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> Most compilers I know of do register allocation better than nearly all humans where optimization is important.

Nowadays yes, you are forgetting C has 40 years of research into compiler optimization.

We could easily beat the register allocator in the 90's with Assembly coding, specially in x86.

There is a quote from a famous woman in compiler research from the mid-80's, where she claims C semantics have thrown the optimization research back to the dinosaur age.

Sadly I cannot find it, as I don't remember the exact words.

> Aliasing is a problem, but I don't think it's strictly inherent to C.

Most languages have stricter semantics for aliasing and do not decay arrays into pointers.

Also they tend to have better type information, which can help the optimizer.
1) Indian Startups are also welcomed?
2)The application process is a bit change. Founders are asked to provide a video of their own? What do you think is the reason for that?
This is a good list. Two more reasons:
- Corporations are inefficient, sometimes the HR department is not even aware layoffs are coming
- Corporations are sometimes unethical, they don't care about the unfairness of hiring a new worker rather than trying to re-place a worker about to be laid off
I'm torn between a programming language that is safe enough to allow a complete ring0 os to the beauty that is an exokernel. I predict within 10-20 years syscall overhead will dominate anything to the point that mitigation measures will have to be developed - batching, etc.
Moringa is like going for a 3/4 year Computer Science degree is only 12 weeks. Great stuff.
If I weren't on my phone I might open a pull request for this, but in this paragraph you suddenly use the term option to mean choice, I'd use choice where appropriate to avoid confusion:

This means that while you have more options regarding your equity, you will lose a significant amount of your options' value if you wait. In weighing your different options, you should consult a tax attorney to help decide what path makes the most sense for you.
I guess the link provided doesn't represent the page in the best possible way, http://forvo.com/ meets you with big input in the middle of the page, although they don't focus it automatically.
Yeah... I'm not in the RMS camp
I may have missed it, but I didn't see where the article states that they were after people who were merely present. It implies that they were looking for people like Stephen Prince who were actually filmed looting, burning, and assaulting.
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One of the first things from Google :)

http://www.lucianofiandesio.com/1password-in-linux

But someone suggested Wine and I guess it works better, but this works just fine for my needs.
That analogy doesn't hold up as well to tools. I mean we're still using E-mail right? Twitter is basically a format in its own right at this point
Um, no. The OSS evangelism team is three people total.
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I agree with the concept but I don't think Uber falls nearly in the same ballpark as something like Twitter on scalability needs. IIRC Uber's huge headcount is due to it having local recruiting/marketing teams pretty much everywhere
Thanks. I was avoiding going there but I'm glad you did. I agree the we've used a reductionist human vs. non-human framework as a crutch on which to build equal rights, and avoided the much more difficult questions of what rights/responsibilities we owe to "other" beings.

I hope that a genetic blurring of the line of what "human" means will help us to face the deeper philosophical/legal questions of personhood and the value/respect that should be accorded life, sentience, intelligence, empathy. We are all the universe, looking at and building itself

... and what is good, Phaedrus, and what is not good? Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
Do you really think it's all just tweets and ads? Spoiler art: it's much, much, much more than that. Massive analytics stack, tons of distributed computing needs, lots of well-maintained OSS projects (Mesos, Aurora, Finagle, Pants, Bootstrap, Zipkin). I could name about 20 other things. The headcount may be a bit excessive but this is a caricature.
>Remember when every man and his dog had a blog? (Or possibly a livejournal?) Remember when the word "blogosphere" was all over the news? What happened to all the blogs?

They became listservs. Ironic huh?
I'm a happy user of Mooltipass! Definitely a great alternative.
I like what you did there ..
http://youpronounce.it/search.jsp?q=%27%29%3C%2Fscript%3E%3C...
Your vision of the future sounds like hell to me! It's sortof like gun control ... only the bad guys will have access to development rigs.
Twitter is undervalued, Jack Doresey can't run two stagnating companies in parrallel. Cut jobs, merge the companies (because Square's IPO isn't going to be successful and combine core competencies.

Square has been focusing on invoicing, cash advances, appointment scheduling, marketing features, and slicing and dicing business data, among others[0]

Strip these companies down to core competencies:

* Communications

* Real time information broadcasting

* Financial infrastructure

* Global penetration

* Advertisers/Brands/Companies

Not PG's What Microsoft is this the Altair Basic of?", but "What Apple is this the Ipod of?"* I don't know, but as someone who never got into twitter, I'm interested to see Jack take a shot with:

* both sides of the market in one place

* financial infrastructure

* customer tracking

* brand participation.

