skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also MySQL via PyMySQL
I respect most of what you post on HN - you have great insights and offer a lot of knowledgeable information to most of the threads you participate in - but I can't say this post was one of them. Wouldn't it be far more productive to skip threads that might not interest you? Otherwise you are, IMHO, adding a rant just like everyone you are criticizing.
>"I don't think Apple really loses that much money to people who want to do DIY upgrades. This change really only inconveniences the uber-geeks among us."

It's not just DIY'ers. It's the secondary service and repair market. Now they have to buy Apple disks.

I'll suggest that it is a fundamental business strategy for Apple to seek to extract a transaction cost from any exchange involving their products. iTunes was the pivot point for their revenue model. The iPhone transferred it to hardware and scaled it for content, e.g. batteries and the AppStore. The past year has seen it rolled out widely for the Mac platform. One gets the sense that they look at the profit which companies like Macsales.com earn from upgrades as money that has been left on the table - certainly it is consistent with their recent policies regarding sales from within apps.
Well I agree with your point, but did you really had to drag reddit into this? I don't think reddit is at fault of these opinions here.
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I've met Tim a few times, this doesn't sound like something he would write. But whether it is or isn't, it is hilarious.
Yes - and remember - the law in question, the Magnuson-Moss Act - simply governs that a warranty can't be contingent on only using OEM equipment. E.g. - Apple can't say, "Your warranty is void unless you use Genuine apple drives, purchased from an authorized Apple outlet."

There is - however - no provision on making it an absolute pain in the ass to manufacture or implement 3rd party aftermarket equipment.

More info from the FTC here: http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus01-businesspersons-guid...

The relevant section is under "Tie-In Sales".
It is meant to optimise the trade-off of both. (Encouraging production alone does not suffice to justify it.)

See paragraph 2 of http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/IPCoop/89land1.html

Given that, the original point stands.
the meme

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1592132
This is daringfireball? Well, you could buy Apple stock, iPads, iPods, MacBooks, movies and songs on iTunes, AppleCare packages, Mac Pros, iMacs, Mac accessories, and iOS apps. Nothing else is worth buying.

Oh, oops. Read the 'article'. My joke is more accurate than I thought.
My old friend Pig-Fucker, from Deltona, FL, must be very sad.
Awesome. Being a dev and having no eye for design, awesome place to start.

For some reason, people don't dig the plain white page with tons of controls.
I can back this up with my story, as someone whose only connection to YC is Startup School 2010.

I had the chance to meet him at Startup School, mostly because everyone was trying to get a picture with MC Hammer instead of meeting Ron Conway. I had a gap in the crowd for a moment and took the chance to meet him.

Ron Conway was very receptive to everyone who wanted to talk and listened to our impromptu pitches. He handed out his business card freely and responded to my emails. He ended up indirectly providing help to a friend of mine, with no incentive to do so on his end.

I was very impressed with how receptive the godfather of SV investing was. Granted, we were a pre-selected group of people who hopefully had some idea of what we were doing in the statup world, but I've met other, smaller investors who were far less receptive.
Yeah, I work on the team that launched this, all that google privacy PR stuff is just poorly timed - they're completely unrelated.

I wish this launch hadn't been tarnished / buried by it :-(.
"I would have a 1 in 10 chance of being in prison at this moment. "

Due to their own culture. At least they have a choice. They aren't forced to rob, steal, and kill their way through life.
I did not mean that literally Indonesian teenagers are in India finding PHP jobs. I meant that people in many poor countries (Indonesia, India, Philippines etc) must be competing for these minimum wage programming jobs.
2007: Is this really the kind of thing we want on Hacker News?

2008: Maybe we oughta just autokill techcrunch posts.

2009: More drama from the drama queens.

2010: Not Hacker News.

2011: Sigh.
Scala has to be the worst offender of language complexity I have ever seen. A language isn't supposed to make you feel smart, it's supposed to be easy to read, maintain and write powerful code in. Have you had a look at larger Scala codebases? Every single code line needs to be read consciously, quickly scanning over code is impossible with Scala.
I don't really care to judge where the line belongs, but if we were to draw the line to include just one country, it would be North Korea as far as my moral compass is concerned. If we drew the line so it included the US, then we would also be including Russia, China, Mexico, and the vast majority of world nations.

