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asm.js is brilliant because of the current situation we are in. However, the current situation we are in is silly, and can correctly be called a "tragedy of the commons."

Why? Well, for example, is JavaScript truly the best language we'd be able to create for browser scripting, or did it win by historical accident? (And I'm actually a fan of Javascript programming!)

And beyond that, we'd all like something that gives us safe native-speed rendering control in the "sandbox". Silverlight was meant to, as was Flash/Flex. But those were proprietary, and we didn't want one company to have "control of the web." HTML 5 hasn't been what we hoped for.

So basically, we're one big, divided bureaucracy that is not making rational decisions (what big divided bureaucracy does?).

I guess what might happen is something new will eventually come along (who knows how long it will be) that actually displaces the web as we know it. It will be an adoption-tsunami, similar to what the web itself was, and therefore it will be able to ignore this series of historical accidents that we're chained to today.
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ZFS uses an ARC.
So far there is no detailed information about which packages are free and which aren't. But it should appear fairly soon. I hope community will enumerate non free components.
Yeah, it'll be interesting. This really is also the key question as to whether non-Google Android distributions are actually viable. Essentially whether controlled Play Services means you control Android. Although, bear in mind that they are running their own App Store, so they should be able to filter for reliance on those APIs, which would at least mean you wouldn't have software crashing (just people somewhat mystified as to why certain Apps aren't available).
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If you add European cities too, I can be your first user in Berlin or anywhere in Greece.
Somehow there's this weird gap where people completely freak out over the difference between stealing and copying, but the difference between uploading and downloading just slides right by.
> This applies most of the the large-purchaser effect of a social program...

Does it, though? That's what I'm wondering. Is there any evidence that the model followed by the Affordable Care Act is not significantly more expensive per capita than a single-payer, "Medicare for all" kind of system?
Ask HN: Large gov project ahead. Howto avoid the CMS Trap?
Hey HN, 😉

I've two large projects ahead and in one of them I am assigned to a project manager (big co. guy). However in the first conference, the word Joomla made it's first appearance and I fear that I'll have to develop software that is interwoven with many systems and uses Joomla for that. This project is still in negotiation and in the planning phase. The second project is a large freelance project I got, but both are very similar in their outcome.

I "attacked" the CMS argument, by saying that there are simple rules for projects:

1. Large Project: Minimal or no base, best to use a framework
2. Regular Project: Small or Medium sized CMS
3. Small Project: From scratch, or with the help of a library.

But there is one problem with this. You have to know in advance how much stuff you will add to the initial project, which is almost never the case. And successful "regular projects" almost always get extended.

My experience is that people use the CMS Interface rarely or never and a CMS makes developing features harder. I know CMS with an API system that allows the Content to be edited/used from inside of other applications.

What should I do? I thought about using a minimal Markdown based Flat-File CMS and to extend that, but then there is the problem of support. Small projects like that are mostly short-lived.
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Would this have any legal standing? Legally valid but insecure will trump secure but inadmissable in nearly. situation where having a certified timestamp is useful.
But that's the point, he clearly says his content is far from great quite often but he keeps producing.
Arturo Pérez-Reverte is the poor man's Umberto Eco. Dan Brown is the very poor man's Arturo Pérez-Reverte.
I hope lots of people buy devices like this. The bigger the Tor network the better!
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I agree with everything you said, but why couldn't/wouldn't the currency emerging from the ashes be Bitcoin itself?
The gov't has outlawed gold and silver as currency in favor of its fiatbux. If my friend and I like eating Skittles then some bully come slaps us around if we eat them, that isn't failure of us liking Skittles.
jnbiche, it's not letting me reply to you so I'm doing it here.

You make a good point, and my above explanation was a bit confused.

I think BTC faces both problems:

There's high volatility, driven by the current level of speculation and the fixed quantity of Bitcoins that exist on the market. This makes Bitcoin a fairly poor medium of exchange since it is unlikely to hold a stable value from one day to the next.

There's also (I suspect) poor liquidity, driven by the low number of people involved in the exchanges (compared to other assets and currencies). While it may be easy to exchange Bitcoin from a process standpoint, you may not be able to get a price sufficiently close to the last quoted price when you go to exchange for dollars. It may be more liquid than a house, but it is much less liquid than USD, EUR, GBP, etc.

Is my liquidity assumption mistaken?
TL;DR of parent comment here for those skimming:

x = 'o\u0308o\u0327'
len(x) == 4
x == "öo̧"
x[:2] == "ö"
x[2:] == "o̧"
x[0] == x[2] == "o"
Same, all it's good for is being a paperweight now.

Their firmware is ridiculously buggy. I was using one in my primary laptop, and got hit by the bug where, if you sleep the drive too many times, the whole drive fails. Total unrecoverable data loss.

Their forums are full of stories like that.

