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> For me, it's not even javascript anymore. Objective-C and Java rule 2013 since web apps are not as pleasant to use on mobile.

I think this is bad. Not because the technology isn't good, but because small companies (or idealistic organizations, or others with a small budget) will have to implement useful apps for several platforms. Perhaps they cannot afford it (or think it's too much hassle, or don't care).

E.g., say that there is a product made to make life easier for people with a certain disease. Perhaps some users will have to switch device in order to use it. And maybe there are other apps they need which are available only for their old device. (And don't forget that are other platforms than iOS and Android as well, including desktop.)

Web apps (either run on the web, or natively) solves this problem, even though I agree that JavaScript, with it's myriad of ways to shoot yourself in the foot, is not ideal.

Like another commenter pointed out, there are options for compiling to multiple platforms. But it often doesn't seem to happen that way, and perhaps it's not always possible or feasible.
It's not exactly him. In my experience most Russians are homophobic to the core, unless they know some LBGT personally.
>OP never says Western Languages descended from Sanskrit, you are making that part up. The fact is that many Indian languages descended from it (or rather from the natural form, Prakrit, as opposed to the classical form). This is similar to how Romance languages (Spanish, French, Italian and Portugese) evolved from Vulgar Latin.

He's not necessarily :making it up_. It's quite common for Indians, and even Indian linguists to spread ridiculous ideas about Sanskrit, including it being "perfect", "better than other languages", "holy", and quite commonly "all other languages descending from it" as well as the claim of Sanskrit being "the first language".

There's a lot of things in that blogpost that would make most linguists facepalm (especially the part about Sanskrit being "more expressive" and "more systematic"). The idea that Sanskrit is an ancestor language for other languages (far away from the Indo-Aryan group) goes quite hand in hand with these ridiculous notions.
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Is Amazon using EEC ram in their servers? Has anyone ever asked if they do?
Another presentation making similar conclusions, but with different arguments, that I recently saw on reddit (not sure if it made it to HN).

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/web-development-technique...

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1eiykw/web_deve...

(back to me...)

I wonder if the pendulum is finally swinging back, to working with the affordances of the web, instead of fighting them. I hope so.

This might have an interesting relationship to the rise of mobile. It's still not possible to rival native apps with HTML apps on mobile (a controversial assertion, but one that is 'trending' too) -- so if you ARE building a web app, you've got to actually have reasons to prefer web apps. Even if that's just cost/speed of development. But if you've actually chosen to build a web app, maybe you're more likely to want to work within the web instead of fighting it. If you don't like the architecture of the web, you could have just written a native app instead.
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Sanskrit is an artificial language. No wonder why it resembles programming languages.
Now you can take AP courses, or "Advanced Placement". Through my high school each test was about $80, you're graded on a scale of 1-5 which is on a percentage basis (X% of people get a 5, etc). Schools can determine what sort of credit they want to take, but general rule is 3 or higher. My college only took 5s in sciences, but it was an engineering school.

I skipped out on 26 credit hours of 140ish for the degree. It basically allowed me to change my major a year in without impacting my graduation date.
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If pretty URLs provides value to a business, that might be all they need.
The example code is somewhat weird:

var db = new PouchDB('dbname');

db.put({
_id: 'dave@gmail.com',
name: 'David',
age: 66
});

db.changes({
onChange: function() {
console.log('Ch-Ch-Changes');
}
});

db.replicate.to('http://example.com/mydb');

Shouldn't you set up the event listener before "db.put()"?
In the words of Steven Rambam - "privacy is dead, get over it!"

It would be foolish to assume that our gov't will be fixing any of this any time soon. It would also be foolish to discard the one advantage the citizens have - a general awareness that freedom is something they cherish. That they don't understand what freedom is, exactly, is another issue.

But never fear - physics is stronger than US law, and we can create tools that allow those with the awareness of the importance of freedom and the ability to seek them out (another issue you can help with) to not be impeded by those pervasive forces.
Me either. Something about trading instagram stuff?
Actually, Nintendo does still sell copies of the original Mario (and other Mario stuff obviously), so I think you were downvoted for suggesting that big names would even consider something like this. It's not realistic.
Is it possible to do something like this for a MySQL (innodb with relational keys) database ? I am about to begin work on a project that might be used in countries where we don't have constant connectivity (internet and electricity) .. and we don't want to lose or corrupt data due to connectivity ...
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It's also unnecessary, you can just do this:

foreach ($contacts as $contact)
echo $contact;
Here is daleharvey giving an intro to PouchDB at http://allyourbaseconf.com last year.

https://vimeo.com/56632201
FTFY:

This: https://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-p...

