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This is asking the wrong question.

Web design has generally been formulaic - but the formula changes and evolves over time.

No, this is the question to be asked: is the current formula the correct one?

My opinion is no. The giant picture-banner that takes up half (or more, depending on device) the page and conveys no useful information is annoying. The odd vertical scrolling behaviors -- almost as if in rebellion against the previous pattern of never requiring users to scroll: now we must always require them to scroll -- are frustrating, particularly for the majority of people who do not have a mac trackpad.

But that's just my opinion. One could just as easily argue that every formula is correct for its time, or else it wouldn't have come to be a common formula.
Because a Nissan Leaf still costs ~$30-35000 in Norway. I can buy a used, reliable, petrol car for under half of that.

And the incentives the Norwegian Government introduced to encourage people to buy electric cars, will not last forever. It will definitely last through 2017, but after that - no one knows. The Norwegian Government will probably lose too much money, if people stopped buying petrol cars today.
Win 8.1 64-bit

Chrome 30: 15842

FF 25: 14621

IE 11: 11039

Not really that far apart...
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ValueAct Hedge Fund's Big Microsoft Bet Is Paying Off So Far
If it helps, you just keep believing that.
"Please don't store Bitcoins on an internet connected device, regardless of it is your own or a service's."

Best advice I've read so far about bitcoins. All these services that's started up around keeping bitcoins for you, wallets, banks, they are all dodgy and no matter how well their marketing seems or how nice their webpages look, I think in the end - I'd like to keep my own money.
Are we seeing some results or is that just because fossil fuels are harder to get (read - more expensive) nowadays?
What would an API for a mom and pop grocery store do and who would use it?
Third Tesla Model S Catches Fire In Tennessee
I am unhappy with the whole premise of labeling people as white. What do a Polish immigrant laborer, a Jewish professor and a WASP homemaker have in common - oh, they're not black. Let's lump them all together!
A Third Tesla Model S Has Caught Fire
Cute name. I wonder to what extent the language has anything to do with Frege's work in logic. I mean Haskell's last name was Curry, and currying is a big deal in FP. Thankfully that wasn't named after Moses Schoenfinkel.
Like Mahn said, MS fell asleep. The problem wasn't IE6 per se, it's that IE6 didn't get upgraded significantly over a 6 year period. Market dominance and stagnation really damaged the web for many many years.

I'm happy to crap on Google when they deserve it but Chrome has had around 34 public releases over the last 5 years.
it fails as a store of value and therefore is not money which is obvious given its volatility. Bitcoin is best described as a computer programme which sells itself on features written to provide assets to those with the mindset desiring such assets - libertarians, those anti fiat currencies, Austrian economists (more recently now gold is letting them down) etc... Such mindset are sure to only increase given the Wall St ownership of the Federal reserve so Bitcoin will continue to sell until its technology is made obsolte. If that takes years then bitcoin $100,000 soon enough but if tomorrow then hello bitcoin $0
Crazy, PayPal have thrown our java in favour of Node.js
This opens the door for the financial industry to get up to date and start innovating again. Big news for node.js
Show HN: Dada Web, a visual experiment
About time.

The standing of the UK with the rest of Europe has been damaged further by this. IMO, the long term damage from the spying scandal will be much worse for the UK than for the US.
I was wondering the same thing. Makes me think there's some corporate involvement in the link.
I guess Google is using Google+ now as the default commenting system.
Mmmmm, gamey. Makes me think of well hung duck.
your goto lawyer should be a friend.
Microsoft and Facebook offer bounties to bug hunters
Just got this myself too and my first thought was it has to be a scam. Submitting photo ID online is rather unusual for hosting company to ask for. DO does appear to be less favorable now given the level of verification they need. I wonder if this applies to most DO users though.

