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I'm waiting until the docker ecosystem becomes solid enough that someone puts together a "startup in a box" setup with all the following integrated:

1) Open source gmail-like webmail

2) CI server like StriderCD

3) A helpdesk like this one

4) IRC server with web interface

5) Open-source task management like Asana

6) Some sort of login and identity management solution for all the services in the cluster.

What we'll be able to do with docker in a few years will be the organizational equivalent of what Linux did for personal computers and servers. Call it the "organizational computer" to complement the "personal computer". Standards for all of the above systems to talk to one another will eventually appear and we'll have the level of diversity in options that you have in Linux systems.
The tech press is a circus. In Hollywood, there are two films that ever matter. The one that had the lowest budget made by kids. And the one that had the largest budget. Anything else is not a story. Same with Silicon Valley. You have to be a 2.0 change the world company by 20-somethings. It also helps if you have no business plan, lots of eyeballs, and a massive valuation. Slow growth, solving an actual need of a market, with rational actors all around? Boring.
F2P models are so strange.

Game piracy used to mean stealing the game. Now 'piracy' is getting extra lives.
No. It is very difficult to get tmux running on Windows. Not impossible, mind, but not as simple as e.g. 'brew install tmux'.
XP SP3 already have support.
What channel? What server?

This is interesting. Thank you for sharing. Still not sure I see your point (you will have to forgive me for not reading through this in it's entirety).
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Agreed, not to mention if you want to do _anything_ truly concurrent , as in running non bullshit threads that actually run on available cores, you need native.
Exactly. There shouldn't be a markup structure to style dependency. Personally I would never use an element selector because it makes life really difficult when you need to refactor the markup, which happens fairly often in my experience. Using classes doesn't make things less semantic as long they are named correctly and as long as the markup is semantic.
Pretty interesting nugget there. I've always thought Amazon cloud services were overpriced. But I thought maybe the software engineering labor is expensive. The comment that "software engineering costs rounds down to zero" was extra information I didn't have that strengthens my gut feeling.

Just my two cents. I don't expect to change anybody's mind. :)
Go supports shared C libraries- people have linked it against things like SDL and GTK+.

I'm not so sure it's really necessary for new things. Disk and memory are now cheap and plentiful enough that most of the advantages of shared libraries don't outweigh the advantages of static ones.
Since we're offering arbitrary opinions I'll say that I think 10 years is a typical draconian example of U.S justice.
I've had pretty good luck with Envato's Microlancer site. A good number of people are offering decent logos for under $100.
It's the 'expect people to listen to them' bit that I'm less sure of. Most of the other things you're referring to are rather more obviously purely for the benefit of the instigator, and they can compel people to listen.

In this case, the change should actually benefit the community. Again, they can compel people to listen but I sort of get the impression that they're expecting people to be happy about the change. Indeed, I'm not going to complain too loudly especially as none of my certificates have a far enough out expiry to be affected.

I suppose my point is that even if you think everyone will be pleased at a change you're making, if you want people to be happy you should probably check with them before acting.
>The law is intended to be a protection, and it can only do so if we obey it for it's own sake. There is value in just obeying the law unless you have a very good reason to do otherwise. The law is intended to be a protection, and it can only do so if we obey it for it's own sake.

This sounds like blind obedience. "If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country, one's fellow citizens (all over the world), as loyalty to the principles of justice and democracy, then patriotism would require us to disobey our government, when it violated those principles." Howard Zinn
I actually do use that, but ctrl-a/ctrl-x is still something I rarely find myself using more than a few times a week. Still a great plugin though.
Exactly, and you don't want to use a document mark-up language patched up with scripts for your UX.
For my experience with the Steam store at least, I think it's a difference in expectations. The Steam store isn't a single-page app, it requires constant page reloads and navigates like a traditional web site. That kind of click-wait-click-wait is jarring when you're moving between more fluid navigation in the native applications running on your desktop (or the Steam wrapper around the store to launch games, etc.).

To me that's why it's clunky in the application, but fine in a browser. It's par for the course in the HTML/native hybrid application world.
Nazi apologists aren't fascists?
I really wish Deezer were available in the US. From what I can tell, it seems to be a great service. Blackberry support is cool, too.
Rdio is fantastic. It's the only online service I pay for. I just tried xbox music and was turned off. Rdio instantly starts playing and I can switch tracks without a delay. I have the same experience on my android and sonos. It feels like a CD. Xbox music has a slight delay, which is enough to turn me away.
Why is this pissing away performance? A web browser isn't some luxury. It affords them flexibility with ease of development and being compatible with the entire www. I really don't see the old days of proprietary junky interfaces being superior, especially on hardware that is close to what a modern desktop PC is today.

