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> ECMAScript isn't a different language than Javascript

That's not true, Javascript is what is implemented in various browsers under the standards those developers choose to implement. If ECMAScript was the same thing, then why would Mozilla bother licensing Javascript from Oracle?

Considering all these tools are just development platforms for THE WEB? Shouldn't you be learning how the Web works so you know what you're actually building? No mention anywhere here of ports, REST, SOAP, caching (like I dunno, nginx which is now on what? like 75% of internet facing web hosts?)

These so called technologies are shit, as proven in various papers on the subject. All you'll be doing is laying the groundwork for your enterprise to get hacked and taken over by large corporations using older, more secure and proven technologies.
Another sucker duped by official numbers. Ask yourself, "What happens when nearly all the central banks in the western world print tons of money?" Then follow that line of reasoning and look at how official inflation figures are constructed. Then ask if there is a descrepancy. Bottom line, go do some homework on inflation.
[Firebase CoFounder] I'm sorry to hear you've had a bad experience. Regarding 2 & 3 - you're likely seeing interruptions due to new code deploys. We try to balance moving fast and deploying at off-peak times. Rolling deploys are coming soon and will fix this.

Regarding 1 - We only started charging a month ago.

I'm sorry you've had a bad experience with our integration software (I'm assuming you're referring to our Angular binding?) Angular is changing frequently, we work closely with the team at Google and try to keep up as fast as we can.
Both, but since he hasn't mnaged to come up with any pictures of how elegant BQP/unitarihedron is, his point is lost.
I think you misunderstand me. Rails nor Django are on any of the lists contained in the comment to which I replied to. I explicitly acknowledged their existence in the site that this thread is about.

edit: The point of mentioning that frameworks weren't included in any of those lists was in response to the parent reply questioning the popularity of the (ASP) framework as he /she didn't see it in any of those lists of language popularity that they cited.
The Descent of Microsoft
Pick a target that you can make worse/better depending on time constraints.

Focus on what is essential vs. What is nice.

Focus on your strong suits. Have an artist doing visual elements? Build the visual interface first.
No one is arguing that this isn't a good thing. The whole point of the article is that sometimes you cannot have good things. Such an establishment cannot survive (cover costs and liveable wages) in a place with high rent.
But wasn't the point of the other one that representing it as a multi-dimensional volume was novel? That had nothing to do with the name. What's the point of mocking the name?
He's not mocking the name or the finding, he's mocking the press coverage. This seems clear to me from the opening paragraph, maybe I'm missing something?
Since when did hard dollars validate works of art? People are buying games -- art will take care of itself.
Javascript based templating engines and the web don't necessarily mix. They are ideal for mobile, intranets or other known environments, but not something I'd use in this sort of environment. Right tool for the job. https://minus.com/ly4w7OtUMBvxX
The preparation method is vaguely similar (heat the grounds in the water), but it differs in the fineness of the grind, which makes a substantial difference. Cowboy coffee uses a coarse grind, roughly like the grounds you'd use to make filter coffee, while Turkish coffee uses coffee ground to a powder, similar to the consistency of cocoa powder. This results in some of it staying suspended in solution, and the rest settling into a sludge.
Your experience reminds me of an amusing open letter by a developer (original blog is down, I found a copy) to Developer Relations of RIM: https://www.memonic.com/user/ChrisPolus/folder/4738150b-bd22...
"And yet Texas is one of a dozen states out of 50 that still have a law banning atheists from office; sure it's not enforced, but it sends a message: atheists aren't welcome here."

It's things like this that give atheists such a bad name: willfully taking offense at something that is clearly just vestigial legislation.

Much as I enjoy seeing our legislature inaction, I prefer they don't waste precious cycles on updating such clearly antiquated codes until they become an issue, for real, in practice.

As for the others, you probably just haven't heard of them yet. Terrifying, no?
Neat. This is what Wikipedia has to say:

"For the groom's coffee, the bride-to-be sometimes uses salt instead of sugar to gauge his character. If the bridegroom drinks his coffee without any sign of displeasure, the bride-to-be assumes that the groom is good-tempered and patient. Indeed, as the groom already comes as the demanding party to the girl's house, in fact it is the boy who is passing an exam and etiquette requires him to receive with all smiles this particular present from the girl, although in some parts of the country this may be considered as a lack of desire on the part of the girl for marriage with that candidate."
I'm still confused by this though. Their market cap right now is about 1.5 billion. If GTA 5 sold $1 billion in 3 days, does that mean their whole valuation is based on this one single game??
They could have addressed the issue and it doesn't matter if it was the warranty or some other mechanism. eg all they had to say was that if bluetooth failed on that model then they would replace the phone or give you a certain amount of credit towards a new one.

