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Surreal! Headline: Big Surprise: RIM’s PlayBook Tablet QNX OS Will Replace BlackBerry OS in Phones

First paragraph: Surprising no one, a Research in Motion vice president confirmed this morning that the fancy new QNX operating system in its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will eventually replace the traditional BlackBerry OS in its smartphone
Many people are aware of this. It's been convenient so many times when needing to show a picture of some cute girl to my friends!
The reason I don't recommend dropbox, is that it's not clear from the homepage how someone can send a big file with it.

I can watch a video or sign in to an account. Great, but the people I am recommending this to want to share a file: why is there no file upload widget on the homepage?
Possibly. Your messages read like "it would be better to not have that problem at all than to have it". I'm trying to say "it would be better to have it because you've succeeded than to not have because you haven't. Of course (and I haven't focused on this part or even mentioned it because I assumed it obvious), it would be best to have the success and no problems".
I agree that Apple's attention to the iLife suite isn't on par at all with with the work they do on hardware and the OS. I've had some truly awful experiences with iMovie where you wonder how the thing even shipped. (Activities like changing clip boundaries causes the thumbnails to all disappear, requiring a resize scrub to make them appear again which of course causes you to lose your place in what you were doing, and yes, this is a commonly reported bug. And why won't it export large files!?!?)
I like DDG but as far as I know I cannot use the bar as I do with chrome; I have to go to the DDG page.
It seems to me that the logical conclusion of their claim is that people shouldn't even be allowed to watch the police -- not only shouldn't there be a recording, but there shouldn't be any witnesses either.
Learning how to find answers to programming questions is by no means a time sink.
>"It is a warning to all the marketing people out there that the internet will make a bare truth tl;dr version of any sugarcoated market-speak you publish."

Absolutely. The way you build rapport with a community like that is to give them something "exclusive". A Developer Q&A promising to address their feedback qualifies. An extra helping of market-speak does not. It's sort of hard to feel special because you got canned PR answers. So they built exactly 0 rapport with reddit and probably even cost themselves.
Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 Will Be Released October 26
Seems to support the vast majority of the spec: http://rakudo.de/ (something like 85% to 90% to my naked eye as at July).

And according to Rakudo status page (http://rakudo.org/status) below are the common things that don't quite work yet:

* big integers
* nested package/grammar/class declarations
* typed arrays and attributes
* state variables
* multi-level wrapping
* macros
* threads/concurrency
* longest-token matching
* :dba adverb in regexes

So it is pretty usable... enough that even a static blogging app has been writen in Rakudo: http://strangelyconsistent.org/blog/dog-food-with-a-distinct...
In the absence of an epub, GoodReader on the ipad is very handy for reading PDFs as books. The type is a little small on this document, but I am able to read it without zooming and panning.
Real-life Iron Man - Raytheon XOS2 Exoskeleton
As of yesterday the font is included in Maverick, so anyone can get it now on maverick with a quick apt-get install ttf-ubuntu-font-family, and it should also be on default new installs and as people upgrade.

Since it's in the distro, the source is too, which you can grab from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-font-family-sour.... There isn't a simple "just grab this .ttf" URL, AFAIK, but whatever, it'll be installed by default :)

The HOWTO that font.ubuntu.com links to has some old sections still in it from the phased beta.
But Bill Gates, no doubt motivated by license fee considerations

Well that's wrong for starters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix
That's not fair to say at all. IE6 is a perfect example of complacency in a competitive market from years ago. Their mobile efforts to date are a perfect example of complacency in a competitive market today. They were years late in shipping Vista, years late in trying to meaningfully compete with Google, they've been long complacent with their Mac Office products, and some of their developer tools are atrocious.

You don't get a pass because your internal bureaucracy and politics prevent your engineers from doing their jobs.
Mongrel 2 and now a book on Python. The man is a machine.
Adding to this, I remember reading an interview with one of the IE6 devs a couple weeks back where he talked about how Microsoft considered browsers finished after IE6, and basically just disbanded the team. Browsers and web innovation wasn't a goal for Microsoft once they had majority marketshare. They just wanted to make sure their product was the standard for the web, as good or as bad as it was.
why, if you can simply hotlink to facebook cdn?
How To Real-time Multi-touch
What does GoodReader have over using iBooks? I've mostly just used it for storing manuals for tech products so far, but it seems like a reasonable way to read PDFs.
It sort of does, since your browser knows that it needs to be carefuly with things you plug into password fields, and doesn't know that it needs to be careful with random URLs.

But that's less of an issue with a hidden IMG tag.
I understand this isn't a big privacy leak. It looked awkward to me at first instance. I am trying to find what the general industry practice is in this and what could be the ideal solution as we are trying to build some image hosting for our product. Your answer is very insightful indeed.
Google's Schmidt: Computers 'Augmenting' Humanity
People are unlikely to share passwords - they are highly likely to share links via email or IM.
I'd bet something like this doesn't scale well to larger aircraft.

