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Fastmail has earned its name recently - it's freaking fast now. Much faster than gmail.
> Perfect Forward Secrecy means that even if you want to you cannot decrypt old messages

Which means, if they're jailing you until you do decrypt the messages, you get jailed indefinitely. Contempt of court has very few limits in some circumstances, even compared to being imprisoned after being convicted of a crime:

http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-3rd-circuit/1262859.html
I'd go with what I'm better or what is better for the team skills... usually I stick with Ruby, Python or PHP.

I'd love to build something in Scala someday. :)
>C# is tied to MS stack. I know, there's Mono, but I'm somehow sceptical using it for a web app...

I don't understand why the initial reaction to Mono is always skepticism. No one's first reaction to other open-source projects is instant skepticism...
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But I do care about control and privacy. I have a few clients who I likely will be moving to Google Apps but it's not really what I'm looking for. That's $50/year per user, which is a fine price for the amount of space you get but far too much for me when I would much rather divide that 30GB into 30x1GB mailboxes. That being said, it looks like their alias features are very agreeable (30 addresses, 20 domains).
If you don't want to reinvent the wheel then you should be using PHP.
OK I have a probably naive cryptography question. It seems that one good way of transmitting secrets would be to do so with everyone thinking they are encrypted one way (or possibly not at all) when the truth is they are encrypted another way. I.e. a difficult problem to know when the message has been unencrypted. So basically there would be multiple ways to read the message which are plausible as the true unencrypted message. Is there any parallel to that sort of thing in modern cryptography?
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Even for non-colorblind folks, Apple's use of white text over light colored or detail heavy images (depending on your background or for example what song you are listening to in the case of the lock screen) is extremely troublesome.

Edit: Here's an example of the lock screen going hilariously wrong: http://i.imgur.com/pZhkpmC.jpg

But even when it's just the default green background the text is hard to read at a glance.
If they can beat a key out of you, they can beat you for any reason, or no reason at all.
Makes sense to me =) I just asked for a copy. I want to know what they are tracking and how fully, also a Freedom of Information Act sounds like they are more likely to comply than to Quash it. Of course, I would like to have it deleted after I get my copy...
>This simply isn't true. Obama ran on being Bush's third and fourth terms and that's what we got.

No, he ran on the exact opposite - being the anti-Bush. Maybe you saw through that are remembering what you perceived instead.

And there's no "hidden power" in so far as the Federal bureaucracy is anything but hidden. Secretive maybe, but not hidden.

>If anything we need a stronger and more professional bureaucracy that's less eager to help the President break the law.

Agreed. That would be ideal. There are elements of it, but it's not universal.
If we accept all claims to be true, that the NSA does have a PRISM program, and is able to get data from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, etc., and we also accept the claims from those companies that they have provided no 'direct access' to their systems, then perhaps SSL is broken?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/03/13/cryptog...
"Drawing from the fashion world, there was a period of time where you’d find hipsters around town wearing neon clothing, but they’ve long since passed neon onto the bros. Never take fashion advice from the bros."

Man, this guy sounds like a real expert.
I have never quite understood the weird limbo the "party system" seems to be in. On one hand, how they run themselves is not law, they just do it according to a bunch of internal rules each agreed on. There certainly isn't anything in the constitution about them either. On the other hand you have state laws like North Carolina's that legally recognizes and enforces the concept of a "party".

All very bizarre.
I'm not sure I see the difference. Once you've commited your 1 Bitcoin at today's value, you have effectively paid that price, irrespective of when you receive the product.

If the value of Bitcoin fluctuates between now and the time you receive your product, then you may "lose" or "win", but that's a chance you take, even with the product in hand. In other words, there is still the possibility that your 1 Bitcoin could have allowed you to purchase something more valuable than the product in hand at some point down the road.

Seems that the only thing you give up with a preorder is the interest potential or use of the money for some period before receiving the value (i.e. product). But, that would be the case with a preorder irrespective of the currency used.
I think you're confused about what objective and subjective mean. It doesn't mean that you declare that doth now maketh an objective statement. Instead it's a manner of speaking where subjective evaluations are instead stated as if they are fact.

Hamburgers are better than hot dogs. Dogs are better than cats.

Okay, bad examples, because those are objective truths. How about-

Yellow is better than blue.

It was clear enough, after the whole hipster "not like bros" nonsense, with the "Actually if we’re being completely honest, its colors look like they were pulled straight out of Windows Metro. (And that’s not a good thing!)" bit.

