skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want to speak for them, but usually you use a Facebook login to save time. It isn't just a case of making a signup form, you've got confirmation e-mails, forgotten password functionality, secure password storage, etc. etc.

None of it is insurmountable of course, but using Facebook saves a ton of time and lets you plug into a load of social features at the same time. Yes, some people will reject it but they're a small proportion of the average userbase. A site aimed a HN readers may have a somewhat different proportion, of course.
I don't see them abandoning the Mac Pro without filling that niche with something else. They sell a large number of "pro" apps (e.g., Aperture, Final Cut, Logic, etc.) that all work best when run on a Mac Pro. Speaking from direct experience, no laptop comes close to the performance required to get the best workflow out of those tools.
Right. They laughed at Einstein... But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
True, but the issue there is that it now takes about 4 mouse clicks that used to be a single shortcut. To set this link blog (squealingrat.org/new) up all I needed to do was feed my Google Reader shared items into the Wordpress blog.
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I'd like:

- To be able to see the n commits that someone on my team did, all as one big diff.

- To be able to see a paged version of git blame to walk back through a file to see who changed each line back through time and how it changed.

- When manually resolving a merge conflict, I'd like to see when each of the conflicting versions was written and by whom, along with the commit messages corresponding to when each of those previous areas were written.
The no-sharing/discovery thing has hit me hard.

If anybody out there has a social RSS reader start-up, feel free to reply to this and advertise your service. I will drag my friends to it along with me.

(Yes, I use Twitter, Instapaper, news aggregate sites, etc. Yes social software has changed how i would otherwise discover links/news. But I still need an RSS reader, and the passive sharing in old Google Reader is a layer of social that one takes for granted in almost any app. I get why they took it out (they think they're helping G+), but it doesn't work for me.)
As I pointed out, the incompatibility is on the part of the GPL, not Apple. It is Stallman who has decreed that they are incompatible, and then turned around and blamed Apple for the incompatibility.

This makes the FSF advocates position completely asinine. Which is why I have difficulty taking any of them seriously. They don't even respect their own license, so why should I?

(Don't worry, I simply don't use GPL code, and don't release any code under the GPL.)
Thank you for your very kind words. They touch me.
No they don't. Stallman decreed that the GPL was not compatible. Apple never did.

Show me where, in Apple's EULA, it forbids GPLed code.
You can export the existing notes from settings - import/export.
Can you? Is it possible to be friends with someone who says that anyone who disagrees with his ideas is evil?

Yes. Depends on definition of evil, I guess.

P.S. in Stallman case I guess definition of evil goes something like this: "I think with your rules you're doing harm to long term development of intellectual property like software. You're evil and you will burn in hell." Pretty mild definition of evil in my opinion?
It reminds me of Hamlet's last words in the Folio edition:

O I dye Horatio:
The potent poyson quite ore-crowes my spirit,
I cannot liue to heare the Newes from England,
But I do prophesie th'election lights
On Fortinbras, he ha's my dying voyce,
So tell him with the occurrents more and lesse,
Which haue solicited. The rest is silence. O, o, o, o.

It has been suggested that the final four "O"s were inserted as a Christian reference to the pure joy expressed upon the revelation of death. One hopes this is what Steve experienced.
Isn't that public sharing only?
Well, you can create a new Tag, then go to "Details and Statistics" in the arrow right next to the Tag and get the feed URL for it. Then you can import that to your blog, and every item you put in that Tag will appear.
If they bump the specs on the iMacs, those are good enough --specially taking into consideration Intel's new/upcoming processors. I know people who do FCP on iMacs.
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Not every application of the written word needs to be documenting an event or opinion. This post isn't a good summary of what Winer wrote. It is, however, good reading.

Winer can be a little annoying from time to time. This post harps on that particular aspect of Winer without saying, "you know, Dave Winer annoys me." If you read through it, you laugh a bit, and think "yeah, this post sounds like it's about RMS but it's really about Winer", and that's interesting insight. parfe could have said exactly that, but why use one line to say what you literally mean when you can convey that message and entertain at the same time?
I knew what it was, so maybe I'm not the best test subject. And I agree with you that this kind of thing should be above the fold. But it's there if you use your scroll wheel in the first 11 seconds:

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How can you "steal" something that is given away for free?

