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> a) Go is open source
> By your argument, C++ is controlled by Bell Labs.
> The C# specification has an ECMA and ISO standard

Oh come on, you know 16s was talking about implementations and tendencies of the parent company to engage in malevolent lawsuits trying to shut down alternatives.

Wherein an open source language, mostly developed by Company X, dies out because they stop developing it and the contributors remaining are not as good / interested. Let's not kid ourselves, open source is not magical fairy dust that does work for you. It works based on a set of personal incentives in alignment with the public good, and so sometimes it doesn't.

Same with ISO standards. They don't specify goodness. The Mono replacement for C# is finally getting there, but a few years ago, if the MS C# implementation had died off, would I replace it with Mono? God no.
Pythonistas hate Go. Go appeals to people who like the idea and look of Python but got burned by dynamic typing.
Let's Get Real About Ambition
Thanks, this was a good recommendation - I did enjoy Telepath a lot more!
Huh; did the full switch over just happen?

Out of the blue 1-2 days ago, a DTD hosted on dl.google.com (http://dl.google.com/gwt/DTD/xhtml.ent) started semi-randomly timing out and hanging Eclipse.

(This was due to the Eclipse UI asking "Is this your XML file?" for every XML file in the project, for every plugin, and one of the plugins, IvyDE, ended up not having fetch-eternal-dtds turned off. What a silly default.)
Tumblr suffering extended downtime, now out of action for almost 2 hours
I guess just the way the announcement was written made it seem like the event of the century or something. Guess it all depends on the audience...
I love to be a window repairer
Just some night thoughts.
I agree entirely. As long as we are still subsidizing something, removing subsidies should be the first thing we try when we decide to liberalize. Oil is a good example. Its production is subsidized and its consumption is taxed.
1.Why is Wired writing about stock prices? Most of the financial media can barely understand why prices fluctuate, why does Wired think they have a better insight?

2.The stock market (particularly growth oriented firms) are about expectations. If investors are betting that an outcome is going to occur and they are wrong they will sell, it's that simple.

3.Stock price != the company. Don't confuse the two.
The hard thing about his vision, is safety.

Carrying the cellphone means two things: The state data is available with you (it's not in the cloud) and the actual hardware is your authentication token for the things that are in the cloud.

In his vision he talks about having state and everything in the cloud, login in from any terminal and doing his job.

He would go to a coffee/Internet shop and do all his personal banking there. It should be obvious at this point the problems that could arise from such setup.

The terminal could be compromised (key loggers, etc), and no authentication tokens have been defined. Even retina scanners are more troublesome than having a cellphone as the auth token.

So his vision is nice, in an ideal society where no one cheats, ever.

In the real world it is dangerously unsafe.

> DVCS should be the models for how to do everything in the cloud, with simpler interfaces for different level of user needs/competency.

I still dream about a Git GUI that works as a distributed Dropbox (for some specially enabled repos, not for all of them).
After you download the upgrade assistant helper and Windows 8 Pro, there's an option to create a .ISO for a clean install.
It was modified in the appeal:

>Mr Carr [for Samsung] realistically recognised that Apple had a genuine interest in keeping it uncluttered. He proposed that instead of requiring the notice to be on the web page itself, it would be sufficient if there were a link provided from that to the notice. There are some links already provided. All that need be added is a link entitled "Samsung/Apple UK judgment." I think that would be appropriate and proportionate.
It does in fact support gzip ( see: https://github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io/wiki/Configuring-Soc... ), but there's an outstanding issue with spawning the gzip process ( see: https://github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io/issues/932#issuecomm... ).

This should be fixed in the upcoming update to zlib.
There are two compilers that implement the Go 1 spec independently: the original Go compiler and Gccgo, official part of the GCC.
Well, at least we know the article is telling the truth now.
Will we have the source for the module that ships with the board so we can synth both it and some custom logic to go along with it ?
This again? OSX versions are more incremental - part way between what MS would call a new OS, or a new Service Pack. MS don't charge anything for Service Packs.

