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Should a music player be anywhere near as heavy as Chrome? A web browser is a pretty immensely complicated thing (CSS, DOM rendering, Javascript JIT compiler, etc.).

Similar criticisms have been made of iTunes over the years (though I find it's not bad in the current version). Things like laggy scrolling are a bit understandable there, since they've defaulted to the grid of album covers view for a while. But Spotify looks like it's all just columns of text and a few thumbnails on the side?
Its funny watching the video of the lock being picked. I cant help but feel that if that style of lock was invented today, we would probably complain rather heavily about its insecurities. There is a clear vulnerability in that they produce sound and friction that enables a trained individual to pick the lock, gaining unauthorized access.

It's also interesting to think almost every house in the country has one of those locks, yet no one seems too concerned.
Maybe spend some time researching the goth subculture if you don't know much about it. Not just online, perhaps try to participate by going to a local club and talking to people for additional insight. It's mostly aesthetic - music and fashion - but it might give you some perspective or desensitize you somewhat. Alternatively, therapists may be available whom specialize in this sort of thing.
iOS dev guy does not tie his self image to his net worth. You can buy his services with an interesting job. He also is not a hard bargainer, and just giving him enough to be comfortable will work.

Finance guy has been told his whole life to work hard. He goes into finance because he can't think of anything better to do (why don't interesting companies go to recruitment fairs? WTF?), but he does have this one trump card which is he went to Harvard. Having no particular interest, he goes for the highest paying job.
I'm having trouble tracking this here. What is the difference between "real rape" and your description?
No, but Rust solves the exact security problems that MS's codegen is trying to solve. Look at the Obj-C VS2015 video that was posted here a bit ago. They're constantly coming up with these crazy hacks to reduce the impact of lack of memory safety. It just seems so inelegant, such a waste of effort and intelligence. (I know, it's actually very useful, since MS is mostly C++, so mitigation is a real value.)

And look at this month's security bulletin from Microsoft. Once again, memory safety appears to be the leading offender. This is the same as it's always been. MS's critical CVE would drop by over 90% (I think more, but it's been a while since I tallied them all up) just by having memory safety.
Great idea!! We have decided to create an editable homepage! Also link to a blog where users can try search.
Unbuffering the Buffered
Really?

What implement would you use that would be safer (for yourself) than a firearm? What would be more effective?

Better yet, what would you do as a weaker individual when confronted with two or more aggressors?

I don't know about you, but I don't pretend to be tough enough to "take em!" Nor would I want my wife to try and fend off those who have already committed felonies against my property.

Baseball bats, batons, mace, knives, etc. are heinous, laughable, or otherwise ineffective tools for self-defense.

Simply put: the firearm is an effective equalizer. It enables a mother to defend her family against multiple aggressors at otherwise completely unfavorable odds.

I value the lives of myself and loved ones far more than someone who has violated the rights to my property. I refuse to cede any advantage that might make the difference in my survival.
Porting Docker client to Windows
Do I remember right that the Tor project wouldn't accept a very large number of relays from a single party because it gives too much influence over the network?
That's not rape though. I guess I wonder why this 62% figure comes up if it's actually "hot sex with an attractive stranger" rather than "forced intercourse." Is the survey methodology flawed in what they ask the respondents? Are the respondents confused about what they're agreeing with? Are the results being incorrectly reported?
No, the worst is calling SF "San Fran". :(
No such thing as luck. I read the article and I wouldn't know what qualifies as outrageously lucky. The NASA deal that came just in time, maybe. But it's not luck to get a contract for launching rockets if you already demonstrated you can do it.
Why I Published My EBook on Medium...Instead of Kindle, iBooks, Etc.
It's not so much latency to me. It's the waste. There's both extra latency and extra byte overhead. It's a trivial implementation difference (in all the frameworks I'm familiar with) and as developers, I think we have a responsibility to be efficient and not waste energy and bandwidth.

At scale, you might be talking hundreds or even thousands more clients per server (depending on the server size). On mobile, you use less data which fires up the radio less which directly translates to battery life.

Assuming that your application gets any sort of traction, the 30 minutes of dev time you saved may have a much higher net impact on the world purely by the multiplicative effect. When your product affects that many people, you should remember that you have a responsibility to be sustainable.
You are awesome! Fixed it! embarrassing...
How do the tools available for Mac differ to those available for Windows?

I personally have fallen victim to the hands of malware on my windows PC (doing nothing unusual I feel) which rendered it very frustrating to use, but my Mac has not had any significant issues. I imagine that as someone vision impaired these issues would be catastrophic.
I know what a consultant is, and I know what a manager is... But I'm not sure I know what a "management consultant" is.. You sound like a contractor who shows up and tells managers better ways to do their jobs? If that is true, why don't they ask you why they should trust your opinion over their own?
In fact that's exactly why Rust has panic, which is implemented via zero-cost unwinding under the hood. (Panics can be disabled and turned into an abort if you want to, but only in LTO right now. Improving the support for abort-on-panic is a wanted feature.)
Most buildings in the country have:

A) A pickable lock

B) A door that can be kicked in [fire code requirements]

C) Unsecured windows that can be broken to gain entry.

