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um. i'm curious why using this results in a high false positive rate. google docs has dodgy connectivity??? would checking if yahoo.com is up first, before checking each url, reduce the false positives?
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So if they're not even allowed to use the words "open source", what is in your opinion the correct term for this?
No, and no. Unlike most Arab countries, we have freedom of speech.
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I love articles about the structure of systems of people. Tells me what might work in technology teams (or not). And I'm not afraid of controversial or political pieces, as long as the HN community can comet civilly on them.

But I had to flag this.

Why? Not because I disagree with the author, although I do. It's because the author has no understanding of how the American system of governance works or is so blinded by this latest manufactured political crisis that they're incapable of it.

Legislatures win out over executives, whether it's their special law or not. In the states we've had this discussion at the founding, and the reasoning then still holds. And laws passed by one Congress do not have to be funded or encouraged by another. If so, what would be the purpose of electing new people?

More to the point, it assumes that agreement is somehow more important than representation. That's a dark and dangerous alley to go down, one I hope to never visit in my lifetime.
Is there a reason this has to be an extension?

What is stopping it from being hosted on a webpage, which then loads flash files from URLs?

(Background: I need a way to let thousands of flash-based educational resources be usable on an iPad)
I also do not know if this is true. It seems safe to presume
that it is at least a mild benefit because it is cheap and easy to do.
If it were more costly in terms of child aide resourcing, then we'd have to look a lot closer at
whether we should divert resources to speak-to-the-child programs.

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Some schooling like Steiner education actively de-emphasises speaking to your children until 6+.

Steiner teachers would not answer a child with the factual answer, but instead posing another question.

Child: "Mum, why do planes fly in the sky?"
Steiner Parent: "I Wonder?"

The Steiner thinking is that by posing another question you don't 'crimp' the childs' creativity. This is strictly age related and once the child is a bit older the conversation becomes more mainstream.
I tend to agree with you, but here is the reasoning behind how Lua works:

- local by default weakens what you can do with the scope;

- we want something by default because the language is used for things like configuration files.

The 2nd point means this must be valid:

param_1 = "foo"
param_2 = "bar"

I would personally be happy to sacrifice that feature and add an explicit "global" keyword but not everybody agrees, and it would break a lot of code.

What we do instead is use two kinds of tools: static global detectors and strictures (like in Perl). Similar tools are integrated in IDEs as well.

With these tools, I have never had an issue with scoping in code I have written. But it takes a little time to get used to it.
I have a childhood friend who works on the news desk for the AlJazeera 24 hour news. He edits the footage shown across the world. He is allowed to decide what is shown and has told me he has less restrictions than working for many American news companies (which he has done in the past)

Get your facts straight and open your eyes.

>I read AlJazeera from time to time and find it mostly contains Arab propaganda

Do you say this because they disagree with your American imperialist views?
Good for you. I'd rather be in my office. I like delineating working space from fun space. I've worked a day a week from home for a few years. Every time I think it'll be a Good Thing and every time I regret it. And that doesn't lead to particularly good productivity.

I have a desk job. I spend a lot of time sitting. Who's going to shell out for a nice desk + chair? Who's going to pay for my internet connection? Heating costs?

Lots of problems can be solved by walking over to a colleague. More problems than I can think of are caused by remote working, including code quality.

You probably have the opposite point of view. Everyone's different. For lots of people an office is more suitable. For lots of people home is suitable. For lots of people a mixture. We do need offices.
In the abstract, sure; but what it was doing before was also "closure conversion". The interesting bit is in the specific implementation details.

Closures need the combination of code and data. There are multiple implementation strategies to pair the two together though. Delphi, for example, has implemented method pointers for a very long time as a pair of pointers, one code and one data.

When I added anonymous method support, that wouldn't fly because it doesn't handle account memory management (Delphi is not garbage collected). So I implemented a different form, using COM-style interfaces, where the code pointer is the first method after QI, Addref and Release. Since Delphi had auto-refcounting support for COM pointers, this solved the dynamic closure allocation problem; and since it was language independent, it solved the C++ interop problem.
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You don't seem to understand the sociological impact that such a discovery can have on society to take it as an argument, if you think that things will continue as nothing happened and people will accept it as scientists, as something normal, you are wrong.

People always searched for things like this but it never happenend, if it happened how do you thing they would react?

