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Apparently you just don't do well when people challenge your preconceived notions. Given that you seem completely unable to defend some of your assertions, it's understandable that most people write you off as plain wrong. It sucks too, because you seem to be a pretty good writer. Unfortunately, you don't take the time or effort to supplement your article with any meaningful technical detail.

> I needed a development box again. My Mac wasn't cutting it, and so my Linux box was returned to active duty.

Why? Absolutely no discussion of why OS X wasn't cutting it as a dev environment for you. Given that tons of devs use OS X machines as their primary coding machines, this just seems completely off the wall.

Then some more stereotypical ranting about how Apple's going off the rails with SJ gone, again without really any meaningful analysis of why this is true. Lion and 2010 era Apple products are supposedly terrible, yet you refuse to upgrade to versions that fix the problems. I'm sure that Linux never needs upgrades.

And then you just go off the rails. AAC files with XML based meta data is so proprietary and will SOOOO difficult to use in *nix, same with JPEGs. EVIL EVIL CUPERTINO! DUMB PHONES FOR EVERYONE! TAKE THAT GOOGLE! Life is so much freer now that you're using desktop linux again! No configuration ever! Everything's trivial!

Except everyone on HN knows that's a joke. You may be wonky, but you're not any meaningfully more "free" (who knows what that means) and now your sarcasm comes just comes across as hand-waving over the lack of any technical detail in your writing.
Thank you for the support :)
Private companies don't really fully fund their pensions, but during the period where pensions were common in private companies, those companies were expanding in revenue and headcount, so it was ok. Was.

High-risk private enterprises don't do pensions now (can you imagine a Zynga Pension Plan?). Approximately everyone has shifted to defined-contribution from defined-benefit. The problem is USPS and the fully-private companies with legacy pension plans are both in long-term decline and have underfunded pensions, but USPS is particularly large in workforce and obvious in long-term decline (and political).
lol I was at the SF Tennis Club while reading this - would be pretty useful.
Thanks again to the OpenBSD team for creating something that inspires everyone else! ( hackathons )
This comment is silly and representative of why HN sucks these days. The natural ingredients of sriracha are peppers, sugar, garlic, vinegar, and salt. I'm fairly confident of their non-toxicity. Any heurestics other than not eating the two ingredients I mentioned were entirely of your own imagining.

I am reasonably certain that Potassium Sorbate is bad for me, and 100% certain it isn't beneficial.
As for zune, apple does the exams thing with iTunes. Apple also charges money for writing software for your own device.
There's almost no fringing in Firefox's text (and Mozilla devs went through a lot of pain trying to find good defaults for DirectWrite text in the post Fx4 days) but there's quite a bit in IE's text (see the "k" and "a" letters).

Chrome's text looks completely atrocious though. Hinting is completely random and different letters have different sizes. To my experience, this has been this way since the release of Chrome. With the proliferation of Webfonts some time later Mozilla's and Microsoft's choice to use DirectWrite paid off while Chrome has made no improvement.
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No, but people call it Mail.app.
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Working on a CRT monitor? You can easily adjust subpixel smoothing settings on any OS to get rid of the rainbow. (Windows calls this "Cleartype"; it's right in the control panel)
Speaking specifically towards tennis, this idea has been tried before. There is a definitely a market here some how though; just last week I got a text message from my old tennis coach/boss, "what about a website where people would meet to play tennis, is that profitable?"
"But the truth is, the USPS needs to innovate."

Tell your congressional representative, not USPS. FedEx and UPS have spent large amounts of lobbying money ensuring that USPS does not innovate. Congressional legislation is what prevents USPS from innovating.
iCracked (YC W12) Is Blowing Up With A New “Uber” For iPhone Repairs Service
This is awesome. One of the running bets I've had is how many chapters of Hennesy [1] you can implement in an FPGA. Early on it was hard to do more than basic RISC architectures, the 6502 Etc. Then you could do the Z80 which was a good cisc variant that had some excellent code tests. The 8086 and 68000 make for good follow on targets. At some point we should be able to do a VAX, its sort of a local maximum of CISCyness.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Architecture-Quantitative-App...
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Better to be posted on Reddit. Don't you think?
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I recently met, and had the opportunity to speak to, an old family friend who has been blind for many years. He's had several guide dogs, and I was hearing for the first time what they actually do (they're far more incredible than I had imagined).

The subject turned to technology, which it normally does when I'm around family, and he showed me his "fancy" Nokia that was especially equipped to help him out. It was very expensive, I presume it came to him through an organisation that helps blind people (he did say, but I've forgotten those details), and he showed me it's special assistive features claiming (with humour) the he would be willing to bet mine couldn't do that.

