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Let's be honest -- if they really wanted more funding, it'd be much easier just to fake some threats to warrant more public support, Operation Northwoods style --

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
alexis gets far too much attention for coming up with a clever name for a link sharing website. i don't care if his nosql install has two tables.
You can not make "the most popular language for web development" without attracting a few jealous people and their negativities.

Like it or not, PHP is THE most popular language for developing web applications. And it didn't reach that rank without merits.

Sun pushed Java, Microsoft pushed C#, Google pushed Python in direct and indirect ways (but Google gave up on Python and created Go).

No big company spent a lot of money to push PHP (Yahoo started using PHP when it was already popular). PHP reached there because it had some merits in it.

- PHP is easy to get started and it helps people without CS background to learn it quickly and code apps to solve problems.

- PHP doesn't force you to use OOP unless you need or want that.

A musician named Derek Sivers who had no CS background created CDBaby website after following instructions in a PHP book. When Rails fanboys were making a lot of news, Derek decided to use Rails and scrap the original PHP codes [1]. He hired a top Rails developer and spent a lot of money (compared to the money - i.e. cost of a book on PHP - spent on his original PHP code) to rebuild CDBaby in Rails. The project eventually failed - time and money lost. CDBaby continued to grow rapidly and the site was powered by PHP codes. By telling this story, I am not trying to say Ruby and Rails are hard or bad. Ruby and Rails are tools just like PHP. The point I want to make with this story is PHP can get almost anyone up and running without much difficulties. Many people could get into business easily because of the ease of PHP. Just think if Derek had tried to make his first site using Rails! Probably, we would have never known the story of CDBaby.

I believe, the purpose of a programming language is to make it easy for user (of the language) to create solution instead of trying to prove the greatness (e.g. lot of features) of itself or it's creator.

Why is PHP easy?

PHP is easy because Rasmus Lerdorf didn't have CS background. He didn't want to create a language to have all the features and concepts taught/learn in a CS class of programming languages. Rasmus just wanted to create a tool to easily publish pages dynamically on web.

On the other hand, you can take a look at Java if you want to know how a language looks when the creator has PhD in CS and wants to apply all his knowledge of CS in the language. I am NOT trying to bash Java or Gosling, just trying to explain why some languages are created complex and difficult.

TL;DR: PHP is just a tool like Ruby or C. It has plus and minus points like any other language. PHP makes it easy to get up and running (even if you don't have a degree in CS). If you like PHP (after you try it), stick to it (because with PHP, you can get atleast as big as Facebook). If you don't like it, pick another language that works for you. And this last point is mainly for Snake lovers on HN : never bite a language (or users of that language) because you don't like or use that language.

[1] http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/09/7_reasons_i_swit...
A fair point and I was mostly joking about shoes. Though the child to this makes a solid point that if you've ever done GUI work, HTML5 is at the very least comparable to the pain of the myriad toolkits provided on other platforms.

Also, +1 for the resurgence[1] of tk for lightweight GUI apps : -) Who needs native anything, when THE tool kit is installed everywhere python is (which is also everywhere).

1: http://pybee.org/
I respect that they found and published the documents. I don't buy most of what they are selling, but in this instance, their journalism brought an important issue to light.
Interesting, I'm wondering how Qt types make porting more difficult? My experience has been that if I only used standard-C and Qt types, I had no issues in porting. A recent project I worked on only had a handful of platform checks (and all but one of them were in the project file), and compiled fine on all platforms. In fact, I developed it entirely on OSX first, and then simply adjusted the build to support the different OSes later, and didn't have a single problem.

Mind you, I -only- used Qt standard libraries (except QExtSerialPort which was the best option for serial access at the time I started the project).

I definitely agree with preferring Q-types to STL. Combined with Creator as an IDE, it's brain-dead simple and I spend my time on higher-level concerns. (FWIW, I wish Creator had more languages supported, I've never had such a wonderful experience in any other IDE. I want to shoot XCode every time I open it, mostly because Creator has spoiled me on how good auto-complete can be.)
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The entire concept of the phylogenetic tree (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylogenetic_tree) is based on the idea of speciation. That species evolve into new species is well accepted in evolutionary theory, and well supported.
Wise advice, but at the end of the day no one is really happy to make ant steps when a select few are capable of bending the world to their will like a cheap straw, for better or for worse.
They'll be closed source by then so it won't matter.
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the world's most expensive bottle of wine was just sold in Dubai for just shy of $200,000 - would you spend that on a bottle?
Bingo. The fact that there isn't a viable threat is demonstrated (ok, not proven) by the fact that a large number of completely undefended obvious attack vectors pursuant to terrorist goals have not been abused over a very long time.

