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As far as I can tell the in-tree QEMU-traditional stubdomain is not tied to Linux.

Maybe you mean the effort to make Linux-based upstream QEMU stubdomain? That solution is not merged upstream. And there is alternative proposal called rump kernel based upstream QEMU stubdomain, which is not tied to any OS.

In fact open source Xen is becoming less and less Linux-centric. There is ongoing work to make FreeBSD Dom0. Arguably there are still much work to do, but at least they're making progress.
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This is pretty interesting. One did say "Not for Public Release UNTIL", so could presumably be intended, but in a lot of cases webmasters probably didn't think something would be found and indexed by Google wherever they put it. And were wrong.
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Same here. Amazingly, the first inflection point was after about 60 seconds of pure disgust.

Not into that G yet. I think I'll call them oogle from now on.
When US, UK doctors refuse to prescribe Indian drugs, it reeks of racism
By component router, are you referring to the stock router in Angular?

Component Router will be the stock router in Angular 2, it is supposed to fix most of the problems with the Angular 1 router.

I've personally held off refactoring my Angular 1 routing code to UI Router because I didn't want to do it again once Component Router is released for Angular 1.3, oops I meant 1.4, oops again I think I mean 1.5. But I am starting to reconsider.
Maybe it's because the website is called "Hacker News" and not "Gender Ideologue News".
It took me a bit to find the word I wanted to use to describe what Google's old logo had vs. the new one. I think the old logo was classier. This new one is sort of uninspiring.
I don't know about the logo, but I'll do know about Google's voice recognition. Yesterday, on my commute home I came across an accident that blocked the road. I pulled out my iPhone, loaded the Google app, and asked "give me directions home" and Google gave me directions home. Siri wouldn't have been able to do that. Siri can schedule my timers... and not much else, I don't trust it to take me home. I followed the Google directions and came across a road that had a lot of traffic. I glanced at my phone and saw another road (Google Maps) and followed it and enjoyed a lovely drive down a dirt road and saved myself some time (and other waiting for me on a backed up road). I got home only a few minutes later than normal.

Blah blah... I don't care about Google's logo, but I use my iPhone like a commodity and use Google's apps and services for the most important things. There are iPhone only apps I like, but when it comes to my mobile needs it's all about making calls (phone, a commodity), getting on the web (Chrome), and directions (Google Maps) dominates 2 of those 3.
Show HN: Open sourcing our crash analytics dashboard for iOS and Android
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Me too - that one about the "gun collectors" I only skimmed when posted, but then gone back recently for a closer read. And I enjoyed it.
Want hockey stick revenue growth? Forget about customer acquisition
You know, this is great for Stripe and all, but it makes me shudder to think the size of databases at, say, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, etc. Must be humongous
I remember upgrading a bunch of this stuff in the mid to late 00s. Likely nothing that I upgraded to then modern standards using Python 2.6 and PHP 5.x has seen an update. At the time, it was actually hard to upgrade to PHP 5 or anything other than PHP 4 or Perl 5 because so many sites were using shared hosting that only support PHP4/Perl5 + MySQL.
Until it dies and you start over from scratch.

I am from the adult industry. They are notorious for having that "welp, server harddrive failed, need to rebuild from scratch" mentality.
Wondering the same. If it has changed, then ISP cache will take some time to reflect.
As much as I want to hate this for being change just for the sake of change...I really don't. So I guess that's a point in its favor.

The amount of marketing-speak in the blog post does make me a little queasy though.
You get this with Autonomy/Interwoven/HP Teamsite experience too. I just want to write back, "IT WAS MY FIRST JOB NO NO NO 1000x NO"
Wow, the code is stolen from the eDX class on Spark from a few months ago (when the article was published coincidently), with only a few minor modifications for model saving.

That's ballsy.
Outsource!?
Show HN: Private Forms: PGP-Encrypted Webforms for Privacy-Conscious Receipients
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> 1. didn't see it then, don't see it now. Then again I'm in europe, mayhaps US carriers were significantly more overbearing. I don't recall carriers being good friends of the consumer though so not overly likely

The U.S. was indeed terrible: very restricted competition on phones (two year contracts, models often specific to one carrier, etc.), prohibitively high data rates and extreme barriers to entry for anyone trying to build a phone-based business.

