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Steam doesn't use bare WebKit but Chromium, presuming they stay up to date (my install registers as Chromium 18, so doubtful) and don't switch, they'll be running Blink instead.

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_F...

(Unrelated: their embedded Chromium seems to be hard-coded to Windows-like shortcuts; even in the address bar)
Inflation and deflation are the price of money correcting to balance supply and demand. I would describe it as reversion to a moving equilibrium versus a mean. This does not change that volatile hyperdeflation is a problem.
I admire Roger Ebert so much for the way he dealt with his cancer and the problems that resulted from it. Truly someone who took a really bad situation and rose above it.

He will be missed.
I've noticed posting single photos is becoming much more popular - it went from 'posting 50 photos of the party last night' to 'here's a photo of what I'm doing now'. I'd say it's a result of people simultaneously getting phones which work as reasonable cameras, and better data signals which allow instant sharing - you're not sharing lots of photos after the fact (once you copy photos from your camera to your PC), you're sharing a photo as it happens.

This is a significant feature of Instagram also - because every single photo is a new story, you only share one photo at a time - Instagram is built on sharing your best photos, rather than all the photos from an event.
- augmented reality driven by cheap, fast devices

- super pervasive technology. your phone is your computer...or is your computer your phone...?

- mesh networks and/or global wireless
This is difficult to discuss in abstracts. "Javascript for layout" is much too vague, because of course everything is using a mishmash of javascript states, CSS media queries, and JSON content.

I think what you're referring to is using javascript to build flexible layouts that afford a significant matrix of collisions between elements (w/ variable dimensions) by programmatically evaluating, resizing, moving, etc. For example, desktop Chrome's tabs: shrinking them as they increase in number, adjusting their position to keep the close button under the mouse, etc.

But I'm having a hard time thinking of such beasts on the web, where such complications can't (or shouldn't) be limited by design. Share some examples?
That you have to go out of your way to install, apparently. Not that bad.
I propose a discussion system, where the rules are strictly enforced meaning on breaking them some number of times, after several warnings you are ejected from the discussion.

This seems to be a step backwards; instead of educating the debaters on a fluid congress of debate, it sets up hurdles and penalizes offenders. Ultimately, I think the recursive method of argument will result in cyclical hashes of thought, without the finality of debate providing an impetus for resolution.
Your (traditional currency) bank balance is "just bits". The only reason that a number stored on a bank's computer has value is that we have all agreed to trust the bank not to mess with that number. They are allowed to add and subtract from it in very limited circumstances, usually only when they modify another bank balance by the same amount (unless it's a bank in Cyprus!).

Bitcoin replaces that trust in banks with fancy cryptography. Assuming the cryptography is up to snuff, there is no reason why people won't come to accept it's value in time, just as we now accept that the "bits" that represent our bank balance denote value.
Twitter Unveils Updated Features for Developers
This is just nice for people really being "paid by the line of code".

I am also certain that someone will do a very convincing benchmark that this actually renders faster.
This goes into cancer nodes: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses#Cancer_nodes

"It's trivial for an attacker to fill the network with clients controlled by him. This might be helpful in the execution of other attacks.
For example, an attacker might connect 100,000 IP addresses to the IRC bootstrap channel. You would then be very likely to connect only to attacker nodes. This state can be exploited in (at least) the following ways:
The attacker can refuse to relay blocks and transactions from everyone, disconnecting you from the network.
The attacker can relay only blocks that he creates, putting you on a separate network. You're then open to double-spending attacks.
If you rely on transactions with 0 confirmations, the attacker can just filter out certain transactions to execute a double-spending attack.
Low-latency encryption/anonymization of Bitcoin's transmissions (With Tor, JAP, etc.) can be defeated relatively easy with a timing attack if you're connected to several of the attacker's nodes and the attacker is watching your transmissions at your ISP.
Bitcoin makes these attacks more difficult by only making an outbound connection to one IP address per /16 (x.y.0.0). Incoming connections are unlimited and unregulated, but this is generally only a problem in the anonymity case, where you're probably already unable to accept incoming connections.
Looking for suspiciously low network hash-rates may help prevent the second one.
"

One could even go further to do signal analysis on the network looking for nodes whose hash rates are more similar than others and hash rates per period of time (which will happen if such a large scale operation were in process), point them out to other nodes, and require that that node verify themselves with information which could allow for an independent audit by others before unflagging the node(s) in question.

