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Do you know about XFCE and Alt-F11? The Alt-F11 keyboard shortcut (and the corresponding title bar menu command) in XFCE remove the window decorations and maximise what is left, so you get (say) the Web browser menu bar right at the top of the screen and the window covers any panels top and bottom.
They can drag the investigation for as long as possible, then pay a few hundred million to kill the deal. Killing a competitor (which honestly has 100% userbase overlap with FB anyway) and cockblocking Twitter and Google at the same time.

It sounds crazy, but remember when Google bid 4 billion on wireless spectrum just to create a better environment for Android?
"2. Something GNOME-ish keeps grabbing my mouse, and won't let it go until I log in with SSH and start killall-ing anything with "gnome" in the process name. It happens once a day or so, I haven't been able to purposefully reproduce it, and it's really annoying."

That is a bug, I've not seen that on Ubuntu 12.04 using Unity or GS all through the testing period.
Whoa there. I'm just a (American) liberal who hates seeing Fox News et al manipulate and divide people by compelling them to believe fervently in things not by making convincing arguments, but by appealing to their higher ideals of fairness, safety, and justice, and painting those who oppose them as opposed to those ideals.

It's almost as if you didn't read my post at all. You claim that I hate the people who disagree with me, when the entire point of my post is that I can sympathize with those who disagree with me if their basic assumption is that their viewpoints say, on torture, are grounded in the (misguided, force-fed) belief that torture is necessary to protect family and country.
Would you consider investing in a small start-up with a mature product? Our company is going into its 6th year of business. I have been lucky to be working with some very talented people.
"using rhetorical force to invalidate contrary views"

Thank you for epitomizing what makes Linus worth emulating.

Rhetorical force. Coooool.
This cannot be implemented without violating property rights, so it's morally wrong. The state should protect people's rights, not take them away.
"The two or even ten minutes you spend not using your PC are not lost. It could be a unique occasion to talk to your colleagues, it could be time well spent cleaning some papers."

I think that is true if you control when the reboot happens. If it just happens then it might be at exactly the wrong time.
The answer to your question is in the the question - which means you almost get it.

You are adding an additional variable: for example "liking iTunes or not" that can't be tested like this, so you are confusing yourself as to the meaning of the results.

You are also trying to imply meaning on the "not doing something" aspect of it "does that say anything about the alternatives". This can only be true if the alternatives are available at the point of selection. Therefore, you are right this says nothing about the alternatives.

If you really wanted to see which was the preference from all three then all three choices need to be available to choose equally. At the moment by only giving one albeit random choice you are not answering anything.

To understand this process better think of the classic "google blue" test, where the colour of the links in the search results was subtly changed for random users to find out which blue worked best.
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It's a very nice hardware design, but it's certainly nothing groundbreaking--some of my classmates did the same thing for their senior project, having a nerf turret shoot at any moving object of a certain color (I believe they used a toy schoolbus, which in retrospect seems a slightly odd choice).

Still, it's a very spiffy design!
A UI that "makes sense" is a lot better than a UI "for dummies". If the time is taken to come up with an interface that's logical, consistent, and minimal, it will appeal both to people with no clue how to use it and those who use it constantly and expect a lot from it.

Linux in particular tends to dumb things down rather than simplify them, as if the distinction is completely lost. Then it buries all the complexity in these configuration files or in obscure nooks and crannies of the UI that only the most determined can find.

The "secret" is to bust your ass and come up with ideas that make sense, to lead with consistency. Unfortunately open-source tends to be design by committee of designed at all because of the collaborative nature of it.

If Linus Torvalds can have final say for the kernel, where are the others who hold similar sway over UI? Maybe it's that it's very hard for a designer to earn the respect of programmers because their skill sets are under-appreciated.
> I don't think this actually tells you about what your customer's like. But I'm having a hard time saying why. If I'm presented with iTunes but I don't like iTunes and never click through, does that really say anything useful about whether I like the alternatives?

You're performing the test on one large group of people, not on lots of individual people. (Does that make sense?)

It doesn't tell you what Bob as an individual likes, but it might tell you what a collection of people prefer.

It's quite important with A/B testing to set a sample size at the beginning of the experiment and stick to it. A statistician will be able to explain why.

Because you're not testing individual people it'll be tricky to disentangle the reasons for preference from the data.
For all the hackers in London... the last line of this article is why you should be moving to SF :)
The memory point is huge.

