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Export $LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
what's better than export $LD_LIBRARY_PATH for including library on path in linux??
> If you ever recommend or redistribute GNU/Linux, please remove Ubuntu from the distros you recommend or redistribute.

Whether or not I agree with it I found it quite calm and balanced (just like the phrase quoted above). Note there are no insults or exclamation points.

Perhaps his writing isn't the issue here, but your perception.
Thank you for the discussion. I disagree with your stance as well.

Why is female->male fear different than other kinds of irrational fear? If we substituted white->black in your comment would you still support it? What makes it different?

"Would you say that black people, take it for granted that they know how whites feel about possible black aggression in private situations, especially late at night? That they know whites have legitimate reasons to be worried about strange blacks who confront them, even in a seemingly harmless manner, in private situations? Would you say that whites have a right to speak about their feelings on this topic, explain why they feel the way that they feel, or even just vent about how bothered they get by those situations?"

Also I'd like to point out that you make the assumption that only men can run afoul of a code of conduct and only women can be protected by it. Not convincing that these standards will be fairly applied.
We haven't had a space allotment for several years now.
Good logical picture
This is a quick exercise for your mind. That's why I call this a great logical picture. I didn't see many pics like this, but that just amazed me
detecting one or more finger contacts with the touch screen display, applying one or more heuristics to the one or more finger contacts to determine a command for the device, and processing the command.

So literally the function of every touchscreen device ever?
Touchscreens have been around since 1970; this was filed for in 2006.
http://uripis.com (uses whatever is default, or http://ipv4.uripis.com and http://ipv6.uripis.com to force ipv4/6 :)
World Wildlife Fund and Google launch anti-poacher drones in Africa
this seems a lot like http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/gravity_l...
This is what I was wondering about, because I have so far failed to install a single Python package on Windows without it breaking on some Unix dependency.
If you look the patent up on Google Patents, you can download all the "Public PAIR data". It's 56MB for this patent.

Inside of the zip there is a file located at:
12101832-image_file_wrapper/12101832-image_file_wrapper.tsv

It's a tab-delimited version of the table on the USPTO site for "image file wrapper". It also has all the PDFs in that directory.

http://www.google.com/patents/US7479949
You're right about upload speeds...I got the 50 mainly to get 5 up.
"people who are terrified of a code of conduct policy are the ones who are creepers."

Just like anybody concerned about privacy is a crook hiding something, right? Or maybe they're afraid of getting swept up in an in-progress moral panic.
yeah (and i get your underlying point), but a "screwbuntu" protest screensaver would be a more fun and pro-active way to show disapproval of opt-out tracking, imo.
Attack of the Hadoop Hybrids
In a language like Clojure you wouldn't have the problem of autocomplete because there isn't an object for the method to be attached to.

I love autocomplete and editors/IDEs for dynamic OO languages have a hard time providing it, because the type isn't know except through certain types of analysis, which can never be 100% known.
I read it a few months ago; good at what it professes to be - a quick guide for beginners. Definitely worth reading and got me over the first few learning hurdles of Node.
Agreed. The "open dev time" idea is attractive, and I can imagine developers getting excited about it, (or at least developers who enjoy doing side projects). But it doesn't seem to address kstenerud's point.

In our interview process, we want developers who like writing software, and want to improve. Asking about side projects, software topics they're researching on their own, languages they're playing with, seems to be a useful thing to focus on. Or at least, I tend to like candidates with good answers to those questions. That's a monoculture I think I'd actually like.
I think the phrasing of this title is poor. It seems to imply that Stallman's statement is ridiculous, yet most people (and the definition of spyware) seem to agree that this feature is is in fact spyware.
> "harassment in any form"

This is the crux of the main problem with zero tolerance stances. That "in any form" gets interpreted in the widest possible way possible beyond the point of absurdity. This is because it is an absolute stance in a realm which is inherently subjective and relative to the various points of view involved.

> "when corroborated"

I think this helps with this a bit, as it requires at least one (hopefully more) other subjective view on whether it was harassment or not. Hopefully it will be enough.
Maybe the USPTO finally decided to look for prior art?
If the name of the document is something like "bike parts list" or "jefferson project summary", then those words can give some indicators for ads.
I like the idea, but what kind of sick, twisted mind thinks it's a good idea to put the video in a player where they've disabled / hidden the controls?
U.S. Intelligence Reviewing Cyber Espionage from Abroad
We were discussing financial success; I assumed financial risk was implicit. Investing time in the creation of a new programming language is likely to pay off in many other ways, but the potential financial rewards are very low and therefore so is the element of financial risk.

People tend to overestimate the amount of money required to start a successful business.
At larger scales, you are typically limited by the efficiency of whatever is lifting it. A large generator can convert kinetic energy to electric energy with very high efficiency (over 95%).

