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Then that's a breaking change of the someBigFunction()s interface and it
should be treated with care, not just quickly patching on a promise and hope for the best. Javascript is single threaded so when you wrote someBigFunction() you didn't have to think of parallel side effects. If you suddenly pause the execution of someBigFunc() and allow the user to mess around with the interface, the global state that someBigFunc() is working on might become changed.

Simply slabbing on a promise inside such a function only works if the function is pure to start with. Usually that's not the case with slow functions in javascript since the slowest thing in javascript is messing with the DOM, i.e global state.
Because MHL isn't USB. It uses the same plug but runs its own HDMI hardware connection over the pins -- exactly what the Apple engineer said they were trying to avoid doing for every single hardware setup.
As a seller I have been relative happy with the support. Granted they will usually follow their rules down to the letter which won't usually favor you as a seller.

The responses I have got though have often felt like someone actually took the time to understand the question.
He coined a nice epigram I will remember. That is enough for the article to be interesting.

What is the problem with being self-congratulatory? What is wrong with focusing on the positive and thinking that your hobby and life's work is worthwhile? Would anything be created if people were constantly doubting themselves and their creations? Would anything be better then?

What harm would there be in people hoping to be the next woz? And with the low base rate of garage projects going anywhere, which we are all painfully aware of, don't you think it's better to give encouragement and hope. I do, and I think a dismissal such as yours is harmful to the greater cause of creating interesting ideas, programs and thoughts.
Co-founder of Catch here, we are sometimes compared to Evernote but Catch is a note-sharing and collaboration app.

1. Two-factor

We don't offer two factor but is something we are investigating. This is mitigated somewhat by the fact that a lot of our users use Google login.

2. SSL / TLS

SSL shouldn't be a paid feature. It's been included in our product for free since we launched.

We try and use SSL everywhere. All page from catch.com are only available via SSL. e.g. login, landing page, marketing, blog, etc.

There are a few exceptions like our Knowledge Base which is powered by Assitly / Desk:

http://support.catch.com/

3. Encryption

We don't offer note level encryption. We'd love to get some feedback on a straightforward way to do key management.

4. HSTS

We've been using HSTS for at least a year now. It was an easy decision for us since all content from catch.com is only available via SSL.

Security is hard and hopefully these breaches will raise the bar for everybody.
At Mandalorian we have to work 9-530 days, our customers expect to be able to contact us in this period. What we do though is allow everyone to work from home unless they absolutely need an office environment. Once a quarter we meet up face to face, have a day set aside for meetings, discussions, presentations and that's about it. We have IRC for techies and Google chat for non-techies, along with Google Hangout for when we need some face to face discussion.

So far it's working pretty well. People who need to pick kids up from school pick kids up from school. People who need to receive deliveries or have plumbers round don't have to worry about taking time out to do so. Additionally everyone's travel costs are miniscule when not on customer site, which I think is a massive positive for all of us. On the whole I believe that a happy workforce is a productive workforce, and that creating stress for employees is counterproductive. If we need meetings we can have them. If we need physical space together we can arrange it. Aside from that, I'd rather focus on the results than the time put in.
I went to Cornell, and I never witnessed any sort of collaboration of this sort.

I did have a professor tell us an anecdote of discovering such "collaboration" in his classes and tell us he wouldn't stand for it (and yes, they were Chinese), but that's the only encounter I had.
I was gonna write a lengthy response to your comment, but then, I don't need to, a rich person already held a TED talk exactly why gross inequality is problematic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIhOXCgSunc
"Then someone invented “reader comments” and paradise was lost".

Of course the paradise was lost for the oppressing media. Long live the internet.

"Comments from some readers, our research shows, can significantly distort what other readers think was reported in the first place"

Research would show that your lies significantly distort what readers think in the first place.

"But as they say, the genie is out of the bottle."

You would happily undo this whole internet thingie, wouldn't you?
There's every indication that Lightning can handle much more than this but in order to get the hardware running quickly, they've reused settings that were previous used for WiFi data rates.

All we can guess is that Lightning can handle somewhere between 10Mbps (AirPlay over WiFi) and 2Gbps (native HDMI rates). We have absolutely no idea where in that range its actual capabilities lie.
It's a strange day when we move from cables that work perfectly well to cables that need to be software upgradeable to work as well.
"If I were a governmental entity..."

In that case, you would be a governmental entity which does not care much for the rights of your citizens. Instead, pick a service in a country with a transparent, low corruption-government. I suggest the Scandinavian countries.
Lots of countries grow all the agricultural products

Who grows cinnamon, vanilla, coca, and kola? How many countries grow all four, because I doubt it's "lots". Do they also have some form of sugar and aluminium industries? (or steel/tin industries for different kinds of cans, or glass industry for bottles (with something for caps)?)

