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I think ASM is a great idea for "hacking", but the thing that doesn't make a lot of sense to me, is that you're usually only going to bother compiling to ASM for things which need the performance. The idea that they'll "still work" in non-optimized browsers doesn't seem too convincing -- games would probably be unplayable, and you'd see messages saying "This game only supports Firefox" etc.

I disagree. Granted, I'm an unusual case as I'm a compiler developer for a living, but my use of Asm.js would primarily be to write compilers for interesting or research programming languages to JS (granted, so I don't have to write JS). In this case the primary benefit isn't performance, it's having a reliable compile target that I can do profiling on. You wouldn't believe how important it is to have a stable (and well-specified) target language when you're writing a compiler.
>How is it possible for the "value of all the bitcoins in the world" to be anything, in truth?

Only because you can sell/trade it.
I love the EFF but they've got to stop this misleading, sensationalized crap if they want any money or support from me. They didn't nail Aaron because he violated the terms of service, they nailed him for STEALING FROM JSTOR. Just because the charges were related to a violation of TOS doesn't mean anything aside from the fact that a TOS violation may be a criminal offense. So say that!
Try to find KHTML code in modern Webkit. I'd be surprised if it's more than 5%. By that standard, Firefox uses the same engine as Netscape Navigator did.
Or better yet, use the free amazon aws offer.
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That didn't work for me. I threatened to leave for CenturyLink DSL unless they could give me a better deal and the only thing the lady offered me was a triple play package for more than what I was already paying. So I had to switch over to DSL at 12/1 speeds.

The one good thing is that CenturyLink isn't part of that 6 strikes deal.
I'm not trying to be an asshole, but its hard to explain things to people who have made up their mind. I'm a business development consultant (growth hacking is one of the things I do), so I know what it is and what isn't. Its not your definition, or the definitions posted in the links you posted. Real growth hacking is simply doing whatever you can to grow the business. Not customer development, but the business itself. As an example, I've had to negotiate with suppliers in order to hack the growth of some company.

Customer interviews are pretty much worthless. People speak louder with their actions. That is why A/B testing is crucial to growth (hacking or not).

Anyhow, don't buy into the hype. Most of the growth hackers out there are social media gurus who discovered a new way to label themselves.
Frankly, I found this surprisingly misguided for something from the EFF. CFFA isn't the law that causes such absurd Terms of Service -- COPPA is.

Children have been misrepresenting their ages since well before COPPA was introduced, but I distinctly remember COPPA making the problem much worse amongst my peers.

I remember, a few weeks before one of my birthdays, having to pick between abandoning my Neopets account so that I could create a new one where I pretended to be over thirteen, or asking my parents to sign a printed permission slip for me and each of my sisters and let me fax it to Neopets.

I ended up doing the latter, but only because I knew we had a fax machine in the house, and my parents already knew (and were okay with) me being on Neopets all day long. A bunch of my peers just created new accounts, and eventually devolved into sock-puppeting once they realized that there wasn't necessarily a one-to-one correspondance between people and accounts.

I'm not sure what the right answer is, though. The moment that a child turns 16, 18, or 21 (depending on jurisdiction) they're inundated with peers who want to go on Facebook, offers for loyalty programs and credit cards from every store they visit IRL, and tracking cookies from Ad networks online. If a kid has $20, and wants to buy something from the local Wal-Mart, no one will stop him/her from doing so. But if a kid wants to spend that $20 on Amazon.com, COPPA prevents them from even creating an account in the first place.

As a kid, I felt like COPPA simply prevented me from participating in the world in a way that nobody would have ever experienced before dial-up became mainstream, and I seriously think that harmed my ability and that of my peers to handle the privacy concerns that plague barely-legal adults today.
It is not - only few of the circuits has rejected the arguments. Until there is SCOTUS decision this reading of CFAA is the law of some parts of the land.
> Even the US dollar and euro, supposedly bastions of stability, have seen their exchange rate jump from US$0.80 per euro in 2002 to US$1.60 in 2008 (100% jump), only to drop back down to US$1.20 in 2010 (25% drop), then jump to US$1.45 in 2011 (20% jump), only to drop back down to around US$1.29 today.

If we needed to buy everything in the US but store all of our wealth in Euros, this would be the right comparison. But since we don't, "stability" means low and predictable inflation for the Euro and the dollar. The exchange rate matters for Bitcoin because wages, goods, and services are all denominated in non-Bitcoin currency. Look at inflation over the same period and you'll see that the dollar really is a "bastion of stability" (in that narrow sense, the Euro is too... but the Euro's got other problems beyond the scope of this discussion that make me reluctant to vigorously defend its stability).
What do you mean by "afraid of HTML"?

