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> I have to say I am surprised by your comment, as it assumes that politicians are responsible for their country's perspective on Europe?

They are responsible for the country's actions towards other countries. To make it more clear: I deeply hope that they are not really backed by the population, and that they will either notice that on their own, or that the next elections which show a shift towards "working together" instead of "against each other" in Europe.

We can't solve all issues in Europe if every country optimized only for themselves, ignoring their neighbours.

> the politicians have an obligation to represent their citizens' viewpoints fairly and transparently

Note that there are also European politicians (the European parliament), which are elected as well and serve their citizens' viewpoints as well. Interestingly, those manage to find better solutions, thinking about all Europeans despite representing just a subset of them. Unfortunately, the European parliament has not much power in the overall EU process, which is another real pity.

> It does seem that some EU politicians (read: Merkel) are only discovering this right now.

Our German politicians have (and always had) a disproportionally large influence in Europe. So there was never a need for Germany to distance from Europe. However, this also led to suboptimal solutions in the past, to say the least. But to me, this is not a sign that the "European project" doesn't work. For me, it shows that we aren't consequent enough. The member governments (read: European commission) have too much influence and the European parliament (which is the only instance that equally represents all European citizens) doesn't have enough influence.
How much profit do they make a year? :/
I am still waiting Apple to enter the low cost phone arena. There is plenty of profit and certainly market for them to do a near original sized iPhone but with modern electronics for around three hundred or less. It might never see the shores of the US but I do think there is a lot of market out there for it world wide.
Still waiting for a satisfying explanation of the discrepancies between the Warren commission report and the laws of physics that doesn't involve a "large-scale conspiracy".
I wonder how has he hacked God's webcam.
The author has plenty of other great hardware/software projects https://github.com/jbush001
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If you're one of millions using Magento – stop what you're doing and patch now
Best example - aspirin. We know it works - but we have no clue how exactly.
By happy coincidence, I was reading this yesterday - http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/01/26/med...

> The FDA does not actually require you to have a mechanism – that’s a common misconception. The FDA wants to see safety and efficacy. Now, a known mechanism will probably make the assessment of both those factors easier, to be sure, so all things being equal, you’d rather know how your drug works.
for smartphones to make bigger inroads on desktop/laptop/tablet computing the cost per month is going to need to come down a lot.
That's what I thought, tried it. Didn't like it.
In the end, it still has to click and having separate templates for logic isn't going to cut it. React does it right, I just wish React came in a package.
Which I guess it sorta does now with Redux/Reflux.js and React-Router, etc.
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The article is certainly biased (the author works for a company that does feature flags as a service). I don't see how feature flags help when there's breaking changes (like data migration). Also deploying to production directly makes features that destroy data even more dangerous.
I'm amazed it rendered flawlessly in Numbers!

Here's a screenshot. http://i.imgur.com/cKDYS3H.jpg
I thought lordnacho meant blocking the signal with a swarm...
OCaml has most of the "good and easy parts" of Haskell, without the ones that prevent you from using your old habits:

* no lazy evaluation => your usual sense of what's executed when isn't challenged

* imperative features included, albeit often syntactically ugly => You're not stuck because you need to compose 3 monad transformers together, you can't make sense out of the resulting types, and you have absolutely no idea of how the result might be executed anymore. Empirically, the imperative syntax is just ugly enough to make you slightly ashamed of going imperative, and spend 1/4 hour figuring out whether there's a clean and reasonably easy alternative. I don't known whether it's been done on purpose but it's well done :-)

What I miss the most from Haskell in OCaml are type classes. I bet they would have been included, if OCaml had been invented after Haskell.

From Haskell you keep a type system which helps you thinking and finds many error classes, encouragement to think functionally, godd terseness/readability compromise. If you have the time, I'd advise you to learn Haskell, in order to stretch your mind and become an excellent OCaml developer, the way learning Latin makes you a better French or Italian writer.

Re: lack of tooling: I'd be surprised if F wasn't properly supported, and if you're targeting Windows that's probably your best bet. More fundamentally, your truly valuable tooling isn't the IDE, it's the type system. I need a fancy IDE for Python or Java, not for OCaml.
Apple already has 92% of smarphone profits. Entering low cost phones area would give them nothing.
It has all to do with product maturity, and nothing to do with Steve.
For most problems, the following is how you define a component:

function Comp(state) {
return React.createElement(
'div', // tag name
{}, // props/attributes
'Hello ', state.name // children
);
}

And this is how you use it:

ReactDOM.render(
React.createElement(Comp, {name: 'World'}),
document.getElementById('stage')
);

So in those situations the entire surface of the React API consists of two functions: React.createElement and ReactDOM.render. And if you use JSX, you won't even directly use React.createElement in your code.

