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> While each of your individual complains may make sense, as a whole, they are amusingly self-contradictory.

I don't think they are. My basic take is that you break compatibility only when you really, really have to, and when it buys something significant. I don't see anything significant that Python 3 buys. I see a bunch of minor changes and tweaks to syntax, some of which are arguably better, and some of which are arguably worse. It's annoying and pointless. We'll have a split community for a decade so that print syntax can be slightly more consistent. Many corporate projects will just never move. On the other hand, it misses the whole multicore/GPGPU era coming up.

> Even with the minimal incompatibilities on the C API level, it took ~2 years to port numpy/scipy, do you believe it would have ever happened if the changes you advocate for were introduced? Well, had the scope of Python 3 included removal of GIL and a JIT compiler, I doubt we had a single release yet while the usage of Python 2.x would be on decline (see the sad story of Perl 6).

Perl 6's problem is that it is not released. It's a research project in language design. Larrry didn't design a target for what he was building, and so it had feature creep, and never shipped. It's got bits and pieces, but even now, it is unfinished. If Perl 6 had been the same language, but designed and shipped quickly, I doubt you would see the same problems (especially given source-level backwards compatibility -- Perl 6 can load Perl 5 modules).

Here, virtually all the development could be done incrementally, with a target design spec (we have models for changes from existing languages like Fortress), and in parallel in Python 2 and 3. I think it would be very possible to bound it in scope.

With regards to SciPy, Numpy, the answer is a resounding hell yes. Right now, the only reason they have for porting to Python 3 is because somebody tells them it is the future. The major problem with Numpy/Scipy for a very large number of users is speed. It is at least an order of magnitude slower than C. If a Python 3 port allowed me to write:

d=[(cos(x), sin(y)) for (x,y) in d]

And Python 3 could either JiT this to run at C speed, or better yet, fork it out to the GPU, I can assure you the porting process would be Numpy's/Scipy's top priority.

> If somebody doesn't read installation instructions, perhaps it's their fault after all?

Not when it's the recommended way of doing it to the point where distributions do it. Right now, you've got a situation where end-users have system installs where Python programs just don't work.

> Seriously, it's not very specific. A lot of heat, not enough sense

Because each of those is an essay, and was beaten to death elsewhere. See the Reddit articles, LWN articles, etc.
You're both right. It IS an insignificant number, but it would suck, out loud, if you happened to be in that number. (I was not.)

I have 2 opposing feelings on the matter; 1 is that email is not backup. If you're using it as such, well, you run this risk. Email is a communication medium; if ideas or information presented therein are important to you, save them in appropriate places. Email is only a way to get the idea/info TO you, not where to keep it. And yes, I realize reasonable people disagree here.

The other is that at least with Google, the account is intimately tied to any Android devices you have. I've heard reports of people not being able to use large swaths of functionality on their phones or tablets due to them being in that insignificant number. That would make the suck possibly an order of magnitude or more worse.
premature version: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2270790
FYI you can't read that without logging in (which I can't).
Honestly, I wasn't aware of the convention. Seeing DropBox's color, we went with our own. Thanks for letting us know, we will definitely try to include it for our next update.
Are the AA's and their equivalents not shooting themselves in the foot? Framing the argument in the way they have done (piracy is KILLING art) might work for a while but sooner or later a thinking person will come to realise that it really doesn't. Home taping didn't kill anything. Of course, if everyone suddenly stopped buying and only used torrents then the system would collapse, but will that happen? If everyone stopped paying taxes the country would collapse too. No country has an army big enough to enforce that.

You smoke pot, you're a drug-crazed menaced. Except millions already do, they just keep it quiet (from the law at least). The more you push the drug-crazed menace part, the more anyone will any sense will push back as it's demonstrably untrue.

It might work great as a short term strategy and help you get favourable laws passed but I think they might be approaching the end of the line soon.

No need to be too sore though, Mickey Mouse has had a better run than virtually anyone in history.
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I've just read this in "Against intellectual monopoly" page 296 ( http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfi... ) :

Social norms are not a topic in which we are especially
expert. Still, it is a relevant topic: property rights are never
enforced only by the law-and-order system, or even by costly
private monitoring of other people's behavior. Broadly accepted
and well functioning property rights systems rest also, one is
tempted to write "primarily," on a commonly shared sense of
morality.

