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It doesn't eliminate Chicago or several other smaller rust belt cities. Even right in the heart of downtown Chicago, modest apartments are under $200k.
>unique in the history of the world.

Hardly. People have been enslaving each other throughout the entirety of human history. To suggest that America is somehow exceptional in this regard reeks of ethnocentrism. The Arab slave trade is arguably just as important, but somehow I doubt you condemn residents of the Middle East as harshly as you do whites...
Know what's funny? My x86_64 compiler start RISC. I added addressing modes so that it used displacement off a register instead of an add instruction to get an address. Guess what? It didn't matter much.

The CPU converts the CISC to RISC, so don't even bother in the compiler, except for dignity.

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My compiler is 20,000 lines of code. I am not interested in adding 5,000 lines to get a 3% improvement.

I do not support 32-bit floats, so SIMD is kinda wasted on just 2 64-bit floats.
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If you're doing that, compare those subreddits to r/gameofthrones and r/breakingbad and that's his point. Majority of the people I know that watch GoT/BB have watched HoC/OitnB as well.
Yeah, they are a pain in the ass and could be improved greatly I'm sure. I'm just saying capital, record-keeping and AML requirements are not completely without a public-serving point, unlike the sponsorship requirement.
Why does it need to be phoneless? Just don't put a SIM in it
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The ways in which it can (and will) fail are monumentally complex. Everything looks simple when it's working.
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Agreed.

It's an attempt to circumvent democratic process. That may be deemed necessary but then isn't there a larger issue - that you have a pseudo-democracy in which the only way for the populus to combat rogue agencies within the state government is to perpetrate acts of aggression against their own infrastructure? The infrastructure those same people are paying taxes to implement?

Basically you're saying that USA democracy has broken to such an extent that the people need to initiate war - of a form - against the government's agencies.
I use MacBook Air, it's light form factor and long battery life is perfect for long commutes. Best thing about MacBook is great resell value, you can use it for 1 year and sell it for 80% value and 60% after 2 years.
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Apple said to build its own content delivery network
Very nice, I like how easy the signup flow is.
Do you actually have any skin in the game? I mean, are you someone who this would affect your income?

Because it is very easy to suggest this, when there is no downsides to you.

Now, as a developer and game creator, I do have some fish in the boat, but I also agree that a 20 year limit should exist.
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I believe it sometimes happens organically.

Code can be a very intimate affair. When taking on a new requirement that can be fulfilled by an existing framework, there's a lot more to consider than just "did someone already implement this"?

In the corporate world, we often remind younger developers that most of the cost of the code is in the maintenance, not in the development, of software. Having to tackle feature changes dependent on 3rd party software can be really expensive.

If I'm working on a hobby project, I don't have enough time to do a full evaluation of all options out there, nor do I have time to understand the intricacies of a given framework to meet my unique requirements.

So, often, it takes just as much time to come up with my own mini-framework and build it up as my requirements increase. If I reach a certain level of functionality, then I may have something that I can share with other developers. Everyone always touts the benefits of open source, and I may want to get in on that, too. Besides, there's more glory in starting a project than being the 51st person to contribute.

Disclaimer: I don't have my own framework, and has in the past been the Nth contributor to what was then a de facto standard framework.
No, argh. Bar charts comparing numbers measuring two different things. Why would you compare total Oscar nominations in all categories with Best Actor/Actress/Supporting/Directing noms? And why aren't the revenue charts on the same scale? And why?
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>organized political action //

The action is a physical with-holding of resources in order to prevent an arm of government from operating. That doesn't sound like "political" action. Warranted or not that description vastly underplays the gravity of the proposed action IMO.
It's interesting the way these people never try to apply this sort of "logic" to any other situation. Probably because original sin was first popularized by the Catholic Church, and outside of white guilt and religion (where cognitive dissonance keeps people from realizing the inconsistencies), the concept would obviously be considered laughable at best and ragingly discriminatory at worst.
Your anger is misplaced. They did do exactly that.
True! They can be great leaders but annoying at the same time (basing on my experience)..
When a big company decides to use your name, your options are very limited. You can try to take the fight legal (and face the big company's entire legal team plus the distraction of suing a behemoth). Or, you can turn their massive publicity machine against them and set yourself up as an underdog.

