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Any shakedown by MS in the PC space extremely unlikely to fly given the terms of settlement in the antitrust case in both the US and EU and restrictions still in place in the EU on the browser choice screen, requiring network and document specs etc. Hell, B&N even tried the antitrust angle in the Android tablet patents cae.
Linux itself isn't totally ready for the ARM platform, so how can you just expect it to have a linux ready to program?

I have a Fujitsu LED monitor and a sony bravia LCD TV. RPi works flawlessly with them without requiring me to do any manual setting.

While trying to use RPi with various USB devices, let's not forget that RPi uses the least amount of energy and that means too little power will be allocated to the USB ports so in this case a USB hub will hardly work.

I use a GreenHeart certified ps of Sony Ericsson, no problems so far.
You present an excellent argument! Integration of software/computing with healthcare/medicine is what I hope to focus the rest of my life on, so I surely hope we can make significant progress in that area.
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This is incomprehensible. "DLL Hell" is what happens you use dynamically linked libraries without managing versions and compatibility correctly. DLL Hell can only happen when you are doing dynamic linking so I'm not sure what you can possibly mean that dynamic linking "guards against perceived 'DLL hell'".
Do you know a primary-care doctor who can properly interpret an EKG? Most can't beyond the basics. If it is for cardiac diagnostic purposes, then the recording is sent to a cardiologist for diagnosis.

I have seen a room full of doctors with licenses and who are generally competent their in practice, who can't read an EEG either. They were not trained in medical school/residency to read an EEG and so their skill is limited. The neurologist with an EEG fellowship does the interpretation. This is after it is digitally processed by software that does the quantitative analysis.

Note: I am not a physician, but I'm quite familiar with EEG technology including Quantitative EEG analysis.
I meant last mile as in developer scratching their itch. It's much more sexy to work on new and interesting things(that mostly break existing things) rather than the doing the grunt work on backwards compatibility, bugs or documentation, not to mention enforcing a central vision and design on developers(ever hear of OSS devs quitting or making forks because of differences in opinion?) .
Waited for this comment :)
Selling a specialized device for tv watching undermines the purpose of my social remote idea. Your friends wont have one, so they can't participate as easily as they could if it was a webapp.

I suppose you could buy 4 of them, like I (an only child) did with Nintendo 64 controllers so that my friends could always play.
This is cool, but I'm not a big fan of "fogging" as a UI tool. I noticed Vista/Aero did this quite a bit.

The fogging just obscures information, but replaces it with something that is distracting. You might get an impression of what's there, but it's a tax to comprehend it. OS X (tend to) do this a lot better - if it's not useful, don't make the user squint at it.

Feels like a pure eye-candy effect with no benefit to the user, but I'd be interested in counter arguments/examples.
If you're estimating it's 25-50% done, then it's almost certainly 25% done or less, counting the rewriting/restructuring. Just pick how you would write it if you were doing it from scratch. Honestly. Really. Whenever I've been wrong about this kind of thing, it's been on the side of hating to throw away work already done. Anything good in the existing code, you can look at it and take. But really, just begin from scratch.

I wish I would stress this more. Do it right, the way you know how.
> I have no hesitation in recommending Go to displace any programming task which would previously have been targeted towards Java.

Java is faster and has more libraries.
Very exciting and scary stuff - good luck! :)
Given that this is free, community driven and effectively celebrates HL1 I don't think Valve will rain on their parade. Besides, Valve tries to support the mod community as best as they can.

If they tried to sell it for profit I'd imagine there would be some very pissed Valve lawyer breaking down doors though - because I don't think its officially & legally blessed.
It's quite normal (and recommended) for owners to transfer their coins between multiple wallets for a variety of reasons.

I've been trying to follow most of the Bitcoin stories submitted here on Hacker News, but I have somehow missed that advice. What are some of the links to user tips for using Bitcoins? What are some of the reasons for transferring Bitcoins between multiple wallets owned by the same owner?
>> people are generally more comfortable and willing to submit personal information to a fellow human who they know and trust

There was some research(can't find it now) , that show that filling an automated form is a good way to make patient elicit personal embarrassing info that they wouldn't offer via chat.

>> difference between a little old lady with a problem, and a little old lady who's just lonely

First that's a nurse can easily do. And maybe, hopefully we'll find ways to solve the loneliness issue.
Just FYI, but SD cards typically have abysmal random read/write speeds, and aren't faster than regular hard drives for sequential access. So don't expect an "SSD" with this.

unless you buy the very high-end cards
Proper care of the elderly is another problem that society should address without racking up insane health care costs just so a little old lady has someone to chit chat with. There are certainly more fruitful (and cheaper) ways to solve that.
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Guys, as the huge yellow warning at the top of the page shows, this is a draft work-in-progress specification.

