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From what I understand from his comments he uses them to run his ads and he's happy about it...
> cat mykey.txt > authorized_keys

I'd be legitimately upset if they did that instead of

cat mykey.txt >> authorized_keys
Lots of people have gone before you, but maybe you've got a fresh take on this? I've done quite a lot of research on this subject, hit me up if you want to talk about it!
The phone will be cool for sure. The venerable 700 and the N810 I have are both very cool. The phone section will work very well for sure (hey, it's a Nokia phone, who use Nokia phones knows that the phone section is very good).
The real points are: coolness factor outside "very geeky"/"hackers" people and the presence of a real "ISV" ecosystems.
The risk is the same risk of Ubuntu: everyone praise it, we all have it installed on one (or more) computer (or VMs) but the computer we normally use have OS X installed on it.
They've got goals to get cash flow positive in 2010.

But they've been running on credit for a long time now. It will still take a long while before they pay off that debt.
Compressed Sensing makes every pixel count [pdf]
Am I being too spamish? I thought I was within the standards for behavior on HN.

But that's not what you are asking. I don't have a direct financial interest in this; but as someone who buys ads, I do hope that more sites use the 'time based auction' model of advertising, as it fits well with the way I advertise. See, when I buy advertising, I want to say "Hey, look, I exist" I think my prices provide a compelling argument to research my company further, and I think that many people who need what I'm selling, upon researching my company, will find me to be a good value (or at least worth a try.) I don't expect people to click through a banner ad and buy what I am selling during that session.

Also, I want to make the point that google is not the only choice in this market. Without competition, google will stagnate like any other monopoly. (Or maybe I am just cheesed at google because they bought dejanews, but no longer allow you to search much of the historical NNTP archive. )
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I'm wondering how I could attach one of these to my forearm. I've got a nokia n810, and it is a nice device, but I've not found a reasonably decent holster for it. (personally, I think for portable computing devices like this, 'draw time' is key to usefulness. If I've got to dig it out of a bag, I might as well whip out a laptop.)
Physotherapy Clinc For People with Neurological Conditions
Neuro Core Physiotherapy Clinic created a warm and inviting environment where clients with neurological conditions can access and choose to rebuild and shape their bodies using various equipment.
Based on the linked issue thread, the MediaCoder author also makes money by bundling commercial crapware in the "free" version's installer.
You can't vote down until you hit a certain karma threshold.
I'd wager that he's offering to help not because Google is such a friendly and benevolent business entity, but because it's in the spirit of Hacker News (and ultimately, in Google's best interest to do so).

The credibility of Don't Be Evil is taking a lot of hits these days. Some of us were never really convinced.
As Daddy Bloggers Attract Readers, Marketers Follow
Metcalfe, Squared: Why companies using other people's platforms grow so fast
Comment stubs that were automatically generated by an IDE, but don't actually convey anything.

(The articles leading up to the posted one discuss "boilerplate comments".)

Also, the block comments preceding a method that are just the name of the method would probably count...
I don't know why you were downvotted. You do have a point. If we hide the name of the user on the header, they will probably simply post their name on the post itself.
There is no Moore's law for the DNA sequencing either.

But yet, DNA sequencing saw an exponential growth as time went on. I read somewhere (forgot the source) that 20% of the genome sequencing was done in the first 10 years. 80% was done in the next 5 years.

HIV took 15 years to be sequenced. SARS took 31 days.

So - even though Moore's law isn't valid, no industry stays stagnant. Exponential optimization will occur - even with wireless electricity. At least with the size and the range issues.

The alignment issues - I don't know how they'll deal with that.
There's a difference between fines and damages, but the issue was simply terminology. I understand perfectly well what we're talking about. I used the wrong word.

I understand there are issues where this could have caused damages to Verizon, but I don't think they come to $33M. Either way, I don't think there's any way to quantify the damages to show what they really come to... which is sort of the problem.
Not to mention the potential for share buybacks. It's a rule of thumb in investment texts that if you're not an executive or on the board, your shares are worth less because of fewer liquidity options. See the recent Facebook share buyback, for example. If you were a former employee (i.e. not someone the executives cared to compensate) you were out of luck.

