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Malaysia's prime minister tweets that he met Zuckerberg at Twitter HQ yesterday
This was my first thought when i heard about steam OS - currently I've forced the official Microsoft driver onto my Chinese knock-off wireless receiver, will that work on steamOS? i don't know...
I remember when I first moved to Linux, six or seven some odd years ago for the first time, and I researched a good media player. I went, unlike others with mplayer, with VLC. It was one of the first projects that made me think "how are proprietary software companies not embarrassed to compete with this, it is SO much better!"

Thank you guys. You are true FOSS heroes.
This article lacks substance. Martha Stewart may not have it in for patent trolls at all. It may be that she's a big target and her council has advised her to make an example out of any patent trolls that approach her. This could also mean that she has lawyers that are interested in racking up big bills.
Detroit Spent Billions Extra on Pensions
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One more please, kind sir: david.i.noel@gmail.com
Sigh. The point is legislating against covert acts is inherently ineffective. This was long after Castro, and I am asking some 15+ years later if people still even weigh this when considering things like UAV strikes. Technically, assassinations are not legal for USG employees. It is very clear.
Naturally occurring natural gas typically contains impurities such as thiols, mercaptans, and hydrogen sulfide which are strongly smelling. These impurities are not always present though, and they tend to be removed during industrial processing, which is why additional odorants are added.
>Maybe if all male CS majors started working out regularly,female enrolment would improve?

Well, I don't see male enrollment being that high for air-stewardresses or female enrollment being that high for fire departments either.
I had StartSSL certs for a .ST site and it worked fine.
Steve Jobs’ Superyacht Looks Like it Was Designed by Steve Jobs
How does Martha Stewart have the motivation and resources that Apple doesn't? I'm skeptical.
Who is going to App Developer's Conference?
> a photon giving rise to a virtual e-/e+ pair that immediately annihilates back into a photon

i'm been wondering about validity of virtual particle trick - while it is preserves charge, etc... doesn't it violates entropy principle of the 2nd law, ie. a pair of e-/e+ seems to have less entropy than the original/resulting photon, thus e-/e+ always happy to produce a photon, while photon would never produce e-/e+ pair without "help".
The most honest cities in the world
No they are not? How are they intertwined? One is language, one is style.

That is not even mentioning that "ISO 8601 Data elements and interchange formats – Information interchange – Representation of dates and times" puts Monday as day one.

Plus all the clients that aren't broken and can separate language from style.

Oh well, I think I got trolled -.-
There are many use cases for stepping forwards and backwards between frames in a video; it's not nearly as niche as you suggest :)

This is, in fact, far and away my biggest complaint about VLC. You can say it's slow, but it's just a matter of caching the frames, something that QuickTime seems to have no problem with for the formats it supports.
> Now as the "PC" market moves to more turnkey solutions, nothing has yet backfilled the void being left behind.

I don't understand. I can buy a very powerful PC at very low cost from any nearby mall. I can build one custom from components I buy at NewEgg or Amazon. I can get a Mac with its great fit and finish. I can choose Windows, Linux or OS X.

What void? Nothing went away. Workstations are better and cheaper than ever. Go buy one.

I would like a better screen, I'm not interested in the Metro interface, and the new MacPro has no internal slots. There's not much excitement happening in desktops/workstations, sure. But they didn't go away.
This movement looks so incredibly natural. This leg looks like something from Deus Ex Human Revolution
A More Flexible Development Framework.
Just signed up for the Berlin event; would be my first time at an Apple event so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

For people who have attended a previous event: How long before the actual events did you get your invite?
I hope not. I've just switched (long-term, I hope) to Opera out of complete disgust with Google and a lingering disgust with Firefox. It's nice to have choices.
Microsoft + Nokia: Now We’re All Like Apple
Apart from the cheesy look of the logo, that actually looks much better, nicer and cleaner than the monstrosity they are serving today.

