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> I wouldn't try to use Angular for an HTML 5 game, for example, though there's a good chance I wouldn't use jQuery either.

I actually did use Angular for an HTML5 game last week as part of a demo for a conference. Admittedly it was a really simple game (tic tac toe), and it did use Polymer as well as angular, as sort of an experiment. But it worked pretty well, and only took about a day and a half to hack together, with realtime multiplayer and chat using socket.io.

Obviously you're going to run into things that Angular is not really ideal for, but we are trying to make it do what it does very, very well, so in the future it should be suitable for pretty much any mobile or desktop app.

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This sounds like evangelism, which is not my intent, you're absolutely right about what you're saying, but it's true, sometimes a framework works (and saves a ton of time) that you'd otherwise spend hacking together something awful. Hopefully this mithril thing also saves people a ton of time without them having to worry about numerous other issues.
How to be a sane programmer
Is VP9 supported by all WebM-supporting browsers now?

(i.e. is it feasible to completely drop VP8 and use VP9 instead?)
asians are sneaky.

#PEARLHARBOR
It's admittedly a corner case, but I've searched phrases that contain URLs and have had them get treated as a URL rather than search phrase in Chrome. In that case, I just drop to google.com and issue the search from there.
Ehh I know Javascript, and know it well, along with HTML+CSS. My experience is that a very light framework can not only help structure things in a more sane way, but can provide a set of tools that make a mindset easier.

After building/using Composer.js (http://lyonbros.github.io/composer.js/) extensively I inevitably end up reimplementing parts of it on projects that don't use it because it makes some things so easy.

That said, if you're learning javascript, stay away from frameworks at all costs.
I've never heard anyone say "search for it", but rather "google it".
Its amazing how something that is "illegal" only has consequences when you are rich enough to defend your rights in court. This causes a situation where the only sane, fiscally sensible response is to not get burned again.
There's no multiprocess content code enabled by default yet, so that's not it.
The “Next Level” of Data Warehousing: Real Time Integration
I had expected them to be aiming more for commonality with the API of Google Glass. Maybe in turn Glass will move more towards this. But they're going to end up with a lot of notification UIs for devs to worry about (Android, Android wear, Chrome, Glass are different) unless they are working on consolidating this.

Given that Glass rapidly deteriorates to being a fun camera, but otherwise not too much else, the only compelling use they presented here was the checking sports scores and needing water resistance. Until it's clearer just what scope for customisation there is going to be for the "cards" it's going to remain looking like a solution in search of a problem (EDIT: thanks todd for obvious correction :) ).

Finally, I think this space will be won by the "Game Boy" approach. Lower fi (possibly even no touch screen), but longer battery life and easier to view screen in bright direct sunlight.
The OP's argument may be that the normal distribution is often applied to datasets with which it has no innate connection and that can only mislead the applier. This is correct -- there are any number of examples where the statistical reasoning behind the normal distribution is wildly inappropriate to the data set being analyzed. The classic example is a dataset with anomalous outliers, say, a cohort in which one person died in childbirth and another who lived to the age of 120. Average age: 60.

But the physicists who apply this method to their LHC data, and those who apply it to the newer finding of gravitational waves, know exactly what they're doing. The data being analyzed are entirely appropriate to this method, and the conclusions being drawn are sound.
Researchers' Google Glass Spyware Sees What You See
Using the word "nasty" to describe nudity makes me very sad. I can imagine a very small niche of sexual practices that I would label in this way, but to regard sexuality in general as "nasty" seems ludicrous to me.
Just Another News Portal
Firefox should allow you to type "45/3" in the address bar and be taken to Google with the calculation.
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You know you can remove the search bar, right?

Right click in the tab area, select "Customize" and then drag it to the available icons panel. Searching works from the address bar too.

It is also probably there still because you can select where you want to search, so you can pull down the menu and search in Twitter, or Amazon, eBay, Google translate, Google maps, The Pirate Bay, Wolfram|Alpha, YouTube, ....
If your search bar is your URL bar, then all your keystrokes (even when typing URLs) go to your search provider to provide autocomplete of search results. In Firefox you can type URLs without having them sent to a third-party. We think this is important. (You can get autocomplete search results by typing in the search bar.)
There is. Mozilla doesn't want data from users (unknowingly) being sent across networks to a server by default.

The urlbar is already capable of searching though. It just doesn't give you suggestions for the reason above.
Soldier 'killed' at Crimean military base
They won't, but changing your server to accept websocket instead shouldn't be too bad.
Same there (try 10000 sites, click "Benchmark"):

http://www.raymondhill.net/voronoi/rhill-voronoi-demo1.html

The difference has narrowed though, FF used to be much, much slower than chromium.
The software is an important part of this, but I'm more interested in seeing what new types of hardware will run this OS. The watch concept is only neat to me right now.

