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Yes, Chrome Apps can make use of the Chrome Platform API which allows them to do all kinds of privileged things (if the required permissions were given).

http://developer.chrome.com/apps/api_index.html

So... yea, it's very similar. Both are some sort of web-related runtime which can be used for all kinds of applications thanks to additional APIs which make the environment less restrictive.
I don't think that's a fair comparison..

1) Web apps in this case are downloaded from an app store (and people complained about it too)

2) Average people also use fewer sites: I wouldn't be surprised if regular use comprehends just gmail/outlook, facebook, wikipedia, youtube/netflix

3) You need a browser running in the OS anyway

4) App -> sandbox -> OS vs. App -> Javascript sandbox/Nacl sandbox -> browser -> sandbox -> OS... The latter looks more secure to me
The parts that generate the lion's share of heat in an LED bulb are tiny tiny tiny, and so they can get very hot with much less energy. They generally have chunky heatsinks, but still you can only draw heat away from a point the size of a head of a pin so fast.
The patent is on "novel" sequences, like "Roundup-Ready", but plants have a tendency to broadcast (old meaning) their genome (e.g., pollen).
Here's my 2 cents and some thought questions that will hopefully help you find your way:
You've received positive feedback from several people but are they your target market? Will they be the ones paying? It's also important to think about what value you're bringing to the table.

If you're targeting single-page apps, you'll have to seek those customers out. If you're targeting websites who want to get indexed on Google, SEO-related, etc, then your customer base will be bigger. Seek them out.

As a previous poster had already mentioned, if I'm competent enough to build a single-page app, I could easily manage my own redirects. Unless I have more than 100 single-page apps, then I might see value in your service.

Communicate what your value is to me and how you're saving/giving me money/time/something by taking money away from myself.
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An easy answer are the components which are already built for mobile: http://ionicframework.com/docs/components/

And if you're already familiar with Angular you'll see that Ionic gives you a big step forward in your development, and you still have all the power your looking for in writing your own from scratch.
I just open all articles (and all HN comment threads) in new tabs. Sometimes I don't even get to them after scanning the front-page for awhile.
What do you think about freestyle chess?
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Press conference is live right now for anyone interested: http://chennai2013.fide.com/fide-world-chess-championship-20...
Wow, don't know if they are delusional or just wrong.
OH yes. France has a very strong labour union movement. The joke is the French will protest when it's cold in winter, and set Paris on fire to warm things up.
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Yeah, let's sue those plants who spread their seeds without paying the patent holder. And the birds! That will teach them.
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Couldn't agree more.

Redis code base is like a best-practice document.
They did pick a peculiar logo though.
For EOYear, will we get some more SDR love? A sequel to dump1090, perhaps? ;)
You do realize you're on HACKER News right? You'll probably see some HACKS... maybe?
Thanks Adam for your advices on ConferenceBadge.com, we already implemented one of your suggestions!
> Native focused

How is it native focused? it's obviously an HTML/CSS/Javascript framework. It's not native to the plateform itself, since you are developping in a webview.

> the most advanced HTML5 mobile app framework - launched

it's basically some kind of Bootstrap + angularjs bundle. How is it more advanced than Sencha Touch for instance?
EDIT: whoops, I was answering about Knockout vs Angular here, not Ember.

I think it's actually easier in angular, because you can set the ng-app parameter at the point in the DOM tree you want to bind to the Angular portion of the app. (ng-app is similar to ko.applyBindings, except that unlike KO, with Angular don't have to worry about having parent DOM bindings clash with child DOM binding applications.).
Not all LED lightbulbs are created equal. I've been watching some guy on Youtube do various teardowns and tests on various brands, and it's been enlightening. His channel is at http://www.youtube.com/user/electronupdate

Also, isn't the phrase "What you don't know, and no one will tell you" oxymoronic? I suppose "what you don't know, and only I will tell you" doesn't have the same ring to it.
Poll: Do you have a Will or any estate planning?
Trying to gauge interest in another potential start-up this time one that builds on my practice of law. Surveys show 50% of US citizens die without a Will, I am thinking about creating a start-up that addresses this market and allows individuals to continuously manage their estate in the "cloud"(beneficiaries, assets, distribution ect).
I have a Will I am happy with
I have a Will but I would execute a new one that I can manage in the cloud
I do not have a Will but plan on getting one through a local attorney
I do not have a Will but I like the idea of a Will I can manage in the cloud
I do not have a Will and have no plans to get one
Yes, if you are competent to build a quality single-page app you are more than likely competent to set something like this up yourself.
I was trying to offer it at a price point where it just wouldn't be worth the trouble and to add more and more metrics as I go along.
"Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"
and a peculiar name
Now what the heck happened in the end? Anand gave up a knight advantage, purposedly for a clear cut draw. I have no clue why he did that this time.

