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Regarding point 2, the ports system works a little bit differently to typical package managers, and easily accomodates running customised versions of the software you need.

Another difference between FreeBSD and (most) Linux distros is the concept of the "base system". Things in /bin and /usr/bin are part of the base, any additional packages you install end up in /usr/local. This has the nice effect of separating things you really, really need to work for the system to be functional (i.e. boot and log in) and software that is "nice to have" but not strictly necessary (your webservers and Rubies and what have you). I also find that /usr/local/etc is generally very small and tidy, which makes administration and backup a doddle.

I think the author of the post is a little bit muddled on what /usr/local is for, though - the analogy to installing applications to ~/Applications on OS X is completely flawed, as in OS X that installs things only for the current user, whereas /usr/local is available to all.
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This isn't material for Hacker News.
More success has come from cooperation. Families, tribes and civilisations that cannot harness the contributions of its members are defeated (or out-competed) by those that can. In cynical terms, good wins because it is stronger.

Note that it need not be perfectly fair or perfectly good, simply that better cooperation beats worse cooperation.
But they don't choose whether a book in their store will be DRMed or not. The authors do (see http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/01/amazon-quietly-lets-publish...).

So, knowing this now, is GPL still a problem for Amazon? Free Kindle books are distributed through the same infrastructure.
Might have stole my heart from Fancybox.
Because the US (or any other "imperial western power") has invaded Egypt and Libya? Damn, I should start watching the news a bit more!

Or are you suggesting that the invasions of Iraq / Afghanistan can be seen as "attacking their culture"? If that's your point, you've actually demonstrated that the root cause is in fact religion, because there really isn't much else that Afghanistani and Iraqi culture share with Egypt and Libya..
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As much as I hate religion (and I hate it very much)

I don't know why you hate religion. You might have a valid reason. However, I think hared is never good.

Logic teaches us that it is impossible to proof anything without making assumptions. I believe in science, but I do recognize it as a belief system which is based on assumption no more or less rational than any other belief system. For instance, the assumption that the simplest hypnosis is the most likely.

Any major religion today leaves much room for interpretation, but I think it is clear that the values that they represent are generally good. I think we should pity the murderers of Vile Rat for misinterpretering their own religion instead of letting this create more hearted.
I think so, yes. They really don't look like an angry chanting mob to me. Besides, it's also a good default assumption before jumping to any conclusions.
Posting an "Ask PG" at 3 AM Pacific time seems frighteningly ambitious to me.
It doesn't say anywhere (or I'm missing it) whether he wanted to sell the book or give it for free.
:-) 3 AM is not that bad, or is it?
agree! if this belongs here, next stop is memes
> Breivik is/was a Christian, and his main motivation for the terrorist attack was religion, specifically Islamophobia.

Thanks for corrections.

That's weird, though, because I remember certain videos of his, mentioning communists and/or marxists plotting world domination.
Isn't PG on the Maker Schedule?
Opus audio codec is now an Internet Standard
You can have a unique link for the lightbox simply by using a query string to automatically launch the lightbox.
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The true story of suing McDonalds because the coffee was too hot
In related news, Dan Lyons no longer amuses.
Agreed, Python scales down and so is also good for small tasks. What I was saying is that Ruby - as much as I like it - does not generally scale up beyond a certain point.

Both R and Ruby have had issues with large data sets which have been addressed to some degree in more different distributions and more recent releases. Python is ready out of the box for large data sets. So what I meant to communicate is that if you know that you are going to be dealing with a large data set, you might as well go straight to python.
> 2. If you are serious about external to USA investments and families, please stop using US only sporting analogies

Thanks for pointing this out. Not everyone who reads English understands those. While I have a (very faint) idea what the Yankees are, I have never even heard of the "Oakland A" or any of the players he mentions.

This is a very US-centric post; the line about how their investing team "speaks Mandarin, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Hebrew, Korean, Hindi, Punjabi, French, German, and will probably speak Arabic and Russian sometime next year" sounds forced. Can he explain the rules of baseball in Russian?
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There is a useful tool to suggest the best times to post a new thread: http://hnpickup.appspot.com

Is anyone aware of something similar which breaks this down by type of thread?
Probably meant profit, not money. Makes a little more sense that way.
That's a good thing. I've seen BBC articles with the comments turned on, and the 'discussion' makes me despair in humanity. Throw in some fanboys from both sides, and the resulting flamewar would likely burn down Broadcasting House.
I also have some anxiety problems and from time to time my sinusitis shows up. What do you mean you just had a chronic sinus infection (instead of anxiety/depression)? What kind of symptoms are you talking about? This might be relevant to me...
This comment - no matter the intentions - is going to lead to further flaming.

