skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Apple gets their way, typing text and compiling it to code and running it on your appliance will become illegal. How often do you run custom code on your other appliances? Exactly. There will simply be no expectation of running custom code on a "computer" once it is turned into an appliance.

Look at iPad. It's more powerful than PCs of the 90s yet no one even expects to run their custom code on it. This is where Macs and OS X are headed to.
Same reason that "com" and "net" aren't. Root nodes aren't, from my understanding, valid names for machines.

Edit: Seems I'm wrong. See discussion downthread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4105707
I don't think the cloud will ever fix poorly organized, poorly ran organizations - just saying.
Shame on the people maintaining the site, nothing is "set it and leave it" any more or it gets heavily abused.
Men who have minds large enough to envision the kinds of ideas that would deserve a patent (if patents were moral) are precisely the kind who would invent regardless of whether they could get one. See Nicola Tesla or the many scientists throughout history who have achieved great things without having a carrot and a stick. Or see Linus Torvalds.

The kind of men who refuse to engage themselves in creation without being prodded are the kind who patent most of the trivial ideas we see patented today.
I understand the 'luxury item' mentality but if a Porsche breaks out of warranty, you won't have to replace the entire engine to fix a faulty alternator. And you don't have to purchase tires or most maintenance parts from Porsche if you choose not to... in fact usually you buy better tires / brakes / exhaust direct from specialty dealers, not from Porsche. Key is you have the option to go either way, you're not locked in without warning.
> Startups are the new graduate school

Sure, assuming that the only worthwhile human endeavours over the next fifty years are gonna be "iPhone games" and "web apps that let you share photos of your cats".

It's amazing what you can do, nowadays, with a laptop, a cafe, a collaborator and a stack of "For Dummies" books, but there's still far more things that you can't.
I still don't like laptops because their still slow and individual components have different upgrade cycles, and the keyboard and battery lifespan limits the value of upgrades anyway. GPU's and CPU don't have synchronized release cycles, let alone RAM and SSD's. Saying up upgrade all the components on the same time frame does not mean you can't get the new GPU for a year before the next CPU upgrade shows up.

PS: By slow compare my 18 month old CPU (2600K @4Ghz) + GTX 680 and you might be able to buy a laptop that fast in 3 years, but it's still going to cost you more money.
Emmett Shear of Twitch just suggested the same thing. Thanks Alexis. I think I'll make this the focus of the interview, and ask the other questions posted here towards the end of the conversation.
I think brand extensions will work in cases where the companies have a gigantic market of internet users -- like search.google. As for .movies, and the like, I agree.

Additionally, these new extensions are likely to include draconian rule sets with them, making them very unappealing for businesses and private owners.
As a content owner, I had no idea readability was doing this. Like Peter Thiel says, the distribution is sometimes the hardest problem.

The idea isn't a bad one, and just because the domain owners never registered doesn't mean the idea can't work. It just means most domain owners probably don't even know about this.
Why the heck would I make *another* adult dating site?
Hm, what performance impact does using arguments have?
Having a different POV may not make you an idiot, but saying "If I need more RAM, it's best matched with a new CPU" and "If I need more storage, I'll need more RAM to throw around more data" makes you sound like one. Both statements have pretty large and likely counterexample spaces.
What's good and bad is pretty subjective :) To each his/her own.

And it's not like I'm controlling him/her. I just want to know for my own sake - if they need to contact me, they can. If they are safe, I know.
Let's try to keep the gun control debate separate from the privacy debate. Despite the shared aspect of the individual, these are entirely separate issues. I can't extremely easily kill someone with my private information. Private information is not a direct tool for committing violent crime, or for that matter, hunting game.
java, jython (90% of the time), C, C++, python, Netbeans, some use Eclipse (cough), emacs, bbedit, vim
Biggest hitter: Daniel Schindler from donuts.com
Filed under several applicants names.
Got 307 TLD request
Askismet?

Do they not at least moderate all the comments first?!

<a href="///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/zxm/%E6%A1%8C%E9%9D%A2/%E9%94%9A%E6%96%87%E6%9C%AC6-2">

Oops, silly spammer.
I think there's some time limit that expires, after which old links can be resubmitted.
The essay was intended to be a light-hearted and readable intro to the concept, not an exhaustive definition that takes an entire book!
To be fair, this attack is more based on form parsing and constructing SQL statements from fields, not necessarily ActiveRecord itself.
How can they lump .goog and .aaa with the likes of .app and .mail. .goog and .aaa are not "generic" in any sense. I think they should at least re-categorize and call the .goog and .apples brandedTLDs
It's not a data feed. It's an idea someone's submitted, of course people can comment on it.
What do you mean by "meant to"? I suppose humans are also "meant to" be eaten by bears or die from minor infections, but I'm not exactly eager to sign up for that, are you?
They may be louder than rich people in cities, but I doubt it would be more expensive.

