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TL;DR: don't click the link! Your eyes will bleed!

This article is not at all about whether the web should be encrypted. It's barely even about EFF's "HTTPS Everywhere". It's essentially a provocative title slapped onto re-postings of quotes from other people.

>HTTPS is the keystone of Internet security and privacy.
>In particular it protects against "search hijacking".

Oh, phew! I can go back to submitting passwords over HTTP again.

>The Web, having just turned 20, shows signs of fatigue and
>its core technologies seem to be increasingly unable to
>cope with sophisticated attacks.

If "The Web" is having a problem, it's that new-style web apps usually have the security mindset of page-by-page websites while having the functionality of full-on client apps.

>the out-of-control proliferation of pseudo-standard
>ways to secure Web protocols

Holy shit! They're using pseudo-standards! Set phasers to "kill"! Oh, wait, most sites are using fairly standard methods of securing data? (e.g. HMAC, OAuth, etc) Hmm... My eyes!!! They burn!!!

EDIT: in case my flippancy was confusing, web standards and a secure web are very important. If I just consider the question posed by the title of TFA, I'd have to say "Hell yes, the web should be encrypted!" Most of everything ever written was obscured, so why the hell wouldn't be do the same with the web? Anyone remember security envelopes for mail? Using code words when talking about drugs on the phone? The web's no different from mail or phone except that it's massively more complex than a phone line and no one in this damned country [US] can understand anything more than a 9 second* soundbite.

* See: http://www.npr.org/2011/01/05/132671410/Congressional-Sound-...
It looks like things have died down. The steady state seems to be one where the balance is low and the transactions are small: http://dpaste.com/589113/.

That would imply that the card is currently being used as intended.
They are, to a small extent. They look like plain text, but if an item wraps across lines, the indent level is preserved. Note: blockquotes and code blocks should do the same thing, but it hasn't been implemented yet.
I graduated 10 years ago, in Computer Engineering, and much of this low level stuff was covered in core classes, such as Microprocessors & Interfacing, Operating Systems, and Computer Architecture. If one only wanted to study "higher level concepts", or couldn't pass, you switched to computer science...
As far as to-do lists apps go, I rolled my own by combining a TextMate bundle with a few Ruby scripts and some keyboard triggers using QuickSilver. If you have a programmable text editor and are a programmer, this is a powerful way to go.

I also turned my TextMate into an editable wiki. TextMate bundles are pretty powerful. Because my wiki is basically a collection of text files, I can easily read them on-the-go using my DropBox iPhone app.
Wow, all gone in less than 14 minutes! Oh well.

This kind of reminds me of http://www.iawriter.com/
Why not have both? Also do you happen to use any regular expressions ever? Can you imagine specifying a regular expression using self-explanatory alphanumeric method names?
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All the while, I thought this was true! I didn't know this was fake. But, I agree. This is a very very awesome idea. I would want to have something like this near here. It really fits my lifestyle.
HN'ers can be serious buzz kills. Yeah, you can argue that it's less usable but the brand and emotion is dramatically more upbeat and fun, which is what I think the company is going for. I would be more likely to pay attention to hall the pages with this re-design than the templated startup design that was created before. This new design is easily one that will be passed around Twitter and other social media. The fact that you were able to make gift cards seem fun and attractive is a testament to his talent. Kudos to you guys.

