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Oooor maybe they knew that the US stranded him in Russia on purpose to try and pass them fake information. Their agents had already found out about the plot so they decided to play along, providing a tactical advantage, by letting their American counterparts think the mission had been successful.

Or it took much less effort to offer him asylum and score political points, knowing full well that the disclosures would also be damaging to 'enemies'.

Or they knew he had information on them and that it would come out as well.

Or maybe they already knew what he knew through other sources and didn't need his documents.

Or...

Or...

There are many possible scenarios (some much more ridiculous than others) but it is always lots of fun to just jump to the one that is most like a spy novel. It certainly is the most entertaining no doubt!
> nobody is buying PCs and OS-licenses anymore

Yet, almost everybody is still using PCs and regular desktops, either at home, or at work. Even with the explosive growth of mobile devices, the PC market is still bigger - and I suspect that the reasons for why people aren't buying so many PCs anymore is due to (a) lack of innovation and (b) PCs have a long life and a 4-year old PC or laptop is working just fine for most people. What's really over is the upgrade treadmill. Either way, I'm glad that all kinds of wankers think the PC-era is over, maybe we'll finally have some real innovation in this space.

> They realize that the future belongs to services spanning several devices and multiple platforms ... Microsoft is literally forced to make this "new" Windows-model if they want to remain relevant in the future

Actually there is only one platform that is slowly but surely cannibalizing every other platform, the open web, making the concept of an operating-system irrelevant for the purposes of achieving lock-in the good-old fashioned way. In fact, I bet that Microsoft wants a future dominated by app stores, because that's a future they know how to control.
> Learning what? How to program the kind of machine that's already been obsolete for 10 years?

The RPi really is a very powerful platform. It's not a desktop computer. There are real-world devices that run things far more complex on far slower hardware.
Seems to have been quite an oversight. Hard to see how that happened.
Wow - this is awesome - good for you!

I'll have to look into tumblr hosting - what are the limitations? Do you ever find yourself locked into a blog-like schematic?

But also, if you're so successful with a passive approach, it sounds like you've found a real market demand. Have you considered taking a more active approach given the success? How long would you say this took you to setup initially?
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Dreamhost had a blog article about overselling or oversubscribing - it's very common from ISP's to gyms.

http://www.dreamhost.com/dreamscape/2006/05/18/the-truth-abo...
You know the masses of celestial bodies relatively well from their observed trajectories and it is not too difficult to include relativistic corrections in your calculations (though active corrections using thruster will still be extremely helpful).

I imagine finding the best trajectory in the first place to be the more difficult and interesting problem.

(Not an ESA guy, just wanna-be-condensed matter physicist.)
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Feedback like this is exactly why we released this (and made it so cheap) :)
In 8.1 there is a new setting that makes the Desktop the default window after login. I'd suggest turning that on.
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The fascinating thing about fake names is that they often seem to be a little off, somehow, even when they draw from real names. Hard to put my finger on it.
Nothing from the desktop-era Windows fits into that picture. Nothing. For Microsoft to be on those devices that just needs to go.

One word: Surface

Microsoft's strategy is not based on the idea that nothing from desktop OSes belongs on tablets. To get an ecosystem that is built from that idea, you need to look to Apple's offerings. Microsoft's approach has been to attempt to meld the tablet and PC experiences. Which seems to have failed miserably, because as you observe they really don't fit together very well. The end result has been an offering that's received a lukewarm-at-best reception in both the desktop and the tablet spaces.
It shouldn't matter where you're hosting, if you want privacy it needs to be encrypted by you. The NSA can still get its hands on data outside of the US, but regardless of where something is stored you can lock it up fairly easily.
You may also enjoy the Faker rubygem, a port of perl's Data::Faker.
Couchbase Lite is available for Mac, and has JSON storage and offline sync. Of course it's all open source. http://mobile.couchbase.com
Here's a PDF spec that we wrote for copilot.com back in 2005, which basically did exactly what you are saying (except in a cleaned up, hands free way): http://www.joelonsoftware.com/RandomStuff/copilot_spec.pdf
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I have been using TeamViewer for this for some years. It works quite well, is localized so less computer literate parents outside US/UK have a chance of running it, and is free for personal use (even on weekdays :-P).
Wow, I never thought that an Insert key is going to be such mystery. It is kind of a standard way of inserting a new node in other mind mapping (desktop) apps...
Thanks! Please let us know what you think.
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You don't need approval to show a logo on a prop. The reason the post-it is there is to provide an incentive to the company to sponsor them. No money, no logo.
this is highly abstracted and missing the usual attempt to link psychology with economic behavior. that doesn't mean it isn't useful and interesting. at minimum this does a good job of showing what sort of results we might expect from policies w.r.t redistributive policy vs. deregulatory policy.
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If the majority of consumers are using headphones that are a 1 to 3 on a 10 point scale and beats are, for example, a 4 or 5, then they're better for most consumers. Are they as good as some ATH-M150s? No...but the market is saturated and it's difficult for the consumer to understand what's good and what's not. Enter the marketing/brand dollar and consumers will pick what they hear about plus what sounds better than what they're used to.
I find your demand that heroes be martyrs particularly bizarre.
WTF? Please put this back on reddit or fark
Call me cynical but I don't really think unifying the desktop/laptop/mobile OSes was the point here.

