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In pictures, the 5th largest earthquake in recorded history
No other operating system manufacturer (outside of the embedded realm) does anything near what Microsoft does for XP. Suggesting that it is a failing of the IE team to not support XP is a little disingenuous with the rest of what people say. I see very few people complaining that Apple killed the PowerPC line, and XP far predates that.

Microsoft has been pushing people off of XP for ages, but many people hold the misapprehension that XP is 'good enough' in some sense. This is further complicated by the fact that most people who still use XP don't want the system to change. If Microsoft were to release such a service pack, the first thing that nearly all of the IT groups of whom you speak would do would be to block it from automatically installing. Those that wouldn't would have already set up the base install to have a modern browser (IE8, Firefox, Chrome).
Awesome comic! I absolutely loved reading it and suggest it to anyone else!
What are some specific examples of beautiful C code in your view? Asking for a friend.
I'm sure this has nothing to do with Apple's culture and everything to do with people acting like normal people and helping others in times of need.
Is it possible to move the tabs onto their own line? I rarely browse with fewer than 10 tabs open so having them share space with the address bar and buttons would be pretty awkward. Likewise, long addresses are obscured by the fixed width of the 'one box' even when all the space to the right is vacant. Can that be resized?

I would like to be able to just try it out instead of asking basic questions but first I would have to make a Windows 7 VM etc. etc.
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> What's the point in creating "Silicon Valleys" everywhere anyway?

The idea is that if you have a lot of businesses near to each other in the same business sector, you can get synergy between them. the whole is greatrer than the sum of the parts.
('\n').join(map(str, [1,2,3]))
Thats it? really? No pledge of money to help repair?

If thats all Apple does in response its extremely weak.
As a side note, to a physicist j = sqrt(-1) is also a conflict because we're used to i, j, and k being quaternions.
Given the number of times I've heard the Chilean government talk about establishing a Chilean "Silicon Valley", I think we can all safely assume that's more or less what they're trying to do.

As someone who has been living and working in Chile for more than 10 years now, I'm not at all surprised to see them throw money at the issue yet again, instead of working on changing the way things work. But I've already talked about that stuff before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2068429
I remember working in music retail in the early 90s, around the time when most 'singles' were taken away from retail floor space. We migrated to some cassette singles, and some CD singles, but the selection went from decent to dismal in just a few months - and in most stores in my area, not just our mall location. I was told "demand is down" by some regional bigwig, but people kept coming in asking for a single of some song on the radio they'd heard, and all we had was full CDs. These just happened to be discounted (for the first few weeks of a song's radio release) to make the price more palatable, but it felt shady to me.
Is there anyone thinking that Japan will go away? No.

Take this as one man's defiant fist against nature, and his pride in what his culture and country can endure and produce.
This is a great idea. A bunch of us in the software craftsmanship community engaged in what we called "Positivember" last fall in a similar vein: http://programmingtour.blogspot.com/2010/11/positivember.htm...
A command-line shell inside your browser
Cool hack. The site allows you to navigate using a command-line interpreter.
Copyright and protection: it shouldn't be. And Steve Jobs certainly isn't wrecking that, and legal free digital music certainly isn't either, just like open source and free apps aren't wrecking the software industry: they simply change the game.

As for revenue: it's just the markets, not everyone gets to be an artist. There's too much music out there now for people to pay for. You can argue "there will always be a market for premium content" til you're blue in the face, it doesn't change the fact that no one agrees on what premium is.
Chip shortages and price spikes likely to occur in wake of Japan quake
Apple does not activate nitro for web apps saved to home screen
Pretty awesome stuff!
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Sure me and my friends talk shit about people that has been exposed doing stupid things on the internet, but we do it in private. We don't ridicule in public. I think that's the difference.
Yes, dedicated tab row was one of the #1 feature requests, and indeed, was fixed for the IE9 Release Candidate.

