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How Apple’s New MacBook Lineup Changes Everything
It is mostly the name that is the valuable asset. People right now think to begin their search on Meetup. Their brand is extremely valuable, but I think somebody can beat them on price and by making it easier (very inexpensive or free) to begin a new group.
> Its quite likely that Apple does use the new screws to lock you out of the device. But its also likely they used them because they're cheaper or somehow easier for them for some reason besides keeping owners out of devices.

If you were speaking of the manufacturing line, and of a fact that iDevice v1.1 had phillips off the line, while later iDevice v1.2 had pentalobe off the line, I would agree. (i.e., maybe pentalobe is more amenable to robotic insertion, etc.)

But, there is no "cheaper for them" argument for exchanging the screws on existing devices brought in for repair work. Unless the old screws are damaged beyond reuse by being removed, exchanging the screws is an additional, unnecessary, expense.

Which leaves one to speculate, why exchange the screws for repair items? There must be some reason?
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The point was they are tracking you, whether you want to be tracked or not. He seemed to think that's OK as long as the tracking wasn't "across the web".

In any event
slacross the weblunti\l you do something \like od -An -tx1 /dev/urandom| of=/dev/urhdd bs=bignuml
There's a word for when you choose a snappier title that doesn't reflect reality to get more clicks.

It's called linkbait.
Why would a botnet use such a public C&C channel instead of IRC? And why wouldn't the C&C tweets be encoded in a less suspicious format such as comments about cats or whatever?
Adding the fromJust Haskell argument seems to have confused the argument I was trying to make. I had two points. The first one was better expressed by Evbn and I don't really have anything to add to that.

The second was that Clojure arguably has a type system. There is exactly one type, Stuff. Every function takes Stuff and returns Stuff. Of course, functions themselves are a kind of Stuff. Now, it lacks totality, but otherwise every compiled Clojure program has passed the type checker. It's just that type checking is a no-op, since there's no way for anything to have the wrong type.
Are there more restrictions with having a contest that gives away cash/check rather than prizes/gift cards?
Ask HN: What do other HN'ers do outside of computers/programming?
I think a lot of us spend inordinate amounts of time hunching over the computer/coding/hacking away/building the next Facebook etc... but I'm wondering if there other HN'ers out there who have pursued other areas of expertise that have nothing whatsoever to do with computers/programming.

Either as a hobby, pure personal interest or the desire to add an additional skill.

I'd love to hear your experiences with something like this (eg. what drove you to it, were you happy you chose it, and did you achieve success with it -and by success I mean any definition of success you want to attribute to it, tangible or intangible)
Short but to the point.
People have no idea how many potentially great scientists or engineers are employed by the finance industry, which comically is also the only industry that produces nothing.
I've looked at the Cubieboard in the past, its an interesting take.

What strikes me though about this, the Pandaboard, the Chumby, Etc, is that one of the effects of the 'post PC' momentum shift is that people who were building general purpose computers have switched to building these things which are tailored more for browsing and content consumption, and perhaps business content (documents, spreadsheets, reports) generation.

That shift has once again opened up the market for a general purpose hobbiest computer. That is pretty refreshing to see.
In my experience at least a couple of posts about sexism in tech make it to the front page every month.

I guess they get flagged because there's really not much you can say about these posts. They are usually something like "I was at a conference and someone commented on my boobs".

Well ok, that guy is probably an asshole but most people on HN probably don't go around doing that.

It would be an interesting story if there was some evidence of tech companies deliberately deciding not to hire women or allowing unchecked sexual harassment in the workplace.
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Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Ballmer didn't take the helm at dying companies with the expectation that they alone would lead a significant change. Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg have always been fairly synonymous. Yahoo and Marissa Meyer - not so.
Hi sethbannon, idbknox, gleb, and lloydarmbrust, would it be ok to ask you guys for feedback on my YC app? I wanted to check with you first before I start spamming your inboxes :)

I live in Silicon Valley so everyone here is either going YC crazy right now, or absolutely clueless. It would be awesome to get feedback from someone objective but experienced.

