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Perhaps mistercow's comment (right below yours right now) is just one example of why people are "always complaining".

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4973598

"It's always worked just fine for me"

Guess what? Even when things didn't work for me, I'd generally have people saying the same thing: "works for me - I dunno what your problem is". That's annoying, and also not helpful - yes, often you don't know why it works, so you can't help anyone else when it doesn't work for them.

Also, years of "works for me", coupled with "hey, now XYZ works!" in next releases (when - hey, it already supposedly "just works") are the sorts of things people "complain" about.
Right, but food etc. costs of China would be a dream in the US.
I also wear a watch in the form of the Nike Fuelband. It sleeps when I'm not actively looking at it, so the battery lasts several days. The clasp is also a USB connector, so it just plugs into my laptop when the battery gets low. 30 minutes later and im good for another few days.

I also frequently get complements on it because it looks like a sleek wristband until the LEDs light up.

I would love to see more wearable accessories go this route and conserve power until I actively look at or wake up the device.

If someone added streaming music or mp3 functionality that could pipe music to a Bluetooth headset, that would be something I would definitely pay money for.
Horrendously misleading! I just flagged this post because of that. I almost pledged based on the title. Should have known better.
I agree, for power users usually xrandr command is far more quicker than cycling through layouts.

One feature I liked here is not going to sleep when lid is closed. I think to avoid that in normal case would be to set power settings to "do nothing" when lid is closed whenever you want this feature.
I don't currently own any guns and have none registered to my name, but if gun owners were labelled similarly to sex offenders on a publicly searchable map like in the article, I would go out of my way to get put on that map. I don't shy from a gun; I hunt and target shoot using my family and friends' guns. I just don't own any due to not having a reasonable case for owning one in my current living situation (I have roommates).

What purpose would that map serve? The only thing I can think of is your easily-offended neighbors would avoid you and your house. Good. If you're going to get up in arms (so to speak) about private and legal gun ownership and knowing that I own a gun is going to change your opinion of me for the worse, I'd like to know that before I invest significant time into building a relationship with you as my neighbor. If you're going to assume I'm a criminal just because I own a gun, I want nothing to do with you. Another benefit I could see from this type of map is a convenient listing of addresses that burglars may tend to shy away from. No one wants to rob a house and find a gun in their face if there is a house right next door without weaponry.

Do I want this information presented in this way? Not particularly. There's not much benefit to the average person in knowing where legally registered guns are kept, and potentially negative consequences if the neighborhood kids now know that your house has guns they could get a hold of.

I strongly disagree with the intentions of the journalists in this case, and applaud the lawyer for his response in a vigilante justice sort of way.
I stopped wearing a watch when cellphones were able to send/receive text messages. For me, a watch is too low-tech compared to all the things I surround myself with (iPhone, iPad, MacBook Air, etc.). All it can do is tell time?

I've been longing for a bluetooth (or similar) watch that had deep iPhone integration, looked stylish, and wasn't too expensive. The ones I've been able to find can't match all three.

I'd love:

* tell me what song is playing, allow me to change tracks

* show me the text message I just received

* show me who is calling me, with a button to ignore / send canned response

That said, I always thought the watch market was pretty small. It seems an odd thing that Apple would even be considering it.

But, apparently it's a $46B global market:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/watches/clocks/prweb8358884.ht...
I didn't know it in '96; I got to know it much later when I picked up a PS1 on queensday in the Netherlands; it included Crash 1 & 3 and I've been a huge fan ever since (I own all Crashs on all platforms). I play it on my openpandora a lot. For me (and a lot of people I know) the gameplay is better than most stuff out there now.

I'll definitely try Inky :) I'll let you know how it goes.
Rails has become extremely popular over the years, but we have to remember that in the end it's a software created by a guy containing his particular beliefs. And this is great! A good web framework need its own set of core beliefs.
Lessons learned while wrestling with Ubuntu fonts
There are a couple of thing missing in your list, and those are quite important:
Number of requests needed to load all your assets, latency and blocking.
Browsers only load limited number of assets in parallel, so if you have a lot they will wait. Latency makes things bad (especially on mobile), but in case you have a lot of assets it makes it even worse. Also, keep in mind, that most often it is the latency that kills the speed of the loading. It does not really matter if it takes 20 or 60ms to download your asset if the latency is 10x that.
Blocking: your #4 is not exactly right, browsers can start rendering the page at once, but if you try to load scripts first they will block rendering. Hence the importance of understanding where to request your css and js and how to load them.
Why would a diabetic person not travel with insulin?
Lawmakers don't refactor the laws like programmers refactor their programs. Laws get more and more complex with more and more bolt on patches. Times change but they don't get updated.

