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Just followed that thread again, and I think we're on the same side :)

I mean, when I say that I prefer deterministic memory management, that includes an automatic reference counting - smart pointers - which are now part of C++11.

On that thread, under my "deterministic", you assumed only "manual" as it seems.
I'm guessing the OP means: given the high stakes (environmental, financial, moral, and so on), why aren't governments more involved in this research? (They're already regulating and subsidising farming in pretty much every country of the world.)
I watched my brother grow up and his first word was "give me". Well, to be pedantic it was "dai", which means "give me". Given that it's a simple single syllable, it's somewhat in line with the article...

Edit: before you ask, yes he did know exactly what it meant. He'd point at things and say "dai", fully expecting you to bring it to him.
I would enable HTML5 in Youtube if it had feature parity with Flash. Not having a fullscreen option when embedded is what kills it for me.
Fair point.

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My real name is on the PDF and you can find a lot of information on me on Internet... Previous talks, where I worked... As far as I know, the PDF aren't backdoored (I'm also working on a HTML version), you can open in Google docs if you're not sure. For the ISO, I wouldn't waste a bug allowing to break out of VMWARE/Virtual Machine/...
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If Google had been less afraid of the GPL, Samsung would've been forced to share-alike. Instead, they can just grab the fruits of Google's labors, put some icing on top, and leave Google with a lesser product.
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Agreed.

Google needs to work on permissions more. They need to show granular-level permission details. Currently the permission details are very broad. Something like, why this "extension needs this-specific permission" clause during installation might help users.

Maybe the community can check if the extension or app is not malicious. And its not sending any data to remote servers. Recently I tweeted on the same to @google-chrome-team, they don't have a support team to even acknowledge back. :D
And I don't understand for what reason they stay in Twitter.
it's not a mistake, it's business decision.
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I think this is overstated. I switched from a Galaxy S3 to a Nexus 4 recently, and there are several ways in which I find the Nexus to be inferior.

Hardware:

- The Galaxy S3 is noticeable thinner and easier to hold.

- The hardware buttons lead to a more efficient use of space. The GS3 effectively has a larger screen, although the Nexus is roughly the same size as it has an empty, useless space where the S3's buttons are.

- I've never really felt/cared that plastic "looks cheap". It is highly light and durable, and doesn't slide in the hand and on surfaces like the glass Nexus.

Software:

- Samsung's settings toggle notification widget is very convenient, easier to use and with more options than the vanilla equivalent.

- Notifications are clearly separated into sticky and clearable sections, and clearable ones are chronologically ordered. I haven't yet figured out how stock Android organises its notifications, but so far it's been confusing.

- The camera app has several useful features like rapid-fire shooting.

Yes Samsung throws a lot of features at the wall, but they're largely inconsequential, and some of their changes are legitimate improvements.
It forced me to change my password, with no way to cancel the process :s
This is because our system of time is based the earth circling the Sun and works best for things to slice up a circle, 360 degrees, base 6.
College has been accessible for many students for decades, especially state colleges. When I went to a state college in the mid-90s it was possible for my middle class parents to pay tuition out of pocket without going into debt. That's not really possible today except for trade schools or community colleges.
And in Maori Papa is the Earth Mother.
He also worked on Microsoft's Kinect (Project Natal), as far as I remember.
I can't get past the first part. Modes aren't bad. Indeed, modes can be used to great benefit. The only problem with modes is one of discoverability. It can be difficult to know what mode you are in at times, as well knowing of the different modes available.

Of course, this is essentially true of the entire god damned computer experience. Knowing what programs, or modes, available is not an easy task for many to undertake.

To think that you can simplify your model of computers to the point that you can eliminate modes is to simplify your model to the point that it is useless for a great many things.

And to think that timed modes is bad misses an essential point. The vast majority of users do not want to be in these extra modes. Returning to a "default covers 99.999% of the users" is far from a bad thing. Of course, the first lesson many should be taught, but aren't, is not how to find these modes. Rather, it is how to completely reset the system to defaults.

And yes.... I'm a vim user.
I said mixed feelings because that exactly how I feel. It's more hesitant, but I suppose you could say I'm cautiously optimistic.
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Probably because making a full burger at this stage isn't really about research, but about getting publicity and support. Although who knows, maybe some good scaling techniques will come out of it.
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Hope so. Tricky road ahead.
I'm not really convinced by the examples given. I'd like to see the author come up with some suggestions on how you'd be able to use Photoshop without "modes" since to me it seems pretty much impossible.

