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I made that statement without emperical evidence, since i consider it a logical implication.

Consider credit ratings: a few tiny nations have the highest ratings. But their combined assets represent nothing compared to the states. The US is rated lower, because the US is expected to fight its own fights. These tiny nations are rated higher, because the big guys are expected to cover their stability.

The same is true for my freedom: it is garantueed by the states, based on a sacrifice the people of my country would not make themselves. That sacrifice is huge: economic extortion of your social underclass to risk their life; the financial investments that leave very little of tax payers money for any "ordinary purpose" like education. And dont just look at your defense budget, your and mine security depends on your intelligence spendings just as much.

Remember WW2 where you saved our ass? The marshal plan were you rebuild my country? The war on Serbia, where you cleaned up our backyard? The war in Libia, where you allowed us to distance ourselves from a dictator we were doing bussiness with?

You have our back. In your shadow, we are not only safe from China or Russia, but even from ourselves.

But we get all that, without the sacrifice. We can be anti-war. We can spent all our money on education, rather than security. We can have freedom of the press, because our government does not represent any meaningfull stakes. Even our southern neigbours, Belgium. They did not have a government for more than a year. Imagine that!

If you guys would be truly free to vote in your own interest, to be informed correctly about that interest, to have true civil rights ... You would not be a superpower, you would be Canada.

For a short while that is, until China would invade, or the rich middle eastern countries would take full control.
Also a good argument to counter the "why is it thicker at the bottem then?" point - if you were incapable of producing perfectly flat glass, just as they were back then, and you wanted to put this glass into a window - which side would you have pointing up?
Why the personal attack? Just because they release some of their source code does not make them invulnerable from being seen as evil that they are for their perspective technology sector they operate in. And for the consumers for example in form of lawsuits and trying to smoke out their competitors.
There are lots of other ways to wiretap people, but most require a warrant, as they should. Microsoft can just comply with their request. Time to move to a SIP client that supports encryption (Jitsi.org).
Infringed Apple's copyrights? Citation needed. I thought it was patents?
I watched the first 2 minutes is there any deeper advice than "you should run"?
We need more software designed like this.
Both the UK and German courts said no to Apple trying to ban Samsung products. Only in the USA where Apple can manage to patent anything ridiculous are they gaining some traction with their injunctions. If you manage to patent so much that no one else can make another phone or tablet it speaks again about them wanting to totally obliterate the competition. The fact that they are allowed to do so is another, separate issue but what Apple is pulling isn't anything near being content.
Just read [2]. On the question of "do you miss Steve Jobs?", Steve Ballmer comes across a bit insensitive, and not very willing to credit Steve Jobs for changing the industry. As a whole, reading the interview somehow made me like him less.
Clearly none of the people involved before had the spark of whatever it takes to turn it from an interesting project into something that sparked the imagination of everyone around them by giving it it's essential context. For some reason you don't seems to see that as being valuable. I see it as another form of genius.
I never understood why Sal Khan does all the videos himself. Shouldn't they get the best Linear Algebra teacher that they can find for the Linear Algebra series, the best Calculus teacher for the Calculus series, the best Marine Biology teacher for Marine Biology, and so on? Maybe even get two sets of teacher with different lecture styles for each subject?

I've had dozens of amazing teachers throughout my education, all of which were excellent at gripping my attention, having a passion for their subject, and a knack for explaining it extremely well. If I thought my teachers were this good, can you imagine how good the best in the country would be? And what it could do for education to makes those lessons available for the entire world?

It's a shame he does it entirely himself. It's not for lack of funding, that's for sure. Maybe it's an ego thing?
love the headline...
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My SO will go to huge lengths not to boot into Windows (She a Linux user) because of the pain of the update process. It was a big part of the eventual move to Linux only on a few machines. The Linux update process is fast, and rarely requires a reboot. In the 'death by a thousand cuts' that is Windows, the update process is a bit more like a dagger slash across the midsection.
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Well, he lost me at the opening sentence. There's absolutely no reason to expect an increasing number of mass shootings.

All the actual statistics (as opposed to gut-driven media frenzy) say this kind of violence is way, way down in the list of risks you should be worrying about.

I'm all in favor of disaster preparedness, including for crime and terrorism. But there's a tendency to focus on these risks to the detriment of much more boring, but much more important risks like heart disease and car accidents.
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Ask HN: On Rob Pike's Concurrency is not Parallelism?
This is regarding slides by Rob Pike with above title. Every time I go thru this I feel like a moron. I'm not able to to figure out the gist of it. It's well understood that concurrency is decomposition of a complex problem into smaller components. If you cannot correctly divide something into smaller parts, it's hard to solve it using concurrency.

