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I actually agree with you. If all you use the shell for is to launch programs, do basic job control and redirect I/O and do some basic pipelines, then you should be fine.

But keep in mind that 10s shell solutions becomes week long problems the moment you save them into a file. I have complex commands, either stored in a function or grepped from my history ;-) but my initial response was to the author, and anyone who laments the shell's shortcomings for anything more "industrial" than a one liner. I was strictly answering the premise in the fifth panel:

http://shellhaters.heroku.com/#5

"Also, Programming Language"

That it's not. Use your favorite language for your N-liners, for N > 1.
I'm really curious. What about reading this article made you think of Elling and what you refer to as "mentally challenged folk"?

Maybe I'm missing something (I haven't seen the movie, but from the imdb link you posted, no mention of autism)... but it seems to me like you're saying "having autism = being mentally challenged". Am I misinterpreting? I hope so :(
What do you want to learn - how to make a not-very-good search indexer?
What on earth is 'Blekko'? I must be so out of the loop.
http://preyproject.com/ looks awesome!

Can't believe it's free. Haven't looked at these for a while, but from what I remember they were one step above a command line tool last time I checked. Prey looks great.
Typing this on my iPad with my eyes closed
People who should never, ever start a business
Duh. Where exactly did you get the idea that your private key would be lost? It's no longer private because the attacker can use your forwarded connection "to authenticate using the identities loaded into the agent". It's right there in ssh man page.

Neither did I ever suggest using the second agent on the middle computer -- sure, it's obviously stupid.

> It's specifically built to prevent what you described as the danger.

You're wrong. See "man ssh", it's documented right there in "-A" option description.
That's the intention - (eg. http://www.workswithu.com/2010/09/10/fluendo-dvd-player-for-... ). Like I said, it's early days though.

There are a significant number of Linux users who highly value the ability to see how the software they use works, and modify it as they see fit. Many of these users consider it a moral imperative that all software they run is open to inspection and modification. You won't sell anything to the people in this latter category - and you'll probably get a few angry emails, too.

On the other hand, there are also plenty of Linux users out there running closed-source NVidia drivers, Oracle databases and more.
That's what I get for trying to describe a longer algorithm when I don't have time. Which I don't.

Ignoring the query string is only done when comparing the titles. If the initial section of the URL matches and the title matches then it's almost always a duplicate, and I only say "almost always" because there's a chance I'm wrong when I say "always" - I've never seen it.

But nothing's going to be done, and I don't have time to implement anything more robust than the quick hack I've done for myself, so I'm not going to get involved.
Nice project. Sharing some great images here:

http://www.dropmocks.com/mtfA
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Everybody is a foreigner somewhere. (Relatedly, everyone has an impenetrable accent, and everyone has a weird esoteric name that breaks our system and should be changed to fit in.)
HN isn't Reddit..... yet.

When the front page is full of pro-drugs/pro-gay marriage/liberal propaganda/etc then we'll be there.
Wow that was brutal. Took me maybe 20 minutes to get from the accessibility screen to submitting that, all without looking. Still, it's amazing that I could do it at all.

The touch keyboard has gotta be a deal breaker for blind people though. You have to poke around and listen for the letter you want, then double tap it. You can jump to the start and end of a field but I didn't find any way to move around in the text. I assume they can generally type full speed on a physical keyboard and I couldn't imagine getting a phone without one if I was blind.
I think GinzaMetrics is aiming to be pretty big! YC doesn't fund companies aiming to be "Mom and Pop shops". Even the ones which seem that small when they launch* are just launching with a minimum viable product and definitely have bigger ambitions.

