skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm certainly no expert, but Apple successfully sued eMachines over the eOne that, to my eye, looks "inspired" by the then-current iMac, compared to this HP that looks like an outright copy of the now-current iMac. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EOne

A qwerty keyboard? A rectangular monitor? Having a silvery stand? What?

Surely you don't think that's the extent of the similarity, right? Nearly anyone that sees this machine and is familiar with the iMac is going to say "that looks like a copy of the iMac"; people don't say that about every machine with a QWERTY keyboard and a rectangular monitor on a silvery stand.
For at least a few days, don't do anything at all that's job-related.

Getting let go unexpectedly is usually a big shock, and your instinct will probably be to try and get back into a paying job as quickly as possible. But while you're still recovering from the surprise of losing your job, you'll make poor decisions - and poor employment decisions will make you miserable. Take a little time for yourself and decompress before jumping back in with a clear head.
107.20.134.47
I'm sad because there are a lot of great design solutions waiting to be discovered. I think a company the size of HP (and especially with their roots) should be able to provide the market novel and world-class design. The problem is that they don't want to take the risk anymore--they'd rather copy market-proven concepts. The modern film industry is in a very similar and sad spot.
web-Mobile makeup for rizzoma will be ready on next week.
Check out the Pica8 products - http://www.pica8.com/products/
HP clones iMAC. HP in Trouble?
Try this link:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4501489
> but certainly not iCloud or any other "solution" that is restricted to one OS or company,

This part is important. The Microsoft service only synced to your other Microsoft things. iCloud only syncs to your Apple things. Dropbox syncs everywhere.
"I hate to say this but at the moment the whole PC / Tablet industry is copying Apple. And this nothing good at all. Not for Apple and not for everyone else!"

I understand you took it as an insult to your dad. But from your comment, it seems you are also angry because someone copied Apple. I really don't understand that part. I also don't understand why this is bad for anyone other than Apple.
The abc game
> What are the practical cons?

1. Every vulnerability that browsers suffer from, is transferred to e-mails, because a browser is used to view the content. This is the primary reason HTML e-mail content has become unpopular. In principle, an HTML e-mail could contain a small Java applet and (with recently reported Java security problems) this could be used to compromise the recipient machine, through the simple act of opening and viewing the e-mail.

2. An embedded, transparent 1x1 pixel graphic can be used to confirm reception, which solves the single most important problem in spamming and phishing attacks -- verifying that a human read the e-mail. All the recipient needs to do is view the e-mail, and the sender detects that it was received and opened, even when it was read and for how long.

3. Embedded links to dangerous sites, an obvious problem.

A better question would be "why is there no nice-looking, but safe, document format for e-mail that has all the aesthetics of HTML but none of the vulnerabilities?" Such a document format would be easy to create, and without linked graphics or hyperlinks, or any kind of plugin vulnerabilities.
First time hearing of FitFu but I'm glad to see that the company shutting doesn't doesn't completely make the app useless. I hope more apps think about this as they launch.
"Is this true?"

No. But in terms of deals done it makes a much smaller percentage than the ones which expect a faster return. Any chip startup, and most hardware startups, are 'patient' money as there is a lot of R&D to pay off.
It seems there is no way around it, http://support.cloudflare.com/kb/troubleshooting/why-am-i-ge... - so can anyone recommend other DNS providers? (preferably free)
At the end of the day, letting criminals dictate how you do business with legitimate customers is not OK.

Simple due diligence will either eliminate the genuine criminals, or it will not. If five minutes' worth of due diligence by humans fails, then so will any conceivable AI algorithm.
I use Nailgun[1] with vimclojure[2] and lein-tarsier[3] to avoid the JVM startup pain. You'll end up with a JVM instance (server) running all time and the possibility to evaluate code from many different clients like REPLs and the editor itself.

Changes to the code just need to be evaluated again to override the previous function definitions. It ends up being a really fast workflow.

