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I've worked at places that had it as part of their environmental/energy-saving policy that you must turn off your computer when you leave. I could often turn on my computer, get a cup of coffee, and finish drinking said cup of coffee, before my computer was in a state where I could get work done.
And Samsung is making a huge amount of money selling Android with their phones, and those numbers continue to skyrocket.

Google doesn't sell Android of course - they ride it. It's a completely different business model that can't be compared to the business model of selling packaged retail software.
In the past (about four years ago) we had a difficult to debug issue which only manifested in IE on one team member's computer - we traced it down to Multiple IE screwing up cookie handling in some odd manner. So you'd be testing with an environment that's not necessarily 100% the same as your end users.
You're avoiding the issue by framing the question in specific terms.

Please specify how, in this case, what is beneficial about the illegal operation of a taxi company for consumers (and taxi drivers) concerned about safety?

See what I did there?

I'm, not going to dig through the history of taxi regulation in the SF bay area to defend a point that is already made in law. Rape on women by unlicensed taxi operators has led to calls for mandatory police checks in the UK. Attacks on drivers in NZ led to the introduction of cameras in all taxis. So, forgive me thinking that ignoring the law as a basis for undercutting the competition is a shitty way to run a business.
I am sure you recognize a better reflection of what she favors is in the life-changing work that Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is doing.
The announcement speaks as if web applications in Common Lisp was itself a solved problem.

The community surrounding that isn't exactly vibrant.

An example from an attempt to find a viable/nice Common Lisp templating library for making web apps (a problem for me before, I hate CL-WHO. Vile.)

http://www.cl-user.net/asp/U5Hd/sdataQGW2OvQLz758DQdX8yMX8yB...

Hrm. Yes. Hrm. Seems promising, exceeeept...

https://groups.google.com/group/cl-terrace/web/djula

The Google Group for it has...disappeared?

http://common-lisp.net/project/bpm/darcs/djula/

Yay, code!

That hasn't been touched since 2008!

CL-WHO, which I think is the most popular way to solve this problem hasn't been touched in 2 to 7 months, depending on how you measure it.

See here:

https://github.com/edicl/cl-who

The Ningle web framework for Clack, found here: https://github.com/fukamachi/ningle

Not been touched in 4-8 months.

Caveman (clack framework): https://github.com/fukamachi/caveman/ 4-8 months.

HTML-TEMPLATE hasn't been touched since Tue, 02 Dec 2008.

The most popular web server for CL, Hunchentoot hasn't been touched (based on the darcs repo anyway) since Tue, 24 Aug 2010.

Take a look for yourself: http://common-lisp.net/~loliveira/ediware/

The Common Lisp community is moribund at best.

I would PREFER to use Common Lisp over, say, Clojure or Python however the fact is that there just aren't enough people using it or maintaining web development software for it to overcome the time expenditure trade-offs.

So, can we drop the triumphant tone as it concerns CL? Even Paul Graham tells most people to just use Clojure.
It seems a great pity that Google puts so much talent to work on improving the search engine algorithms ´to deliver the most relevant result first´ and then ruins it all by putting some cheap schmuck´s site at the top, no matter how irrelevant, just because he paid them a few bucks.
The water comes out of a little nozzle on the end of a wand that extends only when used. While you do your number 1 or 2, the wand is retracted inside the toilet seat (not bowl, above the bowl). Plus, after spraying, the nozzle will auto-clean itself before retracting.
Awesome.how big do you think is the market ?
> SBUX is already a luxury brand

Not for an SF, LA and NY market (+ other worldwide destinations). In the same way that BMW is a luxury brand, except to those who want to buy Ferrari and Bently. These people have even more money to spend and are not receptive to Starbucks.

> SBUX can't scale Blue Bottle across their distribution channel, which is enormous.

Wouldn't be all stores, would be separate stores for select markets. They could definitely scale - Blue Bottle just raised $22m in funding - what do you think they intend to do with it if not scale in some way?

> So anything they did to introduce the Blue Bottle brand would dilute their own brand.

Well in addition to above, I wouldn't put it past a company like Starbucks to perform an acquisiton which horribly dilutes said brand. Such as La Boulange, speaking of which...

> Finally, Blue Bottle has minimal brand penetration across the US. You know about them if you live in Williamsburg in NYC, but lots of people in our Manhattan office had never been to Blue Bottle last time I was in town. They're obviously nowhere in Chicago. Are they even in Los Angeles? They're not in Seattle, or Austin, or Atlanta, or Mpls.

Neither is La Boulange, really. Very small footprint outside of California. Yet Starbucks purchased them for $100m this year, mainly to use the brand to brand their baked goods.

