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I hear my coworker complain about it regularly, talking about how much easier Powerbuilder was to do applications and how far astray we've went. :)

But it's true -- we had nice, established patterns for client-server applications and we go through more and more hacks to give it the same usability as a VB6 app over a decade ago in twice the hours.

To be fair, people have tried to solve it. Remember applets? For some reason, they never caught on. I worked on flex apps, and the only problem was that it depended on the flash plugin, was expensive, and had some maddening incongruities of its own. Others have tried and failed as well, because the web, to most people, is good enough.

We're in a "worse is better" kind of situation now. Plan 9 may have been better than Unix, VAX may have been better, but they didn't win.
BMW Laser Light goes into series production. The BMW i8 is the first production vehicle to feature the innovative light technology.

The basic version of the BMW i8 is equipped with high-intensity, energy-efficient full LED headlamps, and the optional laser boost feature additionally ensures a high beam range of up to 600 metres. This means that the already high illumination range of the modern LED high beam is doubled. Thanks to the new laser technology, it is possible to increase energy efficiency by a further 30 percent compared to already highly power-saving LED light.
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If your binary output a text file or whatever with commands for GPG, which I could then execute and put back into keybase, that would solve the problem.

I agree, usability nightmare, but it would be a nice paranoid option.
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After going from a SIII to a iPhone 5s recently, I wholeheartedly agree.
Start the compile, eat dinner, go to bed, breakfast, go to school, eat lunch, done. Beats fighthing with a cross compiler toolchain for a one-off job by miles.

(Reminds me of a povray benchmark I did some time ago: start the render, go on a holiday trip, wait some more, done:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/de.comp.os.linux.misc/XmdkN1... )
While we like being #1 on Hacker News, bad (good?!) timing is what earned us this spot.

It will be the case very soon that you can push your key to Keybase and prove all your identities, without ever installing the client the OP dislikes. Technically, you can already, we just need to put together very explicit instructions and documentation that's different for each kind of proof. By ugly necessity, what it takes to prove yourself on twitter is different from github is different from DNS, etc. Documenting the API was our priority coming into this week.

Later this week the site will have very specific instructions on how to prove your identities (even the complicated ones) simply from your shell plus GPG.

Then those who care can verify all those proofs with a script, in a language of their choice. No Node or NPM needed for any of it.

There was some discussion below about "trusting" the Keybase server's definition of the public key that comes back. The goal here is to remove that trust. Software of your choice can download a Keybase user's keys, the links to their proofs.
Interesting - I find the Australis (on linux & OSX) cleaner and takes up less screenspace. I wonder what we're doing differently...
Maybe I'm missing the part where you can just batch job it and read per line with hadoop / python and the csv lib?

Shoot me an email ( details in profile ) as I'd love to poke at something just for the line on my resume.
By the way, we're going to penalize April Fools' jokes tomorrow so that they fall off the front page quickly. This isn't new, but we're going to be more systematic about it. The April 1 tech thing has become stale. If you guys see April Fools stories that we miss, flag them unless they're really particularly good.

People complain about HN's humorlessness, and they're right to a point. The trouble is that with a culture of humor comes a flood of lame humor. HN wants to optimize for intellectual curiosity, which wants higher signal/noise ratio. It's not that we're killjoys—we like jokes and laughing—it's that the signal/noise problem is hard.
I assume the $25K is excluding living expenses for yourselves?
Parasitic Computing [pdf]
We certainly might be heading into a bubble, but so far the effects have been limited.

WhatsApp isn't very indicative of a bubble, same with instagram, snapchat, etc. because it's the same company (FB) making single bidder offers. That hardly a bubble makes.

The rest of the market isn't necessarily in a bubble because for the most part companies going public are either making money or have demonstrated that they can be making money if they stopped growing.
Can you make an RSS feed which combines your individual feeds into one?
k is derived from a password in this case, so capture of the password implies capture of k.

We give people the option to store their encrypted secret keys on our server to make it easier to manage their key and sync it across their devices.
We're talking about Ruby here, though. MRI threading has concurrency limitations, so processes are better here IMO.

I tend to think out of the box for multiprocess shared memory - Kyoto Cabinet and Redis can be helpful here, to name a few. Even SysV shared memory is pretty easy to use.
Shall I compare thee to a Ridley Scott film?
Well, if your first sentence is correct, then I think we have a major constitutional crisis, because I just described what amounts to an effective repeal of the law.

To extend the idea further: What's to stop the president from changing any deadline or date in any law? Almost every bill passed by Congress contains a line that reads "this act is to be effective on date X". If the president can waive this it will, then we have not only just given him a line-item veto, we have given him a line item repeal.

