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6 Months on – Effects of Google’s Mobile Update
I switched Firefox from Adblock Plus to uBlock Origin on several different machines, the oldest being a 2007 vintage Core 2 Duo laptop Win 7, which lets 3 gigabytes of the machine's 4 be used. I couldn't tell any subjective difference in any of the installations.

If I have to formally measure the response time difference in response in an interactive app, it's below the don't care threshold.
Well~

In fact "no" is probably the right answer, unless you use enough of them to build a Faraday cage. That's because they pick up practically no power at all, though.
I don't see how MS is getting open source. What makes people say that? Is it the 14 years it took for them to open-source .NET Core, an event that is happening at a point in time when .NET is most irrelevant?

What really pisses me off however is that it's 2015 and Windows 10 and Outlook still don't support CardDAV and CalDAV. They'll get their hand forced by market pressure of course and as usual they'll end up supporting the minimum they can to get away with, which means they'll provide special hooks for Google and probably iCloud. All of this in the context of Edge, yet another buggy and proprietary incarnation of IExplorer in a world in which Chromium and Firefox exist. And of course, we mustn't forget the patents racketeering they are doing at the expense of the open-source projects that compete with them

But oh boy did they change. Their PR department is genius though.
The Internet of Me: Creating a Personalized Web Experience
What are 'dictator games'?
> College admissions could really do with some sort of objective criteria

Like GPA and SAT/ACT scores? Because they tried that. Secondary education is too easy and variable in the US, and Harvard can't really do much about that.
Just because they took Usenet away from us, native guys.

A am yet to use any forum online that is as comfortable to use.

> Web app usage is huge, and there isn't going to be any shift to native code there anytime soon.

I am betting on mobile to change the wave.
Ha! I still have my DARE t-shirt hanging up in my closet somewhere. It's a wonder that it's survived this long (and still fits!). Although it doesn't exactly get a lot of wear, so maybe its survival isn't such a miracle :P
Static file serving is a great tutorial project in Go. I wrote mine (https://github.com/biorisk/httpfolder) to include a file upload option too, but did not add some of the nicer features, e.g., https, in your project.
Perspex: A multi-platform .NET UI framework
Horus: An Interactive Tool for Designing Quadrotor Camera Shots
Well that was kind of fun. Ran apache bench on it just to see the two cores go to 100% :)
Can you explain a bit more about what you mean by "cultural meaning of family unit"? How did slavery take away from the african americans?
Do the Republicans know the difference?
The GOP has consistently wished to cut the budget of the National Weather Service:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/03/11/gop_s_continuin...
>why not quote it in joules or BTUs or whatever?

Retail electricity is sold by the kWh, consequently that is the unit that most readers will be familiar with. Of the readers who prefer to use strictly Si units in their daily lives, those people, aside from frequently converting to/from various units, are aware or can quicky find that 1kWh is 3.6MJ. For anyone who wants to use BTUs, well, it's a free country, I suppose.
*I wish English had a proper personal, gender-neutral pronoun.

Editing, anyway.
As I understand it, a big part of the slow load time for Java apps is sucking everything on the classpath into RAM, even though most apps will use a fraction of the classes that are loaded.

Java 9's module system should make that a lot less of a problem by giving the JVM guidance on what it should load and skip.

I am not a Java expert, though, so I may have misunderstood what's going on.
I would rather agree with what you are saying there, but I don't see what it has to do with your original comment, where you said "The VCs that are funding this company and its ilk are signing deals that immensely limit their downside potential and max their upside. "

For me, when I read about a company that got X0$M of funding, my first thought is often "Holy shit, what are they going to to with all that money?".
Terry Tao's Generals
And the Weissman score is?
My favorite part about this quote is that it comes from a television show.
Making money is fantastic. Making money from desperate people with pseudoscience is bad.

20% more effective with other treatments.

Not what the article says. (It is most unclearly worded.) You have a 20% greater chance of improvement with therapy above talking to a doctor (Note there no pharmaceutical course of action mentioned) not "with other treatment".

My comparison of therapy to untrained listeners is not drawn from the article. There have been several studies done on this. Link to the one of first on google:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.469...
> I guess in north America there's no point of even mentioning the possibility of having a reasonable public transportation system...

This is the main problem. If there was fast/rapid public transit available (read: not just crappy bus lines), much of the car traffic would be reduced, and you could safely remove traffic lanes and slow traffic down without increasing congestion or trip times.

But that would involve spending money on a public service. Which is an impossibility in the US. So instead, we get "urbanists" rushing to eliminate traffic capacity because that has no cost.

But in truth, all these "road diets" actually do is increase congestion, increase drive time, and displace (not eliminate) the traffic accidents the author is concerned about.
Thanks! Every now and then I want to see individual CPU usage (usually when I want to check if a program is multithreaded) and I Google to find a way to do it.

