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What I would really like is 1 api format that is uniform.
This would end the wild growth of libraries for languages, you could import a single module that would be a universal API resolver. Just point it to the url and all methods can be magically used. Would be really nice if you could explore the api like this as well.. A man can dream.
For all purposes, yes it means 8 spaces.

Type this in a bash terminal: $ printf '1234567890\n\tx\n'

For the second paragraph: I couldn't agree more. There's even some "geniuses" that indent python with the 1st level being 4 spaces and the second level as a tab. * sigh *. Really.
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Unfortunately in practice that's not always the case. People are often so set in their ways they'll still try to do direct ports of "the old ways" even if the new language/platform offer easier/more elegant solutions. It can be very frustrating.
IOS 7: tale of two developments
I launched this app as a side project with a friend in 2008. Didn't touch it for 5 years - but it continued to generate enough revenue to keep itself online. Decided it was time to give it a little more serious effort, focusing on the things that had the most success with the initial site.

Here is v1: http://ejnash.com/campushero/
Maybe it's not terrible? Amazon tests everything to death and their site is very "ugly" too.
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If drugs are legal, and allowed everywhere it takes that choice away from me unless I want to lock my kid up and not let her leave the house.
The Sartorialist predates HoNY, but he specialized in people on the street with great fashion sense.

So if we're going in that direction (documenting people on the street,) Bill Cunningham probably predates them all.
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Ask HN: What would make you use LinkedIn More?
"Alex from Ipswich emails: I really don't understand this furore over industrial surveillance. If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear, simple."

I don't want to live on this planet any more.
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Ask: Is there something like Hacker News in Spanish or other languages?
I speak English but in the case I'll write an App just in Spanish (example: something to learn English) where do I have to publish it? There is something like HN in Spanish? I know, this is not probably the best place to ask that but maybe some one knows.
I don't know, probably not. But Coke's marketing is more towards lifestyle in general. Red Bull is explicitly associated with "being active", "sports", even "high endurance" and "extreme situations". But in these situations, you won't need a Red Bull. Red Bull establishes a fake image that, to some degree, is the exact opposite of the actual product.
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I would suspect no remote work hire is a cold hire. Most of the times it is someone which has previously worked on-site and shown to be trustworthy enough to manage themselves when working remotely.

So yes, getting companies who don't know you, and will hire you for remote work based on an interview only is rare.
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This is impressive but not really surprising given the quality of PostgreSQL database. Quote:

"We added performance comparison with MongoDB. MongoDB is very slow on loading data (slide 59) - 8 minutes vs 76s,
seqscan speed is the same - about 1s, index scan is very fast - 1ms vs 17 ms with GIN fast-scan patch. But we managed to create new opclass (slides 61-62) for hstore using hashing of full-paths concatenated with values and got 0.6ms, which is faster than mongodb !"
People who don't understand the importance of storing their own bitcoins spread across plenty of cold addresses -- generated from fresh, never-connected boxes and enough entropy -- are begging for loss. Given the attitude people have with security and the nature of viruses alone, 99%+ of people aren't 'ready' to use bitcoin beyond small amounts. It's inherently risky for any considerable amount. I never recommend bitcoin to most other people. It's recommended as worthy in and of itself, though.

Bitcoin's digital fungibility, which will always be a curse to some, will always be its greatest virtue. Distrust is one of its most valuable effects. Respect it or don't respect it. That's up to you.
Being that google probably has an unreal security, did they know the NSA got in.. or was it a surprise after learning it from the info leak?
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I'm very skeptical of the twitter IPO for a few reasons:
- Monetizing their stream is not easy
- Few advertisers in their network are raving about ROIs
- My experiences as a platform developer have been better on other platforms
- Their support for their ecosystem is lukewarm at best
- The vulnerability to other mediums (insta, snap, etc etc) in the key markets for advertisers are also very risky
- Facebook I think is still going to crush them from an experience standpoint.
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What is the point of this? Does anybody honestly think they will be honest? They will admit to a few little "bad" things but justify it all for the Greater Good™. They will talk about "internal policy review" and "more transparency with the public/government". They will apologise for "over stepping". They, obviously, won't admit to anything that really matters. They will be given a stern telling off then everybody will go home and nothing will have changed.

