skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My perception of Apple has pretty much been like this guy's for 10 years now, ever since I shelled out 250GBP on a 20G iPod whose battery ran out just over a year later.

I went to an Apple store and asked whether I could have the battery replaced, presumably for a price. "Just buy a new one, man!" was the response.

I'd taken a gamble buying the iPod (I didn't have much money at the time), was prepared to pay to replace the replaceable part. The sheer arrogance and condescension of the response, and the assumption that Apple consumers had money to burn made my blood boil. I haven't bought anything Apple since.
> It absolutely is consolation and justification for the majority of people who support that policy.

Yes, but not for the victim of the policy. Slavery used to be approved by the vast majority of society.

> You might not like it; but individual liberty is not unlimited and the will of society, right or wrong, beats the pants off any other form of government we've found.

I don't like it, and I don't want to replace it with another form of government. My whole point in this thread has been that government actions are indistinguishable from actions which are widely accepted to be crimes, except that government has convinced society that its actions are acceptable.

> The robber is taking something without giving something back; the government is taking their share of your wages for services rendered to you as a citizen. Completely different situations.

Fine then, change my analogy to a robber that takes 30% of your paycheck, uses part of it to blow up some people in other countries, part of it to feed the poor, part of it to pay prison companies to contain nonviolent criminals, and part of it to build some roads.
Anything that tries to disrupt, or at least compete on the same level with the Xbox and Playstation, is a good thing, and that includes OUYA as well.
It's faster because he made the Flash version use strongly-typed arrays.
Moving to non-replaceable CPUs seems unnecessarily hostile to Intel's biggest fans.
The problem with accepting PayPal or CC payments is that you can withdraw the money from your PayPal account immediately, but they can still issue a charge-back up to 180 days later and your PayPal account will be deducted that amount. For remote transactions, money order by mail or Bitcoin are your only safe, non-reversible options as a seller.
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Point taken, although I think a telling part of this comment is where you think I'd be getting beers for engineers. I shouldn't have to tell you how that makes you look.
Decent military hardware is probably tamper-resistant, with self-destruct for cryptographic data and firmware at a minimum. However, it seems UAVs fielded at present are often commercial and/or at an early stage of maturity, so this may not necessarily be the case.

It's interesting that all the replies have focused on confrontation rather than methods of avoiding it. Some philosophies hold that the only way is not to play at all. I was kind of hoping someone would come up with some smart tactics on that side.
> it will still be the most efficient way to bang out a school paper, computer code, or a thoughtful business email

Those are niches. Most computer use is and will be going fwd, consumption. Majority of creation will be photos/videos/minor typing (txting, tweets, short emails)/other forms that don't require keyboard.
"If he gets held by the authorities and executed,"

I think 'then it's his own fault for moving to a banana republic tax haven' is the punchline to that joke.
The light source on the guy with the dark hair is from the right. The lighting on mcafee looks like its coming from straight ahead/beneath.

Why is everybody falling for this? It looks so fake!
I'm really curious to watch this whole thing unfold. I don't think betting against MS is a good idea. There are a number of factors that make me think MS could actually come out fairly well from all this. Apple doesn't have Jobs to demand innovative slick products. East Asian electronics companies want to be in the tablet game, but Apple won't license iOS to them. This is why Android is on more devices. However most people who can be choosy aren't excited by Android. Enter MS. Windows 8 has mixed reviews. However, Surface seems to review fairly well. And, we can be fairly certain MS will license Windows for tablets.
Didn't paypal just remove the ability to sue them in a class action suit just recently?
I just looked up an iPhone 4s 32gb unlocked. Gazelle offers about $215.

Swappa.com had six for sale, with asking prices averaging around $450 (there was an outlier at $360).

A quick look at Craigslist Boston shows recent asking prices of $380 to $550.

Of course, I don't have data on what prices the Swappa and Craigslist sellers are actually getting.

I think, if I were really lazy, I'd sell to Gazelle. Otherwise, I would use Craigslist, cash only, meet in a public place.
And there's AgilityJS too...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2793634
---There's no demo because it behaves exactly like the Masonry example for infinite scrolling and Pinterest.---

Screw it, I added a link to the example. It's on tindie.com.
You think general delivery is also his credit card billing address?

Do you think he walks in with different fake ids every time he does this?

Do you think he also uses different credit cards with paypal?

Or do you picture him as a nomad, like the old guy from Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, traveling the country collecting fake ids, credit cards, and iphones?