EDIT: if anyone is interested in possible working on an open source project for rogue node mitigation that miners can install on their rigs, im game :P besides i think it would be more fun than going solo with my algos on the BTCUSD cross exchanges :P
Apple reportedly finalizing deals for free iTunes music streaming service
No, because offending someone is the very worst thing you can do in the world.
Good. Isn't that the point of encryption? F%!# the DEA anyway. Now we need to get more people educated on the importance of using strong crypto to protect their private communications.
What "better indicators of getting social" beat getting 1/7 of the World's population to use your service?
This post set me thinking about why I prefer acme to vi. They're both derived from ed, and nowadays they both know about the mouse. So how do they differ?

Vi splits insert and edit modes by time: you hit keys to toggle between them, letting you move the mouse less. Acme does it by space: blue bits of the screen hold commands, beige ones hold text, letting you remember less. To repeat a command in vi, you have to remember what you did. In acme, you look for it and click it again.

Acme lacks an exact equivalent to vi's w, t and other motion commands. However, double-click does "select what I mean", commands operate on the selection by default, and mouse chords do copy and paste. I find that's enough.

Some people will always prefer vi, but acme could be a gateway drug for many others. You can use it like Notepad, but there's a lot of magic hidden a mouse click away.
Microsoft Sells Out Mac Developer Deal
"I think the younger generation doesn't have an expectation of non-invasiveness yet. They just aren't doing anything important enough to be bothered when interrupted. I think that changes when you get a little older."

I'm 27 and this rings true for me. I use to have IM enabled all the time, and work on some things in the background.

That's no good for things I'm doing now, and I rarely chat idly on IM.
If an algorithm stops performing after hours or days, it's likely you haven't discovered anything, but are simply seeing the effects of random noise on your hundreds, thousands, or millions of signal possibilities.
It sounds like in a lot of ways, there was already a de facto fork in progress. In the limit case, when you have "one" browser codebase that in fact has two subsystems for every function and one and precisely one is used by each of the two "browsers", you don't have a shared codebase so much as a Frankensteinien horror with two hearts and two livers and perhaps five kidneys. You've got two people sewn together and you're calling them one, but they really aren't, and all it does is complicate matters, and inspire horror movies.

Of course this is not necessarily that limit case but it's not hard to imagine that what everybody is saying is perfectly technically true, and all that's really happening is that the fork that has already long since happened is merely being formally acknowledged, and now the shambling horror can be surgically partitioned and reassembled into two fine upstanding citizens. (And an extra kidney. How long has that been here‽)
Yes, both Anthony Lane and David Denby are quite good (though very different in style from Ebert).
'I Pencil' was first introduced to me in a History of Economic Thought class during undergrad. Still love the story if not only because of the message it delivers. Who cares how it is written, 'I Pencil' is a story about how trade, comparative advantage and the specialization of labor enable economies to produce goods and services that would otherwise not be feasible.

