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Indeed at the moment I have nothing to support it. Half a year ago I had dozens of examples. Now it is more or less experience. In v8 I had two weeks ago some strange deoptimizations behavior in my code. It was almost gone after I exchanged two >>> operations. So in my experience it is still better to avoid such cases. No one knows really how the JIT compiler are working. What makes it worse. The behavior is changing every 6 weeks. And don't forget: Out there is more than Firefox and Chrome ;)
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Thank you! Much appreciated. The last time I looked at these kind of wheels they were big enough to require some modifications to the chair itself - looks like even wheelchair technology gets a boost from time to time.
I would imagine they a/b tested this quite extensively and have data that smiling people's faces cause whatever metric they are measuring to be at a better point than a plain login page. It'd be interesting to see how much.
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as they should be!
Wow. That is one hell of a valuation. If Yahoo! were to capitalise on Alibaba IPO'ing and if it's a massive success, then it would provide a nice little buffer of cash for the next few years for Yahoo! to re-establish itself in the web space once more like it currently has been.

An interesting thing about Alibaba is that you never really hear of it in Australia, nor anywhere else, but this silent company is absolutely nailing it.
Looks like a fun thing to do - especially when gamified. Execution is a bit off though. The reply process is way too complex: if you need my email and a username for no clear reason, make me sign in or let me do it anonymous. Way too many required fields for responding - I can imagine that sometimes you just want to post a word without further explanation or detail.

The design could use some streamlining, too. It looks like some spammy Q&A site now.
To add a little more info to that article ("The app basically packages WINE and Netflix into a simple little desktop app"), the package basically shows you the Netflix site in a Firefox frame with the silverlight plugin installed.
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> Responding to that statement the way you did is pointless. It's like getting angry at the doctor who tells you the cancer you have is almost certain to kill you.

Disagree. It's like getting angry at the doctor who tells you your two pack a day smoking habit is incredibly bad for you, and may well result in cancer or emphysema.
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right, that makes sense....
BackupPC[1] does this by using pull technique to backup your data.

[1]: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Thanks for the insight.

Every major publication runs a piece just like this every few years. The exotic countries and methods always differ somewhat, but the formula is always the same. It's the pseudo-intellectual version of the filler/cover-baitait articles on new ways to become heart healthy, or inventions that will change the world, usually done well in advance and saved for slow news-weeks.

Not that the subject matter isn't of value, but it's always oversimplified, and oversold.
I liked my high school experience as well, but I went to this school: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-B_Woodlawn

But I did attend elementary school in Japan (and had cousins who went to high school there at the same time I was) and while they may have achieved a proficiency higher than most americans, the freedom granted to me at my high school allowed me to do even better - and I was given a decidedly non-standard education emphasizing critical thinking and questioning of authority.

This served me exceptionally well in college, and on through grad school and postdoctoral studies. Perhaps this is a bit of an overgeneralization, but almost all of the East Asian postdocs that I encountered did not, outwardly, exhibit as critical a stance towards data and evidence as did american postdocs - with the generalizeable exception of the East Asian postdocs who did their grad school in the States.
I fail to see how that is a more simple solution. Teaching people how to think is both an educational and cultural challenge which far exceeds the trivial challenge of outsourcing work.

People have a wide range of different responsibilities (self, family, local community, humankind etc). I don't see why Polish people are morally any less deserving of jobs than Oklahomans. This company clearly thinks the Polish are more capable of doing the job. Who are we to say otherwise?
Irrelevant. What does it make the CEO and board is the interesting question.
The IRS interface is working fine [1]:

Sarah Hall Ingram, the director of the IRS's Affordable Care Act office, told a House panel Wednesday that the IRS hasn't experienced similar problems.

"The portion of the responsibilities the IRS is in charge of is going fine," Hall Ingram said.

[1] http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implement...
> The fascination with technology rather than just to solve the problem at hand via the shortest critical path is a thing that has been puzzling me for a long time

Exactly. And fascination with technology is important, it is what keeps people learning and searching, finding better tools. The problem with it, is it has a pathological side.

Like the tool analogy, just because I found an experimental, electronic, automatic nail gun, voice activated, with blinking lights, doesn't mean I should use it when building my own house, if all I need is to hammer a few nails, a regular trusted hammer will do.
can I suggest a better layout? the title fonts are huge
A very insightful article. Once I started reading it, I got hooked. I started searching for references on Wikipedia etc. Now I want to become a Physicist.
"Highschool felt at best a dungeon, and at worst a torture chamber." I had a largely similar experience, though my method of coping was a bit different. Simply put, day in and day out, I would try to manipulate systems as best as I could and raise hell.

