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I have never believed in beautiful code. That is like saying there is a beautiful spanner or crescent wrench. Save the beauty talk for the Rembrandt and Monet. I pursue two things in my code Clarity, relentless reliability and simplicity. Clarity because I am like the girl from 50 first dates I not going to remember it tomorrow so it better be clear enough that someone(me) will be able to figure it out without to much trouble.

Relentless simplicity, if making your software a little simpler to use means that its 1 million users have to remember 1 less thing because you have remembered 1 more thing then you have just saved 999,999 brain cells.

Relentless reliability is rather similar to relentless simplicity it should work the same way every time all the time. Any time you break the guaranty of getting it done right you just cost a lot of thought and effort for a large number of people.
I'm working on adding a tablet interface for the comments. For now, unfortunately you will have to zoom to hit the voting buttons.
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I don't necessarily think there will be one, but I wouldn't be surprised either.

Security flaws can be extremely subtle and 200,000 lines of code is a lot to review... Given that there's plausible deniability (we didn't do it intentionally, it was a genuine bug!), if you were them, wouldn't it at least cross your mind to try it?

Also, at some point, if it becomes popular, some sysadmin at a large foreign government agency or company will forget to firewall off a box running it (ignoring that they could also be connecting back directly - automatic updates anyone?)
Ask HN: How do others find new/interesting content online?
So, in general, I haven't been much of a 'blog reader', haven't used any rss aggregators, etc. (although I do keep up with hacker news.) In fact, I found a pretty interesting article today via hacker news, and found the blog in general pretty interesting. I also found another blog kind of randomly while browsing github.
I guess what I'm getting at is I thought it might be useful to start keeping track of everything I find and was just kind of wondering what methods others use to find new/interesting content besides hacker news and just randomly coming across stuff.

Sorry if this question is a bit too general :P
This release only works on Tablets. I'm working on adding a phone interface. (I wanted to play around with the new 3.x APIs, hence the tablet only first version).
You're linking to a chart that only talks about handsets when it comes to iOS, and ignores the iPod touch and the iPad. It was written in January and a good chunk of the iOS devices sold have been sold since.

According to Apple, at the time of WWDC, iOS was the largest mobile operating system, across all devices (using that standard since you said "all iOS devices") with approximately %44 market share to androids %35 market share.

Of course it is difficult to know for sure, because so many sources of stats only count phones (ignoring the iPad and iPod touch) and the stats for android are not very clear either with many manufacturers shipping large quantities of android tablets that have not, apparently, been selling thru to customers.
This also cool... RC Plane flyover at the US Space Center/Space Camp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDpL8aQlCDA
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At least for the intel drivers, this isn't a problem.
Exactly.

We could with the flip of a switch ban intermediate CAs; the browser's TLS library sees the chain of intermediate CA=YES certs.
I think it was just a joke, chill :)
I think that generating a PDF of a menu is likely to be substantially less work than scanning a menu to get an image. Nobody types a menu on a typewriter anymore, it's all text on a computer at some point before it's ink on paper.

The argument about accessibility has essentially always been that processes and things being designed for accessibility from the outset doesn't really cost anything extra, it's bolting accessibility on afterwards that gets so very expensive.
Yes, primarily because I wouldn't need multiple content subscription sources any more (HBO, Hulu, Netflix). Obviously I'm making some assumptions about how such a system would work, but I'd rather pick and choose content than pick and choose providers.
I didn't mean it that way, Linux did become ubiquitous but not in the way some people (including me) hoped it would. I mostly meant that despite being one of cornerstone of the internet, it's far from the glamorous future some of us hoped for.
This title is a bit misleading: they are not backing up digital books on paper. According to the article, they are instead keeping original copies of the books rather than destroying them.
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Yes, but nobody knows about it.
"DigiNotar should never have been a top-level CA. They should have been a third-party CA underneath Verisign or somebody similar"

Look at it from the position of the Dutch government (or any other government): Who would you trust to digitally sign passports and crucial government communications? (Which is what the Diginotar certificates are being used for). No government would like the idea of being at the mercy of a foreign entity they cannot control.
There's a simple term for the issue you're describing: solvency. I don't think this is a rev rec issue. Like Patrick said upthread, Groupon is capitalizing on transaction float. They aren't borrowing money from people, claiming it as revenue, and then returning it.

