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So. Sony America suffered an outage on the Playstation Network due to a hack in 2011 causing 171 million in damages (that's the official figure, who knows how much the lost goodwill cost them ongoing). After that if they did not make cybersecurity priority number 1 then they deserve what they've gotten. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
I was wondering why I hadn't seen ye about :P Irish people going abroad to start companies seems to work well, good luck :)
You article really had me going until that end part where you shamelessly tried to sell yourself, its not that what you wrote about does not have merit, its just the end part felt like the whole thing is just a ploy to promote yourself
Thanks for the explanation.

I have developed several more or less complex apps with Ionic and have yet to see a performance issues on "recent" devices (ie. >4S). But still it's an interesting idea.

One comment: if you have used Ionic purely for UI, maybe you can make this part more modular? eg. giving the ability to use Material UI might be interesting...
Thanks to Skype, Github these have made remote working like never before. Its very common buddy
I certainly assume, it is a bug. Getting software to handle complex behaviour correctly is not easy.

But that does not help. Songs are gone, money may be gone, lots of work to do, legal action may be possible, but for a few songs? Why not take this as a warning, that a company will not take good care of our property? Apple did this before, a few years ago, btw. Microsoft even closed its music store (remember the Zune?), which resulted in total loss. Cloud stories will come. The only lesson that can be learned is, we shouldn't give up control over our property, certainly not to companies who benefit from our losses. However this is implemented.

Physical media for music is a way. The best sounding CDs from the early 80s cost cents only. Some even gain resale value (mfsl gold editions for example) as listeners with good taste realize, how crappy recent remasters sound.

When I commented a review of the Beatles vinyl mono editions recently, another guy (a grumpy old brit, for sure) replied: 'I spit on your digital downloads' :o). Maybe that's good advice (Although it would be interesting to understand, how he wants to spit on digitial data - it is not even physically available to spit on).
I've been using Appgyver + Steroids for a mobile project that would be a lot more complex if we were to build with Cordova + Ionic... Steroids workflow is awesome, it is even better than developing an HTML5 app...
Can't wait to test supersonic...
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> Letting people take the jobs that best fit them, the world over, means more jobs are better done sooner, which means more resources available to do things like retrain.

But we're not talking about the world over. Allowing unlimited immigration is good for the immigrants but bad for the existing citizens.

And you're running straight into equality fallacy. Equality is not an unambiguous good. When most people are poor, making everyone equal just makes everyone poor. There is a threshold past which people can stop worrying about where their next meal is coming from and instead make investments in the future of the world. The ideal eventual outcome is for everyone to be above that level, but if you flatten the world-wide income graph today then nobody is and the people who are are the only ones who can drag everyone else up. In the meantime the distinction between who gets to be a citizen of a first world country and who doesn't is inherently arbitrary and unfair, but it's still a choice that has to be made.
If each tab is a different WebView, how is angular working between tabs (I.E. updating something in one tab being reflected in another tab, or similar)?

Is each WebView contain a different bootstrapped angular? are you using some kind of "parent" WebView and communicating between WebViews (I'm not sure how two-way binding will work in this case) ?
Wanting to learn mathematics from "first principles" brought a lot of comments from graduate-level mathematicians. While their advice applies very much for mathematics students, I can't recommend going down that road for engineering types.

In mathematics, everything is connected. One can build up a specific topic from first principles only. But with a too narrow focus one looses these lovely connections between different fields that allow to change the perspective on how we think about problems.

I was in a similar situation some 2 years ago. Try "Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms" by Hubbard and Hubbard. You will not be disappointed. Yes, you get (enough) rigor and a lot of first principles mathematics. Nonetheless, the authors have found a lovely way to integrate a wealth of important results from many fields into a coherent text that has one goals: letting you understand the connections and letting you solve the problems.
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I agree with the second paragraph. It seems that we're constantly pushing to make developing mobile apps easier for people with a web front-end background, in doing so tying them into using a stack of frameworks that in my opinion is far enough removed from 'web' that it loses sight of the core advantage - that it is easier to learn and develop with than the 'native' alternatives.

I wonder if by the time you get to this stage you wouldn't be better off investing the time in actually learning the native languages and toolsets provided with them. I am also concerned about how much you would be tied into doing things the, in this case, Supersonic way. The scaffolding for example looks interesting, but is it actually useful in a real-world application?

