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> It should throw an error, not return false. This goes back to PHP's "try as hard as possible to run the script" mentality.

I don't disagree. Although I think this goes towards PHP weak typing not it's try as hard to run the script.

> It's not that he doesn't know those terms; it's that he thinks that's how they should work.

He thinks they shouldn't exist at all. Which is one philosophy but that's not a valid criticism.

> I'll tell you right now, I work in PHP five days a week, and I agree with most all of eevee's points.

Even where he clearly doesn't know what he's talking about and didn't try the code he was supposedly saying doesn't work?

Those who don't know their tools are bound to have more problems or believe things that are just wrong.
What's most interesting to me is that my biggest markets (North America, English-speaking Europe, and Australia) are all still IE strongholds.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201203-201205-...
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Shouldn't that title read "Cyberdyne Systems X-47B"?
I was specifically referring to this: assassinates prominent citizens of allied nations inside allied nations

There's many criticisms that can be found for nearly all superpower nations, but I'm not aware of the US having a history of "assassinating citizens". Unless collateral damage is now the same as an "assassination."
I think that both of these (plus a number of effects yet unnamed) affect it.

One of his links, the by version: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combine...

Has some interesting information that I think sheds more light on this:

IE8 and IE7 both have weekend dips. (IE6's usage is too small to matter anymore). (IE8 dips almost 25% of it's total, IE7 significantly dips almost 50% but it's already a tiny amount).

However, Chrome, IE9, Safari iPad all have weekend peaks. Even Safari itself has an almost unnoticeable uptick on the weekend.

This leads me to believe that almost 4% of all internet users use IE7/8 at work and use to Chrome/IE9/iPad on the weekend.
So before anyone else points this out - yes our app is currently hosted in a single zone, and no we do not plan on keeping it this way! (we're currently in early Alpha)
>But on the weekend they go home and use what they want, and that is clearly chrome

At least some of that traffic comes from preinstalled OEM copies, which Google pays the OEMs for having Chrome preinstalled as the default browser.

Also, it comes bundled with things like Java, Acrobat Reader,CCleaner, Divx Player, RealPlayer, Avast and Flash etc., so if people just click next, which most tend to do, they end up with Chrome on their machine. I think it used to come with Skype before Microsoft bought it.

http://mobilesociety.typepad.com/mobile_life/2011/09/outrage...

http://www.ghacks.net/2012/02/26/avast-7-will-install-google...

http://www.osnews.com/story/25184/Adobe_Tricks_Users_into_Do...

http://www.salsitasoft.com/2011/09/23/wonder-how-chrome-is-g...

Not to mention heavily pushing Chrome on Google properties like the search page, Youtube, Gmail etc. etc.

Google chat once hung in my Gmail tab in Opera, and when I reloaded it I got the message which said something like "Slow browser? Switch to Chrome.."

So Google's effectively buying marketshare with their search profits to cut out the middlemen like Firefox and Opera. Browsers like Firefox, Opera do not have the resources to push their browser this way and get people to try them.
> (And aside from ads and personal info, browsers don't make money in a direct way.)

Not entirely true. The Chrome Webstore makes some money, though admittedly not much.
"Coupling" has always been a particularly weak word for the software problems to which it's been applied, IMO. After all, when you connect 2 Legos together you couple them.

"Complicate" was a candidate, but is decidedly unsatisfying. It just means "make complex", saying nothing more about how; nor about what it means to be complex. For many people, simply adding more stuff is to "complicate", and that was another presumption I wanted to get away from. There is also some intention in "complicate", as in, "to mess with something", vs the insidious complexity that arises from our software knitting.

I wanted to get at the notion of folding/braiding directly, but saying "you braided the software, dammit!" doesn't quite work :)
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You think Google+ has 75 million active users. :-|
Love AWS. We're using Heroku and it's been pretty painful over the last month or so. However, it's super easy. At some point it they should have an SLA, as there underlying hosting (aka AWS) provide one with credits for outages. The number one feature for Heroku that would help is being able to specify multiple zones or regions when making new apps.
> He is disrupting two very difficult industries.

If you don't count his earlier internet work, he's still active in 3 difficult industries. He's also chairman of SolarCity, a solar panel installer with some innovative financing options. I think he had the idea for the company and provided funding, and his cousins (?) are running it.
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Unfortunately, there's no real way to make JS prototypes easy, simply because it's a poorly-designed system with way too many "wait, what?" moments.

If you want classical inheritance, there are many tiny JS libraries that will give it to you. If you want classical prototypes, there are also JS libraries that will give that to you. Or you can write your own.