Besides, saying "oh, but countries could, they just don't" is having your cake and eating it too - the fact that countries don't because it's massively uneconomical means that yes, it does take multiple countries to produce a can.

It's a bit like saying "it takes a superpower to land men on the moon". Oh, sure, you could say "no it doesn't - throw enough private enterprise together and get someone there", but the point remains, no-one will - it still takes a superpower to land men on the moon.
I had the same "concern" but they say:
The energy stored in the nitrogen tank is small — equivalent to only about five teaspoons, or a couple dozen cubic centimeters, of gasoline

So I guess that the explosion of a tank full of "about five teaspoon" should not wreak too much damage :)
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I think they meant that the by the time successor to HDMI is invented today's smartphones will be obsolete.
Well, there was a big whoop about the thinness of the connector when they announced it being necessary for very thin devices. Can we manufacture non-brittle connectors with center pins that are 1.5mm thick?
I can not remember where read it, but if I recall correctly, sliced bread did not catch on until the patent on the bread slicing machine expired.
Apple are trying to handle all technologies without custom hardware in the device. Effectively, they have turned it into a streaming scenario. It's not as weird as you'd think -- there are USB3 video adapters that work the same way.

DVI, HDMI and MHL all require custom hardware in the device. As the Apple engineer said, Apple are trying to avoid this.
How is that estimation done, I'm very curious?
For inspiration I go for an one hour break with my co worker and we talk about our side projects. You will be surprised how motivated you can get, when you share your thoughts with someone who has the same goals
I really wish the video would have mentioned what the difference is between ink and paint. Because if someone asked me what was in the video, I would have guessed paint over ink. It just looks like paint!
> What is the problem with being self-congratulory?

I'd like to say here that having some perspective can prevent certain kinds of mistake. I think that's correct.

I'd be on surer ground if I point out that a person entirely satisfied with their professional perspective isn't going to improve past a certain asymptote that they themselves are unable to perceive.

But honestly? I just find self-congratulation tremendously embarrassing. I don't know if it's inherited or a self-deprecating theme present in Australian culture or just plain old jealousy. Or some combination of the above.
Well as far as robbing people and taking their possessions - where did the state Massachusetts get its name? Or Delaware? It came from the Massachusetts and the Delaware, who were mostly killed off as their land was stolen. Africans were enslaved to pick cotton. Children grew up in company towns and were sent down to the mines, or sent to work in dangerous factories for twelve or more hours a day in the US, England etc. The English recorded this, like they do everything, quite diligently, their paper record of it is enormous.

For the corporate press and standard line, whatever the USSR did was wrong. If its economy grew it was cruel. If it devoted capital toward consumer goods and eased up on production demands, it was a stagnating economy proving socialism doesn't work. Any choice they make is called wrong, no matter which choice they make.
I tried to submit the url first, but it was considered spam - I guess using an unbounce page for a non-existing service is kind of spammy, but this seems to be considered the 'lean' way.
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Ham is not an acronym. Nobody's quite sure of what it means, but it doesn't seem to be an acronym.
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Scratch an itch. Build something that solves a problem you have. In theory, you should work on it until you've solved your problem. By that point, hopefully, it'll be useful enough for others to use as well. Let other people in, get feedback, receive an endorphin rush, and the cycle continues!

My successful side projects have always been things that solve my problems first and foremost. They've also just happened to solve problems that a reasonable number of other people have too.
Yes, it's a leading question.

From the other side of the debate I'd attack the concept of subjective value.

Why do people value this? We don't know. They just do.

How do you know they value it? Because of their actions.

Why do they take those actions? Because of their valuations.

But it's also difficult to argue the counter-case. Outside of corner cases such as depression, psychotic episodes etc, if people aren't acting to diminish discomfort or increase their perceived happiness, then what is motivating them?
Hacker news is a great haven for this. I don't know of any other place on the internet where such a large portion of the comments are constructive, civil, and enlightening. It really adds a ton of value to the content itself. Such a shame that most of the internet is better off just turning the comments off.
function getItem(id) {
return $.get("/api/item/" + id);
}
$.when(getItem(3), getItem(4)).then(handleSuccess, handleFailure);

Maybe I'm taking the point of the example out of context here, but i worry that promises makes it too easy to write non thought through code like this. Why make two separate http-requests for something that should have been possible to do with one?

Future prediction: Someone will create code similar to the one above but inside a for-loop calling getItem hundreds of times instead of just 2.
> Video streaming can get expensive

Then they should put their work in the public domain so people willing to support distribution costs could do so.
I still feel that way after more than 20 years.