Likely result is a Merger of equals with no power struggle at the top levels. Everyone expecting this anyway so expect it to happen soon.

[0]http://fortune.com/2015/08/02/square-reinvention-ipo-dorsey/
> that would break international law

Do we care? Didn't legalizing marijuana in Washington violate international drug treaties that the US is signed to? It seems to be legal anyway.

Ultimately, laws require money to enforce and after people forget about the laws they find other uses for the money. International law is especially fuzzy in that it's not like there are judges, a court, and a jail for violators. If two countries violate each others' treaties, all they can do is penalize each other somewhere else, or start blowing each other up. Is someone going to bomb one of the three nuclear triad nations over enforcing copyright law? Probably not. So there is no international law that applies to the US, Russia, or China.
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It's meant to sent a message: get involved with people or movements we don't like and you will be systematically hunted down.

The chilling effect is real.
Really? Wikipedia shows they raised over a billion from investors before IPO (including individual rounds of $800M and $300M.) Of the $800M, half went to cash out.

I'd agree though that at least technically, to deliver the core user product, this money simply wasn't needed. (It might have been needed for advertising or building up contracts, etc.)
What if you substituted "I" with "we" in that sentence?
It also depends what "browser" means to you. If "Chrome", then there's an entire UNIX toolchain you can run inside Chrome:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nacl-development-e...
> Greatest problem is copying data in and out kernel-space to user-space.

even if you could do away with copying e.g. packet_mmap (on linux), context switch will kill you...
so a game that's more fair than real life. weird....
That's dismissive and insulting. I don't visit Reddit, it's a huge distraction to me. This is the only tech news site I frequent because it's simple and I enjoy reading the comments for the most part.

Jade Helm was extraordinary and just plain _weird_, I think it's okay to question it!
WhatsApp can't tell me how many users were talking about Peanut Butter Sandwiches 30 seconds ago. WhatsApp can't alert me when people suddenly start talking about earthquakes, super bowls, or Elon Musk. WhatsApp doesn't need to fanout a message to millions of consumers, millions of times a day (and with multi-second latency to boot!).

WhatsApp also doesn't provide a CDN, mobile analytics/monetization/debugging platform. WhatsApp also doesn't contribute to open source like Twitter does (Storm, Bootstrap, Aurora).

Describing twitter as a "140-char" mailing list is very reductionist. OTOH WhatsApp problem is very well served by Erlang/Mnesia an open source distributed messaging library developed by telecommunications company who were likely doing WhatApp-scale 10 yeas before WhatsApp came around. While WhatsApp engineers are great, there is very much a "standing on the shoulders of giants" - giants who have well researched the problem of building a system that lets two or three individuals communicate. There wasn't anyone doing Twitter 10 years ago (well, maybe Google).

I don't mean to imply that Twitter is an efficient well oiled machine, but the comparison to WhatsApp is daft.
Yeah, exactly, the Searzall attaches to a blowtorch. It reduces the heat and spreads it out over a larger space.

For steaks, I prefer to get oil very hot in a cast iron, then put the steak in the cast iron, while torching each side for 30-45 seconds. (Also got that off a Kenji article.)
Because they're just processes with a funky syscall interface that looks a little bit like hardware. Especially if you start comparing paravirtualized drivers and high performance interfaces like Netmap.
I consider those "aspirational" upvotes.

HNers like to think of this place as a community of smart people, so we upvote stuff we think smart people should enjoy, even if effectively haven't payed attention to the content.
http://xkcd.com/1425/
Everything rdw said, plus the following:

Steaks:
http://www.seriouseats.com/2015/06/food-lab-complete-guide-t...

Chicken:
http://www.seriouseats.com/2015/07/the-food-lab-complete-gui...

The older versions of these articles were what sold me a few years ago. (He keeps updating them as new technology/research comes out.)
Not just partnered accounts. My YouTube account lets me upload custom thumbnails, and I'm certainly not followed. I have maybe a couple dozen videos with maybe a few hundred views among them all.
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Can you give examples of people who were arrested for no -criminal behaviour? I'd thought they were just arresting people who'd been pictures commuting crimes?

