skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP wants a library which can be linked in the iOS apps. It's not a GPL compatible use, so even if there were a GnuPG library with more functionality, it wouldn't fit his use case.

His use case would be covered by a BSD-like licensed library, which is not compatible with GPL goals, so he picked the fully wrong target to complain about. It seems that this important distinction is not clear to the OP and to you.

Thunderbird, mentioned by you, actually uses GnuPG without problem. The very reason it can use it is because it uses it as a command line utility. If there were a library, GNU licensed, Thunderbird wouldn't be allowed to use it because of the license incompatibility.
The maker of Android's VM.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalvik_(software)
How fast and how small? How many K of memory?
Iwata Asks: Wii Street U powered by Google
Histo.c – histograms in the terminal for static or streaming data
Google apps locks up frequently on my atom netbook.
Source Code to Print Pyramids and Triangles in C Programming
You're going to have to be a little more specific. How can you ``hold conversations ... without having to be on [the website]''? If you're talking anonymous comments, we already have those and they're largely a disaster. If you're talking something different, then what is it? I'm sure you can share the general concept without giving away your `secret sauce'.
He doesn't say they will, he doesn't even say they should. He's just saying that he's not selling for less, which can be understood as he's not selling, period.
Always be learning something new and try to anticipate what specific skills will be in demand a year or two from now. My favorite thing about this profession is that you have to be learning new things constantly.
Assuming, of course, that their business model predicts that over the course of those 10 years $10M extra profit will be made from having the domain milk.com.

I have no idea about the milk business, especially not its promotion. But I would imagine that few people would not spend as much money on milk because this organisation does not own the domain 'milk.com'.

It's more likely to be bought by a corporate wanting a pretty memorable domain.
Tech job growth is happening everywhere, it's just that macroeconomically it only moves the needle in places like SV where it's a big enough percentage of the overall job market.

I'm curious how to figure that a strong job market is hurting local residents though. If you plan on living in a place for a long time the worst thing that could happen is job loss.
Aggressive negative advertising by Microsoft against Google.
Awesome the people eating tasty animals as PETA.org
They state that the attack possibly occurred the next day, so it is possible that the attacker did disable backups.
"And being poor in the USA is still streets ahead of poverty in almost every country on earth. "

Except for being poor in most of Europe, which is quite a few countries.

But it's true there is an entrepreneurial spirit in the US that isn't matched anywhere else that I know of. Note that I don't know much about places like Taiwan.
Have to admit, that's a pretty good domain to hold onto. :)
You were still able to preoload them before even in "old IE days", it was just a bad practice :)
Flajolet-Martin algorithm
I have found the biggest culprits are the social widgets and fancy js library. Ads and analytics rarely slows down a site (for me). There are exception though like few days ago I bumper in to a site that had 6 different analytics. That's just crazy, also outside widgets can load their own analytics (I think disqus does that). Things can quickly turn dirty.
Open Electronics; Big Spectrum Analyzer with Arduino
Jelastic Adds PHP to Their Platform for Service Hosting Providers
Author mentioned a custom package generator tool "Ostinato". I met the author of this tool 2-3 months back. A lone guy working on this tool as a side project. Amazing work. :)
Hands on experience

"We did not wish to know that, kindly leave the stage"

:-)
Meet Jelastic in Sweden
The font files aren't that big either, and as you note are using googleapis.com.

The page is 600k and the fonts are ~160k; primed cache page-weight though is ~6k.

I wonder if the use of Ubuntu font really makes any difference to their users, A-B test would be interesting.

As Ubuntu is free wouldn't it be useful if the browser offered to install the font locally?
It is not strengthening Linux based operating systems that they have to worry about. It is the obsolesence of office in the hands of better cross platform suites that can be a bigger problem.
An equally hackish alternative would be to have a floated div way off screen using the font to force loading (works for image carousel pre-loading too, but with a pretty obvious load time hit)
"Today, the lab costs £870 a month thanks to the presence of a pair of Dell EqualLogic arrays."

