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He doesn't need the PGP key, he tampered with the software before it was signed. I just phrased it that way in response to your absurd statement, a fact that should be painfully obvious. Theo is the guy in charge. He is the guy building the software. He would be the guy signing the software. When Bob owns the build server, he can trick Theo into signing his malicious binaries. Do you think Theo goes through each binary with a disassembler after he compiles them and ensures that the generated binaries are kosher? All PGP would get me is the ability to know Theo signed it. If it was tampered with during the build, or post-build, pre-signing, then I'm boned.

That is the same situation we currently have. If Theo's machines get owned, we're boned. If they don't, we can easily verify that the sha-256 hash of the files on my hard drive, post download from wherever, match those that Theo built.

At the end of the day, you are drawing a line about where to stop verifying and start trusting. The fact that you are download binaries as opposed to source means you are trusting the openbsd developers, not just personally, but in that they have secured access to the code and build process to prevent tampering. So then the only part you aren't trusting is the distribution mechanism, which ssh keys and sha-256 hashes allow you to verify, rather than needing to rely on trust.
No it's 75% in the quarter when Apple's sales are always the lowest. Last year Apple sales went from 17 million the quarter before 4S launch to 37 million in the holiday/launch quarter. There's a week and change of iphone 5 launch in the prior quarter numbers for Apple but you'd still expect them to deliver 40-50 million phones in this quarter.

Don't get me wrong the % of Android sales today is high. But simple math tells you that it's not going to be as high as it was in August.
I honestly don't get the drive to reserve one of these early. The way I see it, you won't get it for a year and they're making 15K of these. What's the harm in waiting until they launch? Assuming it all works out, they'll have all the production lines tooled up and ready to go, so you can get one much faster a year from now (and with much better understanding of how they work in practice). If it doesn't work out, then what are you missing out on?
Simple: people who have the kind of income to pay a premium for Apple devices will also be more willing and able to pay a premium for good apps. There lies your profit. (Not to mention your costs will be lower since iOS ha no fragmentation.)
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Yes, I would consider pivoting into another YC startup but it would have to be in the Bay Area (preferably in San Francisco).

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Those are the current, just-released numbers (in an analysis from IDC). To argue that those don't represent "now" seems to be to be a silly semantic quibble -- there will never be sales numbers for "now" if these aren't them.
I think I got it. Lengths will contract, but when you're moving toward something very quickly, the speed of light remaining constant, it will seem farther away. And the reverse is true when you're moving away from it.

It actually helps to just forget about relativity for a moment, and think about the angles light from distant objects will have to take to intercept you. Then it becomes more clear.
And the "original" 1984 Mac commercial, or most of the ads on this page: http://www.cultofmac.com/182021/the-top-10-worst-apple-ads-o...
I'd be a lot more impressed if he bet something that had a bite if he lost. He's not going to miss $2000 given to charity.

He should bet that for 1 week after the election, the loser says nothing in public about the result.

That would be a loss with bite.
The real problem is that it's REALLY hard to tell which is the better idea when things are just at an idea stage.

I bet that when they were first proposed (before building anything or seeing adoption numbers) WebTV seemed like a MUCH better idea than Twitter. (not that they're comparable services just that if I told you that I wanted to let people use the internet from their living room, that would sound more exciting and useful than creating a service where people write 140 character blog posts).

Quality of idea just might not be a valuable metric.
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Fantastic Article. I have mostly the same problems: the quality is gone.
That looks much more like it! Will look further.
Not having an SD Card should help shore up some security issues from attackers being able to pop and replace your card to get and put items on your phone.

The current bootloaders are not secure when unlocked and rooted -- there is no password protection -- so with a removable SD Card anyone can boot into your bootloader and put code on your phone, even if you have USB Debugging deactivated. Removing the SD Card is one step towards solving this.

The next step to hardening the phone would be to provide a security check to access the bootloader. One of the reasons given as to why this hasn't happened is because the keyboard interface isn't loaded in the bootloader so you can't enter a password. However, you can navigate up and down via volume keys so you could have sequence-based passwords like Konami codes in video games.
Neither would I because refinements are something completely different to traits!

Refinements proposed in Ruby 2.0 allows you to localise monkey-patching much like you can do in Perl with dynamic scoping (for e.g.: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1603321 | http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3455507). For further info on Ruby refinements see here: http://timelessrepo.com/refinements-in-ruby

Traits are an improvement to mixins. IIRC Matz gave a talk (RubyConf 2010?) where he describes the proposed traits implementation. Here's one set of slides (not Matz's talk) which also shows
some traits examples - http://www.slideshare.net/fabiokung/ruby-20-to-infinity-and-...
This all hinges on our personality.

