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>The challenge is that what we think of as high quality content is not what Reddit Inc. has seen leading the growth. Images and fluffy content are easier to consume, and therefore more profitable for the site.

Which is fine, but you have to make some attempt and consolidating that type of content as much as possible. An example being to let /r/gaming run wild with the image macros and meme posts, but then rule those out on the subreddits for specific games. If you don't, you just end up with each game's subreddit becoming basically a filtered version of /r/gaming.
A very high-level overview of Grothendieck's work
Some days I agree with you -- optimization/platform-specific code definitely has it's place (we would be nowhere without it, all the web stuff stands on shoulders of giants on other giants), and targeted building.

But other days I'm struggling to use objective-c.
"There's a gene cluster linked to advanced mathematics skills, information processing, logic, analytical intelligence, concentration skills, obsession–compulsion and Asperger's syndrome"

Is there such a gene cluster? I guess that finding such a cluster will be an enormous discovery on itself.

Otherwise, the plot is pretty obvious. And reeks of New Age mythology.
I don't see how the popularity suggests people think it is realistic. Most entertainment I enjoy is known to me to not be realistic.
If you guys do this I can't find where on the site it's mentioned.
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I think you've hit the nail on the head. Twitter's UX is painful, but that's really only the half of it. The real issue is that Twitter, regardless of how easy it can be made to use, is inherently useful to a very small proportion of people.

I call it an "extrovert" product. I'm sure I'll catch some flak from bringing up the introvert/extrovert axis on HN (as if we don't get that topic often enough here!). But hear me out. Twitter is for people who like conferences. Twitter is for people who like stages. Twitter is for people who want to have conversations with each other, and also want the world to overhear those conversations. To me, at the other end of the spectrum, that behavior strikes me as weird. It seems painfully and willfully fake and artificial. It seems like so much peacocking, forced smiling, and posturing. It seems like "networking," in the most brutally painful sense of that word. I don't get it. I mean, I grok it, but it holds no interest for me.

As an occasional journalist, I'm often told I "have" to use Twitter. It's "part of the job" to be a "public figure" these days. I'm not interested in being a public figure. I don't begrudge people who are. If anything, I envy and admire their ability to navigate the cognitive dissonance that the Twitter private-in-public dynamic forces. But I just can't do it. It drains me. I find using Twitter to be like doing homework, or eating my vegetables. It's not fun. It's a chore. When a consumer tech product feels like a chore, I don't bother; life's too short.

Twitter is in an unfortunate situation, in that the company was forced to scale massively and go public at around the same time its true user base and use cases were emerging from the noise. Now it's in the unenviable position of having to make billions of dollars in revenue, and of having to compete with the likes of Facebook for a putative billion-something number of users (which it'll never get), when at its essence, Twitter is a restricted product. A substantial portion of the human population will never get any personal utility from using Twitter. Twitter isn't a bad product; it's just not everyone's cup of tea. I don't think there's anything Twitter can do to make me want to use it, and I don't think I'm alone in that sentiment.

It's not you, Twitter. It's me.
Try again! Given that this thing is very much a work-in-progress, and I certainly wasn't ready to submit to HN (don't look at me like that! It wasn't me), I suppose one can forgive a little web framework that could of this sort of thing.

I've got lighttpd in front of the site for now until I figure out what broke. :)
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Aside from joining the NATO alliance, Sweden could seek to create or strengthen some other alliance. The Baltic sea and the Danish straits are important waterways to Russia, St Petersburg's access to the North Sea and the Atlantic. Russia's access to the Mediterranean goes through Turkey's (NATO) internal waterway. Both routes could effectively be shut down by a hostile navy.

Those are the conventional military-strategic concerns that are supposedly making Russia so nervous about NATO aggression. Crimea is (allegedly) important for Russia's naval security, so had to go back to Russian control. Actively driving a geographically strategic country, with resources into increasing it's naval power and seeking an alliance is losing at strategy.

On the economic, Oil prices have recently dropped. They may drop further. Russia is very reliant on oil revenues for public funding. Europe and the US are nearing the point of sanctions. Foreign investment is taking a hit. New energy projects like gas pipelines are unlikely. They do not need some pointless costly conflict.

IMO, it comes down to this. An direct NATO-Russia conflict is unlikely. The cost is too high for all parties. But tensions can rise and relations can deteriorate. Russia seems to think that's ok, borderline desirable.
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not sure there is much new here. Interesting story for the guy
Southerner here:
A "northern accent" classically means any accent from the larger northeastern cities. Boston, Jersey, they're all subsets of "northern" to the Southern brain.

What's funny is I live in Nola and the traditional New Orleans "Yatty" accent sounds "northern" to me (somewhere in Brooklyn to be specific).
It makes an amazing executable config syntax; I've been experimenting with it for that purpose since seeing how elegantly that worked for bit.ly.

