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It's a neat toy, but is pretty much useless for real work when compared to apple's built-in terminal. Seems to not correctly support PS1s, at least in the case of zsh. I'd be surprised by anyone that would actually pay $10 for this, seems like $1 would be a better price point for a toy app.
On most binary builds of GC i have seen in the wild, interior pointers are enabled (and at least since GC 6.0, this is the default in GC's Makefile)
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Yeah, that's a day on a 12-core system.
And since he's dead, he's probably not eligible for much anymore.
You could say that it's ironic.
"I didn't secure my Wi-Fi and other had access to it." - sounds pretty familiar to me.
I don't take this to imply "forever" necessarily. The grudge can end when the (alleged) wrongdoer pays for his deeds.

Regardless of its actual effectiveness, it's a useful deterrent, along the lines of massive retaliation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_retaliation).
There's only 24 frames in a second for production-caliber film. They also throw an obscene number of cores at the problem. On a 12 core system you can render that out in a day. If you have 24 of those systems in a rack you can pump out one second of film time per day.

That means in a month you can deliver 30 seconds of footage. If you have a five minute sequence, get ten racks like that and you can turn it around inside a month.

Also, since when is 288 hours even close to a year?
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An industry party at an industry event is a commercial event. You can be sure it will look that way on their taxes.
Market's don't work that way. Developers are worth different amounts of money to different companies. Google gains something like 1 million in value per year per developer and they would still be profitable if the market rate for a talented Dev was 600k/year. Most companies are not that flexible and there are a lot more dev's out than just what Google needs which drives down salary's until some companies barely breakeven by adding staff and some dev's move on to better paying opportunity's.
TIL people will fork out good money to play the n-back tasks we torture people with in the scanner.
Daniel is Israeli, actually (as was his original YC batch cofounder). But yes, they've funded foreign teams before.
I think that might be an open legal question, if you use the word pre-order all over your Kickstarter page you might be creating a situation where you're on the hook, legally speaking for fulfilling those orders.
[Sencha] Ext JS commercial license is $329 per dev. The $600 includes optional tech support. There's also a $995 that includes the Designer UI builder, Sencha Touch support & Sencha Touch Charts.
Private prosecution in the US only appears to be permitted in the state of Virginia, and although IANAL, I think that even there, it would only apply to state statues and not federal ones. But you could petition the Attorney General's office to prosecute, and/or write to your Senators/Representative to ask them to advocate for a criminal prosecution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prosecution
Ohhhh, so it's okay when webkit does it... just not IE.
If the laws of physics as we understand them hold true, then by definition we (or any other observer anywhere) are at the centre of the universe they see, insomuch as the further away we look, the further back in time we look, in all directions, back to the beginning... or something along those lines. Unless we find we can circumvent the rules we know now, or that they don't hold true, anything outside our light-cone, outside our observable universe by definition cannot be shown to exist.
No; the vtable normally contains a read-only list of member function pointers, shared across all objects of that type. Objects need to be kept alive solely through the interior pointer to the (compiler-implemented) field (itself a pointer to a vtable) inside the object.

C++ terms:

class C : public A, public B {};

Typical class layout, in C terms:

struct A
{
// exists assuming virtual methods on A
// the data this vtable points to is read-only but C++ ctor semantics requires
// updating vtable pointer during inherited constructor calls
A_vtable *vtable;
// A data
};
struct B
{
B_vtable *vtable;
};
struct C
{
C_vtable *vtable; // incorporates A's vtable
// struct A a; data members of A but without vtable
struct B b;
};

A pointer to an instance of C, but typed as B * , will point at the structure contained in C; it will be an interior pointer. There's no reason to expect that there will be another live pointer of type C * pointing to the object; a pointer of type C * needs to be sufficient. Typecasting back down the hierarchy to C * again (with dynamic_cast) will need to adjust the pointer to the start of the object; this normally requires RTTI, and may be done by e.g. storing the offset of the vtable inside the object in the vtable itself (perhaps at a negative offset).

The above is all implementation dependent, of course, but what I've described above maps almost exactly to how Delphi implements COM interfaces (where A would be the base class and B would be a pure virtual class, or interface - no data members).
Really looking forward to checking this out once it's back online - a marketing site with a community even half as strong as HNs would be absolutely great.
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Sure, but that's not what I was arguing against; my point is that just because that's how market works it doesn't mean you can't say there's not a "shortage" of some skill. If the only companies that can hire engineers have to be able to pay them $600k a year, wouldn't you reasonably say that there's a shortage of engineers? I sure would. If supply was so large that great engineers were working for $40k per year, wouldn't you suggest that there was a glut/oversupply of engineers?

