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I was about to say the same thing. I also don't understand some of the direction of the complaint. The people she knows who signed up were male, and that's unfortunate because? Her female friends were not being dicouraged from signing up, were they? I have no idea why the anecdotal self-selection would be bad. Would it be disappointing if most of her readers were female? Or would it be unfortunate if most poeople visiting substance-abuse support communities were substance abusers?

Ok, so it's unfortunate that as far as she knows males signed up. But then, it's also bad that there is a $50 cost to entry. It's a qualitatively bad site (it's all these self-selecting guys), but I'd like it to be easier (dollar-free) to join a site I thought was the wrong direction in social?

If app.net is successful, what would prevent others from creating their own interest-driven sites? It's not as if reddit, flickr, etc. have unified users sharing and seeing everything anyway. People who go to those sites generally spend their time in/with specific groups. Just because "it's open" and there is free access does not ensure that people from disparate groups within those sites interact and share ideas. People in many sites tend to gravitate towards like-minded people or at least similarly-interested people.

Diversity of thought is a great goal, but in practice, people seldom look for people to genuinely question their beliefs.
I got about 5 points in before i realized this is actually 100% sarcasm. You had me pretty worked up for a minute there.
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It took me a few reads before I realized he was making a meta-joke about the (brown) Zune, another product that was strong on fundamentals - but just never got traction.

Gruber has made it clear he likes what Microsoft is trying to do with the WP7, and he has positively reviewed some of the Lumia devices. Agreed, he's partisan, but he's a witty partisan, which is why I still read him, while many of the other apple bloggers, like Dalrymple, who has good sources, just seems to frequently come off as just being mean without the cleverness.
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This explains the hideous broken interface, with options spread everywhere and auto-resetting choices.
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> LIDAR. A black bag laying on the street is virtually invisible to it.

so when the cats lays in front of it -- it will just run over it, not being able to see it?

> If it can be proven to be poor engineering

Usually after 10 years of deep investigation, given the parties have enough monetary resources to keep the momentum on the law wheel. Read the case I sent about the guy wrongly jailed. Had they not discovered, eventually that it was a car malfunction, he would have still been in jail.

> Yet you're incapable of throwing yourself under a normal car? Doesn't this contradict your previous point about sabotage?

I guess what I was trying to say is that I think getting killed by a car driven by machine feels easier on your conscious than being killed by a car who is driven by a human. I cant explain why.
The 360 controller also has triggers for your index fingers.
There's a difference between being pedantic about language and desiring clarity, as Fry pointed out in that piece. Additionally, apathy and ignorance about language, not just grammar but all that encompasses language as a means of communicating ideas, makes it very easy to be deceived with language. Here is a piece by George Orwell on Politics and English Language which touches more on the degradation of English used to express ideas:

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm

"It has nothing to do with correct grammar and syntax, which are of no importance so long as one makes one's meaning clear, or with the avoidance of Americanisms, or with having what is called a "good prose style."

"What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing one can do with words is surrender to them."

The gist of it is that good grammar should arise naturally from the clear communication of ideas. When you are sure of what you want to say, the words to say it should naturally come to you. Ideas should hunt for words, instead of words hunting for ideas.

If you're writing with bad grammar, why should I worry about what you're saying if you yourself don't even know what you mean to say? If you don't know what you mean to say, how can you know what a politician or a CEO means to say? How can you avoid being deceived if you don't have a good grasp of language and meaning? Why should I hire you if you are so easily deceived?
Programming is not computer science.
"don't judge until you try it"

this is a ridiculous sentiment. pretty much in general, but especially applied here.
I agree that some people will keep cable for sports, but cable has been losing about 1 million households a year recently (http://www.bgr.com/2012/04/04/over-1-million-u-s-cable-subsc...). That's driven mostly by internet access, and faster internet will accelerate that phenomenon (even if cable keeps those willing to pay $600 a year for sports.)
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Why people switch to - or from - your product.
We are on Mars. ON MARS! A different planet! There's a vehicle roaming its dust bowls letting us know what it looks like.

If you aren't yet losing sleep over what a dedicated, drive and unreasonable few of us can achieve you are living it wrong.
Yup, pretty much. My view of FB prior to this was luke-warm because of their contribution to open source, but it's just gone in the toilet.
Interesting, thanks for bringing this up. Does amazon.com charge extra money for the delivery to Malaysia or do they ship for free, because they doesn't serve Malaysia(yet)?
Hell if I know; I've only been here for two months. I'm just reporting what I've seen as a production engineer in that time. :)
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Tired old saw is tired. Apple competes on price pretty well these days. How long did it take to get a 10" iPad competitor that was cheaper than the iPad itself?
Link to the article mentioned: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep00571
Anand Lal Shimpi of http://www.anandtech.com is of that calibre and far less partisan - particularly if you're looking to buy components like motherboards or an SSD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_pk0lW3oJ8#t=01m01s
This is great! One of the few products I've seen in HN that I think I would really buy.
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So you're saying that the next-year Retina iPad Mini will effectively fit 2048x1536 pixels into a 7.85" screen?