I haven't used this yet, so bear that in mind, but to me this seems to be something that is more expressive than html (I meant String) concatenation. That leads, in my experience, to better maintainability and thus less worries in the future.

Whether this impacts JS performance enough to be a problem, I don't know and don't have the time to test right now.

Edit: words are hard... I accidentally a few of them.
>but it'll never be as stable as the dollar is today.

That's right, and it's a feature, not a bug.
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Point two isn't an issue in Commonwealth countries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_of_right

It would fall under the definition of "means an honest belief that an act is justifiable". If the photo of the girl getting raped in a park was meant to help catch the rapist, then any laws that would have gotten you in trouble for taking the photo would likely be tossed aside.
Maybe, but the fact that the standard is so completely subjective is extremely troubling. Equally troubling is that the law covers cartoons and even written text.
nawitus, I can't reply to your other comment, which is probably a good thing :-)

You are taking me literally, when you shouldn't - I was being flippant. Of course it is unlikely we will ever make the technology that can take the dust that, decades ago, used to make up a human brain, and somehow retrieve information from it.

The point I am making is that you said:

> On the other hand, it's pretty reasonable to assume that a cryopreserved brain preserves a lot of the information in the brain.

I flippantly argued that if your argument is "it's reasonable to assume science will solve the problem for us", you could apply that to essentially anything.

It used to be reasonable to assume that the world is flat, or that the world was the center of the universe.

I do not think we will somehow invent a machine that turns dust in to a working brain.

I do think that "it's reasonable to assume" is faulty logic when talking about something that is beyond the current reach of science, and should be questioned at every possible opportunity.

Now, you might say "but Mike, I provided links that back up my assumption" - and if that's the case, you are no longer "reasonably assuming" that this is true, but basing your belief of the scientific literature that outlines how such a thing is done. :)
Looks like the domain is fine. If this was intended as a joke, it lacked any humor whatsoever.
It might just be me, but I can't stand all of the capitalization.
I didn't want to imply that. Just that some use of C won't be covered by Go.
Looks promising. The small amount of detail shown/given have definitely piqued my interest, though I can't say I love the claim that the game won't have power hungry mods. Eventually, if the game is successful, it will grow to the point that more moderators will be needed than can possibly be completely vetted thoroughly enough to guarantee this. That said, can't wait to give it a spin. I'll shamelessly include my referral signup link because internet points: http://www.evosolaria.com/?uid=80#register
I completely empathise. I have a personal hatred of cancer as well.

First Terry Pratchett and now Iain Banks. Satoshi Kon, taken by pancreatic cancer. Who's left? Why are all my favourite artists dying from this horrible family of diseases?

Fuck cancer, and damn our perverse incentives. All you hackers and entrepreneurs, please make all the money you can and do something to advance the combined well-being of the world and people like yourself. All that saved-up money can hardly do anything when a serious cancer strikes hard and we find out too late. Please do something to support the research that could save so many of your family and friends.

All the pleasures of the world cannot cancel out the loss and desolation of an early death. Our time is short; let's not let it be cut shorter.
I think this is the best guess.
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Two days ago I cashed out $1000 in profit from bitcoin mining.

I'm gonna go ahead and celebrate that.
This is a side effect of the Cultural Revolution, a terrible time for "intellectuals" in China. There must be many others like him.
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Iframes are easily spoofable. I can generate an iframe, style it exactly like your authentication page, and trick users into entering their username/password into my phony form.

This is why mature platforms use dedicated windows for logging in (Facebook, Twitter, Disqus). I'd recommend you consider making this change.
Your point about copycats is moot. There's already a number of offshoots of bitcoin and they don't seem to matter.

Creating Zoogle, Foogle, Poogle and Loogle is kind of trivial at this day and age, and many people have a go at doing that. None of which seem to take away anything from Google.
I don't think BananaBread was that good of a demo for asm.js. It was a demo for regular WebGL (so for most Javascript engines), done a while ago. If they want to sell us on the combination of asm.js with WebGL, they need to show something even more impressive.
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We're building a team of five backend engineers and five ops engineers building the foundations for the best banking platform in the world. We've built out a ton of great functionality and we're taking on another, even larger set of challenges. You can come right in and begin building systems that our customers will use every day of their lives.

The team is bright, pragmatic and serious about doing good engineering work. If you care about metrics, continuous integration, security and reliability in the systems you build you should come talk to us.

