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Using Ubuntu 11.10 here but swapped out Unity for GNOME Shell. Works great for me; I prefer it over OS X, actually.
I wasn't aware this was a secret. I thought Apple were planning an ARM build of OS X for a while, or had at least been discussing it.

And what with iOS evolving as it is, they probably think a full port of OS X to ARM is kind of pointless now.
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Sorry if this sounds a bit ranty I recently inherited a really poorly done component based system at work.

This reeks of the fallacy that if I use method X really really poorly and I use method Y perfectly then obviously method Y is much better than method X. No you didn't discover that Y is better than X, what you found is good implementation beats bad implementation no matter how you assign the X and Y. So yeah, I am glad you found Y to be better than X, good for you. If only the rest of us were so lucky.
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> In any event, I honestly wish that Apple would maintain a larger presence in the FOSS community and put more effort into a more positive two way relationship.

With respect, I think that what you really mean is that you wish they would have a greater presence in the FSF-adherent "free" software community. Their credentials in the open-source world are pretty well burnished: Bonjour, Darwin, WebKit, LLVM and Clang, and so on. They do not, however, care much for the GPL, and I do not blame them.
In the legal world, it's not "useful arts" that would be in question, but "science" in this case.

"Useful arts" is in contrast to the "performing arts" and "fine arts" - it refers to practical skills, not what we talk about as art today.
FWIW, JavaScript is getting a Set type (and a Map as well). You can try them in Firefox Nightly.

JavaScript is also getting the ability to change property lookup behavior on objects using Proxy (available since Firefox 4).

Browsers are moving faster, which helps here... and for people using Node, you can use these features as soon as Node gets them.
> These women believe it's normal, natural ...

That's because it is natural.
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Almost all the ideas for webapps that I have had over the years have been discarded because I thought, or was told by people, that "no-one will pay money for that". No offense to Amy, but time-tracking is pretty much the canonical example of the app that "no-one will pay for".

So thank you, Amy, for proving me wrong.
Or maybe he will switch back. Like I did.
They can also be prevented by not using passwords such as "12345".
I made one with a hacksaw blade and no tuning arm a few years ago - could pick up a single nearby station (just about).

Have you looked into creating an earpiece/speaker? it's the "weak link" in such a basic setup.. always wondered if something could be cobbled together.
I cannot understand why there's so much discussion about SSL/TLS cert compromises, loads of speculation about Verizon's security issues and their CA operation, yet virtually no concern over this.

Trustwave may have taken steps to limit the risk of their action, but the fact remains that they gave a private company the ability to launch a perfect MITM attack - and they state that it is "common practice" amongst "many of our peers in the industry".

As mukyu notes, a corporation can easily do this today with an in-house CA, but that's visible to their users - Trustwave enabled them to have an invisible MITM, detectable only if someone collected certs inside the proxy and compared them with those outside, or used some form of certificate pinning. That's perfectly aligned with the goal of "Data Loss Prevention" - the customer wanted to catch employees stealing corporate data, and didn't want them to know that they were being spied on.

I'd argue that this behavior is much worse than simple sloppiness, because the CA is making a conscious business decision that puts the integrity of the PKI system at risk. And if what Trustwave says is true, with "many" other CAs offering the same product, it's unlikely that we can fix this by simply pulling certs out of the browser caches.
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> On a closing note, you say that JS is ridiculously powerful which leads me to believe that you feel using CS means sacrificing some of that power. Since CS translates directly into JS, I think you'll find this fear is unwarranted.

That alone is really not any evidence that CoffeeScript is as powerful as Javascript. Just because the target language exposes a particular feature does not mean that source language does.
The NLTK python lib is a great tool. I've been playing around with this recently and having a lot of fun. More recently I started looking at SCOTUS oral transcripts:

http://jarv.org/2012/02/a-text-analysis-of-supreme-court-ora...

The two articles here by the same author are interesting for folks who are interested in more about sentiment analysis

http://streamhacker.com/2010/05/10/text-classification-senti...
http://streamhacker.com/2010/06/16/text-classification-senti...
The leaked passwords http://pastebin.com/uaYDfCz0
Google did promise a plugin for Mac OS X too, and "soon" when they announced the IE one about a year ago
(http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/more-about-chrome-html-vide...) though there's been no sign of it since.

