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Show HN: We've built this nifty co-operative Dropbox viewing app
Would it work to stream MacBook screen to a TV?

Because the system seems generic and it could bring AirPlay to any TV.
LLVM does have JIT capability, used by projects including Numba, Julia, Pure and a GLSL compiler (Gallium). Very useful in some contexts but definitely not a silver bullet.

Regarding LuaJIT, it compiles in about 10 seconds on a modern computer and does not use LLVM. A lot of it is written with an inline assembly preprocessor called DynASM:

http://luajit.org/dynasm_examples.html
The killing of journalists may be the most dramatic measure in the context of freedom of the press but it's hardly the only one, and it is absolutely fair to discuss the whole picture. For example, on this Freedom Of Press Index, Russia is far ahead of China which does not kill journalists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index#Rankings_an...

I would also like to address your "some chilling effects" comment. Investigative reporters are only as good as their sources and the sources have been silenced. That's a nuclear winter, not "some chilling effects".

Meta: is it really necessary to imply that whomever you are responding to is lacking in intellectual capacity? What's with all the "would it stretch your intellect to...", "one can think x without drawing a parallel to y..." and so on. If your arguments are strong, let them stand on their own.
I did not notice that. You could very well be right. It'd be nice if Google could release some cold hard performance figures. Maybe I could, er, Google it.
Fantastic and I'm also glad to see that most of the comments are positive. I was almost afraid to click on the comments link.
How BitBox proxies their bitcoin connections
Using AngularJS with a Rails backend
> I'm ambivalent about NSA's need to request potentially large amounts of data from Google about broadly targeted foreign intelligence targets.

Not to be unkind, but I'm honestly repulsed by your ambivalence. Ambivalence is assent, in police state logic. Your opinion, backdated:

"I'm ambivalent about the Stasi's need to request that postmasters allow access to all mail."

"I'm ambivalent about the KGB's need to request that all phone lines be tapped."

Make a choice: either be in favor of the American Police State or oppose it.
I wonder how long until they are available on Amazon.
This exemplifies Cisco's build/buy/partner model.The acquisition of Sourcefire adds a team with deep security DNA to Cisco and will accelerate Cisco’s security strategy of defending, discovering, and remediating advanced threats. In addition, Sourcefire’s open source model will strengthen and accelerate Cisco’s ability to build a strong ecosystem of security partners who can bring real time threat intelligence and innovations to customers through integration with it's technologies and platforms (OpenDaylight, SDN, etc...). Good move at a reasonable price (~29% premium to closing).
There surely will, they said in the announcement that updates for GPE devices are coming 'very soon'.
Some domains are free. Why limit yourself to second-level domains?
Absolutely! When making art, you often go through a 'research' phase where you make a lot of sketches, models, mock-up, etc. Most of it is garbage but at the end you've prepared yourself to tackle the real thing. I sometimes think of this project as a really intense version of that process.
Note that there is something at work here that is as important as any of the gamifcation bits. The app is called "Bible" and there are literally hundreds of millions of Christians who read the bible who own a smartphone. So, it inherently is going to get downloaded.

Also, the bible throughout time is among the most purchased, owned, and read book around the world. Phones and tablets are used for reading things, so it makes total sense that when you have a well made app called "Bible" that is free, has no ads, etc. it is going to get a pretty big install base by default.

I'm not saying that the gamifcation stuff isn't working. I just know that being the most popular bible app across many platforms probably accounted for tens of millions of downloads in the first place.
This is a $35 AppleTV. Well played google.
Why is that so hard to understand? If it is a math text it seems like a nobrainer. If I was going to write a book (by definition not a math text) I would write it in pandoc and then use pandoc to create the latex. Using the memoir style it would be easy to create a print ready book with all the bells and whistles and then send the pdf to a self publishing/printing outfit.
How to Create a Microbusiness that Matters
Dynamic pagination
Not to start a flame war here...but what is the likelihood that newer devices still on 4.1 will be bumped to 4.3, on the reasoning that third-parties waited until 4.3 to make the upgrade? Or does it become increasingly unlikely that any upgrade will happen?

