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It's a rant, so I'm not going to critique this post too much, but I'd like to call this out:

[...] Intel is desperately trying to figure out what to
do to combat the phones and tablets that are eating them
alive from the ankles up. It is pretty obvious that the
company both doesn’t understand what the problem is and
is actively shutting out all voices that explain it
to them.

I don't think this is true. Intel certainly understands the market and where it's headed. However they are committed to x86/64. What Intel is doing in my view is taking a series of huge but calculated risks. They seem to be betting that:

- Laptops will stick around and have Intel Inside for quite a while. The market may be boring, but it will be there for years. Corporate America helps.

- Servers won't be switching to ARM any time soon (I'd argue this is the riskiest bet).

- The desktop and enthusiast/gamer PC market will be around for a while, and also won't be switching to ARM any time soon.

So all of these "shoe-ins" buy them time, and I believe they think that in time they can pull off the biggest risk of all:

- Intel is betting that the biggest differentiating factor is and will be performance per watt. They are willing to gamble that they will eventually eclipse ARM cores in this area. In their view, if they have an x86/64 core that trounces competing ARM architectures in ppw then phone, tablet, and set top manufacturers won't have a problem putting those chips in their devices.

Granted, I'm not saying I think Intel is 100% correct or that they'll succeed with their long term bets; I just don't think they are as clueless as this rant makes them out to be.

No doubt about it, though, UltraBooks DO suck.

EDIT: I'm going to revise my statement on UltraBooks. Not all of them suck. In particular, the Lenovo Yoga is fantastic.
You know, this is not a zero-sum game.
> During this time Windows 8 came out and PC sales dropped 15% in the first full quarter after launch.

I don't think it's all Windows 8's fault. The average desktop PC is just too powerful.

I've been using Visual Studio 2010/2012/2013 with an i3 and an SSD for years now and I rarely run against any sort of performance bottleneck.

To compare what sort of performance requirements I have: in the project that I work on I have a solution with 28 projects that takes about 50 seconds to build from a clean build. Visual Studio takes care of incrementally building the projects during normal development, so usually I'm looking at ~5 seconds to build then launch the debugger.

I have absolutely no need to upgrade. No need = no sale.

I'm using Windows 8 as my operating system. It takes one step forward and one step backwards. I'm looking forward to Windows 8.1 but there's nothing so seriously wrong with Windows 8 that I need 8.1.

When I'm sitting in front of my PC and using Visual Studio, I'm not thinking "I wish this was actually a docked tablet". I have an iPad for mobility.

PC sales are probably undergoing a bit of a course correction as people who are satisfied with tablets buy tablets instead of PCs. But I suspect PCs will be around for a long time to come and, until that day, there's nothing for them to "[come] back" from.
oh man, I know all the people at work using solidworks are going to be pissed that they have to start using it on an ipad now...

seriously though, can someone break down the article, i'm having a tough time figuring out what it's trying to say.
SecondMarket Launches Bitcoin Investment Trust
I'd say that wealthier people commit crimes over not having what they want, whereas not so wealthy people commit crimes over not having what they need. There's a mighty big divide between greed and desperation.
Actually it is, because you'd still have a domain pointed to an IP address listening on 443, and that IP address wouldn't know how to handle the domain that is not configured to listen on 443, so it would serve the default domain (generally the first SSL-configured domain with Apache, or 'default_server' on Nginx). This means you'll be serving a certificate for your default site 'foo.com' when you requested 'bar.org', providing the user with a domain mismatch security warning.

The second non-solution would be to configure every domain with self-signed certificates, but then you'd still be sending your clients an untrusted certificate. The only way to truly provide SSL on a shared host is to configure it with a UCC certificate that includes every domain you are pointing at it, or generate cheap/free certificates like StartSSL's for every unique domain and subdomain you listen for.
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Bill Gates invested in at least 5 Battery Startups who could revolutionize the capacity problems of the large power-grids worldwide: http://gigaom.com/2013/04/02/bill-gates-investors-back-sodiu...
Soon replaced by graphene super capacitors..

How conservative do you sound when you promote Thorium reactors in a solar cell thread? ..some people have heard enough "positive" things about nuclear power now. There are cheaper, more reliable, regrowing and more efficient technologies that Nuclear power fans simply ignore. Nobody said that the power generated by nuclear fusion is lower than with green power, but definitely at scale.
Bluetooth LE is in fact a standard, and is in fact much more widely deployed than NFC. Android already has support for it as of 4.3:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_low_energy#LE_compati...
NSA reform bill to trim back US surveillance unveiled in Congress
What PC innovation? PC's are the same trash can size devices they were two decades ago. They just get a little faster every couple of years.

