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>Nexus 7 3G bought outright entirely separately to any plan or network carrier. Tethering is entirely disabled and many forums confirm this.

That's pretty obnoxious. I can't believe I can't find any info about this except small little anecdotal cases. I'm surprised it wasn't worthy of more hubbub or maybe I missed it.

>So while Canonical might try to put Amazon integration into the Unity bar, they know that you have to be able to turn it off or they will lose their users.

That's not really how that went down when the Amazon integration was first rolled out. See: 12.10.
> If anyone can help there actually, any recs for good but non-expensive EV providers?

StartSSL wants $200 for two years, additional ones cost $50 then. Haven't seen anything cheaper.
May be GPUs are a bad example - for USB, FireWire and most of the other driver code and supporting infrastructure that constitutes the Linux kernel, the point (that its design is mostly uninfluenced by older UNIX) still stands. Besides the old UNIX vendors did not seem to have contributed much in terms of Linux GPU stack, maybe because that's not where the money was/is. SGI contributions for e.g. are in the area of FS and scalability predominantly. (I am aware that some places use Linux workstations for Graphics - but Nvidia essentially ships there own Xorg replacement stack along with highly kludgy properietary driver - nothing remotely related to great design there.)

Filesystems, TCP/IP stack, Multi core scalability etc are the areas that most benefited from old UNIX design. (Questionable in case of TCP/IP - Alan Cox rewrote it and I am not sure if he was influenced by any older UNIX implementation or not.)
Their PNaCl timeline is sure been delayed and slow...
I did at first, but then it worked on refresh. Go figure.
Super odd... We use Zendesk and I don't have a record of any open support tickets. Feel free to send me a note directly to dave at chartio.com if you're still having an issue.
> c. what country you're based in.

How is that relevant? I would also say the targeted plattforms (which browser, OS) are the most important point.
This is a silly controversy that keeps getting taken out of context. A bug tracker is not a forum to discuss the direction of a project; there's other avenues for that (blog posts, etc...). Spam posting the link to the bug report to all the social media sites you can think of is anti-social behavior, and is indeed worthy of a ban of your bugzilla account.

Yes, the GNOME dev that closed the bug with a blunt "No." response was rude, but that doesn't give you the moral authority to rally the outrage police and incite Internet riots.
IRC chat would be my guess. Since data isn't stored on a server/can't be taken down, this seems like this could be useful in the shadier IRC rooms sharing questionable content.
What evidence is there that marijuana use "stalls careers"? That seems like a stereotype rather than anything based on real-world data. A lot of incredibly successful people have been marijuana users.
My concern with this is the health or nutritional profile of the engineered meat. Technology is great, but we've also found out years later that an "innovation" is really a step backwards health-wise.

So, for example, the move from grass-fed to corn-fed beef allowed for vastly greater production in a much more efficient fashion, and even (for most people's palates) resulted in a better tasting meat. 20+ years later, we're finding out that the environmental cost of factory farm meat is much higher than we thought, and the corn-fed beef is much worse for you than grass-fed beef.

20 years from the meat cubes hitting the shelves, are we going to find out that cells grown on a straight glucose+vitamin mix are missing some micronutrient that helps our brain function correctly, or protects the gut against cancer?

Our bodies have had a very long time to adapt to certain models of nutrition, and when we tamper with them, we often find unintended consequences.
Why is youtube not using vp6 by default ? this baffles me. it is a advertising problem ?
Not in case of security, but you get likely more trust from your visitors. Also might include some assurance thing you can use or advertise with. But I wouldn't say it has any bad influence if it's missing, as long as you aren't a payment provider or something like that.
He owns the negatives. I don't think the article discusses the copyright.
Perhaps JQuery gets included at the bottom of the page, but then when you refresh - it's cached and the code is working
I don't think Google was overly happy with Samsung implementing the multi-app view on the Note 2 either, but there was not much they could do about it in the end. They had already told Cyanogenmod previously not to do this[1], so one can assume they were not pleased that Samsung would do it, but Samsung carries much more weight than an AOSP modding group.

[1] https://plus.google.com/100275307499530023476/posts/ViCME1bb...
Interesting, but given the URL length issues, this isn't really useful for most applications that you would use pastebin for.
> although, I would personally love to have a flying car, I would under no circumstances want all of my neighbors to have one.

That sort of applies to normal cars as well of course: a wonderful technology, as long as they're only used by a few (wonderful for those few, naturally)—and a source of massive misery and damage once everybody has them.
okay now I think we really need to kill the web, and start to develop other techs.
This being said, it's unusual for a democratic head of government to be anything other than a grey-hair. Other movers and shakers, sure, but to climb to the very top in a democracy generally takes a while.
No thanks, I have done my homework. And I, unlike you it seems, know that it is not black and white. It's not all good or all bad and only a fool would try to write it off as such.

