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That's pretty much the point. I'm more about the results I get with the tech than what brand or style the tech is in. Since my software is used by people, I have to try to use what they have but maybe a bit better so I don't waste time.

One thing I didn't mention in that article, since it's not the point of the article, is I really only buy computer equipment when there's a real time/money advantage involved. It's not about "junk machines == bad ass hacker dude". It's more that they're just tools for me and I don't fetishize them.

Now, guitar stuff. That's a whole other bag of fetish fun for me. :-)
edit: I didn't consider that they may have just randomly picked any category and getting "Developers" was random. It just surprised me, out of ~40 categories.
Good Luck!

I really like the idea of people testing stuff on small screens. I used an EEE pc 701 for a few years, and that has a tiny screen.

Two tiny nitpicks:
>A service to easily make screenshots of web pages in any screen size, as any device: iPhone©, iPad©, Android©, Nook©, PC, etc. Full Flash, JavaScript, CSS, & HTML5 support.

This confused me until I realised what you're doing. It's not important, but maybe a copy editor could snap it up a bit?

Also, your home button overlays "Browshot" title.
(http://imgur.com/iHOsZ)
Liking a post on tumblr is just a POST request; it doesn't require Javascript. You can scrape the page (for the content id and authentication key) and submit the POST request to like the content without ever running Javascript.
I did do this on Sprint, and I didn't like it for the reasons I stated. Google Voice numbers can only receive MMS from Sprint numbers. That effectively means I can't tell people to MMS me, since I don't always know what carriers they're on.
Well I have an awesome bed, so I agree with the article there. I use a piano bench for my chair though. Keeps me from sitting there too long. I have a lot of computers since I use them actively for different tasks, so I do agree as a professional you have to spend money on good tools. And I also agree having a dual monitor setup is the way to go. I do laptop+monitor for most of my work.

I think the difference though, is I don't immediately go out and buy everything Apple shits onto the market or the latest greatest PC possible when Intel drops a new CPU. I go and get the tool that fits what I need to do, and base the decision on which one will get things done.
Because when Debian does work, Ubuntu gets credit. Consistently.
Right. Visual voicemail just gets disabled. When you tap the voicemail tab, it starts a phone call to your Google Voice mailbox.
Here's an example I just ran into:

I want to search for Ubuntu's go-compiler package.

But if I search for "go-compiler" (with or without quotes) I get a bunch of hits for "Go compiler", with my dash turned into a space. That's a bunch of hits I don't want, and now I have to go wading. None of the top 10 hits are about what I asked for.

To me, the + operator meant "I know what I'm doing and please turn off the fuzzy help".

So how does one turn off fuzzy searching now?
You can use '\b' which matches "word boundaries", so the regex would be something like "\bmac\b".
But all those have recourse. They can sue the state and get restitution. So, yes, mistakes happen, but there is procedure to seek corrective action. There is a difference.

The only way to not investigate innocent people would be to know in advance who's guilty. And if you knew who was guilty in advance why even have courts? It'd be for show. Anyhow, that's be asking for more than we are capable of as a civilization. It's understood innocent people will be accused and acquitted thru the system; if the state is proven wrong and you suffered from the process, there is recourse. You sue the state.

How do you sue vigilantes who are by definition, outside the system?
Good post. I'm curious whether you've written about the evolution of your idea at Betable. To what extent does your product now compare to the business plan you hatched in the beginning?
This guy seems like a pretty amazing C hacker.
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I thought TOME is Angband-ish, isn't it?
It's a very different branch of roguelikes.
I have a mix of ages in hardware, so it's not all old. The linux laptops I have sit on a desk more often, so those have 17" screens and I pair them with a 21" monitor. So, I do use big monitors.

But, that's not the point. I can also code just fine in a 80x25 ssh connections using vim and screen. I agree you should probably do most of your work using the best visual setup possible, but if you simply can't function without 3 apple thunderbolt 29" displays then you've got to rethink how you do things.
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Could you please stop spamming HN with webpolls? That would certainly increase my impression of you.

Thank you.
I am having a similar problem with a current-gen Air in Safari 5.1 w/ WebGL enabled. I just get a half of the screen (by diagonal) of green dots, and some other stuff that I think is the X-Wing. (then I die)
intext:go-compiler does not help.

Dammit, sometimes dashes have meaning.
"tell your mom to knock it off."

