skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh well now that you said it the argument is settled. You can't just say OS X has the poorest hardware support ever and not back it up with anything except "go buy some hardware and see what works and what doesn't". Is there maybe a table online that lists these incompatibilities you can link to? Please don't say "do some research" because the onus is on you to prove yourrself right, not on me to prove you right.

You also said "even compared to Linux". That's interesting. That statement there gives the impression that you're more interested in defending your own beliefs and/or choices rather than being truly interested in explaining to us what OS has objectively terrible hardware support. "even compared to Linux" sounds like something an apologist would say. Then when you added in the "think different" line you made it seem even more like your comment was based off some kind of blind loyalty to Linux rather than loyalty to facts.

Me? I've used Mac, a handful of Linux distros, and Windows for a long time. I don't know which has the best or worse hardware support but I do know when someone says something based on what camp they're in rather than what the facts are.
C’mon, Facebook Is Actually Pretty Awesome
The difference is that the "true mainstream media" is one-directional, so they are just broadcasting the show. If there would be a show with Obama answering telephone calls on live TV or radio, then very few calls could be heard live.
If Reddit would do only broadcasting then it would be an easier problem because reads can be cached easier then reads + writes.
As popular as your former employer is, there's a pretty wide gap from reddit to owning a telephone -- Look how badly CNN misrepresented reddit; that's the level of understanding most people will have if someone who is essentially looking for a news story spins it that direction.
What being a jazz musician was link circa 1956
There is also McGimp, which is a fully OSX native version of Gimp: http://www.partha.com/
Completely agree with the CouchDB choice. It has really elegant and unique features but combined with rock solid durability. You can configure it to fsync after every update it does as much as it possibly can together with the OS to make sure you data reaches the disk before returning a result. That is very important if you value your data.

As for other features, I like the REST-ful interface, a continuous changes feed, master to master replication, and a usable interface to see and manage data -- Futon. I haven't yet found a product that comes with all those features.
That tool looks great! I have never seen it talked about anywhere before but fits my needs for my side project and my work.
Do you really believe any of this comment? You're a pretty smart guy. I don't believe you think anyone reads this article and thinks Fried is saying Groupon runs that way, or that Fried is in any way endorsing how Groupon is run.

I know this is a message board and we're all committing message board thinking, but snap out of it for just a second.

We're talking about a real person --- a person who by the way is posting on this very thread --- who runs a real business. From what I've seen of that business, it runs, successfully, the way he describes it. I wish we'd stop talking as if Fried was Chairman Mao and we're really debating global communism.
Take this one step further with transparent editing of encrypted files in vim:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Edit_gpg_encrypted_files

If you structure the file, say, passswords, appropriately, or even very loosely (one record per line), you can write a bash script or function to query the file. More useful if you've got a pgp-agent running. Say:

qpass () { gpg -d ~/passwords.asc | grep $1; }

... and when you want to know your HN password, you query it with 'qpass ycomb'
That's exactly what I meant. A camera doesn't NEED apps, but it would be useful to have the ability. I would definitely use Instagram and Dropbox Camera Upload with this device.
Apple's OS X Human Interface Guidelines[1]: "In general, quit when users close the last open window in your app."

[1]: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/UserExp...
I think you're suffering from a bit of david broderism. "I want to look reasonable, so I'll say both sides do it".

Fox News viewers are the least informed viewers in every survey ever conducted. They thought that Saddam had been caught with WMDs in like 2007. Almost a majority thinks Obama wasn't born in America. These are scientific surveys, and it's completely different from a liberal being biased to explain away facts that they acknowledge.

If Fox News is saying something, and people are repeating it, I think we're doing them a disservice by saying they don't really believe it.
> "Not surprisingly, every answer he’s offered up so far has been studiously on-message."

This part was a bit disappointing. Part of the fun of an AMA is finding out the unexpected.

His one-liners about the Bulls or "NOT BAD" were my favorite parts.
I've ranked quite a few sites with variations of this exact technique, so I'm not quite sure where the idea that these links won't benefit you is coming from. I absolutely respect your opinion though and do agree that reaching out to influencers and engaging them is a big big deal.

This strategy is simply a component of an overall outreach and SEO campaign for any product. It very much needs to be mixed in with a variety of other techniques for full success.

The reason I shared it was because once you spend the hour or so to set everything up, you can sit down each day with your cup of coffee and spend 15 minutes building some links while interacting with the community in a very easy way. Mix that in with more specific outreach and you have a good strategy for growing exposure to your product.
I wonder if Romney will follow up with his own AMA
Available off of amazon:
http://www.leuchtturm1917.com/

I switched from moleskines, and have been quite happy.
MongoDB does pretty much everything the opposite of Oracle: Easy to setup, use and program.

However, Oracle sure is raking in the dough, so is Mongo succeeding simply because they're fulfilling a niche left by Oracle, or because it's the 'right way' to build a software product company?

