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The reason you are having problems is that the first monitor is selected by the bios at boot time. If there is no monitor attached, it has to make the 'first' monitor the one on the laptop. If the laptop lid is closed, it may pick the external as the first monitor.

Generally the easiest way to get this done is to have nvidia graphics and use nvidia-settings. If you have some less well supported graphics setup, welcome to the world of linux!
Is there a PDF version of this? Or a way to read PS without installing new software? I'm on a computer that is not mine.
That actually makes for a better point then: not being 'infinitely aware' of what the machine is doing allows you to pay more attention to everything else. In the case of the iPad that means you're free to focus jus on the web, movie, game, app, music, etc. That's a good thing. That's the point.
Agreed that it is ugly. We never finished the first one because we felt that the nine new ones we are building are much better - they have trim, will be painted decently, use less whiteboard on the interiors (and exterior), have bigger windows, fit through our dock door for moving in a few months, etc.

And, yeah, our office space sucks for these right now, but is really, really cheap. We decided to do it where we are right now to get started with a 1.0 version of Developer Town, but we're moving in 6-9 months to the desired space (a high-ceilinged warehouse space that will contribute far more to a Truman Show "town" feel.)
University teacher is already there.

I doubt software will get there since it is too much of a free market. Before we get there, wages will drop, people will leave the field (or not enter it), and equilibrium will reestablish itself.
Going to show that the three most dangerous words in medicine are, "In my experience..." They are both a blessing and a curse.
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I find the mac constricting.

It's like new underwear: At first it's constrictive, but after a while it becomes a part of you.
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while Obama does seem to be increasing funding, he is reducing long-term obligation. The tangible benefits from going to space are small versus universal healthcare, solving environmental problems, etc.
The iPhone doesn't have a cursor, it'd be silly to think that the iPad would.
Here's Theora running on the chips used by the Droid, Nokia N900, Palm Pre etc.

http://www.schleef.org/blog/2009/11/11/theora-on-ti-c64x-dsp...

Generally, this "hardware" decoding argument is bunk. It's just software in conjunction with a DSP. If your vendor gave you proprietary software that you can't update (and maybe they can't either if it's 3rd party) then that sucks, but it doesn't magically make it "hardware".

Note the big thing holding it back from even better performance is private APIs that they can't yet(!) use in open source code, not any lack of "hardware".
How old are you? This kind of stuff has been around for many years. Charging for it would probably fall into Google's 'evil' category since it is so simple to do. It's cool, but you didn't invent it and you don't own the idea.

That's no reason to stop what you are doing, though. If you can get a user base and keep improving the product and making users happy, more power to you.
We are worried that the houses contribute to isolation almost too much. But they are designed to have teams roll them into circles so the windows line up, but not directly. So your line of site to the left and right is clear of distraction, but merely leaning forward let's you speak with team members on either side. Trying to find that right balance between instant collaboration and total isolation. :)

We also can park a table with chairs in the middle of the circle and since every house has a 4x8 whiteboard on the front, you have a whiteboard lined conference room for the project team that is about 8 steps away from your chair.
Addmap.js: automatically analyse a text for geo locations and add a map
Looks like a more or less complete setup of a Moog Modular Synth ...
Every developer that's worked in a cubicle and sees the house in person says "I want one." We've had about 1 out of 40 who really didn't want one.
Has anyone challenged you on this?

1. We space vaccines out "just to be safe."
2. We test vaccines exhaustively and have decades of field data about them.
3. Children receive vaccines only against diseases which are very dangerous to children and not impossible to get.

But having a large catalogue of vaccines seems like a good thing! Vaccines are the cheapest way to fight disease: by priming your immune system so you can heal yourself.

Quite frankly, they're more in the style of allopathic miracle than any goofy herb or berry that some quack says balances energies. Think about it: they teach your body how to fight off infections by giving your body an opportunity to practice. This is the future, dude. Vaccines are biological hacking at the personal level.
there is no way that university of phoenix or its ilk will replace major universities. period.
With so many screens I would think it might be interesting to consider removing the bevels on the edges. The big black bar effect looks bad IMHO.

I have no idea if this is possible to remove while leaving the VESA mount on the back, or even if the entire monitor would fall apart.

Great, now I'm going to spend the day taking apart an old monitor.
PeeWee Herman Finds A Good Use For IPAD - The iTray
It is true that around the time the microwave started becoming a popular way of preparing your food there was a sharp decline in the number of people making their dinner from scratch. However, this decline of "chef culture" was accompanied with much larger political and social change, most notably the feminist movement. It used to be the woman's job to slave over a meal for the family every day, but as women started seeking equal rights, the microwave and TV dinners became an engine for emancipation, a way for women to maintain their household fed while cutting down on housework.