It's also the most fun I've had working anywhere, bar none.
This is what I don't get, that people think that walking somehow magically makes people somehow more social than they are. Maybe I'm wrong! But I'd like to see data that proves people are more social when walking than driving. I think the lack of social interaction is the controlling factor, not a particular mode of transportation people choose.
You can't compare gold just sitting there with USD gaining interest in an investment for 90 years. Well you can, but then you'd be making a ridiculous comparison.
There's always another way to skin a cat, but you get good at one way and keep at it.
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As we scale up JackDB, we'll be bumping up the usage limits and revising our pricing plans.

Connection pooling doesn't really make sense in this context because users can't share a database connection; if one is in the middle of a transaction, he could get clobbered by the other's work.
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Well, corporations have a lot more money than you or I do.
> I'm not sure Go try to replace C. Most (all?) embedded systems need to control memory allocations.

Are you aware that there are embedded systems coded in GC enabled languages?

It is all a matter of the available resources.
Go or Scala attempt to improve on Erlang? Elixir attempts to improve on Erlang---that I can see.
Many people pays their loans in Yens or other currencies just to save money. Argentinians for example are best know for putting all savings in american dollars.
There is a limit for replying in HN? I can't continue to reply to the last response. But I will do it here anyway.

I didn't make my mind. That's why I wanted you to explain it. And I quite agree that growth hacking is very different from customer development. What I am saying, and you apparently is disagreeing, is that you first do customer development and only after product/market fit you do growth hacking. I am now only doing customer development and I think is not a good thing to already start growth hacking.

I am not "buying into the hype", on the contrary, I am postponing the growth hacking for me. I think you assume too much of what I think.
But it is ok if we have two different concepts about what growth hacking is - even though I can't say i KNOW what it is.
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[quote]I don't think a DOM tree is necessarily all in memory. For performance reasons you might cache the tree in memory, but that's not a requirement.[/quote]
Yes it is not a requirement. What browser have you heard of storing in the tree in something else than memory? Imagine if the browser used a the disk to store parts of the tree.
Quite right. Like Apple is trying to become less dependent on Samsung, Samsung is trying to become less dependent on Google.
The point probably is that these rendering engines share a number of the basic assumptions that the new project could challenge (like concurrency mentioned elsewhere in this thread).
The point of this entire thread is that what you are calling "standard English" is not a thing. It's not what Shakespeare spoke and it's not what we speak. There is American Standard, the dialect primarily spoken on the news in the US and elsewhere, but that is one of dozens. Many of those, including the Elizabethan spoken by Shakespeare and ethnolects spoken my many millions of people today, employ double negatives for emphasis. You are trying to draw an old/new distinction which does not reflect reality.
it's in Russian, but it's the only one such a site in Belarus
And yet it came crumbling down with some traffic form HN. Snark aside, looks very promising. Keep up the good work.
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Or they don't share account credentials. Many parents wouldn't let their children anywhere near something with their banking details in it.
Could we see a brand-new Chrome browser written in Go, though? Or would it better for Google to use Rust, too, for that?
Please post a link or the name. Connect it to a map based GUI so that users can see where other users are and build it into a for-pay, anonymous, global intelligence gathering service.
Certainly it's easier to do that than to manipulate a small group of mostly hidden individuals with severe conflicts of interest.
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Discourse founder here. I tried their demo forum but it currently isn't responding. Probably too much load from HN although their home page claims they can handle 1k posts per second (trollface).

From a cursory point of view, it seems to have more in common with Disqus than Discourse. It's embeddable, doesn't allow rich posts or markdown or our support for embedding videos, github, wikipedia, amazon, etc.

It's also closed source, although it is free and they claim they'll never insert ads.

I have no idea about their support for the other challenges we've faced such as infinite scrolling that is compatible with the back button.

I am skeptical of redis as their only data store. We use redis too in Discourse but this would demand that all forum content can fit in memory at once, and there is a chance if a server crashes you'd lose so. Not to mention querying it is much more difficult especially when filtering.

Either way, we're glad to have the competition!
> The 1% success rate is rather pessimistic, too.

Where do you get that? From what little I understand, 1% seems highly optimistic, given how destructive the freezing process is at the moment.
So their solution to the random routing is for the customer to switch to Unicorn/Puma on JRuby. Wow.
Even the US provides some support. If your heath issue prevents you from working for 7 months you get support but at 6 months you qualify for nothing.
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In a system with a fixed money supply (all things equal) the only way to have price deflation is to have greater output, greater productivity.

