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I switched from a Dell laptop to a PowerBook G4 in 2005 as I was going off to college. I remember very clearly the initial confusion I had dealing with the radically different file setup ("What, you mean I have to distribute my Jar files in 6 different directories? Windows just has the one!") and Unix interface. I laugh now, but the documentation was actually pretty terrible back then, and I couldn't initially figure out where to store files that I was dealing with. (This was back in the day when Apple distributed its own behind-the-times JDK and wouldn't support anything else.)

I was so upset the first week I owned my PowerBook that I actually wrote Steve Jobs saying "Why would you ever separate Java externals into so many different directories? Where's the documentation for this Terminal.app program? You're going to lose my business if I find more shenanigans like this in your OS."

I got an e-mail back that week from Apple saying "You'll learn to love it, we promise." I was skeptical, but I quickly realized that there's a sanity to Apple's FHS (and Unix's moreso). I also grew to love scripting on the G4 far too much to be able to return the computer as I'd threatened to.

Now, I can't imagine ever going back to the "Windows Way", or anything close to it. I still have that G4, and it runs (Arch Linux) like a charm.

The one thing I haven't grown fonder with Apple's popularity is that customer service now feels cold. In 2005, it was a legitimate pleasure to talk with an Apple rep on the phone. Several of them were happy to explain the internals of the OS to me my first time through, as they were thrilled to have any Windows convert they could get.

Now, things are different, and I don't get the warm, fuzzy feeling I did 6 years ago.
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"This leaves a pre-tax profit of 3.39 EUR / month per subscriber if I calculate it Groupon-style, totally ignoring marketing costs."
Utah has that problem with its LED stoplights. The DoT said, "Tough. Treat it like you would a power outage".

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705366962/Blowing-wet-sno...
Yes I had to do this for an interactive media site.
Take a look at Dropbox and their IOS app. I believe it does 1-3. There's certainly apps that also do 4. Have a play with that setup for a while, see if it's worth putting it all into a custom IOS app (you can then build that using Dropbox's API if you like).
Fine, but we're to the point, or almost there, where nearly every job that can be done by someone of IQ 85 or below will be automatable. Intelligent people will be in demand for a while.

But what about below average intelligence people? People who are sub-literate and can't jump from job to job, learning skills quickly? Diligent, hard working people who just can't outwork a robot?
I'm still waiting for an economic model to be put into place where (decent) food, shelter, and health insurance are provided free of cost because of automation.

I think socialism might be the economic model you are looking for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism

Job creation for the sake of jobs is wasteful.

I used to think this (and still do) but it is important to make sure people have something that fills in their time otherwise you'll end up with all sorts of societal problems like drug abuse, vandalism etc. Some people get a bit weird if they have too much time on their hands.
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Tanks make this a difficult proposition.
Just US for now. Are you talking about the design as a whole or do you just find the Flash movie annoying?
There are many valid reasons. For one, Apple computers are overpriced. The Air is a good deal and the MacBooks themselves aren't too overpriced, but the actual Mac computers are extraordinarily overpriced. They also offer hardware beyond what most users need. A lesser quality computer can browse the web just as well and can do it for a thousand fewer dollars. Price is just one minor point though.

Windows still has dominant market share and, as such, is still supported far better by developers. More programs come out for windows than for mac by a long shot. The consumers are also familiar with windows which further increases the chance of them not buying a mac.

Anyways, the point of this comment is to refute your last statement. I'll first say that "purchase a .. iPad for their next computer." is completely ridiculous. A tablet cannot fill the needs of a user yet. I'll focus on why many consumers would not want to purchase a Mac.
1. Software support. A large amount of software is available only for windows.
1b. Video games
2. .Net developer/other developer. Many software developers will work on windows because that's their target platform due to the market share.
3. Familiarity. That's a big one. People are familiar with windows and so they stick with it.
4. Price. Because pcs are sold by various venders there are many pricepoints. Apple doesn't allow that.
5. Business relying on legacy software for windows.

