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Great article, but I was annoyed that in an online science publishing platform, this article contained no links, but textual references that the reader had to look up manually.
I suppose you could, in practice, write modules for simulation in C or C++ and hook it up to the C++ code that the compiler generates. I doubt this is very useful in practice since you can't generate any Verilog from it.
A previous reply mentioned that the US, finally, after 6 years, is back to the pre housing crisis workforce numbers. This is true, however, the population has grown since then and we are still about 7 million jobs short [0]. Also, the labor department includes, as said in the OP, underemployment. Typically you then have to work more jobs or live much less high on the hog. This is in addition to the older workforce continuing to stay in their positions.

I have an anecdote on this as well. My brother used to work for Lockheed. Many times, an expert would retire with no replacement in the free world to step up. They would then need to hire the expert back again for a much inflated price. The cows recently came home for that particular plant, as this last year all 4000 employees were fired. I'm sure the rehiring of more expensive contractors played a role.

[0]It's Friday, google it please, my apologies on the laze.
What if the other phone is off at the time? You kind of need a server to act as a buffer. No reason why it couldn't be client side encrypted though... iMessage does that.
::head desk::

A pom.xml at least has a schema and tons of copy/paste examples. Every language sucks in it's own way.
A couple months pre-snowden, I was robbed of a cell phone, and reported it to the cops, and had an interview with a detective.

Who told me I should not call and cancel the cell phone yet, because 'they had ways' of tracking it's use, wink wink, but we can't really tell you about the details, wink wink.

Honestly, if he had left out the smirking and "we can't tell you about the details", it probably wouldn't have occured to me that there was anything odd here, sure, the cops can issue a warrant or some such paperwork and get records from the phone company probably, who knows.

But with all the winking and smirking, I thought, geez, what the fuck, he says it's not supposed to be public information but he's telling me about it... should I, like, get in touch with the ACLU about this or something? I never did though.
Everytime I see stuff like this it makes me angry. We use GHE at work and there is like 8-10 months lag till this feature gets into GHE.
I think they have the typical problem of people wanting to work on new features and ignoring grunt work like porting stuff over to GHE. Did they get managers yet?
Considering the investment concentrated in such facilities and the stringent requirements of clean rooms, the 911 attacks would gave done much worse economic damage by targeting those facilities.
To the idiots who downvoted my comment, this place is called Hacker News for a reason. How would you like it if your nightly news broadcast re-ran stories from last year?
Why do i feel so proud for being one of the first 1000's of people to watch these videos online?

Thanks for sharing this, i couldn't watch live since timezones kinda suck.
And then, getting the browser running itself in the in-browser browser.
I thought it was a static rendering, but then I put in a marquee tag and it moved flawlessly across the screen.

Impressive. I can't say I see the practical implementations of this, but I'm sure there's some. But it's impressive nonetheless.
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> one 2007 study measured a small group of 21 college students and found their average typing speed was an abysmal 12.2 words per minute

That blows my mind. That's less than a tenth the speed I type at. How do they get anything done??
I don't really think he's saying it's about motivation. It's about the "do anything/follow your passion" passion ... the problem is, people have a passion for art, they rack up $100K in student loan debt getting an art history degree, and now they can't find a job.

If anything, he's putting as much blame (or more) on the parents.
You're trying to simultaneously claim that the machine is what makes it patentable as a result of its physical operation and that the machine is an abstraction completely divorced from its physical operation. Those two things don't go together.
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How about Wickr?

https://www.mywickr.com/
They also acquired TalkTo, a startup that lets you chat to business. The ability to talk to your friends using Talk is just a trojan horse to connecting you with businesses later on, where real money would be made.

http://blog.path.com/post/89363978092/path-talkto
A fairly high chance? Care to quantify that? Is it 50%? 10%? 1%?
First few queries worked, but when I told it "Show me tacos" and it honestly responded with "Searching for porn...".

Either way, interesting idea - I'm curious how this might be used not only for interacting with websites in novel ways but for ADA purposes where the user has difficulty controlling a physical input device but can still speak.
'+' or '-' doesn't adequately describe operations even in the numeric domain (e.g. overflow conditions). They are recognizable only because almost every language has similar semantics for integer or floating point arithmetic. But even using '+' for something like string concatenation unmoors it from historical context.

And beyond that, you're just making things up. '<<' for input/output?

