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FreeBSD seems to emphasise doing things right over doing them in a hurry and therefore may at times be a bit behind the curve in terms of support for the latest hardware and features. But when those features do come, they tend to be of superior quality (GEOM, Netgraph & bhyve for example) and rock solid.
For serious server and and networking use (often in the guise of pfSense), that makes it my OS of choice. Glad to see some hardware vendors think the same way.
Step Forward for Music Creation and Sharing
"and remove them when necessary meaning no orphaned packages."

I understand the reasoning in this, the only downside is that it means if I've started to use something that only got installed as a dependency, it can disappear without warning.

"More intuitive and better formatted than apt-cache search."

This is neat, I may start using it.

To be honest, a lot of people have recommended aptitude to me over the years, but I've never seen enough of a benefit to try to override my muscle memory. I guess it's a classic "bicycle problem".
Table of keyboard shortcuts
Jekyll is slow as molasses on anything over the trivial level, I haven't used Punch or Nanoc so I can't comment on those.
I'm aware of large FreeBSD-using companies which are not listed. Some of them go to varying lengths to avoid publicizing their use of FreeBSD, so if it's one of them I could certainly understand why they'd want to avoid having their name appear at the top of the FreeBSD Foundation donors list.
The 4-Hour Chef is probably not a surprising choice since it's a recent release and Amazon has been pushing it heavily (Amazon are also the publisher). I'm just over 60% through the book so I don't want to give it a ringing endorsement just yet but it fits the category of "developing a new superpower" quite nicely and it's definitely worth a particular mention on HN for two reasons.

1. Ferriss, the author, is very much a hacker in his approach to trying new things and drawing conclusions. This is also very evident in his previous book, The 4-Hour Body.

2. The 4-Hour Chef not only teaches the reader how to cook (which is a superpower in itself). He also delves into the _meta_ and spends a large portion of the book, discussing the framework he uses for learning these techniques and how he has applied it to learning (and excelling in) other skill sets like judo, tango dancing and learning new languages.

Edit: This sounds like a bit of a marketing message, which it definitely is not, so I'll add a negative.

I find his books to be a bit scattered and although they're centered on an over-arching theme he doesn't always tie the threads together very convincingly. Whole chapters can seem like lightly-edited crib notes. Personally, I don't mind this style of writing and it does make his books very easy to scan and skip chapters without losing the books narrative but at times I've also found it difficult to follow.
It provides a point-and-click way to add repositories recommended by Canonical (including the paid stuff). If you're at the command line, you have to already know what repositories you want to add.
Gentlemen, this is about the nature of selling. First the word incorrectly infers something you do to other folks over which they have little control, providing that you select the proper words which magically enables that amazing feat to occur. Allowing you to simply charm them into giving you money for your wares. Pure BS as any thinking person can readily see.

The fact of the matter is, the customer has all of the power to decide and to pay. Your job as a salesman, is to avoid cluttering the offer with unnecessary information which can slow down or stop the person from making a decision to purchase your wares. That is exactly what Benjamin Franklin learned to do, in the little parable.

He simply made himself the messenger from a group of intelligent folks, who were in fact offering the services, which would create a desirable effect for them, which the subscribers then decided was to their benefit.

I might add that the offer would be defined as a win-win in present day terms. Personally, I might also add that it is really a win win win, since society as a whole I believe benefits from a more enlightened society.

Salesmanship has taken a bad rap from those who misunderstand the facts. You see ... sell'in ain't tell'in it's ask'in. ....
I recommend The Way of the Superior Man (http://www.amazon.com/Way-Superior-Man-Spiritual-Challenges/...). My roommate lent it to me after an ugly breakup. The title is a little silly (I certainly wouldn't describe myself as "spiritual") and I don't agree with every word of it, but after reading this book I finally felt like I understood women and relationships, and I met my now-wife a few months after reading it. I doubt I would have gotten her without it.
If you don't want to change the world, and you don't have a concrete plan for doing so, then possibly not.

