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The anti .net kneejerk reactions on HN really disturbs me. You spend all day on stackoverflow then blindly bash their tech stack. Developing, deploying, and hosting .net apps is just fine. Many brilliant people choose .net and are plenty happy with it. Maybe rather than jumping to conclusions, you could give it a shot.
How long has it been since the few thousand signed up?

What is your webapp?

What are the main features to keep people using it?
Yasser Arafat's belongings have traces of polonium-210, say Swiss scientists
> Would it be ok for you if the person you're listening to supports a ban on Chinese having children? What if you were Chinese?

Chinese having children in America or in China because the One-child policy(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy for details,
> The limit has been strongly enforced in urban towns, but the actual implementation varies from location to location.[26] In most rural areas, families are allowed to apply to have a second child if their first-born is a daughter[27] or suffers from physical disability, mental illness or mental retardation.[28] Second children are subject to birth spacing (usually 3 or 4 years). Additional children will result in large fines. Families violating the policy are required to pay monetary penalties and may possibly be denied bonuses at their workplace.)

exists. I think its a horrible policy which violates human rights but many both inside an outside of China support it.
I just read this yesterday in the New Yorker piece about JD.[1]

When he was a teen-ager, Dorsey told me, he read a book about tea
ceremonies and was impressed by the Japanese precept of wabi-sabi,
which holds that the greatest beauty comes from organization with a
dash of disorder. “The monks rake up leaves, then they sprinkle a few
leaves back,” he explained.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/10/21/131021fa_fact_...
I've tried contributing to it, but several factors makes it really hard.

They includes:

- Poor documentation
- Broken build scripts for some of the open source version
- Lack of support on forum/IRC
- Project still uses SVN
- Procedure for submitting patch is very archaic

I personally would love to see them move to Github. It would make contributing much easier.
Well, what better excuse to push a product ready for local government control but to sell it as the antidote to the specter of American/foreign spying. Brazil, as some other LAm countries, love using the American scapegoat to distract from many local issues (the economy is bad, it's the IMF and the Americans' faults, etc.)

I mean to say this appears to be primarily a political reaction with nice governmental side-benefits.
> You need half the computing resources on the planet to be devoted to Bitcoin for it to be secure.

Why do you say that? Bitcoin hardware is specialized and much faster at the task than general purpose computers. You need to spend just a small fraction of resources that all supercomputers cost to build and run to outpace them in calculating Bitcoin hashes.
> The US equivalent is ACH, which has the major downside that using only the bank ID (routing number) and account number you can effectively wipe out the target's account

Interesting. I had come to a similar conclusion myself. I noticed that in paying my school fees all I needed was those two numbers (banking routing #, bank acct #) for payment with no further verification. As you have observed all of these details are readily available on paper checks.

One way to mitigate the issue of someone potentially wiping your account is to have two accounts. One public and one private. The private one would contain (most of) your actual funds whilst the public account, which you would share freely as needed would contain just enough funds to complete whatever transactions that you need to do. Sure, it is not as convenient because you have to manage two accounts but at least that way you reduce your exposure to your funds being completely depleted.
> Although, they also want to see how quickly you can execute. 2 years to build an iPhone app is too long.

Why would they care about how quickly you can build something? If you took 2 years to build an iPhone app in your spare time, but that iPhone app ended up being Candy Crush, wouldn't that make that metric pretty meaningless?
Stop Tech Feminism (apparently, it's cancer)
Personally I think TechCrunch's content is the issue, not the design. Although this design is much improved, I'd also like to see them make some editorial changes. Step in the right direction regardless.
Did Square just kill Dwolla?
Yes, LLVM is forwards compatible, not backwards compatible.
While you are wrong, because it is in fact " an executable bytecode format", it does change in backwards-incompatible ways.

However, it has not done so "on a regular basis" (to say otherwise is complete bullshit. I'm pretty sure the last major backwards incompatible change was version 3.0, which was 2 years ago). However, from where I sit, it's changed seriously less than asm.js in the past few years!

We'll see how long asm.js actually stays backwards compatible without having real impact.
I'd be more scared of the undocumented side effects than of losing my hair.
Sure, a $19 police scanner.

As long as you have a $25 software package.

That runs on your $100+ Windows installation.

On your multi-hundred-dollar laptop.

Asshole.
"Disruptive $topic"

eyeball roll
Couple days for about 80% of them, but the other 20 have been there through iterations for almost a year.

The app is comicswap.com

a handful of the new features (from the "launch" email):

* Dedicated Comic Pages with Multiple Listings (no more 1 listing, 1 page setup)

* Wantlist - Add a comic to your wantlist and get an instant notification when someone lists it for sale or trade!

