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I worked on the GNOME project this past summer and went to GUADEC. Attendance at GUADEC has been steadily declining drastically over the past few years. The auditorium had ~100 attendees during the keynote speech. Many of the side talks had < 10 listeners.

## Distributions

- RedHat: Primary GNOME contributor in money and developers. Most attendees at GUADEC were Fedora users. There were a handful of Ubuntu / SUSE devs.

- Ubuntu: Unity shell on top of GNOME framework.

- Linux Mint: Cinnamon was originally a small project, but is currently gaining momentum.

## Simplicity

There is a goal by the designers to push simplicity. They're not making these changes based on empirical evidence AFAIK, but rather gut decision.

1. For example, McCann axed a lot of features from Nautilus:

http://blogs.gnome.org/mccann/2012/08/01/cross-cut/

Removed features:

- compact view
- typeahead find
- split pane view
- bookmark folders
- backspace key to go up a directory
- "tree" view
- "new file" template

2. Closing laptop lid now unconditionally suspends, settings to change behavior have been removed:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687277

3. From GNOME desktop development mailing list, fallback mode will be phased out now that there is a roughly working software renderer for GNOME shell. The ones making this decision criticized users for not having a <5 year computer, completely ignoring the fact that a lot of 3rd world country users are running on older hardware.

I primarily use fallback mode (with xmonad). In GNOME 3.6, a lot of stuff is just broken tagged WONTFIX.

## Touch Devices

There was a heavily attended talk about touch UI support in GNOME on tablet and phone devices.

I brought up this issue with the primary speaker but wasn't satisfied: How are you going to get hardware manufacturers to adopt GNOME over Android?

Hardware manufacturers make money by selling devices. They will use whichever software ecosystem that positively impacts their bottom line. There are no users out there clamoring for GNOME on their tablets. By designing GNOME for touch, they are instead alienating their existing user base.

## Direction

Quite simply, there is no leadership at GNOME. Yes it's a FOSS project, but maybe there needs to be a benevolent dictator driving the bus.

Instead there are the designers who are trying to simplify GNOME shell. Others are moving functionality into web apps. An extremely large group wants to create a GNOME distro.

One of the biggest questions proposed at GUADEC was where does GNOME go now? No one seems to know, so instead we have a few key people deciding on their own in a non-coherent fashion and the project meanders along on cruise control.
In my case, its Rails and Postgres with some in-memory addons later. In links?
But there is a Mac version of WinAMP (tho I've nver used it)
http://www.winamp.com/mac
How does race even come into the picture? Is the incompetence of a judicial system not something the citizens of that country should be concerned about? No one is claiming that the country is racially inferior just because the system is broken. If you are a citizen, it is your freaking responsibility to clean up your crap.

(Yes, to address your "But but America" point, I think American citizens should feel ashamed about shit that happens here. That doesn't excuse or lessen the responsibility that Indian citizens should have about their country.)
You're probably talking about the broken windows theory:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory#New_York_...
> I'd be ashamed of it if I was Indian.

Well, as an Indian, I agree that we have very corrupt systems, at all levels. But when someone commits an act of corruption, you've got to realize he's doing it because he's selfish and not because of any other reason. So am I angry about it? Yes. Should that make me ashamed of being an Indian? Definitely not. As long as I am doing what is right, I have nothing to be ashamed of.

What if the same situation were to occur to me?

Then my anger would better be directed towards the person/people responsible, because Indian constitution never gives a powerful man previlege over a commoner, nor does it validate corruption. Except that one phrase, I don't object to anything else. I don't need to be ashamed of what evil some bastards are doing, just because we share the same nationality

PS: sorry for the long reply. I waited till the actual issue was resolved so this wouldn't draw the focus away
https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net or even github pages ?
The problem is that "impact on innovation" starts usually already with a big discussion on how to measure innovation.

The "easy" way is to take very accessible data points such as the number of patent applications. But you can imagine just by looking at the patent system related discussions around here on hn that this is a very "discussable" subject.
Taxes at least have an upside to them.
Overlooked is the fact the Federal government is extremely over involved in citizens lives, when it should be dealing mostly with the States.

If I don't vote for President, why is the President allowed to shoot my dog on suspicious of marijuana possession?
I read an article about using IBM's Watson to do such a thing about a year ago but I can't seem to find it right now. The gist was much like Watson can be used to find how data and information moved in e-discovery, the same principles could be used to determine which employees were driving innovation and had the most influence in the company.
We can or our children can if we keep talking about it and enough people fight for it.
We count them once, what is so hard about counting them twice? And if recounts change counts, maybe we should fix the bugs in the counting system.
It is my understanding that they stopped such practices years ago. There are several people around here who claim to work at Google without a degree.
Easiest option would be to use GitHub pages - http://pages.github.com/

But if you prefer to have more control and availability, you can use S3. Punch makes publishing process to S3 really easy - https://github.com/laktek/punch/wiki/Publishing-a-Site
Some justification.

