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"most people don't need anything else"

It may seem that way, but the average person is not so hopeless. Most people do not know what their computers can do for them other than a web browser. If, however, you take the time to show them, you might be surprised.

My mother once thought that web browsing was computing. Then she got a digital camera and, out of necessity, learned how to scale down images (at that time, sending full-resolution images to people was infeasible). Eventually she learned that she could do more -- she could remove red-eye, switch people's heads, create various jokes that earned a lot of laughs on the job. Now she cannot imagine a computer that lacks photo editing software.

One day recently she told me she wanted to get a TiVO and was asking for my advice. I said, "Why not just use the computer you have?" and I helped her set that up. MythTV was too complicated for her -- she is actually more comfortable using cron to schedule recordings. I wrote a small script for her to make recording a little easier, and occasionally have to help her with transcoding when she wants to watch a video on her Android tablet (but mostly she can do that herself). Already she has saved more money than the extra hardware cost, and while the process looks ugly and lacks a remote control, it works for her.

Now, maybe my mother is exceptional, but I think you'll find that most people can do more with their computers than you expect if you bother to teach them or nudge them in the right direction. In the worst case, you might just have to write a few scripts and a simple UI if you are dealing with someone who is too intimated by a terminal. On the other hand, when you give someone the expedient solution that "just works" but that is based on the idea that they are too stupid to do anything, you trap them and prevent them from doing anything more.
I'd call glowing outlines around objects in the dark "glare" and not "halos". From the reading I did before getting LASIK back in April, "halos" can occur in people with very large pupils. So in the dark, your pupils will grow larger than where the flap is cut. So you'd see this phantom circle in the dark all the time.

The glare is annoying, but I purchased a new set of glasses (I know, right?) with no correction and anti-reflective lenses. These help quite a bit when driving at night or working on the computer when my eyes are tired.

Going into my surgery, I told the doc I didn't care if I needed reading glasses (we all probably will), glasses to drive or to work at the computer. Having gone from between a -5 and -6 to 20/15 vision, I am very very happy with the results.
At my country it's also over-utilized, yet, you often see cars going slow, and then you do stop, for no reason, that can't be good for the little throughput you have left.

It won't fix it then, but it should help.
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> Oh, and is "looking" really an adjective?

Among other things.

"looking" is a actually a present participle; this form functions as a part of a compound verb used in forming continuous tenses, as a noun, and as an adjective.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/present_participle
I think of renewables' higher cost as basically paying up front for the fuel instead of over time. At least that's how it should be thought of economically.
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get a galaxy mega or sony xperia ultra, both 6.3in
there is a gap to a nexus 7, but not a big one.
for me they are far too large, but try them..
>PageRank has been around, there have been people exploiting how it works for their own personal gain

Yeah, they change the approach to attack exploiters. The idea there is One True Way that will never need defensive measures feels a bit like "We can engineer a solution!" type approach. It seems all that's really needed is ongoing effort to fight exploitation.
The article is terrible when read from the perspective of a developer. But it does touch on something - often here on HN, start up culture and wider tech-centric sites if a technology is mainstream, not release 0.001 its not considered worthy of attention or praise and gets an unhealthy amount of sour grapes. Java/JVM is ubiquitous in our field and has been quietly getting the job done for over 15 years in that sweet spot of fast, server-centric applications. I'm looking forward to v1.8 where it will pick up the features needed to keep it an essential tool.
"— We're all basically idiots when it comes to merging."

We know.
It is generally used as an appeal against a lower court decision, so the case is held against the decision of the lower court, which represents the government. However the initial case does not have to be to do with government interfering with speech and can be to do with the actions of a company.

"In 2001 a journalist at the Financial Times (FT) received a copy of a leaked document about a possible company takeover by Interbrew. The FT published the document and three other newspapers (The Times, The Independent and The Guardian) and the news agency Reuters, also reported on the issue and referred to the leaked document. Interbrew brought proceedings against the news groups seeking to identify who leaked the document to the FT. The UK Court of Appeal ordered the FT’s journalistic source to be disclosed to Interbrew, using a common law principle (the Norwich Pharmacal principle) and the Contempt of Court Act.

