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I'm very happy with xmonad. I'm running a very minimalistic desktop consisting of fast applications that do one thing, do it well, and can be controlled from the keyboard (zsh, urxvt, emacs, remind, mutt, zathura...).

As a very welcome side-effect, the whole thing is very light. It runs in a few tens of MB.
Presumably only the potential promoters can see the comments before they are "live" for everyone?
Actually, this: https://launchpad.net/~dotcloud/+archive/lxc-docker
Does anybody know how that compares to Facebook? I believe they do not use write fanout but instead rely on the search federation model (the model claimed not to have worked for Twitter).
I can see the point from a supply-and-demand perspective. But on the other hand, isn't more densely populated areas more efficient, leading to less costs and less prices in the long run? Is there simply not enough initiative for more dense developments, leading to the relatively few dense areas going up in price. Are the property costs the critical factor? I'm talking in general here, not about any specific city.

Vancouver seems to have had a successful high-density residential zoning, but I've also heard that it's become very expensive... maybe because the greater Vancouver metro area is big (I don't know how it compares to the norm though).
Docker does use lxc under the hood. They serve very different purposes.

lxc is a tool for sysadmins to deploy and configure virtual servers on their machines.

docker is a tool for developers to package their application into a deployable object without worrying about how the sysadmin will deploy it, and for sysadmins to deploy applications without worrying about how they were packaged.

When you tinker long enough with lxc, eventually you start building something like docker on top of it, because it just makes sense. Now instead of reinventing the wheel you can just use docker.
You have to understand that nearly all cities were shitholes in 1989 until the Urban Revitalization of the late 90s. This wasn't an SF specific thing. NYC, for example, had over 1200 murders in 1992 (!!!) compared to last year's 414.

SF's revitalization has more to do with that than with "tech" jobs. I know in the Hacker News echo-chamber its hard to think there's anything but Internet Tech in SF but it's got ALOT more business than that -- It's the largest banking center on the west coast, got a massive bio-tech footprint, has some major apparel companies (Levi and Gap and a bunch of smaller ones), etc, etc. It's pretty diversified.
To be fair, downtown Palo Alto, if you can afford it, is pretty nice, if somewhat sterile. Reminds me a lot of Greenwich, actually. I can't say the same for the rest of the valley, though...
Everybody nowadays is walking around with high quality cameras in their pockets that can be switched on within a few seconds. Look on youtube for tons of smartphone video of fights, crimes, arrests, etc. I still fail to see how Google Glass changes anything.
"But rendering a font gives execution with your user"

Would you point us to a reference, or a further explanation for this claim ? I am genuinely interested...
This story seems to heavily imply that the government authorised somebody to break into the firm and steal the data relating to the whistleblower's case. That strikes me as highly unlikely. This entire story seems like the ultimate in yellow journalism. Maybe we should wait and see if the thief gets caught before we jump the gun and claim it's a conspiracy.
I moved to SFBay area from India and despite an above american average salary find it hard to get a decent apartment to live in with say 30% of my income. This is ridiculous. I was much better off in India. I paid only 1/10th of my salary to get a twice bigger apartment.
I agree that there is a vast increase in productivity and saved resources from better modelling and understanding of the materials.

But you cannot ever convince me that our steel suspension bridges are going to last for centuries like our stone bridges from the 15th century and onwards.
No. the gcc c backend has been deprecated / disabled for nearly half a decade. It has ceased to be, it is no more, it is dead. :-)
An Indie Research space is opening in Houston.
I wonder how well it really works because addresses are really hard, see: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...
>> "configurable weight in the settings app"

They have configurable size in the settings. The reason I don't think they can do weight is that they use it to show different things in the UI (e.g. actionable text/buttons are heavier than content).
There are number of reasons why I would prefer a home over rented property most important reason being almost infinite scope to personalize my living space.
Comic Sans is one of the MS core fonts for the web and is free to use. Your distro probably calls the package corefonts or something. I'm guessing that Debian doesn't include it in main because it's a non-free license with respect to distribution and modification, but you certainly have permission to use it and you might even be allowed to include its glyphs in documents that you sell.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'AES-256 _or_ AES-GCM' (since you can use 128 or 256 bit key sizes in either CBC or GCM mode), but the problem with GCM mode in general is that no clients support it...

I'm the web guy for Silent Circle. We run in-house analytics on our 'marketing' sites (we don't run any analytics (or even log remote IP addresses or user agents) on any site that a user can authenticate (and therefore identify themselves) to)(I'm not a Lisper... honest...). We recently upgraded the server that hosts the analytics to a sufficiently recent version of OpenSSL that it now supports TLS 1.1+ and GCM mode ciphers.