Old: http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr...
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For all we know, some of them may have challenged it but they cannot make those details public because they're not even allowed to admit the NSA requested such information to begin with.
If you think a company has behaved badly, why are you under any obligation to be fair to them?

It might be extremely difficult to boycott every company involved, so why not choose one to make an example of? The idea that you must boycott all or none appears irrational.
Show HN: My 1st mobile app- A parasitic,anonymous,remixable img app for android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.daveganly.yarrly

Hi, this is Yarrly - my first android app, backed up server side by a mongo & node.js backend. It’s a two-panel image generator, and quite a fun experiment in a no-login (‘anonymous’) app. You generate two panel images using photos or gallery pics, and add text, then it’s uploaded to Yarrly.com - creating an instagram-like link.

For example you create http://yarrly.com/y/4hhs6ryyq73da533d, then android intents mean that if you open that link on a device that has Yarrly, you can view the image, but then also remix it. Remixing downloads the component parts of the yarrly, allowing the new user to edit them, add new images or text, and upload again. This means you can create chains, like this: http://yarrly.com/c/4hhs6ryyq73da533d

So part of the interesting idea is that it’s anonymous, so the links are as private as you make them. Share the link on email, and you can have a nice two way conversation with a friend. Share it on twitter, and anyone who finds the link can remix your Yarrly. That’s what I mean by ‘parasitic’ - it doesn’t have any concept of users, friends or anything else; it relies on being shared on other platforms to spread.

Why was it made?

I needed to learn mobile development and android seemed a bigger challenge than iOS - also a fun challenge to try something properly in nodejs and mongo - my last project (http://vvx.io/) was a ruby/rails web app sitting on postgresql.

Why no holo theme?

Meh, wanted to do something more unique and playful. This is an experiment more than anything, so why not pirate theme?

Who made it?

I did the code, my girlfriend came up with the idea and the fantastic design. Everything was arrived at through experimentation and discussion.
Someone on reddit asked a very interesting question with regard to all this information about US snooping...

What about UEFI? Should that be assumed fundamentally insecure from this point on?
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I mostly just wanted to highlight the key features with 'real' code in the order you would come across them, you are right though might be worth switching that, thanks
Actually, in the same manner the US initiated a massive FUD campaign against the "evil" (non-US) forces at the ITU summit last year in Dubai. Behind the facade of "save the Internet", the agenda was to save the Internet giants like Google and keep the US control over the net. In light of NSA revelations, it has even more sinister overtones.
Not in the wildest scenario would the US government have jailed the leaders of Apple, Google or Microsoft.

That may be naive. Most people have skeletons in their closets. The government would use these to pressure those leaders to acquiesce. I suspect the most dangerous skeletons are ones which seem harmless to you, but cast in the proper light they can be used as a justification for punishment. E.g. Something which seems harmless now can retroactively be used to claim you were doing insider trading. Few people would step up to defend you, even if the charges are baseless, because recently it's been fashionable to hate capitalists, and trading stocks is the epitome of capitalism. So it'd be very much "obey us or we will litigate you into bending your knee anyway."

Jobs was immune because he was the CEO equivalent of a rockstar. To try to pull baseless charges against him would outrage the public. Yet I'd imagine the public would get grim satisfaction out of seeing Ballmer punished, even if the charges were baseless, because most people don't like him. It's shallow, but it seems true.
JavaScript is a tool. Once it becomes trendy idiots will always abuse a tool. It's not JavaScript's fault people are bad at web design and development. If it wasn't fucked up JavaScript these people were contacting you about it'd be something else, be glad you have a job.
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Recently I worked at a financial company with a small, struggling I.T. dept that was willing to hire anyone and everyone who said they could code. I recommended my cousin, a young comp sci college grad on the Autism spectrum, to work there and he got hired in. He's coming up on completing his first year there shortly.

Since he's now had some field experience in software development he gets calls from recruiters often. He's set for supporting himself for the rest of his life now :)

He didn't talk about autism with our boss or anyone at the company until after he was hired in. He had gone through tons of interviews and I gave him the best advice I could before the interview.

I guess the best advice I could offer is to say try, try, try again, and for the father - remember that being on the Autism spectrum isn't the same as having a disability, but rather just being a little different :)
But there is a clear causation here. In order to keep increasing spending forever as they are doing, govs need tax revenue, the more money they are allowed to borrow, the more debt they can create. They couldn't create so much debt if they didn't have tax revenue to justify their ability to repay their debt. Problem is, at some point, if you want to keep on increasing spending and therefor your debt forever, you have to increase taxes forever too and that's what's killing the economy. Not to mention that it doesn't even work http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve
You may also like the Pure CSS Horse: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/tvaio

(not intended as negative in any way towards the original artist, who is awesome)
I mention this in the FAQ

Can PouchDB sync with MySQL / my current non CouchDB database?