See: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/02/15/user-experienc...
Language integration would be nice, however dynamic code generation from a library has been about for some time now:

"With libtcc, you can use TCC as a backend for dynamic code generation."
from http://bellard.org/tcc/
I haven't done functional programming really, I didn't think of that case.

Interesting that it still seems to apply, though. If your abstractions in functional programs obscure that flow, they still strike me as a failure. Though I'd be interested in if functional programmers would disagree, I obviously don't know functional design patterns.
The context of this discussion was graders marking people down on homework assignments, not published journals.

You’re right that it’s political. Changing any kind of convention is always political. [By the way, I believe you mean pedagogical rather than pedantic.]

—

The use of octal or some other number notation system instead of decimal causes a dramatically larger conversion difficulty for unfamiliar readers than the use of τ does. It’s not a comparable distinction.

By your logic equating all such choices, no one should ever use a minority notation for anything, even if they think it has substantial benefits.

Thankfully, not everyone agrees, and sometimes our notation improves (A couple examples I particularly like are Knuth’s use of the Iverson Bracket in writing sums, and [] and {} notation for Stirling numbers.)
I don't think exercise was a huge concern in his day. Scheduling times to exercise is a modern invention.
Future YC apps take note - this article showcases the depth of knowledge and critical thinking in a specific market that I'm sure made funding GinzaMetrics a no brainer for Paul & Co - nicely done Ray.
Except worse looking. Not sure what they were thinking with the tabs. For higher contrast, or those with colour deficiency it is hard to see which tab is selected. I noticed this in the beta, but had hoped it would be ironed out before the final. sigh
A lot of wealthy people donate anonymously so that they aren't harassed or labeled for whom they donate money to and some just don't like drawing attention to their personal lives.
It's a government program, so there are some less agile/more bureaucratic, for instance "Upload complete passports: Make sure that Number, Nationality, Gender, Picture, Date of Birth, Residency are legible. You must scan all pages." instead of YC-style questions.
That first link took me to an error page.
And in PDF:

http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/franklin/BenFranklin6x...
I agree. But psuedo-anonymize it! Just like Amazon gives you an option to pick a name to go with your feedback.
Microsoft has been pushing people off of XP for ages, but many people hold the misapprehension that XP is 'good enough' in some sense

It's true in some sense. Vista really made Windows users question further upgrades. I personally couldn't wait to move from Windows 3.1 to 95, 98 to 2000, 2000 to XP. Super excited for these upgrades. I had no such enthusiasm for Vista after seeing initial reports and usability findings. Thankfully Windows 7 is far superior to Vista and XP and definitely a much more inviting experience.
Because one of Java's core unwritten design ideas is "memory is not an issue".
So, if the project is going to be done in unaltered Java then it has to be done on a system with lots of memory.
"Belated pessimizaton is the leaf of no good." --Len Lattanzi
I'm 21. I think I actually first used Linux in '99. It was Red Hat 5 IIRC. The Gentoo ricers didn't come till later, but hyperbole has always been my preferred writing style.
That apparently kills both birds.[1] Thanks for the link. :)

[1] http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/IEBlog/2011/Feb/uellr-imag...
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It works well for me. I've been in Puerto Varas, Chile for the last 8 years and quite happy.
If you do decide to go with GoDaddy, you can save a considerable amount of money by googling for "ssl certificate" instead of going directly to their website.

Their advertisement price is $12.99 per year (it's $49.99 per year on their website).
Does the big back button on the left bother anybody else? It's layering looks horrible. Either bring it to the front or decrease it's size so the bottom isn't cut off.
Thoughts on an open Twitter replacement: Concentrate on what's done poorly
"Since when does being wrong revoke someone's right to express said wrong opinion?"

No one's revoking her right to express an opinion, we're just revoking her right to make shit up. If she was familiar with the facts and she was still against marijuana reform then no one would begrudge her of that, but she doesn't get a free pass to lie to the public.
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They're profitable and have no interest in selling. So - they better be good :) http://www.smugmug.com/about/
Agreed; Hipster Hitler is still damn funny though ;)
It's a little bizarre how people are either 1) upset at Apple for not doing more 2) expecting all companies to do something like this, thus this isn't exceptional.

