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Please read pg's next comment(above) and you might be sure again. I think he meant what cperciva interpreted. Here - "I want HN to be a site where people engage in meaningful discussion that I try to discourage people from upvoting the first dismissive comment they come across"
Yes, I don't think I phrased it well, but I didn't intend to assume that there is a single Robot Mega Corp.

> The more humans we replace by robots, the lower the cost of goods will be

Most physical goods have two parts: materials and labor. Even if robots were to bring the labor cost to approximately zero, we still have the material cost. So you're right that you don't necessarily have to own the robots to successful, but you do have to own resources.
hg - 338M
mercurial - 30M
hg revision - 5.5M
mercurial revision - 1.1M
hg version - 60M
mercurial version - 7M

I'm seeing exactly the opposite. There's an argument to made to the effect that `hg` picks up a lot of things that have nothing to do with source control, but that's still a big difference.
There are different shades of depression, some more manageable than others. I don't think medical science (or anyone) has figured out the worst of it yet. Author David Foster Wallace before his suicide: "The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out of quote 'hopelessness' or any abstract conviction that life's assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire's flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling 'Don't!' and 'Hang on!', can understand the jump. Not really. You'd have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling."
So you say cd M-. M-backspace M-backspace instead of cd M-.. Four keystrokes is still an improvement over shift-1 shift-4 shift-; h, which is five, plus you get to see where you're going to go before you get there.
Interesting, I did not know that.

Anybody know why the bar is defaulted to that shade of orange (#FF6600) in the first place?
Perfect! You guys really nailed this one.
Why is the Hacker News not even written on the shirt? In my view, the favicon would have been a better design idea than this one. I don't get it.
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Back to the topic: I agree with your assessment, since I was excited when I saw the link but when I saw the t-shirt I also felt that the design was to minimal and vague. I do believe that this is easy to fix, just add the hackernews headings to the orange part and you have a cool minimal design which is not vague.
At the root of every procrastination is suppressed fear.
Fear of failure, fear of punishment for not being good enough, fear of shame, fear of success. Specifics doesn't matter.
You may temporarily overpower fear with positive emotions or sparks of activities which works while it last.
The real solution is to actually look at this fear, feel it fully.
You attention to fear dissolves it irreversibly.

Roughly: trigger the fear (which will be felt like strong a discomfort) by trying to do something you procrastinate about. Locate it inside your body. Feel it fully within yourself. Breathe. Rinse and repeat.
The more direct focused attention you put into fear directly (within your body, not within your mind) - the more it will dissolve.
2 questions:

1) Why isn't this available in Canada? All of our cars have ODBII after 96 as well.

2) Is there an estimated completion timeline? 2 months? 2 years?
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I don't know what specific psychedelics he referred to but I can share something.

There is some research suggesting ketamine is useful for depression.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine

There are legal substances which are similar ketamine which some people argue have similar properties.

I cannot verify and do not advocate.
The problem is that if someone from HN were to start a news aggregator site competitor it wouldn't be long before they started looking for profiting posibilities (people reading HN like making companies, in case you didn't notice :-) ). At least HN doesn't run ads or has a "HN Gold" program (yet, this comment may backfire though, seeing how pg is reading the thread).

I think we'll be fine though. YC doesn't really own HN, the people here submitting and commenting stuff do; if it gets too compromised eventually most folks will migrate to somewhere else.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5362802
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This sounds like a great list of the technical challenges for Kiln implementors (applause) and an awesome list of reasons for me to rationally convince my team (if I had one) to use the single DVCS.

Anyone intelligent enough to use git or hg should be pragmatic enough to learn the other one for the benefit of the smooth workflow, when presented with this list ?
UTF-8 is an encoding and has no say on how a given character should be rendered.
Complicated question. Dismissive comments about new things bother me partly because there's an asymmetry that seems unfair. It's so risky to create something new, and so easy to dismiss it. At their worst, the people making such comments are like schoolyard bullies picking on someone who tries to do something different.

This particular case is very mild-- more confused than dismissive really. It just struck me as funny to see it get upvoted so much.

The upvoting often bothers me more than the comments. There are often individual stupid and/or mean comments languishing down on HN threads. They seem pretty harmless as long as no one upvotes them, like cranks shouting on streetcorners. But when large numbers of people upvote such comments, you start to have a mob. And to see a mob persecuting someone who tries to do something new is much worse than seeing an individual bully do it.

