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Thanks for your feedback! Hosting directly from github might be a good idea for the ones that regard github as a trusted third party. However, github would gain the possibility to manipulate the code to gain access to your accounts...

We plan to create an API and already started brainstorming on it:
https://github.com/intermail/api/wiki

Regarding trusting the CA systems: We use DANE to secure your connection to our servers.
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I really hope somebody starts a kickstarter for Rails 4.2 on IronRuby (based on .NET Core). I'm really keen to see how that will compare with JRuby (which is already quite good).

The biggest problem which I see with the .NET ecosystem is the lack of appliction servers like JBoss, Tomcat, Wildfly.. even Jetty.

Am I wrong or is IIS pretty much the only .NET application server ?
Maybe you are just working for the wrong customers/company.

I decided to never do Java again, and until now I have zero complaints, because I have plenty of offers to pick from.
That's a really clever site, seems like an elaborate way to say "It depends" when the question is "What is the best country in the world".
End to end Javascript (front-end SPAs and backend APIs).
Just checked, it doesn't appear in France.
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It's not the same name; the other is called "Facebook Messenger".

There's also Yahoo Messenger, WhatsApp Messenger, Tango Messenger, Smug Messenger and a couple of plain "Messengers" already, so I doubt any lawsuits will have a leg to stand on.
Oh, i see, because on my screen (1920 wide) it zooms pretty well.
Yes :)
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While that may be true, I still think parents ELI5 explanation of the problem with PPP in this scenario is very good.

When we are looking at the largest economy in the world, we are looking at world wide numbers and as an American or European most of China is going to feel very cheap.
> I think that Dart VM and Dart developers does not like annotations because they thinking that VM cannot use them effectively (even if they written by humans).

The fear is actually completely opposite: people would misuse these annotations without understanding what they do and then complain that Dart VM "is slow".

As I said: I'd love to convert these lists to annotations. Don't tell anyone but we actually have inlining annotations[1] which we use when writing tests.

> Do you use such a layer as a "Well structured intermediate language" in Dart VM?

I don't understand the question. Dart VM uses intermediate representation when compiling, which is an implementation detail (unlike CLR IL - which well specified input to the VM essentially)

[1] https://code.google.com/p/dart/source/browse/branches/bleedi...)
What about the energy spent writing HN comments criticizing others for making useless things?
Can HN Talk about Eric Garnier?
I searched for "Eric Garnier" on HN, and got about 7 or so results, all of which had at most, 2 comments, I think.
I'd have thought the Eric Garnier story is the kind that would be discussed exhaustively on HN, so I was fairly surprised to see, based on the search results, that it got so little attention. How come?
Is it potentially ugly, the HN discussion that would ensue? Sure, but since when has HN ran away from controversy? It's the sort of thing that I'd expect to bring up, in the comments, a lot of interesting historical and philosophical bits and digressions and what nots.
Can we talk?
I'm using:

1) Corsair Performance Pro 128Gb; Marvell controller; Toshiba toggle-NAND memory;
Used for 2.5 years; written about 7-8Tb.

2) Corsair Neutron GTX 120Gb; LAMD controller; Toshiba toggle-NAND memory;
Used for 1.5 years; written about 4Tb.

Both are up and running 24/7 most of the time, both are usually filled to 60-80%, one is system partition, one is for remaining software and games. Both SSDs suffer about 10-20 electricity outages per year.
Nope, Facebook's messaging app is just called "Messenger", at least on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.o... I know because I was looking for it in the list of installed apps to uninstall it just yesterday and had trouble finding it at first because its name didn't start with Facebook.

(You may be thinking of the iOS version which is apparently called "Facebook Messenger".)
It is enabled for .Net 4.5.1 as explained here : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/01/22/net-4-5-1-...
> I have the following methods (via macro defs) in my "native extension":

Can't you just expose the data you are reading as an external typed data array to the Dart code? That would remove any need for those methods.

> - Dart developers does not like annotation

I like annotations!

> - Dart VM executes custom "native (which in fact are very fast)" methods very slow

This concern is very valid: it is true that transition between Dart code and native methods is too heavyweight and as a developer you have no way to fix it yourself. We had plans to fix it eventually - but they never been very high on the list of things.