Microsoft has a lot of designers. I'll bet a bunch of them will objectively make statements of claimed factual truth if given the chance. Metro has a lot of designer boosters (indeed, many in the iOS camp are boosters of the overall mix of design found in Metro). But instead of apparently realizing that they have a particular impression, the blog author is under the confused delusion that they have observations of fundamental truth. Maybe it's a narrative exercise to make an argument more convincing, but alas, such yields the sort of reply that I made.
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Well you better be very careful about what you say because you don't want to denied entry to the US now do you?
Stripe wants their web design back
Previous comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5717237
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I'm sure there is some useful information they could glean, but in large part key indicators of pre-crime are already blatantly obvious or present too great a risk of false positives.

The latter is what worries me. If they come up with what they believe to be the right algorithm and run it against their data, what then? Are we then in the position where we have to a) prove our innocence in a crime that hasn't even been committed, or b) become the targets of increased scrutiny and restrictions?
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I quite like the icons.
The US Constitution allows the Federal government to manage copyright; it doesn't force it, so you could still make the case that it shouldn't (just not on Constitutional grounds).
Sure. Ask away.

It worked extremely well. I feel that I typically have a very hard time concentrating on learning new skills due to day-to-day constant context switching (I'm a Sysadmin/Devops by day).

I use Modafinil to focus and tCDS to boost my skills acquisition/retention rate. I haven't done any sort of study on myself to measure control vs tCDS time, but I definitely "feel" an increased rate of moving up the skills ladder (in this case, learning French, Spanish, and Russian).
For some reasons, the icons look much better individually than together on the Home Screen. I guess this proves the "Design by committee" theory.
I'm pretty sure that the answer is no - considering that Chrome does not use Webkit anymore.
I can't decide which one is worse, Safari or Settings.

Apple's always had quality control issues, but when the main theme of the keynote is iOS 7's new look, and the first thing they show you are those icons, it makes me think that they are having serious execution issues.

Even if they improve them later (one can hope), it's a lost chance to wow us, which has always been Apple's thing and the whole reason for the keynote.
I like this because I'm interested in creating more cross-platform projects.

By that I mean, not only does this webapp work on recent versions of Internet Explorer, but a developer can easily get up and running on it using windows (as well as Linux or OS X). I don't want a situation of “you should really be using this OS to develop on this project, and not those other ones”.

I don't want to go out and pay for windows just to do this. It's not my primary OS, and it isn't going to be. But I do want to be able to say, “you can easily develop and run my app on Windows”. Having something like this from Microsoft might be just the push I need to make that happen.
jQuery 1.10.1 gzipped is 32kb. jQuery 2.0.0 gzipped is 29kb. Quantify "much lighter" for me?
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I particularly hate when someone does things like (1)

<a href="navigateToFoo()">

when it should be

<a href="foo.htm">

so I can't middle click it or Ctrl-click it to open in a new tab. Even worse if there's (2)

href="#"

added, which upon middle click will happily load the page I'm currently on inside the new tab.

I have an extension in Firefox which changes the mouse cursor for (1) from pointer (hand), so I can easily distinguish that case, I hope this became a W3C standard somehow (though the standard way for executing JS are buttons, not anchors, so probably it won't ever become standardized).
Someone stole my video, uploaded it to MSN.com. What can I do?
So first of all I already did the forms that MSN and Youtube have to make people take down and it has been 3 hours with nothing yet. I took this video in Cambodia and put it up on the 10th. It seems that someone named 535monkey on youtube and jokeroo on msn reposted it, took credit for it, and is now reaping the benefits. Here is my video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITmU4JnnWU0 And here where he ripped it off and reposted it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITmU4JnnWU0 http://msnvideo.msn.com/?channelindex=2&from=en-us_msnhpvidmod#/video/0d9aad38-d81b-4007-bbed-348b883e9a06
Absolutely, there's a nice looking project for Ember called ember-model (https://github.com/ebryn/ember-model) which looks promising for addressing this shortcoming.
Let's not forget Dropbox
I'm following the boglehead philosophy http://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Bogleheads_Investment_Philoso...

Picking individual stokcs requires a lot of time , energy and knowledge.

Since I need to put my focus on the things that is working and brings income, I do not want to distract myself.

If this method can be broken down into steps, it would be
1. Decide your Asset allocation.
eg : US stocks 20%
US bonds 20%
Developed market 20%
Emerging Market 10%
REITS 20%
2. Pick low MER ETFs for each category.
3. Check & Rebalance your portfolio regularly.
4. No matter what happens stick to your asset allocation.

There are many books explaining this. "THe blogleheads' guide to investing" would be good start.

You cannot become like a next Warren Buffett with this strategy. But you can focus on the things you are good at, while your money is growing.
I would expect a greater factor.

In this case, this is good news for Ruby.
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You need to go look up "prototype" ;)
He probably writes the way he speaks. Bad idea. People are generally fantastic at parsing speech, and terrible at parsing writing.