There are still a lot of things to be figured out about forums. I predict the world will evolve techniques and customs to protect against this sort of thing, and look back on our era with pity and horror because we didn't have them. But it will probably take a while. I know how hard the problem is, because this is the aspect of HN I most want to improve and spend most time thinking about, and I rarely make progress.
It might not be malice. It may be ignorance. It's definitely irresponsible.

Those three sentences do not need thorough researching. Maybe she just needs to write a quick email to Alexis for a comment/confirmation (or omit the 3 sentences). Or are bloggers not journalists, anymore?

Also, I didn't attack the premise of this article at all, so don't lump me in with that crowd—I just think that the author does a disservice to her premise/argument. For what it's worth, I agree with the high-level sentiment of the article (though not all of the details).
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HN has crept into one of my most frequently visited sites over the past years. I've spent way too much time on this site over the past several years.

This shirt's an autobuy for me.
No, pick hg. :)
My fellow programmers, this is what you sound like when you make authoritative-sounding claims about trademark, copyright, and patent law.

Well, IANAL, to be sure, but since trademark, copyright, and patent law are actively being made stricter and harsher at the same time that the mass market has given almost every one the ability to criminally infringe, don't we need someone to explain trademark, copyright, and patent law? I mean in a form that's not privileged client/attorney communication, and doesn't cost hundreds an hour to hear.

But, yes, I agree that complex system knowledge isn't readily transferable.
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This is not a new thing. I used to have the same feeling, that the O'Reilly brand was a mark of quality.

That ended when I bought their "Creating Applications with Mozilla" book (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596000523.do), which was riddled with misprints and errors, to the point that even the "Hello World" example code at the start of the book didn't work. It was disgracefully bad. I was actually, literally shocked by how bad it was.

That was 11 years ago. And I haven't run into a whole lot of "buy the O'Reilly book" recommendations since.
All this development when a great web app already exists makes me sad. This just seems like development for development's sake. Rather than using that engineering effort to make one amazing product, complexity is increased, and bugs are fixed more slowly than if their attention was focussed toward the web app.
What about the RSS feed? All the links point to file://.
Send forms back to company. Keep $5 for time spent considering their offer.
I wonder if some wing tech were possible to be used on vehicle body as an aftermarket option to increase laminar flow (or delay separation, I'm not sure, not an AE) to reduce air resistance.
Power savings as well as signalling where we are in the cycle. One interval is 1:3 the other minute 1:4. Feel free to press the button to reset to the beginning of the cycle if you feel it is not enough.
Now if only there was a way to set up an NGO which could be run on auto pilot. Then it would be possible to do this for Dwarf Fortress without getting bothered by the hassle!
Did anyone have trouble running this in Firefox ? I'm on Firefox 20, Windows 8 x64 and the site is non-functional after logging in. I cannot create any new documents and clicking on any UI element does nothing.

It works fine with no issues in Google's Chrome Browser though.
I wrote an event collector for SnowPlow in Clojure (https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/tree/master/2-collector...), and really enjoyed the experience. Leiningen is excellent, far better than any other build tool I've used, and Ring and Compojure were both great.

My only grumble with Clojure is that nobody seems to document the types that their functions take and return. It's a PITA having to read through a whole chain of functions just to figure out the types which are passing through it.
I like the look of this, and the draft-marking is a great feature. I'd worry about using it in earnest, though, because it of its limited export options, which require the formatting to be done outside Draft. It's great to be able to collaborate on creating content, but a lot can go wrong in that final formatting, and Draft doesn't have a way to make that stage collaborative and version-controlled. Everything I write could be written in Draft, but none of it could be finished in Draft, and I see that as a problem.
exactly. This is to say "soon it will be dark, press the reset if you are sure you need a lot more time and just hurry up if you do not". Most of the time it really is no-op though.
Good point, thanks Peter. Lets try this: £12 per shirt including VAT, duty, and any VAT administration charge the shipping co. adds. Any excess will be openly donated to watsi.org, and any shortfall I'll cover.

Email: iwantone@hntee.33m.co with color and size if you're in.
Bingo. Nothing gets past some guys.
It's a t-shirt.

It's raising money for a great cause.

Buy it if you like it.

If not, spare us the semantic analysis - the only thing it does is add to the perception of a community disappearing up it's own arse.
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> I think almost every board game is essentially a turn-based strategy game

The distinction between "turn-based" and "real-time" is largely perceptual rather than actual. "Real-time" simply does two things: it slices the turns down to an extremely fine grain (such that they're more "frames" than "turns"), and it forcibly makes "do nothing" or "continue previous action" the default action.

