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If you took Facebook and Twitter making a few people mad lately out of the equation, this is a mediocre idea at best. I think its feeding off of people's temporary anger at the situation. I think it will pass.
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I was most impressed that it worked on mobile flawlessly.
Correct grammar: Google Now will be awesome if it happens
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One of the more amusing lines of the movie is when Alfred says that they may be able to eventually prove fraud and get the money back. The trade was executed in the middle of a televised hostage situation and subsequent high-speed chase... why would it take more than thirty seconds to convince someone it was not legitimate and reverse it?
Nothing wrong with asking developers to think about what their creations are enabling. Let's not confuse the root cause though. The technology brings our shadow side out into the open. That same shadow side may itself allow for positive changes in society.
Grats on the launch Greg!
I simply use 2 different browsers. Firefox as main browser for what I would like to be tracked and Chrome incognito for visiting other websites. It's a pain but works fairly well.
Why are the organizations who can sign TLDs, or the DNS administrators who manages names under those TLDs, somehow more trustworthy than CAs? Some of the most desirable TLDs today are assigned to random governments by pure accident of fate and orthography. That problem is only getting worse now that the TLD namespace has been put up to the highest bidder.

The monolothic CA model has largely failed, and this draft merely seeks to reorganize it. Apart from "not needing to do business with CAs", that's the only value provided by DANE: your DNS administrators are now your CAs.

This isn't a win; it's a push.

In the short term, the untrustworthy CA problem can be addressed tactically through pinning, which provides key continuity. TACK is a protocol proposed by Trevor Perrin and Moxie Marlinspike to do that using only the insecure DNS we have now.

Over the long term, we need to engage with the fact that this is a UX problem, not a protocol problem. We haven't figured out how to encode the policy decisions we are requiring users to make into browser UIs. Moxie Marlinspike's Convergence system, which is a step towards a web-of-trust style peer-to-peer verification system (it would allow, say, the EFF to create a trust anchor for its followers), is one example of a genuine rethinking of the Internet trust model.

Taking the trust model we have now and baking it into a core Internet protocol seems like exactly the wrong thing to do. Centralized PKI isn't working. The right response isn't "double down on PKI".
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What in the world is this? Is there actually a start-up that exists to list what technologies it uses?
I was weary of xfce, it appeared to need a couple of gnome libs for some things, but man oh man, do i love it now. I have to have it everywhere.
Just to be clear, app.net is a centralized messaging service, to be owned and operated as a private company, allowing integration to whoever it sees fit, at whatever cost it sees fit?

The upside is they promise not to show ads?
iPhone's can be had for ~$100 ok Craigslist and prepaid sims work just as well.
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Not saying that at all, and really not pleased about your interpretation as I was answering the posts question about why a subset of recruiters only search LinkedIn. The type of recruiter that only searches LinkedIn is probably doing the churn and not doing careful, considerate work.

I believe most professions have people who care deeply about the job they do and also have people who learn to churn.
It seems that development is going full steam ahead even though the project hasn't reached it's funding goal yet. What happens if the goal isn't met by the deadline? I can't imagine Dalton will just drop it. I guess what I'm asking is, what's the significance of the funding goal being met or not?

Am I missing something?
When I went to sleep after the Curiosity landing, I had a dream that I was on Mars with a group of colonists. I "overheard" someone say "this is the first child born outside of Earth". Imagining someone who is a citizen (by virtue of their parents) of a country they've never seen, on a planet they've never visited... I woke up in wonderment that this is going to happen some day. I hope I'm around to see it.
That's true, but people are known to buy knock-offs because their looks are close enough to that of the genuine article.

In this kind of example, so long as it looked pretty similar and acted pretty similar, people might feel okay to buy the alternative product --whereas if it had the same functionality, or perhaps better fucntionality, but did not look like the genuine product, they might look elsewhere.
Well, it does make your cockstrom look bigger. But seriously, it's a jungle down there otherwise.

I'd be more concerned about circumcision, if you want to question social mores, since it's a much more permanent and painful cut than the surrounding hair.
We've looked into Web Intents but haven't quite taken the complete leap towards implementation.

We're definitely huge fans and think that it is an area we should aim for. Native browser support would be ideal but the shim looks really promising.

Have you successfully implemented this intent anywhere? Would love to see it.
I imagine they'll still need to install traditional lighting for offices that have late workers and for when it's overcast. But, neat otherwise.
This is awesome. I wonder what information NASA will collect on Mars and how much it cost to gather with the previous missions!
Can't the same be said of many Moto tech and patents?
The Wire was created by a journalist with deep first-hand knowledge of the subject matter. It's a work of fiction, but nonetheless contains many nuggets of truth.
I would have worded a message like this much differently - I would keep it positive. I would not mention my app name and the word vaporware in the same article, I would just include the bit where I demonstrate who is using app.net, and link the code. I would also not give lip service to doubters who say the funding goal won't be reached.

