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This is so wrong. Partially because HTTP is used as a vehicle to deliver applications. This blurring of responsibilities results in the messy state the Web is going to be in. I see parallels with systemd and Linux here: poor design decisions, the chase to accommodate an ever-widening audience of Internet users, one-button devices. Just recently I saw a post from a guy somewhere on a dial-up link in Nepal that it is impossible to write e-mails anymore. You have to write them in Notepad and then copy-paste it into your web-based e-mail client, otherwise the "client" is too slow. And no, adding fancy animations to my GUI is not progress.
This is a staggering and damning indictment:

"It only takes 2-3 hours of study per day to keep up with the regular school curriculum"

The sheer waste of life that implies about children in 'regular school', let alone the staff that provide services for them, is staggering.
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Freeminer is trying to improve on Minetest in the graphical aspect, if you're curious.
Introducing the Universal Windows Platform Bridges
> My favorite was a visiting professor from MGU (Moscow State University) teaching 5th graders how to translate Babylonian Cuneiform, including how to infer meaning of writing that no spoken reference exists for

I'm curious about that second point. Do you mean the same kind of vocabulary acquisition that people do in their own language all the time? (For example, a kid reading a book might learn some previously-unknown words that way, and everyone picks up spoken vocabulary by hearing it in use -- granted, picking up spoken vocabulary definitely doesn't meet the standard of "no spoken reference exists", but learning a word by its use in writing does meet that standard and is the same linguistic phenomenon.)

Do you mean translating a document in a foreign language without any idea how that writing system was pronounced? I'm not aware of any writings for which the following are both true:

1. We can understand the writing.

2. We don't have any reference for what the pronunciation would have been.

Cuneiform was used to write several different languages, most prominently Akkadian, which is a Semitic language closely related to Arabic and Hebrew. That helped in translating it. I don't know the language-family status of Sumerian, but it's written the same way, which is obviously helpful in pronouncing it. There are some rarer languages also written in cuneiform; for them we have decent information on their pronunciation, but we still don't really understand documents in those languages.

Old Chinese was written in a script carrying no phonetic information, and its original pronunciation is a major problem today. But it left us rime tables, and there are lots of spoken references in its many modern descendants. So for example, we're pretty confident that 京, the second syllable of beijing/peking, originates as a velar ("k") sound, and the palatal ("j") sound of modern mandarin is an innovation.

Ancient Egyptian held off translators for a long time, until someone realized it could be translated by reference to Coptic, for which phonetic information was preserved. Our phonetic understanding of Egyptian hieorglyphs is good enough that we've translated the names of foreign countries as written down in ancient inscriptions.

Anyway, if that professor was talking about something in this second category, I'd love to hear more about it.
Heh. Nice work.

As a mod developer, my plan on revitalizing Minecraft and making it more of a sandbox again was always centered about designing a modpack going in that direction - I've been working on it since December.

I don't really feel splitting the community into twenty reimplementations is a good idea myself, though.
> Under such a proposal, no one person or agency would hold all of the pieces, an approach some experts speculate could make such a backdoor harder to compromise.

And implement.
This effect is hopelessly swamped by what kids are interested in. It exists, but it's just not strong enough to be helpful at any kind of scale.
"[...] some time in the future our universe will undergo a phase transition
that will destroy us and everything else around us instantaneously."

Some background on this here, from 2013:

http://phys.org/news/2013-12-collapse-universe-closer.html
Most electronic cards have built in batteries like the CMOS battery in computers. So just removing the battery or pulling the cord will not be enough to "turn it off".
Gameplay penalties can work wonders against Gammabright.

Spending a lot of time in the darkness? enjoy blindness, nausea effect and being on fire next time you venture topside while the sun is out.
That's a bit silly, considering it was developed over a ten year process, and a lot of security professionals had a hand in its design. There are problems with it, which some people are quick to point out, and it is important to be aware of them. The fact that your DNS data is enumerable is an important change, for example.

You could compare it to IPsec, which is what most VPNs use, which is comparable in security and design. They both, together with SSL, suffer from a bad case of design-by-committee, including atrocities like X509.