Every teacher had figured out a system that they wouldn't deviate from. Spend the first two weeks of each class studying how the teacher behaves and befriending the students, and you're set for the rest of the year. From staging an "essayist uprising" in AP Literature complete with founding documents that closely mirrored the Communist Manifesto, to forcing use of sexual innuendo in every sentence in a class with a particularly senile teacher, to starting a "barefoot" trend (which was strictly against the rules but I hate shoes) high school was a huge game and a joke.

I feel I learned a lot from it, but almost never from the actual material. The pace was so mind-numbingly slow that I could spend my days plotting and sneaking out windows, while learning what really worked to influence people. Come test-time I could read the book for 15 minutes the day before class and do fine, or even just notice the patterns in the teachers' awful test writing and follow it throughout. High School, at least academically, was a complete joke.
So there goes my tax money. And am still struggling (for the past two years) to save up some chunk for a phone.

Just another point to prove that salaried class Indians are the most abused bunch in India.
Supplemental reading: Linus Torvalds's (from Finland) opinion of American schools: https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/J1NCgKQi55X
Hangouts you would expect people to be smiling and happy, that's the product.

Google Analytics though, a bigass testimonial with random people smiling is very offputting.
Normal users just set them without thinking twice about it.

Do you know one of the most asked questions in Mac OS X user forums from new users is how to disable root?
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I just ran Bellard's JSLinux (#) on my retina iPad with iOS 7. It works! Booting took 15 sec. Claims 20 bogoMips. And I can type the commands in it and execute them:

First I tap to the edit box on the right, the keyboard rolls in, then I tap in the "console." The commands work. I just don't know how I'd type ctrl-Keys without the physical keyboard.

Copy.sh ends with unimplemented GP handler however for anything I've tried.

#) JSLinux: the PC emulator is written in Javascript with the emulated hardware: 32 bit x86 compatible CPU,
8259 Programmble Interrupt Controller,
8254 Programmble Interrupt Timer,
16450 UART,
Real Time Clock,
IDE interface and hard disk. http://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html
I really like your tutorial. I been trying to learn assembly and your tutorial is really helping me put the big picture together. I hope you continue to work on making it better.
Was I the only one who found no evidence in this article about 'teaching children to think'? There was some discussion about metrics (such as PISA) but that is not, to me, any sort of evidence about the ability to think.
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Oh come on! It's a classic case of out-sourcing, isn't it? Workers in Poland get paid a lot less. The min wage in Poland is €384 per month (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_wages_by_count...) or $525 at current rates, while the minimum wage in the US is $7.25/hr (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_Sta...) - or for a 40 hour week that'd be $1160. I don't know what taxes would do to that, but we're looking at double the rate in the US.

If on top of that Poles are better educated, that's great. Plus Europe needs jobs. But I'm sure the primary concern is the bottom line. BAMA could staff the factories in Oklahoma if they could get away with paying the workers $4/hr.
Do you know about JUCE?

http://www.juce.com/about-juce
Yep, still for sale on the Chinese Apple store: http://store.apple.com/cn/buy-iphone/iphone
If we take the sutras attributed to the Buddha as coming from one being, it would be laughable to think that this utter non-person would require anything to alter an already complete experience.

Repeating myself, but the same goes for the great mystics past & present. As to what they did prior to awakening, perhaps some did take hallucinogens, but given that none of the extant teachings suggest ingesting external substances, we can conclude that hallucinogens are non-essential to awakening.

In the west, where materialism reigns, many of us grow up spiritually bankrupt and turn to strong experience (hallucinogenic intake in my case) as a means to fill the void. Provides a much needed break from technology and rational thinking, but not convinced that this does much more than spin the wheels in place.
Well you DO need a school to learn to read and write. Atleast for a few years. Otherwise their won't be much learning on your own :)

And about declining school: there are does that decline them trough reasoning, and other due to being lazy...

The most important thing to teach a child, any child, and you need to get this one right: self-reflection/evaluation: what am I doing, what effect will this have?

Get that one right, and you won't need to do a lot of parenting at all after you got that one down. (Well for my parents at least.)
Wow! I didn't expect it to take off like this! Hopefully, everyone is able to access the site okay now...

We're very new still, so we very much appreciate the feedback and comments so far! I know you guys are a very knowledgeable group of people, so any other comments and feedback that you might have will absolutely be added to the backlog!

Thank you all so much!
I've noticed a quite a few landing pages going for the "large photo of generic smiling person" (usually female) concept in recent times. This page, healthcare.gov, basecamp.com, and many many others. Kind of amazing/sad (though not surprising) that your average human can be persuaded with this kind of gimmick.
According to the IRS.
Please forgive my trouble googling this, but what is "A&C style"?
Basically, we'll soon be able to download more RAM!
This looks nice. I really like the paragraph rearrangement.

