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> So "new" and "non-obvious" weren't already requirements?? That explains a lot.

On the off chance that you weren't being ironic, novelty and non-obviousness (to one "skilled in the art") have been requirements for decades.

The author of "we've issued new guidance" is either playing you for a sap or doesn't know patent law.
> I doubt they have the resources to find hackers.

The Los Zetas cartel, being the second largest cartel in Mexico, probably has revenues of well over a billion dollars per year. (It's estimated that the overall earnings of all Mexican drug smugglers is $13-40 billion.)

I'm pretty sure that's enough money to hire a hacker or two.
It's not obviously false either - it's at least arguably true. When I said fiscally lucrative, I was admitting there may be a certain profit to legalizing these substances. However, it's socially irresponsible. I don't think a society will function as well with a government making clearly adverse narcotics freely available because people want them.
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While I'm new to the discussion, I agree with you spitfire. But at least this is a step towards something simpler. The current file structure for most distributions is downright confusing to even moderately competent users.
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This is an ignorant question, but do apps have access to the social graph? If so, I'd assume the top game applications have a substantial portion.
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Right. And like I said, it might be a fiscal improvement to legalize drugs. You could earn money from it. But, and i mean this in all sincerity, do you want to live in a society where they're freely accessible?
Where would you travel if money was no object?
We should probably legalize all those too. They'll go away.
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> If millions of people carried machine shops around in their backpacks, mechanical engineering would be incompatible with the patent system too.

Ah, another person who doesn't remember when good metal shops in school were nearly universal and even the drones took shop and passed when that meant something.

And yes, it was relatively easy to get the equipment and start making things.
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I was going to post something just like this, but mine went: "The only way to harm organizations of this size is to attack their funding source." In this case, that means, primarily, drugs.
Nothing undesirable happens immediately as a result - except that maybe your manager is a little bummed out. But maybe the next time one of these projects comes up, they’ll ask Bob first. Maybe that speculative project turns into a full fledged project and you missed your chance to work on it.

And when the over-committer Bob ducks out of the project due to time constraints, the manager will come back to you, knowing you have a good track record of completing tasks.
There used to be, the mob was practically running several cities and literally owned Las Vegas. It took many decades to reduce the threat.
I think there's some value to them. Sure, apple doesn't do them - but apple operates in a shroud of mystery and nobody knows their next move, so no surprise there. Apple has had the ability to nail technology inflection points and truly innovate so they don't need to. Apple doesn't write the rules for companies in different positions.

Gruber argues that this is lost attention on the Windows phone, but is it really? Would there be conversations about the video and would it have this type of debate and conversation about a video about the Windows phone?

How does one criticize both science fiction that isn't daring enough, not inspiring enough, and corporate future concept videos that are too futuristic and unrealistic? Is it that both sit in the unimaginative future, or is it insulting when a company attempts to claim credit for generic futuristic visions?

I think if you take a look at most big tech companies they have these visions, will talk about it, put it in slideware, and slip some into their advertising. Making a video is taking it one more step. The videos are probably not for the HN crowd, but instead those that haven't seen or thought of similar things and have now painted that company as the innovator.
> But physical manufacturing outside of freestanding factories has never been a significant part of an industrial economy.

Actually, it has. Large scale production may have usually been in a factory, but often that factory was small production multiplied. Ford and the like were anomalies, even in the car biz.

> You could never start a car factory in a garage

I don't know about you, but literally thousands of folks did exactly that.
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That is true, and while I used prostitution as an example, I personally don't see why it should be illegal. However heroin addiction is not the same as corporations and governments lobbying in cahoots. Drugs aren't really viable for an effective lifestyle - at least, not the ones organized crime profits the most on. Even prescription drugs like Vicodin were nearly pulled off the market because of how dangerous they are, even when used correctly and in moderation.
> The previous story on this provided the perfect response

Not really - it was wrong then/there and it's wrong here.
What? It may take a minute to find where something actually is, but on all Unix-like OSes you can type `man hier` and have all the mystery swept away.

Moving everything to /bin strikes me more of a marketing move than anything.
Plan Colombia worked = the problems in Mexico right now.

The only way to fight criminals is to get them to go to another neighborhood.
I'd like to read a post about the optimal granularity of git commits in different situations. I don't think I'm experienced enough particularly when it comes to intense collaboration to write it myself
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Thanks for posting this. Can't believe I missed it. Seems this guy is riding a wave of outrage/Internet meme fun.
I would say that being involved in hacking that would result in your becoming a felon, getting extradited, and/or going to jail for over 5 years qualifies as putting your life on the line.
I was under the impression that all the hackers lived in Palo Alto / Mountain View.
By accomplishments, do you mean Apple's current products? Of course. If you mean Apple's concept videos - I don't know, since I haven't seen any.

Concept videos usually aren't realistic, or even preferable, since they have to convey what the technology can do simply through video. In reality, it'd probably be more discrete and easier to use. The advantage concept videos have is that they simply demonstrate possible uses of possible technology.

