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OS X always worked well with multiple displays

Not if you want multiple independently color corrected displays... (unless they added that feature post Snow Leopard)
DSLR, Smartphone Cameras Will Replace the Point-And-Shoot Camera
Over time, camera makers will produce DSLRs with less weight, size, not as expensive, and easier to use. Smartphone camera technology will continue to develope. Eventually the Point-and-Shoot Camera will no longer exist.
That is a really excellent question. I don't know.

In one universe people feel the pain of the scarcity and make better choices, in another they fall off of 'barely subsisting' into abject poverty. Either outcome is possible.

In a third, less likely :-), universe we put together a basic income program and keep people out of the mental trap.
Take a look at this statement:

"The nationwide driving statistics make this very clear: there are 150,000 car fires per year according to the National Fire Protection Association, and Americans drive about 3 trillion miles per year according to the Department of Transportation. That equates to 1 vehicle fire for every 20 million miles driven, compared to 1 fire in over 100 million miles for Tesla. This means you are 5 times more likely to experience a fire in a conventional gasoline car than a Tesla!"

Facts stated:
* 150,000 car fires per year according to the National Fire Protection Association.
* Americans drive about 3 trillion miles per year according to the Department of Transportation.
* 1 fire in over 100 million miles for Tesla.

Sales pitch at the end: "This means you are 5 times more likely to experience a fire in a conventional gasoline car than a Tesla!".

The reason I call this a sales pitch or a marketing messaging, is that while the facts technically support this, as pointed out earlier, it's based on a data set of 1 occurrence.

Personally, I buy Musk's argument and if I was in the market for a new car, figuring out how to pay for Tesla would actually be at the top of the list for me. This story only re-enforces my own personal opinion that these are great cars.
What being an entrepreneur means to me
I was going by mcphilip's description which was <300GB. For running data mining on so small datasets you do not need any sharding.
Powerful tool for asking any questions in your iOS apps
Ask HN: Porn withdrawal?
Is there such thing as porn withdrawals? I've been a porn addict for 7 years and recently I stopped cold turkey been about 2 weeks now and going through depression, anxiety, panic attacks and tiredness. I never experienced this while I was masturbating. Please help with advice thanks.
Melatonin does not directly induce nightmares, per say, just the vivid or lucid dreams you are familiar with. However, if just one of those incredibly vivid melatonin induced dreams goes awry and descends into nightmare territory, you will remember it for a long, long time.
Roughly, middle class is <50k. You don't buy BMWs or Porsches when you do 50k$. Or at least, in most case it's not a wise idea to do so.

You're either being disingenuous or your perception of reality and normality is really skewed.
Demeteorizer is a offensively named script that automatically builds a package.json for you. It doesn't make Meteor apps lighter weight or anything like that. It simply makes it easier for you to install the requisite npm dependencies.
Without reading the study, I'm ready to agree that its conclusions are correct. But I'd argue we're still comparing apples to oranges here:

1. We can't assume that Tesla drivers are the same as traditional luxury car drivers. While cars are a statement of wealth, and many arrogant bastards like making that statement...A Tesla is ostensibly a statement of a few other things, such as concern for the environment, optimism about technology, etc. etc...in the same way, even though many programmers make high-end salaries (low-6 figures), I wouldn't say that we can expect these programmers to golf as much as the average non-programmer low-6-figure-earner.

2. Reading the link you posted, it said the study evaluated based on the frequency of accidents and the size of payout...I couldn't find the study on the website, but this statement from the article was ambiguous to me:

> According to data from IIHS website, the collision insurance losses on BMW 7 Series are more than twice the average for vehicles nationwide, and BMW 3 Series two-doors are more than three times.

Twice the average of what...? Payouts total? Payouts per claim? Payouts per claim normalized by number of total cars of that kind on the road?