The media loves David v. Goliath stories and being cast as David could have profound marketing opportunities for 53. Kudos to 53 for having the sense to handle this gracefully.
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Indeed, the article errs on that general statement. But it seems per Wikipedia that pure-mercury thermometers become unusable at -39C, when mercury solidifies. A mercury-thallium alloy can go to -61C, but apparently alcohol thermometers are preferred for measuring extreme cold, as they work to -70C. So the actual observed thermometers on that record day – those thermometers – likely did not use mercury.
If Kindle, Apple, Google, or Kobo don't use this DRM, who's left? Is there a story here?
I wonder if this has something to do with the recent breach.
Can you elucidate why the UK populus needs to turn to guerilla tactics against GCHQ?

If you can then you've a platform on which, instead, to press for political reform. I'd very much like to hear a succinct elucidation before anyone says that the political process is too broken to make viable such change as is necessary.
Yes, the author ironically doesn't actually understand what's happening in the pipeline for the processor they're writing about.

It is a superscalar processor using reservation stations and tomasulo's algorithm, a RAW hazard doesn't stall the pipeline. But instructions which would be affected by RAW hazards will slow down execution if those instructions are on the critical path. So paying close attention to instruction-level dependencies will produce better results in both since you can increase the ILP possible in the instruction sequence. This helps a lot especially on code which might run on in-order pipelines (a lot of mobile and embedded chips still use in-order pipelines) too.
No. You. Do. Not. It's called a mechanical license.

"Since the Copyright Act of 1909, United States musicians have had the right to record a version of someone else's previously recorded and released tune, whether it's music alone or music with lyrics.[7] A license can be negotiated between representatives of the interpreting artist and the copyright holder, or recording published tunes can fall under a mechanical license whereby the recording artist pays a standard royalty to the original author/copyright holder through an organization such as the Harry Fox Agency, and is safe under copyright law even if they do not have any permission from the original author. Other agents who can facilitate clearance include Limelight, the online mechanical licensing utility powered by RightsFlow. The U.S. Congress introduced the mechanical license to head off an attempt by the Aeolian Company to monopolize the piano roll market.[8]"
I'm also confused - Adobe has their own ebook DRM? I didn't know this at all. Who uses this?
Right now, I'm working on Readborg [0], an Android app. It is a news reader for Philippine news. I know that there are lots of news reader out there, but I just checked the Play Store for News & Magazine category in the Philippines and it looks promising. The problem is, Flipboard, Feedly, and such caters majority of US and international news. For Readborg, I intend to cater Philippine news for Filipino readers.

Readborg is also tightly integrated with TextTeaser [1], an automatic summarization API that I created. Right now, it's on beta stage but you can already download it at Google Play Store [2] if Philippine news is relevant to you.

[0] http://ph.readborg.com/

[1] http://textteaser.com/

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.readborg.r...
I re-read the article and I concluded that we are both right.
I direct you to the following statement:

"The principles are rarely orthogonal and frequently conflict."

Producing genuinely useful error messages at all requires a complex parser, IMHO. It's not computationally obvious to look at a line of code and say 'actually you just missed this one character'. Requiring a terminating character gives you at least a sanity check starting point to work with - it alone will catch whole categories of errors.
I'm not sure I agree with this sentiment here regarding "wise".

> And of course Kindle and Apple customers won’t even notice, thanks to those companies’ wise decision to use their own DRM.

About the only thing "wise" about it is that if Apple were to change its own DRM scheme for the books it sells, I'm assuming they'd update iOS to include the new functionality.
Admittedly, this would still lock out older devices potentially that couldn't upgrade to the latest version of iOS.
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You're saying that something will be regulated because similar things have been regulated in the past.

That's like saying we will never achieve flight, because all we have is cars, and anything car-like can't fly.
If these guys are working for free, then your argument is predicated on a falsehood.
it is very easy to argue against it, when you stand to lose money if it were implemented.
Barnes and Noble Nook readers use it, I believe.

