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Really? There are quite a few Mono apps that use its GTK# bindings. Their inclusion in the default installs of many mainstream distros has been the cause of much contention with the anti-mono/Microsoft crowd.
Agree. HP will never catch up, even with Palm OS.
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Tell that to Steve Jobs:

"Jobs said he was disturbed when he heard young entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley use the term 'exit strategy' — a quick, lucrative sale of a start-up. It was a small ambition, Mr. Jobs said, instead of trying to build companies that last for decades, if not a century or more" (NYTimes)
Does Numenta fall under "Brain-based?"
This is exactly what Google wanted out of Chrome. As long as Chrome is pushing other browsers to improve then Google wins. Chrome domination isn't the goal for them (though I'm sure they wouldn't mind if that happens). Their end goal is to challenge the browser market to improve. Standards compliance, faster Javascript performance, as long as these continue to advance then Google wins, regardless of what browser a user is using.
It's no biggie, the reaction is quite what I expected given Plato's parable of the Cave.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2afuTvUzBQ
Bin Laden doesn't have anything to do with leading AQ?

At any rate, none of these new decentralized systems are actually leaderless. The leaders are just hidden. Wikipedia is a good example.
I've never understood the idea that downvoting a comment for disagreeing with it is bad. Anyway, I also disagree that it's reasonable and considered. The comparisons are flip and cheap and build in false alternatives. Not all methods of altering or abolishing unjust systems are laudable, and finding anonymous to be reprehensible is compatible with agreeing that some of their targets are reprehensible also.
Taxing, ownership of life fundamentals (land, air, water), rearing/teaching of young, use of electromagnetic spectrum, governing.

But, I'm a socialist. Would also use the terms family, tribe, society, etc. instead of the purposefully biased "mob".
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I would not call Gtk+ a "huge technical debt", but there is some truth in what you say.

Gtk+ development has been badly under-sponsored by the companies that sponsor GNOME development. In recent years, Cairo and then Clutter were the hot new toolkits that many people used to supplement Gtk. (Clutter provides a 2.5D canvas that can be used in Gtk+ applications and Cairo is used by Gtk+ to draw widgets.)

Qt, on the other hand, is backed by Nokia and has been undergoing constant development. The difference is noticeable.

There was a time when people spoke excitedly about creating new GNOME applications using Clutter, because Gtk+ itself didn't support what they wanted to do. Clutter was (and still is) blessed by GNOME. Among other programs, many GNOME games have been rewritten to use Clutter with a small Gtk+ wrapper.

I am no longer involved in GNOME, so I can't say for sure how people feel right now. I would guess that the attitude is what it has always has been: Gtk+ might not be amazing, but it is good enough for what we need. Use Clutter if you need a canvas. It would be insane to switch to another toolkit, as that would kill the GNOME project.

Edit: I want to add a few points I forgot to mention:

1. Gtk+ 3.0's support for CSS theming will level the playing field with other toolkits, and especially with Qt. This is the most exciting addition to Gtk+ 3.0. To be honest, it is long due.

2. Qt is my personal choice for a cross platform toolkit in high-level languages. Qt Designer, QLayouts, and Qt's language bindings are very good, and have all been present for years. Gtk+ has good language bindings, but it is lacking in all of the other areas. Furthermore, Qt's last few releases bring many new features that Gtk+ is missing and wont implement soon.

3. Despite my preference for Qt, I still use Gtk+ for small small C programs because Qt is written in C++. Gtk+ isn't as fun as Qt, but being forced to use C++ is plain out painful.
Nah, given that he's using PHP it makes sense. Your basic PHP installation supplies so much bullet-proof infrastructure right out of the box, that a framework on top of that provides more uncertainty than functionality.
Absolutely. My 8 year-old has been asking a lot of questions and expressing concerns about death lately. In an effort to reassure him, at one point I explained to him that the pace of scientific discovery is accelerating rapidly and that there's a good chance that by the time he's older people will be able to live as long as they want.

A few nights ago he says, out of the blue, "Dad, if they do invent some medicine that let's people live forever, I hope they do it before you die."

