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Gaddafi's death was a frontage story here. This isn't really a tech news aggregator anymore, it's an everything place.
Read the FAQ and tell me how a story about art/discovery/paradigm-shifting is OT...

tl;dr hn is not a technews aggregator.
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And every dishwasher needs an option to not reset the clean setting it the door was just opened and closed within a few seconds. I loved his idea to only reset it if it's open for a few minutes, indicating enough time to have emptied the dishwasher.

I wonder if he think his little project was worth not buying the $150 replacement part? Clearly it was a lot of fun.
Well then why do they want to close it?
It's Linux. You should build one. It's "easy" after all...
My ex's father ran a catering company in a small city with 3 different names. One was kosher, and the other two were just different brands.
Does anyone else have flashbacks of super mario brothers on gameboy when they see the statues?
Thanks! It would be great to share experiences. My facebook profile is /garzagabriel. We are based in Monterrey Mexico, if you are in town we can meet up.
WHOOOOOAAAAAA, that is definitely wrong. The FBI is definitely not actively monitoring 300 million people, and is certainly not going to start anywhere near soon. In fact, it is not even close to being ready to take that on, and certainly not either at the current level of funding or staffing. What you've said is categorically incorrect in every sense of the word. Once again, I cannot emphasize enough that what was said here is wrong.

But, on the positive side, you are totally right that he is completely naive about data mining technology.
Hey Andrey, it's pretty awesome that you support Stylus.
Do you think you can make this work with VM-based development? I'm working in VirtualBox Ubuntu but viewing my site locally in Chrome (OS X).
Whatever the patents are worth.

Most journalists, forget webOS integrated Node before most people had even heard of it. The platform has so much potential. If they'd given away devices to developers instead of announcing the platform's demise and giving devices away anyway, it still stood some chance. But now it's been well and truly buried by HP.
Someone shrunk it so it fits on a FPGA.

Also, does it really cost 5 million to fab at TSMC? I need to figure out what process size and to fill in the quotes http://www.mosis.com/prices.html.

They make lots of 40 chips.

http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/7042/how-much... gave an example of a 40 lot run costing 3k.
hmm 75% of webOS engineering staff left HP, I do no think the choice is up to them anymore
It's been ages since I read it, but I think that Jared Diamond's book 'Collapse' explains a bit about the island and the statues construction (his main focus is on the self-destructive cycles of behavior of the population however).

Also, I thought this was old news? I'm sure I have seen that photo quite a while ago.
Is "it turns out" a synonym for "we hope"?
This is true for the way some companies handle recruitment too. CV screening software.
http://www.eisp.org/ has way more information on the topic than the linked blog. I don't think it's off topic, I just think it's a poor article which has no real substance (hence the reddit comparison).

Eh. I guess I'll just stick to HN classic.
Less employees equals less overhead. Less overhead means lower cost. Cost could be said to be "work" monetized. So less employees equals less work in the long run, shadow or not.
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Without knowing about the subject, I am curious to know, do you seriously think that [it] "has just simply never occurred to generations of people"...? A lack of physical investigation is not enough to conclude such a thing.
I'm not shocked by the original article. I've known about this sort of thing for awhile. I am shocked at some of the responses in this thread. "What if you cause X dollars in damage through some unbelievably unlikely sequence of events?" can be used to prevent anyone from doing anything at any time.
Allows you to prop it up
It was on reddit a few weeks ago. Personally speaking I read HN every day, at the weekends I don't mind less tech focused stuff....
Perhaps they couldn't turn these massive pieces of rock upright without the aid of gravity
Well, it may look like but it isn't.

Num is a typeclass, not a type. Like yummyfajitas said, typeclasses are similar to interfaces or abstract classes in Java, but they aren't the same.

Consider Java's equals(). You can write 'a'.equals(foo) as long as foo is an Object.

In contrast, look at Haskell's (==) function declared in Eq (I'm not giving an example using Num because Haskell provides some implicit conversions for numeric literals, which would introduce an unrelated complication in the example).

(==) :: (Eq a) => a -> a -> Bool

This functions accepts 2 arguments of any one type, as long that type is an instance of Eq. But we cannot use different types in the same call. That is, we can write ('a' == 'b') and ("foo" == "bar") but not ('a' = "foo"), because (==) is not defined for a Char and a String.
This article is the 21st century equivalent of someone complaining that live-in servants are no longer affordable.
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I have no idea where to start. Is their any books I can read? Some resources online? Anyone want to mentor me or partner up with me? I feel I have a great idea but I'm sure you heard that before =)
So the good news is you can move the clock in Gnome 3 Classic. All you have to do is hold Alt to right click on the widget and move. I mean... that's completely obvious right?