I apologize if this wasn't the right place to ask, but with 4 YC alums in the same thread I had to give it a shot!

Thank you in advance.
Yeah - except they didn't find a shortcut. They just worked really hard and prepared. That's a good thing - but it's not "a hack." That word is just being overused now to the point of hilarity.
I think this really captures what a lot of tech-savvy people overlook about companies like Apple. They have their market. They make a ton of money selling to people who (mostly) don't care about being able to take their devices apart. Maybe those customers care about the consequences of this, but not many will think of the connection. They care about them looking cool and being fun to use and catering to this has been very good for Apple.

Apple is a hardware company who likes full control of things. It seems naive to think that they will make a big effort to be hacker or DIY friendly.
Customer acquisition costs would easily escalate during the ensuing competition. It's much cheaper to make clients compete and use their time and resources to find products and sellers than the other way around. The reason that it hasn't been done before is simply that it doesn't work.
I'm still waiting for "Malbolge for Small Businesses".

Anyone know when that's coming out?
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Use flippa.com - I recommend it - Have found attractive buyers on there
LinkedIn can very easily take control of professional meetups, but no one has the brains to do it. LinkedIn has group, has events, but both features are terrible, lack good APIs and are not integrated.

I would rather join a technical group on LinkedIn with events instead of using Meetup. The community is already there and almost all of us have LinkedIn accounts.

LinkedIn: please fix groups, please fix events.

EDIT: Forgot about Google Plus and events. Another potential alternative to Meetup.
Huh? I don't even know what that means. Of course Meetup needs to have unilateral action- they need to shut down spammers, etc.
Stamp's blog post about the deal: http://stamped.com/learn-more
Isn't the strict insistence on two-dimensionality a little restrictive?
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You sound bitter.

If you've used the product, you can see that it was beautiful, usable, and the performance was solid. If we assume that the product is failing (even though they've raised two rounds of funding from seasoned and celebrity investors alike), we know that the team can execute well. Mayer wants to move to mobile-first, so acqui-hiring a team who know how to build well for mobile can be a smart move. It may also attract talent who respects that team. Perhaps Stamped wasn't growing like they planned, but I'm sure they and Mayer think that with the right direction at Yahoo they can do great things.

Who knows if it will work out. But it seems like a solid partnership for both sides.
Our company is called "DropTable".
I work on this team - any questions would be gladly answered.
I was the worst coder in the room
I suggest that you're probably on the wrong website if you can't understand why someone would want to listen to a talk about Vim or at least be tolerant of people who do?
I heard that the latest version of Mentifex will be written in Piet.
Organizing a meetup and then using the first meeting to promote your own commercial product is bound to raise some flags at meetup.org. And I'm really glad it does, otherwise we'd be inundated with meetup spam as every product launch creates a group on meetup.org for the free publicity.

I really like Drew Neil's work on vimcasts, but he goofed here and didn't really think it through. I suspect that if he resubmits the group without the personal promotion everything will go fine. As far as I can tell, they didn't kick a pre-existing group, but rather turned down the request for a new group.
> I tried to ask what they would do next but they said it would be an internal legal investigation.

"By who?"

"Top. Men."
Maybe I'm an optimist, but I'd like to believe that Sony has managed to change the gamer/customer culture. Before PS3, it was quite normal and easy for people to pirate PlayStation games, even though they had means to buy them. Then came PS3 and people who used to play exclusively pirated games had to either leave the platform or learn to adapt to actually buying games. In many cases, the change from pirating to buying was a positive one: where before people would sometimes have more games than time to play them, now they have to pick and choose and enjoy their games.

Sure, maybe PS3 is open to piracy now, but people who have adapted to buying games will probably find it too cumbersome to revert, especially if the rewards are questionable.

