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Freedombox with node.js only? Interesting.
Unhappy with the lack of progress, how about a radical new approach? Single-language, highly secure approach. Needs a lot of work AFAICS but worth pondering.
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Not all of us see C++ as an improvement over C.

Sure, C++ has great advantages, but it also great disadvantages.

I use C for many things not because of "macho", but because C is good enough. I can work around the disadvantages using standard techniques. The result is code that is easily FFI'able from any language, quicker to compile, has a smaller footprint, sane error messages, easily debuggable in gdb, etc.

Also, there are some advantages in the abstractions that C encourages you to use. For example, lack of templates pushed C programmers to discover intrusive data structures, and those are better in many ways than templated containers ala STL.

Another example: "virtual" methods may fail to override a base class method if you make a typo - resulting in potentially cryptic bugs. Using a simple macro in C:

#define MAKE_VTABLE(prefix) { prefix##foo, prefix##bar }

I can make vtables that are safer than C++, and require no more boilerplate than C++ code. The compiler will guarantee that I implement all of the required vtable methods.

If I want to get speed via multi-core rather than pure uniprocessor speed, why use C++? I can use Haskell and get much easier and safer parallelism with many other advantages.
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Objective-C is a strict superset of C, so learning C helps a lot for any iOS or Mac programming.

C++ is also heavily based on C, so it helps to learn C++.

I agree C is hardly used anymore, and for good reason, but it's still interesting to learn.
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I'm always startled when I see speculation or surprise that animals exhibit "human" behavior as though they're not just animated vegetables; for fuck sake, yes, they're sentient beings and experience all the same things we do(!). They're just pretty stupid. ;-)
Tim Sebastian hosting HARDtalk was the only true hard hitting interviewer I've ever seen, although I suppose the BBC doesn't count as a traditional media company. I was disappointed with the quality of his successors; they turned HARDtalk into a talk show. Does anybody know of any current shows with a similar interview style?
(Based on the little you've written here...) You sound passionate, but your friends don't.
If anyone is interested in topics like this I would recomend: http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/

This is one of the top financial blogs currently.

Look at articles regarding fraction reserve lending like this one: http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/03/central-b...
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great work!

small question, where do you check the implementations for the special properties? the ones starting with -webkit -ms -moz, etc.

it must be a pain in the arse to write the same stuff 4 times!
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I don't think it has commercial value, simply because of the OpenSource competition. But it's nothing short of amazing the sheer amount of work he has done.

If this guy was born long enough before the Internet age, he'd probably be a historical figure of computing. His seemingly lacking social abilities would have been mostly a non-factor.
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By requiring that the length of the string be given as one of the arguments, just like strlcpy does.
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Here's a trick: as you are typing in your l/p, click somewhere on the screen to defocus the textbox and then type some random characters and then click back on the textbox. And also type random characters into the textbox, and then select them with the mouse and overwrite them with correct characters. Do this a bunch. Almost all keyloggers just log all key strokes, then people scan for stuff that looks like "john@example.comLkd98/x,". There's still the chance that your internet cafe has a more sophisticated logger on it. But if you do this you've made a real step to fight keyloggers in internet cafes.
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^ This is the thing I found most confusing about this story. I, also, lost access to Mass Payments on one of my accounts recently, and am going to be asking them (PayPal) what's up (I have a dedicated account manager that blankets my accounts, even though this particular one is my personal and thereby lower volume one), but haven't gotten to it yet.
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We have a server that has only 2GB of RAM and being a bit slow. We thought upgrading RAM to 4GB will speed things up. So I emailed our account manager at hosting firm how much would upgrade cost - he said £150+VAT on-off fee. (2GB RAM UPgrade). It looked to much for me so I looked around how much it costs on different sites, and seen 4GB RAM upgrade for £175+VAT , I emailed back to him and said its really too much and that company X does it for Y.