I go on Facebook, like what I like, ignore what I don't, and refuse to dwell on things.
In related news Riak was in fact added as supported storage today: http://blog.datomic.com/2012/11/riak-and-couchbase-support.h...
If you look at sales the ratio of Android devices in poor countries is significantly higher than the US. But, for the vast majority of US developers it's pointless to count those people.

If you look at actual US sales, both iOS and Android are on the rise mostly by eating BlackBerry's lunch. Android is still almost 2x the size of iOS but again there far more popular on the cheap handset market and are harder to target due to the fragmented market.

http://www.asymco.com/2012/03/07/the-unrelenting-trends-in-t...
More than 99% of cases.

If you have functions, loops, and nested loop control, in 100% of cases you can replace GOTO code with code that is equally efficient. With flag variables and if checks, you can likewise always replace the code, BUT efficiency and verbosity suffers because of the need to check the flag variable repeatedly in the loop.

As for your syntax suggestion, I am reminded of http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html which manages to use a preprocessor trick to generate working coroutines in C. (This trick is actually used in PuTTY.) I also think that the strategy that you describe would work well enough for my tastes.
Sounds a lot like the PC market circa 1986. Except with Google playing the "good enough device" role.
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Yeah but none of this is really advertised on the main site. The only thing mentioned in the docs thats different from just ./mongod is the easy scaling: http://docs.dotcloud.com/0.9/services/mongodb/

As I said I totally understand the whole sysadminless thing, and I definitely see it's usefulness. However, none of what you're saying is even advertised/mentioned by them (at least based on my quick search)...
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I was part of a large migration that moved a significant amount of data from MongoDB to HBase recently. Along the way, I also spent significant time digging into Cassandra and Riak.

I appreciate the effort and intention behind this article, but for all practical purposes, such numbers are really not helpful. From experience, if you really want performance from HBase, you need to spend significant amount of time coming up with the right way to structure your data in HBase. To name a few:

* choosing the right row key that optimizes bulk scans

* setting optimum client and server caching based on the size of each row

* pre-splitting regions, and setting custom region sizes

You will also run into various cluster-related issues. Things don't really scale linearly as you add more nodes. You need to also consider maintenance, upgrades, backups, replication and so on.

If you want to choose a NoSQL (or for that matter any database), spend some time thinking about whether it fits your data model and your own understanding of the technology. Performance is rarely gained by simply switching a few knobs.
Quoting from my link:

> You would think that Verizon LTE is ubiquitous the way some talk about how important it is and that its speeds are absolutely crushing the competition, and you would be correct on the speeds if you counted upload speeds as equally important as download speeds. For the most part though, when people talk about speeds, they are concerned with download speeds, and that is when facts get seperated by perception quite a bit.

The difference is much less perceptible for downloads, which is what most people want.

More importantly, your one piece of anecdotal data is not particularly relevant when compared to the extensive data collected in a statistically significant manner by PC Mag.

Edit: and like bryanlarsen said below, 3G ≠ HSPA+. HSPA+ has a maximum speed of 42 Mbps.
I don't think anyone would try to argue that Twilio is profitable. They spend a lot of money and while they're going to move 500M minutes this year, those minutes are not free.

The author makes several valid points but undermines the overall critical nature with what appear to be non-sequiturs. If this article was a frank accounting of Twilio's position with some postulative math about their sustainability, I don't think anyone would've objected. The issue was the accusations, most of the content is factually correct (Twilio did raise a lot of money and continues to spend a lot of money).

What we have are two different world views, and it's not clear yet who is correct.
We are currently planning to retail Lockitron for $199 in May. Today would be the last day you could reserve one for $149. We don't charge your card until it's ready to ship.
Groupon Remained In SEC Crosshairs Long After IPO
Yes, exactly. Your eye intercepts photons from a wider angle the faster you're moving, therefore you get a wider field of view, even seeing things behind you.

I'm not sure I'm missing a step going from "wider fov" to "things seem farther away", maybe I am...
While I don't 100% agree with the piece, our team just stopped using Twilio and is migrating over to MoGreet beacuse of their MMS capabilities. We already miss Twilio's strong community, but MoGreet has been incredibly responsive and supportive.
Publish a video review (preview?) of your game, post a link here, and you may find the person you need. "It's a cool game" is not enough, most of the time.
Talk of an Apple monopoly is silly. Apple has shown no interest in building budget smartphones. That market, which is hundreds of millions of phones per year, was always going to go to whichever competitor which managed to both copy the iphone the best and kowtow to the carriers. WebOS only met the first criteria, Nokia only the second, Android checked both boxes.
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I agree with the broader message. Especially on vacation, disconnecting is important; it lets you take in life and experience it untethered, away from work email or other daily concerns. And if Facebook and other social networks make you feel that way, you certainly should disconnect from them.

