skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Drag (anywhere) to install. Drag to the trash remove. Add an optional App Store UI to purchase/download/update applications and call it a day.

So, that's obviously the approach Apple's taken, and it has numerous strengths. "Installing" & removing .app files is quite simple, but that's of course not the whole story. Both application support files as well as (IIRC) cache files linger around the OS until removed manually. This is typically NBD (well, no huge deal), but it deserves mention. Managing remnant traces of .app files requires either manually navigating the OS and deleting files, or using 3rd party apps. It's worth noting that these 3rd party apps basically do what package managers do, except only at the uninstall stage.

More importantly, when I use OSX, I most certainly am also variously using brew & make to install various pieces of software not packaged as .app binaries. While in a somewhat ideal world it's possible to envision a scenario where all necessary binaries for a given OS are neatly packaged in a preferred format, that seems unrealistic. If I'm still, in 2013, installing really standard tools with a Linux-style package manager on OSX, it's safe to say there's no way I could expect all my requisite applications to be available for a nascent OS with a fraction of its userbase like Haiku.

Lastly, even assuming all binaries that could possibly be executed on a given system are packaged as .app file (equivalents), I frankly wouldn't mind having a package manager available to install (copy), manage, organize & remove my binaries (including support files). A package manager is a ultimately a tool of convenience, it's simply more convenient when dealing with a more classical *nix path / dependency model.
ITWorld:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=joewooglin

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=seshakiran

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=tech77

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jfruhlinger

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=abennett

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=bdking

Ziff Davis (Geek.com, PCMag.com, ExtremeTech.com, IGN.com):

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ukdm

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=russellholly

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mrsebastian

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=adeelarshad82

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=11031a

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=memoryfailure

Betabeat:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=met3

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ssalevan

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=benjaminkabin

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=nitashatiku

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=lovekandinsky

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=gnarls_manson

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=bookish08

MacObserver:

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jmartellaro

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=digiwizard

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=davethenerd

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=tanousjm

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Semteksam

Bostinno were prolific spammers way back when:

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=spaceballs

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=wfrick

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=polarslice

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=kmccarth

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=dmcgregor

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=sliggity

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=DevlinMac

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=pgatzke

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=chezral

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=dbombs

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=apetroc

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=justinbomb

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=laurlandry

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=tq41

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=cgarb

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=abshaw

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jerrelp

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=rocksy

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=thejerk

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mixednuts

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=chermor
C-r isn't much harder than up/down arrows (or C-p/C-n). Why is this such a big deal?
cool post
> "With whom do you hang?"

Or the canonical form: "Around with whom do you hang?" :)
You can always find the latest build of Ember Data here: http://builds.emberjs.com.s3.amazonaws.com/ember-data-latest...
Or Microsoft, Google, etc
The terahertz revolution and local security
So if I'm interacting with other users' devices, why am I paying $10/month?

This seems like a great (nay, genius) idea if you just buy a device that accepts a standard 3.5 inch HD, half the space is yours, half is for distributed backup, no monthly fees, just the upfront $ for the box itself..
Worth noting that 1) the ACLU and others still oppose the bill in modified form, and 2) there was a half-assed veto threat from the WH, and 3) lawmakers view the veto threat as a negotiating ploy.

So I believe this is a done deal -- unless something dramatically changes.

(Shameless plug: I've summarized some of this on the blog: http://freedom-or-safety.com/blog/aclu-cispa-far-from-fixed/)
> apparently due to lobbying by the Qwest / CenturyLink and Comcast ISPs.

You don't need any conspiracy to explain why it didn't come to every city in the area. There were huge bonds associated with UTOPIA membership that the city counsels were afraid of. How UTOPIA has played out shows the cities that opted-out made the right decision. It's been a financial disaster (and I say this as a consumer who had high hopes for it).

Just a couple links I quickly Googled can explain in more detail how bad UTOPIA's finances are:

http://www.dailywireless.org/2012/08/07/utopia-financial-aud...
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/54928063-79/utopia-networ...

UTOPIAs pitch to the cities was based in subscription rates absolutely divorced from reality. I can't believe they got any cities on board.

I'm holding out hope that maybe Google just buys up UTOPIA like they did with iProvo and turns it into Google Fiber and then just extends it throughout the entire valley. I don't know if UTOPIA could actually be sold like that though.
FTA: "273,006 objs avg/req"

Wow, that is...a lot...is that mostly rails or is that in user code?
I'm curious as to why you think this is unique to capitalism. Politicians in every political system tend to help those who can return the favor. Whether it's communist leaders who award control of industries to their army buddies or socialist leaders who enact barriers to entry to advantage their schoolmates, this occurs everywhere.