It gives the user a very good, immediate overview of the results without bad, distracting UI noise all over the place. Sometimes less is definitely more.

Not that it bothers me much though, I've long switch to duckduckgo. They are actually innovating at this search-engine game, much unlike Google.
I suspect if this idea was not coming from Wheeler/Feynman, it would be readily dismissed as a crackpot theory :)
More or less I think, they bought AdMarvel.
> I have a theory that cocaine, and later crack cocaine, were really the downfall of the United States from the late 70's to late 80's.

Ok, then do science and report findings. Or find studies that back up your theories.
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Ask HN:  How does readwrite.com make money? 
This is a faily well known site, but I don't see any advertising on the site anywhere. How do they make money?
Maybe it's partly because Firemen's work is hard and physically demanding and your average firemen doesn't look like what you average woman imagines.

On the matter of most of us CS "geeks" and "nerds" looking not-so-attractive, it is simply because a lot of our lives happen online where your physical appearance doesn't matter and while growing up most of us didn't go to the popular kids parties and that way learn how to be social and look/dress confidently, so in a way if more females would be interested in CS and would pick up some of the worst cases the image of the whole group would rise in few generations, but that's not going to happen.

I feel like most CS majors only get hang of social etiquette and learn how to dress attractively after graduating.
clickable: http://www.readwrite.com

Also, thenextweb.com is the same way, I hardly see ads on that site.
You can do that with Chrome, Firefox and Safari as well - check out my project tmpbrowser, which is a simple app that creates temporary throwaway browser sessions:

https://github.com/nikcub/tmpbrowser
3D Printing 2.0 - Democratizing Design
That was standard trade craft back then. Everybody did it.
I remember eule.de [1] which was one of the best German search engines back in 1997 :)

[1]: http://web.archive.org/web/19970418094812/http://www.eule.de...
There are some licensing and patent issues around FaceTime it seems. Apple shouldn't have so publicly promised that they'll open it up in all reality.
300 Sandwhiches
Seems to be the case across the surrounding region

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/johann-hari...
Ever thought about Medium? I haven't used it myself, but I've heard good things.
> I think you have to realize that nobody wants to me "desktop computers" because the margins you have to make in order for that to work aren't available at the moment.

Let's regress further. Why are margins so slim in the desktop computing market? Well, for starters, aside from Apple, there are no non-windows desktop vendors worth talking about. And Apple doesn't license their OS.

So the Windows tax has basically crippled the PC market innovation-wise. And Microsoft has done little to promote progression in PC standards in the past 10 years.

Microsoft and Apple have given up on the desktop market (Apple because they discovered they could print money by making smartphones, and Microsoft because they're a monopoly that gets their money innovation or not).
> Pretty fascinating that this guy's life story was essentially stolen...

If that interests you, have a look at the real 50 cent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin_Martin
>Placing the emphasis on society, I believe, dilutes the great importance of the decisions of the individual. In life you should take responsibility for your own actions first.

I guess that's also a difference between different country's philosophies.

For me, taking "responsibility for your own actions" is a bad advice when there's stuff that needs to change at the societal level. We wouldn't say that about an issue we deem important, like racism.

We understand there that it's not just what some person believes or not, but also certain general norms, distractions, laws etc that effect this, and we strive to change those.

What I say is that technological change should be seen with the same critical eyes, not just as a inevitable constant each one should put up with or shut up, but as in "do we, as a society want to progress in this or that way? What world would we rather live in?".
Google chat being routed to the wrong contacts
Cubism: A D3 Plugin For Visualizing Time Series
Starship Size Comparison Chart
Google in 1998
I made no case for absolving people of all their responsibility, just for accepting that conditions differ for different people, and the responsibility may not entirely lay with them. By refuting the absolute put forth, I'm not proposing the opposite absolute.

