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The industrial design doesn't have any bearing on what components are inside.

If this ran software at all (Apple tends to develop the two in isolation: no doubt around this time some people were working on touch interfaces, but nowadays the two don't tend to meet until they're quite far down the line) then I suspect it would have been test software similar to Switch Board, which they install on prototypes at the moment) unless it's pretty close to production.

I would be surprised if this was running G4. Apple's dissatisfaction with IBM was growing circa 2003-04 and if they were noodling around with the form factor they would have been under no pressure to put in a production CPU; they'd have gone with the best technical solution to the problem (which I doubt is a G4. Might have been another IBM chip).
I used to make aerogels (a related class of materials) in high school; allow me to give a (hopefully accurate) layperson's overview.

Aerogels formerly held the record for least dense solid. They're not gels, but they're called aerogels because they're made from gels. As the name "aero" implies, they're mostly air, giving them incredible strength-to-weight ratios and insulating properties. Silica aerogels are translucent and quite amazing to hold; it's like holding a cloud.

Aerogels are made from colloids (a.k.a. gels), which are long chains of polymers formed in water. Free-floating around in the water, they form very long, intricate, 3-D maze-like structures. If you've ever made JELL-O, you've made (and eaten) a colloid. It’s the intricate structure of the colloid which keeps the suspended water from spilling out.

Silica aerogels are formed by removing the water from a silica gel, leaving only the maze like structure behind. This structure is very delicate, and if you attempt to evaporate the water out near room temperature/pressure, the capillary action of water will collapse the structure like a dried out jellyfish. However, if you heat and pressurize the system past the critical point, the water becomes a supercritical liquid and it can be removed without pulling the rest of the material inwards.

It appears that what they’ve done here is similar, except they use a multi-step process to deposit carbon on the colloid, then remove the colloid completely, leaving nothing but a carbon maze. I presume they can't make colloids out of carbon directly, hence the multistep process.
You need to provide more details. For example, are you planning on building the entire MVP on your own Vs. outsource pieces of it (design or back end etc.).
I've switched full time to DDG for a couple months now, and have rarely ever used !g to Google results because I was unsatisfied with the DDG results. I'm curious what the criticisms of DDG's search results are. It's clear to me that many people prefer Google over DDG, but it's unclear why. What is the standard that the search results are being held up to?
>Wow nice writing.

I honestly thought you were serious that for a second. This guy has never used a WP7. I read that article and I want my 1.5 minutes back.
Wouldn't it be argued that if you support Wikileaks you're pro information leaking and therefore there's an indication that if you're given access to "secret" information that doesn't match your views you're inclined to leak it? Surely that is enough to warrant no access.
Replace standard with tool. Still applicable.
On an individual scale, you have to ask were your goodness is really coming from / what is it that allows it.

Do you like the big house you live in, electricity 24h/day, the plethora of food you can buy, the nice cars you drive, the crime-free white areas you can live in (or move into), having access and freedom to discuss issues such as this?

It all came out from competition, not personal niceness.

Not only that, but your "fairness" attitude is a product of all this. Without which you're life, and ideas about who you are, would be drastically different.

The rest of the world is a bad place (http://www.vice.com/the-vice-guide-to-travel/the-vice-guide-...), and everyone is in competition... Some people compete by being nice, others by accumulating wealth, some choose to impose their wills on others, etc. It's all the same, ego.

If you're interested, you don't have to go far in Buddhism to discover that all action is egotistical.

If you want to be truly fair, then drop out of this game called society; stop doing, and start being with silence and compassion.
Wow, I had no idea. I knew it was originally Japanese since the first two projects were very Japanese, but not about the separate company. Shoulda done my research.
Honestly, my target audience with this page is precisely Linux enthusiasts.

Presumably the enterprise customers are all either running RHEL or are already buying Oracle Linux support contracts, and wouldn't be interested in "Oh, I could just run this CentOS-like thing for free".
Fund for the Defense of Net Neutrality or Fonds de Défense de la Net Neutralité

https://mashable.com/2012/07/18/wikileaks-taking-donations/
I think of espionage as something akin to the military.

