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True. I agree it could be better if omitting the check looked like the exception and not the other way around. You could also argue that encoding non-presence on the type is more powerful/elegant/whatever than multiple return values. But what I wanted to point out is that the problem is not that "Go indicate[s] this error case with a return of zero". The language has an easy way to check this and he ignored it (he eventually used comma-ok in his code, although he makes the check first and the assignment later in different operations for no apparent reason).
No, he is being sarcastic. I believe that counts as gratuitous negativity: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> 1. 25030731 HC RT OXYGEN DAILY CHARGE — $2,132.25.”;

>The supplemental oxygen delivered into the nose after surgery, a routine precaution at many hospitals.

What is wrong with US healthcare in one sentence. two thousand dollars for oxygen is beyond ludicrous. There is no way this cost could be justified.
The "X-factor" for small schools might be that they're small schools.

Small sample sizes mean higher variability. Large student populations will regress to the mean.
Some of the confusion is primary and secondary effects.

All finite resources in a growing economy have a similar shaped (plus or minus technology) peak. So that's phosphate rock fertilizer, oil, various grades of coal (anthracite is basically gone already). You can also peak infinite / renewable resources like northern atlantic cod which are basically extinct now. Or buffalo, etc. Its interestingly fractal in that the smaller graphs of small producers look the same as graphs for other small producers and the overall system-wide graph. So the graph of Texas oil which peaked in the early 70s looks about like Mexico's graph looks like the world graph, all peaking at different dates, which is interesting.

As a secondary effect once you peak fertilizer and oil production, the secondary industries will peak. Refineries obviously follow oil production. But, modern industrial ag is heavily dependent on chemical fertilizer (which will peak) and oil (fuel, sprays, simple transport...)

Colloquially "peak" seems to be confused (intentionally, by some?) with short term downward market fluctuations. So obviously they'll never, ever be a peak in oil production because the market cost fluctuated downward recently for a short period of time, LOL.

For cars you need oil and iron, both of which you can eventually use up, so aside from all other arguments its possible. But a cultural or economic shift can mask that. So the wikipedia article is full of weird assertions that increasing the average GDP per capita must result in increased miles traveled because income inequality doesn't exist (LOL). Locally decreasing the number of "can afford a car" jobs from 2 million to 1.5 million will dramatically decrease road traffic, even if the average income for the area explodes because the 1% are richer than ever because its not like they're going to drive extra miles to celebrate.

For literacy there doesn't seem to be an inherent finite resource we can use up to eliminate literacy. So traditional logistical peak doesn't seem possible. In the colloquial sense of peak meaning "a short term downturn" that is pretty trivial.

So you've listed all three possibilities, a finite resource that can peak, a secondary industry that depends on peakable finite resources, and something that can't possibly have a logistical peak because there is no finite resource to exhaust.
> It's a fork of the underlying MSHTML engine, that adds some new standard support

There's always new standards, so of course there is new standard support, just as IE is getting new standard support.

Effectively it is a redesign and rebranding of IE. Nothing wrong with that, but let's call a spade a spade.
Obviously even a kebab shop would benefit from a multilingual website. The question is priorities, and with start ups there is heck of a lot to do before you can think of your potential non-English speaking Chinese customers.
For the data driven types, here is some data from the Economist:

http://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/594593671661641728
My blood pressure hits 150/90 somewhat regularly (the local gym had an automated cuff which I use to measure it). When I was about 29 I was concerned enough to ask the specialist physician who I see for an unrelated chronic condition. He was concerned enough by my readings to order a 24 hour blood pressure study. He didn't start me on any drugs when the 24 hour study showed that my BP dropped overnight. Indeed, my medical aid (Heath insurance) also has a fairly high threshold for funding BP meds as a chronic condition. I still see the doctor regularly, and although my BP has not dropped below 140/90 on any occasion that he has seen me he considers it normal (I think he regards it as "white coat hypertension").

It seems that doctors in South Africs have a fairly high threshold for prescribing medications for blood pressure to younger people. The contrast with your case in the U.S., where the doctor started you on BP meds immediately is quite striking.
And the KGB was funding the counterculture movement in order to destabilise the West.
There is a chrome extension that does this https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/momentum/laookkfkn...
> For a lot of web pages this is true, but what about sites like restaurant webpages? They have very few actual pages on their site, and they don't change depending on who is making the request. If I request the site over HTTPS, anybody that is sniffing my traffic will know that I'm visiting that domain and thus can request the content themselves. The encryption here is not providing anything.

The value of encryption as a whole increases when everything is encrypted, because it is harder for an adversary to distinguish "important" traffic from "unimportant traffic". It may not matter for that domain alone, but it certainly matters in the bigger picture. It significantly increases adversary cost.

