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thanks for letting me know, and i appreciate your kind words. When HN pages started to load slow - "slowban" - i guess it was a "big T" for "time to go" :) for me which i didn't recognize.

> for no apparent reason

When i downvoted several PG supporters and upvoted several opponents - zedshaw and the likes - in the yesterday's "Trolls" thread it seems it was the last drop :)
By the way, is your emulator VirtualBox by any chance? If so, is there any extra work to get the Linux into full-screen (aside from having to install VirtualBox Guest Tools)?
It's simple - universal construction kits don't do well in commercials targeted at children.

The very ad he's mentioning targets parents not children. Marketing for toys used to be targeted at parents.

But not anymore - there are cartoon TV stations airing all day, filled with commercials for shitty toys. Then the child sees these toys in stores and starts crying. Parent gives up and buys them. End of story.
Here is a concept video from Google that indirectly shows some context for how the landing strip and QR codes might be used: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOWhu_aa9kM
Sometimes the person dispensing the advice isn't right. I've heard this from people who were running IE 7, after all. Using IE 7 is a big enough problem in itself.
Key infrastructure systems of 3 US cities Under Attack By Hackers
Christmas present score! Now I have a Christmas present idea for my wife to compliment the far-too-functional present already got her!
Hi, i'm one of the founders of Postmates. We just launched Postmates but in the last 3 month we did over 1,000 closed beta deliveries in San Francisco. We created this infographic to share some of the insights with you. It would be great to get your feedback!
Or even a Hummer H2: based on a pickup truck, and without the ground clearance and other off road capabilities of the original Hummer, but still cashing in on the reputation of the original with a premium price.
To be clear, it works because X[Y] is a synonym for * (X + Y)

Since addition is commutative, * (X + Y) can be rewritten as * (Y + X) which is a synonym for... Y[X]
Ah, good point.

I was thinking that if you are bothering to ship up the feedstock why not just ship the spare parts themselves? But you are right, this would reduce the total mass they needed to lift to orbit.
Love the animation. Congrats guys.
I disagree. I think, with many of the new sets, a whole class of new pieces were explored.

As a kid, the only cars I really remember were the ones with the small base (3x4 with an elevated segment for the tiny wheels). When I rediscovered legos, I noticed that many sets have larger base plates (for larger vehicles) -- width 6 stubs.

And the pick-a-brick are surprisingly deep in terms of shapes and sizes (I definitely don't remember the curved translucent pieces designed to emulate glass).
Hasn't this always been the case... the marketing influence, I mean? I've gone to the Lego store in my town. You can still assemble a nice set outside of the movie tie-in stuff.

Now, whether you can get you kids to think that's cooler or not? That's the real problem.

IIRC, Lego was on verge of bankruptcy in the early 2000's and had to figure out a way to get kids to keep buying. We're witnessing the same type of turnaround Apple had. We snort at this one, though, because we've constructed memories of childhood that remove the marketing we now see as adults.
Be very careful with screwing with your sleep cycle. Our bodies and to some extent our minds are hardwired to depend on the natural rhythm caused by daylight/night-time. Obviously this is pretty easy to mess with thanks to artificial light and the cross-over of light spectrums.

There are chemicals in our brains which are only produced by certain rhythms, not to mention the need for sunlight and vitamin D. Being especially hard on your body can be detrimental to your long-term health and when we sleep is almost certainly as important as how much sleep we get.

I write this as someone who has a very tough time on both counts and is seriously envious of his wife who gets good sleep at the drop of a hat.
> I don't understand why people get so caught up in something they literally had nothing to do with other than giving their money away to achieve.

They get caught up because they gave away their money. It's a matter of opportunity cost and rationalization at some level. Because these platforms are usually non-cross-compatible, "buying into" a specific platform entails a commitment of irreplaceable capital. When I was a kid, my parents got me a Super NES. Regardless of where you stand on Sega Genesis -vs- SNES, you were sure to defend the system you had, because, well, it's the one you have.

If you've invested years upon years of time and money in a particular pursuit, it seems natural to want to defend it.
I'm going back and re-reading some of the rest of the DF blog with that voiceover... brilliant.
The X is difficult. It will be changed in the next front end push.

For Flickr that is a very fair point, we need a way to link to the original Flickr URL. That is a UX oversight we need to resolve.

Where are you seeing "Reset Tawlk?"
Hmmmm.... I wonder how other browser vendors are able to pull it off then?

This answer doesn't seem to carry much weight if Firefox and Chrome can do these things and still remain secure.
Of course you have no god-given anything, that's ridiculous. And so is the concept of rights.

But you do have a reasonable expectation as a citizen of a country that your common tax/output funded currency will be available to you on the same terms it is to others. Otherwise, why would you contribute to/use it?