3. The NHTS data concerns the number of fires. For the study you cited to be more relevant, we'd have to know what proportion of the insurance claims also involve vehicle fires. If you're thinking, "Well, if a car caught on fire, then that's likely because of an accident...so more accidents mean more fires"...well, a> That's a classic logical fallacy (All dogs are animals. Sara owns a lot of animals. Therefore, Sara owns a lot of dogs) and b> the kinds of accidents that make up a majority of insurance claims (my guess is low-to-medium speed fender benders) may not represent a significant portion of incidents that end up in a flaming wreck.

All in all, I wouldn't say that Musk is clearly wrong here...He could be right, we just don't have enough information either way...so it feels slightly dirty -- a slap in the face of analytical thinking -- for him to cite these statistics as being anywhere near conclusive.
Gerrymandering helps in the main elections, but it does not give some people a systematic advantage in the primary elections. It is theoretically possible that politicians would work against Gerrymandering to win points in the primary elections.
Yes, there are. Fires, earthquakes, and tornadoes.
Tmate open sourced. Instantly share your terminal on your private servers.
This is similar to .travel top-level domain. Someone thought it was a good idea, just like .museum.

Since 2006, the travel.travel registry has sold 200,000 .travel domains. I am a heavy user of travel sites (Expedia, Hipmunk, hotel sites, etc). I have never, in the course of my online usage, ever run into a .travel site.

This is why gTLDs are likely to fail. At least for users and for purchasers of subdomains, not necessarily for the registrars.

EDIT: added Wikipedia link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.travel
> Nvidia's windows drivers crash all the time too

Counter anecdote mode: engage!

As an owner of many Nvidia cards, I find they crash infrequently, and when they do it's because:

* I was running Windows 8 Preview and pre-release Nvidia drivers

* There was some sort of hardware problem with my systems

I have used four ATI/AMD graphics cards over the years. Not all of them were negative experiences, but none of them were relatively more positive than using Nvidia hardware.
But unlike most other media there's no other way to purchase them. I can't buy DVDs of Kindle active content, I can't get it off ebay.

I guess they mustn't consider the international market worth the trouble of solving whatever legal issue is stopping them from selling them to other countries.
"Is he honestly surprised that penalties can be imposed without civil or criminal process, that a person can be found guilty by administrative fiat and then must prove themselves innocent"?

Maybe not in this day and age but he can still be angry. We can still be angry regardless of whether he's guilty or innocent in fact because due process is important.

Just consider that a person speeding, at least with yesterday's law, will be ticketed by a cop and then can either fight the fine or pay it with some lead time. The fact that most people are guilty in X instance is absolutely zero, zero reason to toss out the need for the state for first prove its case before it can act unilaterally.
Wouldn't the obvious solution be a constitutional amendment proposed by the states through a constitutional convention leaving congress out of it altogether?
I dislike that statement, too, but for different reasons.

The 30,000x larger sample in the aggregate means the calculated fire rate for non-Tesla cars is probably a more reliable number. Maybe those 100M Tesla miles were "lucky"? Possibly not, though - I don't know enough about cars to guess.

The 3 trillion aggregate miles includes a lot broader sample size of car age than those from a single company that's 10 years old. This, to me, seems important to control for.

Finally - I bet the usage profile of a Tesla is different from the median usage profile of every random car on the street and throughout the country.
The idea of people walking around with cameras on their wrist makes me feel a little uneasy. Also this hinders the strap irreplaceable, in terms of customization. In terms of features, I'd replace a lot of them for a smaller form factor.
False equivalence fail. Apple spin would have been to blame Google the way parent had blamed Apple for everything. I simply noted both sides couldn't reach terms. Sheesh.

"If it were really just about withholding features from iOS, "

Nowhere do I claim this. Straw man alert.
Thanks. I like the hypothetical $10B a product might make. I expected him to make a funny and snarky shoot-down, the questioner but got a sympathetic and good answer.
I'd like to think of it as the final game in the World Cup, since it's a Korean team vs a Chinese team.
Yegge wasn't trying to say such things are impossible, just that they are non-trivial. The legalization process here in CO is still underway, and is involving a lot of hard work from both lawmakers and the fledgling MMJ industry, not to mention all the years of leg-work by activists to pass the law in the first place.

