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But at least the communists laid down a detailed system, at least seemingly feasible, that they wanted to achieve. I don't understand what the "cryptocurrency system" is and how it proposes to address the issues that face humanity. Well, I've heard some notions, but all, unlike communism's, are quite juvenile, and when you get right down to the bottom of them, you get the exact same system we have now.

Even look at the comments on this page. Someone suggests a loan system; another suggests insurance. And when asked, well, how will the different interests and values of people be managed, you get something like "we'll figure out a way".

Well, that's a legitimate answer, but you can't say "we'll figure out a way" and at the same time call it a "cryptocurrency system". Either you have a system or an outline of one (it can be general, but it must be forward-thinking, and it can't discard politics just like communism couldn't discard psychology – politics is a part of us) or you can play the wingnut game like Glen Beck and talk about FEMA takeovers and other conspiracies, but you can't have it both ways.
Quick summary, since the site is down:

In response (obviously) to http://www.slideshare.net/superdupersheep/stop-using-nagios-... (also available through HN).

Author uses Nagios at Etsy, with 10,000 checks (mostly in the 2 minute range), and it seems to work well for them with some minor tweaking. They have a plugin that provides a REST API. And he thinks the rest of the complaints are about backend stuff that he doesn't deal with much or at all (configs, wire formats, et al.)

He considers Nagios to be simpler than the proposed Sensu, and prefers "Unix style" applications rather than monolithic ones, where Nagios is certainly on the simpler side.

So he will continue using Nagios because it works well for his use, and good luck making something better.
I would strongly recommend reviewing your 101 WRT what you're calling tags and clarifying that tags represent elements that are interpreted and rendered by the browser. (The browser does not render tags.)

Also, the distinction of semantics and styling should be cleared up a little. Less emphasis on how elements are styled by default, and more on what they represent.

I like the approach of assuming no knowledge, but this requires extra care to introduce concepts without using improper or misleading terminology. As a beginner, there's not much worse than hearing simplifications and thinking they're the whole story.

Good luck with continuing your series!
Worklight for Mobile Apps?
Has anyone tried using WorkLight for developing Mobile Apps?

It is suppose to support multiple mobile environments with single-shared code base making it simpler & faster to develop

Any feedback on performance and cost
The Future of Data Governance
My experience moving to Ghost & why I dislike Tumblr, Svbtle
Show HN: Since Quora hasn't released an API yet, I made one for them.
There's nothing wrong with that decision up to the point where you start handling the money - beyond that point I agree with you.

Setting up a website which is secure and not vulnerable to SQL injection or basic BS is quite doable in PHP.
What? A written description (story, song, poem, etc) is a depiction of an event just the same as a photo. A sketch drawn by someone at the scene? What exactly is the difference? The story could be fake, the photo could be photoshopped. It doesn't matter. It's all mere depiction of an illegal act. There's no question that the act itself is illegal. What you will be punished for is simply regarding the act in some form at a later time.

> "that would be our elected representatives, right?"

Awesome. Yes, I know how our laws are made. Please read the Hitchens quote above for context. The question is, can a society that values freedom of expression safely entrust any human with the power to decide which sorts of expression are allowed and which are not?

History, generally, does not make "yes" the obvious answer.
I was going to suggest the Ford Focus, but it turns out that Ford actually launched that in Europe before the US.
Aha highlighted in Atlassian Connect launch -- visual product roadmaps for JIRA
> The current maximum transaction rate for the bitcoin networks is something like seven transactions per second

What? I'm not entirely sure that I understand this correctly: Do you say that the whole bitcoin network, with all that computing power, can't compute more than 7 transactions per second?
I don't think background subtraction means what you think it does. Background subtraction refers to the subtraction of neighboring frames of a video sequence in order to find moving objects in a video sequence. So, yes segmentation is a more general and difficult problem than background subtraction, but it is in no way relevant to the task described in the article.
I've tried it with the sneakers sample but the results are disappointing. It had a hard time differentiate the brown of the background and the welt.
Except that wasn't "everybody's accounts".
A simple resource which provides a curated set of the most important stories of the day in each of several categories. A new issue is released daily at 11am CST.
“Threat Intelligence” By Any Other Name: RSA 2014 Recap
Risk I/O Data Scientist Michael Roytman recaps the 2014 RSA Conference, BSidesSF and Metricon information security events.
Let the best cloud win
Great code needs no comments.

Sure it does.

