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For me, the most interesting features are:

* 32-bit compatibility on amd64 systems

Ubuntu 11.10 provides "multiarch" support for installing 32-bit library and application packages on 64-bit systems. For all amd64 installs and upgrades, select 32-bit software (like Skype and Flash), will now be installable directly using the same 32-bit packages that are used on i386 installations. You are not required to install the ia32-libs compatibility package. For users, this change means that the 32-bit libraries will always be available at the same time as their 64-bit counterparts, even in the case of security updates, and users will only need to install those 32-bit libraries required by the user's application(s).

* Hybrid CD/USB images supported

All ISO images released with Ubuntu 11.10 are hybrid CD/USB images that can be written directly to a USB disk and booted without the use of special software. Users who wish to enable persistent storage on a USB stick can still use the usb-creator tool to configure the USB stick.
Peter Gray, the psychologist whose work is the basis for this Atlantic piece, coauthored a study of a school with non-compulsory classing in 1986:

http://evolution.binghamton.edu/evos/wpcontent/uploads/2008/...

Democratic Schooling: What happens to young people who have charge of their own education?

The paper compares the post-school accomplishments of two groups of students post-school.
"Your phone becomes your credit card... Google will probably do this first"

Haven't they already done it with Google Wallet?
It seems to allow for more variation in languages. The only time you really need to worry about those other languages is when you're trying to load modules written in other languages. At least that's how it works in .net. You can have pretty significant semantics from language to language and as long as you don't care about other languages actually loading your modules then it doesn't matter. If you concede that the problems of the lang->il developer are essentially the same as the lang->lang developer, then shouldn't we evaluate the il option strictly on it's merits? Such as reduced compilation at runtime and smaller payloads over the wire? As well as, optimally, less quirks than a language like JS. Not to mention existing lang->il compilers would have much less effort to retarget their output to the new platform. It just seems like a huge win to add the vm layer as the base instead of a general purpose language in every way.
All that means is your not trying hard enough :-)
The wordpress plugin updating / installation system should offer the ability to donate to said developer, I'm sure many would. As for the plugin list -- zero :)
Thanks for making this available. I've been working on learning rails off and on over the past couple of weeks and will look through these.
we now have the new ISO C11 standard. C11 includes a number of new features that parallel those in C++11

Did i miss something?
I once had dealings with a chap who wanted me as a co-founder but I had worked out that he only had two modes of operating with people: "best friend" or "ongoing litigation".

Fortunately I said no.
Unity is a nice ripoff of the Mac UI circa 2003 or so. That puts it way ahead of Windows which was a poor copy in 1990 and has been going the wrong way since.

But I see no reason a Mac user would find Unity more attractive than the Mac UI.

If they'd copied the Mac UI exactly then they'd have achieved parity.

If they'd done their own UI research and come up with something new, they might have been able to come up with something better than the Mac UI. Certainly there is some room for this, given Apple's need to support old paradigms. But if you've noticed, Apple isn't exactly nostalgic.

But by copying the obvious ideas, but not thinking thru why Apple made the choices they did, they miss the mark... which seems to happen with everybody who tries to copy Apple's innovations. They end up with something that on the surface looks the same, but doesn't actually work the same.

I think this is because its too easy to "improve" what Apple did based on their preferences, without understanding why what Apple did the first time was the right way.

Given that linux has a much higher cost[1] than OS X, to gain a lot of market share, it will need a much better UI. We saw how things went for Apple for many years, despite having a much better UI (and cheaper machines, actually) than Windows...it wasn't until the iPod lowered the awareness cost that people started switching to Macs in droves.

[1] Not all economic costs are measured in dollars. Lack of awareness of a product creates a barrier of entry, and while many people have heard of Linux, few are aware of it as a Desktop operating system. This lack of awareness is a cost that needs to be overcome, or reduced, to get a lot of switchers.
So, How much memory is inside?

I didn't see anything on the memory specs on the teardown :S
Is it actually true that there are founders of companies who haven't bought a domain name? I find that piece of this to be quite silly.

GoDaddy buys superbowl ads - buying a domain is very mainstream.

I have seen the "multiple startups in the works" thing though- that is definitely not a good sign.
An OEM laptop with 8 hours of battery life please
Another one is not being good at marketing.

Marketing can be a huge grind. Being able to build buzz about your product, or get mentioned in the press, or find customers is very time-consuming and requires a lot of creativity.
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I do like the use of the word "only" to describe a $29k monthly income! ;-)
If you switch to DDG but still wonder what G might have shown as a result, here's a little extension for Chrome that will show G's results (disclaimer: I'm the author).
http://raivoratsep.com/177/duckduckgo-transition-assistant/
...and once you know how to use them (and why they exist), that's a good thing
Does Ubuntu One still suck?
That's a pretty amazing thing to accomplish!! Thank you.

