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Display PostScript - circa 1987 (thanks, Steve Jobs).

I know there isn't a good current alternative in the web world, but shouldn't it be a goal to not have to specify pixels anymore? Obviously mobile browsers already largely ignore/change pixel font sizes.
It's nice to see America's proud tradition of racial profiling being brought forward into the 21st Century. Go, science.

The deployment of this technology should not be acceptable to anybody who believes in our right to live in a free society of equals.
Kickstarter being sued for patent infringment.
Cities have less churches, I guess, but towns tend to have more since there is more diversity of religion. My little borough in CT has 7-8 churches, several of which are 150 years old.

OTOH, I don't think the churches point in any reliable direction. They just all face the town square.
How about people can sell it and the gov't has to pay for it when someone needs it? Seems a lot less distopian that way.
Looks good! It reminds me of Sparrow for Mac a bit.
> Uninstall or change a program

That's a terribly long label for an icon. This and other unnecessarily long labels are probably responsible for at least half of the "It looks cluttered" complaints.

I generally don't mind the ribbon interface -- I've gotten used to it somewhat -- but MS should really try to make the Explorer ribbon _appear_ less cluttered. In Word 2010, few of the labels take up more than one line, especially in the most commonly used tabs.

In other words, make the other ribbons look more like the "Search" ribbon (Reason 7). It just looks much better organized.
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Date	Thu, 6 Oct 2011 15:05:27 -0400
From	Dave Jones <>
Subject	RFC: virtualbox tainting.
The number of bug reports we get from people with virtualbox loaded are
truly astonishing. It's GPL, but sadly that doesn't mean it's good.
Nearly all of these bugs look like random corruption. (corrupt linked lists,
corrupt page tables, and just plain 'weird' crashes).

This diff adds tainting to the module loader to treat it as we do with stuff
from staging/ (crap). With this tainting in place, automatic bug filing tools
can opt out of automatically filing kernel bugs, and inform the user to file
bugs somewhere more appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 04379f92..d26c9a3 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -2653,6 +2653,10 @@ static int check_module_license_and_versions(struct module *mod)
if (strcmp(mod->name, "ndiswrapper") == 0)
add_taint(TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE);

+	/* vbox is garbage. */
+	if (strcmp(mod->name, "vboxdrv") == 0)
+	add_taint(TAINT_CRAP);
+
/* driverloader was caught wrongly pretending to be under GPL */
if (strcmp(mod->name, "driverloader") == 0)
add_taint_module(mod, TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE);
The only thing DHS could do to make their image worse is to buy uniforms with shiny boots and brown shirts for all their employees.
Except that this is a common kernel panic cause using Linux as a host machine.
It’s a valuable goal but just that. A goal. It’s necessary to be pragmatic in the meantime. No point in dreaming.

(If you didn’t notice, we are talking about the web here.)
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I like the way he managed to blame Steve Jobs for the fact that he always compares himself with Newton.
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If you copy or distribute the derivate work in either object code or executable form, you are obliged to make the source available.

Arguably anyone who has a phone, has had a copy in executable form distributed to them, and can ask for the source.
No I'm saying not every person has the same size hands or thumbs.
That sounds backward. How could some software that is merely available for free drive you away from something? Also, have you tried alternatives? There is not just GIMP...
Extreme rudeness aside, you will be "your grandma" soon. Do you want to be perplexed by 2030's technology presenting tons of options inelegantly?

A good interface reduces visual clutter. Seldom used options don't belong on the front row UI seat. I wouldn't want them on a F16 cockpit, and I don't want them on my file browser.
Don’t blame your prospective customers when they don’t “get it”
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The major feature of this release is the integration of MongoDB as our storage in the cloud.
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Someone's trying to trademark "Bitcoin" in the UK
I run my startup on a MBP with multiple VMs. It's been a love/hate affair with VirtualBox, but so far I manage to live with the shortcomings. Can't argue with free. Tried Parallel early on when truly frustrated, but found it doesn't add much over VBox to justify the price. Here are a few tips that I live by:

1. Obviously, never put critical data on a VM not matter how stable it seems. Definitely have Dropbox installed.

2. Make it a good habit to pause the VM before you pack up and go or switch to a different network. When turning it back on, disconnect the network interface then reconnect.

3. When the UI freezes, you can rescue on a Mac with AppleKey+F6 (or a few other Func keys) to another tty console. Login there and reboot. After you get the VM back, VBox likes it when you do a proper reboot before you resume working.