Do I really need to name more? "I cannot even think of a reason" .. You really couldn't think of any of the above reasons or one of the several more? Macs are great and all, but they aren't the answer to everything. They still have many issues. Apple's tight grip leads to higher quality but higher prices, reduced variety, and reduced content. For now, a windows machine can do almost anything an apple computer can do at less cost. The consumer also has far more choices. A mac can only do a portion of what a pc could do; if the user installs linux than the mac has almost no features left that the pc is incapable of. Perhaps you'll harp on hardware quality, but it's perfectly possible to get machines of similar or better quality to any mac aside from the macbook air.
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The next best thing: http://itunes.stanford.edu/
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Yes you totally can. You can live by Stanford, attend the meetups/hackatons/events that all of the stanford students are going to, and help out with some of the entrepreneurial programs (SSE Labs, BASES, Think Outside, etc).
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You know how to use internet, just search for various images relating to your company and see if they can help you out to come up with a unique idea.
i agree - you've got javascript doing both of the text animations, plus the huge graphics and scrolling images.
Try KeyRemap4MacBook. It's not a perfect solution but get you somewhere there.
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Neat hack! But stacking sine waves with a bit of modulation isn't exactly earth-shattering. You might like to try some of these: http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?type[]=256b&order=view.... The most impressive to date is probably Puls: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R35UuntQQF8. The top three 256b productions on Pouet are all doing the same basic thing of ray marching against an isosurface. The sophistication of the geometry has increased a lot since Lattice, which used something simple like cos(x)^2 + cos(y)^2 + cos(z)^2 = f(t) where f(t) is an oscillatory function of time that controls the thinning and fattening of the lattice.
Only if you have brainwashed the tank crews (which admittedly does happen in the military).
Surely robots are already successful in manufacturing. Just look at.. well.. just about anything you own that has a weld in it..

I guess that's not the cool sort of robotics though.
As a Singaporean, all I can say is that once you become more aware of how the incumbent government generates most of its revenue, you will be rendered speechless. Americans often exaggerate and say that their nation is turning into a corporate state - come to Singapore, and you will realize that the state is administered exactly like a corporation.
thanks for fixing it.
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Or: real artists ship.

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Real_Artists_Ship...
> It was the advantages of using Lisp which gave them the ability to create the right product at the right time

Obviously, because they used Lisp, they were able to produce the product at time t, and any other language would have produced it at a different time t'.

I claim that they had no idea that t was better than t'. Nobody can.

It was a fluke, like many success stories.
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If you read carefully, it turns out he's selling MBA Application prep services....
I recently had a thought on how Viaweb's YC application will look like. It will be awesome if you fill it out. Will give us a bit more insight in how you think and look at an application.
For processor architecture that book is http://books.google.com/books/about/Readings_in_computer_arc...
Really? Even assuming that we absolutely need to heat up the lights to solve this problem, we only need to do it when there is enough snow on the light to be a problem, which means at most only during snowfall, realistically much less frequently than that. Even in New England during winter, you've gotta be talking under 10% of the time that this has to happen.

You seriously can't come up with a better way to solve this problem than replacing a very efficient, very robust light source with a very inefficient, very delicate one, secure in the knowledge that as it runs all year round, some tiny fraction of the huge amount of waste heat it generates will go towards melting snow?

Although I'll note in your defense that "incandescent lightbulbs" are more accurately described as "heat lamps", and one potential solution might well involve a specialized heat lamp which only activates when the light itself is obstructed.
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Well, it's like jwz's old sig:

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think
“I know, I'll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.

In the case of these locks, the problem with increased complexity, is that now you have to manage complexity, and deal with the low tech physical intrusion methods.
I prefer http://ecorner.stanford.edu/index.html
If you're not a student and don't know anyone who is, don't go to a campus event, unless it's explicitly meant for the public in general. It's sketchy. Events are for the Stanford community unless they say otherwise.
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Was it okay for Anonymous to hack Syrian Ministry of Defense Website?
You seem like a marketing guy for the "parkour 4 hackers" putting it against traditional martial arts just like the hacker culture is against corporate culture. I'm not against that, just a notice.
This is the classic view, but things have changed.

Robots do not just make better workers, they are also better warriors. How many Chinese peasants does it take to kill a single UAV? How many protestors can modern riot police crowd control using sophisticated psychological warfare combined with advanced nonlethal weaponry?

Once the violent, unskilled, uneducated, unmoneyed lawbreakers are rounded up by the riot police and thrown in jail... then what? The Chinese are not shy about executions. How about humane lethal injections for everyone?
More Russian than Turkish though. art.lebedev studio is russian.
> Why do hackers like Macs that much? Wouldn't it be better to use cross-platform tools?

I think a lot of us like OS X because we get a Unix build environment with a fairly slick GUI and good third-party app support.

Being able to use the same OS for day-to-day tasks (Word docs, Photoshop/Lightroom, etc) and for development is nice, and despite some inconsistencies, the quality of third-party applications is pretty high (i.e. Transmit, TextMate/MacVim, Pixelmator, Adium, etc).

