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You didn't exactly quote him, you stated his opinion and reasoning, without clarifying if it was your interpretation or his direct statement, and included no reference.

That said, I generally agree with the sentiment. People with commitments are less free to play with their resources, at least if they are responsible. An who wants to invest in someone who's not responsible. There are, of course, exceptions, and even times when the opposite holds true; commitments can force a level of responsibility and drive because the stakes may be higher.
> Once it goes away, we'll all be saying "setupping"

Where is the evidence supporting the belief that we'll all be saying "setupping"? Not once have I ever heard anyone use the words "setupping", "loginning", etc.

I posit that the use of "setup", "login", etc. as verbs is simply the result of people not knowing how to spell. In other words, it's a change that's driven by (poor) writing, not speaking.

I think it's far more likely that people will start writing "settingup" than they'll start saying "setupping".
He explains his reasoning quite well at the beginning of this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH9VCN6UkyQ
Here he is from another angle: http://i.imgur.com/oOnadne.png
The Chinese are tired of being paid a fraction of what citizens in developed countries make for doing the same work.

This is a blog about how a citizen in a developed country is "shocked" at the concept that other people should be paid a fair wage even if - gasp - they're Chinese.
99% of users will be dragnetted though. And more than 10% (pulling this out my ass) will use insecure wifi.
This is pretty much my impression of the city, too, as an American (though I'm from New England, so there's a segment of Houstonians who'd probably say I'm not an American). In a fit of incredulity I said something like "it's a three-hundred-thousand-lane highway and you just merge across it to get anywhere."

It's a soulless place, and I was glad to be rid of it as fast as I was able.
I learned to type by using the Caps Lock in lieu of the Shift key-- if it's ever removed from keyboards, I'll be completely screwed.

(I hate two-finger combinations, and am apparently not alone in this-- record-holding speed-typist Sean Wrona uses Caps Lock to capitalize[0])

I dream of a completely modal keyboard set-up such that I can only press one finger at any one time, and then I can get remap Shift permanently.

[0] http://www.daskeyboard.com/blog/ultimate-typing-champion-sha...
Yeah I'm eagerly awaiting someone filing my taxes fraudulently and paying my bill :)
Wow, as someone that switches between two language inputs(coincidentally English/Japanese actually) a lot on a variety of OS's, and never uses caps lock, I think this is a great key-binding.
Removal of PGP-2 support

Some algorithms and parts of the protocols as used by the 20 years old PGP-2 software are meanwhile considered unsafe. In particular the baked in use of the MD5 hash algorithm limits the security of PGP-2 keys to non-acceptable rate. Technically those PGP-2 keys are called version 3 keys (v3) and are easily identified by a shorter fingerprint which is commonly presented as 16 separate double hex digits.

With GnuPG 2.1 all support for those keys has gone. If they are in an existing keyring they will eventually be removed. If GnuPG encounters such a key on import it will not be imported due to the not anymore implemented v3 key format. Removing the v3 key support also reduces complexity of the code and is thus better than to keep on handling them with a specific error message.

There is one use case where PGP-2 keys may still be required: For existing encrypted data. We suggest to keep a version of GnuPG 1.4 around which still has support for these keys (it might be required to use the --allow-weak-digest-algos option). A better solution is to re-encrypt the data using a modern key.

https://gnupg.org/faq/whats-new-in-2.1.html

This only affects data encrypted by PGP-2, the original Phil Zimmerman PGP. If you are on GPG 1.4 or 2.0 and want to switch over to 2.1 this shouldn't be a problem.
Not just you. I'm on the same waiting list.
I'll take it a step further. I want like you said, my mobile device to also be my main and only computer. When I place it near a monitor, I want it to spark into 'computer' mode. When I pull out a keyboard from my bag and place it near the phone - it should work. Same with the mouse. And it should function and operate with comparable performance to a regular laptop. I don't think this is too much to ask for. After all, I'm not asking for a battery that lasts all day am I?
I loathe the caps lock key. The first thing I'll do with a brand-new Mac is remap it to Control (SysPrefs -> Keybd -> Modifier Keys). Because thats where the control key belongs, dammit!

Still, from time to time I do type things in all caps. Once or twice I've even considered whether it would be wise to re-enable the caps lock key. In the end, I keep it remapped. My natural tendency is to be acerbic, and caps lock doesn't help me tone that down -- which I need to do. If I didn't, I can imagine that leaving caps lock on permanently would permanently damage some of the relationships I have, particularly those that are mostly online.
Really interesting to contrast their story with Fab (as mentioned in the article) as they do seem to have started at a similar place and then just diverged so strongly.

