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If a platform has to be explicitly supported in a supposedly cross-platform standard, then the details on how to implement that must be published or the standard is no longer cross platform.

With this move, Linux is no longer "supported" on a web wholly built on it. That's completely fucked up.

DRM is fundamentally incompatible with the web. Let's not give it any reason to think it belongs here.
You heard it first on HN.
Anyway the premise is wrong. An Apple carrier would be much more expensive than anyone else's carrier. And as you'll only be able to get it in white, silver or gold, you might have some camouflage problems.
Golang yacc
Good article. Thanks for the pointer.
>is enough to buy Apple 12 nuclear carriers, a.k.a. a nuclear carrier fleet larger than that of the US Navy.

this is why i'm sure that even in the case of military conflict between China and US, the container ships will continue bringing iPhones from Foxconn factories in China into US stores :)
Indeed. I use an iPad to make drawings for online lessons. It made drawings well when I got it in 2012, and it continues to make drawings well.

I won't ever upgrade unless it breaks or software updates junk it. Why would I?

It would be a mistake to view my reluctance to upgrade as a bad thing, from apple's perspective. I've bought two MacBook airs since (I needed an upgrade for work projects). The fact that the iPad is so reliable is one of the reasons I buy apple products without much though. So far, they work, and they last. I'm writing this message on an iPhone 4 from 2010. Still works wonderfully. (only because I'm running iOS 5 though)
They are including almost all the frameworks you would use as well. They weren't set up to take pull requests, and I suspect that they're only interested in bug fixes. So, not entirely genuine.
Honestly, I'm not sure. I mean, I play games too - don't get me wrong. I am not sure how much of gaming comes down to being healthy or not and how much is just the culture. The very limited exposure I had to ingress involved a lot of drinking and eating out. It definitely was not even close to neutral calorie wise.

But I didn't get in to Augmented Reality games and it's not my shtick. At the end of the day, I definitely use games as a way to decompress.

For me, personally, when I go out I have a hard time wanting to have anything to do with the computer, be it software dev or games.
The Imposter Syndrome
When I first came to the US and started making some money the allure of credit was pretty strong. One year later, I had about $100k between amex and my bank. I was on even on track to get an amex Centurion, as I had some side business doing $50k a month on my card. The whole access to lots of cash and the positioning of status is a powerful thing. Even though I'm well aware that it's just a trick to get you to spend "oh, a black card sir, please enjoy some cheap perks that cost you more than they're worth, because you're special". It's lame, but I'm not the only one that went for it. A friend was paying over $10K a year just to have additional black cards for other buddies.

On the credit itself while at first I was cautious and against the idea of debt, the moment there's any cashflow issue, bam. I'm rather embarrassed, but without discipline it's easy to get lost. And every time I'd hit the limit, the limit would go higher. WF started off at $3k, and moved to $20k with zero explicit requests from me. If you're living month to month (US health insurance was $1600/mo), a single bump can easily permanently put you on credit. And, WF never approved me for a line if credit or a normal loan, so getting refinanced at a decent rate was more difficult than it should have been. They also wouldn't split the card off so I could just pay down part.

In the end, it was my fault for being easily wooed and lacking self discipline. But they make it easy enough to step into and harder to step out.
I remember hooking my first DVD player (I had just received for my birthday) to the family TV via an RF modulator, because the DVD player only output RCA and the TV only had a coaxial input. I tried playing The Matrix (the only DVD I had at the time), and the video constantly faded to black and back to normal every few seconds. In retrospect, I gather that was some sort of DRM implemented in the RF modulator, but I don't know if it has anything to do with what you're talking about.
They can make it inconvenient to access the analog hole, but they can't make it very inconvenient to play the DRM-free copy once someone has captured it.
If you google "html anchor element" you get an embedded result from w3schools.com

Needs more testing for quality control.
> First it was the Mac

Apple sold a lot of Apple II's before they visited Xerox
> A 20% rate actually says that the default rate is not too bad, overall.