It definitely feels like Android is ripe to bust the confines of the phone and move in to other parts of our lives. The work that Qualcomm is putting in their Snapdragon platform is evidence of this.
possible you shouldn't be browsing HN at all while working that new job?
Offline mode was possible within two weeks of release. That's better than most forms of DRM, but hardly a full year.

http://www.cinemablend.com/games/SimCity-Offline-Mode-Achiev...
A JS front-end? I mean, sure, but a backend a la Clojurescript would be awesome too.
I've attempted to post this 2x over a week ago but it got no traction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7361661

Someone signed into the actual Satoshi's account where the original Bitcoin announcement was made and left a comment on March 7 that Dorian is not Satoshi. Presumably this is actually Satoshi.

I've been surprised no one else has picked up on this.
2048: Doctor Who Edition
Each platform for Unity has another license associated with it (eg: $1500 for Android Pro, another $1500 for iOS Pro). Another web target would be another $1500 license for folks to buy annually, I imagine.
>>Want a not-so-secret anti-fraud technique? If the billing address is Kansas and the IP is China, you probably shouldn't let that transaction go through. Really obnoxious for those of us who live overseas. Stupendously valuable, though.

It's also a great way to completely fuck over foreign students who use their parents' credit cards to be able to do things like buy textbooks, pay tuition, and so on.
I was actually thinking it was more of a solution searching for a problem. Unless that is what you actually meant to say, then I agree.
Sounds a bit like the pure js library but with jquery.

http://beebole.com/pure/
The previous comment was edited - the comment I replied to said something along the lines of
'especially when the number of samples are low'
I haven't bought a game in five year but I preordered simcity the moment it was available.
Require.JS is a service locator. It's not an inversion of control dependency injector. You can swap in a different service locator for your tests, but it's messier than just directly passing in different dependencies for your tests.
Engineers figure out ways to make this sort of thing cheaper, easy to do, and scalable. Most of all, the end result is something tangible, interesting to individuals, and a product of a lot of data that the engineers already had laying around.

Then that code and how it was created circulates to other orgs (hopefully through open source), then it's picked up by researchers and grad students who start to apply it to more important research. Maybe also privately funded or state-sponsored aid types read about how it was done and they apply those principles to the high-minded projects that you want to see.

Blaming society for having "fucked up" priorities is a very college freshman view of the world. There is no way that even the most talented engineers would also have the wherewithal, experience, connections, and local knowledge to produce sustainable projects that would, I don't know what you were imagining, lower poverty or increase literacy rates.
I was worried about this last year when Xamarin announced their new revenue model: what protections are in place for the various open source pieces of their technology? Last time I asked for more details it stopped because it was my job to limit the scope of the answers with a list of specific questions; I felt it didn't make sense to narrow things down like that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5251474
Looks like they're taking a lot of what they've built for Google Glass, and moved it to a watch form factor, which should give it a much better chance of success.

I personally have been wearing a pebble for over 6 months now and it's one of the best purchases I've ever made. I don't see myself ever not owning a smart watch again and I'm really excited to see what Google can do with this.
> Voice Actions

> Register your app to handle voice actions, like "Ok Google, take a note."

I think this is what most interests me. Hopefully we won't be locked into Google's pre-defined tasks and developers can start working on their own voice actions.
I won't even go into my opinions on what kind of people Zynga is run by... sheesh.

However, in my opinion:

The greater question here shouldn't be whether the metaphorical chef (or literal in Google's case) brought as much value in the in the early days as he or she receive(s|ed) after the IPO. It should be about 2 principles:

1. The company gave a large amount of stock to employees at an early stage, which most definitely propelled the company to success, because the employees had an incentive to help the company succeed (see economics 101)
2. The company gave a large amount of stock to employees at an early stage, which were quite valueless at the time, representing a risk on the side of the employee, assuming the stock was taken as (partial) consideration for employment
3. The company gave a large amount of stock to employees at an early stage, and that's their own fault.

It seems the employees without preferred stock will be bamboozled at any rate.
I was thinking about this the last time we were hiring at work, and decided to try to take notes the next time I find a bug or issue that could be repackaged as a hiring challenge.

(I haven't succeeded yet, have been too distracted trying to solve the actual issue to remember to take notes...)
Russia annex Crimea
Wow this is great news. The fact that they went as far as to create an emulator suggests that we can expect a Google-backed smartwatch any minute. It looks like they have put a lot of thought into what the first real generation of Android wearables will be, and I'm excited to develop for them once there is some mass-appeal hardware (sorry Galaxy Gear, not you).