I doubt it's beyond their ability, particularly as someone's demonstrated that it can be made to work. I'm guessing though that they'd be generally happier if people on Mac OS X just used Chrome. There's less likely to be Safari users who are forced to use the browser due to IT department dictates or whatever other odd reason people use to justify IE.
How is "blatant discrimination" NOT a social-cultural issue that in a government...
Thanks in advance for your feedback!
Ynet.co.il - Israel's largest news website under attack by Arab hackers
2 years ago I rewrote rxvt in javascript. https://github.com/paddymul/rxvt-js .
I really hope that's a rough prototype where it's focusing on the features and not on the user interface.
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These guys are going to kick some serious ass. I just got my private beta invite - looking forward to use it asap.
I guess that's part of my problem with it. The care of a child is just as natural as the conception of a child.

Where do we draw the line? Am I aloud to post pictures of myself urinating? Because that's natural too.

Natural != appropriate to show the public.
The poster wrote "huge chunks", not "all".

I can give an example very close to home about gov't influence here in Hungary, and that is the tech/IT sector. A huge chunk of tech/IT SMBs are directly or indirectly living off government contracts, grants, gov't companies or companies that have been privatized but retain close ties to the gov't (and are dumb). A new thing here in Hungary is EU grants, which is the same, dumb money.

The first question I routinely get as an entrepreneur is "what grant did you win?". When I say "none" and that I'm trying to bootstrap off the market they think I'm crazy or lying. (Not kidding.) Also, most SMBs that I've come in contact with over over the last 3-5 years fit the above description well.

Without going into the details of the problems with money from the gov't or the EU, this effect precludes any kind of real R&D or innovation to take place around here. In fact the word "innovation" has been hijacked here in Hungary to mean "grant money". You have gov't officials saying "there's a lot of innovation in the IT sector" which means "there's a lot of grant money given out in the IT sector". Unfortunately there are no results to show for it, it's a cargo cult culture. The succesfull tech companies we do have (LogMeIn, Prezi, IndexTools, Graphisoft) are all companies that to my knowledge stayed the hell away from gov't money.
> It wasn’t just fancy HTML we had to build; it was a port of a
> graphic- and animation-intensive Flash app, with the polish
> intact,1 and it had to work on iOS. It had to work on IE7.
> It had to work on Android 2.1 on one of the clients’ phones.
> And we had six weeks. We did the maths and figured that at
> twelve hours a day, six days a week for six weeks, we might
> just sneak in.
> [...]
> There were also three levels of stakeholders above us, with
> different priorities, and constantly shifting (and always
> growing) specs cascading down from above as the site took shape.
>
> After some discussion with my ‘if I get hit by a truck’ backup
> developer, I decided to add CoffeeScript to this, despite no
> real experience with it.

Then you're a brave, brave man. After this intro, I fully expected to hear a disaster story of missed deadlines and feature cuts ... not a successful project and a Super Bowl launch.

I think it goes without saying that "on deadline" is probably not the best time to learn a brand new JavaScript dialect. I'm relieved to hear that it all turned out for the best.

You mention that you're thinking of adding an explicit validation step -- great idea. For CS & JS (which can be compiled and validated quickly), even better than having it run when you build is having it run every time you save the file in your text editor...
You're assuming you have access to cron on the machine that code is running. Lots and lots of websites are running on shared hosting, where there's no such thing as cron access.
He's not saying he thinks it is unconstitutional. He's saying that the US government can only grant copyright because the copyright clause carved out a right for them to do so, as copyright protections violate free speech and free expression and so without the specific exception provided by the copyright clause, they would have no way of passing copyright law without violating at least the first amendment.
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I never thought I'd actually agree with Facebook, and even most other instances of this censorship - but I do. These companies have every right to do whatever they want because it is theirs - not yours. You choose to give up those rights by using the service, and despite the fact that you do not agree with it, you said you did by signing up and agreeing with their terms. I'm not disillusioned by joining these services since I completely understand I have to play within their rules. I would expect the potential for backlash at any brick-and-mortar store if I wore a shirt with pictures of breastfeeding or a crude image, but if I did so, it would be under that guise. I would not, then, protest that store if they told me to leave.