And while I wouldn't call Mike Kus a design legend (I'd reserve that for peeps like Jonathan Ive, Dieter Rams, the HFJ duo... basically those who have a profound effect on the industry, peoples lifestyle and/or the craft) he definitely is one of the best web designers out there.
I think you're a lot older :). I graduated Auburn High School in 2007. My parents still live in Peru (I moved to Arkansas), my dad works at Cooper Nuclear Station.
That chip would likely still be an ARM+GPU architecture, and would still be without a floating point unit (except CUDA/OpenCL code). So code could still run like a dog and burn precious battery power even faster.
Thanks for your feedback! Your suggestion is a good one and something that I've been considering. It is possible to reload one sbux card from another, so I was thinking about using one for deposit only and dribbling the balance into the purchase card at $20 per hour or similar. I think there's something about this that would ruin the excitement so I'm working on different approach at the moment. Not sure where it'll end up.
In my experience, it's useful, even when writing high-level applications, to be aware of the relative cost of low-level operations. The "Numbers Everyone Should Know" slide from this deck is a reasonable starting point: http://research.google.com/people/jeff/stanford-295-talk.pdf To generalize a bit, the small numbers at the top of that chart are mostly a concern for people doing systems programming, but as you progress down the list you'll find operations costly enough to have a noticeable impact on application programs. E.g., if you build a typical web application in a high-level language, your user won't be able to tell if you add a hundred prediction-resistant conditional branch instructions or a hundred L1 cache misses per page view; but if you add a hundred network round trips per page view they'll observe a measurable slowdown. Similarly, if you're making a game and you want to display graphics at 60 frames per second, you can do quite a large amount of computation per frame, but you can't read a file from disk on every frame.
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The desugaring process is what makes the for loop magic. I cannot write a different control structure that looks like the that for loop in scala without touching the compiler.

A counter example that shows how to avoid the sugar would be "if expressions" in smalltalk (simplified, may differ to reality). In smalltalk, the abstract boolean class has a method 'if'. And the "true" subclass of the boolean class implements the 'if' method to execute its first parameter, while the "false" subclass implements the 'if' method to execute its second parameter.
My former college switched many years ago to teaching low level concepts on the PLEB, a ARM/Linux computer developed in-house. I would argue they were 10 years ahead of the game, with that platform now being widely commercially deployed.
In fact, the developer of that platform and his professor went on to a startup that provides low-level software components for millions of android phones.
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That's just silly. They could have very easily done a trip which would have required an overnight stay, it's not like these things have ridiculously high mile limits at this point in time.

They were doing it to simply prove a point. They just went about it the wrong way.
I'm trying to figure out- what's the difference between loading the card and just dropping $10 on the ground?
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I wonder why Amazon decided not to incorporate Kindle support into already existing Shelfari [1], which seems to have much prettier UI and bigger user base.

[1]　http://www.shelfari.com/, Amazon's social network for readers
Why is _Android_ development relatively easy? Well, for one thing, the territory is well trodden. ... _Java_ masters have been able to switch to _Android_ and tell people/show people how to code properly. ... _Java_ has been around for a while.

Goes both ways, no? Not that your comment is without merit but this bit just struck me as really odd.
Not downvoting, but I just wanted to say that I thought this article was relevant. I'm disappointed that it's fake, but an article about novel new ways that people can interact with vendors using their smart phones seems like pretty standard hacker news.

Especially amongst all the repetitive articles about software patents, bitcoins and google+. Don't get me wrong, I think all those things are interesting hacker news, I was just trying to add diversity.
The solution to problem one is to always have a means of taking notes, one which you will definitely revisit. This frees you from wanting to focus off-task when you need to be on-task, and it allows you to revisit and refine your thoughts

This is exactly David Allen’s GTD mantra. But a number of creativity books I’ve looked at talk about the importance of “giving yourself permission” to have ideas, part of which means having the means to record them wherever they happen. I found the number of ideas I have started to increase once I got into this.
love the idea!

i think one shipment a month is plenty... you don't want people to get overwhelmed - this should be considered like a treat and will probably help with shipping and labor costs too.
Ask HN: Please review our updated service - Zukmo
Hello, Hacker News community! We're back for round two!

Almost a year ago many of you were kind enough to review the first release of our information management product, Zukmo (http://www.zukmo.com). Back then we had little more than Zukmo’s barebones components finished, but you still provided our team with a boon of information to help us achieve our goal of shaping Zukmo into a tool that you would find useful every day.

