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I know this thread wasn't very well-visited, but your comment ought to be MUCH more highly rated. These are EXCELLENT articles; thanks for posting them!
Oddly enough it doesn't. For example, you can perform a credit check via this API using only a name + address:

http://www.meridianlink.com/creditAPI.asp

I have personally used this API, and it works.
I hadn't thought about that perspective before. It's possible that many co-founders that wouldn't stick together are merely together because of the perceived success. Makes me even more grateful for co-founders that stick around even when things are bad. I don't think you can hack 100% of those situations where things look bad and make them look positive.
What I want to be when I grow up.
And yet I have gigabit internet here.
I think greed is what drives economies and life. Without it we have no desire to obtain more and in turn all waste away until death.
> Like who? Honest question.

I've got a county-government customer on IE8, with no plans to upgrade.

My workaround for them: ChromeFrame.
No one working at that level is going to disclose their customers and the technology agreements they have. That would be business suicide (and would ruin lives). Again, this isn't mom and pop shop level stuff.

But I will give you a clue. Go find a list of the top 10 biggest banks in the United States. It's almost all of them. Then go find the biggest credit card companies. It's most of them.
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I definitely understand that view, but on that drawing board are the words "two-thirds majority". It comes down to a choice between an impotent veto and an impotent signing statement.
I kid you not. When the article says "Zap! (lightning strike.)". There was a big flash of lightning outside my window. Freaky.
They start to worry about how their age is defining them... and thus their age starts to define them. As someone who recently turned thirty and works in "start ups" I must say it's their own baggage.
I honestly think it's time to take Rupert Murdoch's news empire from him, and destroy it.

The world is a shittier place with him and his BS propaganda outlets in it.
"Learning ExtJS 4" Book review
Why is chrome so fast?
That's a complicated question. This talk from CCC in 2011 addresses some of the points (and is very interesting in it's own right):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwMr8Xl7JMQ

Tor already uses SSL, so I'm not sure how valuable encapsulating it in HTTPS would be. In fact (and this is from memory, so I may be wrong), some governments were able to block Tor by looking at certificate expiry date - Tor uses short lived certificates, but no real https site is going to use an ssl cert that expires in a couple hours. There were some other ways to fingerprint Tor traffic, but I'd have to watch the video again to remember.

The Tor developers also apparently have a list of potential ways to identify Tor traffic, but haven't fixed all of them because they're waiting for evidence that they're being used to block Tor traffic first.

As for relays - the bridge system addresses that. It's difficult or impossible to compile a complete list of bridge nodes, so that method should be pretty effective. It's also possible to run a "private" bridge and share it out of band with other. That method certainly should make relay identification extremely difficult.
Almost all startups run into trouble at some point. If you don't have a good relationship with your cofounder because of one the problems, it's unlikely that you'll create a successful startup given the high probably of running into a down period. For example, Facebook had this issue in spite of its huge growth.
I am sure many more companies would have been interested in this deal. When it comes to selling the infrastructure built with tax-payer money, the government should be more transparent in its dealings. The city of Provo should have advertised the sale or lease of its fiber infrastructure and let companies bid on it. And the fiber should have gone to the highest bidder. Or at least, accept offers from multiple companies and let the residents decide (through voting) which company they want to give the infrastructure to.
Credit cards have fees -- interest, account-keeping fees, and so on. It's why banks like them.
Are you talking about a high level toolkit? Wrappers around the native platform API is the starting point for any GUI toolkit.
Org is very active, high profile project, the number of changes from previous major release are just amazing.

git diff release_7.01 release_8.0 --stat
[snip]
352 files changed, 119010 insertions(+), 80849 deletions(-)
I spotted a small typo:

> Asynchronous I/O and Event-drievn

It looks like a great project!
I'm not doing custom encryption. I'm not sure why you would think that.
So I find that the majority of people are missing a very LARGE improvement that I value far beyond any of the stated benefits by the jQuery team:

-One of the most popular libraries is dropping support for IE 6,7, and 8. Thus, yet another cornerstone of the web is going to push users forward and increase the chance that those miserable browsers will disappear.

The most disturbing thing I find is that there are developers that are DEFENDING existence for those older browsers. Are you masochists? Do you enjoy the headaches of fucking around with those??

"Oh but so many clients are still using them, and it writes off potential users!"

How can we ever expect for them to upgrade their damn browser unless the builders the web (developers, not just browsers) quit allowing them to rot in complacency????