If he is super-master-ninja and all else failed, do you think it would be more or less expensive than court to honey pot him, ship him a box of rocks (or something that takes continual pictures and uploads it instantly) in a very bright pink package, fly super-economy to the place he is supposed to pick it up, and then sit in the post office a few days waiting to see your package picked up, and take pictures of the guy and his car plates?

Unless of course, he only uses public transportation to cover his tracks (or steals random cars every time he needs to travel to the post office!), and wears facial disguises, sunglasses, and a hat to make sure no camera gets a good look at him. Never the same motel room twice, always paying cash, blah blah blah.

Reality: It's actually very hard to hide when your fraud requires picking up physical items at a known location.

It's easier to hide remotely, but not so much otherwise.
Even remotely, i'd put 20 bucks down that given only the info the seller has about the guy, 4chan or reddit could find in 2 days or less.
What if I told you there was no Series A funding: http://bit.ly/QCZCoD
This may partially be due to the maturity of the two: desktops and laptops are, of course, continuing to improve, but at a much slower rate, and you probably won't get a huge benefit out of an upgrade unless you are doing high-end stuff. Tablets are improving dramatically with every release.

I used to upgrade my main computer yearly, but now doing so every 3 years or so feels more than enough. Most people I know keep theirs for even longer.

On the other hand, my iPad 1 - less than 2 years older than the iPad 3 I now own - feels downright sluggish and old. Many apps don't work on it, and I get tons of crashes on it due to memory issues. I think that trend will probably continue for a few more years (I think phones are in a similar position).
Don't get too hyped by "tenfoot":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10-foot_user_interface

Just a clever reference to the UI paradigm.
Oh nice, the best takeaway from this (for me) was that desandro apparently has created a hack to deal with the whole is-an-image-in-cache-or-isn't-it problem:

https://github.com/desandro/imagesloaded
Yeah, that's an excellent selling/lobbying tactic - limit the choice to as few alternatives as possible, ideally two. E.g. the alternative to smoking is drug abuse, so smoking is not simple... How do you see an industrial secret being an alternative for a video game (the original post)??

Current patents are not about exchange of knowledge (I'd ask what have you been smoking, but it's against the HN guidelines, in your view the patent trolls must be the bringers of fire) - Apple patents on rectangular form, Monsanto and Co patents on genes, the mind blowing obvious software patents.
>Thermal paste is optional, if the CPU and heatsink make good contact it doesn't make so much difference.

Err... it makes a massive difference. Try running your brand new Xeon workstation without TIM. Your PC will shut down or blow up within seconds of doing anything. Try living in Australia, or I guess Texas and doing CAD/rendering work or playing games in summer. If you don't have aircon you'll need aftermarket cooling or your CPU will throttle.

Intel used cheap thermal paste to stick the CPU to its heatspreader on their latest chip offerings instead of soldering it on. This is between CPU and heatspreader, not between heatspreader and heatsink. That alone caused load temperatures shot up by more than 10 degrees Celcius (18F). In addition to that I've reduced some of my friends' load temps by 30 degrees just by reapplying thermal paste properly and reseating the HSF.
They will torture you just in case.
Watching this, I'm reminded of the OUYA. Isn't this exactly what they were trying to accomplish?

In fact, it seems to me that Valve's Big Picture, combined with the ability to "make your own Steambox", completely trumps the OUYA.

Why would a game developer want to create a new port of their game to a completely new system when they could just optionally add controller support and publish to Steam?

Valve's got the player-base and game library, and now they're in the living room. Is OUYA's niche gone?
The whole article is speculation and 'what if's. I understand a lot of people are worried about reactions to Windows 8, but I think the move to create a cross hardware development platform will distinguish them in the long run.
I guess you are refering to Pages, Numbers and Keynote. These are not included with the iPad, but sold separately (at $9.99 each)

Compared to MS Office (my comparison is desktop MS Office; I haven't even seen its tablet version), they have fewer features (fewer than Mac OS X counterparts, which already have fewer features). Whether that is an issue for you depends on your requirements.

Major lacking features are the ability to handle large documents and macros. They also are worse in importing MS Office files than MS Office itself.

On an original iPad, they also are fairly sluggy. I wouldn't write large texts in Pages, for instance, or create large spreadsheets in Numbers. Reading and revising existing not-too-large files is OK, though.

