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The article correctly points out that just because the software license is $0 doesn't mean that you can change an organization's entire IT infrastructure for free. Proprietary vs open source TCO studies always tend to disagree depending on who's funding the study, and that's ok. If you're $_MEGA_CORP with an IT strategy that's working for you, there's no need to rock the boat. Where open source really shines is in enabling the smaller guys to be able to keep up with the bigger guys, and numbers-wise, there's a lot more of us smaller guys which means that there will be a healthy open source ecosystem for years to come.

I agree with the author that open standards are important, and if governments can achieve that with proprietary software then that may be ok, but unfortunately with the mess that was OOXML, I don't know if I can trust a proprietary company like Microsoft to choose open standards when these open standards make for less vendor lock-in as opposed to more.
When I purchased my iPhone white was an option here in Canada.
Conveys a lot of information, but all the question marks stress me. My blood pressure rose and I nearly had a heart attack by the end of the page.
When are we going to start taking India seriously?
That Prius corners pretty mean ...
Yes, push the cork into the jar.
Nah, you can't just break the jar...
Have you noticed that a lot of the Apple advertising and marketing is directed towards those that already have apple products?

It's an interesting point. If various analysts are correct, most of the recent purchases of Apple products have simply been existing customers moving up to the newest device, not new customers coming into the fold.

I overheard a very telling conversation today where a colleague was lamenting that his teenage daughter wanted to get rid of her new iPhone 4 and get a "Droid" because all her friends were doing the same.

2) Figure out why it is working for Apple: can it work for you?

Apple seems to have retention down to a Science. For the most part, people who buy Apple stuff will continue to buy Apple stuff. If some of the typical pro-Apple opinions in this thread are any indication, people will overlook almost any amount of flaws in Apple so that they can continue buying Apple stuff. That's a powerful bit of marketing, but it may not be instructive to try and analyze and duplicate since most of that effect seems tied to Steve Jobs himself (we'll see if his transition out of the company changes this, even in the dark ages while he was gone there were still loyalists who clung to their ugly, underspecced and out-of-date Performas...heck there are still people who use their Amiga 500s daily).

It may be more instructive to see how:

1) Apple is losing non-computery people that they managed to bring into the fold, what's going wrong (based on the conversation I heard)?

2) How can they reverse this?

3) Where are they still growing, what are they doing right?
I downloaded the most recent Chromium nightly for the Mac. Firefox 4 does a better job. Chromium does fine on many things. However, Firefox 4 looks great! I'm sure with Chrome's rapid release cycle, these demos will work well within a matter of months.

It doesn't do anyone any good if demos only run in one browser.
First time I put that together, too. If that was truly IBM's intention, then I love it for its subtlety.
If tuned to a single track it should be completely unbeatable, right?
I am doing research on strategies to mitigate risk of data loss and would like to discuss this CMS and DLP with anyone here, anymore documentation or resources would be greatly appreciated. I have bookmarked this discussion, and I hope to collaborate, leading towards a greater understanding for all.
Facebook new SSL setting has loophole/defect around apps
Issue:
After seeing the new Facebook Security setting to enable a secure session, I tried out the setting. The setting has a loophole (or a defect if you want to call it that). If you engage in any apps that run on Facebook, these apps may need to take you out to a non-secure session. When the new Facebook SSL security option is enabled, and you try to go to a non-secure session to engage in the app, Facebook will notify you with a message asking you if it’s ok to jump out to the non-secure session. If you choose to jump out, at this point Facebook is disabling your Account Security SSL setting. That’s right. So when you’re done playing Farmville (or whatever app you choose) and go to log into Facebook later, Facebook has disabled the SSL and you are back to non-secure Facebook browsing and interactions.

There are a few options out there to force security on your web browsers and you can get by this issue of Facebook disabling your setting and ensuring you’re always browsing the secure session of the application (and SSL of all websites).

Alternatives/Fixes:
If using Mozilla Firefox, there is a free, beta add-on, HTTPS Everywhere from the Electronics Frontier Foundation. I’ve installed and tested this, and it works as desire (you may want to uninstall the browser toolbar it installs by default).

If using Google Chrome, there is an extension, KB SSL Extension. I have not tested or verified this extension.

I couldn’t find any current updates for Safari and Explorer browsers.
I LOVE Hacker News and I HATE it.
Been subscribed to Hacker News for a few months now. I thought it was a great source in the beginning. Lately, I've noticed it's become incredibly exhausting. It's a flood of noise to sift through.

