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A disagreeing comment wrt OP. Hope it is useful to some.

On the library criticism ... Well, pick better libraries, use java libraries, or roll your own.
You have twice the choice you have in java. Is that bad, or good?

Yes, there is immature stuff. Well for the lawyer rate you are charging, should be able to separate that from the good bunch?

The complexity - In my experience, learning curve is gradual in that you can pick new features when you need them. You can pretty much get by writing javesque scala with a bit of closures in the begining. Then take mixins, then take the hardcore stuff when you feel comfortable.

About the build system - here I was surprised. You seem pragmatic, why use it? To me SBT is totally useless because it solves nothing existing tools do not solve. The Scala support in Maven is perfect, and i feel so productive and mature in it these days, I would never trade unless there is a very strong selling point (meaning more free time for me to drink beer, whatever)
If you don't like Maven, code in Ant. But using a build tool which is a general-purpose language? I agree with you. Baaaaad idea
So the user got lucky once. The thief can repeat that process as often as he likes. He only needs to succeed a single time. And even if he doesn't succeed the evidence is pretty thin and might not be enough for a prosecution.
People that administer enterprise network and security infrastructure, for starters. Who are the target audience of this letter.

This letter is not directed towards consumers.
Exactly, unless they are dumb enough to dump the coins in a major exchange which can 'freeze' the funds nobody will ever be able to trace them. As for the owners being doxxed they already failed opsec day they opened with czech css comments giving away the obscure framework they used. I'm sure they git cloned directly to their boxes on clearnet too.
It works, but now you have to get your cash out of Coinbase, into your bank, and into BCT-e before you can do it again.

You could also simply buy on BTC-e, transfer bitcoins to Coinbase, sell on coinbase.

It's pure arbitrage.
Its amusing to me to see the tech industry continue to play the underdog card. "We don't need anyone's permission (not when we have the full backing of Wall Street, the advertising industry, and some of the most profitable corporations in the world)."

You saw this with SOPA and PIPA. A "grassroots" movement, supported by a slate of tech companies, some of which are by themselves comparable in size to all of Hollywood.[1] I support the position, I support the underlying message, but I find the pretense rather silly.

[1] Global Hollywood box office and DVD revenues are about $90 billion (http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2012/how-much-does-hol...). Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are listed as opposing SOPA, and are each in the $50-$80 billion range. Apple, which stayed neutral on SOPA but is usually more aligned with the content distributors than the content producers, is about twice the size of Hollywood at $170 billion.
Applies also to startups:

"If you want to save yourself time and sanity, get the horrible first draft out of the way so you can start making your writing great."
Bear in mind that the only reason you are reading this is because someone posted it to HN. I imagine they sent it out by e-mail to enterprise customers, and not anyone else.
> Honestly, does it really matter if someone reads the articles that you submit or not?

Why submit it if you think otherwise?
Yes, I use it to check weather and get traffic updates. quite less information is shown on cards. But, if you are not using it, you aren't missing much!
The fact that it's very obviously timed to give a PR boost doesn't mean it's fake. They may very well be working on this, hoping that it succeeds, and looking for a PR boost.

In fact, given that they were working on it, one would expect them to announce it when it would give the most positive buzz possible.
Jetbrains Ruby mine. E.g.

> Guys, I don’t have the FAINTEST FUCKING
> IDEA why that string is being returned.
> I don’t even know if the return value
> for destroy is used at all, in which
> case the last line is meaningless.

One way could be find usages:
http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/webhelp/finding-usages-in-proj...
I use make. You can see my typical setup for Node packages on GitHub, for example: https://github.com/jaredhanson/locomotive
That's a classic arbitrage strategy. It works. The only reason that traditional "big" finance isn't doing it yet is that Bitcoin is too small/new.

As for risks:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrage#Risks
Alternative proposal: take the package to the customer's phone. At this sort of timing, "where I am now" is better than "where I usually am".

The customer must have a smartphone and place the order with Amazon's special app. The app then continually uploads the customer's gps data to Amazon so the drone can target. Once the drone gets close, the phone also gives a distinctive beacon using wifi for the drone to hone in on. When it's time to receive the package, the app displays a specific QR code and the drone scans it.

It's the customer's responsibility to be outside at the right time, but the app will tell them when to within a few minutes. Likewise, if the phone's battery dies during delivery, the delivery is aborted for a partial refund (the app provides warnings).