The newspapers and news agency applied to the European Court of Human Rights, relying on the Article 10 right to freedom of expression. The Court held that the disclosure order interfered with the right to freedom of expression. The Court emphasised the chilling effect of journalists being seen to assist in the identification of anonymous sources. It found that Interbrew’s interests in finding the source of the leak did not outweigh the public interest in the protection of journalistic sources."

http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/human-rights/human-ri...
With the 1.0 beta release of Ceylon, it is pretty clear the JVM is still a pretty useful basis for new languages... http://ceylon-lang.org/blog/2013/09/22/ceylon-1/
More than 50% of PCs in China are infected? That seems unbelievably high.
From his academic page,

"I am a PhD Student in Cyber-Law at the University of Strathclyde. I am researching the effects, limits and the legitimacy of regulation and law in cyberspace. I am currently researching what “activates” the active dot in the active/pathetic dot matrix within the context of cyber-legitimacy. My interests are governance -Internet and Corporate, copyright, trademarks, social media and Internet Regulation. I lecture part of Internet Law and am a tutor for Internet Law, Commercial Law, Business Law, Legal methods, and Voluntary Obligations."

Emphasis mine. He is a graduate student who also teaches.
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
How many web developers still support IE6?

http://www.ie6countdown.com/
What inner city kids know about social media, and why we should listen
Cue traffic jam of cars with no drivers because they are trying to get to their next passenger/base.
I read the comments first, and was expecting some very negative article.

It's not. It talks about both the positives (this is solar power that can run at night) and the negatives (it's expensive).
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The string of tweets in the link imply that he was pulled out of line as a direct consequence of the initial tweet about the active duty soldier being inconvenienced.

Also, because the columnist holds a law degree and is working on his PhD in law, the implication is that he would (should!) be more careful about what he says in writing and may understand the consequences (or lack thereof) of his actions at a better 'instinctual' level than others.

Based on these two weak lines of reasoning, I'm more inclined to lean towards events playing out as he outlined. I agree that it would be better for EasyJet to corroborate the sequence of events.

>Frankly, I find it hard to believe that gate staff of a delayed flight are monitoring Twitter and comparing it to their passenger manifests in realtime.

If we believe the columnist's story, this is the weird thing. How did EasyJet respond so quickly to the tweet?

That's quite a feat of coordination, since usually social media PR agencies are contracted to monitor consumer sentiment and feed summarized reports back to the brand marketing or in-house PR teams.

In this instance, there would have had to have been the following sequence of events for this to have happened:

* Something (person or process) monitoring the EasyJet brand on all social media channels (Twitter, Facebook, media property comment sections, etc.)

* Sending/alerting the appropriate backoffice and frontline teams

* Cross-referencing the identity of the tweeter with EasyJet logistics (i.e. which plane was delayed, tweeter profile picture)

That chain is impressive. Presumably, a frontline employee (i.e. gate personnel) took over at this point.

If we believe the rest of this story and tweets, the frontline employee looked at the twitter profile, presumed that he was a lawyer, told their manager, and tried to deny the columnist the ability to board citing that because he was a lawyer he should "know better".
We already have an IDE, it's called emacs.
There's also a mission where you go to "LifeInvader" headquarters and kill a character who looks decidedly like Zuck. LifeInvader has many details that make it a great parody of a SV tech company (and the logo even uses the FB font).
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not far fetched at all
> How much of a "market" was there in XCMDs?

There was something of a free and paid market for these, but it never really took off. Discoverability was an issue in those days.

> Beyond disks, did anyone ever host anything that looked like a repo on the early Net?

Not that I remember.
> why PDF?

I wanted to ask the exact question. Nobody sits down and read it from the beginning, and without links, there is no point of a PDF.
of course HTML5 video requires javascript because html can't play video, it javascript decoder that plays video.
He is not bashing Java per SE but a special kind of Java: Enterprise Java and IMO that deserves a bashing on general principle. Enterprise Java just never seems appropriate.
There is also the option of owning a car but having it drive paying people around during the day while you are at the office amortizing the cost the car against it's utility.

You'd get off a plane in a foreign city hit Web2point0nameforcarservice.com and a car would drive up (sending you a picture of the car and it's license to you and your details to the site (so we know who to bill if you throw up in the car for example)).

This way you spread the cost of owning a car but it's available to you if you want to go away for the weekend (since you just mark it as out of service).

It's going to be a wild ride (pun intended).
A lot of people don't know this because they're used to blindly agreeing to terms and accepting them as "the truth," but clauses which are not legal cannot be enforced. If they deny boarding for just any random reason they choose, the airline accepts that they may be subject to legal penalties.

Denying boarding is more than merely refusing a private service. It's effectively revoking freedom to travel. It can also be more than simply an inconvenience to miss a flight. Even when merely overbooking passengers through no malice at all, European airlines are required to pay significant fees to customers who must miss flights. This is true in the U.S. as well due to the precedent set after Nader v. Allegheny Airlines, 426 U.S. 290 (1976). Airlines attempt to offer vouchers, but you are entitled to cash payouts.