I recommend removing the comment, before it ends up attracting further commentary.
In the UK all such novel forms of transport have to first shake off the C5 effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5
I don't think MR is a good abstraction for implementing linear algebra, and I expect the overhead to be too high (although I don't have numbers to back that up). For large problems (>> couple of machines worth of RAM), you use big iron HPC solutions, or you avoid 'exact' linear algebra altogether to focus on one-pass algorithms.

For example, instead of computing an exact SVD, you will use something like Hebbian algorithm to compute the SVD in a streaming manner (that's what Mahaout implements for example).
Well said re: your edit, though as the OP, I did think it was something that would resonate with the community. It did for me when I first read the post.
Wow. That trailer is breathtakingly bad.
> I don't know why you hate religion. You might have a valid reason. However, I think hared is never good.

I hate religion for its brainwashing. "Hate" might be too strong a word, let's say "strongly disapprove".

To be honest, I don't care particularly, if god exists, or if other people believe that god exists. There were a lot of good people who were religious and did no harm. However, in modern world there are still trials (Pussy Riot in Russia, numerous Sharia trials in islamic countries) or killings happening as a consequence of cultivating religion. I think this is a perfectly valid reason to dislike religion as institution.

But again, that's not exclusive to religion.
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Pseudoskeuomorphism, easy.
Remove clothes. Begin urinating whilst dancing to Born this Way by Lady Gaga (music in your head). At completion of flow, see which number the splatters on the floor most resemble.
Don't try picking your nose at night...
I think the point is that that stranger should introduce himself first in less then 300 chars and then you can decide whether it is important enough to hear him out fully.

Your last sentence makes me feel like you didn't understand the idea at all - it is not to fight spam, but to help you manage communication with real people that you don't know. The basic example is a VC flooded with long copy pasted pitches instead of a poignant and succinct pitch.
From a pythoner point of view, many if not most parts of the OP's praise of golang would apply equally well to Python. I guess it is because the author seem to have a C/C++ point of view.

I would like to have a pythoner's point of view on golang, so the differences with Python would be highlighted.
It's late so maybe I'm missing something but is there a way to make money out of this for sellers and turn a profit? Not just recoup some costs of a reserved instance(s) they no longer need?
I must have used that for my show HN post.

I was wondering why it was almost a dead response,
While I have seen good response for similar show HN posts.

anyways the post is here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4495098
I appreciate the story being here and I'm glad to see it at the top of the page. But all I offer is a short memory/thought which doesn't deserve the same response hence my edit. I hope people read my post and think about or appreciate the man. I don't want anything for the memory I personally had of him though.
Just want to point out that, literally, this implies you prefer Windows (no ads by default) to Ubuntu (ad for Launchpad in /etc/motd).
RIP Fella. Saw it on the news and thought it was a dick-move by the Libyans to burn the Consulate.
There wasn't originally, but they quickly added the $15 option to remove the ads. BTW: on existing kindles you can pay extra to remove the ads after the fact, so you don't really needs to decide up front. Amazon know that NOBODY buys the ad-free version so they mistakenly believed they didn't need to list an ad-free version separately. But people need to be given the option to feel better even if no one ever actually buys that version.

I own a 3G Kindle that pre-dated ads. When I saw the ads on my wife's newer kindle I actually opted-in to add ads to my version. The ads are more attractive that the default screensaver and occasionally you get a really good deal. (like $5 Amazon credit)
No keyboard support?
After the mess that was the last Apple Foxconn story, and with all the economic pressure that affects newspapers & news media, it becomes increasingly difficult for me to believe stories like these.
It's not that I don't suppose that there're bad working conditions at Foxconn - there probably are. No, it's that even if the journalist in this story managed to sneak in, and work there, he probably added tons of hyperbole and wrong encounters into his story, just to make it all the more dramatic. Otherwise, nobody would be interested in it, nobody would read it, and there'd be no money.

I really think it's hard to believe journalists these days, especially if the stories are unheard of and outrageous. The decline of advertising money and newspaper subscriptions has lead to a decline of journalistic integrity and objectivism, I think.

Addendum, I studied journalism & communication, most of my friends are journalists, and I'd say they try hard, but the economic pressure sounds untenable sometimes. Some of them earn so little money, that I wonder how they even manage to pay rent.
As I just discovered, would have been nice to unload a couple of instances. Don't hold your breath waiting for this to change, the level of interest for non-US DevPay support over the years has been huge, but it's just sat on some todo list somewhere.
If you're fine by wearing a headband while sleeping then Zeo [1] is your new friend with raw data.

