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Polish original http://pokazywarka.pl/pm1pgl/

Author: https://plus.google.com/117555350878436162140

Republished by:

http://boingboing.net/2012/02/22/web-kids-manifesto.html (Cory Doctorow)

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/02/we-the...

http://owni.eu/2012/02/20/we-the-web-kids-piotr-czerski/

and many more
Sander, thank you for your prompt reply.

You are right. But a fine point is that the sites you mentioned are, as you say, "social". What about a stand-alone app?
"a Klein bottle, which is a two-dimensional surface that can’t be squeezed into three dimensions, but fits perfectly well in nine (or for that matter in four). "

I'm having trouble squeezing this concept into my mind.
TSC Office Hours in Bangalore | March 10th, 2012
Podcast en Java Hispano: Introducción a Play Framework
En el último podcast de Java Hispano han publicado una entrevista a Jorge Aliss (@jaliss) y Sebastián Scarano (@develsas), dos entusiastas miembros de la comunidad Play y asiduos colaboradores de este blog.
Aquí tienen la nota de Java hispano, y desde aquí pueden escuchar la entrevista:
http://www.javahispano.org/storage/podcasts/137_JavahispanoPodcast_PlayFramework.mp3
haha - this is classic!
While not entirely correct, this point is probably more true than timbl would have preferred.
"The main function of our government is to write checks to middle-class and wealthy voters."

Unless I'm reading those graphs wrong (pretty sure I'm not), even though a smaller share of entitlement checks are going to the very poor, a majority of entitlement spending is going to the bottom two fifths, and a plurality to the bottom fifth. Which doesn't sound like "middle-class and wealthy voters" to me.*

That quote seems to be the basis of the entire rest of the post. Starting off with a false premise is not a good way to build a case.

*yes, some of the people in the second fifth are middle-ish income. But someone who is in the second fifth, but closer to the first is still pretty poor.
Apple Considered Putting AMD Processor In 2011 MacBook Air
Well, yes. But that's not what the FAQ says; it says you can have at most one. The distinction is significant.
I've looked around a bit, but I didn't find how do you configure the layouts. Is it with a config in a particular language, a la XMonad, or something else?
Reproducing source audio level doesn't help when you're e.g. listening to something on a plane, with a large amount of background noise, and you want to actually hear the damn thing. Users' opinions count for something too.
The Magic Of Fragmented Photo Collages
A neat presentation of the "what" and the "how" of fragmented photo collages.
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> You set up your computer or phone so it makes a special noise each time you get a sale.

Heh, ok, I admit to doing this with LiberWriter.
This is good advice.

There are a couple of things I'd add. If you're more than just a couple of founders, ensure you have a watertight no-solicitation agreement, in addition to an NDA. More than information, employees who know the domain are valuable to the competitor.

Finally, the one overriding thing to keep in mind for all offers -- dont let it be a time or energy sink. Its easy to fall into that trap, if the first couple of conversations are productive.
Oh god please include the screenshots. The video won't load on my machine, because I have no QuickTime installed. Or atleast some fallback on youtube video.
If there are 8k individual cells in the battery pack, what happens when an individual cell reaches zero? Will that individual cell be permanently dead, or can it be revived?

You would think with 8k individual cells, if you left it unplugged for just a couple of weeks (instead of the 6 weeks needed to brick the entire battery pack), using a normal distribution you could expect that at least some of the cells would reach zero. Would that permanently reduce the capacity for the entire battery pack?
Neuroscientists identify how the brain works to select what we (want to) see
OK. It will be possible to see quite realistic 3D but how it will affect my eyes?
DUH! :P
Is there a good tiling wm for Windows too?

Normally I use i3 on linux, but the few times I have to use Windows I really miss it.
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Magnificent portrait, created from the thousands of coffee stains.
What's so funny about it is that it's not likely true. What would be true is that 49 percent get less than the mean.
The link to this article is down unfortunately, so I can't comment on it. But Tesla's statement did nothing to refute the article, it just stated that you have to put oil in a regular car, and that you can optionally have the car contact Tesla if it gets low.

The oil analogy Tesla and others are using just doesn't work. A normal car doesn't total itself after sitting idle for a few weeks to few months depending on whose side you believe.

Imagine your new car of choice having a 5 gallon gas tank, and if it goes empty, your car burns to the ground. Oh, and the gas evaporates at rate of half a gallon a week.