But I wanted to call out a couple of things:

I woke up yesterday morning to a few Facebook status updates from people who don’t like Halloween, and who would never let their kids participate in the evils of trick-or-treating. I was immediately filled with guilt because I allowed my daughter to enjoy herself so much the previous night by letting her dress up in her self-chosen mermaid/fairy combination.

Why on earth would you feel guilty because you let your daughter go trick or treating and she had a great time?

And then I realized that I feel like that all the time on Facebook. Guilt, anger, envy… Those are the emotions that fuel all social networks, but perhaps Facebook more than the others. They’re the emotions that make us share/like/comment on things.

I don't really use Facebook that often, but when I do it's to look at photos someone uploaded or read a funny comment someone left.

So I guess I disagree that guilt, anger, and envy fuel all social networks (exclusively, which is what this seems to imply). It's a really strange worldview to me.

Really, it sounds like you just know a lot of unpleasant people.
Can you make your mind what you are talking about? Unless 75% of the market is taken by those high-end devices (which are two models really: SGSIII and Nexus).
If you want inconvenient facts: many of those Android phones are really just dumb phones (or used as such) with Android. Some with very old versions of Android.
In the past, I'd agree with you. However, comparing Google's latest lineup with Apple's latest lineup tells a much different story (all 16GB):

Nexus 4: $349; iPhone 5: $699

Nexus 7: $199; iPad Mini: $329

Nexus 10: $399; iPad: $499

Of course, Apple and Google aren't in the same business, but they are very much competitors.
Yes. I had a similar experience when I tried to learn to dance, some time ago. The "right, now go and dance freestyle with Random Attractive Woman #1" moment was particularly terrifying.

(I still can't dance very well.)
That's still a few down in the search results.

It looks like the magic search term that brings you right to the report page is: "Facebook vulnerability"

http://google.com/?q=Facebook+vulnerability
Well I generally agree that Apple might need to re-orient its compass, sometimes, like many others, they screw up.

They make mistakes like anyone else. Period.

People pick out Apple to excessively "bitch" about and I am just down right sick of reading garbage like this. Had this been some other not as popular device maker this article would not even have been written.....
Maybe being on offense allowed them to set the pace of the trial more and possibly be in a better position for a settlement in the case. I'd be great to hear from a lawyer if this speculation is correct.
then you just have a void* / fn ptr couple that you pass around..
I agree that many people "overshare" and misuse social media as he describes. This is a very subjective area where some people prefer to share more and others prefer privacy. If sharing is compulsive/addictive it can be a lot of fun but perhaps also a problem.

I use hootsuite to share via social media (twitter/facebook/linkedIN etc) as channels for sharing interesting news, and perhaps 10% of my posts are vaguely personal (sunset photo I took that evening for example).

In my experience online and social media (including HN here) are like a flowing river - the conversation is always flowing... it's nice to take a swim once in a while, just don't get swept away.
It seems really odd to conclude that their marketing tactics do not work just because they 'bash' their competition in a series of blog posts.

The theory also seems to disprove itself by the fact that the very posts in question are the most popular on the blog.

I agree that there are 'classier' way of marketing yourself then semi-duplicate link/SEO-bait posts but does it work? Absolutely.
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Thank God for giving us a shitty alternative to iOS.
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I don't understand this at all. Apple is one of the companies that invented the 'Us vs. Them' marketing scheme with their 1984 commercial, Mac vs. PC etc.
How is Xmarks holding for you? I couldn't get it to work satisfactorily, so I created my own solution for syncing my tabs across computers. Didn't use it for bookmarks, as I use Pinboard.in for that. Just like you I use my tabs as temporary bookmarks, and "proper" bookmarks as permanent ones—there are lots of solutions to handle permanent bookmarks, but not for tabs whatsoever.

My solution for tab syncing was creating symbolic links to my Dropbox to keep my Firefox user directory in sync across computers, and that comes with the added benefit of everything syncing, plugins, addons, customizations, settings etc. which accumulated in my computer through the years of Firefox use, which I can call at this point an UI fork of mainline Firefox. As long as you don’t open the same Firefox in two places, this solution works pretty well. A recounting of how I did it is available at my blog at this link: http://sublunarorb.it/post/34087338428/so-you-need-to-actual... but it’s aimed at casual users, so it’s a little bit chatty.
Yes. With the exception of labels within the visualizations themselves.

Here is a "before" screenshot of the Weekly Digest without the images downloaded in GMail:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8333/8148522629_b92e702a91_o.p...

