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I tried to work out what was "Xtra", looked like just Icon Buttons. Then realised it says at the top "Bootstrap Xtra inludes extra features that are not included in Bootstrap but may be useful for some people. Xtra Features: Icon Buttons."

I think there's more planned like a theme for JQuery UI that matches Bootstrap https://github.com/lightglitch/bootstrap-xtra/issues/3
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Because you have to construct them, and it takes a ton of energy to do so. The construction process also produces a lot of waste.
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> Thank you so much! Updated my profile.

Nope. All you put in the 'about' section of your profile is the fact
that you're a student in Chicago. Your name is missing and so is your
contact info. The email address used to sign up for HN is never shown,
so you need to put it in the 'about' section if you want others to see
it. You posting your email address in one of your posts, so you don't
have any issues about divulging it (some people do).

> I tried getting in contact with Thomas Ptacek and some other people, but I have not received any responses. I'll ping the other names you gave me.

Give Thomas a break. It's Thanksgiving weekend so he probably has far
more important things to do besides answer emails, namely, family
commitments.

> I made a short list of security firms. But I have no idea how to assess them. Matasano has the most informative website. Do you know of any competitors to Matasano? How would you compare computer security companies? What metric do you use?

First and foremost, you keep tossing around this undefined phrase,
"computer security," as if it actually means something. The phrase is
far to widely used to mean anything specific, and hence, it is
exceedingly vague. Do you want to get into reverse engineering,
auditing, virus analysis, exploit research, analysis automation,
forensics, physical attacks, penetration testing, cryptanalysis, and the
list goes on and on.

To answer your question directly, for me, there are only two metrics
that matter: (1) Do I like the people? and (2) Do I like their work?

In the long run, little else matters. Some people are brilliant but are
not nice, and others are nice but don't do anything worthwhile. Both of
these scenarios are recipes for an unsatisfying working relationship.
Do some research on the people as well as the kinds of things they do,
and then get to know them.
One of the essentials is missing from this list: Bill Venner's 'Inside the Java 2 Virtual Machine'. It is well-written and detailed.
LOL. You guys are right. :)
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The Germans spent last decade reforming their pension system and labor market. They did it in the middle of economic boom. They urged everyone else in EU to do the same, especially the weaker economies.

They managed to secure a consensus and everyone (labor, capital and the state) is reaping the rewards.

In southern and eastern Europe, the unions an "leftist forces" managed to blow a hole in any attempt to reform pension and labor markets.

The key argument is that Germany giving in to these forces would mean a perpetuation of the root problem.

The way I see it this is a family issue, where father refuses to support one of his crack addicted kids, while the mother pleads "Please, you are breaking the family apart." Forgetting that there were previous confrontations in which she sided with the kid and didn't support the fathers demand that the kid goes on a rehab.
Good idea to expand on Bootstrap, taken how popular it is. However the only addon here seem to be the buttons. And the example link on top links to the normal bootstrap, not this new version.
This really seems like something that should be in the scope of a pull request, or several of those.
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And yet we haven't had another thalidomide scandal since the FDA introduced mandatory clinical trials for new treatments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide

I'm not saying you're entirely wrong, just that its not a simple as you make out.
To be honest: I'm a "self-repsecting techie" and I won't spent time on "my printer's not working again" if I can avoid it.
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i've lost whole days watching confreaks. but then come out the other end knowing tons more -- time well spent imo.
I had great hopes for this release. The fglrx drivers are fething up the "shiny" gnome 3 desktop environment, not to mention I haven't seen anything great about it either -which I am coming to that shortly. MATE is... same as gnome3, I haven't seen anything special about it either. As for gnome 2, why I cannot add widgets to taskbars blows my mind...

As far as I can see, and ironically, these new releases have less usability than their older and "geekier" versions. I mean back in linux mint 9 I could find compiz settings in 2 clicks. Now I cannot even see a compiz settings button anywhere. I mean, what the hell was wrong with my rotating cube desktop? Sure, it wasn't breaking any "productivity increase" reports but it made me happy to work with my linux box, not to mention all of the mac & win people looking with envy to these effects which my pieceashit netbook can pull off while their overpowered books can't.

Two popular distros (I mean ubuntu and linux mint currently) had created an end goal it seems: "We want to be the mac of the linux world!". In the old days it was "we want to be the windows of the linux world" and this decision killed kde4. But the correct direction is to be an unique experience. Compiz did that, and as far as I can see none of the big mothers of the software world (yes I am looking at you m$ and apple) has a similar software to that!

TL;DR:Don't macify yourself.
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Bottom line is that if you don't trust Google & use their tools (GWT) then you can end up in sticky situations like this one.