*I wouldn't out GinzaMetrics in this category either, it's already impressive.
Aw, shucks, I'm flattered and pleased you liked it. I have to warn that all of that code has been unmaintained for years...
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I'd like to meet this guy
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Is this yours?

http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/
Yes, but an advanced graduate student, and Linux was his thesis project. Though he was ~21-23 at the time, the experience and maturity level was indubitably higher than the average CS undergrad in American universities.
imagine the increased quality of news coverage for technical products if more journalists could code, it would be awesome and they could validate firsthand a lot of things that have be fed to them by PR agencies (who also struggle a ton, and would benefit from being more technical)
Have you ever heard of Yippy (formerly Clusty)?
I'd say it is priority
Ask HN: What services do you use for tasks and contacts?
I am the co-founder of the start-up komola UG ( http://komola.de ) and am trying to find some more ideas for our upcoming Software-as-a-Service suplify ( http://suplify.me ). We want to make support software mainly which uses all streams from which support requests come being email, twitter, facebook and many more.
But out product will also feature a section where we try to aggregate the customers contact data and have a list of tasks. Because we think that this information (contact & tasks) should be synced with other services I am trying to make a list of the most popular services so we can integrate them first.

For now here the list I made (the further up the more important):

_Contacts_
* Google Contacts
* Highrise

_Tasks_
* Remember the Milk
* Google Calendar / Google Tasks
* Highrise

I would appreciate your help!
Thomas
(This is my first post here after lurking for about 9 months)
sort of, I work in description logics, they are used to build medical terminologies. NCI has used them over the years in cancer genomics. A good amount has rubbed off just hanging out with these folks but recently I've become keen to learn more.
You should be able to look at the email headers and either track back to the IP of his home connection, or the IP of the email service provider he uses. From there you give the info to the police and get them to issue a warrant or two to get the physical address of where it was sent.

If you're lucky they wont have used a proxy to hide their real IP, and wont have used a public access point.

Think about any apps you might have running which connect to services online automatically. I have an app which synchronizes my bookmarks with an online service (xmarks.com). I'd be tempted to contact them and ask for an IP address history of my own account to see if I could collect any other IPs that they might have used.
I have tears streaming down my face and I have been cackling like a maniac for 10 minutes.

I LOVED the Hardy Boys. They felt serious for that age. The hardbacks had a classic feel. The pages were thick, the illustrations mysterious and the covers were heavy and ornate. When I finished one I felt like I accomplished something. I would put it on the shelf in between 10 others and decide on the next one - usually by coolness of cover. I vividly remember the scene in "Missing Chums" when they drove the boat into the smugglers cave. My heart was pounding. I remember I got so nervous that I hid under a table and shifted positions constantly while reading it. It may have been the first time I got completely immersed in a book.

Knowing that he called the books, "The Juveniles," and that he viscerally hated every every word of every page, is like finding out that Santa Claus doesn't exist - at age 32.

And just to twist the knife, on my birthday the author wrote in his diary:
June 9, 1933: "Tried to get at the juvenile again today but the ghastly job appalls me."

Ok I just woke my girlfriend up by laughing so hard. I don't know what to think. Goodnight HN. Thank you for the best thing I've read all year.
What a fantastic article. No idea what it has to do with HN but it was one of the best pieces I've read in a while. Thanks niyazpk!
This already happens with cars. For example, the difference between the BMW Mini One and Cooper versions is basically just a different engine map on the CPU, with the former restricted in power and the latter sold at a higher price http://www.newmini.org/content/mini_jan02.htm.
unmaintained code (n): code that isn't in my editor now.

:-)
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Yes, that's the one. Thanks a lot.

I figured from that page that I read about it in either the Tipping Point or in the Freakonomics. I hadn't read about its criticisms before, interesting read.
Watch the movie first. The description doesn't really do it justice.

Separately, though, if you ignore some of the connotations, it does seem fair to call autism a "mental challenge".
In the past year, I have gone back to reading the Enid Blytons (Secret Sevens and Famous Fives) that I fondly remembered. I was amazed at how bad I found them this time around.

Especially, because I've read 2 Harry Potters recently and they are fairly readable. I also pick up Tintins and Asterixes from time to time and I still find them very enjoyable and appealing.
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I finally opened a Facebook account years ago when I became convinced they kept private info private, now they are making private info public by default, and I no longer trust them. I certainly won't be buying a phone from them.
Bless techcrunch's heart, they do not understand the difference between outsourcing design and manufacturing, that is what happened to the crunchpad!
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The article refers to the fate of adult autistic children when their parents die. The movie's character relates to a person in similar circumstances - his mother dies and a social worker places him in sheltered then independent accomodation.

