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His point is valid. The ability to dismiss these tips would be ideal. However, most people would skip them and complain about how "unusable" Windows 8 is (without even taking a minute to learn the basics). In my opinion, these mandatory tutorials are a necessary evil.

The real issue here is that Windows 8 somehow recognizes Wacom pads as touch inputs (with swiping from sides support). If it recognized it as a mouse, it would simply tell the user to use "hot corners":

- Top-Left: App switching

- Bottom-Left: Start screen

- Top/Bottom-Right: Charms menu

A one-time unskippable tutorial that you can get through in less than 10 seconds is probably not worth complaining about. Displaying the wrong directions to Wacom users is.
First post here at HN... but I would try a shame tactic (per codegeek's helpful name research). In a nice bright box just above your normal content, send the following text back to his IP address ...

"Hello, my name is <insert his name here once you are certain> and I've stolen the content that you are viewing right now -- someone's hard work. I stole it in a very intentional and fairly disrespecful way. Sometimes we get life lessons and this may well be one of mine. Instead of using my skills to do good with the precious time that I have in this beautiful world, I've chosen to write a fairly nefarious script to copy every single page of someone else's website and suck it back into my website, so that I can profit from someone else's work. The message you are reading right now may go away for a day or two, if I change my IP address. But rest assured, it will be back once my IP address is rediscovered. This event will also follow me forever on search engines when people search my name -- future employers, friends, family. I have been doing this for <x> days and have been asked to stop. I haven't yet, but time will tell.... (<insert-pretty-date-here>)

In the meantime, if you would like to visit the real website go <here>..."
And lest people believe this is an anglo-saxon problem, french labor relations are very similar to UK/US's, although there has been less systematic dismantling of unions as the country is generally speaking more to the left of the political spectrum.
To be fair -- those "Flappy X" apps on the various app stores were not "everybody coming up with the same idea". Not that flappy bird was in any way original -- but there is a lot of copying.
I too understand the scepticism. But I cannot condone the insult. Sure, what happened to you was avoidable. But not just by you. From the look of it, you bear very little responsibility there. Your biggest mistake was in your model of the cops: you assumed they were trustworthy, and could be reasoned with. Some were not.

I would have made the same mistake. So, thanks for the tip. Your story was definitely worth reading.
Too many features in a language sounds like a bad thing to me. Anyone remembers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/I

Trying to be everything to everyone just makes you lose focus and causes too much complexity. Better to be lean and mean and somewhat specialized
No, that is exactly what I'm saying. It should be an SRV lookup to find the support document. This solves a lot of problems. No misunderstanding here. You may actually be in total agreement with me.
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Specifically orient db? It seemed pretty interesting to me. I wanted to know if anyone has used it in production and if you liked it.

http://www.orientechnologies.com/orientdb/
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It is really great that they have guts to admit the failure. Though this confession is a bit overdue, I hope they've learned the lesson and some day will come back with a better solution. No doubt that the problem is really worth solving.
One issue (this also applies to some discussion of gender differences) is that people often organize discussion of group differences around comparing population means on some trait, and trying to come up with studies that have large enough statistical power to show a difference in means. What often gives a clearer picture, though, is to estimate the full distribution of some trait in different groups, not only a point estimate of the mean. In that case, the result often ends up much less impressive: you end up with two bell curves that almost exactly coincide. If they don't exactly coincide, a study with large enough statistical power can show a difference in means. But people often imagine that when you read a result like "men are more X than women, with p < 0.05", the result is two disjoint bell curves, rather than two nearly-coincident bell curves.
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I'm a software developer that wants to try out running a project on the side to make some extra income and test out the whole entrepreneurship thing. I'm really interested in trying out something that generates money (if a small amount) pretty quickly up front, because I think it would help me be focused and motivated.

I've made a lot of small programs/games, but nothing that I felt I could charge people for much. I once made about $100 through ads in a blog after 6 months, but I don't think I'd want to repeat that route.

I have a couple of website business ideas, but they seem like they'd need a year to generate much income.

My best guess for things that seem to pay off the in the short term (The first month-ish) are: Affiliate marketing, solving buisness needs for people you know, and niche mobile apps (The kind that have few customers and charge $15+). If someone is more informed on this subject, I'd love to hear your suggestions.
Unity was buggy in the beginning, but it has been usable ever since 12.04 LTS. I'm typing this on a MacBook that I use for work and when I'm in OS X, I miss Unity.

