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Exactly. I don't understand what everyone is moaning about. How often do people sit on their computers, open the start menu and just stay there?

Never. That means you don't have to do so in Windows 8 with the start screen either. Except the Start Screen does provide more functionality than the start menu but that's a discussion for another day.

In Windows 8 your work flow is all in all almost identical to your work flow in Windows 7. You can still pin your most used programs to the taskbar meaning you can largely avoid even opening the start screen for launching apps since 99% of the time you can just click the ones you've pinned to the taskbar.

Also, multi-monitor support in win8 is so much better than on win7. There are plenty of non-metro feature additions or improvements in win8 that make using it a better experience.
On Linux, right? Firefox, or whatever gnome/dbus/opendesktop/gtk fuckery it uses has all sorts of strange notions about file types. When I download a tar.gz file, it saves a copy to /tmp, then launches a new instance of firefox with a file:// url, which opens a save file dialog.
The Apple sycophants are out in force in these comments.
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I look at it as a power play for creating more loyal consumers. Apple asserts its power by making the device unusable except for its intended purpose. You assert your submission by paying money for the device and using it like you should. Like it or not, dominance and submission is a powerful concept for humans, and Apple is exploiting this to get more of your laptop and tablet dollar.

(The arguments about thinness make no sense. A torx screw is just as thin as a pentalobular screw. The unusual screw design is there solely as a "fuck you" gesture, which many people react quite positively to.)
> why are they all trying to re-invent how we're launching applications?

I understand that they want to grow the tablet and mobile market, but forcing a tablet interface on desktop users seems like a serious strategic error on their part.

Microsoft has lost their sense of identity. IBM is not a sexy company. IBM is not in the news. But IBM knows who they are - a mature company that quietly goes about making a solid profits. Instead of embracing who they are, Microsoft seems to be chasing everyone else.

Edit: removed unsubstantiated rumor.
Yes, as the owner of a CrossFit gym, I can verify that the trainer pay is the main difference in costs and the reason why CrossFit is more expensive.
The percentage of art qua art that is bullshit pretension simply used as a signalling device for an in-crowd of self-congratulatory people is not 100%.

But it's also not 0%.

Fortunately, I don't need to care. The art qua art crowd are welcome to their signalling parties and occasional strokes of insight, and I'm welcome to think the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer was really rather artistic, and by and large we two need not even cross paths to growl and yip at each other like two little teacup poodles viciously defending their turf on the matter of whose definition of art is correct. Viva la freedom.
It's been a long time, but now there is more viable competition as well as less need to upgrade from older versions.

I think Microsoft would be far better off doing more frequent OS updates with smaller changes.
Conclusion is over the better dumb, sorry.

Remember the story about tire companies buying trolley routes, running them out of schedule, people opting for other means of transportation because trolleys were never on time, than municipalits moving to buses because "nobody takes the trolleys anymore"?

It's the same.

Nobody upgrades their laptops because they are not made to be upgradable. Ram and hd? Hahaha. That's to easy seller prices not long term upgrade.

Heck, even the keyboard is already an addon on all models, yet there's no offer of key sizes or layouts.

CPUs could be socket instead of soldered, adding what? 1mm at most? Never been done.
While I'd agree with the general premise that diversification is a good thing in platform use if high-availability is a requirement, given that this outage was single-AZ, this particular outage should really highlight the point that your application should be multi-AZ scaled if it needs to be up.
I'm glad to hear this.

