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> There is no problem to modify UI state from any thread;

Some UI APIs aren't thread safe and can't reasonably be made thread safe. They may even be kind enough to check the calling thread and intentionally throw exceptions (or otherwise abort) if invoked from a non-UI thread.

Hilariously, I've had to work around race conditions in such an API. Just because my access was forced to be on one thread, doesn't mean it's implementation was!

> The hard part is, if the modifications do not form a single, predictable, serialized chain, how can the programmer reason about them?"

Reusable async patterns can help you knock off the "single" and "serialized" bits of the microcosm you care about, leaving you to grapple with only the "predictable" one without the pointless "easy" boilerplate distracting you with additional complexity, line count, and bugs.

> If you use C# async for a UI action, you still need to worry about it.

Agreed. If you just spam the async and await keywords without understanding what you're doing, you're not magically going to get the benefits of a single, serialized chain of events. And they're not going to turn the inherently unpredictable response timings and contents of a series of web queries into a predictable one.
PowerDVD is also capable of setting refresh rates, although older versions consistently choose the wrong refresh rate for 24fps content for some strange reason.

My HTPC runs windows (necessary for Bluray support). I've hotkeyed a group of nircmd scripts that allow me to rapidly change frame rate on the fly, and programs like zoom player and vlc adapt very smoothly and give hiccup free playback. It would be nice if these programs could change framerate themselves. Very little work would be required to add this capability, but frame rate aware software is stuck in a primitive state for no reason that I can discern.
Or just anywhere people take taxis, like when going to the airport, after a night of drinking, or on vacation without your car. If they can beat the normal cost of car ownership they could even take over commuting. Household will likely still need a car for kid transport and road trips, bit maybe not a second car. Anyone taking public transportation can easily augment it with uber for times when buses are less frequent.
The graffiti gives him mad street cred.
wow this just made me so much money ._.
PayPal is accepted in the Play Store. Do some research.
Well, there was that misleading USA today chart [0] that pointed out there are more ER visits related to marijuana than heroin.

Of course, when you adjust for the number of users the rate drops to lower than the rate for alcohol (duh).

[0]: http://www.vox.com/2014/8/2/5960307/marijuana-legalization-h...
So what exactly is from HTTP2 to SPDY except for the TLS encryption?
The article is wrong to call it "Common Core online testing". Common Core is short for Common Core State Standards [CCSS], and thus are a standard, not curriculum or tests. Tests and curricula can be Common Core-aligned, but the standards do not outline any specific test.

With that in mind, there are different CCSS tests out there from the usual corporations that produce school tests. States/school boards adopting CCSS are free to buy into any test that is CCSS aligned. Some are online, others are traditional.

Inevitably, schools will go with online tests because they will appear less expensive in terms of administering and grading. The efficacy of administering computerized tests and how that affects the outcome (particularly for writing and math) will be the new cultural bias for tests.
What altitude restriction? My phones' GPS works fine in flight, I use it a lot to check speed and altitude.
Indian TV Crew Filmed Hamas Bombarding Israel
OK what if the experimental setup is hard to replicate and I just make up attractive sounding claims for for my blog with flashy graphics and a folksy charming writing style?
One conversation that I can't tune out, and I lose 20-60 minutes of work. I may not be cut out to work for other people, but it's intensely frustrating that by far my most productive hours every day are post gym/dinner between 10pm and 1am every night.
I'm now officially joining patio11 on the "bitcoin - wtf!" Side of the fence.

Someone is pre-selling a cryptocurrency in bitcoins at 2000 of our coins to 1 bitcoin. Stop! No-one same is converting hard cash to bitcoin in order to speculate on this. Their kick starter round is not x million in bitcoin it's "oh look I have some bitcoin that massively appreciated in value, but is painful to sell. How do I take my free money and grow it?"

It's another bitcoin like tulip mania. No matter how nice an idea a cryptocurrency is, it's not worth millions at pre-launch.

Caveat: I may be made to look a fool by the irrationality of crowds
Thanks for summarizing the OP.
As someone who has transitioned into becoming a developer via 'the computer guy (change ram, install windows ..etc)' -> 'sysadmin' -> 'scripter' -> developer path, these two points resonated well with me:

> I went back for a technical master’s degree but shied away from pure
> Computer Science because I was afraid. Afraid I couldn’t compete with
> people who’d been coding since they were 12, who majored in CS at college
> the first time around, who were wizards.

and

> I didn’t realize that intense difficulty is normal in CS. No one told me
> that *everyone goes through it*...

