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People on the Linux Desktop have been talking about getting rid of X for years, literally. Everyone agrees that X was designed in a very different world from today, and with its client/server architecture it's pulling back the Linux Desktop more that anything else. But nothing ever comes out of it.

In the mean time:
* MacOSX used a Unix kernel but they didn't use a line of X11
* Android is based on Linux but again, no X.

Ubuntu is the first distro with a clear plan to actually get rid of that crap. And now people are bashing them? What do you think they should do, start discussing with Debian, Fedora and the others about the best think to do? But people have been talking about getting rid of X for years already!

Here is how it works:
1. Get shit done
2. If other people find it useful/interesting, they'll use it and maybe work with you to improve it.

Never try to do 2. before 1. in Open Source, it doesn't work.
As a 70s canon rangefinder nut, I feel it is my duty to point out that Zeiss was not the only one responsible for a 0.95 lens http://japancamerahunter.com/2012/01/the-incredible-canon-50...
Ahh...ok. Now that makes sense. I was under the impression that it detects that you have an Android phone - based on your Google profile - and it automatically does that. Well that's cool.
So, where does GNOME fit into this? Unity is still very much layered on top of GNOME services. With Unity Next heavily utilizing Qt5/QML2, I'm very curious if they want to remove their dependence on GNOME for other system services.

THAT is something I'd love to see someone work on. Switching between KDE/GNOME is frustrating because there is so insanely much duplicated between the two with slightly different feature sets.

Mir, meh. I'm guessing it has most to do with being able to target existing Android devices. Most of the design rationale applies to Wayland as well, (including the things they seem to mark against Wayland, strangely)
Op:Can you tell us what you wrote this app in? How are you getting the real-time activity, are those wi-fi access points, bluetooth phones or motion?
I see, it looks nice! I still think some "screenshots" or a video somewhere on the homepage might look good, but it's your site, not mine!
Yup, see: Wayland. :(
As a two-time hackathon build master, I want to tell you how fantastic this is... great job! For our last hackathon we had a dashboard showing real-time Github commit (and commit messages streamed with websockets), which people enjoyed watching, but to have all this would be way beyond that! I'd love to see the source code. :)
First Riak Database as a Service product launched
These aren't just "UIKit-inspired layout classes" - it's a full complement of remote-navigable controls: text input fields, buttons, detail disclosure views, scrubbers, sliders, keyboards, so on and so forth. It's also remained largely stable since AppleTV 1 - BackRow is as valid an API as any.

They've already got partners providing javascript-driven "applications" for the AppleTV (ala iPhoneOS 1 - "web apps are king!"); I've no inclination to believe that they're going to make public an API that provides for code execution, especially in this environment. See, not only are BackRow appliances not applications, they're not run in separate execution contexts either. The primary/only application on an AppleTV is AppleTV.app, and all appliances are loadable bundles (on AppleTV OS < 5.0) or simply compiled in (>= 5.0) and run in the same shared context.

That alone makes binary bundles extremely dangerous. It also means that a full re-architecting of the system would be required before third party applications were supported.
A hackathon is another form of self selection, much like going to a club where any guy needs to buy a bottle to get in. The bottle in this case is willingness to spend your free weekend on coding up some random project. Usually the participants like programming, have an idea, or just like socializing with other coders.

You can find hackathons through websites, meetups, friends. These two websites are pretty helpful:

http://hackathon.io/
https://www.hackerleague.org/

While I have only participated in 1 event, it seems like the winning teams are ones with good idea, decent presentation skills and come prepared to execute. Ones that work well with each other, have a solid idea, done some fundamental ground work like looking through the APIs to see what kind of data and queries you can do, manipulating JSON, bootstrap, and basic teamwork stuff (github push / pull / merging), etc.

You meet all sorts of people at these things, and exposes you to more randomness. If you haven't done one, book a weekend and try it. And please take care of your self with healthy food and a decent night's sleep.
Embraced by both content leasers (I refuse to say "content owners", because copyright is a finite monopoly, not ownership.) and internet companies, but not by the general public.

It is absurdity because it provides a mechanism by which fair use can be completely restricted. It is the equivalent of saying "You are completely allowed out of your cell, provided that you do not break the lock."
15000 volts of plywood art [video]
If you desperately want to leave your network but don't want to drop, e.g., €300 in one day for the privilege, you should be able to leave and continue paying off the €50/month that you've signed up to and to do what you want with the handset.
Cases are making their way through the courts. House v. Napolitano is the furthest along, I think. The court denied the government's motion to dismiss. http://www.uscourts.gov/Multimedia/Cameras/DistrictofMassach...