To paraphrase that fount of wisdom, the hippy from The Simpsons: Sounds like you're working for your lab. Simplify, man!
Yeah pagespeed by Google always points out Google services for being un-optimized and slow.
The other problem is that a person's area of greatness is not something manufactured by sober committee decision-making. It's the confluence of personality and circumstance. They would not become great if they were stuck wringing their hands about what they owe the world and how they can raise everybody up. Don't get me wrong, a particular great man's calling may be precisely to raise up his fellow man, but "greatness" is not a fleeting attribute that one is magically blessed with and then must arbitrarily direct.
Is there a way to block such annoyances? Something like NoScript for CSS ( or actually for third party connections? Since the problem is not actually CSS but slow font/ad/whatever servers.)
"Give thanks to nature, the bountiful, because it has made necessary things easy to procure, while things hard to obtain are not necessary."

-- Epicurus
Legendary 'Star Wars' makeup artist Stuart Freeborn dies at 98
> Valve starts you off with some basic credibility. You matter because you work there. You wouldn't have been hired if you weren't already credible. That's how it should be.

I've worked for "startups" that don't do this. You start out as an "idiot." The manager has to look over your shoulder every 30 minutes, and gets worried because you are programming using "blocks." You're dictated to in terms of which libraries you use. All this total micromanagement, yet the manager knows so little about iPhone development, he has no idea what "delegates" are or that they're the most common pattern in the SDK.
All Bugs Are Not Created Equal
Reading this article for the first time, but now I understand why it used to be mtve.com for so long...
You're a programmer, surely you must realize this is a Chrome bug? Not specific web page bug?

Personally it affects one of my PC's but not the other. I've tried to fix it a couple of times but because it's very infrequent it's hard to test a fix. Google 'Chrome Freeze' to see the frequency with which this happens.

This isn't being caused by web pages, it's a bug in Chrome that they can't seem to fix. It used to be caused by having two versions of Flash installed, but who knows what it is now. It gets worse/better over time.
You're right, backwards compatibility has been a hallmark of Windows.

To paraphrase Gabe (and devs like Alen Ladavac) more precisely, I should have mentioned that I think they're most concerned about the certification requirements on launchers in the main UI of the new OS, and flagging adoption of 8.

The first concern is probably a little melodramatic.

As to the second, I think if you run a giant content delivery empire that lives or dies based on Windows on the desktop in the home, then you have to get a little panicky when you read all those apocalyptic "X is killing the desktop" stories. Even if they're all overblown, even if there's only a 6% chance that we all drop our computers and start using smartphones exclusively, Gabe HAS to hedge for that. If Windows releases any OS without groundbreaking adoption numbers, it's got to give him minor palpitations.

The best way to hedge is probably to push cross platform development and consider building a Steam box. Even though it seems a little kooky, it might be the best hedge of the alternatives.

Meanwhile, Carmack's radically different approach (wait until the market shifts out from under us) isn't really irrational for him either. He could switch to developing smart phone games any day, but the best day for him to do so is after they're the dominant ecosystem, not before.

Though Alen's in the same boat as Carmack, so he's probably overreacting.

http://www.vg247.com/2012/11/06/serious-sam-developer-rails-...
I know that we expect our volunteer Open Source Language leaders to be exemplars of best practise and always on the ball, but there is never enough volunteers or enough funds to pay for all the sysadmins you need.

But my first reaction here is "There, but for the grace of God, go I"

Embarrassing yes. End of the world, no. Heads to roll ? No, but arse to be kicked yes. Won't happen again will it.
considering I work at a start up in Newcastle, that was a great bit.

The walk from the station to work is all "very real" on Thursday and Friday. Keeps me on my toes.
Wow there's some seriously cool stuff here https://code.google.com/p/webglsamples/ !
Would the fact that GW didn't enforce against that use be enough to invalidate their original 1987 claim?
Have you got any examples of these?
Great video I can empathize with. We're building a startup community in Myrtle Beach, SC, US (www.coworkmyr.com). We aren't quite at 'critical mass' yet, but share a lot of the same sentiments about it being somewhere to focus, and so long as it has some community and access to the same resources it can be a great place to do a startup.

