skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"... he's admitting ..."? Hello, I'm here, and you're not deposing me, so drop the lawyer talk.

Also, try to pay attention to the historical correlation of market forces: XHR came in when Microsoft was a monopoly:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest#History_and_supp...

Even then, it was new and optional, and we cloned it into Mozilla (Opera cloned it too). It was pretty simple compared to anything like Dart or NaCl's Pepper APIs.

Ok, look where we are today: no monopoly power, but Google arguably acting like one. That won't lead to reverse-engineering without a much less balanced market.

First, the reverse-engineering costs of Dart are much higher than of XHR.

Second, the more balanced competition won't make any browser follow instead of lead. We could indeed end up with two problems (three, counting JS), as just happened with WebSQL and IndexedDB. Dart, and Microsoft's new language Phart, say. :-P

Glib "shoot first, ask standards bodies later" is a recipe for fragmentation and non-interoperation. Even if standards are written (years later, for XHR; never for VBScript and ActiveX and a great many examples you conveniently ignore), they don't offset the up front costs.

And here's the kicker: if you get your wish, there won't be one interoperable superior language ruling the roost until that later standardization step, if it even happens. If there's no monopoly or duopoly power structure, you'll just have the "inferior" language (JS) and spotty support for the "superior" one.

It seems to me that a lot of you "bring on our new overlords" boosters are unaware of how HTML5 came about. It was not through one vendor shipping proprietary code and standards bodies mopping up later. Study some recent history.
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Leo needs more than creative control with TWiT, which is ultimately why I don't see him selling until he's ready to finally release the reigns to tightly. That said, the options posed in this content dream team would make any company successful, if managed and handled correctly. If it's not managed correctly, it's just another AOL story.
While a different password / key would make the same data decrypt to different data, you don't necessarily have to do de-dupe on blocks of the encryption-cipher-size, so these values can easily overlap.

Blocks of data can be treated completely independently of the encryption. The block size is not necessarily the same as the encryption cipher block size (if you're using a block cipher).

Say, a chunk of 4000 different files all have a few disk blocks that contain the same pattern of data. You can store those few blocks once, instead of 4000 times. With encryption, this is still possible, but it's going to be slower, as the data segments will be more randomly distributed. It is still, however, possible and will result in savings.
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Just reading this post, it just sounds like English is not your first language. The best advice I can give is to just not stress over it, us native English speakers can infer your grammar and spelling as an accent. We are pretty used to it these days with the internet and all. If you really want to polish it, maybe take some advanced English and writing classes, it seems like you have the basics.
It's refreshing to see this acknowledgment: "the current "patch and pray" system won't cut it in the future" It's also admirable that rules and regulations have been outlined to achieve a 'meaningful' handle on cybersecurity. However, policy makers are just that - policy makers - and the rules and regulations outlined are just "bureaucratic" layers and incarnations of security patches. They have accepted the inevitable (note, the article/study does not mention R&D directives/initiatives to improve cyberintelligence gathering) and have 'padded' themselves with rules to project a perception of action to improve their stance on this front. Frankly, putting it on paper in the hopes that it will work doesn't necessarily mean it will work.
I paid for more storage to upload my daughters videos and now I can't get them back! I can hack a compressed .flv file but not the original WTF!!!
I worked on a US Government contract to help the local colleges. Saipan is THE most corrupt and backward place on the planet, no question about it. I've spent about three months there over several years, and while the locals not in positions of power are pleasant, the politicians and others are the laziest group I've ever known. They do whatever they can to scam the US government into giving them "grants" for all sorts of line-their-own-pockets kinds of gigs.

I thought then when I was doing this project I was "helping" these folks who didn't have all we have. BS! I wasted my time and my life helping ungrateful people who ripped me off. I would not trust Saipan in any dealing with money involved.
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@Sandroyong I totally agree on these points. Would you mind posting your comment here? It'd be great for readers to see this. http://www.forbes.com/sites/nicoleperlroth/2011/09/12/paypal...
I love the green aspect of what murfie.com is doing. Once the word spreads, there will be no stopping them!
You're much closer to the details of all this than I am, and it's possible I've got them wrong. But I can't agree that there's nothing that can make Dart a positive long-term contribution to the web, regardless of how good it turns out to be. I'm willing to be proven wrong about that, but only by the actual outcome. In the meantime, I'm excited - purely because of the track record of the creators. If and when my hopes are dashed I'll come back and post a mea culpa.
He means foot-guns of the this-binding variety.
The problem with all these online storage services is uploading your data.

