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Care of Chrome's developer tools...

Network tab: 1410 requests | 51.4 MB transferred | 2.0 min (load: 1.2 min, DOMContentLoaded: 4.29s)
Console: 15 errors, 12 warnings
Owner of gocasts.org here. Love that you got started before I did. I also had something very similar in mind. Want to partner up?
So why do I need that app at all if I could just go to work in time? Why should you come late if you specifically want to be punctual?
free of charge

Not quite. The new, replacement battery is quite expesnive and sold at a high margin. So this is not "free", nor does it pay into the public good (domain) in any way to offset the carbon footprint of building the car (smelting steel, aluminum, mining etc), or the transportation damage to the road-system (a function of weight x miles, not emissions).

The good news is that current cells are highly recylable in the technological sense, so its not like they are hazardous spent fuel rods. But the usage (mileage) will be proportionate to battery life. So it makes sense to tax the fuel-supply of the electric car in the same way as the fuel tax. That is, if you believe in those things (public goods, etc).
That's quite an interesting algorithm, especially the random selection part. I'd really like to read the original paper!

I found a correctness-proof which includes peseudo-code in the papers "Correctness Proof of Ben-Or’s Randomized Consensus Algorithm"[1] and "The correctness proof of Ben-Or’s randomized consensus algorithm"[2].

[1] http://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/7336/1/98-1682.pd...
[2] http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~samvas/teaching/2221/handouts/ben...
ASUS Wireless router leaves USB Storage Devices vulnerable to remote attackers
I think this is true.
Dogecoin is still at the begin and it has much room to grow, bitcoin already had its share of growth.
> This suggestion ignores the purpose of a Ph.D.: to produce a piece of original research, which is necessarily extremely specialized.

Tell that crap to the tourists, the purpose of the Ph.D. is afaict to get the student a high paying job that requires a Ph.D. (because existing phd's say you need one), and the professor tenure and grants.
Sensor moet symptomen van snurken en slaapapneu drastisch verminderen
The general "YC gives you not so much for quite a lot of equity" critique would have made a lot of sense ~5 years ago, when all you'd reasonably count on from doing YC is $10-20k. Currently, you're structurally guaranteed a substantial follow-on investment on terms which are practically "free money", and if your startup is not a walking zombie you're all but a mortal lock on a seed round at quite possibly the most systematically founder-friendly funding feeding frenzy terms in the Valley.

That's if you value the actual participation in YC (and later in their mafia) at nothing. I'd personally suggest, on the basis of numerous reports by founders I find personally credible, that it's a really good network to be in if your life plan includes doing a funded trajectory sort of company.

Incidentally, I've got a wee bit of experience with the boostrapped software business thing, and unless you do the consultancy to product route (which has plenty to recommend it) you're most probably going to take a dip from $120k to $150k for a couple of years at the outset. I know people who paid themselves that in year 2, but that's not incredibly common, and I'm coming up blank thinking of any bootstrapped product companies which made their founders that right out of the gate. (It's doable in consulting -- aggressive, but clearly doable.)

If that's a huge problem for you, I recommend a job at AmaGooFaceSoft. They're all good companies, they cut quite steady checks, and there is nothing wrong with taking their money if your family situation demands an iron floor at $120k.
Kiddos with misguided sense of patriotism?; get in their shoes for a second... imagine that most gobernments and international media in the world suddendly supports the taliban to take over our country.
Never programmed in Perl ever. Been a programmer for 24 years now. The languages I used/are using:

Assembler H, Cobol, Ideal/Datacom, C, C++, Visual Basic, Java, Python, PHP, Action Script and C#. Never Perl. Know quite a few people who are programmers and never used Perl. Will inform them. They are going to be disappointed that they are not programmers.

