all students, I thought the key signature just meant which notes are always sharp or flat ("oh these guys want us to use more black keys - BORING")

It took me some time to get it. It's not about flat or sharp, but as they said it, it's 'G Major mode'. Then you feel everything is clearer. It's like going from understanding words in a phrase to understanding the phrase.
On the other hand, we did have .us, .ca, .uk, .nz...

It's always felt to me like we need a public-registration equivalent to ".int" -- a TLD meaning "this domain represents an internationally-distributed project, not associated with any particular company or organization, nor local to any particular country." (The Webkit project is a good example. Right now it's a .org, but there is no "Webkit Organization." Most .io domains are also really in substitute of a good TLD for organization/country-neutral OSS projects.)

.cloud sort of seems like a good candidate for that. There might be a better one, though.
When are we going to stop calling API to web services?

It always comes to my mind operating system API when I read such titles.
this begs for a 'no s--t sherlock' comment
Already suspended: http://torrentfreak.com/new-pirate-bay-greenland-domains-abo...
That's the point - there's almost none pointed to .io. That said, I think it's pretty dangerous to create an SEO strategy around speculation that google "might" change the rules around something as big as a gTLD.

I'm not saying it won't happen, but if you're specifically hoping to gain traction via SEO efforts, using a ccTLD that Google hasn't explicitly mentioned as ranking like a normal gLTD I think you're taking a big unnecessary risk.
I don't see why "It is possible to create a competing business using that very same Api" is a potential warning sign. Anyone got some thoughts about that?
I'm cashing in all my bitcoins and investing in NY taxi medallions
You're right, I don't. But it feels like most places who use job security as an argument are pretty much lying.
If you want to run a succesful pyramid scheme, step 1 is find desparate poor people, reddit is a great starting point. Ring up their greed impulse and the rest writes itself.
Did you read TFA?

It's different in that the visual shapes stay constant in all "clefs" as well as up and down the pentagram.

So a D below middle C looks exactly the same like the D above middle C -- something which is not true for the regular notation, where you have to count the pentagram lines the note is in, or how many lines below or inside the pentagram.

So the new system retains the position-on-stuff and ADDS another visual cue for the same information (the shape of the note).
Have you seen the effects of not using any other h tags on your site besides the h1?

In my experience, I've seen the opposite. Well done h2s in fact, can really boost a series of site's rankings.
It briefly crossed the 200€ mark yesterday. Maybe a lot of people wanted to cash out at that point. As soon as the price was dropping, more people decided it was a good time to sell.
I stand by my comment. I see no clear difference in meaning between your wording and my rewording.

> "Github mainly succeeded because of the various shortcomings in Gits command line interface."

The success of github has nothing to do with shortcomings in git's CLI. As you say, for some people, the command line is for beards. So for them any CLI is a non-starter; nothing to do with shortcomings with git's CLI. The power available to a command line user of git is one of the reasons github is such a good thing.
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Wow, that's really nice! The only other nice theme I've seen is the Soda theme (which I currently use), so kudos for providing a high quality alternative.
Thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts!
"So I don't think hardware improvements are an issue [...] dropping compile time and allowing more programs open at once"

for you. I doubt that "compiles much faster" or "allows more programs open at a time" would be marketing slogans that sell zillions of PCs. 'Normal' users run a web browser, maybe an email program, and Wordpad (I am not even sure that is an exaggeration, nowadays)

Also, about the SSD: in my limited experience, the only thing it really speeds up is boot time (shutdown of my iMac now takes ages, relatively speaking). Launching programs probably doubles in speed, too, but it already was fast enough for me. If you are compiling C/C++ or launching a VM zillions of times a day the difference will be huge, too, but [see above]
I remember wasting hours on Maelstrom. Believe it or not this game actually fit on a 1.44MB disk. There was another one of their games that was addictive called Escape Velocity. Man that was a awesome game.
IRS tax collectors can now track virtually everything people do online
Looks great. I've been using the Phoenix theme, which I really like (after configuring it a bunch), but I'll definitely try this one out.
> "Spammy" domains is a a smokescreen. The issue is lack of transparency and accountability of Google when it comes to penalizing domains. We should simple be able to check this, just like with any RBL.

