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The same government forces that protect a company's IP protect employees in a union.

Many times, companies can't automate certain jobs (not just in the US) because it would mean one less job for a person and the wages are artificially inflated.

Wages are usually high because of scarcity (IE: not anyone can do it). Unions, like copyright, allow workers that would normally get paid $8/10 to get $20-30 an hour because of government sanctions.

However, many people here on HN hate copyright but are pro-union. Doesn't really make any sense.
The AA Eneloop (the low-discharge formulation you mention from Sanyo) was tested by an obsessive at amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/review/R2QVW9U1ISXVGV/ref=cm_cr_dp_per...) and found to have about 2100 mA-h of capacity. If you take the NiMh voltage (per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AA_battery) to be 1.25, then a simple conversion yields:

2100 mA*h = 2.1 A*h
=>
1.25*2.1 V*A*h = 2.63 W*h = 9,450 W*s [3600 s per h]

I.e., about 9500 joules. This is on par with the Duracell and Energizer results in TFA. I found this encouraging.

This conversion does not take into account the drop in voltage that TFA did take into account, but that the above conversion did not (I assumed 1.25V throughout). But even if it ramped down uniformly from 1.25V to 0V, this would only cut power by a factor of two (and that's very much a worst case).
I'm really excited about the potential for personal 3D printing. One thing I wonder, though, is how much would actually be made that way. It seems like economies of scale are such that the current model is more efficient for most products.

You still need the raw materials and the energy to construct the object. Wouldn't large factories specialized for certain products be able to produce them faster, cheaper, and in larger quantities, and by such a margin that doing so and then shipping them still requires fewer resources than everyone individually printing their own?

They're really cool for prototyping or in certain niches, but I can't imagine it taking over all manufacturing.
I'm surprised Trello doesn't support IE8. IE8 is the most IE popular browser for now, and that won't change very fast. IE10 might be the first break in IE legacy we'll see, with it's auto-update feature (thanks Chrome).

Google has announced to support the current version of 4 popular browsers and the previous version, and we've adopted that as our policy as well. I guess Trello has the luxury to be able to not support IE8, you lucky bastards ;)
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Good point, but if you're too cool to keep receipts, you're probably being a cowboy in other areas of business.
A resume is helpful, but reputation is paramount. Their decision reflects an already existing pattern:

code -> git repository

design -> portfolio

investment analysis -> written opinion & prediction
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There are open-sourced cars: http://www.local-motors.com/

I've driven one! http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshu/5741482536/in/set-7215762... ... same car that was on top gear, too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn6rvj08__0
We have some Python code kicking around, but it hasn't penetrated our codebase very much, and in fact has never made itself integral. We have one very small yet important tool that had an implementation in Python but it was eventually rewritten. While has always been a very important tool, it was never a service. We've never (to the best of my knowledge) had Python in any of our server code, it just hasn't come to pass.

As for Ruby, I think the closest we came was a Redmine install. I don't have enough experience with Ruby to pass any judgments, but to me it feels like a poor compromise between some other languages. I don't think I'd mind replacing our use of PHP with it but it would be a harder sell than I would be in for and it simply wouldn't be worth it, considering the value of homogeneity within the existing PHP projects (or alternatively, the cost of rewrites.) Besides, I see no reason to avoid Perl here, virtually all of the PHP is database driven... DBI is just phenomenal.

Even though we're willing to take on another language it still must be justified. I suppose I have to answer the real question now. My answer is: I don't know about 'progression' (there's certainly a discontinuity) but I think Perl 6 is a natural evolution of Perl—not specifically Perl 5, but a truly 100% organic product of Perl culture. It also has some specific enhancements that solve real problems I have identified in our code which wouldn't be possible without a break of some kind.
Better still to spend most of your time making amazing things and then just enough time promoting them so as to generate a bit of notoriety.

Jeremy Ashkenas, Yehuda Katz, and Zed Shaw each build great things and give them away to the community. They also blog about these great things and they show up here on Hacker News to encourage discussion of their work.
The other day when I cancelled my cable but kept my internet, the first thing the service rep asked was 'Oh! So you do a lot of streaming then?'. I shrugged off the question but thought it was revealing. Cord cutters are growing in number and they know it.

p.s. article up-voted on it's own merits and not because the submitter is my cousin. (What up cuz')
So, I am forbidden from giving you money so that you could purchase a car.

However, I am allowed to gift you the whole car.
I don't agree. I do think that designers are undervalued by a lot of people, but I don't think that they are more important than programmers. Especially when you factor in supply and demand- it's my perception (though I have nothing more than anecdotal evidence to back it up) that there are more designers looking for work than programmers, thus, the programmers you have are more valuable to you.

