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Ask HN: Is it time we replaced E-Mail, SMS, Twitter etc?
Is it time we replaced E-Mail with something better?

A better system would include (as standard rather than - proprietary - extensions):
- Authentication (of sender)
- Authorisation (of whom can send to me - whitelist)
- Encryption
- Safe (against viruses)
- Guaranteed (to arrive/has been read)
- Real Time
- Ubiquitous (same view on every machine)
- Open (Completely)
- N-User (Communications between multiple users)
- Efficient (Persistent connections/bidirectional protocols?)

Any thoughts? How many times has this been asked recently? Is there a genuine effort on this anywhere?
Assange claims they are being blackmailed by BoA in addition to financial blockade which is party of why there haven't been more releases lately.
As a developer working primarily in Java, I'm jealous that this is an option for the .NET (C#) people. Not jealous enough to want to work on Windows, or have to trust Mono not to get sued, but jealous, nonetheless.

Garbage collection is a wonderful option. It gets old when it's the only hammer you have.

What a joy to be able to maintain a large cache in your program, rather than having to rely on an external service. What a joy for virtual memory to actually work, rather than constantly (every 2 or 3 seconds) swapping back in something that wouldn't otherwise be used for a while, and even more frequently thrashing on L1/L2 caches.
I'm reminded of the Klein Bottles site: http://www.kleinbottle.com/

I could have sworn he did custom work, but I can't seem to see it listed on the site anywhere now. Still an awesome present for a mathematician though.
No one is upset by high resolution or DPI. They are upset that Apple ships a 150dpi system with a 120dpi UI.
This is a good point, but I'd wager parallel arrays are slower because the components of a "struct" don't have spatial locality in memory- thus you have poor cache coherence. Of course, this isn't an issue if you're primarily passing the flyweight objects around and not accessing all the fields.
This is particularly true if you're writing before the 18th century.

Anyone writing in the 21st century however could just ignore the original meaning of the word and go with the meaning it's picked up over time - that is implying a sense of scale without the negative implications. This definition would be supported by a majority of modern dictionaries.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/enormity
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enormity
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/enormity

See also: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enormity
> I'm well aware of the technical distinction between "libre" and "available." I should have said that Cassidy's belief is more in line with "libre," rather than gratuitous.

Did you mean "gratis"?

> A viable argument could be made that decreasing parking spaces infringes on an individual's liberty by pushing them more into private parking. It's admittedly weak, but it's something to consider.

That's not just weak. There is no right or freedom that entitles one to public parking. There's nothing "libre" about public parking.

> As for your support of the network effect, it's not the government's position, by executive decree, to encourage change. They are representatives of the people, and to that end should cater to the majority, with the judiciary acting in its role to protect the rights of the minority.

It most certainly is the government's job to encourage change. The role of the government is not simply to be the enforcer for the masses. A large part of the government's job is to maintain a prosperous nation. Sometimes that requires change that the majority doesn't necessarily support. There are probably relatively few meaningful things that the government does with the support of >50% of the population. Rather, there are a lot of things that please some significant minority of the population. e.g. Bob gets a new connection between two major roads, Joe gets a new bike lane, Sue gets lower taxes on groceries, and Mallory gets a Hybrid car subsidy.

> Considering your bus example, I admittedly have no understanding on how bus routes (or for that matter, bike routes) work. Certainly there's empirical research suggesting that the route would be used, but the trade off is that adding a new bus route does not result in taking away something else (aside from resources, but resource allocation is entirely different).

Public land use is an exercise in resource allocation. The idea that parking should take priority over bike lanes is an opinion. It comes down to estimating what will be best for the city, both short and long-term.
The real question is how many documents they've taken in.

The impression i was left with over the split between Wikileaks and OpenLeaks (and incidentally here's link to open leaks: http://openleaks.org/ ) was that WikiLeaks was left w/o any infrastructure to accept new documents, making it, effectively, useless.

