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Hackers Steal Law Enforcement Inquiry Documents from Microsoft
I can only think of three reasons you're asking me why I believe in Christianity (or Catholicism).

1. You want to learn more about Christianity for yourself to see if its worth believing in.

2. You just want to have a conversation with me.

3. You want to find my reasoning so you can tear it down and show me how I'm wrong.

I don't believe #3 is true, as I believe you're a better person than that. And I don't see why you'd be particularly interested in doing #2. In which case, you probably just want to learn more about it.

Since you probably just want to learn more about it, I think you'll find that those books contain all the same answers I could give, and they do a much better job of it than I could.

But I just don't have the time to devote to rewriting them in the form of HN comments. I'd rather spend my Saturday reading the Julia documentation (so awesome) and playing with my kids and teaching my son programming.
Hmm, isn't the MBA mainly about mobility and battery life? Wouldn't a retina display drain too much power?
Caltrain stations have low platforms instead of the raised ones Bart uses, removing the ability to have a "suicide nook" (railroad slang)
Nope nope nope. A gif is a single file and pretty much works everywhere.

If you have the time to do it yeah maybe. But for animated cat pictures with titles... http://blog.zencoder.com/2013/09/13/what-formats-do-i-need-f...

One of the big failures of HTML5 videos is the missing viral aspect. I can see a funny gif, then save it and then email it on to whoever and they can watch it.

Hopefully all of this will play out and it will be easier, now it is not.
You'll find my rebuttal in the books I've mentioned in other comments.
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As someone who's written man pages, at least GNU is fucked unless you can get stuff directly into a distro bypassing upstream, the guy who runs the man pages project won't let you modify anything in case Paul Vixie returns from the dead and decided he cares about adding examples.

This is why people still commonly use deprecated options in resolv.conf, don't know ip equivalents of old ifconfig commands, and use more options in tar than are required.
If the article linked here is correct, there's nothing to worry about because it's the same panel as the iPad's screens, just slightly bigger.
this is the fat-tree connection diagram for one of the cabinets of a CM-5. it was posted on a wall at one of the national labs in the US which had the pleasure of working with a CM-5 around the time War Games was in theatres. People still gushed about how nice that machine was to program 10-15 years later. SyCortex tried to do something similar with their computers, unfortunately they failed and with them the last interesting connector architecture...

http://i.imgur.com/jHtf4QB.jpg
The Architecture of Rust: Documenting Player-Created Structures
"How We Grew Our Daily Sign-Ups From 5 to 25 in 6 Months"
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It would be hard for them to prevent it, to them it would look like it's just another computer on the wifi.
What a shit-fest in the comments. Why am I here... I don't even know what this website is about. I like the idea of examples though. That has always been one of the major ways for me to learn, even though my superiors throughout my educational career seemed to think it ruins the learning process.
I appreciate your intent, but this line of reasoning about the implications of the term "bro" seems like a huge stretch to me. Being a male, should I likewise feel personally offended by the Emacs woman command, which is a similar and equally "exclusive" pun on man pages?

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/woman/ind...
> It also clumsily fails to understand the genre it's trying to reproduce, the Unix joke name. Those jokes are encoded laconically into the name and only the name (e.g. "less") and then have the good taste to immediately expire. They don't get old because they don't overstay their welcome.

I'm confused. Is the bro thing showing up in this command apart from in the name?
Where is my lean browser for browsing gone to?
Hi all,

i'm surfing a lot in the net. I do some web development. Sometimes there are 10 to 20 Tabs opened ... and my CPU Fan is roaring at me. Time to buy a new computer? Well ... no! I don't get it why a browser with 20 opened tabs eats up 4 Gig of RAM and spikes my CPU to 100%?

So i'm looking for a cool browser that does just this: browsing. No fancy development stuff included. A FireFox Light. Have you seen it? Pleas leave a comment!

IF something like this is none existent, who is willing to help me building a fork of some browser to make surfing the web fun again?