There could be young children who have access to that computer or that network.
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Oh, I don't have all old hardware. I have some pretty bad ass gear for power, I just don't go running out to buy the latest crap whenever it shows up. Instead, I find I need to accomplish something, realize my current gear sucks for it, then go find the best option for what I'll need to do. Sometimes that's a monster Linux laptop, sometimes it's a Mac, and other times it's parts from sparkfun.

The point though, is the brand and type of computer doesn't matter for what I do. It's more what I do and uses my software that matters.
“Doctors and scientists can draw a lesson in prudence and humility from this,” he said. “When you manipulate nature in a way you don’t completely understand, the consequences can be unpredictable and absolutely disastrous.”

-the law of unintended consequences
"manipulating chimpanzee meat"? Is that a euphemism? What is meant by that?
Quick! Where's my time machine?
Just imagine they learned about Apple.
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I love it. And all these people with MacBooks are really wishing they had something better. Haha.
> Only one will get there first, so only one will be able to arrest the person.

Where do you buy them real world semaphores, eh?
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Shiiiit, that's because the music gear is both more fun, has more style, and will actually exist and work well in 20 years. The computers will be gone in like 3 years, so why bother talking about them?

But, to answer your question, I use nearly every OS there is: Linux (Arch, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora), NetBSD, FreeBSD, OSX, and Windows. I have to use all of these to test different things on various projects. As I get more into writing books though this narrows down to Ubuntu, OSX, and ArchLinux.
Well, it makes sense. The only thing Steve Jobs did for the Newton was kill it.
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Let's say I was tasked with collecting and evaluating data about the selling price of homes in my community. Those interested in my findings likely are using the information to make financial decisions related to buying or selling a house. Now, let's say that one of the homes sold was not an arm's length sale -- a parent sold the house to a child for what appeared to be a very low price compared to other sales. Should this sale be included? Unlike the other sellers, maximizing the sale price was not a primary motivation. Including this data point would artificially lower average sale prices even though this individual seller's likely does not reflect his best financial option.

There are some graduates whose near-term primary motivation is not money. This is ok, but it is not correct to include those students in averages which will be used for the evaluation of the financial benefit of receiving an education from Stanford.
I solved my GAS by replacing the A with C: Gear Construction Syndrome. Now I make myself build it if I want it and I can.
I like more your alternative title.
> Is that a euphemism?

No? Well the chimp-fucking hypothesis is possible, but it's unlikely.

> What is meant by that?

Exactly what was said. He might have contracted it by quartering a chimpanzee (and having chimpanzee blood wash over cuts or scrapes, thereby infecting it). Having cuts, scrapes or tears is pretty likely when you're in the forest fighting chimps.
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Reaper is one bad ass piece of software. I would kill to work for those guys, 'cause damn they could use a new manual or two. I really think a great manual with a video course would turn Reaper into a powerhouse in the market.

Anyway, I do all my audio editing in Reaper and find it's the most intuitive and best performing DAW out there. And, I do it on a Mac. I do not do audio or video on Linux. Linux is just horrible for anything media related.
Most likely chimpanzee meat was part of the diet of the bushmen; but in order to cook the meat, you need to get it off the chimpanzee - hence the manipulation part.
Just to make this discussion more globally relevant:

A 'sex offender registry' is a whole different problem. Don't want to troll here, but please understand that in a global forum like this a remark a la 'at the very least' combined with a debatable ~local~ set of law(s) is a dangerous thing. In other words: No, I hope that at the very least no one ends up in any registry.

I'm all for prosecuting/convicting these people. I'm against any kind of (public) register, period.
Nope, you can install awesome on ubuntu and then switch to using it. Best setup is to make a .xsession file and fire up the various gnome services you need. Then have GDM boot up a "User Defined" session (or whatever it's called, I forget).
I've had a similar experience while driving on a highway at night in foggy conditions. All of a sudden my car started slowing down and was rapidly losing power. I checked and it wasn't fuel, so I figured the engine was dying somehow. It wasn't until I tried gearing down that I realized I had been on a steep hill and fifth gear wasn't powerful enough. But even afterward, I couldn't sense that I was on an incline.
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Went down the wwww rabbit hole, found this current trove of Bell System Technical Journal PDFs

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/
How are there not heads up systems that detect this? A simple "warning 5 seconds to impact with the ocean" would at least warn the pilot.
I though Zuckerberg's success is in the creation, not in the bank balance? Really, 'financial success' and life's success (for achieving something worthwhile for the history of this planet) must be two absolutely different achievements..
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fuck this law school nonsense - wish I had computer science background
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To those intent on voting ryandickherber down so much, please consider the following:

Only ~19.8%^ of the United States population voted for Obama.