In regards to the TV remote I don't see why buttons should be dedicated to functions that you are not going to use 99% of the time. Personally I'd prefer a smaller remote because I'm not going to be wanting to change the aspect ratio every half an hour.

Also who adjusts the Bass EQ while waiting at a traffic light anyway? You're most likely in the minority if you adjust the EQ on your car stereo at all, let alone adjusting it so often you find yourself trying to adjust it while at a traffic light.

I think really it comes down to simplicity. Sure, the user might, once, when setting up their TV get annoyed that the settings disappeared while they were trying to alter something but I'd much rather have a more convenient and simpler remote then having a billion buttons on it for every single possible operation. Plus I'm sure many of us have experienced the classic "I pressed some unknown button on the remote now x has screwed up" from family/friends who are less technically inclined.
The burden of proof is on you; further - I can corroborate everything about manufacturing even after woking in only a medium sized manufacturing firm.

People can't be fired, and as a result few people are technically employees of a firm - they are usually employed with a labor outsourcing firm that moves people out after two years or n-1 years, where n = number of years before automatic entitlement to provident fund/pension plans.

When I last heard it was something like n=3 years.

There is mass absenteeism if there's a festival or someone needs help in the fields, or just if people think that they can't be fired.

Did you know that your cash for payments of salaries of workers has to be within x kilometres of your factory?

It's one of many rules people don't follow, because there is a forest of rules.

Then there's strikes, and corruption.

To provide an idea of what the attitude difference is between people on HN and the people who have so far never really had to think of professional modern commercial systems :

There's a long way to go before the unspoken assumptions on the ground at a labor level closely match anything such as a forum like HN.

A banker went to collect a loan instalment from a farmer. The farmers reaction was "holy hell! Haven't they come up with a debt forgiveness scheme for it already?"

People still think that money can come from thin air, provided you have the connections to protect you or access to votes.

Why work when you can just make sure you won't get fired and are guaranteed an increment because of the union?

And the on the other side you have the firms- hemmed by 100s of laws to,protect labor, they yet find a way to do what they can/want.

The government has created internship program's which can lead to a certification, and I've heard of firms warping the system to convert it into cheap labor.

The article doesn't have numbers because the numbers are a search away and these are a group of known, fundamental facts.

The economist isn't supposed to make every article a phd dissertation or a full fledged wiki on the off chance that someone unfamiliar with the background material is unable to perform a google search themselves.
1) I'd say "being sentient" is a good definition for that. What exactly is sentient is left open to interpretation a bit, but I know big animals are, and I know plants aren't.

2) Eating meat is immoral, animals can't reason about morality, therefore they do whatever they do. Morality is the domain of beings intelligent enough to think about it. I consider killing animals immoral. That said, I do eat meat, because it's so tasty, in full conscience that I am immoral.
Double click?

I uses a stop-watch for random numbers.

God says...

3:13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before
the king.

3:14 Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden
image which I have set up? 3:15 Now if ye be ready that at what time
ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and
dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image
which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the
same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that
God that shall deliver you out of my hands? 3:16 Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are
not careful to answer thee in this matter.

3:17 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the
burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O
king.

----

God says...

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And some find it gross to eat animal flesh.
You're correct that it's a leader, but it's not from this winter. Look at the date on the article: May 11th, 2013. It's from the latest issue.

Here is the full briefing: http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21577373-india-will-s...
Thanks for the nudge! I did misread the hypothetical distribution the parent claimed. I definitely wrote that response in a hurry as a thought experiment to flesh out what the least bizarre rules for R.R. might be, but I was surprised by the vehement negative response.
Every time I've ever seen an article or report about some new flying car concept, I have pretty much zero interest in it. The flying car will only be a reality after the self-driving car. The reason is that although, I would personally love to have a flying car, I would under no circumstances want all of my neighbors to have one.

You can do a lot of damage with a regular car which is why we put fences and guardrails between our streets and buildings, but just imagine how much damage you can do if you add a 3rd dimension. It would be like visiting Flatland. No way the FAA is going to allow flying cars for the masses until they are basically self-piloting.
I would be interested in seeing the average school starting times for these countries. I always thought it was ludicrous that high schools had students waking up at 6:30am to get to a 7:15 am math class (Anecdotal evidence: this was my HS schedule junior year).
Do keep in mind the reason the explloding population is bad is not exclusively because of the raw number of people or the lack of food or power availability (both can be improved with tech) but more because the population explosion is in the poorest Indians in the most isolated areas who suddenly came into contact with basic medicine and health practice in the last 30 years.

Population explosions at the bottom always hurt economies, and you just never see them happen at the top for a plethora of reasons.
I don't know what actual article you are referring to, other than the one at the link posted.