I really think this just needs to move up the chain. I can't imagine higher level courts weakening the fourth amendment.
One difference between solar power and Apollo is that the people in the government who did Apollo were worried about the Soviet Union handing our collective rear ends to us, possibly on a radioactive platter. Key stakeholders knew there were consequences for getting it wrong, e.g. their homes and families potentially getting vaporized.

The subsidies for the Solyndra debacle are still viewed by many partisans as a reasonable price for a laudable attempt to do the right thing, instead of a massive waste of capital. Failure? What's that?
Is it me or are they saying they support unlocking "as long as it's out of contract" or something?

That doesn't really move the needle, does it?
Good book. I still have the paperback on my shelf.
Cell phone locking has absolutely nothing to do with copyright. It is absurd that copyright law applies to unlocking/locking a cell phone.
Make your Gems compatible with Ruby 2.0
Are They Watching You? That’s a Secret
Ask HN: Are there any Delicious users who can help test my import script?
I'm building a social bookmarking service and I need some help testing my Delicious import script. I have a developer who built a script to get past the 1000 results per query limit (basically we grabbing the results in chunks (1-1000, 1001-2001, etc.). And I need some help testing the script.

I created a development site (separated from the live site) http://dev.klipbook.net

If you have any problems with the script please let me know in the comment section below or email me at support@klipbook.net
An open OS X, while slightly oxymoronic, sounds pretty fantastic to me.
Twilio Queue Gather & Quiz Game
ABS pellets are $1000-2000 per ton ($0.45 - $0.91 per lb).

I'm surprised nobody is selling cheap spools in the $5/lb range.

EDIT:

Acutally, they do.

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/542698056/Best_Quality_ABS...
> Let them innovate

If Canonical were good at it, everybody would be saying "yeah, go for it!"

But they're not.

Every time they strike out on their own, they seem to end up producing overly complex, badly performing, messes, with tons of issues, that everybody hates. bzr, unity, ...

The only reason people use any of their stuff is because ubuntu pushes it on their users, and people with little experience end up using it by default. Sound familiar...?

[Worse, with Mir, they seem to going for the lockin effect: "mir will integrate especially well with unity"... >< ]

That perception, that Canonical is not competing on fair terms—almost anything they come up with, no matter how awful, will come with a built-in user base—is one of the big reasons they get so much flack for this sort of thing. If it were just some guy in his garage hacking on his new display server after lunch every day (like, you know, Wayland...), and gaining users the hard way, by being better, then nobody would blink an eye.

For that reason, I think people expect more maturity from an influential company like Canonical. They expect them to play nicely and work with others (e.g., if they think they've identified issues with wayland, work to fix wayland; or cooperate in designing a next-generation replacement) instead of striking out boldly on their own every 15 minutes.

Again, if they had proven really good at it, they'd get a pass to some degree—but they haven't. Instead, by making technical merit less of a factor in determining what becomes widely used, they're effectively reducing the overall quality of FOSS. Can you blame people for being annoyed?
Tesla is focused on a niche: Luxury / high-performance cars, which is a tiny fraction of the market in units, and even if they were wildly successful they would not even make a blip in the carbon emission statistics.
As a college student that is constantly surrounded by Adderall and Vyvanse misuse, this hits close to home. I've had a prescription to similar drugs my entire life, and it was in 8th Grade that I realized that I didn't actually need them to function.

The drugs made me unhealthily underweight, constantly antisocial, and easily aggravated. Nowadays when I look at my peers, I see the same things happening to them. Some people take two at one time the night before a big test and don't sleep for days. The worst part is, everybody sees it as normal. Popping an adderall before a test is as common, easy, and normal as opening a beer to relax on a weekend.

People don't realize that the 60mg Vyvanse they are taking casually is an extremely hard drug to take for somebody not fully diagnosed with ADHD.
For someone that grew up around Dortmund, that went to Dortmund for parties and fun for a dozen years that would make me rather happy.. :)
"Tailored towards an EGL/GL(ES) world" - this is obviously to make it easier for Canonical to run on (mobile) devices.
The practical limitation isn't just magnitude, but resolving power. Atmospheric disturbance makes it difficult to resolve anything smaller than a meter from orbit, and the diffraction limit means the further are away from the thing you want to observe, the wider your telescope needs to be. Since the distortion effects near a black hole are near-asymptotic, the features we want to see have very small subtended angles, and we need much higher resolving power to "see" recognizable features.

