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You just named some of the most culturally devoid places on the planet, if you ask me, these cities are jokes compared to the old arab world.

But then, the arab world is a joke right now, it's hard to really point out what the center of the arab world is, other than to really just look at a proxy of who has had the most oil money and oil geopolitical relations with the west the past 50 years, which are the places you mentioned. Take away the oil and these cities are nothing, attract no academics or entrepreneurs, engineers, medical professionals or journalists. As for artists, writers, film makers, it's tiny.

Of course after some time, an oil-subsidised society attracts enough talent to be meaningful without oil, but if you visit these places I still think you'll find a pretty empty place that runs on fossil riches. Although to their credit, they're aware of this and are trying to diversify.

Take Abu Dhabi, they mentioned having a GDP larger than any arab country save for Suadi Arabia. It's economy consists 85% of oil exports, a place of 2 million people. To act like that's some kind of cultural capital like the journalist does is a joke.

It's a fluff piece by a journalist from the Emirates if you ask me.
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Or, lets say they 'accidentally' brick the phone whilst completing the said task. Then what?
the postprocessing effects if very simple, you just apply a glyph (even random) instead of a pixel. So if might be used in lots of places... like you mention - for camera input.
This was done 13 years ago for Desktop, C++... but now WebGL would be definitely a better choice.
> It makes perfect sense that health insurance companies become the force for healthy lifestyles.

Insurance companies are incentivized to promote lifestyles that have less healthcare expenses. This often maps to "healthy lifestyles", but that is not universally true.

> Why should those companies not act in their self-interest to reduce risk?

Because we probably want people to quit smoking and eat better, but those activities cause people to die faster[1], which is cheaper for insurance companies.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/health/05iht-obese.1.97488...
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I doubt it. Surely I'm not the only person who finds watches annoying to wear. I'll only start using these devices if I'm not constantly aware of the thing.
I think dread is warranted. Seeing Coffescript is enough for me to completely disregard and abandon a project I otherwise perceived interesting.
Yes, I don't understand that either. A power user of Twitter needs a suite of third-party apps and pays for them. Why not provide them for premium users? This makes Twitter officially pay-to-win, but it already is inofficially.

Features I use via third parties is mostly analytics. When to schedule tweets? Whom to follow/unfollow? Which accounts are fake/spam? Who favs/retweets me a lot? I would like to see some overlay in the UI which gives me stats about other users.

If I would have something to sell, then we enter the world of conversion tracking. Twitter should support A/B testing. The interface for teams managing a single account seems weak (haven't used that much).

Imho the core service of Twitter is to connect brands with people. It still does that job better than Facebook.
The TSA is an abomination. I will not set foot in US for fear of them. The most important conferences in my business are in US and a few customers have already requested my consulting, but there's no way I travel to US.
[I made the video]

I don't think this is ironic at all. When I mentioned "framework of the week hype" in my initial comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11308043), I was thinking specifically about how people are handling the transition from Angular 1 to 2. I am in no way advocating using plain JavaScript to build your app. I even mentioned in the video that I rarely work with plain JavaScript.

There's a lot of distraction around Angular 2 for both existing and new developers, when it's pretty clear to me that Angular 1.9.x will pretty much look like Angular 2. If you read the release notes, this is very clear. They said the the primary theme for the 1.5 release was improving the upgrade path to Angular 2.

http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2016/02/angular-150-ennoblemen...

What this means is that keeping up with the Angular 1 release cycle will gradually transition you to Angular 2. But everyone in the community seems to think this is boring and wants to blow up their apps and go to Angular 2 right away.

This is the kind of thinking that I wish we'd see less of. Rushing to 2 when it's still in beta makes no sense from a business perspective. It only makes sense from a "I like to tinker with the new thing and try new stuff because it's fun" perspective. Some people will say it's a performance issue (since Angular 2 is better in that respect), but for the vast majority of apps that want to upgrade to 2 now, the improvements won't be noticeable.
>We have a word for this type of government but but no one is talking about it yet.