1: http://www.martiansoftware.com/nailgun/
2: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2501
3: https://github.com/sattvik/lein-tarsier
This just in: "Pointless Arguments Over What's Hurting Hacker News are Hurting Hacker News."

Just knock it off and get back to posting interesting discussion. If you're not doing that, you're contributing to the "hurting of HN." And I'm well within my understanding of hypocrisy and irony to be aware of the fact that I'm committing this exact fault, so thanks for pointing that out, you're so intelligent.
Slide-to-unlock was pioneered by Neonode long before Apple even considered going into the phone business.
Browser "back" should work in the same way. (every topic has own link). Our back button has different feature it play your last changes back (like back button in ms word). May be we should change the icon?
Yes, like an expensive trip to the park, just for a little fun.
but why? I'm betting part of their cost comes from their limited scale.
OO code can work as reasonably effective good glue code for even older pre-OO procedural code, or even produce usable wrappers for big messy globs of assembly, should you have the misfortune to own that sort of mess.

So I would say that your bizarro world would need to presuppose that functional code had dominated from the first instead of any imperative code, which may have been what you meant.

However, my suspicion is that imperative code, at it's most basic, is the natural form for the first computer code to take, given development of simple, early processors. My intuition could be wrong on this point, of course.

In general, though, if you have particular operations in an imperative program that are more useful to reason about using a functional methodology, it's easy to use OO code as glue code wrapped around it (in C#, F#, Scala, etc.). By contrast, adding bits of imperative code inside a functional program requires careful thought and planning to keep from breaking the rest of the program through unexpected side effects.

So my suspicion is that OO is ultimately a better "glue paradigm" than FP. And why I suspect that ultimately, object-functional languages are likely to succeed more broadly in the real world than pure functional languages.
Shouldn't we all know to use hover.com by now? Don't you all listen to 5by5 podcasts?! :)

http://5by5.tv/partners/hover
The Purpose of Design Patents
That's precisely what I'm doing - commissioning from all of you: crowdsourced, user-generated #realworldsex :) You can read the details of what I and my team are building on our blog: http://talkabout.makelovenotporn.tv/
Any sci-fi book recommendations where I can read about this sort of thing?
Most HTML emails have two parts -- a plain-text section and an HTML section. Most e-mail clients know how to separate them. If you see raw HTML in your e-mail client, IMHO it's time to upgrade your program.
It seems that Apple did financially compensate Xerox for both the visit and the ideas:

"Fact:
Apple obtained permission ahead of the Xerox PARC visit. In addition, Apple provided compensation in exchange for the various Xerox PARC ideas such as the GUI"

http://obamapacman.com/2010/03/myth-copyright-theft-apple-st...
This is great. I would like to support it spinejs, maybe it is easy to add, haven't look yet.

This reminds me how much we need a global package manager, for most of the open source languages. Why would each framework need it's own way of handling dependencies.
The look of all-in-one computers is fluff. What people are doing with computers is the heart of the matter. Why aren't people doing more with such large multitouch interfaces available for so cheap? (I've seen all-in-one multitouch PCs for a little over $1000.)

I think one could do something really cool with statistics and scheduling programs using such interfaces. Why aren't more people using these things as little physical desktops?
While I agree that it's important to know about these considerations, I think it's equally valid to ignore them.

If I know my target audience I can properly support them. I can give them the best possible experience because I understand their needs and their assumptions. However, if I don't, then when I try and I will fail in embarrassing and sometimes infuriating ways.

I like to develop and design purposefully. I want to make something that may be available to all, but is tailored to perfection for a small group. This gives me a set of constraints and frees me from others. When I choose a locality I can ignore others and focus on the assumptions and ideal experience for that locality.

Obviously this doesn't work if you're more of a 'fishing' based company. You need to be just good enough for everyone that some group or another will bite and then you can focus on them while maintaining 'good enough' for everyone else.

