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But in this case, we know our physics is wrong. We still don't have a decent theory of quantum gravity.

We just don't know what the solution is.
So how long have you used this style of argument on line? Is it a habitual thing, or are you just emotional right now?
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Yep. They're kicking everyone's asses in ES6 feature coverage. All the more impressive when you consider how they came from behind. http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/

I's almost sad that Edge is not cross-platform.
I like that it's open source now, but until they remove the need to mark certain references as weak or unknown, it still just feels like Apple doesn't get modern languages. Until the automatic memory management is more automatic, I will avoid swift if I can. I know many will say it is "not a big deal", but that is not true. It is an extra thing the developer needs to keep track of and to get right if they want to prevent bugs in their code. It makes programming more stressful and less fun. It is something that is very easy make a mistake with. It is a step backwards from other technologies. I know ARC is supposed to be faster than other automatic memory management techniques, but that is just an excuse. Yes, lower performance could be a problem with fully automatic memory management. But problems were meant to be solved, not dumped onto the users of your language. I'm sure it is possible to get it fast enough for most projects. There should at least be a compiler option to enable fully automatic memory management for projects that don't need that extra bit of speed. Computers, including mobile devices, are getting faster and faster. This is especially true for the iPhone and iPad.
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So you mean we do not worry decayed battery or cell memory effect when plug-in charger during the day working although battery still 100%. Is it right ? Why is it possible ?
Do you have a link to the numbers? I'm curious about the actual costs, since what you're saying contradicts Shivetya. Without numbers and sources, I have no idea who's actually right.
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Its a drop in the bucket really. Samsung's revenues run around 4 billion per quarter and you also have to keep in mind they're not like Apple where they're only in one industry - they have a ton of products across a spectrum of industries.

source: http://www.statista.com/statistics/298704/samsung-quarterly-...

Also, I just read the book "Haunted Empire" which detailed the Apple v. Samsung battle in pretty good detail, it's an excellent read: http://www.amazon.com/Haunted-Empire-Apple-After-Steve/dp/00...
Out of curiosity, what precisely are you amazed by? Google's ability to think of ideas and then repeatedly never make them into products?

I think you need to recall that when Apple starts up major new products, you don't get to "read about what's happening" about them. Because Apple doesn't tell anyone. And then they ship. Google is the opposite: they tell everyone a lot, and then they never ship.

Nearly all of Google's revenue comes from online ads. They are going to need to sell a LOT of online ads to catch Apple. I would not count on that happening.

Apple's culture doesn't need changing. It's working just fine.
Initially I thought Edge would just be IE with (yet another) skin, but I have to say, it's absurdly fast and lightweight. It's still not my main browser as I'm now too deeply entrenched in Chrome for development, but it makes me really happy to know they're actually pushing the web ahead.
What in blazes?! Okay MS, that's an impressive step.

I'm waiting for the first ports to Linux or, hell, a native port of IE... given the trend, it's not unreasonable that MS will open source a load of stuff.
> at odds with the way that human beings actually think

I don't doubt that, but that is no reason to suggest we let our base instincts dictate policy. The way that human beings tend to think about lots of things is problematic. We can do better.

Terrorism tries to use fear as a political tool, where democratic forms of influence would not succeed. It is used because it is very successful: we are so scared of a very small risk that our national politics revolves around it.

The president today said we "will not be terrorised", the irony is astounding.
>and won't work with Chkara

Is your lost.
There used to be an Mozilla spidermonley based node.js too, though it isn't maintained atm.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2469786

https://github.com/zpao/spidernode
Am I the only one who thought this had something to do with fantasy games?
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Is it really?

If we can provide a mesh network that is as effective as older topologies but cheaper, the problem is solved, period.

If we break up ISPs into smaller ISPs, then we have to maintain that solution, as giant companies are constantly lobbying government to allow them to re-establish monopolistic practices. History tells us anti-monopolistic policies don't last. The split and re-merging of phone companies happened in under a decade. Glass-Steagall worked for a long time, but finally died.

I have no argument that there are major technical hurdles to clear before we can have mesh networks, but once those hurdles are cleared, the power is decentralized into the hands of individuals. Individuals can join together to force through legislation, but the power remains centralized in government, and maintaining that is extremely difficult.

To be clear, I give money to the EFF and I've called my congressmen on issues like net neutrality: I don't mean to downplay the importance of these efforts. But these are temporary solutions, workarounds to the problem, rather than solutions.
Yes my brain is totally warped. That said I do really like it.
Microsoft. Former Evil Empire. Current open source champion. What is not to like? Leadership is everything.
We made a lot of progress through the so called dark ages. It was mostly decentralized, but if you track things like farming yields there was significant advancement which paved the way for further progress.