Some people will worry about accruing "failure to receive" charges due to Amazon's failings, but once a good track record is established, that will fade. Others will worry about the NSA seizing all that location data, but they already have it from the cell phone companies.
[Show NH] Weber-0.0.4 - rails like web framework for elixir released
And some notes about performance - http://0xax.blogspot.com/2013/12/weber-004-and-some-notes-about.html
This x1000. Accept that the planet's climate is changing. Accept that it's partly our fault. Accept that it's all our fault. Accept that the changes have a possibility of being catastrophic. Accept that they definitely are catastrophic. In the end - it doesn't matter. If the planet wants to get rid of us, it will. And there is little we can do to prevent it. The recent uptick in antibiotic resistant bacteria is probably the most concerning to me.

Personally I think an extremely virulent disease, another Chicxulub, or a massive super-volcano eruption are way more likely than us fixing Global Warming and living here for infinity.
Microsoft's Xbox One wins early sales battle on Black Friday
We can "slow down" the "speed" of time using virtual worlds. Also we can split personalities to have many experiences in the same time. That is providing physical laws cannot be altered in the first place. I think galaxy-wide strong AIs will have better ideas then me, so consider the entropy problem solved.
they don't have many non-enterprise customers anymore zing
Yahoo acquires SkyPhrase
So you believe sensor based obstacle avoidance is an impossible problem in robotics? Second, unrelated question, do you think drones need to complete 100% of their scheduled tasks or do you think it's acceptable to fail a small fraction of the time?
Well, those are the only customers that BB has ever really served, so it's appropriate.
The Gartner Magic Quadrants are treated very highly by senior management who often don't trust vendors or their own staff. They tend to be vacuous and of awful quality - I've started keeping historical ones so that at some point I'll be able to show how terrible Gartner are at predicting the future. But a surprising number of purchasing decisions are made on the back of these magic quadrants.

Here is the link to the 2013 Magic Quadrant for Mobile Device Management Software that is referenced in the post:
http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-1FRG59X&c...
"Enterprise mobility management (EMM) is ... processes ... focused on managing ... mobile devices ... in a business context."

If you ignore 90% of the words in that sentence, it becomes much more understandable.
you could lend out your bit coins to people who would agree to pay you back a slightly higher number of coins in the future.

Is this something that can be written into the Bitcoin protocol?
There seems to be a heavy rush on the region at the moment, creating a 1gb box took 17 minutes, now I'm waiting for 5 minutes for a power-off to enable private networking... `sudo shutdown` worked, but the admin job queue seems to not check on that. I'll try again tomorrow :)
I got two emails from them (I had two separate accounts with Gmail + aliases). In one of them, they offered me $10, the other they didn't.
How many of those thefts will it take too see that we are not ready to really jump into bitcoin yet.
Dissent - decentralized, transferrable, open software licenses using Bitcoin
Is Perl syntax better than randomly chosen syntax?
I like your Chinese example because it made me think about the root question, but I think there’s an important distinction to be made in that while only a plurality of people speak Chinese natively (and a small one at that, less that 1 of every 5 people), a majority of people use the full stop decimal notation (and a decently large one at that, 3 of every 5).

If you pick a language at random, it is more likely to not be Chinese than it is to be Chinese, but it is more likely to be Chinese than any other single language. However, if you pick a notation at random it is both more likely to be full stop than any other notation as well as more likely to be full stop than any other specific notation (I believe the chart only showed three examples). I didn’t take the time to look into it but it also appears that weighting each country equally (e.g. Luxembourg = China for probability’s sake) would shift the balance in favor of comma notation, which may belie more cultural or regional significance than simply focusing on the population percentage.
I'm a big fan of adding noise to systems to make them more predictable (it was the topic of my thesis: http://tlb.org/#papers). But, I believe it's not needed here because the arrival times of /newest voters are already sufficiently noisy. You only need random noise of +/- 0.5 to get predictable results, and voter arrival patters give more than that already.
Show HN: EasyWiki - Sneak peak into Wikipedia articles
The only thing I'm knowledgable about is disrupting corrupt, inefficient industries/governments. I will send you a note as soon as the API is ready. There will be an API endpoint you can use to send me bit coins.
This is the first I can recall from the new CEO.
Barley brings Medium-esque inline editing to Wordpress. Also has its own CMS. 
Barley brings Medium-esque inline editing to Wordpress. Also has its own CMS.
Correct, expect arbitrage is risky in illiquid markets. Here your BTC will take a while to get into your wallet after buying them on Coinbase or BTC-e (about 10 days on Coinbase). Your wire transfers will also take a few days to clear. During these wait periods the prices of BTC will be subject to wide swings.

And at last, your arbitrage profit will get severely eaten by the fees of the banks and BTC exchange platforms.

It's never easy to make a profit in an arbitrage scheme (unless you have a crushing competitive advantage such as transaction speed): if it were easy, enough people would use the scheme, bringing the price differences back to a range were turning a profit would be difficult again... so if there are significant price differences between exchanges, it's a signal of arbitrage difficulty.
They get you from point A to point B, not "somewhere near point A to somewhere near point B".