It would for a standard loan, but auto loans are backed by the asset. At 20% it doesn't take long before interest catches up with depreciation and after that it's all profit - given the loan rates a good credit score can get you these days, ~15% above normal rates.
I waited in line for the iPad, and I bought two iPad 3s (because I lost one of them)....I really enjoyed the iPad, and it did feel revolutionary.

But in a twist of timing, shortly after I bought my first iPad, I also got a Macbook Air...and that was both so portable and such a delight to use that the iPad was relegated to novelty and gaming device. I barely use my iPad 3 anymore, except as a time-waster for reading websites...and it's not bad at that (in fact, I'll sometimes stow it away, as it's too tempting to just take it out and read in bed)...it's just that it doesn't fundamentally change how I interact with the world. It's simplicity was beautiful...but it ended up being too simple for me...and I'm pretty relieved that it hasn't taken over the world. There are just too many things in computing and in the general work of creation that require more than multi-touch gestures. I hope the keyboard is here to stay for a long while.
thanks for reminding that colonialism has not ended
I'm writing on my retina mini in bed. Didn't need the upgrade last year, probably won't need this year's upgrade either. Likely will buy a new iPad in 2016.
Sorry, I've been on "open systems" and walled gardens and at this point in my life, I prefer the walled garden.

Whenever I wanted to do something in an "open system", it usually turned into a giant pain-in-the-ass or I got preached/yelled at by everyone. "oh, sorry, you don't have a driver for that yet. Maybe write one yourself and put it on github? Oh sorry, this system doesn't support that format because that format is bad and it kills baby seals and blah blah blah. Oh, don't use _that_ distribution because _that_ Linux distro spies on you and they're in bed with Amazon and they're literally Hitler. Oh, want to run this piece of software? Sorry, that's not available on this "open system", but here's a hacked-together piece of crap that's just as powerful...so I hear..."

I'm old and tired and just want to sit down to something that works. Is that asking too much?
On the one hand this is pretty awesome - just as I expect from the rethinkdb team - but on the other hand I'm wondering that while they are removing serious pain points from web development where are the startups that use these as a competitive advantage? Is RethinkDB understood?
C# isn't "technically" open source, it's just open source. If you want to contribute actual code and have it actually incorporated into the language, then all you need to do is follow the contribution guidelines here: https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/wiki/Contributing
As the saying goes, even Fukuyama isn't a Fukuyamaist anymore. That's to say his views have progressed since the publication.
Enjoyed this comment and the one prior very much, and this note is as much to myself as you, because I know this feeling, and I don't like it.

>What's "not false" about our progress and labor in the middle and upper-middle class?

- Helping people, people we know, people we don't, for money and for free, coworkers, lovers, family. Helping them meet the ordinary demands of their lives, large and small - seeing the smile on their face when you help one of their problems go away. Buying someone a coffee, holding the door open; helping them move, with that spreadsheet. With that printer. Asking them how they're doing. (Personally I love buying people gifts, particularly of food. If enjoying a good meal isn't 'progress', I don't know what is!)

-Discovering and learning! Exploring the known and unknown world through reading, contemplation, and discovery, both on the job and otherwise. (Which is my favorite).

>The bank can decide to repossess your house...

I call this sort of thing "winning the shit lottery". There are a million ways to "win", and both nature and other people are constantly drawing from a bowl that has your name in it. But: realize that some of these negative outcomes (particularly the worst of them) are only possible because of erstwhile success. E.g. you don't get your heart broken unless you've been in love, and you don't get your house taken unless you once owned a house. Whenever you build something, you are entering another ticket in the shit lottery!

Anger at the shit lottery is very dangerous because it's easy to get wrapped up in the anger, the indignity, the feeling of helplessness, the sense of unfairness - and it's a strange feeling because it's at odds with our everyday life, which is usually pretty good because no single individual wins the shit lottery that often (at the very least because it's hard work to enter).

