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Although a great idea to foster more competition, it has two fatal flaws. One, now way Apple lets someone install anything but IOS. And two, it would burden the carriers beyond belief to support their customers doing this.
Sorry no - just a TV doc - it was perhaps called the real right stuff. It had interviews with I think every living Apollo astronaut, and was made for the 2009 anniversary.

It might have been http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_We_Left_Earth:_The_NASA_Mi...

(I certainly remember Charlie Duke talking a lot !)
And of course, in CoffeeScript you would just use the fat arrow:

somethingElse =
render: => # do some rendering
I don't believe that people here are really so dense as to not understand the problems with that scenario

Nor do I believe that you are so dense as to conflate copying with theft, so can we dispense with the comparisons that wouldn't look out of place in *AA propaganda?
I'm not being disingenuous. The topic was of intellectual, historical interest - about JFK. Who did not release the documents. They are just documents about JFK.

Somehow it is changed to a demand for documents from the current President in the middle of an election season.

If you are interested in all admission records, there is no reason to single out Obama... say you think all Presidents should have their admission records released.

This is more like 'look at this interesting snippet of code from CP/M' resulting in yelling about binary blobs in some modern OS. Totally irrelevant and political.
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> Can someone else patent my ideas under first-to-file?

Yes, that is exactly what it means. Many public proposals have names that are misleading or confusing, but this one is not at all misleading -- the patent goes to the person who is first to file.

> If so, do I have any recourse under the new law?

Only if you were kidnapped or otherwise prevented from filing by force or deception. But even then, you would only have an opportunity to file for civil damages, not to change the patent's owner.

This proposal means exactly what it says.
> Couldn't you basically say the same about most system languages (for example C and actually even stuff like Java)?

Those languages have more pragmatic use, though.
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I agree with your conclusion that the Model S isn't for everyone.

It sounds like you're not in the Model S market segment. Folks that can buy cars in the $50k-$80k range typically wouldn't balk at the cost of renting a car for the weekend. The hassle, maybe, but not the cost.

There are also lots of folks & places whose weekend trips are inside the range of the Model S (consider Boston -> Martha's Vineyard, or Manhattan to The Hamptons for instance).
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I remember a polar bear desperately trying to locate a patch of ice in the movie "An inconvenient truth". I hate to imagine the situation polar bears are in right now.
I think you hit the nail on the head. And that raises the question - is Steve more keen on experimenting with the business model because he is more of a business/management guy than an engineer?
Most languages will have literals that can be used to easily represent HTML data:

[a => {href=>url, name=>'next'}, 'Go to the', [i => 'next'], 'element']; # perl5

[a => {:href(url), :name<next>}, 'Go to the', [:i<next>], 'element']; # perl6

[:a => {:href=>url, :name=>'next'}, 'Go to the', [:i => 'next'], 'element'] # ruby

Your Lua example is very similar to the HTML::AsSubs CPAN module (https://metacpan.org/module/HTML::AsSubs). Here is your example using this module:

use HTML::AsSubs;

sub url { 'http://www.anythingfornow.com' }

my $h = html(
a( {href=>url, name=>'next'},
'Go to the',
i('next'),
'element',
),
);

say $h->as_HTML;
Also depending on your goals though, for recreational purpose, it probably doesn't matter what approach one takes. I can't compare playing golf with running. Golf is probably a thousands times harder than running just to get started. To get the thing right and do it well in the long run, start with the proper form is crucial.
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Because I am extremely tired of HN being used to flog political propaganda. I don't like that and I don't come here for that.
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Ha, I don't know if that's a threat or a friendly challenge! I will take the latter. I am looking forward to harder programming concepts, I just need to keep practicing to drill them into my head.

Thanks for the words of encouragement, I will definitely keep working away at it.
Could you post a link which does not need a google login to read ?

I tried this on Chrome's Incognito mode window as well.

<Google Plus rant>
I hope it's not the usual "Apple is evil, it's products'
users are stupid" and (in slightly smaller numbers ) "Facebook is evil, Google Plus is awesome" drivel (and the circlejerk in the comments)
</Google Plus rant>
People have traditionally tended to collect music, however, unlike newspapers and magazines. Coming in contact with someone's interesting record collection used to be a memorable event. Piracy has made music less scarce, though, and the mystique of music has lessened because of it.
It seems bizarre that there are a lot of equivalent classes that are thread safe or not with names that are simply synonymous. Is it just me?
Is this surprising to anyone who has an iTunes account?

> “I find it hard to imagine a situation where a family
> would be OK with losing a collection of 10,000 books and
> songs,” says Evan Carroll, co-author of “Your Digital
> Afterlife.”