This is already not the case in most places as all lending is done through predatory monopolies with privileged access to the central bank, and a central bank financed via government subsidy but outside of government (the people's) control.

Already we've got a toxic system that's not of much use to the people who pay for it.
Relying on GPS or any external source of navigational data is risky. I cannot believe the vehicle didn't have working inertial navigation that would clearly indicate the GPS was off by quite a lot.

Simple rule - if you have no contact with home and your GPS says you are a couple hundred miles away from where your inertial navigation, your compass and all visual cues (if cruise missiles have it, so should this bird) tell you should be, something is definitely fishy and you should self destruct.

Spoofing GPS signals is an interesting idea, but falling for them continues to be unacceptable for a UAV full of very sensitive information.
This is really really really boring.

Yes LEGO make LEGO "sets" that make a specific model. They also make a ton of generic building sets which teach you a ton of stuff. They even have walls of bricks in the shops where you can pick and choose which individual bricks you need.

If you don't like the specific building sets, don't buy those ones.

Every so often some people start moaning about how Lego is not the same as it was in their day. Stop whining.

(I've been a massive Lego fan for the last 30 years).

Oh and AWESOME NEWS! New DC sets coming in January! Now we can have Batman Lego sets again!!!!!
I am saying nothing of the sort. I'm not defending the sensationalist headline.

All I'm saying is that if an astronaut bumps into a plastic clip or something, why not print off a new one? Or maybe the astronaut just wants a new clip? 3d printers can be small as hell, it seems like something that could be very useful to have up there.
Some interesting answers on how people backup their website
I'm not sure if you're being humorous but if not then this over-analysis of the analogy doesn't really serve any useful purpose.

For all intents and purposes Mercedes=quality+luxury while Honda=cheapy+functional and this was the primary meaning behind the analogy utilized in Siegler's article.
Kuvva- wallpaper service that streams curated selections to your desktop
Here are some rational reasons why consumers might publicly and self-interestedly advocate for products they have already purchased:

1) If the product maintains a good reputation, early adopters will have been seen to have good taste or perception, which is socially valuable.

2) If you have developed expertise in a product that grows in popularity, you have the potential to be a resource to late adopters. Whether that potential is exercised or not, it represents a certain amount of social, and in some cases professional, capital.

3) If your product becomes disfavored, it may become unsupported. This means that you likely have a shorter usable lifetime for the device, fewer support options (official, 3rd party, and community), and fewer future options for peripherals and software. Each of these network-value losses means less personal wealth.

Also, there's some evidence (see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_effect) that people often overvalue past purchases even beyond the level that rational assessment would indicate.
Even the email was funny. Great five dollar experience all the way around.
That's incredibly fast for the PTO.
Is Riak Core covered?
This is Hacker News. Can we please eschew blog posts like these? Yes, it gets the blood boiling in a satisfying manner. But it is also shallow, plays on predispositions, and always -- always -- leads to more heat than light.
Anonymous targets indefinite detention bill
Yeah, I would have linked to that, but it seems to have been overloaded at the time.
I don't really understand what you're trying to say. Your first two statements are true, but not related to the posts we are discussing. Your second two points actually agree with MG's point.

For people who prefer the iPhone the UI-responsiveness isn't some arbitrary line in the sand, it is what they judge to be important (one of the things). And MG's whole point is that some people don't find this important and will probably love the Galaxy Nexus, and that is fine. Josh is the one getting huffy.
Sure, but being better than a convicted monopoly abuser isn't a badge of honor ;)
I think you're both right. I couldn't come up with any real deal-breakers, either. I've been thinking of working from home a couple of days a week, but I thought maybe I wasn't thinking it through. I'm going to raise you 2020 though.
this sounds odd. other reports said that the final landing for these drones is done with a local, direct link (which was a possible candidate for how it was hacked), but this article implies (if i am reading it right) that by faking GPS it was misled into thinking it was landing in its normal place.

also, in the linked article it says that the underbelly was damaged because the altitudes differed by a few metres, but gps doesn't offer that kind of vertical resolution (as far as i know, particularly not from something that cannot sit in one place and integrate over time. this is (partly) why GPS is not used for landing - it's simply not precise enough).

perhaps the gps was spoofed, but it was only part of something more complex? like enabling the radio control for landing because the drone thought it was near the airfield?

[edit] this seems to be the original source that mentions direct landing control, although i've never seen that site before (am pretty sure i read it on the bbc or guardian): http://www.moonofalabama.org/2011/12/how-iran-probably-acqui...
>why don't you just code a native app?

It sounds like that's exactly what they did,

They just hosted most of the code on a server. It's kind of like the "native" iOS apps that just use a webview component to display a web app. Sticking with IE6 just means you have all the hassle of a native app (like needing to make sure IE6 gets installed and stays installed on every machine) with none of the benefits.
I'm sorry, but there is nothing that is so compellingly 'Instant' about 'Instant' that it begs my $3/month ($36/year) for me to use it.