So yes, lets not go ranking countries by evilness - but North Korea is so beyond that that your equivocating is offensive.
Spotted in the comments on the Osama bin Laden story last week: http://i.imgur.com/Fo1qu.png

(The image is a screengrab of the comments. Apologies if my use of Imgur offends you.)
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Thanks for pointing out the old text. When we originally opened the dev program, there was a fee for submitting apps, but this has all be eliminated in the last year.
I will literally buy you a ticket to move there if you really want to. I'm not even joking in the least bit. I do feel a twinge of guilt at the thought of your "reeducation" in NK but I'm still willing to help you find out on your own.
Which would seem to explain why Facebook occasionally grinds to a halt for a few minutes until something gets reverted.
It's way easier to post stories about current events and politics than it is to find genuine, high quality, on-topic material. The possibilities for rants are endless. They need to be ostracized, lest a trickle develop into a stream, river and then flood.
There is a particular sentiment (I call it politics of resentment) that aims to portray anyone who is in power as evil, disregarding the question of whether a power change would really be productive. Those in power (whether good or bad) unavoidably have to play a power game to maintain said power, and the politics of resentment will always try to portray any such game as being played for an evil/unjust/immoral purpose.

Such politics of resentment lead Soviets in the 1910s-20s to hate the upper class and the "imperialist" West, Nazis in the 1930s to hate the British and the Jews, certain Islamist elements from the 1980s and onward to hate the U.S., and so on. I don't mind a sound criticism of power, but I cannot stand resentment. Because those who resent those in power the most are often those who unscrupulously desire said power for themselves the most.

TL;DR: stop resenting and get back to hacking.
Since you are consuming the content, then it must have some value to you, otherwise you wouldn't be consuming it. So you should be paying something for that value.
312k for the Google logo?

My poor Rwandan internet weeps.
Unbeknownst to us, this appears to be Nat's dad. Nice to have some unsolicited support from family members :)
I don't see anyone in the discussion here "holding America up as a paragon of all that is evil." I do see people holding the US to account for its own practices and patterns of incarceration.

Few would dispute that there are still many ways in which America leads the world, but let's not delude ourselves here: the prison system is not one of them. DPRK is an extreme case compared to the US, but the US is an extreme case compared to much of the industrialized world, and invoking "America-hatred" trivializes an important dialogue.
This would actually be a brilliant marketing tactic if Google were behind the whole thing.

Unless they got caught, of course.
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I fail to see your point, at least in response to me. It would be a perfectly valid point to make to somebody claiming otherwise, but I am not. Is this comment misplaced, or am I just not following properly?
Bravo for Facebook not pulling a lame PR stunt like google when they thought Bing would be stealing their results!
Tunneling has worked like a champ for me. With a linux box at home and a linux phone in my pocket, corporate blockers are a thing of the past and all of my work is only ever an ssh away. =]
This is where HN shows its Reddit-esque Hivemind mentality that I thought I'd escaped. While I don't agree with your opinion, and while I'm not surprised that this stuff happens, I don't think it's right that your views are silenced. Dissent is the seed of progress. Here's an upvote.

Puredemo is offering his personal opinion, and an analogy to political ads.

I am not saying that what the PR firm did was right (It was certainly stupid)--and my friends at Facebook are surprised of what happened--but I don't think we should silence those that we simply disagree with.

Rather, HN should be a forum for open discourse.
TNetStrings seems quite similar to Bencode less the size prefix.

http://tnetstrings.org

http://enwp.org/Bencode

(sample implementation) https://github.com/bittorrent/bencode/blob/master/bencode/__...
Just as an aside, Carl's Jr. was involved in a campaign against McDonald's Chicken McNuggets ("Exactly what part of the chicken is the nugget? Eat Carl's Jr. all-white chicken breast"), which, I think, worked fairly well for them.

The point is, Facebook should complain about privacy in PR, because it implies that they care about it (whether or not they actually do care). Anyway, I think your points are pretty solid otherwise.
I've only ever had one Mac, but it's less than 3 years old and I've had to have the drive replaced twice. --I've never had that happen on any other laptop, and I've only had one other internal drive fail in less than 5 years (the max I tend to keep them around). I have found that external drives tend to have higher failure rates - they tend to last a couple of years - but that's still better than the Mac.
I'm wondering why TNetstring types come after the data. This means you have to buffer the entire data before you can parse it. Is this intentional?
HN Guidelines:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon... If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

This is off-topic. There is essentially no chance that anything useful will shake out from the ensuing discussion. It's noise, and it crowds out the signal.

I'm glad that tptacek's post is currently the #1 post.
I'd like to think negative ads wouldn't work for tech companies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siSHJfPWxs8

But I don't.
Only the first two mean the same thing, and that is not syntactic sugar, but syntax error:

error: identifier expected but '(' found.