I think you're right. I've seen people's model DC-10s that they build, and apparently at that small scale, they don't even bother with coordinating the turns. If you want to turn, you just jam the rudder all the way left or right, and then the plane goes there. In a real DC-10... that probably doesn't work so well.

(Tried this in X-Plane, and it doesn't really do anything. But the "edge cases" are poorly handled there; I can't even get a Cessna 172 to spin.)
Well, that's a good lesson for next time: don't even think about writing code until you've got 5 potential users lined up whose brain you can pick.
Not to derail the topic from the main issue at hand, but what's so wrong with iTunes on Windows? While it doesn't conform to all of the Windows idioms you'd expect, I still found it to be a better music player than just about everything else. This was a couple years ago, back when I was using Windows, however.
And it's done frequently, and keys are cracked in anywhere from a week to a couple months for each disc. That, to me, is a sign of a broken scheme, semantic arguments notwithstanding.
All of her criticisms are spot-on, but the post is pretty useless without offering contrapuntal advice.
Leaking photos by publishing fbcdn links is worse for attackers on every axis than simply stealing and reposting the photo:

* The leaker and the viewers are more traceable, since they're hitting Facebook's servers

* Facebook can cut off access to the photos by reassigning the IDs

* To get the actual link, you have to dig into the Facebook page source; to get the photo, you just have to right-click on it.

This is a stupid, silly threat to worry about. Unless you find a way to predict fbcdn URLs, there's nothing overtly wrong with what Facebook is doing. Plenty of sites rely on the same technique to protect significantly more sensitive information.
Doing a different page for each possible move isn't all that impressive.
It depends on the question, and if you know the right keywords to use. People starting off in programming and working through a book alone generally won't.

Of course, there's always irc.
I like your comments, in general. But this one comes too aggressive against the whole reddit community and it's a disproportionate response. I'd rather say:

Could you please take that kind of topic to the proper forum, perhaps r/atheism, please? HN focus on startups, business and technology only. Think of it as r/technology + r/programming + r/business. Thank you for understanding.
Now that you know the answer, maybe you should edit your HN post so that it isn't broadcasting "Facebook is insecure" on the HN RSS feed.
I get your message, but the problem is this is not grad school. This is a book; one way communication. I have no one to ask, as I am the only one I know who has an interest in coding.

Of course I can always ask on the web, but having to break off from coding, pose a question, and then wait for it to get answered before I can continue really breaks up my learning curve.
God I miss those times, I seriously need to get into that kind of group again.
That "many people" is developers needing to test pages in IE, not browser end users. I'm web developer, I feel that pain, but realistically I don't see how could porting be useful:

Just quick'n'dirty abstraction layer would result in horrible experience that end users don't want to use: slow, not integrated with OS well enough. There are still Mac users who stick with Safari, because Firefox isn't native enough! Opera is still substandard on OS X and Linux compared to Windows, and they've been working on portable layer for a decade.

Such poor browser wouldn't even be good solution for developers, as your OS wouldn't get same fonts with same metrics and rendering as Windows. With abstraction layer you wouldn't get representative performance. You could even get different rendering and behaviour caused by differences in real DX vs emulation, different media frameworks/codecs/plugins, etc.

Without whole OS it's just not "bug-compatible" enough, and bugs are the only thing you need IE for.
And you thought ice on wings was a problem now, de-icing would be an absolutely crucial part of this system. If any one hole is even partially obscured, the balance between both sides is off. Clearly this is computer controlled and can be compensated for, but it seems to me that there's quite a few problems to overcome before it comes back to the mainstream.
Wait, so the reason you hate geeky conferences is because you don't understand the base material?

That's not a problem with the conference.
Ask HN: What color do you recommend for a physical product?
One of our businesses is a hookah shop, where we manufacture a portable style hookah (http://hobohookah.com). Our first one was silver, the second one black and now we want to add 1 or 2 new colors.

What are your favorite product colors? Couple of rules:
1) I need a Pantone Code, if at all possible.
2) Extra points if the color was implemented on anodized aluminum.

Our product uses the same aluminum anodizing process to add color as Apple does for its iPods. If anyone has the Pantone Codes for Apple's current product lines, those would be helpful!

Thanks!
done. :)
> Tim told me that he doesn’t want whatever makes TechCrunch special to go away. He also said it was important that we feel free to criticize AOL when we think they deserve it. And the agreement we signed with AOL fully reflects this.

