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> ultraportable

> fair comparisons

Okay, here goes: In 2010 I bought an Eee PC. It has great battery life, a small screen, and less-than-stellar specs. It's very light and portable. It's perfectly fine for email, web browsing, document editing, or even light development work.

It was less than half the price of the notebook.
That is essentially correct. However this fight is about more than just him. Essentially he took open source that he modified while at Goldman (Which Goldman prohibited him from releasing *fixed). So while his life is ruined (Although he is still better of then 99.99% of people out there) there is a mighty precedent in the works here: employees can't go to jail for legally following license.
There's also static allocation, though viewing that as happening in a stack frame above main seems not unreasonable.
I'm impressed that Apple got the weight down to 1lb, but shrinking the size of a consumer electronics device is par for the course, not really something that I would consider "revolutionary."
If you only care about CPU speed and memory, then apple is going to seem pretty overpriced. But if you also care about weight, battery life and build quality, then apple is almost then only option. Not only is there no cheaper option from the PC companies, theres not really anything comparable for any price.
I don't know for the GP bit I'd actually like the ads to be HTML instead. That would be the real end to the pages forcing Flash down your throat taking the content in hostage until you've seen the bloody 5sec ad. They'll find a way to force something down our throat anyway, avoiding HTML lessens the pain.
1. Doesn't Obamacare help this problem?

2. An airline is going to single you out? I will believe it when I see it.
Hard to see how this doesn't end poorly. In addition to being a likely HIPAA violation, its hard to see how the patients won't view their privacy as having been violated, and the doctors won't see their trust/business relationship as having been violated. In both cases (of doctors and of patients) there's plenty of potential litigatory fuel, which, even if Practice Fusion wins, is a really poor use of ~140m in venture funding.
I like the idea of aggressively supporting keyboard input. I like the idea of being able to do literally everything with the keyboad if I choose.

But therein lies the problem: I sometimes choose to use the mouse, and not having mouse support in my wm would be too much of a productivity killer for me to adopt such a thing.
As a long-time Java guy who just started learning C over the past few months, I've found it very valuable in understanding how some of the under-the-hood details which are hidden by the higher level languages actually work. Learning a low level language and pricking yourself with a few pointers makes you a better programmer, even if you never write a big app in it.
Check out rbenv https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv
Source Code to a Passive Keystroke Logger
Ask HN: What are some cheap must-have software tools for Mac?
My suggestion - Divvy - Window Management for Mac $14.
http://mizage.com/divvy/
Being your own boss is great...

...if YOU are good at being a boss!

If you allow your employees (ie YOU) to slack, then that's not being a good boss.
What you say may be traditionally held by non-secret courts, but the revelations so far indicate the secret courts produce some astonishing rulings.

If the chap quoted in the Washington Post article was actively challenging the constitutionality of National Security Letters with the help of the ACLU, that makes me think he would probably have received reasonably reliable legal advice? Don't you think?
Do you have any idea how rare it is for a judge to order the alleged victim of a crime to pay the defense costs of the alleged perpetrator? If I'm a conspiracy theorist, the judge that made this ruling is as well.
If it's not solid you are free to attack it.

You keep dismissing the incentives that Bitcoin gives, which should also be considering part of its security. The only rational attacker that could have an interest and resources to stop Bitcoin is a nation-state. But even then, another nation-state could jump in and protect it. We can't know what will happen until it happens. The field that you want to use to model everything is too narrow for Bitcoin.
The key difference is choice. If any of the things the author mentioned control me, it's because I allow them to. Whereas it might even be partly accurate to say that the definition of having a boss is that don't have that choice.
Partially yes. The problem with Flash ads is that they are difficult to block (without blocking Flash wholesale), because we don't have access to the runtime. There's no reasonable way for the browser to deep-inspect a Flash embed and determine whether or not it's abusive or relevant. There's also no way for your browser to alter and reformat content - it's either shown precisely the way Flash wants it to be shown, or not at all.

HTML ads will be rendered by software the user actually owns and controls - the browser market is healthy, largely driven by open source, and there is choice in your "runtime". Making all ads render in HTML will be a tremendous win for the user.

