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Hi! When is the NativeScript team going to release more demo apps ? But available on Play store / App store ? I've been very busy but interested, also missed a local meetup around Liverpool St (London). I think I'd be more motivated if there's any cool looking demo apps, nice ux, etc. I know about the one's you have on the current NS site. Thank you!
I put in an address and it couldn't find it... Then I cleared it out and put in the address more slowly... When I did that I noticed that it found it in the drop down... so I selected it and THEN it worked... It seems like unless you put in EXACTLY what they have in the DB, it won't work... (in my case, I left off the "avenue" in my address).
Plenty of people have tried to prove that P != NP, so far unsuccessfully. Do you think those people want to believe that P == NP so they can feel better?
Thanks. I'm glad it worked for you. :)
What does it take to make Google work at scale?
Not sure what you're talking about. I use it almost every day for clojure/js and sometimes python when I just want a quick script. (PyCharm for actual dev).
At that time CGI::Application was way out of alpha and actively maintained.
There is _so much more_ to the suspicion that P doesn't equal NP than just this.

The curiously repeated patterns in the boundary that seem to exist everhwyere you go.

It's like looking at a distant planet through a telescope, and seeing what _appears to be_ an island in a lake, but _might_ be a peninsula. Every place the island bulges out, the land around it also bulges out. Every place there's a shallow in the island, the land on the other side also comes into meet it.

So its' either a weird, jagged-shaped island in the middle of a lake, with an equally weird jagged coastline around it - or else in one of the places, but _only_ only of those places, the coastline touches the shore.

My guess is that you haven't studied this problem nearly as much as the complexity theorists who suspect P doesn't equal NP, and you feel like you know better.

Thats it's own kind of arrogance. Believe me, I was there, too.
Since CRDTs are just join-semilattices with a zero element, and the category of join-semilattices with zero is a model for linear logic[1], I suspect that there may be an even cleaner way to write eventually consistent programs, using a linear lambda calculus (or possibly a process calculus, since those also model linear logic). I've been looking into this area in my off-time but haven't managed to get very far, perhaps because I still don't understand category theory well enough. Nice to see there's demand for a language with this property, though :).

[1] Linear logic's "tensor product" corresponds to tensor product of semilattices; linear maps correspond to semilattice-morphisms with a pointwise join operation. Linear "with" and "tensor sum" both correspond to cartesian product of semilattices. It's a rather degenerate model in this respect.
The features I am talking about are very platform-agnostic. The only requirement for implementing them is a compile-time metaprogramming, which is trivial to add to any language, including C.

The only explanation for not using this approach is a plain ignorance. Majority of people have no understanding of compilers at all. And yet they are writing compilers. In C or Haskell.

And, btw., teams that cannot learn a tiny DSL in an hour (or write this DSL in a week) should not be allowed to write compilers. It's kinda obvious.
Would it be possible to make options available to customers to select what type of compatibility they would like to strive for?

What if I am okay with not supporting Android 2.x which doesn't ciphersuite Y?
Because they are fundamentally different in terms of possible enforcement of the law, production of the material as well as what part of the illegal activity is actually detrimental to society.

The argument that banning the sales won't work because it doesn't work for drugs is just silly. Do you see a black market say for Kinder Surprise eggs?
To the author. Ecology is a science. Or at least it was in the last century. Humanity is not sacrificing ecology. Ecologists are doing ok. Humanity is far too small comparing to the true geological forces that shape our planet. So, basically there is nothing to worry about from scientific point of view. But using this greenish rhetoric is something to worry about from the political point of view. The thing is money can really buy us more species and more understanding on their interaction with surrounding environments. But the sacrifice is needed - someone has to learn ecology and molecular biology and finance.
The 3-4c wholesale rate is for base power (giant infrastructure generators, hydroelectric dams and such things), but solar knocks the top off the mid-day demand curve, at which time PG&E is paying much more for "peaker" power generation. But they don't have to pay you the peaker rate, they pay you the baseline rate.

