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> I don't think that many developers in 1975 would have been comfortable with garbage collection, etc.. Certainly there are some developers would would have had no problem with them, but think of the many COBOL and Fortran developers would would have had no idea of what those terms meant.

I think it's a mistake to assume they wouldn't know what those terms meant, just as much as it's a mistake to assume modern C developers don't know what they mean, whether they have experience in languages that support them or not. Possibly more so. Part of a CS degree is exposure to concepts, usually embodies in languages that feature them. The fact that the job market was more constrained and there were only jobs available for developing in a small set of languages could account for why they weren't used much.

> I also find this statement hard to understand: "I feel like Java really kicked off the trend of wide scale reusability with it’s built in standard library" ...

Python isn't suitable, or at least is arguable a poor choice, for some tasks. C had libraries, but the standard library is very small compared to what Java and Python include.

> Historically there were no copyrights to source code prior to 1980.

There also wasn't a good way to distribute, much less collaborate, on projects like we do today. I think both the licensing and the new methods of distribution and collaboration.
This is a great addition for real-time/streaming APIs
Data doesn't go to pocket until you start using it, and even then, you have to click through a few pages to get there. Pages which make it abundantly obvious that its a third party service.

Mozilla did user testing before integration and found that people do want it. Remember that techies complaining on HN doesn't mean that the majority doesn't like it.

It's not different from the privacy implications of having Google/Yahoo as a default search provider. It's a nice feature that (very visibly) uses a third party service instead of being part of Firefox Accounts.
I think terror bombing was unquestionably terrorism but I'd disagree about shock and awe. That is just trying to break the enemy armed forces moral with quick overwhelming strength. The cavalry charge of the modern war.
Hey guys,

thanks for the input!

I just love to build stuff and working on cool pet projects is what I am doing with a lot of my free-time. After I realized how many people also have cool ideas but can't execute I got the idea.

I have no intention of ripping off people, etc. I just like to build things and I want to enable people to also appreciate this.

Signing up with the email is just a means to make sure people don't claim more tickets without a lot of effort. As the other comment said, free 'raffles' are not a problem in Germany, however, you are right, I should prob make even clearer that I am just all about building something cool.
I think of this like local vs. global maxima. Competition is one local maxima, but personally I believe cooperative systems are the global maxima. However, cooperation is more complex, more difficult, and perhaps contrary to human nature. Difficult, but not impossible.
But how do you get into the app? Don't you have to navigate your phone's OS? I can appreciate what you're saying. There are probably lots of situations where you know you might need it where you can have the app already running. I just wish there was a way to get into something like this or start recording without even having to look at my phone. I think it would be much more useful if you had that.
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There's no up or down in space, I thought it was a neat reminder.
GetYear() and 1900
I wrote up a post about the event with some additional information, which now has a few clarifications/errata at the end. I'd welcome any feedback!

http://amirchaudhry.com/unikernels-polyconf-2015/
The pity is that BLE on Android has sucked, horribly badly, consistently. Google needs to have their hardware have a minimum level of support for basic stuff, and then we can talk.

In contrast, Apple's BLE implementation is robust and works well for since the iPhone 4S, and reliably on all the newer platforms
It's Douglas Adams, from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I hope you haven't read it because it's a treat.
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The blood of this Site has been 'streamlined' with Bootcamps.

Who certifies these apprenticeships(assuming you're not talking about the Trades)? The typical Trades are typically handled by the State/Province.

It's easier in Trades, where things are fairly static and there's set standards.
Consider the following short-selling example. A trader believes that stock SS which is trading at $50 will decline in price, and therefore borrows 100 shares and sells them. The trader is now “short” 100 shares of SS since he has sold something that he did not own in the first place. The short sale was only made possible by borrowing the shares, which the owner may demand back at some point.

A week later, $SS reports dismal financial results for the quarter, and the stock falls to $45. The trader decides to close the short position, and buys 100 shares of SS at $45 on the open market to replace the borrowed shares. The trader’s profit on the short sale – excluding commissions and interest on the margin account – is therefore $500.

Copied from: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shortselling.asp#ixzz3ft...
> 3) No active US President has ever visited Hiroshima or the museum there dedicated to the atomic bombings; Carter visited after he was no longer president.