It's trivially provable that some vanishingly small percentage of people have no choice in life (e.g. die/incarcerated until death while young through no fault of their own). Accepting that, I think it's logical to conclude that some circumstances will negatively impact you more than others, and affect your chances at success. That does not resolve people of responsibility, but in my mind it does make a case for compassionate handling of poor circumstances.
WhoisUP v0.2 released
Not an artist and I use my stylus constantly with my Surface for note taking. I probably wouldn't have bought one separately without having tried, but I'm glad it came with one.
If I remember correctly, fastmail representatives have (here on HN) promised that they were planning a move from US-based datacenters to European datacenters, if not completely, offering it as an option for people who wanted it.

I'd love to get this confirmed, and some news on when I can expect to have my account hosted in Europe.

US datacenters is pretty much a no-no these days.
Or maybe it won't - it could just be implemented by firmware. If the computing power is there on the silicone some talented engineers could always find ways to use it. And this is not without benefits for nVidia - they could obsolete old 5xx cards that still got year or two life in them left.

And if the benefits of the api are so great as claimed than performance could go so high that for 1080p it will just don't matter if nVidia is slightly slower.

It is funny that Valve and AMD do for PC gaming what I claimed in 2001-2 MS should do - I called it game mode then. Unload everything but the TCP/IP stack and give all the resources to a game.
yeah it figures such blatant pandering towards regressive notions of gender roles would resonate with some people in this website
Indians hiring detectives to snoop on prospective brides and grooms.
Sputnik with Haswell is coming (Dell XPS13 Developer Edition)
Project Sputnik lead, Barton George, confirms Haswell based XPS13 is coming in the "near distant future".
Steve Jobs:

"When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that’s what you needed on the farms. Cars became more popular as cities rose, and things like power steering and automatic transmission became popular.

PCs are going to be like trucks. They are still going to be around…they are going to be one out of x people.

This transformation is going to make some people uneasy…because the PC has taken us a long ways. It’s brilliant. We like to talk about the post-PC era, but when it really starts to happen, it’s uncomfortable."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20006442-56.html
Back then people didn't care their site will leak PR ;)
419-million-year-old fish fossil resolves 'missing link' in evolution
Instagram Icon Concept
According to the patent other people in here have already linked, the feature of the gamepad will be that it uses "modules". Modules like directional pads, touch pads or trackballs. You will stick these modules into the pad and they will use interfaces within the controller.

Not sure just how sturdy the thing will be, all this talk about separate components being stuck together by the user sounds kinda fragile. But if it is, you will be able to configure your pad just the way you want.
The solution to patent trolls is a simple change to the law: patents should only be used to recover actual damages to an existing business from infringers, not force licensing fees.

That way patents could only be asserted against direct competitors that copied your design. Since patent trolls have no real business they'd have no actual damages.
> were in danger of not getting reelected if it didn't

I'd rather say this would only occur if they were in danger of being lynched if it didn't. Losing a reelection has never been a huge incentive to put government power in question. On the contrary they'd rather lose once and come back in 5 years with the same powers in place (or more).
No mention of canceling?
I'm guessing that most Google Alerts are "vanity alerts," as your examples suggest. The putative decline of the service could thus fit with the idea that such functions are meant to be subsumed by Google+.
Law or an MBA are easier and have the potential to pay better.
"Changing out the 3d driver to be pluggable in a backend-agnostic way will be extremely hard/annoying to code around."

I hear that the Gallium3D project has done a substantial part of that work already:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium3D
Using SMS/Text messages would be great idea if they were reliable. There are no delivery guarantees or confirmation of delivery. You will be upset when your carrier delays delivering a message for 30 minutes and your table is given someone else. A sender gets no indication a message hasn't been delayed or even delivered.

Also, lets say you are on vacation in a foreign country and the only way to know when your table is ready is to get a message. Good luck with that! I've had bad experiences where ~10% of messages sent to foreign (different +NNN) mobile numbers are never received.

