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This is by far their biggest quarter though. If you add all four quarters, you get $440k annually. It's still insane.
Pretty much all the major European powers handed out letters of marque to privateers/mercenaries though and the practice predated buccaneers and the Spanish Main. However, the British probably exploited their usage more than any other nation against the Spanish from the 16th to the 18th century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque
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Of course they would, it's their project after all. So you can contribute but with that in mind, it's about as open as any corporation is going to be when it comes to accepting input from the world at large. At least they got that bit right.
Except that (probably) no one predicts where bullets go for a living whereas, for weather reporters (or, more accurately, meteorologists), it's their job.

I theorize if we started smashing them in the balls with a tackhammer every time they're wrong, you'd see both a mass exodus out of that field and a marked increase in accuracy.
An injunction would be enforced by whatever means the judge deems necessary to ensure compliance, and anyone who violates it would be in contempt of court, which could result in arrest.
Yeah, I think this is really showing how much Apple the organization is extracting from the individual Apple employees.
Symlinks for e.g. jumps would be a fun addition. Or use overlay file systems for even stranger tricks.
Apple shareholders are an enormous cost-center. Perhaps the largest.
Can someone with no electronics background at all pick up this book? If not what would be a good prerequisite book?
Being able to focus and work hard for long periods of time can itself be described as a talent. Not many people possess the ability to do so to the levels of people like John Carmack and Bill Gates.
I don't think Google penalizes speed improvement. They penalize use of JavaScript for html rendering. Google bot probably cannot render all page content with JS, I'm sure in most cases it does not make all requests for static assets, it just makes GET to your url and parses html that is in response. If your initial response to first HTTP GET contains blank <body> that is filled dynamically by JavaScript Google bot will only see this blank body.

I'm pretty sure it would be completely inefficient for Google to measure page load times by making hundreds and hundreds of requsts to create full DOM representation.
Some electronic locks have a terminal on the outside for a 9V battery in case the internal batteries die. For example: http://www.interlock.com.sg/index.php/products/gateman-digit...

No mechanical key and no emergency battery terminal? Better have another door.
> The "continental" idea is that the Press (news) is not supposed to be a business first and foremost, but a kind of service to the republic first, and a business second.

This is dangerous because it is a lie. If the newspaper can't sell itself as a business, it can't buy ink and paper, and it shuts its doors. The business aspect is inescapable unless it's owned and run by the government, which is even more dangerous to press freedom. If you deny the business aspect, you can't analyze it, and you can't see if it biases coverage.

> If a news outlet owner can't make money off of it, he can always not do it. Doing it badly, untruthfully, link-baity etc, is not something that's really OK (e.g. because "they have to make money" -- pimps have to make money too, that's no excuse), but something that is an example of a sick Press.

Except they do have to make money. If you think of that as a sickness, all Press is sick.
I think thats just natural maturity of the product. Novelty has worn off but there's still enough utility to drive steady mainstream demand. 'Meh' is a bit harsh. It's just become a standard piece of your house like a TV or coffee maker that you now assume is probably going to be present. Not a bad place to be for Apple for a five year old product.
The line is not arbitrary; it's nuanced. We're discussing replacing everyday objects with Internet Things that are designed as closed appliances, often monetizing the passive data that you, merely by living, create.

Building the Internet of Things is different from what many of us do which is creating technological toys, digital tools, automated business processes, knowledge bases, communications tools, and digital publications. To offset the enormous costs of these types of works, people pioneered monetization of data we presumed to be private, in many cases. We've made this bed and now, with Internet of Things, we literally will lie in it.
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> and perhaps they're not properly weighting / aware of other important SEO signals that GOOG penalizes when using Javascript, but I'm sure they are. Happy to answer more on that directly via my profile or this thread.

I for one would very much like to see this discussed in this thread.

I've avoided SEO all my life (not determinate enough for my brain to handle) but I have one client (car hire) for whom SEO is their lifeblood, and I need to get over my discomfort and understand more.
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>> Any communist/marxist country (basically any country with the word "Democratic" in its name)

> Democratic is much older then marxism. Dont spread lies.

That isn't what the quote you responded to was saying. It means "If the country has the exact string 'Democratic' in its name, it was/is communist/Marxist". For example, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

> These dictatorships are then named 'state capitalist' to avoid self reflection on the marxist parts.

This is dishonest, because it means Marxism can never fail: If it fails, it's "state capitalist" (a nonsense category), and was never Marxist to begin with! It's just a lie to keep Marxism from ever looking bad.
Have a look for resources on the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method for electromagnetic simulation. Also in use are the finite element method (FEM) or the method of moments (MOM). Wikipedia has a decent-ish rundown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_electromagnetics.