Your #1 rule warns this from the outset, " As a rule, a community site that becomes popular will decline in quality."

And so Hacker News has become popular, and so it has declined in quality...

Either your Hypothesis has turned out false or there has not been a conscious effort made to avert this oncoming train.

Personally, I'll be shifting my attention back to more carefully curated sources like Arstechnica and Techcrunch...

Farewell and Good Luck!
"...it would have been called Storm Cloud Over Visual Studio, not Eclipse."

Yep, I can't believe that never occurred to me before.
Language War: PHP vs. Ruby
If applied correctly this could solved a lot of traffic problem. I still don't understand why cars don't have a retractable bar under them. So you normally drive everywhere, but big roads like highways are in fact rails where your car gets on.
And even many of the examples people are throwing out (aside from clip-ons and add-ons) postdate the original multicolored iMac from 1998.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G3
"The only way this usually works in software is to JFDI (Just Freakin' Do It)."

Aka "rough consensus and running code" - as used by David Clark and the IETF: http://www.ietf.org/tao.html#anchor3

If you've got an idea - _and_ a plan _and_ a working implementation of that plan, you'll get taken much more seriously that the people who're trying to come up with ideas on the spot (even though occasionally their ideas might genuinely be better than yours).
People (users and developers) have a right not to be adversely affected by unfair competition.

Apple has a monopoly on selling iOS devices because of Copyright law - and that is how Copyright law is supposed to work. Apple develops iOS, and so aren't breaking any laws by making their App Store the default. Apple operates their App Store; selling access to the App Store under reasonable terms is also perfectly legitimate.

However, a particular sequence of actions can be illegal even though each of the individual actions that makes it up are legal. It is legal to ask someone nicely to stand in front of you (obviously they don't have to), and it is legal to move a knife and twist it in front of you; that doesn't mean it is legal to do the first then the second!

IANAL, but Apple's conduct around the 30% charge, while made up of individually legal actions, appears to be a straightforward breach of US anti-trust law. 15USCs14 (part of the Clayton Act) says that it is illegal to sell something on an agreement that someone won't purchase something else. So making developers agree that they can buy App Store services unless they don't buy payment processing for use within their app from anyone except Apple is not allowed in the United States, if the effect "may be to substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly in any line of commerce".

Even if it wasn't illegal, it would still be wrong to try to lessen competition for their advantage, and it would be entirely appropriate for developers to criticise Apple heavily for it.
I enjoy reading the occasional iOS/Android thread on HN - it's perversely interesting to watch otherwise intelligent people engage in name calling, personal attacks, and the sort of fanboy-type behavior you'd normally see on Engadget or Gizmodo. Human tribal instinct can be entertaining to watch :-)
Probably because people would just say, "They're trying to sell it to us as PoshSoundingName, but it's just nasty old polyurethane!"
Tight turns look cool, but they're not especially useful. When they can demonstrate robust resilience to pedestrians, consistently don't think a bird or pebble flying in front of the car is another car, etc., then we'll have something to celebrate.

I'm not saying they're not a lot of the way there already - they probably are - I'm just saying that that's the demo video that would be really exciting.
You can tell what song is playing?!
"Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black."
Survey of Americans' sexual behavior: quarter of young adults never had sex
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Yes - every submission gets emailed to me and I auto post them.

Yeah, that sounds like a pretty cool idea. I'm thinking I might even integrate it with Easy Unsubscriber somehow.
While that's certainly true, the differences between NT 4.0 and 98 weren't particularly huge. NT was certainly the better OS, and it's good that they decided to adopt it, but it wasn't really a paradigm shift, and Windows applications were still cross-compatible.

My intention isn't to say that Microsoft hasn't made significant positive changes over the years, but rather that Windows would be a vastly superior operating system if the same people responsible for it currently were able to start from scratch. Say what you will about Microsoft, they still have some incredible engineering talent.
Isn't this just called marketing?
So that everyone will buy the more expensive leather.
Ask HN: Could I trouble you for feedback on a social news startup?
The website is up and running in open beta at http://www.colorwarfare.com.

The idea is to turn social news submission into a game with actual prizes. Registered users can link Facebook and Twitter accounts, and the site imports posts and assigns points based on likes, comments, and retweets. Users can create custom "wars" (competitions between two teams), and top performers on each team would earn prizes if enough people joined the war.

With people working hard to post interesting content, content quality would increase (in theory), and more readers would come.

