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Given Apple’s One-Phone-To-Rule-Them-All strategy, the upgrade is too radical in a bad way for everyday users.

It's not like Apple only has one phone available. You can still buy the 4S or the 4, each for $100 less than their successor. So I don't agree with the point on compatibility, I think Apple is smart to get it all out of the way (screen size, connector) in one upgrade.

Besides that though, I think this guy makes great points about Apple fanboy psychology and why people get "disappointed" about their releases like this. It's hard to remember what most "normal" folks are thinking when all you read is Hacker News. :)
I don't think it's limited to American tourists.

When I visited Amsterdam I had to take few days to adjust to the fact that as a pedestrian you have to be pretty much aware what's happening at nearly 360 deg around you when you try to cross any sort of curb.

In my home country it's usually sufficient to make sure nothing is coming from the left to not be in any immediate danger.

After those few days of adjustment I found Amsterdam to be amazing place.

There was no other place in the world where I felt that the city treats me like a real adult perfectly capable of taking care of my own safety.
WebOS could do something different and allow for apps to be loaded on the fly via a URL. Oh wait, that's what a web browser does..Why isn't WebOS aiming to be a web browser with the ability to cache apps using standardized (or maybe non-standard if needed) technologies? Then, you wouldn't need a marketplace or app store necessarily, because users have access to the apps directly off the web. Not to mention, this will save storage and move towards cloud computing more nicely. Oh, and think about how easy it would be to transfer an application from device to another device. WebOS should focus on being just that, a web OS. This means URLs; DNS is the backbone of the web after all.
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Any idea what those printers use? I've heard of C&C machines carving hard parts out of blocks of metal, but 3D printing them would be really cool.
...bracing for the inevitable headlines that claim exactly the opposite of the first sentence of the abstract: "General intelligence (g) and virtually all other behavioral traits are heritable."
Why fonts look the way they do in web browsers
I can't help but think that this hand-wringing over the iPhone5 is really an unspoken, collective wonderment: what would Apple have released if Steve was still alive? Would it look like this? Would it have had one more thing?

This is collective, delayed bereavement, and it's not the last time we'll see it. The world really lost something when it lost Steve; he was a lightning rod for great products and great marketing. He made you believe.

We still want to believe, and we still want to feel that wonder. But we wonder if we'll ever feel that way again about an Apple product.
The irony that you would talk about opera in response to my comment is staggering.
Yes. The reprappers are making strides in this direction. There's also conductive ABS plastic.

http://www.repraper.com/goods.php?id=172

http://blog.reprap.org/search/label/Printing%20Conductors

http://blog.reprap.org/2012/04/some-more-printed-circuitry.h...

However, you're thinking too far ahead. The current home printers don't have the resolution to print circuits on the scale of a chip. You could probably do it, but the chip would be basic, and quite big and slow.
My first thought while reading this was how http://duckduckgo.com/ is already working on this problem, and is perhaps a lot farther along.
My roommate wasn't accepted. He's a software engineer.
The problem with this study and many others that report on TDD's benefits is that they don't compare the results with a test group that writes unit tests after the fact. So, it's not at all clear what they're validating: the benefits of unit tests (which I think are well accepted) or the benefits of writing tests before code. I suspect it's primarily the former.
The point? He could be putting his children through school and paying for his family's health care.

The ability to operate solely in the top tier of the Maslow pyramid is a multiple sigma anomaly, not a fact of life. For many people "enjoying life" is knowing you've done all you possibly can to make sure your children will live a better life than you.
Early PC's had word processing and spreadsheets. They were immediately useful. Checkout WordPerfect, pfs:Write, Lotus 123, and VisiCalc on Wikipedia.
The oft-maligned information bubble seems to have very real value that I don't see mentioned that often.

The example that people always bring up are politically-aligned issues that will prevent you from seeing the opposite side, which is an issue, but it seems that the far more common case is that I'm searching for something like "go construct" and I want to see something like golang and not http://www.goconstruction.net/, the "bubble" makes it so that the terms will disambiguate the way that I want them rather than a totally different meaning.

Good luck on this frighteningly ambitious idea though.
A friend of mine died a couple years ago from a bicycle accident with a car. He suffered a head injury and was not wearing a helmet. There is no logical argument that would ever make me support riding without a helmet, despite how much fun it is.
This is incorrect in Asia - the fastest growing mobile market in the world. Opera is very, very big in India - it also comes preinstalled in many dumbphones.

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2012/07/q1_and_2_201...

On a personal note, I do want to mention that your comment leans a bit too much towards dogma. I dont want to start a flamewar (and go offtopic), but please have a downvote cookie.

Returning to on-topic, I am able to use the site fine with Opera Mobile on Gingerbread.
Google's 'Scientologist' principle that what's true is what's true for you is true. Google shifted from relevancy conception to 'value' conception. Probably, they have some data that this makes users more satisfied in average.