> If you are sending/receiving personalized data, e.g. logins, search requests, etc., then you should be encrypting the requests. You would still be encrypting huge amounts of data for no reason, the CSS and static images used on the site are not being transmitted with or based on any personalized data, so any sniffer will already know that these resources would have been downloaded by you anyway (and I don't care if an attacker sees the CSS of a page I'm looking at anyway). Requesting these static resources over plain HTTP, but authenticated via hashes or signatures, doesn't provide an attacker with any information they wouldn't already have.

False. Assets can leak very easily, disclosing what content you are looking at. Just identify which assets are not loaded on every page.

> And yet Tor is the only way to actually protect against sniffers tracking which domains you visit. If we really care about encrypting all the content - including non-personalized, static content - then I don't see why we wouldn't also care about protecting the domains we visit.

It's not. The exit node still sees your traffic - and this is also why routing everything over Tor is a terrible idea (and incidentally, the same reason devices like the Anonabox are fundamentally broken). If you tunnel personally identifying traffic along with "anonymous" traffic, you're "contaminating" the anonymous traffic with your identity.

> I totally agree with this. However I think I come to a different conclusion. [...]

Saying that TLS is "not entirely useless" is a very poor argument for not working on making it better.

The "different levels" you suggest are pretty much already implemented as such, except there is no "authenticate but don't encrypt" level, because it's not a useful or desirable level to have.
Cool, would you sell me the rights to it for, say, 1000 bucks? :-)

Serioulsy though, no offense, but I don't think you could build one of these, nor do I think that anybody else on the planet could at this point. Of course it's all a matter of definition, i.e. what is the input and what is the desired output.

A "real" Paper Clip Factory Factory would probably require human like intelligence. A law-understanding machine would probably only require some very advanced learning algorithm. I feel we'll reach the latter first.
Brandalism seems to be a specific project of culture jamming, not a new word for the existing concept.
Well, I dont know what I expected, but this is incredibly underwhelming.
I disagree. I think the idea is not to eliminate daydreaming, but to remedy those who do it excessively (I have been one of these when I was younger). Once you've got the problem under control, you should discontinue use.

As for your second point, sometimes it is the brain's fault. It may not be severe enough to be a disorder, but individuals differ in their ability to concentrate.

But I understand what you mean -- there are a lot of distraction creators in the modern world (smartphones being on top, IMO). Using a device without addressing those is not the best way to go.
does it support WebRTC?
The main problem I see that led to this situation is the author picking one of the most expensive places in LA to live, Venice Beach. The author could have chosen a much less expensive (but less glamorous) area, say in Koreatown or somewhere else inland. There are lower rent areas in LA, you just need to compromise your lifestyle a bit.
If there are aliens out there yes, they most likely didn't just happen to develop a civilisation at the same time as us, and so are likely to have been around a long time. I don't think that means they're likely to have even reached a neighbouring star yet, other than perhaps a flyby probe, let alone colonised the galaxy. Interstellar travel is just too many orders of magnitude too hard to be practical, and even if you manage it all it takes is one GRB and your whole civilization is toast anyway. I suspect that within about a thousand years we'll pretty much top out technologically. Once we know everything these is to know about the physical universe, we'll start hitting the limits of what is possible with the physical elements and forms of energy available in our universe. Then we'll start hitting the limits of what's possible with the actual materials and sources of energy in our solar system, and face some hard choices about what we do with them.
It was in network. I don't believe it though. I did say I was speculating, because I don't have any evidence. I would love to see what they actually pay, assertions that they must pay the allowed amount don't really make me any less skeptical about it.
Yes, quite right, I should have included some context. Here we go:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel

Original text, translated into English:
http://hyperdiscordia.crywalt.com/library_of_babel.html
Haven't we seen this before? It was called J++ and was part of the embrace, extend, extinguish campaign.

I'm shocked at some of the comments, which seem identical to the sentiment 20 years ago. This isn't a different Microsoft, if anything, this is a return to their old playbook.
I'm still using a 2009 HP 6910p (Core 2 Duo T7300 CPU) bought used for 120E in 2012 or thereabouts. I use it for C (mostly, but also py, haskell etc) programming, Arch Linux + i3 WM, it has a great keyboard, everything works out of the box.

There are very few things a modern laptop would bring me that this one doesn't.

At home I have a much more capable development desktop, and at work an even better (i7 4790) computer. But the thing is, apart from the lower power consumption (from 20W-30W regular usage down to 10-20W, depending on the configuration), there's no point in upgrading for me.