Did you file a bug for the slowness of your native extension?
I began using it early on as well, and have watched it turn from an ideal social media site to a modernized 1995 FFA page (free-for-all links page). That would be the first time I encountered something that simultaneously progressed and regressed as well.
China is 1 billion plus people. They have a large role to play in the world economy unless they do something really stupid or terrible. They were the largest economy in the world throughout much of history, if I recall correctly.
To be fair, that's the goal of perfect service. Every interaction precise, pleasant and necessary to improving your experience of the meal. Being available, but not imposing presence unnecessarily.
I would object to both claims, because you, very much like Watson, seem to not grasp the idea that you can not simply drop a quantifier and assume people will interpret it as 'on average', this is simply not how the English language works. When Watson says "any person who has to deal with Black employees will know" he is implying that it is expected for any black employee to be dumb, whether he meant for that expectation or not. And frankly I believe he knows damn well how his language is interpreted and just hides behind his statistics to give his bigotry the illusion of merit.
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In my experience this is a terrible metric. The demographics that McDonalds is marketed in different countries varies enormously. I find in Western countries it is seen as unglamorous, cheap and quick food. Whereas when I was in India, for example, it is much more expensive than cheap food you can buy there, and therefore is seen much more as a nice place to go with your family (or girlfriends/boyfriend), and it tends to be middle class people who go there.

I was trying to think of a good alternative product for this index, but I really couldn't think of any single product that is marketed at exactly the same demographic in each country, as well as having comparable market penetration, and being desired by people to the same degree.
why would someone downvote this? I'm simply pointing out facts. For example, see this paper by Wicherts et al [1]: "Our estimate of average IQ converges with the finding that national IQs of sub-Saharan African countries as predicted from several international studies of student achievement are around 82."

[1]http://wicherts.socsci.uva.nl/wicherts2010IQAFR.pdf
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baseless speculation: Yahoo buys Nook division from BN to get into hardware
Either your PC or your power is killing those SSD's. I have dozens of the things since 2010 and have had zero failures.
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If housing in the UK is a 6/10 I don't want to know how are 4/10s or worse.
I saw this on a big advert on the London underground a few weeks ago. Would love to hear what HN thinks of it, particularly that anyone can invest, in comparison with AngelList where only accredited investors can.
Having moved between developing and developed countries recently, I was reminded of what GDP in PPP misses. It's even cruder than how inflation is measured through CPI or RPI. In one country it might be cheaper to get services that depend on a lot of labour, like restaurant meals, cleaning and tailoring, but in another country you can walk or take public transport to the restaurant or tailor without the fear of being the victim of a crime. You can buy ketchup for cheaper, but it is not necessarily as safe or hygienic, it won't have seals under the cap in the store, you won't have as many options to choose from, etc. I think in a globalised world and especially when you look at commodidity prices, PPP is good to measure if people have 'enough' to live on in a particular location but for comparison between countries it's pretty meaningless.
The issue is that these advantages do not outweigh the ubiquitous nature of JavaScript. If I already need to learn all of those JS quirks, why learn Lua too?

In my case, because Awesome is a nice window manager.
>Yes, when you look at mere international exchange rates, the U.S. economy remains bigger than that of China, allegedly by almost 70%.

The irony is that the US has been running up debt for decades upon decades. The US economy is equivalent to someone that has an unlimited credit line, who pays absolutely nothing while continuing to spend lavishly.

This article does not bring any new information or shed any light on the truth about our global economy, such as the creation of externalities that deprive human beings of basic rights. All this article does is present an old narrative (the financial news equivalent of race baiting). Grab the datasets yourself, do your own analysis, and don't listen to yellow journalist rags like this which are clearly promoting an agenda.

GDP, PPP, etc are metrics which have a low signal-to-noise ratio, because the speed with which capital moves renders any units to measure economic output meaningless. USD is still the reserve currency for most of the world (at least for the countries who account for the lion's share global economic output). Even if that were to change to RMB or [insert fiat currency], the current corrupted system will continue to exist and exploit. Do yourself a favor and become educated about cryptocurrency. Learn why this current global economic system is corrupt and a new form of enslavement. Then you'll realize that we don't need central banks. You will realize that you are not a child that needs to be constantly monitored by a nanny state. And so your enlightenment begins.
What matters is what makes the customer happy.

Anyone that wants to bring something new to our projects needs to prove what is the business value. If it reasonable, it gets adopted.

So for Scala to be adopted on our projects, customers need to be convinced what is the business value of having their multi-site team learning it, instead of us using their already installed infrastructure.

I can dabble in alternative programming languages on my hobby projects.
It's not really a web tool though. But before that I made a widget which lets Facebook page fans vote who the biggest fan of a particular FB page is. Kind of an automatic competition that repeats each week. The winner is then posted on the FB page it is installed on. It was almost as big as Candy Japan is now. It's still running too, but I've let it languish since CJ has taken over my brain.
I don't like the idea having long-running branches and especially TODO comments in code before a review. I would argue that it is better to discuss large architectural changes as a team, and split the task into smaller, more manageable tickets and branches which can be reviewed and/or QA'd individually. I think this is key to maintaining clean and reliable.

