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Yeah, I didn't like this article. It's overly harsh and doesn't take into account other situations. I have dyscalculia, the math version of dyslexia. People generally don't say "I can't do English" if they have dyslexia, but they can say, "I can't spell" which I wonder would be assessed as harshly by the author as this article.

Also, it was pointed out that what math is can be fuzzy - I always thought I was BAD at math, when I was young and it was still adding numbers together and stuff, which I only can do with great difficulty. Once I got into algebra, I was already devising my own ways to solve equations and acing the class (although they told me to stop solving the equations in my own way...)
I dont find the pretense of acting as an object journalist particularly relevant. Actions speak louder than words. (my point being that MG is less of a journalist than people think, thus making him a fan-blogger like Gruber which is the comparison that this thread originally was about)

There is a fine line between blogger and journalist nowadays. In fact its closer to overlapping circles than a hard line. So while you made a good case that DF is more of a blog than a journalism site, I dont think its 100%.

If you were to ask me if MG is a blogger or journalist, I would scratch my head and probably answer that he is a blogger who works (worked?) for an opinion-dominated news site.

Its hard to separate bloggers from journalists. I dont think Gruber is to blame for that. MG and techcrunch have no qualms about it though.
Vifm: a ncurses-based file manager with vi-like keybindings
It really isn't. Unless you have a card without a driver (exceedingly rare, though it's not uncommon to need a recent kernel to use recent hardware) ALSA pretty much Just Works. For complex features like streaming sound over the network you need PulseAudio, which due to its complexity takes more configuration and setup, but that's done out of the box on a fair number of distros. I don't know of any major software that requires OSS (though if I'm not mistaken it's still the preferred solution for BSD and therefore often available as an option), and only professional software uses JACK; users of JACK generally buy high-end hardware specifically for that purpose and know what they're doing.

So there are three major components for different purposes. Core audio support is the domain of ALSA itself and Linux does a good job with it. PulseAudio provides advanced capabilities on top of the more basic/hardware-oriented functionality in ALSA, and JACK provides low-latency audio for realtime applications that need it (not games, only really audio processing equipment). With large amounts of work the partial redundancy between these components could be removed, but it's really not a big issue; for desktop or professional use getting things to work right isn't too hard.
This is a pretty shallow article. It's a lot of text for not saying much.

The parts that are actually substance consist mostly of broad unsupported claims and very general unrelated facts about JavaScript. It's as if Leo Laporte wrote it.
It was a problem until Pulseaudio became good -- to my experience, that happened around the 2.0 release. And in a technical sense, it's still a problem, since ALSA contains so much useless complexity now that something like PA finally exists.
My understanding is that "creative coding" is actually a fairly well-specified term for those "in the know". I had almost exactly the same question and someone straightened me out. I'll try to find the thread.

Edit: Ah yes, on an HN post about the very same framework: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3208552
The 'Hui' game
In the case of Cinder "creative coding" is in reference to a very specific thing and using that term tells me exactly what sort of library it is. Namely being familiar with other "Creative Coding" frameworks such as OpenFrameworks, Processing, etc I generally know what Cinder is offering and how it's going to approach the problems. The about page description doesn't tell me its approach, just its content and approach is very, very important in these (they almost always follow the same structure).

That said, using the "Creative Coding" term makes it all very inside baseball and I totally agree it could be better. openFrameworks falls into the same trap with: "openFrameworks is an open source C++ toolkit for creative coding." Signaling to those who know without telling those who don't.

I do feel like Processing does much better with "Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to create images, animations, and interactions" even if it isn't prominent. Then again Processing is the one that pretty much coined this whole "Creative Coding" thing. :)
And there's so little information available/presented to the person who has to make that choice, as to which ones do work, or which ones they should even want to work.
Right, that's a huge stepping stone for web apps to overcome. But what happens when the interface itself requires an update from the cloud? We're doomed.

At least native apps can fall-back seamlessly.
"Convincing users to upgrade was a daunting task that left an impact on product decisions."

Yeah, like having to make useful features that customers would actually want to pay for.

Fuck capitalism, eh? Just pay your taxes and we'll give you what we think you want.
Tesla Hires Aston Martin's Vehicle Engineering Leader
Ask HN: Is Spamming the only way to get users?
Last week we heard about how Path spams its users by contacting every single one of the users contact in the address book. Even now FB is blocking Path API access to FB friends.

Previously, we heard the same thing about airbnb, that airbnb spams Craigslist by making fake ads and then ask users to go to airbnb.

So now at least we know 2 startups that made its way to glory by spamming. I mean, yeah, users acquisition is part of the game, but I wonder if to be succeed, you have to play 'dirty' and spam along the way.
Sound isn't a problem for me. I just use ALSA and everything works (I haven't edited a single configuration file, actually).

