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More people using a product does not lead to innovation. It leads to more people using the same free product and not realizing how much better their tools could be if they were willing to pay for them.

Open source tools rule the world simply because they are free, and developers everywhere are unwilling to pay for better tools, which hold back innovation of better tools. Why would anyone build a substantially better development tool if nobody will buy it?
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Mobile repeater is same as mobile phone booster than can help your phone to catch network signals and data and it also make your phone and network free from bad voice clarity and call dropping.
is there an open source license that says says free to use for people etc.. but if you have a company larger than x then you must support the project with $$$ ?
It's a disaster movie. </cameron>
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For app development or just for Sysadmin?
I really wish hackers, tech people would dedicate more resources and time on projects like TOR rather than trying find a way to shave off a few milliseconds to find a solution to refreshing a twitter feed which discusses the details of what donuts someone 'famous' decided not to have this morning and the subsequent rant of said decision.

I only wish I possessed the time, ability and knowledge to do it myself.
Fair enough. I assumed he was talking about being obsolete hardware wise.

I'll agree that Android updates aren't exactly timely, but saying they're abandoned completely after a few months is a bit unfair.
> Wikipedia is wonderful, but it's sad to see people sacrificing so much of themselves for it.

It is moving to see people sacrificing so much of themselves for others. I have nothing but absolute respect and awe for people like you and him. Yes, these are positive externalities and most people will not get any personal benefit from it, unlike say writing open-source software which can potentially get the authors work, fame, and more. But don't think of this as a useless clean-up job but rather unselfish charity in the form of passive tutoring.

It is true that the world isn't going to end without you editing Wikipedia but if everyone in your position did the same, things would certainly get a lot less informative. No one can force you to contribute your free time to any project but if you do have the desire, drive, and time to do so, I wholeheartedly thank you for it.
Let's hope there's nothing patentable in that project.
Don't forget the Milgram Experiment:

http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/ucce50/ag-labor/7article/article...

http://youtu.be/W147ybOdgpE

And the good ole Elevator Experiment:

http://youtu.be/aX1gL5Zqkao
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This reminds of Heroes of Might and Magic III WOG - The folks changed the executable so much that future scripts were encoded as text, hidden in the message-boxes showing information about the map to the player (they would pop once in a while, if the game scripts says so).

I know how crazy (in good sense) are the modders - I had to help release the mod tools for World at War and Black Ops (I work at Treyarch).
This is what great spin is all about. Drama queens are naturals at it, but anyone can learn.

Basically, whatever the other guy says, you turn it around and make it about you. Or whatever you're thinking about at the moment.

Other guy: My mom has cancer
You: Oh my god, that's terrible! My grandmother had cancer and it was just horrible, but I'm so glad that we have this amazing technology today to develop new ways to fight cancer. For example, you can use Light Table to program a protein-folding algorithm to test cures more efficiently!
Other guy: Um, yeah...I mean, what?

Other guy: I just got an A on my French test.
You: Awesome! With Light Table you could program a French tutoring software so you could help spread your extensive knowledge of French with more students.
Other guy: Uh, what? That's not...

Other guy: We're stuck on a moon base and blood-sucking aliens are all around us! We're going to die!
You: Oh shit! We better program some advanced robotic weapons systems with Light Table to take them out.
Other guy: AAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH THEY GOT MY LEG
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Generous offer... Will take you up on it.
Until you want to use some CDDL-licensed code. Or some APSL code, or one of the many other mutually incompatible viral licenses out there. Especially in something like a web framework, where most of the clauses of the GPL wouldn't apply anyway. License dickwaving makes the community a worse place. Stop doing it, sit down, and code something.
This will even bring an X41 back to life.
Not to really detract from this, but it should be pointed out that the majority of this editor's edits were made using AutoWikiBrowser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser), a tool that automates editing. It's used mostly for repetitive tasks such as article cleanup and vandalism reverting. So this was not one million handwritten edits, just one million edits in general.
I keep reading that sentence. I guess I had no choice in the matter. What is free will?
Maybe you should check out other MIT licensed frameworks and assess whether they have fostered a closed or open community.

Rails is MIT licensed and as a result we have seen a lot of companies build their web applications on Rails and build very successful businesses, but we have also seen a range of opens source plugins/gems and applications themselves built around Rails which have resulted in a better web community.

