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Well,

The problem is that the entire Bitcoin model has the same weakness. There's no rule for rolling back a bitcoin transaction because there couldn't be such a single authority because bitcoin is merely a "decentralized" algorithm.

This illustrate one of the inherent problems of Bitcoin. Any currency system today must be based not on simple transfers but on valid transactions. Valid transactions require that there exists an authority to validate those transactions.
First of all, I dont think the analogy is apt. Also, your claim that Apple seems to be setting terms is not true at all. Android has captured a big market share and from what I read last time it was more than Apple.

I also think that if you can come up with a phone that adds 'significantly' more value than an existing phone, it will automatically capture attention. You dont need imitate the current players in the market.

There have been many examples in the past ( for eg: Google search Vs Yahoo search ).

But I do think that Nokia phone is really pretty, with pretty good UI features showcased. But I am not sure if it has the necessary qualities to make users switch from an existing iphone or android phone. I dont know if it adds "significantly" move value!

Of course switching between search engines is a lot easier than switching between phones, so that is also an important factor.
Anyone using SpiderOak? They're the only other versioning diff-based backup service I know of that supports Linux (with a free tier; there's also Tarsnap). They also claim 'zero-knowledge' encryption. Anyone have any opinions?
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The chrome address bar search tokenization seems much more simplistic. Something like splitting on path elements would help me match "finance" when searching through my history for google.com/finance
"The article was then submitted a second time just recently with an alias url '/?p=291'" -- yes

"presumably with the proper voting rings in place" -- [citation, etc]
> This is incredibly pedantic,

Agreed, but...

> and yet, fails to point out parts of the problem.

Which parts? You don't go on to say.

> Or maybe the guy just wanted to flatter himself in saying that people that does not want to learn how to use a text editor (can't refrain the old joke : or the editor it lacks) are necessarily stupid morons that can't have a proper opinion on the subject.

This is not the impression I got. Rather, he was expressing frustration at the concept of "intuitive" or "novice-friendly" software, emphasized by the commercial software industry, that saves initial learning time at the expense of training people to do mindless tasks over and over, instead of learning to use their computers more efficiently. I think he was saying that it is unfortunate that, due to the emphasis on this concept by commercial software, there is now a (perhaps large) segment of the population that won't accept any other kind of interface; and he was saying that Emacs development should probably not target these people.

Whether the expression was pedantic or not, this seems like a reasonable thing to be frustrated about, and a reasonable conclusion to draw.
I have a ton of search engines installed but it only does one suggested search in the list of options, as far as I can tell.
Here's hoping that the rumors of the death of Logic Pro have been greatly exaggerated.... Looking forward to a potential Logic Pro X?
That is a really nice collection. I think many of us are in the situation to have great products, but don't have the money to create a big marketing campaign or even buy a few ads to deliver it.

One thing: keep the dark color scheme, but don't put dark grey links on black background (like one commenter already mentioned here), and increase the line height by a few pixels, makes it a lot easier to read.
aha, I think I get it. Cool. Are you going to gamify (everyone else is!) it? Ie awards for a streak of weeks/months not spending more than earned etc?

I'd suggest some bullet points about how it works on the landing page, ie
1) Enter your account balance
2) Update your account balance when you want (weekly, monthly, every St Swithins day)
3) Keep track of how much you're spending and how much you're saving each month.
Ask the employer "lets say tomorrow adobe goes belly-up and flash is not open sourced, what will you do and how practical is it?"

There is nothing wrong with flash, some things require it (see YOU TUBE) and there are reasons for requiring it. If flash gives a competitive edge, the use it. I like flex as a framework, MXML is actually very powerful.
>Text editing in and of itself has no value.

I just don't know what to make of that. It's true, but only in an incredibly over-technical sense. Text-editing is one of the primary forces that drives the world. Pen or keyboard or voice to speech, text is primary.

Yes, of course, the meaning behind the text is more important. But the meaning doesn't appear at all without some means of creating the text. It's like saying that the teeth are not important, it's the food. You can't eat the food without teeth.
It is buggy with the x having to be clicked twice if you close too fast.

Edit: Try it yourself if you disagree.
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I don't understand what was so bad about the announcement. They made a mistake, they took steps to fix it. That's what the announcement said, and that's all it needed to say. I don't expect companies to come groveling to me, begging for my forgiveness for making a mistake with the service they're offering me for free.
Rolling back centralized trades is entirely different from rolling back a house burglary.
Nice, thx. Looks pretty easy (not sure how complicated or detailled the verificion of the individual points would be, though).
Except it isn't trivial; it materially damaged the ease with which I could read the essay.