Plus lots of other vendors that don't have their own hardware chain. Powell's books, for example.

Or anyone attempting to self-publish a DRM'd ePub without putting it in Apple's store.
My ideas appear often when i'm having trouble with some situation and suddenly i've look at some app on the internet that with some modifications could tackle that trouble. Often i have the same doubts as you on how good, feasible or original the idea is and often this questions makes me leave the idea behind too soon.
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Have you considered a really cheap android Tablet. I've seen some at wal-mart for right at 50 Dollars. I'm sure its not a very good tablet. but if all you are doing is using it to throw content to the chromecast it would probably get the job done.
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Perhaps because a to do list is so simple it can be covered by every type of framework, and doesn't warrant using the very features that justify each framework. I agree there's lots of "reinventing the wheel", but I don't think there's as much noise to value as they think.
Only once I'm afraid.
I don't intend this to put down the creators of this product, but Postgres is a SQL database with the scalability of KV store if used in a way that makes it scalable like a KV store. :)

It's a great idea, but I think the "mission statement" needs to be restated.
If you're like me and this is the first time you're hearing about this, and want to know more about the implementation, check the bottom of this page:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Persona?redirectlocale=e...

Edit: I've checked out the login process in the linked site, and it works well, but the popup window U/I seems like it's ripe for phishing attempts. It would be very easy to replicate the look of that window and fool people into thinking they're using Persona when they're not.
"VERY well" is debatable. I found that much of my media seemed to require on the fly transcoding to play (disappointing), and subtitles didn't work well. Performance was often poor as well for higher bitrate source material.

In addition, your chromecast MUST be connected to the internet to play anything (not just local lan, must have actual internet access). Maybe they are planning on version2 showing ads when nothing else is playing or something. Who knows.

My chromecast now sits unused in some drawer somewhere.
Public libraries that use the Overdrive system use this DRM scheme.
I'm quite surprised to see this on HN homepage, I mean this is such a great and popular tool that I would expect everyone to know about it and find it just an obvious link not to upvote.

Does anyone know if there is a lib to read and write into keepass archives programmatically, e.g. from a C# app? that would be quite useful to manage in an automated way some credentials for production systems, sharing tha archive via versioning repos in a team.
Thanks for your suggestions, i had not considered Digital Ocean purely because I'd not had any experience with it or know anyone who's used it before.

Regarding the relational data that is one of the challenges I faced when building the application. I used NoSQL because I had recently had some experience with mongo and mongoose thought it would be easier then I realised I would have to begin making multiple selects and concatenating data together to bring back average ping stats for the dashboard etc which made it somewhat harder.
One of the reasons that Clojure has so many libraries is that most things didn't have to be implemented from scratch.

Building Clojure on the JVM was a genius move by Rich Hickey - it meant that an advanced runtime platform (the JVM) and a huge ready-to-use library ecosystem was already there from day 1.

Backwards compatibility with Common Lisp was never a goal. The JVM ecosystem is bigger by far (and IMHO more valuable as a target).
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The nice thing about Amazon's Kindle DRM is that it's fairly easy to crack. It presumably satisfies publishers who insist on continuing with this cargo cult charade (which really should have ended after the music industry accepted DRM-free sales), and it allows educated consumers to strip the DRM if they really need to.

It's not an optimal solution, but it's mostly OK.
Makes sense.

In the end it's about choice. Would you rather trust the Zetas or Uncle Sam?
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Why does HTML TextArea have its own HTML tag?
Would you please not use all caps for emphasis?
Agreed. We hire folks that have their own businesses or projects. One of our employees likes doing contract work and helps run an annual tech conference. He didn't want to be tied to a specific schedule; sometimes he works a lot, sometimes he works a little. He knows he has a steady paycheck, though it is smaller than it would be if he were working full-time for us. We've known him for years, and knew he was working on our Open Source stuff already, for free, so we know he's got the interests of our users and software in mind.

