skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"dash" app developer says he made $188k+ last year just from App Store alone: https://blog.kapeli.com/my-year-in-review-2014
What I'm hearing is that ignorance is bliss.
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v8worker, was one of the evaluated projects, but V8 is not very fast compiling... takes several mins.

With go-duktape, you can compile CandyJS just lake a normal Go package without any other tool or library.

Other reason is that many of the features are based on ECMA6 Proxy, something that is not supported on v8.
ad blockers have a tough fight to gain widespread usage, specially because ads are the de-facto monetization strategy, plus they are so easy to use.

A service such as yours offer the value of not showing ads, which for some niche is something worth paying for, so a subscription based service seems natural.
It'd be really helpful for someone like me to see the bellcurve.

Shifting that average up means people on the high end are eating significantly more calories than the old high end.
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Now that Cilk Plus is in GCC I think there's even less reason to use TBB directly. That cilk_spawn stuff is so nice.
It's a moral/ethical stance, I guess - tax funds social infrastructure and I think we need more of that.

Good point about the shady "base pay + loan you never* have to repay" shenanigans - I suspect HMRC will be onto them soon enough though.
Great, you're #8 on the App Store for an app that allows you to blur photos... you're so excited that you're going to get rich... Leaves me thinking: Who cares what rank you are on the App Store, making an app that does basically very little (though useful) should NOT make you rich.

I just think of something like Monument Valley - not a throwaway - tons of work - and it DID make them rich. Rightfully so. I guess I'd like to see at least SOME mention of that aspect of it.
You can get a Philly by the inch, any calorie count you want. Subway's Steak & Cheese 6" is 380 calories (241g). [1]

[1] http://www.subway.com/nutrition/nutritionlist.aspx
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Right, this is the fate of many apps on the Mac App Store. Eventually you run out of people you are able to reach who are willing to purchase your app. Because you cannot charge for updates, this means that continued development and support becomes unsustainable at some point.
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It's a Mac app, not an iOS app?
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Agreed. This was one of my first exposures to anime, when I got this on DVD. It was pretty engrossing.
I've often wondered why there aren't better tools for developing applications that track and present data and manage workflow ("Apps"). This is a problem that has always existed and is the basis for using computers to solve organizational problems (in my opinion).

There have been some really great tools in the past (Delphi was a great example). Getting to that level of tooling with open source projects is difficult for some reason (yes, I know about Lazarus, which is great and 20+ years after the fact).

The theory I usually come across is just that it isn't sexy enough, which makes sense but even the theory is boring. On my more cynical days I think it is because people or organizations that have their own tooling want to keep it as a competitive advantage.
re "Astros' staff brought this on themselves": A predictable outcome doesn't make it an acceptable outcome. They should have taken security more seriously, but that doesn't in any way excuse the Cardinals for exploiting them.
There's a related phenomenon in astronomy called Eddington Bias. If you're doing a survey of stars in the sky, often times you are limited by the brightness of the stars, so there's some brightness below which you don't detect any stars.

Because photons arrive at your detector randomly, sometimes a few more photons arrive at the detector from a particular star than average, and sometimes fewer. One therefore sees small random fluctuations in the brightness of the star.

Because there are many more faint stars than bright stars, it is much more likely for a star just below your detection threshold to fluctuate up above your detection threshold than for a star just above your detection threshold to fluctuate down below your detection threshold. This ends up biasing the inferred median luminosity to higher values.
What a coincidence, I just came across this today: http://arrayfire.com/benchmarking-parallel-vector-libraries/ (posted by Kyle Lutz on G+, he is the author of boost.compute)
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Dealing with overly confident people = learning how to clean up the mess when it goes wrong, because it's hard to to win once things turn into a persuade-off.

Do anything and everything you can to slow the conversation down, to give yourself time to think, to delay decisions, and never be afraid to change your mind once the dust settles.

Sure, it pisses people off, but at the same time it takes guts to go back and say "no, we got it wrong". Decisions don't have to be final until you're happy with them.
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It comes down to simple economics:

1. Support web standards allowing developers to build cross-platform apps in which you [Apple] profit little from.

-- or --

2. Lag behind web standards so that developers build iOS-specific apps, increasing the value of iOS and taking a 30% cut of profits of those apps.

It's in the company's best monetary interest to support #2, so that's exactly what they're doing, and WebRTC is not the first time. (They're still lagging behind on HTML5 audio, for example.)

