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I found the jump to macbook from a Windows laptop to be quite easy and friendly. That sorry of thing never bothers me.

>As for metro, what are you doing that causes Metro to show up?

There are various gestures (in my case, quite literally always made by mistake) a person can make on the trackpad that cause random metro behavior. Swiping from the side or top and so on, very easy to do with a large trackpad by mistake.

Your comments about lenovo are off base in this instance. The problem with the trackpad is that it's working as Microsoft intended.
Thanks! It actually started when I found technical debt to be a buzzwordy term without the appropriate meaning. What I came up with was "Dirty dishes". All the little things you can put off, but need to deal with on a regular basis. You need to get back to 'clean'. The analogy has a lot of depth and good connections, but the important part is the visual, visceral reaction most people have to the image of a kitchen full of dirty dishes.
First, from elsewhere in this thread, from April 23rd, 2012, there is this auto-leveling technique, which probes by applying a slight current to detect contact:

http://hackaday.com/2012/04/23/automated-bed-leveling-with-o...

Second, I disagree with your priorities and/or point of view on this, and I think it might be anti-hacker. It must be at once obvious to everyone that desktop 3D printing is both vital to the future and currently a "cottage" industry. What matters more: the future, or our personal notions of what's classy?

I feel that any action intended as a land-grab for enormous swathes of intellectual territory in an industry so driven by, and amenable to, individual invention and modification, rightly deserves the opprobrium of all hacker types.

Trying to patent compensating for a non-level bed in 3D printers is a jerk move. You could provide a similar defensive moat by just publishing your work, without stifling any of your peers in this infant industry.

Edit: when I said "priorities", I was talking about specifically about prioritizing being classy over protecting a nascent industry, and how that could be anti-garage-innovator. Re-reading my comment, though, I guess it sounds a bit more personal, which wasn't my intent!
Regarding to HN, problem is that social proof takes a huge part in determining what gets on the front page.

People check /new, see that some post already has 1 or 2 upvotes, checks it instead of some without any upvotes. The upvoted one gets even more upvotes (because more people are reading it), and it's on the homepage.

A bunch of my submissions made the homepage and from what I've noticed, the threshold is about 7-10 upvotes in the first hour. So can we fairly say that a dozen of people decide what's on the homepage? Maybe.

My suggestion: don't show upvotes in /new for 30mins after submission? As a trade off, a little time might get wasted on low quality submissions but maybe there would be more better quality submissions on the front page.
You brought up Andrea Dworkin, not me, and you suggested she represents feminism, not me.
The current thread title here ("Ruby will no longer ship with a testing library") is neither the original title nor the conclusion of the discussion in that bug.

Basically, as I understand it, the current test-unit and minitest libraries in Ruby's stdlib are testing dependencies for Ruby, but are completely different from (in the case of "test-unit") or older, incompatible versions of (in the case of minitest) the libraries under the same names released as gems. As a result, there is a decision to stop shipping them in stdlib, and make them part of ruby-core's test suite separate from stdlib.

It looks like there is also a decision of what to do to provide a testing library in the standard distribution -- it looks like the discussion centers on replacing both of the libraries with current ones, but with a preference to do it as standard gems (along with potentially replacing the other stdlib libraries with the corresponding gems as part of the standard Ruby distribution.) The exact resolution of this seems to have been directed to a developers meeting and will likely be separate from the ticket.

So, it does not seem that the decision is not to ship a testing library with Ruby, just to stop shipping outdated testing libraries with Ruby.
Don't necessarily agree with this point. If the total interaction for the community decreases with the influx of new users, and community abandonment > recruitment, the community hits decay.

I will give you the value argument as a bias. The idea that "it's not as cool anymore" absolutely holds true, and imo is a more apples-to-apples comparison to gentrification.
> Does it really matter if they care about artists or not in this case?

The digitizer on the Surface is one of the undeniable advantages it has over an iPad for some workflows.
I'm in New York and it defaulted to New York.
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For a start iOS does multitask and for many apps automatically scale up to larger screens. Those two points have nothing to do with why people rarely use iPads for productivity (whatever that means). It's because the form factor, input method and brand lends itself to consumption.

It's great that you find W8 to be the best of both worlds. But you are the anomaly right now. And for me personally I like having two devices dedicated to what they do best, "work" and "play". I think Apple may just too.
Yes. Prior art still invalidates patents under first to file.

Actually, the system is harder now in some ways (and easier in others) because it's closer to "first to publish" than other "first to file" systems:

> an applicant could file a U.S. patent application covering an invention that was the subject of a publication provided the publication was dated less than 1 year earlier. This was true even if the publication was by another individual or entity that independently arrived at the invention on his or her own. Effective Saturday, March 16, 2013, if another individual or entity independently arrived at the invention and published an article before the first inventor filed the first inventor who filed will be unable to obtain a patent.

http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2013/03/16/a-brave-new-patent-worl...

