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I assume travelling near speed of light with conventional physics is impossible, since the ship's mass would crush itself as it increased infinitely.

Warp drives, on the other hand, seem to work by moving space-time, not the ship. So in theory the ship is left intact, without the people inside feeling any acceleration whatsoever.
Cool toy, but how about letting users just search for code in a repo properly?
thekungfuman: you've been hellbanned for almost two months now.
In my mind, this usage of parenthesis is less ambiguous. Parenthesis are used in C-like languages for both function calls and order of operations. That is to say, they are used in these two ways:

foo(a, b, c) // functions
(a + b) * c // order of operations

Making parenthesis optional for function calls means parenthesis are used instead for just controlling order of operations.

In practice, CoffeeScript can't always guess when something is a function call (such as a function call without arguments), so you end up mixing in some function call usage no matter what.
Perhaps a satisfactory solution for everyone would be to make "esc" defocus the input field? Github already has a "command mode" by default, and focus on the textbox can serve as the mode switching mechanism. The "s" key would then replace "i" in vim.
I'm not sure it's safe to say that the S2 and S3 are mainly owned by geeks. Samsung have done a good job at targeting a similar demographic to the iPhone with those devices.
If you want to talk about manipulating diamond prices, just read about DeBeers - you would be hard pressed to manipulate any market more than diamonds.
I wouldn't buy a diamond if you paid me. Want to know the real value of a diamond? Try to sell it. Then I PROMISE you will know the value of a diamond.
However, if you're attempting to get a point across, you generally do better by keeping social norms in mind. Offending your audience instantly makes them think about whatever "horrible" thing you just said and not on whatever point you're trying to communicate.

Put another way, if nobody is getting your point, perhaps the problem isn't with the audience :)

(I am, however, going to steal that "offense is taken, not given" line for future (ab)use)
Really? In my experience, while ripping videos from the web is easy, ripping flash streams is a huge pain. Where a DVD just needs easily available software and hitting go.

If you know a good way of ripping streams please tell me, wrangling Orbit's invasive and buggy plugin was the only thing that worked to grab RTMP the last time I tried.
It's called the Analog Hole

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole
Always intrigued when people view discussion as a way to win rather than to find truth. Don't get me wrong, I'm guilty sometimes too, but to unabashedly embrace this weakness . . .

I guess what I'm saying is I like my boss better than the hypothetical boss outlined by the grandparent poster. He is also sharp as a tack and quickly spots weaknesses in bad plans, but I would hardly describe his approach to communicating those flaws as "scaring the crap out of me." Too often people in software management (or really, any power relationship) think gentleness and efficiency are antithetical.
RMS thinks that they are evil already.

If it works on Ubuntu it can probably be ported easy enough. However maybe they are worried about getting support calls from people running Fluxbox?
I put together a little admin command line that you could bring up with the ~ key that looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/mq7ko.png?1

It is built for asp.net but you could easily apply the same concept somewhere else. More info if anyone is interested: http://lukencode.com/2011/12/11/netbashan-alternative-to-end...
A lack of groundbreaking innovation leads to commoditization, not the other way around. A commoditized market is ripe for new innovation to set an offering apart—and if that innovation is big enough, it may just end up creating a new market.

The feature phone market was pretty commoditized, but that didn't stop people from trying to figure out ways to create a new, less-commoditized, market by making phones smarter. And touch-based smartphones, too, will become increasingly commoditized until someone comes up with another revolution.

Similarly, the basic functionality of a car has been commoditized for decades, but competition keeps innovation going.
It really depends on the service, but basically comes down to promoting desired behavior (in this case quality content, be it posts or videos or whatever). Find some way by which quality can be measured (e.g. upvotes or moderation) and award users accordingly (e.g. giving more permissions based on upvotes/reputation, or hand-pick featured content). Optionally, discourage low quality content as well.
Linux is a kernel, with a bunch of distros built on top of it, with a large degree of compatibility between them. There have been various efforts at standardization, with various degrees of success; it's not perfect, but getting something to work on, say, Fedora and Ubuntu is a much smaller task than getting something to work on Windows and Mac, and if something works on one distro it's usually possible to get it to run on your distro of choice with some finagling.
I took this as whining. I'm not trying to be a dick but that's how it came off. The whole whining followed by "we can do better" is starting to become really cliche. Yeah, we can do better but we can also read some manuals, get some tech support, and you know, do some basic troubleshooting before proclaiming that these minor inconveniences should never ever happen ever.