What's especially nice about it is that it concerns righting the wrongs done to [the memory of] another person. I think helping other people has to be worth a lot more than any entirely technical accomplishment.
After working with unity in beta2 over the last week, I'm not a fan. (And I realize this is beta, and things may have changed. But... We'll see tonight when I get a chance to muck with it)

My current project is to put together a little machine for the kids (2,4,7). So, I need to limit options, and generally not put in anything that's going to confuse them. For reference, I've got a 10.04 desktop and 10.04 Netbook remix, as well as various OSX and IOS devices around. Ideally, I'd like something like 10.04 NBR, but with current flash/web stuff, and works with the wifi dongle I have. (This is replacing a 1st gen ppc mini that's got hardware issues. Yay for kids flash games turning off the machine)

For a machine that's got constrained purposes, for lack of a better word, I find the netbook launcher interface is really good. There are a bunch of categories on the side, there are a handful of apps for each category, and everything launches full screen. I can cut back on most of the clutter, so that they don't accidentally click on something that's going to lead them astray.

Unfortunately, the netbook launcher is end of lifed at 10.04 with gnome 2, and unity is the way forward. In my brief time with unity I've:

* had the dock not autohide, and had firefox launch fullscreen, with the left half inch under the dock.

* gotten all the windows to launch behind dash. Only visible blurred. Had to ssh in and restart.

* completely killed the unity system, no sidebar, no top bar, only nautilus running. This persists through logout/login. Or rather, restart, since I can't figure out how to logout without finding terminal in the filesystem and rebooting.

There are also some design head scratchers:

* There are categories of apps when you look at internet apps in dashboard, but not when you look for more apps.

* How do I change the big three apps on the dash screen?

* unity keeps offering to install apps. I don't want that. Maybe it's cause I'm a sudoer, but I don't really want this for the other users. And it's really confusing to be looking for something to change a setting, but having the wrong name for which there are no hits, and have the top line be things to install, and not things that are on the drive already.

* why does the menu bar sometimes appear, and sometimes it's the name of the app?

And then, there's probably a hardware issue: for some reason, my desktop thinks that it has a laptop panel mirroring at 1024x768, so the 20" lcd starts up at that resolution. I know about xrandr, It can't do anything about the phantom panel.

Some of this can be traced to "It's not the netbook launcher", some to "It's not even as well thought out as the nbl", and some to "It looks like you have grand designs on my desktop, and you're not telling me what they are, so the decisions look really strange right about now".

Sometimes, I think I should have just spent the extra $500 for a mini. It would have been smaller, quieter, lower power, and it would have worked out of the box.
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What kind of graphics card do you have?
I support that ! This is the feature I miss the most in DDG. Most of my searches during the day relate to tech stuff, and recent content is one of the most relevant criteria (usually, I filter to get the result from the last 12 months).
I'd be interested to see the difference in "forced" versus "high intensity" exercise. What if the animals are forced to run at a much lower pace than they prefer? Do we get the same results?

My guess is that the forced part of this has little to do with the effects. It's the increased intensity that is providing benefits.
So, is venture money drying up or blowing up?
The abstract says the rats ran the same distance, so the voluntary exercisers spent less time. That could be the important variable.
That's exactly what PhoneGap does. It's just an embedded webview, and you put in the html/jss/etc from your site.
And I'm sure they will. . . but lately Microsoft seems to have grown up and learned to not create incompatible extensions. Perhaps they're finally starting to realize that nobody really loves them, so if they refuse to be nice to other children then they'll just get kicked out of the schoolyard. (Ballmer and upper management may not have, but they're facing the real possibility of a mutiny right now.) So it'll hopefully just end up being the kind of situation where if you switch platforms you'll lose some of the bells and whistles that were provided in a library on the old platform. Just like what would happen if you switch from one open-source platform to another.

What concerns me more is:

> the company is providing “connectors” for moving data between the two.

Microsoft loves to sink a lot of time into gee-whiz crap that lets their MVCs throw together gee-whiz crap using GUI tools without ever writing any code. They love it so much that they often waste all their effort on that stuff without bothering to get the fundamentals in order, and the end result is unusable garbage like much of ADO.NET and early versions of Entity Framework. That one sentence makes me fear more of the same old garbage: We'll get a port of Hadoop that comes with a plethora of toys in the System.DraggyDroppy namespace for impressing the suits, but is crippled by a broken set of bridge libraries for the programmers.