« The simple and obvious way to do this misses important edge cases X, Y and Z. »

« This is to work around a bug in the framework we're using; see http://... . »

« This is deliberately wrong, for compatibility with ABC system. »
Protip: have a writing staff.
How the E-2 renewal process work? I have a friend considering E-2 with $50k to $100k, and his concern is how bad the renewal process is.
Did you ask why they want to host on their servers?

Usually this is a security/privacy concern.
I think you can find a job easily in UK with your experience. The problem would be, that you can end up in shitty IT company and you might not get the same payment as the person who has education.

(I am from Lithuania myself, I finished Uni in UK)
That was amazing. Thank you for sharing that.
How to get more press in less than 30 minutes per day
The First-Ever Political Party Born in Social Networks Constituted in Bulgaria
Especially because, let's face it, a lot of those people will be drunk.
The financial system at larger scales is not terribly different -- you electronically transfer money and in the blink of an eye it is gone, and is only recoverable with the cooperation of the counter-party. Of course most banks have identity requirements, but identity proofs in most countries are wholly insecure.

If someone with ill intent has the ability to wire money from your account, they can do so with ease. Bitcoin really isn't that unique in that sense.

The real story in the bitcoin world is a recurring tale of gross, epic levels of incompetence, largely because a bunch of people who know some PHP have become the ones building financial systems. People who lack even the most rudimentary of knowledge necessary (this particular "exploit" for instance....good God. This is literally usually the very first "learning databases" lesson because it is so obvious of a weakness).
Background subtraction operates on video streams, not still images, so this is incorrect.
Brasil is best during "Carnival" time. #Vibrant # vivaious
Brasil is the most vibrant place to visit during Carnival time. If you haven't experienced, either go now or plan for it next year.

Need to be Experienced atleast Once.
10 Knockout Binding Handlers I Don't Want To Live Without
Both your site and the original post are great starts.

Anyone reading or writing these sorts of fundamental web programming tutorials should look at Philip Greenspun's books Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing and Software Engineering for Internet Applications, both available free online (The latter is a stripped down version of the former, written for goal-oriented MIT students who don't want anecdotes or pretty pictures). They are around a decade old, so they aren't a good source for copy-paste-ready code, but the ideas in the books have aged quite well (from simple things like using "abstract URLs"--URLs without extensions like .aspx and .php, to focusing on the website's data model and user interaction instead of the programming language).

The most interesting part of these books is that they explored creating web applications for a purpose, not as an end in themselves. They were written for the sort of people who evaluated their past year not on what their manager wrote in some HR form and the raise they got, but on what they were able to accomplish, like creating http://scorecard.goodguide.com/. (What's funny is that in Greenspun's ITConversations interview (around 4:20 http://web.archive.org/web/20130729213414id_/http://itc.conv...), he said that the parts of Phil and Alex's Guide that aged were not the technology, but the rampant idealism in the book that web applications would unleash a new age of enlightenment, like the academics who had believed television would be used to broadcast Harvard lectures around the world).

Here are the chapters on HTML:
http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/html
http://philip.greenspun.com/seia/html

And the closest to describing HTTP and frameworks:
http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/server-programming
http://philip.greenspun.com/seia/basics

(It just occurred to me that Philip's interview above is one day short of being 10 years old, and his assessment might be worth revisiting. The internet still contains volumes of crap, but the internet as only grown as a teaching and community building tool, with sites like Meetup and Facebook organizing learners and teachers, Khan Academy and Udacity doing organized classes, and StackOverflow collaboratively solving specific problems).
You could probably do some neat things with Google glass. Feed the computer the images the human pays attention to all day, and let the computer extrapolate objects by how a persons' vision tracks them.
Understand why they want what they want. It could be deeply entrenched in data governance / IT Security. Once you understand why they want what they want, ask what the process would be for changing the policies / recommendation?

It's not about having a better solution, cloud v. internal servers. It's about understanding the business requirements that make them recommend their servers. Then, understand how they make their decisions and see if you can use those channels to persuade them.
The last time I was there, I saw a fair number of Jeeps. Wranglers and Grand Cherokees.
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I think we're seeing now that they're actually just MPs.
Create the world's best looking websites with ease
What is with this ridiculous knee-jerk reaction against anything TED? If that video had been exactly the same except for the TED name, you would've been fine with it. But you've decided TED must be bad, and therefore anything connected with TED is also bad. Lose the silly bias and let good things be good things.
“Bank” that claimed to solve Bitcoin’s security problem robbed, shuts down
Save time with your deployments and focus on your actual work
Congrats!

