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Amiga's real death blow was a frivolous patent lawsuit IIRC.

Still, your ideals mirror mine quite a bit.

I have long been against discrete GPUs and specialized APIs/units, which have led to fast triangle rasterization at the cost of the beautiful and creative flexibility pure CPU coding once allowed. In fact, I'd be happy with a step backwards in graphics for this cause. I don't think gameplay has advanced significantly from the days of Doom and Duke3D (at least with regard to graphical improvements), and the more advanced graphics have led us down a rabbit hole of production costs and complexity. Quite a few people enjoy coding on the Pico8 for this reason. (http://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php)

I'd really like to build a cohesive UI/UX experience with fairly rigid standards and an eye towards elegant programming implementation, data-binding, fluid layout, etc. Distributing an application should be a no-brainer, but at the same time programmers should not be handcuffed by over-the-top security constraints. Rather than go nuts trying to satisfy every hardware combination, take a more console-ish approach with a sane set of limited hardware.

You could not please everyone, but they are trusting you to make the hard decisions. Which is another Jobs thing (I swear I am not a fanboy, more of a Woz guy, but many of his philosophies are relevant here)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65_PmYipnpk

Annual turtleneck pitch mandatory :)
Hold on, "accelerated" pages mean "add 45KB of data"?
Reducing the friction in donating a complicated asset is useful.
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No, but they learn the words for various body parts very early in life, usually before the age of 2 and beginning around 1-year-old. A 2-year-old also has significant physiological and neurological constraints on vocalizations.

There are also cognitive development constraints, of course.

The question is, from where do we get the correlation? If it's physiological or neurological, then there's nothing to support fanciful claims of innate language models. It's the cognitive constraints that can support fanciful claims, but you have to first show that it's those constraints, rather than the physiological or neurological constraints, that are controlling word choice.
That only works on "switch" level mostly, on a modern network you also are likely to trigger on your own switches since they run in a pseudo-promiscious (usually marketed as IP Helper, Broadcast Helper, Broadcast Redirect, DNS Helper etc.) mode to facilitate DNS and other protocols that rely on broadcasts to pass through the switch (or VLAN) boundary.

This is however more in relation to intrusion detection not active countermeasures.
It's not just how much, it's also what, who, how, where, and why.
I graduated from Illinois Institute of Technology. IIT, with UIC (University of Illinois at Chicago) had a lot of community outreach programs to get students to commit to community service. It sometimes worked, sometimes didn't. One of the programs I helped out in was to repaint the public spaces of the public housing near campus and do some basic repairs. Alot of it, at the time, amounted to painting over graffiti in the common spaces, fixing hinges on gates, etc.

As far as industry outreach, I felt IIT did a pretty good job. I can't speak to UIC or UI. I worked on research projects as an undergrad sponsored by industry interests. If we needed a dev kit or some low dollar product from a local industry manufacturer (such as Motorola), there wasn't usually an issue getting it gratis.
Open source only matters to an extent. If Google's the primary source of committers, they can reject patches. And if a patch is rejected, sure you can fork, but your new browser will have 0 marketshare.
"I dunno, I think a lot of the hoity-toity types who are willing to overpay for art would be put off by knowing that it was done by computer. For them, the value is in the scarcity more than the aesthetics:"

There is a portion of the art market that caters for interior design. A client might say something like, "I want a dozen in this colour, style with an ocean breeze feel." As soul destroying as this may be to an artist, some clients want their art by the numbers, colours and feel.
I don't think you're a monster; I meant what I said. You seem to be proposing not only that it's a better idea to give money to software developers than to charities, but that founders who give money to charities are somehow violating some norm or ethic --- after all, any dollar they donate to charity is a dollar that could have gone to a developer on their team.

I totally believe that's not what you're saying, but I'm struggling to find a logic in your argument that doesn't lead there. Help me out!
I'd suggest you start blogging often, now, while you figure out the rest.

Think in terms of shattering myths and prejudices, and if you can find some, case studies of cool 55 year olds happy to be at a startup surrounded by 25 year olds, or expert in a new hot tech. You can poke fun at, well discuss, the whole recruitment process and the remember algoritms on a whiteboard or how many piano tuners in Seattle questions. Then there's the recruiters and the blinkers of ageism, youngism, sexism, and seeking "like us". You've material for a few thousand posts! It'll create something of a knowledgebase and become google food for incoming searches.

Some companies believe that old programmers are expensive, or won't put up with hours bullshit.

Recruiters and HR often believe they're no good, inflexible, unhappy to be around young people, and all the other cliches. I've found that if you can get past these to the people who actually matter the age matters far less.