This message may feel nuanced to the author, but it's tone is negative and defensive.
The evidence is that black on white beats white on black.
I've wanted this too. I have information in Gmail (Google Apps version), Google Reader, and Google Docs, plus information I've read randomly on the internet, and I often can't remember where I saw something. The more integration they can do, the better.

As a side note, this is something Spotlight should do on OS X, but it never quite got there, because Apple as usual seems to have lost interest in this OS feature after they used it as a selling point to launch one of them (Tiger? Leopard?). I don't use Mail, but ideally Apple would have developed and promoted Spotlight plugins to the point where you could have a 'live' Gmail plugin, a Google Reader plugin, a Google plugin, etc, but Apple seems more interested in a monolithic approach.

Point being if I could also search my text messages, iChat messages, and Word docs I'd be even happier. And imagine if the closed caption full text summaries of all the Hulu and Netflix you watched were searchable too.
Sometimes the best solution is a function, not a class. This seems like one of those times.
It seems the same as the mobile browser version, except you can move left/right between categories.
I probably should have said that _I_ don't give a damn about mobile. I spend my whole day in front of a workstation, and maybe a few minutes a day using my cell phone. But still: Do you really think that Gnome and/or Canonical should be focussing on mobile?
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Seems simple to me. If you call us out for terrible reporting, we'll slander you as a sexist. Welcome to my hosts file Wired.
If everyone were always given the option to decide not to pay for things, what do you think the current state of society would be?
Hyperbole is part of communication and so is "tone". Hacker News does not run on Lojban.
I would suggest that there is some hindsight (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight) creeping in to your statement. Using your example of the new world, explorers had to at least deal with ocean voyages, new diseases, and possibly dangerous flora and fauna. All of these dangers were unknown until they were known. In the same vein, the dangers of a "vastly different atmosphere" were unknown, but are now know via experiments in deep sea diving, not to mention going to the moon. Death via exploration in a new environment (ocean, deep earth, space, etc) is certainly not a new risk. Looking back from this point in time in history, it is easy to suggest that those risks were minimal.
That's not really a big deal seeing as how I can just click on the big ol' GMAIL button in the top-left and go straight to my friend's inbox if I really wanted to see his email anyways.
Perhaps this is pedantic of me, but the article is mistitled. Musk is sending someone to the moon in 12-15 years. They're not going to have someone on the moon in 12-15 years. This makes a difference because I'm assuming the trip to Mars won't be short.
How do I reconcile this with "Always Bet On Black?"
Plus some colors aren't readable on pure black. Dark blue or dark red, for instance, are very difficult to read on a pure black background. (I used to use a pure black background for my terminal windows and switched it to a dark gray for this reason).
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Looking at tasksel’s changelog on a Sid installation, I see the last change was v3.12 from 21 July 2012 and I cannot find anything about changing the default desktop environment for the desktop task. So, maybe this change is not meant for the frozen Wheezy, whose taskel is already behind Sid’s (v3.11 compared to Sid’s v3.12).

Maybe someone familiar with Debian’s decision-making and development processes could enligthen us.
Are you pushing voice through data or using call forwarding?
but that's not what the article says. it says:

> Setting up our infrastructure to do that is technically straightforward: we need to add more servers to handle a lot of additional traffic on the front end, before people get to content.

as a description of the problem, the above seems kind of nonsensical. Which suggests that even this blogger is in fact, guessing, and then worse just passing it off as an explanation, and then we're back to NASA looking kind of bad here.
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The medical field is replete with examples of clinically-beneficial products that would never have existed without fundamental 'basic science' research that was, at one point, 'frivolous' and without a clear benefit.
> living in a bubble

> I listen to the podcasts of precisely six people
> I don't think you understand just how toxic some parts of the community are.

Oh, I do.. which is why I know you're talking about editors, not coders/designers, i.e. the ones it actually concerns.

But even if it was true for all of Wikipedia -- so? What is making some mockups and a (kinda pompous IMHO) domain name going to achieve in that case? Even less.

This is a bunch of designers talking to a bunch of designers, on a page I can hardly read because the letters are so huge and the horizontally so restricted. It's either a clever joke, or can be summed up with "ouch".
Motivation.

Motivation and inspiration.

Since you seem big on humans being good at art and culture, consider it the most impressive and daring pieces of performance art ever attempted.
ZFS is great, but it does break from time to time

Ah, it seems our definitions vary.

ZFS has had problems, but all production filesystems have. From a strict standpoint, what the original author wrote about bugs is wrong, but from a practical standpoint I don't think it matters. ZFS has been as solid as any other production filesystem from the beginning -- which is to say that any production filesystem might one day rear up and bite you. It's just the nature of our profession.