Greets, Chris

p.s. i'm currently using Chrome, Safari and Firefox. Some Plugins like Popup Blocker installed. all eat up TOO much ram while doing, in my view, nothing.
OK I could have missed New Tab changes, because I override it with an extension (Speed Dial 2), I never liked this bit
Yale requires the purchase of specialty care coverage as a condition of enrollment. This includes 60 days of in-patient psychiatric care annually. Students are paying with expectation that the college will help them out, since that's exactly what it says on the tin.
> compute-ahead read-only data store

Definition? As in pre-aggregated data, i.e. materialized views or summary tables?
>Not for half the price, but if you're willing to spend just as much on a PC as the MacBook, you can definitely get the same specs and quality.

The Vaio Pro 13 is an exception though.

For most PC laptops, even if you configure them the same price as the Mac laptop, you still don't get a lot of stuff that makes the Mac better. E.g you get some stuff there but in a not-so-good implementation (like most high-end PC touchpads) and others lacking (like battery life).

For raw power though (if that's what counts for you, like if you do scientific calculations and such) you can get a PC with better CPU/GPU for similar money as the Mac would have. Though in most cases, the machines you get for that are no laptopy-enough anymore, coming closer to 3-4 kg and bulky.

But then there's always OS X, and the pain of using Windows. I always had to have Cygwin when I used Windows laptops, as I had to have a UNIX shell available.
Here is some perspective from Germany, the prime exporter of horrible history in Europe: Tom Perkins is now disqualified from any meaningful discourse. Comparing some hate-mail you recieve to what happened in 1938 amounts to a declaration of complete intellectual bancrupcy.

There are some pocket-tricks of discourse which can be forgiven. This is not one of them.

My house is next to a memorial commemorating the place where there used to be a Synagogue which was severely vanalized in 1938 and subsequently confiscated and destroyed. The Jews of my home town were later deported to death camps. I attended the memorial service at the site on the 75th anniversary, a few months back, with a reading of eyewittness accounts and all.

Do you know why most of us only know a little bit about what happened that day? Because consuming too much of the (readily available) information existing about it will throw you into despair, which is something anybody who starts reading about it soon finds out. That is how bad that day was.

Comparing himself to Pogromnacht! Fuck this guy. Not his "class", but him specifically.
DMCA safe harbor is usually enough to protect you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Ac....
If you want the new shiny, just sell your old MPB on. Stays out of landfill, makes someone happy &c. Else, just 'Use It Up, Wear It Out, Make It Do, or Do Without'.

Is there anything your laptop can't do that is important to you?
Do you also get mad when people use the word "guys" to refer to more than one person of either sex?
Onewheel - a self-balancing electric skateboard
I thought it did from reading the blog post. Is that wrong? If so, I'll delete my comment.
This is really beautiful. A few questions:

- how do I add and delete points on a path?

- how do I change the node type? Eg, if there are no handles, how do I get handles (antlers I think you call them in the code).

- How do I go from colinear handles to "broken" handles: handles that form an angle at the node, so I can have two different curves joined at an acute angle at one node?

- How do I do intersections, unions, groups, layers, etc?

But I gotta say it again, it's really beautiful...
Are you arguing that death isn't bad?

I'm actually quoting many philosophers and authors that have said the same thing and for which I agree. For example:

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/25647-i-do-not-fear-death-i-...

Essentially, it didn't bother you that you didn't exist 100 years ago. Think hard about why it bothers you that you won't exist 100 years from now.

In 200 years, nobody will remember you.

In 1,000 years, it will be as if you never existed. Just like 1,000 years before you were born.
> ...aren't thinking any of that ... funny play on words

That might well be true; my point is that at some point their individual thoughts don't matter, because they're referencing a larger meme.

I'll add that if it were just a funny play on words, we might expect to see a name like "boy" or "guy" or "son" or "person" or any number of other names that are, ha-ha, kind of like "man". The fact that "bro" was picked was pretty obviously a reference to the whole "brogramming" thing.