My point being, while technology can enable and accelerate social and cultural changes, it usually is not enough. Usually there must also be a "real" movement where that technology fits. I think this applies to the iPad.
If you are joking, it is a funny joke.
What does the Sun Oracle merger mean for Java?
Can't you use SMS?
I'll keep this up for a bit:

http://civicit.com/~tvon/files/bcrypt-paper.pdf
Ok, so 12 years after Deep Crack they've managed to get triple its performance. I can't say that I'm very impressed.
Actually, after some googling, I've discovered a sequel to bcrypt:

http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html

This algorithm is not only provably computationally hard, but provably requires a lot of RAM. Since RAM, and the bandwidth thereof, (unlike password-cracking chips) is as cheap to the consumer as it is to the NSA, you can set your RAM requirements very high to give them a very hard time.
Don't downmod me because you disagree. Reply and tell me why I am wrong.
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Ask HN: a website to make mockups of your site that was on here some time ago.
I am looking for a website that was, if I remember correctly, posted here for review about two weeks ago. It was a website for making mockups of your site. I tried to find it, but my Google-fu is weak today. Can anybody help me?
The iPad is strangely antisocial
I'm pretty sure that traditional Chinese medicine worked (still does?) that way.
The iPad is the iPrius: Your Computer Consumerized
Digital compass
Assisted GPS (Wi-Fi + 3G model)

Looks like both models have A-GPS
Trapping a Transcendental (take 2 - sorry)
In a more general sense, increased productivity means more value is created per unit cost. This could mean the same value with less jobs; it could also mean the same amount of jobs with more value.

A growing pool of displaced labour is also a growing un-tapped resource (or a growing revolution, depending on how well society manages it).
Do a blog post about this. I think it's a question everyone has had at some point. How much of the bezel is really neccessary? Can it be removed DIY?
Continuing the series started in response to this:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1070604

This was my first response:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1071734

And this newest item lays the groundwork for talking about the questions raised here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1071748
Bill Gates pledges $10bn for a 'decade of vaccine'
Educate students -- lecturing doesn't work. Best is working from the best material in small groups of peers and having help available from graduate students.

Socialise students -- learning to get on with people is best done with friends.

Networking -- done online.

Research and innovation -- yes. that's what universities are about.

Optimum path for students is now online self-study undergraduate degree. Can complete quickly or as slowly as required. Then go to university if you want to do a PhD.
Nobody's labor is worth as little as $5/hour. That's not a living wage anywhere in the US, and as a result it borders on slave labor to hire people for that little. The high price for small businesses is, however, a more realistic problem.
PBKDF2 uses HMAC the same way that multiplication uses addition.
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Was it http://balsamiq.com/ ?
I think the rails community, in general, is rather unapproachable from the outside.

I might not have phrased it that way. The community is very open about helping new developers.

However.

The documentation covers the mechanics of using Rails but you have to know what you're looking for to find anything. Most of the best information is in blog posts or presentations, has a shelf life of 6 to 8 months, and the only semi-reliable way to access it is Google.
By what process do you come to the conclusion that no labor is worth as little as $5/hour?
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The amount of vaccines are not a problem. If a kid puts a dirty toy in their mouth (something kids will do all the fucking time) they will be exposed to many more pathogens than the standard schedule of vaccines.

If anything we should be celebrating the fact that we have lots of vaccines available and hence the capability to control lots of maladies.
This algorithm is not only provably computationally hard, but provably requires a lot of RAM

Almost right. There is a lower bound on the time-area product, but not a significant lower bound on the area.
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This is sad and true. The only way out for governments historically has been to inflate the currency to cut labor costs. It's like people need a government for them to have someone to lie to them.
Have you ever tried to delete every file that a .pkg installation creates on your hard drive, good luck! I think this is what he was trying to say, even slackware has a better package management than OS X... MacPorts mitigate this for some software but not all, but I still prefer pkgsrc.
that's what i wonder. if I just dive in and say no more MS forever, i'll feel better about it in a few years.
There was a story yesterday about using genetic programming for automated debugging. Granted, its probably not putting out the best code in the world but if it works isn't that what business is going to truly care about (maybe its the sliced bread of software development, in that it sucks compared to bread from a bakery but you can still make an edible sandwich from it)

While debugging is only a part of the software development process, it seems like it creates an evolutionary path for automated development.
IPad UI Roundup
> if you really don't trust your hosting company

That is not the case this protects against
How Software Engineers and Designers Can Increase Their Focus
There are a lot of states without minimum wages. They are cheaper to live in and, believe it or not, workers make more than pennies per hour.

The second point you bring up is worth discussing too. Between payroll taxes, health insurance, and social security hiring people is ather expensive.
Man, a lot of those sound familiar. A lot of hard-coded path problems are especially annoying since the official Django documentation often tells you to do it that way.

