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Unfortunately there's a gap between popular dynamic scripting languages - PHP, Python, Ruby - and popular static compiled languages - C++, Java, C# - where some imperative, statically and strongly typed, garbage collected and native-compiled language should exist. For a first language, i think it shouldn't force any particular paradigm on you, nor require you to understand things at the C-level of abstraction.

Legacy VB almost fills this gap, but unfortunately the syntax is a little embarassing. Actionscript is a perhaps closer.
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Yes, it's unfair. I think they were well within their rights to shut it down. But all this sanctions business is absolutely ridiculous.
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That was his point, he said production ready.
JavaScript is our generation's Apple II? Look I think Javascript is great but this is just ridiculous. But then I think it's also crazy to throw away all this great work on hardware and software and only innovate for the Web where we are re-solving problems that were solved long ago just so they are "Web based."
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Yawn. Same discussion when Intel introduced the TPM - doomsday didn't happen. Or the Clipper chip? Doomsday didn't happen.

UEFI SecureBoot on Intel/AMD is optional and will not deliver on its promises IMHO.

The REAL thing to focus on (and the one thing that all of these doosmday guys seem to willingly ignore) is that on the ARM platform it is truly worse what the Windows requirements are enforcing - locked bootloader, no way to change that. So instead of whining about an OPTIONAL problem, how about fighting a REAL problem?
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Since there's 2 parties to every trade doesn't that make 50% the limit?
(a) TianoCore is only a small part of the code (the clue is in the name "Core")

(b) The bits of TianoCore source that I've read are overcomplex and ugly. There's no reason for a bootloader to even have all this stuff.

(c) That's not the UEFI implementation I have on one of my servers which AFAIK is completely closed source, and does all sorts of weird stuff when I boot. I reverted the machine back to plain BIOS "boot the first sector" booting.
>>> That ways to learn line should include getting subject matter experts to explain their field to you. E.g., many professors reply to a cold email. <<<

I wasn't actually aware of that. I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the heads up. :)

>>> And yes, I'm only 22 and filled with naive optimism :-). <<<

I'm 20... I realised at some point that optimism doesn't always need to be naive. To get anything done you clearly need a mix of just the right amount of naiveness and soul crushing insight.

>>> But I'm channeling that energy into doing an AR glasses startup instead of some web thing. <<<

That's great to hear. :)

>>> I'll help the world with my research even if I have to spend my every penny doing so, and I wish more people would attempt the same. <<<

That's even better. :D Trust me you aren't the only person who wants to do so.
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Idea #1 - buy these notebooks in bulk and sell them online via Boxngo. Leverage great blog post that makes people want to buy one.

Idea #2 - add a feature to blog that allows people to leave comments

Idea #3 - blog about an equally good pen and/or pencil, and sell that on Boxngo, too
I tried to write an interface to ImageMagick's MagickWand in Golang as well to solve the same problem. You can find it here: https://github.com/dqminh/mage
From the article:

> Consequently, a trusted computing platform must validate the signature of an operating system before booting it. Operating systems not certified as implementing all the requirements of Trusted Computing will not be issued certificates, and may not be booted on such systems.

This has already happened with Windows 8 verified hardware. If you want to run another OS, you (or rather, the OS maintainers) have to pay the $99 Microsoft (ed: VeriSign, see below) tax to get a Microsoft-signed bootloader and kernel. (Fedora has already done this.) A decent write-up is here with some comments from Linus: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/linus-torvalds-on-wind... It's kind of disturbing when the main reassurance is "Hackers will get around it. Probably."
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Steve Jobs once said to hire A Plus players because they look for other people who want to learn and do more to advance the field. They want to make sure the work they do is the absolute quality they can accomplish.

This is probably a feeling that most of us here in YN have. Unfortunately for the future of humanity, this is also a very rare trait. Why? Why aren't there more A Plus Players in the world?
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Wait, can someone explain what the hell is going on?!?!

Last I heard the no-images-except-signed ones was for for ARM devices only. Did MS just put this into x86? Can you turn it off in the BIOS?
The $99 goes to VeriSign.
'Prediction is difficult, especially with regard to the future'.

It looks like they were using some new algorithm, which should have made them a lot of money, had the market gone up after their massive purchases. In that case, they would have pocketed fat bonuses and would not be on the news.