Next drive, went Intel, haven't looked back since.
In what way is it less capable?
Oh I see your point on being a proper fit. It's not much of an argument then, since you're just saying that making it work when it wasn't quite designed for that use is hard, but we did make it work. So I agree :-)

I also wish there weren't any UD, but we did try to do a good list and I think we chose which to fix and which to punt on purpose.

I see memory allocation (both for code and data) as well-defined randomness: saying that the allocated base addresses are random allows many interesting types of sandboxing to be used which couldn't be used otherwise (more on that in the future). I think this will lead to interesting perf gain in some cases, and interesting security gains in others. More pragmatically it currently allows ASLR while still providing memory access without indirection (i.e. reg-reg addressing) on x86-32 and ARM.
You would have saved a lot of typing if you had just read the definition of "intrinsic value" as a
finance term. Basically in your first paragraph you explained why it has intrinsic value.

You obviously brought a philosophical argument to an economics debate :P

This is EC-101
When a baby is born in CA, do the parents have a choice, as to whether or not the blood sample is collected?
Apologies, I think I'm wrong. I appear to have misread or misremembered what I read.
When did you agree to let the police protect you if they encounter you being mugged?

Some things are just part of societal existence. You can't opt out of them any more than you can opt out of paying your taxes on profits you make.
/Did/ well. It's virtually known by everyone in the know that OCZ is synonymous for being unreliable.
But but but... CP! In 3, 2, 1...
I should've made it clearer, sorry. When referring to CMS in the article, I refer to the wider meaning of a content management system, the code that you write as a developer of your own site, which happens to manage your content. Not a CMS that one could download and install.
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>You can't enforce a contract related to creative works without the concept of copyright.

Yes you can. The value is in the time and creative process that went into creating the creative work.

A contract that says I will pay you $1000 to create a piece of open source software, is still a valid and enforceable contract, even though I won't own the software in the end.
In this exchange UTF-8 got dragged into list of ugly hacks, but it is a beautiful hack.

Endian-independent, more efficient than UTF-16 for most languages (often including CJK web pages: halved cost of HTML & URLs makes up for 33% extra text cost), supports easy and safe substring search, can detect cut characters, and all that with ASCII and C-string backwards-compatibility.

If I could redesign entire computing platform from scratch UTF-8 is one thing I wouldn't change.
The freedom to install the software of your choosing? The freedom to actually own your own computer? Seriously?
So you're both concerned about deflation and hoarding but for different reasons?
Thank you. We must always think of the children!

One example would be how we are giving them a world where they will have no privacy at all.
I can compile BF directly to native code (and actually I did: http://blog.reverberate.org/2012/12/hello-jit-world-joy-of-s...) so does that make BF native code?

The point of these questions is that the GGP's statements are absurd. There is no universe in which asm.js is "native code".
Hashing is performed locally, probably via crypto.js, so you can verify it, I'd wager.
"I've posted some of my projects here hosted on github and have gotten something like 6 comments and 10 upvotes while still on the "New" page."

You have posted 3 stories with github urls, and they got 1, 1, and 2, points respectively.

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=leeoniya
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Bitcoins are divisible to 8 decimal places. Why are more needed?
Right. Our current guarantees of privacy are already well beyond what the Constitution explicitly sets out (which, strictly read, only covers persons and things).

I think what rayiner is saying is that in order for SCOTUS to declare these internet communications protected, it either needs some extraordinary rationale, or more simply/easily the bulk of the populace needs to believe these communications are protected.

If the typical person believes these communications are private, then this falls under the reasonable expectation of privacy legal test already accepted by SCOTUS.
Exchanging gold for currency doesn't make it a currency. Gold is an asset.

If you brought your gold to different people, they might all quote you different amounts, based on how easily the merchant or exchanger could convert the gold into their own currency.
I just used pieces of John the Ripper and threw together something that worked.
But in this case Toro used to host those instructions on its website.
What Twitter needs to do is implement tweet filtering using regex for your own timeline. I do this and it's really nice to see regex search results at the end of the day and not really miss much. It's not as engaging, but who has time to read every tweet anyway?
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Lulu - Man reviews and you are probably already there.
Just a heads up, they get your facebook and put a profile there without your consent.

If you want to be left out you have to go here http://company.onlulu.com/deactivate and ask to be removed.

Cheers
Did you really ned to bring Jews into this?
I'd have hoped Common Lisp would fare well here, but SBCL (1.1.11 on 64-bit Linux Mint 15) is pretty broken. My results:

string: noël, reversed: l̈eon, first 3 chars: noe, length: 5

string: 😸😾, reversed: 😾😸, first 1 char: 😸, length: 2

string: baﬄe, upcase: BAﬄE

string: noël, equals precomposed: NIL

Edited: GNU CLISP 2.49 produces identical results.
I have OCZ drives in a couple of my machines, all of which are at least a year old. I'd heard bad things about OCZ, but I didn't realize their reputation was that shot. I'm wondering if I should replace my drives, or if the bathtub curve is in full effect here and I've dodged a bullet...