Perhaps even a better place than major hubs where cost of living is so high that your runway is necessarily shorter.

We wrote about it recently:
"Get Your Ass To Mars: Making a case for tech startups in Myrtle Beach"
http://coworkmyr.com/get-your-ass-to-mars-making-a-case-for-...
I'm about to leave my company and it has nothing to do with the manager. I actually feel bad that I'm leaving him.
Aim high! Where ever you land should be ok.
I wish this were affecting São Paulo, here we do have a kinda thriving tech industry but if you are earning 60k you are the manager with 20 years of experience.

I code mobile games here and get around 20k, and this is already way more than my peers, and don't pay my bills ( and I don't have a car, or a house, a videogame, or even a watch, my most valuable possessions are my glasses and my phone, and the last one I never paid, it was a gift )

I am sure if more SV companies learned how to use telecommuting they would have a decline in costs, as all those third world coders are crazy to get even scraps is SV and work for 40, 50k.
Iran Just Released Classified Footage Decoded From A Captured US Drone
People were skeptical about the mouse, but that was before anybody really knew how GUIs would take off. I'm not saying this is a similar advance but its very hard to predict what kind of novel interfaces or applications might be developed.
You've got a good point. We've been profitable from day one and never had investment until very recently, not even a bank loan.

However, we are in Newcastle. Why? Because that's where(ish) we live. As a developer, it's nice to be able to get out a couple times a month and meet like minded folks at things like SuperMondays and talk about specifics at user group meetings.

Personally, I'd rather work down in York but from what mates tell me, the community isn't quite there.
Couldn't someone at Google provide a dump of the wiki. Assuming that they have it in their page cache they might be willing to help, given they seem to be one of the largest organizations using Python.
Was this really by Microsoft? It looks unprofessional and scammy, like if someone wanted to make Microsoft look.bad.

Granted, from past MS behavior it would not be a surprise if this was really their work...
It's also not just Newcastle. Sunderland and Middlesbrough have communities that are coming along. York University has expanded their incubator so I'd expect to see more in that area as well, although my friends in the area bemoan the lack of community at this point in time.
What happened with LEGO
I don't think this will happen soon, maybe you will have to learn new technologies, but demand for software developers should still be high in the near future. Let's be honest, everything is being automated and moved to the internet and there is still a lot to do, I would even say we're just at the beginning of the path.
VMs are a pain to use, especially when you have switch between your VM and your native OS all the time.

Plus, you have two OSes to maintain.
I think that depends on the audience of a forum. I'm a pretty regular poster at the SomethingAwful forums, which still utilizes a flat, quoted forum style.

Say what you want about SA, but the average poster is pretty good. We routinely carry on huge megathread discussions about a single topic with no difficulty. Just pop into any of the subforums and check it out. The Recipes subforum, for example, may have a huge megathread dedicated to Cookies. Another about Stews. Another about Chicken.

Within those, there will be all sorts of discussions, quoting, etc...but it never becomes unmanageable. You just learn to skim posts that don't interest you, read those that catch your eye, quote those that you want to respond to.

The SA forum automatically limits quoting depth, so you only see the last quote or two.

Frankly, I prefer a flat forum over threaded any day. Threaded forums are where discussions die. Once you leave the real-time, "in the moment" posting of a threaded discussion...it's impossible to spark the conversation again. Threads get too deep, there is no sense of what is new vs. old. New readers have an impossible time getting "into" the conversation, often piling into the top of a thread instead of the more active inner-parts.

With a flat forum, you just skip to the end and see what's going on, maybe browse back a few pages to catch up.
The maximum number of pages in a PDF which TeX can produce
Have you noticed how TechCrunch is a step ahead of this mess?

