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No, companies rely on forcing obedience from their employees through the threat to remove healthcare and livelihood. They rely on forcing compliance from their customers by hiring a team of highly trained psychologists who specialize in propaganda and brainwashing to try and subconsciously trick people into purchasing your product. They rely on anticompetitive business practices: forcing out competition, or competeting so hard that margins are so thin for everyone that there is no choice but "the lowest cost in dollars" which generally comes at the highest cost in social good or human rights. You're describing some utopia where people work for a company because they want to and have many choices of employer. This isn't the case for the vast majority of people. Saying a company gets your consent because you continue to work for them is like saying a rapist gets your consent because you didn't punch him hard enough when he assaulted you. It's not dadist at all, it's honest and practical. The alternative dishonest -- to perpetuate the myth that draws a hard line between 'consensual' actions -- those which are forced by our economic system -- and 'voluntary' ones like which brand of a product do I purchase -- those which don't matter.

Society is defined exactly in the way that you know it should be. Asking whether or 'society' for Joe's local coffee shop includes Indonesian fisherman is simultaneously saying you understand what society is and that you refuse to admit you know what it is. It's intentionally misunderstanding others for a rhetorical purpose, i.e. arguing in bad faith and you know it. Cut it out.

Western democratic governments are required to try. You're right dictatorial regimes operate more like large corporations and can do as they wish -- they are possibly even worse because they tend to include death camps as well. So if when I say 'government is generally more transparent than private industry' your response is 'what about the Syrian government', well, fine, you've made my point.

Publicly traded firms (a minority of 'industry') are "accountable" to a tiny group of the wealthy hyper-elite in that they have to publish very specific technical details about their accounting. That's quite a stretch.
Sure, it gets cold in the winter there, but, say, -20C is not too cold to get out of the house to get some firewood nearby.
I walked at -20C to school as a kid, and it was ok. I wouldn't go out when it was -30C, but considering the mean of -18C, -30C would be rare, and almost never in the middle of the day.

Bottom line: people have lived just fine for thousands of years in much harsher climates, for example, a thousand miles north from where she lives.
> Won't that just encourage more companies to do exactly what they are complaining about?

It will become much harder for any company to argue the they are using grsecurity if they are not a sponsor since it is not public disseminated any more.

This should give their lawyers considerable more leverage and the offending company's lawyers are more likely to warn discourage stone walling the grsecurity team since the company will be in a weaker position.
Feels amazing you liked FundingHunt :)

The model of FundingHunt is similar to Hacker News or Product Hunt. All the funding stories are user-submitted in order to maintain the quality and consistency of posts.

You can also post startup funding stories on FundingHunt at: http://www.fundinghunt.co/submit
The Million Dollar Homepage (2005–2015)
I'm not sure what the BLAS story in PyPy is, but manual looping over elements is not going to work like that, and SIMD will help significantly there. If you're only doing broadcasted operations, there's not much draw in PyPy over CPython.
It should be called "Amazon Bad News"
> But it'd be nice to be able to learn rc in isolation,

No, because rc "lacks" features unix users are used to, such as command history. The reason rc does not have this sort of thing is because it's unnecessary thanks to rio. Without rio, rc is not a useful interactive shell. Without using rc interactively, why bother using it instead of perl or python? It's just another programming language at that point.

> Really? How do you set up a ssh server on plan9?

sshserve(1) (see ssh1(1)) for sshv1, and sshsession(1) (see ssh2(1)) for sshv2.
Standardizing the Development Environment
This is from DOT (US Dept. Of Transportation).

This is part of a larger series.

http://flh.fhwa.dot.gov/innovation/td/geotech/velocity/
Ah. I guess my experience was different because I installed apps that I preferred over the built-in ones and found a start menu replacement.
The 300 line node.js script I just got running after two days is WAY more impressive.
Is this true for all products or just phone and tablets? I was actually intrigued by the echo and dash, even if I think they should be open and not tied to one company or use.
I see. This plus an official trademark policy might help.
Proper design is about melding form and function. You're just talking about 'form' designers, who would be better termed as artists.

You're also just grabbing Microsoft and Google as being designer-free in their successful years, which is patent nonsense.

> In the end engineers build great high tech organizations

Again, nonsense. Engineers alone did not make Apple the behemoth it is today. The designers made their unusual products desirable. And the Apple marketing cohort never get their props for the incredible job they did in making a computer company funky. Then there are props to the Apple staff who did magic with their supply chain. You think engineers are the most essential part of a great company? Try to run a company when your business folk can't close a deal to save themselves. History is littered with superior engineering designs that failed in the marketplace. Doesn't matter how good your engineers are if their stuff doesn't sell.

