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Los Angeles is the epicenter of a corrupt auto industry. We don't have effective public transportation and our freeways are the worst in the country.

With the amount of negative news coverage that the Tesla has received in relation to automobiles in general, I think it's safe to say that they are being targeted. I don't think there is necessarily a conspiracy, however, a car salesman is quite possibly the least trustworthy character to trust for honesty in this matter.
Of course there will be extremely talented yet naive students lining up for graduate schools. They are mostly unaware of the soul crushing reality of working in perpetual poverty in hopes of landing a tenured research position that doesn't exist.

This is a perfect case of confirmation bias due to information asymmetry. They have been in school their whole lives and thus have only met the few successful people who've managed to land tenured positions. They haven't met any senior grad students who've spent decades in a lab being paid less than the lowest administrators, and dumped to the curb for a fresh batch as soon as their best years are spent.

I'm not a pessimist, but when the reality is bleak [1], I will not convince myself that everything is dandy. Will this change? Hopefully. When and how are the questions I'm most concerned with at the moment.

1. http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/04/a-dark-future...
Same here. Get it about 2-3 times a day, but when I refresh the page all works fine. For me it says it is a Cloudflare issue.
That's iTunes, not iOS. You can be fine with iOS and a kindle and a PC if you used Amazon's content for example.
> My experience of living outside of the Apple ecosystem is that Apple stuff is all or nothing. One can't choose to have some Apple gear without fully embracing it. The advertised benefits require one to buy into everything. Things like iPods and Ubuntu aren't seamless

I think you are overrating those "advertised benefits".

Sure, there are some conveniences when you use multiple Apple devices, such as iMessage, iCloud tabs, iCloud passwords, iCloud Storage. But it's nothing that you can't get with third party apps like WhatsApp or 1Password, or even Google Chrome.

iCloud Storage depends on apps implementing it. They could use any other solution, such as Dropbox or Box.net, but then you would have another kind of lock-in.

And yes, iTunes doesn't work on Ubuntu, but it's not like you need iTunes for a fully operational phone, nor you need a Mac for iTunes. I don't think I synced my iPhone to Mac in a few years. And it's been a while since I last used Linux, so I don't know if those still work, but if you had to sync MP3 music you could use Amarok or GtkPod... or even Wine...

So, yes, it's not really seamless but it's not like you absolutely have to buy a Mac to have all the advantages of having an iDevice...

And yes, I get it, it isn't open, etc, but my the point is that you absolutely don't need to "buy into everything" to have all the conveniences. Sure, you have to do a bit of legwork, but that was the situation before iCloud, and is probably the situation with most other platforms.

> and an iPad when your phone is an Android just means that you buy everything twice, have different versions of things running sometimes with different data profiles.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you but... I don't see how this is Apple's (or even Android's) fault? I mean, if you buy Xbox games they won't be playable on your Playstation. How data is stored or if can be exported depends on App makers, not on Apple...

Again, maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but I still don't really see what the point was with this one, unless you're advocating a mobile OS monoculture...

I'm not trying to say that you're wrong or anything, I'm just giving my POV and trying to understand yours better, since you said you're living outside the Apple ecosystem...

And sorry for being defensive and posting this with a throwaway account, but it's because talking anything non-negative about Apple takes a huge toll on my Karma here, and I'm not even close to being a frequent poster.
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I have switched from basically real-time email push correspondence to manual fetch every day or two. Basically, when I feel like it. My mail traffic has dropped from ~50 to 1 to 2 a day.

It's hard to say whether it benefited me or not, but I'm sure of one thing - I don't waste time on email anymore.
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The 'youngest' nuke is now over 21 years old. Due to the terms of the nuclear non-proliferation treaties, we no longer conduct any actual testing, so it's all computer-simulation based.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockpile_stewardship
Yeah I think so as well although in my opinion that would be a mistake. Provide a good api and open it up to specific developers to keep control. Nobody's going to buy a car just because it has ios apps. But they might buy another car because it doesn't support their lifestyle ecosystem (ios/Android/WP).
> As for iTunes, given that you really "need" those metadata (which is usually superfluous stuff, like people spending eons tagging their music collection and less time actually enjoying the music), the solution is quite simple for a hacker: write, or get (there are some on the internet) an Applescript that writes those metadata to the mp3 tags.

Honest question: which metadata does iTunes stores on proprietart files? Album covers and ID3 stuff go into the files, playlist can be exported to m3u...

I have an external drive with music that I lug around and I use the same files seamlessly between iTunes and foobar2000 at work.
The only thing the author really shares is that they've quit their job, they work from cafes, and they know how much runway they have.

