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I am a Galaxy Note 1 first day owner, now on Galaxy Note 3, waiting for 4.

As I partly lived in Bangkok, it's common all over Asia, to like big phones. I don't know why only westerners complain "man, it's too big!". That was never a complain the asian countries I traveled.

For me, I also don't care of the bigger size. It's only a plus, since you see more, better, more clear, more content, better media consumption. It fits in your pocket.

Now I'm back in Switzerland, one of the last "iPhone nations". On public transport I see those small screen iPhone users and they look at my Note with that "man, you're weird" expression... Haha
Allow me to list a few reasons I run with JS disabled by default:

- Poorly written JavaScript that causes my system to stall for a time, to the point where I have to kill all my browser's processes manually; more common than you'd think.

- Websites that attempt to mine cryptocurrencies using my browser with JavaScript; without my knowledge or permission.

- Then there's XSS and CSRF vulnerabilities that can leverage JavaScript to hijack active sessions.

And I am probably forgetting a few more reasons..

I do enable JavaScript for specific trusted websites, and I make temporary exceptions every now and then if necessary. But, I usually try to keep the list of exceptions short.

In regards to needing JavaScript for styling / design purposes.. Are you sure you need it? It might take you a bit longer to tweak and restructure the HTML and CSS to accomplish your design without JS, but it's well worth it.
EdTech is booming, and there is a lot of money to be made. Google Apps for Business is booming. Google Apps for Education, likewise, will boom in the same way.

If you seriously think Google Drive or a Google Docs is going anywhere because your precious Google Reader disappeared, you're nuts.
OTOH Larry Page doesn't care at all about something as trivial as a widely-loved RSS reader while education is something he cares about deeply.

Also, there is obviously a gigantic market there.
Does the PR firm get bonus points for re-plugging the ridiculous Amazon delivery drone PR move from cyber monday?
It seems that many equate H-1B with bringing in cheap labor from abroad. The truth is if you are an international student in the US and would like to stay in the US afterwards then applying for an H1-B (presumably after being on a F-1 student visa) and then getting the permanent residency is often the best way forward.
Why should a competitor charge better rates and have faster connections in order for it to be an alternative? Are you looking for the cheapest provider or the most ethical?
Nothing too odd, I think: I get to feel that little bit more insulated against the wacky stuff that malicious JS can do, and if I break a site I want to see, I can make an exception for it.
That's great, thanks. I'm sharing it now.
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That actually lets you change what y points at, but you can't mutate x through y. If you want to mutate x, you need something like

let y = &mut x;

which will result in an error due to x not being mutable.
We see this already with blackout outs in cable TV for various sports games ect.

In fact, it took 4 months to resolve a dispute between DirecTV and the Weather Channel [0], which affected 20 Million people. There was some outrage, but not enough to for DirecTV to relent. Instead, the content provider was forced to change [1].

There are lessons to be learned here for other content providers, like Netflix. My worry is that the gatekeepers still hold too much power and are strong arming content providers, using consumers as pawns.

[0] http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-c...
[1] http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/04/08/weather-cha...
I got the same vibe from the chorus of "never roll your own crypto" rhetoric I heard on the Internet -- that I shouldn't even bother looking into OpenSSL's code unless I went to the Shaolin Temple of Crypto and trained under Master Schneier for 10 years. Just because the intent of the message was one thing doesn't mean that it won't be interpreted in a completely different way by the intended audience.
Not quite. Spouses of people who are working in America on a H1-B visa and have applied for a green card or extended their visa are allowed to work themselves. That is a much smaller pool than people on H-1B visas.
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I only have some second-hand, anecdotal explanations. In my freelancing days (several years ago), I had clients who insisted that their websites work flawlessly without JavaScript -- some would even insist that there was no JavaScript at all. When I asked these clients why they wanted this, the answer would always be because they have disabled JavaScript in their browser, so why would they want any JavaScript on their website?

When I asked why they disabled JavaScript, it was rare to get any sort of coherent answer. Usually they would just mumble about viruses, or occasionally about privacy, but every single one of them cited "a friend" as the original source of whatever reason they had.