If you do want to change the world, it means you have to comprehensively persuade perhaps ten or twenty fewer people of equivalent net worth than you would otherwise have to.

My impression is that next to nobody wants to change the world earnestly enough to make inroads in either persuasion or fundraising. The pity of it is that this is also true for the vast majority of people who have managed to become very wealthy by their own efforts - they have no idea what to do with all that money other than keep on trucking with the process that's making it. See the general flailing around for by-the-numbers Big Charity, for example, among those with enough wealth to be brand names.
How much of this is being driven by issues with Windows 8 versus people simply being content with what they already have? The core 2 duo era killed the buy-a-new-computer-every-2-years thing. I think that, not tablets, is the new reality MS and friends have to realize.
Pretty sure Google's working on this, with Blackberry hoping for right behind Apple ...
Jacob Appelbaum 29C3 Keynote: Not My Department

http://youtu.be/QNsePZj_Yks
It's not that the people working on it haven't been great, it's that there's so much path dependence, it's frustrating. Which is not at all to say that there isn't path dependence in plenty of other domains.
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/their/they're/
Try Googling "unhappy lotto winner". The question is, can you handle being rich?
Having kids doesn't protect one from loneliness in old age. Adult children are independent and choose their own social circles.
"Too many items" is a problem with the restaurant, not the menu.

"Not enough pictures" - I prefer a good description than a photo. A photo doesn't tell you much at all...

"Simpler and more obvious recommendations" - I want recommendations from the waiter. Only sometimes, though. I'd rather go in based on the entre description rather than a recommendation from some random user.

I'd go on, but yeah...
Apple & DUNS Numbers
SQL is Agile
I agree with you - absolutely. The potential for growth and perspective as a human being is innate - some people have more of it than others. Though those people with greater potential - an awareness that our experiences can change us - are exactly the kind of people who leave their comfort zone more - versus the author of the linked story who writes: "But when I thought about what it took to get there, the diapers, the soccer games, the braces, the tantrums, the whole enchilada, I knew that it wasn't for me." That was the kind of person I had in mind.
Yes, it is.

Being rich means you have the freedom to do whatever you want.
I suspect that if your life isn't on track and you think everything would be solved by money, you'll be disappointed if/when you get it. But if you basically have your shit together and want to have more than a couple kids and be able to go on nice vacations etc., then I bet wealth makes things a lot easier.
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Weirdly, I was wondering about the existence of something like this about 20 minutes ago. I'm using Grails for work, and it's pretty unpleasant. I don't want to write Groovy, but I have to write Groovy.
Funny how a chain of thought goes:

1. I read a few titles and thought "Hmm, I'll go and buy a few of these on Amazon."

2. Then I thought: "I already have some of these books that I never read, I could gift them to others."

3. Perhaps I could set up some sort of book exchange where HN users can share books.

4. It would barely be worth the hassle and cost of postage.

5. Couldn't we share digital copies and avoid the postage?

6. That's PIRACY. The idea is dead.

It seems to me that a future where books cost a maximum of $2.99 is inevitable. I would unhesitatingly have bought 10 of these books, and there'd be almost no point in 'pirating' them, or even in sharing physical copies.
There is a big difference between winning the lotto and making your money by working for it.
Berkeley Technology Law Journal Holiday Patent Reform Round Up
What does iPhone have to do with Robots?
D&B has an information page about the Apple developer program:
http://support.dandb.com/entries/22065146-apple-developer-pr...

I just got off the phone after failing to find my company in their online database, and was told to email applecs@dnb.com to request my number.
No.

I'd argue there's a relationship between good bloggers and an aversion to ads. Maybe they dislike the impact on design and usability. Maybe they think blindly endorsing stuff is wrong.