At my 1 mbit uplink it would take 97 days of non-stop uploading to upload 1TB. That's if my ISP doesn't ban me.
Well the "You are at the back of the queue, but post this link into your twitter or facebook stream and get your beta invite sooner" message after signing up for the beta didn't help with the sleazy/scammy vibe, that's for sure.
That's because although the political spectrum is often described as a line, it's really a circle and the ends of the right and left meet.
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I see this all the time, and it happens on HN a lot too.

Someone will post a link to their startup, and everyone will be supportive and at most suggest a few wording corrections.

I'm often tempted to post "this is shit, and here is why", but I think the supportive environment of HN is valuable. I don't know what the solution is.
Not that many. The Russians were providing virtually the only capital support the antagonist had at the time so harassing them and shutting down their supply chain and income sources made a lot of sense.

Our small team ops were effectively force multipliers in terms of how many capitals we disabled or harmed the operation of.
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This is actually a wider problem than just scroll-zoom. Using JS to hook scrolling to anything is a UX nightmare. The problem is that on my desktop I can discretely scroll one step at a time with my mouse but on a laptop using a trackpad a scroll ends up firing dozens of events. This discrepancy basically bars scrolling from having any use on the web besides, well, scrolling.
Well said, sir.
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One of the draws to Mongo for me is that there are already existing cloud-managed service providers (MongoLab, MongoHQ) that hook in to Heroku, which is my choice for deployment. I haven't found any real cloud-managed services for Riak except Joyent's smart machines (which are expensive for my small project budget). The other reason was Mongoose, a great ODM for Node.JS that makes my life a lot easier.

Of course if anyone has managed to hook into a Riak provider on Heroku I'd love to be proved wrong.

And yes, I could always spin up an EC2 instance and manage a Riak cluster myself, but my time is constrained and I'd rather focus on getting my app out the door than sysadmin tasks.
You have a good point. What this should really be is a mandatory convention.

Ultimately, I have no interest in making it easy for bad programmers to program. This is Java's biggest problem -- it claims to help prevent bad code, which people want, but it doesn't actually do that. Its "bad code prevention features" actually have the opposite effect; they makes writing good code an ordeal that requires great patience, skill, and tools.

The major problem with Java is that because code is so difficult to write, people are afraid to delete it. Deleting code is the best possible thing a programmer can do, and Java discourages by causing programmers to value bad code. That's what's terrible about it.

(One big problem I see in the programming field in general is that everyone tries to put their prototypes into production. Then they wonder why their code is hard to maintain and it has a lot of bugs. The answer: you didn't know enough about the problem you were trying to solve when you started, so now you have a mess. Throw it away and start with complete understanding. Then you'll be able to build your application correctly. Call it refactoring if you want to, but the only thing that the prototype was for was to teach you about your problem and how to solve it. Now do it for real.)
This has been tried before but hasn't caught on, i.e., ChoiceVendor. Would be curious as to what the B2Brev team feels is the secret sauce as lead/referral revenue only is interesting once you have critical mass.

Also, having sold data in a past life to hedge funds, I'm not sure how I see their report on the daily deals space being worth close to $10k esp with Groupon's IPO being back-burnered. Is it merchant satisfaction data over time? Or is the target market for the $10k report not the buy side?
Reads "B 2 Brev". Camelcase that logo, dudes.
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hahah, made my day!
With Windows 8, Microsoft is ushering in native JavaScript apps. It's probably in their best interest to keep developers firmly in the JavaScript camp—the more JavaScript developers their are, the more developers there are for whom native Windows 8 development will be second nature.

Unless Microsoft adopts Dart, I see them fighting hard to improve the JavaScript development experience.
>Yes. They are an isolated small community which takes horrible advantage of people in their own society who can't defend themselves //

Just to be certain. You put this down to the work of Christian missionaries? (Your point that you know some good Christians is noted, irrelevant as it is to the current question).

Presumably either you or Bugsy know the names of these notorious sex fiend missionaries that have so transformed Saipan, I'm always curious about such reports.

As an aside WRT your note on "white plantation owners" I'm sure you know that black and coloured plantation owners too have exploited their slaves and workers.
What, a servlet that does a split and a concat?
Some real Shock and Awe: Racially profiled and cuffed in Detroit
I have to think that somewhere around 2007 IBM started offering massive bonuses for writing site content and HOWTOs.
Deferred functions. ClojureScript.

Scoped Object Extensions. ClojureScript.

Modules. ClojureScript.

And you don't have stop there. Want advanced pattern matching? Want logic programming? Want delimited continuations?

You don't need to wait for Apple, for Google, for Mozilla, for Oracle. Language development is too important to not happen where development happens best - in the field and in open source software projects.
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Verious - Marketplace for mobile app components
b2bRev could work, B2BRev is hard to discern IMO
Looks good, but line-height gets messed up when using the menu dropdown to select a bigger (i.e., "bigger", "biggest") text size.