So why does the HN crowd seemingly let the story slip through the cracks? One hypothesis is perhaps that the self-selected independent/entrepreneurial people that make up a large share of the user base on HN like holding onto their independent spirits, hence passing on the idea that there exists a meaningful good/service that not one person can produce on their own.
It's all mighty convenient that Facebook has the "vision" of having smartphones be about people, not apps, when Facebook's strength is people, not apps. I mean the so called "vision" is just an extension of their mission. Nothing really breakthrough from their point of view, although I could see how others from the outside would look at it like that. But for Facebook is just another extension of their mission, just like the auto-sharing feature. Facebook needs the web to rely on as much sharing as possible, and they now also need mobile to be about people - regardless of how good or bad it is for the user in the end (privacy concerns, etc).
There is no pumping or dumping. Google and apple have different goals and ideas to how the projects should move forward.
CISPA Debate Will Happen Behind Closed Doors
Your analogy doesn't really work, because with the setup the OP is talking about, the claim is that the media companies could provide the same services and get the revenue directly.

No one would claim the subway operators should be providing sneakers, or that people would pay for sneakers from the subway operators.
LOLcats entrepreneur Ben Huh says Australia should build its own Silicon Valley
More reasons to use Bitcoin.
I look at it this way: there are two kinds of rules in the Bitcoin system: crypto rules and social rules.

Some are self-executing, by which I mean that they can be enforced "by construction" - if you create an object that doesn't follow the rule, other people will know. Said another way, breaking the rule would also require breaking some crypto.

Some rules, though, are social. For example, why does everyone try to extend the longest branch in the block chain? Sure, the protocol says it's the rule, but why should that mean anything? People don't follow rules because they want to. They follow rules because it's in their enlightened self interest to do so. If you could make money by choosing a different rule, somebody would do that instead. So it must be that these rules get followed because it's in the interest of Bitcoin players to follow them. The natural follow-up question is whether these social/economic rules are stable. That is, why not some other solution? Why not only extend blocks whose (nonce % 0x0d) == 0?

Cryptographers use a very particular notion of security in which they like the security of their schemes to "reduce" to a well-understood assumption. That is, we prefer it you can prove something like "if you can break my system, then you can also solve problem X" where problem X is well-known and widely thought to be very hard. Then either I am forced to believe that your system is secure or that you have found an efficient way to solve problem X. And since solving problem X is unlikely, I should consider your system secure.

As I said, some parts of Bitcoin do reduce in this way to known cryptographic primitives (which in turn reduce to problems we believe are hard). But not all the parts.
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He was an incredible writer. Any critic who reviews as many movies as he did will get the occasional one wrong (see his rating for Fight Club for another example). As an aside, I recommend his review of The Wizard of Oz. I never really understood why the movie was considered great until I read that.
Like selling pickaxes during a gold rush, Quantopian is probably better off encouraging hobbyists to start speculating via their platform.
The problem, as with all sexist/racist/homophobic/etc jokes, is that even though you recognise that it's a joke, people who read it don't necessarily do so, and these kind of comments enable the people who believe this stuff to continue to say it, and to believe it's acceptable. When you're exposing your writing to potentially thousands of readers, you have to consider this.

It's how reddit went from joking ironically about sexism/racism/homophobia to now featuring pockets where that kind of thing thrives.

While I don't want to justify making these kind of jokes to your friends, it's very different when you're with five of your best mates who all recognise that you're joking and understand that that kind of comment is sexist, to saying that kind of thing on the internet.

This probably feels like an overreaction - I'm not offended by the comment, just trying to explain why having them is an issue.
Chaum shipped DigiCash back in the 90s and Lucre is an open-source Chaum-like system.
Is there an ActiveRecord binding to AppEngine Datastore?
Ubuntu vs. Mint: Which Linux Distro Is Better for Beginners?
Clickable: http://demo.forage.at
March for Innovation: Immigration Reform
Well, he has a point, but I wouldn't call that visionary; many people have suggested before the possibility of a future where an important part the connected population never used a PC before and rely exclusively on their smartphones. And understandably so, the only way companies like Facebook or Google can grow is by getting the "remaining" population online, and that in turn might be enabled with the advent of the cheap smartphone. Of course whether it will happen and what would be the impact if so are different questions.
Google Takes on Rare Fight Against National Security Letters
Repoll Whose Responsibility is “Mobile” Design?
@josephlord ^ This man gets it.