Which is fine. A Windows port of Hadoop isn't really necessary. We can just keep using REST or whatever to keep the Windows servers talking to the servers that do actual work, and Microsoft can keep chasing its own tail while it slides into irrelevance, and everyone can be happy.
Fantastic! If you have questions you can usually find me at AustinOnRails http://austinonrails.org (a great group if you've never been)
I believe Gruber said it still has 512MB.
Heh. I built something like this about 6 months ago. And they got a million dollars.

scratches chin
"In fact every piece of hardware on this rig worked perfect without no fiddling around."
Holy crap! Where is the fun now?
I'm confused, if Hadoop is Java, what is there to port? Won't it just run as-is on Windows (Azure supports Java already)
It's kind of a misnomer too, because only the second circle is typed for you so you had to type Circle at least once... which is the same as if you were typing var. So it's not only not saving you much effort it's uglier. And with more complex types it's downright evil (to not use var).
When we race we adjust stride depending on the terrain- short strides on uphills level out the incline, and long strides on downhills let gravity take over and do the work for you.
I imagine that, if they want to do this for Pangolin, it will be of use again.
This is great... I can't wait to start playing with it.
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word. Anders is awesome.
They got investment. Who needs profit these days?!
> Multiple startups in the works? No experience in your startup's domain/market? Poor interactions with other [non-technical] people? "Build it and they will come" mentality?

These happen to be wonderful warning signs for a technical co-founder, too.
Hey brother, if you can get a small government hackathon going more power to you. There are no simple solutions and the more people advocating their point of view and having a discussion the better.
Wow, their landing page is pretty slick. Check out their app thingy on the inside page.
Yes. It is wrong. If you want to make money on a plugin, sell the plugin. People aren't donating to the Themeforest designers.
I think that this article was supposed to illustrate a multitude of problems that you could encounter, obviously if ALL of these happened with one person you'd run like the plague.

I think the biggest indicator, that isn't necessarily on the list, is if they have learned to code AT ALL. They don't need to be a master coder, even if the know some basic JavaScript and C, and they learned it for the startup, at least it shows they're willing to put in the effort, and are attempting to meet you on some level. I don't see how someone can start a company and be completely in the dark about how it's built.
Probably the main thing is creating a .NET library for talking to Hadoop.
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Ask HN: Best Online Trading Tools/Resources for Hackers?
I'd like to begin online trading but most of sites (i.e. etrade, ameritrade) etc are hard to navigate and require transferring thousands of dollars just to try out the software. Any recommendations on the best sites for trading?
I think there is a silver bar buried somewhere that you deserve for that!
Nope. This is Optimus: http://www.nvidia.com/object/optimus_technology.html. Nvidia have said they have no plans to support it under Linux officially which really sucks. I ended up returning a laptop because of it.
Thx! This is something we've wanted to do, but don't have great data for yet. If you use the sort by date feature (for timely pages) there is a date displayed. You can get to that by selecting it in the drop down next to the search box or by typing sort:date or just s:d at the end of the query.

You can also quickly get to the google ranges (when needed) via our !bang syntax: http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html - e.g. just add !gyear !gmonth etc to the end of your query.
If you google "ubuntu tour" with the fake firefox, you can get there, and then go deeper and deeper within each instance.

Well I thought it was fun anyway.
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The story conflates the problems with walking dead VCs, many of which were formed during the dot-com bubble, with what is going on in the early stage startup world.

There are more deals and more cash going to Internet startups than ever before. The lower valuations and struggling companies are a natural and healthy end result of the boom in early stage funding for social/local/mobile companies that took place during 2009-2010.
It says "oh did you?" because it says that to anything when you say "I just ....".
Unfortunately, there isn't an easy solution for iOS that I know of without jailbreaking.
Microsoft Azure: B for effort, less for execution
Have you ever seen an application in Java that actually works in more than one system without any env-specific code at all and does not behave in a slightly incompatible way? I haven't. (apart from toy apps which exist only to prove the opposite)
Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should: A marketing lesson
How Android Malware Makes Money
It's ocelots all the way down.
Inequality has hit a level that has been seen only once in the nation's history, and unemployment has reached a level that has been seen only once since the Great Depression. And, at the same time, corporate profits are at a record high.

I don't see how it's ironic to care about these problems even if we happen to have nice jobs
Seeing how Google is going to launch Google Drive soon, and will possibly be integrated with Android 4.0, shouldn't Box.net offer that to Android users as well? Or are they going to completely cede the market to Google?
Optimizing MongoDB in 100M records/day Scenario (Localytics)
I am not saying that you have to build the site in .NET Framework. You can pick any technology which you like. I specified it just as an example. Before you hire a developer and pay him, you should write down couple of points such as
1) What does the web application do
2) What are the core min features that you need to satisfy first few users (don't get into the habbit of feature creep)
3) What is your intended audience
4) What is the core problem you are trying to solve.

Also as a prototype do you really need the Database and other stuff. It should not matter what database or language or framework you use but you should be able to answer the above questions.

