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From my experience thus far the .NET community is not friendly to open-source. Yes, open-source projects do exist, but those are few and far between, being either ports from the Java world, or throwaways that failed as commercial projects. There are also instances of bait and switch, as in projects starting as open-source being closed later (e.g. ServiceStack). Also compare RoboVM.com with Xamarin.com. If you'll dig into the details, you'll see similarities (like comparable pricing), with one important difference ... RoboVM is open-source and you only need a subscription for extra goodies. Same thing with IntelliJ IDEA versus Visual Studio. I find this difference to be the essence of the .NET ecosystem versus the others.

You mentioned NuGet, which is like `gem`. Well, the build tools in .NET land suck really badly. You've got MSBuild, which is like Ant or Make and that's what everybody uses, because development in .NET-land is Visual Studio driven. What you don't have for example is something like Maven (or SBT, or Lein). There's been nothing like it in .NET land. The ASP.NET developers have been building an alternative, in the form of dnvm / dnx / dnu, but it's just getting started, being a work in progress and feeling hack-ish and incomplete. Fingers crossed.

Anyway, in spite of the fact that there are companies that have built their own build tools because the current status quo sucks so badly (and I know more than one), the .NET community is filled with closed-minded folks that will never admit that their tooling sucks and I'm even including Visual Studio itself in this mix, since an IDE that needs extra investments into ReSharper is not that good in my opinion.

And then there's Mono, the current cross-platform implementation and the answer to folks that want to develop and deploy on Linux, OS X, Android or iOS. Except that Mono is and has historically been full of bugs. Like if you want to do server side development and deploy on Mono, just forget about it. And these days Xamarin is focusing only on mobile development and the community is dead.

> Would, say, a Ruby or node.js-oriented web developer find the F#/.NET community lacking, incomplete, unfriendly, uncool? Is there even a community to speak of?

The answer in my opinion is yes. This may change, given recent efforts by Microsoft, however evolution will be slow because the whole ecosystem has to change, not just Microsoft.
Call of Duty: Black Ops III has a terrifying vision of the future
Streaming Xbox One games to a Windows 10 PC is awesome
In SVN there really is no technical difference between a tag and a branch IIRC, although their intended usages are different, as you say.
You can also just "color" the entire page and get a fairly high score.
Quick version in Desmos:

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/7dpcup8iwk

Here you move the points by dragging instead of creating them by drawing, which I find more fun in some ways, and less fun in others.

Edit: constraining the radius makes the system behave like a hoop attached to springs https://www.desmos.com/calculator/a2pfwqrtmb
99% of all programming isn't cpu bound. Yes, programming to minimize your programs runtime on modern cpu:s, in contrast to keeping stuff simple, is a niche.
Thanks! Looks like 19% for me.
You would be pretty surprised what you can carry for under 18 lbs or so. (not counting food/water)

Doing so comfortably is a different story. ($)

There's a huge cottage industry of lightweight gear manufacturers [1] (I curate a list) that you won't find in the big retail stores. Lots of focus on smart feature engineering, lightweight hardware and materials, consistent feedback from customers driving their revisions. It's been pretty neat to watch.

1. https://lwhiker.com/brands
Nope. The goal is to make running a server only available to corporate entities. It reduce competition from folks like yourself.
What's going on with italy short public and long private, an outlier for both in europe.
Then that is why you need to go!

I haven't done a 150 day hike, but I have done 100 - 150 day travel before.

Things like that are a great way of creating chapters in your life. Everything in the old chapter closes before you go. You stop working, get rid of 'stuff', move out of your living space and simplify down to essentials.

When you're done, a new chapter starts. In the new chapter, you'll do things differently because you get a new chance to start, and because a long break generally gives your brain a chance to bubble up what it think the long term priorities are.

Call it a life reboot with a disk reformat and OS update. Sometimes you need to take the server offline for a while to bring it up to spec.
Windows 11 will just be Minecraft with a web browser and the ability to run Office.

