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Hi, this is me. For the title, I was going for something like 'guy with no formal software development education/training', but that was too wordy. I guess I'm stuck with what it's at now.

Reason for the post: I didn't start learning with a decent roadmap. So at the very least, I figure I could provide the path I followed. Thanks for the kudos!
Most enterprise apps have an SLA of at least 99.9%. If the government was an email server for example, for the month of October they'd like have to give a partial refund to their customers for the downtime.
Technologists’ Comment to the Director of National Intelligence Review Group
A car called Model S Fire would be like a software package called Microsoft Crash.
HTTPS is not to be trusted against an NSA-level adversary, since the CA system is too weak.
I would counter that the AMD drivers are not great. I got a whitebox last year with a 5770, and the experience was terrible. The open source drivers couldn't do 3D acceleration properly, and the proprietary drivers refused to do dual-screen - the maximum available resolution across desktops was a square 1920x1920.

In my experience, nvidia has been providing a superior linux experience in the trenches for the past couple of years. The 'amd is good for linux' seems to be an emotion from yesteryear.
I'm not really sure what you being a Linux expert has to do with your opinion about the income of the middle class.
Show HN: httpinvoke – js HTTP client - easy progress events, binary files, etc.
Maybe oneday the save icon will go because applications will maintain their state automatically and the whole concept of working on an "open" copy of a file which is different from the "saved" one will disappear. Actually, why hasn't that taken over a long time ago? Some applications and many web apps do it so they don't need any save icon.
That could make sense. In any case, I'm glad to be reminded that HNRankings exists. That graph really shows the drop, I'll print it out and file it in my "HN Conspiracy Theories" folder.
On page 5 of the 'Tor Stinks' full document is a clipart picture of a terrorist.

So... Somewhere in the bowels of the NSA is a graphic artist that slaps beards and guns to stock clip-art. fun job.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/oct/04/tor...
> The way I understand it, you can analyze it mathematically.

Not meaningfully, for a number of reasons.

> Say one piece of circumstantial evidence puts the likelihood of guilt at 20%/ not guilty at 80%.

Problem with that is that it is rarely easily quantifiable.

> Now another one has a 15/85 ratio. Take that 15% from 80%

This, of course, assumes that the pieces of evidence are independent, which is not necessarily true.

Applying math to the issue isn't really helpful, because that's not the way jurors process evidence.

And if the system were changed to force them to work that way, it would just be a giant mess.
Console manufacturers have been able to sell hardware at a loss knowing that any game running on the machine is going to come through them. The Steam Machines, on the other hand, are just PC's and it doesn't sound like they'll be locked down to only allow SteamOS and its games to run on it.

Look at the specs we're discussing. Even the low-end version is decidedly non-casual.
An even bigger reason is that Wonga develops and deploys on Windows. Eww!
>> If Congress had to agree on a source of funding for every deficit-running budget they passed, the budgets (or continuing resolutions, in the case that they can't pass full budgets) wouldn't pass.

It doesn't really make sense to commit to spending without knowing where the money will come from. If they had to argue about the source of funding when they passed appropriations, then we wouldn't have to go through the same drama later.
Criminals often employ people to keep their "legitimate" earnings separate from their criminal earnings. Whitey Bulger had lawyers and accountants working for decades to shuttle money into real estate and mundane businesses so he could keep it out of the government's hands. In Bulger's case, the government is trying to seize the money now that he's been caught and convicted, but it's not yet a sure thing that they'll get it.
For Gmail, the prime example of "major failure" is not the redesign, but Google Buzz. See the HN discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1120145
You could have a law that disallows the entire civil federal budget being held to ransom, such as declaring that the final date for a funding vote for an established government service must come at least 3 months ahead or else the service is automatically assigned funds. That way, all the sections of the budget that are not under contention would have been assigned funding 3 months ago and the worst that could be done would be a delay on sections of government business, not the shutting down of random stuff like parks.
> Actually, why hasn't that taken over a long time ago? Some applications and many web apps do it so they don't need any save icon.