I am not going to donate to Julian Assange's defense, as i think he's destroyed Wikileaks' credibility and capability to continue operating.
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I agree that bike lanes have safety problems, but let's not take it out on delivery drivers. Have you ever driven a delivery truck? Quite often there is not physical possibility of legal parking. At some point lanes are going to be blocked, and not just the bike line. The best we can hope for is enough courtesy not to entirely block the street.
It is more than 15 minutes of fame because that blog post about a company will come up on google on the front page when someone searches for the company.
Being on techcrunch can give you long tail traffic and a bump in being viewed as "established".
The comments in the thread are making it read like getting on techcrunch isn't worth anything at all.
No, it takes all the work before you ever talk to an investor plus a certain amount of time which for him could have between six weeks given the traction of DDG.
a U.S.-based tech site

This is a US based tech site? News to me. I thought it was a global site.
Nope. Not Einstein. It comes from the early 80s. There are two sources: a tennis murder mystery and the Narcotics Anonymous handbook. As you can see, we've been through this before :)

There are heaps more things Einstein never said, as well as Gandhi, Picasso, Leonardo, and other big names. Basically, the more you look into it, the more you find that if you have a favorite catchy quote by someone famous, they probably didn't say it.
Ask HN: Any links to (hacker-minded) parenting sites/communities/blogs?
There seem to be some parents in here. I'll be one in a few weeks. Any links you recommend? Or is there still an open niche for a "hacker parents" website?
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Yeah, I'm assuming he was in a contract which kept him around long enough for him to be made interim CEO. From there, I'm sure he was confident he'd secure the permanent role before long.
Probably the best thing to point to is the PLoS Annual Report, which is at: http://www.plos.org/about/what-is-plos/progress-updates/

Unfortunately, it doesn't break down the operating expenses of $12.21M (2010) with any more granularity than $6.68M on direct publishing expenses, $5.465M on operational expenses and $65K on advertising & marketing.
I noticed this too. I started to think of all the times I was mean to my dad or mom, or just an outright bad kid. Totally changes your perspective.
A lot of people here say he is very well known in the community and he is a great person. My first question was why haven't those people stepped up. Maybe there is a matching issue, I don't know. If not then they should. I would have.
You know I agree with this at so many different levels. I am currently at a point at my App where I need to decide to 'launch' or keep improving the quality of the product.

By improving the quality of the product I don't mean fixing bugs, I mean improving UX for example, execution speed, and the sort.

We decided on a release on an specific date, and we are sticking with it. But still I think about how much time I should spend improving the quality vs launch.

I guess one successful example is delicious. I trashed them so badly for releasing a low quality product (I am referring to the new owners). But then after a week the product already feels so much better than before.So I guess release often, does work.
I did the same, but have not swabbed.

My primary concern is that of privacy. I don't really trust that a record of my DNA/swab test won't end up somewhere it's not supposed to be.
The one plausible idea that has not been introduced, at least how they propose, would be pneumatic tubes for delivering packages. I have to think that such a system would be more efficient and cheap at some point than delivery by freight.
Hi Andrew,

what about the reliability? It seems that SSD's are at least twice as prone to irrecoverable crashes as mechanical drives (excluding cases of physical damage like the laptop falling off the desk)? What is your experience?

On topic - the quad core Sandy Bridge is already extremely powerful, these laptops will last for years to come performance-wise...
I'd argue that any UX is visual storytelling.
"As an adult, you may think you've roughly mapped the continent of love and relationships. You've loved your parents, a few of your friends, eventually a significant other. You have some tentative cartography to work with from your explorations. You form ideas about what love is, its borders and boundaries. Then you have a child, look up to the sky, and suddenly understand that those bright dots in the sky are whole other galaxies."

So Jeff is implying that those who choose to never have children will never experience love, life, and the universe with the intensity and awe that parents do. Somehow I'm "missing out". Sorry, but no.
Haven't had a chance to test it out, but how is it different than Poker Smash:

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Poker-Smash/66acd0...
Already covered here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3062900
> I think it's incredibly selfish to bring new kids into the world when there are so many that nobody wants.

Having a child is a selfish thing to do regardless. That's not really much of an accusation.
Fairly recently, a box came out for the car I drive that lets you use the steering wheel volume controls to upshift and downshift. The same box has a trick that, under very controlled circumstances, allows you to lock only the front brakes (the car is RWD) until your speed is > 5mph.

You have to be in fake-manual mode, set to 1st gear, with the brakes depressed, and the box enabled. Then you pull back on the cruise control stalk to engage the brakes. There's really no way to accidentally engage the mode, but yeah, that sounds exactly like the sort of thing you're worried about. Using the cruise control stalk to trick the car into thinking it hit a patch of ice, so it selectively engages the brakes.

I should note that a) I don't do burnouts and would never use this option, and b) I believe you can enable/disable it via USB and the programming utility.

Happy driving ;)
That fear is natural, and the reason why the various bone marrow organizations have all sorts of available brochures and web pages available.