I always end up doing `sudo apt-get install htop`.
>Nearly all railway vehicles use brake energy.

Do you mean nearly all new ones, or nearly all in service today?
No, AFAICS there's no JS at all in either this page or the "Add Comment" page. One HTML file, one CSS file and a couple of tiny GIFs; that's it.

EDIT: oops, tell a lie, there's a tiny inline snippet to do voting.
Minecraft IRL (Maker Faire Berlin)
I'm a fifth generation Asian American and my family came to Hawaii as plantation workers, my father was the first in the family to go to college, and made captain in the US Navy. Ironically in his civilian (government) job his performance reviews can back as "no leadership potential" despite that in his military job he led the team that implemented the first digital inventory for the navy...
Just because you learned of it just now doesn't make it a "re-definition". Who gave you the right to call your definition the real one?
Thank you, looks really nice and customizable! Did you have any issues with it?
Longmire has many Native American characters and addresses Native American and reservation issues throughout the series.
That's an interesting point I had not considered. My view (mostly from the math side, my shallow dive into physical systems was just from a PDE class in grad school) is from the view of unstable differential equations where very small changes to initial conditions can cause massive changes to the output of the system. My uninformed instincts would tell me that even with orders of more digits than atoms in a physical system, changes smaller than the available accuracy to initial conditions could have significant impact on the eventual state of the system.
They aren't the same thing but they are related to one another, of course.
What did you do to stop the client from caching the background image?
I posted this for two reasons, first an affordable good range EV is coming to market but more for the costs they claim for their battery packs. the prices sure have come down and faster than expected
One player, the 'dictator', decides how to split a cash prize between themselves and the other player, the recipient. The recipient has no input into how the prize is split.
Why do you think everyone driving cars and using a lot of electricity is progressive?

I think it would make more sense to use metrics like happiness, health, education standard etc. of the population and whatever policies increase those should be deemed progressive.

The prevalence of cars for example, I would argue is a regression for society. They emit greenhouse gases, fill our air with toxins and carcinogens, encourage many diseases through lack of exercise, are the number one cause of violent death, and their popularity has changed the urban fabric into an environment that is not fit for humans and for human societies to grow.
I expected containers running inside a browser. This is a webapp to interact with containers running on a server.
> And TV is one of the few places in society where its relatively easy to show your support for diversity.

Sure. Except for religious diversity. I can't think of a TV show that touches religion with a ten foot pole.
Apple: Drone Strikes Are Offensive, Farts and Poop Are Cool
DARE is not, and never was, an anti-drug program; it was a pro-police program, and one which was repeatedly proven effective in that role in many of the same studies which showed it didn't do anything anti-drug, that used the "anti-drug" label to gain support from parents, etc., because "were teaching your kids to stay of drugs" sounds better than "we're teaching your kids to have warm fuzzy feeling about cops".
You're the one you said clicking the download button on the GPGTools site was too difficult to figure out.
If htop is unavailable, then you can hit the number 1 key in regular top on Linux to see individual CPU utilization.
Harvard accepts students from all over the world. Over 50% of the world is Asian.
I'd be careful about having that mindset. Studies have shown that people conform to their stereotype e.g. Asian females taking a math test performed better when reminded they were Asian and worse when reminded they were female, because the stereotype is that Asians are better at math and females are worse at it (http://pss.sagepub.com/content/10/1/80.abstract).

I personally feel that few traits are truly immutable, and that a lot of it is really just in your head. People who conform to a belief end up becoming what they think, leading to a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Anyone in this field says it's extremely complicated. NASA (or ESA) probably would solve this, if we didn't underfund them so much. To those advocating to privatizing, I don't see how the private sector could solve it by themselves. Just like McDonalds didn't land on the moon. It's extremely complicated. The task is going to require a lot more scientists and innovators to understand our weather patterns, it's my opinion that the best way to do that, is through the large governments of the world (not just USA's govt).
Did not intend to make any claims that Python libraries don't do this, but rather to explore the subject as a way to better understand the implementation and limits of floating point numbers and numerical analysis based on them.
Show HN: Timesheet and Time Tracker on the go
There's no evidence that working harder isn't genetic, and a lot of evidence that suggests it is.
Indeed, and while I think their specific proposal is quite unlikely to end up in the language proper (it's a lot of machinery for a very specific purpose, and still isn't quite "safe" by Rust's definition), it's great food for thought for future enhancements to the language (such as making size_of a const function so that it can be evaluated at compile time).
Ask HN: As a startup CTO, how do I protect my web app from security threats?
As a first time CTO (only tech person in the team) of an early stage startup, I am trying to maximize the benefits from my time. Subsequently, I am spending little time on coding and more on quickly integrating solutions such as SendGrid, Twilio, Stripe, and AWS services into my system.