So my theory is that most people disable JavaScript "just because". Reminds me a bit of the five monkeys and a ladder experiment.
I attended a talk on UI design for devs a few months ago. The presenter asked us: "Do any of you run an S&M website? No? Then your buttons shouldn't say submit!"
actually:
auto obj = [ x=1, y="foo" ]{};
Why nothing in the African and South American continent. Morocco is a perfectly viable, stable economy. I would envision the same for Tunisia, Egypt, Ghana, Mozambique and South Africa. Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil (import laws are nuts) and Uruguay as well.

I wonder what goes into deciding when a country is suitable to have an IKEA? Is it corruption, stability, economy?
Nice job, I especially like the "Route Facts" in the bottom-left. Last year I made a video tutorial using the same BTS data showing how to extract similar flight insights using Excel: https://pjw.me/data-analysis-and-dashboards-with-excel.htm
I don't know anything about Android or Dart development, so I can't speak for them. All I can say is that internal Google development has been happily using vendoring of third-party code for many years (and not just C/C++ code), so I'm confident in saying that vendoring Go code can work just fine for "boring closed source enterprise commercial library tooling".
Yeah, in some ways they are, but the rules for returning stuff are usually that the thing must be defect in some obvious way. That you're unsatisfied is usually not enough. Even in the case (like online shopping) when you can return stuff, it has to be unopened and unused.

The rules on how long your product has to work are better, though.
Do you mean you get '+[m' instead of '+' in front of an added line? If so, this looks suspiciously like ecma formatting escapes (\e[XXXm).

Try if calling git diff --no-color, if this helps then something is broken on your setup. Another way i could see that happening is if you have color set to 'always' and then use some app that wraps git's command line output.
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So getting social media followers?
Lets say each website / server admin blacklisted various ISPs from their servers because they did something the admin didn't like. Maybe they noticed throttling to/from their site, or spam, or just had such a bad experience once as their customer that they now considered that ISP to be "bad for the internet".

What would we end up with? Most of the internet not working for anybody. Friends sending you links that you can't get to because you're on different ISPs. Needing to buy service at more than one ISP to "provide coverage". If it happened on a large enough scale, it would unravel what we know as the internet.

This is what I mean when I say it's a bad idea.
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You're not looking at single-threaded performance with those numbers you're looking at, um, multi-threaded performance per thread which is a metric people don't use for very good reason.

In computer architecture, it's very rare for anything to scale linearly. If you take a chip and double the frequency it runs at you won't get double the performance, because there are all sorts of latencies you haven't improved. If you double the number of cores in your chip you won't get double the performance, because they're contending for the same limited pool of off-socket memory bandwidth. If you add more sockets then some memory accesses will be to other sockets, increasing latency. And if you double the number of threads per core, you're lucky to get even a 20% increase in performance because now your threads are in contention for both the same execution and memory resources.

So when you compare a 32 socket, 4 thread per core system to a 4 socket, 2 thread per core system on the basis of thread performance you're being ludicrously unfair. Would you claim that a non-hyperthreaded Intel i5 has much better single threaded performance than a hyperthreaded Intel i7?

If you follow the link I gave you can find the actual single threaded SPECint results at the top, you'll find two base results for Power 780 (29 and 44) and many results for E7540s which seem to be around 24 for the first ten results I checked.

Sure, the SPECint rate results show a different story if you divide by the number of threads, but that isn't what people mean when they talk about single threaded performance.
Not really. I and a lot of Netflix customers would be happy to wait a few minutes for it to buffer enough of the video to begin showing it in HD. I'm not given that option though. "Luckily" I choose to live in an area with an ethical service provider so I get HD Netflix at no extra charge to me or Netflix.
Required reading: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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I think a better demo would be a game where you're playing the ISP trying to maximize the profits from captive neighborhoods of customers. There could be activities such as offering a toll gate speed-up packages for popular websites, and placing your former lobbyist as a regulatory officer, and buying up more ISPs to get more captive neighborhoods.
very nice site, I really like it!
It's down. Anyone have a mirror?
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Imagine if Netflix wasn't accessible to Comcast users from the beginning because they wouldn't pay the toll. Would it have thrived and grown as quickly as it did, or would it have died in it's infancy?