For a first hand account: I've donated bone marrow by peripheral blood stem cell extraction, and it's mostly painless. I'd do it again any day (except I'm not allowed to by my country's organization's policy, but that's another problem). A colleague of mine donated by needle extraction, and didn't report anything traumatic.
I would recommend the sleeptracker watch.
And you forgot the benefits to your body.
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I wonder if you excised the word "shamelessly" from this comment, if people would have had a more interesting discussion, i.e. about building a site that enables people (including non-hackers), say in similarly life-threatened positions, to spread word and bring people/marrow/blood/etc. to their aid, and perhaps too, the aid of anyone else in a similar situation. Because I think what you're calling for is interesting: a platform (like Facebook or Tumblr), instead of a single blog.
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3-5mg of melatonin will have the opposite effect on me and prevent me from falling asleep.

The effective range for me is less-than 0.5mg, anything over that and receptor cross-over happens.

The main problems I have with it is that: 1) it makes me useless the next day (lack of motivation) and 2) I can only take it for a couple of days otherwise, even with the low dosage, it ends up having the opposite effect on me (just can't fall asleep that 3rd day on).
I watched this over the weekend. A great overview of cryptography.
I did see Poker Smash after I came up with this. So Poker Smash cards seem to rise up and you switch positions of cards to make hands. My game is definitely more along the lines of Tetris or Dr Mario where stuff falls down and you have to rotate that specific set. I hope that makes sense.
While this is an opinion piece, in our interpretation we did not see ANY of what was said there as a "woe is me" mentality.

Moreso, a call-to-action, and a request to put things in proper perspective, as opposed to judging the quality of your startup against the TC darlings who raise $41mm in a series A. ;)
Well he starts off by considering the kinetic energy of light...
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Agree re: military service. I don't even care if your MOS is relevant to what I do; simply having served says something good about character and is always relevant.

Disagree, unsurprisingly, with the rest of this comment.
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My experience of this is that the reference taker phoned up, and kept on going until the blandness wore off. The person got the job so I assume they were satisfied. I got the distinct impression that notes were being taken, and cross referenced with interview notes and the CV. I had a copy of the applicant's CV in front of me.
I can't believe how accurately this post reflects my own thoughts on parenthood. He just put into words so clearly exactly what I've been thinking and how I've been feeling.
Beautiful. I'd give this 400 points if I could.
CodeMash: Sold out in under 20 minutes
I get the feeling Apple knows and uses extremely SSD upgrades to drive higher checkout prices with artificially depressed advertised prices. (Yes, I am bitter that my old MBP is not user upgradeable. I understand that the newer ones are, though.)
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I have to agree with you on this. I have been a Microsoft supporter on most of their enterprises, but the tactics have to change.This is the kind of things that mess up the technology industry.
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IF Gabriel is reading this: How did you meet the VCs/Angels you already knew?
I am a web/software designer trying to learn programming. Over the last year I have gotten into iOS development and learned a lot. This is the first application I have written entirely on my own, without hiring out any of the development.

Objective-c has been a challenging language to learn, but having projects to learn with has always kept me focused and motivated.

Thanks for letting me know what you think!
I'm glad that there are other people agreeing with my view. As I was writing the post I got the feeling it was too negative and discouraging. But then I figured if a simple post discourages you from your idea you don;t have a passion for it. It is for the better to move on and do something else.

If you need help or just some notes on your project get in touch. I'm always happy to lend a hand if I can.

Cheers
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> I am not going to donate to Julian Assange's defense, as i think he's destroyed Wikileaks' credibility and capability to continue operating.

I completely missed any recent news regarding Assange... do you mind expanding on your reasons? I'm really interested.
It's absolutely worth to be on TC, for many reasons. No dispute about that.
Well, not that I was talking to you (I was talking to cookiecaper) But I appreciate the interest even if your reply is a little bit of a response to something I didn't say.

Near as I can tell your process appears to be first come first serve.

By your own statements, you don't look at resumes, and you apparently don't ask any particular questions about work history or education during your interview process. I'm guessing you have some sort of technical screen since you've alluded to having some sort of highly specialized selection process of some sort.

But I've illuminated you enough with what I've learned to be a solid and reliable process, and I know I must be unfairly characterizing your process above or you wouldn't be in business, so what's yours?
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So yeah-- you're ignoring the part of the definition that comes before the semicolon for shameless. And zeroing in on one word in that definition (modesty). I think you're playing semantician, and you're not playing particularly well. I don't think very many people would agree that Amit should feel shame for what he's doing.

Question for you: Do you think he should feel shame for what he's done? If you broke your leg alone in the woods, would you cry out for help?
Having a rigid process is often an overkill for small companies.

Processes don't have to be "rigid". For example, "everyone online between 2-4pm GMT" is not all that rigid, and imposes very little overhead, but greatly helps with team communications.
I completely understand your #3. We keep making excuses and rationalizing, for years and years, the fact that the overwhelming majority of software projects are fucked.

