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I'm a hardcore UNIX fan that hates "social networking", but Github is really a major advancement over patch + email.

Here are a few questions that might come up if you aren't using Github: "Is what I'm patching the canonical source?" "How do I set up my own VC for my patchset I'm maintaining?" "Am I sending my patch to the right person?"

That adds up to mental friction that distracts from actually writing the patch. With Github, you click a button and get your own repository. You click another button to inform the author (and! other people with their own forks, if you want). The author accepts your patch and the revision history has your name attached to it.

It makes it so easy that there is no excuse not to fix that tiny bug. Especially documentation bugs... you don't even need a git client to fix those!
You're assuming that it was his plan and his decision to focus on the iPad. Kahn will be his employer, so I imagine they have a hand in deciding what is important enough for him to work on. It doesn't seem likely that he just up and decided that he'd build them an iPad app and made the decision without needing any approval.
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Stylized photos are a great way to cover up for the poor photography skills common to virtually everybody who uses a camera to take pictures. They are in that sense a huge usability win, and I love them.
Be aware that IPv4 is also still /extremely cheap/ - way less than $1/ip/year if you have any volume at all.

When people charge you for IP addresses, the money is for the effort required to deal with justifying them to your rir, setting them up, routing, and maybe to cover abuse (my experience has been that the amount of abuse work i have to put in to a customer correlates somewhat to the number of IP addresses they have) And yeah, probably a good chunk of profit.

The price of an IP, right now, has almost nothing to do with it's scarcity.
The current version of ANEW can only be accessed for academic research. I do know that an older version is floating around in the open though, which they attached to a research paper.
I don't consider myself a Mathusian... in fact I regularly use him as a strawman/punching bag when I'm flexing my poli-sci historical muscles over beer.

But the experiment has never been conducted with an immortal population, either, and his dire predictions seem a bit weightier with a bunch of 750-year-olds running around.
US carriers do require this. After one year, AT&T usually lets you get the newest iPhone at the subsidized cost if you sign another contract. It still locks you in to two years from the date that you last bought a new phone.
If no one ever died, the world would overpopulate even faster.

If nobody ever died, the whole concept of procreation would change profoundly. With first world countries already in zero or negative population growth, creating an infinite lifespan would most likely further that trend.

And in any case, we're talking about longevity, not immortality. You can still get hit by a bus.
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I think people dont know how to react when something becomes a few orders of magnitude more common in a few years. Mind you with photography this has happened a few times, with the box brownie and mass production of 35mm colour film.

The photo fads are pretty boring though...
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his dire predictions seem a bit weightier with a bunch of 750-year-olds running around.

Not if those 750 year olds are in no hurry to have kids.
It sounds to me like you're somewhat conflicted, but your overall point is that your respect for sacrifice is contingent on the thing the sacrifice is for. That's totally fair.

I'm an immigrant to the US and enlisted in no small part because I believe that the interest of the US is largely aligned with the interest of humanity, because at the core of the US are ideals that have been a beacon of light in the world. I know historically that the light has been very obscured many times, and as an infantryman on the ground, I've personally walked in those shadows, and they are dark, but I can keep my head high because I know that light is there somewhere.

Thanks for the exchange.
Bah. You give up too easily.
> overpopulate

Overpopulation is an idea based on scarcity. The technologies which enable immortality will also work to overcome scarcity.
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Can someone dumb down this explanation for me? Why this is a step backwards? I realize there is an absurd amount of IPv6 address space, but my Linode account only gets one IPv4 address for free, why is this different?
I chose not to address societal implications of immortality not because they're not fascinating or relevant, but because people's immediate objections almost never have to do with "what happens to everyone else?"

That said I think the population will definitely level out when people realize they have literally forever to have kids and that infinite children are actually a total pain in the ass to care for.
The 12c is pretty nice — it maintains the classic HP calculator look and still has the really nice buttons. That said, the HP48 remains the best calculator ever. The m48+ emulator for the iPhone is a great substitute for the real thing.
I agree that tablets are going to be ubiquitous in the future, but it may not be iPads that get into the most hands. I'd like to see John put his incredible javascript knowledge to work on a great cross platform web application rather than a native iOS app.
Because rewriting history is a no-no.
Impressive to the average person, yes, but not impressive to people hiring someone to work on a team. It's great to be able to do whatever you want, but it takes a special kind of person to put their personal tastes aside, open up someone else's work, and fix it. Incidentally, that's what most programming jobs are, and most people are terrible at it.
the only question that needs answering when hiring an assistant is IS SHE BANGABLE.
Philosophy of mind can progress, and the immortal can keep up with newly born and educated mortals for a while. Having a few immortals running around is probably not a bad idea, actually, because stores of experience in the form of really old people would be able to give excellent advice.

