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Fair, though the question is less, "Do we need good tools?" than "What makes a great tool?" VIm and Emacs both make great tools.

But nobody comes to VIm knowing how to use it intuitively. Its features make the investment worthwhile. Same with Sublime Text 2. There are features that instantly save time (the tiny thumbnail of your entire file makes traversal a breeze for me) and others than take a while to get used to (ctrl-P).

The question shouldn't be, "Should I waste time looking at ANY tools?" especially in the ironic context of, "I've used two decades of my life learning VIm and now it ROCKS." It's, "What does this tool have that makes it worth using?" That answer for me so far is speed, flexibility, and features, like the two above. I'd hoped to see more on those topics here.

When I want to use VIm, I do. When I want to use JEdit, I do. As the previous fellow replying says, you don't simply use hammers. Figure out where this tool -- which is a very good one -- fits. Its best feature might be its untimed trial period. Give it a shot.
I'm sorry, I don't follow. If the keyboard is hidden, why is there then "a keyboard covering 25% of your real estate"?
I've worked at two startups with no vacation policy. My inference is that it is very much a cultural thing. My first company some people really took the opportunity to heart but most were subtly pressured not to take much time off. Plus, lots of people did working vacations. Then at the beginning of September last year they told the entire marketing team that there was no more vacation until the end of the year because the CEO felt marketing was gone too much that summer. In fairness, we had Christmas to NYE off but still. Plus, it made it harder for the sales team where they always had to meet their quota because vacation was never factored in.

In my second company, people take what they need and my boss told me not to contact him unless it was an emergency. I loved it. Set the cultural cue for me on how he perceived vacation time. People seem to take what they need. The CEO encouraged people to take advantage of our ski passes this past season during snow storms.

Bottom line: Management sets the cues and cultural norms. People practice what they see when there aren't official guidelines.
I'm an Engineer for Facebook and am helping build a Facebook office in NYC. AMA
The problem with mindstab's entire point is that there already is a platform for interesting, independently published games.

It's called the Personal Computer. Everyone has one, and it has several distribution platforms, lots of people working on it, and even can utilize a 100% open source stack.
Please stop trolling Hacker News. If this isn't trolling, please discard your misconceptions of entrepreneurship circa a dark 1995 basement
Any reason you haven't updated?
How to make money blogging?
Retina support is good. But why does it force the discrete graphic card? Official Twitter app does it as well for some reason.
Nothing you said contradicts my comment at all. I said "he's not really the inventor of object-orientation as we currently think of it." What we currently think of as object-orientation is not what he invented. I don't see what's controversial about this, since he said exactly this in the interview, and I'm not understanding the downvotes to -3. The second part of my comment was expressing basically the same sentiment as this comment, which was not downvoted into oblivion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4229788
At $100 each for just the systems, I doubt they're making any money from the Kickstarter. They will make a few $100k from the higher levels, though. What they're doing is funding the initial build (fixtures, test rigs, plastics molds, etc) and build hype / excitement.

I assume retail prices will be higher, probably in the $150 range, when they'll make decent margins on the hardware. Their volumes will be much higher (probably 2 orders of magnitude) than Panda / Beagle boards (Pandas sell for $182, Beagle xM for $150, both are profitable). They'll also probably offer "services" consulting with developers to help them get the most out of the SDK which will be an alternate revenue stream.

No screen, no battery, no mobile phone radio, no requirement for physically small size. All allow quite lower hardware BOM costs than equivalent phones / tablets.
There was a previous discussion of the 200 line TCP/IP stack on hacker news:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=846028

I believe most of the code is visible in the linked article. The packet diagrams were redone but are very nearly identical to the RFCs, just some minor formatting tweaks. They are very readable.

The compiler (in OMeta) is a very BNF like grammar.

The readability is striking. The first time I heard of it, I was expecting it to be extra dense and hard to parse. It turns out they have entire lines of just separators counting against their limit, which seems useless until you realize one of the main goals is readability.

Incredible work, I'm looking forward to the end result.
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But if women are afraid to actually self identify as such (due to harassment), you'll never be able to get an accurate measure of the true ratio.
I didn't know this info, about the other compiler. That's great. Near the end of a project I'll try gccgo to see what performance difference it makes. The testing package makes profiling relatively easy.
I've friends doing prep-work on a Kickstarter project, and they are thinking along the lines of any stretch goals being more in the direction of concrete business expansion steps. Such as funding specific trade-show entries and ad buys. To me, I think that seeing that on a Kickstarter page would sound more reassuring. Like the inventors are thinking realistically about the future. But I might be bit biased, so I (and I'm sure they) would welcome thoughts from someone else that is dubious of the usual stretch goals.
Did you do research on how long it takes to resolve trials in England vs. other countries before writing that post?

