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>Astract: You're a total troll and/or a dishonest propagandist.

Yes, thank you for your deep reading comprehension and insight. I'm sure everybody reading our exchange will reach the same conclusion as you did.

>It was fun to see your conspiracy theory dismissing the example I quoted from Wikipedia:

Was conspiracy theory? I provided facts, you gave me back BS wikipedia quotes you didn't even know how to read.

You found "20+ pogroms in the arab countries" in a Wikipedia search and you thought that closed the deal: jews had it just as bad as they had it in Europe in the arab countries. Despite JEW SCHOLARS saying the opposite.

You keep maintaining that jews had it AS BAD with antisemitism in the muslim world pre 20th century (based on the "20+ pogroms" nugget you found).

Well, here's some QUALITATIVE opinion on the matter, from the VERY wikipedia page you quote:

= = = =

Claude Cahen[2] and Shelomo Dov Goitein[3] argue _against historic antisemitism in Muslim lands_, writing that discrimination practiced against non-Muslims was of general nature, and not targeted specifically at Jews. For these scholars, _antisemitism in Medieval Islam was local and sporadic rather than general and endemic_. For Goitein antisemitism was _not present at all_, and for Cahen it was _rarely_ present.

Bernard Lewis[5] writes that while Muslims have held negative stereotypes regarding Jews, throughout most of Islamic history _these stereotypes were not indicative of antisemitism_ because, unlike Christians, Muslims viewed Jews as objects of ridicule, not fear. He argues that Muslims did not attribute "cosmic evil" to Jews. In Lewis' view, it was _only in the late 19th century that movements first appeared among Muslims that can legitimately be described as antisemitic_.

Frederick M. Schweitzer and Marvin Perry state that there are mostly negative references to Jews in the Quran and Hadith, and that Islamic regimes treated Jews in degrading ways. Jews (and Christians) had the status of dhimmis. They state that _throughout much of history Christians treated Jews worse_, saying that _Jews in Christian lands were subjected to worse polemics, persecutions and massacres than under Muslim rule_.

= = = =

Surely, qualitative information is beyond your comprehension. Blissfully unaware that "information is not understanding".
And to top it, you are quick with typical knee-jerk ad hominen reactions "troll", "conspiracy theory" and such.

>FYI troll, the Nazis never got much votes in Sweden. (I am Swedish, that is why I used that example.)

They didn't get votes, bravo. That's so heroic. They just got a neutral stance and lots of cooperation.

Whereas my country, for one, told them to sod off, defeated the italian fascist army, lost by the German army with lots of casualties and still had a large armed resistance movement while under occupation. Oh, and some hundred thousands of people died from famine --plus some thousands were killed in mass civilians executions from the Nazi's to avenge the local resistance.

How's that for a conspiracy theory?
Having recently watched King of Kong (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923752/) I highly doubt the accuracy of these "remakes".
Actually people complain because they need to install an extension to remove the accessibility icon from the top panel.
Previous submission:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4464186

(Yes, HN definitely needs to improve the code of the duplicate submission detector.)
Bureaucracy and logic (and common sense) have been in perpetual war everywhere since the invention of the concept of government.
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My observations confirm both of these assertions. Leaving a song (I was semi-actively listening to) unfinished will make it stuck in my head, finishing it will remove it.
My guess from spending only a few days with the WebKit source is that it will not effect page rendering at all.

Possibly not desktop performance at all since I believe GC is done in a separate thread and (from my understanding) you never wait on it, unless you are really memory constrained.

Could make a difference on IOS where I believe you actually don't have this GC memory scavenger thread.

Anyway, the source is quite readable and everyone working with WebKit on one level or another could benefit from taking a look. At the very least it gives you a feeling for the tremendous effort from a huge number of people that the WebKit project really is.
In this example the animation and effects aren't using javascript, the javascript is just is just firing the events. CSS3 (as implemented here) can leverage the same general advantages as a native app (GPU acceleration, etc). It's still early days, so browsers are various levels of implementation support, but the point is that moving forward it's not crippled by the same limitations of javascript DOM manipulation; vendors can actually optimize the software and hardware support.

I'd say it's quite likely animation and graphics in the browser (not specifically javascript) WILL be good.
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Yesterday's submission

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4463519

gained no comments (although more upvotes than this submission so far) and I see that today's submission has a no-op # character at the end of the URL, which is considered bad form for a resubmission. I did some looking up of other sources on the profiled researcher and on the general issue of research related to adenoviruses and cancer yesterday when the first submission came in. I liked the article and its overall tone more than (apparently) some of today's commenters liked it, but didn't upvote it because it is too preliminary--wild speculation about cancer cures happens every day. The particular researcher profiled in the article (who seems cautious and sensible, as quoted by the reporter here) is obscure. The research on adenoviruses and cancer is vast, going on in many laboratories in many parts of the world, and so far has been disappointing in its results. This is too early for front-page news here.