My experience with the Crawl Rate feature via GWT is that they do honour it pretty strictly, but for large sites Gbot can cause a lot of extra load even if pages are static.

A good CDN and stateless cache server will help but for sites as large as HN every request adds up!
people have looked at this before, the net effect is negative, (sorry no sources off-hand)
I'm in quite a similar situation being in Switzerland, except I'm required to live (and work) here for 10 years before I can get the green card equivalent.

Getting the permit was the big problem, since not only does the company have to prove that domestic workers aren't suitable for the job, but also every worker in the EU. Thankfully, once you have it, it's very simple to renew.

If I'm not mistaken, the language exam only applies for naturalization, but even then you're still subject to an anonymous review by the people living near you as well as a "cultural exam" to see how well you've assimilated (among many other things, naturally).
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My current analogy of money is kind of that society is a giant vending machine capable of producing eg hamburgers, thai massage, anal lube, laptops, BMWs, etc.

Money is kind of tickets that you put into this vending machine. And then there are people loaning out these tickets (banks) and also there are different kinds of tickets (currencies) and vending machines (countries) with exchange rates.

You may want to think about what contractual obligations are represented by those tickets.

A simple example would be literal tickets such as the fare tokens you can buy for many subway systems. When you own such a ticket, you have a claim on the subway system (in an accounting sense): the system is obligated to let you enter in exchange for the ticket. When that happens, the ticket is destroyed for all intents and purposes.

A deposit at a bank is also such a ticket. When you have a deposit, the bank is obligated to let you exchange your deposit for paper money. It is also obligated to let you make transfers, and that's where things become a bit more complicated.

It gets weird with paper money. Paper money is a liability of the government, but the government is not obligated to give you anything "real" in exchange for the paper money. The only thing it is obligated to do is to accept your paper money as a tax payment.

So at first sight, that might seem not ubiquitously useful.

However, it just so happens that because paper money is the way to pay your taxes, lots of people want paper money. Hence you can use your paper money to buy things from other people, even though the paper money does not represent any kind of contractual obligation between you and the seller. (An exception to that may be in legal tender laws; but for the most part, legal tender laws are unnecessary.)

Then you go back and realize that most of our monetary system actually takes place in computers and not using paper money, and you look into how deposits at banks are proxies for "government money", in particular reserves. And down the rabbit hole it goes ;)
I don't use adblock either. One reason is that I like seeing how people advertise their products: a good learning experience.
Also useful:

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(I run this site)
because nobody likes to be treated like a four year old, I personally hate ubuntu's approach on this: "THIS IS GOOD FOR YOU! USE IT! WE KNOW WHAT'S BEST FOR YOU".

Unity might be the next big thing in the desktop environment phenomena but forcing it down through our throats is very obnoxious.
San Francisco is not the largest city in the area (San Jose has about 200,000 more people), let alone the state (San Diego has more than San Jose), and has a number of geographical problems with any associated train system between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Because it's at the edge of a peninsula, getting from anywhere else requires fairly significant engineering feats, and due to the slowness of Amtrak, most people don't want to take an 8+ hour train trip; both flying and driving are faster than the train.
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The post is a clever way to sell the Skeptics Stack Exchange site (and the referrer link in the Amazon link won't hurt either). Not that there's anything wrong with either of these things — the book sounds interesting and I wasn't aware of the Skeptics SE site so it's win/win for Atwood & I.
So we went from "DOOOM!" in 2008 to funding grilled cheese and daily deals in 2011 and now back to "DOOOM!" in 2012, bouncing between the throttle and the brakes faster than most startups can even prove out their thesis? This seems like an opportunity for a contrarian VC betting against the others, dodging the irrational exuberance but getting better terms when founders need the money badly.
I hope so because that means that it's the best time to do a startup!
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This submission is basically link-spam. The original page is here: http://www.tekniqal.com/. However, I'm not certain its a very good resource. The videos are boring, the speaker is monotone, and everything is done in Windows. :/
Q. Are the tools that you know good enough to at least prototype your ideas?

I mean yes you can learn languages that are heavy duty like java — but so many things are done in PHP if you already know that...
Please don't go down that route, my brother committed suicide about a year ago and its wrong on so many levels, surely there is at least one person that would be devastated and it would adversely affect their life for a long time, if not for the rest of theirs. As far as getting into programming, its not as hard as you make it out to be, I don't have a degree in computer science or anything but was able to break into the field, it just takes an interest and work studying / working on projects. I'd be happy to exchange emails / talk sometime if it can help
>> IMO at heart the reason is very simple: You cannot expect to live beyond your means indefinitely and get away with it.

