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The GNOME team really doesn't get it.

When you've got your own people, tons of power users, ordinary users, and key kernel devs telling you you've gone astray, something's wrong. What we're seeing is fortress mentality and hunkering down. Wrong move.

Ted T'so has commented on his desktop woes at length on G+. I lifted one a reply he made to his own post which I feel gets to the heart of the problem, and what is really necessary for a desktop solution (probably XFCE4 for most people these days). Note that Ted's including both GNOME and KDE in his criticisms:

My concern with KDE is how bloated it's become. I don't want highly integrated applications. My main applications are a terminal, emacs, open office, and the Chrome browser. I do way more with web applications these days. Bloat is bad not just because of the increased disk and ram usage (although I do worry about that); bloat is bad because of the complexity. The more you rely on an Object broker, the more it becomes harder and harder to fix things when they break --- and things do break, with appalling regularity. It's the fact that Xfce and Network-Manager uses D-Bus and PolicyKit which is why I still get asked for my password from time to time even with my localauthority hack. How do I fix it? Who knows?

Unfortunately wicd isn't fully-featured enough, but it has as a huge win the fact that it doesn't use PolicyKit; it just uses a simple Unix group membership check for its access control. Once wicd can handle large numbers of access points with the same wireless network, I'll be removing network manager from my system and using wicd instead, because network manager is just too damn complicated, and relies on too much complex infrastructure which I can't debug because of the !@#@! D-Bus design. KDE is no better in this regard, and in fact it may be worse.

Why don't I use Openbox? It's too simple. For one thing, it doesn't support 3x3 workspaces. At the end of the day, I want a desktop environment that makes the things that I do simple. Which means wireless roaming, the terminal, emacs, open office, and a browser. Anything more than that increases the memory and disk usage, but worse, it means more infrastructure which can break, which means I end up having to debug things like PolicyKit. And that's just not productive time for me. So Xfce seems like the right balance point for now, although it definitely still has some rough edges.﻿

https://plus.google.com/u/0/117091380454742934025/posts/VjbF...

Once again: HN needs a proper blockquote markdown.
The iOS SDK also desperately needs some sort of queuing as well (fortunately it's open source so someone else (like me) can eventually build it in).
>since a lot of great research (at various universities, including MIT) is now a lot easier due to easily available human task workers

This is very true. A lot of researchers today are using MobileWorks and other crowdsourcing platforms. It has a lot of implication in a number of research areas including AI, HCI, Databases, Bio-sciences, Earth-Sciences and a lot more. These are all fields that have used crowdsourcing and have published papers about crowdsourcing.

In fact, MobileWorks came out of UC Berkeley where the founders were doing research in HCI using crowdsourcing before we started building our own platform because we thought the existing competitors were a pain to use.
Privacy Of E Readers Part of 50 Shades of Grey Popularity
From the article:

"One of these phones (the bottom-right one) became the Samsung F700 - a product Apple once included as an infringing product, but later withdrew once it learned Samsung created it and brought it to market before the iPhone"

Secret prototypes would not be prior art, though.
You can put your address and zip code into the pre-registration box. Then check the box to be kept up-to-date about fiber deployments. That way Google knows you're interested.

Remember, Google isn't interesting in creating the future with this project. It's a research experiment to see what the future will look like, and how people will use gigabit internet when that's available.
Can you explain what's wrong with the terms "AAA" and "hardcore"?
> Except AirPlay requires an existing WiFi network

Indeed, but AirDrop does not, and there's no denying that technically AirPlay could trivially be made to work that way. My bet is Apple chose not to.

I certainly don't want the 12 YO neighbour to send crap on my TV. So what's interesting about AirPlay currently requiring an AP is that it therefore requires authentication with the network to be used. What's more, the AirPlay receiver is constantly passively waiting and requires no acknowledgement on the device itself, whereas AirDrop requires 1. entering AirDrop mode at the same time and 2. ack on both parties. I certainly would not want such a scheme to happen on my TV, but it would be necessary so that not anyone can connect.
Yep, like rprime said, we're sending tracking events from the server (let me plug http://libsaas.net here).

