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In the strictest terms, I think you're right, but that's primarily just because it hasn't yet reached 1.0. Both Go and Angular have been 1.0+ for quite some time, so it's not really a fair comparison.

While I'm impressed with Go, I personally find Dart far more accessible. Because of my Java background it makes a lot more intuitive sense, and its target user-group is web developers. Go has an immense amount of power for the same group, but unfortunately it's marketed as a system-level language (which I understand it does very well, but isn't of interest to me) and is similarly inaccessible. If Go focused more on presenting itself (particularly in the tutorials/learning aids area) as a language for web development, I think it'd stand an excellent chance of stealing market (and mind) share from Node, and possibly even Dart on the server-side.

It's possible they will pursue this course in the future as it has become quite obvious that their intended user-group (C++/low-level guys) aren't generally that interested in a replacement language.

Like many others who've kept Dart on their radar, I've been waiting to get serious about Dart until it stabilized at 1.0. Now that its 1.0 release is imminent, I'm likely to move into Dart in a big way. JS is fine and works very well for a lot of folks, but Dart is much more appealing (a lot more sane) to me.

I suspect when it's been post-1.0 as long as Go and Angular it'll be as popular. In other words, give it a year or two.
Coming from a background of developing audio hardware drivers for the Blackberry (I worked on the last generation and current generation before getting bored and leaving a year ago), I can tell you that even if the baseband were able to turn on auto-answering, (I have no idea if that's possible, by the way) it wouldn't know how to configure the microphone and speakers to allow for recording or playback unless it convinced the application processor to help.

If you are concerned about your Blackberry spying on you, there's a special "security plug" that you can insert into the headphone jack which will short all of the pins to ground, disabling the microphone. I assume other phones support this as well.
The normal sense of 'need' is that a person will die without something. You might be thiking of the word 'want'.

You keep saying 'the world does not owe you a living' as though it means something relevant to this discussion.

What gives you the right to decide what duties and actions damage society? I think you are damaging society by trying to destroy developers rights over the software they create.
I just made a correction to the part on Internet Explorer on Wikipedia.
I think you have to factor in the threat of a credit ding. If the debtor knew that reductions would result in a lower credit score (and perhaps the degree of the credit penalty would be a function of the debt reduction percentage), then you can bring some parity back into the scenario.

I am also not sure how debt is currently priced. But, it would seem that current credit score and other metrics might go into the pricing, such that there is more of an actuarial approach. In this case, the price wouldn't be driven as much by information assymetry.

So, combine a lender who is more informed about how much debtors can pay with debtors who have incentive to pay as much as possible to protect their credit, then add the fact that you're throwing out the middlemen (debt collectors). It might be a win-win for the creditor/debtor, with only the debt buyers losing.
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You can go ahead and try to negotiate in most countries, and you will find most creditors are willing to, as long as you provide sufficient documentation that you are unable to meet the original obligations, and your offer is reasonable with respect to what you can actually pay.

In many countries (UK for example), there are a long range of legal protections that can be used in such situations too.

In the UK, generally you'd write to each creditor and inform them of your situation, and ask that they freeze interests, and then either offer a reduced lump sump, or more commonly offer all your creditors a weekly or monthly amount that you are actually able to pay.

If creditors refuse this, there are options such as what is called an "individual voluntary arrangement" where you can arrange to settle with the creditors as a group, and where a 75% approval of the creditors binds your remaining creditors with support of the Insolvency Act, and so there's little benefit for creditors to be unreasonable.

The key thing to addressing debt is generally to address it as early as possible - the earlier you are honest with a creditor about payment difficulties, the more amenable they tend to be about flexible arrangements.

So it's not such a crazy notion - the main thing it would achieve would be to give you visibility into what is happening to your debt before it happens.

There is of course the risk that it would create an incentive for some people to try to trigger a situation where the debt is offered for sale.
The published paper, which includes images, is available here:

http://prx.aps.org/pdf/PRX/v3/i4/e041011
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I think you might be right about that. I vaguely remember that weird difference being part of the way Hallmark has managed to hold the copyright to Happy Birthday. If I remember correctly, the lyrics were way out of copyright, but the piano arrangement that was written in the 30s or 40s and is now in common use now was copyrightable. Bleh.
Me either; I came here hoping for the explanation.

My guess, from the amount of times they said "trilater-something", is that it uses radio waves and triangulation to figure out where people are in a home/office? Maybe?
Be careful. With talk like that we might not let you back in if you ever want to visit NYC again.
This is part of the problem. A p-value of 0.05 absolutely does not (!!!) indicate 95% confidence in the results! What a p-value means is, if the hypothesis in question is false, then we have an x% chance of seeing the observed data. It tells you absolutely nothing about, if you observe such-and-such data, then how strongly should we believe the hypothesis.

