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I was in my atty's office last week. A secretary was trying to make arrangements for an apparently frantic client who needed an atty to represent him in front of a judge (request a continuance, I think). The client had 'payment problems' and not a single atty in the office could find the time to rep' him.

In other words, your atty will leave you to swing in the wind.
It depends where you live. There are certainly new netbooks available in the UK from, for example, Amazon.co.uk. Asus and perhaps others still supply them in markets where there is demand, but I guess those are mostly poor countries.

Asus Eee PC X101CH 10.1-inch Netbook (Purple) - (Intel Atom N2600 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM, 320GB HDD, LAN, WLAN, Webcam, Integrated Graphics, Windows 7 Starter)
First available 30 Oct 2012
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Asus-X101CH-10-1-inch-Netbook-Purple...

However, the netbook specification is very limited (by Intel and Microsoft), and you get better screen resolution and more memory by buying a very slow laptop. This very slow laptop may even be called a "netbook". However, if it uses an AMD chip (ie not an Atom), then it is not bound by Intel's netbook specification.

This is basically a netbook with an Atom-speed AMD CPU:

Acer Aspire V5-121 11.6-inch Laptop (Blue) - (AMD C70 1GHz Processor, 2GB RAM, 320GB HDD, LAN, WLAN, Webcam, Integrated Graphics, Windows 8)
First available 17 April 2013
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-V5-121-11-6-inch-Laptop/...

The price difference is £13 ($21) which gets you Windows 8 instead of Windows 7 Starter, and 2GB instead of 1GB of memory. Weight is the same (998g vs 1kg).

Microsoft basically killed the netbook market when it stopped selling Windows XP Ultra Low Cost PC edition for peanuts ($15 or less). Windows 7 Starter was offered very grudgingly at much higher cost, and I suspect most netbook buyers would prefer XP.

All the OEMs knew this was coming. Microsoft said the ULCPC offering would be "available until the later of June 30, 2010, or one year after general availability of the next version of Windows." (ie Windows 7)
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/2008/apr08/04-0...
I actually just recently looked in to the 1015E, and I almost bought one but then decided to get a Samsung Chromebook. My top requirements were battery life, portability, and at least a 1366x768 screen (so that ruled out most 10" systems). The Chromebook is working out really well; its 7-hour battery life is awesome. The 1015E probably would have been OK too, but its battery life wouldn't have been as great. Kudos to Asus at least for loading Ubuntu on the 1015E-DS02.
>This finding is a violation of trust and could result in the UN moving its seat from New York

Which is unfortunately the most that will possibly be done for this, if anything is done. It will be a slap on the wrist when the US is going to need its economy threatened to actually do anything about the NSA.
The specs only need to be higher if you want to run modern Windows on it.

If Ubuntu netbook edition was more user friendly and more windows-like I'm sure a lot of people would've been very happy with a low specs machine that ran smooth enough for the kind of tasks you'd want to do on a <= 10'' screen.
One of the prime reasons it's constitutional to perform stop-and-frisk and searches incident to a lawful arrest is so suspect can't shoot the cops or destroy evidence. Seems reasonable enough.

Personally I see a distinction between taking you cell phone and searching it. The contents of your cell phone can't be used to shoot cops, especially once the they've taken it off you; and you can't destroy evidence on the cell phone once they've taken it off you. Once it's established that the thing is a cell phone, I don't see an officer safety or destruction of evidence argument for searching its' contents.