And many don't, thus it's still useful.
Things most people don't know: there is more than one kind of infinity
The replacement of icons with text in iOS7 was wrong-headed and inconsistently executed. Not to mention that it created a bunch of messes for designers to deal with. I hope that we return to a world where icons are fashionable again soon.
I'll point out I have "purchased" movies and TV shows from Amazon which I can no longer watch, because they were removed from Amazon's libraries.

Online games that require validating with a central server after being downloaded? Try not to get a virus downloading a crack after the company goes under.
They can also do it in the form of suing the assets - the money is the defendant. There's no presumption of innocence and you have to establish a preponderance of evidence that it's legit.
I've read that many of sites for the state exchanges (for those states that chose to create their own exchanges, rather than default to the federal one) performed much better than the federal site. . .and at this point, who really knows which factors could be driving the better performance/user experience. . .differences in architecture, demand, testing, QA, support. . .
Money excuses that held me back
No one in the US buys phones out of contract, least of all downmarket customers.
You've made a bunch of hyperbolic (reads more like B35T W3BS1TE EVAR!) and unsupported statements in that reply.

There has been no official release of how many people have signed up for actual plans -- Jay Carney said as much at his daily press briefing today.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/04/1244260/-Briefing-b...

Considering the "patient zero" cause celeb from yesterday who supposedly signed up for a plan without a hitch was essentially caught in a lie:

http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/political-insider/2013/oct/03/one...

Forgive me for being a bit skeptical that actual plan signups are a small fraction of your claimed 2.4 million.
They know where the money is coming from: issuing more debt. If they had to acknowledge that more directly when debating the budget (aka continuing resolutions), I don't think budgets would sail through as often as they do, but it would also make it easier for the government to spend more. The ritual of raising the debt ceiling is a more concrete step to make them feel bad about blowing through the last debt increase so fast. What's wrong with that as a psychological tool, and as a separate opportunity for the public to influence their representatives and voice their opinions?

You want to make it easier for the government to increase debt as a percentage of GDP. I'd rather it was more difficult.
Personally I had the idea a while back for a sort of time-release dead drop. Stuff a Raspberry Pi into a fake power strip, put your seekrit information onto the SD card, and go plug it in somewhere in a city you 'happen' to be passing through, near to a public wifi spot.

Then a year later it wakes up and uploads the data publicly via Tor and self-wipes. Even if it's traced back to the Pi, they'll have to trace the Pi back to you (you bought it untraceably, right?).
Nice. I kind of like "news that matters" better than "news that matter," though.
> There was no "seem" about it - it was a bad design

And yet until the 5s last week, the iPhone 4 was still being sold, and selling like hotcakes. Why no problems without a redesign? It is maybe possible it was that big a deal?
I problem I ran into when giving it a try. I couldn't easily find a way to print to standard output. All I wanted was to print some strings, numbers and manipulate them. Instead, it was easier to have a red ball on the screen.
For several days Jacob Appelbaum has been complaining that the Guardian has been sitting on articles about Tor at the request of intelligence agencies.

You could speculate here that their response to his public pressure was to release with additional redaction and on a friday. ::shrugs::
This evaluation is absurd. And comparing mongo with oracle is even more absurd.
According to some quick math, then, Teslas are 9x more likely to catch on fire from a collision than the average US car (1 / 5K) / (6K / 254M). I put the Tesla fire rate at one in 5000 per year because the average Tesla has been on the road for around half a year, and there are 10,000 of them.
I have had problems with chronic insomnia and tried melatonin — horrible nightmares. So bad I would lay awake in the morning a bit, just stunned at how horrible they were. No thanks.
Many government agencies do this - check out the names for DEA stings, or even FDA operations.
Think this:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZhvlxGTfYXo/TYLtUko9fwI/AAAAAAAAA2... -- toe on a line is easy to imagine.