But there isn't much detail in slides on how to get parallelism once you've achieved concurrency. In the Lesson slide (num 52), he says Concurrency - "Maybe Even Parallel". But the question is - When and How can concurrency correctly and efficiently lead to Parallelism?

My guess is that, under the hood Rob's pointing out that developers should work at the level of concurrency - and parallelism should be language's/vm's concern (gomaxprocs?). Just care about intelligent decomposition into smaller units, concerned only about correct concurrency - parallelism will be take care by the "system".

Please shed some light.

Slides: http://concur.rspace.googlecode.com/hg/talk/concur.html#title-slide
HN Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3837147
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Out of curiosity, what's the series of symbols in the title?
If there's one thing I did correctly bringing up my children, it's to foster their natural curiosity. It's so easy to amplify that curiousity but our society seems to want to quell it at an early age. When a toddler asks a question, do you answer it thoroughly and ask them a leading question ... or do you purposely provide a minimal answer and go back to reading on your iPad?

I suspect that most of this crowd is pre-child, but you can still interact with someone else's kid. And it can be fun. Think of how Randall of xkcd explores topics and lead them on a humorous quest for knowledge. And it's good practice when/if you have kids of your own. Maybe you'll end up with one of these kids: http://bama.ua.edu/~chytrid/Hughes/HHMI.ugst12.html
Thanks for your response.

Regarding your comments on how VC's only fund "bad" entrepreneurs with inside connections... I've personally seen unknown entrepreneurs with good traction/product/vision/team get a fair hearing from VCs and actually raise a decent funding round. It's lazy and ineffective on the part of VCs if they don't find the best deals whomever they may be.
I'm sure Apple would love to sell as many phones as Samsung does. But I'm also sure that Apple would prefer to take 2x the profits on 0.5x the unit sales.

This is why Apple is so concerned about Samsung selling iPhone lookalikes, though. Samsung has the manufacturing and distribution prowess to do some damage, and Samsung has shown themselves to be a better "fast follower" than Microsoft ever was.

With a little help from Google, of course. Imagine if Samsung had to write their own mobile OS.
thanks, love it too, open for suggestions :-D
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I'm just a fan and not affiliated with the project in any way, so unfortunately I can't help you there.
And the author is 17 years old. I'm well impressed.
It seems to be a matter of convenience. It shouldn't be, but that what it looks like. It disrupts the flow of the teacher's classroom. It's viewed as yet another disruption, but the worst kind of disruption: the legitimate kind that gives the rest of the class an opening to continue disrupting the class. And that could affect perceptions about how this teacher handles a class. No, can't have that so just sit down and shut up.

A good teacher can handle the book being wrong. A good teacher will tell the students that the book has a mistakes on this problem well before they have the chance to discover it themselves. A good teacher will have gone over the material in advance and know what's correct. Instead, we have teachers thrust into roles that aren't near their specialty; teachers that can get a degree and qualify for a paycheck because they can work the system, not because they know how to teach students. And interfering with that teacher's conveniences is not a good thing for a student to attempt.
In what world are the iPhone 3GS and the iPhone 4 the same device? Completely different hardware that runs the same OS, just like Samsung.
For a moment I thought it was referencing this: http://t.co/IZd4Zv4B

How to minimize risk from artillery barrage, in Arabic. Recently distributed for civilians in Syria being obliterated by military siege.
Apple sells the 3GS in the low end market.

Edit: My view may be too US based, but the 3GS costs nothing after carrier subsidy.
Let me help you out: http://www.appfog.com/

Clear as can be.
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I guess that keyboard and the monitor are somehow wired to an iPhone.
They used Archimedes at CERN? Truly one of the greatest computers of all time.
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A lot depends on the game.

Example: My hobby is that I'm a tournament judge for Magic: the Gathering. I also play a bit, because I like the game. And there's an online version... which has a shuffling system that's actually random (i.e., has reportedly been examined by the same folks who certify stuff for casinos, and passed).

But that causes a lot of complaining from players, because real random shuffling is very different from what human beings accomplish when shuffling pieces of cardboard, and is actually a different standard from what's enforced in tournament play (requirement there is that after shuffle, no player is able to know locations, relative orders or patterns within the deck, not that the deck is "random").

