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I liked that idea.

Now I am wondering how to boot Linux on a Mac... I found a wonderful tool named "Mac Linux USB Loader" to create a Linux bootable with USB, but that tool is OSX only (since my OSX don't boot at all... it does not help).

Oh, and the Mac don't have a CD reader.
digitalocean offer FreeBSD as OS
The blog entry at:

http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/42464.html

estimated (in 2009) the number of Fedora users at around 16 million. I think Ubuntu has more users than Fedora had then.
A DMCA takedown notice will take care of that.
Do you pronounce mu as mee? Nu as nee? I've always heard them as mew and new in the US.

And what is the difference between lamda and lambda for pronunciation? I'd say them the same.
What do you think of the on Demand Economy?
There are many Apps and services coming out everyday. Some of them are quite useful, like Uber, other OnDemand Companies are far out (eg: Gasoline On Demand).

Whats your take on where this market is going and would you prefer to use aggregators or connecting platforms like BizzBook?
When people quote high revenue multiples, usually they're in an area that they see high future growth. Patrick's writings on BCC make it seem like a business that is stable to declining. Of course, as you point out, the low multiple (3x annual profits) means theoretically recouping the investment in three years (not including interest and opportunity cost).

Patrick posted that BCC's 2014 sales declined 33% from 2013. If sales keep declining at that rate, $19k turns into $13k for 2015 which turns into $9k for 2016, $6k for 2017, and $4k for 2018. At that point, the business really isn't generating much and it would take well over a decade to recoup even without accounting for interest and opportunity cost.

But it might level off. It might go up if the new owner puts some love into it. However, I think the most likely scenario is that revenue and profits continue to fall. That's not to say $57k is a bad deal for the site, but I don't think it means easy-money. It seems like a sane deal.

I think a buyer doing due diligence would have to look at the site, calculate (or guess) at a declining revenue curve assuming ~$12-18k in profits for 2015 and maybe seeing the rate of decline flatten out in the future and see some profits to be had. I know, $19k/year with a $57k price-tag looks really appealing on paper and makes it seem like easy money ($19k/year forever!). By Patrick's own writings, BCC's visits, sales, and revenue are all declining by a third year-over-year. He hasn't invested in the product for a while. There will definitely be some auto-pilot money, but not $19k/year for three years. It can still be a good deal. It's just important to go into deals eyes-open.

$57k seems like a fair price for BCC. If the new owner does good marketing and customer acquisition, profits might level off quickly, but that also means really working on the project. There's a decent amount of risk in a project this small and so charging too much for it doesn't really account for that risk and the current downward trend. That said, it seems like a bit of work could go a long way and recoup the investment in the 5-10 year time-frame and make a reasonable amount of money. It can be a good business, but it isn't free money.

I think if the profits were stable year-over-year, Patrick wouldn't be selling it (or he'd be selling it for a lot more money). If it had brought in $19k/year since 2010 totally stable, I could see a six-figure price tag on the site (maybe $150k, maybe more). But according to Patrick, BCC "has been on a steady decline since [2012/early 2013]. This decline accelerated in 2014."

* None of this is meant to be negative about patio11. It's just meant to be realistic about the likely future profits of BCC based on the decline noted by patio11 in his 2014 Year in Review: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/12/22/kalzumeus-software-year-....
Are the titles being sold by their holders on different platforms? Most likely.

The Wii had library of GBA games that were available for purchase.

ROM sites are taken down all the time.
That makes me curious, what part of GTA V would you consider emergent gameplay?
If the Mac Pro was the first object ever made with red anodized aluminum, I'd agree that it was probably a non-trivial process. That's clearly not the case here.
I thought we were talking about source code by an entity funded by tax payers. Is that the same as a person's private bank records?

Your argument doesn't make sense for source code created by a tax funded entity. It makes sense for private information, or a publicly funded physical object, but this not either of those. I have a hard time believing you don't realize this, why even argue the point? Do you really think someone shouldn't have access to source code payed for by their own taxes?
Why put yourself in that position publicly? Modify the code base and exclude the copyrighted content.
iPad usage seems to have dropped significantly, though. I almost never see anyone using it anymore. They're gathering dust in cupboards.
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> Being a bit disingenuous, no ?

Not at all. If you pay attention to how people actually use the language, the word has both meanings, so either is correct. Such is the fluid nature of language. If you can't appreciate that, then I think you're very nice (in the original sense of the word).
Sure it would. It works for the iPod mini and smart watches.
Ask HN: Better to have optional signups or force signups/logins?
I'm conceptualising a service/app that would have both web and mobile versions, and I'm considering more of an optional login. Think like how you can use Wikipedia without signing in, but when you do you have more functionality.