Don't forget food surplus is what enables people do something other than just farm food, so farming efficency has dramatic long term benifits.
Well it's not sharing, but web workers have a zero-copy way of transferring typed arrays between web workers. [1]

It gives many of the benefits of sharing memory without all of the gotchas

[1]https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Transferabl...
That's what lastline is doing its based on Anubis.
I'm pretty sure the government can and does tap any line they want. If you think a private company owning the last mile somehow makes you more secure than if the government did, you're being extremely naive.
How do I handle a bad client who is contacting me after calling it quits?
I meant many npm modules ;) Not my code. So it would be your problem too.
I wonder if Microsoft is actually spearheading the implementation of ES6 in the browser or did they benefit from the timelines of the ES6 specification fortuitously lining up with the development of Edge - or maybe both.
You're correct - "mummy" or "mumia" was originally used to describe the resin created by human remains and embalming materials, but by the 18th century it had started to shift over to describing various kinds of hydrocarbons. I think it was because the two actually looked fairly similar - black, resin-y, bituminous, etc.
The problem with JS engines nowadays isn't as much about the language itself (or its core library), it's more about the absurd amount of optimization it should have to perform well in a varied number of possible setups, and all while the browser is busy doing DOM compositing, loading yet more JS code, etc. Things like JIT are not exactly necessary if you just want your language to "run", but an important part of an optimized system.

To me it seems the past ~5 years of JS engine development have been focused on what kind of optimizations to implement, rather than parsing or implement core library features.
As their verification process already requires DNS to be correct, can we get a way to verify directly via DNS?

Maybe I could put a public key in DNS, sign the CSR with the private key, they’d poll the DNS for the key, verify, and approve it?

That would improve the ability to automate it for me a lot, without having to use a webserver.
I'm of two minds on this provision.

First is that I'm very uncertain that it is a good idea to allow a gov't regulatory agency to require access to source code as a condition of access to a marketplace. Especially if it is anything more than simple access, like some form of auditing. Who's going to pay for whatever the regulatory agency is doing with the code (most likely the code's owner)? Also how long is it going to take the agency to issue an authorization? How would this impact code delivered to web browsers? Especially something packaged up as a webassembly or native plugin?

So... any new regulatory body that requires the ability to examine source code seems like it would need to navigate a minefield of problems. I doubt that a gov't agency could strike the right balance, and the side effect would be a significant barriers to trading in software.

On the other hand, the recent spat of problems with automobile software (Volkswagen, Toyota) do seem to make the case that some regulatory action might be necessary. Certainly requiring source code access is not that unusual in court cases, but do we want to wait until these companies are getting sued? Also with the expectation that driverless cars are coming... well.. there's going to be a lot of safety concerns there.

On the gripping hand, the FDA's medical device regulations seem to handle the issue of software without requiring access to source code (http://www.fda.gov/RegulatoryInformation/Guidances/ucm085281...). The TPP doesn't prevent any sort of validation regime requirement for products containing software... so maybe that's the right approach for specific product types (life critical, security critical... though what about browsers?). The TPP also doesn't prevent source code access via a suit or enforcement action, so if a problem does appear an appropriate regulatory body could demand source code (eg. NTSB could take an enforcement action of "validation audit" which requires the validation records and associated source code).

So... yet another part of the TPP that I'm conflicted on... sigh.
I wish I still own my PowerBook17 to install CoreOS too. Like the author, I installed almost every distro until I settled on Ubuntu, but it was not enough. Inspiring article! Thanks for sharing.
Does it run under Mono?
"The right to a car shall not be infringed" appears nowhere in the constitution.
I can, and do.

"Bad actor" is a term. "Bad" is an adjective. It's like saying "apple" and "pine apple" must be the same fruit. We're smart enough to give different meanings to the same word, in different contexts.

Bad actors act in a specific way that we can observe, model, understand, and predict. This is independent of perspective. "Bad" is a moral judgement that only exists in the head of the target.

A beetle parasite of an ant colony is a "bad actor." It is not "bad."
It looks like the Real-Win-Worth It paper [1] is from 2007? What is the history of this method? The OPs book [2] was released in 2006, similar timing.

[1]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18283921

[2]: http://www.amazon.com/Innovation-Five-Disciplines-Creating-C...
> I'm sure you know what I mean by pushing, you're just doing wordplay. That's not how it works.

No, I don't. They did with Pocket what they do with every nontrivial feature. Implemented it, and sherriffed it through the release trains. I don't think it was immediately plopped on a Firefox release, I recall seeing it on Developer/Aurora much earlier, which means it went through the release trains like everything else. The OP said, quote, "so why was Pocket pushed _so hard_ and couldn't wait a couple of Fx versions". How was it "pushed" "hard" if they did the _same thing_ they do for other features?