You would have read that recently SendGrid was hacked. Such instances make me wonder how secure my system is. Could you please offer advices on how you keep your startup web applications safe from security threats?
Guy Builds Flamethrower Ukulele Inspired by Guitar Used in ‘Mad Max’
Great point, and I apologize for the confusion. The function should be C to C, with the added restriction of R to R.
It's also entirely possible that, on average, Asian people are more intelligent than other groups. We won't really know for a long time, as discussing such things is taboo.
Rationality Cardinality
Sure, but a disproportionate amount of repetitive strain injury relates to mouse use. Effective use of the keyboard is not about being elite, it is the easiest and most affordable way to minimize injury.
They. Yes, if you're not familiar with it, it looks like the plural form, but it has been used to denote individuals even before "political correctness" became a thing.
You might wonder why we use PRNGs at all; why not use a truly random source for every number? Unfortunately, a computer's pool of truly random numbers is very limited; it has to build up by measuring minute temperature changes or internal timing variations. NetHack, especially being played by fifty people on a public server, would keep that pool empty and harm the game's playability.

I'm confused. Why can't they just read from /dev/urandom for all their random numbers?
I learned to drive in a country that didn't have right on red, have now lived 9 years in countries that do.

It makes perfect sense, and it's very hard to understand why it wouldn't be allowed. As the other comments have said, it's a hard stop, so you wait until it's clear before going.

(Obviously, for countries that drive on the left, it would be left on red)
You're still assuming you have a brain. Based on your comments here, there's no reason to believe that's justified.
Perhaps you simply think that all the changes that have happened since 1965 are progress.
Well, in that time the wealth gap between the rich and the poor has increased, greenhouse gas emissions have continued to rise, contamination of soil, over-irrigation, flogging the land, overfishing etc. have all increased and many other non-renewable resources have been consumed or otherwise destroyed.
It's frustrating that the .NET Native compilation is so tied to the Rosylyn toolchain that it can't be used for other languages like F#, even though they're using the same IR.
Thanks, I just realized that when I introduced the notation above, I just used I(f), but then when I used it below I wrote Im(f). I will clear that up.
> As noted, the mains hum is a major source of havoc.

Use batteries? Or whatever is the most stable way to generate direct current. Turning a dynamo maybe or is that too simplistic?
Hard to say too much not knowing what infrastructure its on, but would start with the basics of good input sanitization to avoid sql injection.
At least in the US, electrical energy is generally measured in kWh. Joules would be annoying to the reader, even though it's simpler.

I think the constant confusion just comes about from journalists trying to write emotionally compelling articles. Saying that all 5 days recouped enough energy to power a single home for a year sounds pretty unimpressive. So the interviewee extrapolates out to if the system ran for the whole year or otherwise were scaled up. But having no technical background (and thus little respect for technical details), the writer edits their phrasing to be much simpler. Treating "power" and "energy" as synonyms, we end up with gross misstatements like in the article.

(And then of course the fact that such gross inaccuracies get past the editors and actually published shows you just how detail oriented the modern news org actually is. Just think of that any time you read any thing!)
Primer on Neural Network Models for Natural Language Processing[pdf]
When you look at white politicians and business executives in the US, do they seem like "good leaders" to you?
#1 Very nice from the Zanzibar beach I'm sitting on, but I doubt it's a big motivator!

#2 Sounds like something significant. Do you know of a way to quantify it?

#3 As far as I know, the threat is to shut financial institutions out of the US market. I don't think the US government has much control over a dollar once it's leaves the country.

#4 The Chinese have a similar ability to print massive amounts of money without inflation. I wonder if it's a property of sufficiently large economies. The article also mentions a downside that the Fed has had to print money to keep foreign institutions afloat.
That would allow too many asians to get in.
Today Is the Day We Got Rid of the Surveillance State GDR
It starts by saying 'By 2020, the US Bureau of Labor estimates that there will be 1.4 million new developer job openings and only 400,000 computer science graduates to fill them. What to do?' as if those 1.4 million jobs can only be filled by CS grads, implying there's sort of problem.

It then describes the Holberton School, which does not produce CS grads, as if it might help.

If there are jobs that can only be held by CS grads, then this new school won't help. If non-CS graduates are able to handle these job, then how many of them will have the appropriate training by 2020?

The "1.4 million new developer jobs by 2020" is one of the fake "the sky is falling" reality distortion reports. See http://www.epi.org/publication/pm195-stem-labor-shortages-mi... ("STEM labor shortages? Microsoft report distorts reality about computing occupations"), which says.

> The Microsoft report projects a labor shortage over the next eight years by incorrectly assuming that only individuals with a bachelor’s degree in computer science can fill jobs in computer-related occupations. Data analyzed for this memorandum as well as other studies show that less than one-fourth to less than one-half of workers in computing occupations have a computer science degree.

