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I think that Jamie Zawinski cut his teeth on the Apple II series. Those had green-on-black monitors.

I agree, though. The contrast is a strain on the eyes.
$100 is a great bozo filter, and Apple does the right thing by letting you fiddle with the SDK to your heart's content before paying anything.
I created this tutorial to help technically-savvy scientific programmers (but not necessarily full-on programmers) to install PyCUDA on Ubuntu 10.10. It probably cannot suit all needs, but I felt my roadblocks were common enough (and the limit of my knowledge familiar enough) to warrant a gathering of disjunct information into a small tutorial.

I'm not looking to turn into a professional tutorial by any means. I'm really just wanting to see if there are questions from hackers at my level, not Linux, Ubuntu, Python, or CUDA sages :-)

Thanks HN!
Rules and guidelines have been changed for every marketplace in history as it finds its way around. Sometimes these changes are good; sometimes they're bad; sometimes they're neither.

Apple is trying something that I don't personally like (extending the rules to Amazon &c.), but just arguing that this is bad because Apple's changing the rules is a non-starter. Rules change. Sometimes they hurt people who were banking on a strategy that was based on the old rules. This is visible in pretty much every human endeavour. (The banks didn't like the rules that instituted the FDIC. They bitched. The rules were still changed.)

Last.fm, Netflix, Pandora, etc., are essentially rental in terms of IAP rules; you have time-limited access to particular content (with Last.fm and Pandora it's even more time-limited than with Netflix, since you have no real self-direction over the songs that are played per the web radio rules in the U.S.).

The guidelines aren't as clear as they could be, but as I said elsewhere, I'm pretty sure this isn't about access as much as downloadable content.
Which version of rails are you using? Rails 3 is far far superior to rails 2.x in my experience.

In addition, does the rails model fit your needs? Rails is there to be able to roll out a clean, well structured, well tested CRUD application - it's certainly not a "I win" button.

I'd wager that if you find you're using essay-like queries, either you've missed a trick, or rails isn't a great fit for your application.
There is a difference in "They still offer a crippled freebie for download on there site" and "They disable the version that I have on my computer that works just fine, and force me to pay money for features I may not be interested in". If they don't want to offer a free/old/crippled version anymore, I don't blame them. But if I already have the software installed on my pc today, and tomorrow it doesn't work, that's really lame.
Someone on physics.stackexchange already mentioned that we should probably ask chemists. IIRC, the most commonly used stirring method in industry is, basically, figures-of-8.
Rentals are disallowed.
I really hope this will get further developed, because it can blur SEO as we know it today.

Not that experts will not be able to utilize their network of site owners, but the results will be even more personalized, and when nobody can permanently rank #1 on Google for any keyword, searchers win.
Because it's incredibly dangerous to think your machines are more secure just because you own them. How much time per day do you spend making sure your machine and everything on it is secure?

We employ teams of people to keep your code safe on GitHub.
Your comment makes me think of how short-sighted laziness is endemic or maybe engrained on a cultural level. Or even worse, it's a natural part of our decision-making processes, but I really think culture can overcome it.

Solving the problem of people never learning "one thing" to save hundreds of wasted hours over the years is akin to solving the obesity problem in America. Everybody that is obese knows already that obesity is a health problem, but it takes that little bit of effort to start making it pay off, and nobody has the time/desire to put in that little bit of effort. Meanwhile massive societal forces conspire to both make people overeat and stay inactive, just as they keep them from taking the time to learn new things about their software and work processes.

The reason I think culture and education can overcome these forces is because of another comparable societal problem: the campaign to end smoking actually has gotten a large percentage of Americans, especially youth, to get over that hump or even better never start at all. It took massive investment in public education and time for it to propagate through a generation. So, these are cultural problems: we have a failure to motivate people to explore new computer skills.
Should you crush the sugar crystals (to promote rapid cooling) or should you use the largest possible crystals so there are more bonds to be broken?

I'm going to guess that there's a sweet spot in there somewhere; a priori it seems you want the maximum size that will dissolve completely.
Yes, it's all the same, but this time it's different! Really!

And every time, people believe it.
I so hope you're right, but I think this firmly falls into the "This time it's different category". Each bubble has people saying this for various different reasons. I upvoted but disagree because no amount of explanation will make me digest a 50 billion dollar valuation for facebook. I think people just got used to big numbers because of all the bailouts that happened last year.

