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Only a few people in the HN crowd would be interested, but I imagine that Chinese translations of the Bible are a perfect match for this. Everything's already marked down into chapters and verses for easy organization, and the text is in the public domain too for older translations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Union_Version

There appear to be some freely available online recordings of the public domain text as well. https://librivox.org/author/1097?primary_key=1097&search_cat...
You despise "fanboys" and "adoration," but you're "proud" of an OS that (I'm guessing) you had nothing to do with the development of?

This, right here, is the problem. People choosing to attach their personal and tribal identity to an operating system. It doesn't matter what operating system it is, or how good it is. It's no more noble than doing the same thing with a football team or a comic book character.
The death was an unfortunate accident, but the circumstances in which it occurred were not an accident. It is the circumstances that people are protesting.

By analogy, say I get drunk and go for drive, miss a stop sign and kill a pedestrian. Even though it was an accident, I'll be charged for at least manslaughter because I created a situation in which such an accident was more likely.

Some police officers habitually create confrontational situations with black men, even in the absence of any evidence of serious wrongdoing. Eric Garner was selling cigarettes illegally (a very minor crime) yet was tackled by officers and put into a dangerous chokehold. The situation was far more likely to result in death or injury than just writing him a ticket at arms length.
Interesting. The flashing at least seems to be an isolated System Preferences bug, as I don't remember seeing it in any other applications.

Would be better to compare a larger number of UI interactions - Finder, Safari, Exposé/Mission Control, iTunes, etc., to more clearly establish a pattern rather than just claiming it anecdotally. Not saying the pattern isn't there, but proving it would be a breath of fresh in air in an area typically so subjective and dominated by perceptual biases.
I've alternately used Grml (debian-based) and SystemRescueCd (gentoo-based) for general-purpose system recovery, network booting to run an imaging process, and several other projects. Thanks to everyone who maintains a "live cd", as we used to call them!
I don't know anything of desktop/native applications, but web. My question to the people on the other side of the isle: why aren't all the view panes preloaded, and pre-rendered? In this day and age, where 64mb of RAM is easy to come by, I don't see (as a web developer) why this approach isn't taken.
Throw yourself in the 'pessimist' camp if you like, I'm merely not an optimist to the point of ignoring reality. I love watching people gasping for optimistic news, it speaks to just how hard reality is going to slap those people in the face in the next few decades.
Wondering if this can support color, and why not?
Don't you think that authors who release their work freely under copyright believe that yes it actually is a 'measure to ensure income for artists?'
The terrifying part of this is that computers with Windows Media Player installed are running critical infrastructure. Shouldn't that be a stripped-down Linux machine with perfectly understood characteristics and close-to-zero attack surface?

Yes, your scenario is bad I can totally see it happening, but the problem is not that an employee plugged in his phone, it's that you are using a desktop OS for office workers for controls that really non-optionally need to always just work.

Maybe it's not a Windows Media Player launch, but what happens if Java shows up in the taskbar wanting an update, or your anti-virus software (yikes) wants to bug you about updating its definitions, or a modal dialog from the OS comes up? The fact that those are even things that can happen is pretty scary.
Solving world peace and curing cancer are also problems. I don't think engineers are best suited to solve them.
How I wish this were a Scarlet Witch declaration like in the House of M storyline.
CentOS is arguably the most deployed server distribution of Linux, and it (RH) ships a perfectly fine python3 via SCL.

Ubuntu is a snapshot of Debian unstable, and it's not surprising that shipping cutting edge packages results in a few that are broken.
I wish SL were still getting updates, it was the best OS release Apple ever made. It went downhill the moment they went to annual release cycles.

I rather wait 2-3 years for a new OS update that is stable, fast, and responsive than dealing with all weird glitches that's turning me off OS X for good. Windows 10 in alpha builds feels better than Lion-Yosemite.
Before the US entered the war it actually wouldn't have been all that unlikely. They had plenty of supporters. Only after did it become an impossibility.

And yes, that was everything to do with the US government.
What is the best linux laptop out there now?
I am looking for the best Linux laptop available right now - either with pre-installed Linux, or a relatively painless way to install it.

In this case, let's say that cost is not a big issue.

Light, 13 or 14 inches, and powerful.

Suggestions?
"It feels somehow unjust that such an ugly language basically took over the web."

That's not really right, though. There are a ton of languages fighting for the server side web development crown.

I'd argue that if you limit it to LAMP, Python is a lot nicer than PHP.