These market forces are the same ones that caused Microsoft be the evil Microsoft of the 1990s: they have a financial interest in lagging behind web standards.
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This. Unless it impacts a major decision. The mind is like wet cement...once it forms an opinion it is almost impossible to change it. Especially because the folks you are referring to don't sound very open minded.

You have to realize that Changing your mind takes energy and effort...you need them to want to exert effort or you will be talking to a wall.

Save yourself the trouble unless it impact something really important...in which case the first guys advice (ask questions) with an emphasis on genuine is your best bet.
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Thank you. This is indeed more to my liking.
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I played one of the original two games and really don't understand the appeal. All I remember is walking around slowly and tediously, talking to shopkeeps and playing pachinko or whatever. Pretty heady stuff.
"View Source" on this home page is a fun/terrible time capsule into web development in 2001.

1- FRAMES!

2- Table based layout

3- Preloading image via JavaScript! In the <HEAD> no less! Screw start render time, we are doing this!

4- Opening links in new pop-up windows. Ahh the days before tabs....

5- Swapping images with onmouseover, like some kind of an animal

6- Burning text into images to use a specific font

7- Browser sniffing the navigator.appName object
My way of dealing with overconfident people is the best ever. In fact, I am awesome at dealing with every kind person that is or ever was. If dealing with people was an olympic event I would win gold silver and bronze every 4 years.

I can't tell you about my way of dealing overconfident people because I don't want to brag. I'm the most modest person you'll ever f-ing meet. Way more modest than you or anyone else on this forum.
> ban sugar, high fructose corn syrup, corn starch, and even all-purpose white flour,

There is zero evidence that any of these things are a problem when not eaten to caloric excess.
Yeah, I remember reading the website after the first film came out. It was weird reading excerpts of Simulation and Simulacra at 18. Now it just seems old hat to me.
I agree. I've been holding High Strength Attackers, as I call them, off for a while. The formula that works on software attack side is a combo of (a) strongest security engineering we have, (b) obfuscation at every level, and (c) diversity of hardware & software components with predictable interface. One simple example that worked well for years was using a hardened Linux/BSD box on a PPC behind a guard. Guard narrowed communications to app level while wiping out covert channels and modifying patterns to resemble other OS. All evidence from fingerprinting tools would suggest they're connecting to an x86 box, even Windows maybe. All their attacks, some I still don't get, failed to work on the box.

Most deployments use more tricks than that. I was just amazed at how long that one went on without compromises. Used same trick for desktops with custom client-server apps. These days, I'm working on CPU's that protect pointers & code while tools randomize (i.e. diversify) the application automatically. Orange Book era solution to secure networking, email, & databases still work with minor tweaks. I use hardened client-server schemes instead of web apps to avoid... more than I can count. TEMPEST safe + 100yds of space where applicable. High assurance security = build on what we know works & eliminate anything risky where possible. Obfuscations & diversity I add as you said to just slow down our shadowy friends with deep pockets & large staff. Works well so far.
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More then 1200 immigrant workers (essentially slaves) have died building the stadiums for the Qatar World Cup, a World Cup that it seems increasingly likely Qatar only got because of illegal bribes. [1]

FIFA's shenanigans also costs Americans money, in the form of the bribes and backdoor deals the various TV networks have had to pay to get the TV rights, which directly or indirectly consumers end up paying.

I don't know if what the Cardinals did rises to the level of organized crime that FIFA seems to be, but MLB teams are publicly funded (via stadium-building subsidies) companies, and deserve scrutinization just like any other business.

[1] http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2015/05/chart-fifa-de...
I use white lily self rising flour, buttermilk, and butter flavored crisco in my biscuits and they are phenomenal. I add a little cornstarch for extra crispiness. But I bet they would be better with original crisco before all the changes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisco#Changes_in_fat_content

I've tried with butter and low-fat milk and it just wasn't the same.

I use peanut oil for fried chicken. Not sure if it's healthy or not, I just know it's good for frying.
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> Yeah, that's how science works.

> Our knowledge and understanding of the totality of nutrition and health is still pretty small...

Making policies based on ignorance without acknowledging that ignorance in the slightest is not science, it's politics. Instead of saying "we don't really know anything about this topic" they lobby the FDA to make policies -

http://www.academia.edu/1429225/The_Perfect_Solution_How_Tra...
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For me it was the cliff hanger between 2 and 3 and the anticipation for several months followed by a huge letdown.
Looks like the free offer from AlphaSSL is no more:

https://www.alphassl.com/ssl-certificates/free-ssl-certifica...
"...I think the ability to decide when/if you get pregnant and have kids is fantastic..."

