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> Without being told to use a VM, installing Linux, buying a Mac, and without settling for the 2.0.0-p481 release of RubyInstaller; is there any way for a user to install this version of Ruby on Windows?

Yes, you can build from source.

OTOH, unless you want to develop windows-specific Ruby software (or work specifically on improving Ruby-on-windows), you are probably better off using a VM -- vagrant is your friend.
Bye bye Nokia
Unless there are clawbacks like in the Madoff case.
Thanks Chris for the feedback. We will have the mobile site re-done ASAP. I am hoping to get more feedback from the community regards the changes on our website and also the product so we can impress all of you once we go public.
TSA didn't “sanitize sensitive security information” on discarded body scanner [pdf]
I guess you mean PKCS#11, but that isn't a protocol. It's a C API. Trying to funnel it over a network would be both extremely complex, and non-standard.
Yes, third-party devs have flexibility in defining how apps can cross-communicate. But in Apple's case, they're doing it for us. Kind of like how Google tried to nail accounts and sync for Android. I write for both platforms FYI, so while I may not get the details 100%, and leave things out, I'm pretty happy with both platforms overall, just for different reasons for each.
> To really really beat them, we will need to inject some cash and start the PR channels, conference attending and spend a lot of time in marketing. I hate doing that. I am happy to develop the product. Very happy to meet customers and present the product, and strongly convinced the world deserve to know about our product.

Why would you compete directly against their strengths? It doesn't sound like you can outspend them. Play by different rules. Focus on being more creative, more targeted in your customer acquisition, more focused in your messaging, more good.

I'd also consider ways you can outsource components of your codebase instead of the full thing.
I think you are confusing capitalism with free and competitive markets. Capitalists probably prefer central planning and regulation as long as it benefits them.
Everyone here is claiming that the AirBnB is and was a hotel by definition of tax law... and this has always has been a fact. This is false. It has been very much up in the air. AirBnB operates globally in thousands of cities where they have no clear tax obligation. It still is in most places except SF. SF only made an official statement in 2012.

Even in SF - at this moment - it still hasn't been revealed whether or not they have any obligation to pay backtaxes.... as would be the case if they did indeed blatantly break the law.

Even the state hasn't fully confirmed the position on their past activity, yet you and the downvoting-because-I-disagree brigade knows better?

I miss the old HN :(

btw, your Forbes article only confirms my point that the lawmakers only cared about them after they got wealthy. They are slow moving and reactionary, period.
xara is a good cautionary tale along those lines - they open sourced what from all accounts was a very nice vector graphics editor, but it languished for want of active community management from the company.
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When I first saw Uber it seemed obvious to me that drivers would be squeezed. In the regulated hodge-podge of companies that Uber and Lyft are replacing, drivers didn't make very much. Uber and Lyft drivers got a "raise" when they signed up, but that came from Uber and Lyft's cash-on-hand and their rally to sign up drivers.

The fact is that there is no scarcity of people who can drive, so prices will be driven down to the point where a consumer can make a choice between a college student who is part-timing with a ten year old car and a full time driver with a brand new Prius. You might pay a small premium for the latter, but the former will be dirt cheap and they'll be paid next to nothing.

AirBnb is a sharing company that won't have this squeeze because the supply of properties is more bounded than the supply of drivers.
Sure, there are probably a handful of custom rules that some customers get, but like I said... most of your customers are paying for something that drops NTP/DNS and forwards HTTP/HTTPS.

The standard WAF that all customers get scores pretty badly in independent tests: http://www.slideshare.net/zeroscience/cloudflare-vs-incapsul...
I don't get it. What's the point in keeping the key secret from cloudflare whilst providing a key server signing everything it is asked to sign? Isn't this like "Sorry I don't trust you enough to provide you a key to my apartment. But if you need something, just ask the janitor, he'll open the door any time you want"?
Yep. And similar to seeing tabs in the switcher in L Preview, I expect we'll see a richer "switcher" that's more activity or history aware in some future release...
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Very nice! Looks like the author just started at HMC, from his about page. (http://www.hexahedria.com/about/)

Impressive kid.
Darpa Is Developing Tiny Implants That Trigger Self-Healing
The rainforest is substantial, but it only produces about 20-30% of the oxygen that we breathe, the ocean and all of the life within it form a machine that processes most of our CO2 and CO into the O2 which we breathe.

A frightening amount of the ocean is completely dead, even before deepwater horizon the gulf of mexico was home to one of the largest dead zones in the world - entire collapsed ecosystems.

For ages we have treated the ocean as our geological /dev/null, tossing all manner of stuff into it that we didn't have a better idea for how to deal with, and that is coming home to roost.