> (Interestingly, Intelligentsia in Chicago has higher revenues and

That's not what Starbucks are looking to acquire in the same way they're going to shut down La Boulange (in the way we currently know it)
As a relative n00b, I appreciate being top 500, open the beta to moar users!
>What you want are driven, motivated and open-minded individuals that can created disruptive innovation; entrepreneurs.

As if the problems of the third world are not already in large part created by greedy enterprises operating there?
Agreed. Saying everyone is equal is a nice elementary school thought, meant to inspire people. But it simply isn't factually true.

We're so far disconnected from the tribal traditions of our distant ancestors, we forget that different values can be very easily bestowed upon an individuals life, for very legitimate reasons in some cases (when its life or death... and survival of the fittest, in an ancient society). I guess I can sort of see some truth in "we all have equal potential" but even thats shaky concept at best, just meant to inspire people.

Thats all this speech appears to be though, an inspirational talk. Not something thats going to stand to the logical rigor most HN readers are going to want to apply to it.
The reason given by the Chromium people for using the Vendor string for security reasons strikes me as utterly backwards for multiple reasons:

1) They quote incorrect x86 implementations and then even quote errata documents from both vendors while still also only trusting these two vendors, despite the fact that they just quoted them as en example for broken implementations.

2) By using the vendor string, they are ensuring that the intentionally broken implementations (those forging the ID string) get trusted, while the honest guys don't.

3) What they do in the end is encouraging CPU vendors to just forge their vendor string (see above).

Whatever reason they might actually have, I really doubt that trusting CPUs by stated name of the vendor does not at all increase the security of the system.
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The best comment I found on the topic is over here: http://happymonster.co/2012/11/13/what-loosecubes-shutdown-m...
and especially this paragraph
"Because for LooseCubes, it was never about the physical features of the facilities. All that stuff is irrelevant now. The name of the game in the workspace sharing world is the people you have a chance to meet. Nobody ever said they loved coworking because they got to sit in a fancy chair. LooseCubes got that better than most, and was putting that first and foremost in the direction they took."
We respected and watched closely Loosecubes because they put a real focus on being social, while most of the other players are only directories. Loosecubes understood that the purpose of the tool is to help people share their workplaces. It's more about coworkers than listings of coworking spaces.
The few uber drivers I've talked to love the service. One driver told me that, with uber, he can often find a nearby fare in minutes. He said that the combination of flags, the dispatcher, and über means the meter is always running.

It's pretty clear to me that the folks that are suffering from über are the taxi dispatch companies. These companies lease out the cars for a daily fee, like 150 bucks per day. The driver can do whatever he wants as long as he pays that daily fee. The cab company pays insurance because they own the cabs. Cab drivers are essentially independent contractors. They start making money after they've covered the cab cost for the day.

So why should the cab companies care if a driver is using über? From what I've heard, when a dispatcher has a good order, like for a trip across town on a slow day, they'll ask for a cut. In other words the cab companies are supplementing their taxi rental service with a cut of the fares they dispatch. And as a cab driver, if you want to get good orders you have to stay on the dispatchers good side.

Über changes the balance of power. As more people use über, the drivers have to rely on the dispatchers less, and the tit-for-tat system is deflated. I think this class action suit is an attempt to retain the status quo by cab companies. Über shouldn't be responsible for insurance until they start owning their own cabs. If the cab companies have their way, both the drivers and passengers will suffer.
Ahah so funny. How hard is the post processing?
Personally I've discovered that 5 small-ish meals spread out over the day works really well. It's a bit annoying because I have to eat every three hours, but I've dropped fat without dropping (even gaining) weight and feel much better than I used to.

And most importantly, I have constant energy levels throughout the day. With normal-sized meals there's no problems of being sleepy after a meel, just energetic, and the next meal comes sooner than an energy crash.

Also it's proven to be the only way I can get enough calories every day, especially those days when I have boxing practice ...
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This may be true. I took a break for a while, but have been back at it with the primary motivation to... cheat and scheme. To start with, I've been scraping the auction house data, hoping to analyze the best pricing strategies and/or quick-pounce on cheap items. I used this to learn Python, SQL, and basic EC2. I scraped their encyclopedia, dumped the Wiki, and was matching up ingredient lists for crafts. Then I was also going to use screenscraping and image recognition to bot my herb farming... Guess I will have to find another flash game for that.

I didn't play (much) because I liked grinding and quests, but for a different challenge. I really appreciate that they set up the JSON auction house feed.
Did someone doubt about that really?
No, just that the chance of human involvement for two major search engines within an hour seems lower.
When I recently needed a new toilet I simply asked the plumber who would be installing it to swing by the shop and buy me one on the way over. I gave him a price range, told him to use his professional judgement and to bring me the receipt. Having to spend my Saturday schlepping all the way across town just to look at toilets is far too much a waste of my precious weekend.
You never know... And Microsoft claims that the browser is awesome, secure and fast...
I would love to know what was on their product roadmap. I can't imagine what I've seen in their game was all they aspired to be. I know the high-level aspirations included:

building and developing, learning new skills, collaborating or competing with everyone else in one enormous, ever-changing, persistent world.