Or that's what I would like to believe... ;)
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Thinking about my own recent expenditures:

Movie (Redwood City) - tickets $14, Popcorn+Drink - $8. + 15 minutes of commercial for 1:45 movie = $12/hour.

Dinner (at Flemings) - Entre $48, Drink $22, Salad $8, coffee $4, Dessert $7 - 2 Hours = $45/hour.

Video Game on my iOS Device - average $1.99, I've had some of them in constant rotation for 2+ years. Reasonably around 50 hours before I play them out Some only 20-30 hours, some 70 - though some (Field Runners, Slay, PvZ, MsPacMan, FlighControl, RopeNFly, Bloons, Galcon, Go) Have held my attention longer.. = $0.04/Hour.

I guess that's why I only go to Flemings once or twice a year, movies 8-10 times a year, and have spent $1000+ on the iTunes App Store in the last 4 years.
And some games provide a much longer entertainment value - Torchlight / Diablo / Starcraft / Zangband ;).

Hm, and this is topped by pen'n'paper roleplaying games, where a couple of rule books can last for years.
Dwarf Fortress = $0 / infinite hours = $Double 0/hour

Your chart assumes that entertainment is fungible though. 5 minutes on a roller coaster is probably better than 2 hours of Flubber.

To make the chart accurate, you should have net value = (fun value - cost).

If you value novelty and variety for fun, then video games are the ticket (as long as you aren't sticking to Battlecall of Warfighter genre titles).
It's a big deal for Sony if it makes piracy easier.
It's also going to affect gamers if it makes cheating easier.
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That would be only a bad business in a very competitive pool.

Also, there's nothing wrong in pornography by itself, unless you happen to be an extreme religious person.

A bad business for the world would be something like Zynga.
Sounds like this may interest you - https://www.facebook.com/help/131112897028467/

Facebook wraps up every status update, picture, etc in a .zip file that you can download.
Windows 8: Beyond the hype
Execute: A book being built in 7 days about executing quickly
That's just plain incorrect, there is no one centralized exchange in fx so there actually is no one exchange rate.

Because of latency arbitrage, the rates on different marketplaces tend to be very close but there is no one correct exchange rate (or spread).
SpaceX doesn't really build rockets to go to Mars... It might, one day, but it's a provider of rockets, not a private space exploration venture. Someone's going to need to buy that Mars launch off of them for that to happen.
She's incredibly articulate, intelligent, and entertaining.

Her interviews of late make me wish she'd been doing press all along during her career, I'd have loved reading/watching them for her previous films.

I'm glad she's comfortable talking about herself, her life, and her work now. We're all better off for it. Look forward to hearing a lot more from her and her brother.
Banking: The secretive sector (and 1 easy step to fix it WITHOUT regulation)
Using facebook API you are at the mercy of other's person consent to give you access to their email address and other data. You cannot just put some number to access a profile and get the email address or until you have some preferred access to data from FB itself.

Please let us know if you were working using some other better approach.
> It seems naive to think that they will make a big effort to be hacker or DIY friendly.

Using weird screw heads isn't "not making a big effort to be hacker friendly", it is "making a big effort to be hacker unfriendly".
From what I gather, this was the first meetup being organized, and the first meeting was in part to promote a product. This should raise red flags. Otherwise, it becomes a wonderfully cheap spam vector. (Meetup sends noticed to users when local grous are added that users say they are interested in).

As a user of Meetup.org, I'm find with this level of oversight. As long as he can go about getting the meeting reestablished, I see no harm being done, and everything working appropriately.
Just in a different form: $$$ is the great convincer.

-- The market
I'd like to see a Piet program where the program output was the same as the 'code' for the program itself.
Parse is indeed taking up the mobile-backend services by storm. As much as I love to use parse, I don't see why any serious app would stick with them. They are good to get started but eventually I feel apps will move away into their own backend infrastructure since it is not hard to implement and allows more flexibility and control. Glancing over parse's client portfolio I could hardly recognize 3 apps that are average popular.

