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with great power comes great responsibility :)
I think it was actually Google Maps that made XHR popular, not GMail. With GMail, people figured that the AJAX-interactivity was cool, but not groundbreaking. With Maps, it opened up fundamentally new interaction models that didn't exist before.

This is somewhat ironic, since Maps didn't use XHR at all, and instead used an iframe transport. For that matter, "AJAX"-enabled Google Search also uses an iframe and contains no XML. Monikers are weird.
This article was very painful to read.

> "It actually explains a few of the trickier things about quantum physics, like why particles have an indeterminate position until they're observed."

And then it goes on in the next paragraph, of all things, to assert that most of the people are "computer controlled".

The whole thing has the general attitude of ... ooh, we're living in a SIMULATION, let's make some random assumptions that sound audacious. We don't have to care if they hold up for more than a microsecond under scrutiny, because it's a simulation!

And while that's an exaggeration, the word simulation does provide an easy excuse, a semantic stop sign as it were, to avoid thinking about the implications of your idea beyond "hmm, that would be cool."

Fortunately, that's not how it works. Also, as to the whole "simulating only what's needed" is in the category of easier said than done. QM might be locally computable at each step, but you can't factor out a part of the universe without affecting its state. And don't even get me started on the problems you'll have if you try to cut out things all the way up at the human level.
The article was 90% misleading bullshit. The three years I spent at Oxford studying History were invaluable from an educational perspective, equipping me with skills that allowed me to continue to develop further skills to succeed, and not just by talking well.

The 10% is there and undeniable, though. To be a leader you have to have good rhetoric, and that's drilled into you from day one. But there's no denying that you also have to learn when you have to.

There's not much mention of the lonely and stressful hours spent in libraries preparing for those tutorials where I had nowhere to hide and a lot of face to lose with a whithering glare from an academic that had better things to do than compensate for my youthful indolence. You don't get that from lectures.
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Just not sure why you feel the need to package up this kind of trivial stuff and spam HN with it (under various usernames, for some reason: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=marak http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=JimBastard)

Edit: ...then complain when the moderators decide it's crap: @paulg, I'm sure you don't care when sleeping on your pile of money, but the people moderating Hacker News are a cancer. Your site is doomed (https://twitter.com/maraksquires/status/67123612653592576)

Edit2: Shouldn't feed the troll. I'm done here.
Again? Here are a few earlier submissions - there are more:

http://searchyc.com/submissions/what+is+a+browser?page=1

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=662105 <- This one has comments.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2057769

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=653962

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=626482

Here's a comment from earlier:

More and more, producers of programs are hiding the
details, making it easier for people to just get on
with things and solve their problems, without having
to worry about the details of how it happens, and the
machinery underneath.

Then others, no doubt technical people, go and interview
the users in order to show just how ignorant they all are.

Did I get that right?

If you want to make computers and services easy to use,
you don't want people to be able to answer these questions.
You want people to find your service, use it, and remain
completely unaware of the technology.

Or am I wrong?

Finally, here is a good explanation for non-technical people:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=864627
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Also a movie from 1999 following the same premise: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139809/
"I prefer to keep my mouth shut and let people think I'm a fool rather than open my mouth and prove it."

Top advice.
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Larry and Sergey won't. Many other Googlers will. And if the concerns are real and fixable, then it'll get people talking about ways to fix them, and some of those ideas might bubble up to the top.

Or maybe not. Oftentimes, things don't even need to bubble up to the top to have an impact. You've got a very distorted picture of large organizations if you think that Larry suddenly makes a decision and then the whole company immediately does what he says. Large companies are really collections of small independent groups, and nobody really understands everything that's going on, and often times the worst problems are best addressed at the middle-management level. I think most rank-and-file Google employees have the same goals as Larry Page: we want to launch things quickly, we want people to use our stuff, we want to have a big impact on the world, and we want the share price to increase. The problem is translating that big-picture desire into specific practices and processes that'll result in that.
The only hosted Fossil service I've seen so far (only been investigating Fossil since I read this article) is Chisel: http://chiselapp.com

I have not tried it yet, however, and have no idea how easy it is to use.
Am I missing something?

My C days was a long time ago, but this looks like simple and elegant stuff to me. What would be the problem with production code? The Go language?
> Just not sure why you feel the need to package up this kind of trivial stuff and spam HN with it (under a different username, for some reason: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=marak)

That account has been silent-banned for awhile ( as most of my accounts have been for flaming / trolling people). I cannot use it anymore. Notice all the submissions are missing?

What would you like me to do?

I don't understand why you are hating on me. I've never done anything to you or interacted with you in anyway.