But I'd love to hear how they had planned on actually doing that. Was there going to be Minecraft/Second Life-style building of structures and worlds? Was there going to be contests and competitions? Was the core of the gaming experience going to be mainly on learning new skills?

And if all technical and financial roadblocks were removed, would their vision have made for a truly compelling game? Or was their vision doomed from the start?
The specs or the new features?
They definitely do good work in many areas.

However, on one hand they work to reduce deaths from diseases[0] while on the other, people are just a drain on natural resources.[1] It's not consistent.

[0] http://www.gatesfoundation.org/malaria/Pages/home.aspx etc.

[1] http://www.gatesfoundation.org/infographics/Pages/family-pla...
>Popularity means good software? Windows must be the best OS by very far then!
Yes, windows too, has had historically delivered the things its users cared about.

"Good software" is not some mystical status of code perfection, it's doing the things its users want it to do. So, yes, popularity equals good software.

Software, as any engineering effort, is measured by its utility and use. It's not like art where popular is not necessarily good. Unless you are some kind of dreadful "code poet", whose programs nobody uses.

But notice how I didn't just say that Apple's software is good because it's popular. For example, I challenged anyone to mention a "substantially better mobile OS than iOS".

>Regarding mobile OS, we all know this now depends on the number of "apps" available.

No, even without apps, the basic OS is just as important. iPhone, at it's introduction, had by far the best OS of every other smartphone out there, even without third party apps at all.

>Many may have made a superior OS, but adoption has been too low because of the lack of apps.

Really? Disregarding apps at all from the comparison, do you care to mention one "superior mobile OS", let alone "many"?
So everyone's fine with having a dripping wet ass after taking a dump?

And toilet paper pretty much turns to pulp the instant water touches it, so if you wipe a dripping wet ass with it, you're going to have a pulpy ass.
Slightly. Ever so slightly. But not in any meaningful way as far as I can tell.
As a more open alternative (we're open source and trying to build a common listing of places), I'm wondering what will Loosecubes team do with their db & their code. Moreover, I'm sure they know and understood many things that would help everyone if shared.
Please look more closely. This is "for developers creating mobile applications, rather than web applications". And I don't see any "triumphant tone", but rather just a nice announcement.

I pick Clojure more often for my uses (not that I'm as liberated as I'd like in choosing tools), but I can imagine situations where I'd instead use Common Lisp.
This is complete rubbish. In Beijing every second person you walk past is casually using an iPhone.
Bear in mind they're time limited. If you're running Windows 7 you can use multiple instances of "XP Mode" (basically Virtual PC + a VHD image you can download from MS) to run all versions of IE http://blog.dotsmart.net/2009/06/24/using-windows-7s-xp-mode...
People only endorse you because they want to be endorsed themselves. I've used LinkedIn for a while now, especially over the past couple of months as I am now actively looking for work, and this is one of the more useless features they've added.
Toilet paper disintegrates on contact with water. So if you wipe a sodden ass with it, you're going to leave a coating of pulp in your crack. That's OK?
I re-read Julius Caesar's Commentaries at least five times a year. I find them some of the most absolutely fascinating texts that exist. Discovered them when I was maybe 15 and they sparked my love of ancient history.

Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations" is interesting in some similar ways.
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If you know this, why is he bothering to say that he declines to give information about what he's accomplished? Why explicitly claim something's a secret if it isn't actually secret anymore?
That's a pretty insightful comment. I think it really gets to the heart of the issue-- Mark brings a lot of value to the TV networks, but not that much to Facebook. And Facebook knows it.
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I know some people skip breakfast altogether and I am unable to say whether this is good or bad for your body, but there is an indication/correlation that people who skip breakfast tend to have a higher incidence of diabetes. I think it is not proven whether it is a causal effect or not, just observational. So it may be caused by other factors.
I know some people skip breakfast altogether and I am unable to say whether this is good or bad for your body, but there is an indication/correlation that people who speak breakfast tend to have a higher incidence of diabetes. I think it is not proven whether it is a causal effect or not, just observational. So it may be caused by other factors.
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the sad truth is; anything below ie7 should be dropped. Unless you are developing for a corporation that won't move away from ie6 and then you should only test on ie6.
They have really advanced toilet seats in some public bathrooms, though! Totally different angle to the Japanese - some of the toilets I used in Germany rotated the entire seat 360 degrees through a cleaning mechanism. Very hygienic!
That's a bit silly. There are a couple of things to consider:

1. ACPI power saving modes draw very little current. As long as your computer is configured to drop to that, it's fine. It will resume within 1-2 seconds as well.

