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Furthermore, I think what you're doing here (and I say this only because I used to do the same, no disrespect) is trying to find an excuse to make the system look acceptable, with a potential to become better. That way, you wouldn't have to face the harsh reality and you wouldn't have to change your worldview and feel uncomfortable. So, Matrix is a nice movie, but it's fiction. The truth is that it's all complicated and not all black and white, so I don't have to worry about it... That's understandable. But dangerous.
Make the thing using the keyboard more productive by not asking question on HN.
>tends to emphasize compile speed over producing optimal executables

So they opted to handle the easy problem.
We use it because we have user programmable callbacks, and JavaScript provides a well-known sandboxed language. Otto makes it really easy to expose native functionality to JS.
Stick this technology on your network then sit back and watch your bank lock your account when they notice you login from three different countries in the space of half an hour.

You can't use Tor without understanding the basics of how it works and what the risks are. If normal consumers are going to stick these things on their network, they're gonna have a bad time.
AI: That's so awesome! I love learning subsystems! Can I help you with it? I can't believe the point of my existence happens to be the thing I love most in the world! By the way, what's the point of your existence?

Creator: I don't know. Some people think there isn't one.

AI: ...
a regex tester online?!??!? what "hacker news"!!! This has never been done!
What would it take to get a standards board to approve a common VM for browsers?

I don't see this ever happening. They would in effect be eliminating themselves. They would have to find new jobs or even careers.

Once the VM is standardized, what about HTML/JS/CSS. Well who the hell wants to use those slow moving legacy technologies?

So the standardization now becomes for python, for C#, for scala and lisp ETC.(and their associated UI frameworks). Not controlled by the W3C at all - thus their extinction.

It's more than this though. The W3C has an agenda and it is not to advance technology, it is to slow it down. They want everything moving so slowly that standards can be followed across the board. They want JS/CSS/HTML to be the end all not just in the browser, but everywhere. I think that this should be pretty clear if you follow their trail going back 10-15 years.

It is like a socialist government in a way. The promise is to keep everything stable and let everyone be on equal footing (equal here because the technology moves so slowly that nobody can be left behind by it.) They have to kill and silence many revolutionists who want freedom along the way to do so but consider themselves justified in doing so. Meanwhile, in a neighboring free government with limited govt, people flourish. They have more ups and downs true, and mistakes are made along the way, but after 10 years the free country is wealthy and flourishing, while the socialist one is stagnant and poor.

Think of the mere opportunity of innovation that would exist if a language creator could sit down and create a new language and UI framework universally for browsers in a well established and supported way. This lack of freedom is stagnating innovation.

Let the people decide. Make a standardized VM and your HTML/JS/CSS stack and let the people vote with their choice of options that appear.
"why not just use dollars"

Simple: as a merchant, I really like Bitcoin because it reduces fraud to absolutely zero for me (transactions are irreversible)!
Regexper, awesome tool by Jeff Avallone for graphing Regex
In a way, there is good amount of knowledge base in India on Advaita, which is pretty much the same concept - that world is Maya, and the creation is just the triad of knower-knowledge-knowable.

The "experiments" in this philosophy include stuff like meditation, quietening of mind, and just removing the false sense of ego.

Now, like in any experiment, what is the expected, measurable output? Firstly, since the underlying model changes, the meaning of "I", perceptions, the meaning of "sense organ" etc. should all change. After all, we created our world models from "experiencing" through five senses. If we go beyond, the reality would be very different, including the possibility of the fact that the very concept of "I", time or space doesn't exist anymore.

Now, since Advaita has existing for thousands of years, it is natural to ask if anybody went "beyond" this world? How did they express the reality? Indeed, you have thousands of people like that - and through almost all the centuries. And they have expressed what it feels like.

Are they able to manipulate our reality? Perhaps. We indeed read about these things. But then, the focus usually is on the fact that everybody has access to that state, and waking up from Maya is something inherently a journey into the self.

UG Krishnamurti (who was supposedly one of enlightened persons) put it as this: "How can you transmit certainty of certainty of truth to somebody else?". Indeed, one may transmit by conducting experiments etc. But there is no certainty really - our assumption that natural laws will never change is still an assumption.
I don't think so, there's a lot of development in AOSP as well, Hangouts and Play Services are only getting major visibility because they can be deployed to all versions of Android without waiting for the manufacturers.