However, it has not happened, so the crying and the search for a scapegoat is on. It sounds like the case of the banking business as usual: 'heads I win, tails you lose'.

Ultimately, there is a really serious problem with the concept of limited personal liability for companies engaging in speculation. It is an assymetric arrangement, whereby the directors are entitled to the profits but are never personally responsible for the losses. With such rules of the game, it is advantageous to take crazy risks. Expect to see a lot more of this and many more taxpayer funded bailouts.
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No, nothing's changed except for people getting hot and bothered at the possibility that it could be turned off for x86.
I suggest reading the PNaCl paper, which addresses how they make LLVM bitcode distributable and portable. Because believe it or not, they have thought about these problems, and solutions to them have been designed and implemented.

It's not a force-fit either. LLVM is designed to be a form from which machine-specific code is generated. The problem is only that different platforms have different conventions. But any modern 32-bit platform can use a given set of conventions if you want it to.
> I suppose you could say that this sort of thing serves as a nice "education" in how the real world works sometimes.

Yep. You can't make the University look incompetent and drag them through the mud and expect to win in the process. These institutions wield to tremendous power, and if you are dead set on exposing their flaws they will fight you to the death and you will lose.

Now, as a poor student, you can definitely do asymmetric damage. You could blitz them by dropping out of school with an open letter, going to startup school, and hiring the shit out of their brightest students.

That would be a calculated move though. It shouldn't be done out of emotion. If you actually want your college degree, it's better to make peace sooner than later. It sounds like this would have been possible well before the sanctions if the OA had swallowed his pride. You really don't need to prove anything to these bureaucrats, just look out for yourself, that's the larger lesson.
Firstly, I haven't been into webdev for a long time. I've been working on iOS for a little over 2 years now and given that prior, I found the semantics of ember.js to be a little more intuitive than angular.js.

At my current gig, I'm working on a vehicle fleet routing system, where my primary focus is essentially on getting the core algorithm right. I could have delegated to UI to someone else, who is better at these things than me. But eventually I had some free time and decided to do it on my own. Most of the UI is around a big Google Map, and given the limited time, I couldn't figure out how to write a wrapper view around it with Angular.js but with Ember it was fairly straightforward. It's very likely that I haven't explored Angular enough, but my primary focus here was to ship it to our internal users asap. Also, since I'd proudly told my boss that I don't need a front end guy, I had to get something working to save face. If Ember didn't work, I would've tried Backbone.js. BTW, like everyone else, I love the simplicity of Backbone.js.

Also, the ng-* attributes in angular templates feel a tad bit unpleasant. Handlebars templates OTOH, were very familiar. Probably because I'd used Mustache templates in an iOS project some time ago.

Actually, I found the documentation of Ember.js to be pretty good. There aren't enough examples around, but the documentation is pretty decent. Besides that, I learnt quite a bit of advanced undocumented APIs from Clemens Müller's blog (http://code418.com/).
Better link to the arXiv abstract, ie

http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.7214

You also did not link the accompanying paper from CMS

http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.7235
I could buy that they competently made the best of a bad situation. But I have a hard time believing that getting into the situation was the result of perfect competence.

My time writing trading software was never on the automated end of things, so I'm only modestly qualified to comment. But if I were doing the post-mortem on this one, the first thing I'd look for is middle management time pressure forcing a large release without adequate testing. And my standard for "adequate testing" would be pretty high.

If you're going to release something that can take down the company, it's worth making sure it works. In this case, they lost circa 400x the lifetime median income of a US worker. It's hard to imagine the upside that would have justified that kind of risk.
> This has already happened with Windows 8 verified hardware. If you want to run another OS, you (or rather, the OS maintainers) have to pay the $99 Microsoft tax to get a Microsoft-signed bootloader and kernel.

No. While that is an option -- if you want to use Secure Boot -- MS is requiring certified x86 machines to allow disabling Secure Boot entirely. Does that make it more difficult to install? Marginally, yes; it adds additional steps. Does it mean that you have to jump through the signing hoops? Absolutely not.
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What I see matches your screens. The font renders poorly on Windows (Chrome & Firefox), on 2 different PCs (one Vista, one Windows 7). Cleartype is enabled (default). I've seen similar problems with web fonts before, but this is especially bad (probably exacerbated by the small font-size) so you're not alone. Shame, as it detracts from the rest of the design which is pleasingly beautiful.