No. Why would that be relevant?
You can get a Raspberry Pi for $25. Use better components, add a plastic case with buttons, and that's it, right? No screen and no battery saves them quite a bit.
After Kickstarting $2.5M In 2 Days, Can OUYA Disrupt Gaming?
This is absolutely worth getting for mac. I'm getting far fewer crashes than the official twitter client, a much nicer look, smoother interactions, and more information faster.

The killer feature for me is the ability to see the conversation around and replies to one tweet - this is extremely useful if you see one tweet between two people you follow but want to know the context around it, or if you want to see how other people have replied to a particular tweet.
+1 Dev pumps out updates with new features regularly too. Plus the icon is awesome.
So nothing should change ? And when asking to change how women are represented in TV ... what if they say : "Hey, women are portrayed in TV the same way and for the same reasons they are portrayed on video games and in magazines. This is ridiculous."

Your argument, is a fallacy.
I am not very familiar with tax law, care to explain?
If everyone had to prove that what they said was absolutely true before saying anything then nothing would get said as it is almost impossible to prove a positive.

Doesn't the coexistence of the libel laws and the media industry kinda prove you wrong there?
This sounds a lot like reddit, or even pintrest. What's your differentiator?
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because snow leopard did things better than lion (much lighter footprint, for one thing).
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I think Ouya makes Nexus Q and every Google TV box completely obsolete. I am convinced that Google simply does not have the insight to make a successful set top box.
The problem with PC gaming is that it's hard to get 4 people all gaming on the same computer in the same room for under $300 investment (versus console + 4 controllers).

It's easy to do this in the living room with a Wii (and will be with the OUYA).

Sure, you can have a LAN party. But it's going to be a lot harder to find people to come to that than to come over and play Wii bowling. Sure, you can game online, but the you're not all in the same room hanging out. Physical presence is still a big deal in console gaming.
Off Topic:

It's rather interesting to note that as a society we have advanced enough to the point that we can donate the resources to support roughly 3 average size families for a year to a "pop culture critic" to study video games.

No condemnations or moral objections, just merely stating an interesting observation.
So everyone should accept that "Theee Innternets" threaten a women with rape and everything... because her work is not revolutionary ?
Thanks a lot. I've added a hastily compiled quick start readme to the repo: https://github.com/maryrosecook/isla/blob/master/README.md

It's not as complete as I would like, but I am working on it.

Is that enough to get you started? I'm happy to help out if you email me at maryrosecook@maryrosecook.com or tweet @maryrosecook
The way I see it, they're not trying to profit from the console, but from the App ecosystem: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-...

IMO, The kickstarter campaing is to raise enough money to produce a lot of consoles already sold (close to cost, maybe loosing a bit?), creating a big-enough mass of players so that developers can start thinking in actually creating games for the platform, and make money from that. At least, that's what I would do :)
I stand by my comment, negative votes and all.

I'll take a few more negative votes for this comment, please...
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Oh, and I almost forgot, it supports real time streaming too...
So because it is just "kids" on the internet it is okay to post threats of violence and death?

Or it is her fault because she "demonstrated sensitivity"?

Sad that someone on HN would post this as honest analysis. No wonder this community has so few women participants. I wonder what percentage of the commenters in this thread are male.
Pretty much. This is an opportunity to recognize a rampant problem, not something endemic to two website communities.
ok, how about this: an imaginary buddy of mine running a porn website asked Olympics officials to put some porn ads. a couple doing it. on every runner's and jumper's t-shirt. he was willing to pay $10MM per runner, $20MM per jumper. guess what? bummer. they didn't agree :(

is this specific enough?
Is it mentioned anywhere that the actual planned pricing (after the product releases) will be $99? The "$99 Android console!" headlines are great for publicity, but I wouldn't be surprised if the actual product (if it ever goes on sale) might be in the neighborhood of $250-$300 while the pledgers are the only ones that will actually get a $99 console "sold" as a loss for the sake of generating interest.
I'm very intrigued to know how exactly the law works now.

I came across the following basic explanation a while ago, seems like a pretty decent write-up:

There are two versions of defamation, libel and slander. Libel is when the defamation is written down (including email, bulletin boards and websites), and slander is when the incident relates to words spoken.

In the UK, if someone thinks that what you wrote about them is either defamatory or damaging, the onus will be entirely on you to prove that your comments are true in court. In other words, if you make the claim, you've got to prove it!

For example, if you said Peter Sutcliffe had never paid his TV licence in his life that would not be defamatory - or it is very unlikely to be. However, if you said the same about TV boss Greg Dyke, that would be.