As I typically do, here I once again recommend the article "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation"

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

by Peter Norvig, Google's director of research. Every day on Hacker News we see news articles submitted announcing a "cure" for this or that dreaded disease. Before believing such eagerly awaited stories, check out their research base and find out if other researchers have replicated and verified the same research results.
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> doesn't mean it makes sense to short it unless you also think you can time the drop perfectly,

With the right options, you don't have to time it perfectly. Just good enough.

You can limit the risk of shorting relatively cheaply by buying way out-of-the-money call options.
Any sane computer architecture should assume high availability of stack memory. The idea of preserving a memory block to replace stack won't buy you anything.

Btw: why not write a test instead of just guessing?
University researcher talks about self control
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Thanks Diego, I checked out the posting you linked and you're right, he definitely raises other highly relevant issues, probably much more eloquently than I did in my own article.

The mental resource that is being impacted by such things as exercising self-control seems to go far beyond anything we typically define as 'ego' as in self-image and I think the implications are therefore even more wide-ranging than ego-depletion, although he does seem to imply that he appreciates this.
For those of you interested in hearing more about this, there's a great episode of the podcast Framerate where they talk to Andy Armstrong, who was behind all of the streaming of the BBC olympics.

There's some really interesting tidbits in there and he offers a candid perspective of how it went and the future of streaming TV, etc.

http://twit.tv/show/frame-rate/89
HotSpot (Java's JIT compiler) generates prefetchw.
These are all completely obvious — idea 2, though, only in retrospect. For a long while I've wondered about how to combine path editing with hyperlinks. Numerous browser extensions have tried various methods: mode toggling, modifier keys, the direction whence came focus, and so on.

The OP's approach is perfect: always navigate to wherever the caret is placed. I would personally drop the ugly gradients in favour of hyperlink-style underlines, but seriously, thanks for an elegant solution to a simple problem.
Programming Inspiration Story
Title is deceptive.

This article is a personal account of an office worker in the film industry in France.

Interesting, maybe, but not what you were probably expecting here.
I'd also love to know why intelligent people insist on using 3D line graphs (and why product designers choose to implement them).

A lot of organizations have graphs and charts designed by visual arts designers without giving their visual artists specific work-related training in accurate, readable data presentation. That's one of the reasons that Edward Tufte has written multiple interesting books and maintains a website

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/

on visual display of quantitative information. Every intelligent person ought to read one or more of Tufte's books (they are fun and informative enough to reward your time and effort in getting the books) to understand how to avoid "chartjunk" when preparing visual data displays.

A special treat on Tufte's website is "PowerPoint Does Rocket Science--and Better Techniques for Technical Reports,"

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...

a worthy companion to Peter Norvig's more humorous treatment of PowerPoint in "The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation."

http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/index.htm
No, they complain about the panel being ddifferent and the workspaces and stuff like that..
So, it's a short post about how sleeping might help, but there's no attempt to actually conduct a scientific experiment to find out if you get better ideas by doing that. At the very least you could do is supplement your post with some citations.

Are startup people so lazy that they rely only on seat-of-the-pant anecdotal evidences?
> PhoneGap sacrifices the quality of the UI for benefits in other areas

You said it yourself. PhoneGap is an easy way to get a sub-par user experience and that is what matters the most, not development speed.
WAB and are nothing but thieves, be careful what you use from CODEF because I guarantee NoNameNo the talentless bum has stolen every source he has in CODEF from other people and removed their names and license details.
I hardly use file managers, but some of these points seem quite interesting, I dislike the idea of hiding the search button when you click in the middle of the search field though, this will most likely only make it confusing for the user. A better options is to disable the search button when the user interacts in the middle of the search field(I think that's possible in GTK, isen't it?).

EDIT: Ignore my comment above, I missunderstood the part about the search button in the article.
Spin locks are discouraged in FreeBSD kernel code too, except for very low-level areas (serial console, pmap, and interrupt handling come to mind) where you can't safely ask the scheduler to do anything for you.

