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> This allows designers to take back the reins, no longer accepting “I just can’t do that in HTML” or an endless litany of unqualified feedback as excuse for poor implementation of beautiful Photoshop mocks.

That is demoralizing (and even offensive) to front-end developers. The "beautiful Photoshop mocks" of a designer that can code will be nothing like those from a designer that can't, and that's a much more important factor for it making it to production "intact" than the abilities or intentions of the developer.

I'm certainly biased, but I can only laugh when a designer complains that text doesn't look the same everywhere and wants to use a static image instead. Having the 'freedom' to do that from the start is not any better.
A McDonald's, at one of the busiest and most popular tourist locations in Paris, and they're trying to keep something in plain sight a secret?
Bummer. Won't be able to go because this is going to be the same night as Brandon Jones' tech talk as SFJS.
http://www.meetup.com/jsmeetup/events/66236222/
Absurdity of it is subjective, but it being consistent with the evidence is not. It's highly unlikely, but it's certainly more likely than explanations that have zero likelihood. In the past the government has put forth explanations of events that are patently false (read: lied) and never re-examined, so the extraterrestrial hypothesis is more likely than their explanations in those cases.

Edit: To be honest, I'm surprised the extraterrestrial hypothesis is considered so absurd by scientifically minded people. Clearly it's absurd to assume that we're the only 'advanced' civilization in the universe, the place where it's a grey area is if a much more advanced civilization would have the means or the interest to visit our planet, and if they did, if the phenomenon of UFOs jives with what we'd expect to see if they did. This is up for debate, obviously, but I am not sure why logic doesn't dictate that the odds are reasonable that such a scenario could exist. Fermi's paradox makes you wonder.
If its so easy to find the information, there was no real need to post it here then.
Flakey drivers are a really big sticking point now, for certain hardware like video cards (most of my drivers "just work").

I've started using Unity (shock, horror) and the whole thing provides such a polished experience that most of the time I forget that I'm using a desktop linux distro.
Problem is that when everything is so well polished, problems stemming from bad drivers (nvidia) become really jarring.

I'm hoping that wayland will go a long way to addressing this somehow.
I'm really surprised nobody has mentioned the Glass Cliff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff

"women are more likely to occupy positions that are precarious and thus have a higher risk of failure - either because they are appointed to lead organizational units that are in crisis or because they are not given the resources and support needed for success"
Among other things, porting their software to Linux might bring other fruits:

* You can run many instances of a dedicated game server (roughly in the hundreths mb of ram usage) on the same OS, or through virtual machine so it could be moved.

* Gaikai/OnLive live kind of game streaming - again no cost for OS - so they can run each instance of the game per one installed OS and stream video for the rest.

* Console - probably customized version of Linux, and if possible the game running in ring 0 with the kernel. Drawing almost directly to the hardware, without going to API's, user and then kernel functions. (Avoid vertex/index buffer checks, and many other things).
Oy, since when are conspiracy nuts hanging out on HN?

You should see a psychologist.
I think it's the other way around: To get the most excitement and "pleasant experience" when opening a gift, it is crucial that you need to fight your desire for the content in order to concentrate on opening the package.
An ‘intelligent co-pilot’ for cars
There aren't many happy Symbolics Lisp Machine programmers around, though.
Matthew Miller Men Spring 2013
Interesting idea, however I think it feels a bit too deliberate for my tastes. Based on the groups it can seem more like a networking tool.

Beyond a startup, I would also recommend volunteering, doing sports, taking a class, or if you're spiritually-inclined, going to church, in order to make new friendships. Those tend to be more regular, and you're not so focused on the conversation itself.
The reason I or anyone else would have, to bring up their ancestry is because of the apparent disconnect between the essential Frenchness one expects and the consistently abrasive conduct of some of these implanted peoples.
Take Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad for example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCXtmmj7fJc
Isolated incident? Perhaps. Not part of a larger trend? Maybe.
After all the cake and watermelon, we know that it doesn't add up.
We all want to pretend that it ain't what it really is.
Just like we find ourselves aghast at Marine Le Pen picking up enough seats to front the third largest party in all of France in well under a decade.
Yes he may be out as CEO of VMWare ...but the more interesting part of the news is :

Is he the new Head honcho for EMC (a sure promotion)?