EDIT: Please don't get me wrong. My proposition was in terms of how many serious apps will adopt Parse. I currently use parse for 3 of my apps and love it. But I am a free user and never bother paying for their service coz there is no need for it.
And you can get more data by making a request under data protection laws.
The video alone is almost enough to warrant purchase, but does it provide a framework for data analysis of matrix management performance review metrics in global ITIL organisations?
Ark only shows publicly available data from the people's profile at fb. If its not public then you cannot get it from ark.
Email is insecure: But there nothing on web explaining it
I just had a chat with friend of mine explaining his how DKIM and SPF technologies are just for spam detections so the best way (the only way?) is to use something like PGP for secure email messaging. Or to use project messaging application.

The I said "let me google that for you", and.. nothing. There is no single article explain it for normal users why and how email is insecure (i.e., for example, that sender is really the one who says it is).

So are they any good articles on this topic?
Amen!to that brother (or sister :)
Thanks for taking the time for this Keifer. I don't plan to include the "big words" in the final description but I wanted to put them into the discussion so people could understand what I was talking about :)

That Google description is amazing and it gives me a skeleton to work with. Thanks!
I don't know numbers but I'll agree with you what a pain it is nowadays to get a new game working. I've given up and just bought the game.

For PS3 I never even bothered to try. The games are so high quality the cost doesn't phase me, especially when the ones I miss go on sale for $15-$20 and Amazon/Toys R Us/Best Buy do buy 2 get 1 free or Buy One Get One 50% off.

Of course this is just you and I, no clue on how much piracy really goes on. The one console that it was TOO EASY to pirate was the DS/GBA Wait, no, Dreamcast would have to be the easiest.
Microsoft kicks off Windows 8 campaign at NY event
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This is a really cool job for the right person. If that is you (or someone you know) we'd love to hear from you! jobs@kinvey.com
Touche! Some of these css frameworks are getting ridiculous... CSS is easy, why do we need frameworks for it?

And wow I hope this is not the direction web design is headed!
Here’s Why Apple Decided To Overcharge For iPad Mini
I've actually setup a system where I download this zip file once every 3 months.

My main point is that the barrier to entry for making a new social network/reader etc is not one of innovation. Search for instance is hard to compete with because the bar has been set so high. Facebook is impossible to compete with because of its walls. I don't feel this page brings those walls down.
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Thanks. Signed up. Good luck!
For brand new games, yes, $60. But greatest hits and sales can easily knock that down to $40, $30, or even $20 for greatest hits (definitely worth playing). That being said for new games Amazon/Tos R Us/Best Buy do tons of BOGO Sales and if you just follow http://www.cheapassgamer.com/ you'll be surprised how many great gaming deals there are. For used games you can try Craigslist for $15 GREAT used games or even http://glyde.com/
I don't think anyone was arguing that they want to "simply" keep owners out, just because they can or they're bad, bad people.

Remember how I said "most people would agree that they have readily explainable motives for" keeping owners out? Some of those motives are "total control of both the screws and bits end to end" and "no chance of someone causing damage by using a wrong size bit".

The reason why people are complaining about this is not because they think Apple has no reasons for this, but because they think Apple's reasons are wrong, as in (for example) "it's my device, I paid for it, so I should be able to change the battery and if I damage it, it's my fault."

Of course, other people are free to disagree. I'm not arguing that, either ;)
I'll add that as a sample program in the appendix.
Looks like it's back up http://www.meetup.com/Vim-London
My understanding was that this is only applicable if you are domiciled in the applicable area. Is this not correct? Has anybody tried this?
http://mamememo.blogspot.com/2009/10/piet-quine.html unfortunately not very aesthetically pleasing. More from the author here: http://yusuke.endoh.usesthis.com/
There's a few practical problems with creating that kind of legislation though.