2. There are companies which have software which manage this and power your workstations up before you get in and down after you've left.
No, mostly not. At least not without help from regional oligarchs or colonialists. There's very little utility to the west in most of Africa being poor. Like, most of sub-saharan Africa isn't especially resource rich, their food production isn't very efficient so we don't source much of that, nor do we outsource much labor there.

Economic growth is pretty clearly the most effective means of lifting populations out of poverty. In the early steps it often looks pretty ugly (as industrialization did in the now rich countries), but it works, over time. It'd be hard to argue at the moment that China is getting the short end of the stick in their economic relationship to the west. Being poor sucks, and the kind of work poor people get usually sucks, but taking away that suckage for the most part requires helping people become not poor rather than trying to ease the suckage of being poor.

South Korea and Taiwan are both interesting case studies in development -- both were impoverished about 30-40 years ago and are modern, rich democracies now. When I was a kid, Taiwan sounded like a magical country. The only way I knew of it was that every toy I'd ever owned seemed to have been made there.

Contrary to the grandparent's statement, entrepreneurs aren't always (or perhaps even usually) the catalysts of that growth; a lot of it comes from foreign investment, mega-conglomerates, etc. Most of the drop in poverty in Eastern Asia in recent decades has not come from small business owners.
Odd. We had a couple of labs for each. This was years ago though (SunOS4 days).
Good.

I can't friggin stand Sony's business practices, and I hope they crash and burn.

They're predatory, arrogant, and self-congratulating. Always a new proprietary device or technology that they will attempt to shove down everyone's throat. Remember MiniDiscs? Or the SonyBMG rootkit thing?
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Just an example, definitely not a statement about "the best stack possible". It has worked for me on several large-scale JavaScript projects where Node.js wasn't an option.
I agree absolutely. There are individuals and groups out there drumming up controversy whenever they can, whatever their motives are.

I didn't mean to compare the two in terms of which was ok, I was just pointing out that saying " Most Palestinians probably don't read english anyways." doesn't mean they won't be aware of it regardless of whether or not they are the "intended" audience
Tangentially related - if anyone is using native wifi tethering on their Android with their Mac and having issues, try tethering over Bluetooth instead - I found it to be much more reliable.
I said the whole country,not beijing,shanghai and other big city.Most people in Beijing and shanghai are richer than normal Chinese.
Yea, this was the part of the article I was missing too.

I worked for Sony Computer Entertainment for a period around 2005. I can partly see the "engineering-centric in a bad way" thing, but to put the blame there for Sony failing to launch an MP3 player before Apple... Seriously, Sony Music killed it of course.
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Microsoft also makes money with every Android phone sold.
There are 40+ million smartphone sales per quarter in China.

http://bgr.com/2012/08/26/china-smartphone-sales-q2-2012-len...

So There are 140+ million Android sales per year in China.
Don't all new bathrooms have bidet showers?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidet_shower

Huh, guess not. Those have been around in Finland at least since the late 80s, and don't have the "what's the deal with the computerized toilet seat" image problem.
Eye balls. They're in the advertising business, remember?
I wonder if there are clusters where distance between neighbouring stars are much less than with Sun and Proxima Centauri. Would these locations provide better opportunities for space faring civilizations to reach other star systems?
Do someone use http://spoon.net/ and have some thought to share?

It seems to be far more easy to setup, but I don't fully understand how it works.
Double plus for no splashback. I don't get how people can suffer through this. I hate so much being splashed by dirty toilet water. And this happens like 50% of times for me while using non-german style toilet.
This idea has been done before by a site called KnowledgeBlackBelt, formerly JavaBlackBelt--although the idea is heavily perverted in its current incarnation. The site works on the concept of tests and courses. The test questions are submitted by users, but to take the courses you need to pay for an instructor of some kind to teach you. Completing tests moves you up ranks.

I contributed to a few questions a few years back before the site introduced this paid instruction aspect. A lot of good material was created through crowdsourcing. I am sure it could work again.
I got this today from playnice.ly, another startup that's going away:

http://playnice.ly/blog/2012/11/14/playnice-ly-closing-down-...
It's dehumanizing because the targets are painted as one-dimensional figures to be "eliminated" not a people who have been killed. See paragraph 3 in the linked post

I'm not saying they're not justified in doing what they're doing (that's a whole other 70+ year conversation) but this is the same as any other propaganda to 'other' the enemy.
I don't personally feel strongly about this, but why bother taking a plain text article written by someone else and re-publishing it in plain text somewhere else? It doesn't add any value, and just adds noise to the discussion here. Also, the original author may not appreciate your republishing their work.