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Then I guess we might agree.

The only advantage I know of with bcrypt over multple SHA2 is that GPUs are very bad at it compared to most hashing functions, so the CPU cost (on my server) and the GPU cost (the crackers' cost) are not too different. (Anyone, please correct me if I'm wrong.)

Off-topic: This exponential reply delay is really annoying.
Just disable read status in your rss-client and the problem is solved. For low frequency sites that you care about you most likely remember their latest headlines anyway. For high frequency sites just watch the headlines roll by, if you happen to be interested in one then click it, otherwise just ignore.
My wife has several degrees in finance, and that is her field. So I am lucky that our finances are somewhat more well managed than a lot of other folks. Her "home budget" spreadsheet spans more tabs than many small business' budgets.

With that in mind, we keep a certain amount of "operating expensed" liquid, since we both tend to work in smaller companies than can go sour rather fast. Paying out that check to the IRS sucked up the majority of those liquid funds. If you've read some of my posts in the past (not that I'd expect you to have done so...), you'd see that I'm on the upper end of the age scale here, have been around a while, and managed to enjoy a run through the dot-com 90's. So, I do not have the finances of a single 20-something college graduate.

I looked at this IRS payment as an investment. I was very highly confident that I would get my money back (and then some), so that was the easiest path, all things considered. Had I been more in doubt I would have certainly kept the money, reasoning that I'd rather have them pry it away from me if it came to that.

I didn't mean for my comment to sound like I just go around writing 6 figure checks as the path of least resistance.
Yeah! That's the first thing I noticed. I'm sure PG has written that.
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Surely you mean Ka-Shing ;-)

The first investor was Horizons Ventures, the investment arm of Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-Shing, who put in $300k.
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Install a user-agent switcher extension/plugin and tell your browser to identify as an Android mobile or some other phone. T-Mobile only throws up the "please pay for hotspot" paywall if they detect a desktop browser.
A common motivation for acquisitions is to buy users, not technology. YouTube used PHP and the video tech in flash - but they were the ones to grow the userbase (and continue to do so). If Summly had the product/marketing to be popular and growing, that's why Yahoo bought it. (though it seems Summly doesn't have the strong network-effects of YouTube, of gaining both producers and consumers).

EDIT they could be buying market-product fit...? but yes, if they killed it... hmmm...
I would guess it varies with model. The Poang chairs are afaict flagship products. Mine are about a decade old now, but replaced the cushions once. I have to retighten the bolts every couple of years. I can imagine kids breaking them from being dumb, but from ordinary (daily) use, they don't seem any worse for wear.
perhaps validation? "the Android operating system makes up almost 75 percent of MillerCoors’ mobile traffic"

http://www.mobilemarketer.com/cms/news/content/14614.html
Sure I love adult dress up from time to time as well, I get dressed up to go to the orchestra, a wedding, or occasionally formal Fridays. I don't need my neck feeling like its being choked by a tiny midget to produce my best code and I tend to enjoy working places that recognize that. People take me seriously because I have proven that I am worthy of being taken seriously through my work and not because I have a suit.
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It's never against the HN ethos to show someone you appreciate their work.
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With increasing diversity in monitor sizes, it’s not practical to design single blocks of text that take up the entire width of the screen. The traditional solution is to split text into columns manually, which is very time intensive; or to split text dynamically with JavaScript, which doesn’t function universally. Besides, this is a presentation issue, we should be able to style it with CSS without the use of grid systems or floats shouldn’t we?
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Very cool breakdowns in plain language, and a very accessible JSON API. Great job to the Dark Sky team.
LOL good point you got me. I meant treating others professionally, aka with at least a surface layer of respect, ethnic/sex/age/orientation blindness, at least an attempt at avoiding stereotypes, rather than brogramming. There's a time and place for fraternity bro antics, from memory it is a lot of fun, but the office probably isn't the time and place for it.

I will concede that a brogramming environment could theoretically be, for the sake of brevity, civilized. Unlikely, but possible. Hearing phrases at the interview about behavior like "boys will be boys" and discovering at the interview its a hard drinking all straight single white male existing staff might be a bad sign. I can't believe I'm actually advocating for diversity after a lifetime of making fun of it, but...
There is also John McCarthy's database-like language, Elephant 2000. Elephants never forget, so I think there will be many future databases named Elephant.
1. itch.io uses PayPal. Assuming you trust them, there is nothing to worry about.

2. itch.io provides the same mechanism. You are paying for the game, not the single download.

3. As long as you can re-download the game, then there is no reason to save the installer. Serials/keys are up to the discretion of the game developer and I don't see why giving the game developers control is a bad thing. I think most indie games are against DRM anyway.

