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I won't say RPC won.

We don't use Remote Procedure Calls much, we do Remote Endpoint Calls. Every endpoint still have to be considered, specified, secured, protected against DoS. None of that is automated - for example, endpoint specification systems famously didn't work. It's not that we fire random procedures on remote machines. We use protocols in the end, not procedures.
The primary difference between SE, HN, even Reddit and addictive places is that the former aren't designed around getting you addicted to the service. They have it as a side effect, but we're talking of a similar side effect that makes one read books or talk with other people.

I'd like to see more focus on separating places that are incidentally "addictive" from those that are addictive on purpose.
Suit yerself. I'll talk to my SETI all day.
don't understand this comment. what about current accounts, checking, transfers?
But javascript is so cool!

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1049218
Are you really proposing that protocol messages constitute binding contracts?
Rape, fundamentally, is a clear violation of a person's intimate life. That is what happened in the article, sponsored and directed by the state. It wasn't the "oh, they changed over time" story that you're making it out to be. In both the article and my twins comment, the bad actor premeditated the duplicity, and was intentionally dishonest from the start.

The woman in the article has had her intimate life violated, funded and directed by the state, no less. That violation is the essence of rape. Whether or not it fits the relevant legal definition (which varies wildly between jurisdictions), what has happened is functionally the same.

It's just like it doesn't actually matter to the victim who comes home to find their house ransacked, whether the law terms it 'robbery' or 'burglary'. And when the victim says "our house was robbed yesterday", the person who corrects them with "actually, you mean 'burgled'" is missing the point.
That looks/sounds awesome. Have you run into any negatives using it?
People tend to talk about "dependence" and not "addiction", even for things that have a strong physical addiction, eg alcohol.

An alcohol dependence means the person is preoccupied by alcohol, has a tolerance for alcohol, has a craving for alcohol, and will continue to use alcohol even though they know it's causing them harm.

That definition can be applied to other things, especially some Internet things.
One is vector-based graphic, the other is raster-based. Completely different use-cases. APNG vs GIF is a better comparison.
Well, HN is definitely not an example of what I'm complaining about. Hell, it's designed to filter people out! HN's addictive powers come from the simple fact talking to interesting people and reading trivia is addictive. I'm not sure we should be focusing on those.
[Novel-reading is] "one of the more pernicious habits to which a young lady can become devoted. When the habit is once thoroughly fixed, it becomes at inveterate as the use of liquor or opium. The novel-devotee is as much a slave as the opium-eater or the inebriate."
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https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1ocgQy4hQA8C&lpg=PA37&ot...

There exists well-know literary mechanisms by which to make a book "addictive" and those mechanisms are used by unscrupulous authors and publishers to profit on getting people hooked on their books and to buy them and their endless sequels.

Make an argument that also includes regulating certain plot-devices in pulp-fiction novels (that doesn't make you throw up a little in your mouth), then we'll talk.
V8 has a very nice profiler. Functions are the smallest granules it understands, but it's very good for finding slow functions, and (perhaps even more importantly) for finding out which functions v8 has given up on optimizing.

But I'm guessing it didn't help for this particular problem. Deleting properties from an object can hurt performance in v8, but it's not the deletion that's slow, it just makes the later accesses to that object slower. So the line of code that needed changing may not have been anywhere near the code that profiled poorly.
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The good news is the idea has been put forward now.

That means, through the wonders of experimental physics, sometime in the next 10, 20, 50 years we will find out if the idea sinks or swims.

I wish the idea the best of luck, as we do need to figure out this issue once and for all.
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If you can boot faster than the screen can come to life, you don't need to be faster. IoT and servers might not have screens, so this doesn't apply to everything, but for devices with screens, just beating the screen warmup is good enough to feel like immediate startup.

Also, for devices that require user authentication, such as logging in to an account, if you could offload the authentication (such as fingerprint or other biometrics) to something out of the OS itself (ROM routine that starts up with a 0 in a certain memory address and changes it to 1 on authentication), you could be booting up the OS in the background while you take a second or two to log in, and if the OS can get up and running by the time you log in, the OS can pretend that it started up immediately and was the thing that logged you in. For many devices, there is need to boot up in less than a second or so to seem as though boot up was instantaneous.
I love this. It's well-written, funny, and apparently it worked. It also fits quite well with how I like to see the world...