If you want completely free speech then pay for a website and post all the pictures you want, but to waste your time protesting the rights of a company to say "I don't like these pictures on our servers and brand" is just a ridiculous waste of energy. They have rights just as much as you do but there is no reason they should bend to the will of a small majority of people who are mixing personal pictures with very public ones or who post pictures for shock effect or even out of sheer ignorance.
I switched back to 10.04 coz I found myself getting irritated while using unity. 10.xx were such good releases!
Another one of Israel's largest site is also currently under attack: http://calcalist.com
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Amazon also does not charge for inbound bandwidth. I'm not sure what you're getting at. They also had to do the comparison with the additional support package from Amazon to inflate the price to make their pricing model look more appealing.
I spend more on coffee in two days. People seem to think everything should be free. Wouldn't it be better if everything was simply affordable?
Actually I think they call it "feeding their children."
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On the other hand a company's customers can demand whatever they want of them as well. Perhaps saying "we deserve this right" is less correct than "we really want you to allow us to do this"
Nobody is trying to deny the right of Facebook to block what they want. They're trying to convince them - yes, through protest - to change their minds.
Have you ever visited expert's exchange? It's like the predecessor to StackExchange but you had to pay to get answers. Not even an adblocker and popup blocker would solve that problem.
Could be worse - if something works anywhere, the United States won't do it. Health care? How can we afford to keep everybody healthy when we have to fight bioterrorism?
Yeah, that's the kind of password people use on their luggage!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K95SXe3pZoY
I wonder if Apple is considering switching the AirPort/Time Capsule family to OS X; they're based on Marvell processors AFAIK.
Perhaps the author meant for those who know Ruby:

- @ for instance variables

- #{} interpolation

and Python:

- for comprehensions

- significant whitespace
This coming from a country where public urination might cause you to become a registered sex-offender[1]. The United States has a long tradition of enmity towards displays of sexuality or the human body.

People getting shot in the face or being thrown off the roof of a skyscraper is just wholesome fun for the whole family, though.

[1]http://www.economist.com/node/14164614
I need a developer wife :) Great advice!
I don't understand what is the problem.
I installed Ubuntu multiple times just to uninstall Gnome and install KDE as a first step after install. Never bothered to actually try KUbuntu.

Is this method of installing KDE still supported, or they are dropping support for KDE completely.
Sounds cool, but for a "web based" system, it's strange they have nothing to demo but screen shots and movies.
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I'm sure people understand that. I think their point is just to make sure Facebook are aware of how they feel on the subject. You have to remember, it's hard for individuals to get in contact with these big FaceLess companies without making their arguments public, that's why you see so much of this kind of thing these days.
So, it's idiotic because you personally don't feel it's a big deal?
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So YC is also doing post-YC stage investment?
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This is the perfect example of something that could be run on an always-connected, dual-core Atom machine (~$200) sitting in one's office. I don't understand the insistence on using a paid monthly service for something so simple. My crappy consumer router at home runs cron jobs.
We were actually part of the summer 2011 batch. As far as I am aware, YC don't do post-YC investments.
A depthcam? A webkinect? Streaming depth data over a binary WebSocket
This cannot be said enough. If you are in doubt of the truth of this post, look at Actor.uc.
They're just making Kubuntu more like Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Edubuntu, etc. All those other derivatives have been doing OK without official support.
"I believe a huge amount of programmers want to provide open source code to open source code projects, not for proprietary projects. Which is why GPL is such a popular licence."

I really wish developers would stop calling the GNU "free". If you are restricting the end user (IE: you can't use this in proprietary projects), it's not freedom.

The BSD license is true freedom.
"but other alternatives (for example, hiring a thousand engineers and building a thousand planes a year) would have found the same answer"

Before MacCready came along, there were a thousand (well, a large number) of engineers building a thousand planes a year. But because these attempts were disjoint, there were all making the same mistakes and were slow to learn from them.

The point of the article (as I understood it) is that when you're working towards a goal, you usually don't fully understand why that goal may be difficult to achieve -- what the real problems are. This is why is import to get early feedback about whether or not you're on the right track, and to adjust your attempts accordingly.
It's always sad to see a project failing. There are other alternatives, both to a KDE linux distro (i.e: openSUSE) and gnome/ubuntu (mint being my favorite).

It's a business decision I understand, they want to shift focus completely to ubuntu, especially since they are losing a huge user-base over their last gnome3 releases.
And those are all in the same data center, right? How much downtime do you guys have a year?
Good luck Steve. On the few interactions we had you were very helpful and gave very good advice that I certainly appreciated.
If you have neither fingers nor eyes, I think you have bigger problems than that.
Seems like a neat platform. How has the uptake been?
But there are a lot of free cron service using a real interface and not an API.
Great news, they are finally starting to listen!