For example, you could have an extremely unlikely hypothesis (eg. "dice are controlled by alien telepathy"), test it, and still come out with p < 0.05 because of something much more plausible ("the dice were badly made and are biased"). This is known as the base rate fallacy; an extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof. Moreover, to prove an extraordinary claim, you must show it is more likely not just compared to chance, but compared to every less extraordinary alternative, including "the experimenters are faking the data".

It's also entirely possible to get a result at p < 0.05 that makes the hypothesis you're testing less likely. Suppose you want to know how far away the nearest star is. The value in the textbook is 13.4 light-years, and you think it's really 12,000. You take some measurements, and get values of 19.6, 17.4, 20.1, 20.4 and 18.5.

Now, this is a significant result at p < 0.05 - if the star is 13.4 light-years away, then getting these numbers has a probability of less than 5%. However, these results completely rule out the hypothesis you're testing. The numbers you get are pretty unlikely if the real number is 13.4, but extraordinarily unlikely if the real number is 12,000, so this experiment makes the 13.4 number more credible. This kind of thing is why lots of researchers still believe in psychic powers - they keep testing for psychic powers, and keep getting results at p < 0.05, but don't notice their results make psychic powers less plausible. (Not joking - see http://commonsenseatheism.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Wag... for a detailed explanation.)

This is an elementary mistake that every freshman statistics course warns against, and yet it's absolutely pervasive.
The "undesirability index" is hilariously loaded terminology, along with really quite questionable methodology. They weight each spot on the google results based on the first result being 1, the second being .995, the third being .990, and so on. It seems like it would make a lot more sense to weight it based on traffic. The first result should be like .4, the second .2, the third .1, and lyrics appearing on pages two through 20(!) should be scaled down to the infinitesimal value they represent. www.digitaldreamdoor.com has an "undesirability index" of 2.35, vs. rapgenius' 12.77, but in terms of actual traffic, that ratio is probably off by an order of magnitude (trafficestimate.com estimates 7M uniques vs. 422K, which is still unreliable, but it's something).
Have never heard of a security plug before.

where can I get one?
I cant watch the video but did you try scrolling down the page? It explains that it uses a series of sensors to keep you informed about your appliances, possesions and property.

eg. someone is moving your valuables around, or someone left the heater turned on with no one home.
> There is nothing abstract (or debatable) about

The extent and degree of risk each poses to our life are debatable.

> Do you believe our Earth is a closed system or an open system?

The sun being a source of massive amounts of ongoing energy puts it squarely into open system territory in my opinion. Also, the human brain's ability to learn and build tools to improve upon what we are given by nature, as well as the ability for society to work together for common goals also to me distinguishes us from a classic closed system.

> But don't pretend the current situation is anything but dire. A positive outcome is far from certain.

These two sentences seem contradictory to me. I don't see anything particularly dire about our current state of affairs at all. Certainly we could be far better stewards of the planet, but I see very little that indicates a "positive outcome" (depending on your definition I suppose) is unlikely. At some point we may push the earth beyond its carrying capacity in certain areas, at which point we can simply shift to something else. Where I can agree is, some things are more important than others. If we lost the means of our current mass produced agriculture for example, we'd have to make some very serious lifestyle changes very quickly. But life would go on, and it may even be more fulfilling in some ways.
Oh but you can. The unfortunate thing is that keeping on faking it, while possible, is very hard.

People's ideals generally move into conformity with their actions, not the other way round. That's one of the myriad reasons being a spy sucks. If anyone reading was following the police infiltration of left wing groups scandal in the UK, with added sex and dead babies identities the unit involved had a policy of only using married men after one guy never came back. Probably gone native.
Ask HN: Does anyone still make desktop apps?
A few years ago web was the thing to "replace desktop applications," and now mobile is threatening to be the next big thing. So: does anyone still make desktop apps? What kind? For who?
I believe this is how bankruptcy works in Australia, and to take your last sentence as a metaphor, is exactly what happens (assuming the stigma of bankrupty isn't a big enough deterrent for you).
None of those were paying customers - it was private, invite-only promo only.

None of the paying customers orders' have shipped yet. That happens in January, and those orders are being prepared professionally.
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Android KitKat kills bank-led NFC payments
I don't know where, but it sounds fairly simple to make: cut the connector off from an old headset, and solder all of the wires in it together. One of the wires (the uninsulated one) in there is ground, the other three are signal.
Keep in mind that if I can settle a debt for $1000 I may very well be able to lend money from friends or family to do so, whereas I'd likely be unwilling to do that if I would face certain bankruptcy regardless.

