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Hi! I usually post in the freelancer's thread but thought to try here as this one comes with a request. My name is Jim and I'm an experienced frontend dev. I'm comfortable with BackboneJS, Coffeescript and write vanilla most of the time. I've built (personal) projects with AngularJS for the last 6 months but I still don't feel as proficient in it as I am with say BackboneJS (which took me 2). ie. with angular, I'm still learning all the "gothchas" (note: there are many), arguing with app/folder/file structure and lost in conflicting best practices.

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IoT devices running Windows 10. So I guess my coffee machine will also have the blue screen of death (BSOD) now.

Jokes aside, strategic move by Microsoft. The new CEO has some interesting stuff in mind indeed. Can't wait for the build conference where they open the HoloLens dev tools.
Don't you need to overload two different operators to implement these named operators though?
Uh? The story is not the same, but the whole universe and political system are exactly the ones of the book, they just basically removed the mech-armors stuff.
The Artificial Womb Is Born
Whoops, zero dependence on spatial variables was thinking.
Could somebody explain how this is possible, given RAM and CPU constraints? Like, does W10 actually run with that small of a footprint it works on a Raspberry Pi 2?
> From a different perspective: As someone who until recently lived in Washington, Microsoft's management stack hasn't changed. It is still a very Sales-driven organization, with very little leeway given to Engineering to drive things that are useful, interesting, or innovative.

You say you lived in Washington, are you implying you were a Microsoft employee? Seems from everyone I'm hearing from that they've been making major structure changes for a while now and a lot of the old management has been shuffled or removed (especially with those huge rounds of layoffs) so I'm curious as to why I'm hearing something different from what you're saying.
That important?

I have keyboard navigation planned already, but in low priority. I'll move it up.
What's wrong with a single-page app? Wiki has always been a living document, best that the implementation formalize and facilitate a nature. If you really miss the classic format or need time to adapt, nothing stops you from using a Federated Wiki client that generates a page from the JSON.
no argument is being made, stop being po-faced.

I agree with his sentiments and wish the internet were otherwise. I don't care how thoroughly brow beaten everyone is about this, I want it recorded that this is dumb and unnecessary.
This looks super gimicky
Could these things automatically detect heart attacks, and alert emergency services? Obviously a human in the loop, before it calls emergency services.
I was waiting for a long time for something like that. Now I will be able to make a very cheap parents' pc
I had the same problem, so I found a small patch[1] and recompiled several binaries, including one for OSX [2]

edit: a pull request has now been submitted and accepted [3]

[1] https://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qtbase/commit/70e4428b6f1c6a4bad...
[2] https://github.com/eugene1g/phantomjs/releases
[3] https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/pull/12934
This is true. Especially evident if a day, week, or a year passes.
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> Meta: Why all the anti-MS cynicism on the threads for this topic? Isn't it kind of old now?

I feel bad when I have the "anti-MS" feeling. I truly do; I feel like I'm being over-simplistic, I feel that I'm being prejudiced... Well, you get the point. However, you can't really say this is "kind of old". "Embrace, extend and extinguish" practices are recent, even considering the short "horizons" in IT. And, after the "Mobile-first, cloud-first" vision [1], you can't really blame people for finding these MS initiatives a lot like "hangin' with the cool kids" or "sounding hip".

[1] http://news.microsoft.com/2014/03/27/satya-nadella-mobile-fi...
It reminds me Ma Boyong's novel Silent City, all computers does not have local storage, the network is fast enough to support all users.
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Because then it wouldn't be React. React tries to solve the conceptual spaghetti created by heavily evented systems, by putting everything into one stream of notifications so that you can immediately know where things are being changed and by what. It prefers synchronous over asynchronous for this reason also.
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Why aren't exceptions used here?

Is this because the behavior is sort of "exceptional" but not so exceptional that the (supposedly inefficient) exception-mechanism is warranted?

In that case, I think the compiler should handle this case still. Using profiling, it could determine which exceptions are really exceptions and which ones are not.
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I personally want a trimmed down version of .NET (perhaps the new Core CLR which is just 10 MB) so I can run F#.

Mono is too heavy and have millions other dependencies I dont want to grab.

Running a modern & practical functional language on RB Pi will be extremely joyful for me.
I can't see this working, hence windows is not exactly a lean OS. Coinincidently I'm stuck in an update/reboot cycle at the moment after a fresh install. Also i need to extend my partion of 60GB after just installing the OS (8.1) to get Visual Studio installed (which will also take at least 10GB).