It's pointless to protect the rest of the wildlife without protecting the oceans. Check out Sylvia Earle's Mission Blue:

http://mission-blue.org/hope-spots-new/
The Answer for Startups Is Often “Brute Force”
That one has legs. Nice idea.

John Cleese teaching Unix/Linux Administration (funny walks).

Alexi Sayle teaching database reduction to normal form (those Mersey vowels).

One of the centres I teach in runs a book club to encourage literacy and reading. Seems popular. Mix of participants. It is a traditional book club where they all read the same text.
GA showed you which keywords were driving traffic, correct. But they didn't ever tell you the position your content was ranking at.

So what if you have an article on your site that is ranking bottom of first page (~#10) for a keyword you didn't expect and with a little bit of on-page optimization and some on-site interlinking, you could boost that page to the top spot? That could cause a pretty big traffic boost with very little work.

All you would need to know is what keywords your page is getting traffic for and then you can scrape Google to find out the positions for each of those keywords and then you could use something like Moz's Keyword Difficulty tool (or mine, serpIQ) to find out which keywords would be easiest to rank higher for.

Before (not provided) this was a very good strategy to use. You basically identify promising keywords and make your existing content rank better for them. Now that (not provided) ruined the whole organic keyword data, you have to use something like SEMRush to find out which keywords your pages are ranking for, and they just simply will never have fully comprehensive (or up to date) data.
Is 80 percent of the "tech media" braindead? Do they not realize that virtually all Bluetooth keyboards "work with iOS, Android and Windows devices"? Yet they've been pushing this story as if Microsoft is shipping some kind of breakthrough innovation.
Google Closure's documentation is terrific though.
Don't worry, they're video game characters. I'm sure they're fine! /s More seriously, this is an art style and not a body image problem. Disliking an art style is completely valid, but attributing medical conditions is a non-sequitur.
I would rephrase that further to say: are diverse interests between the genders a problem?

I have never heard anyone complain that we have too few male teachers, nurses, or airline attendants.
OT: He writes as if the 20th century never happened. We have no idea how he acts. The distinction is important for civil debate. Among other things: we may be miscontruing, or he may be expressing his idea imprecisely.
They don't, as the app is the magic sauce. It's where all the bookings will be, if things turn out the way Uber and Lyft valutations are based on.
I'm generally a fan of explicitness, but it's just such a ubiquitous pattern that I think the convenience would make it worth it.
This is an incredibly brave, and hopefully cathartic post by someone I greatly admire. I really hope he is able to find the support and peace he needs.

As a bit of an aside, I wonder how much of this has led to similar troubles for other founders:

When the Foundry investment closed, we redoubled our efforts to build Moz Analytics. We hired more aggressively (and briefly had a $12,000 referral bonus for engineers that ended up bringing in mostly wrong kinds of candidates along with creating some internal culture issues), and spent months planning the fine details of the product.

I've heard from friends & colleagues about the massive amount of pressure they've felt after closing an investment round. While fundraising is already an incredibly trying process, the next stage is sometimes even more difficult.

In contrast, other friends & colleagues who've opted for the bootstrapped route (either by choice or circumstance) haven't seemed to face a similar massive amount of pressure. Yes, they faced incredible stress too, but not to the level of those that have raised capital.

This is merely an anecdotal observation made in my peer group. I don't mean to imply that this is some kind of phenomenon. And clinical depression is something that can cut through any kind of circumstance.

I just can't help but notice the stark difference in stress level of founders who are growing organically & carefully vs founders who are in a mad recruiting rush and sometimes hire the wrong kind of people. I wonder how much of a relationship there is between having the right kind of people in your company vs the wrong kind of people, and the stress level of a founder. I would imagine a lot.
Against 'Sharing Economy'.

Maybe I'm splitting hairs, but does it bother anyone else that the 'Sharing Economy' is not sharing at all? Renting your assets out for use when you're not using them is entirely different than giving them to someone else to use and expecting nothing in return.
> Open source plus pay us to have a supported, hosted, managed installation doesn't seem impractical.

That's the wordpress.org + wordpress.com model. Seems practical enough. Successful even.
It's perfectly legal to fly drones for commercial use in many countries around the world - the US is still very grey as to what is and isn't allowed.