Regardless, my current vote is for Scala world domination. Let the haters hate. :-)
the article said we should rest on our laurels?
To borrow from an article I read earlier today (http://weblog.raganwald.com/2006/06/my-favourite-interview-q...)... how would you enable two people to play turn based (and/or realtime) monopoly (or chess, or any other game) over the web? This will almost certainly be more complicated on the front-end than most apps you'll need to build, and complicated enough on the back-end to be non-trivial.
The moderation on titles is killing me.
Even with "Reduce Transparency" enabled (blur disabled) I've had times when Mission Control operates at 2 frames per second on my 13" 2013 rMBP. This never happened using Mavericks.

If you try full screen zoom on Yosemite with an external display attached, it's similarly unusable.
Yosemite has been a major regression in almost every respect, I actually regret upgrading. Aside from the obvious and major performance and stability issues the major features are just plain broken. For example, try answering your phone from your computer. It takes way too long to actually pick up the call from the phone and then when you try to answer it bugs up so that in the end you can never actually answer the call. This is completely unacceptable behavior and a feature like this should have never been released unless it was exceptionally reliable and seamless.

It seems Apple is more concerned with showing off the concepts behind these features than making sure they actually deliver a solid experience when their released. Another case in point is the changes to AirPlay for the AppleTV. The new approach to connecting a device should be a big improvement, instead it's a buggy mess that makes it nearly impossible for us to use it anymore.

One of the most refreshing things about moving from primarily using Windows/Linux to a Mac for me was the sensibility, stability and the fact that things just worked the way you expected them to. Now that seems to be completely lost.
I've found that even if you start with the "basics", like the author describes, that you'll end up finding that you repeat the same types of tasks repeated. So, you refactor and make functions that simplify common actions. After a while, I guarantee you that your code will look a lot like a framework.

Frameworks are created because they make solving certain types of problems easier and reduce code duplication, whether you use someone else's or your own.
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Well, I think what the parent is saying here is that the United States set a precedent for other nation states to engage in destruction of industry when they see national security or state advantages - while the myth of America being a fair and even handed juror of world affairs is not true, it is pervasive, and it (and the "West") is used as a basis for comparison. It also provides an out for a state actor who is caught and there is an attempt at an international judicial (rather than military) response: they can point at Stuxnet and suggest (convincingly IMO) that the United States should face the same standards of judgement and if they stand up a proportional reprimand. This gives an additional sort of 'insurance'.

I would disagree with the parent that Stuxnet is the same type of activity (it's private industrial sabotage rather than state military sabotage). The papers with the most lip service regarding cybermilitarization (inside the US) try to suggest international norms by breaking types of operations down into an ontology that separates national security operations and military operations from activities that interfere with private enterprise, citizens and from infrastructure.
If you wrote code that requires graph traversal in DOM, you are doing it wrong.
Not only that, it only flashes in certain areas of Sys Prefs.

For me, I see flashes only in General, Security & Privacy and so on. It looks fine in Dock, Mission Control and so on. I think it is just a bug in certain layouts.
> Should there be universal Internet surveillance and the dispatch of a SWAT team at the first sign of any violation?

This is not possible, which is precisely why

> Penalties are already draconian in some cases.

This is probably also why the simplest way of strengthening copyright in the Internet era is by lengthening terms. Most other alternatives would infringe too much on personal privacies.
"Globally" includes the billion or so people lifted out of poverty in the last twenty years.
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So (in this particular arena) Linux can, by Googling around and digging into conf files, match the speed that a Mac has out of the box? That's nice, but it's not exactly impressive. Why isn't it configured that way to start with?

(My personal machines are a Mac laptop, a Windows desktop, and a Linux server. I have no dog in this fight. I kind of don't understand why people think they do have a dog in this fight.)
The issue linked was against jessie/sid. Debian users expect broken things outside of stable.

The Ubuntu release in question was the LTS Ubuntu.
I used it as a desktop for a year or two maybe about 6-8 years back.. Blazingly fast.
talk about missing the point. You can acknowledge that violence is on the decline while also wanting it to continue to decline. The danger in ignoring the decline is that resources will be disproportionately redirected to solving problems that aren't of any real concern (terrorism, war on drugs, etc) instead of the problems that are actually in need of solving.
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These days I dont even bother with such interviews. I talk directly with people in power and skip all this bullshit. All positions like VP, director, manager roles have way more real influence compared to an engineer. None of thrse positions require you to answer these questiins and yet give more pay and influenve on the final product. Unlike an engineer who has to work from the bottom to drive change. Unless you are a colleve noob i would really ask you to reconsider your job position if these are the questiins you are answering. Talking of 90% of the software companies here. I do know real engineers do tremendous stuff.
In some ways, browsers are as fragmented as ever. Everyone loves to forget IE, but the last I checked IE8 was #3 in sales in our shop. Throw in a little jQuery and we never have to worry about a lot of things. Polyfills are nice, except that browsers are still experimenting, and plenty of people aren't mindful of that fact and it's not uncommon to visit sites that don't work properly on a browser other than Chrome. A sad state of affairs, but a reality nonetheless
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For those who haven't read the video description:

Here's a very quick, unscientific comparison of one tiny aspect of UI performance in OS X Yosemite vs. OS X Tiger. Although this is just one example, I personally see these kinds of hiccups throughout OS X constantly.
The machine running OS X Tiger is actually an Intel Core 2 Duo PC (hackintosh) from 2007 with no hardware accelerated graphics support in OS X (it's an unsupported intel integrated graphics chipset that was never used in a real mac, hence the unsupported graphics). Therefore, the Tiger demo is running without QE and CI.
The machine running OS X Yosemite is a late 2013 15 inch retina MBP. Automatic graphics switching is disabled for the demo, forcing the machine to use the much more powerful Nvidia graphics card. I also have the power adapter plugged in so that the system isn't in a low power state.
I've been using OS X for 8 years now. From 2007 to 2013, I used hackintoshes (custom built with compatible hardware). Those machines ran Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion, and Mavericks. I got my rMBP in 2013 and it's now my primary machine. It first ran Mavericks, then I upgraded it to Yosemite this year. It's been my experience that the performance of all of my machines has noticeably declined since the release of Lion. In terms of UI performance, my rMBP running Mavericks/Yosemite is nowhere near as responsive as any of my Snow Leopard machines were.
Fingers crossed that WWDC 2014 focusses on major speed and stability improvements for OS X and iOS. New features are great, but not at the cost of performance.
The phone thing was infuriating. After upgrading all of a sudden every device I own would start ringing like crazy: phone, computer, Apple TV STOPS airplay because the iPad streaming to it was also buzzing like mad. I KNOW I KNOW, you can turn it off, but I hate the fact that upgrading my OS has now become "turn off the 10 gimmick features so you can get back to some level of sanity", especially because after I pick up the call I completely forget about it (I'm not going to not take the call and then start going through the prefs on my x devices). So the other day I finally gave in and just hit accept on my computer -- and ... call failed. Great. I felt like I was on candid camera or something, the employees at Apple viewing me through my iSight camera on my monitor laughing at the sucker who finally took the bait.

As far as the Apple TV is concerned, I've completely given up. Its incredible how a product can be ruined through software updates. Forgetting the lack of attention, that thing was good. AirPlay was a good feature. Hardly works anymore. I've more or less completely switched to Amazon Fire TV/Stick. The voice search on that thing is seriously impressive. And even without that, just scrolling through shows doesn't drive you up the wall. Its like someone actually considered how someone would use the device.
Subjectively, on that image VP9 looks nicer than Daala. (And x265 looks nicer than both.)
Anyone know what's the motivation?

People do not work that hard to destroy something without a reason. Someone was really mad at them - ex employee maybe?
I never acknowledged anything you mentioned, so I am not sure what you've been reading or smoking.

Please, tell me what resources have we spent on saving these 7000 women (probably more) used as sex-slaves by these islamists?

I guess they are not a real concern because they're not as bad as "sexism" in video games or the "racism" in using native American outfits for Halloween.
was heavily involved in the beta testing of 10.10, In my experience Yosemite is by far not only the most buggy, but also slowest release of OSX.

I am saddened to report that only one of the many performance regressions I reported was actually fixed (In that case within Mail.app).

A huge portion of the performance problems seem to be stemming from the graphics subsystem. If you use Yosemite on dual Retina or even WQHD displays you'll know what I'm talking about.

Add graphics glitches, immature theming and wireless problems to the over all poor performance and were talking about major issues in areas that OSX has been known as a leader in.

My biggest issue is that Apple seems to be ignoring most of the core performance issues that are being reported - just look at the number of unresolved posts on the Apple forums.

I do hope that Tim Cook is becoming aware of the drop in reputation that OSX has received since Yosemite and is leading his teams to perform more in depth performance soak testing before releases in the future.
It comes from "This person is good, but not great, and we only have one spot, so should we hold out for great?"
> Without public domain, there is no advancement, as future authors cannot build upon earlier works.

Uhh, literature does not work like technology. Authors can and do create entire universes out of whole cloth. Of course, they will be influenced by countless other works, but copyright has no bearing their unless it's a barefaced rip-off.

In fact, I would guess that most creators want to create their own work rather than build on top of others'. Firstly, because of ego, because the work would be all their own. Secondly, this allows the maximum amount of creative ability without being shackled by a backstory that they had no influence on.
You're only counting the application you're looking at though. Multiply that by all the applications running, and pretty soon 512MB of VRAM is looking kinda skimpy.