Not to mention, my crappy phone runs Chrome. If it can do that, certainly a device that uses up to 100 watts, has 16x the ram, 100x the graphics/cpu can too without it being considered a drain.
Could be. Anyway, this is why we have discussions about this stuff, even if it is a bit old. :-)

I'm an unabashed Groovy fan myself, and I hope to see it continue to grow, but if it doesn't that's OK... it works amazingly well for me nonetheless.
They are worse than fascists.
Agreed. The article gives a good primer on how CAPTCHAs work, how basic versions of them used to be easily solve-able, and how / why a general-purpose solution - like this is described to be - would be amazing ... and a bit of background on how such a solution would be similar to human "processing" anyway.

What the article doesn't describe is any detail of how it works. Then again ... the creators of such a revolutionary technology, if true, would want to keep it protected in various ways, not to mention out of adversaries' hands (adversaries = spammers, criminals, other companies, other researchers).
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The 2.3% figure applies to economic growth, not population growth. The blog argues that our economy relies on energy. In the next 1400 years, our supply of energy must inevitably plateau. Therefore, the economy's growth has an upper bound.

I was using the blog as evidence to support my argument. My argument was that once we hit the economic plateau, our quality of living will decrease if the population continues to increase. Therefore, perhaps eugenics (a la China's one-child policy) won't sound like such a bad idea in the future.

> but barely touches (if at all) on things like space-based solar power generation and asteroid mining

Again, he covers this in his first post via reductio ad absurdum:

> Let’s think big: surround the sun with solar panels. And while we’re at it, let’s again make them 100% efficient. Never-mind the fact that a 4 mm-thick structure surrounding the sun at the distance of Earth’s orbit would require one Earth’s worth of materials—and specialized materials at that. Doing so allows us to continue 2.3% annual energy growth for 1350 years from the present time.
I remember when Hammond helped run (or at least was an admin for) HackThisSite. That site helped pique my interest in web development, which is now my career. I owe a lot of my web tech prowess to that site.
To be fair, if you qualify for the AWS Free Usage Tier, you could run a small blog with RDS for $0 for the first year.
There will be a whole wave of apps that are not just crappy-looking but glitchy as well.
Really? I find the Steam app on OSX awful - super slow and unresponsive. They do this in some of their games too - DotA 2 comes to mind - and it's so obvious that's not native when you're using it.
Many commenters here may be very surprised to know that it is very common for game developers to use Flash/ActionScript to build both game interfaces and game logic. See ScaleForm.

WebGL is the natural next step.
In brief, all three of Go, Rust and D are designed to replace C++.

Go is built around concurrency, so applications you write are almost instantly parallelisable. It uses a simple garbage collector, to make it easier to program. It was developed at Google, with none other than Rob Pike being involved. http://golang.org/doc/faq.

Rust is designed to help prevent memory leaks, while still enabling manual memory management. https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Doc-language-FAQ. It was written by mozilla, because using C++ for a web browser leaves quite a few memory leaks. Mozilla are also building a prototype browser engine in Rust, called Servo, http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/research/projects/#servo. Although its future is still quite uncertain at this point.

I haven't had too much contact with D, but from what I understand, it's designed to be C++ done right, while keeping compatibility with many parts of C. http://dlang.org/overview.html
Web Workers can use multiple cores, can't they?
I have not followed this, but I would ask where $1M comes from, and if was actually involved in spending it.

Quote from wiki about previous 2006 cause:

Charges of 2.5 million dollars in damages was assessed based on $500 per credit card, for each of the 5,000 credit card numbers in Hammond's possession, despite the fact that no money had been spent
The ads with the silhouettes are a lot more in-your-face about fostering a lack of work/life balance, though. I wouldn't characterize it dystopian so much as it is tone-deaf, out-of-touch, and heavy-handed. Which is par for the course for Microsoft marketing. To me, it's less egregiously disagreeable than it is benignly mediocre. Oh MS, you're so corporate.
Not categorically. I've had the displeasure of meeting a holocaust denier that was pretty into Occupy shit, anti-corporatism, and communal living (I think the common thread there was the "Bankers are Jewish" stereotype. We're talking about people with critical thinking deficiencies, consistency is not a given...)
I oppose most prison sentences, but not strictly prisons. I'm curious what your alternative is?

