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Isn't it a bit strange that after so many years, Netflix's player is as basic as anything? Even YouTube offers more. Yeah I'm sure Netflix has all sorts of non-visible stuff to make it work well but it's like they don't even consider the player to be a place they can deliver features.
> Note that the above “if” starts with “if instance variables types remain the same”. But how can we know that? The problem is that the compiler determines their

> type by traversing the program, instantiating methods, and checking what gets assigned to them. So we can’t really reuse the cache because we can’t know the final

> types until we type the whole program! It’s a chicken and egg problem."

Maybe I'm oversimplifying it, but suppose you compiled a statement like...

a++

...into something like...

if a is an integer (which would presumably be something fast like "CMP [RAX],123; JNZ NotAnInteger") do "INC [RAX+8]", otherwise do more expensive stuff to look up the actual type and a function to use as a ++ operator?

As long as the programmer sticks to the same type, the compiled expression runs fast, and if they switch types midstream, it still runs, albeit with a performance hit.
Seems a bit sad to me that we're still teaching a 40 year old OS. Hasn't computing advanced since then? Where's the Plan9-like teaching OS?
Yeah, I was under the impression that nobody liked the Swarm app and they basically did a Digg. It's surprising that it still valued at half of what it used to be (when it was everywhere).
What kind of IT companies are there in Switzerland? I can't name off the top of my head any products or innovative organizations coming out of there.
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Anyone who reads Modern Monetary Theory should keep in mind that its somewhat fringe (not outside fringe like Austrian school, but very criticized and not widely accepted).
I know of one book: Motulsky's Intuitive Biostatistics, very little formulas, much focus on upsides and downsides of various stats approaches, opinions etc.
More like psychology and philosophy.
Only just had a quick peep and play and I like it - looking forward to using Crystal more often on a tooling level.

Nice work to date...
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Yep, people who knew a lot about their business model and shorted it. Just like the ones who shorted zynga and demand media.
Taken from Github on the "why?"

We love Ruby's efficiency for writing code.

We love C's efficiency for running code.

We want the best of both worlds.

We want the compiler to understand what we mean without having to specify types everywhere.

We want full OOP.
I would use one key for most websites, as I use one login for most websites, because that's not something I'm trying to hide and I like the convenience and simplicity. But of course it must be possible to use multiple keys.
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I have (almost exclusively in the finance space). I found it rejecting too many null hypotheses to work in practice (e.g. choosing a distribution that you could generate reasonable simulations with).

For choosing distributions, we ended up plotting observations versus various simulated realities and going with the "eye test". Now, of course, there will be those out that that say this is not rigorous enough, but for most phenomena in the social sciences its very hard to find a distribution that fits reality per the K-S test. So you're left with either bootstrapping (which has its own flaws) a distribution or choosing one that's good enough (e.g. passing the eye test).
Wonderful buttons for pressing eh? "Reactionary" & "Emotional" - words which in the absence of qualification are essentially meaningless or as in this case, take on the perjorative meaning you like to confer on them, to justify an unargued position.

However great the temptation, I take note that HN is not the venue for a continuation of this debate.
I'm pretty sure those constrained devices are running bytecode interpreters that aren't nearly competitive with native code in terms of speed, with UIs that wouldn't cut it on even a low-end smartphone these days.
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> If you get your salary in Swiss Francs, you maximize the chances that the salary you earn will actually be worth something in the future and is not just paper.

Or, when living in a country with untrustworthy currency, you can just exchange your savings to USD (or CHF etc.) and have them equally protected.
From my fuzzy memory:

To make a cpu fast you need to shrink them. To the point that the "wires" in the core are so close together that electrons jump from one another. So there is lots of electrical interference. To overcome this voltage needs to be increased. This takes more power and makes the cpu hotter (which requires cooling).

But dont take my word for it. I did some quick Googling. Maybe you can find some better source and explanation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-core_processor#Technical...

"For general-purpose processors, much of the motivation for multi-core processors comes from greatly diminished gains in processor performance from increasing the operating frequency. This is due to three primary factors:

- The memory wall; [...]

- The ILP wall; [...]

- The power wall; the trend of consuming exponentially increasing power with each factorial increase of operating frequency. This increase can be mitigated by "shrinking" the processor by using smaller traces for the same logic. The power wall poses manufacturing, system design and deployment problems that have not been justified in the face of the diminished gains in performance due to the memory wall and ILP wall."
This is a very nice review, but in practice I've found the K-S test to be much less useful than it initially appears:

1. Failing to reject the null hypothesis is not the same as accepting the null hypothesis. That is, concluding "these data are from some distribution X" is spurious.

2. There's a 'sweet-spot' for the amount of data. If you have too few samples, it's very easy to fail to reject; and if you have too many, it's very easy to reject (the chart at the bottom of the "Two Sample Test" section illustrates this).