For the vast majority of employment decisions, it's my opinion you should basically just ignore stock or option grants.
Nokia N900 Gets Official - Is It a MID or a Smartphone?
Ah but protons aren't particles... except some times they are, other times they are a waves. The bottom line is individual atoms don't reflect protons.
Imagine how nice the perks will be after Facebook makes their first $1 in profit!
I agree. Reminds me of the dot com days of excess, and is a reflection that the company is massively over-valued. Still, it sure beats our office canteen special - Baked potato and baked beans, anyone?
Confirmed: $29 Snow Leopard Installs Whether or Not You've Got Leopard
OpSource Launches Virtual Private Cloud, Says It’s Better Than Amazon’s
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Right. The users must've downloaded at least one app to participate in the survey, and it's not unreasonable to assume that people willing to complete such a survey would be at the extreme end of app activity.
Never could adapt to OCaml's undisciplined syntax. SML's is clean. MLTon is very nice with a couple of limitations, practical upper bound of program size and compilation times.

One of the co-authors, S. Weeks, was (is?) one of the core MLTon compiler developers. If feasible they certainly could have evolved the compiler and the SML language.

Somewhat interesting is F# lost out to Ocaml in a bakeoff.

In a way Jane St. has got themselves in a bit of a corner. I don't see how Ocaml is substantially less moribund then SML.

Here is an interesting thought to mull over. With the upcoming 2.8 Scala compiler _every_ substantive feature of (S/C)ML is available with equal or higher capability.

In other words, strike out use of objects in Scala and one is left with the most advanced (and active) MLs around. Hmm...
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the Moller skycar is either the longest running investor scam in history or something brilliant ahead of its time, I still can't decide which after following them for several years.

See here for some more info on the fraud claims:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moller_Skycar_M400
Scalandra: Scala wrapper for Cassandra
The article should be renamed to Parental Guidance and Aptitude Outdoes IQ. There's are a lot of "smart" people out there who are the result of very fortunate parenting rather than actually possessing any intelligence.
Another handy way to use this is to decide if you want to drop advertising for your 'core', whether that's smart of not greatly depends on the relative sizes of search engine traffic vs repeat visitors to your site.
I don't use adsense so I can't share but I'm curious to know your uniques for that month, if you feel like sharing.
Is code that hasn't changed in a long time stigmatized? If so, is it an assumption that all code is broken and needs to be changed regularly?
Sure, let me dig that up, just one moment

edit: approx 750K uniques undoubled for the sites the ads ran on during July.
Toyota closing first major plant ever
I disagree with you. Moores law applies to DNA sequencing very much because it is subject to the same kind of improvements that have benefited the semiconductor industry to date.

Some of these benefits are direct (such as analyzers on a chip), some of them are indirect (such as using more powerful computers to do the analysis faster).
It's a PDF, right?

It's an experiment, there are more e-books available for that price, including several Perl books: http://use.perl.org/~brian_d_foy/journal/39524
We're losing the war on cybercrime
Anonymous on the internet
That is one of those empty, formulaic phrases that mean the exact opposite of what they say. Like when a company says for your convenience which really means for this company's convenience or more commonly we're about to make things harder for you.

These formulaic phrases are spit out by the form letter generator and have no meaning.
First class graduates Kurzweil's Singularity University
They're back up from where I'm sitting (Netherlands).
What's a "designer framework" anyway? I would just call this a template...
Things can make you happy if they hold sentimental value. That Timex or Rolex could hold significantly higher value if it was a gift from someone you hold dear. Of course you could argue that it's the same thing since it has a memory bonded with it.
For a free and open source project, these guys responded quickly, carefully, and professionally. I'm very impressed by their professionalism.
Thank you, that is going in the bag of tricks.
There's a support channel for appeals? Not hardly.

As I mentioned in my anti-Google Checkout article on Slash7 (which you commented on), not only has Google attempted to steal money from me by closing my Checkout account, but my husband lost over $2,000 of Adsense money when his account was arbitrarily closed.

He's the author of Scriptaculous - and the ads were on the Scriptaculous site - a totally innocent open source contributor.

So, support money was effectively stolen from a popular open source project.

Of course he appealed.

And he never heard back.

The commenter above is right: One-off help for those who are able to make a lot of noise, and hurt Google's image, is not enough. It got me my Checkout account back, and it will probably get the OP's Adsense account back.

But my husband never made a public fuss, and so of course all his attempts to reach out to Google were completely ignored.

Until there's a system in place other than "be famous and make noise," nobody should trust Google with their money, in any way.