I agree that you could beat Google on niche markets, some people will prefer relevancy to value, like search of pdf documents for instance, or structured search, etc. Although you should differentiate yourself from Blekko and similar guys.

I was working on interest search and data clustering for Facebook year ago, kind of mix of social network and search engine - it took me a lot of resources that I did not have, but this was very exciting.
"They also compromised on materials. Instead of the glass-backed iPhone 4S, which looked beautiful but was thick and heavy, we now get an aluminum housing, which scratches and scuffs easily and visibly — something Apple reassuringly tells us is “normal.”"

I'd say this is an improvement on the old design. Though not as pretty, it's more durable and lighter. Shattering the glass is a common and expensive problem for customers. It's nice to have one less fragile item on this expensive device.
Hacker News crowd are waaay more rational than average "tech pundits" and gadget site frequenters... People have been a little harder on Apple here lately because of the Samsung case, that's all.
I've been to Florence for 6 months and traffic there is much more chaotic that what I'm used to at home (Poland). But it's also much safer. People rarely use turn signals (except buses and taxis) but that just makes everybody really observe what the other drivers are doing. Generally divers seem to really pay attention more to what's around them and adjust their behavior.

Another amazing things are bicycles and scooters navigating through narrow streets filled with pedestrians apparently totally safely and without being cursed at.
There's also another: parts for 3D printers or upgrades.

But I think the common theme is stuff that you would never find in a Target or Walmart, because the cost of production is high enough that people wouldn't have taken the risk to make wacky and wild things.

Just as with blogs and the democratization of online publishing or youtube with online videos, you get lots of wacky and wild blogs/videos (or as some would say, weird crap), but out of the weird crap are lots of gems. You'd never get Charlie bit my finger, Cat videos, etc greenlighted on HBO, and yet, Youtube has demonstrated those things entertains millions.

I think the same will happen with these objects. At first, there will be a lot of copying of things that we already know, like replacement parts, shower rings, art pieces. Things that traditional manufacturing is better at. But once we discover what 3D printing is really good at, we'll probably see objects for uses we've never seen before.
Google Turing monopoly (+ Turing was playing Monopoly before it was cool)
There are 3d printers that use a laser to sinter metal powders. It's hard to make that as strong as cast metal parts, but it can certainly make parts that are harder than the extruded plastic that the more affordable 3d printers work with.
LLXC: My little python3-lxc based project
This is a live map of the trains in and around the area of Copenhagen, Denmark:

http://byenspuls.dsb.dk/byens_puls/ByensPuls.html

The colour of the marker reflect its punctuality, thus yellow means 5-10 minutes late etc.
Here's one for Sweden (passenger-trains only): http://www.tagkartan.se - It's also based off on schedules but updates with delays as soon as they are announced.
I did this for a few days a while back when Fab.com was offering the credit for new referrals on both ends (money for them, money for me) but wasn't able to get it to ROI positive. There were a ton of sign ups but not enough people made that first purchase to get me the credit and they're pretty smart about expiring credits and the putting in a 30-day limit on when the referral must have completed their first purchase.
http://production3dprinters.com/slm/direct-metal-slm

They use small layers of metal particles fused with lasers.
Great. Very useful :-)

Could be a good plugin for an apartment hunting website, for finding friends' addresses and stuff.
Our lawyer explains the Thingiverse terms of service
>New-feature lust is a phenomenon driven by the tiny minority of people who make their livings writing about technology...
>We advocate Google’s augmented reality glasses not because we’ve analyzed the consumer marketplace and considered human psychology ...
>No, we advocate them because we’re bored, and we want to try them ourselves.

Respect to Mike Elgan for breaking out of the normal tech story narrative routine. I hadn't really thought of that perspective. The rest of the article seemed to be the old dualistic battle though.
The reason it's hard to compete in search engines is that an MVP is pretty tough. If you can't type in [espn] and get to ESPN, then your search engine hasn't hit minimum viable product yet. But it's not that easy to get to the point where these "navigational" searches work. You probably can't do it with just a few people and a few months. It requires millions of up-front investment, like Cuil or Blekko.

So, if you want to build a new search engine, you need a more radical vision for what you are leaving out. Either you are leaving out the vast majority of the internet, or you are leaving out the vast majority of queries. Focusing on the areas where the press has dinged Google like privacy or an API won't get you there.
There's an interesting paper that came out of Stanford's WebBase project that might be helpful: http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/422/1/1999-66.pdf
Really? I don't visit Amsterdam that often, but the rest of NL really is full of bike lanes.

