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Persona doesn't work well in non-JS, non-browser contexts, yet.

So are there built-in, HTML-only versions for this in the works? It seems it should be possible to build some of this functionality into the browser, making it work without JS.

The nice thing is that you can use it for progressive enhancement. Users have JS? Auth with Persona. Users don't have JS? Use a traditional email address / password system.

I wouldn't call that progressive enhancement. Depending on whether the client has JS enabled, they would go through entirely different registration and auithentication processes, using different credentials. That can be very confusing to the users.
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We're not debating that. We're debating whether or not gittip should support international payments, and the point is that small amounts of money here are much more significant in countries like India.
Interesting that very few of these life hacking blog posts attempt to draw a distinction between different types of exercise. A marathon (or training for one) is a very different form of stress to a low-rep high-intensity power or oly lifting session, and I would expect their neurological effects to be miles apart.

Regarding the endorphin hypothesis, there's another parallel hypothesis which is that the good feelings of exercise are just a symptom of oxygen deprivation in the brain:

Altitude-chamber tests have shown that as oxygen deprivation
increases, some victims experience a sense of increasing
well-being, even euphoria, while they’re losing the ability
to function in a thoughtful, coordinated manner.

Source: http://www.planeandpilotmag.com/pilot-talk/ntsb-debriefer/a-...
Have the fixed the fact that it doesn't support autofilling passwords? That alone makes it more annoying than any captcha that I've ever had to fill out.
Don't know about "back then", but if Pharo and Morphic are not "interactive UX" then I have no idea what could be called that...
Ask HN: Paid code review services for solo developers?
In the literary world, there's a bustling industry of freelance editors who charge a per-word fee to read your manuscript and suggest improvements. What's the equivalent of this for programmers?

I'm a self-taught, lone developer working in a range of languages. (PHP, Python, Ruby, and Objective-C.) I'd like to be able to submit my code to a person or small team with more experience than me, then receive suggestions both to improve it and to read up on subjects that might improve my code in the future. Ideally, I'd like this to be a mentoring-style relationship that results in my code quality gradually improving over time, but at a faster rate than I could accomplish alone.

To date, I have found several companies who offer code review services to large organisations for the purpose of security and performance audits. I have also found websites that offer feedback for small, specific snippets (e.g. http://codereview.stackexchange.com/ ). But I haven't found any services aimed at reviewing whole projects to help and educate programmers with a genuine interest in improving their own abilities.

Has anyone else come across such a thing? If no such service exists, what options are there for peer review when you're not working in an environment with other developers?
Yes, the articles and all of us in the comment thread are recommending pre-compiling. There's a rails configuration option that enables run-time compilation of uncompiled assets - this is referred to both in the rails guide and in the linked HN article. It is not recommended for performance reasons.
If you put knowledge or ability into a tool, you can just hand that knowledge/ability around. The knowledge of "the length of an inch" was originally only known by one person who told others. This didn't scale well, so the ruler was invented. Anyone with a ruler knows exactly the length of an inch.

Few people can pull nails from wood with their bare hands. Claw hammers make this very easy. The ability was built into the tool, so giving the tool to an able-bodied human allows that human to pull nails from wood.

It's like the quote: "If magic were real, it wouldn't be magic. It would be studied like science."

Glasses give perfect eyesight to almost any human. If glasses didn't exist, about half of humanity would be less able to react and function, simply because they can't get the same quality of information about their environment.

Does this mean we should stop using tools? Should we go back to a world where people can only do something if the action is made possible by the set of DNA mutations which makes each of us unique? Should we throw away autotune and automobiles and automatic defragmentation because each makes all humans more equal in ability?
Aren't GPS satellites geostationary? And aren't geostationary orbits like 100 times further out than LEO?
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> I think anonymous tips might actually not show this effect.

Yeah, seems to be working that way so far.
This is really, really compelling. I am assuming it works flawlessly in things like a web based help desk and Gmail? (Not as a data source per say, but displaying information.)
The last twenty minutes improves your endurance, strength, and/or power (depending on the activity), but the first twenty minutes provides the general health benefits.
Had a look for some pictures of this Chinga metorite and see that there are bits for sale still these days http://www.meteorites-for-sale.com/chinga.html pictures there probably best for a quick contrast to see why they suspect it, also thought meterites were more expensive so this is probably one of the more common/larger ones about indicating it is not as rare perhaps.
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Why the snark? They're just providing another piece of data in an open discussion that may encourage more people to try the app. What's wrong with that?

