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Those downsides were upsides for me. I love that everything must be configured on Arch, because I know that I am doing all the configuring. I've tried to customize Ubuntu's motd, change services to start backgrounded, and install packages from source in a way that integrates with the packaging system. Ubuntu likes to get in the way of this in the name of simplicity and for a casual or even intermediate user, sure, this works. For advanced users too, depending on your priorities.

Arch is awesome because it's basically FreeBSD-like packaging and something not unlike FreeBSD's service configuration on a Linux box. Things are in a predictable place, rather than in /usr/local OR /usr/, and installing source packages is something that is very customizable and very easy. It yields the responsibility to be careful about your versions to you, but in doing so gives you an immense amount of power to be the master of your system.

For minimal systems, where you know what you're doing, it's fantastic. Running Xorg is a bit of a pain, but I hardly blame Arch, and if something that "just works" were what I was going for, I wouldn't run Arch. I wouldn't use it on my MBP, but it's been running great on my home server for quite some time.
The DC took the photo for us, I'd have to check with them what precautions they took but it looks like the build station if my memory serves. The RAM went in Dell boxes.
The title of the image is "firefox-home-tab-mockup" - I don't think it represents the current state of the art.
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Hey Mate,

The hardware is open. If you want to run your own software on it you can. We did have a big debate whether to go the zero knowledge route (we previously worked on building a zero knowledge file service).

Cheers,

Marcus
Here's an example of a non-porn app being banned: http://www.macrumors.com/2010/07/20/flashlight-app-sneaks-te...

> Massive amounts of malware are being distributed via, at least the android marketplace, if not Amazon as well.

Amazon's app store is curated exactly like Apple's, so if there is malware in the Amazon's store then the model must be broken.

Besides, as I mentioned, I don't have a problem with Apple curating their app store. I think it's great. A nice mall like shopping experience. I do have a problem with them not allowing side-loading for those more advanced users who would like to side-load apps. IMHO, it seems to me like 90% of the reasons people Jailbrake their IOS devices are things that would be available without Jailbraking if side loading were allowed.

> On the contrary, as I mentioned there is a method to install apps completely out of Apple's control. (in fact, you can do this also with native apps as well using the adhoc distribution method.)

That's rather a bullshit cop-out to claim than web-apps or an "Adhoc" method that's limited to 100 users are either viable alternatives to side-loading.
Hogwash. Mathematics is a way of describing nature, not the other way around. And doesn't Gödel's incompleteness theorem make it clear that any such attempt must necessarily be flawed?
All too true. Both my work and home computers run Arch. At work, dual monitors on a single ati video card with xinerama was a HUGE pain in the ass. I ended up just running without xinerama and the Driver/Screen/Monitor/Server sections, let X choose its defaults, and then use xrandr to get the monitors working proper, although they still don't share the same background image, I can live with it.

In Archs defense though, setting up xorg is simply installing the packages which is trivially easy with pacman. I love it to death.
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It may not be that super either, since you're not going to get much throughput in a 6 MHz channel, and increasing range tends to also reduce per-customer throughput because they have to contend with more other customers.
If I modify a file locally, does that get mirrored elsewhere?

Also, I assume that such modifications aren't propagated to the other copies?
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It also spent spent $9.7 million on lobbying in 2011 (http://wapo.st/yanxMo) The powerful is getting even more powerful. Next stop 'too big to fail'.
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As we support USB you can add Low Energy Bluetooth that way. I believe Bluegiga just release some in USB format.
Eh... not such a big deal to me. I would like to use Firefox--I think Google's privacy changes demonstrate why it's still important to have a non-profit in this space--but these changes are not going to lure me back to Firefox. I moved to Chrome because Chrome is faster.

I know Firefox has worked on their speed, and it may be I only notice a difference because I'm on a netbook, or because the Firefox versions of my extensions are more poorly written than their Chrome counterparts. But for whatever reason, Chrome feels faster to me--both in general, and also due to other nice touches like its ability to open PDFs without launching Acrobat.

The window-dressing is nice, but just as search quality is the most important thing in search engines, and auto-complete, instant search, etc. are mostly secondary, speed to render the site appropriately is the primary indicator of browser quality; new-tab windows and the like are nice-to-haves. As far as I can tell, Chrome is still winning on speed, and I hope Mozilla is devoting appropriate resources (read: 90%) to changing that.

