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Yes, I've already implemented it:

Distributed HTTP: Maalstroom on MORPHiS :)

GPLv2 unlike Bittorrent Inc.'s Mælström

https://morph.is

It is very fast because it is not anonymous first. Although it is 100% designed with being non-leaking over Tor. It already works over proxychains great. I will add SOCKS5 support soon.

Also, don't forget the distributed spam resistant automatically encrypted and transparently authenticated mail:

https://morph.is/v0.8/dpush-whitepaper.odt

Dpush is distributed /unsolicited/ POST :) Solves the previously open problem perfectly.

MORPHiS hosted MORPHiS website:

morphis://sp1nara3xhndtgswh7fz
OR
localhost:4251/sp1nara3xhndtgswh7fz

URL is a hash of the data or the key that signed it. No MITM possible.

The next module I am implementing is DDS - Distributed Discussion System. It is quite easy because it is fully enabled by the existing Dpush invention that already powers MORPHiS Dmail.
We have open hardware designs including the RISC-V, the OpenRISC, and the SPARC, but we don't have desktop semiconductor fabs, nor will we in the foreseeable future.
That's reality of uncertainties/risks in life and business. There are no guarantees until the acquiring company's funds transfers clear and the accounting dept transfers it to your estate trust in Bermuda or other passport-for-sale island nation. Publishing a two weekend simple, beautiful iOS app with nice 99designs assets makes it easy for people to buy it. Android apps margins are terrible, the best apps are one-time utility apps which charge more for something because they immediately save the user time and money (unlimited vehicle history VIN lookups, automatically decide what to have for dinner based on preferences and not what I had in the last two months).

Ad supported free OTOH infinite running cool but a little crappy games are great for selling more conversions to better paid apps (CandyCrush). They're also more profitable on Android since users expect mode of "something for nothing" as opposed to the Apple tax. Often with games and other non-one-time-useful and non-business-critical apps, in-app purchase of ad removal, virtual currency buy/offers is the way to go rather than paid. But it depends on the quality expectations of the app too.

Generally, If someone believes they can't, even if they may have the aptitude, they'll never know. That is the greatest regret and waste of talent imaginable. One also has to be clear and honest about one's/others' capabilities/needs in order to not get stuck in wandering in wantrepreneur land.

Finally, startup people are most similar to special forces badasses... able to get sh*t done, figure it out and eventually win.
Always found his writing pretty accessible.
With collectors like CMS, you can control after what percentage of the GC is filled GC will kick in. I think you can use that get the same effect. This is only for old gen.
And what exactly is the Pentagon going to bring to the table, since the root cause of DDOS attacks are all those compromised Windows desktop computers out there on the Internet.
My knowledge is based on the rPi1, but cursory investigation suggests that this is also true on the rPi2:

There are several blobs that are necessary to be on the sd-card for boot: bootcode.bin, fixup.dat, and start.elf. Any bootable sd-card image for the Pi has them.

What's kind of interesting is that most of what start.elf is is actually an entire OS (ThreadX, I believe), that is running on the VC4 GPU in parallel to the OS on the ARM CPU; and that most of the Linux GPU drivers for it are just shims that send messages saying "hey, ThreadX, would you mind doing this for me?"
Fair enough... my main point was pragmatic... It would be nice to be able to serve certain assets more decentralized and widely distributed than even, for example cdnjs.

jQuery, React, shims for browserify, etc, would all be nice to haves outside of the main payload, and loadable/cacheable on a widely distributed signed system from the browser directly.
There are other search engines: Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc.

In a large parts of the world, Google isn't even the biggest search engine. In Russia, Yandex has 60% of the search market[1]. In China, Baidu is the biggest search engine, with 57% of the search market.[2]

And if Google were to shut down, new companies might enter the market.

As for Gmail, there are hundreds of competing e-mail services. And there are competing map services, smartphone operating systems, etc.

It's debatable how much Google really changed the world, since it wasn't the first company in any of these markets. They had a new and clever search algorithm, but their competitors have also improved over the years.

My primary search engine is DuckDuckGo, and I rarely use any of Google's services. If Google disappeared tomorrow, I might not even notice.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yandex

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu
Not rm related, by I was recently trying to revive a NeXTStation and inatalling from cd left me with a system that booted to single user with a read only file system. The /etc/fstab had been written with the CD as sda and the hard drive as sdb. I couldn't create a mount point, like /tmp/foo because of the read only file system. (I tried to mount a floppy on /tmp, but got the same read-only-file system error.

On a whim I dumped the strings from the mount command and noticed two hard coded paths:
/tmp/mnta and /tmp/mntb. Sure enough I was able to mount the root file system (again) read-write to update the file.

No emacs at this point but I did have vi, but it creates a /tmp/file and that directory isn't writable... So I ended up writing usomg sed to mangle my fatab..

