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> There are tradeoffs for doing things that way. Such as when everything eats shit and you regret updating.

Bad updates are bad updates, regardless of whether you do the configuration after a reboot (rendering the computer useless while you configure), or while the system is still running.

Not that it matters, but I've had far more bad updates on my Windows systems than I have on any of my Linux systems. :)

> ...time-shifting is a legitimate fix to the problem here.

It's not a fix. It's a band-aid that fails to address the root of the problem.
Why do they want to bootstrap themselves? Golang specifically set that as a nongoal, and look how fast their compiler is. Scala being a functional vm based language will always have a performance disadvantage to well written C code. If they really care about the real world usability of the compiler (and thus the language), this implementation seems like a poor strategy.
Yes, the difference between length and width is only one of perception or orientation. I emphasized it because I felt like you went too far in the other direction, almost implying that which axis is which doesn't matter geometrically. A 5x3 rectangle drawn in 2D space with labeled axes is not the same as a 3x5 rectangle, even if they have equal perimeter and area. There might be some value in trying to make sure the student understands that.
People take many positions on tor, not all in support nor opposition, so this may not mean much to some of us.
I see no sign in here that they have even initiated the appeals process, much less gotten a response from that.

Spurious rejections happen. Whether or not it's meaningful and indicative of Apple's policy can't be determined until you appeal it. Maybe the reviewer thought this app was intended to aid in jailbreaking as suggested in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10483860. Maybe the reviewer is just zealous. Or maybe it really is Apple's official policy to disallow this. We can't know that until it's appealed.
Doesn't Android have over %80 market share worldwide? Isn't it open? Where's the nightmare?
Graham's statement about the possible bias of First Round is unfounded. This was not any sort of a real study like Graham thinks and First Round clearly notes that. When the returns are as skewed as they are in venture capital (http://www.sethlevine.com/archives/2014/08/venture-outcomes-...), a small sample size and a simple analysis won't do. First Round even excluded their investment in Uber because it would skew the results too much.
Mandatory arbitration is great for you - that why I'm insisting it's in the contact!

Honestly!
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NT was never a microkernel. It has an intenral microkernel-like design, though; it's divided into cleanly separated modules, and modules may only communicate using a special IPC mechanism. But like OS X, the classic pieces (file systems, graphics, device drivers) run in kernel mode.

Originally, graphics ran in user mode, but Windows 2000 moved it back into kernel mode for performance reasons. Vista got a new device driver model and a new graphics driver model (WDDM), which has a way for graphics to run partly in user mode. Vista and later also support user-mode device drivers.
How to grow professionally? I have no clue. I made some observations of my own.

If you work at a company, you would expect the hierarchy to notice your ambition and guide you to next level. In practice this does not happen or happens to only few people for variety of reasons. The company does not produce enough market value, there are too many skilled people with ambition, there are no networking opportunities, you were not noticeable that nobody took you under their wing, you are too odd to fit in, the industry is too young etc. One could only prepare self to look good, talk the talk and wait for an opportunity to arise. When I see so many managers ass-kissing their bosses, I believe they are doing the same, preparing for receiving. I once noticed an ambitious director making a spectacle while taking pictures of his boss when the boss was speaking to an audience. I really have no clue if these social engineering techniques work, but I notice so many people do it.

If you are perceived technically strong, the hierarchy does not see you as leadership materiel. I witnessed this event that changed my perspective about over stressing my technical abilities.
A bunch of people, almost all of them out of touch with technology sat down and the conversation started like this with someone saying -

"I know this large company which takes this amazingly smart technical people and made them managers and directors and they are facing difficulty, in our awesome org we should never do that”.

A bunch of other people around agree and they give their own experiences of horror stories. Such things gain wider acceptance because these meetings have less representation from someone who still see themselves as technically competent and current. I was in such a meeting and asked the group, if leadership is a skill that people are born with and what should technically strong people do for their career advancement? The answers were more ridiculous. Technical skill is seen as something you only need to have up to a limit and any more than that is not useful to the company. There is a ceiling if you are technically smart.