But it helps a lot if company policy doesn't force you to come in every day, or be in at 9am. And of course if the people involved are people that you like to work with.
The legal jurisdiction and/or technical location of the service might be a country with a transparent government, but how would you know that the service isn't owned or operated by a government entity from some other country?
this has to go front page!
I imagine that must be hard to manage the use of the rooms. I think an open plan with distanced, isolated through architecture one-person workspaces might work better. But that demands a lot of space, must be hard to implement.
Why can't any interested entity set up a company in the Scandinavian states? So how would that really help?
If I understand this correctly, you mean cookies right? Isn't that what they do ? If you have cookies enabled, for most websites you don't need to reenter your credentials .

If that's not what you meant please clarify
> It seems like if something is getting a lot of comments and generating discussion, whether a post or another comment, it should be rewarded.

This is a misconception -- upvoting isn't a reward, and downvoting isn't a punishment. People upvote comments to increase their visibility, and downvote them to decrease their visibility. Voting is about personal taste, not the making of moral judgments.

> I see way too many <= 0 comments that have a big discussion associated with them which often speaks to the value of the comment itself.

Another misconception -- the fact that a submission creates a lot of comment isn't necessarily a reflection of the value of the submission -- the original might be deplorable, but how and why it's deplorable might merit comment.
When you congratulate yourself to more than three or four, it's an anonymous personal moment. Otherwise it's manipulation.

And with three or four, it's probably something inbetween.
They protect data in transit. If I use someone else's network my data is visible to them, no so much if I use a VPN.
Agreed, Mac is the disaster; and the so called "App Store" doubly so, particularly if you value freedom.
I think it's a bit disingenuous to write that Linux uses C++.

I like the civility in this sentence, yet I'm inclined to say that it's more than just "a bit disingenuous." Is there anybody who has not read this post by Linus Thorvalds on C++:

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus
>Now the only thing that puzzles me is why they settled on 8 pins, when USB3 is 9.

Is the metal prong itself the 9th pin?
Is this what goes in this overly expensive HP inkjet cartridges?

The video sure shows a nicer side of this whole business.
The problem with this argument is it's too simplistic. When you respond with "people will sometimes do things against their best interests out of a sense of duty", the counter is to reduce the human to a stimulus-response box and say "aha! but they must be doing that because it benefits some psychological issue, so it is increasing their happiness"

The issue comes when that extremely mangled definition of happiness isn't then injected into economic discourse - it becomes a matter of dusting off the hands and saying "well, we proved that people do what's required to be happy" and go back to the simpler definition.

In any case, reducing everyone to a stimulus-response box and stating that on balance, it must be beneficial to choose action X for the organism turns the definition of 'happiness' into something worthless and actually pretty banal.

Edit: I usually see this argument in the sense of 'maximising profit', but occasionally as 'happiness' or other beneficial emotion.
This is pretty funny -- a site with a spectacularly dreadful design, with a font size that is way too small and cannot be made larger, complains that someone has copied the entire IP to another site.

> ... , profit.

Doubtful. Very doubtful.
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What I gather from the article it's not the stored energy that's of some concern, but the 250 bar nominal pressure in the tanks - a rupture might lead to metal splinters flying around. However, they claim that the car's underfloor is enough shielding. I'd say let some independent safety tests figure that one out.

So far I think this is a very promising concept - I was always weary about electrical hybrids because of the use of rare earth metals and the environmental impact in some regions because of that. Putting some nitrogen tanks and mechanical/electronic bits in a car to achieve the same effect for city driving seems like a big winner - mass produced I'd think you could make those cars only minimally more expensive than normal gas powered ones. Electrical Hybrid car prices, meanwhile, don't seem to scale down much.
But I never read the comments on a news story ... do most people read them? That is unaddressed in the article.
WITH and window functions are portable (and both awesome - they will change the way you write your SQL for the better). I'm not sure if WITH RECURSIVE is portable - my recollection is that oracle and db2 at least don't need/use the RECURSIVE qualifier for recursive ctes: they just work it out for you.

Time intervals are also in the SQL standard as I recall (although not in the format listed here - postgres supports standard syntax too though). Not sure how fully supported it is cross-database, though.
"only a very fresh programmer would need to google it"

It's why this is a top story on Headquarters of Noobs. Not surprising. You mean Lenny Kravitz didn't write American Woman?
You're supposed to use the satelite to aim them and then shoot them from the ground and let them ballistically smash your target. It takes about twice as long but it's really sufficient to smash anything the size of a warship.

