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The app stores are extremely poor discovery mechanisms, full stop.

I won't develop mobile software unless I know there's an alternate marketing channel.

I do believe there's money to be made, but the way to reach people isn't through the store.
> "Negotiating leverage has come from a seemingly mundane government power: the authority of the Federal Communications Commission to approve cable licenses. In deals involving a foreign company, say people familiar with the process, the FCC has held up approval for many months while the squadron of lawyers dubbed Team Telecom developed security agreements that went beyond what’s required by the laws governing electronic eavesdropping."

This is disgusting.
YouCompleteMe is included with subvim[0], which I have found to be a great flavor of vim. I just forked subvim and tweaked it how I liked from there. Which gets around the painful install of YCM.

[0] https://github.com/fatih/subvim
Firecloud is an architecture currently being explored within Mozilla that should be added to this list:

http://literaci.es/firecloud
Are you kidding? Of the big three, I consider Nintendo dead-man walking. The reality is that the console business is a big company game, and Nintendo is just too small. You need to sink billions of dollars to develop and subsidize the console, be willing to lose money for years and then do it all over again 6-10 years later. Microsoft can do it, and Sony can do it, Nintendo can't. They need to make money because unlike Microsoft and Sony, they don't have other revenue streams. This necessities them releasing under-powered consoles. They got lucky with the Wii. They are not so lucky with the WiiU.

They are still the king of mobile console gaming ... sort of. Tablet and smartphones are eating away their bottom line, and the trend will continue (the minute that Apple and Google decide to focus on mobile gaming in earnest will spell the end of Nintendo). The problem for Nintendo is that mobile gaming is an afterthought for Apple and Google. They don't need to do well in that area to survive, however every point of marketshare that Nintendo loses because little Johnny is fine enough playing games on his iPad instead of buying a 3DS hurts Nintendo incredibly. Everyone will have a smartphone or a tablet, so justifying a 3DS purchase is that much harder.

They make good games, yes, but it won't change the fact that they are in a lot of trouble.
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I've been using i3 for a few months and I love that I can boot in 5 seconds from power to i3.

He mentions i3 in a previous article, this is why it's on the bar chart.
I guess I should say the early stages of the response.
Looks very cool. Great design
Probably makes sense to start deciding which CAs we should or shouldn't trust? Has anyone reliable done any work on rating or evaluating the trustworthiness/security of different CAs?
The return of pre-IPO venture invest industry trails the performance of the post-IPO returns of the Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P 500 (not to mention that those are highly liquid, regulated, have more disclosure, are more accessible, etc):

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/02/venture-capital-returns.html

Not sure why the author believes that somehow individual middle-class investors will be able to compete with venture professionals who do this for a living and still cannot beat simple stock market index funds.
I fully support this where there is probable cause. If there is sufficient evidence to suggest that someone may be involved in criminal and/or terrorist activity, and the authorities have gone to a (non-rubber stamp) court and been granted a warrant, then I agree that they should then be permitted to use whatever tools are at their disposal to track that person's communication. This is basically what the fourth amendment is about (as my understanding goes).

What I'm opposed to is wholesale collection of everyone's data, regardless of whether or not they are suspected of a crime. People who are innocent should not be subject to government surveillance.

That's my opinion at least; I know that some people disagree on that. But regardless of where any of us stand, the public should have full knowledge of the ways in which the government carries out its activities and this should be decided in an open debate in a democratic manner.
Finding Signal at the Ends of the Earth
Looks great! I think you've found the right balance between RSS readers and Twitter.

Just for clarity, Sbscribe is a self-contained social network? One follows someone else's Sbscribe profile, not their Twitter profile?
Nintendo seem to have always aimed to not compete on graphics and hardware. It's been a smart move while they have managed to engage third party developers to make "decent" games around their headline titles but now they aren't being so successful (thanks to much easier cross-platform dev for console/pc freezing them out of the main console market and the rise of smartphones eating into the mobile market) getting good developers on board their strategy is starting to look hollow.

Which is a real shame because historically they have been exceptional at competing on fun, but you can't justify a £200 console based on the possibility of 1 or 2 first party games a year.
That's OK, been playing my Wii games in HD for ages on Dolphin...

No seriously, my only complaint about the Wii graphics was that they weren't very smooth on a 50 inch screen. They didn't need to be photo-realistic, but a bit less blocky would have been nice. Hence Dolphin.
This is a point Orin Kerr addressed directly a few days ago, in a piece analyzing Lichtblau's NYT FISA bombshell (NYT bombshell story: bolted to top of front page for 2 days; Orin Kerr's careful dissection of same: 3 upvotes).

