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However not all implementations are made alike.

For example, when one speaks about Java, are you aware that IBM's J9 compiler supports value types via the packed objects extension?

Or that Mono cannot compete with Visual C++'s backend for .NET native code generation?

Or that any commercial Common Lisp runs circles around the open source offerings?

So speaking of language X, always matters to refer to implementations.
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it's an interesting project! you may want to take a look at git-annex as well, which also uses git and ssh (and rsync) to synchronize things but also supports large files.

you would need to run a daemon on both ends to get inotify-like behavior however.

why did you switch from node to python to go, btw?
If I remember correctly they were paying to charity for giving them stars ;-)
The reason people use LuaJIT instead of v8 is because LuaJIT is faster than v8 (on some code) and is smaller and is more easily embeddable. Or at least that is my impression, I have no personal experience with it.
Indeed, that is the question. The post tries to show that "cut your hair and get a job" will disappear as an answer to "how do I get to partake in this wealth creation" for a large number of people and we'll thus probably want to come up with an answer that scales better than today's social security for example and works for all those who live in countries without social security.
I think you make a few too many assumptions about what I know. Why do you assume that because I said that the programming language is actionable to a modified lump of sand that I believe isn't also communicating to the programmer? Its first goal is the latter. But until English can be executed by a computer, you must use programming languages to get the lump of sand to do stuff.
Reminded me of Calepin, was popular few years ago... http://calepin.co/
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Sorry, not directly an answer to your points. But here goes:

- Activism? When faced with the backlash from "I have nothing to hide....you must have something to hide," most people don't know how to respond to this logical fallacy

I like the Snowden argument[0] about this one, and try to say it to people as often as possible. So I am going to repeat it here as well. Maybe then can we teach people who "don't know how to respond" how to respond:

> Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/36ru89/just_days_left...
Hah! Good catch of an funny unintentional typo. Fixed to 'ubiquitous', which is what I meant.
So true. Some (increasingly rare) code does not translate into modern trends. actually it's more like craftmanship and LuaJIT is a craft. Just like Gigablast open source search engine.
About the dutch campaign in 2006:
http://wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/English

And about a follow up campaign in India with some of the same people: https://indiaevm.org/

Also see some recent research done with the Estonian e-voting system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY_pHvhE4os
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It reminds me Rails for Zombie

http://railsforzombies.org/
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Exactly. Another way to say this is that this launch requires less Delta V. It's completely different than getting cheaper fuel of the same mass (which would be trivial).
Dead end. I suspect a widely varied yet cross-compatible & long lived set of modules & interfaces would leave us with a gigantic / expensive / ugly device.
This is the first chapter of Neal Stephenson's book "Hieroglyph".
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> I would be wary of any IDE that attempted to interpret what my code is doing for me

Actually, there is explicit interpretation in any IDE. It's just the level of abstraction that Mr. Victor has articulated. Generally speaking, the programming world is tethered to the notion that programming makes the most sense through logical linguistic feats, but under the surface of anything code-driven or lingual is an implicit type of semiotic.
Wait Columbus? That's not drastically far..
The short answer is, atmosphere. All the designs I've seen for that involve imparting a lot of velocity near the ground where atmosphere is really wrecking up your day. It isn't even the drag necessarily (although that doesn't help), it's the turbulence. You can't expect to reliably hit targets from a significant distance, like hoops, if you're going through the air.

If you're on the moon, the idea makes a lot more sense in a lot of ways.
running as root??? seriously?????
For many people, that's not really a "choice". It's what they can afford.
> then at least in terms of people involved

AOO has so few commits that this has basically happened.
What you're describing for the dice is called the law of large numbers : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers

It would probably true for that too but as another comment says, we don't want to have an increased sample size here!
Yeah, Calepin was one of the services which inspired Blot. Sad to hear it's shutting down:

https://twitter.com/calepinapp/status/631518650051231744
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Those founders are interesting, but they're not typical. They're outliers. If you want to assess whether or not the distraction of a business is worthwhile you need to look at a lot more data - I have no idea whether or not it'd be a good idea, but I woulnd't be very surprised if the majority of businesses founded during college fail (because the founder tries to do their degree as well) or the founder drops out of college and the business subsequently fails in the first few years (because 50% of businesses do).