Addressing point 1 first; there's still time for them to do more. Not only that, but why should private companies be obligated to fund a nation in times of crisis? Sure, it's great when they do, but they already DO pay for this in the form of taxes. Apple is a company; their primary obligation is to their shareholders: their business is business.

Now for point 2: see point one. This is exceptional, and this is really neat. This isn't just some donation of funds to another fund; this was a mandated relief effort in the face of an actual crisis. And it showed (whether or not you think it sincere) that Apple cares. I can't be anything but happy that I support such a company.
I don't see what's the big deal here? This is The Valley! People move around. So many people have left Google, and yet we don't see a "Google fiddles while . . . " headline from TechCrunch.
Sorry, was meant to be 31-35. Typo. You voted in the right bin =]
From AI to Twitter, Wall Street Outraces Regulators
How strange then that we don't hear similar stories about other companies in Japan...
I've actually had a pretty decent experience with Skype on Linux, even with my slow Eee PC. Granted, I don't use video a ton, but it seems to hold up fine when I do. That said, it is certainly missing a lot of the features included in the Windows and Mac versions.

In addition, the Android version lacks video, and is a bit clunky, but I have not had problems with its performance.
Agreed. Not sure why, but there is this notion that when an industry is created it is immortal - not only that, but also always increasing in profit, margin, market. Strange, really, since by now we should all understand that the very fabric of life revolves around evolution, and of course, death.
Even better Python variation: Prints 1 to 1000 and quits:

from __future__ import print_function
z="0123456789"
map(print,map(lambda x: int("".join(x))+1,zip(sorted(z*100),
sorted(z*10)*10, z*100)))

The way it works is to create 3 strings, one for each digit-place. The first digit, when counting from 000 to 999, is 100 zeros, followed by 100 ones, followed by 100 twos, etc. That is represented by

sorted(z*100)

The middle digit is 10 zeros, 10 ones, etc... and repeat this 10 times. So this is

sorted(z*10)*10.

The least significant digit is represented by a string that just counts and starts over. it's 1000 characters long: "0123456789012345..." and represented by

z*100.

I define an unnamed function (using lambda), that does the following: Join the three digits, make it an int, and add 1. So the result of this is a list of numbers from 1 to 1000. In other words,

map(lambda x: int("".join(x))+1,zip(sorted(z*100),
sorted(z*10)*10, z*100)))

is about the same as if I just used range(1,1001)

Then I map it to the new print function that is available in Python 3.0, or with the import statement.

A simpler version would use range, but that seems a little too simple:

from __future__ import print_function
map(print,range(1,1000))

Now that I think about it, this last one is the right answer!
Is this materially different from how any other company in Japan reacted?
Do engineers need their t-shirts and jeans dry cleaned? ;)
How can Usenet work without the Internet? Simple: Usenet sites can also communicate using uucp, the Unix-to-Unix Copy Protocol, which copied email and netnews from one system to another over dialup links.

For those of us who are slightly younger, think of FidoNET and you'll have the right general idea.
I'm sorry if you find me pedantic, but I'm honestly trying to get a point across - and obviously failing. This discussion has been frustrating for me because I thought my point was self-evident, but most of your responses seem like non-sequiturs to me. I also think you're being unnecessarily sarcastic and antagonistic - Mt. Olympus and the like.
You can't say pop music is deserving of copyright protection in one breath, rationalize copyright violation in the next breath, and claim to have a serious argument.
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Hmm, URL shortening breaking it? It works for me. Trying again:

http://www.etsy.com/teams/7716/announcements/discuss/6818578...
The author inadvertently proves Bon Jovi right:

"My wife has carried around all of your albums (and many more) on Steve Jobs’ Apple devices since she bought her first iPod years ago. I know from personal experience that she taps into your collection at home, in the car, and on vacations—literally at the drop of a hat, whenever she wants. If she hadn’t, I would have forgotten about your band back in the 1980’s. No CD player or radio station would have changed that, I can guarantee you."