This is 2012, developers who care about something like Meteor also care enough about open source to give back. We don't want developers to be forced to make their products open source, they should feel compelled by the enjoy of helping others.
People connect them as if they are related. In the tech space it's not the case so much but it's the prevailing mindset in many, many industries.
I use ack as well, but I am working on a multi-gigabyte codebase at work and it's time to look for a tool with indexing.
Hey, don't let the haters get you down. It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but it shows courage (if not naivete) to muck with a beloved icon.

My advice for anyone has been for years to abolish the word "redesign" from your vocabulary. Seriously. Most redesigns just swap a set of known and familiar problems with unknown problems. Also, as you can see, any dramatic change just pisses people off.

Solve one concrete problem at a time.
I also got the very un-Zen-like message about Flash being needed. The page blanked out after that and I'm not sure why. Next load was fine and I had no problems playing audio -- did not change any configuration. Flash is enabled, by the way.

After this I was a little hesitant to click on a link that read "enable-javascript.com", thinking it was another mistake. You should replace those links via JavaScript if it is enabled to avoid misleading your visitors. I did click though, and as I said, playback functioned fine.

The pictures are beautiful and well-presented. The names are evocative and well-matched to the pictures. Well done on the design. Good idea, have some doubts about conversion rate but that's your deal to figure out.

Not everything needs to be with DOM windows - I wouldn't mind clicking though to another page to see the "About."
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I missed this discussion, link?
I thought exactly the same, I really like the reactive programming principles they've brought. But without npm it's useless.
Unlikely.

Hollywood has made the FBI its bitch because both
1) It contributes $billions to the economy
2) It contributes a few thousand dollars to congressional re-election campaigns

Hollywood is certainly a dying industry, but right now it is the one bright spot on an otherwise fairly bleak economic landscape. So some genius thought up this idea of going after Megaupload.

This was way outside normal FBI protocol, and they're paying a HUGE price for it in credibility, public support, and so on.

Basically they've given Kim Dotcom, who as far as I can tell is a gigantic douche bag, MARTYR status as well as an enormous soap box. And a healthy serving of pity from the hacker community.

I'm sure the rank and file FBI are royally pissed that this has transpired. I mean, they didn't sign up with the FBI to bust start-up assholes and do the dirty work of Hollywood, they signed up to fight the bad guys and protect the USA. And to mess the case up like this is just a shame. And a travesty. I can't imagine that this case is doing good things for FBI morale.
Use the PDF link another HNer shared above.
I hate the assumption that higher information density is always a good thing. White space is important, for aesthetics, readability, and usability. HN in its current state is far too tightly spaced.
Purchased and read back to back the first edition of the book. Very glad to see an updated edition, it hasn't been that long, but a lot has changed in the meantime!

Michael, I was looking through the online version of the book and I couldn't find any indication that I was reading the 2nd edition. I apologize if I simply missed it, otherwise I think it might be worthwhile mentioning in the preface that what we're looking at the 2nd ed.
Seems a bit odd that if this stuff is so awesome they'd give Apple an exclusive license for a lousy $11m.
It's not the actual connection itself that matters. If your phone ever transmits a packet, it can be detected and associated with your phone's radio id.
Do you remember the 90s?
I never realized HN supported HTTPS until you posted that screenshot. That's absolutely excellent to know! Inadvertent thanks!
I think the only real investment proposition here is to build and develop institutional knowledge and technology know-how so that at such a time that it is profitable and practical to extract resources however they may be extracted, that knowledge is worth the billions they spent on acquiring it (plus ~4% annual real opportunity costs, plus risk exposure).
Great initiative, looking forward to new shows.

PS: the site is broken on my iPhone, the absolutely positioned bottom links cover the top ones.
Why the heck are they making an Old, soon to be unused Ruby 1.8.3 as ISO standard.

They should be thinking about 2.0 instead.
I had 1920x1200 on a 12" toshiba 10 years ago. That was when I got sold on wuxga, and the trackpoint as a well.
But it does have Macros. Being able to write a macro that changes the AST is pretty awesome. Definitely a LISP.
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I pulled the Euterpea source from the website and tried the tutorial in GHCi 7.0.4. It complained that the definition of

times (n+1) m

is invalid.

