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The Mac Belt Is This Year’s Most Unintentionally Hilarious Gadget [Kickstarter]
Oh man! The Mac Belt is an amazing combination of flat-out utility and naively wrongheaded design. It is exactly the kind of thing you expect a mad professor to come up with, except this crackpot product is actually out there on Kickstarter.
Here’s a brief description: The Mac Belt is a belt (the kind that holds your pants up) with a giant novelty buckle. And that buckle folds out to make a little bracket for your iPad or iPhone.

Yet despite all this, I find myself wanting a Mac Belt. After all, what better way to read your iPad hands-free when you’re sitting? Yes, it’ll look like your giving yourself a quick tug every time you deploy it, but once it’s in place you can sit in happy anonymity. Prices start at £30, or around $48. That’s less than I paid for the belt I’m wearing now.

Read more at http://www.cultofmac.com/207224/the-mac-belt-is-this-years-most-unintentionally-hilarious-gadget-kickstarter/
Semi-related question:

How difficult would it be to disrupt the cell phone market? I used AT&T for a few years and now I have been using Verizon for 2 years, in my dealings with these companies I have found them to be much more scummier than almost any other industry out there. They have the most complicated policies where even if you try to do everything right, you will still get dinged with fees every now and then.

Are these companies really scummy or is it just the nature of the business? I know certain industries are very difficult to operate due to specific issues like scammers and online payments (I believe PayPal were the first ones to get it right and they are one of the most hated companies).

Is it possible for a company, let's say Google, to provide an unlimited data/calling plan for a reasonable cost without all of the hidden fees and charges?
Quora should have users post answers and then others respond with what the question should be. Jeopardy-style.
MongoDB switches to safe writes by default
> actually have a use for the fillwidth plugin right now.

That was the main project that caught my eye as well.
SportsLab: The Next Generation Football Playbook
I like the idea and I agree that this will be the way of the future, but it just doesn't seem practical at the moment. Portability is hamstrung by the need for a constant network connection to accomplish anything, and the cost savings of a Chromebook are almost completely washed out when you factor in at least $20/mo. for Linode.

Why not just get something from System76? Or install whatever OS you like on one of the notoriously Linux friendly Lenovo laptops? You end up with better hardware specs, more flexibility, and comparable portability for the same price.
"when you make a telephone call, you are not giving your data to the police and 3rd parties (or the phone company) to listen to"

There is contention about whether this is the case, now that many eschew land lines: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57493811-83/federal-court-o...
You'll never comprehend just how good a 10X developer is until you actually work with one. You'll be able to tell they are 10X when you see how much work they get done in short amounts of time.

I don't think it has anything to do with "getting in the zone." A novice programmer that spends 4-5 hours straight focused on a problem is still a novice programmer no matter how far "in the zone" he gets. 10X can only come with experience. And that has to be experience working with other 10X programmers.

A programmer that has 15 years of freelance experience may be good at his/her job, but I doubt they would be as productive as a programmer with 15 years of experience working at top tier companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc.

I really think the only way to become 10X is to watch and learn from other 10X programmers and that will still take years of learning.
> There are absolutely no absolutes!

and then:

> People who claim that vim/emacs are the ultimate environment typically have a very narrow world-view in my experience.

Yes, you add the word "typically" in there, so it's not technically an absolute, but really, what you're saying is not much better.

I'm not going to tell you that you need to abandon your IDE, but I use a DDE centered around Vim, and I like to think that I don't necessarily have a narrow world-view as a result of that choice, thank you very much.
Great to hear! How did you get started? Any comments/thoughts on how things are different now in terms of getting started?
Do you know if Ubuntu will be addressing the issues that were reported? They must have ARM on the roadmap
Michael Jordan & Lebron James Comparison using Google Graph API
As much as I think there needs to be a service like this, I am not sure I support it with their Rotating IP's point. I mean if a website or company wants to block you for scraping content I think that should be there right. It also makes me tend to believe this site doesn't follow the robots.txt agreement as they are advertising themselves as getting by any website access blocks.
Not counting the opportunity cost of what those 58,0000 employees could be doing elsewhere in the economy, not to mention the tax money out doing real work.
Yes; you're looking "up" but surely there are no missing rings - they are actually visible against the planet as silhouettes. They are dark because they're in the planet's shadow.
Pirated fonts aren't precious content.
The only concern I have about cloud computing is that Google or other cloud vendor might close my account and delete my data without prior notification or my consent.
"Had Europeans had as many guns as their American counterparts would Hitler have conquered Europe?"