Why? Because Peter Sutcliffe's reputation will not be damaged by the TV licence revelation (he is after all a mass murderer). Of course, his lawyers would still be free to bring the case to court, but it is very unlikely they would succeed.

Greg Dyke, on the other hand, runs the BBC , so to say he wilfully doesn't pay his TV licence could have a seriously detrimental effect on his career. He could be fired or his reputation damaged (note:Dyke has now left the BBC).

Continued here:

http://www.urban75.org/info/libel.html
... and most of the examples shows proving a positive as well, and also clearly exerts why the statement I said in my post is not falsifiable. Your original statement, was, btw, "it is almost impossible to prove a positive." So, how is it nearly impossible to prove "this swan is white," but highly possible to prove "no swan has ever been black?"

I can prove there is a mouse that is blue and black on my desk, but I cannot prove that there has never been a red and black mouse on my desk, I can only assert such.
You're proving the parent's point. ShitRedditSays is a troll subreddit created by SomethingAwful forums. It's purpose is to parody the extreme outrage that occurs anytime something un-PC is said. The fact it has attracted some people who are actually serious is like how The Colbert Report has a conservative following.
You're mistaking this particular example with the general idea. What he means is that computers can do so much more than displaying text based content. And he not only wants you te be able to interact with information, he wants you to be able to create that kind of interactivity without becoming a real programmer first. To give a different example than the one about Logo; imagine a Wikipedia page about a well known mathematical principle, you can explain it with text and some images, but you could have explained it just as well on paper. Instead you could explain things in ways that only a computer enables you to do, for example like this: http://worrydream.com/#!/KillMath But that still scratches the surface compared to the stuff that Alan Kay wants to be the norm. I advice you read Alan Kay's work with that in mind: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011004_steps11.pdf
I've been waiting this for a long time, I'm really happy they shipped it.
"It is not like we force women who are offended by video game media and the community to play games. If they really dislike it and hate the community, just play single player games or don't play at all."

No, you don't force us to play games, thank you very much. Women gamers play games because they love them, despite their flaws. I will not be told that I should just 'play single player or don't play at all'. I want change. Just because these attacks from the gaming community are no surprise does not mean that that they are acceptable and should just be allowed to stay that way. Games and the gaming community are both rapidly evolving, and Sarkeesian's project is part of the conversation that promotes a change in both for the better.
I'm pretty sure the contributions were a reaction to the vitriol Anita was met with more than anything else.

The harassment proved her point, before she had any chance to.
Templates wizards aren't exactly a new thing...
Attribution is a basic feature of software. Google should fix this or they risk appearing slimy.

Google per se is not evil. But it is a competitive environment internally. So some idiot had the bright idea of ripping off the idea so he or she could look good internally. Presto - the code appears in the build one morning, and others to avoid controversy keep quiet. Or the whole team wants to look good in front of upper management. Either way, it's now in the code line, and if someone upstairs likes it, it takes on a life of its own. This is how evil comes into being.

Now Google's brand and PR folks will review this situation, his post, even my comment, and then may push internally for Google to "do no evil".

Your move, Google.

(Btw, only those who have never or congenitally unable to come up with good ideas are the ones who cry loudest about how ideas mean nothing)
The Swedish telco Telia converted all their phone booths to Wifi hotspots a few years ago, but it's a pay service.
OK I'll provide a few tips as you're obviously doing it wrong ;)

The vacation days are what you should be using for stuff like doctor's visits and sickness. The sick days are to be kept forever...or an actual vacation. Normally on termination you get reimbursed for sick days. The vacation days are gone however.

In the case of a funeral...that is a vacation!
I've always used emacs and the SDK as well. It seems to work ok, though I've never been one for IDEs.

Eclipse felt too heavyweight on the netbook I use to code. (I still find it amusing that emacs is the light-weight solution).
I kind of expected someone to reply saying I was blaming the victim when I wrote that.

But if you read my comment, I'm just analyzing the motives of the raiders. The point being, it takes very little to spark them as we've seen this same type of thing happen a hundred times in the past over petty things.
> If history and religion are any evidence of this, telling people to not be aggressive and violent will literally get you nowhere.

Yeah, what were Ghandi and Martin Luther King thinking?
I'm not blaming google; I'm just suggesting that Rubin's snarky twitter post about the "definition of open" is somewhat misleading.

Put simply, I'm just trying to point out the sad state of affairs.

Android is primarily run on Phones, but you can't actually use some of them as a Phone if you build AOSP and install it because some of the binaries required for the phone functionality can't be distributed.

That's my point. It's misleading to say "here's an open phone OS" -- when you can't actually use it on your phone, because the things that make your phone work as one aren't open and can't be redistributed.