Just for the record, contrary to the list, I like Python and C++.
People spending 6 hours a day driving, I can't imagine that being good for anyone. I'm trying to find a way to say this without sounding obnoxious (it's their choice, after all), but the reasoning is so strange for some of these ("I drive 6 hours a day so I can run on the beach"? Just drive to the beach to run then?)
So if I'm not concerned about my safety someone should force me to be concerned? On what grounds? Who gave that someone an authority to intrude into my personal life?
Jelly, is it another Quora?
Three Alternatives To The RSA Boycott
Aha, lightbulb, we might be full stack engineers.
It will bounce around $1000, as a "magic point" on a low volume - those who still want it most would buy small quantities at a price range between $1000 and $800, and then it will crash, perhaps, around April-May.
Evasi0n 7.x Untether 0.3 Update Available on Cydia to Fix Security Issues
8 hours sleep, 8 hours work and 2 hours leisure... I have no idea how people live like this!
There are companies that buy ASICs and create farms with specialised cooling systems, in parts of the world with cheap electricity, just to mine Bitcoin.

Here's one example.

http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/12/2/5165428/bitcoin-mine-in...

This requires serious investment and is out of the reach of most people.
It's difficult to read "I've worked out that the travel is exactly the same as the cost of renting in London - so therefore a better option" as anything other than confused or deluded.

Living in London costs the same in terms of money but significantly less in terms of time spent per day?
> Wage-based employment is a moderate improvement upon slavery by direct force.

Someone who was actually a slave would strongly disagree.
Docker has kinks in its armour as well. There are some pretty irritating issues like #643 and #1171. Anyway, the naming wasn't done with that intention. I agree that the context just isn't the same.
Passive income for OSS projects? Crowd-source paid support.
Global Network Attacks Were Up Over 98% this morning
While I think the bad parts of Javascript are far more bad than the bad parts of Docker, I think it's fair to call out the good parts of Docker in such a way that the reader walks away and starts thinking "well, okay, but I'm guessing there are some bad parts too - now what are they?".

I'm a pretty smart person; I've poured over the Docker documentation, run through the interactive tutorial twice now, and I still don't have a great sense of 1) what it really is for, 2) how to really use it, or 3) how to handle slightly-non trivial use cases.

For #3, reading through a few examples online of how to get MySQL or Redis up and running in a container... honestly makes my head hurt. And those represent just one or two parts of the system I'm thinking could some day run on Docker - I don't have the time or patience right now to figure out how to get Nginx, Node.js, Redis, MySQL, RabbitMQ, and a few other things here or there - stitched together into a dockerfile.

If I had to make a guess at what the "bad parts" of Docker are, it's that it's complex and not all that understandable - yet. Maybe there aren't that many things that are technically wrong with it, but at this point, it's pretty painful to wrap one's mind around (IMO), and at least I personally think thats a "bad" part.

Docker feels like one of those things that is going to be indispensable and incredibly useful in a year or two. I'm certainly keeping my eye on it, but I'm staying away from the diving board for now.
What does "percentage market cap growth" mean? (Is there a glossary of financial for beginners that anyone can recommend?)

If dogecoin takes off on Reddit and 4Chan as a way of showing appreciation I can see it having many users.
The book "The Incredible Secret Money Machine" (ISBN 0672215624) is my resource for bootstrapping advice. And I have to agree with Don Lancaster: try to bootstrap without early investment.

The case of Everpix is a great example. With an early investment it's very hard to keep track of your startup's feasibility. And your startup is tied to the original plan (your promise to investors). So it's very hard to make changes when you discover the startup plan isn't working.
Considering that the alien had the ability to perceive our spectrum of light and to interpret it as moving images, I'd probably go with black-and white silent era movies.

Black-and-white because it's unlikely they would perceive color as we do, and silent because it's unlikely they would have a verbal language at all, least of all the ability to interpret our language, its idioms and references.

I'd pick movies that didn't require reading the occasional explanations for understanding, too, for obvious reasons.
"To some people, these «unions» appear to be protection rackets, but I saw them as part of the French society and culture."

