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I assume the OP would be using llvm, as this is the default OSX compiler, and the gcc command is usually just an alias or link to clang.

In real world code this kind of optimisation is designed to catch things programmers aren't aware of, for a large decrease in required computation. In this case, sum(1 .. n) == n*(n+1)/2.
It's not Jury Nullification: they didn't decide that they should not apply the law, they misunderstood the law (and ignored the Judge's instructions).
I guess people don't know how to use google:

http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/21/add-color-to-the-terminal-in-...
McKeown used to teach CS244 before it was watered down into a lit review course (and before CS144 existed). The premise was basically that you will have built the entire internet by the end of the quarter. I took CS244 in early 2008 and it was probably my favorite class at Stanford.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4497397
"Can you split windows?" - CMD+D splits vertically
"Use tabs?" - yes, CMD+T
"Can you change color profiles?" - yes
"why not a maximise button?" - there is a separate fullscreen button now if you want maximize
Wouldn't a better title be "65.5% of US Internet Population using Facebook/Twitter"?
The original image from the article as well: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kyeung808/3772395851/
Most consumers prefer to get a free/lower cost phone in exchange for a contract commitment. Whether the "value" to the consumer stands up to scrutiny in financial terms is not really important; most consumers like it, thus it is a value to them.
I have to switch my os to check these. If you are right It's better than what I think about it.
"Rent control protects tennants from higher prices.."

That's bullshit. What rent control does is distorts the market so you have people hanging onto apartments when they may not need them. As a result, it creates shortages. When some dude in Soho NYC is paying $600 for a nice two bedroom, and his next door neighbor is paying $4500, then there's a big problem with that system.
>> That word "Predicts" is dangerous. It strongly suggests causation, though it only reflects a statistical correlation.

> REALLY?

Yes -- really. It is very misleading.

> What do you WANT them to say?

Replace "predicts" with "is correlated with." That's the meaning of the work being described -- a correlation between A and B has been observed. But this doesn't mean that A predicts B, or A causes B, or even that B causes A. Both may result from some unevaluated cause C.

Science is not description, it is explanation. The linked article describes, and then draws a conclusion that goes far beyond the description. But it never presumes to explain why the author's conclusion might be so.

> "A predicts B" does NOT AT ALL imply "A causes B"

It certainly does. Rain predicts puddles. Puddles do not predict rain, they follow from it.
OSX is good for developers with families. The wife and kids are happy and you're pretty happy too. Win-win all the way around.
Wow, I don't think I've ever had such a visceral reaction to anything I've posted on HN before. By people who clearly didn't take the time out of their day to even read what I posted!

Basically, I don't use python very much and wanted to know if python had performance issues that required you to drop down to C code often, or if that was just for a scenario such as this.

I think that any language that REQUIRES you to drop down to a lower level for performance (not one that SUPPORTS it, but one where it's REQUIRED) is inherently broken. I would think that would be a pretty noncontroversial statement - if every python script you wrote had to have embedded C code because otherwise it was too slow, that would be pretty broken. That's why I wanted to know how common this was.
While I didn't see any public mention of it, you can use

curl --data-binary @your-file.png http://tinypng.org/api/shrink
This always makes me wonder whether there isn't something about the imperfections from these analog copies (not to mention various analog playback mechanisms) that 'adds' to the richness/perceived value of the music...
Perhaps on some level some percentage of us prefer to know that we have a copy of a copy, or some level of imperfection, in our version that we play, vs a straight up 100% clone
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Terminal has tabs (had it since early 00's).

The lack of split panes was what made me switch to iTerm. I don't use it that often, but it's a "nice to have" feature. Terminal.app has split panes, but it's not "two sessions, side-by-side", rather "different windows into the same session", which I personally don't like much.

And you're right. You can't change the color profile like http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=86353 , which might be a bummer for some one like you (you can change the 16 ANSI colors to look less horrible though!).

Why no maximize button? I don't know the reasoning behind that, but I don't miss it. Full screen apps are amazing (for one monitor scenarios), and OS X has a nice handy feature called "Hide Others" (Command-Option-H) that gives you a distraction-free experience without making the app ridiculously large (and showing you a million white pixels!)

[1] touches upon this issue and has good arguments for it.

But of course, power users need more "power", so I also use the wonderful Moom[2] which combined with "Zoom" and "Full Screen" fulfills 100% of my windowing needs.

[1]: http://www.macyourself.com/2011/02/06/why-doesnt-mac-os-xs-g...

[2]: http://manytricks.com/moom/
> I'm also not sure what the heck he is talking about in the conclusion - people without a liberal education are unable to make their own choices about what to buy?

In my opinion he is talking about an uneven playing field.