In this world of cloud technology, I see a cell phone as like a house key, in that it's a key to my gmail and things like that. Just as finding a house key doesn't let the cops perform a warrantless search of my home, why should finding a device with my gmail credentials saved on it let the cops perform a warrantless search of my e-mails?
When using Apps, developers are upselling premium features everywhere and nobody cares. If that same principle is applied to games (which can still be played for free) people start to complain while its essentially the same thing.
Oh awesome, I missed that! This one's better designed :)
I was under the impression that grails is a clone of rails (I think it was actually called rails at one point and they were asked to rename it), but not that groovy is a clone of ruby - I think they have drawn a lot of inspiration from ruby and python, but not that it is a jvm version of ruby - but someone please correct me if im wrong. It seems like it is more about being a scripting version of java itself.
These might help:

http://www.reddit.com/r/netbooks

http://www.reddit.com/r/suggestalaptop
Microsoft used to be a company that produced terrible software and was yet utterly dominant. They're now a company that produces beautiful software (in my opinion) and are entirely unable to get people to buy it. I don't own a Windows tablet or a Windows phone, because the app selection is awful, but I've used both and they are fantastic. Speaking of which, with all their money, how are they not paying app developers to port things to their platform? With their marketing expertise, how are they not just shoving these phones into people's hands? When people think of Ballmer they think of Vista or "DEVELOPERS!" or throwing chairs about Google. I think of his failure to drive adoption.
Nice Photo Album demo.
Even in the absence of a written contract, you absolutely have recourse.

The client essentially has two options at this point:

1. Admit that there was, in fact, a contract in oral form. In this case, they are required to pay.

2. Say that there was no contract of any kind. In this case, they cannot use your work, because you retain the rights to it. Copyright starts out with the creator, and in the absence of a contract that assigns copyright, it stays there. Mentioning that statutory damages for willful copyright infringement can be $150,000 will get people to rapidly change their mind about whether they really want to claim that there is no contract. And of course there's always the option of a DMCA takedown notice to their hosting provider, which is quick and easy.
It's very difficult for me to figure out what you're trying to say here. The first graph seems to be about Obama, the second a time series of the monetary base, and the link in the footnote long statements from random people. Only the last mentions a model, and only in terms of how well it worked[1].

>Given that people who think differently from you invented Bitcoin (and thus have at least a glancing familiarity with advanced mathematics, if the solution of the Byzantine Generals problem means anything) it would be great to see some plots to the contrary.

I don't know what Bitcoin has do do with anything, or what it is being presented as an example of.

>Not just models, but X/Y plots or tables in which Keynesians predict something and nail it.

You're the first person to mention Keynesians, I mentioned economists. If you want to find something that Krugman nailed, though, try the unemployment rate from your first graph.

[1] http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/meltzer/fisdeb33.pdf
Oh my ZSH is incredibly slow
Have they removed Linux as being supported? I can't find it on the supported systems page.
Give it about a month and Chrome for Android will provide web audio API support. It's currently in chrome for android beta

Our web app that plays audio in sync on multiple devices works in iOS, Chrome (non mobile) & Firefox Aurora. Were eagerly awaiting for the newest Chrome for Android to drop.
This is a pure speculation article. Just because an analyst says does not mean a thing. Not worthy of Hacker News.
The board didn't ask that, some analyst asked that. This article is mostly speculation and Kreliminology, so read it with a grain of salt.
Silly computer manufacturers still haven't figured out that they can preload Ubuntu for $0 per device... :P
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Plenty of netbooks for sale in Asia.
I don't understand your plan selection. "analyzing max. 600 phrases/mo" What does this mean? I get to query your database 600 times? I get 600 phrases which weren't in your database? I get analytic s/statistics on them?

If these e-mails aren't guaranteed to be "100%" useful, and seem not to be hand-selected or have any human element involved, this just seems to be payment for a mail crawler. It looks a bit too much for me like a spam enabler.

And as abcd_f already mentioned, the recurring payment may be a mistake. As a start-up, I wouldn't subscribe for more than my "launch" month (s).

Hope it helps, best of luck!
Ethics of storing incorrect login attempt credentials?
This. I cannot believe the board gave him such an amazing amount of rope, for so very long, and they are just coming to ask those questions.

I wonder what they thought the problem was?
History repeats itself. The Kodak Instamatic both democratized photography and made it horrible, just like smartphones are now doing to a whole new generation.

