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The painting analogy isn't really warranted, and this article is a metaphor at best. You could replace painting with poetry, music, or building furniture. There are a few definitions of painting, and there's lots of art being made that plays at pushing those definitions, so I can't claim to have the definitive one. However, essential things, such as the interface (which is in no small part responsible for the content of a painting), and the actual final product as object, are very, very different. A medium is also defined by its constraints, and from code to screen or printout the constraints of image-making are unlike anything you have in painting.

Generative art is beautiful, but not because it has anything to do with painting.

Edit: If this seems harsh, it's because I care about code just as much as I do about painting. Using any one of them as a catch-all for stereotypes is intellectually lazy (and often irritating).
I would if I could, but my home IP would get banned from many of the forums I frequent. I know a lot of forum websites now auto-ban tor exit node IPs.
GNUStep's Objective-C framework makes it easy to port desktop apps written in Obj-C over to other systems, and includes newer features like ARC, so I wouldn't say Obj-C locks you into AppleLand at all, at least for desktop apps.

From a slightly different angle, I personally think Obj-C is a very neat alternative to C++, and that it would flourish outside of the context of Apple's frameworks if more folks started to use it as such. While I'm happy that iOS development will be a little less difficult now thanks to Swift, it makes me sad to think that Obj-C might not get as much attention from newer developers who like the way the language extends C with Smalltalk-style OO and message passing.
Ah. Typography.

Please tell me I'm not the only one that expected some discussion of static vs. dynamic typing, etc. But was wondering why nymag would cover it.
I have a few developers that can't wrap their head around too much languages without popping one out. The less variability we have, the more robust the final code will be. Theoretically, all developers are ideal learning machines with a robust CS background and a powerful abstracting mind with infinite time to learn and jump around languages at will, with perfect understanding of each language caveats and idiosyncrasies. In practice, one has to build stuff. This kind of things, while not a perfect solution, allows my team to produce better code more reliably.
afaik,it's not really a ruby to javascript compiler(like coffeescript compiles down to js).

You cant write xhr = XMLHttpRequest.new and expect it to compile in js.without importing some libs.
I saw Amazon's Glacier service but I'm interested to know if there is anything cheaper. I don't need particularly fast reading or writing abilities, just the ability to do it when needed.
Swift grew from work to sustain Objective C, which it now aims to replace
On a touchscreen-only device, there is no scrollwheel, spacebar, or shift key. That leaves "clicking on any page takes you to it", which I have with the web already. Except with the web I can also pan and zoom to navigate around the page when I get there.
10.10 is beta.
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the browser may be able to optimize the 2D canvas operations by using the GPU more efficiently, but drawing with the webgl stack is going to suck the same amount of battery whether doing 2D or 3D. After all, 3D is really just correctly positioned 2D triangles.
Me too but "the language is very javascript like" isn't the same as "reminded me a little of javascript".
Judging the language by it's syntax is a very superficial approach and then even the syntax shows a lot of things not present in JavaScript.
Thanks for the feedback! I work with Leo at Kivo. We've gone through a fair few iterations of our home page and we know it's not perfect yet. Right now we're trying to throw people right in to the product itself and then if they have more questions after that then they can find them in the site. But you're right we need to be upfront about a lot of information, it's just a balancing act, we're trying to find the right point. Thanks again.
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How is this meaningful at all? Of course people knew how to do stuff in Windows 7 because it had, except for some minor and cosmetic changes, basically the same UI as Windows 95. Now with Windows 8 the actually re-designed stuff completely. Is that bad? Well, I myself had to Google a few basic things in the beginning as well, but once you know these basics everything else is rather straight forward.

PS: I'm not a full-time windows user. I use OS X and Linux mostly.
I work with Leo at Kivo. Thanks for pointing this out, we'll be fixing this ASAP. Sorry you felt punished!
My fear is that with money comes an 'Enterprise' edition.
I'm talking about outright fraud, not gambling. Quite a few cryptocurrencies have had larger premines than the devs claimed or other outright fraud issues that allow the devs to profit and costs everyone else money.
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Exactly! I can't believe this has made it to the front page.
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It's probably better than where we are (assuming, as someone else pointed out, emissions standards aren't reduced).

I think the point being made was more about local minimums versus global. The most optimized ICE car possible will be impressive, but the emissions will never beat electric (assuming clean electric sources, obviously), and the rolling resistance will probably never beat trains or canals (which are of course only useful for arterials, and possibly only freight).
I think you guys are overthinking it. The reason why it worked is because you let your users demo the product, for free, no strings attached. This is a tried-and-true advertising practice, and it's the same as 'Show, don't tell'. This is why people put pictures of the product on their ads.

