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It's nice but all your inputs need to have the "required" attribute, so now you can't have optional fields.
I submitted the same wikipedia page a few months ago and it only got around half the up votes. I guess titles and timing are everything :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6389167
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Right, and the State has never violated our trust either.

Nobody should trust any corporation OR government agency blindly. Duh.

But to suggest that corporations are somehow inherently less trustworthy that the government is just... silly. And unsubstantiated.
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Anyone have a mirror for the video?
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You need grocery stores, gas stations, clothing stores, and restaurants to start accepting it. Until then, it's really just a novelty for middle class college Libertarians.
Is Hadas going to be disappoint when Bitcoin touches 10k :P
The Air's screen is outstanding in this regard. Usually you can trust Apple to not cut corners with this sort of stuff, so this is unfortunate. It's also strange because the larger screen uses IGZO tech as well.
agreed, these misleading titles really bug me. hackernews turning into buzzfeed?
Your post makes it seem like my post is about Internet communications. But that sub thread was about a general right to privacy, which is a broader concept. You can shoehorn some elements of Internet privacy into the existing 4th amendment framework. Straightforward analogies to wire taps will get you a long way. But there is a lot of surveillance that doesn't fit the mold of existing 4th amendment protections, particularly those based on tracking using third party or even public information. My post was about what it would take for the Supreme Court to find a general right of privacy that could encompass things that aren't obviously searches or seizures.

Obviously finding a broad right of privacy would take an act of legislating from the bench much larger than simply extending existing wire tap protections to Skype calls. Your post implies that I think a broad social consensus is necessary for the latter.
That physical clues were distributed worldwide indicates there might be a little more to the story. Wikipedia lists the locations as

Annapolis, Maryland /
Chino, California /
Columbus, Georgia /
Erskineville, Australia /
Fayetteville, Arkansas /
Granada, Spain /
Greenville, Texas /
Haleiwa, Hawaii /
Little Rock, Arkansas /
Miami, Florida /
Moscow, Russia /
New Orleans, Louisiana /
Okinawa, Japan /
Paris, France /
Portland, Oregon /
Seattle, Washington /
Seoul, South Korea /
Warsaw, Poland

I hadn't heard about this, does anybody have links to some of the original forum threads/puzzles?
Out of curiosity, why do you have both?
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The disadvantage of utf-8 is that it's a variable length encoding. This means that certain operations which are usually O(1) are O(n) with UTF-8: one is finding the n-th character in a string, the other is finding the length in characters (though that's also true for null terminated C strings)

Another problem is that swapping a character in a string might cause the (byte) length of the string to change, which might force a reallocation (also slow) and if you're doing it in a loop over the string, your loop-ending condition might now have changed because the string (byte) length has changed.

In-fact, iterating over a UTF-8 strings characters is not something you can use a simple for loop any more, but something that requires at least one, possibly two function calls per character (one to find the next character, one for finding the end of the string which might just have moved due to your modification).

Finally, efficiency: For English texts, UTF8 is the most efficient Unicode encoding, but for other languages, that isn't true. A Chinese text would require three to four bytes per character, as opposed to just two in UCS-2 (which is what most OSes and languages use, even though it doesn't support encoding all of Unicode)

For these reasons, dealing with a fixed-length encoding is much more convenient (and speedier) while the string is loaded into memory. UTF8 is great for i/o and storage on disk, but in memory, it's inconvenient.

UCS-2 or UTF-16 is the reverse: it's very inconvenient on disk and for i/o (need I say more than BOM), but in-memory UCS-2 is very convenient, even though it doesn't support all of Unicode. It's in-fact so convenient that it's used by most programming environments (see yesterday's discussion about strings being broken)

Take python 3.3 and later for example: even though they now have full support for Unicode, also for characters outside of the BMP and thus requiring more than two bytes of storage, they didn't go with a variable length in-memory encoding, but they now chose the shortest width possible fixed length encoding that can be used for a particular string.

