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I don't think fools in the D are posted up with an airsoft gun....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz7sCBoZiO8
These pictures are all taken from other Google Street View gallery sites, with the location information removed and the source uncredited.
"not zooming around like an all knowing cyborg."

Ha ha ha ha!
Last year I looked into the number of British police officers killed (on the mainland) by firearms. It was 68 in 110 years.

http://blog.jgc.org/2011/08/number-of-police-officers-shot-d...
Never mind that Sunspider tests the JS engine (which isn't identical on either device) just as much as the processor. Testing JS->engine->OS->processor is a poor method of gauging performance of the processor itself.

That said, I'm surprised no one's attempted a port of Nitro to Android/NDK for benchmarking purposes, to remedy this somewhat.
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I am extremely sorry about that. It is up now. I regret the inconvenience.
A trivial benchmark that doesn't actually run long enough or do enough allocation to exercise the GC isn't going to be representative of real-world performance in any case.
Thanks a lot for the link :) The site is up now
Matt's passbook sample for Rails ported to Flask
Port of Matt's passbook_rails_example to Flask.
It's a small world after all…
Mobile Safari is a bit of a pain for frontend developement. There's the javascript-based FireBug but it's a far cry from the real thing or the Chrome developer tools.

Of course, you don't need to do it all day every day - you can use your laptop for frontend work and an iPad for backend development in the park on nice days.
They are removing physical buttons, not buttons per se. They are still on the bottom of the display, always in the same place, with the same functionality.
The title is misleading, and the article is hard to read.

The central complaint seems to be that the language shoot-out uses the 'go' compiler. This doesn't seem surprisingly, seeing as this is what the go website tells users to use.

There is however a gcc frontend for go, complete as of July and still not in many distributions (this isn't a go problem, man distros haven't updated yet to gcc 4.7.1).

So the real headline should be 'Computer Language Benchmarks uses google's go compiler, gccgo is faster'
- I'm not American. I don't upgrade my phone every year, but when I do the old one usually gets handed over to a family member. I think this is quite common, although some may sell it for a price depending on the age of the phone.

- Turning off WiFi, GPS and bluetooth, you get quite a bit of battery life out of an iPhone.

- I can only answer for the people I've met who are non-technical. They had no problem using an old Nokia phone to make calls, but for everything else (including contact lists and SMS) the iPhone is easier.

The only usability problems I've discovered has to do with the buttons, as they don't discover what the sleep/wake button and silent/ringer button does, and because they think the Home button is an "end whatever you're doing" button, which makes them push that button to end a call (this of course doesn't work since it just returns to the home screen with the call backgrounded).

Since I'm curious, what was your mother struggling with?

- The iPhone hardware has a tendency to last a long time unless the display breaks. My mothers phone is from 2009, for instance. Although I agree that replacing the battery is a problem since you have to know someone with a screwdriver or pay to have it replaced.
Not enough horrible, pointless deathtraps.
Neil's not on a great connection so Dropbox was a bit slow to update
> The limitation of argdo is that it won’t search the supplied directory recursively

**

works more or less like * but for directories:

:args **/*.rb
:argdo %s/_params/params/gc

will ask for confirmation before doing the substitution on every *.rb file contained in the current directory and its children.
Show HN: an attempt at an open source web based irc client in node.js
github repo: https://github.com/cjstewart88/nirc

demo: http://nirc.jit.su/ (not sure how stable this is)

This by a long shot is not complete and bugs are crawling, but I wanted to get this out in front of as many people as possible.

If you're interested in contributing please don't hesitate, this is a learning experience for me and any help to make this an awesome app would be much appreciated!
I don't think there is a limitation on selling TeX derivatives. A lot of commercial products based on TeX have been created, such as Scientific WorkPlace. I would be concerned about cweb, the translation of TeX from pascal to C used on unix.
>Yes, and it will radically change as the web stops being English / Latin alphabet dominated.

It will never stop being English/Latin alphabet dominated for the English (Americas, Australians, etc) though.

So, it's not like english web designers will see any major change in their work, or english web users...
Is this not basic humanity? How about just "Be Nice"?
I have a love-hate relationship with iSSH. I use it every day and don't have any problems with graphical glitches, despite using screen and a 256-colour Vim scheme. I'm not using a retina iPad though; maybe that's related.

I'd love an actual fullscreen iSSH too. If only it was open source so we could improve it...!
This is awesome even though it crashed my phone so hard that I had to do a battery pull! :)
That is an interesting use of Dropbox for collaboration
You don't seem to understand how Bitcoin works: the balance of the address is what has the 'coins'. They dont exist independent of the balance of the address.