I'm not saying they're solvent or that they're a good business. I don't know whether they are or aren't.
So long as the ads are a small portion of the video and the recording is high-quality, of course! I could probably even be talked into ignoring the equally high-quality rips without ads- I would love to encourage such a forward-thinking model.

Now, if we're talking 10 minutes of content and 20 minutes of advertising,... no.
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Sure, the timeframe of this particular request isn't feasible but that doesn't make the question of coming to London a moot point.

You've said before that you would 'possibly' come to London. If you gave more info about what the difficulties are then that might either (a) help people understand why it might not be worthwhile yet or (b) what the hurdles are that local folks might be able to help with.

I'm certainly willing to help out at this end (and I'm sure many others are too).
People would just skip the ads.
Does it have an offline mode? That is what I am missing.
Stop suing because we want to watch the shows you've told us are available for free, our entire lives.

Amen. They should be thrilled their product is getting torrented so much- it means people like their product so much, they will commit crimes to get it. Few businesses are blessed with the problem of too many rabid fans.
Damn straight I would. Not that anybody seems to be willing to do that.
TV companies don't want "an advertisement". They want a stream of advertising. This is a lot less possible with bittorrent.
Also, the audio of the commercials shouldn't be louder than that of the content.
I didn't mean to suggest that Dutch immigration is any better (it's most likely worse). I was speaking in absolute terms, not relative.
If you're under 30, take a look at the Australian Work-Holiday visa, that's about as laid-back as it gets.
I would, but unfortunately they'd never release torrents with ads unless they could stop you from skipping them.

The only way to do this would be a custom filetype and player, no? And the chances of of being able to stream that to your xbox or media player...
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>Deadlines are probably the root cause of most of the world's most horrific hacks.

I definitely agree with this. I've written some absolutely terrible code in marathon sessions with an impending deadline -- in the worst case, I copy-pasted code in six or seven locations for something that could have and definitely should have been factored out into a function. I just didn't have any time to spare, I had to finish it for a demo in X hours. That whole project was a mess.
Yeah, right. And maybe CBS is developing a new TV series that doesn't feature 50-year-old white people.
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I guess one of the issues here is localisation. If you insert a commercial in a video then everyone, everywhere needs to watch that same commercial.

Also, commercials tend to go stale. You want to switch commercials based on season or even current affairs. This doesn't allow you to do that, T.V. and streaming video does.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for it but I think these are two major issues potential advertisers will struggle with.
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I found that leadership quote orthogonal to the essence of the post. Making things at an individual level has nothing to do with leadership, so I don't know why she brought it up in an otherwise powerful post. Being a businessman requires leadership skills, being a hacker doesn't. Jobs vs Woz, etc.
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>Who would you trust to digitally sign passports and crucial government communications?

Myself. I don't understand why governments don't become their own CAs, limited to issuing certificates for official websites and documents.

Of course, it would be better if browsers could limit CA trust to certain domains and subdomains (for example, the Portuguese govt CA should only be trusted for .gov.pt domains) to prevent abuse, but on the other hand we all know that if a govt is dirty enough to abuse that they'd be able to pressure some national CA into issuing it.
What Dave doesn't mention in this post is the mindset he brings to these meetings. Honest, open, generous, no time wasted, and he's completely direct. Regardless of how you got to the table, you end up having a super high value discussion because of how he approaches the time.

The fact that he gains so much from these later is no surprise to me. What he gets back later on is just a big karma circle finding its way back to him.

This path is open to everyone.
>I'd also like to see a list of nations that Americans with some sort of programming background can emigrate to with no hassle.

Have University friends who immigrated to Sweden, Great Britain, Netherlands, Germany, Canada, mathematics or programming, and their immigration hassles were less/faster or comparable to mine (for example no double labor certification like for H1 and GC in the US, and some of them even did 2 immigrations one after another while i was doing one). On the other side nobody of them has made such money like some of my friends here in the US :)
Not particularly exciting in the sense of being compared with Hollywood special effects. But I'm excited to look at it through my telescope and know that thing I'm looking at is a star exploding in a distant galaxy. And photons from that exploding star that have crossed 21 million light-years of intergalactic void are entering my eyeballs.
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Also, I have found that "breaking" the willpower mind wall has to do with taking tasks (like good posture, delaying FB status updates, doing dishes) and rewarding yourself mentally along the way by thinking or even saying things like "This is great! or I win!" even so much as smiling while doing these things helps to reinforce the dopamine pathways and can overtime help in "re-coding" your brain to be will-powerful. It's about feeling good while doing things and your brain doesn't know the difference between fake good and real good and before you know it neither will you and that's the point :)
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I agree that efficient code is usually more complex and for some god forsaken reason it tends to be the least commented.