That triggers a few questions if you're creative: Is this possible to achieve with today's technology? What problems would things demonstrated in the video solve? Is it possible to solve the same problems, or sub-problems, with today's technology? Can I develop this concept further, take it in a more useful/fun/futuristic direction?
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"Steal" is stretched thin here. People made their information public.
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There is already an "I don't know this person" option when declining friend requests as far as I've seen.
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It's entirely possible that you do already live in such a society
I do not see any problem here.

> [...] much of it configured to be available only to people on the user's list of friends.

And it was. People randomly accept friends and then have their data configured to be shared with them. In this case, the problem was not Facebook but was sitting in front of the computer.
I think there needs to be distinction between concept videos and advertisement. Concept videos which are glamours like advertisement are not "concept videos" because it not practicality of the concept they are showing but how can we market and make this product cool "if we make this." There is fundamental problem with this. As Gruber said, concept videos are the sign of warnings that you are not doing anything.
I'll be in touch this week. This could be exciting. More than anything, I think this will give statistics a home on the Web and will give a new face to statistics for non-engineers. Maybe we can do for statistics what Rails did for Web development.
Using homogeneous architecture has tremendous advantages over using a patchwork of different formats and languages.

Quick example. If you're using native PHP templates and configs, installing APC gives you instant template and config caching with zero effort. To get the same functionality for other formats you would need to roll our your own caching, introducing bugs and complexity along the way, but, most importantly, reinventing the wheel.

That's just one out of myriad examples.

Also, if you have more than two nested levels of arrays (regardless of the language used) in a giant uber-config file, you are the one who is shooting your users into their feet.

Don't code XML in PHP. Refactor. Use includes (which JSON doesn't have, BTW). Use autoconfig pattern and align your configuration file with classes that use them. Use sensible conventions over configuration. Start the file with return statement instead of magic name:

<?php
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Nothing will ever scale if you don't even try to design it in a sensible way.
That's not accurate. the people and the way they work, is completely different. When colombia had problems, Mexico already was in its own track.
I don't think it's stealing, but it's certainly rude.
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I'm guessing the profile pictures of the 'friends' weren't ugly people.
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None of these things is as profitable as drugs. Tens of dollars per gram, of stuff that grows in the forest and requires but a little processing. There's nothing so profitable to move on to.
Definitely agree with ya there. I wish organizers would remember to mic the people asking questions if they're going to film it.
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This is an interesting claim, do you have any links or citations?
'x equals 5'. or something like 'the value inside x is now 5', an important view for me, when was learning c++'s pointers.
You need more than money if you're buying something illegally. You also need a certain amount of sophistication to know you're getting what you want.
It once pointed to Exxon Mobil so I don't think it means anything.

http://www.e-catworld.com/2011/10/the-wandering-url-now-www-...
Who didn't see this coming? I always saw Google as potentially a main investor in E-Cat.
I don't wish to criticise the design of this vehicle specifically - it's success or failure will be apparent with time.

But I read once somewhere about aircraft design, that if the chief designer wasn't a zealot about keeping control of the design process, you always ended up with an ugly and underperforming aircraft.

There's always been an element to community participation with car design - many cars are modified once leaving the factory, and over time the modifications tend to congeal along a particular tried and true route. So it will be interesting to see this process at work from the drafting board upwards, rather than from the end of the production line forwards.
People don't like to argue with people they deem incapable of understanding the topic at hand. I hit your hyperbole and read no further because I deemed your take unintelligent and poorly argued. Hence #downvote
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"Unknown or expired link."

This is a joke right?
"Men with guns will come and arrest you because you broke esoteric law" seems very surreal and a lot less intimidating than "Men with guns will come and kill you because you pissed them off".

Don't forget the part where the Zetas have set a very, very strong precedent, while the FBI haven't. I can say even for myself I would take the FBI over the Zetas any day of the week.
"I would trust the professionalism and morality of an organization like the us military"

Are you being sarcastic when you say that?
I'm curious as to why there's a need for a startup accelerator for underrepresented minorities. Why are those minorities underrepresented in the first place?

If the answer is because of discrimination, then I would argue that creating an accelerator for these minorities is just as discriminating, is it not? If it's not discrimination then, well, my assertion about it being discrimination still holds.
In Portugal society didn't go to hell when they decriminalized many drugs.

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Please realize that drugs are very accessible right now.
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Facebook is just a huge mess, really. The other day I was amazed at one particular scam that was so obvious, I decided to investigate. Someone made a page that promised a free iPhone 5 (even though there is no such thing) and had sent over 800,000 invites to people in 3 days. Over 20% answered, liked the page, and entered an email address in a form (as the fan page instructed). The wall was filled with comments like "I hope I win!" and such. There was even some people commenting on the fact that there is no such thing as an iPhone 5, and in every case the answer from other users was basically "who cares? what do we have to lose? it might be true"

Moral of the story? There's enough gullible people on Facebook for scammers to make money, regardless what measure Facebook puts in place.
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There might be an inaccuracy in my recollection because I have not been using Debian since 2006.