I once made an actual profit from a trip to Europe because Lufthansa overbooked us and paid more per ticket in fees than the cost of my flights and hotels.
There are rules that allow US Federal judges to do the same, but the default expectation is that in most litigation each side will pay their own attorneys fees. In certain narrow areas, such as civil rights litigation, the presumption goes the other way.

In my experience most judges are very reluctant to order fee shifting in the absence of a specific statute because, among other reasons, it can be grounds for a malpractice action against the attorneys.
a ripoff/clone of http://shancarter.github.io/mr-data-converter - years old
As someone living in Oakland with friends on the peninsula, I've gotta say that particular haul is a bit more of a pain than it seems like it should be. Of people who are somehow anchored (partner, property), you'll reach more of them in SF than in Oakland or Mountain View - their commute will suck, instead of being basically impossible. Of course, most startup workers are not terribly anchored, and picking an end gives more of an option to affordably have a commute that doesn't suck. So it's certainly a question of tradeoffs.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/18/pandora-ipad-app-lo...

I am late, deleting. This isn't worthy of HN
Huge step backwards from the courier concept, which could encompass all of the touch covers on the second screen..
A system could prioritize vehicles based on something like number of people per unit road surface.
I had LASIK done and had the halos, but they are now gone 1.5 years later. I also had bad dry eye in the morning for a while - that's also gone.
The article just mentions the perverse result that drivers drive closer to cyclists wearing helmets. That's just one aspect of how poorly most drivers drive near cyclists.

Imagine being able to ride your bike in complete safety because the car behind you is literally incapable of running you over.
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I'd heard that there were brutal scenes of torture in GTA V, but I had no idea.
Additionally, self driving cars would leave you free to read or surf the web during your commute. If you're relaxing and not driving, who cares if the commute takes a few more minutes...this would lead to a lot less lane changing, tail-gating, cutting people off, and many other causes of accidents and braking.
Remember Pathways into Darkness? AFAIK that was their very first game. Brutally hard, and revealed the story in a similar fashion.
This point of view is perilously shortsighted; even I, a die-hard Linux fan, realize that nothing is forever. Someday (some would argue that day is today ;), nobody will be using Linux seriously as a desktop system with GNOME. Linux may not be around forever, and even if it is, one thing history has taught us is that it won't be the same.

On top of all that, it's never wise to turn down an opportunity to test code against multiple targets (hardware, operating systems, compilers, etc). You'd be amazed at the bugs such testing flushes out.
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Why? Configuration is a sysadmin or at best devops area. In my experience, most developers want to write software on a machine that gets out of their way.

They may need a particular flavor of Linux to test on, but those are typically server builds anyway, so not great for everyday computing. That's what solutions like Vagrant or cheap cloud servers are for.
Is long term storage necessary?

Couldn't a coal powered plant be fitted with solar to create a hybrid solution where coal burning kicks in when the clouds come out?

edit: The idea being that you can piggy back on the infrastructure already in place at power plants?
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It must be mental masturbation day here on HN.
Small high speed enclosed golf carts that drive you to the office, drive off and charge themselves then either move the next person or wait for you to finish before driving you home.

I'd love one of those, you could even have a pool of larger internal combustion engined ones if you know your trip is going to exceed the range of the golf cart.
The performance metrics for some JVM-based technologies are really impressive but I continue to see performance problems with Java (the language) based software. In my field, very high speed network data processing work is done with C/C++ out of necessity.
Said middle manager would be higher up. There is no "middle" to manage at the gate. It's probably a bored jobsworth in the operations center that was keeping an eye on the @easyJet feed. Maybe he discussed it with a colleague or two and they stirred up a frenzy. Maybe someone had just been at sensitivity sensibility training and used his newfound knowledge to identify the tweet as threatening.

Many scenarios are possible, and we can't expect easyJet to air their dirty laundry, so we probably won't know exactly what. What is completely inconceivable is that there is a company-wide policy that came into effect (and was subsequently immediately withdrawn this morning) to hunt down and deny boarding to passengers that criticizes easyJet on Twitter.
Make the comment into Javadoc, add some more modifiers, increase the method names and I think you're well on your way.
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I honestly can't do it justice. See what Steve has to say.
http://blog.lastpass.com/2010/07/lastpass-gets-green-light-f....

Also consider linking to a yubikey.
https://helpdesk.lastpass.com/security-options/multifactor-a...

EDIT: DO NOT FOR ANY REASON DO THIS
>for this reason I recommend writing your passwords down on a piece of paper you keep in your wallet or purse.

I cannot respond directly to Munin but anyone who suggest that is going to lead you to this http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10276460/David-...