The environment is self selecting what is needed for their business to strive. I found it smart to adapt sometimes but then I see a lot of these young people in silicon valley do amazing things and give themselves great titles. We both know that skills are transferrable between companies but titles may not be. I have more respect for these young people who create their own reality and make everybody believe theirs. Now Zuckerberg is still a CEO and they are still teaching people in MBA the skills to be a CEO or CIO or whatever it is and the magazines writing about the rules to be a CEO or CTO or CIO.
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OK. interesting idea. But whenever i look - i don't seem to find the missing piece- how much would it cost and what would get from that cost .I even looked at the original paper by harstad :

http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/harstad/htm/depo...

And none is found. So maybe it's one of those ideas who is only good in theory ?
Applying this to other fields is a really interesting idea. Prescriptions need a better markup. What about fitness tracking entered via plain text (in email or text to app)?
99% of the time, no, the mark will give them nothing, but it only takes 1% to make it viable.

I do buy the reputation argument when applied on a larger scale, though. I didn't realize that some of these operations were as large as other commenters have pointed out.
Er... what? The article suggested bribing the government to forbid other companies from mining the coal. Which part of that sounded like market forces to you?
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True. The rate between success in the lab and successful commercial product are generally at 3%.
> That wouldn't be fair, an order book is a line, such a rule would allow people to cut line and get shares at better prices before you allowing them to drive the price up or down even though you were in line before them.

Well, I think the problem is less that the book is a line and it's not fair (the definition of fair would change in this system, it would be fair that you had the same chance as everyone else in that time frame), but more that you open yourself up to different problems, such as the larger players being able to split their orders up in to many smaller orders, to increase they chance a large percentage of their orders will go through before any supply has dried up.

There's actually another industry that has to deal with these problems, and especially with pecieved fairness. Online event ticketing. Ticketmaster runs a queue. AXS runs a randomized pool. Both are gamed. Interestingly, I think some brokers actually do colocate close to TM servers, which makes the parallel fairly obvious.
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That's possible. Without concrete data to give you, there are some suspicions that because of the much better performance of Asian students, they're being limited in the admissions process. Otherwise, Asian students would make up the vast majority of the students admitted. This would crowd out the non-Asian students accepted for admission. In this case, it would be more accurate to say that admissions officers limit the number of Asian students accepted instead of saying admissions folks are biased against Asian students.
It's not a real problem because 99.9% of the people interested in this sort of things are not going to access this (kind of) content via AppleTV or Apple Store or whatever.
By way of example, you can't create a Mach task that isn't a BSD process as well: https://github.com/opensource-apple/xnu/blob/10.10/osfmk/ker...
>> , for only a pin-size battery. Anything scaled beyond that and it starts losing its advantages

What mechanisms usually responsible ?
Microsoft sells computers in their store under Microsoft Signature Edition branding. Signature Edition computers don't come with any type of extra software [1]. For example the Dell XPS 13 [2] is available in Signature Edition. In fact when you buy your device direct from the Microsoft Store, you get support direct from Microsoft, instead of the OEM [3].

[1] - http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/Signatur...

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The APA is a meaningless organization. They have zero authority over licensing. They also aren't the only professional psychological organization. APA membership carries with it no particular value; clients don't care about APA membership, they care about licensing.
Anti-aliasing was first introduce to a personal computer in 1989, on the Acorn Archimedes. [1]

My father only used Archimedes machines, so when we first got a Windows PC in ~1996 we both spent ages trying to make the text look nice — we assumed we had to find a setting somewhere.

I couldn't find a good screenshot of an older system, so I made one [2]. The desktop font isn't anti-aliased, only the fonts in applications. I've used the included (in ROM) !Draw to write text, successive lines are offset by one pixel to the right. Also shown is the configuration dialogue, and the interactive help for it.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20131020231733/http://acorn.chris...
[2] http://i.imgur.com/bS1u5NF.png
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Supply would come on-line to control the price increases, which would completely neutralize any large price spike.

We know this is how economics works. We have hundreds of years of commodity market examples to pull from that demonstrate exactly that. The oil industry has provided numerous obvious examples of it in practice in just the last 50 years.

This is the flaw at the heart of the plan, that guarantees it can never be feasible.

Unless you plan to buy the majority of all coal deposits on earth.
It's an interesting question in that properly maintained and properly driven automobiles do have accidents that are clearly no one's fault--skidding on a patch of ice, deer running into the road, etc. Perhaps a more skilled or more cautious driver could avoid such an accident--or not. I'm hard-pressed to think of many other examples where a product used as intended will nonetheless cause harm to the user or others with some finite probability--but aren't considered the fault of the manufacturer. Pharmaceuticals and other types of medical equipment probably come closest. (Though drug companies certainly face lawsuits for side effects all the time.)
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There's a few trivial ways to be biased that would not be detected in this way.