There are many situations where a person may not have any seizable assets, but still have the ability to raise cash to cover a firm offer to settle a debt.
Incorporated != publicly owned. All a corporation exists as is a group of people banding together to get tax and other benefits collectively. There's none of the other folderol about profit motive or fiduciary duty or the other pressures on megacorps to act unethically.
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The Ars definition of a p value is not precisely worded but, I think, reasonably accurate. It doesn't include the bit about also including the probability of obtaining results more extreme than what you obtained.

The best definition I know is

> The P value is defined as the probability, under the assumption of no effect or no difference (the null hypothesis), of obtaining a result equal to or more extreme than what was actually observed.

S. N. Goodman. Toward evidence-based medical statistics. 1: The P value fallacy. Annals of Internal Medicine, 130:995–1004, 1999.

edit: oh dear, and then the Ars article says "Individual experiments may be wrong five percent of the time," but that's exactly what p values do not measure. Statistics is hard.
If the debtors could pay 100% of what they owed it wouldn't have been sold. But the OP is suggesting that some of the debtors might be able and willing to pay 5 cents or even 10 cents on the dollar, which I think is a reasonable assumption.
Shouldn't beta.download.cyanogenmod.org be covered under the *.cyanogenmod.org wildcard cert?
If you want to disable it entirely: http://osxdaily.com/2012/08/06/disable-notification-center-r...
Unfortunately, not in a particularly clever way. CP systems such as MongoDB, HBase, etc. don't have this problem since each datum has an authoritative master. As you can imagine, this can result in some operational...unpleasantness due to the lack of liveness guarantees in the presence of a network partition.

Out of the well known open-source AP systems, Riak is probably the leader here since they implement well understood techniques from the literature such as CRDTs and vclocks.

EDIT: removed my statement about Cassandra since it was a bit misleading and jbellis answered above in greater detail.
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Food prep in a dusty old warehouse is, however.
Is there any reason you do not use "create" terminology instead of the possibly-confusing "write".

I am with op in that I consider an update a write.

"create/update" are both writes

"write/update" ... eh?
What's the consequence now for being a deadbeat, and how would this consequence materially change if this were law?
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This is also how we did it for some of the unrEVOked roots for HTC devices back in the day as well (mainly the "forever" tool).
Yeah, I'm not sure either. I don't see it in the official accessories store.

antsar's correct though. It's simple to make one yourself. The nice thing about the security plug is that it's small; it doesn't look like your headphones' cable snapped off. :)
The problem with upping the standard is, as the PNAS article acknowledges, that you need a larger sample size to produce any given result.

Unfortunately, many studies -- particularly those in medicine -- are already conducted with samples that are too small to detect any effect you'd reasonably expect to see, because many researchers do not calculate in advance what sample size would be required. This has interesting paradoxical effects: the only published studies are those that overestimate the size of the true effect.

http://www.refsmmat.com/statistics/power.html
http://www.refsmmat.com/statistics/regression.html#truth-inf...

So there's a tradeoff. Do you want to eliminate false positives at the cost of more false negatives? It's a difficult balance. I suspect there are many areas where poor statistical practice can be remedied to produce better results without greater expense.
Well, every major shop sells knives which will mess you up and you shouldn't let kids play with unattended without some training.

I don't see why the chemicals are such a big deal. Should be an opportunity to teach responsibility.
So, for instance, the FBI inputs selectors as the IMEI, not the phone number, when searching for people?

And there may be a legitimate reason why you may want to have a device. For instance, to run maps at a certain location. Or having data on the device you need once you arrive at a destination.
I would be very, very interested to see the long-term consequences of an exclusively Soylent diet. I suspect the lack of phytochemicals would lead to increased incidences of cancer. That said, I would also guess that millions (billions?) of people have far worse diets.
Perhaps if you dusted off the old reading comprehension you would realize I was responding specifically to the claim that nobody on HN would X. I am someone on HN therefore my counter-point was very relevant.
I wish I lived near enough to visit. Very inspiring story.
Requiring a human to be in the loop in all circumstances is impractical. Communications can be disrupted. Autonomy is also a software issue. It's easy for a country to say they have humans in a loop, then in a real war it would be trivial to change it.

And "robots" are not different than any other weapon. Bullets and missiles can be aimed but they don't discriminate and they can end up (and often do) hitting civilians and unintended targets. Land mines don't discriminate at all. And what difference does it make if you cover an area with land mines or put a autonomous turret to watch it instead? I'd argue the turret is better since it can have at least some ability to distinguish enemies from civilians and wildlife, and can be removed much easier after the conflict is over.
Jeez, where are we heading to?

I would consider 'microwave food' as lazy. Food is the at most basic necessity of your body, with air, water, shelter and clothes.

