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If Sandia's idea works, they'll exceed breakeven next year. After that they just need to build a machine two or three times bigger and they'll have a high enough energy gain to easily be practical. And they only need a new fuel element every ten seconds, which gives them a practical advantage over NIF's approach.

Meanwhile there's focus fusion (could get to net power next year with boron fusion), NIF (a couple years away, already working on a practical power plant design called LIFE), General Fusion (five years to commercialization if it works), Tri-Alpha (slightly more), picosecond laser fusion (simple high-gain boron fusion design, needs a laser six times bigger than our best now but lasers are advancing fast), polywell (Navy's doing it, could be five years if it works, they're not talking much), and a couple more that look promising but need funding (Helion, levitated dipole). And tokamak of course, which is still decades away from practical use so of course that gets the most money and press.

What people don't realize is that fusion has been advancing exponentially since 1970.

But still every fusion article gets the inevitable "fifty years away" joke. I'm on the verge of making a record of every one I see, just so I can send them all a "nyah nyah" when one of these projects comes to fruition.
Twitter forces use of its own image service in mobile apps
Or for pretty colors, try Data::Printer

echo '{"hello":"there"}' | perl -MJSON -MDDP -E '$f = decode_json readline; p $f'
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My guide app was recently rejected for being "simply a book." Seriously. There's actually a "Books" section of the App Store (it's the first one, no less!).

My only recourse? Publish it on iBooks, which requires an ISBN. Also, I've never met anyone who's ever even opened the iBooks store.
Holy shit.

That's handy to know.
Wait, so if I build something on Android and iPhone, I don't have to use Apple's in app purchase? I can use Stripe directly? Am I understanding this correctly?
Easy answer, spaghetti; Apple didn't build their review process for developers first, they built it for their users and Apple Inc (not necessarily in that order).

As a developer, I want free and easy access to the App store to upload my apps.

As a user, I want a selection of the safest, highest quality, predictable and elegantly design applications.

Apple Inc, as a for profitable organization, wants to ensure that they maintain control over the various revenue lines (and ensuing profit).

It's the only rational profit-maximizing-response for an organization that has their market dominance.
It's pretty close. Has a high neutron flux that makes your equipment radioactive, but there's no waste from the fuel itself.

If one of the boron fusion projects works out, we won't even have the neutron flux.
Your site is really nice. You should link to it instead of Folyo. https://familyleaf.com/
> Gruber's explanation of "Apple does it because it can, and the people complaining are just jealous that Apple can and they cannot" doesn't really fly.

Well, Gruber's job is to come up with rebuttals to any criticisms of Apple, no matter how lame they may be. Otherwise, he wouldn't continue to get fed insider information from his Apple sources.
Think about it. What would happen if they were cheap?

Anyone could amass a large portfolio. We could all block each other's every move. No one would have any leverage.

But the second question you have to ask is what does it cost to sue? What if that were cheap?
I'm not sure if approving a bad app hurts Apple. If the app is truly awful customers can get a refund. Also the app store has some sort of collaborative filtering in place. Namely apps that are highly rated and/or downloaded a lot and/or some other reasons bubble up to the top. So apps that stink will just float to the bottom.

Is Google hurt when a bad webpage makes it into the search index? Not really. In general it just floats to the bottom.
That's what he's telling me.
Its things like this that are going to put Apple on the feds' radar enough to cause them a lot of pain down the road.
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There are exceptions; Elon Musk clearly started SpaceX because he couldn't afford to develop the technology at a non-profit. Similarly it is common for well-off people who are retirement age to start a business that has no possibility of making any significant money just to have something to do.
I don't get why you're surprised. The JVM is extremely fast and highly optimised - especially for networked and concurrent operations.
But it's MICROSOFT! sigh

My job routinely requires me to utilize Internet Explorer, and I don't think it's all that bad to be honest. I also utilize Chrome and Firefox throughout my day. Is it a little slower? Sure. Is it kind of the big, ugly older sister of Firefox and Chrome? Absolutely. Beyond all that, though, it still works.
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Flow is not the same as supply. Noonespecial is talking about blocking things at source not by an intermediary.
Perhaps it would appear then that I am the only one that never ever ever resizes my browser. OP's question has always puzzled me too.
"Where are the apps? Is... Oh. Are these all of the apps or some of the apps? Where are all of the apps?"