4. Take snapshot regularly, definitely right after you just checkin a major chunk of code!
The only problem I have with making a GIMP replacement is, I wouldn't know what to build. All of my image editing needs are filled by programs that shipped with my OS. I have used the GIMP before it was confusing(which would probably be resolvable if I spent time learning the app), but capable of what I needed. Yet every time I see it brought up it is usually called inadequate, with most of the problems called out looking like "doesn't work exactly like Photoshop so I am not even going to try it" sort of problems.

So my question is: Is there something actually wrong with the GIMP other than the fact that it is ugly? I don't consider the fact that it works differently from Photoshop a problem worth fixing.
The VirtualBox software (as in the UI, etc) is great, however this article/mail listing is discussing the 'vboxdrv' Linux kernel module, which is a source of a large number of bug reports to the Linux kernel project.
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Why is it going in the absolute wrong direction if they are good for power users? Also, why must we continue to treat the normal user as _dumb_? My mum now uses tabs in web browsers, knows a couple of shortcuts, etc. Let's promote this and not pretend they are unable to progress past using a one-button mouse. ;)

My Grandma gets along fine using Windows.
Several ways to achieve "up a folder" effect, if you're curious:

1. Right click on the folder (so-called "proxy") icon in the titlebar, which will give you links to all the folders up to the root

2. Assuming you drilled-down into this folder from its parent, click the back button or (with a multitouch trackpad) three-finger swipe to the left.
It's a slippery slope.

If it was for-profit, countries like China would be pulping political prisoners for it.

Actually maybe not just China, I am sure some states in the US would make it mandatory for prisoners to donate to pay for their own prison sentences and maybe judges would take a cut too, increasing their willingness to find people guilty (judges are already allowed to own stock in privately run prisons).
This may be the very first legitimate use of tax dollars I've ever heard of.
[Reason 1: The Contextual Ribbon]

Your joking. Right?
Strategy doesn't preclude tact. I.e. press hits doesn't have to be only reason not to launch a product on the day of the funeral. [Edit: Being tactful can also be strategic, because it will be seen as, well, tactful. The problem, as you demonstrate, is that it can also be seen as strategic. But what's wrong with being tactfully strategic or strategically tactful?]

I also imagine there will be at least a few top level Google executives attending.
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Where are the official announcements of this? I can't find links in any of these clone-posts, and I can't find announcements on Google or Samsung's websites.
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is the ipad port also in C#? How do you make something so native-looking?
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Well, I think the question of "who pays for it", while important, is orthogonal to this particular issue, which is about increasing the available supply.

If a poor but healthy south asian immigrant wants startup capital to open a restaurant, and Amit wants a long and fruitful life, a legal market that allowed such a transaction would dramatically increase the supply of available materials. And it may even be possible that this increased supply would drive the end cost of living tissue down.

Now to be clear, I don't want to detract from Amit's immediate issue - this thread should be about helping him, not lead off a discussion that has nothing do to with his immediate problem( nobody here is going to change the legal framework within a month ). But I would like to at least understand the downsides to allowing markets in living tissue.
I know Amit very well. My best friend/roommate is a dev for PJJ (pictured on the blog). Amit is one of the nicest people I know. This is such a bummer.
> Google didn’t help matters at all when in the fall of 2010, “Google engineer Patrick Brady stated unambiguously that Android is not Linux” That was never true.

Another example why naming popular desktop OSes as "GNU/Linux" (as opposed to plain "Linux") is important, unless all parties know the context. And never compare "Android" and "Linux", unless the "Android" comes right before the word "kernel".
Drop the '10' in the title. Makes the submission sound like supermarket tabloid linkbait. As common and effective on peoples' ape subroutines as it is, it's not a writing style one should strive to emulate.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."
If your problem isn't well-suited to a functional approach, why are you using Lisp to solve it?

Anyway, the Church-Turing thesis won't cause you any trouble. C and Lisp are both "Turing-complete" which means that any program you can write in one will be representable in the other. I couldn't find a direct translation, but maybe this Fortran->Lisp converter from 1979 will show you how it's possible? http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Fortran-to-Lisp.html
Rachat de credit
Dans le monde du crédit, on ne peut se fier à notre préférence. On peut facilement s’y perdre car tout est question d’étude.
I think MS is sort of splitting Windows for casual users and power-users. Casual users will eventually use Metro for everything and not use the current desktop paradigm. Will take a while though.
Consider for a moment that even if they did this tomorrow and announced it on the front page of the Times, people would continue to live in America, pay taxes, and take commercial flights.

The time to leave was some time ago. The first, second, fourth, and fifth amendments are all gone, now.
Comments like this drive me away from FSF, despite heavily using open source software each day of my life.
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Seconded. I currently live in Bangalore and pay just Rs 400 (about $8) per month for blackberry services + unlimited 3G usage. I had this Rs 98 plan a few years ago when I was in college and didn't have a 3G capable phone.
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>Which reminds me of that immortal Reservoir Dogs line: "let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet"...

