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> Laptops were supposed to kill the desktop, but they're still around.

They are almost completely dead in consumer. I'm hopping 2X displays will change that; its crazy that my laptop's 13" screen has more resolution than a desktop 27" display! Also, I move a lot, and not having a desktop is really useful in that regard (though, once I can procure a nice high resolution large display, it might be worth it).

> years if they're not deliberately hamstrung by soldered on batteries, etc..

You mean molded batteries right? Just like with tablets, it is difficult to include a modular battery if you want to use space and weight efficiently.

> What's next?

VR, wearables, wall mounted e-paper based computers, etc... I don't think we'll reach a point where our computing experience remains stable for a while (at least, I hope so).
I almost elaborated in my comment that for me personally it wasn't about protectionism, as much as a desire for a country that literally invented many high technology industries to simply regain some basic capacity and infrastructure to produce those goods again. I don't think it's incongruous to value free trade and the advantages of specialization and globalization but also like to see one's country able to produce more physical goods than just hamburgers or lattes.
> that's a democracy problem

It's a systemic thinking problem. You seem to want to isolate every piece. That makes it easy to "pass the buck" in a round-robin fashion.

It's a problem with democracy, so we should make it cheaper for law enforcement to take away our rights, because progress! Democracy won't be solved until the practice of special interests making most of our laws is removed. The special interests make laws to tighten their stranglehold on our "democracy" and to suppress our freedom. Law enforcement, surveillance, & additional laws becomes more pervasive in our lives so people who wish to exercise their democratic rights are suppressed. It's a "problem with democracy" again.

In the mean time, will the democracy problem ever be solved? Will we ever make progress on that front? Are we playing the right game?

To improve things, we need to start thinking more holistically, not myopically. A house, or system, divided will fall.

> If police can switch from a helicopter to a drone for sime mission, and save 90%, that should be a good thing.

Agreed, however what will really happen is 10x the number of drones will be bought & used.
> [y]our terms with the label [is] a private business negotiation and not related to my point

> Trent Reznor went back to record labels because he's going to make more money with a record label, even if he's going to keep less share of the profit.

I'm sorry but you seem a little confused. You can't hand wave that the terms of the contract are irrelevant but also assert that he is making a smaller cut of the pie with the label.
Needs an editorial once-over for spelling and grammar.
An accusation is as good as a finding of guilt in the court of public opinion.
This reminds me of programming something from A. K. Dewdney's Armchair Universe on my Amiga in the late '80s. I think it originally appeared in Scientific American.
It started off with bugs that just sort of juggled, but the ones that survived eventually glided around eating things.
I'm also interested in this, got the same email seems like a scam?
The hardware is not that great. It's got switchable graphics so I've had to disable the Radeon portion and stick with Intel graphics. Managed with powertop to get 10.9W of power usage and 4.5 hours of battery. Not bad for a 5 year old machine with a 5 year old battery.
There's a quote from 2006 saying that their monthly hosting costs where 15k SEK (2k USD). But also, one of the owners of the hosting company was also the one running the tpb site.
You could wrap your operands in a type with a bind function that takes a function argument that has to be marked constant time. I guess it wouldnt strictly be a monad. You would then have to trust the implementor that he does not mark any non-constant time functions as being that, but I think that is reasonable.
Since 1993, the only ad I've ever intentionally clicked on was for Belroy wallets. I still haven't bought one, though the idea is pretty cool.

I have accidentally clicked on many ads due to site that load the ads first and then put the content in the middle, so the page is continually shuffling around for the thirty seconds to a minute it takes to load on my "high speed" ADSL in Australia.

So take those click-through statistics with a grain of salt: how many of them are forced due to pages shuffling elements around?
You seem to have made quite a few assumptions about what I'm supposedly advocating based solely on the fact that I'm critical of the current system. (You might notice I've made no prescriptions here, only commentary on the status quo). But please, by all means continue to argue against this strawman you've constructed, don't let me ruin your fun.
This perfectly illustrates the difference in worldview between a capitalist and a socialist, and you so clearly see the problems with both.

The capitalist argument is essentially that anything that saves time/money/... is worth it, if people pay for it and it's self-sustaining. But the criticism of this position is valid too : what if caring for people is not worth it ? Will we simply not care for people ? How will this affect you ?

The socialist argument is that certain things are to be constant at any price, like nursing. Problem here of course is that the price has risen quite considerably, and people aren't willing to pay. So it's not self-sustaining, and therefore wouldn't normally be done. But the socialist would simply use (some form of) force to get it done anyway. From forcing people into professions, to shaming, ... Of course having a nurse that was denied what (s)he saw as a better career caring for me is unlikely to result in a good relationship.

But you see the problem too, right. I don't want to be subject to that socialism thing, but I do agree it sure would be nice if we cared for people better. And when I'm older, I'm sure I'll agree even more.