Greg McNeal (http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/) has many fantastic articles about the issues.
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Hubspot has a very different client base and sales system than Moz does. Hubspot sells their services and tools directly to small business owners and it is not cheap at all. Moz sells to SEOs, of which there aren't a lot of and the pool is drying up slowly every day.
Illinois judge rules police entitled to SWAT raid over parody Twitter account
Agreed. And many people have to vote tactically for the lesser of two evils, completely obscuring the true scale of the problem (which is nonetheless still very evident).
It doesn't track Russian ones? Or just doesn't show them, just Ukraine and rebel ones?
Determining the "right times" is the exact problem.
You can always adopt. That's a double-win: improve lives without growing the population of Earth.
I think there were also some technical reasons for the character design, or at least the costume design. When the team was interviewed on Debug they said they had to make a choice to keep the polygon count low: Non skintight costumes? or more realistic hair? They went with hair :)
If you no longer trust the person, it's easier to tell the janitor not to admit him than to rely on his returning the key (and any copies) or to change the lock on the apartment.
Is this /r/Bitcoin or HN? The audience (and IQ) here is quite different.
Even better than I put it, I agree overt sexism is a problem in some companies but I doubt it is really a huge issue in CS courses in academia and that is sort of where this problem begins.
Anyone whose account got banned and is a real person is welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com about it.
It's silly how much goes into correctness in games nowadays. You'd have to make an Asteroids clone just not to offend anybody (except sentient asteroids...).

Just make your game fun, challenging or whatever your goal is and have fun making it. And of course you can put in interesting looking characters, it's called art :)

Also, to the politics topic: Oh I hate that so much, it only takes one person to mess up whole teams and the worst thing is if it's one of your superiors. It's horrible when you can't do anything but change your job (been there, done that).

edit: to the downvoters, please read the whole thing and my response down there, if you still disagree, no hard feelings :)

edit 2: From the article, one of the points I was referring to

"“Why are they all white?” sneered a liberal friend of mine before launching into a 20-minute screed about how offended he was by the naked shower scene in Heavy Rain."
If you suddenly went from a 30% to 40% tax rate, couldn't you imagine working more to make up the difference? There is a lot of social pressure to maintain lifestyle. American wages have stagnated since the 70s and people are working longer hours than ever.
If only the oceans were privatized, then Greanpeace could buy up as big of a chunk as they could afford.
Interesting article. The first comment (by "dg") is interesting, too:

> Yup. American visitors to Europe + UK often marvel at the efficient passenger railway system and wonder why the US can’t build something similar, without understanding the history of how they were built. In the 1800s early investors/inventors went through a railway mania, grossly overbuilt, and went bankrupt. The good lines were later scooped up for a fraction of their original cost by a 2nd round of investors, and morphed into today’s system. It was never economically feasible to build a passenger railway system without first wiping out the “too early” investors.

So while being too early pretty much guarantees failure, it seems we might need those early people. Perhaps the recipe for an truly innovative society necessarily includes over-encouragement of bleeding-edge innovator types. These will almost certainly fail; however, in failing, they allow later businesses to succeed.

Readers are invited to consider what role Y Combinator might play in this process. :-)
Owning your own time, money, resources, and equipment is very capitalist. There's nothing about capitalism that requires centralized control of anything. It's just classical liberal philosophy applied to economics... individual rights should include property rights.
"I'm not there anymore"

I'm hardly [epithet] surprised!

Why did they buy books if they did not want them to be read and turned into action!
The instructions tell me to type "visual" and that seems to work.
Moebius/Panzer Dragoon Parallels
I probably feel the same way about this mode as my mom feels in a terminal window.
What data suggests that? The data I've seen (and I'll admit I have no relevant expertise and therefore little more than intuition on what sources to trust) seems to suggest that climate change will likely impose costs on humanity in the tens of billions, but that those costs are probably quite low in the grand scheme of things. I certainly haven't seen any data to suggest a credible threat of significant human population decline, much less human extinction.
Brilliant -
Once I have lived to 75, my approach to my health care will completely change. I won’t actively end my life. But I won’t try to prolong it, either.
I just want to know who owns the cars. To me, it is beyond belief that each of the Uber and Lyft drivers I've had ponied up and bought a fresh new car to participate in "sharing."

There's more polish on an Uber vehicle than any car or cab in my neighborhood. It seems odd to use the word "sharing" for something that seems like ultra professional service - even on the low UberX end.

Is Uber offering financing?
>> To really really beat them, we will need to inject some cash and start the PR channels, conference attending and spend a lot of time in marketing.

So far so good, standard business stuff.

>> I hate doing that.

Here lies the problem IMHO. To make your business a success, you need to do stuff you don't necessarily like, enjoy or are familiar with.

You think of "open sourcing" as a lazy marketing channel that will keep you in your comfort zone. It doesn't work like that.

You could either find a co-founder or hire someone to handle that stuff. Or, you could suck it up and do it yourself.
One huge problem with Xara's "open source" move was they kept a critical element closed source:

"Xara and the volunteer developer community disagreed from almost the very beginning about a crucial issue: the company's decision to keep the application's core rendering library CDraw closed source. The developers said time and time again that a half-open, half-closed application was a dealbreaker."[1]

[1] http://archive09.linux.com/feature/119790

If you do any such thing you can't expect open source to work for you.
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A hardware RAID controller could limit ZFS' ability to provide integrity, but not enough that I would say another filesystem does a better job there. All filesystems are compromised by the failures that traditional RAID can introduce.