It shows the text quickly, but then hides it only to show it again, unchanged in few seconds. It must be a clever trick to make you get disappointed with their web devs and to anchor your attention there, so that you won't be as critical of their editors when you finally get to read that blinkentext.
UPDATE: If anybody is interested, it turns out you can special order these things with custom words on them. Looks like a great idea for promotional items.

http://www.lightgod.com/product/999-neoncrown/Custom-Mini-Ne...
Show HN: A bookmarklet to get your current viewport width in em
http://whois.domaintools.com/scroogled.com

Registrant:
Domain Administrator
Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond WA 98052
US
+1.4258828080 Fax: +1.4259367329

Domain Name: scroogled.com

Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com
Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.markmonitor.com

Administrative Contact:
Domain Administrator
Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond WA 98052
US
+1.4258828080 Fax: +1.4259367329
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
MSN Hostmaster
Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond WA 98052
US
+1.4258828080 Fax: +1.4259367329

Created on..............: 2011-12-27.
Expires on..............: 2014-12-27.
Record last updated on..: 2012-11-27.

Domain servers in listed order:

ns1.msft.net
ns4.msft.net
ns3.msft.net
ns2.msft.net
ns5.msft.net
This is definitely by Microsoft. The site uses the following nameservers, which are under Microsoft control and cannot be forged.

ns3.msft.net

ns4.msft.net

ns1.msft.net

ns2.msft.net

ns5.msft.net

Pathetic stuff.
That's an understatement. Being poor in the US (by the official US definition) is better than being poor almost anywhere else.

This paper goes so far as to argue that, in many ways, the average poor American lives at the same level or better than an European middle class person:

http://www.timbro.se/bokhandel/pdf/9175665646.pdf
I agree with these thoughts. A founder with enough passion and drive for their company doesn't need VC funding - if IT focused. IT stuff can be built and hosted with minimal outlay.

VC money needed for cash intensive manufacturing activities?
I use firefox and chrome. Does this also happen to anyone using ff?
Nice. I just put York on the map :-) (cough - http://blog.bytemark.co.uk/2013/02/05/bytemark-to-get-their-...)

Come on York.
I remember that. There was an episode where they played a game where they typed in random domain names and bet on whether or not the site existed.
No, not really.

Debian Timeline

2012-07-25: Debian's MoinMoin was exploited (due to what is eventually called CVE-2012-6081).

2012-10-18: First use of the backdoor.

2012-10-28: Theft of email addresses, password hashes and reCAPTCHA key.

2012-11-09: Last use of the backdoor.

2012-12-28: We are informed about a potential security issue in MoinMoin by the friendly people at dyne.org.

From: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/SecurityIncident2012
Me too, I'm always surprised by the success around Half-Life 2. Let's be honest, it's a very good game. The gameplay is very well thought out, and the finish is impeccable. Maybe be a little bit too much so, If you remove the gravity gun, the game ends up as unimaginative as you can get.

And let's not talk about the story, which as you said, is pretty flat and uninteresting.

Recommendation time! If you want to play an underrated game (from circa the same period as Half-Life 2) that will rock your word, I recommend "Dark Messiah of Might and Magic" (by the creators of Dishonored). The melee combat mechanics are so good and intuitive they spoiled the combat parts of Skyrim and Chivalry: Medieval Warfare for me. The story is compelling, but linear except for two or three choice points.
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Polygonal Art in Web Design
Without doubts Polygonal art in Web Design is one of most interesting, advanced and ambitious directions. Do you know any other good examples of websites.
Slowly am seeing some devs supporting Microsoft here...I donno why i should make an app for Windows now a days...

Microsoft should concentrate more on Web product 'Office360' rather trying to rewrite Office for Linux.
There's 2 ways of looking at this: What's the investment he's put into product he's trying to sell (in this case, none), and what's the value of the product to the person who wants it?

Obviously, economics is about what the buyer is willing to pay, but it feels wrong for someone whose only contribution to the property was to register it early on to attempt to sell it for $10 million.

