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And throw out the hard work __ALL__ browser vendors are doing TOGETHER on WebAssembly? In favor of a VM that clearly has restrictions and is owned by a litigious organization? Bloating browsers by adding another VM, which will hurt throughput by having multiple GC's to synchronize?

The JVM ecosystem and Hotspot are certainly modern marvels, but there's hurdles greater than the potential benefit.
Mostly like real ones, I expect. We don't have root components to our characters except long and short line, circle, hook, arc, angle, so there aren't many missed opportunities for a longer alphabet. You'd need to run fakeness at the level of words, after teaching it about etymological roots.
It's not about stroke order. You just forget how it should look. It's like the difference between being able to recognize someone's face and being able to draw it from memory.
However, since ClojureScript transpiles to Js I don't really have to care about this do I. From my perspective Js is effectively bytecode.
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After reading this I decided to go out and take pictures of moss. Here's a picture I took: http://i.imgur.com/rovioAa.jpg near 49.055969, -122.238218.

It's quite relaxing but my tripod got dirty due to the mud.
There is still an element of captivity above what a citizen or resident faces--staying in country is contingent on quickly finding another employer who will sponsor you.

If a native employee is fired, they lose their job and probably go on unemployment while the look for another one.

If an H-1B employee is fired, they get deported.

Employers know this, and they treat H-1B employees accordingly.
The public behavior loophole is likely protected by first amendment. While it is true that common rule can be used as criteria for denying grant applications, it has potential of having chilling effects on number of experiments. Consider recent imagenet type challenges which rely on images collected from public datasets such as flickr. Going ahead each study will require an IRB approval with enormous breaucracy burden leaving only corporations without any restrictions to do this type of research. There is a strong precedent in IMS health vs Sorrel by Supreme Court against speaker based restrictions on speech.

Finally I am sick of hearing Anonymization != De'identification it's tired trope where there are barely any solutions put forward other citing a bunch of papers and calls for more breaucracy.

There is an interesting article by Dr. Atul Gawande on IRB issues when implementing a simple checklist that reminded doctors to wash their hands.
Lawful intercept does not provide encryption keys. The two are much different.
Can you name the variants to distinguish two variants which "carry" the same types? It wouldn't be as useful if you can't express something like:

enum ConnState {
Disconnected,
Connecting,
Connected(net::TcpSocket),
Transferring(net::TcpSocket),
}
Perhaps the author ought to spend some time reading a book like JavaScript Allongé and learn how Functional Programming in JavaScript is done ;-)

https://leanpub.com/javascriptallongesix/read
Just curious, what name did you test?
"cross platform desktop client" so long as the desktop platform isn't the one used by 75% of users? ;)
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>"I led the company to $10 million in annually recurring revenues before I departed."

Wouldn't a more correct article title be "How I created a $10M Software Company..."? The $350M was after he left.
50x isn't unreasonable if you can parallelize and/or pipeline a rigidly-defined process, cutting out as much memory and cache accesses as possible.

With the right programming model, 50x seems very, very reasonable, not even magical. A typical computer does a decently high amount of context-switching and cache-loading.
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Ehhhh. This is all starting to sound rather speculative. People draw the lowercase 'a' in all sorts of different ways and end up with an equally valid result. There's no particular reason why drawing す from bottom-to-top would require that the shape be different. You just have to know the shape.

I also don't buy Emmett's claim. There are regional differences in stroke order, even for hanzi. Japanese people use a different stroke order for kanji than mainland Chinese people use for hanzi, which again is different than the stroke order used by people in Taiwan and Hong Kong. The differences implied by these things are smaller than the differences in CJK fonts, which have no inherent "order" at all, yet people somehow manage to read.

Stroke order matters for calligraphy and memorization and dictionaries, but as patio11 says, it's largely just prescriptive. Spelling is prescriptive, too: it's historically and/or conventionally derived, but knowing the rules makes learning words easier, and you certainly can't use a dictionary without it.
A French ship sailing from Madagascar is 1761 is an agent of the colonial system and slave trade that brought Africans to the Americas and "initially" allocated them their socioeconomic standing, which turned out to be largely heritable and for many (say, those murdered by police without consequence) still sticks.
Honestly, I think it's more approachable than Js tooling for somebody who's not familiar with either. You can have a working ClojureScript project up and running in literally 1 step, and only have to install 2 things to do that:

Install OpenJDK: http://www.azul.com/downloads/zulu/

Install Leiningen: http://leiningen.org/

Create a new project and run it:

lein new reagent myapp
cd myapp

lein figwheel

Once figwheel starts, you can edit src/cljs/myapp/core.cljs and any changes you make will be reflected live in the browser without having to reload the page. Now consider what you'd need to setup to get the same thing with Js/React.