Of course, there is a thing as going "too leading edge" and expecting "too much" from the user...but when the cornerstones (libs, browsers, etc) start pushing them forward - then we should embrace this change. Coding for the multi-browser/platform/device/version web is hard enough.
I already use bcrypt, along with several other suites.
I love the top voted comment at the end of the article.
This is a very good proxy server and client,it's open source software.
You can use Node.js,python,and so many platform,and can use RC4 encryption.
In China , our government firewall blocked Facebook, Twitter, Youtube,and so many website.
We use some software bypass firewall,like VPN,Freedoor,SSH and Shadowsocks.
Credit cards are still more expensive than debit cards, and in Australia any machine that can take the former will take the latter as well. Credit cards allow you to spend money you don't have, whereas debit cards don't.
Thanks for pointing me to those.

I also missed this one:
> If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)

I'm only up to 326 days, so I'll go back to my corner and apologize (genuinely) for not being aware of these rules.

Though I still don't think it belongs here ;-D
Yep, Google App Engine ran out of quota while I was asleep.

I have many GAE apps and when you enable billing, each app puts I think a $2 weekly charge on your card. To avoid spamming my books with dozens of tiny charges I turned off the billing for less popular ones like my blog. D'oh.

Additionally I had commented out memcache in the blog for some reason. Free quota would have been enough if it wasn't for that mistake.
I wish the US government would get its act together on this. The Constitution includes a grant of power to Congress to create a national system of post roads (Article 1, Section 8.7) and my understanding is that the founders included this because they recognized the importance of a public communications infrastructure rather than a privately held one [1]. Considering the criticality of our communications infrastructure in an era of cyber-attacks, I find it disappointing that Congress seems to have abandoned this important role to the private sector.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurn_und_Taxis
It's a general strategy, so it applies to the veto threats to both of those bills, as well as a number of others. I think it applies moreso to CISPA than to the NDAA, because my impression is that he has smaller reservations about the details of CISPA.
There are some clever tricks adversaries can do with DPI. One thing was that Tor originally used SSL certificates with very short expiration times and rotated them frequently. That's very distinct compared to "real" https traffic, since no one waits until a certificate is a couple hours from expiration to replace it. My understanding is that now they still rotate certificates, but they set the expiration date much farther out in the future.
// missing line

A computer will never live as long as the The Trial.

// typos

He had [said] to burn them, my friend, to burn these books.

[This] was just Kafka, writing his own death.
[This] ending has his signature on it.
I can do both. I'm not limited to only supporting small clients.
If everyone is still wearing lots of hats, get a CTO and put IT on his plate. He can hire the sysadmin later at an appropriate point.

However, I am pretty much assuming CTO equity is in the offer.
Tesla at least applied for and got loan with a WORKING CAR and CUSTOMER PREPAID ORDERS. Fisker had a 50-page BUSINESS PLAN. Tesla is NOT Fisker. Doesn't mean Tesla will succeed- current Tesla model car has some engineering issues clearly. But Tesla's not Fisker. Fisker loan was negligence, and DOE never saying a word to the public (same with Solyndra) until finally a Bankruptcy filing exposed it all: loan extensions, waivers etc to keep it quiet. That's absured...this is OUR MONEY being loaned out.
So what alternative method of dimensionality reduction does the author recommend?

Considering that PCA works fine in the case that the dimensions form a proper vector space (e.g. geometrical space, stock market returns, temperature, etc, etc ,etc), it seems questionable to completely dismiss such a useful and historically important method.
w1ntermute, I have to disagree with you here. If we are going to generalize, the Japanese are most definitely clued-in to the Internet. They may not use Facebook as much, but they have one of the highest usages of Twitter in the world (a little old, but here: http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/twitter-top-countries_... and here: http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/09/huge-in-japan-twitter/), and they use the Internet for a lot of things like making purchases, finding product/store/restaurant/etc. reviews, auctions, etc. And, despite the relatively lower numbers, tons of Japanese are on Facebook (although, this article describes how teenagers are more into Instagram and other photo-sharing services, moreso than FB, which makes sense consider Japan's history of photo sharing via feature-phones...but I digress: http://japan.cnet.com/news/commentary/35029092/). AND, let us not forget venerable old 2chan, the inspiration for 4chan(!). To say that they are ten years behind I think is pretty much not the case.

Which all just goes to say that it is even more of a shame that the government doesn't have a clue about this shit.

Now, if you are talking about building an environment to create new web businesses, or adopting new software development techniques, then maybe they are behind...but not ten years (and most everyone is behind the U.S. on this as far as I've seen).

