skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're seed-funded and have somewhere around 70 instances in AWS, almost all Linux. In our business, our margin depends largely on our operational costs, and using Windows would be a significant hit to our bottom line.
What a moronic little rant! And big surprise, it was posted by Florian Mueller.

Everything in modern technology infringes patents. When building some machines a few years ago, just out of curiosity, I looked up patents on motor control. Things that have been standard practice in the industry, and are described in 30-year old text books, had been patented just the year before I looked them up.

Those who support patents for software and electronics are the worst kind of bottom feeders.

So, Google "infringed" some patents. Boo f#$%^&g hoo!
Don't worry, I suspected it was a recent prank too the first time I read it. Wonder why we are so suspicious these days ...
This just confirms for me that I did the right thing in not choosing Apple.
F# is supported by Microsoft on the Windows implementation of the CLR, which is great unless you're not willing to use Windows.

You're right that the JVM itself is irrelevant on mobile, but via Android the Java ecosystem still plays a role.
It's a shame. SimplyTweet was the only twitter client I've found that lets me digest my twitter feed the way I want to. Now I need to look for an alternative. And presumably repeat the process until all we're left with is the standard client.
Great point. My first thought was, anyone who doesn't know how to, or doesn't like to play chess would not create a topic on this page.

The game-as-captcha idea is good tho, IMO.

I was in a forum talking about this with fellow game devs a while back. Something like a mini platformer that required you to run and jump your character to a flag, for example, might be interesting, or solve a block-fit-style puzzle, or rotate pieces to solve a puzzle, and so on.
Which elements would those be? I can see custom attributes for the javascript plugins and in that context it's completely fine.
I am still unclear after reading the article.

What is the exact interface where a software change leads to a change in some physical word state?

For instance, logically storing X in some register is going to lead to some particular configuration of electrical current on the CPU. I still don't see the exact point where that happens.

How do the two intersect?
The preoccupation with ownership is a bit awkward for me as European.

Oddly enough, as a European (EU), you enjoy far more protections for ownership of products, including digital and reselling DRM-limited products, than any North American.
In AT&T case, the victims couldn't know who they are unless they one the case, since the issue was warrantless wiretapping
You can use that now in 2.x: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/scaffolding.html#respons...
What would it take to make iPhones in the United States?
Would Cydia be an option? Mozilla always brandish themselves and the rebels of the web. This could be a fantastic move for them.
>Mozilla says no plans to return to iOS until Apple removes restrictions

Apple says: don't let the door hit you on your way out.
Even at the beginner level, Travis CI is great. Granted, it requires knowledge of git.

It’s a really effortless way of automated testing, and you can add more and more specificity to it, as you develop your project. And the merge validation is invaluable.

(Assuming you can get it to work, which hasn’t always been a cake walk with weird, inexplicable failures every now and then.)
Not everyone plays chesss. This is a huge assumption here.
At SXSW the stunts wilder every year - and more dissapointing
The line I find most telling:

> ...Goldman has argued that, contrary to popular belief, underwriters do not have a fiduciary duty to the companies they are underwriting.

Why would anyone use a financial institution who doesn't think they have a fiduciary duty to their clients?
Much in the same way Ruby on Rails made every site work exactly the same. It's a framework to provide a foundational starting point that is already consistent rather than trying to build a consistent style guide and toolset from scratch every time.
The pre-internet version of this is Steve Albini's "The problem with music" which shows how major labels can end up costing bands quite a bit of money. Originally printed in Maximum Rock 'N Roll in 1993, but reproduced here on Negativland's site: http://www.negativland.com/news/?page_id=17

It's worth the read if only for the amazing end line: "Some of your friends are probably already this fucked."

Apparently, he'll be updating it for the digital age soon based this article from January: http://www.mhpbooks.com/steve-albini-to-update-the-problem-w...
No, in that Apple doesn't have a monopoly on smartphone OSs, which was the whole point back then.
>there are numerous companies that may wish to sue the users of VP8 over patent infringement. Qualcomm, Broadcom, Samsung etc. (Why would you want a free alternative when you're the only few companies that can make hardware encoders?)

What are you talking about? Nobody is going to use a software encoder where they need a hardware encoder. The whole point of a hardware encoder is that doing it in software won't fit within your processor consumption or energy budget. And hardware manufacturers will be happy to sell VP8 hardware encoders to anyone who wants to buy one -- especially now that they know they won't have to pay MPEG-LA any royalties to do it.
Is "not doing" a legitimate "manner" of doing something. That seems rather tenuous.
So is Mozilla going to let us implement JIT and performant JS runtimes with alternative browsers on Firefox OS? As I understand it -- like Apple -- they going to sandbox apps.