3. The question "are these data from some distribution X?" is usually too strong. It's usually more informative to ask "can these data be modelled with some distribution X?"
The first computer I had access to and learned to program on :)
Plain 'ol C using gcc to compile and UPX to shrink the size.
I really want companies to stop stuffing features into their product.

I want them to develop something that works, and works very well, and then optimise it carefully.

Nice to have but non essential features should be offered in an experimental, unsupported, panel. "Try this, you might like it, but it might not work and we don't provide any support if it doesn't work".

There's a long list of software that was good, that improved to be great, and then continued to "improve" and became huge buggy laggy messes.
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Monkey X is by far the best BASIC compiler available to date. Purebasic is still good for GUI stuff, but it's not OOP like Monkey X. And Monkey X can support native GUIs if a library or wrapper were created (and may already exist).
Thanks for your feedback! Yes, we have this feature on our roadmap.
1. Because it works.

2. All the contributors know how to use it.

3. Changing anything would take effort.
It's as easy as it used to be because these old computers still work well and are relatively inexpensive. I own and keep operational both an Apple IIc and a Commodore 64 and my children have easy access to them.
You too can build an app that copies excel with any of the major win forms tool suites. DevExpress, infragistics, telerik all even offer app control templates called "Office <year>". These basically are the office UI with some of the event handlers stubbed out. My point is that I don't think that MS cares if you rip off their UI and I bet they even encourage it. I think MS wants Windows / Office apps to look like Windows or office.
Oh cool, so just a new libcore implementation based on openjdk, which should be a good thing actually.
Exactly. People seem to be suggesting that making it a shade of green instead of blue would make the problem disappear (although, isn't that based on the OS theme?) Or should Corel use a completely different icon for 'copy', for example?
Why not? Because Git, [whatever-the-next-hype-will-be], .... is so much better?
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You might be interested in deoptimisation: :)

http://chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/deoptimizing/

This would have the effect that you describe (actually even faster than what you're proposing, by essentially trapping on all changes to the target to know ahead of time that deoptimisation has to occur), but it's not the world's most trivial feature to implement.
I thought most ORMs were back-end independent. Isn't that 1/2 of their value proposition? The other half being accessing a persistence layer in native code.
The white majority was in favour of the Civil Right Act and of the Voting Rights Act.

http://volokh.com/2010/05/24/public-opinion-anti-discriminat...

http://ropercenter.cornell.edu/voting-rights-act/

The idea that the "republic" part of the system protects minorities despite vast opposition from the majority sounds nice, but it's not supported by reality.
That the K-S test works is some cute math by the father of modern probability A. N. Kolmogorov.

But that test and many more are part of non-parametric, that is, distribution-free hypothesis testing. That statistics has long been popular in the social sciences. A major theme in such statistics is permutations. Another major theme, and more recent, is resampling.

I first learned about such tests from a book that was sitting around the office, Sidney Siegel,
Nonparametric Statistics for
the Behavioral Sciences.

These tests are all one dimensional. Once I published a paper on a distribution-free test that is multi-dimensional -- my paper may remain the only such.

These days, see also the work of B. Efron and P. Diaconis.

More can be done.
Check out the documentary From Bedrooms To Billions - it goes into good detail about the early home computer game development scene, well worth a watch.
Switzerland is only 8 million inhabitants, thus it obviously can't produce on Chinese/US/German scale.

Some Swiss IT-highlights include:

- The biggest Google software engineering office outside California (around 2000 employees).

- Logitec

- ETH university

- Many ETH-spinoff/startups: Doodle, Bitspin (bought by Google), Teralytics, Archilogic, Fashwell, Getyourguide, Numbrs and I surely forgot many others.
I'm talking about tainted wallets, not coins. When a tainted wallet tries to transact outside the bitcoin system, then you're busted.
People seem to be missing the point that the patent isn't for 'sliders' but, as the article points out, that very specific design of slider. Not the functionality. TBH, I think it looks pretty horrible, so no great loss here.
And so what?

They get away with enforcing completely obvious patent because they have reason to be mad?
I don't know it is only me or its apply to others too, My own field is OS and I love it. But recently I am literally fascinated by whats going on in "Programming Language" field. Rust, Go, Nim, Julia, Haskell, Ocaml, Racket, Clojure etc (though these are not scientific research in PL community, but we can claim these are mostly result of scientific research). I wasn't aware of crystal . I literally Love them all and if I were going to an abandoned island for rest of my life , my only wish would have been : "let me play with all of these for rest of my life"

BTW : I looked at crystal syntax (I am talking about only syntax). Syntax designed extremely clear. I would say (my opinion, in short time I had to investigate crystal) maybe clear'er that python.
I would focus on the term Dashboard . . . having custom dashboards has always been interesting and I think would be valuable for businesses.

