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Personally, I'd love to see a movie about the Andrea Doria or the Maine.

The Bismark did get a movie, IIRC, but is strangely not on your list. At first I thought it was listing only passenger sinkings, but then the Maine shouldn't be included either...
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I'm not saying it makes loads of sense, as Mac OS X and Windows tend to clump "systems settings" in one place, but Preferences are those things that don't require sudo, Administration are those things that do.

At least that's my experience.
That article makes it sound like the decision to use graphite is stupid and will never be made again. This isn't true, a lot of the gen-4 designs are graphite-moderated.
While it is true that Ruby became popular because of Rails, it is no longer true that Ruby is only popular in the area of Rails nowadays.
Uhh no your examples aren't about "small differences" they're about power struggles. Not the same thing. :-)
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If it makes you feel better, most of those issues are issues if you moved to Mac as well. Not the power management issue, but then, if you purchased a laptop made for Ubuntu, I imagine you'd have more success. =)
There is quite a difference in the way the situation of the nuclear reactors are describe in patio's article and the way the media here presents it.

patio basically says everything is under control, nothing to worry about, no harmful radiation levels - not more than eating a banana or taking a long distance flight.

The media is talking about meltdown, nuclear catastrophe and there have been at least two explosions by now. US forces moved away from the shores due to radiation, Russia is worried about the wind carrying radioactive caesium and iod all the way over to them. As far as I can tell from news coverage, radiation levels did exceed 500 mikro-sievert, at times were as high as 1500.

It is just hard to understand what all this really means in terms of risk and how bad the situation really is. Meltdown and explosions at a nuclear plant just generally does not sound very safe and "standard procedure" to me.

Anyone can shed some light on what is going on there, from a technical and engineering and maybe even physicist point of view?
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As far as I can tell this statement is about a public profile. The private profile is essentially a google account, and I don't know a way to delete a google account and keep a gmail address associated with it.
Old joke (which you might well believe if you've heard Protestants talking amongst themselves/ourselves):

I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said, "Stop! Don't do it!" "Why shouldn't I?" he said. I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!" He said, "Like what?" I said, "Well, are you religious or atheist?" He said, "Religious." I said, "Me too! Are your Christian or Buddhist?" He said, "Christian." I said, "Me too! Are you Catholic or Protestant?" He said, "Protestant." I said, Me too! Are your Episcopalian or Baptist? He said, "Baptist!" I said, "Wow! Me too! Are your Baptist Church of God or Baptist Church of the Lord? He said, Baptist Church of God!" I said, "Me too! Are your Original Baptist Church of God or are you Reformed Baptist Church of God?" He said, "Reformed Baptist Church of God!" I said, "Me too! Are you Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1879, or Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1915?" He said, "Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1915!" I said, "Die, heretic scum!" and pushed him off.
Thanks for reaching out! I've been using Ubuntu (currently 10.10 64-bit) as the sole OS on my laptops for the past four years, mostly for email, web, office, and a little front-end coding.

I wish it was easier to replace Evolution. It always felt way too sluggish for me, so I'm using Thunderbird and would love to get the same desktop integration that Evolution has (never bothered to set it up manually).

Empathy seems like a decent IM client, yet I'm still using Pidgin to connect to Skype via dbus (Skype for Linux is not very pretty). Apparently the plugin would work on Empathy as well now, but I was too lazy to set it up.

I'm generally too lazy to switch applications after a dist upgrade. When I don't immediately see a clear migration path for my profile data, I just stick to the old app. I guess that's why I never used F-Spot or Shotwell.

Rhythmbox doesn't minimize to tray anymore. Closing the window leaves it running in the background, but there's no icon in the tray. Not sure if this is intended or just a glitch on my install after two auto-upgrades.

Better support for Tablet PCs would be awesome. I eventually got everything set up on a X200 Tablet, but it's not much fun going through dozens of mostly outdated forum posts to make screen rotation and pen input work.