We can make better software and we can make it easier to use and we can make everything more convenient but it'll never be enough. Making stuff better doesn't mean ridding it of all possible complications and minor annoyances. In fact, some of the things he complains about are actually features, not bugs and those cases the solution is to get a different product.

Everything is broken and nobody's upset? No. Everything is awesome and everyone's jaded.
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this seemed interesting, so here is my first post to HN
That last bit has well-accepted precedent: Game consoles. They do exactly that. Ever since the NES, game consoles have been designed not to play open content but to verify some sort of signature (not necessarily cryptographic, could be in the physical media like the NES's lockout chip.) Pirating on a game console has always required modification; a hardware modchip for older consoles or a software jailbreaking exploit for newer ones with an operating system. But the market accepted that just fine. Such a restriction doesn't perfectly prevent piracy, but is broadly effective.
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I'm impressed! Nice redesign man. My startup's in travel - we should connect.
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A relational database at very modest hardware can handle millions of rows, and with a solid database, good hardware and a DBA who knows his shit you can handle billions.

OpenStreetMap has over a billion nodes stored in a PostgreSQL database.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/stats/data_stats.html

My point is that you can get very far with a classic relational database before you have to scale vertically.
How difficult would it be to build out an Android instance with only Netflix installed? Then you could deploy the instance locally whenever needed... Or from a business point of view - get an ARM array of servers that can run it. Then have them launch on demand with user info, and allow people to "remote in" ?
What damage? You can drop it at any minute and start working on the compiled javascript. I've done this a couple times.

That's true for any tool/language/platform/whatever, everything has a learning curve (and coffeescript's is quite short). Going by your words we shouldn't ever learn anything.

And you shouldn't switch to a language if your developers are not comfortable with it. Do some experiments, try it out on a smaller project, then you might switch if you see good results.
"Drink Diary" - give a rough calculation of the alcohol drunk over one week. Users input the strength (if known) of the drink, and the size (if known) of the drink.

The app returns a rough estimate of Units drunk over the week, and links to sensible drinking advice.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19509434)

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-1954...)

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19554316)

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19512420)

Safe drinking advice:
(http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/846.aspx?CategoryID=87&SubCa...)
I recommend FlowDock as a good alternative.
If I want to "keep" my digital books, I'll dump them from my Amazon account and send them off to Fedex Office to be printed/bound.

At the moment, I'm fine having a copy of all of them (with the DRM and identifier stripped) stored as a compressed archive in Amazon S3.
+1. The search results for this could merge in commits and be a really valuable way to figure out whats going on in a well factored, modular codebase where things can be spread out in many different tangled folders. Something like 'ack for github' would be fantastic.
It's absurd anyway. Advanced tech will(and already has, to an extent) put extremely destructive power in the hands of normal people. If we haven't learned to get along by then, we will certainly kill ourselves off.
So I'd really like some explanation of this tidbit:

"According to the official news agency, ITAR-Tass, the diamonds at Popigai are "twice as hard" as the usual gemstones, making them ideal for industrial and scientific uses."

Oh really? I'm familiar with different crystal structure or impurities that can make some diamonds 10 - 25% harder than gemstone class diamonds but 100% harder? That is a new one for me.

And I agree with others a trillion carets of diamond where the largest crystal is .1 caret is not as big a deal where you get 1 - 10 caret diamonds in there as well.
* Last big improvement to the state of the art, for the narrow art-field of B2B software companies: last gig,*

Can I ask what the improvement was ?
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NateDad 2 things when VS is choking on some simply whatever launch tasks manager , look at disk performance youll see its writing files in user\appdata\roaming somthing like that erase all MS files in that dir. also create your own build automation and dont count on anything but compling from VS .MSFT is returning to its roots as a tech marketing but vs2010 should work OK for another 2-3 years, by then you can migrate to somthing better.good luck!!
thanks, funny that I also made a mistake
Were you smacked as a kid? Will you smack your kids?
Such an investment would almost certainly skew the probabilities in the other direction. So far we know of exactly one species that has both taken the initiative to develop weapons that could exterminate humanity and has made threatening gestures with said weapons: us.

If the human race gets destroyed by mega-weapons, it'll almost certainly have been a human that pulled the trigger.
Thank you for taking issue with this. I use Virgin, and I never even considered how insecure this is. I'm going to hound them about it.
Whatever happened to those guys who were making diamonds that could not be detected, I think in Miami?

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/diamond_pr.html
The majority of NoSQL guys are not Twitter, Foursquare, Google, or Amazon, and Twitter, Foursquare, Google, and Amazon all have plenty of people experienced enough in traditional RDBMS to tell them what things would probably be better in them.