I don't have experience with Supersonic, I do have experience with AngularJS + Cordova mobile apps (I built the front-end of the RuneScape Companion app) - and I think if I were faced with building a similar app again I would think very very carefully about investing time into learning a stack of frameworks such as this.
Wow. That sounds amazing!
Why would I want to support increased participation in CS education?
e.g. movements like Code.org.
Wouldn't it increase my competition in the job market? Wouldn't an increase in number of people who can do my job reduce the value of my skills?
As far as I am aware, the field of a permanent magnet is down to the alignment of the electron spins, the more aligned they are, the further out the field reaches instead of the flux lines being closely folded up and canceling out. However there is not a difference in energy for different alignments, so you cannot get work out from reducing the extent of the field.

edit - think about the difference between having one big wave or millions of small ones that add up to the same energy as the big one. There is no energy difference between the two systems, but if you are standing on a cliff overlooking the sea, only the big one is going to get you wet.
One of the things I like about Cordova/Ionic is that its just like regular web development. I can for the most part develop with a browser and be assured everything will work the same on the emulator/phone.

Since Supersonic is using multiple WebViews, how would that affect my usual workflow?
It seems there is a pathway that converts lipids to glucose: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22314896
Is this a hack of a division of Sony? Because the executive names I found don't sound white.
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/executive/
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Nope! News is simply "here's some words you might be interested in reading, and hopefully believing: ...words here...". Journalism is a dying art.
Effectively, Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Pictures Entertainment are about as related as Virgin Airlines and Virgin Mobile. Think of Sony (and any conglomerate in general) not as a parent company per se, but more like a VC firm or a majority-shareholder mutual fund; the executives of the Sony conglomerate don't really have any more insight into the component companies than those companies' other shareholders do. The only way business-process insight is going to be spread between the component companies is if the executives of one happen to read the trade press of the other.
WSJ has some reasons to suspect North Korea:

http://online.wsj.com/articles/more-signs-north-korea-may-be...

But I think most of the media pretty much just reads the news, press releases, and their social media feeds to write their articles.
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I use Appcelerator Titanium pretty frequently - I think it is still the best compromise to develop cross-platform applications.

But - if Supersonic fulfills its promise, Appcelerator will have trouble to catch up.
> Now we all do, since about 40 gigabytes of sensitive company data from computers belonging to Sony Pictures Entertainment were stolen and posted online.

From the article, a few sentences in.
I don't get it. I don't think your comment has anything to do with mine.
Eh, if I am a majority shareholder then I will read the riot act to the company I hold a majority in after they lose $171M on shitty security. Also, http://www.sony.com/SCA/who-we-are/our-businesses.shtml lists all these so there is some cohesion. AFAIK there's no such Virgin supercompany.
Correct. The back door is already written in the terms and conditions. Have fun reading them. Wasn't it Steve Jobs who said, he never signs a contract that is longer than a page?
10 bits per second?

That probably means you'll need to register your URL/vendor/etc. with Fujitsu, since sending a normal-sized URL would be excruciating.

"Here, just aim your smartphone at this for 10-20 seconds."
I'm going to assume you are being genuine, in which case will be your friend: http://www.mediamonkey.com/
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OT, I wish JS has macros. There is sweet.js, but I get the feeling its not used very much....
How To Prove It is definitely the best (it's the only I read till now though, apart from online tutorials and course notes) book on how to learn on your own. Especially since it details the thought process on how to prove something, has around 20 questions per subsection with answers (especially this is great)!

Another book that I think is great is 'Getallen: van natuurlijk naar imaginair', but its in Dutch.
Are you talking about UIWebView (rather than Mobile Safari)? And WKWebView is already available in iOS 8. The biggest thing that WKWebView brings to the table is JIT for JS which previously was available only to Mobile Safari and not to applications using UIWebkit. It does this by running an isolated process pool for rendering web content.
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So the OC could actually rewrite DateListPlot to add error bar support, if he wanted to. He could even overwrite the original MX file in his installation once he had done this, if he so desired.

Even thought it's true, probably he couldn't legally distribute his own modified copy of DateListPlot. Right know you can hack together error bars for a plot even if you only know the output format of DateListPlot (FullForm and patter matching helps a lot).

