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So very very cool! I bought an apple iie off ebay a year and a half ago since it was the first computer I ever used and had been meaning to get some games for it but just haven't had the time. When I saw this post today I was like a kid all over! I searched frantically for a cable to plug my phone into the apple iie but ended up having to go out and buy one but it was so worth it :)

Anyway I put up a video about it as well and figured I'd share it here as well. Thanks so much for this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_e8wYEC72I
hehe... I interviewed at a hedge fund once, 6 technical interviews in a row. One of the interviewers summed it up well when he said: "Brace yourself... The next guy is fresh out of CMU and is going to ask you questions you haven't thought about since school" (which had been about 10 years prior).
"SOPA lets the government intervene [...] just to bail out the movie industry"

The implication here is that he movie industry is in trouble, and needs bailing out. And no-one wants to see the movie industry go under.

Does Hollywood really need a bail-out?
I think you're making my point for me.
Will people change banks for it (compared to say, vague promises of better customer service)?

Will people pay a premium for it (compared to say, offering more air miles)?

I'd be willing to bet that for most people it simply isn't worth the investment for them.
Well, come on. If you're googling a disgusting substance like santorum, don't be surprised if you get a gross result.

Which is to say: santorum is now a word in its own right. It's not a Google bomb in any sense: people can and do use it all the time to refer to the aforementioned substance. A month ago, that definition was definitely the more relevant, and five years from now, when the Santorum flash in the pan is over, that'll again become the most relevant item. What you're asking for is for Google to censor a word for the sake of a powerful man, who it happened to be named after.
I agree that getting our aunts, uncles, etc to "get it" is very important. But I wonder if most of them even know this is an issue. Time for an anecdote:

While visiting my parents for Christmas, I scoffed when we drove past a car with a Lamar Smith bumper sticker (they live in TX). My parents asked me why I didn't like him; he was a stand-up representative as far as they knew. I mentioned SOPA and how horrible it is and they both drew a blank...turns out they had never even heard of SOPA. I was shocked since they watch the local and national news almost daily and discuss any story they see regarding technology/the internet with me.
The main game engine was in C targeted to the PowerPC. The hardware additions were done in VHDL.
I saw Scott's post and instantly thought, "Damn, I wish I'd have known about these guys back in October." Looks very cool.

I love the idea of not having to worry about the various formats. That was the worst part for me... and still is, actually, as I haven't done the epub thing yet (just PDF and mobi). WooThemes was great, but, to be honest, my hub set up most of that, so perhaps if I'd been left to do it on my own it might not have been so easy for me. I'll def check Leanpub out.
That's actually reassuring to hear. I have a liberal arts degree, so I obviously can't lean on CS.
You're confusing books with manuscripts. Please don't call these things you sell 'books'.

"A manuscript is not a book. The author's job is to write the manuscript. The publisher's job is to turn a series of manuscripts originating from different suppliers into consistently produced books, mass-produce them, and sell them into distribution channels.

[...]

While it's true that the author is the one with the creative input, they only do about half the work. And the other half of the job is not optional. The reason publishers exist is to provide for division of labour; if I did the other 50% to bring my rough manuscripts up to published-book-quality, I'd only be able to write half as many novels."

As per Charlie Stross, accomplished fiction writer: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/02/cmap-2-h...
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Makes a fascinating read but it is sad how some of these highly reputed thinkers proclaim their personal views as the sole truth. Their attitude reminds me on politicians with their same old black and white demagogy.
I was called a 'computer wizard' as early as 3 years ago for knowing how to change the wallpaper in Windows, and also for knowing how to use Alt-Tab to switch between windows.
"Previously, researches have found that fluoxetine (Prozac) actually suppresses neuronal growth in vitro"

Neurogenesis is only one type of plasticity, and it doesn't sound like the type they're talking about in this article. (Albeit I didn't read the study.)
Is there a list of Hacker News clones?
I've heard that the source code is available online. I'm not a programmer, I'm an artist. I just have a insatiable interest in what the entrepreneurial hacker community is up to.

My favorite twitterfeed is @newsycombinator (by a longshot, and its a bot!), and I want to see if a similar community could be created for art.