But trying to make JS behave as either one by hand will just waste your time and frustrate you.

(note: this is a good article for explaining the underlying system behind JS prototypes, I just don't recommend that you interact with said system unless you have to)
On the other hand, the only region where Chrome is not leading MSIE, is North America.

In Europe, Chrome has a small lead. In Asia, a medium lead. In South America, a large lead. In Africa, both are dwarfed by Firefox.

One possible unfounded speculation would be that it is connected to the age of the widespread adoption of the Internet. In North America, most users have likely been on the net for a long time and therefore use older, more established technology. In India, Internet access is likely a new thing to many people (and businesses), and they are therefore less "invested" in older programs.
Super high tech, advanced-robot fighter jet... not able to retract landing gear? (from video).
Did that bother anyone else?
I seem to recall it expires at a certain date and would have to be renewed.

Today they do have a case to argue that their OS dominance doesn't guarantee browser dominance. It is very different from when this complaint was made as there is healthy competition without the browser select screen. But personally I would like to see it stay.
The problem is not that capital gains are taxed at lower rates; the problem is that the rate differential between capital gains and ordinary income is currently too large. It incentivizes fake investment (in speculative investments) rather than savings (ordinary income) or businesses (which earn ordinary income).

Higher interest rates will help increase savings, but it will do little to address the incentivization of speculative markets caused by the tax rate differential. The solution is to increase interest rates and reduce the tax rate differential (either by increasing capital gains taxes or lowering income taxes).
I highly recommend this course https://class.coursera.org/algo-2012-002/class/index
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It was when I first started reading the comments.
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Only function pointer types. An indirect function call on some architecture, for example, could require that when one makes an indirect call one sets up several registers in addition to jumping to a particular location in memory, and none of the registers that need to be set up can be derived from the jump target. So in practice your function pointers would need to actually be structures containing those register values and the jump target. Or you might need to pass around a tuple of target and calling convention, although the C standard limits the ways you could implement that (namely by requiring that function pointers cast to and from other function pointer types will compare as equal, and will still work when they are cast to the correct type.)
I think they were basing it more on the whole "Renaissance man + entrepreneur" thing rather than personality.
That was... uneventful. Clicked the link, read the first paragraph, scrolled to the bottom, paused for 5 seconds, got offered no follow-up action, left.
It's because biologists, like social scientists, are too busy massaging their data until it yields the intended result.
Some of the mods must have moved over from Wikipedia or StackExchange. This title-changing/article-killing nonsense wasn't a problem until a few weeks ago.
Which is why I brought it up, it's hilarious. I thought people were just trolling at first but man, the first time I saw it, it made my day. Relating something like "God" with natural disasters. I love how people come up with that kind of stuff.
Irreparable harm seems to imply that this could hurt Apple in a major way.

But it's easy to see what game-changing technology is. Look at what people want in a phone:

http://mashable.com/2011/10/03/iphone-5-wish-list-starts-wit...

There's tens of similar surveys published online. None of them include "search-as-u-go". In fact Apple doesn't seem to think that it's that big enough of a deal to promote. They advertise tens of features & this isn't one of them. And that's because it's expected (everyone uses it already) or it's not that important to a buyer when choosing a phone to purchase.

It's just not reasonable to assume that the "search-as-u-go" technology could give any sort of significant advantage to Samsung to be the cause of a shift in market share or something with similarly unascertainable consequences, which is precisely what the ruling of irreparable damage relies on.
You reminded me of this quote:

"It has always appalled me that really bright scientists almost all work in the most competitive fields, the ones in which they are making the least difference. In other words, if they were hit by a truck, the same discovery would be made by somebody else about 10 minutes later."
-Aubrey de Grey
try chrome for iOS you can share your open tabs with all your devices
That, or Ramuh? Or Quezacotl?
sounds hard
I would think this is going to increase the push into cyber warfare. In the same way we saw a done being hijacked recently through GPS I would think taking more complete control of your enemies drones, or at the least disabling their sensors and ability to operate will become a big military push.
(To whoever downvoted this, the questions were meant to be rhetorical)
I don't know about others but I really like the two-finger double-tap to zoom (pinching too) and the reader mode (and reading list if you use multiple devices with safari). These things seem standard on mobiles but still haven't made it to all desktop browsers. Spotlight history integration is also useful as well, though it could be improved.

Otherwise, it's fast enough and supports most new features just fine. Developer tools support isn't quite as nice as Chrome but I usually use Safari until I need Chrome or hit a site that needs flash (since I don't have it installed on my system).
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Your disdain for poor people is shocking. People need to eat to live and in most places in the U.S. food is taxed in a regressive way. The proportion of tax poorer people pay for food is much higher than for the very wealthy.