I flipped out my iPhone (4 at the time I think) switched on the assistive settings (which I'd not done before) and handed it over to him. He had it figured out almost instantly. What blew him away was that the price of this fancy new phone brand new was still significantly cheaper than the phones available through his normal channels - and it was his opinion (after an admittedly short time with the phone) that this was more useful and easier to use than his current phone.

Accessibility is something I think is probably (note I said probably, I have no evidence either way) overlooked by most the startups around here - but I think Apple are trailblazing here too. For most of us these are features we may not even know exist, but for those who need them - they really need them. To take them away could literally be life changing.
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From the HN Guidelines:[1]

"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."

[1] - http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think the author is missing part of the reason it runs through the servers. Along with storing the "read it later" actions, running it through their servers allows background checking and push notifications, which isn't possible for 3rd party email services on iOS otherwise (though I agree that a graceful fallback to checking gmail directly would be nice)
I stayed in the dark for long time, waiting for a post like this. I refused to spend any good money on whatever tablet.

Better, not only I haven't found any single productive use for a tablet, I haven't ever found one for a smartphone either.

I think one could buy a porable mp3 player or an ebook reader for much less money.
You get dry throat if you take cold air from outside and heat it up. This air is not dry a outside temperatures. In fact is as humid as it can be. But if you take this air and heat it up then there's much more room in the air for additional water. And water from your throat gladly evaporates to fill this room leaving you throat dry. If you spend your time in temperatures clse to outside temperatures your throat doesn't get dry.
A suggestion - As it stands right now, your title and blog is link-baity as it belittles the work of engineers at Google. Re-title your submission contextual search because you're searching within a silo or context of websites. The problem you're trying to solve is along the lines of millionshort.com in that you are trying to lessen the impact of over-optimization of results.

As for an explanation of the down-votes you're getting, I can only refer you to:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4962544
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There's a time and place for everything. Sometimes you want a wireframe with blocky/blurry text (to experiment with the layout). Sometimes you want a wireframe with Lorem Ipsum (to experiment with the text/font in a generic way). Sometimes you want a wireframe with real content.

This is just another tool in the toolbox.
I'm not sure how it's different from Apple? Doesn't Apple require iTunes to put content from your computer to your iDevice? Doesn't it require paid developer license which you have to renew every year?

As for bad error messages, I've once spent half an hour trying to connect to Mac App Store and it kept rejecting me saying my email address is already used - it was indeed already used, by me. It couldn't retrieve my existing account for some reason (no, not wrong password), then demanded my credit card even though I wasn't going to buy anything, and when I tried to use Paypal option it run me through a dozen of screens and had me land back on the same page I started without any explanation whatsoever what happened. One of the most frustrating experiences. I'd rather take error messages that can at least be looked up somewhere.
I feel similarly and find it hard to express why it makes me think that way.

I actually thought about writing something more to this effect, but I don't want to come off as critical. The short version of my thoughts though boils down to the idea that a negative stereotype of Feminism is re-enforced by this whole episode, and while people have the right to voice their criticisms about something, using the guise of Feminism to lob the critique doesn't promote what Feminism is actually concerned with.
> And look, I'm not an engineer, but this seems like a really bad plan. When I launch Sparrow, the only way my email doesn't come through is if Gmail itself goes down. With Mailbox, I'm adding a second point of failure.

The first and most likely point of failure is network issues (i.e. no Wifi or 3G access).
Yeah, there is a market for people looking to start pick up games, find tennis/squash/chess partners, but these are the subset of the larger problem that we want to solve. Irrespective of what your need, you should be able to find the right help/person around you.
I have enough of this silly "karma" junk that I don't mind taking the hit to transmit some "cultural norms" regarding site content. If no one does that, how will anyone know? Voting in and of itself is not enough... it'd be easy enough to organize a voting ring to start voting up any old thing. And way more people are interested in politics than are interested in esoteric things like Node vs Go vs Erlang.
I hope only the best frameworks and tools, written by the best programmers, get stadarized, so the application developers can focus on business logic, data science/engineering and interaction design with a robust abstraction below.
There are several levels of mockups/wireframes, as well as different kinds of clients. Both methods seem like they have their uses.
Not that I'm offended, but you might want to find a replacement for 'retarded' on your launch page. Sure, it gives a colloquial vibe, but it comes off as a little immature.
But this isn't really that interesting though, it's one of those stories meant to get you riled up, isn't it. "Outrage" stories are plentiful in this injust world of ours, and nearly all of them are, in many ways, way more important than hacking and startups. We could fill the entire site with them if we wanted.