Anyone who's interested in more back story (and my recommendations for improving the Google experience), these are the two articles I wrote:

http://slash7.com/articles/2009/3/26/google-is-evil-worse-th...

http://slash7.com/articles/2009/3/28/google-checkout-still-u...
Article Rewriter 2.0. Support Articles Written In Another Language Than English.
Sorry. I post duplicate link. But I just have an idea to rewrite articles written in any language which google translate support. So I update the google appengine application.
Review please: http://article-rewriter.appspot.com/
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This isn't another viral marketing campaign for FogBugz is it?
Speaking of iPhone, the book is available as an iPhone app for $4.99:

http://appshopper.com/books/the-ruby-programming-language

They say that they worked with Lexcycle, makers of Stanza, the iPhone ebook-reader, to make this work well.

At the bottom of the page are 5 screenshots showing how the book looks on an iPhone.
Wireless doesn't necessarily mean remote. There are already power mats that charge a cell phone that's resting on it, without having to plug in the phone. I've even seen a prototype kitchen counter with a wireless blender - just set the blender on the counter and it gets power.
How To Let People Know You're A Bad Python Programmer
Cf. Jeff's partner: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
Hi Matt,

No offense, but if it takes posting your gripes on HN to get customer support then something is very much broken.

The simple fact that a multiple billion dollar company should depend on outside channels for its support cues is very sad imho.

Maybe, instead of passing on messages like these pass the general message that Google tech support as perceived from the outside absolutely sucks.

I'm not exactly a newbie on the adsense/adwords front, have spent lots of money on adwords before giving up because of inactivity on googles part dealing with click fraud, still using adsense because of a lack of alternatives.
Scala syntax, I've found, is a matter of taste (although that goes for every language). I've been using Scala at my workplace for almost a year and find the syntax very readable. It's choices are not arbitrary and are quite thought out. Does it have its nagging points? Sure. But as with any language, once the forms are understood they become second-nature.
Alan Moore on Robert Anton Wilson
Support should scale with the size of your business.
So I apologize to those who feel this is not a proper article for HN, but in my experience there is much geek love for both of these guys.
Datasets in HTML 5 and what they’re good for
Not AdSense, but socialmedia.com.

Facebook App - Is My Name Sexy?

July Impressions 5,433
Clicks 191
CTR 3.52%
CPM $2.16
Earnings $11.73

MySpace App - Nicknames

July Impressions 76,240
Clicks 1,296
CTR 1.70%
CPM $0.77
Earnings $58.36
Apple Approves Spotify for iPhone : Six Million Songs in Your Pocket
If you really mean that they closed your husband's account and walked away with money they owed you, then this seems like exactly what the legal system is made for. (Though I'd expect them to settle rather than actually go to court, unless they think you're lying outright.)
Slackware 13 released - Including 64bit version
An Early Peek at the Nokia N900
> the computer we normally use have OS X installed on it.

I don't as I'm using Debian on my workstation. It beats OS X for development purposes (I've worked on a Macbook for 2 years prior to this).

Other than that, saying that Linux is ready for the desktop is just wishful thinking. It may be for grandma that only surfs the web, until one day when she receives a webcam from her nephew.

But we are talking about a phone released by Nokia with Maemo, a Linux distro sponsored by Nokia, on top of hardware that's designed to work with Maemo, with components picked or developed by Nokia.

The chances of success are great. And Nokia even started an iTunes Store equivalent (www.ovi.com).

I don't know, I'm hoping this leads to something because a lack of competition hurts the market.
Do you get rounding errors when running

2to3 prog.py | 3to2 | 2to3 | 3to2 | 2to3

?
That article is about not throwing away your whole codebase; in fact, he even talks about doing exactly what Jeff Atwood mentions:

These problems can be solved, one at a time, by carefully moving code, refactoring, changing interfaces. They can be done by one programmer working carefully and checking in his changes all at once, so that nobody else is disrupted. Even fairly major architectural changes can be done without throwing away the code.

Joel, I'm sure, is not advocating never re-writing anything at all, and if you think that, sheesh, I'd hate to see the code you work on...
My first reaction was that if you're going to live forever, why rush to graduate, there's plenty of time. Then when I read the article, I saw that they are looking at all kinds of other opportunities. Good stuff.
That sounds rather boring to me...
I was pretty shocked that this was accepted, I've been a longtime spotify fan and assumed I would have to be getting an android to get it on mobile (I'll probably still get an android anyway)
I've not tried running it.
This is why I want a translation party implementation :)
Bill Gates' views shaped by father
Don't start a company. Start a company.
here is the company mentioned:

http://www.opsourcecloud.net/

It appears they're in private beta right now.
Not too spamish, just thought it deserved a bit more transparency either way. Your involvement or otherwise doesn't change the verity of your statement.