Sigh.
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Why does that fireman's bottom say "CHUNK" on it?
You shouldn't feel shame about that, even though it looks like you just used it as an MVP tool.
I wouldn't say that. There's a free chapter you can download and read.
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That's the goal of the semantic web/linked data, and it already works for simple cases. But to take advantage of that you can't be stuck in the popular "REST-but-not-really" custom APIs; you need standard formats and protocols (e.g. RDF/a and SPARQL) that can be queried by software that knows nothing about that particular service.
To be honest I hardly find HONY anywhere near "inspiring" or "warm". IMO 80% of the stories are sad or filled with confusion and pessimism. The people he meets is one thing, but the tone of the story is set by the writer himself. I feel he is somehow intentionally making them melodramatic and sad. This I really dislike.

And there exist so many "love of the life" stories which on the first sight might seem sad but upon further inspection feel totally dubious. I always think the so-called "love of your life" stuff is just an invented escapism. When some people meet difficulties in their lives they immediately imagine something "perfect but out of reach" as a consolation of sorts. If they really got together with their so-called "love of life" then probably their lives will turn out to be as problematic. Not to mention how much both would have changed and out of sync when they meet each other again. This is totally irrational thinking. Better dispose of it.
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pool hopping? Don't miningpools have a really simple system to prove work? You submit blocks with hashes that have being solved to a much lower difficulty. Those submissions get you placed as a receiving party for the next completed block. At least that's my understanding of how mining pools work, so how could this work?
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PPS.: If you want to send something and your country is not in our database, please let me know asap and we'll insert the country into our database for you.
I saw that somebody tweeted that India would be interesting - we've already negotiated the prices and will have them in the database soon. Email me at laura (at) goshippo.com
Pro-Privacy = Anti-American [stigma]
Storing solar energy for a rainy day
It looks like they've been sideswiped by iOS 7 changes that make their product infeasible. A common problem of proprietary APIs :(

Also, software people developing hardware seem not to have realised that it's much harder to fix problems after shipping, which sadly makes good quality small run hardware very rare.
IMPROVING THE USER EXPERIENCE VIA IN-APP ANALYTICS
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"As far as I can tell, Intel has turned up late to the party with a cheap bottle of wine."
That is great!
It keeps getting stuck on loading, but seems a really great idea. Where are you guys based? Would love to talk - @arush
You might have a point to make but it is your tone that is getting you the downvotes. If Pre-colonial Indian history is your passion, the least you can do is to think and analyze before making generic comments like "battleground" without adding any relevant context. Besides, you talked about the India/Pak border "firing" issues which is so complicated even for the citizens of those countries to understand that relating it to "attacking" in general is not fair.
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The NSA said they prevented 54 attacks but it was widely reported supported by evidence that that was not the case. Not to mention that they repeatedly lied to Congress. If you trust these organizations so much, good for you. But this bogeyman of "terrorism, drug dealers" is not acceptable by most people who understand this. The probability of me getting killed just randomly on the street is far far higher than me getting killed in a terrorist attack in the US. Statistics are important. Why should the government go overboard to prevent this? Have you realized that gun violence in the US for example causes more deaths than all terrorism attacks combined? And yet even a slight mention of this has gun lovers cry about how their second amendment is being violated. Let's not forget that there is a fourth amendment also:

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

There is a reason that democracies around the world don't allow police to just randomly walk into your house and arrest you. A good reason.

Just because terrorism has to be prevented, doesn't mean that our basic rights have to be violated. By that logic, let's go even further and install CCTV cameras and microphones in everyone's homes. All crimes can be prevented. And perhaps the next step can be to have thought control devices even.
I am going to make an assumption that any 'terrorist' that plans their next attack through facebook or gmail is more of a threat to killing themselves by a bomb backfiring, than to the public.

Mass surveillance is not the solution.

Also, their claim that 'they operate fully within the law' is just a claim without any public evidence to back it up, if all three of them were subject to a polygraph during this then I might take it a bit more seriously. Otherwise, why should I be inclined to trust the words of a organisation that clearly does not trust me?
Couldn't agree more and this is what I have been saying.

EVERYONE has dirt on them that they wouldn't want a hypocritically moralistic press to publish to the world with the worst possible spin on.

Either Presidents get access to some scary ass shit that makes them all immediately move hard to the right when they get in office or someone shows them their phone calls to their dealer in 1986 or the abortion clinic in 1997 or an email to an illicit lover or a gay experience at college or or or.

Occams razor would suggest that with the overwhelming superiority of the USA militarily and economically that there isn't some massive scary vulnerability that requires the maintenance and expansion of the security state therefore the second posit is more likely. Dirt. Lots of it. J Edgar Hoover with access to all of your inner most thoughts. That's what a google search is after all.