This seems like an awful lot of work to me, but they decided the fixed-lengthness was still worth it.
Two senators are trying to promote the use of open-source textbooks.
This scenario assumes that browser vendors have the time and employees to work on a JavaScript and a WhateverScript VM.
Also if you want to be more interactive than your peers, will you answer a scenario for me? Now, I am actually asking for your opinion on this, not being a smart-ass. Ready? Let's go.

If we had a bunch of "units" of something we have 1 each and there are 10 total. We use them to buy melons and each 1 is roughly valued as 1 melon. Then people see the success our new system is having and want to use our units to buy melons as well. So, one of the 10 friends decides its a smart idea to sell his unit for 2 melons to someone who really wants to be a part of our cool club. The next day someone else sells their unit for 4 melons because even more people want in.

Is every unit now worth 4 melons now just because someone sold one for 4 melons to an outside trader? If I go to the store where I used to buy a melon for 1 unit and tell them now that I think I deserve 4 melons for a unit, what will they say?

Explain to me how you think storeowners should react or how Bitcoin is unlike this. Sincerely, I will listen as best I can.
JavaScript is sandboxed, and safe.

C......... isn't.
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Man, it's annoying when someone deletes comments, especially right through a thread!
Been a while since I looked at ELF but it would sure be nice if it used, say, a well-defined ELF subset to make use of the many ELF tools out there already.
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We can do that - I mean, it's a chicken and egg problem; browsers don't support proper bytecode because there's not a particular mass of software that needs that support, and there won't be a mass of software until the support exists on most browsers.

Asm.js provides a 'fake egg' that can be hatched by the already existing JS support - but once there is enough software being built through, say, LLVM to asm.js, then it would make sense for a browser vendor to provide a feature "supply alternative bytecode built by the exact same compiler toolchain, and you'll get 50% better performance".
One thing I've always wondered is why anyone would stick with anything in the 192.168 range when the 10.0.0.0 class A is also available for local allocations, and significantly easier to remember?
Native code is, at the bottom of its ladder of abstraction, always held at the behest of some vendor's platform or another. Microsoft, Apple, and Google will never agree on a set of standard C libraries that could be used to build rich, modern graphical applications. If they could, we'd never have needed the web for anything other than the ideas of hyperlinks and intents--everything else could be done with URL-specified zero-install applications. (This was the future portended by Hypercard.)

But things didn't go that way. Instead, each vendor built its own walled garden, with its own platform-specific libraries to do the same things.

The web, in this reality, is simply our attempt at encapsulating away the entirety of the OS, along with all its platform-specific libraries, as a sort of really-big-BIOS, and then building vendor-neutral platform on top with APIs that will work on every computer, running every OS.

But the fun thing is, once we get this web platform nailed down, and it can do everything? Once the OS beneath it is redundant in every respect? We can "molt" the outer layer away.

The future of Operating Systems will be the lineage of today's ChromeOS and FirefoxOS, not Windows or OSX.
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Wouldn't the US Treasury backing them kind of take away from the decentralized nature? Obviously it wouldn't be printing more money, but I appreciate how it operates outside of a government.
NYC is starting to replace its sodium vapor street lamps with LED lamps, and expects that all 250,000 of them will be converted to LED lamps by 2017:

http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/343-13/mayor-bl...
The most exciting thing since the web? Really? It's an interesting technology, but let's not forget Foursquare launched the same year and has had more of an impact on business, and Instagram launched a year after and has had more of an impact on the general population.
Your future is bright, friend.
Monocle has been open sourced
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6812217
Back when we had slavery, many people (free or slaves) fought against it. Many slaves tried to escape (and a lot of them succeeded).

Are just as many people fighting now for technology and knowledge? My impression is that they aren't, but you're advocating that they get rewarded anyway.
Umm, is there any unicode encoding where finding n-th character (not codepoint) in string is O(1) ? In any encoding you can have a single 'composite character' that consists of dozens of bytes, but needs to be counted as a single character for the purposes of string length, n-th symbol, and cutting substrings.

