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Just like this article, several other entities may be skeptical on assertions that North Korea is involved given the past involving Iraq's imaginary WMD...etc. Also, cyber attacks may be common in future, for whatever may be the reasons involved.

In future, if some Hollywood studio makes a movie on Russia's Putin or on China and if hackers claiming from the injured country do similar cyber-attack on that studio and If USA retaliates and if Russia/china counter-retaliates and if this spills into physical world, then we can have nightmarish situations/tensions and may be full blown war. Worse, another country may do that sort of attack from some other country to hide its trail. Hope proper sense and calm minds prevail to prevent such nightmare. But such possibility exists in theory.

As solution, world needs an international, independent, competent panel/forum/group to investigate openly/transparently all cyber-attacks and find out culprits rather than doing mere guess work. Also, evidence of the crime need to be put in public domain to avoid conspiracy theories. This can be on the lines of international court of justice/United nations ...etc. Since parties involved are entities like Sony which are not connected to national defence directly, we need not fear national secrets leaking out ...etc i.e. it can be done without impacting the sovereignty of the nations involved.

Without such arrangement, stability and peace of the world will always be in question for any cyber attack on any major country such as USA/Europe/China/Russia ...etc.

TL,DR: Cyber-attacks on economic entities such as Sony or Google in the past involving several countries need to be investigated by international body rather than a single country and evidence of the crime need to be in public domain to avoid conspiracy theories.
When companies get this big, intuitive interactions are out the window.
Somebody has to be the first to try it and spend som R&D on trying to get it to work.

During the last summers I've been reading and commenting at HN and other forums at the beach with the lousy browser on my ultra-slow Sony PRS-T1 e-book reader.

It's a pretty terrible experince, agreed. Scrolling and waiting for eink refresh every now and then, text input is laggy. Still I do it since it is so easy to read in sunlight!

I'm sure with a faster CPU to render webpages quicker and some engineering ingenuity to perhaps allow quicker refreshes but lower contrast it could become a real product for early adopters.

I'd be willing to pay $500 for something that is just a step above the current terrible level, and if it works great and is hackable maybe $1000.
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One other thing to factor in is the development of low maintenance firearms. That required the development of smokeless powder in the end of the 19th Century and "non-corrosive" primers in the 20th Century, although per Wikipedia it appears that mercury fulminate is non-corrosive but not as shelf/environmentally stable as the corrosive compounds.

Non-corrosive primers were state of the art in 1911 when the Swiss adopted them in their service ammo, but widespread adoption in the US was probably post-WWII. (The Soviets addressed this by among other measures chroming the important surfaces of the AK-47.)

So nowadays, unless you're using old surplus ammo, likely for a rifle, a gun is going to stay functional for many shots with little or no maintenance (like 100s). Thereby providing a lower threshold for the discipline required to employ one.
The Interview now available for streaming
My experience installing Linux on a recent macbook pro was not very good. It picks the nvidia card as the gpu and does not give me an option to switch to using the intel gpu.

It is true that OSX is a full unix, but it does not come with a package manager resulting in a subpar developer workstation experience out of the box. In practice I have never found homebrew / fink / macports to ever be as reliable as yum / apt / ports on Linux / BSD.

Also setting up gdb on mac currently is a bit of an exercise.
I'm not smart or experienced enough to know the answer to this, it's an honest question. Doesn't compiling things to javascript inherently limit what we can do? For example, if a feature is supported in some other language but not javascript then I imagine even if there were a way to compile to javascript, there might be a severe performance impact.

I guess what I am saying is that it seems like we are stuck with javascript for historical reasons and it's a shame that we aren't exploring other options. Of course, I can also completely see that sticking with javascript is the most practical option as well.
Just this site. Integration issue.
Most movies use a 180-degree shutter angle, which means the shutter is open half the time. http://www.red.com/learn/red-101/shutter-angle-tutorial So you get motion blur for half the frame time, and no light on the film for the other half of the time. The Hobbit movies (at least the first one) used a 270-degree shutter angle, so even at half the frame time, they got 3/4 as much motion blur in each frame as a normal movie. That might contribute to the odd feeling viewers had. http://www.fxguide.com/featured/the-hobbit-weta/
Welcome to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle[0] in the macroscopic world!

[0] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle
There are a lot of jobs that have very obviously been automated though. For example: secretaries. Sure the job still kind of exists, although they give them weird fake names so that people aren't insulted (executive assistant!), but it's a lot smaller than it was. It's just not that important when you have email and text messages.

Same thing with factory work. Yeah, you still need people.. but you need less people. Do we really think that all the people that got displaced from their factory jobs are suddenly going to become robot mechanics or something? Sure some of them, but I just don't buy this argument that technology always creates new jobs when it destroys the old ones.