Anyway, to my mind, any system in which current comes out of your PV installation at 3 cents and flows directly into your neighbor's air conditioner at 34 cents is a prima facie scam.
As I've found with Cloudflare-backed sites: Tor and non-JavaScript tools equals no access.

This includes both console-mode browsers and shell-based tools such as curl or wget.
I have it installed on my machine too. I just hear nothing about its future and it seems like folks are focused elsewhere too. E.g., this topic about Eve. Especially for something YC backed. I guess I was just expecting to hear more and such.
Dead can mean different things. Often it just means dead-end technology in the sense that MS does not intend to develop the technology further. Since MS have a strong focus on backwards compatibility, dead-end technologies often can keep running a very long time. VB6 for example is clearly a dead-end technology, but nobody prevents you from running and even developing VB6 apps.

Silverlight has been a dead-end technology for some time, but it will continue to be supported in Internet Explorer in "legacy mode". You can still run ActiveX-controls in IE (in legacy mode), so expect to be able to run Silverlight apps for the foreseeable future.
If their primary focus is business/knowledge workers, why wasn't their release targetted to Windows?
Yep. Superb list.

Only one quibble - I'd have given Skool Daze and Back to Skool a bigger mention. I loved those games. Crash review: http://www.crashonline.org.uk/11/skool.htm
I ride an ebike and I take more longer faster trips than I used to, so I'm getting more exercise...
I don't think the 4 story limit is the problem. The vast majority of buildings in Paris are 4 to 5 stories, and they achieve much higher density.
There were only ever "vsyscall" entries for three syscalls: time, gettimeofday, and getcpu.

On recent kernels, the vsyscalls are actually the slowest way of all to ask for the time or the cpu number. They're only supported at all as a fallback, and the fallback is very slow, because it tries to mitigate exploit risks due to having code at a fixed address.

https://lwn.net/Articles/446528/
I'm a freelance developer and I hire people to do small, well defined jobs for me all the time from these sites (data entry, ms word to clean html conversions, etc.).

I've used elance extensively and I'm very, VERY disappointed with how the "transition" to upwork has gone. It is bordering on unusable and has added a lot of difficulty to what should be a straightforward transaction. What a disaster.

So yes, I would agree that there needs to be another competitor that is straightforward to use and definitely an opportunity here. I feel like Metcalfe's Law / network effects of the existing sites might be difficult to overcome, but its worth a shot!
Not that GitHub stars mean anythings, but... EAT THAT RAILS! :)
The author probably just picked that as an example of a very popular platform - the DS (2072) has double the titles of the PS3 (1026) according to Wikipedia and isn't far off the total titles of the PS1 (2355) or PS2 (2468).

I know there are plenty of indy titles on Steam and the other app stores that are remarkable games and immense labours of love, but I wonder how many really get under the skin of a lot of children today for a long period of time?

So many games I see my nephews playing are freemium titles that seem to drift in and out of their lives on a day to day basis (especially on iOS). I certainly don't see them building a connection like I did with Manic Miner or the Dizzy games anyway. One exception I can clearly think of though recently with kids would probably be Minecraft. Others miles may vary I guess.
Bingo. Then add plotting functionality for ranges of those values.
Right?

For someone many folks refer to as "a very smart man" it's obvious this is just damage control. It was probably prepared as soon as they found out NYT was going to run the piece.

180,000 employees. He'll only ever interact with a tiny portion of those people, and even then it's mostly going to be the sycophants and a few alpha-crony confidants. Shocking he has a radically different experience.

His company sued (and won) to prevent warehouse workers from collecting money for the time they stand in-line being frisked.

Not only do we shuffle them through our fascist security machine with little trust, or dignity. We also refuse to give them just a bit more, so that King Bezos can continue to drink their babies tears lest the sheen on his bald head dim just a bit.

I mean they're already near the bottom of the totem pole. Surely one more kick to the stomach shall barely be noticed.