Instead of this:
http://www.glossophilia.org/wp-content/uploads/towline.jpg -- towing an oceanliner? Does that make any sense?
Yeah, but if you keep going you could say the command line is skeuomorphic just by being text: it's the digital equivalent to typewritten text.

If you go further, you could say that the glyphs of the letters themselves are skeuomorphs, in the same way that icons are.

When it comes down to it, buttons are a simple and effective interface, regardless of whether or not they represent some physical or historical analog.
Existing libraries - like jquery, reqwest and superagent - had no easy support for promises, binary files and progress events, did not support a wide range of browser versions, did not nicely treat HTTP status codes. So I made this.
So you do transcripts of these audio reels?
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http://imgur.com/B2SuT1I
If someone makes disposable Raspberry Pi Tor exit and non-exit nodes sealed in hard plastic resin, we could all buy them and drop them off in random places throughout the world on open networks. If enough people the world over does this, we would make it a lot harder for a global passive attacker to succeed.

Tor's biggest vulnerability is the risk associated with operating exit nodes means that the number of exit nodes remains relatively low at ~1000 worldwide. If hundreds of thousands of exit nodes started popping up all over the globe. It would be very hard to counter.

I'm also curious if enough governments unhappy with what is happening could go as far as hosting many tor nodes outside the control of the NSA. Is the Global Passive Adversary threat still valid if there are many of them that are non-cooperative with one another (i.e. China can't monitor US and Russian tor nodes, Russia can't monitor US and Chinese nodes, and the US can't monitor Chinese and Russian nodes)? My intuition tells me that the global passive adversary would have to be able to monitor most of the nodes, but if others came on the scene doing the same, they would dilute the percentage of nodes that any single global passive adversary could monitor.
Cisco, Google, SAP discussing BlackBerry bids
Usually they file charges in the jurisdiction where the crime took place. I suspect there's no logical jurisdiction when the transactions occurred remotely. The investigators were apparently in FBI agents in New York and Maryland. The New York and Maryland U.S. Attorneys both conducted investigations and both filed charges. New York apparently indicted him first. He may also have to stand trial in Maryland later. Popehat has more information.

http://www.popehat.com/2013/10/02/the-silk-road-to-federal-p...
No, Google Music is not in Canada yet. QuickOffice is not bad but Office is so well integrated with the OS and Skydrive that makes me like it better.
I'll be sure to pass your criticism on to Winston Churchill.
Well, then I would limit it to Ferraris that are 3 years or younger :).
Don't worry, nobody's going to get to enjoy Half-Life 3.
And this sucks, because I can't get my mortgage approved. No joke. I feel like have been taken hostage by the government...
In that case, it is probably a good thing I've never been on a jury before (sat through jury duty once, never got called). I'll have to definitely keep your points in mind if I ever have to serve on one. Thanks.
After reading the article I thought Oberon might be really interesting, then I watched the linked Youtube video.
As much as I admire the work Tesla and Elon Musk are doing, I can't help but feel that the press releases issued by the company are at times overly defensive.

We all know there is negative rhetoric bouncing around about this incident. It seems to me that, precisely because of this, there really isn't a need to write in such a manner—trying to block all possible avenues of attack as if one is a afraid of what will be written in response.

The tone, to me, betrays insecurity, and this seems something at odds with the bullish, innovative nature of the non-PR aspects of the business.
I think it's lamentable that we're all looking at the bulk, "brute-force" statistical reasoning instead of considering the details of the case and what that means for the fire safety of the car. The line you quoted was incidental, rather than necessary, to the substance of Musk's argument. Whether it's PR or not is ignoratio elenchi.