In either case, saying there's a "shortage" or a "glut" isn't saying anything about supply and demand, it's implying some sort of course of action that you should take: i.e. go study engineering (yourself) or promote engineering schools (as a society), or go study something else/promote other types of skills.

I'm not arguing over market economics, I'm arguing that just because supply and demand work like that it doesn't mean you can just dismiss anyone who talks of there being a "shortage."
They're regulated by your elected officials then right? call up your local representatives and discuss your concerns. Seriously. I mean it's not likely to get you any immediate results - but if nobody complains, why would any elected official do anything about it?
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Fifty years? Not even.

288 hours means it takes 17,280,000ms to render one frame of footage. To render one on-screen frame of a game running at 60FPS you have 16.6ms to render the frame. This is a difference of about 2^20, or twenty doublings in speed.

Assuming CPU power can be doubled every 18 months, which still seems to be the case even if the power of individual cores is not increasing as quickly as it used to be, then you're looking at 18 times 20 months, or 360 months. This is fifteen years.

It's also the case that today's systems have a lot more than one CPU. If you take a consumer system that already has four cores and a GPU to boost performance even further, that could shave two to five years off the time.
Most use the visa waiver, it's a slightly grey area if doing YC is valid under the visa waiver (business meetings, raising investment, coding for fun are all legal - but coding for money isn't. YC falls in the graze zone between them).
Have you seen FlightCaster?
CSS animations and transforms were released along with formal specs. The Webkit developers read mailing lists, hang out on IRC, etc. If anyone thought these were underspecified or ambiguous, they could easily ask for answers or adjustments to the spec. It’s not like the Webkit folks were trying to hide anything.
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It is correct that W3C certainly lacks the ability to coordinate different vendors. But is it good to abandon the coordination process altogether? No, the problem here is a standardization process and not a coordination process. You at least have to coordinate vendors to maintain the very baseline, no matter Web standard is means or not. (If you don't agree on this, you'd be better looking at the past...) Someone should really bring up the better alternative than Web standard, and not only criticize it.
> No self-respecting prosecutor would even consider bringing charges where only a one-time incident is involved and where the alleged perpetrator claims (as here) that the incident was inadvertent

Do we live in the same United States?
In general, yes. In this specific scenario, without the obfsproxy bridges, people in Iran may not be able to connect to TOR at all, in which case an exit node won't help them very much.
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Welcome to the 'standards' world. It sucks big time.

I've participated in standards in both POSIX working groups (network file systems, network apis), IEEE working groups (PCI express Advanced Switching), IETF working groups (RPC and XDR, heck I'm the 'owner' of port 111!), various CAD standards groups, and a whole bunch of things that never even rose to a level of relevance to get published.

If standards bodies are effective, they take away power from companies to distort the playing field, if they are ineffective they allow folks to distort independently. So large companies send representatives to standards bodies to distort them in favor of their own company (Rambus is the canonical example) and other companies send representatives to make them ineffective so that they won't level the current field (Microsoft and XML is the canonical exemplar there).

The bottom line is that Standards bodies whine that nobody lets them do their job, and they tolerate members who actively prevent them from making progress. I have long since given up feeling any sympathy for them whatsoever.
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Made my day a little better. Thanks.
I don't think there's a reason to bake futures/promises into the language. Once you've got coroutines (generators here), people can build the abstractions around them that they like.
Sidenote 1: Turing was a world-class runner. Not data, just interesting.

Sidenote 2: This page appears to be as much a product advertisement as news/research.
Click the top link (NodeSummit)

The Google redirect is landing on a page with malware by the looks of things.

Edit: Picture of the page it redirects to ...

http://i.imgur.com/EgwKs.png
I'm curious: What are your other two favorites?
But was it set up so that the person could participate in the dropbox affiliate program according to dropbox's affiliate ToS? I'm not saying right or wrong here, but I don't see the evil part yet on the part of the poster.

You run a site, you offer stuff to people to go out and market your product for you, they do so - as long as they didn't do it by creating fake accounts, what's the problem?

is affiliate marketing banned in googles ToS?
Hey there.

"make it a guy, because singling out a women because of her sex in a mostly male environment is not cool"

Yep, you got it right. Good comedy always aims upwards. Women put up with this shit a lot, so it's not funny.
"So many web standards advocates will cry foul the moment any vendor tries something out that has not already been standardized."

