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I agree with all of this :) Meteor is self-contained and installing it in /usr/local is totally optional. The reason we install into /usr/local is that it is a way to get the 'meteor' command into the user's path without trying to edit their dotfiles for them, and without setting obscure system preferences that the user would have trouble unsetting. We went to a lot of trouble to make it easy to try Meteor, and we thought that "great, now go edit your dotfiles" would have lost a lot of people.

If you don't want it in /usr/local, you can check it out anywhere you like and just run the 'meteor' in the top directory of the checkout, and it'll work great. This is mentioned in the README/on Github, and it's how we have been developing Meteor. You can have as many copies of Meteor on your system as you like, and they can even coexist with a copy at /usr/local. So for me, I type '~/co/meteor' to run the meteor that I'm developing on, and 'meteor' by itself to run the latest official release.

You can either build the binary dependencies (node, etc) yourself by running an included script, or if you do not, the first time you run meteor it will automatically fetch a prebuilt binary kit for your convenience. All of the binary dependencies are kept in a directory in the checkout and managed by meteor, meaning that each meteor install on your system can have its own version of node.

Finally, to your last point, 'meteor bundle' does exactly that :P In fact, right now on our deploy servers, we have live apps running that were deployed with a variety of historical versions of meteor, all coexisting side by side.

I'm sure we'll have to revisit all of this as the Meteor ecosystem gets bigger and more complicated -- when all of the packages do not fit in a 'packages' directory, and when there are more binary dependencies than node and mongo. But I hope that this helps to persuade you that we're not totally nuts, despite how sleep deprived I was when we recorded that screencast.

If you thought this was a helpful answer, could you repost the question on Stack Overflow (with the 'meteor' tag), and drop me an email (address is in my HN profile?) That way I could repost this answer there in case it might be helpful to other people.
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>(iii) for any direct damages in Excess of (in the aggregate) $100. //

That doesnt sound legal.

It would, if enforceable allow them to only pay you $100 if they wrote off (destroyed) your car in a crash if it happened that you were a customer. Or similarly they could duplicate any customer's copyright works and pay only $100 compensation.
Say a query returns a million results, it makes much more sense to sort them on the search server and return the top 10 than to transfer them all to the application server and sort them there. Another use case is a custom ranking function which boosts the score of newer documents.
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What we need is a Creative Commons for TOS boilerplate, to just copy and paste.

Especially, since most of that lawyer blah is superfluous. Things like "do not harass other people". Really! We already have /laws/ for that, you don't need to add any obviously prohibited thing to the TOS.
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Literally kill? I certainly hope not.
> But just thinking about it 30 sec and there are plenty of cases where the magic breaks and you find yourself in a corner with only one version when you need the other.

Name a single one an end-user would encounter. They wouldn't.
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The MUA would do the work up front, query the TXT field for the rpf and tell yiu up front "I can't do that, $user wont accept attachments over 15MB". Then as the OP suggested the MUA can offer to zip, upload and link, or whatever.
The actual Firebase website is at http://www.firebase.com (there didn't seem to be a link in the article).
I'm still skeptical. What's shown in this video seems ok, but it's impossible to know if this is representative or not. This is a tiny snapshot, and no doubt has been carefully orchestrated by Foxconn. See also: tourists' videos from North Korea.
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Well the chances are slim because they cant read that much at a time.

Probably a computer at the CIA is reading it though.
Coincidence. Two days ago stumbled across Racket. Pretty nice, because it's extremely easy to use and supports a number of languages. Just wanted to throw it in for everyone who (like me) always said "sometime". Everything easier than one my think. :)

http://racket-lang.org/

Oh and for everyone who wants to get into functional programming, very quick (and very hard) simply has to read this Wikibook. It's short, but you will most likely have _understood_ two functional languages (Scheme and Haskell), if you do it seriously:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_H...