If you consider the work I did on https://github.com/marak/JSONloops to be "trivial", then I implore you to build your own multi-user real-time audio sequencer that work's in the browser and is written in 100% JavaScript.
as an Irishman, it's instinctive to have mixed feelings about the British, our once brutal, now friendly neighbour.

In any case, they must be doing something right. They have some of the best institutions on the planet - the NHS, the BBC, and yes their Education system. And their police force is really the best in the world. I've never met a Bobby who wasn't professional, friendly, and reasonable, despite a very difficult job.
Ivy league schools, including Harvard, have always made money off of their ability to mix the paint of the smart with the wealthy and call it the same color. It's always been one way to pass on an inheritance, but in this increasingly meritocratic world, more and more people are realizing that simply attending a school is not much of an indicator of ability or knowledge.
Well then, -10 karma, it was worth it :)
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Maybe that's because the verboseness of C++ or Java isn't really that much of a problem, since the experienced coders can usually type quickly, and moreover, most of the programming work is thinking, not typing.
The term you're looking for is "veil of ignorance" (that's the thing you imagine being behind when formulating policy), and the biggest proponent of that way of thinking about policy is John Rawls. He wrote a book called "A theory of justice" that talks about this, and a later one called "Justice as fairness: a restatement".

Advance warning: I find his writing pretty heavy going; I don't know whether that's a quirk of my brain or just means that he doesn't write as clearly as he might.
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Also, the experienced coders also already have template macros for frequently used code snippets, like loop, conditional statements, comparisions, sorting etc., making doing trivial things in C++/Java, as trivial as doing them in Python (or other high level language).
"Less traveled by" could mean (1) less traveled at the time he made the decision or (2) less traveled at the (later) time when he's telling the story. I think #1 is the obvious meaning; your argument depends on taking it to mean #2.

As for "Why would he sigh if he were not lying?", I hardly know what to say: what do sighing and lying have to do with one another? He expects to feel some regret, some sense of a missed opportunity, at never finding out what was down the path he didn't take. At least, that's my reading and it has the advantage that regret does sometimes make people sigh, whereas lying doesn't.
That might work for weekend hacking sessions. But for serious projects, most of the development process is financed by businesses. Take a peek at the Linux contributors: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/12/linux-kernel...? but this isn't a sole case.
The way I remember it, the main thing it had going for it was that 'IBM' tag.

Its graphics were worse than that of the 4 year old Apple II, its speed was only a little higher (certainly way of from what the 1:4.77 clock speed ratio would make you think; both ran at around 1 MIPS).

Yes, it handled more than 64k RAM and was 16 bit-ish, but very impressive? Not in my memory.
Not really. The bulk of China's decline in birth rates can be ascribed to the same demographic cycle that all developed countries go through rather than to the one child policy. In fact the policy itself only affects a certain percentage of Chinese families in the first place.

Also, paying people to have kids hasn't done much when other countries have tried it, and I doubt China's luck will be any better.
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Perfect score with brainfuck, that's pretty funny.
It would be good to have more I/O API calls available that don't require as much copying but so far there simply aren't any such APIs that are mature and stable. POSIX AIO is only supported in a very limited way; on Linux it only works for files, not sockets. splice() only works between files/pipes and TCP sockets but not Unix domain sockets. Etc etc.
This is more of a commentary on the kind of people that use node.js than anything else.
My gut reaction is rather the opposite - I think he is right to say he'll write what he wants.

I doubt he has to stoop so low as to speculate by hyping stock he owns. On the other hand, if he thinks some company is really cool, why shouldn't he allowed to invest in it? It's like if I discover a really cool new algorithm, why shouldn't I take advantage of it in my next project? It seems dumb to arbitrarily suppress knowledge.

I also doubt that in general the "insider trading" laws are very effective - I suppose if you play the stock market, you just have to take it into account somehow.
Arrington: "...I was tired of our endless tech problems, our inability to find enough talented engineers who wanted to work, ultimately, on blog and CrunchBase software."

I'm sorry, but why does Le Kingmaker have so much trouble finding help? This sounds like a lie, but then again maybe he just doesn't pay very well for "talented" engineers. Sheesh, he's not running Booz Allen Hamilton, it's a CMS. A guy in Arrington's position has no excuse for these kinds of problems.

His going Palin means nothing to me and it sounds like he's on a narcissistic bender (for the past 3 years). If he flames out, so what? Some other Scoblite will come in and take his place just fine. Not sure what MG and some of the others would do without Arrington's ass-umbrella, though.