I know there are side effects when it comes to GMO, I don't need to be a chemist for that. What I also realise is that there really is no shortage of food on this planet, evidenced by the tons and tons that are discarded daily.
There is however a logistics problem, but it will not be solved by GMO. Even IF such a thing was possible by creating crops that fare better in extreme climates, these companies who are behind GMO products have absolutely no interest in helping out poor African kids who are unable to pay for what Monsanto & Co have to offer.
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Around 1 in 20 people have personalities such that they're prone to addiction, to the extent that it can cause them to make questionable decisions. Drinking, smoking, sex, heroine, gambling, porn, work, party drugs, Subutex, anti-depressants, whatever, you name it. We need to stop prohibiting whatever activity/substance people actually get addicted to because its essentially arbitrary, and start compassionately treating the root psychological causes.
I thought so too but I got used to it and now I prefer it to sugar. Your brain just got to adjust.
Yeah, but aspartame also tastes awful...

I suppose meh-tasting-guilt-free bacon is something, but, well... meh. TT
The list was difficult to sort though, but I was able to find http://www.premii.com/hn which is a great web client, and an even better mobile client.
Note to self, never visit Georgia. This is how they did it:

>If you think New York’s stop-and-frisk rule is invasive, try Georgia’s: Cops can stop anyone at any time for no reason and force him to urinate into a cup. Fifty-three thousand people were stopped on the street in 2007, or about one in 20 of the young men in Georgia.
Someone posted http://alfg.co/jot/ lower down that uses a javascript implementation of blowfish.
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It's more complicated than that.

Bad mode: I use an awesome car service when I'm in Seattle called Car2Go. They have a really bad touch screen in the car. Pushing the physical volume button only turns off the radio if the touch screen is in radio mode. If you're in navigation mode, it mutes the volume of the turn-by-turn directions. It's distracting and confusing at the worst possible time.

Good mode: The Apple TV remote is so simple. It's just four arrows and a select button. The arrows may change your selection, fast forward, or change volume all depending on what mode the software is in. It's so natural, you don't even think of it as a "mode" -- it just works.
Having known some vegetarians who claim meat is uninteresting and have had a good farm raised and wild caught meat in their pre-vegetarian days, I don't think this is a case.

I think for some people meat, and pretty much of all food, is fairly uninteresting it is pretty much just a way to fuel their body. They take fairly little joy in their meals - which seems a bit incomprehensible - but it seems to be the way it is.
"Some of these kids have a doctor's note to prove it."

Hilarious!
Valve doesn't give a shit about you, the Linux user. They are hedging their bets against Microsoft and Xbox.
Yes, but still, how much of IRIX's GPU stack did SGI contribute to Linux? How much of the current DRI/DRM/GPU Driver infrastructure is inspired from old UNIX designs? The point I am trying to make is that core kernel code is influenced by old, tried and trusted UNIX designs even if it wasn't up to the snuff in the scalability area for a long time. But the rest (incl. GPUs, USB stack, V4L2, driver support code (kobject) etc.) is a different story altogether - where old designs were either inaccessible or largely inapplicable due to different requirements and that's not an area of the Linux kernel anybody is proud of.
Well said.

It seems to me that while we have deconstructed certain normative ideas (e.g. that everyone should be heterosexual), there is no general interested in pursuing a truly liberal agenda where people define for themselves who they are and how they want to live, rather than live by arbitrary rules.

What is happening is that the old rules are now being replaced by new rules. And people who break these rules are no longer called degenerates, they are called autists.
Anybody knows any estimate on how many are addicted to the internet?

And how about "addicted to programming"?
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Thanks. This helps. This was a great idea. I would like to know what your larger project is when you are ready.
Really? So you'd prefer if the discussion was spread amongst n blogs as opposed to kept in one place? And in a way it is a bug since it introduces a regression. Also how is linking to it anti-social behavior?
I think it's interesting that you find the author's use of profanity to be strong and forceful. I found it to be comical and colorful, and extremely relatable.

They (companies) may have reasons, but their motivations are not parallel with my own.

a) It's very nice that you spent a lot of money on your app, but please don't pester me at every pageload to use said app. I'll choose my own medium, thank you kindly.

b) I understand that the app can be more functional than the site. This is often why I intentionally use the site instead of the app, to prevent sites like Facebook and LinkedIn from messing with my address book, as they have both demonstrated they will do at their convenience. This is unacceptable to me.

c) I completely understand retaining user engagement, but my point is that by pushing and shoving me towards your app when I have already assessed both and chose the website will simply drive me away from both. Good job.

d) This is why I don't want your app on my phone. Your app isn't important enough to me to deserve said mental space, and until I decide that it is, you don't deserve it.

