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It sucks for running. Have you ever tried to run with a phone anywhere but on your arm (with a sport band)? The nano comes with Nike+ which gives you just as much, or more, information as that Android app, is free, and does not require a brick in your pocket. The screen is too small to be useful for anything (ESPECIALLY anything i read via RSS) but music. Also, while running, holding a button to bring up music is not an option.
I got a nano because it takes my phone out of the equation. That way, I don't risk hurting my phone with sweat, rain, or an accidental drop/trip. This gadget involves a cheap looking strap, an expensive&tiny screen, bluetooth(battery life?) and still needs my phone to boot. Not to mention that that strap looks insecure and holds the screen where rain and sweat will inevitably get to it.
As for just walking around town, I already have a watch that has infinite battery (and is extremely durable) and I'm not about replace it with something that needs more maintenance and is more fragile on a flimsy strap.
Its probably not even waterproof! (which is somewhat expected behavior for a watch, aka taking it off/putting it on when taking a shower/going surfing/etc)
I would've been more impressed if sony copied the nano exactly, using oled.
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Yeah, his blog requires a trailing / on the url.
I'll second the recommendation for J.E. Gordons's Structures. The first and last chapters are wistful and heavily editorialized, but everything in between is excellent.
OpenStarts is creating site that allows micro-equity investments ($50 and up) for web-based startups, which is similar to crowdsourcing but where real equity changes hands. (To get around regulatory issues, companies have to register in the EU.)

The problem with investment management is handled via the site. It's a match.com for all stakeholders in a startup: the founders, advisers, investors, and they can designate an investment manager.

Innovation is naturally distributed. I think the tide is turning on the support for that innovation, and it's finally also becoming distributed.
the opening html tag is there....

right on line 170

Also the closing html tag is on line 791, followed by 43 more lines including another table
They're not, but they do. At least here in France, the main carriers put every single smart-phone under a NAT router. While IP hasn't ran out yet. They don't want their customers to run servers on their smart-phones.
Check out SwitchMarketing (http://www.switchmarketing.com/).

We've worked with these guys quite a bit and they do amazing work.
A friend of mine made some short films on a budget of around $3000 on average, and they're on IMDB. Also, they are shot on genuine film.
I really didn't want to reply to that (I think I've made my position perfectly clear already), but then I've got so curious that I just can't hold this question:

If you had some Lex Luthor powers, and there were 4 billion people destroying, I don't know, the ozone layer and forests, and refusing to believe in "science", and if your only way to stop them was to use your huge robot army and your giant space lasers as a military force against them -- would you do that?
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Ok, my previous comment ("Who cares?") seemed to be thoughtless or even offensive (~15 downvotes in 5 minutes), and I have to acknowledge that it lacked quite some arguments.

So let me ask: why does this news deserve so much attention to stand in front of HN? What interesting innovation, except the GUI, has brought this new OS release? Is an OS all about GUI and look & feel?

Generally speaking, I am just fed up with all this thoughtless media attention.
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I think the article is just fine. People learn things differently. For some, a "real world" example can help drive things home.
Perhaps in Chicago itself. But Chicago metro consists of suburbs that, yes, are chock-full of the disposable houses you think are atypical for American construction.

I used to have a house built in the late 60's, in Bloomington IN. By no means was it atypical. It was a ranch on a slab, 2x4 stud construction, drywall inside, and Godawful cheap paperboard siding. The windows were aluminum frames and had what I can only assume was a negative R value.

In Europe, people just don't build that way. Well, out in the boondocks, people might build a shack like that - but not in actual cities. Certainly not in a city the size of Bloomington. It's not a stereotype that Americans live in disposable houses, you see: it's just reality.
Here's a sneak peek..

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/30/qwiki-ipad/
How about blogging about starting a blog and how you go about discovering your goal. Some artists have a vision in mind before they start, but I don't think this is a requirement. You chose a medium to play with, sometimes the lump of clay reveals its potential after some experimentation.
Prediction: an influx of Latin students make English <-> Latin the most popular translation option.
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> that critical aspects like suspend/resume are broken, but not fixed.

Well... It works for me - Acer Aspire One 251, Dell E4300 and HP dv6xxx. Windows never got suspend/resume right neither on the Dell nor the HP. I never used the Acer under Windows, so, I am not sure if it worked or not.