I think that anyone who scraps their landing page (and facebook has probably the ugliest one in the known internet) and just puts their product front-and-center will easily increase their conversion by at least 10%.
McDumpals sells stolen credit cards, not hamburgers and fries
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Shrturl: Faking the web since 1942
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7 is borderline. I wouldn't do it, but you know your 7 year old better than I do, and you know where you parked and I don't.

4 is not borderline. There does not exist anywhere in the world a trustworthy 4 year old.
TNW article http://thenextweb.com/dd/2014/06/05/shrturl-co-youll-never-t...
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This is interesting because its your classic ivory tower (Xanadu) vs the trenches (web) approach. After all these years and all this spilled ink, we finally have an implementation. Ignoring the tinhat style presentation, its um... interesting I guess, but from what I can tell tries to solve a problem that either doesn't need solving or has been solved in a different way by the web and sites like rap genius. Sometimes a "worse" system that's modular can be built upon is better than a "perfect" system that takes decades to launch and is monolithic and inflexible.

Also, this system being blind to things like complex formatting, colors, pictures, videos, etc kinda kills it for the modern user. It really does have this sad sheen to it, like some intelligent people worked real hard on something yet they didn't have the social vision to really ask if this works for the everyman or what problem they were solving for others. Its an Asperger's masterpiece of sorts.
Not all that familiar with Freelancer but, if I was running a for profit business, I would feel free to experiment with pricing. If I wanted to raise my fee from $25 to $50 I think the serious reason would be, I want my business to be profitable. Sometimes when you first price something you are just kind of guessing what the correct price is. If you pick a number too low sure your customer might like it, but it may not be good long term for the business. So you have to iterate on price.
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Did you read to the end of the paragraph where they say that they're going to implement crypto?

They're not insecure about being able to make a workable crypto api. They are aware that it's not a good idea to implement crypto in a high level language that's not been engineered for security yet.

Their solution is to wrap a proven C crypto library, which is probably what good Go and JVM languages do also (I wouldn't trust one that doesn't) and it's probably going to be ready within a month or two.

edit: just an aside, why would you terminate your SSL in Go/Java, it's good practice to have a proxy like nginx or haproxy do that for you.
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The parent we're talking about here famously let their 9 year old ride the MTA anywhere in NYC, kicking it off by dropping her kid off at Bloomingdales and then assuming he'd eventually make it home (which involved a bus transfer).
California's Prop. 184, which is probably the harshest three-strikes law in the country because it doesn't require the third felony to be serious or violent, was a ballot initiative that passed 72-28 in 1994: http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_184,_the_Three.... Washington's Initiative 593 passed 75-25 the year before: http://ballotpedia.org/Washington_%22Three_Strikes%22,_Initi....

You can't get American voters to agree on anything by that kind of margin, other than apparently the idea that you should get life in prison for stealing a few hundred dollars each on three separate occasions.

Honestly, what really irks me about the "prison lobbying" angle is that it's just a way to shirk responsibility. "Oh, it's those lobbyists that are to blame, not my parents, friends, or me."
Hey HN,

Developer here. I would certainly appreciate any and all feedback. As a consistent over-developer, I am trying a more minimal MVP approach to see if there is interest in where we're going from developers. We have seen significant interest from client service people.

When you sign up, there is a link to a 3-question survey which will help me determine where to go and what to build. Even if you don't sign up, I'd love to get the feedback and the form is available here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1PREar3pMWkPWK9nOT4UzVmD4vqA...
The name is a bit awkward, given the existence of Opalang, which is another $SomeLanguage to JavaScript compiler.
There must be external libraries you can use. Or curl.
Easy to explain cronology of new X-Men movie. I want to see you do the same with Primer!
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I don't think the "open core" model is in their best interests. Look at a company like Zenoss, where their OSS version is their biggest competitor. It doesn't make sense for ES to do that.

Now marvel[1] is where they've started monetizing and I'm sure they make a good bit of money from "professional services" teaching companies how to deploy ES at scale. Hopefully they pull it off, as the world needs a good competitor to splunk. ES has the backend tech, but kibana has a loooooong way before it rivals the interface for searching splunk. Here's to hoping!

[1] http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/marvel/download/
really well done and funny. i like this power.
Haha now that would be a challenge
You need to drop a lot of the safety, grossly raise the price, or both though.