He took queen with queen, clearly, knowing it would be lost to king, and then again the pawn with knight. He had a knight, of all things!
I agree. There are a few other pieces of software I'd put in the same class... here's two examples I can think of now:

* Varnish (the "Notes from the architect" are a great read: https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/ArchitectNotes)

* QEMU (actually, pretty much anything Fabrice Bellard has touched)
> To me this looks like a Lisp variant with a large set of utility libraries.

I feel like I'm missing something because I read this a lot, but don't see it when I look at Mathematica. The language seems to be a higher-order, functional programming language with dynamic (?) typing. That part sounds like lisp, but syntactically it looks nothing like lisp to me. Is there a portion of the language that I'm overlooking?
This read to me like an ad for CFL's. Real shortcomings of CFL's are dismissed with a hand wave, while LED's get the full local news style sensationalism: "Are your LED bulbs killing you? Story at 10."
A well-deserved win. Can't wait to see what else Magnus goes on to accomplish.
And here's the js source: https://www.google.ca/logos/2013/drwho/drwho13-3.js
I would be curious to lean more about your marketing efforts and pricing experiments. Typically marketing/the business side is 95%+ of the problem for developers who do not already have a market of their own to sell to.

I have noticed that niche virtualization utilities tend to disappear quickly as they are aquired by the handful of large companies in the space.
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Randall Munroe is making fun of that attitude in xkcd, not supporting it. He was a physicist at NASA, but has done a decent amount of programming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFJNESXsRkY
I still can't see a sufficient justification for this. Even though it's far from clear that the DPRK would care enough about this to drop the big hammer on someone at KCNA (and of course their extended family) over it, I don't see why the risk is worth taking.
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Thermistors will help, yes, but the manufacturers need to design better enclosures for LED lightbulbs. They need fair air circulation for that heat sink to work well. And in recessed lighting it's the worst.

It's a design issue of the bulb, sure, but especially the fixture. LEDs aren't friendly to high heat like incandescents are, and most light fixtures have been designed with complete disregard to the heat of the fixture—so long as it won't start a fire.
Thanks for the warning. Time to restock my cache of incandescents, before they are completely unavailable anymore.
It's not that simple, sadly. My house has 100+ canned recessed lights, all of which had been filled with Sylvania 50W Halogen PAR30 & PAR30LN bulbs. I have been desperately trying to find a replacement LED that matches the same warmth and color.

This bulb claims to be the exact replacement:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00467E3LA/

But yet this one and others that have similar lumens, temperature, and equivalent watts all don't even get close to the warmth that the halogens produced.

Fortunately, I found a cheap alternative:

http://www.amazon.com/Philips-424374-7-watt-Household-Dimmab...

It's the A19 40W that the article cautions against, and it looks slightly less sexy in the recessed can, but the color almost exactly matches the halogens I have (except when dimmed -- nothing can match the fireplace-like glow).

What's weird is that the lumens and temperature for that bulb aren't even close to what the halogens claim, but they look almost identical. Which has made me wonder if this switch to LED is way more complex than just those two measurements :P
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This is exactly what I needed that I didn't know I needed. Perfect timing too. Finally deciding to make the leap from years of PHP to full-stack javascript I spent all of last week bumbling about on DigitalOcean tooling around with node/backbone/ express and mongo/mongoose but not really learning or accomplishing much. Too eager to dive in and play with all the new shiny things this article made me realize I need to take a step back and gain a better understanding of the fundamental architecture if I want to create anything of value. Thanks.
Well there goes my day... Thanks for posting that link!
It's native focused in the sense that it's not meant for building mobile web apps. You are building apps to run in the app store with Ionic. Also, we are working on "native style" UI interactions that might not fit in a mobile web app.

Sencha Touch is great, but Ionic has a permissive license with an open source spirit. Sencha's open source version is only for open source apps compatible with the GPL, which is a big restriction. And, you can actually submit pull requests and contribute to Ionic. Plus the development model of Sencha isn't markup based, and doesn't use Angular.

If you are happy with Sencha, by all means, keep using it. We are ambitious and will be working hard to make sure Ionic is better than Sencha in most ways :)
People spend money to solve problems. If the problem you solve is not clearly defined, you cannot define your customers and cannot target your marketing.

The validation you need might be "that's cool!" The validation your company needs is "that solves my problem."
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To add a bit to flexie's comments, I'm not from Denmark but from Iceland, which used to be a Danish colony, so it shares some of the same legal framework. But what I'm about to point out is true in much of Europe.