A lot of the people calling "end of world" around "first to file" don't really know what the new system means (not their fault, it's complicated!). What first to file does is mean that if you keep your invention secret, you can't then claim it as prior art for someone else down the road or claim that you actually deserve the patent because you invented it first. At least in this way, it makes uncertainties around patents a lot fewer.
Zeppelins and balloons have also been proposed.
"It becomes a witch-hunt when he encourages people to submit prior art to invalidate the patent, thereby wasting everyone's time and money."

If there is prior art that invalidates the patent (and on a cursory examination taking a few minutes, I have found prior art dating back to 2008 that covers the main claim), then it should be submitted and the patent invalidated.

That isn't a witch-hunt, that is the system working, albeit belatedly.
Freescale Promises Self-Driving Cars by 2017
Disabling hibernate and fighting with power napping has solved most of my crashing problems. I think 10.9 is a mess when it comes to trying to save me power.

I also still disable noatime, journaling, swap space, and sudden motion sensors on any computer with an SSD; even if its unnecessary.
And here's mine: My first Mac was the G3, I'm now on a 2013 11" Macbook Air (10.9.2) and I have never experienced a kernel panic ever, I couldn't tell you what a kernel panic looks like. The only time I ever have an issue is if I try waking my computer immediately after entering sleep when attached to an external display – it doesn't happen and inevitably requires a restart.

Current uptime: 23:05 up 3 days, 8:36, 2 users, load averages: 1.67 1.56 1.67

I have never experienced unreliability, and it's a pleasure to use and carry. I tried Ubuntu on a HP Laptop I had around, and I didn't like it one bit, it felt slow and the UI felt clunky. Even when using SSH to access the machine it took around 5-6 seconds for the bash prompt to appear, compared to an almost instantaneous Debian prompt.
> This is not an easy problem to solve and I'm sure that this is not a binary issue either, but some form of continuum.

It's not even a continuum; it depends heavily on cultural notions of how life is divided, or should be divided. The home/work/third place trichotomy isn't universal in the first place, and people on the internet have exhibited plenty of evidence that they consider it every combination of the three.
Poll: Where do you host your production environments?
Other PaaS
Rackspace Cloud
Dedicated Server Provider (Rented)
VPS Provider
Colocated Server(s)
In-House Server(s)
I think you'll have more luck if you start researching "Terminal Emulators" instead of the more generic, "consoles".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_emulator

Your confusions are well-founded. This is a very vast topic.
Submitting valid prior art is "a witch hunt?"
(Unnecessary pedantry ahead.) Actually, it originates in hunting (fowling) and meant an opportunity shot taken without time to set up or consciously aim, relying on reaction time and trained instinct. In photography, it was a pejorative term applied to amateur photographs taken with essentially the same amount of thought and planning by people who owned those new Kodak gizmos that Mr. Eastman made, and it's pretty much retained that meaning.
Very relevant and useful, thanks a lot!
Edit link isn't visible to me for some reason. Second sentence should read: "I'm NOW agnostic...
The only reason I ever get bsods since windows xp is hardware problems. hence if you see bsod check out your box, do not blame windows. moreover, kernel panics on linux boxes are also most of the times hardware bound or you've broken something yourself.
They have sent a bunch of satellites. Don't they count?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Derelict_satellites_...

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Artificial_satellite...
Since it would have more general applicability, I am curious how effective could the noise-cancelling-like method could be? What would be the constraints on its effectiveness?
If Makerbot starts using such patents offensively, then anger is warranted. Not before.

The problem with that is that you don't know whether they'll use the patent offensively or defensively until after it's granted.
I've see this called the 'Warrens' model. Reddit does this with Sub-reddits. Keep the niche small group feel available, while aggregating useful stuff upwards.
No kernel panics here, but I get weird behaviour with external displays.

Sometimes when I hook up my external displays, some of the icons on one of the menu bars will disappear. It's very strange. I can fix it by going into the display settings and changing which one is primary.

I've got a recent rMBP with 2 x 1920x1200 monitors attached, one via a MiniDP -> DVI adapter, the other via as MiniDP -> Dual Link DVI adapter.
Especially weird considering the hack is totally unnecessary. You can take a picture without making a shutter sound using AVFoundation.
I use beefy for almost all my modules, demos, and protoypes. For websites, I usually go with gulp watch since I need LESS anyways.
No, it's happening to myself and three other co-workers.
It is the same with pop records or bands however the music industry appreciates and understands that nothing is forever. People should apply this thinking to community sites and expect a cycle of life. Instead we have myspaces worth billions to then be worthless and Facebook where they don't see it coming.

Much like pop records or bands there are some things that have a different life cycle. People still by records by that outfit that called themselves 'The Beatles' but there is no 'Beatlemania' any more.
I can't speak for Lenovo, but here's my experience with an Asus laptop.

