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> USB 3.1 will continue to lag Intel’s high-speed standard (Thunderbolt), but as bandwidth rises this gap becomes increasingly academic.

This may be true of bandwidth, but to the best of my knowledge Thunderbolt is vastly superior in terms of latency. I've heard Thunderbolt likened to pluggable PCI-Express, which is to say that it's both low latency and high bandwidth. USB may be closing the bandwidth gap, but without reworking the way USB is integrated into most motherboards it's going to continue to have latency that isn't well suited to certain tasks.

This isn't an issue if devices continue to ship with Thunderbolt in addition to USB-c, but the new MacBook comes with a single USB-c connector and nothing else.
The underlying problem here is that there isn't enough water to go around. There three outcomes:

1. Farmers stop growing more wasteful crops which are very water intensive and peak consumption drops below the crisis level
2. Avocado farmers raise prices based on increased costs
3. Some avocado farmers can no longer compete with avocado farmers in wetter areas of the US or Mexico

I'm certain we'd see some combination of all three and that any of those outcomes would be preferable to what we're doing now where the combination of a severely distorted market and a patchwork quilt of existing water rights & management districts ensures that market forces are applied very inconsistently if at all.
Please stop. They've been saying that for decades, always using the latest industry as an excuse (Boeing, Microsoft, Amazon). Incidentally, now that I (and many friends and my parents) have moved from WA to CA, I've noticed everyone in CA complains about all of the outsiders moving here and driving up prices.

It's tired and trite.

PS: When do I get my kudos for moving the eff out of WA?
Great point. I'd like to see a system to tame artificial segmentation like this. Whether it's PSU sockets, display interface etc

If people wanna make concrete profits, then they'll have to bring real value.
Rationing for people does nothing since its only 10%. Rationing for ag kills farms and ag products which you then have to get from somewhere else. Unless you are a big farmer there is nothing you can do.
This is pedantic, but unless the filesystem is build specifically for WORM devices you always end up with some non-sequential data. In the use cases you're describing they'll be some filesystem metadata (freemaps, directory entries, inode tables) that will need to be rewritten.
Do you not care that much about your family? I've moved everyone I know and ever helped with the computers to Chrome. Why would you leave them on IE?!
You make significantly more than 5% of the cover price if you self-publish.

There isn't much reason to use a publisher, unless its a reputable one who fronts you an advance and knows how to market your book for increased sales.
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It's possible to run traditionally desktop games that use OpenGL by compiling them to JavaScript.

As an example, here's a port of an old C++ game to Go which I am able to have running in the browser [1]. It's a multiplayer game too. (The port is not finished.)

> Why not make a "native" game instead!?

It's a lot easier to judge/try games if they run in the browser. For example, try this terrain demo [2] which runs in the browser. One click, and you're experiencing it. If you had to run the native version, it'd be more hassle/work.

[1] https://github.com/shurcooL/eX0/commit/7ba48d00cfd143bca2e56...

[2] http://dmitri.shuralyov.com/projects/Terrain-Demo/index.html
Or, do what we've done for roadways and electricity in this country (and to a lesser extent oil and water), and expand a "water grid" from the southwest to the midwest, and southeast... transporting water from water-rich locations to more drought-prone locations.
Depends where you get your stats. According to Net Market Share, IE is still the majority desktop browser, with just under 60% usage: http://www.netmarketshare.com/
I was trying not to be tiresome about it, I hope it didn't entirely come across that way.
And thank god for that. IE continues to remain the least security-conscious browser out there.
It just takes a while to be faster in the terminal than with the gui, and most people won't switch from the thing they're used to until they see significant advantages.

I remember when I first started using the terminal, it was slow and confusing. You had to read the man pages for every little thing. Discovering the command you want is tough, I'd be screwed without the internet.

Now I hate when I need to take my hands of the keyboard to use the mouse. What a waste of time!
AR vs. VR: Information Retrieval vs. Immersive Experiences
Amazing slides. Great work.
The quizz at the end is pretty hard too.
Is anyone here confident about the answers?

https://gist.github.com/concise/a20b3e5d7e9c61dfbcc5
It appears that I'm one of the few people here that did. I invite you to reread my comment in that light. Sharing services or even ideas could be construed as monetary support or excessive intrusion.

