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With this reasoning, one should never consider BBC as objective as it's owned by the British government. Yet it has been perceived for years by many as one of the most objective and thorough TV station worldwide.
> As for GOG, they didn't say that they don't want to support Linux. They clearly said they want to, but the way they planned it for themselves makes it complex and takes long time to research/develop. While we can disagree with GOG's approach, it's up to them to decide how to enable it. So let's wait and see what they come up with next year.

Seriously the position from GOG is plain BS. If they really wanted to support Linux, they could easily package most of their old games with Dosbox and 90% of them would run fine this way. This is the large majority of their current catalog. And I have a very hard time to believe it would be difficult to support a few key distributions. Or they could take the approach "we support only Ubuntu officially" just like Valve does, and let the Community support other distributions.

So, as much as I love what GOG does, their position regarding Linux was a great disappointment. Especially coming from a developer from Eastern Europe, where Linux is clearly stronger than in other PC markets around the world. I don't see CD project porting Witcher 2 to Linux either, and they haven't made any announcement in that direction for the upcoming Witcher 3 either.

Supporting "Non-DRM" software while running on a DRM friendly environment (Windows/Mac) is a very strange place to be, honestly. I expected way more from GOG.
And 90% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Gigabyte's new gaming PC is smaller than an Xbox controller
> from what I've read (and heard from friends on Colemak), switching back to QWERTY is painful

That hasn't been my experience on Dvorak, QWERTY comes back almost instantly. It was harder when I had just learned Dvorak but since I, like you, have to use QWERTY keyboards often the situation quickly improved (in much less time than it took to learn Dvorak).

> The primary argument for Colemak is that it reduces finger travel distance from the home row. But my fingers don't naturally fall precisely in a line

Travel distance looks more like E[||key1 position - key2 position||] not E[||key position - resting position||] when you're writing a big chunk of text, so the resting position of your fingers is not very important for the purposes of minimizing wrist strain. Anecdotally, the difference in wrist strain isn't remotely subtle between the two layouts. Of course, I don't usually type enough to get sore, but I can certainly feel the tendons move through my wrist, and they move a great deal more when I'm using QWERTY.

"This is a test sentence" leaves the home row once on Dvorak and 13 times on QWERTY, but the Dvorak advantage for this sentence would be just as good if you permuted the key rows so that 18/19 of the keypresses landed on, say, the top row.

I prefer mapping caps lock to ctrl since it makes both vim and emacs easy (I use ctrl-C in place of esc in vim, so for it has worked for everything but block replacement).
C'mon man, this is Perl. Easy things are easy, Hard things are possible.

In reverse:

https://gist.github.com/justingit/6533386
Of these, I'm definitely most interested in Chase Adam. It'll be very interesting to hear the lessons from YC's first non-profit, particularly as the winter round will likely include many more.
> Tom Barclay, Robert Eberl, Jim Gray,
John Nordlinger, Guru Raghavendran,
Don Slutz, Greg Smith, Phil Smoot
Microsoft Research and Development

a number of those folks went on to build some impressively large scale services. hotmail, skydrive, etc. I wish jim was still around...
I'm mostly talking about $3-8 cables (CL2 2m from Monoprice) vs. $1-3 cables (chinese mystery crap). I also really prefer 24 to 28 awg.
lol, good one!
One day, you could all make money by tracking user's projected income tax bracket and charitable donations, telling you the result of an $X or $Y contribution to organization A or B.
>it isn't quite the same if you have to carry around a separate controller...

As opposed to carrying around a separate game console?
LA SENCILLEZ DE LAS COSAS Y DE LAS GENTES
Perl has always had a playful nature. For a surprisingly long time, my top rated post on Perlmonks was http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=29977. Since it is short, here it is in full:

The job I want:

$dollars++ while sleep(1);

The job I get:

{
work();
redo;
get_rich();
}
From the benchmarks I have seen [1] it performs pretty similarly to it's ARM competitors.

