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The author seems to have some sort of conceptualized ideal regarding "The Linux kernel" and it's ubiquity, even though the wide array of devices using some variant of "The Linux kernel" illustrates the fractured nature of Linux and its myriad incarnations.

Some would say that "The Linux kernel" is a bloated monstrosity and not a good example of technological wizardry.

To state that The kernel is the largest, most complex collaborative effort in the history of the species, while failing to note that the typical jet fighter aircraft uses systems which nearly double the SLOC of a Linux kernel, also serves to illuminate the author's scope of knowledge.

*The latest F-35Bs, including Yuma’s copy, are also flying with a temporary software suite known as Block 1B. The Marines have said the jet won’t be capable of flying and fighting in real combat until it has the Block 2B software that is only now entering testing. With 24 million lines of code — 9 million more than originally envisioned — there’s no telling how long testing could take.*

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/marines-jsf/
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I think it would be neat if SSH provided an API or a set of special characters so that the remote shell could tell SSH to switch back and forth between remote and local echo. For example, bash could tell SSH to begin local echo mode after it finishes printing the prompt, and end local echo mode when the user enters a key sequence that requires remote processing, like Tab or Return. vim could enter local echo mode when the user enters insert mode and leave when the user presses the Esc or Return, etc.

Perhaps this extra complexity would lead to all sorts of strange bugs though.
It seems to me the problem is not that we don't value history, language, etc- it's that it has become commoditized, as so many people get degrees in those fields. That probably drives down wages and drives up tuition.
Skyways make winter bearable here. Also makes exercise safer because you don't have to worry about slipping on icy streets.
Within 2 years, Tesla Supercharging stations will cover 98% of the U.S. Free.
A number of my Steam games are DRM-free. I didn't say these features were DRM but that they are things Steam provides while having DRM so unobtrusive I've not noticed it in 9 years. The OPs contention was Valve's DRM is some heavy burden that they basically bribe you to accept. I'm sure it's gone wrong for some people at some point but I think compared to the rate of just regular old game-crippling bugs, it's negligible.

And yes, if Valve decides to ban my account, the DRM'ed games become unavailable. Or I have to waste my time looking for cracks. But again, what is the rate of that? If the dog shreds my big folder of physical game media, it's also all lost.
Not everyone here is from the Bay Area.
The current Texas constitution is from 1876. It disallows any religious test for office except for the "acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being".

That's pretty in line with the American flavor of Enlightenment thinking and is hardly a conservative right wing Christian theocratic view (they would insist you were a Christian, would they not?).

The acceptance of atheism in the US is a relatively recent phenomenon, like the acceptance of homosexuality.

It's invalidated anyway (14th + 1st combo meal), so not sure why it's so off-putting to you - is it so offensive that somebody hasn't symbolically removed it for you yet?
You're just wrong. It's not pedantry to say they did not finish their project if the product has not been released, especially in light of huge delays and extreme budget excess. Maybe you're content with documentary videos instead of the promised product but it's certainly a fair assessment to say that the project is not finished.
Maybe it counts Texas as a country.
While I agree with most of these as great reasons for moving to Austin, as a resident I'd caution those interested in moving here to not take them at face value. Come visit and consider what they're not telling you when making a decision:

- It was cheap, but it's not staying cheap. The idea that 'Austin is cheap' has inspired a lot of people to start moving here recently, and the reality hasn't quite started to impede the hype. Reality? My rent has gone up 10%/yr each of the 4 years I've been here, and home values / rent prices across the area are still rising rapidly. A 640 sq ft. studio apartment that was $530/mo when I moved here now rents for $1050/mo, and I'm not even close to downtown.

- Texas has no income tax, and house prices may seem to be good at first glance, but property taxes are VERY high. 2.7%-3.5%, and some areas are taxed by multiple entities.

- If you can't find anything affordable close to work, prepare for a nightmare daily drive. Most people I work with have a 45- to 60-minute one-way commute. Austin rapidly outgrew its 2 highways, so "rush hour" is 7:45 AM - 10 AM, 3:45 PM - 7 PM every day, except Friday afternoon where it starts at 2:30 PM.

- Even as someone with a good software job and no debt, I can't come close to affording a house within a 30 minute one-way commute of work that was built after 1960 given the recent price increases.

- Austin is hot, so be ready for that. We set a record of 90 consecutive days of 100+ degree weather in 2011!

- Despite all of the above, I do love living in Austin for its food, weather (I hate gray skies and winter), and culture. I worry about how long I'm going to be able to afford to stay... but for now it's a great place to be.
As seems to be usual on HN these days, you're vastly overreacting. Nowhere did he "say that everything anyone does in any profession is entirely motivated by financial gain". He said "you need to evaluate your doctors' incentives". The fact that someone has an incentive to do X does not mean it's their primary motivation, or even that they're taking it into account. I have a dopamine incentive to eat bacon, but it's not motivating any of my actions today. You're not helping anyone by being unreasonable or putting words in others' mouths.
> Juicing is better than taking aspirin
> or any other drug.

