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Of course, yes, I didn't mean that compiling C++ is good for web apps in general. Just for a small subset like certain games and so forth.

Btw, you can access the DOM from compiled C++ (and asm.js), for example

http://kripken.github.io/mloc_emscripten_talk/qcon.html#/33

but again, I would not recommend that for general apps. It's useful when you do need to quickly do something in the DOM though, and you are actually writing something that benefits from compiling C++.
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I came here to say just that. I'm a retina MBP owner. I'd dump it in a heartbeat for something powerful with long battery life, high DPI matte screen, and decent enough Ubuntu support. Are manufacturers missing out, or are we just a really tiny market?
> Don't take this the wrong way, but you mention the effect on globalization as if it were obvious that the damage should worry the American government

Oh, certainly not. I don't think they are or will be concerned...
Quick answer: links. Hypertext. It's important enough to the original vision of this whole contraption to actually be the name.

While were reminiscing... In 1994, the web felt like technology. You typed in "http://" and it felt exotic. You were connecting to a server. Literally: _a_ server. You wondered what would happen if you hit the same address with gopher or (more likely) telnet.

As often as not, something would happen.
...or if the IRS conducts an audit and just shows up, wondering why someone would buy a home, list it as their address, but not bother furnishing it.
DNS is a good solution here, but it also seems appropriate to highlight that you shouldn't need to be connecting to these instances directly. As others said, some type of configuration tool should be in place, logs should be centralized, storage should be centralized, queues should be elsewhere. Painful ssh config is a symptom of a different issue.
best of luck! :D
I actually see these as an opportunity to improve existing code, plus doing something new and different. However, to cover myself, I ask for thorough specifications and test-cases, to which I add risk analysis etc. If it doesn't go exactly right, I blame the specifications.
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The bananaBench link 404s,

http://kripken.github.io/mloc_emscripten_talk/banana/benchma...

Forgot to copy it to gh-pages?
How to make a mobile app into a smart mobile app?
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Even though 'MagSafe' wasn't necessarily an Apple invention (things like deep fryers had magnetic 'break-away' cords), I believe that Apple patented the 'magnetic power connector' + computer combination.
So if you are running an application and editing a config file at the same time, that becomes undefined behaviour? No thanks... I'll keep my atomic interaction.

Do you also continuously merge your feature branches with mainline in realtime?
> everything on the internet seemed so much more meaningful

Back then it almost felt like we were in the heroic age of internet communities, to borrow a phrase used about a period of American inventors. It'll never be like that again, but there are more good things coming in the future.
OK, but this is not in any way Bitcoin-specific. You can do this with USD also. Again, as I noted elsewhere, the mafia has this exact problem: they have too much money to avoid being a blip (hence money laundering operations). What is the use of money that you cannot spend?

Like I said, people cheat on their taxes all the time, and they often get away with it. Bitcoin does not add anything to this. The IRS knows how to audit cash, which is vastly more anonymous than Bitcoin.
See also http://langlangmatrix.com/
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Sure, because you're paying for blocks of wood in gil, carving them into figurines, and exchanging the figurines for gil at a profit? And there's a (reasonably) liquid market turning gil into dollars and back? Then they may well come knocking at your door, if the amounts are meaningful.

There's an admittedly fine line, with in-game "property" sold on ebay when most players are just wanting to play the game... but with bitcoin it's nowhere near that fine line, particularly when you're engaging in manifestly economic activity like the above with real-world things.
Honestly, our laws haven't been based on any legal principles for a long time. It's a long list of special cases, just because.
This is the type of rock-solid and generous advice that makes HN so valuable.
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I believe the marketing guidelines only require the touch screen if your design uses 4th generation core processors. You can still market new designs for Ultrabooks using 3rd generation parts if you really want
Large companies will never ever manage to fill all niches. It's just not in their nature.

A small business that makes enough for one or two people to survive is a perfectly valid goal, but it's not a "startup" as defined by pg and others.
How many of those languages contain words you understand?
No, but even read only access to private repos is a problem. A lot of that code belongs to my employer and I can't in good conscience grant access to it even if I want to.

I'm not sure why having an empty account is something you care to filter on. If someone really wants to pretend to be a dev, forcing them to click "Create new repo" before they sign up isn't going to provide much of a barrier. You're already basically taking them at their word so I'd recommend just dropping the requirement.
How on earth is this post getting voted so high right now?

How do you write a post and make a statement like this without one single example? Seriously, give me a list of mobile app companies that failing in this manner and scale.

