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I would replace the term "Nobel Price in Economics", with "Nobel Memorial price of Economics" or "Fake Nobel Price" for short in any publication.
> I think the watch will, in the long term, be a flop. Apple needs to find a real killer app for it or it is toast.

There already are killer apps. Fitness is one. The question isn't if wearables are going to be a success (they already are), but just how smart and connected we need them to be: do you choose the Fitbit or the Apple Watch? etc. It seems that most objections to smart watches are due to price and size/aesthetics, both of which are hopefully only temporary issues, rather than absolute functionality. A bit of imagination is all that's needed.

> Down-vote away. I know the truth hurts.

If you get down votes, it'll be for the attitude, not the opinion...
Thanks, someone who says why web is going too far from its original purpose.

The major problem with web is : We use framework to abstract differences between browser which abstract web for different Operating system, which abstract hardwares.
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I don't really get your point. This character   is clearly not the minus character - (apart that they don't actually look alike, just compare the codes, minus is 45, this one is 5760).

So nothing out of the ordinary that this special character is ignored by the JS engine. You can put it almost anywhere it will just toss it while processing the command.
Hence, this works too

$ ( "#result" ). append (2 +  40) ;
English is "defacto international (or global) language" you like it or not.

No one said that English must be the only state language of Europe.
you only have to look at iTunes to see why this is a bad idea
I live in Manhattan and use both Uber and regular taxis regularly. Never had any similar problem personally with either. The streets are always crowded. Instead of having no hope of catching a cab in a timely manner at peak times and places, now I have a shot at an Uber.
People whose pensions are invested in VC funds would lose money. Don't forget that VC money comes in a large part from pension funds.
My experience has been the opposite, in the vast majority of cases where I've used Uber to/from airports (and that's a lot), the driver has almost insisted that they handle loading/unloading of luggage. Not sure if they're being courteous, it's for insurance purposes or they just don't want one of their customers damaging their car.
I'm typing this on an (unliberated) X60 which I use as a sort of netbook and which steadfastly refuses to go wrong! I'll keep it out of landfill as long as possible I think.
> It will be good to run some tests against the Purism 15 motherboard, at least to evaluate the dormancy/presence of the Intel ME via publicly known interfaces.

The ME is required to be able to boot contemporary Intel devices. It's required to do power management for years. There is no way they ship a device with Intel CPUs and no ME.

What they can do is ship a system without the AMT/vPro features that are implemented in ME firmware. The difference being if the firmware for that part of the chipset is 2MB or 6MB. If you want to know what Intel requires 2MB of firmware for a chip that isn't supposed to be very active, I have no idea either.

But given that the 6MB firmware supports intercepting USB (for keyboard and mouse) and the GPU to route them over the network interface for the soft-KVM feature, be aware that the chip has these capabilities in hardware, no matter the firmware. It just doesn't use them (or so Intel claims).
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> outer: for (var i = 0, j = 0; i < nlen; i++) {

> var nch = needle.charCodeAt(i);

> while (j < hlen) {

> if (haystack.charCodeAt(j++) === nch) {

> continue outer;

> }

> }

Oh my god, you can label loops?
That's the whole point of having a single currency and a common market... I should be able to open an account in any Eurozone bank without much trouble.
The Swiss Army knives are of course known to be simple, beautiful, time- and battle-tested, coherent, reliable, etc. There may be better multi-purpose tools, but the ideal of the Swiss Army knife sets a high bar. Compare that to the browser... You can't bring a browser with you to the woods unless you have really good 3G. No single human can even understand everything a browser does. Browsers are huge, unwieldy, and change constantly. Army knives, like Zippo lighters, pride themselves on having near-Platonic designs that haven't changed in a hundred years. An intelligent extraterrestrial could grok them. A more appropriate metaphor for the browser is a tarpit, as in "Turing tarpit."
If Americans hated liars there would be lynch mobs in the streets every time a politician opened his mouth.
This is not about "removing all overconfidence" on individual level. Here's the snippet:

"Not even he believes that the various flaws that bedevil
decision-making can be successfully corrected.
The most damaging of these is overconfidence: the
kind of optimism that leads governments to believe
that wars are quickly winnable and capital projects will
come in on budget despite statistics predicting
exactly the opposite. It is the bias he says he would
most like to eliminate if he had a magic wand."

It's useful to be able to psych yourself up when you know that you could use a little extra confidence, and costs and externalities are low. Like you need when feeling nervous about starting a conversation with a stranger.

In other situations it might be more useful to be able to make less biased guesses about outcomes, about starting wars or investing or stopping climate change. It's like you can't stop bluffing in a high stakes game even when you've lost your credibility.
It does, considering the fact that families usually have more members than just parents and children.
Almost nobody who lives in Manhattan drives.