So instead of using mixpanel.track from Javascript, you do an AJAX call to your own server and schedule a Celery job there.

There's an issue with passing Mixpanel's super properties to your server-side handler, but that's the general idea.
I use the dell keyboard I bought about 7 years ago. Love it. It's lasted through many pcs.
Have you checked out what we're doing at http://join.app.net?
Which might also be a factor in the apparent request load if stale requests are ballooning the numbers, if not consuming resources that cause the apparent problem to appear larger. A bunch of elephants standing around blocking things is quite a different problem than a bunch of pigs running down the road.
Mine does not look like that, even when I make the window tiny. FF 16, Win7.
I've been freelancing full-time with Wildfire since they were around 40 people and had just closed their Series A. They've got a fantastic product (I still like it after working with it day in and day out), and a seriously rocking team. They deserve all the good stuff that this will bring.
Show HN: Scopefy: simple task management
Anything is an improvement to Outlook Web Access
Good job!!! I'm looking forward to the next episodes.
"Century of the Self" was my favorite of Curtis' films, and very relevant for anyone involved in marketing.

Describes how industry went from manufacturing necessities to constructing lifestyles by linking consumption to self-expression.

Part 1 of 4 (links to the others): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prTarrgvkjo
Yes I agree, I was really stating the obvious here.

It depends on what you define as the "death" of Facebook. When it is no longer a profitable business whatsoever, or when they've lost the majority of their users.
To be fair, that was Larry Wall reacting to criticism in 1994 https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!msg/comp.lang.l...

Anyways, my experience is that all languages will get people criticizing them. And, in my experience, those kinds of criticisms should almost always be categorized as "does not want to talk about language FOO" and a proper response is probably something like "if you don't want to give that subject the respect it deserves, let's change the subject to something you find interesting".
Worse.

Don't take my word for it, this is a falsifiable statement. Run usability studies on both novice and experience users with different desktop models and metaphors.

Ensure that you're not just testing initial impressions, but usability after a week, a month, a quarter, a year.

I've used Windows, Macs, and multiple Linux desktops for years on end. Hands down the environment that lets me get the most done with the minimum of hassle and interference is Linux.

My desktop (used on both traditional PCs and laptops) minimizes mousing actions by maximizing keyboard inputs to perform work and manage my GUI).

WindowMaker.
If you are curious, this is a reskin of hotmail.com. It's still a separate codebase from the Exchange-backed OWA. Check out the preview of Office 365 and compare it to this experience, and you'll notice that the two are subtly different.

This is very interesting to see them converge the brands.
if you like it please upvote!

blog post to come.
I can sympathize with it being a preview and all, but the consequence will nevertheless be that there will be a bunch of people out the who will enter <= 16-character-length passwords and forget all about them.

I mean, unless Microsoft explicitly prompt them with a reminder of sorts, when they flip the switch on a sane password length, but what are the odds of that happening?
Teenager arrested over tweeting at Olympic diver
95% of requests. But yeah! And thank you. :)
Radical Creative Inclusion: Art In The Age of Information
I am a developer evangelist - IAmA
While it's a great tutorial, I was kind of hoping it was in regards to the HTML5 version
Mitt Romney abroad: Like Bush, but without the cosmopolitan flair
Keeping free OSes off computers in the name of security is the same, to me, as censorship in the name of protecting children: stupid and unworkable.
I'm working on a project using cocos2d-x, which is multiplatform, althouugh we still need to make it work on android.
If you are doing android only, you can try using the Andengine, at a previous working location we remade our ios cocos2d game for android using it.
If you already have a cocos2d game maybe you should look at
the stellaSDK(www.yeecco.com/stella)
I would hope that if they want to sway people back they'd do what gmail did to the garbage web apps around the time of its launch. I don't see anything groundbreaking in the video/screenshots. Do is it offer anything unique?
Flipside: Do you like Google and all their ad-supported services enough to click and help pay for them?
I use Outlook 2011 on my Mac for the company Exchange email, contacts + calendaring. It's not bad at all, and Spotlight searching is very fast.
I love how they give a history of webmail progress but totally understate what Gmail did for webmail and why it is so widely liked. Gmail did more than give a bigger inbox. It changed the game for web interfaces, especially webmail. Looks like Outlook is just imitating the Gmail look & feel.
The subject line is in a good position, but it doesn't look like an input field si I overlooked it first... Similarly, the content area doesn't look like a text area - slightly confusing.
This assumes you want windows at all, and all the problems that come with it. Using a slow system that tends to decay as the base of your computing experience isn't something I'm interested in.