Agreed. I live in Groningen 4/5 of my way to work I use bike lines, the other 1/5th is the car-free center (though there are busses).
I'll buy a 3D printer when I can print all the pieces to build a Nerf N-Strike Elite Hail Fire http://s831.us/hail-fire for under forty dollars worth of materials and it can be printed and assembled in under three hours.

I picked this item because it was featured in the Wired magazine article right after their "3D printers are the next PC" article.
I remember in my teens picking old locks simply with two paperclips. All locks sold in normal stores can be picked with very basic tools. Any house lock can be very quickly unlocked by a professional. There are plenty of videos on YouTube showing just how much of a joke most all locks are. Deadbolts can be picked with household items. Those sliding locks with chains can be defeated with just a rubber band.
8088/DOS 1.0 were useful as personal computers. Right now 3D printers don't justify their cost--why buy a $5k printer when you can just contract someone else to print for you?

Along those lines, 3D printers seem to be in the "mainframe" era. I.e., it'll bring down costs for commodities such as toys and cheap plastic parts (like mainframes brought down costs for accounting-like work), but they're years away off from changing up day-to-day life, even for nerds interested in them.
Well, you have to be skeptical for the right reasons. It is true there's both lots of hype and cynicism.

3D printing parallels computers in many ways, but it's important to see how it is different as well. Unlike computers, I currently can't see anything resembling Moore's law. In addition, it may have some version of the "Singer Problem". When sewing machines came out, you could have claimed that everyone would make their own clothes. But we don't. Why don't we?

Or when camcorders first came out in the early 80's, some people were enthused about being able to record their own shows, and talked about how it was going to disrupt traditional media. However, the missing piece they failed to take into account was that there was no method of distribution. It wasn't until Youtube came along that this vision came to be.

That said, I'm enthused about its possibilities. I've got a printer at home, and I've been exploring what it's good for, and so far, I'm optimistic.
Nope. I'm in my late 20s, so admitedly I've only been active on the Internet for 10-15 years. I've had email addresses at my (NZ) ISP, my uni, Operamail (really), hotmail and yes, gmail.

Basically, I think I just didn't publish it raw anywhere, and I wasn't part of any user groups or anything that forces raw email addr publication.

I also have never got any viruses or anything like that either. I guess I'm cautious.
The Curious Case of Missing Option Three
Three years with Gentoo
Installing Gentoo/Funtoo on an Eee PC Netbook
It's not going to happen in Western Europe, because it is not really necessary. Most of my family and friends have used bikes nearly daily since they were three or four years old. I know of no-one who had a head injury.

Biking without helmet is perfectly safe here (Netherlands), because of traffic laws and bike lanes.
"expensive to innovate and cheap to copy" sounds like eligibility criteria to me.
And a quick check shows ABS filament at about $40/L.
Interestingly, it's only been giving 100.00% in the last few days as the poll margins widen. Actually, manually setting the standard deviation seems arbitrary to me. It's useful to vary the parameters to experiment and get a feel for how the statistics work. But it seems to me that the intrinsic statistics really are telling us something about the current state of the race and the amount of certainty inferable from the polls and electoral college combinations. Finally, I note that FiveThirtyEight's Now-cast probability is at 98.0% today, so 100% doesn't feel too off to me given the simplicity of this simulation's statistical model.
Maybe?
Anyways I'm mostly commenting on what others may perceive. This is the best explanation I can come up with. I'd honestly rather judge actions based on what happens rather than what was intended to happen. Even if the attitude pisses me off.
Go 1.0.3 released
We'd probably have better and cheaper drugs without the patent system. If more companies can make and sell the same drug, more companies can also fund research.

Patents should be categorically banned.
Nicely done. Appreciate the beautiful and detailed documentation.
In germany we're glad when the train arrives within the hour that it was scheduled for...
Not only do I agree with you about these things being bad, but I was having the exact same problem on Korg.com last night. It's very common on music gear websites, and infuriating.
His email is trivially discoverable in the same way that FizzBuzz is trivially programmable.

The point is not that it is hard; the point is that even a very very low barrier to entry may weed out a surprisingly large number of unsuitable applicants.
My only beef is the lack of NFC. Yes the local Starbucks doesn't support it but if iPhone had it, they soon would've. Read that the aluminum back is not compatible with the rather large antenna needed for the NFC chip. Or maybe Apple didn't figure out a way to take their cut of mobile payments yet. But it sure is disappointing to see the tech being held back by the lack of adoption.
There exist metal 3D printing technologies, but usually the mechanical properties of the finished material are not as good as an equivalent cast version, although can be as good as about 80%, in terms of Youngs Modulus.

At the cheap end of metal 3D printing, shapeways.com will make you stuff out of stainless steel at $8.00/cm^3. More b2b companies will provide more detailed mechanical info about their process and the results.