I can't figure out how this agreement could actually be enforced. If AOL shuts down a story on TC, what's going to happen? It's not like TC/AOL is going to sue corporate/AOL for breach of contract. There are almost certainly performance and tenure based incentives in the buyout to push Arrington and other higher-ups at TC to be a good soldiers. (They might choose not to be good soldiers, but their only option at that point is to quit.) The editorial freedom of TC is entirely dependent on the honor of upper management at AOL.
You are probably attending wrong kind of conferences. Either this, or you are not the target audience.
If you're only using consultants you're doing it wrong. I moved 16,000 employees to Gmail in three months, but the pilot and preparation phases lasted 12 months. It took about 6 dedicated internal staffers to work the project and multiple thousands of hours of localized and personalized training led by other IT employees. ... and I'd consider this a big success. Compare it to the City of LA's Gmail migration, which is being conducted almost completely by CSC and moving very slowly (at significant expense).
Yes, I know. What are you trying to say?
This is for convince so people can easily share private photos. It is a usability trade-off.
You could ask on #python on the freenode irc network.
Don't go to a conference expecting to be spoon fed.

I remember the first conference I went too and saw AJAX for the first time just before it became a standard part of the web dev tool kit. I thought it was amazing and it would change the world. After the speaker's demo I had no idea how it worked, but went home and started researching, coming up with a proof of concept in an evening.

Conference are about smart people showing you what's possible and giving you the first few steps on the roadmap to awesome. You need to take the initiative to move the rest of the way.
The most popular color for Dell laptops after they added the custom case color option was pink, by far.
RIM is pushing Flash for applications on it's new tablet
You can use DDG as your default search in the Chrome bar.

Chrome -> preferences -> Basics -> Default Search -> Manage
Is there anything wrong with the idea in the first blog comment? I would think sending the hashes to one or more webmail accounts in your own name would accomplish the feat of proof, and it would not require you to rely on other people to safeguard the data or give testimony.
Vietnam Tour, Vietnam Travel
The source files are written in rst(ReStructured Text) format, the standard documentation format for Python. Specifically using [Sphinx](http://sphinx.pocoo.org).

One of the default output formats IS HTML.

Build instructions on *nix:

$ fossil clone http://learnpythonthehardway.org lpthw.fossil
$ mkdir lpthw
$ cd lpthw
$ fossil open ../lpthw.fossil
$ make html
$ open _build/html/index.html

To install sphinx:

$ easy_install sphinx

or

$ pip install sphinx

Here you go: a zipped file containing HTML files on google docs. https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0BzdipdlNhpRrNWNmYjFlNmMtZTl...
How to demotivate people (Re: Making Debian Responsible For Its Actions)
There is a huge assertion in there - that Windows isn't as adaptable to multiple different environments. I know that empirically this looks to be the case - we don't see the NT kernel running on gadgets - but is there actually any true technical reason stopping this? By that, I mean is there any barrier that a team of Microsoft engineers couldn't overcome in say a year?

It would be interesting to know what those limitations are if that is the case - there would no doubt be lessons to learn for all of us.
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tl;dr - If people can't understand the idea fully, they'll assume other people have checked it and it's okay. If they can understand it, they will feel the need to leave their mark on it.
>The admins should have interjected themselves before this response was posted and warned Microsoft marketing this 'this response won't fly here'.

How do you know they didn't? Maybe they did and Microsoft ignored their advice.

Regardless, I blame Microsoft for not understanding marketing. The whole point of doing this sort of Q&A thing is to give a community exclusive access to build rapport. That's just basic. And they promised exclusive access and instead delivered marketing tripe where people were expecting exclusive developer commentary.
Fibromyalgia - Knowing, Recognizing and Treating It
Can someone explain to me what on Earth is going on in this comment thread? This response doesn't make any sense. Obviously, if you share your photo with someone, they can publish your photo! Welcome to the world of digital media! Why is this modded up, and the grandparent modded down? (Edit: It's more sane now, when I posted this the above was at 7 and tptacek was at -1.)
A Motive For Bad Design
We could talk about what the proportionate response is to being lumped in with child rapists, but we intentionally avoid that on HN because there is no way that conversation ends well. So. Take it to Reddit.
What the Startup World Needs is More Steve Jobs
Not a bad idea. Trying to think through them. I might mess with this today. Too bad you couldn't get the entire page to tilt/rotate, or you could use the motion sensor too.
The thing is, this attitude isn't new. MSFT's MO for many, many years has been to put out "just good enough" products.
Xkcd: Stephen Hawking
Absolutely. Not impossible, just not really worth the effort.
The Real Difference Between Mercurial and Git
Did you share that experience with him? He's still writing the book, I'm sure he'd love the feedback.
search is a way to harvest demand, not create it

This is indeed an incredibly important lesson learned.
The Python community has frowned on functional programming, reduce isn't in basic Python anymore, and they almost took out lambda: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196
Microsoft Should Formally Deprecate CWD from LoadLibrary Search
Thrush combinator in Clojure
Ye this is what I was talking about - pointing out one of the points not being correct (even though IE implemented 128 bit ssl first) means you call my entire reply wrong. I just rattled these off the top of my head, the point still applies.
Ask HN: Best practices for small web app in the cloud
I am looking to release a small side-project web app hosted on EC2, initially using the new micro instances. This will be a mono based web app with a MySQL backend. I know this won't handle much load, but I'd like to encounter that problem before throwing more resources at it!