"Me too", I said.
I'd be interested to know exactly how much revenue Dropbox has at the moment. I know they have plenty of paying customers, including many of us here, but there's an order of magnitude more customers with free accounts. Does anyone know how Dropbox' revenue stands right now? Are they actually profitable yet?
I was a regular on Reddit until the fall of '08, when the politics started in earnest. Then the whole thing tumbled downwards. There's no faster way to turn a group of otherwise intelligent and reasonable people into a band of monkeys flinging poo at each other.
The Yelp video was more natural because it was one guy giving the tour and some people working and sneaking a peek at the cameras every once and a while.
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Steve Jobs won't be able to run Apple forever. A lot of people believe Steve Jobs is personally responsible for Apple's success. When he steps down, can Apple continue to make such well designed products?
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So 37Signals is a lifestyle or family business?
Pretty soon having children would require a license, and eugenics would make a violent comeback.
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They even gave a Nobel prize for the basis of this work like a year or two back.
Seems off-topic for HN
> Dinner and a movie? Paddle boating on the lake? Perhaps a picnic in

> the park? Why not even go totally crazy and go skydiving!

Those are all terrible first-meet, first-date ideas. From experience, I can say that you want something extremely public, from which you can extricate yourself quickly with minimal embarrassment. "Want to get a cup of coffee?" has been a standard for a long time for good reason.
yeah. i wasn't buying the MTV Cribs editing style either. Inauthentic.
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well designed? probably. if they get the ideas to begin with. which they wont.
I interviewed at Netscape shortly after they announced they would release the browser as open source (June '98, ended up going to Inktomi). I remember being very excited about this, and downloading the source when it first became available. I found out that my (decent) desktop machine was not powerful enough to compile it. When I found a machine that could compile it, it took about 8 hours.

No surprise that it remained a Netscape project for so long.
Just a fancy way of saying linear (in this case).
Honestly: The hand poped up and scared the hell out of me. I have no idea if anyone will buy it, but I hear you can make money on tea rebill schemes.
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Yes.. Jony Ive and Tim Cook will be good stewards of Apple in Jobs absence.
I don't really disagree with you, but I'm not sure what you mean by glossed over. It sounds like you'd like the journalist here to be condemning the actors or tsk-tsk-ing about the whole episode. But the lack of that isn't Anon getting a free pass, it's just how most neutral reporting is done. When you read a feature on a violent gang, or organized crime, or a serial killer generally you'll see a lot of matter of fact type of reporting, with the editorializing left up to the reader. It's not different here just because it's a mob.

And surely they're not getting a pass on the actual legal repercussions. The FBI took dozens of doors over the earlier DDOS's - I'm sure that they are quite keen at rolling up this incident into what is likely a very well staffed task force.
I think it depends on what you mean by "leading". As I understand it, Bin Laden is a kind of "thought leader" to the AQ movement - sort of how you could say Mick Jagger leads the rock n roll movement (terrible example!). No doubt BL has a lot of influence over AQ and used to be very active, but I very much doubt that he's still involved in deciding who gets hit and how. I suspect he could be removed with no noticeable impact on the movement.

CommanderX may or may not be in a similar position.
So is the "news" here that the telomeres are the root cause rather than a contributing cause? I'm not seeing anything else I didn't know.
While I agree that it frees up manual labor it raises another specter. The unskilled manual farm-hand labor shifted to unskilled manual manufacturing labor.

We're now telling people well past their prime to switch to more cerebral jobs because we've automated or outsourced the low-skill value added jobs and the pool of what's left drives down wages further due to all the people competing for them.

The problem is that we've increased productivity efficiencies and passed the savings onto the shareholders. A free market is efficient, not perfect.
I've never really learned bash, so I'm more than a bit ignorant there. On the other hand, tab completion in ksh is very useful. The first time you hit tab, it completes, but if you hit tab a second time, it gives you a nice list of options for completion (i.e. directory listing with matching if provided). It does not do the kind of find(1) type search that ``e: /'' will do, but if you have a vague idea where something is located, what it is called and don't want to type out everything, the ksh-style tab completion (one or two taps) is very useful and often much faster than than a depth search.
NFLT implies AI is logically impossible. Good way to short the stock market.
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He says: "I think many developers (myself included) are easily seduced by new technology and are willing to burn a lot of time rigging it together just for the joy of tinkering. So nowadays we see a lot of fairly uninteresting web apps with very technically sweet implementations."

