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nope, haven't paid for anything yet. I'm excited to see how much traffic HN actually brought. Looks like close to 10,000 votes have been registered in a few short hours, but waiting for Google Analytics to catch up to see more.
Would something like tilemill help? http://www.tilemill.com
I found it annoying enough that I now use US International without deadkeys. And definitely "Alt gr-o" is a lot easier than the "Option-e o" that I'm forced to use on the school's Macs.
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There are a lot of super smart guys working day and night to create movies, and they're solving a lot of hard technical challenges and applying many decades of experience in what makes a production entertaining.

While I dont watch a lot of TV or see a lot of movies, I certainly respect the impressive work that goes into them.
Are you seriously saying that it's anti-male to expect parents to support their children until the children are adults?
I've been saying the words "Dev Bootcamp" so much I got bored with the actual title. So I took the liberty. :)
What do you want? Me to actually READ the websites!?
I have working, tested, high performance software in C. Throwing all that away and taking the risk of having Go underperform or be buggier than my previous solution is just not acceptable.
What really happens when you die?
so, what really happens in "the beyond"...?
As Rails founding fathers complained of Java frameworks bloat, today's micro-framework fans complain of Rails bloat. Quite a cycle we've come through, isn't it ?
The all-new API for the all-new Basecamp
Why is my adwords bounce rate almost 100%
www.ServiceVines.com

The google ads are targeted to people looking for landscaping or lawn care bids. My normal bounce rate is around 40%

Is it the design? Suggestions welcome
This is spectacular! Congratulations! Going to add this to my list of go-to sites next time I'm in the job market. :D
trolled on my first HN post. rite of passage, passed.
> What prevents them from being anywhere near "hip" is their past/present actions and our memory.

No, what prevents them is their "Microsoft is a windows company" mantra that Ballmer reiterated recently. Windows is not hop, it's not the 90s.

Furthermore - Microsoft is and has always been an "enterprise" company. Windows = decent enterprise product line(s), and Office (esp. Excel) is a powerful, possibly indispensable business tool. But consumer-oriented it is not. Absent a huge change in management focus, they will never be... they have billions of reasons each year not to.
You have the dependency graph wrong. There's a script that uses both wc and grep and it depends on both of them. At the lowest level they are just streams of characters, but that doesn't mean anything. If you change the output format of wc or grep in any significant way then you will break every script that depends on them. Which is impossible, and that's why Unix commmands don't change. (Unless it's a new flag or something like that.)

In a well-designed system where the interfaces between components isn't actually public, you can change the API by finding all the usages and fixing them. And frequently you have to do so because the API is not a frozen standard - it's still being worked on.
I'd argue something even worse than what you are positing. The folks who've stuck around and made contributing to WP nigh impossible are also the same who make strong statements about turning WP into what's essentially just a digital copy of a traditional encyclopedia, thus artificially constraining it in both breadth and depth even though the storage of the material (bits) is almost free, while the print cousins were constrained largely due to cost and physical size.

WP is free of both of those constraints so why are their legions of self-appointed bureaucrats trying to impose those constraints?
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So she essentially wrote a spam bot and justified it by saying that it's to combat sexism. Sweet.
Do tell how I would enter Ж with my Alt-keys. Or better yet, tell me how to tell apart 'e' and 'е' (one of them being a Cyrillic letter.)
That is the coolest thing I have seen in a very long time. Thank you!
Am I correct in thinking this is a weird use of the term "intellectual property"?
Is not changing the stylesheet a bad thing really? I definitely always prefer documents from people who use latex without style to those using word without style. Wasn't that one of the main reasons for creating Tex anyway? Of course it wasn't word at the time...
>the GPL only covers code, not program output (under normal circumstances), so I don't see how it applies to screenshots anyway.

It's an interesting question. The drawing of the window is, I would argue, indistinguishable from the code. It's like saying the HTML, CSS, and images on a site are GPL'd, but screenshots aren't. The rest of the program output is merely algorithmic, and thus not subject to copyright.
The demand from what you dismissively call "social recipe sharing startups" is an insignificant fraction of the demand for software engineers. Techcrunch is not a good proxy for the job market.

How many people do you think are actually getting paid to write social recipe sharing software? Maybe 1000? There are ~1.5 million software engineers in the US alone. Even if you think that there are 10000, that's still less that 1% of all positions.

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos303.htm
First James Cameron chills in Challenger Deep for 8 hrs solo, now this? What a week!

