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Likewise. In fact, I like the Windows (7) UI better.
I'm a full time desktop Linux user, but that's not for the desktop. I'd be happy with Windows as UI on top for "desktop stuff".

Note: I've been using macs daily, for hours from OS 6 to OSX 10.3, before I started using Windows and Linux more.
Noscript + requestpolicy + adblock

Noscript even let's you block webgl depending on if the site is whitelisted/blacklisted.

The great thing about RP is that you can let some sites make requests to facebook (for instance, nothing special about FB) and not allow all other sites to make requests to facebook.
This has been suggested a lot. I haven't personally tried it, but I have friends with magnet implants who have and they said it was quite different, actually.
I've wanted a dash cam for years but the technology just wasn't there.

In the late 90s I drove around with my JVC GR-DVM70U miniDV camcorder on a tripod lashed into my back seat.

No I can have 1080p video from my cellphone mounted on a windshield mount. I have lots of video but it's pretty limited due to storage limitations I choose the highest quality because my reasoning is if something goes wrong there's no point in have video that's so bad that everything is blurry. A video overlay of speed, brakes, compass, GPS would be nice too.

I'd love to have a small camera always on with the option to dump the video to a safe storage area such as Dropbox or several places.
Why not sell the web app? Surely some developer would be happy to keep it running and live off it.
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Not all shootings are fatal.

But that entirely misses the point. Not going outside after dark is like wearing a tiger repelling necklace. See? No tiger attacks, it keeps me safe.
So, you want a standard program representation that's amenable to JIT compilation. But why, exactly, does it need to be a bytecode format, rather than source code in a standardized language?

Let me reiterate some of the advantages of JavaScript:

* A performance arms race among JavaScript implementers has been underway for nearly half a decade now. JS thus has a head start in that area over any hypothetical language or bytecode format that might be integrated in a browser.

* JS already has first-class access to the DOM -- the API that all the browsers already have -- as well as all the other up-and-coming APIs.

* There are already JS debuggers, and with source maps, these debuggers can even be made to work with other languages that can be compiled to JS. All JS developers benefit from this, as well as all developers who use languages that compile to JS.

So basically, JS has a head start over NaCl, Dart, or any other potential "clean" replacement.

As far as I can tell, your only objection then is that there's something aesthetically wrong with using a quirky high-level language as a compilation target for other languages. To that I can only say that worse is better. We might as well get on with the business of writing great apps with the tools we have.
The real trick to understand is that the culture is very diverse here in the larger cities. (I live in a very much urban, and fairly poor part of Houston, the SE side of Downtown.) There are just about as many people who would chafe at the idea that anyone would even own a gun as there are that own several. My perception is generally that the pre-occupation with self defense that people observe is not an urban trend. All of that is anecdotal and worth what you paid for it =)

However, I've lived here for about 20 years now, usually in poorer areas, mostly due to cost factor. I have generally felt safer in some of the worst urban areas in Houston, than some of the moderately bad urban areas in other places, like NYC, Baltimore, Chicago. Outside of certain areas like Forum Park [2], and the central swath of the 3rd Ward [3], I always felt the most unsafe in the suburbs. (However, my short time living in Forum Park was a rather agreeable one as long as I was in my area of the complex that everyone knew me.) But, on our side of town, its not uncommon to be surrounded by vertical gunfire on the holidays - so, there is that, I guess.

Road rage? Well, I've been known to be a pretty aggressive driver, and only had one instance of it happening. It was probably my fault though, I really shouldn't have driven up on the sidewalk to make the turn after honking at him. =) We often like to joke that the reputation, deserved or not, that everyone else is armed here keeps everyone a bit more civil.

[1] For those not from Houston, Telephone road has a very, erm, "colorful" history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_Road

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_Park,_Houston

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Ward,_Houston
New accounts would probably set off an alarm but considering HN is so basic in every other respect I can't see detection of normal active accounts group voting being in effect.
Hmmm - not really. You're storing complex object(or document or xml or json). In other words, you're not using the db schema to destructure your model, but just using it to get at the bits you want.

It's close enough in essence.
>"A magic JS-based bytecode that's usable in all browsers immediately isn't useful if it isn't fast."

Says who? Python, for one, is plenty usable, and is not fast.

>Which it isn't

Says who? JS engines are close to Java/C in speed, and 10x faster thn Ruby, Python et al.

V8 is faster or as fast than statically compiled Go or JITed Julia, for example...
Posterous could have been growing but if the users were never going to generate any revenue it was inevitable they would have to shut down or be acquired later on. The sale could have been as much for the team (who wants to work on a product that isn't really going anywhere?) as it was for the investors. Keeping Posterous open could have just been delaying the inevitable.