But that isn't to say it's not worth it. It depends on the founder, the idea, the market, the funding, the timing, and more.

This is not a simple 'sure, because look at these billionaires!' question.
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Yes, and industrial chicken farms are also space efficient.
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It's basically waiting for someone to bother writing it.
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See here for responses to a similar comment earlier today:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10075453
Would this ever hold up in court? This describes the idea of one, without the impl. It is like me stating "I am planning on building a rocket, it will have stuff coming out this end, and it will fly to space". Isn't the point of patents the how as well as the what?

Any lawyers able to comment?
Take a rabbit, also called a hare, consider that this was conceived and patented by rabbits - yes, definitely a hare brained scheme.-
On the analysis side, we have a picture of a 20 kilometer high sail, standing up at right angles, through areas where the air currents go as high as 300 Kilometers per hour(jet stream) and they feel this will stay standing.
In my opinion, this will never be built. Small scale models will show the folly of this. By the way, at 65,000 feet, the lift of the helium filled top pocket will have near zero lift.
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I didn't even know OO still existed. With that said, I don't find LO much different. It looks and feels the same. The interface is still ugly, like everyone already mentioned, but that doesn't even matter to me. I find the performance sucks compared to Excel. Have you ever tried a multi column sort on a large table in excel vs LO? There's a huge difference. Aside from calc slowness though, the rest of the suite works just fine.
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Well... My video application was watched once. I don't know if this is good or bad.
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Is there a demo of the "Exit Intent Technology".

Is it only tracking whether the user is going to the top left to go back or doing something cleverer?

Surely it can't help if the user uses a keyboard shortcut, backwards swipe gesture or just goes to the URL bar to go somehere else?
I was setting up one of those new fangled web sites at the software company for which I worked back in 1995. It was just two of us doing it in our spare time, with me doing the software side of things and a colleague looking after the hardware. He installed Slackware Linux on some hardware he had scavenged, and I installed Apache, Perl and (slightly later) MySQL. These choices weren't because we were visionaries or anything like that, but because we had zero budget and didn't know any alternatives.

The funny thing is, I remember a few years later going for interviews and being slightly bashful about our use of free software. But it was only after I subsequently got a job at a much bigger company using very expensive commercial software, which was an order of magnitude slower and mind bogglingly unreliable not to mention completely opaque, that I came to realise just how good some of the free software is.
I get that quality of IRS work falls with less staff, but on the other hand - maybe it is a good thing? May be it will force changes? While not the worst in the world, USA tax code is... complicated. Maybe it could be simplified.
Somewhat playing devil's advocate, but they do have a failure rate. An insanely small one with perfect use, but still
> So when I asked Linus about NFS file caching, he blew me off in what I now know is a typical Linus like fashion, and said he didn't care about NFS.

I have always wondered if Linus was a bit for friendly, would the Linux community have gotten a lot more mainstream faster?
I think that well functioning financial markets have huge social value. Let's contrast the mortgage market in 2007 (finance gone wrong) with the stock market when it functions normally. This description is idealized and somewhat self-serving, but I think it is a useful model.

In 2007 key players (mortgage originators, banks, ratings agencies, governmental agencies and investors) only had incentives for mortgage prices to go up. It was hard to bet on prices going down, and even when you could it was hard to get enough information to realize how overpriced mortgages were. This poorly functioning market resulted in disaster.

The stock market has much more information available, and it is usually easy to bet against prices that are too high. The collective intelligence of many smart people determines stock prices using money, a powerful incentive to get things right. This results in a liquid, well-functioning market with many positive social effects. Google exists today in part because an angel investor knew that if the company succeeded there were well-functioning public markets to sell into. While it's popular to say that the stock market influences company behavior negatively, and causes "short-termism", I believe the opposite:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/24/the-short-termi...

The market often imposes discipline on managers who would otherwise run companies for their own benefit at the expense of everyone else.

You can tell a similar story for the social benefits of lending money, and the importance of doing it well.

The world has seen a vast improvement in wealth, health, education, and safety in the last 100 years, and I think a large contributor is a financial system that has enabled and rewarded socially useful enterprises.