Maybe James can use his new toy to go down there and hook up the tow cables to bring the engines up!
I find it odd that it can be considered "not abandoned" when NASA didn't even _know_ where they were. I can understand if NASA said something of the sort "its at XX latitude and YY longitude and we're leaving it there but it's still ours", but I find "we don't know where it is and we aren't actively looking to find it, but if you find it it's ours", especially given the Law of Finds.
Maybe most moon landing deniers are actually just a conspiracy of scientists hoping to goad NASA into doing it again.
You give moon landing denier kooks too much credit. They don't care about the evidence.
In reality, the problem ("what founders fail to do") is far more pernicious because it always seems like you already know the problem you're solving and what your target customers want. But then you go out and talk to people who are deeply interested, but who don't buy for some reason. And you wave your hands and explain why they aren't an exact fit, assuring yourself that the faceless others you know to exist are your real targets. But there are no faceless others, just more people who all have their own bizarre edge cases that don't quite fit how you genericized your vision before you had any customers.
She handled it very well.

TWSS is funny only as a reference to its use in The Office, where it is said by a clueless sexist imbecile of a boss, always inappropriately. So its use was a sort of in joke between Office fans, and said not seriously. Using it as an actual funny joke, without intent as an Office fan in-joke (which is only funny a few times) is kind of clueless, and it is worthwhile to question it.

Using it as an invitation to create an automated system that educates people to women's contributions to the arts and sciences is pure genius. Those at her place of employment who do not respect her solution are simply clueless and are deserving only of pity.
Slightly ironic since I just got a MacBook for my new job and am trying to get it set up for Rails development.
Well, I don't see how it differs from a sunken ship, really.
Well, sure. Your neighbor is the one who waits an extra week to mow his lawn, which looks bad, and drags down everyone's property values. Your neighbor is the one whose dog pooped in your yard that one time.

I suspect that proximity has a great deal more to do with it than similarity. If your neighbor is actually significantly different than you (ugh, the weird smells from the strange food those people eat!) I would think it makes it even worse.
Traditionally this is from savings, family and friends, borrowing against your home, etc. And it feels like there is more opportunity to this capital in other places, i.e., anecdotal evidence that lots of folks in other places will put up $5-20k to invest in a friends startup. This doesn't happen as much in Canada (tight accredited investor definitions, higher taxes, higher real estate prices and home borrowing).
The other option is a 2-d barcode on the road or on a sign in a position that the car can read it. That barcode leads to a URL with a machine-readable map of the drive-thru. Naturally such a sign and URL is maintained by the restaurant and the car's systems can read and understand the content.

Awesome, if you ask me.

This was discussed in a past patent mentioned on HN.
This is allegedly targeted at the root servers. It doesn't matter what DNS provider you use if your TLD is offline.
The design is not his design. Please compare the two before jumping to that conclusion. The copy has stripped all unique elements of Dustin's design.

http://obtvse.herokuapp.com
http://dcurt.is
I not only drive to and from work, but because I'm in construction I also spend a portion of my day driving either to the job site or between job sites, often hauling a trailer that weighs over double what my truck does.

Just this morning I had a woman swearing at me and giving me the finger, with her two small children in the vehicle, because I abided by the 4-way stop outside an elementary school and she tried to run it.

Between the cell phone users, and the middle aged women in their SUV's that can't do a shoulder check or read a single lane sign, and the guy with the chronic one-upsman syndrome who guns it to 30 over the limit just to pass you on the highway and go slightly under the limit.

IMO only about 20% of people on the road actually follow the rules because they know they're right and help keep them and their passengers safe. Then there's probably another 60% who generally follow the rules simply because they don't want to get a ticket. The last 20% just don't give a shit, do what they want, when they want and god forbid they don't get it.

I'd also say there's an additional 10-30% who are purely seasonal drivers known the other 7-9 months as "cyclists". They only come out in the winter, and are likely responsible for as many if not more accidents than inclement weather. Living in southern ontario I actually dread the roads on that first heavy snow because, no joking around, I'm actually worried I'm going to kill someone and it won't be my fault.

I don't think driving is doing society any good except at providing a way for the stupid, and the stupidly unfortunate, ways out of the genetic pool.
I actually do not think HTML5 is a replacement for Flash (thus my second paragraph). Regardless of the utility and capability of Flash, it is no longer a universal platform. Since it is losing market share (browser with flash / browsers without), I would assume people in the social gaming area are starting to look at other platforms with HTML5 having the largest market share.
A government doesn't have to take down your satellite if they can persuade you to do it for them. Jail time can be a powerful persuasion.

And if your orbiting data haven is objectionable enough there's always http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-satellite_weapon
Looks beautiful but barely usable. Winds have different speed and direction at different altitudes.
I was more thinking of it crashing through the walls on one side and continuing out the other.
https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop
Wouldn't the mirrors left behind by various missions be the most convincing evidence of all?
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£25,000, how long would it take set up a repo so you could do go: sudo apt-get install rails-3.2 on Ubuntu/Debian?
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I don't see a division between Flash & HTML. I see it as a division between their legacy as a creative platform vs. their focus on enterprise SaaS.
There is an interesting sub-text here which should probably get more attention. Jeff Bezos funded this effort.