The thing I'd hate to see is developers reading this article and wasting time on i18n and RTL support when they should be focusing on an exceptional experience for a user group they understand.
Let's turn to our wise friend Macalope[1] and hear what s/he said just last week:

Samsung wasn’t copying Apple, it’s just that smartphones naturally evolve into
flat touchscreens with minimal buttons on the front and slide to unlock and
a virtual keyboard and an Apple logo on the back and oops we went too far.

[1]: http://www.macworld.com/article/1168385/macalope_the_sincere...
No I am saying I care what my kit looks like, I don't care what other people's kit looks like or if they care.

I was stating that in my case it's slightly more than just a tool, nor did I say that I buy my kit based on what other people will think of it.

You're right, fashion is bunk, I made a decision based on a personal aesthetic and an enjoyment of nice design, which at the time Apple best met (and currently still do). I would love it if every computer on the planet was a joy to look at, pretty things make people feel good.

To actually give an opinion on the HP machine I do think that what HP have done here is extremely lazy. There is nothing wrong with people taking influence from Apples (or anyone elses) successful design work, look at the Samsung Series 9 for a good example of matching the trend whilst being novel.

Design is constantly inspired and influenced by what comes before. Everything is a remix. There is an obvious and often noted influence upon Apple from Dieter Rams work at Braun, but never outright copying.
The frequency of outright copies seems to be increasing, and there's not much the Apples of the world can do about it.

Well, they did just win $1.5 billion from Samsung…
Big Picture + Raspberry Pi?
What do you think about Joel's "Make Wrong Code Look Wrong" (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html)?

In it he makes the argument that it's a good goal to make each line of code understandable with as little other context as possible.

Your `makeOutsideSubscriber` is fine when your in that module. But when someone else is using the module.

import subcribe

...

def SomeFunction
subscribe.makeOutsideSubscriber(...)

And then 3 months later someone comes and reads the code above using your module it sure would be nice if they didn't have to go dig through the source of your module and read the comments to figure out that it really means "make person an outside subscriber if all accesses revoked"
My launch post on our blog explains our business model and how I designed MLNPTV as a circular ecosystem. It's very easy to watch #realworldsex videos for free: all you have to do is contribute them yourself, and then use the money other members pay into your account to watch whatever you want :)

http://talkabout.makelovenotporn.tv/post/29383253943/hellowo...
That's willfully disingenuous. One does not pay a million dollars of pre-IPO stock to see a bunch of ideas and not use them.
Militaries have a way of combining them. For example: "normal" aircraft carriers.
About to go through this myself.

It sounds like a classic chicken-and-egg problem - companies won't integrate with an address-changing tool if no one's using it and no one will use an address-changing tool that doesn't integrate with many companies.

That's aside from the 'how does this service profitably sustain itself' issue and the privacy concerns already mentioned here.
Many (most?) people put the 'start' of the technology culture in Silicon Valley around the same time that Stanford started the Applied Electronics Lab [1]

[1] http://steveblank.com/2009/08/17/stanford-crosses-the-rubico...
It's a different form factor. Unlike the iMac, the Spectre One contains electronic components in the stand.

A stand which is very "unMaclike."

Images here: http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/09/hp-spectre-one/

It's not as if HP just entered the all in one PC market.

And this one may get something the iMac's probably won't - a touch screen.
PHP Built-in web server
I've had good success in the past with http://www.zoneedit.com/

It's not free but close enough to it for your purposes here.
While those things are certainly annoying, they take up about 10 minutes per year of my time. Yes, GoDaddy has lots of issues, but it's not like other registrars are any better. E.g. on the front page of NameCheap they advertise that .com domains are 3.99, but when you actually do a lookup they in fact cost $10.69.
And if you have the log folder on dropbox, it is accessible everywhere.
Pretty sure sandGorgon was talking about future phones:

> Please let me dock my 2013 mobile phone with 4 GB RAM and 4 Kepler-PhysX cores...

