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The tech report version of the OOPSLA paper Joe mentions, about a type system for side effect understanding, is here: https://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=170...
Although I happen to spend 85% of my film-watching time on foreign films. Assuming they can be called a 'genre' then I would take Netflix seriously if they said a film I just watched is like another film I should see...only they don't offer much in terms of foreign films.
It doesn't matter whether you left your documents in your house, or your neighbors if "they police find those documents otherwise lawfully." So I'm not sure what your point is. I do have a reasonable claim of privacy if I leave a box of papers at my friends house. I can't claim that privacy if my friend gives the box to the police. But that doesn't give the police the right to barge into my friends house and take my property (without reasonable suspicion) Lets suppose the cops don't have reasonable suspicion to search my house for that box... If I give the box to a friend, and they don't have reasonable suspicion to search his house, they still don't have it, because I gave him the box. The only thing I don't have control of, is what my friend does with my box. In the Google case, I have a claim to privacy. I expect my mail to be private. It is my expectation, and the police should require the same warrants to get my data from Google than they would have to get it from my house.
My thought exactly. Seems like they're just jumping on the same train.
Now that you mention it, that's what I do with my LaTeX-speaking friends too...
Right - the famous 30 instructions are in the hardware interrupt path, and responsible for putting the packet on the correct process's queue and waking that process up. As the original post says:

The TCP protocol processing is done as we remove packets
from the queue & copy their data to user space (and since
we're in process context, it's possible to do a
checksum-and-copy).

The TCP protocol processing mentioned here done in process context is certainly not covered by the 30 instructions.
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Substantial discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6965748
My account was disabled one year ago. No warning, no reason. Then I contacted the customer service of Admob, after few days, they told me their system detected that my account has some issues. I lost hundreds dollar just because the arithmetic said I was criminal. And someothers told me, their system made mistakes sometimes. If you met, it's your own badluck. :(
Also : Dependent types example in Shen (http://sandycat.info/blog/deptypes-shen/)
I learnt sanskrit, when i was in school... very nice language actually.... I like reading short moral stories in sanskrit a lot.....!!!!
I've personally done more than that. You do run into reporting issues if you pull more than $10k at once though.
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why is this on hn first page ?

It seems this website doesn't display as intended which is a bad starting point, then it is ads everywhere and a collection of logos some of which are amateurishly slapped there.

The "try it" is really a long and stupid signup form disguised as a trap to collect your domain name to whois your name and email and probably spam you to death.

I wonder how a captcha you can actually read would be useful and not detrimental as in not blocking bots and still annoying users. Probably better to add a hidden checkbox as a bot trap.
No, but this is Microrust

It's completely not at all the same, but still familiar to rust programmers.

It's but built for the enterprise with advanced patented technology.

The yearly license fee will include responsive customer service.
Sounds great, but I'll wait to see some actual code before getting my hopes up.
Whatever you do, do not try an emulated version of Goldeneye. In my head that is one of the best games ever, but I just know these days it is just plain awful.

There's a PS3 remake of the same name from the team that were originally Rare. I bought it a couple of years ago and it's very good, but still, it doesn't compare to 14 year old me crowded around my 21" CRT with 3 school mates playing 'golden gun' in the 'facilities' level. Fond fond memories.
My problem with the 9/11 anecdote, is the Judge believes 9/11 could have been prevented if we had known someone's phone number. Although he didn't provide any evidence to suggest that knowing his phone number would have helped, or that we knew he would be involved. What is also interesting is, the claim that because we didn't know his phone number, we assumed he was overseas. I fail to see how knowing that he was in San Diego would have made a difference. Or why they automatically assumed he was overseas. Or even why he was a suspect, and if he WAS a suspect, why do nothing other than throw their hands up in the air and say "well he is overseas, oh well"
>> "What would it take for this guy to actually admit that Apple no longer makes the best phones?"

Personally I think they still make the best overall phone. There are better phones out there for certain people but the iPhone is the best all rounder. However:

iPhones have been my only smartphones. Every time I tried an alternative I didn't like it. I recently got a Nexus 4 and was impressed but the iPhone 5 still beat it in a few key areas for me (camera, microphone - I use voice memos a lot -, and screen). A few days ago I upgraded to the iPhone 5S. I'm not impressed. Touch ID is nice but I could live with out it. Slow motion camera for me is a gimmick. Speed improvements aren't really noticeable. The only real innovation is the M7. Overall there was very little reason to upgrade. It certainly wasn't worth the cost.

It got me thinking that next time round, if Apple continues at it's current pace, I'll probably be purchasing an Android device. As a full time iOS developer, a Mac user, and someone deeply ingrained in the Apple ecosystem that's a pretty big statement I think.
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How? Badly.
I love the large catalog of classical music, but being unable to browse it in a unified way is a pain in the ass. They blame it on the publisher-provided metadata, but it's not all the publisher's fault.