I hope the answer is the latter, and that Oracle's billions are simply the result of the being entrenched after years and years of doing it the 'old way. That being said, I think it's a little too early to be championing Mongo's business model (even though I'm rooting for it).
We have a staging environment, but its really only used for really big changes that might need to be experimented with before being deployed. We can also deploy a branch to a single front end to observe how it behaves with a subset of the traffic, and roll it back quickly if needed. Also, most large user-facing features are released as "staff-only" first, so we as GitHub users are able to play around with it for a few days or weeks before enabling it for everyone.
In absolute terms, Tenstile (psi x1,000) for Ti Vs CFRP
Tensile = 145 vs 215
Shear= 135 vs 1.5 <<that is why things go crack.

Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP)
Composition: 70% carbon fibers in epoxy matrix
Property	Value in metric unit	Value in US unit
Density	1.6 10³	kg/m³	101	lb/ft³
Tensile modulus (LW)	181	GPa	26300	ksi
Tensile modulus (CW)	10.3	GPa	1500	ksi
Tensile strength (LW)	1500	MPa	215000	psi
Tensile strength (CW)	40	MPa	5800	psi
Thermal expansion (20 ºC, LW)	0.0210-6	ºCˉ¹	0.0110-6	in/(in ºF)
Thermal expansion (20 ºC, CW)	22.510-6	ºCˉ¹	12.510-6	in/(in* ºF)

LW- Lengthwise direction, CW- Crosswise direction

[1] http://www.substech.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=epoxy_matrix_co...

[2] http://www.substech.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=titanium_near-a....

These are directinally correct for raw materials; the actual alloys and engineered structures will take into account obvious characteristics of the material.
Great advice. The days of quick spammy links are way over. Now posting a link on someone's blog for obvious SEO benefits is just tacky, and will get LESS people to link to you.

Organic is the key word here. Make links with people not websites.
this is pretty sweet! actually takes all that command line stuff out of the way, if you're a vim user that is... thanks!
Most professions in the U.S have unions. The most publicized are their sport player unions, which have perfected the art of collective bargaining. Worker unions are a part of U.S culture.
It's debatable how much the loan thing contributes to the overall price or rate of attendance. 7% sucks for a loan, it's not like they're supply-siding it. I'd put it more on students aren't the best decision makers when the choice is between "attend school or get a job". Not to mention that a large percentage of attendees at the ivies have parents who can pay the bill.

Also, it's worth noting that maybe not for this student, but for last year's class, starting law school in Sep 2008 looked like a great idea and graduating in 2011 looks terrible.

That said, I'm generally on board with the whole 10,000 lawyers at the bottom of the sea sentiment. If this is a market correction, good.
> This idea that MongoDB is dangerous is just crazy

The idea that a database was shipping with a mode where it would return after a write without waiting for the result to be written to disk. Or a database where silent data corruption is an easy possibility and yet still called itself a database is what is "crazy"
There's nothing spammy about leaving a genuine comment on a real blog. This method simply automates the collection of possible blog posts to post on, there's nothing spammy about it at all.
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Go easy on him, it's only the second week of the semester.
What Would an Entrepreneur-First Political Platform Really Look Like?
Or how Obama killed reddit.
What i find annoying in OS X is flipping over to a desktop, telling an app to start (with the hope that it starts in that desktop), then flipping over to another desktop to keep doing stuff while it loads, only to find that the app has decided to start on your current desktop, not the one you launched it in.
That would be hilarious.

We should force him to answer his stance on the movie Rampart.
No, seriously, what’s wrong with mc in Terminal.app? I mean, OS X and Terminal.app take over function keys for other purposes like, I don't know, changing the volume, but these things can be disabled if you want to use function keys for something else, like mc commands.
It's very likely what you did made ranking a correlative rather than causative effect. Most of these comments were probably no-follow, and even if not, devalued b/c below the fold - reasoning: the Reasonable Surfer patent -http://www.seobythesea.com/2010/05/googles-reasonable-surfer...

I agree that this can be helpful, but the way it is framed in this article is dangerous, because it can easily be misinterpreted.
Yes it might "cost less", but I wonder, he also gets food stamps, do you think (in this case) less would some how be affordable for him? In reality without the handout tuition might cost less, but he still wouldn't be able to afford it and now he would have no alternatives to getting an education when he's clearly motivated. Interested in any thoughts on this.
Thanks for taking the time to explain. While I haven't experienced much joy in reading mathematics so far (beyond a select few books), maybe I'll understand in a few years.
Due to the enormous usage of Reddit, CNN's misunderstanding of Reddit made CNN look like the asses.
Depends on what opportunities were out there. I'm not opposed to starting my own company, I just don't think it's the only way to happiness.
It is not the correct way to do it. It has some very simple problems.