Apple also have lower margins on their OS because it's built into the cost of their hardware.
http://tip.golang.org/CONTRIBUTORS

> We've understood from the initial launch that Go needed to be more than just Google's language. The front page of golang.org has never mentioned Google and carries none of the Google logo or branding, and that is not accidental.

https://plus.google.com/116810148281701144465/posts/ExP5BeXU...
The Court of Appeal modified the order so that only a link was required:

>Mr Carr [for Samsung] realistically recognised that Apple had a genuine interest in keeping it uncluttered. He proposed that instead of requiring the notice to be on the web page itself, it would be sufficient if there were a link provided from that to the notice. There are some links already provided. All that need be added is a link entitled "Samsung/Apple UK judgment." I think that would be appropriate and proportionate.
"When I'm grumpy, I stop being grumpy and start being awesome instead!" ;)

Fair enough. However, I miss one thing: grumpiness is rarely a natural state of mind, and positive thinking is not the Universal Cure - it may be useful to look for and treat the underlying cause of grumpiness.
As always - everything depends on definitions :)

In my opinion feelings(probably) and concepts(for sure) are subsets of thoughts. But I'm not native English speaker, and this is subjective in my language too, so we can argue about that.
From what it seems, I cannot download Windows 8 on my Mac for running in Bootcamp or VMWare. I have to download it using an executable from Microsoft that only runs on Windows. This doesn't make sense to me.

Why can't I just buy and download? Why not make it simple and easy for people to access it?
This is very cool!

It's not really the same purpose but a cool feature to me would be a sponsorship / deck feature so you can send it out to see who views it individually. So you can see which potential sponsors actually look at the info you send, and which pages.
You Get What You Price For
Small fast simple web apps.

The point of Go isn't that it replace existing C programs, it is that Go appeals to C programmers who want to extend their rrach, it is that is reshapes C to fit in areas it didn't fit before (and, yes, to not fit in areas it fit before), without being as radically different as Java or Python or Haskell.
Seems a bit extreme. Other parts of the US have significant problems to deal with as well. The west coast (earthquakes), midwest (tornados and drought), south (hurricanes) and northeast (snow) all have problems which cost lots of money (sometimes federal tax dollars) to deal with. You could call building in any of these areas a "mistake", but that doesn't really help solve the problem.
You're all awesome. Thank you for the input and time.
They may have a lot of money in their bank accounts. But be sure, there aren't a lot of available developers capable of producing high quality objc code.

So yeah, they need all developers they already have in other to fix their code bases instead of throwing shiny new features just to capture the markets attention.

People say things like you said thinking that by just throwing money at developers problems automagically vanish. In reality, that's not how real engineering solutions are developed.
So, combining these two statements, it seems that they blocked both sites 30 minutes before the article was posted in Chinese?

If that's true, it's disappointing the Times didn't do a simultaneous release in anticipation of the block.

"HONG KONG — The Chinese government swiftly blocked access Friday morning to the English-language and Chinese-language Web sites of The New York Times"

"By 7 a.m. Friday in China, access to both the English- and Chinese-language Web sites of The Times was blocked (...). The Times had posted the article in English at 4:34 p.m. on Thursday in New York (4:34 a.m. Friday in Beijing), and finished posting the article in Chinese three hours later after the translation of final edits to the English-language version."
You're probably right on trades but what you said about management is entirely right. You can have good workplaces and bad ones regardless of union status.
This is not an isolated case. I heard two reports from Microsoft employees this morning of their own apps being repeatedly rejected for weeks with little transparency.
There are a dozen MarkDown implementations that are better than Grubber's piece of shit, and a couple that are actually nice. The lack of a decent implementation is not the issue. This issue is that Gruber is (regrettably but naturally) seen as the authority on MarkDown by a whole lot of people, and he's still encouraging them to use his insecure, bug-ridden disaster instead of pointing them in the direction of something that anybody outside of his use case would ever want to use.

