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How do I tell DJB that all links under http://cr.yp.to/crypto.html are broken?
The fact that users tolerate and even encourage of flashy but inconsistent and impractical UI design says a lot about just how important most mobile apps are to their users.
Black holes can't exist.
Agreed. ExtremeTech writes about some really cool stuff, but then goes does it in such a blogspammy way. There's an order of magnitude price difference between the products. The title couldn't be more linkbait.

I've started to skip the ET articles and just read the comments on HN, which are usually pretty interesting, and way more accurate.
The big draw for the pi is the price at around $30 it's a very feature rich machine. The pi would actually do better in the market that intel is targeting (kiosks and digital displays) do to its size and ability to run off USB power. You could strap it to the back of a HDTV and piggyback on one of the USB ports most flat screens ship with these days.
Considering the tiny form factor, I suspect it will come with the CPU. (Think of it as a small laptop. Fiddling with the heatsink/fan assembly is probably going to be quite tricky in the NUC.)
Kickstarter designs that never saw the light
You can still use Amazon Payments outside the US. Unfortunately, unlike PayPal, they bill you directly in the target currency which means your bank or credit card company may charge you fees - they did for me :(
I disagree. It is one thing to take notes during a lecture, and it is totally another thing to take photos every five seconds in a concert. Different people learn differently, for some people writing actually helps them learn better. Also, writing on a paper in a class doesn't disturb other people around. Compare this with someone constantly taking photographs (complete with flash and stuff) in a concert. People around him/her also don't end up enjoying the concert.

I went to times square for new year's eve (first time for me). All around me, people were constantly taking photos, flashes everywhere. Totally ruined the experience (I didn't mind the cold, the crowd, noise etc, those were much better to tolerate than the constant flashes)
AskPG: Why was this popular submission about phone chargers killed?
Yesterday's submission about cheap phone chargers from China was killed for no apparent reason:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3903705
All I see is the text "‰PNG  IHDR[$‘þVœjawh". MIME type screw up server side?
And yet this problem kind of goes away in a key value or graph database. I wonder if the ORM mismatch is often not one of objects getting in the way, but one of using relational in the first place. At anyrate, how you manage your objects (for things like search) is ideally orthogonal to the objects themselves; though this is difficult to accomplish in practice.

I use objects in reactive (non-persistent/DB) systems all the time. Objects aren't the problem, but you do have to manage your dependencies dynamically by tracing/dirtying/and cleaning. Objects actually excel at encapsulating and managing state, it is much harder to do this with functions (see all the work on functional-reactive programming).
Did you mean to respond to my post?

I agree with what you said. I tried hard to use C++ language features (especially STL) in a previous job and it was more hassle than it was worth, honestly.
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I hope that when you gain downvoting powers that you can resist abusing them by downvoting posts you disagree with.

When she signed up for Facebook she agreed to terms of service that allow Facebook to do exactly what they did. Even though Facebook has a reputation for abusing their users in myriad ways, she decided to rely on them. No, I can not manage to feel sympathy. Sorry if this comes across as "thoughtless", but I've actually put a lot of thought into this - partly because some of these Facebook users are my friends and family, some of whom I've warned, and all of whom should know better.
Article: http://www.arcfn.com/2012/03/inside-cheap-phone-charger-and-...

HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3903705
Last names you will have trouble with in the age of computers
Depends on how old you are perhaps?

I remember being told that my way would work but wasn't OO enough, and because of that it was wrong i.e. I hadn't done well on that portion of the interview.
Bookmarked. I like yours better than the one above because of its simplicity. I have also have a plain Latex CV, but you chose better font types, sizes and widths for columns so it reads better than mine. Next time I do my CV, I'll probably use your template.
> GAAP is nonsense. cash flow is what matters.

Apparently, GAAP cash flow is news to you. Also, the fact that you're not interested in profitability says everything that I need to know about you and your firm.
Ah reality. You're why we can't keep nice growth patterns.
The pop-music assembly line is actually pretty fascinating -- and definitely staffed by artists. Check out this New Yorker article about Ester Dean, whose role on the assembly line is coming up with a hook for the producer's computer-generated tracks:

Dean has a genius for infectious hooks. Somehow she is able to absorb the beat and the sound of a track, and to come out with its melodic essence. The words are more like vocalized beats than like lyrics, and they don’t communicate meaning so much as feeling and attitude—they nudge you closer to the ecstasy promised by the beat and the “rise,” or the “lift,” when the track builds to a climax. Among Dean’s best hooks are her three Rihanna smashes—“Rude Boy” (“Come on, rude boy, boy, can you get it up / Come on, rude boy, boy, is you big enough?”), “S&M” (“Na-na-na-na COME ON”), and “What’s My Name” (“Oh, na-na, what’s my name?”), all with backing tracks by Stargate—and her work on two Nicki Minaj smashes, “Super Bass” (“Boom, badoom, boom / boom, badoom, boom / bass / yeah, that’s that super bass”) and David Guetta’s “Turn Me On” (“Make me come alive, come on and turn me on”).