So Racket for a great (free) time and the latter one for Hackers. At least that's what it looks to me. I just have skimmed through them, but they are the best two things I have found in a while.
I'm sure it won't "literally" kill anyone.
You could just use the website for free.... http://procssor.com/
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Not exactly. Celerons began as straight up Pentium IIs designed to operate without any L2 cache. They didn't have great performance but were crazy cheap to make and super easy to overclock. Then they started cramming in just a little bit of on-die L2 cache (about 1/4 of the minimum for a regular Pentium II) to help out performance. This turned out to be wildly successful, and eventually this formulation (one chip with on-die L2 cache) became the predominant design for the mainline Intel micro-processors. Afterwards the Celeron family of processors were identical to retail Pentium/Core cpus but with sections of cache disabled, reduced clock rates, etc. (either due to binning by defects or intentional deactivation).

Interestingly, Intel now offers "upgrade cards" for low-cost CPUs whereby components are deactivated via firmware or suchlike and special codes can be entered into the bios screen to turn them on (for a price, of course).
That's actually more depressing than if this were real.
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So are you saying corporations are people?

The way I see companies is a machine that is specially built to accomplish a specific purpose or purposes.

A public company is usually not one person's property so what charities its assets go to support should not be dictated for the shareholders by giving to one specific charity. This would be underutilization of its assets if it were donated because a company usually isn't formed for the purpose of handing out money

In other words, why not leave the company to do what it's best at doing and let its shareholders who profit off the company donate or utilize the profits as they see fit. If a company chooses to donate to Red Cross for no specific practical business reason then it is essentially robbing a shareholder the right of choosing to donate his share of the profits to another charity, or of his right to spend it on strippers.

Unless the company is donating to further its goals (such as enhancing corporate image or brand), I do not see a place or purpose for arbitrary corporate charity.

The 1% equity however can be seen as a contribution from the founder's personal shares, but even then it makes little sense to commit to that early on vs later on especially if the founder plans on not failing.
As much as I think Terms of Service documents are broken, I don't like these supposed simplifications, because invariably they simplify too much.

For example, in the real ToS, there's this clause:

The license granted to 500px includes the right to use your Content fully
or partially for promotional reasons and to distribute and redistribute your
Content to other parties, web-sites, applications, and other entities (...)

This is, in my opinion, an important clause that does not appear in the simplified version of the text.
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We use the 1.0-SNAPSHOT from January 10 in production without any issues (we had some in the beginning but patches got added), but only in read mode. I haven't tried to write to MongoDB with the connector yet.

We read from a sharded collection on multiple slaves but it's low volume read for now (< 100GB)
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I'm no pythonist, but I think setdefault would be perfect for the case

http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#dict.setdefault
It's representative of all the big electronics manufacturers. It is not representative of manufacturing in China as a whole, but it is wrong to conflate the high tech electronics industry with, say, the building supplies, food, or children's toys industries.
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This would only make sense if the charities are investing in the startups. If the charities paid to invest then it makes sense for the company as they are just another investor.

If you're handing out free lottery tickets it doesn't make sense for the lottery.
Ruhr Area here. Pleeaase don't let public transport be on strike again on this day. Who from Ruhrgebiet is joining me?
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Why wouldn't you consider ElasticSearch to be an "actually good search product" ?
You can poke around the source on github: http://github.com/freerange/printer

There's also some fairly comprehensive documentation on the github wiki, including an architectural overview, and building your own printer: http://github.com/freerange/printer/wiki
Never trust the big print.
So is a company a person now?
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very true. First instance I too felt the same. User will fall down or hit some vehicle/tree.
I don't know why have you brought up draft laws. Parents said "legal documents," of which only a minuscule number are laws. Most are contracts, licenses, agreements, deeds, etc.
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not to answer for roger, but in my eyes:
You're right. Being immoral isn't black and white, in this case it's a line drawn in relation to your relationship to the friend you're considering stealing from.
Now it's clear he obviously holds some value in the friendship since he's willing to fully disclose his ideas to you, ideas which he likely plans to do work on. By stealing his ideas you're not only robbing him of something he cares about and a potential income/customer base etc, but you're also betraying that friendship.

Your example of waiting 3 years is a valid one, the reason why the morality changes is because after 3 years he likely will care less about the idea (I mean he didn't do anything with it for 3 years, right?) because it's become apparent he doesn't care much about it, the robbing and betrayal have less of an impact, to the point where it's so much less of a deal that it's just overwritten by you friendship
> Tools like PageMaker, InDesign or MS Publisher are tools for fliers, notices, and invitations.

