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I'd like to point out that we have not been able to deal with the security surface: you list "font engines, video codecs, OS text-display facilities (!) and image libraries", and browser-based access to each of these has led to horrific security bugs.

Yes, most of the bugs in those components eventually got fixed; yes, 3D access via Silverlight is scary too; but let's not pretend that this isn't going to get people 0wned.
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The amount exchanged in a transaction doesn't directly affect the time required to settle it in Bitcoin. Bitcoin is not so much electronic currency as it is a distributed accounting system. As such, the monetary value of the transactions is irrelevant.

The thing that matters is the size of the transaction in bytes. This size is essentially proportional to how many cryptographic key pairs are involved in the transaction. If your $40b are associated to a single key pair, then it doesn't matter whether you send $40b or $1. If they're distributed over many different key pairs, then it does matter - but then again, you could have $1 distributed over just as many different key pairs.
Really? I should give this person my email and password to find out if he already has my email and password?
Exercises in style do not make books (Raymond Queneau nonwithstanding). If you just try out a load of languages, learning what's possible but not doing anything with it, what's the point?

I don't think he is discouraging learning new stuff, looking at new techniques. What he is saying is that a solipsistic attitude about programming is a waste, and that resonates with me. I've seen many a time people who can make awesome demos of SLIME, have Haskell tricks up their sleeve, write languages on weekends, and yet ultimately do absolutely nothing. It's scholarly, for sure, but that's it.

To be fair, I agree that there's explorations to be done in this realm, but the sorts of explorations that create value on a visible scale tend to go hand in hand with some application. "ERLANG'S SO AWESOME" because its ingenuity meets reality quite rapidly, and you can build stuff with it. In a societal scale, that's the true value.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Criticism_of_...
+ 1 for Mozilla working in WebGL and moving the web forward.

+ 1 for Microsoft keeping them accountable.

- 2 for Microsoft keeping yet another awesome technology out of their browser

Mozilla wins. We're back to zero.
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Give NILFS2 [1] a try. It's log structured so the writes do not cause overwrites of filesystem metadata, directories nor files.

I have a very old, very slow SSD extracted from Asus EeePC, in an auxilliary computer; NILFS2 makes it crazy fast write-wise when compared to XFS and ext4.

[1] http://www.nilfs.org/en/
Ridiculous.

You should already know Haskell (and ML), and be writing your own research language.
What course number was that? Is it on OCW?
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I am really curious how various founders (or employees, the original thread was specifically about startups, but any company should be able to improve lives) feel that their company is improving lives.

Some questions to steer the answers in the general direction of what I am looking for;
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Does anyone know of ~sale value? If they were really going well, what's the point of being acquired just as they were reaching Series B.
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I love the idea, and hope that Siera Diablo doesn't have too many earthquakes. With all of it's size and robustness, it still looks like a fragile thing.
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The startup I co-founded Lifemall, I think improves lives. We help people sell things they don't need. We help other people buy second-hand things if they can't afford to or choose not to buy new.

Since we're relatively new, I can't comment on whether or not it's improving lives and any side effects, however it is our intent to improve people lives.
I would have thought the time that IE could effectively hold back the web had passed.

Even if they were on board with WebGL then I assume we're talking support in IE10 released alongside and quite possibly restricted to Windows 8. It wouldn't be crazy to think that IE, across all versions, would be down to 25% marketshare at that point and their mobile marketshare is basically non-existant.

IE's outmoded release schedule means that they can't really help or hinder the web much with decisions they make today. Certainly not compared with the damage they do by having old versions hanging around.
Yes, but this is not my attitude. This is the attitude of the entire Computer Science community. That's my point. No one seems to have pointed this out before.
Can we please stop this?
When you don't like Linux on your desktop, don't use it.
It's that easy.
A similar idea to the linked text file (not to roll.io itself) is http://www.tuneset.com/ (disclosure: made by a friend of mine).

roll.io is awesome though. Just making and sharing lists of talks broken up in several videos, things like this.. I wanted this exact thing just yesterday without knowing it.
I have had the pleasure and challenge of learning a lot about flash memory and I must add that the high failure rates are not aberrations, they are more or less expected. When people talk about SSDs they assume they are like hard drives. I.e., they should last several years, unless there is some kind of defect on them.