I was curious how many connections actually used GCM ciphers, so I started logging the TLS version and cipher suite for each connection. I only did this a couple days ago, so I don't have a ton of data yet, but the short answer is... Almost no one supports GCM. GCM ciphers are highest priority in our cipher list (and server ciphers are preferred), and yet I've seen almost no GCM connections. Far and away the most common cipher suite is ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (~75% of connections).

Note: This is for our marketing sites, not the site our customers actually authenticate to, so the results might differ a bit when it comes to our actual customers...
The offline version of this is requiring everyone to wear a "Hello my name is __________" sticker but not actually checking that they put their real name on it.
The best I ever used was www.worldox.com when I still lived in Windows. Easy to use. Captured all types of documents including emails. Priced fairly.

If only they would make the product available on the Mac. Worldox is the only reason I would consider returning to Windows.
I think it's just good journalism. The story needs to stay popular for as long as possible. They are storing and reading all our private communication, for crying out loud.
I like Go, but I always thought that was a ridiculous selling point. Just look at your own comment: if Googlers are picking up Go, it must have been for other reasons than build speed, considering they have a compile farm at their disposal that can build millions of lines of C++ code (before or after preprocessing, I wonder?) in mere seconds.

I have a suspicion that if you ask people who used Go why they chose that language over the many other available options, almost none will say "because the compiler is fast!"
While the idea sounds good, care should be taken that it doesn't mean HN turns into an echo chamber. Sometimes having your idea shot down is the best thing that can happen. Doing a "Show HN" and getting only positive feedback can convince someone to quit their job and work on this new idea full time to disastrous consequences if the idea wasn't that great.

"That idea is terrible. X is bad, Y doesn't work. We already have Z." While hostile, it's sometimes the best and most useful advice someone can receive. People who believe their idea is awesome and end up with positive reinforcement, even a simple "looks good, just work on Y a little" can become a major life changing event if that is the most hostile feedback they receive while living in a dream world.

In short, I see no reason to force sugar coating on HN. I'd rather have a 'flag' button on individual comments for getting people banned who are being insulting to a person rather than an idea. As it stands, a genuinely useful but 'harsh' comment may never get seen even when it should be.
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What about incremental externalities (late night food delivery, contraceptives, tobacco sales, transportation, etc...) ... excessive partying creates jobs, work hard play hard!
True. And the PSP starting in 2001 was an explicit end run around FISC. Starting in 2004 FISC got involved but there were continued concerns about the legal basis ... so the FISA Amendments Act made it legal.
Your reasoning is not very convincing. Point one is pretty much the entire question so claiming it as proof seems circular. If you have evidence proving that claim I would be satisfied. Point two is simply wrong as there was a lot of writing from CEO's and engineers that seemed quite upset about the claims. And for point three, uh... what? How are their denials proven to be lies? Or are you implying that companies using the phrase "direct access" is proof?

Honestly your post, combined with a lot of others' on this site, would seem to belong quite nicely in /r/circlejerk. I'm not saying that as an insult but rather how all of these speculations kept alive through echo genuinely come off as.

If you have actual proof please provide a better reasoned argument.
you can't monkey-patch functions into external libraries like you can with Python modules

You can add functions to existing types in Golang.

no preemptive multitasking, so one goroutine can wedge the entire program

That's pretty misleading. If all you write is go code, you can't "wedge the entire program" in Golang just from one thread. You could wedge a native thread if you were using C methods. Assuming you don't want to fix your broken code, you can just set GOMAXPROCS to something high and work around even that.

passing around arrays and structs is by value, leading to unexpected allocation and memory usage

Most developers pass pointers. Pointers are not really that hard in Golang, because there is no pointer arithmetic or undefined behavior.
You use words like "destruction" inappropriately, I think.

Ironically, things like wage controls, rent controls, and welfare have locked these very people into a cycle of poverty out of which they have trouble escaping. Continuing communities that are perpetually in blight is not the an obvious good. Allowing the system to change naturally with healthy commerce would seem to be an improvement.

One would hope that government masterminds who were responsible for creating the blighted areas in the first place would just get out of the way and allow the system to heal itself through growth and change.
Why wouldn't they spin instead in a near-vacuum, instead of an environment of hydrogen?
If you are in chrome open the inspector and delete the nodes
Only way to judge is to test it out. Our data comes from the local post office of every country. We have street level address verification. Happy to give you some free credits to try it yourself just email me.
Finish school, and then find a job working with smart people. In that order. :)

There's no requirement that you be doing other interesting job-related work while in school. Enjoy that time any way that you find best, as long as you finish strong.
There are several possible solutions there, and it may take some experimenting to figure out which is best. I may not display pending comments in the threads where they live, but only on a page like /newest. Or I might give the people who see pending comments a way to say they've seen them and don't want to promote them, upon which they won't see them again. And of course after some time and/or number of views, pending comments will die if not promoted, and then no one will see them except with showdead turned on.
Have a friend that was choked out by a wrestling 'buddy' in high school. That caused a stroke, and he's now got a long life of disability to look forward to.

