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Github maintained by someone with a troll username?

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> IMPORTANT: release two major sanctioned UIs, one for autists, one with inbuilt support for the previous list so that plebs can't get confused with setting it up and autists don't complain about it getting in their way. de geso > I would suggest a "Advanced options" where the autists can rejoice with all kinds of options (and it doesn't frighten the normalfags, since it's not shown by default). Also, 2 UIs would be chaos to maintain.

Talk about not needing to be an expert to use it, but then a "learn more" button sending people to github?

Not inspiring confidence so far.

It's nice to see they're using an existing crypto library. I'd be surprised if they haven't made errors implementing it.
I think Snowden's utility (in terms of historical significance) is in being relatively hydrophobic to the mud that's been slung at him. The only thing that's stuck (from what little I've seen of broadcast/print news reflected off the people I know who consume it) is his failure in formalized education.

He's a good looking heteronormative guy with no criminal record nor obvious sexual improprieties. He had nothing to gain from making the disclosure and apparently quite a bit to lose.
The phrase, "Left in a lurch," comes to mind.

What bothered me most was that they destroyed gnome2 when creating gnome3 by using the same filesystem namespace. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it didn't seem possible to have both usable on the system. I would have been happy to stay on gnome2 until 3 became mature.

But that didn't happen. Despite the numbers we were forced from ~2.30 to 0.5 beta. I know there is the MATE fork, but it wasn't available initially and I'm not keen on learning new names for every single program used.

Still, they've gone too far with nautilus... it is now almost useless and I've had to move to thunar to get work done. I don't see why nautilus can't use plugins to add features.
There are several WMs which were specifically developed from the perspective of being minimal and getting out of the way (Awesome WM comes to mind).

One of the main causes behind the bashing is that a perfectly stable Gnome 2 (which was a more mainstream/"full featured" WM) was butchered to create something which took out a lot of functionality people _actually_ use.

Obviously your use case, being a much simpler subset of what people typically do with their WMs, would fit in with most of the WMs so maybe the hoopla surprises you.
I didn't know folks had taken the khan academy model, given it the fancy name of 'Adaptive Learning' and raking in the dough with proprietary software.
Yeah, I was really expecting it to end with "so here's what I'm going to do to try to make the situation better," instead of "HA HA DELICIOUS TEARS."
Maybe not necessary, but I don't think it's out of place. It paints a picture of what the Thai government deems important and with a country like Thailand, with the issues it faces, comparing this non issue against a real issue makes mockery of Thailand's leadership. And they deserve to be made a mockery of.
Google Believes Balloons Can Solve Internet Problems in Third World
Thailand != Taiwan
Groupcache: an alternative to memcached, written in Go
If someone proposes this kind of law in the US, would it be compatible with the US Constitution?

It seems to me hard to enforce in some western countries.

How can you enforce people not to buy or sell something, unless you decide it's a scam.

Regulations could be enforced, I suppose, the same way short-selling can be 'paused' in situation in which the market is going crazy or volatility is too high. But unless you use these loopholes I am not sure it would be possible.

Does anyone know of ways to enforce such a thing in the states? Or in any of the western european countries?
Yeah, I agree. A good case-in-point is the new button groups.

Here is 2.3.2: http://getbootstrap.com/2.3.2/components.html#buttonGroups

And here are groups in 3: http://getbootstrap.com/components/#btn-groups

There _is_ a rollover state, but it doesn't really convey it is a button anymore.
http://imrannazar.com/GameBoy-Emulation-in-JavaScript:-The-C...
Experience Share: Migrate from MongoDB to DynamoDB + SimpleDB
I guess it goes to show front end design is one of the most controversial topics on HN. On GitHub, Bootstrap has maintained an almost permanent position in the daily top ranked repos.
The logic was clear and its ongoing attractiveness as a first approximation of HN empirically demonstrated over the years. Sometimes, I find it an attractive first approximation.

However, I recognize that my dog, Scarlett, is an animal and therefore to a first approximation an insect. Yet, I do not squash her when she's in the bed with me, nor spread chemicals to prevent her entry to the house, nor scrupulously remove all potential food sources.

We agree that there is an endless supply of HN submissions. Though we may disagree about which is which, we also agree that some are better and some are worse. We also agree that there is virtually no barrier to entry in regards to becoming a supplier of articles to HN.

The points at which I find dissonance in the market model are:

() The supply of karma points is also unlimited. I can create a karma point for another HN'er. Of course, I can destroy a karma point for another HN'er, but only to a more limited degree; at least I understand that there's throttling in the software.

() Karma points are not fungible. I cannot exchange them for anything - except in a limited sense snark that I am willing to have downvoted, a practice in which I have occasionally engaged.

