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Here's one example of what i'm talking about: http://poe.perl.org/

It's a framework for writing reactive programs so you don't have to write all the glue normally associated with event-driven apps. It's got 1,044 framework-specific modules to take advantage of (in addition to making it easy to write them yourself).

There's a point where the wheel's already been made and trying to find a better one stops being a factor.
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On the other hand, iOS3 can also be safely ignored because it's a completely insignificant part of the userbase: early june studies showed an install base of 0.1% on phones (0.6% on tablets).

By comparison 2.5% of the android userbase was still on 2.2[0]. Though things look good as it's been falling fast (2.2 was over 8% in february)

[0] http://www.gsmarena.com/android_in_july_41_jb_now_more_popul...
It depends entirely on the type of business you are building. There is no one fits all answer. Give us more background, otherwise you should read PG's memos or answers on Quora.
Late 2012 with 2.6GHz i7, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, and Intel 4000 with 768 RAM. I don't experience any lag on 2d. I never use 3d.
Yes, the US taxonomy includes a great swath of vehicles in the "luxury" main category, even though many of them are not directly comparable. For example, the US market would consider the Audi A3/A4 to be the luxury versions of the VW Rabbit/GTI and Passat, and generally the trim levels available in the US reinforce this: it is very unusual to see in the States any Audi with cloth seats, but not uncommon in Europe.

Hardly any Americans would place a BMW 550i in the "non-luxury" group, least of all BMW USA. It isn't the largest or most feature-jammed car in the fleet, but to Americans it is absolutely a luxury car.
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"why does it matter what it's written in?"

As jpalomaki pointed out, it matters since it's open source. If the user chooses Hugo and wants to modify or extend it down the line, he or she will be writing Go.

And it might also matter to the author for a few more reasons:

First, Go is a language rising in popularity (http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=golang#q=golang&cmpt=...), and seems especially popular on HN lately. Mere mention of Go will drive more traffic to his site. (This could be supported by the fact that he constantly refers to the language as GoLang, which is much more search-engine friendly than the proper name Go).

Second, if he enjoys working with Go, then raising the language's visibility will be good for the language, and good for developers who have invested in the language.
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I'd love to be able to have profiles/users set at the tab level.
To anyone else having problems with the controls: using the keyboard works very well! (arrow keys + shift/ctrl to zoom in/out).
I think his point is that in the past, most musicians never got paid. Now no musicians ever get paid. We've traded a horrible, unequal, corrupt system for compensating artists for no system for compensating artists.
The behavior of the Android Telephony/Signal APIs which OpenSignal depends on varies widely across phones. Many Samsung phones don't implement these well at all, bummer considering they are very popular handsets.

One of the things that makes Mobile development interesting to me is the mobile context, unlike the static context of desktop computing. But being smart in the mobile context requires using sensors, and this hardware boundary is where we see a lot of behavioral differences among Android phones (fragmentation). The existing CTS doesn't do a good enough job here. Its where the fragmentation is the worst - in the interesting APIs.

Also, the fragmentation problem for me is also about Google being able to deliver features to users at a reasonable speed. They can with the Nexus, but the Nexus was and is not likely to ever be a commercial success. Its mainly HW for the Google engineers to dev on, and they make a few more for us.

Bluetooth low energy was announced in 4.3. How long will it take for that feature to arrive for a sizable number of users?

What about the limitations of dvm? For example, its 65k method limit for APKs. How can Google fix this when they can't get everybody on the same page in a reasonable amount of time? Its this kind of fragmentation that hurts.

If you're building some basic CRUD app, don't worry. If you want to make interesting nontrivial apps that touch many APIS - especially HW APIS, that when you have to watch out - and have a very good testing plan.
Trade secret violations can be prosecuted under criminal law, any company can request a criminal investigation in such a case. In the last decade there have been around 100 criminal convictions for theft of trade secrets.
I'm probably going to get downvoted for this, but...I actually really like writing Perl. It's fun, and even the documentation has character.
This is awesome. I've been looking more and more into these types of generators for creating an OSS portal directory for Web, Mobile, Desktop, and Servers; Essentially a Kippt.

Also thanks to everyone posting their projects.
> "As a practical matter, law enforcement agents said they usually don't worry that SOD's involvement will be exposed in court. That's because most drug-trafficking defendants plead guilty before trial and therefore never request to see the evidence against them. If cases did go to trial, current and former agents said, charges were sometimes dropped to avoid the risk of exposing SOD involvement."