I'm still a student, so I'm still playing occasionally with things like OpenGl shaders, game programming, machine learning, and other orthogonal areas of computer science, for that I use my desktop. I don't think a laptop is that great for working (sub-optimal posture).

But sure, there are people who need bigger screens/ more horsepower (high-performance computing/ those coding in memory hogging environments).

But for Linux, and low-level programming, a slightly older machine definitely suffices.

Granted, I live in a part of the world where one can live reasonably for a few months-up to a whole year for the price of a rMbp, and I value financial independence, freedom, more than the status signaling ability a Mbp could bring, but I do see why others might value it more.
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Part of the real issue is identity politics and the black box thinking it generated.

Rethorical devices would still maintain the greatest power. You don't need information just conviction and resources.
Microsoft is becoming the new Golang of HN. As soon as a story appears mentioning it, it's on the frontpage.
It seems to be in the works as during the Build talk there was a "suit" that kept saying "no comments" when asked about Swift.
Is that a shower head and a toilet?
Well, Italians aren't just very patient at organising - so police will deal with those situations more impulsively:

"Once arrested, protesters, including five Britons, were taken to a police barracks where they were beaten again, sprayed with asphyxiating gas, threatened with rape and forced to sing fascist-era songs."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/12/night-police-be...
I'm still hoping that they'll release this for Mac OS (more competition for cross platform browsers would be a good thing!)

But so far it doesn't seem like that's on the table...
It’s almost like during Apple events
Not entirely. Metro IE browser was still using the base IE11 rendering engine at its core. Microsoft Edge has a new rendering engine without all of the legacy support nonsense. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/01/26/inside-microsofts...
> Tell us what you think.

I think it should be standards compliant in every conceivable way.
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While we more or less know the compensation situation for US, it would be helpful to state salary ranges for such places as Spain.
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I care a lot about figuring out how to teach people like you to use Rust. I've primarily worked in Ruby for the past several years, but I did have that degree, and C was my second language. So it's a bit harder for me, as I had my 'aha' moment with a lot of this stuff quite a while back.

I'm hoping as time goes on to include more stuff in the docs that's about generic systems stuff, rather than 100% Rust specific, exactly for this reason. The stack & heap chapter of the book (which is upcoming) is part of that. But, I gotta finish off the Rust-specific stuff first...

I agree with wycats: Rust is going to bring systems programming to a lot of people who haven't done systems programming before, just like Node brought a whole new group of people to server-side code. It's our job to give you the support you need to be successful at it.
Can it be used with Owncloud?
No gym because you cycle, or because it's easy?
We've had a much better neologism for jamming advertising logos and symbols for a while already - "subvertising".
It is IE12 with non of the legacy IE support. Their talk of update speed suggests it'll resemble Chrome and Firefox in terms of updates.
ICQ had a feature for writing on websites, and even chatting with others visiting the same webpage. That was around 1998. It didn't work out, despite the penetration of ICQ at the time.
I use my car almost exclusively for long distance trips, so it stays parked near my home most of the time. But I still want it parked there, because I can decide at any time to make a trip and just go. Not worry about rental pickup/return times, reservations, mileage limits, etc. I was getting a new car last year and there was about a month after I sold my old one and before I got the new one. Almost immediately after selling the old car I felt like one of my freedoms was taken from me.
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You are comparing apples to oranges, the ocean is a really big place. All the tech is useless if it cannot transmit the data to the satellite.
IMO, Microsoft is becoming the new Google; Google is becoming the old Microsoft, how funny is it..
If it has no legacy code base, is it still tied to the OS like IE was? Can I uninstall Microsoft Edge like any other app?
Note the careful editing to not show numerous historical examples where pre-90 or so, any negative fluctuation was a statistical fluke or a short term downterm, promptly made up. So pre-90 or so, it was always correct to extend the trendline at the average growth line.

Admitting the party is over would offend very powerful monied interests. Follow the money... a lot of money is made building and selling exurbs, and a minor secondary industry is going to have political problems stating the high level policy change of "the party is over". A mayor, governor, president needs to state the policy change before the pothole filler is permitted to observe it. You see this phenomena in economic figures and in the meta selection of economic figures (the Dow, the unemployment rate, the GDP, the .gov inflation rate all used to "mean something" to the lifestyle of the general population. Not so any more, they are meaningless now in practice.)
After the recent activity with Code and Roslyn, I was hoping for MacOS and Linux download links too. That would be sweet. I'd love to use IE on my macbook and my Mint box.
Also, lets not forget that patio11 made those figures while doing the work he didn't enjoy, and this would be even more non-enjoyable for more hardcore engineers here. We love making money with programming, not by marketing.
You are talking about something that has very little to do with the population density and zoning of an American midwestern suburb: What we mean is something like this, where having no car makes you a second class citizen.