Seems like half the cars on the road are SUVs, so that should be big enough.
If only they would design this blog! Even zoom can't fix it
I used to have an account with New England Merchants Bank. My ATM PIN was seven digits. But I noticed that the ATM screen would flash after the first four. A little trial and error revealed that that was all I needed to enter! Comparing notes with friends (this was before the internet) revealed that this little secret was common knowledge.

Subsequently, NEMB got subsumed by successively larger banks, until, finally, Bsnk of America took over. Suddenly, my ATM card wouldn't work! It turned out that they had kept my full PIN on file through the whole chain of acquisitions, but only with B of A did they start comparing ATM PIN entry against the full PIN! My card still worked with the full PIN (which I still remembered, it being an old phone number).
In 1970 that billion dollar company would have been valued as such based mainly on its assets and cash flow, not its irrational-speculator-fueled market capitalization bubble.
This sort of ink is used for offset printing.

My brother used to own a print shop, and I worked for him over a summer, so I got a lot of experience in cleaning this stuff out of offset presses.

It's very thick, with a consistency maybe a bit like runny peanut butter, and has an incredibly distinctive smell. You pour it into a reservoir in the press, and then a multitude of inking rollers homogenize the ink, removing air bubbles, before transferring it to the plate.
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Agreed. A hacker put some malicious code on one of my sites over a year ago and it was quickly buried in search results after ranking 1-3 on page one for years. I fixed it, changed hosts, notified Google and have tried everything else I can think of and it's still nowhere to be seen - even though it ranks near the top of both Yahoo and Bing.

If a Googler sees this, the site is http://starbuckslocations.com - please look into it!
Demonstrating tidal, live music by a DSL in Haskell
Tracking The Trackers
Teach kids to farm, not code.
I love how when someone is passionate about what they do, that passion permeates when they discuss their expertise. Beautiful video, I feel like I learned something while being entertained at the same time.
Might be because I am tired, but what?

"Of course McDonald’s restaurants are also sweeping the planet, and a recent post by British science writer Philip Ball on the BBC website suggests the jarring possibility that harmony may be something that is learned, not innate. "
When I made this comment, it should be noted that most of the comments were pretty negative toward the NYT in particular.

Not paying attention to the publisher, I've gotta say that I find myself agreeing more often than not. Sometimes, comments do great- but anything above a readership in a couple hundred thousand, and suddenly it all goes to hell.

You'll get a mix of misunderstanding, people inserting their own bias, memetic derailing bullshit, and a whole lot of people who think they're experts, for whatever poor reason they found. This isn't because they're trolls, or horrible people; We all have done it. We all do it. It's being human.

But the problem is, finding the signal in all that noise is just impossible given our current means of filtering. Different outlets have tried different ways of getting people to put more thoughts behind their posts- requiring real names, Facebook accounts, hell, entire companies like Disqus have sprung up for the exact purpose of trying to foster better conversations. And while they all make a decent change, none of them even solve a quarter of the problem.

About the only solution I've ever seen, is heavy-handed moderation. But that opens you up to 'censorship' comments, as we've seen here. Personally, I can't help but feel like maybe it'd be better if real, substantive stories and opinion pieces just didn't have comments; If a person wants to respond, let them go through the effort of making their own blog post, and addressing the author with it on Twitter or in e-mail. It'd certainly lead to more productive conversation. It's partly why I wish there were more intellectually-minded Tumblr accounts, as their format for this is perfect, with reblogging.

This isn't to say comments are all bad, or that they don't serve a purpose. Just that sometimes, all this social doesn't actually produce better content.
The point that the folks over at Evernote are really missing is that Joe Average is using the very same credentials everywhere else, from their Gmail to the Amazon accounts. If Evernote where sensible about security of their users, they would have explained why it is indeed a bad and common practice to use the same password everywhere, as it is a certain way to get your online identity hijacked sooner rathre than later by means of a breakin like this one. It is good to know that passwords have been stored salted, but nevertheless, eventually these credentials are now compromised and if Evernote where sensible about this they would have told their users to reset their password whereever they use the same one, which is probably lousy marketing compared to "hey, we got your password stolen, but don't worry, it was encrypted".
It's confirmation bias of the highest order. What things have hobbyists been working on for years that we're not using? There are so many smart people doing so many different things, and most of them stay far out of the mainstream.

Hell I have a friend who's incredibly smart. He spends his weekend meticulously crafting civil war uniforms for his re-enacments. Should I be watching out for a big-time re-enactment craze in the near future?
Where might I look for something like this? Is there a centralized location, or is this the sort of thing that people just kinda find on Craigslist or something?