Hey, but you know, good for him for being a pain in AOL's ass. They've earned it. Maybe next time though he'll get acquired by a company that matters and his nutkicks will make a real difference. I guess now we have evidence that Techcrunch sold somewhere north of "fuck you money."

What did I say when the acquisition was announced? TC is going to become the TMZ of tech. I don't watch TMZ.
Indeed. Well, I'm not going to be able to create a good argument because mine is also based on the people at Oxford (and Cambridge) that I've met and how they've acted, too. (It could just be that I only meet certain kinds of people?) However, I suspect the author of this articles is speaking falsely because it doesn't match with the reality I've seen/heard. You have some of the brainiest people in the UK there and you expect me to believe that it always comes down to talk?

For instance, my brother comes back from Oxford and I see the amount of work he brings back with him. He reads and writes more in one term than many other University's expect from their students in a few years... There are folders and folders of notes proving the workload. The reading lists that he has been provided have not been finished. This is because they're pages long and it is impossible to finish them in the time they are given. He often spends full days revising or reading, and especially now that is exam time he gives himself very few hours to relax. Of course there is a mix of people: some that literally work from 8AM till midnight and others that somehow seem to mix this with being a socialite (perhaps those people don't do any work and just buddy up to the professors by telling them that they do no work!? To me, that sounds bizarre.) Despite the different kinds of people that are there I think it is disingenuous for somebody with a relative that goes there to argue that workaholic study is not encouraged. I have seen the opposite; I have seen people under way too much stress and pressure to succeed and work hard.

Okay, not very nuanced but maybe you see why I call it bullshit.
It's just super lame. tlrobinson has been hating on #nodejs for a while because it went against some of work he put into CommonJS.

It's really sad to see someone trying to derail an effort like this over some petty personal vendetta.
Ahhh meta analysis; the funniest comment I have read on HN for weeks.
That is utter nonsense!

There is not the slightest difference between natural and synthetic fuels. Either one can be toxic or not.

And good luck even defining "natural". Crude oil is natural - so I guess it gets a free pass? Uranium is natural too.
What about the open letters directed at Larry Page, such as http://dearlarrypage.com
Does this mean that there's a business here - kind of like a reverse groupon?

A group of people want X (digital content), and each will pay whatever they want to for it. Fulfillment is more likely the larger the "pot" becomes, and it's an all-out competition to see who wins the pot.

Any ideas for a tweaking of this business model that makes more sense?
Basically, the 2 most hated languages on HN are the 2 most popular for the Google Code Jam?
Props to the befunge coder as well
Being overly obsessed with secrecy is bad, though.
While it doesn't have the demo or Coffeescript code, I found the wikipedia page much easier to comprehend what the algorithm actually does. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony_search
But that just delegates the problem to the gateway. My personal experience with these guys let's me assume the worst. E.g. not being able and willing to only send me confidential information with signed mail and similar things.

But somebody stores the CC-data, and I wonder why that can't be an encrypted storage only the CC-card-companies can decrypt. Of course this would need some protocol, but can it be so hard (especially when that much is at stake?)
Does it make any sense at all to project 100 years into the future? Like Nigeria, do you really keep growing from 150 to 750 million people in a linear fashion?
I am glad they are testing making all the description (also website urls) in grey leaving only the title in blue. I've found it a bit hard to quickly glance through all the results with urls in green and additional links also in blue.
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It's funny, but this is the opposite of what happened during the 1950s space race. Russia, having less cash to spend, contracted work out various bidders, whereas america established the massively centralized NASA.
>I highly doubt that all those men will be satisfied with sexbots, no matter how realistic the Japanese will have made them by then.

It doesn't matter if they're satisfied or not, so long as they don't become criminal or violent. Porn and video games seem to be pretty good at distracting sexless men from more destructive pursuits, let alone sexbots.

Don't get me wrong, the gender imbalance is going to make life pretty awful for Chinese men, but I think the vast majority of those men will suffer quietly. The effect on the culture is going to be more subtle than what some people are envisioning.
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Тези диети често са твърде ограничени от към основни хранителни вещества, като протеини, желязо и калций. Консумирането на по-малко от 800 калории не увеличава количеството загубени килограми и освен това не е здравословно.
B-Trees, large volumes of data and branching factor
The preferred solution would probably be an internal Jabber/XMPP solution run within and by your own company that you controlled access to so that your communications (between employes or customers) don't run through another company and you can develop all sorts of nice little utilities that your employees can interact with through the protocol (like, access to general bug# information through simple queries).

I would seriously question the integrity of any serious company's IT department if they just had everyone use AIM (the proprietary branded IM service -- not IM in general).
I'm not sure what you mean, are you saying one can't make money using GPL software? Are you saying programmers can't charge for their labor? What message are you referring to?