No, the data model of your application has a lot of impact on its ability to sync, relational data with the existence of transactions make this harder. It may be possible given some tradeoffs but right now we are focussing on making PouchDB <-> (PouchDB / CouchDB) sync as reliable and easy to use as possible.
When higher-level software begins requiring systemd (Gnome, KDE, etc.), the BSDs and other non-Linux, but Unix-like operating systems will no longer be able to use that software.
You need a special version of windows to run MSSQL? In any case, isn't it normally the customer's responsibility to provide licenses for software they install and run?
That's not pure CSS though. It's a jpeg.
I've attended several gender balance events (in politics, more than tech) and been one of the 2-3% of the audience who were male. They were some of the best I've been to, and I wish more dudes would turn up and learn from them.
It will be difficult for him to build an app that can communicate with its intended audience as well, which is one of the most important factors. There's no revenue without it
There's a TON of intangibles that this data absolutely cannot tell you. Watch people's facial expressions as they look at the end of aisle displays. Watch where the kids go, and you can probably sell to their parents there too. Everyone wants to automate around here, and sometimes the other way is actually better.
Not sure what you mean but I believe Sanskrit was a spoken language, written down in each region's local script before being formalized in Devanagari.
What I don't get is the sites that load ALL their content using JavaScript. Sure, I see the point in loading more content if the user scrolls down to the bottom of the page, but why would you do that straight away?
I installed Ghostery but did not set up any filters; with just that, it shows how much external resources / from which external parties things are loaded. Some sites have like twenty external dependencies, and multiple analytics gathering scripts (which may get embedded via the iframes of advertisers).
I've seen a lot of posts on various hosting forums that OVH's Canadian offering is pretty subpar as far as reliability of the network goes. One report (admittedly I think it was a bit old) showed a traceroute that went from Canada to Europe then back to where the user was.

Perhaps that's all been fixed now though.
I'm wondering: Maybe a consultancy is a possible solution?
Having gone thru the sec clearance thing in the 90s, the third thing is if you have financial issues (like an expensive addiction with much income) and some foreign intelligence service can "help". So they're pretty interested in finances. Which wouldn't have been a problem for Jobs...
I didn't mean to scapegoat you to highlight the existence of this widespread problem on HN:

People investing too little effort in figuring out elementary things and in the process adding to the clutter of posts that distract from the trunk of the conversation.

Someday in the not so future, perhaps all forum posts everywhere can be auto-condensed and auto-recomposed for the purposes of brevity and clarity.

Eg: The Natural Language Processing technology licensed from SRI International, that was at the core of Summly, the app Yahoo bought for $30 MM.

Until then, we could do what sensible HNers always did - resist adding anything that distracts or leads the conversation astray.

HN is hardly perfect.

People already bemoan, justifiably so, that not enough striking and incisive stories make it to the front page.

Despite efforts, there is plenty of voting-ring activity that bolts undeserving stories to the top.

The weighing of upvotes and downvotes (based on the standing of the HNer) could be better.

These are all known issues.

While these things are gradually improved, we could help by not adding to the tally with this kind of redundant clutter.
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I don't know what you mean. e=mc^2 requires at least some understanding to make any use of it, lest you suppose burning a single lump of coal will keep your power station running all week ;-)

And even then, you need to know that "e" stands for "energy"...
Exactly my own visualisation of Weathertop when growing up in the area!

Personally, I think vitrification was a product of accident/attack rather than direct intent...
I remember an Australian talking about the various levels of clearance - confidential, secret negative (anything stand out in your history), secret positive (in-depth active examination of your history). He said that the process wasn't about finding dirt on you, it was about finding out if you had any dirt that could be leveraged against you. For example, if you were gay and being outed would be a problem, then that's leverage. If you didn't care and were clearly open about it, that's not leverage.
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Interesting: Ray Ozzie joins HP Board.
I recommend exercise.