D) Crawl spaces that can be used to force entry from the outside.

You need alot more than a lock to secure a building.
My criteria were pretty similar, and I settled on the Lenovo Yoga 3 11 inch- Ubuntu 15.04 installs perfectly- everything works out of the box.
Father: What ... what seems to be the problem.

Son: Death.

Father: Death, well I'm afraid that's a little out of my jurisdiction.

Son: I want more life, fucker.
Good points. I guess its just people being present and social pressures (and more along these lines) that keep us honest.
Which I think does add to my point - especially if you are a remote worker. The cost of living in a small suburbia town will be different than living in Silicon Valley.

I don't think he has to deal with remote workers - but automatically disqualifying someone based on how much they ask just rubs me the wrong way.
The built in functionality of Macs nowadays is surprisingly great. I have a blind student who just uses a Mac with the default assistance options turned on with great success.
1) Signalling. Look at my fantastic management consultancy. All my people have Ivy League degrees.

2) These people are (In Thiel's words) indefinite optimists. They don't know what they want. They could do anything. There's plenty of other boring jobs they could do. You have to pay up. By contrast, iOS dev guy needs an app company.

3) A lot of these firms run pseudo-monopolies. It costs a LOT of money to get a bank license. There's only 4 big 4 firms left, and you can't have Mickey Mouse as your auditor. The magic circle is not getting bigger. Monopoly profits means you can pay over the odds. You can have a hiring strategy that is basically just a burnout factory. More hamsters will come.
Looks awesome! I guess my only concern is $65 AUD seems a bit high? Also, is there a specific reason why it needs 10.9+?
Yeah, to achieve that level of success you definitely need luck, but don't forget that luck has to surprise you while you’re working your arse off...
Making an Electric Motorcycle
I am doing an electric motorcycle conversion from (Gas Engine), what are your guys' thoughts on any cool designs or unique add-ons?
Say you're a successful startup founder. You're technical, good at raising money, and good at getting your team to deliver a high-quality product on time.

Fast-forward 10 years, and now you're a pretty big company. You want to start manufacturing your product yourself instead of sending that work out to someone else. Do you know anything about managing a manufacturing operation? Say you want to acquire a company. Do you know anything about integrating it?
Actually, Safari works fine with most of the internet (not everything certainly, but an awful lot of it) with the built in OS X screen reading/accessibility.
I get the sense that Rust isn't aimed at the Agile crowd. It's intended to be a replacement for C++. If you were building an Agile app, you would probably write it in Python first and then once you have the overall architecture in place, rewrite certain libraries (like the parser or low-level networking) in C++. Now you'd rewrite them in Rust instead. Or when your RSS reader gets mainstream adoption and is used by millions of people, you rewrite the whole thing in Rust.

Under this use-case, the verbosity is still a pain, but it's not a major drag on adoption. You already know what you're building and have something that basically works, just slowly, so you don't have to pay the cost over and over again in product iterations. And your expectation isn't "Oh, I'm just trying something out, why can't it let me get to the fun part?", it's "Well, this sucks, but it's what I'm being paid for and at least I'm solving a hard technical problem with the most performant code I can."
Sometimes internal opinions are clouded by internal politics, so it's nice to have a guy come by who isn't in that game.

Other times tough choices need to be made, and it's easier to fire 10K people with a powerpoint deck from a reputable firm.
I grew up in the U.S. but moved around a lot, and most schools I went to were like PG described.

All except for my high school, which was predominantly immigrant (majority Russian/ex-Soviet bloc, minority Asian; parents were mostly geeks as well), which culturally felt a lot like Silicon Valley: nerdy, eccentric, and optimistic about the future. Unsurprisingly, there's non-trivial overlap because many of my friends from high school moved out here for work or to start companies.
Russia: Twenty Feet from War
That sounds pretty much identical to Zencoder, encoding.com, etc.
Build an artificial life program, and use it to discover and optimize algorithms or electronic circuits relating to a problem that interests you.

If you don't have a problem of your own, build a better internal power supply for consumer electronics devices.
This is very anecdotal, but recently I moved to live a 15 minute walk from my office. Since the car keys went away and the walk to and from the office was introduced, I feel much healthier and happier.

Now it could be that I moved, so there are certainly possible external factors that are not the walk, but I really do feel it is the walk that is the major contributor to my days feeling so much better.

I've even found myself justifying silly things to myself just to keep the walk up. For example, the other day I was running late but I still wanted to walk. Walking in and not being late was impossible, so I caught a taxi into the office, just so I could walk home without worrying about leaving my car behind.

