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There are two problems with the Ubuntu search box.

1) Not being very clear to your users that the search box is now global and will send information out of the local machine

2) Amazon search sucks.

I haven't used recent versions of Ubuntu, but linking a good distro with the disaster that is Amazon search is not something appealing to me. I don't think it's going to improve my experience on Ubuntu. I strongly feel it's going to make my search experience really sucky.

Note that I am ad-tolerant, and I don't really care about information getting sent off to other servers (so long as I'm told about it before hand) so Canonical have a bit of work to do to persuade me that the new experience is not as awful as Amazon search is on the website.

PS: Apologies to any Amazoners here, but come on, you know the search is terrible, right?
>that is an Audi aluminum engine, not an "Italian passion" V12 monster.

Are you really trying to discredit Lamborghini because they're now owned by Audi? The passion you're referring to comes from the design. Most people couldn't care less about the sound. The other day a Ferrari 599 GTB passed by a restaurant and my friend said it was an obnoxious sounding car.

How about Pagani? Their engines are made by Mercedes/AMG. Does that mean it's any less Italian?
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I don't know how you would do it but (a) if you could do it seamlessly and without user interaction, and (b) you could get it publicly known as an option that people could "Ask your ISP if they support this feature" type of thing, you'd have something. I can see this as an ISP-level play:

1) You, Mr. Big Data, don't have to serve as much data through your pipe b/c you can strip it out prior to sending the page

2) You also give your users the ability to come to your website more often. They'll be updating/adding their filters. They won't want to switch ISPs b/c they are locked in to using your filtering system.

It's a big data play in that case which means VC money and big deals with big companies. It would work if you could do it fast enough though.
Thanks, that's much more informative!

I'm looking forward to the full suite being released so we can repeat the tests and see how it fares under real-world conditions with different message-sizes etc.

Sorry for the snark in my initial comment but I found this gist really lacking (akin to those press releases where $vendor brags about some arbitrary figure without providing any details).

I do like the simplicity of NATS and look forward to a fast server implementing it. However for something like a MQ where performance is the key-metric and highly dependent on the chosen workload one really shouldn't throw around numbers without backing them up thoroughly - that only hurts credibility.

Please take the write-ups by the RabbitMQ guys as a guide, who publish the source-code for all their benchmarks and go to great lengths explaining them:

http://www.rabbitmq.com/blog/2012/04/25/rabbitmq-performance...
I find those keyboard command interfaces really natural. I loved the command palette in IntelliJ, for example: shortcut to bring it up, then start typing what you want to do and it'd suggest available commands.
This is a fairly correct summation of the theology & attitudes of the Puritan ethic. Far better than I could have written.
You dont need to scan them, shodan has done it for you. That's the point.

Eg http://www.shodanhq.com/?q=Rockwell

But yes, as ever, don't do stupid stuff if youre not satisfied with your own safety.
"Data science" is a hot thing right now. If your technical / design abilities match your stats knowledge, you could pull 6 figures easily depending on the market you're in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_science
Pfft. My phone was not marketed to me, I bought it on the specs. I didn't even know the model existed until I wanted to buy a new phone. I suspect much of the HN crowd is the same.

Building a better mousetrap is still the best way to succeed.
I hope that my reading of your question as a rhetorical one than a literal one is correct?

Because your entire comment is one big reason I have been rooting for Canonical from day one. I have been on Linux on and off since slackware 1.0, Redhat 5 (5.0 (Hurricane)/5.1 (Manhattan)) all the way to SuSE 7.0 and not one time was I able to get someone (anyone) to adopt it completely -- despite all my handholding and regular support! Finally resorted to recommending Cygwin as an alternative, and I was still called upon to help with "things" ;-)

The first/only time I managed to get a successful switch and retain, was when I recommended Ubuntu.
Microsoft completely underestimated what the public still thinks of their brand when they start to fling the shit. Gonna be a loooooong time before they shake the reputation of being that company who makes the bloated OS/malware everywhere/Clippy.
This is a relatively short-sighted view, and the problems with it can be summarized with two very glib statements:

1.) Don't shit where you sleep.
2.) Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

As a species we really ought to stop doing both of those...
that deal is only if you signup for multi-year xbox live membership i believe.
32GB of storage satisfies 18 users? That surprises me. I have 5GB in one mailbox and I'm not much of an e-mail hoarder. Also, what do you do for backups? Do you have offsite backups? How do you search your email? How do you filter spam? What about calendars, shared contacts, and internal document storage? Do you have multi-factor auth and application-specific passwords? Google Apps has a ton of features and it's reliable. Not to mention, it's cheap. Unless your time is worth very little, setting-up and maintaining your own mail server is going to cost a lot more.