If you think to yourself, "wow! I'm really proud of that, very clever" please for the love of God leave a comment.

I find myself writing chicken scratch on a piece of paper or in a scrap file when writing a function, many of those chicken scratch comments are exactly the sort of things future developers would love to see in comments.

So...big takeaway from me (15+ years developing) is learning when to comment your code!
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Not yet faster then petrol powered, very very close (with a time of 7:47.79, it's <30 seconds slower than a Corvette!)
+1 on the mentorship note. _Incredibly_ useful. Not only for yourself but can also be a great exercise for the teacher.

http://pith.org/notes/2011/08/29/programmers-feeling-uninspi...
Nobody gets outraged over privacy that's too tight — they just don't use the service. You could say that Google's longstanding reluctance to embrace social was an example of too much privacy. (I don't think that was the primary motivation, but it would look the same either way.)
I would watch streaming TV shows with targeted ads, but I don't think I would download a TV show with generic ads. If there's an advertisement before a YouTube video plays, I'll avoid watching it, but if it means that I can watch a TV show without paying $2-3 per episode, I'd feel a lot warmer about the idea.
Inspired by this, I tried "the internets". I almost "wtf"ed out loud: http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=the+internet...

edit: and then laughed at the highest correlation with "the internet": http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=the+internet...
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Even if there were design patents, the originals would likely have expired by now.
I'd rather skip the ads and just pay some money directly for the shows I like and want to encourage to continue. Because I don't want to be tracked, I'd prefer bitcoin.
That's nothing compared to Shady Character's article on it[1] (if anything, this feels more like a summary of it).

[1] http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/2011/06/the-ampersand-part-...
Washed up actors are cheaper and come already pre-washed. :-)
I strongly doubt that the handicapped are a large enough group for most businesses to notice the loss of their custom from not being accessible, or the gain from embracing accessibility. If that's true, then the question is whether one wants the handicapped to have access to these places, and what measures are worth doing.
Ask HN: Finding new and interesting content
tl;dr: What other sources/methods do HN'ers use to find new/interesting content?

So I came across an interesting link today on hacker news, as usual. Turns out the resulting blog is pretty interesting, too, not just that singular article. I also happened to come across another blog kind of randomly while browsing a project on github.

I guess what I'm getting at is that I got the idea that keeping track of all this would be useful, but I've never kept up with individual blogs before, used anything other than hacker news to find them in the first place, or used any sort of rss reader to keep track of everything.

So how do HN'ers go about this process?
> lack of public comments about requiring ISPs to store all session information for a long time

Data retention is there since a long time in Europe...
The argument about accessibility has essentially always been that processes and things being designed for accessibility from the outset doesn't really cost anything extra, it's bolting accessibility on afterwards that gets so very expensive.

That argument is convenient for some advocates to believe in a way which is orthogonal to its truth about a statement of engineering reality.
Hi Paul - thanks for replying - I've had offers of 2 venues already tonight, I organise www.g2i.org and www.pembridge.net events for hundreds so have a great network of venues, investors & entrepreneurs in London already - all it would take from you guys is to pop over and chat to the London folks - they'd love it.
Possibly, but: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2957882.
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And I'm sure the author of the article routinely encounters perfectly accessible web sites, but charity is not something we can rely on at scale, nor can we rely on there being some person who feels responsible for everything every business does or doesn't do.

I don't think the most important social progress happens spontaneously.
Why can't you believe both? The analogy to muscles and strength training is appropriate here. The day after a workout with very heavy weights, it's hard to lift much at all. So you need to recover.

The thing is that recovery is as important as the actual exercising, because it is during recovery that muscle strength increases. It may be just like that with exercising willpower: it is depleted temporarily, but given time to recover, in the long-term, willpower strengthens.
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I was thinking "of the price needed to by a gadget with equivalent functionality". But that's an interesting stat nonetheless.
This report by the Startup Genome Project builds on the argument that execution and not the quality of the idea is the most important determinant of a start-up's success. It argues that premature scaling is the biggest reason why so many start-ups fail.