And one of those applications is a browser, which is liable to have a huge amount of prerendered stuff it wants to blit.
Turning off transparency in the Accessibility preferences fixed it for me.
Dell Latitude e7240 is damn good with Ubuntu 14.04 desktop on it.. pick one up on eBay for a reasonable price.. 12", SSD, quad core i7..
Cool, thanks for creating this tool!
Except it sorta is. Look at browserify/webpack + npm + etc.
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Apple's 13" MacBook Air running any linux distro is crazy but good.. OS X native is the single best platform but if you're Linux orientated then Ubuntu on a MacBook Air 13" is insanely good.. and low cost.. even new!!
I donated some money to Mozilla this year. May you could too?
This. I love the full screen zoom but had to turn it off for my thunderbolt display. Also I had a hot corner for Mission Control that was similarly laggy, had to turn that off too :(
The German document isn't that useful. It's just a general overview of computer security with anecdotes, not a technical analysis of this attack.

Interestingly, there was a cooling water leak and an emergency shutdown at a steel plant in Pakistan in October. That plant is still off line. That's probably unrelated, though.

http://www.newspakistan.pk/2014/10/27/pakistan-steel-mills-r...
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It's also worth noting that drawing UI elements is relatively inexpensive.
Ask HN: Anyone use derbyjs?
Among JS frameworks, HN has gone through a cycle past Angular, and in the recent months Meteor and ReactJS.

I've head good things about DerbyJS and was wondering if HN has used this framework, and if yes, what worked and what did not.
People also said this when HTML5 was on the rise—pure JS, no runtime but the browser! Of course, it turns out engineering DOM-manipulating applications in a responsive way is really hard.

These are the core benefits of frameworks:

1. Standard code style.

2. There's only one way to do it (ideally).

3. Modularization.

4. Unit testing.

5. A realistic standard library for async/concurrent computation.

Angular, for instance, provides dependency injection and $scope/$digest. It would be pretty ridiculous to attempt to replicate those benefits until AT THE VERY LEAST Object.observe has solidified in terms of support. And even then, you're on your own in terms of mocking, in terms of communication between different modules, in terms of libraries you can drop in without dragging in a framework itself.

I'm appreciative of the attitude, but it's quite simply not a reality for people who don't want to invest in establishing their own patterns—in effect, writing a framework. With a framework, people can sit down and use the engineering techniques they've learned from other areas of CS and write an application without being bogged down in terms of figuring out how to write a high-performance single-threaded web app in a language without modules, integers, futures (or other similar async abstractions), calendar widgets.

Try going without JQuery for a day and see how much duplicate code you write.

Then, multiply yourself times a team of 10.... good luck.
I could not agree more with your frustrations and observations luciferre, I do hope someone out there from Apple will spot the concerns raised here and take them more seriously than those reported as bugs.
You're guessing wrong, even if I'm less involved in free software that I was a few years ago.

But indeed, I'm quite passionate about GNU/Linux and say the gluglug X60 since it's a unique offering to respect ones' freedoms: http://www.fsf.org/news/gluglug-x60-laptop-now-certified-to-... but I'm actively trying to improve boottime.

In case you are curious, here's a kernel patch integrating a few things I (badly) fixed to get such boot times, and an explanation:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bios/80414

You see, it's a very small patch - yet it took some work. There's no magic, just effort.

And for those who think that's not replicable anywhere beyond the confines of my workstation, I intend to release very soon a debian based distribution with "proper" systemd support that gets me from grub to dwm in less than 2 seconds instead of 3s, kernel and systemd time included, on the X60 (I had some inspiration tonight!!)

It's a work-in-progress, it could be improved on the non-tablet version, but it's still something that's possible right now on 8-years old hardware. That's what I call hacking.

For me, free software is not a tribal identity. It's very practical, with great benefits far beyond fast boot times.

Things change because people work on them, and yes they're usually proud of their work, sorry about that. Pride is part of hacking.

I must say I have been quite surprised by the general tone of this thread, including the ad-hominem attacks ("Seems he is working for Intel on CoreOS") on the OP that was trying to explain stuff. Many people don't post content, they just criticize.
Answering calls on my Mac is one of my favorite new features. When it works, it works well. When it doesn't work, it fails upfront. You really have to play with your icloud and FaceTime settings to trick it into working. It's absurd how complicated the whole relationship between iCloud, FaceTime, iMessages, and my devices is. The settings need to be perfect for things to work correctly. I can't even imagine if it was someone who wasn't tech-savvy trying to use these features.
You would think with all the smart, detail oriented, outgoing people at apple, SOMEONE would have pulled the person responsible for shifting to a yearly cycle and tell them: "look, this accelerated release cycle, it's not resulting in quality software. It's hurting our reputation. It's not performing on 2 year old hardware. People are losing faith in our ability to release stable bug-free builds. Users shouldn't have to cross their fingers when upgrading. This is Apple."

But no, that's probably not happening.
It was at LAHacks. I don't recall the name of the hacker or project though. :-(
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