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DannyBee, it is you who are demonstrating considerable misunderstanding here (and in other posts here).

To respond to your comments in this post, the asm.js validator is not checking for undefined behavior. In fact, it has nothing to do with undefined behavior whatsoever. It also has nothing to do with decidability. It is merely determining which execution strategy to use. And, behaving according to a spec is actually a pretty ordinary definition of "defined behavior".

You have misunderstood how asm.js works, you have misunderstood other people's comments, and you have mischaractarized LLVM in other posts here. I know you're capable of much higher-quality discussion than this. Please take a moment to reflect.
That's some hot dev there ;)
would you really use a commenting system on your site in which people can only reply with 140 characters?
> but affecting change in the current system is almost impossible

Sorry to be a pedant, but that should be "effecting change". "Affecting change" would be pretending that some change had occurred. I'm sure it was just a typo, but it's one that trips people up so much, I figured it would be better corrected.
Few months? How about "anAardvarkAndAHippoAreNeverFriends@" easy to remember and almost impossible to brake. Worst case, lets say that attacker actually knows that the password is 6 words with a special character at the end. Lets further assume that the attacker knows that the words are not overly complicated, say from a subset of 5,000, and the special character is one of the 10 that's easy to type on the keyboard. Even than, at the speed of 10 million passwords per second it would take 500 million years (just about) to crack that one, and no need for months of memorization.
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I think it's okay to be an HN "clone". They're taking a clearly successful model and using it for a community. And it's an existing community, which makes it all the more workable. Kudos!

Disclaimer: I "cloned" HN when making http://lifestyle.io. I didn't have a preexisting community, but a small handful of people find it useful. Is there a lot of overlap in content? Sure. Do I discover stuff I might have missed on HN? Yep.

I just wish I were a better community organizer.
Too late a change for me. Completely lost my trust when they lost about 1000 bookmarks during the move/reimplementation post-Yahoo. Happy(ish) pinboard user.
"Union Square Ventures' new website is an HN clone"
Running a company is not just about grand strategy, regardless of how big that company is. As they say, execution is more important than the idea. It doesn't only apply to startups.
xp was 5.1, but your point stands, this is a dumb article, win95 and XP are from different lines.

After Win 3.11 (wfwg) they made win nt (3.5-4.x), 2k (5.0), xp (5.1-5.2) the one line, win 95, 98, 98se, me, on the other.
It is also still much slower than Groovy and Scala, being at the same time similarly or even less expressive and having worse tooling. Therefore I can't see any reason to move from e.g. Java to Ruby. When Java is not expressive enough I'd consider using Groovy/Scala/Clojure.
HN post about this USV.com post about this HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6558580
Not email addresses. Phone numbers. http://www.branded3.com/blogs/the-antisocial-network-path-te...
That's just like, your opinion, man..

It's called a context menu for a reason. It is a menu that offers options based on your current context. If you think of gmail as an application and not just a website, it makes sense no?

That said, I think it would be better if the browser would expose an API that would let you manipulate the native context menu.
I think i understood why is this. Middle class kids are usually taught by their parents to obey the rules, learn and work hard and be loyal. Which is a way to keep in the middle class but hardly a way get to upper class. Most poor kids are probably not taught by their parents anything because parents are busy drinking and smoking pot, except the very valuable teaching of not trusting anyone at all.
This needs an out-of-bound verification for the transfers. At the very least, it should confirm every new recipient - "Did you really mean to send $500 to yahoo@google.cc?"

Seriously, I am all for the simplicity of the system and the flow of the narration, but where the heck is the explanation of how this is not trivially exploitable?
5.1 means nothing. It's an arbitrary internal version number. The article is trying to address major overhauls to the system. (Though it should have said NT 3.1, not 3.51.)

NT 3.x -> NT 4 -> Win2k -> XP

Win 1.x -> 2.x -> 3.x -> 95
Yep, engineer time costs probably orders of magnitude more than adding a few servers.
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Crytek crunchtime dinners during Ryse's development.
AAARGH.

Who edited the title? You just took a discussion of how this was a clone of HN website and half way through turned into... into what exactly?

The submission was about USV and HN designs being similar, not that USV got new design. You just nuked the context. Seriously, mods, get your shit together.
Every password require that the user choose randomly. Words, letters, numbers, pixels on a screen... All require randomness in choosing.

This is why some websites assign passwords to users and do not allow users to pick their own custom passwords. The only safe passwords are those generated by machines.

This does not mean that picking words to form a pass-phrase is less secure than picking letters to form a password.
I didn't say dot com got anything wrong. I'm saying raising hundreds of millions of VC dollars and practically giving it away is a dot com era strategy.