It doesn't sound like burnout to me either. I went through something similar. The solution was to admit that I had taken a wrong turn in my programming career, and commit to working only on things I believe in. It was either that or get out of the software business altogether.
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Use a backup system. A factor of 2x isn't life changing. The cost of crash recovery is more than balanced by the improved productivity pre-crash.
I saw a similar site a while back that took a slightly different approach to making real-world items from kids drawings that probably works better in this regard - they turned them into jewelry for moms in the form of necklaces and pendants.

I don't think the site is around anymore, though. I believe it was just one person making them.
If you factor too early you end up with a function that takes ten parameters. Sometimes cut+paste functionality evolves into truly divergent code, and you have to have a "feel" for when it will happen.
It would be really nice if the high performance ssh patches were ever merged- I think they've maintained them outside the trunk for the last 5 years or more.
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Nearly all of what you say is true. However, you neglect to mention that it all applies to pedestrians as well, and drivers of course have their own version of each.

I have observed (and swerved to avoid) many pedestrians who don't use crosswalks, ignore crossing signals (it is not OK to start walking when the "don't walk" is flashing") , and walk right in front of bicycles in a bike lane with a green light, all because, you know, rules don't apply to pedestrians. A 90kg man crossing the street is not something you want to run into when you're cycling. Cyclists don't "win" that collision in the same way a car wins a collision with either. Many pedestrians happily clog lanes that are clearly designated for cycling only, despite a clearly marked pedestrian lane being 3 feet to the left or right. (Vassar street in cambridge, MA is my favorite example of this.)

Next time you get upset about rouge bikers, remember to look around for rouge pedestrians too. I know I have to, because they sure as heck aren't looking where they're going...
That, and ‘peas as large as beets’. I’d like to see that.
I would be careful with that question. I worked at one company where they were very much against re-hiring anyone that left based on where they went/were going.

Another factor is personal differences can lead to that same false positives (negatives?) about that person.

I guess I'm simply trying to say: that question is not always answered based on work ethic or product.
There's a bit of space between "there's no education listed on your resume, what's up with that?" and "give us every ounce of data there is to be had about you being in school."

The first one is reasonable. The second one isn't, and in my opinion is also a waste of time.
> I'd wager parallel arrays are slower because the components of a "struct" don't have spatial locality in memory

How much would you wager? I'm willing to take your money :)

> Of course, this isn't an issue if you're primarily passing the flyweight objects around and not accessing all the fields.

If you examine codebases, you see that this is actually the prevalent use case for objects in general.

It turns out that in practice, parallel arrays are often significantly faster, because more often than not you _do_ access a lot of (memory consecutive) records, and you _don't_ access all the fields.

Assume e.g. your structure has student names and numeric grades. For display purposes, you are likely to read both name and grade.

However, for just about every other purpose, you are likely to scan/process grades without ever looking at the name (e.g., to compute grade statistics; or to sort by grade). And in this case, you actually have much _better_ cache locality than you would have otherwise -- and also much better memory usage compared to individual allocation of objects.

Furthermore, if you take this approach, you find that your functions become type-concrete but use-generic, reducing your code footprint (both LOC and I-cache), because e.g. instead of "calcAverageGrade(student[] x)", you can just use a routine called "calcAverage(float[] x)", and call it ont he grade vector.

APL, J and K take this approach to its logical conclusion. The result is programs that are 10-1000 times shorter than the idiomatically comparable Python, Java, C#, C++ etc., and that have runtimes the compare favorably with C and C++.
You don't need an app for that: how band promotion turned into a startup idea
effin amazing and great idea. not sure if they can scale it but god that is brilliant
There are guides at
http://www.ifixit.com/

You can look through the steps it would take to see if your comfortable doing it yourself.

I have done many repairs on my MBP and they were pretty easy. just required patience.
"Underutilized" is a pretty iffy measure when comparing parking to bike lanes. Let's say 10 drivers can park on one side of a city block. Their cars will be parked for an average of 2 hours, and will carry 1.5 passengers. The parking is heavily contended for 14 hours. Given these rough estimates, 105 people will benefit from the parking each day. How many cyclists need to use that same land per day to be considered properly utilized? 200? 500? The fact that a bike lane isn't congested doesn't mean it's underutilized relative to parking.

And let's not forget that bike lanes are a public good, while parking spaces can be (and are) provided by private businesses. For that matter, the city could provide public lots or garages that are off the road. Parking does not need to be curbside.