[1] http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/Intel-Atom-Z3000-Ser...
For those who don't know, Waldo Jaquith is something of a national treasure, as the only person in the country who has effectively managed to tackle the problem of standardizing state statutes in an open manner, as they should be. (I managed to get a few on PlainSite, but Waldo's platform has tackled many more by distributing the problem.) Check out The State Decoded at:

http://www.statedecoded.com

We should all hope that Waldo feels better soon. He is anything but stupid.
Nintendo DS vs iPhone comparison:

Nintendo DS can be a gift to a 6 year old. I am not giving a phone with open data and calling capability and store to a 6 year old.

Also a NDS costs $200 while the iPhone is $450 for cheapest model without a phone contract (was more until recent anouncement).

A PS3 cost 400 at launch. And still plays new games till this day. SURE they are not as good quality but they work well. Meanwhile you keep having to upgrade your PC, and since I assemble my own, I can make a $600 / $700 pc, most people end up spending 1.5k+ for that.

So cost is still a huge factor.
Salary of ASP.Net Professionals?
Please mention location,years of experience and which version of ASP.Net you are working?

E.g, ASP.Net MVC 3, 4 years, $85k, New York
Fruit of the poisonous tree. The legal standards for what can be presented in court are higher than for what can be performed and use for counter-terrorism, missing persons investigations, hostage rescue, and all sorts of police/military/intelligence actions that aren't going to end up in a courtroom.

Does anyone know the legal status of foreign intelligence agencies as far as probable cause? I don't think it'd be considered valid probable cause.
Reading "..combining five terabytes of image data.." and "Figure 1. The TerraServer hardware" while looking at the portable 2TB external HDD sitting on my desk... how technology advances rapidly. Makes me wonder how (storage) technology can be in 10-15 years.
The NSA collects data on US elected officials and secretly provides it to Israel
So, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't these issues all around the sandbox functionality of applets?

So specifically, to exploit these, you write a dodgy applet, then convince users to run these applets locally (by hijacking websites or whatever), whereby you break out of the sandbox and do bad shit.

So then, in terms of how Java is generally used: on servers, on android, to execute code that runs locally on your box outside of a sandbox anyway (e.g. minecraft) these issues are in fact complete non-issues?

It seems to me that if they just split off the applet part into its own thing the world would be a far better place.
Clearly the shortcut to quality VC funding is to pitch a startup named /in.*/ to YCombinator!
>I'm really glad to see CoreOS taking this path, forged by the likes of VMware's ESXi and Joyent's SmartOS. It truly is the only way to run scalable infrastructure.

I find comments like these amusing. Sysadmins have been using PXE to boot servers... for quite some time now. Long before joyent existed, and long before VMware was something you'd seriously run a server under. (vmware came about around the time of the 2.1 version of the PXE standard, which was when I was first getting my feet wet; I didn't seriously start using pxe until the early oughts.)

Hell, /I/ built a nfs/pxe diskless cluster before joyent existed. As part of that, I demo'd a 'initrd only' system like this coreos thing, only we were using FreeBSD. We ended up going with / on nfs; it was way easier to update.

That said, I'm not knocking CoreOS; I might even use this. Maintaining your own bootable initrd with root filesystem is work. I currently use distro 'rescue images' (for centos, at least, you append 'rescue' to the installer, and it downloads a small initrd /... but it's less than optimal.)

I mean, I'm not shitting on joyent, either; I think most of the value they bring is managing this shit ongoing, which is not a trivial amount of work. I mean, the whole idea behind companies like Joyent is to make is so you don't need a me screwing with your dhcp server, and there's value in that. I'm grouchy and charge a lot of money.
But it runs Windows 8.1, not RT. That's a major plus.
Deis – An open source PaaS
Objective-C/Cocoa has events via notifications and they are used pretty heavily.
maybe not 25 years ago... but it was common in the early '00s. This is not new tech. I participated in a project to do this with FreeBSD and nfs, I think around '03 or so. It was a smallish cluster (under 100 nodes) built to handle a simple Freebsd Apache Mysql PHP stack for a growing realestate ASP. Even then, it was not a new thing; there was plenty of documentation from other folks doing it.