This push of yours to shield the unions with culture is reprehensible. There are definitely elements that are part of culture/society (conferring it uniqueness), but those should be carefully kept apart from other things such as unions what are not. Don't let the economic players to corrupt your perceptions towards non-economical realm, especially when what is targeted is a part of your identity (and therefore affects your ability to judge things objectively).
Having permanent responsibilities and dependents means you have much less time to work on your startup, thus reducing your probability for success. Why should investors be interested in higher risk without a commensurate higher return? Obviously, there are other factors involved, but this is a very significant one.
Ghost 0.4 Released
Hey owner of gophercasts.com here, let me know if you want to partner up also.
Six Reasons Why I Love Sass
The original title of the submission is:

"Skara: Creating the massively online beat'em up"

Why change it just for the sake of evangelizing a particular platform?

From HN's guidelines:

"please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait"

See http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Do we know where he was sending the keystrokes?

Was it logging all keystrokes in Chrome ever?
I'm going to go with my original comment before I changed it for something more polite.
Your comments are like the Go language: weakly typed and useless.

Hey, you're right, being intellectually lazy is effective!
"I've worked out that the travel is exactly the same as the cost of renting in London - so therefore a better option."

If you don't factor in the fact that you would have 4-6 hours of extra time at your disposal every day. But what's time, its practically limitless right?
As a bicycle commuter in an extremely bicycle-unfriendly city, I expected "extreme commuting" to mean something other than "spend 6 hours a day sitting in a 2-tons tin box polluting the environment"...
Integrate screensharing into your website
Would You Bet $100,000,000 on Your Pet Programming Language? [2007]
I've just upgraded my blog; http://james.brooks.so - it was surprisingly easy for a Node.js app.

I'm really liking the static pages, it's just a shame that the default Casper theme doesn't list these in the header.
I remember reading of a businessman flying his own Cessna from Atlanta to Houston every day, which seemed like a fine way to combine a hobby, living with family and friends, and an otherwise unbearable commute through a commercial airline.
Subscription Billing Startup ChargeBee Raises $800k From Accel Partners
Are Bitcoins legal? - A techno-legal perspective-Part1
> Viruses are the only way to change the DNA of a living human

Not entirely true. Radiation exposure will also alter one's DNA. It may not be the desired result, but it will alter one's DNA nonetheless.
I believe what the author is actually trying to imply here is that in 2013 the PHP community got behind a number of different projects (PSR and Composer/Packagist) and unit testing became a defacto part of developing with PHP.

In my opinion as a PHP developer, I feel like PHP grew up a lot last year and we (as a community) ended on a high.

Hopefully 2014 will see developers creating framework-agnostic packages/libraries which the big PHP projects like WordPress and MediaWiki can use to improve their core code (Joomla has already started this). In addition there are movements to get shared hosts to upgrade their PHP installs and get people onto PHP 5.4+ installations.
>Nobody would trust a lolcat with their money much less a shibe.

Don't get me wrong; I'm not saying Dogecoin will pivot into a serious currency. I'm talking strictly relative growth here, and BTC is currently over 1000x bigger.

I think it'll become a defacto tipping currency of the net, and there's plenty of room for the market cap to grow to support just that niche, if it goes relatively mainstream.

As far as VC money goes, the infrastructure that's being built will likely not remain Bitcoin exclusive, so I see it more as a rising tide lifting all boats.
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Consider the group (R,+). Now that's extreme commuting.
This guy certainly has a chatty crystal ball. Personally I'd recommend to everybody to ignore such "predictions". And as always, keep in mind that this is a new technology and BTC itself might be worth $0.01 at the end of the year (even if I don't hope so).
Is that hosted on Ghost or your server?
Because there is a commensurate higher return. The founder's family provides a mechanism to enforce a decent work-life balance and provide for the founder's emotional needs. There is also a high likelihood that founders with real dependents and obligations are more realistic, mature, and serious than founders without these things. Realism, maturity, and seriousness are all desirable traits in entrepreneurs.
The Problem With The Big Bang Theory
Most used functions in Racket bytecode
The only issue I see with Django is websockets. Apart from that I have been using Django to build 'real time' web apps for years (AJAX). Django does server side very well, AngularJS does client site well, mix in django-angular and I have most of what I need. websockets django-websocket-redis.
A defuser of singularity could be lack of trust in too complex systems, both in hardware and software. Maybe we could thank the NSA for that.
Another option is that websites that rely entirely on Javascript get removed. I prefer this one.
It's on my server, DigitalOcean droplet with a Ghost install by default.
One positive is that you could rent/buy a much larger property outside of London for the same cost.
Show HN: MicroObservables - a tiny js observables library
I knocked this up last week and keep finding uses for it. It's inspired by riot.js, but I didn't want the view engine or router, so I wrote this instead.
Home is where the heart is. Most long commuters I know do it because they have a significant other at home, and that seemed to be the case with many of the subjects in the article.