"man" pages were never really a problem in this vein, because everybody knew that despite the surface similarity (which gave rise to a variety of jokes), "man" was short for "manual", and "fsck" (which also gives rise to some funny jokes) is really short for "file system check" or something like that. "bro" is short for "brogramm(er|ing)". Your attempt to reduce my argument to absurdity in your second paragraph falls completely short because of the total lack of actual parallel to the situation we're really discussing.
As others have said save the money considering you don't have any savings and if you are like many on HN these can come handy once you decide to start your own small business or startup.
And even if you won't start anything or have the desire to do so they will come handy at a time you might need some money to get by.
I bought a 13" MBP to replace my 11" MBA because I was tired of waiting for retina and the size/weight difference seemed negligible. Regretted it within a couple of days of just using it around the house.

On a purely numbers basis, the difference doesn't seem significant (hence how I talked myself into the purchase), but there's a massive "human scale" threshold that's crossed in that difference. IMO, an 11" MBA feels more "like an iPad" in those respects vs. a 13" MBP very much feeling "like a computer".
unbounds https cert is broken. The identity of this website has not been verified.
• Server's certificate is not trusted.
• Server's certificate cannot be checked.

Not a good first sign.
I absolutely agree. I don't think the creator intended to create a constant reminder of an unbalanced subculture, but I think that a similar tool named differently would be more widely used. As a dude, I would feel awkward installing bro, honestly.

That said, it looks fucking handy so I think I'm gonna. ;)
Well, there is Comcast's program to deploy dual-WiFi APs. One side for the subscriber, one side for Comcast to use as it sees fit (public hotspot being a declared use):

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/06/comcas...
Supposedly the new panel is IGZO, which should take less power than previously. I use a retina macbook pro as my daily driver, but I don't even care about the retina myself. I guess I do care about battery life and lightness, though.

I suppose retina is a good bullet point for them over other laptops, though, so maybe it is worth it for them for improving sales.
Of course. But you missed my point that "technology is destroying a growing mind to develop". Once a mind has gone through the development phase, technology helps in ways we could have never imagined in the old days (as you pointed out).
Their python wrapper for their service is a complete mess. If it is a indicator as to the code quality of the rest of their product I would not depend on it for anything important.
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I find it fascinating that this got downvoted; I'm not taking it personally, but think about this for a second:

- Frank: People keep killing themselves.

- Larry: Put up a wall.

- Frank: Nah, too expensive.

What do you really think of Frank and Larry in this sitch? Be honest.

Now, how is that different from what y'all were saying...?

Cognitive dissonance reaches for the -1. Had you paid slightly more attention to your discomfort, you could have learned something about yourselves.
The walls without doors (open at the door area) might be simple. But walls with doors does not seem as simple.

If someone gets trapped between the doors, then the train should be disabled from moving. You see it most often - people dashing in at the last moment getting themselves or their backpack getting stuck. The station doors also have to synchronize with the train doors. Else say, the train door opens, you step out but the station door does not open. Now the train is ready to move...
I'm sympathetic to the issue of social equality, but depression resulting in suicide is not a rational process. Addressing class issues will not eradicate this problem. The wealthy become depressed and suicidal too, for example: http://www.ibtimes.com/eric-salvatierra-killed-caltrain-payp...
At this point it's not about taking offense (I think everyone understands the pun now, and it's funny the first time.) We can assume good intentions but it's still okay to say this is bad marketing.

From a marketing perspective, giving your product a name some people hate is polarizing. It might get attention in the short term and is certainly memorable, but in the longer term isn't a great move because they'll cringe every time they use it or have to talk about it and the complaints will continue. So why not pick something else?