On the plus side, they look better and are somewhat easier to use (although the iOS versions, IMO, suffer from the limited interface that tablets offer)

Integration with iCloud for document storage and synchronization is somewhat spotty, but IMO has gotten better recently (my experience is syncing to Mac OS X Numbers and Pages; I have never synced with Windows or with Office documents)
What Happened to The Trackster?
It does seem pretty obvious, doesn't it? Item not as described? Prove it! But then all the buyer has to do is smash it themselves and send it back.
I mean't that working in the casino isn't gambling.
So for this line of code:

file_in, _ := ioutil.ReadFile("domains.txt")

It says call ReadFile. In go a function can return multiple values. ReadFile returns an byte array and an error value. Normally you'd check to see if err is nil, if it is then no error happened. If it isn't you can check it out for information about the error and handle it.

A unique feature about go is that declaring a variable and never using it is an error and not a warning. Actually there aren't even compiler warnings. Either it is right or wrong. This means if he had called:

file_in, err := ioutil.ReadFile("domains.txt")

but never checked err it would not build. So to get the byte array but not the error you use the _ symbol to tell it to throw away that return value. This is what I was on about in that you have to actively ignore error handling if you want a return value.
The biggest problem is stock - you're going to have to stock 5 times as many types of motherboards now.

Which is impractical, so the net result is fewer motherboard to choose from.
Nice concept, but find mostly crapy remixes. I couldn't find even the most popular artists (One Republic, Adele). All of "their" songs are remixes, even those marked as originals..
Our only works in modern browsers
Actually I was considering mentioning Kafka when I wrote that comment and contrasting it with RabbitMQ.
Ah, now we're getting away from PC (as defined by an OS) to PC as a synonym for having a keyboard :).

If your kids had a tablet with an excellent keyboard touch cover, would that be enough to never use a traditional PC? They aren't in a position to buy it themselves, of course, but if you had them side-by-side I wonder what they'd prefer.
I wonder what the expected lifetime of the crafts were when they were designed back in the 70s. Maybe they thought the RTGs would outlive the other components?
It is, and in most US states, is heavily regulated, something I don't see addressed by the OP (who in another post makes some veiled reference to Real Money Trading of in-game currencies, another "sketchy" industry).
Holiday Gifts to Avoid
Start ups need people who know what they are doing. These people make well above the median. Making market salary in an expensive area like the Bay Area is not negotiable, and it's certainly not traded for equity.

The equity is what gets talent to accept the tremendous risk of leaving a solid position with an established company, for an unstable one at a high risk venture.

If you can't afford to pay market rate, that means you're not funded enough to be hiring. Equity is in addition to market salary.
Where to place a fan in order to cool a room the fastest
GameKlip: Play games on your Android phone with a PS3 remote
Interestingly enough, they above examples were all sent by an outfit called “Yes It Is – No Piracy!” which we’ve never heard of before.

Didn't stop you attributing the behavior to the rightsholders in the headline and most of the article, though, even though there's no way of knowing whether they were actually involved.
Re: Tenfoot, it's apparently a term used to describe TV-sized GUI's:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10-foot_user_interface

Imagine a responsive web design that goes from 10-foot all the way down to mobile; now that would be impressive!
Whatever happened, I am disappointed they are going to part ways. I think that vice reporting on his life would have been very interesting.
This agrees with my entire point, which is that eBay has shifted towards a buyer-oriented site. They offer asymmetric protection for buyers over sellers. Buyers know more about the sellers than sellers know about buyers, making it much more buyer-friendly and more risky for sellers.
Ernesto Sirolli: Just Shut Up and Listen
I would get a Nexus 4...if it had 4g lte.
Short Fuse, Big Bang: Australian Digital Disruption
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Sci-Fi + Fantasy + a dash of Comics and Anime = "The Shadow of the Gauntlet"
This is incredibly sensationalist. iPads are great for the run of the mill soccer mom, but anyone who wants to get any real work done needs a personal computer(Mac or Windows, trying to be unbiased in this regard). Microsoft Office isn't going anywhere, and I don't think anyone expected the 1st generation of Surface to succeed. Windows 8 is a fine operating system primarily criticized by people who used it for a very short amount of time. The Surface Pro has not even been released yet, and Apple is slowly losing their knack for innovation. Let's not throw our stocks in the air and beg Apple to take our money yet. This article draws ridiculous conclusions on shaky data and successfully draws the attention of those looking for Microsoft's downfall.
oh, really? Okay...

There are many projects that the wider web community want to fund but are not able to.