* Over 180,000 Unique Comics Available to Browse on the Site

* Many Comics Have eBay and other retailers Piped In along with Users Listings for Comparison Shopping

* Robust Feedback System (on swaps too!)

* New Messaging & Transaction System Allows for External Swaps (you dont even have buy/sell/trade through our site to be able to track and leave feedback on your swaps!)

* Mobile Design - works on phones, tablets... pretty much anything except stone slates from the prehistoric age.

* For dealers and those with lots of comics to sell -- you can subscribe to a feed of items that receive more than 5+ wants from users and receive an additional bounty for listing these items for a quick sale.
Your claim is that use of decrypted information would reveal the backdoor.

I'll offer the Enigma cipher as a counterexample:

The British were regularly reading and acting upon encrypted German messages in 1940. It may have changed the course of World War II! The Germans did not learn that the British had broken the code despite German ships being sunk based on the Enigma crack. In fact, nobody in the public knew until 1974. ( ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra#Post-war_disclosures )

A government organization could make good use of a TrueCrypt backdoor without it ever being revealed in court or a public forum. They can act on the information using a pretext for example.
EMF Detector with Compass a complete Android app
Supercell: Europe’s supercharged games success
Thanks for the tips. will you be keeping up with 4 posts on Ghost a day? ;-)
Continuous Deployment of Immutable Build Servers
Is "pithy four-word idiom," in Chinese, a pithy four-word idiom?
I find it interesting how blatantly those quoted in the article talk about the pursuit of wealth. One of the local Chinese governments even has an award for "expert in getting wealthy"! I guess it isn't as reprehensible coming from a country with so many rural poor, but I still find it depressing.
I'm not sure about Dash (haven't tried it yet), but General Assembly puts out incredibly high quality courses taught by people working at well-known companies. If you live in NY or SF, take a look at their course listings: https://generalassemb.ly/
My painful experience in dealing with an incompetent webhosting provider
If you're okay with it being served as a torrent, Amazon's S3 supports serving objects as torrents to offload origin bandwidth usage:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/S3Torrent.htm...
And don't forget the electricity! And the rent! Clearly this headline is misleading.
I forgot to mention a point that's probably significant. I cannot use iTunes. The OS's I've used do not support it. (I do have a Mac desktop but I never used it for connecting to the internet and never ran iTunes on it.)

My exploration of iTunes alternatives started back when it first appeared with the iPod. I used some Windows and UNIX programs that could work with the iTunes database for a while but of course Apple kept changing the database format; and the idea of "renting" music started to catch on with the unwashed masses: iTunes became accepted as a way to manage one's music collection. I just gave up on the idea of iTunes syncing.

I simply do not need it. I forget it even exists. I use HTTP and FTP to access my collection and it works well enough.

If I had been using iTunes all these years, and was satisfied with how it works, I doubt I would switch away. I know most people must fall into that category. I have just forgotten how I have avoided iTunes all these years. I have never used it, even once!

As for VLC, I agree with your approach. I too tried to get VLC working; and I think it's great they are trying to get it to run on iOS, but it's just easier to use ffmpeg. VLC uses the ffmpeg libraries, but not vice versa. Go figure.

I've never really understood the appeal of "streaming" (progressive download seems a better solution if one lacks the storage space) and I'm more an MPlayer guy than a VLC guy anyway.

The Documents app has both SFTP and FTP clients so you should be able to access and sync with your fileserver if you run the sftp subsystem or an ftpd on it. It has WebDav too. You can use a web browser to transfer upload/download files if all else fails.

Good luck with Rust.
Traction excuses everything.
This concept is useful, but I believe the wikipedia page is inaccurate in its description. For instance, I don't think that Ryōan-ji (the famous rock garden) illustrates wabi-sabi at all, and the teahouse is marginal. The teacup, on the other hand, is excellent.

The long narrative history of older meanings of the two words is also not very helpful. Here's a much better summary (http://www.nobleharbor.com/tea/chado/WhatIsWabi-Sabi.htm) that reads in part:

"So now we have wabi, which is humble and simple, and sabi, which is rusty and weathered. And we've thrown these terms together into a phrase that rolls off the tongue like Ping-Pong. Does that mean, then, that the wabi-sabi house is full of things that are humble, plain, rusty, and weathered? That's the easy answer. The amalgamation of wabi and sabi in practice, however, takes on much more depth."

And I don't think ikebana (floral arrangement) is generally a reflection of wabi-sabi, much less haiku (section entitled "Wabi-sabi in Japanese arts").