Finally, running a blog shouldn't cost money. If it does, you are doing something wrong. I use github, but there's probably literally a million free options.
tldr; he doesn't really explain why / if it is.
Casinomeister is an online casino watchdog with community forum for discussion. A lot of casino representatives post there and some of them are very open with advice and other things. I know of one member who was posting about his progress in starting a small Bitcoin casino. You can check out his profile, view his posts and check out his sites from his profile. It looks like he hasn't been active lately, but perhaps you could contact him.

http://www.casinomeister.com/forums/members/jstrike.html

This would also be a great place to interact with players and get their opinions / advice.
I think there might be some nuance in the composition of the leavers vs the comers. This is purely speculative, but one could imagine that in SF:

- leavers are mainly people with established jobs, thinking of starting a family, who want more house per dollar (and more post-tax dollars per salary dollar)

- comers are mainly early 20s unattached aspiring professionals who aren't hit as hard by high real estate prices (price to rent ratios are still very high in SF), and who also don't yet have a large income against which to evaluate the tax impact

This kind of dynamic would result in a "perpetual churn" as each generation matures through their professional lifecycle, each time opening new jobs and housing opportunities (and thus the near-zero net migration).

Again, very speculative. But your observation made me scratch my head for a bit and this was the best explanation I could muster aside from "people just like SF and don't leave despite economic pressure".
A new way to compile - IntelliJ Scala plugin
I wonder what the typical household looks like in that study. I'm the sole breadwinner for my family of four, and with a mortgage and some school loans, a $75000 salary is barely enough to make ends meet.
You'd think they would flush the cache.
That people are no longer purchasing new computers every two years sounds very likely, but I think Microsoft (though not their partners) has realised this already. That's why they've been pushing the new "design language" so hard, to the point of including it on non-tablets where it (arguably) doesn't belong.

At least among the people around me, the money which would previously be spent on a new computer is used to buy a tablet (mainly iPad) instead. While I'm not sure if the way Microsoft is approaching the tablet-market is right, I don't think they're wrong if they're betting on tablets overtaking desktop/laptop computers in a not so distant future.
"I love programming, I'll open(start) a web company" (which, by the way, is one of the major causes of the high rate of infant webstartup mortality) and I think that is perfectly fine.
I agree that Flash not the way to go anymore. I'm just saying that there was once an interactive "bar", and that bar has been obliterated and forgotten and now we're playing catch-up. It's exiciting and interesting, all over again, and there's something to be said about that. (But it's also fun to reminisce about how badass flash once was (check out the http://thefwa.com/ archives going wayyyy back), and still is: skrillexquest.com)

These simple, linear CSS3 transitions just don't do it for me, having once experienced that. But again, it will get there in time.
Short answer: no, it's not worth it.

I'm selling the same app on both Ubuntu Software Center [1] and Mac App Store [2]. Between June and December I have sold 29 licenses on Ubuntu store and ~2000 licenses on Mac App Store.

Chrome Web Store [3] seems to be a much more promising distribution channel for Linux apps. With the new APIs it will be possible to access native window manager, USB ports, filesystem or webcam. Besides, you don't have to deal with incompatibilities between distros.

[1] https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/type-fu/

[2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/type-fu/id509818877?ls=1&...

[3] http://developer.chrome.com/apps/about_apps.html
You can go through several lists for the top 50? restaurants in the world will prove you wrong. Not one is chinese and I doubt any serve the traditional dim sum style with the carts rolling around.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/30/worlds-50-best-rest...
Find recipes with what's in your fridge
This could be useful for someone wanting to whip up some Android code in Ruby, but not wanting to import the full JRuby or Ruby NDK overhead.

I bet it's mostly for fun. He essentially extracted his JRuby JIT into a conventional compiler.

In other words, a neat hack.
I think caring parents, regardless of whether they regret having children, recognize it will make those children feel like shit to hear you say wish you hadn't had them. I hope I am not interpreting incorrectly what you are saying, but I think it's not merely the threat of abuse from others if they say they regret having kids. Legitimate care for their children even into adulthood may be preventing parents from saying this. That will make the taboo hard to break, if it were even desirable to do so, which I don't think it is. The question is important, but breaking that taboo not so much.
Yeah. Cisco 3750s are notorious for having small buffers. They are more appropriately used for connecting desktops in a office.