See screenshot:
https://img.skitch.com/20110913-qpbjnmcr2cjqcgwtfahen878sp.p...
This is a really neat company. I like how the recycle the jewel cases too.
I am extremely surprised that cloud servers did not play a bigger part here. This Is What They're Perfect For: renting the equivalent of enormous datacenters for a brief period without much notice or prior/post capital investment. Password/hash cracking has always struck me as the archetypal use of Amazon/Rackspace/Linode/etc.
Exactly which things have better GUI integration on Windows, which are not related to application support? In fact, what does "GUI integration" even mean?

The Windows API is standardized? I suppose, but only because Microsoft is the only one who ships anything even close to a complete implementation of it. So it's standard on the one thing that ships it.

I won't speak to if libc or POSIX is better or worse, but if they're going to be called "simple", the argument can be made that that's the UNIX philosophy, and a more valid critique would be if they were not simple and didn't adhere to the UNIX philosophy. Both Windows and Linux's libc/POSIX are solid APIs and are standardized, and the latter is largely documented where they diverge.

Linux supports POSIX access control lists. I actually find the Windows ACL support to be extremely subpar: the command line utilities are tough to use from cmd.exe, and the GUI for handling ACLs is brutal, albeit functional. The getfacl and setfacl Linux utilities are not super fantastic either, but they are there.

What's the qualification for a "nicer" driver system, that isn't better driver support?
This is sort of what gets me confused:

You say XHR was a good idea, and it's clear now that reverse engineering it and putting it into Mozilla's browser was a good move because it allowed that technology to advance the web -- but at the same time you are showing opposition to taking a similar course of action for a Dart VM because it's not an open standard.

I understand the viewpoint that you would rather have had Google focused on improving JavaScript through Ecma TC39 than creating another language with absolutely no outside influence. I also admit that this is a pretty inconsiderate move for them to make, especially as that email made it sound as this new language aimed to be a "replacement" for JS. But despite the lack of good will behind this action, I would still hate to see something as rare as a new client side language, that has a decent potential of allowing developers to think differently about solving problems on the web, die off because no one wanted to adopt it.
Ask HN: Tips for a paperless lifestyle?
Looking for things like apps to upload scanned documents to (besides Evernote which lacks good Linux support), general workflow tips, apps for scanning receipts and possibly tracking expenses using them, etc.

Anyone have any tips or web apps you can recommend?
Try 'import turtle' at the Python REPL some day. :)
I find it odd when people create such strange generalizations in their head. Whether this comment is from your own anecdotal experience or not, it is just plain wrong as a general matter. Defeating an unemployment appeal is certainly possible and not that difficult if you've done your due diligence during the process.
Thankfully that statement makes sense to such a small group of people even if all of you dropped out of society completely it wouldn't make one lick of difference politically or financially.

I'm not the downvoter of your comments, but I basically disagree with your entire sentiment.

Obviously, no one enjoys paying taxes. But guess what, everyone benefits from government services and you have a responsibility not only to the other people currently paying taxes that benefit you, but also to those generations that paid the taxes before us to make our country what it is today.

You will probably be thinking right now 'but I don't use many (any?) government services, I don't need the government to do this stuff'. Sure you can be home schooled, grow your own food, live off the electric grid, protect yourself with a gun etc etc etc etc. I don't care. That argument will never convince me. As a single guy with no kids making way more than the national salary and renting an apartment, guess what, I pay an enormous amount of taxes and get basically no deductions while using almost no government services. Too fucking bad for me.

At the end of the day, this country is what it is because of the massive amount of taxes paid by people over the last 235 years that has gone into settling the country, building the economy, and running our defense dept. It's my turn to pay the bill and while I'm not happy about it, I know I'd rather be paying the taxes I pay and living in this country than paying no taxes in an anarchist state.
I have seen this in a rental car sometime before. But its displayed in a different way. It shows how many miles you get per gallon when you drive at the current acceleration. Just a number that changes when you press or release the accelerator.
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To be honest, when installing on Linux is hard, to me it feels worthwhile -- I'm gaining experience and knowledge.

And in contrast, the slightest annoyance on Windows confirms my worst feelings about Windows, and I give up quickly in disguest. For whatever (illusory) reason, Linux comes across as logical and an interesting puzzle that is worth the time invested, whereas Windows comes across as arbitrary and makes me feel like I've wasted my time.