As I said, this is an oversimplification, and a lot of smart people completely disagree. I don't deny that there are jobs in finance that seem to me to be pure rent-seeking, with negative social value. However, I think that overall the system works well, and that the work I do makes it run a tiny bit better.
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Hm. Outliers. Lets calculate the 'expected value', the average return we can expect statistically. Thousands of college startups. Three sucessess valued in tens of billions.
That would be pretty silly thing to do and I hope no one actually act on this idea. Hackers enjoy it because they are using "mules" providing their checking accounts and then sending wires or western union transfers. Normal person will get caught. While it is possible to setup perfect crime, I bet most will not be able to and end up in jail if they try.
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Are you aware of an US equivalent?
Most developers don't think (or know) about security issues like this, and running something as root avoids a whole class of deploy problems, so I understand why this can happen.

It's certainly not right, and indicative of the need for either a system administrator with an eye for deployment best practices, or an explicit security position who sets up audits to look for these kinds of flaws.
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tldr; People came up with an idea of some kind of paying twitch and decided to give up when Google might release something similar for free.
FYI I'm getting "Uncaught TypeError: Failed to construct 'ImageData': Illegal constructor" on Chrome 41.
Fear not. First of all, occasional contributors are perfectly compatible with LuaJIT. Take a look at the Git log. Many of the commits are bugfixes that don't impact the overall "perfection". It's not a crystalline structure:

http://repo.or.cz/w/luajit-2.0.git/shortlog

You can even get a list of those commits that are contributed, mostly by the exact process that you describe as being inappropriate:

http://repo.or.cz/w/luajit-2.0.git?a=search&st=commit&s=Than...

Also, I don't think CloudFlare have the intention of entirely relying on sporadic contributions. As they said earlier this month, "we will be investing significantly in its development and are interested in hearing from people who would like to work full time on LuaJIT as employees of CloudFlare." (I'd be curious to know how that's moving along!)
What is this post about? This is what I get on clicking the "article" link with the latest version of Opera:

>It appears as if you’re using an old or uncommon browser that doesn’t support common standards.

>To access Hangouts, upgrade to the latest version of any of the following browsers:

>Download Chrome
>Download Firefox
>Download Internet Explorer

Web standards, they said.
>Each octopus tentacle, however, acts autonomously as it feels around for food or threats. The brain can take over if necessary, but their decentralised nervous systems make octopuses less dependent than vertebrates on transmitting long-range signals through their bodies.

The only way I could imagine this is by holding hands of two toddlers. They are attached to you, acting autonomously, but you could (pretty much) order them around.

It's like trying to imagine what it's like to be blind, you can't.
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No, no. I said there wasn't a technical reason [e.g. Purchasing N is the same as purchasing Y from Amazon's perspective]. They may have a security policy in place to prevent it.
we would have never gone to space

Interesting conclusion. Can you elaborate how you got there? Did you perhaps fall victim to the "no free time" fallacy, that somehow agriculture gave us more time for leisure, study, etc?

Diamond writes modern hunter-gatherers have at least as much free time as do farmers - and this in land that is marginal, since we farmer-society-types have pushed them there.

A more intriguing line of argument might have to do with settled communities, etc.

Regardless of your line of argument, please ensure you do not succumb to survivor bias (because we got here this way we could only have gotten here this way, because no hunter-gatherer society got here, none can).

I look forward to rigorous reasoning.
Might as well build a railgun launcher at that point?
Ask HN: Co-founder quitting. What shall I do?
Hi HN,

For those of you who've been through it all, I would love to hear your advice. My co-founder has decided to focus on another career path. While I've found another guy who's interested in helping me, I'm worried that people would just come and go without sticking it out for the long haul and potentially take away the equity. That being said, we haven't officially formed a company so I am not sure if my co-founder is entitled to anything?

Also, I'm determined to keep moving forward since we've been seeing some promise but at this stage, would it be a good idea to take on a co-founder? I can see a need for a more technical one but most people I know have stable jobs and aren't likely to pull nighters and weekends.