I'm not sure I would focus on idle computers as I would probably rather setup dedicated TVs or monitors around the office to show specific metrics that are important to the people around that display not just random idle machines.

So I would focus on providing 1080p versions of Dashboards with custom metrics . . . It would also be cool to setup a way to play a sound or turn on a light through an API when a sale comes in or big deals close. So maybe offer a tutorial to set this up . . . with simple off the shelf home automation hardware/hubs and with a raspberry pi/arduino for makers.

Making it easy to customize the metrics displayed would be a big plus . . . maybe automate your custom css/javascript you're using right now so it's cleaner for the end user.

Set it up so sensitive information can not be displayed by mistake. (isn't rendered and then hidden with CSS).

Good luck in 2016.
Thank you!

I actually just discovered http://redash.io/ thanks to this announcement, it looks really useful - will try it ASAP

Good luck with your future endeavours!
Not gonna happen... (still using it)

;P
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Hmm, this may be orthogonal, but it certainly can't hurt. Quasar already has AOT instrumentation and we're working on making it available on Android as-is. OTOH, even if Android goes OpenJDK, it's doubtful they'll support agents, so you'll have to rely on AOT instrumentation anyway.

But to get us back on point, it will certainly make the work of migrating any Java library to Android easier.
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>For example, Hacker News nested comments are displayed as being on one level.

Interesting. I just tried reading HN on Firefox Mobile recently, and noticed that the comments all show as on one level, not nested. But show okay in mobile Chrome.
Not the OP, but there's no such thing as proper experimental setup in economics (because there can't be). That's why using economic/econometric modelling for causal inference is the holy grail of the field.

Some approaches are:

- structural models (google Pearl)

- instrumental variables (google Angrist)
The downsite is that you loose liquidity then. Assuming you live in Russia, how / where are you going to buy bread with USD, let alone with CHF?
Because it's missing a color screen with icons aligned on a grid...
Presumably the same principle of not letting ones self be jerked around by companies who don't give a rat's ass about the consumer experience, like the bizarre Netflix/Quickster fiasco from a few years back.
Really? I would think the rich are very much incentivized to fund any research that may slow down their aging (as are the poor, but they don't have enough money). When you have achieved most of the goals in your life, the remaining goal you have is perhaps to elongate that success for however longer you can. For example, several Chinese emperors, starting from the first one, were obsessed with living forever, giving tons of resources and power to "alchemists" who claimed to be able to produce medicine to keep the emperor young.
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Are you saying that it's impossible for Windows apps to provide a level of executable trust for "normal" applications? If Chrome (or any other app) can't protect its cert/trust store from external abuse, why should anyone ever trust any web browser?
No, it links to the publisher's own site. It's one of 56243 (!) freely downloadable books listed here: http://link.springer.com/search?facet-content-type=%22Book%2...
Tech investment crashed in the 90s because billions were poured into companies that didn't make money, there's no reason to believe it couldn't happen again.

I still have absolutely no idea how Foursquare makes money.
I asked @yanisvaroufakis for a comment[1], here's the tweet: It is a silly idea. Tantamount to preventing banks from lending Jack Jill' deposits. There are far better ways to control banks

[1] https://twitter.com/yanisvaroufakis/status/68180815534559641...

ps. I understand what he is saying but I have no idea where "Jack Jill'" came from, probably he is referring to this comic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_and_Jill_(comics)
Also. But note several mechanisms alien creatures used on human explorers;
those were totally physiological.
Both of you are correct. The problem with direct democracy these days is that it ignores the power of mass media, which is to say it ignores the influence of money on a statistically significant portion of the voters.

Premise 1: if you continue adding people to the voting pool on an issue, at some point (X) you're going to exceed the number of people who have interest / time / capability to render themselves informed.

When you do, mass media begins to exert a much greater effect on the outcome (as these people are more susceptible to having their opinions swayed).

Premise 2: If you shrink the pool of potential voters, but keep the money involved the same, then corruption increases

--

There are of course things you can do legally to fight both of these negative outcomes, but I feel you'll always be fighting the basic tendencies. The solution then isn't direct democracy (where mass media overrides logic) or oligarchy (where corruption rules) but some point in between.
And such things should not be patentable at all.
Zunzun.com – curve-fitting website code released
I'd guess they'll switch to something eventually, something after git probably.

