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Has anyone seen mention of Ubuntu plans for it to work with the toro Galaxy Nexus (Verizon)?
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While my assumptions and biases make me see this differently -- that is, having a bad day is human, but so is being abusive with authority -- I disagree even more with the fact that you got modded down for this, so have an upvote to offset that. None of us know for sure what was going on in that plane and in the heads of the involved people, that's a fact.
I'm glad that ARM tablets are finally getting a decent operating system.

Android is a pain for productivity - only one visible window, applications are killed in the background when you want them to persist, switching windows is tedious if you have many applications open at the same time, various deficiencies in third party applications like waking the screen and draining your battery, a Google account is required to do basic things like download apps, it's not possible to download APK's from the market in case you want to perform offline installations, plugging in an external hard disk results in a crash and reboot too often, media sound volume is reduced whenever an email notification comes in. That last bug has been around for three years - http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5012 - and this is a piece of commercial software, not someone's hobby OSS project!

Not to mention that it's based on GNU/Linux [EDIT: NOT GNU, just Linux] yet misses important features like a good package manager, X11 and alternative window managers. Things like Debian Kit For Android address some of these issues but it still feels like a compromise.

I understand that it was originally designed as a smartphone OS but it just doesn't scale well to tablets.

Another alternative which is looking extremely promising, even moreso than Ubuntu, in my opinion, is Plasma Active - http://plasma-active.org/
There are only about 7 million iPhone and Android apps that let you browse craigslist..I don't see what makes this one different. @ethanparker, you can try to be a little less obvious when upvoting a product you are associated with
Cashing out big is a 1 in 50 proposition? Wow! Source?
After reading up on lisp and associated topics (purity mainly) I rewrote a component in our C# code base and made it magnitudes of order more stable and atomic.

I hadn't written a line of lisp (although counted many brackets when trying to read along) but just studying it helped me think about programming problems a bit differently.
Startup Pack gives $10k worth of tools (Github, AWS, MongoHQ,..) to developers
The President may be nominal head of the party, but whips take direction, insofar as they take it at all, from the caucus leadership in the house of Congress in which they sit, not from the general leadership of the party. The US doesn't have a strong unitary party system of the kind you might find in a typical Westminster system (of course, in a Westminster system, the head of government would also be the leader of the party sitting in the primary house of the legislature, not a separately-elected official outside of that house.)
If Lucas hadn't had the (absurd?) trademark on "droid" I think "Droid OS" would have been easier to market. Though, even then, there were other issues.

The move to drop "Android" makes sense. "Google" is a name that people generally trust (despite the efforts of MS's petty 'Scroogled' campaign).

"Android", on the other hand, has come to represent a disjointed conglomeration of smartphones. The OS versions are inconsistent between phones and have names that give no indication of chronology. Reach into a bag of current Android phones and pull out two at random--you have no idea what to expect. Certainly Microsoft deliberately avoided this specific pitfall in their design of Windows Phone 8.

Motorola jumping early into the fray with "Droid" phones running "Android" likely added confusion.
What sucks is that here at work (I work in corporate information security), we have developers who love to listen to music when they're programming. I support it. I like listening to music too. The problem is, some of them like Spotify. And since Spotify is peer-to-peer (and p2p applications are against the policy), it gets flagged in our security monitoring tool. And when it gets flagged, I have to make that action stop. And if it's flagged as a high priority, I have to report them to HR. Some people don't know it's p2p, some don't care. They've paid for it and they want to listen to it. But there's no way to turn off the p2p nature of the program.

We run into this issue with Skype constantly too. People want to use these programs, and have valid reasons to use them. But our business cannot accept the risk of peer to peer traffic on our protected network, so away they go. If there was even the slightest bit of obscure and dangerous and unsupported configuration options that left a backdoor to being able to turn off the p2p, I would love it. But there's not.
Well, sure. Does that make stateless load balancers consistent, though? :) I just don't think the CAP terminology helps.
I was going to post the story of the Chicago newspaper bug but I see someone already did a while ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2783958 and the top comment:

More versions of the story and many others: http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/where.asp
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In all seriousness, how can you support this? Is it assumed that he lives with somebody who pays for his living expenses? If I didn't have so many bills to pay I feel like I would be more of a shut-in.
You know, that's a good idea. Thanks for bringing that up!
Discussion in an earlier post here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5256808
Even though I said yes to allow it to use my location it put me in Santa Barbara and I'm San Francisco.
Fast forward to next week:

"The White House announces a new threshold of 500,000 signatures before it will respond to online petitions."

