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> edit videos, edit photos, write documents

Canonical doesnt produce video, photo and document editing software. The market's refusal to port that software to Linux has essentially killed it on the desktop for a majority of users. If they dont want to port, there is absolutely nothing Canonical can do about it. A new player cannot simply enter a new market and without effort get a significant part of it.

The only thing they _can_ do is get foothold in a new market first (mobile), then leverage that to get more influence on the desktop. Like Microsoft is leveraging their desktop monopoly to get foothold in mobile.
Leaving alone the idea that Facebook is written in PHP -- or any one language -- if you are evaluating the OP's idea correctly you would have to look at things being built today in PHP. In my experience there are precious few serious, large-scale, sophisticated projects being built today. (Probably because if you need to build such a thing, you need real programmers, perhaps with CS backgrounds, to do it and such people are very unlikely to use, or be convinced to use, PHP)

Since this post is about evaluating ideas, within that context we would have to look at the trend away from PHP and conclude that the community of engineers* does not endorse PHP as a good idea.

*For some definition which includes people who work on sophisticated projects and excludes people who tweak Wordpress templates
I actually liked the Aveo (used to own one), but to pile on I'll say that in the past few years I've rented a Kia compact, a Mitsubishi Mirage, and a Ford Focus and the Ford was definitely the nicest overall, which I found very surprising.
It's not about whether it will snow or rain, it's about whether precipitation will be frozen or not, and all you need to know that, for precautionary reasons, is the temperature. It's not a large advantage of Celsius, but it is pervasive.

ETA: To be clear, I'm Canadian, and grew up with Celsius. Whether the temp was positive or negative was the second thing worth knowing after the actual number. It was a very practically useful bit of knowledge in everyday life, easily given and easily remembered.
Endlessly frustrating that there is such vindictive zeal on the right for pushing the faces of the poor into the dirt.
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Huh, I didn't know that. The Aveo was the best of the "American" bunch but I did notice a lot of slop in the clutch response when starting from rest. It'd rev too long, then grab suddenly. Shouldn't feel that on a new vehicle, and pedal finesse didn't seem to help.
It'd be pretty difficult to recruit professors and researchers (whose professional careers depend on publishing papers) to do research for several years in a place where they can't publish.

MSR encourages publishing almost to a fault. They even have a portion of their legal department specifically trained to support MSR's researchers so that the "corporate" tendencies from the rest of Microsoft don't bleed into MSR.
I was thinking the other day, how Ubuntu and the movement of free friendly desktop became less relevant with the triumphant march of iOS and Android. Considering that Mark Shuttleworth is a smart leader. He will definitely make a proper move in the near future.

And here we go...
# of churches > # of startups

Also have a company geared towards church giving: https://simpledonation.co

I've never understood why people think that targeting churches is "limiting." There are far more churches than there are startups. And there are millions of people in those churches.

Many companies focusing on selling tools/software exclusively to startups. Selling to startups/tech crowd is in vogue, but it's much smaller market than selling to churches.
Getting dogmatic and judgmental has less to do with human nature, and more to do with human habit. We have a habit of avoidance and attachment. I don't think he is accusing you of being judemental so much as pointing out, it is possible to be aware of things without judgement.

I was looking deep into the gamification two years ago when it was first getting popular. I even tried to gamify my meditation practice at that point. It did not work. It did not work because I was using the gamification to avoid experiencing what arises during practice.

People who do not practice have an extremely difficult time starting a practice. I know this because I had trouble, and so do my buddies who practice.

When you decide to start, some part of you knows you will be sitting there. In a room. In the quiet. With. No. Escape. With no escape from yourself. Never mind that you "volunteered." There are lots and lots of issues that arises -- most people don't really like themselves, or like their life. People consume entertainment product precisely to avoid experiencing what is going on in the present -- and gamification is at its heart, an entertainment product used for avoiding suffering. People are chasing after ... something. The irony being that, if you were to look at what it is you are chasing after, it can only be found in the present moment.

I have been practicing daily for a year ... and I still have those pings I get whispering, "no... it is OK if you skip your practice today." It's really funny to see how my emotions start thrashing more as I approach the designated practice time. Or the kind of thoughts that arise to distract me from it.

I still use the Streak app to track my meditation practice. When I first started, I was so hung up on it. If I broke a streak, I'd flog myself for having failed, spiraling into loops of feeling inadequate, being a loser, "Why can't I ever sustain a practice!?" kind of stuff.