There's nowhere to park (under $400/mo).
Facebook is arguably a sophisticated real-time communications and social networking app. Imagine if Facebook launched a desktop app to do that. Who would use it? Would they ever have become as successful as they are today? My reading is the author seems to think something like Facebook is entirely unsuitable for the web and contrary to what it was designed for, but I think it excels in a browser because of, not in sprite of, the strengths of the web: cross-platform, URLs, connectivity, low barrier of entry, and so on.

Someone will probably bring up the Facebook HTML5 mobile app thing, but consider on desktop it was always good enough, and in fact they still have a mobile web version of Facebook, which as far as I am aware is also pretty good. I think the main problem Facebook faced with their mobile app was the immaturity of web view controls on mobile, which have since come on by leaps and bounds (WKWebView on iOS 8+, Chromium web view on Android 4.4+).
Well technically, while appeal to authority may not be valid for a perfectly informed rational agent, it is something that is valid for humans for the very same reasons 'torreens advocates overconfidence is useful - namely, we don't have neither enough time nor computing power to evaluate to evaluate all available data. Authority is a useful heuristic.
> why does a system which goal is security still use C for utilities/programs that are not really CPU-bound?

I think it has something to do with compiler ubiquity.

Let's use Python as a good example of "get shit done if you don't care too much about perf." The source tarball for Python is 18MB - even the Windows binaries are 25MB. TCC[1] is 100KB. We can use that as a bad estimate of how hard the platform/runtime is to port.

Let's say you wanted to get Doas working on some pet Unix OS that you are writing. If it was written in Python you'd have to first get the entirety (25MB) of Python working; if it was written in C you'd simply cross-compile as you would be already doing for everything else. I'd put good money on you wanting to get Doas/Sudo working before you get Python working or the bajillion different runtimes that all the utils are written in.

In that way C has this very peculiar portability: it's not write-once-run-everywhere but it can be write-once-compile-everywhere. It's a common denominator.

I could be completely wrong and it could just come down to: old habits die hard.

[1]: http://bellard.org/tcc/
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Read the Innovator's dilemma to understand that when a new product is launched nobody really knows what is useful for.

It happened to the Iphone, it took at least a year and a half(it had no apps at launch!!) to start being useful for something and it happened to the Ipad: people did stare at it and say "it's cool, but I don't know what I could use this for", There is a video of a news reported asking this to people about the Ipad.

Selling millions of devices is the best feedback they could have. People always find crazy uses for any new tech.
localhost:4000 lol
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Since Kaveri AMD started building in the "Platform Security Processor". That's an ARM core that provides Trust Zone feature (ie. "make Hollywood trust your computer, despite you, the user"). Its code is signed as well.

About the same time they also stopped releasing source code for hardware initialization.

So along that axis they're not significantly better or worse than Intel nowadays. (I guess you can get by with a smaller firmware, and they allow redistribution, which are both nice, but not very relevant for freedom or security purposes)
I suppose it could help somewhat (at least the client wouldn't have to keep that huge world in memory), but now you have to deal with sending input to a remote server over an unreliable connection, and also being able to steadily render and compress about 180mb of data per second on the server side, and get it back to the client within a second to achieve 30fps @ 1928x1080. I think this will definitely be noticeable (I remember experiencing a noticeable delay with OnLive even though the connection was pretty good).

The real solution would probably be finding an effective way of dealing with memory on the client side. I don't know what the state of the art in javascript land is but big environments like this are better streamed from disk into memory portion by portion rather than putting it there all at once (i'm pretty sure there is no standard api that lets you do something like this).
It should be noted that this is hacking in the 'working out how it works' sense and not in the 'lets do something nefarious to this device' sense. Ubuntu Touch offers a lot of features that you won't find in handsets elsewhere, not least of which its hackability, in the 'getting under the covers' sense, is quite an outlier. I'm personally waiting until the '..next..' generation of Ubuntu Touch devices is out there to get involved, but I'm sure eager to jump ship and have a really cool Unix workstation in my pocket to do all the communicate deeds. It will be a watershed moment for me when I can move all communication into a device I truly own.
You're aware that you are engaging in a kind of ad-hominem here by attacking the character and reputation of a country that the OP belongs to in an attempt to justify or defend against what he said?
It comes to my mind quite often as well. I can't wait for release.
Which means also that Unix as a whole has many dozens of package management systems... So you package your app as deb, rpm, yum, pacman, ports, brew, nix, and plain tarball and then hopefully most Unix users can get it to work. That's a maintainance nightmare in itself...
Don't know what caused it, but opening the page totally froze my box. (I had to power it down)
That's an utterly ridiculous criterion/comparison. Of course, I'd turn around and go back home for the device that people expect to reach me on (irrespective of how 'smart' that device is - it's my phone after all).

