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The last two points aren't that valid anymore when you compare it with an android/ios migration. People coming from the MS ecosystem will probably want to have the softs they had then, and it's most likely they'd have to look for an equivalent in the ubuntu/android/apple one, each of which sports an app market of some sort.

Also, GP was talking about his retired parents, who probaby don't play games that much, or have their favorite on Windows, so it's pretty much the same issue as above, though now steam is available on linux, and there are plenty of little games available on app markets.

I don't know netflix as a user (not US cit.), so can't comment much on that. I understand that before the streaming services, people used to get rented dvds by mail. It's a little bit a step back to return to that solution (if it still exists), but it's not that unbearable, imho.

Of course, if said parents are computer savy, then these issues might not weight that much (VMs).
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> As long as they don't watch Netflix.

Fair point, for now. But Chromebooks can access Netflix, so there's no reason why this can't be extended to Chrome on Linux in the near future.

> Or play games.

Steam for Linux and Steam OS (which is a Linux distro) will change this. Already pretty much every upcoming indie game is being developed for Linux in addition to other platforms, and there's already a substantial library of games.

> Or have any unsupported peripherals.

Very few of those exist nowadays.

> Or want to use any commercial consumer software.

And what 'commercial' consumer software are you talking about? Most software nowadays can be accessed through the browser, quite a bit is spreading to Linux, or there's an acceptable free substitute. Don't tell me a free office suite with Linux isn't compelling to the average consumer, especially now that sending documents as PDF is more socially acceptable than sending Word files...

I mean, I use Ubuntu exclusively, all native apps, while attending University, developing pet projects, and doing normal 'computer' things like using Skype, playing games, etc... I recently bough a Fujifilm X-A1 camera (great device BTW), and GIMP even works great for importing and developing RAW files...

I don't see what more the 'average' consumer needs - and don't say MS Office or Photoshop, because the vast majority of people don't 'need' them...
I think it makes a lot of sense that a project with OpenBSD's priorities does not publish its own bank information on the web.
It's a competitive environment, you take every advantage you can get, because so will the other guys. A public company in case you forgot is an institution designed to create value for share holders. So the fault is not with these companies but squarely on the idiotic governments with their ridiculous tax codes. They deserve everything they get as, to a lesser extent, do the people who vote for them.
All covered by anthropology, psychology, neuroscience, etc.

On that same point, I've never encountered a claim for "subjective" that amounted to more than "the decision requires information not consciously available to the specific individuals in the example."
It's not open source. The Linux client for xflux, the proprietary executable that f.lux runs on, is open source. Redshift is an open source Linux alternative.
Were the electronics comfortable for her?
You assume mental illness and not alcohosm nor drug use? That's a bit of a stigmatising guess.

In the UK there is a section of the mental health act (section 136) that allows a police officer to take someone to a place of safety and hold them there for upto 72 hours. The person has to be in a public place and the pice have to think that you have a mental illness and need care.

In many places in the UK the place of safety might be the local police cells, although there are a few specially built places of safety built near the mental health hospital for easy access.

http://www.rethink.org/living-with-mental-illness/police-cou...

Other countries have similar law.

It needs to be said that peoe with a mental health problem are more likely to be the victim, rather than a perpetrator, of violence.

It is frustrating that people have jumped to the conclusion of mental illness rather than, say, drug use.
A minimalist interface is fine but parts of HN are simply broken or suboptimal.
You know the 'middle class' is people making 250K+ right?

In most countries the middle class are doing fine and live well.

It appears that high school and middle school have done their job of building trust in US institutions. Yes, it's completely alright that Mr. Obama went from constitutional scholar to repeatedly lying to the public about the scope of surveillance in the country.

Remember the debate he wanted to have about surveillance but just forgot about having for 5 years? How about the rinse wash repeat of Grenwald says you're doing X, we're not doing X, here's your documents proving your doing X.

Ends justify the means right? Middle class is doing well, ghetto don't matter! Just wave a flag and say you're free!
Is it really social responsibility when they say someone else should do something?

They vote in a government to do it because that would increase taxes. They wont do it themselves because that will cost them time and money. Saying Google/Twitter/Company X should doesn't cost them anything but a wave of the finger.