Anyway, kind of a mess. Someone should fix that ;-)
I've been using Square Cash for a few months, and it's worked flawlessly. (A friend used it to send me money, and I jumped on the bandwagon; didn't even realize it was pre-release!) Square is attacking the consumer payment market from all angles, and I think it has the potential to become one of the biggest companies of this bubble!
Why do young rural women in China become mistresses?
Already posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6557394
SecureDrop: Aaron Swartz's Platform for Whistleblowers Rebooted
If they opted for an entirely open source system (possibly open-sourcing the one in question) that several governments with the same concern could collaborate on, then they would probably be much safer. Going with a bespoke system that will be deployed widely is a recipe for problems. It's likely to have limited documentation and lots of setup edge-cases that are easy to compromise.
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That's exactly the point
Mobile gaming company Supercell received an investment of $1.5 billion
heyo - please share with family/friends. I'm rolling out v0.1 very soon.

about the edit: agreed.
Much addo about nothing?
Then you realize that they don't owe you anything.
Pretty sure that you don't apply to YC to build an app in your spare time...
I wanted to do the same, to figure out how they make their money, but also a 404: https://squareup.com/help/en-ca/topic/139-square-cash

Looks like the help in only available in US English. If that is the case, and it looks like they are using some sort of CMS, then it should be fixed up and and content fallback to something useful rather than a 404. This is a link off the landing page on a site with very little content, pretty unacceptable in this day and age (but for now there is the benefit of doubt to assume you are doing a beta run for feedback).
Google's WebSpeech API looks pretty good: https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html

CMU Sphinx and Julius both also have options for continuous speech recognition, but it's quite a feat to train your own [good] language model.
Torgo!
Good one... Looking for some thing like this!! though needs liitle more improvement
In Call For Startups To Build Apps For The Super Broadband Highway
Thanks! Would love to get your feedback once v0.1 is out.
Umm... Git-annex does this without it taking half an hour to do, plus it takes less very little effort to setup on multiple locations.
Just finished my first game using this framework and I am very impressed. Getting consistent 60fps on both android and ios, though strangely the one browser that struggles is Firefox on desktop.
"Sunsets" by IndianRaga Fellows
Sunsets is part of a musical series by IndianRaga to create new-age compositions inspired by Indian classical music. This composition evokes emotions and situations from our daily lives and relationships through Indian classical ragas. The music is composed in traditional Indian classical style, and presented in a modern-day format.
Mobile App Engagement Triggers
GitHub Takes on the Government
What are the best programming blogs?
You want to pipe urandom to the first registered device, why?
given the government is behind all this (which, after all, isn't too unlikely) at least some thug at some agency is now furious because of us here and commenters all over the web warning people. the question arising in their minds, and certainly meetings, is "what to do about people talking?".

now, you'll just wait what happens and be as surprised by the outcome as you've been with the surveillance revelations this year.

brave new world.
> the software ... does not have code in a public repository

Yes, TrueCrypt should use a revision control system like Git or SVN. However, your comment can be misinterpreted as saying that TrueCrypt doesn't release source code at all.

It's worth mentioning that the full source code is available ( here: http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads2 ).
> "the JS sitting on the server, being served to clients, is fast with asm.js"

Which asm.js compiler? The one in Firefox today? The one tomorrow with different inlining heuristics? The one that Opera decides to put in? The one for ARM or for x86?
I think this is fantastic! A few things from a few minutes of poking around:

When you hover on the image for each place the cursor turns to a pointer hand and an image icon overlay appears, but it is not actually clickable.

What is the deal with the "amazing" tab? When looking at places in Louisville, KY two hostels from India are all that show up in that tab.

If you set a filter that has no results the "loading results…" spins forever rather than saying "no results, loosen your filters".

The address/landmark box automatically clears itself if you click back into it. So if I enter an address and nothing comes up and I want to click back in there to edit that address it clears and I have to start over. The search by name box doesn't behave that way so I'm guessing it has something to do with the live search.

When you click the "price on X other sites" link the styles need adjusting. When the line drops down and you are hovered on the block the box shadow cuts right through the newly visible links.
I don't know how common my sentiment is, but I'd be far more inclined to eat crickets than cockroaches. I psychologically associate roaches with disease. Crickets are just another insect.

I realize this is irrational, and that fauna which feed on garbage like rats and roaches can be farm-raised in sanitary conditions. I'm still not going to eat a roach.
No joke; after you go dozens of times per year through immigration, you learn quite a bit about how things work (and when it doesn't work).

I lost count of how many times I had to (respectfully) correct border patrol officials when stamping I-94 forms, or filling the number of travel companions in the customs form, etc.

Thankfully I'm one of the good guys.
That is an insane amount of money to be losing if/when this thing takes off. There must be more to the story.
Writing Kotlin in the Browser
I think you're looking at it backwards. To me it seems reasonable to apply to YC with an app you have been building in your spare time with the intention of working on it full-time provided the metrics are favorable, growth is apparent, market exists, etc.
For robotics, see Artoo: http://artoo.io/
It does function simultaneously by switching away from the control channel. More advanced software like SDR-Studio or GNU Radio can extract multiple channels/signals.
Not ironic. The Irish lower class became overly dependent on cheap/easy potatoes b/c the English had taken their land so they couldn't do better. The famine then forced many of them to migrate to America, and Ireland's population hasn't recovered since.
It was recently mentioned in another thread in the past few days so it is fresh in the minds of some.
Apps like candy crush are edge cases that make general comparisons meaningless.