First, if I have a bunch of little windows on a big screen--something very common on Apple computers--I have to drag my mouse all the way to the top of the screen and then drag it back. For me, this was an serious problem. Partly this was because I was also using one of the horrible Apple mice (the "mighty mouse" or something of that nature). This was particularly annoying because I would often lose focus by clicking on something else by accident and have to go all the way back to my original window and then all the way back to the top... Incredibly annoying.

Second, not all programs have--or need--options on top. I essentially live out of Emacs and Chrome these days; neither uses a menu. That would make the Apple bar just a waste of screen space--completely absurd. Moreover, I've found that bar to be superfluous on other software I use as well. Having more minimalistic interfaces is a breath of fresh air--and completely impossible on OS X.

It also fails to generalize well to multiple screens.

Oh, and there are going to be problems if you want to make the available options context-dependent. This is a reasonable design decision if you have a complex program with a bunch of small, discrete windows for different tasks--something else that isn't uncommon on OS X. This sort of behavior is far clearer if there is a menu per window than if there is a single menu for whatever is currently active.
Amen. That's the thing. You don't realize how many hoops you've been jumping through to do the same things that devs on Linus or OS X do effortlessly until you make the switch. But people don't make the switch because they have this blind loyalty to whatever theyre using. So whenever they see someone else loving a different OS they dole out ad nominee attacks, call the products over priced, or too complicated for normal users, or elitist. It's all to do with justifying one's decision to use X despite evidence that Y may be better or just as good and possibly some jealousy in some cases.

In any case it's all dumb blind loyalty the vast majority of the time. And that applies to Linux, Mac, and Windows. You can't have a discussion about operating systems with 90%+ of people because everyone just defends their favorite and facts are distorted to suit those preferences. It really is just about useless to have a discussion about operating systems as "substantive" or "meaningful" discussions about the subject are about as rare as unicorns.
Like iTunes.
That comes straight from pg, as reddit was his idea. He sold it to Alexis and Steve as "the front page of the Internet", that is, a user-curated list of all of the most interest links out there. While it may be read as ambitious, it was originally just intended to describe what reddit was and how it worked. It was the precursor of the "AirBnB for lightbulbs" taglines that dominated pitches a couple years ago.
Would really love to hear if people agree, but am even more interested in why people might disagree.
Agreed. This is a huge step forward for Gimp!
For perspective: I read a bit in the most recent New Yorker describing a fund-raiser dinner with the president; it was $50,000 a plate and the president had one hour which equated to 1 minute per person. His staff knew he wouldn't have time to eat so he was prepared a meal he ate quickly in the kitchen beforehand. A staffer with a watch would tap him on the shoulder every 5 minutes when he needed to move onto the next table.
It was like finding a paint by number in an art museum.
> Also, the app quits when the last window is closed, which isn't how OS X apps are supposed to behave.

This is almost consistent with Apple's HIG: "In general, quit when users close the last open window in your app. [...] If users close the last remaining document window in a document-based app and switch to another app, it’s appropriate to quit the app" (emphasis added). [1]

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/UserEx...
Well, no. The smart money[1] is on Obama being re-elected, but likely not by the same margin as he saw in 2008...when he won 52.9% of the popular vote. However, it's too soon to tell what the effects of a couple developments will be:

1. A systematic effort in 'swing' states (the states that are not predictably behind one candidate or another) to disenfranchise as many poor and minority voters (traditionally reliably voting blocs for Democratic candidates, such as Obama) as possible by implementing stringent new voter ID laws just months before the election (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/03/how-vote...). The nominal purpose of this is to prevent voter fraud, but between 2002 and 2006 there were only 86 convictions related to voter fraud out of 200 million votes cast (http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/policy_brief_o...). Another (self-described conservative) source indicates the number as being 400 in the last ten years (http://www.theamericanconservative.com/sore-losers/).

2. A relentlessly negative and admittedly not-reality-based campaign from the Romney campaign to re-litigate welfare reform, which hasn't been a real issue in sixteen years, since Clinton gutted the system (http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/peter-edelman-mit...)

Also, please note that a poll conducted last year indicated that 25% of Americans believed that Obama was born outside the United States and, therefore, ineligible to be President[2]:

While 25 percent of all Americans in this new poll say
Mr. Obama was born outside the U.S., 57 percent correctly
said he was born in the United States. Another 18 percent
said they did not know where he was born.

To say that the United States has a massively uninformed electorate would be an understatement[3]. And the problem is getting worse now that the US Supreme Court allowed corporations and high net worth individuals to anonymously contribute unlimited amounts of money to so-called 'SuperPACs'. SuperPACs are supposedly not allowed to coordinate directly with the candidate(s) they support, but that doesn't matter for two reasons:

1. Their ads are overwhelmingly negative[4], and it doesn't take a genius to figure out how to run attack ads against the opponent.