Edit: just saw that LG has soft-announced the LG G Watch, which means the Google-backed hardware is already upon us. Time to fire up my IDE.
I'm an advisor to the vicepresident of the European Commission Neelie Kroes, she is in charge of the Digital Agenda and it seems that she helped to put this forward.

Although I'm in her group of Young Advisors (we're 25), I didn't know about this until today.

I just sent an email to the other advisors and to some people of the European Commission to see what's up. They're always talking about how to improve net neutrality so I can't understand what's going on here.

Anyway I'm really angry about this shitty law killing net neutrality. This is kind of shocking.

If this law passes, I'll seriously ask myself if I want to continue in my role as an advisor.
LambdaJam Diversity and Anti-Harassment Policies
Note: At the top it says "This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series How to Charge"
No, it's terrible. The first 8-bit simcity is a better city simulation. Once you get past the 3d gloss, the game is fundamentally broken and unfun. There are so many basic problems with the simulation that it's not even worth listing the issues.

It's, at best, an advanced proof of concept of a 3d simcity in presentation, that escaped the lab and mutated into the mess that ended up being released.
True - but that I would argue is a slightly different thing. Referring to a thing is not the same as addressing the thing. Would Siri have been as successful were it to be addressed as Apple?
I find myself also questioning this often. It leads to me regularly switching between iOS and Android, Google services and Apple services. Ideally I would like privacy but I think as we go forward keeping privacy would leave you in the same kind of position someone like RMS is in by sticking to his Free Software philosophy so strongly.

I'm always surprised at the number of friends and family I see who have their Facebook set to public - especially considering what they post. When I tell them they don't care. I think the majority of people want some semblance of privacy but they are willing to give up a lot for the efficiency these new products, that require us to give up privacy, provide.
It's not My machine or My internet that worries me.
And to prove the point when SimCity came out people were frequently unable to connect.

Hell, /.; reddit; hackernews are constantly showing that serving static text isn't even solved yet.

And in a couple years when they turn the servers off? it's fine for SimCity, now, because no one cares about online play but a lot of games just aren't going to be playable.
Twitter Testing A New Timeline Called “Fave People”
> You might be shocked to discover how many developers have a deep understanding of algorithms but can’t troubleshoot/design/architect/solve their way out of a paper bag.

In interviews I'm curious to hear about developers' favorite debugging tools or techniques for precisely that reason.
True but being a good designer and being a good business person are two different things.
Well, you miss the most important part- usability. It looks pretty good to me!

And btw, good developers might not be good designers!
I would buy your wood-things.
IPhone 6 To Have Temperature, Pressure and Humidity Sensors?
Don't even need to do that. There are a bunch of TCP-WebSocket bridges out there.
I received an email from Elance stating:

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It is important to note that all of your information is secure and has not been compromised in any way. Still, we recognize that the outage is highly disruptive and we sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this might cause. We are working with the appropriate law enforcement agencies to find and prosecute the criminals responsible for this attack.

We are contacting your clients to explain how these issues may continue to be affecting your ability to communicate and work on your job. We have asked for their consideration when evaluating job progress and performance.

We will be sure to update everyone once the issue is fully resolved and our site is stable. For the latest updates, follow us on Twitter @Elance or on Facebook. You may also join the discussion related to the outage with other Elancers in our Water Cooler. If you have specific questions regarding a job, please contact Customer Support.

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I'm more interested in the watches that were shown on the video. I realize I might be confused, are the watches in the video just placeholders/random design concepts to get the idea across? Still, I'm wondering what devices will eventually support this SDK.
You could handle this with configuration, as others have.

Edit: judging from the other comments, maybe you have already.
Iconic History – a Chrome extension that visualizes browser history
In fairness, I actually edited my reply for clarity, what I had in mind were small samples where the prior ends up dominating.
Yep, and you don't even (necessarily) need to double your infrastructure to do it. Jeff Dean talks about some strategies in "The Tail at Scale"

http://research.google.com/pubs/pub40801.html (paper)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_PxVdQmfpk (talk)
I simply meant that the bitcoin as a protocol and the standard client implementation right now pretty much ignores everything else. Some can be fixed on the client but it is not there yet. As an example the wallet is unencrypted by default.

In addition one of the biggest problems with bitcoin stems from the problem it solves. Transactions cannot be reversed, thus making thefts extremely lucrative.

Normal banks simply reverse transactions if they are fraudulent. As an example someone hacked Nordea (Bank operating in Nordic countries) last spring and got away with 600 000 euros. All of the transactions except one were reverted and the missing one was compensated by the bank.
A few areas of impact, likely many more.

Presumed privacy - Some prefer to not send their direct traffic and history title strings through a google search input.

Usability - search engine autocomplete/suggest can interfere when typing a page title from your history.

Money - traffic volume referred to search engines is significantly increased by merging URL and search inputs.

