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My Mac Pro running 10.8 has some issues such as applications with blank icons, pixelated icons, etc. I was told to boot into safe mode (which I tried about 5x) and it hangs at about 1/4 into it.

It seems pretty silly to include a "safe mode" that won't even allow someone to use it. I always end up holding the power switch in for a few seconds until I reboot into normal mode, which apparently includes having blank/pixelated icons :-/
Yes it does. It tells us not to look for signs of greatness in how things start.
Ah, no, I figured it out. You can make Lion re-appear in your Purchase tab by option-clicking on the Purchase tab icon. I did that some time ago and now Lion is permanently visible for me.

Who thinks of something like that? If you do something stupid like that, at least support should know about it. For shame Apple, for shame! m(

I remember already being annoyed about that some time ago.
"An uninterpreted dream is like an unopened letter."

Dreams often have many layers of meaning. You might want to try keeping a long-term, detailed record of your dreams, and spending some time each day trying to make sense of them and relating them to your life and to other dreams. You might be surprised to find just how rich they are with meaning.
That's already an industry, if you weren't aware..

https://www.google.com/search?q=government+relations+firm
So many of my younger days were spent in Las Vegas and I remember reading about the very real problem of a 5000 room hotel having synchronized flushing. They could run low on water pressure and as a result tanks would not refill, which meant a toilet bowl with no water and sewer smells could come back into the room.

As it turned out one of the big bad guys was their porno video channel. It ran basically continuous movies from some flat fee, and whenever a movie ended a large number of flushes would happen, enough to cause a few dry toilets while waiting for pressure to come back up. Their "fix" was a hack to offset the feeds to various floors to move the breaks up.
hey bud, just wanted to let you know the link to ultra music festival on http://flightfox.com/blog/ultimate-music-festival-trip is broken :)
Yes. I misread the original title as meaning "advice from the Times of Writing Well, when writing well still meant something." :)
For those who don't have spare time, care to relate the manifesto to the parent article ?
The wars we are currently in have not affected me one bit, except perhaps by adjusting prices for various goods by slim amounts that I can afford to ignore. Most people are like me. Saying that wars will affect all of us and our children as well is a huge exaggeration (unless you actually believe the government will attempt to pay down the national debt, which is just preposterous). It doesn't affect most people in any noticeable way, which is verified by how most people don't care.
many things are wrong with this story.. FYI: the Lion installation app, as well as ML installer, is just a wrapper application with preflight functions for the installer. This app wrapper contains the disk image of the Lion installer that functions just like any other disk image of OS X. To find the disk image for lion in the "Install Lion.app" app wrapper, you right click on the app and click show contents, find a resources folder and bam, there it is. The disk image can be burned to DVD or restored to a flash drive using disk utility. No excuses now, they didn't fail anyone. He scratch his SL install disc, not apples fault.
low-IQ humans require brutality to understand when they've done wrong

I'm afraid the most we can do for you at this point is to delete your account and to wish for a good beating in your near future.
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Or you can run an Ubuntu-derived distribution. In my experience, Linux Mint is already much more corporate user-friendly. It's Ubuntu with all the opiniated stuff taken out and replaced with conservative, sensible alternatives.
many absolutes that are wrong with this story.. And if you wanna be a pseudo power user heres an FYI: the Lion installation app, as well as ML installer, is just a wrapper application with preflight functions for the installer. This app wrapper contains the disk image of the Lion installer that functions just like any other disk image of OS X. To find the disk image for lion in the "Install Lion.app" app wrapper, you right click on the app and click show contents, find a resources folder and bam, there it is. The disk image can be burned to DVD or restored to a flash drive using disk utility. No excuses now, they didn't fail anyone. He scratch his SL install disc, not apples fault.
Go start a non-trivial business and then tell me what you think about government.

How non-trivial would you like? Many of the really non-trivial business ventures in history were started and run by governments at first, as they were simply too risky as private ventures.

Personally I think right-wing libertarianism is just basically what happened when conservatives started having to power-share and so they realised that they were no longer in sole control of government, which they really hate, so some of them decided it must be overthrown. Then they realised that the people they were now most closely aligned with are hippy anarcho-syndicalists, and out of the result of the ensuing nervous collapse and confusion, the modern libertarian movement was born.