People use e-mail constantly. It's important. $50 per person per year isn't a blip on the radar. Do you know how much money you'll lose if your 18 users can't access their mail for an hour? Now consider how much time they'll spend setting up their own mail clients instead of using Gmail. Think of the increased time and frustration waiting for searches to finish. Think of the extra time they'll spend deleting spam. You're paying a lot more than $40-50 for that mail server, but the real cost is obscured from you.

It's a no-brainer: skimping on email hosting is simply not worthwhile.
Let's see, maybe 900k kids, even if it was discounted in bulk to $10, that's $9 million.

If half the kids take advantage of it and it's really $20 in bulk, same $9 million.
I'm highly skeptical of the claim that it sold out. Both Wii U SKUs are easily available in most of the US right now. Supplies were constrained initially, but that has more to do with scalpers buying up every preorder in anticipation of another Wii-style fad, which has clearly not happened. If you look at Wii U auctions on eBay, the few auctions that complete have been selling essentially for cost once eBay fees are factored in.
I'm surprised even that many still use GoDaddy, truth be told. Though of course some domain purchases can last for many years.
"I'd rather just pay for an OS that doesn't hate me..."

I am not aware of a "for pay" consumer OS that wouldn't make Ubuntu's intrusion look positively benign by comparison. You're getting hammered because you took your argument overboard there. It also doesn't help that you said "Linux" instead of "Ubuntu".
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We really think Zapier has done an amazing job in building a gorgeous UI, easy to understand UX and gaining support from the API community. But, obviously they are really well suited for end users and not as much so (in our opinion) for devs needing to talk to a bunch of API's directly. As the need to talk to many API's was at the core of rules.io, it made sense to us to try to gain support from the community for some standards and to contribute descriptions.

Our goal is to really better support the needs of app developers needing to work with many API's rather than the API developer themselves. But we hope to gain support of both.
This is SO not what the old SoundCloud was about. I've been using this site, as a musician, since 2008 or so. One of its founders, Forss, was part of the same scene (dnb) that I was in.

SoundCloud was a site by music creators for music creators.

Those early days were AWESOME. Then venture capitalism entered the scene. It was a nice way to host your tracks and get some feedback of like-minded individuals. In the process you got to know new and relatively unknown music.

Now it slowly built up a massive base of passive listeners. And of course their founders and investors now smell the big all mighty dollar. It has to be social. And cool. And uber.

This redesign is hated by almost every paying customer (the musicians!) I know. The reactions on most music production forums are awful.

I pay for their service, if they don't change, I'll cancel my subscription.

I'm getting a distinct DIGG V4, MySpace vibe about this redesign...
Anyone know the accurate count of total units shipped for the 360? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Console_wars#Worldwide_sales_fi... shows PS3 outselling by a hair xbox, but i've seen far more people w/x360 than ps3.
Considering most windows users live in a sea of malware and I have yet to see a personal computer from one of my users that wasn't deeply infested, what makes MS think people actually care?

I hate that the WP product team, which has done a bang-up job, has to deal with incompetent marketing like this. Android has many, many unresolved and probably unresolvable problems. Buying a Nexus model solves most of these problems, but wow, what a goddamn mess Touchwiz and Sense based phones are. I had to wipe my wife's SGS2 and put CM9 on there just to stop a mystery battery drain that made her phone useless, even after many factory resets. Samsung blamed google and google blamed samsung and t-mobile blamed everyone but themselves. Way, way too many chefs here.

Apple and MS get it. You don't give carriers and OEM control over your mobile OS, because they will be poor stewards of it. Once my Nexus gets long in the tooth I might move to WP8. It looks pretty sharp.
It's just spammy apps. There are very few apps that actively exploit open bugs to elevate their rights, and then mostly to facilitate jailbreaking :)

The problem of course is the screwed up rights system. Instead of presenting a big list of permissions for every app on install, how about you just ask me directly if the app is about to send a text to some number not in my contact list?
If anybody says you should just be quiet and not use what you don't like, tell them that they should just be quiet and not read what they don't like.
This happens a lot on Hacker News. I guess people just don't have any decent input and just want to be heard, so they talk about the html or something else they know a lot about. Everyone likes to be heard :)

It would be nice to click on a discussion like this and see a discussion about the content of the link taking place. One can hope.
Some links:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/602691-u-s-manufacturing-lea...

From 2011:

http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/u-s-still-leads-world-in-...