This is rather insulting to two groups of people: people that are working on things this author would not think are interesting, and people who are overcoming technical challenges by deciding to use new, less mature tools since things like the LAMP stack have well known limitations. (the overlap of these people, as you can probably guess, is pretty high.)
That is assuming uniform distribution of divisions Absolutely correct. In fact, there were very simple cases, such as numbers like 5 / 15 that were very close to the failure.

Vendors of equipment made statements about low probability of error as well that were not substantiated. In fact, my thinking was that the probability was not estimable.

What is likely is that many programs run with errors (some reproducible on various hardware) that are simply not noticed.
Its amazing how close they all are. One of the key things thats different is the bar at the top - but all same layout, format, color......
If you're using MongoDB when you already have SQL Server I'd wager this author would argue you are being "seduced" by shiny technology.
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I just checked my archives, and in June 2010, they sent out this email. Note that there is no indication of using offshore labor to determine this. Also, I have no idea if there are more categories, like top quartile:

We are very pleased to report that you are in the top half of OkCupid's most attractive users. The scales recently tipped in your favor, and we thought you'd like to know.

How can we say this with confidence? We've tracked click-thrus on your photo and analyzed other people's reactions to you in QuickMatch and Quiver.
. . .

Your new elite status comes with one important privilege:
You will now see more attractive people in your match results.

This new status won't affect your actual match percentages, which are still based purely on your answers and desired match's answers. But the people we recommend will be more attractive. Also! You'll be shown to more attractive people in their match results.
Funny thing about OkCupid is they had a lot of their data in the front end code (until they caught on). You could see how many messages someone was getting in the last day/week and their reply percentage (which is then used to calculate their selectivity indicator). Stumbled across this on Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/OkCupid/comments/etej8/tilyou_can_se...
There's a lot of misunderstanding of what Anonymous is.

adrianwaj is Anonymous if you so chose. You could release a Word Document with "Aaron Barr" in the author field declaring a war on Egg McMuffins and sign it Anonymous. You probably would get no traction and be ignored...

Or a week later you might read about a bunch of 16 year olds throwing Egg McMuffins to the Elephant at the Bronx Zoo wearing woody wood pecker masks while singing Christina Aguilera's version of the national anthem.

There is no "Anonymous" in the sense of a coherent group. There are only specific acts that received enough interest to garner outside attention.

When you say "If they tried" you are missing the point. You could try.
Not a bad idea. The trouble is getting the people with real expertise and experience to identify themselves as a mentor.

Usually, if I need advice from a fellow HN member, I'll reply to their thread (if it's relevant) or email them my question (if it's random or off topic). Most people here are happy to answer questions or give advice, but most of the mentoring on HN comes from reading and interacting with everyone's comments.
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> I cannot understand why it is that so many obviously very intelligent people decide that we need another computer vision-based startup. Because the unfortunate truth is that computer vision (right now) doesn't work.

This seems like a really good reason to create another computer vision-based startup.
You're assuming I wouldn't park a bus on him as an opening move.
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You know, by the spec, you don't actually need levels called "etc" and "moar_hierarchy". You can even skip com if you want.
Or maybe only people that wouldn't have to relocate.
I guess Steve failed to remember Pixar or Next
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Bundler allows you to do the same thing from a bundled environment with:

bundle open <gem>
That is some Alice in Wonderland $#!7 right there. Can you truly ever complete the hunt for nothing?
> AI always has had a severe problem with over-promising and under-delivering

Is this because the AI researchers truly over-promise, or because media/laypeople take a concept or statement and run with it?
ah. I see now you typed

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but it came out without the stars because of formatting.
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Flock (http://www.flock.com) is one such social web browser.
If we shorten all the telomerase in our body to the point where cancers can't do much more than grow to beign side tumor, cancer is prevented from killing us ever.

On the other hand, we must replace all our cells periodically with the same shorten telomerase.
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You're right - MongoDB did seduce me with big, bold promises and I even had it set up across some of my servers. Took me a whole lot of effort to get that far, then BAM, it all fell over and there I was like an idiot trying to get it back up when I could have been working on my startup instead.

The hard part of any new technology is bouncing back when things go wrong, and I don't have to do that now that a 3rd party does it for me, which brings me back around to Simple again.