This is interesting, as it's basically an admission that Aaron Swartz-style prosecutorial bullying is not limited to just computer-related cases.
> "But the hysteria here is thick..."

This is evidence that FBI, DEA, and other agencies, at multiple levels of government, are colluding with dragnet surveillance operations. How much worse would you say it should get before it's not "paranoid?"
It's a poke in the eye directed at those statists and others who for years have been beating up on anyone who publicly acknowledged the possibility of any gov't conspiracy; usually by making comparisons to absurd examples, then sometimes claiming such things are normal or just, and or making false or illogical justifications.
I made a couple of skeletal Dockerfiles for pump.io and roundcube, which might help somebody get started: https://github.com/Joeboy/dockerfiles
The language can be important since this is an open source project. Given two open source projects that are otherwise similar, I'm more likely to pick the one that is written in language I'm familiar with.
Yeah. I think pg said it well:

Kevin Kelleher suggested an interesting way to compare programming languages: to describe each in terms of the problem it fixes. The surprising thing is how many, and how well, languages can be described this way.

[...]

Perl: Shell scripts/awk/sed are not enough like programming languages.

Python: Perl is a kludge.

Ruby: Perl is a kludge, and Lisp syntax is scary.

http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html
Do you have any references to back up your claim?

First my personal ones knowing people at different genius levels. Second, I can find references supporting both sides without a meta-analysis so that will not work on either side. As a final comment something can be valid sometimes, do you think that there is not a few cases where people don't need to make a great effort?

The Stanislaw's comment doesn't invalidate what I said. Other people spending this same hours will not achieve the same as him. Also, I spent many years thinking in algorithms and developing software daily for more than 10 hours straight without having big achievements in the genius sense.
As others have commented, healthcare is not a relevant factor in most of the developed world; Even in countries with a privatised or semi-privatised healthcare system, it just isn't a big expense outside of the US.

I think that the key explanation is very simple - our expectations increase with our income, creating a ratchet of consumption. There is a very good body of research showing that people feel the benefit of increased consumption only briefly, and that they feel the effects of a loss far more acutely than the effects of an equivalent gain. We also tend to value our relative status far more highly than our absolute status - "keeping up with the Joneses" is a very powerful drive. We tend to feel worse about ourselves if the people around us are becoming relatively wealthier, even if our absolute living standards have not diminished at all.

The great post-war promise of the leisure society could easily be realised if we maintained post-war standards of living. It's not very expensive to live in a small house without central heating or A/C, to eat fairly humble food and rarely eat out, to replace clothes and household goods only when they wear out etc. I know of a great many hackers and artists who have made that choice, but they are very much in a minority. Most people would far rather work >~40hrs a week and benefit from the increased purchasing power. Frankly, I think that most people wouldn't gain any real life satisfaction from extra leisure time - fully half of the average American's leisure is taken up with television viewing.
What are common vendor specific issues that cause crashes?
I am already blown away at this level already. I see companies pooring money into Heroku/AWS/etc and can't fathom spending a mortgage level type cost for some RAM (e.g. 92+ GB). Don't get me wrong, there IS a use case for these but once you are on solid footing, have large revenues, etc... it is so darn simple to save yourself a few hundred thousand a year. Even with employees.
Not everyone wants a lighter car, since heavier survives a collision better. When I got my first car, my dad advised me to get a nice heavy one, in conjunction with a quick recap of momentum mathematics on why the heavier vehicle has more survivability in a collision. A while back, a young, female friend of mine who drove a surprisingly large SUV, said that her dad bought it for her so that she would be safe.

So, not everyone is going to see this as a positive selling point...
Foot switches are available from ergonomic hardware companies. Kinesis makes the Savant Elite line of USB foot switches. They only provide Windows software for programming them but once programmed they can work with other OS's (with some limitations).

http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/fs-savant-elite.htm
http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/fs-elite-single-compatibility.ht...
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> Although you don't have to use them, at all. Also if you insist on implementing your own object oriented design the slow hard way by hand using references instead of "use Moose;" like a normal person, its hard and slow just the way you asked for it, instead of being made impossible.

If you are a perl programmer, you have to know and use references(pass hash, pass array with other params, nested data structures...). "you don't have to use them" is true in the sense that you don't have to use anything - you don't have to use lists, hashes, OOP, what have you. The same goes for OOP. Moose is an option for new code, not for code which has been written with blessed references.