EDIT: as an aside, I know downvotes are somewhat amorphous on HN, and I shouldn't take them personally, but it bugs me that when I take some time to try to write a thoughtful (though admittedly critical) reaction to news, I get voted down to -1 (at least 5 downvotes) for my trouble. I've seen similar reactions frequently in other threads, and it saddens me that this is apparently now common HN behavior. This response is just not conducive to building a community. The responses here are great--if you think my comment is wrong, upvote those instead. Meanwhile, excuse me while I leave HN...
Agreed. This sounds plausible. Feel free to contact me by email if you need another developer—I’ll offer what time I can—or just a sounding board.
The fact that law depends on which position on this planet you stay is ridiculous.

I vote that every single law is trashed and new laws are written completely from scratch. Based on universial human rights. Without discriminating anyone without a valid reason (e.g. the person is not aware of risks causing by this or that action)
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Children should be exposed to the world, not sheltered from it. A parent's job is to prepare the child for the world, not hide the world from them with some naive and damaging attempt to keep them innocent. Sheltered children wind up unprepared for reality when it hits them smack in the face when they get on their own.
I don't think it makes sense to censor individual tweets, indeed it's impossible to find out if a tweet is pro nazi etc. They re probably gonna be banning whole accounts of unwanted organizations. In any case I agree it's not a wise move at all to censor anyone like this.
My mint installation (and all previous ubuntu ones) with awesomewm replacing the gnome desktop doesn't have any of that either....
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For me it was not -- I had to opt out. I'm not sure why there is inconsistency, but there are definitely some people who were opted in without asking.
"But when you're trying to crank stuff out, having to stop and tweak/fix your system simply gets in the way."

That's exactly the reason to customise it yourself rather than using a default "one-size-fits-all" OS like Windows/OSX/Ubuntu.
You spend a weekend configuring your computer, then you automate everything you did and then you never have to do anything again. Or at least that's the goal.

Still, it gives you control over your computer and that's enough for me. OSX telling me that I wasn't allowed to uninstall certain programs (has been a while since I got rid of my Mac but I think iTunes was one of them) - that bothers the hell out of me.
Whether pi or 2pi or 4pi is more convenient depends on whether you're working with circumference, area, or solid angle. Circumference was probably the easiest thing to measure.
It's great that companies post articles describing their architectures and backend systems (and I'm certainly looking forward to your follow-up post detailing your caching system) but why show a picture of commodity hardware available for anyone with enough money? What's impressive is your skills, now how much money is in your bank account.
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What you are experiencing might be down to the browser waiting for a double tap when you tap on links and buttons. Google produced an article on implementing fast buttons which describes this phenomenon: http://code.google.com/mobile/articles/fast_buttons.html

From the article:

' ... mobile browsers will wait approximately 300ms from the time that you tap the button to fire the click event. The reason for this is that the browser is waiting to see if you are actually performing a double tap. For most buttons we are developing we know that there is no double click behavior that we want to handle, so waiting this long to start acting on the click is time wasted for users. '

The article goes on to discuss how to mitigate against this problem. jQuery Mobile's solution is to use virtual events to listen for touch events rather than mouse clicks. Try listening for vmouseup instead of vclick, this could solve the issue. See http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0.1/docs/pages/page-scriptin... for more details.
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Tau is pretty much designed for link bait. It's worse than the programming flamewars, and on even shakier ground when people claim that it matters. Just wait until people start calculating the amount of energy saved if people used tau instead of 2 pi.
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Mac has major package management issues. Homebrew is fine (not as good as the linux counterparts, but fine), but if you make the mistake of installing Ruby with RVM Homebrew won't work, and you will spend a lot of time fixing it. With Arch you just have to get your basics set up and any development related item you need, there are precompiled packages you will install in seconds.
Agreed. Back when I had Arch installed as my main OS I'd run updates every now and then only to find out after that FireFox or some other program broke. Of course, it's nice to know how your OS works and how to fix things, but considering all the other OSs out there, it's nice to have something that "just works" with as little downtime as possible.

In hindsight, the learning phase of having to set everything up taught me a lot about using Linux, bash, etc. Switching to a tiling WM (dwm rocked) was a great experience when I had been using Windows all my life.
> I've never heard of any non-tech, non-startup companies using Basecamp.

They've got logos for a few non-tech, non-startup companies on the Basecamp homepage: http://basecamphq.com
This is about 25 years too late, but good.

The problem here is that NASA is a political agency, not a scientific one. Each year, elected politicians sit down and decide how much they're going to get.

This means the number one rule is don't make us look bad. You can't waste too much money, you can't go making a bunch of controversial statements, and good grief, whatever you do don't have astronauts getting exploded on TV.

The analogy with the mission-centric military was a good one. Unfortunately, as we involve the U.S. military in more and more missions that look highly political, we're going to end up with a badly broken military, for exactly the same reasons.

