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> zero for Erlang w/ 5 digits for RT-JVM

RT-JVM's guarantee scheduling latencies of 2us. Erlang doesn't come close. In practice, stock HotSpot has better latency than Erlang. Erlang's "guarantees" are only in effect when 1) no native code is used, 2) no global effects are used (some process registrations, binary heap, etc.).
It was in the repo I got the ffu2img script from, forgot to remove it, see https://github.com/t0x0/random

Fixed now, thanks.
Well... it turns out that she feels a lot of things that aren't true.
> I don't know about "dev edition", but wouldn't be surprised if it isn't kept up-to-date

Dev Edition is kept up to date. If you check Firefox Versioning workflow, you will see that Firefox DevEdition replaced aurora which was the version between nightly and beta. Its kept very up to date, there are daily updates on the Dev Edition channel. Also the Firefox UI is fully customizable, just click the menu icon in the toolbar, choose customize and start replacing things you don't like.
(76% + 81% + 80% + 75% + 70%) / 5 = 76%

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~gernot/benchmarking-crimes.html
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She scraped and hosted her own email. It may be a terrible security practice, and plausibly done to avoid archival and auditing requirements. It hardly rises to the level of "crook" though.

I mean, the Nixon White House was literally breaking and entering into the offices of their political enemies. You really don't see a moral distinction here?
Please don't post stories using Google redirectors. They obscure the origin of the post and typically don't work for everyone or for very long.
There was no node pre-Joyent. Ryan Dahl and other early contributors were all working at Joyent. It is Joynet IP and they own the trademark.
While I totally agree with you, I want to bring up that many successful leaders have no respect for their employees. (Jobs with the collusion, Armstrong with public and humiliating firings, etc.)

Of course, that is not to absolve these startup founders for all their wrongs, I just think we really should hold the big folks like Jobs et al. accountable for the shit they do before we start piling up on these young and inexperienced founders.
Here's a video from 1990 -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6eE9BIUfBg&t=16m43s

Note how he says to Mandela - "the assets of the white people - I have worked for my banks, my mines, my businesses, and my farms". The sense of entitlement he has that the mines and farmland of South Africa are "assets of the white people" is incredible. Also, who was working on those farms and down in those mines? Not Koos van den Merwe, I can tell you that.
I've spent a decade and a half developing software for and deploying software to Linux, but never had to look at the code. Funnily enough, that's the same number of times I've had to look at the code for Windows and OSX, which I've been using for a comparable amount of time.
> I suffered this with a 2nd hand Windows 7 computer my mother was using that kept complaining about being counterfeit.

That has been known to happen [1] (it's never happened to me personally). I suspect it has something to do with buggy AV or anti-malware software.

> For nearly 1 hour I tried to find a way to buy that Windows 7 licence key and found absolutely no way to do it.

You don't have a Best Buy type store near you?

[1] http://www.infoworld.com/article/2859267/operating-systems/w...
In this context, the word moot is a synonym for false.
You are omitting the word "normalized wave function" from your description of the Born Rule; it is a key part of the mathematical justification. The squared amplitude does not generate the same predictions under every theory, because the probability function is different.

That is also the difference between the theories of DeBroglie and Bohm, the former is stochastic while the latter is deterministic. Copenhagen theories describe the positions of particles probabilitistically; and the word 'measure' is not being used in the precise mathematical way that it should be. A better translation from Danish would be 'convolute'.

The thing to remember is that when one writes about physics which are centuries old, one must be historiographically consistent. If there is a hyphen between two names for a theory, such that one name is being attributed posthumously; then the student should infer the most recent name is making some error in translation.

When you separate DeBroglie and Bohm, on the basis of their lack of real cooperation, then it is clear to see who was ahead of their time. Bohm is abusing statistical terms in his translations from French, and the meaning of those words is an extremely important detail in the context of Quantum Information Theory. John Von Neumann was contemporaneously working in that context, but it was classified until recent times.
I am guessing the founder in this case is going not going to be rewarded at all. Sounds like the company had a lot of debt and the "acquisition" was an asset sale. This means that they startups.co bought the assets and left the original company with the liabilities (aka millions of dollars debt). The Zirtual company will likely have to go through a chapter 11 which will be painful. She might get a little bit of extra salary from consulting for the new company but I'm guessing that's it. Overall I am guessing this is a horrible experience for her.
oh, hm. thanks
That sounds like it would violate the legal contract(or license?) between Microsoft and the OEMs for Windows?
"“I think you know why I’m calling you.” Over the next few minutes the two chatted. Prime Minister Brown was not a politician of the oozing Tony Blair/Bill Clinton “feel your pain” school. Graham-Cumming admits to some of the same social awkwardness. So the two of them stumbled through a conversation in which Brown confessed that until the petition he had not realized the government’s role in persecuting and prosecuting one of its greatest war heroes. Within a half an hour, 10 Downing released the apology."

