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> when benchmarking against strongly typed compiled languages, performance concerns become important, even if you have to write ugly code

That seems to defeat the purpose of benchmarking to begin with, or at least makes it less useful for real-world comparison.
Ubuntu also has an 'easy' tool called UFW (uncomplicated firewall?) to configure basic firewall rules and such. It's probably a lot easier to use than Iptables if you just want to make some basic rules.

Unless you're hosting an SSH server or something I don't think there's much to do out of the box for desktop Ubuntu.
What you're talking about is really an add-on feature with fans rather than a true business.

Your real talent is clearly the ability to spot an opportunity, build something and get it out there: So why not think about the audience of customers you want to build? Start with that and then look at the opportunities. And look at a bunch of them...
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I think the lack of "official" news sources that have covered this so far will itself become a topic of discussion. In the meantime, I think the fact that someone has put her name forward and is herself a part of the startup community is notable -- this isn't just the rumor mill. If the allegations are completely false, then libel suits are in order...but I don't think it's trivial for someone to make an accusation like this in public and continue to stick to it.
This page had way too much going on. I'm interested in the topic, but couldn't get past the introduction with the constantly moving background.
I absolutely love this logic. If VCs would just invest in it, then they would magically appear! Maybe VCs should stop investing in the next facebook and instead look at cancer curing technology. With the high insurance premiums there's clearly a market for it. And since VCs are the only people with money its obvious that no one else is funding/researching cancer medicine!

I really hate this thinking, do you really believe that earthquakes is such a trivial issue that no one is working on it? What the hell do you think the architects/structural engineers are doing at MIT/Berkeley/every university on the planet? They aren't trying to build Instagram for Skyscrapers, I'll tell you that much.
Because chemical detection is orders of magnitude harder than detecting wind speed/direction, temperature, and humidity? Doesn't mean it can't be done, but you'd have to throw some real money at the problem.
In business terms, what people usually seem to mean is "able to bring in more revenue without having to hire people with skill sets that are rare or difficult to qualify". A software consulting business doesn't scale because it requires hiring programmers; a telephone support business might because it's much easier to hire people who can speak English and follow a script.
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> I don't see how an informed consumer can't avoid this.

So it's fine because less than 10% of all people can avoid it?

Take a step out of your tech-bubble for a moment (or maybe a bit longer, it's really educational).

A side-related example. Most people that aren't really into tech, as well as most people outside the age range of, say, 14-40, are completely unable to avoid accidentally installing browser toolbars. These are not dumb people. They know what toolbars are, how they get on their system, and what to look out for. Still, it happens. Because, oops. But they are unable to get rid of them, because even if they knew where to look, they wouldn't know which of the installed programs would be safe to remove.

That's just an example, because it's just something in particular I see all the time, right now. Shit that happens to otherwise really clever and smart people. And it's even worse when I see it happen to more vulnerable parts of the population.

This is the sort of thing that inspires whitehat hackers to do what they do. I recall that RSnake of the discontinued ha.ckers.org weblog, spoke about how this motivated him in the fight against XSS and other browser-based attacks, even if it was "just" about really silly misleading "social engineering trick" type of attacks that a smart (tech-smart) person would never fall for, but your mother or grandmother might!

So yeah, good for you. But really, this discussion isn't about you, do you really think the people in this thread are getting upset because they fear they themselves cannot avoid this? No, this bothers me because my mom is on Facebook and uses it on her mobile phone, my less-technical friends are on Facebook, the children that I teach and their definitely-not-technical parents are on Facebook!
The VC industry works like stocks. Its more what people are believing than actual hard numbers. Speculation is the name of the game. And speculation is driven by hearsay. So, that is why traction is a popular term these days, and why "founders" hate to talk about actual money earned. You can hear them say But with more investment we can get more traction and thus leverage the market towards using our product. Which is wall street talk for We heard $some_company is going to close a huge deal. We can't say when exactly, but its going to happen. We want to leverage the current stock price to gain a couple of extra points when the sale goes through.

Smoke and mirrors.
Email.

And be careful with email mailings, especially during office hours. Apparently most people have nothing else to do but check their mail every minute and click on every link in it. Huge traffic spikes.
> We don't have any real-world comparisons to other languages where an equal amount of brainpower was spent on optimization so that we could see how the language itself affects things.