At any given time there are thousands of players online, and every deck gets shuffled at least once per game. With those numbers... unlikely results happen. They happen a lot. And they get players really, really angry, to the point that most forums have "complain about the shuffler" permathreads, because those results tend to absolutely screw you over when they happen.
Ask HN: Is there a way to do this layout in HTML 5?
Meanwhile jlft has posted the right answer to this. Scroll way down to see it. Its on the second last position of this thread.
You seem to imagine that all those contributors were once unemployed. That was never the case.

The typical open source developer has always been either (1) gainfully employed at a programming day job, (2) employed to actually build FOSS, or (3) in academia.

There's at least as much open source development going on now as ever before. It's just that the attention has shifted away from desktop apps.
Preferably, no. But even if that was a problem, it would only be an occasional one. The predictable playlist would get on my nerves all the time.

I suppose you'll then lecture me on how a random playlist has such undesirable properties.

But I would have to disagree. Writing a psuedo-random shuffle mode that doesn't play songs twice in a row (or even one that doesn't repeat a single song in your playlist) is trivial.
The sister concern: phpfog charges [5$ a month for custom domains](http://appfog.com/products/phpfog/pricing/) on the same tier. I would guess they'll have to eventually pull a switch on that.
Is it just me or is there a lot of Anti-Apple links getting submitted to HN these days?
We are looking the gift horse in the mouth. It's free.

Yes, you will hit the limitations of the free plan very quickly indeed, at which point you should start paying.

The idea of these free plans is to let tire-kickers try out the system. They don't have to pay to test drive the UX and deployment mechanisms, which are the value-added features that sell a platform like Appfog. They don't have to pay for low-traffic prototypes. They can launch a whole set of minimum-viable sites on free hardware and then upscale one within a few minutes of any traffic spike (in theory, anyway). And it empowers marketing maneuvers like getting an entire programming class of 25 people using your platform for a one-day class.

(I'm not sure I love the above business plan, to say the least, but that's the idea, and thanks to Heroku it has become the standard.)
OK, forget reusability. Is a 10-page program written in WEB more maintainable and readable than a 6-line shell script?
The actual computer he used to create the web was a Next Cube, so that was more historically accurate.
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when enterprise dries up

By Enterprise you don't mean 'large companies that have 24/7 operations' because .. that category is not going away.

What do you mean by 'dries up'?
Now, this is an iFact....
Been using a lot of Dart lately, so I'm wondering if I could get a Dart VM running on AppFog. Since it's based on Java, there shouldn't be a problem, right?
A nice way to waste some time on random youtube videos
This type of piracy is pretty prevalent in military bases around the world. Someone has a flash drive or external hard drive full of movies/music/etc and they trade it amongst themselves.
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Do you have to use <table>?
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Maybe i could phrase it like this. Your military are not free men. In a way, the US is the military of the free world. All of it: its media, its economics, its population. You guys (have to) live in a state of paranoia to keep that military machiene up and running.

The US is the military of the free world, and nations like mine, its (spoiled) free citizens.

Like most free citizens, we have a tendency to feel morally superior. We dont have to choose between security or liberty. You sacrifice your libery for our security, and most of us are completely oblivious to this fact.
What audience are you targeting?

Not to be a negative Nancy but I think that pro teams won't find it useful in analyzing games simple because a video deprives you of control. You can't switch tabs, can't go to an arbitrary place on the map and can't increase the game speed. All you can do is watch the game from multiple perspectives, something you can almost do inside the game (press 1, watch for 5 seconds, press 2 and you get the picture).

Amateur players might find it useful when sharing their replays with friends, but how can that be monetized? A lot of gamers are reluctant to pay for premium content like GSL/MLG, I doubt they would want to pay for sharing video-replays with their friends.

Anyway, it's always cool to see things like this, things with a bit of magic :) Good job!
that's precisely his question I guess; can you do this in HTML5 and CSS without resorting to javascript hacks?
I just need this layout. With or without a table. As long as it looks and behaves the same.
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Right, im looking for a pure HTML 5 + CSS solution. Just like it is in quirks mode.
In the spirit of explaining downvotes: You replied to a two sentence post, and neither sentence advanced an assertion that nationalist propaganda was specific to the US.
You should probably ask this question on StackOverflow.com
I don't want XFCE to transition to GTK+3. As near as I can tell it's a nightmare, since it's so tightly tied to GNOME (fair enough, but I switched to Xfce to escape the tyranny of the GNOME UI designers).
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Here's a jsFiddle in HTML5 mode with the table code pre-entered if anyone wants to play with it: http://jsfiddle.net/bzf9W/
http://pastehtml.com/view/c6bge5hig.html

table { position:absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; ....
I believe the concept says to focus more on task-based parallelism rather than data-based parallelism.

