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This particular complaint seems always to be one of the top voted whenever a QZ story makes it to HN. It's certainly a breakaway from traditional nav and I understand its motivations...I wonder if it truly is a bad direction to go, or if it's a "you don't know that you want this yet" feature and if so, if it's just the kind of thing that the typical HN reader will never like (our moms and dads, however...)
I've been eyeing this due to its nice display. Glad to hear it works well with Ubuntu. How well does power management work? Battery life?
This is really interesting, thanks for sharing. I love this kind of transparency.
Sounds like a publicity stunt, like when Ryanair says they are going to start charging for using the restroom on the plane. Saying something ridiculous is what gets you free press, not actually doing it.
Do you really not know that?

This is done to save battery life. In most situations the integrated graphics are more than enough, so the dedicated graphics chip can be turned off. If, however, that isn’t transparent to the user (i.e. happens automatically and on the fly) it’s nearly useless. Who is going to bother and reboot to switch graphics?

This is a pretty standard feature, available in all Apple laptops with dedicated graphics and many (if not all) Windows laptops with dedicated graphics.
For anyone else confused, I think btilly meant move not mood.
"when, presumably, Iran releases the crack to CS6" :-)
I am not so sure that the Pro tablet, given the current Intel stack, will be much better than what is available today. They are going to get a lot more heat pushing 1920x1080 and running an Intel chip instead of the Surface's ARM processor, and it will also require a larger battery.

Fitting that into a Surface like size will not be easy unless we see a component or platform that is yet to be introduced.
Competition from companies who continue to think Apple just took an existing phone, and made it slightly rounder, or took existing tablets, and made them slightly thinner, or took existing laptop designs, and made them slightly sleeker, is why Apple mercilessly dominates those industries.
Cutting the initial price near rollout sets a bar for every future iteration of that product. Just like how every iOS game has to grapple with the fact that Angry Birds is only 99 cents, and a load of other very popular games are "free". There are ways for higher-priced products to prevail against the expected price, but it's not easy.
For some more context on why this guy is a giant douchebag: http://www.vice.com/read/hunter-moores-new-site-will-make-ge... NWS! Although the url might give that away.

And: http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-most-hated-man-... a much less NWS but I'd still have a think if you're at work.

He's essentially an internet troll, he enjoys fame, he likes being mean, he wants to be idolised and hated. He thinks he's in the right. More importantly he's said before "someone was going to monetize it", which is weird as prior to it I can't remember it ever being as big as it became because of him.
For someone already familiar with the Java ecosystem, this can be a huge boon. For someone unfamiliar with Java and the Java ecosystem it can be a little bit daunting.

Case in point, I recently had an experience where I was trying to read some binary data with nio. This meant I was reading java docs related to nio trying to figure out a java implementation of what I needed to do. Then I needed to translate this into clojure. As a new clojure user who didn't have quite the grasp of the java interop idioms, my code looked pretty ugly, and with a lot of (. foo (. bar (. baz))) looking stuff.

That said, if you're going to have a "problem," a preponderance of usable, high-quality libraries isn't exactly the worst I can think of...
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I prefer unit pricing eg. 0.08/invoice and say 0.02/invoice for online payments feature

don't charge per month or for whitelabel (charging for reselling is ok)
free tier
It's provided by bsdmailutils.

$ dpkg -S /usr/share/calendar/calendar.lotr
bsdmainutils: /usr/share/calendar/calendar.lotr

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/i386/bsdmainutils
Ask HN: What would it take for IE not to be hated?
After watching the new Microsoft troll ad for IE 10 on TechCrunch (which is actually pretty good), I started thinking about what it would take for IE not to be hated by the tech community.

For those that have done web dev, you'll know the pain it causes. CSS properties aren't supported, the debugger is terrible, etc.