As far as I am concerned, the two are not simply akin but deeply intertwined. Espionage can greatly improve the effectiveness of your military.
A "developer edition" laptop with 1366x768 resolution?
Office 2013 Web Apps: A step forward, but still dependent on the desktop
Australians pay 50% more for downloaded music,games,& software than Americans
For website scraping, something like casperjs/phantomjs or selenium are more suitable, since they emulate a browser and evaluate javascript, which curl cannot, and it is not clear if this tool can.

What are the use cases where curl is more suitable than phantomjs or selenium?
More complex deployment processes can be kicked off in the post-receive hook.

I think it's useful to have deployment integrated with your SCM. You have a complete history of deployments. You can easily roll back to any version. You can deploy from any machine which has your SCM tool installed.
Ha ha! Thanks for the best laugh I have had today
It's obviously the dwelling of a Sarlacc.
Okay, how exactly is it not able to dual boot Windows? What is keeping it from being Windows compatible? It seems like an extreme situation where an x86 would be Linux-compatible but not be able to run Windows as well.
Cyanogenmod 10 (Preview) Now Available For The Samsung Galaxy S III
Muffi Ghadiali (Amazon Kindle) in Charge of OUYA HW/SW
All jurisdictions which follow British law, or which are based on British law to some extent (like the U.S.) have judicial ethical guidelines that generally require a judge to stand down if he makes statements that indicate or suggest he cannot impartially judge the case before him based on the law or merits that specifically apply.

This judge said "The US is the enemy" while presiding over a case in which the U.S. was the primary opposing litigant. A statement that strongly worded strongly suggests he would not be able to impartially judge the remaining proceedings. Consequently, the instant he made that statement, he was ethically obligated to stand down. In some jurisdictions, not standing down would result in disrobement and potentially disbarrment.

Indeed, in most jurisdictions with these rules, judicial decisions can be struck down for a judge's refusal to stand down after making such statements. The one exception is SCOTUS, because its decisions are not subject to further review except by SCOTUS itself.
I tend to still use !g for when i'm doing code / error searches, google just seems to give better results. There was some article a couple weeks ago about how often search engines "crawl" info, and google was still miles ahead of bing / ddg.
Yes, quite often the "On Left Click" action is tied to a "Take Screenshot" function, useful for defeating these types of on-screen keyboards, randomized or not.
Just curious, can you ride e-bikes on the bike highways in Denmark?
Dutch site claims there will not be a new Office for Mac
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> So I think it's fair to think that [...] most in the international community believed that Iraq had WMD's.

Hm... "A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof, and when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven." - Jean Chretien, discussing what type of proof Canadian government wanted before assisting in a war with Iraq (which it ultimately did not)
I don't have an overly long commute, but enough to make me fairly sweaty. There is no shower at my work, but one of the restrooms is a single with a lockable door. I always bring a towel and a change of clothes and give myself a light spit bath in key areas with wet paper towels and towel dry everywhere before putting on deodorant.

It's not as good as a shower, but I don't smell and I don't feel sticky after. I also feel great and refreshed and not in need of a cup of coffee to wake me up.
Pulse was replaced. There's a newer Yahoo! Profile (I work close to the guys responsible for it).
"But if you don't have showers at work, what do you do once you get there?"

I don't live there, but my solution in a similar situation revolved around the exercise club two blocks from work. On bike days you only use the club for its shower, on non-bike days (winter, etc) you exercise at the club (lift weights, mostly).