The sound-server wars are still ongoing but I've personally never had any cause to touch anything besides ALSA or OpenAL/SDL on the development side either. Other people may have different experiences.
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Only if you are speaking about database frontends that are nothing more than enhanced versions of "form submit", which used to be done in RPG, COBOL, CLIPPER, VB and now Web.

There are many other areas when desktop is still the way to go.
Comparing JavaScript to BlackBerry doesn't make any sense. Most people replace their devices every 2 years. Unless you like wasting time you're not going to rewrite your app every time a new better language comes out.
I paid close to $100 about a year ago... though renewal will be less...
Docker 0.3 released: public index, data volumes and open-source registry
That much should be enough I think.
Are you using the default templates ? I've seen that mustache has been ported to go.
You "can't" use education licenses for professional work anyway.
I recently had trouble with my sound card on Arch Linux. Upon booting, once in a while, my default sound output would change and not work even after I'd edit it. Turns out it was my card model that wasn't supported and I just removed it. I've been working with the on-board output since then and everything is going just fine.
Indeed. Their FAQ says as much in question 6, and question 7 tries to make it out as though it maintaining a separate (actually secure?) honeychecker actually worthwhile pursuit, because then attackers who don't bother to look at your login code after compromising your box can sometimes be detected. It seems like a bit of a longshot, though. I would expect the attacker to be at least a little curious as to why each user has 20 passwords.
Here's a case in point.

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2013/03/wi...

That fact that it can happen here - and to this extent - should be very good reason to assume that similar efforts are being made by every global corporation with a communications budget to match its image problems (e.g. Goldman Sachs, Monsanto, etc.)

If you're truly interested in finding out more about particular companies, you can sort through the edit histories and correlating changes (where possible) with editors working for or with the companies in question.
Seems like a job they have needed for a long time. The future of journalism could very well be twitter. I for one have found out about breaking news events via twitter over another piece of news media.
Saying “I don't know” is a fantastic skill that children are born with but have it beaten out of them into adulthood and the beating never stops. I have deep respect for people who can say “I don't know.” That person is one step away from learning something new.
This is mildly off-topic, but since we're talking about the little hitlers that dominate wikipedia content, here goes...

I (John Kozubik / rsync.net) will donate USD 10,000 to wikipedia if they change their official stance to inclusionism, and adopt a "all well formed articles belong" stance.

Yes, most of what is in deletionpedia is garbage. Yes, it deserved to be deleted. But somewhere in there are thousands of articles that people spent hours on, in good faith, zapped away due to "notability". If it's well formed, it gets in.
Write C++ games that work on the web
For my side/tinker/forever project, I've been using Three.js even though it's actually 2D (for now). Since you can set it to render orthographically, it might be useful (each sprite as a two-tri polygon).

Completely new to game development though, so this may be really really bad advice.
Electronic cigarette article summary doesn't mention that they are healthier than tobacco. And the article was much worse in the past.
"I think Adobe just priced themselves solidly out of the prosumer market." I think what they did, or at least what they wanted to do, was find a fix for the rampant theft of their products. What this now does is open up the domestic image processing market, while businesses can be milked for all they're worth. I'll stick with Photoshop CS3 until it stops working.
Or that customers don't like grandiose updates anymore and expect a continuous stream of small innovations.
The tyranny of digital advertising
Yes, sound is still a problem. I tried to change window managers on My Ubuntu desktop and totally lost sound.

I am well past the age of my life where there is anything productive about spending hours of my day futzing with sound drivers. I know how drivers work. I'm not becoming any better at working with computers by deciphering this year's way of sound not working with Linux.

(It did work out of the box. I was getting sick and tired of Unity and tried to put something else in place. Everything went to shit at that point. Now I am back at Unity.)
I have a netbook running xubuntu and when I connect it to a TV via HDMI, the sound continues to come from the netbook rather than from the TV.

I googled for some fixes and couldn't find any quick fix that worked.

This should "just work" in my opinion. It does in Windows and I'm sure OSX makes it just as painless.
I wouldn't mind them staying/back to around $100 for initial registration, and half that for renewal.
I usually downvote snarky superfluous comments like this on HN, but find myself tempted to actually upvote this one.

Hammer. Nail. Head.

Must... resist...
This is part of the 0.3 release, which also includes an open-source release of the registry, and support for data volumes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5664269
My own point of view is that I'm not infallible and therefore it is better to state what I think is true, and let people draw whatever conclusions they like, and take whatever actions they like, based on what I say.

I expect on averaging that stating the truth should be beneficial rather than harmful, because people with good intentions will seek to base their arguments and actions on the truth, while people with bad intentions in many cases won't care.