This is not a disadvantage of UTF-8 but of unicode (or natural language complexity) as such.
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Reference: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0393/
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Great explanation man, can I borrow it for the site if I credit you? (I'm the developer).
From the comments so far, these lessons seem relevant:

1) Get a contract signed up front. If possible, make sure you're allowed to discuss your experience with the firm publicly along the way, so you're allowed to talk about it (good or bad).

2) watch "fuck you, pay me" (http://vimeo.com/22053820)

3) Spike Lee hires a firm that brings him top talent and work, but that firm treats that talent like shit. We (all the netizens!) are giving Spike Lee the benefit of the doubt, as he appears to be unaware of this practice.

4) These agencies need to be called out more often for unfair business practices, no matter how reputable they are. They don't have to like their talent as people, but they must respect their talent and the skills of the community they serve.

As long as you're not publicly mentioning this firm's name, I hope you are privately notifying ALL the designers you know to never work with this agency and mention the firm by name.

Sorry you got shafted like this, but you're clearly making the most of it. Your artwork is great, by the way, keep it up - I suspect this bad egg won't poison your future livelihood ;)

Edit: formatting
On Newegg, OCZ SSDs would consistently have a larger number of 1-star reviews than other drives. Whereas Intel and Samsung drives would consistently have a smaller number of 1-star reviews.

This was one situation where you actually got what you paid for. Yeah, you do pay more for Intel and Samsung -- but that pays for the QA engineers. If you bought OCZ, then you got to be your own QA engineer.
How would that disprove anything? Can people from Poland not use 4chan?
In an era of high-quality search, you could plug this into the search engine of your choice and get a better answer than you're likely to find on the HN comments.

e.g.

http://askville.amazon.com/original-source-quote-plural-anec...

http://freakonomics.com/2010/04/29/quotes-uncovered-whats-th...
In addition to OCZ's reliability issues, it must have been tough to compete on price with companies like Samsung and Intel that fab their own flash memory.
Whenever I fix a bug I wait for confirmation that the bug has actually been fixed before I submit the patch. Sometimes, especially when fixing race conditions that occur unpredictably, it takes a while to confirm that the bug has been fixed. Not that I'm skeptical - it seems like they're pretty confident that they've fixed it.
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Ask HN: Is AirSig a good alternative of fingerprint identity?
Is AirSig a good alternative of fingerprint identity?
Does it have any weakness?

There are some reports about AirSig.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/portable-devices/inair-signature-gives-mobile-security-to-the-passwordchallenged

http://www.mobilecommercepress.com/mobile-security-gets-boost-air-signatures/859644/

http://www.mobilesecurityzone.com/topics/mobile-security/articles/361795-airsig-introduces-new-way-enter-password.htm
"UTF-32 (or UCS-4) is a protocol to encode Unicode characters that uses exactly 32 bits per Unicode code point. All other Unicode transformation formats use variable-length encodings. The UTF-32 form of a character is a direct representation of its codepoint." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-32)

Of course, the problem of combining marks and CJK ideographs remains.
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Care to explain how the FDA is harming the people it should protect? It seems to me that they're simply trying to get 23AndMe to accurately market their product. Since 23AndMe is making claims of a medical nature, it falls neatly under the jurisdiction of the FDA as granted by Congress.
Well, Newegg at least makes it possible to distinguish an OCZ from an Intel/Samsung. When an OCZ drive has 3-stars and 30% of them are 1-star reviews, then you know something is wrong, compared to the Intel drive that has 4.5-stars with only 5% being 1-star.

It's in the finer gradations that it gets murky. Is a 4.5-star drive really better than a 4-star drive?
Interesting to see you mention Supply Chain Optimization. Other than myself, I know of only one other person that actively uses it for the task. Is there some hidden community that I'm not aware of?
> The future of Operating Systems will be the lineage of today's ChromeOS and FirefoxOS, not Windows or OSX.