Then it quotes another economist, Eric Rasmusen :

Video rental stores and libraries, of course, reduce
originator profits and hurt innovation, but that is a
utilitarian concern. What is of more ethical concern is that
whenever, for example, someone borrows a book from the
public library instead of buying a book, he has deprived the
author of the fruits of his labor and participated in
reducing the author's power to control his self- expression.
Thus, if it is immoral to violate a book's copyright, so too it
would seem to be immoral to use public libraries. Libraries
are not illegal, but the law's injustice would be no reason
for a moral person to do unjust things. The existence of
children's sections would be particularly heinous, as
encouraging children to steal.

To entirely deter copying would require a norm inflicting a
considerable amount of guilt on copiers, since legal
enforcement of copying by individuals is so difficult. To
partially deter it would be undesirable for two reasons.
First, it would generate a large amount of disutility while
failing to deter the target misbehavior. Second, it would
reduce the effectiveness of guilt in other situations, by
pushing so many people over the threshold of being moral
reprobates. At the same time, the benefit from deterring
copying by individuals, the increased incentive for creation
of new products, is relatively small. I thus conclude that
people _should_not_feel_guilty_about_copying_.
Ask HN: Review my new project, blaster.fm
Blaster.fm is a social network for discussing and sharing music, built on the last.fm API.

I had the idea after being frustrated with the "social" experience of last.fm, and wanted somewhere I could share music and rants about various artists without annoying people on twitter. It's basically a FB news feed of your last.fm friends.

If you link your twitter account it also makes a handy blip.fm replacement.

It's still in the early stages with only a couple of hundred users, but obviously I'm hoping for a some steady growth. Working on an API and some mobile clients next.

I'm sure there are some things to be tweaked in the initial signup process - at the moment I don't think it's "sticky" enough if you don't have friends in the service. A lot of people sign up, never post anything and (so far) haven't come back. Possibly also some confusing terminology.

Would love your feedback, but be gentle :)

Works best if you already have a last.fm account.

http://blaster.fm

Edit: if you don't want to sign up, here's what a profile page looks like http://blaster.fm/killthelight/
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I know a few people who exclusively buy their media, but only for convenience. However these never got big into the PC gaming so never got hit with the bullshit of copy protection chewing up so many cycles that you can't run at full graphics despite being able to handle it. So you download a hack, allegedly violating the DMCA, and can play your game how you're supposed to be able to.

What happens next time you want to play a game? You download it because they made that the less hassle way.
Are you a game designer? And do you have a mathematical background? I liked the way you phrased this.
Yahoo also charges a monthly fee for access to pop3. Their web interface is slower and buggier than gmail's. There is free unlimited storage, but a smaller limit on file sizes. The virus scan on outgoing messages is usually slow; if gmail is doing virus scans, it's on the backend, it does not delay the user.
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I'm in the UK and will soon be setting up as a sole trader to legitimately manage the freelance work I do outside of my day job. Can anyone recommend an accounts package or software for the bookkeeping? At the moment my options seem to be Excel (and I'm not sure what I need to store) or GNUCash (which seems more for personal accounting). Any suggestions welcome, I just don't want to get fined a year down the line!
No need to. The government will fund a campaign to educate people.
There can be odd disconnects between what people think is okay versus how they'd vote if they had a chance to vote on an actual law, though. For example, the number of people in favor of legalizing marijuana is quite a bit smaller than the number of people who don't honestly think it's a bit deal if you smoke marijuana. For various reasons, a lot of people are in the category of: don't think it's a big deal, but still don't want it to be legal.
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I don't know. Engineers in general may be more impressed with skill than non-engineers, but as a woman in a technical field, I do feel constant pressure to not merely meet, but exceed, the abilities of my male peers in order to receive the same level of respect. I've felt it all my life, even as far back as middle and high school, competing in math competitions and our school's academic team, and being in the honors and AP classes.

It's not an overt thing. There's never any one comment or specific action by an individual you can point at and say, "See! Right there! You aren't giving me equal respect!" but the pressure is definitely there.

Also, the converse is true. Not only do you have to be better, to be seen as equal, anything you do wrong is magnified. Would Leah Culver's "creative" rounding method have been nearly a big deal if she'd been male? I have the feeling that while people would still have joked about it, it wouldn't have been as widespread or for as long.
All hipmonk did was provide ITA's Matrix time bar interface with the ability to book tickets. Brilliant, and they added some marketing. It wasn't hard or innovative. Most people simply didn't know about that UI.
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Some of us have significant hearing loss. Eye contact (better stated face contact) provides a lot of non-verbal cues as to what the %!*^&%! you're saying. It's not quite lip-reading, but I think it's getting additional information about where the syllable breaks are.
The term 'socially acceptable' makes the conclusion hard to pin down.