At least when it's pay-for-favors the public can follow the money. Not to mention the fact that under this system, any ordinary citizen has a much better chance of affecting outcomes by encouraging others to pool resources than he would have under systems that afford people power mainly, or solely, through kinship or affiliation.
Agreed, although as time goes on, the costs associated with upgrading increase dramatically as the machine becomes increasingly likely to fail.

I wonder what the risk/time graph looks like for that compared to say, the MTBF of a modern hard drive.
Peter Thiel's Breakout Labs Turns More Science Projects Into Businesses
Samsung's customer base is more than large enough to let positive reviews emerge from real customers. There is no excuse for this. None. Full stop.
Thanks for the info! I was unaware of that. I live in the US; I wonder if there is similar jurisdiction here.
weird but a simpler answer would be that Intel is contemplating life, post-pc.
Great post and great site. This is an awesome example of trying to get that dream job, and even though it didn't work out, like you said, I am still sure you learned a lot.

Not to hit a sore spot or anything, but I am going to be going to DBC and they happen to teach the same tools that Rap Genius uses. Rap Genius is also one of my dream companies to work for. If you don't mind me asking...do you have any suggestions for someone applying to Rap Genius?
My best example of this (currently) is at home... I have an old 1995 (or so) era whitebox PC, with - I think - a 100mhz Pentium processor - running Red Hat Linux 9, serving as my firewall. It's ancient and I'm scared that every time the power goes off or something that it'll never boot up again. But it quietly sits there running iptables and routing traffic between my cable modem and the rest of the network.

Outside of my home, I saw an ancient DEC PDP/11 still in use at a newspaper in North Carolina as late as 1999 when I worked there. They also had an old IBM S/36 which only got replaced with a (then) modern AS/400 box about 1999. One of the machines they had in there (and I'm not even sure which one it was) used those old drum-based disk drives, with the big drum with the spinnable handle on top, that weigh about 20 lbs each, and old a whopping 50MB of data.
Except that doing so might open up news organizations to claims of bias in their reporting on aid organizations and on how aid money is spent.
Video of Hamming's "You and Your Research" (1995)
> The rule about not ending sentences with prepositions, on the other hand, is and always has been bunk.

Well, it's language, not science or mathematics. It's not as though language has rules that emanate from axioms. It's a matter of convention and consensus. And the consensus changes over time.
$400 for 1/4th rack seems close to what I see at the bottom end of the scale here as well. How many RUs do you have? I have seen DCs doing it per RU for roughly $100 for 1 RU. What is your location? If you happen to be in the same state as me, I can tell you where to go.
If people are interested in this I hacked together a quick site that shows the top HN submissions over the past 24 hours: http://yahnr.com/

Motivation was to be able to catch up on items I may have missed.
That's even more impressive than my numbers.
And a transcript from 1986: http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html
Watch-Array.js
Didn't Phish inherit the Deadheads after the Grateful Dead stopped performing? That's a unique situation and hardly a business model.
Anything is 'fair' in business and nothing is off the table when it comes to money.

Many people have this attitude, yes. That doesn't make it universally true or even close, and it's probably less commonplace than you seem to assume, particularly for small/local businesses, which overwhelmingly don't have time to waste on shill reviews.

And while it definitely happens and is widespread, you're not doing your argument any favors by citing exactly one example and suggesting it shows a trend or proves a point.
I think the many of buyers have installed linux on their chromebooks and that may contribute to why the figure is really low.
Indeed, this is one of the things Capsicum is intended to address.

Quoting from Robert Watson's PhD thesis, "A purely system-centric view, however, fails to address the observation that the security interactions of "users" are decreasingly central: desktop and notebook computers, tablet PCs, and smart phones typically have exactly one user."

...

"Capsicum addresses these problems by introducing new (and complementary) security primitives to support compartmentalisation: capability mode and capabilities. Capsicum capabilities should not be confused with operating system privileges, occasionally referred to as capabilities in the OS literature. Capsicum capabilities are an extension of UNIX file descriptors, and reflect rights on specific objects, such as files or sockets. Capabilities may be delegated from process to process in a granular way in the same manner as other file descriptor types: via inheritance or message-passing."

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-818.html
Provo actually already has a fairly significant fiber rollout from multiple failed local and municipal coalitions to bring 100Mbps+ residential connections to the area. I believe these lines are owned by the city, and that Google plans on utilizing the extant network as far as possible. It is pretty likely that this won't be the typical municipal telecom monopoly that we've seen to attract cable providers and the like.
The watchers will not be watched.