I have a Sprint HTC One...which was released in 4.2's latter days but still had 4.1...wondering if an upgrade will ever happen
> "* Cross-platform support, not just iDevices"

Well that only adds androids devices to the list, Windows phones are out right now.

> "* For apps that integrate with the SDK (currently Youtube & Netflix, but I am sure more will be coming soon), the processing of the content can be transferred to the the Chromecast. Hence, once you "flick" your Netflix content to Chromecast, your phone is free and not processing content anymore unlike Airplay, which is a huge win for your phone's battery"

AppleTv does this by it owns, not need to stream Netflix from your devices.

> "* All your phones/tablets/computers become your remote/controllers."

Only if they are iDevices or android devices.

> "* The price (at $35, it's a relatively low-risk impulse buy)"

Only attractive I see, still if you already own an AppleTV, why should I buy this one too?
On my MacBook:

1	110 22% ls
2	99 19.8% cd
3	44 8.8% top
4	39 7.8% vi
5	23 4.6% pwd
6	23 4.6% crashoff
7	16 3.2% rm
8	14 2.8% du
9	12 2.4% crashon
10	11 2.2% ssh

(crashon / crashoff are scripts to start and stop CrashPlan)

Raspberry Pi:

1	85 26.3158% ls
2	53 16.4087% sudo
3	20 6.19195% pwd
4	20 6.19195% cd
5	19 5.88235% exit
6	17 5.26316% crontab
7	12 3.71517% df
8	11 3.40557% streamripper
9	10 3.09598% ps
10	9 2.78638% date

(was setting up a streamripper cronjob recently, so it's skewed)
I don't think anyone has gotten the OTA update yet. Once someone has, the zip will get posted and then we can all update from that. Or, you can flash the factory image which is out now but you'll lose your data on the phone.
Doesn't seem to work in Firefox: "TypeError: templateBlock.innerText is undefined"
Thanks for the details and the thoughts. It is a difficult industry, obviously. I think we're fortunate that we're starting as a wrapper around existing exposed endpoints (for example SFTP endpoints for ACH flat-files).

Core processing obviously needs innovative competition and we hope to get there if it's necessary (I've heard Palantir is considering getting in to that business as well).

SOAP interfaces are exactly what we're trying to get rid of. ISO8583 is likely here to stay though, despite it's problems.
Upping the girl power at MapBox
The 5V pin delivers 50mA. Enough to be tantalizing, insufficient for current reality.
Yeah I guess this is why it's okay to ship binary blobs independently from the kernel.
What is interesting is that if the bill passes with a 2/3 majority Presidents are unlikely to use the Veto. Nothing stops them from vetoing it but they usually take the passing with that strong of a margin as an indication that the veto would be overridden anyway.
OK, thats fair - I apologise to the OP. The best excuse I can muster is that I'm having a bad personal day, which is not much of an excuse.

I have in the past argued that Show HNs should get honest and open feedback, and not snarky stuff so here goes

1. "Subscription Signing up and posting is free but to reply to job posts you must have a subscription."
I was confused - I liked the idea of getting the early bird but this wording threw me - I could not work out if I would be able to reply to posts. I nearly did not sign up because of it.

I suggest you add wording that "The early bird will allow you to apply for jobs free for a year" - at that point.

2. Try having two account type - company and jobseeker. That might make the above issue clearer. Also if I am a jobseeker why would I want to post a new job? if jobseekers accounts can do that you may have some moderation to do.

3. suggest putting name boxes into profile - apparently more boxes to fill in less sign up.

4. overall - impressive, even your css is cache-busted.

Well, my opinion on the business model is really what started this mini flame, so here is a longer explanation of why I am not a total shit:

1. if these jobs are cross-posted anywhere, there is no convincing argument to pay your subscription fee. I may as well apply to the ad that does not cost me 2.50 to apply.

2. Quality jobs on here is vital - if anyone can add them for the cost of an email, you will get spammed by idiots. And I am afraid that if you are charging to post a job and charging to apply for a job, you will struggle to make critical mass.

