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That sounds like something I'd listen to and would be super useful, sign me up.

Adware vs Malware is an important distinction. No one here is claiming Microsoft are saints but what Samsung is doing (if true) is at best Lenovo level malicious negligence.

Wikipedia is causing controversy? Glad to hear it's still working.

On a more serious note, "Wikipedia is wrong" and "Wikipedia is doomed" really need to be separated. These clickbait headlines are getting excessively tiring, particularly if anyone is taking them at face value. A solid attempt at collecting the whole sum of human knowledge will obviously have issues given the nature of how we operate.

However, claiming some >current and developing< topic being misrepresented spells the doom of the best attempt at a concise and well-indexed source on human history, the development of our species, and the thoughts/ideals that our civilization stands on is a bit much.

Perspective, please.

Almost seems a bit low - thought this was taken 8 figures seriously.

And in the distance, a faint chuckle could be heard.

Jason Fried was amused.

For more info: http://www.csoonline.com/article/2687265/application-securit...

This should be fun

Thunderbird - multi-account Mail and RSS. Following around 40 feeds. Does the job nicely and still upbeat on TB's future.

What happened to all the applications and services for outsourcing HR departments in terms of payroll, benefits, ect.? -- thought there were a bunch more than Workday and ZenPayroll?

Getting a full list of those would be particularly useful.

Yup - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobin_tax You can make it very small to cut out almost all of these problems and it wouldn't be noticeable to any non-HF traders. It's not gotten very far in the US and is only partially supported in the EU (though I think there's something amiss with the EU proposal).

Any theories on user 15?

The amount of money lost is a little easier to get your head around when you see so many traders buying at relatively high prices towards the end.

You're not supposed to save and houses are supposed to cost multiples of what you could possibly earn. Low interest rates for extended periods of time do that. Without getting overly critical of Fed policies, you can also trace a handful of the other issues in this thread to that.

Someone needs to run them through the difference between Weaknesses and Threats. They've got plenty of threats even if they make it through this and ignoring them in the SWOT is laughable.

They're useful on a personal level but not on a broader level.

When you want to listen to some Drum & Bass, you already have a personal classification of the music style and artists that you're looking for. It's going to be different from someone getting into that genre right now but if you wanted to listen to what they wanted to listen to, I'm guessing you already have some personal term for it (Nu, progressive, modern vs classic, ect.).

When talking to other people and using music services, that all breaks down and you usually start going by similar artists or meaningful tags. Similar artists is an inefficient way to classify your music (both in your mind and in your folders) and meaningful tags works but requires significant effort to actually keep them 'correct' (and if they're not correct and just for personal use, you might as well use genre's).

For the Google QA person who is inevitably reading this: "timer for 23 hours and 59 minutes and 60 seconds"

They could've pulled it off but the Netscape 3.0 button was just a step too far.

YACKR - Yet another code keyboard review.

I think it's a bit overpriced (20-30$) but beyond that, different people value different things in their keyboards. This should not be a revelation to anyone whose been in an office pissing match over the subject.

If it made cool clicking noises, I'd be more interested. It makes a standard quiet cherry noise. Now if it was a complex white ALPS switch or something completely new, we'd be talking something genuinely interesting (or at least actually rare/difficult to come by).

I don't understand the fascination with clear/grey switches - blue/green's really aren't that loud compared to buckling spring's and you get the full double-dip feedback. If you're in a super-quiet office then I agree, it makes a difference - but why would you have an open office that didn't have a good deal of collaboration/talking/acceptance of noise?

The disable switches on the back of the keyboard are a very nice touch but beyond that, there is a lot from the ad that's standard fare for higher end keyboards these days. That price really needs to go down by 20-30$ for it to stay competitive beyond the initial rush of Atwood fans.

We got Ja Rule on the phone. Let's see what Ja's thoughts are...

From a recent HN post: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/06/d-wave-quantum-...

It looks like it's the real thing in terms of being able to do a lot of useful quantum calculations that can't be done as easily with classical computers. It's not the full deal in terms of being able to do everything a 'true' quantum computer should be able to do - sounds like it might be able to help the NSA out with their data problem though.

The rationale is justified. Not everyone is bullish on Hong Kong. They could've been inclined to do this already and this pushed them over but this isn't purely a political play.

Wikipedia has a failure which unearths some deeply embedded problems and then proceeds to fix them. This has happened how many times now?

Until I can get the same level of information (quantity wise) from another source, Wikipedia has immense value that fills a very large market gap -- even if they can't get their taxonomy of American authors quite right.

To say "Wikipedia’s about over" ignores the actual value of the site and greatly over-reacts to another mishap in the history of the user-run site.

"But what if I want to learn about the physics that drive hardware performance? The materials science behind the next generation of wearable computing? Or what about how to bring electronics manufacturing back to the United States? "

1 and 2 you can ascertain through intensive reading and finding the right courses (which could cost money) - you have to be a pretty good autodidact but if you are, they're certainly possible. If you're not, then college will probably be a preferable path for learning most things - even stuff that's easily digestible online.

3 certainly isn't locked in academia; whether you can 'obtain' the knowledge from the field either is the interesting question. I'd guess the best way would be to just fail fast/iterate and hope you get the key pieces quickly.

Probably rather accurately correlates to a professional review of the product.

Good design embodies good functionality. The two should go hand in hand.

You don't need your web hosting provider to look good on the backend as long as everything you need is there and fairly easily find-able (and that itself is good design). Doesn't matter if they provide an awesome service if you can't set it up and use it quickly and efficiently.

You also want your front-end consumer-facing application to look good, especially if you're trying to disrupt a market rather than create a new one.