Innovation will be driven by mobile (both phones and tablets). It requires a lot more innovation to build these smaller devices that operate all day on a battery.
"Article footer citation" is semantic in a language that describes structured content, while "big red button" is semantic in a language that describes design.

It does make perfect sense; for example, you may want to reuse the appearance of a nav bar button some place where a .nav-bar-button class would look strange, and the nested selectors that most popular frameworks use make this impossible (requiring .nav-bar-button to be a child element of .nav-bar). I went pretty far down this rabbit hole a few years ago before pulling back a bit recently. It's a very appealing concept, but in production you often run into corner cases where your basic display classes cause unwanted cascading (especially when wielded by users without a deep knowledge of CSS), requiring you to write a bunch of reset utilities with !important attributes. It's also ungodly messy, as a lot of people point out, and refactoring can be a nightmare when you have to grep for class names like "right" and "text" over dozens or hundreds of templates.

I've since settled into a pattern of using generalized module definitions (list-module, list-module--header, list-module--separator, etc), which is verbose but creates highly portable and maintainable classes. The few presentational classes that I do still use regularly are for white space (padding, margin, defined in short class names like .ptm for padding top medium, a convention borrowed from Nicole Sullivan's OOCSS libraries), and a contextual color palette (.box-warning, .text-danger, etc). The best of both worlds approach is to use a large library of presentational classes as sass placeholders (%color-scheme-inverse, %clearfix, etc) and @extend them where required. This does generate slightly larger CSS files but if you are properly modularizing your style definitions it shouldn't be an issue. The stuff that semanticUI is doing looks great and is a step in the right direction, but way-too-generic class names and lack of namespacing are a constant source of bugs (along the lines of putting all of your variables into a single global scope and using names like 'first' and 'finished').

EDIT: for clarity.
Same here. 4 years ago I bought 2 desktops, one for work and one for home. I quit contracting and got employed, so both sit in my office at home now. I still use them, develop on them, do everything else on them and they are fine. I wont' be buying a new desktop for at least another year if then. And I CERTAINLY won't be 'upgrading' to win8.
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So the government should process the FOIA requests completely naively... sounds like good use of tax dollars.
That made me double-take. That people accept it at face-value as a suicide seems a little bizarre to me, given the subject. "Oh, well, the coroner's office said so."
It appears to be a stream-of-consciousness rant (as all good rants are), so it is not quite as structured as one would like, but the tl;dr seems to be:

"Things in the PC space suck, and absolutely no one seems to be interested in making them suck less. Instead, they keep putting different shades of lipstick on the same pig and calling it 'innovation'."
> I realize Linux in 2013 is not so dangerous, but take a gander at recent java security bulletins when you get a chance anyway.

Off the top of my head, all of the recent serious vulnerabilities were applet related. The JRE doesn't require a Java plugin for your browser, no plugin, no applets.
If you knew a high ranking Apple employee, slip “MacBook touch” in a conversation. You’d get an uncomfortable pause followed by a forced laugh.
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> That can get occasionally annoying, if you drop in a a bunch of 1mb text files in your repository and it insists of examining them.

You can right click the directory and mark it as excluded from the project. We have an integration test suite that likes to emit gigabytes of XML into its local directory - which IDEA happily tries to index. Excluding it saves me a lot of CPU time.
Ask HN: Tumblr alternative without pr0n?
Stuff like the Webb episode or the sting drug deal set up by the DEA is class A food for conspiracy theoretics all over the world.

Enticing someone to do a drug deal should be illegal.
To be clear, this is 'Freeway' Ricky Ross, not Rick Ross the rapper (who actually faced a lawsuit from the real Ross over the use of his name).

http://m.rollingstone.com/music/news/judge-drops-rick-ross-n...
This 'the PC is dead' nonsense will come full circle eventually. Phones and tablets are PCs, we just haven't yet got to point where we can satisfactorily dock them with a full desktop accessory set.

I personally see a scenario where everyone has a nice big LCD screen, full sized QWERTY, and probably still a mouse, in their study at home but carry their 'beige box' in their pocket. Just 5-10 years out imho. Unfortunately I think Windows is still positioned best to make this happen.
>Semantic in the sense that it uses display classes to describe the appearance of elements, not their content or structure, which is what people mean when they talk about semantic markup (<header><section><footer>, etc).

... on bizarro planet, where everything is the opposite of this reality.

edit: or is the grammar you used here just terribly ambiguous? confused. what does "which" refer to?
https://resthooks.herokuapp.com/ appears to be the meat of it.

But that is really just a pointer to:

https://github.com/net-engine/resthooks/blob/master/README.m...
This. I'm hoping Mantle is to OGL what Mir was to Wayland - not a supplicant, but a kick in the rear to get their act in gear.
Globe SSL https://globessl.com/ has domain validated certs at $24 per 3 years.