I see many successful businesses, for example IBM, making money hand over fist using Linux. Linux of course is "free software".
Maybe when you typed 'sudo passwd', which created the root password. Just as in Ubuntu the root user exists, the account is merely locked (see 'man passwd', -l option)
From what I've read v5 is affected but not the older, good one. Needs confirmation though.
I've been using PwdHash for a while now, and I'm really happy with it. Their site lists extensions for Firefox and Chrome which work great. I'm also unfamiliar with their actual algorithm, but there looks to be more info on their project page.
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I'm sure I've seen this a few times before. Google showed up this from 2008: http://www.fossfactory.org/
That data-retention law is for the entire European Union.

6 months is the EU minimum, but for some reason the Netherlands decided to require triple that. I bet some idiot politician thought it must be "extra secure" ... :-/
I would find this comment shocking and insulting if weren't trotted out so often.

One might argue with Stallman's ideas, but he walks the talk and he sticks to his guns.
You can have separate addresses (accounts) for every transaction, which makes tracking much harder (not impossible). Oh, you can also launder your bitcoins. :-)
See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Anonymity
Wow, that slowed my dual quad core system with 12gb of RAM and a 2gb ATI down to about 5 FPS.
I think the effect is more significant at Oxbridge though. At Oxbridge you have "supervisions" or "tutorials" as an undergrad. These consist of a 1-on-1 lesson with a fellow or grad student where you are questioned mercilessly on every section of your essay or problem set for an hour. They ask you about every single sentence or step in your solutions. You have to prepare carefully, and even then you have to learn to wing it, because they're going to find flaws you didn't know existed. Given that there is no-one else to back you up or interject with an answer, if you don't learn to wing it quickly, you're screwed.

Oh, and most of this article about Oxbridge is complete crap. I'm working 10 hours a day for 6 days a week in order to prepare for my exams this term at Cambridge, and I'm one of the lighter workers (including English/Classics students). I've never been offered sherry (though I did get some wine at the end of last term), and the interview process is nothing like he described. It's bloody intense. I had 2 interviews and 2 tests in a day and felt like I didn't answer a single question correctly.

As someone else mentioned, if prospective applicants take this article at face value they're in for a nasty shock.
We use unquoted attributes at Google sometimes. It's for bandwidth/latency-saving reasons. They're usually limited to literal template text (i.e. class names, width/height attributes, etc.) and not user-generated text.
definitely, both worth reading also especially for the historical context. I found the whole section on the Symbolics machine quite interesting as I was working on one at the time and was completely unaware at what was happening at the Mit lab.
Posted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2505763
The transactions are pseudonymous - a public key of each participant is recorded, and world readable. The public key doesn't have to be connected to a real world identity. An attacker could analyse the transaction history to infer the identity controlling a given key, depending on how it was reused/managed.
'Large part'? Numbers, please.

C-14 is not much contained in old fossil fuels due to radioactive decay. The literature also discusses the Suess effect, which shows that coal power plant reduced the effect of C-14.
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I think there's a solid perspective here which merits anyone to look at and judge against their own beliefs.

However, it's easy to argue that there's no evidence, when you simply sidestep a damning piece of evidence that doesn't mold itself to your views. This is highly selective, and it throws the whole piece into question for me. Specifically, I'm talking about the confession, which to Chomsky, we should simply ignore because Chomsky knows he was just boasting.

Chomsky presents a lot of things as facts, which are opinions, while condemning others of doing the same thing.

It doesn't make him less wrong that others are doing it. But it certainly doesn't make him right.
I don't know Node, but I know all major browsers support <audio> elements, so there must be audio support in V8 somewhere, right?
C(++)/Java are really popular in most coding competitions, but I don't know if that necessarily says anything. Recently a very decent competition (anyone remember?) was won by someone coding in Pascal.
No. It possibly can demotivate people (is that all I'm worth?; since I started doing this for money it's not fun any more) http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/motivation.html

However, I think it's a great idea in principle. There's been the "street performer protocol" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_pledge_system#Street_... (which didn't seem to take off); and http://www.kickstarter.com (which did, but it's mostly not software).
Very interesting article! But it kind of undervalue Nuance as if it is really in need of iOS to expand. But Nuance is already used by many companies that embeds it in cars around the world to perform voice recognition on phonebook contacts or music.
Blackberry app store comes to UAE.
Sony could offer a license where they agree never to remove those features in the future from that line of devices.
That's actually in the browser/rendering part of the browser (i.e., in WebKit), not in the javascript engine. So, no.