Yes, it's a double standard but what can I say. At least with Linux, you can drill down as far as you want (and with Windows, I feel that I can't but it's partially a case of "Why should I bother, I can't see the source.")
Why don't Apple, Google, Mozilla, and Oracle count as being "in the field"?

And, your statement that development happens best in open source software is optimistic and opinionated.
The web was originally conceived as documents, not interactive content. It's done fairly well, but we could sure use an addressable content and application space that is not always tied to the limits of HTML.

One thing the richer mobile toolkits leave out, that drove the web's success, is the "view source" feature, a tremendous way to on-board new developers.
Big maps look really good. I remember the first time I used the 'hide panel' button in Google Maps, I literally voiced 'ohhh'. I'm not a fan of the modal dialogs on the linked site (nor the cufon - for whatever reason I can only see a handful of letters). The modal dialogs just add that unnecessary 'close' step which really detracts from casual browsing of trips.

On your site, you could definitely make the map bigger using a fluid design and you may be able to show all the cougars to some users. On an aside, the way you present the data on both the map and text is very slick.
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Justin Getting Married at an Early Age, All the teenage girls who continuously scream every time they see Justin Bieber just got a reason to be even louder! It turns out that Bieber said he really wants to have a family at a young age (more specifically, by the time he's 25), which means all his fans are probably quite delighted because now they can hope that he's going to sweep one of them off their feet sooner rather than later.
I like this a lot, including the color scheme. The only issue I see is events getting cut off if the text is too long - maybe you could expand the box if your mouse hovers for a few seconds?
I've had friend doing his biology PHD say effectively the same thing as this to me.

It is frustrating that science communication is such a PR game to the detriment of the general public's understanding of what science is in reality.
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Nice design and a layout that I'm sure will be mimicked by a number of other traditional paper outlets - if they're smart. Now to figure out how to do it myself! hehe
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Could mind reading technology be the ultimate end of privacy?
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He already handed over CEO control to someone else I believe, so I imagine given total editorial control he would sell for $50 million or so.

Off topic, I would like to see he and Calacanis make up (as mentioned in the article). TWiT is a far better show with him.
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although I didn't read it I know its a long blog post which is lacking in pictures or other media.
Is such a blog post a good fit for this site? might it fit in better on reddit?
I think you did well. I understood what you are trying to do immediately, but there was a struggle communicating that to Paul. I think you can immediately get the idea across by saying that it is "Metacritic for consumer electronics". Assuming your audience knows what metacritic is, which may not always be the case :)

I always spend a lot of time researching products before buying, and I would use a site like yours if I could validate your rankings. Perhaps offer a straightforward recommendation, but provide the option of letting the user understand everything that went into that score.

Also, you said you are using conversion rate as a datapoint. Laptops are a big purchase and sometimes people don't purchase right away, or they research online and then go in store. For your next product, you could get some quick data like Paul was suggesting by reviewing a product that is easy for people to impulse buy. Perhaps something like home media players (WDTV, Boxee, Roku).
> there is actually no difference between how science works in astronomy and climate change – or any other scientific discipline for that matter. We make observations, run simulations, test and propose hypotheses, and undergo peer review of our findings.

Things change a lot when your scientific theories need to be transformed into policies, though. If these same authors had also proposed, say, spending a significant proportion of world GDP to send a spaceship to the said diamond planet, their theories would be received more critically, I imagine.
'Oh, so you dont suck, thats a great feature to have'

I love that quote.
I think you did rather well for your first time on stage! Don't be too hard on yourself. You did seem a little flustered, but on average, you answered pg's questions well.
I encourage everyone in this thread to read up on convergent encryption.

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=7421...
http://www.ssrc.ucsc.edu/Papers/storer-storagess08.pdf
In addition to more energy efficient homes and lightbulbs this is probably also being caused by a huge dearth of demand due to a down economy. Crude Oil prices drop during economic downturns for the same reason - the markets know that demand will be significantly lower.

Glass half full - hopefully this is a signal that we're becoming much more efficient in our consumption and we can produce the same economic growth with a lot less energy.
Cisco launches nasty anti-Juniper marketing campaign
I haven't found Android UI to be that much better than html and the rest, you still have to say where everything goes and then write the code to tell it what to do.

Browsers are at a disadvantage because they need to have a ton of security built in because people casually go to websites, whether or not they are malicious, but are more hesitant to download an app. Also if an app is malicious it can be removed from the store, taking down a website on the other hand is not an easy feat.
Amen. Coming from a history of local news... God they don't understand web design. My local stations still have pop-ups.
If you're serious about this, get a Fuji ScanSnap scanner (I have the S1500). Scans about 15 double-sided pages per minute and converts to OCR'd PDFs.

Any new mail you receive, scan, shred (archive if important) and backup.