It would make more sense to have Linux as the base, and windows in a VM.
13" MacBook Air and Bose Headphones. That's it.

I minimized down from a 27" iMac with Second Display, because I loved just having one computer instead of a Desktop + Laptop.

I just ordered a rMBP today from Amazon. Thinking about going full circle and getting two external displays for it.
I've also talked with a LinkedIn "expert" who claimed that advertising LinkedIn events on LinkedIn had a much better conversion because you loose people when you go off site (i.e. from linkedin.com to yourdomain.com). By keeping people on the same platform, you should have a higher conversion rate. (according to one guy who does have a book deal but whatever)
A tutorial isn't really where you'd learn that level of craft.

This seems like a perfectly decent game dev introduction for iOS, though.
Weebly (YC 07) - "Several steps ahead of the competition"
Here are my notes on that (I'm running Vista 64 Ultimate):

RUNNING MULTIPLE INSTANCES OF OUTLOOK

Download and install "ExtraOutlook.exe" from:

http://www.hammerofgod.com/download/ExtraOutlook.zip

Copy the executable to the folder where outlook lives. In the current case that means:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\

Create a profile for each separate instance of Outlook we want to run:

To create and manage profiles in Vista 64 go to

Control Panel > View 32-bit Control Panel Items > Mail > Show Profiles

Create or modify the Outlook shortcut on the desktop to access the desired profile:

Profile 1:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\ExtraOutlook.exe" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\OUTLOOK.EXE" /profile "Profile 1"

Make a duplicate copy and then...

Profile 2:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\ExtraOutlook.exe" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\OUTLOOK.EXE" /profile "Profile 2"

Now two instances of Outlook can be opened and each is independently accessing the corresponding profile's data.

I go through the extra effort of assigning a different icon to each account and placing them on the quick-launch toolbar. I've been doing this for about two years and it works great. No issues whatsoever.

I can't believe MS doesn't implement MDI in Outlook so that one can do this using tabs and a single instance.
It only mentions Android apps, what about the iPhone?
Is there a similar tutorial for Android? As in what's the best hands on tutorial for Android app development?
I wish someone would - they would make a great addition to a discordant soundtrack.
And the shakeout of social media management startups continues. Here's a recap so far:

Vitrue (Oracle, $300 million)

Involver (Oracle, undisclosed)

Efficient Frontier (Adobe, $400 million)

Buddy Media (Salesforce, $689 million)

Wildfire (Google, $250 million)

Next up, HootSuite?
For me it was kick ass. Really loved the feel of it.
Does the URL really matter that much? I agree it's not unimportant, but I don't think it's a big deal. The program itself is much more important
email sent : )
I like the reporting about the Apple TV outselling the XBox this past quarter, and Apple just consider it a "hobby"[1]

[1]http://www.geekwire.com/2012/apple-tv-outsells-xbox-360-late...
That's an interesting, though a little beyond the core of what we do.