Okay, I was debating whether to write about this last thing, but a couple years back at a meditation retreat the overarching pointlessness of our society hit me like a ton of bricks. What is this we are doing, building things only to consume them in the fires of either vapid consumerism or these new strange, horrible, antiseptic, invisible wars? Do we work for the glory of our religion? Or our nation? Or ourselves? It struck me then that the only possible justification for any of this is if one day mankind grows enough in knowledge and power to spread life beyond earth. (And if that's just not physically possible, then we would do worse than to intentionally revert our society to Quaker-level technology and just...enjoy life.)

Helping people, exploring, fighting injustice, aspiring to discover or create new worlds. I'd say that's an enjoyable life, and real progress. Don't be distracted by the shit lottery, or other people's goals, however short-sighted. Know that you are right, and they are wrong, and maybe one day they'll get it.

HTH, angersock.
I wonder what the sales numbers look like if isolated solely to commercial/education/government purchases. The small business I work for is one of a number in the area that has transitioned to an iPad solution (Square stand) for all our POS needs in the last year, and there are a lot of other business use cases where tablets make far more sense than the alternatives, much more so than for people at home.
Eat24 – The next Dropbox Bros?
I'm surprised and slightly appalled that Eat24 thought it a good
marketing tactic to post ads in downtown San Francisco that say the
service is the #1 way to tell hunger to shut the f*ck up. I walked by
this ad near civic center today while literally handing out food to
homeless/hungry people in need. The placement of your ad is glib and
insensitive and unwittingly represents the stark economic disparity
that is rampant in this city. You're treading very close to 'Dropbox
Bros' territory.

I think they should campaign. I also advise that they consider a much different approach. Rather than a campaign that emphasizes
instant gratification for the tech entitled, they should take the
approach similar to Toms, Warby Parker, and other social entrepreneurs
that donate a part of proceeds or products to communities in need. Any
savvy marketer can tell you that a sure way to engage their target
demographic is to also bake-in a way to make them feel good about
their consumerism. I know, because in most regards, I AM that target
demographic.

#1 Way One to Tell Hunger to Shut Fuck Up? Help to feed hungry people
who cannot afford to feed themselves.
Moz pays you to take a vacation (up to $3,000). http://moz.com/rand/keeping-amazing-people-on-the-team/
AoE is comparable to TAOCP only in legendary status. As a point of reference, AoE is the standard textbook for teaching practical electronics to undergraduate physics students at many universities (e.g. UC Berkeley).
I disagree because at some point in the supply chain you have to draw the line. What about the company that made the processors? What about the memory? what about the one that mined the materials?
Because the resource cost of this incredibly powerful computer is lower than ever. That little sliver of silicon has more MFLOPS than 10 entire Cray-1 supercomputers.
That's exactly how we build our Flux apps. We follow, roughly, the Flux naming patterns -- your "bus" is the dispatcher, "handler" is the store's dispatch handler, everything else is the same -- but we left out the action creator thingies and instead direct actions directly to stores and let them do the data state management.
I absolutely refuse to use this because of the inappropriate name of the tool. It is far too general to be anywhere near what I would consider well-named, and seems mostly just a lazy convenience. cloboot would work just as well, and give a user some chance of associating the name of the tool with the purpose of the tool. (I already have a boot.)
>But you surely have to face the side that goes in the vain of simplistic pop music: it exists because people consume it; enforcing the production of more "refined" content won't make people switch to it.

By itself no. But giving more refined content the same level of promotion as simplistic pop will.

In the sixties teenagers were OK to listen to something as evolved as the Beatles, and the industry went along. Regularly the top-100 was filled with stuff that was not cookie cutter (with the ocassional clunker like the Monkeys and such, but even "fabricated" stuff was of higher quality, like Motown, and even ventured into experimentation).

Now we're back to late-fifties style manufactured idols, because they can be produced, marketed to death, sell merchandise change to fit fashions, and tossed aside when done, with more ease, which increases the profit margins over promoting actual musicians who just care for the craft.