What you probably meant is that

a b c

and

a.b(c)

are the same thing. And admire the effect of the semicolons in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.scala.debate/2231
I reread it, and that indeed seems what they are claiming. I still think this extraordinary claim needs more evidence to be accepted as true. I think SATA has two connectors because one runs to the power supply, and the other to the main board. If that power connectors carries data, how does that data get to the main board? Is the cable split? If so, why would they do that if there already is a data connection to the cable? Or is this a way for a CPU in the PSU to power off of the drive if things go really wrong?
I want to share this excitement with you, but what part about an arduino based dev kit for android is exciting you this much?
North Korea is effectively an abusive cult in the form of an entire nation.

It's amazing that such a thing can exist, and when I really think about it the existence of something like North Korea raises disturbing questions about the nature of human consciousness.

How can we claim to have free will or to even have consciousness at all if something like North Korea can actually exist?
Is Bittorrent building a distributed social network around content?
Well, you have started upon just the pertinent path, so let us consider the conclusion.

Would it be immoral to do something 'to' someone, when it has no effect on them at all? Hmmm, that seems rather difficult to find any immorality in -- after all, any moral concern must eventually bottom out on some actual effect -- deontological or consequentialist.

If all that can be said is that it would be 'spiritually' wrong or 'god' decrees it to be wrong, or merely that 'we' have decided it is wrong, that is unlikely to satisfy anyone rational.
As ridiculous as this sounds, because I'm human. I like to see the face of the lady that makes my coffee and I like to see the face other people as well. I like to see a name on the bottom of emails instead of just the company's. I prefer twitter accounts with an employee representing the company instead of just the company logo.
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Thanks. There's a fine line these days between heated competition and underhanded/sleazy/unethical. It's especially easy to accidentally cross when you're trying to 'be naughty' but not evil. Hopefully, crossing that line is mistake rather than a strategy or pattern.
Not until there is the political will to accept millions of US losses. Our current engagements are a walk in the park compared to what "bringing regime change" to North Korea entail. I'd wager that there hasn't been another large populace so thoroughly brainwashed in modern history- Nazi Germany isn't even comparable to "the hermit kingdom."
The percent of North Korean prisoners may be much higher, if you include those imprisoned that are not in concentration camps.
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Where are these 500 million users? Do you mean the Skype user base? Skype has 170 million users. Of those, only 1% actually pay for the service. So you're probably paying for 1.7m people's credit card information and accounts. Or do you mean 500 million Microsoft users? (Not being an ass, I honestly wasn't clear which users who were referring to in the process here.)
I guarantee you that Google is running it as a negative PR campaign against Facebook. There's no way someone would sabotage their relationship with Facebook when they're paying the bills.
Apart from me being a bit shocked at how this seems like evil (and Google "Does no evil") this raised an interesting issue: Look at how rabid Google is about Data.
The mail wasn't sent by a Facebook employee, it was sent by a PR firm. You know, someone who, by definition, would not do that.
We do plan to move beyond Twitter eventually, but it's actually been incredibly important in getting the site off the ground. We're not just using Twitter for login, we're using it as an external identity provider.

For example, if @barackobama is speaking at a conference you can add him to that event on Lanyrd. He gets an unclaimed profile page on the site (which he can sign in to claim later) but more importantly anyone who follows him on Twitter gets that event recommended to them when they sign in.

When we launched the site, we had over 500 speaker profiles despite just two of us populating the data. Since those speakers tended to have large numbers of followers, there was a high chance that our first users who signed in would see at least a few event recommendations. This solved the bootstrapping challenge faced by any new piece of social software.

The same trick wouldn't work nearly as well with LinkedIn and Facebook, for two reasons.

Firstly, both of those networks feature two-way relationships where the other party has to approve your connection. This makes it harder to follow people who you admire but who don't know you in return - exactly the kind of people you might want to see speak at an event.

Secondly, the privacy expectations for those networks are completely different. The Twitter ecosystem is comfortable with the idea of sites creating profiles based on their Twitter identity (see twittercounter, klout and hundreds of others) without them first having interacted with the site. If we did that against LinkedIn or Facebook accounts the response would be very different.

On top of that, Twitter is absolutely the social network most associated with our kinds of events. Conference backchannels happen on Twitter, and many speakers include their Twitter name on the first slides in their presentations. It's a very good fit.