If I was building a bandwidth-intensive startup in the US at the moment, I'd be seriously looking at using port-hopping p2p as my distribution mechanism with some randomisation of the payload to make profiling/identification as difficult as possible.
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If it is sensible to call the same function with them as the same parameter, the objects are not unrelated. There is a very real and relevant-to-the-application sense in which they share a common type. (Now, if they aren't sharing implementation -- which they clearly aren't in at least one relevant way if you are avoiding an "if" statement by putting them in a class heirarchy -- then it probably makes more sense for them to implement a common interface rather than being subclasses of the same class, in a language which distinguishes those rather than using multiple inheritance class heirarchies plus method overloading to serve the role of interfaces.)
Right. Alibaba and Taobao are perhaps the biggest competitors to Amazon's physical goods fulfilment lines. They still have problems getting meaningfully out of China, though.

It's a fascinating area, and there's still huge room in specialist verticals, though. Perhaps five years ago, I interviewed at a London-based company doing over a billion dollars a year in trade just in the global shipping parts supply area. Holistically, SilkRoad is another example of a vertical-specific offering, albeit unconventional. Earlier this week HN featured a job from a startup apparently focused solely on inbound US customs-clearance for importers.

There's clearly huge money in this area, and lots of challenges.

Cross closer to the manufacturing side, and people have been slowly hyping up something called JIT or just in time manufacturing... the idea of highly dynamic sourcing from a highly available network of partners. Reputation systems and legal considerations obviously weigh-in big here, and the promise has yet to be realized. The 3D printing world and its resulting prototyping machinery has also been accelerating in this area.

It seems to me that what is truly needed here is not a new centralized platform (oh, so dotcom-era!) but a generalized, extensible language for describing RFQs and quotations with the capacity to add detailed information regarding logistics (shipping, warehousing, customs clearance, legals), financial and physical settlement routes, and reputations (not just happily settled n previous transactions, but definitely supplied n units/period from prior fulfilments).

I believe that every wholesale business of non-trivial size will some day have open source platforms providing this kind of business intelligence, risk management and operational support (sort of like SAP on steroids), and that global financial, regulatory and supply-chain systems will become more open and decentralized in tandem with these changes.

I have a no-time-to-progress-of-late, but braindump-level-documented approach to this problem space over at http://ifex-project.org/ which grew from the disparate operational requirements of dealing with cryptographic and conventional currencies/settlement routes at http://kraken.com/
>You can get industrial motors, flanges, valves, fasteners, materials, janitorial supplies

This is a precise definition of Alibaba's market segment.

Alibaba connects factories directly to businesses. I don't know a ton about the company, my introduction was a story from maybe 2011 about a kid from Michigan who made a million dollars selling iPod minis to his classmates until Apple shut him down

Edit: I couldn't find the link, this is the closest thing I could find

http://www.startupbros.com/how-you-can-make-big-money-import...
Edited to add summary

Summary

I generally browse the web to read things. I want a simple document reading environment with limited power over my computer and minimisation of who is informed of my activities particularly as they cross between different sites. Javascript is not needed and is in fact detrimental to these aims in the majority of cases.

--

I use NoScript so in many cases I enable scripts but in others I don't, it depends on the value of what I expect to see and to some extent on the trust in those the scripts are being loaded from.

Sometimes the page is broken although not fatally, most Washington Post links look broken but work fine if you scroll down to where the actual article is.

Some domains are whitelisted permanently but more often I will temporarily allow .

Reasons - Privacy and control

Some sites want me to load Javascript from dozens of different domains, many of which are advertisers and trackers. I don't want to be tracked and each script loaded could be reporting almost anything about the page I am viewing back to the associated domains.

Disabling Javascript disables most of the intrusive moving/audible adverts on the web and hopefully also much of the tracking and privacy invasion that goes along with them.
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Yes, I mounted the bucket using https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse
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Indeed. The odds of this happening are exponentially lower than causing a fatal accident by checking your phone in your car, but I appreciate the forced aghast sentiment expressed here.
The silver searcher is pretty good. but it has a couple of big problems. It does not parse the .gitignore correctly [0], so it frequently searches files that are not committed to your repo. This, combined with the decision to print 10000 character long lines mean a lot of search results are useless.

[0] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/issues/367 for example
Truly amazing photos. Thanks for sharing this!

+1 open sourcing your static site, it's a great example of what's possible with SSGs.
Oh, hi Mark...

It's really quite fascinating to me how a movie like that, so incredibly terrible with seemingly no irony in it's production, has somehow become a fantastic work of art. It's that piece in the modern museum you think looks absolutely so terrible but something about it appeals to you.