As it stands now, if I want to buy something, I have several options. Use paypal, wepay, dwolla (regular) or some other similar provider, use a credit card, use a debit card, use cash, get someone else to buy it for me. None of which costs me anything to do the transaction.

Sure, there is some noise about charging for debit cards, but that noise turned into massive backlash, so I don't think that'll happen anytime soon. Plus, there are still other options, like another bank with a debt card that doesn't cost me anything.

Sure, a credit card has a fee associated with it and I probably end up paying that fee either in the price of the item I'm buying or directly. But at this point, is the total sum of those fees >$3/month? Maybe, but who really cares anymore? There is a cost to doing business and it can't be entirely free. That said, I'm going to support companies, like WePay, who are at least trying to put a good customer service experience on things and keeping their fees straightforward and relatively low.

I can see how Dwolla is trying to disrupt the whole industry. I like that and I sure believe that it needs to happen. The credit card companies are essentially just another evil empire. ;-) That said, I don't think 'Instant' is the right product for this disruption. It isn't being marketed correctly at all. The documentation is missing from their website and the whole $500 thing seems like a gimmick that is only going to get them into a lot of fraud trouble.
Resistive touch screen.

I have 2 cheap tablets with resistive touch screens for app testing in-house, and I despise them. I actually wont use them for testing because my games are way too frustrating to play if you have to "press" to make things happen. I am not a fan. At all.

Plus, when getting an Android Tablet, you may want to see if it has the Android Market. Sure you can get alternative markets, the Amazon App Store, but they don't have the same volume of apps as the Android Market.

I recently talked my sister out of getting a resistive touch screen tablet for her young daughter to play with. I showed her mine and she agreed that it would turn into a headache rather than a fun toy.

All I'm saying is, try a resistive touch screen tablet somewhere before you decide to buy to decide if it's really something you want.
We need more brain surgeons. We also need more welders.

Why am I not simultaneously a brain surgeon and a welder? Baffling stuff!
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New method for enhancing thermal conductivity could cool computer chips
BS @ trend.

Go back 50 years and it was dolls and toy guns. Nothing has changed, boys still like building and destroying, and girls still like caring about things and craft things.

You can try all you want to make boys play with dolls, and girls play at killing each other, but they won't in general, because it's not in their biological makeup to do so.
"There's a reason education sucks, and…it will never, ever, ever be fixed."
Any patent LEGO might have claimed on the basic brick design must have expired long ago.

MegaBlocks makes bricks that are advertised as compatible with LEGO bricks, but in my experience the tolerance is just a little bit off.
Better by what criterion?
Details do matter. On this we can all agree. So why is this quote so hard to understand?

Oh, it was said by people you don't agree with, on a polarized topic, and responded to with class. Shades of gray indeed.
They did, and later reached some kind of settlement.

It should still count as a copyright strike under hadopi.
Ahh Tente! Brings back memories. I thought that Tente had more specialized pieces than Lego.
Thanks for the feedback, that's definitely in the plans, for building out basically a cdn where you can directly link to the files. I just need to figure out how that works with scripts that require css, images, etc.
I have been wondering how to advertise private servers, yet take advantage of the Cloud buzzword in my advertising. jealous
Employee Holiday Entitlement 
Enjoy the holidays while you can, because if you’re a Canadian chances are that you won’t be having a lot of time off work in the coming year.
This is the joke of the century. LOL
Or, more reasonably:

One one side, apple not evil but a capitalist corporation, on the other side, google not evil but a capitalist corporation.

I can't think of a good argument why either company is "evil".
Under apartheid, black people were not allowed to be citizens. They were not allowed in Parliament. They were not allowed to vote. Which makes your claim of Israeli apartheid is overblown to the point of being ridiculous. Muslims, Christians, Jews, black people, white people, and Arabs can all vote. Everyone can sit in Parliament, as Muslim Arab Israelis have and currently do. Non-Jews can still be citizens, and citizens are not separated into different legal classes like under the South African apartheid system. Back your argument up with something more concrete than your handwavey "all sorts of ways," or don't make it at all.

A closer analogue to Israeli discrimination based on religion is America's race- and class-based discrimination. As one example among the hundreds available, prison sentences are many times higher for crack cocaine abuses than pure cocaine abuses -- because the American underpriveleged (who are often minorities) are more likely to use crack, and the American wealthy (who are often white) are more likely to use pure cocaine. The Israeli legal system inarguably has systemic bias, but it's much closer to American legal systemic bias than South African apartheid.
I really like what you've done here, and have actually just found several groups/meetups I'd like to check out.

I agree with jqueryin on most of his/her points, especially point 6. Opening up with: "Here's a couple groups right nearby!" would be great!