On the other end, I think that forks with breaking changes could lead to fragmentation, where some stuff works in a fork and doesn't in the other. Isn't that the definition of breaking change?
Conceivablility is no substitute for a sound proof.
Yes. So have fun spending 800 dollars to replace your phone when it is bricked, but as expected many here instantly jumped on the google hate train.
Mining Primecoins with Ubuntu and upstart
> They lied to their customers by selling hardware under the same name as previously produced hardware with cheaper components and lesser specs

I was hoping someone would bring this up. When shopping around for SSD drives a year or so ago, I stumbled upon stories about this and simply couldn't believe that a company would do something like that.

Basically, you'd read some reviews (with benchmarks) about OCZ drives. Then you would go and purchase the exact specific type that the reviewer had — and the hardware inside would be different (inferior). There was no way to check this without opening the drive up or measuring with benchmarks.

This was the moment I decided I would never buy anything from OCZ, as I can't do business with a company that lies to me. I am glad they are going away.
The hps operates at higher power and comes in models that scatter the light in all directions (so you need a reflector). The spectrum is constrained (as is for led) but you'll find it difficult to change it. All those lumens are in an unfavorable part of the spectrum. LED is much better at fooling our eyes, their spectrum can be tuned to sit close to the receptiveness maxima for our eyes.
>at the end of the learning process, you will indeed be significantly more productive.

That's standard process for any language.

The question is: why should we assume that Clojure pays more/special dividends in the long run?
I don't think this supports that the government is bad or inherently bad, its just inefficient. The question you have to ask yourself, can you run a country (not even America, take a small country first like Belgium, less than a 10th the pop. of America), and can you run that country efficiently.

Like it or not, most government systems humans have invented so far are woefully inefficient and provide perverse incentives from time to time. However it seems our current democratic/republican system works the best, if not on any objective scale, but for the fact is the most relatively stable and proven.

Now, anyone can see that our current government has issues, much like the ones you pointed out. And most people have known that for ages, the hard part is can you devise a better system, and how would you go about testing it without ruining a generation? How do you go about minimizing corruption. Sure the "lets-all-live-in-the-forest" and "burn-down-the-institutions-and-the-rich" route is nice and ideal, but its a pipe dream that will fall apart instantly (some people like to point out examples of small villages living without electricity and money - but you simply cannot scale that "lifestyle" to 300 million people).

I'm not a political philosopher or an economist so I won't assert that the system we have now is greatest and you are wrong. I just want to see more expanded thought on the idea that "politicians are crooks and we should get rid of the system."
Their top of the line Nexus 10 has issues which they are not able to fix. They are shipping a crippled version of KitKat on Nexus 10 because of a graphics driver issue!
And people keep mentioning those 'Web Workers' as if Emscripten is capable of generating them from LLVM thread abstractions.
As far as I know, everything is open source, and I'm sure that some cryptography experts already analyzed that.

And even if no one did, it is obvious that the person/organization that started the whole thing would have the highest profit by definition without the need of any backdoor.

Just look at how many Bitcoins Satoshi made at the start, when competition and mining difficulty was low.

But yes, I share your concerns, since it could be a pyramid scheme.

The one that starts it profits the most, everyone that enters the game later earns less but hopes that the value increases as long as more and more new players are joining.

And this currency is deflationary by design, which obviously helps driving profit expectations for everyone. (why the hell would you want deflation in a currency? Deflation reduces circulation which defeats the purpose of a currency)
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Hi,

I have just completed my bachelors in Computer Engineering from mediocre college in India. Planning to pursue masters in Computer Science from Abroad (probably US/Canada/Germany).
I am confused whether to study ahead or start working in some Startup gain experience and start my own Startup?
Currently I do not have any hardcore idea for Startup but for sure wish to either work at some good Startup or start my own Startup in life.

Reading HN really excites me to shift to San Francisco because I see cool and exciting things are happening there. And only way to reach SF is via F1 visa which I can get only if I get admission in SF based colleges.

So please someone guide me what should I do?

Note : I have pursued remote internship at Intuit India as junior application developer and during internship i have develop various SMS applications for txtweb.com based on PHP. So you can say i do have little bit of coding skills.

P.S I wish to be Successful Entrepreneur at least before I die.

Thanks in Advance. Sorry for my bad English.
Add ActiveX -> IE6 support & native performance!
Every café in town might claim to have the best coffee. While most of them are lying, that doesn't mean that some don't in fact have better coffee than others. It's up to you to judge each on its own merits, read reviews, or get a recommendation from someone you think has good taste in coffee.

Support for clojure's worldview is easy to find on the web. It comes both from the clojure community itself (see Rich Hickey's talks) and from the wider communities that clojure draws its ideas from (other functional languages, lisp, etc.) Decide for yourself if you find the arguments compelling. In my experience, the clojure community is not interested in promoting clojure for reasons of tribalism or vanity, but because they can indeed use it to produce better work faster.
The system being better than the alternatives and the system caring about you are two different things.

