skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, this is a good point. It's long seemed to me the incentive for Android manufacturers is not to provide retroactive upgrades (and only helpful for Apple insofar as it is a competitive selling point).

Amazon seems the opposite; good software updates would make your old device feel new (just optimize speed and bugfixes, if nothing else). That would prevent people from upgrading to such "cheap" new models.

On the other hand maybe they expect to sell an order of magnitude more devices each generation. Also, depending whether the old devices end up in desk drawers or new users' hands it might all work out.
Hard to tell whether you're being sarcastic or not, but for what it's worth I wouldn't say that Apple deserves no credit. (I think they deserve lot of credit, but copying is something they do too.)
This is an example of comments that are hurting HN's quality.

Absolutely nothing useful to add to the discussion, just snark. Yet for some reason its the highest voted comment.
You are piping the output of an untrusted command into a shell that will execute it. This leaves no way to verify that the code your are running is legit. No md5 verification, no cursory inspection of the script, etc.... There could even be hijacked dns that points to a server that specifically does a bad thing. Maybe not a huge deal for small projects but it's not a great idea in general.

Try this to see a proof of concept:

$echo "echo test" | bash
The install script takes staggering liberty with your system to fetch its dependencies. Make sure you read it before running.

http://get.yeoman.io
If I was HP I would be ashamed of releasing such a product. I would not want to be an engineer working there. Perhaps they don't have any engineers left which is why they are releasing such a knock-off.
We use a Breville espresso machine and a 12-cup Mr Coffee plus a Breville grinder. It works great. The Mr. Coffee seems out of place next to the sleek Brevilles but it holds its own. We auditioned 3-4 other coffee makers and settled on it b/c it works, doesn't leak, and is fast. The taste, to me, is really good. We use the "Kicking Horse Kick Ass" coffee from Amazon and go through 2-4 bags a month w/ three people (and more for espresso).
You mean besides the fact that this gives remote code execution to anyone who can spoof a DNS record?
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this remains a country of laws, not people

Yeah, that sounds pretty horrible to me. Personally, I like people a lot more than I like laws.

it becomes thinly disguised anarchy.

Works for me. But, I believe in the sovereignty of the individual, and attribute no particular special status to "government" and "laws", so maybe I'm coming at this from a different angle.
There's a discussion about this on WHT.

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1190617
If you have to resort to that long method names it means you 're doing something very specific (which means the method body will be very small); it's more flexible and clearer to just paste the method body (case in point the examples given)
HP isn't making your kit any uglier. What you're saying is not that you care what your kit looks like, but that you want to make sure that the other person's kit looks uglier than your kit.

Ok, I get it. Computers are the new fashion item for the masses, and Apple is the current trendsetter. Don't whine when other companies follow the trend. You really aren't special because your handbag has little LVs printed on them.
That profile shot of the Spectre is a bummer. They made it so ugly. So top-heavy. I feel bad for the industrial designers who had to work on this small-minded disaster, they must hate their jobs.
That's an artifact of the way whois information is pulled up. Basically for any domain registered you can create a third level domain and have it come up when someone searches for that domain using a command line whois utility.

What you are seeing above (and some of the examples) are the result of clueless customers who got some instruction and entered into the wrong field at their registrar. Other cases are people trying to get hits or bring attention to their site. This has been around since the mid 90's at least.
I wonder if it's some weird DNS thing. It's running on a free heroku instance.

I can see it from our office. Maybe with www?

http://www.picsofwords.com/
The preference probably depends a lot on your background. If you're spending a lot of time stitching together APIs, you probably prefer longer names for clarity.

If you spend a lot of time writing math, the opposite is true: shorter variable and function names are better for clarity, to the point that arbitrary operator overloading is essential -- as anyone who's suffered through matrix.transpose().multiply(matrix2.inverse()).multiply(vector.multiply(scalar)) . . . would tell you!
Check this guide out: http://lifehacker.com/5936546/how-i-built-the-media-center-o...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4167964 (by molf, apparently someone involved in creating TinyPNG)

> Mostly pngquant (the new version), optipng and
> advpng. We are still tuning parameters and
> swapping in and out tools based on our benchmarks
> and testing suite.

from their debut on HN back in June, where they caught a lot of flack for being a web service:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4167964
To me it seems more that Scala and Clojure appeal to two slightly different groups.