Shame on you if you walk into something with half/no plan. Price should never be your single (or top) motivator for service selection; ESPECIALLY with something as crucial as a business dependency like IaaS.
Developer FAQ (RE: Blink)
Have their been any studies on the accuracy of backtesting data in predicting actual returns? Comments like yours always appear on these articles... "You can backtest, but you never know what's going to happen!" Well, obviously. But at what point is testing against 12 years of backdata not enough? Is it a matter of understanding exactly what your algorithm depends on and watching for those conditions to fail?
What Businesses Should Look For In A Structured Cabling Installer
MapR Shares its Code, Cuddles Up with Canonical's Ubuntu
Use your smart phone to record yourself.
yet US has no problem with one company owning the majority of a market ( MS , Google ... ) so much for anti trust ...
Small Companies could fund a non profit to help them against trolls, would it be illegal ?
Folk might want to print out Bitcoin wallets or store devices in a Faraday cage... in the unlikely event Kim Jong-Un pulls a wild card! :-)

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/19/north-korea-...
There are no 10x developers, but there are 1/10 ones
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~or~ how to bring in new investors to your bubble.
"'Empirical evidence' implies some structured observation happened and somebody documented it."

No, that's not what it means at all:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/empirical

None of the three definitions mention "structured observation", and the second definition directly contradicts that assertion.
Ubuntu Versus Mint: Which Linux Distro Is Better For Beginners?
It's worth noting Bitcoin's lead developer, Gavin Andresen, was invited to the CIA HQ in Langley, VA to a US Intelligence conference in June 2011. [1]

So 'tacit consent' is quite likely indeed.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6652.msg146198#msg14...

edit - I mispoke regarding location, it was the CIA HQ. However, the 'emerging technologies conference' was for the broader US intelligence community.
> An more detailed writeup, but hardly satisfying. Like most of Heroku's technical choices made in the name of "simplicity" and "robustness."

> But I guess I should accept that Heroku will never be a technically impressive PaaS provider. Just the one I hear about the most.

Many people care about robustness the most, bar none. We can't have everything all the time, just as Linux doesn't implement a ton of stuff seen on old mainframe kernels. Many things have not caught up with Tandem Computers, either -- re-inventing all that kind of stuff, even if only to recast it in modern settings, is time consuming, especially if one wants to keep the 'weird factor' low, and mitigate lock-in. There's a non-zero risk of things going horrifically wrong, too.

The best I can do is let folks appreciate the difficulty, but that's really in part a coded way of saying "not a three-line fix, so if this is a deal breaker, move on." If you thought it was also interesting, then all my objectives for that writing are met.

So, sorry in advance if a lot of Heroku things aren't very impressive, and I try to make things a tiny bit better day by day. Maybe one day you'll be impressed.
Lots of times the cab will be locked and if you don't tell them where you're going through the window they will just take off.
When you add fuel, you have to add (exponentially!) more fuel to lift the fuel you're adding. It's true that a 200 lb passenger doesn't cost twice as much as a 100 lb passenger, but it's more than the 17% increase one might expect going from 600 to 700 lb dry weight.
Developing for a new game market? Stop Read this first
It's an unfortunate oversimplification to reduce Ebert to his Sun-Times reviews. They were well-written and erudite, but they weren't meant to be extended meditations on the art of cinema. His review-writing had customers, and he gave the customers what they needed and wanted. Ebert had other venues for deeper kinds of writing, and was prolific in them. Ebertfest, for instance, was well-known for frame-by-frame analyses of important movies. Or read how he arrived at and massaged his top 10 films of all time, or what he wrote about Ozu or Herzog.

But I'd pause before stipulating even that his review writing was broad. Even within the medium of mass-market reviews, Ebert was impactful. Think about how his star system worked, so that Donner's Superman shared a rating with Herzog's Aguirre, The Wrath of God, and that somehow still made sense. Or the way he managed his brand, or syndicated his show with Siskel.
Where in that article does it say anything about KVM or sandy bridge?
One thing I admired about Roger Ebert was his ability to demonstrate wit without rancor, something very few writers seem able to do.