I think the problem is that a lot of people are already familiar with Js and tooling around it, so integrating more tools piecemeal doesn't feel as hard as diving into a whole new ecosystem.
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The web was not built so we didn't have to download a bunch of software. I think you're making an argument for web apps. The web as a "document" is much older than that.

We need an open standard for apps but it doesn't have to be built on top of the web. I think we are going to witness the birth of new app standards built on top of open container specifications that can wrap native binaries.
Obviously not, in 1990 it would have been published to Usenet group comp.sources, and all you would get would be source. OK, perhaps also a Makefile and a man page. (All packed in a .shar text file, a "shell archive" script that would run and unpack itself.)

Also, at least BSD used to come with /bin/mail, which would send mail from the command line as described. 'mail -s test joe@example.com < file.txt', if memory serves.
[1]: http://real-eyes.eu/

Well, a "static multiscopic display" is essentially an old-school hologram, we've had those for a while. Their website doesn't appear to mention any real multiscopic display yet.

I'd be curious to know the number of viewing angles and axes of the experimental display you mention. 1080p is only half the information: if it has the angular resolution of a Nintendo 3DS, it would very much fall out of the acceptable zone, especially if your goal is to superimpose any sort of AR on a mirror.
First they came for the Auto workers, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not an Auto worker, and I felt they were overpaid and sort of lazy.

Then they came for the Electronics manufacturing, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a line worker, and the line workers need to work in high-value fields.

Then they came for the Electrical Engineers, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a EE, and it seems sort of racist to take jobs from Chinese.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Quantum computing is not on the list. I wrote a novel, Qubit, in which quantum computing plays a central role.

http://www.amazon.com/Qubit-Finn-Mack-ebook/dp/B00F45N40O

Not on the list, and I'm not a physicist so from that standpoint, I may not have gotten everything right. Still, I'd like to think Qubit would pass muster.
Tip of my hat to Amazon. It's time someone with balls and money stand up to UPS and FedEX. I've seen first hand what these folks do to small and midsize business. $7-$12 address correction fees (these fkrs force you to use their address systems - so now a correct address in USPS can show up differently in FedEx and UPS), fuel surcharges even when fuel is dirt cheap, ridiculous and cumbersome zone charts which 90% of their staff have no clue how to explain. I could go on.

I can't wait until Amazon decides to start offering the service to the public.
He's too much of a golden child who's pissing off large, politically connected American companies (either in the automotive, energy, aerospace, or defense industries). There is a lot of potential damage that can be done to his personal brand and the brand of his companies (and therefore money to be made) by a smear campaign. It just seems like a ripe opportunity against someone who has reason to have many enemies.
The only think that has really worked for me is a combination of flash cards (Spaced-Repetition) and actually practicing the language.

Many of these apps seem like gimmicks to me.
Why do people submit slideshare and scribd links? Do they not respect the people they're trying to share the articles with enough to find a copy that we can keep and share after the original has bitrotted? Do they think we all caved and pay to extortionist middlemen to download copies of files whose informational content is free, but in degraded and degrading (to the reader) format? Do they upload the articles there themselves because it's simply too hard to find a couple gigabytes of cumulative bandwidth to share an article with the community directly?

Maybe HN should have a PDF upload form. The venture capitalists can afford the bandwidth costs.

The link you want is page 8 of this pdf: http://accu.org/var/uploads/journals/CVu213.pdf (md5 5afbca5e575e66f4b9c071c5a6af579b, also saved in the web archive)

While I'm angry, fuck Google.
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Thank you for posting this, and am reading it very closely. However, I can't quite follow what you're saying with the first point, which is probably my fault. Would you mind putting it in other words?
Um, I'm not considering it settled.

I think that this violates Google's stated policy, or at least would like an explanation of why it doesn't. I think that publicizing against your own policy may be worse than publicizing independently.

Is your only problem my tone? And do you think the point about Google's policy is entirely moot, and if so, why?

Re disclosure debate: In this specific instance it seems like it either would have been fixed relatively soon with an audit, or it would not have been fixed and Google would need to remove it from their store. Given that the person making the choice to publicize also has the power to "patch" it by getting Google to ban the extension, the specific choice they made doesn't make sense to me. Either publicize and leave out the unfixed detail, or ban it, then publicize.

As a chrome user, I have the right to be annoyed that Google would disclose an issue with an extension on their store, without giving enough time to fix it nor banning the extension. That makes it different from other instances of disclosure, and to my mind shifts the balance closer to not disclosing.
There was a service at http://hnnotify.com/ but it seems to be down.