Not sure if they're 'new' anymore but definitely 'startup'.
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Type-safe json decoding.
> so relaxed, to the point that it's a running joke

"One month"! The article says Sweden has proof of intrusion "in October". If they had gathered enough information a month ago, why didn't they issue a diplomatic protest? Or did it take them one month to gather the information?
Why would you think that this snarling reply would persuade anyone on HN, let alone George Grellas? Who would take seriously a comment that opened by suggesting Grellas was sticking up for Amazon? Hey, way to stick up for the $30Bn credit card company, by the way.
You're absolutely right about it being a complex subject. In addition, some energy "costs" simply can't be calculated, such as the environmental damage and the human toll documented in this article. But at the end of the day, most people just want their gas and electric bills to be as low as possible. So I think there is a conflict here between low energy prices and "doing the right thing," for lack of a better way of saying it. At this point in time, the high cost of solar electricity (whatever the cause) relative to other sources is a huge barrier to adoption.
PDFs? Range values? If I had to guess, I'd say they really don't want us to have this information.
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Question, in what context is it even possible, or advisable, to catch mistyped passwords?
So how do you know that NATO is just as reckless if it's never mentioned?

The point isn't that it happens, it's that it's been increasing a lot lately both in frequency and severity of each incident.
It is working for me. What browser is this?
Looks like what's publicly available can be found here:

https://www.flux.utah.edu/project/a3
It's a fine piece of work by jgc to get the apology but Turing was merely one of many thousands persecuted for homosexuality, wasn't the uberwarhero currently painted, and may even have died accidentally.

It ends up feeling quite seedy to me.
I'm thinking in apply the concepts of J but with algol syntax:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Compilers/comments/2m0fu5/using_lua...

However, I come from the FoxPro days, so I'm thinking more in tables and rows than in arrays. But I think could be great to do stuff like this:

subTotal = sum | InvoiceItem.Value * Orders.Qty

query = where(invoices, date.year > 2000)
> It is unlawful to use the information contained in these Financial Disclosure Statements for (A) any unlawful purpose,

Shocker!
Elizabeth II is the queen of 16 countries. Carl XVI Gustav is king of one.
Yeah, they seem to use the whitelisting strategy for all of their properties. If something isn't QAed it doesn't get enabled. I suppose at that scale the support cost isn't worth the "let them use it in a degraded way" mantra most of the web community follows.
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Why do people link to ftp directories and not release announcements?
How is that different from email? Are your back&fortu tweets with the author public or private?

(I'm not on twitter, if that helps frame my question).
I gingerly suggest you put some work into identifying the "very premise" of comments, because that was not the "very premise" of Grellas' comment.

Grellas' is raising the point that this letter concerns a two-year-old dispute between two gigantic American corporations, one of which is a credit card company, but frames itself as an urgent public policy concern.

You can believe that concern is irrelevant, but you can't pretend that it's something it's not.
Well, not only past glory... check things like Caius based on Tcl... http://caiusproject.com/
"There's not really a good reason for Google to make applications they create work outside their own run-time environment - Chrome"

Except that the only reason Google built a run time environment in the first place was to encourage people to use their services - that is, the things that collect the data and serve the ads that make them money.

Google has no business reason to block Firefox; quite the opposite, in fact. So it's reasonable to believe them when they say they have a technical reason.
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Were there differences between the IE on mobile and desktop though?

I recall back in the IE5 days that IE on Mac was a significantly different beast than IE on Windows despite being named the same.
That is a great technical argument, however, the reason this has attracted so much attention is because this product is about email. Email plays such an important role in our modern lives that any announcement hinting that Google is moving towards vendor lock-in for email access is going to attract scrutiny -- regardless of whether it is by innovative features, enhanced performance, or browser lockout.
My counter is that "fix it later" never comes. Unless business sees browser support affecting the numbers they will not allocate the time to fix it. Some dedicated developers might fix it by working over time but that's essentially free labor. It has to take a strong engineering department to say "we will not ship until it works".
There is not only one truth
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The US routinely sends planes to the Sea of Okhotsk which is completely surrounded by Russian territory. The US and NATO probe Russia all the time...

This picture the Swedes have released is quite honestly something I don't take a face value.

"Free media in Russia are being closed down. "

Not to minimize the problems of Russia's media environment, but the last NATO Secretary General Rasmussen had to shut down a Kurdish TV station in order for Turkey to support his nomination.
Thanks for the feedback!

