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though lots of newer cars also have lane assist (so if you're drifting our of your lane without signalling, it will steer you back in).

I think it's becoming clearer that there's no strict dividing line between computer-driven and human-driven.

Rather, we'll slowly move to more and more being done by computer, and less and less done by the human (in this example- the computer taking over the motorway driving, and then handing over to you when its time to return to the normal roads).

This was also covered in the article about the Google car last week, which hands over to humans when it gets into a sticky/narrow situation.
If Mr Assange doesn't like Sweden's laws regarding sex then he shouldn't have had sex in Sweden

Excuse me, but that's a remarkably ignorant comment. What you are actually saying is "If Mr Assange doesn't like Sweden's laws regarding rape then he shouldn't have committed rape in Sweden". Because he wasn't accused of having sex in Sweden (that is not in any doubt), rather the questioning is in regards to an alleged rape.

You have no proof that he committed (or did not commit) rape in Sweden.
Do you have any details on whether Sweden or the UK are more likely to extradite to the US? Claiming that the UK has an extradition treaty isn't very meaningful, since Sweden has one, too, as do dozens of other countries for that matter. I assume it's down to the implementation details of the individual treaties.
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This is the most important point: what is the site trying to accomplish? Or better, what are users trying to accomplish with the site? Presumably, the site is trying to sell shoes, and creating an "experience" around those sales might be crucial for Camper. On the other hand, such an experience may be (as in this case) an impediment.

As others have mentioned, the trick is using tools appropriately. But first you need to know for what use cases you are designing.
Gopher supports images.
I was aware of the Polywell work - hadn't seen General Fusion before. The description of how their reactor would work on the Wikipedia page is pretty interesting!
They sign a deal with the owner of the rights to the product which might be exclusive to a region. This is a leftover from the the days of yore. The owner for example might want to sell direct in his country, but is happy to let some other distributor sell things in another country but without cannibalising his sales so they put a restriction on where he can sell the item.

All of which makes no sense on the Internet. But we've only had the Internet for what? Two decades? I guess it'll take a few more for them to accept it. Or maybe they will succeed and recreate the borders from the real world on the Internet.
I'm sure it is some sort of automated system. I'm wondering if answering a call and saying no would get your number out of the system.
I can understand where you're coming from. From a support mentality they have to be viewed as being right, although admittedly there are some customers that are probably worth losing in the long run.

The idea behind that point was more to push the team to get things right and go that extra mile to help the customer. If they're rude though then the rule doesn't apply.
+1, if your job is number crunching, stay the hell away from JavaScript as it will bite you in the ass. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/307179/what-is-javascript...
At high concurrency, I'd argue you will probably end up being more cpu efficient as well. The cost of context switching effectively larger frames and getting into and out of privileged mode can get expensive.
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@laughinghan if you have to ask my suspicion is that no word of mouth will be enough for you, so instead may I recommend:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_J._Anderson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Kuhn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Murdoch

...and http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/ ; I am unaffiliated with Cambridge other than knowing a few of the people there.
Sounds like you've got a faulty handset - my first reaction to non-functional GPS would be to take the phone back?
Mornings were similarly not realistic for me. I've switched to a "midday" workout which for me comes at 5 pm every day. Currently doing 15-20 mins on the elliptical every weekday. My goal is to ease up to 30 mins daily. The benefit gained from 5*30 = 2.5 hrs / week is so much more than I could effectively accomplish putting that extra time into code.
I discovered this when I moved for a spell to Italy. I knew that netflix and the like had a good chance of not working, so I bought copies on Amazon. I get over here and go to my account and I see a country restriction message.

I bought the files but I cannot watch them.

What utter stupidity.
Amen to this. I also got the first Samsung Galaxy when it was hyped on engadget and other techblogs, especially for the amoled screen. The screen was always pretty good I guess. But aside from that, no more Samsung. GPS has always been ultra-slow, if working at all. The home button started glitching after 1-2 years. Micro-lag. The crap that is KIES. Kind of cheap plastic build. Each android update I hoped for things to get better, but they never did.

I'll probably never trust Samsung with my smartphone-money again. Might just test out Windows Phone just to get the ungodly build quality of a Nokia :).
The N900 had a not especially fancy transflective display that resulted in a very washed out but entirely usable interface in bright sunlight. I suspect that OLED simply can't compete with transflective LCD for daylight readability.
Self driving? Only if such a word can be applied to a laser beacon and wireless based follow-the-leader link. What happens if your radio link encounters interference? What happens if another car cuts in front of a robot car?