While it's good that the sky isn't falling, and the situation represents a vast improvement over the Drug War, neither is it all sunshine and roses. Everyone involved has their laundry list of complaints and injustices as the exact laws and policies are being defined and implemented, whether it's the dispensaries, the authorities, or the consumers (not to mention all the counties that trying to opt out or pass their own laws). And of course, no one knows what will happen if/when the feds change their (mostly) hands-off approach.

Should we tackle hard problems? Absolutely. Voters in Colorado and Washington made the right choice, and in the end we'll have more freedom and fewer wasted tax dollars. But the worst way to start solving a hard problem is to pretend it's not hard.
This is the extended release one that made me sleepy the next day:

http://www.jamiesonvitamins.com/node/1418

This is the one I use that works great:

http://www.jamiesonvitamins.com/chocolate_mint_melatonin
$300 for a smartwatch might sound steep but this is actually just a $300 accessory for a recent Galaxy phone or phablet (so no good if you own a Nexus 5).
that if a tesla has a 1/4 inch protective plate seperating the batteries from the road it's a safe vehicle indeed.

I was simply sharing my personal experience with ramming 1/4 inch plated vehicles into hard immovable objects to give some perspective as to what kind of strength we're talking about.
I think the rare occurance is not a collision with > 25 tons of force, but an upwards force on the underside of the car by an object capable of piercing 1/4 inch plate steel (and not ricocheting, as I suspect most debris would).

A jack, although maybe rated to 5 tons, is unable to pierce the bottom of my car at 25 tones of force because my car only weighs 1.5 tons. I'd have to run over something at speed that angles upwards after I drive over it, or drop my car onto something sharp (at 35km/h) to achieve a similar force.
> But spelling is usually not that important.

Sometimes true, but I've always thought it strange that people who spend much time with computers, and who know a horror story or two about seemingly trivial lexical errors resulting in catastrophes, object to those who correct spelling.

> It's not as if anyone is confused by the use of the incorrect word "phosphorous".

Not true. They're not even the same part of speech. The correct word is a noun, the misspelled word is (or can be) a verb.

In this case it went beyond a simple spelling error -- because the paper was technical and scientific, a different standard must be applied. In science publishing, how one spells technical terms is a deal-breaker. It is to science what "ingenious/ingenuous" means to a liberal arts graduate -- the difference is so great that it's a standing joke.

> It's not like silicone / silicon ...

Actually, to a biologist or a chemist, it's exactly like that.

> Having said all that the Underground Grammarian makes a good point in "Trifles" ...

I'm familiar with the piece and I agree with the sentiment, but this wasn't a trifle.

Writers regard this issue in the same way that musicians regard popular music. And scientists who publish must be writers as well as scientists.
> It was generally thought that government would not keep security vulnerabilities hidden

Was that what people thought? Were there vulnerability reports in open-source software that were coming from the NSA or thought to be coming from the NSA? Surely everyone knew that the NSA was capable of finding exploits in software, and I would think that it would be hard to keep secret whether or not they're being reported.

> That used to be a tin-foil hat idea just a few months ago, and we know better now.

It's well-known that the NSA pushed to have DES limited to 56-bit keys. There were suspicions about Dual_EC_DRBG long before there were any leaks from Snowden. In the 90s, they pushed the Clipper chip, in which they'd engineered a back door. I think that everyone understood that the NSA had somewhat of an interest in weaker cryptography. That's why the cryptographic standardization processes happened in the open and when constants were needed, they were taken from the digits of pi or some such sequence.
Rate of speed?
I'm guessing "well-established due process" is the part the rest of HN takes objection to.

You seem pretty with it and level-headed, so it seems like we just have different priors.
Of course it hardly matters now. Nobody leaves me voicemail or listens to the voicemail I leave anymore.
While it would be trivially easy to port the Meteor installer to npm, since Meteor doesn't require node or npm to be installed, it would be a step backward to do so.

