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I think it's cute - unlike carbonmade which really turns me off.

My only quibble is the cartoon next to "Guile is an extension language platform" - the main character is facing out off the edge of the page. I'd flip it to make the cartoon draw your eye toward the text.

(The same could be said for the cartoon at the top of the page, but I like that one the way it is.)
Because, I don't believe our petroleum usage as a society is affected by ExxonMobile, no matter how much propaganda they spew out. It's bigger than that. You don't create a climate change remediation policy by suing one oil company.
Re: Anonymous- Why isn't the KKK a terrorist group?
Static analysis is a thing, and it doesn't solve the halting problem.
This is a small nitpick, but I'd say Dropbox competes against sysadmins setting up a corporate network share or FTP server (or even email attachments) for storing documents. They basically automated the sysadmin's job, with a slick interface that was easy to set up and easy to pay for.

Same with Slack. They took the concept of IRC, which many companies use internally, and made it dead simple to set up and use.

In essence, I'd say the competition arising these days is all about UX design. Startups are taking these existing services and making them easier and smoother to use.
I don't think it is simple to do successfully, but it is certainly a way to make difficult stuff more approachable. If you want to convey difficult stuff, you should make it approachable. Feynman, for example, was a master of using simple words to explain complex matters. We should try to do the same with graphic design.

(Carbonmade seems maybe to have aimed for "childish" rather than "simple", though, turning at least me a bit off)
Why couldn't he wear the sphere like a helmet? (At least in principle)
This is another great point!

Twitter just doesn't offer any incentive to tweet interesting stuff, besides the vanity features (stars/favs/likes/whatever they just introduced).

Svven gives you a good incentive to do so.
Thanks a lot for trying it, check back after tweeting some cool links! ;)
I don't think the VP can vote unless there's a tie, so it just says impeachment issues have to win.
I would hope that DPDK apps only poll when they have no other work to do, but I don't know if it's actually set up this way.
git discern intent
Yeah but just because you can...
I want to emphasise this sentence:

"This means that ProtonMail is likely under attack by two separate groups, with the second attackers exhibiting capabilities more commonly possessed by state-sponsored actors."
When I watched the video of Star Raiders, my first thought was "hey, that looks like Solaris!", a game I grew up playing on a friend's Atari 2600. Turns out it was also by Neubauer, just a few years later. Cinematic is definitely the right word — it easily felt as epic and expansive as a good NES game, which is pretty astounding considering the limitations of the 2600.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buhHMAcRSwU

http://www.1up.com/features/solaris-atari-2600-starfighter
Agreed. It's very inviting.
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Any evidence for this? I'd have thought most chopsticks in China were made from local bamboo like the ones here in
Thailand
> It's a scary thing to move away from your core competency.

And it's mostly been scary for good reason. Just because an organization has the resources of an incumbent doesn't mean it has the skills required to successfully pivot the business. Kodak is truly a great example, for its corporate culture was notoriously hidebound after decades of reign over imaging. Even with today's hindsight, I suspect the cultural revolution required to adequately embrace digital imaging at Kodak would seem a nigh unimaginable task.
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For the same reason if they had to change, oil companies would rather go into the hydrogen fuel business for hydrogen cars than in the battery-making business for EVs - the less they have to change their practices and infrastructure, the better (from their point of view).

Ten years from now, any car maker that isn't building an EV will be considered insane. Ten years ago, it was Musk that was considered insane for wanting to sell an EV. It requires strong leadership, vision and commitment to move to the "new paradigm", even if that is "the future", which probably isn't very obvious at all at the time.

Look at solar panels, too. Same thing. Just 5 years ago they cost 4x more. You can see how people would consider you crazy for wanting to go into the solar panel business 5 or 10 years ago, when some of the leaders in the business now entered the market.

If you haven't read it already, I strongly suggest reading The Innovator's Dilemma. It will give you more insight into why this sort of stuff keeps happening:

http://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Technologies-Cause-...
> Defining climate change as a "health risk" is insane, sorry.

So far in this thread, I've been called "insane" and "out of my right mind". I really wish HN were more polite, this kind of language is toxic to having a good discussion.

Climate change is certainly a health risk. Already there have been numerous issues with fresh water access in developing countries due to local climate change that is largely caused by human activity. Lack of fresh water is a health risk. There are numerous other health risks associated with a changing climate, and it is certainly not "insane" to think that's true.
This is why you shouldn't believe everything you read about your health
It absolutely blows my mind that people are happy to hand over their banking credentials to a third party. I would never in a billion years ever have believed it were possible for a firm to succeed predicated on that basis.