Much of the culture clash you're seeing between comments from Europeans and Americans in this thread comes down to the difference in how the funding for public institutions is managed when it comes to copyrighted works.

In the US it's federal law that any work the government produces be placed in the public domain, no questions asked. So e.g. when the USGS produces a map it's fully funded by the government and placed in the public domain.

In Europe it's common for public (and pseudo-public, like the DIN) institutions to have a hybrid funding model, they're partially funded by taxpayers, but are expected to collect a nominal fee from the public or industry that expects to directly use some of their work.

Both models have their advantaged and disadvantages. One obvious one over in Europe is that if you partially depend on direct public funding you're more likely to actively serve the public, whereas in the US institutions would me more likely to gravitate towards serving the government itself, since it's only the government they depend on for funding.

Another aspect is that hypothetically it costs around the same thing to produce a map in Europe and America, but in Europe the general population will be taxed less for it, but people who directly use it (and buy it) will disproportionally pay for it.

Much of this is changing over in Europe, e.g. the National Land Survey of Iceland now gives out its map data under a free license, because indirect value to society of having freely available maps was judged greater than the sum of the nominal fee they previously charged for a license to use those maps.

This gets especially hairy in cases like these where some of this data being charged for is referenced directly or indirectly by law.

In the Reykjavík area in Iceland you can't do significant construction work without spending a relatively trivial sum to buy a ridiculously accurate map from the city (I think it's accurate down to 1-2 millimeters) showing where all the pipes and electrical cabling is installed. The surveying effort is mostly funded by private construction companies.

Would it be better if the average citizen just paid more in taxes and that map was made freely available, is some private citizen who isn't going to build a whole road but just do some significant yard work being overcharged because he has to legally comply with proprietary information?

I don't know, but the trade-offs involved aren't very clear in my mind.
I prefer using my email in the browser over any native email client. And as an added bonus, I get nearly the same user experience across my many disparate devices.
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A cushion was a mandatory tool while watching it as a kid. I can even remember hiding behind the sofa.

For some reason I have an image of some sort of jelly fish monster, a lighthouse, Tom Baker, and myself hiding behind the sofa.

What's quite funny is that my daughter loves it but refuses to watch ANY episode with the Angels in it, well not without me in the room. That's the way it should be :)

(Blink get's to me. Awesome writing.)
Sunflower seeds are quite cheap as well. Not a nut either, of course.
Back when he posted about trying to figure out what to name the language, I thought Ego would be perfect.
This will only apply to "quality" seeds which went through "quality ensurance" and are sold by large companys.

So what is the logical consequence?

Bann all other seeds! This is not a joke http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/06/05/european-comm...
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Could you recommend a good escrow service? There are lots when you Google.
See: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Simple_Unix_tools & http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.6.2/html/libraries/base-4....

ps: Haskell is such a Gloriously Happy Land, why make it "hell"?
I don't understand what this is but I like it whatever it is.
I think it's cool and could be usefull. I'll try in my next project. Thank you.)
The feedback I got was mostly from other developers (perhaps not my target market). They actually suggested I target wordpress theme-makers and the like, potentially it could be marketed next to ajax-heavy themes for non-technical people.
There's an amazing section in the documentary Food, Inc. that deals with the consequences of this in the US. Genuinely disturbing, hopefully this is overturned or at least protested against before it can be enforced.
How do you come up with ideas?
HN,

I've recently realized that I have a problem with idea discovery. While I'll have flickers of ideas for new businesses or products throughout the day, I rarely take the time to form anything into a complex, workable idea. Would you all help me learn a little bit more about your brainstorming process?

http://goo.gl/4UeBrH

Thanks in advance!

--Joe
I meant, they are happy with iOS because there's something important, but they easily forget because it's hard to be described in words. Not impossible, anyway a lot harder than simple numbers and graphs. Or it looks too natural to be lacked.

And people realize that other products are lacking that after they drop iOS.
Speaking of Milkdrop, the sources of milkdrop 1 and 2 have been released [1]. A couple developers have taken the milkdrop 1 sources and built them into a cross platform visualization software called projectM [2]. Milkdrop forever!

