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_Applied_ is a broad survey of cryptographic techniques that was good for its time but has aged terribly and probably done more harm than good for the industry†.

Do you blame Cormen for all the people that don't use library sorting functions but implement their own?
This does not measure 600k concurrent active connections because each client only sends a request once every 5-45s. To see how many concurrent active connections you can support you need to understand how much RAM each connection consumes and how much RAM is available to your application.
Aereo Again Beats TV Networks' Bid to Shut It Down
I imagine it will look roughly like the last time it crashed:

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/...

90% of the value were lost in a few months. The market seem even frothier this time so I'd expect the eventual pop the be harsher as well.
The basic idea is "the opposite of Starter League/Dev Bootcamp" -- Starter league gives people the skills to build a basic web app, but that's not the hard part in starting a business.

A lot of first time entrepreneurs thing that the thing that is holding them back is product (sometimes it is, usually it isn't). Once they have the ability to produce a basic product, now they're still faced with a lot of the non-programming founder tasks and there's no great path to learning a lot of this stuff.

Many first time bizdevs partner with developers and they think their job is to just shake hands at startup events. But being a great bizdev isn't a license to not use a computer -- there are tons of non-programming ways to contribute to a startup, and LOTS of great ideas can get off the ground without a CTO.
It's sort of a joke for April Fools day. I have a very strange sense of humor...
The week that was, iOS & Android Games
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Apple Chief Apologizes to Chinese Consumers
Not accurate for Poland :P
The price of gold is so ridiculously inflated right now that it's insane to invest in it. For people back in 2000, it was a great idea, but now the price is high. The most basic rule of investing is buy low, sell high. It sounds like a stupid catch phrase, but even people like Warren Buffet have said that it's true.

You might be able to make a little bit of money, but unless the global economy collapses entirely, I doubt we'll see another major increase. Gold actually has gone down in value before, so it could easily happen again again.
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An $8/hr job is another great example of something that the simplistic "your time is worth $1000/hr" would imply you should never even do.
That could be because we tend to put the most important stuff above the fold. They analyzed real websites that (we would think) would tend to do that.

My guess is: if you capture their curiosity, they will scroll. Otherwise, they probably won't. Simple, I know, but I'm going with it.
Huh. I'd always thought C++ shared C's definition of NULL, but looking I see that it doesn't. What a weird thing to change.

At least they've added some safety with nullptr_t.
Is there any reason that compilers don't somehow fix this thing by default?
> No. I decided cable TV wasn't a good value and canceled it years ago.

And I decided not to get a driver's license because having a car is pretty useless. Obviously this means your argument is invalid.
The 'not so nice' areas of Oakland aren't bad, as long as you stay out of East Oakland.

I'm living in West Oakland right now. My rent is 1/3 the cost of an equivalent room in SF, and my commute is shorter (7 minute BART ride). I feel perfectly safe.
A better example is some stock that went up 10X in the last 5 months.
There is this from a few days ago: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=159673.0

The founder said it was fixed but who knows
Nowhere in Oakland is an order of magnitude worse. Worse, yes, but few places are that bad. Parts of the Mission, and certainly the Tenderloin (both in the sweet spot on this guy's map) are worse than anywhere BART-accessible in Oakland except West Oakland and maybe Lake Merritt/Fruitvale.

If you're working in the South Bay, yeah, don't live there. But Temescal, for example, is a great option if you're working in the city. Great city feel, lots of cool stuff, and you're still only 20 minutes from the city. That's a shorter commute than many parts of the city itself. It's expensive my national standards, but still cheaper than the city.
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Good idea using Spotify to get metadata. I did something similar a few years ago, mine was a bit different in that instead of searching for a specific artist you get different channels you can watch, similar to MTV. One of the issues I had then was that you don't just get the official videos in results for popular songs [0], how do you solve that?

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I'm a big believer in the future of bitcoin and hold a significant amount. However I find holding bitcoin terrifying. There is just so much that can go wrong - from data loss, to personal tragedy, to hackers, to algorithmic weaknesses.

Ultimately we probably need insured, trusted third parties to hold keys, such that even if there is a breach, someone financially viable is on the line to reimburse.