Your accusation contains the truth of the matter. No "Free software" is actually free. The F stands for Fascism. Stallman gets to dictate who uses it and who doesn't without regard to what the GPL actually says.

At least, thats how it operates.

Notice how, Apple using and supporting free software has resulted no end in dishonest accusations from you and others in this thread?

This is why I will have nothing to do with your "movement" and oppose it at every turn.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/

I haven't set up a style for google reader (yet) but Stylish extension for Firefox does a good job letting me customize sites. I don't use it on every site, but places I view regularly I tweak.

I have a style for news.yc http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3085416
XCode is just recently free, it always cost something before now. Without GCC being out there, would it have been free this whole time? I don't know either way, no one does, but I cheap != free. GCC has always been free.
It is very likely that Kottke does know about the reasons behind Van Halen's free bowl of M&M's since the link in his article is to the Snopes page that exists for the sole purpose of explaining those reasons.
"Politics is showbiz for ugly people"
Bob Geldof, activist und rock star, speaks in this video about euro crisis, the lack of good politics and investment opportunities in Africa."Growth rates in Africa are even higher than in india oder china", says Geldof.
Compared to which variety of English? I'm pretty familiar with British, American and Australian English, and I don't think that "hate" is a particularly strong word in any of 'em.

Depending on context, of course. A far stronger degree of dislike is conveyed by "I hate you" than "I hate lima beans".
That sounds terrible. If you have time, would you mind emailing me (quin@scribd.com)? I'd like to get that reproduced and fixed.
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Don't you think Basic was the most popular language at the time because it came for free with many home computers? C and other compilers were hideously expensive at the time, no wonder these languages weren't particularly popular.

And have you considered that one reason for OS X development tools being available free of charge these days might be because Free software changed the development tools landscape dramatically in the last two decades?
I like this new recent meme around building a company differently with a real problem and even in a location that is not trendy. Seems like there has been too much group think among tech community over last couple years spurred by popularity of techcrunch and mashable. Different and better usually wins. Period.
you cant call someone like RMS extreme just because his views are REALLY DIFFERENT. there is a lot of room on the spectrum between expressing your views non violently and actually forcing them onto people.
It is very hard to imagine John Gruber being taken somewhere unexpected by using the back button on an Android device.

This is like saying you were taken somewhere unexpected by using the back button in your browser.

Sure, it may not work consistently all the time, but when it doesn't it's always the fault of the website / app that breaks standard behaviour.
Peter Thiel: "Back to the Future"
The specs were non-obvious, but the description doesn't make it sound much more capable than the Ethernet version of the Raspberry Pi (which will cost 2/3 less)...
The acquiring company causes the liquidity pref to vanish regardless of the currency, if they're sensible.

huh? and how exactly would they do that in a legal way?
I've never really understood why all models of the Mac Pro ship with Xeons rather than having lower models with i7 processors. This must affect the price quite allot since it forces you to buy a processor that is quite likely to provide little to no benefit to many potential customers.

Sort of like how the iMac forces you to buy a monitor.
im sorry but: fuck everything about this.

google reader was the site where i've learned the most in the internet by sharing and reading other people's comments and notes. it was a truly content based social network

it was fun

it was great

it is gone
For the most part, Apple has given away development tools for free, or at very low cost, primarily to cover the overhead of offering them

There was no freely available compiler for the mac between System 1 and OSX. My fifteen-year-old self had to make an at-the-time pretty significant investment to buy Metrowerks Codewarrior.

That was the anti-golden-age of programming.
Sure, we just wanted users to have a more social experience with our site. With Facebook login, you can show profile pictures and names, and eventually make it easier for friends to take classes together.
Such an interesting social experiment. I am going to indulge my inner economist.
One 'getting things done' tip I've adopted is to catch myself writing "I will" in an email and change it to "I have", then go and do it. It works pretty well.
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Well, create a Tag, get that Tag's feed from its Details and Statistics page, then your friends can subscribe to it as any other feed.
Possibly, but I don't personally feel the screen on those is good enough for pro-level photo work. Some do, but for me there's no substitute for a high-end matte display, so the built-in one is sort of unnecessary when you already have one or more.
BTW, you guys keep talking about MWI, while the original article is categorically not about MWI. The author describes a Tegmark Level I Multiverse[1], the most conservative of the multiverse models. MWI is Level III, and the author himself says in a subsequent comment[2]:

What I've presented, above, is the argument for the first
type of Multiverse, which I think is correct, and hence,
which I believe in.