Are there any phones currently with Kepler cores in them? A quick search didn't yield any.
There's one computer that looks like the Apple iMac. Well, there was until HP came along and there was two.
This is true, yes. The kind of performance C delivers is often only achieved by C, Fortran and some other compiler languages. But that's not the point of what I was saying. I was talking about speeding up the Python language. That's what PyPy is incredibly good at.

I once wrote a small traffic simulation in Python. Not real-time. It would take about 15 minutes to run a medium sized simulation using the CPython interpreter. PyPy ran the same simulation in slightly less than a minute. This is a substantial speedup. In this case it was because function calls can be incredibly slow in Python and PyPy takes care of that.

I'm not claiming that implementing parts of the program in C is bad (I'm mainly a C programmer anyway). All I say is that it's not really "speeding up Python" when you're not using Python. It's definately an option though and a very good one too!

ctypes might not be the best way to do it for some use cases though. In my opinion, the most beautiful way is extending the Python API with native C. That option produces the most LOCs though, and therefore probably more bugs. However, if you've got large portions of a Python program in need of speedup and PyPy won't cut it, it's probably the best option to write a decent part of the low level stuff in C and provide native Python bindings. This way you get the best of both worlds: The performance of C for your underpinnings and the flexibility of Python for developing all the other parts, saving you time and therefore money and sweat.
Been following you on Twitter. Raise your price to cover that one-time use suit! But seriously, the book is well worth more than a fiver.
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They even state when you go to ask a question:

> We prefer questions that can be answered, not just discussed.

And to me (and this is of course just my interpretation), but that means that questions that can only yield subjective answers aren't really meant to be asked there.

Additionally, the FAQ[1] goes into even more detail that I think supports both my and SE's stance; the question ITT is, to me, clearly more under the "and it is not about..." section of the FAQ than it is under the top section.

They even plug another of their sites, The Workplace[2], as being a better fit for "general workplace issues, office politics, résumé help".

Point being, the question the OP asked here has absolutely nothing to do with programming, and thus doesn't have any place on a site that deals exclusively with programming.

1. http://programmers.stackexchange.com/faq

2. http://workplace.stackexchange.com/
Oh, come on. If you make the same choices as your competitor for nearly every item, that's copying.

These "standard design choices" hadn't ever been common in other products. Were all designers suddenly enlightened at some point on what computers should look like? (oh, wait! they were, by Apple)
Speaking of wording, the article also states "The collection itself... walked beneath hundreds of bird-shaped mirrors."

Apparently the problem with Google Glasses is that they have to play second fiddle to DVF's new line of autonomous robo-clothing.
For Java/Groovy developers: a tour with Clojure
It's actually not that bad and is only getting better since they've taken on investors. Even when it was bad, it was only bad on the first few visits, once you learned your way around the clutter, I never spent any more time on the GD site than I did on any other registrar or hosting provider site. For instance, just going to dcc.godaddy.com to go right into my domain manager when needing to update a domain.
They need to if they want people to use it (and getting models at a fashion show to use it is pretty strong evidence they do want it to become fashionable).
How to natively use ssl with haproxy
Godaddy tries to upsell their "premium" DNS service by blocking high-frequency DNS requests on their non-premium authoritive servers.[1][2]

I would call that a technical issue, even though it probably only affects web crawlers.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2964084
2: http://rscott.org/dns/GoDaddy_Selective_DNS_Blackouts.htm
A Brief Look at Grid-Based Layouts in Web Design
This is a very old idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book
a followup to last week's news that haproxy has integrated ssl now.
I absolutely hate that this is modus operandi for the homebrew and ruby communities. Who though that this is a good idea?
Google sued over Bettina Wulff search results
Actually you right. Rizzoma have too complicated UX. In couple weeks we are going to release new version of our interface and I hope it will much easier in user perception
Seems like it's working again
> Surely you don't think that's the extent of the similarity, right?