Did you pick up someone else's phone? When you initialize an account for the first time (as someone who's done this a bunch with custom ROMs on Android), there will be tutorial overlays on the screen explaining the answers to those questions.
I don't know if I'd say it's a "slightly different concept"... EasyPost is an API. RocketShip.it is downloadable software. It's like comparing a Roomba and a vacuum cleaner.
Wasn't the first ipod, however huge it seems by modern standards, also substantially smaller than the nomad? My recollection is that the nomad was, well, a brick...
Gotta love Chrome's Adblock plugin!!! :) I didn't see a thing.
Can some one explain what the benefit of this over using something like imageMagick? Is there a hidden cost to imageMagick that I am missing?
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"The overwhelming majority of Linux window systems and desktop environments were Windows 95 work-alikes, NeXTstep work-alikes, or attempts at minimalism based on BlackBox or aewm."

The majority of existing Linux window managers are not representative of the window managers that the majority of Linux users actually use.

There are just a lot of Linux window managers, most of them were probably coded and abandoned decades ago, but they still exist and the code is still out there, because they're open source and the repository they reside in is still maintained by someone, even if no one actually uses them.

You'd be very hard pressed to argue that the versions of KDE and Gnome used by the majority of Linux users fit in to either of your three categories: "Windows 95 work-alikes, NeXTstep work-alikes, or attempts at minimalism based on BlackBox or aewm"

"In the meantime, Microsoft kept improving Windows until, with XP, they had an operating system that even many Slashdotters were forced to admit was usable and productive."

Maybe Microsoft plants at Slashdot would admit that, but most Slashdot users certainly would not. They might admit that XP was better than Vista or Windows 8, though.

"Apple went to the brink of ruin and bounced back to usability preeminence using Unix code, but violating -- nay, extravagantly violating -- the Unix philosophy when it comes to user interfaces."

Some would call the one-button-mouse "usability preeminence", others would call it dumbing down the UI to pander to the lowest common denominator.

Yes, it's undeniable that Apple and MS made a lot of money selling their wares to the technologically illiterate masses.

On HN, where the making money is considered a holy virtue, this might lead some to call Apple's and MS's strategy genius, and to imply that their UIs must be great by association.

But not everyone is so enamored with making money, pandering to the masses, or dumbing down UIs so that even an idiot could use them.

"If one wants to have a good user interface, then mechanism should not always be separated from policy. Configurability should not be paramount. An authority must be in charge to enforce interface consistency, if only imperfectly."

Fortunately there's choice of window managers and UIs on Linux, and we don't have to suffer any benevolent dictators enforcing interface consistency on us all. There is no one-size-fits-all interface, UI, or window manager. I, for one, and grateful for the customizability and flexibility that the Linux ecosystem and X offers us.
Yep. My job rarely has me setting Android up for the first time.
There's a difference between legit apps being rejected for silly reasons and spam, hate etc apps. You're right it's probably appropriate for Apple to draw some line when it comes to those apps. However my frustration comes from totally legitimate apps being rejected for non-sense reasons.

I don't expect the review process to be perfect. I'm just curious why Apple hasn't improved it beyond it's dismal state in the last four years.
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Happy Hour Share: Crowdsourcing happy hour specials in NYC with SMS and Twitter
As an alternative to torrents, if you're playing on Windows you can just take the keys they give you and put them into Steam, rather than downloading off HIB servers.
yeah that's mentioned on the second line of TFA
(disclaimer: OP and Zapier co-founder here)

This is just something really cool we found, we hadn't seen an app quite like this before. Their Twitter is found here: https://twitter.com/happyhourshare
The BSI is in the German media fairly regularly with advice about private and commercial information security and has a good reputation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Office_for_Information_...
The best programmers are quick, efficient and clean. Work smart not hard I say. There's a great Tim Ferriss quote: 'Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.'
Wait. This isn't true. Most filesystems don't have an algorithmic identifier for the data being stored. They do often have checksums, but that's different.
Given that the Republic of Texas voluntarily joined the United States, there might be an interesting argument regarding national origin (which is a protected class). There are at least a few diplomatic conventions that stem from this, such as flying the Texas flag at the same height as the US flag, instead of lower.
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That one jumped out at me, too.

I never use the texting function of Google Voice. I do use it instead of my carrier's voicemail service, however.
Infinite....
It's interesting to think about in terms of a rational profit-maximizing-response. Perhaps rejecting apps for silly reasons is Apple's way of trying to get rid of apps they deem crappy. This is only a problem when they label something crappy but users would enjoy quite a lot. But it might be a problem that's too small to care about when it comes to a rational response.
There's a big difference between "I haven't heard of the PayPal app" and "I haven't heard of PayPal". I presume that when discussing reviewing apps with an app reviewer, it's not a stretch to assume that the app reviewer thinks in terms of apps.
The Google Voice one makes sense to me. I don't have an Android phone, but the idea of having multiple texting apps that are slightly different seems amazingly confusing.

The horizontal support was the only one that didn't seem like a problem to me. Most Apple apps on iOS have horizontal support (Messages, Calendar, Camera, Photos, Mail, Stocks, Calculator, Notes, Safari, Reminders, Contacts).