Finally, and the reason for the grandparent post, I think that there are a number of "industries" that the Internet should have killed a while back but for some reason are still here. Real Estate Agents (Realtors) being one, job searches being another. Frankly anything that involves being an agent between two parties where those parties can find each other through structured searching is really going to be on its last legs.

I understand the desire (finding a job is broken, lets fix it) - but honestly I do not think that another agency approach is the long term solution - and as such I would suggest the OP thinks long and hard as to whether the game they are playing has a positive end in sight.

The pond is shrinking, you clearly have the chops for this, try finding a pond that is growing.

(yeah easy to say I know)
We're all failures sometimes, so quit worrying about it
Bill Gates isn't as cool as Jay-Z, who isn't as rich as Bill Gates. There is no king of the mountain.
Any retail operation and its employees are doomed to a lowest common denominator existence. The paint costs the same, whether you paint yourself a Walmart or a Whole Foods.

"Forget about it Jake. It's retail."
Congress votes on NSA data collection
Agreed: in this case "Getting 100 Million Downloads is More About Built-in Audience Than Miracles"
look up Brushy One String
Vendor lock-in isn't good for users either.
> I don't see any images of the device plugged into a TV without a power cord.

From the "Plug and Play" section:

http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/assets/common/images/ch...

The only place I see any mention of a power cord is in 10px #d1d1d1 font on a white background.
> I see; you're the type who thinks he's smarter than everyone in the industry ...

You mean, like Google, who continually pushes to do exactly what I've described here, only to be stymied by:

- Apple, who has no reason to support the web as competitive to their native platform.

- Microsoft, same.

- Mozilla, who refuses to consider that there might be a world beyond HTML/CSS/JS because they believe those specific technologies are intrinsic qualities of the web, and thus central to their mission of supporting the web.

Looks like the only people I disagree with are the Mozilla camp. Microsoft and Apple have different priorities, and Google is continually frustrated by exactly what I've described here.
As always with Google, you need to ask "What's the marketing strategy behind this? Why are they making this device?"

My guess : Yet another way to consume more medias / using Google services.
You can do full display mirroring via Chrome's Remote Desktop extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desk...). I believe the same functionality exists for Chromecast, but don't quote me on that.
If it works as advertised, this could be disruptive. They made it dead simple to stream content from any device to your TV. So anyone can use it, particularly the older generation.

Potential for number of apps that could be developed is endless. Apparently, Washington Post is building an app on top of it (http://t.co/dTWesNOoIC). So possibilities are endless. And good news - another step towards making cable TV irrelevant.

P.S. I just bought one. Can't wait to play with it's SDK.
at some point, she learned about minification and http requests and concatenated all her scripts into one "application" script.
Show HN: Create one-off chats in seconds with Folders
Ask HN: Which new advanced web analytics feature will you value
High-end web analytics products (omniture, coremeterics etc) offer mature analysis tools, but at the same time are both time consuming to set up and have significant costs.On the other hand, Saas-based and/or affordable solutions like google analytics and co (eg. clicky, mixpanel etc) do not incorporate advance analysis capabalities. What missing analytics feature would bring the greatest value to your web analytics ?

Examples of features:

1) OLAP/multi dimensional analysis:Breaking down traffic stats by attributes of your own choice eg. traffic KPIs by count by time And region.

2) Attribution/lifetime analysis : visitor satistics based on customer lifecycle. eg. how many times did the customer visit your site before making progress in your funnel ( http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalmarketing/analytics/do-we-need-an-advanced-marketing-attribution-model/ )

3) Dynamic funnel/path analysis: Analysis of not just only a defined funnel flow, but also to see the Top N paths taken by customers before arriving at a goal.
> > "* All your phones/tablets/computers become your remote/controllers."

> Only if they are iDevices or android devices.