At some point the damage by TSA surpassed the expected damage from the alleged threat.
You don't understand why the 5C is brilliant (yet)
Victims don't even get the enjoyment of having to make their payments in some far flung corner of an MMO, like the plot of Reamde.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10552338-reamde
In my experience, when most engineering-oriented people use the word truth, they (wittingly or unwittling) mean the pragmatic definition of "allows us to make stronger-than-previous predictive models about something". Most of the argument in philosophy of science circles strikes me as meta-interesting, not eminently relevant to the practice of science.

Especially when dealing with psychology, a lot of those "what, exactly, is an electron" sort of deeply epistemological statements are not really asked, because we have enough trouble with the simplistic models we have.

So yeah, my recommendation (for what it is worth) is to always assume "most predictive model available" when someone says truth, and be aware that you are making that assumption and that simplification.
Exactly.

The solution to this threat was dispelling the notion "getting hijacked means a short vacation to Cuba" and replacing it with "getting hijacked means that I get to kick a terrorist's face in".

This solution was implemented and successfully tested on the morning of 9/11/2001.
Ask HN: Are there any alive and active TELNET BBS systems?
Are there any alive and active TELNET BBS systems that are still being used?
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Yes it even works very well on MRI. Definitely a good choice
I was hoping to go with a parrot and a speedboat off of the Horn of Africa, but with the economy as it is I've had to settle with a parakeet and a dinghy in the local catchwater.
Take about 60 seconds to think about how, if you were a terrorist tasked with blowing up an airplane, you would do it. Do you really think the TSA would stop you? And if they did, would you really get fewer virgins if you had to use your Plan B of blowing up the security checkpoint with maybe 100 people and a couple dozen federal employees, instead of your intended target?
Even better, create a filter to mark all of them as spam automatically.
I'm coming at this from a native development perspective, so there are large gaps in my knowledge. In particular, I've not done any benchmarks, so take what I say with a large grain of salt. Any real performance advice will come down to comparing alternative ways of implementing a particular effect, rather than a blanket, "do this."

My understanding is that when a browser renders a page, the output bitmap is kept in a render buffer, which then gets composited with other buffers when being written out to the display. Filling the render buffers is slow (largely on the CPU), and compositing is fast (largely on the GPU). Using the 3D transform effects moves elements on the page into separate buffers.

Performance would be improved by having fewer buffers, and by re-drawing buffers less frequently.

Best case is to have a single buffer rendered once, I think that's what you're referring to by Addy's suggestion. But, if you're going to have elements moving relative to each other, it is faster to render them both once, then re-composit multiple times on the GPU, rather than re-render the whole scene on the CPU each time there is a change. That at least is what I mean by, "moving computation to the GPU."
I tried deflate, and I was surprised, it actually worked in about 66% of the cases I tried.
The question remains what to do for those remaining 33%
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Just did it! Thanks!
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you could kill the most just by mass shooting in a shopping mall, who needs an airport line.

yet we caught at least two people trying to blow up airplanes in the last ten years (shoe bomber and underwear bomber), why is that? why don't they just shoot up a grade school or a supermarket? (I'm asking honestly here. why airplanes?)
in fact your probably paying ~$2.50 per flight to get fondled and berated at the airport - ever noticed that "September 11th Security Fee" when you buy a ticket...
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I want to congratulate you for reading between the lines and understanding the reasons for success. You put it in much better words. Thanks!
wow. this looks awesome. badass job!
It's a less effective tactic, though. More people are terrified by the thought of being blown out of the sky than they are of being blown out of a long, boring line.

Airline terrorism plays against people's innate fears, and is therefore more effective.
The LEAF has sold 70,000 copies worldwide. Based on sales volume, you could argue Nissan is the electric car leader.
Or, you know, don't use jQuery.
The GAO regularly audits the TSA by trying to get firearms and other contraband through security. They consistently get a lot through without the TSA noticing:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/loaded-gun-slips-past-tsa-scre...
Thanks for the link. People somehow don't realize that no one was punished by losing job/savings/reputation/credibility for even proposing such a sabotage. Kennedy merely "rejected" proposal which gives his office zero credibility on how he handled possible similar proposals. In the governments incentives are all inverted: bad stuff is not risky to attempt and it gives great rewards.
Tequila.

Granted, not every board will go for this approach... but the ones that do are the ones to stay on.
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I've never been a user of TPB so I can't tell you who has advertised there, but there are lots of people out there who will drop $600 on a phone and then jailbreak it so they can pirate 99 cent apps. For a lot of folks there is a clear line between digital content easily gotten and other stuff and they'll pay a lot for the other stuff but will pirate digital content when it is convenient to do so.

I'm not saying this is right, but in my experience it is pretty common. I've witnessed multiple instances of people teaching other people how to torrent including once in a jury lounge in a county courthouse and many times at workplaces that produce digital goods (software) and the general idea seemed to be that if they can get whatever digital thing (eg. the latest episode of Game of Thrones) for free, why not? And yet these are people who drive nice cars, wear nice clothes, and buy lots of expensive gadgets, squarely in the demographic of people that advertisers of non-digital goods like to target.