You may have already lost this battle by allowing it to be an option. If you really didn't want to do it you should have either:

0. Not offered it as an option
1. Priced the option off the table (i.e. 10-100 x the next closest option)

High pricing either makes the customer not consider the option or is enough money to totally make it worth your while.

Also:

1. Why do you not want to do it?
2. Why do they want to do it that way?

What alternatives have you laid on the table that satisfy the majority of their needs within their budgetary constraints?
I wonder if perhaps a similar thing is going to happen to the meal replacement products, such as Soylent and Ambro and others. Maybe in their attempt to "hack" human nutrition they, too, will rediscover why human nutrition research exists. Except perhaps with more serious consequences involving health issues.
How Democratic or Republican is your first name?
We're not actually using Nagios. We use sensu because it was designed with this sort of dynamic environment in mind. (I'm trying to stay away from the "C" word. :)
Rumors say that canceled cars are being offered to Estonia first if contacted. Also, there is already two Teslas driving around.
(http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=et&tl=en&js=n&prev=... take with a pinch of salt)

Apparently there is already charging network http://elmo.ee/laadimispunktide-vorgustik/ (compatible thou? I doubt)

And you can get up to 18 000 euros backing from goverment when buying electric car. (http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=et&sl=et&tl=en&u=ht...)
In practice bitcoin's very anonymity makes it a more attractive target for theft

Also the fact that the people making software seem incompetant when it comes to technology.
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No, I neither said nor meant anything of the sort. I was meaning that people who overreact and propose unworkable solutions tend to be those that have a problem themselves. They assume we all need saving from ourselves in the same way that they need help, they have trouble coping with the idea that their thoughts/desires/reactions to such things are far different from everyone else because in (almost) every other way they consider themselves normal.

Filtering the web will not make any real long-term difference to either those distributing or those looking for CP, IMO. You are not going to just stumble upon CP because a filter failed: people distributing that sort of material don't want to be found that easily because they don't want the authorities to stumble upon them. Likewise if someone really wants to find that sort of thing then the sort of filters proposed with not stop them in the slightest. It is one of those "people problems" that I very much doubt you can fix with technical measures (how you could fix it I have no idea, but I'm pretty sure that the proposed filters will be ineffective and will cause inconvenience elsewhere while not actually doing their job).
Because it is the only comment.
The Eudyptula Challenge: programming exercises for the Linux kernel
I know everyone is gleefully using the failure of three poorly-coded Bitcoin exchanges to crow about the many wonders of regulations.

However, has anyone stopped to ask why so many exchanges are poorly-coded? No, it's not because everyone in Bitcoin adores PHP. I've met some of the most capable coders among cryptocurrency enthusiasts. Go check out Conformal's btcd, or any of Jeff Garzik or Warren Togami's projects, or the amazing talents of the Bitcoin core dev team. (If you decide to denigrate the abilities of any of these Bitcoin/cryptocurrency developers in a response, please be sure to include a link to your own github)

No, it's not because there's no talent. Rather, it's because nobody who is competent in the Bitcoin world is willing to risk their hides or the welfare of their families on something they know the authorities will eventually crack down on. You see, competent people actually learn about the space, and the relevant regulations before jumping in. And they understand that -- absent several million in start-up funding -- there is no way to legally open an exchange at this point.

So by process of elimination, the only ones left to open exchanges are either scammers, or ignorant, incompetent coders who can barely code up a PHP site, or a very few brave, mostly-competent individuals who have the money and lawyers to at least (hopefully!) keep them out of jail when the inevitable crackdown occurs.

I know personally of several extremely competent entrepreneur-developers who have abandoned Bitcoin projects out of regulatory concerns. And I'm sure that's just a small sample.

So that's the reason for the prevalence of poor coders among Bitcoin exchanges. Your solution to this problem will of course be a function of your worldview.
I wonder how they will manage the market differences.

For example, in the UK the majority of cars at the level Tesla is going for are business vehicles. In that category, the tax laws make it such that the best thing to do is to lease a car.

Which is why you get business leasing options from every manufacturer:

BMW: http://www.bmwbusinesspartnership.co.uk/

Mercedes: http://www2.mercedes-benz.co.uk/content/unitedkingdom/mpc/mp...

Lexus: http://www.lexus.co.uk/company-cars/company-car-driver/2013/...

Basically, company car perks are paid in cash in monthly installments. Everyone with a business vehicle leases the vehicle using the cash they are paid.