Would solving those issues be enough for you not to hate IE? If not, what would be required?
A bit of explanation: @iamdanw came up with this idea about 24 hours ago, and it was constructed entirely over a 3G connection in that day. It's shown up a few interesting issues with Amazon Lockers - including that items which don't have a confirmed size in Amazon's systems show up as being "too big". That's taken out a lot of our 'trinket' buying options...

Got encouraged to submit it here as it sort-of qualifies as a hack on top of a service that wasn't really designed for this sort of thing...
Agreed. I self-hosted a wordpress blog for a video-game fan site. I had a server status page that was a normal wordpress page that imported a file from the filesystem to embed in the middle (reported status of the game servers).

During some large events, I was seeing 5-7 page views per second and Wordpress did just fine (I think I had 120k page views in 24 hours). But I made sure to test as much of my site as possible to make sure it performed well. Using various page analyzers to make sure the proper headers were returned so objects were cached on the client. Tuning wordpress to cache pages properly. Turning on PHP APC (opcode cache). Running various stress tests on the site (apache benchmark and loadimpact).

I'd say the page analysis tools and extended apache-benchmark runs really helped me tune my OS and services properly so I could handle a huge load.
What’s the difference between SMS and a phone call?
I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing that I had the courage(?) to click an xoxohth link at work.

I think people are going to be averse to having their minute-by-minute activity mined for any purpose, so I don't see that as a recruiting angle. What I do think is that there's more signal in a person's willingness to learn later in life rather than at age 20 when it's expected. I'm more impressed by the 37-year-old who picked up a machine learning course or textbook on his own and, in a year, picked up a respectable working knowledge of it. Whether he went to college is immaterial, at that point.
We've just patched that up so the firefox nightly will now work. Sorry about that!
Interestingly, looking within the Lisp hacker community, individual hackers seem to be doing quite well. It seems as though the language is geared towards empowering the individual. Even though Lisp is hard to learn, once you 'get it' the pay-off seems to be rather large.
How many people know the difference between Pro and RT? You should see the confusion in the comment threads (on hacker news, of all places!) when the original Surface came out.
I think you need to update your post with the clarification that you don't have to add XSS directly to the login page - you can steal user's password from whatever page the user are currently in, even if they are already logged in.
Most of this is pretty standard scaling advice - except the "Tobi" caching, which has some good ideas I haven't seen elsewhere.
The site looks gorgeous. Very pleasing.

However, on my computer I often scroll up and down with flicks just as often as I highlight text to focus. It's usually when I'm skimming.

Boy was I surprised when the article disappeared because I scrolled too far and there wasn't an obvious way to get it back. The subtle cues on the left side nav are not in my line of focus and I missed them, so the first time it happened I was really confused.

Scrolling doesn't seem like the right event to trigger the next article here. I don't want this feature.
Mint didn't work on my t510 laptop (I bought the laptop refurbish three months ago after my lenovo t4xx die after 10 years of usage).

I reinstalled it with kubuntu 12.10 and the volume buttons doesn't work nor some of the fn+command keys. Sometime the touchpad just die and I have to restart the computer if I really want the touchpad (I use vim+tmux to dev so I don't need the touchpad unless I want to surf the web).

edit:
As for what was wrong with mint. After Nvidia's driver update sleep wouldn't work, it would sleep forever like sleeping beauty unless you hold down the power button for several second to turn the laptop off and reboot.
Because awareness is going to be his downfall; this type of service should simply not exist.
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There has been a call from within the Common Lisp community to work toward consolidating libraries. http://fare.livejournal.com/169346.html