The problem that I foresee is that eventually, philosophy of mind and new schools of thought just won't be able to keep up with the Flynn effect. I've read things that my grandfather and great-grandfather wrote, and while they were not stupid men, they were certainly simpler than my cousins and I. Eventually, the immortal Homo Sapiens would make for an interesting pet at best.
I have worked at an apple store, we only require proof that you are a student(student id, transcript, staff paycheck) and a drivers license #.

There is no check for the student pricing. You are however limited to buying one computer a year with the discount. So if you try to buy another computer within a year using an education discount with the same DL, you will be denied the discount.
Just because it's an excess usage charge, doesn't mean that it's reasonable.
Ask HN: Expensive college, no money, no credit history. What do I do?
Dear HN,

I write to you today with a question whose answer means a lot to my family and myself. The answer need not present a direct solution to the problem I will discuss shortly; a story from personal experience or words of advise/wisdom would suffice. I thank you for taking your time to elucidate a matter we are greatly troubled by, it means a lot!

I am a senior in high school. More particularly, I am a self-motivated computer science kid who got accepted into 2 colleges/universities, MIT and Poly. I love working on projects while learning TCS. You would find me spending a weekday afternoon hacking away on a realtime video converter leveraging NodeJS and Go, later to catch me reading an episode of Achilles and the Tortoise from GEB (with the occasional (frequent) refreshes of HN in-between the chapters).

Now that you know a little about me, let us shift focus to the elephant in the room: tuition. More particularly, cost of education vs. its worth.

MIT - $120k :: Well, it's MIT

Poly - ∅ :: Decent polytechnic, decent education, more info on http://www.poly.edu/

To make a long story short, my parents are in a complicated financial situation (hence practically no financial aid from MIT and ineligibility to take private loans due to credit history) and can contribute $100k for my education at MIT (this is for all 4 undergrad years, after private loan from family member). Where/how can I come up with $40k a year?

Should I pursue Poly, I will have no financial weight on my shoulders.

From the various impressions I made from students and people regarding the value of MIT, I feel like it is worth the money. The motivated students I will find there, the crazy projects I will be working on, the top-quality education I will be receiving, all of these things seem to be worth the money. What do you think? Then again, there is the physical constraint of actually affording it (it would be great to receive some guidance on affordability as well, considering the fact that the government and school have nothing more to offer me in terms of financial accommodations).

Any comments greatly appreciated,

- Mark
Hackers might delight more in the HP-16C "Computer Scientist" calculator[1]. It can be set to perform calculations on variable word sizes up to 64 bits, which is amazingly useful when you're working with processors that use non-standard word sizes (e.g., the 29x22 bit fixed-point ALU from a chip I worked on for a few years). It's also a great way to teach someone to program assembler, since it's programmable in a rudimentary RISC style.

Full disclosure: I'm something of an HP calculator nerd. I have an 11C, a 15C, a 16C, a 32SII, and a 42S. Once you get used to RPN, you will never want to go back to algebraic calculators.

[1] http://www.hpmuseum.org/hp16.htm
What was your option 1 decade ago? I bet it wasn't even 1 MBit.
Then make it worth more. Things like Applecare, the software you have on it, and other upgrades can increase the value.

Load it up with expensive software and you will earn a higher resale value.
Well, for one part. Whereby I was talking even more generally; any decentralized revision control system can do what I meant. But 'before GitHub' was a time where such decentralized systems where not really in wide use as they are today now (and GitHub has played an important role here).

But another important part where I was indeed referring to GitHub: The portal allows easy forking on the site and you can easily make pull requests. That means you don't have to prepare a patch-queue or so which would require additional work. The project maintainer can actually easily look at your fork. The functionality GitHub provides makes it just simpler and more importantly also straight forward, i.e. you don't need to figure out first where to put your patch.
Doubtful. I envision a "brave new world" styled world. Bunch of people in prime condition, "endless" amount of time to pair with everyone else. I somehow imagine that people will continue to go at it like rabbits.
What's too cheap for a website / WordPress theme?
Hey, folks. I specifically put up a temporary address (we were considering transitioning email to Google apps and I used that one) so I wouldn't get spammed to death. I didn't receive any spam while it was up, so I'll post the permanent one here if anyone else wants to query.

shawn.goff@accelecon.com

That one will follow me if we do change mail servers.
That line of reasoning makes sense. He specifically mentioned iPad - not tablets in general. When I think of the educational needs of tomorrow, I think of school districts like Los Angeles, where the drop out rate is ~33%. It's really hard for me to imagine a scenario where tablets are wide spread among students in the lower income areas of that district.

