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GCC certainly releases more often than Visual Studio, with the end result being that GCC has support for newer standards much sooner than Visual Studio. But if you intend to run your programs on Windows systems without GCC installed, you have to find the support DLL, and it's not always easy to find.
Well only one pool of data, no more registers, cache, hard drives etc. The storage will live next to the logic.

Even if all storage uses the same underlying persistence technology, access times will still depend on the distance between the data and the logic. If there are ALUs intertwingled with the storage, access times will still depend on how close the various pieces of data being worked on together are.

Parallel algorithms tend to lose performance as they get chattier and as node speed is lost to increase node count.

Storage living next to logic is effectively a miniaturized version of the "datacenter as a computer" or "warehouse-scale computer" setup that some places are using already. I seem to recall seeing whole books written on the additional complexities of writing software to take advantage of such an environment.

There will never be "only one pool of data". At a minimum, there will be "data in the physical thing that stays on the desk", "data in the physical thing that goes in my pocket", "data on such-and-such private network", and "data available over the Internet".
Not my post but I'll add a little meta observation anyway: I can't see why this isn't taking off at HN.

I've personally found the recent discovery of the giant octopus interesting. It has been reported by sailors for numerous times as far as I know, yet science has shown little intereset until a specimen was found.

In the same vein the fact that wolves have attacked humans in the last 5 years is very interesting. When I grew up we were taught that wolves were afraid of humans and none of the old stories were true. (I have come to the conclusion top trust naval officers and grandparents more than scientists in such cases.)
I think what he's trying to say is that Uber could raise prices "per-trip", split the cost of those trips with 2+ passengers, and actually decrease the cost "per-user" of each trip. If the decrease in price increased demand enough, overall revenue could go up while the consumer feels like they're getting a price decrease (albeit, they now have to share most of their rides, which may feel like a service decrease).
I have my doubts too.
Also the announcement looks a bit like the earlier case of HP almost betting the company on the acquisition of Autonomy (if that was the right name of that company it acquired a few years ago, before writing it off).
I think "native" meant "doesn't target a VM."
I think I get what you're going for now, sorry it took a while for the coin to drop.

Just like a battery can look like a capacitor under some conditions it really isn't a capacitor.

Capacitors and batteries can be described using the same basic laws, even though the fundamental mode of operation is completely different.

They have the same basic properties:

- internal resistance

- a certain capacity

- a breakdown voltage

- you can charge them

- you can discharge them by connecting the terminals (hopefully through some suitable load)

- both exhibit self-discharge

- have a certain amount of inductance

And yet the one is a real capacitor whereas the other one is an electro-chemical device, only when you open one up or when you charge/discharge it a large number of times can you see that there is a real difference between the two, superficially they are interchangeable for some applications.

Does that get it right?
The problem that has plagued these inexpensive phones is that you're not usually selling to a typical "consumer." That is, the people who buy these phones, won't buy much else, so it will hurt the ecosystem in the long run. This happened to Palm with the Pre and Pixi. I created some apps for it and it was clear that the demographic wasn't shelling out money for apps or anything else, this makes it really unattractive as a platform for developers.
> We offer access to all U.S. residents only

Ugh.
That's simply a question of demand and resources required. This is certainly not a trivial task that requires engineers building it. If more people would voice these concerns it probably something Swiftkey would consider.
How is that any different from a cab driver who owns his taxi?
> “If you want to really rethink computing architecture, we’re the only game in town now,” he said.

Another way of putting this: because of patents, we're in a privileged position of being the only people who are allowed to work on this problem.

So instead of the whole world rushing to make something interesting with this new tech, we get a group of people working in an ivory tower trying to come up with the perfect thing.

If we're lucky, they'll execute well and deliver a compelling product that they have monopoly power over for 10 years, or however long the patents last.

If we're not lucky, they'll bumble around like cable providers trying to develop "valuable add-ons", and the only reason they'll have any success is because no one is allowed to compete with them.

Sorry if that's overly pessimistic, but that's how this article came off to me. I guess patents do have the benefit that we are getting to hear about this development at all instead of it being a tightly-controlled trade secret. And this kind of payoff is what funds the R&D gamble to begin with. I just hope that they actually deliver reusable parts that other people can build into bigger innovations instead of trying to control the innovations themselves.
Always thought water increases its speed when you shrink the pipe, not the other way around
With all these blockchain based permanent storage service the question that always comes to me is: What happens when someone uploads Cheese Pizza? What about copyrighted content?
It's always seemed strange to me that IPOs are not open to the public in the US. Is it some kind of Great Depression legacy?