He just needs to add a sentence or two to his website and he'll save countless developers a ton of headache. He just doesn't give a shit.

It's pathetic.
Navigating through a tree has been deprecated for a bit already, given how prominent Search is placed in the Start Menu and how the tree is confined to a little section instead of eventually (after a dozen levels) covering the whole screen. But there probably are still those that like that way.
That comment is utter nonsense and shows ignorance of stock markets. "Asshole investors" aren't playing with the market, investors are reacting to information that doesn't confirm their expectations, so they sell. Furthermore, stock prices fluctuate for a variety of reasons and it's ridiculous to ascribe malice to these price movements.
More and more consumer applications need high computing performance and a tighter integration of memory and computation. You already mentioned a few examples yourself.

However, I think that the most interesting thing about this parallel computing platform is that it's completely open. This will allow a community formed around it to create new, unthought of, innovative, applications with it.

Edit : improved wording
Web versions's in JavaScript. Native version uses a C++ shared codebase, with Objective C and Java native hooks for the platform.

The server uses Node and SocketIO, with the client side JavaScript handling the multiplayer communication logic, which is ran in a headless browser in the native applications.

Future plans are to replace more parts of the performance insensitive native codebase with the JavaScript equivalent.

I did a talk about the architecture last month at Velocity. I haven't gotten round to doing a write up on the contents of the slides yet, however you can access them here: http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/event/88/Web%20_%20...

Let me know if you'd like me to do one.
This will be limited by the costs. I get 5GB of monthly traffic for 10€/month on 21Mbps 3G (average speed: 4Mbps), but I get unlimited traffic at 150Mbps for the same price on a static line (average speed: 80Mbps). Cloud-based storage and services means I will do a lot of traffic, and this brings great costs for a mobile connection. Right now I'm backing up 1.8TB of data with CrashPlan. I couldn't do that on 3G.
Pretty awesome, does it come in black?
Wait, so your opposition to Go was that it was cost effective and powerful enough to merit investing engineering time to replace a broken legacy system that couldn't justify the expense of C++ maintenance?
I would imagine that the vast majority of students at Universities around the world who take Linear Algebra "master" it in 10 days. That is, the ten days before the exam, having spent most of the term drinking, socialising, falling asleep in lectures (or just staying in bed and skipping the lecture bit). I certainly know I "mastered" elementary linear algebra in about 10 days.
I'm quite surprised the domain is "steamcommunity.com" and not "community.steam.com", it made me hesitant to enter login details.
I was only motivated to read the original article after I saw it had been blocked.
What is the utility of multiple timers? Isn't the point of pomodoro method to stay focused on one thing for a bite sized period of time?
18.06 is the very basic, more applied version of linear algebra at MIT. About half of the students that take it aren't in the math department. The more theoretical option is 18.700. And then there's 18.701, Algebra 1, taught by Artin using his book. The latter two are almost completely theoretical/proof based.
I actually agree. I was really into productivity a while ago but I realised quickly that most important of all, I need to enjoy myself while working. Pomodoro allows me to do so while having a good focus, but I know that I cannot go as far as the author or I will simply become crazy.
From "best" answer: Reducing volume in software is basically equivalent to reducing the bit depth

This is really only true when The Audio System represents samples as integers and not floats like CoreAudio does.
Really great point. Sometimes it's a bit more complicated.
Very very nice, congratulations !
Could you share a little bit of the technologies used ?
How to you make every browser go to the same page ?
Do you think this would be possible with video as well, like making sure everybody is at the same point on a video ?
Find me 1% of people who have seen Go call it less readable than actual C++ code in the wild, and I would agree that readability is debatable.

Go has an open source compiler, tool chain, and standard library, only this top-layer app is the non open source part of the stack.
Show HN: the best hn posts and comments since 2007 
My attempt to create a simple interface to find the "best" hn posts and comments in last 24hours / 2 days / 7 days / ... / since 2007.