I don't know about you, but that fear would keep me from enjoying the vehicle. I think the stress of always making sure it's charging would beat me down.
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Boku mobile payments look to crack contactless market
Not a hard crash because the computer eventually would recover on its own as load lightens up. It's just a matter of interactive tasks not getting the priority you want them to have.
Essentially, you can "sell" rights to negotiate with you exclusively. It's often used so that the seller can focus on a single party but gets a reasonable payoff if the sale doesn't go ahead for any reason. The other party therefore has to commit resource and won't just do it for the sake of doing it. I've usually seen it done when there are, say, 3 or 4 interested parties to narrow it down to 1 in the first instance. On some occasions the party that had exclusivity drops out and it's either a good thing as the other parties are still there or a bad thing as a serious buyer dropping can raise alarm bells.
chetane07. Thanks for all your comments. I am glad you like our software. Since you saw the site, we have increased the number of people you can add to a plot with a free account to 30.

At present, there are no options for backing up apart from a JSON export. We are planning on CSV export and import.

Printing is definitely something we are keen to improve, though is pretty tricky converting from HTML to pdf.

We are happy to experiment with pricing. Is 7.50 a month super-expensive - some family tree sites charge much more than that a month, and don't include embedding.

With regards password field, we don't obscure it for usability reason. Some people love it, others hate it, most don't care. Passwords, needless to say, are not saved in plain text.
Well, I never claimed Redis should be used for this, you are the one who asked how to do it.

But you have to remember that most people can't have important data in just one process; it's going to crash and your data is gone. The LMAX guys solved this in a cool way, but I wouldn't call it easy:
http://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html#KeepingItAllInMem...
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Agree. Won't even play for me when I got the plugin started.
You can currently export to our propriety JSON format. We're looking at more export options: CSV, and maybe the GEDCOM family tree format,
I usually say "triple-double-u" when I reference it verbally. I had a project manager long ago that would say dub-dub-dub and it just sounded silly to me.
Take a good look at your app. Any extra features, credits, reputation or other thing that you can offer your customers for completing their profile? You haven't mentioned what your app or business model is, so I can't give much advice here. But, be creative. Extended trail period, a number of free uses or credits, lower (or no) subscription cost for the next term, access to some bonus feature normally only available in a more expensive version, etcetera.
Just be open and negotiate in good faith, or you'll cock up your potential acquisition. No demanding weird terms - it's only a 7 figure transaction. Running up their legal bill and being a pain in the ass will only hurt you.

If you've got a reasonable worry that revealing a particular bit of information will materially damage your business should the negotiations fail, this you can initially withhold, with an explanation that it's sensitive and you'd like to wait until things are further along. But the vast bulk of the information request should be fine, and if you want to sell, you should provide it.
Here is my app that optimizes the iPad User Experience

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hackernode/id473882597
> Just asserted it was blatantly false and admitted it was true that full discharge damages the battery in the same paragraph, hoo boy.

No. He stated that, while discharging an individual cell below a certain voltage will damage it, the battery management circuitry on each cell will not permit the battery to discharge past that point. It simply disconnects the battery from the circuit, which means the only leakage is chemical (self-discharge), and thus very slow.

To clarify this point: "discharge fully" =/= zero percent. You will never want to go below a certain percentage of absolute charge.
What about their "invite your friends" crap? That plus stupid users and I'll never get enough of those.
Obama administration seeks Internet privacy bill
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From what I can see, ShiftIt is like divvy, a tiling application: you open the application then manually tile it to the screen (and if you have no space left, you have to make it… again manually).

TylerWM is a "true" window manager, it takes care of laying out the windows automatically on its own (based on your settings).
primitive text browser for web

Browser, server and editor. His original view was that everyone would publish from their own machines in a P2P way.
I obviously havent rebooted, but visiting the website and hitting "run anyway" now causes the same hang, then the tab closes with no further notification.

needless to say that plugin is being removed,

to the author: check out <video> elements, and a quick nod to sublime video
Is it possible that

a) not all code written is for web apps

b) that said recent technology also only fits a niche for modern web apps?

I think you view on what constitutes modern web apps or software in general is biased in favor of some examples who benefit by using mongo/couch/redis whatever. (And are very vocal about it)

[EDIT: spelling, and to add that I have tremendous joy in playing with couch, redis, node lately. But at the same time I try to stay critical: what are the real trade offs when I employ these tools?]
Steam is an excellent service, but does Steam work for console(XBox. PS3) gaming as well?

No it doesn't, and I suspect this question was largely rhetorical. My point stands that my particular experience doesn't care about your product. There are 3 feelings you can get from a product/service: love, hate, indifference, and the last one is the worst because they won't tell you how to make it better.

However, that doesn't mean my comment was entirely worthless. You could go to a console gaming forum, taking the assumption that people on gaming forums gift each other items, and see if they like or hate your product.

seems like a minor inconvenience
Perhaps it's not to me, as a potential customer. Don't fall into a trap of making assumptions for your customer base.