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/03/26/120326fa_fact_...

I mean, sure it's ridiculous, but these tracks are made by people who are uniquely good at the ridiculous things they like doing. If they've found a way to get paid for that, my hat's off to them.
I know it's the BBC, but I am always disappointed by the technical calibre of these reports, "The data gathered included contents of some emails and web browsing history". Guess I should read Ars.
Jasmine is used for unit testing and you should mock dependencies like faking XHR requests, whereas with Capybara/Selenium you do acceptance tests to test the frontend/backend integration.
You provided great arguments for 1 and 2. Adding a "my questions" view and an "all my tags" view are certainly worth considering and wouldn't be difficult to implement. Number 3 is actually implemented already. Once you select a tag or view all questions, pull the detail view down to reveal search and sort controls. We're considering showing these controls by default as users are not finding them.

Thank you for the great feedback and we're glad you're enjoying consuming SO content in a new way!

EDIT: Also, as soon as the Stack Exchange API supports write access, we'll be all over that.
Bigger size, 3x the price (at least), requires fan.. not in the same league as the RPi at all. I wish tech writers would stop thinking "SMALL COMPUTER = RPI COMPETITOR!".

Get down to that same ~$35 price point, and we'll talk.
>>>59. What was "ubl"?

ubl ("under bell labs") was a AT&T UNIX port of BSD rogue with some minor changes, most significantly the name of the executable.

At the Labs, a short cut (bypassing going up to a floor with a walkway) allowed one to travel from one building to another utilizing the subfloor (hence "under bell labs") containing the pipe network for power, water, oxygen (and other gasses piped to to labs), occasionally ducking around a corner here and there. It was hot, noisy, dark and cavernous. And quite busy (esp. at lunchtime!)

Running ubl and discovering rogue was an amusing little hack. Wish I knew who was responsible!
> and under non-GAAP it has earnings.

Yes, when it ignores arbitrary expenses, which are considered legitimate by GAAP, it turns a profit.

Coincidently, when I ignore expenses incurred by my wife, my income also goes up considerably. Want to invest?
What? You don't keep the objects permanently in memory. You call up the faculty object via ORM, perform your action such deleting a student. Then get rid of the facaulity object(Going out scope in the method). Next to you call up the faculty object via orm everything's updated.

"Then I want to be able to filter students according to different conditions. And I end up writing nested loops for every possible condition and join I need. I refactor. I generalize. After a few months or years I've implemented nonstandard relational database."

Only a moron would write loops to search using an ORM. You implement a generic search method on the object, which executes the relevant SQL statement(Via HQL or LINQ) and returns the result.
ORMS do this stuff automatically, no need to write loops to search...

I mean how badly have you been abusing ORMS?

You've been using ORMS wrong. ORMS provide the whole range relational features. They just map the results of the SQL statement into objects.

Relational Databases are good keeping data integrity correct, not so good at modelling computations. So you use the best tool for the job, relational database for storing data. Then extract that data from the database, and then use whatever (functional, OO, logic languages) to perform operations on that data.

Relational is not a way to perform computations on data, other than searching and using the various relational search features. Try implementing a machine learning algo on data using solely SQL...
It works in other browsers but IE, for instance, has Metro styling for form elements by default in Windows 8.

Plus I believe it's slightly better optimised for some things, and some Metro features use vendor-prefixed CSS only MS supports just now, I think.
Wouldn't it look better if you right aligned your phone, mobile and email?
Once you factor in shipping of the computer itself, and a case for the Rasp Pi ($20 or so), the price difference is actually quite small.
The author of this article clearly has no idea about what a system like Raspberry Pi is aiming for. The lack of Windows compatibility is one of its most important features. It's about kids learning to do fun, interesting, challenging things with a computer. It's not about using an office suite or playing TF2.
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That's not that uncommon a pricing model in the arts even pre-Kickstarter. You've got the $10 CD, the $25 limited-edition CD with bonus tracks, the $100 super-limited leatherbound box set signed by the artist, etc.
I realize there is more to the deal than just the Nook Color/tablets, but I think it is interesting to imagine that either the Nook will continue to run Android and Microsoft will now be involved with selling Android devices or existing apps already purchased will not work on future versions of a non-Android Nook device.
We've had a few people introduced to be "advisors". Very hard to get the right balance of value for both parties. We bailed both times and decided to just back ourselves.
Was my post too long for you? You must have missed this part: "reasons that often have little to do with Java as a language".
Ask HN: opinion on Limestone Networks as a dedicated provider?
Wondering if you have some good or bad experience with them.

They are at www dot limestonenetworks.com (broken so that does not look like I'm baiting)
I think you need to read the post again.

