The live CD with an actually really cool configuration of zsh. Whatever linux distro you're using, get the zsh config from grml!

Creating another startup to reduce the number of pointless startups is obviously the correct solution to everything!

The review may or may not be worth 100+ points on HN, but who am I to judge that. Better I start my own HN, so I can decide ... hey, that would actually work! Sort of.

The assumption was that most people commenting on HN are already working on a startup.

It works without problems on WinXP, there is no difference; throughout the beta-versions Firefox incrementally used some minor tweaks of Chrome (for instance, where the link-bar on mouse-hover or the status-information on loading the web-page was displayed). Sad to hear that it does not work on all OSs -- for me it is one of the most important improvements.

Until further replication I think it is more probable that three months of waiting resulted in somebody using a text editor.

Haha very true.

They have both posted on their news, however, under the root. However I'd like to see the claim backed up.

Hmm. Here in Central Europe this would probably read:

"However the events unfold we can rest reassured that scientists have to acknowledge that any use of nuclear technology for electrical power generation is inherently unsafe and therefore irresponsible."

And then we build a new coal power plant.

Not even probably. In Germany, opposition parties already (and once again) demanded of the government to rethink their nuclear strategy. (No new nuclear power plants are built or planned in Germany but the coalition government recently extended the runtime of existing nuclear power plants.)

I'm a bit annoyed that the only two options in Germany seem to be to either shut all nuclear power plants down or to extend the runtime of the already existing and rather old nuclear power plants. It seems to me that it is possible to have safer nuclear power but no political party in Germany seems to be willing to even talk about that.

It is worth mentioning that France is still big on nuclear and we will likely be buying French power from nuclear plants.

Even more important: Windows uses _very_ aggressive hinting for its default fonts, especially the new set introduced with Office 2007 and Windows Vista (Calibri, Cambria, Consolas). Though I very much like the effect for my programming font (Consolas is great in that respect), it destroys the scalability of a font to a very high degree (this is the reason why zooming a Webpage in any Browser reflows your text, and why some fonts look different in shape and/or height/width ratio in different zoom-levels; beside that rendering-engines decision to round the font-sizes to the next full pixel).

IE9 promises to not do this anymore, and on high-density displays (the better smartphone ones) it is simply not needed.

So the problem is two-fold: a very distinctive look of Microsoft fonts, and a sub-optimal fallback for non-aggressively hinted fonts in Windows.

However, if one uses font-sizes that one can actually read (for instance, bigger then 12pt, thank you all very much) the pixel-per-character count gets big enough that the results start looking better -- especially as the user does not unconsciously move his nose to meet the display in person.

Strangely enough, your primary example always directed me to videolan in the past, and continues to do so.

I very much prefer DDG these days, but those statements are just not true. And I do not believe that Google would purposefully provide _much_ _worse_ results for US customers, relative to EU ones.

The english ones are the only fine, because the websites are in english...

Try .fr, .it, .es and you'll see...

And on .us, just deactivate your adblock.

Same for me, the entire page is videolan.org plus wikipedia and one cnet page. And I have no ad blocker.

_worse_? I'd expect worst-case no-change, if it would hurt, the vendor would make TRIM a NOP. However, I'm always open for a source. (AnandTech for instance writes, TRIM just doesn't help, at http://www.anandtech.com/show/4159/ocz-vertex-3-pro-preview-...)

[edit] Well, if you look at the numbers, one column actually got worse. Wow.

Dualist priors have not yet been shown to be useful.

Neither have non-dualist priors. The nature of consciousness is as mysterious as it ever was. We have cracked a wide range of the soft problems, but the hard problem remains.

The "hard problem" of consciousness only exists if you start out with a dualist prior. Otherwise it is mysterious in the same way as the non-symmetry of matter and antimatter is mysterious -- it is not explained.

Lightning may look perfectly suitable for scientific investigation now, but it was as much a "hard problem" in other times.

The hard problem does not depend on our scientific understanding of the material world. Comparing the current situation in philosophy to the situation in physics 400 years ago is a false analogy, which doesn't take the fundamental difference between science and philosophy into consideration. Philosophy is about how we humans conceive the world, while physics attempts to describe a world seperate from our perception. As the failure of the object-subject duality has shown, that is impossible. There is no 'real', 'external', 'absolute', 'underlying' world to describe, because talking about it doesn't make any sense. We aren't brains in an 'absolute reality'. If you keep thinking about it in that way, you fundamentally misunderstand the key philosophical issues surrounding the hard problem.

are you including stuff like Taoism in that?

That depends very much on the question. If I just want THE ANSWER as my tld, and care about nothing else, then it IS the answer.