Here in Finland IPOs have been open since at least the '80s, or maybe always... In the original dot-com hype days of 1999, there would be long queues in front of banks as the "Joe Publics" wanted to put their money into IT stocks that were mostly crap ISPs or web design consultancies. All those stocks crashed hard a year later, of course. (But then again, you wouldn't have been much better off investing in the "big and established winners" like Nokia, which peaked at around 90€ and later traded at below 2€ in the darkest post-Symbian days.)
Just recently ran across Parkinson's Law when looking up Bikeshedding on Wikipedia (which redirects to "Parkinson's law of triviality"). Found some copies of his book on Amazon which I'd like to read through some time.
I bet Businessweek has some too, the way it's written.
Mozilla is not selling phones in the U.S. Mozilla doesn't actually sell phones. Carriers and Factories sell phones. The $70 phone you mention is being sold by ZTE using Mozilla Firefox OS as its system.
Yes, I've heard that was explicitly designed to be incompatible with the GPL.
> make a REAL memristor, or whether you can merely make something that behaves exactly as a memristor would.

Alan Turing would say there is no difference.
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jun/09/turing-test-e... is by one of the judges, Robert Llewellyn is a TV presenter (eg scrapheap challenge) and was an actor (eg Red Dwarf, a comic sci-fi series). He apparently was a judge.

He mentions a Professor Martin Smith in the article as a judge too. http://www.mdx.ac.uk/aboutus/staffdirectory/martin-smith.asp... [which page I've just noticed mentions scrapheap challenge].

.. and following that line I note that Professor Kevin Warwick appears to have history with both Llewellyn (promoting Warwick's book in 2002 here, http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/news/2002/11/08/roberts-robots/) and Smith .. which might make this a case of him having gathered a few cronies together to generate some publicity?

Is there a record of the event somewhere that could disavow me of the result simply being a case of partial judges being generous towards a friend?
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This is not a limited run or a developer phone. This is a phone for the end user in the entry level class who can't afford a more expensive device.
There was actually a really interesting experiment at the tail end of the dotcom boom -- the WR+Hambrecht (San Francisco) "OpenIPO". Essentially it was a dutch auction (I think) for IPO shares, and open to the public. Google was the big success.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenIPO

VA Linux did some interesting stuff with their IPO (so did RedHat, I think), where community members got access above what the public received, too.
randomflavor, we're in a very similar situation. Exceptional engineering team, but the business is still not quite there. We're still working on our product, but have spare resources that we don't want to see go to waste. If interested, let me know how I can reach you.
Ask HN: What invoicing program are you using? 
What is the best invoicing program for a freelancer to use? For billing as a designer or web developer?
This phone is not for the U.S. for example here in Brazil phones are much more expensive, an iPhone will go for U$1500 or even U$2000... The $25 phone in the title is aimed for India, a whole different market with different price points and mechanics.
No worries at all. I'm working on improving the messaging when a URL starts triggering abuse prevention measures to hopefully avoid confusing people so much.
> Do you believe a perfect simulation of a human mind would be able to create something with an identical behavior to that of the person whose mind we're simulating? yes or no.

Sure, I'll admit the possibility exists.

> If yes, do you disagree that both are conscious? If you do, then you're contradicting the assumption given in the question (that identical behavior implies identical properties).

I must've missed this... who was saying that identical behavior implies identical properties? Sure, I'd probably disagree that the A.I. is conscious in a subjective sense, and I'd also probably disagree that identical behavior implies identical properties. People can imitate each other without taking on the properties of the imitated.
I suppose I meant that they probably were bit ahead of their time and overly ambitious. Performance and especially latency are critically important for interactive applications. The designers must have been fully aware of the performance characteristics and hardware limitations at the time, but still they decided to ship such system. Maybe they should have taken a look in the mirror and notice that the hardware is not ready for what they were making and downscaled it to fit, then incrementally grow those features back when they become more practical.
First reference design of this device didn't had 3G, it had 2G and WIFI. This is a $25 dollars phone, there is a limit on the chips you can afford with that amount of F.O.B.
In an additional benefit over being a postdoc, I set my own hours and don't wake up to an alarm, which I think has resulted in a marked improvement in mood and health. Although I work from 11pm-3am many nights out of the week, I get to sleep in every day.

The biggest challenge is that the hours when friends are likely to want to be social are also prime money earning hours, so I'm constantly assessing opportunity cost when choosing when to be social. And I've already taken one vacation, a week and a half, I thought making no money would be stressful, but it turned out to be less of a problem than not having my laptop (which got left behind in the TSA line). Like many things in life, it just takes careful planning and saving money beforehand.
Indeed using the improved OCaml inliner (http://www.ocamlpro.com/blog/2013/07/11/inlining-progress-re...) on the original OCaml gives a speedup of 2.75.
I'm also curious to see what happens in the beginning, and if it hits the elbow, when there isn't sufficient storage space on the network to meet demand.
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Holy crap- automated wire-wrapping. I used a wire-wrapped Lisp Machine in 1984 like this one:

https://plus.google.com/+DrewFustini/posts/Vfe6TsXVpZW

Zaphod and Arthur were made available to us. Arthur crashed more.
I had a similar problem with a couple of them. They felt completely indistinguishable to me. Got a 3.