I was initially enthusiastic about these online petitions, but it doesn't seem like any of them have had an effect.
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It's really getting to the point where T&C should be standardized and any extra conditions they want to throw at you should be presented front and center.
While we're all hating on Sony, let's remember how they removed the ability to install Linux on the Playstation 3 [1] [2].

They're a company that does malicious things to users. Please, boycott Sony.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playstation_3#OtherOS_support

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS

EDIT: Citation added, because I was downvoted.
Show HN: Email notifications with a simple tray application
I've started using mutt as my primary email client, but quickly got frustrated that it doesn't show notifications when I receive new emails. So, I wrote a small Go application that uses IMAP IDLE (push) and OSD style notifications to notify you when you receive new emails. It puts an icon in your system tray as well so you can easily see if you've got new email with a glance.

It's here: https://github.com/jonhoo/hasmail

Let me know what you think!
> Would be great to have this: collect 1,000,000 votes for petition and it goes to Senate for mandatory voting.

Heck, we don't even have a "collect singatures of a majority of Senators and it goes to the Senate for mandatory voting" rule, so its not surprising that we don't have a "collect signatures of less than 1% of eligible voters and it goes to the Senate for mandatory voting" rule.
You can request an offer that specifies your stock options as a percentage of the company. You won't know what it's worth now, but 1) honest founders will tell you, and 2) either way, you'll be able to do the math on what it would be worth in varying exit scenarios.
If you're that cynical about a particular startup, you probably shouldn't join that startup. If you want a high salary and low risk in a traditional environment, there are plenty of dev jobs like that.
Earth's density is 5.5g/cm^3. Asteroid densities vary, averaging maybe 2.5g/cm^3. Metallic asteroids are about 5g/cm^3.
It really has nothing to do with majorities.
What is the best way, under OSX or Windows, to selectively limit upload (or download) speeds per-application?

Is there a way? It would be so nice if something like this were built into the OS, but is there any kind of third-party software which will do that?
9 Of 10 People Who Go Here Die.
OK, but the instructions say for Nexus / Galaxy devices, well I believe that ASUS Transformer is an equivalent device except for having the option of a nice keyboard dock. Hoping that someone knows more than me.

The ubuntu that you mentioned my mentioning is ancient. I'm just looking for a modern way to get the latest, I would try Ubuntu for Phones unless I learn that it won't work for some technical reason / will brick my device if I try.

My biggest gripe with using Ubuntu in a chroot is that the kernel included with most Android distros does not support SYSV IPC, which rules out any local apache or sql servers. This is obviously not Ubuntu's fault, but I don't have the knowledge to compile and install a kernel on an ARM device that won't use GRUB for booting (or too scared to try.)

Otherwise, it's pretty good using the chroot, and I would need a compelling reason to switch (like possibly this new phone interface.)

EDIT: Same questions all around apply to Tizen.
Copyright footers are lame
At least one person (me) who doesn't! Sadly there isn't time to become knowledgable about everything, and I never found network administration very interesting anyway.
The API call, is a cool feature to avoid non-developer applications ;-)
CLOS and MOP, read-write consistency, restartable exceptions, reader macros, optional typing, many high-quality implementations(including several commercial ones that come with excellent support), high-quality standard document, probably still the fastest dynamic language around, superb introspection support, one of the best interactive work-flows, surpassed only by smalltalk, DECADES of being tried and used in every conceivable industry and application, from super computers, space probes and AI, to web apps, games and prototyping(you'd be surprised how much software was prototyped first in lisp).

AAAAAND macros too, I guess. They are nice.

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Disagree. Ideas are not property. Patents and copyrights are violations of my ability to freely associate and contract.

There's nothing wrong with entering into an agreement where you agree not to share something or republish it. But that agreement is between you and the other party - not me.

Such agreements are entirely different than patents and copyright, which forces the absurdity that something I legitimately acquired is not my own.
New Apple Patent Application Describes Flexible iWatch
Link bait 101.
Where are you manufacturing the pieces? I have a friend that was just in India for a year and they were able to make beautiful custom suits for around the $150 price point.

If you give directions to the buyers on how to measure themselves (or ask them to go to local tailors) you could have the pieces custom made for a fraction of the price of what it would cost in the USA.

I know it adds complexity to the process, but if I had a profile where I could input my measurements, buying would be much easier, would significantly reduce the return rate and increase my satisfaction.

I really like the concept you are going for. Good on ya!
I have been looking for housing for the last few weeks in Atlanta. I just downloaded your app to try it out looking for apartments. The UI is great. Really snappy, sensible, and out of the way. Well done.