So my thought was: is the hacker news format successful for other communities? Since the source is available, what have other people made with it?
There are definite value-adds by publishers, but it varies hugely by author, publisher, and genre. I can certainly see it for novelists, but a lot of technical-book publishers, especially the lower-tier ones, do very minimal editing of manuscripts, and are as likely as not to screw something up when they do (they rarely have subject-matter experts on staff). Academic book publishers also vary hugely, both in how involved they are, and in how good their editing is.
Along with such notable somebodies as James McClure (who is currently being Google-bombed by a pickle company) and Norris Cotton (being victimized by a fluffy fiber).
but as far as I can tell, Ruby doesn't rely on this directly

They may be null-terminated to make writing C extensions easier. If they weren't, you'd have to make a null-terminated copy every time you wanted to pass the bytes to a function expecting a null-terminated string, which most C APIs do.
I'm not sure we're working from similar definitions of terms.
This isn't forcing Santorum to censor his opinions, nor is it even an attempt to do so. It's counter free speech. He's free to say what he pleases, and a lot of people are free to call him a frothy anal sex byproduct.

This is exactly how the freedom of speech is meant to work.
Search engines need to keep a close eye on concerted efforts to manipulate results based on childish, political horseshit. Google is either failing technologically (unlikely), or is intentionally maligning a credible political candidate (very likely).

No, I don't support Rick. He's worthless..
The principle of subset contradiction (as in Yavalath, where you win by making four in a row but lose if you make three first) is extremely interesting, and it also seems like it can be applied in a fairly simple, atomic way to various types of rulesets. I wonder if a Monte Carlo ruleset search system could integrate higher-level rule change "principles" such as subset contradiction, and apply them as operations to existing rulesets...
But I'm not making a moral judgement. Pay your sales team whatever you want. Pay them minimum wage; for the people who accept the job, you're still doing them a service.

My point is that you will get bad salespeople by selecting for the ones willing to take smooth, low returns over commissions.
I just left a startup that was doing pretty much the opposite of every point made on this list. After 4 months of 90+ hour weeks, I woke up one day and asked myself "Why the hell am I doing this?" Work environments like that are neither healthy nor sustainable, but unfortunately I think a lot of it stemmed from the mindset that there's nobility in killing yourself at work and anything less than that makes you a p*y. Needless to say, turnover was ridiculously high and morale was terrible.
Er, I never said it wasn't a smear campaign. I said it wasn't an attempt to game Google. It's not, it's an attempt to define a new word. That is definitely part of a smear campaign, but I don't think that part is all that relevant to determining the legitimacy of this search result. They have succeeded in defining a new word, and the site dedicated to doing so certainly should be near the top of the results for searches for that word.
I think royalties drop back down once the price hits above a ceiling price. The floor for 70% is $2.99. Not sure at what point it drops back down to 35%.
In the 1950's and 1960's there emerged a fad for giving personality tests to people, and the then train those who passed to become software programmers that would work in a factory.

A lot of the really bad practices that hit us with long-term costs come from this era... and a lot of the misconceptions we have about programmers being nerdy anti-social types come from those personality tests, because they didn't test whether you'd be a good programmer... they tested whether you would sit in a production line and push buttons repetitively without talking to others.

So... no, I don't think that a return to the factory model is the solution. It's been tried and it really did not work. I think that software is big enough of a shift that it warrants removing the traditional business hierarchies and ceremonies of authority, and to create a new model that is not the old factory model.
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Doesn't work very well, because police do in fact set up roadblocks for any number of reasons, such as drunk driving "checkpoints", and for that matter borders. Anyone using that analogy would just trigger a response of "but SOPA only targets foreign companies, and we do set up roadblocks on our borders".

Using an analogy to aid understanding can seriously backfire when your opponents make fallacious arguments from analogy, because the audience doesn't actually understand the issue so they go with whatever the analogies makes believable.
And whose name, in fact, stems from "uni-plexing" -- it was an operating system designed to support two users, so that Dennis and Ken could play Space Travel. A weak pun on "Multics" (multiplexing operating system).

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/hist.html
"Hold on, let me log out of my Facebook app, my Messenger app, my Twitter app, my WhatsApp app, my Path app, my Yammer app, my LinkedIn app, my Evernote app, ... And disable all my email accounts and iMessage and clear my text messages and web history. Here you go."
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If that were the case, the normalized search volume for the term would be fairly constant over time. But according to Google Trends it isn't http://www.google.com/trends?q=santorum . Further, you can see that the search traffic of other Republican presidential candidates has a similar pattern. So clearly right now, and for the past year, the vast majority of searches have been for the person rather than the supposed word.

(And nothing definite can be said about what the intent was in the time before that.)
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"a lot of technical-book publishers, especially the lower-tier ones, do very minimal editing of manuscripts"

It shows. I notice when a manuscript hasn't been taken care of by a good editor before going to print. I can't think of a single genre in which editing is not necessary.