A part of it is the fact this is on a computer monitor though. If you only got a few wrong, it's probably not a big deal.
We may not like fees and the Boston promo may be tasteless but they aren't unethical.

I don't see a problem with surge pricing. If people aren't willing to pay then it won't last long. I'd like to see them have a bidding system to make it purely market driven.

I also don't see anything unethical with fighting unethical laws. Here in Austin we're in a very similar situation. The existing transportation companies have passed laws to entrench their positions and eliminate competition (eg min "black car" fares). Those laws are unethical. They do not protect us, they are anti-consumer.
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Seems a bit strange that the author doesn't mention what the previous speaker was scheduled to speak on...
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This concept and platform seem like a great thing, but GoPro's $3B valuation may be aggressive.
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> I'll again state that this is why I feel so strongly that Google Analytics should be updated to be HTTPS by default[1]. If you hit a non-HTTP site, you're leaking all the information you would send to Google Analytics to anyone that's listening

I fully agree with you but one small little issue here, wouldn't that violate the 'everything over https or nothing over https' rule for what's displayed on a page? In other words, wouldn't your browser balk at this if it were implemented?

Mixed http/https is frowned upon, and rightly so!
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I think you might be assuming Mozilla is trying to create a captive app ecosystem. The idea is that Mozilla will work with standard web technologies and apply them to the phone. The demographic in this case would be the same demographic that uses the web not Firefox OS specifically.
Island with freezing water around it :-)
Interesting--I got a 16, but your spectra look very close to accurate to me. How severe is your colorblindness? Does it affect your daily life?
Definitely. I just embedded autoplaying youtube videos:
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/3KANI2dpXLw?autoplay=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

http://magpie.sknkwrks.net/kjhkjh/hkjhkjhk
Curious to know the answer to this as well. I usually just use a template on Excel or Word.
I get that - I just don't think it'll happen. Instead you'll have 2 people who had a price ceiling of $10 each being transported for $16.

Great for the driver, great for the two passengers, bad for Uber.
You could also insert Timsort in the end, which is what python uses and a fabulous algorithm by Tim Peters.
Ah, yeah, this could be more carefully stated.

At a bottleneck, the water that gets through is moving faster, but the total volume of water going through is lower.

It's a classic EE analogy, so people tend to shorthand it. One good and thorough explanation of the full bit is here:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/questi...

What happens if you increase the pressure in the tank? You probably can guess that this makes more water come out of the hose. The same is true of an electrical system: Increasing the voltage will make more current flow.

Let's say you increase the diameter of the hose and all of the fittings to the tank. You probably guessed that this also makes more water come out of the hose. This is like decreasing the resistance in an electrical system, which increases the current flow.
They equally could've called it SQL256 or XML2000 and then explain that it doesn't mean what the abbreviation states. I guess there is no need to argue for us, but personally prefer names that reflect the nature precisely. At least this is how I name my programming constructs and projects.
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Every time I realize I'm guessing about (rather than directly seeing) the behavior of my code I think of Bret's talks. I never actually improve my workflow, but at least now I'm angry about it!
Perhaps they meant flow rate?
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I know some sailors that when they heard about the collection of that giant squid they were very happy to point out: "see? We are not liars, the krakens DO exist!!!"
Interesting. From the Loyal3 landing page: https://www.loyal3.com/

"I love the Amazon brand and service, and now I can invest in this brand whenever I have a spare $20 or $50." -Jacob Ortiz

And then on their "About us"

We offer a technology platform where people can buy stock in their favorite brands in 3 easy steps, invest as little as $10 and pay no fees, really.

By using ownership to bring brands together with the people who love them, the LOYAL3 platform deepens brand engagement and creates more valuable and loyal stakeholders.

Then the letter from the CEO: https://www.loyal3.com/about-loyal3.html#contact

Basically what I read from this is that people can, for as little as $10, own a piece of any company, especially ones that "they love", and not-legally-speaking have to do zero financial diligence. I'm all for innovation, but that's scary.
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How can surge pricing not give a huge advantage? When you have prices that can get as high as 6.25x normal pricing a driver can make an entire days salary in an 1.28 hours. Even on cases where it's not that high, getting double or triple the amount of money for your ride isn't that bad. If you're a smart driver and choice to work during big events you can easily drop the number of hours you're working otherwise.
If they paid $3 for that 7GB they'd be fine with it. It's not like you have to store that stuff in RAM.
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I don't know much about him except from his essays about time and XML, both of which I think are spot on, despite the fiery language.
preface: this was a great and interesting article, forgive my grumbles below :)

People are rarely reliable witnesses when they are trying to tell a story. Being an officer of anything doesn't really lend anyone extra credibility either, everyone has their own biases and fantasies. Astronauts have claimed to see aliens and this doesn't make them more credible than a guy on his farm who claims the same thing.