Is this generally a bad idea, or can it help with acquisition more?
Looks like that in Firefox on Linux too.
And the courts would be quickly overwhelmed.
This seems to be how Uber's pulling it off: the costs of a worldwide Uber-dominated oligopoly are far away and intangible while the costs of the current atomized regulated oligoplies are present and clear.

When Google was picking up steam back in the early 2000's it seemed wonderful because there were so many immediate benefits. Now, 10-15 years later it's clear how much power we gave them and what opportunities we lost in doing so. Instead of "free" stuff we could have worked towards a model of privacy and reasonable subscription fees where user-tracking and advertising weren't the default business model of the internet. But we didn't look ahead, we just said "Give us that shiny new thing!"

I hope I'm wrong but Uber looks the same to me, it's that nagging feeling of somebody's gonna have to pay the piper.
Or they could just make it into a gif...
Ugh, flashbacks to hundreds of hours gathering herbs and ores with that add-on during my WoW addiction.
I keep coming back to Annihilator for Jeff Waters' delivery of the real deal: face-melting riffology, built on great tome, and rooted in an understanding of music, with a strong connection to the blues.

From time to time I go through the whole Annihilator studio discography, album by album, starting with Alice in Hell: one giant playlist in my phone for cleaning out the skull.
Hi all, Nom's author here.

I wrote this paper in January 2015, so some things changed in the meantime:

- the benchmarks have been optimized a bit, and someone contributed a cereal parser that beats nom ( https://github.com/Geal/nom_benchmarks ). It's alright, I just wanted to estimate where it stands

- there is better error management: https://github.com/Geal/nom/wiki/Error-management

- the error management types give powerful debugging features: http://dev.unhandledexpression.com/slides/langsec-2015/img/c... (test code: https://github.com/Geal/nom_colored_hexdump )

- It is now easy to embed in C ( https://github.com/Geal/nom_in_c ). I plan to make API compatible versions of some C libs

- there are more example parsers now: https://github.com/Geal/nom/issues/14 feel free to pick one up!

Here are the slides for the conference at the IEEE Langsec workshop: http://dev.unhandledexpression.com/slides/langsec-2015/

Langsec is one of the most interesting approaches to follow in security, and the ideas presented this year were amazing (I'm especially fond of the heap exploitation algebra). I highly recommend watching the videos once they will be available.

Writing parsers with nom is easy and fun, please give it a try ;) https://github.com/Geal/nom
It is worth remembering that Mozilla is a relatively small organization, all things considered.

> starting an entirely new OS.

Gonk, the core of FxOS, is based on Android. It is 'only' Gaia (the UI) that was written anew in HTML, along with performance work on the Gecko rendering engine.

Keeping the UI all in HTML5 (and rendered entirely by Gecko) meant they had to develop APIs and improve OpenWebApps as a spec to fill on the common use cases.

> Shipping a Mozilla Android with their own app store and Firefox

... would require Mozilla supporting a lot more Java code and use cases that don't further the Firefox mission. What does Mozilla gain from running a third-party Android app store, and the support costs that entails?

FxOS, success or failure, pushes the Firefox product as a whole further and faster than a Mozilla-branded Android fork ever would have.
Saying we don't need to read Russian literature because Elon Musk has answered all the questions it asks seems like it could be a parody of HN comments.
For sure, but there's a lot more to a film than the plot although if a copy of a plot was too exact one would likely run into problems, depending on how a jury felt about it. I wouldn't feel safe (or justified) taking the script of an existing movie and just rewriting all the dialog, for example.

I came across a good, if somewhat dry, article summarizing the current state of play as regards this: http://www.law360.com/articles/591491/plot-thickens-for-scre...
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Well, hedge-funds don't play arbitrage games anyways. This is for scalpers and mostly day-traders. Banks don't even really play arbitrage - not as a means to profit at least.

Only benefit to being a hedge-fund is you have lots of money to play with, which you'll need because the profits in arbitrage are very thin. You need likely 20K+, good spreads, fast execution, and an automated strategy to consider it worth your time.
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Can someone explain to me how Uber took off? Why did a company like it exist 5 years ago?
I thought Patio11 was an A/B optimization, strategy god...

Why did he abandon BCC?