[Sent to support]
Earlier today, I received a support ticket from DigitialOcean with the message below asking for government issued ID. This is an unusual request for hosting company. Can you confirm this?
--- ATTACHED MESSAGE BELOW ---
To help us verify your identity, please send us a scan of your government-issued photo ID or passport to verify@digitalocean.com with this ticket's ID in the subject, example: "Ticket #XXXXXX". Once you have sent that please let us know by replying to this ticket.

[Response from DO]
We ask for IDs for accounts that have been flagged during verification. We apologize if it appears abnormal but we take abuse very seriously
Alex
Domain-Specific VPN Router
The 10x developer is Not a myth
Be careful with your first sentence. For example, the US would not hesitate to torture Snowden for his key if they even had the slightest way to get their hands on him.

Just declare this person an enemy of the state/terrorist and there you go - to you and your encryption.
iOS 7 was released less than 2 months a go. According to Mixpanel, 76% of iOS users have iOS 7. I’d say that’s quite a contrast to Android 4.3 adoption.

https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/ios_7
I gather that it would be straightforward for individual bitcoin users to refuse to handle known-stolen bitcoins.

Perhaps this is illegal already - under local handling of stolen goods laws. People would likely be inclined to take up this policy were there a single case of legal enforcement.

I believe this would lead to a stable situation where those known-stolen bitcoins were worth far less than regular bitcoins.

The present loud reaction would become irrelevant. What's more, I believe it would benefit bitcoin to remove some of the danger of (irreversible) theft.
They seem to be using Google Apps for the e-mail. And they claim:

> The attacker was able to bypass 2FA due to a flaw on the server host side

Which flaw is this? Is it a known issue for Google? I would like to know more details.
The way bitcoin is broken is that there are people with VAST wallets that could be state actors. If the CIA truly did invent bitcoin then they have immense power on it and it's stability. The hard part about this risk is that there is no way to mitigate it.
> I don't understand the unique selling point here at all, maybe someone can elaborate?

Mini PCI Express slot?
If they had video proof they would have released it ages ago to discredit him. If there was anything it was a probably a video of him hugging and kissing another man, which is not a strange custom between men in the ME.
Hi, that's me who's doing macros for Scala. Martin & Adriaan have already commented on my choice of the project and its status within Scala, but I'd like to additionally elaborate on your other points.

Speaking of target audience and usefulness. Even before being officially released, macros have attracted attention of popular community libraries and tools (e.g. SBT, Akka, Play, Slick), and later on we got even more people on board [1]. Therefore, even though not many people are writing macros, a lot of Scala developers are, sometimes even unknowingly, using them.

That's I think is the best thing about macros in Scala - natural integration with other language features, to the extent that people aren't even aware that they are using macros and not regular functions or implicits or whatnot. Surprisingly many features can be empowered this way, giving rise to new and effective ways of solving development challenges [2].

Speaking of the future status of macros. Half a year ago, we had a joint EPFL and TypeSafe meeting where we decided to stabilize a subset of macros (so called blackbox macros [3]) and include it as an official, non-experimental language feature by 2.12. Indeed, at times we have fierce debates on our mailing lists about this or that esoteric macro flavor, but that concerns only my research activities [4], not blackbox macros, which have reach unequivocal approval at scala-internals a long time ago.

This brings me to the next point - transparency of development. For the entire duration of my doctoral studies at EPFL that begun in Sep 2011, we were always open with our plans, welcoming feedback and actively answering questions on the mailing lists and stack overflow. Some of the most successful reflection and macro features are there only because of our close collaboration with the community, and I'm very grateful to everyone who has participated and is participating.

Finally, the thing about generating papers is just untrue. Sure there are people who do their research using macros, but if you take a look at the list of my publications, you'll see that over the two years that I've been a PhD student I have authored zero conference papers. This is the cost of seeing through an implementation of a feature in an official language release, addressing the feedback of early adopters, and then maintaining it as it's being used in production. But anyhow I don't mind how it turned out, because I'm very glad that more and more people are picking up macros and finding them useful.

