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> FEBRUARY 28, 2013

This article is from the future.
http://www.tidesdk.org/
500 open tabs? Good lord, I don't have that many bookmarks!

I'm really curious, why would one do that?
Cams have the advantage of being a service business rather than a content businesses.
We currently get just over 200k uniques and just under 2m page views on weekdays (less on weekends).
Short story, my own system with over 16k links.

Back in 2004 there a competing service to delicious called Furl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furl) it would save a snapshot of page you were saving.

The only downside was it was slow so I modified the bookmarklet to point to my own domain. I called my system Lruf (furl backwards) built with PHP and MySQL.

It worked well enough for a very long time, I would occasionally work on it. It was built in a very 2004 way (logic and display intertwined)

I had added other features through out the years (tagging, rating, 404 checking, etc).

Last year I finally rewrote the entire system using a framework, I used diffbot to extract the text from the page and opencalais to help with auto tagging bookmarks. I switched search to use Solr.

It has been a nice little side project for the last 9 years.
Woah, this is actually a thing people are doing?
// 3 hours ago · 1,439 views

Impressive.
I'm sorry but the only thing that lives up to this kind of hype is open source and run by a community.

I'll stay with Jekyll and WordPress.
The problem is, if you don't know where the fence should be, how can you judge if the patent office is doing a good job?
Why do you think books like "50 shades of gray" or so popular?
Office for iOS May Make Billions for Microsoft But Dooms Surface
Military organisations are optimised for extreme situations.

There are lessons. But trying to transplant systems into different contexts tends to fail.
Especially ...

"Unlike Office 2010, Office 2013 does not work with Windows XP or Windows Vista. Yet the latest data from NetApplications shows that roughly 45 percent of all Internet users still rock those two aging operating systems."

and ...

"As with local installations of Office 2013, Office on Demand plays nice only with PCs running Windows 7 or 8."
Vagrant is basically a headless box running on a local directory.

On vagrant you have your production tool chain open in terminal (via ssh) where you can run a dev version of what you are building by forwarding ports to local host

You then can run browsers, IDE consoles across as many monitors as you want

*obviously web dev centric
Essentially ...

"While Mr. Holt argues that disappointing sales of the company’s Surface tablet and large estimated demand by iOS users for Office may be too financially compelling for Microsoft to continue avoiding Apple’s mobile platform, the implications of moving Office to iOS may doom the company’s mobile strategy."
You'd be better off using what you know and shipping as soon as possible.
The web is the most widely used document platform in the world.

And no, it's not a robust application development platform. Working with it is an exercise in constant compromise between bad technologies and the quality of the user experience.

You're smoking something too, if you're equating the content-centric web with the breadth and depth of the market of native mobile and desktop apps.

Of course, I also get a better experience from the NYTimes mobile app; it's simply that the web can do content less badly than it can do apps.

I shudder in horror at writing one of our large apps in JavaScript, maintaining it, and desperately trying to keep frame rates up (yes, that does matter to more than just games), conform to some sane semblance of platform standards to which users are accustomed, reuse a platform widget toolkit, etc.

The myopia of the web crowd is why your platform continues to suck.
And he is not changing his grading system for next year? Next year the students ought to try not even going to class.

The positive reinforcement and acceptance of publicity could be compared to the media making a big deal out of Columbine. Whenever bad behavior is made into a spectacle, it will be copied. I will be completely surprised if we don't see more of these events in the coming years, not just because it is possible, but because JH is being fucking stupid by publicizing this.
Just like how you don't have to clean up your garbage in public, and like how when you have a heard of cows, you don't have to listen to the other farmers in coordinating the use of the fields.

I think sacrificing a test (which the professor himself said was nitpicky) to teach students about public coordination and working together to avoid a tragedy of the commons is not bullshit, nor will it ever be bullshit.

