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The 1.0 stable release will be pushed back as far as is deemed necessary. Ideally it will be in 14 weeks, but if there's still critical work to be done when we hit that point, we'll wait another 6 weeks. And another. And another. We're not just going to push out whatever we have.
US: Sony Cyberattack Is ‘Serious’ National Security Matter
>>My intention isn’t to be a hater. People are different, cultures are different, that’s fine :-)

>>
I dislike people who call themselves hackers, rockstars, ninjas, nomads etc. I don’t care about yoga, organic food, vegans, feminists or spirit animals. I dislike overuse of the word “community” and I think the whole “lifehacking” thing is retarded.
Secret is relaunching as a faster anonymous social network with chat
Totally affordable if you live in Oakland. :-)

(Disclosure: I live in Oakland.)
I've been reading this before trying beego and it kind of push me to try Beego first http://madewithdrew.com/blog/choosing-a-go-web-framework/

What did you build with Revel? How would you compare to your previous web framework?
Better conversation from 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3237478 (which, oddly enough, is about the last time this project was updated)
There's always been atheists and the like, they are mentioned in the Old Testament, and it's probably always been and always will be a very small minority. And a lot of the so-called "New Atheists" these days aren't really best defined as atheists, they are better described as "Scientists" or "Humanists", where the object of religious adoration is either the concept of scientific progress or human achievement.
You are probably overthinking it. As a Canadian who visits the bay area on a very regular basis for work (and lives in the backwoods in a community of 2000 people and takes a boat to get to a real airport), there is a jarring disconnect between the media portrayal of bay area culture and the reality.

I too eat meat, drink beer, and talk about the same topics. You'll find that is true of most "hackers" in the bay area too. The term hacker is used more often as shorthand to describe somebody who is into technology without getting into the details (software&hardware&ux).

I have seen precisely one person ever describe themselves as a rockstar, and we rejected his job application for plagiarizing his code samples. Nobody in the real world does this, and you're unlikely to get force-fed yoga, lifehacking, etc.

There are still things that weird me out about the bay area, but overall I really enjoy my time there. I encourage you to check out some tech meetups.

Oh. And Noisebridge and it's mailing list aren't representative of the larger geek community in SFO either, just saying ;)
The Dining Cryptographers Problem: Sender and Recipient Untraceability (1988)
The larger issue is the vulnerability of user data. The Sony hack is the state of things to come. As more and more personal data is compromised, faith in services like Facebook and the Internet in general will crater. This doesn't even take into account government use and misuse of such information.

The Internet is growing darker each day and data retention will be a significant liability for years to come.
I think the truth could run in one of two directions. Todays news implied that Iran, China and North Korea were in cahoots and aggressively attacked Sony for months and finally penetrated their bastion. Sony was helpless to defend. That is what the press and FBI seem to be saying.

this narrative just seems way to neat and prepackaged and allows under-informed US citizens to consume it and still feel safe and make sense of the connected world we all swim in every day.

i agree it's being spoonfed via media and politicians, but to me, that's all the more reason to be highly suspect of it.

this event is becoming the ultimate nail to everyone's hammer.
I tend to look at religion through a public health "harm reduction" lens. You're never going to get rid of it. The best you can do is work for a society in which different group affinities crosscut each other. A zoroastrian is less likely to engage in violence against a buddhist if they are on a chess team together.

It's when the buddhists all move to one part of town and don't interact with the zoroastrians at all that we see religion become the driver of bloody conflict.
> Why would North Korea be threatening to release more information if their goals were already met?

They are not. You are working off of outdated information:
http://gizmodo.com/sony-hackers-thanks-for-running-scared-we...

(As an aside, if anyone wants to make a friendly wager, I'd bet up 3 BTC on the fact that this is indeed a NK attack, so long as we can agree on some sort of reasonable time period and way to confirm, such as an arrest or confession. Either payment to the winner, or payment to the winner's designated charity. Is there a site that allows for committing to BTC bets with some sort of escrow or multi-sig release feature? If not, there should be.)
> According to a Gallup International survey of more than 50,000 people in 57 countries, the number of individuals claiming to be religious fell from 77% to 68% between 2005 and 2011, while those who self-identified as atheist rose by 3% – bringing the world’s estimated proportion of adamant non-believers to 13%.

The World Religion Database disagrees, saying that the percentage of the world's population that is religious increased from 87.1% in 2000 to 88.2% in 2010. They suggest that growth is continuing due to the spread of Islam in Africa and Christianity in China: https://web.archive.org/web/20131020100448/http://media.john...
Slowness may have unintended benefits, but also forces you to use C code where you otherwise might have been OK
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The changes make all the difference. Your argument was that columnization and thus storing each native type in a data record in seperate columns brings a performance benefit. By removing the specialisation of Pair and Option which save the data in seperate columns I switched back to a classical storage which basically stores the data of one record at one place like a row store. So your code simulates a column store and my a row store.