As an aside, Tumblr is apparently having financial troubles (this seems to be speculation based on supposed leaked investor feelings) and Tumblr is huge compared to what Posterous is (especially when you look at how Tumblr cornered the social side of micro blogging and Posterous hadn't).

Having 10 million users is appealing to investors because there's the chance that they might turn into revenue in the future but for a company like Twitter that already has most of those users using their service they're probably not worth very much at all.

Posterous could have been stuck in the stage before becoming a proper business, it could be a fantastic service that tens of millions of users loved but if there's no way to move those users into revenue generating users their most valuable asset could have been the team.
Because it's a waste. Pfizer has the comparative advantage in marketing drugs, and NWU in researching them. Econ 101: both parties are better off trading.
Still relevant advice to people applying to YC today.
I'm guessing the one is Phil Haack
Greenbox, the iOS-powered smart irrigation system
> I definitely would have acted rationally, because I place very little value on getting to skip an exam or on proving a point about the grading system, and much more value on actually getting the education I paid for.

Do you mind explaining the thought process behind this? I find it to be quite a stretch to suggest that a 50 minute evaluation at the end of the semester would be such an integral component of the learning that occurs during a semester that foregoing it would jeopardize "getting the education I paid for."
Its like CS newbies, in the first year of Uni thinking that OSs should be written in assembly to be faster....
Starting a coworking space doesn't have to be hard
Most people here aren't thinking "Evil Genius" thoughts. Who wins or loses the argument is irrelevant. The fact remains Tesla will command headlines for months, whereas if this had never happened, Tesla's "range tests" would be met with yawns at best. Now, every range test is a new opportunity to re-hash the argument, commanding mass attention and headlines.
OP is also wrong about Flashblock on Firefox.
If C-- had been a subset of C, then it would be more comparable. Having immediate compatibility with existing implementations makes adoption vastly easier.
Part of the problem is that in his latest rebuttal, Broder turned off the map layer of the Google image he used. If he had left it on, you would see that many of the "streets" in that rest area are one-way. The only place he could have driven is around the two rightmost rows of parked cars. You really must have a very strong suspension of disbelief if you think he passed the Superchargers five times without seeing them.

What really makes Broder's account unbelievable is that his original story was a review of the Supercharger network. His review completely omitted any mention of the difficulty of finding the charging stations. Why would he do that? As concerned as he claimed to be about not reaching the next charger, why did he never mention that he had to spend precious battery finding the damn thing until Musk accused him of driving in circles? Might it be possible that "searching for the charger" is just an excuse invented after his odious behavior was discovered?
YouTube introduces new channel layouts
Generational Theft Needs to Be Arrested
A Democrat, an independent and a Republican agree: Government spending levels are unsustainable.
It actually runs secretly on a large number of other people's servers. Rtm was a pioneer in this field.
This is just idle speculation but are there any stats on HN traffic? I have always wondered just how many folks read it, how often etc? I heard a million accounts being bandied around at one point and I cannot tell if that is excessive or not?
Are you from Northern NJ? My 10th grade Bio teacher did the same!
Will the engineers be required to defend their sentries from spies?
Also see:

http://indiewebcamp.com/why

http://indiewebcamp.com/POSSE
I think the issue here is simply Money In < Money Out.

As an outside observer, it's easy enough to realize that Posterous could have monetized but that doesn't really answer the question of whether they could have monetized _enough_ to pay their ongoing costs.

Most likely they were bleeding money at an extremely fast rate and probably running out, fast, which is why they sold for $10 million and over time under Twitter's wing weren't able to figure out a monetization strategy that would be worth the ongoing costs of running the business. The case is even more convincing once you consider the opportunity cost of keeping high-quality talent away from Twitter.
I obviously am.
And still single founders are frowned on...
Very impressive, it would be very easy to pass the site off as something that had an entire team of people behind it, everything is so well polished. Do you have any long term plans for it?

That's me! Found it when you posted on reddit (http://redd.it/yh6w3) :D
I mailed a package to Russia about 5 years ago. Recipient had to pay a bribe to get it.
No, studios don't need their services because there are now so many competitors in the market, domestic and foreign.

I don't need the services of Nobu, but that doesn't mean that I don't need to eat.
But it's really not much extra complexity. Much less than, say, an entirely new VM.
They have around 10800000 sites. Some users have more than one.
>Reforms on how damages are calculated. If you neither sell a product nor license IP to third parties, there is no way you're losing any revenue from an infringement. You should not be awarded even "reasonable royalty" damages if you wouldn't have received any royalties in any case.