I've been using these since 2011 (starting with one year certs before switching to 3 years later) with no problems.
I don't think this is "iBeacons". This sounds like the MultipeerConnectivity framework, which uses both WiFi and Bluetooth and is agnostic as to which interface is used.
A boarding pass should look like - a phone app. Screw the paper. I want info I can use, when I need it, on my person without another damn scrap of paper to keep track of.

Recently I went to Zombie Burger (Des Moines, I recommend it) - instead of some flashing pager gadget they just texted me when my table was ready. That's the way to go.
I have to give a presentation to a group of middle school students, and the activity I have planned is to have them start their own blog. Ideally, I'd like to have them set up a Tumblr account because it is easy and straightforward.

However, the pr0n. I'd rather not be the one to introduce anyone to that ecosphere if I can help it.

Thoughts? Is there an alternative to Tumblr that has more stringent content requirements, but is as simple to use?
Oh well... This rant has little sense and a lot of angriness. The phrase "The PC is over and PC sucks" appears several times with little explanation other than citing the grow of other markets. The true is there is no replacement for the PC and it doesn't seem to have a serious replacement any time soon.

People can't make movies, edit images properly, use a compiler, debug, use a nontrivial spreadsheet,etc in phones or tablets. Until that doesn't change the desktop PC won't die. They might not been as popular as before nor have the same upgrade cycle as before, they might had lost relevance as a growing market, but they are far from dead.
If you offer software to download HTTPS is a must. Otherwise any active attacker, from a kid at a coffee shop to the NSA at the ISPs, can make it so when people download your software they're also downloading your software with malware attached. Software downloads are one of the most important things to protect, and it saddens me that some websites still exist that offer software downloads that don't use HTTPS.
Neither Rick Ross should be glorified. In fact, it might be fun to watch them fight to the death during the halftime of the superbowl...
This story make me sad for the human species, it sounds criminal.

On the upside, with tech of course:

Is there any existing app for labor conditions reporting?

If potential employees had a slight opportunity to easily research conditions, they might choose another company with a better record. This would have the potential to drive disreputable shops out of business and promote those that care a bit more about basic human rights. It would be a daunting education and development task, but one that would be meaningful.
Do any of them have details of how they built their news aggregator? For example, what infrastructure did they use to crawl, parse, and index the pages, etc.
I think people are really underestimating where things like perception computing are going. Something Intel is also invested in.

But maybe people start looking at which jobs require using a computer to get essential work done vs. not needing one and therefore not using it. If people really think that entire generations of people are not going to need computers to do work are seriously mistaken, especially in BRIC/developing countries. I don't think the question really is are PC dying, the question should what the hell can I do with the ~$1000 machine other than look at cat pictures. We can thank Microsoft mostly for that. Seriously I think people really underestimate how turned off the entire industry is from Windows 8, especially when they need to upgrade the only reasonable choice is Apple.

Remember Apple is the only company that is actually increasing sales to laptops(MBA models). Clearly there is a market it's just not being served by current parties.
I just can't use Gnome 3 - it feels like you're straight-jacketed into only changing the approved settings by some dev who's 'decided for you'. I haven't used 3.8, but whenever I start a new system I try gnome 3 for a bit... and it quickly drives me away.

Things like deciding for me that I can't place items on the desktop. It's my desktop - if I want to put things there and 'clutter' it, then I should be able to.

Things like having a file manager that requires modifier keys to send things to the trash. Not delete them outright, just send them to the trash. If I fat-fingered something, then I still have the safety net of being able to pull it out of trash - it's the whole point of trash.

Then there's trying to get a Windows user to shift to linux with Gnome. "How do I..." You can't. "Oh, then how do I..." You're not permitted to. Yes, I know I said linux gives you much more control, but... ...and so we have one less linux user as she returns to an OS she can personalise beyond a background colour.

Gnome3 is too much about form and not enough about function, and makes the rather insulting assumption that the average user is pretty dumb. Is gnome 3.10 nicer than previous gnome 3's? Sure. Is it nicer than a traditional desktop? Not in my experience.
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Well, I simply disagree. Once the technology improves, I really think it's going to become the first ever instance of true virtual reality. I think once they do a very seamless overlay that encompasses your entire vision, motion sickness may not be a problem anymore for most people.
It's pretty obvious why Automattic acquired Cloudup and it's a one worded competitor: Ghost. With this acquisition Automattic have just obtained some highly talented Node.JS developers who no doubt will be vital to the survival of Wordpress in the coming months and years. This is actually what Wordpress needed, they've become somewhat comfortable in their own skin in many ways.