So ultimately I also only care about "improvement" but I don't define this in terms of my own ideology, because I could be wrong on many things.
If you just want bitcoins: Dwolla to CampBX. If you want altcoins: Dwolla to CampBX to BTC-E
Also, yelling at your code might help to debug faster.
Along with being a news site this is also a discussion site. If the article is new to the reader or leads to discussion that interests the reader, then they're free to upvote it. When it's not, they can ignore it (or flag it if it truly doesn't belong). It's really that simple.

When links get posted that have no relevance to you, just move on. Post links that are relevant to your interests or wait for someone else to do it for you.
The premise that you can just "take away JavaScript" is false and thus the implication is false.

It is exactly the ubiquity of JavaScript which makes it nearly impossible to "take away" and which makes it useful!

Dart probably won't succeed even though it is arguably a cleaner and prettier language simply because JavaScript is good enough and it is everywhere.
That's true. “I don't really understand national politics in any deep way,” is something I've said many times and has been responded to often with “me neither”, but I'm quite sure had I not said it, the person would've kept quiet about their ignorance and feigned insight in other conversations.
YAY!

Free single-player games for everyone!
This is a really poor article. It doesn't really explain why JavaScript is doomed. It doesn't explain what's bad about JavaScript... but then he goes on to list some frameworks on top of JS that are awesome. Sorry, but if JS sucked, then how is it possibly to have awesome frameworks derived on top of JS? Surely, those are examples of how cool JS is. And how can you say Node.js is cool, but JS sucks.

Sigh... Besides that this article is a jumbled mess to read, the TL;DR of it would essentially boil down to: "I don't like JavaScript because I don't like the way it looks. It's doomed!"
A Total Disruption - Ondi Timoner's Portal For Innovators
It was. Before pulseaudio became the de-facto standard lots of people wouldn't even install an additional layer and use plain old alsa. Which meant you couldn't change the volumes of applications individually. You could have used artsd, esd, or something else, but the problem was that there shouldn't be 3 bad solutions to choose from. There should be one good solution.

I remember installing redhat 9 and having to configure my sound card driver manually for an old creative soundblaster about 10 years ago. Further, back in those days it was not at all obvious how to get Linux to even play an MP3 (I know, this is an audio encoding and not related to the audio subsystem, but my point is: it was hard. These days you just install a mainstream distro and mp3 codec is there.)

Linux has come a tremendous way in the last 10 years.

Don't you remember the nightmares? Editing Xorg.conf, and such? But wait, I remember when it was still called XF86Config. /me shudders

Today anyone can pop in an ubuntu dvd and be rolling in seconds with all hardware working (for a lot of systems*). Not long ago we had to research our hardware and hunt down solutions just to get a working machine.
Startup Idea: We Need a Chrome OS for Cars
Notwithstanding my feeling of being link baited by the term "social networks", the points in this article are what I've come to assume & expect. Even if you take out the race angle, most would agree that good professional network is all but necessary to climb the ladder of success. Factor race back in, and it's easy to see how under representation or even discrimination play their part.
The linked document shows physiological differences (circulation, etc.) with an erect posture, but makes no claims about the sitter being more "productive" or any of the other claims this post makes. Perhaps the author can cite other sources rather than lazily suggesting "if you need more proof just google the 'effects of posture'."
I used it a little. It's nice because it remembers where you were last, unless you don't want it to. Also, you can either explore two directories at once, one in each column, or see file previews of files in the unused column.

When opening a file from this, it behaves as if you were directly in that directory when you opened it. It will stay in back ground until you are done using the file. I'm not sure if it works with many programs, I've only used it to go through some code along with Vim.

The thing I'd like to see if when previewing files, it would be nice to be able to have syntax highlight and such.
I love this idea and have this bookmarked. The only things that make me hesitant to sign up are:

(1) I'm definitely not conversational in any language other than English. (I'm very slowly working on Japanese, but I haven't really built up much vocabulary or much of the grammar. I'm less driven about learning than I probably should be, but I figure I can continue to work on it this slowly until I get to a certain point.) Have you had any stores of people with differing relative skills doing a language exchange?

(2) I live in a not-quite-densely-populated area (Amarillo, Texas), so I can only wonder how vibrant the CoffeeStrap user-base here would be. There's really no solution to this one other than to sign up and try to start something myself. It's what really kills me about living out here and seeing all of these cool services, but I suppose it comes with the territory.
I'd love to see this data plotted vs the average Exchange Trade Volume over past 180 days:

http://blockchain.info/charts/trade-volume?timespan=180days&...