There is a multi million dollar advertising industry which is applying psychological tricks to lure people into buying goods which might not be in those peoples best interest.

On the other hand there are many studies that show that people do not feel any luckier above a certain money threshold, that a larger car makes you only slightly happier for a couple of months and that most people on their death bed regret not having spent enough time with their family.

Of course this is nothing you hear about in the superbowl half time since it is not in the "interest of capitalism" as the author states it.

Maybe those things should be taught at school to counterbalance the effects of advertising.
That voice totally does it! The thing is really easy to put together in 5 minutes, but text-to-speech is a neat feature that other similar sites don't have.
Respect would require increasing the word count. Hopefully the jump-right-in-and-comment formatting conveyed a half sense of playfulness and half irrational zealotry.

After all, mild humour is always more hilarious when fully explained.
> unfamiliar key bindings, look for any other keyboard except OsX ones and show me the apple or the option or the command keys then I will back.

Huh? On any non-Apple keyboard, the alt keycode corresponds to Command, and the windows keycode corresponds to Option. Since their positions are usually reversed vs Apple keyboards, you can swap them around via the standard Keyboard preference panel.
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"that preventing a child molester from viewing fake kiddie porn will make him violent"

May I just be a dick and point out that you transparently assumed the hypothetical child molester is male here? And also, that I said "[suppression of] desire will lead to a miserable life" but that it "[may] possibly lead to violence".

I don't think the former point is in question, and the latter was clearly marked as speculative.

That said, it's clear from e.g. the 'elastic band around penis' study that homophobia and homosexual desire are correlated. Homophobia seems to be a response to a perceived threat seen to be made by the openly homosexual against the closeted person, either directly (by flirting with them), or indirectly (threatening the traditional institutions of society).

I don't think it's a stretch to say that this pattern of suppressed desire leading to extreme abuse—particularly when the temptation is perceived to be 'flaunted'—is predictable, and that expecting it to be limited to just homophobia is naive.

However, I indeed don't have a study handy, and I do applaud you for asking for the citation.
A question for someone in the know that see this.

Are these qualifications the sort of thing you could include in a CV?

Being only 9 months in my first IT job it looks pretty bare right now, in need of padding.
It's evident that you don't know what you're talking about. That is not a service in any meaningful way. A service is any kind of action performed for compensation. That action cannot be the actual act of compensating. Does Walmart give you money for giving them money? No.

This translates to Amazon. They are selling the rights to distribute one's books on their platform, and in return take 30%. Amazon provides a service, the bookseller pays them money. (In this case, that money is zero, but that's beside the point. In general, the seller is Amazon's customer.)
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The population density is so low because the country is so damned big. China's pop density is 24th in the world. The US has a greater density than Sweeden.
Thanks. After reading the post, I turned my prompt into that : https://gist.github.com/648a75ec821acff10749

which looks like that : http://i.imgur.com/Qc86I.png

I like having an uri directly pastable to scp. Also, as mentioned in other comments, Having a fixed length prompt on the command line is quite appreciable.

I'm unsatisfied, though, with the need of subshells to draw a single prompt. It's ok for the git part, but I feel like the PROMPT_COMMAND part is a hack, I just can't succeed in making it displays colors (rather than escaped characters) without a subshell.
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where exactly does it say he's trying to sell it?

I can't see that anywhere.

edit: looks like only amazon refer to it as being 'sold', can't see the author mention it.
You obviously haven't read the other interviews with the foreman and other members of the jury, then. There are jurors who stated that the foreman explained various issue of patent law to them - drawing on his own experience as a patent holder - and that helped them make up their minds.

It sounds to me that you have an axe to grind and you haven't read the interviews that are out in the public domain.
http://www.iterm2.com/#/section/features

Looks to me like it just exposes many of the out-of-the-box Linux terminal features that aren't immediately obvious & require Googling to setup. But saying that it is so amazing it alone warrants ditching Linux and going Mac is a ridiculous statement that certainly wasn't intended to be taken at face value.
> From what I remember, the default terminal emulator on OSX does not even allow customising the color palette! I was able to only change the foreground and background color, and forced to stick to one of the predefined themes for the rest.

This certainly hasn't been true since at least 10.7, and I think for longer than that.
And as Dawkins pointed out, in the most important point in The God Delusion, the religious "moderates" provide epistemic cover and support for the nutjobs. You are enablers of the terrorists and other extremists.
It sucks living in a beehive. I don't particularly want to share walls with random people unless I have to. There's no virtue in being crowded unless that's your thing. Suggesting that everyone should be crowded to fit some urban planner's idea of efficient is the real idiocy. The people making the rules don't live in 400sf apartments.
That part of the DMCA, sadly, doesn't exist. The only penalties it gives are for the infringement and for the failure to take content down when given a valid request.