On twitter this is what it looked like:

- https://flickr.com/photos/bootload/9171476788/

- https://flickr.com/photos/bootload/3909148598/

The original is first, the second what happens when a new PM uses a historical account.
Interestingly, if you look at the Martha Stewart chart posted, there's a big spike when she would have sold but didn't... maybe there was some real news at that time, too, I don't know, but maybe there are algorithms already set up to detect this?
This seems like a great alternative to programming an ESP8266.
working on a underserved market similar to a Linkedin platform
Have' raise money for it. We did over 500 thousand in revenue since December. I want to grow this. What are the next steps I take. Most was done manually
I think you may have forgotten an "r" in your URL. http://hackerparadise.org ?
Url changed from http://kottke.org/12/02/the-rollercoaster-of-compassionate-d..., which points to this.
As usual for a FOSS project, forking is a last resort. You start out trying to convince the project you're working on, with its existing community, just as you would for some other kind of change. Calling attention to the problem can also help. If all else fails, sure, forking the project may potentially be an option to solve the problem (in which case you'd still need to convince (a subset of) the community around that project to join the fork). But that's not always an available option, depending on the project and the circumstances that lead you to working on it.

As for communities, no, "fork it" is not a universal solution to problems within communities, conferences, professional events, and other environments. But even in cases where the approach finally ends up being to go start new, more welcoming environments, that's still a case for codes of conduct and similar; even if you're successful in moving a community elsewhere, if the same set (or a new set) of awful people show up with their same behavior, you need something to show what standards a community expects. And much like the Zen of Python, "explicit is better than implicit".

I'm also noticing a conspicuous lack of any response to the actual behaviors I was referring to; you're dismissing that as behavior that someone ought to have to tolerate or go start their own project. This problem ought to be as universally recognized in projects as buffer overflows are. And rather than playing whack-a-mole, it makes sense to try to get better solutions in place. For instance, getting support from major hosting sites, or otherwise creating larger meta-communities of people who agree that this is a bad idea, to avoid having a different set of standards (or lack of standards) in every project. And just as it's a bad idea to write your own software license rather than using a standard one, it's a bad idea to write your own code of conduct rather than using a standard one.
If you want to use the latest features without waiting for a CE build, it's getting easier to build Couchbase Server all the time. This readme is where our new hires start: https://github.com/couchbase/manifest
Yes this is the lesson.

NEVER TALK TO THE POLICE WITHOUT YOUR LAWYER.
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It means that you are deemed compliant enough to be a good slave that won't complain. Rites of passage where you go through hardship to "prove your worth" is a thing for retards obsessed about the good old days where "men were still men". Education should be a a science not a tradition. In Finland which has one of the best — if not the best — education system in the world there are no grades until university. Home-schooled children outperform by far those who are schooled. In an efficient education system, the goal is for as much people as possible to acquire 100% competence in a subject. An efficient education system is not a contest or a retarded rite of passage.
You can program it, you can use it. You might have trouble distributing it or selling it.

Is it better to patent something and tell the whole world how to do it? Or is it better to just keep it secret? It seems like some refinements to when you can sue might be in order, specifically, I might outlaw suing if you don't market an implementation of your own; that radically changes the value of a lot of property though.
Thanks for keeping it civil. I will address some of your comments in the best way I can.

>It wasn't always like that. We used to be able to download a sub-10 MB installer, run it, and have a usable installation of Firefox ready for use.

The Web Platform advanced a lot in the last few years. A lot has been added to browsers. They are no longer a simple HTML engine with some CSS and bad JS engines. Browsers these days are almost their own operating systems for good and bad. They have so much stuff going on between all the multimedia features, multiple JS engines and compilers, there are lots of stuff going on. Browsers are larger because the Web grew a lot (not in the sense of size but in complexity)

> Now we have to choose from the "correct" stream, download a 40 MB or larger installer, run it, change numerous about:config options to allow us to install our own custom unsigned extensions and to disable unwanted functionality that Mozilla has added, manually remove unwanted toolbar buttons, install a number of third-party extensions that also fix additional problems introduced by Mozilla, and in the end we're still stuck with a user interface and a user experience that isn't very good.