On a semi-related topic - I have an old 0.96 Django app that was using an old database migration framework that isn't supported in the newer versions of Django. For that framework I wrote the Django migrations in manually generated SQL. Anyone know how I could update to django-evolution or South with this hand coded SQL and still preserve my existing data?

The documentation for django-evolution says:

> Django Evolution imposes one important restriction on your development process: If you intend to make a change to your database, you must do it through Django Evolution. If you modify the database outside of Django and the Django Evolution framework, you're on your own.

Which makes me think I can't use that.
Do you think that cost of labor has any connection to prices, which , in aggregate, creates the cost of living in any particular place?

In other words: higher minimum wage = higher prices = higher 'cost of living'

As a thought experiment, would you support making the minimum wage $1000/hr. If not, why not?

Honestly, the concept of a 'minimum wage' is one of the stupidest things I can imagine.
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Nature is one of the top scientific journals out there -- awesome to see them covering barefoot.

I've been wearing Vibram Five Fingers and running on the fore- and mid-foot for about two years.

Running barefoot and landing on your heel jars your entire body (knees in particular) and isn't sustainable for long distances. Cavemen certainly didn't run this way, and we haven't evolved fast enough for our optimal mechanism to be any different.

There's plenty of evidence that humans have evolved to be better long-distance runners than any other animal. The amount of impact energy returned by our tendons is highest, and human ultrarunners can go over 50 miles in one sitting.

For a couple weeks, my calves screamed and my feet were sore as they strengthened. Then after a month I started to get used to running on the balls of my feet. After two months, I felt totally comfortable with the new style.

Also, my trouble with Illiotibial Band Syndrome disappeared within two weeks of starting to run barefoot.
> There aren't as many pseudo doctors as there are pseudo scientists.

Are you sure about that?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_medicine
Although I'm not in your situation, I've also been wondering how to contact specific people inside google.
By virtue of the fact that it's not possible to make enough to provide food and shelter on that amount (an untested hypothesis on my own part, admittedly). If someone is not trying to make a living then there well may be labor that is worth that little, but I'm not sure how you would make a meaningful distinction to avoid exploitation without a ton of other, more onerous regulations.
Easy to say "we'll make it available online." Not all that difficult to implement either.

But doing it well so as to be engaging as well as educational is very difficult. On par with finding extraordinary teachers.

There are many instructors at the university level. Then there are those few we all remember. It's no different with online instruction. There's a lot of material already, but then there's those few gems of production that truly educate.
If I recall you can't use any scripted languages on the ipod as part of the developers license. Has that changed?
Just a few weeks ago it was announced that autism can be diagnosed very early via brain scans: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100108101421.ht...

Now it's only a matter of time before this technique should definitively prove that autism is there before vaccines so that the autism/vaccine link can be finally and thoroughly be tested (and likely debunked).
New to me :)

I love it
He is joking, and it is funny, but it's not original of a joke. It's common for paranoid conspiracy theorists, to take any evidence of disproof and spin that as further proof.

Kind of sad that it got downmodded. Oh well.
The last time I tried it, it was really difficult to do with separate video cards, but not hard at all with one video card with two outs.

Granted, I'm fairly certain that the difficulties had more to do with X.org than with Ubuntu, per se.
your mistake is in believing that all work is worth enough to live on -- but it isn't.

There is a lot of trivial work to be done that isn't worth rent+food+utilities+... There are things I'd pay someone $5/hr to do but not 50% more than that. It's a huge gap.

At one point in history, Luxembourg had the highest unemployment, largely due to the $10/hr minimum wage, which was the highest in the world at that time.
Still exploring. I'll post something when it actually works.
engadget got it wrong. They are 23 inch screens at 1920x1200. Not an impressive deal at that price. if they were 30 inch at 2560 it would be outstanding
What can I say? Pico Computing likes to brag and Dr. Dobb's published an article about it. As you said in your first comment, there's nothing new about this.
maybe he read the singularity is near too many times while stoned?
You could probably write something to expire the salt and next time that user logs in providing their plain text password a new salt could be generated and a new hash could be saved.
It was on HN. but the title was only panopticlick, so I figured people may have skipped over it, and it's relevant to this conversation.
Minimum wage is there for a reason - to protect workers from exploitation. We will always have people who lack education and work ethic, then you have immigrants who are not necessarily familiar with a language - all these people are relatively easy to exploit, and they are still human and deserve access to certain basic things (food, shelter, transportation, heat, etc.).

While the educated and ambitious are not worried about the minimum wage, it helps a great many people survive.