Thats the thing about the word "hacker", almost every single context where it is used, it's either used wrong, or as comes across as pompous bullshit. Including this website.
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Yeah, it looks like a rehash of the data available on their official website. http://www.aakashcomputer.in/index.html
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Looks like there is a little bit of the story here: http://blog.inbox2.com/we-are-launching-a-new-product
Apple never meaningfully cut costs on the Apple II. It was a success in 1976 for reasons of cost, because it had features other machines didn't at a part count (i.e. production cost) much lower than its competitors. But the retail price was always higher than competing machines, always. This got a little silly towards the mid 80's, when a IIe would run you more than $1k while the C64 next to it was $200.

I continue to find it amazing the degree to which the reality distortion field still holds.
Are you thinking about resources for learning web frameworks like Rails, Django, etc.? Or do you want them to start working through some of the newer multi-purpose languages (Clojure, Scala, etc.)?
I still use WinXP - I'm partly change averse, and partly find some things in Win7 (which I have on my laptop) more clunky than WinXP.

I happen to be in windows explorer a lot between everything I'm up to, and all of these features linked look terrific and will make me much more productive. So count me in as excited for a new Windows launch for the first time in a while.
Are there any HN reviews of this guys eBooks? I think he has two on SED and I'm a little leery of self promotion although the preview was pretty good.
What a joke, he either bears a grudge or is hopelessly misinformed. Or both.
Shuttleworth is trying... :-)
I'm pretty sure the grandparent meant "no copyright notice = no rights granted" rather than "no notice = no rights reserved". Maybe I'm just reading it too charitably.
16-year Mac user here - I wouldn't go to the extent of saying Jobs changed my life. Apple devices influenced how I got my work done, which is non-trivial, but I won't idol worship him in an emotional manner. He's still only human just like the rest of us.
Reading this on a mac, via the internet.. what a powerful story at this time to come across. It made me look up and out the window and wonder: what is the future of my work? It reminds me to stretch my vision to 10, 20, 50 years into the future (though, if I presume to see 5 years into the future of tech I'd be happy..)
User testing shows that non power users nearly always work in a single window anyway. They're unlikely to be confronted with the option at all.

One possible way of managing complexity is putting the complex parts where typical users won't need to go in the first place. The goal of the heat map work they do is to take the options that basic users know they need and set them right out front and center, so that they never need to dig into the rest of the interface and get lost in the rest of the options.
Yes, CSS has an unhelpful definition of pixels, which AFAICS is almost universally ignored. No doubt it was well-intentioned, but in the real world, pixels have fixed sizes and display devices do not have infinite resolutions. The difference between professional quality web design and an amateurish mess can be as simple as paying attention to the real pixel grid that your beautiful vector icon/font/whatever will be drawn on and shifting/hinting/whatever accordingly.

Given that CSS also recognises length units such as pt, which make far more sense if you really want to specify a physical size for something like a font, distorting the meaning of "pixel" doesn't seem very useful. It's a little like idealised fluid layouts, which quickly gave way to the practical benefits of more controlled layouts and more recently to responsive designs that are specifically tailored to the strengths and weaknesses of different browsing environments. Good design often requires an element of precision, which you simply can't specify if browsers keep moving the goalposts.
Could it be? Someone has finally made an aesthetically pleasing Windows App?

Thank you for being design conscious. If only more developers like you existed on that platform.
I'd say those are pretty honest numbers, though the 'Other' category is probably understated for most Americans..
I guess you missed all the posts yesterday about Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, and most likely a lot of other Googlers who had a lot of respect for Steve Jobs, so no, I do not think that reason is _that_ unlikely.
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For someone who claims his philosophy is altruistic and is trying to make technology better for all human beings, he sure has a lot of hate.
Orthodoxy is a smaller jail than any software system.
Already in discussion here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3083349
Can the Blackberry recover?
http://blog.inbox2.com/

Seems like iPad is their primary focus. Some info on how/why the desktop client came about/was open-sourced would be nice.. http://www.inbox2.com/open-source is a little sparse...
Could we a have a binary version, please? It would definitely help evaluating your project.
I understand the difference between pragmatism and dreaming.

In the short term, that pragmatism should include web devs not trying to lay everything out pixel-perfect so it breaks if the user hits "zoom". The diversity of screen sizes and browsers and DPIs is greater than it has ever been, and will only increase.
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Microsoft acquired startup Interactive Supercomputing (Star-P) and is working on exactly what you propose (Excel-MATLAB).