There's nothing for false claims. In fact, I don't think there are any provisions for punishing fraudulent Copyright claims.
funny. Because if you own the address halfarsed@gmail.com, I thought you also own half.arsed@gmail.com.

The dots are for you to play around with, but the mail all goes to one account. Or, at least, that's how it works with my account.
I switched from Windows and Linux to OSX.

I found there were many things that I did not know, and had to learn.

How do I rename a file in the GUI? (right click, select "get info", change the file name in the box, etc.)

How do I do keyboard text navigation? Option (or alt)left or right arrow will move one word. Command left or right arrow will move to the beginning or end of a line. Adding shift will select the text. (etc etc.)

How do I turn off the sound when I turn my machine on? (Don't turn the machine off, or use a third party software.)

There's some things which can't be done.

But, in the end, computers are tools, and people need to be comfortable with their tools. So use whatever fits your needs.
In that case you are criminalizing something other than the thing you actually want to stop. It's not walking across the street that's the problem, it's running into traffic. In this relatively low stakes problem people still run into the problem of not knowing the unwritten law. For instance people from cities where jaywalking is never prosecuted go to somewhere where it is aggressively prosecuted and get shafted.
Loving those comics, are there more?
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This is nothing compared to Sydney. We were paying $4k AUD for a run down 3 bed apartment in Newtown. This has been the norm for quite some time, and is probably down to the fact that Sydney has 1% vacancy.

I've since moved to a town called Newcastle and pay $1700.
It's pretty easy to Google for specific cases of young adults, some less than 22 years old being prosecuted for having younger (16,17 years old) girl/boyfriends. What about teenagers sending naked pictures to their girl/boyfriends through their mobile phones? Not a problem you say? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJBIvBfk26o.

So that video mentions the 15 year old girl who sent the photos, facing federal prosecution as an adult for child pornography charges, and then mentions that the people who've received the photos possibly facing charges as well. Sounds like the author of the article was spot on.

I'd like your opinion on the link I just sent please. The authors point was about the laws being outdated and people being more afraid of dealing with the issue than facing it appropriately for victims. He wrote a good article in relation to that.
Designing for one particular disability (impaired vision) isn't never
enough, and unfortunately, it can be mutually exclusive to some degree.
If you imagine something designed specifically for the visually impaired
(e.g. everything is audio), then hearing impaired are locked out.
Similarly, designs specifically addressing physical impairments can
drive everyone else nuts.
I like this, but I must cite you for a Comic Sans infraction.

http://www.comicsanscriminal.com/
While I don't agree that the default scheme is "disgusting", I have to admit that the alternative presented there is rather attractive.

Perhaps I'll give this a go for a while.
I now have a standing desk and I find that much better than any of the desk chairs I've ever had, including the very expensive Freedom Chair by Humanscale.
Using ActiveSync to access Exchange would probably be the best way to pull it off (though there are probably patent-related concerns). A lot of Exchange admins aren't going to like opening up IMAP, but nearly every Exchange installation today has ActiveSync enabled and exposed to the Internet.
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definitely prefer open source but sometimes have to delve into the other to get the outcome sought. aversion to buying a product and now owning it though. should be yours to do with as you please.
I've published a book for the Kindle on Amazon that was published shortly after the Civil War. The price is nominal, but I put a lot of work into formatting the book, proofing it, preparing the illustrations, etc.

It was a labor of love for a book I really liked, and I don't expect to make any real money off of it, but I think a small fee is entirely justifiable. And if one doesn't like that fee, one can go find another copy elsewhere.
Those positions aren't mutually exclusive. There are plenty of pro-life people who work on the demand side of the abortion scenario, it's not all clinic bombers, even though they are the most newsworthy.
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I can't tell you how to unsubscribe, but I can give you the link to the FTC to complain about violations of the CAN-SPAM act: https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov

I complained about Facebook for requiring me to sign in to unsubscribe from group-emails (which I had already turned off twice).
San Francisco is a nice enough place, but I fail to see the attraction: high taxes, fees for everything you do, a fascist city council, homeless people pretty much do whatever they want and people that love to berate you for not driving a Prius. The geography of San Fran is nice but it's like living in an Al Gore version of Animal Farm. Aside from the weather, Texas is a far more logical place to be. In Austin, $3500 per month would buy a palace compared to San Fran.
Unfortunately, even assuming static API's, changing ABI's mean having third party packages and central shared libraries isn't going to happen.
Finally, something New Yorkers are happy to be #2 at.
"Call it 'growth hacking' if you want, but the name is quite smart in that respect."

Traffic != use, in roughly the same way that gawking at an accident != first aid.
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Interesting. I just tried it with a couple of different proxies and it worked for me. Do you get an error message?
Use Verbs.

http://verbs.im/
> Programs like launchctl (for instance) are not exactly fun to work with, but they do get the job done.

