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I remember that scene from the book too.

Very dramatic with the Mercury Seven astronauts bravely considering the safety of the rockets they were to ride on. Indeed they had the "right stuff".
It's what Bruce Schneier calls Security Theater, or movie plot threats, with a dash of "beware, the enemy is always listening", and self-proclaimed security experts to hint at vague threats from terrorists.

It's true that there are privacy issues with geotagging, facebook profiles. But the military and the para-military need their FUD to keep the money flowing.
I came here to say "use LTS", but I do think it's more complicated than that. Isn't that what 10.04.x LTS releases are for? So far, I've had really great results by using 10.04.4 LTS and building the 3.6 kernel. It's going to be a sad day next April when it's end-of-lifed.
No one's yet mentioned Wired's "The Web is Dead" headline from a few years back?

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/
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Well, a man, who jumped from ish kilometers in a space suit and tried to justify his jump and money spent with some highly debatable potential uses of saving our astronauts is saying what? Is he an expert of any kind now?

I'm stunned this is on HN.

Also, link to original article (interview): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9636188/Fearless-Fe...
Author here - it's a bit more complicated than that. For a linear power supply (old-fashioned wall wart), all the unused power is converted to heat, so you'd waste a lot of energy. But for switching power supplies (such as USB chargers), theoretically only the power that is needed is used, so the efficiency shouldn't depend much on the load. In practice, larger chargers might have better overall efficiency since they can implement better circuits (for space and price reasons). But larger chargers might not optimize as much for low loads. So it's hard to say offhand whether a large charger or small charger would be more efficient for a smaller load.

I did a quick test to see what really happens, plugging a Samsung phone into a iPhone charger and an iPad charger. In both cases, the charger used 3.0 watts of wall power. (The phone was turned off and charging since if it is turned on, the load fluctuates a whole lot as the phone does random things.) So my conclusion is that the size of the charger doesn't affect efficiency.
very interesting, Thank you for sharing.
The differences between standard libraries, programming idioms, communities and ethos often play a large role in defining a new language, so surely sharing a standard library would in many ways defeat the point of trying something new?

A programming language is not just a spec and a syntax, it's also a way of seeing the world - "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.", so to get a new way of looking at things, you also need to reinvent the basics to some extent, and rethink how (for example) basics like errors, threads or strings are handled.

Personally, I think it's useful to have a multipolar programming landscape, even if it sometimes leads to duplicated work, because it can give you a fresh perspective on old problems.
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> there should be another button for "No, you fools! No!"

I have that button, it's called "flag," and that's exactly what it's for: Posts that are popular but toxic. If a post was unpopular, you wouldn't need to flag it.
When the author says the three stage rocket is simple, he is saying that that rocket is simple, not that three stages is simple.

The author's English is correct with the meaning but can be misread. He hasn't used English that can be unambiguously parsed, presumably because he is not a native English speaker - I assume he is a native Persian speaker.

The author is obviously saying that the rocket currently being deployed in two stages is more advanced than the rocket currently being deployed in three, which is why the former will be capable of more when it too is deployed in three stages.

You just chose to parse it the wrong way, and then call the author's writing just plain wrong.
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I may well find myself moderated away but

Fuck Me.

I guess I am too out of touch but the sphere blew me away.
It's funny, my wife and I were just talking about this a week or so ago...except that we were noticing that things seem to be changing. 10 years ago the only white female-asian male couple we could even think of was Bruce Lee and his wife. These days we personally know of 3 couples in this category and it appears to be growing.

But that being said I personally think the qualities of who you see is more important than their race.
It needs to work in reverse. Instead of sending a video stream, send the app itself and run on the ATV (or equivalent), using your phone/tablet for control. The Apple TV is already using binned A5s and running iOS, this wouldn't be a huge leap.
The first item, long single page designs, has always been a favorite of skilled marketers. It goes back even to pre-web snailmail marketing.

In comparison tests, longer copy almost always wins. You keep offering more and more reasons to buy, and you keep converting more and more readers.

This relates to one of the basic observations about selling: people don't like to change their minds. They won't spontaneously go from "no" to "yes". But if you offer a new piece of information, they can change their mind without admitting they were "wrong" before. Every new piece of information, or new story, is another opportunity for them to get to "yes".