I kinda wish there was a paragraph split operator; dupe the paragraph and you delete some (different) text from each.
There is a very important reason for it.

Qt needed to be portable across several compilers and OSs, even before the ANSI C++ standard existed.

Contrary to what many HN folks think, there are more compilers out there than just gcc, clang and visual c++.
This is very similar to my experience. I did very well in the first 4-5 years of my schooling, but afterwards I coasted through with as little effort as possible. I spent my time reading, writing, surfing the internet, writing more, arguing with people, writing still. I played in a rock band, I organized concerts, did stand up comedy. Almost everything meaningful I learnt, I learnt outside of the curriculum. I learned to appreciate the beauty of mathematics from YouTube.

Today, I make a living using the skillset that I developed outside of school. I don't even have a resume. I was headhunted through my blog.

I think this is something that's going to happen a lot more. People Google for almost everything else, why not for employees?

School was never about learning- it was about indoctrination, subordination, assessment, sorting and daycare.

I'm biased, as you might be, but I think learning is something that's going to happen primarily outside of school- especially now that everything outside of school is so much more interesting and compelling.
What's with the blogspam?
It still wonders me the amount of IT folks unaware of Powershell.
How to deal with bad code?
Its not just Gmail, they started doing this with other products too. Whenever I access Google Analytics [1], even if I am already logged in, it takes me to a page with a huge picture of a person smiling where I am supposed to find a tiny button that says "Access Analytics" inorder to access my account. I can understand such marketing material for new visitors but why on earth would you force this on existing customers???

[1] http://analytics.google.com
Makes you wonder which other news outlets are in the pay of the governments. BBC?
I have question: If DVD encryption was broken several years ago, why is it still used?
> It's possible to describe something without agreeing with it.

GP was not simply describing - they were excusing. "Oh well, some corporations are evil, don't complain, it's not their job to be good corporate citizens."

Actually by calling out and disagreeing with this behavior we can change it. The most effective way is through strong regulations, but the current US government system is broken and flawed. But at the very least we can use websites such as change.org and sumofus.org to put pressure on bad corporate actors. Hell, we quite often see the same thing happen on HN in miniature when someone makes a post calling out a company - and that company is forced to respond to the resulting negative publicity.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people do nothing", and all that.
Yes, analysts are predicting that Apple will take 100% of the iPhone and iPad market.

In reality, iOS market share in Europe is around 18% compared to 70% for Android; China is similar. In the USA it's 35-50.

I can see why Mozilla and Jolla are chasing the developing World markets; the market positions in the mature markets are pretty static now and are unlikely to fluctuate much. Anecdotally, people upgrade their phone on longer periods now ( three or four years ).
Neat.

I was fortunate to attend an over-achiever public hs with half a dozen perfect SATs and full rides to Ha'var-d. The prevailing view was "legally-mandated prison, CWOT." The best thing was finding ways to take classes that allowed more time off campus and coding time in the computer lab (eg total anarchy.) I'd never have wrote a friendly TSR virus that included hotkeys for a calculator and an ASCII table if it was "EZ-bake oven" rote instruction. Also, private school (Challenger) for K-3 probably did some good.
Logically speaking: existing customers are going to spend the cognitive effort to hunt for the button. There's a reason most companies don't A/B test login screens.

(That's not to say that you shouldn't A/B test churn, but...)
That wouldn’t work. People subjected to this would:

1. Immediately kill the messenger, and

2. Continue to open executable mail attachments, because nothing bad has ever happened that didn’t work itself out in the end.
In science approximation is so common there's a required notation for experimental measurement for it. Perhaps they're just accept that sooner than us.
not as if users care about watching out before setting +x.

After all, there are tons of popular projects requesting users to run "curl http://... | sudo sh" and consider that a good idea, too.
>As long as Gmail itself remains minimalistic

Unless you're using the basic HTML view for Gmail, I don't see how Gmail is minimalistic.
http://thepiratebay.sx/ ?
I admit their search function is terrible, but it has nearly everything. They've had great uptime for a while now too.
"how many other smart people have been ill served"

In fact this line of reasoning always leads me to question things like "smart" altogether. What is smartness, really, but the ability to navigate ideaspace and execute in meatspace? And how much of ability is trained, practiced, nourished?

Sure, there's always some variance, but it makes you think.
I thought it was related to my multiple accounts, so im glad to see I'm not crazy. I still have no idea how that woman relates to my analytics.
This sounds familiar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
A technique used quite effectively when selling bundle tiers (e.g., platinum package vs. gold package vs. silver package, etc). Amazing that both Wall St and the general press have failed to recognize the 5c pricing for what it is: a brilliant decoy driving sales of the higher margin 5s.
C is designed for security exploits from day one.