Scala is very appealing to people looking for a "better Java". A Java programmer can get up and running with Scala very quickly simply by treating as Java with some neat and powerful syntactic sugar, and then slowly segue into the more powerful features Scala offers as and when he needs them.

Clojure on the other hand basically requires throwing out everything you know (assuming you're not coming from a LISP background) and starting from scratch. In exchange you end up with a very powerful and new way of approaching programming, one which is very appealing to many people and very effective for handling certain problems.

So as such it makes sense that Scala is more visible. If I had a large Java shop and wanted to try using some functional programming in certain projects, then Scala would be a no brainer.
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Wow I'm speechless, this is wonderful. Going through the code, I see the widest spectrum of issues I hate about PHP in just these few files, yet the result is absolutely fascinating.

This a testament as to how the tool does not really matter in good hands.

This must be running on the custom-tailored C++ HTTP server, Ivory: https://github.com/cheshirecats/Ivory

Why did you feel the popular options don't cut it for your needs?
The marketing tag line being: "Sue us!"
Interesting. It looks like either Anon has changed their objectives, or someone is trying really hard to make them look bad.

I'm reminded of the Romney records[1] and more recently the Apple device IDs[2] stories.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4480301
[2]: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4500479
Agreed. Short names seem like their optimizing for typing speed, rather than ease of readability. If it's true that code will be read many times more than it is written, then descriptive variable names are the answer.
Hey author! Charge more! $5 is seriously undervaluing your product.

P.S I bought it. It's 61 pages of great material. Go give this guy some money.
Since GoDaddy is down I had to go to the comments page to see what's going on. Just to find this asshole. Hacker News used to be cool.
How do you people know what Jobs meant by the word "steal"? And it's always kinda opposite of what the usual meaning is. Is there a Steve Jobs dictionary somewhere?
"Does that tell you anything?"

Is that a question? :)

See this, relative to my comment above:

FACEBOOK.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM

FACEBOOK.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM

FACEBOOK.COM.LOVED.BY.WWW.SHQIPHOST.COM

FACEBOOK.COM.KNOWS.THAT.THE.BEST.WEB.HOSTING.IS.NASHHOST.NET

FACEBOOK.COM.GET.ONE.MILLION.DOLLARS.AT.WWW.UNIMUNDI.COM
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When I saw the Bower announcement yesterday I was a bit concerned that with Yeoman coming up in the next weeks, there would soon be two brand new competing front-end package managers. It's presently surprised that Yeoman actually builds on top of Bower.
I started implementing https://thoughtstreams.io the last few weeks for very much this kind of thing.
On Friday of last week, Aurelius released Titan 0.1.0.

http://thinkaurelius.github.com/titan/

Here are the biggest improvements:

1. Enhanced robustness due to community involvement, stress testing, and benchmarking.
- http://thinkaurelius.github.com/titan/doc/titan-stress-poste...
- http://thinkaurelius.com/2012/08/06/titan-provides-real-time...
2. Nicer integration with Rexster.
- https://github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki/Rexster-Graph-Se...
3. Titan manual has been extended to better support and train developers.
- https://github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki
4. Numerous nick-nack features and enhancements.
5. Development <dependency/> distributed through Apache Maven Central Repository
- http://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails%7Ccom.thinkaurelius...
Hey - everything is pretty much down right now, who thinks it's just godaddy? You should get a dog, name is clue - then you would have one.