Here's what it comes down to : who determines what society's resources get spent on : people themselves (but of course they'll be forced to admit that there's no nursing because they haven't paid for it), or the "intellectuals" who want to protect people from themselves, make sure they don't die uncared for ?
>I paid £5 including delivery.

While I agree IEEE is evil, the practice is standard among publishers, or any economic entity. It's called price discrimination (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination). The seller usually makes the difference the amount that price arbitrage is unprofitable. The producer (IEEE in this case) often does this to create presence in markets where it would otherwise be uncompetitive: the pricing reflects the cost only of printing and getting the book to the customer. Do we all want to buy books at South Asian prices? YES! Can we: No! That would drive the producers dead right away.
I recommend against most tv and movies because the level is too advanced. You want material that is slightly beyond your level. This is why I recommend reading books. There are graded reading books. Eventually you also need to find a native speaker to practice with. You can do a language exchange or offer something else in return.
I see nothing in Title 18, Chapter 2, Section 39A [1] requiring the aircraft to be manned. IANAL, though.

[1] http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2012-title18/html/USCODE...
I'm not sure how to feel about this. On one hand, it acknowledges that the company truly believes there's something to fix. On the other hand, it ignores the fact of what really happened with Julie and doesn't acknowledge (still) that it went down badly/was their fault.
I have my own feelings about it which that it is not really theft, but perhaps it is worth considering that the work of musicians and artists is devalued. I hear a lot of rationalization about how the artists don't get any money anyway, but I personally think that is a separate issue from sharing music.

It's an interesting question, especially when you mention software. Because here on HN and other forums I get the impression the majority are in favor of TPB. The more interesting thing is when somebody is caught appropriating a site design, graphics, violates GPL, etc there will be universal rage against them. I guess it is different when you are on the receiving vs. the providing side of things.
Spiceblue has an amazing design team check www.spiceblue.com
Ask HN: Temporary Apps?
What if on your iPhone there was a folder/group of temporary apps? These apps would include store apps for when you walk into a store and you see items to purchase and a map. Or even a travel guide app for the country you just traveled to.
These apps would appear when you walk into their vicinity area and go away when you leave.

Also, what if the apps were not downloaded, but viewed and downloaded for a short period of time like a website?
> ... decide privacy is the more worthy goal...

Essentially you are saying, My information is mine and should be under my control because privacy. But your information is "imaginary property" and anyone should be able to take it whenever they wish, because dying business models corruption crooks. Hilarious!
What naive person ever said that products sell themselves?
Coding is quite possible on a tablet, especially if we can develop tablet friendly programming languages [1]; but we definitely aren't there yet! If you think about, programmers spend more time thinking and choosing abstractions than typing in code (and no one codes at more than 20 words-per-minute, while this is mostly bursty). For any kind of real writing, one needs a mechanical IBM Model M keyboard, at least :)

> People need to stop telling me I should be able to, because even if I could, I wouldn't want to!

Well, I still carry a laptop in my bag at least. Tablets are great in bed and on planes.

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1793...
The ISPs knows people don't know and takes advantage of this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lehhEW6iuF8
Yup. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7814120

Luckily for me my aptitude made college easy. The majority of my uni experience was about the first time freedom and responsibility of living on my own.
Google Tested The Safety Of Its Self-Driving Cars By Swarming Them With Bikes
Advertisers figured out how to use the newspaper, the radio, the televison, and we've watched them figure out how to use the internet. It isn't like mobile is tainted somehow, they'll figure it out as well. From the 2012 to the 2013 charts, in no case did the spending allocation trend against the consumption allocation.

An RSS reader paid for by local announcements actually kind of makes sense, but I don't see anyone with the market share to make it work.

EDIT: and if someone doesn't think spending tracks allocation I'm open to other theories of why the bars line up.
I'm not making any judgement on whether it should be legal/illegal etc. but I think saying it's a victimless crime at worst is potentially incorrect.

In the worst case, it's absolutely possible that you share something with someone, A, which A would have bought and then they don't buy it. In the worst case they don't in the future buy anything from the author/creator etc. In the worst case I'd consider that author/creator a victim in this case, they would have been paid whatever amount A would have paid but now haven't been.

I'm not arguing that's often the case (I don't think it is) but to absolutely rule it out feels like too much of a simplification. There can be a legitimate victim, it almost certainly isn't the person suing you and in most cases there probably isn't - but there can be I think.
There is zero transparency into this investigation or it's results.
I have a Moto X. I wanted the 32 GB variety (for $50 more, it made sense aside from personally wanting the additional capacity).

Well, the store only had 16 GB models in "default" all-black and all-white configurations. So, I was sent to the Moto Store or whatever they call it.

Or I wasn't, per the cell phone company. Or I was, per the Store that subsequently sent me an email through which to order the phone I'd already paid for.

