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> If OS X is giving up some of that sharing in exchange for simpler installation,

I don't really see how OS X has 'simpler' installation than any well-structured Linux distro. What could be simpler than typing pacman -S <packagename> or apt-get install <packagename>, using a single, built-in package manager that automatically fetches, builds, (possibly) compiles, and installs all dependencies at the same time?

Even if you're terrified of the command line, it's not like you can't build a GUI that makes that process look more appealing.

And please don't try and tell me that brew or macports are replacements - they're not. They're ersatz substitutes that do a passable job of installing some (but not all) development packages and basic applications. They don't manage system libraries, and they don't manage many applications that have to be installed from the App Store or from .dmg files. That's not one system - that's three or four, and they don't all play nice with each other.

In the time it took me to write this comment, I was able to upgrade all of my installed applications, system libraries, python modules, and absolutely everything else - all in one go.

Command-line or not, I can't see how one can argue OS X has 'simple' installation on any dimension, compared to (most) Linux distros.
"I originally cut my teeth on sites and services that, frankly, make 4chan and reddit (today’s all-too-frequent bogeymen) look like a knitting circle."

WUT NET WUZ THIS GUY ON? K5/adequacy/early slashdot/b3ta/whatever... nothing like the internet of today. the volume of users alone leads to emergent (gross) behavior that before was drowned out in an invisible minority. USENET, IRC, same thing. You could find shady things if you looked for them, but no one (I knew of) actively did. Occasionally gross stuff would pop up in a listing of newsgroups, but you just didn't click.

No one envies reddit, but they should've changed their policy earlier. Better late than never.
Universities should embrace coworking space more.

My CS/CEG department (Wright State University) has just instituted an open build lab for students to study, work on homework, have senior design meetings, perform research, hang out, etc. It's full of:
- hardware equipment,
- Arduino toys,
- Lego Mindstorms robots,
- tons of computers,
- Dremels,
- and other things like that.

Our local chapter of the ACM does event programming and informal learning sessions based on these tools & gadgets. Not to mention, the smartest people congregate here and serious knowledge gets exchanged in this space. I am so happy to work here and have such a space.

I think it fulfills the same purpose as a coworking space. After speaking with an ABET accreditor, I learned that such a space is quite rare in a university.

I hope to apply your tips and advice to our space.
@jashkenas: Could you expand a bit about your thoughts on the growing ecosystem of community made patterns and modules on top of Backbone and how it might help direct [edit: 'help direct' is the wrong phrase, can I change this to shape?] the future of Backbone?

(referring to your thoughts around 38:00-42:00)
Seems like most people probably wouldn't need more than something like a TonidoPlug to serve content to people on their friend list and, complementing that, to pull content from their friends' TonidoPlugs to make a nice looking news feed. A dirt simple to use, one time $100 box that puts you on the new social network the users control would be nice.
that would be much more convenient, i'll look into it
This. I bought two cust devel books last year and Four Step wasn't one of them only because of the lack of a digital edition. I live in South America and I have no desire to wait a full month for a	book that I have already paid for.
Ok, thanks for the answer. I had already consulted from one law office but haven't heard back yet.

The problem seems to be the EIN code.

According to this Law Office Samuel Anders one option (and apparently in my case the only one if I want to do this remotely) is to buy an existing company that already has an EIN number set.

I now contacted Mr. Anders, and principally asked about the costs.

I'll continue asking from other places too. Will be posting here the answers I get in case there are others in a similar situation.
MIT is set to offer a fully-automated certificate-credentialed coursework system called MITx. Therefore, 95% of tenured professors will lose their jobs, universities will cease being research centers, "civil society will have to substitute for the intense friend networks that are built at college", and we'll all use dogs to spot the Terminators.

The logic shot through this post is what I would call "Winer-ian".

When I pointed out on Twitter the extent to which funding for professors in STEM comes from grants, she said "not talking about STEM". Ok then.
Plenty of companies go for talent over niche. When you expect the average person to last 5+ years it's dangerous to only higher people that know exactly the stack you work with every day, because it narrows everyone focus and they ignore edge cases where it's really better to use some other tool.
Captions don't change the contents of an image, no matter how terrible they are.
You're correct. I'd also like to experiment with what could be done wirelessly as well -- I notice the ZigBee protocol is quite popular in fitness & healthcare. Have you explored that at all?
It could be argued that this is a poor reason to switch from Erlang to C -- this is a problem with how binaries are handled in user code, not something intrinsic to Erlang VM.
>After seeing a few blogs like this

The reason you see blogs like this that some in HN reflexively vote up anything that is anti-.NET or anti-MS.

