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Agreed. I currently have a hard time finding _any_ usuable information in German. I quickly turned away from all media here, following the "Why I'm not worried.." and its follow-up submissions on this site instead.

Spiegel et al failed. The whole media message over here is "nuclear power is far too dangerous, look at Japan" and nothing more.
Compound this with the total lack of quality control in garment manufacture and you begin to see why shopping is such an ordeal.

Anecdotal point, I bought a pair of black jeans from the Gap (4 months ago), having tried on several other colors of the same model (size/cut), each fitting different. Since I could not find an identical fitting pair in another color, I decided to get a second pair of black jeans (exact same).

Being paranoid, I decided to try on the second pair before purchasing, and it fit differently than the first.

I decided to try on the first pair again to make sure I was not going crazy. Exact same pants, exact same UPC, different fit.

If I can find a good piece of clothing that fits me well, I tend to purchase several of them at once (in the same exact color/style).
I realize that this is from an ex-Mozilla guy. I'm not sure if he's talking about his new healthcare stuff, or Mozilla's shift to faster releases, but in the context of the latter I think the Chrome project from Google is one of the best examples of this in tech.

They totally rethought what a browser could be from the roots up, and basically decided to treat it like they do their web apps and update constantly and it shows in a lot of different ways. Other companies are still struggling to treat their web apps as something other than boxed retail software and Google's already closing the loop.
Any normal directory can be mounted with the PhoenixFS filesystem driver. It essentially traps all the normal filesystem calls like readdir, opendir, read, and release to transparently keep revision history for every file. Since all the calls are finally passed through to the underlying filesystem, the end-user needs to do nothing extra to use it. The final result is that a `.git` directory is created on the underlying filesystem with all this information.

Motivation and target audience: End users who don't want to bother with versioning their files, but still want transparent backups of everything they edit. Flashbake is a project that takes a stab at solving this issue, but every solution that doesn't work at the filesystem level will have to rely on "polling for changes", which is rather inelegant.

How PhoenixFS works: No, it doesn't use Git at all. This is because it aims to be much faster than Git at the cost of advanced functionality. It has an in-memory B+ tree that's updated everytime the directory tree changes. It's a true content tracker like Git: the tree only references SHA1 hashes. There are three pieces of information in the `.git` directory from which the entire filesystem can be rebuilt: the B+ tree persisted in a file, a packfile containing deltified historical content, and a packfile index for looking up a certain SHA1 in the packfile.
Apple news affects iOS startups, which there are plenty here.
Nice simple controls. Game-play is fun pretty fun. I think no matter the game people will always say it is either too easy or too hard, so don't get discouraged.
I agree. Cable news is horrendous. On the other hand, the photos of the tsunami devestation published by the Boston Globe alone tell a story that is deeper and richer than anything else I've seen or read on the matter.
Eclipse is a platform, and a lot of plugins are there to make it usable for your language(s). Where IDEA is only Java, Eclipse lets me do PHP too. As I do both regularly, it's a compelling "feature".
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I know a large number of developers that have only used Eclipse, and swear by it. The prime motivation for using it seems to be that it's free.

I hired a couple of them for a gig a while ago, and gave them IDEA licenses so we'd all be running in the same IDE. They were instant converts.

I think the results are reflecting the larger numbers of developers who adopt the best free IDE rather than pay money for one. Might be safe to say it's more of a "what IDE are you using" vs. "best IDE".
This is a common misconception. IDEA was once "only Java", but it is rapidly becoming a generalized platform, as well. Writing Ruby with IDEA is an absolute delight, for instance,
IDEA lets me do Java, PHP, RoR, html, etc. I'd say it's just as much of a platform as Eclipse is, and has a huge number of plug-ins to extend its feature set.
I discovered it as well, loved the idea of having something so balanced, unfortunately I can't eat it. After trying it, I had a severe allergic reaction, ending in the hospital the first time, and the second riding the pain out for three hours. An odd food to be allergic too, but too bad.
I didn't say anything about your friends or family that you didn't say first. You told us that they constantly make fun of you for not being too smart, or did I misinterpret? I don't think it's bad to suggest that you don't need to subject yourself to verbal abuse from people around you, or, in the case of family, choose to take the abuse with at least a big grain of salt.
I just had cold quinoa and vegetable salad for breakfast. :)
I'm not sure there's any hope of that happening. If a company tried to offer it even at a premium I'm sure it would turn into an issue of "Comcast/DirecTV is siding with the terrorists!"
I've been less than impressed with AJE's coverage of this. The general pattern has been 2/3rd of article devoted to the one nuclear site, 1/3rd to the rest of the country, with a town or two namechecked with a couple of data points per article. The last Japan-related headline in their main AJE feed which didn't mention the plant was early morning of the 21st. Oh and the lead always mentions the plant.
While the "Test Drive" is cool, the killer thing is that apps are reviewed, which should lead to much better quality. Just submitted our app this morning, and the process was pretty nice.
It could be because Eclipse supports many languages (through plugins), whereas the (free) community edition of IntelliJ only supports Java. At least, last time I checked.
I have a CentOS box that runs a few headless VBox VM's. I use them for development / testing before pushing changes live. I have one of them setup pretty much exactly like our production server.