For your decently coded basic webserving app, the bottleneck is almost never your code. It is the network, databases, etc. And in my experience, the bound on how many simultaneous requests you can serve is generally not your CPU. It is how much memory it takes to have enough processes ready to handle requests. (Admittedly my experience is mostly with Perl, where multi-threaded code is a bad idea. But Python has the GIL, so again I would plan on using more processes instead of heavily multi-threaded code for concurrency.)

Given this, for the kinds of web applications that I have worked on, reducing memory consumption is the thing that most helps scalability.
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Facebook isn't a startup.
I heard no mention of how the keyboard input will work. I love using Emacs. The keyboard short cuts sometimes seem so odd but come in handy.
Unaudited third party code like Windows"?
I can imagine a lot, but that doesn't mean I get to substitute my imagination for reality. You're reading into the post what you want, not what is there.

If you actually had any interest in truth, you'd ask him. Instead, you've decided you know what his views and motives are based on no evidence whatsoever, and are asserting your opinion publicly.
I don't like Unity for my own daily computing. I prefer a tiling wm, often with all windows full screened. I tend to prefer minimal gui. My preference is especially strong because my laptop screen has a ten inch diagonal.

But on other machines that I've set up (for my self, and others), with a normal size screen, used primarily for web browsing and basic word processing, Unity is great. Widgets aren't "fat for touching", they're fat targets for easy clicks.

Unity has its flaws. It shouldn't be the only option. I do, however, believe it is getting better for a non-techie user.
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My address is particularly important when a package is being shipped, but I can't recall ever being asked to type it in twice in a row.
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Of course the real test of whether or not an individual learns anything from this concept is if you can identify how it's been used to affect your views.

Identifying it in those you disagree with is easy. How about how it affects you?
Someone pointed out a cool Blekko feature recently: a slashtag called /monte

http://blekko.com/ws/social+news+for+hackers+/monte

I've done around 50 searches using /monte and not once did I pick something other than Google. Kind of spooked me out really.
Hey men, what about Adobe AIR then? It's out there since 2008, it works on Mac/Linux/Windows/Mobile and it's far more complete than App.js or any other competitor.

You can use flash (OMG) or just plain HTML/JS (I've developed something in the past using both)

But you know, we are in an app era right now and this technology has lost part of his original appeal
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Anyone know WHY this is?

Germany is certainly not crime free, so some possibilities that come to mind:

1. Perhaps German criminals, for whatever reason, are more docile than American criminals and give up when asked to so there is little need for the police to use violence.

2. Perhaps German criminals aren't as well armed as American criminals, and so when the police try to arrest them the criminals know they are outgunned and give up.

3. Perhaps German police are not very good at tracking down armed criminals and so the are few chance for the police to use guns.

If I had to guess, I'd guess that #2 is the most likely of those three possibilities, but I've surely not thought of all the possible explanations.

Without some insight into why they fire their guns so rarely, this statistic is just interesting trivia.
I have used Unity in its 5.10/Ubuntu 12.04 incarnation for several months now and I rather like it on a medium sized monitor. Not so much on a netbook at 1024/600

But I'm not a programmer. I am an end user. Perhaps we will now see increasing differentiation between those who code and those who use?
Bear in mind that figure includes overheads for the company. I don't know if all the 20% difference would be accounted for entirely by salary.
Ask HN: How to explain to a non-tech that bug fixing gets charged?
Today I was talking with a photographer and a designer, and one of them commented about an acquaintance having made a mistake at work and correcting it with her own money, what I replied that I charge my clients for fixing my own errors (of course there are exceptions). They couldn't believe it, and I failed to convince them that its normal, and makes sense. How would you explain it?
There is a long history of such dialogs being used to exploit browsers and cause the execution of arbitrary code. For instance, such a dialog may be used to generate a true user click event, which the browser may then treat differently than an event that can be faked by Javascript. This entices malware developers to create dialogs in which you'll click on something, they don't really care what, they just need an authentic click.

Yes, it shouldn't do anything, but that doesn't mean it won't. I've hard-killed my browser for the same reason a couple of times.
I didn't know about that incident, but it is definitely the same Thomas Bushnell.
I guess I didn't describe myself plainly enough. What I mean is that it should be just like Flash, working inside an HTML page right from any tab in your browser, no extra 'install' - except a full VM instead of a Flash instance.

If an application (some accounting program say) comes in Windows, Mac, and Linux downloads and is supposed to be downloaded and installed, but works fine if you install it in a VM with a plain image, why can't they put it on the web behind some HTML that asks for a jailed VM - and be given one? So that if you are on Windows, whenever you open that web site in a new Firefox tab, you use its app (right from that tab) in a few seconds without any (visible or persistent) install. Even THOUGH it is a native-only application that isn't built around networking (requests over http) nor any kind of internet technology like javascript. It's just a local program.