I do think that it's always worth keeping an open mind about the existence of undiscovered creatures, but I don't think it's necessary to latch on to transient sightings to decide that those are the creatures we should look for.

Every time a decaying dead whale washes up on shore, even smart people think it might be something new or undiscovered, because that sounds less banal than the reality, this causes news media to stir up because life is generally boring, and people eat it up for the same reason.

I'll leave the science to the scientists and wait patiently for their new discoveries :)
Meat is not a luxury in Recife, one of the cities mentioned in the article. Here, even low income families eat meat every day, despite being low quality meat. Red meat is more expensive, but chicken is very common.
He just keeps knocking stuff out of the park.
They want to protect casual investors from con men. Finland is likely small enough that you can easily verify people through social and family connections. In the US it's quite common to go into business deals where you know almost nothing about the individual.
Well, it's not like they're a public company with obligations to report financials. We're at the mercy of their great media handling, PR, and tech-media darling status.
I’ve settled with FreshBooks for now. UI is a bit clunnky but it gets the job done.

http://www.freshbooks.com/
I think Uber reminds people of AirBnB, and if you haven't been living under a rock for the past year you should be familiar with some of the reasons opinions on AirBnB have shifted.
Same thing here in Turkey with Vodafone.

Last time I've used that plan it was 9 liras/3$ a month.
I'm a hacker so when I met the head of storj at texas bitcoin conference I was hammering him with technical questions... they had a sketchy front end in python but when it came down to brass tacks on storage all I got was something like "well for now we're just uploading it to box.net"
So you're actually making less than that because you don't mention amortizing the purchase price of the car, right?
To elaborate on my earlier comment. When you install a Firefox OS app you use a manifest file. This manifest file is not intended to be specific to Firefox OS and hopes to be used by all technologies. See the first question of this FAQ for some info.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Build/installable_a...
Out of interest, how would you do this on a VPS like Digital Ocean, where IPs cannot be reassigned?
mixed content warnings only appear if http content is included on an https page
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Yes, but don't forget the microcode level that runs the Lisp code. Some very small bits of the OS were written in microcode (as few as possible), IIRC. (It's been a long time since I was hanging around the AI Lab. ;-)
From: http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/sim-card

"T-Mobile’s network currently only supports GSM-compatible phones.
Only 3G phones that support the 1700-MHz band are compatible (not all 3G phones support it). If you own a 3G phone that does not support the 1700-MHz band, it will operate at 2G (EDGE) speeds on our network."

Do you mean that data rates with Tmobile will be slow? It seems to be supported otherwise?
v = M.F => that's regular inertia isn't it? In the case of the inerter presumably constrained by the stroke of the device. It's like a 'two stroke flywheel' in a nice package.
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Just so that people that are not following Firefox OS can know some tidbits:

* The mission of Firefox OS is to bring the next billion people online. Many in the poorest classes can't afford a computer or a smartphone and with the web being a wonderful resource with the potential to transform the life of its users, Mozilla saw that it needed to focus on those that are not attended by the current crop of entry level smartphones.

* Another objective is to bring back the freedoms we enjoy in the web into the mobile ecosystem which means no walled gardens and no exclusivity in the sense that the phone uses HTML5 based apps than can be easily shared between Android, iOS, Tizen, Ubuntu, $NEWFANCY, Firefox OS. Using HTML5 based apps doesn't mean the phone needs to be online, it just means that we're using an agreed stardard to build apps on proven technology that is not owned by a single vendor. You're free to build apps and ship them just like you are free to build a webpage and place it online without the need to request permission from Apple or Google.

* Many new internet users are browsing the web thru mobile devices. In some places, mobile devices are already 25% of the internet users and rising. But there was no platform that took HTML5 and the Web as a first class citizen. Firefox OS is a hero platform for the web to prove that it can work on a mobile ecosystem and that we can all use shared technology that is interoperable instead of doing this 1990s flashback of Obj-C here and Java there thing.

DISCLAIMER: I am a Mozilla Rep and I wrote a FOSS quick guide about how to develop for Firefox OS at https://leanpub.com/quickguidefirefoxosdevelopment/ that is helping lots of new Indian developers get ready for this launch ;-)
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