NASA should have but one mission: lower cost to orbit. If they can reach a 1000-fold reduction in cost to low-earth orbit, a lot of scientific research, exploration, and commercialization can take place.
App stores only take a non-majority share of the revenue. They also provide the hardware platform, which is not easily replicated. Elsevier, on the other hand, takes ALL the profit, and does not have a difficult to replicate position on a hardware platform. The only reason people continue to use them is inertia.
It could be totally cool if you considered a "vintage" section, where you sell genuine one-off threads (think JavaSoft, DEC, Windows 3.11, ...)
Just a thought, I found the chat box popping up on every page to be quite annoying.
Ya, that's big.
"Node" as in http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#ID-195064124... - not "node.js". Seriously runs in the browser.
In my decades of building and taking apart computers, I have never had static discharge ruin a component. I can't remember the last time I was shocked by static discharge for that matter.

Who are these people who need to be grounded all the time else they build up to component destroying levels of static?
Evaporated water is already very clean. I would like to see this material tested as a regular filtration mechanism. Normally filters are rated by the size of molecule they allow to pass through them, flow rate and how many liters of water they can filter before it is necessary to replace or clean. I would also like to point out that filtration and sterilization are different processes. Filtration is usually a mechanical process and sterilization is normally done chemically (although not always).
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Great product Frank. It took me less than 10 seconds to decide to sign up. Group the $14.95 and the $5.00 shipping in to a flat $20/mo quote. There's no need for the breakdown.
I realize this may not be a popular opinion on HN, but there's something to be said for planning ahead. I've seen this story before and already know how it ends: you wait until the last possible moment to switch to a more horizontally scalable system and next thing you know you're spending more time and money maintaining the "cheap" solution than it would have taken to switch to something like Cassandra beforehand. To make matters worse, your service is crashing and the short term fix takes a day and requires two or three people to do the replica switch shuffle. The long term fix will take a couple of weeks, if you have the time for it of course.

Long story short, I have to grant that you shouldn't worry about scaling up too soon or too quickly. But that don't go to the opposite extreme by putting it off until the last possible moment.
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Don't overestimate their success too. Oink has gotten lots of downloads, but little revenue to show for it. Focus on your own battles, and don't think everyone out there is winning.
I think you succinctly describe what most Arch users love about the distribution.
Sorry, I'm missing something. Is the grandparent a big advocate of PHP? Why is PHP being brought into this?
One simple example: when you read a telephone number, you care very much whether it's a string or an integer. The reasons are:

- 004412......... and 4412..... are completely different things. You care also about how you annotate base of integers, because anything starting with "0" might be an 8-base integer.

- Even if we assumed local numbers don't start with 0, there are some places where such number doesn't fit into an integer. 32b int is only 10 digits in dec base.

So yes - whether it's C or JS you should very much care what the actual type is. This isn't very theoretic either. Some time ago, twitter started using id which were larger than 32b fields. Even though people should've been treating those ids simply as opaque strings, some used integers, leading to twitter client update panic.
That's a shame, back when I installed it years ago (05ish I think) the community was one of my favorite things about the distro.
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Although I wouldn't word it so aggressively, I too feel compelled to react to your "creating thing" idea. Dismissing OS customization as something that "gets in the way" is a terrible misunderstanding of the role of an OS in "cranking stuff out". The truth is, good configuration of the OS can save you huge amounts of time in your creating "new software & system time".

The truth is, the OS is not supposed to be a black box that lets you run your IDE on top. That leads to extremely redundant systems with multiple failure points. Idiotic as it may sound, proper manipulation of your OS will make you "one" with the machine, and simplify your thoughts greatly.

I'll leave you with a quote found all over the Web: "Those who don't understand UNIX are doomed to reinvent it, poorly".
Hey.

While I generally grossly disagree with Travis in regard to how far PyPy can go I wonder what kind of perspective are you talking about?
Why do we lock up so many people?
Fantastic and inspirational writeup. Definitely will be forwarding the story to my nephew who is starting to show interest in programming.
That part makes sense; what doesn't is why would a shopping center be liable at all if someone hit your car while in their parking lot.

I guess you could claim that the way the parking lot was built didn't provide... enough visibility? Or something? I dunno.
so I'm supposed to pay money to promote some random startup?

in order to get a shirt, that they give away for free at their booths all over the place?

+ $20/mo to get a shirt is way overpriced...at that price, I might as well get a shirt from threadless that I like instead of "randomstartup.com!" one.

The business model should be flipped. Startups should pay you...to distribute shirts for free. And allow them to make it local....i.e. 300 shirts to people in los angeles.