If anyone is trying out the tutorial and gets the same error, replace that definition of "times" with

times n m = m :+: (times (n-1) m)

and you should be good.
For better or worse the exact same thing is true for comments on blogs, social news sites, and elsewhere. The people writing the articles on their personal sites get all the credit, whereas the people analyzing and fact checking what others are saying are often providing just as much if not more value.

Don't get me wrong, the vast majority of comments are completely crap, but so are the vast majority of blog posts. And because the average blog post gets way more attention than the average comment, trying to keep things from becoming completely insane is a completely thankless job. And unfortunately highly necessary, or else bloggers and journalists would basically have free range to completely make shit up and be wrong about basic facts, both purposely and accidentally, and generally spread all sorts of propaganda and misinformation.

And what's more, leaving good comments is really an art form, one that's quite different from writing longer stuff but really on par with it in many ways. And yet there really aren't more than a handful of blog commenters who have achieved any measurable amount of reputation or success because of their comments.

Commenters are generally seen at best as critics, people who complain instead of do. But really the role they play in the ecosystem is not just important but in fact essential.
Wait until your firm is overrun by adherents of the Information Technology Indoctrination Library. Managers will become smug, platitudinous mansplainers (self-styled experts on matters of common knowledge) who believe that everything is IT, even programming, which they think they don't need to know anything about--for them, soft skills rule. And their intellectual apparatus cannot resolve the difference between computer science and IT--brief exposure to ITIL depresses cognitive ability in every measurable level, out of proportion to exposure. If you're not part of the ITIL "service as a service" process, you're part of the problem in their view. Never mind that foisting the mind-numbingly boring ITIL corpus on employees forces the better ones out. You'll be required to sit in on Bolshevist change management meetings with everyone else in IT.
I was surprised as well. I got a little scared when I read their email announcement earlier this week where they talked about this license announcement. I fully expected it to be some sort of commercial license due to the lack of information given previously and the polish that even their prototype unfinished product had.

As for the business model, I could possibly see them doing hosting. Although there's no shortage of node.js hosts, they could fine tune their service to work well with the Meteor framework and integrate it in a way that a generic node.js host wouldn't be.
The zenbook is a nice machine, but the term ultrabook has become so diluted as to be near meaningless now. There's 15" laptops with optical drives being marketed as ultrabooks.
Great story about an amazing iOS developer!
But LuaJIT 2 is insanely fast, even the Heavy / Fast Ruby isn't even anywhere near its speed. So why would one choose mRuby over Lua?
i've been trying out some of the hacker news style extensions, and this one suffers from the same problem as the others -- when you're reading comments, and the comments are centered without a background color for the content div, you can't figure out how deeply nested comments are. it makes it difficult to figure out which comments are top level and which are responses.
Standardization takes time, and this is Ruby being standardized for the first time.
That's really irrelevant here, the text size didn't change between the old and new iPads, it just got sharper.
> Typically, you have to live out the words of the advice before honestly coming to understand them

I find this applies to education as well, and it may be why people sometimes feel their academic education wasn't valuable (or, conversely, why people are sometimes surprised that 'qualified' people aren't as proficient as a degree might imply). For example, I could implement bound methods in Python long before I truly understood what the word 'bound' actually referred to and what implications it had, even if I could use them properly and had some vague sense of some binding existing.
I actually like this design, it's clean. The only thing I don't like is that each row is doesn't seem to be vertically aligned. The index number and number of votes are vertical-middle aligned. The article title seems to have too much padding at the top. Then the number of comments speech bubble seems to be bottom-aligned with the article author.

If it was all middle-aligned or top-aligned I think it would look pretty cool.
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I believe that this is the origin of that joke:
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It's all true. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3765854 https://forms.fbi.gov/check-to-see-if-your-computer-is-using...
It is easier for a user to scroll down a long continuous list than to hop back and forth between two columns. This is particularly true for ordered lists (as is the case with HN).

The only thing I strongly dislike about HN's current design is that comment line lengths are far too long[1].