I mean, it's pretty common knowledge that Japan (like many other countries) has some issues with its history and culture that some people there have not come to terms with 100%. If this is actually news to anyone, you should spend more time reading something like The Economist.
Not viruses. Just bacteria. And bacterial infections are rare and usually easily treatable with antibiotics.
It looks like you didn't get the memo.

Those of us who embrace this magical nocturnal world don't praise it to the day walkers. It gives them the terrible idea that it may be good for them to try. If this pattern were to continue, our reign over the darkness would surely end.

Do be more careful in the future. Thanks.
I'm not even sure why there is this hatred of Unity, like its the only option.

I don't like Unity I think it sucks, I just use KDE, but you could also use XFCE or Cinnomon or Awesome or any of billion other choices.
Timing is important as well. If you comment early on an article that gets lots of upvotes later on, you're more likely to get upvotes for your comments. As for submissions, it takes a lot of both luck and timing to get enough people to vote them up for them to reach the front page.
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I wasn't particularly damaged when I got hellbanned here. I was more curious than upset, and it was fun to see the different way the system behaved when it was 'pretending.'

Generally astute people notice when, if they are talking to someone, and that someone is answering in monosyllables and not paying attention that the conversation is unwelcome. It often isn't all conversations, sometimes its just this conversation. People are busy, people are distracted.

I am often surprised when hell banned people say really outrageous things, and nobody responds, how do they rationalize that? Do they consider it incomprehension? Silent agreement?
Haha yeah, I shuttle b/w hyderabad and the bay area..but Shoutt is located in the bay. Immigration laws are such a pain.
Yes. The Columbia and it's wildlife are part of the economic base of the area. Salmon are still a really big thing here and there is plenty of political pressure to protect them.

But also Ron Wyden is on the senate energy committee, so this is directly in his pervue as well.

If you'll let me ramble a sec: it's hard to feel positive about our congress as a whole, but I've been impressed by Oregon's delegation over the last few years. Wyden and Blumenauer have impressed me as well informed and articulate. Wyden in particular is one of the few members of congress with an accurate understanding of privacy and intellectual property concerns on the internet.
Thanks for pointing that out. I thought I changed that earlier
link to source?
White House response to open access petition
Sometimes HN is just slow. Last I heard, it's running in a custom server in a custom Lisp language on a single core of one server.
Why do we conduct multiple interviews in the first place? Because, as a group, we want to gather all the information we need to make an informed decision. Some quick discussion between interviews can help make sure we gather all the information we need -- as long as you keep it to narrowly defined topics. In particular, I always try to find out: "What did you cover in your interview? What didn't you cover? Is there anything I need to know?"

Let's say we're interviewing someone for a role with HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. If the first interviewer ran out of time before getting to JavaScript, I should probably start with that.

Or, if an interviewer noticed any red flags, we can use the following interviews to gather more information. If I was told that a candidate complained loudly about being overworked, then I could spend more time discussing time management and the way he works. Maybe he legitimately was overworked, or maybe he's a complainer, or not very good at prioritizing his work.

Finally, it helps if there's at least one recruiter or a manager that you can give real-time feedback. Recently I was on an interview loop of a candidate for a very specific role. I quickly realized she was a terrible fit for this position, but she'd actually be perfect for a different one. I went to our recruiter and explained the situation. He was able to reorganize the schedule so that the candidate spent the rest of the day interviewing for the right position. If we had just continued without any feedback, it would have wasted a lot of time and we would have missed out on a great candidate for the other role.
Interesting, I wonder how many of those 6342+ kudos were as a result of people testing what he was talking about.

> meaningless number

To nitpick, if it was really meaningless, it shouldn't be part of the page, atleast not under the title "kudos" or under the disguise of endorsements by X people.
Well so it carries as much meaning as a Facebook like button.

Regardless, I would care more for the content of a page than the brand or endorsements it received.
If your concern is with those particular substances, for reasons other than the fact that they are not natural, that is fine, but that was not my take-away from "Anyone know of a respectable all-natural version?". Apologies if I misunderstood your concern, but I don't think my misunderstanding was particularly unreasonable.
If the best ever won out, that might be a rational hope.
Thanks for the tl;dr. The type was too small for me, so I couldn't read it, and I didn't feel like making it bigger. I know that sounds lazy, but there is a reason most sites don't have small type.
Coming from a designer that has worked a lot on magazine/newspaper design this is absolutely helpful. I don't know how many times I've seen Lorem Ipsum be glanced over and almost make it into the final print. This is great!
Seems that latency was not measured. I'd expect it to be much lower in 0mq. First there is no intermediate server, and secondly you don't have to wait for the flush thread to send a message.
Mokhlesim :D
Yup, good idea. Let's make it better together! Fork it: https://github.com/usablica/front-end-frameworks
Another option would be just giving some fraction of punitive damages to the state.