There are also a lot of jobs that currently exist that I suspect are not particularly necessary, they're just convenient. You see this all the time: a manager will hire someone to do something that they just don't like to do themselves. A convenience hire, basically. As long as the budget is there, everyone feels good.

For instance: "project managers" (Different places call them different things). I'd define this role as people that don't actually have any hiring or firing authority, or significant design role, but rather, they're mostly in charge of client relationships. Useful? Sure. But mostly that role exists so that the people doing the actual work have a buffer between them and the client/customer. If the economy fell of a cliff again, we'd probably not have that many project managers.

I just think different economic systems make sense in different contexts. Capitalism was a pretty good idea when growth was the most important factor, but now the US Government literally sets extra wheat on fire to keep prices at a certain level. I mean if you're literally burning food and employing people in jobs that aren't that useful, maybe the whole "growth" thing has stopped making sense.
Sounds like less a laptop, more a luggable. Definitely not the thing Apple's going for. Used to like Panasonic Toughbook for the Humvee of laptops.
You would think if you're using the live secret code server side it would reject charge tokens coming from the public test code.

edit: To be clear I haven't tested this and don't have time today with xmas and such.
Of those, it seems like only TinyOS would qualify (a full userland stack that you can develop from) under the same qualifications that netbsd might qualify....

To be clear, by "true os", I mean a posix runtime, preemptive multitasking with threads and processes, memory protection.

Still, cool links (I'll save that TinyOS for later this week), and I like the username.
You don't even need an annual fee. Even a one-time fee is sufficient deterrent to blanket extension of copyright.

The old 56-year copyright term used to be split into two 28-year periods. You basically paid a one-time fee: half at the original registration, then half (adjusted for inflation) at renewal. If you didn't renew, then you got to pay half the fee for half the copyright term.

Only 15% of copyrights on books, periodicals, and music were ever renewed. The renewal rates were higher for maps (40%) and motion pictures (50%).

Thus, commercially-significant work was protected. However, the vast majority of work (85% of books!) only had an ephemeral cultural value, so the authors chose to take the fee discount and allow their works to enter the public domain.

Source: Divide 1977 renewals by 1950 registrations for each category. This is off-by-one (27 years instead of 28) because 1949 and 1978 tabulations aren't as easy to access. That's why I give round numbers.
Mozilla and KDDI Launch First Firefox OS Smartphone in Japan
It's true that there are plenty of possible explanations, but whether those explanations should still be possible as we head into 2015 is a different question.

Wintel boxes through the 1990s and 2000s coped with a much more diverse range of hardware and related drivers than the Mac ecosystem has ever had, and while certainly there was the occasional glitch, the track record was dramatically better for a very long time than what we see today.

This idea that widespread failures are somehow acceptable and to be expected is a bizarre change in mindset that seems to have taken hold in the 2010s. It is not in any way inevitable. It is just a result of poor specification and standardisation, bad programming, and rushing junk to market for commercial reasons when it isn't up to the standards we used to expect, often with some vague promise that any flaws will be corrected by on-line updates later.

I'm increasingly of the view that the Internet has actually been the worst thing that has ever happened to the software industry. It should be a huge advantage, but in reality it is often used as an excuse to ship bad code early and to impose unwanted updates, rent-an-app pricing models, and other user-hostile strategies.

If anyone still made software that does an important job well and comes with meaningful long-term support, my businesses would be throwing so much money at them right now. Sadly, hardly anyone making core business software actually does. It appears that I am part of a small minority, and so many people are willing to accept and pay for substandard junk that this has become the dominant software business model of this decade.

The most frustrating thing is that, since apparently there aren't enough of us for our money to swing things back in a more quality-driven direction, it's not clear what any of us can do constructively to make things any better now. Maybe when things reach their logical conclusion and people are actually dying because some 13-year-old script kiddie accidentally crashed their car by remote control, the wider public will finally get the message and start demanding acceptable quality again.
It's US only. I'd pay for it if I could now.
Hah, I've actually run CP/M on a DEC Robin! I wouldn't call that a "true os" by my (own, flawed, unspecified) definition because it doesn't have memory protection or preemptive multitasking.
I wish I had a use for this because the documentation is beautiful.
I don't mean to be critical, but it seems like kind of the wrong question to ask. Anyone who would answer yes to this question has already answered it in practice: I have a mac, and I could well install linux on it, but I don't. I used to use thinkpads when they didn't suck, and I tried linux but always had driver and media troubles (that was a decade ago and has absolutely gotten better, but definitely not perfect).

There are plenty of good computers out there, and anyone who would actually go full time linux has probably already made that decision.

So instead, ask who's put their money where their mouth is and purchased a personal computer to dedicate at least mostly to linux.