However, they dropped Iron Python, leading Jim Hugunin to leave ( http://hugunin.net/microsoft_farewell.html ).
L =0. when D =0 and even when T is Large.

L =0. when T =0 even when D is Large.

If you actually do work hard and create something of value, but don't do a very good job of telling the world about your passionate work, then you're going to be ignored and relegated to obscurity.
Python, and assuming the given iterable of items contains no duplicates:

def pairs_functional(items):
return [ [a,b] \
for a in items \
for b in items \
if a<b \
]

It does about twice as much work as necessary, but you are producing effectively unordered pairs. I haven't run any timing tests as I don't have time at the moment, but I suspect the efficiency is comparable.

I see that you are calling this an iterative solution, and then dismissing it, but it's a referentially transparent function with no side effects. Why are you saying it's not functional?

It feels to me that the algorithm you're using (zips and shifts) is simply wrong for the combination of paradigm and problem.

You can write the above to be more obviously "functional" by defining a function "cartesian product" and then filtering, but I don't really see how that's really more or less functional.

I'd be interested to see a more comprehensive explanation of what you think the problem really is, and to comments from others here on HN.
I'm on 3k and I can't downvote stories. I don't think you're able to downvote stories at all.

However you can flag stories. Then the Powers That Be will look at them and bury them if needed.
Thank you SIR!
That was the line that got me. At the end, after everything he had accomplished and all the billions of dollars he had made, all he wanted to do was spend time with his family.

I might never be anything more than someone who's pretty good at his job and is appreciated by the people he works for, but I get to do the exact same thing that Steve Jobs held most dear — spend time with my wife and son.
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It took me some time to be sure it wasn't a satirical article.

I believe it might be nice for Linux users. But most "feature" are wrong for standard user and even more for beginners.

=== my feelings:

Reason 1: contextual ribbon. Without talking about the visual attractiveness it is a complete loss of space. It is like someone saying: "Hey, you know you could do this!" "Would you want to open this image?". "Hey would you want to see the size of you hard drive?". "Hey would you want to launch your movie inside Windows Media Player given by you by Microsoft(c) for the unique and incredibly user friendly Windows 8?"

Hey losing so much space for annoying possibilities. I don't know for whom it will be useful? Annoying for power users. Noisy for new ones.

Reason 2 - Copy: ??? Incredible I can have a screen displaying how I copy a file! I confess the ability to pause the copy can be nice for very huge files.

Reason 3 - Copy path button? Yes if you are a geek and want to use the command line.

Reason 4 - Up button! Whoa!

Reason 5 - Customizing How To View Files & Folders is Dead Easy!: Just look at the screenshot! There are at least 20 different widget! _EASY_? I don't think so.

Reason 6: The Quick Access Toolbar! Yes, we didn't had enought button!

Reason 7: Searching is fixed in windows 8? Good news! Just some years after Mac and Linux.

Reason 8: Open "cmd" on the current location. Great my son and my wife will feel like "UB3R 1337!".

Reason 9: Mount ISO Disc Image. You're kidding, it wasn't here before?

Reason 10: Multile instance in multiple processes. Incredible, when the five firsts windows will be stuck I could also stuck a new one :-).

Reason 11: Easy management of Favorite folder. Incredible! I should buy windows 8 just for this incredible new feature! On XP I used ie6 to mark my favorite folders.

Reason 12: Easy copying and moving files and folders. Super! I can now click on another buttons! I love button! Give me more! Yeah, drag and drop is boring.

------

Sorry, for the general ambiance of this comment. I didn't want to hurt anybody. But seriously, it is a joke. I only hope it was really a satirical article in the end and I was trolled.

The only positives point are Reason 2, 7, 9 and Reason 10 which are bug fixes, not features.

"Make It Simple! Stupid!".

Seriously, most of these feature are anti pattern for standard user even if they seems good for many power users. Please, rename your finder: "pro-finder" and in the name of everything good in this world make a "nice, simple, minimal finder for the rest of the world!"
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Your comment sounds a bit dated to me. Migrating these 'power user' features to the primary file manager is almost certainly a response to requests coming from middle-of-the-curve professional users.
I read through the whole thing and honestly couldn't tell if it was being sarcastic or not. Just the name Explorer alone is all wrong... most users don't want to explore, they want to find. Maybe they should call it a Finder instead. Oh, wait...
Tools -> Folder options -> View tab -> Launch folder windows in a separate process
Because what you call dumb is in reality just complete lack of interest. Having that many buttons on the default view just adds to the feeling of "what in the world is all this shit"
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Agreed - It shows tremendous lack of vision and leadership on the part of the FSF to continually push for "clones". The pursuit of mediocrity that is endemic in open source originates from them.

Let's innovate people...
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