Yes, and there are basically two mutually exclusive, and opposite responses to this:

1) printing money (euphemism for it being "quantitative easing") and generating more debt which is just short term fix to buy yourself more time.
2) spending less and working hard to get yourself out of trouble which is only sustainable long term solution.

The way I see it is that Germany is pushing the second agenda, but it faces a great pressure to embrace the first solution. This pressuring is orchestrated by US/UK media that are creating panic and atmosphere of inevitable financial Armageddon. This, of course, threatens to become self-fulfilling prophecy if only sufficiently large number of people start to believe in it.
It seems everyone is ignoring your constraint, "driving distance from SF." But your constraint depends on how much driving you want to do and how much you want to pay also comes into play.

With a few hours drive North, you've got Humboldt, Mendocino, Marin, and other charming coastal towns. With a few hours East you have Tahoe and plenty of other places with snow this time of year. With up to a few hours South, you have Half Moon Bay, Davenport, Santa Cruz, Moss Landing, Monterey, Carmel, Moro Bay, Los Osos, Avila Beach, Pismo Beach, Santa Barbara, and more along the coast.

Due to the seasonal movements of the coastal cloud layer, some places on the cost actually have nicer weather during the winter than during the summer. Mendocino, Pacifica, Morro Bay, and (Northern) Santa Barbara are like this. Avila Beach is a strange anomaly and it is often nice year-round.

If you want mountains but no snow, there are lots of little places for retreats in the coastal mountain range that runs from SF down to SLO. Some are closer, and some are farther, but all are beautiful. The down-side is "fast" connectivity, but you can often solve that with phone tethering.

Your best bet is to search through AirBnB and similar sites.
It doesn't require you to code in a primitive style, however: It just requires acknowledging that creating a storage format is just as much an act of design as creating any other interface.

For example, "transparent" serialization really isn't because you get run into severe versioning issues. But dropping to primitives doesn't work well either, because then there's impedance to deal with. If you acknowledge there is bound to be impedance, you can encapsulate it in a separate mapping/specification, and deal with it on its own terms.

That lets you do things like evolve your storage format and internal model independently, without the very real drawbacks of an image-style system.
it's called curation. it's valuable because attention is more scarce than information.

and the original page is linked to twice! and the fact it's a collection of videos is stated.

it's "boring" if you don't like Ruby, otherwise it's useful.

who cares about the os. it's like complaining about the hardware. the os debate was over 10 years ago. more important to focus on the web.
It's much easier to get the Sword of Awesomeness +10 when you follow the walkthrough.
It sounds like a mesh network would require a couple of different routers: a low-cost model that lives in an already established area; and a more expensive model with antennas pointed at other established areas to act as a bridge.
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"Debt is so simple a four year old can understand it"

There is a difference between rational understanding and the way people act.

Even if a four year old would rationally understand debt, I am not sure that, if you offer a four year old a hundred sweets on the condition that (s)he will pay you back ten more sweets in a year, the typical four year old would decline.
not really. it's just an unedited aggregation. if you let me slice the content by more interesting meta data it would be more useful. and also remove videos i already know i don't like.
It's an intriguing idea, mainly because it's being done in a limited way already by some. I have only six hardware servers in the basement, running some 20 VMs and 20 TB of backup disk, connected to the Internet through fibre. They only use about 500-600W, mainly idling most of the time, which is under 5kWh/year in electricity.

Total house power use is about 28-30kWh/year. We use a heat pump for heating and hot water, which takes heat from two 100m boreholes. Which probably gives us about 2.5W of heat for each 1W of electricity it uses. We live in a moderately cold climate and the power use is about average for the size and age of house.

The biggest issue may be the local IP infrastructure as we only have 100 Mbps delivered ($50/month non-commercial use, $750/month commercial) and a 2 Gbps local loop for thousands of households. I could get an upgrade to 1Gbps to the door (or basement) but haven't really needed it so don't know what the cost would be, particularly if the load was constantly high. I could imagine the price would go up.

Not sure the economics of it would stack up, but maybe.
If anyone from Twine is reading this, it would be really interesting if, along with twitter etc, these things could easily communicate with sites like https://pachube.com/. I know it's possible to read the pachube api and configure it to do the the rest stuff manually using the http functionality but I'm sure you could simplify this a lot through the web interface, which looks great by the way.
You mean the world doesn't need tons of teams of young geeks working with RoR, Closure, Mongo, Mustache and other wonderful technologies to solve non existing "social" problems? I'm shocked!