There Are so many laws it is impossible to know if you are breaking one or not.

http://unclibertarians.com/are-you-breaking-the-law/

Laws are designed by committee. We know how that works out for programming projects.

I think the volume of laws could be significantly reduced and laws could be simplified, but the law making process doesn't allow it.

Ianal.
err... eye for an eye, leaves the whole world blind, Anyone remembers that?

this exposes both groups to a lot of risk, really a bad call I would say. A criminal can use the info to take revenge on a media personnel, or rob/hurt/murder/rape someone without a gun.
I did mention in my post that it doesn't apply to teenagers, although I should've been more explicit at that. Growing children can generally make tremendous progress, as can untrained novices.

Your post doesn't really refute my point anyways, because it's very hard to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time for adults. You're talking about one direction i.e. gaining muscle.
It has nothing to do with being an evil empire and all to do with being evil. It doesn't matter if they're ruling or dying. Just because they're not alone in sucking badly doesn't mean they don't, and if we need Microsoft of all companies to provide an "alternative", that's an argument against the current situation; not for Microsoft.

That said, the word "hacker" has so many definitions it's completely useless anyway, it describes nothing. So don't take this as an agreement with the post you replied to, I would have said "people with dignity" instead of "hacker" haha.

In my books, lack of vowels is the real deal breaker.
Ask HN: What monitors are great for coding?
Probably like a lot of HN’ers, I spend 10h+/day in front of the laptop looking at text (coding, email, browsing...). I’d like to make it easier for my eyes and get an external monitor. What should I look for?

Some notes from what I already googled:

* I prefer larger fonts, so I’m aiming for a 27” size

* somebody mentioned “I've found is that I get the least eye strain by using a large (37"+) 1080p TV as a monitor”. What is your experience?

* pivotable display, in order to see more lines of code

* IPS panels seem to be the best, however others mention they aren’t so great for text: “every IPS has the same sparkle effect” (http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1466914)

Thanks and a Happy New Year with great eyesight :-)
Well, fear probably increases gun ownership, so not a bad move from the pro-gun side...
Rails has a lot of moving parts, which is certainly daunting for the beginner, and having worked in it professionally for three or however many years it's been I have a certain cognitive bias going on here but bear with me:

What part of Rails is… monolithic? I don't understand this complaint. Rails 3 these days is pretty modular.

For the same reason I can't stand Sinatra et al; two-to-four hours into most projects I find myself saying "Oh yeah, I could really use an ORM, and some route helpers, and a view layer would be nice and how do I get this testing framework to play nice?" and before you know it you've wasted more time trying to cobble something together.
In brief, the law allows the government to get secret FISA court orders—orders that do not require probable cause like regular warrants—for any emails or phone calls going to and from overseas.

Is it somehow shocking that a probable cause standard doesn't apply to national security intercepts of cross-border communication? Customs doesn't need a warrant to search your bags at the border, either.

The key point of FISA is not to legalize spying on communications among foreign nationals or between foreign nationals and Americans. Such spying has been considered part of the Executive's national security authority for decades. The key point of FISA is to ensure that intercepts between Americans that are subject to Fourth Amendment protections are avoided by design and deleted when discovered.

Congress couldn't obligate the Executive to get an "Army Court" order before ordering a division to take a city. There's a little more sense to the obligation here, since they're just as responsible as any other branch of the government for protecting Americans' Constitutional rights. But these orders aren't meant to act as warrants: They're oversight tools.
Speaking of which, is enabling gzip in S3 still a pain?
Okay, I'll share random doctor flight story - last week some family friends were flying to Hawaii for vacation, and a man across the isle said he had been on vacation for several weeks and didn't bring enough heart medicine. He said he would just get some more when he got home, but halfway through the flight he slumped down in his chair, unresponsive. There was a doctor on the flight that used a stethoscope to find there was no heartbeat. (Not sure if the doctor had his own stethoscope or if it was in an on board kit.) The doctor just looked up at the flight attendant and shook his head. Luckily, this flight was not to Hawaii. It was just a layover from Houston to LAX, so they were able to land in Phoenix to have a medical response team take the passenger off. Apparently when they took him off, they didn't use a board or anything - one man grabbed his wrists, another his ankles, and they carried him off, but they couldn't completely lift him so his butt was dragging on the floor down the isle. I thought that was a little weird.

Also, is it legal to just put a blanket on the guy, pretend he's sleeping, and then deal with it when you get to your destination? Our friends missed their connecting flight to Hawaii in LAX because of this ordeal.
Same with Symfony2. All of its components are decoupled and can be used as standalone libraries. They even have their own separate docs.
Great point about wanting to be on that list, while it's unlikely that a criminal would use such a map to check your house before trying to rob, he now knows who DOESN'T own a gun (legally) and is a good candidate for robbery.
You really can't lump Rack in there, given that it's a meta framework, and a meta framework to which Rails has been built around since 2.3.
Ironically, One Time Pad is breakable in practice, due to mistakes made, shortcuts taken[0] and side-channel attacks[1].