Yes, will definitely need to do a better job explaining how grouping works (and perhaps also fine-tune how it actually does work). Currently the time setting (e.g. the default 10 minutes) is the time threshold between successive edits for grouping edits together. Note that this only affects grouping while the table is loading, it does not update existing groups. The "Group" button groups the whole selection together, while the "Ungroup" button shatters the whole selection into individual atomic edits. It's a bit complicated and could definitely need some work still, but I feel something similar to this is needed to provide an easy default overview of edits but also allow users to fine-tune to view the exact diffs that they wish to see. Any further suggestions here would be more than welcome.

Ignoring certain filenames based on regexp is coming soon, probably already in 1.2.1, within a week or two. (This has been suggested by several users.)

With regards to diff viewers: I'm trying to offload diffs to existing software. Currently, all the supported diff viewers cost money, so am definitely looking into connecting with existing free apps as soon as possible. There is at least Apple's FileMerge (though it is cumbersome to obtain since it only comes as part of Xcode), other suggestions are welcome! I'll look into integrating Mergely as well.

Finally, will definitely be adding the ability to purchase the premium version outside of the Mac App Store. I'm not a big fan of the store myself. (I'm trying to combat some of the existing problems of the store by having separate web download versions that can read the App Store receipt. This helps for instance if the user would like to install the latest update without waiting for App Store review to go through.) Will need to look into (Home)brew as well.
I'd be interested in an outline of these subsidies (in the US) if you have a source.
A little background from reading "Flash Boys":

Goldman uses open source code but then strips off the open source license and replaces it with their own - thus changing open source code into "proprietary" Goldman Sacks code.

Sergey was not allowed to submit his open source code fixes back to the o.s. repositories because once G.S. violates the O.S. copy write, it is now magically "proprietary".

In order to keep his fixes he was sending himself code that contained modified/improved/fixed open source - along with actual G.S. proprietary code.

G.S. system was a "ball of rubber bands". Sergey was going to a new job where he would make a completely different system and had no use for Goldman's code.

The cop investigating this was unfamiliar with software
For example; he thought that Sergey's use of (the source control app) "subversion" was obviously something um subversive.
He basically believed everything that G.S. told him.

This (from another source) describes some of these items:

http://cryptonomics.org/2013/09/08/goldman-sachs-v-russian-p...
It could be worse.
To whom would they issue this diplomatic protest? There's no proof which country this sub was from.

> The same Sweden was basically sleeping when russian planes contested swedish aerospace

I don't know why it matters, but yeah, that happened once. The QRF has been improved since then. The reason why the Swedish Air Force didn't respond quickly enough was that the defence has been all but dismantled since the 90's due to "peace in our time". Both the Minister of Defence and the Prime Minister said today that Sweden will defend its borders with all means necessary. It seems we've woken up.
You're right of course, these changes didn't happen with the flip of a switch. It just seems that so much good has happened at/from Microsoft in the relatively short time since Nadella took over, it's almost as if that was the moment the shackles were taken off. Obviously the ground work was laid when Ballmer was still in charge, but it was almost as if he resisted the changes that were coming down the pipe to the very end.
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I didn't know you could do this (I thought there were only a few handpicked charities). If you want to make a similar change your smile charity go here:

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/charity/change.html?ie=UTF8&ref_...

Then install the "Smile Always" plugin to redirect you to smile:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/smile-always/jgpmh... (The offical amazon one doesn't auto redirect AFAICT)
Great game. It would be nice if the game could remember the first wrong move and show that at the end.
You've got a point, there. I was mostly trying to point out that pretty much everyone else in the general neighborhood is nuclear-only. It could potentially be a Venezuelan sub, but I wouldn't put them high on the list of countries willing to do a stunt like this.
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> But it's not as if the GPU could just fault in pages that it needs on demand, right?

That seems to be the idea, actually. And Carmack has been advocating exactly that: http://media.armadilloaerospace.com/misc/gpuDataPaging.htm

And CUDA6 already does that: http://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/unified-memory-in-... (though there are limitations, see Mark Harris's comments and http://users.ices.utexas.edu/~sreepai/automem/ notes it generates redundant transfers)
FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE Announcement:

Some of the highlights:

- GCC is no longer installed by default on architectures where clang(1) is the default compiler.

- Unbound has been imported to the base system as the local caching DNS resolver.

- BIND has been removed from the base system.

- make(1) has been replaced with bmake(1), obtained from the NetBSD Project.

- pkg(7) is now the default package management utility.

- pkg_add(1), pkg_delete(1), and related tools have been removed.

- Major enhancements in virtualization, including the addition of bhyve(8), virtio(4), and native paravirtualized drivers providing support for FreeBSD as a guest operating system on Microsoft Hyper-V.

- TRIM support for Solid State Drives has been added to ZFS.

- Support for the high-performance LZ4 compression algorithm has been added to ZFS.

Full details:
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.0R/announce.html
Indeed. It looks nice, but I need to code in it a little before releasing a conclusion. I still have HighCharts as the standard for this.