https://goo.gl/maps/U5qhh

What you call a suburb is more like what in Spain are called 'ciudades dormitorio': Small towns with a much higher population density than the american suburb, and that have good communications with downtown. People live less than a mile away from a train station that drops them in a public transportation hub in downtown Madrid. It's still a suburb, but it has absolutely nothing to do with what an American describes.
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Are you saying that sites that don't provide a positive experience across screen sizes shouldn't worry? Because browsers aren't supposed to do anything besides present information?
Why exactly? Mind elaborating some on that statement? Because I disagree.
Rapidly falling costs of battery packs for electric vehicles
A shame, I think the novel was more entertaining than the plot summary. But then I didnt know the outcome.
Relevant: http://zenpencils.com/comic/155-banksy-taking-the-piss-expli...
So, what have they got so far? Do they even have Newtonian physics expressed in their new language?
The problem is you need the requisite staff to handle support requests in a foreign language, and the logistics in place to ship across the world. That doesn't happen overnight.
Amazing story! It is a great feeling when people take your work seriously.
Just a little comment: Kay's mentioning various meta-things reminds me that I have The Art of the Metaobject Protocol (which Kay called "the best OOP book in ten years," and I should read it.

And another little comment as regards Kay's "complaining" that Smalltalk had become "something to be learned": I very much failed to learn computer science from high school Java, where classes, methods, encapsulation etc were treated as things-to-be-learned. I didn't know that I /could/ care about how they were put in place or why.

If I had been taught that everything in a meta-system can be changed when you structure your changes, I would have been a happier camper--motivated by autonomy and purpose.
Consider Static Typing in Ruby
1.flooding market

2. stagnant platform

3. not proper direction

4. rushed release

5. longer and less transparent updates

etc.
Brandalism seems to include subvertising, but not just.
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"only 27% of internet users are English-speaking."

This metric has probably less meaning than it seems . How many of them are multi-lingual. What level of English-proficiency makes somebody English-speaking? What percentage of purchasing power is within users with English skills? What is the trend of English skills in young internet users?
I haven't used Owncloud myself, but judging by the docs on ArchWiki, it appears that Owncloud is served by a web server such as Apache or Nginx. If that's the case, then you would just need to mount your media directory to a web-accessible location and then enable automatic directory indexes.

More info:

https://wiki.apache.org/httpd/DirectoryListings#Directory_Li...

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_autoindex_module.html
While technically interesting (assuming they ported iOS frameworks), it's no more than a hack, UI-wise. It prompts developers to consider the UI as an afterthought; just "trust" Microsoft's adaptation of another platform layout, add "minimal changes" and presto: UI work is done.

It's a sad route to follow, if you truly care about your users.
I think the annotations feature is really interesting! But how can they implement this without the permission of the original website providers?
Wow. Why aren't they marketing this? Creating a browser from scratch, considering the current state of web technologies is a huge undertaking. I always thought it's just a re-skinned IE with some touch features.
Ok, your explanation makes sense. I'm sorry, fwn. The way the "[deleted]" was indented at the same level flush with the message it was a reply to made me think that it was about the message at the same indentation, not about a sub-message that had been deleted. I remember seeing the original message but it was deleted before I could reply, and I couldn't reply to yours directly either, so I assumed showdead handled moderator deleted messages the same way as user deleted messages, and you'd edited it then deleted it after it was downvoted. It was my fault, I'm sorry, and I won't make that mistake again.
There are real benefits to a large, centralised police force - around things like training, oversight, kit issue, etc. The US really suffers, IMO, from having hundreds of small forces, compared to the UK.
Science becomes most interesting when scientists hit the limits of their science and then try to overcome them.
do you have any sources? I would be interested to read more.
Why would they need it?
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That still sounds like Microsoft to me.
Activity monitor shows you Disk, Network, and CPU activity, and is a good first place to see if anything is going awry when your system is acting up.

I'm interested in how you might use fs_usage? It actually is a new utility to me, and when I turn it with fs_usage -e iTerm - I get a lot of activity, on a basically idle system. (At least one that Activity Monitor/ioStat shows as idle).
I don't think this is entirely true.

Y-Combinator uses Hacker News as a vehicle to attract the best technology talent in the world and display job openings to that talent. I love HN and have no issues with YC doing that, but let's not pretend that it is entirely altruistic.
Thanks. I'm sure there's a way to promote a compile time seq into a constant runtime one. Might require some more macro trickery, though.
Steel Series Sensei. Once you can precisely tune the speed and acceleration of a mouse it's really hard to go back. Also, some of the wireless mice have noticeable lag.
iMac can outperform the Mac Pro on single threaded tasks.