(Not me).
Wow, great find! Thanks!
Like sah88 says, on the server when you connect to Stripe with your prod secret key, it will reject tokens made on your test key.
Do you live in western Finland? I live in the east, and I don't remember ever seeing that.
What about System76? Aren't they in the exact market space/niche you're describing?

https://system76.com/
If this national lives in North Korean, there is no way he will dare such an attack without being instructed by the government. This level of freedom doesn't exist in his mind. And it doesn't make sense for a North Korean still holding the same ideology to live outside North Korea, he would either completely abandoned that or go back to North Korea.

25% of Koreans in Japan align politically with the DPRK - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongryon
Each game frame is a snapshot taken with an infinitely small shutter duration but displayed for 1/30s or 1/60s (vs one movie frame, which has a shutter duration of, e.g. 1/48s and displayed for 1/24s).

So over-framing game frames will not produce motion blur, it'll simply merge two still images together. You need to simulate motion blur (usually as a post-process). This of course takes more time to render, potentially lengthening the frame times.
Ask HN: How do you disrupt Silicon Valley and tech elitism?
I don't know, maybe I'm becoming jaded because I'm having problems with my own future but the more I look at the successful Silicon Valley style startups and personalities, the more I see elitism.

This isn't bad, per say, but I want to cheer for the underdog.

But when I see companies like Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, Google, and so forth rule the land. I wonder, does the underdog have a any chance of becoming a multibillion dollar success? Can the underdog rule the land?

Of course, there's Steve Jobs and his Apple but even that seems to fall under special circumstances. He didn't last very long at Apple before he got thrown out.

I hear hundreds stories of garage startups going from nothing to top dog but it looks like even those garage startups have an elite background. Even Paul Graham himself comes from such a background. But to his credit, some of his earlier YCombinator finds did not.

I'm looking for underdog winner stories. Like how many of the US East Coast companies were founded. People with no education and no help from the elite at the time somehow making it work.

Even Nikola Tesla has a more interesting story then many of the "innovators" I read about in Silicon Valley. He didn't rule in society but he was a master in electricity.
Corporate voice mail is a nightmare with the press 7 and 9 systems. If it was like a modern smartphone (e.g. Visual Voicemail) then it would be ok. At this point, I am trying to figure out what to replace the college's current Nortel[1] system. I think the mp3 e-mail voice mail would probably make people a bit happier.

1) why yes, the words "current" and "Nortel" should never be associated, but that's where we are
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Ask HN: Opinions on what success rate is enough for validation of a startup?
Hi everyone, on the Eve of Christmas and here I am posting a question on HN. There is an cool tool out there that proposes to experiment on startup ideas. The tools is http://www.javelin.com/experiment-board.html.

The opinions I would like to gather from you is what percentage of interviewed clients would you consider a success worth proceeding further?

Thanks and Merry Christmas to everyone !!
I've given the wrong impression if you think "toughbook" or "luggable".

There is the MacBook Air (an engineering marvel) and the MacBook Pro (a more sensible size). I want something like the MacbookPro but not aluminium (which is heavy and which bends and stays bent) but plastic (which is a bit lighter and absorbs impact better).
Labor dropout is more likely to be higher under current welfare schemes than a basic income, because of the high marginal tax rates present under the current system vs BI.
You dont talk about one thing. You have kids. That puts a huge amount of responsabilty on you and pushes you to work more.

> I'm always busy, because I want to wring every ounce of awesome I can out of life.

I do so too. I have never enougth time to read all the books and do all the project that I would want to do. Not to mention all the other stuff I would like to do.

Overall I agree with you, you really have to take some time, look at your live and figure out what you want, what makes you happy and what does not, and then changing that. This of course means that one needs some flexibilty, if you live with no savings and with a familiy one can not just drop everything and go on a bicycle world tour.
Most 8 bit micros don't have an MMU, so you can't have memory protection or virtual memory. That's a hardware limitation.
I have both an XPS and MBAir (2012 model).

I routinely boot the same linux-USB desktop distro on both.

The XPS is probably a bit faster (i7), and screen DPI is better. But, MBA provides and overall better experience.

The most glaring things that stick out in MBA favor is: (a) keyboard, (b) touchpad.

The XPS touchpad is really sub-par given the focus of the machine as a development platform. Often while typing, the slightest brush against it will cause the cursor to jump. This is not an issue on the MBA.
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wow, that looks beautiful! i used GIS pretty extensively when I worked in the public sector. I've sort of stopped doing any kind of mapping work, but this makes me want to find a project!
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Yes - it's always annoying when ram is soldered in no matter who does it.
Mavericks and Yosemite have broken Finders and some major crashing problems. Lion was also pretty horrible. I wish Apple would do another "Snow Leopard" so we can get back to a stable system. Yosemite also has some weird issues with SMB connections to servers.
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Completely agreed. I've been able to work quite effectively on a T520i -- but I've also experienced occasional frustration with the hardware integration. Every time I upgrade Ubuntu, I worry that I'm about to knock my system's stability off its precarious perch, and sometimes it happens. Things just aren't bulletproof.