So you can't spend them from a different address, without first transferring them to that different address; and that transfer must be publicly announced to the network. It is the public announcement which gives the other address the ability to spend the 'coins'.
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The point of the article is that the first problem is not so much a problem and more of an afterthought compared to the more fundamental issues of spacing, proportion, weight, characters per line, and placement on the page, which all equal readability. Once you have considered those, you can more or less drop in whatever typeface you like and then ask yourself whether it improves or detracts from readability and whether it matches the overall tone you are trying to set with your design.
That's right, I forgot that they had a push for the Lumia a while back, and maybe it's still ongoing. But even so, the sales have been low.
1 and 2 letter names cause trouble in other areas than pure Google search, mainly in search on specific web sites and forums.

For example searching for "Clojure" on Amazon is likely to find every book related to using Clojure. Searching for "Go" will come up with a lot of junk and searching for "Go programming" would not find any book with say "Go Development" or "Go Recipes". This leads to multiple searches with no guarantee you aren't missing a lot more.

How about trying to find a comparison of say Java and Go in a programming/technology forum, better hope that the forum supports 1 or 2 character searches and the threads have sensible labelling.
Xkcd 1110 high res PDF (moved away from dropbox)
Nice - I made a prototype of something similar half a year ago - drag&drop designing of bootstrap-based sites :) http://www.screenr.com/vjo8
If UK police had sidearms as standard, we would get a criminal arms race and far more police would get shot. And thankfully, most of the police know this, which is one of the main reasons they don't want guns. For the same reason, if they were brought in, it would be almost impossible to go back again.
My understanding is that because of the distributed transaction nature of Bitcoin-the-protocol, the stolen coins will be "hot" forever. As soon as they're spent, they'll show up in the logs. The identity of the thieves may never be known, but the coins themselves are identifiable.

I'm surprised someone hasn't started a hot-sheet for stolen coins, so that exchanges and individuals can check before accepting them.
I use vanilla SSH and GNU screen. I have a ping of 150ms to my Linode at the moment and that's absolutely fine. I think above 300 it starts to get a bit hairy. The Vim movement commands are extremely tolerant of a laggy connection, which helps with perception a lot, I think.
It could be a light sabre but the blade of plasma just isn't activated.
I stand corrected.

So, how can they ever be truly laundered? Because eventually someone is going to want to convert them to cash, and at that point, they're traceable right?
Dropbox says "This account's public links are generating too much traffic and have been temporarily disabled!" so I put it on Cloud app as a backup.
For me, the hidden cost of C++ was the mental overhead of programming in it. I had to be constantly alert about the many many ramifications of almost every line I wrote.
In a sufficiently short test (where the jit cannot show it's chops) I'd expect go to win.

The tests in the benchmark game are totally useless anyway. When given a load that does not stress the L1i, modern CPUs perform pretty much completely differently than they do on real loads with more than 32kB of code. Given such a small code snippet, the CPU will never fail a (theoretically predictable) branch, will never spill L1, and, on SNB, will in fact never even have to decode an instruction after the uOP cache is primed.
Michigan isn't known as the murder mitten for nothing.
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I've been able to accomplish the "meander around, finding cool new places to work" thing pretty well with an 11" MB Air (and optional tethered iPhone).

It doesn't have the ridiculous battery life of an iPad, but other than that it essentially gives you the same portability without feeling like you're constraining yourself to a subpar development environment (I've tried doing serious web dev on an iPad, but the lack of a web inspector and the ability to remap caps lock as control are both dealbreakers for me).
I would love to see Open webOS take off. Not because it's open source but because I really liked the platform.

Sure it had it's faults (which platform doesn't though?), but most of them are relatively minor fixes and on the whole, I just preferred webOS's way of working than its competitors (eg cards view for switching tasks).

I know it's all down to personal preference at the end of the day, but I think it's a great shame that Palm came in so late with webOS (and on such underwhelming hardware too)
Samsung: "If you could only take one electronic device to a deserted island..."
SOUND. never auto play sound!
I think you're describing a feature, not a bug. Especially if you can figure out a way to derive energy from the fall.
You're correct, I assumed it was the wallet that held the coins, not the individual addresses.
It's pretty disingenuous to equate the two that way.

There's no reason to believe that Instapaper won't or doesn't already do everything that you're suggesting Pocket could do.