To add to that, Japanese leaders aren't so keen on visiting the Pearl Harbor site either. Though their emperor has now spent a visit there:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/4918516... Neither country has come up with a formal apology.
You don't have to. Drag it off using the customize button.

These things are lazy loaded and wont run until you turn them on. No footprint when they're off the UI (minimal footprint when they are on)
Chrome moved to context click + menu because left click is clickjackable, so doesn't help very much with the security issues.
Interesting. The first item is "community". The next several are about tooling, then foreign language interface. You're nearly halfway through his post before you get to any actual language "features" (syntax and/or semantics).

And I think that reflects reality. Syntax and semantics matter, but they matter less than some other things.
I fear that won't work. The speed relative to Pluto during closest approach was 13.78 meters every millisecond, I can't imagine that anything larger than a grain of sand will not behave like a liquid upon impact.
I remember this game written in the "logo" language that could guess the animal you were thinking of, by guiding the user through a decision tree; and it also allowed the user to grow the tree when it failed at guessing.
I'm curious - what are the most popular use cases you see leveraging the SDK?
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As an embedded developer let me say that the Cortex M4s with FPUs are worth their weight in gold for saving me from debugging fixed point libraries.
>>> This single page would be where everything is done, the URL would not change

There's HTML5 history API, lazy loading... Seriously, you describe SPAs in very simplistic terms that are just not true. Do you have any experience building them?

Google Maps is technically an "Ajax powered web app", but it's technically an SPA too as you never encounter a full page refresh.
If you go there, make sure you buy the ticket online, otherwise you'll have to stand in a line for an hour.
In what world is Google's top line shrinking? I think you mean the top line's growth rate is slowing.
As an aside for the subject of women drivers... last fall, I had a Muslim woman as my Uber driver for a ride. She said that she makes a point of picking up female passengers with less than five-star ratings. She thinks a lot of male Uber drivers will downrate female passengers in unfair ways, and a lot of Uber drivers in general won't give rides to passengers who have had bad ratings.
In bob's setting, the computation system is not determined or fixed. It is open-ended...

In intuitionistic mathematics, we of course accept that there is no Turing computable halting oracle, but we do not rule out the possibility that there is some other effective oracle that can decide halting. (This is in contrast to recursive mathematics / Russian constructivism)
> they'll be the world's largest employer

Even Uber cheerleaders get it mixed up from time to time
Hello does nothing until clicked
Yeah, I know, many OSes do already prefer it by default. I see more pushes for CGN than I do for IPv6 as a solution to IPv4 depletion though, it just seems dead in the water, in my country at least. Maybe your ISPs are better, but no locally available ISP will offer me native v6, it's either real v4 or CGN v4.
> The company is still aggressive about retaining employees, often offering more equity, he added.

> Some employees cite other examples of increased frugality, albeit at a workplace that is luxurious compared with most others. Travel, supplies and events all require more justification or approvals than in the past, according to two people familiar with the changes.

It doesn't look like they're interested in making drastic cuts just yet. The innumerable perks that Google offers its employees in the form of retreats, trips, food, play, etc. are what will be cut first. You can still keep morale up if you don't send your entire data center team to a cabin or Disneyworld twice a year, or if you don't send more people to a job site than you really need.
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"assuming that somehow Uber pulled that off and they'll be the world's largest employer in less than a decade"

LOL, I thought Uber was trying NOT to be classified as an employer with respect to their drivers.

Even if they hired close to that many women, the announcement seems to be more of a stunt for positive publicity than anything, their drivers lack all of the basic protections and benefits that many public school teachers receive.

In reality, the political clout of the "Public School Teachers" is much less than the total 2.7m members since they're made up of many different unions. As opposed to Walmart, which is a single company that has much more power over their control of the workplace and employees. Right now it seems that Uber has even more clout over their drivers than Walmart has over their employees.
There are probably some model changes to make between desktop and mobile ad conversions. You may well be right, but users need a different conversion path on mobile.
> Yes that's what the robber barons keep repeating,

Screw the robber barons - and, while you're at it, screw the progressive politicians and labor unions too. This is what the goddamn labor economists keep repeating.
I suggest to check the open source API gateway: https://github.com/mashape/kong
Hey all, I'm one of the developers, so if you've got any questions -- shoot away!
They're told by Uber that they must give this narrative. It may be true for some, but for others, telling the truth would be grounds for termination.
They can annihilate -- but annihilation channels are OZI-suppressed because of gluon effects in e.g. charmonium (the J/psi, a famously narrow resonance, which was one of the final states of the decay that produced this signal). The same mechanism is likely in play here as well (it is an artifact of QCD) -- the idea is that hadronization can be energetically favorable to annihilation: since the gluons carry a strong charge (color), they participate in the interaction and can nucleate a light q/q-bar pair rather than requiring an additional (virtual) gluon to couple to the annihilation vertex.