Reminds me of Tim Ferris and Rich Dad Poor Dad.... those guys make their money selling their brand, seminars, ebooks, etc. and not via the methods/techniques they preach.
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AFAICT if you use this for business it's now very expensive / separate from Google Maps for Work
It hasn't dropped significantly within the tablet market:
https://chitika.com/insights/2015/q1-tablet-update

If you are talking about the entire table market dropping in usage then it isn't significant (6% y/y):
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS25593415
From 0 to $3M in a Month: How Tinder Conquered the Top Grossing App Charts
Wrote this up out of frustration tonight. Would love to hear from other PMs on here about what they've done to effectively scale product at their orgs.
According to Tim Cook on a recent earnings call, usage of iPads and customer satisfaction has remained the same. It's pretty much just replacement cycles that will determine iPad sales going forward.
Can we stop wasting time and resources here. Scala is written in Java and we write a JVM in Scala... Duuuhhhhh.
Booting Linux on your Mac won't help. Safecopy doesn't repair the data on your drive, it just copies data from one drive to another drive -- but it does so very carefully, going back and re-reading bad sectors and narrowing down the amount of unreadable data.

You'd need a second computer with extra drive space greater than or equal to the entire size of the hard drive in your Mac.

I think you've gotta find some local help with this. It's tough to do much about it from here with less than a day before your work is due.
Optional signup with the big three (Facebook, Google+, and create-your-own-email).

As for the limited feature set before choosing one of those three, I used to think that was necessary, but I've noticed more and more people don't care as long as they can choose one of the big three. Especially on mobile where typing passwords, etc, is difficult. It is much easier just to click the Facebook or Google buttons.
Wasn't that what some x86 emulators did before hardware virtualization? (maybe not to that extent).
Sure, other things can be considered trade barriers. Different currencies, or even different languages as well. The problem is that most people would prefer to have those differences even if it means less trade, which is why the only way they will get this steaming pile of shit ratified is by trickery and secrecy. Nothing is quite like bringing freedom to people by force...
What opportunities have we lost to Google?

And how can you implement subscription without tracking? A subscription-based search engine, or a video hosting website, would need to connect your searches and watching habits with a credit card.
We don't at present, yeah. That's a challenge. But it makes sense to have a goal to create a self-sustaining colony of humans (and plants/microbes/etc) on a different planet. Imagine that it did exist. It would be valuable to have, right?

Having such a goal and working towards it and developing the technology along the way looks like a coherent and valuable activity to me. It's not that I'm denying that it can't be done on Wednesday or in the next 5 years.

But yeah, it looks challenging.
Does iOS really carry a price premium? My experience, similar to the old Mac/PC debates, is the difference is actually minimal at most when you compare with actually equivalent hardware.
Oh, nice. I've been seeing some spam/ssh abuse from their networks recently though, but otherwise I've used them before and they seemed OK.
I've only run a couple of linux laptops before, but they've not had issues with sleep. 15.04 has problems other than sleep, though, enough to make me switch back to debian. I see ubuntu as 'debian-with-convenience', so if the convenience evaporates... :)
Opportunity cost. He has other projects that offer greater opportunity and which he is more passionate about. He's written about this repeatedly.
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I think this is mostly due to the replacement cycle. Most people who want the iPad, bought one. But -- you don't replace an iPad every year or two like you do an iPhone.

Even if you have the iPad 2 for instance, it's a very capable device, there's no reason to go out right now and buy the latest iPad unless you specifically want extra features like Touch ID.
I think patio11 meant to respond to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9572750
You make a good point. One possible objection: does that actually allow them to do what they are trying to do? Is Android flexible enough for them to bend it to their will?
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Are you suggesting it costs your team less to deploy on premise than in the cloud? How could your company ever run a server more effectively and cheaper than a could provider?
How to Find the IMEI Number on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3
Rust also has the AsRef<T> trait, which converts to a reference, hopefully without copying. Functions which do not need to take ownership of the object should take an AsRef<T> instead of an Into<T>.
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That exact scenario happened with the film "gravity".

http://www.tessgerritsen.com/gravity-lawsuit-affects-every-w...
Crypto is a only a small part of a project like this. Crypto isn't where a messaging client is going to break. Most likely it will be in parsing data the network. There is no reason to use C for the entire application because NaCl is in C, even if everyone on the project is Daniel J. Bernstein.
Top Uber riders by rides, miles, hours
Nice thinking but I'm not sure it's a great idea. The reason, which I warned tommy, was that there's plenty of code in there for significant situations that are uncommon or even rare. You'd have to pick out about every way you'd configure, run, maintain, and so on a binary program to exercise all its relevant functionality. You'd also have to hit it with various errors to be sure they're within the same libraries. Otherwise, you're risking leaving out something critical and it will be hard to figure out by the time trimming is done.