I'm mostly looking for big-picture assessments. If you don't think the idea seems viable, why not? If so, what are potential next steps? I'm at a little bit of a stand-still as far as growing the user base, too, so that's another area of interest for me.

All feedback is GREATLY appreciated! Thanks in advance!
Ok. I am new here but I do know the reason why this was down voted. Could you please explain?
Military to start using spy drones in the United States
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Mobile "bandwidth hogs" are just ahead of the curve
I think I'm more confused than up-in-arms over this one. Anyone else?
Or at least "not be where I can see them".

Of course, people won't admit when that's their thought process.
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iPhone 4? I seriously doubt it.
"What he said" might vary by reader, since reganwald's comment rambled somewhat. But, the gp did refute this line in reganwald's "bottom line" summary:

Trying to argue that Apple's proprietary system ought to be less closed or more free or have more pixie dust than Amazon's is wishful thinking.

It's not wishful thinking, it's a tactic that has proven effective in the past. I voted reganwald down because his line of argument seems to have been refuted.
I don't know if Jeremy Clarkson would let a Prius back on the show...
Forget Intel's Thunderbolt, Wireless USB is the game-changer
"Dorsey talks about how Square must be “pixel-perfect,” and staffers tell stories about him agonizing over the exact location and thickness of a line on e-mailed receipts."

And it shows. The first thing I noticed after installing Square was the amazing experience - the design is incredibly polished and it affects the whole feel of the app.
Startup develops augmented reality mobile phone camera app
Not necessarily there might be latency concerns or even other unknown factors that would hinder it. Also what if its wet or other weather concerns? I don't work on the project so I wouldn't know what exactly would be involved.
holy shit, i just got super excited about this. if it works as advertised, it will be absolutely amazing. i would easily pay for it.
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With its solid build and black framing it does not look like a laser printer at all. It looks much better because of its dark color and it can easily fits in any office setting or home décor. You can simply place it on any shelf or desk even on your computer table as well. It is of 15.24'' x 11.18'' x 9.69'' dimensions and of 15.4 pounds.
A higher percentage for far less value.
And for the price of a MBP you can buy 2-3 "normal" laptops.

I.e. the low-end budget stuff that ain't pretty, may have a whiny fan, but still gets the job done.
Heh... nobody interesting, just me and a few hacker buddies who skipped university to start ISPs and whatnot back when the internet wave was kicking off publicly way back when :)
Ahh so the all the recalled priuses were actually alpha versions of google's self driving cars. I see.
The meaning of "value proposition" from the guy that coined the phrase
One of the nice things about a blog is that you have the author's entire post history to peruse in order to judge bias. Much different than an isolated article in a third-party publication.
Best analysis I've seen so far. The new iPad (or any 'Post-PC' Apple product) isn't about CPU speed or RAM memory. That's so PC World. It's about the experience.
Looks like what BMW had on Top Gear some a few years ago. Just faster. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AYCUSAMF9U

A bonus video about what is more environmentally friendly and economical - a Prius or a BMW M3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKTOyiKLARk
So, I took a test drive in one of these today.

They can do the hard stuff but the tight turns make for a more interesting demo.

I will try to post a video later.
Congrats will!
I thought for a long time about whether or not to post this since I was curious as to whether this would turn into a "tragedy of commons" sort of thing, where the act of posting it changed whether it was still useful.
In the long run, South Africa has done quite well.
Arguing with the faceless Apple executives via the internet is wishful thinking, whether you succeed or not.

Also, you don't downvote comments because you consider them wrong or refuted, you downvote because a comment was not beneficial to the discussion. It's people like you that slowly chip away at what HN is intended to be.
My view is that once you attach a monetary value to such online activity you actually devalue it and the experience of sharing.

If each Karma point on HN got me a buck I would not care as much as I care now about how many upvotes I get.

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This would apply only to social sharing. If you were to find professionals who shared to create curated content that is a different story.
Congrats, super simple sign up and great VxD.

When will you offer SSL on your account create / login forms?

I'm hesitating connecting my Gmail, Google Contacts, Google Calendar.
Unless all cars are driven by machine, the driverless car won't make a huge difference in our lives. You can already experience the magic of not having to drive by paying someone else to do it for you.

The real gains of automation occur when a machine doing the job can do it faster than a human. Computers calculate and communicate faster than people, and factories/robots build stuff faster. A machine driving a car has to obey the rules of the road and react to other human drivers. This puts a hard limit on their potential.