I like the new direction of MS, but i wonder if it's possible to succeed with so much old baggage to carry...
> We use Grails, Groovy,

> be prepared to be left hanging

If you work on these technologies, the future's a bit iffy for now whoever you work for. I'm guessing though, based on Graeme Rocher's comments a week ago [1], that he'll roll Groovy into Grails to make a single project, and get funding for both as a rump team under one project management, himself.

[1] http://jaxenter.com/grails-future-113958.html
I could be wrong, but doesn't the raspberry pi require a humongous blob of unmodifiable binaries to run even linux? From what I understood, a number of hardware components are have closed source drivers and such, that made many dislike the entire platform
Terrible idea, terrible implementation, doesn't solve any actual problems...
Linux also. From the consumer market, only OS X/iOS demands over-priced hardware to run.
For the uninitiated: if you land a job at this company, you're going to be working with a few of the smartest people in the security/cryptology world, and OP is a legend in that community.
Just disable Google Now. Problem solved.
Conceptually, it's just like Windows 8 can run both on a desktop as well as a Lumia phone. I'm not sure whether they actually share parts of the codebase (like the linux kernel does), or it's just some common UI elements like tiles + shared brand name on top of wildly different kernels.
Katja, please stop equivocating between narrow AI, AGI, and machine learning. While there is overlap between the latter two, there's very little between the former and the latter pair. You're writing for a technical audience, so it would be more helpful to clear the waters by speaking about the precise classes of algorithms in consideration than to elide qualitative distinctions for the sake of an easier narrative.
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I wonder how much it costs to do one of these jobs.

I grew up with the Tandy Color Computer 3, which was a fantastic machine, but it is to this day still hampered somewhat in development by the fact that the "GIME" chip that serves as the main video/sound/everything controller was a shamefully ill-documented custom job which to this day still hasn't been fully unraveled.

Ever since the first one of these popped up on HN, I've been curious about whether that might at least help get a bit further in deconstructing the thing.
SEEKING WORK - London, UK. Remote within UK/EU.

Experienced frontend developer looking to work on larger angularJS projects or porting BackboneJS projects to Angular. Bonus points if your projects are also using React.

Resume/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QvETmBu-zsm2888Dra7933tL...

contact: jim@heightdigital.co.uk
The latest one is hardly worse than the others. Sure, it's bad if you use instagram, but I have zero interest in sharing photos of my lunch with crappy filters on it, and IIRC that's the key change this time. Meanwhile, google add more and more anti-privacy provisions to their terms all the time and don't get anywhere near this amount of coverage.

I'm definitely critical of facebook and their privacy record, but most of the linked post is about their app, which I never use and of people I'm close to, I don't know anyone who does exactly due to those excessive permission requests. The tracking with like buttons is worse, but easy enough to mitigate with any number of addons. Facebook may be dodgy, but they are no worse than google, apple or microsoft in that respect.

There isn't anything as good as facebook for communicating with friends, and for that reason, trying to stop people using it will never work, no matter the privacy implications. Treat facebook as something dangerous, be careful what you share, and contain it appropriately with addons, etc., but it's unfortunately necessary. What are the alternatives? Google plus is a ghost town and run by the one company worse than facebook on privacy, and disaspora is a joke. I do wish there was a good alternative, but there won't be, as facebook is as much a platform as a site these days.
Latest claims by Tim Cook suggest that it should basically last throughout the day, and you would need to charge it over night every day, unless you don't use all of its features, in which case it could last up to 3-5 days.
The RP2 is a pretty decent machine compared to the historical PCs that Windows was designed for.
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You can also use vlc to record your desktop. That way you can also control the output video codec and pass additional parameters to control the quality/size. Also, you can stream your desktop live to a streaming server (like rtmp).
The canonical form of a wiki page should be a page; it really is a document and so should be in a document format (in contrast, for something like a bank statement the data is primary (in some sort of structured format with e.g. numeric fields) and the page is merely a representation of it).
I am usually not the one to blow the free software horn (being a staunch believer of non-copyleft licenses such as the Apache License) and the geek in me likes this announcement. I also don't hold a grudge against Windows, I think it is a fine system for most people.

However, Windows seems very much contrary to the goal of the Raspberry Pi: providing a device for children to tinker with and educate themselves. Although .NET is slowly opening up, Windows is closed as ever. So, it does not actually let you check out how stuff works: looking up that function in the Python standard library, seeing how it calls libc, and then diving into libc to see how it is actually implemented.

It's in Microsoft interest to keep kids in their ecosystem, which has been pretty much unproblematic in the nineties and before the smart phone revolution. As the RPi becomes more popular in education, it would be bad for them when kids see that there is something else that not only works well, but also allows them to do more.

My fear is that teachers will now choose for Windows on the RPi, since that is what they know. And we are back to where we started: a fundamentally unhackable system.