Is he the new leader of the (soon to be spun-off) new cloud business?

Is he "out" as in "not related to anything VMWare or EMC any more"?

I think this is just the first act - more to follow soon.
Denver Startup: Full Contact Gives Employees $7500 For Paid Vacation,Vacation
And even now IE10 isn't even released yet.
Whoa Thedroidguy switches to iOS
In my opinion it is always a good idea in these kind of situations to set a goal we should strive to.

I wonder what the ideal web protocol would look like. If, for example, we didn't have a burden of billions of servers and Internet reliance on HTTP/1.x protocol.

What would be the most ideal solution that would suite emerging use cases for the Web? Are there any research papers on this topic?
It's not sufficient for the aliens to be sophisticated. They would also have to exist in exactly the right time frame.

Consider the age of the universe: 14.6 billion years. Earth was formed about 10 billion years after the universe, and it took 5.4 billion years for the Earth to see the emergence of a civilized species, which has existed for an absolutely microscopic amount of time compared to those enormous intervals.

How long does a species last, realistically? Counting from its "space age", would a species survive a thousand years, ten thousand? Extinction from natural disasters, epidemics, war and the like could be averted by scattering oneself across a solar system or wider. How many civilizations could reach that stage?

I have absolutely no doubt that a myriad of alien life exists. But I think the chances that there exists alien species that:

* has evolved before us or roughly at the same time,

* has not driven themselves to extinction

* achieved the technological capability for crossing galaxies, and

* is willing to do so

…is exceedingly slim. Even if a species develops space-faring tech needed to visit Earth, I think it's extremely unlikely that their existence will coincidence with us. They are either all dead by now, or they will be dead before we/they develop the tech to visit, or they don't exist yet, and we will all be dead first.
It's not about "server speaking HTTP/2.0". Its about "application speaking HTTP/2.0".

Every web app today is married with $COOKIE statements. The whole problem for me as a web developer is that existing applications will have to be rewritten just to run on top of a cookie-less HTTP/2.0 protocol.

SPDY, despite all its architectural problems, has taken off in a huge way (even Facebook is implementing it) just because applications don't have to be rewritten. You could just install mod_spdy in apache and be done with it. From the view of the web developer, these kind of breaking changes just makes life more painful.
You would think that at Hacker News, car analogies would not be necessary, since I imagine there is a large proportion of users like myself who have no interest in cars, and have never owned nor intend to own one.

I have no idea how a Pontiac Fiero or a Chevy 350 compares to a Lamborghini Aventator without looking it up. All I know is that all three are probably luxury automobiles. I have even less of clue about what a head gasket might be.

On the other hand, if you tried to explain something to me by using a job at Google, Yahoo, and a start-up as analogies, it would definitely help make things more understandable.
Isn't there already an iPhone app called Circle?
Facebook Engineer blocks photosharing site imgur, apologises in Reddit fashion
Flash is hated cause of ads. Simple. I can't tell you how many times my browser (over the years) crashed due to some Flash ad. Not to mention the extra time it took to load the page.

Is that Flash's fault? No, of course not. Lazy programmer/graphics artist who didn't bother to streamline their code.

Flash lost the PR war. It's done. At least for the masses.
While in general I understand where he is coming from, I believe his main argument about adoption is flawed.

What do you think is more likely going to be adopted? A protocol that's not backwards compatible at all (heck, it even throws out cookies) or something that works over the existing protocol, negotiating extended support and then switching to that while continuing to work the exact same way for both old clients and the applications running behind it?