-A guy who works at a Japanese internet company in Tokyo
> I dropped over 40 grand

Pick it up and be more careful next time.
A request for the Google employees that hang out here
I wasn't aware that google glass had an application open to get a pair, but I completely missed it (my own fault, I know).

I'd be very, very excited to get my hands on a unit to test. I'm a developer, but also have limited vision (20/200 at best, worse in certain conditions) and have a lot of trouble with anything more than a few feet away. I am insanely curious to put a pair of these on and see how readable the screen is. Not sure how hopeful I should be about them actually working for my condition. If there's no return policy, I can just eat the cost.

I've coded a few small scripts before that help me with my day-to-day work, but I feel like there might be a lot of potential in this device if the screen works for me. I can think of a half dozen use cases for these things that would make my life much easier.

Honestly not even sure if this post is appropriate. I fear it's selfish to even ask, I just have a feeling it may be a great piece of assistive technology. An email address is in my profile if anyone knows anyone who may be able to help.
Criminals. This kind of activity would trip any fraud detection algorithm.
I've tried learning Rust twice. Once when 0.4 was announced, and then again a few days ago because of 0.6. Both times I read the entire tutorial and manual, and poked around the standard libraries. But both times I ran in to the same problems. Both the tutorial and manual contradict each other in places, and contradict themselves in places too (e.g. I saw both &'r foo and &r/foo syntaxes in the 0.6 manual). The manual is also full of broken links (every time it referenced another section of the manual, the link didn't actually do anything). And the tutorial doesn't actually have anything for you to do as you work along it, it's basically just a rephrased manual with a bunch of tiny code snippets. The library documentation is formatted really poorly and makes it hard to figure out how you're supposed to do something. And just in general, there's no good examples of how to actually write idiomatic Rust code, or how to write a full program.

I recognize that it's a work in progress, which does excuse a lot, but these problems do act as a significant barrier to actually using the language. I'd love to actually start writing Rust programs, but when I look at it, it just feels like I'd be better off waiting until the next release and hoping it's better. Which is a real shame, because a lot of what you're trying to do with the language really appeals to me.

Contrast this with the state of the Go documentation / learning material when it was announced. I was able to dive right in to that language, figure out how to write idiomatic code in it, and produce programs.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, I wish you guys would start putting more effort into the documentation side of things.
Thanks! Do you have any experience running it? Could you help me?
Also, don't send me an email to confirm that you won't send me any more emails.
In cases such as this, I can't help but wonder if the person in the picture has a strong legal case of libel and defamation against the publisher. Maybe it's just wishful thinking, and maybe it's just my personality but if a newspaper tried to ruin my life just to sell newspapers, I'd 'lawyer up' with the intent of owning that newspaper when it was all said and done.
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Crouching, having your arms crossed etc. doesn't mean "don't beat me up". Sure, you might not be completely confident, but there's a long way from there to submissive. And, as I mentioned above, is it necessarily such a good social signal to fake confidence all the time?
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Have you ever walked into a Chase branch and noticed they're running IE as they browse through your bank account, and wonder why such insanely sensitive, secure information is being run through IE?

Find me a bank that doesn't run IE, for that matter. I'm a Chase customer, so I can only confirm them. But I honestly wonder how many banks don't run IE.
If a developers are willing to spend $100K or more there are always going to be lots of ways they can artificially push up their ranking. How does it make sense to target specific instances of the problem instead of trying to make the associated techniques less effective overall?

Suppose AppGratis successfully transitions to a newsletter / web app model instead (and all the "big bad Apple" publicity is probably helping with that), is the impact on the App Store that much smaller? Or does Apple just have fewer options to respond with?
All the news about where Google is rolling out GFiber seems to indicate they're getting their feet wet with smaller communities first, which makes logical sense in many ways.

On one hand the logistics of managing smaller municipal networks is easier, the politics is a lot less murky, and they establish a history of cooperation and reliability.

Where they start to ramp up in cities with >1M people is a mystery though, only time will tell. It may be Philadelphia, Cleveland, Atlanta, St Louis, Minneapolis, or even Dallas.
Good at raising money from what I hear, not sure if they ever implemented anything innovative that a competitor isn't doing.
That seems quite cynical. Kiva is quite successful, and they offer no incentives at all; you just loan $25, wait for it to be repaid, then loan it out again.

http://www.kiva.org/
ah nice work! the only issue here is the upside down ones, which i fear takes a bit of human touch...

either way, when they are all done, i'll compile them all together into a pdf and post that so it's easy to read through. like a little book : )
Really like how this is built as a chrome extension into these various apps. Cool tech.
One complication is that Apple's "death penalty" is at least theoretically far harsher than Google's. With Google's even if you're blacklisted people can still go to your site and use it if they want to. The only penalty is that the site is (much) harder to find (especially when you're not looking for that site specifically).