Edit: wow, parent had zero responses when I started typing this!
Nitrous.io raises $6.65M Series A
We're hiring.
htttp://www.nitrous.io/jobs
When I investigated React in detail, I found that there is a lot to like about it, but it's certainly no "holy grail." Specific downsides: you have to go back to manually writing event handlers (instead of getting automatic two-way data binding) and the virtual DOM is a leaky abstraction.

Here's my article where I analyze this in much more detail: http://blog.reverberate.org/2014/02/react-demystified.html

Also React does not "solve all the problems in the world" -- it says nothing about routing, validation, testability, and many of the other problems that Angular has solutions for.
>>There isn't any inherent philosophy in the protocol. You can use bitcoins with a tinfoil hat firmly planted on your head, or you can use bitcoins to build centralised banking again if you want to. It's just a tool.

It's a deflationary currency that enables decentralized commerce. I think that in and of itself speaks volumes about the philosophy behind it.
Maybe they'll give it away in the free version like with Web Player authoring. Well, I can hope :)
This is to protect user privacy as explained by a Mozilla dev: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6756582

Otherwise every keystroke you made would be sent to Google.
The Problem With Photorealism
Drone CI 0.2: GitHub Enterprise, IRC and more
Can you elaborate more on how to get to that number and any sources you have? :)
Moore's Law will eventually catch up. The Pebble is currently the PalmPilot of smartwatches; perfectly suited to the current state of the art. However, progress being what it is, eventually the technology will be good enough that Android (or iOS) on a smartwatch will become the better solution.
I've found Chrome's graphics performance in general to be better than Firefox's, specifically with regards to canvas and SVG. Not sure the reason, but my guess is just lack of optimization.
It'll be a cold day in hell before I let Google have an always-on device attached to my person, wearable or otherwise.

These folks have proven--proven!--that they are unable to protect their infrastructure from state actors, that they do not care about individual customers, and that they will hijack our services on a whim to try and raise money. Fuck that noise.

Any wearables need to be completely open-source, and with the ability to retarget their output to servers that we control, with security that we verify.

And you know what? Not a single "normal" person understands the issue here. Aaaargh.
Although the software important I think with wearables hardware will be key. No matter how functional these devices are they are first and foremast a fashion accessory and need to look good. There will also need to be a large variety. Every time I look at buying a new watch I cycle through dozens and dozens of devices before I find one I like the look of. This is where I think Google has the upper hand on Apple with wearables. Apple will most likely produce the only device running their software and a lot of people won't like wearing the same fashion accessory as everyone else - they will want choice. Of course if Apple knocks it out of the park with the software/sensors (which is plausible from what I read about Healthbook yesterday) the functionality may just edge out the important of fashion.
Sorry, Google - photorealistic renderings and simulations are not allowed on Kickstarter...

Oh, you're not trying to sell us that cool watch?

Well, somebody will have it up on Kickstarter soon. Probably using your slick video, too.

EDIT: Looks like the watch is real (Moto 360), and is coming this summer: http://moto360.motorola.com/
As a company they surely do not care if something is Google specific or not. They only care if they can sell enough licenses for it to make the development costs make sense. In light of chrome's adoption curve it seems to be a not terrible idea to target nacl.
Yeah, I guess it makes you sound like a tool, but I'm not sure what unique phrase would work better.
Not process but I could hsave sworn there are multithreaded processes enabled by default in Aurora, image processing for example.
Nitrous.IO raises 6.65M Series A
I actually run into this one (or its opposite, a URL getting treated as a search) fairly frequently, which is pretty annoying every time.
> things will literally be hell to debug

The word "literally" has officially lost all meaning.
It's quite ironic that most of the world knows him for LaTeX and not for the zillion fundamental contributions he has made to Distributed Systems.

Truly well deserved. #Respect
Are there any YC alumni in the NYC area who would kindly oblige to have a look at our application? We'll buy beer :).
Here's a question: why does the model website-as-a-service works for blogs, but not for other kinds of websites?

You see, wordpress.com charges for blogs, ghost.io charges for blogs, other people give blogs for free, but still benefit from it somehow, also there's the example of portfolio WaaS like 4ormat.com, but this model only applies to these cases, never to hospital sites, restaurant sites, hotel sites, book sites, or any other kind of website.

Then people in need of these other kinds of website always fell into building a blog, even paying for other people to build them a self-hosted pretty awful solution Wordpress blog. has this been tried?
Urgh...I wish we could skip this whole awkward smart watch phase and just realize its a bad idea.
I made my own version, Triads:

http://lojueguito.weebly.com/triads.html
Yeah. Target asm.js and WebGL and you'll get Internet Explorer 11, Chrome, Firefox, IE and probably eventually Safari. With NaCl you get Chrome only. The choice is simple.