Specifically: the notion of "relevance" we seem to be working from comes from Terry, which is confusing, because Terry determines when the police can briefly detain people and frisk them to ensure the safety of the police officers. Terry isn't (at least as I understand it) doctrinally fundamental in any way.
Switzerland: Say no to a surveillance state
4chan's tech board is making a _P2P_ Skype/Ekiga alt and we'd love contributors
You probably meant "speck", not "spec".
Headless Selenium Testing with Python and PhantomJS
Granted, I haven't seen all rails application but I've never seen Warden used in the wild without Devise.

My issue is you are including warden when you could just write

# ApplicationController

def current_user
if defined?(@current_user)
@current_user
else
@current_user = session[:user_id] && User.find_by_id(session[:user_id])
end
end

def require_login
redirect_to login_path unless current_user
end

# Session Controller
def create
if (@user = User.find_by_email(params[:email]) && @user.password == params[:password]
session[:user_id] = @user.id
redirect_to root_path, notice: "Logged in!"
else
render :new
end
end

Infact, all of this functionality is rewritten with far more code to make warden happy EXCEPT for `session[:user_id] = @user.id`. I don't see why I need to use warden for session management.
The ordinary news is, it's a democracy that works similarily to just any other - there is a lot of indifference, propaganda, and the turnouts aren't that high.
That's an illuminating point. Indeed, a form of martyrdom is at work one way or another.
Org-mode looks great, new to me. I made my own much more primitive thing, I've been slowly evolving over a decade and a half, so yes, this is a knock on the head. Old outline mode never took with me.
Very neat, reminds me of Mathematica Notebooks.
For a lot of infrastructure, the ability to more accurately model and calculate the performance of structures has meant that they don't need to be overbuilt so much. The less you overbuild a structure, the less it weighs, and the less structure you need to build - a virtuous cycle.

If you look at the last 400 years of bridge design you can see the transition from overbuilt compression structures to gossamer suspension bridges. This is a good thing, but it's easy to mistake old, overbuilt structures as being more "robust" when what they really are is an inefficient design meant to avoid failures due to a weak understanding of how the materials and structure will perform under use.
Contrary to the headline, Apple is not making them free. TUAW corrected their story already.
> Just randomly is detectable!

Only after analysis, and only after some confidence level has been exceeded. And that is the point: Such analysis takes time and resource.
If you have any family, friends, business colleagues in Switzerland, please forward this information / petition!

EDIT: This is NOT like a whitehouse.gov petition! This one has a very real effect, so DO IT!

EDIT 2: If anybody is on Slashdot or Reddit: please post about it there as well. Let's show them what the network effect is!
Eliot Spizter is a grand example of this. Prosecuted mercilessly the very type of crime that brought him down, of which he escaped essentially unpunished for because he had the means to evade it.

Your average cop and his buddies are of course going to look out for each other, they are usually the ones under the bus when the higher ups go on a witch hunt
Juggling multiple platforms and the bumpy road ahead
To use a programming analogy, talking about what "relevant" means in the law is like talking about what "num_files" means in programming.

That's a highly permissive interpretation, though one that does allow for the gutting and redefinition of the word. I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say legal terms are as fundamentally meaningless as variables, mere containers for whatever the practitioner desires, though.

Can "relevant" be defined as null?
Cryptocat Encrypted Chat Vulnerable to Simple Brute Force Decryption
> The argument isn't they started it, it's "they have been granted tremendous power, so they need to accept accountability."

Yes. "Fuck the police" really captures that argument well.
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It's what the book /says/, but in practice it's not what the book /encourages/: a bit like alcohol or sports car TV ads, which all say "drink/drive responsibly". Your own introduction suggests patterns as a cure for bad design and architecture:

"I started trying to find books about how to organize programs. Fast-forward several years and a friend hands me a new book: Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Finally! The book I’d been looking for since I was a teenager."

"But the architecture that this brilliant code hung from was often an afterthought. [...] if they ever cracked open Design Patterns at all, never got past Singleton."

I'm sure most cases of badly architected code you have ran into were caused by insufficient time and/or attention devoted to design and architecture. Now the question is, do you think if these coders had the same time/attention but knew patterns, the result would be better? How would it compare to these same coders without patterns but with more time/attention?

In that sense, metaphor alert a book of design patterns is to programming what a dictionary is to writing: useful, but mostly orthogonal to the quality of the output.
Yeah, I'm just waiting on Vinay to give me a full list of what's involved.
Graphs as a Language
The Internet? Bah (from 1995)
They recently got the Office 2013 connector out there, for what it's worth.

Agree that the transition took ENTIRELY too long.
Guardian editors discuss NSA surveillance with Charlie Rose – video
Sure, but that's a different issue. The post to which I was replying was discussing the issue of holding people responsible for laws they can't know.
10 feet away from a 90" screen is what many people with projectors currently enjoy.
How to draw a Geneva drive using a compass and straightedge
You are misunderstanding. The question was why the BND sharing with the NSA was worse than what the BND does on its own.

