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"'half of all computing resources' is off the mark."

I suppose that I could have stated it somewhat better by saying this: half the energy output of the planet needs to be devoted to the most energy-efficient Bitcoin mining hardware possible to guarantee that no attack is occurring, and only if that hardware is being used by honest miners and not an attacker. Of course, in practice no attacker will amass anything close to that (it would leave no power left for anything other than Bitcoin), but in practice the world will never devote anything close to half its energy resources to Bitcoin. Even generous estimates of what the world's energy economy could devote to Bitcoin leave an awful lot of room for an attack, and while the attack might not make economic sense in terms of the market value of Bitcoin or the mining payoff, it might be part of some broader plot (perhaps a war against a country where Bitcoin is popular and widely relied on).

"I could see the NSA running a large portion of nodes to de-anonymize users"

Why would they bother? Bitcoin transactions are broadcast to the entire Bitcoin network anyway. All the NSA would need is a handful of desktops and some auxiliary information about which wallets belong to which users (perhaps gather by watching Bitcoin exchanges). Bitcoin makes no anonymity guarantees at all.
If there is 1:70 chance that vehicle explodes on every use, then yes it is experimental.
To the best of my knowledge, no one has alleged that the NSA had Microsoft's help in intercepting Petrobras-related email. This is more about the possibility of such a threat than anything else.

Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft, so eh.
Don't suppose you know anyone else who works like this... or would share your mystery man with the world. He sounds pretty much perfect for any freelance worker.
At this point I guess anyone who works for Media Temple has lost confidence in their founder. He stated that he is proud to have been acquired by Godaddy, so that means one of two things. Either he has incredibly poor judgement, or he is flat out lying to his work force.

If its the money, just say so.
I don't think they are swapping the stack for a tech upgrade, they are swapping it because at the moment they are in the position of directing state funds towards an organisation that is seen to be under the control of a government that is acting aggressively towards them, which is not a tenable position politically for the people signing off on the budgets, especially since it is all so very public.
I'm sorry, but what does an ex-CEO's personal hobby have to do with the way the business is run?
I'm sure a shockingly high amount of other CEOs have had African safari and have taken elephants, distasteful as that may be.

GoDaddy has offered us a ton of ammo with which to criticize them professionally, so let's not get into personal ad hominem attacks.
I like this because it highlights a disparity that is ignored by the mainstream, who like to paint everything as White vs Black/Hispanic.

He points out a gap that crosses racial lines (in the sense that both sides contain a lot of Whites). It makes a nice counterpoint to the usual "how privileged are you" quizzes.
Okay, but would you really be that pissed off if a Linux application from 1991 didn't run on your latest install of your favorite flavor of Linux?
If the flamewar detector takes content in to account, could it consider the overall tone of the discussion and the content of each new comment and selectively kill new comments that seem flame-like?

I wrote a moderation bot to use on a political subreddit that used a text classifier to determine whether comments should be deleted. A goal was to delete flame comments rapidly. It worked, but reddit's reply notifications limited its effectiveness.

Of note: the phrase "you are a" ranked higher for the flame category than any particular insult.
Why do you assume that democracy is the right model for discussion? Even with the problems of moderation and hellbanning, the system here is better than something purely open.

I've seen pure open discussions, and I don't want to have anything to do with them.
Shown HN: I launched my first real startup today (Googalytics)
Hi HN!

Today I launched my first real big app, it's a Google Analytics app for Windows 8 an my goal is to create one of the top apps for Windows 8. It can be found in the Windows Store here: http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/app/googalytics/34a0d886-d541-4362-80b6-62f61733f0a9

And here is my blog post about it: http://leoncullens.nl/post/2013/10/15/Launching-Googalytics-premium-app-for-Windows-8-RT.aspx

We also got retweeted by the official Google Analytics account! https://twitter.com/googleanalytics/status/390141635826159616

(sorry that the links are not clickable, I dont know how to do that)
Instead, education policy is the opposite of that. It's lowest common denominator ass-covering, enforced through monopoly of control on the whole system.
Would you want the balance of your bank account and its entire transaction history to be publicly accessible? That's the equivalent of only using one address for everything. When you use a separate address for each transaction, it becomes much more difficult (and in many cases impossible) to link the addresses to established entities. And even if you can, the additional knowledge gained is limited.
As far as I can see, this is all Brian Shirai (aka brixen), who is the current maintainer of Rubinius.
That's not true though.

http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
No, poor and lower middle class White people are often the brunt of jokes, but these questions are designed to illustrate a real distinction between groups of people.
I'm curious his personal experience outside of what I could find via Google search
Those are examples of native code using multiple processes or threads. The asm.js code compared to them did not use multiple processes (but it could have, using web workers), nor did it use threads (which are not available on the web).