Bluetooth is critical functionality for anyone who commutes by car, and those who talk a lot. It isn't some rarely used side feature. A phone where this stops working is very notable, a huge pain and you are forced to resolve it almost immediately.
Why Are You Solo? - On Taking Advantage of Yourself
Microsoft's direction under Ballmer has been underwhelming, especially the lack of innovation in the tablet and mobile spheres. I'm curious to see if his successor is someone future thinking and if he/she will be able to bring Microsoft back into the limelight.
I don't see how he's mocking the coverage and not the concept itself. Shrug.
"Well, I wrote a python script for this thing once..."

These are still subjective qualifiers though. Useful for who? Useable by which audience? I can easily do both given no other constraints (especially ignoring time). Useful and usable, but never used because chances are someone's done it better and there's no reason to reinvent the wheel.

Other answers I've received have piled additional frameworks or languages on top of what I already know, or suggest specific projects that encompass a wide range of requirements.
They won't need to rip out anything. That's the point. The protocol AD uses to communicate to clients IS LDAP. The authentication technology it uses IS Kerberos.
I had a meeting with a BB VP in 2009. I had seen my friend's HTC and asked what we were doing in response to Android.

He asked me, "What's Android?"
No, you might want to re-read what I said about the rootkit thing. I'm saying you understand the compulsion to "call out" a bold claim. The joke was supposed to be me claiming that I have an undetectable rootkit, and you will then be sent on a highly publicized mission to debunk that, which was in fact referring to the Blue Pill Drama. That's actually where I first heard of your company, and when I first came to HN and saw your name, I recognized you as "the rootkit debate guy with the company that I sometimes accidentally call Monsanto". </joke explainer>

I'm a bit surprised that you aren't just saying "haha, ok, looks like I called that one wrong." You actually say that you don't care if I think you're wrong. You are not a good sport, sir.

I don't feel like I detracted from Matthew Green's blog by commenting on an unrelated site. Also, I'm going to play the "everybody else came here to say the same thing" card to dodge any guilt.

But who are you kidding? Every crypto thread on HN is about you, whether you like it or not. Most HN readers hit the comments like before seeing the article, just to see what you have to say about it. I know because I'm one of them. That's not a complaint either, I rely on the expertise of others to balance claims put forth in articles being circulated, and you and marshray are awesome commenters for that reason, because you kind of act as a bridge between academic crypto people and non-crypto security people.
Eh, I suspect there were people who thought the same as you when Shakespeare packaged up Greek mythology and fart jokes for the unwashed masses.
Oh no, someone is wrong on the internet. It must be a big conspiracy to bring down Bitcoin by overstating the miniscule amount of money that's paid for clickvertising, because there's no way a math error could creep into a fluff article. Obviously the foes of Bitcoin will never rest until they have made us associate it with homelessness. Or something.

This exemplifies what's wrong with the cult mentality surrounding Bitcoin; what was probably a simple error is recast (absent evidence) as a deliberate untruth, despite the fact that the story was basically positive reporting about Bitcoin.
And yet every news release about the game mocks the horrific violence of the game and the neckbeards that play it. The generation and cultural gap between the news media and today's youth, especially young men, is astounding.
Critique doesn't always explain reproduction. That's more like a bug report I think. Actually saying what's wrong is describing that the UI has a clear problem with z-index. I would understand if someone was trolling the Apple bug submission process, but they aren't; they are pointing out flaws with clear visual examples.

I disagree that critique must inherently describe the problem. Sometimes, the problem is fairly self descriptive, especially with what this blog provides, which is obvious issues that most of the blog's audience will immediately understand as "sloppy" - that is, I shouldn't have to explain why the z-index issue is sloppy to justify my criticism, but if you want a bug report, I can explain how I got there.
Where does Apple get off deciding not to sell to the guys he was paying? Are they also trying to identify the people just planning to sell it on ebay five minutes later? (http://www.businessinsider.com/gold-iphone-5s-ebay-2013-9). Maybe only people with a tattoo of Jobs should get one? Or maybe the Apple store employees should stick to their job as retailers and just sell it to anyone who waited in line and gives them the cash, and if the company really objects to people flipping their consumer toys for cash, they can make enough of them available to meet demand.
Are you saying that his points about how non-collapsible comments shape the discussion topography are not valid?
18-25 is a really silly criterion.
Chaotic scene outside Apple store where man recruited homeless to buy iPhones
Also, classic games do get "HD refreshes" to re-release them for new media. How many times has Super Mario 1 been updated?

Also, today's movies seem to eschew the kind of prioritizing that would create timeless classics you'll still watch in 10 years - I mean, I enjoy today's movies - I'm no snob. But the writing is utter crap. Seriously, how do you drop 9 figures on making a film and cock up the script so thoroughly?
Agreed. That's just staggering. It's been quite a while since I saw an industrial firm go into such an abrupt and severe decline.
Human ethics are a construct of individual human minds. What "universal" ethics? You're misinterpreting my words if that's your response to them.
The rough standard is basically that data must be provided by airlines to authorities at the point of landing at least 15 minutes before departure. In practice they probably provide it earlier.