One thing I like about launchd is that on OS X, there is one standard way to launch daemons. On Linux, there are a thousand ways to launch daemons. launchd also has a bunch of features, one of which is to start services on demand, upon connection to a socket, something Ubuntu hasn't had until the latest 12.04 (http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natty/man8/upstart-socke...). I do agree, however, that OS X shouldn't be used for anything more than a desktop workstation.
I took it. It was pretty good, I learned a lot from all the lectures and exercises, etc., but a lot of it is group work. Unless you go into it with a team of people you know beforehand and actually have the time to put into it every week, you might not find the experience that great. I was put into a team of other people from my country and we had probably around 10 team members at the start and that dropped to 2 by the end.

Also, in a class like this you really need that feedback from experienced people like professors, but the majority on feedback is just handled by other people in the class. We never got any professor feedback on our final demo and weren't invited to the demo day, so felt a bit left out by the end, even though we thought our idea and presentation was a lot better than some of the other teams.
just as a caution, comic sans should not be used on a resume. LOL. nice stuff.fonts sure do have a personality.
I love the idea of surveying such data and would love to see the results. But you're going to need a huge set of data because potentially interesting and non-intuitive factors will be several 'layers' deep.

The data will show a very strong relationship between the space entered by startups and funding; much of a startup's likely success - and thus VC interest - depends on macro factors (e.g. industry growth, competition). These things are known.

Perhaps to get a larger dataset than you're likely to receive here, scraping public databases might be better? Can anyone please suggest such databases (e.g. I don't know how much data you could get from Crunchbase?)?
> I love the Amazon Doctorine: Above all else, align with customers

"... but let's not carried away now." (epub-on-kindle whoops, etc)

I like Amazon, they're mostly a very good company from a customer's point of view. But it's not like they're immune to the usual business impulses....
I disagree with some of the meta-cognition.

Take the "seems like a bad idea" bit. Many of the big hits are really well-worn ideas done with better marketing, better timing, and a user experience which makes it available to new markets.

Dropbox? File sharing. Facebook? Geocities. Both are interesting in that they take something that was a giant pain in the neck but useful enough to put up with anyway, and then they make it usable enough that virtually anyone can do that stuff routinely.

But the meta-cognition isn't all that important. What's important is that they're getting out there and helping new companies learn and grow. They can be wrong all day (or not) about the why because they've developed a process which provably works, and which they can measure and improve upon.
The act could have happened months before hand, just after the guy turned 19 and the girl was still 16, or in a jurisdiction that ignores the Romeo and Juliet clause. Or the entire thing could have happened years before when he was 17 and she was 15, with the parents only finding out about it after she turned 16 and the investigation another year later turned up evidence to support that theory.

Also, the GP to this thread never stated that the guy would be a convicted statutory rapist for sleeping with his wife, but that he would have been a statutory rapist who's victim is the person who is now his wife.

There's plenty of ways this could have worked to the guy's disadvantage. There's really only one way it can be false.
That's really not true: You can completely customize the terminal.app colors (background, foreground, cursor, selection highlight, ansi colors, etc.), the window transparency and blur-effect, both for active and inactive windows. You can save your customizations as themes.
"(particularly sad because they probably were molested themselves as children...)."

And now I have to be the one to ask you for a citation.

Either sexual preference is innate and that's the hand they've drawn in life, or it is the result of abuse and not their fault. But it can't be both.
That's true, but its like saying all romances boil down to three factors: two people meet, they fall in love, overcome their differences or external factors keeping them apart, then get together for a happy life or break up with much drama.

That's all true, but ignores the fact that the story and minutae is still an interesting read.
Country-wide population density is a shit metric for what we are talking about. If the US annexed Antarctica tomorrow population density would plummet but it would be almost entirely meaningless in the foreseeable future in the context of a discussion on zoning laws.
I didn't say that single family residences were idiotic. I said zoning for single family residences is idiocy. It keeps the housing market from efficiently responding to demand and building what people want. Just zone residential and let people build what people want to live in.
Excellent point. I'm currently working through a mountain of email from a hideous sounding site called Meet Me that somebody's subscribed to using my Gmail address. Not only can I not unsubscribe from the site, I can't even report it to them on their "identity theft" page using my address because it detects that it's in use by a supposed existing member and bounces me to a login page. My only strategy now seems to be to wait out the period until the subscription auto-expires because the email address hasn't been confirmed. Meet Me can die in a fire.
switched to linux long time ago. keep OSX bc of ease for some things, but have more than one computer for this reason. definitely a tradeoff but one i sure found worthy. never did figure out the sound issue.