tl;dr don't be stupid - not worth it.
What kind of things does Awesome excel at what i3 can't or doesn't do well? (Awesome user here)
Everyone here is welcome to look at a good selection of "Silicon Roundabout Web companies" and realise that there is a huge diversity, far beyond the stupid characterisation that they are built-to-flip app/web crap: http://www.builtinlondon.co/
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Certainly that's true, but the bulk of Glass is not the end of the technology. It's an open question on what the popularity will be when a Glass like device is capable of being completely incognito, i.e. in a normal pair of sunglasses.
We don't claim to be perfect and nobody is. Some countries have greater detail in their postal system than others do which affects accuracy. We have an internal grading system for each country we support detailing exactly how much information we have (larger/developed countries we typically have 98% coverage for street or building level). For those interested, feel free to email me harry@lob.com for additional details about a specific country.
I don't think you would make that much of a mess and steal three computers if your goal was to surreptitiously plant listening devices. Call me crazy.
The thing is, their goal wasn't to last for centuries. Their goal was just to not fall down, and because people back then didn't have the modeling abilities we have now, their solution was to be very conservative in their design and overbuild everything. If we wanted to make bridges that would last a long time, we could almost certainly do it more efficiently now.
And presumably invisible to other users.

But I thought users with high age upvote similarly to the whole, as shown by news.ycombinator.com/classic (and presumably similar for high karma, high average, etc)... Is the reasoning that a "gatekeeper" or "mod" role will encourage a different perspective and therefore results?
I do consider it a pathology when tiny services, or tiny apps in a corporate structure, act like they have the problems of Google.

You are not Google.

You do not have Google's problems.

You do not have scaling issues.

For you, N is small and will stay small.

Stop giving me this delusional resume-padding garbage to implement. For you, here, it is delusion and lies.
> (If not, you probably don’t care about fonts, so it will be Comic Sans.)

So, you either have to have a Mac or spend >$1000 (the price of a full desktop license of Helvetica Neue) to care about fonts? Well, screw my burgeoning interest in typography. I guess I just don't care enough.
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More reasons to just never live in Florida.
With the way that infinite scroll currently works, I could effectively DDOS, or at least slow down the instance of Monocle I am interfacing with by just scrolling down, and once I got the first story just scroll up and down endlessly. I'm looking at Chrome Developer Tools' Network tab right now[1] and it seems you're sending a bunch of "ignore" fields in a POST request, and from that I gather that the farther down I go, the larger the POSTs get. So, at the very bottom, I'm sending a ton of huge POST requests. Point-being, this is probably not a good thing.

1. Developer Tools – http://grab.by/ohwa
This might be a good thing, but since the government has the option to release 100% redacted documents, the Secret Service hasn't really been ordered to release anything other than a stack of black pieces of paper. If they release more than that, it's because they either want to, or don't care.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/page/department-justice-black...
Is the US data from USPS?
Or, theologically consistent with "karma": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardo
Probably I'd make them visible to users with showdead turned on.
Huh, I hope we get that system on OSX too.
Which shows how much you know about the area. Datasift is not even based in London, it's in Reading. Here's a list for you to peruse http://www.builtinlondon.co/
With glass, people do not know they are being filmed, unlike when a cellphone or camera are pointed.
I would assume it's the violent crime rate that causes the police to shrug off lesser crimes. I doubt the police do it because they only want gang members in the city — which seems like an extremely silly thing to think.
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You can skip the splash screen by running the following in the JS console:

$('#TB_window').hide()
$('#TB_overlay').hide()
Not at all unlikely since the FBI has been in the practice of using surreptitious entry since at least the 1970 at the behest of the NSA and the CIA in a bid to recover cryptographic keys and other information instead of having to brute force them. Why spend all that money on computation when you can just break into someone's Embassy instead and steal it?

James Bamford discusses this at length in The Puzzle Palace - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Puzzle_Palace
As of April 20th it was 700,000 km or ~430,000 miles http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21576224-one-da...
Seems similar to slashdot moderation; also enables meta-moderation.
You are looking at an 80-85% drop in the required number
of cars in cities (even accounting for current peak
traffic volumes. see the KPMG report. I also came to the
same number back-of-the-envelope).

The KPMG report seemed very light on details. I'd be interested in reading a more fully worked through example if you know of one.

In a lot of things like city bike sharing there's an aggregate flow of bikes into the city at 9am and out of the city at 5pm, so trucks have to shuttle the bikes back in the opposite direction. Seems to me if one car shuttled three commuters into the city you'd have 1/3rd the number of cars on the roads, but each car driving 6 times as far as it has to drive out empty to pick up the next fare.