(Addendum: I'm starting to think that having a startup is the "I'm gonna be a film star/hip hop singer/rock guitarist" equivalent for the geek youth).
That's exactly what Economist, Bloomberg and other mainstream media want you to believe right now. In reality more money printing only will get you in a greater trouble. The way out of that vicious circle is to spend only what you have to and bootstrap yourself with a hard work.
I've a friend, no really -- it's not me, who would like to have the JVM spot SSE instructions could be used. Anyone know of a JVM that steps into this area?
If I mute the TV during the ads, am I stealing? If I record a show and skip the ads on playback am I stealing? If I use Lynx am I stealing? If I disable JavaScript/Flash for security reasons, am I stealing?

I'm not obligated to look at adverts. Adverts are displayed with the hope that some of the users will see them, and that some of those users will spend money.

If there are enough people willing to view your content with the ads, then you make money. If there aren't, you don't. Theft and morality have nothing to do with this issue.
Funny, just today I stumbled upon this video while randomly strolling through the avenues of YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d70KhYzBhT4
Yes, there are Greece, Italy, Ireland, Portugal and Spain (where Greece still is the only really serious problem), but on the other hand there are a lot of strong/rich countries that are part of the EU and the Eurozone. There are Germany, France, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands and Finland, Estonia and really awesome ones like Luxemburg. The rest to my knowledge is doing fine.

In the mean there isn't a big difference to any other strong currency, like the US who comparatively has a much bigger problem and already had it for a long time.

The only thing that Europe lacks compared to the US is something like strict rules and sharing debts. A finance minister (or something similar) and Eurobonds would fix that.

Besides that it's really not like the Euro isn't worth a lot. Some years ago when the EUR/USD exchange what way lower everyone complained about the Euro being too strong and therefor causes export problems (low income). Now it is still way higher than that and everyone says the Euro is at its end.

Besides that the US as well as China devalue their currencies by printing -hardcore- and still have a lot more trust. Why?
The people who do not work at IT usually think that we don't do anything, or chatting away all day. Because we are always writing stuff on keyboard whenever they came. We CAN'T be working all that time so we are "chatting"

When they call for their problems while we try our best to help them in a nice fashion but because we don't personally go there and meddle with their computers we become the bad guy.

I think charlie stross's analogy of the IT department with the secret services is correct: when things go correct nobody notices us and when they don't we are the first to be called and blamed for. And has to spend nights to fix it whether it is an user fault or not. What we do is quite black ops to those outside of it, because they are on the end result: their internet connection/software/hardware is working or not.

As an IT guy, I have several projects that has to be finished by xmas and I don't have time to hold hands and/or cry why they are hating us, if they are.
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Ask HN: Transformer Prime and Exhibit II or Streak 7 
My "dilemma" is that I am looking for a solution that will provide communications in a lot of places and not just be dependent on WiFi. I have had several Android tablets and both versions of the iPad at one time or another (primarily setting them up for family), and up to now have relied on a PHS-300 and a USB WiMax stick for communications for the tablet, and an Optimus V on Virgin Mobile for phone/VOIP.

So I have two solutions I am considering in a couple of weeks when I get my XMas bonus. In both cases I am planning to use T-Mobile as the provider using their new $30/month plan for 5 gigs of 3G/4G data and 100 minutes of voice, and GrooveIP to do VOIP (which is what I have used on my current phone).

Solution A is to get a Samsung Exhibit II, set it up with WiFi tethering, and then get a Transformer Prime. This will require me to carry a bag with the Transformer, and means I may sometimes have to rely on the phone where it isn't convenient to lug the Prime. On the other hand, the quad-core Prime may eventually let me do things I can't do on a dual-core machine, and it is a 10+ inch screen which should make for easier reading.

Solution B is to get a Streak 7 4G model and a stereo bluetooth headset. This would mean I'd have the tablet with me all the time (I borrowed my wife's Kindle Fire and confirmed it fits in my pants pocket), although calls might be a bit inconvenient if I don't have the headset handy. That is a dual-core tablet, and at this time, I don't know of many things in the Android market that I would need more than that to do.

Solution A runs around $800-$900, while solution B runs around $500-$600. So is Solution A worth the extra $300-$400 and the occasional inconvenience? Anything you know about any of the mentioned devices I might want to be aware of?

Thanks in advance!
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The number of seed-stage fundings is outpacing series A fundings.

Can someone explain to me how this could possibly ever not be the case? Even if 99% of seed-funded companies go on to raise a series A, that's still "seed-stage fundings outpacing series A fundings".

Maybe I'm not understanding what Schonfeld wrote here?
I don't understand how such thing could be on the front page of Hacker News - this is ridiculous. It's sooo hardcore to browse the web without an adblocker... and survive. I'm sorry, but this is not what a site like HN should be about...