As it stands:

Pocket (Free), Instapaper ($3.99/$2.99)

Pocket (No ads), Instapaper (ads)

Pocket (Free API), Instapaper (Subscription fee for some API functions)
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See my comment above. The sites where the pictures were originally found generally have a link to Google Maps for each image.
AFAIK, the only requirement to comply with TeX license is to not name a the modified program TeX. This wouldn’t be the first proprietary version of TeX.
While I understand you point, it's rather thin - they are comparing the newest smartphone chip from apple with the newest smartphone chip from intel. Intel brought their best low power engineering to the table - haswell won't be available until 2Q13 which is pretty much an entire phone design cycle. Power doesn't mean much anymore without power/watt.
Dropbox says "This account's public links are generating too much traffic and have been temporarily disabled!" so I put a backup on Cloud app: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4543626
I find it funny how HNers always want everything to be a "service". It's not a service, but I did write a blog post that might help you out: http://sachagreif.com/more-google-webfonts-that-dont-suck/
Use "curl -f" and it won't save the 404 output
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I believe it's iPad only.
That is one of the things I miss in Shootout. Before, there were allowed multiple implementations for each language, and users could see how big difference between Lua and Luajit is, or how Python2 compares to Python 3.

Now that there is only one implementation for each language allowed, some important information is missing from the site.
What pains me is that after reading this article, the only thing I could think about was how the article contained the overused word 'like' in a sentence as if it was written by a 15 year old high school girl.

'Except for like, when you drive through a rough urban area and happen to have a large gun pointed at you.'
This is essentially what I'm doing these days. I wrote quite a lot of my upcoming CoffeeScript book (and its example applications) this way in Istanbul. Spending the morning in one waterpipe cafe, then afternoon in another.

Battery life was the main hindrance, as I would always need to find a place with a convenient power socket at least for the other half of the day. If somebody made an MBA-like, Linux-capable machine with a full-day battery, I'd buy it no matter the cost.
Laziness. I'm able to commute by bike, on a well-maintained bike path, no less. However, more often than not, I don't do it. Why? Because since I also have a car, I'm more likely to drive when running late (which is basically ALL the time).
I have the same question but seems like its free and anybody can go. Gary's blog does not post any restrictions either.
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My friend Matthias (wiemann.name) does that with his MB Air and he's totally happy with it. If you need web inspector, an iPad really isn't an option. I'd still recommend trying out a remote server, it's fun.
Seconded. 11" MB Air feels just as portable as my iPad. That said, the author seems to be getting positive effects from using exclusively remote tools...

Like you, I see draw backs. I don't want to use vim as my primary editor, and I hate that I can't have tabs loading in the background in the web browser, or can't be on Skype while doing something else...
Have you looked at ultrabook-class laptops with removable battery packs? Might work out for you. How was Istanbul?
The only thing I have to compare it to is connectbot, which works great on all of my android phones. It actually keeps the connection for as long as it stays running and at least tries to support touch events (scrolling with your finger sends pageup/down apparently). Ideally, I would be able to touch the screen and resize tmux panes, vim's split windows as well as scrolling in tmux's copy mode and vim. None of that is possible and I'd rather use the keyboard anyway, but not being able to remap caps lock is a serious issue for me. iSSH's only feature to alleviate this is to remap the option key to control, but that has its own set of issues and isn't where I want it to be on the keyboard anyway.
I am guessing that most people aren't able to work. Just taking a survey from the people around me, no one lives close enough to work to bike. I also live in Orange County and the Los Angeles area so everything is very spread out.
Is there really much of an expectation of privacy on a front porch though?
I've admittedly not worked through Geroch's paper thoroughly myself, so I won't make strong claims here. But based on my understanding, I'd say that his assertion is a bit stronger than what you're suggesting here. He's not just giving a sort of meta-argument that "the space-time manifold of the universe must be consistent, so some mysterious effect will always stop you from killing grandpa".

Rather, his point is that your second theory (the one that you're adding to standard relativistic physics) has already been assumed to be causal when taken on its own (it must have a well-defined initial value formulation: that's one of his postulates). What he demonstrates is that putting the two causal theories together will still preserve causality. So when he says that you won't be able to use standard SR tricks to create closed causal curves, he really honestly means that any possible arrangement of the matter/energy content that could do that would be forbidden by the fundamental laws of the theories you're using. (Not just that it "wouldn't happen to work out".)

To phrase it yet another way, Geroch would say that you could not build a time machine in such a theory, not just that you couldn't use it to change the past in a meaningful way.
If your income exceeds your expenses you're in good shape. For too many people that involves an endless game of chasing more income when the 'expense' side of the equation can usually be brought under control with less effort and right now, not "sometime in the future after my next promotion/job change".
"One thing that mobile browsers lack is access to proper inspectors and JavaScript consoles. Any ideas on that?"

When you have to, can't you VNC to a machine with proper inspectors and consoles?

I don't ipad exclusively, nor do I front end very much, but whenever ssh or run-a-client-on-the-ipad fails me, VNC usually is the solution. I guess rdesktop works too. Given a decent xserver on the ipad I could do a few more things.
A friend tells me there's a Limbo reference in there but I don't know what it is.
I wish I had of known this a year ago.
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If they released the Lumia 920 w/ Android 4.1, it would immediately be the second best selling Android phone, IMO.
Glad to see that he had integrity to cancel the deal. Most germans I've met are very nice persons. Also, I couldn't help to think of this video while reading most of his posting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOBspAm5aR8
Here's my own anecdotal example of CoffeeScript's readability.