As a long-time English reader, I've internalized the idea that there will be a capital letter at the beginning of a sentence. So when it's lacking, especially when the beginning of a sentence corresponds to a newline as in the beginnings of paragraphs in this essay, my immediate mental response is to assume that I've overshot the sentence's beginning, and immediately to backtrack to find it.

Overriding this behavior takes mental effort which detracts from the ease with which I can read. Making it harder for your readers to consume your ideas is hardly a trivial issue.
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What goes through my mind when someone says “You know that won’t work in IE”
I think the most impressive thing about it is that it had tab completion for the listed items.
OK, thanks.

In short, you're using a 7" as I use my 13" laptop. It strains my eyesight to use a 10" as my laptop. I assume this is an age thing; I'm over 40. It influences the eyes badly, sigh.
> It's just a little disappointing to be downvoted without anyone actually commenting on the subject.

When I saw your comment, it didn't look downvoted to me. You clearly realize that people can vote on comments - has it occurred to you that comments can bounce back from a negative score? That is, unless you append some passive aggressive horse-shit to the end.

Honestly, I don't know if we gain anything by PHP having arrays pull double duty in this way. The only advantage is, what, having one less keyword to remember?
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Interesting - bit close to Russia, though ;-)
Great article even if it was '97'. And I found emacs easy to use after: C-h t
There's also ownCloud (http://owncloud.org/index.php/Main_Page), if you're into that whole home server thing. It definitely supports Linux.
That said, I think it's fair for the Bitcoin people to feel abandoned by the EFF for their sudden refusal to deal with btc without a thorough legal explanation that others could work with. The EFF is pretty much who you'd expect to fight for this type of project and for them to take a sudden and largely unexplained hands-off stance is odd.

They do say "[this laundry list of laws] [are potentially related]" but they're aware of the "three felonies a day" nature of our society. What isn't potentially illegal?

Besides, most of those issues would go away if they simply resold their btc immediately and claimed that as the donation value.

I can see that they don't want to be seen as endorsing the use of Bitcoin specifically, especially storing value in it, but if they immediately resold their btc they'd be using it safely (to avoid a hypothetical btc crash wiping out their funds) and promoting responsible usage of any payment service (storing money in Paypal accounts is a notorious no-no, even though it's denominated in USD).
If you're a 'normal person', you shouldn't be making decisions about the security of my health-care or financial data; If you're in the position to make that decision, you should have been aware that dropbox was not a "safe" third party;

On the part of the _users_ of dropbox, I have empathy; In part of those running their medical/finance business on assumptions of dropboxes security, I have nothing but emnity.
Glad you found the resources useful!
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If the 1-base convention confuses you then it's highly likely that you're either new to the language or doing it wrong, the same way many people attempt to write C code and call it C++.
Price: $999 -> $299

Happened to many Apple apps that went into Mac App Store.
I hate to be the one to break this to you†, but normal people make up almost the entire chain of custody for regulated data. Normal people write your health records. Normal people check them out of databases and read them. Normal people load them into spreadsheets. Normal people generate reports. Businesses do not exist to support super-savvy BOFH's. It is rather the other way around.

† Ok, no I don't
If you're happy working in flash for the forseeable and you trust them when they say they'll deal with it if it's an issue then go for it. The biggest risk if flash did die a slow death would be that the company could stay with it and you'd be losing relevant skills. The reason I think they could stay with a dying technology is perhaps they'd have enough existing customers paying and enough new customers unaware that flash was dying that it wouldn't seem to be a problem until it was too late.

I guess you take your chances on that one and if you think they're making a mistake later you can always jump ship. Personally I say go for it, I think it sounds like a good company to work for.
I don't think flash is going anywhere, people give Apple too much credit in it's ability to kill flash. As much as do not like Flash and developing with Flash Adobe provides a strong value for those that continue to use it. Android has help stave off Apple from running rough-shot over the mobile industry and therefore their is no eminent threat of Flash's demise. One of it's strongest points is the ability to develop in flash and export out to native application for several devices. Unity does this with their game engine and it has been very successful.

So the broader question is do you like Flash? If so, go for it; if not find something else. I am not a huge Flash fan and it would not bother me if it did die off, but I think it is foolish to predict it's demise at this time. It has strong competition from HTML 5 but still leads on the front of having the best creative tools available and Adobe behind it. As long as Adobe keeps it relevant it should have a long and healthy life.
Stupid name for a blog post, neat Ruby trick.

&&= is less well known than ||=. RTFA for examples.
Thanks,

Building on flex definitely gave them a leg up on the competition, all other applications are still server based.

Steve
NDA's and IP are nice, but they don't build businesses
Apple started earlier this year to map its entire supply chain in an effort to eliminate use of "conflict minerals".

http://www.enoughproject.org/blogs/apple-making-headway-mapp...
I think it may have been an observation that patents can be licensed. Having a patent doesn't mean nobody else will implement it.