If the 'just a local program' could live just as happily in a new tab in a vanilla base-OS, you wouldn't need to go through installing it to try it, or uninstall it if you're not interested: this is where a 'web app' shines. Getting to the first screen takes less than one second (click the link you heard about it from, including on a Google search) as opposed to 15-45 seconds minimum to click through Download, Save, wait for it to download, Double-click in Downloads window (hopefully still in foreground) to open, Click 'Install', click 'I accept' click next, click next, click finish. Click OK and hopefully run now. (If there is no 'run now' then click Start, click Programs, find the new entry, click it.

Likewise, after you see the first screen you can say 'No this isn't what I had in mind at all' and click Back in your browser or close the new tab: 1-2 seconds. On Windows uninstall is: Click Start, Click Control Panel, click Add Remove Programs, wait for it to load, find the program, right-click, click Uninstall, click OK, wait for it to uninstall, click OK. (Or you could wager on whether they included an Uninstall icon next to their program icon in the start menu, but most programs don't).

If this web alternative were possible...then anyone could develop however they normally develop a native application (not app) - instead of having to turn it all into a client-server app or do it in javascript, flash, etc - and just let a user use it from their browser without 'actually' installing it. I guess my concept - since it is based on the usability of using something without actually-installing it (so that it goes into your normal start menu, for example) - is too nuanced for people, or I am not describing it right. :/
s/right wing propaganda/propaganda/gn

this is a basic principle of all propaganda, right wing, left wing, anti gay, pro gay, white suprematism, black power, the list goes on.

Let's give these banks just a little trillion dollars or our country would suffer. Let's burn just a few Jews in the furnace or they would sell our country. Let's take all the money from the rich and kill them and make everyone equal(ly poor). Let's bomb these Muslims into the Stone Age because they threat our children. Let's help those Muslims kill Serbs or World Democracy is in danger. Let's allow these morons squeeze our balls and tits or our airplanes would fall from the skies.

It's just marketing, a way to sell the bad idea to people and make them feel happy. It has nothing to do with right and left.
I've been using Dash now as a part of my work flow for months and I can definitely attest to its awesomeness. So here's a great tip, and a feature request.

When searching for a method on a class, you can do a partial string of the class then use alt + up / down to quickly scan through method names. What'd be useful also ( and I think this was an earlier feature ) is to be able to have the second word look at class/instance methods first before then resorting to google / stack overflow.
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What you mean to say is that it doesn't fit your concept of a startup. There's no single definition of "startup" that's commonly accepted. In my view Facebook is at the very extreme end of the startup spectrum.
That was my thought exactly. "Doug, your LAPTOP and laptop accessory bag can be picked up from the IT Lab." Yeah.
Yeah, it's certainly noteworthy, but one is allowed to do that. What I wouldn't like, though, is if he were overexaggerating, but we can't check that.
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Could you imagine having to work under Douglas and being required to have all your js lint on strict settings?
Ask HN: losing faith in the startup where I'm employee #1
I'm very new to the startup world. A year ago, I left academia to join a startup as the first engineer employee. The skies were bright, we were going to change the world and become rich and all be happy together.

Now a year later, things are way more gloom. We haven't raised any money, as of today we have effectively 0 active users, and our total revenue over the past year has been ~$100.

Out of 3 founders, none is technical (the CTO is a very, very well connected industry veteran though), and they are all very unfocused and out of touch with certain realities (for example, they filed a patent for a silly tech idea right after incorporation and keep trying to implement that technology in products although it doesn't really solve anything).

During meetings, I always feel like a killjoy by attempting to be realistic and focused and reserved about the brand new idea they come up with every other week and that I need to get started on right when the meeting ends.

I don't feel like it'll get better, and although it was a great opportunity I think it's time for me to move on to brighter horizons.

The main problem is that I've grown to really like the founders on a personal level, they are really well connected so I wouldn't want them to tarnish my reputation as a young engineer completely new to the valley/startup world, and if I leave, the company will probably die off as I'm the only one writing code and making products exist (they'd probably end up paying contractors/freelancers as they can't afford to be competitive on salary or benefits).

I think these last few points might be the result of my inexperience with startups and that I dug myself into that hole— but any insight or advice would be very, very much appreciated.<p>Thanks!
Crockford working for an IT department! It would be interesting to see what his views would be in a few months.
I don't believe it is that, because police shoot people who are armed with knives, tree branches, and unarmed on a pretty regular basis... all of which are readily available in Germany.