If this is the case -- and I do agree -- my question is: At what point do you know you're done with the discovery, validation, efficiency parts of your growth/learning process?

Second question is: Given that so many start-ups self-destruct because they scale before they're done with these first three steps, what are the best ways to avoid this? Is it by creating an advisory board very early on? Is it by spending a lot of time conceptualizing your minimum viable product before launch -- or does it mean relaunching/rethinking your MVP several times? If you want to scale should you focus on monetization early on as opposed to thinking just about the product? (The report says sales-minded start-ups are 6.2x more likely to successfully scale.)
Sorry, but actually it sounds like quoted from a (programming) fantasy novel. Look at the other comments, who argue that the nice and clean code is not always the best, not always the goal and sometimes not even a goal that can be achieved. This(!) is what you learn from experience.
You're right: I re-read the original memo and I agree with you – he's addressing insolvency, not revenue. Leading up to an IPO, the key issue is solvency.

I'm going to take my own advice and ignore the Groupon sideshow until it goes away.
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Film directors become directors because they go around and tell people 'I'm a director putting a movie together, do you want to work with me/invest in me/help me?'

Isn't that usually the job of the executive producer?
Tablet-only version is just irritating.
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There's a great need for Founder Dating events in New York City. Any plans to head our way?
A website that is accessible for (most) old people is not automatically also accessible for, say, the blind. I fear, however, that you might be overlooking the point and get lost in small details: If something is a lot of work and only brings very few more customers, market mechanisms are no solution.

The stars may align every once in a while and circumstances may create a situation where the same improvement also benefits a different and much larger group of people but you can’t take that for granted.
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The way I read his tale, it sounds like VeriSign may have kept the signing keys for his intermediate CA, and their onsite secure terminal just submitted CSRs back to VeriSign and got the signed certificates back. VeriSign was then in a position to enforce the policy that no certs get signed for anything outside of the domains that should be signed.
As someone currently on month three of an interminable wait for a US bureaucrat (perhaps named Mr Godot) to decide whether I can marry my fiancée there or not, I wholeheartedly agree. The system's creaking as it is.
Surely this can not be right.
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Is a good programmer one who creates good code or one who is always looking to improve his code, experiment and get his programs to work?

Look with pride at the mistakes of your past and be ready to do more mistakes to improve in every line you write. That's my philosophy for now.
I can see the message already: "The torrent you're trying to download is not available in your country"

Thank you content industry...
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The Disconnect extension for Chrome is pretty good for that:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jeoacafpbcihiomhla...
Is there something similar to this for the iPad? I really like the UI. Great work!

Edit: I found this which looks similar http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hackernews-for-ipad/id3648999... but the reviews are horrible, unfortunately.
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This just replaced my previous Hacker News client. The interface is quite nice, and the navigation is thoughtful. Well done.
No, I'm well aware of that point. I'm also aware that what is easily accessibly for people with limitations is frequently more easy to use for "normal" people. As someone with a real serious handicap who finally was able to get a normal job (after many years of basically being unemployable), I am keenly aware of a) the ways in which my differences set me apart from others and b) the ways in which so many "normal" people are also handicapped but don't frame it that way. I'm strongly convinced that "personal preferences" are typically rooted in ease of use in the face of some issue or other which may not be fully acknowledged as a handicap. But that's a rather complicated discussion that perhaps would not be appreciated here: People who view themselves as "not handicapped" tend to get rather defensive if someone suggests they really aren't that different from someone like me.

Peace.
"There is a risk that Accumulo will be criticized for not providing adequate security. The access labels in Accumulo do not in themselves provide a complete security solution, but are a mechanism for labeling each piece of data with the authorizations that are necessary to see it."
I've been wondering if there's a good way to test this on a personal basis using something like compounding interest, only with candy.

For example, keeping a bag of Reese's Pieces, and every consecutive (time period) you go without breaking goal X, you add (# of time periods) pieces of candy to a jar. Then at the end of the day, you cash out your jar.

So, longer periods of self control would result in a larger reward, and a physical/visual representation of your progress so far would help reinforce your motivation to remain on track.

Maybe if using candy, you get to eat half of what you'd put in immediately, and take advantage of the gradually escalating amount of sugar to help reinforce your willpower reserves?

Mostly just brainstorming here. :P
Very interesting. I wrote a spec for something similar a few years ago. Swap out the false truth claims of religion for the true ones of science, but keep the community, the ceremony, and the decor.