Designed around Hubert Nerwin's drop-in, "foolproof" film cassette (a picture of which can be seen here), the Instamatic was both the true descendent of George Eastman's $1 box Brownie of c. 1900 and the transformative consumer camera of its own era. It sold seven and a half million cameras in its first two years and 50 million in the decade of the 1960s. It remains one of the most successful and profitable consumer products in the history of photography; it introduced baby-boomers to picture-taking.

(...)

It was actually an atrocious little camera, the Lomo of its day only without the quirky contriarian charm. The lens was horrible and the easy-to-load negative wasn't big enough. But it was meant to be cheap to buy and easy to use, and it was both those things in spades (the "Flashcube," like the film cartridge, was a stroke of genius in that respect—four small flashbulbs in an automatically rotating clear plastic box). The pictures, unfortunately, were an accurate reflection of what you saw through the minuscule, smeary viewfinder.

A commenter on the blog explains it in context:

I still curse the Kodak Instamatic.

I have restored, documented, digitized, and archived the many hundreds of photographs of my and my wife's families from the 1880s to the present. What was a treasure lode of memories and family histories collapsed, seemingly inspired by the song 'New York Mining Disaster 1941,' with the introduction of the hated Instamatic.

Within just a few years Kodak had convinced most of our family that photography was not a skill worth learning, and lousy, blurry, washed-out pictures were actually good.

Even my oldest brother, a U.S. Army intelligence agent in Europe during the Viet Nam era, reported that most of the agents preferred cheap plastic Polaroid cameras (purchased out of petty cash) as G2's government-issued Leicas were 'too hard to use.'

The result is a real dearth of documentary photographs from the early to mid 1960s until the advent of decent P&S cameras beginning around 1980. If it wasn't for the very few (three out of dozens) who owned Mamiya, Canon, and Pentax SLRs, our family would have very little from that period. On the other hand, it made the collecting and archiving effort a lot smaller than it otherwise might have been....

http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photogra...

Hopefully one of the new trends (better smartphone cameras, mirrorless, Sony's wifi sensor+lense combos, etc) will deliver us from crappy smartphone pictures.
Ask HN: Developers - Staying productive whilst offline?
How do you stay productive as a developer without constant access to the internet?
I'm going travelling soon and internet is very slow and expensive.

I'm thinking of ideas to mitigate issues such as as:

- Access to documentation
- Availability of Gems/Packages I may need in future
- Developing against API's which I won't have access to etc.
- Getting stuck?

Seems like lots of you guys work on a plane, I assume some of the same tips apply!
To be meaningful, "what ifs" must be based on scenarios that are somehow comparable. The two I called out implicate not property rights, but fundamental constitutional rights.
I've had people not pay before. The reason was never "disagreement". It was always either insane internal bureaucracy or just plain stinginess. In both cases, you can get paid if you convince them that they stand to lose more by not paying.
I addressed that in my post actually. If you have shitty developers in your company who can't follow business rules, PHP isn't your problem.
So it looks like Rio Tinto is using Komatsu's system and BHP Billiton is using Caterpillar's. To my knowledge NREC only works on Caterpillar's system, it's just a coincidence the systems have the same name.
I've never sold anything via PayPal, but how does "proof of shipment" prove anything? If I sold you, say, a violin for a thousand bucks, then shipped you a box with a couple bricks inside it, would PayPal side with me? Yes, I have a tracking number that says I shipped a 5 lb package to him...

If yes, then couldn't I inversely buy an expensive item, then take it out of the box, replace it with bricks, and send PayPal pictures of me getting "scammed"? Would I get my money refunded?

"Proof of shipment" shouldn't mean anything.
> Sorry, Mozilla Firefox optimized for Yahoo! is not available for your system.

You can compile Firefox for Linux easily, so this shows just how much adware they added.
Er, isn't the NSA supposed to be doing this exact thing? Signals interception to assist in the intelligence efforts of the U.S.?

Did I miss out on something? This is what they're paid for. If they're monitoring diplomatic, political, and military information worldwide, I'm happy about that. Might keep us out of another war. Helps us make better decisions. And so on.