Cost wise just charge them the same $20 per shirt. $10K for a one time marketing cost is nothing really. And getting 500 people to wear shirts would be worth it.
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I couldn't agree with this more. Life is filled with risks, pretending otherwise is not good for anyone. But pushing the frontiers, exploring the boundaries comes with much greater risks.

Yet those risks can come with great rewards when they pay off and it is only by accepting those higher risks that society can advance and improve.
Arch is incredibly stable - you just have to rethink your idea of what stability means in an Arch context.

In Ubuntu, 'stability' means that you can run apt-get upgrade all (I think that's the command), press 'y' a few times (or, better yet, just pipe 'yes' to it) and then forget about it, knowing that your system may not have the latest version of every package, but the latest version in the Ubuntu repos, which is presumably 'stable' with the rest of the system.

With Arch, you have to think before you -Syu. Running pacman -Syu will upgrade all packages to the latest version in the Arch repos, which are usually updated much more quickly, as it's a rolling-release distribution. This means that you may want to check the mailing lists before upgrading important packages, or wait until a later time to upgrade. Or not upgrade at all, which is 'stable' by virtue of the fact that you haven't changed anything. The choice is yours. You can decide what to do on a per-package or system-wide basis, depending on your use case (Personal user & tinkerer? Luddite personal user? Large-scale server? There's no 'one-size-fits-all' approach to keeping a system up-to-date, but Arch is a 'one-size-fits-all' distro in that it allows people to make these decisions for themselves very easily).

Rolling release isn't for everyone - I'll agree. But that's the main difference between Arch and other distributions. (That, and it's highly minimalist by default, whereas Ubuntu and Mint are 'everything and the kitchen sink' by default). But I certainly wouldn't say that Arch is any more or less stable than other Linux distributions (I can't compare to BSD), because it's really just as stable as you want it to be, given your definition of 'stable'.
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Thanks for signing up! Appreciate the advice on the pricing, I'll see if I can clean that up since those pages need some work.
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Alright, so I sometimes I have nightmares about striking it big/rich. The biggest hurdle I'm trying to overcome is the drama that ensues when everyone knows you are doing well. How do you deal with the charity "hustlers," the naysayers, and the BS? How do you manage your money? Does any of this actually matter anymore (does anyone care)?
In the old days, before the internet changed everything, there was an unstated assumption that people could pretty much do whatever they liked with copyrighted work unless they were making money off of it. I remember those days. People would trade mix tapes and no one really cared even though it was probably technically illegal.

Eventually, large rights holders started pushing toward the idea that copying or unauthorized performance was actually a significant revenue loss, and that pushed the RIAA and MPAA into our homes (so to speak).

I think that what we need is a reversion to a strong distinction between copying/remixing for money or just for personal use or sharing. Nothing highlights that necessity quite like this case. On it's surface, it is about a calendar that was for sale, but the import is terrifying: someone can assert ownership of particular poses of people in family photographs, market their own photos and sue anyone who uses that pose in a private photo and shares it online.

This monstrosity is precisely because there is no distinction between for-money and not for-money uses. It's eroding completely and it's a serious problem.
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Vi Hart explains the issue much more enjoyably:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG7vhMMXagQ
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You don't need to feel the shock for it to be enough to destroy a component.

ICs are more robust when they're built into a circuit, but it's still a good idea to use sensible ESD protection when handing electronics, especially if you're paying lots on production systems.
Congratulations! If private practices are willing to use Ipads and meet some of the criteria for the $44k, why not then? Was at a recent healthcare event and met a random med student from John Hopkins, enquired about the exact same problem and a solution that his advisor was asking him to build.
Question though - if doctors are already using something for EMRs how will drchrono convince them to switch?
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Well, corporations are people (egomaniacal and sociopathic, but hey, whos counting) too. So let's cut the Internet off this 'person'.

What? You can't survive if we do that?? Aww shucks, should have thought about that before you pirated somebody's video..
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Well we are getting interesting startups and designing custom gear each month (so you wouldnt actually be able to get this from other sources). Its also not just a t-shirt, but stickers and other added things (discounts/free credit for services/etc).

That said you definitely have an interesting concept there, that we may be able to push as we continue to increase our numbers
Thanks! And I'll take your advice about displaying the price on the landing page once I get home this evening.
"Wi-Fi" is a dumb name anyway.
I wouldn't commit to a subscription like this (especially not knowing what I'm going to get), but I would be tempted to get individual packages, especially for companies I like. Why not instead operate more like Woot!, and feature a single package every week (or month or day)? I'd add that to my RSS reader.