If you get the sierra club complaining publicly about the tunnel, you instantly have about half of the politicians in the country in favor of it.
What am I paying for when I give money to charity? Mostly, a sense of smug self-satisfaction - and I get more of that when I give to one without checking what they do, than when I've looked into it and found they support my political agenda.
In the case of mathematics, there is a fundamental sense in which the symbols and their manipulations are what you're studying. Think of it as if you were an archeologist: the symbols are the artifact of study. It's only half of the picture: you must(!) come up with a different way of intuitively understanding it--but at the end of the day if you really want to precisely say what it is you're talking about, it's symbols.
ICANN orders applicants via "digital archery"
But that blog post claim the opposite. "we got money, but there's no content site"
Right, started reading into it. Very good! Thanks.
You can't use your technique for meals because everyone will suggest a different meal, and then you have no basis for a decision. That technique works when you're voting on one variable which has one CORRECT value which you're trying to seek. Creative work is not that.
This is horribly embarrassing argument. It's a blatant post hoc ergo proper hoc fallacy. What's worse is that it ignores the central point: the cost of your system is that individuals who think of an idea that happens to match one that is patented by one of these corporations gets the tar beaten out of him if he tries to use/trade it. You can't justify this violence, you can only try to sweep it under the rug, as you have attempted to do here.
Before you start talking to hospitals make sure you fully understand HIPAA[1] regulations. Handling any personal health information is very regulated and if you are building a system for hospitals it will be the very first thing they will challenge you on. That is, if you are in the US.

[1]http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/
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Reasons Not to Start a Company
France Digitale: The French lobbying association for the startup Ecosystem
I agree with you completely. I don't like the direction of Apples development either. But then, I know how much time a linux notebook consumes. I still did not manage to play back my rsync'ed backup in a way that the machine boots.

That (and related stuff) is what I mean when I write ( a bit further down) that there is no real operating system for a Thinkpad. Pity.

In a way, apple goes the same way that car manufacturers have gone already. Try to get a BMW repaired in a non-BMW workshop. Impossible, because you need BMW proprietary tools and Software. So BMW dictates the prices and they dictate, what parts have to be replaced for a certain error.

My wife and I use subway and bicycles where ever we can, since Mercedes, Porsche, Opel, Ford all try to do the same.
4.46 pounds = 2.02302197 kilogram
2.96 pounds = 1.34263342 kilograms

700 g difference. It's pretty close. My guess is you might have a hard time telling which is more heavy if you blind your eyes and weigh one in each hand.
"There are, however, several things that bother me with their business idea and planning "

I agree with other posts that startups are more about teams and executions. If you are bothered by the team planning etc, you need to resolve it upfront before agreeing to anything. Think about this. if you are not comfortable raising your objections/points to your good friends, how would that turn out when you actually start the partnership?
No, I'm buying a Mac because I need a UNIX-based operating system that can run the Adobe Creative Suite.

My fiancee, who is practically hardware illiterate, just installed brand new RAM and a new SSD into her 4-year-old MacBook. If she had originally purchased it with those upgrades, it would have been $500+ extra at the time of purchase. This week, it cost $150 for the parts on Amazon.

User-serviceable operations that don't require completely replacing the computer are important, and will surely affect many people's buying decisions. You don't get to say that everybody who wants a Mac will never want to waste time dicking around with their computer.
> 20. Would a Redis support offering you pay for be useful to you?

I think they mean, "Would you pay for Redis support?"
"no saturated fat"

So we're still hung up on that.
I would contest that even in a public space you should have a reasonable expectation of privacy to accept anything less is to concede defeat the in entire argument. For example if I trip over my shoelaces while walking along a street then my feelings of embarrassment are confined to the passers-by that witnessed the event. If someone happens to video the event and posts it on YouTube to everyones amusement then I would say that was a gross violation of my privacy.
On the one hand, I'm pleased that someone is posting this in the new-fangled bloggy tutorial style popular among the youth of today. It's nice to see my preferred environment evangelized.

On the other, it's a giant facepalm that the simplest, best documented, most powerful development tradition of the last 40 years actually needs this treatment. That there is a whole generation of developers who come out of school thinking that "building" is the action of pressing a button in an IDE GUI (and that "writing a program" means launching a big wizard that pukes a dozen files into a new directory) is just depressing.

Oh, and get off my lawn.
What are the vegans going to do when they find out that saturated animal fats are good for you?

http://www.menshealth.com/nutrition/saturated-fat-0

I'm looking forward to the schadenfreude I get as Americans continue to reduce their saturated fat intake and continue to suffer from more diabetes and heart disease.
I don't think so because I resubmitted the old link (the normal url) and it redirected me to the discussion that took place a year ago.