It's fair to say that for single-threaded code, asm.js has a very good chance of running at half the speed of native, or better. For multicore code, it depends on whether web workers make sense for that use case - if they do, it can still maintain the same performance compared to native. Otherwise, the web platform would need to consider adding some more low-level parallelism to JS. Such proposals exist and there is some discussion about them.
I'm scared to get into healthcare debate, but I will say that while I understand the importance of clinical trials, if there wasn't any.... then the drugs would just be brought to market regardless even if it means people die. In Nigeria; even just in ChinaTown San Francisco, you can get some questionable origins drugs. But indeed, all bets are off when you take that stuff. Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't, maybe DOOM! Not saying this is a good thing, but the drug market would continue without USA, IMHO.
I've used Dashlane for over a year and like it quite a bit. I think it started off as an automated checkout app but the password part has overtaken that feature (though payment and form filling still works great).

Dashlane does encrypted cloud storage with local decryption - but I'm just wondering if there are good reasons to switch to 1Password or LastPass.
I pay for premium, and find the app useless more often than not. There has to be a better way.
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I like the simplicity of the app, just the right number of field.
I couldn't find a suitable name for the location I was. Can I edit the location name? Where is the app getting the location names? (Maps, Google Maps, foursquare?)
I'm guessing that if you're banned from flagging, then the political posts weren't inappropriate, but your behaviour was.
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Off topic, but I just had to know. I read somewhere that you started 4Chan as a way for people to share images with one another.

My question: When you came up with this idea, did you have any idea what kinds of things the internet would want to share with you? Also, now that you know, any regrets?

On topic: I've only used Godaddy's competitors, but I honestly can't understand how a web host remains in business after they publicly announced that they support a non-open web.
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Most of us rubyists aren't actually "hipster broprogrammers", but hard-working devs who like to get things done -- just like everyone else. It's unfortunate that the Ruby world is being painted with that kind of brush, when it's really down to just a few bad apples.
This is my only problem with lastpass. I use both iOS and Android and for some of my apps I have to manually type in the information. I know lastpass has a browser, but I rather use the basic Safari/Chrome/Firefox (depending on the need).
If there's no further facts, what's the point? If discussions 1 through 99 with a given set of facts have produced nothing of any value, why would #100?

This is why I think the "techies are sexist" articles are joining the "NSA is evil" articles on the flag pile. There's more often than not no new information, and predictable, boring (and in some cases, flame-filled) conversation follows.

By all means, kill this crap and let something more deserving and interesting take its place.

The only reason I'm not flagging this article is because it's shown itself to be popular and I'd probably lose the ability as a result. This article is straight up meta noise.
Glorify hard work? Madness. We don't need these protestant values in the coming post-scarcity economy.
We should glorify efficiency, curiousity, self-sufficiency and internal state of tranquil happiness.
This is great. The current process of acqui-hires today is really broken and manual. It has every sign of an "industry" where software haven't arrived yet. Corp dev is often about connections and asking who is involved that know someone at a potential acquirer. API's replaced business development at it's core. I think corp dev should be next on the list
1. I dispute your assertion that children 'lose that curiosity right around the time they start being stuffed into classrooms' - I don't think most people lose their curiosity. I think some people who chafe against rules and conformity may, but I don't see most people being in that category.

2. I also find being able to focus on subjects that are not innately interesting is a useful skill, as are conforming to simple rules. There can be other reasons for following rules than oppressive social control. Maybe preschool teachers have to show up on time so the children in their care can be supervised appropriately, or drivers have to stay in their lanes to avoid accidents.

3. 'because they demonstrably don't work at conveying a "base level of education"' - 99% of people in the USA are literate. I don't know of comparable data, but nearly everybody can preform arithmetic too.
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echoing the sentiment here but really; how sad. MT was a staple in my earlier development career.

godaddy is a shit product. this won't hinder MT.

but godaddy is also a shit company. this makes MT a shit company by association, if not definitively.
She also helped popularize the term 'computer bug'.
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I think it speaks to GoDaddy's reputation that a portion of this letter was dedicated to talking about GoDaddy's new leadership team and motto, one assumes to assuage any concerns about that reputation's impact on MT. Judging by the comments here...it didn't have the desired effect.
Not so coincidentally placed at the end of the FAQ. But I'm certain they've both sacrificed a lot throughout the years. That's almost 16 non-stop years of running MT. It's a well deserved break in my opinion.
Even with flat UI. The motion of natural 'objects' is very much wired into us. If you have elements moving in a 2D plane, their motion is typically perceived as more 'pleasing' when they obey physics often at a subconscious level. Its a bit like the golden ratio.
Ah, an american love story: Two obese, dim-witted, overly wealthy hosting companies marrying each other.
I hosted on GoDaddy. Not only was it excessively slow at times, but it was not secure. I would occasionally have security failures and viruses installed on the website.
One key benefit to asm.js is that it turns of garbage collection. Given that GC pauses are still a major nuisance (seriously, try simply flashing a div or canvas in a requestAnimationFrame loop, and you'll see it even in recent versions of Chrome), that is potentially a major win for game development.