Most NoSQL guys I meet have little to no experience in SQL. Plenty have lots.
Those were only a few examples. I can keep listing companies that use sharding.

The idea that it is some 1980's approach to scaling databases is laughable.
He didn't backpedal, he explained his reasoning for making the first statement. Hard and a bit unvarnished, yes, but understandable.
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Fear not. Despite the science behind the OP, faster than light travel will not turn out to feasible. Those who think it will be, haven't really thought through the ramifications of what a world in which causality is routinely violated would be like.
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i'm not trying to be a jerk, i swear, but Google (especially since the autocompletion and nigh-instant results) would count, i think.
For anyone interested in the (just for fun) topic of technological advancement, weaponry, and encounters with other civilizations, you should check out Vernor Vinge's Zone of Thought novels, a Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky. I can't recommend them enough.

In particular, he assumes that all civilizations will follow roughly the same arc of technological discovery, and that once they hit their information age, it's all about computational power and software. Which, of course, expand in power exponentially with time.

As for us explicitly preparing for that kind of encounter, sorry but if we run into hostiles we're screwed. Take any tech of your choosing and extrapolate. For example, a civilization a few hundred years more advanced than us could easily hit Earth with a custom-made virus or nanobots and wipe out humanity in a day. And if they were a few hundred thousand years more advanced? Impossible to say, but I think our only hope is think that we're too low-level for them to bother messing with.
We tried to use Cloudflare when they teamed with Dreamhost a few months ago. We had more downtime than uptime....

Though this is super-relevant because during the struggle with Cloudflare, we released an article about LOIC and how easy it is to reveal the locations and identities of individuals involved in a DDoS attack using LOIC.

http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/03/low-orbit-ion-cannon-exp...
May I ask what are the use cases for maps like that? I don't think I have ever needed one myself.
It doesn't beat paper materials in all forms of logistics, but it is superior in most of the ways I usually care about.
Have a browse through Meatball wiki. Although it's aimed at wiki style communities it has relevance for many others.

(http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/)

You need to force good behaviour. Avoid "vested contributors". Meta is usually death; have some kind of separate channel for meta nonsense.
Note, Chrome junkies, the Firefox awesome bar already does most of these :)
Clarification of Limited
The value of a diamond is not its retail value nor its resale value, it's what it means to the recipient. Don't lose sight of the fact that we're here discussing this on the web, where people pay hundreds of dollars for downloads with virtually no marginal cost at all, and markets for unique services consist of a single provider arbitrarily setting prices for something that cannot be resold at all.

If I was going to get angry about diamonds, it'd be about the poor labor conditions of some mining operations, not the artificial value we attach to precious gems. If suppliers allowed diamonds to become worthless, we'd just find some other gift to symbolize what the cost of diamonds symbolize now.
A bit blindly optimistic. I'm sure our media overlords will find a way to adapt, if they haven't already done so. While this Newsweek example is particularly ham-fisted, it is not that difficult to provide fodder for the imaginations of members of the public, prompting them to have ideas that they will then attribute to themselves.
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I don't manage people...

Couple of thoughts on this: Good managers have a worldview, and they learn to communicate effectively. Its much more efficient, functional, and practical. That is the art of leadership, vs babysitting (or helicopter parenting, etc).

Consider the counter-example: The worst manager is one is unpredictable, all over the place, capricious. He cannot scale, however smart he is. Beacuse nobody can decipher him. You cannot avoid or minimize a meeting, because you cannot prepare in advance for expected lines of reasoning, etc.

That's part of creating a culture and having values.

The best leaders I have ever worked for all had very stong, idiosynchratic lines of inquiry. They were all very tough, but always fair. You learned to "keep them in mind" as you did your work. Looking back, its very effective to help crystallize your own view in relation. That's how you develop.etc.

So, in some sense this is independent of "approachable". You don't always want to be approachable. You want people to work independently but under a common vision. You want them to internalize things. Then, for the nuance, the edge case, the final decision/s...they can come and have a chat.