I'm not seeing a lot of responsibility here.
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It's a system of checks and balances. It is getting weighted towards the Executive branch and Federal government, but that started in the early 1900's and hasn't stopped.
It's the Star Trek movie curse in reverse.
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I use BackBlaze for several hundred GB of data - and that's mostly over a 3Mb/s ADSL connection. It's been running for several years now and I can vouch for it being absolutely rock solid.
Making a terrible comment is one thing but why would you upvote it?
That's how I use it. If anything I click on a button that filters files, programs, or system settings.
It's really interesting the extent to which some people want to 'see the working' behind recommendations, while for others it's just clutter. I think some people want to build the mental model of what's going on, where others want it to feel like 'magic' (when it works, at least!)

I think my gut reaction against it is that people might reject a perfectly good recommendation because they didn't like the reasoning. For example, if we recommend something to Alex because Bob likes it, but Alex doesn't trust Bob's judgement, then Alex might reject the recommendation even if in practice she always enjoys the same things as Bob, she just doesn't realise it.

On the other hand, collecting feedback about whether the user agreed with the way the recommendation is made might be helpful in improving the way it works.

Definitely something to think about though.
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These costs are not much versus the costs of hiring developers.
Python is definitely not the de facto choice. Python and R both have strengths and weaknesses, and relative use depends quite a bit on community. A few recent surveys (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2014/01/in-data-scientis..., http://www.kdnuggets.com/2013/10/rexer-analytics-2013-data-m..., http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2013/09/top-languages-fo...) show strong growth for both R and python, and I expect that will continue in the future. There's no reason to limit yourself to one language, and knowing both R and python can only help. That said, you do need to be carefully about spreading yourself too thin, and you want to make sure you're an expert in at least one data analysis environment.
There seems to be 2 philosophical camps in the startup world when it comes to design/execution. There's the Rap Genius approach of make something wanted and get it out there asap even though it looks like crap. Then there's the we can only ship something that is beautiful design snobbery camp.

I guess it's obvious which one I favor. Maybe it's because I'm bad at design, but I tend to roll my eyes when someone says "Hey look at this new app, it's just like X but beautiful and well-designed"

Good job Rap Genius. I'll put this in my bookmark folder of links to show my designy friends.
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The low adoption levels for Windows 8/8.1 are a result of their own success: you have a set of robust/reliable older versions that are still doing their tasks just fine. If the corporate world does not see the benefit, then there is no hurry to chuck what they currently have in favor of the new stuff, no matter how good.
I personally like Win 8/8.1, (I admit, not for the Metro stuff) especially since I am a developer. The out of the box availability of Hyper-V seems super cool to me. It is so easy to build up new VMs (both Win and Linux). Also, you can boot directly off of a VHD VM, which is also pretty cool.

As I said, it is the business side of things that slows down the adoption in the corporate world. And to make it a double whammy, the consumer market is massively going to the tablet side.
what i find interesting (read: suspicious) is how they have seemingly prioritized and budgeted other things ahead of paying for electricity.

when i make budgeting decisions (whether personal or in business), i start with the needs before going to the "nice to haves". for openbsd, i can't help but assume powering their various servers/systems is kiiind of a priority...

so what i want to know is:
- the over all budget $ amount for 2014
- what was the cost of power in 2013
* how did you get to $20k for 2014?
- which priorities are worth funding over power

my suspicion is that there's plenty of room for give and take here.
"Worse is Better" is one of the slogans popular among small companies that want to stay small.
There was never such decision. Just MS could not ship anything for 4 years. Then after vista reboot in 2005, Sinofski put Windows back on track.
You've hit on the key point: human scale. Although Rudolph was quite good at human scale in his buildings unlike so many current architects, the absolute master of human scale in architecture was Frank Lloyd Wright.
It's easy to make a mistake when you are being so radical. I hope innovation (consistent modern cross-product GUI experience in this case) will pay off for Microsoft eventually.
A resource I've found invaluable and that I can't find listed is videolectures.net

Particularly http://videolectures.net/pascal/ has plenty of lectures and tutorials from their summer schools on very relevant topics for machine learning.
...and F5 load balancers, and A10 load balancers, and Tealeaf network monitoring, and helping animate battling orcs in Lord of the Rings trilogy, manages NBCs control room, runs astrological equipment, was involved with Mars Pathfinder programme, has excellent testing facilities (at the core of dejagnu (used for testing GCC, among other things)), and on, and on, and on.
This statement was made pre-9/11 - an event that changed many things. But even this wasn't a dramatic shift in his views. If anything, Bush's reaction to 9/11 reinforced the image he presented prior to his election. Whether you agreed with his views or not, few would argue that his reaction came entirely out of left field.