I mean, it didn't go as smoothly as pxe booting does today; we ended up needing to reflash all our network cards to make it work, something I have not had to do in the last 5 years.
Doesn't CrunchFund do tons of small investments and I'm guessing they invest in every company at Disrupt? It would almost be silly for them not to... I would think.
Yep, the RT. Have not played with the Pro yet, I should stop by the local Windows store and take a look.
This looks really cool, I can't wait to hack around with this!

Question for the community: I don't have enough experience to know how this stacks up against other servers out there. Also, how do the people HN enjoy using java as a webserver (lang-wise, scaling-wise, etc)?

Any feedback would be much appreciated!!
The Joy of Flying Robots with Clojure
Bitcoin chat, where you can chat with a community as well as earn a few coins
A really great community to chat with a wide variety of channels, very IRC like and the added benefit of earning fractions of bitcoins. We're all friendly here so don't be afraid.
Please don't use java Applets for anything. It is age old, unsafe technology. End of story.
Another example of the government trying to be the parent here. How sad that the "nanny" feels that it must get it's hands on kids so early by nurturing them against those evil parents.

The government has largely supported things that have torn the family apart, now as the "nanny" it is trying to pick up all the pieces and completely replace (little by little) what is left of it.

Why? well two reasons...
1. To maintain and gain ever larger amounts of power and control (which requires taking more and more freedom, privacy and choices away from the people).
2. To rid the world of God and religion (which is necessary for number one to even be a possibility).

The government must weaken the people and make them dependent on it. Best way to accomplish this is to destroy what creates strong communities. Family and faith.
I own a PC and an Xbox. I know from first hand experience that the Xbox is easier to maintain. I wasn't joking about that.
Unless apps and browser plugins appear which weaken ASLR, like several recent versions of DropBox in 32-bit & 64-bit DLLs, Windows 7 x64 SP1 - http://codeinsecurity.wordpress.com/2013/09/09/installing-dr...
How vulnerable is ASLR in OSX?
Why there isn't one word about Firefox in the post? You can completely change it's UI with javascript and you can use HTML if you don't like XUL.
Ordinary web users do not need Java. It is best used in Servers or for coding mobile apps. So if you do neither, just go ahead and uninstall.
Do you have any data that people who are smart (at learning math and computers - I assume that's what you mean) are also good at learning to deal with people, particularly non-math people?

If anything, I have observed a negative correlation. And I know some pretty f*ing smart people.
The netbook of 6 years ago had an ethernet port and ran Linux out of the box. Feature parity has not been achieved by later models, if this is reimagining things they're imagining with a case of Alzheimer's.
I'm aware of those things, and obviously he knows that everyone else knows that too. If he says he is religious, I don't think mere conjecture is enough to assume that he isn't.

The actual reality of what he thinks can be known only to himself, the best we can go on (for him, and indeed anybody else. Hell, even the pope...) is what he claims.
Unfortunately iOS broke the functionality somewhere around 5.1; it was still broken in 6 and I haven't checked iOS 7 yet. Animated gifs have the same issue: MobileSafari waits until the connection is closed before rendering anything.
I feel like Evan's story is too early to tell? As a founder I'd love to hear some of the ups and downs (lots-o-ups,) but if I was on their board or their corporate counsel, I would be having a coronary right about now.
This ignores another big part of the equation historically (I don't know if it applies today, and AFAIK it never applied to Nintendo) which is using a clever business model. Many consoles have been sold at a significant loss at launch. An equivalently powerful PC would have cost much more, and did, in fact, cost the manufacturer more than they were selling it for. The cost would then be recaptured in game royalties.
You shouldn't reply to comments that you haven't read.
Where does this stand against dropwizard?
> "The tree emphasizes jQuery effects to an odd degree (three levels) and it doesn't depend on JS mastery."

Do you find that use of jQuery requires a mastery of JavaScript? There was a time when I could use jQuery(especially jQuery plugins) but didn't have a clue about how to do very basic things with JavaScript.
You are wrong, the article isn't about the merit of applets, these issues deal with a company that doesn't want to support software that is deployed on millions of PCs.
My take on the whole situation. It was a mess and Obama made it worse by playing with Putin. While the back patting in Washington punditry is in full swing how the US threats have worked the reality is Obama is making things worse.

