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Why Meteor Is the Dominating Full Stack JavaScript Framework
I was hoping to make the switch from my MacBook Pro just to keep things fresh later this year, but I guess I'll hold on to it a bit longer.
As a subcontractor for BIA and DOI, I can sure you that news has gone around and we will add all Lenovo products to the list of items no to purchase.
I see the comparison, and in some sense it's true. I do think that if we zoom out a bit, you could make a high-level comparison and have it hold some water. But I think that to do so would miss a really big point and give this article too much credit, since it focuses on small details.

One of their big strategic errors of the past few years is to try to be more like Apple when it does not fit their corporate culture or product set, which is the opposite of Microsoft's mistake. Not only that, but Google has pushed hard in social, and not halfheartedly either--in fact, they've pissed off their employees by pushing too hard on Plus. Lastly, Google is pushing hard in artificial intelligence, making big leaps. Their moonshot projects aren't totally stupid and dead. Maps' StreetView started as something similar.
The aim should be to use protocols as a tool rather than direct source of revenue.
I had a neighbor who was doing AirBnB style rentals. I moved to this property because it is quiet and offers me some privacy.

Most of the problems that arise in our building are from short-term rentals who have no respect for the property or the tenants. They often leave trash, vandalize, and misuse the property to fit their short-term needs. Tenants and owners are subject to rules and consequences which helps moderate behavior.

While I don't have an issue with the principle of the matter, most short term rentals seem to be done illegally and there's little oversight over these guests. To get into this building I had to submit to a credit, criminal, and background check. If I wanted to live next to a new person every other week, I would have chosen so.
> Stripe charges just 0.5% per successful Bitcoin transaction. There are no other fees.

Beautiful
Amazon Web Services dominates cloud survey, but Microsoft Azure gains traction
Don't forget about Twitter's API and liberal usage policy that made the plethora of clients and mashups possible -- I think this accelerated their growth more than anything.

Their API is not so "free" now -- you need to register your app, always authenticate, and there's no public firehose access any more.
Those are some great points.

For long term UUV deployments however you would have to deal with the "fuel problem." They will be more efficient than a manned submarine, and can be quite streamlined, but regardless moving water is expensive.

So, for example, dropping them into the water at Hawaii and expecting them to make it to China and back seems "unlikely" because anything large enough to have enough fuel to do that would also likely be detectable (which is the reason you aren't using manned submarines to begin with).

So maybe that's why they're talking about manned submarines as UUV carriers. So that the UUV can have batteries in them and electric motors, maybe 24 hours max of power, and only need to make it 1/8th of the distance otherwise.
Ask HN: If you had a choice, which startup would you join today?
If you could ignore factors like location, etc and base on all the factors that matter like interesting projects, technologies, growth, benefits,etc. which startup would you join today?
Wait, am I missing something or does coinbase not do this for free... or do they nab you some other way
This is totally correct - I just meant that using Lenovos provided installation media would not resolve the issue.

You can definitely use an OEM disk of your exact version with your printed serial. I too have had to procure new keys for win8 machines (did two last week that wouldn't recognize the keys on my machine)
It's absolutely terrible. I have used 4K and 5K displays in the last year on Windows, OS X, and Linux and the only OS that currently handles these well is OS X.

In general, handling high resolution displays requires a really tightly bound ecosystem so scaling works on all applications. Linux makes it immediately clear what happens when this is not the case. 14.04 is totally unusable because you have to either change the system fonts to be huge or scale text within every application individually, if the application even provides the ability to do that at all.
3 million dollars annually in a budget of 3.9 trillion? Next problem.
It says a lot about you that you think a calm explanation of your downvotes, as you are plainly in hysterics over them, is me being angry and mean. I meant elsewhere in the thread. You corrected someone who was correcting someone else, and you were wrong about the spirit of your correction. I was calmly suggesting that if you want to think through such a hypothetical you shouldn't do it as a misplaced correction.

