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I'm perplexed as to why this is getting votes on HN. I know we're not supposed to criticize things for not being "hacker news," but seriously, some guy discovers drugs as a coping mechanism for his grief, and it gets posted here (presumably as a brain-chemistry "hack"), and people are saying, "yes, this is the sort of content I'd like to see more of"?

Seriously, creepy guy has a train-wreck of an internet relationship and is dealing with it in unhealthy ways. Why are people up-voting this instead of flagging it?
you could actually do the same in /usr/local. all you need to do is install all packages to their own folder (eg /usr/local/custom/ruby-1.8.7) and then symlink the binary to /usr/local/bin.

http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tree/ is a package manager that tries to do just that
Wow. This is a great guide. The diagrams really help in understanding, and the writing is clear.

Thanks for putting in the time to help others. Keep up the good work.
This looks like a FUD rant to me.

I work for an organization (thousands of employees/higher ed) that has zero restrictions on what programs you can install and use on your computer. For example, I use Thunderbird instead of Outlook. It works out fine for IT because the vast majority of users who need help with things like security patches and document formatting or management, do not go out of their way to use firefox, open office, or google docs. They use the programs installed on their computers by IT, and only change when an update is pushed onto their machine.

The people who seek out these other tools tend to be savvier and need nearly 0 IT support time (The only time I've had to seek out support was due to hardware failure). The people who need the greatest level of support don't know how to use the pre-installed software (Word/Outlook/PowerPoint/IE), or get frustrated with it.
Not necessarily, it depends who controls the trade. There is rarely such a thing as "free trade" or "free market" -- it is a pipe dream. Trade is mostly about controls, tariffs and subsidies. Usually the powerful side control the trade.

> largest free trade zone right here in the US.

That is true, but I thought we are talking about internation trade.
You can always put IE6 on a machine, even side by side with other versions of IE. Not saying I like IE6 or anything, just that this is a poor excuse.
What is the purpose of philosophy in the modern world?  Entertainment?
Philosophical arguments lead no where. So what's the point?

(Yes logic is studied in philosophy but it is also studied in mathematics and computer science.)
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If you go the patent route then you have to have effectively full disclosure.

In practice when big companies file patents they make sure to leave out enough information to make the patents as unhelpful as possible. If you were trying to replicate my work it would be pretty close to useless to use my patents.
I think this is some kind of coding visualization software, but I can't find any useful information online. On top of that, the submitter has no comments and seems to have made his account just to submit this. Flagged.
I probably waste 15 minutes a day on BaseCamp's UI - it's not great, and I've written a few greasemonkey extensions to speed up my process.

And that's a 37 signals product, a pretty decent one to boot. I can't imagine how much time (for instance) my friend loses to his stupid internal IE6 app that was probably outsourced to a fourteen yea rold.
So you would take a bet on a science/engineering degree?
And hope that after 4years of a degree, and another 3-5years to get the professional certification your job won't just be off-shore?

Better to do the easiest humantities course and get that middle manager job so you can earn the bonuses for cutting the number of engineers.

Or better still - skip college, learn to be a plumber. Invest the $40k tuition in a van an some tools. get jobs, buy more vans, hire other plumbers - build empire. It's like a startup except most of them make money.
You seem to be making a large mistake here. The issue in question here isn't "Upgrade a webapp" or "Only use IE6". The issue is "Upgrade a webapp for one user" or "Make that one user use IE6, rather than add another application to the list of applications to watch bug reports/updates/etc for".

Yes, the application should upgraded at some point, but just because a user wants to use Firefox is not the reason to be doing it. It is something that needs to be done, sooner rather than later, but this may not be the time, and definitely is not the reason to do it.

While I personally use Firefox, and think it would be an improvement if every used it, I would not want to be in an IT department pushing it. A large focus of the article was about limiting choice for users, which is what the complaint was. "Why can't I use XXXXXX, it just takes 5 minutes to install..." does not mean that after 5 minutes of installing it that any service will be done. Updates will need to be run, testing (should be) run to make sure it works in all the necessary cases, integration into whatever imaging/software management system the organization is using... The list goes on. On top of that, each additional application installed in the organization opens up that much more attack space, and puts the entire organization that much more at risk.