There are far fewer cases in the developed world of a long commute resulting from a disparity between rents at home vs near the job site. It's not unheard of however, as evidenced by the one guy who lived 3 hours outside the city and commuted in because the cost of renting in London is the same as travel (and presumably cost of living would provide additional savings, even at such a high opportunity cost).

My situation is a bit odd because I have a good job in the suburbs but I enjoy living in the city with my SO, so I reverse commute. It is cheaper and less crowded, but it still takes time, and combined with study, side projects, and enjoying life, it makes for long days, and I feel it beginning to wear me down after two years so I may look for other work. I feel like a wimp compared to the people in the article however however, as my commute is a mere 3 hours round trip.
and here is mine with a focus on the Dart VM and V8 optimizing compilers: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/dart-compiler
Most probably convert some of that commute time into leisure. Audiobooks, podcasts, radio possibly.
Back on those halycon days where they'd actually let me leave the office before 11:30 PM, my salaryman schedule was hitting the last subway at approximately 12:05 AM to hit the last train at 12:30 AM, which got me into Ogaki at 1:05 AM and to my apartment at 1:30 AM. If I was able to eat in 30 minutes, that meant I'd get 5 hours and 20 minutes of sleep and still make it in by 9 AM the next morning.

That's when everything went right and I could actually leave nice and early at 11:30 PM, though. When our schedule was not quite so lax, I got to trade the commute home for a much shorter commute to one of the local business hotels. Unfortunately, even shaving an hour off the commute would very rarely leave me with a restful night's sleep.

Dear reader, if you are offered this schedule, run screaming. It literally nearly killed me. By the end of my 3 years I was suffering blackouts on the return trip.
I like "Manages" it gives them full credit for the work they did...A manager takes care of details to encourage a project's success...no fluke there unless you're talking about a 'pointy haired boss' type of manager.
I posted this as 6 hours driving (3 hours there and 3 hours back) is a pretty typical time I spend to go skiing at Nevis Range from Edinburgh and after doing that I'm pretty tired the next day and it's not the skiing as I can ski all week in the Alps and not get that same kind of stressed tiredness (even allowing for uplift in Scotland mostly being surface lifts and therefore no chance to sit down).

I'm happy driving 6 hours in a day for something like a day at Nevis Range, which is awesome on a good day, but doing that to get to work, every day - that would kill me!
By other mobile OS, I meant :

- Epoch OS

- Symbian

- Windows CE/Pocket PC

- Windows Phone 7/8

- Android

- Blackberry

- Bada

The above vendors do have/had secure deployments mechanisms despite support for dynamic libraries.
Neiman Marcus latest chain to disclose credit card theft
Someone should (and I just might) write an extension that updates a list of evil extensions and authors and warns the user when they have a bad extension or try to install a new extension on that list. Powered by a blocklist type of listing and community moderated.
And the DB?
How is the load handling?
I did maybe 4.5 hours commute a day for a few months (bike - train - bus). The worst part is, you leave so early and get home so late that you can never do any errands where you live. Especially when banks etc. are closed on the weekend. Also when you start thinking about how much time you're wasting per week it gets depressing. On the train I could at least browse the internet and play games and read. Sometimes do work but it's not really still the same as being home to relax for that time.
Interviews are not useful for finding good hires
Online Self-Service Myths. Dispelled.
Never been to Atlanta, however I couldn't help but think of this in the context of how impossible I've heard it is to walk anywhere in that city :)
I feel that lot of Brits have trouble seeing the bigger picture and focus on one aspect. Commuting is one instance, where people disregard time and only focus on housing costs. That might be overly general, it's my experience of them, though. (I'm English)
Join a group/club. Book club, sports club, some sort of tech-related local meet-up group, game club, etc.