He's not going to get that much money for it. Ever. And yet he put up that page, either to satisfy his need to make a public point, or as a very conscious attempt to start negotiations and still manage the volume of requests he might get.
How has Google sucked money from domains?

Do you mean because everyone now just hits up Google and not the address bar?
Another way CodeEval could interpret this data would be to take the inverse to extrapolate the languages whose users have the highest rates of employment (as demonstrated by their absence from codeeval)
I never coded in assembly apart from the basic hello worlds and such, but this is awesome.

I actually wouldn't mind learning assembly as a pet language :D
The title is incorrect. The owner claims the domain is for sale. Just for the right price.
I work in Newcastle, live in Middlesbrough. It's becoming surprisingly strong for a developer community now, when I left Uni about 5 years ago there wasn't really much going on.

There's a lot the North East has going for it, living costs are pretty spectacularly low in most parts, office space is cheap, there's reasonably strong transport links between the hubs (ish, it's still British transport). It's nice to see it being represented nationality, the focus often swings back to the London community.

The biggest criticism I've heard it's there's a lack of angels and VCs but it feels like a chicken and egg situation. Do startups flourish in areas with a large amount of VCs, or are VCs drawn to areas with a large amount of startups?

For those further interested there's also Sunderland Software City and the Middlesbrough Digital City project outside of Newcastle.
This is surprising -- I know! -- but competing companies sometimes advertise against each other. Microsoft have been doing this for quite a while (see Gmail man [1]) and they seem to think that the privacy aspect is enough of a weakness in the Google armor that it's an effective campaign. So far I don't think Microsoft have had as many problems on the privacy front as Google or Facebook so this is probably not a rash decision on their part.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXqrTfOWx60
Success might be accidental. But I agree with the sentiment that if you keep trying (and are dedicated, smart, etc), you'll reach success. In that sense, it isn't accidental. But what is I think linked to luck is the magnitude of your success.
Bytemark are in York. I don't know anyone else up there but it's nicer than Newcastle.
So when DDG does it, it's awesome and ballsy.

But when Microsoft does it, it's pathetic and scammy?
Happy to read it, I'll give it a try when it's available :)
Why should Google be exempt from criticism? I think its good that a big company like Microsoft is making this kind of privacy an issue.
It looks pretty much in line with last years anti-gmail campaign:

http://www.theverge.com/microsoft/2012/2/2/2766215/gmail-man...
In which a pot describes a few defining characteristics of a kettle.
You can only show new comments, highlight them, even view them in flat mode. Threaded forum naturally separates subtopics while flat forum is just a big mess. Also old subthreads naturally die so the new stuff is usually in the new nodes. And you can also just view subtrees to follow certain discussion.

edit: In yesterday's discussion I posted some advantages of a discussion system based on tree structure https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5175660
So I take it Microsoft is also going to disable their spam filters?
We had to create a CPU and program it for my undergrad, assembly turned out to be really easy to learn. I also found it really easy to program in, and my first program had no errors on first run (how rare!), but I think that's because it forces you to break it down into really small chunks, plus it was just an RPN calculator, nothing fancy.

I did enjoy it, and even wrote a toy compiler for it.
At least for me I hate nested threads. And even worse is when upvoted stuff gets pushed up to the top. On HN I wait to read the comments until there is about 50 of them. Then I never visit the comments on the article again. Maybe there is a way to just read the new comments without digging through the stuff I have already read and I haven't found it. And this is also why I never respond if I make a comment here. It is simply a pain in the ass to find what I wrote again.

But I have no problems on metafilter that is a single (flat) page with sometimes thousands of comments.
Will be pretty interesting. Feels like this is going to massively blow up in their face. Never been a fan of attack adds especially if you can improve your own product instead of making the other one look bad. Just a bad mindset to try to blame the other guy.

The irony of Microsoft using privacy/security to attack another company is not lost on me.

Guess what, those mails can be read if your OS gets exlpoited over and over and there's a backdoor on most joe shmoe home computers anyways :P

That being said the campaign obviously has a point. <insert rant on educating the masses about encryption>