It's good atleast that people are talking about this though. I wonder how much discussion there was about a possible bubble in 99.
That really sounds like a distinction without a difference. MS had control of 90% of consumer and office computing. True? Apple doesn't control anywhere close to that in phones.
I'm trying to decide if you are being ironic or not. If you are, it isn't clear at all. If you aren't, your argument makes zero sense whatsoever. You don't have a monopoly "over products"; you have a monopoly over markets.
You could take the same research and apply it to IDE's. Perhaps this explains why I prefer Emacs to Eclipse or IntelliJ.
Apple has no monopoly on digital book readers or digital books. It doesn’t even have a dominant position in the market. That’s what matters.
The communities that don't feel male teachers/nurses are important are definitely suffering from a lack of male perspective. That's the point I'm making - the moment you flip the genders in grhino's argument, you immediately get objections.

(That said, in general I don't think gender balance matters much. Either women's different priorities/habits/strengths result in them producing good code, or they don't. It's only in unusual cases involving human interaction where it actually matters - e.g., doctors/nurses working on your privates.)
Out of curiosity, why do you like Pyvascript?
It might be a browser thing, but on my system it's way more than just for justification at the end of a line. For example, here's how the first half sentence looks to me:

I was asked in a com-ment to an-oth-er post to ex-plain why my re-ac-tion to IAP isn’t just in-dica-tive of greed on the part of pub-lish-ers...

I just checked my other browsers, and Firefox is the only one I'd want to read this in. Chrome has a problem with whatever is putting in the hyphens, and IE is using some difficult-to-read script font.
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Most VC returns are negative- VC's have to be optimistic like entrepreneurs
Sorry, the government can't create wealth for free. If the government wants to allocate dollars, it must at some point come from taxes (pulling dollars in the economy back out of it) or inflation (printing more dollars and decreasing the value currently held dollars). Now, the economy may grow such that the amount of wealth in the future is much larger than the amount we have now, and therefore represents a smaller fraction of the economy, but the fact remains that the wealth comes from somewhere.
Internships are about learning, so you need to convince your administrator that you will get a valuable learning experience. "Learning by doing" is a cliche that probably won't be enough for your administrator. Universities have a mindset that connects learning directly with teaching (not doing). They aren't completely wrong on this, in that good learning comes from doing things properly and teachers can often define "properly" for you.

My recommendation would be to join an accelerators or incubator program. That gives you the mentors/teachers necessary to satisfy the "learning" requirements of the university. Alternatively, try to find experienced partners for your stand-alone venture (sort of arranging your own private accelerator program).

As a last resort, maybe you can get a traditonal internship in an established start-up that relates to your space. You could then pitch your project within that start-up. Who knows, they might pick up on it.
Even if there was a bubble, you are talking about early stage investment that probably means there is $250M instead of $100M - previously the bubble was in the late stage where there was $15Bn instead of $1.5Bn. Huge difference.
Are you using chrome?

It could be this bug: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=65941
Seems that you're missing a GIF image in your theme: http://i.imgur.com/4r7Sj.png
Google is starting to walk the social path, but it's child's shoes yet. I'm sure the algorithm will be able to analyze friends of friends.
The problem is that they had a huge share of the market, and they abused that to keep other players out.

With respect to computer manufacturers they had a variety of illegal practices which meant that it was difficult or impossible for them to sell other OSes. Since Apple doesn't sell its OS for generic PCs, the main player this hurt was Linux. From memory an example of this was that the OEMs had a huge discount on the 'face' price of Windows, but if they sold anything except Windows they couldn't get this special price, even for the Windows computers they did sell.

Similarly they drove Netscape out of business by bundling Internet Explorer with their OS, and then later retrofitting the OS so that IE was baked into a bunch of things that it hadn't been baked into previously (such as Explorer), such that removing IE and replacing it with Netscape or $other_browser would actually break Windows. They didn't have to do that, and it didn't make any sense to do that, except for the express purpose of breaking Netscape.

As for OS/2, allegedly Microsoft stole all the good technology to use in their own products, and then played silly buggers to the point where it was massively delayed.

BeOS died an unnatural death, which is odd. Neal Stephenson has this interesting article about that. I'll link to the cliff notes in case you're in a hurry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_Com...