But Springboard (the launcher) doesn't have horizontal support. That doesn't seem like a loss to me. If there was a second horizontal orientation, I've have to re-organize everything. You can't rotate every icon 90 degrees because there isn't enough space for the app titles in landscape.

A few other apps lack a landscape mode, but it doesn't seem like a big deal. Settings, App Store, Weather, and YouTube (outside of video playback) don't support it, but that doesn't seem like a big limitation.
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Well, 1952 to 2002 would be even more challenging (42 even more so). The transistor was new, lasers hadn't been invented, no orbital satellites had been launched, computers were very primitive, etc. So much of our modern communications infrastructure is based on lasers, satellites, and micro-chips.

What invention will render our predictions utterly useless? Consider the potential of memristor technology, for example, which could put vastly increase the power and space efficiency of computers and lead to micro-chip sized supercomputers. Or maybe we invent some form of nanofabrication, or room temperature superconductors, or some invention that wouldn't even make sense to us today.
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But the inventors don't work for them and they didn't file these patents nor were they assignees. They acquired the patents from someone else for a price.
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I agree. I'd prefer some sort of blanket "use words" setting like they have for the new gmail icons.
Luckily, some of the complaints can be fixed with individual app updates, rather than waiting for an entire OS update.
I could agree with your take that Windows Live Messenger, and Windows Live Spaces fit the description of a social network used in the patent.

> "A social network is any type of social structure where the users are connected by a common feature, for example, Google Plus. The common feature includes friendship, family, work, an interest, etc. The common features are provided by one or more social networking systems, such as those included in the system 100, including explicitly-defined relationships and relationships implied by social connections with other users, where the relationships are defined in a social graph 179. The social graph 179 is a mapping of all users in a social network and how they are related to each other. The social graph 179 is included in the memory 237 that is described below in detail. "

I would also argue that any competent attorney could argue that the other three MS services don't fit that description.
To add to this, four finger swipe up for the multitasking bar or four finger swipe to the left/right to flip between apps. It's not discoverable - as far as I know there isn't even a tutorial - but this is how large-screen devices work best.
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Put this together in a couple hours using TelAPI and Zapier
Can also just hit the Google search bar at the top of every home screen.
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Also with things like WebGL security is only going to become a bigger problem.

Yes, they fix and push fixes out faster, but that doesn't inherently mean your browser is more secure, only that there are less people out there with browsers that are publicly known to be exploitable, but is safe to assume that all browsers are exploitable, and that there are people that knows the holes but doesn't make them public because their value (either to governments or criminals) is way too great to even compete in the same league as the rewards offered by browser makers.
It is not two back buttons. It is like a browser: a history back button at browser level, and a suggested top left clickable app icon that usually brings you to app main screen, or some intermediary hub screen if the app is really multiple apps bundled in one.

It's true that it can be confusing at times but the reason is that of inconsistencies and some bad behavior of some apps, eg hooking the back button.

Don't think people are that stupid, they can understand such a simple model.
Im not sure, I have worked with some ok programmers that believed they were good programmers and were definitely proud of being lazy. Ive worked with really good programmers who worked obsessively, who thought they were lazy but really werent. I think this is a meme that doesnt have much behind it.
I have both a "new iPad" and an Android Phone (an HTC G2, which is stuck in Gingerbread and is not exactly in its prime.) I am a fairly simple user of both of these: I use a few apps (Twitter and Yelp come to mind, and an app to read reddit) and the stock apps (Google Maps especially on the phone, the browser on both.) Here is my perspective on the two: it doesn't actually matter that much.

With iOS, everything looks pretty good and there's a lot of consistency. The browser, I understand, is much better than the browser on my phone (I'm not sure how it stacks up against Chrome for Android, which is not available to me.) But then, iOS is kind of annoying too: the keyboard placement often gets in the way of text fields, there is zero integration in between apps and no way for an app to provide a common service, I have to log in to everything separately. It's very difficult to move within a word (for example, if I typed fold instead of food, it is difficult to change the l to an o.) Every app has its own embedded web browser, which invariably has slight different controls than every other apps embedded web browser. Settings are sometimes bafflingly hidden in some other settings app, rather than being in the actual app you're using. Those things annoy me slightly, but they don't bother me that much when I'm using the device, because when I'm using the device, I'm focused on the task at hand and the device doesn't confuse me enough that it breaks my concentration. This is easy to understand because, as I mentioned, I do pretty simple things on my iPad.