Firefox has always been customizable and the about:config feature enables lots of under the hood tweaks that are not possible everywhere. Making Firefox your own its part of what makes it great. Its a browser you can change to suit your needs, thats less common than people think. Your needs are not the same needs of others. As for running your unsigned extension, there will be six versions of Firefox available (stable, unbranded stable, beta, unbranded beta, dev edition and nightly). Of these six, only two will force addon signing. All the others are a tweak away.

> Now if we're developing extensions, we'll have to also jump through more hoops thanks to this signing process. You say it "takes only seconds", but I've seen enough comments here from other developers saying they've been waiting months for reviews. That's not acceptable.

Please don't mix addon signing with AMO review, they are different process with different objectives. Addon signing happens in seconds because its automated. The signed addon is returned to you in seconds and you're free to distribute it as you see fit. Now, if you want to have your addon on AMO then you need to submit to AMO review which may take a long time due to the lack of people and the overall complexity of reviewing that type of code.
So graphql is basically a query language and optimizer? Why not have a relational algebra library, query (sql, whatever) generator and optimizer as separate things?
NOPE!

"Congress Quickly And Quietly Rolls Back Insider Trading Rules For Itself"

"It was such a national risk that Congress did the whole thing quietly, with no debate. The bill was introduced in the Senate on Thursday and quickly voted on late that night when no one was paying attention. Friday afternoon (the best time to sneak through news), the House picked it up by unanimous consent. The House ignored its own promise to give Congress three days to read a bill before holding a vote, because this kind of thing is too important to let anyone read the bill before Congress had to pass it."

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130416/08344222725/congr...
So the article isn't wrong, but its misleading you into thinking this should be correct for the wrong reasons.

They are using signed integers as their indices, which means that the signed bit is always 0. Thus the addition after casting to unsigned will never overflow, and you can divide by two (shift by 1) and then recast to a signed integer, no harm no foul.
It appears it was published offline, and the original source is The Moment: Wild, Poignant, Life-changing Stories. Edited by Larry Smith, Harper Perennial, 2012.

See http://waliberals.org/the-ugly-origin-of-the-war-on-drugs/20...

There doesn't appear to be a copy of this online anywhere I can verify it.
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Yep. The more i read about containers and devops, the more it feels like its about making sysadmins subservient to programmer whims rather than custodians of server stability and availability. Or perhaps a "webification" of software development in general.

Or perhaps one can liken it to the old story about the turtle and the hare. With programmers as the hare...
This looks incredible, and I don't say that lightly. Thanks for posting it!
Have you considered Go? It makes deployment easier as it statically links everything.
Because of the politics, image a country runs by a company like Google, Facebook or Apple.
Didn't tesla open all their patents as well?

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-yo...
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I've done barely any MS development to speak of. However, I have done extensive development using CLI-based tools and I've used excellent IDEs like Jetbrains'. The power a good, integrated tool gives you over less integrated environments is tremendous. I rarely need the CLI anymore for development, so maybe with good enough tooling it doesn't matter.

Now, I hear MS' tools compare favorably with Jetbrains'. If that's true, that sounds like a pretty decent platform to me.
Your third point is dead on. Otherwise, why do surveillance on private (foreign) corporations?
Right, I was trying to separate two things:

a) chronic stress, and
b) violent threats

which are combined in this case. By ruling based on a), rather than b) (which is how it sounded to me from the write up, but I've no read the detailed judgement), it seems to be suggesting that chronic stress be the factor that i) prevents competent work, and ii) cannot be accommodated. That seems like a wider judgement than I'd be happy with. There are plenty of people with chronic stress, as long as they aren't threatening people with death, I don't see why a company can't provide some support and accommodation to help them be productive. The question about advertising is rhetorical: being chronically stressed is not on par with pissing on the bosses desk or dealing meth, or dressing as a nazi. It is on par, I'd say, with chronic back pain, loss of eyesight, hormonal imbalance.

By what standard of determining stress does one judge that an employee is past helping in a case of chronic stress? If the answer is 'you know when they start threatening people with death', then it would seem to me like the death threats, not the stress is the key culprit.

See what I'm saying?
I've lurked on the OSDev forums he credits on his website for a long time, and both Omar and Muazzam (mentioned as well on the website) are goddamn impressive for barely-teenagers. Someone hire those kids!
Extensive prior discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10039202
Ah, no problem. Thanks for clarifying! I thought it might be some terminology I did not know.
> A system that allows insider trading discourages participation by amateurs, because they do not have insider information. Insiders would earn money at the expense of these amateurs

How so? Can you flesh out the scenario a bit since I'm having trouble seeing how this is the case. To me, it seems like if there were no trade prohibitions on insider trading the share price would immediately reflect inside knowledge, thereby protecting amateurs from making investments based on facts that they don't know that others do.
> As for running your unsigned extension, there will be six versions of Firefox available (stable, unbranded stable, beta, unbranded beta, dev edition and nightly). Of these six, only two will force addon signing. All the others are a tweak away.