It would be useful, regarding this bug, if people with functioning machines chimed in with lshw listings so a failure pattern, if there is one, could be determined.
Actually the IE team has talked specifically about partners before. See http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2010/09/20/early-...

"our top ten partner sites showcasing some of the new things you can do with IE9 are: Facebook, Agent 008ball, BMW Vision EfficientDynamics, IMDb HD Trailer Gallery, CNN, One Day in Beijing, BeatKeep, Amazon.com, The Shodo, and LA Surprise Flower-o-Scope."

Admittedly some of these sites I'd never heard of (although it doesn't mean they aren't popular). But you certainly can't deny Facebook, Amazon, CNN, and IMDB are legit top-tier sites.
Not true. If you have the details in your head, you can manipulate and compare them far faster than if you have to rely on an external tool. That means you can rehearse more ideas, faster, which will lead to a better likelihood of picking the best one.
There is a large class of problems that aren't worth writing in assembly but for which Clojure is (currently) still too slow.

Sometimes you just need something at Java's (or preferably Scala's) position on the power/performance spectrum.

That said, the way Clojure is improving, I think it will continue to asymptotically approach Java's speed anyway.
Should be possible via update-manager soon enough. Even major upgrades (6.04 -> 7.04 etc) have been possible for a year or two at least.
I wouldn't be surprised if google does a FB graph search on your email address and pulls in the current profile picture.
"Is an OS all about GUI and look & feel?"

Considering 95% of the world don't care about anything but how something looks and whether they can interact with it in a way that makes sense I would suggest that it is, to a large degree.

They also need a good foundation of course but too often do people in the OSS communities confuse having a solid foundation with having a winning product.
I think the "cost to society" would be more directly attributed to the increased time of travel for people and goods traveling on roadways.

The only increase in GDP that can be attributed to roadway accidents is due to the spending of medical care, which often times is loaned or from insurance, which is not a stable and reliable way to increase GDP over the long term. Overall, fatalities decrease GDP.
Yeah, of course.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
You sir get a gold star, The big reason that projects fail is "technology soup", everyone has to get their pet project or technology into the project. It gets worse the bigger the projects get. When you get to the enterprise where the big project are, you get governance and a bunch of design by committee. Where people who are not writing the code, tell the people that are "here is what you are going to use".

It is funny but every time I walk into a project that is "fad" programming I see failure. When I walk in a see a bunch of guys heads down, iterating and releasing the most crucial features first, the project always seem to succeed. Maybe the solution is less magic technology dust not more.
Markus & Ola, Co-Founders of AlternativeTo, Share Their Startup Story
This may be key; right now it's clear that your perceptions of the guy and the CEO's are very different. And the CEO does not have (enough of) a problem with this guy attacking and undermining you. I wonder how important the CEO
really views you to be.

I don't see much alternative to playing the political game or deciding that you won't/can't and getting out. I know from very harsh personal experience that no matter how important to the company you are as a techie, others may not see it that way and let you leave/push you out, even though that then kills the company.

A lot of it depends on the character of the other players and your personal relationships with them. Their not having reigned in this tremendously disrespectful guy says a whole lot to me, none of it good. Their inability to tell that he's a dud in important area (e.g. why are we still arguing stealth mode???) says a lot as well.

Or let's put it this way: if they can't see that he's bad, what makes you think they can see that you're good?

Final note: if you're small enough, you can't let this drag on too long. A single bad hire like this can be enough to kill a company; not just because of the mistakes he makes but because such companies don't have the reserves (time, motivation, energy, etc.) to deal with the whole mess.
Ask HN: Best book for learning ITIL?
I am seriously considering getting ITIL certified...and we all know certifications start with a big paperback :)
Any must-read in mind?
Thanks !
isn't it more likely someone or a group of people "contributed" this bad translation.

it doesn't even make sense.
Spherically symmetric means that it looks the same no matter which way you rotate it. You talked about a dense core, less dense middle-region planet, which is spherically symmetric.

If the planet had an ultra-dense region off to one side then it wouldn't be spherically symmetric and it would have gravity slightly stronger on one side than on the other... it's hard to imagine such a planet existing though.
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Angelgate takes on a whole new meaning
Most modern fonts are designed to work around limitations of the display medium. It even seems reasonable you could design a font to account for a bad display algorithm.
Does anyone still believe there are really any ground breaking insights to be made in these kind of self-loathing rhetoric articles?

