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Never heard of it until now. Looking at the page, I'm not interested. I don't want a local mail client. I don't even want to configure a local mail client to use IMAP. I just want a good SSB app for Gmail. Fluid fills this role, but I'm always curious if another SSB can do it better. So far, it seems not.
Do you also publish to the iTunes bookstore?
>I don't like that conclusion, but to me, that's the simplest interpretation of his behavior. (I'd love to hear other, less frightening interpretations. As it is, I try not to think about this stuff too much.)

Another possibility is that the US powers-that-be have looked at America's long term economic prospects and have decided that America must change to survive. China and India are becoming dominant economic forces and if the US wants to compete it may want to impose new labor standards on Americans and strip them of benefits. This would, of course, create the possibility of a popular uprising. In preparation for this eventuality, they may be using counter-terrorism as a cover for counter-insurgence preparations.
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Is the only thing that changed in Obama's position his stance on security? If not, then I think there are several very simple explanations that might apply:
* He didn't mean some or all of the things he said as a candidate and never intended to take action on them.
* After he took office, he had to answer to more powerful interests who would not allow him to take action on campaign promises.
* While campaigning, he promised things that he's incapable of taking action on, whether he knew it or not at the time.

Any of these explanations could be applied to any recent candidate for the office of PotUS.
Can anyone listen to Tutu laugh and not crack a huge smile? The guy is like joy in a can.
> Physiological concerns aside, observed psychopathy is more or less a variation of behavior that allows the individual to apply more cerebral perceptions to social / emotional contexts.

Not really. Many psychopathic behaviours are irrational. I.e. their long-term goals do not correspond to their actions.

The way I look at it, there's a spectrum of selfishness+impulsivity with psychopathy at the extreme end.

I.e. the psychopath's need to do what he wants to do outweighs any other concerns, including possibly your right to not be harmed / live. This may not always be true, but the impulsivity makes it true at the critical moment.
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Are you drawing a moral equivalence between the US 'invading' Afghanistan and China annexing Tibet? Or is this just a Fox News style "some people say he is a 'terrorist'"?
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I concur, kindle.app and variants, kindle fire, all have nothing to do with the real Kindle, which just a book, slightly more convenient.

Like GP, I also buy, collect, give paper books, and have a wall of them in our living room, including all Balzac in a 18xx edition. But when I travel I take my Kindle instead of spending one hour pondering which book to take.
Down the rabbit hole. Not only are there secret laws, but now courts are being made to interpret secret laws they aren't permitted to see. Or rule based on evidence they aren't permitted to see:

> The extraordinary limitations in place for the prosecution of Shamai Leibowitz, who was sentenced to 20 months in prison for disseminating classified information, meant that even the judge sentencing him did not know what he was supposed to have leaked. "All I know is that it's a serious case," Judge Alexander Williams said last year. "I don't know what was divulged other than some documents, and how it compromised things, I have no idea."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/secret-tria...

Secret laws violate Due Process according to our own previous interpretations. They were derided as the hallmark of totalitarian regimes, the kind of thing the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries did. NOT the United States, with its much-vaunted Constitution.

Well, it turns out that if the people in power want to shred your civil rights, they WILL do so. At most you can ask them to pretty please respect your Constitutional rights, and then they'll say no. It doesn't matter that their behavior is illegal because nobody can make them comply. "Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules..."

If you really want to be concerned, check out this Glenn Greenwald article: http://politics.salon.com/2009/03/03/yoo_5/

"The President, when using military force against American citizens on U.S. soil, is ”free from the constraints” not only of the Fourth Amendment, but also of other core guarantees of the Bill of Rights — including First Amendment liberties, Due Process rights, and the takings clause"

(Note it's a long article and you have to click to "Continue Reading")
I'll pay due respect to China's opinion on the matter when evidence is produced that he is directly responsible for one death.

In the meantime, the fact that he is considered a terrorist by the Chinese Govt makes them look like idiots - rather than him look like a terrorist. In the exact same way the US calling Maher Arar makes us look like fools.
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The issue is familiarity. Sun ran into the same issue with Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris. More programmers and sysadmins are just more familiar with Linux.
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Your argument is based on false premises. Psychopaths aren't more rational than other people. They're just more selfish.

The TV notion that psychopaths don't feel any emotion is off the mark. They certainly feel annoyance and anger.

