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>we are a 20 minute interstate drive away from any stores other than krogers

A "20 minute interstate drive" is supposed to be a lot?

People commute for longer everyday just to get to work, and you're talking about shopping...
On the positive side, if your country is rejecting money from tourism: they should allow a huge beerfest to regain their losses. If enough foreigners come you would have enough to repair streets or whatever. If they don't do this: they want less tourism, they don't like intoxicated people (then they don't like extra revenue for the police), they can't use money efficiently, or they're striving to be a sober country. I believe their whole point was to increase criminality because they're not receiving XX,XXX/ year for each person they inprison. Alternatively, they may actually want to speed the process of Bitcoin adoptation.
Am I wrong for having a moment of panic were I wondered if I had been tricked into installing an app that was not actually Coinbase's all those months ago?
Yeah, after I posted I thought about it more and I think my initial estimate was probably quite low. It will be interesting to see what the final price turns out to be.
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These days, Apple is probably more hated than Microsoft. Not as much as MS was back in the day, but more than modern, sheepish-looking Microsoft.

I gotta say it weirds me out when people assert that everyone loves Apple, because it happens a lot; almost as often as people go on vitriolic rants against everything Apple-related.
// center the horse, they like that

Pure comment gold.
On the other hand, if you are large-ish and organized, it provides an easy avenue to take down stories you don't like without the paper-trail of flagging...
You can easily export and import paper wallets in the coinbase interface if you have a printer and a webcam.
Someone made $172,222 a second for 45 minutes on the opposite side of these trades.
I can understand from a moral/business perspective that drastic changes should be avoided in new releases but how is that an abuse of monopolistic power?

Would you call Ubuntu's decision to suddenly switch all the window controls (Minimize, Maximize, Close) from left to right in one version an abuse of their "monopoly" in the Linux desktop world?
The iPad 1 still runs a surprising number of modern apps. My son plays newish games like Angry Birds Star Wars 2 or Asphalt Heat 7 without crashes or minimal lag. Not bad for a 4 year old device with only 256 Megs of RAM.

I'm not sure what apps you're running, but I haven't had the same experience. If the app can be downloaded from the store and doesn't prevent you from opening it on older devices (ex: CSR Classic) it'll run just fine.
But unlike flagging, there is no minimum karma requirement to get involved in a flame war, right?
Risky for real commenters who care about their presence on HN. Effectively consequence-free for astroturfers.
I'm no fan of MS: see my comments in general. But your criticisms are a bit too extreme. MS announces EOL dates well in advance of stopping sales [1]. Those who want to hoard up on licences can do so. Windows 7 is still available for sale [1]. Those who did not want Metro could still have used Win 7. In any case, MS listened to its customers and brings back these features in Win 8.1 -- or so I hear: Linux single-booter here.

[1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/products/lifecycl...
Perhaps 317 million lines are a hardcoded list of every man, woman, and child in the U.S. That would leave only 183 million.
If you look at the code, e.g.

https://gist.github.com/adamnemecek/7112729/raw/deb521f699d3...

500 million LOC seems less unrealistic.

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If You Can’t Explain it Simply
Look in

~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports
and
/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports

for crash logs happening around the same time; if you find any, file a bug report with Apple.

<http://bugreport.apple.com/>
Which underlying principles do you have in mind? I might use any suggestions you have to augment the next edition.

By the way, though the feedback on the inclusion of TDD has generally been positive, it can get tedious, even for me. I do hope to produce a simpler, test-free Rails intro at some point as a complement to the present tutorial.
The very recent imposition of the Metro/Windows 8 interface on a widely unwilling public is prima facie evidence of MS' continuing abuse of it's particular monopoly.

Huh? First of all, companies impose new things on their customers all the time. Secondly, I thought a company was abusing their monopoly when they use it to extort profit where there was none before? Changing the UI doesn't seem to be exploiting monopoly power for profit...
When you export a wallet by printing it, what happens to the digital copy?
62e9 LoC?
Someone must be practicing enterprise coding. See also: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
The entire site is generated via Jekyll with every possible permeation. I just made that up. But it does use Jekyll.

https://github.com/greggersh/healthcare.gov#install-jekyll
> Anyway, do you know what I do when there are discussions online about my employer? I stay the fuck out of it.

That's a shame, since as an employee you have an unique and very valuable perspective on the company. Why not participate, perhaps add a disclaimer?
As a middle-class father of teenagers, I've looked into game development summer camps (which sell out pretty quickly each season) and sadly concluded that these are primarily a rich kid indulgence. Obviously, most middle class families can't afford the fees but they'd be pocket change to wealthy families and provide a place to send Johnny or Jane while Mom and Dad go on European holiday.