How many times have you heard something or read something and done a quick google, something that out of context would be dreadful? I for example ended up following some links from Reddit and ended up on a white nationalist site (the post was taking the piss out of their idiocy), I immediately clicked away from it thinking 'fuck, if the govt were to see that' (I am on a work visa here and have essentially no 4th amendment rights when seeking entry), pretty chilling already.

Now imagine being a politician. 'Candidate goes on storefront!' But I was just curious, following an internet thread...yeah right. Racist.

/end ramble.
Wow, are you an astroturfer, or do you actually believe everything your Government tells you?
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>it will still be very hard to find sellers on SilkRoad.

Apparently not hard enough.
It is being done in Europe already.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Six-More-Silk-Road-Drug-Deale...
Media Hint is an excellent extension, that should allow this (if not through that link, directly through the BBC's iPlayer)

https://mediahint.com/
It's a DNS proxy that automatically adds routing table entries when queries/answers for "interesting" domains (associated with VPN connections) come in.

Adapting this to run on a host (which would be configured to use the DNS proxy running on itself) with VPN connections terminating on the host shouldn't be too difficult. There's certainly a use case for doing this on a router but I could definitely see wanting this on my laptop, too.
Eugène Atget is probably worth reading about if you're into the history of street photography.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Atget
Since you're nitpicking, a sandwich isn't just two slices of white bread.
Don't think API, think structured data in HTML. You could get all those benefits by just convincing the web developer to properly markup that information using RDFa or similar.

In fact, location is already supported by Google: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/146861?hl=en
Hey arush, thanks for the positive feedback! I'm sorry about the server problem. We weren't expecting that many clicks when I posted it on HN... ;) We'll be based in SF starting from next week Tuesday. Want to move this conversation to email? I'm laura(at)goshippo.com
I'm pretty sure you have some savings or belongings that you didn't touch for a year or more. Can I have those?
I'm not sure what you're saying.

If you're calling into question the portability of Java, then I can run the same bytecode on Windows, Mac, Linux, the browser (in theory) and, with a little transpiling, my Android.

If you're saying that that priority of decision drivers is backward, then I disagree:

If you want to develop a Windows app you start by saying "I want to develop something on Windows because my clients/customers run Windows". Then you work out how to do it on Windows.

If you start out saying "I want to write an app that does X" then you have the freedom to choose what balance of priorities affect you, including whether or not portability matters.
On every line that is right-aligned, yes. Most lines would have only tabs.
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I do not agree that node.js revolutionized the company and everyone should start using node.js everywhere. Rather a better approach is what suggested by Nicholas -
http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2013/10/07/node-js-and-the-new...
not an issue. by assuming it is two spaces.

it is still better to have to switch to 2 tabwidth before committing to check line length then to be forced to use 2 spaces forever.
What is Application Centric Infrastructure
Why can't you use a connection that has issued LISTEN for anything else? In fact, I'm fairly sure you can use it normally.

We're using NOTIFY to broadcast database changes to services that should react to them and it's quite a nice way to separate concerns: process A just writes to the database, a trigger issues a NOTIFY, process B checks and notices there's been a change.

Edit: I see, the code in the post suggests that the connection needs to be stuck in a select() (I should know, I contributed a largre chunk of psycopg2's async code handling). You just need to use an asynchronous driver and you can happily LISTEN and do queries at the same time (of course you won't get notifies while a query is processing - the Postgres protocol has no concept of multiplexing).

We're using Twisted and happily mixing queries and NOTIFY.
"A language that doesn't need a runtime, like C?"

The language perhaps doesn't, but most actual programs do. I'm definitely not going to write my own standard library just because I can.
A claim that they don't monitor that which they don't need to for safety seems unsupported? As in, it seems to me like you are saying something roughly analogous to
"they said that it is neccesary, so we should let them do it"

I would think "we only do it to the extent neccesary" would be what an argument is meant to show, not the argument itself.

?
Most of the questions they aren't even answering... this is pointless and stupid.
It looks like a great tool, but like others have mentioned, I just can't justify a $50 price point in my head. I don't really "need" a new app to update my issue tracker, I've already got the browser open which I'm using for other concurrent tasks (and a browser tab with a familiar HTML interface > learning a new tool and remembering to keep it open).

However, if you could pull out the "flight path" feature ONLY into a separate app at say a $10 price point, I would probably jump. Something unobtrusive in the menu bar that tracks my time on task AND automatically pulls up what I should work on next, quickly and easily, would be great.
Could you give an example of the sensitive information that we definitely should not be talking about? I can't think of anything from the Guardian's reporting of this matter that falls into that category right now.

