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Modern day software architecture is too complicated to run on one and only one programming language.

But regardless of that Perl continues to power some very serious work happening some very important places all over the world. And that is not likely to change sooner. No matter how many web frameworks get written in Php, Ruby or Python.

The reason for that is Perl has little or almost no competition in the niche it occupies. And anything that is likely to be invented to replace Perl will by and large like 99% look like Perl(Read: Perl 6 or whatever). This being the case we are likely to be using Perl(or a Perl like language) very far into the future.
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Awesome new ultra interface!! 
He is my friend. He is cool guy & ux innovator. He made new interface. check it out~!!
"Magnetic control smartphone's accerelatation parameter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9GtgyzoZmM
Raster-Scan Displays: More Than Meets The Eye
You're not serious, right? If joke: funny. If serious: worrying.
There may be a job market crash.
I had a site with a few thousand page views per day, and they would never display any ads on the site so I stopped using them. I also signed up for an advertiser account to see how the advertiser experience worked, and they immediately flagged my account as fraudulent and wouldn't let me buy ads.
Someone's got a bad case of God Complex.
I do not believe that this is a viable alternative to QR codes because it most likely needs a database to store each snap tag. A QR code encodes the data into a 2D image. This means that I can scan a QR code without internet access, and without any downloads other than the scanning app. Snap tags most likely need to call home to get the relevant data.
www.facebook.com was down for me and some friends earlier. Only for a few minutes though.
Back in the early 80's I became the owner of an IBM light pen, IIRC salvaged from a 3270 terminal. By replacing the connector, I managed to get it to work with the CGA card in my IBM PC, which had a light pen connector and a couple of supporting registers.

When the pen was clicked against the screen, it notified the card when it saw the scanline, in a manner quite similar to the duck hunt gun described here. The position of the pen click could then be read from a register on the card.
Answered a similar question in the previous HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4925633

We don't have plans to open source it, but we might be open sourcing components in the future.
Well crafted demo and UX. Nicely done folks.

On a side note: I found the submit to mailing list input to be non-functioning on mobile Safari (but possibly other browsers)
Such a long meandering ramble to say that personalities tend to settle at the same age that the rest of our bodies reach maturity.
Haha, this is the first thing I thought of when reading this article.

In reality, it would probably be difficult to execute on a live production server via the TCP port method. The artificial delay they added in to prevent timing attacks might cause a heavy load on the server, so if they leave that out that would be another possible attack vector.
Www.facebook.com is fine for me. Facebook.com is not.
Show HN: I crossed a thesaurus with a domain availability checking API
Accidental Click Ignites Insane 3,000-Ship Battle in 'EVE Online'
World Trade Organization approves new site full of “pirated” material from US
My First Annual Multiple Income Stream Report
It blows me away that nobody at LinkedIn had heard of rainbow tables, or that they didn't think it was THAT important.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing

by Adi Shamir, the "S" in RSA
Ask HN: Please help Any startups/BigCos hiring Product Managers in NYC/DC?
All,

It seems like I'll have to move to NYC/DC soon as my other half just got a job in DC. Her field of interest/experience is in Foreign Affairs/International Security so it's hard for her to get a job in the Bay Area with that kind of background.

I personally would love to leave Bay Area (been here since 2010) and explore new cities and culture. I've 3 years Product Management experience in both pre and post acquisition/IPO startups + BigCos (industries/fields - all consumer web/app: UGC (most of you have frequented the site), social games and mobile (hardware + OS maker).

I'd love to know if your startup/company is looking for a solid PM in the near-term.

Thank you so much!
>since we already know the answer: fast-food is both affordable and calorie-dense //

Fast-food is not affordable in the UK. It's substantially more costly than preparing your own food. There is no way that we could afford to eat fast-food more than a couple of nights per week; then we'd have to cut the quality of food on other nights considerably.

McDonalds for one adult costs about what we spend on a meal for 4 cooked at home (not including energy costs).

That said friends we have friends on benefits who eat fast food regularly. How they afford it I don't know. They have the heating on all day (with windows open, in winter) and things too, it's all a mystery to me.
That's a pity. Just for the record for anyone looking at this space here are some links to get started,

http://www.yioop.com/blog.php
http://www.gigablast.com/rants.html
http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=988407
http://blog.procog.com/
http://www.thebananatree.org/
http://blog.blekko.com/

I will even suggest my own small implementation (created purely for SEO value but it does work)

http://searchco.de/blog/view/code-for-a-search-engine-in-php-part-1/

BTW email sent.
Haven't tried the Droid 4, but the Droid 3 is fine, and the keyboard perfectly serviceable in a pinch.
Seems like a mostly straightforward arch. I have only one question (and it's a genuine question as I'm not sure under what circumstances it's being used and if there is an issue that was being run up against). My question is why is Solr replication being run using a 'custom' solution rather than cloud/Zookeeper or similar, or even just the standard master/slave arch if the data was small enough?
Google down. Apple flat. Facebook and Twitter sharply up:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=google%2C+twitter%2C+apple...
>>Blekko ever gets popular we will see if their choice will bite them.