Well, that is not true. Any flash memory cell is basically limited as to the amount of times it can be written to. This is the result of certain physical properties of the materials used, and cannot be avoided.

This means that any SSD has a limited number of writes on it before it fails. So SSDs will fail and ones that are written to a lot will fail faster. If you use an SSD for virtual memory, for example, you can really speed up your computer (if it does use a lot of virtual memory) but your SSD will fail quickly.

There is generally a three way trade off between cost, storage size and failure rate. So every company would probably strike a slightly different trade off, so it is not surprising one company's drives to last longer than another's. Furthermore, within a single type of drive different times of failure would mostly depend on how much the drive is written to.

In general we should not accuse companies who make drives that fail of making shoddy merchandise (unless they fail way too soon), this is just the nature of flash memory.
Of course there are. The identities and "distributed part" has to do with the servers that keep record of things in Bitcoin. In fact, a few months ago an economist wrote an article (which was here on HN) that described how the protocol among the "bank" servers in Bitcoin can be broken if there is a coalition of other "bank" servers that choose deviate. This was, in Computer Science terms, one expression of a Sybil Attack.

You should check Wikipedia for the background on Sybil Attacks.
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This may be anecdotal, but I've never had a HDD fail and neither do I know anyone who had a HDD fail.
It was still the best explanation he could give.
webgl requires a graphics card that is known to work, this alone is a bigger problem than asking people to install something. Last time i tried, installing Firefox was easier than installing Flash.
Oh, and, the original Bitcoin paper -- I don't believe is published in a venue that is well known (or even known).
And you don't think that given they are going for a two billion dollar evaluation, if they were profitable, that would be well known?
None of which seems to have anything to do with Bitcoin.
I feel like I've read over 20 of these articles lately.

I have used linux on the desktop in some form or another since 1998. It works, trust me.

I find it strange that the author says they should have gone back to FreeBSD. In terms of "desktop" experience, both of these operating systems are somewhat similar.

I understand his complaints about the driver situation, but, really, this just means that you need to do some additional due diligence on your hardware. If you think that is troublesome, try installing OS X on non-Apple hardware. Now that can be a real adventure.
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One attack that was discussed by an economist (in an article I saw on HN) was an attack based on inserting multiple malicious bank servers.
It's feedback. From someone who's been using Linux for a long time. It's hardly random whining.
HAL already incorporates standards for the URI template spec and the CURIE syntax. It's also going to be rejigged to incorporate terminology direct from the Web Linking RFC.

The above being the case, it doesn't seem as if HAL is re-inventing anything significant from a standards perspective, and avoids inheriting baggage associated with pulling in elements from other namespace. Perhaps not a completely 'pure' approach, but the primary objective is simplicty - and I think doing things this way is a good balance.

If this is something you feel strongly about, please join the google group and raise it there so we can discuss merits and trade-offs in more depth.
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To this meta comment, my response is: It is true that some good ideas rise from non-academics. However, if you have an extensive view on academic literature you will also know that any idea that enters the spotlight (like Bitcoin) usually gets picked up by the academic community and gets examined. This never happened to Bitcoin.
Unless something radically changes in the near future I don’t see how Linux can rise up to be a mainstream desktop OS.

...

Desktop Linux has to be made somehow profitable for companies to start investing more heavily in it. This is the hard, but honest truth. As long as the primarily development is carried out with little (or no funding), mostly by volunteers the hour of the desktop Linux will never come.

The radical change is tablets. Google is investing heavily in Android and will likely see big profits (indirectly).