What is the word to describe what we now have in the US?
The arbitrary criteria for deciding what companies to include shows they could have just searched for one (valued at over $1B at 2016-01-01 and not publicly traded) that gives the most favorable result. Why $1B? Why not $10B, $100M, or $1 million? Why 2016? Why not 2015 or any time in the past decade or two? Why not listed companies? Is that so they can call them "startups", or is it because $1B+ listed companies are mostly founded by American born people?

I couldn't find any mention of their methodology for selecting criteria in the linked report. Without that, the only conclusion seems to be "water is wet". This doesn't look like science. It looks like politics and is inherent dishonesty.
Ok, that first one seems substantive enough, so URL changed to it from http://www.wired.com/2016/03/blasts-costa-ricas-rincon-de-la.... Thanks!
""Suppose that only about 5 people can do what the FBI wants done."

Maybe 5 people now can do that, but give a smart programmer (I'm sure Apple has more than a bunch of those) source code and I'm sure he will figure how to do what government requests in max few weeks time. It's not a rocket science.
Then why's the paper[1] say different? The odds of a double-flip are smaller than s single-flip; a single flip gets corrected, a double stops the box (depending on the bios etc), an even rarer triple may not get detected... the odds are exactly why it just takes longer. This paper reports observing it happening.

1: http://www.thirdio.com/rowhammer.pdf
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User experience-wise, I don't find a large difference between the two editors. Some things are better in ST3, some are better in Atom, but these are very minor things and they're more about my personal preferences rather than the operation of either editor.

The fact that Atom is actively developed however, is a major boon in my eyes. I am confident that whatever bug pops up in Atom will be seen to within a reasonable timeframe. I have no such confidence regarding bugs and issues in ST3.
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That's already a pretty "modern" enterprise stack. I'd expect enterprise HN to run on Java EE (with an Oracle DB of course) :D
Never seen that button. Speaks for the UI designer, that a comment about a function is more visible than the function itself ;-) Just kidding, I am a fault for not looking right!
I'm pretty sure Nesticle had nothing resembling accurate timing, and it could run most games.

You can go well beyond several of the NES's limitations by fiddling with PPU parameters between scanlines, but that takes careful timing and almost nothing actually does that. Might only be democoders. If you're willing to ignore the possibility that someone did that, you should be able to just process a whole frame's worth of PPU at NMI time.

Super Mario Bros spends most of its time in an infinite loop, waiting for NMI to pull it out so it can start processing the next frame. If NMI triggers before this, you get a lag frame. Plenty of popular emulators get the wrong lag frames, but only speedrunners and TASers really care. So, for this game, you could possibly toss out the timing entirely and trigger NMI when you hit a busy loop. Your emulator will completely ignore all lag frames, but most people won't notice for at least this game.

(It's been over a decade since I was into ROM hacking so my memory could be faulty on any of this.)
If they have the source, documentation, and signing keys, they don't have to conscript anyone. They can have one of their people do it, or hire a non-Apple engineer with low morals who is willing to do it.
> How does the government merely name a number out of thin air and the company now has to pay it?

Presumably it is not a random number, but is calculated based on factors like the company's revenue. A $250k fine would kill most small businesses. Google/Apple could pay it indefinitely without breaking a sweat. So it makes sense to me that the fine has a very wide range depending on the situation.

> Can the government just declare the moon to be their property tomorrow?

No. The United Nations Outer Space Treaty prevents nations from claiming the moon as territory (although the US could withdraw from this treaty, wait one year, and then claim the moon).

> How would they enforce the delivery of these funds?

The same way they enforce collection of taxes. Bank accounts can be frozen, property can be seized, perhaps corporate leaders could be arrested for brazenly ignoring an order to pay.
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Quite a bit, actually. Since 2007, we've gotten Javascript JITs, Canvas, WebGL, consistent box models, consistent event models, flexbox, CSS transitions & animations, CSS transforms, localstorage, IndexedDB, websockets, HTML5 audio & video, history.pushState, and several other features. And components (custom elements + Shadow DOM) are coming, and already implemented in some browsers.