Improving the ability for people to make mods now will provide an ecosystem for future Windows app development.
Question: if I'm prototyping a webapp on my machine -- one that will ultimately run behind apache or nginx or an amazon load balancer or something -- can I still prototype it in my browser with new features enabled without getting a valid https setup running on my localhost?
Neither! Paradox or aporia is my guess. Gets you thinking though, which is clearly the idea.
You need to be able to prove ownership of a domain in order to get a certificate. CAs already require this; the "lets-encrypt" command line tool just implements a challenge-response protocol for doing it automatically. But you could implement the same protocol yourself, as long as your platform allows you to either serve the response from a well-known path at the desired domain, or add it as a TXT record in DNS.
> There is indeed no great solution to 'prominence' in the OSM data.

There has been lots of research about how to automatically produce Goldilocks Maps (enough information - but not too much) - I remember an article (whose URL I can't locate) which showed increased readability by pruning minor location names when they are too close to major locations. Google does that sort of thing well, but they are not the only ones nowadays - for example the osmfr Openstreetmap style does, in my opinion, a decent job of prioritizing labels: http://tile.openstreetmap.fr/
Comparison of the Orlean and Erlang/OTP+Riak Core
Why do we have to pay for an SSL certificate? Shouldn't it be free?
That was extremely funny. Especially the bit about putting the north on the bottom. "But you can't do that."
Not at all. This is probably the one thing they've gotten the most right so far.

It's not unique to tech stocks - it's very deep part of investor psychology.

E.g. in a romantic relationship, people being far more enthusiastic and more willing to invest in a partner with high perceived future potential earning and other value, than in a partner who's already clearly laid out all their cards.
Pre-processor macros...
a week-long pack was more like 50 pounds, and now 25 is heavy?

The weight fanatics still existed back then, drilling their toothbrushes and cutting off unneeded straps, but the industry has advanced and "lightweight" has become a mainstream goal.

Which, I think, is good. It's easy to take lightweight too far, but given that long term a very heavy pack is rough on the body even for fit people, I won't cry over the disappearance of 80lb hiking payloads.
DNA Test Will Predict Cancer 13 Years Ahead
> I'd like to see the author back this claim up, rather than ask us to trust him. Homeschooling is a feasible choice for families where one parent does not have to work full time, which rules out many poorer families.

In the Bay Area, this would likely rule out families with incomes below $90k and one or more kids, assuming they want at least a 2BR apartment.
Google Australia paid AUD $11.7M tax in 2014
Having been homeschooled myself, I can attest to most of the advantages he describes. Personalized education is a very powerful thing, especially for what he calls "asynchronous learners".
There is a good discussion here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7207851) about random shuffling in the context of online poker. The specifics of your shuffle algorithm don't really matter if your numbers aren't truly random.
Except that kids will need access to VS2013 or 2015, which, unless they have a parent who works on the MS stack.

That said, I do agree this is really a neat thing from MS.

Although it is not necessarily cheap, Youth Digital's Mod course[0] is really quite good. You get an instance of Eclipse ready for Minecraft mod development. While it covers some basic programming skills, it really about simply learning how to manipulate the code in order to do neat things in the game. My older boy loves it, and enjoys "exploring" by modifying parameters.

[0] http://www.youthdigital.com/minecraft-mod-design.html
If the cost of an SSL certificate is a barrier for you to compete, you should probably do something else.
This might seem weird- but to me, it has the same appeal as television: the selection is already made.

Choosing a restaurant to eat at is such a small barrier, but it feels huge (kinda like picking an episode on NetFlix).

I definitely see the appeal in getting an e-mail saying: "Hobotron, a table for 2 is reserved at Lait de Tétine this Thursday at 7PM." and when you show up your preferred cocktail is already on the table.