And here's an "after" screenshot, after the images have been downloaded and rendered into the mail as well:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8326/8119725381_e05bf9f983_o.p...
From the scripts/cd source [0]:

# Source a .rvmrc file in a directory after changing to it, if it exists. To
# disable this feature, set rvm_project_rvmrc=0 in /etc/rvmrc or $HOME/.rvmrc

IMHO rvm is completely overkill and suffers from overengineering.

[0]: https://github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/blob/master/scripts/cd
So if Apple has 70% of the market share, how does Android make up 75%? It can only be less than 30%. Can anyone clarify?
It's the marketing equivalent of meth.
Does it sell? Yes.
Should it? No.

It's also a symptom of "flash in the pan" products.
They could always use Windows Phone 8?
The dashboard is alive and kicking
One thing I'd like to see from languages that compile to js: Some kind of evidence that output readability is a concern. You can make some beautiful abstractions, but if I can't debug it when things go wrong, then there's no way I would use it.

Not making any comments about Elm's output, but the author clearly doesn't consider it a priority in the post.
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To be allowed on us networks they'd need Cdma and LTE. Nexus will have LTE again when that is no longer true.
The subtext of this message is to disassociate your sense of self from your abilities. There is a great quote in one of the "Little Bear" children's books that I would read to my kids when they were toddlers, Little Bear is explaining that he knows how to fly, but so far he has only mastered flying straight down.

It is hard to be 'Ok' with yourself not being able to do something you perceive as 'easy.' Or worse when someone you consider to be less talented than yourself is better at something than you, its hard to internalize that too. But all of these stem from the notion that your own value is determined by what you can do. That notion gets in the way of getting better at things.
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> Yes, lawyers are salaried, but having this ridiculous court battles just increases the number of lawyers needed, thus increasing their average salary.

How is this an example of a "ridiculous court battle?"

We have trade-marks so businesses can build a brand and keep people from free-riding on their good-will. Trademarks are fairly arbitrary and not intrinsically valuable, so the only real consideration at play is that people use different ones, to minimize confusion.

"iFone" and "iPhone" are confusingly similar. Somehow, you have to decide who gets to use the mark in Mexico.
Hmm - thanks for the heads up on this. We sent out quite a few reminder emails, but we may have missed some, sorry.
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What if my idea is big? Should I just hope they won't take it from me?
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Every time I've gone abroad, my debit card has failed to work, and I've had to spend 45 minutes on the phone to my bank to get them to make it work again. It doesn't matter if I go into the branch to tell them I'm going abroad, or whether I set it up on their website, or whether I just don't tell them at all. However vague or precise I am with the dates or the destination, when I arrive, my debit card doesn't work.

The bank are always apologetic when I return. But so what? I don't want to spend 45 minutes on the phone to somebody in the airport in a foreign country. It's time-consuming, and ridiculously expensive. So I go to the bureau de change.

I've found bureaux de change to give better exchange rates anyway - mostly. Shopping around can be worthwhile, as the favourability of the exchange rate seems to be inversely proportional to the convenience and salubriousness of the place.
One of the best, and certainly most entertaining, explanations and examples of the Y-combinator. I didn't expect much going in, but I was definitely blown away by the quality and understandable nature. Please give it a go, it's a lot of fun!
Modern hard drives don't look that different ...

RECENT : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136...

OLDNESS : http://deepakbala.me/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/hard_disk.pn...
Don't get me wrong I think every company has it's issues. Some of the companies you would think are the most stable are some of the most chaotic. However, there aren't too many instances where an article is taken seriously when it's written by a competitor. The fact that Johnny is writing this article while still working at a competitor means this article is meaningless. It holds no water. It comes off as someone who just wants to slam his competitor. If he wants to legitimize this article, talk about the challenges they face. Talk about the problems they've had in the past. Without it, it's a puff piece. He might as well have published this in the Sun.
I liked and agreed with the thesis of the article.. until I saw the tweet graphic at the bottom.

I "got" facebook in 2005 as a freshman in college, and deleted (not deactivated) my account in early 2009, as an experiment, and have been off ever since. I wanted to see if it would have a positive or negative effect on my social life.

1000% positive.

Now, if I want to know about one of my friends, I call them, text them, email them, or hang out with them. If someone wants to communicate with me, they do the same. I get texts all the time that start similar to "hey, facebook-challenged friend, theres X going on next weekend, come hang" or a phonecall/email saying the same, which leads into actual personal communication.

People might call it selfish, but my response would be: why am I obligated to use facebook to organize my social interactions? I don't make anyone contact me, and if they don't want to, they won't.

Also, I became really sick of baby pictures.
I think it's more likely he found it was not taken on npm so he took it. Async is, these days, one of the most popular libs on npm.