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No company has unlimited resources, but what company, in your opinion, has enough resources at their disposal as well as an incentive to crack a fully encrypted Internet?
Generic benchmarks are dumb. They stress just a few points of the system, you can't assert that the test case was well written, you are not sure that caching on the framework was enabled, or even configured, there's a lot of variables involved to assure that you are extracting the most in performance from a framework/language that you just don't know on those generic benchmarks.

If you want to compare performance, do it yourself, don't believe someone else's benchmarks. Write a test case that is suitable for your reality, then go for a conclusion.
Yes! I couldn't agree more on this one. Such a beautifully written library.
Inequality in the United States doesn't have to do with capital accumulation and wealth, at least not yet.

It has more to do with income inequality and a larger share of total income going to the very highest earners. The key driver of this upward distribution of income has been the steep rise in executive compensation.

The United States also redistributes far less through taxes than Europe. This leads to a wide gap between the very highest earners—those in the top 1.0% or even top 0.1%—and everyone else, including other high-wage earners.
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The previous GPLv3 was the complete package.

This change actually removes features that the GPLv3 had. In particular, the main one and the reason most companies would want to buy a commercial license now is the Grid component. I understand their complete package will have ASP.NET MVC bindings but those aren't necessary.

So, in a way, this is really bad news for open source projects as it effectively takes away a component that is at the heart of why Kendo UI may be used instead of jQuery UI.

They have in effect basically screwed over completely open source projects. For them the only change is that they lose functionality.

But, Telerik is a for-proit company and they've always struggled with the licensing for this as they didn't know how it would fit with their commercial goals. I don't think they've got it right now.

Personally, I see no reason to use this even now. jQuery UI is not maintained by a commercial company and is just as good. I can be confident that the license for jQuery UI isn't going to be messed around with based on new corporate goals. The Kendo UI versus jQuery UI site does a good job of doing the comparison but without the grid component, its a hard sell.

EDIT: I do want to add that overall this is great news. I'm pointing out the nuances of this decision. For people already using this and don't need the other components or can find substitutes, it makes sense to continue to use it and not have to buy licenses. Also, I hope Telerik somehow addresses this and not ignore it.
Exactly. And as the article shows in the end, it seems Uber did raise their fares according to high demand in at least one occasion in New York.
Why does the error message remind me of "This site is only accessible in IE5. Get it [here]"?

In other words, we seem to be rapidly drifting back into the Bad Old Days, when sites were made for a single browser? Not using Firefox? You're SOL. Not using Chrome? You're SOL elsewhere.
"...feel comfortable using a plain text editor..." - the year is 2014.
Stop underselling yourself!!
It seems more likely that there's no such thing as "computer-identifiable human intelligence". Human intelligence is easily discerned by other humans.
+1 for octal encoding; although some of the 64-bit extension stuff - notably REX prefices - has strayed from that, it's far easier to mentally assemble/disassemble x86 in octal form. Odd that the vast majority of x86 opcode references are exclusively in hex, since presenting the tables in octal makes the encoding look far more regular.

http://tnovelli.net/ref/opx86.html
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Assuming that we can breaks nothing; particles will concentrate, but without the barrier they will spread again and this would be a disturbance that simply averages out.
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Unix was originally written in assembly language.
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Yah, that's the trickiest part. I was pretty ecstatic when I found a real world use case for toy code that I spent way too much time on :)
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Check out the just released Mapbox Outdoors

https://www.mapbox.com/blog/mapbox-outdoors/
Uber now banned in Berlin
It's about striking the right balance.

I don't really agree with the original totem-pole idea that devs can do anything QAs and ops can do. While it may be true that a good dev is capable of muddling their way through any challenge because they know how to get around the numerous blocks thrown up by technology, there are definite skills to QA and Ops that developers may be lacking and which will lead to the dev being a poor substitute.

That said, I think devs have skills which are applicable anywhere in an organization. This goes back to the virtue of a programmer being laziness. Being able to see how to build systems and automate things is something that is potentially useful everywhere. In the cases of ops and product support, there is an especially large amount of value from having devs poking their head in from time to time to pick off easy targets for improved automation, reporting, logging, or what-have-you.
As of today, there is no build system which is 1) simple and easily comprehensible, 2) reliable and rock stable and 3) still able to build complex applications with all their (seemingly) quirky needs.

See https://github.com/gyepisam/redux

It's an implementation of DJB's redo concept.

I wrote it because I needed a build tool with exactly the features you describe
and none of the alternatives had them.