Um...yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_invasion_of_Denmark_(194...
The number of privately owned guns had absolutely nothing to do with it.
> I use NetBeans for development

Tools are tools, and if you're using a hammer as a hammer it doesn't matter if it's a $12 hammer you got from your local hardware shop or if it's some exotic Estwing thing.

(Estwing make nice tools, but their website? Wow. (http://www.estwingtools.co.uk/index.html)

EDIT: I can't nest ().
FactoryPal: Easily create objects with multiple templates for tests
Wow, thanks. I hadn't realized how far services like that had advanced.

Browserling lets you run an interactive session (not just screenshots) and will SSH tunnel so you can test sites on your local machine/network that aren't publicly net-accessible. Neat!
A braise is a slow wet cook of (usually) large pieces of meat (but short ribs are small, as are chicken thighs).

A stew is a braise where the meat is cut smaller, as if for a sautee, and where there is more liquid than meat.

The same cooking process is at play in both: long, low, slow, water-modulated breakdown of collagen into gelatin, with the liquid absorbing flavor and proteins from the meat and also melding all the flavors from all the ingredients, producing either a sauce or a soup in which to serve the meat.

I totally believe there are cultures that don't routinely brown meat before stewing, but they don't include Mexican, French, Italian, Spanish, Indian, Thai, or Chinese. Look up a beef curry recipe in David Thomas' Thai Food book, or a beef tendon stew recipe in a Chinese cookbook, or a lamb curry recipe in an Southern Indian cookbook.

Browning meat in a stew serves the same purpose that the fond serves in a pan sauce in French cooking. The maillard process creates objectively delicious meat flavors, which are then absorbed into the liquid.
Same here. I bought the original Samsung Series 5 as soon as it came out. I enjoyed it as a couch computer for quite a while, but eventually began using tablets for that purpose. For the last 6 months or so I have barely touched the Chromebook. Then a few weeks ago I decided to give Secure Shell a try, and I was impressed enough that I've been using the Chromebook all of the time.

Since I already use the browser to look up stuff all of the time anyways, having that a tab next to my shell makes it all the more convenient. And I can use split screen when needed, or make my shell its own window when I want to do distraction-free coding. I see no reason to upgrade for now, I'll probably wait until the 3rd generation to switch over to ARM.

To anyone planning on doing this, I would recommend getting dynamic dns, most routers these days can work with dyn.com (the major provider), and the cost is much lower than Linode or any VPS provider, and you probably already have an older computer that's much better than cheap VPSes.
My only successful Google Wallet experience was before both rooting and installing CM, with a sideloaded apk, using the build that shipped with the phone.
Very nice work, congrats on the release
My problem was that I could not find any place in town to use it. The one pharmacy that had a machine and was selling amazon gift cards did not have its nfc reader working. I finally contacted google and asked for a refund for my $10.
No, typically it's a separate chip, like the NXP PN65
I would totally use the shit out of NFC if I could get a more secure transaction (i.e. pin/password required to be enter into my own phone -- i.e. essentially extending two-factor to my credit card transactions). i.e. better protection than stealing my physical wallet. I'd also love to get itemized receipts emailed or whatever instantly in some sort of standard markup format for analysis and record keeping.

I don't actually have a NFC phone until xmas, so I don't know if it does all of that already anyway.