> but it does state the numbers behind its assertions.

I mentioned the lack of some specific numbers for some specific assertions. Can you direct me to where they have covered that?

> ... is still journalism ...

If I were interested in labels, I'd call it yellow journalism.
Have large numbers of OWS participants been incarcerated?
If only D had Rust like reference counted embedded smart pointers... [for a deterministic memory management].

I think that would be much easy to add than C++esque `smart pointers as library`.
I agree, I'd argue that Photoshop is an expert system, it (rightly so) has a huge number of features and being able to have all these features without modes would probably make the app completely unusable.

With the TV remote however, I'd flip it around and say that realistically, you are going to be using the volume and channel controls 99% of the time, and so it does not make sense to change the functionality of those buttons depending on context.
Interesting. This really got me thinking:

"Dependence on pot isn’t a minor thing—imagine stalling the careers of a tenth of the U.S. workforce for a year—and we should certainly consider it in the negative side of the ledger when contemplating reform in drug policy."
Good effort
The conversion rate should still be fine for the apps who are asking for the installation.
Great post but author really should have said up-front that this text was a way to promote his new project "willthisfly.net". Probably doesn't affect the value but it does affect the credibility. Is an outsider's opinion valuable for startups? Maybe, but as founder of an outsider-opinion-service, you're biased, which is fine, but I would want to have that in mind reading the article.

And some feedback to willthisfly.net:

For it to have a chance to fly it need (more obvious) incentives for people to comment. Something along the lines of having to comment on three projects before you can submit your own perhaps?
This line of thinking drifts into uncomfortable territory relating to cannibalism of euthanized elders, after all if they're not sentient around the time of death and those at the bedside vigil are hungry ... Just saying that as a moral/ethical argument its a minefield, not simple.

As a worse example of the same path, castration of bulls has always been seen as "OK" for convenience in raising beef, none the less I'm thinking a somewhat higher "brain-ectomy" of livestock isn't going to fix everything up for vegetarians.
6:30? lucky :) Back in HS, my bus came at 5:45 AM. Class didn't start until 7:30, and my bus was regularly late (arrival at 7:35 or later).

Note that the school was 15 miles away from my home - just a very long meandering route through suburbia, picking up kids 1-2 at a time.
As a cs student, I must say that I'm very impressed. A dev kernel from the era where while(true); was absolutely forbidden cause of the lack of preemption in windows. Seems like a piece of History for me.

Would you accept to tell us more about what your team did, what were the goals and concerns about your system ?
Have you never used the Google apps on the iOS before ?

They are good but not significantly better than Apple's built in ones. Apple Maps may have less quality data but has a much better UI and uses a lot less data. Google Now is pointless compared to the genuinely useful Android version. Chrome is slower in most cases than Safari and not integrated with the rest of the OS. And really all their other apps simply aren't popular.

Unfortunately Apple just doesn't give third party apps any room to expand beyond its tiny little sandbox.
I've gone back and forth a couple times between omnivore and strict vegetarian, and personally I've concluded that meat isn't particularly exciting. It's just convenient and fairly cheap.

If this winds up being cheap, great. Regardless, I still prefer an interesting spicy black bean burger to anything made with ground beef.
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Do note that things were worse before.

There were famines, massive food shortfalls and terrible job opportunities.

But if you look at the power situation, there's still something like 89%+ of power requirements being met, with capacity being added constantly.

It's the southern grid that has the highest levels of supply demand mismatch with Andhra Pradesh having a 16% shortfall.

But that's an opportunity for firms to sell generators, which at least give people a chance to move ahead while the govt gets over being corrupt.
From what I've read (never been through YC), YC alumni seem brilliant. What do you think they should be doing that they're not?
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> it is just that it is hard to predict how much time they will take for a call.

The problem is not how much but when - you never know when GC fires and interrupts your running code. That is a nondeterminism.
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I'm rather tired of people reciting platitudes...

I just think it's incredibly rude...

All evidence to the contrary.
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Also, last I checked, Secure Shell relies on an NaCl plugin incompatible with the Samsung ARM Chromebook.
I would love to hear a more detailed writeup, or podcast, of the story of your business. I suspect many other HNers would too.
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Looks interesting. I have a couple new engineers joining our appsec team soon, so I'll give this a shot as part of our training package.

It certainly looks a step above the "standard" tools of reading documentation and trying lessons learned on things like WebGoat and Gruyere.