Is it really so unreasonable to question this system?

^ Popular Vote / Approximate 2008 United States Population
> According to a 2004 study, the average life expectancy of a non-instrument-rated pilot who flies into clouds or instrument conditions is 178 seconds.

That is a chilling statistic.

As a VFR pilot, I often wonder what would happen inside a cloud to make me react and rip my plane apart in under 3 minutes.
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Great but is this hacker news or just mini-reddit?
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Even little planes have those. What they need is a switch to tell the computer that they expect no descent whatsoever below xy000 feet, to stop it before it starts.

You can hear that warning here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjaU-SKYrPk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzDSq6m2zV4
There is a setting to have notifications sent to your "real" mobile number as SMSes. I think this results in two notifications when you do have data service, though, which is probably why you disabled it.
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Downvote? This is the best comment here.
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Actually, I just did a cursory google search on a few of the more unique looking names, and they come up all over the internet. One of them is definitely not too worried, their pseudonym is also registered on a bestiality/zoophilia forum as well as some overclocking forums. I think this is definitely enough information to nail some of these people, with the right investigation.
all parties have an interest in working this out, and so it will happen.

The volume of litigation that goes to trial is evidence to the contrary. Courts almost always encourage litigants to try mediation or arbitration, but many litiganta refuse to settle.
I don't see this article presenting the full picture of how this problem will be addressed in the future.

As ADIRUs (navigation computers) improve to better integrate GPS and inertial signals in all conditions even when all air data is lost, weather-related instrumentation failures will decrease. Next, putting a worldwide terrain map in the navigation system will let it compute whether it will hit the ground if the course is maintained - again, even when ground radar is not working.

Next, heads-up displays or helmet-mounted displays with better warning systems will make sure that the pilot receives the warning. And most importantly, when the pilot feels that they don't know how to react to the warning, they will be able to push a button to let the autopilot return the plane to wings-level flight.
Of course I done the experiments to neither fool myself nor others. I can blindly hold powered off iPad and one streaming a movie and can easily feel WiFi working..
With this post I am trying to find out whether there are other people on HN who can definitely feel EMR or if it's still rare among the tech crowd.
>When you manipulate nature in a way you don’t completely understand, the consequences can be unpredictable and absolutely disastrous

How were those doctors in the 1920s "manipulating nature"? They were just trying to treat sick people in an undeveloped region.

There are a lot of hospital-originating diseases even today (e.g. drug-resistant TB in Russia).
The problem here is that even though you are correct, these are things the vast majority of people never want to hear (note your unreasonable downvoting).

What we need is a system that allows individuals to opt out of being governed, without needing the permission or approval of the tyrannous majority. I advise you take a look at crypto-anarchism. Not perfect by any stretch, but it's something..
Given the analysis of what happened in the recent Air France crash, I can't imagine why the industry does not write better software to help combat this. It seems as if the programmers writing the software are more concerned about writing valid code to fit the designed system ("the pilot signaled us to climb at exactly 40 degrees, so do it") rather than writing code that models the real world situations accurately. I found this bit of an article about the crash the most troubling:

It was at this point, after autopilot turned off and they
worked to change their course, that a stall warning
sounded, meaning that the airplane wasn't generating enough
lift. The report notes the co-pilot grabbed the controls
and lifted the plane, which, according to aviation experts
is contrary to normal procedure during a stall, when the
nose should in fact be lowered.

If pulling back on the stick should never be done when a plane is warning of a stall, why does the software allow a pilot to do it? This is surely simplifying the situation, but I can't believe we are incapable of writing better software to prevent human mistakes.

I wonder what kind of hard limits do exist in the current avionics. For instance, is it possible to roll a Boeing/Airbus upside-down? If yes, why?
>if you're paid less it means your skill is of less value to society

Nope. The point is that someone is willing to pay for a skill does not equal what that skill is worth to society. I think my example explains the distinction well, you've said nothing to refute it. People love to refer to market value as if it correlates with actual worth. This is just wrong. There are plenty of instances of things that have much value but the market cannot price them properly.
Great quote "When you look at your iPhone to get directions, are you asking the phone where to go or is the phone telling you where to go?"
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This article includes a statistic so scary that I'm going to have to fight the urge to paste it twice:

According to a 2004 study, the average life expectancy of a non-instrument-rated pilot who flies into clouds or instrument conditions is 178 seconds.