However, there are some content issues with the map. It seems that it's only loading a page or two of listings. I checked a moment ago the area I'm looking at and there were 20 or so listings but the app shows no listings at all in that same area. What gives?
I hope you checked out the app. If you really did checkout the app and feel that it is no different than the other craigslist apps on the market, then I have nothing to add and I will take your criticism of the App.
The Involvement of Conspiracist Ideation in Science Denial
This reminds me of the submission to HN of analysis of knots used to tie cabling on the Curiosity rover.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4472312

One of these days... my home theatre...
nice one, signed up, some of the services would be useful!!
How Vine Wraps Up New Users
Probably none. Generally common shareholders don't see a nickel until a liquidity event. That is, getting bought or doing an IPO.
What is Facebook Graph Search and how can it help you?
It sounds like a pretty sweet deal, but I kept looking up and down the page trying to find the catch. Is it purely a promotional thing for the companies to which you get credit? If so, I think it could use some emphasis that you are getting this in exchange for nothing at all.

I know it says "free", but that doesn't necessarily mean they don't expect something non-monetary in return.
The investors have thrown the company a lifeline to avoid filing for bankruptcy, but in exchange have taken full control and wiped out the founders and employee stock. This is the last roll of the dice.
Cool post - one correction:

Your stock was restricted, not common.

should be:

Your stock was common, not preferred.

You typically don't get restricted stock through exercise of a stock option, you get common. And investors get their liquidation preference through preferred stock, not common.
Yeah, and everyone reads those.
No, I'm pretty sure they don't.
Yep! My joke is that "Practical Common Lisp" is the best Javascript book ever written ;)
on OSX: Little Snitch

on Windows: Netlimiter
This has nothing do with cynical George Lucas-style profit maximization. It's a simple fact of technological progress. Since consoles are typically designed for a 5-10 year lifespan, the technology involved inevitably shrinks over that period and enables a smaller and more efficient package.

As a comparison, I don't think Sony originally sold us giant boomboxes just so they could "get us again" when they came out with the Walkman.
'Get Me a Hair Appointment and Empty My Inbox'
4th example demonstrates tooltips: http://tenxer.github.com/xcharts/examples/
Research papers with unintelligible mathematics judged as higher quality works
If not, it can be done using Linux's tc command.
Nice pack! The non-profit action is really great! Thanks a lot for such an initiative
I'm not a Lisp guy, but the amazing thing I see in Lisp that is missing from other languages is that due to the extremely simple syntax, code is data and data is code. That lets you do some amazing things (Cf. SICP).

On the other hand, isn't one lesson from modern computing that treating data as code is really dangerous? I have yet to see this addressed by Lisp advocates.
You're probably like me...you know exactly what you're going to do but you need someone else to tell you (it feels a lot better that way, doesn't it?) - so here it is take it from the legend himself Steve Jobs - he said persistence is what separates a successful entrepreneur from an unsuccessful entrepreneur...failure isn't an option, really that's why each time they ask us. How's it going? We say great!
The certifiate verification failed due to a common name mismatch.
Host: wiki.ubuntu.com
Common name: .canonical.com
Alternative subject names: regex([^.]\.canonical\.com), regex(canonical\.com)

Looks like they're using the canonical.com cert on ubuntu.com, which it's not registered for.
I didn't know this. Although as a tech reporter I should have, I would argue that typical people are unaware of these kinds of architectural implications and that without obvious disclosure this design decision sort of takes advantage of users.

Customers are paying twice, for the service and for other people's data, and it shouldn't take a Hacker News-level understanding of technology for them to be aware of this fact. It feels icky and reminds me of when I found out that Dropbox was "sharing" my files with other users: http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2011/04/how-dropbox-sacrifices-u...
http://superuser.com/questions/135719/windows-program-to-lim...

NetLimiter (free) and NetBalancer (paid, free for 5 processes) have been the go-to solutions for Windows for a little while.

IceFloor (http://www.hanynet.com/icefloor/index.html) is the OSX (10.7+) analog.
You are given the same value, but the person that got it at 10M will have a lot more money that the other one that joined at an evaluation of 100M
Does the Founder's Effect & Genetic Drift Affect Corporate Campuses?
I'm curious about their hand-holding UX approach. It worked for me. But I don't know if it's something that helps most users, or just gets in the way. Would be great to be able to A/B test something like this on mobile.
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That's a labor intensive solution to a problem which should not exist in the first place.

Speaking as a premium subscriber, I really value simple music discovery. I would be downloading or purchasing my own music if I felt strongly about micro managing my collection.

If I feel like coding to someone else's 2000 track psychedelic trance playlist which I just happened across - I would like to do so without mucking around with some monstrous download (or, even worse, having to spend time cherry picking tracks I want). Likewise, perhaps I want to use classify (classical music discovery) and select a playlist based on mood. Again, creating my own playlist is at this point a simple inconvenience.