That said, I would never recommend a hardware RAID controller for use on any system. They add additional cost and additional failure modes, but give little in terms of benefits.
I found out around the age of 26 as well. From my understanding, the distinguishing characteristic of Asperger's is that its the only form of autism that isn't accompanied by mental retardation. The lack of social skills is a very common occurrence, but I'm not sure its universal.

Personally, I have terrible social skills, but I'm not sure all of us do.
Rethinking Nero
Well, I was just comparing Java - a complied, strictly typed languages to another in the same domain - Go. Scripting and interpreted languages like python, ruby are a different thing altogether. I agree with you that ruby/rails or python/django get it done a lot faster. On the JVM, we get close but not quite - with Grails and Play. Spring Boot seems to be getting up there as well in terms of productivity. They still have some way to go.
Believe it or not, Scala can be quite powerful since it supports mixin-like traits. I'm not sure about "avoiding" taxonomy though, I find variants useful, but I also like to play with layers (think modularized features of variants).

Type classes aren't reall OO, I mean, they allow for some non-nominal subtyping that meshes with purity. I would argue that OO is really about the names, and OO thinking is really just a way of naming everything in your problem, while type classes mostly keep with the name-free equations reasoning.
No, I was thinking of PKCS#7 which you can run over IP if you want. But it's a complicated set of standards and I'm not sure how they inter-relate. That's why I summarized them as PKCS-style protocols.

This is not some theoretical thing. You can buy these devices off the shelf. If you have worked with PKI you have seen them, or some variant thereof.
OCaml's OO is IMHO not very interesting, beside the concept of "functional objects", which really ought to exist without the rest of the Java-style OO baggage. (Briefly: methods can easily return a copy of an object with some fields modified; and anonymous, structurally typed objects may be constructed.) Otherwise it is standard Java/C++ fare (albeit more streamlined and with better typing).

On the other hand, OCaml is worth learning for the module+type system alone. Every other language could benefit from its ideas; the only language I've seen that's comparable is Coq (which bases its module system on OCaml's). (And the module and type system really work in tandem: there are advanced mechanisms for type structure hiding that aid forward compatibility.)
Completely agree. Open sourcing isn't going to help a business when the business owner doesn't want to do business stuff.
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Oh, that's nice, thanks - I haven't used C# since 2008. What you said just reinforces my point: the OP boasts over a feature that is very, very common.
LiveJournal and Reddit both started as closed-source and went open, and it didn't kill the company. Both were already succeeding, though, so it's hard to tell whether open-sourcing their code actually helped them.

Netscape open-sourced their code as Mozilla when they started failing. Again, it's hard to tell causality, though - did they fail because they were so distracted by open-source that they couldn't react to IE? Or did they fail because the Netscape 4.7 codebase was so bad and their resources so constrained that they couldn't react to IE? And does Firefox, born out of the open-source effort, count as a "success" because it grew out of Mozilla and finally broke Microsoft's monopoly, or a failure because it was eventually eclipsed by Chrome?
Apple is trying to tell you that the web browser is a second class citizen compared to native.

Websites don't need to go through the App Store. No money in that for Apple. Hence, low priority.
Yes.

I think that this type of employer-employee relationship described is just being rebranded as "sharing economy" and "disruptor."
Because there isn't enough 20nm Fab for the MDM9635.
My worst experience I've had with Apple (and verizon)
To clarify, neither Uber nor Lyft would allow someone to drive a 10 year old car... And I would think a lot of people using those services wouldn't get into a 10 year old car.

So even if there was a service that allowed old cars, there would probably be some segmentation.
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Actually, I'm learning APL with a homemade Anki deck (APL is slightly easier for me to read than J, since it uses symbols)
Its not fair comparing Amazon's revenue vs Alibaba. Alibaba doesn't sell products they take ad fees. Which means the product price itself isn't part of the revenue. It is more fair comparison with Ebay's revenue numbers.
Am I the only one who finds calling curses apps "command-line" to be a stretch? Nobody would have called turbo-pascal a "command-line" program, for example.
Elsewhere in the comments someone claims to have found his Facebook profile, and perhaps they did. But as a counterpoint, my hometown of Glendale (Northeast LA-adjacent) has the largest population of Armenians anywhere in the Western Hemisphere. Lots of Armenians == Lots of guys named Armon/Armen/Arman. We can safely assume at least two of them drive for Uber.
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I just want to second "Feeling Good". I only read the first 30-50 pages, and that was enough to instantly and permanently decrease my depressive thoughts by about 85%. Your results, of course, may vary.
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