The Art of Electronics will not help you for simulation, it's a very good practical manual for analogue electronics design. It'll help you understand how a circuit works, but electrical engineers rarely need to solve Maxwell's equations when designing a circuit. It's not a bad idea to read through it however, I can't see many situations where you'd immediately dive into EM simulation without understanding how the circuit works first.
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You can already get a long way towards channels by using reactive extensions (E.G. http://pastebin.com/h1xteunX)

Some syntactic sugar a la await could be nice though.
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Yes, that's basically the purpose of this book. Though amazingly experts will also learn many things and find it useful too.

I took the Physics 123 class at Harvard, from which this book developed from the original course notes, and uses this as the textbook (the class is still taught by Horowitz who has encyclopediac knowledge of electronics and Hayes who replaced Hill when he left Harvard. These guys also wrote the accompanying lab manual which I also highly recommend). You had all sorts of non-scientific people in the class.

To give some context, one semester is split into two halves. The first half covers analog electronics, and ends with a lab where the whole class designed and built a system to take analog audio signal, pulse-width modulate it to an IR transmitter, broadcast across the room to another receiver circuit that demodulates, amplifies, and plays it. Designed by students that originally never knew what a resistor or transistor was.

Second half is all digital, starts with glue logic and ends with the building of a breadboard computer (68008, the 8-bit external bus flavor of 68008). We'd write assembly programs into an EEPROM and program it to do all kinds of things. Again, students that had no idea what a NAND gate was nor ever wrote a line of code.
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If even 50% of this makes it into C# it's going to be a pretty amazing language.

Native code interfaces were already reasonably fast, allowing more no copy semantics and array slice behaviour is going to do wonders for native library performance.
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He also talked on TED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBbmNAZWq-E
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There are a bunch of extensions that could have forced all video to html5 for you.

ClickToPlugin is great IMO and it's kept me from switching away from safari for the longest time.
Do you know what it's like to almost never feel fully rested and not being able to do anything about it? My problem is that I just won't fall asleep within a reasonable amount of time on some days. I am willing to try anything because the ROI would be huge.

One thing that has made a noticeable difference has been exercise though.
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Ah I see what you mean.

> This is dishonest ...

I made exactly the same argument as you.
68 million devices last year is meh? It's not a big deal because everyone in the world doesn't want one? A decade ago Apple was only selling 4m-5m Macs a year. Now hundreds of millions buy Apple "computers" creating a massive ecosystem. When they only sell 5 million watches in the next 12 months, I hope we don't waste too much time with the meh's.
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Interest rates should trend to 0 (and they have). There's not much, if any, need for rent seekers. That rates have been able to be sustained so far is more of a historical accident, propped up by intentional exploitation of the productive classes.
I'd guess its some form of transient-key cryptography. When you scan the QR code, the smartphone app tells the WA servers to 'allow' the web browser to send/receive messages as itself.

Thinking a bit more it could be that the messages are routed through the phone itself, and so it requires the app to be running and connected.
Some inaccuracies in the timeline. Solaris 2 (the sysv one; the BSD SunOS 4 was after-the-fact renamed to Solaris 1) didn't ship until 1993, not the 80s. Also he says that gcc's support for 68k was important but Solaris never ran on that platform -- Sun made the switch from 68k->SPARC a few years before the BSD->sysv change.

The wider point is correct, but it isn't limited to just Sun. The decision for many UNIX vendors to charge extra for the C compiler was a big reason that gcc caught needed momentum. If that hadn't happened the whole free *nix history might have been very different.
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> I think you should seek medical attention

No personal attacks on Hacker News, please.
Yes, clearly a factor in the tablet sales slowdown is:

Frequent computer users do not feel comfortable replacing their laptops with tablets. They bring their laptops with them. And then they say, "Do I really want to tote around a tablet as well?" The answer is no, their tablets languish at home, and they don't upgrade.

Very casual computer users may largely or entirely replace their computers with tablets... but they're very casual users. They don't want to be on an upgrade treadmill, and their needs are modest. An old tablet works fine.
You can't bounds check a pointer begotten from &arr[i]. It simply doesn't carry enough information. Moreover, there might be existing C programs that rely on out of bounds access (where they know that the out of bounds access falls into safe memory). So there is no way to implement a C virtual machine with bounds-checking semantics that is fully compatible with all existing C code.
Exactly

Whoever wanted an iPad pretty much got one already.
That void is filled.