That said, I'm not greatly convinced that this model is better. It's more efficient, certainly, but I regard this in the same way that a nutrient paste is more efficient than eating regular meals. Walking as a part of daily life strikes me as something that has a lot of positive externalities.
Same. My github repo has made it to the frontpage (bottom of it, but frontpage none the less), but that's very different from having an article attract interest.
We will have something even less structured providing that the trend carries on. Perhaps one huge concatenated comma-separated string for everything?
I am curious about how you deal with matches that are not exact?
> if a value exists at that key you fill the order (or partial fill)
If there is an existing sell for 100 and a buy comes in for 101 your hash will miss the 100 entry, do you need to do a scan down the array looking for potential matches?
This is amazing! It's great for someone like me who, while knowing their way around the shell, isn't as well versed as some of my more veteran co-workers. While it's great to hear explanations of some of the more dense lines they give me to run, that's not always possible and can be a bit annoying. This could help take some of the pressure off of them to drag me through. :P
And also some notes about Weber's performance and other web frameworks - http://0xax.blogspot.com/2013/12/weber-004-and-some-notes-ab...
The Python Indie Bundle Cyber Monday sale
Thank you for breaking that down. I can't believe that press release had so many acronyms without explanation. Do they expect all customers and potential customers to be able to understand all of that jargon?
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Oh my god, stop being ridiculous. Parallel construction is not fabricating evidence. It is constructing a case that uses only evidence obtained through criminal warrants so that no classified information is leaked in the process of prosecuting the case, even if the main tip came from classified sources. This is not the same thing as fabricating evidence. It is obtaining legitimate evidence through other, less sensitive means.

Second, Shamir's paper has nothing to do with legal evidence that can be used in a court room. The burden of proof in a courtroom is still very high. If anything Shamir helped future defendants by casting reasonable doubt on any linkage derived from an analysis of the blockchain.
A more interesting question is why hasn't Google, Microsoft, Samsung or Apple bought them for their patent portfolio. They've been doing mobile for a long time and historically did things that could genuinely be considered innovative. It's even the kind of thing that Intellectual Ventures probably has the budget to pick up.
What Happened Before Creation?
This is my strategy. I don't care too much about P/E ratio, earnings, etc because most investors don't care either. Wait for a big move and react after the chaos. I also decided against diversifying my portfolio. I used to own 10 stocks, but it was too much information to process. I now never own more than 5 stocks at a time.

It's worked so far. I'll probably get screwed next time the market has a huge crash.
This is pretty cool but what I found annoying was matching the snippet of code and the description together. Take this for example: http://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=true+%26%26+%7B+echo+suc...

The command is: true && { echo success; } || { echo failed; }

But the top box description is for echo parameters. The next one is for echo. Why can't it go from top to bottom in order of the command? EG: Start with true, then &&, then {, then echo, etc.

The way it is, I spend a lot of mental energy matching things up.
Ouch, a bit harsh, but my first question after reading this was: why are Hubspot and its CEO so upset about the CBS piece?
Now, your mom and here charity are completely dependent on Facebook.
This is an excellent example why programming or being able to do something yourself is important to defend independence and freedom of our society.
I'm not sure the target audience for 60 minutes is that similar to the audience that would care about drone delivery or Cyber Monday so much. Suggesting that Amazon may have intentionally wanted the story aired the day before Cyber Monday seems like a bit of a stretch. Also, the fact that Amazon wants to do drone delivery in the future has been discussed previously, and they still say it's a few years out, so this isn't much of a story to begin with.
Holy moly, this might be one of the best things I've seen on HN in a long time.
Take my money! :) Your service is super-useful for app security. I'm signing up right now. Great idea.

My two cents for you: you're far enough along that you can start seeding your market as fast as possible.

* How about going to meetups at app dev companies such as Pivotal, Carbon 5, ThoughtWorks, etc.?

* How about a free version for open source projects, or students, or nonprofits?

Try to make the signup faster and easier.

* How about an item on the homepage saying "Upload a Gemfile.lock to see if it's secure"? I would personally do this first because it's fast, easy, and needs no setup.

* How about an item on the homepage asking "What's your GitHub username?" then skim for vulnerabilities? I would personally do this because I write many open source gems.
Ask HN: What's the best writing you've ever seen online?
If you had to point to one thing as "Something Everyone Else Should Read", what would it be, and why?
I am an interested person who is reasonably schooled in the art.