Someone could get a hold of your wallet and take a pic of your passwords then put them back and you'd never know you'd been compromised. And Lastpass uses the trust no one mentality so you don't have to trust them. They never see your password it's encrypted using your password and yubikey if you have one.
i was slightly stunned that this is not common sense: "experiments show that humans are really bad at judging the speed of an oncoming train at a crossing until it's nearly arrived" if you've ever seen this at e.g a train station even, is painfully obvious that your perception of this is terrible - trains in the distance look really slow.

level crossings have been very common here in the uk for a long time... open crossings are the exception rather than the rule, and you have to go far out of your way to find them.
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Am I the only one to think of this when Flexbox was mentioned?

http://www.flex-box-racing.com/
For his defense, EasyJet staff is the worse, by far. I can't figure out why they are so unbearable.
Using calendar view to see patterns in financial data
Why I wore the same outfit every day for a year
Didn't know about C+S+U - thanks!
Hm. I guess my objection to using "foreigner" is that it sounds slightly pejorative. "Non-citizen", by contrast, sounds only descriptive. But I'd be fine with figuring out a different mainly-descriptive word. :)
I'd wear daily disposables for a week or two - if they fell out I'd just throw a new one in.
Is that a joke? [I mean both the quote and the retord]
Java is slow. It's going nowhere fast. LLVM on the other hand...
Depends upon the depth (and geometry) of the pond. Without convection, some of our intuition for thermal conductivity in liquids and gases is lost.

I'm not sold on the numbers, but I'm also not yet convinced of the idea's physical impossibility.
Perhaps a nice benefit of these plants, presumably, is that your operating costs don't change much due to changes in fuel costs (your fuel is free) and these plants ought to be somewhat easier to site / approve than a nuclear plant.
Alexa's list is a good idea. You'd still need to curate considerable though - that would be the only issue. For example, Shutterstock is listed as the #16 news site on Alexa.
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But how will some define their superiority? By not using semi-colons?
Yeah - imagine apple did this - there would be a scandal. But this is Google, so 'move along'.
"The first thing to fix is the economic incentive: when you lose a trial due to invalid or non-infringed patent, you have to be the one footing the bill."

What happens when a small inventor files for a patent dispute, and still loses due to financial muscle of the big company? This clause will just act as a deterrent for me to sue "Google/Apple" because I cannot afford to lose. They will bury me in debt if I go head against them.
He was bashing a programming language - you call it Enterprise Java - for laughs and karma, not seeing languages as tools you can use based on your judgement. I hope we once will grow beyond bashing.

[Edit] And this is the highest voted comment on a thread about how cool GTA V is to include programming references and how deep their open world is.
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the ads i've seen in the subway are from wag.com, which is indeed part of a generalized delivery service.
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This is one of the slickest implementation of a sketching app I've seen. The API is nice and the controls are self-explanatory. I've been working on a drawing app for the past few months (journeyship.com) and I'm considering replacing the main canvas with a sketching pad like this one.

For those of you who are curious about other projects out there that offer similar functionality, take a look at these:

http://www.createjs.com/#!/EaselJS/demos/drawing

http://fabricjs.com/freedrawing/

https://github.com/SketchIO/Sketch.js

https://github.com/literallycanvas/literallycanvas
Sorry to be pedantic about this (I'm an academic), but the fact that he tutors and lectures doesn't make him a lecturer. A law lecturer is someone who has been hired and holds that title. I taught a lot while doing my PhD, and I wouldn't have dared to call myself anything other than a PhD student. If anything, my level of suspicion has gone up.
> Java applets are dead, and should be. Great idea poorly executed.

I think Microsoft killed the applets when it stopped upgrading the java plugin in IE. Applets were challenging MS dominance on the desktop. They kept it that way until java script came along.
John McAfee vows to make Internet 'impossible to hack' in Silicon Valley return
so, if the government listens to your phone calls and emails and prevents you from saying certain things, that's bad, but if the phone company/ISP does the same thing, that's good.
I think, logically, the question we should ask you is, "Why are you considering making a news aggregator site when you don't have the time to curate/determine which sources are good sources?" As a user, when I see a site that has "a list of news articles", I'm utterly underwhelmed and/or intimidated by the sheer number of articles. However, when I see a site that has a list of articles from good sources that I'd find interesting, I'll bookmark it.
Sure, you can sit and watch your funding and market opportunity slip away as you wait and wait and wait to land just exactly the right set of "A people."

Or you can get the best people in the door on a reasonable timescale and salary, and start building and learning.
Speak for yourself. Not everyone using clojure uses emacs.