Joining an active development community for some opensource project that has primarily online interaction is not as psychologically beneficial, but might be sufficient depending on level of depression/isolation and how it affects you.
History has shown that there are a lot of "greedy", but dumb people. A fantastic example comes to mind: In the Netherlands we have a saying "to sell fried air" (Gebakken lucht verkopen) to explain someone selling bullshit.

Yet, in the "dotcom"-hype, there was a Dutch company selling shares for their startup, "f/ried air" and people got in line to buy these shares.

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/af_database/permalink/ipo...

There will be people buying into Dogecoin, simply because they are greedy and see profit, and choose to ignore the signs that it is a clear Pun.
FYI, typo in the AMD bits:

https://github.com/jajeffries/MicroObservables/blob/master/m...
Or a nice car, because, lets face it, you'll be spending more time in your car than in your house.
I've been always curious about these relationship that arises when someone disrupts an existing ecosystem.

I'm all for innovation,and finding ways to make things, environments and habits, better, more efficient, safer and more intelligent. This, however, raises an interesting moral dilemma. In these ecosystems, prior to the disruptor, agents live and thrive. After the disruptor, these agents must adapt or otherwise, be gone.

When you think these agents are actually human beings, with issues, dreams and families, a new variable is added to the discussion. Is it OK to disrupt an ecosystem if you find a way to make everything better? Is it moral? You found a better way, so surely it must be implemented, and there are few arguments against that. The agents in the ecosystem had almost all what was needed to find the new way, to enhance their ecosystem: time, experience, imagination. And for one motive or another, they failed to do it. What is their argument when someone else comes along and provides a better solution?

I'm not trying to sound Randian or anything, but I truly believe that 'we have families to feed' or 'will lose job' is not a very good argument. Is the ecosystem supposed to be kept in the previous state just for the agenda of a subset of the agents? Under that argument, we shouldn't have cars in the first place. Nor bronze age (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EGAtLGDU7M)

Is this a testament of the inherent cruelty (cruelty in a poetic way, just as natural selection can be thought of cruel) of the free market, or just a testament of the importance of innovation as a way of survival? Maybe both? I can't help but notice heavy analogies with Natural Selection.
Well, that's the question in this case :)
Couldn't disagree more. We're all adults here. Expletives add colour and succinctness. Being a dick is the problem.
At some point, wouldn't you just rather play a movie than have me scroll all the time?
yes and no. it's about taking away features from an existing product line.
An NSA-Proof Twitter, Built With Code From Bitcoin and BitTorrent
According to reviews, the lens cameras don't work well in large crowds (e.g. Sporting events, your kids' school play). Physically docking to your phone would be more sensible (there's a kickstarter project along those lines). But frankly the gap between cellphone cameras and the rest is closing to the point where 1-3 is a wash, and 4 is pretty crap anyway. So it's 1-4, 5/6. If Sony would produce some decent lens options for reasonable prices...
There are several ways of viewing information, and it would be better if users actually had the choice. This is common in desktop apps like Itunes, or even a file manager where you are given gallery, detail view, scrolling, thumbnails etc.
There's not much out there

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/05/04/152011840/who-k...

None the less you can usually date a USA photograph as pre- or post- JFK merely by the presence or absence of hats.
Market cap is a term borrowed from the share market[1]. I don't think it's technically correct applied to BTC but it commonly is.

Market cap growth as a percentage just means, if all BTCs in circulation are worth $10bn today, and $15bn tomorrow, then the market cap has grown by 50%.

I didn't use the price of the coins themselves as BTC is being minted more slowly than DOGE.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_capitalization