Once, before banging out a bit of complex code, I thought I'd write out some psuedocode to help wrap my mind around what I wanted to do. I type out my psuedocode algorithm, realize I've written valid CoffeeScript, then uncomment it.

That's the experience that made me think CoffeeScript is MORE readable than JavaScript.
Introversion Software, who made the movie-style hacking game Uplink, also have a game called DEFCON which is an atmospheric, minimalist global nuclear war simulator. http://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/ "The World's first Genocide 'em up! It's Global Thermonuclear War, and nobody wins. But maybe - just maybe - you can lose the least." I love those guys :)
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Isn't there a famous patch that makes Bitcoin transactions anonymous? How do we know they're not using that?

Ref: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=24784.0
Thanks, definitely going to give it a go for backend development. It might actually be quite nice to have some forced segmentation between backend and frontend work to avoid getting distracted by the design at the wrong times.

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It is the way one treats his inferiors more than the way he treats his equals which reveals one’s real character.

—Rev. Charles Bayard Miliken, Methodist Episcopal, Chicago.
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This is literally the main reason my wife and I do not own a car. If we need one for a long trip or a holiday, we rent or borrow one.

We have discussed renting a garage a couple of miles from our house if we ever do buy a car though.
in many american cities, if you want to have enough living space to raise 2 or more children, your options are to spend several million dollars on housing that is close enough to your downtown office that you can bike to work, or, move to the suburbs.
Sure, but it's easy to be nice to those 'above' you, or those you want something from. It's being nice to those 'below' you that is the true test of character.
Well, if a policeman carries a gun and is obliged by law to use it when stopping criminals, then it automatically makes encounters with armed criminals into a Voldemort vs Harry "only one can live" situation. I can see policemen not wanting to go this route.
Yes, sorry. I just disabled the auto play. I was hacking on it all night and had it in as a goof but forgot to turn it off. Thanks for commenting.
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Nice piece! Love it when someone cares about ligatures! I've actually had clients --big ones-- force me to remove "those crazy letters" in their layout. I couldn't educate them...

Hve you seen http://beta.typecastapp.com/ "Better web type without the hassle" If anyone is going to fix ligatures it's them.

Update: THEY HAVE!!! http://beta.typecastapp.com/blog/fancify-your-typography-wit...
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"It goes like this. The people who generally have their financial shit together don't usually realize when it's pay day. Those who live pay-cheque to pay-cheque always know, and will remind you as well! I once received an email from a colleague who signed off with Happy Payday!. It's a very telling test."

I've got my finances setup pretty well and I still know when payday is and enjoy it very much. No, I don't need the money to get through the next two weeks but it's still fun to receive money. I'd almost argue that if you don't know when payday is, and when money is coming in and out of your account, you don't have your financial shit together.

Besides that, this article doesn't really provide any tips or advice that a generic "save more money" article on MSN would offer. Some examples from the authors personal financial "hacks" would have been helpful.
I liked to be reminded that there used to be a time where "complete" systems could fit in 1k of storage. Even as a developer, I'm always amazed at how exponentially expensive all these features that we have added over the years are.
Istanbul is awesome. Scenery is beautiful, and the waterpipe cafes don't mind if you sit there the whole day, as long as you order tea or something every now and then. Quite a lot of them have decent WiFi as well, though many sites are blocked in Turkey.

This might give an idea of the places I worked in:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bergie/sets/72157631399738304/

Slightly more expensive city to live in than Berlin, though. It felt a lot cheaper when I moved there for a while from Helsinki back in 2008.
Haha, you ruined the article for me. I wonder if the guy driving the car even noticed, or was otherwise distracted by counting the minutes till he could get done with that area.
There's a lot of people who are physically incapable of biking to work -- not because of distance, but because of some combination of {age, injuries, lack of fitness, difficult terrain, luggage}.

It's easy for a fit 20 year old who lives on a flood plain to say that more people should cycle to work. It's not so easy for an overweight 40 year old who needs to drop her kids off at daycare, works at the top of a steep hill, and needs to buy groceries on the way home.
OT:

I am a bit of a fan of dark backgrounds but you got to be careful with the colours for links etc. Dark grey on Darker Grey is not very visible.

Additionally the article is not clearly laid out and if it didn't have "Go" in the title would not have had a chance at high front page spot on HN.

Oh well such is life at the moment.
Once Google has perfected their driverless car, it won't be an issue to driver safety.