Around 2000, I worked for a web company in San Diego where Qualcomm was trying to build a stable of companies developing mobile apps to boost demand for better hardware. We looked into the business model and each of the U.S. carriers wanted roughly $50K simply for the privilege of listing your app in their store plus a generous cut of the sales, should you have any and that number wasn't fixed but based on what they thought you could afford so our better-known clients got estimates well into 6 figures, again simply for being listed.

Unsurprisingly, we looked at WAP instead but it was so limited in practice that we gave up and nobody I knew used WAP or J2ME apps. As far as I could tell, that only changed when Apple had enough clout to get AT&T to go for a smaller slice of a much, much larger pie.
I had a good backups business for adult websites going around 2008. It was nothing more than rsync over ssh with a couple duplicates and I would burn some dvds and drop them in the post once a month. Was a very good business. Probably still viable, because those companies valued having physically possessable images of their config files and source code.
In this specific case,
1. Very low salary - just enough to afford housing and food.
2. No equity - though the founders promised that I would get some later (yeah, I know I was an idiot).
3. Working 12 hour days including Saturdays.

The founders were quite rich and they were of course passionate about their own company because of which they worked even more than me, but I could never feel the same enthusiasm. Interestingly, both of them had worked for larger companies, studied in and traveled to various countries for work which gave me the idea that perhaps it is better to be in a start-up once I have experienced what they have.
OWH. OWH. OWH.

Since I'm anon, I'll say that I did a few ivy league SharePoint implementations. Thankfully, their IT/IS shops had to inherit the content and provisioning responsibilities.

Btw, anyone needing Exchange or similar implementations should use http://www.coyotecrk.com/. They did Cisco's and Stanford's implementations. They'll charge arms/legs, but they'll deliver something production supportable for real shops.
Hi, HN! Founder here (on my 2nd "startup").

I strongly believe in the need for private communication, especially in the context of doctors-patients, clients-lawyers or sources-journalists.

PGP has done a great job of allowing private communication between two parties, but it places a heavy burden on both the sender and the recipient. Often though, the person who needs to send the private communication is less tech-savvy than the recipient. Private Forms removes the burden from the sender, and places it squarely on the recipient.

With Private Forms (https://privateforms.com) you can create an embeddable web form (with custom fields) that encrypts messages client-side, before being sent to the server (and emailed to the recipient). These messages are encrypted using the recipient's PGP public key, which can only be decrypted using their private key—this way, not even we can view the form submissions. We can help less technical users by generating a keypair for them (again, client-side), or they can upload their own public keys.

Recipients can view form submissions on the web (using their private key, which is never transmitted to our server), or via their own email client that supports PGP decryption.

This is very much a MVP, with regards to the interface and the number of features, but I wanted to get this out in front of as many people as possible!

Also, if you're a ProductHunt user, I'd appreciate some upvotes! http://www.producthunt.com/tech/private-forms
The new one probably not populated to all their location yet, but adding a random query string does the trick.

https://www.google.com/favicon.ico?newlogo

(I'm seeing a four-colors capitalize G.)
That's really cool and all, but...

https://xkcd.com/1489/
Yes, I really surprised me when I found it, I couldn't believe I had missed it before. Yes, you can watch an entire 13 show series on one cross country flight :-)
In hindsight, the Alphabet page has had the uppercase G from the new Google logo all along.

https://abc.xyz/
Depends on what you use Python for.
I initially assumed they were covering the Stripe/Payal fees, in which case 5% sounds like a very fair deal. Definitely needs to be clarified...
+1 guys you crazy!
I would add the persecution of the Rohingya in Myanmar where religious buddhist leaders largely are the ones stirring up the bad feelings against "the muslims"

Also the time Buddhists tried to reestablish their feudal theocracy with weapons they got from the CIA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_Tibetan_program)
Google’s OnHub Router Gets Rough Treatment in Early Reviews
If the cars can communicate with each other enough to negotiate which one should drive off the cliff, they can communicate with each other enough to negotiate an emergency stop for both vehicles, or even plan out a more survivable wreck.

The only way to enforce the limited choice domain you presented is for the automated drivers to be operating the vehicles unsafely prior to the collision event. In that case, never mind the other car, because either car could be forced off the cliff due to a goat standing in the middle of the road.