See SPDY which is a candidate for becoming HTTP 2.0. People are ALREADY running that or at least eager to try it. I don't think for a second that SPDY is having the adoption problems of ipv6, SNI issues aside.

Even if native sessions would be a cool feature, how many years do you believe it takes before something like that can be reliably used? We're still wary of supporting stuff that a 11 years old browser didn't support.
Alabama Crash Reports
A corrections officer at the Donaldson Correctional Facility in western Jefferson County was killed in a motorcycle crash in Graysville as he was on his way to work this morning, authorities said. Anthony James Tanniehill, 43, of Birmingham, was killed in the single-vehicle crash in the 4200 block of Brookville School Road, said deputy Jefferson County Coroner Bill Yates. Tanniehill was on his way to work at the corrections facility when the crash happened. He was driving a 2012 Suzuki GSX-R1000 , he said. It appeared Tanniehill lost control of the motorcycle as he navigated a curve in the roadway, left the roadway, and then struck a fire hydrant, Yates said. Graysville’s fire department responded and pronounced Tanniehill dead at the scene at 6:08 a.m., he said. Alabama State Troopers, which are investigating the crash, reported the crash happened about 5:15 a.m. today. A motorist had found Tanniehill laying along the side of the road, Yates said. Tanniehill was wearing a helmet continue
We're Pulling for You, Chief Mayer; Now Do Something Radical
I agree that anybody with sufficient clue can and will use cookies as id only.

Unfortunately such people are evidently few and far between.

Banning cookies and having the client offer a session identifier instead solves many problems.

For starters, it stores the data where it belongs: On the server, putting the cost of storage and protection where it belongs too.

This is a win for privacy, as you will know if you have ever taken the time to actually examine the cookies on your own machine.

Second, it allows the client+user to decide if it will issue anonymous (ie: ever-changing) session identifiers, as a public PC in a library should do, or issue a stable user-specific session-id, to get the convenience of being recognized by the server without constant re-authorization.

Today users don't have that choice, since they have no realistic way of knowing which cookies belongs to a particular website due to 3rd-party cookies and image-domain splitting etc.

Network-wise, we eliminate a lot of bytes to send and receive.

One of the major improvements SPDY has shown is getting the entire request into one packet (by deflating all the headers).

But the only reason HTTP requests don't fit in a single packet to begin with is cookies, get rid of cookies, and almost all requests fit inside the first MTU.

Finally, eliminating cookies improve caching opportunities, which will help both client and server side get a better web experience.

As for breaking the world: It won't happen.

It is trivial to write a module for apache which simulates cookies for old HTTP/1 web-apps: Simply store/look up the cookies in a local database table, indexed by the session-id the client provided.

I'm sure sysadmins will have concerns about the size of that table, but that is an improvement, today the cost is borne by the web-users.
Yea, I am thinking "HTML5" even as a buzzword is a misnomer:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4238188
How is a 10 digit PIN better than "no address book"?
> We enforce the calling convention with code in our library that looks like this:

if not isinstance(val, str):
raise ValidationException('value must be str', val)

I love Python, but the more I used it the more I come to see dynamic typing as a mistake. On large projects with shared library code and deeply nested calls, one of the most pervasive problems seems to be wrongly typed data. And building validation exceptions into all of your code seems like a poor solution.
Why would you bring in someone like Mayer to do that? Any MBA type could do that.
If your employer allows it, browse the US patent office [1]. That is a search for 'google' and 'glasses' in any patent application. Then go to the link the US PTO maintains which cites references to Dr. Mann's patent [2]. Of the 34 patents that reference Dr. Mann's work, not a single one is a Google patent associated with Google Glass.

So while "anybody who has anything to do with wearable computing" knows about Dr. Mann's work, apparently those same people at Google seemed to have missed that connection when the started filing patents about wearable displays.

So, I agree with you. Everybody working with wearable computing should know about Dr. Mann's work. And anyone putting out a 'revolutionary product' which looks strikingly similar to the Eyetap product would, acknowledge that debt and perhaps show how they learned from what had gone before.