You really need to unplug for a bit. I'm dead serious.
I can't help but think these straight-laced, shirt & tie, crewcut environments aren't attractive to the type of diverse skillsets they really need.
Actually, property owners and tenants have a right to quiet enjoyment...

http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/quiet_enjoyment
If I sell you a window that only appears to latch, and then come by later and rob your house, I might face criminal charges.

Lenovo didn't just sell something with broken security. It purposely broke the security, and profited from it.
> Also remember that Google brought us HTTP/2 when Microsoft and Apple were completely ignoring the web.

That's a terrible example since both companies contributed to the standard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/2
Bringing back the physical click buttons is a step in the right direction, but their recent drivers have ruined the middle mouse button for me. Can't use it both to scroll and middle click; you can either get scrolling or uninstall the driver and get middle click. There is a buggy piece of software called TPMiddle that lives on my X220 right now, but I'm jumping ship for my next laptop purchase.
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Coinbase is free for the first million dollars in transactions. Bitpay is free IIRC.
The CS folks can iterate faster with software defined radios.
> Yeah, I saw a slightly different take saying that in the battle between stealth and detection, physics gives the advantage to the detection side.

You could boil this down to saying that moving things fast and stealth are fundamental tradeoffs.

The energy for the former has to come from somewhere, and at anything less than ideal conversion there are only so many places to hide the waste without compromising the latter.
Webkit keeps prefixes usually because it is not implemented fully and it is an experimental feature. They began unprefixing flexbox in Sept. 2014, I don't know when it's gonna ship.

Though, its super unfair that the Web Inspector in Webkit uses unprefixed Flexbox (http://trac.webkit.org revision 173707).
Coinbase charges a BTC <-> USD fee of 1%.
Stripe is essentially charging for the same exchange service, but 0.5% instead.

"Avoid exchange rate hassles—specify amounts in USD and we’ll send you dollars. Stripe charges just 0.5% per successful Bitcoin transaction."
> Perhaps the real problem is that tech companies hire too many product/marketing managers, resulting in them having to cook up ridiculous money-making schemes in order to justify their own existence.

You have hit the proverbial nail very squarely on the head.
Coinbase does this for free, but they'll take their cut if you try to convert that into dollars. And they don't have a card option as well. This makes it dead simple for anyone to offer Bitcoin while automatically complying with the same reporting regulations as card payments.
> Has anybody here ever even used Twitter via SMS?

yep :) I mean, both of our experiences are just anecdotal evidence pointing to each side of the argument. But in my experience, it made it easier to get onto the service.
I absolutely love the little animated step by step process shown of how it works. Is this done with an open source library?
I agree. Sufficiently honest ad is indistinguishable from unbiased information, but sufficiently dishonest ad is indistinguishable from scam.
The Wirecutter prefers Crashplan:

http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-online-backup-service/
Scientists at MIT Are Designing Chairs That Assemble Themselves
It makes more sense to trust someone who hasn't already been caught abusing your trust.
If they were hard to destroy, why would they care so much about being detected?
The answer can be summarized in two words: asymmetric warfare. More accurately called symmetrized warfare, USG's policy of binding itself to different rules of engagement than its enemies, in such a way as to ensure that the two sides are closely matched, is a recipe for unending conflict. The political reasons for this policy are complicated, but the military reasons for the effects of the policy are straightforward.
This company clones everything from WhatsApp to Facebook
Last I checked, Stripe worked on top of the Coinbase API. The main benefit to using Stripe is that's it's one api and one account. For merchants, you also get fiat instead of holding bitcoin (I assume this is what the fee is primarily for). If you're already using Stripe checkout, adding bitcoin can be done in less than 5 lines of code.
Again: See the Acer/Alibaba incident.
> time and again the science has caught up with what people have reported as their own life experience.

