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I suspect that the reason that apps like this and Sketch are Mac-only is that the OS X provides APIs like Quartz and CoreGraphics that do a lot of the heavy lifting for drawing apps. So there's a lot less code to write for an app like this.
The relativity of position within motion i guess?
> Not really: you don't condemn an entire system by pointing out individual bad examples of it.

To prove that software patents are bad, it is necessary, but perhaps not sufficient to point out bad examples. Then again I never said the only way of condemning the patent system was through examples?
Hmm, IMHO it feels like you're bending the definition of "lifetime" a bit in a manner that already presumes RC-based automatic memory management, and once one accepts that assumption then naturally one concludes that the lifetime ends when refcounting says it ends. To me, the lifetime of a heap allocated thing effectively ends when it is no longer reachable via any existing variables (though perhaps this definition is biased towards a tracing-GC view of the world).

I agree with your points about "finally". It can definitely be a bit clunky, and this is why some languages have introduced scoped cleanup constructs such as C#'s "using" statement, Python's "with" statement, and D's "scope" statement. I guess what I was getting at with my original comment is that I feel scoped cleanup constructs are a better way to go vs. relying on heap allocated things being reclaimed at a certain time, given that the lifetime of a heap allocated thing can depend on non-local state outside of the current function/method.
But jenkem was a hoax, as your link tells us...
I'm actually more excited about David joining this effort (and entering the cryptocurrency space) than anything else. Stellar, also, looks promising (-:
> You are changing the subject, patent trolls are a totally different matter.

Patent abuser can even produce something useful. But if the patent is bad (obvious, abstract, claims a function, etc.) then such producing entity can ban all kind of competition which should exist because that thing should not be patentable in the first place. Because of that, term "troll" can be extended to any abuser. Not necessarily NPE. Even PE one.

Copying is a natural thing in many cases. Preventing copying by patenting abstract ideas is crooked and should not be allowed.

Not to mention cases, when some things were developed independently (so obviously not copied), but still are banned by patents.
I have been driving the 80 mile "real range" Leaf for three years and it gets me to work and back without recharging. Because it charges when parked, I experience zero charge time.

If you are single without family (so only one car) and travel with car a lot (skiing in state or whatever) then the current electrics aren't for you. But you are in a minority part of society (although probably over-represented on H N :-)
Would you rather scores of others die than give up on irrational habits like eating beef?

Would you rather be counted amount the attrition?
+1, the recovery code shouldn't go out in plain text email. Also, I picked a weak password just to quickly make an account and I can't seem to change it, hmmm.
Poor solution when the USPTO allows people to toll the public domain of obvious solutions.
If they do a lot of business, and buy more trucks and get more employees - and if not them, the competition after people discover that this is a viable business model - the 50% might lower with economies of scale giving them more room to take a reasonable profit.

Depends on how fast they can keep those trucks moving. I'd start investing in some math and software implementing that math in order to optimize those routes. You could tie it right into the auction website and give all the drivers webapps feeding them their next pickup/dropoff points. You would be able to charge based on distance/size calculated on the fly. I see room for making this really cheap. If you wrote good software for it, you could license the platform and not even actually do the business - this is a natural franchise.

Sorry, just rambling. I think this idea is great if done well.
I disagree with the assertion that it is cultural or societal, but i completely agree with the math.

If ANYthing actually happens in Europe, how could there not be a scramble in the Pacific? So many competing interests, so much war tech laying about.

Capitalism uses the large business cartels of the world to maintain a 'net peace' but the system is cracking because of isolationism.
Sorry—a bit of local jargon. Fortunately gknoy has explained it.
Yeah I suspect you are right about post-processing. Good to read your points though, thanks for the response!
You are getting down voted but honorable suicide was a practice in more than ancient Japan.

Socrates died by his own hand for instance.

https://suite.io/arash-farzaneh/4sa32c7

I'm not saying suicide is good thing but there is a cultural perspective that is different from our own in the modern West.
ProtoHack is happening again in SF on August 23
The west is larger than California.
Each "cherry" survived for years of (re)examinations. They should have been inspected at least as well as this fruit [1] and tossed if bad.

[1] http://kotaku.com/two-melons-just-sold-for-us-15-730-in-japa...
Neat concept - I've tried Plated which is similar.