If the battery really was punctured by an unfortunately placed piece of metal in a sort of surprising scenario, we ought to stratify by collision type in order to really understand the problem. How do gas cars perform during a gas tank puncture? At similar speeds? And how common are such collisions? The relevance of this consideration is expressed by Simpson's paradox:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox

I.e. analyses of performance when conditions differ ought to take into account those conditions, at least when they are both a: known (true in this case) and b: not causally connected to the variable under consideration (also true in this case).
You are far, far better off than you think you are.

You'll probably see the posts saying this to you as condescending, but if you can even think of purchasing a Model S you're in a very exclusive group of people.
I think most of the content is going to go through Steam - alternatives (especially anything the manufacturers will shit out) aren't going to measure up where it matters with content. This would be similar to Android where the biggest store, Play, has more than an order of magnitude more of everything than the second biggest, Amazon.

Those specs are high end but that also means the device will be compatible with games for the rest of the decade.
I'm sorry you took offense; it was intended as friendly feedback. I'm familiar with Docker. If you have actual answers, it would be much more constructive to post relevant links.
Does the W3C have any authority over web standards or is it just a bunch of circle jerking corporations pretending to have town halls?
I'm not sure of this, but if I recall, voicemail minutes were free for me back then on Cingular.
If you buy content for personal use, like you buy an episode of Game of Thrones, you aren't allowed to sell it to anyone. But you can copy it between your own devices as you see fit.
I bet you could get the number lower if you only counted fires caused by collision or overturn of a highway vehicle less than 3 years old. Or heck, just the black ones.

Yes, this fire was caused by a collision, but fires caused by other things are relevant. If a Tesla car caught fire in somebody's driveway, people would be concerned about that too, right? So comparing 150,000 highway vehicle fires to 1 Tesla fire, regardless of cause, is pretty reasonable.
It really depends on what team you're on. When I worked at a bank, I worked on a pretty competent team. We didn't do anything that important, but it did work pretty well... we had automated tests, continuous builds, and all that good stuff. Most people could open up someone else's code and work on it. (This was largely due to the efforts of one engineer on the team, but you have to give credit to the management for letting him do it :)

At the same time, I would work with other teams, and it just amazed me the kinds of problems they caused. One team worked on streaming data from spreadsheets to other spreadsheets. (Don't ask me why all market data was calculated using spreadsheets.) This was implemented as a set of servers that read from and wrote to a proprietary multicast network that was usually down. It didn't matter, though, because the servers themselves "health checked" each other, and if it detected one was responding too slowly, it would kill and restart it. Except sometimes the killing and restarting caused that server to fail to respond to health checks, so the system basically consisted of servers killing each other all the time. (No, it didn't actually work despite all this. It was a constant source of problems, and was over a million lines of C++! It couldn't even quit without core-dumping because of memory corruption!)

Another team I worked with wrote their application on Java. The company had a policy of only allowing developers to develop on Windows machines, but this team needed to deploy to Solaris. Their solution was to develop and test it on Windows, copy it to the Solaris machines on launch day, and turn it on. But a Windows-only library crept into the core. If this were rocket science, we would not have gone to space that day.

But, there were some pretty good initiatives. One was for a single team to rewrite all software at the bank, in their own C++/C#/Python hybrid, with their own IDE, making all other software engineers obsolete. And despite how crazy that sounds, they actually did a good job! They gave every obscure system at the company a unified API, so a normal user could stitch it all together with a tiny Python program. And write tests for it. It was rough around the edges while I was there, but obviously the way forward. (The big advantage: middle managers had no control over technology, only making a product. So there were no debates ... or rather, horrifyingly bad decisions ... over what servers to buy, what language to use, who would pay for the sysadmins... all they needed to do was design and implement. It was brilliant, and I wish them the best of luck.)
How to watch? Can't find the link on the site? Does it open up minutes before the match?
> Do not extend the prototypes of any objects, especially native ones. There is a special place in hell waiting for you if you don't obey this rule.