There's a whole bunch of stuff I would like to learn but the reality is I can't have my startup falling over every time I fumble through learning something new, especially when what I already know can still solve problems.
Would define your use "macro" and "micro" here?
I'm skeptical of that. Is the Watson's computer to solenoid path really slower than the brain to muscle path of a human? Sure, an anticipatory human could buzz in after the light is electronically triggered but before the luminescent fixture (LED, or whatever) fired up, but humans will also undoubtedly jump the gun and buzz in too early, causing them to be locked out. To say that a human, even a seasoned Jeopardy! player, could beat a computer and solenoid any significant portion of the time, is something I have a lot of trouble accepting.
I asked a couple weeks ago and they didn't even look at my resume before telling me no, so perhaps it's location.

Even still, I'd rather they say that, than that they aren't taking interns. Perhaps it was just a question of my timing though.

Link: http://twitter.com/#!/holman/status/32892327869554689
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careful here- I'm fairly certain there's more to cancer than just tumors.
It allows you to absorb a larger number of heavy blows to the head without showing any outward damage. There is an argument that the risk of brain damage is therefor greater because the bouts go on longer. I personally haven't read any studies on the matter so I can't comment on the medical validity. In practice I prefer to fight without headgear. This is completely subjective but I feel sharper afterwards, whereas 6-8 rounds with headgear leave me foggy for a day or two.
To be honest, I'm a bit surprised at the number of people who had a difficult time identifying who I mean. I'm actually a little-l libertarian and no great lover of government, so I understand the knee-jerk inclination, but why would I be stretching for the definition of a mob when there is another thing that can be called a "mob" in the story with no stretch at all?
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True, however I think we can all recognize this as an event that could shift the political and power structure of the entire Middle East (should those dominoes start to fall). Even if politics bores you, this is of major significance regardless of personal opinions.
with vim, NERDTree, ack, and gem edit: once you `gem edit` and the directory list opens, go to the directory listing (e.g. /Users/you/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/twitter-1.1.1/) and type "cd". This changes your current working directory to the gem root, which in turn allows you to `:Ack some_text` from the gem root which is very useful.
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From the article

"if you can make a vision system that’s just as good as a dog..."

Not quite my idea of "The Real Deal". And that's within a 5-year plan.
Fair enough, given the amount of detail :)

I understand, regarding the legion. I'm sure there are a lot of military folk who ran it. I know of at least one US Marine who ran it. There were a number of Rugby players and French firemen who were the talk of the town that year, too!

Ugh, 54 hours. I got hurt at the end of the first day and had to walk... and got really sick during the long stage which forced me to take frequent rests during the remainder of that and the marathon stage. As for me, I'm from the United States and trained in New Jersey. Hardly the conditions of the Sahara, but you make it work :)

Here's the Flickr link if you're interested. Runner 786 is me:
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TAKE THE FUV CHALLENGE.
Use fuv as your only text editor for 1 year.

Then you will be ready for emacs.

WTF? What is it, an emacs for low self esteem people? "Hey I am not smart enough to take on emacs directly, let me try something which is named like it came out of the mouth of a six year old."
Froth or famine?
"Why is mob justice any worse"

As long as we're going all Socratic, why does the question of which is "worse" even matter?

We know what mob rule looks like. It's a failure state of human governance. Supplementing an imperfect system that can be metaphorically likened to mob rule with actual mob rule is not progress. I am not advocating for peacefully standing by while being beaten; I'm saying this is a bad tactic.

If you are concerned about injustice in the world, you can't make a more just world by committing your own injustices. No two people agree on how bad an injustice is; even if you think such things can be objectively measured somehow it is obvious that people in the real world don't agree on those objective measurements. Group A hits for 1 point, Group B measures that as a 2 point injustice and strikes back with a 2 point injustice of their own, Group A sees that as a 3 point injustice and strikes back with 3, and so on forever, until someone breaks the cycle. No amount of retaliation will ever make the society of A and B just, even though in my hypothetical example both sides are acting with perfect restraint and proportionality. (As you might imagine, this is the most unrealistic assumption my model makes.) However you intend to get to a just society, that's not it.
Keep being awesome! :)
Considering NFLT isn't on the first page of google, would you mind expanding that acronym?
Wow, really well implemented! Normally I git clone, open the repo in vim, then use ack.

Github also has very good keyboard shortcuts in the Issues section. Gmail shortcut users will feel right at home.