Yet America remains by far the No. 1 manufacturing country. It out-produces No. 2 China by more than 40 percent. U.S. manufacturers cranked out nearly $1.7 trillion in goods in 2009, according to the United Nations.
The story of American factories essentially boils down to this: They've managed to make more goods with fewer workers.
Paul, thanks for your comments and support! We're excited to get the Berlin community involved as well.
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It depends on what you want to do. For simple redirections, most domain name registrars offer this service and you can set a number of email redirections from your admin web interface on their website. I think this is all you need.

If you want to do more complex things, it is quite easy to setup Postfix [1] on your own server (a little VPS would suffice) to do the redirection, even using a database like MySQL to dynamically create / update the redirections.

[1] http://www.postfix.org/
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I notice the strong demand on HN for empowerment literature. Personal productivity, existential self-determination, etc.

People write with a sense of being illuminated, of knowing something that others don’t. A thinking person should not trust such things. All the same, it can be hard not to check it out--give it some eyeball-time.

I won't lie: I read this crap all the time when it comes up on HN. (One might speculate as to why.)

Anyway, I notice the patterns these things follow.

- Laying claim to an illuminated or gnostic truth. Someone who “gets” it, while others don’t.

- Hinting that you will benefit if you accept the claim as true.

- Lastly (optional), appealing to the ego, to the desire to feel superior.

This article was not so bad, in comparison. It stuck to its thesis without playing too much dirty pool. Its thesis was simplistic (essentially, "take risks"), which did not interest me that much.

I honestly think people should look more carefully at the rhetoric they feed on.
The answer is yes, people who use shit like google/facebook is being spied.

The problem is, traditionally, people who used Linux know how to deal with these things (eg: use StartPage instead of google, use a shared IP, etc). But having to fight your own distro of choice is a different matter. This shouldn't be happening. As much as I loved Ubuntu, now I'm already testing other distros to make the switch.
I wish them all the best, but if the only thing they can offer is an open-source system that's arranged more coherently than linux, PC-BSD's been there for years. As linux fans know, gaining OS marketshare is an uphill struggle.
I would suggest making it available outside of the app store. I work for a large company, and we simply cannot use software from the app store since it is tied to an individual Apple ID, and the company has no procurement process for app store software. In addition to that, there are many people who would prefer to install software without having to use the app store.
Impressive. It takes serious effort to screw up that badly.
Do you know how they'll tie into ES6 modules? (if at all), that's definitely a big concern for me, I'd like to never see a global again as far as libraries go. Anyway yeah that would be great! I totally understand the end goal of having something usable out of the box, I'm just not 100% convinced browsers can even really get away with that. There's still fundamental issues like dependency mapping and manifests etc that are purely user-land anyway, so at the end of the day they wouldn't really be useful without some sort of registry/packaging mechanism anyway
pcmag.com forwards me to google.com on my ipad!?!?
If it had been on sale the entire month and (assuming) they maintained the same rate of sales as it did the 12 or so days it was available, it would have sold around 1.06M units.

I would imagine they could have made up the 200K difference their had been more inventory.
http://catb.org/jargon/html/O/on-the-gripping-hand.html

Just enforcing the lore
Fly Me To the Moon - for $750M
I also enabled instant search in Chrome. Whenever I want privacy, I just Ctrl-N.
Better than a 299 PC with two years of AOL I guess.

My how the times have changed.
You're joking right?

If you believe what you're saying, I am reminded of 1984.
It's a shame when companies cannot let their products speak for themselves, and rather than showing off the positive aspects of their product they have to resort to (trying to) belittle the competition. Are Microsoft now using the same PR firms that they use for the Presidential elections who specialize in this kind of mud-slinging?

It was obvious this was going to happen, what really did they expect? Even if they had a few stories come through, they are all but drowned out by everyone else. Funny they did not run a #iPhoneRage campaign... although there is still time yet!
That's something I wasn't 100% sure about. When "incidental complexity" was discussed in the talk, I thought it was pretty much the same as "accidental complexity" in the way that Fred Brooks means it in No Silver Bullet. So I used "accidental complexity" and linked to the wikipedia article to hopefully provide some useful info.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was not a high value product like the announced new Mac Pro. Probably not just assembly but also making many parts. Its low volume, perhaps semi custom, and much of the demand is in the US.
At work (I'm a physics/mathematics guy developing quantum optical simulations):

Fortran 2003/2008

C++

LaTeX

Sage

Mathematica

Haskell (My initial experiments look promising; ghc+llvm has consistently beaten gcc and gfortran when doing RK4 integration of complicated functions. I'm currently testing array performance with REPA.)

Emacs

Dislin (Looking for a replacement, since it's a real pain
to use)

Charm++ (Looks promising, but also seems hard to use.)