[edit] I got thinking about what happens when you cross conservatives with anarchists and got an image of dishevelled mud covered people who are mistrustful of interference from the government, but with lots of guns and land and money. And I suddenly realised that the image in my head strongly matches most members of the UK aristocracy. I bet Liz sings Sex Pistols songs in the bath while scrubbing shit off her toenails after scrubbing out the horses.
My dad had the exact opposite experience. They were excruciatingly slow, quite literally almost causing him to die as a result of their bureaucracy. Private healthcare (Mayo, specifically) saved his life. Throughout my dad's final years I saw both kinds of healthcare at work, and there was a massive difference.
Even if the locations are secret, wouldn't the landlords of the locations near the stop notice the increased demand and raise their prices in response?
There are in fact a number of free solutions...

IIRC redshift was the most developed of them when I looked into it a while back.

http://alternativeto.net/software/f46lux/?license=opensource
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For example, when did "ask" become a noun? Is that something they teach in business school? ;)
The "Thank you Apple" title sounds like a gushing fanboi love letter. I almost didn't read the post (which is quite good, glad I did).

I just think the title should be a little more clear (like add a "not" at the end).
That's a good point, but what you see there is my personal symbol, which is the banner of the Third Reich with the swastika's tips chiseled. The symbolism is therefore unique to me, because, as far as I know, no one else uses it. Also, I give a detailed explanation of whether I am a Nazi. It just takes a few clicks to get to it. I've let that website wither, and really should get it into shape some day.
I don't think the pain point for a lot of us is that there isn't much innovation. It's that most of us don't get to take part, nor to guarantee ourselves a fair share of what innovation produces. Most people are barely at the table, without any role or say in the innovation that is going on (which is probably more than at any other time in history).

We have one tiny minority (well-connected political and economic elites) that captures most of the value generated by any change, even though they produce absolutely nothing, and often they get to call the shots, even though they fuck up every decision they make. We have another small minority that is socially inferior and gets less direct benefit out of the changes, but drives them and thereby gets to participate in the current round of innovation.

Then there are the 99-plus percent who are effectively non-players, some well-compensated and most not, but all at the mercy of forces that are not just out of our control (no one actually controls them, no single person has anywhere close to that level of power in this world) but over which we have no influence and no role in the driving.

The angriest among us are the "Cognitive 1 Percent", the ones who know we could be making these important decisions better than the people (politicians, corporate CEOs, VC kingmakers) currently able to make them, the entrenched players being above-average but not at our level.

It feels like there's no innovation. There's plenty, in comparison to any other time in history. There just isn't much of a role in it for any but the most well-situated people.
The world's 4th largest economy was over 40% powered by solar for two days in May this year. I think we can consider the innovation in PV technology a game changer that will impact the way we live greatly.

Imagine a world with 0 fuel costs, just capital costs.
I believe Nilay Patel at The Verge has previously said that this is an expected maneuver for this type of litigation after the initial verdict, including asking for maximum damages and sales ban.

Can a lawyer on HN comment on this?
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I'd love to move to SF, but I don't think I can swing it. (2) and (3) are deal breakers for me. There is a sickening amount of wasted space in the Valley and in SF proper. I can deal with Manhattan rents for Manhattan (world class city, very limited land), but not when it's so terribly self-inflicated as it is in the Bay Area.
Yes, who wouldn't count aspergillosis as an upside of taxis? If I don't have enough fever and lung bleeding, I'm just not happy.
Meh, I think that applies more to the consumer market than it does to the corporate market. If the corporate market were concerned only about branding, everyone would be using a Mac. And although there has been a trend in that direction, the overwhelming majority of corporate computers are running Windows to this day.
I'm a hacker and a scientist, like most HNers. There is no cause to delete my account, especially as you can see that the vast majority of my comments have nothing to do with race, but rather with hacking and science. Also, deleting my account would be like admitting that your points system doesn't work as intended. If certain of my comments go below a certain amount of points, they won't be seen to most HNers, which is how it's supposed to work. Deleting my account would be superfluous and overkill. Lastly, I'm pretty sure that wishing a beating upon me is not a statement which PG would condone, especially given that you work for him.
> Governments. Not people.

I've never known a government to start a war. I've known people that make up a government to start one, however.

> We've become overly permissive with those who govern us.

We are not qualified to decide how we are governed, but we are qualified to start a war?

> I don't want a vote-grabbing whore to be able to make those decisions.

So who should make the decision? Only those that vote?

> Not sure what will stop it or change the course.

Definitely not with flame-induced rants like this. You choose words precisely to evoke emotion. Rather than approach this rationally, you hide behind passion, and hope that anyone reading this will be to emotional one way or another to understand what you are trying to say.