Are people really so busy that you can't get off your keyboard to eat something? I am not sure if that is the case merely using Soylent is going to fix any of your problems.
I _literally_ installed CM10 on my Samsung Galaxy S2 the hard way today, spending nearly 8 hours getting the right tools, the android sdk, figuring out why adb would not find my device and after a ton of cursing finally got it to load.

And then I had to also install gapps by using the Clockwordmod recovery mode.

A gigantic pain in the ass! I wish I would have attempted this tomorrow, would have saved me a ton of trouble!
Completely anecdotal... but, the 640gb two platter drives have seemed to be the most rock solid.. ymmv though... With the much larger, and much more expensive (since the taiwan floods) drives, who knows anymore... it's relatively anecdotal for anyone at this point, since after 3-5 years all the warranties have expired.
Dying and never being born are two wildly different things.
> draw them on the recipients screen

Which means it's available, unencrypted, at the framebuffer.
This is the main reason I bought the Zenbook UX32VD. The 1920x1080 resolution on a 13" screen is amazing! It's not glossy either, which is a huge plus.
You're right! It's those other jerks getting all their high school statistics wrong. No true scientist (Scotsman) could ever make THAT mistake.
I hope so too, but I hope that for those not buying the set as well. Seriously, parents should be looking for opportunities to teach responsibility and work with real "stuff".

This is not exactly as dangerous as a loaded gun. More like a kitchen knife, which is dangerous but parents should be teaching their older children how to use safely.
Dan from Ninja here. That's what happens when you try and explain something geeky to a broad audience... but for the techies...

It's a powerful (same chip as beaglebone black) ARM computer with WiFi, BLE and ZigBee radios. Runs ubuntu. Everything open source. Almost all Node.JS.

It uses open source drivers to connect to devices and learns how they operate, building a model. If something is out of place, it notifies you and gives you context aware control. For example if nobody is at home and the heater is on, it will alert the last person to leave and give them the option to turn it off.

Key new tech is positioning with little USB powered dongles placed around your house and Leap-motion style (but simpler, no 3d hands) gestures for controlling lights, temp, etc.

Everything the NinjaBlock did, but all built-in (no more dongles for wifi etc).

Hope that clarifies a bit!
It's essentially a home automation controller that bridges the many different monitoring and control protocols together with spatial awareness.
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The real problem is that effect size is rarely discussed. P-values only relate to variability, sometimes high variability is acceptable, sometimes it's not. Taken by itself, a p-value is worthless, no matter how small it is. For example, suppose you develop a fertilizer that you're 99.99999% certain will produce one additional ear of corn in 10,000 bushels. Who cares!? You see a lot of that in published papers. A lot of researchers stop once they get a p-value below 0.05 and neglecting effect size is the norm.
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I'm pretty darn sure the bland goop eaten in the same quantity is as equally dangerous.

Ever heard of the term 'balanced diet'?
Doesn't Haskell's LLVM backend depend on custom LLVM calling convention to do tail call? Does PNaCl bitcode support tail call?
>Your sympathy for people who owe money is misplaced. We already have tax and welfare that transfers money from the rich to the poor.

Your sympathies for the banks and the rich are misplaced. We already have corporate welfare and a financial system that guarantees outsized profits combined with no-matter-what CEO compensation on the upside, and stop-losses insured by taxpayers on the downside.
Don't get me wrong, I think there's a lot of value in components. If you look at my company's logo, you will see that it is three building blocks. Our framework and platform are all about reusable code blocks. Having said that, though, I think this is taking it way too far. Most of these things are trivial one liners in JavaScript. Yes, it is true that you can have many places in the code hooking into the same event listener, but guess what, having many event listeners hooked into the same event dispatcher is rather as edficient. And what if later I want to press the letter K? Do I need a component for every letter? For that matter why don't you have a component for addition and subtraction and another component for pressing the ? I mean, look at node modules. They do more than handle a single key press. Socket.io for example has an overall theme, so does express, and so do other modules. What is the theme here? Make every line into a component so I can introduce setup and teardown code for it?
So why did you migrate? There is a very brief mention of needing to scale an order of magnitude or two. Could you elaborate?
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That's a pretty fair point about the CSS url rewriting, it's possibly the kind of thing you can fix with a browserify transform, but iffy and as you say component is doing it already.
Except he didn't say "state", he said "states" which does mean the 50 states that make up the US.
I don't understand the liability issue. He isn't selling it as a toy, it is a science kit. Anyone can walk into any store and buy stuff that is dangerous if ingested or misused... cleaning supplies, cooking knives, etc.

Parents should be responsible for teaching their children how to work with dangerous things that we encounter every day in a safe way. The chemistry set should be used to teach science. I don't see the issue, but I guess I'm not surprised in our litigation happy society.