I think this is a step in the right direction. If the XKCD comic is true that every generation produces a handful of lisp hackers, I hope this is the generation that looks to Quicklisp as a foundation to build a modern, consolidated set of batteries.
For the most part they have awesome API's used to manage those things. Everyone uses the NetworkManager API because it works really really well, and the XrandR API was _ supposed_ to support all the rendering configuration ( most free drivers support it fairly well ). There are also kernel API's for power management, but consider that powermanagement is a little more complex then setting some registers, there is a full stack of changes that need to be made, like when your screen turns off do you want you DE to know to lock the sesison, how about _when_ to turn off stuff, how does a cog type program know when to power stuff down if it doesn't integrate with the DE and X server. also how would the GPU know when to power down if it wasn't integrated with X11. when you get into the grits of power management it really makes sense to have it handled as a system. There might me some abstraction that could be done through D-Bus, but in the end its going to be a big integrated system.
Perfectly - I implied that when I mentioned presentations, but I guess that wasn't clear. If you want only a second monitor, it's completely plug-and-play, with auto-detection.

I've only tried n = 2 monitors with this computer, which works, but in my experience with Linux, if you have any issues it'll be with going from 1->2, not 2->3 (or more). Ubuntu's had good support for this for a while.
Damm cool!

Don't be afraid to put a price man.

Also, work for a better looking page (maybe take a look at themeforest.net, huge selection, several good pages).

BTW, is possible to make this working for iOS without internet connection? That is something I'm looking for for ages..
Someone else's child porn is going through your computer when you operate a ISP.

Someone else's child porn is going in your taxi when you are a taxi driver.

Someone else's child porn is being recorded at your house when you rent your house to someone unknown to you.

By your line of logic we should all sit still and do nothing because otherwise we may be helping a pedophile.
Skrillex can't even drop it this hard
Photos of an Amazon.com fulfilment center
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I've actually met him. The way he's portrayed in the media is.... accurate.
What is there system written in? just curious
Any idea what the cause is yet?
https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/online-invoicing
Same here using Firefox on a Mac.
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Yes, there are. A previous comment by TeeWEE [1] mentions 2 tools. There are others as well - Siege [2] and Apache Bench [3] come to mind.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4847949 [2] http://www.joedog.org/siege-home/ [3] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/ab.html
"People don't want gadgets, they want services..." - Jeff Bezos
How is the sleep support? Can you close the lid and go?

Whenever I have tried to use linux on a laptop, I've never had this working right. One of the big reasons why I've always gone back to a macbook (that and the hardware).
The regime was in a bad mood and made a bad move.
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People are working to verify that this isn't a scam.
Windows 8 sales saga: 40m sold, 15m users
I wonder how much each one of those original $50,000 investments is worth now.
Windows Phone 7.8 update coming early 2013
Until it does, you might want to try McCloud.

https://github.com/jedi4ever/mccloud/

http://jedi.be/blog/2011/09/13/libvirt-fog-provider/
Much easier to use is Bitmessage:

http://bitmessage.org

It works similar to Bitcon, is decentralized and does not rely on trusted third parties (e.g. for signing).

Whitepaper:
http://bitmessage.org/bitmessage.pdf
Personally, I have 2Tb, and it's not legal (but not immoral). I can't imagine what legal uses an individual could have for 100Tb of storage.
How so? China is still, to a great extent, a command economy. The usual rules don't apply. The Chinese government can create all the artificial growth it wants and is not directly answerable to the public.

One could point to basically every country in Africa and many in Latin America and Asia for support of the assertion. One counter-example (not that I agree China is even a counter-example in this case) doesn't disprove the theory in social science. There are always weird exceptions.
Can some one do these codes in one night
Task 1
Optical character recognition (OCR) is the task of extracting text from image sources. The first data set
on which you will run your classifiers is a collection of handwritten numerical digits (0-9).
The your task here is to classify a given test image to any of the nine given classes using your
classifiers
Task 2
Face detection is the task of localizing faces within video or still images. The faces can be at any
location and vary in size. There are many applications for face detection, including human computer
interaction and surveillance. You will attempt a simplified face detection task in which your system is
presented with an image that has been pre-processed by an edge detection algorithm.
The task is to determine whether the edge image is a face or not.
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Ask HN: Is terraforming Mars feasible this century?
I recently got into a debate with a friend about how terraforming Mars is a safer bet to see happen during this century than The Venus Project (www.thevenusproject.com). What do you all think?