Pretty much anything you could do in a native Windows app in 2007, you can do in a webapp now, except pwn your computer. Only problem is that the goalposts have moved: now everybody expects you to be able to do it on a phone as well, as well as access the camera, accelerometer (which you can do on the web, actually), contacts, calendar, and bluetooth hardware.
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"Dumb comment" isn't the kind of language HN prefers.
Whenever Django documentation quality comes up I like to recommend the related series of posts by Jacob Kaplan-Moss. It details much of the underlying reasoning that made Django docs so good, but it’s written as general documentation-writing advice and can be applied to any software project.[0]

I was surprised, though, by removal of the documentation for all versions preceding Django 1.7 from under docs.djangoproject.com recently. (It’s available now on Read the Docs.) The argument was that spending DSF funds on supporting docs for legacy versions can’t be justified, if I recall correctly from when in came up in the core dev mailing list. It seems to me maintaining documentation is becoming less of a priority now.

[0] jacobian.org/writing/great-documentation/
This isn't a Django problem. Just don't customize the admin. Ever. If the admin can't do what you want, pull out React and Django REST Framework and build something that does what you want.
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For this to work a would-be immigrant has to have a child on U.S. soil, wait 21 years, and then have their child sponsor them. That is not a practical immigration plan.
> Facebook.... <story is yet to be written> but the same thing will happen to them.

One thing to consider is that Mark is very aware of this based on his purchases of companies like Instagram. At the moment it seems like facebook wants to try and buy anything they perceive to be that new up and comer.
Do you think the President, or any of the candidates, know much of anything about technology? Do you think they understand the intricacies of encryption? Would they even be able to name standard cypher suites? No, because that's not part of their education or job function. They rely on the few, their advisors, just like they do with most major issues.

How far down the advisor and lackey chain do you need to go before you get to someone who does understand the intricacies of encryption? Can name the standard cipher suites? Because I bet none of the advisers to the candidates or POTUS know those things either. This is not any of their jobs either.
In any field undergoing exponential growth, the median experience will be the same as the doubling time.

It wouldn't surprise me if tech doubles every 5 years, so 27 is not unrealistic.
If you go that route, anything can be abstract type.

I tend to see it like: type is what this object actually is, and protocol is how we interact with it.
I meant to say that he was wrong in characterizing immigrants students and entrepreneurs as coming from a "wealthy upper class". The majority of foreign students come from middle class families, many which probably struggle to pay US college tuition, and cannot afford a $500,000 investor visa.
I have to say it, this wouldn't be a problem it they wrote free software instead. Security by obscurity was never a good way to go.
Wow, that's "screw the control group, give everyone the treatment because it would be inhumane not to" levels of efficacy.
it's shocking to see how poor all of these editors are at remote editing after using emacs+tramp. all of the tools i use locally (magit, projectile, etc) just work when editing remote files on emacs.
Another way to look at it might be that HN has a classic, utilitarian aesthetic.
One major problem are games which generate code into ram and then execute it. I can't remember if there were any NES games doing that, but I've seen other 6502 based games doing that.
Mosquitoes spread so many nasty things -- starting with dengue and malaria -- that controlling the insects themselves is a worthwhile endeavor also.
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"Child pornography". Any pornographic depiction of a person deemed 17 years old is child pornography. It needs not be a photo, it could be a drawing. If the origin of the picture is unknown, I assume any picture of a young-looking 25 years old person could be assumed child pornography during an investigation. As horrible as actual unconsented pornography is, which I frankly condemn, I still take it with a grain of salt when I'm told "This CEO has child pornography on his computer".
Very very true. Orkun was HUGE in Brazil. I had immigrated to Australia when it became popular and no one in Aus had heard of it, Facebook started surfacing a least 18 months later and for a time I had Brazilian friends on Orkut and everybody else on Facebook. What convinced most of my Brazilian friends to switch was the ability to tag people in photos and poke people.

Yep, poking was really important.
I've definitely spoken to people who've told me that, when they plug a USB drive in at their place of work, Windows pops up a dialog for an administrator's password in order to mount it. I believe this is some sort of group policy, but I'm afraid I only use GNU/Linux.
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In the USA, you can not agree to work for free. It's just not allowed. People do it, yes -- but it's illegal, and governments do prosecute companies, and it's one of the few violations that can "pierce the corporate veil" and go directly after owners.
Reading the article might answer your question :)
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I think the point is that there's actually little wrong with using standard HTML forms and hyperlinks most of the time.