I apologise if the phrase "mentally challenged" was offensive or inappropriate (the English language never fails to trip me up). As far as I can recall, the movie does not identify the specific developmental disability, but the main character engages in obsessive and ritualistic behaviours and has a number of challenges with fully integrating in society. His friend has different issues. The movie has a very positive message, as had the OP. I encourage you to judge by yourself rather than read the IMDB description. If you feel I have misrepresented it, I am interested in your views, my contact details are in my profile.

The real issue, I thought, is what is the appropriate level of state intervention / social support in circumstances where the parents-caregivers pass on.
Wrong.

I installed all the updates on my Milestone after downloading them from the Motorola website. Mostly because OTA didn't work for me.

And on my Nexus One I built Froyo myself from source and use it ever since.

How do I do that with a Blackberry?
Yeah, the only NES games I can play now are the Mario and Zelda ones (I never played Metroid 1 as a kid, and can't get into it now). SNES games I can get into much more easily.
I can say Gold ETFs aren't going to crash anytime soon.
I don't think it would be aimed at the type of person who reads stuff here or anyone who reads techcrunch.
This is about the fourth time I've lived thru one of those consensus end-of-the-road forecasts for semiconductor feature sizes. Each time hey have gone past with maybe a years delay. Of course, lithography canny be extended forever, though it seems hard to predict the end of new techniques.

As you point out,3disa way to go, and it has it's own problems, but there seems to be no hard physical limit to the number of layers one can add, presuming that defect rates are low enough.

I'm really just Wanting two more generations of ssd, so that a 500 gb costs enough to not feel guilty buying it. From then on, it's gravy.
I agree with everything except 1 point:

"I have an M.S. in applied mathematics"

Knowing something doesn't mean you can teach it. I'm a perfect example... When using my skills, I get nothing but praise from employers. When they tell me to teach someone else to do the same, it's nothing but pain for everyone involved. I'm sure the trainee learned -something-, but a teacher would have done a much better job. It's not even that I don't want to teach, because I used to want to... Until I learned that I have no knack for it.

I'm not saying you can't teach it... I'm just saying your degree in it doesn't mean that. They are perfectly correct to force you to prove you can pass the certification.
Reading Kevin J. Anderson's Star Wars novels again a couple years ago was a similar experience for me.
LOL What IS that chart? I'm having fits just looking at it. The 46% seems to scale, but then the other pieces... Some aren't marked, 1 seems to be empty, and 2 have percentages that are WAY out of line with their size. And of course, it's way more than 100%.
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I hope these won't be forced, I can't be the only person who has had to use older drivers due to bugs/etc.
Makes you wonder about possibility of such literary hearts who would be chucking out "SEO-compliant" articles at "2$/100 words" rate on freelance websites while their heart aches with misery attributed to nothing but their own creations.
India too. Sure, there is a large pool of "career programmers" here who write terrible code, but you can always weed them out.

Edit: What prevents you from allowing people from other countries from signing up? Isn't this just a service that connects clients with programmers? From the looks of it, you aren't even handling payments or doing anything else that could get you into trouble with law enforcement.
Its not forced, I went through it today, and then promptly rolled back to 10.3, the last (somewhat) working driver from ATI/AMD.
you either haven't read the article or totally missed it's point (as several other commenters here)
People hate everything. The big banks and airlines all rate at the bottom of customer satisfaction surveys, and yet they're big because everyone does a lot of business with them. People complain, but they don't change who they do business with.

I think a Facebook phone will be massively successful on name alone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-mount

T-mount beats F-mount by 2 years. It's not as elegant as F-mount, but it's very simple - essentially a screw.

I use it with adapter to attach my Nikon DSLR to a telescope.
This is just simple price discrimination. They could just add $50 to the price of each chip and then people who didn't want improved performance pay it anyway. This way those who want it pay for it, those who don't don't.
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The leaders link in the top bar was removed when a separate page was added with the Ask HN questions.

Here is pg's announcement: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1173801

In the same discussion, in response to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1174132, pg moved the leader link to the Lists page and had the Ask HN on top bar.
Reminds me of the relationship Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had with Sherlock Holmes.

Doyle despised writing Sherlock stories and did not consider them serious fiction. At one point he killed Sherlock, only to revive him years later because of popular demand.

