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I really wish to see a great third mobile OS with a marketshare in the two digits.
I appreciate the spirit behind FFOS, so I would like to see it take that place. I am not sure of how they want to achieve that though.
However, AFAIK, FFOS does not really bring anything new to the table, so I have trouble seeing how it could make an impact in the first-world.
I like Common Sense Media. I didn't think I would like any media monitor for parents, but I think this one provides enough depth of information to put decisions into parents' hands. They rate and discuss several factors including not only sex and violence, but also consumerism, "is it any good," and "will kids want it." On the other hand, they also offer simple summaries. A parent who has specific criteria can generally just get a list of current products that meet those criteria.
Before I went into medicine, I too might have missed the point I was making, which is that eating less almost certainly reverses the vast, vast majority of type 2 diabetes. I mean, within a day.

Americans eat so much they think overeating is normal. Bariatric patients (morbidly obese people getting their stomach essentially amputated, see Roux-en-Y) are generally told to fast for 24 hours prior to surgery. Their glucose levels before surgery are often normal, for the first time in decades.

The association between food intake and obesity is far, far stronger than cigarettes and lung cancer, even stronger than Hep B and hepatocellular carcinoma.

Asserting that eating less (and I do mean significantly less) needs to be studied more is like saying we should hold off on parachute use until more studies are done.
Might want to change that one discount code not to be "byfag25."
It is amazing once you start working with video how much space you can use with RAW formats and all the files you create. A Red EPIC in HDRx at 8:1 at 5K is almost 6GB/minute.
What's the purpose of having pluggable-storage-engines? From what I can see, InnoDB is the only engine to support basic features like transactions, foreign-keys, MVCC, etc. I'm sure there are reasons to use the other storage-engines, like MyISAM for archiving lots of data, but why not just use a different database for this? Is there a performance price for having this flexibility?
btw now that I know what most of the recurring users are looking for (inspiration for their marketing campaigns), now it's when I'm starting to introduce some features (paid plans for promo of products related, reach an audience, etc.) If it can give some ideas.
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So use a component adapter, like polymer... That said, I wouldn't mind something closer to XAML or Flash/Flex that was an open specification, with a cleaner language implementation (though, I like JS)...

The trouble is actually getting a cross-platform rendering engine working everywhere that HTML/HTTP already works... So, you go build it, get it working at LEAST on Windows, OSX, Linux, Android and iOS... then we'll see how adoption goes. More likely you'll see React* bindings take off with generators to whatever platform is targetted, with JS as the language in use.
Not really my area, but I'd guess the smallest viruses are a lot smaller. They don't have to function at all, just deliver a packet of genetic material to a target. So they don't have to be very large, just that genetic material plus stuff to protect it and to get into the target and attack.
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As if VZW didn't have access to cheap money. RBABs, anyone?
Obviously it won't work for everyone.

For example that comfort eater in the article: This wouldn't work on her, no matter that she dreams of having it.

But it will work on some people, and for those people it will help.
"Focus is a matter of deciding what things you’re not going to do." — John Carmack
More than the simple fact of whether the child has access to 'adult' material or not, what's important is how it's presented to them. Whether they see a film with friends who got a copy from another friend, or whether their parents actually show it to them makes a big difference in how they analyze what they see. So not putting your child in a bubble and not wanting to show them disturbing media aren't mutually exclusive at all.
This is a great response and I wish more scientists held publications accountable to their reporting. MIT Tech Review, Popular Science and Mechanics are read by a lot of people -- both literate in the your discipline and not, it's worthwhile to point the more nuanced view than what a 1000 word magazine article can point out. I've personally found reporting by ArsTechnica on recent security issues a good model. Wired occasionally comes through but has similar problems like this. Nautilus has its own biases but in general is good. I don't think bad reporting in these cases is necessarily out of malice but the lack of background on reporter's side on your field. And, perhaps sheer laziness. Remember when you procrastinated on writing that long overdue paper, I'd imagine reporters aren't immune to that too ;)

Convolutional Neural Nets are getting to a hype-level that I find pretty scary. We don't want another AI winter because people expect way too much too early without understanding the domain, only to lead to receeded interest in the field. Honest evaluation and crediting is invaluable to ensuring that.

Also --> What if there were a "rapgenius" for paper/article reviews where these comments from trusted sources can be curated and commented on? Not sure about viability, etc.. but could be interesting.
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I'm also here to give any more info about Tallie or the UI engineering challenges we are facing :)
You might be interested in not showing your kids the lift scene where he stomps a guys's head, or when he shoots another point blank with a shotgun.