Around a 50% use Macs and a significant percentage use Ruby, Node et al. Since people tend to vote up things that make them feel good, 'OMG .NET IS TEH SUX' posts tend to get on top.
This is 100% true. However, they are primarily concerned about the content for the content's sake (as you can see from their ban policy). Reddit is not concerned about the content, only the legal liability associated with the content (otherwise a whole bunch of other subreddits would be on the chopping block).
So basically it's only a matter of time before the ideals of the "gold rush" go away and everyone's just in it for the money?

I came to Silicon Valley to escape that (the alternative, at the time, was Wall Street). Unfortunately, this kind of behavior (and these kind of people) seem to 'follow the money'.

*Note: This is both about the conversation that companies are abusing consumers and then apologizing later, and the tech blogger community and Lyons' accusations
Thanks for the recommendation. I've began reading the first 33 pages by the Stanford link above, and it's very difficult to put down.

The issue of customer discovery and validation has always felt like a "large amorphous blob of negative feelings and gut unease" that I would simply ignore. This book faces it squarely and rigorously. I find that exhilarating, and I feel already more confident in tackling this issue while creating things for other people.
That is similar to my more radical answer, moon-bots. A small army of tele-operated digging and construction oriented robots sent on a cheap trajectory to the moon. We have the technology to start construction on a colony. At least, I think we do.
Really harsh on the eyes. There's a reason image backgrounds went out with MySpace.
As a counterpoint to all the comments like this:

> It's baffling to me that so many people seem unwilling to accept the idea that maybe, perhaps, we've learned a few lessons about building safe nuclear reactors over the last 50 years.

I would suggest that the real problem with nuclear energy is that we don't know how dangerous it is. And we have no means of estimating the danger that isn't obviously inadequate. You see, nuclear disasters don't happen because engineers are incapable of designing failsafes and containment buildings. Nuclear disasters happen because it's impossible for engineers to envision all the possible failure modes. The confluence of events that causes a meltdown is inevitably something the engineers didn't design for.

In an enlightening article [0] written after the Fukushima disaster, a physicist and expert on nuclear safety argues that

- severe accidents at nuclear reactors have occurred much more frequently than what risk-assessment models predicted;

- the probabilistic risk assessment method does a poor job of anticipating accidents in which a single event, such as a tsunami, causes failures in multiple safety systems; and

- catastrophic nuclear accidents are inevitable, because designers and risk modelers cannot envision all possible ways in which complex systems can fail.

In other words, everything we "know" about nuclear safety is wrong.

0. http://thebulletin.org/web-edition/features/beyond-our-imagi...
I think the argument is about viability of a career choice. New developers don't come up in a vacuum if there's no demand, they'll quickly switch to something that pays the bills.

Is there any indicator(other than a few HN posts) that .NET (or # of seasoned devs in .NET) is actually in decline?
Turn.js looks pretty good and was on HN about a week ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3555152
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Investors in PandoDaily:

Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Chris Dixon, Saul Klein, Josh Kopelman, CrunchFund, Greylock Partners, Accel Partners, Menlo Ventures, Lerer Ventures

Many of these are top class investors and certainly don't expect a return on their money from a startup tech blog. But they might expect favorable reviews of their portfolio companies when launch time comes or when shit hits the fan.
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He was just asking an honest question and wanted to know if the person actually used it, since that would probably provide a deeper explanation of the utility of Bump than any personal opinion of his would. Let's not get too uptight around here people.
And if your good programming team can't figure out that they might need to edit a coworker's Javascript library to add in missing semicolons in order to cleanly minify their scripts, you have a different (bigger) problem.
People fiercely defend their choice to spend a chunk of money on something, otherwise they wasted their money and look foolish, clearly (to themselves) they are not foolish, so they must have spent the money for the right reasons.

The more this perception is challenged, the more fiercely it gets defended. An attack on $BRAND_OF_CHOICE is viewed as an attack on their choice to invest in it, and thus an personal attack on themselves. So they seek to reaffirm their choices via whatever and whoever will say what they want to hear.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognative_dissonance
Here's a mid-rise made from shipping containers:
http://www.citycenterlofts.net/

And homes:

http://zerocabin.com/

Pretty impressive, given the basic template they're made from.
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http://www.html5rocks.com/en/features/presentation

The "Try this" demos on this page show features that Firefox supports, yet they only have "-webkit" prefixed styles so they don't work.