As a note for Josh, the banner image is unreadable when the window is maximized on my 30" thunderbolt display.
Alibaba Deepening U.S. Startup Foray With Investment Team
John Carmack: 20 years after Doom
This explains a lot... my IPN handler had been awfully quiet, but thankfully it was only used for automatic thanks.
It's true you can generate thrust by throwing photons out one end, but that's not what this device does. It bounces microwaves around inside a closed, superconducting chamber, with one end wider than the other.
For example every insurance claim from any insurance company is run through fraud detection software. Turns out there are some characteristics of a fraudulent insurance claims that have been identified over the years. The software can flag a claim as potentially fraudulent for further human review.

I worked for an insurance company for over 5 years, processing claims. This is the first I have ever heard this. Which does not prove it to be untrue but does make me skeptical.

We had some claims automatically paid via computer but most claims were reviewed by human eyes. Humans were trained to look for indicators of fraud. There was no one thing that would get it sent to the fraud department for investigation. We were looking for a pattern or multiple indicators.
I think visitors might have a higher chance of having a cache jQuery from google CDN.
I believe they have "sights" and are aimed like a gun.
Stellar (and Ripple) are distributed ledger and exchange. The big difference from Bitcoin is that it records credits from gateways in multiple currencies. It can transfer money in regular currencies and exchange different currencies.

The other big difference is that consistency is not maintained by mining but with consensus between trusted servers. This makes theoretically scale to larger volumes and better latency while not being fully distributed.

The Bitcoin cryptocurrency people hate it because it uses fiat currencies and is more centralized. Most people will probably prefer Stellar since it can interface with existing bank accounts and monetary systems. It can be complement to Bitcoin as it can act as a distributed exchange.
Iliad Bids $15B in Challenge to Sprint for T-Mobile
Am I the only one that advocates the complete elimination of patents and copyrights?
Or just abandon the US because the regulation is a pain in the ass. It's not Josho's obligation to keep the US from turning into a technological ghetto.
They found purpose in enlisting for/during the Iraq war? Well, whatever works for them, I guess.
Ask HN: Should a fledgling SaaS website consider internationalization?
Hi HN. My friend and I are working on a SaaS project. We're about 2 months from launching, and wondered if we should consider translating into other languages (eg cn, de, ru, jp etc) to help reach a wider audience. This type of service would likely have appeal in those countries too.

Or would it be better to only focus on USA/CA/UK for the first year (or two)? Hope to hear other HN'ers comments and experiences with this :)
> The relevant agency here, the Patent and Trademark Office, is not funded by tax dollars — it's funded by fees from people or businesses seeking patents and trademarks.

Sure, but their actions have ramifications that could impact revenues. If the patent system was smothering the market and therefore tax revenues, one would think that the government might eventually act in its own interests and legislate a solution. On the other hand, if the current scheme is actually boosting revenues, there might be some hesitation in fixing something that, for the government, isn't a problem at all.
Actually, you can vote to recall some judges. It almost never happens, though. Every election in Arizona, we have a giant name dump and are asked if we want to remove that person as a judge.

EDIT: To clarify, please note that this does not apply to Article III judges who serve "during good behavior" and have some constitutional safeguards, like not having their pay reduced - http://www.fjc.gov/federal/courts.nsf/page/183

EDIT 2: This particular judge has had several interesting cases - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretta_A._Preska
Show HN: Android Hacker News reader app
As if there weren't enough already, I've added to the pile of Android readers for Hacker News. I'm still learning about Android development so I chose a project with ListViews and I tried to follow Android design guidelines.

It's pretty basic but I'm using it as my daily driver HN reader.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mathieuhendey.hackernews
When you think about it, once you accept that an afterlife is something worth worrying about, you're left with hundreds if not thousands of unfalsifiable, contradictory (and even antagonistic) folk tales and the task of choosing one and hoping you're right -- although for most people, this question is answered for them by the circumstances of their birth, and it seems normal, even obvious.

So really, simply choosing to live the life you want to live is only marginally less risky than living in fear of the wrath of the god or gods which happen to coincide with the cultural norms in existence at the time. Either way it seems a bit like Russian Roulette.
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It might be ideal to validate your idea in one market first before expanding.
Stellar is a fork of Ripple. It is not a decentralized system, in the sense that, if you want to use any given currency (such as stellars), you must trust a number of centralized, trusted nodes. This is Ripple's/Stellar's "solution" to the double-spend problem.
Related for this crowd, Xavier Niel, the founder and majority shareholder of Iliad is also a large portion of the capital behind Kima Ventures - http://kimaventures.com . They're our investor and have been a pleasure to work with.
> Moose, the Modern Perl effort & so on.

That's mostly just a marketing ploy by a few people trying to make money off books and speaking fees. Ignore it.
Author of the HAMT library and Khepri here. Hadn't heard of moreartyjs before, but it looks like a neat project.