Digital Media Academy : http://www.digitalmediaacademy.org/
* $1000-$2000 1 or 2-week course

iD Gaming Academy : http://www.internaldrive.com/idga/
* $3,599-$3,799 2-week course

The bitter irony of these programs is that while they probably represent merely "fun, free time" for rich kids, the same skills could be life-changing for average or poor kids.
Webkit was already open source before Apple started using it. ALAC was closed source until 2011.

Microsoft has released open formats as well, like XPS. And Microsoft does open source today as well. That's how the industry works today.

Sure flash is bad thing but if Sun had its way with the internet and Microsoft had not stopped them we be all doing Java applets by now.

However that's all beside the point, the point is that complaining against Microsofts closed culture and in the same sentence referencing Steve Jobs is like taking a bath in koolaid, regardless of Microsofts closed culture.

It's just double standards.
Wait until their kids got their hands on it.
Is Someone Stuffing BBM's Ratings On The Play Store?
Considering these flamewars typically involve at least one person who admits to being a Microsoft employee, I don't think that "false-flags flamewars" is something that we are seeing in practice.
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I would take a look at the Mac App FakeApp. It does a lot of what you are saying expecially in regards to CSS and xpath selectors. I have been using it and have been able to do some really great stuff.
Yup this is obviously bullshit.

If each LOC generated 16 bytes of native code, the executable would be 7.5GB.
Ask HN: How do I prove I am not a Microsoft astroturfer?
PG seems to think I am one in this comment.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6596311
My reply and question is below.
http://pastebin.com/gRHH0LFG
I would appreciate it if someone posted it in that thread as I can post there.
Because why would you? You have to pay money for an inferior product.
One of my friends is starting a programming bootcamp. He and his assistant have been calling recruiters and tech companies all over the region, cataloguing available jobs and figuring out where the demand is.

Their findings: PHP and .Net. That's what the vast majority of companies they spoke to are hiring for.

My point is that there's a whole world of tech outside HN.
Journalists are equal only to lawyers in their dislike of math.
Umm.... let me get this straight, GS is required to pay the legal fees because he was an employee at GS? So if the company sues one of its employees, it has to pay for both sides? Really?

PS: If i remember correctly, hadn't Sergey resigned from GS by then? I thought he was just hanging around an extra week or two to train his successors.
I think the article has a point and yet misses the point. If you start a company and don't have investors that can fire you, it is true you still don't work for yourself but for your clients, employees, etc.

Nonetheless there is a huge difference in that the ability to terminate a relationship with a boss is possible from either side, without you losing your position in your company. It's wonderful being able to tell a client that if they are going to micromanage you, they can take a hike.
Except the BBB only does 10/100 Ethernet so can't really operate as a modern router. The advantage of say an OpenWRT modded D-Link DIR-825, is it includes a gigabit router that handles internal traffic while the cpu handles the firewall and vpn to the outside world. Because local traffic is handled by completely separate silicon inside the router, CPU and ram is not a constraint.
Hacker News, if anything, is probably to the right of most Americans, due to the number of libertarians and entrepreneurs.

Also, referring to "the Left" as if it were a single thing qualifies you as the "ignorant" one. Even back when the USSR existed, there were differences of opinion. You can look up Marshall Tito and the differences of opinion between Mao and Stalin if you're curious.
You're using Keychain correctly, but using your computer's authentication system incorrectly. Desktop environments in general (in Windows, OSX, Linux, etc.) assume that you will lock your session whenever you are not present and in control of the computer. (Thus, Keychain locks when the session is locked.) This is currently a big hassle to do, but all other security on the system is built up around that concept.

Really, PCs need something like TouchID. Or something like pairing to your phone, and then detecting it in proximity and prompting a TouchID confirmation from it. Phone goes out of proximity = computer locks.
IOS 7.0.3 - iCloud Keychain, iMessage fixes, and cures for motion sickness
It fits the current meme here that anything related to the US government technology wise must automatically be evil and/or incompetent.
Everybody is an investor. Always. Either with their own money or with their own time.

There are good and bad investors. The good investors find the people to invest in early on by seeing what person they will be within five years before everyone else does. The bad investors...don't, they only invest in the people that are already amazing.

However, amazing people want to give the return to the ones early one who believed in them when nobody else did. They do so, because they know that by rewarding their early investors(this can be a girlfriend, friend, investor, co-founder), they skew the world a little more to rewarding the visionaries who can look into the future, which enables them to do the same thing all over again, just with an even bigger impact.
Looks like recoiledsnake's reply is here.

http://pastebin.com/gRHH0LFG
It doesn't matters, this is a halo product, it's main purpose is to showcase the company's engineering chops not being a sales success story like the iphone or ipad were.