If you don't like it, now is the time to speak up. Jono Bacon (jono AT ubuntu DOT com) is the coordinator.

EDIT: Where's the appropriate place to send feedback? Perhaps not to his inbox
I meant the DLL hell that is made fun of, in Windows and seen as a bad thing. It was fixed in Windows by having 'Side by side' assemblies (SxS). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side-by-side_assembly

The user does not see any problems except hard disk use(or perhaps a little slowness?) or when the filesystem breaks.
Presumably to make it harder to track down transactions to individuals?
Ubuntu Software Centre has been around since Oct 2009.
So you are going to make the claim that xfce does not require learning? Or just it doesn't require learning if you already knew gnome, or what? Because no learning is a pretty strong claim...
I'm the guy who posted the blog. If you were to see the blog in context you would change your point of view. The rest of the site is devoted to Thorium Molten Salt Reactors. Romney is the last person I would want to run for President. I think Obama needs an edge. By bringing in a controversial idea like clean green nuclear energy he might ruin his chances but he might not. It truly is a lesser of two evils situation. I happen to believe Romney is a lot worse. I have observed the situation closely. Steven Chu has no interest in solving the problems with the NRC. The NRC is seriously holding back innovation.
Right. The difference is that Carl Sagan didn't use such comments to instigate and exploit class warfare and divide a country. Carl Sagan didn't use such statements to brainwash the masses for personal gain. Carl Sagan didn't use that statement to mean that a successful baker, today, owes their success to the creation of the universe.

We operate within the reality that we happen to live within at the time of our lives. The Vikings had one reality. They moved within it and flourished. People born in England in the 1,200's had a very different reality to construct their lives around than those born 200, 400 or 800 years later. That's just the way things work. You use the tools you have at your disposal.

It would be unthinkable to propose that someone in the year 1,200 invent the transistor. Lot's had to happen before the transistor could become a reality. Did they fail because of a failure of government to provide the necessary infrastructure? No, they failed because they would have been, quite simply put, way ahead of their time.

Did Fleming come across Penicillin because government built roads? Not really.

How about Madame Courie?

Tesla?

Hertz?

Newton?

IBM?

Dell?

Staples?

Coca Cola?

Did the engineers in the 1940's owe the development of the transistor to the roads, sewers and other services government managed for us? Of course not. Their success was the result of a myriad of personal factors, not the least of which were inspiration, intellect, drive and being in the right place at the right time. The infrastructure was there already. It wasn't built for them to be successful at this one task.

It is an insult to the human condition to propose that we owe our personal success to government.

Historically speaking, governments have caused humanity far more pain, agony, death and loss than almost any other human invention. Individuals don't go to war, governments do.

So, Mr. Obama, do we also owe the 50 million people who died in World War 2 to the infrastructure the US Government put into place: roads, railroads, phones, telegraphs, airports, etc.?

Of course not. Don't try to make connections where they don't exist. Politics sucks.
That's a pretty good visit/buy ratio. What are your future plans?
Just because food is grown in a non-organic/commercial system, doesn't necessarily mean it's grown without using manure as a fertilizer. There have been many cases of non-organic products being contaminated with E.Coli as well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_North_American_E._coli_O157:H7_outbreaks

Pesticides also don't necessarily inhibit bacterial growth (though granted, they probably don't help it), so I don't buy into the assertion that their application is somehow sanitizing your food.
Every time I see someone announce a new startup on HN, and they can't keep a blog online through a little spurt of traffic, it makes me think very poorly of their business. That if they can't configure a web server to not fall over, they can't program a stable, secure app either.

My own experience is that even the smallest Linode VPS, with an out-of-the-box WordPress install, serving a blog live from the database without a cache plugin, can handle all the traffic HN throws at even a #1 story on a work day afternoon. All it takes is setting the Apache config such that it won't spawn more processes than there's memory available, or using something lighter weight than Apache in the first place.

I know this is a foolish connection to make, that their ability to keep a blog online isn't connected to the things that will actually determine whether the business succeeds or fails, but I can't avoid thinking it nonetheless.