Making such a change would be a massive undertaking for WordPress due to its deep integration into theme and plugin repositories.
In Yugoslavia all deposits were blocked at one point. You couldn't withdraw your own money from the bank. So, it's not the same which country are you living in.
That's not much of a surprise considering that's from the same company that once patented the double click.

https://newscientist.com/article/dn5072-microsoft-gains-doub...
Although my parents and grandparents are long gone at this point, I don't want Netflix to make their core apps any more complicated that what they are now. Just for the sake of every one who still has to help their parents/grandparents figure out how to play a movie.
That's a good idea about changing your routine from time to time. Had the same idea recently.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_to_set_up_a_secure_offline_sa...
Not if everyone uses blockchain directly, but that is already too slow for quick transactions anyway.

Banks would add bitcoins as just another currency into their system. They can start giving out credit cards denominated in bitcoin for anyone who saves bitcoins in bank for interest, that effectively creates new money.
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What are the best examples of B2B marketing for emerging market SaaS businesses?
OK. But Netflix doesn't even have a decent player. No audio boost. No picture controls. Doesn't even have subtitle controls. I mostly don't use Netflix (their selection went to hell and they seem intent on shoving 1-star stuff in my face) but on the rare occasion I do, it's generally subpar. They're at no risk of turning terrible.
The IP should not be visible. IP, actually, is implementation detail and its visibility can hinder future performance or extensibility.

For example, when you are implementing OoO arch, you will have to deal with the possibility of writes to IP. That will not save power and estate.
The Netflix/Quickster fiasco changed the value equation for customers.

All that happened with Foursquare/Swarm was that the user had to press a button to download another free app. I agree it was a silly decision, but was ultimately just a 40 second inconvenience.
I used this website for a simulation course a couple of years ago and wondered what happened to it. Seems like the author cannot run the site any more due to health issues (eyes). He decided to release the source code on github. See these two links for a little bit of info:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/zunzun_dot_com/X1rH2...

http://www.zunzunhelp.com/

There should be a lot of interesting stuff for anyone interested in statistics and Python (and node). The site was incredibly useful, among other things it allowed you to upload a csv data file and calculated the distribution that best fit the dataset.

The author even provided a tutorial for setting up your own site with Flask, maybe someone here wants to give it a shot: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/zunzun_dot_com/nFMH_...

Thanks James for the great site when it was up and running and thanks for releasing the code :)
Afaik not yet. But you can vote for it: https://trello.com/b/hxsqB6vx/n1-open-source-roadmap
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"I'm always bugged by whiners complaining that they bought a return flight from New York to London for 399$ and then complain that they can't change it, because they just don't seem to grasp the concept of non-refundable. If you want refundable, that can be had. For 4x the price."

What are your thoughts on a system that allows for resale of unwanted tickets through a vetted third party (assuming that third party has the proper tools in place to vet purchasers through the normal security checks when buying a flight)?
My girlfriend (who lives a few states away) and I have been using http://showgoers.tv for the same thing for a bit. Are there any advantages of Netflix Party over Showgoers?
Sjötofta BBS, ah the memories.
I'd also like to recommend the novel series "The Expanse". While not entirely accurate, at least the start of the series deals with a lot of the near-future limits in space travel: lack of gravity and the consequences thereof for humans, acceleration, radiation etc.

And in the new TV-Adaptation there are fascinating little details like sparrows flying/hovering in 0.3G inside a tunnel inside an Asteroid (Ceres) with an artificially induced spin.
> The point of UI/UX/HUI guidelines is to ensure consistency of applications' look&feel.

That's not the focus of UX, at all. Consistency is not an end in itself, it's just a way to achieve predictability and, in consequence, ease-of-use. It's important but not that much (not everyone is an engineer or homo logicus - people do tolerate inconsistency, as incredible as it might seem). Maybe you're thinking this or focusing on UI implementation guidelines. UI/UX (I don't know what you mean by HUI) guidelines should be heuristics/rules of the thumb aimed at ensuring your digital product serves your users in their usage contexts. e.g. saying the button should be blue isn't that much relevant; however, saying "you need an explicit button to confirm a given kind of action" is.

> Under detailed guidelines, two applications doing exactly the same thing should look exactly the same.

I just quoted this to illustrate how wrongly you are conceiving UX: you're focusing only on the "thing" being done. But UX - even the most square definitions of usability such as ISO 9241 - cares about "who" does it and in which context. So, two applications doing the same thing may look radically different, if used by different people and/or in different contexts. I also think you focus too much on the "look" aspect.
I depends on what would such service do for me. How "different" it is?
First Google Glass 2.0 pictures
https://speakerdeck.com/jakevdp/statistics-for-hackers is great!

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10244950
It's valued there because they have a somewhat unique data set, considering the scope and magnitude. The only companies that can compare their data sets are much larger ones.
There's no indication that the bug was being actively exploited.

Anyway, it's not clear what benefit was had over releasing the report but without the XSS link. Maybe even say "there's XSS on your site" but don't mention the exact link.

Again, they should ban the extension completely if they think it's insecure, and if they haven't done that, they shouldn't be publicizing exploits.