I could rattle off plenty of mobile startups that went the raise-money -> no-traction -> acquihire route. But I don't know what he's talking about here and he offered no data to back it up.
A port number is just a port number, it doesn't define what protocol is in use. You can serve different protocols across it - the limitation is that generally you can only have one service listening on a port number. A youtube page will require a couple of different protocols.
What does that even mean? Aren't 1600x900 just much sharper 800x450 screens?
What do you mean windows doesn't support it?
Thanks for the practical feedback on managing workflow. It's useful to me as a person who's just getting into developing mobile apps.
This sounds like the future of automobile - why do we still need to step out of our cars to refuel?
"Return the pack on your journey back or keep it & we'll bill you the difference."

Are there different battery types/options available that cost different prices?
I suppose you need a large carrier for a large message to be hidden. Very high resolution home movies maybe? I assume you can't use content that is already public, as then the original can be compared with the modified version to prove that hidden data exists.
The Vermont Prison Overfeeding Study actually perfectly explains what you experience on low calorie diets.

http://idealbodyweights.blogspot.com/2009/08/vermont-prison-...

"The rapid weight loss these prisoners experienced is the mirror image of what happens when overweight people try to lose weight. If your set point is too high and you try to lose weight quickly, your body will fight to defend that weight and slow down your metabolism. But if your set point is within a normal range, your metabolism will speed up when you gain weight quickly."

In other words, if you have been fat for a while, then drastically reducing calories will cause your body to fight the changes, which will make you feel sick and cold for a while. That said, adjustment is inevitable.

Low carb and zero carb diets are great for losing weight reliably though, because without carbs the pancreas does not secrete insulin, which means your body cannot store the excess calories in adipose tissue. So it either has to burn it or excrete it.
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I think that the idea that "using crypto will cause the nsa to keep your data longer" is a hindrance to progress. Everyone should be using crypto and everyone should have privacy. When we begin to be afraid of what someone will do if we protect our interests, we start giving up those interests and that is not something I am prepared to do.
Ok, thanks for the clarification.

So, can a govt drone fly 100' over my house and photography me sunbathing nude in my fenced backyard?
Hi, I wrote that presentation. The reason that I usually compare Firefox and Chrome and not others is basically because Firefox and Chrome are easy to test. It's very simple to get the shell versions of the two browsers' JS engines, build them, and run them, and benchmarking in the shell is much simpler than otherwise. In contrast:

* Internet Explorer is Windows-only. I run Linux. There are some free VMs now, but you can't benchmark in a VM, it would be unfair. Also, even on Windows, I am not sure if Chakra has a shell version (does it?)

* Safari is OS X only (and again, I run Linux). JSC, its JS engine, has a shell version. This would be great, but the only way to build it on Linux is apparently to build the Qt-WebKit port of WebKit (whereas apparently on OS X it is very simple). I've tried a few times to follow guides on how to do that, and it always fails somewhere in their dependencies. Not sure if the guides are wrong or if something in my distro's Qt deps is not a proper match. A few projects do embed JSC, and are easy to build on Linux, but the snapshots are dated - to benchmark I really want the very latest code, or else it would be unfair to JSC. (Btw, if there is a simpler way to build JSC on Linux, I would really like to know!)

I do sometimes benchmark those two, but it means finding a machine I can borrow for that purpose, which takes time, so it is rare.

(And I don't benchmark Opera because they are moving to V8, which I already benchmark anyhow.)
NSA Dark Star is capable of holding way more than five years of all voice and internet traffic.

Something tells me that number is going to be made into decades.

Unless maybe they are planning to store five years of all the drone video recordings over every major city.
You don't in New Jersey and Oregon. Gas attendants do that for you.
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What the world needs is spammers who would be diligent enough to encrypt their spam with your public key. You would have to use a client-based spam filter, but such a small price to pay.
Seconded. If any manufacturer intends to give a "developer notebook" a go, a matte screen would be the first thing on my wish list.
Yes, there are a few batteries types with different capacities that give various range to the car. So it sounds like the ones who bought a lower-capacity battery can extend their range by swapping their battery while traveling.
Yeah, I have a working touchscreen in Linux and it doesn't seem to actually be good for anything. Well, maybe it has made me become a bit more careful about touching my screen, lest my window lose focus or something...
This article would be more convincing with examples.
That's even more backwards in my opinion. The fact that it takes a human to fuel the car was my point.
This is great but remember no existing model can do a battery swap.

