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| (2) I don't want to update my whole operating system to update applications;

This is huge. IMO, this is the purpose of an operating system. I want to install applications, I do not want to waste time installing new versions of my operating system.

The main focus of Linux distributions should be to make as many applications as possible available to the user and make them easily available.

That being said, Docker has changed this a bit for me, but most Linux distributions still fall flat on their faces when it comes to installing non-packaged applications. Sometimes I find myself having to download applications from websites, manually configure them or even compile software myself.

Basically, the file system hierarchy should had been versioned from the start:

/
programs
vim
7.1
7.2
7.3

Instead, you have a single 'vim' binary that gets overwritten if you try to install another version of vim (unless someone renamed the binary for you).

The FHS is a disaster that every distribution tries to implement differently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
Still interesting to see how they think about it.
Win8 desktop is definitely better than Win7. The worst thing is that the scaling (and touch) breaks all the non-standard GUI kits.

XMind, for example, has icons that you can hardly see on my Pro2.

Unity3D's GUI scales up correctly but there are a whole load of fixed-sized panels that become too large to be useful.

Chrome's font rendering is still screwed even on low DPI windows machines, especially if Google Web Fonts are used.
"More Than A Dozen Fisker Karma Hybrids Caught Fire And Exploded In New Jersey Port After Sandy"

If those photos don't count as an explosion to you, I don't know what does.
Can you expand on the contradictions?
Is there a link where I could learn more about them?
Moreover in many countries the taxes are related to CO2 emissions, which will result in savings as well.
If I understand correctly, that's Facebook saying that decisions are not going to be made politically. They're going to be made on the basis of what is best technically. And that's great... for Facebook.

What I was talking about is companies with a different culture, where politics gets into technical decisions. In that culture, you can't just fix the technical problems, precisely because at that company, code does not win arguments. Politics does.
Microsoft Surface Pro 3: Display and Performance Preview
There are very few cases where MySQL or PostgreSQL can't handle. And for those exists Redis. Do yourself a favor and use one of those.
Ask HN: how can I brief my devs better as non-tech founder? 
I'm a non tech founder working with outside developers (at least until product market fit).

I'm mostly doing fine with briefings, but occasionally the developers misunderstand how certain roles and permissions interact.

I found an article about "Actor-Role Patterns", which seems like interesting stuff but which is also too advanced for me to create briefings based on it.

Ideally, I would provide my developers with a very clear diagram of what the entire application is supposed to do. The problem is: I have no idea where to begin looking.

You would help me tremendously by throwing me some breadcrumbs. Thank you in advance!
This is a nice bird's eye view from the investment perspective. Owning and customizing your nest with furniture(s) would be another great reason to own, I know most of my friends who are renting are not investing in furniture thinking the place they are staying are always temporary as a result spending more on cheaper furniture.
I assume they do this for speed? When you are running that many videos you could save real money by making encryption cheaper and pack more onto each server. Is there any other justification for this?
Hold-on, doesn't using a

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=”image.jpg”

header mean you can no longer display the image in your service? Won't browsers treat it as a file download? Most services that allow image uploads do so because the images will get displayed on a page? (that's what I do)

Most services seem to be moving file uploads to S3 (or similar services) these days, so I'm not sure this advice is really helpful. To take that a step further, my preference now is to upload directly to S3 and bypass my app server altogether. At least in Rails, it's fairly easy to setup.
The shame is with enough money pigs can fly. If the product you were making was something of quality that people wanted, you wouldn't need billions to ram it down the public's throat. (You'd probably only need hundreds of thousands.)
> Just make it illegal to sell more capacity than you have and the problem is solved.

No. The result would be that you would pay 100 times more for your Internet connection. Or, alternatively, that you cannot get a guaranteed bandwidth, but you pay per GB.

This article: http://blog.level3.com/global-connectivity/observations-inte... states that Level3 has 13,600 Gbps of capacity with its peers.

Your solution would mean that Level3's peers can only sell 13.6 million 1 Mbps connections without overselling their bandwidth. Even if Level3's peers have several other Internet wholesale agreements -- let's say they actually have 5 times that capacity (most likely an overstatement) -- all Level3's peers would only be able to sell 68 million 1 Mbps connections. That would be some expensive 1 Mbps connections!
The numbers you are comparing are not even close to the same energy capacity.