It's not selling as much as in the beginning, but of course, there are apps being bought, people get the new model (or have their iPad die on them - yep, saw it happen)
Not super easy, but should be doable using Web Audio API and its AnalyzerNode.
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Does anyone know? If I smash the front off one of these (the public facing part), can I wire it up to open the lock?
Close, it's 60 events per hour. Ie. Once every minute an event is sent in saying "they're here now!". It's also sending a bunch of data about your quality of service and so on. This serves two purposes -- one is that in case you suddenly disconnect, at least it knows within one minute of where you left off, and two, it allows for monitoring the overall health of Netflix by taking the average quality of service and making sure it isn't dropping rapidly.
Any plans to make a none wifi version (or a way to turn that off and connect via RJ45)? Where is the wifi antenna in relation to the head?

I try to avoid sleeping to close to my phone as well as other wifi/bluetooth enabled devices as it does appear to have an affect on my sleep quality.
"According to the Secret Service, an unnamed employee of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) claimed responsibility for crashing a remote-controlled quadrocopter into a tree on the grounds of the White House."

"He claimed to have been drinking at an apartment near the White House when he decided early Monday morning to fly a friend’s new DJI Phantom drone."

Imho, lock him up. He worked for an intelligence agency (NGA) in aerospace (satellite imagery). He knew the rules. Being drunk is no excuse. If I, or any other normal person, had done this we would be under arrest, likely facing years behind bars.
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Besides I think iPad was something that Jobs envisioned when he was alive. He wanted, seriously wanted, to disrupt the education space with it. That's an important reason why he did not want porn to be easily available on the device [1] and why they had a large book-sized screen and not a mini to start with [2]. I think Jobs had a razor sharp focus back then.

After his demise, from what it seems, Tim Cook never felt for the iPad the same way as Jobs did. Tim is far more profit-centered than Jobs, and Apple's performance numbers lately speak for it. Unlike Steve, Tim Cook doesn't seem like a visionary either. He doesn't appear to have that urge of bringing change into the world.

He isn't of the type who has ability to bring that element of movement into his products. I could be wrong but it seems so. For example, he is unable to see the difference between the idea of revolutionizing education space and the idea of letting out a fashion accessory that competes well with swiss watches!

I mean you get the point, right?

[1] http://www.imore.com/steve-jobs-ipad-freedom-porn

[2] http://allthingsd.com/20120705/the-7-inch-ipads-biggest-crit...
I really hope they implement this. It would make IO so much more efficient if you could pin a big chunk of memory and allocate buffers from it.
And yet, people buy SSDs even though they could get more memory in a HDD. Because they value speed over capacity.

"The Innovator's Dilemma" traces back the disk drive industry, and in each generation, people choose smaller memory capacity, for the sake of a smaller package (there used to be 8 inch drives, for example). The theoretical idea is that once users' need for performance is satisfied (it's "good enough"), they turn their attention to other issues - such as price, convenience/ease-of-use, customization etc.

It has happened with desktops: that's what caused the brief "netbook" popularity, and what made smartphones successful. Desktops had overshot what was needed for many tasks (browsing, email); but the smaller devices were just becoming powerful enough to manage. So although desktops were more powerful, that extra power didn't matter to many users.

The underlying idea is twofold: (1) all technologies improve over time, as engineers find better ways to do things (Moore's law is just one example); (2) what users demand also increases over time, but at a slower rate

Therefore, if you start with new approach that really struggles with many tasks, eventually it will become powerful enough for what users need; during the same period, the old technology started off powerful enough, and became even more powerful - but users didn't care, because it was more than they needed (or, at least, they didn't want it as much as they wanted other qualities, like convenience etc).
I was just discussing this with someone the other night. I got the first iPad and for the first 2 years, I was a junkie for new apps. Little pieces of software that specialize in 1 thing? GREAT!

Nowdays though, even with the newest iPad, I barely use it for anything beyond browsing, video, and books. I know they keep pushing it to be a tool, but when I want to do real work, I go to my computer.
Whilst I admire the potential and bravado, I despair at the naivety and the fall into typical abscure art-lang with overtones of super-wow matrix-talk. You can be abstract, emotive and intangible whilst still seeing a duck http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_test and adding value without resorting to exclusive language.
To this day, I still think of Joyent's CTO as Bryan "Girl Kisser" Cantrill.
The part with the kids was the best.
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I love open systems when I need an open system. I was a linux fanboy for a very long time but the frustration and configurability simply does not help me in my life as a consumer. I just need a phone that works, apps that don't suck, and a camera to capture my life. Apple is dominant in that category.

I couldn't imagine the same things I get out of the walled garden Apple provides as helping me in my career as web engineer. On a gnu/linux server I love being able to have absolute control to change everything as well as leverage the hard work others have contributed to the ecosystem. I just prefer to ssh to that server via my macbook.
See the Bloomberg article linked elsewhere in the comments.

