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Given that asphalt construction is made out of mostly waste materials, is nearly 100% recyclable, can be patched in-situ, requires very little maintenance, requires very little skill to install/maintain, and is much more durable than glass, there's no way the TCOs are even remotely comparable.
There is another koan I would recommend to the interested:

Quantity is easier to control than complexity.

I propose that “the wrong abstraction” is “complexity without benefits”. In light of the sentence above, duplication is clearly the lesser evil.
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What's the point of sending this again?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9914045

I thought this was considered spammy behaviour: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dragula&sort=byPopularity&pref...

I'm not saying that the lib isn't great.
Listen man, I'm just delivery the news, not defending it. The question was how do people think about it, and that's how they think about it.
Improvements in single-core performance (the kind that matters for Javascript and most real-world applications) has been near-stagnant for many years now.

Your projection also implies that programmers of the future won't also produce exponentially slower code. I have doubts about that, considering how unresponsive programs these days are, compared to their counterparts of two decades ago (when most programmers actually cared about performance).
You might not be the only one, but I'd wager you are in a tiny minority.
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I think a lot of people are missing the point about IoT and in party I blame the term itself.

Try and turn it around.

Instead of calling it Internet of things which indicate it it's own thing, instead think of it as things connected to the internet.

Now you realize that this is already happening and it's a combination of our phones and our fridges, watering systems and load balancers all able to communicate.

So the user stories are already there we just don't think about them as that because of this claim of a separate internet. It's not. It's the same.
My solution: Transceivers that can be reconfigured – automatically, under firmware control -- to respond to the detected wireless standard integrated with these wireless microcontrollers (see http://goo.gl/8K3hdM), would solve the interoperability problem.
IoT covers autonomous vehicles as well. Which is a growing industry that is advancing at a steady pace.
I know it's not 'cool' but the fact that this supports IE7+ makes it infinitely more useful to me personally.

Looks very very nice after a short play with the demo!
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Also, burn keys after each message. Never reuse non-rendezvous keys and preferably set up new rendezvous keys for each group, groups or entities with which you collaborate and rotate rendezvous keys regularly. Finally, never respond on a regular schedule or too quickly. Delay is your friend. Delay adds noise and makes it harder to connect the metadata you're generating to your data trail thus revealing the connection and breaking one layer of your hopefully multilayered defence.
I also have code that I wrote since the very beginning and it's amazing to see how we improved over time.
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tl;dr small (and perhaps cool?) Ruby library?

Headline got me excited but then I ended up at the GitHub page.
Although, keep in mind (in my experience at least), Sublime Text 3 is way faster than Sublime Text 2.
> And it does. Some people are worried enough to think that is worth the price.

That's a broad claim. From everything I've read, there has not been much real success. Can you point me to some news reports where the spying actually helped catch real terrorists? The only case I know of is a Somali expat sending money home, which ended up in Al Shabab's hands.
Plenty of people know. The public just prefers to accuse them of being heretics and corporate shills.
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> Atom is so slow it's a sideshow. It also has the problem of jEdit and Komodo, not a native app so they greatly reduce battery life on laptops.

Granted I would expected it to be slower using an interpreted language and all but other than opening large files the only thing noticeably slower to me is start-up. That's it. The plug-in ecosystem got me to permanently switch to Atom and it's very fast. I also haven't noticed any battery issues yet as I still will frequently use my MacBook for sometimes most of a day before needing to charge.

I'm not sure if you were speaking from experience with Atom or just approximating but it's surprisingly good. I know I was extremely skeptical to the point of calling it a dumb idea to write an editor in the way they did but after they dumped react I don't notice any slowdowns.
I'm sure he will get some ridiculous 2,000 year prison sentence, no need to torture him to make the point.
While the group of Americans who "believe in following the law no matter what" might partially intersect with the gun owner/advocate group, I'd like to add that there are apparently many 2nd Amendment folks who also believe in armed occupation of federal facilities, which is obviously super illegal.

Edit: Not sure why I've been downvoted. I said "apparently many" because I've made the horrible mistake of reading comment sections on articles about the occupation event, and there were a number of very vocal supporters in those comments. To me that constitutes "many" supporters of this position. Obviously I have no idea what percentage of total gun rights advocates are in agreement with the occupation as I highly doubt those numbers exist. In addition, I wasn't even trying to make a statement for or against the 2nd Amendment/gun rights, merely pointing something out.
> If there is already an up-voted story,

This seems to be a different interpretation of the rules than is practiced otherwise, which interprets attention as "has been discussed". If there is a new official interpretation IÄd appreciate a link to it.