An open platform doesn't do much good if you can't actually use it on hardware with full functionality.

As I said before, I'm just a disappointed and somewhat angry Android developer, somewhat. Google could have done a better job here and made life easier for me and other developers.
Jokes aside, people continue to vote for politicians who are under-qualified and who make promises they wouldn't even have the power to keep... and yet study after study shows that bad promises are far more effective at getting votes than setting realistic expectations.

If the same holds true for crowdfunding, illustrious but poorly defined projects built by under-qualified "inventors" has a long run ahead of it.
It's something like $90-$95 after the Kickstarter and Amazon fees come out of it, right?
Why don't you try your best to summarize the pertinent aspects of falsifiability for the community? I'll try to start. Here's some background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
Well, they didn't say that, you did.
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Then you're really not going to like the fact that the release version will be 10.8 only.
I find it humorous that someone claiming the throne of righteousness and correctness about rising above the evil men dominating the world of video games has reacted to criticism by posting a drawing branding men (and ONLY men) as "trolls" (accompanied with a 'hss' sound effect, even! [1],) yet somehow has the unmitigated temerity to complain about sexism. Plank in your eye and all that.

[1]: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/566429325/tropes-vs-wome...
I'd like to make a point of clarification with the article.

The woman, Californian blogger Anita Sarkeesian, had her Wikipedia page locked after it was hacked repeatedly with profanity, lies and pornography

You can't "hack" a Wikipedia page. Anyone can edit Wikipedia, and the actions described above are vandalism, not hacking.
> we can donate the resources to support roughly 3 average size families for a year to a "pop culture critic"

At least she is attempting to advance society. If you want to feel depressed, 209 million USD was spent on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_(film).

209 million.
Hey guys this "guide" is sort of a work in progress for me, would appreciate any other suggestions you guys have in this here Hacker News comments. Also, I'm always looking for good examples of facebook pages done right, music or other.
The linked article from Nature here

http://www.nature.com/news/libel-win-reveals-need-for-reform...

and the accompanying Nature editorial

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v487/n7406/full/487139a...

give a lot more background on the details of this particular case, and on which defenses to libel claims are available under British law. Proposals for legal reform in Britain are also discussed at those links.
They're not gonna come and take your lab equipments away, you know... Leave them on OS X Lion for a century and you'll be okay. Just like many have left their lab computers on Windows XP for a decade.

As long as Lion gets security updates (2 years, minimum), there's absolutely no need for an upgrade. After that, you can just disconnect it from the Internet and use an stronger password.
Believe it, they brag about it. The whole thing was just some people using a bot to spam the same couple comments over and over. They did it because it gets a reaction. People who tried posting well thought out arguments as to why Anita is wrong had their comments removed. Any form of abusive crap was highlighted, as a means to extract further sympathy. So the 4chan crowd jumped on it and started spamming shit comments.

/r/SRS is a really bad example to bring up, given that 95%+ of the stuff they post is just hypersensitive whining about politically incorrect jokes or obvious trolling. Normal people don't care about politically incorrect jokes. The 5% that are actual bad posts are almost always in the negatives, not "highly upvoted".
Google Analytics might meet your needs if you script Events into your app.

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...
It's worth noting that, essentially, they committed to supply a machine with the given specs if they reached roughly 9,500 preorders. They are currently at roughly 23,000 preorders (adding up the different donation levels) in the first two days. If they end up with, say, 95,000 preorders, I imagine they might be able to swing better hardware prices than they were counting on.
> the screenshots from the "game" someone made

One person. They're obviously troubled. Are we really going to let the actions of one person change the frame of the whole discussion?

A game allowing you to beat up a woman is, I hope, repulsive to any HN reader. But its existence, especially when it's so easy these days, means nothing in and of itself. You could probably feed in any picture you like, man or woman. It's not a weighty factor in a discussion.
I think anything that uses Core Animation will force the discrete graphics card on.
> Geography nitpick: The airport in Istanbul is actually east of the Bosporus, making it Asia.

Nitpick of nitpick: The larger airport in İstanbul (Atatürk International Airport) is on the European side, the smaller (Sabiha Gökçen International Airport, serving mainly low cost airlines and domestic flights) is on the Asian side.
Obviously, 'gamers' is a very inhomogeneous group of people.

You could say much harsher things about people watching horror movies in theaters.
Kickstarter is actually NOTHING like a micro-scale venture capital investment. It's not an investment at all. It's a donation.
Exactly. For studying stuff that's hardly original research (TVTropes) and recording videos that's a lot of money.
So is the link... site down (15min after the post)
It's basically an apple TV, with a $20/$30 bluetooth controller. I can see apple creating Apple TV apps and selling a controller accessory to compete.