As someone else mentioned also, Flash is one of the worst pieces of software known to man when it comes to bugs and exploits. Nary a day goes by without a serious 0-day Flash breach being discovered, and it is still notoriously crashy.
One more thing.. don't be afraid to ask pressing questions. It's not your job to take care of their insecurities. If they feel uncomfortable answering a question, it's their job to say so. I ask things like "how much did you make last year from this gig?", "how did you get started initially?", "how much did you pull in your first few months?". It's all just nature of the business, money.
I like the example you gave about offering websites with a back end by going door to door because it's different than what most people say when this question is asked. You made a product to sell: Website for the business; then you went out and found the client. Most people talk about showing love to your current contacts and working through your existing network by referral which just isn't feasible for everyone. Plus, doing that route, you're not really picking your clients. You're just hoping good ones fall on your lap through your limited network.
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While that is not the correct CPU, the overall sentiment is correct; there's no way that the CPU would constitute such a significant portion of the purchase price.

Intel's own product page pegs the recommended price as $294 (oem packaging, tray):
http://ark.intel.com/products/75779/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-...

And indeed one may be able to obtain a ready to ship and in stock OEM packaged version of the CPU in the upcoming Mac Pro for $303.99 (+2.99 UPS ground + CA tax as applicable):
http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?p=E5-1620V2
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There was a really well-written feature on the case. As I recall, he used and modified open source code in his system. He tried to push his changes upstream, but ran into political pressure from inside of Goldman, so he tried to make a personal copy of the libraries he modified.

You can certainly make the case that Goldman paid for that code, and if they didn't want it pushed upstream that's their prerogative, but it's a very different thing to sell trade secrets to a competitor (how the mass media has reported the case) and to make a backup of an open-source library you modified at work.
The problem I found is, internet connection. Oh God, it's so terrible in Latin America than it made me change all types of provides and systems and no matter what, the system was so awful that I found a fatal flaw to move those places.

I would look around.
Seriously. Mission control was a major productivity drop down from spaces.
IHaskell is inspired by ihaskell-notebook, but instead of forwarding to GHCi via text pipes, it actually uses the GHC API to evaluate code. I think this will mean that the integration can be deeper, and it can more easily do things like type inspection and pretty printing. I'm planning on introducing some typeclasses analogous to Haskell's Show for Latex and SVG and HTML representations, but haven't quite figured out how to do it - it is the next order of business though.
I'm sorry you feel that way. I simply looked on the front page of HN, and didn't see any Microsoft / Nokia-related articles. So I went out and found some on another site. I can't control what is on the front page of HN. All I can do is search for alternatives. There are a lot of things that I am interested in that I rarely see on HN myself. Instead of feeling like the HN community has personally attacked me, I just browse a variety of sites.
Amazing bullshit. E.g.:

"The dining room is the front end, with all the buttons to click and forms to fill out. The kitchen is the back end, with all the databases and services. The contractor most responsible for the back end is CGI Federal."

Uh, no. Unless everything we've heard is completely wrong about them being responsible for the front end, and e.g. Quality Software Services Inc. (QSSI), a unit of United Health Group, being responsible for the backend identity module (using a known to work, even if it's a pain, package from Oracle).

This article is mostly a plea to do things the open source and specifically GitHub way. Except for mentioning the typical total opaqueness of what's behind the front end to those of us not connected to the problem, it doesn't address the major well known issues that made certain this would be a failure. I keep saying this, but here goes again:

HHS's CMS, i.e. government bureaucrats and perhaps political appointees, who had no serious (or any???) experience, assumed the role of integrator, including integration testing.

They and those above were late with specifications and requirements, kept changing them (7 major ones in the last 10 months per the NYT), were making changes in the week before launch, per the AP did integration testing and when they did a simulation test of 200 simultaneous logins just before launch the modules they were testing locked up. As did the site shortly after its midnight launch. Oh, yeah, three days after the launch CMS panicked and proposed to fire QSSI and punt their identity system, but eventually decided that would take longer than QSSI getting it to work; who knows, but that's another sign of CMS as the integrator failing hard while distracting both QSSI and CGI Federal.

Contrary to what the author says near the end:

"Doubtless the problems will get fixed. All bugs are shallow with the president watching."

No, there's no guarantees enough of the problems will get fixed with the current setup and processes (or lack thereof) in the time politics will allow before the nation times out on this mess (Jan 1 is a very hard deadline for all those losing their soon to be illegal major medical plans, and as of now these exchanges are the only way to get mitigating subsidizes for the gold-plated minimum plan).

So far, "the president watching" has been reported to result in the White House and CMS ... working on a plan forward, which will hopefully be finished Thursday, 3 and a half weeks after the launch. I.e. we're not seeing decisive action, not even an admission there's a really serious problem.
Ok can we please stop with the "conspiracy theorist" label/ad hominem attacks? After the NSA revelations have shown things to be a lot worse than even the more paranoid conspiracy theorists thought, folks with an eye for corruption have earned a little wiggle room to be taken seriously.
There is actually a lot to be had to start your own compnay and not to have a silly boss. I have and am doing exactly this for several years now.