Take a look at the screenshot. 5 Office versions and there is no change. Everything works just how it did. I like this lack of change for the following reason:

Over the space of the last 15 years, I have actually had the chance to accumulate knowledge.

I'd like to see products like that which withstand that test of time, not fill up the world with short lived fads which result in the "XYZ is shutting down" posts you see here a lot recently. I don't want to have to throw my entire brain's contents out every few years.

The IT industry is the only industry which you can leave with less valuable knowledge than you started with.

The push of the bleeding edge now is churn, not progress. Name a single startup innovation in the last 10 years that isn't either a restrictive reinvention of something else or a landgrab or a lock in tool?

(insert a sarcastic comment on Facebook being akin to a Stasi database running on a Soviet clone of a VAX11/780...).

For reference, I work on a product which is nearly 20 years old now and we've slowly evolved it rather than come steaming on with all guns blazing with hype and ended up in the trash a year later.
There seems to be a misunderstanding. When you say iPad you mean a device that looks like a portable EKG from 1996. When I say iPad I mean that device that looks like the tablet "Data" is holding in Star Trek.
>In contrast, I thought the strong reactions from the people on film were admirable. Running away without expressing disapproval is cowardly; if I were with my family, I would give the guy fair warning, then rush him for being predatory.

In this case I would not see running/walking away as cowardly. By staying or making a scene he will continue filming you and therefore possible having film of you doing some action you may later regret or at least could be edited to make you look like you're in the wrong. It's also unlikely you would actually get the camera footage from the camera man. I think the best course of action would be to contact a local law enforcement officer and then proceed with a court case if you didn't like the out come of that or wanted to pursue getting the video footage. Really though if you just walk away I think they camera man would just leave you alone.
No one has Presidential expertise before becoming President.
There's a similar service called zoom.it (based on Deep Zoom), but it doesn't seem to be taking uploads anymore.

http://zoom.it/ (some examples on the right)
I'd prefer a library that reads its parameters from HTML5 attributes (such as required, maxlength, pattern, etc). That would bring support for client side form validation to browsers that don't natively support it. Ideally this would be as simple as loading a javascript file with <script> tags.

It would also be much easier to use, because there would be no API to "learn".
The ConEd data is a nested set of areas where each Area the fields: total_customers, customers_out. It seems there's a discrepancy between the number of customers_out for Manhattan and the sum of customers_out for Manhattans's sub areas.

I've decided to trust the sum of the individual sub areas instead, working on a fix.
We can certainly hold those that force these requirements on us in contempt, openly disrespect their system at every chance, mock their idea of progress, and otherwise work to undermine them.

The alternative is to tacitly support them and their philosophy by calling taxes a responsibility, scapegoating individual people rather than indicting the process, focusing on the interesting technical details of their force multipliers, repeating half of their talking points to feel part of a televised identity, contributing to red/blue celebrity popularity contest turnout, etc.
Despite all you said, the Cintiq, a very precise tablet, not a computer and mouse, is the dream of every graphic artist.

The "great for consumption, bad for creation" line has become a bozo-bit flipper for me.
Unrestricted mail in voting would solve these problems. WA and OR mail in, no problem.
I was just experimenting with it now, actually. If you're willing to accept that you have to use a subdomain it should work fine. Just set up your S3 bucket to host a website, set the index and error documents properly, and set www.yoursite.tld to a CNAME pointing at the website domain S3 generates for you.
I don't understand why this article is on the front page given the headline. This was as much an iPad as a Commodore 64 is a zBox 4 supercomputer.

The SIMpad 4 (referenced in the article) was invented by Keith and Koep of Siemens AG, not Microsoft and ran WinCE 3.0 and WinCE 4.0, but could run Linux. It was designed as a portable Internet browser, not as a media consumption device (the StrongARM processor used was the same as that used in the early iPaqs that I used to work on with Familiar Linux and wasn't anywhere near powerful enough to do things like hardcore media playing beyond MP3s and low-res Mpegs).

Incidentally, as someone that used OPIE I can tell you it was a sack of the proverbial and nowhere near the experience of the iPad. It was very much experimental in terms of user paradigms that didn't always work and certainly weren't suitable for normal non-techie users. To be fair, much of the same charges could've been made against the appropriately named WinCE at the time.
Just curious: if the 68k series had had the same amount of resources put behind it as x86, there's no reason to think it wouldn't be similarly competitive today, is there? (Obviously this was historically impossible because nobody had the incentive that Intel/AMD have had, so I'm just asking from a technical standpoint.)
>I don't see any significant barriers keeping a user from switching to a competing product.