Sounds like a good opportunity to build something though.
You forgot Context Optional (acquired by Adobe earlier this year)
From wikipedia:

>A number of Intel processors since the introduction of the Nehalem microarchitecture (that is, a number of CPU branded Core i5, Core i7, or later) support VT-d, an IOMMU implementation. This allows the operating system (OS) to isolate a device in its own virtual memory address space (in a manner analogous to the isolation of processes from one another using the MMU). Devices could thus be prevented from having access to unauthorized parts of the memory space. However, this feature isn't generally used other than for its initial purpose of giving guest virtual machines passthrough access to specific host hardware.[citation needed]

So.. maybe? Resolving that 'citation needed' would be nice.
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Many countries have decided that removing free speech rights from, e.g., child pornography is worth it. Why would that logic not extend to the technologies you mention also?
I like the razor pro v1.6 mouse (1600dpi) and the apple a1048 keyboard. The machines are an '08 alum macbook, a cheap $200 celeron running ubuntu, and an old 1.2ghz running fbsd at home and an 8 core mac pro at work.
Well, the only thing that's been delivered that I've bought is the Cosmonaut. I guess it's OK...I've never been too satisfied with iPAd styluses so it lived up to that low bar...but I also paid significantly lower than market price for it. I prefer more precise styluses, after using it.
That tech is being pushed as hard as tech can be pushed. There is just nothing we know at the moment that could transfer energy efficiently without a wire.

Technology like that only comes with great scientific breakthroughs that improve our understanding of the universe. But breakthroughs like that come randomly and can't be forced much at all.
Add a couple more layers and you get... algorithms managing humans who control robots to clean for humans:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aqghgoeCWk&hd=1
oh dear. i. actually. like. this.

Sigh ...
"I counted $10,000 in cash (and some payments accepted via Square - yes, I’m reporting the income, IRS"

As an aside the only reason he owes taxes to the IRS would be if this was inventory that he purchased and expensed for the business.

If you pay money out of your pocket for some CD's and sell the CD's and assuming you recoup only the amount paid you don't owe taxes on the money that you collected. You haven't made a profit.

There aren't enough details in the OP to determine the proper tax treatment of the sale of these records. But typically if he was in business he would have bought records and they would be inventory. When he closed down the business he would have had a taxable event and had to dispose of the inventory and there might have been a loss. He could have purchased that inventory as a private person for any amount and then he becomes the owner. At that point typically any gain over what he paid he might owe taxes.

The IRS is not trolling around looking for people who post stories and spending time to see if they reported the income. Besides this would relate to 2012 income which wouldn't be reported until April 2013 and with an extension the return wouldn't be due until Oct 2013.

And lest you think someone could turn him in or tip the IRS off - not going to happen. If you don't believe me try to contact the IRS and tell them your neighbor is cheating on their taxes. They want tangible proof. Proof enough to open a case which involves access to actual numbers and records. Like you worked in the office not "I know he's cheating" type info. A story is not enough to get them to investigate. Besides there is nothing they can do until he doesn't pay the taxes by the above dates.

Side story: I know of pharmacist locally who dealt in drugs (and went to prison) who was found with $200,000 in cash in his home safe. Eyebrows were raised. Oh boy cash! Did he report it!

No problem he went to jail for the drug charges but had no problem with the $200,000. He just reported it on his next tax return that was due. Problem solved.
I hope they allow a mechanism for people to opt out. I can't really see this helping the reader, or even proper publishers. It will just aid the Demand Media equivalents of the publishing world in churning out crap.
European Entrepreneurs: Les misérables
The Mirror Strategy
50 million.
Yeah that's true. I definitely think someone should build it.
I can't see an option to disable the loading of external content. It just seems to happen by default. Am I missing something, or does it not exist?
The infrastructure handles rate limits, access keys, analytics, dev portal, billing etc. for the API but does it out of band. So yes, the traffic does go to the API origin and then control agents there enforce the policies, do the tracking etc. (indeed a bit like New Relic).

It's used for some very big APIs but yes, the origin sees the traffic. The system can offload it though - there are agents for Varnish for example which you can sit in front of the app or integration with Akamai, in which case policies are enforced at CDN edge nodes.