Could partner up with Uber/Limo/Whatever to provide rides to/from in the event you wish to indulge to excess.
You are aware that you can also run Java "in the terminal" right?
And here the Argentinian president's Twitter openly mocks this story: https://twitter.com/CasaRosadaAR/status/593584932485779457
Can you still serve a static site from AWS' S3 with an SSL cert? Last time I checked, you can't unless you use Cloudfront in front of it.
This is exactly what the article states. The comparison stops at them both being computers, and that is the point and the problem.

"Most mobile phones give the user much less control than a personal desktop or laptop computer would"
For Tor and I2P hidden services, HTTPS is redundant so I don't really see the point in punishing people for things like this. Loopback sites are an obvious exception to the "HTTPS is better" rule as well.
Did you notice how things went downhill once they entered the stealth mode? What kind of startup consultant would suggest that and for what reason?
I only hiked the JMT which is 220 miles of the pacific crest trail. That was plenty but it was also easier than expected in some ways. There are lots of hills but the footing is easy because they made it accessible to pack animals. I found it much easier than the parts of the AT that I have seen.

One of the biggest things I learned was that through hikers are all a little strange. Have you ever had a grown man introduce himself as Hello Kitty while keeping a straight face?
I doubt that phone + battery + solar charger is going to weigh less than a compass and a few sheets of waterproof maps. Since you have to resupply at points along the trail, you don't need to carry detailed maps for the entire route in your pack.

I personally wouldn't want to rely 100% on a phone. It would have to be ruggedized, you would need a way to charge it daily, and it would have to have all the maps (which for this purpose are detailed topographic maps) stored locally, as there is no cell coverage in a lot of wilderness areas.

Most of the time on the PCT, maps are superfluous. The trail is well defined with clear signs. Even so, it's always a good idea to pay attention to where you are and what the area around you is like. If something goes wrong (injury, medical emergency, wrong turn at Albuquerque), that knowledge could save someone's life.
My father in law was a cartographer by trade, he got started when conscripted into the Vietnam war, and continued in mapping and cartography for his entire career. He spent his entire service producing detailed maps of Vietnam from a very long way away. All hand drawn. I've seen a couple of pieces of his work, it's awesomely detailed. They were shipping out new maps on a very frequent basis.
Yes; localhost specifically counts as secure.
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Yeah. Off the top of my head I know a private high school that cost 26k/yr, but you're correct when we look at all the data: http://www.privateschoolreview.com/tuition-stats/private-sch...

> The private elementary school average is $7,355 per year and the private high school average is $13,248 per year.
To be fair, he also owns a basketball team.
which will be great when it finally exists
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18 servers at the moment. There are different realms.
Starts at 20:30 Pacific Time, 03:30 GMT on May 1st.
$15-20k is definitely not comparable to "the most expensive private schools", in the Bay Area.

A quick search shows up an informal ranking here:

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2014/11/ranking...

The top 5 are all ~$40k, I didn't look much further than that. I think 15-20 is probably more the average cost?
You do, this is Ubuntu Mobile strategy at the moment AFAIK.

However, drivers in ARM platforms are very opaque. You rely upon the goodwill of the manufacturer to update them, and most of the time they don't. See how most devices get unsupported in Cyanogenmod after a while.

And in any case, all the privacy concerns remain. It's a hardware issue. Android would be fine.
Maps and compass are in fact on the list under miscellaneous.

Halfmile Maps http://www.pctmap.net/.
I should be happy about this -- who wouldn't want the entire web to be encrypted -- but SSL is so broken for normal people. SSL is expensive (wildcard certificates run $70 a year and up), confusing (how does one pick between the 200 different companies selling certificates?), and incredibly difficult to set up (what order should I cat the certificate pieces in again?).

If SSL doesn't change, this move will cut the little folks out of the internet. What are Mozilla's values?
I would argue that it is.
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Visual Studio Code – cross platform edition
Seriously, SSLs basically 2x the hosting cost for low end hosting packages.

Not great for people running small websites.
Why this project: https://letsencrypt.org/ is so important.