What choice?

The only reason why Blekko or Facebook is even able to launch and turn around things quickly to survive in competition is because they opt to use dynamic languages like Php and Perl. If they started doing their projects in C, with the current growth in rate of complexity they will never finish their projects ever.

>>No wonder Facebook noticed this and desperately trying to compile Php to C.

Dynamic languages aren't slower because they are not C. They are slow because they do a lot of magic. C is fast because the magic is left for you to perform. I can't see how any one pull out pace out of compiling Php to C directly, unless they sacrifice things along the way. Which really defeats the purpose of using Php at the first place.

>>Well, long story short, with his help another developer converted it to Java in short time it worked around 200 times faster. So there. Moving bits around did not help Perl here at all.

Number of programmers who even need to here the word 'bits' in their day to day activities(Talking of application programmers) are rare enough to make their case totally exceptional.

Besides there are places where C makes perfect sense. There is hardly any other language heard of in the embedded programming world.
Throwing the question back at you: If you're more worried about clients which do you think has the higher demand and the best long term potential? Which is going to give the best client base?
Then we will see false flag false flag attacks by government agents.
...the patent-holding company was still able to hire another top law firm: Quinn Emanuel. That same law firm has done loads of defense work for Google and has become the search giant's go-to patent-troll killer; it's the same firm that defended Samsung in its blockbuster showdown with Apple.

This reminds me of the classic pre-emptive divorce maneuver Tony Soprano pulled: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidentified_Black_Males#Episod...

If you don't want to get sued by patent trolls, get all patent troll attorneys on retainer.
I would have to say the Point Blank series.
There are two beautifully different ways to interpret this comment.
You are encouraging people to read it first... but then you say it provides only visas and not green cards while the text says, "...Overhauling the country's legal immigration system, including attaching green cards to advanced degrees...". What gives? http://goo.gl/MZuod
Indeed. Peak RPS is what is going to be interesting. Depending on where traffic is from, it's very possible to have 12 mil requests in a day only from 9-5 type of hours and a big huge empty space during the night (This is the kind of traffic my company sees).
Noisebridge responds to DreamWorks' request to use logo in anti-WikiLeaks film
The thread started off about rhoticism ("[...]heavy on the R's [...]"), so I guess he reinterpreted the r+schwa as longer r.

However, the key player here is not laumars, but his friend Carol :-)

I mean, the interesting part is that she heard her name because
the epenthesis process transformed a monosyllabic word into disyllabic one, and that changed the shape of the word: kar(uh)l has the same rhythm as carol, and small vowel quality differences are probably less important that the rhythm when the word gets parsed by the brain.
I suppose if you crowd-source wild accusations, then anything becomes justifiable with enough up-votes. Welcome to the Reign of Terror 21st century style.
Battle in States on Generic Copies of Biotech Drugs
Tax preparation is the largest seasonal occupation.

Edit: by which I actually mean that H&R Block is the largest seasonal employer (the Jeopardy question that ended Ken Jennings's run).
Thanks for the reply!

I guess that is actually what I'm asking. At HN, seems there are more people requiring Rails/web devs, but outside, seems iOS devs are more in demand.

Right now and in all honesty, my main concern is supporting my family, I have a few months salary I can burn through while developing the portfolio, but I'm afraid of betting on the wrong horse so to say.
if a coder were to open-source an app that could easily be repurposed as, say, a search engine for pirated videos, but they included an "advisory" saying exactly what a derivative work's creator should do to obey the law, is the original coder liable?

Never, with or without the disclaimer. The Grokster case did not ensnare any coders, only the business. Knife manufacturers are not liable for stabbings.
Pictures Of A Budget iPhone For The Chinese Market Leaked
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Nonprofit Startups Are Just Like Their Counterparts
Why, would you consider placing an order to buy a watch from the website without further consultation?
Nope -- The Perl fasta program is 109x slower than the C fasta program; and the Perl fasta-redux program is about 112x slower than the C fasta-redux program.
Not quite as simple as that. Terahertz != Short Wave Infrared != Midwave Infrared != Longwave Infrared ("thermal"). These all require different photosensitive elements in your detector. They also have extremely different atmospheric absorptions. [1]

These particular sensors might indeed be passive, but it would limit their range and SNR. Be wary of manufacturers simply selling the emitter as a second SKU to garner the label passive on their detectors.