Obviously, the copy also needs to be good.
You don't think there are people out there who shouldn't have their position known to the world in real time?
"MS is not a startup, that can go by with a promising product"

Only that they always do. There's some (older) running joke about how Microsoft products start getting useful/successful with version 3: Windows, Word (Word 6 being the 3rd major WinWord release), Internet Explorer, XBox.

The first few iterations often were "notable" at best (IE 1 couldn't even display images).
I think you missed the entire point of the article. The author clearly explains why she believes that the above statement is the case, why Carly was so popular but failed to become a lasting commercial success. You can agree or disagree on her reasoning, but leveling a Hacker News-style personal attack on her adds nothing to the discussion.
gorgeous. The 'grid' view that can be rotated along both orthogonal axes is particularly nice.

had no idea that 'Krypton' is really an element.
True, but once you've bought a TV you're very limited; none of my smart TVs offer Netflix, for example. They are capable (they run BBC iPlayer, LoveFilm, YouTube etc) but LG aren't exactly releasing updates thick and fast.
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I'm an Ubuntu user since a few years. I made Canonical some money by buying some software in the software center (games actually). And I don't think that I'm alone with this.

But they are not only desktop. Juju (deployment) and Landscape (like Active Directory, but different) are products that certainly make them some big business income. And there is the support. It's not like they would avoid the Red Hat / SuSE revenue model.

Then there are things like the Steam beta, that's upcoming on Linux (and Steam folks having a session at Ubuntu developer summit).

Point is, there are always very vocal people that don't like something. It's human. I don't buy it.

My view: Mark Shuttleworth created the most popular desktop Linux. And I see it around. And I have shown it to people and they have started to use it.

I don't worry about Ubuntu. And if it is a mistake, I'd like to do one like this all the time.

ps. I'm over 30 now, and I see people blowing off a lot of steam all the time. Specially in the press. Every one has an opinion. I don't buy it. Show me an article from someone who managed to achieve similar, you get more credible in my eyes.

pps. Off topic, but I think South Africa is curious. I don't know it close up, but Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu) and Elon Musk (SpaceX, Tesla). I really think these people have a vision, and not only 'how to make the most money'. More like, 'how to make money and move things forward'. I like that.
"Let this be a lesson to you, American voters: when you live in a highly developed ultra modern welfare state like Sweden, with excellent healthcare and many other public benefits, the system is secretly so unstable and broken that the entire country is desperately trying to import trash."

Utter inanity laced with superfluous balderdash...

This article reeks of an ill-informed (probably way right of center) American who has never set foot on Swedish soil. Instead of an intelligent discourse around how the Swedes are more efficient with processing trash, or how technology has been developed to make refuse processing more productive, the writer says something like

"Clearly, the takeaway for the rest of the world should be this: recycling leads to an energy crisis, socialism means that there will be no more heat or electricity ever, and Sweden is a weird, weird place."

Huh? Really?
While I was in grad school in Sweden (the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH), as an American, I was struck by how much Swedes value preservation of the environment. Even at the university level, you can see how many research dollars went into studying green technology and directly applying environment-friendly best practices in society and industry.
Yes. Where are you being coerced to take any action you wouldn't have otherwise taken because of the way your bank makes money? Why would your life be less growthy if you happened to pay your bank a few dollars a month instead?
Funny thing, I was talking to our CTO about RJMetrics and want to better understand options for going beyond what we do with Google Analytics today. Can you shoot me an email roger@room77.com?
>>Ideally, getting a basic setup going shouldn't take a deep-read of the docs of my package manager.

>Please name one package manager which installs binaries to the user's home directory, but doesn't require updating the user's $PATH.

Do you even realize how little those two statements follow each other? The whole red herring argument here is kind of annoying, but I'll hit it anyways- every package manager that I've used which installs binaries (or anything, really) in the user's home directory (or any directory really) does make me update the path- but it also tells me this and gives me sane errors when that hasn't happened.
Really? It's security theater to disable geotagging?

1. The first part talks about disabling geotagging for deployed soldiers in classified locations, and gives an example where geotagging allegedly led to a morter attack and materiel losses,

2. The second part talks about disabling geotagging at home if you are worried about your safety. These are not hypothetical risks: imagine an ex-boyfriend with a constant stream of your GPS coordinates through social media.
Just to drop my 2 cents, answering your questions (I've started two startups, one failed, one succeeded).

1) It found me. Someone asked me how to solve a specific problem and I realized I could build a product; Edited: My personal strategy for dealing with competition: Ignore, don't go to their website, never, don't read about them, it will not help you.