I don't have anything against references; I do have something against using references and de-references for nested data structures and passing data structures to functions. Yes, I do understand references, but I will take the way Python and Ruby make do without references over Perl's references any day.
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Secrecy in law enforcement is problematic, but the secrecy here is less pervasive than you imply. The crimes people are being charged with here are public. The trials are public. Critically, the evidence is all public, and the chain of custody of all evidence in these cases appears to be public as well.

Instead, what's alleged here is that the DEA is provided with enough information from intercepts to "always be in the right place at the right time".

This kind of evidence --- legit evidence traceable to illegit sources --- would be excluded if it involved torture, but apparently the jurisprudence hasn't caught up to its use in unlawful surveillance.
More lightweight in what way?

I wrote something similar myself, also in python, and put it all in one file, organized logically, with extra tools for making management easier. I'm not sure I really see how this is "more lightweight" compared to something else...

For reference, it's located at https://github.com/dkuntz2/essays/blob/master/pavement.py.
Maybe the first step would be developing the ability to grow hair on existing skin. That would be a very popular breakthrough, curing baldness and patching up scar tissue that cannot grow hair anymore. Then it's a matter of getting that to grow on synthetic skin.
Well, the problem is that you can't have a "guilty people only" filter on a data trawling system. You have no idea who the guilty people are, that is why you are trawling the data. So, I guess what you have to ask yourself, is if the fourth amendment is worth sacrificing in order to catch drug dealers.

I don't think it is, and I hope most Americans agree.

<edit> replacing drug dealer with terrorist doesn't change my view on the matter</edit>
No, the first tablet was transformative. Here the quote means achieving something, not necessarily making it widespread.
a) would be a great proposition for more ssl and secure dns.

b) as someone who does her mindless random browsing through tor that sounds wonderful.
I think I did mention it would be kinder to the animal.
> Google are terrible at support.

FTFY
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An omission of fact is a lie. Try doing it under oath. You'll go to jail.

You can see from my comment history that I am vehemently opposed to recent government actions including this one. The prosecution omitting exculpatory evidence is illegal but omitting information under oath is not.

When you are under oath, you are expected to answer the question before you. You are not required or even expected to guess or to elaborate. I've heard from many attorneys I've been a client of that you need to make opposing counsel "work for it". If they ask a broad question, answer narrowly. If you're asked, "Have you ever done anything wrong?", it's not your duty to list everything wrong you've ever done in your life going back to the time you tripped Timmy in third grade at recess.
> So green energy is on par with trips to the moon?

Providing renewable energy on the same scale as fossil fuels is at least as hard a problem as the Apollo program. We've got a long way to go. Graph for the US: http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/pdf/sec1_6.pdf
You're right -- this is a great theoretical result, but it is hopelessly impractical for use today (just like FHE).

Also note that the security of the scheme itself is untested. There are a handful of hardness assumptions here that have withstood little scrutiny, including the ones inherited from FHE and multilinear maps.
We haven't seen any graphene battery failures yet at all! The article says they charge/discharge as supercapacitors. They will have a failure scenario more like Boom! than Flameout!
This'd work pretty well with git hooks. Pretty sure you could configure a server so that if you pushed to a repository on it it'd recompile the website. That'd be pretty handy.
Here's a hypothetical use case for homomorphic encryption, although I think it needs to do a lot more than the linked example if it's actually going to work in this case:

There's a bunch of data on a server, including, say, encrypted names. Users accessing the server have a key to decrypt those names, but they also need to be able to search for and sort names. Decrypting all the names and searching/sorting would be one option, but with enough names, it becomes very, very slow. Another option is having a big index that you decrypt for searching/sorting. This is kind of unwieldy as well, even if it's faster than decrypting everything piece by piece.

Perhaps the right homomorphic encryption techniques could also be used, although you'd have to account for substring searching in the case of names: finding "David" searching for "Dav".
Not quite...

FDIC requires the government to pay you back for the insured (250k) amount but sets no timetable for this repayment. Simply, "as soon as possible." I've had several attorneys (that's what I get for marrying one) tell me explicitly that although the official FDIC policy is "as soon as possible" - which, granted, if you're a single point of failure (i.e., a small local bank) can be as soon as a few days - can be extended effectively indefinitely in cases where, for instance, a major bank fails, or several major banks are robbed concurrently.

Granted, you could sue for this, since you could argue that perhaps they're not moving as fast as they can be, but at that point you're not going to have the money to sue them with.