Hell even introducing democracy to a non-democratic place has been considered subversive.
So to hide your traffic from CoffeeShopSSIDThatMightBeLoggingEverything, route it through a Google-VPN-that's-guaranteed-to-log-everything? Nice try, Google!
We can hope that 2/3 of Californians realize that mandatory rationing is a bad idea. A far better idea is to use the price system, as we do for almost all other commodities.
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After googling this three separate times I finally just aliased it to an 'untar' command. I'll remember this for when I'm ssh'ed somewhere!
I used to work for an ISP. Originally we had about a dozen phones numbers in one city because the phone company couldn't attach more than a limited number of lines (30 or 60 I think) to each number. We distributed login scripts that called the numbers one after the other until a customer got though.

Eventually the phone company let us put all our lines on the single number and we got rid of the others.

3-odd years later some guy called us up. He had just got one of the original numbers and was getting modems calling him all day and night. We told him we could do nothing and to get a new number and to tell the phone company not to give that number to other people.

The weird thing was that we realized that people were still using the old script and taking an extra couple of minutes to connect every time while they cycled though the non-existent numbers.
I do think that interactive documents are a very useful tool and that HTML and CSS get us there; but I totally agree that HTML and CSS do not make good applications. The web is for documents.

Now if only there were a way to make applications that were delivered in the same fashion as documents, but not constrained by the same poor decisions.
It's amazing how irreverent we can be towards just "computers" due to their apparent ubiquity and widespread availability, yet not appreciate that a single fabrication of a silicon wafer is far more complex than the couple hundred components that are put together in a watch.

We can fathom the difficulty, craftsmanship and effort that goes into combining several hundred components together in a watch, yet scoff at hundreds of millions of transistors that are just as artfully designed and brought together to bring to the masses leverage to human ability that was unfathomable just a century ago.

Sure, a silicon wafer is built by machines, and does not have the "hand craftsmanship" of say a watch, yet, I would argue that far more collective effort went into designing circuits than did into designing the gear combinations that went into building a watch.

When it comes to buying high-end, high-end has been about exclusivity, multiplied by the effort put into building such a product. However, when one considers the effort necessary to complete a given task, exclusive or not, being impressive can be quantified by the effort placed.

Thus we are sometimes impressed when someone does something through the hard route, when an obviously easier route existed, (a la, "I'm not even mad, that's amazing"). The wealthy (and the commonors as well) like to purchase the exclusivity of effort (custom) within the bounds of their understanding as it either stirs their innate appreciations or scratches their ego. Either way, people can only appreciate the efforts of what they understand, while the efforts of what is not understood gets belittled. And the caliber of complexity occasionally peeks it heads out amongst the ultra-rich. The ultra-rich who appreciate watches and boats, versus the ultra-rich who appreciate rockets and education.

As children are easily impressed at young ages and become less so as they age, our ability to be impressed should grow with our growth. IMO, If the pinnacle of "craftsmanship" is in very small turning gears, it's a shame, because there is so much more beyond that barrier.
> No music streaming.

Really? Shoutcast was created in 1998, Digitally Imported has been around since 1999. I wrote a hacky thing to stream di.fm to my Nokia 3650 over the air in 2004 (the downloadable real media app could stream mp3, but not handle shoutcast data, so I had to strip it out; plus the achievable bandwidth was less than the lowest bitrate stream, so I had to downsample).
This. You can't just hire anyone remote. You have to hire people who want to be remote, embrace the isolation, and moreover, fit well into the culture you already have.
Tip : Setting cd as an alias for pushd make the whole thing much more intuitive.
I actually quite like the "boilerplate" for dealing with cursors.

React/Clojurescript is a funny beast. On the one hand clj is all about immutability and referential transparency. On the other hand FRP has state baked in: there has to be something to watch, after all, and even paradigms that try and sidestep this conceptually by saying "everything is a stream" (flapjax) end up dealing with state in terms of how the streams interact, under what conditions, etc.

I like the Om model because it says: OK, we're going to have to deal with state, no way around it. Is there a way we can bring sanity to the process?
they would downvote a personal opinion.

and don't call him shirley.
40 years sounds like an awful brutal sentence hanging over this man's head.

Then again, the accusation is that he forged documents and emails, and deleted others, as part of a lawsuit. That seems pretty bad.

But 40 years literally takes someone's life away. The crime was nonviolent. Maybe 10 years in jail would be a harsh enough penalty? That's pretty life-changing. I suppose it's up to the judge, maybe if he wasn't using crazy methods to flee from bail he wouldn't end up with the max penalty. Seems like he's screwed now.

This whole thing makes me uncomfortable.
Looks nice! What software stack are build you on?
Klib: A standalone and lightweight glib
The one in the list includes a period after it, so I believe it is just a case of slightly dirty data.
Title made me think of this video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=GEmuEWjHr5c (from someone with PhD in teaching physics).
Until you want to undo something! Nano is definitely more user-friendly though. Some of the engineers I work with still don't know basic vim shortcuts, like 'w' and 'b'
Let's be careful not to limit Haxe to OpenFL, which the linked article isn't even using.
The article points out that Haxe is a great option for creating portable application logic while the game is using Unity for rendering.