I do all of that work over ssh. None of the VMs have an X window system installed.
Thanks a bunch for posting this! I can't get the H&F video to load but will read PG's article right now!
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I'd both - agree and disagree with you. :-)

Yes, I guess comparing one case with another would be more or less futile.

However, I do believe some kind of useful/meaningful/actionable intelligence could still be derived from case studies and statistics - don't you think so?
Yup. And this post will never be heard anyway...
lost credibility with whom?

In Germany, it's been no more anti-nuclear than the rest of the German media, politics and public opinion. It's not losing credibility here.

Outside Germany? One of the main reasons to read news from different places is to get a sense of the range of arguments being made. If Der Spiegel just parroted the view in the USA, it would be far less valuable.
While I understand that it's suspicious - as in, out of the norm - but what kind of a scam would it have been?
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Thanks. I did not launch yet. I've written 10.000 lines of code already, but even cutting features heavily I can come out with an MVP only at about 18.000-20.000 lines of code approximately.
I try to get good ideas from these kind of applications, but my product's maybe unique strengths are:

- helping agile 'database evolution' by providing schema refactoring, and automatic schema refactoring advice by detecting redundancies.

- automatically creating indexes using query statisitcs.

- presenting a data maintenance GUI based on the relational schema, which is very similar to modern CRUD applications directly developed with the given schema in mind. (for example intelligent automatic generation of form layouts)

- semi-natural query language support. (actually I've extended the SQL Select command's syntax with quite a lot of intuitive and comfortable constructs.)
Hi HN friends! :)

I hope to see you there, ask me anything! :) If you want me to think about the answer in advance you can post it here, I'll keep monitoring this thread until the event.

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But you also post on HN, making you a very unstereotypical consumer of media in the U.S. My parents would find it more difficult.
Also: up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, b, a should let you skip the FBI warnings.
Article is talking about the second Death Star. They removed the 'small thermal exhaust port' of that one. Rather it got blown up cause it was under construction leaving a path to the core open (and the moon based shield generator got blown up).
Interesting. I'll give it a try.
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Throw-away accounts on HN are quite common as are lurkers and the length of membership is irrelevant to the point.

Apple gets coverage because they are simply interesting to write about. On the other hand, the recent page one love fest on HN for the last MBP announcement was grossly disproportionate to it's importance.
I didn't downvote you but I couldn't make sense of your comment. Especially the last two sentences. The idea that India is "unique" and that corporations fail because they don't get the "more in less" culture seems very vague.
Dumb question, in fashion, are there four seasons per year?

Specifically, should a man using this service budget $5,000 a year for clothing?
Odd. I bought a unibody MacBook around May/June 2010 in one of the Reliance iStores in Chennai. Don't recall seeing any older models there.

Though they don't sell any of the latest iOS devices I was under the impression that the latest desktops and notebooks come to India pretty quickly.
I'm from Belgium but I even put a one-click address in the US, and the apps can't be downloaded (even free ones).
I disagree. There are some interesting multi-core SoC parts hitting the market, ARM is 'in', the move to solid state storage is effectively complete, and multi-touch screens provide a rich interface without the bulk of keyboards and pointing devices. Go back and look at the OQO, but swap in modern hardware and VM tech. Include 802.11 if it is cheap and efficient enough, but provide a slot for drop-in 4g, bluetooth, DRM (the Nook/Kindle plug... probably not an iPod but maybe a Zune plug), etc. --note that having only one 'net' slot pressures providers to bundle content, allow subscribers to extend connectivity plans to cover a content device... it gets complicated but it both creates a product quality incentive and provides opportunities for providers to profit by differentiation.

Build in something like Xen and plan on syncing the user disk image to the network, and run expensive processes on external devices (or AWS) when available. Dock to your laptop to build the presentation; deliver it from your this thing. Dock the thing to any TV and play a movie, without having to move the content from one device to another. etc. etc. etc.

