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My preference for tmux is solely based around Brian's book. It was the first time that I actually "got" terminal multiplexing.
Yeah, it's like, aside from layout, Walmart offers the same stuff.
I think I believe...

Your confidence is overwhelming.
this has been around for a while, and there still aren't any videos of it actually flying. judge for yourself why they're selling t-shirts and scale models instead of the actual thing. as of june last year (quote gizmag.com article) "To help generate interest in the hopes of attracting investors, Malloy plans to conduct flight tests in a couple of months."
I've been beta testing Everyme for a few months, and I am a huge fan of the founders too (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3539676)

Everyme makes perfect sense - I regularly encounter "status updates" (be they links, updates, or photos) that I want to share to a subset of my friends or family. Everyone does.

The Techcrunch article totally under sells the huge thing that Everyme does that no one else does:

> Everyme uses your phone’s address book for sharing, and if people don’t have Everyme accounts, they can still see and post content through email and text messages

How cool is this? Suddenly, I can create a family circle - and even my family - who are barely on Facebook - can enjoy and engage with relevant content. I think this is huge, and it is also going to drive huge adoption for Everyme. My Grandmother isn't on Facebook, hell, she isn't on Email, but she is on SMS. Everyme just works.

For the first time ever in a social network, when you post a relevant status update, everyone that you want to see it, will see it.

I am hoping they add a Maps / Location feature, and then they've also solved the Beluga gap in this market. I really think these guys are on to something.
While I'm sitting on the side of the road waiting for the PHP maintence truck to come and tow my car away -- I'll read a book...

http://djangobook.com/
10 billion years should be enough for anybody.
In PHP, if you forget the check, and have error reporting turned off (which you should), you'd never KNOW you forgot the check, because missing it is only a logic error, whereas an exception blowing up a python script will be caught by the runtime.
> We're talking about the Apple that is trialing a 7" tablet, right? The one that talked up "4 cores" at the 3rd generation unveiling? Same Apple?

I may be biased here, because I visit apple.com frequently but I never bother with the announcement videos. I don't care about Apple's market metrics, and I didn't care about quad-core.

As far as websites go, apple.com/ipad shows me lots of useful stuff. Safari has a reader mode and a read-later list. There are great apps on the store, for education and whatnot. iBooks can do this and that. Everythings syncs and gets backed up.

And this is already their most technical release in a long time, the first two iPads were heavily marketed by simply showing apps.

The first Google result for Toshiba tablet's is http://www.thetoshibatablet.com/. It only mentions hardware, except for stating that it runs Android 3.1, without any explanation of course.

That is why these spec announcements get ridiculed all the time. If either company were to ship their devices with genuinely awesome bonus apps, ones that Apple hasn't nailed yet, I doubt anyone would point their finger at them and laugh.
The demo link left something to be desired :(
Retina graphics on your website
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The Father of Deliberate Practice Disowns Flow
One possible change here is that agents in the 90s didn't really have anything to "agent". There's a lot more useful APIs now that might allow a much better cost/benefit tradeoff in creating an "agent" that doesn't require so much raw screen scraping and the associated (staggering and really easy to grossly underestimate) upkeep.

Like much of the rest of the 1990s Internet bubble, arguably the problem isn't that the ideas were all bad, but that they were running well in excess of what the infrastructure could support. Even the much-maligned Pets.com was really only a bad idea for this reason. Pet food delivery went from crazy-stupid idea to mundanity without much fanfare: http://www.amazon.com/Iams-Proactive-Health-Control-17-5-Pou... . Well, that and the silliness of the idea that you could or would build that infrastructure and then only use it to deliver pet-related things, rather than build an Amazon.
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Tried compiling this myself with a main function that just calls bar(), resulting in a compiler error:

`ret` in block function
Aaaaand that's why they've added these ops. Note that it took a while (> decade) to really find out that these features were reasonable to assume support for. :)
The article tries to be a comprehensive list of problems with PHP and @ is a notorious one, even if you personally are disciplined enough to avoid it.

Not to mention that I have no idea why the original commenter picked on this. It was listed as one of the 7 or so things that can go wrong with that one single, not unusual line of code. It's not like he had a whole paragraph about why @ is bad.
I second this. If anything, Notch must be feeling immensely satisfied if not somewhat overwhelmed by all the effort that the community has put into his project.
It's true in the sense that giving everyone desktop publishing software in the early 90s led to lots of beautiful typography and well thought-out layouts.
More than half of the top level comments are from people who use PHP. You can tell by how they rush into PHP's defense and try to argue against the article.