There was a homeless person here in San Diego because he had a tree branch and looked like he was going to use it against the officers (the person was mentally ill). Not to mention the guy who jumped the White House fence who had a butterknife (the President wasn't in the country at the time). The butterknife guy was shot and killed, since he didn't follow orders to put the knife down.

I believe it is a lack of respect for human life along with the fact that these cases have made it to the Superme Court which ruled for the officers, if the officer feel they are in danger, they can shoot to kill. And they do so.

My guess is German police offers don't care if a person has a tree branch, butterknife, stones or whatever they go in and make the arrest without just shooting the person. There is some risk of personal injury but probably nothing that 10 officers with billy-clubs can't handle.
This is perhaps too soon, but I had read of asteroid mining a few weeks back. Do asteroids harbor these rare earths?
The mining process seems pretty messy. I wonder if we could get minerals that way, there would be no need to do more damage to our environment.
The only error he made was not to bribe enough people in Washington to make this deal go through.

That this happens now is a crime against Facebook which it does you no good to be so smuck about.
LOL paypal. I wouldn't even want to put that on my resume.

They froze my account and kept my info (SSN and all). I had to subpeona them to get them to tell me why my account is locked. Their reason was I was associated to another person that owe them money. They won't tell me who this person is.

I've asked them to just delete my info and I won't ever create another paypal account and I have not done anything wrong. They stated no. I asked them if my information will be encrypted they said it's SSL encrypted (wtf). A month later their server got hacked.

They screwed so many people over that the person looking over your resume will be like ugh this guy works for that horrible company. Next!
What's really odd is that there were "49 warning shots". Police in the US aren't allowed to fire warning shots. For good reason too, it's a completely reckless thing to do.
I agree. I cannot see why he did not do this, as not doing it implies that he's really just a shadow of his former self...

Sad, really.
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> 2. Perhaps German criminals aren't as well armed as American criminals, and so when the police try to arrest them the criminals know they are outgunned and give up.

Nobody is as well armed as Americans.

But really I'm pretty sure it's down to policy. The police doesn't 'shoot first, ask questions later'. No need to escalate to using guns unless you're directly threatened with a weapon yourself - say if the guy is threatening with knife. And I really think it's the fewest of people who are desperate/stupid enough to try something like that.

Also note how 49 of those 85 bullets were warning shots fired into the air.
I am pretty convinced #1 and #2 are both true. POlice officers most of the times do not hunt down murderer or kidnappers (their is hardly murder in Europe, compared to the US), but are asked to appease husbands beating their wives, stop parties that are too loud, etc. Those people will hardly ever own a weapon - other then in the US.

Second, I am pretty sure there is another culture of violence and fighting with the police in the US. Car chases, for example, are way less often in Europe - criminals tend to give up, instead of fighting to death.
It'll be a decade or more before asteroid mining goes anywhere. Probably decades even.

And mining this is not any messier than mining anything else.
I still remember the fiasco of spending lots of tax money to build a DVB television network. They were talking a lot of having a "callback channel" in those set-top boxes and lots of interaction in TV programs.

Well, we had expensive television network while Sweden spent the same money for better Internet connections.
Without knowing why the problem is important, you do not really understand the problem yourself. Understanding the problem better is often even more challenging than solving the problem (once understood). I have seen people go circles around trying to solve the problem at hand without reaching the solution that actually solves the problem, just because they did not understand the problem correctly to begin with.

There indeed are curious problems. Estimating number of golf balls that can fit into a bus is certainly not one of them. Try to come up with a curious problem, then we'll talk.
My code consists of tight loops used for numerical simulation. Clang runs about 2x slower. Hence I conclude that Clang is bad for optimizing tight loops.

Many of the Clang vs. GCC tests are clandestinely skewed towards llvm because they involve code that does not benefit from low level optimization.

Many of the people who work on GCC are scientists who want tight loop performance while many of the folks who work on clang want a BSD license.
The dearest investments we make are the months and years of our lives. Make them worthwhile.

Find what is right for you, then leave to do that. Tell the founders how much you like and respect them as you go. You don't need to carry the weight of the company on your shoulders. Your departure may even help them move on to something better.
It looks like you need a clear plan, and stick with it. Weekly meetings are not there to change the plan, they are there to make minor adjustments, resolve the roadblocks and discuss progress and strategies.

If you believe in your main idea, you should start with making minimum viable product and see if your idea actually works. Funding is optional, unless your website requires something special that needs money.
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