Thanks for "Spelunk", it's awesome.
It's Sony Pictures Entertainment that got hacked, not Sony. They're completely separate companies, yet the media fails to recognize that. Very annoying and confusing, it's almost deliberately.
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Thanks. That's for sure true, using an ORM to avoid the boring CRUD stuff is definitely a good thing. However, this shows once again that, for non-trivial systems, you still have to resort to plain SQL, which kind of locks you in to your database of choice.
I prefer less brackets for sure. Programming will be worse if we have more types of brackets. Less is more.
Is it just me or did anyone else stop immediatly at this sentence on the get started page?
"Create a free AppGyver account"

Ionic didn't need me to create an account and everything you list in this news title i can use without an account. Ionic also begins their getting started with "Install Ionic" so the fork part was even more misleading. I immediately got disapointed.

I don't know but every time i run into an "accountwall" within the first 10 seconds i immediately turn away and loose all interest.

I also wouldn't call something where i need to give any information to evaluate it "free".
Richard Branson is Virgin's sole-proprietor supercompany. :)

But yes, that's true—the investors would be mad at SCE. But would that, in turn, make them think of pulling aside SPE to give them the same talk? SPE isn't even doing anything involving running a public-facing web service; why would the investors presume they'd be at risk? It'd be like YCombinator calling in all their current batch of startups to give them a lesson on finances because one of them screwed up their bookkeeping.
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use of force (cops, military)

Chris: You do not want to go to lunch.

Rich points gun at Chris.

Chris: Let me rephrase that. I misspoke. I'm sorry.
They'll think they do, but they won't really. Research is showing clearly that 60 hours a week is not sustainable longer than a couple months. Afterwards, you get less efficient than if you only worked 40 hours. http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/bring_back_the_40_hour_work_...
I do the same thing. I bought music from Amazon for a while. Every now and again I bought some German music from Amazon.de. The purchase works well enough but after that none of my non-German music works in the Amazon player. The Xbox One will simply not let me purchase anything that's not from my region.

The CD or DVD just takes all that pain away.
> 'Never' seems like quite a generalization. What about e.g. Classify and Predict, or FormFunction, or Interpreter, or Nearest? Do those all not do quite what you need?

Certainly, there are many functions that do what I need - but in my experience, the "higher" the level of the function is, the smaller the chances that it fullfills my needs.

> Conversely, does other software do better, on average, in 'doing what one wants'? Which software?

Over the years I have come to appreciate Matlab. Like Mathematica, it also has some maddening idiosyncrasies [0] and is mostly closed source, but it let's me inspect its high level functions. For instance, if I am not happy about the errorbar plots, I can execute the command "edit errorbar" to get an idea what I have to change. If the change is complex, Matlab is a decent enough IDE to implement it anyways. In comparison, Mathematica seems like a front-end to the kernel to me. It is not a proper IDE. I heard there is a Mathematica IDE called Wolfram Workbench [1], but it costs extra.

For me, my biggest problem is not about the sofware "doing what one wants", but that it is doing things I don't want. File corruption and sign error bugs are absolutely not ok for software that I base my publications on, and I have not encountered them in the alternatives [2].

Mathematica is a powerful piece of software and has many use cases. Of course it can't be a "eierlegende Wollmilchsau" that is good at everything [3]. But personally (disgruntled customer rambling here) I wonder why Wolfram Research is devoting so much energy into developing all these new, shiny features while the foundation is crumbling.

[0] Try running a Matlab script that has - gasp - a space in its name. It will fail and produce an "undefined function" error message. (Not very helpful to new users.) The newer versions at least warn you if you try to save a script with an illegal name - but they still allow you to run it and produce the non-descript error message.

[1] http://www.wolfram.com/products/workbench/

[2] The alternatives I actually use are Igor Pro, Matlab, and Excel. Excel can easily lead to sign errors because of the unexpected behaviour of the unary minus. It takes precedence over the power operator, so if you evaluate "-1^2", the result is +1. While you can get used to that behaviour, you can easily forget it when you work with references. Say A1 contains 1, then "-A1^2" evaluates to +1. If, like me, you prefer working with named cells and name A1 as x, then "-x^2" also evaluates to +1. I once botched an analysis due to this behaviour. Ironically, this was one of the reasons why I wanted to base my current analysis on Mathematica.