You are absolutely right that many people need to care about controlling data/email on peoples devices - and your sentence does a much better job explaining the issue than their letter does.
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This is also why your laptops may explode at any time. Just in case.
I love Latex and I'd love to build upon what you have done!
Yeah, for food I think it could actually work, if you had a startup like GrubHub handling the drones, which would just fetch the food from the chosen restaurant and deliver it.
Rumors of our death are greatly exaggerated. They are not rumors! We failed to sell and we have nothing new to offer.

But in case you still think we have a shot, here's another meandering 720 degree tailspin in the form of an open letter.
Zipdisks were overtaken by CD-R tech, which started out expensive ($2000+ writers, but with $100 readers in most machines) but quickly became too cheap for zip to compete (almost every CD-ROM drive was also a writer by the time DVD took over.)
Alexis what do you think about shifting the startup capitalization process entirely to bit coin? Like what if I don't want to take fiat money investments and I don't want my shares to be listed on fiat stock exchanges? Maybe there should be some flag on Angel list or something to indicate whether investors are sophisticated/progressive enough to do a bit coin round or understand a bit coin based cap table.
More importantly, this is the first time I realized that there was a YCombinator _blog_.
JSHint is removing most style related rules out in favor of exterior plugins. JSCS is a great alternative - https://github.com/mdevils/node-jscs
That's great. I put up a simple autorefresh page at: http://btcpricenow.com - still gathering my thoughts on Litecoin. http://bitcoinwisdom.com/ seems to be best for realtime charting.
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Pixar's 22 Rules of Story, Analyzed as a PDF eBook
I don't know what I was expecting, but one of my most-used command lines, "du -a | grep foo" is pretty uninformative.
Ask HN: What good software computing books to buy
A lot of Book publishers are offering discounts on the books today. What are the books that you recommend to a Geek/Programmer?
I'll start. My personal submission is The Information: How the internet gets inside us, by Adam Gopnik, for The New Yorker.

When I read this piece I got overwhelmed with jealousy at the this guy's ability to navigate ideas. It encapsulates all the perennial arguments for and against technology, with most if not all of its nuance, and I finished it feeling "full" and more clear-headed, which is something I rarely encounter when reading online.

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/02/14/110...
Not having heard of this "Magic Quadrant", I find it hard to see how the average consumer could take that seriously.

On an average day, I use software/libraries called Grunt, Mocha, Dust, Cheerio... and those are just NPM modules. Every industry has it's fair share of stupid names, they just don't seem so stupid when you use them all the time.
You seem to say this a lot whenever something about EMH get's posted - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6690838

The existence of Warren Buffett disproves EMH.[1] EMH basically says that beating the market is pure luck as everything is priced efficiently. The fact that WB exists, just one person beating the market for 50 years, disproves EMH. I don't personally have to have an EMH-disproving strategy to see that it isn't true.

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/efficientmarkethypothesi...
"For example, investors, such as Warren Buffett have consistently beaten the market over long periods of time, which by definition is impossible according to the EMH."
I hope they're at least as skeptical of Virgin Galactic or the Hyperloop if they're honest. Yes it's far fetched but cool things do sometimes happen.
I was interested in just articles, but perhaps a follow up poll for projects would be interesting.
Because the currency with an ill-defined largely private ledger (serial numbers on bills and transaction records from banks) is so much less likely to be used to create a link between you and organized crime.
The first bug is acknowledged in the page: "support for (...) command substitutions will be added later on"
I agree with you, it's a myth, there's just one comment which is similar to what the parent states, and his objection about not solving the connectivity issue is completely valid. I still use a pendrive in case there's no internet connection. Most of them are congratulations.

What most people don't notice is that many votes don't necesarily mean "everybody agrees with him/her". Many times I have upvoted comments with which I didn't agree but I thought were well reasoned and had validity because I think those comments improve the conversation.

On the other hand, I could agree with comments stating "Great work guys!" but I wouldn't vote them as they offer little to no substance.
>Mint

Never again. Always seemed laggy. I just loaded Scientific Linux 6.3 on 3 old thinkpads this past weekend. As you said, everything works. No "sudo vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf", no modprobe & ndiswrapper. Red Hat was my first peek at linux, so I'm a tad nostalgic (remember 9.1? crux, luxi sans?).

There is a super useful guide for the final polish on a EL6 system (extra repos, Flash, VLC, ..) here: http://astr.tohoku.ac.jp/~akhlaghi/newlinux.html
So your average judge or jury wouldn't be fooled if faced by something like Shamir's paper? I find your faith in the judical system amusing :)
MVC is a UI pattern…
the mean of what... itself? historically? how do we judge this?
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You submit it for fun, in hopes that people read it and that it generates some discussion. But if no one reads it, then don't have a tantrum. Understand that a lot of it is luck-based, and in the end, it's not that important.