OTOH, I would suspect TPB (like 4chan) has a problem where advertisers of "upscale" goods just don't want to be associated with the "brand" of the site, regardless of the demographic match. But I don't think the fact that the users are people who want things "for free" is a disqualifier.
I think a lot of the problem when it comes to making new connections is unwarranted shyness. If you know the other party is open to new messages/meeting requests from strangers (which they sometimes are!), it becomes less intimidating to reach out. Online dating sites like OkCupid have dealt with this problem really well by creating a community of people open to receiving messages of a particular kind from strangers. It's totally appropriate to ask a stranger out on OkCupid. It isn't so appropriate on Facebook.

I'd really appreciate people checking out my first web application, called Treatings (treatings.co). It's a community of professionals open to meeting strangers over coffee to discuss their work. No one is guaranteeing meetings with anyone, but everyone is open to meeting requests and the possibility of being treated to coffee/a drink by a stranger interested in their background.

treatings.co/activity
I don't think we disagree on much. A family of four that can't comfortably cut back on housing. Their cost of living is even higher in an expensive housing town than the measure suggests because the average also takes into account the single house share people.
"Many people (including me) believe that consciousness can't be explained with physics."

Yeah, I was trying to make the point that materialism isn't falsifiable, though this may not have been clear.
I WOULD CROWS ARE AWESOME.

My father used to work with "looked after children" (Children in children's homes). He visited a home, and there was a boy there who had a pet crow. The boy had taught this crow some tricks, including holding a cigarette in its beak. (This would have been about 40 years ago.) My pa took a photo of the boy, and his pet crow, and the crow is "smoking". I have that photo still.

I think what I'm trying to say is that individuals have their own reasons for eating (or not eating) various animals, and so long as those people are not too preachy we can all get along. It is odd that societies tend to have differing views on acceptability of eating various animals - dogs are fine in some countries but not others, horse is tasty in France but weird in UK, Cows are sacred to some but delicious to others.
I have learned that this is the best way. And getting the furniture cheap makes me less afraid to modify it to my needs. If I destroy $10 table in the process I just get another one.
That's the first thing I thought of, too. This is just about exactly the model of the Reamde crew.
Yes but most of his life was lived before personal computing was really a thing.
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The crux is what constitutes "small security expense". Locked hardened cockpit doors are cheap. Arming pilots is cheap. $1B for a fleet of marginally effective scanners isn't cheap.

When the cost of security exceeds the cost of what's being protected, the solution need be reconsidered.
>A more subtle clue is that it seems that they refer to men as "males", but women as simply "women"

And here on HN it's invariably 'guys' and 'girls'. Women get the diminutive form. It's a little emasculating, yes.
Not worth it for me. I have a very fast system (i7, 32GB, RAID 0 SSD), and ReSharper slows everything down too much to be usable. I'm not sure if it's the projects I work on -- I've used it usually on pretty large ones like Orchard CMS so that might be part of it.
I guess I should stop using my Debian machines where I did an install in previous decades (decades, plural) and copied the setup from hard drive to hard drive across several physical machine rebuilds. Up to now I had no idea that this never works smoothly.
It's particularly limiting because it refuses to see itself as a dogma.
Yes.

http://www.google.com/q=telnet+bbs
if the TSA were abolished I'm pretty sure the airlines/airports would still have security. I think a majority of US passengers wouldn't be comfortable getting on a plane where there were absolutely no security of any kind up front.
Roads are payed for already by ticket fines, and freight/shipping deliveries. So, not tax money.

http://www.dailypaul.com/268271/but-who-would-pave-the-roads

There's many different solutions, but of course you are a liberal who prefers to be spoon fed. It's as if you automatically assumed the government solution is the best option sigh
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The burden of proof always lies on the person making the claim. The null hypothesis would be that god (or the tooth fairy) doesn't exist until we have sufficient evidence to prove it does exist.

As for macro-evolution, there is a mountain of evidence including the genetic similarity, the geographic distribution of animals, the fossil record, etc. "The Greatest Show on Earth" would be a good read as it details many of the proofs of evolution and dismantles the Creationist's pseudo-science.
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Ah yes, the old switcharoo. How quaint.

One crucial difference is, of course, that feminists only talk about gender and things that are related to that. Tech-communities might sometimes talk about gender, but most might only talk about it when it is somewhat relevant to their tech-interests. Feminists, on the other hand, have a practical monopoly on gender-opinions as far as mainstream opinion is concerned. And they're mostly women, and might even reject men into their circles. Programmers being mostly men might bias things like technological choices, but the bias towards women in gender-theory (might as well say feminist-theory) doesn't change a niche thing such as what programming language powers the client-side web, it heavily influences popular opinion on what men are and what they should be like, even though they are not really a represented group. That might not be a problem if some vocal feminists didn't try to work against alternative paradigms of gender theory, but in my experience, they do.