Individuals holding their own keys may be a nice dream, but its highly impractical for most people if they have a significant portion of their wealth in bitcoin. Certainly there will be very high net worth people and security maniacs who want to hold their own keys, but I believe most people will want a third party to guarantee them.
Did you mean something else then with done more harm than good for the industry ? I don't know much about crypto or Schneiers work, I am just curious what you meant if what you said wasn't in reference to people choosing to hand code their crypto routines.
Interesting. I particularly like how it teaches decomposition. I don't know how understandable it would be to non-programmers, particularly children. They may need a parent or teacher on hand, at least at first.
As long as we're talking autogenerated haiku on Twitter...

https://twitter.com/poetryninja
OK, thanks to this and a few other intriguing defenses I went back and finished. It does eventually make a real point, although the ratio of actual quotations and other data points to the vaguely FUD-ish storytelling that he starts off with is pretty poor, especially considering the amount of research he claims to have done.

I'm left with the vague feeling that I could probably use the same approach to tear down Gandhi or any other more or less untouchable folk hero by using long tracts of insinuation interspersed with a few phrases in scare quotes.
After going through the pain of keeping separate repos, branches or even apps for content pages, my team migrated to simply using a CMS.

Wordpress is a bit of a pain, but we found Harmony (http://harmonyapp.com) to be great at serving pages with programmable themes (think haml, sass, etc) that marketing people can still edit without bothering a developer.
I am not a financial guy - just a web programmer - why is this interesting, please?
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Whoever wrote or enforces the laws should be reminded there's a recession happening.
The actual problem that arose in the CH Babysitter Co-Op, supposedly solved by inflation, was that they didn't let scrip trade at actual relative value; you had to pay/accept one scrip unit per time unit whether the babysitting was for Wednesday or Saturday night.

This was compounded by a case of retardism on the part of its managers, who refused to accept that different nights have different value, and that prices have to change to achieve equilibrium. So the supposed solution of inflation was actually replacing one artificial problem (a price floor) with another (temporary misvaluation of the new currency due to "money illusion").

Go find out how Krugman answers the question of "Why didn't they just let the exchange rate of scrip per hour float freely in response to differential weeknight demand and risk aversion?" (Hint: he doesn't, anywhere.)
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I see adds already. Might be one source of income.
I'm sad 'potatolicious got to say this before I did; he's one of my must-reads on HN. It's also sad how quickly a critique Paul Graham has of the environment on HN gets twisted into another way to degrade the environment on HN.
I'm not sure what you mean by the 16-to-32 transition on the Mac. Are you referring to the 68k-to-PowerPC transition?
if I had a stash of bitcoins I'd probably use some hardened Linux variant or OpenBSD to store them and perform transactions.
I live in North Oakland, a nicer part of town. Even here, people get mugged at the BART station in broad daylight. Last year, we had a string of restaurant "take-over" robberies.

The crime problem is pretty bad and getting worse. Most of the murders, 126 last year and 3 just this past weekend, are gang-related and localized to West and East Oakland ("the Flats"). The safer parts of town are North Oakland, near Berkeley, and the Hills.

Per capita, Oakland is the nation's #1 city for robberies, #1 for vehicle thefts, #3 for violent crime, and #4 for murders. Oakland has only 15 police officers per 10,000 residents, half as many as SF and one-third as many NYC and Chicago.

Oakland is depressing because the city has so much potential. It is centrally located in the Bay Area; close to SF by BART, car, and ferry; has an international airport; and has a large shipping port. But many big employers are scared away by crime, so people have to leave Oakland to work or shop, further depressing the city.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_cities_by_crime_...
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Oakland's crime problems are partially structural. It is much more car oriented and spread out, with a lot of dead zones where nobody is around. Thus it's much easier for a group of people to drive up behind you and rob you and then drive away. Personally, I would not suggest West Oakland unless you are broke. I felt safe, too, until I got jacked.
I could see posthaven turning into an API that any site could integrate with so that users knew their data was safe. Depending on the site and type of user data, this type of exportability/backupability could be a real differentiating feature.
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Why? What you copy-pasted makes no claim of causation (e.g., it does not say anything like "if you sleep 6.5 to 7.5 hours a night, you will be happier"); you just chose to read it that way.
Since nobody's mentioned it yet, StarLogo TNG - http://education.mit.edu/projects/starlogo-tng

StarLogo TNG is similar to Scratch, perhaps a little bit less intuitive, but it's 3-D and lets you do some pretty cool stuff. I'm a bit biased, because I worked on StarLogo TNG, but not biased enough that I won't admit that Khan Academy has by far the best programming tool for kids I've seen so far. I can't say enough good things about it.
Fair enough, thanks for the advice though.

I guess I'll just have to walk around and explore for a few days.
There's a lot of assumptions built in there... but it's besides the point: n% is infinitely better than 0% for any value of n > 0.

Also, the claim that "gold only became a currency when it was stamped" is wrong. The value of gold on the commodity markets today does include a value store component and none of it is stamped.