I felt like I was using Windows 8 "wrong" because I was throwing away the start screen after boot and not coming back to it.
As the owner of a CrossFit gym, I can also verify this. Our business model is built around getting people to show up to the classes, and in any given week we have around 90% of members showing up. In one of the larger gyms (24hr, Lifetime, Gold's, etc.), you're looking at closer to 10%. The main difference in costs is the trainers though, since every class is closely coaches and led by experienced instructors.
Art is incredibly subjective, but a gallery opening is potentially the worst place to experience art. You are socially obliged to look at each piece, not just scan past the ones you don't think appeal to you (which is easy to do at a museum or online).
I wonder if it's better to create an accidental outage during a scheduled test, or to have an outage completely out of the blue. Obviously mitigation is tricky even during a scheduled test, but perhaps its plausible?
I knew my wife was the woman for me when we visited the Tate Modern on our first date and both walked out after 30 minutes agreeing that it's all garbage. [and went to Greenwich park and observatory which is awesome]

Art is the ultimate example of social proof at work. Another great one is wine. I live in the Bordeaux winelands and the only difference between Premier Cru wines like Chateau Margaux at $400 a bottle and equally great non-premier cru wines is that everyone believes that Premier Cru is the best.
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The article also quotes that this has changed in the last 7 years and adds more subtlety to the issue.

"But in 2005, India brought its law in line with World Trade Organization (WTO) rules recognising 20-year patents, pushing up the prices of newly launched drugs.

Cipla, India’s fourth largest pharmaceutical company by sales, has been pressing the government to allow widespread use of “compulsory licences”, which are permitted under WTO rules.

The licences allow companies to make existing life-saving drugs to sell in countries where they are otherwise priced out of reach."

While product design is important, availability of a strong manufacturing supply chain is also important. India's role in pharma is similar to what China provides for regular manufacturing.
Windows 8 wasn’t born out of a need or demand; it was born out of a desire on Microsoft’s part to exert its will on the PC industry and decide to shape it in a direction — touch and tablets — that allows it to compete against, and remain relevant in the face of Apple’s iPad.

Early relational DB pioneer Michael Stonebraker once said: A company produces software architecture that resembles its org chart.

Maybe this is indicative on how well Microsoft can execute at this point. (Though, the overall trend seems positive for them.)
Many who choose to use Sokal to highlight their point seem to be unaware that Science has had it's own reverse-Sokal with the Bogdanov affair: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_Affair
If it ever is aliens, I hope they aren't some boring little bugs. They need to be just like in the movies.
I'd love to know how it handles adding new shards. Migrating redis data from one shard to another has been a major pain point for us in the past, and has caused us to move away from redis for any big data needs we have where growth can't accurately be estimated.
What Facebook knows: too much.
What it has: too much squared.
Well technically, you can upgrade the SSD by buying one specific to the MacBook Pro, as OWC has done for the MacBook Air.
Navel gazing.
I agree with the point about comments being useful for a really long complicated regex, but any really long complicated regex is a coding problem to begin with. Really, instead of comments (or in addition to comments), the regex should be broken up into logical pieces separated by white-space, just like regular code is. Jeff Atwood explains it well in this classic post: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/06/regular-expressions...
The art world is where the bleeding edge of culture can be found. Most of the cultural trends that are commonplace today have origins in the art world. The reason why art is hard to understand by pretty much everyone is that it usually disregards practicality in its original form, and then eventually overtime those same ideas are fused with a more practical viewpoint which brings it into the mainstream for the masses.

In some ways you could view it similar to the bleeding edge of scientific discoveries in that similarly many don't initially know what to do with them. Eventually overtime those discoveries are applied and brought to the masses through some form of productization.
I've been using Windows since 3.11 and when I first booted up Windows 8 I clicked the Windows Explorer button in 'Metro' and was taken to the 'Classic' desktop. No Start menu. It took me a good fifteen minutes of clicking around to discover how to get back to Metro so I could launch any program.

In short it made a programmer feel like an idiot. I can't imagine how many grandads are going to be furious with it if they upgrade. I have no idea why removing the Start menu is a good idea.