Of course, the real solution is to fix the garbage collector, or (maybe) better yet, give user code a way to switch GC algorithms based on app-specific needs. Until then, the ability to manually manage memory is nothing to sneeze at.
First off, it was obviously a joke.

Secondly, maybe you've never seen the video but there's GoDaddy hats and shirts and shit all over it. He's the one who tied the business to it.
Fantastic. I just wish more fonts used a slash zero :(
"People don’t start companies looking for an acquihire. An acquihire is a failure case, and as a founder, you are motivated to avoid it. It is just so much easier to take a job."

It might be easier to just "take a job" (debatable) but it is probably not as lucrative. As an engineer, your choice is:

1. Get aqua-hired for $1MM right away (well, maybe after a few years of working in the start-up) plus whatever your new salary will be vs.

2. Slowly earn that $1MM spread over the course of 10 years or so as a regular employee.

I know which one I'd rather do.

Why not just skip all pretenses of "doing the startup" and "developing the product" and go right for the aqui-hire. Get a well-gelled team together (demonstrate the well-gelled-ness with a demo of some sort) and then shop the whole team around to a big company looking to acquire talent. If they're willing to pay $1MM a head for a team working on a start-up and then shut the start-up's project down, why wouldn't they simply pay $1MM a head for the team?
http://www.4chan.org/news?all#39

They essentially suspended 4chan's original .net domain without warning, didn't notify me, then sent me in circles trying to get it back. At the time you couldn't e-mail or call the abuse department. You would leave a message, and they would [never] return your call. The domain was expired/released early, requiring I attempt to get it at auction, and instead a squatter got it.

So if you've ever wondered why 4chan is a .org, that's why. (And we were a .net originally because the site is based on 2chan.net.)
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Your post looks good, but why do you link to your twitter post, which links back to a HN submission, which finally links to the post on your site? Can you not just point directly to it?
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You can't compare battery ratings in milliamp hours unless you know that the load voltage is the same for both.
Placing a digital magazine in the Newsstand Store is like placing it in the magazine section of a supermarket. Placing a digital magazine in another category in the App Store is like leaving a jar of peanut butter in the detergents aisle of a supermarket.

However, once the digital magazine is sold, either through the Newsstand Store or the App Store, the shopping experience is forgotten. The item is paid for and placed in one of the customer’s kitchen cabinets. Magazines sold through Newsstand are placed in a logical place, magazines sold through another category of the App Store are not, it is up to the user to place it somewhere they can find it. I like my peanut butter to be automatically placed next to the honey and jelly, I have no need to put it in another cabinet next to the oregano and peppermill.
Ask HN: What's an .io domain worth?
I own 'coding.io' and was asked if I would sell it.
How much should I charge?
My startup tracks which web hosts people actually like and why. Take a look at the data: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/compare

It's hard to say which hosts are similar because MT is a hybrid between shared/cloud. I don't know any other hosts which have a similar mysql grid container that scales (except maybe Amazon RDS).

As far as dashboards most use cPanel or Plesk. If you don't like those, the field gets a lot smaller.
I've used them for low traffic static sites, but i don't recommend it for anything more complex. There are few configuration options, but very sparse.
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AIUI 4chan was more-or-less an English-language clone of 2chan.
Well, it depends on what is your objective with the blog post. If it is to start creating an expectation and receiving feedback from people who would be interested, it would be very useful to spend some time for a couple of schematics or mock-ups, especially because your best target is quite likely very visual oriented.

If you just want to let out your thoughts, then, no problem!
Unfortunately I suspect that in terms of information density, it is likely to be the opposite of a regex.
There is an animated/blinking bar at the top of the page for about a minute. Quite annoying.
It is a stretch because it has different semantics and behavior. It also means that anyone that comes along to contribute or work on the project that knows JS now has to learn coffeescript and any random details that brings to work on your JS project. This doesn't really make sense to me. Just use JS or CS but both in the same project?
While you're correct that a 'worst-case-scenario' would be to judge total possible propagation time on the TTL of the record prior to it being modified, this doesn't hold true in a few cases:

1. Every DNS resolver caching it will have accessed and cached it at different times, not just when you modified it.
2. Your original TTL could've been 'too short' for some resolvers, and they substituted a larger value, which you don't know.
3. Your TTL could've be too long and it expired, or cache was reset/filled, or cache too small, and it was dropped from cache.
4. The operator of the resolver could've chosen arbitrary TTL to assign to all records.