There is an increasing trend to move the whole website to the client side to be handled entirely by the JavaScript as a single actual page.

Personally I find most websites work better with a simple round trip to the server to fetch more HTML.

So actually building an entire system in this style isn't out of the realms of possibility at all - you just only write JavaScript for the cases where there is a real legitimate benefit to doing so.
That title.
I see a lot of comments here about how not having js on the page is a great thing and lets get back to the old days.

Lets be frank here, HN's UI is not good. At the very least it needs collapsible comments and responsiveness to mobile.

The fact that HN is a success is despite its bad UI, or maybe because of the many HN readers out there that fix all the broken stuff on the page.

While js on sites have surely overgrown, and there is a place for minimalism, I really don't want to go back to the old days where every click reloaded the page and interactivity was really only done in flash.
Just go to slashdot if you want ads, trackers, pictures and video's
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Thanks, I was going to say I thought this was the usual case, but I don't have direct experience. It's only fair to have founders vest too, so a co-founder who walks out after the first month doesn't walk away with a third of the company!
https://github.com/atom/atom-keymap/issues/37 is still open.

Yet another broken release for half of the world.
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I'm in a bit of the same boat lately, deciding between updating my skills to the treadmill of JS frameworks, or Rails 5, or Django. Have you found any good leads on Django remote work?
Uhm... the DOM is single threaded and sequential. It will never EVER be comparable to native clients.
> contact your representatives and let them know you care.

Unless you have a lot of money, your representatives don't care.

It seems like the only way to make progress is to support stronger encryption, with less of a possibility of engineering backdoors.
Sure it happens elsewhere as well. But Reddit is really amplifying it.
Vesting shares or options makes you an owner in the company. Especially for a start-up, you want to keep the number of owners as small as you can. There's a valid business reason not to hand out stock with every paycheck. You want to make sure people are in it for the long haul before you give them an ownership stake.

If you're worried about fairness, you could bridge the time pre-vest with a cash reward, or offer a pro-rated cash payment if you quit or are terminated before the 1 year mark.
>Unless you think Reddit is causing severe brain damage

It probably does.
>responsiveness to mobile.

Please no. I like being able to zoom in or out, and too often "responsive" means no zoom and either huge or miniscule text.
I think you're wrong. You have a year after disclosure to file a FULL UTILITY PATENT. Provisionals give you a 1-year priority date.
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Yes Sublime is more responsive, but for me it's just a minor annoyance. The benefits of a community over a one man project who has a tendency to disappear are more than evident IMO.
> HN: high signal to noise ratio

The signal on HN has started to decline tho. Things used to be better. It's kind of inevitable for online communities tho.
It's also possible that DropBox is planning to get into the Cloud business, and views its customers as businesses that'll build apps on top of their DropBox shares rather than consumers who might use Carousel or Mailbox. They're already making more than Box among enterprise customers, and it's notoriously difficult to squeeze money out of consumers. And they're closer to the consumer than AWS or Google Cloud Services. The move to building their own datacenters makes a lot of sense in this context.
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MultiColor Charmode is a mixed mode, so it is possible to use high and low resolutions the same time. There is a limitation for the individual color that you can use the first half of the C64 palette.

I posted mockup screens on Pixeljoint from time to time. The street scene (link) uses high resolution for the roof of the shed for example.
http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/96007.htm

The restrictions for sprite colors are similiar. There is also only one individual color, but the whole palette can be used here.
Right idea (being jaded) but wrong reason. It's more likely a political jab at the various GOP candidates' opinions about H1Bs.
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Agreed, and the sluggish problem can't be solved because the Atom team chose a developer stack which benefited them, and not one which benefited the actual users of the software.

There is a massive gap in the market for a native speed open-source SublimeText clone.
STNS use JSON API via HTTP protocol. So STNS server can place under a http reverse proxy like nginx. It's very useful when used in combination with other servers.
Right, they are very different things. GP's point about morality stands, though: it's orthogonal to both markets and evolution.
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> hipsters talking about simple and insignificant technologies

Are you telling me that a new CSS framework that will save you two lines in your CSS files is insignificant? Or a new <insert the current language that is hip>-style language in <insert a number between 1 and 100> lines of JS!

Surely these are the greatest inventions of our time.