I'd say piracy is 'socially acceptable' - in the sense that not many people would bat an eyelid if you said you'd downloaded one of the latest movies illegally. But that doesn't mean I think it's right or that people should do it - it's just an observation on what seems to be "socially acceptable." What is socially acceptable does not typically match up with what I believe to be right.
I was speaking about the perspective of the battered and abused---they are the ones who leave.
It depends what you mean by "artificially", imo. If our profession is being so badly misrepresented to the extent that women who would otherwise enjoy a career in engineering are driven elsewhere, then I think our society has a problem that we should give significant attention.
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Wow, that looks pretty slick, and the pricing seems reasonable too. How long have you used it for? Ever had any big problems with it?
Do you feel the same way about the fact that only ~20% of social workers are men?
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Interesting thought, if piracy did manage to put a big dent into say the profitability of books, would we then see a lot more projects popping up on sites like kickstarter which would probably be very popular given the diminished choice in the market for readers.
The answer to this question depends a lot on in what stage of programming maturity you are.

I remember the exact moment I "got" what a class in C++ was. It was a true relevation. Even though I had been programming for a few years it wasn't until I was 19 that I fully understood the concept of a class.

I can definitely say that I was a different programmer after that day. It was like leveling up in an RPG.

It took me a few more years to get object oriented design...

Yeah, maybe I'm a slow learner (although I have seen enough of other people's code to conclude that I'm not alone) but the point is that at different stages of my journey to learn the programming craft I have been open to different ideas and insights.

I don't think there's one book that alone would have taken me all the way.
I never wear a wristwatch so I don't stress about time and rarely ever have. I'm generally always early, which makes me even less stressed about time.
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No comment !
74MB seems little to me too (I am thinking of how often people have sent me ppt of cute cats, word documents of a todo list and tiff scans of some thing they drew).

It would be nice if grandparent has some reference for such a number to share
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I'm not sure that he always wants acknowledgement, but he'd like it in this particular case.

For example, every comment I write on HN can be paraphrased freely by someone else--there's no contract saying you have to quote me directly. However, if my commentary---paraphrased or not---makes it onto the front-page of the New York Times then you can bet I'll be standing up in public and asking for a little recognition.

Consider this. He requested recognition, but did not demand it. They could have freely chosen to deny him recognition. That is a greater freedom to them, and we shouldn't gripe about it.
Is there any direct empirical evidence that these drugs improve intellectual function? Apples-to-apples IQ tests, or something like that?
'a woman can make three things out of nothing: a tragedy, a hairstyle, and a salad'

a russian sexist proverb (maybe internatnl dont know 4 sure)
So what if your admin account would be affected and your personal is not? Slightly less trouble, but still!
I don't think that wristwatches are going away any time soon, due to their convenience factor, but they probably will accumulate more functionality and could be used in future as a digital wallet, a P2P data server or a phone.
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Or worse, 90%+ of elementary school teachers are woman.
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Really? Almost none of my friends finds it acceptable. Maybe they are skewing the data to support their position. That never happens though.
He has one list in his profile: http://amzn.to/cthr46.
Looks promising!

It would be swell tough if the user could enter a youtube or vimeo link and share that, last.fm doesnt have it all. :)

And another thing, when clicking on an band-name it would be nice if there where some link to the artists entry on rateyourmusic.com . I find it to be the best service for discovering all the nerdy stuff about bands(like members, boolegs, reviews etc etc.)
Sloppy reasoning. "Past results are no guarantee of future performance."
So he made some contributions to Scheme. Anything else?
I'm also a fan of mechanical watches. When I was a kid I used to take them apart and mend them - something taught by my grandfather. However, mechanical watches are more about fashion or collectability than they are utilitarian.
Oh, I hadn't heard of rateyourmusic, thanks for the tip.

You can actually post a youtube link - see explanation in http://blog.blaster.fm/2011/getting-the-most-out-of-your-bla... - but at the moment it's a bit of an "advanced" feature.
I feel the plight of my philosophy teacher now, when he has to wade through oodles of lame philosophical BS every semester while grading papers :)
I'm not sure I really get what the author is trying to say by app versus business.