So threaten to sue a small company that doesn't want to pay for lawyers, and settle for a royalty agreement. Now you've licensed your IP to a third party, and you can sue someone else for greater damages.
A victory for Wikivoyage and free knowledge
The author's specific concern there is about control over memory layout. In that regard asm.js should stack up well, because its memory model is a large linear array of bytes. It's hard to imagine more fine-grained control than that, except if perhaps mmap() and munmap() were supported.
What I'm trying to get at is that I see no moral "they were mean bullies!" high ground here, since a final is not required for one to be educated by a class. Anyone wanting the screw the rest of the class over was "mean" first. Anyone who intimidated anyone else into going along looks bad; so does anyone who didn't want to go along so that their fellow students would do worse. It's absurd to look at is as "I paid for that test." Education as paying for tests is a bug, not a feature.

Elsewhere in the thread you call it "clowning." I call it "hacking." The educational value of learning that sometimes you can get things done in non-traditional ways, and everyone ends up well off as a result, is far higher than the educational value of taking yet another exam.
My guess was this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Com...
Yeah, I guess you are right.
It's more that I expected a simple "Thanks" for ensuring that they didn't end up on the front of the New York times at some stage.
You can’t learn life’s most important lessons in an online classroom
Yeah, but that's not hard. And there's a spec that makes it extremely clear which tricks are necessary -- no need to reverse-engineer someone else's implementation, and no risk of tricks that work today breaking tomorrow.
Considering how many people/companies fail so spectacularly at it, why would it be baffling? I also think you underestimate the difficulty in making things "sound as good as possible" that one quality is the basis of the entire marketing and political industries - and a large component of many others. You're basically saying "It's obvious - just be perfect!" - it is not that easy.

All that being said - I'm really not "applauding" Heroku or their actions (which are what matter) I'm waiting to hear what they'll say. In the mean time I thought their messaging (which matters much less) was good.
Also to verify java not working can use this to test:

http://www.java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp
And there was no link to the other meteor that passed earth today ??. Or did Nasa coverup that it didnt knew what trajectory it would take. It seams unlikely to me that those two events are not related.

I mean recently Nasa found some anomaly on Mars too, and then they say "no its not interesting its just erosion; (mars has next to none atmospheric pressure btw) i mean if i where a geologist, then any curious shape even if it was made by erosion would attract my attention i would take samples; and most likely such samples would be more interesting then dust-hole digging. What has become from NASA i wonder. Once they where explorers curious.. now they only call their device curiosity
And a buyer, and a customer service person, and accounts receivable, plus ad ops -- not to mention sales and biz dev folks.
Mind-Blowing HD Photographs of the Sun
I bet if you rewrote the spec to use a different syntax, and didn't mention that it (syntax aside) is a subset of JS, people would be falling over themselves to say "finally, proper bytecode for the web!"
Big pharma's "pay to delay" deals actually help patients, not hurt them
> The average person who would sign-up for a blog, wouldn't shell out $5 so easily

[citation needed]

People are very often more willing to shell out money than we assume. Not all people, but some. See Pinboard.
> On the contrary, for economics in the context of academia (i.e. economists, rather than politicians) Keynesianism is the consensus view.

Wikipedia claims that it's been consensus among academics only since 2008, and before 2008 the consensus was the exact opposite: New Classicism and friends.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2008%E2%80%932009_...

But anyway, the Economist is not aimed solely at academics and my memory of the Keynesianism there goes back further than 2008. Plus I don't know that I'd call monetarists Keynesians, per se.
That's the USPTO's main job. The problem is that they don't always do it as well as one would hope.
His personal website [0] is delightful.

[0]: http://hailpixel.com/
I have put my blood sweat and tears into it. Ever since being a kid I've always wanted a site that lots and lots of people use.

My dream is coming true. It's extremely 'dear' to me, and as such I'm continually developing it and trying to make the best possible experience for users. There's a lot of content out there and I wanted a place to only show the GOOD stuff, not the 1000's of pages of crap.

Long term goals are still in the air as far as my plans, but it definitely will be with me for the long term, that's for sure :)
Japan: Security cameras help catch hacking suspect - Hid code in cat's collar
There's nothing keeping you from using the same X11 apps on OS X as you do on Linux.
Yeah, if independent invention is a defense, we're basically into something that looks a lot like copyright.
There's a rule that'd be tough to administer if I've ever seen one.
Posterous's output used to be just terrible to try to get into anything else. WordPress had to build its own importer or whatever.

I'd also assume that Twitter doesn't really care about what users or an abandoned blogging platform do now. I'm not saying that that's right, but it is what it is.
I don't really see this as a fundamental, iron clad barrier to everything you mention above.
The same is really true of a lot of fields. Is C better than Haskell or Python? What Bayesianism and the Frequentists? Analytic philosophy or continental? Everyone seems to disagree a lot.