Once again, there's nothing wrong with nations having intelligence agencies. Overall they help keep the peace. It's the monitoring of the civilian population -- which in a democracy is where the real political power is supposed to be -- that's insane.
I read that as somewhat tongue-in-cheek. I mean, I'm a lisp fan too, but it's not like the syntax is beautiful. (It's just "not as bad". Or that's what we tell ourselves.)
Well, the title should at least be modified. Right now the premise is stated as fact.
Fair enough. I know Smarty does this and caches the PHP-ized version.

I guess the difference could come from how efficient the template-to-PHP compilation is, but I bet you're right and it's trivial in most cases.
Let's make a better example:

You drive in to your car mechanic. You get a full on paint job, new windows, new wheels, new axles, the works. The car is shiny and new.

You come into the mechanic's garrage and say "can i have my car please" the mechanic says "your bill is XXXXXX". You respond with "nono i just need my cara, I'll pay you later...

And then when the mechanic doesn't return the car you complain "WHAT AN UNPROFESSIONAL JERK! PART OF DOING BUSINESS IS WAITING FOR ME TO PAY HIM!"

Analogy to health care:

A poor man with no money to spare is stabbed by a rusty nail. He will get an infection and die unless he gets massive antibiotics.

The hospital turns him down.

The reason we made LAWS preventing hospitals from doing this is because our healthcare is a piece of fucking shit. Most other countries the hospital would get paid in full by the government. Because health care != web design or car repairs!
It doesn't say anywhere that the board asked that. That was a quote from this Patrick Moorhead, "principal analyst with Moor Insights & Strategy."

The entire basis of this article is that guy's speculation. Is there any reason to believe he has any real insight into the situation? I'm kind of ready to file this under "bullshit speculation/self-promotion of some random 'analyst.'"
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An extra inch of screen diagonal is great, of course. But it usually means an extra inch of notebook. They should just take the old netbook form factor and build in a screen that goes to the edge (keeping the bezel very thin).

Also, I think vendors used the switch from 10" netbooks to what we have now to raise the price tag unproportionally.

They could probably build something with a touch screen, detachable keyboard, HD video playback, all day battery life, that could run circles around every netbook, and sell it at around $350 (or even cheaper without touchscreen, and with a fixed keyboard). Instead, they slap in a i7 and 8 Gigs of RAM, that most people won't use anyway, and sell it for twice as an "ulrabook", because there's more money in "premium"...
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Credit card companies have that policy because it's the law. Before it was the law, they didn't have that policy.

Debit cards are not covered by the same law. Some banks insulate debit card holders from losses, some do not.
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So this is inereating, except in the real world your parent process does more than the article implies. The big thing it is in charge of (and the thing that I have seen many of them get wrong) is (a) keeping the child processes running/restating them when they fail and (2) performing graceful config or code reload. The OS has no business doing the latter and would have a very hard time doing the former.

In fact I have seen issues where gunicorn failed miserably simply because it did not handle a bad import in a child process. Tornado as of the latest version I had used (2.0 I think) did not have any ability to check for dead child processes. I am sure there are more examples of this done wrong than right.

This is an interesting option for several use cases but you still need a parent process to monitor things. Perhaps at some point upstart or systemd will get good enough to monitor multiple processes per daemon in real time. Until then, meh.

Edit: actually, one cool thing you can do with this is code reloading. You simply have your parent process start more workers that attach to the same socket, then kill the old ones. That way the idea of code or config reloading doesn't need to be baked into every part of the worker.
I agree that the law is horribly behind.

The flip side of your argument, is that a criminal could store his entire criminal enterprise on a phone.

While I feel it's certainly an invasion of privacy to allow the police full access to my phone in the event of an arrest.

I also feel like some enterprising criminal might offer his friends the ability to remotely wipe their phones in the event of their arrest. Effectively destroying the best source of evidence against someone who uses their phone as a central point of control for criminal activity.