Yes, they made the decision to implement this feature. That doesn't count as pushing. I already illustrated why that decision made sense at the time.

Perhaps there was some backlash as it was on Aurora/Beta, I don't recall the exact timelines. IMO it's still okay to let the feature -- one which you still think makes sense and would benefit the userbase -- continue to ride the trains and hit a release while you try to understand the criticism and come up with a solution. It may be a better solution to disable it until a decision is made, but that depends on the perceived severity of the problem. Again, I don't see any hard pushing here, just a somewhat justifiable choice. I too would have preferred if they removed the feature when there was backlash, but I don't see anything wrong with the other solution. If you immediately backtracked every time there was criticism nothing would get done.

> but the criticism came from the fact that this 3rd party extension came preinstalled and was "pushed" to users.

Sure. But you gave the example of Instapaper (which you seem to be more okay with Firefox integrating with); I'm suggesting it was probably less popular than Pocket in FF or at least comparable popularity. I'm not disagreeing that integrating with a closed third party service is not good. I'm just pointing out a flaw in your Instapaper comment.
That's the interesting part, even with V8 updates NPM packages get brocken, I don't see the migration to Chakra as something different to migrating to a newer V8 engine witch also break a lo of stuff.
No mention of license. Is it safe to assume it'll be Apache or MIT?
So then why is it important? What is the argument for encrypting all web traffic? Does it act as a sort of camouflage for the actually important encrypted traffic?
It was the same way with Samsung. Both companies dug in and essentially went to war with each other. Most people think it was Jobs' famous, "thermonuclear" comment that set the Samsung CEO off.

Over the past decade both companies have been attempting to amass more and more patents to use against each other. Both have had limited success against each other in court. When one wins a victory, it's overturned somewhere else on appeal, or judgements are significantly reduced.

Honestly, it's a total stalemate. Apple's suing over products that have been outdated for more than a decade. Samsung has already changed their design to avoid any more of Apple's patents, making any future litigation impossible.
It's a 45 year old hypothesis that was mostly disproven over a decade ago and then rehashed 2 years ago. It certainly isn't newsworthy, and the title is way overblown.
The dots appear to be city-specific reports. Darker/brown appears to mean more pollution whereas lighter/blue appears to mean less. The size of the dot may mean population size.
I realize you're joking, but in the context of this discussion, this shouldn't be mistaken for a valid point. We're talking about how to structure a society, and I think it makes sense to structure society in a way that allows people to play, maybe not all the time, but more and more as technology reduces the need to work. Continuing to push the idea that work is a value in itself as work provides less and less value is going to be a bigger and bigger problem as the need for work decreases.
The data is most likely coming from govt owned sensors.
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I’ve been trying to find the case study for a few months anymore, but since the website redesign in 2004 it’s been less accessible, and recently I can’t find it anymore at all. If I find it, I’ll link it.

Obviously, it depends on the actual situation.

Replacing routes where busses are running as rare as every 10 or 15 min, like suburban routes, makes no sense.

But downtown routes where articulated and bi-articulated busses are running every minute, and they still can’t cope with the demand? Well, that’s exactly what light rail was made for.
ITA Matrix allows for the same functionality and a lot more: https://matrix.itasoftware.com/
The security argument makes sense.

The background is the following: Right now certificate revocation is essentially broken. There are two mechanisms (CRL and OCSP), and both don't work. CRL for obvious scalability issues and OCSP because you'd need near 100% uptime of the OCSP responder for it to be reasonable and never have any firewall (think of captive portals) that blocks the conncetion to OCSP. Therefore browsers decided either to implement OCSP insecurely with a soft fail (mostly pointless) or not at all.

So we have no working revocation. Someone hacks into your server and steals your key and uses it to attack your users. What do you do? Of course you revoke your cert, but it doesn't really make a difference.

People have been thinking how to fix revocation. One way would be OCSP Stapling + must staple. But that's still a long way till this will work (the ocsp stapling implementations of both apache and nginx would need a huge overhaul, they are pretty bad and not up to the task). Short lived certificates are a way to make revocation less important, because it reduces the time a hacked key can be used.

And if this really bothers you a lot: There are two other free CAs that will give you one year certs: StartSSL and Wosign.
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I use that a lot already but I wish there was at least read-only shared access.
It will be, it's mentioned in the article.
To supplement this comment, How to Solve It by Polya is a nice little handbook on the education of mathematics. I'm reading through this at the moment and I've learned quite a bit. It's especially useful to see how I have unknowingly applied some heuristic to a problem I've solved in the past.