In the context of the BusinessInsider piece on Fab that was on HN today this quote was actually kind of chilling: "When you look at Fab or some of the other things that got started and flamed out, I think there’s a lack of cost control," Vadon offers.
For all the rad people there man.
> It's encouraging to see the GnuPG project benefitting from similar largess. But it also raises the question: how is the money best spent?

However the heck they want to spend it. These are donations. If the guy has been working so hard just to make the world a better place and he wants to disappear with the money, I'd be bummed and I imagine lots of other people would too, but they were donations. A "thank you for busting your back for so long", not a "hey, now you've made it to the big leagues, better saddle up (the way I want you to, by the way)."

We've been using this software (probably worth many millions a year in the private sector) for free for how long? At least for libgcrypt, the initial commit was November 8, 1997. 17+ years ago.

That said, what are the chances this awesome, passionate developer is going to deliberately drop this project he's poured blood, sweat, and probably some tears into? What are the chances that he doesn't labor over the decision on how to spend the money, and consult his peers?

I sincerely hope this doesn't turn into some donation-gate fiasco where everybody's miffed about how the money that was freely donated got spent. This guy has changed the world and deserves to take the money as thanks and not added responsibility. He's already been shouldering that responsibility for years.
Its actually 120k in direct donations, 60k from CII, 50k from facebook and another 50k from stripe. Even at just under 300k it still isn't much for a development team.
Hey, I’m the author of Kitten. The site & repo are a bit out of date, but I’m currently working on a release. Would be happy to answer any questions. :)

I think the problem is that you want some words with dynamic/value-dependent stack effects. It’s hard to intermingle static and dynamic typing well, and hard to bring the utility of dependent typing for enforcing program properties into the realm of properties that are actually useful to enforce while remaining usable.
Is this different than the originally proposed Desktop mode? This seems to be the counterpoint to most disappointment in this thread.
There is no specific place to go to... a lot of it simply comes from working within the industry and learning the key players. My company doesn't buy/sell electronics, but the factories operate more-or-less the same.

Going to Alibaba is like shopping on Amazon. You wouldn't go to Amazon to purchase bulk (> 10,000) pieces of some item... you certainly aren't getting the best deal. Amazon takes a cut (so does Alibaba), and retailers listing there have catered their prices towards end-users (so significant mark-ups).

If it were me, I'd post on electrical engineering forums and ask who people recommend for fab jobs. Sometimes a nice supplier/distributor will tell you who they use for fab jobs (but a lot do tend to guard this).

Alibaba just isn't the best way to get the best price...
That segment of the market has gone through many names. I remember playing Wolfenstein 3D and Doom as "shareware" which defined a fairly large chunk of the indie market back in the early 90's. Before that there were people putting games out on BBS systems that you could buy the full versions of by mailing in checks of money with your return address. You don't get much more "indie" than that (but you can).
Bc broken bones I guess.
I agree, but on the other hand you have examples of possibly richer and more famous developers that in order to make their next game decided to pull off millionaire kickstarters, when they probably could have financed it with their own money if they decided to do so, so the guy deserves some respect for that.
> So they had a shop that was known for unique designs, sourced from small manufacturers. Wouldn't they naturally think that was a limited market, which you couldn't turn into another Amazon?

Isn't that basically Etsy in a nutshell?
Http://StageBloc.com - http://SimpleRelevance.com http://visuhire.com - http://Bikespike.com - http://ventureconnects.com - http://knowledgehound.com

These are all startups coming together in Chicago. All are exciting.
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This paper is pretty fascinating, thanks! Having trouble visualizing it but getting there..
I'm really impressed with William Thurston's work on the Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) scheduler driver. It will be cool to see a benchmark of ECS vs. Apache Mesos with the same taskDefinition defined.
Microsoft proposed this in 2011: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1502...
A fully audited LAMP-equivalent stack and and a similarly-audited computer to run it?
Your impression lines up pretty closely with mine. My strongest memory of my time in Houston is how much driving we did to get places.
He probably should, but then, almost everybody using both node and HN knows who he is.
The article includes this as its first lines: "Disclaimer: I am not advocating any specific tools or methodologies, I am simply sharing workflow I find to be efficient and pleasant."

Why bother disclaiming this? Why should the author Rosipov care if he advocates specific tools or methodologies (he does, in the very next paragraph)?

Is there some active force out there that discourages people from advocating or talking positively about command lines and related tools? Is these some force out there that encourages talking negatively about command lines and related tools? Because if there is, that particular force is so in the wrong, for any number of reasons.
Why is top-posting still something to avoid?

It took me a while to get used to it, but at this point I consider the war to be won in favour of top-posting, due to Gmail embracing it.
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Yes. When I was finally able to articulate what the problem with computing in general is, it was "I like tools better than applications." And everything is an application.