When I use my right index finger to move the cursor around, if my palm nudges the palm rest, it usually activates some kind of gesture that switches to Metro.

If I use my right index finger to move the cursor around and my left index finger or thumb to click, then that activates some gesture that switches to metro.

If I'm typing and my palms touch the mousepad, that activates some gesture that switches to metro.

If you've never seen it once on your desktop, I would guess that it's because you don't have a touchpad that lets Windows interpret random touches as a "go to metro now!" command.
Only if you side load apps and give full permissions.
An example includes Async Task, Http Request, Json Parse and Sqlite read&write.
I wasn't there in 2006, so I have to admit I don't know what was lost.

But really like what it is right now: An extremely easy way to set up your own forum for free.
Yes all companies make "tiny screwups" but with MS its becoming a pattern with new lines. The gripe I have is because even after shelling out $1200 on a Surface Pro it din't have a GPS or a 4G that already all phones and low end tablets have, not to mention even in the flagship Nokia 2520 tablet. Its these trivial mistakes over and over again that makes their product go from near perfect to manageable.

Most of the time they do have the right idea but it gives out the vibe that they rather do the trial and error than learn from their competitors success and mistakes.
Sure, but I mean, images from 50 feet away are gonna be higher resolution than images from 2 miles away, yes? So it seems to me that if they could get some drones flying around, they could do some cool things like collect samples for a regular Mars Lander to process or get higher res photos or do some spectrometry or something over a wider range than a lander can do... right?
The tough part is that the design doesn't emphasize the alphabetical ordering. If it did, perhaps by making the box outline lighter and placing emphasis on the first letter of each city, that might work better.
Humans are utility monsters (ethics)
Free speech rights and ability
I didn't read that conclusion as surely as you seem to. The commit removing minitest entirely has already landed, and while it may be added back in in some capacity, I don't think it's certain.

FWIW I took the title from this tweet by Ruby Core member zzak: https://twitter.com/_zzak/status/469953823122157568
Any idea how to solve the echo chamber/filter bubble problem?
It's pretty but I think they need to do some user testing, booking flight is actually harder:

* Choosing departure / arrival is hard

* Choosing the date is hard

* The "Continue" button is hidden

* I see avatars but I don't know what it means, and then I see that I can choose my avatar.

* ...
Designers are a market absolutely owned by Apple in spite of the fact that Apple completely fails to cater to them with artist-oriented hardware. These artists/designers were the early-adopters for OSX.

Designers and artists like Apple because it's well-designed and snappy, but not because it has any art-specific features. MS hopes to take this market and get a proven-important early-adopter market for their new tablet/laptop hybrids.
Asteroid detection: low priority?
This is really nice, but they haven't solved the following problem: sometimes you need more information from further on in the process in order to choose your dates. For some types of trip, the most important thing is a combination of departure time and price; you want the lowest price as long as the departure/arrival is within your acceptable range, and then you want to work 'backwards' to pick dates based on that.
I don't know of any airline booking process that accommodates that use-case well.
I think karma scores have a negative impact on sites, because they encourage people to post agreeable (or antagonistic), shallow content. Reddit is an easy example of this. There are 'karma whores', which just try to accumulate as many (or few) points as possible, on the site, which negatively impact actual discussion.

Hacker News tracks average-karma-per-post, which if it was the only metric available to the user, might be a good fix for this problem. You'd still get feedback on how people perceive your comments overall, but it couldn't turn into a competition over points.

Does anyone know of any websites that have implemented such a system?
i waited for this tablet release, and then, seconds before the impulse buy i remembered i should wait for Gabe reviews :) ...saved by the bell!

that said, i'm still anxious to a tablet with a decent perf/battery life and a good pen. tired of only consuming content on tablets. and i'm sure a keyboard is not feasible anytime soon. while i could already code with my palm custom pen input... albeit painfully, it was less painful then any apple soft keyboard.
There's a checkbox at the bottom of the "Ask" screen that lets you write your answer before posting the question. Makes it easier to document a piece of knowledge if you don't have a blog to post it on.

http://stackoverflow.com/help/self-answer
I think the problem is in a different place.

Ask yourself this: If I post a piece of software on the internet, and on page 57 of the 132 page license agreement there is a provision that says you have to pay me $150,000 every time there is a lunar eclipse, what do you think as a policy matter that a court should do when there is a lunar eclipse and I file a lawsuit for non-payment in breach of contract against a million people who have used my app? Order them all to pay me $150,000 each? If so I think I have a new business model.

Attaching license terms to the use of software is problematic. When the terms are minor and unobjectionable then they're meaningless, because pretty much nobody is going to go through the trouble of litigation over the matter of someone lying about their age on a dating website, and what would be the remedy in that case anyway? Any terms significant enough to be worth enforcing in court are almost certain to be shocking or unreasonable, like requirements to pay money under unexpected circumstances or attempts to limit the rights the user has under copyright law.