In short: 0) the spinout will also run some (non-important) businness and so won't be a pure holding company 1) the spinout is less likely to sell the Alibaba shares and squander out the proceeds, 2) eventually Alibaba itself could buy out the spinout, and then it would have no need to sell its own shares.

Surely shareholders would still have to pay capital gain taxes when the spinned-out company gets acquired at a premium, but presumably at a rate better than the 40% Yahoo would have to pay.
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Here is a list of potential targets that we investigated (they all call
gethostbyname, one way or another), but to the best of our knowledge,
the buffer overflow cannot be triggered in any of them:

apache, cups, dovecot, gnupg, isc-dhcp, lighttpd, mariadb/mysql,
nfs-utils, nginx, nodejs, openldap, openssh, postfix, proftpd,
pure-ftpd, rsyslog, samba, sendmail, sysklogd, syslog-ng, tcp_wrappers,
vsftpd, xinetd.

See "Re: Qualys Security Advisory CVE-2015-0235 - GHOST: glibc gethostbyname buffer overflow" <http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/283>.
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Wait - so youtube is behind the porn industry by only 4.5 years?

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/flash_takes_a_blow_as...
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This leaves the BBC as one of the few major sites still dependent on flash for desktop users. Ironic considering you'd expect it to be at the forefront of video delivery technology. I use IE's Developer Tools to request the site as an iPad, a much better experience.
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"Meh!"? Really?

Apple has a product portfolio. I agree iPhones are doing much better right now in terms of growth, but I have no doubt that the completeness of their portfolio (from macs to ipads to iphones) is what keeps sales for all product categories going just a bit more.

I bought an ipad first, and then bought a macbook. The next phone I buy might be an iPhone - which I never would have, if I had not bought the iPad.

And amongst tablets, I don't understand which other tablet is better than an iPad.

For a category defining product that still sells millions of units per year, I think calling it "Meh" is just passing an opinion for journalism.
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It's hard for me to say without more details about your specific problem. srclib does provide a Data field where information like method signatures is typically emitted, so you can compare the signature for the C# method with that of the Java one, but I'm not sure if that includes the other attributes you need to know for your problem.

If there's a lot of custom logic, then it might be better to write an ad hoc tool that checks the AST of the Java against the AST of the C#. srclib and I think also Kythe are designed for building tools that want to be language-agnostic, rather than digging into specific language behavior.
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I think most people don't have the need to push their iPad particularly hard and so hardware as old as the iPad 2 is probably good enough.

Myself, I upgraded from 'The New Ipad' (whatever number that one was) to the latest iPad Air 2 for the massive performance boost. I'm a software developer and use my iPad for the Omni tools (OmniPlan, OmniFocus, OmniGraffle) and also for Keynote. My older iPad was having trouble switching apps because of its limited RAM.

BTW, if you're thinking about getting the Omni tools be prepared to spend some money. They work best when you have them on all three devices - laptop/desktop, iPad, and iPhone. Each has a different UI devoted to that platform and somewhat different functionality.

Sometimes when I fly I don't even break out my laptop. I instead do planning on my iPad using my logitech bluetooth keyboard.
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Also, inaccurate. Consider just this paragraph:

> Sun customers responded by using alternatives, and the closest thing to a working freely downloadable compiler was an obscure project called "gcc" from the guy who did one of the three main emacs variants (gosmacs from the maintainer of java, xemacs from the maintainer of netscape, and gnu emacs).

The unbundling occurred in 1990. Gcc was hardly obscure. In this USENIX schedule from 1989 ( http://www.informatica.co.cr/unix/research/1989/0612.htm ) you see Stallman gave a tutorial on "Introduction to the Internals of the Gnu C Compiler". It's unlikely they would consider that for obscure software.

Lucid forked emacs, and released lemacs in 1992. (See http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/21.5/html/internals_3.ht... .) "The initial authors of Lucid Emacs were Matthieu Devin, Harlan Sexton, and Eric Benson, and the work was later taken over by Jamie Zawinski, who became "Mr. Lucid Emacs" for many releases."

Only later was it renamed xemacs. Zawinski writes: "When Lucid went out of business in 1994, and I came to Netscape, I passed the torch for the maintenance of Lucid Emacs to Chuck Thompson (at NCSA) and Ben Wing (at Sun), who renamed it from ``Lucid Emacs'' to ``XEmacs.''" (http://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html ).

Hence, 1) it's not true that gcc was effectively obscure in 1990, 2) there was neither lemacs nor xemacs in 1990, only GNU emacs and Gosling emacs, and 3) xemacs wasn't directly from one of the Netscape developers.