Or, as I'd say it:

Well, if I had to guess, I'd say he probably writes in a similar way to the way he speaks; or at least; the way he would like to speak if he had three minutes to think up every sentence he had to utter. This may not be such a good idea as it sounds, unless you have a term paper due, of course. Because human beings have been speaking for roughly the same time that we've been making jokes about funny shaped fruit, we have fantastic wiring in our noggins for translating the sounds we utter into thoughts, but simply don't have the same capacity to decode the same kind of syntax if it has been scratched on cave walls, or written on parchment, of displayed in glyphs on some kind of screen or whatever your medium of choice is for writing.
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Did Apple's iOS 7 just create $20k in UI debt OR opportunity for developers?
The article is about dating and the author is clearly drunk on female hypergamy; she even uses the words alpha male to describe the kind of person she'd like to date.

How stupid is that? Alpha refers to the silverback amongst a group of mountain gorillas. If you say you want the "alpha male" that's tantamount to admitting that your mating preferences are less sophisticated than a baboon's.

What happened to choosing someone of good character, who would make a good father to your children? What about that?

And she tops off this stupidity and over-entitlement by going on about how she's perfected herself. So, arrogant too.

She's so unpleasant that it made me enjoy reading about her suffering. Lady, do the men a favour and go lesbian.
Ask HN: How do you and your team share code snippets?
How does your team share snippets of code with each other? Simple chat? Skype? Gists?

Do you think there is a better way of doing this?
... how do you know what major web applications are written in? A lot of companies go to some length to obscure this.

Also, aren't a lot of rather big names into Python publicly? Disqus, Pinterest, Dropbox, Everbrite, SurveyMonkey.. There are just the ones I can remember talking about using Python.
I don't necessarily disagree with you, I just always prefer to sit more on the side of 'don't reinvent the wheel if you don't have to'. I don't think creating an n-th competing format is the answer here.

In the examples in your final paragraph, surely what is needed there is a new tool, not a new data format?

I think the larger 'problem' (if it really is a problem, and not just hackers wanting to believe they know the One True Way) is that there is no such thing as the typical 'scientist'. Every small sub-discipline has its own needs, its own standards that it has settled on and its own toolchain. There is definitely room for improvement within every one of these small areas, but there's no global problem that needs solving.
They do. People just wants to bitch and whine about iOS 7. :)
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I'm not an old man, but I'm not young anymore, either. Maybe it's "these kids today", or maybe it's that I now live in an urban/suburban area much different than rural area where I grew up, and where I spent the start of my adult life. But for now the inability of those around me to fix things stands out to me. Fixing a leaking faucet, laying a laminate floor, putting a roof rack on a car, all of it gets hired out by nearly everyone I know. Or just throw stuff out and buy a new one.

Maybe it's because we're all making good money now and choose to spend our time doing something else while someone gets paid to do the things we choose not to. Friends were going to put in laminate floor. I told them, "it's so easy, you'd be embarrassed to pay someone else to do it". They were going to pay someone anyway until the contractor flaked out. To their credit, with a lot of my tools and guidance, they went ahead and did the job, and got a lot of satisfaction out of it.

I'm not lamenting anything. It's more an observation of how many in my current circle are surprised I can install my own garage door opener, and how it would be assumed I would of course do so by those around me not so many years ago.
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I think you're misunderstanding the part about pure colors. I am not a designer, but I think it's that you won't really find pure colors around in the real world. Greys will always have some tint, blueish or yellowish perhaps. People will consider one colder and the other warm. If you use pure grey, the design will look dull, the same is true with other colours. The same thing in music, if you only use simple non-embelished chords, your music will sound amateurish, dull and un-inspired.
No doubt. It gets worse though... Say you don't want to affiliate with a party, and you just want to run as an "independent" or "unaffiliated" candidate: You still have to go through an onerous process of paperwork, fees, petitions, etc. to get on the ballot. Even worse, you have to petition to be recognized as a write in candidate!!

Think about that for a minute... You have to be recognized by the State, to be a write-in candidate. Is there a bigger oxymoron in existence than "certified write-in candidate"? But if you don't do it, no votes cast for you will be counted. Even if you seemingly earned what would be a landslide victory, it wouldn't count, because they totally disregard any write-in votes that aren't certified ahead of time.

And people think our system of government isn't rigged and corrupt... sheesh.
So basically iOS is UI bondage, restricting you to be more fun. It should hardly be surprising that not everybody is into that.
It wasn't always this way, at least in the US. There was a time when many more high positions were appointed, and could be replaced by incoming administrations, though especially at first it didn't tend to happen all that often. But then certain figures got the idea that they could use government jobs as rewards for campaign support, and after a couple of decades of this, the "spoils system" (as it was called) was pretty much ruined for everybody.
The point is as long as the data is there it can be abused. A law saying that it cannot be accessed except in terrorism related cases is effectively meaningless because it could still be accessed illegally in secret, or the law could change in the future.
How timely. This NSA fiasco has prompted me to finish up an old project https://boxuptext.com/, which is a convenient webapp to encrypt message to url entirely on the browser. It's ready for use.