Such empathy.
Will this be incorporated into Riak?

Some of the CRDT data types already are (if I understand correctly).

Or maybe this can be the base of a new type of database -- a CRDT only database -- an eventually consistent database but which auto-resolves conflicts between siblings and always converges to one value.
It is kind of a pain to build on Windows right now, but it is a supported platform and we will eventually have pre-built binaries.
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Absolutely. Love the way you think.

It's in early development now, but that's exactly where we're headed. A hub to read and follow the greatest conversations going on around the world.
What have you found that makes a successful conversation on the platform? What makes a convo bomb?
This is fascinating, wonderful, and tragic story, brilliantly told.

Would it would make sense to treat crimes in which there is no victim differently from others?
No, there is a simple explanation:

There are some unwritten rules, wildly
in conflict with US laws and the US
Constitution.

In the case of the OP, a relevant rule is,
a poor, old, handicapped, black man is
not permitted to be on the sidewalks of
the high rent business district.

In such a case, the police respond as in the
OP and its video clip.

The sentence for violating the rule is
to be pinned down, painfully, insulted,
humiliated, have some belongings, e.g.,
crutches, stolen, and generally treated
like dirt.

But, with witnesses, smartphone video,
and lawyers, the black man may no longer
be poor but may get $500,000 from the
city of San Francisco. If I were
on the jury, he'd win, big time, big
enough to make all of SF taxpayers
feel the pain.

The whole scene was in wild violation of the
US Constitution. The police are
guilty as sin, of assault and battery, at least.
Toss in false arrest. Add in theft of his
crutches. And more. He was guilty of what?
Self defense against assault and battery?
If he died, and maybe his health was so
poor he might have, e.g., he might have
had a heart condition or
high blood pressure which could yield
a fatal stroke,
then the police would
be guilty of murder -- literally murder.
And they should be prosecuted for just that.

Better not ask me to serve on
a jury where that poor guy was
the plaintiff -- I'd call for
the cops to be treated like
wild, mad, rabid dogs, enemies
of the citizens, making war on the
citizens, sadists.

The situation is entirely similar
to what the Nazi Brown Shirts did
in Hitler's Germany: In that country,
some citizens were regarded as unwanted.
Then, via the Brown Shirt thugs, those
citizens were subject to just whatever,
robbery, beatings, murder. Now
in SF, some citizens are again regarded
as unwanted, and the police act like
the Nazi Brown Shirts and
rob, beat, and, maybe, murder such
citizens. Not much difference.

It's inhumanity of man to man, and it's
ugly. We've seen the consequences from
Hitler, Stalin, Saddam, ISIS, and more.
We don't like it. We have our Constitution
to help stop it. We don't want it.

One really good use of smartphones, their
video capabilities, the Internet, social
media, and the US legal system is, finally,
to stop this ugly stuff.

Police: Here's your lesson. Here in the
US, that stuff's going to stop.
It's going to stop the easy way or the
hard way. I have to believe you want
the hard way, and it's coming.
Net, the power in the US is definitely
not in the hands of the police and,
instead, is in the hands of the
voting citizens. And, each such story,
with video, on the Internet creates
a lot of votes to stop the ugly stuff,
via the hard way if necessary.
Cops will be going to jail,
for assault and battery, murder,
etc., for long terms but likely
in prison conditions where they
won't last even six months.
Blue shirts, you're going to have to
stop that Nazi stuff, however much
it pains you not to be a thug --
you can't beat the voting
citizens with video cameras. Can't
happen.

All we have to do is quietly,
calmly, privately pull a lever
in a voting booth, and you and your
Nazi behavior are toast.
Hey, I am thinking the website should offer project hosting (like github?) plus network connection for programmers. Most likely I am going to have to cut some corners with regard to which feature I should release first. Which features would you like to see released first?
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Good. Please stop serving captchas to every tor user then.
What makes a successful conversation on the platform? More importantly, what makes a conversation bomb on the platform?
Actually, it kind of does. If P==NP, then any problem in NP is solvable in polynomial time -- including efficient simulation of a non-deterministic Turing machine that supports "guessing correctly" as a primitive operation.