Nowhere do they say they plans to work from the cafe forever or the plan is to keep going until the bank account actually reaches zero. And if that is the plan, so what? The reality is there's always risk and there's no right/wrong way to start and grow a successful company.

What is important is that they're chasing something and documenting the experience from the very beginning so that others can learn from it. That's encouraging and deserves some credit.
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The root of this problem is that the liberals have been paddling relatives good sounding notions such as "everyone needs to go to college" thing and the subsequent government moves to ensure that every tom dick and harry can go to college.

This was about to happen.
Dropbox arbitration: opt out. No, wait...
"Sure they are, in an indirect way."

I completely disagree. I will link to a post by economist Bryan Caplan since he is more articulate & smarter than I am.

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2014/02/how_welfare_hur....
With all of JavaScript's odd quirks, I have a hard time believing that it's noob- or kid-friendly.
Dozens of what? Browser plugins? I don't have to imagine, that's the world we live in. Dozens of languages? I very much doubt that will happen. Just as we only have a small handful of codexes that actually matter (Flash, Silverlight, H264, maybe ogg) I predict that we will end up with a small number of languages that actually matter: Javascript, Python, Ruby, and Scheme. Maybe CL.

IMHO that would be a better world than the one we currently live in. Javascript is serviceable for its original purpose, but for serious webapps it's broken beyond redemption. NOTE: This is not to say that it is impossible to write serious webapps in Javasceript. Obviously it is possible. What I mean is that at some point the aggregate cost of dealing with Javascript's design flaws becomes greater than the aggregate cost of dealing with multiple browser scripting languages.
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Thanks, hearing I helped someone get into business always makes my day.
Don't bother to back up you cliched attack on a popular tabloid newspaper. Much more fun to recycle the old epithets. What amuses me is that way hypercritical folk evidently read the Daily Mail (along with the other on a regular basis else how can they be so adamant concerning it's 'rag' characteristics? Seems to be a moveable feast on HN.

Independent reports say that the DM has the largest online readership in the world at around 44 million. Disputable of course; remarkable that so few of these people (if any) appear have made a buck or two by suing the paper for telling all the lies it's supposed to peddle.
> Simple debugging. This is an area where AI techniques could be quite helpful.
Detecting and explaining common syntax and runtime errors is a crucial step in
teaching a new language. Tools which provide this type of support could increase
the interest in this language in the mainstream. Our current debugging support is
minimal and provides only the basic commands: step, skip, and continue.

I have given some thought to this in the past. Has there ever been a serious attempt at this?

Sometimes the error messages for really simple mistakes (missing semicolon, wrong punctuation, etc.) are obtuse and almost completely meaningless. Of course, if it were easy to give simple, clear error message in such cases, they resulting message would be simple, so it's other complexities that get in the way. The biggest problem I see is that having labelled training data, e.g. source code that fails compilation along with the specific actual error, is unlikely, and having an expert provide small, self-contained examples is unlikely to be useful (really, enough training data to be effective) in real world errors, even when novice programs are fairly small.

Edit: I was just thinking about this, and with prudent use of a VCS, labelled training data would just be pairs of the form <commit that fails, next commit that compiles>. It would be interesting to see if it's possible to pull useful data from exiting history, or if some level of restraint is necessary in practice. Really, I'm just thinking about the precipice of supervised and unsupervised learning here.
I would guess this is JS transpiled from CoffeeScript or something similar. That makes it an even less fair comparison, as ClojureScript would compile down to something just as wacky looking.
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Can you suggest alternatives ?
Ask HN: Why is Facebook automatically liking pages?
Hello,

I have a question and I know I am not the only one with this issue as when I asked several people they all said similar things happened to them.

The question: Why is Facebook automatically liking pages for me? I most certainly did not like "praise jesus" pages nor other "funny" pages that I just found out in my news feed. Is there anything more to this? And finally...what can I do about this besides disliking the page ?
Oh, I have a secretary like that too; she's called The New Gmail
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Legalizing drugs and regulating them would be a better analogy to the situation you're considering here. Games are legal to play and the discussion is about regulating the game makers and not the consumers.
As I was reading, I couldn't help but thinking about why the world didn't turn out this way, and I came to the conclusion that in 1998 the only two companies who realized that the future of the web was the browser were Microsoft and AOL. [1] The rough isomorphism between HTML and Lisp S-expressions [2] was an obvious technical advantage over JavaScript and among the Lisps, though tellingly not the case with Scheme, the association list was already in place to do all the work that JSON has come to perform in exactly the same way but for syntax.

AOL of course destroyed Netscape after purchasing it by encumbering itself and all it touched with an East Coast Big Dumb Company mindset. It wasn't until years later when Google started seeing Microsoft as the competition that anyone else treated the browser strategically. By that time, JavaScript had won just by showing up in IE 6 and in the legacy Mozilla carried from Netscape.