Is it? Do you have evidence? That just sounds like a personal opinion. Nothing wrong with that, but I get really tired of people trotting out their limited personal opinions and claiming that they are Earth-shattering discoveries.

See my comment elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5794961

And these are all just my opinions, of course, but it seemed like you would value someone's experience and feedback. I speak only for myself.
Value is only quantifiable in the context of a purpose. Is a liberal arts degree valuable as an instrument to garner income? Statistically, no. Is it valuable as a set of experiences which help to better understand the world we live in? Absolutely.

But does that make it valuable enough to justify the cost? I dunno. Ask Ken Ilgunas.
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I assume places in Austin at least come with AC.

It doesn't get anywhere close to 100f in Seattle but you'll still some solid stretches 85+F which, while absolutely peanuts in most places, is pretty brutal for someone used to AC. It is one thing to be brutally hot during the day when you are outside, and an entirely different thing to be rather hot at 3am when you are trying to sleep.
Great read.

I am a co-founder of a health care start up, offering patients primary care for $20/month ($15/month corporate plan) and a $20 copay to see the Dr. or $10 copay to see a ARNP or PA. All out of pocket, we do not accept insurance or medicare, as it would drive up our cost.

Unfortunately, the future of our start-up is uncertain because of Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act ("ObamaCare"). Specifically, when the new law goes into full effect, patients will no longer be able to pay out of pocket for medical care. Obviously our start-up is geared towards underinsured and uninsured patients, so in the future our business model will likely be unlawful. Of course it is great these patients will have health insurance coverage, but their access to and quality of primary care will likely go down and their costs will go up.
2011 was just a really bad year, a record 90 days over 100 (previous record was 67). But the heat's not the only thing to consider. Austin averages 300 days of sunshine each year, while Seattle has only 58.
I'll give you that what you say about the Go team's motivations is entirely possible (though I don't believe it to be the case), but not responding to blog post comments shouldn't be indicative of anything.
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As others have said, the original title said "Hated expensive, crappy stock photos so I made this." So yeah, that's where he denigrated an entire industry.

and for some reason HN audience found it valuable and voted it to the front page

This a recurring retort. It's nonsense. A very small percentage of HNers can get something to the top of the front page (especially if it uses a title that panders to a bias, given that many people never actually click on the link). That they do in no world inoculates the target against any criticism.
Elon was asked about that in the call. Tesla is open to working with other manufacturers, but the superchargers are pretty finely tuned to the battery that Tesla is using. Other manufacturers would have to make their batteries to Tesla's specs for it to work.
Yes! Good point! Regulations made by those people have unfathomable idiotic qualities. The new CARB compliant gas can design in the USA etc.
That sure is a big power boost. Welcome to the future.
You sound like a lot of people I knew from Seattle back in the 90s... Funny.

For the kiddies too young to remember: After the S&L crisis, there was an exodus from SoCal to <anywhere else>.
Good read, pretty relevant to me as a 17 year old entrepreneur. Love the "A startup is just a means to an end." paragraph.
There are no tricks in this story, just a philosophy that he believed in, and strictly adhered to.
I'm almost entirely certain DanBC was being sarcastic. Hence the second paragraph of his comment, which makes no sense whatsoever if he was telling it straight.
That's fine, until the next major earthquake invalidates a whole mess of addresses. Also, long term this won't work as the continents do drift ...
"Plus, I was graduating with a degree in English and history, which, though valuable to me, is more or less monetarily worthless."

I can't imagine spending tens of thousands of dollars on something that is monetarily worthless just because it is of personal value to me. That seems incredibly self indulgent.
>> These cannot be used in commercial print for discerning customers.

Yeah, I'm not sure that's his target market. Most of the people who would use his images probably don't even know what CA is or how to spot it -- they just care about "free".

I imagine that more serious image hunters would stick with the big stock agencies.
Yes, it is interesting how a lot of people assume that the most likely explanation is the right one. Of course it is possible that they got money somewhere else and don't need this kickstarter cash to keep the company afloat while they finish their known to be delayed and overbudget game. It just isn't very likely.
But a system that kills because you're not covered is a better alternative?

Oh and 10%

[citation needed]
Most state income taxes that I know of are flat.
Gives new meaning to the phrase, "Are you shittin' me?"
I really feel like the right approach for this kind of thing is something like emscripten, but not emscripten. It just doesn't make sense to duplicate the garbage collection (never mind that interactions between different GCs can be strange and unpredictable) and run a whole VM for it.