In Mozilla's case, there are even more restrictions due to their forcing developers to target only the browser's VM, rather than running as native code.
Chrome is based on Webkit, so the changes weren't that major for them. But they still suffer by not being able to use V8, and not being able to use Nitro with JIT either.
It's not just about putting your product on it, though. It's about creating a nice experience for those using your product. I don't think that iOS users will really mind if it's Gecko or not.
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Donn Stewart has a very enlightening and relatively simple explanation on the very basics of how a CPU works, which includes a great explanation of microcode and the control cycle.

http://cpuville.com/cpu_design.pdf

And here's his main site: http://cpuville.com
Franky, I don't see the point of this. It opens an all-new can of worms, just like allowing unicode in DNS, while being useless even for marketing purposes (people are used to sites being ".com" and suspect anything else).

So ".com" is crowded. It would be much better if someone did something about squatters. So many parked domains and so little done about it...
Wyoming Joins Texas as Second State to Issue Own Currency In Wake of U.S. Dollar Collapse

Following Dennis Rodman Visit, Switzerland Declares War on U.S.

Bloomberg Bans Bottled Water: Claims It Robs Our "Precious Bodily Fluids"

Patent Troll Claims Rights to Inhalation of Air - Demands Licensing Fees From All Breathers
Moveline Brings The Ease Of An App To The Headache Of Moving
I don't think there is another great option if you want something like C# and you don't want to go down the Java road.

I adore C# as a language, and the CLR as a platform. If not for the Windows requirement, I would write quite a bit more C# than I do now. (See my other comments on why Mono isn't good enough as a platform-independent option.)

Let's be honest, JavaScript is a goofy language with all sorts of ugly parts, but it's surging in popularity because of the power of the platforms on which it's used (browsers and Node.js).

Lua is another language which I've taken a liking to recently. It has a beautiful, clean, simple syntax -- it's basically like dynamic C -- but its standard library is horribly weak. That's why I think it's relegated to embedding.

The .NET standard library is amazingly powerful, but the only "real" implementation of it requires Windows. My point is: it's not enough to be a good language, you need strong platform support.
Uncommon? I'd venture to say that all desktop architectures have known bugs. Some are just documented, some are fixed by microcode, some require work arounds in software "or" compilers.

Example: (core i7, may 2011) http://download.intel.com/design/processor/specupdt/320836.p...

BIOS updates often contain bugfixes for your CPU.
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Broadcast presentations live across devices.
I like the way the world (seems) to be turning - towards putting effort into solving the worlds problems based on evidence and rational thought as opposed to bureaucratic incentives or popular votes.

One can hope
The Price of Marriage in China
This is why my role model is the Dos Equis guy.
On top of that, Qualcomm and Broadcom are WebM supporters.

http://www.webmproject.org/about/supporters/
It would have been easy to have just stored that bit of session state to the server.

It’d also be pretty easy to alter the HTML board to a prerendered image with imagemap click detection. At which point someones writing custom image feature detection software to break your captchas.

Of course, this mainly works because of the obscurity, even with the upgrades. And since someone’s already going to have to write custom software to break this I’m not sure it’s worth it to upgrade - as I doubt it’s worth anyone’s time to do write the minimal software that needed now.
>Yeah I'm sure Apple is going to get right on that. All the negative press from their shenanigans these years has really changed their attitude thusfar.

Yes, it had.

The negative press regarding the restriction to the "languages used for iOS development" had them revise that.

The negative press around the iOS acceptance process has them make several changes to the whole process.

Even in specific app instances, they have reconsidered inclusion etc after some negative press.

And they have responded to the negative press about the iOS Maps and the antenna thing.

There are other such examples. So this picture that Apple "never changes its ways" is just not true.
> It shows every sign of a typical patent troll and will always choose the option that guarantees its members income, not the most innovative or best option,

1) It's members are the ones that invented h.264 (NTT, Microsoft).

2) Every company that owns something of value tries to maximize their revenue from it.

MPEG-LA is a perfectly reasonable arrangement. It allows things like h.264 to be standardized while also offering an avenue for that R&D work to be monetized. The alternative would be people keeping new coding techniques secret and trying to compete with each other using them to offer better video quality in their own products. There is not a world where Microsoft, NTT, etc, are going to do R&D to help competitors like Google out of the goodness of their hearts, for the sake of "innovation."

It should be noted here that Google makes a ton of money off video compression algorithms (they make Youtube possible in the first place), but has done jack shit to contribute to their development itself. Of course they want to get the license to something like h.264 for free, but why shouldn't they have to pay for it?
I would seriously consider going straight to AWS and starting to learn their APIs. It is a much scaleable service and is relied upon by startups that have actually reached web scale ( like Instagram ). Seen that your webapp is in node, you could also benefit from node specific hosting platforms, like https://www.nodejitsu.com/
Who <i>does</i> that?
Right, the big words "PROTOTYPE" didn't confirm that they are placeholder graphics.