For my next computer, I'm willing to spend the extra $1000 for a Mac, where I can believe that things really will Just Work™.
No.

The hardware is only part of the problem, and I think something like Dell's XPS 13 is of reasonable quality.

The problem is (as it has always been) that linux lacks the quality, polish, and application ecosystem to make it a suitable desktop environment (for me, at least).
I think it depends on the individual; I know I can't drive and pay attention to the radio or an audiobook at the same time. I could easily miss a red light.

And sure, commutes are routine, but you're not driving with the same people every day under the same conditions. I've lost count of the times I had to evade someone doing something stupid.
Stuck in elevator
How is the power management on the XPS? Does opening and closing the lid work decently?
Show HN: Tech Life IO, a blog about how to get programming jobs
Well, you can run many things without an MMU, the question is whether it will be at all pleasant to use without an MMU. What makes linux nice is not the fact that it allows you to run code, but it allows you to run thousands of pieces of code at once, stably.
(As an aside, Stripe prices bitcoin payments at 0.5% rather than 3%.)

I don't follow your description of Case 1. On Dec 18, to use the timing from your example, you have two options: (a) keep the $380 object (b) exchange it (via a refund) for $380 worth of bitcoin. These are the same options that you would have if Stripe was not in the picture: keep your funds outside of bitcoin or buy bitcoin at the market price. I don't see what benefit you derive from the refund API (beyond using it as a fairly priced bitcoin/USD exchange). Sorry if I am misreading the example!
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Have you(anybody else here) tried interpolation ? What's your opinion of it ?
It's got nothing to do with cost, which is IMHO a complete canard. Spec for spec, MacBooks are actually quite competitive in the market in which they compete[0]. I'd love to see a linux based laptop that is as well integrated and as well made as a Mac. It'd be great if it wasn't fugly too. If it's cheaper, that's a bonus, but in all honesty, I've yet to find a brand new laptop that costs less that £700 that isn't a piece of junk. Below that price, all sorts of noticeable compromises are made; from screen resolution to overall build quality.

[0]I do a lot of procurement in my current job and spec for spec, Macbook Pros actually sit in the middle of the market place based on cost and I argue that they are placed higher in terms of build quality than most other brands too. Extensibility is where they fall down massively, but then after 3 year, all our machines are retired anyway, by which time they are financially written off. For the record, I buy HP zBooks which are more expensive than Macs and in my experience not as well integrated with Windows or Linux.
I do exclusively use Linux Mint on a Macbook Air 13'' (deleted the Mac partition) and I am extremely happy with it so far. The hardware is great and there is support for pretty much every piece of hardware on the device.
A poor programming language does not entirely preclude the possibility of a successful app, it just makes it a lot more difficult to release a stable one.

For companies that can throw huge resources at their apps (e.g. google) the language deficiencies do not matter as much because they can be dealt with with extra work and testing.
I think biggest problem about Linux is X server. Without modern and fresh display server Linux desktop enviroments just trying to be alive with hacks and workarounds.
The Interview [YouTube]
Now available to watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed2kSuKqfz0

Official Google announcement: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-interview-now-available-on-google.html
Yep, and I probably will buy one of those once my MBP needs replacing.
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Google, Microsoft throw weight in fight against Marriott Wi-Fi blocking request
> Now the problem is that Lenovo is trying to be more like Apple and this does not go well with them. You can ask how much people are pleased with the new single button touchpads or how they like 16:9 screens instead of 16:10 screens or how they like the lack of Delete button.

I have one of those newer lenovos, and if the trackpad is their attempt to "be more like" Apple, they really have a very long way to go in terms of copying functionality. For one thing, Apple correctly understands that we humans have our thumbs (which, lenovo, is the part that most comfortably moves independently of the rest of our hand) on the inside of our hands, so perhaps that's why the buttons are supposed to be on the bottom and not the top, where pretty much any scroll + click activity requires two hands with the lenovo. It's a UX disaster.
Samsung TVs will play PlayStation games without a PlayStation in 2015
I'm sorry but arguing for filling the roads with uninsured drives is just sociopathic.

It's not sociopathic. There are (and were) countries where driver insurance is not compulsory. I lived in one, and it wasn't that bad. If you want to be sure that you get paid for damage, that's what insurance is for — insure yourself.
Well, to be pedantic, there are many reasons. They range all the way from comedy, right through to just being a stickler for accuracy.

edit - looking at it again, jcd748 failed on accuracy as the earth does not lack inertia but rather possesses it in great quantities. 8.04×10^37 kg·m2, to give a rough figure.
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Regression without negative examples
I cant use a Mac laptop because it doesnt have CUDA.