React is conceptually trivial. The API has been getting tighter with each release. React is in active development but so are all of its competitors[1][2]. React is production ready -- Facebook is even dogfooding the pre-releases in production.

[1]: in fact, when a library/frameworks stops being actively developed people start assuming it's dead. Counter-example: Redux is no longer actively being developed because it is officially complete and the implementation is so straightforward and resilient it can't really be improved right now.

[2]: the reason it's bogus to compare it to Angular2 "because that's not finished yet either" is that Angular2 is being built to spec whereas React is being developed under use. Angular2 will be "finished" when the full spec is implemented. React will be "finished" when real-world use shows no further need to change -- by that definition none of the alternatives (including Angular2 post-"final") is "finished" either.
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Sincerly if you both are stuck on your platform and both want to work on this it wont work. Altough your friends choice sounds terrible you probably should just stop beeing friends?
> If you rewrite your app you end up with something better, in any language.

You end up with something that is superficially better, but misses a lot of edge cases that the ugly legacy application covered. Fortunately, you have usually moved on to save other projects, leaving lowly maintenance developers to fix the problems, thereby creating job security. It's a win win situation, really.
Not necessarily brain simulations, but generally connectionist AI software. Put a graph into the machine and have operations on the graph be computed in a parallel fashion. Propagate information over the graph connections...

Thinking Machines as a company struggled with defining the target market: was it a machine for AI algorithms or was it a more general machine. See it's use with Fortran, doing more traditional stuff, not AI.
We Asked a Robot to Write an Obit for AI Pioneer Marvin Minsky
Do you think every captain has an onboard and up to date map of all the coral reefs in the area? cause I don't think they have those.

In fact, I think what a responsible captain should do is to ask the harbor master where the safest place to park their boat is, because he should know, it's his harbor.
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There's also the alternative of using C/C++ for portability and performance, but without a huge engine runtime you'll have to drag along.

There is no inherent size advantage of doing things in Javascript vs. cross-compiled to asm.js. For instance, three.js is 100kByte minified and compressed, that's in the same ballpark as the (admittedly simple) demos here: http://floooh.github.io/oryol/

Once you are over the static overhead for the C runtime and web-API-wrappers of roughly 30..50kByte, emscripten demos don't grow much faster than minified and compressed Javascript code.

[edit: typos]
The other urinal, at the park gate to the east, is now marked as a toilet on OpenStreetMap.
I have a few users on https://movinggauteng.co.za using web notifications for transit updates. I'm intentionally not sending many for now, because I'm still working on a way for commuters to choose when to get updates.
'The mast will be erected in the western part of the Richborough Power Station, a place referred to as “The Banana Land” (I suppose the name comes from the pseudo-tropical climate created by the station?).'

And up until that point in the article I was thinking we were talking about the Blue Banana [1]. Because the Frankfurt-to-London route is in the middle of it.

But apparently it is only referring to that former power plant location.

Better theory yet: look at the shape of land surrounded by train tracks and River Stour on Google maps [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Banana

[2] https://goo.gl/maps/Sh8h9v1SNYT2
What was the captain supposed to do; be so skeptical that he sent divers to the bottom of the ocean to check for possible coral reefs?

you are unfairly pacing the burden and blame on the captain here.
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You put it in a much better way :) As you said it's about investing in games, but expecting to create a financially successful game on the first try is kinda unrealistic.
So I think the better plan is to invest in a team that has a methodolgy to build games that have chance to be financially successfull, and let them build and test at least 5-6 games.
This is like a startup pivoting and trying to find the product market fit.
In gaming business this confirmation is quite straightforward, you do limited play testing for a prototype, and decide if you'll continue develop the game according to test results. If you do continue to develop, you release the game for soft launch with limited features and limited marketing budget. If the game has enough retention, you have a game that can become financially successfull. The studio follows this procedure and iterare till finds a game market fit :)
Was so disappointed to find out he did the audio book version. Unlistenable
I totally agree. I like guyed towers. They are quite invisible. I just wanted to end with the new eyes of God (dishes)
Yep. It always helps to take a step back and ask yourself what you're trying to achieve here.
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I think there is a disctinction to be drawn between cultural links between parts of Europe, and an entity like the EU that wants to turn a free-trade area into a United States of Europe.