These days, I still use the app ... when I remember. Instead of having it on my home screen on my iphone, I keep it in the back. Even feelings of having accomplished an unbroken streak have attenuated. They vaguely arise like sleepy guests at a bed & breakfast; I feed them a bit of attention and let them go on their way.
I found three such directory sites which have different approaches.

http://hnshowcase.com : visual preview, filtering, social integration, etc.

http://showinghn.com : minimalist list based on /newest polling

https://twitter.com/JustShowHN : Twitter feed based on main RSS
He is pitching the same things and similar UI gestures and concepts as Windows 8. I don't know if it will ever be a competitor to iOS, or Android. But its surely gonna hurt Blackberry.
how is that not what Python already is:

>>> class Foo(object):
... def __init__(self):
... self.x = 1
... self.y = 2
... def bar(self):
... return self.x + self.y
...
>>> Foo().bar()
3
>>> f = Foo()
>>> Foo.bar(f)
3
>>>
This isn't a strategy; It's just research. See comments below to see how MS Research works. It's more of a university than an integral part of corporate MS. Maybe the ideas explored there will be picked up by MS, maybe by some other company, and maybe they'll forever remain what they are: research.

The title is misleading. The work described is done at MS Research, the relation of which to corporate MS is not quite clear.
"As a startup, you probably don’t have a DUNS number, since they are primarily used when doing business with the government."

Flat out wrong.

DUNS numbers are not a scam. I've had them at past companies and my fathers company had one many many years ago. And I've used them to check credit on companies that I've dealt with. Has nothing to do with the goverment.

It's simply wrong to call DUNS numbers a scam.
It says big things that no mobile operators or traditional hardware manufacturers are onboard.
Well, multiple goroutines can run in parallel, which isn't possible in CPython. That's a huge difference right off the bat, even if gc has some work left in optimizing the implementation.

(As far as non-concurrent code goes, gccgo is very well-optimized, because it's basically piggy-backing on the extensive optimizations of gcc over the decades.)
Canonical unveils Ubuntu phone OS that doubles as a "full PC"
Agreed. Sending out these demand letters without a good faith belief of actual infringement, especially bulk-mail form, which could be considered as evidence of not taking reasonable care in preparation, should be considered extortion.

IANAL but one option might be a federal civil RICO suit, and see if the DoJ will get involved.
You are aware of the laws of the country you live in. You can ignore those laws, but you may suffer the consequences. No matter what the laws are, no matter if you think they are right or not. There's no mystery involved in this.

We can debate whether the laws should change, and that's fine. But you can't claim that you "innocently overheard" my telling of a story - in your scenario, you are actively violating the law.

So go find another story teller - one who won't sue you. It's not like it's hard to find them. Don't like the quality as much? So, sponsor the community that won't sue you. Do a Kickstarter. Use Flattr. Share on FB or G+ interesting artists.
Another mobile framework, but not a new thing by any means. There are already plenty of Qt apps and libs (desktop + Symbian apps written with Qt4.8 + QML) out there.

But yes, porting from Android/Windows/iOS might be painfull.
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The official hangout about the announcement is still going on btw:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/115750270177636397262/posts/HBof...

One latest thing they just said, is that "ubuntu for phones" and "ubuntu for android" are 2 separate projects going on in parallel. So they're not abandoning ubuntu for android. Instead, they view that as a gateway to the ubuntu world, which would hopefully get more people into ubuntu for phones. As you can see, the official website still have tabs for both ubuntu for android and for phones:

http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android/
I've come to conclude (as a home-and-office Linux user for nigh on 15 years now) that the standard Unix gui environment of X + widget toolkits + desktop environment is just too multilayered and complex to work for non-boffins. Too many moving parts that can go subtly wrong.

You can succeed as an end-user Unix, but you have to burn down the gui architecture and start over.

Apple ditched X. Android ditched X. But no "desktop Linux" offering has yet completely ditched the legacy junk. You'd need that (and good OEM relationships) to succeed.

What' s the architecture of this Ubuntu phone gui? Is it gtk and X.org? or something new?
I remember testing one and it couldn't detect more than two fingers. There was some piano app and you couldn't play a chord with three notes.
No, not really. I've heard of a few exceptions in the past, and in all cases these were people with highly successful careers spanning at least a decade.