Completely agree. We bought a domain from a long-time competitor (it was our registered brand name we've had 12 years, but for another TLD) and were unable to check beforehand whether there was a Google penalty associated with it and whether the competitor wanted to part with it because we offered so much money or he had suffered from a penalty and needed to get rid of it. We just had to risk it anyway, for obvious reasons.

The way Google keeps its data and methods secret helps it get away with weak heuristics and from many (not all) people gaming them, but it also hurts a lot of people with legitimate concerns.
the only minor issue with that is that flash is a beast and, to watch higher def videos, you need a more powerful machine
Amazon sparks language row by not supporting Welsh books on Kindle
It's a pity that client certs were not widely adopted.

I hope that someday Github.com could allow browser tls login using the same cert as personal git repos.
That's a nice way to start and end the day
If anything, the history of government is full of governments making the EXACT same mistakes.

And the reason they dropped the gold ban was less that they found that "it was stupid and led to all sorts of negative economic consequences" and more to a changing political climate at the time and Nixon's monetary policy. Things that can easily change.

Btw, other governments still prohibit the private ownership of gold (except under special agreements and of course as jewelry).
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I love the story, but as you found out, conditions can be surprisingly different up there. If you have some bad luck (twist an ankle or take an unwise short cut), you will be customers for mountain rescue, which is kind of embarrassing.
This is just a variant of Rubber Ducking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
He is talking about on page content, not backlinks.
Ooo, pretty. Bookmarked for when I need a break from Soda.
I only know 1 person who is actively enthusiastic about Windows 8. Everyone else has been extremely negative about it.
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The fact that it is trivial to maliciously craft the length field makes it cheap for the attacker to try to exhaust receiver memory, overflow buffers or make DDoS attack more effective. If you use a delimiter, the attacker has to at least spend the required bandwidth to try to exhaust resources.

A length field doesn't mean that you have to pre-allocate that amount of memory. Never do that! Robust implementations use the length field only as a hint, as an hidden delimiter, and allocate memory as the data comes in.

That said, she does have a point. Though escaping is fraught with dangers, too (remember PHP in the beginnings? magic quotes, ugh).
Yeah, I guess that's it.
Apple remains committed to the Open Source development model
Chemotherapy is a form therapy where the medicine companies heal the the patient off his money and then kill him.
Yeah rather than taking the highway the whole way, I took the turn off in order to ride along the coast (and across the sea cliff bridge), through Coledale, Bulli etc; it probably added a lot of time but it was the way I had always wanted to go. Skateboarding on the highway is fun for about 10 minutes.
US firms are investing less in R&D relatively to their rank http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_industry#Market_... than their French/UK (publicly-funded healthcare) counterparts. The US are not "subsidizing it for poor countries" more than other rich countries.

The truth in the case you're making is not specific to healthcare and is that "research (private and public) of rich countries that can afford it" benefits poorer countries. So what, let's stop advancing science? We're all better off this way!
Google Glass facing bans before even released.
It seems to be the accepted use these days. I disagree with that use but I don't have a better term and don't want to add to the confusion. But you're absolutely right that an exposed service and an API are different in many fundamental respects. I think the confusion is rooted in the gray area called remote procedure calls, if you implement your service exposure as a remote procedure call (and many of the early ones were done in just that fashion) then the difference is almost moot.

Maybe WSI would be a better moniker? (Web Service Interface)?
Happy birthday Github! You are rocking opensource.

It's just amazing so easily be able to fix some software, to make some commitments into project you do love!

But, 6 million repositories for 3.5 million users? Really? How many bots do you have? I'm not sure, that general user has 1.7 repository. I thought the number is higher, at least 3 or something. How many repositories do you have with forks?
I had an older core 2 duo laptop I was thinking of replacing, but found that just replacing the HD with an SSD made all the difference I needed.

When I needed to do IOS development I decided to look at buying a Mac Book Pro recently, rather than go with a new model, I bought one off ebay that had a 3 year warranty, upgraded the ram to 16GB (overkill) and put in an SSD for less than buying a new MBP.

So when people start moaning about how they need to upgrade their slow laptop/pc, as long as the machine is at least core 2 duo (64 bit), I end up recommending they get an SSD and more memory.