In every way, you are acting the part of the vote-grabbing whore you so disdain.
I know a few people who still use Kindle and Google Search, despite their infection with ads. Maybe Ubuntu will survive as well?
All efforts should be spent on finding ways to generate and store clean energy.
Instead, VCs keep funding Facebook and Google wannabes.
What this illustrates to me is the utter failure of Caltrain. That right of way should have long ago been converted to a real public transit system. The fact that it hasn't illustrates the disengagement and feudal attitude of the cities along the peninsula.

This and the outlandish anti-development bent in SF that potatolicious describes.
There are issues with all of your points, but 3, 4, and 5 are especially bad.

3. Amazon and Barnes & Noble charge similar prices. Apple's flat 70% no matter the price is the simplest to understand.

4. Apple has been very upfront about improving worker conditions, more so than other companies in the industry.

5. False, see http://www.macrumors.com/2011/09/08/apple-institutes-new-cha...

I'm not saying that Apple is perfect or that they couldn't improve their policies, but those are some weak arguments.
Let's not confuse lack of visibility with absence. Most engineering these days happens at invisible scales. An old railroad bridge might look impressive, but the cell phone tower next door is actually a much more complex structure. (You'd have to look at it with a microscope and a debugger, though.)
I know of two ways:

- do consulting work and build custom software until you have a good sense for the problems. Once you know what customers want, throw away everything you coded and re-implement as a product. It is very difficult to reach escape velocity this way - you will be very dependent on consulting revenue, making it hard to stop consulting and work on product. But if you don't know the domain, this is your best bet.

- make a product that an employee in your target market could/would pay for themselves. Once you have a product users love, you can work out enterprise features like on-site deployment and system/data integration. The individual user revenue will finance your development, and sustain you through the infamous "enterprise software sales cycle", and its longer, more painful cousin the "enterprise software deployment cycle".

If you want ideas: pick a target industry, then talk to users. Literally ask them what frustrates them about their work. Life in the enterprise is _full_ of frustration, it doesn't take long to find a good problem to work on :).

The harder part is picking the right target industry. My advice is to pursue customers you admire. You want to love meeting and talking to your customers, since you'll spend a lot of time obsessing over them...
Not only is this awesome flight hacking, you guys are doing some awesome PR hacking with these contests!
There is growth indeed via Apple, Samsung and other licensees. But that's mostly within the purview of Apple, Samsung, Qualcomm etc. ARM doesn't have to scale for that growth - Apple and Samsung do - yet ARM's designs reach millions of us.

As I understand it, the whole reason Valve built Steam was to cut the publisher out of the value chain (who, to be honest, had too much power and added little value for the customer).

Incremental patching and DLCs are (extremely beneficial) side-effects.
There's only one possible addendum I'd make: API API API API API API.

Mobile is ridiculously important, and a great way to go mobile is to build a solid API and then consume it with your mobile app. If you do a half-decent job of this you'll have all sorts of flexibility.

That said, I don't want to take anything away from the first few paragraphs of MG Siegler's post. They're dead on.

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As an aggregate model, it would make taxis much more attractive for a lot of people who don't like the uncertainty, smelly cars, crazy drivers, poorly maintained vehicles, and long waiting times. Those people would be much more likely to hire taxis, increasing the business liquidity, reducing the uncertainty for taxi drivers in the business who might go a few hours without a ride. The advantage to drivers, is that an uber customer is identified before they get into the vehicle. They also have the means to pay. The ability to discriminate on source/destination is removed, but, in many taxi regions, they aren't, in theory, allowed to do that anyways.

I'm not arguing that 100% of all the uber rules are an advantage for drivers - in particular, the ability to turn down a $30 cab fare in order to wait for the $70 SFO trip will be to their economic disadvantage, but it will result in a healthier business overall.
In case you've never used this tracking system, the icon you need to click on is here : http://i.imgur.com/o02oX.png

That yellow circle with the pencil in it. It should yield a pop-up for you to state whether it affects you.
For me, it has everything to do with consistency. Then my brain adapts and is not in deep sleep when my alarm goes off.

Consistency can be the number of hours asleep or the time I get up, and takes about three days to set in. It gets even better if I break up my sleep into, say, 3 hour chunks; instead of just sleeping for multiples of three hours, I inform my body when it's time to start and stop sleep cycles by waking up for 20 minutes. It is supposedly more efficient because your brain on its own spends longer than necessary in between sleep cycles, which is a waste of time.

Just a few more ideas!
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I use what suits me the best. TBH this is the first time I hear about class-warfare in software. "High-class" people can use Windows Server for all they want (if they define pricy as "high-class"), while the rest use what is the best for ourselves. Is Google going to abandon Ubuntu base as their main OS? Very unlikely as they can just strip out the package. Does Google give a damn about "class"? No!
As someone who likes to develop nuanced views of issues outside of simpel labels like 'libertarian' or 'liberal' I find both of you revolting.