Only the next gen which has been re-engineered will be able.
You, sir, are the voice of reason. I'm pushing an update now that removes those conditions.
Another great way is to just modify ~/.ssh/config
To something like this:

host alias
hostName thehostname
user your_username

I like the work in the article, but many times when I think I need to whip up a sweet script to fix some problem in the terminal I find the old neckbeards already wrote it, polished it, and left it on the shelf for me to use.
I should put in a more direct link, yeah. But basically those numbers are the emscripten benchmark suite, get the code and run tests/runner.py benchmark

The numbers are very dated by now, btw. Real-time information is here: http://arewefastyet.com/#machine=11&view=breakdown&suite=asm...
This is very interesting. Not interesting, but not boring.
Not so sure about that: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/347082201596321794
> Apple [...] can store communications for evermore. And NSA can easily get a copy anytime, via a rubber stamp by a judge in the secret court.

"There are certain categories of information which we do not provide to law enforcement or any other group because we choose not to retain it.

For example, conversations which take place over iMessage and FaceTime are protected by end-to-end encryption so no one but the sender and receiver can see or read them. Apple cannot decrypt that data."

https://www.apple.com/apples-commitment-to-customer-privacy/
Screw the traditional org structure .
I have to agree with this at some level. I have seen startups trying to pull this type of crap. I haven't figured out why, it could be because they are trying to create "elite culture" that just doesn't fit or they are trying to seem more special so you will put up with BS and 60h+ weeks.
Is the defendant bound by that rule?
It'd be true what's he saying only if you asked one question; what's the point of agile development? Is it to just release a better product faster? Don't startups need to do something that others aren't doing? Imagine a world where somehow, everyone is doing agile development on mobile; so we'd just get better quality apps faster but how would a startup become successful in a sea of otherwise also high quality and rapidly iterative apps? The very vicious cycle that he's warning us against, in another form, is exactly what he's advocating.
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open source also sounded crazy when Richard Stallman announced his manifesto.

rms: "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

(Background: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.h...)
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Wow. This is incredible. Nicely designed, electric power vehicles. Incredible. Finally, after around 130 years of IC engine, we are onto the next step. And this step is such a simple method to refuel. Better than spending 30 mins recharging from ground up.

Why are we going towards electric vehicles? To reduce dependency upon conventional fuels.
From where will electricity come? Nuclear Energy.

Can long term derivative benefits and harm be predicted? Spent nuclear fuel storage and getting rare earth minerals seem to be only obvious ones to me.
This was previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4389061. My comment

Two points

1. Yes, most startups failed in 1999 and most startups are failing now. This isn't unexpected. Anytime, there is a boom in startups, most of them are going to fail.

If the first 10 startups succeed there will be 100 more. If the first million startups succeed, there will be 10 million more. Ultimately, most of them will fail.

2. imo Andrew is mistaken in assuming that the failures are due to startups having a "super high bar for initial quality in their version 1".

If anything, I'd say that the quality of many apps is too low, Many of the big-name apps are often unstable and crash (not just in the V1 version, but in later versions as well)
IANAL but as I understand it, they need a FISA or regular federal search warrant if the data is collected for a "criminal investigation", but do not need a warrant if it was previously collected under a national security program. In a criminal case, they have up to 72 hours to get a warrant, if they give an actual wiretap order.

This may be different in a "national security" investigation, where the PATRIOT Act is involved.
The clever tactic here is that it may not matter if they gain access to the records or not. That's less important than it seems. All they have to do is plant a seed of doubt in the jurors.

That's the step that's going to make this all rather crazy. I could claim my classified phone records put me on the other side of the country, whether it's true or false. It'll still create that doubt, and the gov't will deny the records exist either way.
For "electronic devices" in general actually, but yes: http://www.google.com/patents/US7311526

They also don't license it, which is why you don't see it anywhere else.
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I expect they'll also run a full set of tests on the battery, so they could charge you more if you give them an old worn-down battery and get a new battery in exchange.
More confused now. You are worried about a GPA or a lesser adversary?
I have a pet theory that a key reason this bubble is lasting so long is because it's not happening to retail investors.

When IPOs turn bad, lots of people notice. When a angel or VC firm loses a few million dollars, nobody except a handful of cognoscenti know or care.
I am unable to determine the accuracy of this post. This is not a bad thing, but also not a good thing.
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Except that the entire point of the article is that it is not "pretty simple," but quite a bit more nuanced...
Startup or not, you need a plan and a real value proposition. Most people building apps don't have much of either. You need:

- To understand what pain you are solving, and have a compelling reason to believe a mobile app is a suitable solution and not a solution in search of a problem.

- What competition there is, and how you will beat them or at least compete on level footing. If there is no competition there is probably no market.

- Understand who your audience is.

- Understand how to message your audience. And understand out to get that message out.

- Have a way to get feedback, and have a conversation with your audience.

- Have a way to leverage your early adopters to drive more usage.