(And I'm not saying that because I'm anti-electronic music or anything. I like from Tom Waits and Lou Reed to Autechre and Aphex Twin, with all kinds of electropop thrown in, from Yello to Plastikman. This rant is about manufactered simplistic BS vs stuff with artistic pretentions -- or even manufactured "joy" vs actual fun of life).
Thanks! Looks interesting. :-)
Saturation and people are satisfied with what they have.

Take my mother-in-law (please) for example. She does _everything_ on her iPad. Banking, email, surfing the web. She literally (yes, literally) hasn't touched her desktop computer in years.

But, she's still only on an iPad 2. She'll run that into the ground before she'll get another. She loves it, but isn't on any "upgrade cycle", the same for many people.

Now, it would be different if iPad sales were down 18%, yet Android or Windows tablet sales were rising to fill in that gap. As it is, _all_ tablet sales are down.
That's precious. What graphics card do you need to render that in real time?

Here's the "Berlin flat" mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AMY7I_eHjk
(Great video, annoying voice-over.)

Another apartment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTt7AGIpV2I

None of these have a refrigerator, for some reason.
IIRC, they (MS) said would steer the language and .NET libs, and not involve a community style effort (because they want to ensure compatibility for their customers), did they change that?
Thank you for much valuable response i also have problem with opening Eclipse, Chrome on Ubuntu, 4GB RAM, Dell Inspiron N5010 ( though a good machine) now planning to have Mac Book heard of its awesome battery timings
Alternating between he and she is very confusing and breaks the flow. Are you discussing two different people, or the same person.
Oh well, we did on Jan 25 ;)
PostgreSQL has a 5-year support window.

I'm curious what negative consequences the author thinks PostgreSQL suffers as a result from that policy.
That was basically the only opamp we were allowed to use in my undergraduate electronics for Physicists classes.
Vulnerability Detection in Minutes-Here's Our Architecture Inspired by Sherlock
My comment was directed at the reply to your post. The fact that life is often transitory, arbitrary, and often downright empty is a defining theme of art & literature, and one of the most consistently studied topics throughout history, so I find nothing insightful about the comment in question. The poster makes it sound like he/she has been the first person to ever notice this.

"Or do you just want to sound like some snarky nit on a message board?"
That was the idea, yes.
Looks like there isn't any. But after a bit of code spelunking I found this: https://github.com/etsy/Hound/blob/master/src/hound/api/api.... (it basically tells the service how to interact with the outside world using mux - which, as a small aside, one of the more popular http routing packages in Go. But I wander...)

How the frontend interacts with the backend per default can be found here: https://github.com/etsy/Hound/blob/master/pub/assets/js/houn...

So it looks like wiring the default backend onto a custom frontend shouldn't be that difficult. Unless you want extra features ofcourse, because then it seems you need to learn a bit of Go ;)
Here, "good" is on the left and "bad" is on the right. The color is orthogonal (it gives the number of operations with latencies in a given bucket). For example, a red square on the right side of the output would have definitely been "bad".
There is, read by Whil Wheaton. Whether the 2nd part is good or bad, is another matter :
http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Cultu...
Prosecutors: Stanford Swimmer Raped Unconscious Woman in Public
Googling 'pacte colonial' and other terms does not get me far outside the blogosphere. No wiki, hardly anything on Google Scholar. The World Bank never seems to have written an opinion about it. Hard to believe, at least in this form.

As a counter example, I Googled for Chinese investments in those countries, and found a lot of information / news. That seems to run against the 'Ownership of natural resources'-paragraph.

A last thought: it's about monetary operations for the workings of a common currency. You don't exactly lose money when depositing it at a central bank. The system they describe in pretty harsh terms (google it) , sounds like a scheme pretty normally practiced between banks and central banks.
Right. I had specifically insurance based parental leave in mind, which is the right way to implement it "by law". I might have posted that in the wrong part of the subthread. I agree with you regarding an employer pays model, which has obvious drawbacks.
I find debt to be interesting, I think having debt, affects your decision making and your risk taking.

