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If I may ask: Did you find such errors in the linked article? Is this what prompted your question?

"The Hindu" (linked in the post) is one newspaper which takes these things seriously. They even have an "ombudsman" of sorts (whom they call the "Reader's Editor") and they encourage readers to write in to this person pointing out all sorts of mistakes, including grammatical [1].

Constraints of the printed page would also explain some of the "different" language which one finds in newspapers.

[1] http://www.thehindu.com/navigation/?type=static&page=contact
I like the ideas of C2, but I don't like developing on Windows and it seems like they won't release the tools for Linux soon.
But isn't the main problem with using an unsupported version of windows security vulnerabilities which are impossible to patch? This isn't true for Linux in any sense. If by "support" you mean tech support, then you don't really need an "official maintainer" for that.
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I can confirm this, we switched to Rackspace hosted email.
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You bring up another interesting point for me. How do you even know when the problem is or isn't solved? There are two common themes I see in forums like this (and of course, many others of varying nuance). One group has been around for a long time and says it's just not like the old days, and a second group says that it is, and that the former are looking at the past through rose tinted glasses.

I can't objectively say that slashdot was better or worse here. Firstly, because I didn't go to slashdot nearly as often as I do here, and secondly, because I haven't done anything to thoroughly define and measure what I would consider a quality community.

If my problem is that the community is bad, I think I need a way to show to myself that it really is. I need a set of guidelines which I want my community to interact according to, or standards for the goodness I'm trying to push, and a way to see how much goodness there is, then a plan to drive that goodness.

And I'm not even saying that you need to be rigorous about it. Maybe that would help, but I think you can get some ideas with some general notions like tiny surveys, or something like that. I guess you could start getting more interesting and use sentiment analysis after auto-classifying posts, looking for meta content talking about the board.

As another aside, I think more specialized, smaller fragmented communities tend to be better for me, which is why I also enjoy subreddits like r/types and such, but again, I think that by no objective standard
There's also a bunch of other backends if you want something besides OpenFL -- there's h3d, kha engine, Flambe, etc.
Around $250 on 5 services - Heroku, WPEngine, Beanstalkapp, Bitbucket, and AWS.
If it means anything, a lot of people internally at Techcrunch knew about this incident as well - as did a few people outside. It's just being made public now.
There's a meta-rule that's been very helpful to me: never change today's rules.

For example, for the last 6 months I've been changing what I eat. Sometimes the rules I've picked seem like such a good idea, but turn out to be really challenging. Does that mean I've been too optimistic setting my goals? Or just that I'm in the middle of useful struggle?

By deciding that I'll only change tomorrow's rules, never today's, it makes habit-building a lot easier. If I booked myself 5 hours of music per day this week, then by gum it'll be 5 hours today. But I'm allowed to say, "Tomorrow, though, fuck it."

This constrains my rule-hacking powers in a way that keeps me from undermining my progress when things get hard.
I don't know if I wear watches than everyone else differently, but I tend to leave mine on all night. Pebble has alarms that are silent, which is great, but it didn't have the ability to turn off notifications during a period of time. I'd get woken up by my phone more often than I would the alarm, so I stopped wearing it to bed.

I loved the ability to get notifications on my wrist, but in practice it produced mix results too: the default app on Android only supported a fraction of the services I use, so I had to use alternative apps just to push notifications to it. Then, it became a guessing game for what should or shouldn't make my wrist vibrate.

Still, kudos to Pebble for being successful post-Kickstarter and selling a lot. 400,000 units is nothing to laugh at for a project that started out small.
The topic isn't known in advance. The robot has to prepare a speech on a specified topic without human interaction.
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I've already spent my quota on $100+ books for the year. Is there a free version for this book chapter anywhere? :-)
It would be really interesting if profiles were not filtered by country but predictions were grouped by it. If I wanted to move abroad I could base my salary expectations on it.

This would also give more value to people from outside of the U.S. (there is only one other person from Singapore registered, so as it is I won't get many predictions).
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Microsoft's actions in this case are pretty predictable, and the fact that this is a "story" at all just highlights the lowest common denominator news cycle (or alternatively the out of touch entitlement of webmail users).

But just think if they had filed a civil suit and gone to court for discovery of information that they had possession of but conceivably not the right to - they could have created a nice legal precedent and ended up being lauded by the EFF!
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Congratulations to the Pebble team, I'm a big fan and have a app on their store[1].

But the store needs some improvement:

* Paid apps are not allowed

* Sections default to the recently updated list which is encouraging frivolous updates to apps

* Developer support requests can take several weeks

None of these problems will stop me from developing apps for the Pebble platform. I just hope they are at least thinking about app store discoverability issues.