The original post just can't be sensibly called "anti-PHP snobbery". It just points out PHP's shortcomings. But when all these PHP-users can't really attack the truth, they attack how it's presented instead (and of course whip up some strawmen and generally just try to skirt around the issues).

The human ego is a sad thing.

(Disagree? How about commenting instead of downvoting with self-righteous indignation?)
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If they blink, if they hesitate, they've already lost.

Microsoft has mountains of cash to throw at their new XBox project. Apple isn't going to stop making iOS devices. Even Amazon might weasel in.
Would anyone here be interested in a shim to play with this stuff before the compiler vendors add support?

We've got a library that mirrors a lot of this functionality really closely already.
All I can say is good luck. I hope he's right.

But if you think that all it takes is a desire for freedom to subvert tyranny, you misread history. Does anyone think the problem in the middle ages, or the USSR, or the American slave plantations, was that the oppressed didn't yearn for freedom? It isn't that easy.

This is about the balance of power. When the power is concentrated in a few hands, it doesn't matter what the majority wants.

On the optimistic front, technology is itself empowering. I fully believe a free, decentralized and encrypted internet will emerge as soon as the governments of the first world implement the real, stifling censorship they seem to be dead set on. Of course, if it were that easy, why hasn't it already happened in China and Iran? Then I go back to being pessimistic again. Either way, it is fun to watch and participate in this struggle for freedom that seems to define our times.
People dismiss this company for being just a photo-sharing site and then one day, poof, it's worth $1bn.

Pretty much just described Facebook too.
http://venturebeat.com/2010/07/21/fred-wilson/

Instagram took arguably the most important part of the mobile social process—taking photos—and made it cooler than everything else, including what Facebook, was offering.

As for the NYT v. Instagram argument, I think we can all agree the NYT's social value may outstrip its economic value. The outrage about the decline of the NYT should've started when Craigslist started offering free listings.
Wouldn't that mean that brick and mortar folks are being doubly taxed? After all they are paying taxes to maintain that infrastructure in addition to what Fedex and the like are paying.
Wouldn't it be something if Radio Shack outlasted Best Buy and Circuit City both.
I think I just had one of these done in 2011. Nice to have more fuel for my hypochondria fire.
I'm having a hard time articulating why I think this is so fantastic. It's great to see people attack a not-so-serious problem with such gusto. I love the passion behind taking things apart just to see how things work.

Thanks, github. You made my day.
Right, that's one of the questions I mean to be asking.
Sony used to be a brand associated with quality and good design. It took them a while to build that reputation. But then they stopped being better than their competitors (and not necessarily saying they got a lot worse, maybe their competitors got better faster). So for many years they kept riding the quality and brand recognition train. But the train is slowly coming to a stop I think.
I work for and believe in the mission of newspapers, but I beg to differ. I think a more accurate statement would be that if a critical mass of the institutions of journalism as we know it today ceased to exist, it would (and will) have far-reaching implications for society. We casually talk about the death of newspapers, and they will likely disappear, but I think we don't talk enough about the important things that may disappear with them and what we're doing to preserve those things.

As far as the NYT goes however, I don't believe that the impact would be much more than sadness based in nostalgia. The talent that exists there today would still exist, and be applying their skills at other institutions, both new and old.
I think the point is that it is sad that yet another social media app is worth more monetarily than The New York Times which is one of the finest new sources in existence.
Plural apostrophe's are no one-for-all punctuation solution.

Just sayin'.
Safety in Numbers: On Building Fail-Safe Clusters
Very often, websites can't cope with any extra load, whether from high traffic or performance reducing tasks. As a result, companies lose money, as well as taking a reputation hit. Programmers blame system administrators. System administrators blame managers. Managers blame service providers. And vice versa. In the end, in this day and age, you can't afford down time: it will hurt your bottom line. So, how do you solve this issue?
I actually saw Thad in school walking around with his "glass". The Google version looks way better and a lot less geekier (and less creepier) than the thing he used to wear to say the least.
"This is the norm in PHP because, like the author said, it makes it incredibly easy to write bad code."

PHP makes it extremely easy to write ANY code. But since article saying "I've noticed this piece of good code in PHP" is not going to get on HN anytime soon, you get much more attention to bad one. That's like saying Internet is the source of filth because it makes easy to post bad stuff. It makes easy to post all stuff, that's the point.

"This was a great write-up for all of PHP's downfalls."

These "downfalls" are known and discussed 1000 times. Really, who needs another article about "PHP sucks because I can find 3 functions with inconsistent parameters"? How exactly it is going to make anything better? What exactly does it contribute to the world?
I very much doubt that an induction motor would come close to having the power to weight ratio for something like this.