() Thus, if there is a market of the sort amenable to economic market theories, it is the sort of market which is for all practical purposes entirely illiquid. I don't know enough economic theory to suggest that such markets are not the subject of voluminous academic research, but supposing they are, that perhaps still suggests dubiousness in the first order approximation.

Teasing out the interesting facts about HN requires, in my opinion, a better abstraction.

I prefer a political model. HN has some democratic institutions - like one account one vote. It even has some aspects of Athenian democracy where the mob gets to vote on daily decisions regarding articles, and as in Socrates day, rhetoric oft sways the passions and ballots of men (and unlike his day, women).

More specifically, I prefer the republic - in the platonic sense - as an abstraction for modeling online communities. Ultimately there is a sovereign with whom we form a Hobbesian compact. Participation in a compact with HN requires us to give up certain rights in exchange for a particular form of security. The rights we give up to HN's sovereign and the security we gain are distinct from what we give up and obtain from the sovereign of StackOverflow or MSDNtechnet, or a professional cycling website.

The security we gain is largely that of reasonable norms. But among the rights we give up is that of not being subject to unreasonable policies at the extreme and policies with which we may niggle in the common.
The algorithmic entrepreneur
Sure. I used the 3taps API to make:

http://cl.meteor.com

You browse Craigslist posts using the direction keys on your keyboard. I stopped when I realized I did not know how to solve the image hosting problem.
Turn a Xen domU into a VMware VM (or: bring your Linode home)
Seems right on par for a gnome dev. I also like how he routinely adds "that specific feature was replaced by something better" when most of the features being removed were instead replaced by "TODO: some release way in the future" or a locked down version that prevented you from making any meaningful configuration changes.
Great list. Some awesome companies on that list, and I know some of the co-founders as well. I think it's clear that GT has a startup culture, but they're coming from highly motivated people who are passionate about what they're working on. Having openly available resources to any student openly would be a great start. If something like this were around while I was at Tech, it would have made things a lot easier in terms of networking and connecting with like-minded individuals.
>The third project I would not like to leave unmentioned is LISP, a fascinating enterprise of a completely different nature. With a few very basic principles at its foundation, it has shown a remarkable stability. Besides that, LISP has been the carrier for a considerable number of in a sense our most sophisticated computer applications. LISP has jokingly been described as “the most intelligent way to misuse a computer”. I think that description a great compliment because it transmits the full flavour of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.
Where is Mansfield going?
Ask HN: What is your Big Data Problem/Pattern
A friend and I have been pondering building an opinionated, "correct" big data framework/DSL so that getting started is easier. Discussing architectures has produced what we think is a common pattern. I'm curious to know what your big data problem is. What information do you need now? What information do you need later? Are those relevant questions? Good/Bad experience with different technologies?
I just want to ask this self-indulgent "developer" a single question - what benefit did they get from removing split panes from Nautilus? If people didn't use it, they still wouldn't use it. Those who did were benefiting from the functionality. It wasn't _harming_ anyone!

In pursuit of their utopian airy-fairly idea of simplicity, they simply screwed up a perfectly working system which catered to practically all its users just fine.
I've spent 7 years in New York. Paying the absurd rents isn't that bad. You don't mind it in your 20s, because it's pretty easy to keep expenses low. I hate what it does to the culture, though.

Startups need to direct all of their competitive energies toward the external struggle; they have to support each other and fight the world only. When you have engineers sabotaging each other because you need to make CTO before you can even think about starting a family, you get internal competition that destroys everything. Many of these New York startups are deeply dysfunctional and raise capital on account of founder connections (ex-bankers) rather than merit.
All laws are, in effect, a form of imposing the views of some onto others. Tolerence is a word that is held in such esteem as to be almost untouchable in our generation. I understand its meaning but reject the idea that is the answer to everything. A sexual appetite for children, for example, should not be tolerated (I'd imagine we agree). We simply draw our own lines at different points.

I agree with the general sentiment that the government regularly over step their mark in terms of involvement in our lives and attempts to control our activity and freedom of expression. However, I am happy to see voices speaking up against pornography which I see as a plague on our society.
>> How can you enforce people not to buy or sell something, unless you decide it's a scam.

Drugs, weapons, precursors/ingredients for those things....
Certainly some of the worst and most controversial parts of modern legal codes in the west, but governments ban stuff they don't like all the time.

Where you're dealing with financial instruments, there is just so much law in place already that it seems to me it would be almost impossible to make a business using Bitcoin and not fall foul of some law somewhere.
According to another comment, it's a product of 4chan, so the offensive verbiage is unsurprising.
> A cynic might say that they decided to scrap everything and start again

and not only this cynic would be wrong, but he would also be full of crap, because it's such a trivial thing to check in the public repositories, public mailing list archives, and public bug tracking system.

but, obviously, crapping on a bunch of volunteers trying to work on the project they like is easier.
hmmm. a bit harsh and inaccurate to call him "not a programmer." We are all really just digital stage managers.