Nice to hear that, I am looking at some right now...

What would you recommend for maximum compatibility? (IOS, Android, Browsers) ?
I'm sure it's different for large projects, but for my own work, if I wait until the app is "finished" (or at least in a workable state) before working on cross-browser compatibility, I hate my life and want to die. YMMV, but I find that working on compatibility from the start is the way to go. That said, if there indeed is a big performance bug in Firefox, that would totally be a valid reason not to support it (for now).
> He introduces a cuisine of naturality, which revolves around three elements: fish, cereals and vegetables.

More cereals, vegetables, fruits, less fat, sugar, salt and animal proteins sounds great. Not sure about fish. I encourage everyone to watch Mission Blue (it's on netflix), a documentary about what overfishing is doing. Oceanographer Sylvia Earle who's perhaps the most knowledgeable person about large water bodies suggests we pretty much cut it out.

[1]: http://ideas.ted.com/2014/08/20/should-you-stop-eating-fish-...
To put it bluntly, the "you can't handle the truth!" bit is because Neanderthal genome is present in European and Asian populations, but not in Sub-Saharan African populations. But that analytical intelligence would have been a "gift" from the Neanderthals, like the article states, is afaik not backed up by any data.

Here is one interesting TED talk by Svante Pääbo, one of the leading experts on the Homo Sapiens/Neanderthal link: http://www.ted.com/talks/svante_paeaebo_dna_clues_to_our_inn...

Edit: eggs on me, I didn't get that the text was fiction
Are you confusing "Visual Studio 2015 ... uilding applications that run on platforms including Windows, Linux, iOS and Android." with "Visual Studio 2015 will run on"?
> any announcement hinting that Google is moving towards vendor lock-in for email access is going to attract scrutiny

I think that - like often is on the Internet - scrutiny can be attracted too soon. Google stated clearly that current Inbox is not a replacement for GMail. Such "vendor lock-in" can currently be completely explained with the fact that they're just playing around and testing if people like new UX.
This is the first interesting top-level comment on the thread, but is weighted down by the fact that it spoils the outrage tourism fun to be had at tl;dr'ing the letter and gawking at the few interesting details.

You'd think a nerd message board would reward critical thinking. Instead, the replies to this comment all seem offended by the concept.

This, I know, is not a helpful addition to the thread, but oh well, I'm just as bad as everyone else here.
Should it ask before it does that?
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Unfortunately, things move.
not a big deal here, fixed a DoS vulnerability of REXML, and some small bug fixes, textually: Sorry for the inconvenience of frequent releases.
There is no current Windows build of Ruby at all.
Oh, oh, I know this one! I read about this in Moral Mazes: < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Mazes >!
Probably because it hasn't been announced yet. Which begs the question why it was linked at all. There's not much to discuss or see.
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More likely, new languages realize that they are the new thing and that (a naive mental model of) C is the established lingua franca of programming.
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> Does boycotting Github for the rest of time over a scandal achieve anything?

Boycotting a business for any reason is VERY effective if it affects their profits enough (aka enough people do it). Whether or not it is the right solution, if enough people boycotted Github publicly for not promoting gender equality enough you better believe they'll change their tune.

The problem is that everyone thinks "enough people won't do it" and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Please don't spread FUD claiming that boycotts don't work. Boycotts which don't garner enough support don't work.

> Have you assessed Atlassian's culture and concluded its constituents promote gender equality?

There is a lot of evidence that Github promotes gender inequality. There is less evidence that Atlassian supports it. Would you rather give a guy who you saw punch his wife in the face $5 or a guy who was rumoured to beat his wife $5?

> Nonetheless, your post has value in that I'm now thinking about gender equality in technology. Thank you.

Awesome! If everyone would put some thought towards it maybe we could come up with the appropriate solutions.
>>> As a technologist in a bank, you're a second-class citizen

I believe that's the case in the majority of companies, where software is not the primary product.
That seems... bad.
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Forwarding for xan due to HN new account comment limits:

Yes indeedy! Although as my rather more florid verbiage points out, I do endeavor to make it as anti-framework as possible and more like a library. But then I suppose the only difference between a framework and library, one might posit, is often the presence of an event loop or some damned thing.

As part and parcel to a super ultra mega marketing blitz to remind people of the existence of Tcl and indicate to the world that it never really died, it is my solemnly sworn duty to help plant the seeds of a small ecosystem which unifies the divergent elements of the Tcl web framework ecosystem into one that rather more resembles Perl, in that there are so many wonderful middlewares to bridge gaps everywhere.

I developed tanzer to try to be the least common denominator of them all, and to somewhat offend (but in a polite way) Node.js' dominance by forcing the agenda of a language that already has a quite nice event loop and asynchronous I/O built in, thank you very much. :D