Also culturally, I'd say the UK has more in common with the other Anglophone nations than it does with most of Europe.
The neutrino thing was a failed experience (false data), so no HFT here.
Remembering Minsky
This is why I love the internet. Thank you for making this!
>If the choice is between Ares and Hermes, I am choosing Hermes.

Ares and Plutus, surely.
Terminator: a terminal on steroids
But considering it's Microsoft, do you trust them to make it cross-platform?
emscripten-compiled code already has a very aggressive dead-code elimination, so this wouldn't help I guess. It is most likely the cross-compiled Mono runtime plus required Unity modules which produce the code bloat on top of the actual game play code.
England has been a land apart for nearly a thousand years - ruled by the same monarchy, no part of it successfully invaded by violence, nor really (in the minds of most English) united with other kingdoms on equal terms. So there is a much stronger national identity than in Germany (where many were Prussian or Bavarian or Silesian until the late 19th century), and a political policy of "splendid isolation" was followed until relatively recently. We have strong ties to Europe, but arguably stronger ties to the US ("51st state" is a joke, but with an element of truth to it) and Commonwealth.

I think any businessperson in the UK understands the economic value that the EU brings to us all. But most voters aren't businesspeople. When ordinary people hear about the EU it's about regulations, subsidies, or funding for things that seem relatively frivolous, none of which really make a great case for it.
Safari is crashing on iPhone and Mac because Apple’s search suggestions are down
In fact you might also want the un-optimized code around and run the optimized version "against" the un-optimized version (in tests) to see if they actually do the same thing.
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Ask HN: Why isn't Google's Polymer framework more popular?
There is a lot of hype around React at the moment. It just seems like Google's Polymer framework is being completely ignored by the masses. I've tried many different frontend frameworks (including React, Angular, CanJS, Backbone and Knockout) but I personally like Polymer the best. Is there something fundamentally wrong with Polymer which makes it undeserving of any hype?
Sorry for your experience. But this is the problem with US visa process—it is not at all objective. It is very subjective and depends on the person interviewing you. Chances are that if you were allowed to speak to a completely different person in the embassy you would've had had a different outcome. A point-based VISA system, like that of UKs, allows you, to some extent, determine the outcome of the application process even before you step into the embassy.

I've had a similar experience, not in terms of the outcome (I got my visa) but in terms of the questions when I applied for a USA visa a couple of years back. And I am an Indian, and embassy was in India. But the questions were pretty similar. The only difference was I was applying for a tourist visa.
Thunderbird has an estimated ~30 million users, and it's just about "me"?

Also, you deliberately deflect the point.
The problem was not so much that they killed these projects, but the way they did it.
They kept Thunderbird underfunded for a while before pulling the plug via an internal mail.
They could have done it in a much nicer and transparent way.

Probably the best is to go back reading how well Pocket furthered Mozilla's mission and helped the web.
The whole point of a progressbar is to show work progress (as a fraction of total work). The issue is it's often difficult to map "work done" to a linear percentage, so either you do it on the cheap and your progressbar is just a souped-up spinner with no relation to wall-clock work time or you do lots of extra work to get more precise estimates but you end up taking more time overall.
I used “UK” and “Europe” because they are the words used by Vigilant Global on their Richborough mast website. Nothing political here.
The founders (who were married) left the company, the staff went to other startups: there's a few at ElasticBox and some went to Microsoft IIRC.

They 'won' virtualisation, but then virtualisation changed to 'cloud' and they never hung on.
Out of curiosity, how long does regeneration of microwave signals take?
It doesn't, but disassembling Java is peanuts compared to trying to make sense of disassembled C++.
Data analysis: 62% of Donald Trump's retweets follow white supremacists
I'm confused why it depends on a centralized relay. If it has to maintain a connection anyways it could just as well be a standard like favicon.ico.
Try xplanet.

Xplanet can render to the background and keep an updated view of earth. At some point I obsessed over having current cloud cover images overlaid and that looked really nice. It can even render sun reflections.
Just pick one and be done with it. It's not JS that is holding you down, it's Analysis Paralysis. There are too many choices and you lack the knowledge to make an educated decision.

Pick one. Yes, you will pick the wrong one. That's okay. It will always turn out to be the wrong one eventually (if only because your requirements will change).

Don't obsess with what's hot. Figure out why it's hot, and what makes it different than the thing that was hot the previous week. If there's no sufficiently discernible difference you can probably afford not to pay attention to it until it pops up again.

The frontend ecosystem is in constant flux because the frontend platform is in constant flux. HTML has stopped using version numbers. JS itself has transitioned to yearly releases. CSS has fragmented into dozens of separately versioned specs.