Thus, the real distinction for a designer is, "How much time do you want your player to have to make a given decision?" The more time you're willing to give, the more likely you should make it turn-based, and vice versa. This is how chess starts to resemble an RTS when you add a clock. If you pared the "time to move" down to, say, 10 seconds... it becomes hard (but not impossible, since you're still right) to argue that chess is really turn-based.
Something that's been missed: atop
Its a similar set to top/htop and friends, but has an additional system process snapshot daemon, allowing us to answer the perennial question of how a server got into a particular state.
Something particularly useful is the wide view (see here: http://www.atoptool.nl/screenshots.php) and average disk response times in ms.
Clientes, volver
Until someone sues you for distracting them while driving.
It really is great. Not just Github repos either. :)
>The dark comedy will reportedly focus on six programmers who live in East Palo Alto and are trying to create software that will earn them big bucks.

I can tell this will already be hilarious, because East Palo Alto is not the same as the glamorous or rich Palo Alto. I would know, because I am typing this in my rented house in East Palo Alto.
I spoke with a company recently that does mobile apps for truckers. Unfortunately the large trucks don't use the same protocols. But I can definitely see something similar being used for Taxis, Vans, city busses, shuttle busses, etc. Plenty of benefits.
A lot of the problem with Kozmo was that they got too caught up in the bubble (expanded too quickly, wasted money like crazy, etc) more than a problem with the idea itself. Seems like between Amazon, Google, Instacart, and others same-day delivery can be feasible in dense areas like SF and NY.
Try searching for git as well:

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=git%20version%2C%20m...
Python: http://docs.python.org/2/library/bisect.html
> I would have preferred if he left people's names out of the article

I wouldn't. I'm sure a very large part of the problem at O'Reilly like any large corporation is the bureaucracy making it easy for individuals to evade personal responsibility.

The author praised the editors who did good work and criticised the publisher on reasonable grounds. Recognising people who do well and making people accountable when they don't are two sides of the same coin.

Besides, I'm sure if I'd poured a couple of thousand hours into a book it damn well would be personal to me in that situation.
You are from the future. Great prediction. Here is a piece i should have written that looks at the trend across apps http://thenextweb.com/dd/2013/03/12/apis-are-dead-long-live-...
Unhelpful when you are putting in the keys - better strobed full-light than dim - the latter sounds cool but is impractical. The human vision is much more effective at flash-like lighting than at a constant near-zero one. At least, mine and my cohabitants :-)

Try it IRL and then tell me your opinion, I'm curious to know your opinion.
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Would love to learn more. We have a fleet management software product (Fleetio - http://www.fleetio.com) and would love to discuss future integration capabilities. tsummerville at fleetio dot com
You mean that the example would be more readable if it used proper function names instead of operators? You would still need to "learn the library", i.e. look-up what the functions do.
Thanks! I just cancelled my black order and re-ordered the gray. Looks like I could change the size, but not the color on an order. FYI, after buying the gray it showed me a photo of the black one. Overall, the process was pretty painless though. Looking forward to a gray shirt!
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I won't wear this kind of branding, but if it was a HN-grey shirt with HN-orange collar/cuffs/trim, that I would wear.
Interestingly, Joel (founder of FogCreek, producer of Kiln) wrote extensively about leaky abstractions:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.htm...
In publishing contracts I've entered into with major publishers, it usually says the rights revert back to me after 2 years of it being out of print. Not immediately.
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They should increase the height of the orange header and add the Y logo to the left as it is on the site.
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Make sure the people want it; I'm for example native from Spain, and there's nothing that comes close to HN in Spanish, but I know an attempt to make something like that would fail miserably because the people simply don't want it (that's probably also why it doesn't exist)
That's unnecessarily dismissive. CL is a wonderful language, but it's gathered a lot of cruft over the years and essential features like multithreading are not standardized.

More importantly, it doesn't have a focus on immutability and functional programming by default.

I'm not even sure what you mean about the JVM blowing up after a few hours... Tuned correctly it'll stay up indefinitely.
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DropBox for wifi, as in, I have access on all my devices and can assign/revoke permissions with friends. Maybe Airbnb of Wifi is better?