That would indeed be amazing, but I doubt it will happen next year.
I agree. But perhaps OP doesn't trust all support employees working for 1&1? This seems a reasonable stance.

So, he should give them his password, but he should then change it.
>If you think these stories appearing within a day of each other in the two most-respected business publications in the U.S. — at the same time the Nexus 7 reviews began appearing and the device started shipping to customers — is merely coincidental and not a strategic competitive leak from Apple PR, then I would like to invite you to play in my poker game.

>The angle to these stories is not merely “Apple is set to release a smaller iPad”, but “Apple is set to release a smaller iPad and it could squelch the Nexus 7 and any other smaller tablets before they ever really get a chance to take off”.

Gruber will apparently even try to spin a "me too" response by Apple as genius.
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First, what are you trying to say? Are you being sarcastic like the original post? Or are you making genuine observations about Google and approve of them?
Well, not everyone will see it this way. My example:

> Imagine never having to park

I like knowing where I parked. Further, we have something called valley parking, in most places that I would want to get off for a while.

But besides, in crowded cities, how do you actually imagine that? Most car owners in the NYC take subway to go downtown, because it would either take 2 hours to find a parking spot, or it would be very far from initial destination. With AC, I can imagine people just getting off at their destination (right in front of the door) and won't give a damn what their car will do in the meanwhile until they are back in 45 minute. So you will have jam packed streets with empty cars driving around waiting for their masters to come back -- total horror on the streets! Otherwise - what? Have the car to drive back home empty and come back in 45 minutes?? That putting even more traffic on the street and more pollution.

> Imagine never having to get someone to drop you off at the airport. Your car can just go home afterwards.
Sure, or I can take a cab which will be the same result - I will get to the airport after all. The only difference, I can have one or two to relax at home with wife, before the flight.

> Imagine getting your oil changed or other maintenance. The car can do this on its own when you don't need it.

Yes, so I am even more disconnected from the real world. Instead of making a Saturday trip to change an oil and chat with mechanics about good old days, about whether, girls, beer, or whatever it is, I am sure better staying home to chat on Facebook, while my car gets oil change on its own...

> I believe that we'll see a lot of marketing geared towards the people who would never let a car drive them around.

Probably not. I would guess all makers will jump ship quickly. There will be money to spend on advertising new technology, not the old one.

> This will be a great stepping-stone to help convince these people that it's safe.

If its going to be safe, noone will need to be convinced. I am sure, even reading this thread, you will find enough initial adopters for them to pass the word to the masses how safe AC really are.
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Yeah, real awesome stuff, John Resig! Your follow through on Bret Victor's 'Inventing on principle' is mind blowing. I'm getting my kids on it right away. Thank you.
For the time being OSGi seems to be the only viable solution.
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So you do not trust them with your password (that you're going to change later anyway), but you do trust them with unpassworded access to your account?
You are exactly right -- no company with half an ounce of brains is going to make a robocar that does anything except obey every traffic law on the books. Barring a software failure it's almost inconceivable to me that said cars even could cause an accident! But the flip side is much more damning: congratulations, you're now driving the speed limit everywhere you go. You're following at five car lengths. You stop for yellows and anybody within a quarter mile of a crosswalk. Basically, you drive like a Florida octogenarian, everyone else on the road hates you and it takes longer to go places. I can see a few die-hards going for that proposition, but not many.
> For now, let it be relegated to arch and let them test it.

FWIW, Fedora moved to systemd a year or so ago.
I just found this chart (http://tinyurl.com/9f7pxnq) of languages Clojure users came from [or are still using] from cemerick's 2012 State of Clojure survey, which suggests that Clojure is not only catching on outside of the LISP community, but almost exclusively so.
Has anyone tried to exchange EUR/USD/.. to bitcoins or bitcoins to EUR/USD/.. ? I haven't any bitcoins, so I can't test it, but I want to know how well it works in practice.
Second one already exists.

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As a user it only makes sense to keep up with security updates, to use applications that depend on Java 7, the JIT compiler is also faster.