I think the approach outlined is a bit upside down, and significant API changes should be agreed on first. Not necessarily documented or thought about in detail, but the implementer should walk away from the preliminary discussion with a good idea of the agreed structure in order to be able to flesh it out further.

This means the architectural changes on a high level are understood and agreed on by the some or all of team first and the implementation is what actually needs to be reviewed afterwards.

Thinking about a solution, pushing a draft to code review with your thoughts explaining the changes typed out in full, responding to comments on the review two days later, and repeating the process all over again- it just seems like if you need this sort of feedback it would be way more efficient to schedule an informal exchange in front of a whiteboard with one or more team members.
It's not at all about real global power, it's about domestic economic capacity. As soon as China tries to start exerting it's economic muscle abroad, it has to compete on international terms which means adjusting costs to take advantage of domestic costs doesn't matter anymore.

For example, does China's GDP at PPP 'equality' with the US mean it can fford as many nuclear submarines as the US, as many aircraft carriers? As many advanced state of the art stealth bombers, fighters, tanks, spy satelites and naval bases? No, it doesn't, all it realy means is it can afford as many roads and bags of rice as the US.

As soon as China starts investing in, developing or buying international standard technology and eqipment it has to start investing or spending international standard capital to do so, and PPP doesn't help anymore. Even in the case of 'soft power' such as financial support and investment in other countries, that has to be done in foreign currency. Suddenly the domestic purchasing power advantage of the Yuan becomes an equal and opposite disadvantage.
Do you use Postgres at the Petabyte level?
Does it perform OK?
IBM's announcement: https://developer.ibm.com/bluemix/2014/12/04/ibm-containers-...
I wonder how it would compare in performance to latest PHP/Nginx stack which is rather very fast with good code. And then there is major improvements in PHP on horizon and already alternatives like Facebooks PHP implementation
Because it's not a per capita thing how large a military you can afford, or how strongly you can lobby.

On a per capita basis the US is world's #10.

The US is the most important country in the world because of its aggregate power, of which the total GDP is an important factor.
Sorry to report a bug.
I imagine that the idea of this app is that it take over from the previous AOSP messaging app, much like Chrome > Browser, and Photos > Gallery.

It's just Google's continuation of keeping everything under their roof.
Think the current dive in oil prices is only going to accelerate that trend too!
Nice. Maybe not in China, but some countries force McDonald's to lower their BigMac price to hack that index.

The Wikipedia page mentions countries doing this, and, seeing the quality and price of Big Macs in some places compared to other Mc burgers, it's not surprising. E.g. the Argentinian one was half price of everything else, it was an awful burger, meat covering half the bun. And it was never advertised, only conspicuously tucked away at the bottom of the menu in a corner of the shop:

http://i.imgur.com/MbCaZnG.jpg

How's it in China, compared to other burgers?
I don't really understand the fascination with nominal GDP, be it in US$ or PPP. Those numbers are heavily influenced by the size of a country's population, which according to wikipedia ranges from something like 100,000 all the way up to 1.3 billion. That's four orders of magnitude!

That's like comparing a Formula 1 car and a Peugeot 107, and then deciding the guy in the Formula 1 car is a better driver because his lap times are faster.
On the one hand, you're totally right, I always interpret such statements as "in average" (or some other statistical quantifier, but definitely not "all"), and I don't know how other people understand it. On the other hand, I have never seen (in online discussions/articles that I read) object to the idea that Asians are smarter than whites (in the US) (except you), or call the statement bigoted/racist; in contrary, I would consider it fact (again, with appropriate quantifiers), and the discussion seems to be focused on how to deal with this fact (e.g. negative racial discrimination for Asians in universities).
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Didn't we just get done transitioning to hangouts for everything?! Jeez...
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I'm getting downvoted for linking to Wikipedia. Facts don't matter on this topic.
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This is nice, and I prefer it to the combined hangouts app as I tend to receive a lot of hangouts and few SMS and yet the SMS are sometimes important and effectively this filtered view (by using two apps) makes it easier and quicker to find a specific SMS.

I also like that it's now a little clearer how to block a number. They were under similar interfaces in the hangouts app but because it was combined it wasn't as clear.

It would be good for the times that I do get SMS spam if Google partnered with the telcos in such a way that Google reported back spam and offered a "Report Spam" button in addition to the block option.

The material design really does make the Hangouts app look dated and clunky by comparison.
As did the European case, ultimately forcing them to give a choice to the user which default browser to download, if I recall correctly.
Yes, and they are, also, ridiculously expensive. A (awful) capuccino can easily cost 30 kuai, where a very nice plate of rice with bacon and garnish from a low-end shop will cost you 10.

The entire drinking coffee outside game is just shockingly expensive in China. At least I haven't found the cheap ones.

