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FireTune is freeware utility from TotalIdea software to improve the speed of Mozilla Firefox.Browsing speed can be rapidly increased with other many options within the browser.

But rather this is One click Optimization with FireTune.This not only tweaks the values of delay,pipelining but also some innermost configurations to improve it's peek performance.

FireTune supports Firefox v1.x,2.x,3.x.This not only optimizes but also synchronize Firefox performance with Computer speed so as to prevent the browser from sudden crash that can be due to over processor speed or memory utilized by the browser.

It has 6 options ranges from Fast/Slow Computer with Faster/Slower connections so as to suitable for all low as well as high performance computers.Just select your Browser profile and Click Tune it button to optimize
I think I am weird in the sense that I have Amazon Prime, so technically I could have had the book sooner by not waiting for the Kindle version (without much extra expense). I don't really understand why "1 click send-me-a-dead-tree" is different than "1 click email-me-$10-worth-of-text", but somehow it is. Maybe it's because I am out of space on my bookshelf and don't want to buy another :)
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i think it's an interesting ethical debate.

regardless of the moral judgment (I personally think its a fine business), it's an interesting data point that neither highland capital partners nor general catalyst have confirmed the financing, despite its size and high profile.
Focusing a beam of particles that can fly through a planetful of stuff without interacting with anything is a little difficult - the beam is generated in the relevant direction. The NuMI facility that generates the beam mentioned is several hundred meters in length - not something that's easy to point at arbitrary parts of the world.
and you have to give them your fingerprints which i'm assuming will then be on file for any other law enforcement agency to use.
Funny, I did the same thing. I was so thrilled with all the hype surrounding barefoot running that I did 7 barefoot miles (on pavement) the very afternoon I purchased my FiveFingers.

Holy fuck that was a bad idea. Bear in mind I am a semi-serious runner who has no problem doing a long, slow 13-15 on any given day. I haven't had significant soreness from running since I started, back in high school.

Well. That was before I ran for an hour on my tippy toes. I was partially disabled for a week. Same thing--calves felt like they got hit with a hand grenade, ligaments FUBARed, also some gnarly blisters on the soles of my feet (turns out asphalt is hot in the summer).

In spite of this I definitely could see why it's better for you; heel striking is just not an option and you sort of prance instead of planting. OTOH I am among the lucky 20% who have never had a running injury because I tend to tread pretty lightly anyways. I think it's still possible to have a healthy stride in shoes, but going barefoot forces the issue: everything else hurts like a bitch.

I have yet to try the anti-shoes out again. The buzz continues to crescendo so I probably will, but let this serve as a warning if you're thinking about trying it out: start slow on these, now matter how much of a badass you think you are.
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In all fairness, how can anyone compare Peter Norvig and Ron Jeffries on the same level?

One is an AI genius and the other is a XP coach. They are on very different levels intellectually.
I've never seriously run barefoot, but I can confirm that it improves your balance and form to walk barefoot as well.

When I had issues with my hiking boots on the Appalachian Trail, I took up barefoot hiking and noticed an immediate change in how I stepped: more on the balls of my feet and less on my heels. And you'd be amazed what your feet can get used to; the first two weeks were hell, but about a month later the rocky, sharp, debris-covered ground didn't bother me at all and in fact I had LESS foot fatigue than I experienced while wearing boots.

You do get some serious calluses though, which as a female I was less than happy about...
And then there are these guys:

http://shitcreekconsulting.com/

See also (perhaps NSFW):

http://gapingvoid.com/2009/09/24/shit-creek-consulting-2/
I have seen this argument being made frequently here recently--that the "AI" that we have produced is not "real" AI. This is understandable true in a way, since after all, AIs cannot do many of the things that natural intelligences can do. And so there is this perceived disconnect between the weak AI that we have (rules, heuristics, belief networks, bayesian inference and friends) and the strong that we AI (magic?).

But there is a similar disconnect that looms between the rudimentary intelligence of simple organisms and the more sophisticated intelligence higher mammals. Many researchers have noted this taken the insight that with a simple set of rules you can get complex behavior. This has lead to something of a revolution in ML, robotics and neuromorphic engineering. If this analogy holds, then it may be that the distance between weak and strong AI will be bridged in the same way that the distance between single celled organisms and primates appears to be bridged: by iteratively building complex systems on top of simpler building blocks. There simply won't be a secret sauce to be found, but each layer of complexity will allow for increasingly sophisticated behavior.
in my mind, it is unethical. it relies on its users being apathetic or not particularly smart. the payments sent out are intentionally low/minimal. and for those that are smarter and motivated, it makes the process by which you appeal your low payment difficult and convoluted.
Yes, and?