4. In order to support auto-updates, the game developer has to invest in the Steam APIs. There is nothing stopping games on itch.io to using out-of-band updates.
All of Yahoo! is "bolt on engineering." It's clearly not an entirely losing strategy as Yahoo! is still around, somehow.
The comment thread is only just getting started and there are already two comments about why they didn't bother reading. The TL;DR generation has another skill - finding ways to rationalize why they didn't tax their brains with the effort of reading. Mostly they're of the format "I read x in the first few lines so it disqualified the rest of the article from further attention".

I think there's a new qualification for TL;DR - DFIAT - didn't fit in a tweet.
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I think this will be my next phone, but I don't understand why I can't just pay for the phone up front. I like my transactions to be over and done as soon as possible. If that makes it cheaper as well, that's a nice bonus.
I think you're right, there is a barrier for most consumers who love Steam. But for another percentage of gamers, like me, there's zero barrier to entry.

1: I like not having to launch Steam to play my games.

2: I know there are good games that exist that aren't on Steam and am more than willing to go through a CC form or PayPal.

3: I'm slowly getting irrated with games with DRM, online-only, DLC.

I think itch.io is a win for these niches of indie game developers and consumers who buy indie games.
I now pay less for voice+data with Ting than I did for voice+text, with an employer discount, on Verizon. Furthermore, the phone (refurb Optimus S) is so inexpensive, I don't have to worry about destroying it.

Sensible pricing is starting to win.
"Mayer insists on personally reviewing every new recruit, a practice that supporters say brings needed discipline to the company."

For a company the size of Yahoo (or any company that's bigger than a small business), having the CEO review every hire is the worst kind of micromanagement and sends the message to her managers that she doesn't trust them to do what they're paid to do. It also means that Mayer is spending less time doing the things that really are her job as CEO.
There's an immense difference between looking well put-together and wearing a business suit. In fact, wearing a business suit in an unnecessary situation will almost definitely get you on my mental list of Assholes Who Take Themselves (Too) Seriously, and indeed, the real-world correlation has been very strong. Hence why I don't dress like that!

I wear jeans, a hoodie, nice shoes, and a T-shirt to work every day. Admittedly, I'm a grad-student, but I've also done this with real employers. They're a nice pair of jeans, a nice hoodie, and a nice T-shirt. Choosing a casual style doesn't mean looking like some frumpy idiot who pulled clothes out of his bottom drawer.
To the author: Would you have not taken a buyout offer from Yahoo! if you were in this kids position? All HN discussions regarding this topic have just screamed jealousy/disdain. It is as if people come to HN to read an intelligent argument to argue for their immature feelings. Also, the most important premise in your argument, that their technology was licensed, is incorrect. Their natural language technology was 100% proprietary according to them, and not "licensed from SRI" [0].

[0]: http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2013/03/26/what-does-30-mil...
The nuclear potato cannon.
What? There is no way that anyone could consider Alan Sugar to be upper class? Was that an attempt at a joke? There's some sort of deep cultural disconnect going on here. Are you English?

"Practical difference" What are you talking about? Rich is rich. Upper class is upper class. Traditionally / historically being upper class has implied money. Having money has never implied upper class.
Only 30? I'm not-maintaining a 20-year old app at the moment (that is, I should be maintaining it :P ) and it's pretty new by industry standards. There are some local apps that are 40 years old (I think there's some University software that was programmed in the late 60s), so I guess there must be 50-year old apps somewhere else :)
Did you guys decide to launch without the "push/pull images" mechanism? I can't find it on the site in 3 clicks or less, so I'm assuming it's not finished yet.

(For anyone who's not the submitter, when this was mentioned about a week ago, @shykes was hinting that there would be some sort of community images repository made before launch.)
That's a very narrow definition

It's a very English definition.
Uh, the end result is that Yahoo paid for all of it to hire 3 people.

The app has been pulled from the app store( http://summly.tumblr.com/post/46247554262/yahoo-agrees-to-ac... ), and it does not sound like it's going to be back. Which is a disappointment, because I wanted to know exactly what the heck the app is, since I've never heard of it before.

So Yahoo's dropped any market penetration, the entire brand, and the million users. For 3 engineers and a few software API licenses.
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"Off of"? Are you retarded or just american?

(Reposted to bypass censorship.)
I don't think SES originally supported SMTP, which meant it was harder to use and I couldn't relay through a local Postfix server. I think they fixed that, but I had already chosen SendGrid by then and I've been pretty happy with the choice.
This HN title is a lie. FTA: While the current A1428 phone works with T-Mobile's network, it is notably slower than the modified version.
I'm the same. I can listen whilst doing mundane tasks but anything where I actually have to think it's a big distraction.

That said, I dislike pure silence as well due to my tinnitus and general liking of some ambient noise.
So what is your startup doing exactly?
Fantastic.

This might be the first newsletter I have ever actually opted-in to.
So, what is Yahoo signaling to the world? "We value glue more than thought."