Not sure what a middle ground would be, but I sure hope that someone finds one.
Ok, thanks for comment. I will think about that.
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The iPad is a consumption device, not good for work. Even with a keyboard, most available applications are geared towards touchscreen and consumption. I much prefer laptops for this reason: they run a desktop OS.
Yeah, this is the problem with fighting fraud at a venue like eBay. You invariably tip the balance to one side or the other, and the fraudsters just move to that side. The tough part about tipping to the buyers' side is that buyers always have the power of the chargeback anyway.

But, eBay probably made the decision by simply asking who it is better to frustrate: sellers who have very little choice of viable venues at which to sell, or buyers who have a plethora of choices from which to buy.
The true culprit for the massive size is Qt. It weighs in at ~23Mb for the python library, and about 100Mb for the bundled framework.

All in all python code and libraries accounts for 73Mb, and bundled frameworks for 143Mb.

That's the price you pay for writing an app with a UI in python.
Are you asking me if all of it applies?

Because time and time again the aggressive treatment of passengers by the TSA has proven that we DO NOT have the same rights when dealing with the TSA.

Care to answer my question in a non-snark way? Regardless of the rules and laws in place, it's obvious (to a signifigant amount of other people) that American rights are being trampled on a near daily basis.

>>Why would it only be a portion?

I agree. Why is it?
As someone fairly new to programming, why should I read that book?
You are incorrect. It's quite possible to achieve sub 10 cm level accuracy with an RTK based GPS system [1]. The problem is that you have to install base stations to gather the corrections and then have the radio towers to distribute them. Since mining sites are fixed locations, it's pretty straight forward to setup up the needed infrastructure for an RTK system.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Time_Kinematic
~30:15 for those with devices that dont skip to the linked time.
> naming and shaming clients who don't / can't pay

See also, credit histories. Shit does happen in the normal course of business and financial issues can (and do!) happen to most people, but people (and companies) are generally forgiving of good faith efforts to make things right. It seems in this case that the client was a genuinely bad client that made no effort to pay the designer. Most designers don't want to risk their reputations over trivial shit and will only pull a stunt like this with an egregious button pusher client.
Previous discussion of this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6266637
Yeah, Windows 8 is this decade's Vista.

The most rediculous thing about Metro/Modern UI and Netbooks is that doesn't run on low resolutions, although it would work perfectly since it's mostly text, and completely scalable. It does work on my 24" desktop, where its a complete waste of screen space.
Doesn't like Linux > http://screencloud.net/v/xtbW
WTF! Why is this on the HN first page?!

"Yahoo optimised" = Firefox + yahoo toolbar + yahoo search engine default + other yahoo crap.

And anyway, I like my Firefox "unoptimised", thank you very much.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/late...
Ebay could easily put their own auctions up for bitcoins at 200% of current market value, then simply cancel the accounts of anyone who bid on it. They'd hit 100% fraudsters.
This is a sensible, intuitive argument to make.

Intuition is not universal; it's cultural. To some people, who use the mental analogy "a phone is like a little bag, and information is like items I put inside that bag" it's intuitive. To people who use the mental analogy "a phone is a little hole in spacetime I use to communicate with someone who is somewhere else, and information on the phone is part of a private conversation" it's not intuitive.
a somewhat expected news title, but not solid resources.. upvoted, regret, and can't take back.
I have to admit it was pretty. Unusable, but pretty.

Thanks for the information that the math teachers involved are a good resource, and the link to Math Path. My son is only 8, but when he's old enough I will consider that.
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Let's draw a line between businesses and human beings.

Your business SHOULD be thrown out for not paying rent.

Your business SHOULD be fined, dissolved, or bankrupted if it doesn't pay taxes.

A business going bankrupt because they don't pay their debts is not a tragedy.
PayPal nukes fishy business when PayPal doesn't profit on the transactions.
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<irony>forget it. Either you have access to StackOverflow, or you will come back with a strong case of NIH, having implemented something that already exited (or that's just newer).</irony>