With all the back-and-forth regarding GNOME/Unity and app selection, I'm debating going for Xfce on the next install. That being said, the Ubuntu desktop is awesome! Mac makes me feel stupid and I never ever want to go back to Windows...
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Just curious to see, just how profitable are you? Are you saying you launched the app without rewards at first and were making money from day 1? If so that's impressive.
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What I especially like about this model is the following:
"content becomes more important than the creator, which is unlike virtually any other online community. Rather than prioritizing the most valued and experienced users..."
This is the foundation of creating value.
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I think the argument here is: if you are going to have a private profile, you may as well simply not have a profile. Like, why did you spend the time to fill in a bunch of details into Google Profile just to mark it "private"?
The number one feature that keeps driving me back to OSX is the four finger swipe to activate expose. If Ubuntu had a similar feature I would probably be running it right now.
A lot of people use git for deployment. It is also used during automatic dependency installation.
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Thanks for that - useful. I'll have a look at using the embedded version. Currently Chrome comes up with the bar across the top saying something like "the following plug-in has crashed: Shockwave Flash" (or something - I don't have the machine in front of me right now, and can't remember exactly).
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I've decided that i'm going to tell people at tech events and investors that I'm building "a hundred dollar company". And then I'll have my almost as smooth as JT co-founder jump in and say "you know what's better than a hundred? a THOUSAND!" Of course all of this will be said with a complete straight face. Just want to see the reaction.
"... I'm also quite interested in those who DON'T use Ubuntu and what their thoughts are on why they don't use it ..."

Using Ubuntu 8.04 64AMD desktop, downgraded from 10.x. User since Ubuntu 4.x.

I use the 8.04 install because a) got breach using default apache (maybe my fault/maybe not) b) because the changes in the sound system to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PulseAudio means audio trouble big time. As the distro has progressed I now get c) dependencies. Why do I need to install whole slabs of applications I don't want need, then get updates for apps I never use or want?

"... When first adopted by the distributions,
PulseAudio developer Lennart Poettering described
it as "the software that currently breaks your
audio".[6] Poettering later claimed that "Ubuntu
didn't exactly do a stellar job. They didn't do their
homework" in adopting PulseAudio[7] for Ubuntu "Hardy
Heron" (8.04), a problem which was then improved with
subsequent Ubuntu releases.[8] However, on October
2009, Poettering reported that he was still not happy
with Ubuntu's integration of PulseAudio.[9] ..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PulseAudio#Adoption

I shouldn't have these problems (sans maybe (a)). Have used linux since '96 I'd say I've got less stability in the late 9/10 releases at sub-system level. Especially sound. When I get worse results than when I configured Ubuntu 4 or Slackware or RedHat or OpenSuse or Mandriva I ask why am I using this distro? (yes I've used/installed them all and some)

Moving to obsd. The 6m dev cycle is a pain but it's got gnome, is safe, secure & free of cruft of useless apps. I'll miss apt-get :(
Perhaps so you could share it explicitly with people you've vetted and trust with your information?
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I wonder if we will finally get to use negative leap seconds.
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Coming from the Windows world, I've had nothing but frustration trying to manage the one Ubuntu box that I have running on EC2. The OS and desktop seems workable, but the tools available to interact with it are simply not there.

An example: I VNC into the box, pull up a file in the editor, head back to my Windows machine, copy some text, head back to the Ubuntu box, hit "paste". Nothing happens. [skip forward past 4 hours of frustration, trying to get copy/paste working]. Still no luck. All I can find is random posts on the internet saying essentially either "you can't do that". Or, "that's easy, just..." followed by 24 steps of command line interaction to get it working on one specific configuration (that I don't have).

Another example: Trying to transfer files back & forth between my windows machine and a remote box running Ubuntu. Same 4 hours of frustration. Same complete lack of progress.

I realize that you guys probably don't consider this to be a Ubuntu problem. That it's just an issue with 3rd party tools. And that it's simply a case of one of your users who doesn't know what he's doing. Those last two things are undoubtedly true, but the first one definitely is not.

This is your problem. If you want people like me using your OS for their servers, you need to give us tools to do it. Connecting to a remote Windows server lets me step seamlessly into it via Remote Desktop. Copy/Paste works correctly without me ever having to think about it. I can even see my local file system on the remote box and vice versa. That's the standard we're accustomed to in the Windows world, so that's what you're going to need to match if you want us using your OS.

If you can get that working, I'm there. I realize it will probably involve you guys releasing your own VNC client and your own SSH Tunneling thing, and otherwise reinventing the wheel half a dozen times. But it will reduce friction for people who want to use your stuff. And as far as I can tell, that's what you want.
I lived in the Valley back when it spiked and tanked, from 99 through 2001. The roads were ruby red then from all the startups that were gutted. I always missed the Valley, from the friends who I left behind, and how it felt to be driving down the streets of Mountain View and Palo Alto (RIP SGI). I live in Richmond now and thats where I finally conceived the idea for another location fucking mobile fucking app for people who have checking in fucking fatigue. Outside of the Valley, I found the two souls who are not cool enough to be seen outside in hoodies and flip flops, but are hackers who are tenacious and committed to chase a problem through the wee hours of the morning, and the seed of an idea that could once grow in to a business. I am staying here for the idea to sprout and do not see myself ever returning to the valley. I miss it, but not enough to leave what I call now, home.
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Ask HN: Do you Hate or Love your competition? 
I hate my competition. Am I wrong?
Ti or alu? A 2005 laptop showing signs of age in 2009 is kinda weak.