IMHO, programming is for everyone -- with the caveat that the person needs to be willing to work at it even if they just want learn it; as opposed to some other skills where one has to work hard only when one wants to master it although learning the basics is relatively simpler, eg: mathematics or playing an instrument.
The first paragraph of my last link is wildly specific, referencing a law about denatured alcohol passed in 1906. I read it as talking about freshly distilled alcohol having stuff added to it, with a specific mention of methyl alcohol. Maybe explain how you don't see that there.

I responded to the obvious confusion in the initial post about what "industrial alcohol" is. I'm not trying to establish that the government ramped up the poisons during prohibition (although I wouldn't be surprised if people involved with the denaturing were intentionally using nasty shit with no official government program backing it).
How does CoreImage etc. compare to Intel's Image Processing library (IPP)?
“Poisonous alcohol still kills—16 people died just this month after drinking lethal booze in Indonesia, where bootleggers make their own brews to avoid steep taxes—but that's due to unscrupulous businessmen rather than government order.”

While I have a somewhat hard time believing the basic premise of this article in general, this statement makes no sense.

What is the difference between a tax which is severe enough to have people make deadly-bad decisions, and a policy which(granted in this case with dubious proof) causes the exact same deadly-bad decisions?
> I would recommend them over Windows laptops to anyone who is not a developer.

Really? Would you recommend it to your (hypothetical) 17 year old sister about to enter college, or 85 year old grandpa? Asking because I've never used a Chromebook, and this thread has made me very curious about them.
[1]Identity theft is the number 1 complaint 14 years running according to FTC. To answer your first question: MOAR.

Stories like yours make recovery policies, like [2]this, seem prudent.

[3]My very first post on hacker news, 3.5 years ago, stirred ZERO discussion. "Identity theft is an enormous problem, so what are the solutions? Who's working on something that practically everybody who uses the internet should consider looking into?"

[1]http://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/id-theft-tops-ftcs-...

[2]http://www.zanderins.com/idtheft/idtheft.aspx

[3]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2163006
For browsing instead of touching the screen at arms' length I guess the mouse is the most practical thing to use to scroll down in a page - especially those mice with touch sensors.

As for laptops that can transform into tablets, I guess this makes more sense to have touch-screen anyway.

By the way are you saying that you can not type in class using a keyboard? Is there a reason for that?
The executive branch prosecutors sought permission from the judge, who denied them. Pretty basic separation of powers, really.
> Only in markets with poor competition

This is blatantly and obviously false. Mobile has lots of competition, and lots of lock in. Apple's App Store, Google Play Services on Android, DRM on Kindles, DRM everywhere. I can watch Amazon Video on iOS and a Kindle Fire but not on an Android Tablet. I can get a gmail app on iOS and Android but not Kindle Fire. It's lock in everywhere. On Apple's ecosystem, on Google's, on Microsoft's and even on Amazon's.
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Isn't a Chromebook just limited to web browsing? iPads can do that and more, right?
I'd just be happy if my bank offered two factor auth like gmail, facebook, namecheap and other sites that are far less financially important to me. Hell even evernote offers two factor, why can't the largest bank in Canada do the same?
> If you wish to refute him, you'll need to do better than merely assert your position -- you'll need to provide a legitimate source, with specific quotes

Why? What's making JasonCEC more trustworthy than Slate? He didn't do any of the things you're asking maxerickson to do either. I see this having happened:

1. Deborah Blum, without any backing, claimed to have researched and found legitimate sources claiming that in 1926 the Coolidge administration decided to make denatured alcohol more virulent.

2. JasonCEC, without any backing, claimed to have researched and failed to find any such evidence.

3. maxerickson took exception.

It takes nothing other than the power to surf the internet to do everything JasonCEC did. Accordingly, it's not really necessary to give what he said any weight at all. Why isn't an unbacked, citeless refutation at least as strong as JasonCEC's original argument?
The driver has an incentive to be nice. Your fellow rider doesn't.
This! I have 3 croutonized chromebooks, and as of yesterday one HP chromebox. Takes no time to do it.

All running now debian/sid in chroot.

You want scratch?

"sudo apt-get install scratch". Then have some fun!

Or maybe frogatto, or emacs, or QtCreator, or tons of good free software out there...

for half, or even quarter the price of iPad.
Timbre.js: A JavaScript library for sound synthesis
From the abstract this study finds that taking Asprin from 50-65 should yield a 4% reduction in deaths over a 20 year period. It specifically says that at least for 50-65 year olds, the benefits outweigh the risks of bleeding.
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I take it you've only read about these tools, and not actually had to face them.
For the 85 year old grandpa, absolutely. I have an uncle (around 85) who went through multiple computers (edit: all Windows), and kept getting virus and other malware; he kept falling for sites that would advertise to "clean" his computer, and it just kept getting worse and worse as a result. The instant he switched to a ChromeOS-device, that all went away, and my tech-support burden also went away instantly.