In this case, the timestamps confused me: I saw the submission yesterday night (17 hours ago), clicked here on "past", only saw this old submission, but didn't see that it was apparently bumped by HN, because if I click on the link it shows "4 hours ago". Given that it is very close I will unvouch these two submissions, but I won't flag potential further submissions of the link (and maybe even resubmit it myself, with enough distance)
Forgive my ignorance, but how does this approach differ from traditional unit testing or end to end testing?

My point being that unit testing essentially gives you the same confidence in your refactoring efforts that Scientist proposes to offer. Tests already demand that your interface remains the same, and that old code does no harm when replacng legacy.
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Of course it's possible, but the text message has to be crafted specifically for that person. Like an exploit.

I posit that for most people there exists a well-crafted SMS that immediately connects with them. The problem is it may be really hard to figure it out. :-)

Incidentally, I have recently watched the movie Groundhog Day, which also explores this theme to some extent.
I was reading some reviews of Microsoft's Continuum, and it seems like something I've wanted for years now. I don't know if I want to jump back into the Microsoft camp, but having a seamless transition from mobile to desktop would be really cool.
This is an excellent write-up on some really great additions to the C++ language that make type-safe programming more flexible.
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Someone once told me: "Just looking at Java code, you'd never find monads."
>The media spends is way to cozy with the governments of the countries they operate in.

Say what you will about the quality of journalism in the US, but is as diverse, open, available and free as anywhere in the solar system. There is no singular view; you can easily find sources form any angle.
How'd that work for pc makers? Their profit margins have shrunk from low to near-zero (>2.5%)[1] This is in contrast to Apple who has had healthy margins and have consistently improved market share nearly the last decade.[2]

In the electronics business, unless you are significantly differentiated there there isn't much customer loyalty to be had.

[1]http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/09/pc-value-t...

[2]http://recode.net/2014/11/06/mac-hits-market-share-milestone...
Let me clarify then: falling in love requires two people sharing the emotion. Deciding you love somebody else when they don't reciprocate can happen anytime, anywhere, for any reason.
>Then you apply an exponential curve and one day the much larger development community and Moore's Law push Atom past Sublime.

First, there are no more free "Moore's Law pushes". There haven't been any to write home about for at least 2-3 years. It's now all about multicore (which is also not exactly the best thing for a JS based editor to benefit from).

Another issue is that JS performance has already reached most of the optimizations out there. With the JIT-based JS engines there has been a 100x or more speedup from early JS to circa 2010 or so. Not it's at best some 20%-30% speedup year over year, and that only in some narrow cases. Even webassemply (when that lands as a viable option) is not expected to change that much.

As for the larger developer community, ST already has a huge development community for plugins -- which is where most of the action happens. And sometimes a talented programmer with a strong opinion can be better than "design by comitee".

That said, I find Atom to be a nicely designed editor which would have a great potential, if only it wasn't burdened with a crappy architecture and runtime choices. It might not even be JS fault, as Microsofts VS Code seems to do much better.
actually the idea of my dish washer (and other devises) having both a built in microphone and also the capability to connect to beyond my home network is creeping me out. what does it record when? is it really only listening to the beep or recording other audio, etc ...
Not sure if we're talking about the same game. I've seen one advertised, apparently there's some cheats that allow you to 'buy' politicians. If on PC, you have to type GUPTA a few times for it to work ...

Interesting article, though I wonder about Ruan's struggles with gated roads, both Waze and Google Maps work well. I stay 5 minutes from Northgate btw.
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>Those who disagree with surveillance often don't understand the full implications

No, those invading countries, killing people with drones, torturing people in concentration camps, creating even more animosity against the USA don't understand the full implications. Why aren't we talking about those implications?
is there a generic name for this type of thing? not sure how to google for existing implementations
I've got some documents up describing the Bayesian approach to testing:

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/pubs/slides/gilt_bayesian_ab_2...

https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/310840/VWO_SmartStats_technic...

In my view this is the most comprehensible approach to A/B testing, and it answers the questions people really want answered.

Disclaimer: I'm the director of data science at VWO and this is the approach our new A/B testing engine uses.
One point of sending this again is that I didn't see it 200 days ago. This is awesome and I'm glad it was submitted again. I'm gonna use this in the future!
Most of the terrorist attacks taking place in the USA are staged by the FBI: https://theintercept.com/2015/03/16/howthefbicreatedaterrori...
If anything, I think that makes it easier. Maybe it's just me, but I already had a problem with idealizing people when I meet them, morphing them into a better image, and it's even easier online because of the lack of direct cues
They are in the UK, certainly here in Northern Ireland at least. On the way out of Enniskillen there's an estate with them on it, but you can clearly see the difference between the non-solar and solar tiles in the roof. Here's a couple of products [0] and [1] (I'm not affiliated or connected in any way, just been looking into this while planning my own house).