Walking is great.
Reddit Decides It Might Be Time to Crack Down on Harassment
You USED to be able to. It's very annoying that that feature is gone.
The money you'll save by walking instead of driving to work will more than make up for the occasional cab ride!
There were definitely alligators. I doubt the author was trying to say they were afraid of their own imaginations. It's possible that he imagined the alligator that was next to him in the water, but it's equally possible that he wasn't.
Apple Pushes Back HomeKit Launch to August or September
It's a nice start. I installed the plugin and was able to create a Rust project and run it from Visual Studio Community 2013 without any hassle.

Although, there are a few issues holding it back from being a pretty sweet Rust IDE...

-- (Major) The indenting for braces isn't handled properly. Try creating a function you'll see what I mean.

-- Errors in the Error List are too vague.

-- Would be awesome if the rustc build output was displayed in the Output window.

-- Syntax highlighting could be greatly improved, it's pretty basic atm.
Well, an average programmer's job mostly is just moving input and output data around.

Promotion - the common understanding of what marketing is about - is just one of the four traditional aspects of marketing.
Community Is More Important Than Code
I love it! My only feature request (semi jokingly), integration with my mail client so I can swipe from the lock screen to send a polite "no thanks" for all those pesky sales emails.
Switch to a lighter beer or hard liquor, lol, solved!
APIs Drive the Emergence of the No Stack Startup
It's just not true that almost everyone who applies to Google has intellect required to perform well. Easily 50% of people who gets to onsite loop are not able to do Fizzbuzz. Phone screens are just sad.

If you think that everyone who applies to IBs has solid grasp on accounting, valuation, etc - you are way overestimating average Ivy League student.
Why is this somewhat pointless comment voted so highly, everyone jealous?

You could certainly argue that Musk was quite fortunate at certain key points, but really, who else has accomplished anything remotely similar?
It would take a while to setup, but offensive infosec people need virtual networks to do pen testing against because they can't pen test all day every day against their own corporate network. Let the user choose a single machine or group of machines to try to compromise. Go for low cost to attract more users or go after big corporate training budgets a la sans.org

Put me in a lab of vulnerable servers and I will spend all weekend trying to get a Admin / root shell and learn way more than any books would have taught me.

BTW, computer security is sort of taking off on indeed.com
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=metasploit&l=&relative=1
Was it Wake?

http://wakelang.com/
What a difference five years has made; this article is from 2010. And the impacts of global warming continue to get worse at an increasing rate. And government seems incapable of identifying it as a crisis, much less identifying it as an existential crisis.

Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything (http://www.amazon.com/This-Changes-Everything-Capitalism-Cli...) is a must read. As Rob Nixon's Nov 2014 NY Times review states, Ms. Klein "argues that the climate crisis cannot be addressed in the current era of neoliberal market fundamentalism, which encourages profligate consumption and has resulted in mega-mergers and trade agreements hostile to the health of the environment." Amen.
Yeah, the 32-bit Linux version (the 64-bit version has the new UI IIRC) is the way the Spotify client used to look before they switched over to WebKit. I wish it was possible to go back to that on Windows - it was much snappier and didn't have lots of pointless padding between song titles.
Why is this rather pointless comment voted so highly?

You could certainly argue that Musk was quite fortunate at certain key points, but really, who else has accomplished anything remotely similar?
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As a note, Laravel 4.2 uses mcrypt by standard. openssl is an option
No, it does not.

Quoting from the article "As yet there is still no scientific proof that relates these diseases to radiation"

There have been attempts to make connections between EM and various sorts of illnesses since at least the 1980s, including from power lines, cell phones, radar guns, and now Wi-Fi. None have found links of the sort described (causing headaches, overly tired, rashes on legs, etc.)

Given the people who work on high tension power lines, and broadcast transmitters in the 10,000+ W power range, there should be strong epidemiological evidence.

That's not to say the symptoms aren't real. But they could be due to reactions to unidentified chemicals at the school.

> Now Jessica is home-schooled, much to her frustration, because symptoms resurface when she's exposed to Wi-Fi.

This has not been replicated in a double-blind test. If it were, it would be amazing, and open up some interesting new science. Such a test would be easy to run.

> RF is currently classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as a Group 2B carcinogen, which means it is a possible cause of cancer in humans

Also on that list? Coffee, pickled vegetables, nickel, and gasoline, as well as working with carpentry and joinery, and in the textile manufacturing industry, and the perineal use of talcum powder. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IARC_Group_2B_carcinoge...
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Check out this section on patterns: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/patterns.html
Outside of very focused tech companies, HR being the first line interview is very common.
I will add that the time the page takes to be created server-side is not really relevant when you're talking about a product.