They appear not to feel remorse because they're very good at rationalizing their impulsive/selfish actions.
if you want to see disruptive you should check out haxenme.org - it is based on Haxe language, which is ECMA based.

it's open source and it's a 4 year old technology.
The lack of good urban schools and healthy mass transit is a self-perpetuating problem in southern cities, originally stemming from racism. Over decades, a near separate but equal environment within the framework of existing civil rights laws came to fruition.
A QR Code and a simple mobile website, isn't that what the author is asking for? Stores or areas offering something to a crowd (Where sharing a physical code with everyone seems inefficient) can set up a WiFi network and redirect users to the store's website.
" Extraordinary software engineering talent.
Have written 50,000 good-looking lines of code.
Before that, have written 50,000 lines of code that you're embarrassed by.
Know all that stuff they teach in college CS that most people forget.
Speak and write clear arguments, explanations and proofs.
Can write a compiler from scratch.
Can write a quine.
Can write binary search with no off-by-one errors in under 2 minutes.

"
getting tired by these requirements
You are ignoring most of the reasons wheels gave you. He said an e-book is harder for sharing, cannot be stored in a physical location and requires a theft prone device that makes the owner look nerdy. He also said he prefers the sensory experience of a book to that of a device. Your evangelism addresses only the last point and your premise - wheels is unfamiliar with modern e-readers - appears without basis.
Really nice to see true unbridled entrepreneurism alive and kicking.... Companies like Y Combinator play their part, the ecosystem is really what it is all about
The less devs can do with a web platform, the more they go make their own iOS app, which apple likes.
It is easy to agree that there MUST be essential dependencies between modules in a system designed separated in a certain way. (Ignoring some philo arguments on identity, separation and reference point...)

The issue is whether the interfacing technique adds in non-essential coupling. A technique that has at least the constraints of another technique will also have trivially have at least the non-essential coupling of the other technique.

Types add constraints, thus increasing coupling (and decreasing modularity).

Although types have benefits. And direct modularity is seldom the only concern. I.e. Correctness and reliability also enhances modularity in an indirect way - an erroneous module definitely decreases modularity.
Please don't edit out your post, now GP tone looks overreacted.
I didn't downvote, but see universal newline support in Python http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0278/
You're right and have a point - the question is, do our imperfect expressions of emotion somehow rob them of their reality, intent, or genuineness?

It seems to me (perhaps this is a misreading of the post) would have us dismiss emotional expression as inherently untrustworthy, or somehow unreal. I disagree vehemently.

Sure, our expressions, and the way they're perceived, is colored by brain chemistry, social conditioning, and a myriad of other factors... but I maintain that it simply makes them more complex, not less real.
Donald Norman is presumably in there somewhere as well.
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(Cheap) SMS was compared to (expensive per-minute) calling, as an example of a technology that caught on even though its use wasn't easy. (The phone keypad being unwieldy for typing long messages because every 3 letters is grouped with a single number)
Funny. True in general. But in this case The Daily Mail aren't necessarily being deliberately disingenuous.*

What the original post is saying as that when the doors opened to the public, Google+ traffic went up nearly 5-fold in a month from a private Google-staff-and-their-freinds beta.

Even if we ignore the fact that it went up 1200% and then dropped back again, 5-fold seems a little disappointing.

Also, surely it is correct reporting to point out that there was a massive drop-off effect. People signed up in their droves, tried it and then left.

No matter how Google try to spin this, it can't be good. If Google+ continues to slowly build back over the next few months then maybe they will be fine. But, based on a small biased sample of my 'social graph' it doesn't look like it.

*—I can't believe I'm defending The Daily Mail.
Imagine an article that asserted "Desktop apps must die!" to be replaced by web apps, naturally.

Sure, organizing mobile apps is a pain. I agree. But I can't tell you the number of times I've known there was a website that had some web app, and had a heck of a time trying to find it.

URLs, in people's minds, are very ephemeral... while apps are more tangible in a way.

I think for some applications the web delivery mechanism will be superior, while for other applications, native apps will always be superior.

Is the Facebook iPhone app a web app or a mobile app, or a hybrid? Facebook gives people the choice.
Use "DVD Decrypter", it always ripped everything perfectly for me.
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Just curious, what can Ubuntu Server provide as a cloud OS that isn't already in Debian? Is it just the Canonical support?
OK, but this lawsuit is textbook journalism. And the ACLU could be doing it, but they aren't. In this particular instance the Times is.
Amazing! Good look fossicking for the gems in there - would love to be watching the ideas come in.

Surprised so many leave their applications that late given that the advice is to get in early.
Unless I misunderstand it, your shell script can be replaced with fuser, e.g. 'fuser -k -9 1337/tcp'
I can't help but be suspicious this is a propaganda push to try and move people off devices competing with MS.

I never read .net magazine even when I had a subscription, theres something about the tone of the magazine that rubs me up the wrong way, and its in this article as well.