Also, hard as it might be to believe, bicycling more energy efficient than walking at the same speed, so once you're in shape, going slow and enjoying the ride is not sweaty, its possible to go slightly faster than walking while generating less heat than a normal walk. Depending on your local weather, a leisurely walk outdoors often results in no sweating at all.
Which will properly be their excuse too. Won't stop them from being flayed in the media.
phantomjs doesn't just emulate a browser, it uses WebKit.
Of course one could hop in a time machine and say "Make careful note of the word "aims", Amazon aims to sell everything. Today they only sell books"

Its good to start an ambitious idea in a niche.
The Fifth Elephant is a community-powered conference on the Big Data
One of the more interesting things here is the production process.

One of the reasons companies work so hard to make small scale features is that smaller scale means smaller die, smaller die means more devices per wafer, cost per wafer is fixed, more devices at a fixed defect rate means more yield (good devices), more yield means more 'value' per wafer.

Got that? The chain of events is predicated on the high cost of creating a semiconductor wafer.

Now if instead you can 'print' the circuitry, and you do mixed signal stuff. Then you can make your entire system as one board sized integrated circuit. Think an LCD television (transistors on glass) where instead of each transistor being the same you put a CPU and various other peripherals there. Size is not as important but yield still is.

So for things like phones/tablets, if you can do LED pixels (vs LCD) then you don't need the glass to be transparent (backlit) so you put down a layer of display, then a layer of compute, then a layer of memory, and finally a layer of radio. And voila, a device which looks like a piece of glass with black scum on the back that lights up and makes phone calls if you put power to the ends :-).
>Let me put this another way via an analogy: should the architect who designs your house also be required to wire the electrics, install the plumbing, and lay the blocks too?

For better or worse, this is not a good analogy.

Software is design all the way down, due to complexity. There is no realistic distinction between software design and software construction / implementation.

Also, regardless of whether the software architect actually does the development work, he should be capable of doing the work. Therefore an effective software architect is a software engineer.
> if Marissa Mayer flops as CEO of Yahoo it will be a damning indictment of female performance as technology CEOs.

I know you've already been downvoted but ugh. How many men have to fail as CEO before somebody indicts male performance as CEOs? This is a ridiculous statement. She is one person. If she fails it will be on her, her board, and the company she's taking over. Just like every other CEO. Stop damningly indicting every woman for the performance of other women.
Yeah but that's the problem... I don't want a special mystery Dell ISO, I want to use stock Ubuntu and have it Just Work. Using Dell's ISO locks you in to that certain image (upgrades are very likely dependent on Dell), it locks you in to Dell support (good luck posting in the Ubuntu forums about your super-special Dell ISO), and it almost certainly means they're not contributing back to the OSS community (though that's not so much a pain point as it is a general gripe).
TED talk by LifeEdited Founder Graham Hill about minimalist living
Donating now. Please follow suit.
APIs. Lots of HTTP usage is not browser-related.
I used to use Fireworks all the time, I love the export comparison and slicing.

Recently though I've taken to some free options (I'm on Windows mainly):

1. Inkscape for all vectors

2. Paint.NET for everything else

3. PNGGauntlet for optimization (mashup of PNGOUT, DeflOpt, and OptiPNG).

4. http://instantsprite.com/ for sprites
What winning in payments should mean
Link to actual release: http://google-africa.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/send-and-receive...

Apparently you can text "MORE" to see more of an email. So are users limited to 140-character chunks, or will Google expand this into MMS?

For that matter, how widespread is MMS vs SMS in emerging markets?
Deciding what to store is highly correlated with what information are we most likely going to find useful.
Aerogels can have a surface area of ~2,500 m2 g-1, which is incredibly high.

I wonder if this material, being made of carbon and likely having a similarly high surface area, would make a good capacitor.
More Linux Jobs than People to Fill Them - Rackspace
I wonder how we'd explore it. I guess land a probe with a transmitting station near it and have a rover on a wire go fall in?
The ZFS on Linux release candidates are pretty solid, http://zfsonlinux.org/
I don't think it's the most obvious kind of good UX, but rather good UX for people who value expressiveness, like ruby programmers. The items that change meaning based on symbols are quick to type, but it comes at the cost of clarity. curl's paramters aren't very clear either, and since it supports more than just HTTP, it's harder to go through the man page with all that it supports. I think there's still room for one that uses option names/letters to differentiate between headers and body properties rather than symbols.
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I really believe that it's a possibility.