Jesus Christ, remind me to never post a work in progress on HN. If someone as big as Richard Garriott can't get some basic respect, what chance do the rest of us have?
Modesty wins, proves that we are in debt of millions of unrecognized humans for the immense knowledge we have gathered n use everyday.
One purpose is to allow less design inclined developers to rapidly produce a decent looking prototype that people can play around with.
Love the line "Just to be safe, be sure to print out all of your favorite pages before the end of the month."
Fantastic bit of satire. Poking fun of companies built for the flip is well deserved, however I have to wonder if things really have changed? Or was it that in the 90s when a web company didn't take off did it simply shut down without notice?
The Aaron Swartz Town Hall & the Future of Online Activism
How can you build it without native code?
Lua is much more sane because you have much more control of what is accessible to code than you have in Python.
Oh you're right. It seems they are being tight lipped about whether money was exchanged.
That lists almost all organizational changes, with fairly few benefits to the users (though quite a few to the organization, which it helpful for it’s continued existence). However reading the comments here it does seem like there are some nice upgrades for the users as well.
They believe it, its information/experience asymmetry, and likely some willing suspension of disbelief.
They're using Glyphicons which also has a font
I'm not sure Mozilla really has the clout with its mobile browser to make much of a difference for Apple. If anything, Mozilla building an open-source mobile OS will help Apple by dividing the Android's "open-source hacker" user base.
Anything that uses the term "denialists" is just AGW cult propaganda. What climate change there is is a natural process we are unable to significantly speed up or slow down. By the way, has Mann stopped falsely claiming to be a Nobel Prize winner yet?
One of my professors, the late David Crane, FAIA, had a rule of thumb for determining the suitability of sanitary systems for poor communities on a global scale - suitability is inversely proportional to pipes.
Unfortunately, this decision has never been in our hands. We got lucky with WWW / TCPIP / many others - sometimes because the people implementing it were more interested in making it good than making money, and sometimes because technical limitations made it impossible to close.

So while this blog post makes a great point, it feels like it's trying to convince the sun not to rise tomorrow - nothing we do will stop platforms such as Facebook rising if they offer what people want/need. We would need to make a better version, and that isn't always feasible.

I don't use Facebook, but that certainly doesn't stop the masses using it and looking at me strangely when I try to explain to them why I don't use it. We're probably in for a bumpy tech ride in the near future as always-online comes to apps everywhere.
How does agreeing with a random third-party about how you can use your own product, and worse, paying them for the mere unproven possibility that they own parts of your product, count as "won"?

In any other situation, history would classify this as a clear cut case of racketeering or extortion.
A guitar or piano isn't MIDI compatible, and that hardly matters.

If the instrument could really stand on its own, then compatibility isn't a problem.
Who would be in that consortium. Companies that have a "general interest in innovation and not money?"

Sorry to tell you, but that set of companies is: {}.
I think PowerShell was a great idea with weak execution. The real issue is that the OS and many Windows services (like IIS) weren't built to be managed via the command line. They're gradually adding support for it, but not in a standardized way.

Configuration and management on Linux is anything but standardized, but it's almost always as simple as changing the right line in the right file in /etc. Also, the ecosystem is so large and mature that tools have been built to make things simpler.

You can manage Windows machines via PowerShell, but that doesn't mean it's easier in practice than SSH and Linux -- particularly given the toolsets (Chef/Puppet/etc) that have been created around it.
GOOG popped over 100%, with its auction.
Easy captcha to solve by a computer, no? Just hook up a program that recognizes the pieces etc. Not to mention requires a human to know the rules of chess.

However, it may be said that no one would put the effort to make captcha solvers for everything... unless captcha crackers pooled together.

That makes for an interesting question. Since to solve CAPTCHAs you have to build progressively stronger UIs, can it be said that if there sprung up a "CAPTCHA plugin industry", with people using captchas of everyday things, then the combined solver would eventually be some really versatile AI?

I remember recommending that people just send in pictures of street signs etc. as this would be much better than the best CAPTCHAS right now
I couldn't agree more. The bulk of the crowd I've met hardly even use the original version of the OS, let alone all the commercial tools (and that includes Photoshop). With IT ethics so bad, it's difficult to be profitable just targeting India.
The shares can be allocated but not offered.
I didn't have a PDA personally, but people I knew did, and I'm pretty sure they did things like check the web, listen to music, take (low resolution) photos, and check their email (which is what most at my workplace apparently use their smartphone for nearly exclusively). The other things you mention are a function of the improvement of the hardware or the existence of services (twitter, facebook), not being a completely different category.