Other uses for Haxe are the JavaScript target which a number of companies are using extensively in the same way you would be using typescript/coffeescript.
The median income in Mountain View is around $55K - $20 an hour salaried is roughly $42240.. but customer service tends to be below average salary in any area. Many earn less.
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In the case of this example, where would I go to get an overview of the Eric Garner case? Newspapers tend to report day to day news, not give overviews. How do I know who is a domain expert? How do I verify that?
Ask HN: Do you know any company with a grants.gov account?
Does anyone here have an account with grants.gov? If you do, I have an awesome opportunity that I want to discuss. To have an account with grants.gov, one needs to have created an account with sam.gov and registered their company entity.

Long story short:

Our company has spent the last 3 years working on a platform for building apps that support distributed, secure login and identity. Among other things, the platform implements standard privacy and data ownership functionality out of the box for all users.

Platform: http://platform.qbix.com
Technology: www.faqs.org/patents/app/20120110469
etc.

NIST is offering a $1-2 MILLION dollar a year grant to programs like ours:

http://www.nist.gov/itl/20150212_nstic_grants.cfm

BUT THE DEADLINE IS TUESDAY AT MIDNIGHT.

Although I began the process of applying for our company to have an account with grants.gov, a couple weeks ago, it will actually be another 11 days before we can have an account. And the deadline will have passed.

I called up the people at NIST that are responsible for running the program and they told me right away that they have a provision in this "Federal Funding Opportunity" that allows for change of applicant. That is to say, if they like the application, they will allow the applicant to be changed later.

I am looking for anyone that HAS an existing grants.gov account, to help us submit the application. And then we can work together to make this happen.

$1-2 Million a year grants that match 98% what we have been working on for the last 3-4 years don't come around every year. Well, they might come around next year, but we'd rather partner with someone to apply this year while we still can. Consortiums are allowed as well.

Please contact me, my email is found easily at http://qbix.com/about

Zak
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I have noticed an increase of reviews that typically contain a subject of "<Number> Stars", and either no review body, or a very short review body, such as "good book".

I too hate reviews like that, but I think it's due to Amazon nagging customers to leave reviews for things that are purchased on the Kindle. I am beginning to suspect they have an app or form somewhere where you tap the number of stars and write your review in a text block.
This is the same mistake everyοne makes.

Just because a browser uses Webkit doesn't mean it uses the same version.

I already had to track down CSS rendering issues across Webkit implementations.

Also the JavaScript engine is not the same. Once we had sequence of Ajax calls failing in Safari, but working properly in Chrome.
I work remotely, and don't really understand why it's hard to shut down the work-laptop after you finish work and not open it again till you start work the next day.

When your local employee commutes to the office, I open the lid on the work laptop. When your local employee leaves the office to go home, I close my work laptop.

If I'm needed outside hours, which blessedly is rare, the message needs to go to my phone either way.

I guess I can see why some folks would find the balance hard in the "life/fun" end being too heavy and fail to drag themselves to the keyboard for 8 hours a day. I'm glad I didn't, coz offices really suck for concentration and headphones all day are horrible on your hearing.
Ruby developer:

A browser (between Safari, Chrome and FF) if the app is a web-app ... plus tmux + vim (with loads of plugins) + rvm (ruby version manager) + git (github/bitbucket).

Occasionally I might use additional tools to enhance the workflow (growl for notifications, etc.)
Y'know, I heard this sort of comment when I got into email newsletters back in 2010. Now every damn site seems to have email newsletter signup boxes, lol.
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> I think it's one of the perfect sports/activities for programmers

I think it appeals to programmers for a lot of reasons...there's an element of problem solving, it's beneficial to be skinny and almost everyone only competes against themselves.

But there's another hidden benefit to programmers that you'll only discover as you get into it. When I started climbing, I was beginning to feel RSI-type pain in my wrists. My computer ergonomics is pretty terrible and I was starting to investigate ways to improve that in the hope that my pain would subside. 2 months into climbing, all that research into how to improve my posture stopped. My pain had completely subsided and I can now spend my 8+hrs/day using the worst possible posture with no ill effects.

For me, I've discovered that RSI injuries are not about doing one thing too much. Instead, they're about not doing other things as much. Climbing exercises and strengthens my wrists in so many different ways (slopers, mantles, crimpers, cracks, etc) that no amount or poor habits can compromise the benefit I get from ~6hrs/week of climbing.