The long tail of internet stores like iTunes, Amazon, or Rhapsody allows us to access far more music than we ever could before. It's much easier to listen to old and obscure music than ever before. Thus instead of spending out money on whatever new album is being promoted in the front display of the music store, we're spending our money on the old bands.
That $300 the author spent on Bon Jovi is $300 not being spent on new and upcoming bands.
I'm going more along the lines of this is HN, and there are tons of stories on Apple posted here every day. I'm sure there could be 3 pages worth of HN stories posted here from all of the other Japanese non-tech businesses doing the same thing if the audience here were also so obsessed with those corporations daily operations.
The Apple haters just can't let anything go past without taking a swing. And the irony is they accuse us of having a reality distortion field...
Zune hardware apparently dead, software and services live on
This is not ok. Even if you use words like "inspire." No one should be forced to work long hours. If you are considering it, make it optional and don't use peer pressure. ALSO, PAY OVERTIME.
New York group performs exorcism on Chase bank, the “evil empire”
A New York coalition of dozens of religious leaders) recently organized a protest in front of JP Morgan Chase’s world headquarters on Park Avenue in New York City to rid the bank of the demons of “selfishness and avarice,” based on the aforementioned study’s findings that 6% of New York homeowners seeking a loan modification have gotten it in the past year, leaving 94% unserved
Author mentions nuclear/acid rain, there are no reports of this. I'm following NHK as well as more lucid western stories and all of them have the Fukushima reactors as worst case not as bad as Three Mile Island, let alone Chernobyl.

For English information about what's going on, there's:

http://www.timeout.jp/en/tokyo/feature/2530/japan-earthquake...

http://gakuranman.com/great-tohoku-earthquake/#live

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/japan_quake/

http://twitter.com/_niten/tokyo-disaster-info/members (list I made)
I have the websocket server as a gen_server process which could be tied into an existing supervisor. Each connected client is an Erlang process a non gen-server one primarily because restarting a failed client is almost useless since the n/w connection cannot be reconnected. For flood prevention i use a simple concurrent connection counter and limit the max concurrent connections.
I think "drives them relentlessly forward" is a part of the conversation we're missing out on. Useful feedback can come from anywhere, even an asshole. Waiting for insight from only expert communicators seems like a way to slow down one's progress.
Are you serious?

We don't hear stories about other companies because humans going out of their way to help others in the wake of a natural disaster isn't something singularly unique that it requires a post to social news sites whenever it's done. The only reason we're hearing this story is because someone in love with Apple received an email about employees in an Apple store doing their civic duty and decided that this was "Apple's role" in the disaster.

Honestly, I bet people at Apple who see this are slightly embarrassed that their huge company's role in this disaster is letting people charge their iOS devices in their shop and watch tv.

(Not meant as a slight against Apple.)

Imagine if someone wrote a blog post about how he saw an American guy bringing a bottle of water to a kid who lost her way during the earthquake and decided to title it "America's role in Japan"
Yeah, but Mr. Franklin goes on to explain that he was able to stick to this schedule for about a week... Funny guy. His autobiography is worth reading.
Kind of a bummer - the Zune HD was one of the slickest and loveliest devices I've ever owned. I can't help but think if they had tried to sell them outside of the US they might have gotten a bit more coverage/visibility.
Option 3: core/base is not actually free of C++.
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Per jaysonelliot's recounting it seems at least bars, stores, and 7-11s were doing the same thing within their capabilities.
I wonder which Ronaldo he meant. I can't quite get over the moody, cheating side of Cristiano Ronaldo to appreciate his abilities. Having a Cristiano Ronaldo as a developer would be a bloody nightmare. It'd be like having a co-worker who turned in some inspired code, but who lied, stole, picked fights and was generally a chore to be around.