What might have happened if Yahoo had decided the browser was strategic instead of living off banner ad revenue at the expense of increasing irrelevance? They had Graham and the Viaweb team, and so some manager decided to port their code to C++ and the rest, as they say, is history that never was.

[1] It is interesting to think that Apple would build its future in ways that treated the browser as a commodity - first with the iPod and then with the app store.

[2] See Slava Akhmechet's The Nature of Lisp. It's definitely worth reading: http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html
Something not mentioned is

git log -S"pattern"

This is useful for searching diffs. If your repo is small this is quite fast. However for large repos, it can be slow which is why I use my own diffs indexer. Below is a screenshot of what my diffs search looks like.

http://screenshots.gitsense.com/diffs-search.html

For most people, git log -S should work fine but my solution is targeted for enterprise, which is why I went my own route.
there were many improvements in performance.
> Cutting their tuition price would actually decrease the perceived value of the degree, and thus lower the demand for their product.

Even if you accept this as true (which is interesting but is also a bit of a stretch), it certainly doesn't explain why tuition consistently rises at a rate several times that of inflation. The latter items certainly do.
Can you send a link to one of those please?

Interesting stuff...
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> How is this possible? Does nobody use a compiler that warns about comparisons always being false?

External symbols are resolved at link time; as far as the compiler is concerned, setuid might be a symbol declared as __weak.

I don't particularly like the snide remarks towards the maintainers of these libraries.
Stopped reading at "can have trailing commas"...
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I'm up for anything even when I'm clearly unqualified like anything that flies.
Why Ghost chose Ember.js
Do any of these USB stick devices have GPIO pins? Honest question, since part of the appeal for me was being able to interface hardware more directly.
Switch jobs. AT&T wouldn't be a top partner for the NSA without competent people.

This isn't an option for a lot of people; the folks doing tech support or working in the shops and barely get along on minimum wage don't have that option. The decision makers and tech leads do.

I'm not talking out of my ass. I have resigned from a very well-paid position because of ethical reasons, and there was far, far less at stake than general privacy matters.
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I feel pretty secure in predicting that not one vote will be swayed by the absence of Google Street View in Austria.

A little perspective is nice.
The ZTE Open is $70. There's an upcoming $25 phone too.
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Sort of, it's a bit more complex than that. Tuition costs and textbook costs have skyrocketed (see http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/10/23/charts-just-h... ) while faculty salaries have stagnated or even gone down in real terms ( http://www.aaup.org/NR/rdonlyres/C2BAFA70-057E-4097-908B-6E4... )

Empire-building is correct though in the sense that public institutions are the ones raising their tuition costs by so much (78%!), and a big reason for this is do to college's building new infrastructure, which often times they have no need for. Take SF State University who I used to work for, they built a brand new gymnasium and a brand-new library at a cost of over a billion dollars for a student population in which 78% are commuter students who hold down part-time jobs and spend no time on campus. It just doesn't make financial sense. That said, faculty costs are still the primary problem and why community colleges get the taxpayer a much better bang for the buck. See http://www2.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/hiedfuture/reports/dic...
I guess that French and Italian speaking Swiss people would have a veto on this ;-)
whenever something starts to get paid by loans, the prices rise. fractional reserve banking means loans are created almost out of thin air, it's the fiatest of fiat money, and it creates a push to increase prices. banks constantly need a sure thing, something to actually create the value to back that money. and when they all start jumping on a bandwagon, the wheels eventually break. i hope something will be done here, but if recent history has taught us anything, US government will pay most of the bills, saving the banks, and then be heavily attacked for - being in debt! the economic scene today is a bad joke.
conversely, are there any expensive phones that can run it yet? i would love to try it on my rooted HTC Jewel (Sprint EVO 4G LTE). currently running CyanogenMod nightlies.
The aforementioned article discusses why there are problems with Javascript itself, e.g., the difficulty in protecting against timing attacks.
It's pointless to discuss whether this is an intentional flaw or a mistake because the problem lies in code review and tool. As someone has said in the past to me that compiler can catch these errors, well, if so, what flags do they use and should we have a standard list of flags to enable to test these problems? Do we have tools to show these errors instead of going through a 1000 pages compiled log?
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>If this wasn't a joke the irony is brilliant.

Wasn't a joke. It sure does prove my point though [1]

>10,000 hours not 10,000 lives

Actually both hours and lives. I meant to write: "spend more than 10,000 hours of their lives" (or "life", if you wish).

[1] Well it doesn't, really, since I'm not a native speaker, so I haven't had those "10,000 hours" of honing my english. Plus, those are typos from hasty typing on a web textarea, not things I genuinely confuse.