2. The 'firewall' between candidates and the SuperPACs is so narrowly defined that it might as well be non-existent[5].

[1] 538, TPM, Sam Wang at Princeton, etc. etc. I can provide citations if necessary.

[2] http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20056061-503544.html

[3] http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/nov/09/brains-and-ballo... -- my favorite quote: And here’s where it’s interesting, and a little scary. “The dirty little secret of American politics is that the least-informed people are decisive in elections,” McDonald said. This is because the most well-informed voters, the highest on the socio-economic and educational attainment ladder, tend to be partisans and not up for grabs. They know how they’re going to vote.

[4] http://kantarmediana.com/cmag/press/study-negative-campaign-...

[5] http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79854.html
Another thing I consider a great feature of CouchDB is the cached map-reduce views. It makes it easy to think and reason about indexing.

I've seen this situation quite a bit with traditional SQL databases: somehow you end up with a giant complicated query, and it's becoming a bottle-neck and it's having a terrible impact on performance. Somehow you need to untangle the mess and figure out where the problem is. Sometimes you find out the query is just poorly written. Other times the problem is fixed by simply adding indexes to some table.

This is a terrible situation I don't want to run into.

I have a feeling MongoDB might also suffer from a smilar problem, because it doesn't have cached map-reduce views; it has a query language.

In CouchDB, views are pretty much indexes, and they're pretty much the only way to do a query. I'd argue that because it's explicit like that, it's easy to reason about.
> In this analogy, fast accrual of debt leads to one place: bankruptcy. Which, in software engineering, is the ground-up rewrite.

Bankruptcy can be just that -- bankruptcy and loss of job, liquidation of a company.

It can go either way. Spending years perfecting a product and polishing it to 100% only wake up and find out that someone else used something crappy fast and easy to setup thing, got the product out, and started getting real customers. Now they have enough to go double their team and start rewriting if they want.

Or picking something fast and easy to setup and after getting a few initial customers finding that scaling out doesn't work. The site crashes and everything is going to shit, data is silently corrupted, it has already been backed up and overwrote older backups and customers are leaving for something else, maybe not as flashy and cool, but something that works.
"In apps that are not document-based ..."

GIMP is document-based.
Keep reading...

"If an app continues to perform some function when the main window is closed, it might be appropriate to leave it running after the user closes the main window. For example, iTunes continues to play after the user closes the main window."
I believe that the definition they use is in statically linking to object code at compile time or dynamically linking at runtime [1].

So, I guess you could use Unix sockets to interface with the library to get around that, but you'd have to open-source the modifications to the library that make it accessible over Unix sockets.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linker_(computing)
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> Many of the problems people have with Linux have nothing to do with Linux itself.

I disagree.

What the OP is complaining about is the same thing Miguel was complaining about, and it's the exact same thing JWZ called out 9 years in his CADT rant[1]. It has nothing whatsoever to do with manufacturers failing to provide drivers and everything to do with attention-deficit devs never wanting to knuckle down and do the hard, unglamorous work of long-term maintenance and bug fixing.

Working systems (with known bugs) are thrown out and re-written as new, incompatible systems with even more bugs. Everything breaks every time some idiot decides that they'll rewrite the audio/desktop inter-op/init/logging/whatever subsystem because This Time It'll Be Done Right™. This perpetual treadmill of half-working betas never ends.

It gets old.

[1]: http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
Once in a while I surprise myself by independently coming up with exactly the same designs for similar problems (or, in fact, the same problem that I forgot I solved already few months ago). Most of the time I don't remember any details of the problem besides the general idea that I had it before. And then when I finally dig up the code it looks exactly like I was going to write (or was in the process of writing :)).
That link you posted seems to be 404'ing
Neither do I. Ncurses and mc work just fine in OS X Terminal.app. Even under 10.8.1
Speaking as a rather rabidly liberal software developer, allow me to respond to one point:

"Here's to hoping that the 21st century Jimmy Hoffa will be a developer."

Please, no: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hoffa#Prison_sentence. He was incredibly corrupt.
The new budget workstation: SAPPHIRE announces an AMD FirePro APU-based system
Facebook has all the tools in place for sharing things perfectly and privately just as I would want and I know I can even customize them per piece of media I put out there. The problem I have is working through 500+ people and figuring out who to share what with. I think the reason people are looking for an alternative for some aspects of sharing is that it's too much trouble to curate that giant list (and sometimes, as you mentioned, useful to just keep that giant list of friends). Instead of going through and curating all those people, it's far easier to go with a new service, proactively add just a few people you care to share with for any given event and then put your photos/content there.
MailChimp's 2-factor authentication: Am I Missing Something?
I guess I understand that angle. Starting over is easy, but won't it be kind of a self-perpetuating cycle of social networks that we need to throw away and replace if we keep that up?