I did some FOIAs in to this stuff with the EU recently @ http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/information_on_pnr_agreem...

My interpretation was that the picture the response painted was of five eyes nations all hitting up the EU for their passenger data. Right after the US got their claws in Australia was in there and the US utilized its grand experience with bureaucracy to ensure the EU Data Protection Supervisor didn't even have time to review the proposal before it was passed.

After that query, I updated Wikipedia's info over here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_name_record#Internat...

The lesson here is that you are wary of authorities for whatever reason (and we probably all should be), then you should seek to avoid pre-booking flights (or ships) ... just turn up and buy a ticket instead ... and preferably avoid long haul flights at all, certainly those terminating in countries with dodgy authorities, if you can afford to do so.
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Although I can't speak for YC, I can provide some info from the applicant side, specifically those outside the existing community.As an Aussie putting in an application for W13 we're geographically and somewhat ideologically separated.
We've spent the last 3 months getting to beta and reading these articles is what's spurred our interest to apply. For those outside the immediate community, it's a great bridge, plus what zeckalpha said!
If you read some of the links in the first paragraph you'll get a feel for the intent of the article. Aaronson probably expects his audience to follow traditional physics sources. See for example:

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=6260

Yesterday in QFT class the professor [0] explained the name by saying that the guy who came up with it was a "very good salesman". The reality is that probabilities can in a great deal of cases be expressed as the volume of something in some phase space, for a trivial example, consider the area under the curve between two x-values on the normal distribution's probability density function -- it's the 2-volume of a section of the Gaussiohedron.

So after branding quantum information science as the study of the "unitarihedron", Aaronson dragged out one of his more miraculous results, which is that PP is closed under union and intersection as a direct result of PP = PostBQP, where PostBQP is a complexity class derived from BQP using an idea called postselection. That proof was actually in his dissertation (if I recall correctly), written in 2006, and it was an extremely impressive proof which did not use a word like "unitarihedron" to describe its methods.

So, while it was a joke, if you read the article in the context of the physics community's reaction to the amplituhedron story, the included proof really just helps to drive the point home.

The methods now called "amplituhedron" have been under continuous development for the past ten years or so. My QFT professor[0] seemed sort of enthusiastic about the development. They do seem to represent a step forward in our understanding of quantum field theory, though the reaction of the media has been, in the eyes of some commentators, characteristically buzzword-driven.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predrag_Cvitanovic
The article is definitely satirical and points out the futility of any -Hedron based device regardless of its theoretical truth. You can't calculate the volume of a fractal in fact some fractals can be proved to have zero volume!
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I agree that art takes care of itself. As much as I believe that some video games are works of art, I could not care less if there is nobody else in world that agrees with me.
love it.
Can you give an idea of what tech are you using for this.
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There's a HUGE culture behind Turkish(/Greek) coffee, and tons of details on making it.

A better machine could mimic the technical part (not that anybody makes them like that currently), but the very idea of a machine making it is against the whole philosophy of drinking it.

It's like making love to a plastic doll.
This is the machine learning principle that the more a model explains the less accurate it is.
Actually, roasting (from green -> finished) takes ~15 minutes commercially, and when I looked up "tradtional turkish coffee roasting"[1], the first useable link said up to ~20 mins (roasted in an oven).

Is there a traditional method that takes hours ?

-bch (commercial roaster in a former life)

[1] http://turkishcook.com/turkish-coffee-roasting/
> eval(x)

Sort of like the number omega, which contains in each digits proofs to every theorem, but is not computable:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin's_constant
So the first FORTRAN program was run 3 years before the first FORTRAN compiler was delivered. Was the program manually translated to assembly/machine code?
If you pull em1 and add a new card in its place does it come up as em1 (incorrect) or em2?

Am I misreading, or do you mean to say that if you replace a failed part, the ‘correct’ thing is for the replacement to come up with a different name so that the box stays out of production until someone can manually reconfigure it?
If you're like me and escape your spaces instinctively (e.g. "Progressive\ Rock" instead of "Progressive Rock"), it won't work. Hold back the desire to press the "\" key.
I take it that 'BitCoinTapper' is really just a way of collecting human click entropy to feed into a click fraud engine?
> Most of your list is just the fact that FreeBSD has a giant ifconfig binary instead of separate tools for different features. That's mostly a taste issue.

No, its not that.

It clearly shows how fragmented Linux ecosystem is..

On Freebsd, on the other side, if a new kernel/OS feature
is created, the enginner/designer of that feature can count on, create (or modify) existing tools in the userland, cause he knows the userland will ship together
with the modified version of the kernel(or dinamic module)

It gives the whole system, a consistency; not easilly found anywhere else,
much less in Linux.. if you start to use Freebsd for some time,
you will just note this..