LiFePO4 can be bought for ~$.33/Wh

A flooded golf cart battery is the very cheapest per Wh, and they are about $.10/Wh assuming 100% capacity (which you can actually only use 50-80% of, boosting cost to $.13-.22/Wh).
Show HN: A Stress Fighting Game
It matters when the terms he presented for giving the DoJ the data included trusting he'd actually complied fully. Since he could have provided incomplete data and they'd have to trust he did not do so, and he'd proven himself untrustworthy, they couldn't accept his proposed terms.
Maybe your monitor is misconfigured to only show the middle part of the contrast range? Anything "pops" on such a screen. Can you see all the values in this gradient? http://www.drycreekphoto.com/Learn/Calibration/monitor_gradi...
I believe iOS is derived from OSX, so that would be correct.
Show HN: Make your go program faster with go-faster
hah! yea, the NSA definitely wouldn't be able to get around that!
What if I click an unknown link that sends me to a popup page that I didn't consent to going to? They would be getting benefit at my expense.
Yep, our dictionaries for adjectives, adverbs and nouns are tiny at the moment
First you were arguing that this should not be called warfare. Now it seems you're arguing something completely different. I honestly have no idea what you're talking about, sorry.
Startup Success: How-To Rate Your Potential
6 ways to strengthen your success factor from 3 real companies. How do you increase your success/luck factor?
Could this be considered a rather perverse form of a quine?
You're missing the point that Levison makes his last paragraph: "courts must not be allowed to consider matters of great importance under the shroud of secrecy, lest we find ourselves summarily deprived of meaningful due process".

His argument was that he could not find appropriate legal representation because of the gag order, and that the DOJ would not cooperate in kind with his legal team once assembled. Do you think his delays were too long given these constraints and the fact that he has a company to run?

If I have sympathy for Levison it's because he was intimidated into laying aside his moral beliefs. It could happen to any of us.
Does anyone know the license/copyright state of those images? I'd love to have the map [0] printed as a gift for someone (maybe on a canvas wrap).

[0] http://media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/bigma...
Well, there's the theory it clears out deadwood.

Of course, its intensely and inextricably political nature means it's doing something else, and the true insanity comes when it's done indefinitely and fundamentally changes the corporate culture.

Hard to imagine Google staying competitive if it really takes hold....

(As for the "nobody ever got fired, Steve Ballmer or more likely the board that fired him might disagree....)
Does it still take minutes to load, though? My problem has never been the difficulty in launching Task Manager, it's been with getting task manager to respond in any amount of hurry.
eek--thanks for the heads up. Not to subject you to that again but do you remember what the subdomain was? Was it content from http://stats.com/ ?
Anti-trust laws are not ideal, though. They effectively act as thresholds or hard lower limits on allowed competition, but they don't directly address the economies of scale and barriers to entry that push the market toward a monopoly state.
EPCOT (Every Person Comes Out Tired)
I use my Surface to take notes in meetings. The notes are transparently synced to my main desktop machine, ready to be broken into tasks or emailed out. If I've taken notes with the pen, the desktop version is able to convert them into text. It's a workflow that is working out well for me.
I don't contend any of it is false. It may very well be true. But for Levison that doesn't matter. As was noticed in some other thread (possibly by you) courts are not in the business of finding the truth. So any kind of defence is fair game, including stalling, misdirection and so on. Don't judge a man if you're not in his shoes, he's lost everything that mattered to him already, and stands to lose a lot more still.

I'm not smart enough to set up a secure email service, but I would hope that if I did and I would be put under this kind of pressure that I'd be able to stall long enough that my users data would be as safe as circumstances still allowed and that the one the heat was applied to would be me. That's a damn sight better than rolling over at the first knock on the door and handing over all the data.

For sure he must have realized something important was up, who knows, he may have even read over Snowdens shoulder. I don't care either way, the man did his best. What happens after this is just silly vengeance, it will cost some money, a bunch of time, ruin one or more people's lives and the world will move on.

If there is one lesson to be learned here then it is that you should set up a service like this in such a way that it auto-destructs if you don't hit it periodically with some kind of signal that is not easy to fake without being you and that you advertise that fact and set the thing up in such a way that even you can't decode the data (and then you still have to hope that the NSA can't either in case they get a drive and/or a readout of your memory).
Highly Documented WebSocket data-frame encoder/decoder
ITunes Concept
Is image search new functionality or I just missed it in the older UI?
It means that the person's output is not simply a multiple of the number of hours that they work, but that for each unit of time they work their output increases compared to the previous unit.

For example:

Linear
output = time * k

Non-Linear
output = time ^ k

In practice it means that for jobs that are linear, it doesn't matter how many hours any individual works as long as the total hours worked remains the same - assuming that they're all of the same skill level. Doctors, for example, are mostly shift workers so the output of one doctor working for 12hrs is pretty much the same as two doctors working six hours each.

For a job that has non-linear output, two people of the same skill who each work six hours, will be less productive than one person of the that skill working twelve hours. Easy enough to see:

12 ^ 1.5 = 41.6
2 * 6 ^ 1.5 = 29.4

In that case, splitting the job between two people results in an output that's 70% of the output of that job being done by one person.