Hopefully the iPad is just a kickoff point. One of my philosophies is that at least some part of your job should give you joy, and out of that great things can happen. Maybe iPad development is just something he wants to do for the joy of it.

NB: I know that John's not a one man army, and I'm not trying to lay this all on his shoulders. I'm just thinking out loud on HN.
Looking at it now, I realise that this photo not real.

If we're going to go down that route, then neither is any other photo you take. I feel a sense of disconnection with every photo I've ever taken (I don't take many) because the resulting image never feels like what I saw. The filter he applied is just deciding what manner it's not going to be real.
> Luckily, there is no need to convince anyone at all, except maybe to get research grants (but the true purpose of those can always be disguised as ethically clean basic medical research).

There would be many orders of magnitude more funding for life-extension research if most people wanted it. In fact, probably 90% of our health funding would be devoted to it. So I think it is a very bad thing that people generally don't want it (or think they don't want it).
Check out http://4clojure.com/ as a means of getting acquainted with Clojure. It's been one of the more helpful things for me the past few days. The developers are also pretty responsive.
Well, luckily, your imagination and actual worldwide trends don't line up.

As long as we push for women's rights, access to birth control and abortion rights, and move away from economies which encourage large families as sources of labor, we'll be fine, as has already been the case in much of the developed world (and is showing to be the case in the developing world as well).
We don't want first-responders to have to open up the patient to know if the patient is dead or just mostly dead, and moving the patient into an emergency medical vehicle may not be the best first move. This would be particularly true for field medics in combat situations.

Ideally, a portable/cheap capnograph would be one part of a 21st century first-aid scenario, while the other parts might include automatic defibrillators and freezing blankets.
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Death cleans out old ideas. I have a hard time getting over the feeling that an older civilization is also more conservative. Especially a civilization where the people with money and power are the ones who are older.

"Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent, it clears out the old to make way for the new." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd_ptbiPoXM
My experience is from writing a bunch of middle tier code at MySpace in the 06-07 time frame, the myspace hey days when they were pushing more traffic than google (true story). Anyway, the user facing product might have sucked, but we did scale (that's why friendster was friendster and we were myspace :). In an environment with 450+ million users, we had extensive caching systems and still had to use every sql trick in the book to get our systems to scale well. I know because my job was working with the DBAs to bridge the sql and front end worlds together. I can say with great certainty that front end developers who did not know sql and were simply following a logical object model would not have produced code that scaled in our environment, there were way too many things that were done that were extremely non-obvious. Since myspace i've been working at a python/postgres start up where we've been applying the same principles pretty successfully, at a much different scale of course. If nothing else, i think the no orm approach will at least give you more bang for your buck.

Separating your data access code out of the application logic also allows you to change it much more easily as data conditions change, including on the fly, without an application deployment. That's often extremely useful.

MySpace scale may be at an extreme end of the spectrum, but we had formidable hardware to throw at it too (although x86, so nothing TOO crazy). So I think the ratio of hardware to scale at other sites is comparable, and so I think the same lessons apply. I have no experience working with oracle, but would you say that a 7 node oracle cluster is some pretty serious hardware? I myself really don't know, but it is a question I have :).

EDIT: I'm not discounting your experience, i just want to point out that i've experienced conditions where I think the orm approach would have broken down. If others have had different experiences, the more data points the better, but i think the scale/complexity/cost(hw) ratios play into the debate as well.

EDIT #2: Oh and I forgot to mention that the automated test suite you had is an incredible asset, and no doubt made it easier to discover problems early and deal with them effectively. But you do have to invest resources in creating one, and something like that is no small cost at a start up.
I think he has some good points regarding the lack of curation in photo libraries nowadays.

However, I'd argue that having the filters actually pushes for curation. Since there are more steps to make a picture "interesting" before posting, you're most likely to pick more carefully. In a way, because you're using filters, there's an expectation that the picture should be interesting.