Who would have thought that Obama would bring back the Espionage Act? We used to imprison people for publicly supporting Communism and/or publicly denouncing wars, and the courts upheld it. The Overton Window makes people really complacent in a pretty rapidly changing world, and the civil liberties regressions by Bush that are being institutionalized and explicitly legalized by Obama could give a future Santorum (or his ilk's) administration a bunch of scary options.

In the future, we may regret having had conversations like this on the internet or over the phone. I'm taking that risk.

edit: sentence fragment

edit - relevant: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4259441
My husband is in a similar evangelical role at a larger company - so travels. I am co-founder at a start-up (Booktrope). We have a six year old daughter, and many pets :)

Our biggest shift to manage it all was to work from home - myself in particular. This allows a flexible schedule to some degree (which means working when our daughter is in bed, sometimes, of course). When my husband is not traveling, he also works from home. As a bonus, when he is in town, we can take the odd lunch or dinner together or as a family. It also means that I schedule as many of my evening events around those times when he is able to be here.

Last, we took the time to find a fantastic school/care situation for our daughter, which makes us feel as though she is getting a good education, and tons of playtime with other kids regardless of our schedules - and most importantly not stuck home with me watching TV while I work.

I agree with you completely on the most critical aspect of it all, you have to both want to make it work, and be willing to take the steps needed to coordinate it all! It can be done, but it certainly isn't without challenges.
I'm wondering if these might be a better route than what Dell is proposing: http://zareason.com/shop/Laptops/
The EFF rocks! It kills me that 90% of the public has little understanding of most things the EFF does for them...

I am thinking of making a new donation to the EFF today to help with this great cause ---> https://supporters.eff.org/donate <--- Who is joining me?
When I search for something on DDG, I generally find one or two good results somewhere in the first set and all the rest are spammy/junk sites that repost content from other larger sites or just poor quality results.

DDG also doesn't understand context or acronyms, like MoP. I work for a gaming site, so my example is gaming related.

Google knows when I search for "mop legendary" I am looking for information relating to a legendary item in the Mists of Pandaria expansion for World of Warcraft. DDG doesn't make that connection of MoP -> Mists of Pandaria. I do get some amusing results like this though: http://www.buy.com/th/swiss-legend-diamond-mop.html
Reactive super-speed electromagnet dot display
I don't see the similarity of a person posting pictures of self on facebook, and a criminal enterprise knowingly and willfully generating revenue through copyright crimes.

Really, I don't. Even if you ignore that some countries have extradition treaties which spell out exactly at what level this can happen (btw, US and Iran don't).

But if you love analogies, I'm sure I can come up with one even more ridiculous, that would show my case.
> I take the point that the script and the reversion of the changes introduced by the script could be tested on a development box running CentOS.

Yes, that was my thinking here. That you'd spin up a CentOS VM or run it on a test system, see if you were happy, and then you'd run it for a while. Once you were happy, you'd then run the script everywhere.
The Higgs boson doesn't provide mass to anything, the Higgs field does. The Higgs field also provides a negligible fraction of the mass of baryons.
You beat me to the punch for the call for donations. LOL
You're welcome!

> One of the things that can seem almost mystical at times about math to someone who has not studied math heavily, is even just simple things, like how pi and e seem to get into everything, even where you might not naively expect it.

Yep. Sure blew my mind when I saw a proof of quadratic reciprocity (a very neat result about square numbers in modular arithmetic) which used complex analysis (how on earth can complex numbers prove stuff about modular arithmetic!?)

> Maybe everything I said above is wrong in some way...

Not really. Your intuition upon seeing this visualization was pretty much right on: studying periodic functions is a way of understanding numbers.