And look I gave you chance to enlarge your point, that's good isn't it.
Ask HN: Good JavaScript WYSIWYG Editor?
I am looking for a replacement for the Yahoo UI rich-text editor. Unfortunately I found it to be quite buggy...

So far I have tried TinyMCE, nicEdit, FCKEditor and CKEditor. I haven't been happy with any of them.

I am looking for something that looks modern, is simple to implement (like nicEdit) and is customizable. The editor is being used in a CMS built in Rails. I need to be able to change the 'insert image' and 'insert file' buttons in the editor so that they call the CMS's built in image and file browsers.

All help appreciated!
I successfully clicked myself on my google ads through proxies and various cleaned-up browsers on a low-visited personal site ages ago. One per day and always tried to hit high paying ones. Filled up the 100$ requirement for payment twice then decided that a) it was not worth the trouble (thanks to the weak dollar or strong euro) and b) I rather have no ads at all if they do even not bring hosting coverage by themselves (without cheating).
Being able to use up to your share of a VPS is why you pay for a VPS and not shared hosting. If you pay for 1/8th of a server you are entitled to use 100% of that quota 24/7/365. Using your resources doesn't "degrade" other customers' performance unless the server is set up incorrectly. As long as they can access their 1/8th everyone should be happy.
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I wouldn't -- but then again, my landlord wouldn't have the option of "pausing" my home the way the hosting service has the option of pausing a customer's VPS, so it's more reasonable to expect the landlord to come in since that's the only way to mitigate such damage. If my landlord came in when I specifically asked him not to just to make sure my lights were turned off, though, that'd be another story; at that point, I'd start wondering whether turning off the lights was just a pretext for entry to my home.
"like translation or tutorial help"

How am I supposed to gauge what I would pay for those services given such a small description? Are we translating a 500 page article or a sentence? A tutorial on how to create a fax cover page in MS Word or a tutorial on how to create paths in Illustrator? Too generic for me to offer value by voting.
A part of that frustration has to be from that email that gets sent out. I haven't been on the receiving end, but I've read it in a couple of blog posts about this sort of thing, and honestly: that letter is awful.

It contains exactly one piece of "useful" information, the link to the disabled account FAQ. The rest is just simply terrible. It starts with a very serious accusation, intoning "significant risk" and "financial damage", but Google wasn't "compelled" or "forced" to act, it "decided" to, implying not that some mandatory threshold was reached but that someone sat down and worked it out and reluctantly agreed that this was the way to go, or worse, that sometimes similar situations might go the other way.

Immediately after accusing the person of being an evil bastard, it turns on the smarmy fake politeness. "Please understand" that we think you're an evil bastard. "Thank you" for understanding that we think you're an evil bastard. And thanks for "cooperating", even though you actually have no choice in the matter at all. If you have any questions, kindly fuck off and don't use the same method of communication we just used to reach you, here's a link to more standardized dehumanizing copy.

It reads like Google is breaking up with you while checking its phone, acting like you've done something horrible enough to merit no discussion on the matter, trying to act nice enough so you don't think it's a bitch, but making it clear it doesn't give a shit and really never did.
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Pretty much everything in the "Vulnerability" section of this blog post is sketchy or downright wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_brain
That's a pretty nasty thing to do imo.
The stats FlightCaster collects is like the stats on road accidents: if you go by route A on Ford you have a 90% probability to broke the car (and be late), so you better switch the route or the car.

How many will do that?
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Maybe the google voice PR fiasco has caused a review of the approval rules.

Hard to tell with a company that is so opaque.
Could some thoughtful editor please delete the shamelessly advertorializing word "rocks" from the title?
hah. Yeah. The hacker news crowd is subtly different from a purely technical crowd, in that posts like this are Okay. Actually, I think hacker news, and the culture around it helped me to develop a healthy attitude towards marketing. (If you had known me a few years back, well, I had an extremely negative attitude towards marketing, something that isn't particularly healthy for a business owner.)

One of these days, though, once I get myself setup with some cheap storage, I'm going to start archiving non-binary NNTP groups, and setup historical NNTP search. nntp-> email gateways, I think, are also one of the better ways of making mailing lists searchable.
It might just be a mistake on apple's side. They have and will probably continue to revoke apps which have previously been accepted to the App Store.
Actually . . . you shouldn't visit the US. I'm leery of leaving the US because of the body cavity searches I can expect when I come back.
https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/apache_org_downtime_ini...
There is more to this turf war. Microsoft and Citrix have pulled sponsorship of VMware's premier event - VMworld - and accused VMware of instituting new policies which restrict competition. http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=58C409AD-1A64-67EA-E4FE2386...