Besides, it relies on securely distributing the pad itself before information exchange can take place, which in turn is prone to the usual array of physical insecurity, design errors (e.g. using publicly available randomness), or, if distributed by a digital channel, to failures of the encryption used.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gold
I would recommend using one alone, because I do it all the time. Survivor bias! ;)

With SS/Stronglifts/Whatever, you begin with an empty bar, (or no bar if you can't squat at all), so the weight doesn't start out being something you need any genuine assistance with. With the power rack you have the safety pins. You adjust the safety pins to be at a point where if you are in the bottom of the squat, and you can't return to standing position, you just drop the bar off your back onto the pins (or lower it onto the pins)

With the bench press it's the same thing - you set the pins so they're below your lowest point in the bench press (bar touching sternum), but slightly above your neck level (I'm lucky in terms of bench / safety pin positioning, it's perfect for me) - when I fail a bench press, or can't push it off, I just let it hit the pins and slide out from underneath the bar.

Youtube example of what I'm talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCOo3RtKu1E#t=59s

If you don't have access to a power rack with safety pins I would not recommend doing the bench press without a spotter unless you back the weight off to something you will always confidently re-rack safely.

However a spotter with the squat is a recipe for ruin, best to just rely on the pins. Supposedly designed to handle 200kg+ dropped on them from 4+ft. Hopefully your gym hasn't bought a cheap shitty rack!

The thing I've come close to injuring myself the most with is the press. I was arching my back too much and putting a lot of pressure on my lower back - trick is to keep stomach tight when doing the press. Something I wasn't doing.
He's expecting support for high-resolution CRT monitors? I haven't seen one of those in at least 5 years. Given the limited resources available to the community, I'd say that's definitely not a priority. The next thing I'd like to see is better support for high DPI screens, not support for a decades-old technology.
It's ruby. Just change your load path. The beauty of that language is that almost no one can really force you to do anything you don't want to do.
As others have mentioned, it is indeed Arista: https://twitter.com/markimbriaco/status/276416483939213312

I think they should be more forward about naming and shaming, but I understand why they'd rather not. Personally I have horrible experience with Nortel/Avaya and would recommend anyone against using their equipment for core switching. The least worst, again in my experience, seem to be Cisco and Juniper.
What purpose would that map serve? The only thing I can think of is your easily-offended neighbors would avoid you and your house.

I can think of a few other potential side effects:

1) Problems for your kids. "No, you can't go and play at Timothy's house, his parents have a gun".

2) Making your house a target for people who want to steal your guns.

3) Potentially being discovered and held against you by employers.
This is assuming that those who make rails are master chefs. This is debatable.

Also, the analogy does not hold well because at a sushi bar, the one who orders is the end consumer. Rails is a tool for developers so a more accurate metaphor would be I am the chef, my customer orders omakase and Rails supplies all my tools and ingredients. If those tools and ingredients are what I need to make my customer happy, then great. If not, then I'd prefer to throw them away and do it right instead of dogmatically defending my framework like it's a religion.
It's interesting that a $ 2 Billion infrastructure project of this nature might be less relevant with self driving car projects. The amount of cars on the road, carpooling, distance between cars and many other factors will really impact the current approach to this problem.
Booting Windows on x86 Macs (pre-Boot Camp) was mainly a problem of hardware support; Windows simply didn't support booting via UEFI in 2006, and Macs didn't ship with BIOS emulation.

Linux can boot on UEFI systems; the problem here is Secure Boot as configured on Win8 systems simply won't let you boot anything else without the proper signatures (or disabling it).
It has; http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3905834 (242 days ago)
People /used to/ wind their watches every day. I remember having one for years as a kid. Then we invented the battery-powered watch because we realized winding a watch and setting the time every day was a royal pain.

I'd actually be thrilled if Apple started using eInk screens in things, especially something like the iPad Mini. I know they won't too, but if this device is anything like the latest iPod Nano, it /might/ get a few days on one battery charge. Assuming it's real to begin with.
I would like for you to provide evidence for your statements, more than just a single screenshot.

>Put everything on the same plane, and you make it harder to focus on a specific section of the page.

How does a person draw a conclusion then without any evidence? Seems like confirmation bias to me.

>Get rid of all texture, and you might end up with cold, sterile designs that scare users away.

What's the point of making such statements that do not seem to be drawn from actual real world experience or data? Great, you have an opinion backed by what exactly? A personal emotional response to such designs? Do you actually avoid such designs? What is the value in making statements that have no backing data?

Did or does anyone say that Google's design might alienate users? It has always been one of the most sterile designs of any search engine or portal.