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm
I think it's a collective release of pent up frustration over GoDaddy's operations, ethics and politics.
I am not a physicist, so I'm speaking outside my realm of expertise. On the topic, Hawking suggests the following:

"Quantum physics might seem to undermine the idea that nature is governed by laws, but that is not the case. Instead it leads us to accept a new form of determinism: Given the state of a system at some time, the laws of nature determine the probabilities of various futures and pasts rather than determining the future and past with certainty."

It's an interesting idea, because to me it suggests that if one were to rewind time and play events out again without changing anything, subtle things may occur differently. This would lead to larger time changes over a larger period of time. The idea seems strange, but then, so do many things on the quantum level as they are completely outside our traditional experiences.

Apparently no consensus has been reached on this topic by experts in the field. I won't try and convince you, just present my interpretation.
? Because they take design seriously? And another company wants in on their success? Is this not normal for design - cause i feel like it is. Company X finds pleasing design, others copy. Some other company / designer innovates, some other company copies.

I really don't know what all the fuss is about.
Yes, I think so. It'd be a good startup. Think of it as connecting people by getting them to commit to working together on something briefly. Make it high quality participants with set rates, some tools/rules around pair producing, etc.
I'm still confused. What would they sue over? A qwerty keyboard? A rectangular monitor? Having a silvery stand? What?

I've looked at the two pictured presented and I don't see anything similar besides standard design choices.
Absolutely! MacGDBp is pretty much useless and full blown IDEs are overkill (plus I prefer a lightweight editor like ST2). Email sent.
Hey thanks for the comment! I'm the author.

I'm extremely flattered by your comment. I didn't really think about pricing it any higher than 5$. Will definitely reconsider.

Really appreciate the feedback.
Nice sneer, there. High horse much?

I'm not an expert in all the areas I'm expected to cover by any means. Some days, it's all I can do to not say "act of God, maybe?" I try to learn new things when I am afforded the time, but since we don't live in a CSI world, it's just not possible to always have the right tools, the right knowledge or the right answer at all times, especially when it comes to computer security.

Bruce Schneier ain't cheap and not everyone can afford the services of specialists when it isn't a common occurence.
Learn Python/Django.

EDIT: But don't ever start a sentence with "In Rails, its done this way..." ;)
So I connect my PC to the TV to use a Steam UI, thereby limiting what I can do with the PC...okay

Basically it's just a UI for using a controller while lounging.
The real news, though, is how they get clear images from objects so distant. It always amazes me.

If I understood, the galaxy is 10 billion light years away? Is that correct?
I hate this. You're attempting to re-litigate something in public court that was already handled in actual, real-people court almost 20 years ago. Read the Legacy[0] section of your link.

Apple also licensed the tech behind Xerox Star. At least Xerox was compensated for their work in some manner.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star#Legacy
They claim responsibility for everything now, though.
Really this is worth getting worked up over. Honestly it looks a bit like an iMac, who cares, it's clearly not an iMac and the HP logo is an extra big giveaway for anyone who might be confused.

The aluminium iMac design has been around for 5 years now it's hardly surprising that what is obviously a good design is going to be copied by its competitors. Why all the wailing and gnashing of teeth?
Apparently, the Indian government is funding research in producing nanocellulose out of bamboo:

http://icfre.gov.in/UserFiles/File/Projects/Thurst-Areas/lig...

I am also highly interested in:

(1) Can nanocellulose or microfibrillated cellulose be made from recycled cardboard, and other forms of packaging we use to transport goods?

(2) If (1), then can it be made in a machine the size of a Makerbot / Recyclebot?

(3) If (2), can this material be extruded in a Makerbot-like device (computer controlled, cheap enough for makers < $2000)
It makes GoDaddy look bad, which is fine by me.
You misread my point about tools. Design has value. Originality doesn't. Nobody is complaining that HP's new product has bad design; in fact, they seem to be complaining that it follows Apple's good design.

This is petty vanity.
The idea has been around for a while, [1]KILLZONE and [2]CircBoard are well-known implementations.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wuoq__t7NjE

[2] http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/05/circboard-offers-an-intere...
Naughty troll, back to your hole.