If your cheat involves executing something far more difficult then actually studying and acing the test, cheat away.
Talking Software Patents with the Patent Office: A Sign of Reform to Come?
The Pocket browser widget already injects it's own links into HN, the exact reason I removed the thing.
A commenting site that:

- Has average latency over 500ms when not under load
- Performs quite poorly under load (I hate to bring it up, but the most recent example was Aaron Swartz's passing. Anyone who used HN then to get news knows how poorly HN performs under load)
- Is restarted every week or two because it leaks memory
- Keeps XSRF tokens in memory and loses them across restarts
- Doesn't have a full markup language

HN is quite poorly-featured compared to typical commenting sites. People use HN because pg is here. He could remove half the features on the site (bold & italics... what features are there even to remove beside nested commenting?) and retain 90% of the audience.
Agreed. I'm sorry, but it's getting annoying to see such a lengthy post on top of every job discussion.
PeerJS enables WebRTC browser-to-browser banter
Depends on your style guide. Sometimes the apostrophe is preferred for abbreviations because it separates the s. ie, it's not something I'd correct somebody for unless we had specifically and previously agreed to a particular style guide.
Oh come on, have some empathy! They started their own business. They gave it a go! They had a decent degree of success. Just because they didn't make it work doesn't mean it's ok to be so dismissive.
> A VM still needs some kind of well-defined input format, and that's a language.

I don't really care about the input format, that's incidental. I'm protesting using javascript semantics to implement operations that don't at all require javascript semantics (and would be better off without them).
The Disappearing Package — Experimental Package Design
You're a web developer, yes? In my circles NaCL is looked at with interest because there's no way possibly for us to produce apps to the level of quality we do elsewhere -- and without a huge amount of pain -- while using the web's organically grown technology stack.

Google at least understands the flaws. Web developers seem to have their head in the sand while mobile may very well eat their lunch.
Sometimes you really need Acrobat though. For fill-in PDF forms none of the other "readers" really do an adequate job.
Draw some random points...
Something seems off about this. I think we need to learn more details about what happened at the company rather than just accept some vague idea that there was a bad purchasing decision. Should a bad purchase really be able to sink a company? At an e-commerce company, shouldn't there be systems in place to make sure that this doesn't happen? I hope a another journalist digs into this.
I've never heard of IronMonkey but ScreamingMonkey was at least planned as a Tamarin replaces js engine in IE project:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Tamarin:ScreamingMonkey
"Even with a beautiful hardware and wonderful OS, it’s pretty clear that a Windows Phone 8 tablet would struggle to gain traction."

Not least because it'll make the whole Windows 8 endeavour _even more_ confusing for the non-technical user. (Windows Phone 8 but not Windows 8 Desktop or Metro, by which I mean Windows 8 Style UI or Windows 8 Style UI UI, and nevermind the distinction between Windows RT and WinRT or ARM/non-ARM.)

"Developers are not flooding the Store with apps."

Yeah I can verify this, at least in terms of games - currently there are just over 1800 paid games accessible from my Windows Store (I'm in the UK). The real number is not likely to be much larger, and let's face it: it's obvious why most of the free games are free.

This is almost like going to a huge supermarket and only having two or three shelves occupied with stuff, with most of it being somewhat 'generic' and unremarkable.

With all that said, I think we can't draw conclusions from Microsoft's experiment just yet. Let's not forget that it's only been about 4 months since Windows 8 general availability, and much less for the Surfaces. It'll be some time before Windows 8 / Surface will have truly had their shot.
"Don't be evil."

I guess that they couldn't stick to their motto.
> "I was reading a book (about interjections, oddly enough) yesterday which included the phrase “In these days of political correctness…” talking about no longer making jokes that denigrated people for their culture or for the colour of their skin. And I thought, “That’s not actually anything to do with ‘political correctness’. That’s just treating other people with respect.”

No, being respectful and being politically correct are very different things.

* Respectful would be to say, "I don't care whether you're a man or a woman, white or black, Jewish or Catholic, I only care that you can code!"