I have no experience with MS Publisher but the other two are certainly not. They are tools for professional typesetters, have a very steep learning curve and are priced accordingly. Using them to create Fliers, notices and invitations would be an overkill. In fact, now a days, they are an overkill even for a good number of books!
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We really need to stop running product ideas through the Steve Jobs lens.

He was a product visionary - but I'm sure that he would also agree that he was only one man, and that there have been plenty of great products released which a) didn't conform to his Dieter Rams-inspired vision of design, and b) he didn't particularly care for.

If we continue down this road, we'll end up narrowing the scope for what constitutes great design.
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We could settle with markdown?

Does any mail client handle the mime-type text/markdown or text/x-markdown [0] or text/x-web-markdown [1] or something?

[0] http://www.mail-archive.com/markdown-discuss@six.pairlist.ne...

[1] http://codecraft.io/2011/07/18/ubuntu-markdown-files-mime-ty...
Very interesting. I have a project that I'm about to start which is going to have an index of 4 million plus data records where I need high performance faceted search. I was exploring using Solr but may now give this a look as I'm planning on putting the app on EC2. Are there any technical details/tutorials on how their facets are configured?
I think that you can turn off the bubbles for different classes of changes, if you have to.
Simple things can be done simply in Haskell too. It is straightforward to write an emulator without any monads, typeclasses and so forth.

The reason the code here looks so complex is that Jaspers implementation adds additional abstractions so he can use the type system to distinguish between DCPU computations that can are pure (except insofar as they access DCPU memory) and those that are impure (in that they communicate with the outside world by e.g. writing to the console).
And here's a pretty stream of random colors: http://150.203.48.55/RainCol.php
I wish people would compare China today with what the USA was back when it was developing. Let's not forget the pollution, child labor, crushed limbs, dead horses in the streets of cities, raw sewage in the rivers, paving over an entire rivers, environmentally devastating dust bowl, massive pollution, world police attitude of the United States. China has Tibet, we have Native Americans.

I've learned this: When you smell dog shit, before you go around blaming others for stepping in it, look under your own foot, because chances are you stepped in it too.

I just wish all countries didn't have to go through this route. If only there was a way to skip the dirty development phase. Because after China, India, and the Middle East comes Africa's time to rise. And Africa is the size of China, US, India, and Europe combined. I don't think I want to be alive when dozens of African countries hit the peak of their dirty development.
If you have a modernish machine running Linux, find out if it has a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) built in. If it does, you can use an application called "Trousers" to take advantage of its built in hardware random number generator. It will directly feed random data into /dev/random

If you don't have a TPM, you can get one of these usb sticks: http://www.entropykey.co.uk/ and it will also feed /dev/random with large amounts of real random data.
Instructions to build your own are at https://github.com/freerange/printer/wiki/Making-your-own-pr... along with a load more information about the distributed architecture of the system. It's very easy to build a content service for yourself, and anyone else with a connected printer!
I love the 3D effect, it really lets you get a feel for the data.
Call it "The Dandy" and make the tag line, "Don't make a spectacle of yourself."
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I don't understand the love that boxee is getting. I also have one and it's a terrible device (albeit just cheap enough that some people might ignore the flaws).

It's loud, it's slow, the UI is pretty bad and unpolished. Sometimes it boots to a black screen or locks up randomly. Heck, 1 out of 5 times it doesn't even shutdown (just hangs on a black screen infinitely).

These are all documented issues (and really only the tip of the iceberg) that have gone unfixed for years.
The point of legalese is to define everything in absolutely certain terms.

Legalese is what you get when you try to get a precise meaning from an imprecise language. It is like trying to get the type safety of Haskell in PHP, resulting in a lot of verbosity.

I think this is relevant: There is a paper+presentation from SPJ about defining a contract (financial, in this case) in Haskell. Precise and machine verifiable.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/Papers...
OLE, or whatever it's called these days, is magic - the other day, i set up a label printer and all the bundled programs it came with. I right-clicked to copy a jpeg in Chrome, hit paste in the label editor, without knowing if it would work - and it did. This is an image, going between a cross-platform Skia program and contracted fixed-function bundleware i'll never use twice, made by two completely different companies, and it... blew my mind a little. I have a resolved respect for the native platform capabilities. I mean, sure, it's just a tag in the clipboard code somewhere, but... fascinating.