He emailed in 5 minutes that he can bring down the price to £100+VAT . Are we being ripped off here? Why there is not standard pricing on this stuff?
"Hypothesis: There is more to be gained intellectually by reading 10 novel synopses on Wikipedia that reading any one of the novels all the way through."

That depends completely on what your goal is. What do you "gain intellectually" when knowing the overall story? Aren't novels more about the experience you get while reading them?

For news I can understand summaries can be as good as the whole thing, especially if you're not that interested but want to know what is going on.
This seems to be a wee bit of "ideas which I didn't think of and don't appeal to me, which I'm bitter are successful."

Or, to put it another way, people busy making don't have time for complaining.
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I'd note that one of the people who's behaviour was exactly the kind of behaviour that should be discouraged ('I hate to be the guy') has very overall high score and quite high avg score.

I think conflating comment score and article submission score is a mistake because of this kind of thing.
I have been in a very similar situation. Looking back, I wish I had first and foremost stopped putting myself over the edge. Constant overwork and unnecessary sacrifices have deprived me of the ability to properly deal with the problems including the one of undercommitted cofounders.

I wish I could offer you a perfect solution, but I doubt one exists. If your cofounder doesn't care it just means you have a wrong cofounder. But you sound overly stressed and I can tell you it impacts decision making in a really bad way. So if there is any solution, to find it you'll have to get out of the "sacrifice" mode yourself first.
I'm always a bit irritated when I see that companies provide new customers dreamy offers but the old customers get nothing (and are effectively subsidizing that).
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I've seen crows heaving fun earlier. In the mountains I saw two crows hovering on the strong air current (without flapping their wings) just half a meter above the sloped ground cawing loudly. All this for significant period of time for no apparent reason other than just to enjoy themselves.

This one also looks like he's having fun. I don't understand why using lid as a sled is so unbelievable. Some dogs use skateboards to have fun.
+1 for bcrypt - "ordinary" hashing algorithms were made to compute as fast as they can, which is exactly the opposite of what you will want for your system. Rainbow tables are so quick and easy to make - IIRC it currently takes only some hours to compute all MD5 hashes for passwords up to 8 characters long on a system with some good graphic cards.
What you want is an algorithm which takes an up-to-date system some 10-100ms to compute a hash - bcrypt is configurable in its complexity (time to compute hash), and you should adapt the parameters every 1-2 years to increase the complexity.
I'm going to have to side with Zed here. If I'm teaching an introductory class on Chemistry, you'd better believe that when I reach the section on cyanide I'm going to tell students: "bad, bad, bad; never use this chemical"! If those introductory students were to take a more advanced class, then I would probably tell them: "well, ok, cyanide isn't going to kill you instantly and is actually really useful for a wide range of applications".

Part of being a good teacher is recognizing that there are limits to how much you can expect a student to learn at a given level, and then making sure their knowledge is as "complete" as possible within those limits.
This is simply because long comments very rarely provide more value than short ones. In fact, I would wager that shortness is a good quality that shows the poster tried to condense his point into its true essence.

Example: The parent post could be ~ 5 lines and contain the same point. I really like the way 4chan handles this sort of thing: The so called "green text". On 4chan it is unspoken rule that nobody cares about you. In order to make your text interesting enough to be read, you have to make it as short as possible while still carrying your point across.
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Also i have plans to make /a lot/ of tools to help even more! :D
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I've noticed this too. Unfortunately, my two most upvoted comments recently have been of the "throwaway" variety. Not mean, not trollish, but a couple of easy-to-agree with quickies that I banged off on the bus ride to work. One[1], perhaps legitimately upvoted so that the response would be more visible, was a simple statement that the submission was a couple years old and it would be interesting to see some newer data. The other[2] was a cheap, throwaway anti-SOPA line.

The danger here is that the easy-to-upvote throwaway comments become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Like it or not, karma is social validation. A long, thought-out reply that gets no upvotes is somewhat depressing; it makes you think that, even at your most thoughtful, your thoughts are unappreciated. Contrast that with a cheap and easy line that gets 40 points, and the social feedback is clear: your considered opinion isn't valued, but your cheap lines are.