He called a vote and a debate for the Congress and now called it off. So on top of the whole mess now there are hurt feelings and egos. What comes now are talks. Which take time and can you know - fail. So in 3 months when Bashar tells Yuck Fou with the silent support of China and Russia, Obama will stand all alone, the chemical attack faded from the memory, the president not dared to respond to the red line and with no friends whatsoever.

If going to Congress was a gambit this is Russian roulette. With semi-automatic pistol.
Which JVM? There are plenty to choose from.
I've never enjoyed using Java.

If you have time look at Scala (Scalatra/Play Framework) or Clojure (Ring). You can reduce the size of your codebase dramatically.
Except if you need to access government sites in many countries.
324 disks takes up most of a row. When we had to do service maintenance in Canyon Park (fun with NT 3.51 and 4.0, before the days of Terminal Server) I'd walk over to TerraServer and admire it's enormity.
The article I didn't really see (actually I saw the link but thought it goes back to the introductionary article, didn't read properly enough).

I got now a better understanding at what you're trying to solve. What I didn't quite get yet is: How is this supposed to help regarding bower/npm json files? Or am I on the wrong track here?
This is in sharp contrast to my workplace where I often hear, "we used Java because we don't care about performance." I guess C++ programers are the master race :-)
One way of scaling companies succesfully
For someone who has rarely if ever programmed (or just done basic HTML/CSS) I recommend Eloquent JavaScript. For experienced programmers or someone who has been hacking JS on their own for a while, but wants to improve, I recommend The Good Parts.

You can learn a lot from both, but they are aimed at different audiences, IMO.
>>> We in the west are supposed to be better, but all we are better at really is PR.

That's baloney, also known as reverse cargo cult. As you know, cargo cult is a fallacy when people simulate external appearances of some process without actually performing it (original cargo cult was building fake airfields and simulating actions of the people working in airfield in hope that actual planes with plentiful food and goods - i.e. cargo - would arrive) and without understanding what exactly causes the external effects. Reverse cargo cult happens when people postulate that there actually were no actual planes ever, just those people that claimed they fly the planes are much better at pretending (or, as you say now, in PR) than the cargo cult practitioners, thus they appear to have more success, even though under the pretense there's no actual essence in either case, and the essence doesn't actually exist and is just a lie.

Of course, it is trivially obvious to any informed person that while we have major undeniable problems with surveillance running amok and other serious problems in the US, situation with personal rights and liberties in the US is way better than in Russia. In US there are no things like Khodorkovsky's or Magnitsky's affairs, there are no laws introducing internet censorship, there is Bill of Rights, there are independent courts, there is a free press, there is the police that mostly is doing its job and not racketeering businesses, and I could continue all day long. Yes, abuses do happen, and yes, they are bad, and yes, right now we are living through a number of them and US citizens need to fix them if they want to preserve their liberties - but claiming "all we are better at really is PR" is misguided at best and playing right to the hands of dictators like Putin and Assad at worst. After all, if everybody is only pretending, why should Putin or Assad change anything? They just has to lie more and better and everything would be fine.
Good god. What is this pretentious bullshit? This tone of this post was so incredibly ridiculous I had to create an account to ask why it was posted here or taken seriously.

This self proclaimed smart person, with heavy emphasis on the self proclaimed part (check out the incredibly smug About page) apparently needs Lyme disease to feel the plight of the oh so pitiful stupid people. News flash, half the population is dumber than average, stop acting like Lyme disease is a cute self reflection on intelligence.

I am not attacking your smartness, and please get well soon, but don't be a pretentious asshole. God. South Park's "Smug Alert!" episode perfectly encapsulates the culture of this place sometimes.