This has to be one of the worst UI decisions I've ever encountered...
When consumers start wanting their home electronics to be future proof, they will one day be looking for the Aurdino logo in the product information.
I haven't used Linux as a primary desktop OS for almost 7 years, so I figured I'd give it a go - so I got a ThinkPad W520 running Ubuntu 11.10 for work (software development.) Verdict so far? Next time I'm going for a Mac again.

Why?

* X doesn't automatically set up my nvidia graphics card. Sure, I can manually install the driver and set up Xorg.conf, but I just don't want to do that. Luckily there's also an integrated Intel graphics card.¨

* VGA port does not work (no presentations using the projector for me) because of previous point.

* The wireless keeps freezing. At least 10 times a day I have to (using the physical switch on the side of the laptop) turn off the wireless card and turn it on again. Wow. This also is something I'm sure can be fixed by jumbling around with drivers, but again - I just don't want to do that.

* Gnome is horrible. I might be spoiled (lets face it: I AM spoiled) by Apple and their 'everything just works' - which it pretty much does as far as UI goes. Currently I'm running Xfce, which I found to be pleasantly simple. I found Gnome to be buggy and annyoing. Just like in the old days.

Of course there are a lot of positives, like apt being great (my main reason for the switch), and all the available GNU/Linux tools. As others have pointed out, if you use the terminal a lot it's great - but that goes for pretty much any distro.

As far as Ubuntu goes I totally agree with OP. It just doesn't cut it. It's supposed to bring Linux to the people, isn't it? Well, it's not doing a good job of that. I installed Ubuntu to have a system that just works. It doesn't.

If Apple were to bring in a customizable packaging system like apt it'd be a dangerously perfect match. Don't see that happening though.
The title is a little misleading. Surely it should read Using only CoffeeScript, Titanium, Node, Socket.io and a Chrome extension...

In fact, the title has very little to do with the actual article (which to be fair uses the same misleading title). Should be "Building a Chrome To Mobile extension using JavaScript only".

It's a shame because the actual project looks cool, just wish some more details were included.
Second the OSQA. Used it on a project last year. Clean code, clean templates, easy to modify.
That was me.

Sorry if I was confusing/confused -- I have an extreme personality (I'm far too abstract), which is a big part of why complementary cofounders are so important for people like me. Had they been present, I'm sure we would've done better :)
I'm teaching myself to code right now, and have tried 3 different introductory courses/guides, including CodeAcademy. The problem I've faced with each one is I'd learn the same thing (methods, arrays, variables, conditional statements, etc) but was never able to piece together the practical use. I'd get what if/then clauses mean, and what arrays do, but never could grasp their broader functionality or use case in an actual program.

I recently started taking Stanford's CS106A class online, and its the only thing that's really clicked for me so far. The first few weeks teach you the same thing as other guides, but they create an introductory program for you to test out the basics, and help you learn the methodology of programming.

From there is where I realized what's lacking in most "learning-to-code" intro courses: they'll give you the tools to code, but don't help you learn the methodology of coding. I realize now its a very different mindset, and if you don't actually solve problems with those tools, its difficult to learn conceptually.

Hopefully CodeAcademy can crack this issue of helping people learn how to think like a programmer, and not just show the tools that programmers use essentially.
Depends on how competent his coworkers are.
One use case is a browser in another display. Nice to CTRL-S and just glance.
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Made me think of AppWatch, a similar site which was curated by the owners to include only high-quality open-source, and was acquired by CNet in 2001:
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cnet-networks-acquir...

Relive the glory:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010629001952/http://appwatch.co...

Sadly, it's just redirecting to zdnet.com now.
Relevant quote from that WP link:

"Though moai are whole-body statues, they are commonly referred to as "Easter Island heads". This is partly because of the disproportionate size of most moai heads and partly because, from the invention of photography until the 1950s, the only moai standing on the island were the statues on the slopes of Rano Raraku, many of which are buried to their shoulders. Some of the "heads" at Rano Raraku have been excavated and their bodies seen, and observed to have markings that had been protected from erosion by their burial."
Spot on, and even much of what is 'observable' here is not even close to understood. Inflation and dark energy/matter are both concepts that have been built to explain observation but which are themselves not yet explained at least not with much consensus.
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Adding to the above, when we talk about monitoring people, most people have in mind a model that requires O(log n) monitors; monitoring 300 people is like keeping 300 bookmarks in a book, as it takes only a few people to monitor those 300 bookmarks. To the government, the model is O(n). They're not maintaining 300 bookmarks, they're reading 300 pages simultaneously.

The reason is that people are the asymptotic bottleneck. If computers totally and automatically understood everything, then the dominating term would be compute time. But it's not. The dominating term is clearly people, who must ultimately review the truly promising information. Maybe the compute resources make this linear relationship hold over lower constants, but it is still definitely linear. And any technological advantage is unfortunately shortchanged by the constant factor of red tape.