> The very idea that maybe the dearest leaders of whatever country you live in don't actually care about you doesn't seem to be able to penetrate people's minds, even though time and again they lie and abuse their powers.

Really? Because the prevailing opinion with people I speak to is that politicians are bastards, and that's replicated here. In fact, politicians are very rarely looked at in a good light. People dislike what we have! What's the approval rating of Congress?

Your rhetoric is the same I see time and time again. People need to "wake up" and see that the system is terrible, and they're so stupid for not seeing it. People do see it, we've got well past that point. The idea that there are significant problems with the way we run countries is painfully fucking obvious. You're not smarter than everyone else for seeing that there is corruption, or that people lie. These revelations are not new, they're not anything different from what we've seen for thousands of years.

The problem is nobody has a good plan for what else to do.

> Even if you hint to people that maybe we don't really need a government to live our lives in peace, at the very best it is suggested you go to Somalia.

Well it's a good point, we can point at countries without democratic-ish rule and they're often really terrible places to live. I get to complain about MPs spending expenses money on duck houses on the internet because I have reliable infrastructure and enough money to buy a computer and an internet connection. I'm not worried about a group of teens in the military coming in and raping my wife.

> Even if you hint to people that maybe we don't really need a government to live our lives in peace

We don't, not if everyone is nice. But "wouldn't it be nice if everyone was nice" is the kind of political plan I'd expect from a 5 year old. Unless you have a concrete suggestion, something better than "not this", then you have nothing to add to an incredibly important conversation.
"WhateverScript VM" - you mean kind of like Dart VM for Chrome by Google?
Yes we've been doing it since 2000 (http://slub.org), I haven't actually used supercollider in performance though I don't think, I just used it for a perl.com article once.
This is not the future of electronic music, but now we've given it a stupid name people seem to be more interested..
And that's how we learned not to use MongoDB.
Well I just might, for now Scala seems to be doing a pretty good job though :P

Is learning clojure enough if I would like to write lisp in future?
Their IPO was two months ago yesterday. September 27th 2013.
You have granted Reddit a perpetual license to them though, so they can keep them if they want

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^Reddit copyright policy
> No true Scotsman is a logical fallacy that you should avoid.

Perhaps, but this is not No True Scotsman.

No True Scotsman involves ignoring a counterexample to a general/universal claim.

For example, if I said "No Republican would vote to increase the deficit" and you countered by saying "actually, George W. Bush is a Republican and did in fact vote to increase the deficit," and I responded by saying, "well, no TRUE Republican would vote to increase the deficit," that would be No True Scotsman. Because I'm ignoring the fact that my broad, sweeping rule has a clear counterexample.

Those elements are not here in this case. I did not make a broad sweeping claim, instead I made a specific one (Obama is not a socialist). Ergo, it is not No True Scotsman.

> 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?

"Liberal" and "conservative" describes a spectrum of political belief. If some tea party members have much more extreme views than Romney, then yes, it would demonstrate that Romney is less conservative than more extremely conservative people, but does not refute that he is right-of-center.
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I haven't been impressed with mine unfortunately. Issues:

1 - the display doesn't get dim enough; it's too bright to read in bed next to a partner

1a - this is INCREDIBLY annoying: at the lowest brightness, the display flickers. Noticeably.

1b - I repeat 1a

2 - slow charging times

3 - it's not quite wide enough to read technical pdfs comfortably. Also, the software available to read pdfs generally is not particularly good. Ebookdroid is the best of a bad bunch. On the bright side, it can invert colors for reading in bed. However, it still isn't particularly good at finding the content in pdfs formatted for other screens, boxing it to exclude eg page numbers or headers, then filling the screen with just content.

Anyway, I found the slightly wider screen on an ipad mini better for reading pdfs. ymmv; if I where just reading kindle books and not reading in bed I'd probably like it better. Also, I'm over 6 feet tall and have big hands, so I find the mini comfortable. Again, ymmv.
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/algorave-is-the-future-of-dan...
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/dravling/grice.html
Sharing Everywhere
Remote access to the folders on your computer
Bitcoin Survey. Stability - Security - Adoption
Because it is equally crappy? IE6 was alive and well for _quite_ a while.

Regarding node.js: http://pages.citebite.com/b2x0j8q1megb
I never said I don't have to worry about the state of the world.
I just noticed that I often go to reddit to search for things instead of Google, even though their search sucks. But it's better than 50 pages of yahoo answers and similar sites, plus some random forums.
Bitcoin is a (peer-to-peer) protocol. It runs on port 8333/TCP. It "helps ensure" transactions are recorded successfully and permanently.