In this post and your next one you present an argument for why discriminating on the basis of sex is more rational than discriminating on the basis of race in terms of who you are attracted to. You seem to think that I was arguing that discrimination on the basis of sex is exactly like discrimination on the basis of race when it comes to picking romantic and/or sexual partners. Perhaps I was unclear due to brevity but that's not what I intended to say at all.

My point was that we should refrain from judging people for having racial preferences in who they want to date for the same reason that we should refrain from judging people for having sexual/gender preferences in who they want to date: because nobody really controls who they are attracted to, because attraction is a very personal thing that is based on a whole host of factors, some less rational than others, because there is no basis for saying that any particular set of sexual preferences is "right", and because saying that people ought to be attracted to people who they aren't just leads to alienation and unnecessary grief.

All of these preferences probably meet the technical definition of various forms of discrimination, but the words we have for those types of discriminations (rightfully) imply a certain moral judgment about the person being described which I think is inappropriate in this instance.
Yup. When I see a real-time demonstration showing a bear catching a frisbee (probably, but not definitely, while jumping out of a shark-threatened helicopter), then I'll believe it.

Edit: I'll also believe it if anyone on this site claims to have seen same.
i agree with your second point (that a difficult & convoluted process is unethical) but lots of businesses rely on users being apathetic or not particularly smart (real estate agents, godaddy.com, etc etc)
Craigslist actively codes against aggregators I believe.
I'm sorry if I seemed like I was implying that hackers are polymaths, because I don't think that's the case at all. I think that there are aspects of being a hacker, and being a polymath that are common. A hacker is not somebody who "codes" HTML, a hacker is somebody who is driven to understand some facet of their environment on a fundamental level. Hackers compulsively wrap their heads round difficult concepts ("grokking", so to speak).

I feel like that compulsion to dive head-first into something is a feeling that hackers and polymaths must share.

I also didn't mean to imply that I was a polymath. I don't even really consider myself a "monomath". I am still very much a student.
So glad the downvote maxes at -4

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There definitely is a difference between Absurdly Profitable and Evil, but Cash4Gold is Evil. They mislead and try to exploit their customers. When two people enter into a deal they should be trying to reach a mutually beneficial deal, they shouldn't resort to underhanded techniques.

For instance, when companies offer mail in rebates that are difficult to redeem (must jump through a lot of hoops, takes a long time, etc) they are misleading you. It's just like a mechanic overcharging you because you don't know how much it should cost.
Whoops, it's spelled Strongtalk. Arrgh!
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if it's this simple, why didn't Pownce take off? Hell they even had access to all of digg's power, and still had to shut down.

the reason digg took off was that he was more or less the first in that niche, and he had the power of his tv celebrity to drive that initial amount of early adopter traffic
For a content site, there are few options available for monetization beyond ads

I run a number of content sites in my niche. They're all monetized through promoting my software, which means that even if 97% of the people who come to the site never pay me money I'm still sitting pretty.

In my case, the software antedates the content sites, but one could just have easily made the transition from publisher to software vendor as the other way around. (Or hired someone to make you the software, or made an arrangement to white label previously-existing software, etc.)

This doesn't help if your content sites are pitched at a market which does not pay money for goods and services, of course.

Incidentally, the economics of advertising your own product versus CPC ads are quite compelling. I routinely pay Google $2 CPMs for inventory on 3rd party sites, so let's accept that as typical in my market. Of that $2, Google keeps a buck or so, so the content publisher sees less than $1.

My own effective CPM (sales / visits * 1,000) bounces up and down depending on what flavor of search terms I'm doing well on, but for many of my content sites it is in excess of $20. As much as I'm indebted to AdSense for giving Webmaster Welfare to the folks who send me a lot of my traffic, I'd have to be insane to put it on my own sites.

As an added bonus, its easier to get a link to a site that doesn't have AdSense plastered all over it, because it can be seen as non-commercial even if is essentially one gigantic ad. (This was somewhat surprising to me, but there you go.)
Haha, yeah I think that's normal. It's hard to set aside that "I'm a little kid again and having fun" feeling that you get from running around barefoot or near barefoot.