Thus one sets out the right time and a right place to be approachable. But the context is critically important to distinguish. The questions and issues you raise need to be thought of inside the bigger picture. For things to make sense. Hope this helps.
No doubt a couple or three people are sweating profusely over at DeBeers.
In my experience I would find myself frequently falling back to explicit brackets and more traditional Javascript syntax when I wasn't sure how to construct the statement. Which was okay (I wasn't stumped), but it happened fairly often. Your multiple line example (without "function") is the kind of thing I wouldn't be able to create on my own – both the indentation and comma have to be in just the right place, and the rules that govern that are not very clear. Or rather, it seems to be the one thing that works given a bunch of rules that are interacting in that particular situation. And each time I'd get something like that wrong it'd probably compile, but then I'd have to read the generated source to see what I'd actually done.
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I have absolutely no influence at Microsoft. Why are you asking me to talk further over how I would do their software architecture differently? There is absolutely no hope of changing anything, at all, by doing that. It's a waste of time. That's why there was no "proposed solution" anywhere in my comment.

Let's recap.

1: A new 0-day has just been released that affects IE 7, 8, 9, etc.

2: givan points out that the long release cycle for Internet Explorer means that this will probably be a viable exploit for a long time to come. (And he's right.)

3: greenyoda says, no, Windows Update will fix this. Especially, "[IE] does get automatic updates, just like other browsers."

4: I jump in -- something I am becoming more and more convinced was a huge mistake -- and point out some of the reasons why Windows automatic updates are not just like other browsers.

Have I gone wrong somewhere yet? Do you really think that Windows automatic updates are "just like other browsers"? Why do you want me to accept that Windows updates have to suck just because Windows is a huge complicated piece of software? Does any of that invalidate any of the reasons I mentioned for why users turn off automatic updates?

Or is it your argument that people don't turn off Windows automatic updates? Because even Coding Horror has a rather popular post from 2005 on how to disable it (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/05/xp-automatic-update...), and that's targeted at a technical audience, so frankly I'm not yet convinced that anybody who thinks that disabling Windows automatic updates isn't a popular thing to do is someone that I should spend any time debating this with.

Does Apache do automatic updates for critical vulnerabilities? No. Could it? Sure. I bet half the people on this forum alone could write a cron job to do just that. But more importantly: who cares?

The fact alone that Microsoft pushes browser updates through the exact same channel as kernel updates makes their update process very wrong. I don't think I have to spend any time at all going out on a fishing expedition finding you examples of software that does it right to argue that at this point browser updates should be getting their own channel from MS. (Just in case I really have to spell it out: treating operating system updates as exactly equivalent to browser updates is stupid. Not doing so would solve your number one rebuttal, which seems to be that Microsoft can't do updates better because software is hard.)

If you insist on having me come up with an entirely new way to engineer software for Microsoft, I expect to be paid for that.

And I'm still reading patio11's latest post on kalzumeus, so my rates just went up.
Which phone do you have? On my iPhone4 it lags and is slow all the time. I think particularly when it's in air plane mode but it might just be my perception.
Their twitter says it was on auto-renew, and their domain is through the same company as their hosting. If their autorenew didn't go through, their hosting probably wouldn't either, so it's hard to believe that their host would have let them skate by for five months without payment.
that was an interesting read, thanks
I'm fairly certain that wouldn't be an issue. Relativity means that any (let's say non-accelerating, to keep us within the context of special relativity) reference frame is just as good as another. In the spacecraft's reference frame, it's chilling out, and a bunch of stars off a ways are moving really fast, but they don't really affect it.

It is an interesting problem though; I'm not really sure why it can't crush itself...
Yup, and the 126px fixed height is over 20% of my window on this MBA. Might be worthwhile compacting it a bit on devices with small displays.
"I do feel this goes to show why Netflix is taking a continued hit on their stock price and subscriber base, simply put they lack innovation and are not catering to major niches such as Linux Users."

Funny, I thought the stock price taking a dive was because of the Qwikster fiasco. And I thought the falling subscriber base was because of the separation of streaming and DVD plans paired with a lack of good content that is available to be streamed.
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Sorry for the trouble you had. Did you submit a support ticket to CloudFlare? Sounds like something was blocking requests from our network.

LOIC and a number of the more public DDoS tools make the attackers' identities relatively easy to track. The big attack we saw last Saturday is much more difficult to trace both because it is originated with a UDP request (the headers of which can be forged) and because it is reflected off open resolvers (essentially laundering the identity of the attack's source).
Interesting. DNS reflection is one I hadn't heard about before. Very interesting.
From Leah at grove.io:

Hi,

Thanks for your interest in Grove.

Unfortunately we won't be open sourcing the code due to the time and effort it would take to prepare and maintain it.

Thanks for understanding,

Leah
For a site like GitHub, I would imagine this is a huge engineering effort to do right. For instance, in a plain vanilla code search facility, how would you expire results efficiently when the text can change from minute to minute (to seconds, to even less)?