We spent thousands of years developing the written word just so we wouldn't have to rely on primitive pictographs to vaguely get our points across.
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Interesting... there's a project I was thinking about that this might work for. Or at least, I can learn a lot from their code!
There is comparable "life at risk" software. Hospital electronic records and devices, the software controlling your car, airplane autopilots, etc.
I addressed this in another comment, but the ability to message businesses that they are rolling out in the summer would be their gateway to actually making money (businesses want to hear feedback about themselves but there aren’t many solutions that address this well yet).
Sure, but this article isn't really about that group.

Regardless of being a super responsible person saving/investing your money wisely while living at home, if you're unable to obtain fruitful employment by your early 30s then something has gone seriously awry, either internal or external to that person.
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Yeah, I would argue that both of those functions are re-entrant. The question is whether you can have two calls to is_not_reentrant executing concurrently without interfering with each other. So a typical example would have a non-reentrant function altering a variable like global_int as part of its computation.

Also, it's important to think about the kinds of program transformations that the C compiler is free to do with your code when going from C to assembly. I think it's likely that your compiler would produce the same output for both functions. Lines of C code do not execute atomically, and instructions can be re-ordered.

EDIT: Returning to this because I think I made a mistake. "Two calls executing concurrently" is not exactly right, because it admits the possibility of arbitrary instruction interleaving. A reentrant function must be able to be paused at any point, have another call to the function execute entirely, and then resume correctly. This is a weaker condition.
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That "only because" is my entire point. It's like, aside from the whole reason symbols are useful, they're not useful.

If you've been paying attention, I hold up << for IO as an excellent example of operator overloading gone wrong. But it's not because << is undescriptive, it's because << means "bit shift".
For the sake of nitpicking, it was never clear to me that MWI was true in Anathem. In any case, you need much more than that to reproduce Anathem's plot -- it runs on consensus deciding reality.
I for one remember the wave of articles in the late 90s early 00s bemoaning the death of the multi generational household and how we lose so much culture and history.
The thing I don't understand about the "50% attacks" is that they should be detectable. There's legitimately going to be a transaction on the bitcoin network, and then a ghash.io block is going to show up that invalidates it by spending the input. For the lower percentage ones, there's going to be an orphaned chain with a different set of transactions.
"have been told their entire (or close to it) lives that they're precious snowflakes and that they're going to change the world and they can be or do anything they want to."

By whom, where and when? I've been to three commencement speeches in the last several years, and even there didn't hear this. As a baby boomer and parent of a millenial, I sure as hell didn't aim to convey that message.

And by the way, a couple of my college friends lived with their parents for a year or more after college and while not in school.
They're referring to retention on the server, not the phone I believe. The phone could store the message indefinitely even if the server didn't. The server just needs to hold it long enough for your device (devices?) to download it.
Rendering HTML to WebGL textures would be big, which I think this could do - though probably not as performantly as the browser could. It's currently not possible, partially due to security concerns if I remember right.
With mode=cga it plays in color, though some of the colors are inaccurate compared to a real PC.
It's a little contrived, but a "practical" use of this might be for an online HTML editor to embed the document (or display a preview) without any interference from the parent document.
Yeah, that's why I said that my comment was slightly off topic. It was more concerned with the tech crowd (like HN I guess) treating the possibility of FTL/time travel with such seriousness, which is somewhat out of character for a crowd that is normally pretty well-educated about science.
> trying to configure production services turns into tracing environment variables through a series of shell scripts sprinkled across my system

Yes, exactly.

cat /proc/28014/environ | tr \\000 \\n

Is a way to show what you end up with, but I have yet to discover a good way to figure out how the environ was set there in the first place, having to fall back to strace'ing the full process tree from the startup script to figure out everything being launched and reading its source :(
I don't think this is really a coup of some kind. It is more a consolidation of power by the oligarchy into a handful of politically powerful, wealthy groups.

I think the reason this is working so well is the marketing.

Almost no one goes out and admits that the domestic usage is partially to catch people violating "social norm" laws [marijuana bad; alcohol good], and keep an eye on things that are highly political [e.g. Occupy Wall Street].

I think the average person assumes "because MURICA" that doesn't happen.
You can do that via iframe as well
I think in the future ,binary -> compiled verification, will be very big.
I think it boils down to various constraints. If you want high bandwidth low latency you need to be physically close on the chip. Presumably an existing chip is already optimized given those constraints and adding another component in means you need to trade something else off.