What? No it doesn't signal that at all. Look at Yahoo's other recent acquisitions. Yahoo is buying mobile app companies. Spinning it as technology vs glue is silly. It's all about buying expertise in mobile.
I am far more likely to buy something on steam. However, you sometimes find motivated customers. I some how ended up watching a really long let's play of UnrealWorld at which point I really wanted to buy the game even though the registration process is a horrible the developer still got my money.
I would love to see some waterfalls or ideally real-user measurements.

Actually, just a few sample pages, one with the Capturing version and one with the standard (media query) version would be helpful.

I made some comparison pages myself, but I don't think they're very good:

http://www.jefftk.com/test/capturing/off?ModPagespeed=off
http://www.jefftk.com/test/capturing/on?ModPagespeed=off

And when I ran webpagetest it didn't speed up download time on desktop or mobile (time to onload ("plt") decreased, but only because the images were postponed until after the onload event).
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Those aren't cost drivers though; in volume I doubt a retina screen is any more expensive than the low-res ones, and semiconductor cost does with die area, not "generation". The iPad 2 is possibly cheaper because of better integration -- as the manufacturer revs the board they can address inefficiencies.

Not also that some components go the other way entirely: battery cost goes with the physical mass of the battery for obvious reasons, and the iPad has 3x as much battery as the phone.

The real reason the "premium" product is cheaper than the "budget" one is pure price discrimination. The iPhone 5 is "better enough" than its previous incarnations that people are willing to buy it for $600. But there are people who won't buy an iOS product at all at that price, and as Apple can manufacture them more cheaply they sell a differently configured model (carefully tuned to be "worse enough" than the premium models that it won't cannibalize sales!) for a lower price that the market will bear and that will still make them money.

Everyone does this, across all market segments (and not just in tech). There's nothing surprising in that.
"I’m a 24 year old male living in San Francisco."

Really? You're "a male"? Not a man? You disgust me.
It seems I'm unable to get the tarball by following the instructions.

$ wget http://get.docker.io/builds/$(uname -s)/$(uname -m)/docker-master.tgz
--2013-03-26 15:43:39-- http://get.docker.io/builds/Linux/i686/docker-master.tgz
Resolving get.docker.io... 205.251.242.131
Connecting to get.docker.io|205.251.242.131|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2013-03-26 15:43:40 ERROR 404: Not Found.
Hopefully though, not more retarded than you. Man...
Most grocery stores sell Turkey bags for brining, especially around Thanksgiving.
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> Our lack of free will is just another fact that we might become aware of.

Sure, but even if it's a fact there's no use arguing about giving up the notion of free will because it's not under "our" control whether we will or won't, no matter how self-aware we might be.

Self awareness is the easy part. I can run lm_sensors on my box at home to let the computer know about its own motherboard temperature and many other things, but it's still not a cognitive machine.
Babbage machine predated Turing by a good number of years.
It doesn't seem to matter what the app does or how its built.

The story goes something like (a) people (yahoo) want mobile apps (b) the kid got investors to give him cash (c) people downloaded it generating 'buzz' (d) more investors and cash (e) more downloads and publicity (f) yahoo plays right into the hands of the investors and the hype around a young founder (g) yahoo buys the company, making the kid a millionaire, it's a PR grand slam, bringing more publicity and 'users' to the app (for now)

It works out really, really well for the investors and founder; in my opinion it seems like Yahoo got duped.
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Rubbish. I made a $250 mistake on my tax return a few years ago and they just wrote me a nice letter about it. The only penalty I paid was some tiny dollar amount of interest. I don't dispute that people can have bad experiences with the IRS but they're not going to drop the hammer on you over a math error.
I busted a Poäng chair once - the wood of the vertical pieces closest to the floor split and I fell backwards.

However, I think was quite a few years old and a floor model, so who knows what abuse it was subjected to in the store.

Supposedly, Ingvar Kamprad has a 30+ year old Poäng.
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>yahoo buys the company, making the kid a millionaire, it's a PR grand slam, bringing more publicity and 'users' to the app (for now)

There aren't any new users getting added. The app's been pulled from the iOS app store.

http://summly.tumblr.com/post/46247554262/yahoo-agrees-to-ac...
There are plenty of threads with comparisons on Hacker News every time this comes out, but yes.