In the first example, he:

- initializes a view
- asks the collection to fetch itself
- asserts that the VIEW now has 20 person elements, not the collection.

What this first test does is asserting that the "PersonsView" and its event binding and logic is setup correctly.

The same applies for the second example where PersonsView is the object under test. In this example he asserts that an ".errors" element exists in the view if the ajax request fails. I.e. that view logic and event binding for error handling is setup correctly.

Both cases test custom code in PersonsView. The tests would probably fail if PersonsView->initialize or PersonsView->render didn't behave correctly. As far I can tell, no code test Backbone in itself.
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I have seen this topic numerous times (maybe different links but the same topic) over the past few days so perhaps it was killed because it was a duplicate? It shouldn't have been though as there was a very active discussion going.
I think you have it reverse -- I'm not in search to join a startup, I'm in search of others to join me. Basically, what I'm finding is that many of the candidates I'm interviewing have entirely the wrong expectations for joining a startup... at least in my geographic region (mid-Atlantic US). I'm sure it's different in your locale. But around these parts, many candidates for the startup positions simply aren't "startup friendly".
It already does, and it's used in the Metro interface. However, unfortunately, IE10 is not released yet.
Another aspect related to this point is that we have a slow backend system and we wanted our JavaScript tests to be blazingly fast, also the integration tests. I hate waiting for tests. Now I can run ours all the time because they don't use any time at all (well, okey, they take a second ...).
IE10 already has modern CSS support, in fact I believe it has some newer features other browsers don't have yet. Unfortunately it's not yet released, although it's in the Win8 Consumer Preview.
True; but for random programmer off the street, these languages impose an additional cognitive load. For a given Java library, most of the example code and documentation will be geared to Java itself, and translating that to "another JVM language" isn't always trivial.

Especially since most programmers out there are not polyglots, work in a big company, and may not even by "programmers" but just "engineer/accountant/business person who programs a bit".
On my monitor, all the links above the fold are Google ads. I'm not suggesting they stop showing ads. That's how they make money. It's just a question of balance between ads and organic search. The amount of screen real estate dedicated to PPC has been increasing over the last few years, though, and a lot of people are taking notice. Plus, Google comes off a bit hypocritical when Brin criticizes Facebook for being a walled garden.

Bing isn't too much better for this search phrase, but kudos to DDG for the Super User post atop the search results.
China launches two more Beidou navigation satellites
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Simplest explanation is "hyper"=above/beyond and "linear"=straight line. So the revenue should do better than a straight up-and-to-the-right line, i.e. curve up. He could have just said "exponential" except some HNers would pick nits about whether that was the only acceptable curve.
IE10 has much better CSS support. It's just not released yet. I don't know why people keep complaining about this, though.
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Sorry, by "resources", I meant "experienced ROR developers" and thats a statement specific to my city- Kolkata, India. Wish I was in Chicago or San Francisco. :)
Indeed, online help is available, but its time consuming if the developer doesnt have sufficient experience.
All large tech companies in India have Java practice, so Java developers are in abundance, and usually have better coding habits too. This may not be true in some other places.
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Barnes & Noble to spin off Nook business, Microsoft will invest $300 million
30 times the power consumption.

7 times the cost (you probably wanted a CPU and RAM to go with the motherboard).

No programmable pins for controlling the world.

Closed design.

It's just a tiny PC motherboard. Nothing to do with a Raspberry Pi other than the hook Sebastian Anthony chose for his title.
I like to browse some of the Stack Exchange sites simply to educate myself. From this viewpoint an iPad app makes sense, although I would welcome a write API, too.
The speculated price point in the article is $100 (which is conjecture), but then you have to add an 1155 CPU and a couple of sticks of DDR3 memory. There's also no slot for an SD card, which is going to make storage more expensive.

Practical builds of this aren't going to be below $200 (and that's assuming the price quoted in the ET article is correct).

You're right about no case, but this unit also requires shipping.

I stand by order of magnitude.
You could install Linux on the NUC, too. x86 support isn't inherently a bad thing, surely.
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B&N Spins Off Nook Business Into a New, Microsoft-Backed Venture
I can't tell if this is serious or not... I mean it's on msdn so I assume it is? It strikes me as very strange that the article goes "look how gorgeous the theme looks" and then shows screenshots below that clearly look terrible...
As a fleshed out theory, no. There is no privileged frame of reference in Newtonian mechanics, so that's not exactly a new idea. People had been measuring the speed of light for a while, so light having speed X and no privileged frame of reference is no great leap over the 50+ years they had been measuring the speed of light it had probably occurred to thousands of people as one of the possibility's. The aether idea and ballistic theory where a few of the many possibility's being considered back then.