Obviously, all these self driven car stories are still ages behind google's AI car tech. I suppose it's unfair that google's car has spoiled the relative excitement of all these other stories, because they seem extraordinarily boring in comparison.
Stuff is not growth, in the same way that money is not wealth (PG gets this. You have probably read the essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html). Growth is just increasing wealth, but we measure it in terms of stuff (GDP, factor productivity) because it's easy. There may be natural limits to the amount of stuff we can produce. But there are, in principle, no natural limits to the amount of wealth we can produce.

Growth—that is, more wealth due to better technology and higher productivity—is exactly what enabled the New York Philharmonic to play Beethoven's Ninth in the first place, instead of farm potatoes or work in a factory. It's exactly what enables me to buy a ticket and go listen in person, or spend nothing and watch the performance online, even though I'm not a king or priest or robber baron! Pronouncements that growth (read: wealth, innovation, technology, knowledge) must end are as silly as past pronouncements that we have reached the limits of scientific knowledge and all that's left is to look in the sixth place of decimals.

In fact, one path to more growth and better wealth is actually more productivity in the "caring professions" singled out here. Medicine, social work, and education all suffer from a similar stuff-growth measurement problem! (Here is one discussion of this argument: http://www.economist.com/node/21016577) We want better health, but we can't measure it very well, so we rely on healthcare spending. We want better social services, but it's tough to quantify outcomes, so we measure inputs like program budgets. We want better education, but we're not sure what works, so we measure number of teachers and test scores. Despite spending more and producing more stuff in each area, there has been little growth in the last few decades.

Professors of economics and sustainable development are both susceptible to this fallacy.
If you turn off Javascript and cookies, a ton of sites that serve what at least could be static content and which you don't need to log into simply stop working.

What happened to graceful degradation? Is it not agile enough to expect a server to be able to work at least minimally with any browser?
Erlang is something else you might want to look at, but you really do have to go into more detail... Node.js and Erlang are both potentially a lot slower than C++.
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I got an unlocked S1 in China...about a year ago, my first smartphone (my previous phone being a Nokia which disappointed me soo much, I've always been a Nokia user, not anymore).

GPS didn't really work, but then GPS wasn't accurate in China anyway.

I now use my S1 as a wireless access point with an all you can eat data connection living in the UK. I do all my working (from my kitchen table) using this.

It's not perfect but by god it's a workhorse of a smartphone, and if I have the money would get an S3. As long as Samsung keep making phones like this I'll keep buying them, it's the smartphone nokia.
"this is a further extension with steering"

Park assist is fairly common these days - which will steer your car into a parking space.
What if Facebook's phone is really a camera?
What about Bradely Manning? It is Memorial Day after all, why has the world just forgotten about him?
How about just using Ghostery plugin in your browser? http://www.ghostery.com/

It's more user friendly and easier to modify websites that shouldn't be blocked than big hosts file.
I'm bootstrapping a SaaS business but running out of cash and resources, so I'm open to business propositions or freelance gigs for the next six months or so. This is how I try to promote myself. What do you think?
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Neither? _Bell Labs and CSP Threads_ by Russ Cox, http://swtch.com/~rsc/thread/, as used in #golang.
Really? Do you really think a democratic country like the UK, Sweden, or the US would be so stupid as to kill such a lightning rod figure? We're not talking about backwater banana republics here, these are G20 countries with well-established legal systems.

From what I've read, he's not facing treatment any different from anyone else in this situation([1] and [2]).

It all appears to be by the book. This is not a railroading, as there have been much back and forth and waffling by the Swedish authorities whether there was a crime and whether to continue the investigation.

I think people see a conspiracy where there is none.

[1]http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/police/extradition-intro11/extr...
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4ktning#H.C3.A4ktning_.2...
"You are accepting the IPv6 challenge." => "ERRORDismissInvalid value specified."

The future is no... oh wait, never mind.
It was a joke from the singer, taken out of context:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&js...
This is why I only buy software on CD, even if the option costs extra.
There are modifications and modifications. Some of them are almost useless (Samsung hubs, their own store, etc.), while others are pretty good actually (UI).

I know many people don't like it, but I actually prefer their UI to the stock Android one. I haven't actually heard anyone saying why exactly they don't like the Samsung version though.
I agree on "it is a good time for hiring people with high qualification at a discount". Here is a cultural caveat:

A very closed friend of mine started his company (internet startup) in Spain just over 12 months ago. He wanted to hire Spanish developers, with c. 5 years experience. And he did. Even if this was a startup, the working conditions were pretty good for Spain: €32,000 (well above many corporate jobs), private health insurance, equity, job responsibility and decision making. My friend was paying salaries out from his own savings, no seed money raised, and he was paying himself zero.