That's why the P=?NP problem has such far-reaching implications, and one reason why P==NP is generally believed to be false.
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If anyone with expertise has been lured in by this nonsense paper, do any of you think (like me) that P=NP is undecidable in ZFC?
"Hades" wouldn't be in the original Old Testament, but it is in the New Testament. As you noted, it's basically how "Sheol" was translated into Greek. So in the New Testament, they continued using "Hades". That's my understanding, anyway.

It seems like Sheol was considered to be underground, though, since it referred to the grave.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheol#Judaism

Again, though, this is just my understanding. I'm not a biblical scholar and I can't read Greek or Hebrew.
I don't see a problem; he was resisting and refused to comply. And he continued to resist and fight even when he was on the ground. The article's main complaint was that the police held him down.

There are an endless number of unbalanced and sociopathic people in the U.S. who believe they're entitled to [EDIT: resist] the police, wrestle with them, etc. You're not. And the solution to this so-called police "brutality" is to simply be respectful, stop talking, and follow directions.

For sure, perhaps the police could have employed a more clever psychological de-escalation technique. That'd be an interesting training issue to research and borrow from other location that deploy it successfully.

But here was a person who was resisting arrest and disobeying instructions.
as can google, and every other major player.
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Because believing P != NP means, and is frequently invoked as a justification that : 1) we no longer have to keep looking for a P time algo, and 2) ah, that's why we couldn't solve that -- because we proved it is in NP, and P isn't equal to that, so we can chalk our failure to solve it up to that.

P == NP is leaving the possibility open, which, by absence of a proof to the contrary __is__ open, that we __can__ find an algorithm. That is not defeatist.

That is let's keep going. Let's make it.

What you believe is your choice. To me it seems a waste of good brains to see so much CS talent giving themselves an easy out like this. I know where I stand and I'll keep working on the things I care about.

People can choose to be part of the future, or left in the dust of those who walk ahead.

My view is -- all those really hard unsolved problems? That's where everyone should be focussing. Anything else is just nibbling around the edges, it's just a cowardly hedge. A waste. The incentives have become toxic to the creation of brave innovation. People are satisfied with too little.
An open webpage file format which is not markup. Something of the like of YAML, or something simpler to read for a human.

Or maybe compiled HTML (like microsoft .CHM), except open (duh).

Reason ? Parsing XML or HTML is very CPU-intensive, and cheap smartphone's small CPUs (which have a very low L2 cache) have a very hard time dealing with it, not to mention classic desktop browser memory footprints. If not even regex can do it, why the hell not ? I'm sure the memory footprint of firefox and chrome is incompressible because of the raw nature of HTML. And for the life of me, if nobody can read a HTLM page generated anymore, what's the point of it ? Why not just compile it ?

I guess I could submit it to the IETF, to be honest. I'm not even a software engineer so basically I'm not sure if my idea is right or not, but I'll always find weird that the app-version of websites perform so much better than their HTML version.

In the internet explorer days, this was not possible because firefox and chrome were not mainstream, but I'm sure now is a good opportunity. It could eventually even replace or substitute .DOC and PDF files.
It doesn't have to work in the sense of stopping an invasion of privacy. Name your governmental - or even non-governmental - organization will always be able to read any individual. The question is one of effort. In an optimal world Government would have some set of checks on who it monitors - there would be judges, warrants and probable cause. As things stand that's seeming less and less the case. In a slightly less better world the effort to monitor would be great enough that governments would be forced to pick and choose just who they're monitoring. Ideally that'd be picking bad people.
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We are working to fix that. It's not trivial because there are many bad Tor users and we don't want to just 'whitelist' Tor otherwise it'll make Tor more attractive for bad folks.
> These tools are often ridiculed and their use by non-programmers for creating business tools is often frowned upon but they allow business users to quickly create flexible, makeshift solutions to their problems.