For reference, square gives me the heebie-jeebies. Oh sure, swipe my card into the freaking audio jack your cell phone running who-knows-what software you've got on there and let me smear my finger to make some sort of unintelligible mark on your screen that counts as a "signature". So basically all you need is an audio chirp played over 3.5mm and some indistinct finger dragging to make a purchase. Right. Sign me up...
Vision clusters mapped to portions of brain
Technically powered by the effort of lifting it.
Not to nitpick, bit it's not powered by gravity, it is powered by people going over every 30 minutes and lifting a weight back up to its top position.

EDIT: Apparently people don't understand that using gravity to generate energy is a thing, and the title "Powered Solely" suggested someone found a way to do that.
I have well-regarded Indian, Thai, and Chinese cookbooks, and they routinely brown meat for braise and stew dishes. I'm curious why browning would ever be a bad thing in a dish that uses tough meat (ie, stew meat).

I absolutely believe you that there are authentic dishes that don't rely on browning for flavor. I'm just curious what they are.
What is the latency like developing in vim over ssh? I would find the little bit of wait with each key stroke annoying quickly.
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Oh dear, we don't want to be insulting any religions. 'Santa Claus for grown ups' might get angry.
I also agree with a timer method, one of which uses a kitchen timer (Pomodoro). You commit yourself to nothing else for 15 minutes, and stop immediately once the timer goes off. You'll find yourself adding intervals once you train your focus back to longer hours.
Also, proper nutrition and hydration is very important (good one, Mz).
Best of Luck!
Mac Belt: iPad mini holder in your belt buckle
Would you like your iPad maintain, you'll often have a special stand or holder to get him on the table. Without table is such a solution only less convenient: you sit in a chair, then provides a standard not always the strength you expect when you put it on your lap for example drop. The Mac Belt offers a solution that you can use almost anywhere: in the first instance, the accessory belt buckle, but one with a built in holder for the iPad mini. This allows you the little iPad in your pants up while you are sitting.

Secretly, the Mac Belt simultaneously an advertising opportunity for businesses. In front fit various print, giving you a belt buckle with the logo of your company for example can make.
The creators of the Mac Belt raise money through Kickstarter. For a donation of £ 50 or more (about 60 euros including shipping) you get a Mac Belt sent. Throw you there £ 10 on top, you get three fronts with a logo that you can attach to the Mac Belt. The money will only be taken from your credit card once the target amount of £ 60,000 has been received.
MySpace Co-Founder Offers Devastating Reply to Twitter Critic
A braise is simply a long low slow cook of a protein in the presence of liquid; braised proteins are cooked to break down tough proteins rather than to a precise finished temperature. That's all a braise is.

A stew is a long slow cook of something with a large amount of liquid.

"You think all stew meat must be braised" doesn't even parse.

I feel confident that I've refuted your "you simply don't know what you're talking about" comment upthread, so we don't have to keep talking about this. Again, unfortunately, unlike typography, graphic design, con law, or functional programming, this is not one of the topics I have opinions about that I think I know little about.
I've been along these lines a bit. Look at it this way: what if, say a pebble sized computer held all the computing state. To actually use it, you would have to keep it near, or pair it somehow, with a keyboard, monitor and (optionally) mouse. Instead of having computers, tablets etc. we would have: a tiny computer, and multiple screens, keyboards, whatever.
Chrome OS still doesn't X-forward, right?

Hm. Googling suggests that there's kinda X-forwarding, but it's full screen only?
http://blog.tomtasche.at/2012/01/developing-on-chromebook-pa...
The problem is that they're not just "eat the price of the phone by making plans fatter".
They're "eat the price of the phone by making plans fatter AND your phone dumber, less useful, less secure and less predictable".
> I've really become quite a Rust fanboy, although I haven't written tons of code in it.

As someone who's been meaning to try it out for a while, I have a couple of questions for you.

First, how did you get started? I found the tutorial decent, but after reading through it, I didn't feel like I could quite jump in and start writing code. By contrast, I never actually read the Go spec/tutorials; I did a brief run through the sample web application and was able to write everything else right away (filling in from the documentation as needed, of course).