As a developer, even if some features got postponed to Java 8, it still has lots of nice new features to get your hands on.
I don't think it's quite dead yet; the performance/power hit for decoding x86-64 instructions is significant, just to decode to a RISC-like microcode anyway. However, that may be more of a statement about x86-64 than it is about CISC in general. Certainly, the days when CISC made any sense at all, mainly to ease assembly programming, is long gone; remember the 8080's string instructions? Yea, neither does anyone else.

However - I think that x86 is so deeply entrenched, and x86 processors are so refined these days, that the value of the architecture is in the software and the investment in the chip design, not in the architecture itself. I think if the PC industry were to start over again, it would go with some kind of POWER variant.

Regardless of CISC vs RISC, I do agree - SIMD and many-core/stream multiprocessing will make far more difference than the instruction and register flavor used on each core.
Just because you don't reboot often does not mean it has to be slow. In open source community, people choose their own projects. You can't really expect for force for that matter for them to work on your favorite things.
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Sure, I do, too. Ruby is one of the languages that made me experience how expressive the higher-order function pattern really is.

That said, in Python, you have to take what you can get, though. And generally I expect more people are familiar with Python than Haskell. Probably I should've used Ruby. Oh well.
Well, I did say to explain implementation choices which I think covers your point, as I do agree with you.
BTW, friendly tip: if you want code formatting, try using four spaces of indent. You might only need two, actually. Let's see. Two spaces:

filter foo xx

Four spaces:

filter foo xx
The title is completely misleading, given that Wozniak concedes:

“Every freedom we have in the United States, every one of them, was given to us by congressional regulation. It’s called the Bill of Rights. That is what gives us our freedom and yet it was from the government. It was government regulation.”

Bottom line is that there will be regulators. The choice is between regulation by those that own the infrastructure or by a democratically elected government.
The thinness angle doesn't sound right to me and would be a bad decision to trade it for real features. Thinness is important, don't get me wrong, but nearly all iOS device users use cases.

The thickness of a case can often double overall size and weight in your hand. This that isn't going to change, probably ever.
Building REST services with JAX-RS is truly pretty smooth and quick (I've been using Jersey not Wink though).

One thing I don't ever recommend is using JPA based libraries (Hibernate, EclipseLink, whatever). Run screaming away from that spec as fast as you possibly can. There are much better options for ORMs in Java that don't have the session management headache and endless string of gotchas that is JPA. Ebean is my current favorite.

As for the "framework", I haven't really found the need for one. Jersey/Jackson + Jetty + Ebean gets you 90% of the way there, just fill in whatever you want for logging and other minor support items. If you want something more pre-packaged with some of the service start/stop boilerplate built in there is dropwizard (https://github.com/codahale/dropwizard).
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you get a map of your ride with your receipt. one time i submitted feedback when the driver went the long way, which it clearly showed on my map, and uber refunded me for the entire ride. it is an excellent service. i use it all the time in sf.
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Thanks! I'd searched for something like this on the Chrome site but missed this one.
Not of Hacker News quality.
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Is any of this really an argument against Arch adopting it? Arch and Gentoo and all the other rolling distros are the cowboy distros (I run Arch on my laptop). Literally anything can break with an update on Arch. Is Arch not the best place to try new ideas and see if they work out with a bunch of fairly technical users? I'm not about to switch all my servers to it but I'm more then willing to play around with it on my laptop.
Relevant how, exactly?
"SOURCE D-Wave Systems Inc."

"ya da, ya da ... presented results of the largest protein folding problem solved to date using a quantum computer..." but such if computers have minute processor power, the "largest" would also be small right? Sounds like an epsilon-delta proof somehow...

Grr... Wake me up when quantum computers have processing of conventional CPUs: "our pseudo-miraculo-tron has been used in simulations which fold proteins, split atoms and fly rockets to the moon, approaching nearly the processing power of the seventies scientific calculators which once were used in such efforts..."
Nice. +1 for avoiding JPA. I hadn't heard of Ebean, I'll look in to that. Shameless plug, but Joist is my take on a "post-Hibernate" back-to-the-basics ORM:

http://joist.ws/
Would you level the same criticism at any of the other brands which are fairly OS-hardware tied?
Exactly. And I can see a new sport/hobby of semi-automated driving where you can perform maneuvers that are difficult or impossible for the best humans today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY93kr8PaC4 is a simple example; imagine what you could do with a high-performance vehicle.
Did you consider SSL client auth? I'm not sure you will get all the properties you want out of it (ease of logging out, especially); but having used it a bit now, it is a really pretty nice way to do SSO. Plus, it forces you to keep your internal services on HTTPS which is just a good idea anyway (-:
Thanks a lot for the pointers. I have been looking for a good java framework to learn. I will be more than happy to settle with this 90% you quoted. They look simple enough to understand in a couple of days without wrestling with tons of XML config files.
I've found in my experience that gatekeepers to any system will always bubble up. It's almost evolutionary that someone controls the flow of things. The most you can hope for is that the gatekeeper be good-hearted and neutral.
Not to mention the new version of Blutrol (jailbreak tweak, see http://www.ringwald.ch/cydia/blutrol/) which lets you connect up and use with any game (not just dev-supported) an iCade, iControlPad, standard bluetooth keyboard, PhoneJoy, Wiimote, or Zeemote JS1.
I've always liked the quote from that movie: "men must be governed." Any system as big and as important as the internet needs to be regulated. It's intellectually lazy to pin opposition to particular regulations not on rational cost benefit analysis, but on the knee-jerk ideological position that regulation is bad and undermines freedom.
Or maybe it's you missing the trees for the grass leaves? Seriously though, most IDEs (and CAD and graphic design packages for that matter) have looked very similar to those screenshots. Fuck, if we were to 'condem' every other IDE in windows using the same icon set and toolbox/tabset styles as Visual Studio, then most of them are 'carbon copies' (let's forget for a minute most of those IDEs use the OS-provided controls.)

This is really starting to sound like nitpicking by some Apple fanboys. The fact this even makes it to Hacker News kind of pisses me off.
I think you're probably right, and I'd venture a guess that HN is not in fact majority white male. I was simply using that to accentuate my point. :D
Ah, I'm not the only one who thinks ORMs suck! That's why I love the latest development in the Scala community towards a non-ORM solution for persistence: Slick (http://slick.typesafe.com) and Play! Anorm (http://www.playframework.org/documentation/2.0/ScalaAnorm)
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The author also is very naive when he says "no more bus drivers, taxi drivers, limo drivers". It may happen eventually, but not before a few decades. There are a lot of power struggles and political interests that will make this happen in a very very long time frame. Most probably, it will happen as it happens today with lots of aircraft's. While they can do lots of things autonomously, there must be a human to takes certain decisions and as a backup.

What I can see instead, is lots of truck drivers watching TV or just sleeping at the steering wheel, while their trucks do the job.
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It's a fuzzy distinction, but it becomes more clear if you look at the x86 instruction set and its extensions.

A very RISC chip usually just has ADD, OR, AND, LOAD, STORE, etc. But in x86 (CISC) we have things like these:

UNPCKLPS: (sse1) Unpack and Interleave Low Packed Single-FP Values

MOVSHDUP: (sse3) Move Packed Single-FP High and Duplicate

AAM: ASCII Adjust AX After Multiply
Does "The whole language always available" hold in case of Clojure?
> The community is too elitist, the tutorials are math heavy. And the tools are too ancient. Having to use simple text editors and selling them as technologies used to build large applications is a contradictory philosophy.

Careful. Statements like this only create more "elitists" by insulting people. Have you seen leiningen, Counter Clockwise, or La-Clojure? Part of the reason you need all that tooling is because of the objects. If you haven't become proficient in a functional language, can you really say the tooling is insufficient? It's like telling someone their movie sucked without seeing it, or only staying for the first 5 minutes. When I get rid of my Foo, FooImpl, JPAFoo, FooService, FooServiceImpl, FooDao, Bar, BarImpl, etc, the requirements for my editor and tooling suddenly change. If I'm not using big heavy frameworks, I no longer need all those plugins. I don't need to be able to click on my spring configuration and jump to the implementation. When I'm working in repl, I don't need heavy integration with Jetty (for example) because I never need to restart the server. If my restful webservice just needs to be a function that returns a map (ring), then I don't need annotation support, or some framework plugin. If my code is data, my editor already supports both.

I need to move around functions, and compile my code. Code completion? Navigation? Sure, but Emacs, CC, La-Clojure can all do that. I hope you aren't insinuating that Emacs/Slime is a "simple" text editor ;)

Tutorials are their own issue. A new object oriented programming language only needs to teach you their syntax and their API. A Clojure tutorial targeted at someone who has only ever done serious work in an OOPL is going to have to explain not only Clojure, but fundamental concepts related to functional programming. Once you really learn one, the rest all make sense in the same way it's relatively easy to jump around OOPLs.

If you've accepted the technical argument, don't let those other things hold you back. The Clojure community is great, and the Eclipse and IntelliJ stuff has really come a long way.
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Agreed, but increasingly I find that HN actually does a pretty great job of limiting the number of posts that involve any sort of fanboyism that you mention. Many may get submitted, but the community doesn't seem interested in bringing that many of those posts (compared to other news sites/communities) to the front page.