NB: I'm a publisher of non-fiction books, primarily lifestyle and comp sci. My dad's a publisher, my mom's an author, my brother is a photographer for print. I'm familiar with the amount of work it takes to turn a manuscript into a book.
>keep it somewhere else

Where? Keep my naked girlfriend pics in a recipe box? Wtf are you even saying?

I'd rather not turn into a dull prude just because apple is too lazy to implement a guest account on their unix OS.

I'm trying to imagine how dull and colorless your life must be. I took the pictures with my phone. The obvious place to keep them is on my phone.
The big thing when I was studying 20 years ago was "CASE" tools - computer aided software engineering tools, 4GLs (fourth generation languages) and later UML - these were going to make developers job nothing more than designing pretty diagrams in a tool which spit out the nicely polished code at the end. Nothing has come of any of these technologies. If anything the coding landscape has become more fragmented and difficult than ever before - just look at the plethora of Web Development Languages, JavaScript, ObjectiveC and the fact that C/C++ is still the most popular language out there.
It's a little more in depth than the shop lifting analogy.

I like to use the following: "A person tells the government that they saw a TV in the local pawn shop which is really theirs. They never asked the pawn shop owner for it back and they have no reason to suspect the pawn shop owner knows it is stolen. The government will then shut down the pawn shop without even talking to the owner first or having significant proof that the item was really stolen. Every phone book will be required to remove the pawn shop's phone number from it and maps will not be allowed to show the pawn shop. The pawn shop can then attempt to get their store back from the government but if it turns out that the item really was stolen then the government will not return it." In the analogy the pawn shop is a website, the owner of the item is the copyright holder, the item is copyrighted content, and the removal of the phone number and map info is dns-delisting and search-engine de-indexing.

I think the above analogy holds up fairly well and clearly demonstrates the ridiculous measures SOPA goes to. It's also much more easily understandable by non-tech-savvy people. Please tell me if it is not accurate in some way or is unclear.
I'm just as interested in knowing what happened after the upgrade. How's performance on 2.3 vs. 3.0? Are there plans to upgrade to 3.1 anytime soon? Has using 3.0 increased developer or ops productivity in any measurable way?
It's not the Prozac that's the key in the study, despite the Scientific American angle:

What's significant here is that they were able to study the plasticity directly, and found that the reduced anxiety depended both on the Prozac (insert your favorite chemical here) and the re-training. And it compares it to a physiological difference in the two cases. That's novel, regardless of the drug. Prozac is a natural choice 1) because it's well studied, and 2) it has the well-documented clinical property of working best when combined with treatment (edit: therapy treatment).

How does this happen? Addressing this latter question is exactly what makes the study so cool: they identified physiological mechanisms that might cause this behavior, pending further research. Sure, they could ask the same questions with weed, or acid, or mushrooms, or caffeine. They happened to use Prozac.

Disclaimer: I do neuroscience, but not in this field.
Thanks. I love this feedback and agree that connecting with normals is vital; it's something that comes up again & again with my girlfriend as I "pitch" her on how to discuss these bills.

The struggle I have with metaphors like yours is that it doesn't accurately describe piracy (because it's not the same as theft). This feels a bit disingenuous, but definitely makes for a great soundbyte.

It's a catch-22: the thoughtful, reasonable explanation of why it's a terrible idea will never get through to anyone except the people who already know.
Might be different in the US, but in Canada, ISBN numbers are free. We have a different ISBN for each of our products (hard cover, soft cover, ebook version, plus english, spanish & french versions) and they were all free.

However the rest of the list really paints an accurate picture of what selling an ebook and trying to get some market penetration is all about.
As much as I respect Douglas Crockford, did he just reinvent Python's Doctest (http://docs.python.org/library/doctest.html)?
Let's not kid ourselves, if the page didn't appeal to a junior-high sense of humor, this wouldn't have happened.
It seems the only search engine not reflecting the boorish behavior of some random sex columnist is DuckDuckGo:

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=santorum

Hard to tell if it's an intentional, exceptional tweak - it could be, but it could also be a general rule along the lines of 'if there's a lot of news and it's a person in Wikipedia, lead with Wikipedia and then show the news.'

Either way, it's smart.
> I love how everyone keeps asking where is the compromise from the tech industry.