[1] I work at a company making SWIR/MWIR imagers.
We fixed this by modifying the Collection#create function to return the result of calling model.save (line 840) which is a jQuery Promise. We may or may not have .pipe'd it, I'd have to check.

Next, we leveraged the Promise API to handle success and error callbacks, specifically:

collection.create(bleh)
.done(function (model) { var xhr = this; })
.fail(function (resp) { var xhr = this; });

This is far cleaner that screwing around with success/error callbacks which don't work well when you're trying to mock the backend. If you want to get fancy (we did), you can build a default fail function and always pass that.
Very, very cool idea. The app works really well, but it feels a bit rough around the edges. I just spent about half an hour chatting with one of the cofounders though, J, and he seems very eager to improve the app, so I have all the faith in the world those edges will be straightened out. Keep up the good work!
...productivity skyrockets the world over
"Hi Alice, this is Bob from Ops. Can you reset the root password on storage-server-A and storage-server-B? The ticket is PCR-1337. Thanks."
Agreed, but I think you're selling yourself short on your percentile: http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/set1clinical/cj41l021.p...
Man is it me or does that video have one of the worst echoes ever? I couldn't understand what he was saying, and he claimed to have posted a URL to a book and it never appeared in the video.

Anyway I live in the St. Louis MO Area, I can't seem to get a break in the startup community. I am told I am too old, I am in my 40's they want 20something people. I am told that because I am mentally ill, they don't want me involved with a startup. It seems most of these feeder companies take advantage of young people and work them really hard to produce stuff and then take a majority of their stock, the entrepreneurs seem to play a role in recruiting the labor for the feeders and managing them for them for exchange of stock and credit for their work. He seems to forget to put in the labor or the talent the people who do most of the work, get the least of the credit, and get the least of the stock, and at the first sign of trouble are expendable and downsized.

I just want to talk about what is happening in the St. Louis Startup community, so it can be addressed and fixed.
It is difficult only if you are from Indian or China.
They look so generic, like thousands of other watches.
Not a bad thing if this is going to reduce the number of time Twitter crashes :-).

Not so good for the current clients of Crashytics though. Are the other tools/services that provide good crash analytics?
And such a sad sentiment too. I think about high school days... almost never?

And I enjoyed them at the time. What's the saying, "If high school was the best time of your life, you've wasted your life?"

What an article of pointless sentiments. I would have probably gone to parties with cute popular kids in high school, but I hardly care about such things now. I throw far better parties, and know far cuter people now...
The problem is that when you make this mistake early, it's not easy to fix, since you don't have the passwords yourself. Though I guess they could have rainbow-table'd their own password database and migrated everything over to a better scheme, rather than waiting for users to successfully log in.
You might be surprised how little many companies actually care about security when the fallout is largely externalised (for example users having their gmail compromised because they used the same password for linkedin).

The real question from linkedin's point of view is how many profitable people stopped using the service because they stored the passwords in MD5?

Based on some of the systems I have seen over the years I will say that there is a very strong chance that some company you have bought something from at some point has a copy of your credit card number + CCV2 stored in plaintext in a mysql database somewhere.
Why wait for a response from the server? Just react at the off chance something does go wrong. That method of dealing with Ajax requests is what many call "fire and forget". Makes for a faster UI
I had issues connecting to Facebook. Though, my roommate had no issue whatsoever. Even stranger, I could access Facebook in IE but not Chrome, Chrome Canary, or Firefox.
Same here. I didn't know Aaron personally but can't remember being so affected by a strangers death.

Thanks for everything and RIP Aaron.
No, external scrutiny means that the quality of the papers are vetted by scientists the world over. Once the papers are published they are read, reviewed, checked and, especially for important stuff, the experiments are repeated. It still has to be good science.

Sure some interesting stuff is overlooked, but any research is progress. If your university chooses to be conservative, that just means less risk on their side, but also less chance of a major breakthrough, press, status and patent rights. It's the road they've chosen but not the only road.

And everyone knows that the grad students are doing the actual grunt work. Outside of academia there are also bosses whose function seems to be solely to grab credit of those doing the actual work (but more often this is just a myopic view of what their actual job entails).
Dear HN snarky commenter,

My point is not that you shouldn't use your phone how you please, it was that the current state of technology forces us to use them in a manner consistent with a pocket watch. There's a reason people dont use pocket watches anymore.