My comment was aimed at highlighting that the rating is not dumb BS, some movies contains really disturbing scenes.
Skin color is not the only factor of admissions, so your reduction of the situation to being one is not appropriate. It is a success in that people who might have previously been unable to attend college are admitted to college, and given scholarships for needy/minority students. We need not worry about the fate of middle class white people like me.
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You do know that maybe 20, 10, or even less than 1% of the people who Buffer'd it actually visited your site and downloaded the app, right? Most people use their suggestions on auto-pilot.

I would be excited if you saw people spontaneously praising it on Twitter, not Buffering it. When i search on Twitter, I only see the automated Buffers, not tweets like "Just found out this app.. love it!" or "Has anyone else used this app?".
I tend to agree. The biggest problem I have is that movie ratings for all practical purposes carry the force of law even here in the US, despite the lack of anything resembling valid evidence of harm that kids under 16 or 17 might undergo by exposure to a movie. The Germans in particular are ridiculously overprotective in this sense. Um, guys, I'm pretty sure Hitler never saw Aliens. Lighten up already.

The second, more serious criticism I have is that the moral panic associated with exposure to children to onscreen violence, sex, and drugs can only diminish the real outrage that we ought to feel when kids in war-torn countries, inner-city slums, and refugee zones actually experience real-life violence and horror beyond anything Hollywood can conjure, and on a daily basis. If most of those kids don't grow up to be serial killers, I somehow doubt a movie is going to do it.
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This is not a new phenomenon. this is a adult who forgot how kids behaved.
9/11 was an inside job. So, the war in Afghanistan was unnecessary for the USA. The real terrorists are Bush administration who killed 9/11 victims and US soldiers who killed Afghan children.
Fix your bugs, etc etc but save all of these mentions to a Twitter list or favorite. Basically capture the interest so you can reach out to them when the app is closer to product market fit.

This is a good problem to have and there's not much you have to do to 'fix' it, just capture interest, improve product, and tell interested parties.
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"Germany" "We tend to be more prudish when it comes to violence but are a lot more relaxed when it comes to nudity or sexuality."

Other way around in North America.
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Reducing the graphic sexual content or violent content that children see is normal, rational, position that is widely held by individuals and society.

... without a single shred of reproducible evidence behind it.
People are sharing it independently. I haven't added my url to any of my own tweets.

I'm pretty sure Buffer suggested stories and LinkedIn Pulse have been a some part in the growth. It's largely being shared within a niche on Twitter. It's a very simple app at moment. I don't have much for in-app analytics.
> Apple has always been awful for the open web.

Apple played a massive part in the success of the mobile web and responsive design. The release of Mobile Safari and WebKit was a watershed moment. Before that point, the mobile web largely consisted of separate, pretty awful sites on WML. Afterwards, most mobile platforms had a default web browser based on WebKit, and the mobile web transformed as a result.

I'm not saying Apple are perfect, but saying that they've "always been awful for the open web" is grossly overstating things.
I love how the kids think action movie cliches date back to 1986. Every sang froid action hero is copying Clint Eastwood from the 60s who was copying Toshiro Mifune from the 50s who was copying Humphrey Bogart from the 40s. You can pretty much follow the trail back to Gilgamesh.
You're black -- and you got into MIT. You had the academic qualifications. Is there something you're debating that I missed or are we agreeing?

I know of students with better grades and SAT results that were not admitted to MIT. I know of students with worse grades than me that were admitted to MIT. MIT considers many factors. Based on my experience there, that is a good thing, YMMV.
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Great question, here's a little demo Brad and Olof did at a recent Meteor Devshop showing places where use Meteor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKJYBid9AR8
Aliasing, pointer casts, and gcc
Watching a movie with a corpse is something any parent could fairly object to.
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> Because you can't survive playing video games.

http://www.twitch.tv/
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It's soft language, but I don't think they can stretch it to mean "anything." 5 months is just way too long.
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Iverson's design of APL was well thought out to the degree he won a Turing award. His lecture Notation as a Tool of Thought lays out some of his thinking:

http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm

Three decades after first conception, Iverson developed the language J using only ASCII characters and based on what he learned over roughly two decades of APL's deployment in the field. IMO, J is worth looking at because it may change the way a person looks at programming languages and their design.

http://www.jsoftware.com/
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So I'm curious, is this nonsense made up just to give bad advice to potential competitors or is it to stimulate an endless smoldering far right rage at imagined crimes in a fabicated world?
We use Meteor for our actual application. Download the Chrome Extension (linked from mixmax.com) and poke around the source of the iframes that get injected in gmail :).
What is the official way to learn about Firefox OS releases? I can't figure out which version of FxOS has which status, despite being subscribed to mailing lists.