I paid more of a price for my first actual barefoot on a track a few months ago. One thing about that - your feet go a bit numb, so it's hard to tell if you're hurting yourself. I ran 2 miles easy and ended up with some blisters, but nothing too serious. (interesting note: Running with shoes, you tend to get blisters on the ends of your toes and can lose toenails. Running barefoot, you get them on the bottoms of your toes where callouses should be). Following that, I know to be much more careful, and have been slowly working barefoot runs into my weekly running.

My first run in the Five Fingers was just an easy 3mi loop around my neighborhood (my normal runs are 6-10). I still ended up running way faster than I intended to (they are light after all), but luckily no muscle soreness or other problems. Like anything else, I think the key is to make little changes - this week I may do 4, next week 5, and so on. I'm kind of eager to try to race a fall 5k in them.
> I have sympathy for the author insofar as some people (myself included) don't plan ahead that way.

I don't either. I pretty much always work on master. If I find myself down a deep path that should've been a topic branch, I make one then and reset my master back to origin.

> I've been playing with mercurial a bit recently (yes, heresy) and can see why the git guys despise it, it's just not as pure. The main thing that stuck with me though, is that even though it's roughly comparable to git in terms of features

I used hg heavily for a long time before ever touching git. I did a bit of work on an older project that used hg recently and found myself unable to figure out how to do something I often easily do in git.

I don't remember the exact details, but I ended up committing and tagging after doing a "trivial" change that ended up being wrong (I noticed before pushing). Rather than pollute my public history with garbage, I just wanted to undo the mess and go back and fix the brokenness and retag.

When I used hg heavily, I was very well-versed with the ins and outs of mercurial queues for doing simple fixups like this. Not having used it recently, I had to go to the manual because I couldn't remember which combination of q-commands would do a simple effective rebase.

I was especially sensitive here because the last time I was a heavy hg user, I did lose changes to queues because hg doesn't have anything like the wonderful safety net of reflog to allow me to just put my tree back in a prior stat and let me try a complicated merge/rebase again.
who cares if its evil or profitable, why the hell is techcrunch covering them in the first place? they aren't a web startup.
I thought they were using Python back then? Has anyone ever talked about the structure of Google v1? Code made public?
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That's a very good point. That is the feeling I have been getting during that past year from Krugman when I started reading his columns. I wanted to read him because of his reputation as an economist, but it is almost like he is parlaying that to push his political agenda.
Presumably, it wouldn't matter which side of the acoustic tiles the neutrino detectors are on. They could really even be on the inside of the hull. The only requirement is to have a large total surface area for the detectors.

What I wonder about is interference from the onboard nuclear reactors. Does anybody know how much in the way of neutrinos a typical naval reactor produces? Wikipedia indicates that reactors are typically big producers of anti-neutrinos.
Why doesn't Apple just implement something like ClickToFlash in mobile Safari? In other words, why doesn't Apple just provide the video experience while leaving Flash out of mobile Safari? (Without leaving Safari and going to another app.)

EDIT: I think I know why: poor Flash performance combined with the superior mobile user experience of a specialist app!
Some other HN user actually coded a Greasemonkey script to do just that: http://www.alexc.me/hnscore-another-look-at-post-quality-on-...

If you wanted to do it right, you'd need to collect a seed sample of articles you thought generated excessively boring/predictable comments. Then you could analyze them, generate grounded theory, and run the rules on the population of HN stories to look for false positives.

Any other recent examples of boring comment sections?
I'm going through this right now.
Except for real estate (which isn't all that bad) a lot of services like these still make it possible for a consumer to opt out with relative ease once they find out they're being cheated. With Cash4Gold, once they've melted your gold there is no going back.
As someone who has never really done pair programming but is kind of interested in maybe someday giving it a try, why is this the case? My impression was that the purpose was more to have a mind focused on solving problems at the same time as another mind is focused on finding issues with the proposed solutions, possible bugs, etc?

Why do you need physical presence for this to work?
Yes, when a command takes a couple seconds to perform, you don't consider doing it unless you have a really good reason.

Classic hg branching came into different forms: 1) a tree clone and 2) the hg "branch" commands.

1 can be very slow on a large tree and can often require you reconfigure your tools to go look in a new place.

2 is permanent. Your code now forever references the name of a branch so you have to stop and think about whether it's really the right thing to do.

In either case, anything that requires me to stop and consider the cost of an operation makes the operation less valuable. Where that cost kicks in varies for people. Is it minutes? Seconds?