Also: why is being arrested such a big deal? You'll get mugshotted, swabbed, but unless CPS charge you (for which they need to believe they have a reasonable chance of a conviction), it's not going to show up in a background check.
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> Do you really think it's all just tweets and ads

No but that's the majority; I simplified on purpose but obviously they have far, far more people there than necessary.

> lots of well-maintained OSS projects (Mesos, Aurora, Finagle, Pants, Bootstrap, Zipkin)

As much as I love OSS it does not pay the bills.
I guess the one upside about tech is that ideally you're in a field with technology that can tie together disparate products into one ecosystem, so it's not simply about making megacorps that are essentially giant holding companies that own random products and patents.

On the other hand, one binding ecosystem with disparate products can easily become either walled gardens or badly-fragmented loose confederations, so it's not the best situation, either.
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Why middle aged millionaires look for girlfriends?
I'm no medical researcher, but I could make a guess. The article said that in elephants cells commit suicide when damaged.

It's well known that our cells have a maximum number of times they may divide. As they divide their telomeres become shorter. Once these telomeres reach their ends, the cells cannot further divide.

And so something that quickens the pace of cell destruction (via the p53 mechanism for spontaneous cell suicide), would then quicken the aging process.

Anyhow, I'm impressed by this research. It really shows Out of the box, back to basics sort of thinking. People cannot hope to alter the software of natural processes. The best we can hope for is copy pasting solutions when we find them.
What about the per capita rate of factory workers left to burn to death in a locked building?

What is that for the US?
The main thing the DIY version doesn't have is a circulator, so in a larger pot for a bigger cook, you'll have a temperature gradient across the water bath.

But it definitely works. I've even reheated precooked frozen food while camping buy heating water to some temperature, pouring it into a cooler to prevent too much temperature drop, and putting in the precooked, still vacuum sealed bags into the cooler, and letting it sit there for an hour or two.

The temperature change was maybe five degrees over those two hours, but it was for reheating, and would have been fine for some foods as well. Kenji also has an article about sous vide in your kitchen sink, where you don't have to buy anything at all, though it only really works for shorter cooks and you won't have precise temperature control.

http://www.seriouseats.com/2013/06/video-how-to-cook-your-st...
Yes. It terrifies me. But that's exactly what we'll have if we actually get "programmer professionalization". This is a part of the War on General Purpose Computing; on one hand, as software runs more and more life-critical systems like cars or energy infrastructure, you see a push from both security professionals and big companies towards turning programming into real engineering discipline; on the other hand, you have media companies fighting to limit public's access to turing-complete computation. Unfortunately in this context, while everyone hates the big media shops, infosec has a lot of good karma currently, and they're also against us in this war.
I think they mean the stock price of the company is not well correlated with the amount of money the company is making
Seems like an eminently sensible outcome. The fact is, regardless of context, a word that has a derogatory or inflammatory meaning in a separate context will always be questioned. It doesn't matter if you find it acceptable; this is about respecting other people's boundaries.

Substitute "bro" for any word that you would find inappropriate and the problem becomes obvious.
We started using Vault in our Docker infrastructure for storing sensitive configuration data, and I've since migrated to using Vault for a hell of a lot more. It really is a great piece of software.
In the public markets, you announce your bad news after the market closes on a Friday. If this were good news, it would have been announced on a Monday, Tuesday or Wenesday and before the market opens.
It was always sad to see the distributed currency Bitcoin be used in a centralized manner (e.g. SilkRoad & MtGox). Satoshi Nakamoto said, "Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem to be holding their own". But using these centralized exchanges prevents a fully p2p ecosystem.

Bitcoin provided trusted p2p money and money transactions. But needs to be complimented with trusted p2p reputation and transactions of goods/services.

Such a distributed marketplace was talked about in the early days of the bitcoin forum, and I remember OpenBazaar comming about after the seizure of silkroad. I'm glad their github repo is active.

Sorry I don't have any conversation to contribute specifically to this article, as I haven't fully grooked the details of this yet, but thought I would write the first comment here.
That's an interesting twist.
Just curious; how does Game of Thrones make money? Do they get paid when their content is shared on torrents? If they don't, then why would they continue to produce the show if they aren't getting paid? I fail to understand how stealing content is a "good" thing. It seems no different that sneaking into the theater without buying a ticket.
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This really shows the value of a few good engineers. I can easily see this taking a team of engineers much longer, but in this case a few engineers figured out the least painful solution and implemented it with minimal down time.
Just imagine for a second what would happen if Facebook did the same for a day...