I think that anything beyond that is too speculative to be
believed at this point, at least with any sort of
confidence. At least, by me.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse#Level_I:_Beyond_our_...

[2] http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2011/10/why_we_think...
yep, you got it. that pretty much sums up why. although, at least with Rails, there's so many authentication gems that it's comparable to implement Facebook login versus email/password login.
Should you re-image to eliminate malware - or whitelist?
Best quote from the humble bundle video: "Facebook share it, tweet it, Do whatever the verb of google plus-ing is."

What is the verb for google plus? +1-ing?
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Do high schools in the United States not generally have recess? Classes all morning, then lunch, then classes all afternoon?

Aside from anything else, recess is a much-needed coffee break for the teachers.
Thanks for the feedback. I am debating this very issue now for an iphone app, and the time savings of not having to build a registration system for v1 is very appealing.
Emailing pg and asking nicely seems to be the only solution.
"In my own experience, though, it seems like some newer folks don't really understand that those extreme ideas came from an important place. They don't understand the hacker ethic or have much of an idea of the culture that rms comes from, exemplified, and fights for. I imagine most readers here are familiar with it, but it's a fading ideal, for sure."

You're right, obviously, but this might be only half of the story. Is it any coincidence that the spread of computing from universities and hobbyists to the general public happened at the same time that computing was commercialized? Would anyone be better off if software was universally free (by Stallman's standards) and yet inaccessible to 99% of the population?
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That's not the same. You still can't add a note and your friends can't comment on the item, for starters.
"But have you ever asked a Christian if you'll go to hell for being an atheist? The answer is pretty predictable."

I'm guessing you haven't asked a very wide variety of Christians that question? Because in my experience you'd get a pretty wide variety of different answers...
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Indeed. Google is starting to show signs of Yahooizing itself. And that's really sad.
I've been reading HN for years, but I honestly have no idea who Kottke, Gruber, or Winer are.

Who cares about this nth-level gossip about people who like to gossip about other people?
Thanks for this cool idea :D I will set it up at least for now.

But it doesn't solve the discovery part- having a place where I can see everything my friends are sharing- unless they do it too.
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You can click +1 and then click on the grey "Share on Google+" to select to which circle you want to share.
I've been looking for something similar to what you're describing (and hoping to stay away from Google & Facebook). However, before you turn your site back again, are there any other smaller fish out there already filling your niche?
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I don't think this button exists if you've resisted the G+ vortex (I know, I know, a separate discussion :D...).
I think it is still important for them to cater to AV professionals since it is part of their identity to provide for creative people.
The lack of contrast between read and unread items ridiculous. The following custom CSS makes it bearable:

#entries .entry .card-common { background: #eee}
#entries .entry .card-actions { background: #eee }

#entries .entry.read .card-common { background: #fff}
#entries .entry.read .card-actions { background: #fff }
A Springpad memo.
I always tray to describe the idea at lease in 3 key points. Problem, Solution, Business model.

Then I write down everything else.
I'm not from the US and my first computer bought in year '94 was 5 times cheaper than an Apple.

It came with MS-DOS 6.22 and had QBasic. But it was useless. You see, I wanted to create games. And not shitty games using ASCII-art, but the kind of games I played daily.

I then got a pirated Turbo Pascal and I learned the ins and outs of it. But it was also useless -- I had to develop my own graphics primitives, but the environment was extremely limited. What I really needed was a C++ compiler that could compile executables for 32-bits protected mode and a library that already had graphics primitives optimized for something better than 320x240 Mode X in 80286 assembly.

Then I got to DJGPP, a GCC port for MS-DOS and Allegro. It was heaven-like from initial testing, but reading on DJGPP I began reading about Linux and for the first time I got the feeling that I was using an obviously crippled environment, because it was. And for Windows 95, since it was getting deployed everywhere, Visual C++ and Borland Delphi were expensive, too freaking expensive.

You may feel nostalgic about Apple II and that lovely Basic you loved so much. But it was also useless. And the "free development tools" from OS X? The compiler itself is GCC and the command-line environment is composed of lots of tools proudly wearing the GNU mark. Only in recent years has Apple started to consider other options, like LLVM, but that's because GCC has some technical issues, but otherwise it is the most mature and widely deployed compiler on this planet and has served Apple well.