Further, if a government requires it, they'll do whatever it takes to make sure you will include it. If that means legislatively nulling the patent, they'll do it.
You mean something like:

if(document.getElementById("canvas").getContext("webgl"))

;)
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Death of Logic Pro?

Logic is in great shape and is loved by producers the world over. Final Cut was years out of date not only in features, but in UX. Logic is not dead... not even dying.
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I doubt there were voting rings. Rather they probably just thought to give it another go. I can say that I'm honestly surprised about what drops off of "new" with just two or three votes, compared to some of what is on the front page. I can't help but believe that if some of this content was resubmitted, it would do much better.
That looks pretty cool and I want to switch from Opera to Mozilla (can't switch to Chrome as it doesn't work in Windows 7 64bit for me) and I want to import my Opera's information to Mozilla. I click File->Import...->Opera->Next and it shows just empty field. When I try to do the same with Explorer, it works. So, what is the problem, could you give me a hand? Thank you.
With costs of maintaining their networks flying through the roof, the nation's largest wireless carriers are attempting to limit the mobile Internet usage of their most download-happy customers. Mobile Internet usage is growing rapidly, and carriers are spending $50 billion a year to build new 4G networks that can keep up with customers' demands.

That quote is disingenuous. The costs of maintaining their networks are not flying through the roof. The amount of people paying them a substantial monthly fee to use their data networks is what is flying through the roof.

The amount of extra money being spent on network upgrades is not keeping pace with the rise in revenue from smartphone data plans.

Yes, there is plenty of competition in the US wireless market. Which is why the remaining carriers are becoming more and more the same. This situation will only get worse when the FCC / DoJ inevitably approves the ATT/T-Mobile buyout.
Ramirez! Flash crash that ad.
Hey, akshay. Nice resource.
I saved to read it later. I'm in the prototype fase of a startup that has something like your.
Maybe we could change a couple emails, what do you think? Maybe I could learn anything from you.

btw. I saw that your startup was called mokabla, and now is GetComparisons. Waay better!
as the parent post your replied to already quoted

"This should never have happened. We are scrutinizing our controls and we will be implementing additional safeguards to prevent this from happening again."

this is absolutely unarguably taking full accountability.
Weight and heft aren't the same thing as bloat.

Alternately, one person's bloat is another person's muscle.
I have been using them since FF4, they are really nice.
> Symbian is whats getting replaced by WP7

That wouldn't work. Symbian runs on low-end hardware, something WP7 can't.
All this dropbox security stuff is easily solved with truecrypt. I don't know why anyone was assuming that the service was secure to start with, these things never are.

EDIT: I too detect the pungent stench of imitation lawns.
I agree. I expect their actions are not introspective but reactionary. Nevertheless, I think there's a logic behind them consistent with the sort explored by behavioral economists.
That's a fun easter egg
Logic team was distracted for the past year writing Garageband for iPad. Here's hoping they are now back to cranking on the next version of Logic in full force.
Very nice resource. The Diagramation and the typography are very beautiful.
Do you have another free issues?
But does FF5 work with firebug?
Same here. The link colours are kind of confusing in the background color.
The company definitely has plenty of customers and the reason they need me is that they have TOO many new customers coming their way for information on the software.

I'm sure most of the customers won't have any issues with Flash at the moment since many aren't technologically advanced.
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What I most like in the story of Firefox is how, after bringing competition to a field that had been stagnant for quite a while and after, thanks to its impressive success, reviving that field, it now benefits itself from that competition.

We are now at a time when ALL browsers, including Firefox, are getting better and better thanks in large part to the increasing competition.

It has been a great journey thus far for Firefox. My best wishes to all involved for better and better things in the future.

(Firefox user since v0.6 here. These days I also use Chrome and Chromium quite a lot, especially on Linux, but Firefox remains my main browser.)
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That is definitely the "secure" answer. Allow me to make a prediction, though: WebGL will happen. Browsers have always largely ignored security concerns ("what do you mean, twenty-year old crufty font rendering code perhaps shouldn't be directly exposed to the internet?"), and they are not going to stop now.
I'll second that. I'm a student going to school and interning in central Iowa, but would drive to Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City, or Omaha for a weekend to hack on stuff.
As a current .NET developer that used to do Java, it seems like Scala includes a lot of things that C# developers have taken for granted for several years. I can see where it goes a bit further though, and I'm excited to see the community around it grow.
I didn't say they do, but they should hire people competent to make educated decisions in the regulatory environment they're in. That's why they pay bofhs -- not because they like our views, but because we _read_ the specs.