I'm leaving off many steps. The process was a big pain in the ass.

Except that Motorolla was/is on the door, in some ways it felt rather typical Google. Ostensibly, it should work. In practice, it's quirky, and when it's a problem, it's difficult to get someone to actually sort it out.

Ultimately, I had a clueful cell phone store manager walk through as much of it as he could. They didn't even call him back. The order did not then proceed as they told him it would (this included credit for a phone that I ordered ("you don't need to use the Moto Store / customization for a 32 GB all-black... It's on its way") that was never delivered -- but for which I was billed (yeah, our representative told you the wrong thing; if we do nothing further, you can consider the order cancelled)). But ultimately, after using the emailed "customize your order" link despite one further representative telling me not to, they sent one, and it works.

I didn't think this "U.S. 'manufacturing' (assembly)" was going to stick around. Didn't take too long to be proven right.

In this specific case, some genius decided to provide their cell phone stores with no 32 GB model stock (e.g. in all-black, at least) -- only 16 GB.

As others have pointed out, so many people "case" their phones that the color choices are significantly if not entirely moot -- from my perspective, at least.

It's a nice phone. They should have focused on actually making it easier and painless to get into people's hands.

"G" and "E" will in good part also succeed because you can just go into a store and fucking buy one. No one really wants this customization and wait for the package crap -- especially not when it starts to get this painful.

P.S. And when it means dealing with two independent companies' somewhat clueless support, as opposed to just one -- and they aren't even talking to each other (or, not well).

P.P.S. I really wanted this to work out, limited as it may be ("assembly"). And it's one reason I chose the X.
I'm an entering Berkeley EECS PhD student starting in August of this year. Willing to mentor local high school or undergraduate students majoring in or considering majoring in CS, EE, Computer Engineering, or similar fields.

My experience is mainly in systems programming, embedded systems, computer architecture, and digital hardware design. I can also talk about general introductory CS or EE topics or how to get into College/Grad School/Internships/Entry-Level Jobs.

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Allow me to rephrase:

People sign up with record labels because record label representatives tell them stories about people like Trent Reznor, and lead them to believe that Trent Reznor is the rule, rather than the exception.
I think it means "latent" in this context.
Show HN: SteelScript Application Framework
it ignores the fact of what really happened with Julie

I would just point out that while there were obvious issues at Github, it's not clear to the public (and never will be) exactly what happened there.
Yes, I know (one on and one off). They can catch him anyway, like they did with Gottfried.
> We’re in the planning stages of designing a diversity and communication training curriculum for GitHub employees with input from Hubbers and external experts.

Anyone have any experience with attending these kinds of things?
It appears to be part of the book Nightfall and Other Stories.

Amazon has it: http://www.amazon.com/Nightfall-Other-Stories-Isaac-Asimov/d...

A PDF seems to be available online as the first Google result for it: https://www.google.com/search?q="Nightfall+and+Other+Stories...
Yea, that is so true. When I was in my 20-40's the thought
of sitting at a desk doing Anything felt like I was
wasting my life. My father always said, 'I want a job where
I spend the first hour at a desk--the next seven anywhere else.'.
It's non-repudiation, it's so they can be sure that the person who received the email is also the person who requested the email.

Proof of data integrity is typically the easiest of these requirements to accomplish.
A data hash, such as SHA2, is usually sufficient to establish that the likelihood
of data being undetectably changed is extremely low. Even with this safeguard, it is
still possible to tamper with data in transit, either through a man-in-the-middle
attack or phishing. Due to this flaw, data integrity is best asserted when the
recipient already possesses the necessary verification information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-repudiation
As someone using a four-year-old MacBook Pro I can tell you that the thing got a whole lot better soon as I put an SSD in. It's not that heavy and it's easy enough for me to use so I don't really have a compelling need to replace it. It's got more than enough power for my everyday tasks.

I think the other thing it's really killing laptops is people who didn't want to buy one in the first place. There are a lot of people who just wanted a portable computer they could use to play around on the Internet. They were the people drawn in by $300 laptop, since laptops no longer needed to cost thousands of dollars. But now that you can get a smaller lighter tablet that's easier to use for about the cost of a poor netbook that market has mostly dried up. At this point people who are buying laptops are people who need real computers. Just like desktop sales are down, but are still purchased by the people who need to power and don't mind immobility.

Another way to phrasal this might be "the laptop bad fad is over".
> shuffling a deck of cards in O(1)

How? I'm aware of Knuth shuffle which is O(n) but I can't find anything about constant time shuffling.
Oh, sorry. But, it was a straw argument. You stated no one really remembers trig anyway. Just stating than any criticism is attacking a strawman does not imply the argument was not imply the argument was not made of straw to begin with. :)
Have you seen what optimizing compilers do? I'd hardly call that simple!
WTF? A proof certainly does have a correct sequence of steps. You can't just reorder the steps in a derivation for example.
> With drones, the cost of air surveillance drops to a whole other level. A level that almost allows for mass surveillance.