That's just my opinion though. :)

Scrubbing repairs data, not broken file systems.

That depends what's broken. ZFS has ditto blocks (multiple copies of the same block) going up the tree; roughly speaking, the higher up you are, the more there are. The tree and metadata has more protection than the data itself.

If, say, all the ditto blocks and all the mirrors are corrupt, reconstructing that is going to be hard. I think a case needs to be made that an fsck tool would do a better job repairing than scrubbing, which is non-obvious to me.
The phrase I've heard is that being early is the same as being wrong. Trying to make Burner in 2003 would be like trying to make YouTube in 1996.
Those could really use some scientific sources.
"There's not really an inside of a black hole anyway. The black hole it self is nothing but a tiny spot yet massive in weight."

We really don't know that. All our theories fail around black holes so we can only speculate what's going on in there. And even speculation is limited by our current mental capacity, which may be insufficient to understand/explain what's going inside black holes.
I rediscovered it as well, after updating Ubuntu and trying out Unity and Gnome shell.

Xfce does exactly (IMO) what a desktop should do: make me forget what desktop I'm using. It's got all the standard features I expect, and works how I'd expect a desktop to work. Very happy with Xubuntu right now.

Edit: One minor complaint: the default Xubuntu install left me with window borders that were too small to grab onto (for resizing). Had to change some theme or other.
> XFS doesn't have an fsck either

Oops, actually back in 1995 when XFS was made available, it hadn't any fsck because it supposedly didn't need it. However, they finally made "xfs_repair" available one year later, which while not being called "fsck" proper, still is the same thing.

BTW one thing that xfs_repair did for me was getting back most of the data from an xlv array with a failed drive. Isn't it awesome?
I am not part of that percentage of the population. I sweat easily, and it definitely doesn't smell like roses.

I'd rather people err on the side of not smelling like an armpit.
That's true, but don't forget that the skycrane was necessary because it's Mars. The atmosphere is thick enough to be a problem, but thin enough that you can't just use parachutes, and the gravity is high enough that only lightweight things can use airbags. Skycrane seems great...but even it is not good for something as heavy as a manned landing. We don't have a good way to land humans on Mars.
There is a disconnect between what a spreadsheet originally was and all the different layout/calendering/organizational stuff people also use Excel for today. For technical users it's a startling omission, but I don't think a non-technical user is going to see this and its screenshots and immediately wonder where the formulas are.

Is the term misused? Who cares? It looks really cool because it's focused on the non-math use cases (which IMO are much better suited to a tablet anyway, where I wouldn't want to be entering columns of numbers on an on-screen keyboard).
If they don't meet the goal, they don't get any money from people who have already pledged. So it's very significant.
Incidentally, whatever additional stuff dalton is planning to add and let developers add, the alpha currently appears to be enough of a Twitter clone that it should be compatible with Twitter clients. Therefore, I'm much more likely to pay for this (before or after the funding deadline) if someone convinces Tapbots to add support to Tweetbot... or, equivalently, releases a Twitter API to app.net proxy and a hack to redirect it to there.
Yeah, that Mac OS X thing. No-one buys that. Jeez.
>Surely Samsung wanted to mimic that sleek smartphone feeling that was all the rage, but try to confuse customers with a clone?

Confusing them with a clone doesn't necessarily mean having them believe they are buying an iPhone.

It's about having them believe: "well, this looks same-ish to me, it should be just as good as that iPhone thing".
I'm pretty sure the MSL team is a different team than the ones managing the DNS servers, and expertise in one area doesn't transfer to another automatically.

Maybe they do have some reason why it would be difficult to add a CNAME, maybe not.
why would you want to use a shortcode with this?
What is different is that you are intentionally spying on your friend if you did that. Here, your friend is unintentionally revealing contents of his inbox to you.
No parmesan please, we're vegetarian
Yeah, not so much. There's a huge difference between water from a brita pitcher and reverse osmosis-purified water from the water dispenser at the grocery store. The latter is basically indistinguishable from expensive Fiji water, and the former is basically indistinguishable from tap water (in my experience at least, and using LA tap water).
you could always tilt the screen? ;-)

(there was a brief outage as we switched video hosts)
velodrome: FWIW, the transition from Gnome 2.x to Unity was neither quick nor easy for me, as I'd been a full-time Gnome user for years prior to the switch.

However, I find that I'm more productive now, with Unity, than I ever was with Gnome. In no particular order, I love how Unity (1) gets out of my way (I've set it to hide); (2) maximizes my usable screen real estate; (3) allows me to use complex apps like GIMP and Inkscape without having to remember their menu structures (!); and (4) lets me to do everything (including window placement) very quickly with the keyboard.[1]

Yes, Unity is different, but IMO it's also much better. Give it a six-month try!