I fully expect these to be commodity parts made by the likes of Dell or HP inside of 8-12 years.
Works for me:
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(from Ireland)
I think he may be referring to "main story" as in what the big story will be when we look at this event years from now: 1) the deaths of ~10,000 people and widespread destruction, or 2) a nuclear reactor incident in which the reaction was bungled at first but ultimately was not a catastrophe for the larger nation or world.
An Apple spokesman who asked not to be named said that the company did not disclose sales figures for India or discuss future release dates for products. He also declined to comment on criticism of Apple's strategy in India.

Useful...

What's most intriguing is that there is almost certainly some good (financial) reason for this strategy. Perhaps it's to do with marketing as Apple tries to make their products a sign of "rich and have friends globally" before opening up sales. I wonder how many new iPads Apple made for sale in India, or whether they are continuing to use existing stock.
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What if they reject it, and you realize you should have taken it and go back to them, but then they quote lower than the original offer sensing that you are desperate to get it off your hands. It works both ways.
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I saw Peldi's talk at bos2010 and it was both hilarious and very helpful!
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VNC is much slower, and has many disadvantages because it works at the level of the entire desktop rather than just an application.
Thanks a lot for making it easy..
Especially considering the massive campaign of misinformation against AlJazeera during the build up of the Iraq war.
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I've heard it many times. Mind you, just in a jokingly fashion, in the same way men joke about women being expensive.
Hmm, I guess I didn't know that.

(I've always setup networking anyway since I need HTTP in and out of the guest as well.)
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I'm pretty new around here: why is your post likely to get downvotes?
I was there at this meetup, and having known H&F over past 2+ years, this was one of their best events. Lookin fwd to many more.
H&F FTW!
Hence why I asked if they can pass adequate judgment on the matter, which I've now realized sounds horribly condescending.

Even so, I think the majority of frequent HN-readers (ie, those able of passing judgment on its trends) will have set-up an account, and I think the age of this account is a good indicator of how long you've spent reading it.
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Your fashion oriented friend may not be available and/or run out of patience, plus, you have to be shopping too, and you are limited in geographic area to where you can obtain clothing (constrained by time and travel time).
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Something related which occurs to me; investing in ideas is basically premature optimisation, because great people can change ideas but average people are unlikely to spontaneously become great.
Would be nice to see a users up/down voting preference on their profile page. Maybe something as simple as a ratio?
I think the main cause of what Tim describes here is not so much just general media mediocrity (although that is relevant also), but the fact that most people simply do not understand what radiation is, how it works, or even the distinction between "safe" levels, "slightly higher than normal" levels, and "dangerous" levels.

Fear of nuclear accidents and atom bombs has conditioned most people to react negatively to any mention of the word "radioactive" - as if it is an all or none situation. The general population has zero idea that you are exposed to radiation when eating a banana or flying internationally.

This isn't an excuse - the mainstream media could do a lot of educating here - but I have a feeling that those that work in the mainstream media don't even begin to have any clue about the science behind this either.
I have absolutely no interest in seeing Al Jazeera in the US. We're already got the New York Times, MSNBC and CNN handling the Hamas/Hezbollah perspective on foreign affairs.
Buxton is a prominent name in the field of UX, and the book referenced in the article (Sketching User Experiences) is a seminal text in the field.

I think the failings you point out are more about the inability of the press to shoehorn both introduction and meaning into a thousand words, and less about Buxton himself.

On a related note: I think every software developer would be well-served by reading Sketching User Experiences. There is a false dichotomy between developers and designers, to my mind; many of the lessons about understanding your audience and the process of "ideation" and refinement apply equally to both disciplines.
For some reason the whitepaper link on the main OpenFlow website is broken, so here is:

- a Coral cache version (http://preview.tinyurl.com/5sr9vsc)
- the Google cache version put through Quick View (http://tinyurl.com/6hxyxz2)

The GigaOM article was far too basic and vague for me, so the white paper proved to be a breath of fresh air! Whereas the GigaOM article flounders over explaining potential commercial applications for OpenFlow, the whitepaper takes a far more humble approach:

"Today, there is almost no practical way to experiment with new network protocols (e.g. new routing protocols, or alternative to IP) in sufficiently realistic settings (e.g. at scale carrying real traffic) to gain the confidence needed for their widespread deployment...a more promising approach [then contemporary commerical and research solutions] is to compromise on generality and to seek a degree of switch flexibility that is:

- Amenable to high-performance and low-cost implementations.
- Capable of supporting a broad range of research.
- Assured to isolate experimental traffic from production traffic.
- Consistent with vendors' needs for closed platforms.

This paper describes the OpenFlow Switch - a specification that is an initial attempt to meet these four goals."
Is there a women's version of this service?
So how should the thatcher have differed in his estimating process?
It wouldn't be considered mainstream by the people that would benefit most from an expanded world view, it would just be considered terrorist.
I don't know about this, Al Jazeera still does competent boots on the ground reporting. I'm pretty sure I want my newsmen to read me other people's twitter posts and narrate YouTube videos.