More than that, we all know that 99% of users never read the damn things, and they never will. How can it be reasonable to enforce terms against someone who everybody admits never understood the terms?
Why compile the module? Browserify lets you use a module's CommonJS export, so the only build step is at the application level. Utils etc should not be built except for non-node users (umd).
I guess I'm missing the significance of the term cheesecake?
SomethingAwful is consistently high quality and has been for the 7.5 years since I discovered it. 190,000 users now, I think 90K in 2006.

The secrets seem to be

a) charging people $10 one time to join/post and view more than a few pages of a particular thread

b) segmenting into different subforums - over time they become different communities within SA that have their own quirks.

c) ruthless moderation that can and often does lead to posting probations and bans (requiring another $10 to reverse)

In particular, the politics/history, sports, video games, and arts discussions are very good.
semantics. you could also says that you may have linux compatibility but no sort of libc... or a "broken libc"
An old saying fits well: the plural of adecdote is not data.

Nothing against people trying things, and if it's not harmfull and may help them, I'm all for it. But you wouldn't convince me with tens of millions of badly selected data points.
If I were on the Surface team, I'd be A) elated that the product is generating discussion, and B) watching this thread (and others like it) like a hawk and taking notes. From the right perspective, this thread looks like a room full of people all competing to be first in line to tell Microsoft that they'll buy their new product if they just fixed their one complaint.

Negativity is wrapping paper on the gift of feedback - it is to be torn off and thrown away, because it has no value.
Maybe this isn't such a problem, but having a system-wide httpd means that all projects have to be on the same version.
Have I got a link for you, my friend! :)
http://x-plane.com/adventures/mars.html
Neither of the pieces of prior art claimed by the author are valid, which is the entire point of my comment.
I don't think most HN users know anything at all about German universities, much less any bucketing they might do, so that's probably not the most helpful analogy.
Ok I accept both your corrections. I still maintain that we have advanced on the fronts listed and that in this way at least the world is becoming a better place. Most importantly, in terms of net suffering reduction, for women.
It's also very easy to lose what you gained. Over a number of years I earned autonomy through a reputation of getting things done, to the point where i was making major product-level decisions and controlled who did what on the team. Then new management came in and decided to change course, and within a year or two my autonomy was reduced to almost nothing.

You have to remember that if you're not the owner of a company, you have no rights to the products that company makes. Whatever privileges you have you keep by the grace of the owners, and when they change ...

Ofcourse, if you're the owner you're unlikely to actually be able to write code all the time, having to deal with the soft parts of the business. The grass is always greener on the other side I suppose.
I'm surprised they don't give test devices (under NDA presumably) way earlier to people like Gabe, using your evangelist bloggers to improve the product before they write their public review seems smart.
Right, one cannot start a competing company assuming that Makerbot won't sue.
isn't DSL internet an application from this theorem ?
This is super slick. Design wise it's ahead of its game, instead of another flat design website.

I love how they put "life" into their brand with those avatars and make it fun in this all too boring process of buying tickets. To be honest, I would be jealous of how innovative Virgin is lately when I'm another airline.

UX wise there are some things I would do differently. There are some rough edges but it's an iterative process and they'll probably track tons of things now. For example, changing prior steps will reset the date selection.

Deep respect for their team, I also love their new logo. Awesome!
That's not really what happens in noise-cancelling headphones. The transforms required are fairly complex, simple mixing is a long way from what is required to achieve good results.
There are 3 flights from mexican cities: Cancun, Los Cabos and Puerto Vallarta.
Disney Movie Challenge
Now the question is - how would the iPhone even know that's in Japan? :) GPS? I think OS X uses the time zone for these things, e.g. to block certain WiFi channels due to legal requirements.
Yes, I believe Apple requires the shutter sound. They actually rejected the first version of my video streaming App because the recording beep was missing.
Either I didn't get it or Bruce in the comment section is spot on:

> This is the most wordy, pretentious way to say “they do it for the lulz.”
How Disney learned to stop worrying and love copyright infringement
I have the different view: that the Apple/publisher case is a pretty straightforward case of a price fixing conspiracy.

Publishers are certainly allowed to, as you put it, "refuse to participate in under-pricing books". The problem occurs when they decide to act in concert.

I agree with your points about DOJ and the tech industry, and maybe there's something that needs to be done about Amazon right now. I'm not sure. But definitely the wrong thing to do would be to allow a cartel of publishers have any influence over the price structure of the market.
Same here on a Nexus 5 with Chrome.

Oh the irony...
A new URL shortener
For most people, that's a feature, not a problem. Humans love to have their own opinions reinforced, and they don't like being challenged by countervailing views.