The screen is uncluttered, the shortcuts are great, the dashboard is great, the various special effects are finally not nauseating, the only thing bothering me is that I can't move that launcher on the right side, but lack of customization is a problem with Gnome in general.
Sounds far too simplistic. Some people are born arseholes, some blame the world for their bad lot in life, others still take pleasure in causing problems and generally trolling. Finally a small honest few may derive their chip from personal experience, the most honest experience. I agree we should review what happened in their respective situations, and work to avoid that in the future. But the rest? Not worth the attention they so desperately seek.
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For sure, lets see it on github
>I think the theory is that if all workers were unionized, they would be able to negotiate for a larger share of the profits that are currently taken by the owners of capital.

How would them negotiating for a larger share of the profits be a good thing when they were already taking enough of a share of the profits to drive auto companies into bankruptcy?

>You are assuming a world where the union has absolute power; The role of a union in a market system is to negotiate with the owners of capitol.

If you have laws where only union members are allowed to work in auto factories, or that non-union members aren't allowed to work there, then the unions do have absolute power within those industries.

>It's important to at least understand what your opponent is trying to say.

I understand what they're trying to say. I'm just responding that paying auto workers more would not result in a net benefit to the middle class. If as the parent's scenario implies there is nowhere else for manufacturers to find labor (which implies no outsourcing), then for every increase in automobile prices that's brought about by increases in auto workers' wages, that means less resources available for car buyers to spend on other things.

Unions in the American style cannot make the pie bigger, they can only divide it differently. More pie to unionised workers hence means less pie for everyone else (including the other workers who now can't find work as auto makers can afford fewer employees as they have to pay them more).
If the other car was under heavy braking, it's front-end dips down and instead of a bumper-to-bumper collision, you have the rear-ending car go "under" the back of the front car.

Source: My old '81 Mustang got rear-ended at fairly high speed by a Civic and had no taillight damage. Lost my tailpipe but that was about all.
Users are very much accustomed to accepting the security and privacy implications of conventional web logins. Persona promises to improve on that by introducing itself as a third party. However, users with a trace of security awareness will be skeptical of promises like that and will subconsciously do a simple equation in their heads: if everything else fails (the promised improvements), then more involved parties imply less privacy/security. Getting beyond that point requires at least a level of understanding that allows for a rough estimation on a scale between "totally bogus" and "this might actually work if done right".
microsoft does that all the time.

Last week I tried to signup for windows azure.
It asked me to enter my credit card data, I did it and it was ok, then the signup fails without explanation ("contact support").

What is happening is, I believe: I am forced to enter a billing address in the country from which I am _connecting_ (hungary), but my card is from another one (italy).
The first thing is stated _nowhere_ but I presume it is so after various attempts at inserting non-hungarian zip codes.

So the card is valid, the billing address is valid, but an additional check is performed that the two have a matching country, which fails. Also not stated anywhere.

There is no way I can workaround this other than taking a plane or getting a new credit card. Customer lost.

(bonus: the "support" is the "windows azure" stackoverflow tag, which I don't think is competent re: billing, and an MSDN forum where people say "this happens sometimes, there can be many reasons sorry").
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Many thanks from one who fought through the outdated source in the OP.
Okay, I use both of them.

Quora has topics you follow which appear in your feed. Just like stack overflow tags. Except, questions which require a thorough technical explanation are never answered in Quora.
Quora's rules are much more weird than StackOverflow. Quora is some sort of meta life Q/A site full of elite and bolshies. There are no moderators in Technical sections in Quora. Nobody really expects Good technically sound answers from Quora's closed community of narcissists. Nobody really goes to progamming sections except Gayle - Author of some coding Batshit who tries to promote her books and answers some feminist answers.

I joined Quora in 2010 when people like Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever used to post well thought out answers. Now it has become a shitstorm of Indians trying to outdo each other. Everybody simply abuses the Anonymous posting feature and posts an extemely shitty answer to an equally shitty questions. And you cannot vote questions. You will have to message a mod to delete a question. And then, the mod might do it .. The process is far from transparent.

The Techincal And Programming sections are full of questions like - How do I get into Amazon, Facebook, Google. Every single question is some variation of this. All questions are interview questions.

There are huge technical issues with Quora's Infrastructure which probably has refused to scale. That's why Charlie probably left.