I encourage you to try it out and provide feedback if necessary.
HTTP/2.0 is working on encrypting everything though NSA shills have managed to derail the working group by proposing "trusted proxies" that are allowed to decrypt traffic for nonsense optimization reasons.
Pricing missing?
Why list "try free for 14 days" when there is no price listing?

That makes me question if I even want to take it for a spin.
It seems that second scenario is much better since it means more work for us, developers?
"Maybe someone will come along and create a super easy to install and low maintenance server platform"

that's the idea
> The obvious answer in a classical universe is ...

Since there is an obvious answer in classical physics, it's a bit disingenuous to claim that this solves a long-standing problem in classical physics, no?

> With entanglement and de-coherence however, such reversal becomes impossible even in principle [...] So it does look like a better candidate for the arrow of time.

That would be true if you could demonstrate by experiment that a broken egg springing back up onto the table and reforming is physically impossible instead of just unfathomably unlikely. Can you demonstrate that?
Thanks for letting me know about website medium.com and post about multitasking which looks like created when multitasking :)
In response I'll notice http://lasermed.pl which is quite a interesting place in Warsaw, Central Europe as well as say that not always everything is what it seems to be
> So perhaps this should start with a reduction in the cost of valid, "don't throw a security warning" certificates down to zero.

And then people will complain that the CA is not required to revoke certificates that it issued for free when their keys become compromised.

What is people’s idea of DANE? DNSSEC adoption seems slow at the moment, but otherwise it appears to be a valid approach to this whole distributing-public-keys issue?
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It's interesting that Uber managed to get licensed drivers to ignore the rules of their license.
That has to be one of Marissa's most public mistakes yet. She was the one who pushed very hard for Yahoo to hire him. It's interesting that a few articles I read mention that he's really smart but not good with people. I've read that Marissa has the same characteristics, I wonder if that gave her a blind spot on this one?
That's a feature (Surge Pricing). The official reason is to get more cars on the road, but I bet they're not unhappy about pocketing more consumer money either.
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Dude, you're emailing the domain's technical contacts, who likely have no say whatsoever in company sales policy. That sounds pretty hot under the collar to me.

Eh, I never thought of it as that big of a deal, just another task at work where something needs to happen or stop happening, and I only have a handful of routes to take. If asking the sales contact to stop didn't work, it turns out that most people don't make public the contact info for the sales managers' boss.

I'm not going to play cooperate politics somewhere I A) don't work B) have no ability to contact anybody with control over any policy and C) even if they were publicly accessible, don't understand why spamming isn't cool. It easy enough just to contact the dudes running the infrastructure used to spam me. And because they're techies and not salesmen they're actually nice people and already know this kind of behavior is unacceptable emailing. They might not have control over the policy, but they have something I don't: access to the people who can fix the policy or at least get me off the list.

It was actually the nice alternative to calling my netadmin. He was a very good admin, the emails would disappear from my inbox instantaneously, but when he checked the spam filter and marked true positives, his scripts made people wind up on email blackhole lists.
It's funny isn't it. The current state of affairs and the direction we're moving in reminds me (since I'm old enough to remember) of the early days of server based computing and dumb terminals. VAX's in some room somewhere and DEC terminals for the people. Now it's google server farms and chromebooks
Well the URLs are provided by SoundCloud and jQuery so there's nothing that I can do (other than hosting it myself).

Yeah I just hope no one misuses it.

Yes.
I opened in Safari and wondered what it said. I just dragged the link to Chrome to see what was going on.
Based on Seznam's revenue I expect its market cap to be around $1bn., Google wouldn't get much from such deal. The technology is nice, but nothing new and as far as I know Seznam's reach is around 4—5M people (out of 7M internet users in Czech Republic), so fairly small market. — Also, I doubt Ivo (founder) would sell it.

Yet it's super awesome to see Seznam's quality of delivery to local market.
Is there any way where it does not use a server? I really do not want to use a server here.
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Not just Berlin, the same happened in Brussels a couple days ago. We have a dinosaur of a "transport minister" who decided to ban. Two taxi companies monopolize the market.

Neelie Kroes then spoke out against this ban: https://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/kroes/en/content/c...
Google already has done it: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7407861,-73.987388,348a,35y,...
what was up with the Github and 37signals references? They both use Ruby on Rails which could be considered a niche technology, 37signals even admits to use the most bleeding edge version live in production before they even put out a beta of the version to the public so if anything referencing them is actually hurting the article
Any good static site generator can be learned in an hour.

You shouldn't search only for people who already know the static site generator you plan to use: any good developer that uses the CLI will have no problem using it.
I don't think it would be very hard to do that. I implemented the streaming in <audio> tag, which means I'm free to implement the UI myself.