Personally i have 0 amount of debt. No car payments, nor house payments. This has allowed me to move jobs if i was not happy, even without something concrete. Also a startup.

I look at my peers, who were in a similar position as me. Some who have taken on home loans etc. they end up with the 'golden cuffs'.

Though you could argue i have no assets to show. Other than a varied work experience, and ability to move into many different roles.
Oakland hackerspace, citizen science lab, mesh group and free school
'boot repl' works just fine too.

Imperative builds are a different mindset - where lein projects feel like a different language which emulates Clojure syntax, boot feels more like a library, and context switching is a favourite HN bugbear. Being able to program a build can be a boon, where otherwise you might've had to rely on the creator of your build tool catering to your special case with an appropriate flag.

In practice, though, I've never created a project with very interesting builds in either tool, I only dabble in Clojure. The test will ultimately be whether the community finds it useful.
Mostly, no Linux support. I really want an open iTunes alternative which runs on Linux or any Unix, and can re-encode my entire music library with the codec/bitrate I want, while retaining music metadata. iTunes is good at that. Opus/Ogg support would be great. Anyone know of something like this?
As a java programmer, who is involved in some large projects that can't be ported, I'm really jealous. And eagerly waiting to see how well the .net core runtime targets linux and mac.

Good, no copy interop with native code would also be awesome. Particularly for machine learning.
I think there's a lot to this. My house has one iPad (an iPad 2) that still works great and gets daily use by everyone in the family. We have about four or five Macs, three of which are working but my laptop is the only one that gets much use. We also have 6 or 7 iPhones, two on a current plan, one the kid uses to play games, one is used as an alarm clock in the bedroom, the rest are gathering dust in a drawer. So even though it's probably our most used device it's less than 10% of our Apple hardware stock.
Interesting. I wonder if this is related to an event on the same theme... there was a report last year about an Air Algerie McDonell Douglas 83 (MD-83) plane being downed - some reports suggest by bomb despite weather allegations - while flying over Mali. The plane was allegedly carrying France's three highest ranking military intelligence officers for Africa from Burkina Faso to Algeria plus 30 other French military. The crash site was hurriedly secured by the French military with 30 French soldiers flown in for purpose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Alg%C3%A9rie_Flight_5017#P...
Yes, I did pre-warm the volumes before using them.

And yes, there are several interesting workloads that I didn't test, including read only and read+write. It's potential material for another blog post.
> is that they ^^claim to^^ have pieces of that torrent.
Been using html5 youtube for a while now, it's still pretty damn slow on my french ISP.
Meanwhile in China: Complaints from those not targeted for a BMW ad
I installed Doom on my high school computers and carefully hid it so the technology department (who were clueless) couldn't find it (by putting it in a renamed subdir in the Windows dir and renaming the .exe and .wad file and handling running via a .bat). Tech class became "Let's go play Doom" class.
We all moved in together. Hackers, anarchists, social justice, mad scientists, poets, dancers, documentary film-makers, etc. in one big space in Oakland!
Privy purse in India
Basefolder: Secure data storage service
Discussed before at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8876429
Job Licenses in Spotlight as Uber Rises
> I completely suck at typing on a mobile phone

So do I. That's why we still use Slack. But one of my co-founders is into sales and constantly on the go, and while travelling, sometimes the signal is flaky on his smart phone. Thats when he really cribs and tries to get us to go back to whatsapp :)

Of course, we won't move until whatsapp improves desktop experience and bridges at least some integrations, but I think it's highly possible for them to do it if they want to.
I would LOVE for C# to get language support for go style channels complete with select and friends.

C# already has the fantastic Task stuff, and while they aren't as cheap as go's go-routines they work very well. Channels would just ice the cake so well. :D~~~

And while I'm at it. I did some testing recently and realized that manually currying in a for loop is faster than using function composition with delegates by about 40% :| It feels like in theory it should be compiled down to code with the same efficiency? This is probably more of a CLR/JIT issue though?