Frankly, fuck this "my job is more important than yours" dick-swinging competition. In today's economic-rationalising environment, few jobs aren't essential.
> significant chunk of happily married people who don't think monogamy is for them

There's a significant chunk that is ok with cheating. There's a far smaller chunk that's ok with the other person cheating.
> a high-end computer for the kitchen

It's Honeywell all over again!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_316#Kitchen_Computer
>The lack of a package manager

maybe soon?

http://www.howtogeek.com/200334/windows-10-includes-a-linux-...
15 years or so ago I worked at a company that built one of those CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) programs, it was called I-deas (but has since been renamed), and yeah we had tons of core numerical code in Fortran that we just linked in and used. A lot of it came from the 70s and well it worked pretty well.
>One of my favorite features that has come to Windows 10 is the ability to scroll an inactive window. Prior to Windows 10, and assuming you were not running a third party utility which enabled this, in order to scroll a window you had to first select it.

The author might be referring to KatMouse[0] here. It a fantastic little program, always one of my first installs when I roll out a new system.

[0] http://ehiti.de/katmouse/
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Re: kidney failure. Doesn't it seem odd that they survived for decades, then died just after modern contact? There's evidence that modern processed foods have a terrible effect on people accustomed to traditional diets. Just the sudden increase in nutritional value might be difficult to adjust to.
Is amazon really in a fight to the death with Google play? Can I buy cat food there?
People post knock-off stories all the time. We usually try to change the URL to the original source. This one, though, was already posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10125704.
Consider watching it again because there's way more science in there than I feel you're remembering.
Hardly. The adage 'You get what you pay for' has been proven to have real consequences. http://news.stanford.edu/news/2006/january18/shiv-011806.htm...
What a load of horse shit. No one said design is more important than engineering, rather that software without ux research and design will never be successful in the long run. Look around man, design is the key differentiator. Any engineer can spin up your software in the cloud as a startup and leverage intuitive design to undercut you. You are on hackernews, no one is arguing that engineers are less important than designers. Engineers don't do ethnographic field work to realize how users intuitively prefer to interact with a system in any given industry.

Graphic designers mocking up PSDs are useless. A UX team with designers and researchers are worth their weight in gold and bring immense value to the SDLC by helping the dev teams validate their designs against user mental models early on in the product development life cycle.

And if you think I'm talking out of my ass, here is a voice of authority: Alan Cooper, “Father of Visual Basic," with his book 'The Inmates Are Running the Asylum'

http://www.amazon.com/The-Inmates-Are-Running-Asylum/dp/0672...

"The Inmates are Running the Asylum argues that, despite appearances, business executives are simply not the ones in control of the high-tech industry. They have inadvertently put programmers and engineers in charge, leading to products and processes that waste huge amounts of money, squander customer loyalty, and erode competitive advantage. They have let the inmates run the asylum. Alan Cooper offers a provocative, insightful and entertaining explanation of how talented people continuously design bad software-based products. More importantly, he uses his own work with companies big and small to show how to harness those talents to create products that will both thrill their users and grow the bottom line."

I highly suggest you step off your pedestal and read this book. If not, enjoy creating your architecturally efficient, crappy software that is a pain for actual humans to use.
Neumont University Dumps CEO Edward ‘Nasty Ned’ Levine After Campus Buyout
The Periodic Table’s Endangered Elements
The basic principles of security (and why they matter)
Sanders' support is almost exclusively from white progressives. He has almost no traction with minorities and less pull with women than Hillary. He's also well to the left of the Democratic base.
Don't you have to deal with Metro when the control panel applet or app you need is Metro-style? I have to see that screen when I hit the Super key to search for an application by name.
My "screw this" moment was when I discovered you needed an internet connection to play Minesweeper.
I think these exmples are largely worthless also. Every time I see something like this - I all but dismiss it. It seems like the aim/value proposition is to make life easier by removing decisions from our plate, but I feel like it is exchanging decisions for frustration when it doesn't work as promised, or worry about whether the decisions the system makes will be good ones.

I actually don't want a machine to make decisions for me. I want a machine to do what I tell it to do, or present me with I formation required to make a decision.

Examples: if I need a dentist appointment or to schedule maintenance for my air conditioning, I'd like to tell a machine to set it up. Heck, I'll even tell it who to call and which days and times work for me.

If I'm looking for a restaurant, show me the options, give me their distance, top reviews, and some of their dishes. If I want reservations, I'll tell it when and for how many.

Ideally, I want a "Jarvis" from "Iron Man". I ask questions, it gives data in a digestible quantity, and then I can make a decision and tell it what to do. Obviously, such a system is not available (yet), and these inferior systems are needed in order to make progress, and get there...eventually..but sometimes I wonder if the focus is on the right outcome, or just the broad strokes cookie cutter solution that comes to mind first (restaurant reservations). Similar to how all JavaScript MVC frameworks demo a to-do app, and rails tutorials demo'd a blog (initially)...