Yes we do: Lua--optimized by lots of big brains for use in gaming. And it turns out that LuaJIT is much faster than any current Javascript JIT--with the reason frequently given that it is a much simpler language.
Kid, when Double Dragon came out for Nintendo in 1987 it cost $54.95 (I remember because premium games up to that point were usually $49.99). That's $112.30 in 2013 dollars. You can afford to pay $70 for your bread and butter tool for a job that typically pays $50-$100k.
That popup, which I only see twice a day, is not annoying enough for me to upgrade from the free version. If they really wanted people paying for it, they would have premium features, not a lower price point.
It has nothing to do with "comfortable folks producing for the government" and everything to do with coordinating production and consumption.
If everyone produces for 20 years and accumulates money, and there is no inflation for 20 years, and then they all try to retire and spend it, but there is no one to produce, since everyone wants to retire, you get hyperinflation chasing the small amount of available goods. Alternatively you inflate the currency for 20 years, to encourage people to consume their savings as a sustainable pace.

Remember: if you spend your inflationary money NOW on durable goods (canned food, wood, whatever), then you can trade those goods for inflated currency later, and not lose any value.

But, if you don't spend your money (maybe because there is nothing on the market worth buying), then inflation is the natural correction to bring the money supply into balance with the goods supply.
As a compeditive sport you can make games random but not easy. However changing the UI Makes different skills useful which shits the balance of power as well as the learning curve. Much like how the ideal GO and Chess players have related but different skills.
Heh, I'm sure a spot can be found ;)
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Hand washing requires both soap and water.

If I were to apply soap first I'd be unable to turn the water on without smearing soap onto the faucet.

So yes. I apply water before the soap because getting water on the soap dispenser causes no harm to others -- whereas getting soap on the faucet handle does cause (a tiny amount of) harm.
By making them suddenly realize that they do, in fact, have things they would rather keep private.
I have a hard time believing these will have much of a market.

Maybe Dell's just trying to get the jump on Valve's own Steambox?
This article is flawed because there are two questions: "is vim awesome?" and "is learning vim worth the effort?" The first answer is yes. The second answer is maybe. Getting up there and trash talking vim is stupid because anyone who is proficient at vim (truly proficient, like 10-years-experience expert) knows that it is great. But as a 15-year vimmer I won't discount the time and suffering you need to put in to get to that point, and won't shove it down people's throats because I know how painful it is.

I see it similar to typing on a dvorak keyboard. (or to a lesser degree, a kinesis keyboard.) Extremely painful in the beginning, almost mentally traumatic because one of your basic skills suddenly gets cut out from under you, but something that pays small but regular dividends for the rest of your life. (And contrary to Dvorak, vim is everywhere.) It's not for everyone and is probably not worth the effort for many but to somehow try to then extrapolate that to conjure up an argument that the tool itself is bad (which this article seems to be desperately trying to do) is dumb.

I guess another way to look at it, is if you could download knowledge instantly Matrix-style, would everyone use vim? Other consequences of the Matrix being real life notwithstanding, I would say many more would.
For whatever it's worth, what I called 1,1,1-TCE was 1,1,1-trichloroethane (what you [probably correctly] called 1,1,1-TCA).
Thats one thing that bothers me in business, is the "social contract" of avoiding appearing abrasive or aloof, so everyone tells each other white lies to make everyone feel better.

That happens everywhere in life.
"Move" is called "load" on other architectures; indeed, the corresponding 8080 instruction is LD.

If x86 used LD instead of MOV, it would make more sense. LD AX,4 would be read as "load register AX with the value 4"; LD AX,BX would be "load AX with what's in BX"; LD AX,[SI] would be "load AX with what's in the memory location pointed to by SI" and so forth.
Your concern is touching but unnecessary, Canonical has a rich history of interoperability and openness with the community.
Original issue: http://kotaku.com/microsoft-creative-director-doesnt-get-the...

Commentary: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=534951

Oh, Twitter.
Unfortunately, the acronym "TCE" has been used for both 1,1,1-trichloroethane and trichloroethene (and even sometimes tetrachloroethene). It appears, though, that the preferred usage is "TCA" for trichloroethane (either 1,1,1-TCA or 1,1,2-TCA) and "TCE" for trichloroethene. ("Trichloroethylene" is an alternate name for trichloroethene.)

For clarity, I would suggest not using "TCE" for trichloroethane.
If you do your research Dell/Alienware is actually very competitively priced. Most people discount the service, which is tech-onsite and parts for 1 year.
Seconded. I stopped reading after a few paras because the revolving background gave me a headache.
Coinbase has had at least one other recent incident. IIRC, downtime or a DDOS.

Considering this is a YC company, I think it's worthwhile to be... attentive... to Coinbase's operations.

I want them to succeed, but they're definitely deploying into a hostile environment. It's not cat pictures.
A somewhat more readable copy can be found at "http://www.alanturing.net/intelligent_machinery/.
Ignoring the moral issue and treating it as a legal issue - why not?