The shell scripts that run when the OS boots (in /etc/init.d/ and /etc/rc* IIRC) are a lot more numerous on Debian than on Arch -- or so I seem to recall. So for example I remember that trying to increase my boot speed by identifying and disabling unneeded services was an exercise in frustration. I configured my Arch Linux to boot to the text-mode console, and if I wanted to start X and Gnome, I used startx. I probably never tried to do the same thing in Debian, but am left with the distinct impression that it would have been harder. (Why would I want to do that? As a procrastination-reduction measure: when I wanted to focus on work, I would quit Gnome and X. On my slow machine, it would take a good 30 seconds or more for Gnome to restart, and the thing about procrastination -- at least for me -- is that if I can arrange it so that the decision to procrastinate is not immediately rewarding, then the temptation to procrastinate becomes weaker. I realize most people do not need their Linux install to help them fight procrastination, but this is an example of my tailoring my install to my particular needs, so I think it is relevant to whether Debian or Arch is easier to customize.)

When you build something from source on Arch, it takes very little additional effort to arrange it so that Pacman can install it and the arch build system can rebuild it from source. And if you make the effort, it becomes easy at a later date to look up what you did to get the software to compile, so the (again, mild) additional effort ends up saving you time in the long run when you need to rebuild stuff you built years ago. And since pacman installed every file in my /usr and my /bin, if I ever needed to know where a file in /usr or /bin came from, pacman was able to tell me even if I had compiled the software from source. I know that all this is doable on Debian, but doing it on Arch is very very easy. So I liked building stuff from source on Arch better.
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The sheer arrogance. "It is ok people. I'm black and, speaking for all minorities, I haven't experienced it so every other minority is a lazy liar"

I'm black as well and though I haven't experienced racism in tech directly I understand why NewMe is a great option for some people. To the poster I would say respect other people's journeys and experiences.
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That's fair, although it seems like in that case TARSNAP_FAILURE and TARSNAP_SUCCESS would then be a fine alternative.

I think the whole question is how much it's OK to have an house style that isn't immediately accessible, and how much that benefits the project. Is it really a benefit if outsiders can grasp the code immediately, or is it actually good to have a hurdle?

Do you have an argument against "rehash(H) < 0" other than the visual distraction? It seems like it would parallel better with a literal comparison to NULL.
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I just tried it. It's like using a static site generator that deploys as seamlessly as Dropbox syncs. That's nice. That's something I might actually use. But, as I'm sure you've already considered, there's no market for a Dropbox-enabled static site generator. :-(

As for the audience you are targeting, "serious writers who want to focus on writing without the hassle of running a website", I see a couple of problems.

First, it doesn't seem like long-form writers have a problem with any of the current Internet publishing platforms. There are some conventional length restrictions for online content that grew out of the length (and style) of reading that's comfortable to do while sitting at a desk. Adapting those conventions to the era of tablets is indeed a problem, and one that's being addressed by things such as iPad magazine apps, Kindle subscriptions and Instapaper. But that seems to be a different problem than the one you're positing.

Second, and more importantly, anyone who is concerned about the "hassle of running a website" won't understand Markdown (or even know what plain text is, for that matter). The concept of a markup language is a hard one for non-technical people to grasp. There's a reason WYSIWYG editors, for all their problems, are ubiquitous.
I thought it was either that, or someone who carefully used fast-forward merges and rebasing to give the illusion of a completely serial history for a project that actually involved a fair amount of branching.
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Yes. Dependency information and script commands are there. Both ought to be able to have comments. Node.js has the ability to load JavaScript, and since it's an installed environment, YAML isn't too much overhead. Both support comments. It can be serialized to JSON if needed.

It can be used more appropriately as a serialization and storage format with npm. It would be a matter of having a script for pushing a package that generates a package.json file from javascript or YAML, and adding it to .gitignore (but not .npmignore) so people see the file with comments enabled.
For anyone else who was also baffled by what 'E-Cat' refers to, it's the cold fusion thing that came up a couple days ago. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-10/06/e-cat-cold-fu...
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"clearly adverse narcotics"

How are they clearly adverse? Why was it not clear before the middle of the 20th century? Why is it not clear in other countries? Why was alcohol "clearly adverse" in the early 20th century in the US? What's the evidence that making drugs illegal has net benefits to society?

It is very, very expensive and unhealthy to lock up so many young people for drug offenses. Illegal drugs do a lot of harm, but so do alcohol, cigarettes and obesity. If narcotics were legal, we would sadly continue to lose good people to them. But the evidence from Portugal* suggests this would be not more than we already do. And we would lose far fewer people to prison, drug-related violence and the accidents and diseases due to the conditions associated with illegal drugs.

* http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1893946,00.ht...

(edit: spelling and added link to article about Portugal's policy experiment)
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