[1] http://wristpresenter.com/
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Hi HN, OP here. I was hoping to get feedback, not only on the idea, but on the actual MVP. I'd greatly appreciate any insights you guys are able to offer!

This product is intended for anyone who wears casual clothing often and just doesn't want to worry about washing, throwing out old clothes, and buying new clothes.

Disclosure: I posted this yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7442767) but I wanted to give it one more shot on HN. If this is inappropriate, I'll take it down immediately.
Schemaless databases are such an awful concept for any data you actually care about. After 12 years in the industry, I've realized any natural controls (e.g. schema) you can place on maintaining the integrity of your data, the better off you'll be long-term.

Data matters the most. Your UI will be a tired POS in 3 years. Your backend data store won't scale for your new business problems. It'll be time to migrate, and then you'll start by asking yourself how clean and well-managed your data is.
really nice app! the name tho, makes me think of party planning not so much bucket list. Let me know next time there are more invites.
I totally agree. There's a problem of people spending too much time on social networks and only witnessing the positive aspects of their friends' lives.

That being said, I don't think Notably will contribute to it...that's not the goal! The point is to let you spend less time on Facebook, without the fear of missing out on important news.

There have already been some success stories like seeing an old friend move back into town that you wouldn't have otherwise known about :)
You're kinda all over the place trying to defend MongoDB...

So, what is your stake in it? You like it? You have a lot of customers on it and you want to validate your decision?

I'm just curious, because by my tastes, MongoDB is an awful database. It's like the PHP of Databases. It seems like there are a lot of better choices out there especially in the last few years.
Hmm, aside from the distaste of a "guilty until proven innocent" formula being injected, this suffers from a critical flaw. The word "endorse" symbolizes something different than "substantial and not nasty". It symbolizes subjective support, agreement. Because of this association, the use of this system will tend to signal that groupthink is valued, and a cycle of groupthink will become entrenched.

The fix is simple: use a different symbol. Something that more precisely, objectively signifies "not simple and not nasty". This will create a more permissive gate that allows opinions of moderate substance and moderate tone through (an "err on the side of allow" policy). Inevitably the symbol must also consider the tendency of moderators, being active participants in a discussion themselves, to favor their own views.

Taken all into account, I suggest the "endorse" link be renamed "tolerable". (Rather than an action, it becomes a kind of flag.) This has the explicit connotation of erring toward permissiveness of differing views, and contrasts the two fears expressed in the post: comments that are boring or unprofessional/spiteful/mean.

(And as it stands, upvoting already signifies "endorsement".)
Unfortunately, as far as I know there's still no decent solution to stream video without flash (I'm talking Twitch et al here). Twitch is the only reason I still have flash on my computer (and not actually for watching games being streamed, but for the annual Desertbus event).

Has the HTML5 video streaming improved at all over the past year?
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I thought perhaps that the 'Paolo Cirio Ltd' at the bottom of the page was a fake company name, but it actually exists. Its first annual accounts are due to be filed in a couple of months, so I'll make a calendar note to download them then.

http://data.companieshouse.gov.uk/doc/company/08188080
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How will you handle the liability of the disease factor? What if you provide used clothes that have lice, bed bugs, etc?
Mostly it's Twilio costs. I spend an unconscionable amount on my cell phone bill due to e.g. international roaming or international phone calls for sales/support, but that doesn't even crater the approach to the bridge of what Twilio costs me. (And I rush to say "I'm totally fine with that, and wish I spent 100X as much, because to a first approximation that would imply revenues 100X higher than they are currently.")
The 2048 authors claim to have written their game with no knowledge of Threes!.
Since you're interested in both, one possibility would be to somehow combine your interest in music with your curiosity about programming (especially if you're into electronic music). Something like SuperCollider/Overtone or, if Python is your thing, maybe https://code.google.com/p/pyo/. You might not be able to rush through the docs at CodeAcademy-pace, but -- who knows where you'll end up? Also, having a project you're personally invested in (which is usually the case when music is involved) is incredibly helpful when learning new stuff; there is always something to do.
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Why is important to encourage new users to comment? That, too, seems to be solving a problem that doesn't exist.
I just did this. Learn piano. If you suck, write code that will make it faster to learn. (off the top of my head: write a midi filter that only permits keystrokes that are onbeat, and makes a fart sound if you miss.)
Well, the first half of the title is right.
Some of the previous work on this involving timing attacks against SSH [1] is particularly interesting because it's so obvious in retrospect, but no one saw it when SSH was being designed.