[1] http://scalamacros.org/paperstalks/2013-06-12-HalfYearInMacr...
[2] http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/macros/usecases.html
[3] http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/macros/blackbox-whitebo...
[4] http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/macros/paradise.html
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In Russia it's common to have computer and internet, but no credit card.
There's absolutely nothing to suggest that any state actor created Bitcoin.
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Maybe it is named after Élodie Frégé (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lodie_Fr%C3%A9g%C3%A9)
Toyota are working on an EV but it's fuel-cell powered not battery.

http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-toyota-fcv-fu...
WSJ: How Teen Nick D'Aloisio Has Changed the Way We Read
Not really - Norway exports a huge amount of oil. They have one of the world's biggest sovereign wealth funds from the proceeds. It's currently worth ~$700billion. Considering there are only 5 million people in the country, they are not short of cash. So - any oil usage saved is somewhat made up by export revenues which go back to the state.

Furthermore, the costs of electric cars will surely go down as economies of scale hit in, lessening the need for subsidies as time goes on.
For some videos I would recommend Going Native videos (http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/2013)

Also there is The tour of C++ (http://www.stroustrup.com/Tour.html) which offer a fresh start to the language.

But the one book I am waiting for is Effective C++ 11/14 which should coming up next year.
New Kolab 3.1 release turns it into a complete Open Source Cloud solution
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That's exactly the reason why nobody would check for it! :-)
Flojack Dead on Arrival
>>>> Maybe it's a joke I do not understand, but your country has been a battleground for years, kingdoms attacking other kingdoms for 1000s of year

If you're referring to historical ages, then this pretty much applies to all other continents including Asia, Europe, America etc. Wasn't it pretty common for kingdoms to wage wars against each other?

>>>> and more recently every so often Indian troops fire accross the line of control killing Pakistan soldiers (sure, Pakistan does it at least as much if not more)

It doesn't take much to Google to get your facts right. It's actually Pakistan that often violates cease-fire.
Think Again: American Nuclear Disarmament
Well, I can't tell for sure if it qualifies as a task but automated UI / UX testing has proved to be no less than an ordeal having a sloppy effort to value ratio. Why?

* It is damn slow. Considering I use CDNs and a remote database the tests take quite a while to execute.

* After thr excitement it becomes a sort mind numbing task because of sheer no of tests you have to write even to test a single aspect.

* I have always hated watir and likes. CasperJS gave me hope but I was dissappointed with lack of docs and community around it. Gave it up after being stuck on a problem for two days.

Software development can never be a impecabble process and bad experiences tell me to give up UI testing untill I really need it.
Really a 486 ...?

http://semiaccurate.com/2013/10/28/intel-talks-little-quark/
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There was actually a Bitcoin "insurance" provider for a while. Like everything else in the Bitcoin economy, it was entirely unregulated, basically a scam, and ran with everyone's money.
Doesn't it run on FreeBSD?
unusable garbage like Windows 8

That's funny. I managed to use my Windows 8 computer to not only read your comment, but respond to it. I was planning on using it to get some work done later today but I guess that's out of the question now that I know how unusable it is.

My complete computer illiterate and borderline luddite wife has no trouble using Windows 8. I wonder why you're having trouble?
Nyanga, a loose super set of Lua with a bytecode generator for LuaJIT
Am I missing something, or does Stack Overflow really have this marked as a duplicate without actually linking to the earlier question? That's not very helpful.
I doubled checked the date for April Fool and the site URL to be sure it wasn't some prank. When I was reassured, I went ôO?!!wtf? with confidence.
Great landing page, although it would be handy to be able to replay the video. There is a lot happening there and I didn't catch everything at first.
Who cares? About the worst thing they can do is sell the coins they have.
it's interesting how some established startups (if paypal could even be referred to as that anymore) have been getting gains by leveraging node.js into existing stacks.
>our vote actually has meaning; our votes actually change the elected officials, etc. We still can run a socialist candidate (c.f. Kshama Sawant 2013 in Seattle) and they aren't shut down via police action or other hardcore discrimination.

