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npm isnt hosted at joyent, npm isnt wrtten in node, its CouchDB, theres more details @ http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/11/26/npm-post-mortem/

Even if it were, not sure what the issue would be, npm is a public service that costs money to run, they are asking for money from people who use that service.
A few days ago yes, but currently there hasn't been an increase in Chinese demand as far as I can tell

Compare http://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/btcchina/btccny and http://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/mtgox/btcusd
Like some of the other commenters in this thread, I built a custom streaming framework to power http://forever.fm in Python. It's held up under hundreds of concurrent listeners, although admittedly hasn't been tested much beyond that: http://github.com/psobot/foreverfm
In conventional basic income systems, the basic income is _on top of_ anything you might be earning from a job, so work is incentivised from the start. In practice, for high earners, a lot of it would be clawed back in tax, of course.

Certainly there would be people happy to live on it without working (assuming it was a reasonable figure), and that's fine, as long as _most_ people aren't in that group. To an extent it will depend on what you set the figure at, but history has shown that most people don't like not working, even if they don't need to to survive.

An example; Ireland has a relatively generous social welfare system; an adult currently gets 188 euro a week plus housing benefit etc, and this lasts indefinitely. During the 90s-00s economic boom, unemployment fell below 4%, which is normally considered functional full employment. Clearly, when jobs were available, people wanted to do them. Now, maybe if you double or triple the figure it'll work out differently, but I'd be surprised if it would be that different. And that's a social welfare payment, which disincentivises working more than basic income (the social welfare payment goes away when you start working, the basic income doesn't).
That would be an implementation flaw, not an API issue.
Shopify: 75,000+ merchants can start accepting Bitcoin
I had to switch to aria2c for fetching larger from AWS S3 (50-150 MB). Otherwise a small peecent of downloads were slow (in EC2), b/c most other fetchers have really poor retry logic.
They seem to put a lot of effort into telling you things other than "what is this thing?"

It sorta looks like a phone. Is it a phone? "Jolla is powered by Sailfish OS." Sweet. How is that relevant? It must be important because it spends the rest of the page telling you about the OS.

I'm back here, with honestly no idea what it is. Probably not the impression they want to leave on people, assuming (as a guess) that this is a consumer product of some kind.

It seems they put the engineers in charge of designing the website.
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Which is why Google should have a PNaCl javascript implementation, so that it degrades gracefully like asm.js but the fast case is faster.
Yes, but that would be worthless without the next step of targeting an individual identified by the dragnet. I imagine all you need to be a person of interest is to have communicated with someone who is a small number of hops away from some other person of interest. Or later, when they really get going on their data mining, all you'll need to have done is to have said something particularly interesting and negative about the NSA or the government; they'll have to start doing that, because they'll run out of actual terrorists and they'll have to find a way to keep racking up "successes."
> Fundamentally, it's nothing. They are sold for cash & then that cash is gone. Spent. The currency doesn't retain anything on it's own. The burden of maintaining the ecosystem stability is passed on to those who now have the money.

This is why the real world currencies which arent "backed by anything" still make people wake up at 6 every morning, drag around for 9-10 hours of the day and then spend those on food and cover. The us/eur currencies have the value of the social contracts that are based and exchanged due to these currencies. The value comes from making people do things for it, and cash seems to be doing that quite well even if it isnt backed by anything.

What Im trying to get at, its the social contracts that exist in the millions - employer employee government - that make up and back up the value of any currency.

For BTC to succeed as a currency, people need to exchange their goods and services for it, especially their time, their work. It isnt enough to buy or sell ready-made goods, its the producers that need to be payed in bitcoin, only then a real revolution can happen.

Frankly, I have a hard time seeing how such a transformation could or would happen - for people to start getting payed in BTC. A company cant just do that, they have taxes and laws to follow.
Just a friendly reminder that if your domain validation regex goes something like [a-z0-9-]+\.[a-z]{2,6}$ , you'll need to fix it to accommodate these entirely unnecessary and excessively verbose additions. And I thought .museum was long enough...

Kudos if you already support IDN ccTLDs like .中国, .한국 and .рф. Honestly, I think they're even less useful than the ones we're seeing today, but I digress.
I really like the idea. One suggestion: some sort of visual indicator to tell me how far through the process I am would be stellar.
You should take into account that if things go as usual, there will probably be a crash in the next few days, leaving the price around $500 for a while.
Yes, every site is different, but this one's way different. When Google, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo and others all agree about the relative ranking of two sites, a radically different result is likely to be evidence of a problem

Also, I'm not asking for every last detail. Even Google has shared the broad outline of their PageRank method. I don't think it's at all unreasonable to expect some explanation of the basic approaches involved.
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Suffered the same problem. I'm getting around it by using cmd-k, then using cifs://server/share to connect instead.
And venture capitalists. The earlier you invest in anything, the bigger the risk, the bigger the returns if it pans out.
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Its because they're speculators, not enthusiasts.