Not many people use crypto because in general it's hard to set up and hard to use. A webapp is accessible and easy to use and provide reasonable security.

I know there's a prevailing view against doing crypto in Javascript, and I've gone the extra steps to address the negatives. At the end I think the benefits of doing javascript on the browser outweigh the negatives. See https://boxuptext.com/faq#benefits
"You get a bunch of people hanging out high"

Doesn't that assume though that the "bunch" is a bunch of the same size?

I would argue that the bunch will become larger that is that more people with a predisposition will get hooked on the high.

Of course we don't know that number. Could be 1% higher could be 20% higher. Compared to the other societal costs people might judge it to be a fair tradeoff. Or not.
He does know who owns those computers, and did not include any government computers on the list.

It's completely possible that these computers (or netblocks) were used as jumping off points for attacks against the U.S. or U.S. companies. We'll probably never know, but there certainly isn't enough information in the article to determine whether or not this was legitimate counterintelligence activity or whether these computers were reasonably targeted.
it has been tried on humans only twice AFAIK
I sure hope that it's gonna accelerate a solution to the one big problem I have with AppFog ... lack of persisent storage. According to the roadmap it should have high priority but it's been a while since I heard anything about it.
How do you write pure functions and procedures outside classes in C#?
>I can barely sleep at night when I think of all the people who still write Java on browser...

You are probably talking about Java Applets. No one is writing web apps as Java Applets anymore (if you could even call something like that a web app). We're talking about real web apps, and a lot of companies are using Java to build them (e.g. Gmail and a lot of other Google Products, ...). Plus, the JVM is a great runtime for other (more dynamic, less verbose) languages like Scala or Groovy.
So they sold out on nearly all of their social/health policies in exchange for the AV referendum and Lords reform and got outplayed by the Tories both times.

Indeed. As I said, I think they've misplayed their hand terribly. Having got into government, instead of using their unexpected influence to further their agenda and show themselves to be worthy of more support in future, they tried to solidify their position by the back door, playing political games with the electoral system. This was a lose-no win situation for them, because the only deals seriously on the table in each case weren't really going to fix the obvious problems with our electoral systems, they were just going to make them slightly less bad. And in reality, the two big parties were never going to let the Lib Dems cement their position in government so easily and were always going to win both of those battles at almost any cost, so it was really a lose-lose proposition from the start. Someone forgot to read Sun Tzu.

I'm more worried about Labour coming into power in 2015 and forcing it through before there is much chance for people to get angry about it.

I'm think that's a very unlikely possibility at the moment. The Labour party seems to be a political non-entity under Miliband, so I find the idea that they will run an effective campaign in the run up to 2015 implausible unless something dramatic changes. I think too many people's memories will be too long for them to fight back this time even if they run a brilliant campaign. Too many bad things clearly happened on their watch under Blair/Brown, and too many of those responsible are still in positions of influence in the party, and there aren't enough believable alternatives to spin their way out of responsibility so soon.

My current bet would be for another hung parliament, with none of the big three parties doing particularly well in terms of popular respect, a modest surge in support for several smaller parties and particularly UKIP, but little really changing in 2015 because the first past the post system will mean the devils you know still take almost all of the seats anyway. What happens with Scottish independence will be a factor by then, too. Ironically, another hung parliament but with more minority votes effectively discarded to get there might lead to renewed calls to fix the election system in the way the Lib Dems haven't managed to push through in this administration, which in turn would move us away from a tendency to swap between two parties every few years and towards more regular coalition or ad-hoc alliance arrangements.

But of course 2015 is an eternity away in political terms, so I might change my expectations after seeing the news tomorrow, and change them many more times before the next general election.
Yes, it's a matter of taste. Perhaps my analogy was a bit harsh :).
The only evidence the WH was involved

High level officials stonewalling and taking the fifth don't give me a lot of confidence that we've discovered from where the effort was directed. A Special Prosecutor is really needed.

Obama sucks at fighting misinformation, but he is certainly not a dictator

Yes, the countless times that he told us that "if Congress doesn't act, I will." The number of issues like immigration where DHS is extra-counting at-the-border stops as deportations and then explicitly not enforcing the immigration laws. The NSA and AP issues stepping all over basic rights.

Good thing he doesn't have the complete power of a dictator.
It's a joke. I would rather have a root canal than have the wait staff of a chain restaurant come around and sing me one of their obnoxious birthday ditties.
Have you ever seen PyCharm http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/? I do feel it is a much better solution than what Eclipse has to offer.
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