By contrast, this NSA/Obama issue proves that we simply don't know the person that is sitting in the White House right now. We only know that he lied through his teeth to get there.
" Linus' rants on the Linux kernel lists are almost cookie cutter copies of Theo's."

Linus is a jerk towards experienced maintainers. Theo is a jerk towards everyone. There is a big difference.

I can't be bothered to look for it right now, but there was an email on lkml where an inexperienced contributor basically asked "should i just give up?" and Linus chipped in with quite a friendly manner and mentioned how important contributions from everyone were to the project.
> Care to list some examples of such software?

The one I use is Classic Shell [1]. The current version is free (gratis) but not Free/Open Source. There is an earlier Open Source version.

> I don't think it's acceptable that I have to use third-party software (and most of it, last time I looked, was either additional cost or sketchy not-sure-if-free-or-spyware variety) just to make the thing usable.

IMO, its quite usable as-is, though I like the UI less for desktop/laptop use than the Win 7 UI because of the lack of the Start Menu, so I prefer to use the available third-party software to fix that; with that third-party software, I find it better than Win 7 entirely.

[1] http://www.classicshell.net/
You NEED someone called CEO because partners of various kinds need to know with whom the buck stops. That's the only reason.
Some features that come to mind:

Hiding new mail until a given clear-out session is finished.

A count-down icon with the number of email processings required to wrap up your current clear-out sessions.
Yeah, she couldn't tell at all. I used 30 AWG gauge wire, which is about as thin as thread, but is actually sheathed in a protective coat so that it doesn't short when it touches other wires.

Which was a good thing since there are 3 wires per strand (ground, data, and power), for a total of 18 wires connecting to a single Flora module. I also measured everything out a few times to make sure it wouldn't pinch or stretch uncomfortably.

The battery pack was mounted with elastic fabric to a part of the dress where there's a bit of slack (right above the stomach).
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Porn viewers must be outed. If Mr. O'Donovan isn't allowed to keep his pornography collection just because the subjects are a bit young, why should anyone else be able to keep theirs?
It would be nice if you could rate movies using shortcut keys (when hovering with the mouse pointer on a movie). That would be really helpful in rating lots of movies.
Not likely. Everything of that sort has a simple serial console port.
I personally am quite fond of Haxelib. First of all, installing Haxe with Haxelib was dirt simple, but what I like is it seems to always resolve dependencies properly, its easy to upgrade single packages, grab dev versions, or upgrade all your libraries at once. Updating the language or Haxelib itself is also easy. And its fast as hell.

In fact, installing the entire Haxe toolchain is the easiest I've ever experienced.
I'm not a mental health professional by any means, but I file addiction and drug abuse under the broad umbrella of things that are in the purview of mental health professionals.

Even if you don't though, Google cannot go around throwing people into drunk tanks.

There is a lot of work in the US that needs to be done with how we handle mental health, addiction, or just plain old drug abuse. Primarily, that work needs to be done in government.
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I agree with you. Does it help if the question is reframed?

This city has some severe problems. It also has an unusual concentration of very smart people and big computing power. Why can't we work towards solving these problems using science and evidence and smart people and big computers?
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Realizing that self-replicating entities with heritable traits subject to selection and variation will evolve over time just takes some thought. Applying it to the natural world just requires that you notice that living things are subject to selection, have variation, and have heritable traits.

DNA evidence requires some pretty advanced science to obtain. The basics of evolution have been known for millennia (that's how you breed plants/animals for specific traits, after all) but DNA evidence for evolution as the source of present-day biodiversity is quite recent.
I meant to downvote it, but hit the wrong arrow. I have no doubt it'll be dead soon, though. :)
As stated in another article (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9245321/Steven_J._Vau...), when he says "worse than vista" he means lower market adoption rate.
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Great to see some HN love for a Belgian company! We're also part of the Belgian Mafia ;) Let's keep it up!
People are upset that they have to tap the "Windows" button instead of clicking the start menu button. Nevermind that Microsoft added the start button back in 8.1

IMO it's an almost absurdly trivial issue contrasted against holistic moderate improvements across the rest of the OS. Maybe a learning case-study on how narrow, particular elements of user experience & perception can turn against you...
That's correct. I would recommend you to look at profiles of people you like on HN. It's common knowledge to post one's email address to the profile now, from there you should be able to reach and make your case.
Startups are concentrated in SF, but the culture isn't hugely different between SF, NYC, Houston, etc.
I don't think I understand your reply, but, not basing public policy on ideas about our world which are clearly wrong is important to me.
In my opinion, reinforcing the idea that charity is an obligation to society is probably just as important as reinforcing the value of money itself.
I'm not sure but from what I've read about the numbers of homeless people and those with mental health issues left on the streets I wouldn't say it's that socially aware.
I don't know how we can make it. Yesterday I had to give old laptop to a friend to use for a few days.