There's also this stuff [2] but I've never actually seen it installed anywhere yet. It takes a completely different approach and is more like a metal roof than slates.

[0] http://www.solarcentury.com/uk/c21e-tiles-and-slates/

[1] http://www.solexenergy.co.uk/

[2] http://www.viking-house.co.uk/tri-solar-roof.html

(edited for formatting of the references)
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Much of the customization stem from fixing android's perceived shortcomings by the product-management at respective OEMs. Besides, you must realise that Google doesn't engage OEMs as much as it should when it decides what goes and what doesn't AFAIK, Google does it own prod-mgmt. Android isn't a standard. Which is a good thing, 'cause it can move fast and break things (which it often does).

For instance, Amazon saw that the WebView was tightly tied with Android and that was security concern (up until it was freed in Android L), and so Amazon made it OTA'able in its third iteration of Fire OS (Android K).

Also, in a crowded market, you need a differentiator. If every phone is going to look and do the same thing, why would anyone buy one device over another? Samsung needs to market things with its offering, it can't just do so with Hardware. It needs the stylus to justify the exorbitant price tag on its Galaxy Note line of products. It needs floating activities on its mega-screen and wants people to get hooked on to that feature, to an extent that they can no longer do without it, which makes sure they'd buy and recommend Samsung over other OEMs.

Secondly, hardware is just one part of the equation. Sometimes you require vast changes in Software to make sure the hardware is properly utilized... Or you just have a better Software solution up your sleeve than what Google gave you.

Thirdly, some of the Google Apps aren't stellar-- Photos is miserable, Camera is a-okay, Music Player is a-okay, Video Player is miserable, Launcher isn't smart, Lockscreen isn't smart. You need premium apps for your devices. Besides, why would you want Google to walk away with the cake (usage information generated using all those apps) from a customer you acquired with all those hours you spent marketing the phone, establishing your brand, figuring out the quirks of doing businesses globally, toiling endlessly to sort out the logistics, whilst also fighting patent battles, as if the existing technology arms-race weren't enough... among a host of other commitments?

You and I (and I take that most of the HN community) are purists... not everyone else is.
This is already done through property taxes in many states. Unfortunately much of this money is used for things other than improving transportation.
This is great!

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Only if you want all the stuff (including crap) that vim offers. If you're OK with the 50-100 core commands, then those emulations can be perfectly fine.

(Also some of us used vi too, and that didn't have all the stuff vim comes with either).
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Intel's top scientists are hard at work developing even slower and more inefficient programming languages and display technologies. I'm confident by the time we have 10 GHz processors, we'll also have a new generation of software that makes it perform like a 66Mhz 486DX.
I appreciate this is a beta, but it is hard to know what already works and what is planned. Also, does not seem to allow uploading files over 100mb, which leads me to ask what exactly is the 200MB , 10 GB or 100Gb Transfer limit on the various pricing models?
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When I was doing DoD work being able to print code was amazingly important since it's not always easy to bring computers / files into certain environments but paper? Yeah pretty important even to this day in that area. Now that I stopped doing DoD work I literally have zero use for it.
Excuse blatant Plug :)

When we built Umbrella, we had in mind the example of Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras meeting Edwards Snowden. Initially Snowden tried to make contact but Greenwald found the process of digital security too cumbersome and awkward. Poitras however was more persistant. Also, when Greenwald and Poitras went to Hong Kong, they knew little or nothing about physical security. We wanted to change that and make it easier to have everything a journalist like Glenn Greenwald would need to do to meet a source in their pocket - everything from sending a secure email to meeting a source in a high risk location where they may be under surveillance from a regime which may threaten their vital work. So we launched an open source Android app called Umbrella -

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secfirst.u...

https://github.com/securityfirst/Umbrella_android

It's still a long way from being perfect but hopefully will make the life of future Laura Poitras, just a little bit easier.
EXACT same experience. I bought the VZW Galaxy Nexus. Within a month I had 4 batteries as well. Not receiving text messages with low cell signal and WiFi enabled, couldn't get more than 4 hours of battery in LTE, so many radio issues. I swapped it out like 3 times just to be sure it wasn't a bad handset.

It's the first time in my life I've gone in early and bought a phone in cash off contract. I've not had an Android since.
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Were you also not using Node because it was called 0.xx?
We all miss many stories, but HN's rules are quite clear about reposts:

>Are reposts ok?