Yes, it isn't that big of a deal to let one or two users use Firefox. But once you've done that, when the next user wants Adobe Air installed, so they can have their Twitter application installed, its a lot harder to say no. Usually this snowball effect doesn't really apply, but with the ease of automated attacks it does.

Take spamming. Most users know not to trust spam. Even more may know not to click on any links. But even with a 1 in 10,000 (or lower) success rate, spamming still turns a huge profit, simply because its trivial to send out a million emails, which would result in ~100 successes. The same applies to applications. Without proper testing and updating, applications are vulnerable, and it is relatively trivial to scan a network searching for a given vulnerability.

Even if the IT department is really on top of the game, and is watching the news and finds patches right away for their products, all it takes is one application somewhere to have not taken the patch right, or to be running an older version of the software, for an attacker to gain a foothold into the organization. From there it becomes significantly easier to gain access to anything they want.
Maybe it's a little bit silly, but I do think a posthumous knighthood is in order. After all, he did crack the Enigma single-handedly (ok, with a lot of help), doing more for the Allied forces than probably any other individual. And Britain repays him by forcing him to take estrogen for a year because he had sex with some guy who robbed him? Clearly he deserves it more than anyone else.
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This should be interesting. Imagine the cross over possibilities - Mickey Mouse Clubhouse + X-Men for example: "It's the Mickey Mouse X-Men lair, come inside there's Mutants inside!" and "I think we need a Mousektool! Everyone say "OH XAVIER!!"".

I really hope they don't change the way the films have been going - Iron Man was a perfect example of what's possible. Then again, I hope they nuke the Spider Man franchise from orbit - it's the only way to be sure.
Finally someone can whoop mickey mouse's ass. He was always such a smug little passive aggressive type :-).
Yeah, until they start implementing their engineered scarcity on the new IP "Buy this now, before it goes into the Disney vault for 50 years!"
hmm.

this single-minded expectation makes sense if all of you sat down early in the project and agreed to share this perspective. let's suppose you also level-headedly discussed how to handle deviations from this expectation, but somewhere in the implementation things went awry and now you feel like your trust in humanity is gone.

it would also make sense if you have a broad definition of what it means to "work hard" and "be capable", and, again, your sense of trust has been substantially undermined.

otherwise, it sounds like you only respect people exactly like you. i don't think that makes for a strong team.
That is very sad. I remember growing up in USSR, they had very good doctors. They didn't have carpeted hospitals, TVs in every hospital room, or fancy technology but doctors were good.

I remember when I was 11 I broke my front teeth on a bycicle. We went to the dentist. He sat me in the chair and said "Well, cosmonaut, let's see what we can do", and he rebuilt my teeth in 2 days. All he got in return from my mom and I were flowers and a thank you. There was no insurance, no co-pays, none of that bullshit. And I still have the same teeth he rebuilt now 20 years later. I heard that doctor moved to live in Canada...
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Ask HN: Review my Startup - KaBadge.com - Achievements and Badges
My goal is to create a service that allows users to carry their good reputation from service to service. The idea is to collect the achievements you have earned from many sites and make them accessible via a single API. These badges or achievements could come from many types of sites and service. Some example might be Stackoverflow.com, Plurk.com and Kongregate.com which already award their users achievements. I’m hoping that sites will want to partner and award badges since they can get some visibility with links on the profile pages of users.

The system is based on the email addresses you used with the services you use. You can claim multiple addresses and manage them as a single profile. Another important feature is that the service does not require user registration to benefit from it. For example, StackOverflow.com might decide that you earned the 'Teacher' badge. They would make a call to our API and say "give youremail@example.com the Teacher badge". Even if we didn’t have that email is our system yet, we would record the action and the owner of that email can claim their badges later. Now when you sign up or use other sites they could place badge requirements upon registration or when trying to access special features. Perhaps all new users must have at least 3 StackoverFlow badges and 2 Twitter badges. Maybe a game forum requires that you have X WoW achievement to post comments. In a way, it becomes a sort of CreditScore for your contributions to other sites.

Also, since blog comment integration seemed like the perfect way to share your profile's URL, the system works similar to Gravatar. By MD5 hashing an email, you are able to link to someone's profile without exposing the email address associated with the page. So when you leave a comment on a blog, the blog engine can hash the email and link to your profile. Now we can all see how awesome you are on the internet.