Signed, an eight-year-old Thinkpad user.
(Btw, i recommend to pastebin your question in your native tongue and paste the link here)

This Q is a can of worms. There is no perfect language, runtime, etc...

Especially so if you want 'easy, quick to learn' and 'speed'.

A good team ends up using the right tool for the job, and has a battery of languages at their disposal. Some languages are even made for unique tasks (MPP)!

If you had to shoe horn a lang, I'd choose Java. It satisfies most of your questions.

For the record, I've moved away from developing with Java yet understand that for a beginner it's a vast language of options (libs). This comes from being a professional Java developer for 10 years, and a student of Java since the start (1995).

Since I'm still on the record, I much prefer a mixture of Python, Ruby, C++, and JS (Node!) than using Java. But thats me...
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I agree Rails is not the Ruby opus magnum and the easiest way to get convinced about it is to read ruby-talk list for a couple of months.

OTOH the Python's "one way" is also not the point and is easily misunderstood.

I recently jumped into myriads of Python low-level webserver libs and engines - like say Sinatra. I had to investigate them thoroughly to decide what to use for our startup. There are dozens of them and each encourages some other style of programming. There wouldn't be so much of them if people went into "one way of doing things" church.
But there is no mechanism to share it explicitly with people you vetted. This isn't Facebook, there aren't friends with various levels of permission and a public version.

You could do that by just showing your screen to your vetted people, though, I suppose.
There will always be competition (Friendster, QQ, VKontakte, MySpace, Live Spaces, Path, and many others), and there will always be innovation. Facebook has no competition right now and it's still innovating!
This is similar to the digital billboard panels on the sidelines at sporting events. There are some augmented reality applications possible with this idea too.

Back in the seventies and eighties before very large TVs having 20 TVs daisy chained together was all the rage to have in your coke dealer mansion.
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Yeah, funnily enough, at the beginning when he is naming all the other collaboration tools out there (including google docs) he doesn't mention Wave....
I used it regularly to 'buzz' interesting articles for myself and for my daughter. Its a shame that I am forced to delete my private profile, and loose my ability to use 'buzz'.

We will have to strictly rely on news reader to share information between ourselves.

Not everyone wants or needs to be in social network where they do not control their own privacy.

Google should stop chasing facebook and focus on keeping their search relevant.
I hear you on hibernation issues. Windows 7 boots in no time from hibernation, but Ubuntu (10.10) takes ages. I don't hibernate at all (preferring to switch my box off) because of this.

I've read that Ubuntu 11.04 uses an updated version of the Linux kernel that solves this issues, I'll try it out when it's released.

Regarding battery life, I get three hours out of mine which is similar to what I got with Windows 7. (However, Ubuntu's power options are nowhere near as fine-grained as Windows 7, at least in GUI form.)
Some folks are more interested in watching and telling the story. Just because it would bore you doesn't make it a good explanation for _his_ boredom.
As Zed Shaw, you could've gotten away with "Japan is justly famous for martial arts, cool gadgets, and staggeringly comprehensive preparations for just about anything. If Batman were a country, that country would be Japan."
Exactly. If one want a Java-but-less-painful, Clojure ain't it.
... possibly due to the same fundamental lack of curiosity or self-improvement that leads to using CVS/SVN at all (post 2005).

I (and my successful small business) still use SVN, and have done so since 2007. This choice has nothing to do with "fundamental lack of curiosity or self-improvement." It's a choice born of careful reasoning regarding the suitability of using DVCS in a centralized organization.
With everything the Japanese are passing through at least they have some good news! I hope there will be a good ending to this !
For my job I use Ubuntu for Python and web development, and I have no serious complaints. For the rest of the time, I would like nice integration between jackd and pulseaudio, and a good realtime kernel for audio recording etc.

In general I don't understand why people want to put so much energy into arguing about what it looks like, how the menus are arranged etc. I've seem a number of people try, and subsequently abandon, Ubuntu. Each time it's been because of things being missing or broken, not the superficial bikesheddy colourscheme stuff people like to argue about.