The industry of million lines of code exists, because UNIX and its system programming language, C, spread into the enterprise when the university students brought it from their labs into the enterprise.

Thankfully the industry is slowly moving to other languages.
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I've repeated this many times and it's never a popular idea, but here goes: it's because they retain UI/UX designers on permanent staff, when they likely have actual new work about one month in twelve, from what I gather.

This isn't an attack on UI/UX people, it is only to suggest perhaps that industry would be better structured if everyone worked at agencies that recovered an employee's yearly salary in exchange for a month of their time. No pointless work generation that hurts the masses just to hit bonus targets.
But are you better for it, or have you just spent more time of your life watching what are, essentially, ads?
To be fair, he's eminently forgettable.
The point of public education is that all of us contribute to it (through taxes) for the common good and all of us reap the rewards of an educated workforce and electorate. If public education has failed, then you can't expect a business to make up for that singlehandedly when it's more profitable to get what they need elsewhere.
Looks good, just needs some retina support on OS X.
Here's an interview with a Pirahã speaker:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHv3-U9VPAs
AFAIK most of minificators also shortened variable / function names - are there any that don't do this? (take a look at minified jquery.js for instance)
They could probably convince a judge that there is no reason anyone would ever use such a program for anything else.

I can't think of any other reason why someone would want to convert a string to a decimal number to binary, then dump it as a zip file, then unzip it. The separate components would be fine (i.e. base converter, bit writer, unzipper). But put it together, and you have a provable intent, unless you can show that it can be used for other legal things.
The article author is Steven Weinberg:

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/197...

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979 with Sheldon Glashow and Abdus Salam "for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current".

The article is fantastically clear, with much less mystification than in ordinary physics popularization articles.
You have the power not to shop there. There is no one forcing anyone to work or shop at Wal Mart. I personally can't stand going into a Wal Mart. However this c or portions are evil crap is cliché and reveals a lack of understanding of what a corporations is and who profits.. The 'shareholders' are not some rich white old guy.. The shareholders are people from all walks of life.... Teacher retirement plans for example invest in Wal Mart, pension funds, old ladies investing their personal retirement accounts.

And all of those shareholders have a right to attend and vote at the shareholders meetings.

How about Wal Mart just close their stores and fire everyone? Or hire half as many and pay twice as much. That would be great for the half that gets hired while the other half can beg on the street. Corporations don't owe society anything.. They are a business. If society agrees with the corporation they can reward it by buying products from them. If they don't agree, they can punish it by not buying.. It really is that simple.
20 m€ on rigor:

Institute the "ten {wo,}man rule"

http://impruvism.com/world-war-z/

And more readily, easily reproducible experiments.

And regular joke / high-quality fake papers.
The peculiarity of Poland is that so many young people go to university - due to the fact that you don't pay for studying at public universities (well: the tax-payer does), however the majors they choose are the likes of philosophy, sociology, political science etc.

Interesting as these subjects are, they don't give anyone an easy start on a job market as tough as it is in Poland.

And the reality is that 1.5-3 milions (estimations vary) have left for Western Europe (since Poland entered EU in 2004) and Tescos in London can boast having the best educated staff, consisting mostly of graduates.

Even those who stay in Poland often see studying as a way to delay the moment of entering the job market, and this is hardly a surprise, given that this moment is typically unpleasant. By striving for an MA, they get a compelling alibi to be subsidized by their parents for 5 more years.

Many wouldn't educate themselves further if they had a chance of getting a decent job allowing them to move out, pay their bills and live without counting every penny.
I don't find it disingenuous. Per the article's title, it is refuting Apple's claim that it "cannot" access iMessages, and on that basis, I think it's entirely valid. Apple put out a statement earlier this year:

For example, conversations which take place over iMessage and FaceTime are protected by end-to-end encryption so no one but the sender and receiver can see or read them. Apple cannot decrypt that data. [1]

I didn't read the article as asserting that the encryption is broken or poorly designed, simply that if compelled, Apple could indeed eavesdrop on iMessages, which contradicts the above statement. The author explains this explicitly:

In fairness to Apple, most other commercial messaging systems are also vulnerable to man-in-the-middle or similar attacks mounted by insiders. The difference is that few if any of those other providers have issued public statements claiming the messages sent over their services can be read only by the sender and receiver.

[1] https://www.apple.com/apples-commitment-to-customer-privacy/
This is removed in Windows 8.1. Now it's File History or nothing.
Which police? The guys behind this virus may as well be somewhere deep in China or Russia, good luck reaching them. It's not a terrorism or child pornography to get serious international attention.
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yes.sure