I'd try getting to talk to senior folks at agencies when you can - get past the layer of 20 year old sales to management who are probably older, and probably more sympathetic.
Here, we use the same techniques to learn about common visit sequences that we can stitch together into itineraries that feel good to our users.

Isn't this going to have a kind of self-reinforcing, positive feedback effect?
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omega tau. A while ago since I last listened it, but it's a cool and has a Fb page.
Google's publicly held. You can find out a lot more than that tidbit in their public filings with the SEC.
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There's a great anecdote about George Soros that this reminded me of: Despite the palindrome writing two dense books and conducting numerous interviews on his theory of 'Reflexivity'[0] as essential to his success, Soros' son thinks it really comes down to something like interoceptive ability, which Soros reasons is a combination of "theory and instinct"[1]:

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According to his son, Robert, Soros’s trading was always influenced by more than reflexivity. “My father will sit down and give you theories to explain why he does this or that”, he once said, “but I remember seeing it as a kid and thinking, ‘Jesus Christ, at least half of this is bullshit’.

“I mean, you know [that] the reason he changes his position on the market or whatever is because his back starts killing him. It has nothing to do with reason. He literally goes into a spasm and it’s this early warning sign.”

Soros has admitted to relying greatly on “animal instincts”, saying the onset of acute pain was often “a signal that there was something wrong in my portfolio”.

His decisions, then, “are really made using a combination of theory and instinct”.

[0]: http://www.mercenarytrader.com/2014/02/lessons-from-the-pali...

[1]: http://bclund.com/2014/08/20/nothing-can-learn-george-soros/
my dream for the beagle bone was to be able to develop for the PRU (and why not cpu) from within the very linux distro running on the beagle itself.

just give me a gcc and header files.

all those IDEs will do nothing other than drive away novice and experienced devs alike. only the ones that evaluated every other option and still think you hardware is the best will stick around. and for the beagle, a fully hobbyist board with no dream of being used in a product, that amounts to nobody.
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Chicago reminds me of Frankfurt - lots of skyscrapers but very boring. Chicago is also pretty much the murder capital of the US if I'm not mistaken.
That congressional hearing was by far the most toothless circus I've ever seen on CSPAN. They're all in the tank with the banking industry.
A few weeks ago, after more than 8 years having not used Skype, I got a random email saying my password was reset. Knowing it wasn't me and now remembering I have a Skype account, I decided to just close the account. To reset my password I had to verify my email address and answer about 15 questions, most of which I didn't know the answer to (but was still able to reset it). It took 45 minutes with support to get the account closed. I realized later that I never got a pre-verification email for the initial reset and was nervous my email might have been compromised, but I really don't think that was the case. I think it was reset through some other method, possibly internal since it bypassed the email verification. I did have a $1.03 balance on my account and my theory is that someone inside Skype is targeting stale accounts with a balance or CCs still on file.
A 'side-effect' of Firefox's reader mode is it renders news sites that rely on Javascript to display a 'please subscribe before reading this article' overlay readable...};-)
Where is the 36 core machine they so proudly boasted about?

How come compute/core is 0.10/hr instead of the 0.075/hr they announced?

What a load...
>iOS's AppStore that has the most activity and/or money.

iOS AppStore has higher total sales so far, but the difference isn't that great, and Android is due to pass the AppStore in about 2018 [1].

I've seen a phone vs tablet breakdown that implied Android phone app sales actually surpassed iOS a few years ago, but I can't find it now. The huge difference was in iPad app sales which were much higher than Android, and it would be easy to believe that the difference in overall app revenues per store was made up by the difference in tablet revenues.

[1] http://www.androidauthority.com/play-store-revenue-growth-20...
Aside from program synthesis, there is the more restricted form of code extraction, which turns definitions inside a theorem prover into code in a more traditional, runnable language such as OCaml. But you'll still want to do one or more refinement steps inside the theorem prover where you turn your spec into more efficient definitions (or even definitions that are computable at all - how do you evaluate an unbounded universal quantifier?)
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> I highly recommend doing the same if you're lucky enough to be able to.

Thank you, it looks wonderful.

I want to see mountains again.
Here's the original HN submission from 8 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=389727
The Google etymology viewer is pretty good for this: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=etymology%20cow
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> I'm using a recent iPhone and many popular news sites, without ad blockers

I think I found your problem.

Jokes aside, I see your point. But if those sites are shit, stop using those sites. They are currently popular but they don't have to be.
It's hard to have a reasoned discussion about cities because there's so much ego tied up in your decision of where to live. People don't want to feel like they've made the wrong decision, so they'll say bad things about other cities to rationalize their choice.