From the site: Let’s Encrypt is a new Certificate Authority:
It’s free, automated, and open.
Arriving Mid-2015
That's kind of a shitty thing to say, and is pretty much in direct conflict with the notion of a distributed and open internet.

I'm saddened that you are so economically prejudiced against potential content creators.
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I am still on the hunt for a summer internship and would be happy to chat with startups that are interested in bringing an engineering intern onboard this summer, with the potential to transition into a full time opportunity.
Indeed, ever since making the switch to external iteration, Rust has had a far-future desire for a `yield` construct to simplify the creation of iterators (inspired by C#). See https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/388
I'm pretty sure you want to avoid HTTP websites while on TOR. HTTPS encrypts your connection, while TOR anonymizes it.
AFAIK, you can't serve pages from S3 over HTTPS using your own domain name, but https://bucketname.s3.amazonaws.com/ works fine. So if you have some other way of serving your HTML pages, you can include other static assets directly from S3 without triggering browser mixed-content warnings.
My girlfriend recently signed with an agent. It was the end of a long process of query letters, revisions, and waiting ... and waiting. Probably just shy of a hundred rejections.

That's the traditional way. So am I telling you you need to hack the system? Nope. As it turned out, there is a correlation between how much practice you put in. Some of her writer friends also struggled mightily, wrote better and better books (note the 's'), and found themselves offered representation by multiple agents.

I was all about a tech/entrepreneur solution with self publishing, but I have to admit the system does work too (we'll see about royalties later though).
Example #12,596 why using the Bay Area as your only data point leads to a pretty distorted view of the world (I'm talking to you too, Amir).
A measly $200,000,000
Part of me wants to bitch about what a missed opportunity it was, letting Microsoft take over and tie this to their own dev environment.

But on the other hand, taking even a single step back from the previous (effectively) actively hostile approach to the modding community (needlessly obfuscating the bytecode, promising and then pushing back mod tools) is more than we had under Notch.
Microsoft video demonstrating how to port Android apps to Windows 10
You would think so.

The problem is that browsers have gone and made self-signed certs suspect, and yet not created, for example, a well-established foundation for signing such certs.
Node.js and IOJS Convergence
Not in the Bay Area which is what the original article is describing.
Win2D: new 2D drawing framework for Win 8.1/10
Ask HN: Any plane owners in KPAO or KSQL who are willing to rent
Hi,
Please, ping me if you are owner of a C-172 or Piper Cherokee or Piper Arrow and are willing to rent your plane?
My best of 11,396,452: http://imgur.com/aO3xA0l
Is there a way for me to tell you which restaurants I've already been to so you don't send me there?
I thought Faraday cages had to be powered to block EM waves...
You're right. I was under the impression that Microsoft had bought Xaramin.
Video from Build demoing it here: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2015/2-631 Looks good! A return to the simplicity of the GDI+ days, with the power of DirectX
It just takes a tiny cost to turn off bright 10 year olds from experimenting.
That's what I was thinking. This sounds like the death knell for many an app data service, especially those that purport to sell insights into proprietary data that are obviously exclusive to Apple.
If things like "python -m SimpleHttpServer" don't work then developers will switch browsers. I don't think anyone is seriously considering what it will take to migrate the long tail of development tools that use HTTP on localhost.
This is really cool. Thanks for documenting and capturing the meticulous process of creating this, it was an enjoyable read. I'd love to see a really high definition photo that captures both the scale of the map and the amount of detail in it, preferably in a format that makes it easy to zoom around on different locations to see the detail. Not sure how feasible that would be though :).
The core theme of the authors blog is to chart out a realistic view of the future that awaits us, and planning our lives accordingly. My impression (from reading the blog these past few years) is that the author is a happy positive person, but you may have to dig into more of his work to see that.

There's plenty of information out there about water problems (California's loss of ground water for example).. I can't really post those articles though as they're not directly relevant to HN.
I had the great fortune to have him serve as my senior advisor when I was an undergrad. A warm and wonderful man.