If they wanted to give me a $100 bill, it is fully within their rights to do so. If I really entered $50, then I certainly did not authorize my bank to debit my account for $100.

They might have some legal grounds depending on the local legislation to request the $50 back due to their fault/mistake, but I can dispute that and the result is far from certain.
I hate to be that guy, but this is a real poor comparison. First, who uses guides anymore outside of print? 1140 Grid or 960 does the job perfectly fine and prepares your design for responsive.

You can write an article about Starcraft if you love Starcraft, but juxtaposing against Photoshop workflow is disingenuous at best, misleading and confusing at the worst.

Photoshop isn't perfect, but it knocks Fireworks' socks off in every aspect: automation, formats, shortcuts, UI, precision, etc.
this would be really interesting
currency is a medium of exchange, a token representing a store of value (durable good) elsewhere.

Gold coins are a store of value, since the coin itself can be melted down and used as a good (but these days gold has a pile of speculative bubble on top of it)
> For some reason, all that crap that hangs around the editing area makes me feel claustrophobic and distracted.

I've heard this position before, I just don't get it. This is my screen while working on an early stage of a side project: http://i.imgur.com/B9boU26.png

I find it far less cluttered than most editors. In particular compared to sublime text, I hate that my only options are to have the 'project tree' view there, or not, most of the time its wasted space. In the screen shot I click on project on the left, it pops over the project structure, I open the file I want, and it disappears. Similarly with the bottom bits, I run the project in debug mode, it pops over with the process's output and disappears when there isn't anything I need to see. For me, this is much preferable to changing workspaces to see terminal output even though the OSX trackpad makes this easy.

> I also feel like a lot of the development process becomes a black box.

I guess it depends on the IDE but at least for the given project it builds in the IDE using maven, based on the pom settings just as it does using maven from the terminal or on jenkins. The only difference is incremental compilation during development which many people setup using a 'watch' plugin or the asset pipeline in rails anyway.

> And then there's also the fact that I can't stand having IDEs underline everything in red when I'm in the middle of typing a line.

Changing the linting timeout is very simple.
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Right there with you. Even just making the content background solid would help a little...

Although I really am not sure why you'd want a moving background at all if you have actual content that you want people to be looking at.
>In Starcraft, nearly everything has a keyboard shortcut, and can be accessed in milliseconds. Professional players have average APM's of around 300. During intense battles, with their careers on the line, they can get up to 500 or 600. That's almost 10 separate moves per second!

EAPM (Effective APM) is more pertinent than raw APM. APM arguments have raged on for more than a decade (since Broodware at the very least), and there have been many top players with low apm (300 vs 100).

For HNers, an appropriate analogy would be typing speed for coding. We have ongoing (pointless) arguments about the importance of typing speed for programmers. Whatever one's opinion/preference for this subject may be, we've seen plenty of programmers be successful with high typing speeds but many mistypes, and other with relatively low typing speeds but very accurate. There's a pretty wide range in which one can be successful.

>The Starcraft equivalent of a boilerplate template is a build order, which informs which buildings to construct in the beginning of the game.

Build orders need to be informed by the map choice and opponent. I think similar considerations would apply in the template selection in photoshop as well, though not covered in OP. I wonder what the equivalent of such meta considerations would be in design.

>Rush / Macro

Is this the common terminology in SC2 these days? It's strange since the standard counterpoint to "Macro" (economy and production) has been "Micro" (unit control).
I guess if that's what you're interested in, this could be what you're looking for... though this is a lot like picking stocks based on price patterns: It gives you a phenomenally narrow view based solely on results with absolutely no insight into how or why things are happening or not happening.

I can see how this information, were it in any way insightful, would be useful to a lot of people. However, not only are the criteria very arbitrary, the list is being built from admittedly incomplete and/or incorrect data, and the opt-out-of-my-public-shaming approach is disingenuous at best.
maybe a life-size rat/mouse maze game for humans with gopro cam on rat/mouse?
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Earthquake proofing technology exists, it just makes building more expensive. I probably shouldn't have mentioned it. It seemed too vague to just say "it's a pain in the ass and too expensive," even though that is what new construction in the Bay Area boils down to.
fwiw I switch between Javascript, Ruby, SQL, Objective C, and Java pretty frequently (all at one job), and I don't work at Google.
From what I've seen, the difference between Perl 5 and 6 is much greater than the difference between Python 2 and 3. For this reason, I have very little hope for Perl 6.
Oh, so you think the statement that was quoted was that c++ was too hard to use? Because when you read what was actually quoted it says c++ is poorly suited to solve issues related to data races and parallelism which is a pretty false statement.