As you can tell, this isn’t complete. I finished enough to get the idea across and get some feedback. I would appreciate your thoughts and suggestions. I wrote and designed this all myself and I could also use some suggestions on how to take things to the next step. Does it sound like an idea that really needs my full attention and possible VC funding since I depend on partnerships? Is this something you would use? Can other sites and services be bothered to publish this sort of data?

This is my example profile: http://www.kabadge.com/User/Profile/11d39fe94051978a44ce887a...
This is a follow up of this submission:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=772519
more than other gays

Are you saying that in terms of the public profile he had and the major contributions he made?

Because that's suggesting Turing deserved, and still deserves, special treatment for being a clever person (even though he actually faced less than some gay men at the time).

I don't know but I don't imagine even Turing himself would want to hold a position like that. Im sure many more brilliant men were persecuted for their homosexuality most of whom we will never have heard of and never got their chance to make their contribution! :)

Canonise the example, sure. But perhaps not the man: let him be known best for his contribution!
Another very useful way to manage features that aren't finished are mercurial queues.
They can sometimes offer more flexibility than branches.
Aren't both packrat and LL(* ) deterministic?

I thought the difference was that LL(* ) uses look-ahead to determine which branch of an alternation to choose, where packrat uses backtracking, and simply tries the branches of the alternation in order.
I personally think its unlikely that an apology to Turing will change many attitudes to homosexuality or encourage a (lasting) crack down on discrimination.
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I agree, the analysis can't be right. I was just saying that if he is right, then we should be scared.

However, the laziness explanation could be an important factor in the sense that if more of these people were motivated the current programs to stop them may not be sufficient.

Note: By these people I mean people would would attack cities and not any particular group in particular.
Trevor,

Disney actually stopped that practice when Michael Eisner joined. There is a great book called DisneyWar that gets into all the reasons why. Kind of an interesting "Intrapreneurial" story about looking at a set of assets in relation to new market conditions. A great read for anyone building a business.
Philosophy leads to human reasoning and therefore discussion and analysis of human reasoning.

Human reasoning is applied unilaterally, so it is useful to be able to recognize argument forms: valid and invalid, useful and useless.

Most discussions lead nowhere and have no point, but not all, it is the same for philosophy as anything else.
I wonder if this will be the death knell for the comics part of the business. As it stands the printed paper part of the business is relatively small compared to licensing, movies, etc. The switch to the mouse will be interesting to watch. A geek era may be coming to a close quickly.
The part of philosophy that deals with valid vs invalid arguments is useful.

But the part of philosophy that focuses on trying to understand the world is completely useless.
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Finally... vindication. This might call for a new social web app.
Superficially this makes sense, as they're both massive IP conglomerates who sell fantasies, but Disney and (American) comic books seem to be going in different directions as of late. The days when comic book consumers were primarily 8 to 13 are long gone, and even for the older tween through high school set Disney is trying to reach as of late, the franchises don't pack the resonance they once did.

What would fit Disney to a freaking T is a shoujo manga publishing house. They could slide that in to transition young ladies from their little princess empire into a lifetime of Disney fandom. (Sort of in the manner of Disney Japan, where Tokyo Disney is a respectable destination for twenty-something girlfriends to go to.)
This is a smart move for Disney, give them some of the most boy friendly IP to go along with their Princess and Fairy stuff. Disney has a lot of cool technology too so it will be interesting to see how they integrate it all.

Will also be a big poke in the eye for Universal Studios theme parks, they have a lot tied up with Marvel IP. Exciting times for the Marvel Zombie!
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This concept sounds similar to the point you make: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism
I didn't understand this bit.

On the way out of my professor’s office, a young man (handsome, introspective and yet obviously ambitious) steals my book report. It doesn’t really matter since I’ve already received my grade. But it was still a painful reminder of how tough you have to be in this world.

Can someone explain?
I think you are right Patio except Marvel has been moving away from the core comic audience for a while. My wife teaches 1st grade and the boys are wild for Wolverine. Disney will leverage this acquisition like crazy through cartoons, merch, etc.

Good idea about the Manga, I just don't know how much of that will be a fad. Do many 20 somethings in the US carry on reading it now? Its been 5 or so years since it exploded at book stores so you figure there would be some trend info?
A question: how often do you have problems not directly related to the use of the software?