And I find it hard to imagine a situation where a family will be fighting Apple to transfer Britney Spears' last CD from grandpa's account to his favorite granddaughter's account. Or that cool Angry Birds iPhone app he paid 99 cents for back 20 years ago.
I back four people on Gittip, and I plan to increase that. Both in the amounts, and the number. I don't expect this money to go to anything specific. I don't even expect it to go to something related to the things you all do that give me reason to tip every week in the first place.

I do this because I want to. because I feel a need to give something to people who every day make my life a little easier (the OSS projects I use), or now and then do big and huge things (PyCon) that make my life better.

So, I want to do the same. I want your lives to be "a little bit better". Maybe that means you can take one gig less and spend more time on your free software projects. Maybe it means more time with the family, or friends, or alone. Maybe it means an extra video game in the budget this month. Whatever it is, that is your decision. It goes to something, I assume, that makes your life a little better, a little happier, a little easier.

I'm selfish, you see. The less stress you have, the more energy you have to put to the things that help me. It doesn't have to be direct. Go out and take up a new hobby with the money, spend it completely unrelated to the open source work you do. Because, when you come back home, you're going to feel a bit refreshed, with a clearer head, and you're going to do something great.
I'd love to hear any advice regarding improvements to site & page structure for SEO and marketing purposes. To give something back to the community that has taught me so much, use coupon code "HACKER" when you checkout.
About.com got hit pretty hard by the Panda algorithm change - they have definitely been less prevalent in search recently, although they still appear to be reasonably profitable.
As far as content farms go, they're one of the better ones? (since they basically invented the space, and demand etc. took it to new depths of pathetic content)
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Pedantic point: to be a success, the financial outcome from an acqui-hire probably needs to account for the financial sacrifices taken during the building of the company. You can get a much better deal from an acquirer than you would have from their HR process and still come out behind for having landed there via a startup buyout.

It obviously goes without saying that that outcome needs to be shared across the whole team, too.

Technically, wouldn't you also want the financial outcome to capture the risk that the startup was all going to come to nothing?

Finally, most importantly, and (admittedly) orthogonally: even with acqui-hires, what we're hearing are the "success" cases. Even those cases where the backbiting HN threads are tearing the company down for "obvious" failures, those are, relatively speaking, successes. We don't hear about the majority of seed-funded startups, which don't get any offers at all.
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And the first-sale doctrine is a restriction on contracts that is not inherently tied to copyright. We need a digital equivalent to it.

Edit: better wording
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BTW if you're an expatriate Brit who wants to access this content you can pony up about $5 a month for a VPN service with an endpoint out of the UK and still access all this content.

Isn't that just as illegal as downloading it? Or is it more legal because it's more technically savvy?
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That might work. If I have to wait 30 minutes to charge (and not even a full charge) it has to have a longer initial range than gas. There is also the problem I mentioned above that the place you are going has to actually have a charging station as well, otherwise your range is cut in half. Can't got 250 miles if there isn't a charge there. Then you only get 125.

Finally, not sure how this works, but it seems that "running out of gas" would be a much bigger problem. Can't just get a tank of gas and bring it out to the car. I assume you have to get the car towed to charging station? Are there any other options? Any easy way (i.e. something I can carry) to get a charge away from home?
I'm not from FireEye, but XP is not the only OS vulnerable. Rapid7 has created an exploit for Metasploit and was able to successfully execute an attack against a fully patched Windows 7 SP1 with Java 7 Update 6.

http://www.securityweek.com/new-java-exploit-spotted-wild
I used to think the same thing about Lisp syntax. I wondered how anyone could like it at all. For the last several years I've done a lot of coding in Scheme, and I have to admit, I've grown to really like it. I think the primary reason people dislike Lisp/Scheme-style syntax is that it is so very different than what they are used to. For years we've been programming in Algol-like syntaxes (C, C++, Java, etc) -- and when you're used to that, Lisp-like languages look so foreign that the natural response is often "ew! that looks awful!".

I know it's probably been said here multiple times before, but you really do get used to the parentheses, and eventually I think you'll even appreciate them (if you decide to really give Lisp or Scheme a chance).
Not all kindle books have drm. I bought one recently that explicitly specified it had none. Just as with iTunes, people should stop repeating what was once true, and focus more on what is true.
This is what I've been working on the last two weekends.

Why another to-do app? Because all the other ones are too complicated. First 20 visitors from HN get a free upgrade to a premium account by visiting this URL while logged in: http://kftodo.com/hackernews

I'd love to hear your feedback. I built this for my own use, so it has the features I want (and don't want), but there's gotta be other people that have similar preferences to me. Yes, it's built mostly by assembling components like jquery, stripe, and twitter bootstrap. But how else am I supposed to build something like this in my spare time in a couple weekends?