Are you able to see how that is different now with a little help? Or is it so insufficient to make up straw arguments and put words into my mouth that now you want to do the same for Mozilla foundation?
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Personally I have a Pinry board that I host privately amongst my company, we all post images/inspiration for sites/ui we find around the web and it's all password protected. Copyrighted content isn't an issue cause only 4 of us ever see it.

But this is the same question you should have for a Blog I'd think, if you host copyrighted content on a blog then you'll have the same issues if it's a public blog.
Windows 8 laptops can't command Windows 7 prices
Introducing randomness is honestly a poor choice in competitive games. Warcraft 3 random item drop, Starcraft: Broodwar Scarab glitching & high ground random miss percentage, etc all made the competition somewhat less compelling.
Why should it. Premium OS -> Premium price. Ubuntu is about free as in freedom, not free as in beer. ;)

Actually I think, Dell has a real chance to get better margins with Ubuntu. They can position themself as the computer company for open-source users and maybe even as an Apple alternative is the mass market - impossible with Windows.
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From 15 minutes of reading EPA records-of-decisions, you're obviously right; it's 1,1,1-TCA.
That is a shitload of TCE. I can't find any Superfund site with a similar concentration.
Grande has been pretty decent as a local ISP in my experience, though they're not available everywhere. But this should be much faster and better, and anything to chip away at TWC and AT&T is nice.
Starcraft is important but IMO it's not about APM. But build order, at start of each game, there's a series of steps you need to do like the optimum workers to build, to mine Vespene gas; at which time to send workers to build expansion base, build marines/zerg's etc. And adjusting your strategy depending on map, other races on map and opponent style.

Translated roughly to non-player's words, playing Starcraft is not about winning but about optimizing your action and reaction to the quickest and most efficient. I don't wake up everyday thinking that the project is going to give me a hard time, I already have a builder order to efficiently tackle the problem, e.g., lower expectations for stakeholders early on, debugging the code step-by-step to get a handle, browse reddit for diversions etc.

I will not get frustrated if I can't win against CPU or debug the code, because winning is outside of my control depending on the skill of my opponents, allies and luck etc; I will only evaluate myself on how much I optimized on my build order. And if my build order sucks, I watch my replays and search online for a better one.

It's only I have my build-order deeply ingraned in my mind, that I work on my APM; so I can act/react faster and it comes second nature like driving but doing it faster. The same thing IMO applies to poker, trading and sports. You can't focus on binary outcome of winning or losing because so much variables are outside of your control; it's about focusing on your build order. You are willing to lose the right way over the temptation of winning the wrong way.

A much better expression of this: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=142...
Thank you Brian for this so much. Really just a fantastic effort and a great contribution to the web dev community.
Google "tragedy of the commons". People are not fundamentally good. They lie, cheat and steal, if they can get away with it. Good behavior results from successful socialization. Socialization can also result in some pretty bad behavior. Regulation is necessary because not all people are "good" to some arbitrary standard. Even I'm not good. I just had to fork over $277 for going 35 in a 25 mph zone, but I would rather pay my fine than have no police at all.
Yes and the whole co-op collapses which is sad. In order to prevent Alice from killing the co-op other members would have to figure out what she was doing and actively stop using her baby sitting services. What is sadder still, once she controlled the coupons, the only way for the co-op to restart and get back to baby-sitting goodness would be to create a new set of coupons and keep her out of it. One would hope she wasn't some sort of socio-path bent on destroying the co-op's ability to function.
What was removed, Wubi (the "Windows Ubuntu installer"), isn't a "Windows dual boot tool", its an installation tool for Windows boxes that lets you install/uninstall Ubuntu through Windows Add/Remove programs and have your whole Ubuntu root filesystem in what appears as a giant NTFS file.

It doesn't really do anything for the dual-boot experience, it just changes the installation experience. Dual booting on Windows machines installed through the normal Ubuntu installer has always had pretty much the same experience as dual booting something installed through Wubi.
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I am not sophisticated enough to critically assess these documents, but here are two sources:

For a basic overview of Linux security: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security Guide

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_E...

Here is a blog post by someone who is protecting his laptop, for each security measure he says what and why:

https://grepular.com/Protecting_a_Laptop_from_Simple_and_Sop...

HN Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4018426
Yes, you are correct about "Macro" and "Micro" being antonyms but they are used differently here.

He's talking about a style of play. Generally, "macro" play is going to for the long-game with many bases and huge armies. He calls the opposite of this as "rush." Other synonyms for "rush" are something like "timing attack" or "all-in."
like with mir, and amazon search... I get it, thanks.