Seriously, just say what you think. There is no need to identify your party affiliation before making a comment. It just decreases the likelyhood that I will positively associate with that label.
That's one I've never heard of before. Taxi drivers have a lot of flaws, but they are pre-programmed to take you to a safe-destination. Also - I do a lot of fare negotiation on longer trips (I rarely, if ever, pay meter from anywhere but the airport), and, in 10 years, I've never had a driver back out on a deal.

In particular, on a long fare, say, San Francisco to Mountain View, if it's a slow time with light traffic (weekend afternoons) - I can usually get a $150 trip for $75, and never more than $100.
So people like Bastiat, Menger, Mises, and Rothbard all have the same sociopathic bias that made them write encouraging peace, trade, and cooperation for mutual benefit?
I can't wait to use this for a vacation. Are you all getting into the hotel and event booking too? I could see that making this service even more amazing.
Should read "When will this high regulation and litigation era end"
Thankyou for that. That'd have saved me a lot of drama :).
Rob Pike is a Canadian :)
This is completely independent. It'll work for any json service.
I did this once, decided it was a dumb idea, then quoted the next guy triple. It was a good learning experience, if nothing else.

The current market is drastically tilted towards the engineering talent, provided that you actually negotiate. If companies want freebies in spite of this - walk. It's a target-rich environment.
> Zoning is a disaster for commerce in the valley... New development is virtually nonexistent

What surprises me is that there is still no organization that adequately represents technology companies' and workers' interests on the peninsula and in the city. Most cities here seem to have public employees' associations that have a big say in how the city operates and develops. I think a PAC representing pro-density, pro-development, pro-infrastructure, pro-public transit interests that runs candidates for city councils and builds a track record of successful actions can become the prime political force on the peninsula. (At least if it manages to keep the public project costs from ballooning as they're prone to doing in CA.)

Meanwhile, the public is subjected to mind-boggling pieces like http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2012/09/20/is-tech-destroying-sa....
In Thailand you could be imprisoned if anything you say can be misconstrued as a criticism of the King.

I've heard that is also true in Memphis.
Wireless global communications for the masses is an enormous leap forward.

Cars and planes let me easily move 1500 miles away from where I grew up. And then modern communication technology and video/audio compression lets me communicate, with video, in real time with people back there, from anywhere I go with phone coverage. That's pretty damn significant.

The author of the original article is basically also assuming that none of the interesting things that are currently being researched are going to amount to anything. It's a bizarre mix of sampling problems, observational biases, and cynicism.

Edit: I thought of another pretty huge one: imaging, especially medically (look at how much less invasive many surgical procedures are now than they were 30 years ago), but also for stuff like mapping. We now have collections of images taken from airplanes and satellites of most (all?) of the world. When has that kind of information ever been available in the past? What kind of cool stuff will we be able to do in the next twenty years with all this information that has only seen widespread availability in the last ten years or so?

And then there are the medical procedures that weren't even possible thirty years ago...
That's seriously splitting hairs. By extension you are saying "I don't know anyone in government who started a war they simply signed a piece of paper giving authority to other humans to start killing another group of humans and the money to do so."

Wars only destroy so when no one is threatening you in any serious way engaging in them is crazy.
It's the result of layers of dysfunction. In NYC and Chicago, the commuter rail not only runs to where people live, but also the municipalities involved have no problem with high-density residential/commercial development near transit, which makes it easier to justify the expenditures on the commuter rail. The SF Caltrain station is across the interstate from anywhere you might want to go, while Metro North and LIRR in NYC drop you off right in Midtown. My office in NYC is literally on the same block as Grand Central Station. What's on the same block as the Caltrain station in SF? Nothing. If you look towards downtown from the station, you don't see anything: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=San+Francisco+Caltrain,+4th+St...

This is what it looks like looking towards Chicago's Loop from Ogilvie: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Ogilvie+Transportation+Center,...

This is what it looks like looking towards Midtown from Grand Central: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=grand+central+station,+new+yor...

The same is true for the residential areas. There's almost no high-density development around the Cal Train stations in the Valley. Even in Arlington Heights, IL (a suburb about 25 miles from Chicago) you see substantial high-density development right around the Metra station.
Absolutely, but just trying to nail flights first, which isn't easy
1. Partially reversed the commoditization of PC hardware, driving up prices for consumers

So we're going to pretend that market forces didn't cause this?