As far as I can see, all that's different about this phone is that it's using "sub-menus in the Start menu" where other stuff is using "icons on the desktop". PDAs already had this, I think.
They do in my (marginal) experience. I have found it to be a very common idiom to keep word definitions in these languages as short as possible. Probably for this very reason.

You define new words for the sole purpose of keeping things short and to the point. This holds true for most languages (At least if you want readable and maintainable code), but a language like Factor, this becomes an absolute necessity.

I would not be surprised if this is the reason Factor is called Factor. Specifically when related to factoring in Algebra where you do much the same thing: "splitting" an expression into a multiplication of simpler expressions.
FACSINATING! PRAY TELL, WHAT AMAZING THINGS DID YOU LEARN?

sorry...grumpy at the internet.

edit: used FASCINATING twice.
Funny then that this whole discussion is about a 40+ years old guy risking his fortune on a single project.
This is a problem on Ubuntu (my main machine), as the Caps Lock lags enough that if you type at a normal speed:

THis STarts HAppening. (Not a problem for Windows or OSX systems, I can report)

Most bug reports for this behavior tend to be ignored[0].

[0] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1556152
The only good thing I have to say about Houston is that it has good food. That's it. On the downside, it's huge, noisy, polluted, terrible traffic, very high humidity, toll-roads everywhere, McMansions, susceptible to flooding, hurricanes, etc. The best view I ever had of Houston was in my rear-view mirror.
No, reread the article. The contract was still in force and the landlord was trying to force the restaurant to cave in buying the contract out.

> Finally, after months of struggles and eventually litigation, the owner, who was also recovering from two hip surgeries, caved. The hotel bought out the remainder of his lease.
It's just alt-shift if you set it up through Windows' keyboard options.
I've always been i trigued by the CAPS in the BSD license. On what criteria was the text uppercased? Does it give it more weight in a court? Then why isn't every clause uppercased?
The caps lock key is very useful, if you rebind it to something else.

I use it for Enso, which lets you start programs, open files, spellcheck, count words, do math, and things like that.

Using it to swtich between input methods is another good choice.
The plaintiff was Intellectual Ventures, the giant "Non-practicing Entity" founded by Microsoft Millionaire Nathan Mhyrvold. I.V. had apparently purchased the patents in question, not even inventing them itself.

It's not relevant to infringement, but what was the nominally infringed-upon idea? What did Symantec do to infringe? Did Symantec invent this "I.P." independently or actually rip off I.V.? That would also be a first, probably.
what's wrong with -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch? doing scrolling in js is so last year.
> Last month President Obama acknowledged “no foreign nation, no hacker* , should be able to shut down our networks, steal our trade secrets or invade the privacy of American families.”

* Present company excluded.
The key itself — Caps Lock — I believe is useless, and occupies valuable real estate. The concept of caps lock, I'm undecided.

As programmer, the most common arguments I hear are usually about the occasional use of it for say, C_IDENTIFIERS[1]. Or perhaps you want to scream, but not hold down shift. Who am I to judge?

Some OSs support (in particular, I know Linux does) a thing called "two shift caps". If you want caps lock, you hit both shift keys simultaneously. Same thing to deactivate. Now, you still have your caps lock for those rare times when you want it, but the physical key is freed up for Control, or Escape, or whatever you fancy.

I personally think it's a wonderful thing, and would love to see it catch on as standard, though I don't know if that'll ever happen.

[1]: gU<movement> in vim helps a lot though.
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You say 'treating their employees well enough that they don't leave' but that ignores the fact that a small number of employees will be able to blackmail the company for millions with the IP they have access to, while regular employees pay the price.
The phrase "shocked" doesn't occur in the post, so I'm not sure where that term comes from. He does say that the quoted figure is more expensive than he hoped for, which is reasonable, since he goes on to present a number of quick calculations suggesting he can't justify purchasing them at that price.
I don't disagree with anything you've said about Houston---I feel the same way about Dallas. But I don't think the zoning laws or absence thereof has anything to do with the culture.

I'll always prefer a city with good mass transit and sidewalks over one with mega-highways.
They do get compensated in the form of large property tax breaks.
For a keyboard that's not full size, I actually kind of like that placement. Shooting your cursor to the beginning or end of a line becomes something you can do one-handed.
My sensei was partly deaf, so he'd shout everything.
Nope. Laid out clearly in the article.

"Beatts ran the numbers on the minimum-wage increase early last year, when people started talking about putting it on the citywide ballot. In November, the measure passed overwhelmingly, but Beatts kept quiet about how it would impact his store; with the holiday season approaching, he didn’t want potential customers to get confused and think that the store had already closed. Then, in January, the first phase of the minimum-wage hike went into effect, raising wages to more than eleven dollars an hour. Beatts had considered some options for staying open—taking donations, selling memberships that would include special benefits, finding benefactors to buy real estate where Borderlands could operate rent-free—but found none of them to be workable. Nor could he raise book prices, the way a restaurant might hike menu prices or a clothing store might raise the prices of dresses; people expect to pay the price that is printed on a book cover, and, while he could charge more, he didn’t think that would go over well. And he didn’t want to continue on in the knowledge that the store wouldn’t be viable once the minimum wage had risen beyond a certain point. So, on Sunday, he announced his plan to close, and the reason for it."
I think so sir - I had only a couple beers and can't parse the function below.