I would be interested in seeing your benchmarks too. Please let me know if you find any problems or have any suggestions for HAMT or js-hashtrie-benchmarks.
Google Checkout was awful to work with. It was hard for the vendor to setup and use. It was hard to program against. It was hard for the customer to use. It was hard to test. And of course it had Google's famous lack of support.

Speaking of support, we qualified for the integration reward ($1500 or so; maybe more). We tried to claim the reward for over a year. Every time they'd say "yeah you totally qualify!" and we'd ask how to claim the reward and then silence. Of course every email response took 3-7 days. A few months later we'd go through the same process. Still waiting on that check to arrive.

We supported it for about a year and eventually gave up. Payment notifications could take up to a minute to arrive. You couldn't specify the tax (or shipping from what I remember) for an order in any sane way. For a while it was over 50% of our support tickets while being used by less than 10% of our customers and less than 1% of all transactions.

I was so happy to delete it from our codebase. And we won't support any payment processor they have to offer anytime soon.
Normal uranium reactors produce a mix of plutonium isotopes, which are hard to separate and end up as nuclear waste. NASA needs pure Pu-238, which has to be made in specialized reactors.
I doubt much would change, given Gandi (who supplies this) already gives out certificates.

Wildcards and/or unlimited certificates would certainly blow any other offering out of the water, though.
> Sure, what you're saying may be true of coffee vs. cocaine and aspirin vs. heroin, but there are plenty of pharmaceutical companies establishing new markets in the vast swaths of grey that lie in between. That's the whole point here.

I understood the point, which I would summarize thusly:

We can't have a law enforcement regime of prohibition against "drugs" because who can say what a "drug" is, anyway?

Was the article well researched and well-written? I don't deny it and don't need to. This, to me, is unbelievably stupid and utterly unconvincing to anyone who supports the current approach to prohibition. Call me a nitwit all you want, but this argument is exactly the wrong one to end the drug war.
I don't think NASA has the same credibility as an MIT or Caltech. From their arsenic-based lifeforms [1] to their D-Wave "quantum computer," [2] NASA seems to work on a lot of fringe science.

[1] http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/02...

[2] http://www.nas.nasa.gov/quantum/
did you even watch the video? Trello uses lists (to mimic SCRUM), this uses days (to mimic a calendar). Not that similar.
>The other layers of the stack will be abstracted away entirely and writing software will continue to look more like assembling a collection of Github-hosted libraries and APIs.

Then you're constrained to the solutions others are also using, with all the preconceptions and problems associated with them. If all you're doing is putting together lego blocks as the author maintains, then that's not 10x, that's 1x. Developer productivety trends toward 1 the author maintains, and non technical people can create the next billion dollar start up, because it's all building blocks. Like plumbing according to the author.

Tell that to the plumber who flooded my basement due to improperly sealing the pipes feeding the shower head.
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I am not sure if it will result in any real change, if anything it may deflect criticism as it gives far too many a cheap out; slacktivism is common amongst sites like this one where angst and such is acted out but results in very little actual change. The resulting discussion becomes the extent of effort most will put forward, nodding of heads and screams of me too.

There are many similar sites raising issues that are important to society but the result seems to be the same, people come to blow off steam and get sated.

It might be fun if the EFF could post a threshold for investigating patents, perhaps taking suggestions and pricing it. Let people buy the patent shaming. I know they take blanket donations but targeted ones might get more people interested. Sally Struthers style, for only a one time donation of, we can expose a patent.
> nobody is safe

Really? Why? If you're referring to Brendan Eich, keep in mind that he never recanted his contribution to Proposition 8. If he had, I'm pretty sure things would have turned out differently for him.
the headline on HN is about selling furniture

sellforme explicitly lists furniture as something they do not sell. Or any other item over 25 pounds...
> San Francisco, CA

Nope!
How much do enteprise software providers charge?
Specifically for:
-Removing a bug
-Adding a new function to the programm
-Modifying an existing function
> I am not sure if it will result in any real change

Policy makers might be somewhat burdened by pure abstract arguments about how broken the system is, or not give them enough thought at all. Providing such clear examples helps them to make educated decisions and convince others as well. So I definitely see a value in such articles.

Here is a good post on the similar subject:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140729/05504028040/if-yo...
It is distributed, not decentralized...
Is it just me, or is this a completely stupid idea?

So you take a big pool and stick it in the middle of a dirty river. You need it to be full of water, so you filter a bunch of river water and fill it up. Then, for no good reason I can discern, you take that nicely filtered water and dump it right back into the river so that you can make room for more water that you then have to filter.