If your argument is that the comment didn't add much to the discussion, I'd reply that yours added even less.
Can't you embed the javascript in the DOM as a <script> and run jsonp from there in order to circumvent the same domain issue?
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Peopleware uses similar studies with similar numbers, but it also adds the caveat that people at the same companies tend to be relatively closer together.

So even if you were to accept that some programmers are orders of magnitude better than others, at it's likely that some of that is about things like noise, interruptions, network effects of putting a lot of good people together, and general corporate culture stuff.
I was poking fun, but complaining about the use of the word "grammar" here is quite pedantic. Swapping the word "grammar" for something more strictly correct would have yielded no improvement to the conversation.
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Just to be clear, this only supports HTML, CSS and Javascript? So learning to program web applications doesn't include anything with a database or that requires secure access (i.e., authentication/authorization) unless (possibly) something like Parse is used as a backend and no Ruby, Python, PHP or other server-side languages.
Yes, that's the pitch. We've done a lot of work to make it work within apps like Asana, the Stripe dashboard, etc. Anywhere it doesn't work, file a bug report, and we'll get it fixed up.

All your SaaS products with you, wherever you are.
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Don't the LEO objects have a natural loss rate (I.E., so many objects will soon be vaporized as they fall back into the atmosphere)? Those objects are designed to have a shorter lifespan (typically, ignoring the ISS). As for the GEO objects, given their fixed station over earth, I imagine there is less path-crossing, which would reduce the probability of an impact.

Assuming the LEO objects are a major danger to something critical like the ISS, what would be the added cost of shielding? How much impact should the material be able to absorb, and what would that weigh? As for the economics of satellites, shielding seems like the next-best option to expensive tracking and safe decommissioning of all objects, provided the shielding material isn't too heavy as to be cost-prohibitive.
Why would they bother with all the Intel GPU work they have been doing? Whatever "that one" hardware configuration would be, it wouldn't include an Intel GPU...
I disagree about the lack of space. If anything, it makes more economic sense to build a wider, shorter building in the expanding suburbs and exurbs.

This is why the US has so much sprawl.
You should really play that up on the homepage, maybe a slew of screenshots of useful locations. Like for any of the 100 help desk softwares that exist out there... :-)

For example, I immediately thought "how often will I run across a customer on some random forum that displays email addresses?" but that isn't the use case at all.
I phrased that poorly (and just edited my first sentence to reflect your correction). What I was trying to add was that the NSA made some other modifications to DES that were also seen as dubious at the time.
Obligatory reference to Betteridge's Law of Headlines[1]

Any headline which ends in a question mark can be
answered by the word 'no'

AirBnB & Twitter each had three founders. VMWare had five founders[2], and they've done alright.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines

[2] http://www.quora.com/Startups/Can-a-startup-be-successful-wi...
Great. Thought I'd mention it, as I can't be the only one. :)
getting one card out of your wallet beats taking phone, unlocking, opening app ...and that's assuming your phone has battery.
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Oh, This is perfect. Today was Persona implementation day for the project I'm working on and now this announcement comes. This is great for a developer area login.
If the system protects the rights of an alleged criminal it should protect your rights.
Do you have any evidence which helps confirm that "people in their 20's are at a peak of performance"?

I know in my case that in my 20s I implemented an algorithm for finding the maximum common subgraph between a set of N graphs. While in my 40s I created a new algorithm for finding the same, which is faster and more flexible. But in my 20s I worked a lot harder, which means I produced more code. And got burned out a couple of times.

If you measure performance by LOC, then I might agree with you. But did Linus Torvalds and John Carmack become worse once they got into their 30s? What of Don Knuth? And Guido van Rossum was born in 1956 making him over 30 when he started Python.

I think Guido has long since learned not to care about language debates on HN. ;)
I'm not sure if it is bad in and of itself. As long as you are free to not install it and stick with your normal apt repos to get your DRM free open source stuff.

I guess it could become a disadvantage if an influx of good commercial software means that effort on open source stuff is diminished because there is less perceived need.
I would probably use this too...for security and optimization.
And this is news to men in the IT sector?
I've been a big FreeMind fan for years. Durring my wife's first year of law school, I persuaded her to try using it for one of her classes. She proceeded to quickly adopt it for all of her classes. Having a mindmap of an area of the law at 30,000 feet, and then be able to zoom all the way down to the minutia was very valuable.