I'm writing this from a Windows laptop because my main Ubuntu laptop got screwed while upgrading. Everything that worked perfectly well for 3 years is now botched because of an "upgrade".

The hour of the Linux desktop may eventually come but it will be irrelevant by then.
It is a physical quality of flash memory that each flash cell has only a limited number of writes it can handle before it fails. If you want to know the dirty details, what happens is that electrons eventually get trapped in the dielectric of a flash cell and ruin everything. This cannot be fixed unless someone invents a new electron capture proof dielectric.

Flash memories use all kinds of electronics to ameliorate this problem, but in the end most they can do is try to equalize the number of writes each cell experiences, which results in the drive working at close to its full capacity for as long as possible but then failing very quickly afterwards.
Really? Do you see any code being published here?

And, furthermore, Facebook does not profit from leaks here. But tech companies, especially FB, are more than happy to use leaks and whisper campaigns to their benefit, as we well know, and as is reiterated in this article.

And even if Techcrunch were to disappear, Facebook and their PR team would still be there, lobbying politicians, and putting out favorable stories about their company.

To that extent, i agree with TechCrunch, that their interests align better with the general public's than Facebook's do. So long as TechCrunch is interested in an accurate portrayal of how these tech companies actually function, and how their interests are, or are not aligned with the other forces they must contend with, that is actual journalism, with public utility.

I loathe TC's stupid gossipy coverage of the bullshit that individual VCs are pulling, or who Arrington has happened to have pissed off today. But what Facebook, Apple and Google are up to is certainly of the public interest, especially as they are the forces which determine a good deal of the landscape for the consumer internet.

That tech companies are brazenly trying to squash information that is tactically inconvenient to them is far more disturbing to me than whatever malfeasance you're ascribing to TechCrunch here.
this is the release page https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases
The interesting thing is that almost all of those companies are companies where I wouldn't want to work - with the possible exception of Jane Street (though that depends on whether or not that company pays is programmers 10% of what it pays its traders) and Amazon (assuming that the stories Steve Yeggy tells are exaggerated and they have brought actual desks for their programmers, instead of the doors they used to have).
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Stop what? People saying why Linux doesn't work as a desktop OS for them, or people posting those articles to HN?
That's fair enough, the narrative frame here is certainly needlessly hyperbolic. I guess that i've (depressingly) become acclimated to the level of breathless ranting that TC operates at.

Certainly we can say that there is a tension between native and HTML5 apps, which is of interest to any dev that's interested in mobile devices. That Apple's and Facebook's interest do not align here is an interesting story. Especially with Facebook throwing their weight behind HTML5 apps.

How that relationship is actually handled between Apple and Facebook is indeed another matter, and also something that would be interesting to know.
When does mp3 playback fall out of patent protection? I know people keep digging up new patents for popular standards but assuming Mozilla and like-minded developers put some effort into patent avoidance you'd think they'd be able to include native support for some subset of mp3 playback without too much patent trouble by now.
Thanks! We threw them up there initially for a startup weekend event. Definitely a good idea to link them or kill them.
The latter ;-)
It is indeed final build! i have downloaded and running it!
This my sound as an oxymoron, but Linux really shines as a desktop operation system for developers.

If you're a regular desktop user, your basics are covered. But if you have a nicer camera an want to manage your photos, you're shit out of luck. Video editing software is abysmal. On the other hand you have 25 audio players of which maybe 3 work nicely.
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Po, thank you for your great hints. They are all highly appreciated.
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This isn't just "a single person's biased experience". This is an experience that millions of developers and users have experienced time and time and time and time and time and time and time and time again.