Please tell me if you like the UI and the simplicity, and if it has a shot of being useful to you.
For commuting that would work fine. The issue, at least in the U.S., is the trip to Grandma's house or family vacation--which might involve driving more than 4-5 hours with kids in the car, to more rural destinations. Gas stations are fewer and far between, and the driver typically wants to get filled up and out of there ASAP.
I've been developing on Unix for 20 years, I don't have many frustrations with it, about the same level as OSX, certainly not "constant frustration"

There are two things I like to do with a powerful computer:

1) Play high end performance sensitive games like Battlefield 3. Apple gets crushed in gaming performance.

2) Write code. The slower my computer is, the less productive I am.

I spend 99% of my time in the command line, IDE, and in the web browser.

Look, you are talking to someone who is a big fan of OS/X (but HATED non-Unix Apple OS). OS/X was the Unix I always wanted. But Apple simply is not competitive at the bleeding edge of computing power, they are making devices for consumers, overpriced devices. I care about buying the most amount of computing power I can for a given $. I like getting under the hood of my hardware. With the generic PC, I can build my own systems to spec, I can tune it the way I want.

I'm not saying that this is for everyone, but if you are someone who owned a Mac Pro, a Retina MacBook is not a replacement when other desktops with far more power for the $ are available, and the Retina screen is mostly irrelevant when people with Mac Pros typically had giant monitors attached.

I'm not saying the Retina MacBook is not a good laptop, in fact, it is a great, if not the best laptop. But I don't believe in desktop replacements. Portability trades off power due to weight, size, battery, and heat constraints. People with highend desktops usually don't want to make those tradeoffs, in fact, they typically make the opposite ones: 1000W power supplies, liquid cooling, ultra heavy heatsinks, etc.
Link to article in Nature: http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmat34...
I worked there and lived through the Primedia and NYT acquisition. The fact that they have sold this company this many times is amazing. The major equity holders probably cant believe their own luck.
I built my first and second rails projects without writing any tests. These were very small projects, just a few weeks of work on the larger one. By the time I was two weeks into the second project, I knew I was wasting a lot of time because I kept doing similar tests in the console when writing or modifying new code. But by that point I already felt like I had too much uncovered code to start writing tests. Cause if someone looked at it and saw just one test, what would they think ? (I know, right?)

The real reason is some kind of fear, that I do not exactly understand. Luckily, these were very small projects and never became anything I had to actually support or the tragedy would have been a lot more substantial - as it is my main loss was my own education.

My third rails project I forced myself to write specs and NEVER use the console for anything that slightly resembles testing - even if its just "trying things out". I put it all in tests and code and spent the effort to get my testing setup really fast and slick.

I've written dozens of tests now and still have a lot to learn but I'm definitely seeing a lot ofvalue. Hopefully it is not just cognitive dissonance. I've spent way more time on tests than on the actual code. I expect though that part will get better. I've been programming for sixteen years, but only testing for a few months.

One thing that really helped me is having some examples - the first I looked at were the tests that come with Devise, the other was the specs in Diaspora (http://github.com/diaspora/diaspora) . They have like 1700 tests for that rails app. I'm doubt they are a paragon of testing virtue, but it is a hell of a lot more relevant than the same trivial examples I've been reading in blogs for the last decade.
What about passion? Sense of accomplishment?

Neither of which put food on the table.
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Meta classes have a few uses but for the most part, they should not be seen in a codebase. Good to understand, better not to use... because the likelihood is that nobody who needs to use your code also wants to waste time understanding your metaclass magic
You're right - in that the only people who really got screwed when my .COM employer shut down was employees and investors, while founders and executives had already enriched themselves from the various financing rounds. So their willingness to fight was tempered by their desire for a long Caribbean vacation.

When the s* hits the fan at Groupon, will the founders want to fight, or will they look at the $1B they have in their bank account and decide to go to Italy for a while.
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The Leaf is a pure electric without a hybrid capability. According to Nissan's website, its range using a new battery can go as low as 62 miles:

http://www.nissanusa.com/leaf-electric-car/range?next=ev_mic...

It costs twice as much as the Versa it's based on.

Basically, it's not a compelling package.
I'm thinking something like the $200 kit from these people would be better bang for the money:

http://www.science-surplus.com/products/spectrometers
So many things of mine being sent to Box right now =)
In addition to that challenge, I think the most valuable aspect of the program is giving these kids additional skills that can be useful, whether they decide to embark in entrepreneurship and/or software development or not. They'll have the contacts and knowledge to break out of the local restraints that prevent people from moving up.
I think he's suggesting you would host this on your personal domain, reviewing other services. Yelp/etc would then act as an aggregation of these reviews, rather than the hosting company for them.
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Can't agree with this enough. I think most people believe that there is a need for copyright in some form. In it's current form, especially because of the ridiculous cases of people being sued for millions because they downloaded a few songs, it's just gotten a bad reputation.