Not sure how to describe it but I always get a feeling like I'm dealing with a shady street vendor and I have to watch every moment to make sure I'm not being conned. Like buying off pikeys in the UK, you just know something isn't legit.
Depends on if your work is dependent on physical locations. Most are.

Location also dictates infrastructure, climate, culture, and cuisine. Places that optimize for those things will likely attract location-independent knowledge workers.
Y-Combinator Startup School is a separate one-day event, and is not apart of the YC incubator application process.
From what I have seen that is not the case. You can't just dismiss the many informed opinions you see on here as 'Google bashing'.

I've seen many really good reasons for thinking that the web programming community hoped for something lighter and more innovative from Google.

There are many good reasons why most of us avoid web-programming in Java and C#, especially those of us in smaller shops where one person might have to tackle the full stack.
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The big story here is the use of KVM.

KVM is mostly seen as a RedHat technology these days in the Enterprise, because RedHat provides most of the support for customers. I suspect in this case HP have built the expertise in-house.

The KVM people will be pleased to see this endorsement because most large public clouds (eg Amazon and Rackspace) are on Xen, and VMWare dominates the enterprise. KVM seems to have been stuck in the middle a little bit - used in a few enterprises, but not as many "name brands" as VMWare, and used in a few hosting providers, but none as big as Amazon and Rackspace.

They have had other wins (I think Oracle's enterprise virtulization is KVM based (not VirtualBox)) and I think IBM and Dell use it too. But none of them run public clouds.
The forums still look bad.
Ah I see thank you!!
I hate to post trite things on HN but if you haven't heard of the Daily Mail there is a good (and humorous) summary of the paper made into a song using only their headlines:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI
It works from iOS iCab.
It's not a question of fallibility. It's a question of how propaganda functions in society. The Times has become a voice for the powerful interests in the US.

Judith Miller's "mistakes" were hugely influential to me because I was naive... similarly I think those who believe this lawsuit means anything are similarly naive.
I think you are conflating two things here.

@potatolicious is comparing the experience of a tasty meal to the experience of love/happiness/whatever, and saying that it doesn't matter what the underlying cause of it is, it's the experience that matters. I think it's a reasonable point.

You're saying that the experience could be 'fake' because it's based on a fake stimulus. Just in the same way that a loving experience is could be based on a fake interaction by someone else (say a psychopath).

But from /your/ perspective, is there a difference in the experience between the fake and the real? If the inputs are the same, the experience is the same, whether they are triggered by chemicals or some kind of higher-level mental state that we can't adequately explain via chemistry or biology.

The OP seems to be denigrating the human experience based on the chemical 'fakery'/self-deception involved. But that's a different kind of fake--that's your body 'faking' it. [And I totally disagree with that by the way; I agree completely with @potatolicious].
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> "What else could they do? The only other thing I could think of is Facebook not offering this feature."

"Your friend [Bob Smith] wants to use Facebook Mobile Sync on his phone. This would allow Facebook to see any information he has in his address book relating to you. You can [learn more about Facebook Mobile Sync here]."

> "They are doing quite a good job here making it clear what happens to your information if you share it with them and you have to explicitly give your okay."

There are two issues with this:

- There is a social contract (at least, in Western countries, I cannot speak for this as a universal rule) where your contact information is private. This is why people ask "is it ok if I give Bob your number?". Facebook violates this fundamental assumption by allowing Bob to unilaterally upload all this private data with a simple button push, without clearing it with anyone.

- The fact that we had viral outrage when people's private numbers started showing up on accounts seems to suggest that they have not explained the use of this information sufficiently. If people are quite clear about what happens to this information, there would have been little cause for outrage.

That prompt doesn't really make clear what information Facebook will roll into its databases, nor does it make clear in what way it is exposed. The only thing users are clear about when they click through that prompt is that it means their Facebook friends' numbers will show up in their contact list.
I have a 26 mile commute each way. As a biking nut this is nice because I can get 100 miles in per week if I want although with child care issues 50 miles is more likely. I usually leave the car over night and bike home and back in the morning. 1:22 door to door on average. Beats driving the mass pike and 128 :)
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And so Netflix blinks. They are getting desperate. Will the subscriber count increase as a result of this backtracking? My guess is no. There is still the issue of the massive rise in rates, and the overwhelming negative consumer sentiment right now. This must be reflected in the stock price which ended down 5%.
PayPal should at least bother to investigate thoroughly before meddling with someone's livelihood. They pass judgement based on baseless assumptions and have no empathy for the damage they are causing.

If they can't handle the load, then they should just pass up the information to law enforcement and let them do the investigating and prosecuting of crimes made using their service.

Either one has to happen, but the current way they do business is damaging alot of lives. Something's got to give.