Now, if you have a solid job and money across several accounts under banks that are orthogonal with respect to being swindled, hey, you're OK. You'll hold out for the eventual repayment. If, on the other hand, you're in the same situation as most Americans these days, you had better hope that when you need the FDIC you're one of the exceptional few rather than part of a mob, because you could very well see your life derailed before you get your safety net back.
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No it should be about ensuring the safety of society. Rehab might be part of that but removing and punishing the criminal is also part of it.
How about a return to traditional agriculture, which would provide more jobs, cleaner food, and decentralization and localization of food infrastructure? Why the relentless pursuit of industrialization and homogeneity at any cost?
All of these things require money in the US. Supporting your family (feeding them, housing them, sheltering them, educating them, providing them medicine). Money in the US is not just for purchasing luxuries: it is a necessary resource for survival. Either you're not an American, or you're hopelessly priveleged.
The biggest problem I see from experience is memory limitations impacting design.

I have a republic wireless android phone that ships with very little free memory until you root it. Have to be Very careful and pick and choose which apps you install based on size. Is it worth uninstalling evernote to fit this new app? Or is your new app worth the $100/month it would cost to switch to a carrier with a more advanced phone where space wouldn't matter?

I also have a 32 gig nexus7 tablet where I pretty much don't have to care about app size. 500 meg game, well OK whatever.

The article advises fooling around with different UI depending on device size. Users actually hate that. I can't stand how baconreader renders differently on my phone and on my tablet, when they should be the same. gmail is another offender. I want the phone gmail on my tablet and the tablet baconreader on my phone (or was it the other way around?) Users can understand screen and finger size issues but can't tolerate arbitrary foolin around with UI design.
Authentication is problematic, because using a photo can trigger the algorithm to successfully authenticate the user.

I've done this a couple of times with my brother's phone. All I had to do as load his profile picture on my phone and show it to his camera.
Why won't they? Because they can't, is why. It's not technically or politically feasible.

It's "silly fearmongering" as long as you have no evidence that they've done such a thing or are attempting to do such a thing.
Ah, I did not see it was you I was replying to. Thanks for the clarification. Sometimes I have difficulty following my own train of thought :)

I meant to say 'favour the few over* the multitude' in case it was not clear from my typo.

Regarding production/consumption ratio: perhaps the new thing in the mix in the internet era is peer-to-peer technologies which break the hierarchical model. Hence Tor and Bittorrent come under legal scrutiny even though they are ethically neutral?
This must make it so much more difficult for the the poor to ever escape their condition. I suppose it's common for an entire family tree to just tell lenders to take a hike, but then their only way to borrow money is through the black market, and there must be vanishingly few legitimate business opportunities were a person would feel confident that they could make enough money to pay loan-shark rates.

I'm sure this policy is detrimental to class mobility and entrepreneurship, but I'd be interested to know if it even promotes a more profitable loan market than in countries with legal bankruptcy.
what kind of programming? what platform/OS/languages?
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It's honestly not that good of a domain though. I don't think it's worth $100k. Maybe $10k, although I'm not about to spend that much on a domain (but maybe someone will).

Anyway, good luck to him. I hope when he is ready to sell his domain there is someone looking to buy it for the kind of money he's expecting.
I've been following this topic for a while, and the interesting thing is that synthetic beef still has to be "fed". What its fed is stem cells and cow fetal materials. So its not "vegan" per-se.

One of the synthetic meat companies switched to leather products as they found out no one wants to eat bio-engineered lab grown steak (also it didn't taste very good)
I am totally for jail time for bankers. But saying money is just money, isn't true.

Money buy the food, pay the rent, pay the doctor. In today's world, stripping someone from his money may be equal stripping him from his dignity.

In Greece for example we had hundred of suicides in the last years due to the austerity measures. People who worked all their life lost their jobs, hit rock bottom and between ending up homeless or imposing on their relatives, they chose to end their life.

Are you sure that none of the 45.000 or so victims of the defendants didn't have their life ruined or commit suicide?
Thank you, that was very informative :)
Many Unix systems include Perl by default. This seems like a small thing, but in areas where 3rd-party software is not allowed (security and audit compliance issues), having a Perl interpreter is wonderful.
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Nice work! Here's my Node.js-based static site generator, for interested users or devs who want to borrow ideas:

https://github.com/jaredhanson/kerouac
I did read the article. Where did they get these figures? It says these findings aren't published.
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Nice piece of sarcasm, there.
What the...? Going to the moon is science fiction? I guess the 20th century didn't exist.
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Yes, it's not deep, and it's not Russia, it's Canada[0]. This reporting is very misleading.

[0] http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/276-74/5123-fox-news...