On the subject of Accessibility, my ex had carpal tunnel syndrome and went back to Windows (largely) because there was no usable speech recognition software available. As I understand it the main barrier is a lack of sufficient corpus data, which seems like the sort of thing Ubuntu might be in a position to push for. http://www.voxforge.org/
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Oh noes, now we can determine if the HN crowd has a statistically correct number of birthdays in that timespan...
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I'am writing a gollum like wiki atm. Its not finished yet, but works already and is not far away from a (stable) release: http://github.com/entropie/oy

My problem was gollum worked not behind Apache/mod_proxy, so i was forced to write it on myself ;)
Could you link to some of the public records proving criminal activity?
That is true only while the Euro is weak.

I lived in the US when the original iPad came out. I bought it it on day one, for 500$+VAT. At the time, that was equivalent to about 350€ (strong Euro). It was later sold in Europe for 470€ (IIRC). That was when the Euro was strong in respect to the Dollar--just like now.

Right now, 550$ are about 400€. Apple will surely not sell the iPad 2 at a lower price than the original iPad, so this makes them a handsome 80€ profit on each iPad they sell in Europe and not in the States.
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Love the concept, another whiteboard solution like ideaPaint where you just paint your whiteboard on any surface! http://www.ideapaint.com/
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I run Ubuntu 10.10 and I think that this isn't just an issue with the UI, but tiny little things are just... wrong. For example, shuffle in Rhythmbox ends up playing 2 or 3 music files again and again and things like changing the song's metadata keeps on cropping up weird issues (names get truncated; changes get rolled back after I quit rhythmbox)

There are also other tiny bugs that annoy me everyday. Things like giving decent video output through the VGA port on a supported Acer netbook just don't work. For example, I was giving a presentation and ubuntu would randomly decide between slides to switch over displays, blank it, show output errors etc.

I think that these problems aren't allocated resources, because they appear to be just trivial, but as a user this is what I'm going to notice after a month or a year of usage. These are the tiny things that drive people up the wall. For example, the infamous windows file copying dialogue. Not a biggie, but it evokes a collective sigh no matter where you mention it.

At the same time this release is much, much better than the 8.04 and it just shows how much effort canonical puts into iterative improvement. If the same attention is thrown to these strawmen. Then ubuntu might become a force to reckon with.
This looks really intresting and the design is nice!

Doubt that I will buy these but hopefully they will improve the "amplifying". Im quite anal about my sound quality :)
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I painted a door next to my desk with Rust-oleum's Dry Erase paint. Worked quite nicely.
I frequently have the single-pixel resize handle problem. What's even more frustrating is that there seem to be at least two pixels that cause the cursor to change, so more often than not my first click doesn't actually start the resize. Sometimes I get to three or four unsuccessful attempts to resize my window and can't help but feel like I'm on Candid Camera.
Tell PG: You have a duplicate content problem
Google currently indexes apps.ycombinator.com and news.ycombinator.com and finds the same results. This is bad for SEO (not that it's really a problem for HN, but still not a best practice). As an example, I often get duplicate alerts from Google Alerts for terms that appear on Hacker News.

So... apps should 301 redirect to news.

Incidentally (and this is not why i posted this) I created a small site called inboxSEO.com and we're experimenting with a content scraper that crawls a site and finds this problem, among others...
That's something I sometimes (perhaps stupidly) worry about too. Some earthquakes go off over in Asia and set off earthquakes in California and Pacific Northwest and set off earthquakes in Utah and then the supervolcano in Yellowstone goes off...
No, the private profile is essentially a public profile. If you delete a public/private profile, all access to buzz is gone, and all past 'buzzes' will not be accessible (effectively deleted).
Overall I think you guys have been doing a great job. I'm a happy Ubuntu user.

As for your question: I would be happy if you guys just took the "most popular ever" ideas from brainstorm.ubuntu.com seriously and just worked yourselves through the list. It's good to reach out to us users from time to time like you're doing here, but lots of users have already put in their votes on your own platform.

Other than that I can't wait for the 11.10 release!
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That's one of my biggest gripes too. I sometimes use a tablet as an input device, and it's really hard to grab the edge of a window with the pen.
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You can only forclose on a home on which you hold a lien. One of the big problems associated with this mess is that banks couldn't figure out which bondholders owned which mortgages. The junk mortgage companies (one of which BOA acquired) were as good with record keeping as they were with underwriting. (That is, really bad)

Many homeowners skated through this mess with a free house because the banks could not actually prove that they have a valid lien on the home. The downside for these folks is that they are trapped in the home, as the title isn't clean.
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So you don't have a Google profile at all (neither private nor public). Nothing will change for you.