Being your own boss means:
I get credit when credit is due.
I get to choose my customers.
I get to choose people I work with.
I get to influence the product in any way that makes sense.
I work with tools and in places that work best for me.

And so much more.

I think its all word play and its hard to ha e debate with what's been said in the post. I agree with post but disagree with ttiitle and conclusion
iWork "free" only for Macs purchased after Oct 01, 2013
From the fine print:

"Keynote is free on the Mac App Store for qualifying Mac computers purchased on or after October 1, 2013."

So disappointed to learn that Keynote is not really free for everyone :(
Which appears to be an upstream issue.

https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/21000

:S

And has been failing since before the GM was seeded.
On many SUN servers the MAC was stored on an externally-accessible smart card, which allowed you to swap out a broken machine and keep the same MAC.
Yes, this experiment revealed that Science publishes studies with no control if you flatter them.
Thanks! I will shoot you an email soon.
The first few videos wouldn't load for me on the website itself thoug [latter ones do] - on Macbook Pro/Chrome

Watching them on Youtube - very useful!
I like this one better: https://bitcoinaverage.com/#USD
What the *&^@ is a "static language"?
I personally use Aramex shop and ship account http://www.shopandship.com for US only products from Amazon. Buying from Google play is more difficult as they added a security procedure that the credit card has to be from US and the shipping address from should match for circumventing this, earlier one could use a US proxy and order it.
It would be nice if they named the source. Perhaps it was some non-technical person who heard one of the junior developers lamenting about what seemed like a project with 500M lines of code? It would be really hard to believe that a website consisting of a registration form and a few API calls to get pricing data would ever get to that many lines of code. Also, keep in mind that the site was reported to have cost $600 million, but actually only ran $90 million. Given the political climate surround the legislation, it seems we must take any reporting on it with a whole bag of salt.
You always have a choice; it's the same choice you have with investors and clients, the option to stop (either by quitting or getting fired). Mentally, you might not see a job that way, but it's the same basic choice. If you have a single investor, or a single client, it's the same as a boss. Running the company might let you diversify towards multiple clients or multiple investors, but then you've just traded one boss with a lot of influence for many bosses with proportionally less influence. The choice, with each one, is the same.
It's not unique, but it's still under-appreciated. The potential of this dual threat (Google Docs, iWork) to Microsoft is substantial. Besides, it's cool technology.
"while license explicitly said if you modify it for commercial product you must make your contributions public"

I hadn't heard this part of it - what was the license in question?
One of the cited papers is a really nice read to solve an even harder version of the problem using only two questions. The reasoning behind the solution is explained in a pretty clear and detailed, but not overly verbose, way. For those who have basic knowledge about logic it is a nice application of the fact that a boolean expression has three possible values - true, false, and .

Unfortunately the file is behind a paywall (science's version of the age of information), so I'm afraid it's restricted to those with university access.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8284.2007....
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Changes to open source stuff may or may not be proprietary, depending...
From the fine print:

"Keynote is free on the Mac App Store for qualifying Mac computers purchased on or after October 1, 2013."

So disappointed to learn that Keynote is not really free for everyone :(
If you require them to sign up to get the free trial then you can allow each account to only have 1 free trial. Then either have the free trial use the account to activate or simple only let each user download once and have the installer delete itself after installation. They will need another email address and account to get another free trial so I don't think many people would bother.
Bitcoin is an Inflationary Currency
Cutest twin babies laugh cracking up
Notice mom's awesome camera work!!! Makes this video an instant classic!!!
> (Which Goldman illegally prohibited him from releasing, while license explicitly said if you modify it for commercial product you must make your contributions public)

I don't know the exact details of the case, but just to clarify: under the GPL, you don't have to release your changes if you aren't distributing that commercial product.

e.g., If he modified it for in-house use, there is, AFAIK, no legal obligation to release those modifications (under the GPL).
I'm in the exact same boat as you. Imma wait it out a few weeks, let the bugs get sorted out, and update. Maybe...
Wow, great marketing for goldman sachs. Another reason for software engineers to stay away from these large ibanks.
> 1. Doesn't Obamacare help this problem?

Yes.

https://www.healthcare.gov/what-if-i-have-a-pre-existing-hea...
> Its very much like a stealth interest rate cut, with pretty much identical effects.

No, it's even better. The basic income can create an effective negative interest rate without giving the bankers an infinite Santa Claus, and most of the money will turn the crank of the consumption machine instead of being parked in safe havens.
I switched to Intellij from PhpED a few years ago for a few reasons.