This is the difference, or the similarity however you look at it, between Google and Microsoft. You claim that the barriers Microsoft put up to prevent users from switching were significant, but Google's aren't. I disagree. In the literal sense no one was locked in with Windows and users were free to install other browsers or even switch to Linux or Mac.

The complaint was that Microsoft was making it difficult for the average user to do so. That's the same complaint these companies have about Google. For you it might be an easy task to download your data from Gmail or Chrome but I'm sure for the majority of users switching search engines is just as obscure as switching browsers.
You can do that with nginx very easily with the Proxy module. Something like this http://mark.ossdl.de/2009/07/nginx-to-create-static-files-fr...
Ask PG: How many YC W13 applications submitted for the next batch of companies?
To mock or not to mock
Mh, something seems weird about this... Looked up his profile here at HN and checked out the domain of his email address...
http://innolution.com

Huh?
You should weight the branch-level possibilities.
Yes, after their name has been dragged through the mud for being "that creepy photographer who got arrested by the cops".

Unless your intent is to become a civil rights test case, avoiding police confrontation as a photographer is almost always the best move.
Tablet sales are surpassing sales from all the largest PC manufacturers - combined.
> He is not doing anything illegal.

I'm not familiar with the US legal code, but this sounds like a grey area. What about harassment, or disturbing the peace, etc. Unless you're a lawyer with significant experience in the area, I doubt it's as clear cut as you make out.
This trend, hosting blogs on static html, is kind of ironic, given how popular it is among developers. I can't make up my mind whether it's some sort of hipsterish-nostalgic thing, a general distrust of running other people's dynamic blog code, or just plain Occam's razor (stick to barebones).
The B.Sc...means precious little...What’s way more important to me...is the reason why you did it in the first place. If it’s not because you love it then I’m going to be much less interested in retaining your services, even if your technical ability is first rate.

Yet another jackass who pushes his own prejudices over ability to do the job. This is why no HR mechanisms work better than random at hiring the right guy.
I have found the EC2 guide at http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EC... to be the most useful.

PS: I have started using EC2 in the past few months only. Their forums are also pretty informative and supportive.
I for one would NEVER say the PC will be king, because it is more powerful. There's too many ways around the problem. First technology evolves. By 2020 your google glasses will probably be more powerful then the imac i'm currently using to type this comment. If you still don't have enough processing power, there's always the cloud. 5g will be just about ready, with speeds around 1Gbps a second, so bandwidth won't be a major issue either.

However, your point about screen size is really important. The major benefit a PC has today is the giant monitor that's attached to it. But let's look at mainframes. Its true giant IBM mainframes are still around today, but thats more of an issue of legacy software as opposed to hardware benefits. The trend for performing those same tasks today in new development seems to be hundreds of servers with commodity hardware running scalable software. The hardware changed, and the software changed to adapt to it.

I think that's a really interesting concept. The idea that the application will adapt to the hardware, instead of the hardware adapting to the application. While I feel more confortable with having a large monitor with a million graphical interface apps open at once, its not necessarily the best solution for productively producing new content. Google glasses for instance allow a glimpse into a possible future. What if instead of working at a desk doing 3D modeling with a mouse and computer, you used your hands to sculpt a model like it's clay with augmented reality? What if interfaces like Emotiv replace the need for a mouse?
Blimey... I've completely forgotten about Perl Power Tools! Here's the project home page - http://ppt.sourceforge.net/
Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point?
> Everyone I know with a tablet has a PC and uses it heavily.

Because everyone still has a pc, even if they bought it 5 years ago. As time goes on, we will see people ditching their PCs and just having a tablet. It is just about numbers.
Neato. I've been wanting to write a similar library for some time, though with duplicated functionality in PHP for server-side checking. Can't trust the client and all that.

As waxjar says I think it would make more sense to use attributes from the field itself.
In countries where privacy is a well defined and better protected concept, courts have ruled that actions such as destroying the camera used can be covered under self-defense [1].

[1]: http://www.burhoff.de/insert/?/asp_weitere_beschluesse/inhal...
He [the accused] does not have to confine himself to covering his face, but may choose a defense that is suitable to end the attack immediately and permanently
Comparing opinions and anecdotes does nothing. Everyone I know uses smartphones and tablets 90% of the time (outside of work).
Way to go iSIGHT! That's what we always dreamed the "infosec" industry would be! A bunch of for-hire goons willing to do the dirty work for private companies. Fun fun fun!
Go look at the SDK docs... they're not half bad. I got a system up and running with them (not knowing anything about AWS beforehand) in a day or two. Most of it is just knowing the lingo and getting some practice in.
That's a somewhat difficult questions to answer, and it depends on which aspect of EC2 you're interested in. EC2 isn't really a thing for which there are tutorials because EC2 is essentially a server to rent, It's how you use EC2, and there's hardly a standard for that currently. I think the more important thing is to become familiar with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a whole, of which EC2 is only a part. There are some AWS SDK's which I find wildly helpful. Here's the docs for the php sdk http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSSDKforPHP/latest/#i=Ama...