After some soldering I even managed to get the live serial output to my laptop with a python app.

[1] http://www.myzeo.com/sleep/shop/featured-products/zeo-sleep-...
It was an obsolete gem that our obsolete code still depended on. There's reasons I don't work for that company anymore :)
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Not really - PG will see it eventually
It's probable that with a 10 screenshot quality a different algorithm can be used.
Yet another concept product that's never going to see the light of day.
Putting R&D as a percentage of revenue is a bit of a dodge. Apple has significantly higher revenue than Google. Apple in the quarter ending Dec 2011 brought in $46.3 billion in revenue, while Google brought in $10.6 billion.

So plugging in the numbers for Apple you get $928 million in R&D for the quarter, while Google spent $1.4 billion.

Less spent in R&D? Yes, but spending almost $1 billion per quarter in R&D is hardly paltry.
In the context of web design, responsive means that the webpage adjusts elegantly to different browser form factors and navigation capabilities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_Web_Design
Charlie Cheever Is Out at Quora
Gee, I wonder why this was released today.
Ask HN: How to validate my B2B SAAS idea
I'm trying to work out how I can validate my B2B SAAS idea. I have a solution to a specific 'pain' that certain business's have.

I've already done a custom version of the program for a specific company - and they love it. But I want to make it more generic and market it as a SAAS.

I've made a landing page similar to the twitter Buffer App idea - but the problem is I'm only getting 1-2 users a day after a month because I rank poorly on the SEO for the search terms.

I was thinking of using google ad words - but I thought it might seem silly advertising a product I dont yet have?
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>The main problem is that Canada doesn't have near enough active VC investors.

A trend that is certainly changing. Vancouver, for instance, has a growing and vibrant VC community, from which this very bill was initiated.
I don't understand why so few lightbox plugins (and sites with custom ones) do the actual image link properly.

The image should be a link either to a page for that specific image (facebook style) or just to the full sized image itself. That way if the person has js disabled, or middle clicks, or opens in new tab they'll still get the image, but you can intercept a normal click and show the pretty lightbox if they're browsing "normally".

It's not like it's super complex or anything, but everyone goes the "image is only useful for the lightbox" path.
Totally agree. And if you want to call R from ruby to export the analytics to a web page for example, there are many options, such as this one: https://github.com/clbustos/Rserve-Ruby-client
"In fact, Fresco in the first truly responsive lightbox.
Give the demonstrations a try to see what that means,
make sure to adjust your screen size (or rotate your
device)."

On OSX Chrome I resized my browser and all it seemed to do was scale the content. It didn't change any layouts or do any "magic"... How is this so special?
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Honestly, I think this is not a valid reason to dislike all sects of all religions. You are creating just another us-versus-them mentality.
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> [Avoiding the word Linux] actually is a lack of gratitude and failure to improve Linux image on their part

I don't see it quite like that. Firstly, I'm not sure that the people working on Linux (the kernel) particularly want to be a popular brand - it would mean a deluge of naive questions, apart from anything else.

Secondly, Ubuntu benefits from Linux, GNU tools, X, Gnome, Debian, and many other projects. In techie circles, they readily acknowledge that it wouldn't be possible without the work done in those upstream projects. But trying to fit them into the public branding would confuse users.
It is hard to know who to believe. The journalist who has something to gain by exaggerating the suffering of the workers, or the company which has much more to gain by hiding the suffering. The truth is somewhere in between. Based on the Foxconn on-the-job-site suicide rate being significantly higher than other on-the-job-site suicide rates (important to compare apples-with-apples, no pun intended), the truth probably lies closer to the journalist version.
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Interesting, thanks for the info. I wouldn't have thought it so low in the architecture.
Even if he did see it, I don't imagine it's something he'd respond to - or perhaps even could respond to.
My boss was involved in preparing the draft proposal that this bill is based on. He has over a decade of experience on both sides of the VC/start up fence. His experience bringing the team that created Summify to Canada from Romania was a catalyst for this bill. Like all things, it is not perfect, but it is a step in the right direction.
Reducing functional elements in your html source
Looks like the design is actually from 2008, so it's actually the past
If I had a pound for every story about "School X buying Y thousand Ubuntu computers"... I'd have about £19.