It was interesting to see the section on "programmers as designers", though. I was recently making an HTML5 app and web site to accompany it (http://www.taxono.my), and had to make up the design as I went along. I have no idea if it really looks good from a design perspective, but I couldn't justify bringing a designer in, so I suppose I am just as guilty of undervaluing designers as others are.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee

In particular read the section on Super PACs.
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I'm more optimistic - Apple doesn't have a monopoly on the software stack like Microsoft did with Windows.

Competition between Android, iOS and Windows Phone already seems to be spurring a race towards openness.
NiMh cells drop less gradually than alkaline; they tend to be nominally 1.2V for the entire useful lifetime of the cell. Just put a NiMH in an old device with a battery meter and watch it say 80% the whole time...
Unions are a voluntary arrangement, copyright is not.

Please do not address the "HN Hivemind", that has a strong tendency to be a straw man argument that does not really address any specific points, or anyone.
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Depends on the scale of the project. Something small, sure. But if it's a 6-month project, it's unreasonable (should do deposit/retainer along with regular payments).
We're still trying to find the balance of local and cloud. Desktop apps were great in the 90s because they leverage the local machine's speed and hardware (there weren't any mp3 or jukebox webapps in the 90s, games etc).

But as the browser and web got more powerful and we started moving around more and having more computers (work, laptop, home) the centrality of "the cloud" because a selling point and for many applications the "local power" of the desktop was less important.

Now however we're seeing new constraints play a role.

On mobile, again power in some cases is a bit limited, we have more data/sensors to play with and HTML hasn't caught up to complicated swipe interfaces too well yet. We have location and accelerometer sensors that haven't been too well integrated yet. And your phone is always with you. So we're seeing a swing to cloud data back local apps again. The 3 mobile apps I use the most are google reader (the new site layout is space wasteful in a browser on my netbook, good luck having fun reading on a mobile browser), a movie player and a music player. On my desktop I'm just as likely to use grooveshark or some other streaming service, but with still expensive mobile bandwidth having "locally cached" mp3s wins out over streaming.

If we want to move this back all onto the web, we need an html6 that supports swipe, mobile app like layout, local storage (I know, html5 draft kinda has this... ish)

It's all about device constraints and what is available.

This is just a signal we need to develop the browser some more if we again want it to be the platform of choice in this new space.
Well first of all: kudos!

Secondly, I'm very glad to be corrected regarding madvertise as my European requests are on par with American requests yet my European fill rate has been horrible. Coupled with reading your blog and knowing that you used madvertise, I thought your "read phone state and identity" security permission was a madvertise requirement. (I meant intrusive as in security permissions, not screen space.) Again, very glad to be wrong. Apologies.

One of the things I'm enjoying about Android development is getting a chance to do it all. Artwork takes significantly longer than programming. Even loading the end product onto a couple of app stores can exceed total programming time. I am really enjoying getting to know Blender better.
I presume you'd still need to pay for the cost of materials.

Even if you had a printer that could machine whatever you wanted, and the plans were available for free (and not licensed to the printer as software,) then you'd still need to pay for a rather large amount of steel, plastic, rubber, copper and all the other materials that go into the manufacture of a car.
But pretty much anything anybody makes these days has a web presence. In the case of most hobby projects, there are at least pictures on flickr. Commercial projects have web presences. For me, I could say "I did version 1.0 of the software for this: http://www.lumenera.com/products/surveillance-cameras/le175c...
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Search based vs. predefined navigation, 2-0
This would make for a hugely successful phone app. Well, if you added some kind of animal theme to it too. Bears...trying to find their bear cubs. (sorry, afternoon slump)
Terrifyingly real robot baby just wants a hug, and human flesh
Ended up with 1 "Poor", several "Perfects" and mostly "Very Good" and an 8.7 overall score. Very addictive game and well put together. I may have overlooked, but is the source available? I probably should of just checked "View Source".
What you'll be able to download real soon, if not already, are LEGO blocks. I wonder what LEGO is planning to do about it.
Shuttleworth mentioned voice commands. That seems suitable for those who prefer not to type.
Whilst SPDY is nice, the compression possible using SDCH is a game changer. Given the amount of disk space on machines it should be possible to send quite large dictionaries to browsers.

For example, I've been experimenting with the Bentley/McIlroy compression algorithm and I can easily (no effort at all) compress the BBC News web site by 90% (i.e. to 10% of its original size).
I suspect that many of those minutes are playing Angry Birds or minesweeper. While it might cut into Facebook gaming time, I don't think it really is competition for what most of us see the web as providing.