Furthermore, very cheap labour (as well as subsidized labour) reduces the incentive to innovate and automate, which I am sure this forum is keen on.
I have to admit that I have a single ATI 4850 and it was a real pain. Once it was setup and working, I than had some black screen and losing all possibilities to change anything because the console was to the black screen.... anyways it wasn't that simple because on some other OS you simply need to go in the Screen configuration and that's it. In Ubuntu the Screen configuration had only 1 of my 2 screens. So... I guess it's not up to the simplest it can be.
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Of all the primates, only humans have giant Achilles tendons and glutes, both of which are distance running adaptations. Ditto for our highly efficient sweat-cooling system.
No, I'm just serializing dicts. Any user input is already in a string, so sanitized. I also usually make helper functions to get/set things in the dict, so I don't operate on the field outside the model often.

This snippet is really helpful:
http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/513/
Until middle school I ran toe-first and also walked toe-first, or at least definitely not heel-first -- that changed when I joined the marching band.
How do you determine the "safe for work" part? And what constitutes safe for work? I think my work is a lot more tolerant than some others, esp US based.
Some day someone will write a tool which can determine an application (eg, on Windows) is destructive, by recursing into its code and finding all file accesses. You could easily monitor ever application running and make sure it doesn't, eg, write to c:/Windows.

So there are other ways than requiring the hardware manufacturer to vet safe software at the expense of the rebels and tinkerers.
It's H(k, m) that's trivial to break, not H(m, k) (where the attacker has no control over the final block of the hash). H(m, k) is also much weaker than HMAC, but in trickier ways.
Not only is heel planting unsustainable for long distances, it is also extremely uncomfortable when running any distance. If you're planting poorly in forgiving, modern running shoes, you can get away with it. Switch to Five Fingers however, and you're immediately aware of a bad foot strike position. For me, this kind of feedback was exactly what I needed to improve my stride.

For the mountain bikers out there - think of a full suspension bike versus a hardtail. The full suspension is undeniably a smoother ride, but it's universally agreed that a hardtail forces you improve your technical riding, since you don't have all that squish to eat up your mistakes.
MSI plans to launch an US$500 tablet PC in 2H10
There aren't two sides to this debate. There's established medical opinion, backed up by substantial evidence, proving that vaccines are both safe and responsible for saving hundreds of millions of lives.

The idea that there are two sides to the debate gives anti-vaccine activists more credibility than they are entitled to.

Vaccines work and are safe. They don't cause autism and anyone who says that they do is at best deluded.
Right. I think the current max is [5 blades](http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33930).
I think he means, from the anti-evidentiary viewpoint of the conspiracy nuts.
Which iPad 3G data plan should you buy?
sure you can, here's how
$5/day on food
$10/day rent
$5/day utilities + entertainment
$2.50/day transportation

$22.50/day or $8,218.13 per year in expenses. At $5/hr, you are making $10k a year for a full time job w/ 2 weeks vacation.
Come to think of it, I think Hacker News works like this.

When you upvote and need to sign in, the code to execute the upvote is stored to be executed once you sign in.
You might want to re-read the article.

- This is v1 of the concept.

- They're moving to a warehouse with high ceilings to put these in.
I think it's a valid point- we have this tiresome parade of articles claiming that the future by necessity is one in which we pay apple a toll, forever, and that open systems are dying.

Android is a counterpoint. So is the OLPC OS, for that matter. You can have an open, general purpose computer that's also turnkey in operation.
Reality: you speculated on real estate and lost. You can not afford to own a home anymore. Rent.

Look at the silver lining. Due to ridiculous cultural issues in the U.S., you got to live well beyond your means for quite a long time.
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Cigarettes May Cause Infections
From developing for the iPhone the most notable thing I have learned is that the relationship between UI ease of use and UI complexity is very different than for a desktop. A few touches and a swipe on the iPhone becomes a few clicks and a drag on the desk top. By increasing the screen size available for touch based UIs I think the iPad and its successors will eventually replace laptop and desktop computers for most people.
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Global 2000 CIOs are using telepresence and virtual reality modeling to reduce costs.
Oh, it's possible to provide food and shelter on that amount (depending on what area you're living in, and dependent on you only needing to support yourself), but it's very hard to do so in such a way that one moves themselves forward in life, and it's practically impossible to do so in a way that isn't ridiculously depressing.

Sources: I lived on < $10,000/yr for quite a while.

It should be noted that I am not advocating reducing (or increasing) minimum wage. I think that the issue that people try to address via minimum wage is a clusterfuck of an issue that won't really be solved without a pretty large paradigm shift in how people acquire, or are provided with, their food and shelter.
I believe the pieces in Windows are already in place to do this, you can restrict an application to only be able to write in a preset set of directories, etc. What they need is an set of standards for applications that makes this possible, and then for application installations to use that by default.