Here's an example of prior discussion and prices:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4342617
It's more like Yahoo! is overpaying for app development teams. They have to, as they are way behind in mobile and nobody good wants to work there.
I think she got this totally wrong this man got fired he had a family, and according to him she is the one who needs to get her mind out of the gutter. She ruined this mans life because she felt a calling to defend gender equality in coding? Who are you the messiah of the tech world? Now we have to hear about how she never intended for anyone to get fired blah blah blah. Guess what lady someone got fired you posted that pic to a huge social media site and you knew it would spread I smell an attention whore! How is this huge mess you have made going to do anything for the betterment of women? To the man who said he was sorry, look you made a bad joke and that was it don't further this ridiculous cause by apologizing that just gives her validity. If anyone should apologize it should be her for not even giving you the chance to apologize.
"But it's critical to keep tabs on the ratio known as 'glue versus thought.' Sure, both imply progress and both are necessary. But the former is eminently mundane, replaceable, and outsource-able. The latter is typically what gives a company its edge, what is generally regarded as a competitive advantage."

I am in finance. I am glue. I take existing people, things (read: capital), and ideas and bolt them together. Glue is the socioeconomic fabric that gives value to ideas, things, and ultimately people.

It's not just finance. Craigslist? Airbnb? Facebook? Apple? Glue. Put it this way: if you walked out the door with their source code, how much of their value could you replicate? Put it another way: how much would you pay to walk out the door with their source code and physical assets? Put it another way: how much would you pay to walk out the door with their source code, physical assets, and low to mid-level developers but none of their senior guys?

We have laws to protect intellectual property because thoughts and technologies are copyable, fungible, and ultimately outsource-able. We don't need such laws to protect relationships, the gluiest of glues. In fact, we need laws to break down their strength.
Between what and what exactly?

> In this article, we’ve broken down mobile website traffic in the US according to mobile OS.

It doesn't try to find a correlation between mobile OS usage and something else.
I'm sorry for both misunderstanding and misrepresenting your argument. I'll have to give a proper response some thought.
How real is this interest for Google's non-standard anyway?

Is anyone going to switch their production setup to run software in development merely to support a "internet-protocol" entirely controlled by a single company known for developing things behind closed doors?

SPDY on the open internet makes no fucking sense.

This is Microsoft and MSIE all over again, but people are evidently too blinded by Google-fandom to realize it.
Writing this made me realize that the closing of G Reader might be a huge opportunity for Tumblr.

Tumblr already has RSS features on the publishing side which means they don't lock in their users content in their platform. Imagine if facebook would allow their users's public posts to be viewable in g+. That's what Tumblr does.

Having RSS publishing is a good first step for an open and interoperable social platform. Add to that the ability to see all unread posts from a group of subscriptions and the ability to subscribe to outside rss feeds within Tumblr and you got yourself a very good social network/feed reader/blogging platform.

Maybe the kids are on to something.

I wonder if there is a business model for a social network that keeps posts in the open and encourages consumptions from outside platforms through rss.
This is really kind of incredible. If I understand it correctly, are containers : virtual machines :: greenthreads : threads?
Thats legal for a mobile carrier in the US? Can the USPS open letters and charge for lewd content?
In the nine years I have been using GMail, this has never been an issue for me.
how is it curated exactly and on what measures? (out of curiosity, not conspiracy)
Re package paths, I guess the tradeoff here is for go get/install etc to be able to include or fetch dependencies, it needs to know where to put them and install them, and this was the simplest system they could think of which worked. Nowadays I think it's ~/.go/src/github.com/user/pkg rather than just ~/.go/src/pkg It would be nice to be able to specify goinstall and golib paths or something though, and I guess your symlinked idea is a good workaround. I have just gone with the flow on this one, and don't mind as don't have gopath at the root of ~/.

Re folders versus sub-packages, yes I take your point - again there are some conventions here they've tried to impose to make it simpler for the package tools, but those could get in the way. I also hate projects that have all the files piled into one dir, so I prefer to break into sub-modules where possible and make the organisation clear. The other advantage of this is that people could use just your sub-module if they want.

I've developed a few packages which I wanted subfolders for, but those subfolders naturally became sub-packages without much wrangling - seeing too many files on one level forced me to organise them and create more packages. One case for example mirrors your usage - a top level pkg, with interfaces and concrete types for specific databases, which lived in their own folder 'adapters' this became a sub-package, which contained the interface and concrete implementations, and it being a package forced me to remove any knowledge of the enclosing package and any circular refs - the top level pkg knows about the adapters, but adapters don't know about the top level. I felt like this was making the code better, not worse, by removing internal dependencies, but YMMV, and I can see how it would be annoying. I'm willing to forgive conventions like this if the tradeoff feels worth it (in this case I really like the go gettable packages, and to have that am willing to live with restrictions like some code must be in root, folder=subpackage, etc.).
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Because I didn't want the loan. What's not to understand. I wouldn't have had a problem paying the full amount if they had told me sooner. Also it was over 6% because it was 2+ years and not 3.

You had the use of the money in the meantime, which has a value. As for the delay in your citizenship, IRS does not make that rule, it's written into the immigration law.
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The iPad mini is $330. Interestingly, the iPod touch is $299 which seems expensive compared to the iPad mini, and cheap compared to the iPhone 5.