[3] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wollmilchsau.png?usel...
Surprised to see Dart as one of the top upvoted feature requests for the Internet Explorer Platform.

Here are the top 10:
https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/257854-internet-explorer-...

1. Auto Update older IE Versions (Evergreen)
2. Object.observe()
3. WebRTC
4. ShadowDOM
5. Use Blink
6. Custom Elements
7. Asm.js
8. Dart
9. Template Element
10. Picture Element
If you're interested in 3D programming, you want to learn linear algebra.

An excellent book that can teach you the basics (from trigonometry to advanced linear algebra) is "3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development".
North Korea as a country might be behind the technological curve, but several reports indicate the the North Korean Army cyber warfare division is pretty well funded and advanced. There is a huge divide between the day to day realities of the average NK citizen and the realities of the upper echelons.
There are. They're called "Magnet Motors". You see a lot of them in 'free energy' and 'perpetual motion device' circles. They're not useful because you can't get much energy out and, as I said, the magnets stop being magnets. People most often don't understand the second bit which is why they think they've cracked humanity's energy problems.
I was being cynical. While profits are going to the government it is hard to line your own pockets through buying shares, or get appointed to the board after leaving office.
> I think it's time to build my first app. This has to be the least intimidating frameworks I've seen. Can't wait to see how fast it is to use!

I am all for publicizing/celebrating loudly products built by startups. But please edit for full disclosure to facilitate better discussions (if you are N.M. from Appgyver).
Share my views how? As in, they dislike DE blades? I was under the impression most people just didn't know of them or figured they were difficult or something. It would surprise me to find out that people actually dislike a DE shave. Maybe I'm extrapolating too much from personal experience :\.
"FUTURE-PROOFED FOR IOS & ANDROID
When you use Supersonic, you can be sure you are using the most up-to-date visual and functional paradigms of both platforms. That means iOS8 and Android KitKat today, and future-proofed for the next generations."

Like Lollipop never happened.
Corporation tax in Ireland is 12.5% (although your analysis is still correct.)
Can you elaborate on the problems you had with conflict resolution? I used Fossil for a couple of personal projects and made a mental note to try it out instead of Git next time I had to host a code repository on a local server.
What you are referring as "basic intelligence" is actually a combination of neuroplasticity and general knowledge. Neuroplasticity is a speed at which brain can learn new things, but even then you can't say "person1 neuroplasticity > person2 neuroplasticity". That is because brain is composed of many parts that can have different plasticity. Also neuroplasticity (i.e. "intelligence") is not static and can even change over time depending on what parts of the brain are most active.
haha funny shit on YC... they are promoting the wire like bitches.... I posted about sony being hacked 4 days ago when it was to actually happen...

But wire does a report at it oh 1st on YC... this site is full of brats... /neveragain checking this site out.

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> Something like an excellent michelin-star level experience in a a restaurant is some serious luxury and it shows: People pay through the nose for it.

Because it's rare and cannot be copied that easily. A lot of special talent is needed for this. Not only in cooking, but also in perfect management.

What you are describing in this post is usually driven by growth, especially productivity improvement. This happens continously accross the world, but at a "limited" pace, not 1.4. So things like 35 hours produce suddenly a bump that may be hard to digest, especially for company owners. Efficiency improvement means new market, means investment opportunities, so whatever is possible will be done.

Car sharing is another thing... People like to own cars. This is cultural, not economics, so just changing a policy won't change it. The question is rather what would be more appealing than a car? Currently mobile devices and computers seem to take over that role, but let's see how it develops.
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> Go calls its threads goroutines as a pun on coroutines, to indicate that they're lighter than real operating-system threads.

A pun? Maybe. But the point of calling them go-routines instead of co-routines is that they _are not coroutines_.

There isn't a requirement of cooperation on the programmer's part as there usually is with coroutines (at least as I experienced them in Python, having to place Yield() calls to let other coroutines run).

With goroutines the cooperation is handled by the implementation/compiler -- i.e. Yield() calls are automatically inserted by the compiler -- rather than by the programmer manually by hand.
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