In Go, it is easy to create multiple tasks/workers each with a different job. This is implicitly parallelizable - each task can (but doesn't have to) work within their own thread. The only time when the workers can't run in parallel is when they are waiting on communication from another worker or outside process.

This is opposed to data level parallelism where each thread is doing the nearly exactly same instructions on different input, with little to no communication between the threads. An example would be to increase the blue level on each pixel in an image. Each pixel can be operated on individually and be performed in parallel.

So - the push is for more task-based parallelism in programs. It is very flexible in that it can run actually in parallel or sequentially and it won't matter on the outcome of the program.
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Its not the same. The textarea does not resize to the parents height in this solution. Also it extends into the right half of the screen.
It has been a while since I have played around with HTML (do Java at work, mostly) but surely one can do tables in HTML 5, as in previous versions? If not, something wrong there, IMO...
I'd guess that it's a tit-for-tat retaliation for the grandfathers rather needless troll. Not excusable, I grant you. Either way, none of the post belong here.

It's sad that we are seeing more of the frankly utterly pointless and puerile posts and articles here. I thought we were all above this pettyness. Alas it appears that I was wrong. Neither party come out of this with any dignity.
Add this:

form { height: 100%; } td {height: 100%; }
Same problem as with "the1"s solution.
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The Apple app review process is seriously dropping the ball for me right now.

Same here. 1-2 years ago I released an iPhone app and the review process was quick and fairly simple.

Now, we are on day 8 of waiting for review. Even if we get reviewed today, if we get rejected we're back to another 8+ days of waiting.
Good suggestion. Will do that if no solution comes up on HN.
You need 6 div. one container. Everything goes in there. One header, one wrapper that holds the two big boxes and a footer.

Set HTML & body height to 100%. If you don't your container and other divs will likely ignore your height:100%

Everything else you need from there is float, position, clear, width and height. Should even be compatible with most versions of IE.

Sp yes it is possible and even simple with HTML and CSS. No need for tables.
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No credit to NBC, however, who apparently replaced a tribute to the victims of the 7/7 terrorist massacre with a talking head off American Idol, had no idea who Sir Tim was, and censored the first lesbian kiss ever seen on Saudi TV:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/28/london-2012-nbc-...
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You may find this useful: http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/equal-height-columns-2-co...
Is this the kind of code that you're looking for?
http://files.thegooley.com/example-fullpage-app.html
Here's an example that I encountered a few days ago:

I only had an iPad (something more and more common, keep in mind their growing popularity) and wanted to download the Song "Alfur ut ur hol" by Björk (which you can't buy in record stores or the iTunes store - it's a rarity recording she released when she was 11 - but it's available on Youtube).

While there are youtube-downloading-apps on iOS, none of them were able to convert the downloaded movies into audio-only files.

Then I found youtube-mp3.org. The site, together with the iCab iOS web browser (which can download files) did the trick.
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I don't think he's saying that you shouldn't concern yourself at all with parallelism; only that you should focus on concurrency first and that will lead to easier parallelism. And he I think he is saying that decomposition and concurrency helps non-parallel programs stay simple and easy to understand. The benefits of concurrency are greater than just parallelism.

I think that is about what you are saying.
No, its not the same. When the text in the footer wraps, it leaves the page so you cannot read it anymore. In my example that does not happen. If you left all the text the same, that would be easier to see.
I like objective-c. Message passing and everything that comes along with it leads to some interesting coding opportunities. The real strength of Apple dev though lies in the libraries.

Also, coding for iOS 5+ only makes it a lot easier to write correct code because of things like ARC and weak reference types.

My only problem with Xcode is crashing, but that seems to have mostly been fixed. There is a vim plugin you can use if you prefer those keybindings.
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IMO, the use of <table> should be avoided in a solution, tables are not intended for page layout.
I made this extension based off the API https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ljbaebikafaieieblj...
There have been solutions been suggested without tables. Look through this thread. Nothing works so far.
A tiny app 'weekend-project' for kids. Basically my girlfriend's character artwork made interactive. Fun to do. First iOS coding experience, and have to say that the entire process went very smooth (save for a 10 workday App Store review time).

Fun fact: all the art is SVG — so the file size is pretty small and you get nice crisp graphics on the Retina iPad for free. Years and years ago I looked into SVG for audio synthesizer interfaces - but rendering was waaayyyy to slow back then. Now - no problem, even on a ARM device! :)
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