I moved to SF from Chicago about five years ago, and on the whole it's been an improvement for me. The comp increase more than made up for the cost of living difference, I have a stronger network of classmates from college, and there are more job opportunities. Certainly if you want to quickly grow a tech company to 100+ people, it will be much easier here than in Chicago. Outside of work, there are many outdoors activities (cycling, hiking, surfing) that aren't easy to access in Chicago. There's no snow and no suffocating summer. There's plenty to be cynical about, but that's true in any big city.

What I miss about Chicago is knowing people with a more diverse set of professions, being closer to family on the east coast, and having a more moderately-priced restaurant and bar scene. Things generally feel more relaxed in Chicago because the cost of living is lower. A downside is that Chicago tends to draw mostly Midwesterners, so as an east-coaster I actually know far more people in Seattle and SF than I did in Chicago (if you're from Iowa, Wisconsin, etc, then you'll probably find the opposite to be true).

I have a tendency to get enamored with cities I visit, or miss cities that I used to live in, so my trick is to try and spend time doing things that are specific to where I live. After moving to SF I started hiking and visiting wineries and eating Mexican food. If I moved back to Chicago I might start jogging on the lakefront again, or going to more improv shows and brewpubs. At any rate, it's a bit more enjoyable of a way to feel like you've made the right choice on where to live than bad-mouthing other cities.
I have tinkered with this myself. Have you tried a fitness function that doesn't just compare the source pixels, but also compares the source and approximation after each has been run through various convolution kernels, and adding the result to the overall score? it takes a little longer but it can let you fine tune things like giving a higher score to images whose edges line up.
There is a similar news item about Skype shutting down its office in London.

There is no discussion about how bad England's programmers are.

If anything this tells me the average HN user is racist and statistically ignorant.
The WSJ is a large site that gets lots of traffic. I assume they have a competent web team, which knows that long load times on mobile suck and knows how to do performance optimization to some degree. I am willing to bet that whatever low-hanging fruit there was to improve their PLT has already been plucked, and the remaining slowness is the complicated stuff I mentioned earlier.

That's why I think statements like your original comment are unhelpfully reductionist, and my paraphrasing of them was not misleading.
They don't seem to think pricing is a relevant information (or something that should apply to everyone the same).
Yeah they said something about open source on the main page. My first thought was "good marketing point, they probably have that legally covered and will force real FOSS to find a new name to differentiate".

Then I got to the guide or spec or something. Saw the CDN. Opened it. Bunch of minified horsecrap of course, with no mention of a non-minified version or how you can host it yourself. Suspicion confirmed.

Open source my ass.
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Normally I'd have the same opinion about most laptops being shoddy built with a missing wifi or audio driver for linux here and there, but I've been playing around with the 14" HP Probook from 2012 I think? I haven't had much trouble running ubuntu on it and I'm very impressed with the build quality. Second hand, sandybridge i5 with some extra RAM thrown in, couldn't be happier :)

I should also note that I'm by no means a power user, I'm still learning the ropes on Linux but I'm pretty fed up with Windows so I figure now is as good a time as any to make the transition!

EDIT: It also occurred to me that you were probably talking about more current laptops, in which case I can't really help you, but apparently neither can apple so I guess we wait :(
This is awesome advice. Thank you.
Mozilla is at least partially responsible as well. WebKit only became as dominant as it did because it was readily and easily embeddable, highly portable, and nearly language and toolkit agnostic.

Gecko easily could've become a major player as well, but instead of looking ahead and making Gecko more appealing to developers and OEMs, they dropped support for embedded Gecko entirely and doubled down on Gecko and Firefox for all practical purposes being one in the same and forcing anyone interested in using Gecko to wrestle around with XULRunner.

So today WebKit is everywhere (even where Chrome/Blink isn't) and is the bar all others are measured by. Had Mozilla been more amicable to projects like Camino and K-Meleon things might be different now.
> Satan isn't a dreadful spirit of the underworld, he's basically a corrupted angel!

So, like Morgoth (aka Melkor of the Ainur) then.
I'm worried with pedestrians, not with me.
I love it when someone out-nit-picks a nit-picker over trivia. The essence of HN.
I wrote this a while back: https://github.com/fiksu/partitioned
supports partitioning in rails.

It's best to start here: https://github.com/fiksu/partitioned/blob/master/PARTITIONIN...

for an overview.

the examples should prove its use.
I've been a long time fan of Dart but I've recently (this week) given up on it for my purposes, which are write browser SPA's that need to run in different browsers. My sense is that after the Chrome team decided not to include the Dart VM in Chrome, Dart started looking for a new story. That story is Flutter, which is Dart running in the Dart VM on mobile devices [1] It is not Dart converted to JavaScript so it can run in any browser, despite the awesome work of the dart2js authors and the relatively new dev_compiler project [2]. The latter will be awesome when done, because the goal is to convert Dart to ES6/ES2015. However, it is my impression that Google really doesn't care that much about transpiling Dart to JavaScript. I was willing to put up with the huge file size dart2js produced, because Dart made my life easier and something better was coming. However, it's been a long time and the pace of Dart transpiling work is too slow. I converted my Dart app to TypeScript (size dropped from 650kb to 60 kb) and am happy for that, but sad that Google does not put more people on the dev_compiler team to keep long term enthusiasts like me on board. I'm sure Flutter is fantastic and will take a look when I have a need for that kind of solution. I can't really blame Google, because the JavaScript community turned it's back on Dart, but I wish they would just state the new goals and not leave us hanging.