If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

I've seen this story at least 3 times in the last months both on new & 1st place in the front page sections:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dragula&sort=byPopularity&pref...
It looked pretty strange for me as well.

Who knows though... Maybe it's a bold new, modern art type of design.
Yep, this is why I will never buy a non-Nexus phone.

Also, good lord Samsung's UX is just plain ugly. Everything about it, including layouts, color schemes, etc., makes me feel queasy. Their design aesthetic is why I go out of my way to avoid everything they make.
I'll admit I didn't even realize that Sublime couldn't print. Been using it for years and I've never tried once.
Can individual states sign international treaties? Can states give out citizenship based on their own criteria? Can states impose import duties?

Because Germany, China, Australia, Bolivia and France can. The US is not unique in its federal structure.
> Most credit cards don't allow consecutive charges at gas stations from the same holder. Not in my experience anyway.

I have never had this issue. The gas pump stops pumping at $99 and forces a restart. Back when gas was $4/gallon it took 3 restarts to fill up the boat. :/
In all seriousness just watch Team America by the South Park guys. Pretty much sums it up.
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Agreed that writing test coverage and running twin systems against would get you this. But the benefit is that when you have no or low test coverage, if you have a drop in way of just testing behavior matching then it's probably a more economical approach in many projects. Also, I doubt any test suite exists with the variance of inputs that live user testing generates, including error cases.
On a slightly different note - have you ever wanted to click/tap to rearrange elements on -any- website?

Just yesterday I wrote a little bit of JavaScript that will let you reposition any element by dragging it: http://codepen.io/tomhodgins/pen/LGJKdE

And of course, I also minified it so it can be used from the address bar or as a bookmarklet. The minified version is at http://staticresource.com/dragon.js

Ive been having fun loading up sites I know, invoking the JS and then trying to rearrage the elements into better designs! For example, how would HN look if the reply buttons were aligned to the right edge of the textarea they are under, that would be an improvement :) We can try it out!
Not "many." You are cherry-picking a tiny number of people against a backdrop of 300 million or so.
I prefer to look at it this way: effectiveness of their ideas is one of the least important things they optimize for. They're driven by constraints that have little to do with actual value to society.
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> am extremely happy with Photoshop CC

CC got a lot of heat when it was introduced, a lot customers complained, but one just has to look at the numbers to see why it was the right move for Adobe, the profits literally exploded!

It's no surprise every other vendor would want to move to a subscription model. But Adobe was able to pull it off BECAUSE they have a monopoly and people in the industry are stuck with Photoshop and Illustrator. There is some competition but it's nowhere near 25 years of tech contained in Photoshop. On the other hand if one is using a product and Adobe decide to discontinue that CC product, one is kind of, f..cked, because one doesn't own the software anymore.

> Looks like this is to focus on their subscription model or something along those lines.

It also mean they might discontinue some products, which is never good for the customer. That's what bother me with these monopolies, and Autodesk kind of own every relevant 3D software in the industry.
I agree that Denmark tends to dance to the US's tune but not as spinelessly as you make it sound. If what you're saying was true wouldn't there be US missile on Greenland?
I was wondering the same, but I guess the advantage is being able to safely-ish run tests in production against production data and other live services

the sort of stuff you usually mock out in unit tests. and may not be feasible to have a whole copy of your prod 'big data' and services just for testing on

with Scientist you get a report not just of mismatched results and exceptions (stuff good tests should usually be able to catch) but also if the new code is slower
Let's assume that's true for the sake of argument. Then why stop there? Why not monitor all communications to also catch murderers and rapists and tax cheats? Why have a 4th amendment at all? What makes "terrorism" substantially different than any other crime?
Not all of us are stuck in the cult of the editing paradigm of the 70s despite the fervent mistaken belief that it is objectively superior.
Anyone who thinks this through a bit must realize that roads are one of the least optimal places to put solar panels. Solar panels are still not very cheap so putting them where they are not efficient tips the scale further against Solar energy. France on the other hand is one of the main producers of cheap atomic energy. Given all that I cannot see how this can be any more than a publicity stunt.
Deciding you love somebody else when they don't reciprocate can happen anytime, anywhere, for any reason.

So... it can happen over text message, then?
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Isn't this just a tool to enable double blind experiments on old vs new software?
His former boss and predecessor Anders Fogh Rasmussen was Bush’s biggest supporter and ditto on the Iraq War.

He has a vested interest in ignorance of the past—so much so that he shut down the investigative committee for the very same war as one of the first things when he won the election last year.
Does someone has an invite for me aswell?
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Thanks!