Typical scenario: she lies to him she is (still) on the pill, gets pregnant - he has no say on abortion, gives a birth - he has to pay or he goes to jail.

Both parties should have a say on whether a child gets born.
Don't be so afraid of being wrong. You'll never get anything done being right all the time.
The practical context of it all. Once most of the food industry moves away from it, the cost of reintroduction and the well known health dangers (terrible PR headlines), are what act to prevent companies from bothering to lobby about it. The companies spend large amounts of money to move on to alternatives, and that's that.
This is all small in comparison to the enormous benefits it has as a career-building tool. I have gotten numerous interviews and 2 full time jobs in no small part because of LinkedIn.

If there was a viable alternative I'd jump on it, but for now it seems to serve its purpose very effectively.
I recently (in the past year so) rewatched all of the matrix movies and I found the sequels boring.
But thanks to the ports tree and the Porter's Handbook, it's easier to solve this type of problem on FreeBSD than on Linux.

And the chance of a Linux distro having a newer version of something important is unlikely unless a new distro was just released and picked the latest release of a particular software to standardize their package on for the lifetime of this new OS.

Either way -- FreeBSD will continue (or be capable of) getting updates to track upstream and your Linux distro will only be backporting security fixes.
https://blog.kapeli.com/my-year-in-review-2014
Or, alternatively, it's a steak served on a slice of garlic toast or baguette, that you eat with a knife and fork.

A sandwich? I suppose technically an open faced one, but... stretching the definition, certainly.
Please read the original thread. This was already reported as: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=491435
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I'm suuuper excited for this to launch! However, it's worrisome that the ACME protocol (what Let's Encrypt uses) still has a ton of bugs open[1] and they are still changing the protocol often. Just search for "TODO" on the spec markdown[2].

I want this project to proceed, but they should really focus on getting a much more mature and stable spec before launch. This isn't WebRTC, where you can just continuously tack on additional stuff or change the API constantly. It's TLS certs. The certs issued using this API end up telling people it's safe to input their passwords or credit card numbers.

I really hope the ACME spec gets stable before the launch in July.

[1]: https://github.com/letsencrypt/acme-spec/issues

[2]: https://github.com/letsencrypt/acme-spec/blob/master/draft-b...
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May there be mercy on man and machine for their sins.
Please don't use startssl. Revocation costs money, and the company's behavior surrounding heartbleed was at the very least very unethical.
You indented, which means there is no formatting at all. You cheated. :)
We have a software ecosystem that in its middle and often top is unnecessarily built from unsafe languages, C/C++, which results in flakiness and constant security problems. An alternative with sufficient uptake to be viable would be nice.

(I quibble using "middle" because at the bottom you have to go "unsafe".)
I think there's another angle here, which is that the individual players may have been harmed - with confidential scouting reports or player performance data, the behavior of the Cardinals may have changed towards those players. They may have missed opportunity to advance their careers, or get a better deal, etc.

It's not just about one team spying on another team, there are ripple effects here of people who might have been negatively impacted by the illegal activity of the Cardinals.
I'm going to apply and wear head-to-toe Giants gear to every meeting.
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Happily Youtube (aka Napster 2015) has a full copy of indeterminate licensing. Easy to download with youtube-dl. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq9vyRFPTjg
I agree that we do need more of that. I balk at the bombastic talk from the government, (who make the laws in the first place) that it's somehow immoral to optimize your tax affairs. I would much rather see them put simpler legislation in place that means that large companies pay their "fair" share of tax, and tax is easier to deal with for small companies. If I ended up paying a bit more tax under that regime and the current large tax avoiders ended up paying a lot more that could be put towards social infrastructure, that would make me happy.
They should grow hemp instead
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Just use no-script.
As a fan of both the ML language and Machine Learning, I would say not unambiguously but highly likely. ML as a specific language is mostly dead, living on through its descendants like OCaml, F#, Scala, etc. For the most part, people will mention an ML descendant by name if they are talking about a programming language.
I can only tell you what I did. I studied them and learned to be better at their game than they were, and I also had the fact that I actually know what I'm talking about. It took years.

See, the idea is that sales is about people wanting you on their side - they want you in their corner, and want to believe your going to fix everything with magic. Nobody wants to be responsible for anything, nobody wants to really work or actually have knowledge, they just want to relax and make money - and have everyone think they are the smartest guy in the room. A good salesman makes everyone believe they have the answer to every question...a great salesman actually does have the answer to every question.