What I was saying in response was not there is perfect safety against abuse, but that if the BND could share information freely with the NSA, it would render the existing safeguards largely worthless, because the NSA is not bound by the national laws of Germany.
[edit] Nevermind, found it. Seems to have been removed and brought back a few versions ago. Neither as useful nor as visually impressive as the Windows version though.

No I meant Xfce. I can't find that function. Are you refering to sorting by rules? I mean ordering windows by drag and drop. As far as I know no window manager or desktop environment allows that except the Windows desktop. It even does it in an very elegant way.

If I have VirtualBox open and a machine running I can drag both windows in the taskbar together and say, position them behind my browser.
Show HN: Realtime Blackboard
"with their massive steel columns and hundreds of thousands of rivets"

We have a fantastic example of that near Edinburgh:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_Bridge
I think you're on the wrong track. It's been over 6 years since I've been sick. I also eat really well. Too much stress compromises the immune system, sure. Of course. And for many people, running a marathon constitutes that threshold of too much stress. I haven't felt that. Perhaps doing a 100-mile mountain race would, though...
Is memory consumption a real problem for desktops in 2013?
Microsoft allegedly tried to acquire Zynga before Xbox chief became CEO
Switzerland has a very direct democracy, unlike for example in the US.

EDIT - Nothing personal, but to all you nay sayers:

You are PART of the problem, you need to take a look in the mirror. (And yes, go ahead and downvote, I couldn't give less of a f#ck.)
i mean really? my ancient palm treo 600 could do this (and so much more newly rediscovered functionality of modern 'smart'phones.)
Looks like Ellsberg himself has now said it better than I could:

"Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/daniel-ellsberg-nsa-l...
Some time ago I wrote a requirements document for the "Alternative Internet", published by Internet Society Journal:

http://www.internetsociety.org/articles/moving-toward-censor...

This was discussed within the IETF and slowly moving forward. Key point is: too many fragmented single-person projects exist. No structured approach with documentation, unit testing and related work tracking.
I'd be willing to buy one of their consoles for every Fire Emblem game they release. Seriously.
I've added it because the homepage has links to some interesting papers.
Sorry, I don't see where they are generating random noise or keywords from your link. The link seems to be discussing the merits of a relay of existing traffic.
The patriarchy affects all of us negatively. The sexism here is in favor of keeping women in the home and the men anywhere else (preferably in positions of power). Any person not falling into their respective gender role prescribed by these rules will be punished.
You're absolutely right. My apologies.
They had to pick an outlier as the example, because venture capital returns as a whole are so low that they would contradict the point the author was trying to make. As a whole, VC returns have not beaten simple index fund investing (S&P 500, etc).
There's no way the Supreme Court would arrive to the same conclusion and definition of "relevant". This is why this stuff needs to be open to the public.
You gave them what you agreed it was worth to you.
This article should have been called "The UK Needs An Acquisition Culture If It’s To Have a Sustainable Venture Capitalist Culture"

+1 to what anovikov and KaiserPro have said already -- If these founders are building things they love, to solve real problems, they should be building sustainable businesses and doing what they set out to do, not waiting on a VC to buy them out.
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Ask HN: What types of things do/would you use your personal 3D printer to make?
I think Nintendo, but also Sony and Microsoft will have a hard time convincing people to buy a console or portable once Apple releases iOS 7 with the rumored game controller support. You can be sure controllers will be made available for other popular phones too and in about a year there'll be plenty of good games on the market, for much less than classic console and portable games.

If you can get such a controller for less than 50$ and already have a smartphone or iPod touch like device, then I just don't see why you'd want to buy yet another gaming device.

Now give me a good and comfortable controller for my iPad and I won't buy any console anymore.
Using a personal attack to rebuke an alleged personal attack is not what I'd call a convincing argument.

> If you can't control your temper, why are you even participating in the discussion here?

Because http://xkcd.com/386/ Stop being wrong and I'll go away.

Seriously, if you want to whine about the level of discourse, then you're welcome to start with the person I originally responded to. But you won't, will you? Because you agree with him, so his emotional outburst is okay.
Poor Steven. He took so much heat then, for a concept that was way ahead of its time.

These kinds of extra-helpful term emulators seem like the natural progression of auto-completion and all the other goodies people love about oh-my-zsh. Once someone gets this right, it will seem silly to use a 'dumb' terminal in a graphical environment.
Protip: hold "alt" and press left or right to move by word instead of character.
As the article is old, these versions are really dated. There have been numerous improvements to these platforms; some comparisons are no longer valid or can be seen as opinionated. For example, ElasticSearch is supported by much more than the "only one developer" kimchy [0], but Solr has also come a long way on competing with ES's offerings, and Solr is definitely more popular than half of those in the "most popular" and ES combined.
Valve's 'perfect' hierarchy has 'hidden management' clique like high school
These are all really cool and can be very useful, but personally I think decentralization and meshnets are to some extent a "false god" from a political and activism point of view.