Your last point would be more analogous to my own if you said that some communities are even hostile to the idea of women programmers (if that is indeed true).
So are pigs, bears, and dogs...
You raise a good (and horrifying) point.

If your goal, as a terrorist organization, was to economically wound an industry while killing as many individuals as possible... you really couldn't ask for a better target than dozens (if not hundreds) of people standing around waiting to get through airport security.

Clearly, the solution is to have some pre-security security checks. /s
"By that logic, we should remove security at Fort Knox because it never gets robbed."

There are, however, active threats against Fort Knox -- we know people want to rob it and that they would given the chance. On the other hand, it is not clear that there are people who would attack airplanes were we to scale back the TSA's operations (particularly airport checkpoints).
The article didn't mention, what systems does this ransomware primarily target? Is it cross-platform?
When we talk about "Creationism" in the US, it generally means the young-Earth variety, with a belief in a 6000 year old universe, with history basically going: creation week, pre-fall, post-fall/pre-flood, Noah's flood, followed by all of post-Flood history (which we live in today).

This leads to all sorts of hypotheses one could make about geology, biology, speciation, etc.
of course I am! Because otherwise you'd have to use logic. Why don't you do me a favor then and "spoon feed" me an argument not full of generic tropes and relevant to the issue?
That speaks to the huge difference between eating a pig and eating someone's beloved pet pig.
Yes, but that's just some syntactic sugar. That stuff doesn't help with tooling/scaling.

By the way, Dart also has optional named/positioned arguments, sane for-in loops, and string interpolation. It also offers proper lexical scoping (oh, yeah!) and even operator overloading.
If ssh is fine (and I can't think why you'd want to use telnet over ssh), then try Monochrome (ssh mono@mono.org, though I haven't used it myself in years). (They might not even have switched off telnet access yet, you never know.)
Well, true enough I guess. But living in Seattle it just (to me) seems absolutely more apparent/in your face than anywhere else I've lived.
I wonder if the crackling sound could be related to this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/157891/skype-and-vlc-sounds-s... ?
You will never guess what is in the box
I've used VS for a few years, and have NEVER used any of the "visual programming" stuff.
I'm sorry, but if a firm doesn't compartimentalise access and a single infected workstation can bring down everything, then they deserve what they get.

Hadn't been ransomware it could have very well been a disgruntled employee, to the same effect.
A company I work with was hit when the employee opened a phishing email supposedly from another employee in the same company. It hit about 50 gb of data on the shared drive. We had Crashplan and restored from a few days previous. I then turned on DKIM and enabled quarantining non DKIM emails via DMARC.
Asseta (YC S13) is Hiring First Engineer in SF
Asseta (YCS13) is a marketplace for used manufacturing equipment.

Background:

Imagine what people did with their unused items before eBay and Craigslist. You could have a yard sale, take it to a pawn shop or most likely, just let it sit in your garage. This is what the world is like for manufacturers. If they want to buy or sell used equipment they have to work with brokers, the pawnshops of our industry. Dealing with these brokers is a huge pain for manufacturers, and we want to solve that pain with technology.

Mission:

Our goal is to lower the barrier of entry into hardware. Anyone considering starting a hardware company has to face the huge burden of purchasing capital equipment. It’s why 95% of the startups on this website create software. Imagine the effect of providing reliable access to capital equipment at 10%-20% of the new price. Our mission is to reduce the cost of innovation, enabling the next generation of hardware pioneers; the next Steve Jobs[1] or Elon Musk[2].

[1]http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/11/21/steve-jobs-was-right-about-hewlett-packard.aspx

[2]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-12/tesla-motors-cuts-factory-cost-to-try-to-generate-profit.html

Job:

We are looking to make our first engineering hire. As the first hire, you would have a large impact on the technical direction of the company, as well as autonomy to work on what you think is most important.

Requirements:

1) Expertise in HTML/CSS/JS

2) (Optional) Some Python experience.

3) You are good at what you do.

4) You like what you do.

If interested, send us an email at hello@asseta.com
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I read the first few paragraphs. The comments turned me off to the rest.
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>Protecting against this kind of info-leaking before using the app is outside of DeadDrop's purview of course

I don't think it is outside the purview of DeadDrop. It is a huge bug that MSOffice files, PDFs, images, etc. leak meta data to the journalist. Meta data can (and should) be stripped on the fly during upload and never logged.

Anonymity through obscurity is pointless if the journalist can be compelled to turn over original files (containing meta data) that could identify the source.