Today was my first day using stock ChromeOS on a Pixel as my main machine. It was pretty great.

I hope you're right about this future.
I still stand by the statment that gold is more volatile than the USD.

[edit] I have not done the analysis, but would wager that gold measured against a basket of goods or currencies is more volatile than USD similarly measured.
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Personally, I'd rather see a useful title on Wikipedia submissions (I'm not saying the particular title chosen in this case was useful).

For submissions of magazine or blog articles, the original title policy makes sense usually, because magazine and blog authors or editors choose titles designed to catch the reader's interest.

Wikipedia titles are more names than titles. They are meant to allow people who are already looking for information on the thing in the title. When a Wikipedia article is submitted with the Wikipedia title, there is usually nothing that tells me why I might find it interesting.

I'd like to see HN allow submitters to include a one line statement saying what is interesting about the submission.
I have decided, arbitrarily, that Cicada/3301 is Satoshi. That was their first project (Bitcoin).
Bitcoin passes $1,000 mark for the first time, up over 62% in a week
I never realized the scale of energy consumption by streetlights, though when I give it some thought, it's not all that surprising. I wonder if there would be the possibility of using these lights to only illuminate the road and say 1-2m to each side, avoiding light pollution for people living near streetlights. As it stands currently, the nearby streetlights keep my room lit at night.
> I'm wondering if I should replace my drives, or if the bathtub curve is in full effect here\

You should back them up, but you should do that regardless of the drive manufacturer. Replacing working drives won't likely gain you anything except a lighter wallet. As you mentioned, you're "in the bathtub" now, and a newer drive is probably more likely to fail. Maintain good backups and replace the drives if/when they fail.
I find the long layout of the n7 is great for typing - you can two-thumb-type comfortably in portrait orientation because it's narrow and you can see a lot above. That's more awkward in the wider Mini. In the 10" scale I agree that the 4:3 is superior, but at 7" phablet/small-tab scale I prefer the 16:10.
There are only two ways that you could have a work where Bitcoin does not need to be converted to other currency:

1. People stop bothering to follow the law, and governments throw their hands in the air and do nothing about it.

2. Governments start accepting Bitcoin for tax purposes.

I am not confident that either of these will happen...
coinrx.com - this domain is parked..?
Animated gif + ugly HTML that makes $1 is more valuable than node.js + jquery + whatnot that makes $0.

You're lucky to hear that advice when you're still 16 :)
What is privacy by design?
Hey, nice job with the Rick Roll! I'm the first one to catch it apparently.

This is nice. There's a weird glitch where the screen turns a weird blue when shrunk to a certain size while scrolled to the top.

The floating text and animations are played fast and loose, but kudos for reaching out for something different!

Nice work!

--Edit: Careful in listen Corona as "iPhone development." You might want to instead brand it as "Cross platform mobile application development" using Corona :).
Another argument from the Austrian school is that even if a theoretical impartial Keynsian could manage the economy better than the free-market, the reality is that such an impartial entity doesn't exist, and the more centralized the power over the economy is, the more prone it is to corruption.

That is to say the wealthy will ensure that the central banks make policy decisions that benefit them at the expense of others.
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I associate their brand with Sandforce controllers, and I
associate Sandforce controllers with drive failure.

Whether these associations are informed by and backed
by data or not, they are among the points that steered me
into the arms of Intel and Samsung

Intel has been using Sandforce controllers for a while, starting with the 520 early in 2012. I believe all their products since then have used Sandforce controllers - 330 and 335 definitely do. Source: http://www.storagereview.com/intel_ssd_520_review http://www.anandtech.com/show/6388/intel-ssd-335-240gb-revie... etc

All other things being equal (quality of NAND, workload, etc) the NAND on Sandforce drives will last longer because of their write compression. Of course, most drives will be replaced or retired before that point anyway.