Also this is very poor energy density each kg moved 1m results in 9.8 joules or ~2.7e-6 kWh. So one metric ton moving 1km would generate 2.7 kWh.
Can't stress the "start small" part. I.e. not a marketplace or a social network to start with. (If you learn a new language, would your first project be a StarCraft2 clone or hello world?)
Google has been heavily pushing Go internally for a while now. They have weekly pamphlets that they put up in bathroom stalls to educate employees.
because he didnt found or was an early employee of a highly successful startup, yet. Same is true for Linus and many other hacker heros, but its not a bad thing imo.
It's bad for society to believe a problem is actually being solved by charity that only happens when you feel like it. That just amplifies our problems during recessions, in which those donations start drying up when they're needed most. It's like building a city behind a dam that won't be strong enough to hold back the next flood.
So the new definition of literally is literally "not literally"?
Why you should say no to easy money
> In science, evidence means everything, reputation means nothing.

That's a bit optimistic, in the long run it may be true, but over shorter time periods reputation and authority often discourage proper criticism.
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Good points. I probably didn't word that very well. What I'm getting at is that justice is mostly political not because we couldn't make it more rational, but because we really prefer it that way.

Certainly technology can make this fiction less fictitious in the future, but I'm not sure we'll want to use it that way.
Wow this really resonates with me. But one may also accept that institutionalized corporate life is not for him and move on, even if that means less money and less stability throughout his life.

To quote the asian guy from Tokyo Drift "Life is simple - you make choices and never look back"
That was seriously some awesome motivation. I've only been out working for a few months after graduation but I can already related to almost everything on his list.

Thank you for sharing!
Thiel spends half of the article banging at that exact point - the current system is stuck at appeasing emotions and appearances resulting in a grossly unjust system, resulting in evil deeds done in the name of 'justice'. This should be fixed.
With perfect efficiency a 10 kg weight lifted 2 meters would only output about a tenth of a watt over half an hour. That is indeed enough for a led, but not a very powerful one. I doubt this is worth it.
Why Gigabit Matters
Yes, and the same math applies --

Their claim is a 20 pound weight raised 6 feet (or so) in the air will generate light for 30 minutes:

20 lbf * 6 ft / 30 min = ~90 mW

For reference, the LED indicators on your keyboard use about 15 mW each. So that's about two keyboards worth of light.

However maybe I'm being stingy -- because of persistence of vision (a characteristic of the human eye), you can run LEDs (or any light) on a low duty cycle and still produce the same apparent brightness. So if we say they run it at a 10% duty cycle (I'm not sure how accurate this estimate is), they might be able to get closer to 1 W of LED light, which is enough for reading.
Would be nice to get away from it all for a few months. Being a park ranger (for awhile) would be a nice break from a high-tech lifestyle.
Looks like the half an hour duration is only good for powering a LED at a small power.
The light seen in the video at the 55 seconds mark, shows the LED at full power and the weight drop speed is about 0.7 cm per two seconds (again, aproximately from the video), thats about 4-5 minutes for a meter of height.
> ... .but over shorter time periods reputation and authority often discourage proper criticism.

Yes, but that's not science. When people pay attention to authority and claimed expertise, they're abandoning science.

"Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion." — Richard Feynman
Civility on the internet! I appreciate it. I do think your greater point about the nature of giving is worth exploring... just perhaps with better words.
Darpa drone with a six foot claw
He really isn't...a lot of the biggest and most helpful changes to Ruby have come from other contributors, so IMO that's kind of a good thing. One of my favorite Matz-isms is how he emphasizes CHOICE in the language, rather than OPINION.

Opinion belongs in your framework, not your language. It's much easier to move frameworks than it is languages, and since our opinions are so fluid, it makes no sense to stick with a language with opinions that may or may not be valid in 4 years...
Kinda makes sense. They are moving to more and more Go.
Founder Divorce: Nine Lessons From When My Business Partner Jumped Ship
Some good points, but I disagree with the following.

- i18n and l10n

For reasons already stated by many others in this HN thread.

- Notifications should be more like email

Please no. I'm already terrified of my email inbox. It's a mess, so many messages. Sometimes I'll leave a message unread or mark it as unread if I want to return to it later but instead it gets buried by newer messages. So now I have a couple of hundred unread emails and I have no idea what they are but they surely can't be important.

Keep notifications how they are. It makes using GitHub stress free. If I read a notification, get rid of it so I never have to see it again. If it was so important, I should remember it anyway or I would have set it as my highest priority and worked on it right away.

- Revamp Inline Editing

Themes? Multiple cursors? Command line? Live linting? ...
No thanks, sounds like feature-creep. I like the editor how it is, nice and simple. Want a full-blown editor? Don't use the web interface.

- Infinite newsfeed

There are reasons why many websites choose not to include infinite scrolling, see [1] for some good reasons.