I think the reality of Ghost being a serious contender in the blogging space forced Automattic's hand here. When a product gets the backing of not one, but two of the most popular companies currently churning out commercial Wordpress themes (Envato's Themeforest and Woothemes) you know you've got a potential fight on your hands. Not to mention the backing of Microsoft, with Internet Explorer being a support partner of Ghost as well.

Could we potentially be seeing a Node.JS powered version of Wordpress in the coming months as well? A more stripped back and super fast interpretation of the blogging software running a NoSQL database and at the same time, give Ghost a run for their money? I certainly hope so, because it would mean I wouldn't have to spend so much time and money scaling Apache/NGINX/MySQL servers all the time because Wordpress likes to chew RAM and smash MySQL databases.
The Asus EeePad was the best thing I ever used as a notebook replacement. I had to buy it from China and change the display text to English when I got it, but the screen felt like paper, the digitizer was Wacom, and the battery life was excellent. It would sync with Evernote (I wish it synced with OneNote). I could read and annotate ebooks and PDFs. There were two styluses, and a place to store them both. You could write normally, since the screen did not respond to touch (only the pen). The black and white screen was okay for notes, but if you hooked it to your PC, it became a full Wacom tablet for Photoshop etc.

Unfortunately, they never released it in the US, dropped Evernote support a while back, and have completely discontinued it. Did I mention that importing from China through a reseller and with shipping included it only cost $250?
> UltraBooks DO suck.

You mean, in comparison to ARM based tablets?
"We have enough venture funding to pay people to work on non-core parts of the business. We are not under that much pressure to make money. The normal work of the business is not sufficiently rewarding so we bribe employees with pet projects."

(http://blog.prettylittlestatemachine.com/blog/2013/02/20/wha...)
Are you aware of any similar tools for testing non-HTTP TLS services, such as IMAP or SMTP?
And how do you imagine these "massive penalties" would be enforced? Perhaps by government regulation? Can't recall the last time I heard a Libertarian talk about a lack of that, or say anything favorable about labor unions. I think a lot of Libertarians think of Libertarianism as economic Conservatism, except it all works out magically because Free Markets and legal marijuana! Both sides tend to have an misplaced trust in the free markets to solve problems, and have a knee-jerk reaction against any increase in the size of Big Government, new regulations or labor union-strengthening measures.

I've been both a conservative and libertarian myself in the past, and I would agree that these outcomes are not considered desirable by adherents of those viewpoints, but unfortunately this sort of thing is very often the result of the policies and philosophy they thought would make everyone's lives better.

My two cents. Or if I'm more honest, Thomas Frank's two cents. http://www.amazon.com/The-Wrecking-Crew-Conservatives-Govern... Good read, that.
Nest proposes an API for home automation systems to control it
Potentially, because the join between the type cover and tablet is obviously flexible it moves a lot when laying on a non uniform surface (my thighs).

Also because of it's width I feel like I need to sit with my knees together to try and balance it, trying on one leg feels stupidly awkward.
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High performance computing these days depends on GPUs to do heavy lifting. I assume by 'speed' you mean flops, and the flops count in GPUs is progressing nicely.

And storage throughput has jumped how much with the advent of SSD?
Nest is building a $249 smoke detector
Sorry, tried to make that first paragraph more specific.
Well, that's a very popular position taken recently in the media. "the PC is dying... Tablets will replace everything we know... look, the sales are going up, it means it's a zero sum game and PC share will go down to ZERO!".

As you mentioned the future is fragmentation, certainly not a monolithic tablet-only future. There are still too many incentives to keep using PCs for many, many usages.
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> I've always heard and read otherwise.

Those "Get better conversion rates with EV Certs" internal studies are pure marketing B.S. by the SSL vendors. Do not trust what they say.

Every single person that has tested this on his site has come to the same exact conclusion - the green-bar has no meaning to the consumer, nor do they even notice it.

http://www.theroiteam.com/blog/is-an-ev-ssl-worth-it-or-even...

http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/7697/ev-ssl-ce...

http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=54707

http://www.quora.com/VeriSign/Does-ecommerce-conversion-incr...
Not going to lie, I was wondering why something rap related and not named Rap Genius got onto the front page of HN.
Nope, you can use it for a company as well.
He clearly has the entrepreneurial hustle.
With the constraint that none of the coefficients are negative there's no element of luck.
I agree it shouldn't change conversions, but I would also like to see some data supporting that. I run a lot of ecommerce sites and couldn't imagine the number of transactions not dropping if I just removed my SSL from every site.
I have a theory that cocaine, and later crack cocaine, were really the downfall of the United States from the late 70's to late 80's. It wasn't Reagonmics, it wasn't the Japanese. All the white collar (and a lot of the blue collar) guys were all doing powder cocaine, and all of the rest of the blue collar workers and the unemployed were all doing crack. Crime got worse, business got worse...