Some general background:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars
It's been great. It's very light, has good battery life (5+ hours), and is responsive (only tried XFCE) so far. One of the great things about this machine is that it's the same size as 13" ultrabooks, but it has a 14" screen. Some people have said that the 1600x900 screen is a letdown compared to some Asus ultrabooks that sport 1080p displays, but that is most definitely not the case for me. There's more than enough screen real estate for me on the X1 Carbon.

Perhaps it's because I'm running a lightweight Linux distro, but I have absolutely none of the heat problems mentioned in the Verge review. The laptop runs very cool - much more so than my ThinkPad T410.

The trackpad is responsive, although I have little use for it. The keyboard design is fantastic, but the layout is a little annoying. They got rid of the 'back' and forward' keys next to the 'up' key, and I used those all the time in the browser. They also eliminated Scroll Lock, which I had repurposed as a keyboard shortcut. Finally, they moved the multimedia keys from Fn+up/down/left/right to Fn+F10/F11/F12, which is really annoying.

But those are specific to previous ThinkPad owners. The only other real complaint I have is that it's useless for 3D gaming. I installed the Steam Linux beta, and even a game as simple as Cogs[0] stutters. However, I'm not a big gamer, so it's no big loss. In fact, it will probably help my productivity.

0: http://www.cogsgame.com/
I think OP's post treats swap along the conventional lines i.e swap is good. I think its true for applications running on the client machine. Where you don't want an app, say Eclipse, to crash for lack of memory. And for some years that conventional wisdom stayed on the server side as well.

But modern wisdom on that is that, in general(+), it may be good to not have swap at all, on your server. Rather than address things by running parallel instances and load balancing.

As such swap space may also run out eventually if some service is leaking memory. And until it does it will make the system slow for everybody. Its better instead to let the culprit processes simply die, and make things easier for every body else.

On my server my jettys keep dying when they run out of memory. Thankfully there are lot other instances which are there to process requests.

Its a trade off you make, in favor of dropping some requests which are currently hitting the errant service (jetty instance in my case) vs. slowing down things for everybody, to the extent that even the developers can't help until something finally runs out of swap space also and dies (like the solr case you and OP mentions).

+ I say in general because there definitely could be reasons when you need swap.

Edit: Added explanation for (+)
ISPs keep track of who does what on their connection and will tell law enforcement if somebody does something dodgy. If they didn't, it would break the internet.
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It’s "made by geeks" but doesn’t support IPv6. I don’t buy that :-).
Interesting, I remember seeing a sort of an inverted pyramid house. It was built for similar reasons - a tax on the ground area. I cannot recall its location though.
I totally don't get your display argument - how can a display with higher resolution and which can be brighter in any way be a disadvantage?

Also, but that might be subjective: 1366x768 would be way too less for me...
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Pay no heed. There's no dearth of "The end is nigh" board carriers in these matters.
Shopify itself is written in Ruby using the Rails framework. I believe we're one of the oldest and largest Rails projects out there.

Some parts of our infrastructure are written in other frameworks (e.g. Thin) and languages (e.g. Go).
The standard WP caching plugin most people use is W3 Total Cache. It can require some effort to setup and get everything working but once done it will make orders of magnitude improvements to your performance.
The secret to leadership, apparently, is delegation.

No, the secret to management is delegation. A big part of successful leadership is actually about being on the front lines with your followers and sharing their burden and risk.
> How well does power management work?

Do you mean suspend/resume? It works fine with Xubuntu. I close the laptop, it turns off. I open it up, it turns back on to the lock screen. Then when I log in, it automatically reconnects to wifi within a few seconds. This is all without any configuration.