I hope he meant Brazil's Ronaldo circa 2002 :)
Nice work. I still prefer http://domai.nr/ for ease of use and those extra techie tlds.
Oh cool, thanks! Interesting, INTJ is only 1%. I had a theory that more programmers would be INTJ.
Why is reducing the scope of the problem in order to simplify the solution so odd?
A compatible (H.323 and SIP) alternative to Ekiga for OS X is XMeeting. http://xmeeting.sourceforge.net/
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Unless that version of GCC is released under GPL 2, nothing.
nm, just saw the second link - this has been asked a lot. And in the second, INTJ did stand out as the most common.
The percentages listed next to the choices in the epi0Bauqu poll are rates reported in general population; you'll have to look at the 'points' to see how people responded, and it does appear there are many more INTJs among HN respondents.
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I was using the iPhone hacker news reader and it was broken there. Thanks.
Someone on the program now came to our Dublin OpenCoffee meetup last week to talk about it.

He said that due to the cost of living, he was able to employ some very smart individuals who he wouldn't be able to afford to pay if he lived, say, here in Ireland. And mentioned that other startups were doing the same.

So even if it's not a requirement it happily happens anyway due to economics/cost-of-living/etc which sounds great.
bane, you're new here, so please read this: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Above all, we want people to be civil. I find this whole thing borderline.
hey, camslice here. that last comment was actually from me. i was SOMEhow logged in as dools
Nobody is denying that humans should help each other in times of crisis. But hey, enjoy your strawman karma.

However, from the descriptions of not just this source but others, stories of walking 60km home, sleeping on the floor of a crowded bar, not having anything to eat etc, it should be clear that Apple is in fact going the extra distance.

If this was any other company, you would be singing their praises from the highest rooftop. But because it is Apple, you and others for no good reason apparently see the need to try to bring them down, cast doubt on their good works etc.

Are you serious? If so, for God's sake, what is wrong with you?
"'Fuckwit' might as well be the poster child for the culture of unquestioning, caustic certitude of which he disapproves"

Hmm. You're right. In hindsight I definitely should have said fuckTARD.
But not other large corporates, which I think is the point.
Actually, in a state of emergency like they're in, those simple acts of providing phone/device chargers, powerbars, tv/news, and free wi-fi are a huge fucking deal and not to be taken lightly. Never mind helping people figure out how to use their devices to communicate with their family.

Hell, when I'm in an airport and my phone's going down, I'm hunting for a plug, and I thought ahead enough to bring my own charger.

I can't imagine what a life saver it would be when you haven't been home for a few days and are totally unprepared for the situation you're stuck in.
I googled "La Palma tsunami" ... 1st link indicates the topic is quite controversial: http://www.lapalma-tsunami.com/
I moved down to the Bay Area from Portland in 2009 to found a company. Sometimes I wish I was still in Portland, although less now that I know about the big scary fault zone.
Well, by that logic, we should abandon all labels altogether. Down with identification of groups of people! Cast off the oppressive shackles of classification!

Down here in Australia, "Hipsters" are an easily recognizable and quite specific cultural subgroup:
Thick-rim glasses, no actual vision impediment to justify them, Impractically skinny jeans, Borderline offensively cliched facial hair (ie. Hercule Poirot-esque moustaches) and - most importantly - Irrational dislike of anything "mainstream" or "commercial" (with little/no other justification)

It's no longer meaningful counter-culture, it's become a very specific subculture in and of itself (at least down here) - a culture I would describe not as counter-culture, but anti-culture. It's ceased to be productive and meaningful, and simply become (like Monty Python's Argument Clinic) the automatic gainsay of anything "mainstream".

I've no tolerance for it, because (in my opinion, at least) it's highly pretentious and offers very little in the way of positive change. I find that subculture to be, in general, very negative (often for very little reason).

When I talk about Hipsters, I'm generally referring not to the dress, but to the attitude. Maybe you're right, and I should be referring to those specific attitudes as what I take issue with - but sometimes convenient (if inaccurate) labels make communication faster.
Japan evacuate nuclear plant employees, containment maybe breached
So you're basically arguing that taxes should be completely abolished.