With Android, apps can provide common services ("Android intents") and they integrate well with one another. There's a back button to move between apps, so apps don't need to do things like embed their own web browser. There's a little nub that I can use to move within a word, so correcting text is much easier. I can use a custom keyboard that is better than both the iOS keyboard (which is admittedly very good), and better than the built-in Android keyboard (which is pretty good, but doesn't have very good autocorrect.) But the thing with Android is that up until recently, it's been very plain and even ugly by default. The default look of an app is pretty ugly (just white text on a black background) so developers seem to try to implement their own style, with varying degrees of success. When the back button works, it's a godsend, but when it doesn't it's really fucking confusing. Animations are often choppy. But mostly none of this actually matters that much, because when I'm using the device, I'm focused on the task at hand and the device doesn't confuse me enough that it breaks my concentration. This is easy to understand because, as I mentioned, I do pretty simple things on my Android device.
Did you read the whole article? The ends suggests a twist.
Also somebody in the gonuts list noted that both versions are using the database differently, if you fix the Go version to use prepared statements it doubles throughput.
Who thought that power + volume down is the best way to take a screenshot? It is very hard to do

On a lot of phones, those two buttons are across from each other, so squeezing the phone with two fingers will take a screenshot if those phones support that shortcut.
Okay, I'll bite. Are your chats secured and if so using what standards? There was a good discussion about Whatsapp regarding this last week.
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I came here because I had the same question regarding P2P. Definitely confusing. I might look into changing your branding around "peer to peer". More like "one to one".
> I have made plenty of decisions that caused a great deal of suffering - but they made me who I am.

And if you-then hadn't made those decisions, that would have helped to make you-now a different you.

Unless you value being "who you are" instead of "who you might have been" more than you care about the suffering you caused, it's not clear to me why you shouldn't regret those decisions. (Note, I'm not saying you shouldn't prioritise your values like that, especially if it was mostly you who was suffering.)

This is mostly nitpicking. I agree that there's a difference between "I regret doing that" and "I regret not doing that".
It actually does, and it's part of UINavigationController, it's on screen and it clearly goes to the previous view.
doing weapons research under the guise of helping people

You're presuming those are different things, when they aren't necessarily. Good weaponry is a prerequisite for world (or even domestic) peace.

Of course, good ideas are also a prerequisite, and in that area, we're far more lacking.
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>What's the deal with font rendering in Chrome? Some links appear bigger than others (on hackernews and reddit).

This happens in Firefox as well. They're trying to use an adaptive algorithm to resize text intelligently, making "content" appear larger than nav bars and the like.

At least with Firefox, this fails when someone leaves a short comment and the algorithm doesn't recognise it as content. Even if Chrome fails in a different way, they're failing at the same (somewhat hard) problem.

Maybe it could fixed by, upon discovering content, ensuring that any similarly styled/classed elements had the same font size?
Actually, I posted this article just after reading the story about Russia revealing a secret diamond field containing "trillions of carats" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4534468 (I don't recall reading niggler's comment or yours honestly). I think that's why it got so many up votes. In fact, it seems this article is regularly submitted on HN: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=Hav.... Now that I think about it, I think I first discovered this article through HN 2 years ago.
It's important that such research is done, but there's a caveat. Usually, people will take MDMA for pleasure, in a peaceful setting - not in an MRI machine.

I wonder to what extent this can affect the readings of the MRI. Any brain scientist in the crowd?
Are you actually complaining that the reviewer was performing some QA-like functionality? That's surprising. You may also be misinterpreting. Quickly going through an entire app (which is what I'd expect a reviewer [who's actually testing the app] to do) is necessarily going to involve lots of really quick pushes and pops of VCs and swipes and whatnot. So no, I don't think the reviewer was trying to find some pretext to reject you. That doesn't even make sense. Why would a reviewer need that?
This article definitely has its merits, but I'm going to focus on this headline and picture.

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This is exactly what I'm trying to solve. When I first saw Fight Club I was mesmerized by a short scene [1]. The premise is basic -- we all have something we want to do, but are usually too scared to do it. Be it starting a company, asking someone on a date, or bungee jumping. We are all driven by something. The problems come up when we stall out. We can't afford to take the risk. We're hesitant. And for what? Security? Comfort?

To many, that's okay. That's perfectly acceptable. Finding happiness and contention in everyday life is something most of us strive for. We're jealous. Every evening we look forward to the weekend. And every weekend we look forward to the evening.

Sometimes we're driven by fear. Sometimes it's ignorance. The bigger problem is these emotions drive each other. We're ignorant of what is about to come so we wait in fear. That fear drives us to continue waiting for the "perfect opportunity." We're reluctant of full immersion. Which is usually the only solution for satisfying our inner drive.

Who do we have to blame? Nobody. Nobody but ourselves. We need to eliminate our excuses. We need to open ourselves to fully embracing the world around us.

[1] (NSFW) http://vimeo.com/11064775