The other thing is that, honestly, using filters has produced pretty nice pictures for me and I'm taking more casual pictures as a result. Maybe I'll regret not having the unaltered version later… but in the meantime, I made some pictures that are more interesting than they would have been without any filters. The banality of some subjects gain from the filters, even if they're canned. For example, instead of just posting "Painting today", I took a picture of my painter tape, applied some filters and posted it with "Painting". I wouldn't care about that picture otherwise, but it looks good and adds a little bit of something. (IMHO)

But, as with all things, this fad will most likely pass.
On top of that, photography itself is an attempt to create something that is inherently artificial. Complaining that Instagram goes too far in helping the user to recreate something that never really existed misses the entire point.
This doesn't surprise me, I live in San Francisco, and my neighborhood has only one option for internet connectivity: comcast cable. Well, that or tethering via my cell phone.
Do NOT make your auction ends on Friday and Saturday night. I always list my auctions for 10 days (longest possible for private seller), starting on Thursday or Friday night, so they will end on Sunday or Monday, when people don't go out. With that I'm maximizing the number of people who look at my auction (potential bidders) and the number of people who is available at the time my auctions end (actual bidder).
Maybe if Comcast goes bankrupt and gets replaced with set of small companies. Otherwise, I doubt it is in business interest for large cable and teleco companies to increase bandwidth. Profit and increasing bandwidth don't go together when you have monopoly.
To be honest I didn't read that article - too long. But in real world, having used 99designs several times and finding some designers we use regularly that we discovered there - it works well.
The iPad is the only established tablet, and surely anything they do on their can go onto the Playbook, Android tablets, etc. when the platforms and Khan are ready. I'm sure we'll be seeing tablets in the Netbook price range soon. As far as digital devices go, it's hard to get much cheaper than that.
Ask HN: A Good Problem to Have (Who to Take Money From)
I have a number of possible sources for cash to expand my already-cash-positive (relatively profitable, really) venture. It doesn't need cash, but liquidity could be put to good use, and diversify the concentrated risk of being the only person with stake right now.

1) Family - They are curious, plus would rather see me take money from them than be tied to the whims/demands of a stranger.

2) Fellow Entrepreneurs - I have at least one, maybe two people who would add cash to the cause (both essentially offered without my expressing need/interest)

3) Angelic Strangers - Again, a few possibilities with various degrees of seriousness behind them (venture/angel)

Everything else being equal, who would be best to get money from? Any good resources/guides to this kind of dilemma? Thanks in advance.
If you're going to use Moore's law you'd look at what your speeds were 10 years ago. On a cable modem in 2001 I was certainly getting more than 100kbps (~12KB/s), I was probably closer to 1mbps.
Bad mentality. This community should not make or break your decision to move forward with an idea. There are good reasons to swing one direction or the other but this is not one of them.
This is probably the most important piece of advice I would give someone getting started. I run OS X and at least for me Eclipse was a constant source of pain. IntelliJ looks better, runs faster, is more stable, and has all of the important refactorings bound to shortcuts - something you have to do manually for most refactorings in Eclipse, which is a pain because of conflicts.

In my opinion, if you're a newbie just use IntelliJ.
Yes! People think that contributing to OSS is some kind of moral duty. OSS is not a cancer hospital for kids.

Do you work on a project that depends on OSS? There will be bugs (lots of bugs — OSS is generous in this regard) and the need to contribute will arise naturally. Or else.

You don't? Why bother? Go help the local cancer hospital for kids instead.
All I meant...more people living longer will consume more for longer time and add stress to an already stressed planet. Immortality is always theoretical, forever is a really long time.
I NEVER get responses to my Ask HN questions -- at least not that many.

I think most people browse the main page - and things shift off the new page far too fast.

I suggest trying to get the sluts over at TechCrunch to do a review.

Try using wording like "Hey TC guys, I'd love to give you free exclusive access to my project to get your feedback" etc...

Entice them with wording that makes them feel exclusive and cool.
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It's possible that older people are more conservative because they are going to die sooner. If everyone was suddenly immortal, old people might start acting quite differently.
Supersonic jets flying routes all over the US were once considered inevitable. There was once a time that skyscraper height increases were considered inevitable. Bigger ones were put up all the time. Audio quality on phones was once an area where improvements were constant. Now I'm surprised if people even mention call quality in phone reviews, except to say that it dropped fewer calls.

My point? What seems inevitable today can often seem like a concern of a bygone era.
Could they start running fiber to people's homes?

Whatever happened to Google's "experiment" of running a fat pipe to one community?
Uh...I can't even test it and you want my credit card on a site that doesn't look trustworthy???
HN is always going to be very hit and miss and increasingly miss as it gets more popular itself.

Don't let yourself believe that getting a popular submission here or a writeup on TechCrunch or whatever is a requirement for startups - it doesn't mean you've made it and it likely won't give you that precious first group of users. All it is is a nice little bonus that along the way will likely be overshadowed by much, much more important achievements.
The video is too small on the front page, double the size. Also list all the benefits of sharepad on the front page, what can it do for users etc.