[1]http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/papers/ssh-use01.pdf
Science publishing is not different from Hollywood movie making. The same self-serving human nature is the driver in both.

I work in the OP's field and appreciate his view. That being said, PLOS has been a considerable disappointment. Noble minded efforts like this without real rewards won't work. Just like nobody cares about some famous actor's/actresses' pet charity cause.

What will work in science publishing is a system that both incentivizes people BOTH economically and in terms of their reputation. That system doesn't exist right now.
I just checked out tarsnap. It's $0.30/gb/month. I currently do a backup to S3 which is a fraction of the price. I wouldn't mind having another cloud service. Why did you choose tarsnap if it's so expensive.
I am a big fan of my Pebble and I could extoll its virtues in many ways but I'll just point out one in reference to your last statement "...in my pocket"

In my opinion that's exactly the point. First off when I'm working on-site I don't want to pull out my phone every time it chimes at me to see what the email or text was. When it alerts dozens of times a day you quickly learn the advantage of a quick wrist glance vs. pulling it out and unlocking it over and over.

Next, in meetings it's wonderful. I put the phone on complete silent and I get a small vibe on my wrist that I can assess with a glance.

And lastly, I find it highly useful when it's not in my pocket. Around the house I don't want to carry my phone, so I wear the Pebble. It will alert me for texts or email, despite the phone being upstairs.

When I first got it I was very much in the "gimmick" camp... but 6 months in now I am fully convinced that some form of wearable notifications are something I will want. I'm excited to see where it all heads. The new Pebble 2.0 has expanded the use a lot with the new apps, but I also wonder if Pebble is about to be steamrollered by the "big guys" like Google's new wearable line. I won't tell anyone to go jump on-board just yet, but my experiences already have convinced me that this is going to become a very common device category in the near future. Especially as it matures.
The whole premise is focusing on a symptom rather than the real issue. I happen to love backspace, because having to press a chord, half of which is requires my hand to move the arrow keys, is a major cache-miss for an action as common as navigating back.

But none of that even matters. The real question is:

Why do browsers not have an interface for configuring keyboard shortcuts yet?

And while they're at it, add an interface to customize whether or not JavaScript in web pages can override certain shortcuts. Not being able to rebind C-w, C-t, C-S-t, space, backspace, etc. has been a huge frustration for ages. One of the reasons I use Firefox is that it has a robust enough extension mechanism to support add-ons like KeySnail, but the fact the key rebinding isn't core functionality is just embarrassing.
We don't have that problem here.

Notice my argument was not for anarchy. Back to signal processing for a moment, I used 'noise' loosely. Signals of interest have noise and signal interspersed. It is often trivial to filter out pure noise, such as white noise. In forums, our white noise is 'this' comments, and we trivially filter those out with downvoting, and I suspect it is not particularly hard to write some lisp code to require endorsement for, say, one word or one sentence replies, and prevent the 'post' button from working if the text is 'this' in any variant.

But if somebody puts a paragraph or more of time into a reply, well, that is not noise. It is signal. Sure, there may be snarkiness there, or not the most civil tone, but we have doing a good job of handling that on a personal level - in the form of replies such as "RogerL, your post, while interesting, is a bit negative. We strive for better here". I see that all the time (well, not addressed to me, but you know what I mean). That is wonderful. Regardless, there is still a lot of signal there. I have my settings set so that I can see hellbanned people. They are all posting things of value, even the one person with the religious content occasionally posts something worth reading.

It is true that there will be no set group of moderators. I don't see how that changes the fundamental equation, but it might. As I said, I haven't formed any solid conclusion, but my gut reaction is that I don't think I feel like participating in endorsement.

If we have a quality problem, it is one of submissions, of bad titles, not of 'this' comments.
I was confusing the two, my apologies.
Terrible title, some great content. Skip the "growth hacking" section and the rest is good.
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You can turn off notifications during the night: go to settings, Notifications, and set "Do Not Disturb" time.
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I think vacri hit it with the knowing your audience and what times they are active. If you run a true 24-hour global service then you need to think hard, but a lot of systems have a very select audience that can be properly scheduled. I would imagine midwest farmers would accept updates done Sunday mornings during church hours maybe slipping later into the afternoon during sports.
All of the clothes will be washed and disinfected as soon as we get them back so I'm not sure how much of a problem that would be. I will look into what kind of insurance (if any) we would need to provide this service though.
> Get a good kitchen set and starting making your own meals. Spend two weeks where you make every meal you eat, so you break the habit of eating out.