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I t i s a s s t r a n g e a n d u n n e c e s s a r y a s t h i s .
Honestly this upsets me. They are wasting power without any regard to energy, the entire place is a massive electrical fire just waiting to happen, and the workers are like slaves. Did you see the "resting" bed, it was filthy. Not to mention, all the wasted computer parts and power supplies they just throw away. It is any wonder why China's air quality is so poor. This is a zero sum game for them, but the quality of life in China is so poor it is sustainable.
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I thought he hadn't made millions. I thought only notch had became truly rich w/ a single game?
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It's gonna be so. Effing. Bad.
I can't help but feel that all this energy would be better spent on improving webkit itself (such as running JS in a separate thread to the UI)
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Yeah and my cousin Vinny can get you a better deal, too bad you aren't family.
Could you provide some technical detail on the creation process? The Xbox One controller doesn't identify itself as a Human Input Device, so it requires a Kext, yeah? Did you need to use a USB sniffer to identify the initialization sequence and button mappings?

Another OS X Kext for the (USB) Xbox One controller, if only for comparison: https://github.com/FranticRain/Xone-OSX
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Except he did. They declined. Maybe if he knew somebody higher up at Sullins?
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I think simply moving any function that takes more than 10ms to a web worker is enough frankly.
> No, reread the article.

My bad (and thanks for the bluntness; really! have 2 upvotes...).

I originally read that section too quickly and internalized it as "oh, they had a 15 year lease that the landlord had previously tried to buy them out early and now that 15 years is up, they can renegotiate."

You're absolutely right that the article strongly suggests otherwise and that my reading comprehension was poor.
It's a beautiful rant, and I feel his pain. How does it happen that Google goes from having the best maps on the web to a broken toy? That Amazon goes from having fantastic search to returning lists of random items? That modern browswers can once again have visible lag when typing fast? Toward the end, he offers his solution:

I think an interesting idea for development would be to
have a totally separate "finishing team". You get all new
developers and managers on at the end, so that they aren't
wedded to any of the ideas, they aren't building fences
around their work and unwilling to change anything, they
aren't prideful and unable to admit that it sucks. The
finishing team is only concerned with the *results*, what
the actual user experience is, and they can mercilessly cut
up the product to make it better. Politically the finishers
have no stake in keeping work, so they can even revert huge
chunks or just cut features.

Does anyone do this? Or would it just be too demoralizing?
What happens during the 1-2 days per year when there's heavy rain and flooding? I remember a couple of years ago walking in Beijing almost knee-deep in water (near nanluoguxiang). Is the drainage better near you?
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I like Houston but I have only visited. If I were to live there, I would live inside the 610 loop, which has reasonable density. It is still a driving city, though.

The closest thing to a walking city are the underground tunnels downtown. However, as another commented, the downtown empties out at night; at least that was the case 20 years ago. Houston is very hot in the summer, so a walking city is probably not a reasonable thing to ask for.

One of the absurdities was the Transco tower, called today the Williams tower. It used to be the tallest building in Houston, and it is outside the 610 loop and 4 miles from the downtown. Everything around it is quite small and it is difficult to understand what economics motivated building it.

Update: I'm trying to think why I like the city. I guess it is the vegetation. Houston is perhaps a bit like how Mayan cities must have been.
sigh.. hacker news comments - cynical and (often unintentionally) abrasive.

this looks really cool. and the code is very readable! nice work.
Did you read the article?

Quote from the article:

"Blood from a patient is drawn through microscopic channels where it then meets chemicals that react with HIV and syphilis antibodies to produce a color change. This can then be picked up by a set of photocells in the dongle, and the results are then sent to an app on the attached smartphone or computer."
My sister was one of the super early employees as well, I think under 30. She's given me a very similar picture. Seemed like a lot of young people were hired who way over purchase on terrible merchandise that just didn't sell. Jason also seemed to be a terrible CEO and run the company into the ground.
However interesting this idea might be, there is a certain demographic in this country that juuuust won't.... quite.... be... able to get their arms around this one.
Very interesting, and can't wait to see the print edition.

Kate Ascher's "The Works: Anatomy of a City" from a few years ago is a similar book, but with a broader scope of NYC's infrastructure.
It's a shame BackBlaze is already taken. :)

EDIT:

Will it be an evergreen fund, I wonder?