--

[1] Here's a comprehensive list of shortcuts: http://askubuntu.com/questions/28086/what-are-unitys-keyboar...
I love what they do, but unfortunately r/dailyprogrammer leaves a bad taste in my mouth because they started off with challenges copied from my site - http://programthis.net
The comment wasn't really in the spirit of HN, but it touches on an important point that gets little visibility.

Much of the current and next wave of new apps are aimed at enterprise (as startups move to markets where the money is).

There is a very high MVP threshold for enterprise.

When 37signals released the next version of Basecamp they took a lot of flack for not including time tracking in first rev (even though their metrics showed few people used it).

It is common in Enterprises to have senior players ready to point out any obvious issues in any recommendation. Apps looking to get in to this market have to recognise this feature of the market - it's just not the same as putting out a new social app.
Valve are going to compete head on with Microsoft then? That's pretty ballsy. Let's hope steam is not left a smouldering corpse.
The risk of death was very real for the explorers of past.

> Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.

Dead is dead, whether it is by the hands of a vacuum or starvation in the bitter cold.
It's interesting to see how this plays out. Valve + general purpose software distribution + linux ports + hardware speculation - Valve seems like the biggest proponent for general purpose, open computing these days (open in the sense of being able to do what you want with your computer). Could Valve be a valid mainstream competitor for the personal computer market? Not all computing can be done from a tablet or console.
Have you successfully implemented this intent anywhere?

Not pick, but I added view, subscribe, and share to the latest version of the WordPress.com Web app in Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/khjnjifipfkgglficm...
What is the work-around? I'm trying to get luajit working on iOS 6+ on ARMv7 and above...
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Give me a way to hook-up an AWS bucket to copy the media there, and I'm sold.

Any plans for this?
I ended up buying the app for this reason. However, in the past few months, I have also been exploring clutter, tooling, and minimizing the things in my space.

I'm moving from the East Coast to the West Coast. I'm planning on taking one car load worth of possessions. The rest, I am giving away or trashing.

I know someone who has done something similar:
http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/12/08/acting-dead-trading-up-...

In this month-long process, I have discovered that:

(1) It is emotionally draining to sort through my possessions and let them exit my personal space.

(2) Among the most common, recurring pattern of emotion/rationalization is that of fear and "I may need this in the future." Looking at it clearly, though, many of those things I bought in which I "might" need, I have never actually used. They end up being security blankets.

(3) Once it is out, this appears to free up a great deal of mental space. I've been finding things easier to get things done and try new things.

(4) This leads to more deliberation and mindfulness on the new things coming into my space.

(5) Apps are no different. There is a certain ruthlessness in deleting the apps you have purchased and the data it stores after it no longer serves.

So it isn't so much, why would you not buy a $2 app when you are willing to blow $2 on a Diet Coke. It's more that, why wasn't the $2 Diet Coke you are shoving into your body given as much due deliberation?
I think a paid model will be the only way forward for the set of people that value privacy and control over their data.

I dont know that app.net hits the right ($) spot for that user group. The implication of facebook's revenue is that users are willing to trade privacy and data ownership for about $4/yr (the current monetization rate of a facebook user), which means getting to $50/yr seems somewhat arbitrary and hard to decode.

I think at some point in the future people will see $50/yr for those two things (privacy and data control) as a relative bargain. I do today, and backed this proposal due to these concerns.

I think driving developer investments may be critical to getting to their funding goal, and frankly they are offering to take away a potential threat and not making a strong enough case about what value they are adding. It often requires an explicit threat to get people to pony up for security, not an implied threat.
The only reason I didn't sign up was that I felt that I'm paying for the cause and not the product. Not that I support the reason behind app.net but it just makes me hesitate. If it's simple as "pay for this great product", I might have. Good luck on meeting your funding goal!!
The manual doesn't say you have to know any hashing algorithms. I think that should be the desired behavior - if your hashes work, you shouldn't need to know their internals as long as a reputable specailized verifier and some form of peer review can authenticate their worth. You have more important stuff to be doing!

... I also read up on Murmur though, since I know SHA and MD5 already. ~3 months out CS grad myself.
I agree, great talk.

Sorry but I can't help be curious about this, what were the results of the drinking game?
Thanks for sharing that feedback. We can work on making it more obvious, at least. (It's meant to be and our SKU's are also made visible by apple in the app store, but I'm sure there's more we could do.)
OSX' Instruments, which is based on DTrace (from Solaris).

More pressing question for me - did anyone get to that kind of UI and capability (profiling userland) under Linux with SystemTap/DTrace port or anything really?