Anyways, the point of that was, coercing the data type down to the simplest format isn't always the right thing to do. Word should be able to paste formatted text into anything else that handles formatted text (you can paste word formatted text into TinyMCE, that's also pretty impressive)
Ah, it seems you're right - thanks for correcting me.
Classic case of "missing the forest for the trees." Unchecked myopia and frankly just kind of a stupid point.
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Why the bashing on Elasticsearch? We are using it to index log files; we have over 275 million documents in our index and performance has been pretty impressive.
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Save money, and do the following.

- Get a high res webcam
- Open it up and remove the filters.
- Hook up the device.
- From time to time you'll see random white dots appear.

There you have your ultra cheap random number generator.
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I can also recommend:

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I agree with your opinion that the ethical and moral background of a person does transcend the barrier between personal and professional life. While I share your disappointment, I feel this leads to a larger problem than any of us would like to acknowledge. We're here (and Brendan Eich is here, by extension) because we share a common interest in technology and startups. From time to time it's necessary to remind ourselves that this is our only uniting quality. Just because I'm a secular guy that doesn't mean this is a given as far as any other member of the geek community is concerned. I'm probably not the only one to be occasionally surprised and dismayed when a fellow HNer casually expresses $insert_fundamentalist_traditional_value$. But it's worth reminding oneself that we don't in fact have a shared moral value system here, not even when it comes to basics.

I'm making this observation because I don't think the actual donation is the central problem, it's Mr Eich's deeper seated belief system which some of us find appalling. But this and many other belief systems like it are quite common, it's just a facette that usually stays hidden during the normal flow of geek-to-geek interaction.

I think the whole tech sector would just disintegrate if we started compartmentalizing based on world views.

I remember when I was working at a startup, I somehow got into a discussion with an employee who firmly believed that I (and in fact the majority of people working there) would be going straight to hell to be tortured for all eternity. Not only that, he admitted that he was convinced we all deserved to go to hell and said the notion was filling him with a strange mixture of joy and pity. The thing is: we all got along great. This guy was always super nice to everyone, there was no way to tell from the outside. I decided then and there to just accept this and move on. Apparently, it's possible to work together (and even be friendly) even with the guys who are secretly wishing you harm. It's sad and depressing, but it works.
What's wrong with the one in jwz's post? http://photonics.anu.edu.au/qoptics/Research/qrng.php
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Pseudo omniscient now departed being Steve Jobs as an imaginary evaluator for all things tends to get old fast. The "people will fall" argument is simply pathetic, even if it came from said person. I don't know what is the problem with bloggers lately but I am starting to find it amusing that the semigodic look up to, in memory of is going to bring many more "pearls" like this one. It's becoming one of those "what would Jesus do" meme things.
A quarter million workers is pretty unfathomable to me. I'm an engineer at a company with over 6,000 manufacturing workers in one location and that seems enormous.

The video mentioned $14 a day for the workers. In the US it's a lot closer to $20 an hour, or $160 a day.

$146 a day difference, * 250,000 = $36.5 million a day difference in direct labor costs. That turns into a couple billion dollars a year. It's staggering.
Is it me, or is the large amount of white-space in the new design on wide-screen monitors unnerving?
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Interesting. However, I always thought that custom search engines were more profitable if they weren't hosted online. Big companies (hence big $) would definitely not trust you with all of their data just so you could search it up for them. Then again, I don't think Google search appliance did very well either.
Telling someone a website is not the right solution for someone happens from time to time. If they are unable or unwilling to abandon Word, this can be the case.

I always tell people to embrace change.
A copying gc helps with that somewhat. When the young generation gets copied you only pay for data that is still alive, not garbage generated. I believe erlang uses mark-and-sweep rather than copying though.
Screenshots pasted into Word documents are awesome. Even better is when they're pasted into an Excel spreadsheet!