The fact is that any nation state can trivially attack the physical Internet. It can order any corporation operating under its jurisdiction to cooperate. It can force any operator to install filtering software or equipment. Come hell or high water, it can physically unplug things, force power companies to turn off power, etc. Given a political worst case scenario the wired Internet (and that includes things like 4G) will not and cannot be any safer from state tampering than any other infrastructure.

Completely anarchistic decentralized meshnets that operate over things like peer to peer wireless have another problem. I am not aware of any existing totally decentralized meshnet protocol that isn't vulnerable to some form of attack against its trust system.

There's the sybil attack: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack

Then there's "long con" attacks where a group of malicious nodes joins the network and pretends to be friendly for a long period of time, adding a lot of resources and gaining a lot of trust, only to finally use that trust to fragment, DOS, snoop, or otherwise harm the network.

Any of these attacks are well within the technical capability of a well-funded nation state.

In addition, any wireless mesh can have its users located through frequency triangulation. A nation state wouldn't even have to arrest everyone. It could simply isolate the most important nodes, locate them, and confiscate the equipment or pressure, arrest, or pay off their operators. For a fee some trusted operators might be transformed into double agents.

The reason I call it a "false god" is that I fear for some it can act as a substitute for real political activism. The fact is that in a political worst case scenario, nothing is safe. Thus the real battle to be fought is not in the technical sphere but in the human political sphere. We must preserve our liberties or they will be taken from us, period, and no amount of clever tech will truly stop that once the enemy is upon us.
If what you're looking for is exactly what the example on the website shows (say, an interactive textbook), then I would just use Tangle because it's ready to go without much effort on your part. But if you wanted more flexibility, then of course you should use a move advanced library like Angular.
That's only true until Apple produce an official spec [1] for iOS controllers.

[1] http://kotaku.com/also-touched-on-during-todays-wwdc-keynote...
Very interesting post, LinkedIn SEO is not something you, or at least I, usually think about. Well worth a read for anyone looking for a job right now, or any time in the foreseeable future.

First time I've seen the InMaps feature as well, which is amazing, just love visualizations of social networks.
Lots of flags on this article judging by the age and upvotes compared to other articles on the front page.

Kiriakou's and other whistleblowers statements of support for Snowden are a lot more informative than some of the articles on this subject and it's sad that due to 'Snowden fatigue' important bits like this are pushed out of sight.
I haven't had a chance to set this up with a Rails 4 app yet, But you might be right. Thanks for pointing this out. I'll update the article.
I know how Switzerland works, referendums are cool, but that doesn't make anything I said less true.
The OS will use free memory for disk caches which will help speed up any modern desktop. That's the 'cached' column output by `free`. My computer currently reports 18 GB used out of 20 GB, but 15 GB of that is disk caching.

The more memory your desktop environment grabs, the less memory is available for disk caching. It might not be a problem, but it certainly pays off to invest in extra memory and in decreasing memory consumption of applications.
Look again. Look at the direction of the wings, they are pointed in reverse for a while, and then you see it doing the other half turn.
Understood, I wrote random to emphasize no real communication is sent, just cat /dev/urandom and not in fact encrypted data. But of course, an adversary wouldnt be able to tell if it is something there or not.
For whatever it is worth, here is my experience from a few hours ago: my google apps trial ended this morning. Google emailed me, I clicked the billing link in the email and entered my info. After submitting, my account was immediately reactivated and I received a few emails that had arrived while the account was suspended. No downtime or anything... Maybe it has to do with how much data your accounts contain when you switch over to paying for access?
Humans managed about 200,000 years of doing exactly that.
Wonderful! I was looking for such a Google Reader alternative. Looks great too!
The article says "How many times section can be found in the lower right" under who has viewed your profile. I don't see this? Is it a premium account feature only? Article says it's free...
Of course you meant June
Very useful, low hanging fruit :)
I can support a campaign to increase staffing for more of such divisions so that they're independent and capable of successfully prosecuting cops who lie to protect cops.
When your best friend, or you father, or your grandma got "disappeared" by the CIA or a CIA-backed institution, is it propaganda?
That sounds brilliant. If you want to write more about how that worked, I would like to read it.
I haven't heard of 3/4 of these (particularly no-known-funding, but even many of the the Series D+). I wonder if that means it's an effective index, surfacing things outside my "bubble", or if there's a problem with the selection process (or a problem with my perception of the industry, which is pretty focused on security and b2b, but I do use b2c stuff and have a pretty good memory for new services.)
Almost unrelated -- the iframes that contain ads on the right side of your page need to either be made a little bigger to avoid the scrollbars that are popping up, or you need to do some CSS tweaks.