You also want aliens to land on your backyard or the president to say it on tv but you dismiss the fact if they are so advanced maybe they don't care talking to us and don't need to explain to us, see zoo hypotesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_hypothesis and the president will never tell this on tv because of the the first argument, even in the famous http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_incident case the military first released a press conference that said they found an unknown object and later they changed their statement, why do you think they changed their mind? They probably didn't thought about the consequences of the statement.

You can't really refute all the adbudcation experiences and people experiences without scientific research just because it seems unlikely to be true, a very small percentage of them are not hoaxes and they can't be scientifically explained.

It's sad that even at scientific level peope reject it as silly instead of looking at the facts and research it and gives us a scientific proof that this true or false.
It doesn’t have to be an extension, their demo page just loads the player as a JS file:

http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/iframe/viewer.html?swf=../m...
From where does Adobe get money from Flash? It isn't through the Flash Player plugins (which are already free), but it does get money from tools that create Flash content. So why wouldn't it make sense for Adobe to have made a move like this?
Minor (and off-topic) nitpick: An organization, a person, etc. is Arab, not Arabic. But Arab people often speak Arabic, which means the language.
Speaking of propaganda, I would rather watch Al-Jazeera over any USA news channel any day of the week.
A while back, I picked up an old introduction to statistics book from the 1950s, just out of interest to see how things were done before computers, and I remember that near the beginning, there was a cautionary tale.

It started out with a simple bimodal distribution and explained that it was the results of some student tests. The reason it was bimodal was simply that it was the results from two different classes, the "smart" class and the "others". And talked about how this is a classic way to spot that you are dealing with two populations.

Then it related the tale of First World War marksmen. It turns out that when they were training their sharpshooters, the results, when plotted, had a bimodal distribution where they were expecting a normal one. They took this to mean that there were such things as "natural shots": men with a natural ability for shooting. If they could identify early which ones were the natural shots, they could concentrate their training much more effectively.

But it didn't work. After they separated the groups, it turns out that not only did the "natural" group also have a bimodal distribution, but they actually didn't perform any better than the "bad shots". To cut a long story short, they discovered that the bimodal distribution was actually an artifact of the scoring system they were using. When they recalculated the data with a different scoring system, they had a regular normal distribution.

It's a simple story with a simple moral: you can't interpret your results if you don't understand your data. Maybe I'm wrong though; it's been a while since I did stats and I've driven most of it from my memory. :-)

Oh, and it's not at all sad that I buy second-hand statistics books for fun reading. It's just not.
Does encryption still work?
Almost all the stories about "Windows Phone" doing well in various markets, suggest that it's actually Nokia's brand that's doing all the work. A brand that Microsoft won't be allowed to use on future smartphones if the purchase goes through. That's got to be a worry.
> You say this, but it's not actually true in law

Can you post a link to those laws
The never ending nature versus nurture debate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_versus_nurture
Or, more correctly, you attribute to the author a lack of understanding of how the American system works, because you disagree with him. Meanwhile ignoring that the author, while writing this article for Al Jazeera, was a senior Washington correspondent for the Huffington Post and a White House Watch columnist for the Washington Post.
It's probably always a bit of both, but I'd say that level of success doesn't come without the necessary context (several things have to conspire for it to happen). Anyway, it's an inspiring story!
The approach seems to be along the following lines:

1. Fit a model (in the case Zipf's law) to a semi-related field (the size of non-financial companies).

2. Find that the model doesn't fit reality in the field you're interested in (financial companies).

3. Posit that your model is correct and reality is wrong, and invent over $30 trillion worth of invisible activity to account for the difference.

Alternatively... your model is just wrong?
Why is this called a HTML5 Flash player? What is HTML5 about it?
I think there might be a lot of complex Flash games out there that are written in AS* that would not be too easy to port to HTML5. Or at least it would be time consuming.
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The author is an american journalist, reviously worked for Washington Post and currently writes for Huffington Post.
Thanks for the correction! I'm not a native speaker, and there is no such difference in my language.
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<canvas> is an HTML5 element? :)
I guess "trails Android by only 70% in Germany" wasn't considered a catchy enough headline.

A 5 point increase from last year is certainly positive, but I think Microsoft is going to spend a lot of money to sustain that, and it's only going to get harder when they stop using the Nokia brand for smartphones.