Battery life, when it comes to portables, is also a bonus; most Macs have better battery life and less weight than a similarly specced Dell/HP/Lenovo machine (anecdotal, but I think I'm in the ballpark here).
How do cars defrost the rear windshield? Embedded heating elements in the glass. That's pretty proven, and easy to manufacture. The exact same thing could be used here.
If they had bought Lendle or even just implemented the idea, it might actually be useful.
In this scenario, I'd imagine the tank crews to be automated too.
> ...libertarians do not believe in free education or social services.

I'm an ex-libertarian and have moved to a more centrist position, but this is disingenuous. Libertarians generally want the right to make their own decisions and are anti-coercion. However, many of them are big believers in philanthropy and true voluntary social contracts - just not the kind enforced by the barrel of a gun.

They're not opposed to education or social services - just of funding them by force. It might seem like a small thing, but it's not - if a society could built that achieves high levels of education and prosperity without coercion, most people would think that's a good outcome.

Libertarians frequently believe this is possible. They might be wrong, but the attitude is not "let them eat cake" - it's "my life, my choice for what I do with it, take your hands off of me." But many or most believe in learning and prosperity.
Those specs are generous compared to the hardware on/for which 2BSD was developed.

I have used Mini Unix on a PDP-11/45 with 32 Kbytes (16 Kwords) of core memory and dual 2.4 Mbyte hard drives.

I once took a class, 6.031 at MIT, where we did our assignments on a PDP-11/45 running Unix on 256 Kbytes (128 Kwords) of RAM and three 2.4 Mbyte hard drives. That was a timesharing system with 16 simultaneous users.

The 11/45 was 1979, I think. The 11/40 was a year or two later.
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That works for frost, but I still need to clear the windshield after it snows. I dunno how hot those defrosters will go if you really crank 'em, though...

Apropos of nothing, but this just made me look up "defroster" on Wikipedia... "For primary defogging, heat is generally provided by the vehicle's engine coolant via the heater core; fresh air is blown through the heater core and then ducted to and distributed over the interior surface of the windshield by a blower. This air is in many cases first dehumidified by passing it through the vehicle's operating air conditioning evaporator." Wikipedia makes everything so cool.
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OK, someone convince me to go Mac.

I've had essentially zero issues with Windows. I do 99% of my development in Linux (access my devbox through VNC). For desktop use, I have absolutely no problems. I work very fast zooming around with keyboard shortcuts. I don't get viruses or bloatware. Everything is calm and familiar.

Every time I get my hands on a Mac, even to simply Google something, I immediately hit issues. Paste is crazy squiggly hash v (or maybe apple v?), I can't right click, I can't win+d to the desktop. I'm sure all of these things are possible, but I'm fumbling around like my grandpa when I taught him to email.

At this point, I'm pretty sure it can't all be brand hype (my thoughts a few years ago). I'd really like to know what the incentive is for throwing away years of muscle memory, familiarity, and tweaking ability.

So, go ahead, someone sell me on Macs.
This is exactly why Computer Architecture should be a mandatory course for Computer Engineering and EE with CS.
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I think you've hit the nail on the head.

We're getting to where it's all about creativity.
Oh yes, definitely. The robots used, however, are still "first generation", so to speak. They do not adapt to the product. They are designed to build one thing, to automate one task, and they do that (insert screw of shape X into hole of shape Y).

What Brooks speaks of is a new generation of robots. Robots that can be shipped from a factory that builds iPods to a factory that builds car wheels. They take way less space than the first generation, and they adapt. So if your product decides it's going to use nails instead of screws, you don't need to redesign your robot line.

In the US, it's mostly behaviour-based AI that got a big push at MIT in the 90s and have been used in the US military for the passed decade... seems like they're ready for manufacturing now :D
When they have no marketable skills, they'd better learn some. In the absence of mental or physical handicaps, I don't see any reason why people would be incapable of doing this.
What artful trolling!
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I'm not sure I understand your question correctly. There is definitely such a thing as a nominal obligation.

When the treasury wants to borrow money, it conducts an auction to determine who gets to lend it how much at what interest rate. If, at the end of that auction, a particular lender agrees to lend the treasury USD 1bn for 10 years at a yield (interest rate) of 3%, you can calculate the exact nominal dollar amounts that are to be paid back. These amounts never change from then on come what may.

Every year the treasury has to make a USD 30 million coupon (interest) payment to the lender. After 10 years the treasury has to pay back the principal, that is the original 1bn amount. That's it.

If the average inflation rate in that 10 year time period is 2%, the lender's return on investment is 1% (10 million dollars). If the inflation rate turns out to average at 3%, the lender makes zero. If inflation is 5%, the lender makes a loss of 2% (20 million).