If you correct for that HUGE spike to 1250k in the CB graph it looks like CB is almost trending exactly w/the other exchanges.
Yeah this is great! Pretty recent as well, thanks so much for sharing it looks interesting.
Internet tax bill targets apps, music, movies, all downloads
My sound card "mostly" worked when I installed Linux this year. But I spent a week researching to finally deduce how to modify my Skype and Alsa configs by hand to get Skype to use the microphone. I still don't remember what I did, though it had to do with setting a specific hardware type id. Nobody should ever have to do that.
Public service announcement: if you have a crack in your windshield that is smaller than a U.S. dollar then it likely can be repaired. If it can be repaired, most insurance companies in the U.S. will waive your comprehensive deductible. That's right - the glass company will either direct bill the insurance company or the insurance company will reimburse you. Either way, if your insurance company is like most it will not cost you anything to have it repaired.

Another fun fact is that any day you have a small chip or crack, it can instantly turn into a huge crack that is unrepairable. So if you have a small chip or crack get it repaired right away. Check with your insurance company - it will probably cost you nothing.
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Not really. Regarding "usual" sound, I haven't had a problem for years now, and just a while ago I actually set up a fairly complex system with JACK for a music performance I was preparing (midi controllers each connected to a specific synth software, some of that straight to output, some of it to looper software first, along with the mic input, etc.) and I was surprised at how smooth it all went.

I really think Linux left that behind in 2008 :)
Where does he get off talking about sweet potatoes like that? The nerve of some people!
"I tried to change window managers on My Ubuntu desktop and totally lost sound." - Once you do something as drastic as changing the default window manager on a distro you are largely on your own.

In the past switching window managers would leave you without a network connection because Network Manager applet would begin after you login into gnome. However this appears to be fixed and was not an issue the last few times I tried.

Having said all of this, I wonder if its reasonable to expect a distro to handle the situation where you completely swap out the user land that they ship with. The equivalent does not exist for windows / osx.
According to this tweet, "neglected" may be as good as it gets from here on out.
https://twitter.com/DeeSadler/status/331209193451315202

Edit: here's a blog post too:
http://blogs.adobe.com/fireworks/2013/05/the-future-of-adobe...
Doing that is piracy, though. Which is my point.
Now I want a retention holster for my mouse >.>
It's kind of incredible that you call the author lazy, because you are too lazy to search google yourself. Win!
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Gentoo and Arch are wonderful for staying absolutely up to date. Far better IMO than anything else - but for anything production wise or mission critical, nothing comes close to Debian, RHEL/CentOS, and SuSe
Simplicity Begins With Empathy
Reminds me of the early worries, wikis can never work yadda yadda yadda. In fact there may be countless changes, but if people care about a subject they will monitor it and notice even the tiny changes.
I'd also recommend Acorn[4]. It's a phenomenal app, has recently received a major update (early bird pricing until end of May) and is, in my opinion, much more "Mac-like" and pleasant to use compared to Pixelmator.

It's my go-to app for fast tasks while still being powerful enough to do more serious things. Not to mention it has rock solid scripting support too.

[4] http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/
1. You use Google sites.
U.S. Senator Slams Use Of 3D Printer-Made Plastic Guns
Well start with Wikipedia's head, Wales. Where does he come from, how does he think? We know he ran an Ayn Rand mailing list before becoming involved with Wikipedia, but how does his personal, political thinking influence Wikipedia? Well he himself has said that conservative Friedrich Hayek's work "is central to my own thinking about how to manage the Wikipedia project". While he is not always blatant and draconian in politically influencing Wikipedia, this has cropped up again and again.

For example this Arbitration Committee spoken of - in mid-2005 Wales appoints an editor so biased against Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims that Wikipedia Review has a whole forum on this editor - JayJG ( http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showforum=46 ). People find him incredibly biased and the vote of all Wikipedia in early 2006 for ArbCom members kicks him out. But Wales is not happy with this and decides to stuff ArbCom, like FDR threatened to stuff the Supreme Court. So Wales creates a new ArbCom seat. Does he appoint the Wikipedia-wide next highest voted neutral editor to ArbCom? No, he reappoints this Arab and Muslim hating editor JayJG.

You can find many examples of this sort of thing. With Wikipedia, the rot starts at the top. One day, a rival wiki encyclopedia will come into play and trounce Wikipedia (or at least be an alternative to it).
Wait... He makes an active decision to work more aggressively and chooses sitting up straight as the method.

...Sure its not the fact he made the decision the first place and is sticking to it, rather than the sitting?
I'd like to invest my time in your startup
For sure. I didn't mean to imply that there weren't cases where automation is a big win.
Well, university assignments are at least doable. For an experienced developer easily so, which makes them quite profitable. The profit goes down the drain if you need to explain to the student how your code works (if he knew, he wouldn't want you to code it for him).
Well, you don't have to worry about anyone hijacking a cable. Rather big improvement there. Although not without cost...