It really is all very temporary anyways. Native apps took off because the web wasn't ready for mobile (most sites were horrendous, etc). I am finding more and more sites offering up excellent mobile experiences that rival or exceed what their parallel native apps offer. Just a few stories away from this the fogcreek crew say "Apps provide things we can’t get out of the web: better speed, offline support, smooth animations, push notifications, and a native look and feel". Of those the only item that legitimately is an advantage of native apps is look and feel.
This is a pretty bold premise; I think mobile web consumption probably represents a pretty large fraction of those minutes. Having a web app that works well both for desktop and mobile seems more important than a native mobile app, to me.
In SF, I'm very happy with http://sonic.net/ as a service and as a company.
I wouldn't cash your chips in yet. We don't really know what's possible in the realm of personal manufacturing. Theoretically, if it costs a certain amount of materials and energy to produce something, producing it in a smaller factory will cost the same but require more fine grained control of the instruments. I don't think that makes it impossible, just challenging and interesting.

Also, there is a hidden cost to re-tooling factories for new products that goes away if you can create a factory that can produce anything with the same tools, so you can save there as well.
Why does it have to be apps?

The web experience on mobile devices is improving all the time. With all major smartphone platforms now sporting WebKit browsers, CSS3 media queries and HTML5 are widely supported in the mobile space. That enables us to create sites with one markup that function well for all screen sizes.

There isn't as much pizazz on the web as can be done with apps, but given the expense of effectively writing the same app three times (one for web, one for Android, one for iOS) responsive techniques in web design can make the web option a lot more cost effective than the alternative.
MySQL with TokuDB handles write-heavy OLTP workloads well, even with multiple complicated indexes. Since it uses Fractal Tree indexing, writes are so fast that locks aren't held long enough for this to become a problem.
If you have an Apple Magic Mouse that won't run on cheap batteries, yes.
> The point is that greed is dependable and stable. If you can depend on something that won't ruin the economy or society

That statement shows exactly why "libertarianism" and all associated doctrines are built on a solid foundation of ignorance of human nature. There's nothing you could argue, really, when the other party is not even aware of the basic axioms.
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I thought it was odd too that they'd put this in an LTS release, however it's not a done deal yet:

Landing in 12.04 LTS is gated on more widespread testing. You can of course try this out from a PPA or branch the code in Launchpad (you will need these two branches). Or dig deeper with blogs on the topic from Ted Gould, Olli Ries and Gord Allott. Welcome to 2012 everybody!

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/939
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I have only two options but am not as lucky as you, 1mbit DSL and Satellite internet which has very high latency and a very low (as in quantity) daily download limit.

I chose DSL because it is better all around but complaining about a $40/month bill for those speeds seems silly to me because that is already $20/month less than my 1mbit connection.
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Hey!

Me and a friend from Hacker news have been working on a Rails app to help people accomplish life changes that they want to make.

It will be a fully integrated facebook app that allows users to set life-goals for themselves, and collaborate with others' sharing the same.

Its second purpose is to facilitate the discovery of sweet challenges that others' are doing!

We're a couple of web engineers, and although I flatter myself in thinking that I can layout an interface that's somewhat nice to use, visual design is still a total PITA, and a logo would be hopeless. Can you do it?

Commit as much as little as you want to, just follow through on what you do commit to. We're a relaxed bunch, and just don't want our site to look to shitty.. :-)

Original thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3476891

Thanks a million
--Peter
Comparing "web sites" at large to "mobile apps" is an unfair comparison.
In addition to being able to get online through native mobile apps, smart phones also count for page views on regular sites as much as any desktop does.
Also, most serious web app programmers out there also have a mobile version of their web site available, so I don't buy the whole give-up-on-standard-web-apps-and-go-for-native-mobile-apps argument.
However, no one can deny the strong trend toward mobile computing.
The Right to Read by Richard Stallman.
After reading the brief history of this word, I think "discoverability" is a more recognized and less ambiguous term (albeit not as elegant).

Also, I think if the HUD is added to, rather than replaces, the menus, then the HUD has the potential to significantly increase discoverability.
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So, basically, that's transparency. It's good, but it's not the whole solution.

The other part is stopping money from polluting politics.
I wonder how mobile web fits into this. Sure, native apps are great, but I'd much prefer to not need to switch between a bunch of native apps and just use my phone's web browser.

Mobile web apps like Facebook prove that you can build a non-trivial app that runs in a web browser and have the experience be so good that people don't even care about the native app version (at least everyone I know just uses Facebook right from their mobile web browser).