When lay people are shocked by judgment amounts, usually its because the judge was using some sort of damage amount that would actually make the offending institution change its behavior. But you could provide basic damages to make the patient whole plus lawyers fees to the patient, then allow the judge to reserve some portion of punitives for the state, and just label it something like a regulatory fine. People understand that fines can be high, they don't understand when people appear to get a windfall well beyond what might make them whole.

(OTOH, maybe if someone goes through having a scalpal left in them, they deserve whatever "windfall" they can get.)
My day-to-day job is web dev. But yesterday, I dug up references I haven't read in years and wrote a bootloader. Why? Because it turns out that for some things, speed and simplicity really matter.

Also, I haven't had this much fun doing development in ages.
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Thanks for sharing this.

I can't help but see parallels here to Hollywood and the struggling actor. "Things are great! I've been in a few indies you probably haven't seen..."

I hope in time, with more stories like this, the mainstream will better understand the more human side of an overly romanticized place.
So ignorance is bliss? I guess there will always be a fundamental requirement to know the root of all operations. But, good luck in hoping otherwise.
> Maybe calling for help around can be made a paid feature

You might want to reflect on what you just said :-)
The only thing I find disheartening here is his discussion of how he lost funding because he told his friend they were struggling and had no idea what they were doing. This implies to me that they were not being transparent with the investor, and in essence were on the verge of "stealing" the investor's money because of it, because his aim was essentially to sell the investor on a thriving business that was in fact not there.

An investor should get a real and full analysis of the business, with accurate numbers, so it should not have come as a surprise or a fallout if someone said they "were struggling", because simply, their numbers and growth should have shown otherwise if they were actually worthy of investment, and no conversation should have been able to sway that.

You should never fear a transparent conversation with others getting back to important parties as long as you really have nothing to hide.
Judging by the examples, the script fonts appear to have been designed to have realistic characteristics such as uppercase letters and a variety of heights in lowercase letters. But what catches the eye is that none of the characters have descenders (the part of the letter that descends below the baseline of the text, like the bottom of a lowercase "j"). This would make it appear that there's more white space between the lines than required, and detracts from the otherwise realistic shape of the text.
Yes! ... All my VMs at work are RHEL, so I'm moving towards CentOS for my personal stuff. I'm also wondering why Ubuntu never created something like Kickstart (or adopted it). Managing machines with Cobbler/Ansible is very nice!
That feels kinda depressing. Million years from controlling fire to science.
No condescension; I just said it's not hacker news, and indeed, it looks like it got zapped.

Interestingly enough, there's another Japan story on the front page:

http://neojaponisme.com/2011/11/28/the-great-shift-in-japane...

Despite not being about startups or hacking, per se, that one strikes me as being much more on topic. It's more "deeply" (rather than shallowly) interesting, it's informative, and it tells you about something that most of us probably know little about. It's not political, it's not designed to anger you... it's just interesting.
Cool! How is this different to Jig.com?
http://ww.com/task.cc.txt

It's a 32 bit QnX clone, this is the kernel. The project is not buildable since the original scaffolding (djgpp) is going to be pretty hard to come by. I probably could still put together a bunch of images to get it to boot if I spend a month on it but I don't see any point in doing so.

Still, it was a fun project and I learned an awful lot doing it.
Apple was always about relentless forward progress and leaving the previous generation out in the cold. I think you have a point that they passed through a certain sweet spot that would be comfortable for data portability geeks, but to assume that they would maintain some status quo would always have been a laughable thought for anybody with a passing familiarity with tech. Your Linux system may be the best bet for long-term maintenance, but it's still tech and you will still face a whole slew of tradeoffs, dead-ends and difficult migrations.

I think where your article puts up a strawman is this idea that you can't use an iPhone or even an Android because of lock-in. That's just silly since these phones are 100 times more useful than a dumb-phone even if you don't put any data in the cloud at all. Put another way, it's easier to set up a system that extracts your photos from an iPhone into your Linux system and just do that regularly than to carry a Nokia and a Canon at all times.

The future of consumer tech may not be what the geeks dreamed of, but as long as there is free software and open hardware we can bend it to our will as we always have.
This is the crux - focusing on the client's perspective. At the wireframe stage the important issue is conveying a general structure. I've also had people get lost in the "but why did you put Latin?" rabbit hole.