Their business model of "investigating" and "journalistic integrity" has no place in the American market.
When I want to know what's really going on in the world, I don't watch the government-influenced, corporate-financed mainstream western media. I tune into the Emir of Qatar's station, where centuries old traditions of democracy and independent journalism reporting produce quality, objective reporting.

Incredible how gullible most people are. You just need to up the sophistication by a notch to have them eating out of your hand.
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I moved to asian from canada last summer, and the presence of Al Jazeera was a little weird at first. It'll be up on TV, or people will be reading it on their computers, you get over seeing it about the 3rd time.

My limited experience is that its pretty average news. I find the BBC (or the CBC in Canada) to be considerably better with respect to seeming unbiased.. Al Jazeera kinda feels CNN-ish. I'm curious if anyone with more exposure feels the same? Also, CNN is still king for truly up to the minute breaking news.

I certainly think having a counter balance to Fox and CNN's right of center, wouldn't hurt, and I think people should be allowed to watch what they want. However, I'd be more inclined to petition to US government to mandate the BBC be broadcast for free.
While NetFlix Watch Instant definitely does have a large amount of B-rated (and lower) movies, I've still been able to find a huge amount of things that are really interesting for me to watch. For those that really enjoy blockbuster and big name titles, there really isn't much selection, but there are great films to be seen, so I wouldn't be quick to categorize what's available as junk.
Man, Zuck, you're finally filling out. Way to go, dude!
I can't think of one instance when an argument that starts with, "There are plenty of people who..." should be convincing. Here in NC, when the governor and legislature made their final push for a lottery, the governor said, "We're at a competitive disadvantage with surrounding states who do have a lottery." Which is a fancy way of saying, Everybody's doing it. We need to start a huge advertising campaign to entice our poorest and most ignorant people to gamble.
Behind every great product is a motivated and driven team ;)
Putting your head in the sand and saying "eat less meat" is not going to fix the problem. As billions of people come out of poverty, they're going to rightly demand their share of meat.

As has been pointed out, it's easy to feed 9 billion people on grain alone. But feeding 9 billion people meat and a healthy variety of vegetables is a much more difficult challenge.

But luckily, there are ways to fix this problem and still let people eat their meat:

1) cows eat grass. Currently, modern cows eat grain. Historically, cows ate grass. Grass-fed cows are healthier, happier and much more nutritious. Grain fed cows also waste most of the grain they're fed: a cow fed corn needs 12 calories of grain to produce a single calorie of meat. But a chicken needs far fewer pounds of grain since birds evolved to eat grains & insects. Cows eat grass. A grass-fed cow doesn't "steal" any food from humans.

So why do we feed them grain instead of grass? Because it's cheaper. Huge numbers of dollars have been invested in increasing our production of wheat, corn and rice, to great success: yields today on non-virgin farmland are 4-10 times as large as they were 150 years ago. A comparable effort to raise the production of crops such as alfalfa will provide huge benefits. It's insane that it's more efficient to to plant a crop of barley, harvest the seeds to feed to cows and throw away the rest of the plant than it is to plant something else and feed the whole plant to the cow.

The other part of the solution is to eat a wider variety of meats and less beef. Bacon is the only form of pork that Americans eat, yet it's tastier than beef, IMO. Luckily, most Asians already know that.

2) fix our fishing: Current fishing practices are hugely wasteful. We've got a huge number of boats chasing a small number of fish, reducing stocks well below the most efficient breeding population size. Properly managed oceans could produce far more meat calories for humans than it currently does. We'd have to reduce our fishing now, but do we want a few calories now or a large number of calories later? Through the tragedy of the commons, we're saying a "few calories now".
Really it's a sad indictment of what sells.
I don't normally view religion as a social activity ... Religion doesn't seem to necessitate multiple people in the same way that language does

I believe there's some disagreement over whether religion is characterized as primarily a set of beliefs individuals hold, or primarily a sociological phenomenon. Clearly most religions have a mixture of both, so the disagreement is over which is more important or definitional. I think most sociologists tend to see it as more of a social phenomenon, with the role of shared beliefs being just one kind of social glue. Linguistically, we don't seem to call personal beliefs that one person holds, not shared by anyone else, a "religion"; religions seem to require some sort of community of members.
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Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power
Further into the comments, it is acknowledged that HTML + CSS is, in fact, not Turing Complete and that the original premise was incorrect.

There is some discussion over what Turing complete means (including a guy confusing complexity with computability and saying that the notion of Turing completeness is nonsense), but no universal acknowledgement of that sort.