Anyway, what Einstein did was deeper than just saying the speed of light was constant and there are no privileged frames of reference. Einstein got the math in all it's glory to work out.
Scala's feature-space is admittedly crowded, but there is a method to the madness.

Scala's core design is generally to use a small number of rules to create a wide range of possibilities; the macro design they've chosen fits right in.

At the cost of almost no extra syntax, a whole range of things that would have required compiler plugins, special language features, or been flat-out impossible are enabled. It's (probably) a cheap win in this case.
And made his page look just like all the other bootstrap pages? Why not just use LibreOffice and save the document as html? Better yet, advance to microsoft frontpage or something.
Here's my resume: http://www.ideaember.com/resume

It's important to stick to the constraints of the medium. Lots of whitespace and visuals for online and one page for print. Also important to stay consistent with the rest of the site. Still looking for a clever way to integrate my portfolio directly into the resume without making the resume too cluttered.

P.S. In the market for a product management opportunity
Yes of course ORMS use relational systems order the hood, everyone knows that. Relational Databases are easy to use, but that's not the problem. The problem comes from interfaceing the two different systems together. That's the problem. ORMS allow you to remove boilerplate, such manually populating objects, or connection code or whatever and still access relational features. They don't force you to use PURE OO to access data. If you wanted that you'd use a object database... They've existed for years.

ORMS allow you to use those relational features(HQL, LINQ), except without the boilerplate of manually populating objects, connecting to the database or whatever...

Nearly every search you perform via orm, uses relational operations...
indeed, it strikes me as odd. Maybe it's just that the visual style of Metro isn't suited to being presented as a screenshot, but to me it looks like a simple mockup, there's no "gorgeous" about it. Functional though.
Good point, re: RAM!

I don't know what the plan is, re: non-volatile storage. I guess you could plug in a USB memory stick (v. cheap), or use the PCIe headers.

Makes me wonder how cheap Intel could make a computer, if it really tried, though. I guess profit margins are the only thing stopping it from building something cheaper/better than the Rasp Pi.
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Thanks, iSnow.

It looks good, lower latency than US East or Singapore, little bit higher than London or Ireland.

The only thing that worries me are the fluctuations between pings:

164.622 ms
164.725 ms
166.828 ms
228.693 ms
234.214 ms

.. and it goes like this forever - bouncing between 164 and 230.

Linode and AWS are very constant between pings.

Is this something to be worried about?

Thank you
Back to Basics: Load balancing Virtualized Applications
It's not quite 8x, but this $30 program lets you play flash videos from 1/3 to 5x speed: http://www.enounce.com/compare-myspeed
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How to access MongoDB from Java code 
Here is a tutorial on how easy MongoDB can be integrated with Java application and some advice on how to isolate your code from the database as much as possible, for encapsulation purposes.
Can anyone think of any compelling reasons as to why this won't be another headstone in the graveyard of average acquisitions/investments made by Microsoft?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisition...
There's nothing wrong with three pages per se - if there is something relevant to put on them. In this case, it just barely overflows into the third page, so IMO it would make good sense, and look a bit more professional, to tighten it slightly to fit on two.

Alternatively, make it a bit longer, so the third page is less empty. English titles of the French papers would make good sense. Also, I'd write a narrative for the intro instead of the "keyword list" (interests).
" It almost certainly won’t be as cheap as the $25 Raspberry Pi, but a price point around $100 would be realistic."

I call BS on it costing close to $100. There is no way given the cost of the processor alone.
Sublime Text Key Bindings
I have started using Sublime Text 2. When I start using a new editor, I usually keep it's keyboard shortcuts doc up, until I get used to the ones I need most.
I did not find a good doc online for Sublime Text 2. So I have decided to keep a record here - http://sublime.pen.io/ for me and for others.

Add your favorite ones by editing this page. http://sublime.pen.io/edit
Password: sublime

Only the default/predefined ones please~
So what you're saying is you are too young to have a real opinion about the article because you don't have enough experience. Instead you invent a strawman to attack some other alleged strawmen
Although in no way a competitor to the rPi, this is pretty awesome.

It could easily become a main system with surprisingly few compromises-- (given thunderbolt and the reasonable iGPU)... and i really doubt the board alone will be available for < $200.
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Also, by using the procedure described in the post you don't need to have a DOM set up. Note that the view has no knowledge of where it is supposed to be rendered on the page. It could be passed into PersonsView with an el option: new PersonsView({ collection: new Persons(), el: $("#persons") });, but instead he chooses to skip that and test on view.$. It will hold the HTML of the view in memory. This lets you write tests for the view without having to setup DOM fixtures and actually render contents to the DOM. Result: tests that are less complex to write and faster to run.
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> this non-article

My favorite: "Graphene is the most conductive material in the known universe,"

Apparently, they're ignoring superconductors. So when you ignore the materials more conductive than graphene, it becomes the most conductive material.
it's Kafkaesque! as in the Trial.