Okay, I want a branded Firefox. I don't want to run a dev edition or nightly. My choices are stable or beta. I probably don't even want beta, but it doesn't really matter. So, I don't really have a choice here.

I can see why signed extensions are a good thing, but removing the option from about:config is unnecessary.
I knew it was built on top of scribble, I was looking for a concise description of why it was built at all (instead of just using scribble directly).
Oracle seems to be like MS in that their reason for existing is that they came to be at the right time at the right place, and has pulled every trick in the book to pull up ladders behind themselves.
I think you got the wrong end of the stick on my point, sorry if I confused the issue.

I wasn't making it harder than it is: I was suggesting the judgement had.

If you come in to work and make death threats to employees, you may be competent, but you shouldn't be protected and accommodated, safety suggests you should be out of there.

Couching it as somehow an issue of 'incompetence due to stress' seems to introduce too many dubious variables. Other people are stressed, other people are incompetent, they don't make death threats, so this judgement shouldn't apply to them. So it is simpler to make this about the pattern of threats, not stress-related incompetence.

Though the two are connected in this case, the legal reasoning is quite capable of keeping them apart, for the sake of precedent, if nothing else. article.
Correct, we are the current maintainers for XAMPP. We also have our own LAMP/WAMP/MAMP stacks
Someone should set up an AMA for him, I'd be really curious to hear his opinions on the state of OS research and similar topics.
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Eh, let them enjoy their early formative teenage years without the stress of a job. There's a time and place for working but barely 14 isn't it.
Good on him. Building an OS from the ground up is actually fun when you get into it. I found it to be a great learning experience (but did it years later than this dude).
"Who wins in Stacked Ranking?"

The winners are the people who can convince their managers to give them the best performance reviews (upper X%). Of course, your review isn't necessarily correlated with your contributions to the company - it can be based on your political skills, e.g., making your manager look good, making your rivals and your manager's rivals look bad, etc.
Have you every actually been a leader in this situation? I dunno, maybe you have and you followed through. If that's the case, then all the high fives to you.

But I sure haven't. And I look at it and I see a 10 out of 10 management challenge. You've got the weight of the world on your shoulders as a leader here. The lives of your employees, the faith of your investors, the very life of a company you've put your all into for years. And in this case the CEO was a first time founder with (rumor has it at least) not a lot of support from her board.

Maybe she did the wrong thing. Maybe she didn't. But this shit ain't easy, and I'm not one to judge too harshly.
Better response than I got. This was just a couple months ago, the laptop shipped with Superfish installed on it in spite of assurances that it wouldn't, so I called them to ask where I could get driver installers for after I wipe / reinstall windows. I was told that I could under no circumstances reinstall Windows (even if I went and bought a brand new Windows license), that it would void my warranty and break everything and there were no drivers because: "it's not Microsoft Windows on these machines, it's Lenovo Windows".

I am never buying from them again, and at this point there is literally nothing they can do to regain my trust as a consumer.
Is it that easy? So just pre-schedule many possible trades, and in the end, just cancel all except the ones you actually want to do (after getting the inside information).
Natural laws are laws that any rational nation would arrive at... well, naturally. Killing is bad, so is stealing, etc... These are natural laws. Anyone capable of rational thought can see how these things would ultimately be bad for any society.

The others are laws that a nation creates as a result of specifics surrounding itself. Patents are one such example. These exist solely to spur the sharing of ideas by encouraging inventors to document and share them in detail so that they can later be used by society once the patent expires. A temporary monopoly is granted on an idea to encourage this sharing. This way, ideas aren't lost to eternity simply b/c the inventor didn't have the means to fabricate them. This concept is purely a construct of western nations and culture. It's unlikely an isolated society would arrive at a similar construct naturally.
The US presidency is perhaps the greatest bait and switch ever pulled. So much is spent fretting over who gets the office, when there is very little direct power to be had without some backing from congress.
I'm no expert, but the article lists VP9 as "proprietary". Which I take to mean not open source, and potentially not free. Though the proprietariness could be a response to the issues they had with VP8 and suspected reactionary patenting.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10043152
Why not squash the other thread, since the link was dead and this one isn't? This appears to be blatant censoring of something that the majority of HN participants wanted to read and comment on.
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Except they only acknowledge that it was a problem because they did it wrong and introduced security issues in the process, not that it was a problem to do it at all. And to the best of my knowledge, the Windows "feature" to read and execute a binary from firmware at startup still exists.
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