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To me the effort to bring secure curves to the browser seems like an important feature for many applications. As such I am surprised how little attention from outside is given to this initiative (now 8 month old). Is there any good reason against it?

Hello, I also had a company where I was in over my head, that stressed me massively and I had to liquidate once. Before I happened to come to Osaka, where I am for 8 years now with many ups and downs.

Oh, I also have an organization here, that I am not sure what to do about. But in my case I learned from previous experience to stay cool about it and focus on the tasks ahead.

What you experience here is the weight of your own expectations. A lot of work has accumulated. You are here and you feel like it is not enough: you are not enough. I would like you to know: you are enough. Your work is sufficient and tomorrow will be another day to grow a little more.

As part of dealing with my deficits I help organize the local community here. When I arrived I didn't notice that the isolation in Japan can quickly reach dangerous levels and without social contact one can easily get sucked down a vortex.

There are many people here trying to reach out to you. Count me in as one of them. Next step is to open up - in person - to someone in a position to help you. You might not think that this person exist (even with the offers here), but I think you could be in for a positive surprise.

I don't see an advantage to https://datproject.org ?! Do I miss something?

Not one "binary" but one thing? https://github.com/jekyll/docker

The homepage misses how its different/better than all the other solutions. Rust ftw?

They do and I think its an argument for the sarcmark.

Is it a problem to have more than one way to express things?

Real or not the Sarcmarc would help sooo much.

Smaller companies can quickly fare better than bigger ones, see Nintendo: http://quotes.wsj.com/NTDOY/financials

I am searching for a Coyote because I would like to see the Grand Canyon without HS invading my personal space ;-)

Will add a link to the "other problems" list, thanks!

True, how should those things be called?

It is definitely a bad idea when working on a server, but for a cli tool or some editor that might install it anyways it could be arguably worth a try.

A problem that I have with my article is that readers seem to get hung up on the config loading bits when I tried to use it as an example for a more-general problem.

To fix this I added a section to the article: https://t.co/sXJhTYXQvy

(Using executable files for configuration can be an enormous problem for some uses.)

In my use-case I would like to offer as many structured files formats as possible. But to be sure: you can replace "structured file" with "code syntax" (example: syntax highlighting) or "natural language translation" (example: translation of a cli tool) or "database driver" (example: orm tool).

(In my project that is the exact problem case)

You do have to choose which packages you want to install at some point. When you do `npm install && npm start` it will still work as planned. The problem here address is for when you need to deal with a new issue.

If it were a handful of extra kb, I'd agree. Of the top off my head I can think of following file formats "somehow" suited for configuration: json, cson, properties files (java), yaml, xml, conf-files (Apache), ignorefile syntax, ini files.

Supporting all of them could be a reasonable goal to the community (looking at the packages in npm: it is an actual goal already).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration_file

Yes, the missing dependencies would show up at runtime. Which is a valid and important concern, however: It would be possible (though probably inadvisable) to implement an automatic download of missing dependencies.

Yes, a package.json is good to get the required dependencies. This article is about possible dependencies that help in cases where you all the possible would mean a huge load on the system.

Personal experience doesn't always reflect averages: According to the EPI Japan is #30: http://www.ef.edu/epi

Thanks, I think that is what I meant.

I think this was on HackerNews before?

Love to be able to attend, unfortunately kind of hard to fit in the schedule. Side question: Is wednesday a good day for a conference?

To me this article relates to the idea of pair-programming. In pair-programming you should also pair lower-skilled with higher-skilled people to lift the beginner's skill. Empathy and Patience required. The problem with teamed-up programming is that it is very much relying on the groups culture and switching between cultures might turn into a hard challenge.

I'd suggest to call an authority other than Homeland Security and tell them a suspicious big box is standing there. Lets see how that plays out.

Point taken. It then just becomes a statistical probability of how many steps between A and N. Considering that everybody using this system better have 0 steps (former point made) 1 step is about the furthest I would hope. But you are right: there could be more steps.

So I only see two major downsides: 1) I basically I have to verify/transact every "printed" money the moment I get it - preferably using a smartphone - in case someone else has a copy of it and "takes" it first. Copies could be made with any high-resolution camera. 2) If the money travels from A to B to C in paper shape and the digital transaction will be from A to C then A will know that B has done business with C.

The rubber bands would hold the case in place but the case is not strong enough to sustain the device. In other words: move your head to fast and it flies away. Hands prevent that.

Head Mount setups - as you point correctly out - are required for a long-time VR consumption. But they come with caveats: - They make the devices heavier & bulkier. - You need a good mechanism to fastly switch back to use as a mobile phone (i.e. when you receive a phone call while in VR) - You need to make sure that the phone is tightly in place. If you move your head considerable force is applied to the casing.

Using your hand allows InstanTRIP Pad 02 to be tiny. It is folded together so tiny that you can put it in the back-pocket of jeans and forget you put it in there. Other VR boxes have to be carried in a bag and consume a lot of space in there.

Other head-mount-less "cardboxes" cost at least 20% more than InstanTRIP (for most you pay double the price) and the setup time is considerable.

There have been trade-off's made but I don't think that they are all bad (feel free to correct me)

Oh! I got to try the InstanTRIP PAD 02 a while ago but it never seemed to have made Hacker News. Thank you Sacha for posting. The Pad02 is a interesting step forward from the 01 version http://www.amazon.com/InstanTRIP-PAD01-4-5-5Inch-Smartphones... , a lot cheaper, a lot lighter. The only problem I see left with the device are that the lenses are fixed size (only working with devices of a limited screen size). Else the product concept is very nice imho. I would love to forward (translate) the HN communities opinion to Cocoloworks.

(Disclaimer: I know the creators - Cocoloworks - in person . They are members of the same coworking space as I am and I helped a little with the technical concept of the Pad02)

The wealth of the united states has been concentrated to very few people in the past 20 years. Those people are owners of multinational conglomerates that don't give much about borders anyways. Where the U.S. as a state used to be a driving force of those money horses, it is now a glorified container for the US defence department. The state(country) officials are allowed to fight as long as the bottom line of the 1%(0.1%) is not endangered...