Make it affordable and people wont have an incentive to steal.
Er, yeah: "The experimental Android prototype merely demonstrates that the office suite can be made to run on Android devices. A touchscreen-friendly user interface that matches the platform's native interface conventions will be implemented before the tablet application is released to end users."
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Opera. (c:

This morning I got the fallback display, but now it works fine. Thanks! I'll definitely use this on one of my projects.
It's not really about Facebook - IMO it's about combatting the harmful assumption that breastfeeding is not a normal part of society. Facebook is merely an element supporting the contrary view.

Personally I suspect this to be mainly a USA issue born out of the promotion of women's bodies as sexual objects.
I see many European countries mentioned from East to West, from North to South. So if everyone points to the others, who's the mastermind? Maybe it's just the effect of the EU?
I can't count the number of times I've heard, "I just need a programmer!"
Have a decent amount of retailers signed up so far. Haven't really started pushing it until this post, other than a Reddit feedback post: http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/p83up/reddit_folks...
All those packages come from Debian anyway. As long as Debian keeps KDE in its repos, I don't see any reason for KDE packages to disappear from Ubuntu repos. Worst case, KDE on Ubuntu will become less stable due to less testing, but that could be partially mitigated by using slightly older packages.
It doesn't mean the project is failing. Kubuntu had only a single developer from Canonical, and numerous other developers. This just means that Canonical doesn't feel like funding a KDE desktop anymore with that one developer. It doesn't mean the project is ending or anything.
Those are syntactic sugar. If your devs have trouble understanding JavaScript because of this, I suggest your devs aren't very good.
I've ended up looking at Arch Linux (I installed using ArchBang which is probably a little easier/simpler than using the straight Arch installer). In actual daily use I find it about as easy as Ubuntu, but I like the more minimalist philosophy of the distribution. I already feel like I understand more of what's actually on my system and how it's really working.
To give (an utterly ridiculous) example, the irish government copied a model of university funding from the UK. Now there is one major difference between the two systems. In the UK, the government controls the number of university places, while in Ireland, the universities do.
The department of education rammed through this new funding system that divided up money based on the number of students per discipline (arts, science, medicine, business all having different modifiers). Now, this system worked in the UK as the universities couldn't increase their places themselves, but caused a lot of problems in Ireland.

Trinity College had a strategic goal to stay the same size as they were for undergrads, and increase postgraduate intake. When this funding model was introduced, they then had to increase UG numbers or lose loads of money (as the amount allocated was fixed, and other universities were expanding).

I think its a more general problem though, politicians are hesitant to try anything new as they can be blamed, which leads them to copy solutions that appear to be used elsewhere, as they can then blame the other country.
That's so obviously correct that I'm going to stop making HN comments so early in the morning and see if that stops me from saying stupid shit.
Well the problem with that is, what happens when the atom machine dies. Or the ISP cuts you off? People outsource services not because they can't make a cheap version themselves but because it can be a hassle.
Plugins on Safari are in a separate process, but they are not sandboxed. Perhaps you'd confused plugins and extensions?
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I imagine we'll at least be warned.
I see. There's an interesting claim in the footer - "soon to be patented". Is there IP here that is patentable?
Congrats to Matt and the other guys working on this. The more quality options we have for payments the better, and I'm even more happy this innovation is coming out of the UK!
And they were in English in the first place.
It's interesting that Google is not on that list, especially after they have participated in the black-out. I'm going to play the devil's advocate here and ask: did they black-out simply for publicity?
They will probably not drop the KDE packages (that'd be idiotic, tons of people use, say Amarok or Kopete or whatnot) — but it won't be the streamlined experience that Unity is or Gnome was, Ubuntu icons everywhere and whatnot.

It'll just be closer, or even identical to upstream KDE (or rather, Debian's version of upstream KDE) with few modifications on Canonical's side.
Consider this feature which I've thought about building myself at times. With the cron request a token/guid/hash can be passed along with the job which is unique to the request. Then allowing for it to be passed back to a listener api call on your side to simply log that it was complete for user reference.

I'd pay for that feature hands down for crons which I want to ensure run consistently and see a simple chart or data of where the process possibly broke down.

With that a notification after a rule trips, similar to pingdom for downtime.
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It's the - feeding a baby in public - part that is naturally part of normal civilised society. Urinating in private is similarly a part of normal civilised society.

It's confounded by the multiple definitions of natural: here it just means commonplace and ordinary.
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For instance, I'm excited to read about Raspberry Pi supercomputer clusters, or perhaps about using Clojure to build algorithms on such a cluster.