Given most successful apps aren't anywhere near as popular as candy crush you're not comparing apples to apples.

The chances of building a successful anything are low. Even lower for the first attempt. So if you take 2 years to build something...you've stacked the odds so high against yourself you might as well not even try. And if you're the one paying the bills, 2 years is a long time to wait for a failure.
A broken inlining heuristic is not going to have the kind of performance consequences for an asm.js app that you get when you get dropped into the interpreter/baseline JIT in a javascript app today.

A function not getting inlined means the addition of function call overhead, and that's it, in most cases. Dropping into an interpreter or baseline jit can literally produce a 100x slowdown, or worse.

Any conforming asm.js implementation that does AOT compilation will produce predictable performance. Yes, individual implementations will differ, but the same is true when you compile applications against MSVC, Clang, and GCC. You don't see anyone arguing that Clang and MSVC should have standardized inlining heuristics, do you?

It's important to remember, also, that when we say things like 'JIT sweet spot' we're not just referring to what code you wrote. It also matters what code you run, in which order, with which arguments. Something as simple as changing the order in which you call some functions (without changing the actual code in those functions) can cause them to deopt in modern runtimes because the heuristics are so sensitive to minor changes in data. Those kind of variances can be caused by something as simple as a HTTP request taking a bit longer to complete and changing the startup behavior of your app.
These are really neat, but one thing I don't understand is the animation they linked to (i.e. the post that inspired the OP) [1]. Unlike the animations in mathgifs, my brain isn't interpreting anything there as rotational motion. Am I missing something?

[1] http://beautyandthemaths.tumblr.com/post/62281036101/the-ave...
alternatively, you could try the html5 youtube player http://www.youtube.com/html5
When should I begin searching for summer internships?
This past year I waited too long to start searching for internships, which meant I didn't get much choice. When do people typically start looking for software engineering internships? Specifically at startups, not large companies.
There was a time when disabling CSS and expecting to be able to surf the web was normal.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=873709#c15
I hope they've taken a snapshot of the software before announcing the crowdfunding campaign. If there has been any update since then, and it had any backdoor, it may have already been removed.
By the time Ryse ships, we will have served the crunching team 11.5k+ dinners
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> with no way to cancel the mistaken one.

I see a "cancel" link in the email Square Cash sends me.
When you do set up the project. please be sure to announce it here. If it is soon enough, an announcement on this sub-thread will also be good for me. I'll keep checking back. :)
I don't know how common my sentiment is, but I would stay the hell away from anything related to insects for purely psychological reasons.
To be fair, every app at the time was silently stealing your contacts. Path was just the one that was singled out because they were high profile at the time.
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Microsoft's $7.2 billion Nokia bet leaves developers cold
Posts like yours demonstrate that you're arguing fervently about asm.js without having used it. One obvious error:

My guess is that you meant that asm.js has a bunch of properties that are statically verifiable, and it validates conformance at compile time. That is great, but not really the same as "no undefined behavior". At a glance, asm.js has undefined behavior. For example: "As JavaScript functions, they produce the undefined value, but asm.js code is not allowed to make use of this value"

'Not allowed to make use of this value' means that the asm.js application will not get AOT compiled if it tries to use the value, because it's not a valid asm.js application. So the behavior isn't 'undefined', it doesn't work. The AOT compiler rejects it and it runs as regular JS, in which case the behavior is 'defined' in that it works the way all other regular JS does.

asm.js is specced and there's a verifier; if you pass the verifier your code should behave predictably in an AOT-compiling runtime. The runtime isn't producing code that does dynamic type checks at runtime or other sorts of nondeterministic behavior.

It's certainly possible that some undefined behavior slipped into the spec somewhere, but I definitely haven't seen any actual examples where they specced it and the Firefox implementation generates undefined behavior on purpose. That would be insane. asm.js delivers the same safety guarantees as regular JS; you can't do that with undefined behavior ala C.

Ultimately if you have concerns about the safety of asm.js or the presence of undefined behavior, you should test it and report bugs. I've tested asm.js some and played around with it and have not found any reason to be concerned.
In the context of code, "Dash" makes me think of the documentation browser: http://kapeli.com/dash

I hope that's not confusing enough to cause problems for either of them.
What azth said.

I also felt that future compensation was more anchored to your starting compensation than at other companies.
From the timestamp and the URL — Oct 21 — was it published too early?