His biggest issues with ChromeOS is printing (his printer of the time was not compatible with Google's cloud printing service), but after he bought a new printer that basically went away too.
Nope! There is crouton, and other solutions, or full blown linux running from SD-card or from the device itself. It's very open.
My high school spent thousands of dollars on 30-40 iPads which we "used" primarily in Spanish class in my senior year. Overall an enormous waste of money and time not limited to problems connecting to the spotty Wi-Fi. Our teacher was not aware of any good apps that she could tie into lessons so the iPads were used primarily as a web browser for a crappy textbook website.

Virtually nothing was accomplished for a semester with the iPads. The IT director at my school was right when he referred to the devices that were supposed to be a revolution in education as "toys".
When I've used my mom's Transformer Prime, I've found the touchscreen/keyboard combo much more convenient than my own traditional laptop's screen/trackpad combo.

A USB/Bluetooth mouse can be helpful, but there are many situations where that is inconvenient.

That said, if you are a wiz with keyboard shortcuts it won't make much of a difference. But most people aren't.
Our business is built around a Chrome Extension that provides interactive Google Apps Training. At Synergyse we have seen massive adoption of Chromebooks in the education market, which represents a majority of our valued clients. In fact we have grown the business to over 1 million subscribers in 1 year. https://medium.com/@majidmanzarpour/how-we-grew-our-b2b-star...
Computer Games Better Than Medication in Treating Elderly Depression
Steam supports some of the games, and with SD Card you can make your ~/.steam folder there, games would be on your SD Card.

gog.com also has 9-10 games running, and apart from that many more games are running on the croutonized chromebook.

This with debian/sid and chromebook in dev-build.
If you feel like getting a tad nerdy, you can run other Linux distros alongside ChromeOS. They make nice dev books.

Sent from my Acer C720 running Elementary OS.
This and ideally leave them with the space and privacy to maintain (or not) contact with other groups on their own terms.
I had a nice compromise at a startup I was at a few years back. Large offices, two developers per, with their dual monitor setups back to back and whiteboards behind each dev. It was a good balance, you could easily collaborate with the rest of the team when necessary and the other dev could stay pretty much heads down (especially with headphones).
Please do not misunderstand me, but I wonder how this procedure would change the costs of medical treatment following traumatic injury. At present we have a situation where patients who would be subjected to this treatment would die in 90% of cases (from the article, where direct heart massage is used to continue blood flow). If this treatment increases that survival rate dramatically how many of those survivors would require further (expensive) treatment?

Obviously this is not a simple question to answer. If the survival is accompanied by severe disability requiring months/years of rehab, then costs increase, if those surviving are left relatively unaffected then costs would be stable or reduce.

I have a feeling that we are currently in a period of development of medical treatment when we can (at cost with expensive and complex treatment) keep people going for a longer period, both after traumatic injury and in total age. However the quality of life may be low and cost of supporting that life may be high. I think that this type of treatment may be progress towards more simple and therefore less expensive treatments that have less adverse side effects.

Don't get me wrong, I don't believe that replacing a patients blood with salt water whilst also lowering there temperature in a controlled way and performing major surgery all at the same time is "simple", however it does sound a lot less complex than some of the procedures that are done to keep somebody going whilst trying to patch them back together following traumatic injury.
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I'd most like to know how the developers reacted -- to losing offices, to speeding up dev cycles, to changing up testing. Presumably some of them were supportive, some of them were against it, but what were their reasons, and how did they react to the change?

I think it's more likely that the early adopter teams had some measurable result, and then management pushed the change through to other teams. So how did those teams react?

The article just paints a very optimistic picture. Something as big as VS, there's a lot of stuff to actually change when you go about changing things. I feel like there's just more to this story.
I have witnessed this taking place in the enterprise sector as well. Without naming names, I've seen one large company here in Australia in particular move away from using iPad's to laptops because iPad's are too limited in what you can do, they don't offer the freedom of choice when it comes to different software options and date very quickly. From a cost point-of-view, you can buy a decent laptop for the same price as an iPad which will last for years.

I believe Apple's closed-source nature of pigeon-holing you into using applications only on their tightly controlled moderated app store is actually coming back to bite them. The fear of knowing eventually your iPad will no longer be able to use the latest and greatest version of iOS forcing you to buy a new iPad to install the latest applications developed for later iOS versions your iPad doesn't support meaning more money is also another factor that works against Apple.

Don't get me wrong, the iPad is a pretty great device for simplistic Internet browsing, checking your email and updating your social media, but if you want to do anything serious with it, the iPad shows its shortcomings.
I've never used one so I can't attest to their efficacy in practice, but there are plenty of apps available that will work offline: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/collection/offli...