Problem is previous such products like the G4 cube coexisted with the traditional and less pricey powermac, while this thing killed the old mac pro, leaving a lot of pros and their expensive expansions and accessories out in the cold.
Yeah newsreaders are really bad at single sourcing a quote without qualifying the source. And then repeating it. Endlessly.

That is basically how we got into the Iraq War, Cheney fed some nonsense to the NY Times which printed it, then Cheney went on the news the next week and quoted the NY Times and everyone started repeating the NY Times, when the original source of the nonsense was him.

By the way, is an opening/closing bracket on its own line a "line of code"? What if there are 200 million of them? Is that like double spacing your term papers in large fonts and wide margins to cheat the page requirement?
You said that people often comment on how your phone is too thick, and then take the case off their phone to compare the size. The story characterizes the owners of those phones as imbeciles. This is the strawman anecdote I was referring to.

You also say that iPhones need cases, which is not true.
I just found out about this so I hope others find it useful but...

Google Fusion Tables is amazing when it comes to visualizing, storing, and manipulating data:
http://www.google.com/drive/apps.html#fusiontables

It's like Google Spreadsheets on steroids.
Hold option key while clicking purchases tab in app store, it should show up.
500M bytes, maybe? Including all the artwork, and rows of database gunk and XML propping it up?

I can easily believe some overflunky seeing 500M something and not really get what was being measured. I'd believe that more readily than 500MSLOC of actual code.
I've found pfSense really shines on old PC hardware since the embedded boxes I've tried it on tend to slow a bit. Something with a still functioning HD and at least 256Mb memory does pretty well with it.
A simple `find . -name '*.js' | xargs wc -l` on the marketplace repository at https://github.com/STRML/Healthcare.gov-Marketplace reads about 72K LOC. About half of that is vendor scripts, such as jQuery.

The 500M figure is quite obviously nonsense. Even if one adds the source of every tool involved, including the browsers used to display the site, it would be difficult to get to 500M. For example, Chrome is ~5M LOC, depending on comments/version.
They will print anything for views
Ask HN: Att - Health Care start ups.
It's all over the news and will be for the unforeseen future, but you wouldn't know it if you only read Hacker News.

HealthCare.gov has technical problems. Huge problems affecting millions of people right now. The media is perpetuating programmers as incompetent (in addition to the White House administration).

Considering how monumental HealthCare.gov and the Affordable Healthcare Act is, isn't this a great PR opportunity for one of the many health care start ups out there to offer some technical consulting? If you want to disrupt something BIG.. now is the opportunity. Wouldn't you like it if every newspaper gave a mention to your company: "XYZ.com, a company that does XYZ, worked with the Obama administration to restore HealthCare.gov and put it back in business for millions of Americans."
You could email info@ycombinator.com and discuss it with PG?
Shut the Front Door - brilliant song & those skeletons sure have the moves!!
Love this - cheeky song with a halloween twist...love the moon walking skeletons!! The latest from Leo Kidd!
All Across The Country, Prenda Law's Rubble Is Getting Bounced
Ask HN: Why such negativity?
I've been an avid reader of HN for a year now and have started commenting only recently. However, I find the comments extremely negative. No matter how the positive the subject is, there will be a barrage of negative comments. Take the bender post, someone is complaining about the div styles. It's just a concept and it's free. Even code that is open sourced is not spared. Anything MS or Apple gets instant hate. Why?
I understand that perspective, but what I know is either public knowledge, or behind a few NDAs. Furthermore, my employer politely asks that I don't, and I'd rather not anyway. Online PR, no matter how unofficial, isn't something that I am comfortable with.
The fact that they initially sentenced him to 8 years in jail, has zero deterring effect. As far as I am concerned, it only strengthens our resolve to break through the politically controlled monopoly on the use of force.
I guess the reason is because hackers love open systems. Even companies like google get shit from this place because "the best parts of Android are not open".
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Agreed! If somebody is going to bullshit me in an interview to cover up their weaknesses, I have to assume they're going to do it after I hire them.
Many years ago towards the beginning of my career proper in technology I first came across the phrase "the September that never ended." Asking a close grey beard he chuckled, explained poetically about newsgroups and finished with the anecdote that when he first started his career he had come across a similar phrase, asked a similar question and thus the cycle was complete.
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That code looks really familiar. Strangely enough, it was for another healthcare application and written by consultants.
I don't think he's implying that it's easy, but that he actually looks for diamonds in the rough instead of purely people who are amazing in the now.