In the iPhone app you cannot read the whole track name, so Imagine finding a certain piece when all you see is:

Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Conc...
Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Conc...
Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Conc...
Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Conc...
Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Conc...
Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Conc...

On iTunes, pressing and holding over a song shows the complete track label.
They seem to be trapped in a featuritis loop, giving no priority to feature polish.
> I find it remarkable that the bigwigs have discovered a way to create a frozen fry that even a one armed eyeless chimp has trouble screwing up.

I find it in general remarkable that McDonalds' business processes seem to be so foolproof that any one armed eyeless chimp is able to create BigMacs, Hamburgers and any other McDonalds dish always and anywhere in the world with the same high quality.
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C++ does not perform, is not a managed language, and has nothing to offer. What could he possibly be talking about?

I read this as MS once again getting it completely wrong. Seriously C++ solving managed languages performance and memory problems?

Physician, HEAL THY SELF.
I'm not condoning his actions by any means, but by most accounts Willms is an exceptional marketer. I say this as someone who has spent the better part of the previous decade in the affiliate industry, and although I've never personally interacted with Jesse I do know several people that have. That said, I've never heard of anyone in the affiliate game refer to Jesse as a "legend" as this author proclaims, but he is respected for his creative advertising techniques. Simply put, his relentless pursuit in optimizing his marketing message is often what made his products convert visitors into customers at a much higher rate than any of his equally-shady competitors.
Those tend to be very safe hard resets from a drive perspective. First of all, you're not losing power, so even though there's a reset, the drive firmware maintained power. Secondly, I'm guessing you see far more hard locks and manual resets than random, sudden reboots - and if that's the case, then the drive firmware probably didn't even notice. By the time you press reset, an eternity has passed and any ongoing activities have long finished.

I can imagine a software-fault causing drive-level problems if the drive has a large cache and a broken fsync, or if the bios does some kind of unsafe hard drive reset very quickly after starting.

In any case, it's probably more likely to be file-system level reliability you'd need in the face of driver instability.
I wonder if he still follows these techniques

hey, pmarca? ^^
I wouldn't consider it invulnerable to OCR, considering the fact that only half of the captcha is actually doing validation -- the other half is digitization.

Plus, statistically a few groups have worked to break it in the past[1]. Even without breaking it programatically, buying human labor to solve them is sometimes equal or less expensive[2].

[1]: http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/05/google-recaptcha-bro...
[2]: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1305940...
I installed Slackware 64bit on a ThinkPad T61 and it works out of the box, completely (though I haven't messed with the fingerprint reader). It also performs extremely well, much better than the Dell Inspiron it replaced, even though the hardware (processor, etc) isn't necessarily much faster on paper. It also doesn't get so hot. These things are just so good in so many ways. :)
There's nearly an infinite amount of knowledge in the world. And each of us has a finite amount of time. Why not is not an answer.

Of what use is Sanskrit to anyone who learns it?

P.S. I say this as a person who was forced to study Sanskrit in school for three years.
> C++ does not perform,...

You sure seem to be an expert on these things.
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Amazed at the very poor quality of their search! I ve setup a search engine for a service that then links to spotify when the song is available. With use of proper phonetic filters etc... we were able to get excellent relevance. I do not understand how spotify works internally to let this unattended. Other than that, good music ;)
Ask HN: how do you invest?
Hello,

I have a sum of money that I am considering investing (in the order of 10 000€), but I don't have a background in finance, so no solid idea of where / how to invest.

How do you invest relatively small amounts of money? Is the stock market a good idea if you have a few companies in mind?

As a side note, I do understand the risk/reward mechanism and its implications.
Thanks!
still just a thought, but one i've been turning around in my head for months now. i'm hoping the new year will give me the psychological motivation boost to actually start writing it.

i'll add a link from my website (http://zem.novylen.net) when it's up.
codingbinary, you are hell-banned (your comments are invisible to the vast majority of users).

Your comments aren't all "great", but they seem to be in good faith. I feel that a friendly reminder to strive to post substantive and relevant comments [1] would be a far more appropriate remedy than killing your account after your second comment.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> "By learning this language, you open the door to more than three thousand years of intellectual history, both in India and beyond."

What does that even mean? Indian history, intellectual or not, isn't being held captive behind closed doors waiting for Sanskrit-speaking liberators.

As someone who was forced to learn Sanskrit in school for 3 years, I'll repeat: it has zero value unless you happen to be a researcher or a linguist.
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Every company and entrepreneur has to trick people into buying their product. Anyone who has worked in sales or has seen it up close knows this. You cannot sell people anything by providing them with mere facts and convincing them of the correctness of those facts. You have to convince them to trust you and your product, to believe it will deliver what it promises, completely independent of overwhelming factual evidence.