There's no substitute for experience and guidance, but this seems like it might be the next best thing. Thanks!
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Remote Controlled Turtle
Steve Jobs talks marketing strategy in a internal NeXT video
Ed Yong has long been one of the best science writers around.
I find it annoying that I still have to click 'load comments' several times in order to find my own.
> The burden of proof is on you;

For what claims of mine?

> People can't be fired

Ha! I have seen people getting fired all the time! Did you mean blue-collar workers can't be fired?

> I can corroborate everything ...

With anecdotal evidence?

> automatic entitlement to provident fund/pension plans

We are entitled to that from the very first day of employment, if the company has more than a certain number of employees. When we quit and go to another company, we are given the option of transferring it to the next employer.

> There is mass absenteeism if there's a festival or someone needs help in the fields

Anecdotal. I have not seen this.

> ... off chance that someone unfamiliar with the background material is unable to perform a google search themselves.

I mentioned specific weaknesses. Show me the relevant Google queries that you would use to get the data. It will be a learning experience for one of us.
As a US-raised Indian I'm not familiar with the macro details. But I've been living in India for the past few years working for a startup, so let me identify some low-hanging fruit.

1) Incredibly, shockingly poor hygiene. Dirty black rags being used repeatedly to dry plates at restaurants. Idlys being cooked on plastic sheets inside hot streamers. Infernoes of uncollected trash burning on streets. Rats and cockroaches everywhere including your toothbrush at night.

2) Utterly horrifying road conditions. Potholes large enough to cause motorcycle crashes every 100 feet. A culture of not giving the other motorist more than 6 inches on any side. Driving on the wrong side of the road, including on highways. It's incredibly stressful to think about your odds when you leave the house.

3) A political system that no-one is optimistic about. Stories are rampant of politicians buying votes by giving free household appliances away to the poor, and then doing nothing in office to help them.

4) An education system that isn't remotely good enough. Miserable professors, antiquated curriculums that churn out the IT coolies we're so famous for.

5) Congestion so bad you hardly ever leave a 5-mile radius. People tend to hang out based on which neighborhood they live in, because a trip to a friend's place more than 5 miles away can turn into an hour-long slog on terrifying roads.

6) A culture of being cheap. If you're only willing to tip your waiter 10 rupees, it may help out your savings rate, but it certainly won't help the waiter buy his kid a computer someday. Same goes for our beloved household servants, who get paid $150 per month at best, $40 at worst to clean our floors.

But to voice a conflict that everyone who lives here talks about, I'm not a pessimist about India by any means, because it's amazing how much the people of this country have achieved through individual hard work in the face of so many poor institutions.
Were you logged in?
Maybe you could open your mind a little? Sausage comes to mind as does all the Asian fish balls eaten by billions of people. If it's indistinguishable from ground beef that's great but if not I'm perfectly happy to eat it as something else if it tastes good.
You're missing 'Digicert High Assurance EV Root CA', which is breaking the whole chain. Looks like you're using Chrome on OS X, which uses the System CA trust store, so you should check System Roots in Keychain Access.app to see if the Digicert roots are still there for you.
Then they won't be counted either in the page load (Analytics was never run) or conversion figures (both Analytics and the conversion trigger will never run).
>...flying a few supplies in and out of Africa and other places with no roads.

Maybe you should re-word that.
Who would have thought?

..

Gobsmacked is the word that comes to mind. You be the judge of sarcasm.
Guides.js
I feel like this post has a bit of a strangely recursive backstory (as he explains along the way): he was helped by people from Youtube and Google to get hardware running Google operating systems so he could test their battery life while using a Google web browser to watch Youtube, a Google site, and the punchline is that you the user should flip a toggle in your Google/Youtube account.
Yep, this is a huge failure. I've made sure to tell all page admins I know to not enable it.
Of course there are things you can do with apps that you can't do with sites (though I guess HTML5 is looking to challenge this) - but the OP is talking about sites pushing app versions of themselves through modal blockers to the content she/he is trying to reach, not separate apps which couldn't be remotely realised as sites.
You need a way to deliver the warhead perpendicular to armour plate of the tank with sufficient force to disable the various safeties. If you don't accomplish all those things then the shaped charge will do virtually nothing to the armour plate.

As far as I know it's difficult to 3D print 88mm cannons.
This one, along with other blog hosts, bug me the most. I'm toying around with various blogging sites, looking to get back into the practice seriously and when I go to see how a theme looks on mobile and get the "INSTALL OUR APP!!!" pop-up, it's a great reminder that it's not MY blog.
Didn't Obama himself recently blame "kiosks and ATMs" for the loss of jobs? Seems to be the same line of thinking.