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Yep, we also use Bootstrap quite heavily for the web-based business apps we build for our clients. Makes it easy to build standardized and pretty interfaces.

Previously we were following jQuery UI themes, but Bootstrap is better in that it provides very nice defaults for many different types of content.
I'm sorry, but I don't believe I was rambling. There is a flaw in the approach that they are taking. I made this clear several times by pointing out Linus's talk and the background of forking on Git.

When I make an argument, I try to be thorough and show evidence, then propose a solution rather than just complaining.

I agree with you that the project is important if it's important. That is exactly what I want. Let the community decide. I hate GitHub implying that my fork is any more or less important unilaterally because I was just the original or not. I document evidence that people follow that link even when the parent is a dead project I put in place.

This one issue has really been festering at me for the last couple years on GitHub. As the number of projects grow, more projects are starting to bitrot and the problem is only getting bigger.
The article is about "suspicious sentences in news", and media are news producers.

This is one thing I can blame them for, due to: media needn't be objective - that's not their mission - their mission is to make money, unless they're non-profit (how many of them is ?).

They use deception, to make you believe that news they produced is objective, and you shouldn't look for sources (which often are well hidden or absent), and assuming that news they produce is compatible with your worldview, you won't look for sources - you're their customer.

I'm sure you're able to divide media by political views they support - if they're objective why it's possible ?

The use of deception, means they're not good source of truth.

The main reason I found HN and stayed here, is its news quality (almost no political bs, and really close to the source).
He meant one of the additional goodies you get when you give more than $10.
PG: Make the decision on what sites to show subdomains on at page render time, based on a flat file list of domains. Have a job run every now and then that checks submitted urls, and creates the flat file list of domains, including any domain with more than N different subdomains submitted, where N is high (maybe 400 different sub domains or something). If this file would be large, just build it based on the last M submitted urls (nobody will be browsing the older ones anyway, so if a domain comes and goes oh well).
This is a nice thought, and might be relevant a few decades ago when America was at the top of its game in relation to all the other countries on Earth. Now, I'm not so sure. You're talking about a post-scarcity society when a growing portion of Americans can't even put food on the table or a roof over their head. You're talking the personal fulfillment when more and more Americans are forced to work multiple jobs just to make ends meet.

It's nice that you have the freedom and the time to ponder such ideological issues. It's nice that you're able to look higher on the hierarchy of needs rather than scrabbling for scraps. I mean that in the non-snarkiest of ways, really.

But for the vast majority of the population they need a job right now. They don't have time to worry about your high-minded concepts of personal fulfillment, and whether or not a FAI will usher in a utopia of zero scarcity. They need to make rent and put groceries in the fridge this week.

The politicians are focusing on jobs as a core issue because that's what's foremost on people's minds. It's foremost on people's minds because it's exactly what they need. They need more jobs in a stronger economy. Imagine if all the unemployed folk in this country just sat around waiting for the post-scarcity society to hit them upside the head!
Controlled devaluation has worked fairly well for Greece in the past, when it had its own currency. Several times in its history it's used one-time 15-20% devaluations, which didn't spark hyperinflation. The main purpose of them was to: 1) reduce outstanding debt in real terms by in effect soft-defaulting; and 2) increase competitiveness by cutting domestic wages in real terms, without having to cut nominal wages, which are extremely sticky.

Greece is currently at least suffering from the inability to do #2: it would be ideal for Greece for the Eurozone to be running higher inflation rates, which, if nominal pay was held constant (as it currently has to be under their agreements), would in effect cut the pay of Greek employees (and their pensions) without having to cut it in nominal terms, as well as bring down the real prices of all sorts of other things like housing. The only alternative way of accomplishing that is significant, sustained domestic deflation in the form of actual nominal price/wage cuts, which is more difficult to pull off in a way that doesn't completely wreck the economy.
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That's why we have plenty todo list, project management tools, and issue/bugtracking software :)
I'm shocked at the amount of xenophobia in the comments on the CNN site. Being Canadian, I have no idea whether it is representative of the population at large, but it appears that many Americans have been brainwashed into the thinking that the only immigrants are the ones driving cabs or working at fast food. The problem is that everybody has been talking themselves to death about illegal immigration, and haven't focused on the benefits of legal immigration. Does the Startup Visa have a chance in hell with the current political climate surrounding immigration in the US?
The bigger point here appears to be the extensibility of GNOME shell. If I read the announcement right, the Mint desktop is GNOME3, but using extensions to create a more GNOME2-like experience.