In terms of what Evernote (and Dropbox for that matter) did, there is a really simple term for this: execution. It is what separates those companies from their competitors in an industry that most probably saw too competitive. This video about Dropbox shows how they did it and I imagine Evernote's success story is no different:

http://www.socrated.com/user_courses/226?content_item_id=168...
TL; DR: "I spent close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold. And the gratitude I get... I'm tired of pretending I'm not special. You can't process me with a normal brain!"
Lets be honest here.

A lot of people are not going to like this type of post (as witnessed by the response here), but like any news outlet, sensationalist news sells. Jean Hsu is just following Gary V's advice and building up brand equity. There is no better way than to use your various circumstances in life to build a considerable amount of valley buzz.

Well played. I would do it too if I were in your shoes.

PS. Out of the last 10 hires I made for my previous startup, 3 of them were woman. I believe that's higher than industry standards.
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That's different; that only happens when you have ignorant, unthinking people who do not critically examine their own ethics when to do so would challenge social norms and/or their own material interests.
Yes, although alternative terms like "forbidden sharing" aren't quite as catchy and don't have the associated glamour factor from dramatic swashbuckling movies.
What exactly is WPF being abandoned for?
Fortunately, VB.Net translates rather easily into C#. Why is it an issue anyway? Most development involves use of APIs and standard libraries and not the languages themselves. VB.net and C# share the same libraries and underlying intermediary code.
Clickable:

http://blaster.fm

Edit: Not really my thing, still took a quick look, kind of neat. All the best.
Here are two that stick out in my mind almost immediately when I think of inspiring overall TED talks:

Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds

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William Kamkwamba on building a windmill

http://www.ted.com/talks/william_kamkwamba_on_building_a_win...
To me checking a message is much more rude than checking the time. It's actively stating "I have more important people to talk to than you".
Total conjecture, but 3 ways come to mind: De-duplication, compression, and hierarchical storage management. Keep less-frequently accessed parts of the data 'Nearline', and snapshot the lower-demand, older data slightly less often.
Continuous data protection appliances were probably designed and tuned specifically for this problem set, and one could assume it was built into the original architecture so that an appropriate amount of the infrastructure already had backup space in mind and accounted for.
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Oh come, on:

"without even trying to make it easy for people to convert their old code."

VB.NET and C# even run in the same VM. You can trivially call from one language into code written in the other. The object system is (necessarily) a direct mapping, at least in the direction he's interested in, so even translating VB.net to C# shouldn't be a problem where keeping a particular piece of code in VB isn't practical for extending it.
It's sad that one of the arguments in favor of C# is that it makes copy-paste programming easier.
RYM is fabulous for everything music!

Quickstart:
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A neat feature would be when entering an artist and title a little button or something would appera. Pressing it would launch a popup or something where the search results from youtube would appear where you could also listen/watch and then select the relevant video.
IMO, this type of buzz is no more than flamebait. But maybe my view of things is skewed.

PS. 30% women hires is pretty much the industry average.
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Sometimes I feel I'm the only person left in the world who a) still buys media; b) doesn't mind doing it; c) thinks it's wrong to pirate things; and d) doesn't consider it my right to be able to consume any media I want, and the only reason I'm not doing it is because it's priced too high - IMHO, DVDs, CDs, etc. are luxury goods.

Still, I realise I'm in the minority here - the 70% figure definitely doesn't surprise me. Just, for some reason, makes me a little sad.
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My point stands. She identifies herself as female for the purposes of giving a data point and explain why she wrote the post in the first place.

The author left a follow-up comment:

my point isn't that that female coders aren't interested -- it's that I am not interested, and a lot of day-job-coders aren't interested

So regardless of your interpretation, she wasn't trying to speak for all women. Personally I think it's a stretch to draw that conclusion.
Not sure how they could be more utilitarian... it tells you the time which is what watches are suppose to do. They type the parent is talking about is very accurate as well from my experience as well.
Oh, no, please not Derailing For Dummies. It'll certainly reduce the number of replies you get, but not in a good way...
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I don't know you well enough to believe that your "weekend project" can be "completely secured" by Monday morning.

Apologies if its a bit hard on you, but when you make overwhelming claims it opens you up to criticism from all sides.
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Thanks for all replies. Just to let all those who have posted know that it all helps, thanks again. :-)