Example: There's a demand for the adobe creative suites on Linux, but this wont be happening any time soon.

Adobe wont create a kickstarter campaign as they just wont.

Instead, people should be able to make their deposits to a third party that will release the payments when conditions are met.

Example: groups of people submit their demands and each person submits their micro payment. The conditions on the payment being released to the company of concern must be measurable... otherwise the intended reciepient will recieve their cash payments prematurely.

This would mean that you're acting as an Escrow... something I've only just learnt about.
I don't think we're disagreeing here. I said "seem" slower when in actuality, we are progressing quite fast. However, it seemed that you were implying that our rate of progress was not fast enough because of the IP laws we have now.

In any case, I don't see the point in making a big debate over this on a post that's about porting C&C to HTML5. I think it's enough to point out that when there are protracted debates, it's because the issues involved are much more complicated than just a conspiratorial power-grab.
Striping all exif data is maybe a little extreme, but striping most might not be that bad (i.e. create a white list of tags, things like rotation, etc). That said, in a case like this, it would make more sense to strip it all (maybe replace it with a copyright notice or something).
I've always loved SBNation's solution for this. When you're logged in, comments auto-refresh (still in the original threaded tree form), and there are keyboard navigation shortcuts for navigating comments and marking them as read (so that when new comments come in, you can then navigate only the new ones). There are also "up" links to the parent comment. Another huge benefit compared to something like HN is that it saves the state of which comments have been shown to you to your user account, so if you close the window and come back to the discussion later it knows exactly which comments came in since you were last on the page, so you can quickly review only the new content.

It creates (especially for real-time stuff like discussing an ongoing sports game) a fantastic blend of the live nature of a chat with the ability to have deeper individual discussions (through the threading preservation and display) at the same time.
books,
tickets to a hackathon,
tickets to Strata or another conference
Love seeing people use the Sincerely api. I truly believe in Hiring via API http://www.mattbrezina.com/blog/2011/08/hiring-via-api/
Not really, no. The light on the hands could just as easily be a reflection of something. I have a couple photos taken with a fancy canon SLR which have become a running joke in our household because they look so fake, but aren't.
Yep, this is why on the rare occasions that I sell anything on eBay I write in the item description, and enforce, a rule that only accounts over 3 years old with more than 100 feedback are welcome to bid. I'm sure that shrinks my market and depresses my price but better that than being scammed.
If we're talking about differentiating features (at least at a hardware level), I think it would be:

- Larger display
- Keyboard
- Mouse
- Power

It depends on what your usage requirements are, of course, but once you start carrying around one or more peripherals to make your tablet work for your situation, you have to start asking "Is this really better than a laptop?"
And it is comments like yours that make posts like these worth it. Thank you for the kind comment.
This reminds me of my friend's product http://www.scribblepics.com/ (but they do it through mainly big tourism type partnerships rather than directly b2c).
Don't diss the 70s. The 50s went to space. The 60s went to the moon. The 70s left the solar system. Progress...
Or just that PC speeds have reached a plateau, and common desktop applications no longer need the latest hardware. The continuous upgrade cycle is slowing. I think that speaks for the 8% on its own.

Except that Mac sales keep rising...
It's one of the ideals of this site that we "don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation". But in threads like this, you're kind of glad that things like this could only be said here, if only so you don't have to wipe little flecks of spit off your face.

Given opportunities, I disagree with our site's owner probably more often than not, and even I think this site would be better if it was moderated more aggressively and less transparently by him, at least with regards to submissions. This was a stupid story and it produced a stupid thread and everyone can see that, and yet 'pg can't suggest the obvious and react to it without being beset by anonymous Internet trolls, all of whom have valiantly set aside the billions of dollars their intimate knowledge of the tech product market should be making them in order to spend their time here educating us on how exploited YC founders must be.

Stop being such a wuss, Paul, and start torching these threads. Burn them with fire.
You are correct, and this is one reason why it was difficult for me to see a better frame. Of course once I am aware that a better frame exists, I should give the benefit of the doubt by assuming that one until proven otherwise. (Even if I suspect it is not what was truly going on.)
You can? Migrate everything from Google to Apple. Then check back in 5 years and see if it's as painless.

That was one of the author's points. We're becoming a culture where you pretty much buy into one provider or another provider. One of his assumptions was that it's only going to get more locked in and more difficult to switch. His conclusions were thinking about the future based on those assumptions.
Some sort of "don't show if last used in > x days" would be handy to have in git (CLI) and gitk.