What we need is a similarly narrow target JS subset for dynamic languages where the outer GC is actually functional and lookup/inline cache kinds of optimizations can be performed on correctly generated code.
I'm wondering is anyone researching self driving larger vehicles and would future legislation require someone being present in the vehicle?

According to http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_201.htm as of 2010 over 4 million people work in transport and warehousing. A lot of which will be drivers. Self driving vehicles could mean then end for a lot of jobs especially if someone developed a retrofit kit for current vehicles.
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Intestinal flora exchange. Remove the reference to feces as that's incidental anyway.
>> Other manufacturers would have to make their batteries to Tesla's specs for it to work.

Or buy batteries from Tesla.
> However, I think that's mainly because the scope of the game increased significantly due to way the Kickstarter blew up as it did - at the time I don't think anyone expected it to reach $3 million and as such, expectations are higher.

The excuse "we got more money, so expanded the project scope too much, so now we need even more money" does not bode well for their project management abilities.

Part of project management is knowing how far one can expand scope given additional funding. I problem I see with a LOT of Kickstarter projects, especially the video game ones, is that they do a very poor job estimating additional costs.

More than once I have seen a project say "and if we raise another $10k we'll port to every platform known to mankind!

I have even seen projects claim they will go from being a PC to adding iPad support!

For a few game genres, sure, that may work, but for the most part? The entire game balance chances, reaction times change, the entire UI changes, performance characteristics of your platform have changed dramatically! Engines like Unity may help, but you still have to tweak the ever living daylights out of any sort of reaction based gameplay to make up for the differences in control methodology, and that means a lot of game balance work. It is rarely as cheap as many developers make it out to be.

But that one (wide spread) example aside, Double Fine needs to provide some reassurances that they know how to properly scope out a project.

Being under the yoke of a publisher does provides one with a hard deadline, schedules, and someone who says no. That is often a useful attribute! (See: Why programmers have project managers!)
I should have been clearer, I meant conservative rather than Conservative. That is that he was concerned with the potential for political or cultural disruption and that we might need to be prepared for them, so the conservative assumption is that nanotech will progress very quickly.
I'm torn on the fire code thing (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/us/after-plant-explosion-t...). It's one thing to eschew regulation but fire codes?
> After moving from Germany to Dallas and then to San Francisco I can 100% agree with most of these reasons. California definitely feels more like a headache than Texas in terms of Rules, housing, general atmosphere.

Having lived in the SF Bay Area, LA Basin, and different parts of the Central Valley, I'm sort of amused that people think that experience with San Francisco is a reasonable basis for generalizing about California.

Its probably about as useful as generalizations about Europe drawn from experience limited to the Vatican.
I've heard that Germany is MUCH more pragmatic, and heavily promotes technical and vocational schools, and tries to fit (or strongly pushes/forces?) students into the studies that are more likely to lead to success in the workplace.

My uncle works in heavy industry, and he says German workers are vastly better trained than any others he's worked with (mostly from South America, and some from US and China).

I've read about the lack of plumbers, carpenters, mechanics and other skilled tradesmen. I believe more people should be taught those (and definitely don't believe them inferior to, say, programming):

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/report-shows-worl...

About Germany:

http://www.imove-germany.de/cps/rde/xchg/imove_projekt_inter...
It's a little unfair to ask younger founders (who probably don't have real savings, and may have student debt) to take really low salaries on a long-term basis. I think Peter Thiel thinks around $100-150k is the right amount.

I do think it should be less than most senior employees, and on the order of a straight-from-Stanford hire (so probably a 1.1x factor on their chart?).

But, taking no salary for a while while starting up, and a $20-30k/yr salary for a while, really gets old, so it's totally reasonable for founders to be in the $50-150k range. What you absolutely don't want is for founders (or any employee) to be unproductive at work due to stressing over money or problems easily solved with money at home.
This: "I have little patience for critics who don’t see the value in a liberal arts education. We don’t mock people who have children -- and there’s no practical value to having children."
I'm pretty sure food falls into that category. :P

Edge cases aside, surely 'learning how to think' or indeed just learning is tremendously valuable - surely the ultimate value that all other kinds are implicitly converted to (cf. heat in thermodynamics[1]) is 'personal value' such as satisfaction?

[1]: A simplistic view, please don't flame me. :/
when musk unveiled the super chargers he said they were designed for 120kW but that they were testing them out at 90kW first.
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I second this strongly. It's not a statement of political beliefs, it's the observable reality.

You can see this everywhere. I know some otherwise smart people that keep falling for homeopathy, anti-vaccination or weird MLM schemes. It is partially understandable - you can't be an expert in everything, you need to rely on trust in things you don't understand well. But in general, the level of rationality in people is quite low.