So if you're right, then I'm right too.

[1] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec...

[2] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec...
> telnet and gopher were used by a few thousands servers only

I can't speech for Gopher, but I routinely see telnet and rsh all around the industry, where anyone with control of some Windows machine on the network can sniff critical PLC and server passwords. Even when SSH is available for the servers. It is hopefully a changing situation as servers get replaced/upgraded and SSH gets more and more pervasive.
it's not a 'French McD' thing. There are also McCafes in Berlin and I believe lots of other places, they are not regular McDonalds and they oparate aside existing 'normal' McD restaurants. The one on Kurfurstendamm in Berlin is a friendly cozy place filled with books and vintage pictures, nice place to sit for a few minutes just like any other cafe. Nearby there is the classic burger-smelly McD with long queues.
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I created an LLC and filed as a company. When you do this, you also need a tax ID number from the IRS and a bank account. The bank will also require your tax ID and LLC/corp papers. Sounds like a hassle but it wasn't actually too bad.
Wow, amazing responses! Thank you guys, I've learned a lot from you :-)

I have another quesiton that's been bothering me:

Let's say I contacted my old company. I know that there are developers there that knows better than me (with regards to programming). Should I still pursue consulting there? What should I do?

P.S.
Let's say I see the project that's going to be done would fit perfectly well with PHP, it's adequate and saves the company money. Then there are the developers that are .NET programmers and they are pushing that although let's say for the sake of argument, PHP would suffice.
Since HN turned into Reddit :)
The Perfect Bagel Is Engineered in California
Encouraging a comment per down vote would have a strong negative impact on the readability of the site. I don't know what the daily number of down votes is, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's greater than the current number of comments. The on-topic comments would be overwhelmed by the meta-conversation.

But there definitely is value in providing this feedback. I think the solution is to offer a quieter way of doing so than via a globally visible comment. This feedback should be public to maintain civility and concision, but should be outside of the main stream of the conversation.

My proposal is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4209304
Users handing over their security, again (for in-app purchase hack)
Her twitter profile now says "@Yahoo". And her and her partner are expecting their first child, due October 7th. Exciting times for them.
Nope. Our technological advancements were not of the kind that categorically violate principles of physics as we come to describe since we have started doing "science." you could say "but people thought geocentricity was true," but that's not interesting because they didn't come to that conclusion using science or math, at best protoscientific Aristotelian speculation.

The very idea that there are these EVIDENTALLY POINTLESS light shows or bumbling crafts in the sky that very clearly look like 1950s SciFi is emanating from some supposed hyper intelligent species that can travel many, many orders of magnitude faster than light or vaguely somehow travels through wormholes, or comes from some other dimension, just play little games of hide and seek is just ludicrous. I find solipsism less fantastic than that. The scale of the universe is incomprehendible. These "speeds" tales about go way beyond "space debris." I don't want to ve a kill joy, but really look at the physics of this stuff. It's very satisfying to say "ya but people used to think fire was made of phlogiston," but I claim that are scientific knowledge is of a fundamental different quality than previous. It's the difference between believing babies come from storks versus detailed biological blah blah knowledge.

Having presidents and the like pay lip service to these ideas is not really a big. I mean, Sarah Palin of all things, was almost VP. Also, there is something called the Nobel Syndrome, where even Nobel prize winners believe the stupidest things you can imagine, such as homeopathy, and the like (also MD disease for people like Dr. Oz).
I'm not sure this is the issue you think it is.

Games in the Humble Indie Bundle releases have Linux builds. (.tar.gz or .bin) I haven't had major issues beyond installing the libraries that I get prompted are missing. That could get automated, especially now PackageKit abstracts away from the details of different package management utilities.

Also, you could cover a huge portion of the linux market by just supporting Ubuntu and Fedora. Other distros (e.g Arch) have a community that has some experience in repackaging these for their distro.
How to Ask a Girl Out
Asking a girl out does not demand a lot of courage, especially considering that asking out has been classified as something the guy does usually.
Sigh… if women wanted to be developers they would become developers.