Is the page out of date? Many of the features have been supported since Firefox 4 according to their own browser support chart.
Any source for that figure about Gruber's income? I find it hard to believe.
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This assumes you buy into the notion that college transfers actual knowledge/skills rather than just functioning as a signaling mechanism. How do you think employers are going to value Diet MIT degrees? (It totally doesn't matter to this analysis if Diet MIT is in fact a superior education.)
What questions do they need to answer that require the entire graph? It seems like the most complex thing they may need to calculate is friends-of-friends, and that's easy to do even with an adjacency list in a SQL database.
Great, that means 2 billion fewer suckers get to live it up while those who are left have to slave away to bankroll the rest.

I could see this model turning into something which looks like poor nations such as the Philippines. Not that the global economy would go to crap and every country would be poor, but rather that a large number of people in a family either don't work or work very little while receiving food, money and a place to live from the working members of the family. Even those who do work often receive so little for that work that they need a piece of the remittance pie to be able to afford anything more than the bare basics. Despite this (or perhaps because of it) people here in general seem to be very happy.
Your argument is too powerful. It proves engineering as a whole is impossible. It equally proves we should never build any sort of building, because it could fall down and kill people and we can never be 100% sure we've prevented it.

It's an irrational appeal to emotion dressed up in rational trappings.
Yeah, I just wanted to dispel the idea that they're trolls faking a sense of outrage just for the opportunity to kick Reddit's sand castle.
What's needed isn't more or better management and communication.

But to design a system whose secret lies in what’s unstated or not communicated to one another (in an explicit sense)—in order to exploit lower‐level initiative yet realize higher‐level intent, thereby diminish friction.

If this is the state of the art in tech companies, I'm very blessed to have a real durable competitive advantage.
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Just a rough estimation based off this: http://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/ + Amazon affiliate sales.
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This post sure struck a chord. Good job, Dan.
I don't mean to rant on you, but I do like having this conversation :)

I don't think limiting what we view as sustainable to only the things we want is being reasonable. Sure, there's degrees of sustainability, and we can talk about it in those terms. But, when I look at the world, I no longer believe that we are necessarily entitled to things that we want. Greeks, for example, would like to continue living well beyond their financial means. Should they be allowed to simply because they wish for it?

We have a good system to measure the financial cost of thing. So, at the very least, what you want is something you need to be able to afford (although that plays to the disadvantage of the truly poor). However, there are few checks in places for the social costs, and even fewer for the environmental cost.

So while you want to live in a big house, and you can afford it, do you have a greater social responsibility? Or, put differently (and possibility unfairly), what impact would it have if the considerable number of people who lived in such a dwelling moved to something more sustainable?
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this is fine, up until the point applications no longer support X11
The fact that renewable energy technology is improving is kind of irrelevant — you don't retroactively get all that progress if you purchase now, just like your nuclear reactor won't suddenly be thorium-based once that technology is worked out. You have to choose based on what's actually available. As things stand, AFAIK no renewable power source is more economical than nuclear. Hopefully they will be in the future, but building the current, inferior implementation because one day there will be a better version doesn't make sense. That's like putting a 2-year-old on the Olympic weightlifting team because he seems likely to be very strong one day.
It could also be argued that you will still have memory problems, just of a different type :)
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I stopped reading techcrunch about 9 months ago, after realizing that the majority of articles were friends of the author - and realizing it was almost impossible to get featured on there unless you were connected in some kind of monetary way.
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I propose a Constitutional amendment to make this automatic; if both he and the US make it to 2112, we hold no election and just name him President.
I'd start a foundation that funds research on medical 'open secrets'--treatments that show great potential but can't be patented and hence do not get funding consistent with that potential.
I gotta say I agree with this. I mean, I've got my misgivings about SRS, but they did a pretty damn good job getting those subreddits shut down.
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I get the same exact feeling. The frequency of lax startup ethics seems to be increasing by the count of HN articles reporting it. I left wall street for the same reason you mention. More and more we hear 'this time it's different', but from SV investors. Always a troubling sign.
Well you can't say he lacks vision.
Exactly. Whoever said that good taste has anything to do with appearing pleasant?
I think you mean "game".
Macbooks catching fire is kind of what they are good at, just do a little google-fu:

The Powerbook 5300 was recalled because some batteries caught fire on the assembly line. (1995)

The batteries, manufactured by LG Chem Ltd. of South Korea, could overheat and pose a fire hazard, according to the CPSC. The recall affects laptops sold since January, which contain batteries produced last December. Approximately 28,000 batteries are affected by the recall. (2004)

Apple Computer Inc. on Thursday recalled 1.8 million Sony-built notebook batteries that could overheat and catch fire. (2006)
Cool, so for the billionth example, makers make something -- good or bad -- that creates a commotion and the chattering class gets to ride the waves. This time, it's Path. What is this article in the OP, 3rd, 4th degree of separation from the actual event in question?