The thing that smartwatches bring that fitness trackers didn't is a multi-function device. Each feature is incremental and by itself might not be compelling enough to care about long term, but add enough of them together and maybe then it can jump the chasm into everyday use (e.g. telling the time + fitness tracking + alerts + payments + quick comms + ???).
Yes.

It's a project codename, not a serious attempt at coming up with a name fit for mass consumption. It's not supposed to help with anything but one thing: to be able to unambiguously refer to the project even in the pre-release phase.

Using "sepsis" follows the policy that project codenames shall be patterned after unappealing medical phenomena (e.g., staph, polyp, varicose, etc). There are two reasons for this:

These kinds of ugly names are unusable from a marketing standpoint, so there’s a vanishingly small chance of collision with anything else.

They’re also a constant reminder of the fact that the codename is just a codename; it totally eliminates the risk of anyone ever looking at it during the actual research and naming phase and lazily suggesting, "Hey, let’s just go with that."
nontechnical buisness users like excel because it's familiar.

though i do not think having test data for automation scripts in a binary format is good. first excel is harder to work with than csv or json. second excel does not lend itself to version control.
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I wanted to actually ask the same thing! I knew of continue but I never encountered such a scenario. It's a poor man's generator.
Wow. That's news to me.

I wonder what else is in the JS syntax that I've been missing out on!
I recently committed to a CRM after trying Insightly, Capsule and some lesser known apps. I settled on RelateIQ. It's a Salesforce company. I have found it really good particularly for integrations but it's expensive. $1000+ for a single User or what they call a Seat. I also have a subscription to Triggerapp which is a CRM for small Creative firms. It does everything and is by the far the best UX and much more affordable than RelateIQ.
Because you were using vague indirect statements to say that this guy is worthless.

No, I didn't.

The nature of being "vague" or "indirect" means it's impossible to accurately determine an objective meaning. Thus, any conclusion is conjecture.
Money owed to the bank is still the bank's asset. It's simple accounting:

I deposit $1000 in the bank. The bank has an asset of $1000 cash and a liability of $1000 deposit payable to me.

The bank loans $900 to Jimmy. The bank has an asset of $100 cash and another asset of $900 of Jimmy's debt, payable to the bank. The bank has a liability of $1000 payable to me.

The bank profits from fees we pay to the bank and from interest on loans from the bank, but they have to have the money before loaning it out in the first place. They can't just loan you money out of nothing. If Jimmy shows up at the bank before I do, and Jimmy and I are the first two customers, the bank has no money to loan Jimmy and has to turn him down. They don't get to print it, which is what it sounded like you were saying. If that was a misunderstanding, I apologize; I've just run into a lot of misinformed and deluded goldbugs on HN before.

Really, what's going on is more of a double booking. Like on airlines, where they sell more tickets than they have seats based on the assumption that not everyone will show up, banks get to say my $900 belongs to me and Jimmy at the same time, and depend on having enough customers that we don't all ask for it at once, or else if there is a run on the bank, they've bought an insurance policy from the FDIC to cover that eventuality, and can borrow their own money from the FED as well.

Also, I'd be really surprised if anyone paid loan fees in the neighborhood of 10%. People these days can't be bothered to put down a 20% down payment for a house and you think they pay 10% in fees for a loan from the bank? Even if you could pull off that scheme, I'm pretty sure that's not how the reserve ratio works. The reserve ratio has to do with what percentage of a bank's deposits must be held in cash; it has nothing to do with money loaned by the bank, and it doesn't mean the bank can loan money it doesn't even have.
Haven't people been doing this for a long time? Maintaining and categorizing their pieces of personal knowledge - in files?

I personally don't understand, why such a tool need to exist. I thought humanity solved this problem the day we started to write down things. From stones, to papyrus, to personal diaries, and now to personal files on personal disks on personal laptops/desktops.

I don't understand, why suddenly someone would want to put their personal knowledge base on someone else's database (the cloud - their servers - whatever)!

Why is this even worth it? Just because you can render your knowledge pretty (with nice font, big and bold headers and images)?
You're talking about network security, which is a very small subset of IT.
> dream of the web

This phrase always reminds me of Abigail's WWW Dream: http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/int/abigail.htm
We do not need browsers, but for different reasons than the author uses.

Browsers are just one of many tools to consume one of many types of data on the internet. The fact that we'd fallen into this browser-web-address-as-a-location-app-content-mining paradigm initially does not mean that it is the optimum one going forward.

To see how misaligned we've gotten, play a thought-game: if I were a blind, privacy-sensitive person, how would I consume content on the web? I wouldn't want or need ads, user-tracking, or any of the rest of it. All I'd want is somebody to read me some text for 5-10 minutes, maybe a few times a day. Each time I might have something to reply -- or not. This would provide me everything the current web does, and would be much more lightweight and flexible. 99% of the bytes we're pushing and the interactivity we experience from browsers has nothing at all to do with long-term value. It's much more focused on stickiness and engagement. One might use the word addiction. The core text data itself, while somewhat useful, is not very much at all compared to the rest of it.