That said, our sleep locks are actually adaptive locks, so on SMP systems they'll spin for a bit before giving up and asking to be descheduled.
Title could be better, but I found it an OK-read. The leap from film work to software work isn't a huge one (today's startup guy is yesterday's starving artist)

This passage in particular is where it begins to get more general

" The whole “start-your-own-company, be-your-own-boss” racket is heavily pushed by government agencies and all kinds of employers. It was first put forth as a solution to high unemployment unemployment and then, less openly, as a route to cut costs and erode worker solidarity and class consciousness. It relies on people’s underlying hatred of work, personified by the boss, and sells the dream of autonomy by telling people that they can become their own, fake, boss. The reality is different."
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I think you misunderstood; the OP was saying that there should be no search button, ever, as in (e.g.) Chrome.
I was really blown away by how awesome the BBC's coverage was. You could watch every event, live and delayed, and they would even bookmark the live stream as you watched it (and preserved for replays) with event markers. This was particularly useful for track and field where you might want to skip around on various qualifiers and other events.

We never had a single issue with buffering or playback, and it was truly better than TV. It definitely felt like the future. I was really sorry our American friends in the USA couldn't experience the coverage like we had in the UK (without a VPN).
> Food growth rate increases arithmetically, based on available land. Population growth increases exponentially, [...]

Sources? Malthus made the same mistake, if I remember right.
Rc(1) is the Unix v10/Plan 9 shell[1] written by Tom Duff[2], of Duff's device[3] fame. Rc(1) is of course available in Unix as well, I use the port from plan9port[4].

[1] http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/rc

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Duff

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device

[4] http://swtch.com/plan9port/
from the blog post:
>The best any of them can do, however, is to make guesses as to what the optimal performance characteristics of the cache structure on each CPU is going to be.

Well actually most mainstream compilers support profile guided optimization which allows the compiler to do a good job of reorganizing the code to minimize instruction cache misses as the compiler then has runtime data which provides the necessary hot/cold codepath statistics.
I prefer the default existing. Its the top bar of a file manager, it should be as clear as possible to anyone using it. I don't want to see slashes, and If I want to search, I don't want to have to delete all the text containing the current directory I'm in to start doing so. 'Instant search' works on web-browsers because when you click on the title bar it automatically 'selects' all the text there, so the first letter you type will start a search (after deleting all the existing text in the title bar). This is not how a file manager would work. As you show, when you click on the title bar you want to 'edit' the current title...

I'd rather get rid of the 'back' and 'forward' buttons, which are quite extraneous for most users (browsing a file system is generally not like browsing the web). Agree that 'location' can go though.
Try it. If it doesn't work for you, you'll know fairly quickly.
Totally agree with you, people who don't like what happening can just leave and start using MATE or XFCE instead. GNOME's directions isen't even targeted at the previous userbase anyway. I'm too young to have got into GNOME2 as much as it seems some people have done, but seriously it's just silly to complain and whine. I know some also includes very contructive critism in their complains but most people don't, and that is those I dislike.
I don't care about names. But looking down instead of up makes quite a big difference.

I don't really believe in IQ as anything more than a statistical artefact in the first place. But of course, different people are going to perform differently on different tasks.
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Oh, I'm sorry. I'm taking back that then.
Ask HN:Would you use a video aggregator for startups & technology videos? 
Dear HN Community,<p>as a long time follower of the startup community I have often felt the need for a site which aggregates interesting videos / interviews around the theme of startups & technology. Would such a site be of interest to you ? Many thanks for your time.
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People who cheat one marathon are not common, but they do exist.

People who cheat multiple marathons are rare.

People who go as far as to invent a marathon, and to create fake runners for that fake marathon, are very rare.

The article isn't about how or why a man cheats. It's about a man who cheats; and everyone knows that man cheats; and yet he still maintains his innocence; and so he still hasn't "had his comeuppance yet".
Good question. He has been back and forth to Aberdeen setting up some gaudy trump branded golf resort. A couple of days after I took the screenshot he appeared before the Scottish parliament in Edinburgh. This is how I concluded he was in the plane, though I admit there is a minor chance that I am mistaken!

The site itself is fantastic though, I could spend ages just finding out what planes are going where and thinking about where I might visit next. Plus the coloured trails to indicate the altitude are a lovely touch.

edit: it was during this time (excellent clip, by the way) http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-april-26-2012/hairland...
They are encouraged in the Linux kernel in places where it is nessesary to lock for a very short time. Using mutexes takes a bit of overhead, so they can't give you very short sleep times; that is when spinlocks have to be used.

http://kernel.org/doc/Documentation/spinlocks.txt
Yes, sociologically/anthropologically interesting.

But not relevant to the startup world in the few countries I'm familiar with.

I've worked in France. Lovely place, but it's a socialist country with next to no startup culture (note, I was there more than ten years ago). I don't mean "socialist" as a pejorative, except to the extent that it inhibits the startup culture, and even then only for the HN audience.

Just suggesting that many people on HN, reading the title, would have expected a very different and more relevant article.