Politics lives by the fallacy of middle ground: the compromise is always right, and anyone refusing to compromise is always wrong and can be safely ignored. Put that together with the Overton window (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window), and politics compromises its way towards whatever position it wants. Zeno's Paradox, applied to law.
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I consider the official definition of the word "Santorum" to be on SpreadingSantorum.com, and I suspect that many other people do as well. Why should Google try to project an alternate reality, just because Rick doesn't like it?
Thanks for writing this. While it's more thoughtful, it's also much more verbose -- deadly in our soundbyte-driven media.
That is not true. When my employer was evaluating JIRA we were contacted by people who performed the same function as salespeople. They are definitely not pushy and did not take us out for steak and strippers, but they do seem to exist.
Are you asking why one might, in general, prioritize that upgrade? Rails 2.x to Rails 3 is a pretty big deal. For a huge production site, the "Merb-ificiation" (modularization) of Rails might be a performance/maintenance win.

(I have no idea why Airbnb in particular upgraded, but the 2->3 upgrade is in general very much worth it --- the new router and Arel alone are sufficient wins).
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I kind of see where you are coming from, but I'm not sure what your ultimate point is. It sounds like you want search engines to modify results so that activists can't create meanings like Obamacare or Santorum. In order to do that they would need to control the way language changes over time to keep that from happening.

How do you feel about terms less mean-spirited like the "Arab Spring?"
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Political satire in the past didn't inherently reduce access to opposing views. The first SERPs for a term on Google effectively are the Internet for a huge percentage of all readers.

I think the irony of deliberately re-engineering "language" in the name of "free speech" is lost on a lot of HN readers. It seems to me like almost the definition of Orwellianism. We're just not freaked out because we don't like homophobes.

We have always used the word santorum to refer to excreta. We have always been at war with Eastasia.
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I understand your dislike of spam, but what's the rationale behind building in the filtration into the architecture? That's merely a constraint on what email already offers, not an evolution.

Right now spam filtration is decentralized (as it should be), and there's NOTHING stopping an email provider like Gmail or Hotmail or [fill in your new startup] from CHARGING senders a fee to actually deliver mail to your personal inbox.

If you think your charge-per-message makes sense, then build your own email server that intercepts incoming messages and makes sure they've been paid for before distributing them to you (or your customers). No one is stopping you.
My point was that we should eliminate such work, not standardize it as part of a code factory line.
I'm still confused. With my proposed system, how do you perform a replay attack (or the trivial equivalent thereof) without access to the server's database?
Not all games have a separation of user data. Some games basically only have one save slot, so that starting a new game wipes out the save data.
As a sales professional myself, I find it disheartening that so many view salespeople in the manner described. One of the cardinal rules of being a truly great salesperson is to believe in what you're selling (Zig Ziglar talks about this often). If you don't, customers and prospects will not only be able to smell it from a mile away, but your passion and desire to succeed will be nonexistent and you'll have to fight for every closed deal because you won't have anything convincing to say when the person on the other end decides to call you on your bullshit. Being a truly great salesperson means fundamentally understanding the needs of the customer and working together to discover ways that your product or service can deliver them benefit and a positive ROI. Sales is about asking questions and listening intently, and I believe the truly great people find a way to effectively sit on the same side of the table as the customer while at the same time delivering the objectives that their company requires. Honesty and integrity play a huge role in selling and business relationships, and any company that understands the value of maintaining long-term business relationships will work this into their sales incentive structure.
I was trying to hit my audience of bankers, daytraders, and wealthy people, but I'm very mindful of these Uncle Arts, because in the end they're the ones who will win the day: http://navantigroup.com/content/world-changing-power-reasona...
Changed the English language? I'd never heard of this guy (Savage) or this definition of "santorum" until today. Merriam-Webster doesn't know of it either.
I guess we must agree to disagree that its only a side effect in the beginning. My clinicians experience and mine (personal and experiences I've heard in Group Therapy) differ, though I'm happily on another anti-depressant that works for me. For what its worth, Prozac's effects were negligible for me. I still recommend it as a first treatment for those with symptoms.

The same goes for my statement that Prozac is one of the more mild anti-depressants in terms in side effects. Its often the first prescribed, specifically for the reason that its effects (side and primary) are more mild, thus a safer place to baseline to start from.
Will people remember to use 1235 ONLY in an emergency? And never accidentally use it? And never use it when they feel "threatened" by the scary looking hipster hanging out by the ATM?

I would tend to guess it would cause more problems than it solves.
That site's going to be depressing as hell in a few days.
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It is definitely more accurate than the shoplifting story. However, pawn shops don't have the best reputations to begin with, so you'd be comparing yourself to something that people already find sleazy/sketchy/dirty/etc.

Edit: If you want to add some sympathy, replace pawn shop with Salvation Army and TV with pair of jeans.
I've been offline for the last few hours, just came back to start picking through the notes. I like this Mickey Mouse analogy most of all the ones I've seen so far. Concise and relatable (and accurate).
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