With regards to other brands, I spent some time at the startup where I used to work putting together manufacturing PCs meant for programming serial numbers into devices, assembled from Intel SSDs, cheap Foxconn nettop computers, and the cheapest sticks of RAM we could find. I must have put together around 15 or so of those machines, and although a lot of them failed due to factory conditions/rough handling/power cuts, I don't think any of the Intel drives ever broke down.
That sounds like a pretty good thing.
If an app bricks one phone in ten thousand, that's too much for the Play store. That doesn't mean the package can't exist outside of the Play store.

In fact, the ability to install something outside of the Play store framework seems like one good test for whether someone is ready to make the jump.
I appreciated your comment. It's easy to overlook definitions and categorically group things based on simple criteria checking. People who are currently buying BTC is a shared characteristic of (1) speculators, (2) early adopters, and (3) probably other actors.

Regardless if they are speculators, does their initial reason for adoption matter to the definition of an early adopter? Speculators may at any time become users, and normal users may at any time start speculating.
Looking where Apple is now, that decision helped them, but I don't think you are making a case that it helped consumers. There are countless ways that Apple stifled competition when 3rd party applications compete directly with the applications Apple ships OOTB.

The unified in-app purchase has benefits, but it also comes with strings attached. The 30% rake means that either users pay for the markup or developers must eat that overhead. By locking application developers out of rolling their own in-house solutions, consumers suffer. That decision may benefit consumers by presenting a unified interface, but it has everything to do with making Apple more money. If Apple really had it's users in mind, they could have simply created an API that provides the unified interface but allows developers to hook in their own back end processing. Better yet, allow in-app purchases that don't have the 30% markup. This will never happen because at the end of the day Apple is looking out for themselves, not the users of their devices.
Seychilles, Croatia, Iceland, Ecuador. Are you a shill or just ignorant?
Maybe customers should stop buying awful software? There are plenty of offerings, including Google's own phone. What more can Google do? Close off Android to crapware providers and they'll have the wrath of the community donning their pitchforks. This thread alone should be an example of how irrational some folks are, crying fowl at Google for not wanting brickware in their store.
Ask HN: Should I buy bitcoin?
I've heard arguments for all variety of stratagem, am generally inclined to invest a good portion of my savings, but can't shake the feeling that a ridiculous rally is afoot and soon to come crashing down. I'd love to hear the advice of this esteemed community! Thanks.
Our Natural Language / Language Heuristics Engine can do this. We do to a small extent now, we haven't gone whole hog because I'm not sure I agree that commercial sites shouldn't rank. For things we determine to be reference searches we downrank sales pages, for things we determine to be shopping searches we uprank them.
That's complete nonsense. It would take virtually every merchant to partake in your fantasyland to have even a slim chance of convincing bitcoin holders to take massive losses. And only one Silk Road to retain bitcoin's viability.

And you apparently forgot that the total number of bitcoins is severely limited (around 20 million).
It doesn't seem to do any of these things very well. And in any case none of the uses suggest that the value of a bitcoin should increase substantially.
That fact checking should have been done Shamir's peer reviewers before he published.
It's not really accurate to think of core.async as mutable state at all, because by default channels are only queues in the sense of implicit waiting go blocks forming a queue.

Unless you use a buffer implementation, channels have no "placeness", you're not mutating/adding to a queue by parking a go block.

I liked everything else.
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tldr; Don't be evil is the Google motto and they are supporting some conservative groups. Conservatives are all Koch brother puppets and the Kochs are evil, therefore Google is evil.
It doesn't void my warranty. Nor millions of others'.
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Bitcoin usage remains at all-time high
Are there really more Clojure jobs than programmers? As a clojure programmer looking for a job I haven't seen many...

Wish there were more though!
Can you handle the risk? If so, yes. You should have a non-zero amount of Bitcoin in my opinion.
You are going to have to be more specific.
That's the ideal way to work, but it doesn't always pan out - and relationships with heightened expectations but no formalities often make for the worst conflicts if they go south.
Haha ok glad we are on the same page now. I was originally responding to a comment about the intrinsic value of gold. How does one apply http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic_value_(finance) to gold? It produces no cash flow or income. This is why I used a philosophical approach :p
No installation freedoms were lost; you can still install the software from the article or the secondary software installed by the article's software. No ownership freedoms were lost -- whatever that has to do with the article. Seriously.
I've yet to find an excuse to download some of this data to play with. I have a feeling my ISP will personally send around a bunch of suits to collect the bill payment in person if I were to ever go over my 500gb monthly limit by downloading 102tb of data, haha. I would still like to download a subset of the data, from what I've read apparently that kind of idea is already in the works. I just can't possibly think of what I would do, perhaps a machine learning based project.
>If you want to see a real socialist

No true Scotsman is a logical fallacy that you should avoid. Saying there is someone out there that is worse actually does nothing to address the original point.