One must look at all tax receipts and not concentrate on income taxes. The very wealthy are not paying enough to sustain the system that they benefit from.

I did read the article. It wasn't clear if capital gains taxes were included. Capital gains are not income as far I know. I mentioned my ignorance on this point. Clearly I indicated reading the article. Nitpicking on this is also a red herring. The point remains that total tax receipts is the relevant statistic in comparison to total wealth. The top 20% of the U.S. control 93% of the financial wealth in the country. I don't think they are paying 93% of the total tax burden. Taxes are also at a 50 year low and so it's clear that the very wealthy can pay more and should.
While what you say was certainly true when AWS launched, today it is not. Much of Amazon is hosted in an EC2 VPC connected to the traditional prod network. This includes all of retail website and (today) many of the services that power said website.

Other AWS services are also used frequently and heavily. AWS use is strongly encouraged for any new projects.
DO NOT USE FOR ANYTHING IMPORTANT!!!!! CRYPTOBYTE IS NOT SECURE AT THIS TIME!!!!!

The developer says:

CryptAByte uses public-key encryption just
like HTTPS/SSL and OpenPGP/PGP. The algorithms
used are RSA for key pairs, AES 256 to encrypt
messages and files, and SHA 256 for hashing. The
servers hosting this application support can encrypt
2.1 GB of data per second using the latest Intel CPU’s
with AES support built into the chipset.

Server-side encryption means that the people running the server have access to the plaintext. The web interface simply does a PUT request that sends the plaintext to the server.

Another problem is that they are storing your private RSA key on their server. When you ask to retrieve your messages, you do an AJAX POST request, giving a token to identify they key, and your password. Presumably, the key is encrypted using the password.

If their servers are compromised, whether by hackers or by search warrant, the security of your private key depends on how good your password is. They are pitching this as bringing good security to the masses. THE MASSES SUCK AT CHOOSING GOOD PASSWORDS. If you want to bring good security to the masses, it is ludicrous to make the security of the system rest on the ability of the masses to pick a high entropy password.

In defense of the developer, it is quite possible he knows all this. In the interview the article mentions (http://libertarianstandard.com/2012/06/07/exclusive-intervie...), it is clear that this is an experiment at this stage, and it is quite possible that the developer has simply not gotten around to addressing those issues yet. The author of the article clearly has no technical knowledge of cryptography whatsoever, and so may have not understood that CryptAByte is an early stage exploration of concepts at this point.

I've got some experience designing a similar product, and I'm pretty sure that when he does get around to dealing with those issues he's going to find that it cannot be done without abandoning the idea of doing at all on the web. As far as I can see, to be secure even with users who do not pick strong passwords, you need access to the local filesystem and to a local source of cryptographically secure random numbers.

From the article (so blame the article author, not the developer):

But it gets more brilliant. How can you know that you can
really trust the service, or that Veksler himself works for
the FBI or the like? Well, you don’t have to trust him. Veksler
is making the entire apparatus completely open source so that
anyone can inspect the code. He does nothing on the site that is
not wholly open to the world, so that way anyone can know everything
that is going on in the engine room but no one, not even the service
owner, can know what is being communicated.

Pure bullshit. The user has no way of knowing that the code ACTUALLY RUNNING on the site is the same as the code that is released as open source.
The power grid has coped with much bigger changes than the gradual switch to electric car will do. Just the advent of computers, big screen TVs, air conditioners, etc.. Had put a lot more load on the grid than EVs, especially since most will charge at night, off peak.

In other words: No, the scenario you describe won't happen.
IE has been losing market share almost every month, every year, for as long as I've been in the web business, which was 2004 when it's market share was 95%+.
You can attempt a lot more of the type of mission in which both your target and your aircraft are destroyed.

I've heard folks who work on drones say that once you've fired all your munitions, you have one munition left.
I usually used reading list to share across devices but it did take far too long for Apple to add the live tabs feature. Definitely a feature I wish I had up until developer betas awhile ago.
240 volt at 40 amps is the same as an electric oven, so I'd say almost all of them.
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My concept of "civil" might differ from yours. On my view, it's uncivilized to treat barbaric ideas and behavior as if they are civilized, because that only fosters barbarity.