It gives you a better, and consistent experience,
and i think is this what Unix should look like..
To be extra literal:

Café 220

220 Univ Ave, Palo Alto

Has Turkish coffee and you won't be rushed out the door.

Also usually comps tea if you order something for dine-in.

Veggie mousaka and falafel wraps FTW.

(Gotta plug my friends, after all.)
That's actually where I got the idea most clearly expressed to me in school; I just figured the Javascript thing was a bit more approachable, and conveyed what I was trying to say accurately enough.
Why we said no to $200k
Any computer with sensitive files should have them encrypted, or preferably have your entire hard drive encrypted. They should also be backed-up in case the computer is lost, stolen, destroyed, or seized.

If a person or company keeps sensitive files on an insecure computer, then that company/person should be at fault.

If you send sensitive data over the internet then it should be encrypted. If not, then companies, governments, and other organizations could easily grab that data.

In reality though, there are millions of completely insecure computers and devices which carry data that could harm companies, individuals, or governments if compromised. Educating the operators of those machines and ensuring that they properly secure them is very difficult. The best method would be to have hard-drive level encryption on all devices, make sure people know how to properly backup data, and to educate people that they can easily say, "I don't know the password, I'm suppose to call my IT manager after I arrive at my destination and he will provide the password."
Remember the interview show HotSeat with John McChesney? Ah, the early days of Real Player.
Will be missed. Learned how to make my first homepage and how to use Flash 5. Remember this[1]?

1. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lAXqRCQ-u9U/Tk64A0f97II/AAAAAAAAAo...
I'm not sure the dismissal as obvious is warranted. Yes, it's obvious once you break it down into those terms, but you're waving away the part that's not so obvious: that offering a product that's easy to make and patrons want can be economically disadvantageous enough for a business to decide not to offer it. You've filed that under "business reasons", but the specific business reason is the whole point.

Still, it seems to me like this shows a severe lack of creativity on the part of the business. A smarter way to do it would be to offer the Turkish coffee alone at an outrageous price that would deter people from ordering it and sitting around. Then you offer a deal where it's reasonably priced if ordered with a meal. That way 90% of the customers you want are happy, and the customers that take up tables for hours go elsewhere.
There are very different learning types. I for one am very bad at memorizing facts and forget them quite fast after not using them any more, no matter at which age I learned them first. Concerning mental arithmetic, I was quite good in 5th and 6th grade, but now I am painstakingly slow even with simple multiplications like 7•8 ("Seven times eight was something like fifty-six, right? Let's check, so seven times seven was forty-nine, forty-nine plus seven… yeah, fifty six"). I just don't typically have to solve such problems at this time in my life (the closest I've come to needing arithmetic in the last few months was when I was studying Galois theory). But at least I am confident, that I can train myself, should the need arise.

The most frustrating experience with memorizations in school were poems for me, because it always took so much effort and even while I was slowly mastering it I knew it was all for naught, because in a few weeks everything would be gone again, even with those that I actually liked.
A good metaphor here is angle of attack. If you try to fly at too steep an angle of attack, you just stall. If you say right out of the gate that you want to raise a $5 million series A round, unless you're in a very strong position, you not only won't get that but won't get anything. Better to start at a low angle of attack, build up speed, and then gradually increase the angle if you want.

Seems the anologies come in handy, though. He's basically saying momentum needs to be respected. And key inflection points, once missied, may not re-appear.
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Looks like much of the share was actually taken from Android
I know where the assertion about the round corners comes from.

Are you seriously claiming that this is all that Apple has contributed to the design of modern smartphones?
Chrome for iOS as well.
I prefer this sort of interface any day compared to a bloated AJAX-y web interface that kills my browser.
I don't necessarily think that I am more valuable than they recognize, it's more like I'm being pigeonholed and I think I want to try other things. Thanks for your thoughts though. It's good to hear the perspective of someone who runs a company.
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Ghostery blocks it.
For virtual prospectors, life in the Bitcoin mines gets real
Do you recall all the marketing for "Duke Nukem Forever?" That was a huge steaming turd that no amount of marketing could fix.
This is absolutely fantastic! I'd love a native Alfred style Option + Space interface so I could quickly chop and change between the music because having to switch to Chrome then the right tab is cumbersome. This is really great however, excellent job.
ARMv8 in this case is just an instruction set spec.

Apple's implementation is very much something to steal, given that it outperforms everyone else's.
I got Lyme disease last year, from an undetected tick bite in my back yard. Fortunately, it was diagnosed in time for the antibiotics to knock it out. I was annoyed to find out from my vet that I can get a vaccine for my dog, but not for me or my human family members, and that the reasons for this are irrational and non-medical.