Second, how did you come to understand the memory model? I consider myself more familiar in both functional programming and memory management than average, but I found the memory model to be a bit of a conceptual hurdle (even though I'm attracted to the approach on a philosophical level). Having such a unique memory model makes it a little tough to simply get started writing code right away.

Finally, how do you find the libraries in different areas? Web applications? Scientific computation? This isn't really an across-the-board question, since certain areas will probably be more complete than others, but what kind of applications are currently easiest to write in Rust when getting started?

EDIT: I understand they're different languages with different goals, but I'm comparing everything to Go just because they're both emerging languages that I started to try to pick up around the same time. I found Go much easier to get going with (no pun intended), but I'm looking to catch up with Rust as well.
I read the copy on the front page three times and still can't figure out what it does. Maybe it's just me.
Dynamic DNS is ~$30/year, and if you're a programming you already have an old computer sitting around that's several times better than the cheapest linode.
Why does the horizontal scrolling exist?
I have a puppy in the fight - I started a ruby tutorial titled "Teach Yourself Ruby the Hard Way", but didn't make it past chapter 1, so when Zed released his book I figured it was only right to let him have the name, and rename mine if I ever get around to completing it (2013 resolution!).

So from that perspective, I can't help but agreee that even if Zed is fine with this project, it's a bad idea. It's an unnecessary muddying of a "brand" that has had a lot of work put into it.
I am Clojure noobie but this post got me thinking:
Would it be possible to set up a Clojure REPL on a JVM in the cloud. This would allow one to run a cheap laptop/chromebook with local File system on a thumb-drive and do actual execution on the cloud JVM. This would allow one to do a fast grep on local files as needed while offloading heavy duty processing on the cloud m/c.
At the moment, VPS prices are still prohibitive for many types of development. I, for instance, simply couldn't work on a machine with less than 4GB of RAM; preferably, there's 16GB or even 32GB in there. A 4GB Linode instance sets me back a cool $330 a month, which is, of course, not a proposition worth entertaining.

However, I'm sure it's enough for front-end development or what have you.
That's not a response to his point. His point is not that vim users have a narrow worldview.

His point is that people who claim that vim is the ultimate environment have a narrow worldview.

Reading a tiny bit into what he said, he's judging those who would see their editor of choice as the ultimate, i.e., as seeing those who don't use it as using an inferior tool.
> How difficult would it be to disrupt the cell phone market?

Well, to start you'd have to do is build a couple of hundred thousand cellphone towers, at a couple of hundred thousand dollars apiece.
My question was sincere. I'm quite sure that some share of the guns would be voluntarily handed over. I was after a estimate on this share.

"Collecting all the guns in the US won't be an easy task."

Definitely not, but I would think that to be something an oppressive government would try to do. In that case, the police might not ask nicely.
The problem is that gramicon doesn't implement the 'if no reply, you owe $5' - it's free if they don't reply. So the cost for sending a shitty email that nobody wanted to receive is free.

edit: clarity.
I've been using this CSS code to 'fix' light text on dark backgrounds. However, it's not wise to apply it to dark text on light backgrounds. It often makes the letters too thin and hard to read on standard resolution displays.
A quick dig reveals that to be the fault of Posterous, not CloudFlare:

$ dig blog.cloudflare.com
...
;; ANSWER SECTION:
blog.cloudflare.com.	21	IN	CNAME	blog.cloudflare.com.cdn.cloudflare.net.
blog.cloudflare.com.cdn.cloudflare.net.	21 IN CNAME cloudflare.posterous.com.
cloudflare.posterous.com. 1243	IN	A	184.106.20.99

So it looks like requests are going directly to Posterous. Seems like an obvious place for CloudFlare to showcase their speed.
I wonder whether anyone here knows how it is meant to work.

All my inputs fail with the following message:

> rust: task failed at 'no mode for lval', /home/tyl/files/cloud/rust/rust-0.5/src/librustc/middle/liveness.rs:1573
If you read some of the followups and tweak the math a little bit, it works out reasonably well. Instead of 20kg and 1m, 20lb and 2m, which comes out about the same (49.42mWh). If you have to lift it every half hour, that's 100mW for a half hour. That's more than enough power to get a useful amount of light out of an LED.