1 us ~= 6.15 kuai
Frappuccinos are sold as a luxury aspirational product though. Thats what the PPP adjustment is supposed to adjust for, although the PPP calculation makes a lot of assumptions, and could well not be that good a measure.
Just one of many reasons why it matters: More Total GDP = More Military Spending.
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Just curious how you think the US economy could expand without increasing debt.

My understanding is that the amount of transactions occurring is dependent on the amount of money in circulation. The amount of money in circulation is directly dependent on debt through the fractional reserve banking system.

Under the current system, the only way to 'grow the economy' is to increase the volume of transactions or use money creating transactions (bank loan).
What task could these programmers perform that would not be biased towards programmers who have recently solved similar tasks?
PluralsightUtil: script that tallies the total hours of PS videos you've watched
I'm now an independent software developer. I already had a side project that was doing pretty well (Mac App), and I started to work on a second Mac app that I released last summer. I wrote a bit about it on https://eggerapps.at/blog/

Another reason for leaving that I didn't mention in the text was the birth of my first son. I saw how colleagues had little time to spend with their newborns. Now that I'm on my own I can choose myself how much time to spend with my kids.
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> Python/Ruby(and Rails) and node

I think every professional developer is happy when all the hipster kids moved to those platforms.
The experience with SSD reliability of myself and my friends/colleagues/contacts has been similar to spinning metal type drives, though with a smaller sample-set thus far. I've used a number of drives at home and work and had two fail: one just died, and other started reporting write errors (one Sandisk and one OCZ, I forget which exact models and which failed which way).

Between us we've got a fair few Crucial drives running pretty much 24/7 (in my case at home: the system drive in a Windows desktop that never turns off, a pair in RAID1 for the system + core VMs volumes in a server), and a selection from other manufacturers. IIRC the ones in the machine at the office are by Samsung.

Other people I know have had similar experience. Most of the failures we've experienced were early on, which either means it was down to luck or quality has improved over time. I wouldn't say I find SSD to be any less reliable than traditional drives, though when they do fail it is more often that they "just die without warning" than other failure modes.
The attack you describe---Joux's multicollisions, as far as I can tell---applies to Merkle-Damgard functions. SipHash is a spongy, wide-pipe, design where that sort of thing doesn't work. The generic bound is (k!)^(1/k) ⋅ 2^(n(k-1)/k)) work to find a k-collision, or approximately k ⋅ 2^n for large k.
It sounds like titlex is another road user and not a Lyft customer. I think you have to be a customer to give a driver a rating.
It is beautiful and artistic, but not very informative. I'd prefer the other way around.

I had to look hard to find actual information, and even then I only got tiny text snippets.

If your website targets casual users, this may be great (I don't know). But if your website targets technical people, you should consider a complete redesign.
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Depending on the field, it could be as much as 40x. We had a firmware engineer, who in 3 months, single handedly wrote an entire FHSS MAC layer for an RF application, with a high level of quality and hundreds of functions, while simultaneously laying down the architecture for it's growth over the next seven years. He was extraordinarily capable, intelligent, and had worked on the identical project in the previous 5-6 years, and so was able to anticipate all the blind alleys to avoid.

I'm reasonably confident that a low-performing engineer with little or no experience in this space would have taken seven-ten years to accomplish the same feat at the same level of quality and completeness. (Of course, it could be argued that our engineer had taken seven years to accomplish this task, it's just that they had worked six of them at a prior company)

The challenge in these types of tests, of course is (A) who defines/measures quality, (B) How do you know which functions were essential? Programmer performance is not a function of how fast you can complete coding challenges, but how well you can architect, document, communicate, collaborate, and all the other peripheral functions not associated with cranking out algorithms.
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Uber business is a good approach. But you'll get individual bills for every trip.

I hope Lyft gets you one consolidated bill a month for the company.
I find the analogy slightly ironic, since the best driver in formula 1 is indeed determined not only by his own skill, but also on the basis of his car quality.
Interestingly if you put in the cliche American free market priorities (jobs, income high, safety, work life balance, environment low, everything else in the middle) the US does come out top (as opposed to high but not top on a more even measure).

The same things seems to happen if you put in the sort of priorities other countries are generally believed to hold (so put in the environment, satisfaction, work life balance and so on and the Scandinavian countries leap to the top).

So if there is any truth in the cliches, countries do seem to optimise for what is important to them. Which I guess is what you'd hope happened.

As an aside there doesn't seem to be too much you can do to stop Australia being a great place to live - they don't have a slider for "Deadly animals".
Or fresh air.
the downvotes are quite amazing. this is just a basic factual matter -- nothing to do with whether watson's broader claims are true -- yet it seems some people are simply incapable of dealing with reality...