I mean, seriously... How often do you not go out to eat because you are too lazy or busy to make a reservation? Now, how many times do you skip oil changes, or making calls to cancel your cable service, because you don't want to make time in your day to stop what you're doing, pick up the phone, and call?
Brad doesn't throw personal attacks and insults around like Linus anyway. Plain spoken criticism of actions and ideas is not a personal attack. He tends to strongly disagree with the upstream kernel developers on issues related to security and what pisses them off is that his criticism is fair and accurate. They should be embarrassed about the state of security (and stability...) in vanilla, and they get offended when it's pointed out.
After clicking around the demo and skimming most of the docs, I have a couple questions.

First, I'm still unclear on how urls work. For example, can I host a multiple wordpress blogs at multiple domains? Like jerrac.tld, foobar.tld, and example.org?

What if I also want to have other apps on those domains?

Also, how do I view a wordpress instance as an anonymous user? I couldn't figure it out.

Second, how do multiple users work? For example, a user that has editor perms in wordpress and can create Lychee and Etherpad apps, but can't do anything else.

Third, is it possible for me to install a customized version of an app? Like if I commit the crime of hacking wordpress core, could I get that to install on my Sandstorm instance?

Fourth, has anyone looked at adding Drupal 7 and 8 to the available apps?
Destroyed by Rockefellers, Diego Rivera Mural Trespassed on Political Vision
I wonder which senator is scared of his data being leaked.
From that angle, it's the difference between a true product maker and a retailer. They have different visions, one is more user-centered and another is more oneself-organization-value-chain-centered. Unfortunately, most of people with huge capital leverage capability are not true product makers and most of true product makers do not have that capability. Jobs happened to be the one that had both. I wish he had lived till 100. Apple without Jobs seems to come out with new products by levering existing products' values or somewhat network effect in products and OS eco, not the other way around.
Making a low/mid range would have been just as bad of an idea. That range is way lower margin and the established players are way better at it.

They had to go big or go home. They really should have gone home though.
Control Panel accessed from the desktop in Windows 8 is the normal Control Panel from previous Windows versions.

Tried searching for control panel in the start menu and it launch the desktop control panel for me in 8.1
You look at the top classified ad site(craigslist), and it's pretty clear how important design really is.
Did you contact CS? Amazon's customer support is amazingly good and would take care of that for you ASAP.
At the very least, I have to pay for it with my time, which is unrecoverable. If I can skip or otherwise ignore an ad, that is one thing, but forced interstitials is even more nebulous than a banner ad.

It's not free if I have to spend time servicing your revenue stream, unless you reimburse me at my market rate for my time that you spent/wasted.
Have you seen "Alternatives to the Singularity"? https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1B75jindDAWsm8lBHPl4y...
It seems all of the problems have the same solution. Store the excess power at night to use during the day. Then the stored power allows for a cold start. For the initial start the energy storage device can be filled over time from the grid.
Honestly, I doubt this is something to worry about. Fusion happens through confinement; it's inherently unstable -- the more energy production, the stronger the confinement is needed (which is provided by a self-regenerating power source in a fusion reactor). This is everything you don't want from a bomb. If the reaction starts getting too hot, your confinement breaks and then the reaction stops. Scaling up the reactor doesn't change this, and it's not like it's viable to fly a reactor with a 100MW startup power source and drop into places anyway.

A fusion bomb necessarily needs a transient, extreme ignition, which I believe can only be achieved with a fission bomb (even with the truly massive fission energy building an H-bomb took a while!).
really? You can't open 2 browser windows and put them in different desktops?
My point is today, more than ever,
engineers are essential.

Design is not and the article misses that point and is using design as a gauge for a companies health. That's not accurate, anyway that's my opinion.

Also it's not just google and Microsoft. It's every other high tech company being Bourne today. Engineering lead organizations are much more likely to succeed.
He didn't put a specific job. Key lead could be anything in engineering or product management.
> all too often people claim how they are really intellectually gratified by an article calling Trump a doody-head troglodyte

I almost never see that. There's isn't much controversy around what counts as "intellectually interesting" here. People spend more effort trying wrongly to narrow the scope of HN, e.g. claiming that it's only about startups and tech, flagging all non-technical posts, etc., all of which is against the spirit of the site (and bad, in my opinion, for technical creativity too).

The standards are better established de facto than de jure—the last thing we want is legalistic arguing about rules. So I think the traditional description suffices:

A crap link is one that's only superficially interesting. Stories on HN don't have to be about hacking, because good hackers aren't only interested in hacking, but they do have to be deeply interesting. What does "deeply interesting" mean? It means stuff that teaches you about the world. A story about a robbery, for example, would probably not be deeply interesting. But if this robbery was a sign of some bigger, underlying trend, perhaps it could be.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

Edit: but if there's something we could do to get more high-quality links posted about historical topics, arts and letters, geography, anthropology, etc.—the myriads of interesting stories outside HN's couple of core grooves—I would love to hear about it. They are particularly welcome and we rarely have enough of them.
My Amazon Fire TV Stick is quite nice: fairly snappy, very usable interface, downloadable apps, almost-perfect minimalist remote control. (One flaw: the 'home' button is too easy to hit by mistake.) Better in most respects than the Google ChromeCast.