It's on the "audio" branch of my code.
They address that directly:

Housing is not really like that. There are cheaper or more expensive ways to build homes, but in the cities facing these crises construction costs constitute a relatively small portion of the expense of housing. The rest is rent.

You could easily fit twice as many people in SF if zoning codes allowed Brooklyn levels of density. And with Manhattan levels of density you could fit many more still. It's not land that's the limiting factor but the right to build.
Why would you need your own DNS?
How would you ensure operational continuity for my mom who only has an ipad? Since that's the direction the world seems to be taking.
This happens fairly often with C level execs, and generally with anyone who gets big bonuses that are restricted over time, specifically hedge fund employees is the area I'm familiar with.

If you want to hire them away, its common for you to have to make up the loss they would take from walking away from the restricted portion of their bonus.

I've seen payouts to traders and technologists of up to 3 million, 50+ million is, well, that's a lot of money to make up:)
C# is closer to Scala than to Java these days. The type system might not be that advanced but there are value types, nice generics, proper annotations etc., and there is quite a bit of syntax sugar with more coming:

https://roslyn.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Language%20Featur...

PS: quite sure at least some corps are tackling Scala, Ruby is quite good for glorified web dev which is most of modern start-ups.
>This is how the internet is designed, and you can already do this today. In my case, I host my own dns, email, and my own webpages, locally on my home connection. You just have to be willing to learn, and willing to do. Once you've learned, the actual "do" is rather trivial.

That's great that it works for you. But there are lots of people who are perfectly capable of doing this who don't want the hassle (let alone the huge numbers of people for whom this is completely impossible). I spent most of my youth screwing around with computers and learning a lot about how all this stuff works and it was great fun. Now that I'm getting older, it is frankly growing tiresome. The last thing I want to do on a Saturday-- when I should be playing with my kids and enjoying life-- is fuss with some file server that is acting up, preventing my wife from posting vacation photos. I've got enough work to do around the house so as it is. I don't need to be on call 24/7 for IT infrastructure support.
Easy. As they have on a few CERN offices "You can write FORTRAN in any language".

I have seen InternalFrameInternalFrameTitlePaneInternalFrameTitlePaneMaximizeButtonPainter written in multiple enterprise languages.
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Get to know the command line before you start any language.
So I'm looking at moving my VPS into a box at home, but I have an IP that changes every so often. What's the best way to fix that? I've got no problems with DNS being hosted on Route53 or something else.
Wordpress, safe, and stable. Wow. Never heard this together.
From what I've heard, this is because many Asian countries have a culture of information flashbang. The Yahoo homepage is extremely cluttered and busy, which fits in with what they expect.

The Google homepage, in contrast, is just an empty abyss they can't get anything from. Here in the States we seem to value minimalism, which might be one of the reasons people go to Google (aside from it being a great search engine).
We are not really competing Sketch. Landing Page for Avocode coming soon :) See this http://i.imgur.com/B11zMdK.png
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this exmplanation reminds me of the “mu” word from zen culture (as seen on Gödel, Escher, Bach).
I just had a look at the uber registration page. I don't think you need any kind of license, at least not for UberPop. The only requirements listed are your own car, age 21, a drivers license and that you're out of the probation period for the license.

Cab and Limo drivers at least need a Personenbeförderungsschein, but I'm not certain that UberBlack requires that, the wording is unclear ("gewerbliche Zulassung" relates more to tax and business registration for which the Personenbeförderungsschein might be a requirement or not)

https://partners.uber.com/signup/berlin/
Sure it demos well, but it's closed-source. Vendor lock-in sucks, full stop. And the time investment spent learning it won't pay off bc those skills won't carry over to the vast majority of other future projects that don't use it.

Building a site on bootstrap (from source, ie integrating bootstrap's less files as dependencies in your webapp via grunt and bower) is defensible; becoming entirely dependent on the capabilities of something like webflow, imho, is not.

I suppose if you're a designer in a hurry to build a pretty, throwaway site (eg a microsite for an event) then this might be worth your while. But if you're building something for the enterprise, anything you or your team might want to maintain and extend, I think it represents an unacceptable level of knowledge debt, to rely on site-generating tools like this.

YMMV of course. My views are skewed towards the UI architecture needs of a multi-million-dollar global company.

/$.02
I prefer a library with Apache2 over GPLv3 even with less features, because I can use it everywhere.
More use --> more contributions.