As soon as BTC crashes, they'll all be gone. But the BTC Enthusiasts will carry forward, and hopefully learn that encouraging this kind of speculation is harmful to the "currency" that they wish to create.

I do think cryptocurrency has a future. However, the current price bubble is a _failure_ of BTC, not a success story. The only ones happy are speculators.
Where is the music coming from?
This one is amazing: http://maroslaw.github.io/rainyday.js/demo012_4.html. Thanks for the link.
> To get back to Home from any app, swipe from either side of the screen.

I don't think it's a great idea to reserve the "swipe from side of screen" gesture for the OS. Especially the left-swipe is used in many apps to reveal a menu, which is a UI-pattern I like a lot.

Anyway, looks interesting, would love to try one out!
This is true, but the definition of "really want" changes if everything you can buy is subject to deflation in your currency of choice. If you believe Bitcoin will keep rising you will defer every expense until the last possible second and many transactions you will defer and later find that you do not need to engage in them, thus there is less commerce ongoing.
How does a rational consumer justify going out for dinner on Friday if on Sunday they expect the date to be 15% cheaper, and Tuesday to be 20% cheaper, and so on? It is like the pain of finally biting the bullet and buying a new computer in the 90's knowing it will be cheaper in 3 weeks, but on every transaction you make.
I'm looking forward to `def` returning a symbol (page 11).

private static void def main(args) ...; end
As long as their business is based on selling hardware, it might not be a problem. Then they are not competing with Google in mobile OS development, but with Samsung etc.

Sailfish OS could then allow them to differentiate from other handset makers, without advertising it as such. In other words, market the capabilities, not the Sailfish "brand".
It's not as bad. No work data is lost since it's just a sleep. Cycling back to working mode takes ~2s + the time to enter the password if you have a screen lock.
Non-paywalled link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/28/arts/international/umberto...
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What do I give up – fast, cheap, or good?
ASCII doesn't make the U.S. special. ASCII is special because it's from the U.S.

Lots of people speak languages that trivially fit in 8 bits with no real "figuring out" to do. Before Unicode, we all had our different codepages or encodings. Including the U.S.

The U.S. is pretty central to computing. Because of that, and because ASCII only uses 7 bits, some other 8-bit cultures use it as a subset for their native 8-bit encodings. Even in the U.S, we use extensions to ASCII so we can represent text in languages that are close cousins to English. I doubt you actually use ASCII much. You've probably been using either ISO 8859-1 (aka Latin-1), which is a superset of ASCII, or Windows-1252, which is a superset of Latin-1.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc194884.aspx

This mess of incompatible codepages and culture specific encodings is one of the main problems that Unicode was invented to solve. It also happens to help languages which need more than 8 bits.
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I'd be afraid of it becoming even a common currency. The problem is bitcoin does not encourage economic growth. It is smarter to hold then to spend. In a good currency, the demand for the money itself should not cause prices to fluctuate.

I think this could be solved if instead of the difficulty target being determined based on a steady release, was instead determined in someway based on the quantity theory of money (MV = PY) so as there is greater demand for coins more coins would be produced, and the opposite, when we have enough coins, less are produced.
'I see friends shaking hands, saying "how do you do?" But what they're really saying is "I love you."' Small-talk is about finding out common interests, catching up, and expressing your interest in, respect for, and care for other people. If in doubt, just ask a few questions and let the other person talk: "Have you had a good day?" "How are things going for you these days?" "How have you been feeling?"
Oh. So is everyone.
Yes, but "some point" can be tomorrow or five years for now.
Don't forget, Awesome Award based on internet votes will be spammed all over Wikipedia, providing free advertising that points to Time Magazine, and wikipedia editors believe any award is some authoritative measure of success.

In a way, hacker news could make up an award based on internet votes and vote Miley Cyrus as the Greatest Creative Mind of the last 100 years. Wikipedia editors will be all over that.
Vulhunter iOS App
Description

Vulhunter is an app for very specific audience. The targeted audience are IT related professionals majority of the content is important for System Administrators.
The Motivation behind building an app was occurred when the company I worked for faced a hacking attack due to one of the apache module’s vulnerability. That event triggered an idea of Vulhunter.