Whatever Nokia was asking for those rights, Microsoft should probably have paid.
Nothing beats the ease with which the regular flash player can be blocked, and then occasionally loaded by mouse click as it works with flash block and the like. The danger of it becoming an extension is that it's now more difficult to have that block/override workflow. And there's always the dreadful prospect of people embedding it directly into their site, potentially leading to a new wave of blanket JavaScript blocking as a response.
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It's not because you pretend Flash doesn't exist that it disappears from the Internet.
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> I guess until the community manages to communicate, linux will remain mostly used on servers and by interested parties that want to configure everything.

So what? Why would (for example) the authors of the many different window managers specifically benefit from there being only one WM that fits them more-or-less well but allows more people in general to use Linux?

Or, put another way: Why should someone who is presumably an expert user (as they consider developing their own toolkit/WM/DE/audio server/foo) consider the implications of his decision on the mass-adoption of an existing piece of software he is trying to replace?
As the OP, I believe this post is consistent with the hacker news guidelines. As it states in the welcoming:

Essentially there are two rules here: don't post or upvote crap links, and don't be rude or dumb in comment threads.

It later defines deeply interesting as 'stuff that teaches you about the world.' I would by no means consider this a crap, or superficial article. I don't consider your comment necessarily rude or dumb; however, I do consider it misinformed.

The article does not posit the media should be subjective: it is rather objective in stating that the media is failing to state the reality of the situation. Another key example of comparative value is global warming.

The global warming debate taking place in the media is almost universally framed as a democrats vs. republicans, liberal conservative debate. It is not. The politicians getting quoted on mainstream news sources are not the experts qualified to be making statements regarding the human induced global warming debate. They are not actively publishing, and doubtfully reading the scientific literature published in dozens, if not hundreds of journals which nearly unanimously acknowledge that there is a high probability of humans having a noticeable impact on climate change. Yet, the scientists denying human induced global warming nearly all have either direct ties with or strong affiliations of companies and people whose interest is to fight global warming for economic gain.

This article essentially mirrors that same argument except replacing scientists, you may essentially think of the objective viewpoint having to do with constitution and law, not political divides.
It isn't "excluded". Just not enabled by default. I run Xmir on my laptop without any issues. Multi monitor support isn't there yet so my workstation still runs regular Xorg. The difference in user experience between the two is none.
This does not belong on HN
I don't get why they keep calling shutdown while it's a default.
Nope.
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That's a fair comeback, and I believe I was honest enough to give full disclosure.

I think the real question is how would I feel if the roles had been reversed. I think exactly the same though one can never be sure.

Back in the 90s, I made the personal decision to hold the legislature, specifically the HOR, responsible fort he spending incurred to run this country. That's my understanding of the way the system was set up, and, more importantly, that's how it appears to operate in practice.

So I have online commentary going back over a decade holding this same opinion. That's about as much bona fides as a person can provide.
Congress is perfectly free to pass laws overturning previous laws, get them through the Senate and have the President sign them into law. That's how the system works.

Congress should not be free to demand arbitrary changes to laws as a condition of funding unrelated activities or as a condition of not blowing up the world's financial system (the debt ceiling, in two weeks).

Do you really see these two options as equivalent?
> Yet despite all of your issues, Ubuntu is by now by far the smoothest desktop experience I've had, and I suspect that's the experience most users have. Pretty much everything just works,

Sorry, No. I installed Ubuntu for many of my friends and none of them had it after 2 months. My mistake, I fell for the propaganda that it would be somehow better and easier. But I installed ArchLinux for them with KDE and many of them still have it years later, and actually use it. The only problem is they dont upgrade any of their packages except firefox and chromium. It just works. Everything, digikam, gimp, clementine, firefox, kids games etc...

I guess the explanation is that people dont care really whats under the hood as long as it works, and marketing is a too strong force to see through. Canonical I believe has invested as much in marketing as in usability and testing.

Yes there are people out there who are not programmers or hackers who use ArchLinux for their day to day computing needs. You dont hear about them or them, because they are not on hacker news or reddit to discuss the latest Linus and Mir vs Wayland debate. Just happy users, who get frustrated when they have to boot into windows due to their wish to consume drm material, such as netflix, so frustrated in fact they stopped using netflix and found other services that arent digitally damaged. Amazing story right?

Also concerning GTK and Qt, here too the users usually wonder why the app look different, even though I spent some time making them look almost the same. It distracts just a little bit from the Kommon Desktop Environment when GIMP isnt pixel perfect.

Now with Mir and Wayland we will just have more of this weirdness, quirkiness and strange bugs. Why? Just because Canonical doesnt want to play nice with everybody else. Thats the reason. Its not technical.