For clarity, I'm for rehabilitation and not retribution -- it gains us nothing. When it comes to drug crimes and youthful offenders, community service and rehab seem like far better things than X days/months/years in jail with a grabbag of offenders running the gamut from arsony to grand theft to smoking a joint. And while I think the purpose of imprisoning them should be to offer rehabilitation, would you not imprison murderers or would you put them in mental health institutions rather than "prisons"?
The product isn't the page, Aether is an anonymous, peer to peer reddit-like desktop application whose UI is running on Webkit.
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Yea, I've tried both the Flash and HTML5 player, and I don't think I noticed much difference. And this is all using Chrome as well. Also, I notice the skipping not just when something intensive is happening in another tab, but also when another application is doing something heavy. Perhaps it's something on my machines... but whatever it is, it doesn't happen with Spotify's desktop app.
"Oracle vice president Tom Budnar told the board that his firm had brought in additional people, including a "swat team" to ensure the site should be able to enroll people by the end of December."

This is a vice president at a software company?
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> What works for Norway would probably work really well if applied to most middle-class Americans. I seriously doubt we would see much success with a system like that applied across the board

This is why the federated approach to governing was a big part of the American founding fathers literature (focusing on state-level power), which they viewed as a counter-point to the negative side-effects of centralized Monarchy systems in Europe.

The American government has been reversing it's course - centralizing law (and law enforcement) to a national level - over the last century. Making experimentation with new systems and adaptation to better systems much more difficult.
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You are one of the smart ones. You're currently subsidized by the "dumb" ones. If everyone becomes smart, the maximum possible reward will decrease.
I'm not aware if any production quality UI toolkits for WebGL or even Canvas despite canvas being around for many years now. The problem is that you have to reproduce a lot of what you already get using html elements and css.
What was the problem after all, "political protest", "destroying property" or the $700k charges made by "Anonymous" ?
This guy did it faster using memory hacking:
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No key chords, just left pinkie, why would it be so hard?
Don't work on latest stable Chrome in windows 7.

Plain HTML (without javascript or CSS) can produce very nice results. No need for fancy animations or generated graphics.
don't claim to be a vegan then! You are vegetarian.
You may be surprised to know that most in game interfaces are powered by Flash/ActionScript.

Would you build a website in Flash? I doubt it - you'd probably tell me it was slow and didn't deliver the same experience.
> Hamilton didn’t talk a lot about AWS’s custom-built storage, but he did share one tidbit. The densest storage servers you can buy commercially today come from Quanta, and a rack full of them would weigh in at about three-quarters of a ton. “We have a far denser design — it is more than a ton,” Hamilton said.

Interesting. For reference; a Backblaze pod is 4U and weighs 145 pounds, so 10 of them in a standard 42U rack would be 1450 pounds = 0.715 (short) tons (or ~648kg).
Is this really some master algorithm that can crack all kinds of CAPTCHAs?

CAPTCHA is pretty much an umbrella term for a variety of anti-spam protection and human verification procedures, many of them having nothing in common beyond the name.

Thus "cracking CAPTCHA" is meaningless unless you specify what type(s).

You'd need textual analysis, sentiment analysis, expression evaluation, OCR, full-scale image recognition, puzzle solving and a variety of other techniques to scratch most implementations. So it can't be one algorithm. It'd have to be many.

Then in most cases it'd probably be simpler to figure out some client-side exploit in the way CAPTCHAs handle and send data. Find a weak link, much like DC949 did with reCAPTCHA.
See ScaleForm. In game interfaces… Powered by… Flash! ActionScript!

WebGL is a natural progression on this.
Last time I looked at ASIC design a few years ago, that might get you a couple of prototypes and not much else. The software, staff and fabs cost a crap load of cash.
A company wants to have access to information about who I am as well as all of my purchasing behavior regardless of which merchant it is? Where do I sign up?!?!
We have been struggling with acquiring users, any suggestions would be highly helpful.

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I'll take Walmart as a competitor over 20 20 something CEOs hacking on Ramen. Walmart might have scale and cost advantages, but their advantages are bounded by physical reality. 20 somehing ramen fueled work for zero, or possibly less than zero if mom and dad are still helping out.

Against Walmart I can use judo business strategy. 20 something's use judo against each other.
The BCL is such a great tool that I am sometimes baffled by other languages heavy reliance on package managers like npm or gems to get basic functionality.

It is consistent, well behaved and while not complete, it is very solid. The only complaint I have are that it has some dark corners (System.Diagnostics come to mind) and the fact that non of the classes are easily used for testing and that I have to wrap a lot of basic functionality like file system access or the TcpClient to be avle to test my classes.
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Platform has a web browser anyways. Web technologies are brilliant for laying out user interfaces.

Complain about it being useless shit.