She wanted one thing from the laptop - remote desktop client to connect to her main machine.

I used mint. After 30 minutes of trying to find suitable gui for rdesktop that does not require touching console just threw XP.
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The bigger question is who pays $2000/month for electricity for a server?
What is currently the best way of dealing with UTF-8 strings in a cross-platform manner? It sounds like widechars and std::string just won't cut it.
And software developers, don't forget to implement the 4 byte characters too please. Utter nightmare dealing with MySQL. I believe 4 byte characters still even break github comments.
Why on earth are you not using SSD's? The HN footprint can't be that large. The extra speed and reliability from a pair of SSD's has to far outweigh the costs.
> I don't think that installing 3rd party software to fix core UI issues is trivial.

I meant trivial for me. I agree that its not trivial in the market.
"do them much harm."

Hard to quantify "harm".

But I will say that anything that is a habit, when broken, opens you up to the possibility of being exposed to a new habit "the addiction".[1]

Along those lines 1 day of downtime probably isn't going to shift attention much. But an extreme, 2 weeks, would certainly break some addictions as people would fork to a new (I don't know insert some french or latin word here!) So who is to say where that slippery slope of is? (Somewhere between 1 minute and 2 weeks).

[1] Reason that I have heard that Starbucks renovates restaurants at greater expense and keeps them open at least some hours. Because people's habits are mercurial.
Don't worry about it. I visited facebook for the first time in years when hn went down. Is hn on linux using zfs or bsd?
I've seen this advice all the time but somehow I wonder how did they get their first thousand visitor. Did they do something like reddit and have bots filling up the database until they got the ball rolling? I'm genuinely curious.
That image has been present on the lower right corner of the openbsd homepage for a long time. Given the name of the image, I imagine it's been present since at least since 2009, but my (fuzzy) memory wants me to believe there has been an image of a rack there even before then.
Reflection on the quality of the president or on the morals of the average American?
Dumb people don't have a choice either. Part of being dumb is not being good at understanding evidence, such as evidence against an opinion you hold.
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An angry man punched him because a critical mass of humanity continues to choose dystopia over utopia.

All of the specifics and examples in that article really are just symptoms of dystopia. The phenomenon of mentally ill people running around on the streets punching people is merely just a symptom of dystopia.

If you want to blame something-- it's not tech companies, Google, Twitter, etc. It's human nature in general, and it's the dystopian beliefs and behaviors of a group of assholes+morons alive on this planet right now who collectively pull humanity towards dystopia by their actions and behaviors in the world relative to the other humans they interact with.

Humans on this planet at this moment in technology-time have all the technological know-how to create a world-wide utopia-- theoretically, it could be done in a matter of months. Unfortunately, there is a critical mass of humans who prefer to live in dystopia. And there are many in that critical mass who are willing to kill other people who disagree with them. So dystopia is what we have at this moment in time.

Free will's a bitch when there is a critical mass of dystopian assholes+morons on a planet. The behavior of that critical mass of dystopians has a sort of spooky action at a distance for the rest of humanity, even those who are not directly connected/interacting with the dystopians.

I can't wait for dystopian actions, behaviors, ideas, models, philosophies, religions, corporations, and governments to die, finally.
Netflix does work on Linux in the same way that a program written for a device that doesn't yet have a C compiler does work.

To wit: Netflix is (currently) harder to use on every Linux distribution than it is on Windows and Mac. It's probably too much hassle to be worth it for non-tech folks, but it does work.
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> Netflix works just fine on Linux, right? Or am I mistaken?

There are some hacks to make it work, but Netflix won't support you if you go that route. Basically, you need a specially patched version of Wine which runs Firefox for Windows with the Silverlight plugin. There are PPAs and the like for Ubuntu users, but it's still a bit ugly and hackish.
Netflix already works on Linux and I use it everyday on Ubuntu under Firefox. Look up "Pipelight" plugin, which I understand is a Wine-based project to run Silverlight.
"The Secret"... really? I wonder if he really believes in that kind of thing.

(the book is on his desk in the picture)