I find it useful as I visit hacker news only now and then.
Last night people were able to upgrade to Win 8 Pro for $14.99. You could enter ANY information and get the discount code. The deal seems to be dead now that they are asking for legit Win 7 keys. http://www.windowsupgradeoffer.com/en-US
Java is open source too and C# is not the only corporate language from MicroSoft.
Apple puts Samsung Notice on Site
Is this the article you are talking about? : http://www.economist.com/node/15816702
Maybe because it takes a lot of effort to implement all that stuff and it's still a big deal for a lot of people. This is also a regular blogger why not? Also there are probably a lot more out there, you see this one because people find it upvoteworthy.

You could ask the question for almost every blog post, i think this one is not much different why posts on codehorror are written. There are a lot of good reasons to blog, just Google for it.
The reason mobile gaming has major growth is because the market is rushing to fill a vacuum. Once things have settled a bit let's see how it compares then. Plus comparing tablets made today with consoles based on five-year-plus hardware is not a proper comparison. Let's see how they match up once the console refresh has happened.

Touch controls don't bother me because eventually bluetooth based controllers will be common once we get used to the idea of hooking a tablet to the TV.
Philly announces new $3.5M Startup initative
Women Beat Men At Coding
Show HN: Monte Carlo Simulation Tool (Knockout.js)
Fonts are horrendous under linux. Any workaround?
Pixelated as hell. And scroll leaves dirty traces (awesomewm may be the culprit)
Validation may be a positive side effect, but maximizing individual productivity is a subject of genuine interest for many people, myself included. Look at www.lifehacker.com. I don't think that website exists as a conduit for authors' self-esteem. Look at the success of Tim Ferriss. Examples go on...

OP clearly put a lot of work into researching various methods, tried them out on himself, and wanted to share the results, maybe even give back to the "productivity community." I appreciate that.
Name Server: NS1.VALVESOFTWARE.COM
Name Server: NS2.VALVESOFTWARE.COM
Name Server: NS3.VALVESOFTWARE.COM

Seems legit.
Which reminds me, why isn't having a single volume control a solved problem?
elimination of labor != post scarcity

We are physical beings with physical needs. We can't live on thin air, we need a basic input of energy and matter to survive. But our society is organized around private property. When you are born, you own nothing. So far, we've been exchanging labor in exchange or property. Once labor becomes valueless, the vast majority of people end up with no means to acquire property, which is essential for physically sustaining life. Something will have to give up, and I'm not placing my bet for the owner class suddenly having a change of heart and sharing their property with the rest of us. Which leaves the majority of people in a scarcer and scarcer world.
You're mistaken: Stack Overflow does collapse line breaks in posts. Example: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/152661/134300

It is a pretty common mistake for new users to make, though most of the time an editor will fix it pretty quickly and the user will learn.
Future of search? Hrm...

I just tried searching for Mesopotamia and the only results was LIFE photo collections. This feels more like the way research USED to be. Back when you would find keyword matches in magazines/books/periodicals and have to pull out the microfilm.

It was more fun than doing a google search and reading the wikipedia article. I don't know if I'd ever use this for hardcore research.
What has been tried in Australia is allocation rights -- X litres of water per year. The problem is that the market doesn't have coverage of the whole supply.

Plus you actually need derivatives to deal with the fact that ... um ... river flow varies from year to year. So some rights have to be more secure (and more expensive) than others.

The key though is that for the system to work it has to be enforceable against people upstream. Otherwise it's pointless.

We don't have that. That rivers cross borders is not a Federal responsibility is a known bug in our constitution.
I have to admit I have had some problems with submitting to the Windows Phone 7 app store, however when the app failed certification the tester included step by step walkthroughs on how re-create the problem. I was generally able to recreate the problem. However, more than a few times I could not and just re-submitted, and it passed. :/
We host the PDFs on AmazonS3, and use PDJ.js to render them on the page. To keep everyone on the same page, we use websocket events via Pusher.
Video would be quite different, so we don't have any plans for that now.
And it is not blocked in Hong Kong! Still one country, two rules...
£51 for 5GB of data, and unlimited voice and text. That's currently $82.