The other thing that I've seen which may or may not apply to the Intel case is that complexity in chip design can be managed more easily by having blocks that connect to standard interfaces. I.e. if you look inside the Xeon it probably looks like a bunch of different chips that were thrown onto the same die with some standard interconnects. Most of the optimization effort goes inside those blocks, e.g. inside a single core, and it's a lot more difficult to add an FPGA closer to the core vs. just throwing it somewhere else on the chip. That is the number of engineers in Intel who are intimately familiar with the innards of the x86 core design and are capable of making these sorts of changes is probably much much lower than the number who are capable of throwing in some external "block" onto the die and tie it into a standard bus.
It's worth pointing out (on a quick scan I don't see this called out in the article itself) that the preprocessing involved in generating these executables is almost certainly not meaningfully possible on a 5150 PC.

So while this might run on 1978-era hardware, it wouldn't have been possible for 1978-era hackers to create.
Ok, let me replace my “can’t” with “is a lot less likely to”.

I checked: neither // nor /// can be used as operators (syntax error: they both just start a comment). All your other examples work, but I would say those mean the author is intentionally trying to trick me. Or he’s writing a clever DSL, but that line is very fine and treacherous.
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Does anyone have a plain text transcription? I'm having trouble reading that scan.
Awesome idea! I've seen tricks where CSS 3D transforms were used to position the entire DOM within a scene rendered in Canvas, but that approach is extremely limited. [0]

Theoretically, now you could render the DOM to a texture instead of to the screen and do some sweet deferred rending.

== Edit ==

Looks like one of Mozilla's Distinguished Engineers blogged about the technique. [1] [2] The creator of emscripten used this technique to render tweets as a texture in the bannabread demo. [3]

[0] https://medium.com/@deathcap1/six-months-of-voxel-js-494be64...

[1] http://robert.ocallahan.org/2011/11/drawing-dom-content-to-c...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Canvas/Dra...

[3] http://kripken.github.io/boon/screens/game.html?low,low
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I downvoted not because it's unreasonable, but because it is a generic comment that carries no content of any particular relevance to the story at hand. It could be posted under almost any science story and it would be just as relevant.
I'm not sure it's a fundamental mistake. To make a counter-argument, if one travels back to some point in time, but can't remember (or don't know[0]) exactly when a major event happened, one might query it, to see if/when it has happened. Or one might query it because one is mistaken about when it happened. In either case, one might expect to see queries about things in advance of their occurrence. So while this particular work certainly doesn't rule out time travel, I don't think it's fundamentally flawed. Perhaps overly optimistic though.

[0] One might presume historical records are somewhat corruptible, and therefore someone from the future might not have perfect knowledge of when major events in the past actually occurred.
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It's worth $1000 ;)

Of course, the entire intent of options in startups is to convince you that it's worth much more than $1000. Best not be fooled.
Absolutely. All the messaging platforms I regularly use have a way to use them on the desktop. Facebook, Google Hangouts, Google Voice and Telegram.
My parents started making me pay rent as soon as I was 18, but that's not what made me want to get my own place - I just couldn't live the lifestyle that I wanted at my parent's. So, as soon as I got my first real job I left and never looked back.

I would love to live with a bunch of like-minded people, but that's easier said than done.
Here's the code on GH: https://github.com/dataarts/webgl-globe

And here's some info about the project: http://www.chromeexperiments.com/globe

You can also see a population graph: http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/globe/
I know someone who is currently thrilled about soon going to physical therapy school (3 year graduate degree). Estimated debt taken on: approximately $240,000.

Federal government will let you take all this with a few clicks of a button.

Average income of these "doctors" is what -- $70k?
I like that the OP references the NYT piece on how handwriting had cognitive benefits...I guess I didn't read that NYT piece as presenting a dichotomy, only asserting that handwriting had its own cognitive benefits independent of how fast you could produce content. In fact, when I'm stuck in a problem-solving bind, I'll sometimes sketch charts/tables on paper, even though I almost always immediately throw the paper away.

That said, I wholly agree with the OP that speed in production unlocks its own benefits. Working with novice coders, I've become acutely sensitive to how much lack of keyboard-shortcutting can hamper a novice's ability to understand code, especially across a project. The 5 to 10 seconds it takes for them to hunt-and-click for a file among Sublime Text tabs is enough for them to forget what bug they were trying to fix in the first place.

If I had to run a learn-to-code bootcamp...I think the first thing I would do is to remove the lab computers' default mouse input and replace them with the 80s-era steel-ball mice until students realized that using a mouse should be the edge case.
Interesting, did not know that. Apple is still in a position to MITM the transaction if they wanted though (Telegram provides a key visualization that can be compared offline to prevent this)
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Heroku started with just Rails. It's better to start with one language and do it well and then expand than half-ass it with everything from JS to Erlang imo. The important part is the quality of the service and the information it provides, not the DSL.
For sure -- that is one of the medium term projects I want to work on. We'll see how it goes in the browser though...
Exactly.