What matters for the visitor is the total load time, including:

* latency (depends on the location of your server and the visitor, whether you're serving off a CDN or a single datacenter)
* download time (depends on the size of the HTML/JS/CSS you generate, i.e. your default theme)
* rendering time (depends on how heavy your default theme is)

Bottom line, you can just say it's blazing fast and your users will see by themselves (and it is very fast, indeed).
There's nothing stopping you from porting the code to a Xamarin Studio add-in.
Thank you! You are right about the fonts! We will reconsider! Also we decided to create a new home page with our editor! So basically people can try it on our home page sunsed.com
Funny they pay out in miles. On the positive side I'm impressed a legacy air carrier is this forward thinking.
If you send your resume to GS or any IB and expect revenue generating stuff to review it, you are up for surprise. HR people are there as a filters because they are cheaper than engineers and are actually OK with reviewing hundreds of resumes per day. I attended several "pick this pile of resumes and find good candidates" events and I will sooner commit suicide than do it every day.
OP here. Thank you everyone for your kind words and genuine suggestions. Your replies have encouraged me to seek professional help, and I'm going to look into cognitive behavioral therapy to try and improve my outlook and anxiety.

I'm glad that Hacker News as a community is able to come together and help with topics like this. It means a lot.
Awesome article. My take away for the computer world... There's no safe, just safer. Security through obscurity is not as ridiculous as popularly believed. Make your secrets distributed and subtle, and protected in multiple ways for best likelihood!
P≡p – pretty Easy privacy
I think this is amazing. Having a third choice beyond "go to college" or "go to work" has been sorely needed for many people. When I was a teenager (late 1990s) I wasn't able to go to college (had no family support, did a trade school for 1 1/2 years, ended in several types of disaster), so I went straight to work. If I had something like this as an option, I probably would have jumped on it.

A big plus is that even if they fail, many still have family support so they can just go back home and go to school a little later. Even if this is just another gold rush, this is a great opportunity for them with little to no downside risk.

Edit: about the Thiel money: it'd be nice to see a lot more people with the means doing this. 20 people isn't exactly scaling.
This looks pretty awesome and I'm going to try it out.

Feedback: might want to include iOS App Store and Google Play Store links directly in the blog post because 1) I wouldn't have had to open a new tab to search for your app manually, and 2) you have an idea of how many referrals you got through this post.
I get it's sarcasm, but the problem is that computers are not so fast yet.

Developer vs computer time trade-off works only when software already works reasonably well. Which is not the case.
This is beautifully done, and simple and effective. Great demo page!!
Show HN: Rainy cities for pluviophiles: .js rain simulator
We will be very appreciative if you add your notes in issues of project https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/VisualRust/issues
I'm confused at how Gates set back computing by taking the PC from a geeky hobby item to perhaps the go to standard appliance in the modern home. Could you explain this a little better?
Your investment banker scenario is pretty interesting. Given what a single large deal can mean to the firm, hiring the kid of a CEO at a big company you hope to work with one can could almost be seen as a form of lead-generation or a business development cost. The high salaries paid to a junior iBanker are nothing compared to the revenue from a successful deal, plus that new hire is hopefully competent and contributing to the firm's success (and one day sourcing their own deals).
I uploaded 4 terabyte over Korea’s 4G, and paid $48
SpaceX was pretty much him though.
Show HN: New free Git Mac client with full undo/redo
Purity is not just about laziness.

It helps with things like concurrency, parallelism, equational reasoning, refactoring, understanding APIs, and more.
So, the arguments I see are:

- abandonware (fine), bugs, yes, but doesn't invalidate the case if you know the library and the warts

- design flaws make it hard to write correct code, it's crypto, you better know what you are doing regardless of the library

- algorithm identifies are confusing, see point above.
Libgfshare – A secret sharing library
When I was young, I had a large amount of respect for Edison.

When I found out the truth - that he was a businessman more than an inventor - it was quite a let down. Many of his ideas were stolen from people who worked beneath him and the publicity campaign for DC power over AC power is simply terrible.

>it doesn't matter who invents a thing, what matters is who uses the thing to bring actual change to people.

And this is the sad truth of many famous 'inventors'.
People always guess that calorie burn is the reason sitting is harmful, but I think it has to do more with blood flow and cell pressure. Getting up once every 30-60 minutes and shaking my legs out and stretching seems to reduce that effect quite a bit.
Except it doesn't even take a second for the password input to appear. Where are you getting those numbers from anyway? When I tried it, it only took about 152 ms for all the data to load after submitting the e-mail address.
I'm looking for a technique to redirect traffic from port 80 to a maintenance page (on a different port) as soon and as long as port 80 is not bound, on Linux.
Although the article suggests there's no fear for extinction, the continual concerns worry me:

Professor Einstein, the learned scientist, once calculated that if all bees disappeared off the earth, four years later all humans would also have disappeared.

Abeilles et fleurs, June, 1965.