It makes me think that the karma system itself might be fatally flawed for its lack of scalability. What works for a small, mostly homogenous community breaks when that community becomes larger and more diverse. We can deny it all we like, but I'm sure most people feel pretty good when they log on and see their karma significantly higher than it was the last time they checked. It's an ego boost, and few people are immune to enjoying that. When playing to the lowest common denominator gives you that fix of social validation, and a more thoughtful comment doesn't, it's pretty strong positive reinforcement for the less-desirable behaviour.

I'm not sure how to combat this in a scalable manner. It's difficult to think of examples of community-moderated forums maintaining quality in the face of rapid expansion. My previous suggestions of weighting the votes of those who consistently upvote quality comments higher than those of people who upvote fluff has met with little traction, and I can see some pretty big potential weaknesses there, myself.

In reviewing this comment, however, I have had a thought of something that seems ridiculously trivial, but might just work: pg has stated before his belief that comment length is a relatively good indicator of quality. I notice, however, that the comment box is relatively tiny. It makes a long, thought-out post appear, prima facie, no more substantive than a 3-liner. I would be interested to see what the result of making the comment box significantly larger would be. Would people, upon seeing that much empty space surrounding a throwaway comment, be likely to reconsider posting it? Are there easy cues like this that can be used to hack the behaviour of commenters? I'd be interested in seeing the results of running an A/B test on a seemingly simple change like this: Make half the users' comment boxes two or three times as long. Leave it that way for a few months, then take a random sample of the resulting comments and see if there's a difference in quality. I wouldn't be surprised if there was.

[1]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3458644

[2]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3462700
Think about how they make money from Android while competiting with Windows Phone. They're clever enough to realise you can make money from multiple angles.
I don't want to seem unfair, they've all putted more or less work, with more or less enthusiasm, especially one, which has gone several weekdays nights and weekends without sleep, hacking away with me. We have been through ups and downs, and they could have all given up, but they haven't. Ultimately they are all my friends and may be afraid of letting me down. The truth is that they do not feel the burden as i do, nor their name or their finances is at stake. So I am at loss here as well. Thank you for time :)
Not to nitpick, but Zoho also has portfolio of several other products including Accounting, CRM, Helpdesk, Network Manager among others. And their total employee strength as you said is ~1500.
Couldn't you automate this process?

Group the pixels into 5 buckets, take the average of the pixels in each bucket and then sort the colors based on the number of pixels in each bucket. Not sure what machine learning algorithm would be appropriate for classification but I don't think it would be that difficult. I'm pretty sure k-nearest neighbor would produce a decent classification if you think of pixels as being in a three dimensional space.

Then assign the color values into your CSS template, voila you should have a design that matches the color palette of each image.

edit: I've been playing with this process and just scaling the image to 16x16 seems to work fairly well for building a palette.
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Sure. I hear that. I was just taken back by how similar to dribbble it was in it's initial look and feel. I think I may have spoken too soon though admittedly before I understood the site. I didn't understand the site iniially upon landing there.

Edit: didn't mean to delete the earlier post, typing on an iPhone at 4am :/
I run a much less successful site than this and have dealt with and thought a lot about comment issues. HN does a brilliant job, for the most part, in handling comments. I would say that some people are unfairly hell banned (I see dead people) or slow banned, but it's for the greater good of the community and you can always get a new account.

My one possible suggestion would be to make HN more social. That way all the people who like to be trolls can troll each other and people not interested can unfollow, etc... Although, the Google+ Hacker News Circle has basically done this for me, and I like it a lot.
If you already qualified for the free tier, you will still be able to have access to it, so it is not only for new customers but also for existing customers that qualified
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Out of curiosity, believing that, are you a vegan or vegetarian? If not, how do you justify killing something that can experience being killed?
Television is not about debate, it's about sound bites.