I've got some family in the auto industry, and their consensus is that we are either really rapidly coming up on the point where we've got just about all the safety and fuel economy we can have without sacrificing safety, or we're already there. You're getting into the space where arguing for increased fuel economy is going to be directly arguing for killing more people. You may find this a tough sell. Especially since telling the automakers to "make less safe cars" is also going to have to come with an ironclad guarantee that when people die in these cars, the car companies won't be sued. And getting that law passed is going to be a tough sell, too, for a lot of reasons. The safety advocates aren't exactly going to stand passively by while you try to tear their stuff apart.

Basically, you can't have it all. Not even if you pass a law saying that you have to have it all.

And while we're at it, let us also not forget that "grossly raise the price" also is not something you can just wave into being. The Democrats can hardly try to make "inequality" into a major issue, then do something that unambiguously makes cars much more expensive for everybody.
But even Swift is lake of portability, so is Objective C.
For example, It is hard to port iOS project in Objective C to android. So I think Swift doesn't change anything?
Pentadactyl is the one currently being developed. I believe it was forked from vimperator when vimperator development stalled.
There may be legal differences between types of car, but I don't see why three wheels should make it "not even a car".

For example in the UK we had a mass-market three wheeler called the Reliant Robin, which was culturally considered to absolutely be a car (albeit a car worthy of having jokes made about it). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliant_Robin
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Would love feedback from HNers, are these templates useful?
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What would be so bad about an enterprise edition? Many companies require extra support and would pay for the enterprise edition and wouldn't even consider the product without this option.
This situation isn't the same as a protection racket. In a protection racket, it's the racketeers themselves that hurt you when you don't pay.

In this case, lawyers are more like mercenaries. Yes, you can pay them for protection, as you can a racketeer. The differences are that they don't come to you demanding money, and if you don't pay they won't turn around and hurt you, nor will anybody they're directly working with.

Some other lawyers may cause you grief; however, they will be working on behalf of some other party, not the lawyers you didn't hire.

You could argue that the legal system as a whole is a racket, but that's a different sense of the word.
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So I gather the "visible connections" refers to the lines from the document to the original source. What if I had a document with over 100 sources? Would lines just litter the whole screen? By then, you couldn't tell which line went where. It'd be like untangling messy wires.

I appreciate some of the features included with Xanadu, including 2-way links, transclusions, and versioning. But Ted's always tied it to this interface, which seems poor for reading. Couldn't links to the original source be hidden on command, so I can concentrate on what I'm reading, and not the distracting colors and lines?

I'm glad we didn't end up with xanadu.
Open source is rarely the problem in the real world. But that's what you get from people who see divide the software world in "open" and "closed".

At one point or another your software needs to run on a piece of hardware. At least some of it won't be open, because as IBM learned in the 80s, you end up giving your hard earned lunch to your competitors.
Objective-C is also Apple only, as coding is much more than just the language.

GNUStep was interesting back in the late 90's. Nowadays it is just a curiosity, with NeXTStep compliance still catching up and Cocoa support around Mac OS X 10.6.
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Well, I have written big projects in other languages, and I wouldn't go back to a language without generics.

Don't know where you got the arbitrary "99%" statistic from.

It's not like generics are some novel, marginal concept. It's 2014 already.
There is a lot of evidence mounting that CTE is a problem in soccer as well. Not from head to head collisions but as a sort of repetitive stress injury from heading the ball. Teams are starting to put players, especially at the youth level, on header counts during practice to mitigate this.

As I see it there are a variety of ways to become injured in sports:
- traumatic injury such as concussion, spinal injury, torn ligaments, broken bones, etc.
- repetitive stress injuries such as CTE, tendinitis, stress fractures, etc.
- what I'll call body stress injuries. Things like putting on too much weight for your frame to play lineman in football, extreme weight dropping for weight class sports, or the extreme oddities professional cyclists put themselves through for an advantage.

Nearly every sport you play has some chance of having injuries in at least one of these categories. The problem is that football has a high likely hood of injuries in all of these categories, and at the worst case of the injury in the category.
Actually it's very interesting to do that:

Mac: http://i.imgur.com/vuoxgiQ.png

Android: http://i.imgur.com/dvhj28G.png

iPhone: http://i.imgur.com/x98rzDH.png

Chromebook: http://i.imgur.com/I7RfPME.png

Linux: http://i.imgur.com/D29vt3n.png

Ubuntu: http://i.imgur.com/78sxDgV.png

Google: http://i.imgur.com/fVVbyFq.png

Facebook: http://i.imgur.com/HCFdFom.png

Twitter: http://i.imgur.com/BsdhdyN.png

And of course, Hacker News: http://i.imgur.com/vJAoT7R.png

Here is the album: http://imgur.com/a/sTlND
One of your stated reasons for leaving the US when you have kids is that the US is hostile to adults assaulting children? Because that's the circumstance you described with your father and the kid from school.
If he was the best, he would be too busy to participate on SO ... =p
hi, no I haven't A/B tested those but I'm sure the videos sound very good. The hifi equipment is probably far more important than the quality issues of a 192AAC vs the CD.