DNSSEC did get an important thing right. You are in full control of your own keys, and your DNS provider can not impersonate you. Having an external DNS hosting provider was not common back then, but it is now, and I'm glad they got that right.
Or you could mention the elephant in the room, the fact that git is orders of magnitude faster than mercurial when your project grows beyond the "small" size. Mercurial would be unusable on something like the Linux kernel, and uncomfortably slow on a lot of other projects. And big projects tend to have more developer mindshare-- funny how that works...
A big component of school is just glorified daycare. Lots of lower income families send their kids to school mainly for that purpose.
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As per language Expert F# from Apress by Don Syme et. all is a pretty solid practically oriented introduction. As for how to use the language most Ocaml and ML oriented books should offer hints. F# is a bit more extensive of course but how the language originally appeared it was "Ocaml for .Net".
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You can, infact, make a living with playing video games. I wonder how you would feel if I said developing is a big hobby of mine, a leisure activity, and a very rewarding one actually. You should not make money from that, get a real job, and practice your development hobby for its own sake.
> CYBERCYBERCYBER

How about you just give me the details with resorting to propaganda?
While I do not condone the use of mind altering substances, I believe that the externalities of the illegal drug trade are far worse than what the drugs do to the users (e.g., the number of murders is Mexico is currently unknown and is somewhere between 20k and 250k a year).

A second argument in favor of regulation over an outright ban is personal liberty. Our social contract is about protecting ourselves from each other, not from ourselves. Drug use that negatively impacts the lives of someone other than the user should be illegal, much like banning second-hand smoke. Outside of that restriction, we should value personal liberty and freedom to make choices about ourselves.
To be honest, I don't really care for the games made on AAA budget.

For past two years I have mostly played FTL, Shadowrun Returns, Transistor and Heartstone.

Two of those were made mostly on kick-starter money.
Rest of them are far from AAA budgets :-)

When mr. Kojima leaves Konami and decides to create a small, tightly budgeted stealth game, I might give it a shot.
Looks like citizens of free world experienced PRISM program http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

So, apparently does not matter how many web-services would be secured by HTTPS, there's no problem to spy, and there's always the way to make owners (even if it's Google) let governments use their data - does not matter whether it's encrypted or not. Moreover, in Russia this list is available for everyone, but PRISM has been revealed to public only by Snowden.
Of course not, but everyone has to have a "first" comment on here, right? What a ludicrous reply for you to make, I mean really.
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They can afford scooters, which cost one quarter that much. On $50 a day, it could be saved for in less than a year even if it costs $5000. Relative to their income, Indians have a lot of savings, due to their high savings rate (30%+). India's accumulated household wealth per adult is $5500. If you have two pairs of parents and one pair of grand-parents in one house, that is 6 * $5500 = $33000. Could be worth it, IMO it depends what is the lifetime of one such installation.

EDIT: Thanks for the correction on scooter pricing.
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It has become so tiresome to deal with the likes of you - people who will say how they don't need or want SSL, how they don't care about privacy.

This is the techie version of "nothing to hide, nothing to fear". It's a pathetic argument and brings nothing to the table.

Just because you don't care about the NSA knowing you like McDonalds when you browse their menu, everybody else in the world shouldn't care about their government knowing they are gay (which, need I remind you, is an offense punishable by death in certain countries) when they browse an article on LGBT rights.

Because, if McDonalds doesn't need SSL for their menu, why would a writer need it for his small-audience blog?
Compound growth is the shit! Learn to grow before you go-go…
I have changed career fields (industry and skills required) every 10 years, most of them grew out of my side hobbies. From my experience, always have a side hobby that can grow up to become a new career if you want. Also, having a side hobby, that is not connected to your current career, will make you think and act differently even in your current career job.

The demand for trade skills (plumbing, carpentry, electrician, construction, mechanical assembly etc.) is growing as more and more people gravitating toward white collar jobs. These are also a nice skill to have in your daily life. You don't need to think of these skills as "backup" career plan but more of something that takes you away from the work you do for 8-10 hours a day.

Though HN is not fond of him, you might want to check out Mr. Money Mustache http://www.mrmoneymustache.com. He was a software engineer and "retired" at early age and enjoys his carpentry and construction work. The forum on his site also offers wealth of information on alternative methods of keeping busy that also pays.
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> There's nothing, absolutely nothing

No, there is something. You could use the blockchain as a decentralized torrent tracker.
The recent attack on Github, where malicious JavaScript was injected into a plain unencrypted http connection, is enough to convince me that requiring https everywhere is the right move.
Who are you to condone what others do or don't do to their own bodies and minds?

That's like not condoning execution-altering software. It's none of your business what I do with my hardware.
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What kind of mathematics do you want to learn? If you are interested in discrete mathematics and algebra, Haskell has something to offer. I would also read http://www.amazon.com/Conceptual-Mathematics-First-Introduct... which is a great introduction (unspecific to code).

If you are more interested in linear algebra or numerics, I would suggest to get to know numpy better.
> While I do not condone the use of mind altering
> substances

Why not?