[1] http://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability
Because it's just that impressive
Like the design over all but one change I would make is to remove the post numbering eg. 1 through 20, and then integrate the upvote with the points button and likely do the points button in the style of the post number. eg. orange on white.
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This is a very big problem in China's startup scene; even Qihoo is very dodgy and might not have a real business plan. Lee Kai Fu's Innovation Works are trying to break this habit; they are starting fairly small and looking for startups that could have YCombinator-style exits. I'm not aware of any other incubators, at least in Beijing, this is still a very new thing.

Actually, there is a lot of money sloshing around in China looking for places to go, given the opaque stock market, bad real estate market, and strict capital controls. But just knowing that someone will probably rip off your idea if you are even semi successful makes investing way too risky.
I for one eagerly await the release of "Grubwithus bootstrap" - which will help front end developers relive the dazzling veneer of the 1990s geocities era.
I wonder how long it would take running the prime number shitting bear to discover a new prime...? http://alpha61.com/primenumbershittingbear/
No, the difficult part of japanese is not about vocabulary or funny symbols. I have a JLPT level 2 certification in Japanese and at this stage, the wording and kanjis is just about memory and practice. What's harder is to learn expressions, idioms, how to use them and how to understand them in different contexts. What you are saying is just like : "as long as you know words and alphabet, then you know the language". There's no way it is that simple.

And human languages are way more complicated and contrived than programming languages. I don't think you can make a reasonable argument to support that it's the same thing.
Anything's possible, but caution advised to anyone who tries this. It's not always apparent to open-source developers how much pain custom or obscure licenses cause in big organisations (ie the kind of paying customers in your proposal).

Even if it's just a normal license with a single clause variation, it becomes a different license from a tracking perspective. A lot of companies have standard policies on open-source and anything not following one of several popular licenses might be forbidden or require a drawn-out review process at best. This gets even more complicated when you consider packages might not be directly used, but be part of a dependency chain where you have to map out the whole graph in order to demonstrate compliance.
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There's a survivorship bias problem at Wikipedia, though. Most prominent volunteers swear that their motivation is just to make the encyclopedia better. They aren't sad that their contributions are submerged among many others; many claim that this is the beauty of Wikipedia.

But, like you, those who find they want some other motivations probably don't hang around (and probably leave well before their 100,000th edit).

So we don't quite know if Wikipedia would be any better if one could build a personal reputation, or if editors got some reward, tangible or intangible, from their contributions. I suspect it would be a big improvement, but people are understandably reluctant to mess with the current model.
Maybe what this emerging ecosystem needs is a means by which design-prototype-manufacture-marketing teams can coalesce?

I've been dreaming about such a system for a few years now, perhaps the iron is finally reaching striking temperature...
If you are going to do that you may as well have a meta tag to set a suffix "to find the jpeg2000 version of the image", and browsers that understand that format can then get the better format.
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I find it very helpful when the voice talent of a podcast consists of different accents, or at least very different voices so you can tell the speakers apart and get a sense of distinct personalities.

One of my favorite thing about the Tested.com podcast is Gary Whitta's Southern English accent.
Indeed, he added the serial numbers because he was thinking in design elements not in functionality. It's very common practice of designers who don't do much UX.
I guess you have never read anything about the brain works. The brain is not an organ to memorize, but an organ to forget. It's a filter for information. You won't remember in 30 minutes a series of 10 numbers you are asked to remember by heart, unless you are exposed to it many, many times. Memory works by repetition. That should be a good observation enough to say the brain is not very good at remembering things, since you need to feed it again and again the same information for it to remember it for a while.

Daniel Tammet is not an ordinary person. You are projecting HIS extraordinary capabilities onto everyone else, and you can see that 99.999999 % of the population is NOT anything like Tammet. So your point does not stand.
PayPal chose C++ early on. It’s kind of crappy language. There’s plenty to complain about. But the founding engineers never argued about it. Anyone that did want to argue about it wouldn’t have fit in. Arguing would have impeded progress.

...if there’s a strong sense of what’s right already, don’t argue about it.

I found that interesting. This suggests the team is important, but the language is not.
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Podcasts make cooking and cleaning and yardwork so much more bearable for me. Sometimes I get completely engrossed and wind up doing a far deeper clean than necessary just to have an excuse to continue listening.

But I absolutely can't code while listening to people speaking, my brain is just too old for that.