I'll never forget the feeling of awe I had in one of his classes when he showed us that the function `fix`, defined as `fix f = f (fix f)`, could in fact be used to compute things!
The actions Mozilla proposes sound awful. I believe that a secure (from the NSA) Internet is the way forward. But this seems so goofy to me. There are legitimate reasons for a site not to be hosted on HTTPS.

* It is a static site with no forms or logins
* It is non-critical info
* The site operator can't afford a certificate (Let's Encrypt is only one site...)

As you say: Color-code sites with a bit more granularity. Don't cripple the cleartext web.
I can imagine a lot of personal sites will suffer from this. With most, they're sitting on something like Eleven2 or Dreamhost, who requires a dedicated IP for an SSL certificate, which the user then has to buy and figure out for himself (it's not trivial for the average "webmaster"), or buy the certificate from their host which is marked-up plenty.

Yes, the hosts could wildcard. Yes, there are other solutions out there. But for the average Joe who is blogging about his vacations and family? They're going to be completely lost.

Why don't shared hosts just wildcard? Shared certificate? Well, let's think about it... Charging ~$5/month/dedicated IP is a nice upsell, and getting $70 for an installed SSL cert that costs them $10 from their SSL cert reseller, that takes them 2 minutes to configure... That's a nice slice of pie. I'd take that bet any day.
You just need a conductive metal container.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage
Its not possible out of the box, but there are several community libraries to eval quotations[0].

Shame on whoever downvoted you. Add knowledge to the discussion instead of downvoting someone you disagree with.
[0] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/849416/evaluate-quoted-ex...
Borges is what actually got me interesting in literary criticism -- because of the nature of his output, it's actually possible to read nearly all of his major work (poetry and nonfiction included). This makes reading lit-crit about him infinitely more satisfying. If you're remotely interested, I'd highly recommend "The Narrow Act", "Invisible Work", and particularly "The Mystery To A Solution", though this last one also requires a lot of Poe and even more patience.
My impression is that Amir only had people like himself in mind when he wrote this article.
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>... and I'm even including Visual Studio itself in this mix, since an IDE that needs extra investments into ReSharper is not that good in my opinion.

That's a fair point, but even so, I've yet to find an IDE/editor/whatever that compares favorably to the combination of Visual Studio + Resharper + NCrunch.
Very vocal minority makes all backers seem mad and aggressive, basically a couple of trolls set the tone. maybe if everyone who felt the other way would be as proactive in expressing their opinions to founders it would change at least the emotional outcome. It would silence the trolls, and it would also be more democratic.

The problem is people with more balanced views also have other things to focus on in their lives, so here you have it - even if most backers understood the risk they were taking and have no hard feelings, years later we only hear about that other small subset
I thought people already sold ready-made appliances for corporate SSL MITM.
Good stuff, incredible how little competition there was back then!
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Miyamoto's creations:

* Mario

* Luigi

* Peach

* Bowser

* Donkey Kong

* Link

* Ganondorf

* Zelda

* Fox McCloud

* Olimar (and Pikmin)

He's still around and is one of the major players of Nintendo. Another major figure is Masahiro Sakurai, who was the creator of Kirby and Super Smash Bros.

Unfortunately, Miyamoto is spinning down his work and involvement in Nintendo.
What features have to do with encryption is this. If a browser asks a user "Do you want http://example.com to be able to access your camera", what it is really asking is "Do you want http://example.com, anybody on your local network, state actors, anybody between you and example.com, people who can mess around with BGP and your DNS provider to be able to access your camera?". TLS mostly makes the first question more truthful.
It's worth bearing in mind that in the beginning, https was a significant CPU overhead... Since 2004 or so, much less of one. And since around 2010 CPU is rarely the bottleneck for web applications.

I do find it interesting that someone starting out as a significant effort after 2010 would bother having a partially https site, with back and forth jumps for login. It seems to me like it's actually more work than just having it all https and flat.