Today there are societies and museums around the world dedicated to the great detective.
Reading into it, it is not enough to just have CustomErrors on to mitigate the risk. There are some pretty detailed instructions, involving pushing all errors to a single page, with a random delay embedded in the page script.

They seem intentionally vague about how someone can use this to get asp.net to dump the web.config however.
I think that's the real message of the article. I don't think it's about the coffee market in NY, or in general - it's about making sure you think and measure before you leap.

Starting a business is a huge deal and consumes huge amounts of your time. If the sums don't add up - that is, you're not going to be profitable unless you work as slave-labour in your own business - maybe you shouldn't do it. I think this is a trap that many educated people fall into that don't have direct business (or time billing) experience.

This is applicable to tech as well - if you build a product, sell it super cheap (say, software @ $20 per year), and it takes around 1 hour per year in technical support per user (per year), you need to consider that when pricing. It may not be worth it. Or you may just have your pricing or business model wrong.
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First: Gene Weingarten is always a pleasure to read.

I know it is not relevant to his main angle, but I wish he had followed up on this part: In 1959, many of the old Hardy Boy books were redone, streamlined, modernized, sterilized.

I, like many HNers, I imagine, first read the Hardy Boys in the post-1959 editions. A couple decades ago, when I learned about the rewrites, I decided to collect the originals, and compare them. It was a fascinating experience.

Weingarten's phrasing above gets to the key elements. Racial stereotypes were removed-- the old versions were quite offensive to modern sensibilities at times-- along with about 1/3rd of the text. Plots were simplified, and a much more formulaic approach to action (from one mini-cliffhanger to another) took over. Descriptive passages were omitted, more often than not.

So: if you really want to read Leslie McFarlane, be sure to check out the pre-1959 editions.
tl;dr... "NEWFAGS R THE CANCER THAT IS KILLING HN!!111!!!"

Move along. Nothing to see here.
Wikipedia has some useful information, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_tree_snake. In the invasive species section notice that the islands where the snake is spreading to all have US military bases of some form - the snakes seem adept at hiding in the undercarriage of the planes. The snake has the potential to devastate a lot of unique ecosystems across the Pacific and if it ever gets to Hawaii there will be endless opportunities for it to spread far and wide.
I am in LE (well, investigations anyway).

For the most part you are smack on! However I suspect this is ''not'' the thief - even after such a short time. As pointed out elsewhere they will shift it off pretty quickly.

From the text of the mail the person probably knew it was dodgy. So it's probably been fenced and then sold on - the person probably knows or has a friend who knows the fence (but not the thief) [this is just a guess, but it is usually what happens].

Second the advice to get LE involved; in fact it is crucial that he does so. By reporting as much as possible the police know about all the crimes. So, for example, if they grab someone on theft and can't link him to the specific incident they are investigating they may still be able to link him to your theft - because it is on record (this happened the other month, we had a stolen laptop to examine, no evidence... but the serial number of the external HDD with it matched on reported stolen 10 months ago).

In terms of tracking down this person, there are a few ways to do it. Where did the email come from (i.e. webmail, or the PC?) and from what address? You might be able to geolocate an IP address to get a rough location (this is useful information for the police because they may be aware of fences/thieves in that area to question). If it is webmail the police would need a warrant, which they might get in this case due to the explicitness of the case.

If the laptop is signing into chat etc. then perhaps you could convince the person to talk directly to you via that - at which point the police could try to get a warrant for the chat providers records and track him down.

Move quickly, the IP information can go stale very quickly.
Does anyone know the "Making it Big in Software" book? Is it any good?
Not to forget Google.

Android is by some metrics a good platform, but I do wonder whether it's going to be the revenue generating channel that they seem to hope it will be.
What value does fiction have beyond artistic? Fire-wood?
One of the problems with the Karma thing is it's ridiculously simple to gain karma. Unless you're deliberately being stupid.

All you have to do is say something you believe will fit in with the groupthink of the community.

The first step to salvation is the realization that karma="how much time you waste commenting" rather than how much your comments are valued.

I'd like to see a community where there is a limited supply of karma. Or your karma is shown as a percentage of total karma. I think that would produce much better dynamics.
Do such content factories really exist? That's horrible yet intriguing.
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