The JavaScript environment GNOME3 was written in could lead to lots of UX experimentation like this, at least once it has better documentation.
I'm not aware of any timing attacks against Django.

If there are attacks that we should be aware of please be a good open source citizen and report them to `security@djangoproject.com`. We take security reports very seriously, and want very much to fix any issues that're disclosed!

[edit to clarify: I'm one of the lead developers of Django, and one of the members of the security team that gets emails sent to the `security@` alias.]
Sovereigns do not play by the same rules as the rest of us. They can unilaterally declare their debt to be in their new currencies, if they separate.

If each country leaves the Euro, then this will definitely happen. If only some does, then it will be up to the courts to decide what the treaties says.
I just got the email myself, it appears that payment information was accessed so they are telling their customers to check the account of the card used, they did not inform users of retention of payment information nor does it look like they used a proxy service, so it appears that they where storing original card numbers on their systems. Fortunately, I use a specific card for online purchase so I will just cancel the card and ask for a new one. I am not real happy about having to go back through transactions and look for fraudulent activity, though.
Your Cicero example is quite interesting. On one hand I too feel that it is not moral to break your word, but in the given example I would break my word and not give the gun back.

In an effort to reconcile these positions, I would argue that my agreement with the original gun-owner contained the unstated understanding that it would only be returned if he was mentally fit.

These sort of 'clauses' if you will are inherent in any agreement we make. It is understood that "I'll return the book to you on Tuesday." also contains the qualifier "assuming, of course, that: a meteor doesn't impact the earth, my car doesn't break down, the US doesn't enter nuclear war....etc."

Still, I don't feel that agreeing to work for a company does not include the understanding that I'll work for them "as long as I don't get a better offer elsewhere."

However, you may argue that it does, and I guess I'd have to give it to you in that case. It's just that...my own agreement wouldn't. By making this proposition I'm basically allowing anyone to break any contact by saying "well, my agreement contained this unstated understanding which lets me do ____". I think that most times the agreement is fully understood between both parties though. There are definitely examples where the line gets fuzzy though, which is why it's so important to communicate so that everyone is on the same page.
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For me its the menu bar on the top of the screen except for libreoffice. On a 1920 by 1080 its a bit of a trek to the top of the screen from a small Gedit window.

The rest I can deal with, I tend toward 'end user' tasks plus a couple of ssh sessions, and about 10 applications over four virtual desktops.

Hibernate works so I can keep the setup between sessions.
Where do you live? I've never heard of a college math department being part of the art department. In the USA, computer science departments are usually either closely attached to the math department, or are part of the engineering school if the college has one.

Obviously, your whole argument depends on the definition of "science" more than anything. Using the naive middle school definition of science, as in "the scientific method," perhaps math and CS don't qualify (although there is in fact a lot of experimental/observational work in CS, particularly in "real-world" applications like general-purpose encryption/compression, cache invalidation, process scheduling, etc.). However, using a broader definition of science, like the one Wikipedia gives, it's clear that math and CS easily qualify.
I thought the same thing. You can switch the "root" if you coordinate with the root repo owner and GitHub support. Often those projects are dead or the maintainer doesn't respond.
The banks and large hedge funds manage so much money that their opinions and positions actually impact the market prices.

For example, akin to the "Colbert Bump", there is a "Buffett Bump" where position prices rise as Buffett releases his positions. Over the past few weeks a bunch of firms were required to disclose some positions as part of a 13F filing.

But it's not all puffery. Check out the story of David Einhorn and Green Mountain Coffee (GMCR).
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I wonder - how much did they pay for this TLD.
This is excellent. There has been a certain class of "debate" sites that gather opposing expert opinions on some controversy but they always had a distribution problem. The people that need this kind of information most and the least likely to go check these sites.

This is a great distribution mechanism of the output of those sites. If there is a trending, controversial statement in the news it would be great to be one click away from seeing smart people discussing both sides.

Now I want other kinds of goggles. Like goggles that spot popular Anachronisms. Or trending memes.
"Any of your arguments as to why we should would apply equally well to cars, but you never see people have that conversation."

Reading comprehension FTW.
This is git. The point is that it's decentralised.
I didn't mean to be condescending in calling Peter a developer. The article really isn't about Peter, it's about the legions of technical photographer developers out there, probably why that title was on my mind.
> the increased flexibility will make the economic status of the different Euro members a lot sounder.