As a former perforce user, there were definitely plenty of things I wouldn't do there because they weren't instant. In git, I tend to make decisions based solely on my desired outcome.
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Not being in the US, I first came across Cash4Gold through Cockeyed.com - Rob was even 'offered' a few grand to help recast their reputation - http://www.cockeyed.com/citizen/goldkit/reputation.shtml

Arrington's comparison to baseball hot dog vendors and $30 hotel wi-fi seems fair though. You kinda feel like you're being ripped off, but you do have choice, and ultimately that creates room for competition.

"We pay 65% of its value" may sound an unlikely marketing strategy to some of us, but it sounds like their target market is similar to the one targeted in Vegas' "Our Slots return 97%" campaign.
It doesn't appear TechCrunch linked to this article at any point:

http://consumerist.com/5349663/the-article-cash4gold-doesnt-...

Essentially, The Consumerist makes a strong case that the ads are misleading, that Cash4Gold systematically offers much less than their ads suggest, and that their staff are trained to support this scheme.

Specifically, the staff knows the strategy, their script walks through offering the minimum amount to avoid sending the gold back to the customer, and the staff are rewarded based on the number of customers they can reject.

When former employees spoke out about this, Cash4Gold sued them under flimsy pretenses (defamation). Then, when Consumerist ran an article about it, Cash4Gold sued them too.

Read the article and see if you can find any unfounded or untruthful claims that might be suggestive of defamation.

This is unethical at best, and evil at worst.
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for many people, they're sending in gold because they're in dire straits. they get that check in the mail and they don't have the time to go through the process to appeal. they'll cash it because they need to.

i feel like the process would be more ethical if there was more of a customer feedback process. like, if the customer were informed on the amount of gold and the size of the check before it was in their hand.
This is turning into a recurring topic on HN. Last time it appeared I commented that some traditional japanese split-toed shoes I have are super comfy to walk in, and someone responded that they might make really good running shoes. Well I haven't tried running in them, but I recently danced on a hard packed dirt field three days straight, 6 hours, then 8 hours, then 12 hours, in these shoes with a split toe and sole about 10mm thick if that. And aside from my calves aching for the next few days, my feet were very happy. In normal shoes my feet would have been in agony by the end of the second day.
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That settles it, I am going to have to try the barefoot run this week. I have yet to come across a bad overall experience by anyone who has run barefoot or used the Five Fingers or the Nike Free. I wonder if returning to lightweight running shoes after a period of barefoot running would help to improve form at all.

BTW - Light review and photo comparison of the Vibram and Nike here: http://skylertanner.com/2009/05/17/nike-free-vs-vibram-five-... for anyone interested.
Well, it is listed here: http://www.siggraph.org/asia2009/for_attendees/technical_pap... "Friday, 18 December | 9:00 AM - 10:45 AM | Room 301/302" Not sure what to think. Maybe they're writing in past tense in the same way sports sites write "such and such team played on Tuesday" even though it was Tuesday at the time of writing.
When I began using gdb heavily recently I was pleasantly surprised that it had this capability. It's really an amazing program, I wish I hadn't been so scared to use it before
37 Signals is ...

It appears that the temptation to misspell 37signals extends even to its parody, "37 Noise"---which clearly should have been called 37noise (or perhaps, to make the analogy more exact, 37noises).
I would settle for Inkwell using my finger. As an old Newton user who was very pleased with the recognition on my MP2100 and a MS tablet user (ended up getting RightPen because XP Tablet's recognition was not the "global" recognition system I was used to from my Newton days) I like using a stylus. OTOH, seeing how close iPhone gestures are to old Newton gestures I think it would not be a large jump for an iTablet to enable write-anywhere functionality via the multi-touch system and even enhance it slightly with the "multi" part in multi-touch.
Stupid people that post a lot will get in the top 100. That's exactly who I'm talking about. They aren't explicitly trolls, just de facto.
There is enough timeless content there to attract interested people anyway. Despite its retro look the site is still active to a degree, though I'm not sure how much original content there is. Many of the popular topics have been beaten to death and the conclusion, as always, is that the best solution or method depends on the problem. The arguments can be very engaging, but it goes the other way too.
The hilarious bit is that they dropped Java for Python, probably due to the massive levels of frustration encountered when trying to do simple things like this.
Or you could buy the version that doesn't lock you into a proprietary platform: http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219483

Just sayin'.