See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10521491
The relative numbers of users to other languages are not really interesting. The question is whether there are enough people using ClojureScript for it to be viable long term and can you get a job using it.

The answer to both questions is a yes. There are thousands of people working with ClojureScript today and there are lots of companies hiring for Clojure/Script jobs at this very moment.

In fact, the demand appears to outpace supply resulting in benefits such as accommodation for remote work (https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/3yhm7k/looking_for...).

Thanks to the irrational bias against Lisp you're also competing against a smaller pool of developers when you look for Clojure jobs. Seems like a win to me.
I wonder who taught that person that it's sane or financially responsible to pick a major like that and harbor any expectation of getting out of poverty.
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This is purely anecdotal, but countries that haven't actually been touched by terrorism seem to be a lot more terrified of terrorists than countries that have been. It's a lot more of a boogeyman when it's those-people-over-there-doing-crazy-things

I remember in Poland and Croatia people were so scared that a common sentiment was basically wanting to ban all muslims.. you know.. just-to-be-on-the-safe-side

So while yes, this is a scapegoat, people in China are actually scared of the terrorists.. it's bizarre
No, Frank Zappa had it best. Your words may be more accurate but his words are better.
> Companies don't have a DNA

What then is this "company culture" I hear about all time on HN? Also, what percentage of employees have changed at Microsoft since the "old" Microsoft - 60, 75, 90%?

If companies don't have DNA/culture/behavioral momentum and can change at the drop of a pin, it implies all the work that has been done can be undone by Nadella's successor in short order.
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> expecting any device built, designed and manufactured in China not to have some sort of back door

But then, all laptops and tablets are manufactured in China, right? (even Dell outsources the parts to Chinese companies like FoxConn and sometimes, the assembling too). So, you mean to say each and every Dell laptop has some sort of back door?
Two Decembers ago, I slapped together a Github pages site and put a Mailchimp signup form with a brief thought: "Why isn't there a place to showcase software projects to be shown to developers". Over 300 people signed up and then I didn't know what to do.

I was looking for a way for people to share their low-fidelity ideas without any intention of being more than just a project. Whether you have a side-project you want to be a future business, a project that you are hoping will help pay for itself, or just a weekend hack that you want to share and bounce off other people - I wanted to provide a place where the idea can be shared and validated.

I wanted to collect any cool projects that were being talked about at meetups, shared internally at companies, or being worked on and experimented with small groups. I wanted people to have a place where they could validate their ideas without any judgement or expectation for profitability.

The idea was simple, I send out an email every two weeks and ask for people to submit their cool ideas. I expected people would respond with a summary of their project and a way where people could learn more about it. I would summarize the responses each week and send it in the call for cool ideas.

Last time, I didnt have enough responses/time to put this email together. I recently built something that will help simplify this process and want to give it another shot.
I recall seeing a "libopenjdkjni" related review on android-review earlier today. It was just a makefile change though, no real code diff. Unfortunately I can't find the review anymore.
Just speed up the database and filesystem with FPGAs ;)
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I would start by looking for a QA,producer, or support role and then work your way up. Those positions are entry level and pay a lot more than minimum all you need is basic technical skills.
How about dask's distrubted array? Do you know how the architecture and goals compare to Elemental?
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May I ask further, what field? Is it more applied or theoretical (I guess that is answered by the field).
If getting $150k before doing pretty much anything else was standard, it would be significantly easier to create sub-billion dollar companies. I've looked at multiple companies that wouldn't have needed further funding at all beyond about $75k unless they wanted to accelerate growth further, and would have made all of their participants extremely wealthy.
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Entire AWT and Swing API. Nuts indeed!
The company leash is by far the biggest wage suppressor. Remove that, and of course the visa holders will get paid the "right" amount, because if they're not they should be able to switch jobs easily.

For reference, this is how it works in Japan, for example. A company can sponsor your visa (which is basically some paperwork). But you get a fixed period in which you can work, and you can change companies without having to do anything except signal a company change to the immigration office. Very low friction
Regarding tone: several of my "shoulds" were implicitly "if they follow their own policy, then they should". If that wasn't clear, then my comments may have sounded more confident than warranted, although even that implication still seems like a valid position to take.