Let that sink in for a moment.

When the CIA wanted to get a peak at a Soviet Era sub that sank to 17,000' they paid Howard Hughes to build the Glomar Explorer [1] to go retrieve it. It was a mammoth undertaking which required the financial assistance of a nation state to make it work.

In 1982 when Forbes first started listing the 400 richest people they had 13 billionaires and 75 million made the list [2], which is about 167 million in inflation adjusted dollars [3], and the current lists #400 is is $1.05B so a bit over 6x larger even after inflation is considered.

The interesting bit for me is that the cost of 'getting things done' has not been going up in pace with the 'money people have' so wealth in the private sector is enabling individuals to do what used to take governments. Worse governments are horribly inefficient at doing things that individuals are efficient at (given their fiduciary responsibility to the tax payers)

I talked with some folks at Scaled Composites a bit after their successful X-Prize bid. A common theme was that they could have been successful earlier if it had not been for the red tape put in their way by the government. (some estimated two years earlier but I think that was optimistic).

And you look at the world concerns that arise when North Korea tests 'long range' rockets because building a rocket that can get a meaningful payload into orbit is 98% of the way to being able to drop something out of orbit pretty much anywhere you want.

Its very different world, and I could imagine folks who would sign on for orbital 'work' or excursions knowing that 5 - 10% of them would end up dying horribly. Not something the government can generally tolerate but explorers can.

The risk though is that you end up with a corporation that is has the capability of exploiting space and corporations don't generally sign treaties. That makes for interesting times indeed.

[1] https://www.fas.org/irp/program/collect/jennifer.htm

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_400 (hopefully it is accurate)

[3] http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi

[4] http://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/#p_40_s_arank_All%20industr...
> Come out with better, more insightful products. This is something it actually is doing: 360, Windows Phone and Windows 8 all look awesome.

A corollary of this point is that their Windows 8 "everything is metro" broad-brush attitude is going to bite them in the ass. Case in point: Windows 8 Server - the interface in the beta is horrendous.

Someone wise once said: "God is in the details". They need to realize that they can't just take an idea like the Metro inteface and slap it onto their server product... the result will be tragic.

Instead, they should take the "Metro" vision, and fabricate a server version. A good example of this would be the work that Apple has done "iOS-ifying" OSX. You can argue whether this is a worthwhile path to take, but all of the features were whitelisted after a) making sure they were true to where they wanted to take the OS, and b) ensuring it looked and worked decent (even if there was lost functionality from a previous version).
I agree that draconian laws or snooping measures are not reasonable mechanisms to enforce copyright.

But the analogy to mobile is interesting. Mobile app revenues are absolutely booming, and mobile apps dont require inconvenient or invasive protection schemes. Mobile apps are easier to buy than pirate, and they are reasonably priced. It's bizarre to me that most of the good content isn't available for streaming, when I'd be perfectly happy to pay per view.

I dont have any media in my home. It's all streamed. My friends who pirate all deal with torrents and file conversions and moving files around. And honestly I dont have time for that. It's far cheaper just to pay for it. Or not watch it at all, because most of the good content isn't available for streaming. Which is the real problem.
How would this compare to say the BitNami RubyStack:

http://bitnami.org
In the areas of high performance computing, systems and languages, Latex is still dominant. Every conference I've submitted to has a Word template, but I've never known anyone to use it.
Your body decays, the elements of your body transform and become part of other living things, and the atoms that compose them have come from the stars, and will become part of the stars again when the Sun goes supernova.

You as a person live on in the things that you have created, the memories you have given people, the lives you have changed by existing, the tools you have invented or made possible.
It'll matter in a few years when Photoshop is only available as part of the Creative Suite subscription plan.
I propose a different funding model for this project. Why not approach Rails hosting vendors like Heroku, Engine Yard, etc. to fund this project, in exchange for built-in one-click deployment to their hosting environment.

Would be a win-win for the user and hosting provider.
What's Google's understanding on working from home / telecommuting? I'm more than willing to work long hours, but I find I'm much happier when I'm sshed in from home than sitting at my desk thinking about my kids.
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$1000-a-day Pinterest scammer claims hoax
I doubt it has anything to do with foreign policy and more to do with pushing from the private sector (i.e. RSA, Semantec etc).

If they were really concerned about espionage and eavesdropping, the first thing they would do is make sure that the phone lines to the White House were run by domestic companies and not a company with links to Israeli intelligence.
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>I can't understand why Adobe is making these decisions when they're competing with an upcoming technology that has a such large & growing fanbase.