Using your original benchmark I than show that the row layout brings a large performance win in the benchmark. My numbers show this performance win not just in throughput (bytes per sec.) but als in "goodput" (values per sec.). Check my previous comment. I just noticed though that I sometimes forgot the k in the reported numbers, where it is missing you have ti multiply the number times 1000, I can't edit it anymore.

I guess we can agree to disagree and should continue the discussion in another form ;)

PS: I just updated my github information, I am now at the TU Munich
You're still piping untrusted code to sh. Please implement asymmetric cryptographic signature verification (i.e. PGP).
Well I don't like the North Korean regime. That doesn't mean I hate North Koreans.
The real question is whether mainstream religion will be re-categorized as superstition in the way that non-mainstream belief in supernatural agency is called superstition. Making superstition go away probably means changing the way brains work.

That is, religion currently gets a pass. That will probably, eventually, stop happening.
Ah yes, but a small userbase!
By adapting the highWaterMark option one could probably tweak it even further.

Default buffer size seems to be 64k: https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/912b5e05811fd24f09f9d652...

Stream buffering: http://www.nodejs.org/api/stream.html#stream_buffering
Meteor.js is great, but the instant you try to do something complicated (or simple and not covered in the often repetitive documentation), you need to be a JS expert or spend a frustrating amount of time looking for a solution.

It's worth trying before you dive too deep in.
> How fun would it be if the US started an all-out war against NK

Like against Iraq,you mean,which had nothing to do with 9/11 and which half is now basically run by the worse terrorists in the history of terrorism?
Remember 8 million people live the Bay Area so the scene is diverse. I'd say more than 5 million of those don't care about technology or startups at all. What you read online is the few who shout the loudest and promote themselves or their idea.
Day 41 – Getting in touch with Apple – part 2
thanks for the interest :) on my vimeo page, but there's only one other story like it, that I've done so far:

https://vimeo.com/92453765

I got some other short docs, but most of them only in German and not on the level of Houshi. Afterall, I am a student and still learning.

I was living in Japan September 2013 to September 2014 and I shot four films like this during that time. Two are done, two more are still being edited.
Well of course it has no anti-malware features, the only protection it has is that no credentials are sent to the client, just an authorization token, which you can disable using your phone.
What's the best way to learn JavaScript (in web dev context)
As a web developer that primarily writes ruby, css, html and a bit of JQuery. I'd like to step up my game in writing Javascript. We're headed towards a client-side heavy world and I seem to be a bit behind with JS. It just feels archaic.

What are some books, guides, or tutorials that helped you become better at programming with JS and JS related libraries like JQuery, CoffeeScript etc... (in the web dev context).

Please share!
My argument is as to how angry I should be specifically towards Apple, vs. towards the industry as a whole, the BBC, and us as people, and to inform my decisions on how to improve international working conditions. (Admittedly, that's low on my list.)

If Apple's claim is correct, and "no other company [does] as much as Apple does to ensure fair and safe working conditions, to discover and investigate problems, to fix and follow through when issues arise, and to provide transparency into the operations of our suppliers," then the solution is to push for a change to the laws.

If Apple's claim is completely inverted, and everyone else requires a maximum 40 hour work week with a livable wage, with 100% compliance, then it's time I boycott Apple.

On the third hand, if no one else can report any numbers like this, then attacking Apple for being the first to be transparent about these numbers means that other companies are less likely to publish, or even track, these numbers, because the tall poppies are cut down first. If so, then the BBC is making things worse by attacking Apple for being the only one to be so honest. (This is the one I happen to believe, but have little evidence for.)

On the fourth hand, if Apple is the middle of the pack, then certainly it could be an "Everyone else is doing it" arguments. Except that Apple highlights how they don't think they are in the middle of the pack, and stress why they think that, for example, working with the Indonesian tin mining industry is overall better than not sourcing Indonesian tin.

Of the alternatives, I don't see why you thought I was suggesting the one least supported by the evidence.
Vimeo has had trouble with click to play flashblock for years.

I keep one browser without flashblock for vimeo and soundcloud mainly.
Aren't AVR and ARM different power envelopes, though? I thought ARM was for small computers and AVR is for things that want to be slightly more complicated than a gearbox.
An example of a sophisticated meteor app I've built to test scalability http://www.qckt.me. I've noticed some performance issues (to be fair it is running on meteor's free hosting service, however they don't set resource limits or anything like that) maybe I'll share some stats I've been collecting in the future.

Like every web framework, I've run into problems. The simplicity of the server-client reactivity is keeping me in. Its a good idea and the got the funding to keep it going.
After a decade, have the browser wars finally ended?
A simple data gathering and report building app. The previous web framework was Perl/Mojolicious, but that is not a good comparison.