The problem is that most people's life experiences seemingly justify intolerance, in the sense that most people's experiences of most things are fairly typical. It's a serious epistemological problem with science, and is one of the major reasons why using science alone to create legislation is problematic.
Microsoft should buy or clone Ninite.
The case may actually let us see a new version of the MADA if they can require it be in public court records.
nailer specifically said the box in China was doing the MITM.
I'm just using a tiny lib that makes things easier: https://github.com/bendc/animate Other than that, it's just vanilla js/css.
Bayes' Theorem with Lego
Right, but then what is the point of making a submersible carrier as opposed to launching the UUVs from a traditional surface carrier. If your carrier sub is detectable, you aren't going to be getting it any closer than you could get your surface carrier. And I would expect the surface carrier to be easier to build, with more capabilities for self defense.
You could also use this thing, a "Cloud NAS": www.cloudengines.com. Basically a device that exposes itself as a drive via SMB/CIFS and works exactly like a normal NAS, but it's hooked up to a cloud backend, so there is no local storage and it scales. Costs the same as Glacier (1c/GB/Month), but without the retrieval fees. Plus it won't take days to get your data! Obviously it won't run out of the box as a backup application since it's just a drive, but you could do pretty much anything with this thing that you could do with a normal NAS as long as you don't need blazing fast performance.
This guy fixed it for 3 and 4

https://github.com/healthonnet/hon-lucene-synonyms

The Solr guys don't give a flying F about this issue though
Try go for a swim in the ocean, an afternoon walk in a forest, a bit of dancing (and music!) at night. Don't underestimate how much rejuvenation you can get from having various natural (mental, emotional and physical) experiences like these.

There's also an adrenal support supplement which after a few days will help recycle hormones taking the load off your system. Essential oils supplements should also help with mental clarity.

If your digestion is currently poor, then after a few days of eating less toxic food you should have much more energy and less mental fatigue.
I'm on OSX. I was a long time CrashPlan user until on multiple occassions my stored data would simply vanish (e.g. yesterday it was 300GB, today it's 3GB and everything needs to be forcefully reuploaded for the next week). Spent quite a bit of time with support, sending logs and such, with no real resolution. And only because I happened to look at the UI was I aware of the issue. That didn't leave me comfortable at all, given I normally didn't pay attention once it was running.

I then looked at BackBlaze briefly. Same class of product as CrashPlan (set and forget), but I immediately ran into bugs (submitted, confirmed by them), was put off, still raw from CrashPlan... Not a fair assessment to be sure.

Landed on Arq. It's not without its annoyances, but it does do the job well enough, including the recovery process from Glacier which is pretty tedious. I like that Arq can easily map backups sets to different providers, like putting frequently changing stuff that I do restore as a convenience into S3 or Google Drive, instead of Glacier. My most important (smallish) files live on multiple services.

On a more general level, I like that I'm deciding exactly what I'm willing to pay for and how it's managed. I get the AWS bills. If I want infinite backups on this set, and the just the last week on a different set, no problem. The tool does my bidding, and does it smartly (deduplication, etc.)

Lastly, the Arq author is accessible. The whole experience has brought me from skeptical to fairly satisfied.
i need feedback, even if you think this is a piece of shit. Thanks in advance
If he were left to decipher the mess of laws and charges himself, I'd agree that it is improper. But once charged you either get a lawyer or a federal public defender[1]. Even if the attorney didn't know if the stalking charges were going to stick, the lawyer would know the "440 years" isn't accurate. That number is the max for each charge, sentenced back to back to back to ....

But the federal sentencing guidelines are very easy to understand. It is essentially a matrix where you look up different factors. Also, the sentences would run at the same time. So 1 charge or 44 wouldn't really make a difference.

So he was realistically facing a few years and plead down to 6 months. Not as draconian as 440 years to six months huh?