If the inflation rate is somewhat higher than the yield and the lender makes a loss, it is not formally a default. I'm not sure what happens in terms of formal default if a borrower deliberately and aggressively inlfates away its debt faster than lenders can react by demanding higher interest rates at the next auction.

I believe this has never happened in modern times because borrowers who would do that cannot usually borrow in their own currency. What would definitely happen is that this borrower would have to pay much higher interest rates as soon as he comes to the market again, so nobody wants that.

There is another type of treasury bonds called TIPS, which are inflation adjusted. They have a lower yield but are protected against rising inflation.
"I'll first say that "purchase a .. iPad for their next computer." is completely ridiculous. A tablet cannot fill the needs of a user yet"

You'd be surprised by how many people just use a computer to check their email and browse the web, all of which can be handled on an iPad simply and beautifully. My Wife and Mother have both stopped using computers altogether, iPad is all they need.
What do we do when there is an excess of human labor?

We get to work building some really awesome space ships and start colonizing other planets. Seriously.
I think you put two arguments in one, one valid, one not so. I don't think apples are "overpriced" today. They are at the upper part of the price range because they want to be there, but they are competitive. I except accessories from the list, RAM for example is a rip-off in the official store.

Its the "beyond what most users need" thats the important part. A prime example for MacBook (Pros) are Batteries: they come with good, high-capacity batteries that are expensive at any manufacturer. If I buy the strong-battery option at Dell, it gets expensive quick as well. If I buy the best screen option, the same. The problem with Apple is: they don't allow you to settle for the "second best". You can only buy the best option that they will sell you in a machine class, only rarely a second one.

At thats my main reasons for not suggesting a Mac to everyone. I know a lot of people that want a notebook, but they don't hours of battery life and are on a budget. With a cheaper battery, they could easily save a hundred+ Euros. Why should they waste it on a machine that does not allow them to do so? Macs are just not the machines for people on a budget anymore.
lets not be naive here, we all know you have your own upenn network or PSL up voting your stories to a point where they get noticed. Many other startups have came through here doing the same thing. Again I'm not against startups or helping people, I am against people spamming the community.
- It's hard to drop ten dollars cash on the other side of the country.

- You don't need a smartphone to use ten dollars you found on the ground.

- Cash can be spent somewhere other than Starbucks.

- There's no twitter account broadcasting the amount of money dropped on the ground.

- If you find money on the ground, chances are not good that it was dropped by someone from HN.

- If you tweet about money you found on the ground, you are just a jerk.
The experiment started on Twitter where a smaller group was initially involved (but sadly not this canuck). It was more of a take a coffee, leave a coffee thing between friends. Fun to watch.

Posting it to HN should bring interesting results. There's still money on it at the moment.
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I have high hopes for Jetbrains' Kotlin project in this department.

http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/Kotlin/Welcome
I am using Markdownlive, it support instant preview (mit-license, need to compile using xcode)

https://github.com/rentzsch/markdownlive
This is really awesome. For those looking into implement something similar should check out IndexTank.

Disclaimer: I work for IndexTank
Difference being there could be a time when I couldn't afford a hundred dollar dinner and then time when I can afford it. But a cup of coffee, not really sure if there will be times when I can afford and not afford it.
In this situation a tank crew would be attacking their fellow country men, so one would hope hope they would be questioning their orders to fire on civilians.

If they didn't question the orders you would have to question whether they were brainwashed into thinking the fellow country men were deserving of attack.

A lot of militaries train their soldiers to not question the orders of their superiors. I believe the US military does allow a solider to question orders, but I would expect that it is not encouraged.
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I am sorry to say so, but as a constant switcher: all problems you describe are problems that are as easily solved on a Mac as on Windows. Yes, it is CTRL vs. APPLE and there is a Button for accessing the desktop (its on a different key for some machines. For mine, its F3). It won't sell you on a mac, but: it takes me roughly 5 Minutes to get it right again after switching and it took me about half a day to get it right. Its a problem of constant use and memory.

I also wouldn't recommend one solution over the other. I prefer APPLE (or COMMAND) as a command key more, but I'm sure thats because its positioned more favorably on the mac keyboard.
Ask HN single founders: How do you go on vacation?
How do you take care of your startup (customer support especially) while you go on vacation? Or do you stay plugged in throughout your vacation anyway?
Yeah, Matt did a great job. Definitely a developer to watch.
But if you have hashed the password correctly (i.e. a one way hash) you shouldn't know what the previous passwords are. This means that you would only be able to test if the password was the same, not similar.
It seems like the mental/physical floor required to get a job is getting higher.
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