> Or maybe what I've said is so obvious to someone who has studied math seriously that they just want to shout, "Duh!"

Not so much. It took some mighty smart folks to develop some ideas which are perhaps suggested, in hindsight, by this picture. The big one is Fourier series and transforms, which allow you to decompose periodic functions into their constituent sine waves. You can use Fourier analysis to get information about number theory, which was essentially your suggestion. However, that's not at all obvious without seeing this picture. Certainly, my first exposures to Fourier analysis were in the context of signal processing and solving PDEs. I had absolutely no inkling that it may be useful for number theory until actually seeing it. Even if I had seen this picture 7 years ago (when I knew signal processing and PDEs, but not number-theoretic applications), I probably would not have made the connection that you made.

So, I think your intuition was a rather non-obvious idea, and so your comment did not deserve the quick shoot-down. (And even if it were obvious to folks who have studied math, it would still be non-obvious to someone, probably).
The OP's argument is precisely about the fact that they shouldn't provide any ISO at all!

Just make sure your ultrabook is Ubuntu-certified or something and let people install the official version.
You know the new movie about Jimi Hendrix?… it won’t use any Jimi Hendrix music
wdaher, I don't question for a moment your intent and your altruism for this project, and please don't take my criticism of Oracle as anything personal.

I agree with you that corporations are not inherently evil. However, I am of the opinion that Oracle is inherently evil, and it's their business practices, pricing practices, and licensing practices that are ruining their reputation in the industry.

I form this opinion from personal experience dealing with Oracle over hardware, database, middleware, support, and operating system issues with my current employer. Oracle here is not well loved and the concept of converting CentOS instances to Oracle Linux is greeted with peals of laughter at the very suggestion.

I wish you luck in your endeavors, but in your enthusiasm please also keep in mind that Oracle is not known as the most trustworthy company on the block and people are righly justified in being wary of Oracle's intent in providing a "free" product or service.
On my PC, I'm a big fan of paint.net, the free editing software from http://www.getpaint.net/
Sorry, I misread that you concluded that people must be moving away from hotmail/yahoo from this analysis.
They do do some evaluation and have said so. It's true a few people might die for any particular leak, but you don't seem to weigh the potential benefits to its release either. It's possible the release of information could save more lives than it takes.

Governments have proven over and over and over again throughout history that they cannot be trusted with much power, and knowledge is one of the greatest powers. I find your overall authoritarian point of view disturbing, as if government (and its cronies) are sitting around thinking what they can do for us, instead of how to get more from us, or how to cover their own asses.

I agree with your point that there are good people working in govt but I fail to see how the abundance of secrecy helps them do their jobs better. I hope one day in the future that govts are fully transparent in everything they do because technology allows everyone to be a spy.
It looks remarkably like a sinkhole. Although one could joke, "Hey guys we found your Mars Climate Explorer!"

Given the fact that its on the side of a volcano it could also be a hole in a lava tube. But whatever it is, it is really cool and damn wouldn't it be nice to have someone there we could ask to roll over and check it out?
YouTube Now Lets You Blur Faces With One Click
Everyone we sold Ksplice to on RHEL is still running Ksplice on RHEL. So it's more accurate to say that we closed the door on new subscriptions for anything other than Oracle Linux, but all existing subscriptions remain unaffected (and those customers can even add new systems, if they'd like to.)
I tend to find ORMs fantastically useful when working with code for front end web sites (ie, just reading data in simple ways) and raw SQL more useful when working on back end/business logic code. Specifically, if I'm going to need to do complex joins, inserts, updates, etc I'll use raw SQL... if I'm going to just read data I'll use an ORM.

I'll admit, though, that I'm a big fan of having a separate table that has the "front end view" (read: denormalized) of the data for the ORM to read from, especially in cases where the raw data tables are fairly complex.
Every YC job posting I see on HackerNews...
Reward offered for White House Fast & Furious info
Using SQL injection as a feature