If the case is that the only impediment to the executive branch unilaterally rewriting laws is politics, then we don't really live in a representative government with checks and balances, we live in a term limited elected dictatorship.

It's my opinion that the current president is firmly in unconstitutional territory.
"We want to break the paradigm where without spending hundreds of pounds on a PC, families can’t use the internet. We want owning a truly personal computer to be normal for children, and we’re looking forward to what the future has in store"

That's from RPi's mission statement. It's on their website.

RPi had nothing to do with being a cheap Linux platform for hardware hackers and people who wanted a cheap XBMC or MAME box. But now it's 99% that.
And https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7497688

For the OP: maybe log this as a poll?
Do you really have to ask???

There's a appalling lack of transparency in all this, but when the curtain is occasionally lifted (generally at a state site), or we otherwise hear stuff, there's nothing that indicates "young invincibles" are signing up in significant, let alone sufficient, numbers.

That may change as they get dinged for every higher penalties, but the political sustainability of those is highly questionable.
I don't really get your point. If the evidence shows that pornography is harmful, then it makes sense for parents to attempt to reduce access even if they can't be completely successful. The same thing would go for something generally considered harmful, like irresponsible drinking.
I honestly can't see any difference between the 720P display on the nexus 4, and the 1080P display on the Nexus 5.

Of course if I scrutinize both I could discern a difference with no problem, but functionally speaking, there is no difference. We certainly don't need more than 1080P on a phone, do we?

How about some better battery life instead? :)
I think they're hard-coded to appear in places that are the real-life locations of Pokemon games, and they tossed in the Googleplex for fun.

For instance, the latest Pokemon iteration is quite obviously based on France [1], so that's why Google put creatures there.

[1]: A map of the Pokemon X / Y world: http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/194c63lohgnayjpg/original.jp...
Yeah, just game specific costs. Art, sound, music, tutorials, etc
How often do you see the BigBang or Plate Tectonics being reported as a controversy? There is a pile of evidence supporting anthropogenic climate change, but it's constantly downplayed as something one “believes” in or not.
IIRC, JSON is a strict subset of JS and Python.
Show HN: URLTodo – The treatment for "Read It Never" syndrome
Never, ever think about doing any of your startup business in Belarus. It is _not_ part of the common market and your operation can be annihilated by the (still autocratic) state at a whim.

If you find good people from Belarus (which undoubtetly there are), try to get them visa to come to where you are.
I'm trying to justify the purchase of a HTC One at the moment, because it seems to be an awesome phone and I want a new toy.

But for practical use there are no benefits. Not even if you have a older device. The One is maybe the most beautiful designed piece of hardware I have ever seen, but other than there is not much that I can do better with the One than with my Nexus 4.

I still want that damn phone, though.
An interesting insight, highlighting the importance of selecting personnel mentally ready for such a task. The reluctance expressed is quite understandable, though indicative of someone who probably shouldn't be given such an assignment. The percentage of misses seem rather high at such modest distances (for the equipment used and presumed training), hinting at practical reluctance. I don't knock the author's anguish, just note how some/many are unsuited for the realities of war.

FWIW: The lead photo shows an M4, not the M24 used in the article.
It kind of did, but in another form. Google took their tech and what they learned and implemented live, multi-person documents in Google docs.

Maybe the idea for wave to replace email was flawed, but it works well for specific documents and folders like in Google drive.
AAA PC/console titles are out-grossing Hollywood and continue to grow every year. This explosive growth continued through the last console generation despite the high cost of the Xbox360 and PS3. A bigger danger for console makers is hardware saturation of the market. If gamers don't see compelling reasons to update to the new consoles, we could have another 1983 on our hands. VR, besides offering a potential edge in the console wars, could present a way to combat saturation. This is no doubt why Sony is pursuing VR so aggressively.

The mobile market is still comparatively tiny in terms of gross, but it must be pointed out that it is not incompatible with VR. Current handsets are not powerful enough to support VR but that will change in a few years. The question is, how much immersion do mobile users really want?
Cool Beer Bottle Designs
Creative Commons Licensing Your Dissertations
$1 in the US will buy you much less than $1 in Thailand. Raw income comparisons don't work. $32,400 in San Francisco is poverty (my conjecture) for a family of four.

At least appeal to something like The Economist's Big Mac index.
the linked article measures Maximum Brightness, Screen Reflectance, performance in High Ambient Light, Absolute Color Accuracy, Viewing Angles, display power efficiency, and running time on battery. It also says that all of those are more important than resolution.
Whatching those Mill presentations just spoiled me...
No, you're wrong. It's entirely decentralized. Have a look at the spec:
https://github.com/onenameio/onename

Anyone running a full Namecoin node (ie, anyone running Namecoin client) can register an identification.