Also, I'll program my driver to believe that its car always contains MAXINT passengers.
Most of the time when I'm using a phone I'm doing something intensive (rendering a web page) followed by long periods of light use (reading the web page). So I think that running fast for a short period is a good thing for phones to be doing.

And making a phone faster will almost neccesarily drain the battery faster. The important metric is task energy where you multiply the time it takes a phone to do some task by the power it consumes while doing it to figure out how much energy was needed overall to do it. By that metric adding more cores usually has less of a negative effect than speeding up a phone by upping the clock speed or the size of the OoO structures.
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We're making it dramatically easier for the world to shift to realtime apps with a new database access model -- instead of long polling the database for changes, the developer can tell RethinkDB to continuously push updated query results to applications in realtime.

We're hiring C++ engineers to work on performance, the continuous computation engine, and the distributed system.

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jprofiler, at least for my use cases, isn't really similar to vtune at all. I know what my hot spots are: it's the inner bits of algorithms that run a few billion to a few trillion times. What I need to do is understand, as granularly as possible, the exact instructions and how the various caches and memory are operating. Convex and tree optimizers are generally memory speed limited and my goal is to have this code run at eg 0.9+ of memory b/w speed.
Location: New Jersey / Commutes to NYC

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Lies That Losers Tell (2012)
Apple Team Exploring the AR Space–speculation After Ex-HoloLens Engineer Hire
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That's not the issue. Potholes are reported by many people. The issue the getting it repaired (properly).

I'm not knocking road crews filling potholes. There just aren't enough of you to keep up.
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UK national sperm bank has just nine donors
Which "phone home" services would you suggest as being safe to disable in general?
no but i'll check it out this afternoon. Thanks!
This sounds very interesting. You didnt mention immigration requirements. Are these only for US Citizens? Can permanent residents apply? Also curious to know what technology stack is driving the engine.
A lot of these are redacted and appear to be FOIA or similar requests that have been fulfilled.
Yeah, this is stupid. Who gives a fuck?
A purposeful online t-shirt store that needs support
Waiting in line in New York
kedean... it was a joke...
It's sort of all of the above. Netflix et al increases the availability of backlog TV shows. Networks abandoned quality tv because lowest common denominator won the highest ratings.

Then cable saw the benefits of high quality niche programming. HBO started it. But FX and AMC showed you could make real money on regular cable with prestige shows like mad men, breaking bad and the shield.
Dude, spoiler alert!
HN is emphatically for more than "tech news", and an essay by Italo Calvino about movies is certainly on-topic here. Indeed, we need more such posts—not Calvino essays or stories about movies, necessarily, but articles on everything under the sun.

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

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html
Or maybe there could be a second traffic code for autonomous driving cars that is basically the same code but with lots of exceptions such as "you can never cross a solid double line except when...".
There's a whole collection of this kind of search engine query at Hackers for Charity:

http://www.hackersforcharity.org/ghdb/
Well, yeah. Those reasons are exactly why people desire to earn money.
And then again, after looking, some are clearly not.
I am from a third world country myself :) and have always earned in the country's currency. And even though I did start working as a software engineer in the startup I mentioned, I did not eventually continue in the field and do statistical modelling for a living (which pays much more than the average software engineer here).
Damn man, people really wanted to prove your point.
I like how this is explores so many aspects of life in an art piece that feels native to the web. The different lines highlight class divides. The form itself causes the user to wait between quotes, creating empathy with those in line. Overall, a nice piece.
6 Unhealthy Daily Habits That Leads to Diabetes
I was running neovim without issue on OSX until about a month ago when I switched to nuclide
2000 Miles of Justice: My Year of Riding Electric Bikes
USAID and DOD's DIA usually have cool IT/dev gigs.

The other thing is to become a military supplier for development, either like Booz Allen Hamilton contractor or independent shop can work. I worked on a couple of Rails apps for socom/specops. The money is grreat if you need consulting/ish work.

Working with NSA/CIA can become morally ambiguous.
The page is blank for me. I see the header and footer but no content. Browsing on iPhone safari.
The relevant bit from your first link: "postgres will update the table structure and there is no locking unless you do something that needs to alter existing rows."

So, altering a column (e.g. adding a default) will trigger the problem. Adding a new column or table will not.