As a side note, I'm finding both Calculus Made Easy and Concrete Mathematics incredibly useful. Thanks for the suggestions.
Software is an implementation of an idea, not an idea in itself. Most ideas behind software are extremely commonplace and dull and should never be patented, but because it's done in software (or "with computers"), all of a sudden mundane everyday ideas become patentable. Not only are software patents mundane, they're painfully obvious ideas. This one is no exception. Hopefully Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank will help curb some of these patent ideas, but without addressing the issuance of such stupid patents at the root, this problem is unfixable.

Perhaps the patent office just needs more specialized staff that is both highly technical and legally trained. I'm not sure, but what I am sure is that I can't think of a single, properly patentable piece of software in existence today.
Engineer on the Chakra team here. As the blog post says, we are definitely interested in going cross-platform. Which platforms would you be interested in seeing first?
The bill of rights is a set of meta-laws and as such is separated from the problems that laws solve by a level of indirection, and as such they have to be more abstract and general to cover all laws that could be made. I don't think it makes sense to talk about the bill of rights and laws as being the same.
Prayer is allowed in school. It's coercing others to partake in your religious rituals, as an authority figure working for the government, that's forbidden.

(e.g., as a student I can gather other students and pray during lunch, but as a teacher I can't force my students to pray.)
Well, the first public release of BESEN was in 2010:

https://delphigl.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=9140
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Assuming this sets up flights where the legs are separate bookings and maybe even multiple airlines, there's a risk that you're on your own and have to buy new tickets if you miss your connecting flight due to delays/cancellations, no?
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Love this. I did the first couple of days within irb (Ruby REPL) before deciding to actually write scripts, seeing the second exercise for a given day builds on the first. Found it interesting there's a "Leader board" since well, there's no "points" to accumulate other than completing two puzzles per day, so whomever is listed there is just those 100 who came to see the puzzles first. So far they're not very hard, but still fun.
Fourth amendment.
weird, feels like that time you see an x across the bar and your like daammn!
A little love for Haiku sure would be nice....

In all seriousness I'm pretty sure everyone would say POSIX-y systems.
A shellscript... and a perl script and the openssl command line binary!
In a world-ending scenario, 'having a working javascript engine' is likely to be surprisingly far down the list of priorities. I think we might actually need a new level on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, just above 'self actualization', for 'lightweight scripting.'
It's pretty brazen: Now that we know for certain that US intelligence agencies buy and/or coerce US technology providers to install back doors, we shove a treaty through that globally prevents looking for those back doors. Nice.
As far as one can tell, the move from IE to Edge had much less of an affect on Chakra. (Chakra's codebase is, after all, far newer than IE's!)
Isnt it against yuotube toc?
How has your learning experience in school shaped your attitude towards math?
My school experience still makes me nervous about math. I love the subject and apply it extensively at work.People reach out with math question at work and I help but even today I feel a slight shortness of breath when I struggle with a math problem because of how school shaped my thinking.
I didn't think equality was a 'feminist ideology'. Its just humanism. That original point is, using 'her' to refer to a group of people, even men, seems odd. Its no less reasonable than using 'him'. So there are good reasons to mix it up.

On a similar topic, I find it more amenable in an HN discussion to remove all references to 'you' and 'your'. Its adding nothing to the discussion, can feel like an attack, and distracts from the topic, to the people talking. Its close to Ad Hominem.
I couldn't find it anywhere on their site, but when I googled, I found their FAQ page. Apparently the sensor is really just a pre-configured ip camera. Per their faq page, you could even use your own ip camera, or send them video files. They process the videos and provide you with access to the data through an API.

I'm a bit less excited about this now. I thought this was something like an advanced motion sensor, with some processing built in to distinguish between people, bikes, and cars.

https://www.placemeter.com/faq

API:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11GVyJaKvCXPfhH70TkKo3-Dd...
Nice, except I'm reasonably sure that I do, in fact, want to go to Austin, and not San Antonio: http://imgur.com/aQupfq0

An in fact, those suggestions are more expensive then the actual flights to Austin.
I don't think so. From the roadmap it looks like in a year or so it might start to be approaching a beta https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Roadmap
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> Is it a habitual thing, or are you just emotional right now?

It is advisable to do some research before character assassinations, so you don't ask a man if he's having his period ;-)
The OS act applies to a lot of things all list X organisations for example and in the UK all police answer to the home secretary.

All police and civilian police workers are vetted and access to Police databases etc is covered by the OS act.

Even access to say BT's databases that track phone numbers and circuits is covered.