One thing I'd like to see added to GitHub:

- View all public activity history

There's been many times when I want to look at my own history or someone else's and I can't because it stops after the first page.

[1] http://www.quora.com/Infinite-Scrolling/What-are-the-downsid...
Very doubtful. I would find it hard to believe that he hasn't committed code in a week.

Anyway, most of what he was working on was AppEngine itself.
When money overtakes morale it becomes Ubuntu. Since long Ubuntu has been trying to avoid the Linux identity. Its a good call from Stallman bringing out Ubuntu's real motive is/will be few years down the line.

Switched to Arch Linux since 2008 (that's when Ubuntu was spelt around the globe) and I'm happy about the decision.
Now I know github doesn't have a typical roadmap or backlog but I guess what I was looking for was how someone decides what feature they are "fed up" with not having.
At perfect efficiency, this seems to give you about 55mW for a hour, if I asked Wolfram correctly (for 20kg lifted one meter):

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=20+kilogram%E2%80%90for...

So probably a hoax.

(Wolfram fun fact: thats roughly the energy of the weight of a typical snowflake in oil (~4mg))
Women will be Arab World's Differentiated Asset
My point is, I made a minor mistake in configuring GMail. That was my own fault. Multiply that amount of configuration by a million, and see if you don't make a mistake. Do ongoing maintenance, and see if you don't make a mistake. Keep everything secure, make sure you're whitelisted by every major provider, and ensure no messages ever bounce one way or another.

My point is, fucking up is bad and easily costs you money. Giving yourself infinitely more ways to fuck up to save $50 a year is stupid. I don't know how I can put it more plainly than that. At this point you're pretty much just trolling.
- Powerful, ubiquitous cloud storage / OSes

- Streaming games

- 4K TVs
Well, conference organizers are holding themselves to the exact same standard (any code of conduct would apply equally to them!)

Organizers tend to be the people who contribute the most to the community of anybody. They work long hours of (uncompensated) volunteer work and endure a lot of headaches. Yes, you may get a petty tyrant or two, but in general they are good people.

Finally, it's not like any of this is going to come into play for the vast majority of people. It's pretty much an agreement to treat others with respect, refrain from harassment and personal insult, and so forth.

Unless a conference attendee does something unkind to trigger these "rules" they are going to pass unnoticed.
Perhaps the UK Inland Revenue could use this and affiliate links to get some money out of Amazon as they're not getting much out of them through actual taxes.
"My solution has been to logout and read it."

Whenever I need to sign out for something, I just open up incognito mode/private browsing.
I setup one small business on http://atmail.com/products/ cloud - which seems to work pretty well. It's $2/user/month, most beautiful webmail client I've seen, calendars, contacts, etc...

And, if you'd rather run your own server, you can of course just buy their software. But I don't have any experience running that.
How is this new service supposed to be viable like the last MU? If the point of this "encryption" is supposed to provide plausible deniability, then the whole point of distributing warez via this site "legally" will have to be that the decryption keys are kept secret or underground.

But for this site to be popular enough to allow for downloads supported by ad revenue, then the file links and decryption keys will have to be widely distributed to drive traffic. If someone files a takedown notice with a file and decryption key that proves the data contained therein is copyrighted then won't MU be in the same boat they were in previously?
Starbucks row over tax and staff contracts could squeeze sales by 24%
I read that as github now has attachement issues.

I'll take the downvotes. it was worth it
My 2012 front-end web development workflow
Udemy CEO, Eren Bali’s Story
There's an interesting comment about super-efficient LED bulbs in that museum of hoaxes article. However, the numbers look marginal for this GravityLight even with super-efficient LED bulbs.

Quick back of the envelope calculation, using what few numbers are given in the article.

Ballast: m = 10 kg (1)

Height: h = 3 m (2)

Energy stored: E = mgh = 300 J

Time: 30 min = t = 1800 s (3)

Wattage available: P = E / t = 0.17 W (4)

Notes:

(1) Article says you can hang anything weighing about 20 lbs.

(2) No numbers given in the article, but the pictures make it look like ceiling height (8 to 10 ft., I took the larger)

(3) Article says light for half an hour.

(4) With current LEDs this is the equivalent of about a 2 W incandescent bulb, i.e., pretty dim. The light in the pictures in the article looks like the equivalent of about a 40 W incandescent bulb, so the numbers come up short by a factor of about 20. That would indeed be "super-efficient" for an LED; I'm not aware of any even on the drawing boards that are that efficient.

[Edit: The numbers actually are not too low compared to kerosene lamps, which are what this light is supposed to replace. See exchange downthread with xd.]
> LED bulbs do not attract mosquitos like conventional bulbs.