Edit: As mentioned in the comment bellow, it was less than year, in fact less than six months even, so you guys might be right. I just saw a big number and assumed it was a long time ago. My bad.
Why did you put quotes around "require" when describing your userbase and Mac hardware?

I'm genuinely curious - do their stated reasons for using Macs differ from how you think they are actually using their machines?
Atlas Human Powered Helicopter - 77% funded with 3 days to go
This was always a major issue when I worked closely with the Dept for Education, namely everything was stipulated as having a budget that ran to Date X exactly but there was an insistence that there be a digital aspect to everything that could function as a "legacy" for the project with no concept that systems need administration/hosting/support/backups/etc.

Now I am not saying that the blame is singularly with the Dept or with suppliers, just that neither fully understood that the digital offering had to either augment an ongoing human business process, or an ongoing human business process had to have ownership of the digital offering in an ongoing capacity. This is pretty much an unsolvable problem when you address the other issue that funding is always cut at Date X.

In this case though I assume funding is ongoing so it's a case of no one being assigned ownership of moderation (or rather ongoing moderation was not a primary concern of their goal).
Yes. Believe it or not, despite what certain faddists would have you believe, the "lots of saturated fat is actually really good for you" position is still contradicted by the vast preponderance of evidence.
You don't have to. You treat it like you would with LESS - executes during development and you compile it for production
Sony Mobile unveils Xperia miro and Xperia tipo
We barely got people to use .net, .org, .ly, .info, .me, .tv. What makes us think they will use these effectively?
Then you should applaud this company, which is trying to bring meat to those who can't otherwise eat it for health or ethical reasons.
I have to make a confession. Initially, I was quite tempted to pirate this film through Pirate Bay. But then I noticed the following comment by the co-director himself. I was incredibly impressed with the tone of the comment, and decided to go ahead and purchase the movie through Amazon, despite the fact that I will probably not have time to watch it in the near future.

Notice that he doesn't chastise, berate, or threaten the individuals who are downloading it through Pirate Bay. In fact, like many scene release .nfo files from piracy groups, he even states, "If you like the movie, consider purchasing it". This is the __right__ way to tackle piracy, in my opinion, and should be commended.

Here is the comment:

Hi Guys,

My name is James Swirsky - I’m one of the two people who made Indie Game: The Movie. Myself and Lisanne Pajot spent our last two years working on this film. We kept a pretty active blog about the production of the film on our site (www.indiegamethemovie.com).

We are a two person team, making the film completely independently. And we want to keep on making films for your enjoyment.

If you like the movie, consider purchasing it over on iTunes, Steam or DRM-Free (in a variety of encodes) directly from us over at www.IndieGameTheMovie.com. You can also get a copy to share with a friend if you’d like to.

Thanks for taking an interest in our film.

-James Swirsky
Co-director/Maker of Indie Game: The Movie
While awkwardly worded, it's correct

> Would a Redis-support offering-you-pay-for be useful to you?

is how I interpreted it, but it did require a second pass.
I think he's referring to Vitamin B12.
I agree that many underestimate the power of bash for development. Make, in particular, is much more widely usable. However, there are some things that I find very convenient in an IDE that are harder to do at the command line. Finding usages of a name (variable or function); finding the definition of same. Renaming same throughout the code base. Yes, I know about "find | xargs grep", but it's a bit more convoluted than IDE usage. Maybe I just don't know enough. Can anyone point to command line or vim tools to accomplish these tasks? Code analysis and warnings are another thing IDEs seem to do better.
To your point 1 to point 1; the difference is in your argument they have a warent, and the person is already found to be breaking a law, or a judge has found there is reasonable cause to expect that they are. As apposed to the _actual_ point on issue, here, which is people saying, "I'm just going to have a look, without suspicion, peasant", and when people complain trotting out the "if you have nothing to hide..." line.

To your point 2 to their point 2; it's not an exaggeration at all. Police forces jobs are to catch and punish criminals, not to prevent future crimes. Therefore, if they are interacting with you it is in support of that job, ie to catch and punish known criminals. Therefore, if they are "just checking", it is "just checking so that we can find something to charge you with."