To turn this rant into something possibly useful, maybe some advice: it's important to figure out the basics of setting up a web server, not because it's a terrible thing for your blog to go down, but because you're losing out on all the prospective users/customers that come with being linked to and discussed on HN or other sites. Even if they can read a cached blog post, you're probably less likely to get them to go visit the startup you're blogging about during this short moment you have their attention.
Calculators will probably stick around in schools for a while, since having a smart phone out during an exam would make it too easy to cheat by texting.
using:

color: transparent; text-shadow: 0 0 5px;

Works way better for text on non-webkit browsers and is supported by everything but IE (and even that supports it in 10)

The current form of the blur on firefox is just plain ugly, and seems to be an overly complicated way of achieving the effect.
Thanks for the info. It does seem to make more sense to opt for a high deductible plan.
> Irrespective of whether the app dev uses (1) or (2), they are relying on other people to do work before they can deploy their application. This is less empowering, and for an emerging platform such as Ubuntu, we need to enable app developers to deliver their apps without such delays.

> App Review - When the developer submits a new version of their application, it will go through a series of automated checks to verify that it conforms to the Extras packaging and security rules. The developer will be responsible for ensuring the package works effectively. If it doesn’t, the ratings and reviews will surely reflect this.

> We should not rely on manual reviews of software before inclusion. Manual reviews have been found to cause a significant bottleneck in the MyApps queue and they won’t scale effectively as we grow and open up Ubuntu to thousands of apps.

> The developer will not be able to add any other AppArmor abstractions beyond the ones defined above. All of these options are considered safe, and do not require a manual review before being allowed into the Extras archive. The user will be told about any options from the third group that the application needs, and will be asked to allow or reject its installation.
A few logical issues... the Interstate Highway System is an ongoing investment. It may have started in 1956, but it requires constant upkeep which, as you pointed out, is covered by taxes.

The fellow you mention launching a web development business today may not owe his success to government because his desk was shipped using infrastructure, but he does owe his success (in part) to the research investment that created ARPAnet.

Also, if you're hiring for a technology business, you're relying on the network of universities across the country to produce competent graduates. You also depend on taxes you pay for police, fire department, and the military to maintain a rule of law that enables your business to exist.
Kind is not being a doormat; kind is doing what will benefit everyone in the long run. Letting yourself be taken advantage of is cruel to yourself, and of questionable long-term value to anyone who would see fit to take advantage of someone else. The kindest thing to do is offer help when it appears to be most valuable, taking your own well-being into account as well as that of others.
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> Any shakedown by MS in the PC space extremely unlikely to fly

Not if they have a good excuse (patents Android OEMs consider valid enough to license).

> Hell, B&N even tried the antitrust angle in the Android tablet patents cae.

Unfortunately, Microsoft and B&N became "partners" before the list of secret patents became public.
Could you be contributing to that? You do have -28 karma and have only been around for a few months.
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It will work if you have <64 GB of data to back up. You can optionally exclude things that take up a lot of space like your Applications folder. Honestly though, your best bet would probably be to use a "real" drive for time machine backups and/or a third party online backup solution. Backblaze suits my needs quite well.
I think the problem is that some Linux detractors do not realize that there are two seperate standards of success (as mentioned on the Google+ discussion). There is the business standard, and there is the community standard.

Linux doesn't need to be a threat to Apple/Microsoft in order to be a success. That is an artificial bar that some people seem to have become obsessed with.
Security, from both hacking and tracing.
>The desktop never really needed Linux

That depends on how far Microsoft and Apple go with the tabletization of Windows and OS X in the next few years.

I've been a mac user for years, but after playing with mountain lion, I could see the writing on the wall. It was time for a new laptop, so I went with a thinkpad with Arch Linux.

I don't think that Microsoft will ever manage to completely force the app store on everyone--solely because of enterprise customers--unless maybe they force you to use it on home/basic and make it optional on business/enterprise. However, I do think that's what they and Apple eventually want. I also think that's probably what the average consumer wants.

We need Linux as a third (and 4th, 5th...) option for all of us edge cases that don't fit the standard consumer mold.
The shop I just moved to has the usual roll-your-own mess, but the shop I just left did it right: "yum update". Making RPMs isn't hard, and it ensures appropriate versions of all dependencies are there (even stuff like syslog-ng configs), and their tiny overworked sysadmin team didn't have to know or care which language they're implemented in, or whether there's anything smuggled onto each box behind their backs, or how to bring a freshly-imaged box into production. They ran a small script to fake a health check failure on a few servers at a time to do it without load, because they didn't want to reserve the footprint to run two versions of an app server in parallel on each box.
>Those developers are very unlikely to find Gnome 3 or Unity too constraining for their tastes

The problem is that most of those developers have already left Linux and would be unwilling to switch either because of the hardware they like or the Mac app ecosystem or toolchain they use (for example iOS development). I doubt a significant percentage would come back even with a better Linux.
If you have a key on the system you are on, just use it. Your complicated system of barcodes and virtual scanners adds nothing but complication to what was already a secure system. Or the system wasn't secure, and you can't use the insecure system to validate the security of the insecure system.