Also, many people I know with $1000+ MacBooks use them for almost nothing but web browsing.
How difficult is it to actually create a new cryptocurrency? With 14 cryptocurrencies currently floating around, isnt the value of one over the other simply a branding problem?

Edit: I had no idea there were >150. That's astounding.
A lot of people claim that the on-screen "keyboard" is a keyboard, so it's plausible that some people bought into that. Lack of keyboard is a non-starter for me for any serious device, but I lost count of the number of people that told me I would be able to touch-type on the iPad's "keyboard". (This should be obviously false, but in case it isn't, I'll point out that the apostrophe---which I've used five times so far in this post---isn't (6!) even on the main keyboard, and if you "touch-type" an apostrophe, you hit the enter key. Emergency backup keyboard maybe, but this is not usable as a touch-typing device.)
No, the claim would be that it's discriminatory for a work by a person with a statistically short life expectancy to have less market value than a person with greater. Possibly true, but it's an interesting for of poetic justice for all works upcoming young black females to be inherently more valuable than than yet another bestselling sequel by an established octogenarian white male.[1]

As for the price of creative works, a common fear is that if copyright protection was weaker, artists might no longer feel properly incentivized to make creative works, and an uncreated work is not isn't available at any price. I have trouble sharing this fear, although the impact would probably depend on your taste in art.

[1] A slight poetic license, as statistically American black females have slightly greater life expectancy at every age than do American white males: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr62/nvsr62_07.pdf
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I've spent some time with Robert Mullins and he is an absolutely stand-up guy. It was a pleasure to be taught by him.
Recombination doesn't happen everywhere with the same probability.

Brassica napus, for example, seems to actively suppress (somehow) recombination between homeologous chromosomes (chromosomes that came from the same ancestor chromosome) to make sure that reproduction runs flawlessly: http://www.plantcell.org/content/22/7/2265.full

In most species recombinations are suppressed around centromeres: http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjo...

Sometimes there are specialized proteins involved undoing or blocking crossovers, sometimes it just seems to be a mechanical problem - for example, you can't have crossovers happening close to other crossovers because the machinery is so large that a secondary set of chromosomes can't dock for a distance of few thousand base pairs.
Let's see if you think this in twenty years, when you need a hearing aid. Headphone use, at any volume, is positively correlated with hearing loss. Hearing damage is cumulative, and the vast majority of hearing loss isn't caused by exposure to very short, very loud sounds, it's caused by exposure to sounds that are just a little bit too loud, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. And, almost by definition, if the music is loud enough to drown out ambient noise in an open-plan office, it's loud enough to damage your hearing if you're exposing yourself to it 8 hours a day. I mean, the only way it wouldn't be is if your office were as quiet as a tomb (or a recording studio), and if that were the case you wouldn't need headphones in the first place.

I work in an open plan office. I don't wear headphones. Yes, it's annoying. Yes, it's distracting. Yes, it's better than losing my hearing.
Almost in every single other country this has always been the way to ride a taxi.

"This is also a bold social experiment." come on!

They're making it sound like they discovered nuclear fusion.
>The car thief doesn't seem like a great analogy.

I don't see why not. It is about as easy for a company like linkedin to commit accidental wage theft as it is for a black guy in the 'hood to accidentally steal a car.

>If employees are trusted with discretion about when they work, and the company benefits from flexible work hours (responding to email at home), then the solution of course is for employees to be salaried.

The point being that this solution is SO simple and obvious that not implementing it couldn't possibly have been an accident.

Companies like LinkedIn don't make 'mistakes' like this that benefit their employees to the tune of $6m. Ever.
Sweet! I haven't read the article (or even the abstract) yet, glad to hear that they were able to nail down a recommendation. Thanks for letting me know.
Apple is a marketing company at the end of the day. They got to where they are now through great marketing and great products. I don't doubt for one second targeting school students in their most influential years isn't on Apple's marketing priority list.

People tend to stick with what they know and if they're using iPad's for the duration of their schooling years from primary to high school and then college, that's a long time to build a following and I would guess most people who grow up using Windows stick with Windows later on in life and those who use Apple products stick to using Apple in their later years in life.
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Well I got up and running immediately with a random song that popped in my head.

Impressed so far.

What does "full functionality" include?

Unfortunately the artist I picked suffers from sharing the same name as another — the last.fm scraper doesn't provide a way for me to pick which it is.
For stuff like positional and airspeed information, it would not be difficult to design a connection that is physically limited to one-way communication.

It would also seem sensible that any interaction the pilots might want to perform on the cabin computer systems could be done by giving them a terminal on that network.
At first glance i thought you were posting a "Sign up for surveys" type site but reading through the page this is actually a very refreshing option in a WEB full of bogus PPC's and opinion sites. -Just requested an invite can u approve me? I wanna see the rest.