When the czar's family fled russia they didn't grab rubles, the grabbed jewels. Why? Because their currency was worth nothing but their jewels could be traded for value in a very transparent manner wherever they might end up.
I don't. I simply play the first result that youtube returns.

For more obscure artists/songs or for those with generic names, YouFM might play the wrong video if Youtube returns the wrong result. I'm not sure if there's any way to fix it except crowd-sourced curation.
The assignment in the loop breaks the readability for me:

In the reduce case, the deferred is in the scope of the function as a named argument; which is the main advantage of using deferred in this case. In the .each loop, deferred is a variable in the outer scope. Even though it looks like it will work (need to try), I wouldn't consider it the safer and more readable solution.
Or Cyprus.
Are you saying stick with the banking cartels?
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Are you planning on making a mobile friendly version?
Why do Activities/Services need to be added to the Android manifest?
David - great thought as usual - I think it ironic that I sent you that article earlier today, before reading this.

Yes we need the data to power the algorithms. The best analogy I can come up with is fuel and a car. The fuel (being the data in this analogy) only has value with a machine (the algorithm) to transform it; to transform it into kinetic energy, or light, etc.

And by the way, we are well below $7K/genome. We are looking right now around $1K and falling - http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/01/the-1000-genome-are-we-...
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this is India playing with fire. and it is not about securing access to important drugs to Indian patients - it is about boosting the native Indian generic pharma industry. while India itself does not provide any significant output in R&D spending in pharma.

so yeah, big pharma is evil and greedy, however no one else takes 1bn$ to try out a new product and have it fail in front of the FDA - which is the usual scenario, as most(!) new products get denied.

how many other industries out there need to PROVE that their products are not only safe but also have an actual benefit? as this is HN, let's see all those fancy task/email/collab/social apps prove their usefulness in scientific trials - and get denied if they fail to be better than notepad.

so yeah, awesome, let's kill pharma's business model without any alternative in sight.

how about having generic makers pay a fixed % of their revenue into a R&D fund? without it they are just leeching off.
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Rockridge is definitely part of Oakland, but Piedmont is a separate city. Piedmont seceded from Oakland in 1907 and is completely surrounded by Oakland. I've never heard of any other city engulfed within another.
I don't live in an affordable part of Berkeley and it's still close to an hour each way to SOMA (~10 minutes walk each way, ~30 minutes on BART for Downtown Berkeley -> Mongomery, and a few minutes of slack to avoid missing the occasional train).
Or England.
Is Oakland really that bad?

Well, plenty of people live there and all, but a few visits combined with Wikipedia [1] have convinced me that I don't particularly want to live there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_cities_by_crime_r...
That's not anonymous. Anonymity is one of the benefits of bitcoin, but it's tricky to do.
There is really little difference between a commodity and a currency other than how the supply is constrained. It is perfectly sensible to compare them.
Yea, unfortunately this isn't the best setup for non-technical users, but I think it can still be decently done through the github editing features they recently added. I probably won't use this for some of our more content-heavy sites, but I've grown to appreciate hosting static content on Github pages.
This is a good move, though I'm not sure how much good it will actually do.

Canada's software engineering industry has a massive brain drain problem, bigger than the mainstream media knows, and bigger than even many tech insiders know. Of the people I graduated university with the people who are still in Canada are the minority, a notion that still boggles the mind.

The bulk are in the US, and almost everyone I know who works on "startupy" things are in the US. In fact, I can count on one hand the number of people I know, still in Canada, working on startupy tech. The vast majority of my peers who remain in Canada are working in BigEnterprise, not exactly a talent pool well fit to encourage startups.

Without making meaningful strides at reversing the brain drain, I feel like any policy changes are just bandaids over a gaping wound. Can there be a startup revolution when the bulk of your engineering talent is busy diving across the border?
You are right, an order of magnitude was an exaggeration. But Oakland's citywide crime stats in most categories are double/triple that of San Francisco.

That said, I don't think crime is the main reason to not live in the East Bay when you are doing an internship. Minimizing transport time to work and/or recreation is why you don't want to live out there. If you are working in SF, live in SF. If work is in the south bay, live in the south bay...or maybe live in SF. It will be expensive but an internship should cover it. If the internship doesn't cover it you picked the wrong internship.
right, India recognizes patents just like anywhere else. which is why all big pharma-cos get their patents denied, pure coincidence. especially as Indian generics are a big business spreading into Europe and US.

just compare to China(!) of all places. not even the Chinese government, not exactly opposed to copy and paste, is pulling these stunts.
Only the Austrians use that definition and they're not a serious school of economics.