Also, you should try beer, it's AMAZING.
It is; HTTPS is HTTP over TLS ("Transport Layer Security"), however, there are various features like pinning, HSTS, etc that need to be controlled by the application layer, which is why we talk more about HTTPS than TLS.
Hopefully someone will find it useful for the reverse, warping an overlay image to place on top.
I've never heard of this service before but i'm definitely going to look into it this weekend, if I'm correct and it fits into my workflow it could be a really good option for me but the pricing is a bit steep for me as well. (I'm not a business but a personal user.)

A $3-$5pm plan with unlimited records and a lower limit on API calls and attachments than the plus plan would be very tempting!
Spread the meme: Saying "cyber" means "I have no idea what I'm doing or talking about".
> I'm still not sure how the discussion got sidetracked into discussing Rust, though.

Yes, let's generalize - reading the blog and the comments, this "case sensitivity ruins productivity"-problem seems to only be a problem in scripting languages.
And guns don't kill people, they just make it very easy to do so.

I'm well aware of all those efforts. I'm also well aware of the insanity behind them and just how much effort was required for it all. Java really didn't help the entire matter.
I just finished Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari. I highly recommend reading it if you're interested to know more about this topic.
There used to be HipHop [0], a simple app that scraped mp3 sites and streamed music from them. Although it was fully functional (and still appears to work on my side), there is no music discovery, only search - which is a limiting factor for this app. Previous discussion on hn [1].

[0] https://github.com/hiphopapp/hiphop
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7850613
If the secrets are compromised, new secrets can be generated.
" 4kW seems to be the maximum potential drain from the battery. That wouldn't power an oven… let alone anything else at the same time."

4kW is enough to power an entire home continuously, without thinking about energy use, even a large one with a home office with several people working in it + washing machine + oven + electrical stove at the same time. I have the data to prove it, too - 10 second interval power consumption logs for the last 4 months for my house/office, and I never had a load of more than 3.5kW. To be fair, this is all with modern, top of the line appliances, so yes that 199$ no-brand Chinese oven will probably draw a lot more power, but still.

Worst case, you'd need a second 'peak power' supply, which could provide e.g. 6 or 8 kw for 10 mins max, maybe using some sort of XXL capacitor. I don't know about the EE side of this, or whether such a thing exists already, just saying - 4kW is perfectly feasible and even heavy users would maybe need just a little bit more.

(of course this also assumes you have a better quality house than the standard American cardboard 'house' in which you need A/C running 24/7 just to not die in summer).
very nice and all, but how about the massive memory leaks.
Will Big Data Make Us More Honest?
Mining time can actually be incredibly low in some cases. With a max efficiency enchanted diamond pickaxe, for example, you can practically swim through netherrack. With the optimization you suggest they would be noticeable lag.
They are getting cornered into a corporate environment. But they used to dominate the consumer market, and windows 8 was precisely designed to reconquer this lost market share.
You get a good new scooter in India for less than $1000.
It doesn't sound like you read the second part of my post. My point was exactly that while I hold a personal belief about the use and effects of the use of certain substances, that doesn't mean that I have a right to enforce that belief on others.
While I hate that riots exist, it honestly makes me feel good that there is a group of people in the US that get angry enough with the system to get up and do something.

Every time I hear about protests and think about people standing outside the whitehouse all I can think of is how futile it is. Especially after Occupy Wallstreet where the media did it's hardest to discredit the entire movement.
Project Ara? All reports have stated that the basic device will be wifi-only.
>and those who do must maintain a 20-25 mile per day pace to beat the early snowfall in Northern Washington.

Why not hike north to south, starting in Washington in early spring?
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"who wouldn't want the entire web to be encrypted"

...me. It's insane we're even considering this. There seems to be a swell of consensus among tech people that encryption is good. It's not. It's not even the better of two evils. Encryption is secrecy not privacy. Encryption doesn't even work. It's the war on drugs all over again.
Don't attack people who are mostly on your side.

Pro-legalisation needs all people - those who take drugs and those who think taking drugs is stupid - to pull together to work to their common goal - legalisation.

The enemy is not someone who wants to legalise drugs but advises against taking those drugs. The enemy is the police state that imprisons people, at great expense, for very long times for drug crimes.
/etc/hosts

when I was experimenting with computers I had a WAMP executable on my LAN.

less parties involved the better.
Would you mind elaborating your answer? It currently isn't clear to which question you are answering yes. ;)
Why on earth does that need canonical ordering.
It sounds like you think they rolled a die for every design decision that went into creating the iPod and it happened to turn out well. I would agree that there are many factors outside your control and subject to luck for a company in a situation like that, but how you choose to design and market your products aren't among them. Apple back then wasn't Samsung, they didn't just make one of everything, in as many different models as they could, and see what happened in the market. They had very limited resources and had to be extremely judicious and thoughtful about how they used them. They're not in that position now, but the disipline they learned through those years has stayed with them.
You should be able to put this thing on the top of your Tesla (it even looks like a roof box) to double your range!
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Tesla Powerwall Battery Economics: Almost There
I liked his post "Why Energy Storage is About to Get Big, and Cheap". In this article he says that Tesla Storage is not quite cheap enough for most to buy on a purely cost-benefit basis, yet. But it will be in 3 to 5 years, if not sooner. I find that really exiting. I'm wondering if they will be able to keep the supply up with the demand once this really becomes a smart cost effective move for a lot of people. Even with the huge battery factory Tesla is building.
> 76. Make damn sure that Rhapsody runs on an Intel chip. Write a Windows NT emulator for Rhapsody's Intel version.