Uh, what the hell gave you that idea?
Another way would be people hoarding cash, making the rest of it more valuable -> deflationary spiral.
Recently, JetBrains (the company), their ReSharper product, and their JVM language Kotlin were all deleted from the English language Wikipedia.

I can't follow the deletionists' logic. I hope nothing else is going on -- like a competitor trying to remove information about them.

Kotlin's removal in particular is strange, since several other JVM languages persists at Wikipedia, some of them much less well known than Kotlin. Still there are: Gosu, Ceylon, Fantom, Ioke, Seph, Groovy, Boo, Nashorn, Frink, Pizza, Pnuts, X10, Xtend, etc.

Very strange.
Why can't you short bitcoins?

From what I understand shorting is just borrowing some bitcoins from someone, selling them now, buying them back and giving them back at the date agreed when borrowing them. If bitcoins are cheaper at that date you earned a profit. If they are more expensive you suffer a loss.

The only problem I see is that I wouldn't trust my bitcoins to anyone. But if I had some sort of insurance that I'll get my bitcoins back (also the fee) then I'd gladly borrow them to someone since I don't like the risk of selling them myself because I'm afraid they might never get cheaper and I won't be able to buy them back.
That's good because the song itself sounds like an unholy mix of Katy Perry and William Topaz McGonagall; if that annoying shit had gotten any sort of traction I might be prone to snap and smash every piece of audio-playing electronics I owned...
I think the intended meaning was a new browser engine written from scratch, and not based on another browser engine that came before.
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The time estimation is based on the number -- just based on the rate of increase, I'm probably not far off. The number, though, is complete guesswork, purely based on discussions I've had with people about BTC's current rise; no evidence in the least. I have little enough to lose here that I'm willing to go by my gut on it; if it turns out I'm wrong, I won't be losing any sleep, which is always nice.
Except that EU countries would never pass a law that prioritizes corporations over citizens.
Why is US considering a law that would make breaching ToS a criminal offence? Because people want it? I don't think so. And I have no problem with corporations per se. I know this word is thrown a lot nowadays, and sometimes not rightfully. But in this specific case, it's corporations(and other large institutions) which want to have a free hand in establishing their own laws, which were not voted for, which were not discussed with the public,and which cannot be fought. And it's fine as it is right now - you breach the ToS, they are free to stop doing business with you. But making it a criminal offence? Seriously?
more discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5483600
Accidentally downvoted you, sry.
Really, I'm not sure it's that different than a commodity commonly held principally as a store of value.
The "questions" widget is broken. For example, on the Four Steps page there are three links, all ending in 404 like this one: http://hn-books.com/v1Main.htm#Q=1&Q2=1
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Oh sure, and Bitcoin will always be the first.

That said, do you remember the first search engine? I don't. I'm sure I could look it up, but it's irrelevant.

There will be demand for something like a cryptocurrency. I doubt it will be Bitcoin. Once people realize that it was set up to transfer wealth to early adopters, they're going to hate it and Bitcoin will have a real brand-image problem. It might overcome that; who knows? I'm just saying that it's too speculative to take it seriously as a currency.
"Child porn is illegal because the desire for possession creates a market demand, and that demand gives reason for people to commit the abuse crime in the future"

That was the dubious argument made decades ago, when the only way to obtain pornography of any kind was to purchase it. In today's world, it is far more common for people to download child pornography without ever having paid for it. People are arrested for downloading such videos from peer to peer file sharing networks all the time, almost always without any evidence that they paid for it, knew who made it, or were in any way encouraging its production. Just having child pornography in your browser cache is sufficient to be charged in New York.

It is clear at this point that the purpose of child pornography law is not to protect children, but to punish adults regardless of whether children are involved. It is illegal to possess cartoon depictions of child pornography, even if you possess no other imagery:

http://io9.com/5272107/manga-collection-ruled-child-pornogra...

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/06/27/u-s-citizen-arreste...

Like most laws that increase police power, this has gotten completely out of control and put the public in danger.
Note that he's not talking about the company's value (in dollars).
This should be titled "Top Tech Certifications" which is totally different than "Top Tech Skills" which is a list I was hoping to see.
Looks like they beat Spotify's rumored service to the punch. I am curious how Spotify will one-up this, and how this service will do compared to existing competitors.
This is a great response. I'm curious why something like this wasn't posted within 24 hours of RapGenius going public? I'd bet that a more thorough, technical reply would have mitigated a lot of the PR issues.