They've read Brin and Orwell, and have learned. They pass legislation, or ignore existing laws when it's one of them that's threatened. Examples abound. Corruption is rife.
I'm just telling you what it comes across as, a perception that apparently I'm not the only one to hold (in fact, I wasn't going to mention it except that dave_sid had the same reaction).

Defend it all you want, but that's not going to change the fact that some readers will see it as an underhanded jab.
You're right nthj, we didn't mean to complain or to understate the important of amazing development!
> it's not even written in C

It was. The internals were entirely written in C. C++ was for application developers.
There it is. I didn't dig much in to that.
Patton Oswalt's Star Wars Filibuster - Parks and Recreation
> This is typically NBD (well, no huge deal), but it deserves mention. Managing remnant traces of .app files requires either manually navigating the OS and deleting files, or using 3rd party apps.

Apple has moved to solve this problem in iOS (and the Mac App Store) by maintaining per-app metadata directories. I think this is ideal, and it's not necessary to attach it to the app store model.

> More importantly, when I use OSX, I most certainly am also variously using brew & make to install various pieces of software not packaged as .app binaries.

Yes, UNIX software.

> Lastly, even assuming all binaries that could possibly be executed on a given system are packaged as .app file (equivalents), I frankly wouldn't mind having a package manager available to install (copy), manage, organize & remove my binaries (including support files).

That's what the file system is on a system that manages applications sanely.
> why do so many in the valley do this to 'MBAs'.

Because every technical person has a story about:

- "Idea people" telling them what to do and taking all the credit.
- A non-technical manager setting unreasonable deadlines.
- A non-technical manager trivializing a complex task.
- "Oh we'll just get him/her to write some code".
- Being treated as if their talents are a commodity.
- Being treated as if they cannot communicate like other humans.
- Putting in blood, sweat, and tears into a project for little or no pay.
- Studying like mad in college while everyone else seemed to be partying
(or this could just be me)
I was just responding to his sentence that said wages for engineers are as high as the United States and Europe. This is false, at least for software engineers. When I worked in Tokyo I was shocked at how little my co-workers were paid. I am not qualified to comment on the rest of his post.
Microsoft releases 1000 more Windows Dev Kits (for iOS devs)
You're lucky. I have to pay comcast $70/month for 12mbps
The Updated LiquidPlanner App for iPad and iPhone: The Ultimate Mobile Scheduler
"why I bristle when many in the Valley - PG included - keep disparaging non-technical people when they want to start a tech company."

PG's outlook (if you are correct) is based on his background perhaps - this from his wikipedia page:

"Graham has a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Cornell University.... He then attended Harvard University, earning Master of Science (1988) and Doctor of Philosophy (1990) degrees in Applied Sciences with a specialization in computer science.... He has also studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence."

From this I can deduce that PG wasn't "business minded" in high school although maybe he did run some business on the side etc to make money (I don't know). But he wasn't interested enough in it to attend a business school as an undergraduate. If that had been the case instead of going to Cornell he might have chosen Wharton for undergraduate business. In Wharton UG (I graduated) most of the people - the majority of people that I met - knew that they wanted to be in business just like some people know growing up they want to be doctors. Only difference is those people can do something before college obviously nobody is going to practice medicine prior to training.

So I would suspect that PG's view of the world was based upon his ability to program and put together viaweb and without that programming skill (especially back then) viaweb probably wouldn't have happened. (Morris on the other hand, while a programmer, is a bit devious (worm) so that definitely is a quality that is helpful in business.
I left Provo in 1983, when BYU was not yet on ARPAnet, Ethernet was really new, and I was one of the few who had dialup access to the Vaxes from home.

Be happy. :-)
I watched it, but to be honest, I zoned out towards the end. So little substance; just a collection of dinosaurs throwing around the 'cyber' rhetoric like computer security is a game of Risk. They don't know what the hell they're talking about. They just repeat all the buzzwords they get from the literature provided by all the pro-CISPA lobbyists.

I just called my Representative and hope for the best, but I fear these assholes are going to win this round. I will be throwing the EFF some more money next payday though.
Note to self, go outside when they re-launch.
Exec and Homejoy are amazing companies and we have nothing but positive things to say about our competitors. However, I am fairly certain that they 1099 their employee's which means they use independent contractors. This is a different labor model and makes expansion a lot easier. It also has a lot of risks. All MyClean employee's are W-2 employee's and work for the company full-time. We will also be expanding soon!
What a disappointing post. After the ambrosia software announcement the other day I thought they had open sourced escape velocity.
Calls me 52. I'm 43. Using (badly) a touchpad.