I agree with you that a small toolbar would be sufficient, and I'm disappointed that more sites don't do this, but I would add that I think it's important to have an option tucked away in the user preferences so that I can disable said toolbar if I choose to use the website.

I'm up-voting your comment not because I think you're correct, but because you have interesting arguments which could foster good discussion. And I would do so regardless of your use of profanity.
From: http://www.onswipe.com/demo

"This site is a dish best
served on an iPad"

"The content you’re trying to view has been optimized for viewing on the iPad, unfortunately there’s no desktop alternative available right now."

#doorslam on Android or Win8 tablet
and a much worse battery life and significantly larger.

That's not a laptop that's a luggable
I'll have to disagree on this one. In my opinion, bug trackers an excellent way to organize feature discussions. Sure, blogs posts are a more expressive medium but that doesn't reduce the importance of bug trackers.

In this particular instance, the GNOME dev was pretty rude and if that behavior is supported by the GNOME community, it needs to be publicly called out.

I as a user would not want to support any open source project where developers act like asshats.
Would this reduce cancers with correlated animal protein consumption?
Not just you, there's so much wrong about this article that I don't know where to begin. My father is a retired Statistician, and I know that the computation of inflation is a seriously considered matter by a lot of smart people. The statement that "What’s important to note is that the government is incentivized to report as low of an inflation number as possible and to keep real inflation as high as tolerable." is completely false.
to support them, you only need to buy their games. Playing them is not needed!
I wonder what the actual affect on people is of Subutex. If the effects generally are similar to pot, why bother regulating it? 30,000 people per year in the US die of alcohol related accidents and other issues, and 250,000 or so die of smoking related cancers. Yet they remain completely acceptable legal "drugs". I don't know off hand the number of deaths from illegal and misdirected drugs including violence but I am sure it's not a small number either. The inconsistency of treating each mind-altering substance is what makes little sense to me.
Raskin makes a special exception to his "No Modes" rule when it comes to paint and drawing programs, as he admits this is an obvious case where modes are needed. He does provide a mechanism though, that could be used to make photoshop modeless: Quasimodes.

A quasimode is a mode that is active only as long as a particular key is being held down. The pressure of the key on the user's finger is what makes the user constantly aware of the mode.

Caps-lock is a mode. The shift-key is the quasimodal version of that same function.

quite a lot of photoshops toolbar buttons are assigned keys already. M for marquee for instance. Modal keys. like caps-lock. Those modal keys could be switched to quasimodal keys that act essentially like extra mouse keys.

Photoshop already has 3 modal quasi-modal "modifiers" keys, in shift, alt, and (command/control), whose quasi mode changes depending on which mode you are in. So imaging a modeless photoshop where each tool and function is invoked by holding down a chord on the keyboard. Ta-da. Modeless photoshop.

Of course, Such a photoshop would be much more difficult to learn-as we are sacrificing discoverability. but it it would be easier to use for an expert.

and discoverability could probably be recovered using another of raskin's ideas: an dynamic displayed list of commands. Say you hold down the "m" key, and it lists in large type on screen what function that is, and what other keys you can hold down to modify it, and what functions those do.

This would be pretty awesome. But it will never happen because grumpy coders like vim and think it's great, and thus stand in the way of UI progress.
>And yes.... I'm a vim user.

Yes, it was that obvious.

But there are piles of UI design research studies that show modal interfaces are, in fact, bad.

Objectively bad. Measurably bad.

I get sick of the vim apologists who try to claim that vim has a good UI. It is objectively, measurably, terrible.

Granted, once you've learned it, you can be amazingly productive. But the power of a program is completely orthogonal to how good of a UI design it has; the latter pretty much has to include discoverability. In the words of one of the current foremost user interface design experts, a "good user interface shouldn't require instructions." (-- Donald Norman)

I use vim when I'm doing editing on terminals. I'm not a vim expert, and I don't intend to ever become one. It's far more efficient to get my file locally and edit it in my flashy GUI editor if I have to do serious development on it, than it would be to become that level of expert at vim.

And I'm basing this on the many stories I've heard, written by vim experts, about how much work it is to get good at vim.

Continue to use vim, by all means; you've climbed the hill and you know it, so it will be more productive for you than anything I could point you at to compare it to.

But please, please stop trying to claim it has a "good" user interface. Both vim and Emacs have interfaces designed before any serious work was done on human interface design, and like the microwaves and VCRs designed back then, their interfaces are measurably, objectively terrible.

Modern editors can do 99% of what a 3+ year expert in vim can do, but you can get to that 99% in a month or less. Just because you had to spend three years of your life to get to your current level of productivity doesn't mean you should haze new developers the same way.
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Progress is always demonized by people who worship the naturalistic fallacy.
Are you in China? Yes, the regional annoyances on the 920 suck. Ironically, they are only an issue on the Nokia phones; the HTC phones (like the HD8) allow you to change to the American app store very easily.

iPhone 5 has a few that are not obvious, even if it does allow me to easily switch to the American app store. Chinese versions of Android are a complete pain, but the devices are easily rooted.
> rally the outrage police and incite Internet riots

Wait -- how was this done, exactly? Are you referring to the HN post? Because, unless the title was changed, it was simply a statement of fact.