For the £150 investment they walk away extremely happy for the next 5 years.
Marketing! "It's not really the cloud unless it's dot-cloud." And some people would believe it.
Why would Google publicize how and which domains are penalized? That's a terrible idea that would simply play into the hands of spammers and make their job easier.

At the end of the day, it's not Google's job to make your life easier. Their job is to deliver relevant SERPs and monetize them through ads. The extent to which they'll go out of their way to help you is the extent to which not doing so would hurt the relevance of their SERPs, and ultimately the consumer's trust therein.

There seems to be a tendency on HN to think of Google as the Guardian of the Internet, and ascribe powers and responsibilities to them commensurate with that role. They're not said guardians, though: they're a search engine and ad broker. They only protect the Internet out of self-interest, and expecting more of them is unreasonable and unfair for a publicly traded company.
Yeah it was sketchy but thrilling at the same time. I planned to have lights and reflectors but in the end I just had to do it and stop 'planning' it.
Am I the only one finding it hilarious that non-hardware specific software is being blamed for the lack of hardware sales?

There are a couple of reasons why PC sales are declining:
1. Speed per CORE isn't dramatically improving and most users only really need 1 or 2 cores
2. Hardware is very expensive for top line components in comparison to 10 years ago
3. Every 2 years a new chip set comes out that requires you to replace your mobo (and possibly your ram) if you want to upgrade your CPU - in conjunction with that, a lot of software is getting bound to a machine - meaning that if you replace your motherboard you have to re-license your software - ex. Windows which turns a previously relatively cheap process (ex. replacing a cpu) into a very expensive process (replace cpu, mobo, ram, software).
4. Hardware intensive applications ex. games, some software; require top of the line hardware that requires you to spend $1500 - $3000 from scratch vs. $150 - $300 for a console - in my opinion that makes a PC undesirable. The word 'recession' has been hanging in the air since 2008.

I'm still using a 5 year old 2.2Ghz AMD quad core at home. I'm saving up for a new machine to last me a couple of years but the pricing is quite steep - about $5500. The only reason why I'm willing to justify that amount is because 1.it speeds up the rate at which I can do freelance/consultative work and directly affects my rates 2. I am a gamer 3. I sometimes need to work overtime from home. On a funny note; someone suggested I buy a car instead because its value would depreciate slower!
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Correct me if I'm wrong - I don't know how Bitcoin works - but this shouldn't impact prices. At least, it wouldn't matter with currency trading. You can offer $.02 per Euro all day, and you'll just be ignored with no impact.

If this is not the case with Bitcoin, something is seriously wrong on a very basic head-smackingly obvious way.
Casual PC users hate the lack of start button, but as a power-user I suits me just fine because I usually hide my task bar on the left side anyway. Having it hidden in the lower left-hand corner does not require me to make any dramatic changes. I also like the idea that the kernel has a lot of optimization making it faster on older hardware.

But as a human, what I hate legitimately and with a passion is having the "Mobile Web 3.0" paradigm being forced onto me with the Windows Market. Keeping games on a "real time" platform like Steam is one thing, but having my actual data in the cloud is not at all a comforting feeling. Not because I have anything to hide, but because I know that data is going to be mined for usage patterns and other valuable data that will ultimately be used to corral and control me. Features that cost money to support will be hidden behind deep menus and dialogs, affecting my productivity because their motivations are now skewed. Products they want to push are now right in my face and they know how much time I look at them, and by aggregate patterns, how to make it more "effective" i.e. annoying.

It's another bubble; There is a few applications that do benefit from this paradigm but unless it is managed very carefully, the temptation to extract my value for their own usage as a kind of user tax will always be there. The observer effect is not confined to quantum particles, it manifests up to observable macro phenomenon. While my incentive for taking a certain action may be fuzzy, it becomes binary when measured and leads to annoying false conclusions, a la clippy.

I don't really blame Microsoft and their solution is probably the best. I can't certainly think of anything better than hiding it on the right hand side, but it's still there, like a shadow hanging over the OS, waiting to slurp up less-wary users into its world, where I'll have to travel if I don't want to be left behind. If it is really as insidious as I imagine, they'll just die off as the machine leeches the life from them and we can all move along learning from the failed experiment. But chances are the machine will nurture its little human cells and use them to stomp out and consume anything that isn't it.
Are you playing it safe?