Bean counters and penny pinchers will never fully realize the value of someone like that. He kept people well fed, with healthy options that let them spend more time socializing with their peers and getting back to their desks to code. The alternative is having people waste time in traffic commuting to the dearth of eating options (many of which are far less healthy. many engineers left to their own devices don't choose the healthiest options) near the Google campus. There is no doubt that Google got their $26 million worth in the productivity he accreted to his fellow employees in those early days.
I can type that fast on a phone. I'll assume for the sake of discussion that this number is accurate across a general population. If you sit at a keyboard long enough, how can you not get faster than 12.2 wpm? So much for "kids growing up with computers". All that time in front of a keyboard since kindergarten, and you're output is still restricted by your abysmal typing speed?

OTOH, do typing classes even exist anymore, are are we to assume that kids will just learn it by osmosis? When I was in high school I took typing class. On a real typewriter. And it was a manual typewriter...that we could only use in a blinding snow storm while walking uphill. Anyway, I type around 100 wpm now which I attribute to that typing class. Had I just been left to my own devices to hunt-and-peck my way around, I doubt I'd be anywhere near that speed.
We force kids to learn math even if they have no interest in it. Same with history, chemistry, biology, etc...

Forcing them to learn an intro to something is very different from forcing them into a career about that something. They don't know whether or not they like it if they've never tried it. This seems to be a campaign to get young girls to try it, nothing more.
I'm Italian, we're one of the countries in Europe that have been hit the hardest by the economic downturn. Staying at home with your parents in your early 20s has always been the norm here (mostly because you don't have to move to go to college, the local university is usually as good as any other). The problem is, even if it's generally acceptable to say that you still live with your parents, there are literally no jobs, not even low-wage, menial jobs. There is no hope for things improving in the long term and there's the lingering suspicion that this whole staying at home with your parents is more than a temporary situation. The only option seems to be moving to another country, but it's not as simple as it sounds. First of all, if you're unemployed, you don't have the money to move to another place, let alone stay there until you find a job. Secondly, you can't move to another country if you don't know someone who's already there and can help you out. And lastly, there's no reason for an employer to pick you (a foreigner) over some local guy. So the outlook is really grim and there's not even an inkling of hope on the horizon.
The app's restaurants messaging comes from a startup path acquired, talkto.
that the final experience is almost always sub-par.

I have a Gmail account and a work one that is on Thunderbird. Gmail's through the web is just overall better than Thunderbird and I usually get people to send work stuff to my Gmail account.
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The api looks alot like tsung. I'm almost willing to bet that either they got inspiration from it or are using it on the server. Anyway, tsung is great and these services are great too.
60 words a minute is still very slow, when it comes to thinking speed. Unless I'm just off my rocker, of course.

This is also why folks that take really good notes by hand often have some sort of shorthand system.

My question, then, is it worthwhile to investigate some of the more advanced typing techniques out there? I'm curious, but highly skeptical.
Most iOS devs aren't clamoring for alternative browser engine implementations because they're happy with the objective C runtime. Web developers shouldn't be happy with only having one browser implementation available because there's no competition on iOS. Safari on iOS can lag in features and not care because there is no competition on iOS. Chrome on iOS offers nothing in the way of additional html5 APIs and is just a new UI on the same old Webkit (to my knowledge).

For instance, as of about a week ago Safari on iOS just got WebGL support (as you alluded to). How long would we have had WebGL support on iOS if we could ship an alternative browser engine implementation with competitive JIT'ing JavaScript engine (like Firefox's Gecko & SpiderMonkey engines) on iOS since the beginning? Would alternative browser engines with more APIs drive the Safari for iOS team to ship features faster? Bottom line: competition is healthy; developers and thus users win.
There's a 'format' option in the top left, you can select text/image/pdf. Here's it in text form[0]

[0]-http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mqrarchive/act2080.0035.002/10?v...
Do you even need to ask? :)
>Is there anything wrong with young people staying at home for longer?

Well, one of the reasons is that oftentimes this ends up being a crutch. Little reason to take any chances, or really apply yourself when you can tell yourself that mom & dad will bail you out. Of course, not everyone is like this; some people have the necessary drive (and resources) to kick ass right out of high-school. But many don't realize their true potential until they're forced to do so.
Yes it is. There is value in learning to build things without being an engineer, but you should know the limits of your skill so you don't cause others harm.
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I believe the context is what an employee does with her equity stake, rather than what a founder does with the capital.

And no, I don't think it does.
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