* Politically correct makes a manhole cover into a person-hole cover.

* Politically correct turned "dumb" into "retarded", optimistically suggesting hope for a change in the future, and finally into "developmentally delayed", the current euphemism. But that isn't about respect, because each new euphemism carries the same meaning as the word it replaces, and people often turn well-intentioned euphemisms into insults, as with "retard", the short version of "retarded", the usage of which caused "developmentally delayed" to replace "retarded". Stay tuned for more replacements.

* Politically correct turns any number of politically incorrect student descriptions into "special-needs student", which, in the name of correctness, undermines any meaningful communication.

* A school in Seattle renamed its Easter eggs 'spring spheres' to avoid causing offence to people who did not celebrate Easter. This isn't respect, this is paranoia and overreaction.

* A recent zealous effort to replace the engineering terms "master" and "slave" (used to describe the relationship between storage devices, network elements and other things) has been provisionally abandoned for lack of a meaningful substitute. Again, stay tuned.

It's not about respect, it's about politics and the bizarre power of law in service of popular fads.
Best Buy to make Internet price matching permanent to prevent 'showrooming'
Or, you know, you could change banks. Sort of a PITA but not really THAT big a deal....
I think the facts are off a bit. This meteor weighed in the neighborhood of 7000 metric tons, not 10 tons. The energy released was not equivalent to Tunguska; Tunguska was not "a little higher", it was 50 times greater.
Essentially ...

"As before, Best Buy won't match any online retailer's price, but instead has a list of 19 retailers it will match. Those retailers include Apple.com, Amazon.com, Crutchfield.com, and Walmart.com. The usual caveats of identically matching the product apply, and customers will need to actively ask for the price matching before purchase in order to qualify. To do so, you'll need to bring in the URL from the competing retailer and have Best Buy definitively match it to the product you want to purchase."
Thanks for working so long on making things better. I think asm.js is going to be really great.
IronMonkey was apparently for "mapping IronPython and IronRuby (and maybe IronPHP) to Tamarin". I just vaguely recalled seeing the name pop up in a Mozilla related context -- I certainly couldn't have told you what it was without looking it up. :)

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Tamarin:IronMonkey
Thanks! I wanted to include some of the more popular MUDs, but not so many as to be overwhelming for newbies. 1.0.1 is already with Apple and I've got some really exciting gesture-based movement coming up in 1.1. Reviews are always appreciated - in 1.0.1 I removed the review nag-dialog. :)
That, in my opinion, tarnished their achievement. I agree with the sentiment of what was done, but the execution was poor. It would of being a far greater achievement if they didn't enforce the choice.
Because it's fun? And all the options suck in one way or another?
Property isn't a philosophical or legal concept. It's a practical aspect of human psychology that has always existed. If you've ever watched two kids fight over an ice cream cone you've witnessed private property in action. People aren't emotionless robots or hyper-rational homo economi. If you can't be bothered to learn even a little bit about humanity, your political philosophies will be every bit as disastrous as Bolshevism (and Castroism, and whatever the hell North Korea does).

Even if we just want to talk about private property as a legal institution, we can go back at least to the code of Hammurabi, and probably further if I could be bothered to do the research, which I can't. Even during the middle ages there was an active merchant class. And arguably feudalism is just the extension of the property concept to encompass ownership of people.
Thank you for the support! I wish I could realize it and share the honor with you soon!
No, VC funding was not the mistake. The mistake was mine as a founder for not charging for Posterous. This is why we will charge money this time.
This doesn’t preserve privacy...
It really doesn't, though. For the first 12 or so years of its existence it was basically unusable. It wasn't until jQuery hit the scene that it started to meet even the bare minimum level of usability. Even then, it still took a huge amount of effort and investment from Google, Apple and Mozilla to make it what it is today, which admittedly isn't very good at all.

Even now, it generally only looks like a "good" option to those who don't have experience with other, better programming languages (PHP excluded; it's nearly as bad as JavaScript is). Developers who do have more experience with other languages usually use JavaScript very reluctantly, and this is especially true when it comes to the best developers.