I use OS X, Ubuntu (headless servers) and Windows 7 daily and I will definitely wait until Windows 9 before I upgrade my Windows VM. They are definitely sticking to the 'every second release sucks' cycle, like Star Trek.
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Yes. Also, stop navel-gazing (usually that means stop reading Hacker News). Stop commenting on Hacker News as well. Funny thing about the Singularity/aliens/heaven--it'll come even if you don't spend a lot of time worrying about it.
From what I have heard from people who work in pharma companies in India, the main reasons drugs are cheaper when manufactured in India are:

- not much R&D costs to design new drugs (however they do spend on designing the manufacturing process)
- cheap labor for manufacturing, including a good supply of chemical engineers.
- environmental regulations for chemical manufacturing are stricter in Western countries.
Vice magazine is a curious beast, aspiring somewhere intellectually higher than Maxim or FHM but more casual and less stuffy than GQ.

But for any geeks/intelectual types (most HN'ers I'd assume) it's not going to push your boundaries given that it's having to aim at a some-what mass-market appeal.

As it goes, I still find some of it to an enjoyable and thought provoking read at times
Opera detected the link as an RSS feed and asked me to subscribe to it with the built-in RSS reader.

I wonder if other browsers would benefit from being able to at least detect RSS feeds and display appropriate information to user.
I'm German currently in Canada and I heard the Hum apparently quite often in the last few days, never in Germany though. I've been on a very remote ranch somewhere 3 hours from Kamloops, BC and at first, I thought it was indeed a diesel engine starting up. Thing is, there was no neighbor close to that huge property. Then I heard it also 500m further away, same noise, same volume and also the same pattern. It's just for a short moment, 3-5 single tones in a row.

Then I drove with an ATV to some lake in the middle of nowhere and heard it again. I asked the other person I was with and she just said "well, it's someone starting a diesel engine". And I thought again: Who does start a diesel engine in the middle of nowhere. I thought it might be an animal or so, but could never tell for sure.

Edit: The interesting aspect is that I heard the Hum probably 3-4 times. 2x I was alone and in both other occasions, two different people heard the same sound. So I guess it was not just in my ears.
Scientists switch on and off magnetism
Does anyone know any similar online course or article series?
Watch Linus Torvalds Flip The Bird And Say ‘F**k You’ To Nvidia
That's Conway's Law. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
I liked what they did before: have two options for people. The slightly bigger option with customization (MacBook Pro, Mac Pro) and the streamlined clean option for those who don't want to fiddle with anything (MacBook Air, iMac, Mac Mini).

The thing I'm annoyed with is the inability to swap out RAM sticks. The recent MacBook's usually allow for more RAM than Apple specifies. Theoretically, the MacBook Pro Retina model should handle 32 GB (16gb x 2). However, because the RAM is soldered, I won't be able to put that build together when those sticks are available in a few years. Which is kind of ridiculous when considering how much money ($3000+) is going into it.
So, you want to learn Linux?
Java has a type and effect system. Methods return type * effect - this causes problems, a big one in Java is that effects can't be polymorphic.

Anyway, I wouldn't like to see an effect system in Haskell (though, seems like Scala is getting one). We already express IO and State as a type. How about we express exceptions as types? Easy:

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/mtl/1.1.0.2/doc/...
I think the power of windows 8 comes from the new form factors that will become common place. Imagine having a laptop where the screen detaches and becomes a tablet. Imagine carrying that around with you to do "tablet-y" things. You'll obviously use the start screen and metro apps. You can still use "classic Windows" but the majority of your time will likely be in metro since it is so much more convenient.

But then, you get home and decide you need to get some real work done so you plop that "tablet" back into the laptop and you have a full fledged laptop again. You can even hook it up into a multi monitor setup or whatever you want. Now get to work!