- Have a way to put money and time in one end and get positive App Store reviews out the other. (Pre-requisites: a product people really like.)

- Understand your fixed and variable costs. Understand your margins.

- Have a way to measure success or failure. Have a way to A/B test and iterate. Be able to see what people are doing in your app and where they are falling off.

- Have an plan on how to do all this quickly and objectively.

- Be able to tell the difference between a doomed idea and an app that just needs product refinement.

- Make calculated risks that can be measured. Throwing a giant PR launch over the fence and saying a prayer is not a calculated, measurable risk.
Part of the message of the text is about establishing connections — that someone reading the text the author wrote is "magical". The magic works both ways. The author should get to enjoy his analytics and "see" people reading his words. It's one of the great benefits of publishing on the web.
It's only wishful thinking at this stage, but I'm really looking forward to fusion power. Conventional nuclear has many downsides that fusion doesn't suffer from.
I'm puzzled why you think so. Google could offer customers the choice of paying for private communication and storage. It would be cheap enough to be practical. It would also be a direct way to solve the problem of trust.
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If every car had NASCAR style fill holes all in the same place, a robot could probably insert a hose and fill you up. As it is now, I would not trust an automatic robot arm to locate my fuel door, open my fuel door, twist off my cap, place cap in out of way spot, insert hose to fill, replace cap and close fuel door without ever scratching my car. Who is responsible when it malfunctions and scratches the shit out of it? Or misses and pumps gass all over the ground? Right now if that happens, it is my fault and I'll deal with the fix later. I'd rather not have to deal with some service station who is just going to claim the fault is with the robot manufacturer who is probably going to blame the car manufacturer. I can pump my own gas, thanks. (I'm looking at you too Oregon!)
Only if it pushes developers to make the tools dead-simple to use. If it is harder to use than facebook, 99% of the population will not bother.
I'm still waiting for Mr. Fusion in my car.
Its "deep learning" data hahaha.
Eh, that sort of thing was already reasonable a few years ago and open source software hasn't really gotten much bigger since then. Some projects have actually gotten smaller. (Browsers are the glaring exception. I don't envy anyone building their own firefox or chromium these days..)
> When it's their private property, they can have their cake and eat it too. I can let everyone in town into my living room but capriciously disallow you one day because I realize you have attached earlobes. That's just how license works.

And if I come back wearing prosthetic ears, is that a felony?
> From where will electricity come? Nuclear Energy.

Tesla is giving free "solar" energy through its supercharger network.
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I don't know if this is true. But.

One mistake I see a lot of companies making is treating mobile like a sandbox. And I say this having gone through a 3 month accelerator that was for companies doing mobile apps. The ones that succeed, or even have a chance of succeeding, build a platform, into which mobile is a conduit. Outside of games, there are very few mobile apps I can think of that wouldn't be better built in this way. Call it "the cloud", a platform, or whatever you like. The point is, mobile is hot right now, but a solid business is more than an interface, it's a service.
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Could also extend it to include a charge for the first month's usage.

Once the requisite number of upboats is met, the funds can be transferred to the idea holder, less a clip of the ticket.

This would also improve confidence that the validation is genuinely representative of user willingness to spend money - if I get 1000 upboats for a new service, but I plan on charging $49 a month for it, I still have no idea if I've validated people willing to pay $49 for it. Pledging that money and then collecting it at goal reached (Kickstarter model) would help alleviate this, and I think make for much more compelling investor discussions.
> "solar" energy

A.k.a. Fusion. ;)
Be careful - using crypto at all makes you a suspect now.

See Ars Technica: Use of Tor and e-mail crypto could increases chances that NSA keeps your data
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/use-of-tor-and-e-...
If you access a known account through Tor or any other identity hiding protocol could possibly expose you. And I wonder if it is impossible for US government to break encryption if it is specifically after you.
That is great. "Over time, Tesla plans to add solar canopies to all Supercharger stations."
Have you noticed that display resolution is often not even listed in tech specs anymore?
While I do agree that copy is an important and valid starting point, don't dismiss the power of images either.

This[1] is a very important and meaningful symbol in any language.

[1]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/A14...
Give me a break. The foundation of the valley was military dollars for the silicon industry and research labs, plus aerospace. It's always been part of our DNA.
Zotero has a feature which will attempt to read metadata from a PDF and create a bibliographic reference for the PDF.

It also has a feature which allows you to rename the PDF based on the bibliographic reference it creates.

Using those two together has been a really easy way to earn brownie points with my professor boss.
> This is a web page.

Pretentious drivel more like.
Is feedly the best Google reader alternative?
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