[1] https://flutter.io/faq/
[2] https://github.com/dart-lang/dev_compiler
Homicides in Chicago are not "the worst in the US". We should be more numerate than this. Chicago has a lot of murders --- it's fair to point this out in comparing cities, because the city management needs to be accountable for the human rights catastrophe occurring on the south and west sides.

But the number that matters experientially is the per capita rate, and on that scale, Chicago proper doesn't even rank in the top 20. It's a huge city, more than 3x larger than SF.
I think you'd feel different if it was the government installing a tracker in every page. Because it's a company, you say, it's like any other company.

Some companies own so much of a user's online identity, I think it's time they stop growing. If Maps, Gmail and others were all separate companies and they were all competing for market share, I would have no trouble with them. As it is, I'm avoiding all of them whenever possible.
I'm really excited by US govt outlining what it would take to make a legal self driving car.

I'm also hoping that one of the options is to upgrade an old car to a self driving car with an open source kit that you can buy and install it via a certified mechanic.

I think that would be an interesting future I'd like to be part of.
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Champaign is really not culturally affiliated with Chicago. It's about the same distance from Chicago as it is from Indianapolis or St. Louis.

The quality and ambition of the CS programs at Chicago and Northwestern are I think more important pressure points for the tech scene here. But: I wouldn't want to concede that the Chicago tech scene is a real problem.
On a related note, perhaps Richard P Gabriel could also sell his machine generated poetry. The future will be interesting for artists.
They're disregarded by software verification. There's more formal verification deployed in hardware than software. There's also techniques to verify hardware and software together. The hardware problems you see are often deliberately left in there either due to corner cutting or backward compatibility with bad designs of the past. Both inspired by desire to see the number next to net income continue to rise. ;)
Yes, I'd assume it's more heavily used in the higher-level application layer. I was talking about basic UNIX functions.
It used to work like that in an old version of Opera back in the day (perhaps Opera 5.0? I think it was the same version that introduced gestures),but a bunch of sites saw it as insecure and blocked Opera users from their sites so they backed down and switched to the standard method.
So many people complaining 'why not remote', when half the staff is operations, and they run their own hardware.

It's going to suck when your ops staffer in Tahiti has to fix a physical server problem in the SF datacenter...
There's another news article on Twitter closing its India office and firing a team of barely 20 .. Which is dominated by discussion of how Indian programmers suck (and about the quality of English language spoken in India).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12538640

This thread is about Skype.
A couple of quick points:

1. Autonomous vehicles are going to drive down the cost of essentially hailing a taxi to the point that it will become an affordable alternative. What we need to do is make it so painful to drive yourself to desirable areas that you basically don't do it.

2. You keep going back to the suburbs, but we've mostly moved past that. The benefits of the suburbs -> having a large lot and not much traffic, are both easily accomplished in a neighborhood. Not every house would be a giant McMansion, but some would. I'm not advocating to seriously create a mixed use development neighborhood in the suburbs. You'd have to demolish the whole thing probably.
I recommend reading chatbotsmagazine.com/ and researching chatbots on Quora.
This is a completely unnecessary hypothesis. At some point early on all humankind was geographically co-located. If there are somewhat universal features to language that were transmitted memetically, it's a much more reasonable hypothesis that these are choices that were made before humanity spread too widely.
Tho not ideal, I've been jailbreaking every iPhone ive had for 4 years now. Best of both worlds.
A few weeks ago was a big data leak. I would check your email from there. Much more likely than someone at Skype wanting to steal your $1.03
Green card holders and those seeking permanent resident status have presumably announced their intent to become Americans. If they are trying to use their position in America to send jobs and offices back to India then that's their power that corporations have given them. But, they should lose their green card and/or visa as a result because their loyalties are obviously not to the US. They just want a green card to exploit American businesses, not to become a citizen.
> 3) You have to pay tax based on the amount of money you've invoiced for, not the amount you received to date, so you can easily get a tax bill for which you won't have the money for until your customer pays you. But the taxman won't generally be willing to wait so you have to finance it somehow.

I was just re-reading this, and this doesn't sound quite right. Is this a cash-basis accounting vs. an accrual accounting thing?