What is the value add of continuous filtration here?

Why not just filter one pool's worth of water, using whatever process you want, fill it up, and be done with it? What's so magical about "fresh" East River water, aside from the presence of all of the nasty shit you have to work super hard to remove?
I wouldn't worry about actually translating, but I for sure would do as much as possible to build out the infrastructure necessary to support it. In most cases I think it would be more work to shoehorn it in after the fact than it would be to get it done up front.
It would be nice to understand the goals of this project in terms of both approach as well as the overall performance improvements and how it would compare with the new LLVM-based approach taken by Safari/Webkit.
Ok; so since I'm in product manager mode:

* 911 style issues answered in seconds over phone or chat
* Integration with our ticketing system with PagerDuty / other tools.

Question: Cloud Monitoring is now free for all customers - AFAIK (we use it) CM integrates well with PagerDuty (which cough I use a lot). Are you looking for ticketing responses into the PD API, or all monitoring/etc?
> I had a domain with low traffic and it was $6/year just for DNS hosted zone

Amazon should give away free hosted DNS zones for Amazon-registered domains. The $0.50 per hosted zone per month doesn't scale down very well. I have a dozen domains I've accumulated for various projects I'll probably never finish. Their traffic is almost zero. I would much rather use Route 53 DNS for these domains, but at $6/month it's not worth it. I would seriously consider transferring domain registration from Gandi to AWS if it included free hosted zones.

EDIT: I didn't realize initially that Amazon is in fact partnering with Gandi, which doesn't change anything, but it's interesting.
>Would you rather scores of others die than give up on irrational habits like eating beef?

That's a completely false dichotomy.

There's nothing irrational about eating beef from a resource standpoint. For example, if we were to allow the Market to act efficiently (which we might not (which would actually be irrational, from my standpoint)), the resource requirements of raising beef would 100% guaranteed make it impractically expensive to eat, and there would be no issue. As it stands, beef is already rising in cost much faster than other forms of meat! See http://www.buedelmeatup.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/chart...
I've also been using Ionic for a little over a month. So far, it's been an excellent framework for quickly getting up and running. I really haven't had many hiccups and in the rare case I do, the documentation is very helpful (and well designed).

In regards to the CSS, I find myself customizing more and more of it as time goes on. I think that's to be expected. The important thing is Ionic provides a solid foundation to build on. I'm thus able to focus on the design right away instead of getting stuck in the weeds.
A really interesting story!

> It took about an hour of swimming.

> Not that the swim was “extreme,” but a lot of “extreme” things people do are actually planned and structured, which de-extremizes them. If you sky dive, for example, you’re doing exactly what someone planned for you. I don’t know of anyone who just decided to swim across the Hudson. Yet it’s easy. Anyone can do it anytime...

Requiring an hour of continuous swimming easily excludes most people, and makes it very dangerous. Swimming a mile is a big deal that requires a good deal of training. Something like 6 weeks of working on it continuously 3 days a week, with proper coaching. It's actually great workout goal. But just jumping in the water and doing it... it's pretty flabbergasting unless you had some idea of your long-distance swimming capabilities beforehand.

Considering the links at the end of the article, I'm guessing these are things you've considered quite in-depth-- even if it wasn't until you survived. Really fascinating stuff! Thanks for sharing.
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What do you mean by the velocity of tweets?
"One other thing they specified is that array cursors are internal.... This would manifests if a new PHP implementation wanted to use a different threading model: would two threads looping through the same array use the same cursor? Sounds pretty racy."

Is it even worth it to leave room for a threaded PHP? At this point that would de facto be another language anyhow... the changes required to add threading to a language like PHP [1] 20 years after it was born are too insane to even think about. It would be so many years before it was stable enough to begin building any sort of library infrastructure that would make it into any sort of common use that the language would probably be on the way out by the time this gauntlet could be run. See Perl's experience with trying to add threading.

It would certainly require another specification document anyhow.

I'm of the opinion that languages around the 10 year mark (which PHP is obviously well past) really ought to focus on becoming the best X they can be, rather than chasing the tail lights of constantly-moving best practice. Seems like you're better off just making PHP be the best PHP it can be rather than try to add threading in to the mix. PHP certainly simply isn't going to be able to compete with existing languages that build some sort of solid threading story in from day 1, and, frankly, it shouldn't try. (And most of those languages simply can't compete with PHP on its home turf, after all.)

[1]: Mutable-state imperative dynamic. Basically, the answer to the question "What's the hardest sort of common language to add threading to after the fact?"