I think the (unspoken) point of their whole "app" idea is to make people transition into a subscription model instead of a single-payment model; the unification reason was just an excuse.
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> the "big icon menu" (how do you call it?)

I believe its official name is "the start screen".

(Windows 8.1 builds in the ability to start in desktop mode and skip the start screen entirely)
The app has been as high as $149 on the AppStore.

http://appshopper.com/productivity/logmein-ignition
Once I made the experience, two blogs, one on wordpress, one on tumblr, as similar as they can be, same posts, etc. After few days the wordpress one was in first page of google, the tumblr one still very difficult to find. Anyway to cut costs I kept the tumblr one. Nowadays (2,5 years later) my blog is pagerank 4 (good rank for the traffic I have) and reasonable SEO. Even not being perfect like you say I would also recommend tumblr. (http://archimodels.info)
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Granting a pardon does not justify the crime.

Let's say we have a convicted murderer that committed the act when they were very young, he admitted to it with remorse, the victim's family has no vengeance in their hearts, and he spent 50 years in prison for the crime. Just because the governor issues a pardon to let the old man out to die in peace with family doesn't mean the governor is justifying the original crime.
I'm currently earning around $45-60 a day mining cryptocurrencies with a little over $5000 in hardware. Once setup it's completely passive.

Edit: ROI could be improved a bit on this too since I intentionally bought hardware that was good to experiment with rather than optimizing ROI.
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Is there a reason to use either of those systems over homebrew? Since homebrew seems to have a lot more community support now.
My Hobbit name was from my home town (I'm from a suburb of Palm Springs, not a normal place to randomly generate). What is going on in the Shire?
Should the larger capacity seagate drives have a higher failure rate than small ones? That chart seems counter intuitive.
We use Bomgar at work. We have their physical appliance, but I believe it can be virtualized now. It's been pretty rock solid for what we need it for.

http://www.bomgar.com/
What online marketing strategies have you had success with?
I created a web game called Pit of War (http://www.pitofwar.com) about three years ago and it has been generating enough monthly income to pay all my bills and affords me the ability to travel and live anywhere I like. It isn't completely passive but that is because I choose to add new features and updates. It is a niche game but the Internet is a big place with lots of people. :) Books like The Long Tail and The Curve have taught me that you don't need to have the #1 product in an industry to make a good living.
Teamviewer, RealVNC, RDP (Windows)
This shows how nice an Econometrics book made with IPython would be, something in the likes of https://github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programmin...
Wait - they integrated WiGig into 802.11ac? Interesting, and a better way to go than releasing a separate 802.11ad actually (even though the routers would obviously have both ac and ad, just like we see b/g/n support today).
I was wondering about that, especially because of the call out to activate your fake email address.
$5 barely affords you service, let alone the right to be dissapointed that your feature request was not immediately implemented. Are you really expecting enterprise level customization for a $5 app?
Interestingly when I was in high school (back in the somewhat early(ish) days of the web) we had an assignment in some English class to do some kind of writing and then copy it and distribute it to the class and read it aloud. This didn't have to be typed, almost everyone did it hand written, just had to be photocopied. I don't remember the topic of the writing at all.

Someone handed out a paper that looked excellent, I read it before he read it aloud, and I didn't believe he wrote it. It was too good and seemed above something a high schooler would write. I changed my mind and believe he wrote it when he read it aloud because the way he read it, he owned it. He read it just like it was something he wrote himself. After he was done the teacher said "that was good, but you didn't write this, you downloaded this from the Internet." She didn't ask him, she didn't check, she just publicly accused him. He looked shocked and said "No I didn't!" where she just kept insisting he did without any proof whatsoever except that the paper was just good. She may have just blindly failed him on the assignment.

Off topic but other student in this assignment handed out another paper which was full of misspellings and grammatical errors. Absolutely chock full of them, to the point you could hardly read it. After she read it, the teacher said "there's a lot of misspellings" to which she protested "my computer doesn't have spellcheck." She really thought this was a legitimate excuse, in English class. Like not having spellcheck excuses you from 1) proofreading and 2) picking up and old fashioned paper dictionary.
I'm a glutton for punishment, I suppose.