Many people are confused on this point. They think that you should be polite as an absolute (even while they claim that "there are no absolutes"), but usually they are hypocrites about it, because they become quite rude if you disagree with them about their "be polite all the time" zealotry, which reveals what is really behind their pretense at being polite.
This is overkill for someone looking to grow into intermediate relational database concepts.
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just curious, what browser and on what OS are you using? I was able to see the action they say...
The blocks are already supported in plain C mode as long as you enable the Clang extension. You just use, for example, block_Copy(aBlock) instead of [aBlock copy]. Apple framed it as a C feature in its proposal for standardization (because Objective-C doesn't have a real standard AFAIK).
The top 20% of the U.S. control 93% of the financial wealth of the country. I don't believe they pay 93% of the total tax burden.
Here is a compilation of "first drive" videos of the Model S, as well as a list of initial review articles:

http://www.treehugger.com/cars/jurys-tesla-model-s-rocks.htm...
Hipmunk is good but not the best. Price and choice is still a huge factor for many consumers and Hipmunk still falls short on that front many a time.

Each aggregator has it's own unique advantages which have to be considered... Google is super fast with amazing flexible fare options, Kayak often finds amazing hacker fares and Bing's price predictions are very valuable. Combined they would make a formidable site...

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Must be the same storm that took several of my trees down (east coast Virginia USA) last night. It was a violent storm. 90 MPH winds. Made 80 foot tall oaks bend like straws and they were almost touching the ground. I spent the morning running the chainsaw just to clear the downed trees from the driveway.

AEP (local power company) says about 65% of customers in this area are w/o power. May be days before it's fully restored. Hope no one from the HN community got hurt.

Edit: I posted this from a computer in town. No power at my place so I can't respond to follow-up posts.
Sounds good, but what uniquely identifies a file? Right now it's path + name.

If I have two files with the same name, one tagged A and the other tagged A and B, are they the same file or not? What if I add a tag of B to the first one?

A directory hierarchy makes this unambiguous.
...you have not provided evidence for your contention that the middle class has shrunk solely because people have moved "from 65k to 85k", you have shown only that they have not dropped below 25k.

True - $65k -> 85k was an example. Let me be more precise: the middle class has only shrunk because people have moved from X to Y, where $25k < X < $75k and Y > $75k. I.e., no one became poorer, and some people became richer.

The facts -- income stagnation and wealth inequality -- are in direct opposition to your "the disappearance of the middle class is fine, they're just getting rich" fantasy. People have either gone to exceptionally above 85k, are stagnant, or are dropping towards the lower end.

No one is dropping towards the lower end. The number of people at the lower end (below $25k) is the same (about 25%). Since the number of people between $25k and $75k shrank, it must be because the number of people above $75k increased. That's just basic arithmetic.

You still have yet to show how people's income exceeding $75k causes any harm at all, short of vague hints that it's almost impossible for them to spend anything like what they make.
Thank you joshcrews. I will look into this right away. Sounds useful.
My bad. I watched the first 2005 lecture on YouTube last week and then noticed 2008 when I went to the Open Courseware page. Hadn't quite made it to lecture 2 yet. Here's Stanford's course & videos on Coursera:

https://class.coursera.org/algo-2012-002/class/index
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Do you actually know what the margin is or are you just making an assumption? There are certainly posh places that use cheap ingredients and overcharge to get a high margin, but from what I understand, most places can't get away with that. Margins are actually quite low because of the competitiveness of the restaurant industry.
I would imagine it's designed to take a lot of g's. Not for dogfighting, but for carrier landings, which can be pretty rough. I know that involves completely different stresses on the airframe than maneuvering, but Google up some of the drop tests they put other aircraft through. Intense stuff!
It's not as simple as using Heroku, but it's not that hard. If you don't deploy very often - using baked AMI's is the easiest solution. Automating your build / deployment process to do this worth the effort in the longer run - especially if you want to scale up and down fast.
My point isn't that electric cars would shift a lot of energy consumption onto the grid. They will, but that isn't the problem. The problem is that there's nothing special about petroleum that leads us to start wars over it. The wars are over energy, and whatever energy source you use, politics and warfare will follow close behind.
Who are you talking about?

The article posted here is about why we do need files, as is the article this is a reaction to (the filepicker.io post).
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Firefox 3.5.6? Holy cow. It probably doesn't run well in NCSA Mosaic either. Is there no newer version you can run? I find at least 4 is necessary to avoid huge with the modern Web most of the time.
I didn't refer to the poor as a drain on society. Yummyfajitas did. Perhaps you meant to critique some other aspect of what I wrote?
Several hospitals in this area are running on generators right now b/c of these storms. They are flying in additional generators too. It was pretty bad. Six deaths in VA so far directly attributed to the storms.
That's exactly why they offer multiple zones. You can't make a single zone of anything 100% fault-tolerant.