Yet, I think you're looking at it from the wrong perspective, let me give you an argument.

Keeping the sound of good quality while lowering the bandwidth is an issue; the 192bit AAC is a great achievement in that regard.

Recording and reproducing music with highest quality is another; the CD itself is not entirely lossless in this context.

So I just think for a music streaming service it would be nice to not diminish the music quality at the source of reproducing chain.
Claiming a medical company's life-saving device will kill your family on national news will almost without a doubt land you on the receiving end of a libel lawsuit, warranted or not. Not having to use lawyers would be nice, but it's not happening in this paradigm. This is a naïve response.
This is kind of funny. Screenshots require secret keys in every OS. Maybe this just shows how quickly people go to Google.
Right, well, let's see what happens. I kindda agree with Gordon Haff (http://www.cnet.com/news/apples-new-swift-coding-language-ho...) on being disappointed that Apple did choose a more open platform, but I suppose this can change in time, like with Microsoft recent changes.
This seems unnecessarily harsh. That this generative art and painting are both visual arts in (mostly) two dimensions seems a pretty strong similarity. Why would you compare it to genres of art less similar? Also, some paintings strongly resemble this kind of generative art. E.g, I assume code could be used to generate something quite similar to "drip painting" in general, and Jasper Johns work in particular. You can make a comparison without trying to equate the two.
+1 on the Tim Wu book. Being a young[ish] person, Wu's perspective on the history of innovation and competition in media and connectivity-provider industries was eye-opening. I think about that book often in regards to the pending mergers right now (Tmo/Sprint, Comcast/TWC, DirectTV/ATT.)
Quick clarification point because other Americans like myself might initially be confused - in the NFL "spearing" is different than "spear tackling" in Rugby, and is actually what you describe in your first bullet point; a tackle where you lead with the head.
As someone looking to do this myself I can tell you. Any good studio these days charges at least $100/hour for time recording. Even if you walk in ready to go, it can take 4 or more hours to record one song. More if there are complicated production tasks like auditioning different guitar amps or vocal mics.

At some studios, their price includes an engineer, but often a good engineer charges extra. Once the song is recorded, a separate mixing engineer will take the raw tracks and make a finished mix. Then a mastering engineer will polish them further for different markets including radio or AAC. And if you need or want a producer, arranger, cowriter, or session player, you have to pay them for their time. All the while you need to eat and pay rent as an artist or band.

$10k is an average budget for a short album, and consider to break even an artist must sell 13,000 songs if independent through iTunes, more if they split revenue with a label. How many artists have less than 13,000 fans? This is why many record deals today include touring revenue as part of the contract, because they know they can't sell enough downloads to recoup the cost.
You're all for letting four year olds roam free in parking lots?
Agreed, but the time horizon on that is likely a decade at the least.
OpenVPN already sort of supports this: https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/Hardening#Useof--...

While it does not provide additional encryption, it does prevent clients who do not know the secret from initiating connections (and thus interacting with the TLS state machine/etc).
A lot of this can be explained by the differences in the leagues and how they group kids by age.

NHL: You play by year. An under 17 team (U17) this year will have everyone born in the 1997. If you're born in Jan-May, you're already 17 playing in the under 17 league. This is a small advantage. It is a huge advantage in the U6 league and gets the earlier born into club teams and youth programs where they receive special attention and better hopes of a professional future. This same model applies to soccer.

Basketball: Basketball is unusual in that a tremendous amount of the players growth consists of playing pick up games against other players. Playing against better players is simply a matter of being able to keep up. It is the closest to a meritocracy among these sports.

NFL: Football is unusual in that it is not club dominated but scholastic in nature. The age cutoff is typically Sep 1st, or nearby. I would be curious about those in the July/Aug band and how many were held back a year so they could be older
Funny you should say that. I built a house in Canada using a very simple grid with the framing diagram on it. This was so easy to do that I hit on the idea of using (no kidding) paint shop pro and I drew the whole thing (all four sides + interior structures) like that and used that to frame the house and clad it with OSB. Worked like a charm.

Low tech solutions are at times very effective, I'm pretty sure if I would have done that design in autocad or some other program that I would have been able to make pretty 3D views and such but it would have taken a whole lot longer and the end result (the house) would have been just the same.
10.10 wins.