I looked at net/http and needed something a little more, but not too much more. I like that it only has 1 templating choice and no notion of a database / ORM. It feels like net/http on steroids.
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You should be upvoted to the maximum.

Bloodthirst not only blinds but creates evil, manipulates others into believing lies, and the effect is then compounded.
Just move to New York already, lots of meat, beer, politics and money, and a common hatred for the West coast. Sorry about the winter though.
Brainfuck relies on pointer arithmetic, while this is using bit shifting.

Brainfuck commands: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck#Commands

Bit shifting: http://stackoverflow.com/a/141873/58740
Amazon Echo Begins Shipping
Thought I'd start a thread here to see if anyone has pulled the trigger. Mine is coming next week according to Prime estimates! What are everyone's thoughts on it?
If you were here already I'd invite you to PagerDuty's 12 Pubs of Christmas tonight. We don't have any rockstars. Anyone is welcome - we start around 5:30 at Red Dog.
Yes, the author meant that searching for explanations is a basic human instinct.
Author here. I haven't seen SQRL and I'll check it in detail later. It looks like a more complicated thing than what I did and much more work compared to a simple, hackathon-like project.

My project works only on Dropbox and it doesn't require Dropbox to support any other authentication mechanism. It just uses OAuth2 behind the scenes.
>I'll browse through a real bookstore, which is fun, but I'll look up reviews on mobile and factor that into my buying decisions.

This is my use-case. For my small corner of the world, Amazon has been a boon to used-book stores (even regional chains), as it is now easier to see what I'm buying.
A First Course in Probability: http://www.ebay.com/itm/A-First-Course-in-Probability-EDN-9-...

Linear Algebra with Applications: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Linear-Algebra-with-Applications-5ed...

International editions of textbooks are immensely cheaper.
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That sounds mighty fine :O
The media portrayal of the Bay Area and of California itself is wildly misguided and wrong. Like all stereotypes, the image of the vegan "rockstar" self-important hacker has a basis in reality, but it's a cartoonish exaggeration.

I’m the type of person who likes eating meat, drinking beer, talking about politics, money, science, entrepreneurship, programming etc.

You'll find plenty of company.
No one consciously cares, at that age, where people went to school. What happens is that the ones with pedigree are more likely to be selected for leadership positions early on, and appear "on merit" to be worth more, after several years of higher-quality work experience. In reality, they were just able to get themselves promoted faster. After ten years, though, they legitimately have a higher quality of work experience than those without the pedigree advantage.

So you wouldn't be necessarily able to save $100k by hiring people without the pedigree, because even though many are just as talented, they're not going to have the highest quality of work experience. There are plenty of people who'd do just fine, even with the lack of good experience, but you have to be able to find them.
On a side note, I find the term life-hacking, and it's strange cousin travel-hacking pretty annoying as well.

A friend of mine tried to 'travel-hack' SXSW by renting a U-Haul and attempting to stay there instead of renting a hotel...

He forgot that it:
(A) might be pretty chilly
and
(B) would remain unlocked, unless he wanted someone to lock him in and unlock him in the morning.

Needless to say he ended up crashing on the floor of my house, which really is a much better and long-standing 'travel-hack' to begin with.
Confused about these two comments. Are you both literally arguing that Google has higher standards for privacy/surveillance than its competitors and that facebook is better than its competitors for security/privacy?
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Ask HN: Starting to VLOG, any advice?
I'm not sure how many of you VLOG for your business but I'd like to get your opinion on how effective it was for marketing and overall brand building.

Thank you.
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"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."
...what's wrong with asyncio? Why the frowny face there? I've found it to be a joy to use, and the killer feature of 3.4.
It's not ignoring them, it's providing a more useful and very cheap diagnostic test to handle the likely case where the patient is suffering from something which can respond better to time and patience than poking and prodding.

If the patient was old, morbidly obese, had a history of heart attacks, was scratching at an tingly left arm, or something like this, I'm sure the doc would go ahead with the other tests.

If the patient is young (as stated in the hypothetical) and otherwise in good shape, giving them a second to baseline is completely reasonable and better for them.
My apologies in advance for being pedantic on the web but I think there is a chance a HackerNews reader would appreciate this: "Misnomer" means something is improperly named. It doesn't mean merely misleading.
http://notch.net/2014/09/im-leaving-mojang/

"It’s not about the money. It’s about my sanity."

Yeah right.
There is plenty of reason to go to war with NK without this. Unfortunately, also plenty of reason not to, namely, the threat against SK.
I heard them talking about a wrench over the ISS feed two days ago in between a discussion about the vacuum cleaner and their preparations for holiday events.