Don't listen to the people who say one language is greater than other language. It shouldn't matter. You should pick one which is easier for you and others who join you later.
If you've grown up using the poorly crafted Mac OS interface, you probably don't realize that almost everything else is slower, despite that one really fast menu access (by mouse only).

However, I can Alt-Tab to an app and bring up it's main menu (and hunt through the menu) with only the keyboard. You just can't do that on the Mac. There's a reason most other desktop systems copy the much more logical Windows style instead of the illogical Mac OS style.
Awesome! Now you just need to redirect DuckDuckGo.com to DDG.GG =) so everyone knows this super secret awesome url.
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I've come across this exact thing before (where the techie has to do it all - including spending $10 at godaddy). Always with folks who convince my family to get hold of me.

The cure has been to get the relative involved in the fiasco, where I'll do the work, but they have to be involved. By the time all the poop hits the fan, they finally got a hefty dose of what we have to go through.

In the most recent one-of-these, the serial entrepreneur brainwashed my sister into believing that his new idea does everything and will make us all millionaires. His previous adventures resulted in crashes (or paranoid delusions that the oil companies killed off his customers), and he whined about the folks who "left him stranded". He didn't own the domains of the previous adventures. He didn't own this domain (I made my sister set this one up, so it is hers). As this project got closer to something sellable, he got crazier and crazier and then decided to dilute my sister and my shares (1/3 each) to 1/20th each as he wanted to bring on "friends" he had shafted during previous misadventures. The sad thing is that my sister used to be a developer before getting trapped in a cult, so she should have known better. But now she does.
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This could very easily trim out months of debugging that we have to do with releases across platforms, Looking forward to giving it a run through our dev cycles
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Power is work done per unit time. Inducing someone to pedal faster is going to increase their power output, so long as they do not slack.
Agree 100%. I use the "past year" or "past month" at least once a day. No date ranges to fiddle with, no new page to have to go to to enter a date range .... just click the link and the results appear in a second. DDG would be awesome with this.
Ask HN: Examples of Neural Networks/Genetic Algorithms/Gradient Descent
Where can I find examples of these search algorithms applied to financial time-series data?
I suppose read less HN falls in number 1?
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Few months? A week or two, maybe, because the heavy lifting has already been done by one very nice fellow Landon Fuller who open-sourced his work as PLCrashreporter: http://code.google.com/p/plcrashreporter/

I've been using it for about 2 years now (even submitted a patch or two), and I have a pretty good grip on my crashes. When you use it for a while you realize you don't really need the statistical analysis of the crash reports, because you end up having no crashes if you fix the problems as soon as they show up.

So yeah, if you have a crash reporting problem just add PLCrashreporter to your project, add a file upload code (to your S3 bukket) and look through them regularly. That's all it takes.
"Even if the logic wasn't childish ("fuck X by association", really?)" <-- I am failing to grasp how this logic is childish? Have thousands of corporations not apologized and often paid money for partnering with organizations with dubious pasts? An extreme case example to highlight my point: do you think Hugo Boss apologizing for being a partner of the Nazi party in WW2 Germany was just a PR move?

My point is, aiding x in its mission makes you an accomplice. You can argue that x is not bad or as bad is it is being made out to be, but being a partner makes you exactly that, a partner.
Who says we still need them? I can't say I've ever even thought of using one. This seems like a mountain out of a molehill, they are only taking advantage of people who make the mistake of using them.
I don't think overpopulation is the core problem in the developed world. Some developed countries have had to take on immigrants lest their populations decrease. We have great systems to generate wealth, but they come at the price of a massively skewed distribution.
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Apple studied this on a 512x342 1-bit display, on a machine architecturally incapable of multitasking more than one app at a time. It's just not relevant anymore, sorry.

The ease of aiming is a real effect, but lost on a 1920x1080 display. And the usability disaster of trying to figure out which of the three "main" windows is in the foreground (and thus owns the menu) is something that was not studied, nor accounted for by Apple in the 80's.
A conversation with Woz
Can you explain why the one button mouse is better than the 2 button mouse? One of my pet peeves with Mac is that my magic mouse takes 2 clicks and a mouse movement to open a new tab in my browser, as opposed to 1 click of the scroll wheel on a pc. (Plus I have to waste a mental thread wondering if its going to register it as a primary or secondary click.)

Usually when I find something on the mac annoying unusable, I blame it on Industrial Design. As in, 'boy the magic mouse really hurts my hand after a while and the secondary click is difficult to use, but it really looks great (the finger scroll is really why I use it fyi)' or 'boy my macbook cuts sharply into my wrists in a just-about-but-not-quite painful way, but damn that unibody is sleek'.

I always just assumed the 1 button mouse (specifically the magic mouse) came about because it just looks so good.
Congrats on the funding, and looking forward to see which directions you take Duck Duck Go next! I think DDG is a great example that there's still lots of room for different approaches and philosophies in the search space.