Cisco 4948s are better positioned for top of rack and are more comparable to the Juniper EX4200s that were shown to be better in the Tolly Report shown in the post.
Very good point. I had never done mistakes like these before moving to the US, and at the time English was not my primary language. A few years later, I make these mistakes more and more often.

I tend to blame this on the fact that, at the beginning, speech was less natural than writing (I was writing scientific articles before moving to the US) and I made several non-native-speaker mistakes (rape/grate and he/she) in writing. Now I am making fewer of these but increasingly more of the "it's/its" type, possibly due to speech becoming more of a natural act and therefore driving my writing. Because "it's" and "its" sound the same, I might overlook it in writing too. "Should of" and "should have" seem to fit in this case as well.

[Edit: last sentence]
because so much of our power to influence things comes from our ability to interact with people:

"how to read a person like a book" http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Person-Like-Book/dp/B000SABRO...

and the classic dale carnegie "how to win friends and influence people" http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/14...
I would have to agree with you on the disorganization part. I read the 4-Hour Body and that felt like a magazine in the way that it skipped over different subjects and areas of the body at different parts of the book.
Games industry predictions for 2013
And yet Google is still the easiest way to search for pirated content. I think that the most interesting part of this article is that the biggest alleged infringer, FilesTube, doesn't actually host any infringing files! It's simply a search engine which uses hyperlinks and iframes to embed results.
I have to second this book. It helped put me back together like no one's advice could, after I went through a bad breakup.
I run Shairport + brutfir for room correction, that setup replaced my old Airport Express and sounds a lot better.
Wow, two recommendations for Starting Strength on HN in one week. I have already taken started incorporating the advice at the gym and it seems barbells might be my friend after all.

The Easy Way to Stop Smoking worked for me 7 years ago and I can't recommend it enough. I'll never forget scanning the table of contents and flipping to chapter 21, it sold me on the book.

I've started Drawing on the right Side of the Brain, which is basically self paced training. Really insightful so far.

Looks like a promising book list.
I think it depends on how you define "getting rich" and what you find fulfillment in. I think "getting rich" would be worth it, if "getting rich" means being able to be more thoughtful about the work I'm doing and less enslaved by it.

Years ago I had a "side job" on weekends that paid roughly 2/3 of my "primary" job. Working on my weekend job felt stress free and enjoyable, as compared to the daily Monday thru Friday grind. I attributed a significant fraction of the enjoyment I felt in the weekend job to the fact that I didn't really _need_ the job. (Sure, it was _different_ work from the M-F grind, too, so that also factors in.)

My "getting rich" goal involves being more reliant on my investment income than my consulting income. My experience with that old weekend job makes me believe that, as my reliance on consulting income fades, my enjoyment level with the consulting work will grow. Having more freedom to be selective about work I take on, being able to do more charitable and volunteer work, and being able to work on fewer jobs simultaneously are all goals that I know will make me happier and decrease my stress level.
Mean Mr. Metric - Usenet Oracle (1991)
The problem lottery winners have to handle isn't being rich, per se — their problem is handling a drastic windfall.
Everything will be wishy-washy when compared to "The Art of Computer programming" by Knuth.
I haven't piled on the Win8 hate bandwagon in the past, but I'm actually liking it less the more I use it. The start screen, while not as terrible as some say, has not proved useful in any way for non-touch devices and is at best an annoyance. Microsoft have clearly gone out of their way to make it more difficult than before to switch away from the default Bing/IE combo (the latest annoyance is that "Microsoft Update" uses a hardcoded link to IE instead of your default browser, and IE nags you to change your default browser once it's open). For DirectX development Microsoft has downgraded their SDK by adding non-optional integration with Visual Studio and charging money for parts that used to be free (PIX); plus they removed the DX9 debug runtime so it's harder to debug DX9 apps.