The comparisons to open source software never do much to convince me. Many people think that it is a good model and make money through it sure, but I believe commercial software makes more money and that money is easier made (for example money from a sale instead of money from support seems much easier to do and scale).

The digital music space has been improving (iTunes has been DRM free for a while now) and it's hopefully going to get better - probably as more of the old media people retire and the companies enter the control of people who have grown up with digital content. The only way things will move forward is if both sides compromise but the mentality some people have of 'I want it now, I want it in the format I want, and I want it free' doesn't do much to convince music/movie/book companies. It makes them want to lock things down tighter, not open them up.
Saving face is huge everywhere in Asia AFAIK. Shame is a driving emotion, rather than guilt as in Western cultures. So not wanting to shame the company name could've been a driving factor.

<insert standard disclaimer about generalizations>
For Hadoop, Apache's wiki is pretty comprehensive. It talks about both the internals of Hadoop and how to get it up and running with examples.

Also there is no such thing as NoSQL. What databases are you looking to study specifically?
While I do keep an archived copy of my entire 200GB library on the home server, does this even matter anymore?

Spotify anyone?

Subscription services will eventually win over large locally owned media. It's so nice to have access to any song I want for $10 /month, without having to worry if my iPhone has enough storage to hold it all.
How does your parser handle malformed entries? How do you handle text encoding? What are the valid attributes, what constitutes valid text?

XML is unsexy, but it's only complex because it addresses these issues up front. A clever one-liner doesn't make these issues go away, it just postpones them to an inopportune time later.
Just wanted to add that there is another interesting article here that links the Theory of Contagion to sympathetic magic:

http://laphamsquarterly.org/essays/very-superstitious.php?pa...

Apparently the idea that diseases can spread through contagion is a prime example of something that was previously considered to be magic that later came to be accepted by science.
The problem here is that the content industry wants to have their cake and eat it too (quelle surprise).

Take ebooks as a much simpler example. The distribution costs of a single ebook are essentially zero. Even if you, as a publisher, pay Apple/Amazon 30% you're better off than retail and retail typically has a higher markup, means printing books, storing them in warehouses, shipping them across the country/world, etc.

On top of this ebooks are basically nontransferable whereas paper books can of course been sold secondhand. The latter is such a "problem" that the textbook industry, as just one example, will keep changing editions each year or two just to kill the secondhand market.

It should come as no surprise that ebooks are nontransferable either.

Given all these restrictions and lower costs of production it seems logical that ebooks should be cheaper than their dead tree equivalents. But oh no, they're typically the same price or even more expensive. This is nothing but greed. What's more, publishers are shooting themselves in the foot (long term) here because they should be encouraging a system whereby you can buy a given textbook, it can't be sold secondhand and the original owner keeps getting updates (people don't typically rebuy later editions of the same textbook I would guess).

Music isn't really that different. CDs, which are transferable, have the same costs of printing, storage, distribution and retail markup, even against the 30% (is this confirmed for music?) margin Apple/Amazon take yet I don't think you'll be saving any money by buying whole MP3 albums vs CDs (more often than not).

If electronic media were cheaper like it should be I think consumers would have an easier time accepting the nontransferability aspect. People, on the whole, have an innate sense of fairness (IMHO).

As far as iTunes accounts and the like go, on a practical level you can simply take over the account. Apple has a facility to change the Apple ID. I can't see any barriers to this.

EDIT: From [1]:

Traditional publishing has a traditional formula for calculating the retail list price, the price printed on the book. That list price is typically about eight times the cost of manufacturing. In clothing retail terms, that translates into a markup of about 88% between publisher and reader.

There are several reasons for the big percentage. Not only does the actual bookseller require a markup, but often there are two “middlemen” between the publisher and the bookstore: a distributor and a wholesaler who must each get a piece of the action. And of course the publisher wants to make a profit and better not sell merely for the cost of manufacturing.

which basically confirms the 12% figure. But I was referring to the retail markup and costs of distribution (distributor/wholesaler).

[1]: http://bookmakingblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/prices-discounts-...
>First, the (bandpass) Bayer color filter arrays on cameras limit their color resolution pretty sharply. It might be a better (if less elegant) approach to use the ambient light sensor and scan it across the spectrum generated by the diffraction grating.

The diffraction grating spreads the different frequencies physically across the sensor. So the camera sensor doesn't need any color information, you only need position and brightness information.