I can be funny, I can be authoritative, I can be sarcastic. Throw me into a room of guys who think they are sharks and I'll turn them into minnows. Throw me into a room full of Fortune 50 CEOs and I'll make them know they need my advice because I build bullets, not blanks. Always know that business is about one thing: money. Either making more or losing less.

It's all about communicating.

Turns out it pays well, too.
One such question may be "What is your objective evidence for your statement?"

But you're probably going to have to ask it gently rather than confrontationally. And then you're probably going to have to ask it persistently, because they're going to try to brush you off.
Actually, the human body is wired to experience pleasure when eating fats and sugars. This represents a useful adaptation in a species exposed to a potentially nutrient-poor environment, where identifying and consuming high calorie food sources is critical to survival.

So, yes, in fact more calories specifically makes food more palatable.
This. One thing which seems obvious to me now but wasn't earlier that we are software professionals and not fire fighters or professional athletes. When you are a fire fighter or an athlete in a high pressure game, you need to make a decision there and then. This is not true of a while collar workplace. If you are not sure, buy time. No one is going to object to that. Even better, move conversation to email where you can share links to facts supporting your argument. In fact, senior people appreciate that you do proper due diligence before making a decision.
The study sounds correct for what it studies. People who keep a gun in their home are more likely to accidentally kill someone else that they already know. That makes sense, since people without one aren't likely to grab a knife and run at a perceived threat. Even if they did, it gives more time for the other person to react and announce that they are a friend.

However, as an anecdote, most people I know of who actually know what they are doing (as in people who are gun enthusiasts, not people who bought a gun "for protection" and shot it enough to take a class then put it in a drawer) announce themselves before shooting as the goal is to get the intruder to leave.

Quite often this alerts the intruder to your location and, in the case that they are an actual threat, they will charge at you (this is counter intuitive for me, but most stories I've read of home invasion with an armed resident seem to end this way). I only typically hear about these stories from survivors, but the cases I know of the resident killed or wounded their attackers and were safe.

Basically, that long-winded group of anecdotes is to say that it is not the case that a gun can only help you if you shoot first at any sign of home invasion. Anyone who actually knows something about guns knows that you only point a gun at a target you have identified and are prepared to destroy. For the most part, that means you won't shoot first at any sign of home invasion.
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Maybe for Ground Control, but that doesn't explain how they penetrated the Astros' LAN.

So yes, FBI.
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This explains why they merged iOS dev accounts and Mac accounts at WWDC. I wonder if this will help - I've been an iOS dev for a while and have always been curious to run some open source OS X apps like mpv on my Mac but was restricted.
Agreed. I would say this answer closely resembles the Socratic method, which is the frame of mind I try to maintain when dealing with the over confident souls out there.
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I wrote WebPass ( http://webpass.rkeene.org/ ) for a similar reason. It's extensible with domains having password requirements and does syncing (of parameters for passwords, never actual passwords -- since they are generated). The UI is bare, but it's open source (and aside from the syncing, done entirely client side).

The sync'ing is done with a FIFO, two clients connect with the same key and they each get what the other one POST'd, no data is logged on my side.
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I don't want to tell people how to eat. I'd prefer to let it shake out like smoking tobacco. Over a few generations many wised up and there will be many less smoking related deaths in the future.

But everyone dies of something and who am I to tell you how to live while you're still here?
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If you're using discrete components for digital processor, sure.

However they still have a very real application in the analog domain(along with a strong understanding of discrete ICs like Opamps and Transistors).
"typical"? I don't think so. If "he" is worried about this, "he" has options of his own - surgery is reversible, and physical methods are widely available at every drug store.
Barely. On a reasonably configured kernel (you need both syscall auditing and context tracking turned off, which is doable at compile time or runtime), a modern CPU should be able to round-trip a syscall in under 40 ns. That only eats 4% CPU at 1M syscalls per second.

(It's slightly worse than that due to extra cache and TLB pressure, but I doubt that matters in this workload.)
I agree with judah it really comes down to let these developers pay the 100 dollars, buy a mac book then develop on my platform spending bucks on my "eco-system" rather then let them easily develop fast on the web without any headaches.

https://bloggeek.me/apple-dragging-feet-webrtc/

I think in a couple of years Apple will be so behind that someone else less evil will be the underdog.