(The following is kinda a side note...) Some time ago, a friend told me "You are so lucky! You never apply anywhere - Companies come to your and ask you if you want to work for them!" Which is not entirely true, I do apply for projects, but...

I have been working as an independent consultant for almost 10 years now. And creating a steady stream of business is crucial for my survival. So I spend a lot of time - more than some are willing to spend on their hobbies - to make sure as many people as possible know me - and that they know what I can and what I cannot do for them. Also, that the right people know me.

I'm still not as good as it as I would like. But sometimes, good jobs "just" come to me. I can just tell you: It still requires a lot of work from my side. This work just doesn't include writing job applications / RFPs.
Probably (or maybe by setting `null` .. i'm not sure how engines deal with changing data types). `delete` implies that the underlying object schema has to change. It's an heavy operation.
For the last few years now, we've been charging at least 20% more for the front-end dev portion of a job when IE8 support was required beyond graceful degradation.

2015 is really the year where we saw the majority of our clients drop support for IE8 altogether. Most of them showed sub-2% browser share and dropping fast in their analytics..
RedHat does support them:

https://sfconservancy.org/sponsors/
Working on? Didn't they just have some downloadable PS2 game or the other that is clearly being emulated.

Given the advance state of PS2 emulation on X86 machines(what the current gen consoles are now) I am not at all surprised at this.
The Xbox one emulation of the Xbox 360 is what really fascinates me
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That tuna says it was "fished by pole and line" though, which

a) is really surprising - someone above said that made tuna much more expensive, which is also what I'd intuitively expect;

b) seems to put it ethically around the same level as the salmon.
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Faked:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10626761
I also have a Yahoo account, but i haven't tried to back it up externally.

Previously their paid product was called Mail Plus, and that was the only way you could get mail out in bulk. But a while ago they made a change. From an article I just found:

What Yahoo does not mention is that Pop3 access
is now available as well. While I cannot say if
it was enabled previously for free users, I know
for a fact that it was limited in the past to
paying Yahoo Mail users.

That doesn't say anything about IMAP, but I know that is also possible nowadays. I think they had to add that feature. E.g. my wife accesses her Yahoo Mail from her iPhone. Without IMAP, how could she get her messages? (Rhetorical question. Rhetorical answer: she couldn't!).

http://www.ghacks.net/2013/10/08/yahoo-mail-plus-turns-yahoo...
how is it slower than swiping the magstripe and signing a receipt? chip and pin has been standard in the EU for a while now and it is very fast, faster than magstripe swipe and sign but nit as fast as contactless.
I don't think Google has wrapped up the search space but Yahoo's search has been laughable for so long now that they would struggle to take on search under the Yahoo brand.
>But today, for the fourth time in four years, ...

In these trade agreements, some countries are more equal than others. The US probably has the trade power to continue to ignore the WTO ruling. The US has done so repeatedly in the past with other issues.
Some contracts are worded very... weirdly, so to speak, which makes talking about projects potentially dangerous.
Could you expand on that? I'd be quite concerned to find my photos being licensed for commercial use without my consent.
JS is also sandboxed, which seems to be a particular problem for traditional readers. I’d trust PDF.JS to get faster more than I trust PDFium to not have security issues.
You joke, but network executives have actually said such things, and there's a long history of them suing and winning against ad-skipping features for TV. Here's just one example: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120525/04185919074/tv-ne...
>no matter how hard you try you can never teach a mouse to understand French.

humans couldn't so far teach mouse a human language. That doesn't mean that mouse doesn't have something like several thousands or tens of thousands of basic sounds and combinations of them into meaningful (for mouse) sequences. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/catch-the...

After all as a mouse says to another mouse - "no matter how hard you try you can never teach a human to understand mouse language".

The same is through the history of physics/mathematics. It takes a change in fundamental point of view. The notion of derivative took decades of work to develop by geniuses of that time. Imagine how physics/mathematics looked without it.

When i look at strings theory of today i see epicycles, a very intricate and complex system of epicycles in 11 dimensions :) We need a genius like Newton or Einstein to again see and tell us what is behind that apparent complexity.
Yet more people die from terrorist attacks than wildlife subsistence hunting...
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not sure where in the UK you were spending/shopping but I live in the UK and all card readers require chip and pin and there is no signature required. Whilst the readers have a swipe facility if your card has a chip you are required to use it. Perhaps because you were using an international card it allowed you to use the swipe facility although I have no idea why you would choose that as it is significantly slower.
The numbers speak for themselves, a sharp decline in the number of credit unions for every year since NCUA was formed. It's hard to imagine that this wasn't the intention.
> which incidentally is the reason why Android is unusable for any interactive audio applications.