Basically, it's saying that many workers are not fungible assets, no matter that they share the same level of skill.
Open source online music player
Talk on creating brand names with buzz next week
> You're an apologist of the worst kind.

Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News.
Don't smoke pot, kids, or you'll end up as a cybercrime expert that the FBI will desperately want to hire.
Because the taxi lobby, supported by the oil lobby, has a firm grip on municipal government?
Someday, Her will be real. But first, an Internet of things ...
> Why is San Francisco public transportation so bad?

You should try Dallas.
Totally agree.
"Overzealousness worse than fascism"

And I don't believe in such idealism, if he was doing it for the sake of performance he should show it to the developers first, and not perform a show for his boss and boss's boss and THE BOSS and who knows who else. So what was the real intention behind this?
We'll definitely think about how to improve this!
We added the Feedback button in the Menu options so that people used the Feedback page: https://duckduckgo.com/feedback
That way, the reports are really actionable (since it's broken out by type) and people don't spam the form :\
Creator here--yes, there are certainly edge cases that are lacking polish. This library is not pretending to be anything other than alpha right now (0.0.x,even.) This stuff is young, but those of us working on it believe these approaches (of F/A and Famo.us in general) have a ton of potential, thus we are striving to push them forward.

Incidentally, like the rest of Famo.us/Angular, the docs site is completely open source (github.com/thomasstreet/famous-angular-docs) so that would be a great place to file (or even fix!) bugs like this.
AFAIK, that's not really how Google's system works. Yes, managers will give numeric performance scores to people on their team. And yes, those raw scores will almost certainly be adjusted. But it's not as crude as simply normalizing the scores to fit a given curve. Instead there's a process to try to make sure that one manager's 3.5 is the same as a 3.5 of the other managers in the same area and the same office, by looking at what they actually accomplished. Then the scores would be calibrated across progressively bigger and bigger units, until everyone is more or less on the same scale.

If it turns out that one manager is giving consistently higher scores than another and can't support it, then it seems quite reasonable and fair for there to be an adjustment down.

This is just my understanding of the process, based on comments by people involved in various stages of it, many years ago. Maybe I misunderstood, or maybe things have changed. It wasn't a perfect system either, people with a bad manager who can't argue their case could still get screwed. But despite all that, the calibration scores never felt like an adversarial process. Certainly nothing like some of the MS stack ranking horror stories.
One man's "absurd terms" is another man's "proper defense".

It's pretty common in a court battle for one side to ask for the moon with the full expectation that the other side will counter. If you don't make "absurd terms" then your "reasonable terms" might not happen either.
Ask HN: Bitcoin for equity, do you think it's legal?
I have been wondering if selling equity in a start-up for bitcoin would be subject to the same regulation as selling equity in a start-up for currency?
Understood, and completely valid. If you were wondering how it came across, then you know now :)
Not real familiar with the term briefing? but if you mean like a requirements meeting. uses cases are pretty useful:

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

There's also interaction diagrams and state diagrams depending on the type of software your using.
In the general usage case base64 is not even obfuscation, really (though it does make it non-human-readable... for most humans), just an encoding for dealing with situations where you need to store or transmit 8-bit or multibyte character data into a system that may otherwise be incapable of dealing with it reliably.
On the contrary, it makes perfect sense. Labs work with all kinds of data, including samples and information obtained from human trials where privacy is mandated by law. Sync that to the cloud, and you open a huge can of legal-compliance worms.

By keeping local data in a local DB, this is avoided. I see on the website that sync is coming soon. If the developer is smart, they'll allow selective sync so that labs can choose what to upload and what to keep local, or will offer some sort of non-cloud p2p sync solution.
I'd be fine with it too if Google didn't make MS take their apps down or worse yet block IE Mobile from getting to Google Maps completely [1].

Some might call it Microsoft reaping what they have sown for years and I've even heard people applaud Google for shutting out Microsoft, but when MS is putting tons of apps on the Android store and Google is blocking Microsoft from even getting to their website, from a user standpoint I have to be pissed at Google regardless of what Microsoft has done. It's petty, it's anti-consumer just like mid-90's Microsoft, and it's certainly not "do no evil".

[1] http://mashable.com/2013/01/05/google-maps-windows-phone/
I don't think that getting agitated about the NSA spying is really going to help.

I think that there is a bigger problem with our democracy and, with so many people not voting anyway, it is about time that the people of people of the U.S. decided to not actually bother to vote, to not endorse the system and to effectively deliver a government that has no legitimacy.

Obviously this will let the 'bad guys in', but, with no popular mandate, will they be able to govern any better than someone like Ceausescu?