Hockey is hobby that I follow a lot and despite metrics and scouting, a LOT of prospects who blossomed into all-stars ended up falling into later rounds while there are notable top ten draftees who ended up as huge busts.
It may be a marketing con, but if you buy your $30,000 engineering package and expect it to run on your gamer GPU, you may need to do some video card firmware hacking to make that happen. And then, of course, you won't be able to get any customer support from the software vendor for any visual glitches which may appear. Sucks, but that's how it is -- workstation GPUs _are_ better, generally not in terms of FPS in Crysis, but in terms of out-of-the-box compatibility with off-the-shelf high end software packages.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you're not trolling me; this has been widely discussed for years ...

Apple and Adobe do not have the segment market share that Microsoft does with Office. More importantly (to me), people buy Apple and Adobe products because they want to. People buy Microsoft Office because they have to. And they feel they have to not because Office has functionality that is so unsurpassed to help them get work done, but for one reason alone: file-format lock in.

As if, and again this is hardly original with me, a private company controlled the protocol to make phone calls and forced you to buy their (overpriced, crappy) phones to access the phone network.
The Sure Thing (2010)
It's just criticism. Emotions and sarcasm don't transfer well as text, so criticism reads more negative than it probably intended.

Don't take this comment as negative.
The front end does, that was built by Development Seed. The problems have seemed to come from other contractors, such as CGI Federal, though I'm loathe to trust anything I've read in the news about this clusterfuck so far. The reporting has been so bad it rivals Healthcare.gov itself in its awfulness.
I use ipython for all my (mostly scientific) python interpreter needs and have been looking for a functional programming language to learn. Between all the recent posts on haskell and now this, I think I know which one it will be.
Two words one number. "Quantified 89 FJ"
This is a worthwhile, yet lacking perspective in our conversation about tech workers. No, the answer is not issuing millions of new STEM immgration visas, the answer is investing in supporter employees so they can reach their full potential.
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"Hate the sin, but not the sinner".

It is important as a community that we keep an open view about the products that we see getting posted here. Microsoft might have made mistakes in the past and had produced lowly products.

But who knows, it is possible that the next best thing in the world may come from one of them - or for that matter, anybody. A prejudiced eye can only have a blurred vision.
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While I can see how that would explain separate IPs, I do not see how it would explain separate accounts posting agreement with themselves and it would certainly create an appearance of sockpuppetry.
This type of story in which they initially sentenced him to 8 years in jail, has zero deterring effect on me. As far as I am concerned, it only strengthens our libertarian resolve to break through the politically controlled monopoly on the use of force.
LoJack for Laptops - Gone Too Far?
I haven't tried it on an embedded platform, e.g. a Geode or Via CPU.

I'm using an old mini-ITX IPC board from Jetway with one of the first dual core Atom cpus, 1GB of ram (overkill) and 4 x Gbit ethernet ports. With a slim case / power supply I think it was ~$250 about 5 years ago when I bought it.

Other than moving apartments it's only ever been rebooted once, to upgrade from pfsense 1.2 to 2.0. It's never crashed and never caused a problem, and I beat on my network connection. OpenVPN performance from outside is only limited by my WAN speed. It's been awesome.

I also use pfsense in a VM in front of a bunch of other VM's on a VMWare server and it works great for that as well.
Jesus, it's disappointing that HN is focused on this silly statistic instead of actually talking about the problem stalling millions of Americans right now from enrolling. Considering HN is kind of, like, the epitome of technical talent on the Internet. They would know best how to solve HealthCare.gov's problems.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6596981
To be fair, the CTO for Obama for America (Harper Reed) is one smart cookie. I have much respect. This is not your typical goverment waste. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Reed
Yeah, that kind of sucks about Linux, it looks better now but still ugly.

I love the products on Windows, where it looks great and works great. Especially love PHPStorm for PHP and IntelliJ for Java :).
KDE started the Webkit stuff. I don't quite get why Apple made ALAC (2004) when FLAC (2001) was already there.

> Also related: http://www.apple.com/opensource/

Also related: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/openness/default.aspx#project... and http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/
Very unlikely. Google Wallet is heavily integrated into Android and Google Play. It's not going away.
Own goal! :-)
That's what he's saying. This is the new con and the cons are going to make out like bandits.
Yeah, not sure why it's not throwing a bunch of jQuery errors in the console
This post is garbage and perpetuating this false statistic is useless noise.
Actually, the flamewar involved no one claiming to be an MS employee. I only commented after the submission was killed.

But feel free to believe anything that reinforces your existing beliefs.
My general rule of thumb with unnamed sources is to completely disregard what they have to say. With named sources, my general rule of thumb is to assume they have ulterior motive for speaking to the press, usually apparent by looking at their job title. My general rule of thumb with all news is to wait for some distant period of time for the real facts to shake out of the mess of people talking.