Best to combine this with starting something new. Take up jogging, swimming, martial arts, yoga, ultimate --- whatever sounds interesting that you've never tried before.
The website is mostly very clear but I wasn't sure what the db on the backend would be, it sounds like it expects to work with couchdb but an adaptor could potentially be made to work with anything server side?
Interesting how people believe in completely random and untrusted sources.
That's really interesting. It sounds like an easy way to get targeted by the people who do want to track you, though. Still -- do you have any idea what he uses for that?
Is there an official name for that data dump?
The TLDR is its risk avoidance. If it doesn't work, and decisions were made by people, then people, and the people who hired their services are to blame. On the other hand, if decisions were made by numbers, and it doesn't work, no one is to blame, what are you going to do, fire the number 7.356 ?
ahem That's the joke...
This is very true, although one minor nitpick is that you should say "formal written rules" for grammar. The rules appear in fact appear to be more formal and consistent in the centuries before Panini, and the need to write them down (including the aforementioned sandhi rules) was partially due to inconsistencies derived from the evolution of the language.
Clojure + Ring/Compojure + MongoDB (super terse code, easy to test)
It was so much better when politics & conspiratorial stuff was only Reddit's business.
Yeah there's a lot of interesting stuff being developed around pouchdb, I've been slowly checking it out the past couple of months:

Some beginning tutorials/intros to pouchdb:
http://pouchdb.com/getting-started.html
http://briantoth.github.io/Tutorial/2013/03/19/pouchdb-intro...
http://mattgwwalker.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/pouchdb-2/

Todo Tutorial using AngularJS and PouchDb
http://twilson63.github.io/ngTodoPouch/

Building Offline Applications With AngularJS and PouchDB
http://mircozeiss.com/building-offline-applications-with-ang...

Other Apps Using PouchDB
https://github.com/daleharvey/pouchdb/wiki/Who-or-What-Is-Us...

including this offline conference app
https://github.com/axemclion/conference

PouchVision - inspect and interact w/pouch instances
http://brudolph.pouchvision.jit.su/

Puton - bookmarklet for inspecting/editing pouch dbs
http://puton.jit.su/

PeerPouch (PouchDB-over-WebRTC) - in development at one point
https://github.com/natevw/pouchdb
"...and it is very difficult to know what the modern day "tire" is."

And this difficulty resolves your first point about not everyone being able to make tires!

My guess at a couple of tires: bags/cases and notebooks. Every new shiny device needs a case and people seem to be carrying more than ever around with them. Paper notebooks of various types have really taken off recently.
Enough with the no-context-attached slides already.

Seriously, if you don't have a recording of the talk, or a transcript, at least provide an article or something.
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Hi - what's the difference between this and Mimosa (http://mimosajs.com/) or Yeoman (http://yeoman.io/)?
A friend in college wanted to be an FBI agent, so I got to hear alot about this.

I believed they polygraphed you about drug use, and I recall that they had a threshold number of "experimental" sessions with marijuana that were ok, as long as you disclosed them during the background check and polygraph.
It's definitely better then not open source, but still I'd love to know more about those "world's best" developers and who pays them.

Open source is the necessary but not the sufficient condition. It needs to be reviewed by independent people, otherwise the open source part is useless.
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Are there any examples of countries that have the means to spy on other countries but choose not to?
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Thanks for inviting me John, had a great time at the conference.
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>Each time you visting a page, IE sends the URL over to be "checked" by Microsoft.

Huh? Are you talking about hashes being sent for malware check similar to the ones in Chrome or Firefox? If not its a serious privacy issue.

The ones you mentioned about Updates is also true for Chrome updates. [1]

>Microsoft can forceable push new executable code as updates, regardless if settings has turn of updates.

Any source on this?

>Microsoft word (and Outlook?) do also collect information.

With Office 365, this is more or less a reality.

>Then we have semi-native application such as massager or skype. Both has messages being "scanned".

Are you talking about URL scanning? So does FB, Gchat etc. Expect your messages to scanned or stored no matter what 3rd party service you use. Always use client-side encryption for secure communication.

The most important one you left out is SkyDrive. I remember installing it on my computer and then signing onto the web interface to find out I could even access files outside of my sync directory. Sure you can turn "off" the feature, but I promptly uninstalled it instead.

I don't trust Microsoft with privacy in the cloud but neither do I with any other 3rd party.

[1]https://www.google.com/intl/en-US/chrome/browser/privacy/
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Airbnb's Rendr seemed to be a nice solution to this problem

https://github.com/airbnb/rendr
You could define two functions to wrap the calls - do_a_put(), do_a_sync() - in that order and then call them in the reversed order in the example?
A boycott is supposed to carry a sheen of justice, and this suggests at least a nod towards being fair.
Does Dart support Chrome version 2 [0] or Firefox 3.0.8[1]? Since IE8 stems from that age, March 2009[2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#Release_history
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_release_history
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_8

It's not reasonable to support an outdated browser version with an inferior Javascript engine, or to single out Internet Explorer as a browser for which older versions should still be supported, imho.

(disclaimer: I'm building a webapp that has to work in IE 8)