As I point out, some electronics makers are future looking enough to see the value in a wrist worn device. I'm also pointing out that over time multiple devices tend to combine into fewer devices, and we should advocate for one of those devices to be similar to a watch. It's a proven form factor, just like pocket watches are a disproven form factor.
I actually agree with you, I wrote the post not to work on it, but give context and inspire the giants gmail, microsoft and others to do something about it.
I was two pages in before I called it quits.
How Money Obsession Can Kill Your Business
>a cognitive bias at play here, whereby men unconsciously overrate the competence of attractive women [...] //

Only men?

I don't consider it likely but it seems mathematically possible that men are entirely even handed on the appearance of women but that women are highly partial to more attractive women. That would mean that as more women entered higher echelons of companies there would be more bias towards hiring attractive women [for top positions]. If the effect was greater amongst more attractive women - like stereotypical high school girl groups of Hollywood movies - then the effect would quickly magnify until only the most attractive women were allowed, by other women, to attain top positions.

I'm not at all saying this is the case but just questioning whether there's a basis in science for your apparently pinning the apparent bias on men [alone].

It also strikes me that perhaps the person writing the story is attracted to power. That would make those women appear more attractive than they otherwise might. A further possibility is that after attaining positions with good wages they then were able to acquire the ability to stay (or become) more attractive - basically flipping the cause and effect.
I'd really like to know more. I've looked around and can't find anything. Can anyone link to the paper they published on this?
It boggles my mind how easy it is to throw principles over board when convenient. Either you believe in freedom and democracy or you don't. If you do you would extend your principles to non-citizens as well (with exceptions in form of warrants of course)

Once security trumps liberties you are on a downward spiral.
The main point I've been trying to get across is that the fact you have only seen small vulnerabilities does not mean big ones don't exist!

And that [found vulnerabilities per time unit] * severity = [overall product security] is a fallacy in general.

In fact, showing that symfony has had vulnerabilities was a good thing in my book.

Anyway, it's great you've found some framework you feel comfortable with. That's an awesome thing to have.
$50/hr seems low for development work? That's what I would charge for standard website development (HTML/CSS/basic JS)
That's a totally different bill... Which, by the way, is even worse.
Well, he seems to be arguing that without an immigration reform, you may not have Google in the first place (it's getting tougher for skilled immigrants to come in):

"Everyone knows that the remarkable achievements of the foreign born have led to the formation of companies such as Google, Intel, Sun Microsystems, nVidia, Yahoo! PayPal and scores of others. Of the last eleven early stage companies that have allied themselves with Sequoia Capital, seven have had immigrants among their founding lineup."

They also explicitly say on their website that they invest in Gen1 companies: http://www.sequoiacap.com/us/about/gen_1
The point of an MVP though, is to start small and build your VP incrementally.

If you can't do that it's not an MVP - it's a prototype.
Servers weren't responding for me for about an hour, but it's back up now.
Not my monkey, not my circus.
Just because I was born in a public hospital doesn't mean perpetual claim on life. The government may force lower-than-market acquisitions for land in order to provide more prevalent transportation infrastructure, but that doesn't make it right. Other, freer options could have existed, but violence of the state impede their spread.

I never signed the social contract; and food to slave does not entitle ownership. My use of the roads, or benefit derived from them, is defensible.

Else I ask; in what manner may I make myself free? Is there a way out of the perpetual claim against my livelihood?

Further, if social responsibility is so great for my common man, what right do you have to demand my efforts go towards local healthcare when others a bit further away starve? What makes a fellow countryman more due for grain than a differing skinned man in a land far away? Is it not indefensible to claim ownership of my resources for your health, but hold firm against the claims by others against claims of ownership against your wealth for nourishment.
Retroactive state tax on capital gains
1. The worst case for fibonacci is not exponential, it's actually O(fib(n)).

2. The recursive function `fib_helper` in TFA is actually iterative in an TCO environment. Read it closely. There's only on recursive call at the end, not two. `back_one` and `back_two` mean fib(x-1) and fib(x-2) respectively, the same way you would solve it with a loop. With the right `CFLAGS` it should produce more or less the same bytecode.
Sorry, we ran the event using Google+ on air. With his audio in the auditorium, we could hear no feedback, but apparently the Google server was picking some up.

From my notes, these are main URLs he shared:

URL to his book -> http://www.startuprev.com/books-communities/

URL to Colorado "startups pitch to students" -> http://Csuac.com/tagged/s2s

LinkSmart URL -> http://linksmart.com

I'm a student in St. Louis and involved with the community in multiple ways (including organizing this speech). Hit me up for coffee, if you want to get involved or talk about the community: mail@philipithomas.com.
I had a British co-worker once and that drove me insane. 'Hey, there's no 'r' in data' I would tell him.
Nice one! I like how fast it is, compared to the most of the domain registration sites that I use to check availability. Not to mention the simple and clean look of bootstrap.