Space is not always sexy.
>Local vendors keep the money circulating around the local community in the form of wages, rent, and profits

But that's all it is; a different allocation of wealth. If you happen to live in that community, great.

The question becomes: why should I care about your local community as opposed to some other local community, or even the global community, that stands to benefit from getting more for less?
The two different threading models have different costs/benifits. Native threads are much faster at context switching then green threads, however, native threads have a significant startup cost where as spawning green threads is nearly cost-free.
5 Reasons Redshift is the nuke of big data
I found the use of "minions" interesting in this article. First time I've seen it used in reference to malware or a virus.
Yes. We could define it as any movement which condemns people on the basis of their professed ideas.
One of the main points of the article is that the only way to do Facebook-scale sites is to have an architecture that scales out horizontally without incurring any extra overhead, and that rails does so out of the box. So yes, you could quite easily run something at Facebook scale with rails, it would just require more physical servers than a more performant framework.
Or someone who is intentionally writing in "broken" English.
Don't worry; people in the Bay Area are annoyed by people who call themselves rockstars and ninjas too. As for what you're reading online, of course some people are like that, but in my experience they are for the most part not the interesting ones anyway. The best people I know don't care for fashions.

How are meat, beer, and broad discussions antithetical to your perception of how people in the Bay Area live?
I was fortunate enough to spend 12 months as a youth exchange student in South Africa in the early 1990s. Part of my obligations in that programme was involvement in the charitable works of my sponsoring organisation.

This 12 month period at a young and impressionable age, in a society on the verge of significant change, certainly altered my life outlook, hopefully for the better. I think it made me a less selfish person, more open to the needs of other people, although I still need reminding from time to time.
I'm not sure what PGP would buy us over everything going over https from sites under Meteor's control? Cryptographic verification is great when you want to deliver the bulk of the content over http, or via untrusted mirrors, but we're not doing that.

However, if you want greater assurance, Meteor is open source, and easy to run from a git checkout. That seems to solve even more problems than PGP would, though then you should worry about whether you should compile nodejs yourself, and eventually you start eyeing your CPU suspiciously... :-)

(BTW, I think this is why just linking to a HN thread is tricky... it's difficult to know which of the many viewpoints on any thread you share!)
Seriously? Why would you bother with a dog turd. If you want to listen to music literally any other speaker is better.. if you want to use it for idk what even cause it's just a novelty. Waste of time and money.
Also there's JondoFox https://anonymous-proxy-servers.net/en/jondofox.html
Nice idea. A few typos/errors in the menu I spotted:

4. Hark the Herald Angels Sing
6. Here Comes Santa Claus
14. Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
Google takes legal action against Mississippi State Attorney General
And now another Bush is aiming for the white house...

Then again, do NK have any natural resources that the energy corporations could make a dime on?
put it on your google calendar
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Yeah, I'm just trying to describe the above poster as reasonable before other readers jump on the opportunity to white-out the comment for no good reason.
are there design considerations for 3d printing in low gravity? It seems like not being able to assume gravity would be a significant hurdle.
So I wrote a golang application and it runs behind nginx. My server "restart" when I want to push new code is,

Re run my program on a different port, point nginx at the new port, reload nginx, kill the old.

Curious what is so bad about this approach? I admit it's hacky, but it works. Is there just too many things to do?
Also by the magnificent substack, learning by doing done right: the node.js stream adventure!

Install via:

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Now simply go forth and start your adventure by typing:

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Have fun and don't forget to thank the man:

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Nice!

Maybe advent carols, too, like O Come, O Come Emmanuel?
Beware copyright infringement; I don't think all those lyrics are in the public domain yet.
Toyota Embraces Fuel-Cell Cars for Post-Gasoline Future
I really enjoyed reading this article. Thanks!
I know exactly where you are coming from: a few years ago I decided I was going to move to either SF or NYC from socal. I interviewed at a bunch of places and spent time socializing in both cities, e.g. going to parties, meeting friends of friends, etc. It was an involved decision that I made carefully.

In the end, NYC was a no-brainer for me. I consistently found the bay area has developed an homogenous culture that even pervaded my non-tech friends' lives. People always asked the dreaded "so, what do you do?" way earlier than they did in NYC. And unlike in NYC, I often felt like I was being judged for my answer. I hated this because I like a strong work-life seperation. In NYC I found there's less of a social "hierarchy" based on profession. At a typical party you can meet an artist, an actor, a doctor, a hedge fund investor, and a marketing executive, and all may kick ass at their jobs. I got exposed to an insane amount of culture in NYC that I didn't see in SF.

Keep in mind that this is written from the perspective of a professional - there are probably large parts of the two cities that culturally overlap. Also, I'm not trying to say SF is a bad city, but it isn't for everyone.