I think that will be really cool. One computer for both fun and work.
Create your own Magic 8 Ball script
I guess a lot of people feel intimidated that some others are "staring at this with one hand on their chins and super serious expressions", yeah, they probably have reasons to process it longer, but in the end it still boils down to the viewer's relation with the subject. Don't "get" it? Just move on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuckism

"The name 'Stuckism' was coined in January 1999 by Charles Thomson in response to a poem read to him several times by Billy Childish. In it, Childish recites that his former girlfriend, Tracey Emin had said he was 'stuck! stuck! stuck!' with his art, poetry and music."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Nicholas_Serota_Makes_an_Ac...
I prefer the start screen to desktop shortcuts because, since it’s really a popup menu of sorts, you can bring it up and (single-)click to open up a window on top of your existing window configuration without disturbing that. With desktop shortcuts, even if you use the Win-D shortcut, when you double-click on an icon it forgets your previous window configuration, so you have to manually restore everything. Another thing I like to do with the start screen is keep groups of shortcuts to folders and apps associated with activities or projects I’m working on. I can keep those groups off to the right most of the time, then easily move a whole group to the first page when I know I’ll be working on that for a while.
I do science. When I was younger, I devoured philosophy treatises, law reviews, and political science books. I still find it fun, but I lost the passion for it. However, I disagree strongly with this article in his characterization of philosophers.

I haven't left philosophy because everyone in it is stupid, as this article seems to suggest. I left philosophy because after all my reading, note-taking, class-discussioning, and debate tournamenting, I never felt like I'd made any progress, and that mattered to me personally. At the end of the day, the questions that were hard to answer were still unsolved, and the gray ethical areas were still gray. This is why I don't do philosophy, and I why I found the science bug. Not because philosophy lacks rigor or reasonable investigators.

In philosophy, real answers are difficult to find and prove, but in math and science, even though every answer brings 10 new questions, you can look back and say: I proved that theorem, I empirically verified the acceleration of the earth.

To quote my favorite xkcd T-shirt "Science, it works, bitches!". Most scientists I know that disregard philosophy do so because science gives them a feeling of getting somewhere, while philosophy, even at its most rigorous, just seems to leave them more confused than when they started. It's more of a personal preference for that kind of investigation than any rejection of the intelligence of a large group of people.
This is a very old article. He did a follow-up piece last year: http://www.vice.com/read/frieze-fair-trying-to-get-art

It's good to see that the irony of VICE has been largely lost on the HN crowd here as we discuss what makes "good" art. Haha.
Regarding that last bit:

I wonder if they feel a bit of social pressure to stay. Basically when you say "I'd love to know why" all of a sudden there is an actual person who would be clearly harmed by their decision to leave.
Try d'Yquem.
I agree with the author; most people don't bother cracking the case on any computer they own. We're in the minority on this one and as the author said, I'd rather have a MBP with Retina Display than an easy to service/upgrade previous generation MacBook Pro (or any other brand for that matter).

My cars have become increasingly difficult to service myself over the years. When I bought my first car over twenty years ago I could do routine maintenance on it myself. Now when I open the hood of my Acura the whole engine compartment is covered and pieces must be removed to service it. This car is the most expensive computer I've ever bought and I'd wager it's even harder for the average user to service than the new MacBook Pro!
From the engineers prospective, I understand the reason for what you are saying.

However, I've always made an effort to exercise the left side of my brain for balance. I played cello for a decade in childhood and toured Europe; currently, I compete in salsa performance (after having been the most lead-footed lame dancer four years ago).

What I've learned is that expressing my creativity allows for introspection. The expression of oneself through music, art, dance, etc. culminates like the completion a programming project, albeit using a different set of skills. While the extrospective nature of art galleries and concerts is exciting as an artist, it more provides a denouement of ones introspection as a project draws to a close.

Making this realization allows you to enjoy galleries and concerts more. It doesn't have to do with what is produced. These expressions of self allow you a direct route into the thoughts and feelings of the artist, and suddenly the question becomes 'why' more so than 'what.'

Heading back to 'hacking,' the most successful engineers, scientists, and programmers I know balanced the technical and the creative, and the latter allowed for approaching a project from a unique perspective.