Edit: You say "Guardian readers/conspiracy nuts in the comments section, who aren't able to listen to reasoned debate". That's a well-reasoned rebutal right there to the people who replied to you with facts. Could you expand on it? I'm listening.
I would expect more of these stories as more of these cars are purchased and on the road. Three fires in six weeks and all three related to accidents. But since it's the new fancy all-electric cars then it's prime for sensational headlines or at least just heavier than usual coverage.

Take a Tesla to an empty field, pour gasoline all over it, apply flame, watch headlines of "yet another Tesla catches fire" to appear.
Great work. This is exactly what I've been looking for to sell some of my stuff.
It's bound to happen. There's too much energy stored in the batteries.
There's no such thing as a trustworthy government, and the "if you don't like it then maybe you should just leave" attitude doesn't help anyone.

It's backwards, the citizenry doesn't have to tolerate their government, the government must serve its citizenry.
I'm a huge fan of Rosling. Obligatory link to Gapminder

http://www.gapminder.org/

Video section is full of gems.
If you think that having a wide open window into the industrialized world, such that GCHQ and NSA have, and don't use that for capitalist, industrialist purposes, then you are a fool.

Its not about having anything to hide. Its about whether or not others can use your work against you. This happens far more often than real terrorism, and it ruins lives, industry, and culture when it happens.
That's fair, I've just had positive personal experiences with the intersectionalists IRL. As a guy, I've felt the conversations have been less adversarial and more productive.

I can say it's a more nuanced critique of privilege then say radical feminism, but whether my positive experiences are rooted in a better theory or just in the people attracted to it I don't really know.
The purpose of this is to ramp up the media against all the pro-Snowden reports. This is a circus.
Right, I didn't mean to imply that you believed the hypothesis, just that you were proposing it. The distinction doesn't matter much for my explanation anyway.
The needle in the haystack analogy, in that they are only looking at data through complex queries to find the needles, and not looking at data collected from the public directly, only works if they get no false positives.

Are they expecting us to believe they have a perfect system? If so, why collect all the data in the first place and run their queries in real time?

The board questioning doesn't have the technical background to ask any challenging questions.
What's interesting is the sales only count till the end of September and thus miss most of the 5s sales and that kantar handle Microsoft's online ad sales.

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/11/05/apple-kantar-windows-...
lol. posted on a tesla forum by someone with bmw i3 blog link signature. totally not a bmw "community manager".
I agree this is largely sensationalist / novel news reporting driving this (no pun intended). What I would like to see is an attempt to report the rate of fires / driven miles for both electric and more conventionally power cars; of course taking into account factors like the power / performance of the cars, relative age of the vehicles etc.
If Rosling read this he would chide you for using the term "Western World" just like that, with at best an assumed definition. It is one of his pet peeves to stress that the world is no longer divided into the Developing world and The West.
Gavin's post is not innuendo; he's just trying to be diplomatic in my view. However, I could not agree more with deepblueocean: figuring out if and under which conditions the Bitcoin network will tend toward an equilibrium in which all players follow the rules should be a priority for researchers. It's the biggest question mark hanging over Bitcoin's future.

I also agree that the Eyal/Sirer paper seems naive about markets.

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PS. This thread should be at the top of this page. (Currently, another thread I started is at the top; I hope this thread shoots up past it.)
"Dateline" is still on the air, right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_C/K#Sidesaddle_fuel_t...
Sorry, but again, what video are you watching?

They have provided zero public evidence that they are following the law. Just their word.

edit: in reply to your edit, I would choose my tin foil hat any day over your glasses of ignorance.
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usually the last name of the firefighter
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After entering a valid zip (92128), I had to click the box again to get a listing of valid entries for the zip and select the first one (which had zip/city/state) before it would continue.

The UI should probably auto-select the first one (best match) if user enters the full zip.

I was able to continue and I liked the idea/implementation overall. Nice :)
True. That's how you should implement the flow control after validation.
This is probably going to come across a little fanboyish, but I would be interested in knowing the rate of Tesla fires (Mean Time Before Fire?). Cars catch on fire in accidents all the time, so I'm wondering if the Tesla fires are being covered more because it's a magical technology fire and therefore more dramatic than a your usual car-destroyed-in-accident fire.
Unfortunately the country you're in isn't a choice. I can't just move to another country because they have laws preventing people from doing that.