This problem shouldn't exist, and Spotify certainly owes its users some form of solution.
but this blog author/developer is acting like they are representing KDE as a whole. "Should we".

He didn't preface by saying "IMHO" or "These are my views and I'd like your opinion"
Yeah, the quick start is just intended to get folks going. The "Docs" page definitely has a lot more useful stuff there!
I don't know about that. You generally need that brand rescue package when the original meaning of the brand (high quality, best bang for the buck, whatever it was) is gone. Companies that dilute that brand just don't have the marketing muscle to promote that many sub-brands.

Compare this:

* http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/models/notebooks

* http://www.htc.com/us/smartphones/

vs something like this:

* http://www.apple.com/mac/

* http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebooks.htm...
that's simply not true, it's a fundamental building block of relationships.
Multimethods and the condition system are 2 of my favorite things.
What a negative, hyperbolic and unnecessary comment.

I'm playing with the app right now as I've been using Craigslist (and various apps of it) a lot lately.

I find the interface is really quite refreshing and nice. The real estate listings, the various photographic listings, the polish and animations. It really is a well done app.

Not to mention: it's officially licensed by Craigslist so there's a good chance it won't be taken offline anytime soon.

I will be using this app for my Craigslist browsing on my iPhone and sincerely hope an iPad app is soon on the way.

Maybe you should give it a shot? You might see something you like.
Thanks! We have a handfull of partners right now and are growing the list at present to shoes, leathers ... etc. Yea we will be baking in a detailed sizing graph soon. Right now you can get collection 1 custom tailored for only $50 ( it's an option on the checkout page).
You obviously have a hard on for guns. Yet the thing that does the most damage to our system is the biggest companies constantly lobbying with their weapon of choice, money, and lots of it. They continue to push for stronger patents, not weaker ones. They want longer time frames and more complicated bureaucracy's so that the massive amount of money they have for lawyers will make sure it's always easy for them to get patents instead of the people working from their garage that invent something and can't afford to get a lawyer and file a patent. All the groups you say your gut tells you want less patents consistently show us via their actions that they want stronger patents.

I'll be the first to advocate for a better understanding of non-violent means for negotiation, but the dynamics of violence and weapons and human psychology goes in a different area other then a patent discussion. Unless you're trying to derail the topic into a flame war or something.
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I know of these issues, but have been already solved. Look at the Microsoft Windows implementation for example:

> plain vs rich vs embedded

When you copy you have multiple formats that you can apply. The target can accepts many of them.

> persistence across app life cycle

shared memory
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Yev w/ Backblaze here -> This is true, and we've had bad batches before, but all of the drives and chassis are tested before we put them in to production, having arrays with the same drives minimizes the variables throughout the pod.
Instrumachines and the Evolution of Electronic Music Performance
The way in which code is modified in Lisp is generally in the source code itself, and overtly in the run-time environment or binaries. The latter might be what you're alluding to.

Allowing code to be treated as data is a very powerful thing when it comes to programming. But of course, with more power there is more danger.
Which OS are you running?
"Change your passwords regularly." Does it really makes sense? Even if I use keepass to randomly generate a giant password to each different account I have? I don't understand why I'll be more secure if I change my passwords regularly.
Vive la revolution!
How do you do it in Windows?
It's sad, to me, that so much research continues to go into fossil fuels. We are so close to cost parity from renewable sources of energy; and, in some cases, it's already cheaper to use solar or wind energy, if you amortize over a long enough period (solar panels can last up to 50 years, with very little maintenance). Why do we have to dig up and burn every ounce of coal and oil and natural gas? Why not divert all of that effort, money, and time, into something that will last until the death of our sun? In a few years time, we'll all have cheaper power, and far fewer concerns about the destructive means by which the fuel is obtained.

Even with zero emission (though not zero waste) coal power generation, there's still tremendous environmental and human life impact from its mining. There are 30 coal mining deaths per year in the US alone (which has more stringent safety standards and more modern equipment than almost anywhere else in the world that mines coal).

I mean, this is cool and all. But, it doesn't solve the problem of coal being a limited resource that is dangerous and ecologically destructive to obtain.
I agree. If it had an option to be polite about using upload bandwidth (e.g., do a multicast advertisement to find the count of total Spotify clients and divide upload bandwidth usage by that number) and could easily be sandboxed such that you know it isn't scouring your whole filesystem for stuff to upload, I would be okay with it.

For example, it (at least last time I looked on OS X) goes poking through ~/Music/iTunes/ presumably to find music files it does not have to download. That's a little too far.
I was laid off in November. Last we heard, they were doing quite well in Asian countries, particularly in Korea. This is what they told us, anyway. They also told us last fall that profitability was right around the corner.