This benefit isn't unique to programmers, but since we spend a large percentage of our time at the keyboard, it's definitely applicable to us.
If water were priced correctly, this would not be a problem. Charge what it is worth and people will conserver.
There are still telephone directories.
Because fraud is a crime.
It seems you've forgotten we have an airport.
If they already have to feature a prominent web imprint, what does anyone gain from an entry in an obscure (to most web users) whois database? An entry that the registrar will happily cover with their own info for a small fee.
It's hard to find domain experts and newspapers that print about the sheer amount of content that is in Wikipedia. For example, this article on display resolutions. Are there many domain experts who keep a page regularly updated or newspapers that write up to date articles on it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_display_resolution
Apple released Safari for Windows less than three weeks before the iPhone went on sale. As you may recall, the first iPhone didn't allow third party native apps and instead used web apps with shortcuts on the home screen. Safari for Windows was most probably mainly meant as a Webkit based browser for developers.
I don't mind it but the elastomeric paint that shreds up after a year of use is annoying. I've got it on the back of my phone and am hoping they've improved the process to make it more durable.
Music is Afrola by Bird Creek. To me, it made the video much more engaging.
I'm sympathetic to this point of view, but then I think: for decades the owner's name, address, and phone number for almost every house and business in America was listed in public phone books that were distributed, for free, to almost every single house and business in each respective area.

Sometimes it can seem like all our privacy is disappearing, but I think it's worth remembering the how some personal data has been public for years, and things were generally ok.
Just the other day I read a fascinating (to me) Quora reply to the question "What can happen if a human eats a water bear (the most resistant living organism), or gets a water bear in their blood stream?"

Short answer: it gets dissolved in the stomach acid and dies.

Long answer here: http://www.quora.com/What-can-happen-if-a-human-eats-a-water...
No worries dude. b^) I got your point. When I saw your comment was gray, I upvoted it.
The criminal case was brought against Ceglia when it became apparent that his claims to a stake in Facebook were based on forged documents. That's fraud; it's a criminal offense.
I think there needs to be more studies. I'm sure Cannabis does effect development of the brain during adolescence, but does the brain recover over a period of time or is it perm dramage.
WTF is up with all of the vice links all of a sudden?
We took "self-powered" out of the title.
Yes! Creation in the context of Wikipedia clearly means creation. FYI your research missed the fact that I was a part of the argument for undeleting / saving it from deletion twice, IIRC.
Try a games developer event instead, even some Macs will be running Windows.
Hey co-founder here. Thanks, we're built on PHP, nginx, Postgres and redis running on AWS.
OP here. I wrote out some thoughts on the difference between AR and VR, and their future applications and use. Would love to hear any feedback you have.
Which can also be phrased as "unemployed Americans farmers are burdens on American systems, unemployed equatorial farmers are not."

Not that I don't think the sugar subsidies specifically are nonsense, the structural reasons that food subsidies exist is sound.
is this really news? :)
I don't know about other people, but as an early web developer who worked in an all-Microsoft shop, learning about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish literally caused me nausea and I quit my job and became an open source developer very soon after and never looked back. There was something so entirely... wrong about that approach. And the browser that was involved with it. And the company that even conceived of it. I still harbor plenty of anti-MS anger as a result (well that, and having to do IE compatibility for many years!)

(I admit that also reading the books "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" and "Hackers & Painters" influenced me a lot!)
> Writings of domain experts who are not anonymous. Newspapers with good reputations.

Those are good secondary sources. Tertiary sources like Wikipedia aggregate information from and references to secondary sources. They aren't really substitutes for each other, in either direction.
The web is a deployment platform. It (theoretically) makes it easier to get one set of code to run for more types of users. That's all.

And it's not like there is limited space on the internet. One type of browser-based game isn't going to displace other types of browser-based games any more than, say, console games would.
> So yes, it's feasible, and just FYI, it is provided free of cost.

Nothing is free of cost.
So what's your suggestion? Unless you're suggesting we just start killing people off I don't see how anyone's supposed to act on the idea that there are too many people.
Am I crazy, or has there been an abundance of vice links appearing on HN recently? Any particular reason?
I see. Are there a lot of these warts? To be fair, if all the inconsistencies are documented, that seems like a fairly minor inconvenience for the benefits you get. (I don't know how well-documented they actually are, so maybe the answer is "not".)

Also, if I were to use Haxe for mobile development, it wouldn't be through OpenFL; I would use the native APIs of each system and just write a thin wrapper in Haxe that's common for all platforms. I just want to reuse code, not adopt a completely separate UI toolkit.