Stackoverflow has an extremely rigid policy aimed to thwart spamming. Many of the policies look to be counter-intuitive at first but after a while, you realize why they made it that way. Whether that's commenting on answers or editing them. Agreed, many complex questions and answers deserves more upvotes than simple ones like - How do I write a switch statement in ruby ? , nevertheless if you are looking for solid technical answers, Stackoverflow is the place to be.

The author posted a question which looked like a newbie HW questions. Should have at least read the documentation. Nope, that's not how SO works.
I noticed this about Quora too. I land at Quora through google only by chance. As soon as I see that signin box, I leave. It's unfortunate because it would be a great site if it didn't try to be so much like facebook of questions.

The downvote observation is a very good one. Downvoting is destructive in general and unpleasant for the content writer.
Yes, I did not consider that. But I think the fact that recent account can only upvote is a good thing for the quality of comments. I agree that downvotes can be meaningful, but they are often used to vote against an opinion, which is not good for a conversation.
> And you can't seriously convince me for a moment that the vast majority of the Linux community doesn't agree with Linus.

You can't seriously convince me for a moment that the vast majority of the Linux community doesn't disagree with Linus.

Your task now should be obvious: Come up with an agreed-upon definition of "the Linux community", and run a valid survey.

> Every single kernel contributor must at least feel partially the same way, after all, they agreed to contribute under the existing license terms which (as Linus pointed out) can effectively never be changed.

You've established nothing more than that the kernel contributors are willing to work within that framework, not that they feel the same as Linus does.
When you're writing an MVC app it might make sense to inherit from something like a Model or a View.
Good. Others are also looking at this issue - let's see more being done. http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/intel-confli...
collyw, if someone is new to Linux I would also suggest them to use Ubuntu or Mint. But, as you start using it at some point of time you may want to tweak your system like you wanted(given that you've bandwidth and motivation to do so). It's about that time, most novice to advance sysadmins/users would want to use something like Fedora or Arch.
There is no mandatory user tutorial for the iPad.

True, sometimes you need to teach the user to do something, but if you're forcing this even for basic usage, you're doing it wrong (unless this was a really specific tool/procedure, and even then)
I'm glad I am not alone in this experience. I think because the place has become so hostile apart from the existing set of questions, I just stop participating. I end up doing what I always do on Quora, read the answer, and get the hell out. whereas 4 years ago, I looked forward to coming back because it was a great site back then.
What an interesting way to gauge interest in an MVP. No doubt the OP is seeing how many hits he's getting on his link. The community is starting to froth a bit at the mouth judging by the comments too. Well-played sir!
> The United States was last, in 19th place, with the highest rate of avoidable deaths.

Alas, a negligible price to pay for Freedom™.
These "discussions" happen all the time, so I have no idea which one you're referring to, but the only reason anyone on the GPL side "gets mad" is because those on the BSD side whine childishly whenever someone puts something under the GPL.
I think it is the fact that some companies create crippleware open source project where parts of the core are open source and additional key parts are licensed under a sub-license that requires payment. Also, MIT and BSD doesn't enforce you to share added changes, fixes or additions to a project because of this - thus, hurting the open source community by the project not gaining (possibly) important or significant changes.

From a company standpoint, this makes sense if the parts are large and costed a lot to develop. Some companies eventually make these parts available eventually, some don't though - possible because open sourcing something that you initially charge for, could piss some customers off when they realize that they could have gotten it free.
I simply don't understand this blog entry. I guess it's their official project resignation... OK. Even so, it seems misinformed about the adoption problems. Persona, to me, seems a truly lovely solution to a difficult problem. It was successful, just at the beginning of a hard adoption curve.

What's missing is fully functional, advertised implementations of the Service Provider, that work with LDAP and ideally older Kerberos backends. What's missing is the native, built-in interface. What's also missing is a SLA... big players can't adopt it unless Mozilla says they are going to support it. What's missing in Persona is a promise to have the code security audited and get it passed federal agencies. What's missing is some grass-roots effort to get it into universities.

What they list as failures aren’t exactly. So, there are some UI issues.. but those aren’t the problem. The Persona service was meant as transitional, till native implementations appeared. It's not going to adopt itself, they need a "Sales Engineer" full time working on adoption. Hell, they could even charge people for that sales engineer and many would pay for it. The alternative to Persona is Shibboleth/Kerberos, and Persona kicks it.
I'd like to clarify my point -- I'm not arguing against OOP or for another paradigm. What I'm saying is that "do one thing" transcends paradigm. And in fact, its OOP incarnation is known as the single responsibility principle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_responsibility_principle). So when I say that "I disagree that 'do one thing' is an argument in favor of OO programming", what I'm saying is that "do one thing" is important, no matter which paradigm you choose. Neither OOP's strengths and weaknesses nor how it compares to any other paradigm are relevant to my point.