[1] http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=214971
[2] http://projectm.sourceforge.net/
I agree 100% with this article. Its just a fad - they have no real value because content is deleted and ads certainly won't help the case.
Today is also the 50th anniversary of the assignation of JFK. There probably would have been backlash to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Dr Who instead, so they decided to just do nothing.
Nah, I didn't read it that way at all. The article clearly states, several times, that LEDs consume less power and that there are better LEDs out there. Also, the article basically equates CFL and incandescent bulbs. If they were trying to sell CFLs why would they do that?
Chess is amazing it blows my mind why simple tools and games like this are not incorporated in some 'fun' way into the education system. By 'fun' I mean that if children were told to play chess they would not. A system would be need to be designed so that they look forward to chess class as they do for PE and art.
RFC 3514 makes this easy:

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt
They can only test for flaws that they can think of.
The better name would be Wolfram standard library
I was going to almost reply with this exact comment. I'm not even convinced that everyone trying to build websites with Node/Express is onto something. I think of it more as a back-end SOA-thing.
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So you would prefer a round $4?
I didn't concentrate much on the problem it solves and how it saves time, partly because I thought that if you don't know the problem, you're not the target market. I'm starting to reconsider that logic.
I got one about a year ago, and am actually pretty happy with it. It's ended the continual parade of mid-range uncomfortable Office Depot chairs through my workspace, at any rate.
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Reading more about this match and Magnus in general, I learned of a measure termed "Nettlesomeness" which has been used to measure which players do the most to make their opponents to make mistakes. Magnus, with his highly creative style of play and unexpected moves, not surprisingly ranks the highest in this measure.

He seems to have this remarkable gift of making moves which aren't just strong, they get inside his opponent's head and cause them to either overthink/break down. I'm interested in the technical details behind this metric. Has anyone heard of it before?

Regardless, congrats Magnus. You are truly a generational talent, and I'm excited to see what your win will do for the game.

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/11/net...
Yea, I realize that, but comments like the GP bring out the snark in me.
Let me first say the I applaud Rust and the effort you're making in developing a new, safe systems-programming language. But I do have one concern.

I like this quote by an Intel engineer, which appears on the back of Java Concurrency in Practice: "For the past 30 years, computer performance has been driven by Moore's Law; from now on, it will be driven by Amdahl's Law."

I think that this is the biggest challenge facing software development in this age. Now, I know concurrency is core to Rust, and I know that Rust adopts message passing as the principal concurrency construct. Message passing is terrific, extremely useful, and as close as we've got to a model of programming multi-core that's simple and easy to grasp. But at the end of the day, we do need a way to develop efficient mutable, concurrent data structures. Languages that rely on message passing, like Erlang, usually pass this problem down to a database, but the problem still has to be solved.

You say that languages resorting to GC "sacrifice performance and control over the machine". But GC already provides better throughput than manual memory allocation in practically all circumstances, and suffers mostly from latency issues (pauses), but even those are being worked on with some good progress (like the work done by Azul on their JVM). The only major true sacrifice GC requires is extra RAM, which is becoming ever cheaper.

GC is currently the best way to develop efficient concurrent (shared) data structures. There are ways of writing those without a general-purpose GC (RCU and hazard pointers), but those wither require kernel cooperation, and/or suffer from worse worst-case performance, and/or quickly transform into GC when generalized.

I know the plan is for Rust to have a GC as part of the libraries, but this problem (of developing efficient concurrent data structures) must be addressed. It's possible that hardware has become too complicated for us not to give up some control over to some runtime. Maybe we're at a stage where low-level full-control programming is incompatible with fully utilizing the hardware for best performance. It is possible that low-level systems programming languages will excel in resource constrained environments and have several other advantages, but sheer performance/scalability won't be one of them (at least on server-class hardware).
I doubt customers will react well to their bulbs changing brightness levels on their own.
I, no robot. Android or iPhone or iPad? It's beyond specs, let's talk privacy.
var x = 5, y = 6 // typical JS

(2,4) // returns 4

thus,

test(2,4) adds 0, 2 and 4

test((2, 4)) adds 0 and 4
Buy a $100 adwords coupon (if you don't have an account) on ebay and start advertising this. you'll fail at first but your keyword mix should be such that you can make this profitable. start with small goals like 1 or 2 conversions a day. It's not unreasonable to say that you can have this making $2000 within 3 months.
UI appears but all boxes are dark on Chrome 31.0, OS X.

Edit: enabled Flash and it's playing. Looks like
this is Flash/AS, not JS.
Thanks again Adam for your suggestions for Cligs.com

I'm going to implement them soon.
> Anand gave up a knight advantage, purposedly for a clear cut draw.

When you assume that a world-class GM played "purposedly" for a draw that would lose him the championship title, you're probably wrong.

> He took queen with queen, clearly

He was in check. Taking W's queen was the only way to avoid losing his own for nothing.
IANAL, but it sounds like there are a dozen class-action lawsuits waiting to happen here. Consumers have the reasonable expectation that a light bulb reach something vaguely approaching its promised useful life in any fixture that is supposedly compatible with it.
I'm always struck by how slick and well produced everything related to Wolfram is. It's not what I've come to expect from most academically leaning companies at all. This goes for NKS which is a beautifully presented book whether or not you go along with its contents.
why does this not have a date?