Out of curiosity, how would windows deal with a similar problem (corrupted registry?). Any windows stories of triumphs?
Well, I never said anything about web interfaces. I do not like them. If the system is preconfigured, then no interface is required. "The best interface is no interface."

If there needs to be configuration while the system is running, then I prefer SSH or serial console. The images I use on my RPi are configured with an sshd listening on a loopback interface.

My analogy to consumer routers was only to remind readers that consumers plug these computers (routers) into their networks all by themselves without any assistance. This makes any argument that consumers cannot plug things into their network hard for me to believe.

Setting up those crappy routers is another issue unrelated to my comment. I don't know how consumers get it done, but they do. I find web interfaces annoying and unnecessary but I know many users love them. Again, this has nothing to do with my comment, which concerns preconfigured images and booting from external media (as on the RPi).
It's not very hard to tell a "supply side" story where employment and wages fall at all. Just repeat your supply & demand example but substitute a specific good for aggregate demand. Or assume a decrease in the demand for labor due to automation, a reduction in labor hoarding, better ability to sort employees by productivity, etc.

Also, Varoufakis is criticizing "macroeconomic models taught at the best universities". Keynesian economics has been taught at universities for nearly 100 years.
Well they certainly have iata codes and serve larger aircraft than places like albany wa.

Wilkins supports normal commercial aircraft like the a319
I'm not saying it is... and TBH any system servicing web traffic with JS these days likely has node involved. I was just saying that it would be elevated to a core component, and might hinder adoption of newer releases, though it could improve it too.

I'm mainly echoing concerns that were in play when Mono had been gaining a little traction, and as an example a few useful utilities were added to Ubuntu's release, bringing in a large runtime... in this case it's not quite as big, but node_modules can get a little big depending on what you're working on (much better with SSD).
The VC industry, like many others, follows the power law. The top ~5-10 firms(Benchmark, Sequoia, A16Z etc) will realise 95%+ of the returns for the entire industry.
If 'they'don't at least return the fund, and just coast on management fees, 'they' will never be able to raise another one.
JSIL does bring in dependencies and can perform dead-code elimination. I'm not sure if this is supported with ilwasm already.
I like that it was brought back to "risk," but it seems like the argument is using semantics to obfuscate that the thesis is essentially, "So what if someone can access an always-on microphone in your house?"

The headline as I see it now is "Several baby monitors vulnerable to hacking," which is more descriptive than the given "Is your baby monitor safe?" but wouldn't have made as succinct of a headline.* Would the same post have been made if the headline were "Is your baby monitor private"? If it's not private, that'd be news to me, even if all somebody gets to overhear is "Goodnight, Moon" for the 10,000th time.

*I'm not saying "hacking" is a good word either, because that can mean a lot of different things, including "make the thing blow up."
Same here, but considering we (I, at least) found the "launch demo" via a dedicated demo-page it was quite obvious to me that there would be passwords on that page, and there were.

I did get turned off from it though, so I guess the UI comment stands.
Yea, I am not buying it. They have a UNIX guru that is building new commands in assembly and transferring the files with uuencoding but no one knows how a recovery tape works? Using a recovery tape was not a rare event in UNIX shops.
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Even when visiting Europe, we drove outside of major metros. I'm not really sure what to say.

Rural populations are always going to exist because you want to eat.
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What's really needed is an OpenGL/WebGL implementation of D3.js
>[ https://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem ] is a problem of mathematics, not of ideology.

Well yes it involves math, but ultimately it involves decisions by people on what to do with natural resources and consumption.

We're starting to see countries with %20+ unemployment and simply describing that as an issue of mathematics would seem inadequate.
* Overloading: Is this a reference to default values for arguments? Or PEP 3124? If the former, then I think that this is itself a great example of simplicity and clarity in python.

* Decorators: I grant that they're hard on a debugger; I wish that there were a slightly more sane way for the control flow to play out. However, syntactically they're super clear.

* Coroutines: What's the problem here? I prefer Twisted's deferred model, but I have no problem with coroutines.

* Dynamic typing: I mean, if this is a religious issue, then I don't want to offend, but seriously: especially for newcomers, the type system in Python is simple. And clear.

* Exceptions as part of control flow: And why not? Exceptions are a part of ordinary human logic. Why do you regard them as unclear or complex?

* Boatload of basic types: I can do with a few fewer exposures of "low level concepts" in types (ie, int, float, double, decimal), but it's not that bad.

* Deep class hierarchies: I'm not even sure what to say to this. It seems like an objection to OOP generally.

* eval: I think we all agree that eval introduces opacity and complexity, but do you prefer it be removed?

* Massive standard library: Compared to other languages of a similar age, Python does an awfully good job at providing One Obvious Way to use the standard library to do what (and only what) you want.