Everybody says this and yet programs like Caustic seem to do a fine job in my experience.
Is reddit a good example of what you're complaining about?
It's true that the pace of cruft accumulation is worrying lately. Note that I said "used to"! Personally I think it all started to go overboard around the introduction of list comprehensions when we had perfectly good map, filter and lambda.
> I have a beautiful dream sometimes, where I go to work, and I only have to care about supporting Chrome...

Replace that with IE and many of us have experienced it, we more or less had to beg for time to test in other browsers.

It was kind of a dream but more of a nightmare and I hope we don't go back there soon, neither with IE nor with Chrome.
Anyone can find a job to survive, even in the depths of a horrible recession.

I suspect the disconnect is a lot of people who say "eat food" really mean "drive a $60,000 car."
No but the point is a mouse simply does not have the capacity to understand French.

Maybe humans do not have the capacity to understand the complete workings of physics.
I'd say the JS engine matters quite a bit as well. If Google didn't push the limits with V8 I don't think we would necessarily be in this JavaScript-all-the-things world we currently live in. Whether that is a good or bad thing is still up for debate. :)
I agree. It would be nice to see a format like Sublime Text's pseudo animated GIFs [0] take off. It's not perfect because it requires JS + PNG + JSON and currently the python build scripts only work well on linux. If other tools started providing export functionality to this format then it could get more interesting. Historically, iterating on these ideas on the client has been a good way to get standards implemented in browsers.

[0] http://www.sublimetext.com/~jps/animated_gifs_the_hard_way.h...
I agree, I'm happy to see more research here. For my uses, a filter based approach makes the most sense, though I can understand wanting a more holistic solution.

My needs are such that I might only want to encrypt a few files, and filters do an adequate job here. But I can understand a limitation where all objects must be encrypted, and thus filter perf is not appropriate.

Filters also have the limitation of leaking the commit and tree information, which may also be sensitive data on some projects.

This is an interesting strategy, and I'm glad to see more research done here, regardless.
The actor acts, that's his portraying. He's not saying fake it till you make it.

If you're a programmer you need to "portray" your programming skill.
How about just treating adults as adults? There's no need to "regulate" everything, and who's "we" anyway?
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In my experience proprietary software is often far more complex, in fact in another league than most FOSS SW for now (source: have installed and reinstalled so many Oracle databases, Enterprise Manager and APEX installations I have lost count.)
I read an article[1] a while ago on evaluating political proposals: When proposing a rule, imagine the rule under the control of politicians you actually know, running in electoral systems with voters and interest groups that actually exist. In other words, deciding that HN and Reddit obviously aren't addictive in the wrong way, but Candy Crush obviously is, is fine when it's you and me working it out -- but what is your confidence that an Federal Internet Addiction Board with members named by presidents Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton[2], and confirmed by (the intellectual heirs of) senator Ted Stevens[3] would reach a similar conclusion?

1: https://fee.org/freeman/unicorn-governance/

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Entertainment_Protectio...

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes
Oh well. It's like Music Lables vs Napster all over again.

The funny twist is, Springer gives away content for free. They just imply that there is "some kind of contract" between a website provider an a visitor, that the visitor has to "pay" for the content by viewing Ads.

Most people (especially in Germany) don't block Ads because they hate Ads. They block because they hate tracking, slow websites, bandwidth usage etc.

The sad thing is, most of the big publishers, that rally against ad blocker don't have the guts to just go subscription-only.

Since they love their old business model so much, why not try that on the web? Because showing Ads and sell visitors to tracking and ad networks is so much easier.

Just to clarify: If the visitor has the choice to block ads, publishers should have the choice to block adblocker-enabled visitors.
No. It's mostly similar to HN IMO, it's just more inclusive. The content that is being created for Reddit, or generally for social media, would be a perfect example though. It tends to be designed for quick dopamine hits, and this is the other source of Reddit's, or Facebook's addictiveness.

If you find yourself explicitly thinking about virality of your content, you have to ask yourself why exactly do you want to unleash a memetic weapon on people.
One second, ten seconds... The problem isn't that it takes time, it's that the user has to sit there and wait while it takes that time.