Tesla may sell a fair few cars in the UK, but if they want to put a lot of cars on the road they'll need to package the car in a way that will attract this market.

I'm sure similar market differences exist throughout Europe too, where local conditions mean that buying outright isn't usually the best deal.
Look: every startup gets owned up somehow in its first year or so. If you think your company hasn't, I have an adage about the sucker at the poker table for you. I'm not sure how many people on HN really understand this, because every thread I read about Bitcoin companies having security problems features highly-voted comments expressing shock at how bad their security must have been. No: this problem is universal.

The difference between Bitcoin companies and cat sharing companies isn't fly-by-night operational practices (although in some cases, sure).

The difference is that when a cat sharing company gets owned up, you don't hear about it. Only a small subset of security compromises involve password hashes dumped to pastebin. A quiet security incident at a cat sharing company doesn't end that company; they patch the bug, (hopefully) reimage their servers, and get on with their lives.

Even payment companies have incidents. But (perhaps counterintuitively) incidents at payment companies aren't company-ending events. Payment companies don't hold bearer-bonds, for magic cards or anything else, on their servers. Attackers might get a few thousand credit cards out of the rolling transaction feed of a payment company. Why bother? Those attackers can just acquire massive dumps of credit card numbers from major retail compromises. Attackers report flaws to payment companies! They're better off trying to score a $500 payday from a bug bounty than trying to monetize those breakins illegally.

Not so at a Bitcoin company. When Bitcoin companies get owned up, whatever "hot" assets they have get taken. Bitcoin companies aren't stepping stones for attackers the way cat sharing companies sometimes are; they're the intended target.

It bothers me when people caution that Bitcoin companies are scary because they're "targets", because I think the people saying that only grok 75% of what's happening. It's not that Bitcoin companies get owned up because attackers spend more effort targeting them. No. Attackers expend effort on everyone's companies, and are usually successful. The difference is what happens after the attacker succeeds.

People considering starting (or funding) Bitcoin companies need to understand this. I feel like there may be a memetic belief that competent security teams can reliably stave off security flaws if they're just careful with two-factor auth and parameterized SQL queries. That meme is false. When you start a new software service, you need to build it on the assumption that you are going to get owned up, if not by a stupid password compromise than by a memory corruption bug deep in V8 or MRI or CPython or nginx that only a few dozen people in the world know about. It is going to happen. If you give custody of cash-equivalents to a startup, you should be doing it with that in mind.
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they steer consumers towards MS services like Bing and Onedrive and Skype
Show HN: dedicated iOS and Android testing service
The trademark filing happened 2 weeks before my request for Arnout to rename his module.
The people who typically make and run these things are sitting on the sidelines until the legal issues are worked out. It's not exactly surprising that the people willing to risk jail time for first mover advantages aren't the best at finance/development/risk.
I'm not sure what you mean by "Bitcoins don't really do anything". It's a decentralized digital currency with protection against double spending. Isn't that something?
On Individual Variations of Productivity in Research Laboratories
I also know of another guy who planted an entire forest: http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/indian-man-who-pl...
running success is not predicated on ones resistance to pain

For her age group, it generally is. It's rare to find a teen runner who has developed that SEAL-team-like mental resilience to blow through all pain barriers. At the elite level, sure, it usually becomes a matter of genetics handing out that last sliver of advantage. Even at the elite level though (generally 800m+), you still see feats of mental insanity narrowing the gap between actual performance and "genetic max" [1]

Have you ever run competitively?

[1] Obvious example: David Rudisha running his blistering 1:40.91 800m in London 2012, all 8 runners in that race were sub 1:44 and 7 set new personal bests.
i think most of it has to come from Wordpress' dominance over PHP applications. and we all know how much of a mess that is.
OP here. I started TestElf over a year ago. Our initial service was pay-per-use iOS testing and we launched the MVP here on HN. After working with hundreds of developers, we realized that there were still many aspects of manual testing that our initial service did not solve. Today, we are launching our first new service: pay-per-month dedicated testing aimed at larger development teams. Being a solo founder and bootstrapping since the beginning has definitely been tough. I wouldn't have gotten this far without our first trial users (many of them HN readers). Thanks everyone!
> This is the most fascinating part of the USA story: watching a group of people who are philosophically opposed to most elements of the modern social-democracy discover, one by one, why all those elements exist.

The people who are interested in cryptocurrencies come from all walks of life and share different views on many topics, just like the citizens of a country. Nothing's ever black or white.