Back on-topic: Very interested in this release, router sounds especially promising. Hope to see some docs on that soon.
> This just shows to me what a bad idea sandboxing is for those kind of apps that are supposed to interoperate with the whole system.

Isn't the point of sandboxing specifically to prevent apps interoperating with the whole system? (I've not really paid it much attention so far)
Note that it says "millions" and not "billions". If this was a research project to figure out how to bomb the shit out of people more efficiently, it would have said "billions".
I can tell first-hand that it depends on the places: some have fairly clean tests including fuzzy testing on trading automation, while other have, well, "fix it when it fails in production".
Having talked with people who write life-critical code, the regulation isn't really what makes it safe. Safety comes from good engineering.

The regulation just makes it much harder to bring an unsafe product to market, and makes it clearer who to blame when people die.
so much importance is placed on metrics like "# of active accounts".

Also known as asshole metrics (which are, are at most, 40% true). They only exist to manipulate you into thinking the company is more important than reality. Most companies will tell you "total registered users" but few will give "active users." If they do give you active users, then they'll count "active" as something silly like "we saw their cookie during the month" meaning they were just delivered some external asset passively.

Stop lying and make something valuable (except lies can keep companies in business much longer than most people realize).
Microsoft has mandated that OEMs must provide a way for users to disable secure boot, and a way for them to add their own keys, however we still do not know the exact nature of what "turning it off" entails.

The Microsoft requirements are very vague on this point, if early hardware is indication, disabling it could be quite complicated and error prone, IE having to re flash the firmware.

The biggest problem IMO is Microsoft is completely free to change this requirement at any time, and with stuff like ARM already being mandated as having no way to disable secure boot, or load keys, I don't think this is particularly far fetched.

Also consider the fact they never mandated having a way to disable it previously, until there was a massive outcry.
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i hadn't heard of wl gore. thanks for the pointer, they look like a very interesting case study.
It doesn't matter how you call it but you can't just stop "thinking in browser versions", that's a stupid meta-discussion without much practical impact.
It's browser versions the end customer uses, it's browser versions selenium tests run on and it's browser versions that are in every contract for a serious website.

The point is: In the end the customer doesn't care if you call it modern browser or html5 or interwob2.0, it has to work. The basic notion is that the customer uses a browser and not a feature in some standard called HTML5.
Why does Microsoft get to use UEFI and others do not? If it is such a valuable tool in fighting malware, why is the only certain option "Microsoft or turned off"?

Surely, if UEFI is indeed the remedy people claim, then having it on as many computers as possible would be a good thing. That you can turn it off is only a surrogate for having an actual workable solution that gives fair access to computer hardware to different operating systems.
Yeah but what's the point in making Preview.app sandboxed? It's a damn document viewer.
That would be my instinct as well. What's the ARPU for a mobile app? Some are strong, I'm sure, but it wouldn't shock me if the number is in the $0-$10 range for a lot of them.

If your mobile app revenue is a steady $1-5m a year, then that's a fine business for you, but I doubt a traditional VC would want in unless you have a plausible reason you can grow 100x.

And even if a VC were interested, I'd hope most people don't take the money. Because now instead of just pocketing steady income and building up a war chest or a retirement fund, you've strapped yourself onto a rocket with "100x or bust" painted on the side. With the odds in favor of "bust".
For now. The story is different for ARM devices, however, unless there has been an update to that policy that I missed.
I don't think the author says versions are useless.. yes they are handy to indicate, well, what version you use, but from a code point of view he is totally right imo. Look at it like this: there's the choice between a) writing a huge if/then/else for every version you can possibly encounter and b) checkig for features. I'd pick b).
Yes, ARM still doesn't allow unsigned kernels to run; I mentioned x86 specifically in my post.

That said, the "For now." is fearmongering. It's very possible that MS could change things, but that doesn't mean we should make that assumption -- that's just FUD. There are plenty of legitimate things to gripe about around the Secure Boot stuff, but potential future changes to the policies aren't high on the list.
Ack, the first image is shown, then the github favicon appears again and blinks at every update of the pie chart (probably showing the pie chart for a fraction of a second).