A $10 weed-wacker motor from a garage sale would be a better starting point.
Yes that's the sort of thing. But ideally that should be available without signing up. To get an idea of what is possible - ie is it worth even bothering to signup.

Like I had no idea if supported geo-queries, and/or full-text queries. (seems not?)

To know how compare to competition :)
Case Study: Poorly written Cucumber tests.
Facebook know exactly how much Instagram is worth. They don't even have to ask the data from Instagram. They can just look at their own Facebook data to see how many of their users use the service. Also, every photo you see on the web has a Facebook Like button. They have all the data they need to make the decision.

Looking at their data, Facebook feared that not acquiring Instagram is a risk to their business, so they rather lose $1 Billion than giving advantage to other social networking sites such as Google+. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is determined to stay on top.
MS/Netscape: A First Strike Weapon Against Google
I hope they frisk him at the door on the way out and double-check his receipts.
I wonder if there's any danger of debris from a failed launch hitting Florida though? It seems a bit far for that to happen, but I'm not a rocket scientist.
90 % of end users wont be even knowing if they used Python/ Django or anything.
I'd love to see a quadrocopter implemented like this. I think it would have much more stability.
Now just imagine the proof in 20 years about TSA radiation exposure.

The lawyers will get billions, the victims will get $20, while the taxpayers get to pay for the machines now and the settlement later.
Are you claiming less people should have access to programming? Should we have a guild with mandatory 10-year apprenticeship in Haskell?
I actually find php well suited to client-side rendering. Implementing a web service in php is pretty easy. The only thing i use php for is building json-rpc and soap services using zend framework's service classes, wrapping around zend framework's database classes. The app itself is all javascript.
What you need to know about CISPA
"it is now possible to do things in a few days that took people ... decades to achieve".

Let's not get too excited here. Name one thing that can be done in days that used to take decades.
NYTimes is an instrument of the power elite. The content matter that is interesting (culture) and relatively benign is the product of the talent (and they can go elsewhere).

Politically, I personally would welcome the day that says RIP to NYT -- it would be hugely helpful in getting our political system back on the track. We desperately needed intelligent and critical oversight of the state during the past and current decade and NYTimes completely (willfully, imo) dropped the ball. (They completely lost all credibility post 9/11 in my eyes. Please show me the front page headline with pictures of the huge ("tens of thousands") anti-war demo in Washington D.C. prior to invasion of Iraq. We've all seen the one for Egyptians ...)
Oh, one example comes to mind: The Kindle Fire was not interesting at all as far as specs are considered, but it sounded like a great idea to many Apple fans because it had a better-curated App Store and the full Amazon experience.
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This drug went from being a 'candidate' molecule to having gold standard data and FDA approval in 5 years.

Five years! I know that's fast by industry standards. Why, it's only one more year than it took us to win World War II. Also, for a full measure of the OODA loop, you should start counting from when the target was discovered.

The way you conceptualise a cancer patient's plight is also insulting and grotesque. They are not nihilists willing to try anything, who we can gladly sacrifice in our pursuit of cure. They have family and friends, and they really want to go their granddaughter's wedding next month and if you harm them with loosely justified bullshit science, you haven't helped anyone.

"Insulting and grotesque" is apparently in the eye of the beholder. I actually find this attitude pretty insulting and grotesque.

Some patients, it's true, are very comfortable being paternalized. Both my grandfathers were killed by the present standard of care in prostate cancer, "watchful waiting." They were both men who would have died rather than challenge an authority figure. And die they did.
"The exposures to dental X-rays in the study took place in the 1960s, when dental X-rays delivered higher doses of radiation than today’s do."

Phew?
9-year-old's DIY cardboard arcade gets flashmobbed
I see Vaio laptops fairly frequently at my university. Is Sony positioned internally in other supply chains too? That is, do we see Sony parts in other products?
so Apple first ignores Oracle's warning and fails to issue the patch. Later it react by removing Java and tries to shut down the security firm's domain.

How responsible :)
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Pointing out "giant" flaws which don't really matter and can't be fixed for 1000th time is very useful for... remind me please, what exactly purpose?
The $30/user is just a valuation metric, not the acquisition justification. They bought it because mobile and photos are core to what Facebook does...and Instagram does it better than Facebook. A lot better.
Ported to Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/user/trolocsis/playlist/7t1g2joCifrz...

A few songs are missing on spotify, including Metallica.
Show HN : I've started an online (and offline) sweetshop
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One thing to add here is that the non-nerd market often will not use the address bar at all so it arguably doesn't matter if you're .com, .net or .ly - as long as you're high up in Google. I've asked clients to type an address into the URL bar and they've typed it into Google - can take a while to debug issues like that!
that's a start-up right there. :)
Ask HN: Bored at my startup. What to do?
I'm 20 something and program at Startup X in NYC. I'm employee #2 and have between 2% and 3% in equity.