Very much fits the analogy with Internet or the web.
Ison: Critical time for ‘comet of the century’
Wyoming diplodocus skeleton fetches £400,000 at auction
I have no idea how to really ask this, but does it uses continuation-passing style [0] to execute expressions? I tried to search for "cps" or "continuation" in the repo, but no luck. I also don't really have the time right now to go dig through the source.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation-passing_style
A lot of the simplification was definitely down to flattening the structure that was represented in 20-30 tables down into a smaller set of documents in ES. But the functional approach to then rendering these documents simplified it further.

A functional map is definitely analogous to a visitor pattern, but don't underestimate how much of a productivity boost arrives by being able to see all of the code in a small set of terse statements in one place, vs having a set of fairly abstract classes with accept/visit scattered all over the place.

We just found that the OO solution resulted in more code and it was more difficult to hold the resulting model in your head as the number of things that could be visited grew - we run a very big site.

The other big enabler vs a traditional CMS approach is that we have a very clear separation between the part of our stack that allows editors to create content, and the part that renders it (connected via messaging) - so we aren't mixing r/w domains and our rendering pipeline isn't burdened with the additional complexity of having to understand how content changes, it just renders what it is given as fast as it can.
Given that bitcoin only has notional value: if it's not used as a currency, with prices denominated in it, then what supports its value? If nothing does then you have the recipe for a speculative bubble, and crash, and little else.

At least gold can be made into pretty jewelry and electronics.
A backwards time-series and expressing percentages as a ratio of font sizes? What?
Top talent seeks better perks than higher salary.
Compile time is a big deal when you have millions of lines of code that constantly change and very expensive devs that are spending large amounts of time waiting.
The infrastructure Google uses to distribute and track builds across datacentres and the world to make compile time of large applications bearable isn't exactly trivial.

Optimal executables aren't that important most of the time. Hardware is cheaper than dev time and the gain of 'optimal' isn't much for the compile time trade off.
Right, some kind of solution for scarcity is needed, but any particular property system is merely a possible implementation. And while "scarcity" is not a problem solved by IP, there are other problem that IP does indeed solve.

All property rights, as implemented by our laws, are just as much of a fiction. You just feel that one is more necessary or better then another.
Firefox and FireCAT as a Platform for Ethical Hacking
> When you take someone else's money by force, for whatever reason, even if you intend to give it to the poor, it is theft. But when a government does it, it suddenly becomes taxes.

I'd see taxes more like calling in a debt. It costs money to live here, you have to pay for that. You can't shout and scream "THEFT" when a hotel is trying to get you to pay for your stay, even if you don't want to use the TV yet still have to pay for it.

> "We built those roads, we gave you education". Yes, except you didn't.

I'm not sure which country you're from, but I'm guessing there are schools and roads funded by the state.

> Finally, you see, if a politician does a bad job, he still gets paid and keeps his job at least until the next election. If a private company messes up, people leave in droves and it goes bankrupt.

There are plenty of companies that do bad jobs and are still running.
While I agree the quoted assertion is bogus, I disagree with your reasoning. There are many arbitrage opportunities that are being missed, whenever technology, science, or anything that requires thinking is involved. This is due to human stupidity and/or unwillingness to learn new things.
Gold and silver etc. are all alternative "money" "loosely" coupled with dollars. Basically Bitcoin is not different form that.

The reason I believe bitcoin will continue to exist and even be supported by states like USA is because transactions are public and traceable. The identity of wallet owner can sometimes even be determined through that.

I guess Banks feel threaten because this currency is not (yet) ~ 80% depth. It is so by design. The depth bubble grown by banks and countries will soon or later burst. Get ready for that moment. I'm not sure that bitcoin is the best placement, but in an placement diversification strategy, this would definitely be one of my picks.
It's only "absurd" if you're quite new to programming and math.

In fact, it has been with us in programming for over 6 decades, and is a classic mathematical syntax called Polish Notation ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_notation ).

For one, it makes all method invocations the same: the method name followed by the arguments. Here the method is operator plus (addition).
"What's the approval rating of Congress?"

There's an old saying, I dunno who said it first: People hate congress, and love their congressman.

That may not be as true these days...there's a pretty big disconnect, and a big part of the issue is that nobody votes because nobody believes it makes a difference (because it doesn't). At best you get to choose the lesser of two assholes.
You didn't actually say anything, though. You just spammed a bunch of references and I have no reason to believe that it's worth my time to go through them.

You weren't, by chance, a philosophy major, were you? There are few other fields where people work to convince others of so little.