Meteor is built against specific node and npm versions and the install script installs the necessary node binaries.

Considering what Meteor brings a developer, getting hung up on the install method is missing the big picture.
Audio voicemail increased ARPU and minutes/month/user, thus the resistance dropping it.

Now that everyone is on flat-rate plans, burning minutes for voicemail access is unlikely to ever cost you money. Didn't use to be the case.
seems like you need to pick be more picky next time you switch roles, as very little of what you said applies to my development role at a bulge bracket bank.

our management (upto MD level) are either developers or ex-developers, the hardware/support teams are excellent, and we can ever look at logfiles directly on production!
> The iPhone was a success not because it was the first, but because it was the first really usable device

This is both true and a horrible rewriting of history. People loved their Blackberries. The term Crackberry was invented before the iPhone was even a rumor. And don't tell me it wasn't mainstream, it had taken over most of the business and government market. It was confined to those markets, but within those huge markets it was utterly mainstream. But even before that other people loved Palm devices.

The capacitive touch screen was a clear advance - but don't tell me there was no "usable" device prior to that.
There are probably a lot of 0days that are judiciously used to exploit the browsers of people they're interested in, similar to the one used against the TBB a few months ago. This exploit probably just quietly modifies the UA string, appending something like a GUID. The victim then leaves a nice little Hansel & Gretel trail of breadcrumbs that can be picked up by GCHQ black box intercepts at POPs.
Yeah, I don't really begrudge them there. As anyone who's ever had to do a tech demo should know, tech demos are the living embodiment of Murphy's Law.
Why is ESPN showing Nascar instead of starting up a gaming channel?
In relation to that thing,

http://www.pua-zone.com/showthread.php?9070-Guy-funds-PU-amp...

It seems that anything that gets dudes laid without having to put women on pedestals(true equality), anything that gives men choice not to tolerate drama, gets you labelled misogynistic.

It's also safer for Kickstarter to put an end to it and be politically correct. I can understand the fact they want to focus on their mission and not get sucked in social matters.

It's easier to go with the majority than go against it.. But then again, Mark Twain nailed it with his "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." .. So maybe it is time to pause and reflect.
> As a result of its tax characterization, it violates the Origination Clause of the Constitution

That's a fine assertion, but if it were true then it would not be a valid exercise of the taxing power, and since the Supreme Court ruled that it was a valid exercise of the taxing power, a majority of the Supreme Court clearly does not believe that it is true. And note that the issue of whether it was a proper exercise of that power was briefed in the case by both supporters and opponents of the bill.

The procedural history of PPACA is, to say the least, convoluted, but the actual bill in which it was contained was a bill originating in the House (as was the reconciliation measure immediately passed amending it which is generally viewed as part and parcel of PPACA) [1] -- so, strictly speaking, the bill did originate in the House (every single letter in the final bill was the result of an Amendment in the Senate, and the House then concurred in the Senate amendments, but the Origination clause explicitly permits the Senate to amend bills subject to it the same as any other legislation.) So, even ignoring the fact that NFIB v. Sebelius essentially forecloses the argument anyway, the facts seem pretty clearly contrary to your Origination Clause claim.

> Whether not the House approves of a new tax is at the discretion of the House.

The House did approve of the individual mandate in PPACA. Otherwise, there wouldn't be an Act of Congress to be the subject of NFIB v. Sebelius.

[1] for details, including an in-depth discussion of the procedural history, see http://www.aallnet.org/main-menu/Publications/llj/LLJ-Archiv...
> Then the technical people think it's a comment, not a web address.

They would be wrong. URLs beginning with // are scheme-relative -- http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-url-20120524/#resolve-a-string-...
Do you have a source for the 4 million number? Most reports this week have said 1.8 million total.

Regardless of how many are furloughed versus working unpaid, not paying that many people will have a big economic impact the longer this goes on.
Whatever you guys decide, should satisfy majority of the community, not just iOS.