A site close to my hobby interests is http://rocketmoonlighting.blogspot.com , where this chap has printed a rocket engine, complete with internal regenerative cooling channels (where you keep the combustion chamber and nozzle cool by pumping the fuel in channels around it before it gets injected in the chamber). I think it's wonderful, and is a reason I'm excited by 3D printing. Also, being able to print Printed Circuit Boards, i.e. printing copper tracks onto a fibreglass substrate, would be a serious boon.
In defense of open source innovation and polite disagreement
It was down for some reason but now back up.
Does printing shelving braces count as useful? I printing out two, stuck a piece of plywood on top, and now I have a shelf that supports 20+lbs.
Here is the cached version http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
>Comparing with laptops isn't really a fair game, as they have stopped adding features for years and simply improve on speed. Smartphones are in the middle of a very strong development curve, where we find ourselves with portable computing platform we haven't yet figured out all possibilities of.

This isn't entirely true. Apple themselves have improved things a bit with the Macbook Air, reducing weight and improving battery life to a ridiculous degree. They've also added the retina displays to their higher end macbooks. Even some of the functionality you mention in phones (such as airplay) has been put into these devices.
I'm quite willing to settle for just printing PCBs at home. There are low-volume PCB printing services but they are still quite expensive, not to mention slow to turn around. There is a strong space here for a 3D printer to come in.
Any big company can pour any large amount of money to "innovate", which will probably help them bring the product to market sooner, but that isn't justification for a temporary monopoly grant.

"Cheap to copy" sounds like something to be embraced.
The laptop hinge is probably metal.

The top to my blender is made of two materials, a very soft pliable plastic that is food safe and a ridget clear plastic for the handle.

These two very simple examples have at least three very different materials with very different properties.

It is going to be one very expensive printer that could work with lots of different materials. Even if it could be made cheaply, small batches of each material in custom colors and sizes would also be very expensive.
So just to be sure, some noobs questions: The 'Ephemeral Ports' and the 'TIME_WAIT state' tricks are here to handle the connections from nginx to Node.js (not for the client to nginx)?

Socket from client to nginx are well identified by the client IP an the client port. On each client request, nginx create a new socket to node.js?

There can be more than one node.js intance running? That's the main goal of nginx here, or there is some additional benifices?
> Edit, ok: "nginx is used for almost everything: gzip encoding, static file serving, HTTP caching, SSL handling, load balancing and spoon feeding clients" http://blog.argteam.com/coding/hardening-node-js-for-product...
Well, I know a killer app would be if it printed circuits. That's the obvious one, but it's a long ways off. I don't know if there's something before that that's a killer app. There may be.
I'm similar, except replace 'Nerf N-Strike Elite Hail Fire' with '3D printer' (and I'm a bit more flexible on raw materials cost).
To be more accurate, and pertinent, early adopters of PCs wrote software that made the PC useful. The PC did not arrive with VisiCalc, or even an OS.

We are still at Altair II level - where looking at a wooden box with switches on it makes Lolcats quite hard to imagine.

Just sail west.
From Brampton/Toronto.
"The startup seeks to let strings by breaking .2em bytes."

I was tempted to make a snarky comment about this, but it's actually not much worse than phrases like "We deliver beautiful products to web enterprises!" At least this is obviously gibberish.
Personally I don't find the idea of 'test first' to be very practical in the kinds of tests that I write. I think the pragmatic programers used the expression 'spike and stabilize' to describe a pattern of development whereby devs get something working then write some tests to support that new feature. They made an analogy of mountain climbers free climbing for a bit then securing everything with the ropes.
In order to do 'test first' I would have to decide things like what to call an input field on a web page so that I could write my failing test then code the page. That is too early to make decisions like that.
Also, when people say they write a failing test then the impl. are they really writing a single failing test. Often I find I need several tests to cover all the cases.
I bring this up because I'm a big fan of TDD but it seems too easy to poke holes in the whole 'write the failing test first' approach.
It is up to everyone to take their own responsibility and assume the consequences of their actions. [..] I am appalled that in a country like the US which WAS known to value individual responsibility it has become mandatory to wear helmets when cycling.

Though it's hardly a new development. Seat belts have been mandatory for decades. People complain about safety restrictions like these at first but seat belt laws have been around long enough to reduce the complaints to a mere mumble. So may it happen with helmet laws.
I have not, but I am so not surprised that someone else had the idea, probably made it better, and is in business.
When an entrepreneur has 100% turnover in a business that is 3 years young, the problem is not the employees, but the entrepreneur.
Should we support NFC? Should we launch a digital wallet? Should we build a robotic Prius? Should we develop augmented reality glasses and launch those glasses by doing a live Google+ hangout with skydivers jumping out of a blimp over San Francisco?

The answer is "Yes". Without having an ok NFC, you are not going to get a good NFC. Apple can come out and make it perfect, awesome, amazing, but there has to be something to start with.