Examples of badly named projects that were renamed, just to show it can be done and it's not a big deal:
forplay -> PlayN
testacular -> karma
Sooner or later, it's likely that all non-Retina Macs will go away. Probably not this year, though. The screen is hardly the only differentiator between the Air and Pro; current 13" Pros have a CPU of twice the frequency of that found in the current Air, and far faster graphics, while the 15" Pro has quad cores, faster again graphics, and an option for discrete graphics.
If I really do need an explicit scope I find myself writing `foo = no` higher up which actually seems pretty natural, if a bit verbose (as many characters as `var `...)
Clearly this is very offensive, exclusionary and misogynistic. I mean, it's not like software has ever been named based on word play-oh, wait...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_%28Scheme_implementatio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Orifice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAME

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_%28protocol%29

Then it's very common for forks of other software, or software that is meant to compliment another program, to humorously reference the original program. The examples are numerous.

"Brogrammer" is a very recent neologism that originated out of a perceived frat culture amongst primarily (surprise) web developers, but it's still mostly used to describe a hypothetical bottom of the barrel person, rather than any seriously observed overtaking of programming by immature frat boys.

"Bro" dates far before that. I think it's perfectly valid to use it as a pun on "man", which originally stood for "manual", yes. But that's how word play works. The GNU Project hosts jokes like these on their site, too. I haven't heard of anyone complaining.

If you can't stand it, alias it. But being dramatic about it is ridiculous.
I think it should be sis pages.
It's a fine idea, and it's also the idea behind ISO/metric paper sizes, as Markus Kuhn explores in this article: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html
YC alum ssprang just released inkpad 1.5.2 on github
Now, how long will it take Apple to release it on the App Store?
I know what you mean my Vostro from a few years ago is still a decent spec (i5-2430/16Gb DDR) however I found out today you can now get the X1 Carbon with the 2560x1440...my Vostro is looking more and more like it needs replacing.
Can they alias bro with sis so the name doesn't matter?

This is a great idea I'd hate if the project name overshadowed the potential.
A different URL for this same email was posted a couple of days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7116144
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I fear I am dismissing it too quickly, probably because of gender troll dread syndrome.

If it works, it will be useful.
You say that, but if they weren't meant for public use, they wouldn't be accessible to the public. Time Warner's DNS, for example, are not available from outside their network.
There will not be any more non-Retina displays from Apple in the near future (2 years max), they're just waiting for the fabs to catch up and for the costs to drop. This is one of the ways to do this, by reusing the iPad's screen technologies to adopt it for the Airs. This makes all the sense in the world to do, especially if Apple wants to keep it at 999$ priceline.

Apple will be seem as "falling behind" if they do not get rid of their non-retina displays sooner as the rest of the industry starts to catch up. Especially with Sharp's IGZO panels being used in many new products being released this year. Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc are all going to be releasing 4K displays in addition to including retina-class displays for their tablets and laptops.
"fsck" is also distinctly non-gendered and it is not dated. It's actually kind of clever because it's not in the least an obvious name for a filesystem check, of all things.

"Bro" is painfully obvious, gendered, and dated. It comes from a rather specific subculture/zeitgeist.

Yes, I realize I'm bikeshedding. No, I'm not proud. Yes, it's hard to come up with good names.
i think the more subtle point, which you're free to disagree with, is that the word 'bro' has a ton of baggage around it from the offest. the word 'man' isn't chosen because it's trying to remind people who need help of the patriarchy's stranglehold on information, it's just short for manual, which i think most people can stomach.