Remember when PayPal paid out a $20 referral bonus for each new customer? Yeah, those days.
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I'd second this. Particularly CPU performance on Rackspace has been hugely worse than Linode on comparatively sized instances. To the point I've had to use 8GB instances on Rackspace for CPU bound tasks which are fine on 1 or 2GB Linode instances.

We're currently considering a migration from Rackspace to Linode for this very reason so we'll temporarily be running a complete version of our infrastructure on both and replaying traffic on both.

Once we've done this I'll try and post some detailed benchmarks.
But it wouldn't feel like flying. It would just feel like you were being held up by the bungee cord. You might as well have the same ride but not actually drop the bungee - sounds safer too.
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> You just took a discussion of how this was a clone of HN website and half way through turned into... into what exactly?

Considering the conversation was "it's not a HN clone" I think the mods have their shit together.
So one day you get an email that you got $100 and all you need to do as a recipient is to click on a link and enter your full credit card details? Sounds like a phishing paradise.
1) It's GPL'd so nothing is stopping you or anyone else from forking it away from Oracle.
2) The Open Watcom compiler is not required to build VirtualBox at all. The actual compiler is free for anyone to download and use.[1]

Other people here raised some legitimate points with the build and patch submission process that I also would like to see improved, but yours are just narrow minded prejudice.

[1] https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/12011
> ... but didn't used to throw up a warning when you did it anyways.

This is mentioned in the changelog, FWIW.
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Nice job with the flippant, demonizing dismissal there, especially when it's commented to an opinion piece describing how feminists use exactly these tactics to stifle dissenting opinion.

What I've personally observed and experienced is that feminism has more to do with generating outrage and disempowering all men, and any women that don't agree, than it does addressing any kind of gender inequality issues.

I believe that aligning one's opinions to a named movement instead of thinking for oneself is a subscription to dogma, and relinquishment of free though to the collective.
My granddad was an inventor. One time he had a long slinky (I think he must have joined a few together) that was hanging, stretched out parallel to the floor, on a number of closely spaced fishing lines, attached to a 4x4 overhead.

At one end he had a geared down variable-speed motor that pushed the slinky with a sine wave motion. I believe the other end was fixed. In between, he had painted various parts of the slinky blue. The blue parts seemed to be completely still, even as the areas between the blue pulsated back and forth.

He said it was a demonstration he built "to show my ninkompoop investors about standing waves".
Site needs more info. Is this a startup? Or is it a non-profit?
There should be a question in there "Did you continue building your company after getting rejected by YC? Which?"
The 5c isn't hugely less expensive than the 5s (it only looks like half the price due to carrier subsidies). So this doesn't surprise me -- if you're going to locked into a contract, most people are better off ponying up the $100 -- much less than the cost of the cellular service. So consumers are rightly choosing the 5s.
I guess latency in connection setup isn't really important when transferring high quality pictures, the bandwidth is going to affect the transfer time much more.

I see your point about a better connection between S3 and CF, but it's a hypothesis, and the docs don't confirm it. My experience with CF is that the first fetch (for GETs) tends to be "slow"; I don't have enough numbers to check whether is as slow as S3 (whose speed is highly variant over time) or not. But I have always thought that the speed of S3 was impacted by "I/O" (virtual I/O) time, not network or bandwidth. EC2 servers which are in the same region are able to sustain much higher transfer rates.
I still think that's blurring in incidental factors. The minimal explanation IMHO would be:

Every solid has a vibration propation speed, or "speed of sound". The more compressible, the lower the speed. Slinkies are very compressible.

When the slinky is released, the bottom has nothing to hold it up anymore. However (the key part), the affect is delayed by how the "signal" of the lost support can only travel at the (very low) speed of sound in the slinky.

If/when the object is a lot stiffer (say, a broomstick), the bottom "learns" of the loss of support a lot faster and you couldn't so easily perceive the lag between dropping and the start if the bottom's fall. Plus, the % length contraction is a lot smaller for a broomstick than a slinky.

If you had supported it only from the bottom, there would likewise be a delay in the signal reaching the top, although the slinky would already be closed and no longer have the compressibility of when it has room to contract further.

Even shorter: it's all about signal propagation and the slinky permits a really slow speed of it.
Different view:

http://pandodaily.com/2013/08/23/steve-ballmer-the-worst-ceo...
This type of review system also exist in my job and I think this is crazy, as they expect you to please every other manager in the team, which further leads to favoritism and bootlicking.
Your HN behaviour is pretty much identical to mine. I rarely comment, I do occasionally but generally I skim through comments and upvote occasional comments I find interesting.
Are pre-paid cards the only option for children in the states? I'm in the UK and I've had a debit card (attached to a bank account) since I was a young teenager.
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Maybe because mosquitoes don't have a culture? The trauma of the famine spreads across generations, it can have changed the mentality of the Irish people durably, made them have fewer children on average.
Not to mention that NREGA is nothing but waste of money.
Youtube doesnt seem to work here, I get a "The Adobe Flash Player is required for video playback" message..