Thanks for your advice.
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although it might be heart sinking i don't think google really killed it in this case. The company gave up at the threat of competing with google. Killing something is more like what twitter did to meerkat to push periscope. My personal opinion only.
Their description of the business model is to be gamefaqs.com, only with videos instead of text. As an avid gamer, that sounds:

- very niche, their intended content would only be a small fraction of what yt gaming will offer (it focuses on live streams)

- very unattractive, since learning how to play the game by exploring it is the fun of it

- very unmonetizable, given that people can get the very same content, for free, in a format that's much easier to digest

I don't think they needed to invoke google to throw in the gauntlet.
Another great resource, the coworking wiki : http://wiki.coworking.org/w/page/16583831/FrontPage
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This was a great read. As a Canadian, I get the feeling that (most) people get Harper is bad news, but don't quite get all the details. I'll be sharing this one.
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There's a school here in Dublin where the kids were starting to get back trouble from the weight of all the books they had to lug around, so they gave them all iPads and books in digital format instead, which solved the problem; that's certainly a legitimate need.
These numbers are way off. like by an order of magnitude.
I think calling out that they specifically wanted to teach people to play video games matters in the tldr.

Honestly, this sounds just like a feature that this company may have made interesting with G will just kill off in a few years.

Reminds me of MS product announcements in the bad old days.
All paper and pencil in The Netherlands after some techies realized black box voting is a dangerous thing. http://wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/English

Although some people really want to get the electronics back so it's an ongoing battle of educating people (even most hackers and others in the security industry that did not think a lot about voting in particular).
No, not like that. Thanks for telling me about gun.io, because I hadn't heard of them, but they seem like basically just a slightly hipper version of a contract programming agency, and there are many of those. I don't want to deal with a concierge and sort through resumes (to reiterate, I can already get that exact service from dozens of established agencies) and I don't want to hire people for weeks/months to be "part of the team" -- which seems to be what gun.io is geared towards. I could be misunderstanding what they do, of course.

For my purposes, I like the elance/Freelancer model, where I can post a job and quickly hire someone to do 2 hours or 20 hours of specific work. I've just been very disappointed with the quality of work I've gotten every single time I've used these services (with one exception, noted above).
Wow - what a difference that makes. It's very encouraging to see visuals getting some attention.
Aah, the old "nudge them in a direction so when they figure it out they think it was their idea" trick. Very effective; but it takes a degree of trust in your subordinates (namely that they're smart enough to figure it out given enough time).

Anyway, if you take your primary job as a manager to be building your team's skills, it's absolutely the right way to go. People tend to remember lessons they learned the hard way, so I like to let my people fail in small ways because it's instructive.
In the end it is about knowledge sharing. You either tell someone that he might be headed in the wrong direction (he doesn't need to listen to you though) or you don't. If you tell him, he has more information on which he can base his decision. If you don't, you deprive him of the chance. I agree however that the decision is up to each individual.

There is also another view - I think it is good to let developers influence the decisions about technology used, but only up to a point. In the end it will be leader's problem if technology that some novice developer wanted to use fails to deliver (as it so happens).

EDIT: I do agree with you that developers need to own up to their challenges though. :)
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the article seems to suggest that the hackers had access to stolen data, Target comes to mind within the US. Did Target share the hacked data to the FBI so the feds can cross check with the data irs released and send the offending company the bill before we pick up the pieces. Can the federal government legally do it since the statute of liability has not expired yet? "Is there a lawyer in the house?"

If the hackers had access to data outside the US, then it may have to be us the taxpayers, unfortunately.
You're right, the micro-level version isn't a fallacy (either..), though I think that's less contentious, or? Many countries already have some experience with this. For example, agriculture has gone from having 70-80% of the workers in 1870 to less than 2% in 2008 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_the_United_Stat...). Some countries now have welfare systems that introduce some security on an individual level, though in their current form they tend to rely on the average employment rate remaining fairly high.
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(N.B.: It's been 10+ years since I've done this, so I'm sure I'm slightly off WRT the file names.)

Let's say you had the 2.6.0 source in /usr/src/linux.

You would FTP to ftp.kernel.org, download patch-2.6.1.gz into /usr/src and

# cd /usr/src
# gzip -d patch-2.6.1.gz
# patch -p0 < patch-2.6.1

Descend into /usr/src/linux and begin the process of (re)configuring and recompiling your kernel.

Side note: there would often be other patches by various kernel developers (e.g. Alan Cox) and they would be named something like "patch-2.6.1-pre6-ac.gz". I recall once coming across a patch by someone I had never heard of -- Don Tuse was his name, apparently. I proceeded to download, e.g., patch-2.4.8-dontuse.gz (or whatever version it was), apply it, and recompile my kernel. It was only later that I realized Don Tuse was actually "Don't Use".
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