That said, if you ever become a PhD candidate in CS, you should apply to MSR for a summer. It's an amazing place to expand your network as a researcher.
there's 3 or 4 of them in the parking lot here at work, office neighbor scheduled to get his anyday now.
> want to guesstimate how many people on the Forbes 30 for 30 list had private college paid for by their upper middle class (if not better parents)?

But the origin of the college funds is irrelevant to the authors point. And say in Gates case, he wasn't really born on a farm either, would that mean that dropping out is only an option for wealthy kids, or..?
It is not just about where the papers are published. A system needs to be established that allows peer review to happen in a meaningful way, archives must be established and maintained, etc. Right now, journals are facilitating peer review and archiving papers, but that carries the cost of papers being locked behind paywalls with outrageously high prices that ensure that the general public has difficulty accessing that work. I would suggest a system in which university libraries act as archives, providing HTTP links for people who want a handful of papers or BitTorrent for people who want large batches and for distributing the archives to other libraries. Peer review would be facilitated in software, using some threshold signature scheme to assert that a paper passed review and using some secure computation protocol to protect the anonymity of authors; people would be invited to review papers by being given a share of the signing key.

My point is that we have a legal system in place now that protects and promotes the existence of a publishing system that is grossly out of date, and that we have a chance to do better (and to abolish the old system).
>I personally think the biggest reason to go to college is that it's just plain fun. A rare chance in your life to have very few responsibilities and explore being yourself.

Doing a CS major (or probably any other science) barely leaves you with any free time, and let's face it, it's not exactly the pinnacle of fun.
Ditto. My favorite class during my CS undergraduate aside from databases or probably autonoma was Sustainable Agriculture. I've purchased Michael Pollan's books for multiple people as a result, it's a very interesting field if you cut through the fanaticism of "being green" and made me reconsider what it is to be a "healthy" eater.
Yes, but it's not specific to LINQ or MS or C#. If you give a tool to mediocre developers to make things easier they will use it right away. If you don't supervise its usage (how it fits into the architectural goals of the project you are on) you will end up with a mess.

Anonymous methods, unnamed classes, try catch blocks are all examples of these type of tools that when used improperly will kill the system performance, code readability, maintainability and extensibility.
My sister is currently in college. The other day she was complaining about having to take classes outside her major to graduate. I made her watch the video of that speech and her opinion changed completely.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
The metric system? Pff! Sign this petition instead: http://wh.gov/UNMa
Feels like nitpicking, but alright...

What's better for making a blog? Tweaking a PHP wordpress theme or making something using Ruby on Rails? Your Mileage May Vary ?

The reason that term is used a lot is because there is a huge amount of evidence that each technology choice usually has very specific project criteria in which it shines, and if you change the criteria even a little bit, there is often a technically better choice - let alone a new technology that could be developed specifically for those new criteria.
It took this long for this to finally happen. This will hopefully spur other developers to follow in their footsteps.
The freezing temperature matters far less than you think. There is "latent heat" that must be added to ice to make it melt and removed from water to make it freeze.

Just the other week we had a wintry mix of precipitation at a nice and balmy 0.5 C which resulted in accumulated snow and ice, despite never being below freezing at ground level. It even warmed up through the day slightly to 1.7 C or so but the ice and snow never completely melted as there wasn't enough heat to overcome the latent heat of vaporization needed.

And as mentioned elsewhere, it's not exactly difficult to remember "32 F is freezing", even the most dense Americans have figured that out so it's another metric solution to a problem that doesn't actually exist in America.
I really like the idea of relating the value of a patent to the registration cost. If the patent is giving you $10 million a year in income, you should have to pay more for that right than if it brings you $10,000 a year in income. At least then we would have a list of patent holders and how much they are making from licensing.
Really nice weekend project.

Only one column layout isn't the best idea for such site. Maybe 3 thumbnail in a row would be better?
I think you missed the "throwing a bluetooth or usb keyboard + mouse on" part.
> IMHO, Unity sucks pretty hard on the desktop

I used to agree with this but it has gotten incrementally a lot better in the last couple of releases. I've watched non-geeks figure out how to use it without trouble, and after all the biggest potential market for a Linux desktop OS is the population of non-geeks.
I did a CS major and had plenty of free time. That being said, I made subconscious efforts to not try too hard in school :)
See http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html#institutions for one measure of MSR's published work...
I feel like, Canonical = Apple with openness in mind.
The Essence of Scheme
Weather forecasts in the UK changed to Celsius in the early 1960s (over fifty years ago). I don't know of anyone in the UK who complains about reports no longer being in Fahrenheit.