It's enough to toss it all in the shitter and just judge things on their own merits: products, apologies and whatever else. Journalists bickering at each other over what exactly? Who cares.

Ugh. I think my work life frustration is spilling over into my comments.
"This bullshit assertion is getting tiring. JSHint is not "designed to be more configurable", it's[0] JSLint with a different (and more permissive) base configuration."

Mea culpa.

"TFAA is not disingenuous, TFAA is actively lying. How do I know?"

Reread the section. I have made it abundantly clear that this only applies if the default values are used.
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That's the game.
This isnt reddit...
This is what gets me. It's not CBP reddit that is a problem, it's the whacked out people (parents in this case) who are creating content that are the 'problem'. If you, as a parent, dress your toddler in provocative clothes and put them in a beauty pagent, then you're being ridiculously naive to think that people will only ever see this in an innocent light.
It's not about the quality of the content on sites like grouphug.us, but the nature of the content - things that the poster might be happy to be forgotten in 20 years time.

Previous generations youthful indiscretions tended not to be preserved for all time, for the most part.
Yeh, What happened to organizing the world's information? I guess that's archive.org's job.
I think that the wars must have at least contributed to some justification for maintenance of the current armament level.

But I was talking about when the planned World War III gets kicked into high gear towards the end of this year, as false-flags or other actions force Iran to defend itself, and Russia and China are then morally obligated to get involved.
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While there is some truth to what you said, I don't think dragging John Gruber is appropriate. One can at least see that a post is well written (I actually think that in terms of plain English, Gruber does the best job within the tech. blogosphere) and that some care and thought has been put into framing a cogent argument. From there, it's up to you to agree or disagree. I am not referring to the links he posts, but the actual writing that he does.

MG Siegler on the other hand has been perfectly described by Lyons. All he does is generate venom, and copious amounts of it, followed by a couple of "Fuck You's"" and so-on. I think he's the National Enquirer of tech. reporting. And hence, ankle biting Chihuahua is more than correct.

If Dan's reading this, good-luck mate. I am glad you called out Siegler's bluff. What he was trying to do with the Path issue was simply 'diversion'. Rake up an issue that can get people talking - loud enough - that it drowns out the issue at hand (callous and selfish handling of privacy in the Silicon Valley).
Looks like you'd still need a fair bit of structural steel to support that citycenterlofts building. I would say the engineering skill needed is fairly non-trivial, although straightforward -> i.e. not a low-cost DIY type of structure.

I'd be interested in seeing the construction costs of that though, as compared to a similar design not based on shipping containers.

I forgot about zerocabin - I had seen that site before. Thanks for the reminder.
What kind of academia are you talking about? You probably won't be able to raise enough money to make a proper life-science research grant.

You would be shocked how fast money goes, even if you are super thrifty with it. As an example, I used one gram of a particular reagent each week. One gram of this compound costs $200. I ran that experiment for almost a year, once per week. That's $10k for a single reagent.

If you factor in all the other costs of the experiment (culture media, weekly rat, tissue culture plates, poly-l-lysine for coating plates, nitrocellulose for blotting, antibodies for westerns (going at $600 for 50uL), assorted reagents, etc etc ad nauseum), the price of my single experiment for a year skyrockets into easily $20k.

That's one technician, working on one part of one tiny paper, working on one insignificant detail of how the human brain works.

Life-sciences is downright, stupidly expensive.

Edit: Sorry, that came across sounding curmudgeonly and bitter. Any lab would be thrilled to receive an extra $20k in funding - it would help pay for a technician to run an experiment.

Just be warned going into it that you will be making a very tiny dent in how things work.
I have updated the post to reflect your first comment.
<Quote> Not big investments — maybe $100,000. They don’t need your money; they can raise money from anyone.
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I dont agree with this. Many startup companies have to prove their mettle to get an investor want to invest in them. Also, there are significant chance of any startup going bust. He does not supplement what the odds are in making 10x/100x returns. So its difficult to buy the concept that just investing in them will make you richer in a few years. However, I do think Michael Arrington is doing what he can to protect his investment. But I dont think its the other way round..i.e -> Startups are not necessarily filtering investors based on the influencing ability of the investor.
No, but the image+caption is different from just the image.
Amazon answered your demands already. You can buy music via a browser, there's a large selection, it's DRM-free, you can stream or download as many times as you'd like, and you can play it while offline.

Amazon also offers a pretty fair price. $0.99 isn't a lot (and it's even cheaper per song if you buy the album). If $0.99 is too much, then I suggest the person go get a better job rather than pirating songs and feeling an entitlement to someone else's work.
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