EDIT: To phrase less hostilely -- HIPAA and various finance laws consist of thousands of pages of what to do and what not to do. Dropbox is a shiney webpage that isn't PCI certified or HIPAA certified. If you chose to operate in a business that requires HIPAA/PCI, and used dropbox for that data, _you_ are at fault, not dropbox, not the bofhs, and not the coder. In the case of HIPAA - you would be the criminal.
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Our traction is good (wanelo.com), but there are too many unknowns to project revenue right now and I would ideally like to avoid making up numbers. Thoughts?
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I'm not convinced Lua quite pulls it off. The combination of array and hash is awesome and I love it, but as a practical matter, all my tables are either arrays or hashes (objects), and I treat them as such. They aren't really unified, and this difference permeates everywhere, from implementation details, to the C api, to high level functions like pairs vs ipairs.

The blog post was trying speculate about slicing an array to a hash, or iterating backwards from "-1" in a hash, or something. Whatever he wanted (not quite sure), you can't do that in Lua. I don't know why you'd want to either. So Lua doesn't pull it off, but there's no reason to.
I love their UI and the simplicity SaaS brings, so I guess I love flash :-)

I won't be developing but I will be managing any enhancements and helping with the sales channel.

Thanks!
Who listens to scientists? Mostly just other scientists.
Google probably associates the keywords on the HN post title with the link that it's leading to (which includes "Show HN").

That's why they tell you to create meaningful links instead of "click here".
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What an odd story.

Where is it that you live that is so resource constrained, in both bandwidth and electricity? And why are you trying to run a business there?

Also it's fair to say that whatever you've saved in electricity has now been decidedly outweighed by the two hours of developer-time you spent updating it.
More meta: at this point I have no reason to see their measurements as anything other than hocus-pocus. What I've read of their description of it so far has amounted to classifying words -- context-free -- as "anxious" words, "depressed" words, and so on, and then simply counting their occurrence in text.

I would be hugely surprised if that actually gave reliable results! Human languages are hugely nuanced and context is a key part of interpreting mood in text, and even humans fail often at that. People often express surprise, for example, at pg's personality in person or in televised events, because his comments often seem (as one person put it) "Vulcan".

I'm starting to try to think of ways to thoroughly debunk their method, mostly because I'm curious if it would actually stand up.
Isn't this a breach of contract with their current customers?
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I had to stop using encrypted.google.com because it does not provide a link to switch to image search.
This is after the other historic change of letting US seize domain names when they please.
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> I'm not sure if I'd characterize Javascript's handling of arrays and hashes as conflated.

Insomuch as [] and {} produce arrays and object, yes, you are correct. But those objects are strikingly similar and the functions in each prototype work on the other. To the outside observer, only the length bit works differently.

I can do:

a = new Array();
a["b"] = 1;
for (x in a) { /* x will be "b" here*/ }
a.length /* 0 */

and

d = {0:"a",1:"b",2:"c",3:"d",length:4}
Array.prototype.slice.call(d, 1,3) /* returns ["b", "c"] */

That's conflated a little bit.
Depends on the online-service. E.g., I trust tarsnap (client-side encryption, not under an open-source license but you can compile it yourself) with very sensitive data. I also trust Wuala (also client-side encryption) with semi-sensitive data, although it somewhat worries me that Wuala's source is not publicly available for reviews. I don't trust Dropbox due to the lack of encryption - that's why I don't really use it, even though I currently have a free account with 20 GB available.
It only applies for new and rewnewing customers.
Yes: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/firebug/
They are going to ask. So you need to have an answer ready.

You can give it to them in the pitch deck, and they may just go "Ok" and gloss over it... or you can have it be the first question, and have them go "Hum..." and study you intently while you respond. They will notice your discomfort, it will throw you off your flow for your next question and provide anxiety where none is needed.

Easy answer, I think.

As far as making up the numbers. You must have some idea of the numbers your site would pull if you were truly successful... so just put those numbers 5 years out, your current numbers now, and find a suitable growth slope to make them meet.
The article did mention this:

Customers currently under contract won't be affected by the changes, but new and renewing customers will likely have to accept the new, tiered plans.
Of course I missed that part, thanks!
LOVE that pinned tabs stay open after reload, without resorting to hacks like you have to with Chrome. That's about the only thing that persistently bugs me in Chrome these days. All in all, FF5 is looking really good. Way to go!
The security of my private mailserver is nearly the same as the security of my laptop. For security reasons I don't use a VPS for email, but a small server that sits in my basement: There are some security measures that will lead to an automatic shutdown in case someone tries to physically access the server and the whole harddisk is encrypted. (Yes - you can call me paranoid.)