Also, the homepage summed it up for me nicely.
How is Trello used, exactly? I've not seen it before.
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Heroin helped me beat my bouts of depression, although the downside being extremely addictive which seems to bring you right back where you started but in all honesty, depression is caused by fixation, ironically heroin taught me how to relax and "let go" of the angst caused by fixation while at the same time my mind was completely fixated on it. To each his own, you gotta stop reading about how to cure an illness, you have to act, find meaning even though it's meaningless.
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What does it do? Chrome on Linux just has it a bit garbage-y, nothing major: http://i.imgur.com/BopYxYM.png
I'm playing with this now, and it's enough to make me want an iPad/iPad mini.

However: it seems that when you're offline (eg: away from wifi / on a plane, etc) the app becomes Read Only. This means no adding to cards, creating new cards, etc.

Is there a technical limitation which means that changes made offline couldn't just be sync'ed back later on?
I thought it was weird how you say that the invites are not easy to come by, but everyone starts with 10,000 invites, and everyone gets invited within a day of giving you their email.
I wonder how much time it would take automatic to save $70 of the average users' money.
I can't believe the paper has no scatterplot. Maybe the Internet can help. Anyone want to make one?
Except torque is only for car enthusiasts, and it looks like the general population would have use for this.
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You make an excellent point that I fully agree with. Different companies have different target audiences and will therefore provide value in different ways. The value that O'Reilly can provide many other authors is likely not the kind that the OP needs given the amount of control he likes to maintain; and there's nothing wrong with that.

With that said though, it's very important that you fulfill your contractual obligations, which if I take the article at face value it appears O'Reilly did not (although I don't know their side of the story of course). If I enter into a contract filled with a long list of technical details, but include a clause that demands a bowl of M&Ms with all brown ones removed, then on pain of legal action there better be a bowl of M&Ms with all brown ones removed [1]. The author no doubt had specific reasons for his requests that he felt were important to the success of his book. During negotiations there is nothing requiring O'Reilly or any other company to give someone any special considerations. They could just as easily walk away. However once both parties sign a contract agreeing to the terms, both parties are legally required to provide what they agreed to. According to the post that did not happen in this case.

[1] http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/vanhalen.asp - According to David Lee Roth the reason for the M&M clause effectively boils down to he who doesn't pay attention to the small details probably won't pay attention to the truly important ones either; like making sure your arena floor can actually support the weight of the concert equipment (whoops).
I like this. I was ready to jump in here an complain about attracting attention from outside the hacker community. But this is perfect.
I swear that I have been hired for jobs several times mainly because I have a book on the shelves of book stores by a publishing company they recognize. Don't underestimate the value of having an O'Reilly book to your name.
events / ticketing websites need this feature. I'm forever frustrated with events where allocated seating is the only method of ticket purchase and you're needing to organise and balance payments.
Nice, I got two. Might be cool to write you HN username on it in sharpie.
> With nonfiction, it doesn't make sense at all. If you are interested in a topic, look for a book about it.

I think it is more complicated than that. I am interested in many topics, but at many different degrees of interest, and I don't have time to look for high-quality books on all of them, especially the lesser ones. However, I may see a book on a bestseller list that happens to coincide with one of those interests, especially one that I haven't read much on recently, and it may make me interested in reading that book when I might not have come across it otherwise.

(Edit: I realize high-quality != popular, but it's often a reasonable proxy for casual interests.)
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I wouldn't call them "mega-combo characters" ;-) Typically, these are at most two or three letters written together, and they are very much used today in Sanskrit, Hindi and other regional variants such as Bengali etc.

Of course you also have multiple words that have been combined into one large compound word, by way of appropriate linguistic rules of combining sounds. This is similar to long compound words in German.
It would be cool if my alias was printed on it.... and maybe my karma and my #1 post/comment (which would force me to purchase a new one every time I hit a new milestone, haha!))
The difference is that as a 3rd party, I actually have a snowball's chance in hell of implementing something like Pepper. This improves competitiveness and diversity.

Pepper, NaCL, et al also collapse a huge number of complex and nuanced layered web abstractions back down to the approachable problem of running somewhat arbitrary user code, at speed, in a relatively open and loosely define environment.

That's the same environment that projects like Mozilla needed to ever have the chance of producing a web browser in the first place. It sure seems to me that you guys -- consciously or not -- have divided the market into 'browser makers' and 'non-browser makers', and then decided to constrain the tooling and power available to everyone that is not a browser maker.

This can't be healthy for the internet.
I'm pretty sure all the railing hard on the symbols above the number keys must be symptomatic of some sort of verbal learning disability in Haskell programmers...
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