The thing that gets me about BeOS is everyone I personally know who used it raves about it... but when I go looking for old pictures of it, it is butt ugly. I mean truly hideous. Dos pre-windows 3.1 hideous. It is worse than 90s Linux is how bad it is. :D But hey, apparently it was the superior technology, and yet nobody would sell any PCs with it installed ... FOR SOME STRANGE REASON (cf above discussion on Microsoft's 'intimate' relationship with PC manufacturers)
'99: a .com needed a team of engineers and a big expensive server to try a new idea

'11: one guy, one weekend, and a day's pay for a cloud service to try a new idea

There are legitimate fundamental differences between then and now. Think about how many people toss up a weekend project for review here on HN that would have been a huge team effort back then. I'm not saying I can see the future (like a lot of people tried to then), but it doesn't seem as hazardous this time around.
We're in a bubble of people asking this question, for sure.
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The best part of this article is, "High Lord Jobs."
Not really. A bubble can be a self-organising Ponzi scheme - earnings from Yahoo came from advertising which was paid for by capital going into the tech bubble; and the pre-GFC US economy was arguably one giant bubble (with earnings being paid by people who were willing to do overtime to keep their million dollar houses out to the hock), but it's not quite the same thing.

They do have the same (or similar) dynamics though.
They could but Apple doesn't have to accept them into the App store. They can easily say "these two companies are the same", and enforce the same rules on them.

They're not legalistic, they're moralistic.
Ask HN: Getting to decision makers?
Hi everyone,
as when selling some product, goal is to go directly to decision makers, and then sell to them. What is your approach to problem of getting directly to someone who can make a decision and not to talk to someone that have no decision powers.

Thanks
You seriously think I made this account just to troll you? Talk about defensive.
I disagree with your premise that embedded devices and servers don't matter.
Not only do MS's figures show their tests they they created (so that 100% means they met a self-defined project goal not that they match 100% of any externally defined/agreed standard), they don't entirely compare like for like. While they show how bad IE8 is compared to the other currently released competition, they list there own "won't be released for a couple of months yet" version but don't include other people's alpha/beta/RC versions.

It would be interesting to see how well FF4 and the current Opera and Chrome pre-releases manage against this set of tests (probably not 100% as the tests have a built-in bias, but I'm sure they'd do better.
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I find it amusing that the top-ranked comment describes the program as "fascist"

For decades, big corporations and venture capitalists (and their lobbyists) have used every trick in the book to get themselves special advantages.

Huge loopholes mean that the effective US corporate is the fourth lowest rate in the OECD (though the official tax rate is the second highest in the OECD). This is a great example of dysfunctional government intervention, but one that won't go away (because cutting loopholes is demonized as "raising taxes")

VC earnings (and for that matter long-term capital gains) are taxed at a much lower rate than W2 earnings of an employee. All of these things are due to government interventions (ostensibly to promote economic growth and create the "right" incentives)

I'm not a fan of big government intervention and I don't know much about the "Obama endorsed VC program". So I'm open to legitimate criticism of the program.

However, if folks are going to describe it as "fascist", I'd be interested to know why they haven't described the current system (with all of its tax loopholes and incentives) as fascist
Won't this just make consumers hurt at the end? The most reasonable option as a developer is just to mark up the prices by 30% and then say if you want it the normal price, too bad - Apple needs its cut.
Personally, I find 'dangling prepositions' fine in spoken English, because intonation can overcome their awkwardness. I try to avoid writing dangling prepositions, and I find reading them to be slightly jarring.
Facebook name makes more Billion than anything ever; there’s definitely something scary going on there.
"The trouble with a declaration like this is that it has no basis in fact, just your own personal experience. I have never seen anybody click on an ad on a webpage. By your reasoning that means that obviously no-one clicks them."

You're trying to stand the needle on its tip with those assumptions. You're assuming that my experience is that of a simple, casual bystander - a random "torrenter" - despite that I informed that I for many years up until just recently was a part of the video scene. I know the territory, and I know "the people", just like any other seasoned member of any other movement knows their territory. Take my word for it: there isn't good, or even ok'ish money to be made here.
But if he gets a default judgement, that doesn't matter. If he doesn't, he has made his point and cost Apple more than $139 in the process.

It isn't always about winning.
Wow. This is bikeshedding to the extreme.
Don't you think that the iPhone/iTunes/iTunes Store is engineered to keep other phone synchronisation software out?
Ask HN: Apple 30% tax a sign of desperation?
People seem to be thinking that Amazon asking for 30% of subscription revenue is a sign of strength.

What if it's really a sign of weakness? They don't see their earnings increasing enough through sales of their hardware to justify their sky-high valuation.

So they have to adopt Walmart tactics and squeeze the others in the ecosystem.

Thoughts?
It works fine on Chrome 9 for Mac.
One thing that the last boom showed is that the first well executed play in a segment captures the segment and makes competition nearly impossible. Examples Google, Amazon, and eBay. The investors are betting that Facebook, Groupon, Zynga, and Twitter have captured their segments and further competition is impossible. The gamble is whether those segments are now closed. They weren't in the case of Alta Vista and Myspace.
The following will work across 3 and 2 versions going back pretty far. It's necessary if you want to support pre-2.5 versions (where `as` was introduced):

import sys
try:
fn()
except (IOError, TypeError):
err = sys.exc_info()[1]
print(err)

http://docs.pythonsprints.com/python3_porting/py-porting.htm...
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Hi freddealmeida,

Apologies on the late response, didn't realize we got a comment here.