Rapsody did run in Intel. It was basically openstep (that was already running on the 486) with some Mac OS bits bolted onto it.
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The apt install with their packages worked well in Ubuntu so no more build from source for me. I always had trouble with dependencies.

http://www.mono-project.com/docs/getting-started/install/lin...
Anyone interested in the topic should read the LSE report on the Economics of Drug Policy. The facts are staggering, especially on the human and fiscal cost of internal displacement. I bet not many know that Colombia just a few years ago was only beat by Sudan in terms of internal refugees, and it's all due to the drug war.

It also gives some perspective to the Western debate – we talk about decriminalisation and healthcare. That is a good step, but it won't help the atrocities committed in the rest of the world. We need to talk about legalisation.

http://www.lse.ac.uk/IDEAS/Projects/IDPP/The-Expert-Group-on...
Thanks for clarifying. That boils down to linux perfectly hiding this problem from the user, while windows painfully makes the user restart every time a file is in-use and needs to be removed.
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You might be surprised how many poor do have computer/internet access. Different regions look different, even within the U.S., and there are many different modalities of living amongst the poor.
"and can only provide 2kW output."

only 2kW? 2kW is enough to power any residential, single-family house for 95-98% of the time; you only need (a little bit) more than that at very short (few minutes) peak intervals - when heating up an oven, or some cycles of doing laundry. A second unit would provide that headroom, and otherwise (when the extra $5k for a second unit is prohibitive) you could still draw from the grid for peak loads and just not run an oven and washing machine at the same time during grid blackouts.

It does require a 21st century house - led lighting (but it's 2015 - who still uses incandescent except for those places where you don't turn on the lights more than 4 times a year anyway?), energy-conscious appliances, moderate need for A/C (sane insulation and ventilation, localized and intelligently controlled A/C needs - i.e. no 'bring all room in my 3000 square feet sheet rock and tin roof house down to 75 degrees when it's 110 degrees outside'). But whoever doesn't have that, has options to start reducing their bills that are much better than buying energy packs.
Depends on country. I doubt you could ever run, say, Germany or Britain on locally produced solar power.
How long ago did you attempt to install Cloud9? It's recently been updated (~2 months ago) to the new V3 which is much easier to install and run offline (https://github.com/c9/core)
I don't like the terseness, the global inference and the syntax. Can read it (unless there are custom operators) but cannot write it. Would love to have Scala on CLR: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/9095/what-are...
I want to build something like meteor that leverages nim's compile to JS and C.
... which is superior to Java in almost every way.
Perhaps pedantic, but "fair use" usage of a work would fall under "unlicensed but legal".
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Parsing Perl 5 POD with Perl 6
> That, and the factory is in the USA. I would assume shipping something that large and heavy would add to the cost in Australia.

Put it on a boat. Shouldn't cost more than shipping inside the US.
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Use the heat directly, like in a concave mirror?
Did you read the analysis from Fireeye or Symantec? Their analysis seemed pretty solid to me. The people questioning it asked good questions, but these questions were answered quite well by the forensic reports.

Either way, we do know that the State Department and CIA cooked The Interview from the leaked emails. We know from the Guardians of Peace that they are NK sympathizers (be they from NK or elsewhere).
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Etho does something he calls speed mining. This involves max enchanted picks (efficiencyV), and beacons set to hasteII and speedII It's very fast. And leaves a lot of entities around.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VUqM2nQ5G5o
> What does Mercurial have over Git today?

Not related to the core product but still very important for the experience: A decent Windows gui, tortiose hg. I have tried all the guis for git, both commercial and free, and they all suck rats ass. Either they are slow, they only support github, they look like shit, they only support the most basic commit operations, they can't show the diff between selected revisions, they destroy your merges and simply make everything related to source control a pita. There are many many of them available that can do some of the things I listed above but none that does all of it.
Others have commented on a description of the literal style/structure of "Dhalgren" that "it sounds a bit like 'Ulysses'". I suppose I'll know once I finish the books by Joyce :-)