Compare:

$110 for 4GB and unlimited voice and text on Verizon & ATT, which includes tethering.

$90 for T-mobile's cheapest "4G" data plan, which is "unlimited" data, but not LTE, and has no tethering.

$80 for Sprint's crappy non-LTE coverage, but only 450 minutes of voice, and capped tethering. Otherwise $110 for unlimited everything, and capped tethering.

Sorry, but this must be a different definition of "really expensive" than I was previously aware of (hanging preposition be damned).
Why not just skip some lower level courses, and catch up using your free time?
T-Mobile's Pricing Dilemma
Which specific dataset from Paris' Open data are you mapping?
5 hours a day, 5 hours a week. I track my time in a simple spreadsheet labeled 1 to 20 at 15 min intervals.

If you aren't getting enough sleep then you're not scheduling your time. You need to create a schedule and stick to it and don't let others hold your time hostage.
Steam doesn't actually own Steam.com The current owners won't sell it.
Because computers and software work by linking together components often without sufficient communication between the pieces to easily centralise operation.
Github for Windows: I would send a pull request if I could
It happens in pockets of the US, too: Jerry Falwell's conservative Liberty University did a very similar thing.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/campus-overload/post/fal...

EDIT: mircocosm was a poor word choice
But is it plain text? If it is, then we can make an argument that html documents are as well.
I think just entering a random and temporary username would make more sense.
Yeah he just forgot the /s.
It would be relatively straightforward to build a custom chip for browsing the web that doesn't use memory or hard disk.

This sentence really needs a plan to back it up.

1) Building a custom chip is not ever straightforward. I say this as someone who has designed ASICs using appropriate high-level tools such as Verilog.

2) I don't understand how one could customize a chip for browsing the web. The modern web is inseparable from JavaScript, which is a general-purpose programming language and thus requires a general-purpose CPU somewhere. At best one could integrate, say, the NIC with the processor, but this is already commonly done.

3) I fail to see how it's possible for a web browser to operate without access to RAM. Page layout involves complex algorithms which are slow. Therefore their output (graphics) must be cached, or else the user would have to wait several seconds to scroll the page. Perhaps the author means to use a very large (tens of megabytes) on-chip cache, suitable for browsing a single web page, but that would inflate the cost of the chip beyond feasibility.
This is a huge debate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
I'd probably agree with the weak version that language does influence thought, although it does not control it totally.

If you're asking in terms of all-or-nothing, then I'd have to say yes. Animals think without words.
Define "great company".

Known risks and future returns are certainly correlated. Unknown risks (financial crisis meltdown) are obviously uncorrelated because they are unknown. You can't control for those, which is why you diversify.

What are you going to do when your "great company" has a horrible CEO scandal and sinks the company? That's an unknown risk that would be prevented by diversifying your investments.

Known risks (such as "can this company execute it's vision well enough to be profitable at 500m revenue/year?") are what you weigh against the return ("I personally think so, but the market doesn't, so I'm getting a discount on the stock price when it eventually succeeds").
I've been using a tethered iPhone 4 as my only internet connection for 18 months now. 250gb of downloaded games (Steam), iPlayer, youtube, and general browsing later - I can't help but wonder what the point of 4G is?

I could play MMOs without issues, browse without concern, and generally enjoy a very low hassle internet connection all for not much more than line rental + normal broadband.

I see the future as being fewer and fewer wires. But not whilst mobile phone companies charge heavily for data.

Edit: To be clear I am on Three, and pay £35 a month for the phone + calls,text and unlimited tether. Uncapped broadband comes in at £20 a month minimum including line rental
Anecdotally, I "feel" I get better definition in the music I'm listening to when my Mac volume is maxed and I adjust the listening volume at the speakers, rather than the other way around.
Dead hard drives... now what? [RAID 101]