Features

Vulhunter collects information about different server-side software’s vulnerabilities from websites such as NVD and CVE details. The core purpose of the app is to allow user’s to select softwares or operating system keywords from a set list which then becomes activate for notifications. Vulhunter servers continuously checks the feed content against the user’s selected keywords. If the vulnerability report description has a keyword which is selected by the user. The server will fire a notification to the specific user.
The other information I wanted to add was a general information about the system’s security news, blog post aggregation and also reports from NVD feed etc.
Despite, most of the information provided, Vulhunter doesn’t secure users from any 0 day attack. Also it won’t notify for vulnerabilities which aren’t being reported to our third-party feed sources. However, Vulhunter notifies the information which is available to it which helps user to be cautious.
There aren’t much competitor in AppStore which provides similar level of information. (Similar Apps - NVD+, Vulnerabilities and iAssurance). These apps doesn’t provide personalised notifications with it.

https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/vulhunter/id742110071?mt=8
Probably hasn't been getting much attention because so far it is vaporware (until you can actually buy a device, it's not all that interesting), and it's a member of the complicated Maemo/Moblin/Meego/Tizen/Mer/Sailfish family that keeps on promising great things but seems to be reinvented every year and never actually delivers a working or supported ecosystem. Yes, a few devices have been released in that family, but have been immediately EOLed (the N900, DOA as it was released just as Nokia decided to go Windows only) or sold only as specialized developer previews or whatnot.

This whole family has been promising lots of things for a long time, but never seems to actually deliver, while you can get an Android phone in any corner store.

I might get interested once I can actually buy a device and write an application for it. Until then, I'm going to be extremely skeptical of this whole family of devices since they seem to consistently over-promise and under-deliver.
It's unclear from the intro summary, but I'm assuming from the lack of further explanation that refinements are just GONE, and not just "no longer experimental"?
It's pretty saddening that some random programmer is going to let his own ego kill the chance to make a statement (yes, I know you personally know POY means nothing. The masses don't, move on.) about privacy and surveillance, all "for the lulz".
> I always wondered why Jolla is getting so little love from HN

As a hacker, I want to work on stuff that has a snowball's chance in hell of getting some traction, and in a market with very strong network effects, demonstrating this is up to newcomers. There have been other operating systems for mobile phones that looked cool, but suffered from lack of traction as well.
I think it'd be cool if this somehow merged with the current club scene to bring more of a 'live' aspect back to electronic music.
It's almost as if people with no knowledge of the situation didn't know what they were talking about and speculated angrily instead.
#reachable_objects_from was added in 2.0, and I think #memsize_of was introduced in one of the 1.9 releases. The documentation is new though.

I wrote a little about them here: http://globaldev.co.uk/2013/03/ruby-2-0-0-in-detail/#id6
The poll really just mocks itself.
Fuck Time Magazine.
Its a bad video/sales-pitch Gary, either that or an unimpressive phone. You pick
> It would make much more sense if it were compiled to some kind of bytecode (like NaCl). That will ultimately give you better performance, less loading time, etc.

Bytecode doesn't mean smaller download or faster startup, or necessarily better performance. It might, but you need numbers to show that.

In practice, right now startup is faster on asm.js than PNaCl, and vice versa for execution speed, but in both cases the differences are not large. Compare for yourself:

http://www.flohofwoe.net/demos.html

http://trypepperjs.appspot.com/examples.html
I've been saying this for years now. Give people the freedom to make their own economic decisions without the fate of crushing poverty over their heads. Give them the financial breathing room to learn a new skill, start a business, or simply find a better job than the one they currently have.

Basically, the freedom to take risks. Rich people have been telling us for decades that is what they bring to the table. Risk. That's how jobs, innovation, progress and wealth are created. Let's see how it works when everyone has that opportunity.

And if it decreases crime, disease, teen pregnancy, and the dropout rate, that's just icing on the cake.
I have the same issue. Though I've only installed Mavericks on my Macbook Air 11" so far, and I thought that it would be an issue with the machine's limited speed. This delay really bugs me and I hope that it is something software that can easily be fixed.
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How do you do case-insensitive comparison without normalizing the case of the operands?
Yet people still bought computers knowing full well they are going to be cheaper in a couple of months. Why? Because they needed them. Same thing with Bitcoin. Of course, you won't be buying stupid stuff you really don't need. And you know what, that's a very good thing for the economy, because it will make people very responsible when it comes to buying things and investing their money. Bitcoin is an ultimate cure for consumerism and excessive spending. Economy as a whole and people in it don't really profit from investing into useless hole digging, even though it may look good on the paper.
I'm cool with the bet even if it doesn't involve "official stamp of approval" from any government. You say USD/EUR will hyperinflate.
We can probably agree that gold price is a good measure if something has hyperinflated. So, if a troy ounce of gold is worth less than $100K USD/EUR after 5 years, you pay me $10K and if it doesn't, I pay you 1 BTC (the terms you offered below). Escrow is John K from bitcointalk. Deal?

EDIT: fine, you don't want gold. Pick any commodity you fancy - grain, corn, rice, oil, copper, coffee...whatever. It rises 100 times in USD value, you win the bet. Just don't tell me nobody will want these either and we'll live just on bitcoins and fresh air :)
I think the apparent alternative cryptocurrency is one that does NOT have a fixed supply and thus has stable inflation built into it, the puzzle of course is solving the problem of creating the math that can act in that way that can not be disrupted by an unexpected advance in computing power.
You could always not bring up Nazi and just use the Milgram experiment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
But it does show some hints as to why Eco is so unbelievably great.