You see, OS X wouldn't be OS X without the GNU tools and I really don't get how OS X can be used as an argument.
They say it's part of the deal, if the VC says no then there is no deal and company is free to shop around for someone willing to buy the company with the preference in place.

If they are just after the team, they could just offer signing bonuses directly to the team. Such as when Borland didn't want to sell to Microsoft.
AFAIK, he corrected the quotation, but did not take back anything he said and even insisted that the misquotation "did not alter the meaning." He did say "My feelings about Jobs as a person are not strong," but nonetheless stood by his gloating that Jobs — the person — is gone, and continued to attack him by name rather than just the abstract ideas Jobs stood for.
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Oh wow. UI fail. I missed that completely. Thanks for mentioning it.
Congrats Dave and team! Everyone who's tried to build a dashboard knows how annoying it is, so I think this is a great product.
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+1 is the action of approval (past tense: +1'd), however it's not very useful, as Humble Bundle re-uses their root URL for the page, so I had already done this.

When write on Google+, the submit button is labelled "Share".
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Wow. You know what they say: never go full retard. you just went.
*but do you use his work?

I don't think so. I certainly use a bunch of GNU code, but as far as I know he didn't contribute to any of it. It's entirely possible though.
This is why I like both Scala and Coffeescript approaches. On Coffeescript vars are created for you, and on Scala, you can't not use it (you either use var or val, making it easy to change from re-assignable variables to final ones).

Note that nowadays going to Coffeescript from Javascript is quite easy: http://js2coffee.org/
You would think so, but Apple has been really poor in this area as of late. They discontinued Shake. They replaced Final Cut Pro with a rewrite that catered more to hobbyists than professionals.
I spoke to a friend of mine who's a scientist -- her thinking on the fly is that there may be some sort of connection to aspirin fighting inflammation (I asked her in the context why aspirin might leo prevent heart attacks).
Am I right in thinking that the javascript

/* "use strict" */

construct would have caught this mistake (just like it would have done for me in perl code)? Seems to me that some such feature is absolutely and utterly necessary in any environment where you're doing a lot of closure creation ..
I must say, this new design is much less readable. I'll probably end up abandoning the web interface altogether and reverting to using Google Reader simply to synchronize my feeds across platforms.

Back when I used WIndows, I used FeedReader, but I'm not sure what other programs are out there for Linux or Android that sync with Google Reader.
Is there a "see top rated" button I don't see? Because that seems like the most obvious first thing for most viewers to do.
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How does the strong typing compare with Java/C#? Thanks.
Mac OS X development tools are no more free in than Mac OS X.

It's also worth noting that Mac OS X's "free" development tools include the GNU suite.
New Google reader UI
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One thing you can do to help avoid this: use JSLint (or something equivalent) to check for missing var keywords. And, the obvious (as you already mentioned) coffeescript. Would love to hear of other suggestions on how to effectively debug this, especially in node.
Great. Didn't know that much about the situation in Africa. Sound like a paradise for entrepreneurship.
Adding a full 20px of vertical padding to each item in a list sure looks pretty, but it's cut the number of items visible on the page by ~50%. For a tool designed for skimming large amounts of information it seems to cut efficiency rather than improve it.

Can any UI people provide a good reason for this change? (More white space = faster skimming/more comprehension?)
The +1 is public +1 which not all of us want to do.
That sometimes true and you've hit the head on the nail in some cases -- but it also depends on what you're making. NYC really respects creatives -- be they actors or designers or writers in a way that you wouldn't see in the valley.In fact while Hollywood respects the hit making skills of creatives, I think NYC is unique in respecting creativity itself.
You can add multiple tags, so you could had your well-known "Shared" tag and then a comment as tag.
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Hmmm, straight after posting my comment I've been somehow labeled as a spammer :/ Any connection? If someone could untag me so I can share stuff again / participate that'd be great...
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Right, but we're on HN, and Humble Bundle Inc is a YC company that gets on the front page with some regularity.

I'm sure I'm in a bit of an echo chamber, but it just seems strange to me since it's been so widly discussed here and in other places I frequent (e.g. reddit - another site I don't expect my parents to know but would be surprised if the common HN-er didn't hear about it).
well then we wouldn't be talking about acquisition but a team change, would we?