For example, this LED uses 68mW https://www.sparkfun.com/products/531 and is marketed as "so bright that it hurts to look directly at them"
The Daily Habit Platform for Mobile Apps
Um, please read the entire previous thread before dismissing this as a hoax. As you can see from a number of posts that I and others made there, the light is comparable to a kerosene lamp, which is what it's intended to replace. It is not, of course, comparable to the kind of light we in developed countries are used to, but that's not what it's intended for.
I saw JetBrains' Sale attracting huge number of comments from people and apparently their sales and site performance showed how popular their IDE products were.

I am guessing all those "heavy IDE" users aren't subscribers to the "code in the cloud" paradigm. Yet.
Actually, this is untrue, and I know of no NFC ASIC with an integrated secure element (not NXP, nor Sony); the ASICs are typically just transceivers (the exception being an NXP ASIC with embedded MiFare). The SIM has been identified for a long time as the probable security element for NFC. However, this has long been a point of contention, and Gemalto (the largest SIM provider in the world) has been playing both sides quite evenly.
Google Personalized Search Of Purchases, Tickets, Dinner Reservations
You're leaving out the part where you purchase a swatch of spectrum for billions of dollars from the US government.
What is this hidden script doing on Hacker News?
I noticed today that NoScript was blocking the `causes.com` domain on Hacker News. After looking at the HTML source of news.ycombinator, I noticed this:

<script src="http://www.causes.com/moment_of_silence.js">
showText: true;
text: 'Learn more';
url: 'http://causes.com/momentforsandyhook';
</script>

Can anyone explain what this is? Is it for charity? Why is this javascript being run, but nothing indicated on HN about it?
For comparison look at the increases in aircraft speed. Many limits where broken, but eventually progress stopped.

One of the real issues has been the cost of fab over time increasing to the point where only few are able to keep up with the current processes by it's self. TSMC will be investing 9.3 billion dollars in its Fab15, and again Intel is still fine but the ever increasing capital costs have keep narrowing the field. And, soon it's going to be 50 billion just to stay in the game.
Maybe they console themselves by thinking that at least it beats working for the IRS? :-)

Seriously, "despised" is a bit of a strong word... inconvenient sure, despised probably not, for most people at least.
Run 'dig +short whoami.ultradns.net' in your terminal. You'll get back the IP of the DNS server you are using.

Your ISPs recursive DNS servers send off a query to the sites authoritative servers, which in turn look at the source IP address. That's how they know. (Source: I've built a few CDNs)
Really, it's a shame, being distracted from your primary revenue stream in an economy like this.
Other news sites?
True story -- Last night, the house lost power after a long struggle with brownouts. At exactly 9:00pm the house lost the battle and the power went dark.

Looking out the front window to see if the entire neighborhood had lost power or if it was just us, I was shocked to see a full-view lightshow going on in the skies. The lights changed from green to red to blue to pink in lightning flash changes.

My daughter ran to the door and asked me what was going on, and I joked that maybe the Mayans were right. Over the next 45 seconds, as the sky continued its ostentation, I became less and less sure that it wasn't the case. I stood agape watching the sky change, oblivious to the fact that my daughter had begun crying until after what seemed like an eternity, the lights stopped and all we could see in the distance was a faint red flickering glow.

What had happened of course was that a transformer had exploded and gone haywire. The light show was because of that, as was the power outage.

Afterward, I began consoling my daughter and relayed that I thought it had just been a transformer, and that we'd probably have power restored within a few hours, but honestly, for about 30 seconds, I wasn't entirely sure that the world's future was as sound as I had previously known it to be.
Wikileaks will release a million new documents in 2013
GitHub growth points to open source's enterprise acceptance
I could have sworn http://www.usabilitypost.com/2012/11/05/stop-fixing-font-smo... was just recently linked here.

Read it. Tanooki is wrong.