I think Sandforce had a bit of a bad rap for a while because they were the go-to controller for brands like OCZ who competed on price. Their actual silicon is great. In the hands of a manufacturer like Intel (or even OWC - not to be confused with OCZ) who puts quality and stability first, Sandforce controllers really shine.
Glass half empty? How accurate is Glassdoor Data?
Credit cards are not a feature of a currency. You could just have credit cards that keep debt in BTC instead of USD.

The point of the person you're replying to is that, for 99.999999% of businesses, there is no benefit to using BTC. It doesn't offer the buyer any protection, it's extremely volatile, and it would require an overhaul of the entire economy's infrastructure to implement in any meaningful way.
> and the fact that bugs are not attracted to LED lights as they are to the ultraviolet light cast from conventional street lights

Why is this listed as a benefit? A bug that is at the streetlight is a bug that is not at my house. Is there some problem with bugs congregating at streetlight that I'm selfishly ignorant of?
yup, the first part of this article is about that

http://falkvinge.net/2013/09/13/bitcoins-vast-overvaluation-...

you may be able to make some money it's true but I think if you believe it to be a ponzi scheme it is immoral to get involved. that's my basic stance. I can live life just fine without it
There is plenty of such software on the Play Store.

E.g. Rom managers such as this one. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdut...

> I don't know WTF the cyanogenmod team was thinking, non-technical people messing with CM will just lead to negative press.

I know atleast three people who tried to install Linux and formatted their Windows partition in the process. So you mean Linux CDs and DVDs should never have been bundled with magazines?

I don't think there's any danger of grandma seeking out CM and going through the process to install it. CM has over 8M installs, having a handful of bricking incidents is nothing at that scale.

Hopefully this has nothing to do with CM making its own handsets http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2013/09/20/cyanogen-aims-cre...
The iPad is great, but it's not easy to carry around. The Nexus 7 however is pocketable. The Mini is too wide, and the Nexus lets me carry around something larger than my iPhone but more portable than my iPad.

Basically, it serves the same purpose as my iPad without the bulk. That being said, my I use my iPad more when I'm at my desk, or sitting and reading at home. Oh, and the Nexus has better speakers. I hate having to bounce the sounds off something for my iPad.

The Minis are great (my children each have one, it's easier to carry with their smaller hands). Basically, the Nexus is that happy medium, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it.
Really? Who is going to raise a down round for your seed/series A? And if you're raising an up round, why does it matter if the shares come from you or f&f? Honest questions.
Mining is strictly planned, everyone knows how much and when will be produced. New bitcoins are already accounted for in the price.
Great analysis.

Although, I have to chuckle when I hear about people buying fractions of a Bitcoin, expecting to become multi-millionaires in a few years. Bitcoin has had a great run and the exponential growth it has experienced is extremely unlikely to repeat again. It's an issue of scalability and you don't just go from $1K to $1M the way you did from $1 to $1K, simply because the large scale implications are different. The implications of $1 to $1K were pretty insignificant, whereas to get to one million, entire governments would have to abandon their currencies in favor of Bitcoin or something else really drastic would have to happen.

I personally own BTC and hope to see it succeed, but some of these people are delusional, plain and simple.
Of all my jackets/coats, only one has a pocket larger enough for an iPad Mini. That's where the Nexus 7 beats out the iPad.
Intel's consumer SSDs use Sandforce controllers.

However, Intel seems to have a more thorough QA team than the other companies. They made a lot of changes to the SF-2281 firmware before they accepted it for their drives. And then after it shipped, they discovered an AES-256 bug that every other manufacturer missed for over a year.
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question: as a developer (10 yrs of c/php) how can i learn to avoid stuff like this?

would really love a good talk or screencast that explains some of this stuff - anyone got one?

( i know its kind of sad i dont know this alread - its why im not a kernel dev tho :P )