OR Windows, MacOS, or Chromebook Pixel desktop/laptops.
I couldn't agree more; client certs are too much work and come at a non-trivial maintenance cost, same goes for AD/LDAP. So JackDB also acts as authentication provisioning front-end for a DBMS so users don't have to do that themselves and suffer the maintenance cost/overhead. Interesting.

I'm curious, your VPC bastion; how do you make managing SSH keys scalable given that setup? And why not separate accounts which in fact help with keeping sane logs of who did what, and distribute the risk of compromise across several accounts?
LXJS Transparency Report
Lisbon Javascript Conference Values
This is more developer related, but one of the biggest news is a backwards compatible ActionBar in the official support library. All that's left to say is a big, enormous thank you to Jake Wharton for keeping us all sane until now.

Edit: The video about the ActionBarCompat is available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TGgYqfJnyc#at=20

Seems largely identical to ABS in its implementation, which makes sense.
Any bets on how soon Apple respond by opening the long-rumored AppleTV App Store?
This is all well and good for enforcing behaviours that a person could naturally fall into, but what if you wanted to someone to do something they had never done before?
MrJob is great. If you do not want to run full blown Hadoop and are not using Amazon, Gearman is also a great alternative.
You could use ext3/4 FS on sdcard. The reason gooogle doesn't want SD slot is probably because they want users to use their cloud instead.
Admittedly it is theater but even a symbolic defunding like this can help. If nothing else it is impressive to see that this issue has so much bipartisan traction in the most divided House since before the Civil War.
Ah, I'm so conflicted... Do I keep Sense and the IR blaster/Zoe, or do I get stock with all the improvements and saner UI?...
Looks like if you refresh enough it will allow you to purchase - Just ordered one. Took a lot less time than the Nexus 4 ordering process ;-)
I actually love this. Release a New Nexus 4 (or 5) , Nexus 7, and Nexus 10 each year, people can add the year to the end of the name to reference a specific one.
I don't know if technology is generally valued within banks or not. What I do know if that we've had a lot of success working with product folks who "get it" and help us drive through the platform from the business side and then we work closely with the IT and IT security folks to make sure they're happy as well.

I worked for years getting things done in government bureaucracies and we have had a lot of success in approaching a bank and it's employees (almost all of whom are smart and well-meaning) as a puzzle to be solved rather than an enemy to be defeated.
This device makes it possible to seamlessly share web content (via Chrome) to TV sets. Google wants more consumption of web content.
It is possible that the keys are already compromised, and that the Feds want to cover themselves with an excuse for having supposedly encrypted communications when that is later discovered.
How to process a millions songs in seconds
> When was the last time anything (large) was defunded by the US congress?

All of those old guys in the NSA will remember when Congress defunded supplying arms to the Nicaraguan Contras and the ensuing Iran-Contra scandal which ended quite a few careers and deeply tarnished even the "teflon" president Reagan.
Torbit is sort of like CLoudflare?

What the heck is Walmart doing with all these acquisitions? I'm guessing there's some sort of internal champion with a decent amount of power trying to assemble a nice little lab, decently-financed far away from HQ?
That seems to be largely a carrier issue, and unfortunately the best solution seems to be to root the device and install/update stock Android manually.

This is why Google is moving a lot of Android's functionality into applications, which can be updated easily via the Google Play Store.
It's an interesting thought. Why not build an open-source credit card processor (not Stripe or Balanced, but First Data or Vantiv) as well? We'll get there.
Fluxcapacitor will run your tests faster
I've always loved that thread because there's such a huge history of progress. It'd be interesting to see the OP come back in a year to implement one of these exercises and compare the quality of the code from where she started.
Seriously, this might be the most important change in the list. Jake's work has been incredible, but having this provided by the support library is a huge improvement to Android development.
The Billion Dollar Mind Trick: An Intro To Triggers

http://www.nirandfar.com/2012/04/billion-dollar-mind-trick.h...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3881370

> This article skims the surface of habit formation
>
> - HN commenter

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life and Business

http://www.amzn.com/1400069289

> [using the habit loop] cycle to structure habits in your own life
>
> - HN commenter

Don't Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training

http://www.amzn.com/1860542387

> a manual and a philosophy for solving the problems in your life caused by
> other's behavior, whether it is your husband, your children, your pets, or
> your co-workers
>
> - Amazon reviewer
At my house we have a full Windows 7 PC or laptop attached to every TV and a wireless combo keyboard/trackpad. It's been that way for over 5 years and there's nothing we can't do with them.