Milking it while there's still something to milk?
Interesting, I had not heard about this program, thanks. I grew up in Brandon, where there is not much of a tech culture to be found (moved to and currently work in Calgary). Is there a tech community in Winnipeg?
> This could be as simple as a standardized sign denoting the entrance and two windows of a drive through.

3/4 of McDonalds and other restaurants I go through already have signage, road markings, etc. for the drive through. Even some of the McDonalds I've been through have signs in the windows saying "Window 1" and "Window 2" (why this is necessary for humans of an age and intellect capable of driving a car, but apparently the ability to count windows does not have an impact on motor vehicular ability).

It really wouldn't be much difficulty for the companies to standardize these signs as most already use their own anyway.
It's possible yeah, though I like the formatting and highlighting and borders etc, it groups the different sections of the instructions together.

I see what you mean though, it's not really full NLP either way, I just used that term in place of regular expressions because it was in the NLP class that I learned about them (first homework is a phone and email scraper.) Probably my fault for using semantics wrong.
I'm interested in whatever Yehuda Katz comes up with, but I've been a Rails dev at a Mac shop since 2007? and I have never been too frustrated by getting Rails running.

Does anyone here have specific problems? From my experience, it really has been a matter of "gem update --system; gem install rails".
I agree that it's nice to see hard data on this but

"the neverending stream of basically anecdotal information"

should be the first clue that this is basically what everybody seems to already know except for the foundation. This is not even remotely a new issue as their data and numerous complaints, articles, comments etc. shows, but it's taken them more than half a decade to even bother to notice it.

Here's from 2010:

http://ostatic.com/blog/is-wikipedias-deletionism-out-of-con...

2009

http://schott.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/26/deletionists/

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/shanerichmond/100002...

2008

http://news.slashdot.org/story/08/09/21/2342226/debating-del...

2007

http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/08/rise_of_the_wik.ph...

and on and on and on

Here's foundation's response during all this

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8382477.stm

It's only in the last 2 years has the foundation even bothered to acknowledge there's a problem, and only after the problem became so bad that it couldn't be ignored.
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Based on the title, I naively assumed it had more to do with his Blue Origin company.

He paid for the effort, so I see nothing wrong with the title. "Jeff Bezos' team" is certainly more accurate.
He's not complaining about bloat. Unlike many other high-level languages, Ruby has several viable execution environments (MRI 1.8, MRI 1.9, Rubinius, and JRuby) and Rails works on all of them. OS X ships with a system Ruby. The result seems to be that some people have trouble getting the right combination of runtime and libraries running.
Feminism is pretty much the opposite joke here.

edit: Both behaviour models breed in my view from insecurity of the opposite sex.

Also why this discussion is very biased: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u9DdVoV4VU
Ubuntu has a rails package already, and nobody uses it. It only serves to confuse new users. Trying to mix deb and gem just hasn't worked well so far.

Making a Rails.app for Mac is different though, because everything would be isolated in your .app, while a .deb would install the files to the system and track them in the package management database, so trying to modify them outside of apt-get/dpkg just b0rks everything.
Wouldn't you have to stage a coup against the Debian maintainers? Isn't Rubygems still deliberately broken there?
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Very true. The SDK is free, but it's not like you're getting XCode or Visual Studio with that download. Their IDE (based on Eclipse, right?) is $500.
If I recall from Thrun's Udacity lecture, the Google self-driving car does not use the horn nor does it respond to others' horns to make decisions.
This is a waste of time. It's a wealthy man's playtime.

How about we kill the F35 and F22 planes entirely and make a Mars mission instead?

We're going to be neck deep in drones in this country and around the world within a few years, expensive fighter jets are now worthless.
In that case, the owner of the ship typically is still the original owner, but there is a whole "law of salvage" that determines what payment, or share of the treasure if it's things like sunken gold, the finder should get.
The jokes don't rely on the fact or imply that most men are abusers of women. The jokes rely on the listener associating the behavior in question with the stereotypical behavior of the group.

E.g. most Catholics do not have dozens of children, but the behavior is associated with that group enough such that a joke can rely on the listener making that association.
Actually the video doesn't show the car navigating through the drive through space, it shows it driving up to the speakers and stopping, then it cuts to a scene from the restaurant where he's ordering, then it cuts to a scene where the car is leaving the parking lot.

As a robotics junky all my red flags went off with that bit of creative editing.

Even if the car spent 10 minutes working out the close quarters navigation it would be more 'real' than the editing which makes me suspicious that the 'side seat' driver actually did that tricky bit of navigating.

Not hating on the Goog here, just really looking forward to the era of self driving vehicles but want to be realistic about their capabilities.
Who are you referring to, specifically?
True. This hacking certainly gives CIOs and cybersecurity chiefs something to point at when justifying budgets and centralizing initiatives. The hacking has undesirable consequences far beyond just the loss of IP.
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