If you wanted to parody 'manual', you could name the command 'rtfm' or 'automatic' or 'auto' or 'otto', but 'bro' has a ton of dodgy cultural baggage around it. Naming things is hard and if you want proof of how this can be problematic, look no further than this open source Buffer replacement here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4484526
Thankfully we live in an age where gender is independent of sex so anyone can be a bro if they want to.
Except that your argument has the same flaws has res0nat0r's argument: neither of you know what the author was thinking when he named it. Was the creator thinking of brogramming? Was the creator thinking of it being the "bro"ther of the man pages? None of us know, so it is useless to argue about it.
Wow. That's a pretty big faux pas if your goal is to distract from the discussion of exclutionary gendered terms in tech circles.
I use both javascript and coffeescript extensively and regularly, and I just don't understand how this ever causes real problems to anyone - unless you're writing 5000 line long spaghetti code coffeescript files with ambiguous variable names, in which case lexical scoping is the least of your worries.
Correct, that's one of the screen technologies that is supposedly already in place for the new iPad Airs.
I think they should say that Google's lab rewards doing research, not rewarding failure. Managerial incentive systems' biases toward positive results holds the entire R&D community back.
Great idea, also dear haters if you don't like the name just fork it and change it.
Unless you're going to tell me that 'fsck' was intentionally named to conjure up the idea of the word 'fuck' when mentioned, your example is completely unrelated and only a red herring. 'bro' is a tool that was explicitly named 'bro' because it's a play on words with 'man', and so there was an explicit choice made to associate the tool with 'bro' and 'brogrammer', etc. If you can't see the difference, I really have to wonder about the average quality of commenter on this site anymore.

Once we get past that stage, are we really overthinking the consequences of the name? Personally, as a male, the name doesn't really bother me beyond the association of the term 'brogrammer' with fratty programmers who drink a lot and don't even code that well (and tbh, I think that alone should be a stereotype one would want to avoid). However, should we at least consider and discuss the implications of asking a female programmer to ask a 'bro' for advice whenever she doesn't know something? Words don't necessarily mean only what you want them to mean. Sometimes they mean what people take them to mean.
It has been a casual term of friendship and acknowledgement between guys for even longer than it has been a douche-bag-frat-boy-sleazy-programmer reference, however. There's not really any need to associate every occurrence of the word "bro" with that, unless it is clearly intended to do so (which, maybe this is, I wouldn't know).

I just know that getting irate over this, at the moment, is like losing your crap over someone including a "manifest" file with their software.

People gotta calm down and not be so jumpy. There's enough intentionally offensive and exclusionary stuff going on in our world without assuming everything else is, too.

Not to say I disagree with you about the way it is often used, though. Nothing more grating than playing a game and hearing a bunch of teenagers say "bro" and "brah" thirty-seven times per minute.
That's true and Apple probably knows that. They wouldn't add retina screen to MBA and compromise on battery life. Battery life would probably stay the same.
Come to think of it, 'otto' would have been a brilliant name.
Ask HN: Any seasoned Double Robotics testimonials?
I am intrigued by Double Robotics remote telepresence product. I had a colleague ask me about re-locating out of state the other day, and in the back of my mind, I was wondering if a solution like Double would be effective. I still find the concept kind of creepy, but it appears to have momentum, and when you get used to it ... it does seem practical.

I'm wondering if anyone in the HN community has had some extended time using one in an office setting, and can share their experience.
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Why should anyone's head explode? A stand-up comic who isn't funny pisses off the audience, it's incredibly painful to watch, and the comic doesn't get invited back.
You seem to have forgotten that computers exist solely for the purposes of making man's life more convenient. Any ideas of software freedom that get in the way of this convenience are bad for mankind. Therefore Stallman's ideas about software freedom are bad for mankind. LLVM is more popular because it is more convenient. It is more convenient because it is truly free, and not enslaved by a license that exalts the "rights of software" above all else.

The idea of imbuing an inanimate thing with rights that are restrictive to animate beings is philosophically offensive to any right-thinking individual.
We're so used to the "man" command that I think it's hard to judge how it would sound if someone invented it today. There might very well be calls to rename it.

We're okay with it because we're used to it, it's from a different time, and it's far too late to change it now. Those aren't good excuses for a new project.
Start by relaxing instead of napping. Once you get the hang of that napping comes next.
Awesome. Congrats to the wonderful SoundCloud team. Gut für Berlin!