The first is if you have multiple people accepting applicants and some of them are biased to the point of not accepting applicants of particular types. That means all the applicants that are discriminated against that did make it were simply selected by people who weren't biased, and therefore won't outperform anyone.

The second is if the actual selection process is somewhat random instead of being based on pure performance. The ones who make it through that process won't necessarily perform any better, they'll just be luckier.

The third is if the application process accepts everyone equally, and then randomly prunes out people according to a bias. This is similar to the second except the acceptance criteria is still performance-based, but because it randomly throws out people (instead of throwing out low-performers), the remaining people are still going to perform the same as those who were not pruned.

The first footnote on the page also points out that if the selection criteria are different for the different groups then this process won't work, which seems like a pretty important caveat that I wish was in the article proper. One really common form of bias (especially in tech) is being biased against women, and that's also a situation where it's very common to (unconsciously or otherwise) use appearance in judging female applicants but ignore appearance for male applicants.
> In mobile I suppose there is cyanogen. Anyone tried them recently?

I recently bought the £130 Wileyfox Swift [1]. It's amazing. Almost unbeatable on price alone among smartphones, but it's actually a really decent phone; certainly unbeatable value IMO.

They also make a higher-spec'd 'Storm' for £200. Both run Cyanogen OS out of the box.

(No affiliation)

[1] https://www.wileyfox.com/swift/
That sounds awesome. How does it compare to RTLinux or Linux with the PREEMPT_RT patches?
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As I recall, one of the reason for declaring the airwaves to be public was to prevent lawsuits.

If they are private, then I, as a landholder, want to control the airwave rights on and though my land. Why should some broadcaster get to control it, without paying financial compensation?

If the current public radio waves are declare private, why wouldn't there be the same lawsuits again? Should a landowners have the right to run a mobile phone jammer which doesn't not adversely affect radio use outside of the land? If so, who else has that right? Would it be legal to advertise radio jammers - something which is currently prohibited? Should it be legal?
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Even if you randomize the order, you just open yourself up to gaming the system in other ways. Larger players with more resources can split large orders into many small orders and they be assured a certain percentage will happen earlier, and certain percentage will happen later, but if you have reason to believe that there isn't enough supply at the desired cost, you can use this to your advantage.
That's not even an important requirement though. If you settle a lawsuit and then sue anyways the judge can look at the original issue and the aftermath and choose to throw it out as you have been compensated at that point.
> will open and close the door for you, you can fall asleep, and several hours later wake up at your destination.

Not going to happen. Seatbelts and upright seats meant for crashes are not going away even if the robots do all the driving. And I have yet to see any attempt at a robocar capable of understanding and interacting with today's chaotic and haphazard parking rules.

Heaven help us should all passengers be required to sign user agreements and watch in-car safety vids, but that could be a reality. I've got a BMW that already asks me to "agree" a contract for the navigation system every time I start.
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I agree that Teslas system is nothing special and more of a marketing win. But Google desperately needs to ship something that isn't a cool video or a swell PDF if they want to be relevant in this space.
It wouldn't make coal non-competitive, that's the central flaw in the argument.

You have to buy the majority of all known coal deposits on earth to accomplish that, and there is far too much land / coal to be purchased to get even remotely close to that. Up to that point, more supply will perpetually come on-line to off-set the price gains, because of the substantial increase in profitability price increases enable.

Not to mention that the vast global coal industry that remains - ie those mines not purchased (and there would be vast numbers of those) - will move into high gear and invest into producing more coal, faster, to capture the profits available.

It's already very well understood that this is what happens in practice. See: the oil industry.

Increase the price of oil from $50 to $200 and see how much supply comes on-line, and the unusual sources it starts coming from (eg tar sands, or two miles below the surface of the ocean).
You're right. The biggest news for operating systems is the fact that the hardware virtualization features on modern processors allow breaking free from the old model.

A modern intel/amd processor lets you virtualize the CPU, MMU, and I/O. Network cards and HBAs can be partitioned into virtual NICs.

Two primary functions of a classic OS are process isolation (i.e. virtual memory) and hardware sharing. But now that these two primary functions have been pushed down into hardware, it has changed the way we think about operating systems considerably.