Apple's iMessage has much better delivery properties, but it is limited to iOS to iOS.
> that's not what people are insisting on when they talk about their right to get paid for their work. What they're talking about are the copies that do get made without any payment in return

Getting paid for work and getting paid for selling a copy are not the same thing. The former usually requires some kind of agreement to be made beforehand, the latter requires salesmanship.

The problem with conflating the two is when the sense of entitlement it brings to artists who are unable to sell their work. That sense of entitlement is what makes them equate an illegitimate copy with a lost sale (the way you also seem to do), when everybody knows that is almost never the case.
You're welcome to dismiss my argument as a series of platitudes, but you should also agree to allow me to dismiss your story as a platitude, about how you were so determined not to be poor that it drove you to succeed.

I'm not actually dismissing your story -- I am in no position to judge fairly -- but I'm trying to point out that the fundamental attribution bias and the closely related actor-observer bias (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%E2%80%93observer_bias) are both powerful. What if your personality type made it such that you had a high likelihood of success whether you were rich or poor?

Finally, with all this talk about "choice", let me go ahead and throw out a controversial statement: we have a lot less free will than we want to believe we do.
I can't speak for Opera but if you take a look at their latest browser in iOS (only available for the iPad) it will give you some hope in the direction Opera is going. The browser, "Coast" as they call it is a pretty nifty, well crafted and thought out browser.

My guess is they're trying going for a niche product and are focusing on what's important to them rather than try to get their feet wet in every market.
A couple of laws will never be enough to stop the NSA's antics (including probably also the CIA's and FBI's).

It's out of control, anything short of "desperate" measures will not correct the issue.
I'm totally with you. I couldn't care less about all the marvelous games you can play with each new device people stand in line for. What I'm waiting for is the perfect PDF reader for my thousands of PDF books and articles.
Its not about tight coupling. It is about one system supporting a feature, and the other "alternatives" not supporting it. So the choice becomes one between better software and compatibility.

"Choice" just means you are stuck coding for the lowest common denominator.
>needing to buy

That's a non issue. Valve would be stupid to start making Linux only games. The SteamMachine is for people who would want to play pc games in their living room but who don't have a PC anywhere close to connect it to the tv.

So now, they can get the Steam Machine. But since Linux based games on Steam are still a minority, people might say they don't want that "console" if it doesn't have much games so Valve set it up that you can stream every windows based game from your pc that can be anywhere in your home via lan to your SteamMachine.
You sir are an ignorant racist.
I dont really buy his arguments. I think the Surface2 is a good example of where the PC and Windows 8 is headed. For most people such a tablet with the option to use it as a desktop pc trough a docking station is all the computing they need. The Surface2 seems to do this job very well and with Haswell finally has decent performance and battery life.

In 5-10 years, i am pretty sure that the real desktop PCs will be for professionals only, while most consumers are using some mobile tablet/laptop hybrids.
I remember reading that one of the big money makers is Opera Mini. All the content viewed by that browser comes through proxies run by Opera. This means a HUGE amount of data that Opera can monetize on.
Why does the ipad need to be any different? Why can't all the hardware functionality be self contained in the stylus, and have it wirelessly convey signals to the ipad via Bluetooth or some such thing.
50 people in NYC’s tech scene that you need to know
Why you can’t find a technical co-founder
If you're looking for differences between frames, have you tried using a differencing algorithm, e.g. so every frame is subtracted from the previous frame? EffecTV (http://effectv.sf.net/) uses a variation of this technique to do interesting things like cloaking and hologram effects.
Doesn't make much sense to ditch webmail anyway. There are many ways in which webmail can help and promote their other products.
I am not in active PHP development anymore. Is "chmod 777" still as common in installation instructions as it was a decade ago? Have we learned nothing at all about security?

> Set the ‘TMP’ and ‘conf’ folders to chmod 777 (on *nix systems) or to writable permission (on Windows systems)
Wow, thanks. Narrative 1 on the 55th page [1] is quite intriguing.

http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/docs/rpsts/ped.pdf
6 times slower? This is bullshit.
It's totally responsive. Good grid system too.
Seriously? A stateless API is just OpenGL? This is not even wrong.
A lesbian couple I know travelled through west Africa and the middle east. They mentioned that Syria was far more welcoming than the stereotype suggests, and that they felt safe there. This was only a few years ago.