MPI

At home:
Haskell
I typed 'exit' when I was done exploring. I'm not sure if I expected this to close the browser or what. :)
Just made a community for Hacker News users on Google+

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/11653218726074934687...
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With WhatsApp you have one account per phone number that you activate on each phone through SMS authentication.

So if I installed WhatsApp to my iPhone 4 under number 917-555-5555, WhatsApp will then text that number with an activation code and when I enter that activation code in the WhatsApp app, it ties that number to my phone with that phone's MAC address/IMEI.

If I then upgraded to the iPhone 5 under the same number, the process repeats itself and now ties that number to the iPhone 5 with it's MAC address/IMEI. I will now lose access to WhatsApp on that number on my iPhone 4.
He kind of already has given ground, saying Steam on Linux is borderline acceptable at times.
But we will lose these powerful car sounds with electric cars :(. Which is bad for the peoples who love these sounds, but will make the cities more quiet. They trying to fake it but it's not the same: http://vimeo.com/39818209
You can disable it via the GUI in the Privacy settings: http://askubuntu.com/a/192270/235
Their use of algorithmic prices means that you can sometimes get domains on GoDaddy for cheaper than other registrars. Price is something that is hard to argue against.
Industries change ALL THE TIME. I don't know what it takes to make a t-shirt, but I have to imagine it is becoming automated to the point where not as many factories are needed. There's also shifts in consumer buying that happen.

I'm sure when cars were invented there were closed down stables all over the place. Progress happened. Rural textile plants have left in favor of luxury car makes like BMW opening plants. Don't confuse a particular industry changing to manufacturing as a whole. The value of products produces simply doesn't show manufacturing leaving. In fact, the high dollar products are moving to the US.
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Nope. I hate pairing, I'm quite possibly a pain to work with, I get especially frustrated when pairing with someone junior who slows me down.

I still do it, because the code quality gains are too big to miss out on.
After all these years, Microsoft still needs to get on the Cluetrain. With worldwide instantaneous one-to-many, one-to-one, and many-to-one communication available to the masses, business these days has to be a conversation, not a monolog.

http://www.cluetrain.com/

"A powerful global conversation has begun. Through the Internet, people are discovering and inventing new ways to share relevant knowledge with blinding speed. As a direct result, markets are getting smarter—and getting smarter faster than most companies.

"These markets are conversations. Their members communicate in language that is natural, open, honest, direct, funny and often shocking. Whether explaining or complaining, joking or serious, the human voice is unmistakably genuine. It can't be faked.

"Most corporations, on the other hand, only know how to talk in the soothing, humorless monotone of the mission statement, marketing brochure, and your-call-is-important-to-us busy signal. Same old tone, same old lies. No wonder networked markets have no respect for companies unable or unwilling to speak as they do."

Of course, just now as I use the Google Play store, I'm reminded that the king of search still needs to improve the search capabilities of its own online store. Everyone in the industry has more to learn from customers.
I didn't say you can't market specs. Sounds like someone does understand you.

I also didn't intend to imply that you should not build a better mousetrap. The point is that building a better mousetrap is insufficient.
I think somebody should study how MS marketing works, make it a case-study. Every time they try to be "hip", they end up looking like fools. Remember that weird Seinfeld ad? The spooky over-polished family for Windows 7? The competition
on "speed-of-opening-apps" on WP7 where nobody was allowed to win?

When they stick to the basics, they usually manage to be half-decent, like for the Windows 8 campaign: safe, completely unremarkable, but at least it didn't blow further holes in the already-tarnished brand.

TL;DR: dear Microsoft, don't try to be hip.
An ass kicker is huge. Sometimes you just need that extra push to get the ball rolling.

Look into joining nReduce.

Or join us at VocalTap. We host monthly video chats among startups so they can share their progress and provide insight and direction on execution. Email me if you're interested!
Yes, but how many of those 360 sales were actually repeat sales because the owner's previous 360 decided to red-ring?

answer: At least one.
I love pair programming. However 2 out of the 3 major pair programming exercises I have had were a disaster. Both were with people who were way advanced in the craft of what we were working on, but also unfortunately had piss poor communication skills. This meant that they would either mumble to themselves and then write a stream of code which I would struggle to follow. Alternatively, when I took over the keyboard, I could sense the impatience that they really wanted to pull the keyboard away from me and it would end up them dictating code to me rather than us discussing through the whys of a potential solution. The point I am trying to make is that some people just can't pair program, they either need to be trained to pair program or rather need to be helped to do this in a way that their productivity is not hampered.
I would imagine chlamydia is more popular than GoDaddy among Hacker News users...
I think if you plan on responding, it works best to assume sincerity. That leads to more interesting conversation over the long run.

It also helps teach people that sarcasm is not a real substitute for wit.
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