Ex-Googlers like Ron here no doubt have a different view on what can/should be done to monitor people, but I argue that this is irrelevant to the government. And even if they agreed with them in principle, there's enough red tape that a system like what they have in mind would just never be realistic.
My two cents: to have a scalable distributed application you're ultimately going to have to build a kind of SOA with the Django/Symfony/RoR frontend talking to your backend services via API calls. So the framework just handles fetching data and laying it out nicely while the real work happens on the backend.

Once you have this, you can optimize your application to handle all kinds of workloads without getting bogged down by whatever framework you're using. Heck, write your CPU-intensive code in C++ if you're so kooky about performance, use SQL or OODBs, whatever. Distribute you application across the globe. Your application is ultimately just responding to HTTP requests.

Use Django for the frontend. Use whatever you want for your backend. Using Python for both would be nice. If you're really worried about performance, use a JVM language like Scala. Ultimately, this choice will be driven by what kind of computation you're doing on your backend. E.g, if I was doing scientific computation I'd use Python because it has NumPy and SciPy. Let the backend decision be driven by what language has the libraries you need. You absolutely _do not_ want to write code when you can avoid it.

That said, I must bring your attention to a few points:

(1) Premature optimization is bad. If you don't know whether you'll need it, then you won't need it.

(2) Just-in-time scaling, i.e, scaling right when you start facing performance problems is going to be hard. If you know you will totally definitely 100% need it, plan for it now.

(3) 99% of web applications don't need to worry about scaling. Throwing more hardware at the problem, intelligent caching, and some basic Algorithms 101 techniques go a long way towards making things fast.

(4) I'm not in the Valley, and I've never built a large scale web application ;)
"RoR and Django are more expensive to scale than any php framework"

I don't agree. I haven't seen one feature of PHP frameworks that would make them scale better than RoR or Django frameworks.

They'll have similar scaling issues which will revolve around scaling the database.
Read the book "Behold!! The Protong!" and you'll get an even more intriguing explanation. These statues are a WARNING TO THE FUTURE that the great CATACLYSM, which comes in cycles, will HAPPEN AGAIN.

Below the ground-line (which represents the flood survivors emerging from the murk) these statues are holding the "Bi" - an iconic feature representative of the grand CATACLYSM where the balance of water is tipped, and which you can find in almost all ancient artwork, regardless of the culture that creates it - an ocean-covering flood which occurs when the land masses move in reaction to Solar activity.

Easter Island is a WARNING set up by an ancient civilization to protect us from ignorance.

Let us never learn the extent to which SZUKALSKI was RIGHT!
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tl;dr:

Bonn café stands up to Apple over trademark

(No, really, the article has almost zero information besides a picture of the logo of the café.)
My dad liked Ubuntu, until the Unity interface.

There are anecdotes either way.

I have my long list of Unity bugs -- I don't think Ubuntu should have put all their chips on that awful implementation of a mediocre interface.

I agree with Eric Raymond that the most worrying thing is not the poor quality of the new Ubuntu release, but that new releases are going backwards. That takes away any hope for improvement.
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I was extremely annoyed by a built-in 300-500ms lag inserted to unhide the Unity panel itself. I guess "quick" is a relative term.

I find Unity to be a huge regression in usability.
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> So you're saying Buddhism as you see it teaches you to screw other people over (cause them to become more attached to material things) in order to benefit yourself at their expense?

No, not at all.

Attachment isn't like sin. To a Buddhist, attachment is more like lactose to a lactose-intolerant. You can recognize that lactose is the root of your difficulties, and work to eliminate it from your life, while still working for the Milk Council without that being some kind of deep moral hypocrisy. Just because it causes suffering for you doesn't mean other people have a problem with it, and even if they do, it doesn't mean they can't choose to drink the occasional glass without over-doing things.

You can work a job and buy an iPod and sleep with your wife without being attached to those things in the unhealthy way that Buddhists mean by attachment.
I recently came across Coordino (http://coordino.com/). I haven't tried it out myself, but it looks pretty polished.

It's also Open Source.
>Eh. I guess I'll just stick to HN classic.

it's #2 there now (http://news.ycombinator.com/classic)
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Good point. Many low-level jobs are already driven by tight bureaucratic rules enforced by based computer statistics and ubiquitous surveillance. Computers empowered the bureaucracy to such a point that it (figuratively spoken) took a life of its own.

So like I said, the computers are never going to control us

I don't buy that "never". It's not that black and white. Computers are making high-level decisions already, for example, what about automated trading algorithms? (especially those based on AI).

What if the shareholders that control public companies are, at least, heavily motivated in their decisions by computers?

Then it will be the computer allocating capital, and what choices do humans have? We just follow the way that our computer algorithms point to the profit.