I don't agree with the characterization of govt and attitudes toward work and bosses in your quoted passage...not in my anecdotal experience, outside of France.

But one truth is clear: working "for yourself" and having "no boss" is almost always just code for having no administrative support and having to please multiple customers with significant, open-ended, and sometimes conflicting demands. Learning to manage these situations is clearly more effort than "getting a job", so it's not attractive or successful for everyone.
Here is the original Mozilla blog post : https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2012/08/31/retiring-firefo...
The full diagram is available here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2012/08/21/2012_Archi...
Thankfully, for those of us who prefer our desktops to work well rather than look good, there are always third party options for themes. I personally combine the "Holo" Gnome Shell theme with the "Adwaita Dark" Gtk theme, and I think the result is a vast improvement.
Every linux user I know (except maybe two) runs gnome3/gnome-shell and loves it. One of those two run gnome3 with unity. So only one user I know isn't running gnome - he runs kde. He plans to try out gnome for a month after watching me with it.

I love where they're going with gnome3. I understand the frustration people have, because there are some places where it superficially feels like 2 steps forward, 2 steps back. However, if you use it you can feel how good the platform decisions seem to have been, and if you watch it improve with each point release you really get a feel that these guys are enjoying providing top notch Free Software again (gnome2 was stagnant). Also, if you want to use gnome2....just freaking do so.
True story...

Client gives me a Help Desk Ticket. User claims batch job use to run in 5 minutes but now runs for hours. The logs confirm this. The commit logs show that an offshore programmer forgot to remove a 10 second sleep command from inside an iteration (for debugging I presume) before promoting to production. I removed it and got a 100X improvement in throughput.

My client said that now his user loves him; what did I do to fix it so fast?

When I told him that I removed the Sleep, he said, "No! No! No! Change it to a 5 second Sleep so I have something to give him the next time he complains!"
Statistical analysis report by independent researchers:

http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/publications/PDFs/education/s...

"In sum, the evidence suggests that, for the small number of New York’s AF and Uncommon middle schools that can yet be included in analysis, achievement impacts are positive, significant, and substantial."
Thanks a lot for the info. I certainly didn't imagine, even in my wildest dreams, that an ancient game like Pac-Mac could possibly be still alive and a source of revenue for Namco. Pac-Mac game in 2010? 3D cartoon in 2013 (wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man:_The_Adventure_Begins)? I can't believe it.

In that case, I was wrong and this game should also be "condemned" by HN :) Thanks.
As a long time user of Gnome 2.x, I welcome most of the changes made in Gnome Shell, haven't had any worthwhile complaints since the 3.4 release. It's cleaner, faster, has better window management features, and just gets out of the way better than Gnome 2.x ever did.
Quality of life is all in the head. There isn't an easy way to measure this. I'm guessing that he was very happy in Cambodia as he chose that location over many others he probably could have lived in.

The health care system in third world countries in Asia are fine for the basics, but you wouldn't want to go through something like emergency heart surgery there. ;)

Though, this depends on where you are actually located. There are a lot of areas in S.E. Asia which have become locations for medical tourism and I imagine you could get decent care in those places. You better have the money though. In the Philippines they won't let you leave the hospital until you have paid your fees. You often have to pay partially up-front as well. When I went to a hospital to treat a broken wrist, I had to go back through town in a bumpy (ouch!, ouch!, ouch!) pedicab to pull money from an ATM. Oh, and you can only pull out the equivalent of $230 / pay / card at the ATM's there. So, if your fees are higher than that, then you might need to stay multiple days just so that you can pull enough out of the ATM.
This is seriously going to improve my quality of life :)
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I do agree, but I had to try something different this time, and I feel like the fact that I've stated this publicly (no matter how little the amount of people that will read anyway) will guilt me in to persevering in those times I'd usually drop out.

I do appreciate this though, thanks.
it is still cheaper and faster than going native.

It sounds like you make apps for people. Assuming you have someone on staff who knows iOS and someone who knows Android is it still faster to do it in PhoneGap? We attempted a phonegap app which ended up failing because of performance reasons. We rewrote the app in native iOS and it didn't take nearly as long as the original phonegap did with the constant tweaking in an attempt to get it to look and perform acceptably.
It's not so bad once you learn the trick. Links in body text almost never go elsewhere, but there is a link at the bottom of the article labeled "Source" which takes you somewhere interesting.
Is it really? I'd love to read more about this....
Okey, that's cool. I have to look into gnome-shell some time.
and also 13000 satellites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydbbd-4oEds
To be fair, he does at least reference Wikipedia, which has well-sourced statements at least partially backing up what he appears to be claiming.
Relevant: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Speedup-Loop.aspx