See, my theory, call me a tinfoil hatter if you will, is that we are on the brink of losing our votes. 1) Collect extensive data on any and all citizens. Any especially politically active citizens will receive extra scrutiny. Ones that are further up in local, state and federal politics will receive even more. This information will be used secretly to ensure that, besides a few outliers who are either allowed to be subversive for the sake of maintaining a smokescreen, all politicians can be controlled. Russell Tice, a prominent NSA whistleblower has alluded to exactly this process occurring under the NSA of today, as it did under J Edgar. He ominously refers to a young man who now resides in a nice white house as one of these who received extra attention. (To me, that explains a whole great deal. And think about it - one of my google searches released to the press would destroy any political career I had, and would be quite enough to turn me into someones puppet, or force me out of politics all together.)

2) With the political market cornered, to an extent, step two begins. Militarise the police. Use infiltration and subversion to delegitimise, split and turn public opinion against activists, whilst also using techniques to track and monitor the most influential ones. Again, there is evidence that the NYPD and other departments have undertaken actions like this. There is a wealth of technology to aid them - tracing FB profiles, using false cell towers, facial recognition tech combined with surveillance cameras, etc. This will have a chilling effect, as mentioned above - acitivists movements are accused of vandalism, of violence, suspect motives, etc, and are also brutally put down. Public sympathy fades, and the support for and involvement in protesting and other forms of activism begin to wither.

Congratulations, you have the makings of a great authoritarian state!

Note that nothing I referred to above is beyond the realms of possibility - in fact, please point to anything I said and I will try to dig up some solid evidence for it.

Quite simply, we are going past the point of no return. It will become progressively more difficult to have an impact on the political apparatus. At some point, it will come down to one thing: a fight.a very bloody fight. it happens every few centuries when an existing political and social order becomes stagnant, and the citizenry are pushed out of fear, hunger or anger to act. When we the people have nothing to lose, that is when things will change. It may not happen tomorrow, or next year, or next decade, maybe not even this century, but it will happen.
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What would be illegal about it, exactly? Note that I'm talking about playing DVDs, not watching first run movies.
"Frege is thought as a substitute for this missing GHC port. While not derived from any existing Haskell implementation, it is more or less equivalent to Haskell 2010. Please see the wiki page that details the differences."

So now Haskell can produce native executable code, run in a JVM and as subset of it (https://github.com/faylang/fay/wiki) run in the browser. Now there is no excuse for me to NOT using Haskell ;)

Thanks for bringing Haskell to the JVM!
To those outside the UK - do not take the telegraph seriously. Read the comments before you read the article.
Hey, I'm giving you the opportunity to change my mind. I'm listening to you, and asking you to provide information that will change my mind.

You haven't done so.

That leads me to think that your first comment was a knee-jerk opinion with nothing to support it, and that you're continuing to defend that position because you "feel" it's correct, even though it could well be wrong.

Your weird insistence that it's right, even though you're unable to provide any evidence to support it, is odd.

I freely accept that the article I submitted is opinion - but it's informed opinion from people who work in this field. The article has links to other organisations who've published research on hunger, and the website for WFP contains a lot of their published research.

So, I'm faced with a multi-national multi-government agency with a lot of published research and many years of expertise saying one thing. And I have some random Internet commenter saying something else, and getting defensive when asked to supply any kind of citation for their claims.

At the moment I'm dismissing what you say.

But, like I said, I'm open to persuasion.
> update the damned browser

IE8 is the latest version of IE supported on XP, so for people who don't control the OS, they are on the "latest version" already.
Thread's gotten too deep and wide to reply to everyone, so I'd like to vent right here at the top...

We have these machines that are meant to take the tedium out of our lives, let's USE THEM. Why do we not have tools that format things they way I like them? Who cares how the other team members like it? They can use the tool, too. Who cares how it's stored in your VCS? The tool should just be part of the workflow and format spaces/tabs the way I want them and maybe revert to a canonical format for committing to the repo.