2) If you can pick one, always choose services instead of products. Products usually comes with liabilities and the market is prone to saturation.

3) Try to build something more simple that people you already know would pay a little money to use. I never suggest books, specially 'self-help' but you need to read Rework by 37signals guys.

Best of luck.
But so far, they're terrible at it. The difference in usability between my Vizio TV's preloaded Netflix and such vs. the Xbox with Kinect is so vast it's not even funny. The living room is where voice command really shines.
"natural struggle for power between the sexes"

There's nothing natural about such a struggle. It's cultural.
That is exactly right. One the most interesting things I heard from a departing Google engineer was that he was declaring 'technical bankruptcy.' He was so fed up with hacking things together to make them work and not doing them 'right' that he just couldn't take it any more. So much of the way we work as engineers has analogs in finance that it stuns me some times.
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In my experience, other package managers (my experience is with Python's and Ruby's) will behave just like Haskell's. Specifically, they do not seem to inspect the user's $PATH variable to determine whether their default installation directory is present.
Using Firefox (latest) this runs extremely slow. I'm talking about 8 frames per second. I'm also using a decent high range video card.
Actually, they're moving towards having many more applications updated and added for stable releases. Ubuntu's developer portal now has a system where developers can upload their own apps to the software centre, separately from the Ubuntu release cycle. It's still a work in progress, though - they've had some trouble scaling it up.

Traditionally, distributions have been responsible for packaging 'upstream' software, which quickly becomes a bottleneck as more software is created. The key is getting developers to do the packaging themselves, aided by automated systems.
It's not just US universities. The dogma is universal.
I'm in the Israeli army now, guess I may need to cut down on my foursquare checkins... (1,000+ so far)
I think you misunderstand techiferous. This is what he said:

> “Dvorak […] failed.” If by failed you mean widespread adoption. But […] it’s a personal success for me.

I think by that, he meant, “yes, I agree that Dvorak failed, if ‘failed’ means not having widespread adoption. But I don’t agree with that definition of failure. Dvorak is actually not a failure, because I have used it successfully personally.”
In Python 3, map returns a iterator, not a list:

In [1]: sq = lambda x: x * x

In [2]: map(sq, [1,2,3,4])
Out[2]: <builtins.map at 0x2135050>

In [3]: list(_)
Out[3]: [1, 4, 9, 16]
Disclosure: I'm founder/CTO of HubSpot.

I agree with you completely. It all depends on the type and stage of business. If all that's needed is analytics, HubSpot is likely overkill.

One quick piece of advice to the OP: Be careful not to spend too much energy analyzing the analytics tool choices. Most startups are better off making a quick decision, and getting back to working on the product.
Computers can do more now, but relative to expectations of the time, computers were more fun then because they were new. I had more fun with my Apple //e and later Amiga 1000 than I have ever had with an iPhone, because expectations were lower, and just moving a sprite across the screen was impressive.
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Over the past couple of weeks I've decided to learn more about web technologies and I've taken the time to build myself a personal website. This is the first website I've ever built, and I would appreciate some constructive criticism and honest opinions from you guys: http://joncordeiro.com/

Thanks!
I always end up telling myself that I'd be better off staying in and doing work than going out to meet people...
Why is printing to stdout so slow?
No, I think the Iranian space program has always been much lower priority than the Iranian demand for healthcare.

What really demonstrates how effective the US blockade of technology to Iran really is is all the innocent Iranian civilian cancer patients who can't get the medicines they need to keep them alive.
techiferous means it failed to get widespread adoption but succeeded for him personally. In fact my story is remarkably similar. I adopted Dvorak around 1999 and have had no problems using it since. If I use a computer long-term I change the keyboard layout (but not the hardware). If I use a computer short-term I hunt and peck. For me personally it's been very successful.
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In the article, the author gives a specific example of how geotagged photos led to an attack that destroyed four helicopters (which are spendy). There are lots of examples of security theater in our society; this isn't one of them. Seems like a very real concern, for military personnel in particular.
Google in general has been moving to this style. See also: Gmail, Google Docs
My goodness, it even switches from black & white to the messed-up color rendering of text characters when you enter graphics mode (type "GR").

Incredible.
This article reminded me, that I did pay $60 for madden on the PS3 last weak, after some Android game reminded me that football games are actually quite fun. The problem was not, that there was anything wrong with the Android game, in fact it is very well designed, the problem was the tablet platform. Especially that for a action game one needs an interface with haptic feedback, such that the interface is just there without looking for the image of a button on a touch screen.