Almost all the successful developers I know started creating software (or at least wanted to make computers do things that they weren't immediately able to do) at a young age. Even you believe it is an issue (and I don't know why it is necessary that 50% of all developers need to be women), this isn't a problem you can fix by talking to a bunch of adults about how to get a career in IT.

Now, part of a lack of women in IT could have to do with gender stereotyping at a young age, but I do not believe that IT is generally negative towards women any more than HR/marketing is negative towards men.

PRO TIP: If you are told you're a crap developer, it's not because you're a woman, it's because you're a crap developer. If you think you deserve some type of different treatment because of your genitalia, you're part of the problem.
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I belive you, though wikipedia dosent mention it.
Returning back, are there any recent ai projects featuring any lisp dilect????
Adobe's AIR is one of the best ways to build & deploy cross-platform mobile apps right now

As someone who has built and deployed a cross-platform app on AIR, I must respectfully disagree.

AIR doesn't give you access to a lot of native features of smartphones. As the most glaring oversight, I had to do some deep hacking on AIR's launcher to support in-app billing. Phonegap's extensible plugin approach looks a lot easier.

And the user experience is different, too. After months of work, my first review rolled in: one star, and said simply, "AIR crap." And no wonder. Without so much as the ability to display my own splashscreen beforehand, AIR simply asks the user, "Hi, would you like to do a 16 MB download to support this app that you don't even know what it does yet?" I've had my friends give me funny looks at that prompt. "When I'm done looking at this, I can delete that, right?" one of them asked.

If you do Phonegap -- or heck, even just raw HTML5 -- I'm not sure your users even need to know.
Breaking bad is not a source for research.
Also, why is "unknown" almost the same colour as "1-5%"? To me it seems that most of the world is unknown, including India, yet they still have statistics for India. Confusing...
"Europe" doesn't have a law about that, every country has it figured out differently.
No Linux? Normally i wouldn't care, but you said all platforms and I got excited.
This may be a silly question...but is Mayer now legally obligated to liquidate her Google stock position?

I would assume that owning a large amount of stock of one of your major competitors, as the CEO, could create some conflicts of interest for shareholders...no?

I am not insinuating that this is some sinister plot by Mayer to boost her Google stock holdings - I don't think there is anything she could do at Yahoo to do that, other than possibly shift their entire ad budget to Adwords...but even that.

Either way, I would love to know those sorts of 'quirky' implications on such a decision.

Especially given that the vast majority of her compensation is now in Yahoo stock.

I also wonder if it would be a 'legal' issue, or a moral issue.
I definitely could have and hope that I gave enough credit where credit is due. It was 2am and I was trying to debug some issues in production and I needed a fix, so I patched Tom's code to make it do my bidding and then kept on tweaking things. It just turned into a full rewrite after a while and the name longjohn got stuck in my head, so I published it. No ill will meant.
Since when are ad-hom's acceptable responses on HN? I never said I was sure such things were true, but like most true hackers, I'm curious and want to know more when things seem like they don't make sense. You're not very well read if you think UFOs are an open and shut case for all people who don't "need to see a psychologist."
Since at least 1303 days ago (for gfodor). Not that that's important, but just to dispel the "HN is declining" people. Your ad hominem response/insult is actually the kind of thing that could bring about HN's decline honestly.

I found gfodor's comments to be reasonable, though I have no idea if they're backed by real evidence. I wouldn't jump to conclusions myself unless I had more thoroughly looked at it.
OUYA has no chance of success. It's a wishy washy and poorly thought out venture that's somehow hoodwinked a lot of people.
I think this should have been something else. There's already a bunch of other services called Circle.
Sorry Tom! Feel free to take my code, haha. I'm actually making my own version of the kegbot right now for our sales team. It seems like I keep working on similar projects to you.