Given the nature of many laws being such that everyone is breaking them all the time, it creates excuses to lock up people on the whims of the power-hungry.
In my experience, the "learning how to automate them" implies the analogous step to the "technique"-learning being discussed in the article.

e.g. To automate a health care provider's intake and records system well, you really do have to learn a surprising amount of how those people currently do their job. If you understand the job of the intake nurse, the needs of the physicians' assistants, the way records are processed for insurance reasons, the way doctors search and browse, etc., you can save vastly more time and money (to say nothing of improving accuracy and reducing redundancy) than you would with a straightforward records digitization process.
Not to mention that unlike cars, Apple laptops maintain their value surprisingly well. After two years, you can probably still get at least half what you paid out of it.
I believe in wordpress their plugin automatically stores all comments so that if you turn it off they convert to the wordpress comments.
That is beside the point. That you're using a Mac doesn't automatically make you an Apple target customer.
I think one (not being a prey for a bear) takes no biological re-adjustment (well, except provisions to live longer, I suppose). On the other hand, getting used to a radically different diet would take many generations to adjust to. For example, after a few thousand years, some people are not yet used to cow's milk, or used to wheat. Long term, yes, nature should take care of that.
Taking the vacuum to new heights
Yeah, I think it's a variation of the Chekov quote (I pulled it from the chekov's gun's wiki. That was the quote that stuck out to me the most from my classes in Uni).
CSS3 Flexible Layouts 'Flexbox' Spec Nears Final at W3C
Link to the original article:

http://www.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/glucose-fuel-cell-0612.ht...
The Next Wave of Domain Names and the Potential of ".bbc"
It may be a matter of perception, because you're firing off ajax requests after loading. I visit a page, stuff happens, and then there's "waiting for disqus.com..." in my status bar. The page could be ready to view, but out of habit I generally wait until everything is done. Whatever the last thing a site loads is, if it doesn't seem necessary for the site to function, it goes in adblock.
100% agreed.

I would also extend my distrust to corporations. While I don't have a ready-to-mind example, I am sure that, humans being human, gross abuses of power by corporations based on certain datapoints being available exist. I am pretty sure the LGBT community has a slew of great examples there, as well as other outsider communities.
The Risks of Distributed Version Control [2005]
that's definitely the correct meaning indeed. The idea is to understand if users believe commercial support for Redis is valuable or not.
Chatbot Battles is the best bot contest yet
I discovered the site because of this thread. Big thanks as I just picked up an I5-3570K with a $60 discount.
I understand and agree that squatting sucks. Adding new gTLDs will only increase the land to squat upon. ICANN should deal with this problem by mandating that you have content on the site to eliminate squatting. They'd need to keep up on it and stay ahead of those gaming the system so eventually they'd get discouraged and f* right off.

Domain squatting is not a legitimate business, and I hate you of you're profiting from just being a dick like that.
Could you please describe how this would be exposed to the user? Thanks.
One of the good Twisted WebSocket libraries is called txWS: https://github.com/MostAwesomeDude/txWS

It wraps an existing TCP factory, and makes it work with WebSocket.

The entire API is a single function.
Thiel and you probably seem to think that colleges are like vocational schools.

Quite the contrary. How often do you hear someone say something along the lines of "I'm going to school to get a good job"? If the majority of students actually believed it was just a life-improving experience with no expectations about future employment opportunities, there would be no problem. The reality is that most people do consider college to be essentially a vocational school and Thiel is working to put a stop to that mentality.

The fact is that if you only want a good job, there are much better avenues for finding that. Thiel is using his own money to demonstrate, to at least some students, that point. Again, if there were no expectations about employment in the process, the $100K wouldn't be all that interesting to the perspective student anyway because a "well-founded" life would be the goal, not money.

The fact that so many are keen to join his team speaks to the vocational-based mentality around the idea of college that has come to be.
> Even the most devout vegans and vegetarians have to admit that today’s meat substitutes are no substitute for the real thing. Some of them are tasty, but none actually have the same taste and texture of a piece of chicken, a burger, or a steak.

So what? Vegetarianism doesn't work that way. I don't walk into the supermarket thinking "what's the meatiest meat substitute that I can find today?", I think "lets get some fresh fruit and veg, and yoghurt and cheese".

Also, if you are looking for a meat substitute, have you tried Quorn? ( http://www.quorn.co.uk/ )
Getting Started with Batman.js
"What would constitute a real operating system? "

If you want to know my most important point:

backup and play back (bootable) EASILY.
I agree 100%. Furthermore, privacy is an issue of trust, not an issue of guilt. These very lines of reasoning (and the laws that stem from them) cause me to not trust those people and institutions, and so I won't trust them with my information, weather or not I feel that information is damning. They have shown their untrustworthiness, and so I must expect, in order to protect myself, that they are untrustworthy people who will do untrustworthy things with that data.
the idea of maintaining your cultural identity, rather than completely assimilating to a dominant culture.
I want to like this, but it conflicts with Michael Pollan's rules for eating ("don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food").

Their chicken strips contain titanium dioxide. I'm no expert, but wikipedia says we probably shouldn't be eating that. What am I missing?