The fact that CoffeeScript, TypeScript and Dart get so much attention just further shows how bad JavaScript is. Developers don't want to use it, and so they try to hide it to a large extent (CoffeeScript), or modify it to be more like languages like C++, Java and C# (TypeScript and Dart).

JavaScript should have been replaced many years ago, if it ever should have even been included in Navigator so many years ago.
I'm curious if maybe you are over-estimating the value of placing display ads on (random) blog articles.
You're probably seeing the artificial delay introduced for commenters that can't maintain at least a 4.0 comment point average or people who aren't signed in. Site runs like butter for me.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is right to battle bad review of the Model S, experts say
Instead, it's a small bit of complexity levied against every single link in the chain, including the user (performance).

Which basically describes the entire stack of hacks that have been built on top of the web.
An app that reads your mind
Yes. I love this idea. Right now I have to focus on coding, but this will be necessary down the road.
Now I'm very curious what you think that purpose is.
To me its obvious that software patents should actually be abolished entirely.

If I am going to build a system and try to sell it, I sell it as a service with add-on support and make it open source. If I am buying a software system I usually expect the same thing. Or hope that I can sell it for a small fee or close source it and add copyright protection for a totally unique work.

But generally I feel that if someone invents a software concept or set of concepts that works well enough, then everyone should adopt it. Patents are just going to make that impractical. The idea of everyone licensing whatever useful system gets invented isn't practical and doesn't work with open source.
I'm surprised YC doesn't do more Skype interviews, especially with teams right along the cutoff line.
LLC vs. S-Corp vs. C-Corp
This is one of the first features we will be launching in the next two weeks: Posterous import. This is a high priority as I have years of data on there as well. We're putting the finishing touches on it as we speak.
Was just thinking about this today, what a coincidence.

I think the real question is how to deliver store-bought items more effectively to your home. For example, instead of teabags there's already loose-leaf tea, but most people can't be bothered to mess with getting the right volume of tea leaves and then steeping it etc. How do we make this easier, such that it would be actually welcomed? And how do we make such delivery systems work in general, for other products -- I already felt bad throwing away (recycled!) my milk jugs today. All that unnecessary energy used (wasted) in transporting waste products, even if it's recycled.

Less packaging is welcome but it doesn't really solve the underlying problem of a better delivery system.
CVE-2013-0871: Linux arbitrary kernel-mode code execution
http://zootool.com/ looks interesting, haven't used it though, still just using Chrome for bookmarking..
> I am not a trained scientist; I don’t know if meteors travel through the atmosphere in straight lines or at constant speeds ...

How could they? Gravity acts on all objects not fastened to something, and one can get a very good estimate of an object's path in three dimensions if one can compute a velocity profile. Most paths in a gravitational field are curved (the exception is a path aligned with the field).

As to velocity, anything that convert kinetic energy into another kind of energy -- light, heat, noise -- causes a reduction in velocity.

The two factors above (the effect of gravity and a velocity profile) can be used to produce a very good three-dimensional path through the atmosphere, through many kinds of velocity changes, all the way to the ground.

The Russian meteor very clearly underwent a great reduction in velocity when it glowed brighter than the sun, simply because that glow represents energy, and the energy's source was the meteor's mass and velocity, which therefore had to decline. Remember that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed in form. Knowing the amount of energy dissipated by the bright phase, and knowing the meteor's initial mass and velocity, one can write a very good model of the object's evolution from space rock to meteorite (meaning a former meteor on the ground) and its path.
Note that once the asteroid has hit the atmosphere it can't be stopped. Stories about anti-aircraft batteries or missiles "shooting it down" are absolute bogus. Even if you do hit it, you do nothing to reduce its kinetic energy.

A similar concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
We both wanted hyper growth. We both wanted venture funding. We both wanted a lasting company. It's not easy and I didn't quit.