Now once all cars are driven by machine, we will see amazing changes. No traffic lights for starters.
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Pretty sure Andy pushed it through.

I got fwd'd a copy of the original thread :)
Conan O'Brien: "Apple Gets Cocky About iPad 2" (parody video)
I assume the shape of our ears also affects the sounds, depending on the location of the sound. This converts vertical location into frequency shaping.

And I wonder, why else would we have such oddly shaped ears?
I think it's strange that the meeting location is at the very bottom, below all the contextual info. It seems that should be higher.
sqlite is pretty much bundled... so no MySQL required. Much like Python and or Ruby ...
If anyone still wants to read this, the page has been taken down for some reason but I pulled the cached copy from google before they lost it:
http://opensource.osu.edu/~jfriedly/mirrors/working-at-micro...
It would be sweet to see a time where only a majority of the cars on the road are driven by machine. I imagine them driving in packs, and leaving lots of buffer space between them and the lone human driver.
I don't know about Google or Facebook, but here is my story.

I turned down an offer from a big investment bank (after working there for few months) and now joined a company which I can say is just average. For me I wan't to keep a work/life balance. Wanted to give time to myself as well few side projects. Staying in former would've required too much commitment.

But here's the lesson I learned, no matter what company it is they will ask for same amount of time commitment. Only difference lies in the type of work they assign to you. So it is good to be in an awesome company so atleast you can work on some challenging assignments.
Driverless cars are not going anywhere until they can prove themselves 20% superior than the average driver in ALL the following conditions:

Dealing with Rain (visibility and deep water on the road),

Hard to see tire eating potholes causing damage,

Ice and snow (on road and caking on instruments),

Snow accumulation ruts, causing car to move unexpectedly,

Evasive driving - cutting across a lawn, (avoiding the pool and coming to rest over the garden gnomes),

hurricane winds, hailstorms,

ambiguous and contradictory road signs,

unmarked roads,

interstate highway pileups,

white-out snow conditions.

I'm pretty sure your going to need pretty strong AI for all this to happen. By then we shouldn't be needing to go to work because everyone on earth can go on vacation and the machines will do everything that needs to be done. AND all this equipment has to be less expensive then hiring someone to drive around on your behalf.

Naysaying aside, self driving cars will cause a revolution in how cars are used, the concept of "owning a car" will disappear and then single passenger cars will fill the roads instead of 4 door seudans/SUV's.
Thank you for explaining it in a much more succinct fashion than what I could muster.

This is EXACTLY why it would be awesome to have a web server bundled with PHP.
"Yet he doesn’t answer the question that really concerns us: why is it better to knock information into your head than to get it off the web?"

Because you still have to make the connection between things which constitutes a thought. How are you going to connect "What that seventeenth century philosopher Locke said" to "What's been happening in Egypt the last month" if Google is the one that remembers them both?
I doubt you'll get the same type of community as here. Researchers and startup-minded technologists are two different types of geeks.

What I've found in my discussions with researchers is the ability for the discussion to get very deep, but a sense of politics pervades the conversation.

Will it be focused around something like YC? How would you envision some of the "Show HN" type posts?
You are the exception. You can still set up your environment as you wish, don't let the built in web server in the CLI stop you from doing that.

Also running php -S in a shell is simple, run it, and minimise the window.
People who offer generic after-market warranties have the stats. http://www.squaretrade.com/htm/pdf/SquareTrade_laptop_reliab...
Higher frequencies, as bats use, give finer resolution. This seems impossible for humans, but since we have cochlear implants, there's no reason they couldn't respond to a shifted audio spectrum. Or, just have an external hearing aid that frequency-shifts the sounds (and cancels out the original), together with a higher-frequency sound source.

OTOH, eye implants are probably not that far off.

> Just the auditory cortex of a human brain is many times larger than the entire brain of a bat.

This really startled me. It seems plausible that we could do as well, with early training etc. Plus, I imagine that some of the higher-order processing of the occipital cortex would also be seconded.
Although I wish you luck, I think you underestimate the difficulty of predicting which features will help the conversation and which will hurt.
But usually you want to commit the things that you're ignoring (some of them, at least). You just don't want to do it twice, once in .gitignore and a second time in .hgignore. My solution is generally to put syntax:glob at the top of .hgignore and symlink it to .gitignore (or vice versa), so that edits to one of them affect both. Of course, I'm assuming that I'll never need to commit a file called "syntax:glob". I feel this is a reasonable assumption.