Sure, freedom and all. But then let's figure out how to get rid of the parasites who abuse human stupidity. How to kill homeopathy, how to shut down "financial consulting" MLM-cults, etc. because obviously, most people can not protect themselves from them.
New cover stories on Pitchfork are simply brilliant
This is just insane...

"However, a French court ruled, in June 1990, that a special lighting display on the tower in 1989, for the tower's 100th anniversary, was an "original visual creation" protected by copyright. The Court of Cassation, France's judicial court of last resort, upheld the ruling in March 1992.[54] The Société d'exploitation de la tour Eiffel (SETE) now considers any illumination of the tower to be under copyright.[55] As a result, it is no longer legal to publish contemporary photographs of the tower at night without permission in France and some other countries."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower#Image_copyright_c...
If I were in the hospitality industry, I'd be buying adjacent shops next to every Tesla charging station. Having a captive, wealthy audience for ~30 minutes seems like a ripe opportunity, whether it is restaurants, masseuses, or cafes. I'd also offer free valet+ services so patrons would stay in my establishment longer: I'll look over your car, start the charging process (in case there is a queue), and make sure to move it when it is done charging.
I tried that in an early version of Anybots (see http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/anybots-rolls-out-qa-the-... for pictures). It caused people to expect it to be a Robot with a robotic personality, and were disappointed when it was just a proxy for a person. It was confusing since there were two human-like things involved. I analogized it to designing a phone to look like a human head.

The goal is communicating transparently with the remote person, so a minimal design works best.

That said, a humanoid torso would be a fun aftermarket accessory for the Double.
Might be close enough, but it's possible you're driving most of your miles outside the state where you live. Gas tax gets closer to tying your spending to where you drive (unless you're able to always refuel in one state).
Last I checked you could edit a file to trick it.

Still, the lack of a proper functional offline mode, after all this time, is ridiculous and a bit troubling.
I've bought $10, single-player, offline, RPGs, but when I tried to run them without an Internet connection, the game refused to work. Apparently there's some way to get around this, but it's totally unnecessary and part of their DRM.

I like Steam because they act like they get gamers, they've released good games, and they tend to make things easy.

Not for a second though am I under the illusion that the Steam way is better than what it'd be without the insistence of running the Steam client/DRM/online parts.

Edit: In short, Steam shows that if you make DRM slick enough and appear to provide a value add, most people, even gamers, will just go along with it. Netflix is another example of a crippled product, but it's good enough for the convenience it brings.
Madness!
So uh. What do you eat? Any hobbies? Pay more than a couple grand for a car? Underwear, do you own any?
Well, it's non-obvious what we're comparing it to, so I assumed the most oft compared exceptions.

In this case, when opening a file, you can go ahead and use the value and "ignore" the error. Go ahead a run either of the above examples. Notice tptacek explicitly ignores the error.

This argument comes up a lot in lieu of or during talk of Generics, so it'd be best for me to defer to those discussions. Unless you or the OP have examples of hating `err` handling not yet described here, opening / reading a file in Go doesn't strike me as a place to take jabs at how errors are handled in Go.
>> Why do all of the photo's have Apple products in them?

It's funny that this seems to be a big deal.

The answer's simple -- many people just photograph the stuff they happen to own.
Up to 20% slower than what?

(Than SMP systems, I guess, but the OP does not say.)
Its resilience during the recession at least has something to do with oil. At least acknowledge that possibility.
Actually what will happen is that the tax would move from the fuel source to the mileage source. So you'll have to declare your odometer for the last 12 months and pay taxes on mileage driven.
The official Apple take on use of their products in custom photography and video for promotional purposes is covered on page 12 of the App Store Marketing Guidelines: "Custom still photography and video of Apple products are allowed only with express written consent and approval from Apple." [1]

That said, there are plenty of examples in the wild, even in app store screenshots, of violations of this policy. So Apple's enforcement doesn't seem to be particularly strict.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/appstore/AppStoreMarketingGuidel...
"1) When the user owns the device it is up to him to decide what to do with it and not the manufacturer. So while they may not have the need for it, they definitely have the right to it if they so desire."

Is this not part of a wider discussion about ownership and 'unregulated rights' for stuff such as books, music, films as well as hardware?

Global comment: Shuttleworth can do the public relations can't he?
You might need a tutorial to build a nuclear reactor but you shouldn't need a tutorial just to launch applications on a desktop OS that has been around for 20 years.
Pregnancy or e-payment. Clearly it's a 50/50 hedge bet.
Rails 3.2 will continue to be supported, iirc
Was this the Mahalo office?
> Most state income taxes that I know of are flat.

Of 43 states with individual income taxes, 7 have flat individual income taxes. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_income_tax
This is of course part of the risk associated with Kickstarter, projects may fail or be delayed. As you seem to be an avid backer, do you feel satisfied with the general delivery of projects you backed?