Flame update page [1] has images for 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 and 3.0. LG/KDDI Fx0 has apparently shipped in Japan with version 2.0 [2] on December 25, 2014. All this suggests that at least version 2.0 has been released. Yet Wikipedia page [3] doesn't have release date for version 2.0 onwards, and I don't know where else to look.

[1] MDN: Updating your Flame https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Phone_guide/F...

[2] Mozilla Press Center: Mozilla and KDDI Launch First Firefox OS Smartphone in Japan https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2014/12/mozilla-and-kddi-laun...

[3] Wikipedia: Firefox OS | Release history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS#Release_history
The US has previously contemplated false flag missions against it's own people (see operation Northwoods[1] which was rejected by JFK.) However, there's no evidence that they were behind the 9/11 attacks. Spouting conspiracy theories without serious backup is going to get you down-voted here on HN where we pride ourselves on being less gullible than average.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think you can write native apps for Android or iOS either. Also recently there's been way more effort on improving JavaScript VMs than Java's.
Talking about disconnects in movie ratings, the DVD releases of "Little House on the Prairie" were rated 18+ in Finland.

This was because the State Motion Picture Inspection Agency got greedy, and wanted to collect a new fee from the distributor who had already paid for the VHS releases.

Distributors had to pay to get a rating, but were allowed to release stuff as 18+ without paying. So the distributor of Little House just told the agency to go climb a tree and released this horrible nightmarish series with a 18+ rating, and since everyone now realised how the inspection agency had made itself completely ridiculous, they gave up and changed the rules.
Some of the movies those kids had already seen are rated 16+ as well.
In another thread I just responded to someone who seems to be trying this theory out for mercury. Let's see how it works out for him.
If you follow the train of this thread, you're now arguing against type inference by sighting an example from the canonical type-inferred language.
I think its worthless to find the "optimal" sequence of instructions these days. The performance of a computer system depends far more on the runtime context then on anything a compiler can infer from compile-time information.

I worked on production compilers at a major chip company, and the best thing we can do is improve the context in which a compiler is deployed. Runtime systems and compilers have to cooperate better. The compiler needs to have an interface that is cheap (low overhead) for the runtime to call into and make changes to programs. The runtime needs to sample more architectural perf counters that matter and send them into the compiler so that it can make smarter decisions.
Thanks for raining on my parade. jk

I know conversions are only a small percentage. Some people are excited and I still receive emails from people. Eyeballs first, conversions second right? My page visits have been growing, and Twitter is a percentage of it.

It's something to build on. My honest take is that people are interested in the idea, but I need to continue working on the product. Execution is important.
Anyone know if I can easily port an OpenGL ES-1.1 based application, written in C++, to FirefoxOS? Or will I have to re-write it in HTML5/js?
Yes, they do. It should be embarrassing for MIT. They're not run by MIT. They're a startup in San Francisco which somehow acquired the rights to MIT's old in-house magazine. Their self-description: "an innovative, digitally oriented global media company whose reach is rapidly expanding."

Their articles about "nanotechnology" (they mean surface chemistry) are even worse.
> What I don't like is systems that have catastrophic unrecoverable wrecks because hypothetically a bit might get flipped at the hardware level.

Perhaps they're hypothetical for you; that's nice. Having seen files (not filesystems, just files) wrecked by things like "power supplies that are just faulty enough to trash data but not faulty enough to stop booting the system", not to mention dodgy drives and controllers, I'm quite happy to have checksumming filesystems available.
But how do you even fire up an Oracle database with some of the dbf files missing? And I can't think of any other application (other than maybe a document storage system) that would be useful with some of the files missing.
There are dozens of 'democratic schools' (many of which do self-describe as 'sudbury' schools) operating - http://sudburyschoolofatlanta.org/ is the one near me.
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This relies on limited number of precomposed characters and browser fallbacks to a font containing them. Chrome/Windows cannot display anything except first and second-to-last lines, IE and FF work fine though.

You could instead use combining characters (\u20dd, \u20df) to decorate any unicode char, but the number of fonts supporting this feature is extremely limited. One such font is Cambria on Windows, but spaces should be used to properly center a char inside enclosing mark (<char> + space + \u20dd) [1]. I wonder if a font exists which fully supports combining chars and contains metrics for centering them.

[1] http://jsbin.com/cuxogojivo/2/edit?html,css,output
Sounds like an exercise in ignoring confounding variables.