(Also it does happen with non-quark particles as well! Positronium for example, is an electron-positron bound states -- we just see more stable hadron particles like this because QCD has Weird Maths).
> Not true.

I didn't say that there wasn't one (now or then), only that I couldn't find one, and that an employee told me there wasn't one—and both those facts are true.
> If we want a "read it later" feature and we can't build our own

Go to about:addons in firefox.

Enter "read later" in the top right box.

Browse, investigate and choose one to install on your own computer.

> The only way to solve this was to build it or bundle some ready made solution.

Building or bundling it was the only way to achieve what exactly? You're not being clear about what the goal here even is.
I can envision a kind of zooming out effect when you cross a scale boundary, which might have made this clearer and more intuitive.
Don't forget in the oil towns that pay $11+/hour for fast food workers, the menu prices are 30% higher as well
I'm confused, what's a "UEFI BIOS"? Does that mean UEFI firmware with the "Compatibility Support Module" enabled?
I use ssh jump hosts a lot with ssh keys. I imagine the scp download only downloads directly? It seems to always ask for passwords.
:) I was lucky enough to work for a great company [1] that was very techy so in terms of the culture it wasn't much of a transition. The hardest part (which I am still working on) is developing for anyone out there instead of internal use. I rarely had to think about UI/UX/User Behavior previously.

[1] http://www.sig.com/
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Nothing at all. That's what I assume will happen at the end of the day. But people saying that we can just turn it off in 9 because you shouldn't be using internal api's don't seem to get that there is no external solution.
Tree based methods, such as Random Forests, provide some nice properties at the expense of interpretability. Trees by themselves tend to be fairly variable.
Running Quake on an oscilloscope (2014)
You're right that these companies could lose steam and this shift could never come. On the other hand, the macroeconomic stats could change incredibly quickly since these companies are growing exponentially. E.g. if a company is doubling every year, then by the end of 2017 they'll have 8x more freelance workers than they did at the end of 2014, 16x more in 2018, and so on.

Based on how big of a change this could be it seems worth at least starting the discussion now rather than after the shift has already happened and there are millions of people without the protections they need.

Also, with the Uber example in particular, they have their sights set on disrupting car ownership, not just the taxi industry. So there's a chance it will be a huge net shift.
I strongly agree with Fred Wilson that Hillary Clinton's remarks were spot-on (or close enough), and that we should welcome this discussion in the political arena rather than bristling at it. The gig economy offers some very tangible and valuable benefits to both consumers and "employees", but there are a lot of unanswered questions regarding what this means for worker rights and quality of life. If we just handwave it away, we could wind up with decades or more of bad policy that keeps people poor and victimized, rather than better off and empowered.

I was very glad that Hillary Clinton took a sophisticated view of the situation and didn't just bash on a fashionable subject. I hope other candidates follow her lead and we have an actual interesting discussion.
I've been click to play on Firefox for a long time now. Faster, less annoying ads (I am okay with nonannoying ads; they help pay for the site), and sites rarely need flash anyway. I think only Gmail and github (for click to copy) need it
Interesting, though I still wonder to what extent this is a result of optimizations chasing SPEC. Alternatively, could similar optimizations be made to work with defined behavior? (How will rust fair with "less undefined" behavior?) As I mentioned, it's kind of crazy that I might substantially impair the performance of gzip by changing a few ints to unsigned.
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I use firefox and pocket but I still don't like that it's baked into the browser. If I change my mind and stop using pocket I can't actually get rid of it. I can disable it but without digging through the source code (which I can do but most users really can't) I have no idea what that actually means. To me that's a problem and it reduces the level of trust I have with the Mozilla organization.
Google is also a technology conglomerate.