Also, how is this different than an Amazon wish list? Someone else mentioned blog posts, and some bloggers have Amazon wish lists available that they can buy things off of.
postgres is also not (yet, hopefully?) available in amazon's RDS, probably agin due to the replication topic.
I am pretty sure that this is similar to how the german Falk plans do it for ages. Sadly, I cannot find any english explanations.

Update: its not. But if you are interested: patent (in german) with visual explanation can be found here:

http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?loc...
Think you have that flipped. The median is the 50th percentile. The mean is the average.
Like his example of TurboTax, it's a DIY alternative to hiring a professional. For example, my 80's band hired a graphic designer and professional print shop to produce a poster with a blank spot to hand write information for our latest gig. Today, I could easily create a unique poster for every gig and print it out myself. I'm confident the quality of the design would be better (the printing itself would probably be inferior, but good enough).
Not much to show, sadly, since it's a window manager the interesting part is seeing it… manage windows.

You can see some screenshots on the MAS page: http://itunes.apple.com/app/tyler-window-manager/id446759787... but the behavioral difference with e.g. Divvy or other tiling applications can not be expressed through screenshots.
Do we have an answer on how long, from 100% and 80% charges, it would take for a Roadster to get bricked? That would strongly effect any judgement on the reasonableness of Tesla not prominently disclosing this risk.
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The web's big bang ?
I found it more instructive to look at this for the last steps.
http://library.thinkquest.org/28923/miuraori.html

I've tried 3 with different parallelogram angles. The higher you take this angle, the easier it is to fold, however, it's harder to mash together in the final step nicely. The end result also looks less neat if it's too high.
Sounds like the Page program at NBC?
So cool. I love seeing this sort of history. Thanks for posting!
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There are screenshots on the MAS (itunes.apple.com, really) page, linked at the top.
Next version will be。
There's also Moom [1], but the reliance on arrow keys for most of the key-based functionality is annoying. I've mailed the author to ask if this could be configurable (so that I could use hjkl instead), no reply as yet though.

[1] http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/moom/id419330170?mt=12

Edit: Developer replied, turns out this functionality is already there - problem solved (for me)!
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I see. That makes much more sense. Yes, I suppose I'm used to DB servers that are more nimble in that department.
This is the video that Charles Duhigg referenced when writing his article for the NYT.
Here is a video showing it clearly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71HTB8UXVII

And another guide (pdf): http://mars.wnec.edu/~thull/combgeom05/handout7.pdf

Link: http://www.britishorigami.info/academic/miura.php

Ted Talk (11m 35s): http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_lang_folds_way_new_origami.h...
I just love how I came across this manifesto http://www.pastebin.com/0xXV8k7k just after the WWW alpha post. (hn link: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3624866)
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Well, a Möbius strip is a 2D surface that can't fit in 2 dimensions. Knots are 1D, and won't fit in 2 dimensions.
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English to Arabic Subtitling
Have you ever watched DVDs with poor translation? If yes, then you already have an idea why effective subtitles matter. No matter how acclaimed the film is, viewers will dump it should the subtitles fail.
Indeed. All Google need to do is convince people that augmented reality headsets are the tools of a powerful, wealthy businessman and they'll fly off the shelves :)
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Median would definitely be true. In fact, it's quite likely that more than half are below the average/mean as well, since the distribution is probably a bit skewed. Just as all but one of the people in a room will be below average income when Bill Gates walks in, most Britons are probably below average because of a few high-bandwidth folks pulling the average up.
You might want to take a look at Window Magnet [0], which has the key configurability you want.

As noted elsewhere, Moom, like others, is not a WM. I still like those nifty utilities though.

[0] http://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/window-magnet/id441258766?mt=...
I think the issue is that Tesla has a warranty problem, not a design flaw. With batteries, even if the battery management system shuts itself down and all subsystems, the battery cells will still internally drain to damaging levels. Until battery technology improves that will be a real problem with all electric cars. Unlike driving with no oil and needing an engine replacement, this is primarily a problem with the car (not driver negligence), so it should probably be covered under warranty, or qualify for the cheaper $12k replacement.

Note: I do not know how Tesla designed their systems, they possibly could do a better job to extend the storage time, but it will still be a problem. Any car with an electric start has this problem, if you don't charge the battery in storage it will require service/replacement. Of course it won't be $40k...

Do anyone have similar stories from other electric cars? Is there a maximum storage time listed for the Prius, Volt, or Leaf?
In my opinion they're both KV stores. Where they differ is what data structure they store. Cassandra stores BigTable rows indexed by a key and Riak is a binary blob + metadata indexed by a key.

I suppose it all depends on how be define a key/value store. Is it simply a data structure that can be accessed by a primary key. If that's the fact, nearly all databases fall under that description. If, on the other hand, a key/value store is simply a database that stores a blob indexed by a key, then nirvana is correct in saying "Cassandra" is not a KV store, but where does that get us?