My desktop takes about two seconds to resume from suspend. I'd sit down, lean down to the floor and press the power button and then wait that two seconds. I fixed the whole problem by moving the case up onto the desk so that I have to walk past it to sit down. Now I press the button and then sit down, by which time the computer is waiting for me. The way it should be.

Sidebar: Now I'm slightly concerned that an AI in the future is going to call me out for my blatant display of meatbag privilege.

We can throw tons of money at engineering boot times but but really the biggest gains are made when you can predict what the user wants. Imagine you approach your car. If it can detect you or your key, it can start doing stuff it'd normally do when you put the key in the ignition. Suddenly it doesn't matter than it takes 5-10 seconds to boot because it also takes 10 seconds to get in the car.

All this stuff is going to get better once we have widespread adoption of technology for fine indoor tracking. When we can tell our relative positions to our gadgets, they'll be able to sleep deeper, ring louder, shine brighter and start booting earlier.
I have a Galaxy S3, and it was rebooting randomly more and more often. At the time, I lived in an apartment. I bought a house earlier this year, and to my knowledge (and memory) this hasn't happened again since.

What you said reminded me of this, because I had forgotten this infuriating rebooting. I wonder if this was related to the building or something else? This is weird.
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Your comment completely ignores the fact that the US policy did have measurable effect: "The “dolphin-safe” label has contributed to an incredible 97 percent reduction in dolphin deaths since the 1980s in Pacific waters".

Whether consumers are stupid or not isn't even remotely relevant.
An unfortunate datapoint: for one of our products I'm still seeing >25% users on IE8.

This is a (primarily UK) product most of whose users are on internal bank networks. It's come down from about 40% 2 years ago, so it's heading in the right direction - but I'm not sure I see it going away any time soon.

There's huge organizational inertia inside these banks around IT systems - if we want to serve them, we need to support IE8 for the foreseeable future.
That works, too. Wired traditionally had stories that were "damn interesting" (another similar site), but these seem to be harder to find now.
It appears from the application page that it's US citizens only. Since you work there, can you clarify after looking?
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That's... actually a very good heuristic; one I haven't thought about explicitly. Thanks, I'll be using it to inform my views.
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I would love to have a phone with a hell of a lot of stuff stripped out. I guess manufacturers don't.
But there's no sense in which, say, Chalmers and Nagel are just playing around with word meanings. Their philosophical style is nothing like that. I'm sorry, it's just hard to believe that you've ever studied philosophy if PG's essay speaks to you at all. There are some real clangers in there. For example:

>Most philosophical debates are not merely afflicted by but driven by confusions over words. Do we have free will? Depends what you mean by "free."

Well, yes, which is why philosophers have been trying to clarify the various possible senses of 'free' and to determine whether or not we have free will in each of these various senses. Either we ignore the question, or we try to clarify it and answer it in one of it's clarified forms. And indeed, philosophers have been doing the latter, quite productively, for thousands of years. If there's now a third option, PG doesn't bother telling us what it is.

>Meanwhile, sensing a vacuum in the metaphysical speculation department, the people who used to do literary criticism have been edging Kantward, under new names like "literary theory," "critical theory," and when they're feeling ambitious, plain "theory."

PG is apparently unaware of the resurgence of metaphysics in the past few decades. You could hardly describe EJ Lowe as a literary critic.

> it would be misleading to say the field is 2500 years old, because for most of that time the leading practitioners weren't doing much more than writing commentaries on Plato or Aristotle while watching over their shoulders for the next invading army.

Again, total ignorance of the history of philosophy.
Pretty sure he would have meant sanitization as in escaping characters like quotes and not just deleting quotes.
I think it's intriguing that they took an experimental approach to what is originally a theoretical problem: Generate lots of examples with a computer and see if you notice any patterns.
Yeah. With enough jumping through hoops it's possible.
What I am after is a nice, simple, logical API though.
The fake-grin people in the pictures are nurses and technicians from hospitals still stuck on IE6 because their late 1990s medical imaging ActiveX controls are bug-for-bug compatible with that wonderful piece of software.

Behind their grins are the questions, "what now?" or maybe even "where do I want to go today."

Their IT krewes are wondering, "how am I going to get the CFO to approve an upgrade to the GE medical imaging suite? we've been out of maintenance for 15 years."

And their info security guy is considering seeking asylum in a foreign country.
Has video game reviewing become an impossible task?
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