I work in a similar situation (thousands of employees/higher ed) with little restrictions (some departments set their own restrictions on their users). Working in the IT department, I can tell you that while direct support of the applications is very small, around 75% of my daily work if from users being allowed to whatever they want. If it isn't a virus they got from what they "thought was a safe site" (and which was almost always non-work-related), it will be some application triggering the virus scanner (to every user who has installed 5+ search toolbars: STOP. They don't help any, and are giving away your internet history).

Another side effect from letting most of the users install whatever they want is a general slow down of their computers. Most users don't seem to understand that all the applications installed on their computer do, in fact, slow it down, and are shocked when their brand new computer, which they got because their old one was so slow, ends up slowing down after a few weeks of use. From what I have seen, the areas that are locked down as to what employees can install have around a 4-5 year new hardware schedule (purchasing new computers for the staff, usually replacing 20-25% per year), while the areas that allow the users to install their own software tend to have around a 2 year replacement schedule (and tend to support that schedule by only purchasing new computers for a small fraction of the users, and passing all the old machines down, which tends to make the people on the bottom of the pile very unhappy, and using 5-6 year old machines).
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We better go ride the coasters one more time before they rename The Incredible Hulk to The Incredible Hank.
Lists are all over the internet and some people developed a little bit of intolerance to that. I also have this thing every once in a while. But lists are there to stay, and I think the way the internet as a media is structured (as for its specific reading constraints) they will be there for a long time. Lists are making things "browseable" which, in this stay of age, with all that information overload, is a must. If I can pass over the first level of reading, which are the headlines, then I will continue to read. That's where lists are becoming extremely useful.

And by the way, oxygen is so present in the atmosphere that we might sometimes get bored about. But that doesn't mean we'll stop breathing just because it's so present.

My 2 cents...
This has very little to do with comic books. Marvel is now a movie studio that happens to publish comic books as a kind of R&D.
ok, interesting idea and nice site but where's the business case?
i.e., "show me the money!"
It's his past/future self stealing his book report.
He stole the bookreport from his future self; his bookreport was stolen by his past self.
Cmon, Disney own ESPN. Wolverine on Monday Night Football. (Either the US or UK version - it hardly matters).
I think you're right, but I really just wanted to focus on the zero-cost claim that I quoted from the article. Firefox is just one example of an upgrade, and the logic applies anywhere: it's a trade-off, where "never" assumes too much risk (which is an expense), and "hourly" is also a very risky upgrade schedule. The sweet spot is naturally somewhere in between.
Auto batteries make terrible UPS cells. They're designed to survive very shallow cycling at very high currents, whereas the cells in your UPS will be very deeply cycled at
very low currents.

I don't know about the marine batteries he's using. I expect they're still designed for high current output, which is a needless cost.

You will probably be better-served to find a local supplier that specializes in battery supply, not an auto parts warehouse or a costco. Big lead-acids can be pretty cheap, if you don't buy them from UPS vendors.

Secondly, don't use a consumer piece of trash as your "scrap" unit. Large, commercial-grade UPSes are cheap as dirt on eBay, because their batteries are invariably shot. Just persuade the seller not to mail you the batteries and shipping becomes reasonable.
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Yes, as has been pointed out, he is missing a pair of commas (or more correctly, a patch to ensure that v is evaluated once and only once --- right now it is evaluated 0 times, and adding 2 commas would make it eval twice. Using the definition of (square x) is the cleanest way to fix this).
> Here's a man who serves his country in an outstanding fashion and _then_ is violated and mutilated.

That is very true, but he wasn't violated / mutilated because of his serving the country (and the rest of the world incidentally).

It wasn't to make an example of him. The only reason we even have the spotlight of how inhumane homosexuals were treated in those days is probably because an exceptional thinker also was homosexual.

If not for that it is highly doubtful that there ever would be a way to petition about this with any chance of success.

That's a sad thing, but I suspect it to be the truth.
My only real concern with this is that Disney will decide that the more adult titles don't align with their core values.

Garth Ennis' run on the Punisher, for example, is extremely good, and extremely violent by necessity. I have a hard time imagining Disney allowing that to remain as it is.

After I passed my teen years, I'd pretty much written off Marvel for grown-up stories, favoring DC/Vertigo/Dark Horse, etc., as they seemed more willing to service the non-teen crowd. Marvel regained my business when they added their Max and Knights lines, which are pretty much all I'm buying of them lately.