I hope Fire TV products survive and thrive through this reorg.
so you're deliberately feeding the parents fruitless casino games that manipulate children into becoming psychologically addicted, just to keep them occupied selecting from that pile of trash what is acceptable and what is not, right ?
You seemed confused when you were talking about the time to get to LEO. I was just clarifying what I thought the "eight minutes away" comment referred to.
There are entire companies, many worth well into the hundreds of millions, built around dynamic languages. The notion that they can't scale to enterprise-grade application quality is a vestigial exhortation of a bygone era of pedanticism, perpetuated by nerds who saw 'barriers to entry' (obtuse language design) as a way to artificially inflate their own stature. Don't drink the Kool-Aid.
You don't hear about this crap from higher ups at Google. Same for current Microsoft leadership for that matter.
> Microsoft never gave a shit about design and did great.

How wrong you are! When did Windows make its big leap forward in usability and popularity? Windows 95. Why was it a big leap forward? Because Microsoft poured massive amounts of resources into studying user interaction and rethinking everything to improve the user experience, both for the novice and the pro.
Everyone who works for Larry Page (and Sundar) seems to be very happy still.
The marketing is reminiscent of Amazon's fantasy delivery drone.

"the user interface required the user to complete a two-week course just to learn how to program the device, using only toggle-switch input and binary light output ... Although a fantasy gift, the Kitchen Computer represented the first time a computer was offered as a consumer product."
You can have the quickest, cleanest backend in the world, but if it's laid out badly at the frontend, it doesn't matter.

I remember having to use a SAP-like bit of software called MFG/Pro years ago. It was reasonably quick to perform any action, but the workflow was baroque. In order to consume a part from stores, no matter how trivial (a washer? a nylon screw?), in addition to actual data entry, I had to click 'next' 27 times and 'back' about 6 times, and at the right points in the workflow or it would have to start over. Literally 27 times, working through various inventory wizard screens. It was the poster child for bad UX.

The same company's paid support patch process went like this: we give you credentials to the FTP site, and it's up to you to check it for updates. No, we won't send you an email when this happens.

Similarly, good design can make up for mediocre engineering. It's really not as black-and-white as you're painting.
It's really a problem with two dimensions. There's versions of the same OS, and then there's incompatible operating systems. You can kinda make the case for Windows being three different OSes, but the Win3.1/Win95 tree has been dead for over a decade, and Windows CE was never really positioned as being compatible with other Windows anyway.

And it's not like Linux doesn't come in versions, and it's not like a change in versions doesn't have similar compatibility concerns as it does in Windows. (Honestly, I think it's worse on Linux -- it is a lot easier to run the same version of, say, MySQL on consecutive releases of Windows than it is on RHEL/CentOS.)

So post-XP, where Windows NT ate DOS-based Windows, you have Windows progressing version to version -- Vista, 7, 8, 10. You can see the same progression in Linux OSes -- Debian goes Etch, Lenny, Squeeze, Wheezy, Jessie over a similar timeframe. But at the same time, Fedora runs from version 6 around Vista's launch to version 23 due out in a few months from now. So, like Windows, you have a concern with making an application run on both, say, Squeeze and Wheezy. But you also have an additional problem where you need to make it work on Beefy Miracle. For most software Linux users come into contact with, developers will write software for one, maybe two distros or so, and each distro ports the software over, essentially. So every open-source project is essentially forked by each distro. It's not a model conducive to closed-source software. Which... there are plenty of people who are openly happy about this, as they would rather encourage open-source software over closed source, so it's not like this is strictly an accident or a mistake. But if you want to ask why games don't get Linux ports, or get Linux ports that involve running the Windows version in a Wine wrapper, that's a big part of the answer.
The linked article is fortunately not really in that genre. It's criticizing the specific proposal in a reasonable amount of detail, not just vaguely criticizing the abstract idea of launchd for being allegedly "not unix enough". The main thrust of the criticism is that wholesale porting over the OSX services layer to FreeBSD produces a poor fit, because a lot of the OSX design is designed for a different purpose: as developer-facing tools used to configure/ship a desktop/laptop OS, not sysadmin-facing tools used on servers. Also, it's all tied up with Mach in a way that is fine if you're running Mach (as OSX is), but drags in a lot of baggage for FreeBSD.
Unfortunately, it is lacking a feedback for conflicts.