At that rate, I'd imagine it didn't take long after the first plane flight for pilots to notice that there was a big problem with, say, closing your eyes or otherwise getting distracted while flying. Or perhaps a pilot or two tried flying into a cloud -- it's the sort of thing you'd try to do if you could, right? -- and their remaining colleagues then started wondering why flying into clouds was such a sure-fire way to die. Death sure does have a way of crystallizing such questions.

The other point I'd make is that fixed-wing aircraft research probably had obvious potential military applications even in the prewar age of 1906. Perhaps this research was funded so early for much the same reason that astronaut-physiology research was well funded even before the first astronaut reached low-earth orbit.
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There are some caveats to this study which mean isn't as spectacularly powerful as Ars makes it.

- They only have subscriber data from 1987-1995, when almost nobody had mobile phones (7%), and they were so expensive to use that they were used rarely (mostly outdoors and in cars).

- But since then, 86% of the population has started to use mobile phones, and because they don't have tracking data for them, all of these mobile phone users are in the control group. So they're comparing exposed users to only-slightly-more exposed users (as I mention above, cell phones were rare and had quite expensive per-minute fees before 1995). They only know that most in the control group didn't have a mobile before 1995. Since then, they don't know how long any user in either group has used their mobile.

- During the period for which they have data (pre-1996) 30% of users were on corporate plans and couldn't be tracked--so the heaviest users were lumped in with the control group too.

- The 1987-1995 group mostly used analog phones, not today's GSM phones.

Still, earlier phone users have used their phones slightly more than non-users in aggregate, so this study is noteworthy despite the lumping of the 30% heaviest users with the controls and the massive cell phone use by both groups since 1995. You'd expect cancer rate to correlate with mobile phone exposure, and both groups are very large.
I have a simple trick for that: I know the consumption of my car on a level road in 5th gear at 90 km/h, so when I'm in doubt about whether or not I'm going up, down or level I look at the fuel consumption indicator.

If it is higher than 6.6L/100km then I'm going up, less is down.

If you don't have a fuel consumption indicator then that will not work but lots of cars have them these days and I think using them as a level is a useful unintended application.
But it would still require action from a pilot, who is known to be disorientated, and probably quite upset about their imminent collision with the ocean.

Perhaps an alternative would be to use a belt that vibrates differently depending on the angle of the aircraft. Humans are good at integrating data without conscious thought. This has been used with compass direction on the ground to dramatically improve spatial awareness without any conscious effort http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/esp.html.
The natural way to deal with sickness is to survive it or die.

Creating a vaccine and injecting it into people's bloodstreams to try to gain an advantage over a virus' spread can be seen as manipulating nature. There is plenty of nature manipulation that goes on in the development and reproduction of a vaccine.
I was going to suggest this in my post. A "dead-man"'s limit. A plane would lock you out and right itself it detected you dropped below some pre-defined altitude (e.g. within an acceptable angle without landing gear deployed or a greater than acceptable angle with or without landing gear deployed). Whatever altitude is necessary for the plane to right itself from the steepest descent. Something like that would make it impossible for someone to storm a cockpit and nose-dive a plane. It would need appropriate remote electronic and mechanical overrides, though to prevent possibly losing a plane if it was triggered incorrectly. But at least a plane flying level on lockout autopilot would buy some time opposed to it definitely being destroyed by the nose-dive.
In my years of experience:

1) Filters never block shit.
2) You don't "accidentally" find porn anyway.

But god forbid they hypothetically see a breast.
NYT on the same:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/health/18aids.html?_r=2...
Nine times out of ten I'm looking at something like this.

http://jaydonnell.com/blog/2011/08/07/is-your-idea-clearly-e...
Interesting that you didn't even bother to register a domain. Pretty damn lean. Not so sure about the idea of parsing Twitter for customer wants but that's what you're trying to MVP, I guess...
This is the first I've heard of fuel consumption indicators. What kind of car is it?
It seems like it would be nice if viewers stopped ignoring the EXIF orientation data. It's becoming more and more important.

Or hey, where there's pain, there's opportunity. You could create a tiny little photo app which uses jpegtran to flip things around so non-EXIF-clued readers can open it and still see the right thing.
Recently I read an interview where Steve said he had the idea for a "piece of glass with a keyboard on it", i.e. the iPad. Who knows...