With Apple's, once an app is kicked out of their app store, there's no way to use it short of jailbreaking (with the possible exception of grandfathering depending on the particular circumstances).
They'll find some way to cripple it for sure, like sticking a 200GB/month cap on it. Australia can't have nice things :/
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There is zero problem with hosting your own copy. Lots of people do.

The main advantage to using a CDN is that a single copy can be cached across multiple websites, meaning that the first time someone visits your site, there's a good chance your version of jQuery already sits on their computer. Plus, the Google CDN will often serve content faster than your own site. And, since jQuery is now so "integral" to websites, it almost seems silly to have to maintain a copy of it yourself.

But the main downside to using a CDN is that, CDN's have gone down before, and that means your site will stop working. Obviously, it doesn't happen often, but it happened once to a widely used site of a friend of mine, and he swore, never again will he reference jQuery on a CDN. I personally prefer to host myself too. (But not out of bandwidth savings, that just winds up being trivial.)
JS frameworks are such a funny thing.

I never knew that Ext was as popular as the trend graphs suggest. Then reading through the comments there seem to be a number of people using them and enjoy using them (of course there are people on the other side, commenting against it).

Posts about JS frameworks on HB appear quite frequent and each time there is a healthy does of people saying that they LOVE it and then another group saying they don't like it.

Though some tools receives lots of hype, it just goes to show that there is no one solution here. At the very high level, all the frameworks are trying to achieve the same thing.

Ask the end-user if they are what frameworks are used - of course they don't! There's definitely more than one way to skin the cat.

I've tried a number of frameworks purely out of the hype and though learning them is useful, I think it makes sense to pick the right tool for you and not worry too much about what other people are doing.
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Something a bit more cross platform like wxWidgets or GTK (well sorta)
Looks cool. I'm surprised that you haven't already received submissions in Go yet (or if you have, then you need to update the page).
> They'll find some way to cripple it for sure, like sticking a 200GB/month cap on it. Australia can't have nice things :/

If you look at many of the plans already offered by ISP's, you'll find that this isn't the case.[1]

Once more homes are connected, these limits are only likely to increase (as they have each year prior). Perhaps we shouldn't have limits at all, and just pay for a pipe of a certain bandwidth; but from an ISP's perspective they implement these caps to protect themselves from abuse by a small % of users.

Personally I'd rather know my cap is there, as opposed to the odd behavior of many US ISPs in targeting "high usage" users with what seems like little transparency.

[1]: http://www.iinet.net.au/nbn/nbn-plan-residential.html
Even if I did sign a contract to get a book, it would be very hard to enforce conditions like not lending or selling it to somebody (unless it was an e-book with unbreakable DRM).
Or Labor will muck up this election and the Libs will muck up the NBN.
The first two places ( I know it isn't much data points) were Silicon Prairie-ish places. Provo I was a bit surprised by, but I think the main draw there was the in-place fiber that just needs bought for the $1 and then upgraded.
You have the wrong idea of how voltage works. High voltage electricity can and will kill you before the ground fault interruptor (or whatever) can kick in. It takes time to break a high voltage circuit, (on the order of milliseconds), and during that time, you will die. If the current is across your heart it's especially lethal.

If the voltage is high enough, there is no way to break the circuit anyway. The electricity will just arc across the (ionized) air, even if the computer physically disconnect it. Assuming the computer itself isn't killed by the spark, which is pretty likely. This is why linemen on high voltage lines don't even try to electrically insulate themselves when they're working with it live. Ask wikipedia:

For high-voltage and extra-high-voltage transmission lines, specially trained personnel use "live line" techniques to allow hands-on contact with energized equipment. In this case the worker is electrically connected to the high-voltage line but thoroughly insulated from the earth so that he is at the same electrical potential as that of the line. Since training for such operations is lengthy, and still presents a danger to personnel, only very important transmission lines are subject to maintenance while live. Outside these properly engineered situations, insulation from earth does not guarantee that no current flows to earth—as grounding or arcing to ground can occur in unexpected ways, and high-frequency currents can burn even an ungrounded person. Touching a transmitting antenna is dangerous for this reason, and a high-frequency Tesla Coil can sustain a spark with only one endpoint).
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I would have really appreciated them dispatching someone to my door to wake me up.