How would you suggest doing this? Both in terms of learning cooking techniques as well as constructing a healthy diet for oneself?
Have to agree with you. Reddit solved this problem elegantly with auto folding ages ago.
I can sum up this article & its predecessors like so:

"What do we want? We don't know! When do we want it? Now!"
I agree.

At a minimum, I'd suggest lowering the karma threshold to 100 and/or only gray out comments that are 'pending'.
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That is an awesome idea.

What I do is tell myself "I'll start this activity, and if I still don't want to do it after 5 minutes, I'll stop"

Chances are, after 5 minutes, I actually want to keep going. The human desire to not leave something undone works in your favor.
This is exactly why security conscious people don't use flash. Html is supposed to be a document and not an application. We created this Frankenstein with Flash, Java and JS to make HTML pages appear other than documents. The net result is that you need to install these plugins otherwise you can't get the full experience. The real question is why do we let people to abuse technology instead of using it well. I have disabled all of these plugins long time ago and also JS runs on very specific websites where it is an absolute must. You could install games through the browser, make it easier but to run through the browser, it is a bad idea.
I think that one of the key challenges though is that speaking is an action not only of expressing an opinion but also furthering an agenda. I think one must understand this link to understand why I think PG is not quite exactly right here.

Very often times ideas which stir controversy do so because of a real or perceived agenda behind them. If I say, for example (as I have on HN and gotten flack for) that women tend to be more likely to think in ways which are socially more complex than men, I get flack because there is a fear that anything essentialist about gender (outside of, say, the abortion debate) is essentially a way of trying to imprison women in limiting gender roles. That isn't my intention naturally but I have to accept that this is the framework behind the controversy that saying something like that arises.

Similarly if I argue that the natural order is for people to retire with their children, this has huge impacts for modern ideas of sexuality and the choice of childlessness.

There are tons of attitudes that I think that I would be cautious (though perhaps I am too foolish to be reluctant) about discussing. But the key issue is the concern about the perceived agendas, and the perceived power structures that come with those.

Ideas themselves must exist in a context, and that context is defined in part by how they are used, not only by the person discussing them but also by others.
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>Modern web applications that have to scale for millions of transactions

except MongoDB doesn't support transactions.

>Initially, the lock scope of MongoDB was database wide, but later versions have a scope per database.

that's just an editing error, it should say that initially the scope was instance wide, but now it's database wide.
Show HN: I made an HTML5 game (not anoter 2048 clone)
I ordered early February and mine still hasn't shipped.
The reason the CPU is not using most of the energy is because it's not used all the time. And that's by design. Every single thing possible under the sun is done to keep the CPU off for even a split ms on mobile.

Because if you start using the CPU all the time, your battery is done.
> All of this must be accomplished with no human interaction with the mechanical being.

Well that makes things much easier. Answering questions without giving the game away would be impossible, after all. Generating an expert system to just walk around and generate a passing talk without any interaction is pretty easy, though.
you can still do schemafull databases with NOSQL databases but its in your hands to do it or not do it.

All the problems you list you can have on SQL databases too
It has to do with discipline to keep your data clean not with SQL or NoSQL
Or just copy 4chan's system directly, since that's what you're iterating towards, and they've already solved this problem.
>>In this analogy, where is the plaster coming from? It can't just come from nowhere[0].

Moore's Law, AI , other technological advances. Some bumps are producing way too much paster thats oozing out of the wall boundaries and into the emerging market wall of other countries.

Imagine a time in future when everyone is replaced by robots and no one is "employable" in a traditional sense. What would you do then? The economy is directly linked to the productivity of nations in producing goods and services , it has nothing to do with human effort directly.
Bugrocket broke even during the beta period - about 3 months. CourseCraft isn't SaaS, more like a marketplace, so some months it makes a lot more (from transaction fees) than it costs and sometimes less, but overall/on average it is break even, launched in December 2013.
They did not plan to make it 128 bits. The standard output sizes have always been 224/256/384/512 as specified in the competition.

For an ideal secure hash function with 256-bit output it takes ~ 2^128 operations to find a collision, while most other attacks, like finding preimages, takes ~ 2^256.

The sponge construction Keccak uses allows you to reduce the difficulty of finding preimages in return for increased speed, by adjusting the capacity of the sponge.

The idea was to have a fixed "level of security" for each hash, based on the collision resistance, and tune the other parameters based on that. So a 256-bit output would require 2^128 operation for either a collision or a preimage attack.
That's not entirely accurate, crawlers/indexers don't execute JS code reliably but depending on your routing setup it can sorta work if you use a special meta tag, <meta name="fragment" content="!">

https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/...

http://www.slashdot.org/story/169505