Yeah, I know, I know, it's a corporation, It would loose lots of money by going down for a whole day, and it's shareholders would be very angry. It's not going to happen.

But if for some strange reason it did happen... that would call the attention of LOTS of people.
What I love about Postgres is how it's the only remaining innovator in the SQL space. It's like Microsoft and Oracle were circa 1999 (the last true innovation out of either was sparse columns in MSSQL). Genetic algorithms, the works. Everything else is mostly stagnant and archaic.
Vladimir Vapnik and Yann Lecun would beg to differ.
What is your solution?
Worth noting from the article:

Google and Mercedes-Benz have made similar pledges, but
it's not yet clear whether other automakers will follow.

Seems like future is closing in on us.
What is this, high school?
Only one quibble. In large part, multinationals also wrote it.
For many businesses, that might be 2 or 3 too many.

Also, that was just an example I pulled out of the air. It could be middle management, or a documentation expert whose role is regulating font size. The point is that for a company with a simple product, an API and clients for that API, and monetization through advertising, that's a lot of employees. If the money's not there, cut the fat.
If your OS allows writes through stray pointers, you have bigger issues like code exec...

Also, ZFS only has it's claims to data integrity if you use ECC memory.

BTW, anything running on top of the machine is going to be vulnerable to your example, i.e. if you have a program that checksums something, and then writes it to disk, there is opportunity for corruption while it's reading the data to checksum it.
Definitely. Now, if you're an evangelist who hasn't written production code in years, then maybe you should start brushing up on your skills :-)
That's an extremely narrow and frankly useless definition...
Yep, I assumed you meant service managers not services. People not running Red Hat use the same services as Red Hat people do. Everyone runs web servers, mail servers, NFS, whatever else. If you actually meant services, then what's your point?

Re further requests for info, I don't really want to continue the conversation, because you should have apologised by this point and haven't. Don't presume to know things about other people, it's rude and looks poor when you're wrong.
It's humorous, but actually quite interesting as well. As a non-native english speaker I've learnt a lot watching it. Thanks.
It seems like all these types of things are written up in secrecy these days. When they can't do that, the other tactic is make it thousands of pages long so nobody finds the nefarious nuggets hidden within. I've completely lost faith that the federal government is for the people, by the people. It seems to be centered around individuals these days.
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> being a fad isn't one of them.

I'd heavily disagree with that. The fad's not over, but it is a fad. The reason it sticks around is that people have an easy way to communicate with celebrities/popular people, and that was certainly not twitter's goal. The moment something better for this comes along, the fad will quickly fade.
Or, in the case of Twitter, both.
> Just training for training's sake? That's nonsense.

I'm...seriously baffled as to what confusion of ideas would lead you to say something like this. Do you not know what the word "training" means?
Excuse my ignorance as I'm not American and perhaps miss all the nuances.

- Wants to stop illegal immigration. Not immigration. Only illegal. i.e. people not paying taxes but living there undocumented

- Non-citizens giving birth in USA and then automatically the baby is USA's problem until it dies

- Tax reform that wants to stop corporate inversion and bring money back to USA (Google, Apple, etc.)

- Wants a more competitive health care system than Obamacare

- Wants USA to make better trade deals because there are crazy trade deficits.

Why are any of these ideas seen as being crazy by Americans?
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... in messages of 140 characters designed to provoke outrage and retweets, not to engage meaningfully with any of the complex issues of the day.

Their entire userbase could do a MySpace overnight.
So basically any caching strategy?

Compiler optimisation isnt about compiling faster, though :-)
Here's a popular one from a few years back that relates to this story: "Cook Your Meat in a Beer Cooler: The World's Best (and Cheapest) Sous-Vide Hack" - http://www.seriouseats.com/2010/04/cook-your-meat-in-a-beer-...
Maybe next time people will figure out when they are being lied to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU0m6Rxm9vU
Indeed, you could have done Twitter in a single rack with Tibco RV too.
I have to jump in and side with the grandparent. Despite everything you just mentioned, if it isn't about "tweets and ads" I would contest that it is exactly about them. Do whatever you want back-end, but that doesn't matter if my front-end experience is not so great. For example, they are terrible with spam bots. I mean when super-model-quality photos suddenly follow me, and the bot is posting shortened URLs, it makes me feel like they aren't on the ball at all.
BTW, you might want to have a look at https://github.com/tleyden/open-ocr