Yes I do. I don't see anything apple inspired here? Again, what would they sue over? Having a thin form factor?
Did I call this? Yes, I think I called this. The Obama bill (note: Obama-supportin' Democrat here) is worse than CISPA: an everything-and-the-kitchen-sink bill that randomly creates incentive programs, new research organizations, a "cybersecurity tip line", and federally funds research into DNSSEC (DNSSEC: Rated S for Statutory).

Also worth noting: nothing in the Lieberman bill that this EO is patterned on creates enforcement mechanisms for IP and copyright enforcement, or for collecting customer information from ISPs. Of course, neither did the GOP's CISPA bill. That's because neither regulatory effort is about user information.

The problems both of these ill-conceived bills are addressing are simple.

Problem 1: There is no coherent strategy in the (vast, sprawling, chaotic) federal government, which is the largest IT operator in probably the world. Every agency does something slightly different. This means (a) nobody is doing exactly the right thing (usually, they aren't doing anything close to the right thing) and (b) it is prohibitively difficult to introduce new technology to help fix things, because everyone you'd get to buy it has a different set of hoops to jump through.

Problem 2: If you were a foreign adversary who wanted to cripple the US with electronic attacks, you probably wouldn't bother hitting government IT systems. Instead, you'd go for something like the power grid, or a trading exchange. Those systems are privately operated, and so nothing the government does to try to track, monitor, or deflect online attacks can benefit them.
I think the site is pretty awesome but I had the same exact feeling about the price. If you're interested, I don't mind helping out with that.

We have an API that you can use to maximize profit over time. You send us order information, we build a pricing model, then you make calls out to the model to either update it with a new order or get a price.

For more info (we actually use tshirts as an example):
https://ventata.com/Ecommerce/Home && https://github.com/Ventata/API

Send me an email and I'll give you an API key.

(Don't go through my normal site, you'll have to pay that way)
In the meantime, IP?
I would rather ask people to send their inquires through my "contact us" form, wherein I could collect all the data I need. Much less confusing to the user, me thinks...
You should be using Moniker</conversation>
The other big fallacy was the notion that you could magically gain access to any system as long as you could crack their encryption, along with the computer systems magically decoding to show graphics IIRC.

None of the systems required you to be running their custom client software, and all were accessible through public networks or dialup.

Didn't break the movie for me, but it's definitely something I notice.
Migrating DNS is easy:

1) Get a new DNS server. I use http://dnspark.net/ and even though their website is very ugly and there's no API, they're tremendous value at $10 - $14 per year

2) In your registrar's page (godaddy) change your DNS servers for your domain to whatever your new ones are.
A big screen laying flat on a desk is uncomfortable to look at, and a big screen facing towards you like a computer display is uncomfortable to touch continuously. The term is "gorilla arm".
I have a client that uses Godaddy email - I assume this means that any emails sent during the outage will be forever lost.
I would be very interested to read your "rules to live by" document, if you are comfortable with sharing.
We've been on GD since our company (ecomm with revenue in mm) was founded with zero issues.

Now we need to switch to DynDNS asap who say they are getting tons of calls right now
After buying the ebook and taking a browse, I agree with the others. As a first-time web developer who has been using Heroku for a few months, I would gladly pay more than $5 for this now (and even more a few months ago).
But for "this sort of question", is Reddit really that bad for it? I agree that Reddit is a terrible platform for general Q&A content (like SO/SE currently host), but I think it's terrific for subjective content that may include many diverse opinions which might lead to many back-and-forth, threaded discussions which SO basically refuses to support (you can post a tweet-sized comment, but that's about it).

I'm not saying we can't or shouldn't discuss bigger-picture ideas, but I just think that sites that were built to function more like discussion boards are better suited for such topics vs. sites that were created with the sole intention of discovering a single, "correct" answer to every question.
Google Glasses are the next hands free Bluetooth headset. Constantly blinking on someone's ear. It's annoying and will be culturally unacceptable to most people. The same reason why Bluetooth headsets haven't really caught on all that well in public. It's annoying and unnecessary to be connected to that extreme. That's why they'll fail.
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