Theoretically it would be possible to attach a controller to the tablet, but what kind of controller? Four buttons, 6, 8? With an D pad? So the game makers do not have a clear target for development of an interface. Furthermore already for consoles we know that any additional hardware, like a Kinect, multiplies the target market by a rather small fraction. ( And a tablet is simply too small to have a dedicated controller.)

This is of course not saying that there is no market for tablet games, but that consoles ( and of course also PCs) will have a place in any future gaming landscape. Simply because the interface devices are better suited for action games.
I'm not sure it's really being thought through so much as an emergent effect of the drive towards metrics. Universities want to (or are pressured to) quantify their researchers' productivity, which results in things such as impact factors, h-indices, number of papers in top-tier conferences/journals, and so on. Researchers then have to maximize these metrics.
Out of all of the players out there, Apple could do this the quickest and do it well.

Something between an Android box from Google or a Steam console could come in second. Apple is 95%+ of the way there, they just have to provide a great user experience playing iOS games on the TV. As pointed out, Airplay is unusable due to lag. The output cord gets rid of the lag issue but is too short, cumbersome, and limited.

As for Google or Valve, they have compatibility issues that will make for a rough ride. It could take perhaps a year or two before we started to see an adequate volume of games, and new games, that played natively at an acceptable level.

I agree with the original poster, that this will not be "the next big seismic change." To me this is more about opening the console up to a far bigger market of developers, which helps to hasten to pace of innovation. That will make way for the next seismic change. Or, as I say in relation to my business "A giant leap ahead rather than many tiny micro percentage gains."
No, I haven't seen that one (looks like you wrote it?). I was looking for them at the tail end of 2011 and it looks like json-parser came into existence in march, 2012.

json-parser, at first glance, appears to be nice, too. The ones I looked at before were all multiple files and seemingly very complicated--either to use or to build/integrate with my code. I'll keep a pointer to this one too for when I get back on that project.
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Why aren't we doing the math?
I agree. I'm not suggesting that it's the only way, but a suitable and generally successful way.

Erlang is ok, but the staff don't scale. Have you tried finding Erlang programmers?
I'm not a big fan of a lot of people's suggestions to change how this or that works like what you're saying about the downvote button. I don't think there's anything that needs to change on HN as far as buttons or rules or design go.

The problem isn't how things work. The problem is that people are ignoring the guidelines, interpreting them differently, and sometimes the guidelines aren't enforced. Take the downvote for example. There are a few trains of thought on that button. Some truly think its there for comments they disagree with. Others believe (as I do) that they're there for comments that do not add to the discussion. Still others have different interpretations. Some people use it generously and others dont. I've heard people talk about flagging as if it were something we should use liberally. I think flagging should be reserved for the very worst of the worst and should be used sparingly. In almost 3 years here I've only used it once (I know my profile says I've only been here a few months but I had another account hellbanned after over a year because someone used the flag button quite liberally).

Beyond that, the larger problem is that there's been a huge influx of new members and the quality of comments has been diluted partly due to some newer folks wanting to be heard and doing so by being asses in the comments. When you're new it's easy to think the way you fit in here is to automatically disagree with everything and try to be the smartest person in the room.

In the end, the current system would work if only people abided by it and it were enforced more. There's no doubt in my mind that the community has changed and it really has been diluted. I'm not anti-newbie but I still can't deny that it's the newbies that have diluted the quality of discussion here. I think that since HN became hip everyone who flocked here wanted to fit in and frankly I don't think everyone can. I think there's a lot of great examples of the Dunning-Kreuger effect here. HN is known for very smart, best of the best kind of people. Therefor those who come here believe, rightly or wrongly, that they too are HN caliber people. The problem is, not everyone can be. But in this new self-centered world where self-esteem is so important and everyone including the loser gets a medal no one has any kind of realistic picture of themselves anymore and everyone thinks they're the best at everything always and belong everywhere. I lurked for over a year before joining because I felt I wasnt an HN caliber person. Even now I'm not sure if I am but I'm at least confident that I can add a bit to some discussions. I really doubt that everyone who creates an account here has that kind of restraint or is capable of that much self-examination.
It's hard to tell if they are poorly written, or the hardware is too slow, but I agree.

At least it is functional once you've got a video going though.
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