Here's the secret to understanding the difference between API'ists and low-level programmers: time-to-market.

iOS programming is deeply mainstream in the market right now, so elaborate frameworks are available for it. GameBoy was waaaay ahead of its time and had no APIs for developing.

The same is true today: If you want to get ahead of the market, you can take the hit in complexity and develop for a lower-level of hw/sw, like the Parallela, in exchange for a short-term advantage, but there's no mainstream market yet. Or, you can write a great iOS app today, but you won't be the first. The initiative was lost a long time ago.

It's all about withstanding the headaches of bleeding-edge HW and SW, versus gaining the edge of being earlier to market.

If you're assembling a team, you want a range of abilities, from lowest-level people who can tell you what's really going on down deep inside up to the APIists who can leverage the work of many others to get access to widely-used features.
Sometimes there is advice that seems wrong, but is actually really good advice. This isn't one of those times.

The best advice for a young Jr anything is to do the job you were hired for exceedingly well. If the words obnoxious or needy are ever used in the same sentence as your name, you are doing something terribly wrong.
Yet another! Foundation, Bootstrap, 960, unsemantic, etc.
Does Your Homepage Have This One Critical Element?
Since you managed to kill the website:

https://github.com/irungentoo/ProjectTox-Core

Tox is a completely decentralized secure messaging service which aims to replace skype.

It it still in heavy development.

So far we have IM working almost perfectly but no completed GUI yet except for a basic ncurses interface used to test the core.

For the detailed info on how everything works see:
https://github.com/irungentoo/ProjectTox-Core/wiki
I'm looking forward to the eventual day when you log into the GNOME desktop environment and are presented with a single, full-screen button that says "Logout" because all other features have been removed.

In all seriousness though, I stopped complaining about GNOME 3 and moved on to Xfce4. The GNOME project developers aren't going to change and they have the right to dictate the direction of the project regardless of whether or not I personally agree with their decisions. Open source is about having choices and my choice was to move to another desktop environment.
Wow you are such a great person ! For sure this community don't deserve to host your kind of magnificent programmers.

Please help yourself and go speak to real programmers on OSDev rather than troll^W lose you time here. Thank you.
GitHub was experiencing a DDoS
This is the same 'Think of the women and children!!!' argument that hasn't ever been a valid excuse for surveillance.
How about some contrast on this page? I used the chrome inspector to change the font color to black.
No they don't, they land with something called ILS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_landing_system
Lightly reading a paper and working to understand it are two different things, especially for a potentially groundbreaking work.
Erm, not to be silly, but how'd you get that nice bulleted list?
29 APIs Used in 7 Days: GitHub, SendGrid and Goodreads
I suggest @jlgaddis's responses highlight an important distinction between "offensive" (the word used by @sjtgraham) and "racist". While it is always a good rule of thumb to seek not to offend, often we might waive that to aid humour or to bring out a point. In this case I suspect the OP (OC?) was trying to mock (in turn to highlight the uniformity of the Apple leadership team), by clever reversal, the common occurrence of some white people's inability to differentiate between people of other colours (I am brown, my sons at school are frequently referred to by names of other Indian kids, some who have graduated and left the school 3-4 years ago; that's hardly racist, or even offensive, especially in comparison to the lack of women and minority in positions of leadership and power).
- The hospital industry is a monopolized cartel - you usually need the approval of existing hospitals in an area before you can open your own.
- The insurance industry is a cartel - there are extreme compliance costs that only a few big players can take care of.
- Employer provided insurance is subsidized.
- Most 'reform' of health care in the US has punished individual insurance holders while strengthening the employment-based insurance system further strengthening third-party payment systems including increasing lists of 'must-cover' mandates for health insurance.
- McCarran-Ferguson act exempted health insurance from a competitive national market.
- The culture and institutional incentives in US healthcare push towards extreme capital-intensive expenditures and cut down on labor-intensive expenditures even when its not cost effective for the procedures that the patients require. Hospital beds get more expensive per day while extremely unlikely to succeed procedures like proton therapy expand further.

This paper is very illuminating and comprehensive: http://c4ss.org/content/2088. Please have a look even if you disagree with the solutions and the ideology of the author. I assure you it will be worth your time.
Put one of these on wheels:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/3/4180118/google-owned-buffer...
As Linux stalks Windows poor countries will benefit
The primary reason of Stanford's success is the availability of high risk capital from local angels and VC firms. ATL has no such setup which prevents Tech's startup environment from being like Stanford's. It will remain so for foreseeable future.

Also, most of the ATL companies are bootstrapped and there is no cultural of handing out liberal stock options. This greatly reduces the number of early stage investors created due to exit events.