I love the people at Startup X including the handful that we've hired since I joined. I really feel like I've been a massive part of building the product and the culture here.

For the last 4 months I've been becoming increasingly bored and un-motivated. I don't really know why.

One of the most terrifying possibilities is that being a professional programmer is what's boring to me. It's terrifying because I love the idea of being a programmer, I'm good at it and it's lucrative. I love programming on side projects (some of which are academic-ish) but rarely enjoy the programming I do at Startup X.

I'm fairly new to programming (3.5 years) and have only done web programming (php, RoR, js/node). I really wish I knew some lower level languages, how OSs work, functional programming and CS theory.

I've recently been accepted to do a Masters at NYU - the program (gallatin) is 'individualized' where you can pick and choose courses from any department in the university. If I go (TBD) I'll study a bunch of CS, Philosophy, Math, Art and other stuff I'm interested in. I don't really have a hard theory around what I'd do with all of this - but it sounds like a lot of fun - and being a better programmer is always professionally useful. I have the means to attend without having to work at the same time.

Any thoughts from people who've been through similar / are also feeling bored would be heartily appreciated : )
How long are we going to be saying that grandmas are technologically illiterate?

RFC 3 is older (by a few months) than me - April 1969.

Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf are about 70. (That's old enough to be a great grand-parent.) Jon Postel was born in 1943. There are many old women who are Internet pioneers because they were librarians, and the Internet was something that got rolled out to university libraries early on.
Petition Apple to add a spam button to text and voice calls
The rise of malware on smart phones is starting to indulge us with SPAM text messages. I am not sure how the industry could work together on the data that would be collected from these kinds of functions in phones, but it would be a start.
I do, having used screen for a couple of years before switching. It has vertical splits, a saner config, and was easier to get colors working the way I wanted them to. I can also appreciate that it has a more modern codebase with less legacy baggage, even if the benefits of that aren't readily apparent to end-users.
Outside of the geek squad prices, their price on hardware/software is pretty cheap, and they and their sister company in Canada: Future Shop have single handedly changed the pricing of electronic goods in Canada to much cheaper prices, and have subsequently put some Canadian/provincial chains out of business.
Granted they are not cheaper then online retail but I for one thank them for the price change they have brought
No, no, you're not getting it. I want to be religious. I like being religious. What I don't like is living in a culture that is only conducive to capitalism, nothing else. Even the dominant forms of religion in America are capitalist.
Actually, I agree with you and I think this is often missed as one of the main contributing factors to PHPs bad rep. If I had enough spare time (and a wider personal network of php pros to draw from) I'd love to make something like www.betterphp.org with short tutorials and guides teaching newbies the current best practices. As it is, anyone picking up PHP for the first time is confronted with a minefield of conflicting and out of date information, some of which is dangerous.

PHP has been around forever and Google has a long memory. Unfortunately, for every good blog post/tutorial on PHP development there are 100 or more bad or out of date ones.
I'm not claiming that the NYT is more famous than Facebook (I have no idea) and I meant to make clear that I'm only talking about the US (although I think the work the NYT does has effects throughout the world).

My argument isn't that people would even be aware of the changes to society. I think if the NYT disappeared, many many areas of American life would be altered in important ways, as I attempt to flesh out in other comments.
I had a dream the other night wherein there was a start-up that took custom code requests for 0x10c players on commission. Requests ranged from optimizing the ship's defense to autopilot and hyperspace jump controls.

Viable?
I really like being able to bridge the gap between online and offline things... so in September a friend of mine and myself put together a prototype of a sweetshop concept, today we have relaunched the website with some new features and a new design..
This makes no sense to me. More cores means more processing throughput. Design advances lead to reduced power consumption. Both are happening at the same time, which is the only reason there might be any correlation.
They should really spin off PS into a separate company.
I've been trying out the iTerm2 author George Nachman's mod[1] to tmux that allows integration with terminal emulators (currently only iTerm2). Practically this means that when I reconnect to a server I get a window full of tabs for that tmux server. Now I don't need to know any of the tmux commands. I can switch/open/close tabs using the standard OS tab control keys. I can use two finger scroll to view the history. I can search the history using the usual OS key. I've been dreaming of doing this for gnome-terminal/tmux for years. Someone beat me to it and it's as nice as I had hoped. Of course you can still attach in the usual way if needed.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/iterm2/wiki/TmuxIntegration