If the API is handling high volumes you still have to plan for that - but the point here is that the management elements scale with it. You're not stuck with a black box in front of the API which might blow up at inconvenient moments.
In case you're not doing this already, it's generally a good idea to set a low TTL like 60 seconds on your DNS so that you can make huge configuration changes relatively quickly.
The window is small to highlight the effect.
One Thing Outlook.com Mail Needs To Fix Immediately
Second hardest bug I've ever encountered, an essay on C: The Portable Assembly
Has anyone used this for something like the OP's problem in production?
Getting Hulu plus on the Apple TV is something I was looking for a long time. For watching TV shows (for me) at least Hulu is a lot better than Netflix. The only thing Netflix has going for it in our household at least is the Kids section. If not for that I would drop them without a second thought. Have to check out how the kids section is on Hulu.
That's the thing. You don't have to. Two subsequent SQL INSERTs may occur only microseconds apart, but the result may still differ by a second, causing a problem with datetime. And it's horribly naieve to think every request always completes in a few milliseconds. There are plenty of good reasons a request may take a longer time. From overloaded servers to network congestion to long running cronjobs or other processes.
I am a guy in my 20s who is attracted to children and I use freenet to download illegal pictures of them.

The most active forum on freenet for sharing these pictures is called "child-models-girls". Little girls pose for sets of pictures which are sold commercially and then shared for free on freenet/open-internet. Mostly they are wearing skimpy clothing or swimsuits, or sometimes they naked. 90% of the freenet store is probably pictures like this which are little different to what you used to see in clothing catalogues.

There is real cp too of course - pics and videos of girls/boys doing sexual things with themselves or with adults. I have no doubt the average HN reader would be shocked.

However.

> It's nasty stuff, too. This is not "merely offensive." Kids are abducted and murdered to make this stuff.

This is just not true. Only a tiny minority of people on freenet/similar-systems are looking for stuff where children are obviously being hurt. Most of us despise it. The truth is we like to see children happy because it makes us feel better about looking at these pictures.

> Think of the mechanics of an adult having sex with a six year old

The mechanics don't really work. Thats why 99% of pics/vids involve touching/licking/rubbing/etc only.

> In parts of the world children are more or less raised for the purpose. It's horrific.

This is wild conjecture.
The deal was a little more complicated. I believe Efficient Frontier bought Context Optional for $50 million, and then Adobe acquired eFrontier for $400 million. I went ahead and added it.
I'm pretty sure "categories" == "labels".
I visited over there in April - it was a very cool workplace full of interesting and motivated people. Though they weren't that happy when I was playing around with their app and found a bug related to daylight savings on a Friday afternoon, haha. I'm really happy for them.
I'm in Jacksonville, FL right now, but I'm very interested in moving to San Francisco.

The internship will absolutely haved to be payed, and payed fairly at that. My skills aren't the greatest, but I'm not willing to work for $10/hr.
The 4G Security Threat for Mobile Developers
Pew Points to Big Trouble Ahead for Big Data
There is also:

X-We-Are-Hiring: skydrivejobs@microsoft.com
Please also tell us what you do, so we can correlate the computer setup with what you do :-)
Leaving your job: it's less risky than staying
My PC is a self-built i7 in an MSI p55-gd80, 8gb ram, radeon 4870. Razer naga epic (go 12-buttons!), OLD kb, logitech usb headphones. It's gone from primary computer to media center to friend's media center.

My "phone" has been my primary computing device for over a year.
If you're OK with having separate windows, you can use a different profile for each one. Chrome handles this much better than firefox. For example, I silo my facebook browsing with:

chrome --app=https://facebook.com --user-data-dir=/home/jewel/.profiles/facebook

The other thing I do is use a different google account for each of their services, so a policy violation in one won't shut off the service in another. For example, I have calendar@mydomain.com for google calendar, plus@mydomain.com for google plus, youtube@mydomain.com for youtube.
Mayday, mayday: Apple’s latest ad campaign faces groans from all sides
Yeah the categories are labels however they still have the folder system as the primary way of sorting your mail. I would like the option to totally remove folders from the equation and just use labels.
By "them" I mean PayPal.

And as a complete aside: given the attitude PayPal phone representatives have displayed, they seem to deserve it personally, too.