We reviewed and implemented quite a few of your prior suggestions in response to our last post here on Hacker News (http://hackerne.ws/item?id=1735218). Though much has changed since that time we want to let you know that we're still listening intently to everything you tell us! Though we have significantly expanded our feature offerings, the core idea behind Zukmo remains the same. In a nutshell, Zukmo:

1) Allows users to select, save, and index into their cloud accounts, entire files and documents from a plethora of sources (from Websites, Desktop documents, Google Docs and Apps, Delicious bookmarks, Twitter, and Embedded Multimedia content from sites such as Youtube, Slideshare, Scribd, Metacafe and Vimeo, RSS feeds, Web clippings, notes and more)

2) Sorting them into a taggable, logically organized library of information

3) With the ability to search through and display content on a range of platforms in a simplified manner (our easy-reader excises ads and irrelevant bits, with apps for Android and most common browsers)

4) And the added ability to share that content through email and social networks (currently integrated with Facebook and Twitter)

We truly appreciate your criticism, suggestions, comments, and questions, so if you have some time please do give us a try. Also, if you feel like reaching out to us directly, feel free to get in touch with us via email at feedback@zukmo.com. We’ll do our best to respond to every email we get! We really hope that you find Zukmo useful and look forward to hearing from you!

Sincerely,

The Zukmo Team
Not so true. When the government REALLY wants to secure something, like, say, nukes, no matter what the technical security measures, there are always guys with guns.
Congrats on launching! It looks cool. I applaud your audacity by pricing it at $20, but that's pretty steep when there are already other markdown focused text editors (marked, iA writer, etc) for much cheaper.
While the stylized text is a nice touch it does seem to be on the upper end of the market in terms of price at $19.99. Would be nice if you included some of the features of Byword on top of what you have.

Also, for those mentioning Marked as a competitor I must point out that Marked is actually solely a previewer, not an editor.
> AsyncTask, IntentService, Service, unit tests...

Maybe I'm off-base here, but I think that if you understand the abstract concepts behind these on another platform (say GNU/Linux development with Qt or GTK) then it's simply a matter of translating your understanding of the concepts into the new platform's way of doing it. This is what a CS degree is meant to teach you (i.e. in my degree program, they never taught any programming languages -- only concepts in the abstract). Learning Services, ContentProviders, AsyncTask, etc. was really not bad at all and as you said, the SDK has gotten drastically better over the years.
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I think your objection is a good one. Horizontal scaling in humans has low efficiency, so it's usually best to max out the benefits of vertical scaling first.

That being said, Scott Adams' career advice[1] seems pretty solid. In short, it is usually just as useful to be competent at three different things as to be extremely good at one thing.

[1] http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/care...
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I apologize. I may have rushed to judgement. I didn't get a chance to check out your game, will do. Games are definitely not a simple standalone app.

I stand by my assertion that non-trivial app development on Android can be harder than on iOS. For example, take a look at the Google Music app source (an example of a complex app) and see if you can understand how it was designed and why it was implemented in such a way. I can't claim to fully understand it.

http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/apps/Musi...

> AsyncTasks to perform computer AI turns and implement a hack that makes Toasts last longer

I'm curious why you did not use a FrameLayout to overlay a Toast-like message on top of your SurfaceView game board.
Yeah, I was thinking about that too. One thought I had (which others have suggested) is to encourage people to donate in small amounts— rather than drop $25 on the card if you're feeling generous, you should drop $5 on it each morning for a week.

But since that's kind of a hassle, then you'd whip up a quick app that lets people easily amortize a larger contribution over a series of coffee-scale contributions. Connect that to their twitter account, and you can credit each individual coffee donation to an individual and report them individually.

It's effectively the same as having a larger account balance, but since you're not holding the money it feels more engaging and social for folks.
I wish there were third party tools that handled cocoa properly. I can't stand Xcode 4, the whole thing is atrociously bad, especially with limited screen real-estate (I do all my iOS coding on a 13" MBP). With Lion, animations in Xcode now chug and choke.