They do, which is both great and terrible. They're powerful and easy to get started with, but therein lies the danger.

When used to quickly whip something up they're great, but when those things grow or end up being relied upon they're no better than the hack that the CEOs kids friend who is 'good with computers' produces.

So, since they're both useful and dangerous, are there things we can do?

Perhaps a spreadsheet that allows some form of testing? Are there simple tests we could start to encourage people to use? When I've used spreadsheets for some financial things, I know that if I increase one cell, I expect another to increase (for example). I know certain combinations of inputs that should result in certain outputs.

Also, perhaps a clear path from spreadsheet -> application? Often intermediate values are displayed somewhere, so could a spreadsheet app lead someone to naming them all (typically they'll have a 'variable name' just to the left of them).

edit - I should really have read the article first, but I think a focus on making things testable is important.
Why is the author calling Windows 7 "terrible" and of Windows 8 he merely says it "has much higher system requirements"?

To me, Windows 7 is the new XP and Windows 8 (as well as Windows Server 2012) are an abomination.
Spark is fantastic. Fix your examples! -&gt;)
Seems like a pretty stupid way to do it. Why not just use the raw data from the data files or direct access to the DB/2 database? Does this even handle the ebcdic to ascii conversion? Or packed decimal numbers?
We're also non-reprogrammable. Imagine if every human had a 2nd brain that could be built, and re-built every second, in an experimental attempt to see if that 2nd brain is equal to the original at everything (size and efficiency included) but then does at least 1 thing better?

The problem is that this iteration takes us decades. Usually 0-6 iterations per human. Pretty damn inefficient. A computer with good enough hardware can probably go from dog -> human in a few weeks.
If it is 'impossible' for your key to be revealed...technical trumps force/law/politics once again.
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The shift is primarily due to the fact that relatively few people seemed to want to build large applications, including ourselves.

There are definitely some differences between building large apps and these more communication/analysis tasks, but we think the foundation itself applies to both. The language is an adaptation of the Dedalus[1] semantics, which the BOOM lab did some amazing things in distributed systems with [2]. If it can build a clone of hadoop, chances are it can build most things. We've built a number of our compilers in Eve, several of our editors were bootstrapped, we've built numerous examples, most recently a complete clone of Foursquare. Before we'd want others to try and do that though, we need our tooling to get a bit better. We expect that the Eve editor will get there eventually kind of out of necessity - we're going to bootstrap a lot of it this time too, starting with the compiler.

[1]: http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/datalog2011-dedalus.pdf

[2]: http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/eurosys10-boom.pdf
Pete Hunt's talk is good. https://youtu.be/x7cQ3mrcKaY?t=1112 I'd recommend watching the entire video if you have time, but that's the gist of it. More detail:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21109361/why-is-reacts-co...

It is challenging to make a large app with lots of state be performant when you manually mutate the DOM, and there's no way for the browser to fix that because of the way things work.

For example, if you move an element, and then request the position of another element immediately after, the browser will be forced to recalculate layout before giving you an answer. With lots of state and lots of updates, it's very challenging to keep this in the right order.

As virtual DOM is an abstraction over the DOM, you can make a vanilla app that is much faster, but as your app grows, that quickly reverses.
The 'value' could be more modest - small subscription charges or one time fees. Being listed as a dev for, say, $10/year, with extra charges for being at the top of the list, extra pictures/listings, etc.

Some modest pay to list fee for a project, then extra tools unlocked for more $.

Even large placement agencies usually only try to get a cut of your salary for 6 months usually, then you 'go direct'. ("contract to hire" standards I've generally seen in my experience).
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OEMs (and probably carriers) really need to get their stuff together. It really sucks that here we are talking about M when very few devices have seen an L release.
I think you're pigeon holing all PCs based on a bad experience with 1 brand. That's like saying all gasoline cars are poor quality and you should only buy electric cars based on a poor experience with GM.
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