Commercial interest in a library makes it more appealing for me, because it means there is money for long term development/maintenance, and I think it's much more likely that it will be not abandoned compared to an alternative open source project without commercial interest in it. Ok, jquery UI is huge and it will not go away, but if I want to go with a library similar to Kendo, I would choose Kendo over that!
Real jokes! All of the jokes in the OP were puns or worse: plays on words. The lowest form of humor, and the easiest.
I use a combination of pocket + bookmarks for similar use cases that dragdis solves; I like the concept of dragdis a lot (it's like pocket with better organization, plus the awesome feature of being able to save specific snippits of data).

However, I use pocket a LOT, on my Android phone, as a way to SAVE content. I'd love to replace pocket/bookmarks with dragdis (or, at least - try to) but I'd definitely need a mobile integration to make it work (via the share intent, i'd imagine).

Great product concept, I'm excited to try it and see how well it works for me!
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This approach is already being used in the wild. Apple’s maps have Flyover which looks to be exactly the same.

Check it out,: http://i.imgur.com/o80D3gr.jpg

Even the artefacts are similar, which is not surprising since both maps were created the same way (by flying over the city from different directions). the only difference seems to be that this Czech company is using UAVs and Apple is using helicopters (they showed an helicopter in their promo video, I’m not sure whether they are always using helicopters).

Apple bought the company that made 3D maps like this but I honestly don’t see the need for Google to buy anyone. This seems easy enough to figure out.

Also, Google doesn’t seem to want to do this. Stuff like this has been out there in the wild (even before Apple bought the company) for a long time, so they could have easily picked up the idea a long time ago.
How is REST problematic for cyclic graphs? I mean the Web is a graph with many cycles and the Web is the defining instance of a REST application. HATEOAS, a pillar of REST, seems, among other things, to be particularly apt for dealing with arbitrary graphs.
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OS X and iOS users can do this in Chrome and Safari, I think the shortcut it selecting a word and pressing Command-Control-D or something :)
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" Taxis are insanely expensive in Germany."

What?

In Berlin from SXF to the "city center" it will run around 40€, from TXL, around 20€ to 30€ depending, and no tip. (Also both airports are served by public transport)

So, no, they are not insanely expensive compared to other places in Europe (and even elsewhere)
Henry Petroski's excellent book The Pencil[1] uses the same subject to explore the history of the pencil's development into the common artifact we know today.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/The-Pencil-History-Design-Circumstance...
You're correct, but I was responding to the claim that land was somehow a special commodity -- in the words of my parent, "land isn't entirely a 'market' good - barring some pretty major civil engineering, increased demand for land in SF isn't going to make more land come on the market".

I reject that claim entirely, and your comment doesn't address my reasons. The supply of cocaine is controlled too, but I suspect that it's a fairly clear example of a 'market' good in the sense of my parent comment. Residential area is not limited any more than cocaine is.
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Ask HN: Why mobile app updates are not updates?
When you have an update for an application, you download it from scratch instead of little patches. Is there any specific reason for this approach on a platform where our data usage is expensive?
Very nice! I had some deja vu when I read the title. I posted an HN thread with the same exact title over two years ago!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3363451

I will sell you soundcloudinstant.com for 1 million dollhairs. But really, yours is much better :)
Not in the time that I've started going here would I have thought that Seznam would make it here. You should check out their tile search feature!

They experiment a TON, all the time.
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I can't even wrap my head around why someone would care about fully permissive licenses over GPL for front end JavaScript libraries, everyone gets access to your source when you serve it to them anyway.
Pretty cool. Now, how long until I can take the compiled byte code and run it in an emulated PC that outputs to a canvas screen? :)
> Maybe someone will come along and create a super easy to install and low maintenance server platform.

There is a developer release available already: https://freedomboxfoundation.org/ All packages are included in Debian Sid.
> What really matters is the willingness to change, to learn a new stack when necessary.

You've hit the nail on the head there !
The difference is that Google is using low-res satellite imagery, rather than high-res drone imagery. Maybe that will change now that they've bought Titan Aerospace.
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You know, the way he stares at you from his book cover, he kind of deserves this.
I have a client with a website that targets scientists. She insists scientists prefer her complex navigational "whatever you call her crazy thing" to a standard, clean, and simple navigation. I keep coming back with "but scientists are people" and it falls on deaf ears. It's so frustrating...
Seznam has been around since the 90s! It used to be the default search engine in Czech Republic that whole time, providing not only search but the first email accounts, news, gossip, etc.
What? Umber is just a preposition, it doesn't has nazi overtones. The fact that it's grammatically incorrect is probably a plus, because it's then less likely to be confused.
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