It really is one of the worst development environments I've ever used. Of course, I'm also spoiled, having used Visual Studio for most of my development career. And though that has its warts, it rarely gets in the way of letting you develop, and when it does, someone, somewhere, has written an extension that fixes it.
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In a decade run they produced little over 100 vehicles, that's barely past a concept vehicle. Most vehicle manufacturers provide more vehicles for safety testing than McLaren likely ever produced of the F1. Oh, and it's almost two-decades old on initial release.
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I'm composing this reply inside of Macchiato. Honestly, I think it's a pretty decent idea, although it might have a hard time to displace Vim, which I alway have tend to have open.

Something that it might easily displace is composing my blog posts, the fact that fullscreen mode knocks out my secondary monitor is probably a good idea, and keeps me focused on the task on hand—writing the blog posts.

On that note, I've switched to full screen. The animation to full screen wasn't the smoothest, and doesn't have the same feel that Apple applications scale up. In addition, while the slight gradient works in a small window, blowing that up to the fullscreen doesn't work very well, and I feel like I looking straight into the middle of the sun.

I realize that you're attempting to be fairly minimalist with your application, but I think that a less-strain theme for fullscreen would be a very good improvement.

I've noticed that while backspacing, especially when typing in a blockquote, the cursor doesn't line up with text you're editing. Small display issue, no biggie.

Another thing that I would think very cool for fullscreen writing applications is to display text with TeX-like text justification, so you don't end up with very staggered paragraphs in the middle of your screen. Probably well outside the scope of your application, but thought for other HN-ers.

I think that's all feedback I can come up with right now. I'll continue to try out the app, and look forward to what updates you have up your sleeve.

EDIT #1: Fixing some grammar. Trying to get the elements right ;)

EDIT #2: Apparently I can't make new comments anymore. Since I comment rarely, I assume this was some change as part of HN's vote-less comments change. May I make a theme request? Yes? Great! I really like the Solarized[1] theme, and think it would be a great addition.

In addition, I think callahad had a really great review on this same thread. I agree with #5 in particular, being able to switch off the preview, should I come about the need, would be really nice, mostly for the same reason callahad mentions. And #7, too.

One last agreement with callahad:

> Hopefully this is helpful and not discouraging! I didn't want to take the promo code without leaving you with some feedback.

[1]: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
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It runs fine on my Mac mini with 2GB of ram. I guess my projects are not very large. I only do iPhone dev on it.
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The greatest tool... is not wasting my time with productivity-fu so I can get back to the actual task at hand =P

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I hoping for full integration with Goodreads, or we fall into the classic problem of redundant social networks.
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Gmail Multiple Inboxes is how I triage incoming mail.

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Actually, I use XCode solely as an editor. No project management, no iOS/Mac development.

Sadly, your poll didn't consider all permutations.
Wow, as an Istanbul native, I'm surprised that the city govt is doing it right by handing design to a design shop. I like how it looks, it's odd and quirky, but I think it somehow fits with the city. For the record, Isik + lar means "lights" (the suffix is a pluralizer), and I'm guessing the "us" is the generic latin name suffix?!
Something interesting happens when you ignore hype and prejudice and start paying attention to results: reality manifests itself, sometimes with surprising results.

So let me give you some results: A bit over a year ago I became 1/4 of our new mobile team (2 android guys, 2 iOS guys) at work. We set out to write our apps, which have the same design, use the same visual elements, the same API, and have the same features etc. A year later, with thousands of lines of code and man hours behind them, both apps are still at the same level as each other, with neither being ahead of the other.

In short, anyone that tells you Android development is harder than iOS is lying, incompetent or has an agenda. Or simply mistakes his opinion for reality.
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The sample is on a small demo cutout of a door, thus has a lot of give/spring. I would like to see the Rapping flaw demo'd on a lock on a full size, mounted door which does not have the same resonant spring which would drop the lock.
I wouldn't call that using XCode.
Thanks for the feedback!

Themes are coming up. I'm gonna have a handful of color palets and typographic themes to pick from.

Took note of everything else. Will be working hard on making the app better in updates!
I agree, photos, names, or some proof of humanity of the people behind the karma would help to stem abuse. The internet almost makes this abuse of karma easier due to the anonymity. You just don't feel as bad.
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