So instead of guessing across these scenarios, it gives a 'sample' of how resolvers are handling your particular situation at a particular time, and gives some perspective into how other, non-reachable resolvers may also be handling things.

To one of your other points, keep in mind that many resolvers are stub resolvers, using an ISP's name resolver, and so these DNS servers queried here may be in use by much larger audiences than you imagine.

Its certainly not a guarantee of much information, but Imagine scenarios:

A. You see that 90% of the returned resolvers are giving you the old record.
B. You see that 90% of the returned resolvers are giving you the new record.

I'd consider that information of value in determining overall 'propagation' of the new record to resolvers.
Well of course they are going to say things like this. They know that GoDaddy has a bad reputation, and for good reason. We all have our stories about why GoDaddy is awful.

But let's consider this: a company doesn't get rebuilt in "recent months" from the inside out. Especially one as large and with as much baggage as GoDaddy has.

Secondly, why would GoDaddy buy MediaTemple? I'd bet it has less to do with hoping MediaTemple can help them improve their customer service. Maybe my bet is wrong, but it seems to me that GoDaddy will continue making money the way they have before, which has less to do with customer service and more to do with customer count and customer confusion.

I for one believe MediaTemple will become a lower-barrier service that can be attached to a domain in the checkout process, which will probably increase the quality of package-store-website servers. Unfortunately, this will necessitate an energy focus shift that could put the boutique firms lower on the priority chain.
> Even generous estimates of what the world's energy economy could devote to Bitcoin leave an awful lot of room for an attack, and while the attack might not make economic sense in terms of the market value of Bitcoin or the mining payoff, it might be part of some broader plot...

I won't refute this, because you are right. I was just speaking in more manageable/realistic terms.

>Why would they bother? Bitcoin transactions are broadcast to the entire Bitcoin network anyway. All the NSA would need is a handful of desktops and some auxiliary information about which wallets belong to which users (perhaps gather by watching Bitcoin exchanges). Bitcoin makes no anonymity guarantees at all.

Bitcoin is not anonymous, correct. That doesn't mean that it is easy to break the barrier from pseudonymous - > known identity.

Let's say there is a clever participant in the network, Satoshi, who is under investigation by the NSA. The NSA knows they will be sending 10btc to their cohort at address xyz. Satoshi is smart, he is not going to use an exchange to get his coins. Maybe he mined them. Maybe he got them in a f2f transaction.

This leaves few options to find out information about Satoshi. However, if the NSA ran a sufficient number of nodes, they could easily determine the first node to propagate a transaction. This would be Satoshi's IP address. That is why they would do this.
This is my problem too. When someone introduces themselves to me, I can feel their name slipping out of my brain seemingly before they've even finished saying it.

An app would not help me. "Hello, I'm..." "Wait! Hang on! Let me launch this app... ok, go ahead!"
As we've already seen, US companies have very little leverage against the US government in such "national security" matters. (Same for Chinese companies, etc.)
Wal-Mart would love to have a $15 million theft problem, or even a $107 million one...

http://www.thestar.com/business/2007/06/13/theft_costing_wal...
Great question. Harp is a great static site generator.

First of all, Harp works completely differently from SSGs like Jekyll in that it doesn't regenerate the entire application every time you change a file. Instead, harp only generates the static assets as it needs to (in-memory) to serve any given request and it doesn't spew out any files. This was throwing a lot of people off when they thought of it as an SSG because they were expecting harp generate a bunch of files and then serve those assets. So even though Harp has a `compile` function for exporting your application to static assets, it behaves and is built much more like static web server than a static site generator.

Second, Harp unlike Jekyll doesn't have a strict convention of how your application is structured with a `_posts` directory and a `_layouts` directory. Instead, URLs with harp map directly to your file structure exactly as a static web server does. So if you want the url `/articles/hello-world` you must have a file in your project called `hello-world.md` or `hello-world.jade` in a directory called `articles`. The mental model of a web server translates much better to this paradigm.
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>IMHO, Node.js is the new Ruby

That seems a bit apples-to-oranges to me. The degree of hype is similar, yes, but other than that they seem like different animals. Ruby started slow (performance-wise), with memory leaks (that were denied at first), and was predominantly a community development. Node.js is running on top of V8, which is mature, performant, and backed by Google.
I didn't specify how big the subset was (I happen to think it's actually quite large).
Wow this is fantastic! Not only are the slides included, but a detailed and helpful analysis of each slide as well.
Same goes for me. I never downvote anyone and sometimes upvote comments that I strongly agree with.