Since founding the company, he has fired two developers because of a "legacy" cultural clash. What my friend (late 20's guy) found out was that many developers (and probably this extends to many other industries) were looking for a 9-to-5 job, no frills jobs. They did not show any motivation/passion at all. They took no ownership of projects, did not step-in when issues came up and showed no motivation for "getting things done". He was frustrated because the company was a startup, not a large corporate, and his bank account wasn't cash rich, but Spanish developers showed no respect and did not go that extra mile to ship product in a responsible timeframe.

These two developers, in their mid-30's, are probably not representative of the entire dev community in Spain, but my friend burnt out, and hired developers in Poland. The Spaniards were let go, in time to pay them no equity.

From what he has told me, a part from some minor communication issues, Polish developers showed the right work attitude and passion, with a mentality very much like the Valley. Since the initial work crunch, from working 80 hour weeks, he is now doing a 9-6, and the company is cash flow positive. Just shows that hard work does pay off, and how a 9-5 mentality (specially when starting a company form scratch) is cancer to the company.
Ah great catch. I just changed it. Thanks!
Washington has at least three independent bookstores that seem to be doing well: Kramerbooks (Dupont Circle), Bridge Street Books (Georgetown), and Politics and Prose (Chevy Chase). Politics and Prose in particular does the "staff picks" and "new fiction/nonfiction" well. I think that they have natural constituencies, though I don't get to Bridge Street often enough to say what its is.
I imagine the Volvo engineers have done a lot of work on radio link interference / cutting up etc - just because they don't cover every eventuality in the article, doesn't mean they haven't thought of it!
In my opinion, if it's just about enhancing recovery after a workout, ideally you would eat any food rich in high-quality protein (chicken if you have access to grass-fed, pork, nuts if you vegatarian etc.) + some green vegetables (voluminous but low in calories, to supply fiber that will help digest the protein) and after the main meal maybe a grapefruit or orange (vitamin C speeds up recovery). If you look to gain weight, you can additionally eat more carbohydrates with the meat and also eat some carbs before the workout.
Because he did not die while serving his country? That's what Memorial Day is.
Right. When I first tested it.. it kind of worked. It was probably slow then too, but I didn't have much to compare with at the time. As I started using it more regularly later on it became more clear it was slow and that sometimes it didn't work at all. There was tons of talk about this on various forums... there was some fixes released and I always assumed this would get fixed in an later update. But time and updates went by and it never got good. Then it was too late to return the phone. If they even would have accepted a "sometimes very slow GPS" as a return-argument in the first place.
Any advice ir question is highly appreciated ;)
I think you are missing the point. And if we all said such negative comments about something new we wouldn't have made much progress in moving forward. So it solves some problems that have already been solved. It is doing them in new ways and at the very least it is getting people interested and talking about PHP and web development. I am sick of working with CakePHP! I am sick of trying to work with old frameworks that still want to support PHP4! Looking at this framework, gave me new interest in PHP, gave me new interest in the new features offered in recent versions of PHP.

That and keep in mind there are many projects that don't need something like Symfony or Zend. A lot of projects that is the same thing as using a sledge hammer for a thumbtack. Something like Laravel gives me the tools to get a small project up and running quickly without having to do a lot of the mindless/repetitive tasks we all have to do with new projects.

Lastly, your "solution" that gets your attention is nothing new. It is not web development, it is installing software via a web interface. So you say what does it solve when really you are just asking for another e-commerce and CMS solution. Hmm, that hasn't been done thousands of times before...
I love the idea of self driving cars but it's going to destroy so many jobs in such a short amount of time that it really makes you think. Taxis, delivery, and agriculture to name a few. I honestly think we are coming to a time period where there are just not enough things for people to do. What do we do about a problem like that?
> Usually when people "give up" freedom they're just trading it for a different form.

Go tell that to the many people who are fighting for more freedom.
Seems like a lot of gyrations involving heating water in novel ways, just so it can be called a steam engine. E.g. could have injected the fuel directly into the cylinder, ignited it there and used the explosive expansion directly - oh, that's an internal-combustion engine! Too simple I guess ?
She wanted to "see the content". The "content" just included images as well as text. What she didn't want was the heavy interface.