I am looking at running two instances to separate the db and the web server. Is it critical to set up some kind of VPN/tunnel for them to talk, or just set the security settings based on IP address?

In general, any recommendations or best practices for backups and security in this configuration. Daily snapshots are great for the regular backups, but how should I achieve more timely backups for the database?
ogr2ogr does all these formats (well CSV but not XLS) and more. Autocad DXF files on the other hand...
Personally, I prefer that comments don't get deleted; you lose context for the conversation to anyone reading the thread later. Just update it to say it's incorrect, or just leave it as is and corrected by the replies.
In your questions, I see some conceptual confusion between managing individuals and supervising them.

Good management is about facilitation and planning -- proactively getting people what they need to complete tasks without sacrificing the long term. Managing individuals is not inherently hierarchal and occurs not only down, but Up the organizational chart as well. Importantly, management relationships can be reciprocal and cooperative. In my experience most people have an intuitive sense of good management because it can be practiced as a subordinate; of course study, training and experience are needed to build upon that intuition.

Supervising people is about enforcing requirements. Unlike management, supervision is solely based on a formal hierarchical relationship and a disparity of power. Supervision always requires expression of the formal difference in power and the supervisory relationship is non-reciprocal. Unlike management, I believe our natural instincts toward supervision are crap; because new supervisors by definition lack experience with the power, they tend to use a heavy hand, and this is the danger you face.

As a manager expectations regarding schedule should be discussed as part of the interview process. Particularly in your situation when the signals regarding corporate culture are so mixed. You're working 19 hours, the employee is expected 9-5 only, and yet there's pair programming. The age of the employee has nothing to do with it.

As a supervisor, the place to start is treating your subordinate as if they had just handed you their two week's notice and you need to maximize their productivity before they leave – because that situation is always only one day away.

The moment you think, "If the employee doesn't do 'X,' I will fire them," it is a warning sign and should first trigger a deep reevaluation of your conduct, expectations and requirements within the context of the reciprocal/managerial relationship with your employee and the long term goals of the organization. The age of the employee has nothing to do with it.

If after that reevaluation of yourself, you still think "If the employee doesn't do 'X,' I will fire them," then it's time to fire them regardless of their course of action because the management relationship has failed. The age of the employee has nothing to do with that either.

Good luck.
Someone needs to invent something to fix this problem. Some type of "rights management" tool.
Is this just a nice GUI for ogr2ogr? I could be wrong (I certainly haven't done the market research) but my gut feeling is that most people who would need this service would also be technically savvy enough to use free tools like FWTools. That said, there could still be a use case (beginners?), in which case you'll have to do a great job in the SEO department. Also, $10/conversion seems very high: a flat monthly fee would be much better.
I occasionally add HN links to something that I submit on Twitter, especially when I think it's something people would really like to see. I have to do this because of this exact effect, if it doesn't hit the front page, then it never takes off.

For example, yesterday, I tweeted this:

http://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/25811540605

Which resulted in this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1736805

Which is cool, but it was on the home page for about 5 minutes total, because those votes came too slowly for it to hit the front page. That's all good and fine, but then today, I wake up and see this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1738560

Which is just blogspam, but shows that this story is important, because it ended up getting lots of comments.

I'm not sure how to make this better, just providing a recent example.
IE on Linux would only be used by webdesigners (all 17 of them that actually use Linux) to test if a webpage works good in it, a "normal" Linux user would never use it as his default browser, if only because:
a) it's not open-source
b) it's from that "evil" Microsoft

So there's no sense for MS to invest money into that sort of adventure.
As USPTO evaluates Bilski, Red Hat says end software patents
Win Your Rent Solving Captchas
Yeah, not so much Iron Man, it's more Ripley in Aliens, with her loading dock suit - "Get away from her you BITCH!"
instead of the karma, I am more interested in people believing that this is actually an issue, come on. I understand the complications in making things the way they should be, but then right behaviour is the right behaviour.
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Not to nitpick. But wasn't the operation actually named "Payback is a bitch" ?

While I absolutely don't endorse free for all when it comes to copyright(ed) works I'd be hard pressed to feel sorry for Mr. Crossley, which, if I'm correctly informed, made his email stash and those 4000 email addresses (with the list of porn titles, they are accused of sharing illegally) freely available on his web server as a zip file upon restoring it from 4chans DDOS attack.

A public tarring and feathering seems in order in this case.