When I read his letter to Jay Mariotti--in response to Mariotti's less-than-dignified departure from the Sun-Times--I couldn't help but be impressed by Ebert's thoughtfulness. I found myself going back to the letter, sensing that I had overlooked something. I finally realized what it was: the tone of the letter. It was ultimately hopeful!

The conclusion of that letter made it clear that Ebert was no fan of Mariotti's, but it acted as more of a rebuke than an indication of deep disdain.

A rare talent, indeed.
Analogy time: would you call someone who has $1bn someone who "gets" hard work, perseverance and financial savvy because they won the lottery (editors note: the author is not comparing Facebook's success to winning The Powerball per se), based only on the notion that they have a surplus of money in the bank?

Let's move away from the lottery for a minute, but keep our handsomely wealthy hypothetical person in the picture. You meet Bob. Bob shows you a bank statement with $1bn on the balance line. Bob tells you his business is doing great and he's living his dream.

I will put down 1/7 of my next paycheck that the very first question you ask Bob is: "What's your business" or some variant thereof.

The point: Bob has a lot of money and you want to find out what he did that 'got' him the money, right? He networked, he made a product, he refined the product, he took his product to market-eliminating what worked, building upon, refining and reproducing what does. Those are the indicators you look at.

Simply having the users doesn't tell you a whole lot, or have we already forgotten the tale of MySpace (or Xanga, or Friendster)? I maintain it's how Facebook got and kept those users that matter to Facebook 'getting' social.
North Korea has a twitter page... Okay I can see it now... We have launched the #bomb. Wait for it. Wait for it #bombgoesusa
This is HackerNews, of course the plug comes first :)

In answer to your question though, yes, quality is not a guarantee. Luckily Facebook has its own built in ranking system - are your friends commenting on the picture? If so, it will probably be worth viewing regardless of image quality
Quandl - Search over 4,000,000 financial, economic and social datasets
Are there patterns in flow traffic that monitoring tools could help detect/mitigating a DDoS like this?
Constraints Driven Development...my favorite line of code
Because Ubuntu would never do anything shady... like having desktop search search Amazon...
Sure there are bigger issues, and I think this guy has correctly identified death-by-design as a large part of the reason for those issues.

I'm not sure if PHP was explicitly designed to die, or if it just came out that way because that makes sense for the problem it was originally trying to solve in the context it was originally trying to solve it in. It doesn't really matter though -- the language hasn't sloughed off the nature of that original problem and its context.

Your point about it being the wrong tool for those jobs is, in my opinion, correct -- on the gripping hand though, the jobs it is appropriate for are appearing less and less frequently, and the places that have PHP codebases that suddenly need to scale out and/or run long-running jobs are going to (more often than not) hammer it in to some weird mold that kinda resembles a more appropriate (but not really working) tool for that job if you squint just right.

Search bugs.php.net by notabug sometime, or by wontfix, or just browse around randomly.
A bunch of games use webkit for in game UI. Many of them run on windows.

I think quite a few use Webkit directly but there are some middle-ware libraries for the purpose. Awesomium I belive is reasonably frequently used. Their website says that it uses "Chromium/WebKit" though so I suppose that they may be moving to Blink as well.
Looking back at our favorite LucasArts gaming classics
Yes. Which seems like a better investment: dedication to a platform that certainly will attract speculators and is underserved in general or dedication to a trading algorithm in an arena overpopulated by very smart people competing in a zero sum game -- against you? Both provide the potential for scalable, massive returns, yet in the quant realm, selling pickaxes is a much safer bet and is equally -- if not more -- lucrative. (In the contextually correct parlance, the sharpe ratio is much higher for selling Quantopian.)
Global tax dodgers exposed