"Every writer, every artist, every musician, scientist is profoundly interested in the survival of his or her work after their death. Otherwise they would be idiots."

And, of course,

"In the States, they publish an enormous collection of books called 'The Library of Living Philosophers.' It started with John Dewey and Bertrand Russell and the last book was about Richard Rorty. For mysterious reasons — probably because there is nobody else is around — they chose me for the next one. These are books of 1,500 pages. I am supposed to write 100 pages of philosophical autobiography. And there are 25 people, working at this moment, each writing a paper on my philosophical activity. And I am supposed to read all of them and to respond to each of them with at least three or four pages each. I think I have two years to work on it, and I am hoping to die before I have to do it."
On the homepage "Jolla.com" it says: Jolla is powered by Sailfish OS, a truly open and distinct mobile operating system. Navigate effortlessly with the gesture-based user interface and load the phone with top Android™ apps.

So it is a phone since they call it a phone. :)
It could also be a very good thing, since it would clear the way for a competitor that solves many issues that bitcoin have.
It would be awesome if Jolla would become a successful company after Nokia sold out to MS (because it seems like Jolla is a continuation of what would have been Nokias route without MS). Also i only heard good things about the N900, i love linux, i hope the handset/os is "free"... and 399€ doesn't seem to be too expensive.
Also it looks well designed.

Good luck, Jolla Team!
It's a smaller, cheaper, offline version of the milliondollarhomepage[1]

[1] http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
crashes every time I pause a video. I doubt I will be able to listen half of that talk without ability to scroll to the spot it kicked me out... but fresh UX, I like it.

edit: just saw the comment about VIMEO videos. nice.
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Did you read the comment you're replying to at all? You can start at “It's sad 99% comments”.

PS:

Python 3.3.2 (default, Nov 27 2013, 20:04:48)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 5.0 (clang-500.2.79)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> 'öo̧'[1:]
'̈o̧'

And sorry, those new regexes don't even support \X (grapheme matching)

Edit: python version
I would understand this on a laptop screen, but on a large screen virtually only an IDE makes sense to use up all that real estate. Even on a 13" laptop, my browser is rarely extended to full width.

That being said, you can drag the window to the size you want and have nothing but window and menubar. There are also a ton of third party software to automate this as a keyboard shortcut or similar if that's the key. Then viola, no weird dependencies on a weird feature not designed for 23" + screens.
Just turned 26, been loosing hair since middle school (16-17), a few more years and I'll be rockin' a Balmer look :)

How I cope with it? I've accepted the situation a long time ago and I don't let it get to me anymore (it did when I was younger tho, had huge self-confidence problems because of it).

Hair isn't all that important, just be a good person... :)

Maybe watch the patrick stewart interview, maybe it'll help a bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXOK-ZVJMaU ;)
I disagree, I think the future will be all kinds of things, both on the web and elsewhere. On the web, it will be both handwritten JS as well as compiled JS from various languages like C/C++ (into asm.js), TypeScript, etc.

Each of those is good for some use cases, but none is good enough for everything. Just like we have many languages for native development and web servers and so forth.
These people may have not been wrong, just early. Keep inflating a balloon - it's hard to say when it's going to pop, but still accurate to say that it will at some point.

If I had money invested in bitcoin, I would pursue a strategy that kept in mind that it very well could be a bubble- and one that could lose most of it's value before you have a chance to get out.

The wisest plays aren't the ones that make the most money, but the ones that concrete gains by taking the profit off of the table: Sell out X% every time it hits a new arbitrary high.
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> If I understand correctly, you'd like to charge money for courses about how to start a business, or do other things that people in their 20s need.

Not really. Mostly, it's courses on how to get a better job, how to switch industries, how to negotiate a better salary - things that people in their 30's and 40's need. That's our target market - professionals who not necessarily are interested in business or freelancing, mostly in how to get a better job and be happy at it.
What is interesting is that anyone that comes here, likes it (I do from what I see) and goes to check on the Mer Project where this work stems from will see their git repos have been largely untouched for two years. [0] I find that strange because I had to search a few pages into their wiki to even find that URL.

I wish people who liked Meego would support the latest update to the truly free OpenMoko project. [1] You can build your own upgrade or buy the whole thing in an old GA02 case (the second revision OpenMoko phone).

I am waiting out for pocket change to buy one of those. Buy a real open handset and fight the power guys!

[0] http://gitweb.merproject.org/gitweb

[1] http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/
I agree themanthatfell currently has 1154 karma, but he got the majority of it from this post and the account was only created 7 days ago. You're getting unfairly down voted.