While some misinformed people might make this argument, I don't think you'll find anyone making it at Mozilla or other groups that actually participate in web standards development. We all know that the normal process is to implement first and then standardize. That's what Mozilla has done in the past with features like Geolocation and WebGL, and it's what we're doing today with new work like Audio Data, Game Pad, and Telephony. In fact, the W3C process requires two interoperable implementations before a specification can reach the Recommendation stage.

But there's a difference between a standard that is developed in the open, with the opportunity for all parties to provide feedback and influence development, and one that is developed and implemented in secret, and then deployed to production browsers and evangelized to content authors before anyone else has a chance to comment on it -- or even on whether the fundamental approach is a good idea. (And obviously these are two extreme ends of a spectrum, with a lot of gray area between them.)

The problem with many of Apple's "contributions" (and some of Google's) is that they never write specs for them or bring them to standards bodies. (This is the case for Aplle's -webkit-text-size-adjust.) In some cases they actively fight efforts to standardize them. (This is the case with Apple's touch events.) Or sometimes they do push specs to standards bodies, but only after a highly complex specification has been fully developed behind closed doors. (Google's Dart, NaCL, and Pepper have this problem to some extent.)

That's fine if what they really want is a proprietary ecosystem that works in their own browsers. But if they actually want these efforts to be part of the web, and if they want to be seen as stewards of an open web, then just implementing something is not enough. The web has lots of stakeholders, and the initial implementer needs to find a way to bring them to the table.
One difficulty comes of the income comes in one tax year (no deduction yet), and the deduction comes in the next tax year (might not have enough income to deduct again).

disclaimer: I am even less of an accountant, etc.
love the idea, really looking forward to it but... did you ask a marketer to decide what platform to built on? wordpress? really?? :-p
So you're not asking the question "What are the strongest moral arguments against piracy?", you're asking the question "What are the strongest moral arguments against piracy, if we all pretend to agree that a country which produces no art is bad, and we should therefore protect incentives for people to produce it?"

Firstly, that's a lot of assumptions to make, and to anyone who disagrees with them, any further discussion may be uninteresting.

Secondly, the assumptions are somewhat confused or ambiguous. "A country which produces no art is bad". What do you mean by "bad"? (And is there ever going to be any circumstance where a "country" never produces any art at all?) And what precisely do you mean by "art"? "We should therefore protect incentives?" Protect which "incentives"? Incentives provided by copyright laws as they exist right now? Natural incentives, like "I like painting"? Incentives like "200,000,000 people downloaded my art on the internet, which makes me happy to know they they all like my art, even though no one paid me"?

And if we can decide which incentives it is that need protecting, and that we _should_ protect them, are we agreed on _how_ we are going to protect them, or to what lengths we should go to protect them?

Conclusion: we will need to spend a lot of time discussing the premises of the question before we ever get to the point of answering the question itself.
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I imagine so as well, as to main copyright you need to show you're enforcing it.
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They already decided to use DRM. They use Steam. I'd be among the backers if I would get a simple standalone installer or even zip archive without any honest-customer-punishment.
I agree, and relevantly to this post it's a deep book on programming where algorithms and algorithm design do appear but aren't really central. They're an essential part of the toolbox but not the focus.
You can experiment yourself. There is an open source implementation of the tool, written in Python: http://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/

At least it will definitely help you with short term memory and focus.
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But if there's no standard, then how do you know which behavior to expect in the "global" case and which ones should be vendor-specific? And if only one browser experimentally implements a new feature, should you use the vendor-specific namespace for it, or hope that all future implementations in other browsers are the same?
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I am extremely excited for this. I have been wanting something like this for some time.
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Wouldn't sub-hacker-news threads for non-hackers defeat the purpose of it being part of hacker news in the first place?
No disrespect intended, but did you load test this app before launching it?
"Basically he's arguing that the browser vendors of today (not developers/users) are the gatekeepers of what new technologies can be tried."

Anyone's free to try things. But those things will never become a part of the web platform if other vendors don't think they will benefit from implementing them. The people who make the browsers are gatekeepers of what ends up in the browsers. That's not a statement about how things should or shouldn't be; it's just a tautology.

The job of anyone who wants to create a web standard is to accept that fact, not ignore it. Ignoring it leads to single-browser "standards", which may get adopted by developers but will not become part of the open, interoperable web platform.
The legal system suffers from sclerosis from all these laws being piled on top of each other. Lawmakers aren't interested in refactoring. :P
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I think this is a valid concern. It is very similar to ActiveX with Internet Explorer, and, with the browser share Chrome is gathering, it isn't unreasonable to see people focusing on that.