- Better support. Sometimes PhpEd would rarely give updates about what they were working on or what they were doing. My subscription ran out and I was not going to take a chance on "what ifs" when Intellij had all features I needed.

- More features. There were and probably still are lots of things PhpStorm/Intellij has that PhpEd does not.

- Intellij has support for more languages and PHP was only part of the work I did and even less of it now.

- Better JavaScript support (support for lots of JS frameworks built in. Missing a library locally for JS? It tells you. Also syntax highlight and error/lint check support for TypeScript and CoffeeScript

PhpEd was nice and I'm sure it's gotten better, but it at the time, it seemed like they were always a step or two behind the PHP and HTML5 updates so you could never count on using the latest features.

One advantage PhpEd always had on Intellij is that PhpEd is native (delphi code). Thus PhpEd always started up faster and there was a little less latency when clicking on menus or something, but it's not that noticeable and Intellij performs better than other Java Apps.
So what's the Amazon effect?
You still don't think even $90 million for a website that mostly performs CRUD operations is absurd?
I don't see a difference. You need a job offer before you make a choice. The job offer is someone asking them to drop out, is it not?
Yes, the default config does have that (safe) behaviour. It's rather easy to change, by replacing the vcl_recv function in the config. Something like:

sub vcl_recv {
if (req.http.cookie ~ "wordpress_logged_in_|comment_author_|wp-postpass_") {
return (pass);
}
return (lookup);
}
I want advertisers to continue to use Flash, precisely because Flash is trivial to block and is almost always advertising.

There are approximately two exceptions, Youtube and Vimeo, and they can be handled with any of several click-to-play Flash blockers.

Making all ads render in HTML will make them much harder to block, because there will no longer be such a common telltale for animating, distracting cruft.
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The best thing about C for a long time has been that it has precious few hipsters trying to fuck it up. Please stay away, hipsters.

P.S. I heard the ECMAScript mailing list needs more suggestions for the garbage heap of "improvements" they plan to dump into the next version.
Everything JetBrains makes is just pure awesome. Any suggestion for a full blown Javascript IDE?
The author mentions 20 year olds dropping out of Stanford. Are you really being obtuse over the amount of tuition these students may or may not have made? You literally believe that this was never implied?
>requires vast and increasing amounts of the world's energy

"Vast" is hyperbole, IMHO. It might in fact on net conserve energy, by, e.g., reducing the need to haul cash around in armored vehicles and the need for things like bank buildings. It takes a lot of energy to build and operate buildings.
The US (and rest of world) should take a leaf out of the UK's recent initiative: GDS (Government Digital Services)

http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/

Aside from creating https://www.gov.uk/ which laid down a lot of principles on how to fulfil a government contract (as well as the foundations of what goverment websites should look like and how they should be developed), GDS is also looking at the problem of procurement.

The GDS team essentially are wrestling back from the big contractors the major contracts, breaking the work down into a large number of bitesize contracts and then farming them out to a wide variety of smaller vendors.

So instead of finding a Fujitsu/Siemens JV team, or an IBM Professional Services team, operating a £50m project, the plan is to offer 100 x £250k projects to a large number of smaller suppliers instead. Each project having a clearer purpose that is more able to be fulfilled.

Of course there are obvious overheads in managing so many projects, and of course some of these projects will fail. But... overall the savings will be such that the overheads are cheap, and the failed projects will only have a smaller impact on a major programme initiative than a failure would today.
Incidentally, the entity involved is "CMS", not CMMS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centers_for_Medicare_and_Medica...
http://www.cms.gov/
I am getting three results for Wozniak:

1: Secure Coding Guide: Designing Secure User Interfaces

2: Starbuck - Movie Trailers - iTunes

3: Showtimes - Starbuck - Movie Trailers - iTunes
If you're creating an IO bound application (e.g. Dropbox, most web sites) then the developer time gained may be worth the performance offset.
I believe they are offering this update for free since it's more about performance tweaks and library frameworks for app developers, not so much in terms of features or bundled apps, so it makes sense to have as much people as possible running it. Given OS X updates are a pretty streamlined process (and Time Machine helps in the case it borks something), I hope they keep this trend.
I second the SSD upgrade. I regularly use three different MacBook Pros -- two with standard hard drives and one with an SSD. The SSD makes a world of difference. It feels like a new machine. I never have to wait for anything, not even Photoshop or Word. With the standard hard drives I always get spinning pinwheels, 5 minute boots, etc. In my opinion, even the 2013 MBPs are unbearably slow with standard hard drives.
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