How do you decide who has to comply with it?
Every time I build a website that collects any data from users at all, do I have to also create an API for accessing that data?

Bigger companies such as FB and Google would most likely just move stuff offshore to get around this anyway.
Well, I didn't claim that the videocore was a fpga, it's likely some form of gpu/cpu - It's not implemented on anything running in the kernel or on the arm core though. fpga or something else, the concepts are rather the same seen from the main CPU running an operating system.
For an excellent reference implementation of how a Metro style application should look, check out Microsoft's Azure site: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/

Borrowing some of the css transitions, color scheme and typography from there would go a long way toward really delivering the "Metro experience" with your framework.
Many Google detractors (largely composed of fans of Apple, for what that's worth) see Mayer as, bizarrely, the anti-GOOG. They think she's going to open a second front on Google while somehow being universally aligned with Apple.

Bizarre, but there you have it. The people who are interested in / cheering for Mayer will almost always be carrying an iPhone.
By my back of the envelope calculation, Apple's profit margin is better for the mini than it is for the larger models. This seems silly because the mini is in a much more price sensitive market. But from Apple's perspective, a mini sale quite likely cannibalized a full size sale, so profit per device matters as much as margin.
I would argue that the fact that Apple spent the vast majority of the iPad Mini announcement with a giant picture of the Nexus 7 behind them and comparing/contrasting features would make this article incorrect.
> just be wicked smart, create a beautiful product, get millions of users, and build a revenue stream that grows 20% each month.

If you did this, why would you need YC?
Is a $329 iPad mini Good Business?
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Yes, I've noticed that as well. I've also noticed the opposite - more spam getting in to the inbox. It seems maybe they are tweaking the algo a bit.
Can someone more versed in the current state of Postgres chime in on something for me?

> "One use case that has historically been challenging in database management is setting up a read replica, often referred to as a read slave."

Having only inherited MySQL stuff in production, this is pretty trivial in MySQL land - I was under the impression that Postgres also had a solution for this, with Slony and recently as a part of Postgres core. Is my info wrong on this?

I thought master/slave replication was a pretty solved problem at this point, am I wrong?
Interesting... they are trying to control demand because their supply is weak. Very plausible. This means the price might drop a few months from now.
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As someone who bought his PS3 only for the bluray player and the ability to have linux on his tv in one little box, and after doing hours of research to verify it was a legit feature (only to have it stripped less then a year later) I find it impossible to empathize with sony.
My reading from the story was the iFixit guys hadn't found a screwdriver they were happy with yet.

"iFixit is doing what it can to source screwdrivers to work with the new screws, though it notes that there doesn't appear to be a single reputable supplier that carries the same tools Apple technicians use."

"Wiens notes that the pentalobe driver isn't perfect—"the tip is more star-shaped than "flowery"—but it can remove Apple's pesky replacements and "liberate" your iPhone."
We have some very serious brands on board including Home Depot, Armani, Food Network, Green Bay Packers, Discovery Channel, Cadillac, and more. The folks building these apps don't want to be working on caching policies. They want to make beautiful, engaging applications. They stick with us because it's just easier.
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Too bad the PS3 doesn't have any games.
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I'll bet you could get each state's official SOS results relatively easily. However, "calling" the election depends on more than just the official SOS reports. CNN will call things when their exit polls show one thing and then the early rounds of official results confirm them.
How The Tyrannosaurus Rex Used A Hack To Eat Triceratopses
Microsoft: We Have Lots of Windows 8 Apps, but We'd Rather Not Say How Many
What's your point?

Torx, just like Philips were both originally licensed designs, it's just that the patents have expired.

When Torx showed up in 1967, Phillips were surely considered "standard" as the patent had been gone for 18 years. Today, the Torx patent has been up for 22 years.

I expect that when encountering Torx for the first time in 1967 people ignorantly made the same assumption, that it was non-standard for the sake of being non-standard.