Why should it? The troubles we see now are NOT caused by the Euro but by overspending. Or are you saying the US economic problems are caused by the US dollar?
Cool app, but not for my iPhone... Create app like this for Apple devices ;)
As an alternative view, I suggest http://www.paulgraham.com/opensource.html: Inconceivable as it would have seemed in, say, 1970, I think professionalism was largely a fashion, driven by conditions that happened to exist in the twentieth century.

Rather than read Robert C. Martin (also known as "Uncle Bob"), read Coders at Work http://www.codersatwork.com/. These are programmers who have built interesting things.
"coffee cups on the grass".

Hey, could be worse, I coulda taken a photo of a lemon! http://www.abstract-art.com/abstraction/l2_grnfthrs_fldr/g01...

Who does this Manet character think he is anyway?
Full page scam ads on what seems to be blog spam.

Original link:

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I do not like the limited amounts of "downloads". I see why it's there (people might share links with friends etc.) but it feels a bit like punishing me because of some cheapskates. Problem is, this does not count "downloads", it counts hits on the download link. Accidentally hit cancel in the save file dialog? Too bad, one "download" wasted. Same thing when I tried to get it from my cell phone (which sucks), it did not work, there went another attempt.

I probably could live with say 20 downloads in a month (or some timeframe), but this feels very limiting.
So how do you propose we function as a democracy if any media source that covers political issues is so full of shit that there is no point in even considering it?

Your perspective is extreme, but it is a very important concern. If only someone could try to create additional information layers to help you navigate a medium that is potentially riddled with dubious claims. Maybe that person could call the project "Truth Goggles" or something.
This is slightly off-topic, but is perhaps the best opportunity to clarify something I've recently started wondering about, and will no doubt be valuable to others on HN:

I've been studying web design for the past few weeks, and naturally broached the issue of images. Is it possible to take 'professional' (i.e., 'website-worthy') pictures using consumer range equipment, such as the Casio Exilim and Sony Cyber-shot? For example, pictures of dishes for a restaurant website, or product pictures for an e-commerce site?
It's hard to figure out how to put out fires based on news reports of what fires are like. At some point you just have to set fire to something in a laboratory and see if you can actually put it out.

It helps that just like it's not actually possible to start a fire that would actually incinerate half the globe, it's not actually possible to create a virus that would wipe out half of humanity. The article is wrong and sensationalist.
I've been using Django BruteBuster[0], but this project looks interesting. Is it worth switching?

[0]: http://code.google.com/p/django-brutebuster/
Of course they could, but there might be consequences. For example nobody might be willing to lend them money again in the future. Or there might be wars ("if you don't want to pay me what you owe me, I am going to take it by force").

Overall, who is going to guarantee a contract between states (like money lending)? There is no superpower that watches over them and punishes them if they do wrong, they have to fight it out among themselves somehow.
If you read TechCrunch (Wadhwa's pieces especially) or the ABC article referenced, this piece contains absolutely nothing new, just a rehash of the same things. Sparse, suspect data, plenty of correlation/causation fallacies, and topped off with a populist appeal to "create jobs"
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Being interesting lets you show off your other good qualities. Like being reliable or able to build interesting things. If you build something small that people use and like, by being interesting I feel you could land funding to build something bigger.
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Either I missed the link or it wasn't there when I said this :)
Here is a video of the launch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irBg4DvHI6c
For europeans, a lot of bad things, the most important:

1)Forced conversions of savings from euros to pesetas, liras, francs, and in the process devaluating their purchasing power 50% or more(somebody have to pay for the excesses in financing industry and history says it is always the people as the people that have money will fly or ask expert advice to not being touched)..

2) Increment cost in commerce between Europeans as you will have to convert pesetas, escudos or liras to francs witch takes a hight commission and bureaucracy(time and money) cost.

3) If you go to other European country you will need to change money(and pay) and if you don't use it all you need to convert it again.

4) Debt is denominated in euros, so when countries start printing money for paying their obligations (pensions, functionaries) debt will be more impossible to pay than already is.
It's nowhere near as simple as that.

What national currencies will Euros be exchanged for? What rates will they be exchanged at? Will other markets recognise those new currencies (and they will be =new= currencies, since all the Eurozone currencies ceased to exist when they changed to the Euro), and what rates will they be traded at on the markets as opposed to the fixed exchange rate they'll swapped for Euros at.

It took 10 years to get from the establishment of the Euro (then ECU) as a currency to the point where all the Eurozone nations switched to it as the only official currency - there will not be 10 years to switch the other way, and it's going to be very very messy.