There isn't much left for a classic OS to do other than provide a common set of APIs for programs to talk through. Yet these days we can statically link even the largest libraries into our exokernels. And hypervisors are capable of using techniques like same-page merging to reduce the memory burden of running many large (exo)kernels at once.

I don't expect the the classic one-OS-running-many-processes model to go away overnight, or possibly ever. But the exokernel model is very compelling for large-scale high performance software services and it will continue to catch on.
Funny, and I thought contracts required a meeting of the minds. How does that happen when one party knows the other has misinterpreted the contract?
The chat so far is worse than TwitchPlaysPokemon's chat back in the day, which is kinda funny actually. :P
I don't write as much as I'd like to lately. It's a very low traffic blog, mind you. My best post traffic-wise is an analysis of a Greek poem/song. The one I like most though, is the one below:

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> "Printing money and putting in into circulation has historically caused hyperinflation. Money is just a proxy for goods and services and without a gold standard it's nothing more than paper. Germans were burning and wallpapering with Marks in 1922 and 1923 because of the printing of money."

Hyperinflation in Germany was caused by a mix of high economic penalties post WW1 and reckless actions by private banks and investors. It's a common misconception that the hyperinflation was the fault of the government printing too much money, but that doesn't get at the underlying causes.

Would recommend taking a look through this, though you don't need to read to the end, as the article also covers the actions taken after hyperinflation started.

http://www.wintersonnenwende.com/scriptorium/english/archive...

> "My opinion is that there would be runaway inflation if you ended up with a situation where people had the option to drop out of the workforce funded by printed paper money."

You get around this by having debt-free money, which removes one of the key demands on money, the demand that it should be directed towards economic growth.
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One of the best looking HTML output from LaTeX can in fact be generated with https://www.softcover.io/ . Although it uses a limited subset of LaTex called PolyTeX (see https://github.com/softcover/polytexnic) I was able to convert my LaTeX documents quite easily to PolyTeX and generate good looking HTML output.

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No one really knows. But IMO, it won't in the near future.

Java is pretty established, well known, stable and under the control of a single entity. It has good tools, well defined protocols, cross-compatible configuration (like I can run the same project in different IDEs). Compare that to JavaScript, where every six weeks there's something new, there's multiple engines, there's no central authority (just a spec that's barely even followed), and feels like the entire community is led by a bunch of hipsters. Everyone be like "I can do this better, I'll reinvent the wheel!" and then boom! An explosion of half-baked frameworks, libraries, engines and doodads.

Unless JavaScript stops growing in that direction and focuses on stability, good tooling and stuff that matters, it's never going to be stable and it's never going to be as good as Java.

And with the proposed webassembly, which promises to be faster because it's low level cross-platform stuff (which any language can compile to), then JS will eventually fade away.
I used an eval of the desktop version of QNX for a short time. Got it from a CD that came along with a computer magazine.

Even in that short time, I got a feel that the OS was quite fast, compared to early Linuxes that I used around the same time, and Windows. Remember reading in the mag that it had that Photon GUI, IIRC, that others have mentioned in comments here. I tried out at least some apps, bash, etc., and they were all snappy.
Not clear what "fundamental properties" they mean. Mass? Price? Sounds like color, but there's no explanation for that either.
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Wonder if blakeross used this to write up his awesome Silicon Valley Script?

http://blakeross.com/SiliconValleyS03E01.pdf
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Based both on what I've read and discussions with people who have some personal familiarity with the space, the issue is that, to date, Google is apparently not interested in anything incremental. (Which is also the reason that they haven't been able to work with the auto makers.) However,that means that Google won't have anything commercial for a long time--like decades--if their criterion remains robo-taxi levels of autonomy.
> systemd people are not willing to play nice with the rest of the world.

Can we get a bit a of context on that?
>despite it's very high stakes we hold it to a very low, non-scientific standard of poor engineering.

The problem is that nobody cares about the standard, because our society overwhelmingly feels that criminal defendants are just criminals. There is no political will to improve this situation either, as any attempt to improve the standards will be seen by voters as a "soft-on-scrime" measure designed to let more guilty people go free.

Unfortunately the rights of criminal defendants are something that few people care about until they or a loved one are charged with a crime. I don't see this changing anytime soon.
> How about a day in jail for every day that is mistakenly assigned to an innocent person?

You'd never find anyone to be a prosecutor ever again.