A strong statement whose motivation escapes me; it's not as though you can't trivially get the source of the extension in your REPL of choice.
Yes, please, make your interfaces as unusable as you possibly can. Get on that trend bandwagon and never let go, let it take you far, far away.
The VMFA in Richmond, on the other hand, has a perfectly functional .museum domain, http://vmfa.museum.
Here's the reality. These flat stuff is a fad. Hating skein program is essentially a snobbish sort of fad that that has been thrust upon users whether they like or not.
Ultimately all companies will be technology companies. Software is eating the physical world pretty quickly. Taxi drivers are going to be on the short end of that stick in the next decade or so.
It doesn't need to replace the web server. You can let Nginx be the main web server and use the proxy module to send traffic to Harp.
The Titan card seems requires 600W PSU: http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-tit.... Don't know how it works with 450W PSU.
Ask HN: How do you electronically store your notes? 
Hi HN,

I am about to embark on a project entering text from handwritten class notes into the computer.

The data is structured around verses of scriptural literature which vary in format but generally forming hierarchical structures down to the atomic 'mantra/verse'.

I would like this project to remain flexible but I have a somewhat vision of annotating (and linking, wiki style) text to shown relevance with other sources of culture (like excerpts from a book).

Right now, a focus on data entry is important. What choices can be made now to maintain flexibility later? Latex? XML? SQL database?
BlackBerry reportedly in talks with Google and others about potential sale
The goal is to convict someone of a crime, not to convict someone guilty of the crime.
It's irrelevant whether the CDM is part of the browser, part of the OS or an installed plugin like Java.

The browser must invoke the closed source, vendor provided CDM by pass a binary stream from the server.

Certainly, it's no worse than what we currently have, but current plugins have, shall we say, a rocky security history wouldn't you say? (>_> java)

Worse, every content provider is going to have their home written CDM, because they certainly aren't going to share. Once a CDM is compromised thats it, it's useless.

It's going to be a nightmare of install-all-the-plugins. Most likely major browsers will bundle the most popular one to reduce the burden on the user.
New startup for freedom of speech
Check out this new startup, Ephemera. It allows you to send anonymous text messages to people around you. Plus, all the messages disappear after 4 minutes and 20 seconds, without leaving records.
www.ephemerapp.com
It's most likey the varnish cache playing trick. Please try it and let me know if you're seeing the Drupal favicon.
Deep Web Users Are Ready To Launch Silk Road 2.0
Block, Element, Modifier
Startups should be evil
> What would change for you, if Netflix will change the terms from renting to buying?

I don't subscribe to Netflix, but in my opinion if Netflix allowed downloading, what many people would do is make a list of movies they wanted to see, subscribe to Netflix for a month, download all the movies they could and then cancel. Then spend the next year or so watching the movies at over the course of a year or so. You don't get Netflix's recommendation features and everything's dated, but you could download many more movies in a month than you would want to watch. If people who were currently Netflix subscribers switched to this method, then Netflix would see its subscription rates drop. Since their costs would remain the same, they'd have to raise prices significantly. One of the advantages of Netflix is the low price, so many people would cancel outright, but first they'd want to build up a store of all the movies. Maybe some people would be willing to pay for a continuing subscription based on convenience, but I think that for the most part Netflix's user base would turn into one-month bulk downloaders.
Stakes are high, for sure

Elon Musk & Tesla would review its design, would possibly add protection for these type of accidents.

Will any other gasoline car manufacturer be willing to participate in such crash test what model S encountered, I doubt anyone will.
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To launch applications or execute commands, you first type them somewhere (anywhere, it doesn’t matter), and then middle-click them

Has anyone used this extensively? I'm extremely skeptical about the cost of switching from keyboard to mouse constantly.

And then there's the following:
Need to explain to your aunt what application to launch? Tell her to click on a word in the e-mail you just sent her.

"Need to create a botnet? Tell your (or your hacked celebrity account's) Twitter followers to click on a word in the tweet you just posted."