My wife got a speeding ticket on a highway in a federal park. It was a reckless driving misdemeanor charge because she was going 33 over the limit. Max sentencing is like 1 year and 10k dollars. We didn't even bother getting a lawyer because they pled down to regular speeding and a fine of 330 bucks.

[1]State public defender quality varies, but the feds are very good.
FTA: American farm subsidies are egregiously expensive, harvesting $20 billion a year from taxpayers’ pockets. Most of the money goes to big, rich farmers producing staple commodities such as corn and soyabeans in states such as Iowa.
It's pretty extremist to say that I'm making a case for anarchy. Nobody's saying that we should change zoning or open illegal drug rings. People are wanting to rent out apartments to short-term tenants. How is that remotely close to being a dangerous cartel that needs to be defended against?

People are upset that other people are better off than they are, and using the extra financial leverage to treat an apartment as a temporary vacation home. Jealousy, plain and simple.
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Obsolete sounds a little strong. The denied areas for submarine operations will get larger, but the ocean is really big. Running the fixed and mobile sensor arrays to detect submarines is not cheap.

Regardless of the foreseeable improvements in submarine detection, they'll still be harder to find than surface ships.
It really baffles me how bad the GMail app on iOS is. I was hoping that Inbox would be a step up, but like you said, I don't want my email managed that way.

I have a work Google apps account and a vanilla Gmail account and it is frusturating not having a unified inbox. And I keep getting "Network errors" with it (on two devices that I tried).

I recently dumped the GMail app for Outlook on iOS and it has just been phenomenal. I wish the search was a little better and I could see my GMail labels, but for now, it looks like I won't be going back.
Lenovo is a hardware vendor. I suspect most of the HN crowd reinstalls something on their machines. The non-HN crowd won't even know about all of this (see the public response to NSA spying on American citizens, almost zero).
Stop calling stealing and lying "mistakes" you astroturfer
From your statements about bandwidth, I think you're probably assuming just HTML and no images/video - which used to be fine a few years ago.

However these days insecure images/video etc in a page served over HTTPS will trigger mixed content warnings in most browsers.
I'm not familiar with these personally, but:

http://do.cooperteam.net/

Gnome Do looks like a Quicksilver clone. Seems stalled for a year.

https://github.com/ManuelSchneid3r/albert

Alfred-inspired, though possibly moving a little slow (no updates for a month, and those were readme/packaging). Claims to have a major refactor coming out this month.

https://github.com/qdore/Mutate

Alfred-inspired, looks active.

Mutate might be what I'd hitch my horse to, were I ok with something bleeding edge. Unsure if it supports complex workflows, though.
No. Network level security, if correctly installed, cannot be avoided by just running some code on your local workstation. If you have it installed on the station itself, then it is easier to avoid by just shutting it down. Also network based security can isolate workstations that are suspicious.

And your 'monolithic' is a symptom of architecture, that is either outdated ("not hipster") or just bad. But that does not mean that someone can't build hipster and good network level security. I guess, Google does not buy that off the shelf.
thanks! i have an X1 carbon en route - will try this as soon as i open the box.
Huh?

>The httpbis working group considered Google's SPDY protocol, Microsoft's HTTP Speed+Mobility proposal (SPDY based),[5] and Network-Friendly HTTP Upgrade.[11] In July 2012 Facebook provided feedback on each of the proposals and recommended HTTP/2 be based on SPDY.[12] The initial draft of HTTP/2 was published in November 2012 and is based on a straight copy of SPDY.[13]
Yes, but of course the exchange rate matters as well. It's trivial for Bitcoin payment processors hide an extra "fee" in the exchange rate by giving you a worse exchange rate than you'd get at Bitcoin exchanges and pocketing the difference. (I have no idea if Stripe does that or not)
Nope, it's 20 billion for all farm subsidies. 3 million was just for farms who didn't grow any crops at all. And we should cut out any wasteful program, no matter how small.
>He is not qualified to say that,

What about Bryan Clark? Is he?
http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/naval/submarines/20...