A good domain name is still valuable. This is more true especially as more access to phone hardware gets opened up to JavaScript APIs right from the browser. You just can't beat making a change to your app on your server and having all your users get new versions the next time they visit. It's way better than waiting weeks for Apple to review and approve your changes.
The line between design and implementation is a blurry one in all fields. In some cultures, the art is the craft.
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I'm another instance of a person that actively chose to go to DSL over Comcast, even though I took a substantial speed cut (at my old place, I had 35/35 FiOS, and I switched to 7mb/800kb DSL). The price between the two services was the same ($50), but it was that significant for me to not use Comcast.

And now, I'm pushing my new apartment complex to switch over to FiOS, since I'm literally 1.1 miles away from my old house, as the Google Maps suggests.

Long story short: I chose 1/5th my old connection speeds to avoid Comcast.
It would be nice if the first option was always selected by default.
The funny thing is that I (and other people) (would) pay more for clothes without logos on them.
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I'm also wondering the same thing, and it's part of the reason that the price of the commercial versions has kept me at bay. The printrbot if delivered (all signs currently point to a yes, if a bit of a delay because of the massive demand that was entirely unexpected by the founder). The cost put it right in line with what I could afford at the time and the quality in all the beta prints seems to be on par with some of the higher quality commercial printers like the MakerBots. I love the dual extruder on the replicator but it's not something I think is needed for someone who is just starting out with it as a hobbiest that might want to expand into designing something to sell. I likely see myself as using it to build custom project boxes and things since I don't have a CNC router/mill to do it out of wood currently.

Eventually if I get good enough I plan on trying to make small toys for my niece and nephew and possible model train pieces.
I think we're still far, far from an endgame, and the MPAA and the like will be trying probably ever more under-the-table moves, as they are now quite aware of the number of eyes (and the capital behind some of those eyes) that are glaring at them.

Frankly, firing Dodd would do nothing. Dismantling the MPAA, the RIAA, BREIN, et al would be a good first step. Next is helping along the "Megabox" idea to come to fruition (maybe Last.fm or some new player will take up that baton) and see if we can't just pummel the Big COntent dinosaurs into a gristled, historical footnote.
"In the absence of this forcing mechanism human nature takes over and most students fail miserably at the time management aspect of online classes."

But does this have to be the case? In the current educational environment, I would agree that a number of students benefit from being made to attend class. The question is if this is just a result of human nature, or something else. Where that something else could be having students go to college when they are not ready for it, or high schools and earlier killing students intrinsic desire to learn, or some other reason.
Paul, what are your thoughts on premium domain pricing? Are the days of super premium prices over?
Even if you know about a feature you use occasionally, you may not know that feature by name, so being able to drill-down to an obscure program or command by topic is important - especially when you have things like a scanner program name frickin' "Xine", etc.

And considering the announcement here is a road to create a searchable-not-discoverable interface on every individual gui, it seems quite like the project will be something of a train-wreck.

Further, there's no great contradiction between discoverable interfaces and searchable interface. The more "pedestrian" Windows 7 interface also allows one to discover easily as well as google-instant style search.
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Function follows form in this case. If the centerpiece action is choosing who you'd bang, count on more users having expectations of sex on the first date -- expectations their date might not share, because it's not clear if that's what this site is about. Either it's a dating site or it's a casual hookups site; choose one to focus on, and own it.

From your About: "I Would Bang you is free. Always. And ad free." -- how will you make money? Is this a startup, or just a really clever way to find someone to bang you?
Also you're confusing "the internet" with "the web" I think. Most mobile apps are internet backed. Even the games these days all tie into "openfient" for global scoreboarding and acheivment tracking. And most big sites like google reader and facebook offer a mobile app for a better user experience but all the data comes from the internet.

The internet is going now where and this won't hurt it at all.

As for the web, the subset of the internet that is about passing webpages around? Well, maybe it will be bad for it. And possibly that's not a bad thing. There are pros and cons.
If that wire is Frontier, they may be able to provide the apartment complex with FiOS for free to the apartment complex, under the hope that they'll get customers. That's what a representative told me when I asked what it would take to get FiOS at my place, considering my parts of Redmond is well wired with FiOS. YMMV
We're still trying to find the balance of local and cloud.

History tells us that this "balance" is a mirage. It's a see-saw with a foundation based on thick vs. thin clients, i.e. where the horsepower is located.
I prefer web services that link software on various apps across various devices which cache and sync content. The best example is probably Kindle which has a hardware device, various mobile apps and web based reader.
Pretty impressive that this all happens with only one media query (two, really, but the second is for print), and that's just for the high-res images.