I hope you find something productive to do with your time.
The title of this submission: "	Marijuana Use May Lead to Testicular Cancer"

The title of the linked article: "Marijuana use may increase risk of testicular cancer"

Two completely different things. Moral: Don't invent headlines, copy them.

The study has no control group, so it cant't guard against confounding cofactors, such as genetic, environmental and lifestyle choices that lead to (a) an elevated risk of testicular cancer, and (b) marijuana use.

Suppose there is an unevaluated cofactor, like urban living or socioeconomic status, that increases the risk of testicular cancer and marijuana use. Such a cofactor would be easy to eliminate, at least on paper -- set up a controlled, scientific study in which two groups of subjects are required to smoke marijuana, or required not to.

That would be the only reliable way to eliminate cofactors and turn a correlation into a cause-effect relationship, which is why it's the gold standard for scientific studies. But in this case, it is clearly unethical -- imagine telling your subjects that they have to use an illegal recreational drug.
I agree, an excerpt or two would be a great help deciding whether the book is for me (this is something that I think PragProg does well).
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Wow, WIRED has really declined. It is nice to see these photos, but the text is so often completely wrong, nonsenseical or misrepresentative that I'm just astounded.
Down because of the GoDaddy DNS thing going on now.
Looks like all of the routers that that's showing as down have been down for a long long time.
FWIW, godaddy's dns is different than what is used for godaddy's customers.

Godaddy's dns:

Name Server: CNS1.SECURESERVER.NET

Name Server: CNS2.SECURESERVER.NET

Name Server: CNS3.SECURESERVER.NET

A typical customer of godaddy's dns servers:

Name Server: NS07.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

Name Server: NS08.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
I have to disagree with your 'Neustar is a nice DNS provider' statement. I used them for 2 years, most of that time I was unhappy but because I was locked into a contract I had to wait it out or else pay a hefty breakage fee.

Their website/UI wasn't any good, very dated, they even rolled out a new one before I left, but that was horrible, they used AJAX everywhere, just for the sake of using it, and it made usability horrible.

Their support sucked as well, you would need to submit a ticket, and they take forever to get back to you, and they don't say anything besides "it looks fine to me". If you try and call them, you end up talking with someone who has no idea what they are talking about (same customer support line, for multiple products), or they don't speak english well.

You end up paying per DNS query, which is a really expensive way to pay for DNS, we were paying thousands of dollars a month to them for DNS alone.

Their advanced DNS services (DNS load balanceer and DNS failover) where very basic, and getting them setup correctly was a PITA.

There DNS service was nice until it crashed, which didn't happen often, but when it did, it took down half the internet with them.

http://cyberinsecure.com/ddos-attack-against-neustar-hits-ma...

I personally wouldn't have picked them to be our provider if it wasn't for one of our investors telling us how great they are and we needed to use them. I should have listened to my gut, but I also didn't want to piss off the guy paying the bills.

YMMV, but I would say, stand clear, and go to one of the newer folks doing the same thing for much less the cost, and more features.
"Furthermore, even in the brutal-rape case, the child is not harmed when a third party makes copies of the video."

What about the privacy rights of the victim? The argument could easily be made that a child can be traumatized all over again when finding out years later a recording of their abuse is spread far and wide on the internet and they have no chance of ever curtailing it.
Whether it's feasible to prevent that (as with any other information) is another question, but copying images of child abuse doesn't seem that victimless a crime to me.
It appears to be taboo to criticize any business in general terms within a capitalist society, but GD is a bad actor within the industry.

You're attempting to marginalize GP's comment as "snark," but I'm not seeing it.
He said originality doesn't matter, not that design doesn't matter. Design is very important, in fact it's probably so important that when faced between the choice of good design and original design it's probably best to err towards good design.
I think you might be getting carried away here.

Apple really hasn't "invented" anything. What they HAVE done is apply a keen sense of design and an obsessive focus on execution to a segment of a very diverse industry.