Battery life is great, I can get 5+ hours. But remember I'm running XFCE - things may not be the same with Unity or KDE.
Are you seriously defending child pornography right now? First off, the "harmless outlet" concept is absolutely not "well established." Pedophilia is a paraphilia. The desire grows as it is fed.

Furthermore, the reason you hear of child porn rings is because those are what form - people share it with each other in a tit-for-tat sort of way. It absolutely incentivizes the production of more, which means more abused kids.

God damnit HN, I should have known a thread on a Tor node being shut down would bring out all the child porn apologists. Funny how that happens, eh?
Linux seems to work fine on 90% of laptops, but from a consumer perspective, I don't want a 10% risk that some little thing won't work.

You're right in that I can be reasonably certain that a laptop I buy will run Linux, but I can't be certain that there won't be issues. And I can't be certain that the random forum poster who successfully is using Linux on the model I want to buy uses their device like I do - maybe they never sleep and always shutdown, or don't ever use bluetooth, or don't care about USB 3.0, or never use two-finger scrolling, or don't need to access SAMBA shares, and so I cannot know before my purchase whether it'll do everything I want.

And so, I stick with Windows, because it is the devil I know.
Do you know this guy?
we may or may not have forgotten to rsync that binary to a new web server we started up.
He owns one large ISP in Austria and has multiple personal projects. And no judge has ever said that running a Tor exit node isn't legal AFAIK.
I'll be very happy to help you and HN'ers set Varnish up on their server (not looking for compensation for this) and get you through HN traffic on your launch day.

Plug: we've built several products around Varnish so we have a good handle of how/where Varnish can be leveraged. Here's a list of varnish things we've built at unixy:

Varnish load balancer: http://www.unixy.net/advanced-hosting/varnish-load-balancer

Varnish for cPanel and DirectAdmin: http://www.unixy.net/varnish

Varnish w/ Nginx for cPanel: http://www.unixy.net/advanced-hosting/varnish-nginx-cpanel

Email in profile. I'll be more than happy to help out.

Joe
I've never heard of it, looks very cool though. Definitely buying a copy tonight!
This is quite a shock. I worked at Coverity about 7 years ago, but I didn't have much faith in static analysis (now I'm at Microsoft, ironic).
Blitz is also worth a mention.

http://www.blitz.io/
They state they only covered games with over 100k$
You'd be better off here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Strategic_Economi...

than this article. Also, it's pure, distilled politics; what would it be doing here on HN? There's a whole Internet full of sites where this stuff is germane. Flagged.
Don't bother reducing keepalive, just disable it altogether. Unless you have a very specific use case it is more trouble than it is worth.
is this a realtime graph though ? many friends tried to call/connect with people from Syria but they failed.
This seems to be written by someone who has no deep experience.
For example, Ctrl-u does only delete the whole line, if the cursor stands at the end of that line, on my system (Ubuntu) this command generally deletes the characters left from the cursor.
What's missing, is the complement to this command, which deletes the characters under and right from the cursor, namely Ctrl-k.
Everybody who regularly uses Ctrl-u should know that.
There's certainly no need to sign off on your bank statements. However, the bank must ensure that you get them - so if you don't pick them up yourself, you get them sent every couple of month.
Even as a designer, the process of creating new invoices isn't this easy even when I have a pre-existing template, so this is awesome. Is there a possibility that I could upload my own layouts and make them available for myself others down the road?
You should worry about marketing BEFORE building the product :)
> Maybe if you do front-end/design work - I don't. I actually prefer the resolution on this compared to the Macbook Air - less eye strain when staring at a terminal all day.

Well, just increase the font size. Having a larger resolution allows you to see the same amount of content with better font rendering (only because of the larger point size on a larger resolution, I'm not going to discuss Linux vs OS X font rendering again).
DHH describes a similar caching scheme here:

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3113-how-key-based-cache-expi...
My 15 month old daughter has started being a little destructive to books as well.
Better solutions on Dropbox:

http://calepin.co/

https://github.com/myfreeweb/markbox