--BUT--

With ActiveX, there was no other way to accomplish the same task. With Dart versus JavaScript, I can't accomplish anything in Dart that I can't in JavaScript. And, even if I decided to use Dart for some reason, it would be idiotic of me not to provide a JS version for non-Chrome browsers.

What would be really nice (heck, even something a standards body should have done) is coming up with a standard byte-code for browsers, so I can use any language I want. JavaScript isn't good enough, because I want my sites to load faster, and parsing the code shouldn't have to happen every time somebody visits a page.
Prediction: tomorrow we'll see the front page full of "Hacker News for XYZ".
Sure, which is why you attack them too.
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We no longer like emails as much as we used to do. Why. This is because it takes lot of time and still the uncertainty stays with it.
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The legal implications would likely be tricky, especially between different countries, but IANAL so I won't comment on that.

I think one would have to be creative as to how to incentivize donations, but there are a number of things an individual could give back to a funder (perhaps a speaking commitment [e.g. a lecture], or something more sentimental like a postcard from the research area). Giving a portion of future patent royalties would be very interesting, but I'm sure there are some major legal considerations there..

Another idea would be to spend other people's money -- E.g. a charitable foundation would drop a sum of cash into the site that users would be able to spend on various research causes. Assuming one could get a charitable organization to be that risky..
Spatial reasoning is indeed correlated to mathematical talent, but from this study you cannot really conclude that running == better math. In any case, one more datum to the tons of evidence showing that exercise is good for you :-)
haha! nailed it exactly! I've done that flight (Portland to Amsterdam) a few times and it's right around 3-4 hours left that I hit the "are we there yet" moment.
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> I was unaware that a poll had been taken of all web developers asking whether they wanted Dart.

A few hours ago at JQuery UK someone asked Paul Irish what he thought of Dart. Then the whole room laughed. PI mentioned 'its complicated' and then that 'Dart has a place' and then everyone laughed again.
It doesn't really matter what the purpose of copyright was in the first place. History is interesting, but it doesn't determine our understanding in the present of what is moral and what is not moral.

Also, copyright is world-wide, so what it says in the US Constitution isn't all that interesting to anyone not in the US.

And when I say "irrelevant", I mean it is irrelevant to public debate. The copyright industry's side of the debate about copyright enforcement is mostly the following, based on what I called the "moral model":

* We created something
* We own what we created
* Someone is stealing it

This message can just be repeated over and over and over again. Someone's report that internet piracy might not reduce cinema takings completely fails to address the above moral claim.

So the report can be ignored, and the moral claim can be repeated again. And again.
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The real world still has clear causality. Just because the links of causes and effects (and the involved feedback processes) are often too complex for most people to follow does not mean that they are not there. You might as well say that because most people can't do calculus, calculus isn't really useful.
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I used to be the bug fixer guy. There was nothing worse to me than a blank file. There's something simple and focused and comfortable about fixing bugs for a lot of people. It does take creative, critical thinking to fix bugs it's different than creating something from square one.

With a bunch of practice I got to the point where I'm more or less equally comfortable in either role. I learned to apply principles and defined a process that works for me. I watched other people create. I had two really good mentors that showed a lot of patience coaching me through those moments of profound uncertainty that come with creating new things.

Very different skills but both are learnable.
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My Flickr daily stats reset at 4pm pst, not sure if that matches the "interestingness" day, but it seems likely.
Facebooks' analog lab has been around for quite a while. I think it's probably one of the best parts of Facebook, culturally, as a whole. It's a commitment to communication methods, whatever they may be.
Ah, thank you for taking the time to point that out to me. Very interesting and informative!
well, that too, of course. So Ubuntu rules anyway :)
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/schuyler/lockpicks-by-op... That is an example of the risk that people take when they fund a project.

Observe how it's fairly obvious from the original video and Kickstarter project that Schuyler Towne isn't exactly an experienced business guy and that these picks are nowhere near ready to actually be manufactured. Nonetheless, a lot of people (me included) contributed some money.

Well, two years later and still no picks, maybe they'll come eventually, maybe he'll never manage it. I rather suspect the latter, since he's blown through the available money and is nowhere near shipping. I'm not really bothered because that's the risk you take when you do speculative funding, but I'm not sure other backers understood that this was what they were doing.

Meanwhile there's a few people commenting on every one of his 60 or so updates who seem to have mistaken Kickstarter projects for Amazon pre-orders, having silly little fits about the money that was 'stolen' from them. Obviously it sucks that they're not getting what they wanted, but if you want a risk free transaction you're free to buy from Amazon.
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