Her peers started adopting it themselves after seeing her "outlines" in study groups. Great tool!
My quality of life and health is much better due to regular exercise -- I don't think I could afford to not workout. It definitely has a positive impact on my business relationships as well as my motivation, and saves me a ton in healthcare expenses.
You're not arguing with me; you're arguing with Eli Biham. He addressed the question you asked head on.
The outerspace background is totally the killing the 'rocketship' paradigm. It kills scrolling performance and uses quite a bit of CPU. Then again a rocketship uses tons and tons of fuel so perhaps this is intentional? =)
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Thanks for the great extension! My suggestion is to move extraction to your server, which would solve the permissions and same origin policy problems. We'd only have to give permission for your website, and as a bonus you can cache extraction for quicker results.
While the quotes are nice, at the same time ignoring curse words entirely is basically cutting off a significant portion of expression. While I'm not saying you should litter all of your sentences with them, they do get the point across much better than not.

A (long) view on the subject by Stephen Fry that basically points out we shouldn't lament language change and other ways of expressing ourselves.
http://www.stephenfry.com/2008/11/04/dont-mind-your-language...
There have been iPhone (pancake) and Android (soup the AMO marketplace) apps and you can find the source in github.

We're working on an iOS SDK, to make this polished and easy.

Patches welcome, get involved!

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The more things change the more they say the same.

If there's one thing I've learned in life, is to never listen to people moaning about the "good old days" and how [insert group] has "ruined" [insert place], not like those [other group] that were great. The good old days were never actually that good, and [insert group] is neither worse nor better than [other group].

We're all way too young to be curmudgeons yet, so stop acting like it.

It's also amusing to see one wave of gentrifiers shake their fists angrily at the next wave of gentrifiers. I heard about the Yuppie Eradication Project - where people who invaded a traditionally Latino stronghold vowed to key the cars of people who later invaded that.

FWIW, they can fight for the Mission all they want. No matter how many rose-tinted pairs of glasses you put on, it's still the piss-filled, shit-littered, gun-happy, knife-stabby, gangbanger-filled shitpot we know and love.
Wait, so is this a browser easter egg or just a result of parsing out non-hex characters?
What if I don't want a site to know my email address? I currently create unique email addresses for each site. How do I do that with Persona?
As a developer, I had a path to improve my ranking which was to find a way to increase my downloads. I agree, the keywords model is somewhat of a fail in general because people can pick unrelated words, but this new version is actually worse than that.
Yeah, the weekly rhythm has been a serendipitous boon to Gittip's growth. Definitely something to consider when building something.
I've always wanted to work with a language that supports contracts (originally Eiffel I guess). Would love to see this hacked into Go. Or maybe I shouldn't turn this into a Go thread and start using Cobra.
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Yep, it was my understanding that they would use memristors in flash first, then SSDs, then RAM over the course of a few years.
Your response might be "what percentage of the failed startups run RoR?" ;)
It's a feel-good idea, but I don't like it for the following reason:

Developer A works on Project X. Everyone loves Project X, it becomes very popular, and consequently, Developer A receives a bunch of Gittips to continue work on it. Say this amount is nothing to sneeze at...$250/week or something.

Developer B thinks Project X is good, but it could be really great. Developer B really loves to make great software, and he doesn't care about being paid for his open source contributions, so he decides to fork it into Project Y. Project Y has significant improvements and changes, so that if it could be compared objectively, it would be better than Project X across the board.

Developer A sees will see Project Y as a competitor and a threat to his tips. Now he has a financial incentive to discourage the adoption of Project Y. He doesn't want his tips to disappear, so why would he bring attention to something better? Some changes and improvements could be ported from Project Y to Project X, but if the overall direction of Y is different, there would be no way to reconcile the disparity. Project Y would continue to gain adopters, and Project X would lose them.

TLDR; Financial incentive to discourage competing OS projects is bad for everyone.

I've seen this happen before on OS projects when there wasn't money involved (only pride and reputation), so I think this problem would be intensified by cash. It would be cool if this never happens though.
And likewise nobody cares that you disagree with me, including me.

It's an opinion. Chill.
Which means that this would be a rather good choice for someone who just bought an iPhone 5.
Yes, the crypto fight was fought and seems to have been won by the people. But crypto is only one facet of a broader communications security policy.

It should be clear from recent controversies about "how private is your cellphone"; warrantless wiretapping and retro-active legalization of the same; various proposals for granting government authorities over the Internet (including a "kill switch" and a rumored upcoming Executive Order since he can't get it through Congress); that in the broader context, the US government is very much interested in monitoring communications.
True. But there's also no way to have another business doing a great job on a corner for 100 years - without waiting 100 years. It IS significant when great, non-obsolete businesses are pushed around by economic upheaval (in the article's case, real estate prices and taxes).
Center-justified text is pretty difficult to read.
I think you nailed what's off about this. I don't mind landing pages, but when I see "Show HN" in the URL, I expect something already built. I don't feel cheated, but I won't be upvoting either.
The weird fact that we let the codebreakers pick the code we use is wrong. They have a conflict of interest.
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I used to exercise to get better, and as for me, the ability I seem able to improve physically (as far as cardio endurance goes) hrough training is very limited. I saw some studies a few years ago that indicated I wasn't the only one, and about 10% of people in a well controlled study saw very limited improvement through training.