Of the big emerging business lines at Google - Android/Play, GFiber/Loon, YouTube, self-driving cars, Nest & home automation, enterprise Google Docs, and AppEngine/Cloud - YouTube is the only one where the money comes from advertising.

This is a major shift from the Eric Schmidt years; Eric would always say "Our next billion dollar business is our last billion dollar business." Larry's plan is clearly to own a major portion of the technology industry going forwards, using capital from Google's first successful business (Search) to fund direct investment in new technologies, the same way that Buffett used the float from his insurance company to acquire additional cash-generating businesses. It remains to be seen how successful he is at this; tech is very different from the brick & mortar businesses that Buffett got rich at, and small startups often have strong advantages over well-funded incumbents. But "Google is an advertising company" hasn't really been true, in terms of corporate strategy, since Larry took over.
Is it that day of the week again?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9851769
Sorry for the delayed reply. I tried the filter before I commented here and my results were exactly the same.
The sine wave down the middle of the page helps with visualizing the changing scale. If you want a linear scale, maybe you will appreciate this page: http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.h...
This is exactly the reason. Properly exposed with a camera, you cannot see stars near the moon.

This is exactly the same effect. There are probably not any stars of high enough magnitude to be visible on the same exposure with such a bright object. In fact, there are definitely not: otherwise, we would see them on the image.

For more proof, check out some earlier navigation images taken by New Horizons as it approached pluto, greatly overexposing Pluto and Charon in order to see the stars around them: https://twitter.com/NewHorizonsBot/status/615264675975065600

It's difficult to imagine Pluto, being so far out, being "bright," but remember that light intensity falls off at an inverse square rate with distance. New Horizons being so close to pluto, it's actually an extremely bright object relative to the stars behind it.

In fact, NASA did a fun twitter experiment where they gave people the exact time at their location on Earth when it would appear as bright as noon on Pluto. You can see many resulting images here, illustrating how bright the Pluto surface might look were you standing on it: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23plutotime
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Just noticed this was already on the frontpage:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8810857

Sorry for the repost!
Build one that can ... build a 3D printer. Then we have recursion, and a whole kind level of economy!
Most ideas there already have some competition.
Xkcd: Pluto
> Except that over 20% of the United States has IPv6 connectivity.

The entire rest of the world has near-zero, just look at your own link. I'm in Canada and we have 0.55% here. No local ISP will offer it to me, and the one that did withdrew it completely last year. So perhaps I'm just slighted. There are a few other countries with 5%+ but it still makes up only a very small percentage of internet users. To top it off, while there has been some IPv6 adoption in the US, CGN has also caught on pretty heavily all over the world and seems to be, sadly, the solution most ISPs will actually go with for the near term at least.

> Does it? Maybe you should file a bug so that only routable interfaces and non-LL IPs are used. This does seem like a problem.

https://diafygi.github.io/webrtc-ips/ is able to immediately reveal all the VM interfaces on my system even with no VMs using them. I suspect this is done so that faster routes may be established, but it is indeed a major problem for anyone who doesn't like fingerprinting.
(I'm a co-founder of a DFS site)

DFS sites already exclude states where the games are not clearly legal (e.g. Arizona, Iowa, Louisiana, Montana or Washington, also Quebec) and have additional restrictions placed on some states (19+ in AL or NE). If a state were to pass a law or make a court judgement against it, we would simply cease operating there.

It's possible that some states will do this, although it seems that the sentiment is actually going the opposite direction, but there will be no prosecution. The industry is very proactive about monitoring legal issues.
My apologies: send me an email at chris [at] zesty.com!
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you probably can still delete your submission
I put one in at home, and work from home more now. The one thing that isn't the standing desk that makes it work, that is also mentioned in the article, is a wireless headset. Without it, that desk would be a total pain in the ass to work at.
I don't think a bot writing its own erotica would care about human erogenous zones, rather it would talk about getting packets of data and sensing locations of objectives and feeling a part in its end effector aligned in just the right way :-)
yeah, the title was practically a setup for that :)
Today's XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1551/
Still a dumb FUD, too say windmills are killing birds?
What about these monstrounous Buildings with lots of Windows?
I mean some buildings gets some pictures at their windows so that birds think that there are bigger birds which could kill them, so they don't fly near that.
Still lots of birds die at those windows.
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