Over and out.
What I mean is you're plugging how it's open and uses standard languages in a thread titled "Why do dedicated game consoles exist?". That stuff is irrelevant.
Ive enjoyed writing code in scala, not until I compile it. It takes a long to compile. I agree with you, java is not enjoyable but we cannot deny the fact it still gets the job done.
Definitely... and _way_ more IOPS.
>Take Symfony2's architecture, for example. Controllers, Entities, Repositories, Views, Services, Listeners, Events, etc. Each layer has its own distinct purpose that do something very specific by themselves, but when brought together form a very cohesive whole.

But the end result is so very complex and the benefits gained are doubtful at best.
That's strange, I find Java to be more unreadable than Scala.
Personally, I would use dropwizard. Spark's key point seems to be avoiding annotation based constructs.

Compare (Spark):

public class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] args) {
get(new Route("/hello") {
@Override
public Object handle(Request request, Response response) {
return "Hello World!";
}
});
}
}

to (JAX-RS, which dropwizard uses)

@Path("/hello")
public class HelloWorld {
@GET
public String get() {
return "Hello World";
}
}
I want this with a MS Surface design. I don't mind paying 200 dollars more. It would then match the iPad in terms design and surpass it in practicality.
*note: it's of course not a magazine, but I wasn't sure what to call it... "publication"?
This is the same reason I buy records and CDs even though I have a massive digital music collection.

I don't want to hand-sort my digital files, click through 50 screens, wait for reboots, etc etc. I wanna shove something physical inside something else physical and let the music just play.

Plus, you can't sniff an mp3.
You can't just compare storage on the capacity, you also have to account for speed. Even these days, 149GB 15k RPM SAS drives are popular for non-SSD usage. Long way from 4TB, but they outperform them any day when it comes to semi-random usage.
Play! is hardly a micro framework.

Play is fun until you try using its JSON library. I think I've been scarred for life.
Most criticism of MVC and frameworks can be summarized as:

"I don't understand MVC, this framework I'm using doesn't supply me with a one-size-fits-all architecture for my business logic and I'm incapable of designing my own. So I'll just stuff my spaghetti style code somewhere, and bitch about MVC and/or the framework being insufficient/dead/shit."

It's the ultimate expression of a bad craftsman blaming his tools, and it's endemic in web development.
Besides the cost advantage due to the economies of scale, specialized gaming consoles offer something that both developers and gamers want: a consistent experience due to a common hardware platform.

The QA effort that goes into PC games vs a Console games is a considerable difference. The myriad of hardware configurations (amount of RAM, GPU types and its capabilities, processor speed, etc) make for complicated debugging and graphics quality compromises to capture the mean population of computer performance capability. Contrast this to console development, developers can guarantee the performance of their game and optimize accordingly because they only have to account for one hardware and OS configuration (or 2, if they are going for multi-console release). Likewise, gamers can be confident that they won't run into performance or compatibility issues.

Due to the specialization and simplification of these computer systems, gamers also get to enjoy the sheer convenience of gaming consoles. They boot quickly, jump strait into your game and are fairly no-nonsense.

At a low enough price point relative to general purpose PC's or smart phones, they are still the best experience for enthusiast-level gamers.
Have people dropped the 'com' from java projects now? Not arguing in favor, the whole thing is ridiculous to me (src/main/com/actual_files). Just curious.
That's an extremely well written piece. Clearly Putin has good speechwriters, and the Russian literary tradition is famous! Do you think a US speechwriter could produce such a thing in a foreign language? I doubt it.
While there is an agency problem and some lawyers take advantage, in general most lawyers are like most software contractors: basically honest, interested in their craft and keen to do a good job.

Lawyers are also held to a standard called "fiduciary duty". It's heavy ju-ju.
Gee, I wonder why a notebook that's like an eight of an inch thick doesn't have an ethernet port. Well, it's probably because they are too stupid to remember 6 years ago... I mean, what else could it be?
None of the videos played on load for me.
NSA broke rules on call-tracking program for 3 years, court filings show
Whenever I'm in one of my 'should I really be here?' moments, having someone ask a difficult question (ie. difficult for them) usually tears me back out of it.

We all have different influence and interests in our lives. You can know more about X than anyone else in the room and not even know that Y existed. The important thing is to make sure you interact with enough Ys to broaden your horizons.