My comments and arguments may sound abstract, but I do not present them as fact. I just request that you keep an open mind - do not view 'different' as inferior; instead, view it with an open mind.
Cholesterol in Biomedical Autism Treatment
Biomedical autism intervention specialist physician, Dr. Kurt Woeller, explains the importance of cholesterol levels in brain function and hormone function. Children with Autism can also have low cholesterol and their levels should be checked.
Standard questions: Are you on the latest version? Do you have a lot of extensions? Does it exhibit the same behaviour in safe mode?

(I don't get the UI stalling for very long ever, and I have tens and tens of tabs open always.)
Poor people are also averse to dying of AIDS and cancer.
Vertebrae front-end framework built with Backbone.js and RequireJS using AMD
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>> The only things online that are truly free are those where the creator is donating the time or the money. Very few people do that.
From Firefox to Linux to the hundreds of open source software developers, they are not very few. And their numbers are growing.

>> That free encyclopedia? The "please donate" ads are ads!
Donating is not mandatory. So it is free. It doesn't waste my time nor my privacy.
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As an example, GlaxoSmithKline spends 8.826M GBP/13.8683M USD on marketing/sales and cost of business, and 4.009 GBP/6.2993M USD on research.

Most of them make this publicly available on their financial reports on their websites.

http://www.gsk.com/investors/reps11/GSK-Annual-Report-2011.p...
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but my friends in the electronics recycling industry tell me they have no way of recycling aluminum that has glass glued to it like Apple did with both this machine and the recent iPad.

I took this to mean that recycling was essentially impossible (by Apple or anyone else).

Well, as you basically admit below, the economics and motivations of most recyclers are not going to be the same as Apple. In any case, this doesn't mean that they won't take any aluminum that has ever had glass glued to it. It just means that they won't take something with the glass still glued to it.

I'll bet you $1000 that I could get the screen glass off of a Retina Macbook Pro with a hammer and an angle grinder or another common shop tool. (You supply the Macbook.) Most anything I can do inconveniently and dangerously at a hackerspace with an ordinary shop tool could be done with greater safety and lower unit cost with an appropriate custom tool.

Perhaps Apple can indeed figure out a recycling strategy. I doubt they will spend any time on it unless prompted by adverse publicity (like this article is generating).

So you don't know, and neither does your source. All you have is supposition, for which you leave yourself an out.
Art is simple. It exists to decorate the walls of rich people. It's been that way for thousands of years. I'm not very rich, but I have some art around the place. It's pretty awesome.

The problem is that a lot of these artists don't get art. They are confused about their role in life, and they go round wasting their time making things that rich people wouldn't want on their walls. And that's just pointless and sad.
I do this literally a hundred times every day.
Typing the name of the app you want is clumsy, you say?

It's a good thing nobody told me that, 'cause I've been using the search box in Win7's start menu heavily for years and I would never go back now.
Those rumors are BS, nothing is being blocked. The basis for them seems to be that they have removed implementation code for the Windows 7 start menu that was left in earlier Windows 8 builds. Third parties can still write their own start menu replacements, they just won't work if they're based on hacking Microsoft's leftover start menu code.
What, being genuinely interested in someone is wrong advise now?
Being flippant about contemporary art is about as easy as it gets. "Hey, look, this Rothko idiot just put a bunch of red on a canvas. What a tool."

Perhaps I don't 'get' VICE.

(edit) although having said that, art openings are one of my least favourite things imaginable. I just don't blog about them afterwards.
Sounds like Amazon is doing something wrong, shouldn't it fail over to Battery then Generator?
The thing is that Windows isn't Microsoft's cash cow.. in the consumer space. It is and mostly always has been the enterprise market.
This one is much better. Some kind of folks would like to see an interface that resembled a radio, though :)
Poll: What should a Microsoft tablet be?
Awesome work, but i guess you are tracking only few top pages. Cannot find back in time analytics even for pages with a couple of million likes.