Example my app :-P

All mobile browsers including BB and WP8: http://hn.premii.com/

iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-yc/id713733435

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn
It reminds me of the counter for Belgium.
Icons are hieroglyphs, and there's nothing wrong with that
DRM isn't even going to prevent netflix ripping. All you need is FRAPS, or some other high quality screencap software running while watching.

It's not ideal by any means, however still circumvents any sort of protection.
You're wrong. It's really up to the SLA and business circumstance. For instance, a lot of financial businesses don't operate on the weekend; surely their maintenance on Sunday doesn't count toward them operating at full uptime while open.
The saddest thing about this viewpoint, is that even Apple doesn't want to achieve it. You are living in a fantasy universe that even the company you idolise doesn't see as desirable. Apple doesn't want to cater to the low end. If they were ever going to do it, they would have with the 5c. It's never going to happen.

And further, the large mainstream bulk of consumers are never going to want luxury, high end devices. So Apple is never going to reduce the other players to a "niche". The big question is largely around whether they try to occupy the top 50% of the market or the top 25% of the top 10%. But they've made it extremely clear that they have no interest in trying to hit the top 75%, let alone the top 100% of the market.
Everyone on HN can use a computer and has been using computers for years.

Obviously it doesn't matter to you what the icons are - you'll learn them and use them.

Put yourself in the position of someone who doesn't use computers very often, or who hasn't used this particular piece of software before. What works for those people?

I'll agree that the article doesn't make any sense for those people either.
Well, if you were a criminal you may want to avoid mixing the two so you can pay for your defense in case you need to.
I don't think its unique to IT. What you describe can probably fit any role at many companies where the role isn't in a profit center.
No, what is aqua? As a non-designer who keeps an eye on design trends, I've honestly never heard of it.
The 'lang' param at the end of the url is interesting. The English content is 'uk' not 'en' or 'us'. The values seem to be country codes.

Changing the param to a different country only changes the name of the country, nothing else:

country=US&lang=es ==>
.museum names held in Estados Unidos:

country=DK&lang=it ==>
.museum names held in Danimarca:
Which actually makes it a worse substitute for http:// for a combined technical/non-technical audience that something merely potentially confusable with a comment by a technical audience.
sigh ... sometimes I wish it was common knowledge that computer science != software development.

It feels like I'm reading a sentence that said "How a 38 year-old without a biology degree made a large family."
If it's a URI. The issue here is there's no context to determine what it is, so the rules for parsing a URI aren't involved.
morally, he is no better than a murderer.. our legal system is consequentialist, so the fact there wasn't a murder downgrades his conviction from actual murder to conspiracy to commit murder.
Can't you just jam the data into Postgres JSON columns? :)
Silk Road kingpin, shackled in court, pleads for time
Less awkward than the giant phones Samsung is making that the watch complements!
How do you figure? 99.99% of the time our clients expect us to be up, we're up. We're not the electric company; if we're up the right 166 hours in a week our customers aren't impacted.

If you turn your monitor off at night, does it suddenly have 70% availability/reliability?
MongoDB is also incredibly ease to install, use, manage and understand.

But hey none of those are important to developers. We are just stupid sheep controlled by marketing.
OP is talking about what the OS X UI looked like in the early days [1]

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_(user_interface)
Great Job dude!
It truly does not matter.
I believe your reasoning is incorrect. If we model the number of fires by a poisson distribution (very reasonable), a single sample would correspond to the mode of the distribution. What you would like is an estimate of the mean, i.e. lambda. It so happens that the mode of a poisson distribution is floor(lambda) or ceiling(lambda)-1, and thus it is an underestimate of the mean. In other words, fires are likely to be less frequent than what a single sample suggests.
Find a support group: http://addictionrecovery.lds.org/?lang=eng

I've counseled many people through this and have found that getting support is a huge step in making progress in overcoming your addition.
Because 34 people voted for it.