Maybe a new content type would work... "text/html" would be the application and "text/static-html" would be "just the content"? Browsers would then just have a toggle option of some sort.
All the other icons you are using are clear, but that one does not look like a bed.
I think it doesn't matter if it's a bed or not, just that the icon is recognizable in small sizes. I think they did a good job in that sense.
Slow news day? I like Wolfram Alpha, but fail to see the point of submitting a link to the home page...
Really not sure, why someone voted this down? The only open experiments on the issue of threads vs. events - at least I don't know of any other.
His life is effectively over for serving his country and following his conscious and morals

He will live in a cell the size of a bathroom for the rest of his life and face possible torture.

While we shop at the mall he did something incredible brave.
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I only buy < $40 shoes and I've bought maybe 2 pairs in the last 4 years. High quality shoes are definitely more comfortable and long-lasting, however high price != high quality, even if the marketing and branding says so.

You buy $100 shoes because of style and brand. And this price tag does not always mean quality. There are plenty of expensive brands that fall apart under everyday usage.
This new icon is definitely much easier to see at lower resolutions, nice work. Can you talk about the choice of using the bed icon versus a hotel-building icon that e.g. Hipmunk uses? http://www.hipmunk.com/hotels
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Optus resellers will give you public IP addresses by default and the high end ones can get you static IPs too.
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If one of my developers posted something like this, I would fire them on the spot.

You've got a "lot of legacy C++ code", and it seems like you're just randomly deciding whether or not to port it. You're basing this decision not on measurement, team considerations, or the needs of your project. Instead you're soliciting opinions from random people on the internet on what is a very religious issue.

If you have problems with your code (performance, maintainability, debugging, whatever), then go fix that. Maybe switching to Node is the right thing to do. But you'd be a fool to make that decision based on something someone said on Hacker News.
this is a bit of a tangent, but I now have a new gmail, but my youtube is still connected to my old one. So whenever I go on youtube, I need to log out of my new gmail, log into my old one to get access to my "stuff". Very annoying.
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It's not a binary situation. There is a medium between the high rises of Manhattan and the large single family homes of the suburbs.

More to your point, dense cities can be much more sustainable than suburbs. Money spent on infrastructure benefits more people. People living in apartment buildings use less energy for heating and cooling. Commuting doesn't necessarily require a car so you use less fossil fuels.
NYC doesn't belong on that list. Yes, it's prosperous, but it's dirty, polluted, and packed with jerks, to top it off. I live there. Forest Hills and parts of Brooklyn are about the only areas I know that are clean and beautiful in NYC, though I haven't been to Staten Island or the Bronx much.
All sorts of things Tex doesn't handle.

Embedded editable files, for instance.

Or markup for tracking changes.

Tex might make a good starting point for building a system that _did_ do all of that, but nobody seems to be working on that.
That doesn't make sense when the product isn't offered at all outside of a certain region. No local distributor makes money by not selling something.
Actually, the farming trend is being reversed. We've realized that the compromises we have to make in order to produce enough to feed us with only 2% of the population results in food that is actually killing us and generating super pests.

The trend is now headed back to more farmers working on smaller less efficient farms with out machines (or with fewer machines) or chemicals. So don't base your argument on the example of farming.
It wouldn't be unusual for people wanted by the US for various matters living in Europe to avoid the UK. Roman Polanski, for example, was able to testify over video-link when bringing a libel proceeding in the UK, on the basis that he was quite likely to be arrested and extradited if he was to appear in person.

Clearly Roman Polanski also believed Sweden less likely to extradite him than the UK, since he has actually visited the former (where they did arrest him, but then released him without charge back to France).
No, this is par of the course for us in Australia as well. I'm not surprised, more exasperated that it still happens.
Chicago's bar and club scene is full of the hyper-douches that (for the most part) weren't smart enough to make it to the coasts.

There's a lot more to Chicago, and if that's your take on it you obviously haven't spent much time here. It has an incredibly diverse and vibrant nightlife.

Also, the notion that if you live in Chicago it's because you weren't "smart enough to make it to the coasts" is incredibly insulting and narrow-minded.
MaxGabriel -- this is a bit of a subjective choice. We chose to go with the "bed" approach over the "building(s)" approach for two reasons:

1. We think the extensive usage of the original bed icon in wayfinding signage around the world makes it something that most users have already "learned". Most people take that icon to be representative of hotels since they've already seen it so many times.

2. We debated the building approach, but we thought it may get confused with the "home" icon. And we didn't want to use icon+text in our design at this stage. We think the buildings approach gets even more confusing without a text label.

As I said, however, it's a bit of a subjective choice...
The hotel-building icon to me looks too ambiguous. Is this representing a city? An apartment complex? An office building?

I think the bed icon clearly demonstrates what you use a hotel for - a place to sleep. This encompasses hotels that aren't several stories tall as well.