However, the mental benefits are key. So the reframing matters to me. If the purpose of cardiovascular exercise was just to run a marathon, it'd be a waste.
Does FreeMind have good text search?
So, for best performance look at the lowest latency and ignore the clock speed?
Does Gittip also earn interest on money that sits in it's accounts waiting to be tipped out?
You my friend are an optimist.
really ? I'm liking the turn by turn directions in ios6 a lot and to me the update was worth it just for that. I still have the mobile google maps on there if I need to search anything.

Apple Maps feel very snappy and I like the Yelp tie-in.

But I have never used the transit options so I can't say I'm missing it. If I had to use it I figure I could just jump over to web based google maps.

Curious to know what don't you like about the new apple maps that can't be solved by the web based google maps ?
Some of the story behind Spar: http://www.slideshare.net/wyrmwood/ultramodern-frontend-dev-...
Mostly agreed. Somalia shows that isn't always so easy.
The events are not comparable. The Chinese test represented wanton disregard for orbital debris, to an extreme degree. The US anti-satellite tests (in 1985 and 2008) were on low-altitude satellites using sub-orbital weapons. This led to much smaller debris plumes that reentered the atmosphere in a short period of time (weeks or months).

Look at the graph I posted earlier: http://blogs.nature.com/news/files/debris.JPG

Can you see the impact of the debris created by the 1985 ASAT test? No? Can you see the little bump that starts in early 2008 and goes away by 2009 that represents the debris generated by the 2008 US ASAT test? Now look at the impact of the Chinese test, it's night and day. And that's due to the altitude of the event (865 km, well above the outer fringes of the atmosphere, where orbital decay is very, very slow) and the nature of the impact from a counter-orbiting kinetic-kill vehicle, which dumped at least 4 times as much kinetic energy into the impact at the very least.

While launch vehicle and satellite makers have been trying to make their launches cleaner and leave less debris in orbit here comes China to dump in one go the same amount of debris that it takes the ENTIRE WORLD two full decades to generate. In fact, they produced about twice as much debris as the worst case natural space disaster imaginable, two satellites hitting one another (the Iridium 33 / Kosmos 2251 collision).
Good to see Godaddy focusing on their core business and keeping secure, reachable and reliable instead of useless fringe projects.
Yep. It's for 'super' bloggers who are enjoying a throwback to simpler design where their words are taken as gospel and no one is allowed to comment.
/snark
The example often given is "MILITARY GRADE ENCRYPTION" - if tank driver Bob is given commands to shell a target those commands only need to be secret for a short length of time. It doesn't matter if the enemy can decrypt them by taking a week's time, because Bob will have attacked the target and gone by then.

This is, obviously, a really old example, because modern hardware makes encrypting things quick and easy, and decrypting things quick and easy. But imagine strong encryption in the 1980s - you had to balance strength with time with size and then try to cram it into low-specced hardware.
Not at all. I'm saying that it works for me versus buying another device to consume with. To me it doesn't matter what the medium is - it's still the same thing.
Why are these described as lesser-known truths when we read an article about them every week, or even multiple times a week? If there's a group of people who don't “know” these things, they are not to be found on HN.

Beyond that, I feel like this is just a aimed to stroke our egos by confirming the biasses we already have. I'd much rather read an article about lesser-known truths.
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Developers are going to care more about total revenue and support loads. Ubuntu SC only covers the most recent HB or two - I paid for 8 different ones all of which are available via Steam on Windows. Also I don't trust Canonical much these days.
Quora Discussion:

http://www.quora.com/Startups/What-would-the-ideal-web-techn...

The truth of the matter is there's no "one size fits all".
Ask 100 founders and you'll get 100 different personal experiences and storied of how one structure worked for them, while other structures destroyed them.

The Hacker, Hustler, Designer model seems to hold strong with incubators, investors etc. as it seems, at the very least, to convey the atmosphere of being well rounded, fully capable and fast to deliver. Obviously this is not always the case.

The nature of past relationship between the founders, plays a large role in how well they can be expected to perform together and survive long term stress. There's no wonder YC dedicated a question to learning the nature of this relationship in their application form.

Some relationships make it, and others won't - the best you can do is try to truly and honestly asses how your relationships might hold up through hard times. Examine all aspects of it in as objective way as you can and make the decision on a case by case basis.