By the way, there is a Class Action Lawsuit being mounted against them for their unethical practices, like withholding funds from users or simply making unauthorized charges to the bank accounts of users and abusing their privilege of access.

Here's the link:
http://www.freedweiss.com/PayPal-Holding-Money.shtml

Also, i called the District Attorney's office of Santa Clara County and they said that they get alot of people filling small claims suits against PayPal.

This is what happens when a company gets too big, empathy and respect for customers gets flushed down the sink :/
You should probably add a sarcasm tag to that. I'd have to take you serious otherwise.
"Historically, our programming languages weren't that good in versatility"

Well, we're not yet to the point that barrier between systems and web programming languages to be eliminated. You seem to imply that the problem is the inflexibility of the languages, but to me it's not a problem, it's a feature: I want different abstractions to work in different problem domains (e.g. systems vs web). So it's not that the languages are not flexible enough, but rather that we, as language designers and users, have MORE flexibility, to use a different tool for a different job.

Also: yes, Shakespeare is better in English than in its German translation. And it's not just the language, it's also the cultural universe that Shakespeare presupposes. For business use, maybe, but for culture I don't like universal languages, network effects be damned. Life is too short to reduce world languages and communication to a lowest common denominator [and that is inevitable, because any wannabe universal language will lack the historical and cultural ties and shared substructure of any particular population).
I had my name changing rights taken away on Facebook. I got a message saying I had breached the rules to many times and my punishment was keeping the last name I entered LOL

I used that fake name for 2-3 years and only decided to try changing back recently and it worked. I wonder if it was a bluff by Facebook and I could have changed again at any time however.
And push Facebook into bed with Apple? Riiight.
This is blogspam -- these "thoughts" are merely rambling. Everything poignant (excuse the pun) to the disappearance of Mark and _why has already been discussed before; this post adds nothing.
HP never burn their customers, especially enterprise customers. Even if they got out of the hardware business I'd have a lot of confidence that all my HP hardware would continue to be supported (after all - who ever bought that business is liable for support, and is really buying the business for the existing business relationships)

I might be unpopular for saying it, but WebOS was never a great fit for HP, and they did the right thing to kill it before they ended up in a situation where they had to support an unpopular platform. Maybe they should have spun it off, but keeping it as a HP platform didn't make sense.
Yeah I probably come off as if I was arguing for more, which isn't the case.

Was just saying that it is another factor for those from the outer suburbs wanting to drive have to factor in and probably costs more than petrol or car maintenance. I definitely wouldn't want to drive, but on the off chance I do it is something I notice.

It's interesting Melbourne now as the outer suburban fringes, places like Mernda, are so far away that you be almost crazy to think that buying a house out there and commuting to the inner city daily for work would be a good idea.
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You had better put up or shut up. I did not call anyone names. Cite my words if you can.

As for defensiveness, that looks like your department.
There is a real value in working for a start-up as an early employee, for sure, but you should only really be doing it to watch & learn from others mistakes.

If you've got the chops, take 3 months, make an MVP and see what offers you can get. Sounds like you've managed to survive the environment twice around, so why not take the plunge?
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One (or few) Person Startup Emails... "Us" or "Me"
How do you approach customer emails as a startup? I mainly ask n regards to the following type of emails:

-Landing Pages, Surveys, Etc... where the customer is not directly emailing you, but you might be sending out confirmation emails, surveys, notifications, etc. Would you use your company name and "us" in those cases?

For direct customer contact, I feel like being yourself is more personal and the customer will appreciate it.

However, for the first case... I feel as if you could go either way. I'm curious what you guys would suggest.

2. When customer emails
Sorry, I think I'm coming off as an evangelist when the reason I replied specifically to wheels is because I know him personally and it was intended as a personal recommendation to try out since I had many of the same complaints as him a few months ago. He saw the earlier version of my comment, and I edited that out before he wrote his response (and my first thought was the wrong one, and not really worded the way I intended it to be, so he called me out on that and he was right).

I'm not trying to sell anyone on it, I'm more interested in seeing if people switch back after they've tried it. That would be more interesting to me.
Pen.io is Hiring Remote PHP Devs
Pen.io was launched here on HackerNews early this year. Since then, my weekend project has turned in a startup backed by some incredible investors.

We're now looking for some remote PHP devs to work on Pen.io.

Email anthony@feint.me
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Bigdog becomes Alphadog -- walking robots step closer to the real world
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Are you ever really done with something like this? There's always something you could improve, given more time. Using all the available time makes sense.
that is people searching for 'google+'

a more accurate graph is:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=plus.google.com&ctab=0...

and that only shows up until the end of Sep and doesn't include the few days last week that google+ was linked to from the homepage of google.com