If I was going to reinstall Windows right now, I definitely would choose Windows 7 over 8. There's nothing in 8 that's a must-have for desktop use, and there are many things about 8 that are more annoying than 7. Plus, hardware/app compabitility with 8 is still spotty (I've had a lot of problems with Boot Camp).
How do I read this page? Are there any more comments? Or is it just mainly titles and one-liners?
Arduino Uno vs BeagleBone vs Raspberry Pi
Autarchygenesis
I'm a bit flabbergasted by your comments, but a quick look at your comment history doesn't indicate that you're trollish, so I'll try to answer under the assumption you comment in good faith.

I started by stating that my opinion was an "impression". Obviously by using the word "impression," which by definition means "an opinion (esp.) formed on the basis of little evidence," I was allowing that my opinion was influenced by external and implicit sources. I then asked for more informed input on the possibility that I was lacking an understanding of the issue.

Your response started with "this couldn't be further from the truth," from which I assumed you would go on to challenge the content of what I had said. Instead of countering what I said, or even providing input (which I would value, since you present that you know about this subject) you resorted to challenging the source of my opinion...the very opinion I'm trying to become more informed about. This is a red herring, and I tried to say as much. If you considered my response "emotional" then I'm sorry, but you misread my tone.

But all that said, I have given this independent thought and have come to the same conclusion: that by all I've come to understand about domain sitting, the act of buying domains that you don't wish to develop in order to sell them at outrageous markup later does not provide value to society, and in fact has negative value as it raises the cost of doing business without compensating by contributing value elsewhere.

Perhaps you misunderstand what I mean by domain-name sitting, which would seem to be true given the completely irrelevant link you provided above. The Fairwinds Partners' FAQ talks about having a cohesive domain-name strategy as part of a greater branding and trademark initiative. I fail to see its relevance to domain-name sitting.
there are a lot of people who want to have java written, but don't want to write java. this way you might get less control, but you get the greater expressiveness of ruby.
I was pretty sure it was known. It's along with the natural built-in relaxes that babies have.
Identify your talents, develop them into strengths, and then seek roles that will allow you to play to those strengths.

If you're not sure how to name your talents (many people are much better at identifying their weaknesses), a good way to figure them out is the StrengthsFinder inventory, which I posted about on yesterday's "I'm not cut out to be a programmer" post:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4975353
The anatomy of a bad idea
Doesn't that defeat the purpose of having a public list?

I think a big reason it's on the public list is because it should be. Linux is Linus' baby, he has every right to yell at someone for doing pretty much anything. And in this case, it was deserved. If you're going to break the first commandment of Linux development (don't break userspace), and blame the userspace for breaking, you should be reprimanded.
I included this study in the second edition of my book, so I have the numbers handy. The study was conducted in 2008-2009. Average household income was $71,500 USD. An annual income of $75,000 USD represented an income in the top third of US households during those years. (Source: http://www.pnas.org/content/107/38/16489.full)
I like the content, but I dislike the annoying way in which it is presented.
Is it just me or the letter-spacing on this site looks just weird?
paperbackswap.com is a decent book exchange. The major advantage is not that you save money on books, but that you can find a lot of obscure older books.
You're actually hitting the hidden question: Will getting what you want make you happy?

Cognitive science suggests that the answer to this is also no.
It's either Feinstein or the GOP nominee (third parties need not apply to Congress.) If the GOP were to nominate someone I agreed with more than her, I'd vote for them. They haven't, so I haven't. The lesser of two evils, while still evil, is at least less so.
WalletBit Promotes In-Store Bitcoin PoS
Not that plenty of not communist and not socialist haven't been awfully authoritarian ...
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Also check out http://www.bookcrossing.com/
We don't have to participate in this system. There are alternatives.