During the peak Bush years when the alternative was some hideous warmonger in the making like John Kerry, scores of do-gooding actors and celebrities were doing their hardest to get people to vote. As if voting and democracy would change anything. In America you need a compelling 'vote for RON' (re-open nominations) or a 'vote for nobody' type of campaign rather than these 'vote because your great-great-great-great-grandmother fought for your right to do so' schemes that actors etc. come up with. Clearly the people behind a successful 'vote for RON' campaign can have a political platform, a network and such like, so, if an illegitimate government exists then candidates can be found.

Start up mentality. Can it be applied to the problem in hand?
Novelty aside, if you encrypt to the same image, what was the point of encrypting? Can you hide something in the metadata that wouldn't have been visible until decryption?
I agree with this approach. This cost does not need to be born by the municipalities alone. Contracting companies will line up to build and maintain the infrastructure. The initial build out could be paid for by bonds which would be repaid by the ISPs who lease access. The ongoing maintenance would be paid out of the same fees. ISP competition would help insure that the whole endeavor would not be too costly.
On an iphone 5 I can't scroll past the first image.
See, this is why I like Linux and OS X. The built-in Terminal is practical. The built-in text editor (well, at least on Linux) is practical. On Windows, I have to replace both from the get-go to get anything done.
I like ianstormtaylor's suggestion above more (which uses one orange color for titles and gray for links). Mixing both orange and blue in the Classic theme for links and titles looks somewhat irritating.

UPDATE: DDG allows setting custom colors, great! Check out https://duckduckgo.com/settings (Color).
> But it does point to the fact that the system is not just the technology, but also the people around it

People come and go. They don't die when they are sacked. They are absorbed by other companies to do other possibly more awesome stuff. There is no point of delaying progress of software because that might mildly inconvenience some people.

If half of the Adobe got sacked over a shitstorm caused by some rogue programmer making Photoshop suck 20% less I'd say it was worth it.

The superpowers of companies is that they can die (or get severely crippled) without utterly destroying of what they consist of.
Google Drive does let you host arbitrary content, but from googledrive.com, not from google.com.

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2881970

This is basically the same as github.io.

The Symantec article is interesting but only says the fake page is hosted on "Google's servers", not "google.com", but users might believe "googledrive.com" is trustworthy.
Because all the components come soldered to the motherboard out of the factory, I suspect, the same way Apple has been shipping notebooks recently.
Git Bash is just cmd.exe
Most Priuses still use NiMH (all except the plugin one). In mine, it's around 120lbs, out of about 3200lbs total vehicle weight. Doubling the weight of the battery wouldn't make that much of a difference.

Plugin hybrids and pure electrics need much larger batteries, so it certainly matters there, but for plain hybrids it's not such a big deal.
You may be in luck then as early adopters dump their 256Gb models on craigslist and ebay.
The answer to "job-hopper stigma" and any and all other competence-trigger hurdles is simple. Sell the benefit, not the feature.

In other words, change the conversation from "who you are" to "what you can do for them". A track record of accomplishments does a lot more to convince a stake-holder that you know what you're doing than a list of previously-held positions. If all you have is a list of previously-held positions, then sure, if there's more entries on it than years, you'll have a rough go at it. But you don't have to operate this way.

Nobody is unemployable. There are only people who have figured out how to convey competence and people who haven't.
> No, wholesale transit is sold by bandwidth; e.g. a 10 Gbps pipe costs around $5,000/month regardless of usage.

When I went around asking for a price for a shared connection to out apartment complex, I was asked how many tenants we had. And the reason -- I was told -- that they asked for this, was that the more tenants the more traffic consumed.

So it seems to me that somewhere, someone is paying for traffic. Or else I don't understand.
http://www.census.gov/how/infographics/foreign_born.html shows that the foreign-born population of the US oscillated around 13-14% through the 2nd half of the 19th century, dipped below 5% in 1970, and had not quite made it back up to 13% by the 2010 census. I actually hadn't realized how close we were to matching the earlier peak, until I looked it up.
I saw that link, and the categorization seems fine, but following the feedback link doesn't automatically capture the search data. You need a link that automatically includes the search query, so that the user doesn't have to manually transcribe that data.

Ideally, you should do so via JavaScript inline on the search query page, to make it easy for the user to note the bad search results without switching back and forth between the results page and the feedback page.

Click feedback link, click category, identify relevant/irrelevant results, optionally type a sentence or two, submit. That flow needs some UX optimization.
...and having worked with Bill at a startup with a lot of undocumented code, I can say that he's absolutely incorrect. ;-)

If you anticipate that anyone will ever use or maintain your code in the future (including you), you should document it. The communication overhead of an organization grows as the square of its size, so the returns on the fixed amount of work involved are exponential.
You can disable vimperator on certain sites

:ignorekeys
Because most of the transportation operates on public streets (busses and muni). This forces them to deal with traffic and pedestrian crowds, which make them no better than driving. If SF had a real subway system, things would probably be different.