If you remember, a few months ago, the reports of the surveillance planes being able to cover a whole city (by just 1 plane), then you know that these "drones" here are just gadgets.
I was half expecting a Robocop scenerio.
> The odds may be good, but the goods are odd.

Hmmm... never mind that she referred to men as goods... what is wrong with a little odd? After I met my wife for the first time, she told her friends back home that I really wasn't like the other guys she had dated. Like not her usual type. One of them had the good sense to remind her that there was a reason she wasn't dating any of those other guys anymore. :)
> I wonder how this could work in the "internet of tubes" analogy to explain to people?

Pretty simple. Water takes time to flow from one end of the pipe to the other. If you are trying to fill a huge tank, doesn't really matter how long it takes the water to get to you. If you are trying to fill a hundred tiny cups, it does matter because you are shutting the tap off and on again pretty frequently.
As expected, the dedicated channel for the data rescue has now been set up: join #justouttv on efnet. Right now, coders with Python, Lua, and/or Redis knowledge would probably be most in demand, given the existing toolset. Hopefully very soon there will be a new Warrior project formally set up, and then anyone who can run a VM or an AMI or install the tools from the command line would be able to join in to distribute the downloading.

During the Hyves.nl rescue in late 2013, ArchiveTeam did accept donations to cover Amazon instances earmarked for that project, so it's possible they may do something like that again this time.

In case people are curious, the Warrior code and seesaw code are here:

https://github.com/archiveteam/warrior-code2
https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/seesaw-kit
One of the core ideas of corporate ideology is that nine woman can have a baby in a month. It's the "throughput delusion".

Customers don't feel throughput, they feel latency. In fact, they don't feel average latency, they feel worst case latency.
Nah, I think it was because of those charming Steve Jobs emails. I invite anyone to read the original complaint [1] for the details.

We've seen this in the no poaching agreements... the dude certainly wrote a lot of emails without consulting his lawyers.

1: http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f282100/282135.pdf
Yeah, I got that far, but I had reinstalled, not backed this up, and there was less than zero information about what to import. I tried installing and/or converting every chunk of certificate-type data I could find. No joy, no help, no nothing.
This sounds good to me. Perhaps the thread could set up short term matches every week just to lower the barrier to entry for mentors and mentees.
I don't think I'd be really comfortable with convicted serial murderers walking around. Hell, any murderer. Manslaughter can be a mistake or an accident, but if you intentionally aggressively killed someone I'd rather not be walking past you on a street or participating with you in an open market...

I don't believe in the death penalty, but I also believe an essential function of prison is to remove the irredeemable from society so they aren't a threat anymore. I'm not sure you can classify anyone insane just for wanting to kill people, but I'm also not a psychologist. I also would not want to be the psychologist who released a serial murder considering him safe to return to society only for him to on another murder spree...
Agreed. I've always gotten a distinctly "I'm just a simple caveman lawyer" vibe from him, and this response only exacerbates it.*

* Great SNL character, btw: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfrozen_Caveman_Lawyer
How would your comments apply to the use case of distributing GPL software derivatives instead of digital movies?
Yea--I had a friend who used to say the same thing, but he
went to UC Santa Cruz and did too many drugs. He would come
home on breaks, and the damage was very noticeable. He's fine now, actually a programmer I think, but I miss the dude he left in Santa Cruz. (I think he did too much acid? I'm
pro drugs, but thought I would pass this along as a cautionary tale.)
This has no legs, obviously. As Lemley points out, one of the basic principles of trademark law is that the mark must function as a source identifier. You can't even trademark "t-shirts with 'pi' followed by a period" if it's used in a context where it's not functioning as a brand.
There is an interesting race/gender intersectional aspect of the "not enough women in the pipeline" problem that gets thrown around on HN so often. They're discounting thousands of Indian and Asian women who are entering the industry every year, especially at the graduate level. Where do they end up working? Mostly in big cos. Why? You guessed it - startup "culture". As an anecdote, a few weeks ago, a very good Indian friend of mine started work at a hot SF startup (their backend is in Go!). In her second week, she was asked not to heat up her food in the microwave because her food 'smelled'. If that wasn't enough, her teammates pressured her to drink a Vodka shot after a major deploy (which is apparently, customary). Never mind she's never tasted alcohol in her life. She quit in her 3rd week. This is not a single anecdote. As an Indian person currently working at a startup, I can tell you first hand that the big cos I've worked at are far more culturally sensitive and accomodating to POC.
By that logic smartphones haven't really killed the feature phones either.
My brother just graduated from SCAD
48% of the land in that county is owned by the federal government. It hammers the tax base:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lane_County,_Oregon#Economy