Example: we have first hand experience with the following: we did a pilot project and the project manager personally testified that we saved them 500K in costs, at a < 50K expense. Nevertheless we had a hard time selling the company our product for use in other projects.

You have to trick people into buying your product, even if you know it's objectively in their best interest. So yes, this guy definitely has a useful talent.
well, if we only look at the language and the "recent" past then C# is both an Ecma and ISO standard.

yes, it's only one example among 1000s of opposite ones but things are changing even in Microsoft, very slowly, with lots of setbacks, but they are. They won't transform MS anytime soon and possibly ever but I see saner pockets emerging.
"Then again, I'm Belgian."

If you can access this 30 min radio programme from the BBC about chips (from June 2010), you might find it interesting. It features a segment on Belgian fries

"In Belgium the oven chip hasn't caught on. Instead friterie shops proliferate, and Belgians take their chips very seriously. How the potato arrived in Europe remains contentious, but the Belgians are confident that it was them, and not the French, who invented the "French" fry. Ray Kershaw visited the Friet Museum in Bruges established to celebrate their national fry with director Eddie Van Belle."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sqkgb (segment starts at 18:33 seconds)
Okay yapcguy, I'm interested in who you think exceeds Gruber's quality, insight, and consistency in terms of watching Apple?

The list is pretty short - maybe Philip Elmer DeWitt, Benedict Evans, Ben Thompson and Horace Dediu - but none of them bring the deep and consistent product insight - they are more focussed on broader reporting, strategic assessments, or disruption/market theory.

Gruber, to the best of my knowledge, is the only writer that consistently tracks all the major apple developments with the quality of writing that he brings to the table.

Yes, he's a partisan, (Siracusa's term for him) - and writes for his audience, but his words are reasonably measured, and always have a reasonably rational basis.

I wouldn't continue following him if that weren't the case - I've dropped dozens of other Apple observers over the year, but Gruber is still on top of his game.
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If you're talking about the shlokas most commonly recited by average people, they may amount to maybe 10-20 lines. Learning their meaning will take at best one hour of research/effort.

Learning Sanskrit to understand the meaning of a shloka is like learning Latin because you came across 'Cogito, Ergo Sum' or 'Veni, Vidi, Vici' on some blog. Both are pointless overkill.
You would have to deal with a maximum size limit, or sort only sections of it at a time.

I mean it might technically be possible if you did some kind of recurrent neural network and gave the inputs through time rather than through space. And you would also have to let it interact with some kind of external memory or workspace.

Perhaps you could train it to just perform operations on the list itself (compare two elements, swap two elements, etc.) That would be the simplest way.
Another thing to consider - I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Apple started work on, researched, went through prototypes, and then canceled a number of products that didn't meet their minimum standard of quality/market fit.
Question, Russia and China threatens to Nuke South Korea and United States too if it interferes. South Korea gets nuked first. Does United States head down towards mutually assured destruction over a country smaller than the size of Minnesota? I think that it's a nuclear umbrella with large holes in it.
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Judging by their track record, I completely trust the geniuses at Microsoft to solve another non-existent problem /s.
Do we really need more languages? Aren't there enough languages already?

I suspect I have just outed myself as a substandard hacker. :( But seriously! There's so many!
I think Microsoft language research is wonderful. But they tools do not run on Linux and MacOS well.
Confirmed, an American who has made the trip to Belgium, the fries in your country are ridiculously superior to anything we get here, except certain places that specialize in them, where they occasionally manage to achieve par with Belgian frites.
while it was given at google instead of CCC, the follow-up talk he gave a year later is even more important:

Cory Doctorow: "The Coming Civil War over General-purpose Computing" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbYXBJOFgeI

This talk assumes we have won the War On General Computation (which seems likely, if we give it enough time. The tech used to win that war (or, "the tech society has to learn to live with, because it's not going away") will bring up some nasty sociological questions as it gets applied to other areas.

The current NSA mess is probably the first skirmish in that Civil War. It gets even nastier when you start adding in, say, medical devices:

* Can the NSA spy on the signal to your cochlear implant?

* What about if it was paid for by an insurance company or a bank, and you haven't paid it off yet - can that company give permission like AT&T does with phone records?

* What about when some company finally gets the "clever" idea to subsidize the hearing-aids so the poor have access to them - if they agree to listen to an advert every hour that you can't shut off.

* Oh, wait, you break the contract by figuring some technical way around the ads? Does that mean the bank can "repo" your hearing?

No great answers to these questions, unfortunately, but I agree with Doctorow that we need to start finding those answers NOW, because the questions are quickly becoming reality.
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As far as I know it's restricted to HP and Lenovo.