Shouldn't there be more "You know what, sometimes just having something work is pretty much awesome" articles instead of everything fooling themselves that every programmer in the world needs to be a mini-genuis?
This really inspired me to write meaningful alternative texts (alt) on images. Never realized how important they were to the blind.
I suspect this must be a European thing then. I'm in London and I'd assumed that leaf blowers were a universal thing, and I had to google "supermarket bagger" - it seems like a weird gimmick, is this common?
The OP of the issue decides on which movies to watch based on the poster image's alt description. Movies can also be watched online.

Poster images for videos are also part of journalistic publications, where the poster also works as a still image and conveys meaning or illustrates a point of the story.
How Does a Cupcake Company Rock the Inc. 500 List?
Well yeah, you'd have to buy IPs in blocks of, say 100. If you don't buy them from an ISP, you'd have to buy them from your local RIR in /48 blocks!
there's a (superficially) similar problem in MS SQL Server/Windows Server. You can fix that by setting "lock pages in memory"
How to handle an aggressive interviewer
It seems to be an accurate quote from Vogt:

During a press briefing, Prof Steven Vogt told The Daily Telegraph, “Personally, given the ubiquity and propensity of life to flourish wherever it can, I would say, my own personal feeling is that the chances of life on this planet are 100 percent.”

which sounds rather excessive to me.
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What you are proposing is likely to trigger (or at least prolong) a dark age of the internet. And I'm not exaggerating the slightest.

If people have to pay for IP addresses, then the internet will be divided in two: those who can pay, and those who can't run a server. And I predict that the crushing majority of people who use the internet will be of the second category. This would obviously be a catastrophe for freedom of speech and even privacy.

The major win for v6 is enormous: an IP for everyone, and the possibility for a server at every home, which will at last give us the decentralized internet we should have had in the first place.
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From what I understand, an E Ink screen doesn't consume power when simply keeping an image displayed. Instead, the battery of the Kindle is only diminished by WiFi and Whispernet use, page refreshes (turning pages, typing, navigating, etc.) and book indexing.*

If the above is true, I assume Standby merely prevents accidental key presses and does not help maintain the battery life, right? After all, you can still send books to your Kindle while it is in Standby mode.

*Right or wrong, can anyone confirm this?
Hi all, this is my submission :)

I wrote this to get a feel for Facebook's APIs and see what fun I can have with a bit of Javascript. I'm not sure if it's worth developing any further, but any thoughts, comments or questions would be really appreciated.
Do you have any idea where it could be leading? I've been thinking about it on and off for the past few days but nothing comes to mind, I don't have enough context to form any opinion.

I'd sure love to hear what Schneier thinks about it.
Most human societies aren't stable enough for that. But visit most presently isolated communities, and you'll find that they're quite stable.
Just asking since I've only been using Ubuntu for a few weeks.
Is Google’s income from the iPhone offsetting its losses from Android?
"romanes eunt domus" -> "of the house of the Romans are going"

Sorry. Couldn't resist. :)
Another observation: Always video tape.
Is China intentioning pushing up the Yen to destroy Japan’s economy?
Does anyone know why user access_denied, who has a [dead] sibling comment to this comment, seems to have been "hell banned"? Showdead needs to be set to true to see the comments or profile.

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=access_denied

It disturbs me that, looking over past submissions and comments, there doesn't seem to be any egregiously bad behaviour.
It works for me on 3 different computers.
The Kindle is effectively "off" in standby mode. You can't send books to it, unless you use a USB cable, in which case it boots up in USB mass storage mode. Or is wifi still on on the Kindle 3?
Hijacking HTTP traffic on your home subnet using ARP and iptables
People will still need routers to serve as wireless access points, since the vast majority of web connected devices are connected via WiFi.
It's probably using "Church" or Italianate Latin -- i.e., Latin as spoken in the Vatican -- as opposed to academic Latin.

I like the fake-parchment effect you get if you translate from something --> Latin.
I remember reading that Google was very interested in getting FB's graph information.

That said, I didn't give them permission to connect my account with the account they found. It seems utterly not like Google; I have an easier time believing my iPhone did something unwanted.