OneName is providing a convenient web portal to this key-value store on Namecoin, so their business model is somewhat analogous to Blockchain.info's (or perhaps they have another business model in mind, who knows?).
WP Engine Is Experiencing Intermittent Connectivity
Virgin America's New Feature: Total Temperature Control By Nest
TED Talk Controversies
Connecting the world from the sky – A paper by Mark Zuckerberg
New open source HTML element identification tool
I wrote a new HTML Element identification tool for the test automation community which I call Looking Glass. It will auto generate xpath, css selectors and all other ids used by Selenium.
You can verify your own Selenium ids and you can even see if selenium is able to click HTML element without having to run your whole test case.
I wanted to create a tool which is useful for automation engineers that is also compatible across multiple browsers (Chrome, Firefox, IE and Safari) and OS's (Win, Linux and OS X).
Please take a look and let me know of any issues or any features you'd like to see and check out this 4 minute video that gives a quick overview of it.

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Wello
We're definitely worried about the hushmail attack, and we disclaim browser-based crypto on the site for those who want to protect against powerful adversaries. Some users might not have those concerns.

You've obviously indicated valid concerns, but note, they're not indictments of storing an encrypted private key on the server so much as they are of browser crypto.
If it's your primary camera it's worthwhile to spend extra for better image quality.
Who has deep familiarity with 30 different tools? Isn't this more like "here are 30 results Googling 'dataviz library'". Perhaps that's unfair, but sure it would be more useful as 5 of the best tools.
That's offline time, isn't it? In other words: the numbers we're talking about are based on the computing resources available to these researchers. It's not as if not having extended_random_value or OpaquePRF means the NSA needs to monitor many many TLS connections, right?
Write the Right kind of Tweet
Let me echo Edmond's post, and then some: start diverting a lot more attention to that fiancee. You said that you're getting married next year, so that implies that she is not just a girlfriend but rather someone you've decided to make your partner in life.

A spouse takes care of you when you're sick as a dog, either with the flu or cancer. A spouse provides you with the brutally honest intellectual sparring partner you generally won't find in other friends. A spouse supports you when you've had a crap day, month, or year. And, of course, the reverse is expected.

Name me a business that will do the same. If your 'baby' took off tomorrow in all the ways you have dreamt, would it do any of those things?

You are in an understandably low place. But if you ignore or neglect the individuals who are willing and able to help get YOU (and not your business) into a better place, YOU will not be in any condition to improve your professional life.

Do something NOW so the friends and fiancee you have NOW remain in your life. Business be damned: it is the people in our lives that make it worth living.

You've done the right thing by reaching out for help. If you don't care for my advice, go find a professional for a second/third/fourth opinion. There's no shame in that, but the regret you may feel in the future by squandering your relationships now may be crushing. Act.
Pretty uneven list of tools indeed; the author doesn't seem to properly appreciate the differences between the various tools.
Could maybe try this as a stopgap? http://www.rssmix.com
I would go so far as to say that while containerization is incredibly useful, it's being used as a bandage for a lot of broken systems. Take for instance one of the most popular platforms for using Docker and other containers on: OSX. Looking there, package management is a mess at best.

Those of us long time Debian users can appreciate having a service for those (very rare) situations in which something is not already (very well) packaged. Making sure that you're not inadvertently depending on something is as easy as "apt-get install" on the target machine (usually your webserver that is running the same version of Debian as your dev machine).
It looks it's urlmon.dll there, whereas Bruce observes mshtml.dll loaded.
Why does it even matter if you show the credit card type when the user is typing it in? If the first 6 numbers determine the card type, then handling card type can be done on the backend. Why make the effort to show users information that they already know, ie. card type?
I don't think they will go that path. It would make much more sense to introduce a desktop version of iOS itself. iOS has already everything that's needed for a light desktop OS. It would provide much better experience than ChromeOS, there are already thousands of applications doing about anything and it would require very little effort to adapt iOS to run as a desktop OS and to adapt the existing applications. I think that a hint for that is the recent port of Microsoft Office. If users want more sophisticated OS they can just use 13" MacBook Pro. It's quite easy to guess that the next version will be thinner and lighter and probably cheaper - very similar to the current MacBook Air.
Excellent! I'm glad that we're on the same page here. Thanks for making the service, once the single point of trust (your client) is removed I should be able to fully recommend it to everyone I want to communicate with.