So while we plan to move beyond Twitter at some point, so far it has served us extremely well.
I want to agree the portfolio is all that matters, but in my experience it's not the first priority for the people hiring. There's a huge pool of people who CAN do the work, and many people hiring can't easily make the determination of quality anyway. Communication goes a long way.
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Are you of the opinion that the problems with the Scala type system are unfixable?
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Since you are consuming the content, it has value to you. So the argument that 'I wouldn't have paid for it anyway' doesn't stand up.
I don't think it's going to be an Android tablet. Amazon might have considered that but the way Honeycomb has been locked down clearly prevents that now. This will be a Mirasol-screen color Kindle using the same OS as Kindle but with a touch UI. Amazon already has gotten some Kindle app devs. More will follow when this color one comes out.
I think an effective strategy to sell to women would be to stop believing you have to "sell to women". Marketing targeted at either gender is tacky, transparent, and often insulting.
So why hide their involvement to begin with until the story broke out? If Facebook really did not think it was wrong, they should be able to do it openly and not via proxy.
Not that Facebook would have any excuse for this kind of thing, but put yourself in the position of someone who desperately needs to bring attention to their product and is willing to take risks: How is this not of interest to someone in the early stages of a startup business?

I've been tangentially involved in some small business PR-agency blunders and some minor successes. Believe me, it's extremely easy for something that looks good on paper and is being pitched by persuasive people to blow up in your face later.

This is the kind of thing where one simply cannot underestimate the value of the ability to learn from other's mistakes.
Politicians have the basic decency to sign their smears openly. Though it helps that they're legally required to do so, at least in the US:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_approve_this_message

Secret smearing is a whole other beast.
I would like them to be fixable, because otherwise Scala is a decent language, but it is too early to say.
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Yeah, National Geographic mentioned this in a documentary a few years ago. This is where you end up if you try to flee to China, which is, in and of itself, indicative of the state of affairs in North Korea.
Facebook has been aching for my phone number and other details. Do you think this is security driven or put out as an entryway into greater interaction with your phone? I should note that I am old school and don't use a smartphone so that is part of my approach to thinking about this.
Apparently 10K is the new 5K!

(in reference to the5k.org)
It's just a symptom of this kind of technology reaching critical mass. In a few years, the majority of the world's mobile devices will have out of the box support for an extensible, personal hardware development platform. A generation of kids will grow up thinking this is normal. The cat is out of the bag.
Did you explore beyond our homepage?
I spent a lot of time trying to understand what you were saying, and because it was unclear to me I asked very specific questions, none of which you answered:

- what will people write language implementations in, if not C?
- why don't you consider my JIT an innovation worth supporting?
- if C is a barrier to innovation, why is the JavaScript landscape so thriving?

My point about Brainfuck (that's a language by the way, not a slur, in case that wasn't clear) is that Turing-completeness says almost nothing about the systems-level capabilities of the language. Turning completeness means that a language can calculate Pi: it doesn't mean that it can open a file or send data over a network, and it says nothing about efficiency. So when you argue that Turing-completeness is what makes it possible to run lots of different kinds of VMs on the same machine, it's hard to take such an argument seriously.
It's not just about the CPU. The AVRs have a lot of handy peripherals that are easy for novice developers to access.

Plus, sometimes you just don't feel like dealing with a whole *nix/BSD toolchain just to drive a PLL chip or handle some other trivial housekeeping task. For those times, the AVRs are great. They can be targeted by 32-bit GCC just like anything else.
To play devil's advocate, this isn't out of the question.

1) Macs do tend to run hotter than PCs, and this could decrease HDD lifespan.

2) We've seen in the past that OS-specific power management settings can be detrimental to hard drives, as with this famous Linux bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/104535 Although I doubt it's actually the case, it's possible in principle for drives to wear differently under OS X than under Windows.
Anyone else catch the URL and think it's hilarious?
What always interests me about stories like that is that wholesale candy is usually clearly marked, on each package, "Individual packages cannot be resold." If an adult sold me a piece of candy with that sort of label on it, I'd raise an eyebrow - but when a kid does it, I just chuckle it off and admire his entrepreneurial spirit.

I understand society enforces the law differently on kids than on adults - and I definitely did this when I was a kid myself - but isn't it a little strange that the first lesson kids seem to get in entrepreneurship is how to create markets in the intersection of things kids are allowed to do and parents aren't allowed to do?
Perhaps, however I think its hard to brainwash starving masses turning to cannibalism fleeing the country in thousands across the border to China. The German Nazi regime was well fed and well equipped.
No, my memory, whilst pretty lame, is good enough to go back those few months. Adobe aren't all the way there yet, pretty close. But Microsoft haven't even started that journey.

I'll be surprised if they follow the lead that Adobe set for them but it's still possible. Indeed Silverlight may well be part of the reason that Adobe finally pulled their finger out and got serious about their flash plugin on Linux.

Companies can change for the better, first they have to want to though and there's no sign of that with MS yet AFAICT.
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"This is at the end of the day just so silly."

What is silly? Really, I have no clue as to what you are trying to say.
This stuff gets me really excited for private space technology. The future is bleak for the anti-democratic states if there's eyes in the sky for everyone, and global connectivity.
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