Now, ATL is a great place to bootstrap and start B2B companies. But that requires certain work and life experience.
I graduated from GT a couple years ago, and I have to agree with everyone who is saying they wish this had been around sooner. I wasn't interested in startups until after I graduated (read: I didn't KNOW I was interested). I always knew that I liked building and creating things, and I always struggled to feel engaged in a majority of my classes. Great job to those who started this. Hopefully all those struggling like I did will find their passion sooner than I was able to.
I think this is cool, so I say good job on that front. But I kind of feel like you're trying to introduce yet another low end sedan. There's already hundreds, and I've already purchased one. It's gonna take at least a few more years for me to be ready to shop for a new one.
The problem with BME is that there are way too many regulatory hurdles to clear, making the barrier to entry very high.
/g/ has finally managed to make this somehow usable?

Well, congratulations.
No doubt. Don't get me wrong, there's obviously excesses when it comes to life hacking, or entrepernurialism, or anything, and it's fine to pushback with reasoned arguments. However, IMO, Morozov's contrarianism leaves little room for a healthy spectrum, and devolves quickly into "look at those tech freaks!"
When self driving cars become popular, the double parking issue could be solved, by many ways from parking automation , to regulation(even by the people living in the building), to the problem not being there at all, since nobody would own cars.

And conveyors are pretty reliable in industry.
>I'm not trusting a messaging service whose marketing site I can't even reach

You would rather trust a huge corporation instead of a community-developed project?
This is technically a neat app, congrats for launching it.

However, I don't think many parents look to browse names based on prefix/suffix/infix. You may wish to add additional filters (based on what sort of census data you have).

Some ideas:

* Show only popular or only unique names

* Show modern names (recently popular)

* Show traditional names (long history)

* Show names with recent rising popularity

* Show names with historical popularity (that may have fallen out of use)

* Show names with similar histories (this would allow you to add a very important feature: "I like this name, show me related names!")

Finally, your graph feature is very nice; some of my favorite baby-naming books show this. But it's not very discoverable. You could make the name look more like a link, or show some graphics in your header as a demo.
A solution that's a bit more portable than a refrigerator: do a web search for "conductive fabric".

Buy some and use it (perhaps inside a lining of regular fabric) to create a pouch or a bag. Put your phone(s) in there.
Yes, it was made on 4chan's /g/ imageboard.
Or continue to import it for half the price. Yay, status quo.
They weren't really competing with Aero/Quartz, the most direct competition would be Android/iOS and the abomination known as WinRT. I don't know what happened in 2010 or so, but it seems like all the GUI developers collectively decided to jump off the same cliff by gutting the desktop experience and trying to re-create it for tablets; never mind that there's still a whole bunch of people that would like to use a GUI on non-tablet devices.
Cash. And I never "registered" it online (intentionally).
Tumblr Shuts Down Popular Blogger
Apple once again in a leadership transition as hardware leader
Oh?

You know what? I'm glad that all these political stories are making the front page. You may not care about privacy on the internet but I do. I care about it _a lot_.

Though I am a flawed being in many ways I would love to leave this world in better shape than when I got a hold of it. That's not going to happen if we bury our head in the sand when the shit gets real. And it's getting real.

I have spent years being a free and open-source software evangelist. That means I care deeply about the freedoms surrounding computing platforms. Turns out governments were doing an end run round all that. Big deal, so I can connect my shiny new freedom-loving Linux box to the very non-free internet. The internet is _the_ computing platform that binds us all together. The spooks are destroying the internet.

This is not just any old politics. This is all about privacy on the internet. It's about wiretapping the internet pipes. It's about snooping on everybody's conversations. It's about mass surveillance.

We've almost got our very own panopticon.

And you want to yack on about yet another web framework or javascript library or css library or whatever. That kind of stuff excites me too but right now maybe we got more pressing business? We are the people who actually understand the capabilities and implications of these political news stories. Your average Joe on the street doesn't know his RAM from his hard-drive.

These recent political stories are at the intersection of a lot of stuff that I care very passionately about. Code + philosophy.

HN has not been "holed below the waterline". Provocative and poetic and all as that image may be. And what do you advocate? Political (self)censorship. Really? If HN gets censored I suspect many will leave.
Personally if you are a jr programmer on one of my teams I would be unimpressed if you felt the need to aggressively pursue external meetings so you could just sit and listen, or spend work time meeting with the CFO to discuss how much we pay the auditors.

Get to work, it's what you're being paid for. Don't forget that.
Bad news probably for mainstream market adoption, but I don't agree that negative legislation necessarily removes incentives to buy bitcoins/drives the Bitcoin value down. Black market status has increased the price/value of certain goods, such as drugs.

Especially in countries with highly inflatonary currencies, or countries with strong currency controls, the black market demand for Bitcoin could be huge.