Liquid goods in the UK are listed in milliletres or litres. In the US, fluid ounces (fl oz) are still commonly used. (The exception in the UK is pints for beer and milk).

Similarly, walk into a UK supermarket and solid goods are labelled in grams and kilograms. In the US, it's common for goods to be listed in pounds (lbs) or ounces (oz).

Also in the UK, dimensions for goods/products is always in metres, centimetres or millimetres. A lot of people still use feet and inches to describe a persons' height.

So yes, we do use a mixture of metric and imperial in the UK. However, the UK and US are not "pretty much the same" when it comes to metric.
I thought your statements were insightful and relevant. Some of the the time the HN community is right that somebody is being gratuitously critical or missing the point, but rest of the time they are just touchy and don't want to hear any good criticism.

Apologizing for their unreasonableness only encourages it.
If you look at the major blackouts around the world over the last 10 years, a large chunk of them were caused by a variation on a similar theme:

- The network is heavily loaded pre-blackout (most large networks are these days)

- A major interconnect trips out (e.g. from a tree strike or protection maloperation)

- The other line is out of service (e.g. for maintenance) or is taken out by the same event (e.g. by storms)

- Power flow is redirected through other weaker interconnects causing voltage instability

- Cascading voltage collapses take out the network

Examples: India 2012, European blackout of 2006, Indonesia 2005, northeast blackout of 2003, Italy 2003 (a bit different because the operators cocked this one up as well).

The point is that you can target one or two major transmission lines (usually in the middle of nowhere) and bring down the system. A coordinated attack on several major interconnects could really cause some damage.
As a CS major, I agree with your first statement, but wholly disagree with the latter. I thoroughly enjoyed my studies, even though they were rigorous. I majored in CS because I enjoyed it. It was plenty worth it at graduation when I could look back and say I actually accomplished something as well.
Very interesting information about dancing, thanks for sharing that!

I can see how people have _preferences_. If something is new & hard (a possible definition for learning), I would imagine we instinctively look for ways to make progress with minimum amount of effort. So in that sense we may have learning styles, but that wouldn't mean permantent or exclusive style. Other ways could work for us, too, but over the years we practiced certain style more than others and so we choose whenever we can (it's efficient/pleasant).

So perhaps simple familiarity of a way to learn might be the source of the whole idea and its appeal.

I can see how poorly designed scientific research would even validate learning styles in that sense without uncovering that everyone can actually learn in every way, they just choose not to for local efficiency.
That's how it works in D.
Could someone (or has someone already tried to) patent the process of patent trolling? I know that such a patent shouldn't be granted because the idea obviously isn't original but it seems as though there are so many bogus patents sneaking through the cracks that it could be possible. It would be nice if there was someone you could call to troll the trolls.
The future is rarely evenly distributed.
I invite you to explain that to my IT office. They seldom listen to good ideas.
Looks like a lot of people are interested in developing apps for Ubuntu Mobile. So much so that the website is already down: http://developer.ubuntu.com/gomobile
Sure you can. When I worked at a large non-profit we had a name change request from our affiliate members for a user named "Jack." That's right. Just Jack. He said that was his legal name. In Active Directory or LDAP, names (or lack of) are just attributes.

So I just put 'First Name: Jack' and give him 'jack' as his username.
On the other hand, it's also nice to feel that historical connection with people in our past that decided to embrace rationality as a value.
Isn't this the best time for Nokia to make Ubuntu Phones? I think so.

Ubuntu and Nokia can make a good fit, under the current circumstances.
Nokia maybe can now come back strongly, instead of believing in a closed ecosystem like windows, which is not going anywhere.
EBook Revolution Delayed By Bugs
Maybe I should do an AMA on my work for a patent attorney. It would get boring because his MO seems to be to only sue companies that negotiate license deals in "bad faith", and nowhere near the frivolous action seen in here. Most of his work is in filing patents.

The last conversation we had was actually about supporting the EFF, so I'm sure that is quite telling to what direction we're heading.
http://www.computercraft.info/

There exists a mod that lets you build mining turtles, script-able in lua. If you really want to destroy your time, look up the Technic modpack-it has all sorts of awesome stuff like that.
I was talking about the factory floor. Even if we switched to metric tomorrow, you would still need wrenches to work on things made before the switch.

But cutting tools are consumable. You need new drills, taps, dies, and cutters all the time. Manufacturers have to stock twice as many because of metric and imperial. Those are big ticket expenses.