Edit: also, my argument that it hurts users is also presuming that full disclosure hurts users, which is what Google believes, which is why they have the 90 day policy.
Apple is more of a forker/adopter of open source projects rather than a creator. It's not better or worse: just an observation on a number of their open source projects.
I went through far worse getting myself through college and yet I made it. Life isn't supposed to be easy.
You know though, in all fairness I'm being really way too negative. I'm sorry about that- not my place. You know I came across this really cool website called nerd fitness which has mottos like "join the rebellion " and "level up your life" and it sounds dumb but it actually really helps me to get motivated.. It's funny too and they walk you through how to do a push-up, a deadlift and so on. And they have lots of info on nutrition too, they tend to be paleo fans.
The fact that H1B holders are paid the same as American workers doesn't negate the fact that there is a depressing wage effect. The reality is that this program exists so that companies like Google and Microsoft don't have to face the natural law of supply and demand in the job industry. If salaries get too high, they just lobby the congress to increase the number of H1Bs with the excuse that there are not enough "talented" workers (a subjetive term that makes little sense).

In a country that valued their citizens, these companies would have to pay higher salaries as the demand increased, and as a result more people would chose this career path, thereby reaching a market equilibrium. If these companies moved jobs overseas, they would be liable for more taxes to offset the job losses, so they would be discouraged to do so. The fact that nobody talks about these simple strategies just shows that companies have done a great job to preach their message to the US government and workers.
Hey thanks! I will take a look.
As someone else pointed out, at https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/11788 they explain that:

They are not goals of this project:

- packing scripts to one package

- migrate obfuscate binary to other node to hide source code

---

But.. what I don't get is: why wouldn't this works as a cheap way to obfuscate some ruby code?

After all, isn't it true that when a script is compiled to byte-code then it is interpreted by the runtime as-is (and without being re-translated to the original script in memory or on disk) ?

If so - I understand that rebuilding the original ruby script would not be a big deal for a developer - but wouldn't this still pose a small barrier to the casual prying user?
Yes, of course. Hence why FPGAs are brilliant for stuff like networking equipment, massively parallel coupled with massive low-level IO.

But it doesn't work that way for arbitrary algorithms.
More info in this June 2014 article:
http://www.gizmag.com/coelux-skylight/32469/
China actually has problems with terrorism. In particular within Xinjiang province.

Wikipedia: Recent incidents include the 1992 Urumqi bombings,[9] the 1997 Ürümqi bus bombings,[7] the 2010 Aksu bombing,[10] the 2011 Hotan attack,[11] 2011 Kashgar attacks[12] and the 2014 Ürümqi attack.[13]
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My wife, a current citizen of China, has a uniform response to these kinds of stories. "Well what do they expect!? If you do business in China, of course that's what you get. If they don't like it they can get out."

Her point being that no one should be surprised when an authoritarian government exerts its authority. Also, water is wet.
How does that minimum wage compare to free market resident wages, by percentile? Is it median? 25th? Lower? Higher?
this is like.. average latency of 600ms.. sounds great when you tell your CEO but it still doesn't really tell the true story about how a huge portion of your customers are waiting 1.2s for their goddamn page to load.

Max doesn't tell the whole story either, but it's pretty revealing.

Show me that 99.9999 percentile baby! 4 point precision then we're talkin.. and none of this Coordinated Omission bullshit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ8ydIuPFeU

</rant>
>investing in our kids' 529

How large is that going to be?

> With a home loan and student debt

Elizabeth Warren keeps banging on about housing, health-care, education, and energy being the four out-of-proportion expenses in a middle-class budget. They are also some of the most amenable to state intervention.
We all know this is not about terrorism. Terrorism the excuse given to justify the end of privacy, just like "think about the kids" is used as a blanked principle to exert censorship.
It seems that you've conflated "drunk" and "drunk driving".

DUIs can be felonies, while drug possession is often only a misdemeanor.

Also, killing or maiming someone (including yourself) can have a detrimental effect on a person's ability to work.

My point is that drunk driving can lead to people missing work or being put in jail.
"The author is more concerned with cracking/breaking people than making them comfortable."

Incorrect. The author is retired FBI Agent, Joe Navarro, [0] an expert on reading and interpreting non-verbal body language. One of the cornerstone of non-verbals, explained in WEBIS, is the comfort/discomfort paradigm. [1],[2]

Is a person comfortable? Why not? Is there a mismatch between verbal communication and non-verbal actions? This is where rapport comes in, the ability to make someone feel at ease and something taught by the FBI when interviewing. They don't "break" people, they charm them by putting them at ease, let them drop their guard and inquire further. The earth shattering point of WEBIS is everybody exhibits these body language responses and I consider it to be a sort of human response API regardless of country, age or sex.

As for eye contact. Hold too little contact and you appear submissive. Too much and you may be signalling to another person you are aggressive.

[0] backgrounder by Octavio Blanco "This former FBI spy hunter fled Cuba at age 9" ~ http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/27/news/economy/joe-navarro-cub...

[1] Navarro, 2007.

[2] read Charles Fifield, "Setting the Sale Through Persuasive Communication"
http://www.baylor.edu/business/kellercenter/news.php?action=...