Personally, I prefer tabs. I read code best when it's indented four spaces. But John wants to use two spaces in this code. And Ralph likes three. Holy Hell, don't make me wade through someone else's preferences to understand this codebase! Use tabs and people can set them the way they want. Yes, tabs are broken in many places (e.g. Objective-C methods can get so verbose that they need to wrap; convention is to wrap and align the colons; tabbing as far as possible and then spacing to fill breaks things when Ralph formats his tabs to three spaces; in this case, there is indeed a solution: tab to the start of the original line of code, and space to format from there ... but then the IDE has ideas of its own about what should be spaces and what should be tabs...)

Maybe you can read that code with only two spaces of indent, but I can't. I'm gonna need that reformatted to put a larger visual separation between scope changes or whatever required the indention. Rather than have this debate, a tool should be forged.
Interesting article, but I'm in the UK and Paypal still looks and works exactly the same for me as it has for years. It's very slow, rather ugly, and very inconsistent - the splash page seems styled differently to the login page seems styled differently to the help page... I could go on.

I know this is mostly superficial stuff, but it doesn't contribute to a good experience at all.

Slightly OT, but why is it suddenly all the rage for sites to have persistent nav-bars that follow you down the page? The one on this blog is obnoxiously huge, and obscures a lot of content. What's wrong with scrolling to the top of the page?
Well, the site owner apparently promised to reimburse any deposit losses with his own funds back when he was trying to convince people to deposit money on the site: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=283756.msg3505423#ms...
Better brewing through technology, perhaps
Before opening comments I bet myself the word "awesome" will be used )
Why do they pander so much? It's hard to imagine pg ever writing something that tiptoes around like that, yet pg has been in dozens of situations requiring a public response to a perceived problem. He's never pandered, yet he's never suffered for it either. So is pg just a better writer than Gavin, or is this an academic tradition, or...? Just curious.
Something about licensing and copyrights protection would make this plan tricky.

See the warnings on DVD trailers about not playing this DVD on oil rigs.

With correct licencing it'd be easy. But that opens up some weird bureaucracy.
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I find there's quite the echo chamber of doom in certain circles about Microsoft. But this one takes the cake to ask the question "Does Microsoft need a turnaround expert?" while at the same time:

http://origin-www.livemint.com/Companies/tfliUBJb2Tjf3SapxQT...

Microsoft posts a 17% increase in quarterly profit to $5.2 billion; revenue rises 16% to $18.5 billion

The company made $5.2 billion profit in 3 months. Over 90% of computers are running their operating system. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system...). Their office productivity suite has over 95% of the market. Visual Studio, Azure, Xbox, all immensely popular. What exactly are people thinking they need to "turn around"?
Ask HN: Are there any current startups using Lisp?
According to PG, LISP is the silver bullet programming language that unfortunately nobody uses. I was just wondering if there are any companies out there following his advice and using LISP to build a startup today.
> Would like to know more about this. Are there same kind of bureaucratic hassles in US too?

There is certainly bureaucracy in the US, but it would appear that it's worse in India:

http://doingbusiness.org/rankings
David Chisnall likes to point out that it actually passes more of its test suite on FreeBSD than on OS X.

edit: thanks misframer
I remember reading this particular story 30 something years ago. Probably in Reader's Digest. I guess he also read it and made it his own. I hope it wasn't a thing back then.
http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/65933750954/my-first-mem...
Who cares about Paypal? they have screwed so many people and companies one has to wonder how they get away with it and still are in business

Bitcoin (or bitcoinlike replacement) is the future and the most interesting thing to come out (Technologywise) since email, bittorent or social networks
On iPad and Iphone I use the "accomplist". THis is simpler than omnifocus to learn and use and based on GTD.

"Things" is another good app to try.