* schism between 2 and 3: Hear hear.

* Eggs vs wheels: Yeah. Fuck.

* pip vs setup vs easy_install: Yeah we get it. Packaging is a problem.

Overall, I think Python is simple and clear. If I had to pick an objection, none of the ones you raised makes my list. I'll probably go with the syntax for the "type hints" system. And the GIL. And the varying definitions of "is" across implementations.

But all in all, it's pretty darn simple and clear.
> Read the mailing lists.

I would have a lot more sympathy for this point of view if they didn't fill the mailing lists with replies on the topic that were extremely unhelpful. Every reply that doesn't steer the poster towards a useful prior discussion or further the discussion in some way muddies the mailing list for future searchers, leading to more questions on topics that have been covered before. It's a self perpetuating cycle. Guess who has the power to stop it (or at least prevent it from getting worse)?
The world changing part might be getting them to the mainstream. Which is a combination or funding infrastructure, lowering prices and spurring competition from the other car makers.
I don't have any arguments for Angular (I don't like it and instead prefer Ember).. I do have some feelings regarding React.

Flux is not a framework so until there is a clear way to use it beyond a single page of short examples it's not ready.

React is also only the view where Ember and Angular are the full MVC. If you have a single page app that has maybe one view with a lot of components maybe React makes sense. Anything beyond that though and it absolutely does not.

Need a login page? a profile page? etc.. All that stuff will be separate React applications served from separate HTTP endpoints which is going backwards IMHO.
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I have no idea what makes a diesel die. Can you give me details on diesel death and what the other problems not related to the drivetrain that one would expect are.
I use a similar approach when talking about making something "safe" or "secure". Against what?

My front door is locked. That will probably keep out the neighborhood teenagers who might be wandering around looking to grab a laptop off of someone's table. It wouldn't keep out a burglar with the minimal skill of "kicking down a door". But the obvious adult activity inside of the house serves as a fine deterrent in that case. A group of 3-4 armed criminals might not be kept out by a few unarmed people, but sturdy steel doors with heavy deadbolts, barred windows, an alarm system, and armed residents could be adequate in that case. But that wouldn't keep out a military attack force; I'd need my own army for that. But since there's nothing in my home that would be worth sending an army for, that's an unnecessary level of security.

The point of security measures is to make it more costly for someone to break in than it's worth for them, while simultaneously making it less costly for the consumer to gain that level of security than a successful attack would cost.

What type of threat does an attacker pose? What could they gain access to? What are the potential damages? What's the cost of mitigation? Your chosen strategy should be based on the answers to those questions.
For 2014 I see 230M tablets, 170M laptops, and recall that Apple is #4 in laptops as well. I think your figures are very shaky. In any event, Yegge's prediction is -- pretty shockingly -- in the ballpark. (Also bear in mind that most non-iPad tablets are in fact nothing like laptop replacements, and many are barely useful for anything or are dedicated bookreaders.)

http://www.statista.com/statistics/272595/global-shipments-f...
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You really could make such a list about every language out there. I think Pythons simplicity is as much about the code written by the community as it is the language itself. How many other languages have as broadly revered third party libraries as sqlalchemy or requests?
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Lotteries should advertise the odds and the percentage that goes to prizes (31% from the article is low, largest I found is 70%)
With today's clickbait I would have thought they would have gone with "Baby monitors kill" or "Children attacked by baby monitors".
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Thanks for the reply!
Looks like you're getting spammed now by that OHFB site. :-(
What's OpenBSD's policy on when something needs to be included?

The rPi boot process requires several files to be on a FAT partition on an sd-card: bootcode.bin, fixup.dat, start.elf, config.txt and the OS kernel; the first 3 of which are blobs.

Would those blobs need to be included, or would OpenBSD be fine saying "use your existing boot card, just drop in our kernel", or "go grab these files from https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/boot when formatting the sd-card."?
Ask HN: Mathematicians, Why 9 cancels out in an addition of digits?
I was playing with additions and it seems that 9 cancels itself out (Sorry, nobody thought me this in elementary algebra, or I forgot) when continuously adding all the digits in a number in order to reach one final one-digit number.

Example:

92. 9+2=11 -> 1+1=2. So just remove the 9 and you have 2

989. 17+9 -> 8 + 9 => 1 + 7 = 8. So just leave out the 9s.

94968594892 -> 9+4+9+6+8+5+9+4+8+9+2 = 73 -> 7+3 = 10 -> 1+0 =1

Remove the 9s

4+6+8+5+4+8+2 = 37 -> 3+7 = 1

So why do the smallest one digit number (0) and the largest one digit number (9) both cancel out in such additions?
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With GCs that use some varient of Cheney's algorithm for the nursery, short-lived heap objects are far less painful than you might think, as a nursery collection takes time relative to the amount of live data in the nursery.
scrolling is normal on safari. On the other hand, the unnecessary animations gave me a headache and I had to stop reading halfway through.
Post is a total fail at semantics, because the following two statements differ in meaning.