There are flexible positions out there. Another option is to start your own company. That's what I did when I wanted freedom. I made the mistake of starting a hardware company the first time...the second time I made it software, and made sure nothing about it required me to answer phones or be in one place for any length of time.
I can't fault Airbnb hosts if they use this -- if I was a host, I probably would. Nevertheless, it takes some of the charm and advantage out of it for us hostees. Airbnb seemed like a marketplace where sellers for the most part aren't trying to optimize their profits to squeeze out every last buck.

Edit: Actually, to be more accurate, it didn't feel like much of a "marketplace" at all, and that's where the charm was. You weren't terribly aware of supply and demand and the rest of econ 101 when using it.
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actually not true, modern phones use SSD, and don't really get affected by magnets in the way you might expect.
I upvoted it because I use it.

Although since I am studying C#, VB and Java I would be interested to find out the answer to that.
However, the first 3 you mentioned are already native "apps" on appletv.
What a great post, please share it with more people. I agree 100%.
it was a two day project some things I didn't have time to really 'clean up' that's not to say it ends with two days of work :) I will be clearing up many of the small issues and growing the site's features much more over the next few weeks.
Maybe even making the switch to digital ocean and twillio
Great leader if efficiency and productivity are the expectation. In most of cases, politician, not leader is the one who climb to the top, because efficiency and productivity are not priorities in society and most of corporate.

Only in the case of military, leaders are expected to be of real leadership, as otherwise the consequence is obvious. In non-military environment, this is rarely the case hence often you would find the stupid and diligent types, which should be fired according to these nazi's theory, are actually in charge.
Ignoring the venom in your comment, maybe the parent commenter is younger and unfamiliar with the infamous and evil Microsoft of the 1990s, and thus could be educated rather than belittled. See https://xkcd.com/1053/
Have you heard of Nintendo's Virtual Console service? They've been doing pretty much exactly this since the Wii launched in 2006: old games for the NES, SNES, Genesis, and more for $5-15~. You can't get the Final Fantasy games, because Square Enix probably thinks having the original games would hurt demand for their expensive remakes, but otherwise their selection is pretty good. For PC games, you have Good Old Games, which sells DRM-free versions of classic PC games tweaked for modern hardware (or ran in an emulator, for the really old ones) with no need for CD serials. The future you wanted is already here! What do you know, they even have Myst:

http://www.gog.com/game/myst_masterpiece_edition

Or you could just Google "no-intro $game_console_of_choice" and get the entire library in minutes that way...
I've lucked out in finding an organization that's just like that. The founders are all older married guys with kids, who want to be their own bosses and also not spend too much time at the office. They're not hypocrites, so no one has to spend too much time at the office. We work about 35 hours a week, but I'm fairly sure that if someone wanted to reduce that to 30 or even 25, it would be fine, so long as they got plenty of work done at work. The pay is right around the amount you mentioned, as a starting wage. We treat each other and our clients well. It does exist... www.radarhill.com.
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Modding in games have become the game developers best friend
A little offtopic, but I love the mouse-over effect on the blog header. It makes the text immediately stick out and seem more real — in the sense that this presentation says about making games "juicy": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy0aCDmgnxg

It's a pity that it only links to a permalink of the blog, rather than being a call to action of some kind.
If the games were in the public domain, a devoted group of fans could produce an exquisitely curated set for free.
Valve Adds In-Game Music Controls and Playback To Steam
This is a really good overview of modern processor design. I keep noticing that a lot of people don't seem to understand the CPU designs past the five stage pipeline taught in undergrad architecture courses and this document does a lot of good work in targeting the areas that folks are most likely to have misconceptions about.

I do wish they covered trace caches, or as they're known partly in their more modern form, u-op (micro-op) caches, which are back in modern Intel chips again and cause some interesting performance artifacts. (The old trace caches of the P4 chips are different than the u-op caches of the new architectures, since the trace cache actually encoded branch predictions into the actual cache line lookup, which was always pretty wild.)
mmmm barriers to entry. Collect that market power! I submit that anymore, about the only barriers to entry left in any industry are regulatory barriers to entry. Do you know how scarce cabby badges are in NYC?
Is that the norm? Last company I worked for offered me stock options in exchange for giving up a part of my salary. What's normally offered to people who join startups very early?