> Further evidence that there is no shortage of workers in computer-related occupations is apparent in wage trend data. For example, from 2000 to 2011, the average hourly wage for workers possessing at least a bachelor’s degree in computer and math occupations rose less than half a percent per year, compared with the sharp wage increases we would see if a labor shortage existed in these occupations.

It then goes into the details of these, and more.

How many grads by 2020 will be able to work in the field? https://www.mainstreet.com/article/stem-jobs-take-twice-long... says 3.9 million.

Regarding the school itself, I have no problems with technical colleges, career schools, 'Hochschule' (to use the German), and the like. I think we need more of them.
In Chrome or Safari, typing the URL and hitting Cmd-Enter opens the site in a new tab in the background, allowing you to keep reading the tab you're in. This is why _jomo mentioned "then switch back to the old site to keep on reading," which you don't have to do if you use the Cmd-Enter trick. But that trick doesn't work in Firefox.
In addition to the codepicnic.com mentioned by the author, a similar (hosted) service is offered by terminal.com.
Tell HN: I am tired of programming, this is what I am doing next
If I write one more line of code I think I'm going to puke.

This may be burn-out or it may be not. The point is, I do not want to do programming anymore. I am sick of it.

I am changing my career path, and I want to do it as quickly as humanly possible... 100 days to STOP being a programmer.

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Exactly. If I had a reasonable expectation that >99% of the drivers obeyed the law, I wouldn't feel too hesitant to let my 3yo cross the street on his own. He knows how to look both ways, and cross when people have stopped. Even right-on-red is safe at face value. But I don't even believe that 5% of drivers obey all of the laws that protect crossing pedestrians. It's almost as if they don't expect pedestrians to exist.
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What you are saying is true, but won't matter anyway, because switch from USD to SDR won't be a free market decision, it would be forced upon us once US and China agree on that.
> Ideally, any member of the community can be called on to serve or help others.

After 9 years living in North America, that one line explains the difference between here and my home country better that I've ever been able to.

On a daily basis, it just feels like Americans are not in a unified society working together to help each other and have a common good - it's a much more individualistic society where everyone is looking out for number one. If someone else has shitty healthcare and is on hard times, too bad for them.

The Police in my home country are friendly and helpful, and I fondly remember asking them for help as a child and young teen. Upon arriving in NYC, I asked a policeman for directions and he barked at me for not calling him "Sir". Wow.
Space exploration, nor the serving of food to those in space, was a goal of McDonald's. There was no sufficient market opportunity.
However, is there a market opportunity for improved weather prediction? Who would benefit and make money?
I use paper all of the time to present information. It's remarkably effective and easy to do vs. screwing around with dashboard apps, accessing various data sources, etc.

To avoid the horrific costs of printing things on color, I've seen millions wasted on BI tools and other fluffery. 10 minutes of excel and 10 pieces of paper does the job.
The US wrote slavery into its constitution and immediately started the attacks on the Native Americans.
Or:

1) acquire users

2) get more funding

3) get bought by a larger company

2 and 3 require funding and noise.
This is one of the tricks of metrics. They are made to be gamed. So, in picking the metrics to measure, you are picking the game you want your team to play. Trying to cover all metrics is silly, as you context switch between too many things.
The JVM class loader by default reads a class on first reference to it in the code it's executing. Never refer to it, never gets loaded.

Startup on the JVM is more affected by the JIT warming up, and the heap getting into a "stable" configuration.
Nuclear Forensics Shows Nazis Were Nowhere Near Making Atomic Bomb
> So you would prefer to have the friction of an app store, or even just a platform-specific native executable

What friction?

apt-get install $PACKAGE_NAME

Native apps will always be far superior to the web, because the web browser (at least, any with that claims to care about security) is required to maintain a separation between the "page" and the browser that frames the page, or you trivially enable "phishing" and other UI-impersonation attacks. Native has far more flexibility.

Personally, I absolutely hate the jitter every time Javascript (or most other VMs) decides to GC for 50ms or more, and will go out of my way to avoid it.

> app stores which act as gatekeepers

So stop supporting those gatekeepers, both as a developer and as a user. As long as people keep giving them money and market share, they will continue to gain power as gatekeeprs.

> try to solve the performance and UX issues of the web platform

That would require defining a new platform that isn't the web. The web is a document-based design, and while a lot of clever tricks have been found that let people pretend it's something else, all of the core components of the web (HTML, etc) are designed for documents. This is good - we need a way to freely exchange documents.

If you want a way to develop applications that can be distributed as easily as documents are on the web, it would probably be a good idea to create some VM base portable application format that was actually free of stuff like HTML/CSS. An HTML replacement that worked more like a GUI toolkit would be much nicer for app development.
This is so disappointing! It was made free for commercial use last year, and was discussed on HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7522327