The Intel compiler makes tight, fast x86[^1]. It ALSO can optionally generate auto-vectorized code paths for specific Intel architectures (it is not simply "has feature versus doesn't have feature", but instead chooses the usage profile of features based on the runtime architecture. Each architecture has significant nuances, setup and teardown costs, etc, and anyone who says "they should just feature sniff" does not understand the factors, though that certainly doesn't stop them from having an opinion), for that small amount of niche code that can be vectorized. Saying that because they don't do the latter for AMD processors means they "crippled" them is nonsensical.

Just to be clear, I have heavily used the Intel compiler for back-office financial applications. I'm not just repeating some opinion I happened across. Nor do I have any particularly love for Intel.

Further, if you understand that Intel specifically targets specific Intel architectures with every branch path, saying "well just run it on all things", again, you simply don't understand the discussion, or the architecture based dispatcher. Yeah, "just run it" might run perfectly fine, and for a contrived example might yield better runtimes, but it also can yield runtime errors or actual performance losses.

As I have repeatedly stated, we should expect great cross architecture and platform (including ARM, which with NEON also has vectorization) compilation with auto-vectorization from the dominant compilers, including GCC, LLVM, and VC. But somehow it always returns to the Intel compiler, nine years after they publicly stated "Yeah, this is for Intel targets".

^1 - So much so that in almost all of these conversations, the people who complain about Intel compilers still use them because it still generates the fastest code for AMD processors, vectorization or not. Which is pretty bizarre, really.
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Which is still downright boneheaded on MS's part.

The situation is that people are calling in their nerd friends to get help figuring out how to do basic things that they shouldn't need help with, because it's supposedly a platform they've been using for over a decade now.

Their supposed solution, a setting somewhere in the control panel, just makes the nerd friend's job slightly easier. It does absolutely nothing to fix the real problem: That the nerd friend is needed in the first place.
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"However, your wealth per se doesn't affect your future wealth, this is clear, right?"

No. Your current wealth is a very strong indicator of your future wealth, and indeed, your future income.
Meh. On to Teamviewer.
Thanks! Yes there are many limitations. And yes it is definitely locked into a blog-like schematic. It's not really for making a "website"... it's for writing a simple blog - thankfully that's all BWB is :)

I definitely think the active approach will yield greater results, but right now I'm doing even more interesting things in my day job and other side projects that I enjoy. This gives me the freedom to keep doing those things :)

As for initial setup, I rolled it out in the same afternoon I had the idea and incrementally built on it from there. It's certainly nothing like it was when I began it.
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Owners of rental properties wish to make a profit. Therefore renting is more expensive, month to month, than owning a property even after factoring in all costs involved.

The only time this isn't true is if the owner has a very old mortgage or outright owns the home.
Paywalls are velvet ropes blocking a club no one wants to get into.
What you are saying is "discrete diffusion simulation[s]" do not adequately model/explain real economic dynamics.

So this is a valid contribution to economics in the form of an inadequate dynamic model.
Until they implement client side encryption I cannot use this service. Forget about NSA, what about rogue admins, or just plain bugs.

Dropbox = Your-Unencrypted-Files-Here.com
The users are going to learn to like it or stay with Windows 7 for the next 6 years. Microsoft doesn't mind leaving them behind because what is the worst they can do, buy a Mac?
I bought a nice, high quality pair of headphones and was disappointed to find that sound was quite 'crisp'. Fortunately there's an equaliser in the Spotify app... I cranked up the lower and highest end frequencies, and now Meshuggah sounds nice and crunchy again.

I'm not defending Beats at all, but I'll defend that low frequency / high frequency setup all day. Not everyone listens to classical.
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What most people are missing here is that government money only gets you as far as the discovery, and that's if you're lucky enough to, you know, discover something. More likely, you run out of money with nothing to show. I have no cites handy, but the success rate of drug R&D is pretty darn low.

Say you do get something. Now you want the government to also be involved in the commercialization of the discovery? I think people would argue they are already involved enough, what with the FDA and all.

Further: the person making the discovery spent half a decade of their lives after college to get a PhD, and very likely many years of post-doc, to be extremely specialized in an extremely narrow area of some field. Now you want them to be product managers and manufacturers and businessmen as well?

This is one problem patents solve: Division of labor. Let those who are good at science and technology do their thing, and let people who are good at commercializing do their thing, and let IP ensure one both sides have means to reap appropriate rewards.
I could be wrong, but I believe MacPorts has more ports in the default repository at the moment. Not sure about Fink.

But yes, arguably, `brew` is moving forward very quickly.
> The problem with Perl, IMO, is that there are too many clever ideas

Perl's learning curve is shallow (easy to pick up) but long (the language is big).