That's just the way it is.
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Awesome list of great, small, focused NPM modules
In the interests of context and actual references regarding the 10x thing, I have canned response that I churn out:

The 10x programmers thing; from a 2nd edition of Peopleware, the 10x programmer is not a myth, but it’s comparing your best to your worst – NOT best to median (it’s also not about programming specifically; it’s simply a common distribution in many metrics of performance).

The rule of thumb Peopleware states is that you can rely on the best outperforming the worst by a factor of 10, and you can rely on your best outperforming your median by a factor of 2.5 (this of course indicates that if you are that median developer, middle of the pack, you’re already a 4x developer under this numbering scheme).

Obviously, this is a statistical rule, and if you’ve got a tiny sample size or some kind of singular outlier or other such; well, we’re all adults and we understand how statistics and distributions work.

Peopleware uses Boehn (1981), Sackman (1968), Augustine (1979) and Lawrence (1981) as its sources.

[ “Peopleware”, DeMarco and Lister, 1987, p45 ]
There are several treatments the working principles of which we have more or less no idea about.

The process is extracting active compounds, establishing that they do something (and if so what), finding out whether there are safe dosages, charting what these safe dosages are and looking for a way to mass-produce the compounds.
This is the same Microsoft that just recently released DirectX 12.

They seem to have given up on the server market, but they're still trying as hard as ever to keep the desktops.
Swift Language Running on Raspberry Pi
Any reason why this would not work?
Why haven't uWave firms resorted to anonymous EMP?
Best Terminal ever. Using it since years <3
Excel also gives you an infinite canvas to work with.
I thought my house was built some time between 1890 and 1900, but as I can see it on this map, I guess that puts it nearer to 1890.

I'd like to think of some Victorian gentleman sitting in this very same room, smoking a pipe, reading in the paper by gaslight about the newly built power station at Deptford, and about Idaho becoming the 43rd American state.
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Well, one who is good at nitpicking should also be able to find links for the original papers in the articles -- as well as numerous others.

And if we're to nitpick, I'll have to say that at least I linked to "Telegraph and Reuters" whereas you didn't link to any source at all for your statements.
RIP Marvin. We're glad you've introduced what has become a great topic of interest to us today. AI just started getting even more interesting than ever since late last year and at least he lived to see that what he had started is what's gradually building the future we hope for
It is possible with SSL/TLS traffice: you need to supply private key to WireShark, so it will be able to decode conversation.
10x more productive is 10x more selective [1]. So yes, 0.1 in a sense.

[1]: http://yosefk.com/blog/10x-more-selective.html
Market making is not really like directional trading. When a market-maker trades, the price is very likely to move against them afterwards. To be profitable, all that they need is for the price to move against them by slightly less than the spread (the gap between the price they offer to buy at and the price they offer to sell at) on average. Something like a random walk is exactly what a market maker wants; trending prices are bad.
10x more selective
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Golden ratio series
We are probably going to change to Apache2 for the decoder, LGPLv3+ for the encoder.
So you can do something useful with Excel ... now that's a surprise!
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> If it killed large numbers of the people that took it, they'd have stopped using it.

Eeeehh not necessarily, it just needs to be better than not using it or not being trivially linked to the stuff.

Romans used lead as sweetener both indirectly (making defrutum and sapa in lead pot which they'd found gave them a sweeter taste than brass — because of the lead leeching into the boil) and directly after discovering the extraction of lead acetate from litharge using vinegar. And lead acetate remained in wide use as a sweetener well into the european middle-ages as the only alternate sweetener was honey which wasn't that common. Sugarcane sugar imports from India only started after crusaders brought sugar home from raiding sugar caravans in the middle-east, followed by the triangular trade's massive sugarcane exploitations in the new world — and even then it would remain a luxury in most of europe until the 18th century.
He's not trying to make an argument against React. I take him at his word here, mostly because it was indeed helpful for me:

"If you want to use React, fine, I am not trying to convince anyone not to. I just want to show that components in a JavaScript application are quite simple to do and do not require any framework at all to do so."

There are a lot of less experienced web developers being steered towards react that can gain a lot by understanding what is being laid out here, whereas I think more advanced developers like yourself have so much assumed knowledge that its hard for you to see past what from your perspective are glaring differences/inadequacies in the approach he's taking in the article.
The tl;dr is that the engineers responsible for VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion were just laid off.

The article asks the obvious question of whether the products will continue to be available in maintenance mode, or whether they will be discontinued?

Wow!
I really doubt an issue with FUSE drivers is a Windows bug since Windows does not have support for FUSE.