The Euro is the 2nd most traded currency after the US dollar, is the 2nd largest reserve currency after the dollar, it's used as part of currency baskets for setting FX rates of numerous other currencies. Were the Euro to dissolve, the second order effects in markets around the world would be extremely turbulent, and likely highly damaging to the world economy.

Claiming that it would be 'Nothing special' is naivety at it's most dangerous.
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But exactly how? I'm not being rude, just asking.

Apart from going to these countries and open a bank account or have actual money under the mattress, how would this work?

My bank allows me to have accounts in USD and GBP (I actually have some money on each) but if the euro blows, and there is a bank freeze and mandatory 'exchange' of euros to whatever your local coin is, I would think these accounts would also be affected (something like exchanging the USD to EUR at current rate, and then changing the EUR to escudo or dracma)

I looked at forex but I'm in no way qualified to understand how the hell that works.
you can make judgement calls and still be better than coin flipping. just because it's not an automated, exact science doesn't mean that it cannot edge closer to the truth. almost everything in life is not exact, but we still know some people lie more than others.

I agree with this in the fuzzy world of politics you have no choice but to bring in probabilities. I would think that this system could be automated by software to aid the fact checker in coming to a decision. I would say that aggregating a politicians history of lying and using that as a weight as to whether a suspect statement could be untruthful would help.

If a candidate has a history of being less than truthful and a certainty of fact cannot be deduced one could look at weight factors such as history of truthfulness on a subject to help them come to a conclusion.

These methods and the algorithms could them be published for scrutiny. This way it is not arbitrary, it may not be 100% accurate but at least the system is open and the method reproducible. From there it can be refined to help aid in accuracy.
I'm impressed that this blogpost wasn't titled "GitHub has one big forking flaw".

That aside, I think github's model is largely correct. In git itself, a commit is a child of a parent (or parents).
Thanks for sharing the link, it's a really interesting read.

I'm curious - wouldn't a large, variable geometry lifting body do the trick? Land like a shuttle would, but with a bigger wing, and deploy more wing and lift devices as you get lower.
Yes, would have much preferred a torrent with a passworded .zip or something similar. Would have been faster too.
Some of the UI features didn't get released when wave was open sourced, Google not wanting exact duplicates of themselves running around.
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It's easy to integrate, and marketers can just login into Comufy to do this.

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So essentially all the new evidence this has given us is that they sailed into deeper waters, which isn't especially a talented skill. If you can canoe in shallow water, you're going to be able to canoe in deep water on a calm day.
The politicians are focusing on jobs as a core issue because that's what's foremost on people's minds. It's foremost on people's minds because it's exactly what they need. They need more jobs in a stronger economy. Imagine if all the unemployed folk in this country just sat around waiting for the post-scarcity society to hit them upside the head!

Well, it's more like jobs achieve what they need. They need money to buy things to put stuff on the table, and jobs are a way to achieve that. The welfare system could of course, solve that, and even eliminate it if we have a sufficiently wealthy welfare system(which we don't). Of course, it won't fulfill self-worth and autonomy well.

Indeed, we are in a recession and the employment rate is crappy. However, there's a whole lot of people in the United States who can afford to think about this and their ideas of what the good life is shaped by what their parents wants or the narrow-minded view of going to college or doing whatever you need to acquire good jobs that earn lot of money.
Note that almost all of the problem countries ran trade surpluses before joining the Euro, and that the different regions had a lot better balance of trade as a whole. What then happened was that the fixed exchange rates made the automatic rebalancing, that competing floating currencies have, stop working, and inbalances aggregated in the system. These inbalances took a form that is perceived as overspending, but that is a much too simplistic view.

The economic problems of US are a lot less severe than those in the Euro area, precisely because US has a different way of equalizing bad balance between regions - namely taxes and federal spending. There are also no danger of default, since US can fulfill the obligations it has by printing money. That is also not on the table in the Euro area.
I could not agree more.

When I find a new cool library or program on github I often have trouble finding the "official" or "best" version. Many times it is of course the root repository of all forks, but often the original developer moved on and someone else picked up his work. If there are only 2 or 3 forks I can check them all, but more is impractical.

When I put stuff on github myself I often lose interest in the software, but someone was nice enough to fork the project and keep working on it. Unfortunately my project will still always be displayed as the most important version.

Some software developers have decided to create a shared account (or, since Github now supports this too, an "Organization") to prevent this problem (see for example github.com/ruby/). When one developer decides to leave the Ruby developement team, he is simply removed from the shared account/organization, but the project URL stays the same.
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