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So, some of the owners were looking for a way out, and magically this thing broke loose and started giving away (basically) free money to undisclosed receipients. In the meantime all the technicians were fast asleep and couldnt kick the machines down or something, while they were losing milions of dollars per minute. This article is a completely honest recap by completely honest people, about completely honest traders/bankers (bankers are not people).

Edit: on a COMPLETELY unrelated note, trading firms/banks are known to actively pursue the extraction of money from their clients with bogus trades/advice http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/opinion/why-i-am-leaving-g...
"And that is that. Every lead brought me not to Bill Gates but to a dead end. QDOS was absolutely not copied from CP/M, and MS-DOS showed no signs of copying either. Kildall’s accusations about Bill Gates were totally groundless."

This article has a refreshing view of the story with lots of details. Instead of the classic "Bill Gates took advantage of Kildall" story that is often repeated, this is more about the many poor business decisions on Kildall's part. If this story is accurate, it would seem that Microsoft saw an opening when Kildall couldn't close the deal with IBM and took it. I don't see anything wrong with that.
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isn't this a lot like http://www.momentoapp.com/ ?
I've been using it for some time now, it only stores the data locally with an option to backup into itunes.

Your POS seems to be the Statistics thing, momento doesn't have that.
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a) As far as I know, EDK compiles to a working bootloader on supported platforms.

b) Not knowing what exactly you've read, I don't know if I'd agree, but anyway, it just implements the UEFI spec.

c) As far as I'm aware, all UEFI implementations are built on top of TianoCore. But as it is BSD-licensed, the OEMs don't have any obligation to release their source code.

I really think that UEFI is superior to BIOS in every way. It could also be open, except that hardware manufacturers choose to keep it closed. Not allowing user keys for Secure Boot is, also, a decision of Microsoft and manufacturers, not a problem with UEFI itself.
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Fair point. While I think some concern is warranted in Microsoft's case given their history, FUD is FUD. Apart from whether MS will change its policies, I'm interested to see what the responses will be if the private signing key is compromised.
I like it that according to https://my.ucf.edu/ their motto is "Stands for Opportunity".
Which, I think, is a valid fear to have considering MS is basically just decreeing this. Like they say, rights disappear in degrees.
Could be bloody amazing. Can I use any program "over" SSH, eg Sublime Text 2? I'll have a go at writing a plugin.

One thing that will be interesting is if one can get project view (IE lots of files) working properly.
Microsoft wants ARM machines to be locked in Windows 8 mode, probably to block Android. From what I can tell, it goes both ways. Existing Android tablets are not Windows8-certified, so they won't run it.

Microsoft being the runner-up in the tablet market, I find the move puzzling. What do they have to gain? Why would vendors want to lock themselves in the hands of Microsoft, given MS's past behavior?

More puzzling yet: what is the force in the Microsoft DNA that prompts them to systematically return to this kind of anti-competitive behaviors as soon as they get a chance?
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I think overcharging for RAM (or HDD/SSD) upgrades is one way that OEMs make more money off of their machines. I am a bit amused that this is the reason you give for reconsidering Lenovo when Apple (the maker of your current machine) is notorious for doing this: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/just-whats-so-special-abo...

One good thing about ThinkPads is that most of them do not have their RAM soldered to their motherboards, so it is easy to buy your own RAM on NewEgg and then augment or replace the machine's original memory.
This is great! While I'm a Fil-Am living in the US, I'm happy that technology and disruption are thriving in the Philippines.

I'm also glad that many companies are helping out by sponsoring the event. Best of luck!
"1 the western equivalent value is 1'390 kCHF. 2 the western equivalent value is 5'450 kCHF"

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They were not taking big positions expecting the market to go up, they appear to largely have been burning money buying and selling fast.

There is no government money involved.
This, although I'd adjust for a WAY higher dollar amount. I will acknowledge that there is value from things posted from time to time on HN. But overall, if I had to make a bet, this is more entertainment than value for a lot of readers here (outliers not withstanding).
Well, if you will put complete remote control of all your devices behind a single, weak password.....
I think 50% of attendees being in their 40s would be a desirable goal...