You just have to dive in and start reading I'm afraid. Pick a few books that oppose and compare the views for yourself.
This point is so important, and so rarely mentioned. Trolls are a good thing to the extent they create liquidity in the patent market. They are only a bad thing to the extent that the USPTO issues overbroad and/or obvious claims.
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I agree with the sentiment. I just wanted to point out that you could own your own domain and point it at posterous. Not perfect, but still.
Files???? That's a joke right???
My prediction:

New social websites where you either pay for subscription or they are distributed, so you in the end own your own data. This will happen after a few public scandals where sensitive information was leaked or sold to companies or the public.
Patents cannot be reformed. The idea itself is dead. Let it go.
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Pinboard. 25441 bookmarks and counting, carried over from the 15000 or so I imported from delicious a few years ago. http://pinboard.in/u:deusx

The thing is, though, how do you use bookmarks? I hoard everything and rely on search. I feel like once you're over a dozen or so, that's what you need to do. I long, long ago gave up trying to organize them by hand

I use my pinboard to collect links from my tweets and status updates posts, and I use IFTTT and a to:fb tag to post from pinboard to facebook.

I also use a bookmarklet to post to pinboard with tags.

Later, I use pinboard as a personal search engine between tags and search terms. Basically, everything I used to do with Delicious for years
There are lots of browser bugs which aren't plugin related at all. Lots of DOM/parser/JS stuff; the most popular bug class at the moment is use-after-free.
Right! And when I wrote up that newsstand the time and noted that Posterous made it really hard to get your data out, as I recall I got a REALLY bitchy email from one of the founders.
Different, but you'd still get a sense. I'd think you could go with a more powerful magnet on your fingertip than implanted within it too. So you could end up more sensitive in some ways...
Why should it be? You can get a long long way by treating the filesystem as a database. The first engineers at Amazon used the same technique a lot, as do I.
"This seems like a bit of a stretch; how do you encode an indirect branch in JS?"

asm.js has a switch instruction to cover most uses of indirect branches. First-class function pointers are being worked on for a future version of the spec. So this should cover the vast majority of use cases of indirect branching. If this is not enough, I could imagine an extension of JavaScript to support e.g. first-class labels. (Note that LLVM did not support first-class labels for a long time, and of course portable C does not.)

"Making it safe will require performance compromises, like guards on loads and stores."

Naturally, but this is also the case with NaCl or PNaCl, unless NaCl drops all of its software fault isolation techniques and starts relying solely on the OS sandbox. I suppose in theory one could compile asm.js in this way if it was really desired. The entry and exit points from asm.js to the DOM are fairly well defined, so in theory one could IPC them as well.

I'm personally skeptical that asm.js adds much more security risk over the JavaScript JIT that already must exist, however; the semantics of asm.js are extremely simple even compared to LLVM (as asm.js is untyped), much less the full semantics of JavaScript.
I'd like to see a custom version of Chromium for this purpose. Google's sandboxing is great. Just reduce the attack surface by stripping out non-essentials like plugins, SVG, WebGL, NaCl, etc. etc. and you have a pretty darn secure browser. See the ridiculous complexity of those two exploits by Pinkie Pie for what attackers are up against.

Seems like a good convenience/security tradeoff to me.
Software patents that expire in 5 years could be very agreeable if the time it takes for them to be granted dropped from 3 years to around 6 months.
My whole comment was there to point out that this is specifically not what one should consider to be adequate cyberware. It's just body modding.
I absolutely agree that NPEs are not the problem, but I do think that obvious vs non-obvious is the problem, and we'd BETTER make some traction in that direction.

Okay, here's my wild idea of the hour:

AIUI (IANAL, and I've never been involved in a patent application), a patent contains claims and specification. I'm not sure how much this is like C declaration vs definition, but in all the patents I've seen, the claims contain no implementation details. What if, as part of a patent application, the USPTO published the claims in a public forum, and allowed the public to put forward suggested implementations. If any are filed, obviously the patent is obvious. Interested amateurs could amuse themselves by contending, but also competing businesses could protect themselves from trivial patents from their competitors, by allocating paid employee time to monitor patent claims in areas of interest. Admittedly, future market entrants wouldn't yet know they should monitor the area, so it's not perfect.

As for your specific suggestions, rayiner, I think these are similarly not-quite-the-point as the focus on NPEs. I agree that #1 is a "collateral way to attack the problem", but then again so is focussing on NPEs. (After all, how many useful NPEs are there? If the cost of eliminating the parasitic NPEs is the loss of the legitimate drug patent holding company that you describe, I could live with that.)

And as for #2, it's not at all clear to me that it'd be an improvement. Companies would double down on requiring engineers to not read patents, as some companies already do to avoid triple damages. In my ideal world, we continue to stand on the shoulders of giants.