For this reason, I thought about using Windows Embedded as it has configuration tools to strip out most unnecessary things while being compatible with whatever you want. That plus stripping guides. Alternatively, stick with tommy's stripping-style method. Either way, you eventually have a set of files you turn into an image with proprietary or open tools along with configuration scripts to make it unique. That has many advantages in addition to size in terms of administration, backup, and even security.
Hedge funds make insane amounts of money using arbitrage strategies.
Completely the opposite from what I see. They're everywhere I look, at work, at home, on the train, at restaurants. Kids especially can't get enough of them.

Sales have dropped off, but even the browser market share for iPad remains high among tablets.
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I like Vultr
I've lived in China for almost 8 years now. If you strive for understanding, you'll find your impressions have a bit more propaganda than reality. For example, in most of Asia (Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, India), it is not that hard to find a taxi driver that speaks some English. But forget about that in China (unless you happen to maybe be in Shanghai).

China is making strides, ya, but it is still quite behind the west. Take the educational system for example: it is great if you are middle class with money, but it doesn't work well for most of the students who go through it (whose parents lack those resources or even city hukou to attend a decent school). And there is nothing magical about it, many of the upper class send their kids abroad for education (and the parents often follow eventually).

Anyways, we said the same thing about Japan in the 70s/80s, and they really didn't blow past us. If you want to see where China could go tomorrow, look at Korea or Taiwan today, and that would be an ideal outcome.
>Design has always taken more prominence at apple over usability

I strongly disagree with you there. In fact, I'd say the exact opposite.

The experience of using the product has always been at the very core of Apple's design philosophy. The entire desktop metaphor, include the Trash, the files in folders, etc. is about simplifying the user experience with the computer.

The fact that anyone can just pick up an iPhone and pretty much immediately know what they should be doing, without reading a manual, tells you exactly that usability has been so thought out that it has become invisible. You just do what you want to do, without having to think about how to do it. So, it's the embodiment of the Steve Krug "Don't make me think" mindset: usability is design.
How hard would it be to send you a laptop with you being located in Brazil?
What's odd is that for me, even if I am in a `src` directory, cargo will keep going up the path until it finds a Cargo.toml. Maybe in this case, there is an extra Cargo.toml inside the `src` directory itself?
Copypasta from the first time this was posted (with the wrong URL):

Pretty thrilled about this book.

There are rather few recent Haskell texts with beginners in mind, and Chris of the https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell fame is probably one of the most qualified people out there to teach the subject. At Front Row we actually use learnhaskell pretty heavily with our new developers. For us it's the central hub for devs to start learning the language.

Anything that helps people get started and advance through the skillset is a huge boon to the community.
It's an overly simple method but a good start. Will work if the dependencies are static and load at runtime. I don't know enough about the tool to say if it works for more dynamic applications.
> Why did he abandon BCC?

To spend more time on Starfighter I'm guessing: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/03/09/announcing-starfighter/

> Reminds me of Tim Ferris and Rich Dad Poor Dad.... those guys make their money selling their brand, seminars, ebooks, etc. and not via the methods/techniques they preach.

What does that have to do with selling BCC?
Passive recurring revenue sounds like a pretty good deal. Especially when you can plow idle hours (weekends, evenings, etc.) to "optimize" it.

I'm not sure the opportunity costs are that high... especially when you're 1. Only spending a handful of hours on it (his claim) and 2. Your whole schtick for your consulting services is how you deserve $$$$ because using your A/B optimization whatever skills you can improve conversion/traction by xxxx%!

He spent 9 years on BCC that resulted in ~30K (edited, misread as 60K) in ARR.

I think his ideas and insights are valid. I just find it odd the contrast between his curated HN celebrity image as an uber-hacker with his actual results.

Doesn't seem like his skills resulted in much success with BCC but it sure helps his consulting career...

Sorry I'm the awkward guy at the party that makes people feel uncomfortable :)
Right now LibGDX's HTML5 exporting is a joke. It might be good if they warned people about that before they spent the time to learn everything it takes just to get stuff to work... only to figure out it's a mess.
In the UK: http://i.imgur.com/mV895PR.png
Another perspective would be that by having Ive hype the design for the red Mac Pro, it's value was increased and so too was its contribution to the charity in question. Love him or loathe him, Ive is the preeminent celebrity industrial designer.
It depends on what you build. Generally you should require signin for things that need signin - requiring them for things that don't will drive users away. You can still uniquely identify users if you need to, and then convert them to an actual account if/when they signup.
It goes the other way also. I guess it depends on what side of the propaganda stream you are on.
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My idea is boot the mac, copy the code, and then edit it using the cloud mac thing suggested in another reply here in the thread...

I am not sure if it will work, but so far is the best idea.