"All x is not y"

"Not all x is y".
> IBM released the PC with ... source code for the BIOS.

Um, no they didn't. The BIOS was very much a blob. Compaq spent a significant amount of resources reverse-engineering the BIOS, which made the IBM-PC-compatible market possible.
There are a lot of kind of people in the world. With regard to life fulfillment (in the sense of "doing good things"), I think there are two broad categories: people who require their work to be personally fulfilling or who require life outside of work to be so.

From personal experience, if you're the kind of person who tends to be more invested at work (seeks out challenges, takes pride in your work, feels pleasure at a job well done), I'd hazard you might not be happy doing work you don't find at least somewhat fulfilling.

My thought process being that personal_investment_in_work + fulfillment_only_outside_of_work = eventually resenting time spent at work as unfulfilling.

Everyone can't work on cancer-curing, economy-stabilizing, poverty-eliminating, food-scarcity-solving, gender-equalizing, minority-protecting, free-speech-supporting things.

But we can at least move a little closer to working on something about which we can honestly say "Yeah, that does make the world a slightly better place."
Yep, I have seen people that claim to work "all these hours" and that they have to work weekends. But when you watch them work they spend 5-6 hours a day on Facebook, YouTube, etc... Then they get so far behind they have to work extra to make up for the wasted time, yet they complain about all the hours they work. I don't claim to be perfect and I can be guilty of "wondering off" from time to time reading news sites and even Facebook. I just try not to make it an everyday work habit.
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Well yes it involves math, but ultimately it involves decisions by people on what to do with natural resources and consumption.

Yes. And both theory and history have shown that there is only one way to compute a chaotic system: let it run :)

That is, the only way to effectively allocate natural resources and consumption at the scale of a modern industrial economy is based upon market prices.

Austrian Economics has provided the theory of why this is so, and several large-scale experiments (including North Korea and the USSR) have demonstrated that the theory is correct.

We're starting to see countries with %20+ unemployment and simply describing that as an issue of mathematics would seem inadequate.

I didn't - or at least, I didn't mean to. What I meant to say was that socialism is fundamentally, theoretically, and practically broken.

If you're going to try to fix issues like 20% unemployment, unaffordable healthcare, horrendous pollution, and unaffordable housing, then you need to pick a mechanism that actually works :)
The most vulnerable users are the ones who do not have a clue about technology. Fortunately, most of them have moved on to phones and tablets, mostly running Android. Windows is way less of an issue nowadays. This trend places the burden squarely on Google, who may find themselves under pressure from governments to carry spyware. It is also a question of more often getting alternatives like cyanogenmod and/or replicant pre-installed on phones and tablets. We also need more work done on reproducable/deterministic build, in order to make sure that the system image is truly an unaltered build from the sources at hand. Of course, there is also a pressing need for source-code level inspection and verification, but that is not new either.
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Because it's built on the assumption that just because DOM access is slow, then it's a good idea to just add another layer of JS in order to provide a cached-like faster DOM access speed, rather than focusing on fixing DOM access speed issue itself.

React augments the complexity of a stack that it's already too complex, to an unneeded, non-sustainable and dev-unfriendly way in which we are supposed to use HTML tags inside JS scripts.

React is just a Facebook's own short-sighted solution to slow DOM manipulation. The fact that it is OSS doesn't make it necessarily a good thing.

React is not a product of love for a greatly engineered system, but obviously just a product of FB's understandable necessity to work faster "today and here", in order to keep bringing home their daily profit.

React is not a solution, it's a patch, a ugly one.

We are not forced to like it just because FB made it and made it OS.
SNORT I hadn't heard that quote from him before.

(Edit: Apparently Gibson attributes it to someone else he retweeted, but the internet is unclear on where exactly it came from)
Sometimes problems really are just large. Sometimes you need results faster than a single microcomputer's CPU(s) can produce them and UNIX was invented too early to come with solutions for doing that in ways that prevent complexity. HPC is paying the price.

We're fixing it (efforts like Kubernetes, Hadoop, Mesos), but it's tough and we have a long way to go.
However, Uber just needs a pool of drivers. They're all completely interchangeable for a given location. This is not the same as a department store - you can't just pull an assistant off the floor and turn them into a cashier, for example.

Nor does a department store have the luxury of saying "There are a lot of customers in today, so we're charging three times as much for our goods, in order to get more cashiers in to service them".
A few years ago I flew to the north of Sweden in January and as expected the ground was covered in snow. What surprised me was that the runway wasn't cleared - we actually landed on the snow. This was in a Boeing 737 so not exactly a small aircraft.