Now, if Microsoft would open up the core of Windows. I would be impressed. Now? Not so.
And it displays that awful behaviour of pages that get new content after they are loaded...
Oh, thanks a lot, didn't know archive.org had a system in place to download archived mirrors. 40 well used Megabytes.
It's not out yet, but I believe that it is not monitoring your heart rate continuously, because it would require the IR leds on the back to be on at all times, which would drain the battery.
This kind of thing is, frankly, yet another reason why I employ an adblocker.
So what is the battery life? Rumours stated 3-4 hours.
If the Android watches are anything to go by, absolutely not. The heart rate monitor on my Moto360 is often out by 50% or more.
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Are we posting advertisements on HN nowadays? ;) This page has been around since at least December. There's also no new information that was not extensively discussed after the Apple keynote.

https://web.archive.org/web/20141202030200/http://www.apple....

Or did I miss something?
Thanks for the jsfiddle. I think I understand what you mean. Cross-referencing this with how the new Inkscape saves files actually makes sense. By using width/height and viewBox you can define how user/px units are converted to physical units.

When I setup up Inkscape to use mm it does set with/height in mm and then the viewBox to the same dimensions (without units). This way it is implying the user/px units (e.g. all unitless dimensions in the file) are basically mm.

Previous versions of Inkscape would always safe in user/px units with an implied conversion of 90dpi, meaning a scaling factor of (25.4/90) to go from values in the file to mm. CorelDraw always uses 96dpi, Illustrator always 72dpi. I am not saying this makes sense. It's just how different authoring apps do it. If you want to use the file in a CNC machine you have to make sense of what the app meant when it uses unitless dimensions. When a file was edited with two different apps it very often is not possible to make a smart guess by some basic heuristics.

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The answer does not really give people much reason to feel certain, on the other hand. How many OEMs will be able to continue to order 50k lots of A10's for very long? For that answer to give confidence, you will need to find an OEM you have reason to trust will be able to maintain that kind of volume.
"Windows seems very much contrary to the goal of the Raspberry Pi: providing a device for children to tinker with and educate themselves"

"Windows is closed as ever"

Are these kids hacking on the Linux kernel or something? Of course not. They will be using some app/language running on the OS. They don't need access to the OS source to do that. Seems to me Windows is a perfectly open enough OS to act as a platform for tinkering and learning about computers.
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> Meta: Why all the anti-MS cynicism on the threads for this topic? Isn't it kind of old now?

No, they're still evil monkey corporation. Their marketing has improved and so has the quality of some of their products; but do not fall for it, copulation will ensue. They have nothing in common with "open" or "free".
They do with Cyanogen what they did with Xenix:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix
No, they could equally well be two different overloads of a single operator.
Does .Net micro framework fit the bill?

http://www.netmf.com/
It is also possible to design, and implement on the same trinary hardware, balanced trinary representation with base phi (sqrt(5)+1)/2, i.e. fibonacci encoding, which has some additional advantages.
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While most people don't hack kernel code themselves, there is still value in promoting open source operating systems. A future in which Windows becomes popular on mobile/embedded devices is likely a future with more binary blobs, more OS-locked hardware, and fewer opportunities for those people who do want to hack on kernel code.
I would love to here the inside story here.

Based on my experience with Win7 and Win8, I expect that Win10 would have crawled (or not at all worked) with the slower CPU and smaller memory.

My guess would be that the Raspberry Pi 2 is, in fact, a Microsoft initiative rather than an RPi Foundation initiative - and that Microsoft have actually contributed significant funds to make this possible. Either way, that is good for the community - I don't have a problem with Microsoft financing my stuff as long as it does not come with any strings attached (which, I trust the RPi foundation to have insisted on).

Pure speculation, of course - but I'm sure we'll hear a lot more about this deal.
I'm trying to get a sense if the author is serious, or whether this is part of his "Sci Fi Thriller" novel he's working on. We may as well title this "How the military made technology X" since one can trace funding or university research programs for pretty much every area to some kind of government grants.

It's amazing how the government can plan 20 years out to make the world's most popular web service, just so they can tap the information on it, but they can't plan or predict well enough to a) recognize the fall of the USSR b) stop the 9/11 attacks c) prevent the large scale clusterfuck going on in the world right now.
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Probably need some kind of sampling method, rather than continious.
I have a friend that is a historian. He was visiting a monastery in Macau to view some very old texts brought by the first Portuguese priests. They were under the care of a very old priest who spoke Cantonese and some Portuguese. My friend spoke Portuguese but they were not getting very far so he tried Latin. They conversed in Latin fluently for the rest of his time there.