I think it goes without saying that Apple has had serious problems over its lifetime and there isn't a guarantee that they wont find themselves in that predicament again. My first computer was an Apple (//c, natch) and I can tell you that they nearly did themselves in a couple of times while IBM/Microsoft were leading the way.

Sic Transit Gloria.
And yet every other month we have posts about password breaches with tons of HN users complaining about having to change their passwords. Or we have posts from people who didn't back up their data and their cloud provider lost it, or experienced hardware failure. Or we have technically savvy people who dismiss GoDaddy problems or have literally in the past said "It's good enough, we'll just stay because it's easy".

Sure, it may be snark but I sure as hell hope it motivates at least one more person to switch. And apparently it has, unless I'm failing to detect sarcasm on one of the other replies.

This entire conversation should be useless because there shouldn't be people here still using GoDaddy.
Hey, if you'd like a preview I'd be happy to email you a free copy (don't have any preview stuff setup yet). If you email me (rdegges@gmail.com) I'd love to send you a copy :)
Sorry, I don't want to imply that Apple was wrong for copying Xerox. I was trying to make a point about the similarity of the act (though it's possible that you hadn't seen the explanation I gave (you asked for it) when you wrote this).

I'm interested to see a citation about this license you claim that Apple bought. Xerox didn't seem to think that a license was bought. They sued (much later).
Is it so different from running a make install or a install.sh script?
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GoDaddy struck me as smarmy. Good on Anon.
I really don't see how Apple's actions some 30 years ago excuse obvious trade dress violations by HP. Even if we accept that Apple "copied" Xerox, it is still clear that HP is grossly copying the iMac design. How is that remotely acceptable?
You are what is hurting HN's quality.
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There's a 'declaration of war' at least once a week with these guys. So who knows what they actually do, if anything.
I am able to resolve www.godaddy.com, but I am unable to reach their web server on port 80 or 443.
IIRC, wasn't this leak made by the group AntiSec? IIRC, they consider themselves separate from Anonymous and have their own very odd manifesto having to do with exploit disclosure.
With the risk of RSI, I don't need to type any more than I already do. In a perfect world tab completion would exist everywhere and you could make arbitrarily long variable names. But do names like "make_person_an_outside_subscriber_if_all_accesses_revoked" really make your code more readable? There's only so much info you can put in a variable name, and I'd rather be able to see more code at one time on the screen that read a massively long name every few lines.
"Persistent market inefficiencies should always ping your radar a little bit, because exploiting them makes you rich."

If I had to teach middle and high-school kids just one thing about entrepreneurship, this would be it!
Too bad you were never cool
FWIW, some information is not showing up for Metro IE10.
I'm not trying to be a jerk, but anyone would say the same thing if I complained about QoS on one of those hugely over-sold shared PHP hosting sites.

Are there really a lot of "not-too-savvy" folks who understand that they need GoDaddy to provide them DNS servers but know better than to use someone else for DNS services and/or registration? Maybe I underestimate the size of that population.

I should and do apologize... I'm getting a lot of flak for my tone. No one deserves for their sites to be down, but I have no sympathy for HN readers who experience downtime. This issue has been discussed to death too many times for it to be an honest surprise to anyone here.
OK-- long shot here: Would anybody happen to have (or know how I can get) the ip address for yiiframework.com?
It's ok if your dad can't distinguish such things - but maybe you shouldn't quote him as authority for "x copied y" then.
If you like that, listen to the music for the scene when they are figuring out what the black box does: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWQtI_Zh38Y. The claves in particular (starting around the 2:07 mark) are interesting; as the characters on screen connect the dots, so too do the two beats of the claves get closer and closer . . . still gives me shivers.
FYI: dig is not an 'OSX tool' its part of bind from ISC, it's a standard UNIX tool for looking up DNS information. Just a pet peeve of mine.
TechCrunch also have over 1 million fake Twitter followers: http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/10/godaddy-outage-takes-down-m...
One reason is because bottom-feeders will simply wait for others to spend all that R&D money. This is a big deal when it comes to hardware.