Stars? Definitely feasible. Planets? Much harder. People? Certainly not with available optics.
It's a felony, with a fine of up to $500,000 and up to five years in prison. For unlocking one (1) cell phone.
Very nice. This search works with the way I think. I remember being amazed when Kayak came out and again with Hipmunk. This might be next in that sequence.
I've been playing a ton of Brogue lately. The dynamic lighting in this is similar to what Brogue has. Brogue is by far the prettiest ASCII game I've ever played.
Aren't they at the companies who ask Big-O and LSP questions in interviews?
You'd be surprised at how little most startup focused journalists know about the day to day of the industry. If it hasn't been touted in a press release or mentioned at an investors conference they probably don't know about it.
Nitpicking my own comment: Actually bzip2 and bzip2 -c9 are the same thing, since -9 is the default for bzip2.
Ask HN: C# developer looking to apply for Google
Excuse the throwaway. My bosses uses HN and he knows my username.

I've been a .NET Developer in the UK for a number of years now, with most of those years in an agency setting, working on the websites for numerous large clients. I'd firmly say that I'm a solid mid-to-senior C# developer. In my spare time I also write Python on my Ubuntu box, and I have about 3-4 projects on GitHub using Django. I'm not proficient with Python just yet, but I reckon that I know enough Python and Java to be functional.

I'm currently a happy mid-to-senior developer, but like a lot of developers out there, I'd love to work for a large company, and the likes of Google are as large as they get. However, there are a few things holding me back from applying:

1. Even though I have a Computer Science degree, my theoretical knowledge is sorely lacking, mainly because my university was mainly a "Java-school". This is something I'm working on and given a few more months I'll probably be up to scratch and able to cram a bit more theoretical CS into my brain.

2. If I were to land an interview at Google for a Software Engineering role I'd go in armed mainly with C#. Some say that Google interviewers are fine with C#, but from what I've read there's a good chance of being rejected for being too Windows centric.

3. I'm comfortable with Linux and the terminal, but my professional experience outside of deploying the odd PHP and Ruby site is with Windows servers.

I've given myself the goal of applying to Google by the summer of 2014, giving me the best part of 18 months to improve my theoretical and programming language to a suitable level for that kind of career jump. However, I'll still be a .NET developer, and I cannot help but feel that going into a Google interview using C# is going to set me back considerably.

So, Googlers and .NET developers, do you feel that being a .NET developer is going to hold me back at all? Is it worth waiting and going in with a different language?
Ask HN: What technologies can New Orleans use to counter crime? 
I'm working as a volunteer on a public service project in collaboration with the NOLA PD and some local tech entrepreneurs. We're curious to hear ideas that involve measuring crime, visibility, geolocation apps...etc... that might help reduce crime in NOLA/bring about positive change.

Thanks in advance.
Boost VC Welcomes Bitcoin
It's the other way around.

The America the constitution talks about never existed. Most especially if you were black or female, but even if you were white and male if you were poor, or a union organizer, or a communist, or an anarchist, or a protester, or a striker, or a member of an unusual religion. In fact basically it was a pack of lies for anyone not already in the mainstream elite. And if you are in the mainstream elite in 2013, rest assured, this one does not apply to you either.

In fact, the virtue of the constitution is that as a lie, it has inspired people to strive to demand it become true. And slowly by piecemeal, always hard fought for, always opposed, the golden age of the past that never existed is being constructed in the present.
Does anyone else groan when people exert all this effort to be part of a closed ecosystem that Apple only tolerates to remain competitive? I thought it was a joke after the first paragraph to be honest, it sounds like someone being sarcastic about Apple dragging their feet.

Still don't know why people want Smart TVs anyway. Buy a GBox Midnight, flash j1nx's nightly build, use uPnP to push content to your TV. So simple, your mom can do it. Mine complained and then was queueing stuff up faster than I was able to.
Aperture synthesis (several widely-separated telescopes looking at one object) is often used to increase the resolving power. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture_synthesis
"Don't Let Life Randomly Kick You Into the Adult You Don't Want to Become"
It's because the demand for plastic pellets is radically larger than for plastic filament.

Since the filament side of things has been caught in a sea of change - where sudden demand swamps supply - companies making the filament are able to start and hold prices from a high point. This kind of event is common, and it usually just takes time + competition to bring prices down.
> People don't realize that the 60mg Vyvanse they are taking casually is an extremely hard drug to take for somebody not fully diagnosed with ADHD.