The real problem seems to be that some Gnome dev thinks they can be rude and expect zero backlash.
>> Not to mention that it's impossible to simply stop in the air.

What if they invent one that flies like helicopters? Who knows what will come in the future...
Brad Cox and Tom Love create Objective-C, announcing "this language has all the memory safety of C combined with all the blazing speed of Smalltalk."
I don't think you understand how little regulations have to do with veg*nism.
I think the idea that 'I have to learn your framework' might be a fairly minor one when you're dealing with html and css. The learning curve is tiny compared to learning Objective-C or Java (for Android apps).

For getting a proof of concept together, and for early stage testing on multiple platforms, you can't beat html. As you mentioned Titanium and it's competitors have some challenges, that honestly, HTML just doesn't have.

That isn't to say that every app should be an html app, just that in early the early stages, if multi-platform, levaraging of web developers (rather than finding app developers) is your goal, a tool like this can be very valuable.
Good. It'll be objectively better for the world.
The title hasn't been changed since I posted it.
I found this: "The most common reported side effect of Subutex and Suboxone include: cold or flu-like symptoms, headaches, sweating, sleeping difficulties, nausea, mood swings.
Like other opioids Subutex and Suboxone have been associated with respiratory depression (difficulty breathing) especially when combined with other depressants."

Sounds like a hangover.
Reminds me of C being described as "a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language".
The title should really read "GNOME dev bans bugzilla user for drawing attention to bad GNOME developer processes"
From the outside admissions seems great, no complaints about the people they accept and alumni they create. I just think the organization right now is fragile. YC is unlikely to be around in 100 years while top tier universities are very likely to be around. I think moving to a non-profit model would increase YC alumni give-back (in time and $) and thus increase the odds that YC lasts 100 years.
If you're pasting the link, you may as well just paste the text.

The link is really just an encoded form of the text anyway.

EDIT: Not to shit on this project, it's just that pastebin's are typically used to reduce the amount of text that gets pasted in an IRC channel.
He's talking about the post from yesterday which linked to the bugtracker.
I'm mostly used to the equivalent functionality in Launchpad, but my impression is that most bug trackers have a special "duplicate of bug N" closing reason that requires a link to another bug.
Modes in UI are not bad. Unexpected behaviour is bad. Don't confuse the two.
I really appreciate the critique from someone who's had an account for two days. The personal attacks were an added plus. And, I like how you didn't actually read any of the thread you're replying to.

Nice work. A+, would read again!

(See how I wrote a sarcastic post without needing a "/s" tag? The written word is pretty cool!)
Oh. On a side note, it's funny this got flagged to death within minutes of reaching the front page!
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Well, in fact, they can't. I am pretty sure, there are many regimes that you can consider dictaroship, and they haven't solved these problems.

Dictatorships can do a lot of nasty things, but they cannot solve such problems. They may _look_ like they are able to, and they may _pretend_ that they solved these problems(especially if problems aren't easily noticeable by an average citizen. Take heavy heroin abuse as an example), but no, they can't and won't solve them.
All the scripts have the async property so they're not executing in sequence.
Is Occupy Oakland comparable, directly, to the Zucotti Park protesters of OWS? As I understand it, from friends who live in Oakland, the Occupy Oakland protests were marked by violence and vandalism; they broke glass windows, threw bricks, and destroyed ATMs.
I don't believe that is his point. Harvard could become a for profit school charge some obscene tuition and it could make money, because there is so much demand for a harvard degree. It isn't about just surviving. If the YC crew is making a lot of money more power to them.
And that's why this infection is a meme. It's management-fad-of-the-week driven.
"you want to draw a line, but accidentally create a gradient fill."

If you pay attention , you always know what tool you've selected ,so it is not really an issue. And just stating something is bad without proposing an alternative is just bashing for the sake of bashing. That's not interesting.

Complex tools require complexe interfaces. Not everything should or need to be simple. I dont like ergonomists/designers that just say something is bad without thinking about context. We are not talking about PAINT, but a professional software that needs to do many things. Photoshop has issues , but mode in photoshops are not a problem. Photoshop is supposed to be used by an audience that will take the time to learn it and understand it. It is not a tv or a car stereo where nobody bother read the doc. You cant master photoshop without learning it , it's interface has its own logic one needs to learn.
I believe that under a strict definition of vegetarianism - a person who abstains from eating meat - the answer would be no. If they did they would not be vegetarian. Maybe another classification would need to be created for those who will only eat cultured meat.