following other people companies who are using AWS can be a great way discover ways of using AWS. Netflix operates a great blog. http://techblog.netflix.com/

If you're interested in in just renting a server, and putting Wordpress on it, there are tutorials for that, and you'll have to deal with setting up a web server, domain name etc... But perhaps you're interested in learning about how build out a scalable protein folding cluster, and the set of challenges will be completely different. AWS only provides the hardware and you must create whatever you wish to implement.
Rake 10.0 released: Yes, version '10.0'
This is untrue, a least in the US.

Publishing is perfectly legal, though commercial use[1] opens one up to potential suits.

This usage is very clearly editorial. This guy is on solid legal ground.

[1] Commercial use is a legally tested term, not a lay one. It does not mean "selling for money", but has more to do with implied endorsements. You cannot, for example, take a picture of someone and then sell it to Apple for use on a billboard, not without a release.
Taxes and drug prohibition are two very different things, with completely different reasoning behind them. Equating the two is like saying, "Cars should have seat belts, and white people should own black people as slaves." One idea has practical, well thought out reasons behind it that help improve people's lives, the other doesn't.

Drug prohibition causes far more damage to society than a society where all drugs are legalized. It's also an affront to what seems like a basic human right: choosing what you put in your body. The concept of prohibition certainly doesn't have a single well thought out reason to support it. Every single argument in favor of it has been shown to be either false, or the worse of two evils, and finally, drug prohibition has been a total failure, a conclusion that's agreed to even by those who support it. It hasn't achieved any of its goals and will not achieve them. I can sense that you probably want specifics, so I'll list just a few, and if you want more... JFGI.

- AP: failure to meet any goals
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05/13/ap-impact-years-tril...
- History of marijuana laws and reasons that were given for them:
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/whiteb1.htm
- Portugal's success with total decriminalization of all drugs (not as good as legalization, but it's a step forward):
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=portugal-d...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/07/05/ten-years-af...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arguments_for_and_against_drug...
- Simple observations of hypocrisy (just one example: Marijuana does not fit the definition of a Schedule I substance yet is classified as such, while cigarettes do fit the definition and are legal).

The concept of "taxes", or collecting a pool of resources to be used for society at large, does have some well reasoned arguments to support it. It is an idea that does actually help society. Certainly there is a lot of debate about how those funds should be used, and whether they are used inappropriately, but the basic idea of pooling the collective resources of a society for the common good at least has a leg to stand on.
Question: Why does it have to be a startup's innovation?

Entire applications now live inside websites. Perhaps you view that as 'lock in', however I can get all of mail out of gmail or dropbox.

The bloat of MS Office is certainly proof that change for the sake of change leads down a terrible path. However, without change, we'd all still be using the nokia 3210 instead of iPhones and iPads.
The "Getting started with" guides at http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/ec2/ are great. Once you're done with those might as well just read the docs at there too.
wow.. i don't understand what is happening here, what is the case about. at least a brief description.

EDIT: after reading thru the comments, i'm so sorry about the issue. My uncle is supreme court lawyer, but hey,also read that arrangements have been made. Good luck! and any major changes, you can reply to this post, i can strike back in no time with a trusted lawyer.
Rails and Node.js
The notion propagated by fanboys is that Microsoft software is the least secure on the planet, and if you believe that then you might well expect Microsoft to occupy many if not most of the top 10 places. The point of the headline is that it doesn't. It's based on challenging a known assumption, not establishing the opposite assumption.
You take his statement (power management works in Linux / doesn't in Windows) and says it's false because it works in certain contexts (IBM + HP).

Then you hold his argument to a higher standard by applying it to all PCs and providing anecdotal evidence.

Have you tried suspend / hibernation with Linux on a ThinkPad?
Python Bug Day
Exactly, it's a faulty analogy. A person with a camera is an immediate threat to react to. People are well aware of cameras in supermarkets, yet they still go inside.
Microsoft and Apple and many other companies were designing "iPad like" products even in the 90's.

The iPad didn't just fall out of the sky as a totally new product. But it did have a bunch of subtle improvements that make it easy to use.
Of topic, I know, but I find it ironic (in a bad way) that the US put many of these people on the street to save them from the even worse conditions that existed in state hospitals[1]. As somebody with a loved-one with a serious mental illness, I don't find where we've landed to be an improvement.

1. http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/31/9/2138.full?sid=...
Legalization is the best way to end it. The network analysis needs to occur about politicians in the rich countries, how to manipulate them into legalizing drugs. It's a lot easier to collect data on them and it's the actual root cause.