I guess you need Flash installed to make Shumway work ?
Deniable encryption
Both banks I've used recently (Natwest and Halifax, not that I can recommend either) keep a saved list of people you've paid in the past, so I only had to go through that dance once for each person I paid. For the people I paid most frequently it was very convenient, I could send them money in seconds using the Natwest Android app.
Ingress for iOS coming in 2014
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If I need to host multiple simple sites they go onto one of my linode instances that is set up for multiple sites.

If I need to host a more complex or demanding web application it goes onto a dedicated linode (or may share one).

Dedicated servers that are reliable are very very expensive (Hetzner in my direct experience is nowhere near reliable) where with linode across 3-8 linodes at various times I've had no down time in coming up for 5 years.

Fantastic support, they don't oversell their machines.

Sure if I shop around I can get a similar spec (whether it delivers who knows) for half the price but is it really worth saving 20 bucks if I don't sleep at night worrying about my vps provider going down.

I also like DO, I still won't host anything important with them but for a quick dev/test box they are pretty good.

I've never really gotten why the VPS market is quite so price conscious the difference between 5 a month and 20 a month is so meaningless in the grand scheme of things (I suspect I spend a lot more than 15 a month on coffee on the way to work).
we got sold to Go_daddy, the worst company ever.
If someone can afford a $549 phone, they most probably can afford a $649 phone. At this price range, it's not really a rational decision. It's how desirable the product is (which Apple is very good at projecting). So the customer might as well go all the way and get the top of the line phone. Well I would. Imagine spending $549 and then your friends saying "Oh, but its not 5S".
On one occasion I asked someone to transfer me money while I was queueing for an ATM. Hung up the call and took the money out. It's FAST!
Saw your first sentence coming. Just getting past read the generalization "East" in the parent comment and thinking "Oh, somebody is gonna finger point and get up in arms about it!", then I see your comment :)
I started studying computer science and media, because I wanted to get into game development.

But it's probably the shittiest business to work in the whole IT area...
Ah no. Sad news, looked like a good service.

What other services are playing in this space?
I just tried it (not being a square user) and got a confirmation email.

"You’re sending $1 to xxx@yyy.com
Just link your Visa or MasterCard debit card to send this cash."

If I did sign up and not receive a confirmation email for any following transfers I send, then I agree, I'd be worried as well.
Those sound like lousy friends.
Well, in that case, you are okay with the last version of free nginx for several more years. If you use Ubuntu server for example, it ships with outdated version. A lot of companies use that (for stability and security reason).

And I predict half of the developers will protest and negotiate with Nginx Inc. to get a fork version.

Don't panic. I think it is solid enough for few years. What if half of the world is destroyed tomorrow? Well, that's a disaster.
Could just use bitcoin.
Unlimited scroll? Nope, thank you. Dont mention it. Not at all.

So who needs in unlimited scroll?
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Indeed. Furthermore, the type of person who absolutely must get an iPhone minutes after it is released is not the type of person who is price sensitive. 5C buyers are more likely to be upgrading their phone when their existing contract expires etc.

I would expect demand for the 5C to rise over time, particularly if the price differential between the 5C and 5S is widened.
If it were actually cheap and sold at a price with very little to no profit and was simply used as a tool by Apple to gain market share, it could have worked out very well. But no, they thought they could resell old components with little added extra but an increased version number to the masses. The reality distortion field has its limits.
Indeed, the 5c is just a bad deal; You get the iPhone 5, a model that would've been reduced in price anyway if they retained it, with no big/significant changes other than a plastic shell (downgrade if you ask me). Thats fine if they'd set the price to say $399, but at $549 you would be mad not to lay down another $100 for the 5s.
That, in addition to the fact that the 5C is more or less a iPhone 5 in new clothes. So everybody who did not buy the iPhone 5 because they either didn't like it, or wanted to wait for the next release would probably not buy the 5C either as there's almost no difference.
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I don't think the problem is UX at this point - or even features as many others have pointed out. The issue for me is that the community left, or certainly isn't close to being the same. I used to go to Delicious for the same reason I currently visit HN - to see what's interesting today. Without a strong group of people posting interesting things on a regular basis, I am just not incentivized to keep coming back.
They (designers) do it to keep you from sniffing their handycraft code with the inspector. (That’s a joke.)

The browser is no webpage-viewer-app any longer. Especially not when the “page” is actually a full-fledged webapp. As soon as an app begins to be an app viewer, it’s really become an OS. (At least the Web is the OS, and browsers implement the frontend layer.)