When people on the news make such statements, we laugh at them because we know they are just making these comments to get hits or views. They are trying to create controversy or lead people to agreeing with them when there is no evidence to back it up. It is analogous to fear mongering.

My biggest beef is people upvoting these types of posts. These posts are basically just piggybacking on general sentiments on Hacker News. Sure, at first glance, people tend to agree with them (see the +200 upvote count), and writing them may get the author some minor publicity, but when you attack them critically, you see they are not founded on any strong evidence. They are intellectually lazy posts.

And it isn't just you, it's all of the tech community that does it, and I am tired of it.
Running the touch-optimized Plasma Active Linux Distribution on Nexus 7
Carrot Juice
The discussion actually misses two critical aspects - network topology and device usage in 3rd world countries.

Where is the speed issue coming into play? There are 3 areas of concern

1) App server and backbone speed
- This what the discussion is centering on. CDN is good.
2) Connection speed between client and ISP
- This is a critical issue when dealing with performance in
3rd world countries. CDN will NOT help here!
- As an example, there is likely a 200-300ms roundtrip from
your servers to the CDN and customer ISP. By using a CDN,
you remove this 200-300ms. If the customer is using GRPS
with 5000ms latency, your CDN has done almost nothing!
3) Customer's processing speed
- If your customer is using an old blackberry phone, and your
page is using complicated javascript, it could take 30+
seconds for the page to render for the user, even if the
content were local.

A way to get a grasp of the situation is not to filter your page load speed by country, but to drill down further and also use the user agent. Filter by country + user agent should let you know if the slowdown is caused by old Nokia phones, or if it's across Firefox and Chrome also.

In many cases, the solution is often to have a mobile WAP-alike site that has no fancy resources and just text and html fields. You can use javascript to detect if the page is loading slowly (15+ secs), and pop up a link to the special wap site.
So, to verify: you believe that the NYT has managed to go over 150 years in the red? Maybe propped up by an insanely large funding round, with an extremely low burn rate? austenallred's contention is that somehow the NYT costs more to produce than people are willing to pay, and that this is an endemic problem with journalism, not just some recent problem with a website (and, as I point out, it can't be, as with the website NYT's subscription revenue is up in over-compensation to the amount their advertising revenue is down).
I've been doing Crossfit for about five years, at multiple facilities. The really good CF facilities, including Crossfit Southie in Boston where I currently go, place a huge emphasis on powerlifting and olympic movements. Take a look at the Crossfit Games workouts (http://games.crossfit.com/), and you'll see snatches and deadlifts everywhere.

The problem with Crossfit is that it is an affiliated brand. Every CF facility pays about $5,000 per year to use the Crossfit brand, but each facility is independently owned and operated, and so the programming at each facility is usually unique. There exist a number of questionable facilities, especially out in California where the concentration of gyms is much higher.

The Crossfit affiliates need to start doing some quality control. As I've watch the program expand over the past half-decade, I've been excited at how many people the gyms have helped, but dismayed at how the trainers at some facilities don't share the same love or ability for the basic lifts.
If we're going to play like kids anyways, then I think more interesting would be a map showing journalists with gun permits.
PEP8: "Use 4 spaces per indentation level."

If you're getting code from someone else in your company which doesn't, just hit them round the head with PEP8 until they learn.
Well, no. And to be fully pedantic, a watch, even a mechanical one, is a miniature computer.
it's really funny when you read this article and you are called "fisa" :)
If you follow the mass of Rails community, you'll get it. Mostly. And perhaps this piece also explains how painful and yet very commonly faced situation (being trolled with expertise) this if for most open source creators/leaders in their line of work.

A sort of professional hazard.

Sooner or later, this has to get better I am sure.
Many diabetics don't KNOW that they are.
This is where interfaces come in, in OOP. Too bad Ruby does not have interfaces, and more importantly, Ruby people don't really understand interfaces and say they don't need them. And then they dare mock PHP, lol.
The main argument, and a silly one, summarizing the outrage about the map is "now criminals can find guns to steal".

This is very silly -- there are plenty of maps to use to find banks, gun stores, gasoline, fertilizer...or rich people's homes.
It is, so is hellbanning (which means your posts don't show up to anyone but you). If you suspect having been slowbanned, just log out; if the site suddenly loads super fast consistently, and slow when you log in, you know it's that. It's petty, and rather random, which is why there is zero process I guess (no "you have been banned because you broke rule X" etc., and zero moderator accountability). When I don't get a reply to posts of mine for a while, I usually to log out and look at my posts to make sure it's not yet another hellban. If you get hellbanned, just make a new account, but make sure you deleted all ycombinator cookies before you do. Be sure to get a laugh out of it, too, or the terrorists won.