I'm sorry, but saying things like but it is and the basic idea is sound and based on pragmatic thinking without a supporting argument is unconvincing.
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> But people often imagine that when you read a result like "men are more X than women, with p < 0.05", the result is two disjoint bell curves, rather than two nearly-coincident bell curves.

Which just means people are bad at understanding statistics. They have a folk understanding of "mean" that doesn't allow for differences in distribution.

Which is an endless source of unjustified outrage whenever you try to make demonstrably true statements about population means.

The whole educational fad to teach everyone to code is fine and all, but I want to see a fad for statistics...
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I view your sentiment as a little shortsighted. On a typical desktop you end up with over a hundred of applications installed and you end up using only 10 apps daily. A typical Windows Start menu gets extremely cluttered and extremely hard to search for the app you want. That's why keyboard-enabled search works much better.

OS X does the same thing. It has a launcher on which you pin the most used apps and for everything else you need to search it with Spotlight, or go to the Applications directory in Finder. I haven't seen many people complain about the usability of OS X in this regard. IMHO, the Start menu is a broken abstraction.

As for the UI and that bullshit on being optimized for tables ... I actually like that Unity is so space efficient. For example, why in the world would I need a window top bar, if the window is maximized? Vertical space on 16:9 screens is precious, Unity optimizes for it and I find that to be awesome ... like, one of the reasons many people like Chrome's UI over Firefox is exactly because of this, yet Unity brings this design decision for all apps.
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I think the people attempting to make technically true but scientifically uninteresting statements about population means often have ulterior political motives (which is why they don't do analyses that are actually scientifically interesting), so I don't think the outrage is always unjustified. This can be seen in their paper titles and abstracts, and particularly their press releases, which make typically claims about differences between groups unsupported by the data. There's a whole cottage industry of "men are like X, women are like Y" folks who are rather tendentiously misrepresenting data to sell their books.

In particular, that two populations have differing means is trivially true for nearly any two population groups and choice of traits, even randomly split ones, so simply demonstrating a population mean difference is nearly never interesting. If you choose any trait that can vary between people, and you manage to find every person in two finite population groups and compute a mean (so at this point you have zero sampling error, since you have a complete population count), the two means will very rarely be literally identical. There is some exact rational number that is "the average height of HN posters who registered on a January 2" and a rational number that is "the average height of HN posters who registered on a January 3", and these numbers are almost certainly different. Therefore demonstrating a difference in means is simply an exercise in getting a large enough sample size to prove something that is nearly always true. But going through the effort to collect the sample to "prove" that Jan-2nders are taller than Jan-3rders or vice-versa is not scientifically interesting, even though one of the two is almost certainly true. And it would certainly not be justified to hang much interpretation off my result, in which I speculated wildly about how evolutionary differences resulted in the Jan-3rders having (slightly) shorter height.

Now if you could show unexpectedly large differences, like many Jan-2nders are > 6ft while very few Jan-3rders are < 6ft, such that the population curves differ by more than a trivial amount, that could be an interesting result that merits further study. But then you need to be talking about distribution estimates and comparing curves and error bands, not talking about population means and quoting p-values.
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>The goal of art isn't to look as much like a photo as possible //

Arguably Instapainting's "artists" aren't making art for Instapainting's customers, they're making photo-style reproduction in paint.

Some artists work to create photorealism; I'd say it's fine to still call it art (but not art that does anything for me besides illicit awe as to the skill involved) despite it being perhaps better described as craft.
The UK system certainly has problems (long wait times, overcrowding etc.) but I think when it comes down to where I'd rather be if I had a life threatening illness, it would be here, not the US. The fact that I can receive a good level of health care without paying a penny (even for prescriptions) is worth the drawbacks that come with this kind of system. Also, I still have the option of paying to go private if I wish.
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Perhaps you missed a key point: A universal healthcare system is less expensive than a privatized healthcare system. So, as much as I'm thankful for the protection from a possible soviet aggression and even more for the Marshal plan, it wasn't a lack of money that convinced the USA to have a private system. I think it was mainly a hate of anything "socialistic".