Sure, strictly spoken there will still be humans in control. But in the worst case they will have at most a ceremonial function, to explain in human terms what the numbers say. If they decide to not follow the computer's "advice" they take a great risk.

That's one of the reasons many people feel that we live in a "machine state" (an automated bureaucracy with humans trained as mere robots) these days, or that is going to happen...
The Internet is larger than your JS and AS and doesn't require people to browse with scripting and Flash enabled. Try browsing HN with JS disabled sometime; it works fine.
I would really like at least _some_ part of the Internet to remain a collection of documents, and not a framework-based application.
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If you want to shorten the innovation cycle in any product to be more like that of software, the easiest, most trivial way to do so is to make it software upgradeable.
Could you expand on that? I was always under the impression their paths just happened to coincide given Canonical didn't have enough sway to make them adopt their own vision.
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I am willing to adjust my workflow, I am not willing to use alpha-quality software.
Unity is still unusable at times due to its window management bugs. I way really hoping for better upon its second iteration. (But this just makes me sound complainy.)
My dad is not a power user -- and he had liked Ubuntu, until the Unity interface.
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Whenever I see an easter island head, I can't help but draw parallels between our global civilization and theirs.

The eastern islanders consisted of around a dozen tribes, each competing for resources with others. It's thought that all of these statues were put up in a race by chieftains, competing with one another to put up the biggest, most refined and the best statue.

I wouldn't be surprised if they competed in their standards of life too. ("I eat X for breakfast, lunch and dinner!") I certainly wouldn't be surprised by the fact that they might have had political factions, special interests and a life rife with complicated political maneuvering. (it was certainly in the short term interests of statue makers to be against conservation and egg chieftains on)

After all we're the same species and they were just like us.

However what they failed to realize was the inescapable fact that they were living on a small piece of land in the middle of a vast ocean. Their seemingly inexhaustible resources were pitiful by any standards.

As time wore on and their population boomed, a point came when all of these factors came together. Their squandering of resources combined with their unsustainable way of life for a large population faced off with their limited resources, and the result was ugly. Their entire civilization collapsed.

Most of the population was lost to famine. Their civilization descended to cannibalism to survive. This degraded civilization became the perfect breeding ground for disease and even more people died. This cycle went on and on until their entire civilization was wiped out and the entire population nearly eradicated.

I shudder to think what it must have been like to live in this world. It must have been a nightmare.

Today like the eastern islanders with their statues, we keep on building taller and taller structures, better and more lethal weapons, and crazier systems. We compete with one another for status symbols at personal, regional and national levels.

Today we are just as isolated on this tiny blue ball, with a finite amount of resources, a booming population, combined with special interests and huge egos.

Like the eastern islanders we have nowhere to go...
Total agreement. I've often thought the same thing about hardware. Ubuntu doesn't need to run on every laptop out there. They need to pick their fights. Not even 100, say 20.

Or they make an unholy alliance with one or two manufacturers to ensure (NOT excluding other mfgrs, mind you) top notch compatibility on a high end, mid range and netbook class unit.

That's it. They would do so much better like that.
Some of these designs look very nice. Some others made my brain hurt as I couldn't figure out how the data was structured. They may not work for the gmail blog, but they may be perfect for certain "tumblresque" blogs.
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I didn't say they were monitoring 300 million people, I said that they could, and so the author's strategy of preventing the FBI from monitoring us by overwhelming them with data is doomed to fail.
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While it's quite interesting that someone has made a 3d printer this big. You can't literally print a house with one of these. Just think about a typical wall build up, it will be something like this: dry lining, vapour control layer, insulation, air gap, <magic printed sandstone structure>, waterproofing and or rain screen. The basics you need are to be able to print a structure which is waterproof, has a U-Value of 0.2 w/mk, is fire resistant and has some tensile strength. The material in the OP is 'like sandstone' which is structurally useful only in compression. So you couldn't print a skyscraper or Frank Lloyd Wright's 'falling water'. If they could print fibre reinforced concrete then it wouldn't be so limiting.

Also, bear in mind that the 'shell and core'; the structure, cladding and primary circulation is generally less than half the cost of the finished building. E.g. all the HVAC still has to be installed by hand. Innovation in construction is notoriously slow moving; even quite simple innovations can take 50 years to be widely adopted. It's also incredibly heavily regulated in most countries. I think that modular construction is more interesting avenue to explore. Most buildings are the equivalent of 'spaghetti code' there is lots of progress that can be made by modularising parts and standardising interfaces. Architects like Bucknister Fuller, Otto Frei, and others did lots of interesting work in the 1950's on modularisation but the concept hasn't developed much since then.
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Honestly, for networking purposes, look no further than participating and volunteering in a national non-profit group. It'll give you access to both depth and breadth.