I built a team. Accountability and execution in the company. It's not as easy as it sounds.

We made mistakes and learned. I think everyone did well and are on to great things.
VC funding is usually a decision to "go big or go home" on a timeframe, while bootstrapping allows you to continue indefinitely at any scale once revenues cover costs. Both have risks but the VC model is explicitly to spend at unsustainable levels in order to try to get big fast. That's kind of the whole point of VC. It isn't wrong or selling out, but you have to know what you're getting into (as founder, employee, or customer). If you spend way ahead of revenue to grow fast, and you don't go big, then you usually go home.
We don't need a closed-form solution for where the fence should be. It's an entirely empirical process. Are we happy with the outcomes? If not, move the fence further up until we are.
... and you dont want something fired everytime you map().filter().reject().map().filter().some()...
which might lead to nothing but bad performances ,especially on huge collections.
I've never heard of a Squarespace anything because I've never heard of Squarespace, why is this a reason to think that it is more reliable than alternatives?
This is why I use GitHub pages. Jekyll is good enough, and with GH pages it's super simple. If GitHub were to ever do something weird with it, I can get any static hosting and do the jekyll stuff myself and still control it.

And a static site is much simpler than, say, a Rails-based site (the other thing I was considering when setting it up). Any hosting will do, and I only have to worry about exploits in the web server, not the framework.
Many in the Rolling Stone audience are reading the details for the first time.
A foundation is basically a way of separating you from your current ideals. The reality is that it is easy for a person to get tempted by external factors: you need to pay the rent, you feel like people are taking advantage of your offering. There is a lot of liability there. Too risky for me to invest. But, if you establish a group of people that are not personal stakeholders, they believe in the cause, and it is very difficult to them to individually change direction, I'll be more likely to trust and provided financial support.

Basically you're one person and you're human and we know how humans act. A foundation provides some insurance for my investment.
Your hypothetical Martian appeares to be an instinctive egalitarian, for whom conspicuous displays of disposable income provide no socially-differentiating benefit.
Still, I wish I had a number. I am sure there is a datapoint out there but I haven't seen it.

Even if it is, "on average a heavy drinker that claims to have a problem and registers with a psychiatrist says that they drink on average '10 drinks a week'".
I never saw anyone trying to pull a scam, but my impressions - and this was about a decade ago - were of a Road Warrior type environment. The distinction between road and sidewalk was a mere suggestion, traffic signals were the equivalent of someone shushing you in a library, and lanes - what lanes?
Sudden death of American engineer in Singapore raises questions
Self-Copying Seeds Spur a Patent Case
Oh another one that I forgot that I recently heard of: Firebase. Apparently it provides you with an entire backend stack for your website. Makes it almost magical, I personally like more control over my data, but if this is your thing, be sure to try it out. They have a 5 minute tutorial to help you get a better understanding of them as well!
Police or other government agents are already required to get a warrant before collecting information. It doesn't matter if it's a phone tap, an unmanned aircraft, or a GoPro on a stick! Is it necessary to re-iterate existing laws for every new technology that pops up?
Guarantee? Do you actually know how "enterprise" projects work?
This involves a lot "String Programming" which makes code hard to test and debug.

user.max("age"); looks sexy but I'm sure type of error you get from user.max(func)l is much better and more clear
Liberating Information
Woah... I'd assumed that the 1.5hr charge was with a standard charger...

Does using a "Supercharger" stress the battery?
The Independent reported the mass as 10 tons. Do you have a source for the 7000 ton number? (Are you sure it wasn't 7000 kilograms? That's about ten tons.)
Cabin crew plug hole in A380 superjumbo door with blankets and pillows
Found a clearance section for the magnetic weddings rings, $5-6 a piece.

http://www.supermagnetman.net/index.php?cPath=122

I'd like to try two rings: one magnetized through the thickness, and the other magnetized through the diameter. That would let me sense two orthogonal vectors from the surrounding field.