One explicit design goal from perl which isn't talked about much is "huffman coding" in the language. i.e. frequently needed language features should require fewer keystrokes.

This comes directly from Larry's background as a linguist. For example, English has the word "it" to mean "the thing we're talking about". Perl has "$_" to mean the same thing.

The meaning of "it" is dependent on the surrounding context. So it is with perl.

Similarly, it can be confusing to have long, runaway sentences using such context dependent words. You can write bad English and bad perl in this way if you're not careful.

However, the benefit is that, used correctly, it allows you to express yourself clearly and concisely.
Sony could launch its Xperia Z Ultra phone as a WiFi only 'tablet'
I currently use LogMeIn to help my grandma with her computer woes. I only log in remotely about once per month, and only for a few minutes - so a pay as you go option would be perfect for me.

I tried copilot - but it failed utterly and miserably on two points:

- DPI. My grandmother's computer has a high DPI setting, so she can read menus/buttons. When connecting from my local computer, copilot just couldn't handle the DPI difference (appearently).

- Windows 8/Metro. When my grandma was stuck in metro, I couldn't connect remotely. Which sort of defeated the purpose of the tool.
Are you just doing the 35% rate on Amazon since you're below $2.99?
Stackoverflow had sense enough to close it as flamebait.
Ask HN: Are there any open source crocdocs alternatives?
Looking for something that will allow keyword search.
I feel there's a ton of opportunity here in personal thought management that hasn't had a killer UI yet. It's possible to get it just right, but would take an incredible design. Workflowy is the closest I've seen.
the WD reds only have 3 stars on newegg.com, interesting.
Brazilian names are perfect! Names, cities, phones, etc, everything so realistic!

As people are complaining of weird spanish, french, italian names, I wonder if the person who did this is brazilian.
Email me! I'm glad to find out what needs doing and make introductions.
My first source of passive income came this year. It's an app for rooting (and then fixing some problems on) a modem used for U-Verse(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.earlz.nvg5...). I've only made a handful of $100 bills with it, but the extra income is welcome.

The amount of work I've actually had to do was really quite little. I had to do initial development, and then fix some bugs. Then, it just sat there and brought in $5-20 a day. Eventually AT&T patched the original exploit I used for root access so I had to do research and development to find a new one and implement it, which took about 2 weeks or so. And since then, it's just been sitting there bringing in bits of money. I plan on adding some often requested features over the next month though

Also, I provided the app only for convenience. The information on how to root the modem for free is published freely on my blog, I just provide the app because I know that the steps required are too complicated for many people
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When paired with less/sass, css frameworks can be used to build up your site without inserting non-semantic classes into your html (by using mixins/functions).
The point is that democracy is not always good if you want to be exposed to new and interesting things. A million people will listen to Justin Beiber, or Katy Perry, but how does a new/obscure band get traction? It used to be radio spins, but radio is a dying medium. Beats is trying to give you something like your favourite local radio station, with an interesting mix of old favourites and new tracks that haven't reached a critical mass of listeners on other services.

In other words, if you only use people's listening preferences, you can only recommend established tracks well. Adding an editorial component lets you get ahead of the curve.
No, it was the whole 75GXP set (actually, according to Wikipedia, the 120GXP and 180GXP were also affected to a far lesser extent).

The backlash was really nasty, though, because IBM's drives were something a lot of us had come to trust and rely on, the 75GXP was kind of a flagship drive, and IBM's handling of the issue was less than stellar. We felt betrayed.

I never have bought another IBM (or Hitachi) drive. The reaction is visceral and intractable.
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Joel Spolsky . . . Do nerd celebs really just wander around HN?
Ask HN: Sharing Phonegap localstorage data between devices?
Working on a sensitive data app. The concept is that the content can be share between users or devices.

- Initial Approach: The content can be stored in the "cloud" or on my server similarly to Dropbox; anyone who have permission can access the data - distribute down to multiple users' devices.

- Second Approach: Since the data is considered very sensitive, it is recommended to be stored on the user's mobile.

1) So a copy of the data can be stored in the primary user's device.

2) The Unique Data ID and list of users (no content) can be stored on a database table in my server as reference.

3) Next user registered, calls upon my server; find the Data ID.

4) Extracts the copy from the primary user's mobile. Sends to the next user.

Problems:

- The primary user's device can be offline / out of battery; The next user will not get a copy.

- Any additional security issues in between?

- Missing any nuances that might make this inappropriate?

- Alternative approach?
Why would I like to listen to curated music !?

Problem is: I like some harcore, some jazz, some classical, some punk. Taste is very personal. That's why I like to curate my own music.