> So either don't use those apps, fix them, or install Pulse Audio anyway. It's not app developers obligation to make things keep working on every bizarre configuration around.

And this is exactly the problem that Mir/Canonical introduce too GNU/Linux. Now we have more bizarre configurations to mess with and avoid.
Ok... without revealing too much, let us assume that I do have to "survive".
The other cool thing about this is that it could potentially bring back Flash compatibility on Linux machines since the official Flash support/updates was dropped in 2011.
If you are going to be pedantic, genetically we are not just descended from apes, we are apes. If you look at the evolutionary tree of the apes and monkeys, it makes no sense to consider humans outside the ape group. Chimpanzees and humans are more closely related than Chimpanzees and Gorillas for example.

The only reason we consider humans to be descended from rather than being apes, is that we don't look at the evolutionary tree from the outside. Biologically it makes no sense.
That's too black and white. Is there nothing that you would give your life for? There is nothing worth dying for? Maybe you should think less of convienience and more about living a life worth living.
I'm very impressed by the technology behind Meteor, I just wish it weren't quite so "opinionated". It relies on standard parts of the node/js web stack, it would be great to have a stand-alone library that supported DDP for front-ends and servers of the developer's choosing.
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Nope, it was very quick test on the mining profitability calculator, but those results were so good that I was instead looking into this;

http://mining.thegenesisblock.com/

Which gives much more realistic / complete analysis of the actual profitability levels available from the various ASIC vendors. And the end result is yes; it is clearly quite possible to be profitable, and there are a multitude of ways to be so, and ROI under half a year is almost par for the course.
Quote: "The step that converts N into an extinction time depends upon a finite human lifespan. If immortality becomes common, and the birth rate drops to zero, then the human race could continue forever even if the total number of humans N is finite."

This is a fatal flaw in the argument, and it only reveals the isolation of philosophers from the realities of everyday life.

If we achieved a basis for biological immortality, that would only mean we would all ultimately fall prey to causes of death besides age and disease, like accidents.

Let's say there's a sum of probabilities that could cause death apart from biological ones, like car and other accidents that annually claims (example) 1% of modern people. According to the Binomial Theorem, such an annual risk probability would claim 55% of people after 80 years of life.

Given that, then assuming removal of any biological limit to life span, that nonbiological factor would produce a death rate of 86% after 200 years and 98% after 400 years.

So even if we achieve immortality, we don't achieve immortality.

I think philosophers should all be forced to take a course in reality.
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Select "Never Activate" for the ones you don't want to activate.
Speaking as the protocol designer, the eventual intention for DDP is to model reactive data set publishing in a sufficiently semantic way that it can be cached by proxies. We didn't get there in pre1 and decided to not let that block Meteor 1.0, but it is the goal for the future when we have some post-1.0 breathing room (and when the Meteor community needs it.)

The idea behind DDP is that HTTP got us three huge benefits: (1) shared tooling (I can write a caching proxy, and anyone with a website can use it); (2) interchangeable parts (your client and your server can be built with totally different languages and frameworks); and (3) easy APIs (I can describe my site's REST-y API to you in a page or two). These days, a lot of sites are moving away from REST/HTTP and toward ad-hoc, custom publishing schemes that run over websockets or a HTTP long-polling transport that is emulating websockets. Since they use these ad-hoc protocols to move around data rather than something like REST, they lose (1), (2), and (3). But all of these ad-hoc protocols are basically isomorphic to each other. DDP is an attempt to nail this kernel of data publishing functionality down semantically to the point that you can get those three benefits back.

As an aside, what's the pressure that's pushing these apps away from REST? The two big ones are:

- They cache data locally and need to keep the cache fresh (say they are apps that run in your browser and never reload the page, or they are native mobile apps), and they don't want to poll for updates. And/or,

- They need to do joins and they care about latency. (When you are loading the news feed, you want to fetch the feed stories, the comments, and the userpic URLs in one round trip, not first request the stories, and then only once you have them request the comments.)

Also, many modern apps have verbs that don't map well to REST (a RPC like transferBalance affects multiple objects and doesn't map well to the idea of updating the representation of an object identified by a URL), and many modern apps need to perform some form of latency compensation (predicting the outcome of a RPC and simulating it locally to update the client's display while waiting for the server's answer, but then reverting to the authoritative outcome chosen by the server.)

DDP attempts to address these needs and run over a stream transport like websockets, while recovering some of the benefits of standardization that made REST so successful.