I have terrible co-ordination.
Good question, with so many complaints about the UX I wonder why we still even use it.

In case you didn't know, https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/ gives you the old interface back.
The cop car obeying the speed limit and every one behind it doing the same is not an example of congestion. As long as the cars are flowing at the posted speed limit then I don't see that as congestion, the traffic is just not speeding along as quickly as one wishes it would.

By that logic, any street that has two or more cars following the speed limit in close proximity to each other could be classified as congestion.

Once you have a buildup of cars that are traveling slower than the intended speed of the road that causes further slowing up the line that eventually creates bumper-to-bumper traffic with little movement, then you have congestion.
If this is truly done with zero offline marketing, then I stand corrected. It's indeed impressive that non-techie bootstrappers accomplished this.
Having seen Dave 3-4 times now, I can say his fanbase seems similar.
also

export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth

so that repeated commands are only stored once. Handy for those, like me, who reflexively type commands like "ps aux" when thinking about what to do next.
The Story of Mashery. Great Companies Aren't Built Overnight.
> And is it illegal?

No, in most places it isn't. If a consumer was misled by a planted, phony review and bought an inferior product, he could go to civil court and demand monetary compensation, but civil courts largely deal with the kinds of damage claims that don't involve the legality of an action, only its harm.

Just remember that an illegal action would be prosecuted in a criminal court. A claim of harm would be prosecuted in a civil court.

Most of the activity surrounding phony reviews is not about the legality of the activity, but how much harm the public exposure might do to a company's reputation.

> I'm pretty sure paying for fake negative reviews of competition is illegal, because there is a clear victim.

Even in that case, it's not a question of "illegal" as much as misleading, and the remedies are usually civil, not criminal.
Surgical complications and errors bring in more money for hospitals
Amazing tool. Next thing: XML support! Imagine merging nibs the easy way... Mouthwatering.
Perhaps a system api that is more amenable to concurrency? That's probably the biggest fundamental break from the C model of doing things.
Awesome. I wrote another history tool called "list commands"

The idea is that: many commands are location-specific. When you type `lc`, it will only give you commands that were executed in that directory.

https://github.com/pconerly/lc-listcommands-bash

I would love to get some up/down arrow ability for `lc`. Right now I do a lot of:

$ lc | grep X
As an American in Canada, I most often hear that a duopolistic system is the root of the country's internet problems. I haven't heard a single suggestion that there are technical limitations or lack of consumer demand.
Customize an HTML5 Webpage using the Bootstrap Framework
Solid list! For most of those bullets I definitely had the 'Oh wow, should have done this sooner' moments. I'd add:

- use South (right away!)

- Class Based Views

- (not django specific) use virtualenvs!
That's not the same title as the article. Additionally, it's both misleading and wrong.
Criminalize Ag-Gag Laws
Downtown Boston. Please. I'm paying $1,500/m for a 50x50mbps primary and $350/m for a 100x10mbps backup. The alterative is DSL from version at 1Mbps peak, or a T1 - 1.5mbps for $500/m.

We need something new in this old city of copper.
Why should anyone listen to you when you're clearly not following the guidelines either though?

From the guidelines: 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.
Hello bkmartin, our strategy so far has been to hire and train cleaners from the ground up. We provide training, steady work, and a path to numerous promotions. I'm not sure we add much value for cleaners who already have a business?
I don't need 1gbps and would love something like 25mbits for, say, $20. They really need a midtier connection between free 5m and 1G.
>perhaps the bigger issue here is this: if Samsung has been using these tactics against HTC, are they also engaged in similar marketing techniques with other rivals?

The even bigger issue is, who else is doing this more intelligently than Samsung?
Spot on analogy.
By definition, a list that is simply composed of the top rated articles cannot be "curated." Curation implies some sort of holistic selection and specialized organization, and is almost an art unto itself. Simply selecting the set of articles with the highest ratings does not constitute curation.

It bemuses me as to why internet has seen fit to abuse this word to such as point as to make it trite and totally vacuous. At this point, using it is more likely to grate users and discredit the product.
Same here on the Central Coast of California. In my town though there is only one cable internet provider (Comcast).

My only other option is DSL
I don't know how you can jump to that conclusion. Provo is one of the few municipalities with a fiber network already in place. Combined with Provo wanting to get out of the fiber business itself makes Provo uniquely suited for Google Fiber. Google probably didn't consider the fact that the NSA building was 20 miles away at all when making this decision because it has very little to do with their deployment. The NSA would tap backbones, not last mile fiber deployments.