On top of it all, my Facebook information is supposed to be locked down tight. I don't get what's going on.
Hasn't this guy heard of Facebook pages?
The Friend part of Facebook isn't for marketing, it's for making friends.
rummikub is quite fun. It's Rummy based (runs and sets) and re-arranging numbers and looking for patterns is key. No maths involved though.
It is easy, the one iptables rule that does it is in fact slightly longer to write than rule for NAT, but at least makes sense and does not involve words like "MASQUERADE" :)
This is the first planet which is firmly in the habitable zone. The last "potentially habitable" planet had a highly eccentric orbit that took it in and out of the habitable zone.

You can expect to hear this story once more: the first time we discover a planet in the habitable zone which isn't probably tidally locked. In another ten years we'll probably know dozens of habitable-zone planets and nobody will care about 'em much.

Still, what are you expecting to happen? With current technology all we can do is sit here and watch the star wobble. We can't get a direct image of the planet, we can't determine its radius, we can't determine its composition, or whether it has an atmosphere, and we certainly can't get there.

Actually the first time a transiting potentially habitable planet (ie one whose orbit takes it across the face of its star as seen from Earth) we will be able to determine its radius and perhaps within our lifetime its atmospheric composition (current instruments are almost but not quite good enough to get a proper absorption spectrum of a transiting exoplanet). So that's something to look forward to.
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Red dwarf planet Gliese 581g may host 'band of life'
He really doesn't understand Facebook.

He also, I think, doesn't understand spam. He comes from a world where paper scarcity offsets the desire of marketers to send out advertisements. The idea that marketing is so easy that it needs to be regulated and avoided unless your targets initiate it is completely alien to him.
Why read books if we can’t remember what’s in them?
Do founders need MBAs? If it's from Babson, maybe
I don't think it's either of those, though he was more towards the naive side of things.

I read this article as a documentary of how a spammer is born. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

No one likes to see himself as an asshole, instead we make decisions without thinking about the consequences to other people, only our benefits.
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Some of the comments say that @tizzers has provided reputable insider info about Linden before.

Techeye also claim they get a current employee to corroborate, though I have no idea how trustworthy that is.
My other half experienced something similar, though, not completely sure it was malice. Her experimental results she had gathered for 6 months were kept on ice while she performed the necessary steps for the next stage. Another grad student "cleaned" the freezer locker and left only her experiments out. She lost 6 months of work. That grad student denied all involvement even though that grad student had been seen pulling everything out.

It happens all the time, too.
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IMDB requires a theatrical release, e.g. film festival or wider release. It might seem arcane, but the system is human-edited
Season 5 how Marlo arranges meets and pickups was a good example of extra security.

SPOILER ALERT

Marlo (the drug lord) sent picture messages of a clock to arrange meetings. The hour and minute hands corresponded to the letter and number axes of a common Baltimore map and the second hand tells what page. The dealers would look up the coordinates on a map to find out where to meet. The cops broke it because they had (illegal) wiretaps on everyone's phones, and they had illegally allocated lots of extra manpower to tail all of the suspected drug dealers around the clock.

END SPOILER
Wasn't the historical answer that apple wanted Web Developers to be able to test their sites in a web-kit browser? If Chrome already existed - I wonder if Apple would have bothered.
> Despite the benefits of everyone having public addresses, there are also security downsides,

No there isn't. Not a single one. Just replace your old NAT by a clean firewall, and you're set.
Sweet.

This is an area Reg Braithwaite (AKA raganwald) has explored quite well:

http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2008-10-2...

http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2008-10-3...

with more links at the bottom of those pages.

Plus, an interesting visual guide to Smullyan's birds:

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs655/readings/mockingbird.html
Ever seen http://iampaddy.com? I like this site because: there are very few posts; all of them are quality; the design is engaging; it is very easy to follow the author on twitter; reading each article takes little time.

Looking at your blog then you have experiences, observations and advice to offer which could be valuable. Why not write one topic bi-weekly or monthly which focuses on a single theme, re-using your existing comments appropriately. Personally I found your posts light-hearted, interesting and engaging (with some refinement) but too random. As it stands, its not a blog but a collection of comments. I would get rid of all of it and start again. In answer to your questions:

1 - keep comments on. Why not?
2 - I prefer to see a list of articles rather than everything thrown at me in one page
3 - I think posterous will let you do what you want, having read other posterous blogs. Not sure how exactly
4 - I'm not sure all of the name works, although I like shlepp as a word.
5 - I'm not a seasoned blogger but like reading the occasional blog.