I think that comparing HyperDex to Cassandra is a valid comparison. Both support pk lookups and secondary key lookups. The same is true about Riak. It would be nice to see a YCSB benchmark for properly configured Riak cluster.

I am pretty ignorant of the YCSB benchmark but it would be nice to have a benchmark that tests fault tolerance as well as raw performance.
LETS HACK HIM

Seriously though, fuck that guy. Half my night was spent waiting on vi.
Tyler is not ready for prime time. I saw this video a few monthes back, got excited and bought it. It took me less than 24 hours to turn it off due to various issues.

It does not work well with various OS windows, windows like the adium contact list and other 'non standard sized' windows.

If you use it with spaces, it often loses your settings if you tell it not to use on space number X.

I could go on with the variety of issues.

I would love a great tiling window manager for OS X. I use XMonad on linux all day at work and would really like to have the same joy when using OS X.
I'm so tired of this.

If you're scared, get a dog.

Or just read the "Why Should You Care" section and really think about it. Is it so bad? Do they have your gramma's name and address and are they sending the Depends cops over to check if she's peed herself? No, they have a bunch of anonymous data that they never attach to you personally.

Everyone's trying to track YOU? NO, that's just some sort of weird narcissist paranoia on your behalf. Nobody is trying to track YOU. Everyone is trying to track EVERYONE. YOUR information is worthless on its own. NO marketer cares about YOU personally and YOUR data is not worth anything negotiable.

If you're scared, get a dog.
This is true. Patio11 has Halloween Bingo Card Creator, so why not "SecretSanta" themed gift buffer? Nothing says that the recipients of the gifts can't know each other offline, but the gift giving process is what needs to be anonymous.
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But altering a table would still block it? And possible even other tables as well? And take a long time?

Only ever done this in MySQL, where you really can't alter big, live, tables. Well, facebook made an utility for it: http://www.facebook.com/notes/mysql-at-facebook/online-schem...
This looks great but after browsing their twitter feed [1] I can see that they have troubles getting updates approved in the app store because of the sandboxing.

[1] https://twitter.com/#!/reflareapps
It's very similar in nature, although the agency route offers longer hours and probably lower pay (but with a potentially bigger upside).
No he is not. I too whole heartedly support the move! We love this government and all their recent maneuvers to police us against the misguided thought that there is an alternative. Hopefully people of our nation who write slanderous posts about our leaders understand how much they care - they are investing (Rs.170 crore) for listening to what we have to say!

[Ok ... I Need to calm down!]
"Most of the reduction was due to fewer clouds occurring at very high altitudes"

That's not quite the same thing as clouds getting lower.
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Everyone tracking everyone IS the problem.
When I read the blog post in question, and the comments here, I left with the understanding that if you left a Tesla car unused for a dozen or so weeks, it would be bricked and it would cost $40,000 to replace the battery. This post directly contradicts that notion.
I love this article. Aside from the various HN Newsletters, is there a site that highlights by day the more interesting content like this?

Not to rant, but here I go anyways. There's too much non-important noise here. Clicks and comments only get you so far. I'm thinking a "Was this article helpful to you?" type rating. Were you glad you read this article or is it TMZ-like content of the programmer/tech/start-up world?

I'm also tired of the "this is what helped me get things done" life process improvement / self help type articles.

/endrant
Note for 10.8 users: doesn't work yet
Back in the mid 90s a colleague embarked on a (fruitless) attempt to get all the people he knwe to call their Web hosts 'web' as in web.example.com. A shame that he failed, I feel.
Ditto. Like a few others here I prefer xmonad though, but there are certain things that I use Windows for and it is fairly disappointing to not have the wm functionality.

As for the tyler wm video...I absolutely abhor quicktime. Never have a good experience with it.

As for tyler...a few questions:

are there keyboard shortcuts for resizing the main window, switching the active window to the main, switching active window to another workspace (in OSXs case another monitor)?

how does it handle popups (like download dialogs, or update dialogs)?

can you set it to float certain applications or application types like you can with xmonad?
>We hope this will make it much easier to develop vendor-specific features.

DRM[1]? Flash/"ActiveX 2012"[2]?

We've seen a great deal of recent discussion about the harm vendor-specific CSS properties[3] and X- prefixed application protocol header fields[4] are causing. No two parties can agree on proposals for the HTML specification. Microsoft, Google, Apple and Mozilla all tend to disagree and we're stuck with vendor-specific browser features.

These are not good signs for the health of the Web.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3620432

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3620537

[3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Feb/0998.h...

[4] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-xdash-03
Developer's view: real life inspirations or abstract ideas?