Are controlled stimulants less harmful to those diagnosed with AD(H)D?

I'm sincerely curious. Anecdotal accounts abound on this particular subject, but I can't recall seeing any specific literature supporting the claim.
We'd be moving relative to a black hole so the 180 degrees assumption might be off.
"We look forward to continuing to work with Congress, the wireless and mobile phone industries, and most importantly you"

Right, this should go well for us then.
http://www.predpol.com/

checked these guys out? (no affiliation)
Always be humble
Brogue has a dynamic legend. I've not seen a narrative like that, though.
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Boost (http://www.boost.vc) is getting ready to incubate their 2nd class this Summer. For this class hey have a strong preference for accepting companies revolving around Bitcoins.
I love the website, it is really useful. But I love more the idea of "We identify a problem people have, and we won't give up until we solve it!" That is very motivational.
"One day people will just swallow a handy pill instead of eating food!"

The future will be completely weird and amazing, but it won't be the weird and amazing you thought of...
I had an idea to write a story about this when I was a kid. In my version, planets made of pure mercury were sought by detectives for their potential crime-solving reflections of Earth at various points in history.
Former president Mitt Romney?
We had the ability to pressure with votes 50 years ago. Today, the vast majority of congressional districts are so heavily gerrymandered the ruling party can do anything and the political climate of that region is so fanatic that people will never not vote for their choice party candidate.

Out of 435 house representatives, each election every two years, only a dozen or two seats will change party. At best. That often throws the balance in congress towards one party or the other, but the vast majority of congressmen can be corrupt as fuck and never worry about losing their seat because they are in "red" or "blue" districts.

If you don't live in one of the few turbulent districts with political discourse, nothing will change and the congressman has no care for his / her constituents because they can't be displaced, and the constituents are brainwashed into an us vs them mentality and local culture of blaming everything on the "other guy" even when their rep is actively voting against them.
.NET Artemis Entity System available now on Nuget
How do people who've taken it for most of their adult life cope with adderall usage? I mean, how necessary of a drug does it seem to be -- or, to put it another way, how bad are the withdrawals, compared to antipsychotics, painkillers, etc?

And if you've lived with adderall usage, do you chronically feel like you have a reduced appetite and all the other kinds of symptoms? I've heard that happens for people who take the drug on an occasional/recreational basis, but I wonder how the side-effects feel for people who are more "on" Adderall than off of it in their normal lives.
I wonder how many people actually know that, though. No one I know talks about going anywhere except an Apple Store to service an Apple product, and no one I know seems to consider going to another store to buy an Apple product.
Harnessing Disruption for the Good of the Service
It's an extremely hard drug for anybody, ADHD or no. Adderall / Vyvanse is prescription meth[0] (something I've heard from several of my AD(H)D friends). If the pros outweigh the cons for an individual, great; I wish them the best. But while I can't find the research I remember to back this up, it's looking like long-term medication with amphetamines may be ineffective or harmful.

EDIT [0]: Yes, I know that that prescription meth literally exists under the name Desoxyn, that is not what I mean. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5321949 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5321935 .
What I said was that when Canonical does deliver, they let the delivery wither and die without support because they are spread like a teaspoon of mayo thin on their footlong distro sandwich. See: Upstart, Compiz, Software Center.
Gamification of Googles streetview API
Hi All,<p>A bit of banter late night in the Cambridge Uni (UK) engineering department turned into a weekend of hacking, and finally this game. It's been a lot more popular then we expected and we think we should keep iterating it! It would be great to get everyone's suggestions!
"Linux is the canonical open source success story"

Couldn't help but pause and reread that.
> I am doubtful that people are truly "opting in" to receive email; it seems more likely that they were not paying attention to the "yes by default" checkbox.

Are you serious? I can assure you that I have opted in to receive email, even HTML email, and so have nearly all my friends.
This is a great question, and I'd love to know the answer as well.
It is for now, but see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5310911 for discussion from the weekend about Elon's post from a few years ago about his plans to enter the mainstream with Tesla.
Perhaps most users, if asked "would you like Facebook to show you everything or should it filter some stuff out for you automatically?", would pick the former. But it's not necessarily the case that they'd actually prefer that in practice.
I remember when I was younger, I could stay up a full 30 hours consistently.

Years later I wondered where that energy went. I thought for a moment that it was a result of aging or some such, until I remembered that at the time I was taking medication for ADD.

It's really not healthy to sit and watch TV that long anyway.
You're so damn annoying