Thanks for the questions! We're using CMS for many of our clients and our product (PostageApp.com)

Are you looking for further clarifications on tags and sample code? I believe Oleg (@GroceryBagHead), who created the CMS, is working on a full wiki, so you might want to stay tuned for that. :)
Absolutely true. Several years ago I had a recruiter hounding for nearly two months(calling me multiple times per week) me to go on interviews that didn't appeal to me despite the fact that I made my expectations clear. I finally relented and went on one that seemed the most reasonable of the bunch. Late in the interview, we found a few a changes that the recruiter had made, including lying about my education history. The interviewer must have chewed them out because I didn't hear back from them at any point after that.
I would have to say that's a pretty harsh indictment of Linux distributions and Mac OS by the US DoJ.

On the one hand, it's a little worse than you're suggesting because this was actually the opinion of the court. The DoJ was just the plaintiff.

On the other hand, the implied indictment of Linux and MacOS of the era isn't as bad as you're suggesting. I encourage you to go though the document, since you have the URL handy and I gave you the phrase to grep for. Take a look at the following excerpt:

The Court has already found, based on the evidence in this record, that there are currently no products - and that there are not likely to be any in the near future - that a significant percentage of computer users worldwide could substitute for Intel-compatible PC operating systems without incurring substantial costs.

Now I know you're tempted to rephrase this in some way that bolsters your perspective, but be careful with such temptations, for if & when Apple finds themselves in the same hot water it's going to happen through litigation and the determination will be made in a court — where the tool of choice is linguistic precision in general, and pulling key definitions & tests from precedent in particular. Every word in the above quote has weight, and you should make no substitutions if you want to gauge how things might play out were litigation brought against Apple.

In the above excerpt, note the phrase "Intel-compatible PC operating systems", which is part of the definition of the "relevant market" under which the determination of monopoly status was judged. The MacOS of the era ran only on PowerPC machines and some aging Motorola 680x0 hardware. So there's no harsh indictment of MacOS here.

As for linux of the 90s, I suppose you could look to phrases like "significant percentage of computer users worldwide could substitute" and "without incurring substantial costs". Linux distributions of the era could not rise to that standard. Although you would be correct to note that vendor lock-in played an important role in those "substantial costs".
There isn't any. At best you might be lucky to strike a few bucks taking light payment for leech accounts on FTPs - but this is very, very rare, because nobody needs to pay to get their warez these days. If you are looking to make money in the warez scene, look to the release groups supplying software. That's where money can be made by taking offers to plant malware in software releases - more than a few large groups have been caught red-handed doing this. Pirated software is an incredibly efficient vector for reaching out to masses.
I take this to mean "Are software companies overvalued relative to the rest of the economy?" No. I can't prove my side -- like in the stock market, no one can -- but it's hard to put a cap on how well the software sector will do.

Every activity in the world is involving more and more software. Code builds on itself, and technology has only very recently crossed some fundamental thresholds, like ubiquitous powerful arbitrary computation and global communication at close to c. Together, these imply that the opportunities for value creation will continue to be enormous, and in the big economic picture money will redistribute from other industries to software.

That was true in 1999, but people had a lot less information with which to estimate the size of these kinds of opportunities. Given this uncertainty, the amount of money invested may have been rational, at least at first, even though the bet turned out to be wrong. Now people have enough information to estimate well.
That's completely wrong. Google's had social search since 2009. It never put it out there for a week and yanked it.

The opposite is happening here. Google rolled it out, then just kind of let it sit -- no big huge improvements, and it was hard to find. Now they're putting much more faith into it, making it more visible.
My rule: if people are worrying that there's a bubble, there's a bubble. It's almost the definition. It's clearly not as bad as the last one in that the overvalued companies actually have some value to begin with, and it's only us techies fretting right now, not everyone and their cab driver.

The trick is figuring out what to do with that information.
As we often are in HN, you are really bogged down in this techie world we live in. In most places, for most jobs, people are expected to come in with a paper resume (I volunteer at a place that does job placement for international visitors, and we had some stats on it).

This is a great service/brand builder at low cost.
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It's amazing to me how Twitter has become such a valuable and useful source of information compared to Facebook. Especially considering the 140 character limit.

So I have no problem with Twitter being incorporated into my search results.