ORMs make for a bad developer experience, a bad user experience, and a thus a bad overall experience. For any serious app using an ORM, this will always be the case.
If you're someone who builds websites, then yes.
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To choose to go to this level of depth shows remarkable curiosity in a highschool student.
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Regardless of how much he actually did, this is quite an accomplishment in modern-day America. Even the most basic attempts at some task slightly related to engineering should be lauded. They are very rare these days.
I'll give you high stress, but I doubt it was low-paying. When they were doing their hiring rounds they said applicants with experience would be making six figures, so I'm sure their chief architect wasn't exactly starving.
I hate being nickel and dimed too. I don't consider paying $1 for an ebook that I'd download to my own device to keep nickel and dimed. What I do hate is paying $4 for a bottle of water, $3 for a 2oz bag of cookies, $10 for a 'lunch' box that would make my middle school lunch lady cry.
No. The firmware on SSDs utilises wear leveling (they also set aside a certain percentage of flash cells for housekeeping), so for the vast majority of people for whom SSDs have failed, the reason is NOT that the flash cells have died. From what I read, the real reason seems to be software bugs in the firmware.
`Don't use Linux' is not `that easy'; pause for a moment and think about it.

He can't go *BSD way, because drivers are scarcier, and that's a big no-no for him. And even more scarce on other less popular OSes, like Plan 9.

He can't go MS Windows way, because it's less usable for him (duh).

He can't go MacOS X because, uh, I dunno, personal preferences? Pricetag of the hardware+software?

He whines and rehashes old arguments because he feels trapped in Linux, got nowhere else to go :-)

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It would be possible to at least improve the situation. An approach common in machine learning is, before a lot of directly-on-point data comes in, to bootstrap predictions using a background dataset of existing data, which can at least give you hints about the structure of the space, and where in it you might fall.

In this case, if you (or some service) had a large data set of user interactions collected from many other websites, then even though the first N data points on your site might not be enough to make strong conclusions on their own, they could be used to match your website up to scenarios in the background dataset that are most similar. There are a lot of different approaches, ranging from Bayesian ones where the background dataset is used as a prior in one way or another, to more clustering-based ones, where your small initial dataset is used to match you to a set of "similar, as far as user-experience lessons go" websites in the existing dataset.
The problem isn't Linux. The problem is GNOME, and to a lesser extent, KDE.

GNOME is just not a good desktop environment, yet it has often been pushed as "the" Linux desktop by various distros and vendors. New Linux users end up using GNOME, finding that it's a pretty bad experience, and then they blame Linux and OSS as a whole. Had they used XFCE, for instance, they'd probably think otherwise.

If recent experience is any indicator, it isn't getting any better. People are not happy with Ubuntu's use of Unity, for instance. Anything GTK+-based or GNOME-based ends up being a miserable experience for most people.
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whatever is their excuse to hack companies it is illegal , it is a crime and should be punished .
if they want to pay attention for security, then they can establish organization and give away free courses about security and privacy in legal way instead of breaking laws and stealing people information .
black hat methods would never be agreed to improve security and privacy ..
actually laptop users of Intel laptops like Unity and hence Ubuntu choosing unity to push the desktop exp..

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They did automate most of it. They need to get off EBS, as there are simply too many issues with it that have a negative effect on performance and stability. Doing that, however, is a bit of a task.
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By being such a good communicator, patio11 has managed to land himself what would appear to be some very high paying consulting gigs that will pay for lots of development time on his projects.

I don't think that, working alone, he could "reap all the rewards" because he just couldn't cover N small niche businesses like BCC.

Also, he's not selling advice beyond consulting, so it seems quite authentic.
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I mean... that's the same sort of argument that politicians wield to depress voter turnout, so that only partisans will vote (thereby polarizing political narratives further).

There are partisans in the world, get over it. We have to deal with their bullshit, or be overwhelmed with it.

The fact that nobody is giving it to you straight doesn't mean that we don't have interests that should be served, nor does it mean that we shouldn't speak up.

"A pox on all houses" is a convenient expression to reach for when frustrated, but it's not a functioning strategy to live by. I know what my interests are. I'll take the story, when it's relevant.
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