We didn't spend much to do this either - these are all old or leftover computers except for the one in my wife's room because she wanted a quad-digital-tuner Windows media center (so I built her a tiny shuttle box with a Ceton tuner).
The Chrome and Android teams don't seem to be great bedfellows, it seems - it isn't clear to me what demarcates Chrome-branded products from products running Android in areas far from their original targets.
One of the best School House Rocks videos ever is "I'm Just a Bill." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyeJ55o3El0

There are two things missing:

1. Congress can override a Presidential veto with a vote a two-thirds majority in the both chambers.

2. The President can also let a Bill sit for 11 or 12 days (it's really 10, but Sundays don't count.) At that point it becomes law without the President's signature.
Here he is < http://www.planetebook.com/ebooks/1984.pdf >

... over here, too < https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm >
Plus China is in a great position geologically (if that makes sense). The Asia-Pacific region is only going to get more important as the years go on, and China is right in the thick of it all, while Russia is camped out with Siberia.

Who knows though, once the Arctic ice sheets melt maybe that position will become more important than it appears.
So basically no expectation and hence no effect.
> only to be stymied by:

Reality. Imagine that.
I've met Zed. Had dinner with him. Same with Gary. I find them really interesting people in person to chat with. I think the point of the article was that he wasn't attacking them personally, since he doesn't know them in-person, but only by the personality exuded online.
Where do you draw the line between cheating and referencing? If I made a Game of Life implementation, would you think differently of it based on whether I had used YouTube rather than Wikipedia to learn about the specifics of the problem? Or is it a matter of not copying-and-pasting -- something which I do occasionally even in professional work?
Verbal Regular Expressions (JS, PHP, Java, Ruby, Groovy)
It's $35, but it only offers the Airplay receiver functionality of the Apple TV (I don't think it will do display mirroring of computers and Android devices though).

From what I've read (please correct me if I'm wrong), the Chromecast doesn't function as a standalone device. In other words, you need a smartphone/tablet/computer to play things on it. It doesn't have its own interface where you can browse and play content like the Apple TV does.
Amazon Instant on Google TV is just a shortcut to launching Chrome pointed at the Amazon site where the videos play in Flash. It's not a real Android app, not on my box at least.
Chrome browser supports it. There's an SDK, so theoretically any device can support it.

I own both an AppleTV and a ChromeCast. For Netflix, I use both depending on whether my phone or the Apple TV remote was closer to me. For Youtube, no question, Chromecast is far better. Other content, I don't want to comment about since I am not sure what's released to the public yet.

I also strongly dislike that AppleTV has a fixed set of channels/apps and no SDK (though it's likely they will have one soon). I can't even remove the multiple channels that I never watch and don't care about.
I think the article section entitled "approximations" is what you are looking for.
> What, you're saying that because it's easy everyone will do it? That's funny.

No, he said it's easy and some people will do it from the start.

You're saying it's easy but nobody will do it. Yours is the outlandish claim.

Whether or not she really began programming 114 days ago, her use of indentation is a really weak argument. Even if she wasn't focused on indentation, there are editors that make it an afterthought.
Or that she's proposing to someone who, last I heard, was still in a committed relationship with someone else. :P
Pluralsight Acquires PeepCode To Expand Into Open-Source Content
I run a small Ruby on Rails consultancy and we built Folders to help us have quick one-off chats with potential customers and employees.

You can create them very easily (no sign-up required) and join them with just a name. We also built a simple TextExpander snippet which expands ‘fldrs’ to a new chat URL.

Let me know if you have any feedback (good or bad). I’ll be hanging around at https://fld.rs/gqUIOy4xTA34 to answer any questions in real-time.

Thanks!