You and thedufer aren't doing this right. You see one objection, then bend the system to meet it, then see another objection, then rewrite the system to meet that, then so on, never considering the whole picture. You can't do security that way. You have to do it holistically. The whole system that you come up with has to be simultaneously secure against everything, and also needs to be the best possible solution. If you're looping a design around trying to solve one problem at a time (and not necessarily all that well) you've already lost.
Thinking of innovation as coming from people outside the industry or people inside the industry is a false dichotomy.

I reckon that one of the catalyzing factors will be smart people who naively go into school to study medicine thinking that is the career for them, but drop out of that career path just before, during or just after their residency, either because they can no longer imagine living the medical lifestyle or because they realize how backwards it is. Those that drop out will know more enough about what is wrong with the industry but not have the horse blinders that those immersed in the industry for years will have.

These people and those who work with the medical industry but are doctors are the people the medical industry discounts.
I think this flamewar is just a viral marketing strategy for Google+
This is really cool. I have a project I'm working on now which I'll be listing on there for sure. Shameless plug—it's a small IR receiver board which provides input switching and volume control to a stereo amplifier. I'm using it to upgrade a 1970s solid-state amp, but the intended user would be a chipamp builder. The MCU is an atmega168/328, so it's completely hackable.

The site is down right now, but would there be a way in tindie to get a volume commitment, a la Kickstarter? It would be great to be able to have a chunk of cash upfront, to pay things like setup fees for PCB fab and assembly.
Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

I just looked up the speech as well. The 'that' would seem to be referring to the 'somebody' who built infrastructure. You could read it the other way I suppose, but only if you thought it was a separate statement meant to stand apart from the rest of the paragraph that is enclosing it, which wouldn't make much sense.
How else does one install programs other than manually? You can't magically wish for Chrome to appear on ubuntu, you have to either use Synaptic, apt-get, or the software center (on recent ubuntii). All of these at least prompt you about dependencies.
Double nice. A co-worker and I once had a joke where we wanted our code counts for the year to be negative. No one tracks code counts, of course, but it was a fun idea.

He eventually replaced a particularly ugly and complicated system with a much simpler system, and thus he met his goal of going into the negative. Less code is better code.
Pesticides have no effect whatsoever on bacteria. And dung from plant fed animals is harmless.

And all bacteria is not equal, so it's doesn't matter how much there is - it matters what kind. Cheese is just full of bacteria, so are pickles, and yogurt. Food grown using antibiotics will have more of the dangerous resistant kind, rather than the beneficial kind.

With the sprouts it was not the organic that was the issue - it's simply that it's sprouts. Sprouts are wet, not cooked, and not washed. It's a perfect environment for bacteria if you are not careful.

I don't think non-organic sprouts even exists - they grow in less than a week, why would you put pesticides on it?
Well, Apple requires you to enrol in the $99/year 'developer program' to be able to submit applications. The developer check is more like Ubuntu's equivalent of that.

The key is that in many cases it will be easy to verify the identity of the developer: find the most active few accounts in the version control log, and email them about it. That takes far less time than auditing code.
Hey Mike, sound great! I'm actually working on that right now. So it should be out in the next few weeks. - emile
This interocular lens implant is really doing the trick, but after 7 surgeries, my eye's feeling hacked to bits.

Seriously, though... You're not going to be able to correct for most refractive errors. There are exercises you can do to strengthen eye muscles, but the amount of benefit you will receive from this is limited. There's only so much range of motion there to work with and that range decreases with age and the natural hardening of the lens of the eye.

That said, some people who do a lot of close work (such as working at a computer all day) can benefit, because their eyes get so used to seeing at one focal range that it becomes difficult to quickly focus at other distances, just because the muscles aren't used to doing it.

If you're really serious about it, see an ophthalmologist. There are a number of different types of vision therapies, from exercises to refractive lenses to laser treatments. Tell them your daily routine and your goals and they'll be able to help you find a combination that works best for you.