Browsers are not built in users' best interest. Therefore I predict they'll be around for a very long time.
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> You simply can't bank across a border due to all sorts of regulations and laws

I wonder how many people told Travis Kalanick you simply can't start a taxi competitor due to all sorts of regulations and laws
Do they actually transfer power between "host" and "partner", or just money?
I'd say it's more of a Millennial trend of devaluing labor and services. Napsterfication, I like to call it.

Who is going to argue with upending an industry providing a living wage to mostly immigrant workers to funnel all of the money into investor pockets instead?

Am I the only person who feels a little bit unsettled seeing the push towards the gig-economy mostly being made by genetic lottery winners? I don't know what to think anymore; it's hard to maintain the contradictions of pointing out wealth disparity, creative job demand giving fresh grads comfortable middle class lifestyles, and automating/undercutting poor peoples' jobs away.
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I can't agree with article.

Most people want fast and easy to use applications, you just need to type address on any device with the internet and you're done! No installations, no updates, no dependencies, no worries.

Imagine some app which you don't know how it looks, you must install something like 20MB, then you find out it's crappy and now you must uninstall it. On the web browser you just close tab and voila.
Banners might be awesome but banner fraud isn't. Banner fraud is funding the people we want off the internet. So it still needs to be fixed.
It may not be a logically valid argument - Kannehman could be wrong, despite being an authority - but it doesn't seem reasonable to dismiss the claims of a domain expert who has demonstrated a great depth of knowledge, including empirical studies to support his view points.
Re: Multiplatform Sudo - you bring up a really good point, which is that sudo, a multi-platform utility; It really didn't belong in base. I wonder how many other targets there are that will yield to the wonderful minimalist that is Ted Unangst (who also wrote the signify tools).

I'd be interesting in knowing what their thinking is as well. If I had to totally guess - it would be that the OpenBSD team has 15+ years of world-class expertise in writing safe/secure C code, and that switching to a different language would (A) mean having to learn how to do this all over in another language (albeit in a much, much easier manner) and (B) dealing with the abstractions that a language might bring, that didn't exist when you were writing in C.

Presumably the advantages of having a memory safe language don't have the benefits for the OpenBSD team that outweigh the negatives. Yet. I guess time will tell.
Interesting you're considering Hack. Does Hack fix all the weird warts PHP has carried into this century?
More than half the EU population already speaks english whereas less than one third speaks German [1]. Plus it is a much better choice thinking in global (worldwise) terms.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_European_Unio...
Agreed. Starring seems important and useful - but I can't imagine that many people fork and then develop from a mobile phone... but I'm probably wrong :)
There are a number of ways to write protect the flash part where (CPU) firmware resides. Some permanent (or with a jumper), others until the next reboot, by which any attack vector vanishes.

So checking that your libre firmware locks down the flash as soon as it's done with its work can be a pretty strong guarantee.
And yet half of all members of the EU don't share a common language they're functional in. That's a drastic inefficiency. The logical means of correcting it, is to standardize on English, which would provide a much greater international benefit than any other language already heavily spoken in the EU.

18% of the EU speaks German natively, versus 13% for English. However roughly 50% speak English as a whole, versus 38% for German. There are 360 million native English speakers in the world, and only 89 million German; with a billion English speakers globally, and only 166 million German speakers.
"The most damaging of these is overconfidence: the kind of optimism that leads governments to believe that wars are quickly winnable and capital projects will come in on budget despite statistics predicting exactly the opposite."

I think he is inferring idiotic overconfidence? Going to war with the wrong country, for the wrong reasons, killing, and mameing thousands of soldiers, and civilians; is idiotic overconfidence?

"things like actually being able to talk to that girl, ask for that raise, close that sale, take down that oppressor...these things benefit tremendously from irrational confidence." I'm not sure I would call these things overconfidence. I would call them the actions of a confident person?

Sure we all know overconfident people who get lucky(Donald Trump--with dad there to guide/bailout young Donald), but the overconfident people I have met--usually end up crashing, and burning, and hurting a lot of people. They are not respected, and don't get far. And many end up in jail.

And yes, according to this article; they end up in power? They do end up in power sometimes, but the ones I know all had enabling rich parents. I would term them Idiots with rich parents, over Overconfidence? Or, just the average politician?

Your premise is right from what we were given in this article. I have a feeling his book goes into more detail? I have a feeling the interviewer left out some critical information? I hope he left out information, because I'm confused with the example, and label of Overconfidence too! It's not being overconfident--it's being an irrational idiot? Then again, I'm confused with a lot of Psychology? I don't like/respect Psychologists who ponder, without a lot of evidence to back up their theory. It's just yaking, without evidence?