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For me personally, the security aspect isn't even the reason I dislike curl | bash installers. There's no standard behaviour for curl|sh, and it re-introduces many problems that were solved by package managers decades ago.

Each time I'm about to run `curl https://install.newhotness.io|sudo sh` I'm left with the following questions:

* Will it work? I'm on Arch Linux. This installer was probably tested on OSX and Ubuntu and deemed "portable". I've seen curl|sudo sh installers trying to apt-get installing dependencies.

* Where does it place files? I've got a ~/.meteor folder that's 784MB. Why would you install software libraries and binaries to $HOME? I now have to tell my backup tool to ignore it when backing up my home partition, great. The FHS was established for a reason, people.

* Correlary to the previous question: How do I uninstall it? Maybe all files were installed to a hidden folder in ~/, maybe there's some stuff in /opt, or /usr/local, or who knows where else. If the installer doesn't implement uninstall functionality itself, I now have to go hunt for the stuff it placed in my filesystem.

I understand the need to be able to distribute your software without having to implement native packaging for OSX/Debian/Ubuntu/Red Hat/Fedora/Arch/...

Docker solved this problem. If you're feeling lazy when it comes to distributing your app, just ship a Docker container and be done with it.

This brings many of the parts that make up Ubuntu to Windows, but the Linux kernel isn't one of them.

That being said, I'm typing this comment my workstation running Linux and I for one am getting very tired of this year of the Linux desktop joke.

What OS you run is an individual choice, stop trying to declare a single winner.

This looks really cool. I went ahead and added it to the Arch User Repositories[0].

[0]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pipecat-bin/

Paul Sebastian Ziegler gave a talk at the HITB security conference in 2012 titled "Hacking in the Far East".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouQFu1FDllw

To me it was an eye opener to learn about the different attitudes of tech professionals in countries such as South Korea and particularly Japan.

I highly recommend watching it some time.

The Optimus keyboards [1] by Art. Lebedev Studio have been around for a while but they've always been prohibitively expensive. While this keyboard doesn't have color in the displays, it's actually affordable.

Another similar product is the Razer DeathStalker Ultimate [2] keyboard, but only 10 if its buttons have programmable displays.

I wonder why Razer (or anyone else) haven't made a standalone keyboard that followed the approach they took with their Switchblade [3] concept. They put transparent keys over a large lcd panel. It's much cheaper than putting a tiny lcd display inside each key.

[1] http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/

[2] http://www.razerzone.com/ap-en/gaming-keyboards-keypads/raze...

[3] http://www.razerzone.com/switchblade

The minions pictured on the very same page are clearly a darker shade of yellow. When I grap the pantone color with a color picker I get #f8e763, while a minion gives me #fad24e.

Is this similar to Meteor.js' minimongo[1]?

[1] https://www.meteor.com/mini-databases

Wow, I had never heard of this but it's really cool. It comes with a couple of commands that are really impressive.

tycat can put an image inline in your terminal. tyls gives you an inline folder view with thumbnails that you can click and preview.

Feels like a thoroughly modern terminal emulator.

If every media outlet shows the uncensored image there isn't a single target for violent reprisals.

Collectively shouting "I'm Spartacus" protects the collective and sends a strong message.

I stand corrected.

Compiling to Javascript is the way Dart solves its chicken-or-egg problem.

Chrome ships a Dart VM and hopefully Mozilla, Apple and Microsoft will follow suit one day.

Wouldn't that essentially be identity theft?

Helping Dropbox grow is arguably the single greatest achievement of YC to date. I think in that light it makes sense that news about Dropbox gets on the front page of news.ycombinator.com.

I just gave up trying to connect it to Google or Twitter since those don't work. I ended up using the email signup option but neither signing up nor logging in happen over HTTPS.

That's why authentication through reliable big services like Google is a thing guys. At least they get it right.

The brain-shaped thought bubble filled with blue gears is _very_ reminiscent of the devopsdays[1] logo...

[1]: http://devopsdays.org/

This looks really cool. Please consider adding a Github signup option.

It's startupschool@ycombinator.com and I believe the deadline is 4pm local time.

Very saddened by this:

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In the output of line 85 there two punycoded[1] domain names: xn--g5t518j which is actually 微風 and xn--42cgk1gc8crdb1htg3d which is actually มอไซค์มือสอง.

As a result of the encoding, the domain names look junky while perhaps they aren't.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode

Thanks for taking point on this Daniel, I'll see you there!

Which is still true if you don't know their passwords but if you have their email. You can reset the passwords for just about every conceivable account they have.

I found the demo very impressive but I too have a large blue bar persisting in my vision right now. Very peculiar.

I prefer native system packages to tarballs, so here's a script [1] to generate .deb and .rpm packages using Jordan Sissel's FPM [2] (gem install fpm).

[1] https://gist.github.com/rasschaert/8915657

[2] https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm

I looked up the mail you're referring to: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/13/132

My Finnish colleague seems to like it. I'm told shouting "Perkele!" is a great stress-reliever.

The HUD is activated with the alt key (by default). Holding down the alt key for a while reveals the classical menu. That's what you would do to discover the options available to you.

I'd love to get an invite, thanks!

That's very similar to Slashdot's moderating system, which I think is great.

> I hate to say it but Linus does seem—as one of the top 14% most vulgar users on GitHub—to be a tad foul-mouthed (with a particular affinity for filthy words like 'mick').

Is mick a filthy word? Linus probably often refers to a kernel developer named Mick, which then earned him this spot in the top 14%.

Don't Googlers have mailboxes on the google.com domain directly? Gmail has only been around since April 1, 2004.

That distinction has been made by the Creative Commons licenses. Copyheart seems like a lovely idea, but it's trying to solve a problem that CC solved a long time ago.