Television is not about facts, it's about communicating feelings and emotions. It's about painting an image of your opposition.

Memes we need to spread:

The moguls and their political puppets that support these bills are dinosaurs.

These bills were written by lawyers who don't understand that this will break the internet.

These bills are created by "media moguls" or "media elite" afraid of innovating.

SOPA / PIPA needs to be painted as radical and extremist.

Computers and the internet have been the backbone of innovation and economic growth the past 20 years.

The censorship meme (sadly) doesn't matter to Middle America. We need to drop it.

I'd suggest the following talking points and sound bites for the next debate:

-"Kauffman Foundation says that 2/3 of new jobs are created by high growth technology startups. This bill breaks the internet, and kills startups that could be the next Facebook, YouTube, Google or Ebay."

-When faced with the lying... "Are Google, Twitter, Facebook, Ebay, Yahoo all lying then?"

-"Media companies and their lobbyists tried to kill VHS, the cassette recorder, the phonograph, the MP3 player and now... now, they are trying to kill the internet. They were wrong then. They're wrong now."

-"The people who created this bill are lawyers not engineers. They don't understand how the internet works."

-"SOPA and PIPA are radical copyright protectionism"

-"SOPA and PIPA are corporate welfare of the worst kind, protecting industries that are afraid of innovation"

-"We are in the worst economic conditions in a century. This the the worst possible time to ram through radical legislation created to protect media moguls sitting on mountains of cash".

-"In this terrible economy, we need to do everything we can to support technology companies who are one of the few bright spots in this economy"

And... for what it's worth... after we beat SOPA / PIPA, we need a Startup PAC to take a proactive long view on educating legislators and their staffers on these issues, rather than constantly reacting to awful legislation like SOPA/PIPA.
> "Of course I'm not anti-thinking but it's very difficult to express yourself (in most media, but especially talking) if you hesitate constantly."

I vehemently disagree - some of my most respected people in life pause frequently while speaking, and will directly ask for a moment when questioned about something, to collect their thoughts. I give these people's words incredible weight in my life not just because I respect them as people, but knowing that what they're telling me is well considered instead of knee-jerk.

I think the social expectation of having an answer at the drop of a hat on anything is pretty unfortunate, and makes us all a little bit dumber.
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Le jeu a de plus en plus les modes largement utilisé de divertissement. Des enfants aux adultes, tous sont friands de jeux vidéo Nintendo. Avec de telles énorme demande de jeux vidéo, il y a un effort croissant pour apporter les nouvelles technologies et mettre à niveau ce monde du jeu avec des fonctionnalités avancées et conviviales. Cartes Flash jouent un rôle très important qui soutient le moteur du jeu pour offrir les meilleures performances.
Actually, regardless of what you think of this specific video, crows are pretty damn smart:

[1] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/08/0808_020808_... (Crows use and figure out how to create tools.)
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/science/26crow.html (Crows recognize human faces and communicate about it.)
The free tier is only for new customers. If you've been using AWS for years, you will not get this offer to test a Windows-server in the cloud.
I don't know about your culture, but I've never heard anyone use 'sql server' when they meant 'the database server'. You just don't call it that. I also think it's a pretty dumb product name. You might as well call a web server 'html server'.
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What do you mean by "the salt is secure"? Hidden in code files vs. stored next to the hashed password?
Would love to see this, but definitely not prepared to go the Itunes route.
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This is a great example of what deeply bothers me about these sorts of IP rules. The best description I've read of the mindset of those who support these rules, but still not a sufficient argument to convince me: "What Colour are Your Bits?" at http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/lawpoli/colour/2004061001.php.
I believe animals can "experience being killed" and justify my eating of them mostly by the fact that eating them increases my productivity which helps me work more optimally towards reducing the suffering of other sentient beings. Also, I am somewhat selfish.
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Thanks for the pointers! As a long-term HN addict, I am fully aware of the crow's aptness in some regards.