I've probably seen The Room a half dozen times in various settings (movie theater showing it in jest to a huge audience, group of friends over a few beers, etc), and it's always overwhelmingly entertaining because it's just THAT bad. It almost impresses me more that they pulled this off (unintentionally, of course) when compared to some of my actual favorite films.
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Hugely popular tourist destination with a lot of people buying holiday homes there?
I turn off Javascript because it tends to be poorly written and doesn't provide any value to me. I'm primarily interested in the information part of the internet, so those limits of CSS layout just don't matter to me.

Of course there is a difference between web applications and information sharing. I don't mind Javascript for an application that needs it but I tend to prefer non-web apps anyway.

It seems odd to me how much work goes into making a web page do things that don't need to be done.
How to make a quick million?
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Apple has included the Network Link Conditioner in the past few versions of Xcode. Works great for simulating slow network for your apps.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Networ...
The author notes that git grep is faster than ag when you're lucky enough to be searching a repo.
Nothing in India or Brazil. Why?
This whole net neutrality debate is bullshit, and both Netflix and the telcos know it.

Let me lay it out for you:

---The ISPs---

ISPs want to advertise unlimited traffic, but don't want to raise the prices for all customers only to be able to sustain their Netflix users (which constitute their most bandwidth hungry users).

So ISPs want to hit Netflix for the cost of the extra traffic, Netflix will in turn hit their customers back, in effect these customers will be paying their ISPs for that extra traffic they're using in the form of higher Netflix fees.

However, the ISPs get to come with their hands clean, and keep advertising unlimited traffic (although they get customer-funded subsidies from their biggest traffic sources).

---Netflix---

They just want to lower their costs for intermediate parties and host CDN directly at every big ISP.

But they don't want to pay a lot (or anything about it), so they play the Net neutrality card in attempt to pressure the ISPs into getting into unprofitable for them arrangements.

...

So, did you notice me talking about net neutrality, fast lanes, slow lanes and so on? No. Because it's all bullshit demagoguery to cover up the basic issues of "who pays for that extra traffic":

- The ISP customers don't want to pay for it (they want unmetered traffic).

- The ISPs don't want to pay for it.

- Netflix doesn't want to pay for it.

But someone will have to, eventually. Customers will have to pay for the traffic they use, and Netflix will have to pay for their ISP CDN servers (as they're starting to, despite the whining).

And in the end none of those three parties: ISP, Netflix, customers, are innocent. So save me the righteousness, all right?
Thank you, good find!
Technically franchises. Only a minority of stores have external owners and most of them are owned by the Ikea corporation.
Thank you! Glad you like the it. :)
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I kind like some's post about "touched the world". I think Google and search engines made the world a little more efficient. I think facebook made the world little more connected to friends you don't talk with as much. I think technology has enabled people to do more with less.
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Now I'm burning with curiosity. I have to know why! My plan:

- replicate the experiment, confirm --mmap shaves off a non-negligible amount of time. It could be that his computer happened to be running something in the background that was using his harddrive, for example, which would skew the results.

- look at the code, figure out the exact difference between what --mmap is doing and what it does by default. Confirm that the problem isn't in grep itself (it's probably not, but it's important to check).

- dig into the kernel source to figure out the difference under the hood and why it might be faster.
Do we know approximately what the delay is?
How about something simpler - Make images load slowly using JS.

Or how about just using a webfont? I already get a reminder of what the 'slow lane' was like when I hit a site that uses one - it does layout so I can see where the text will eventually go and then I get to wait 5 seconds for it to load and do whatever else it needs to do with its fonts.
Dropbox acquires Droptalk to drop content into conversations
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Ask HN: What are best Practices for obfuscating Mail Addresses in Html?
Hello!

Say you need to output email addresses with mailto links in html. What are best practices to prevent bots from harvesting the email addresses?

Thanks a lot, Martin
Almost nobody in Britain believes they are more stupid than the average Briton
What makes you think that's not the way it's intended?
Oculus CEO envisions billion-person MMO
Can't really afford a better host right now. On days like this though, I'm definitely seeing that I need something that can handle more traffic
The problem not that the opinion of the members of Gonojagoron Moncho are invalid, but that they are not representative of general opinion on the film. The online activism has skewed the films ratings to a point that, unless you are a member of Gonojagoron Moncho, it becomes a less that useful metric. This is a case of a motivated minority overwhelming an apathetic majority. Think of the many times Steven Colbert had his fans write in his name on online polls such as naming a bridge in an eastern european country or a NASA space mission.