Dell certainly don't use whitelisting, I've changed innumerable wifi and 3G cards in Dell Latitude and Vostro laptops over the years without problems. And few of them were Dell-branded versions.

So how come only two vendors have problems with the FCC?
I think they are. I'm a Canadian living in France, and I pretty much hate McDonalds here. Fries are soggy and not salted enough, burgers are completely messed up, and the service is impressively slow. I tried several places, it's all more of the same.

Everytime I go back to a McDonalds in Canada I find the food just tastes better. It's still fast food, but I'm enjoying it so much more.
>>>>>>>Why would someone, Indian or not, want to learn Sanskrit online?

>>>>>>>>There's nearly an infinite amount of knowledge in the world. And each of us has a finite amount of time. Why not is not an answer.

You can apply that flawed reasoning to pretty much everything. It would've been a perfectly valid question if you had said "Why would I want to learn Sanskrit?". Please don't universalize your opinion by saying things like why would anyone want to learn Sanskrit online or offline.
I was on board QF32 as a passenger near where the engine exploded. Kudos to the wonderful team under Captain de Crespigny.

Feel free to ask anything - http://blog.ulfw.com/2010/11/im-safe/
Four Corners did a great job with the report. Here's them filming my miniscule part of the program over at my apartment in Singapore - http://blog.ulfw.com/2011/09/abc-four-corners-on-the-qantas-...
The North Korean army actually having to bother fighting is a best case scenario anyway. It's a pretty big assumption that isolated peasants, brought up in an environment where periodic famine is the norm and indoctrinated from birth about the importance of vigilance against the US aggressor, would upon seeing their hated enemy drop propaganda leaflets, immediately rush to read them and carry out their instructions about militia formation.
I just bought a Thinkpad X230 a week back. Looking forward to have a great experience with it.

My laptop HP Pavillion dv4 performs out of box with major linux variants. No issues!
I think the beauty of reCAPTCHA is that if there's stronger OCR, those algorithms can be integrated into Google's book digitization system, resulting in a new version of reCAPTCHA that will only show words not recognized by this new algorithm. As a result, the captchas will get harder if there's better OCR.

Of course eventually, OCR systems will become as good as a significant fraction of the population, and then the idea breaks down.
Also, the combination of Apple's iOS 7 forced obsolescence and the relatively low depreciation rate of Apple hardware makes the Apple ecosystem is a really shitty experience at the low end of the market. The only iProduct priced competitively with low-end Android and Windows Phone is a second-hand 3GS, which is no longer supported and doesn't have access to most apps - in fact, at the rate we're going, it's not even going to have support for basic apps people expect from all platforms.
I am going against the wind. It's not only stupid but also ugly.

Having your bedroom near or inside a kitchen is a total chaos.

>I think technology is the enabling factor behind the tiny house movement.

Technology has helped most persons own a 'palace' which was only possible for super-rich in the past, due to lack of 'economical' technology and advancements.
It's easy to find good programming e-books, but e-books about mathematics are harder to find. Does anyone know if there's a equivalent of O'reilly for math-books?
So what if half of reCAPTCHA is not a captcha? You still need to break the other half.
That's not how languages in the .net ecosystem have worked in the past. C# is an open, ecma standard, as is the specification of the common language infrastructure (the VM/byte-code design for running .net programs). And MS publishes the language specifications for VB and F#. That's why it's possible to run .net code on linux without ever paying MS. There's even an open source F# compiler.

Moreover, the .net compilers, library, framework, and run-time are, and have been, provided for free, as is a version of the IDE. All of which can be used to develop commercial applications. The only requirement being that they run on a Windows OS. Even so, you can run all of this from within WINE, again without ever paying MS any money whatsoever.

The idea that MS is out to envelope developers by enticing them into a language that requires massive cash outlays or ongoing licensing fees is not supported by reality.
>- You can't look at raw price point as evidence for iPhone's ability to resist depreciation because their starting value is so much higher than other smartphones -- though I do think Apple hardware ages better than other hardware. To answer his question of What other companies make cell phones that retain any value at all after two years?: Samsung, Google/Motorola.

Baring some weirdly cheap outliers the S4 comes in at £500 payg in the uk but that is via the networks and I don't know if they'll bugger about with it before it gets to you. You save fifty quid versus he 5S but you lose out in performance and it's made of plastic.
Interesting. How does the processor restart after hlt?
Your saying is unfair.

They already did the teardown work well from their article, why criticize them like you care about the appearance but not the idea.
I read that a long time ago and remember being inspired by Malik's commitment to educate himself after he was overcome with dread due to the realization that he had basically wasted his life up until then.

Like Malik, I too felt I was behind on my reading and picked up a lot of non-fiction that year because I did not want to waste time on reading fiction (I don't believe reading fiction is not useful, just stating how I felt at the time).