Just a thought: I like how you walk the user through the steps you took to prove that the owner of the private key signed the tweet. I suggest you also provide the appropriate commands to perform the verification ourselves as well. The client does this, but for users operating without it it'll be very useful.
Design Challenges of Creating A White Labeled Game Development Service
ok, the distro has an outdated version of x software. This is a pretty common issue with older distributions. The great thing about debuntu is that you can pin packages to newer versions!

http://packages.ubuntu.com/saucy/nodejs
Yeah -- from what malgorithms says, you're actually on the path to removing dependency on a given binary being "near" my key material. I trust you guys more than enough for now; I just don't want to have to trust you if this gets wide adoption in 2 years once you become an actual target.
Multichannel Tactics to Drive New Product Offering
good Job, that is the info I was looking for..really good work..keep it up!
What definition of OO doesn't include encapsulation?

And encapsulation in JS is fundamentally broken - everything is public.
I'd say in part because you want to give people a UX they are comfortable with. Sites for years have been asking for "Card type", and so a user may suspect something is wrong if they don't need to enter it and show no indication you know what it is.
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Keep quiet, stay busy and make stuff happen
The state of the system-on-a-chip in 2014
But showing failures is very awkward.

Agreed. I hate, hate, hate the idea of personal failure... even though I accept that failure itself is a learning process. The fact that one does not succeed is humbling.

But the alternative is worse: concealing your failure to the degree that it leads to a huge fall, with greater consequences.
Technically, wouldn't that just be... the advertising department? I mean, writing, production, distribution, GOALS, are all... the exact same as advertising.

Only better, because good April Fools projects are awesome.
Yes, the density compensates for the strange arrangement. I own a Note 3, and from the closest distance my eyes can focus (~10 cm) I can see a faint diagonal texture on some colors. At normal distance nothing. A straight 1px line is a straight (and very thin) line, nothing jaggy. I expect the S5, with an even higher density, is even better.
Cloudera Raises $900 Million, Declares War On Legacy Data Center Vendors
Gone in 60 Seconds? Easy to Hack Into a Tesla, Security Expert Says
As an aside, the web is an extremely convenient application distribution platform, it seems like a shame we can't securely use it for anything remotely sensitive. Is there a middle ground somewhere? e.x. signed bundles of HTML/CSS/JS?
It was urlmon that was loading mshtml.
That is totally awesome. I really hope you guys will well document everything you learn, with code snippets and all!

That could inspire a lot of new young programmers who want to learn more!
Interesting! I personally would have loved to have a chat with Facebook's legal team about the issue. Although I'm a bit surprised they'd actually call him instead of either a) not hotlinking anymore (seems to be the most obvious solution) or b) just sending a quick C&D.

I'd be surprised if they actually have a leg to stand on legally if they are hotlinking off someone's site, especially if there's have no prior agreement to allow them to do so.
To me it looks that the "just seconds" on the off-the-shelf hardware means that creating the custom chip can allow for a large-scale real-time online decryption of "many many" connections. And even if such a chip is not feasible, additional bytes do make attack much more scalable and reduce the possible response times significantly.
Ask HN: If Threes had a free version, would it prevent clones?
It's funny because I discovered 2048 before Threes. But many of my game dev friends were bashing it, calling it a clone. When I think about it logically, the reason why 2048 became successful is simply because Threes didn't have a free version.

What do you think?

If you agree, what do you think if Threes make a free version?
No reason to JIT -- They already support fat binaries.
I'm glad I don't need this, but seems great for people with medical problems that need to monitor their bio functions.
Cloudera Wraps Up $900 Million Financing Round
Okay, how does the front-running work then? Are ticks too frequent?
Implementing the simulated annealing algorithm
If you added a `Math.random() < .01` in the if clause, I doubt they'd ever even notice, and depending on how much traffic they get you could have a nice steady flow of referrals =].
The Quest For Every Beard Type
An Elegant and Reliable Door Sensor
Investigate cognitive behaviour therapy - a course of about one hour per week for 8 to 14 weeks.

Then investigate the existing online versions of CBT, and make better versions. (See the NICE guidance for computer CBT for examples).

Recognise that failure is practice. When you play a musical instrument you know that you can't just play the good so gs perfectly rigt away and that you need to practice. Company failure is just practice and learning.

Realise that there is luck involved in start up. Would you feel bad if you rolled a die 20 times and didn't roll a six each time?
Thanks for posting this. It'll really help me out.
That seems unlikely, but I've certainly been wrong about UI questions before. I'd be very curious if anyone has any data supporting this idea.