What kind of fill rate do you think it's reasonable to expect for cars driving from the city to the suburbs in the morning rush hour?
Only because they don't know what Glass is yet; the same could be said for John Q. Public back when the first cell phone shipped with a camera.

Also, it's still possible to film covertly with a cell phone, whether it's rigging it into your clothing somehow, or simply holding it up and pretending to talk on it. Google wasn't even the first to incorporate a video recorder into eyeglasses...
Nonetheless, we'll get to see how much is redacted and therefore how much they want to hide. That's valuable information in and of itself.
I can certainly see driverless cars leading to longer commutes all else being equal. If you can workout, read a book, work on your laptop, watch tv, etc. while your car drives you to work, you probably will care a bit less about the time involved. All else will not be equal however. Nothing in this scenario alleviates concerns relating to gas prices, which are likely to be the dominant consideration for most people. Your driverless car might be better at sipping gas than you, but not by much.
Ask HN: Is a self-hosted email client with SaaS backend compelling?
Host your own web-based email client but you use a SaaS provider (Mailgun, Rackspace, Amazon, etc) for the actual sending and receiving. Basically treat them as a "dumb" IMAP endpoint; a middle ground between using Gmail and hosting your own mail server with DKIF/SPF/spam/etc. If your provider starts doing sketchy stuff, you can "hot-swap" to another and keep the same client.

Is this a compelling idea?
The difference between:

* Retrieve phone from pocket/purse/backpack
* Unlock phone
* Launch recording app
* Start recording (ensuring phone is in the right orientation)
* Hold phone out in front of you in an uncomfortable way so you
can both record and see what you're doing.

and:

* Tap on temple or say "OK glass, record a video"
* Look at what you want to record

The passivity and ease of access of Glass is its greatest asset, and precisely the reason it's a game changer.. Replace recording with looking up something online, same thing.

One feels contrived and annoying (the tech being in the way of what we want to do), the other smooth and natural (the tech just simply doing what we want).
Yeah, nothing like this has ever been done in recent history, so it seems premature to jump to conclusions.

/s
Sure, it was just an example...

http://securitytracker.com/id/1024283
Address Verification is a slightly easier prospect than (for example) natural language geocoding or identity verification. Canonical street addresses are generally understood for a particular jurisdiction and many postal services keep 'common name' dictionaries as well - they've been doing this for a while, after all.
The median in SF is much higher than that, and in the peninsula even higher. Also, middle class is all but the 1%. The top 1% is the capitalist class of very good jobs (high finance, specialized doctors, exectives, some lawyers, etc) or people who own a lot of assets instead of working, owning 40% of the wealth in the country and 34% of the income. So yes, programming is a middle class job, though I suppose 'upper-middle class' would suffice as well.
Thats fine for some. Run on revues and retire in 40 years satisfied. But sometimes other founders need financing to build the things they love, and that require capital. European banks are not good at risk capital. So you're going to have to get it from somewhere. If eventually a founder has a big exit, maybe they can finance their OWN NEXT STARTUP? How about that for you?
Or you can just disable Javascript by default.
It's my understanding that privacy issues and certain laws have greatly influenced the artificial shutter sounds in digital cameras. Certainly a can of worms is inevitably being opened.
There are hard limmits on the efficiency of any heat engine; the plant described here is actually doing pretty well. And, hey, fuel is cheap; the energy density of uranium is pretty spectacular.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic_efficiency
Again with the attacks and name calling. You really are a very miserable person, aren't you?
6 Months In Start-up Chile - All Things I Learned Building My First Tech Company
True, this is just an incremental change in that direction, but a significant one I think.
"Google has driven almost a million km without an accident."

Current rates in the United States, for normal, run-of-the-mill automobiles, is about 1 fatality per 100,000,000 vehicle/miles[1] and 1 "crash" per 500,000 vehicle/miles[2].

1. http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx

2. http://www.caranddriver.com/features/safety-in-numbers-chart...
You are the one bitching about the comments here. a discussion thread is made so that people can state whatever opinion they want to state. Dont like it ? dont answer. We all are bitching,the issue with you is you dont understand you are actually bitching.
Kickstart It: This Ingenious Paper Map Zooms as You Unfold It
Worried about surveillance online?
I've dipped into swap due to virtual machines. It was extremely painful.

But the article mentions this in the conclusion:

> If you have some ancient hardware that you need to breathe new life into, or if you need to fit a distro on a modestly sized memory stick, the first thing you should look at is the window manager/desktop environment.

For me, it's a lot easier to drop Unity for XMonad than it would be to switch away from something like Chrome. If I actually want to do something with one of my old laptops, this might be relevant.