Where have all of these cynical people come from today? Every discussion I've wandered into today has had a good showing of judgmental, know-better, seemingly angry people.
I think that's kind of an absurd comparison because a slave would be made a slave simply because he exists not because of anything he had done. If you know the consequences of your actions before choose to act and you go ahead anyway then you have, in my mind, stated that you find those consequences to be acceptable. It is odd to me that Hammond would then complain about his prosecution like it was some kind of surprise.
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Whether or not Hammond did "good" is debatable. I happen to think he's a criminal and he should go to jail. Perhaps not for 10 years though.
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Nice, I like that one. I've been in that situation before, standing on my own and seeing others standing on their own too. But I never thought of just going up and being the person to introduce them to others.

I'll have to try that out.
I don't think eugenics will be the biggest issue. At that point, I'm pretty sure everybody will openly declare war on everybody else over limited resources. Basically the Civilization V/Minecraft experiments. It'll probably happen sooner than we expect over bodies of fresh water.
Because ctrl-a is extremely simple, physically ... for one hand, etc.

ctrl-b is fairly quick and easy if you use two hands (which is inferior to using one hand) and is quite a bit more difficult than ctrl-a when using one hand.
Without the subscription it's just a locker really - upload up to 20,000 songs and they're available online on all your devices, I think you can pin them to a device too.
>how narcissistic that was--I am not superhuman and cannot exert mind control, so any social "hacking" is really just using the system the way it is designed to be used.

Spot on. Reminds me of the the quote by Cisco founder Sandy Lerner: "The first rule of any game is to know you're in one."
If UX encompasses UI, how is saying that he wants 'the best possible user experience' incorrect? UI performance and bugginess has an effect on user experience.
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They used LocalTill, you just went to a bank account and deposited cash (no identity revealed anywhere) and they credited it to your account, then you bought bitcoin with it.
It is either scary or hilarious how many programmers were created by the desire to cheat in video games.
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Is it the really curvy bits at the bottom that bother you? You can fix it by using a different projection when rendering the spherical image to a flat surface.
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Interesting. I'm scrapping the entire thing and building from scratch, so it's long in the tooth anyway. The only animation I have in it is keyframe animation which changes the screenshot on the computer's desktop in intervals. I believe retina images are the problem rather than the transitions.
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yes, that's my question as well. Why do i even know about Groupon? It was a lot on HN. And everytime i was wondering why it was here.
I met Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian at a book signing recently. Alexis mentioned that Digg was all the rage in the press when Reddit was on the rise. I understand you saying that this company has a small audience, bad timing, and an insufficient hook. However, it seems that experts often make the same mistake over and over again. As Nassim Taleb would say, tech journalists appear to be Fooled by Randomness. They latch on to the Snapchats of the world and refuse to explore the hidden gems because they don't fit into the trendy, flashy mold.
Read more carefully yourself. I didn't reply to the bit about competence, I replied to the bit where he said "But, I've nearly never seen a girl or woman who actually likes something technical." As he's not met a single one, I'm pointing out I exist.

I'm not offended (much less 'on behalf of my whole gender'), I'm surprised. Don't bring your own baggage into other discussions randomly.
Oh I agree, the steam client is one of the worst pieces of software I have on my mac, but I don't think using html to layout the store is the source of their problems. The mac app store exhibits none of the issues I see with steam.
Apparently, not in Japan.
Why wouldn't I?

As I said, I enjoy many commenters, have learned a great deal from them, and have enjoyed my conversations with them.

This is at odds with my very negative view of the site itself, its founder, and how it's moderated. Also, I have to go out of my way to ignore the enormous amounts of link-bait and startup bubble fluff. In fact, I would say that the articles themselves offer almost no value, but some of the discussions are highly educational.

All that banning did was waste a good amount of my time until I figured out what had happened, create a lot of ill-will, and then I made a new account.
Oh! I guess that's about as instant as it gets for anonymous cash transaction. Don't know why I didn't think of that.
But those restrictions are significant and prove that low interchange is a big factor. It's why the only way to do it in Europe is with even more tricky rules and promotional deals, which limits its appeal.

For example, my Chase Sapphire card gives me 1% cash back everywhere and 2% on restaurants.. all of them. Whereas Santander only offers it at certain chain stores. That's because of interchange.
Most game companies and associated now use embedded Webkit that makes all this possible. Apple webkit investment still paying dividends and benefitted so many areas including desktop browsers (Chrome, now Opera) that run on it.

EA's open source initiatives almost all use an embedded webkit lib/browser to render UI content (some also use Scaleform (flash) -- skate 3 uses it a bunch).

http://gpl.ea.com/

Back in the day EA did this more often, they also had an EASTL for game optimized STL containers/usage: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n227...
That is the first thing I thought of.
I was scratching my head waiting for the page to load thinking "Why the hell... how the hell... what the hell..."
I highly recommend byobu - http://byobu.co - which front ends screen or tmux. It uses the function keys for switching around, gives a good status bar by default etc.