Imagine the right-click context menu on Windows or OSX would be the same, all times, in all apps. Not much “context”, no?

One could claim those browser right-click context menus hadn’t to be there at all: at least, they’ve been “polyfills” with generic defaults, awaiting the (right, contextual) functionality being implemented by the webapps themselves. Granted, they were useful, back when web pages were just static hypertext documents and browsers were mere html viewers.

Browsers will continue to play that schizofrenic role for some time, both as a document viewer, and as a UI renderer. But eventually we will need two separate “web surfing” apps.

This is also what’s going on, I guess, when you here people complaining about pervasive javascript, progressive enhancement, and their demand that all web “pages” must support their no-js browser plugins indifferently.

The Web is more than pages: we got webapps now.
That's a good way to show standing waves, but did they understand what they were looking at, or did they just think it was some sort of a trick?
The effects of the Famine are still felt in Ireland today. It changed the way survivors thought, and altered the culture IMO. Though it's hard to say what Ireland would be like today without it having happened.
They tell a similar version about prussia (germany). Friedrich der Große would have his soldiers guard his potato fields and turn a blind eye to peasants stealing them. So yes, probably a myth, but indeed a nice one.
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A pleasant surprise: Indian Government handled Cyclone Phailin extremely well.
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I thought the 5C was meant as a way for parents to justify buying an iPhone for their kids... would make sense since it comes in so many colors... and it's only $50! That's cheaper than a Nintendo DS.
You should probably say AAA titles are the shittiest business to work.

I have people both worked at AAA titles and smaller games and the stories they tell are completely different.

But still this is terrible. A project should not have crunch. The main reason is - it does not work.

The only times I have experienced crunch working is when I was in creativity trap and after 16/18 hours of work I was so tired and almost drugged from caffeine that I started thinking outside the box and tried throwing crazy ideas at the code to see if it will work.
I noticed cop shows/movies used it, but I figured Hollywood just made up their own version for whatever reason.
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I kept reading before launch about the $100 phone Apple was launching and was excited. But to my disappoint I later realised it's $100 + ridiculous contract (apparently the notion of contract free phones doesn't exist in the US)

I think if Apple launched a "budget" phone it would destroy much of the Android market. Maybe it would damage their brand though, who knows.
I think that the commit history says a lot about the development process and the company culture. First, is that it's interesting to see how these companies work internally. Second, it's easier to dive into the code by reading the latest commits. You can see what's going on and what pieces are changed together. Finally, there is a substantial difference between:

- a repository that's handled as a first class "source code ledger" (pick one or several of: proper branching/merging, atomic commits, issues referenced in commit messages, etc).

- a repository full of "git commit -a -m 'ill fix this bug later, TGIF'" whose history makes no sense.

I don't want to open the debate on which one is preferable or not (most people agree that git bisect is handy, but it is open to debate whether it's worth the cost).

What I'm wondering is how it looked and why it was rewritten. The most probable reason is that they wanted to make sure that nothing sensitive was exposed (non-redistributable embedded dependencies, information on their infrastructure, ...). But it's also possible that this was started as a type-2 repository and they don't want to expose this image.

I tend to think that every code should be written (and developed) as it was open sourced one day, but as always there's a cost trade-off in here.

Anyway, thanks for open sourcing this piece of software!
Interesting. How do you make money?
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Add that the 5C and 5S overlaps in price (more expensive 5C vs cheapest 5S).

Add also that most consumers """"doesn't pay"""" the full price up front, instead they will pay the phone over a two years contract...

I would move the price band 100$ down for the 5C, just in the middle of the Samsung S3 and S4. Two birds, one shot.
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Ughh, frogs are too bony. Never eaten a rabbit, but would stay off it for cuteness reasons.
Nothing happens for me using Opera. It just has a small logo in the centre of the page that moves slightly forever.
Funny---intentionally or not---From the comments:
"Articles like this are akin to fake profiles on myspace or bad link results from altavista." -- 28 September 2013
As I scroll down I see the same articles repeat over and over
Earlier at Apple HQ:

"Listen. Let's put one mid tier phone on the market. Make it expensive but not necessarily any better than its predecessor. Then, we also release a phone which is actually an improvement. Our flagship, if you will. The trick is in making the mid tier marginally cheaper than the flagship. This will make the step to the flagship a lot smaller and as the mid tier is basically its predecessor with a few tweaks and a new housing, the average Joe will not even complain. We are getting rid of the old iPhone fives, improving sales for the more expensive variant and it doesn't cost us a thing!"
I was saying that you can't judge it a flop for lack of buy-in since they haven't launched it yet.
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