Let me demonstrate, "You think Romney was conservative? Look at X tea party member that wants to own slaves." Do you see how that doesn't do anything to refute that Romney is conservative?
The guy just got Bamboozled.
Dr. Raymond M. Soneira badly needs an Editor. His use of Winnie-The-Pooh Punctuation makes his Article far too hard to Read.
I have avoided them since I started buying SSDs because I associate their brand with Sandforce controllers, and I associate Sandforce controllers with drive failure.

Whether these associations are informed by and backed by data or not, they are among the points that steered me into the arms of Intel and Samsung for my SSD needs.
I find it interesting that this is the only tablet that hits the 300dpi threshold, and the next Kindle White is supposed to meet this as well. 300dpi is of course the resolution of most print magazines. The implication is obvious, but what isn't is why Apple declined to participate in this race.
Really. You trust "profit motives". How adorable. But yet you couldn't find space above to relate for us all the charmingly ethical conduct of companies "bound by various contracts and laws, public perception, and their own needs for future customers"...companies like Union Carbide, Monsanto, Enron, Kerr-McGee, British Petroleum, Halliburton, FlowTex, Bayer etc etc ad infinitum.

No thanks. 23andMe is yet another group of shady, for-profit slimeballs making money off people's fears, called out by the FDA for the same kind of arrogant adolescent libertarian horseshit that gave us Vioxx.

And yeah, most of us actually prefer to deal with the "state's shifting policies" - you remember...the policies we vote on.
That's why there's a distinction between 'accidental' complexity (poor architecture) and 'intrinsic' complexity (unavoidable)
I can't stand the 16:10 screen format which is terrible for everything except watching movies. That's the main reason our Nexus 7 is rarely used (and our kids are completely confused by the Android UX; although they're having a much harder time with iOS 7 than iOS 6, too).
Is every Bitcoin owner right now building a webpage?
When the NYT runs an article like this, you know it's time to go long bitcoin.
I picked that example because it's not actually illegal to be a stripped in many jurisdictions; while it's a stereotypically sleazy job, the sleaze factor arguably attaches to what strippers have to put up with as much as their activities. Thus, I'm not sure if or why parents should have an expectation of awareness about such activity in a person's past.

To be honest, I think you're overly optimistic about people's willingness to go with the flow of social permissiveness. Quite a lot of people are reactionaries.
As a Galaxy Nexus owner myself, it doesn't look like Google has a choice. The original vendor of the chipset is no longer around to update drivers. You can't wring blood from a stone.
How are users protected from malicious exit nodes, assuming they're visiting sites unprotected by SSL?
Your argument does not take into account the fact that a unified interface boosts consumer confidence and trust, which increases spending. It directly influences the quality of the end product — compromising on that is failing your users. Who cares if developers have to give up a cut? It's a level playing field: every developer gives up 30%, so prices standardise with that in mind.

If developers rolled their own and there was a proliferation of mis-matched payment methods throughout the App Store (based on whatever each developer thought got them the most money), then I doubt consumers would be spending as much as they do today. Even Google Play requires developers selling digital goods to use Google's in-app purchase API (of which they get a 30% cut).

The decision helped Apple as much as it helped customers — happy customers pay more money and pay again. So it is in Apple's interest to be as pro-consumer as possible in order to make the most money.

The 30% fee is the same as what Google takes. At the time it was introduced, it was substantially less than other publishers (I heard numbers in the 50-70% range).

Even then, Apple does a lot of work for their 30%. For example, they handle your international tax contributions (Google Play does not), they handle customer returns (Google Play does not).

As a developer that has sold directly and through in-app purchase, I have never felt that the 30% was much of an ask. If you sell on Steam you'll pay around the same cut, almost all other App Stores have standardised on 30% since the App Store.
Why not grab it to/with a VPS?
Merchant software can listen to the network for 10 seconds. If no contradicting transactions have been broadcasted, the probability of the bitcoins not being legit is EXTREMELY small. You only need confirmations for large transactions. Zero-conf are completely safe for the large majority of transctions.

Bitcoin-type technology has tons of potential, my friend.
Nope. That will likely never be permitted.
It's too bad those other tablets are rubbish.
I'm on Comcast and download around 3TB/month with no problem. But seriously why you should download big data to work with? It's cheaper and faster to do it in 'cloud'!
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Yeah I can. It's more that I can't tell if it's going to soon drop and I should wait, or if that should even matter. Something feel wrong about buying today when things are at an all time high.
I'd guess factory, brand, and patents.