>There is not much danger that these new technologies will be able to detect a sub in our lifetime.

Really? Are you qualified to say that?
Here's the thing about submarines you may not realize: they are the trump card when it comes to nuclear warfare and keeping MAD in place. If one country "struck first" and tried to wipe out our nuclear silos, nuclear armed subs would retaliate. Given the surface are of the world covered by water, there are quite a few hiding places too.

What happens to MAD after we have a reliable way to detect subs? :/ Don't really know.
Fallback for IE8 and IE9, display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle; Note that the element needs an explicit height for this to work...
Microsoft research vs Google is an interesting case, especially considering that Google's glucose sensing contact lens project originaly started at microsot research, but Novartis is licensing them from Google.
Okay, I see. Thank you for the explanations. You're probably right.

EDIT: Yeah, I was being an idiot. Thanks for the reality check.
My Next Book for a Year of Books Is “On Immunity”
The chief question I have is whether or not a Lenovo PC sold by the Microsoft Store as a Signature Edition (e.g., [1]) would contain this or anything similar. My suspicion is that it would not. If anyone is near a Microsoft Store, and can stop in to run the test, it would be interesting to see the results.

[1] http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Lenovo-Y...
Love the claim that their relationship with Superfish "isn't finanncially relevant" and that they were doing it for their users.
To expand upon your point, AirBNB, much like Uber, can sit back a bit and pretend that this is just the fault of a couple of careless users as opposed to a systemic problem. This is the "brilliance" of their business models -- at least for now, they can claim that these people aren't their employees, that they're independent contractors or some such, so it's not the company's fault. They get all of the upside with limited legal liabilities (for now). The long play is to have an exit before the legal side of things catches up with them--the legal systems are slow, but AirBNB/Uber's growth rates are pretty fast. The current stockholders can cash in their billions with the exit, and it'll be the CEO's/shareholders' problem in the future if/when the legal system catches up to them.
Telegraph owners' £250m HSBC loan raises fresh questions over coverage
I specifically said it was an assumption I had - after it was proven incorrect.
Of course a company cannot be selective about its customers in a way that is anti competitive.
This was the greatest part of the whole document. Absolutely freaking hilarious.
I read this yesterday and came away extremely impressed with your self-analysis, documentation and the game's progress itself.

Is this entirely a one-man operation?
If you have used Nexus 5 post-lollipop

Is this kind of a glass half empty thing? The dramatically more popular Galaxy S5 saw a significantly improved battery life. If we just include those data points, and average across users of Android, it was a huge net win for users.

This article is clickbait garbage (again a "contributor"), and it allows people to ply their grievances as if they are canonical.
Disclaimer: I work at Cloudera on Solr and related technologies.

I don't think there's anything out of the box in Solr 5.0 that changes that. SOLR-4470[0] should be able to do that, but it hasn't been committed. Apache Sentry[1] adds role based access control to Solr, but it's only been tested up to Solr 4.10 and with kerberos (not basic password protection). It comes nicely integrated out-of-the-box with Solr as part of Cloudera Search[2]; otherwise, you'll have to do some manual setup to get it to work.

[0] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-4470
[1] https://sentry.incubator.apache.org/
[2] http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/products-and-ser...
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"Some researchers now say that as many as 1 person in 100 has some form of [atypical sex]."

If the "simplistic" male/female binary explains >99% of observations, there does not seem to be a strong case for describing biological sex as a "spectrum"...

I am 10,000% behind tolerance and acceptance for people of all genders and sexes and orientations, and it's very useful to understand how much biological complexity and variation is possible. But... any honest interpretation of the data would suggest that "the idea of two sexes" is an highly accurate approximation for Homo sapiens.
What is the "open wallet" step? That can't mean I have to have a wallet with Stripe, can it?
http://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidGaming/comments/2wga78/pangam...
Is this available to canadian stripe accounts too or just US?
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