But seriously it's nice to see some governments want to break their dependency on Microsoft.
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One standard trick that hasn't been mentioned: if you're e.g. looking at the ends of thrown undergarments, or at another random source that's guaranteed to produce uncorrelated output bits but is not guaranteed to produce a 0 with probability exactly 50% (e.g. an unbalanced undergarment), the following algorithm will yield uncorrelated outputs bits that are guaranteed to be 0 with probability exactly 50%:

- generate two bits

- if they are the same, discard both and start over

- if they are 0 1, return 0

- they are 1 0, return 1

Also, once you have generated some entropy using the above method, you can generate a much longer random-looking number using a (pseudo-)random number generator. You could use another of von Neumann's tricks, the middle-square method (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandom_number_generator#E...), if you're decent at arithmetic (and hey, any errors can be written off as a deliberate attempt to increase entropy); if you're really paranoid, you may want to try doing RC4, although I recommend smuggling in a pen for that.

That said, are you trying to solve some problem, or..?
Because creating something in Maya doesn't equate to designing a product?
> The work is clearly very stressful and the pay is terrible. The example the journalist gave was two hours of overtime earning him just $4.

Can anyone give any context of how bad this actually is? Obviously it's not as terrible as if somebody got paid $4 for two hours of overtime here in the UK, in terms of average wage and typical cost of living, but no idea how much less bad it is..
If you are comparing apples-to-apples, then surely you should weight your statement on who to believe by how easy it is for each person to exaggerate/hide.

It's super easy for a journalist to exaggerate something like this, with relatively little risk for a massive gain. On the other hand, a "Company" hiding things involves many, many more people involved in the conspiracy, and the penalty for failure isn't really that much (how many decades of big-companies-with-bad-working-conditions stories have we had?).

It also doesn't give any sense of context - how reliable the newspaper is, what the average working conditions are for that class of facility, etc etc.

Also, again it doesn't seem (or at least the writeup doesn't) to include the information about foxconn being more than just apple, that seems to get forgotten every time there is a Foxconn story.
The Future of User Experience Design
Today, to sum up the course and finish it on a playful note, we’ll discuss the future of the User Experience Design field.
Ain't that the truth. I should probably write an update at some point.
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How else do you define a group led by royalists and other rich western expats, backed by the IMF and armed and supported by NATO, taking over the country and installing themselves as a puppet government in service to western interests? Is a South American coup not a US assassination just because the CIA only supplied the training, money, coordination, and intel and someone else pulled the trigger?

Gaddafi was hardly a beacon of good government, but debt-slavery to the IMF and open doors to the ransacking of national resources by western corporations is hardly an improvement. Not to mention little things like the incidents of ethnic cleansing.
If you were using AAC (or anything else that's more advanced than MP3) a 3MB file would actually be listenable for a short song.

A 150MB FLAC file would be about 20-30 minutes long (based on a typical bitrate of 700-1000 kilobits per second).
I don't think Stow existed in 2005, when I wrote the article. Thanks for the pointer.
>Instead of attacking magical thinking, promote rationality. Instead of attacking extremist religious belief, promote its antidote, a thirst for knowledge.

Both are necessary. We must bring the fruits of the enlightenment, and the very real individual benefits thereof, to the people who would otherwise be ripe recruits for fundamentalism. To be blunt, however, we must also kill those who promote and carry out terrorist attacks against us.

>What would be really cool is if someone can figure out a way to trick the part of our brains that craves a Disney-style magical reality into contributing to its own demise. In other words, say to people, "Want a magical world? Join us in the use of science and technology to build it for ourselves."

While the second sentence seems suspect, I really like the first one. There would be a sort of cosmic beauty in using the vagaries of human consciousness that lead us to magical thinking to cure ourselves of same. Noe that would be a worthy hack.
I was (snarkily) suggesting something through hyperbole, but of course you're correct. However:

August 15th, 2012: 268 million shares, 10% of shares outstanding.
October 14th: 249 million shares, 9% of shares outstanding.
<b>November 13th: 1.332 billion shares, 49% of shares outstanding.</b>
December 13th: 124 million shares, 5% of shares outstanding.
May 17th, 2013: 47 million shares, 2% of shares outstanding.

60%ish of shares haven't been released yet, with Nov. 13th being 'the big one'. Given the speed / size of the price collapse, and impending tax bills and so forth, there's a good bet to be made that they'll tap at least some of that $10bil reserve.

In short, I can't logically see how the extra 50% swimming free will raise their share price. But then again, that's why I'm not paid the big bucks to work at JP & the Street, there's no doubt some plan afoot.
Turn your HTML table elements to interactive tables
A tiny independent JavaScript library that turns your HTML table elements into interactive tables with sorting, filtering and paging.
Mabe he can give an idea of the domain etc. I am sure he can definitely do that ?