I think to get to a similar appflow to what a HUD enables, you'd have to have both the iWatch and voice commands, and then you'd still be stuck raising your wrist to read from it, meaning you can't operate it hands-free. HUDs combine all the best uses of iWatch and bluetooth mic/earphone combos, and improve on them.
Previous discussions on HN about that article:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=courtney+lo...
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Rank the most egregious offenders:

Obviously Apple is #1 with their App ecosystem but then who's next?

1) Apple
1) Microsoft (back in the day was #1)
2) Facebook
3) Twitter
X) where does the Goog fit?
If this is the issue I think it is ( https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/4550 ), it is unfortunately not only for this beta v3, it is a big problem with the current version of Bootstrap as well.

I would consider it quite crucial. When using Bootstraps responsive features, (which are clearly a selling point) you'd expect something as trivial as a popup-menu to actually work on other than desktop devices.
Show me the evidence that they hurt. And extrapolating or supposing stereotype threat is not evidence. The fact is these are mostly private people or private groups that put on these efforts. They need no "proof" that they work. The fact that women show up to these things is enough proof as far as they are concerned. If you want to completely eliminate these events then its up to you to show that they are actively harmful.
It's not a question of attitude, or meanness - Microsoft is a monopoly in desktop OS, so they must obey antitrust laws. Apple is not, so they don't have to do anything.
As a consumer, you probably don't go directly to insurance companies to get underwritten for something (health, life, home, etc). You go to to a broker, who has a legal obligation to act in your best interest.

The investment banks are playing the line between moral and legal obligations. They will win, of course. And then hopefully we will see "IPO brokers" and corresponding laws appear.
> So what FB is doing there is preventing a single (tenant) entity from ruining the experience, and this is laudable.

the user has been in charge from the start, they can remove it from their stream or simply 'unlike' or unsubscribe

what fb did is nothing more than a cash-grab and it will come back to haunt them
Very cool! Nice design too.
"In short, domains are being bought up and not used, and the commons is ruined."

How are "the commons" ruined?

Domains (as a business) has been going on since domains were available and some people recognized they would have value and bought them up. Call it "squatting" if you want (a derogatory term) which came up back in the day and plays no relation to the traditional use of "squatting" (thank the media for that one everybody just repeats it now).

Real estate has also gone up in value and there are people who recognized and took a chance on that and have made money as well.

"Solution: Increase the price of .com and .net and other tlds to approximately $X. End the domain squatting market "

The price of .com (and all else) is effectively determined by contracts that ICANN has negotiated with the registry operators (Verisign in the case of .com) who then sell to the registrars (like godaddy and the much loved on HN namecheap).
You're right, that is awful. It's also unquestionably the worst way to write it. Try this instead:

() => "foo"

Please don't participate in a conversation if you aren't willing to spend the time necessary to gain a baseline level of understanding of the topic.
You provided a link to a shitty looking book on amazon. That doesn't make you credible.
I highly recommend the book, and the course, http://www.nand2tetris.org/ (previously known as The Elements of Computing Systems or TECS).

This starts with discussion on NAND gates and goes through building CPU components, to a complete computer, to implementing a high-level language for it.

(All the chapters from the book revevant to your question are available as free PDFs).
This article[1] is what made chef 'click' for me. Try it out with vagrant or just solo on a vm to start. Try to forget everything you already learned and just do this example the build off that.

[1] http://www.opinionatedprogrammer.com/2011/06/chef-solo-tutor...
This is the 21st century. Startup CFOs need to start realizing that this is unnecessary and the democracy of the internet is more than enough to "raise your brand" legitimately.
What went RIGHT in the 2013 Kenyan national election? Information Technology
The public is who decides what a publicly-traded business is worth.
Called my Congresswoman about CISPA live on stage at SXSW
It's kind of hard to blow up a satellite secretly (as in, no one noticed).
I think it's called an 'assembler language' because it's the language you use to program your assembler (specifying what to emit into the binary).
Let me take the more extreme example of racism as an illustrative point. "If we had a 'white entertainment television' that would be racist, therefore BET is racist". This is the sort of argument you made and hopefully its obvious how ridiculous it is to you. The contexts for whites and blacks in this country are completely different (dominant culture, etc). Thus something being racist when it re-enforces the dominant culture is not the same when its supporting a marginalized culture.
>Additionally, I have used Nodejs on Azure. I truly enjoyed it when using Azure Table Storage for my database. Overall publishing to Azure was pretty simple and required minimal setup effort. Let me know if you have any questions!
That basically answers my node.js question, I actually thought node would run better on AWS for some reason also does Azure do Linux?
You are talking about "domain tasting". It was closed because it wasn't good for the registry operators (once again Verisign in the case of .com and .net).

That said there is a cost. A registrar needs to keep money on deposit with the registries for the domains that they have purchased. So if they have a constant 1000 domains being registered and dropped and registered it will cost them money. They will make that money somehow from the registrant (in addition to a registry closing the loophole for other reasons).