I'd love the ability to search or filter on keywords. My area pulled up about 200 tech groups (I assume SF/NYC would be worse) and it would be great to be able to narrow that down using keywords/tags or even a search. Most of the group names have keywords in them: Java, Ruby, Marketing, Entrepreneur, etc... so you should be able to build a list of keywords with group counts next to them with checkboxes or something, so I can uncheck Ruby/Rails and check Java or whatever my interests are.

I really like this site, but I think promoting it might be tough, since I keep ending up on Meetup.com, so sharing your site around is odd for me.
I do think Josh Toposkly overreacted. MG's analogy was not great either, it needed a couple of caveats (see next para). But, Just because a Mercedes is being compared to a Honda doesn't mean that there's some sort of a class issue at stake.

Honda is a fantastic engineering company. In terms of drivetrain technology they are right up there with the very best (for lower capacity engines, I'd say they are better than Mercedes, but I digress). However, Mercedes (especially till the early nineties) was about attention to detail, not just the drivetrain, but each and every part that went in, was famously "over-engineered". If I may, my interpretation of the analogy:

a. Honda's focus is on the engineering (drivetrain to be specific), they are willing to do an average (nothing special, but not bad) job for the rest of the package. That includes average interiors, average ride quality, average styling etc.

b. Mercedes tries (or did try) to do a stellar job in each of those categories listed above.

So, if Android is Google's engineering, Google let's Samsung get away with a plasticky phone (I have used the Galaxy nexus for an hour and a half today). Yes, even now the feel of the phone in one's hand is not even comparable to the iPhone 4.

But the analogy falls flat because the Galaxy Nexus is more expensive on contract than the iPhone. Price matters, the pricing helps Mercedes devote resources to develop the products the way they do.

Gruber, got this wrong too. His own quote "You either see it or you don’t. If you don’t, that’s cool, enjoy your Nexus. " is correct, but it's correct on it's own, not with MGs quote.
Thanks! :)

I don't really care if working for Google increases my market value, since I'm not sure I would want to leave Google once there. So it makes sense to me to get salary sorted out now, and then move to Google. If I passed the interview once I can probably do it again.

The reality is, if I didn't have to move, I would have accepted Google's offer instantly. But New York is expensive, and moving is a huge pain, and so the value isn't there to make me think, "yes, I must do this". I don't want to coordinate movers and look for apartments; I want to ride my bike and write software.

(Something that was strange about the Google negotiation process was that they only tried to match Amazon's Seattle offer; they never asked me what I wanted in order to move to New York. Take it or leave it, not negotiable. So if I can get what Google offered me from my current employer, it works out better for me in the short term.)

Edit: as it turns out, my current employer "can't" match my offer at Google. So, I'm moving to New York :)
You just upload a new release, the same way you add a new project. When a release is uploaded, the back-end figures out if it's a new project or a new release and processes it appropriately.

EDIT: And thanks for your feedback.
Things happen in cycles. Right now 'apps' are pretty hot.

I don't think desktop apps are going anywhere any time soon. Some things are not easily (or well) translated to web versions for various reasons (performance, graphics, offline access requirements, etc).
Your Brain Knows What it Wants to Do, You Need Only Listen to It
I never did get that quote. After all, that's what car factories do...

Oh well, I guess it was a shit movie to begin with.
we've constructed memories of childhood that remove the marketing we now see as adults

You're telling me this: http://www.innovationinpractice.com/.a/6a00e54ef4f3768834013...

Is a piece of marketing? Because that & similar pieces was 95% of what I used.
The Adult companies are opposed (and boycotting) as they already have established brands. The Xtian groups are opposed due to it validating pornography (when they shouldn't be, easier filters). The mainstream companies are opposed as the 'prevent registration for $100/yr is a bleedingly obvious protection racket to avoid higher lawyers fees for disputes.

This decision was good for nobody except ICANN, its associates, and those behind the registry.

Wait for gTLDs in April 2012 to completely distort people's concepts of the www, make the lawyers happy, and yes, break some of my regexen ;)
Yeah, they sorta work, but even my 4yo can immediately tell a mega block from a real Lego. They've all been banished from the logo bin.
It looks like I'm just going to echo the sentiments of others on this thread, but I feel compelled to issue this warning:

Stay away. This "feature" could bankrupt even a respectable company. Do not trust your money to any company offering credit that cannot or will not provide a balance sheet to back it up.

Yes, I'm a competitor, but there's a very good reason my company did not and does not offer this service. We thought of it long ago, and long ago determined that even with small amounts of credit, the risk to the operator is astronomical.

Stay away, stay away, stay away.
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Hey that's really cool. I wasn't meaning to be insulting, if that's how you took my comment. I had this awesome dialog planned that would have resulted in deep insight all around but then the comment was downvoted to hell and I became flustered.