While I doubt they were openly advertising their homosexuality, they still were two women travelling alone, off the beaten path, which was enough to cause a lot of their friends back home to express concern.
Argh, PCs never died. I am reading this on a PC in an office full of PCs. I can't develop code for other people's PCs on a tablet - I couldn't develop code for a tablet on a tablet, it would be horrible. I need a PC.
What do users want and ask for vocally? Screens that aren’t garbage quality, resolutions that are not worse than mainstream laptops from 2007, SSD instead of error prone and driver dependent ‘hybrid’ garbage, an OS that isn’t grating to the user, decent Wi-Fi, good build quality, and a decent price.

Do they really ? Imo most consumer couldnt care less about any of that, its a tech savy minority that wants higher quality screens and SSDs. Thats exactly the reason why we are seeing zero innovation in the PC monitor space, because the market doesnt really care. It cares for price most importantly which leads to popularity of low res screens and slow HDDs in the first place.
BlackBerry Cancels Its 2Q2013 Earnings Call
Bug in Google Talk/Hangouts
They are already hosting in Iceland (but also, New York) [0]. I guess the next step would be to allow the customer to choose.

[0]: https://twitter.com/FastMailFM/status/382100278415081473
I see a solution to the problem. Delete your twitter account, now. It's hard to sustain willpower indefinitely but easy to use it in a burst long enough to delete an account.
I just updated from 2.0.8 and already notice a lot of improvements in 2.1.0. Pause/play and start/stop used to result in some unpleasant audible artifacts. Sounds much cleaner now. Same goes for changing playback speed.

I still think there's some weirdness going on with using F11 vs double-clicking to switch to full screen view for video playback.

Overall great job with this release.

BTW, I'm also loving the fact that I can use VLC on Android. I compiled it from source back when there were no binaries, currently am using the nightlies, and am looking forward to being able to get the stable releases in the app store eventually.
Both old and new AAA games are on Linux today. Tribes 2, Descent: Freespace, Brutal Legend, Psychonauts, Natural Selection 2, HL2, TF2, Unreal Tournament 2004, the X3 series... etc., etc., etc.

Unless Mantle is a shedload easier to work with than OpenGL 3.x, I don't see it speeding the development of the Linux Unreal Engine 4 port. ;)
Ask HN: What's the geekiest toy you bought for under 10 dollars
And where did you buy it ?
It's a good thing it's illegal, that way these people can fight it in the courts with all the access to legal assistance they have.

One of the biggest drawbacks to the libertarian 'fight-it-out-in-court' mindset is that it considers everyone to be equal, but only if they can afford a lawyer. The people that libertarianism fails the most are the people we're talking about right now.
Think Big Accelerator in Partnership with Microsoft Ventures
What a load of crap. So you saw the airport in Qatar, stayed in a 5-Star hotel in the UAE and caught a connection at Bahrain without ever actually speaking to a local??? I can tell you from my experience of living in the UAE for 3 years and regularly travelling to Saudi overland via Bahrain, the locals are just like people anywhere in the world - some crappy, most decent, and some really nice. Minor differences include the fact that they are generally more spoilt, and much more hospitable than people in the west. Most that I've spoken to care about the worker conditions, and would hate to see people hurt, though they worry about being a minority in their own countries, they find it hard to say no to the comfortable lure if unbridled capitalism and its shiny things.

How many of you have actually been to labour camps? I've been to a couple - I drove on (hardly a "prison") and was invited into the home of a worker, who bought me a juice. There were 6 guys living in a small space (about 10 feet by 20 feet), and they had a rota system for sleeping space. The place was clean and they had somehow managed to afford satellite TV.

Maybe don't be so quick to generalise next time?