False, and the authors should be ashamed of themselves for posting this lie in a page meant to attract investors:

http://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/38761/PDF

Also, a wound-mainspring arrangement would be much more effective as a low-cost, practical third-world product. It would be lighter, less costly to produce, and would require much less space. This gravity angle looks like a gimmick, possibly to avoid infringing someone's patent.
I would advise taking acting classes. No, I'm not trolling. It can teach social skills and also make corporate life a lot more bearable. Public speaking is good, too.

Sometimes you have to act subordinate, while keeping your poise. Play the character, do the role well, but never actually be subordinate. Always keep your own career goals (knowledge, contacts, credibility) in mind and protect them, because corporate incoherence will assault your goals from all sides. It's rare that anyone will look out for you, and usually managers can't (that's called "playing favorites") so you have to do that for yourself. Your real boss is someone you can't get away from but who can't fire you: it's you.
Gone into beta
Washington Drops Defense of Online 'Adult Services' Law
Escherichia coli. Go look it up.
Then point to numbers showing they have left in mass. If such a large part of manufacturing has left then how does the US (according the 2009 report linked) still lead the world in manufacturing output? Are productivity increases enough to make up for manufacturing leaving at the levels many people like think? I certainly don't think so.

Pointing to manufacturing jobs going away is an invalid metric to start. Manufacturing jobs are gone and going, but it's not something that can be stopped. Some jobs were moved overseas, but many have simply been automated away. Over time even the ones overseas will be automated away.
The light seen in the video is not the 30 minute-one. There the weight drops much quicker. Look carefuly at about 55 second in the video.
Architecture of Open Source Applications : Yesod
I once interviewed with a company that maintained a staff of <25 people throughout its entire 8 year existence. It struck me as odd when they described themselves as a startup.

According to Paul Graham, "a startup is a company designed to grow fast."

By this definition, they didn't fit the bill. Dropbox might, depending on whether or not they're still in a rapid growth phase.
OpenTok is pretty good and relatively straightforward to include into your site

http://www.tokbox.com/
Start-up Cookbook Reveals Famous Founders' Family Recipes
I am pretty sure you stole this post right out of my head. First it was the removal of the left sidebar search criteria e.g. search by date as well as removing the image search options e.g. search by image size. Now, Google takes away their free apps plan. I am about to launch a startup/service and the integration of Google apps was going to be part of it. Now, it looks like the integration of Microsoft's live/office services are going to take the place of Google Apps.

Oh well...
Great article. Quote:

"I know many developers in Poland who prefer (as Joel mentioned) to get English documentation rather than Polish translation and the reason for that is that translations were not always accurate."

That made me remember how before the Web sometimes I could not get an original book but would be able to buy a translated one. Many times the translations made no sense at all and I had to mentally translate it back to English to understand what the original author meant.
No, it's not science, it's human nature. (And I really hope you're being ironic using a Feynman quote there!)
How long till Apple makes a touchscreen iMac?
I think these should be taken as permissive guidelines rather than exclusive guidelines, that is if several of them are true you should beware rather than excluding a speaker based on a single rule.
Oh absolutely. I had a laundry list of the things that were supported on Apps months after everybody else. We've always been second-class citizens, and now everybody new is required to pay. I hope the trend doesn't continue.

There was App Engine, there was Google+, there was Android, there was Voice, and a long host of others.
It was the Optimus V that first convinced me to do this, the HTC One V was kind of the next logical choice given the price and was a nice speed/screen/camera bump over the Optimus V.

The HTC One V is a great phone for the price, the only real negative to it is HTC's Sense skin over Android isn't that great (IMO, YMMV) but you can reflash it with alternate community ROMs to get standard Android look and feel.

If the Nexus 4 were readily available there's a very good chance I would have tried that on one of T-Mobile's prepaid plans, but since that was sold out with no clear information on future availability I'm going to go with the One V for now.
Start working on persistent servers or start an ISP I guess.

The former is how Googlers work. I suggest GNU Screen + tramp.
Any idea why they would phase out Python? Internal promotion of Go, or problems with Python?
Well, shortening the time by a factor of 20 makes it a minute and a half of light equivalent to a 40 W incandescent bulb. So maybe this is really a combination light and exercise machine? :-)
LiveReload is great for frontend development also. It watches a folder for changes to files of whatever extension you specify and reloads your browser immediately. Works really well with many frameworks and is also capable of SASS and LESS compilation. I used with my Scala/Play/LESS stack.

livereload.com
Generally when this happens, the company which had the breach will provide free credit monitoring service to the affected customers. You should ask them about that. If they're not doing it yet, you should. Chances are nothing will happen, but if someone does use your social security number to sign up for a credit card, loan or other service that impacts your credit rating, a credit monitoring service would notify you of that.
Contact the major credit bureaus and request they put you on fraud alert
Caching. A provider can use caching tech to eat a lot of the download requests.