I'm pretty sure that doing that in the UK instantly nullifies any protection you have against fraud etc.
You do not want a moving camera for VR cinema, especially not if you are using a lightfield camera. If camera moves, the user is struck with the nauseating illusion that space is moving around them.
That's cool. Do you know if they have a version I could try out in the oculus? It just looks like a utube video on that site.
Your assuming this uses more cycles, but that's probably false. All the interrupts, context switches, and kernel processing related to IO is a lot of processing. You have control here how many cycles to burn busy waiting, it's the classic latency vs throughout tradeoff. Longer sleep times in between polling means less busy waiting and more latency.
It's a self fulfilling prophecy. It's because this is not possible, since often software is a never ending journey. Today's requirements are not tomorrow's requirements. If only we could freeze time.
I said 'fresh', as opposed to vanilla vintage gnu layout (http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/), not beautiful or good :)
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So, was it the small philosophy book that turned the airline around and made it profitable, or was it the cutting of 16,000 employees?
Seems like "Tracking protection" should be the default, not an opt-on. Like disabling "beacon.enabled" by default, for instance.

If you're using a general purpose blocker (uBlock, uMatrix, PoliceMan, AdBlock, etc, even NoScript), it makes sense to actually disable the internal blocker (less hooks/rules to parse), as FF's list is not even remotely comparable to what you get by subscribing to a couple of community-maintained ones, plus there's no convenient way to tweak the rules (something that other addons excel at).

FF internal tracking protection is somewhat nice for the casual user, and it's going to stir some extra polemics about content blocking (which I consider a positive thing), but it's nowhere as effective as the others. I fear it's also going to be circumvented more quickly, promoting more inline JS, supercookies and fingerprinting techniques.

Overall, it's not something that I would have included in FF from a purely pragmatical perspective. It's just opening Mozilla to direct liability, while not providing anything for the privacy conscious person.
Warrnambool native here.

The problem with Middle Island is that it is occasionally land-bound. Building Warrnambool's iconic breakwater causes siltage to build up at the mouth of the Merri so it's not so much that foxes got onto the island but that they have access when the sandbars build up. Culling the foxes has never really worked either, so it's good to see something else being done to mitigate the damage we cause. There's a number of islands there but most are constantly land-bound so the penguins don't have much of a chance against foxes and feral cats. Middle island is their last refuge in the area.
Unfortunately, many of these people are older (who seem not to worry about phoning people a lot) and are my more important clients & customers

If it were me, I would assume that their motives for calling aren't as simple as "Need X thing that is business related". I would wonder if they need something like more sense of contact and I would try to arrange to call them before they called me. Them feeling like you are reaching out and can be gotten ahold of may cut back on this. People do things for all kinds of reasons that aren't "logical."

Sometimes, briefly touching base earlier rather than later is a time saver.
Hydrolysis from solar is '30% efficient' of nearly limitless solar radiation. Hydrogen fuel cells emit no CO2. Its hard to underestimate what a gigantic win that is.
Right, not as exciting as the way I parsed the headline.
The fact that you don't hear about it is largely because employees tend to be better at whining to the media when they don't get their way than shareholders.

The American landscape is littered with many large companies which have gone bankrupt by giving in to all their employees' demands at the cost of profitability. The big airlines, for instance. And the carmakers.
OK, consider this. Every (moral) philosophy exists to motivate other people, as a code to follow (if it didn't you wouldn't have reason to tell anyone!). This means there is a group, or a collective, which supposedly holds these values and is to be protected. If fulfilling this philosophy (or its protection) requires killing other humans, then this is (ostensibly) done in the interest of the group.

In other words, if someone is killing for individual reasons, he is not following any philosophy, because he doesn't need any; he's just crazy or psychopath. Killing for philosophical reasons always happens to protect some social order (albeit sometimes fictional).

If you don't agree, there is a simple solution. Just provide an example of philosophy that causes killing of people and is not in fact collectivist (by any definition you choose, it doesn't matter very much, and that's why I was able to do the bold claim I did).

Or to put it even simpler, it's contradictory to kill another human to fulfil any philosophy of individual freedom.

Hitler killed because he wanted to protect Germans from Jews, Pinochet killed because communists were danger to his social order, and so on. Even Winston Smith from 1984 was willing to kill in order to replace the social system (which is the passage in the book I really like, because it's one of the places that makes it actually morally ambiguous, just like real world).
Reserve a Tesla Model 3 in 2 years. I'm sure Tesla will be far ahead of hydrogen cars with respect to self-driving, too.
"Versions of Linux have proved vulnerable to some of the most serious bugs in recent years, including Heartbleed and Shellshock. AshleyMadison.com, the site that facilitates extramarital affairs and suffered an embarrassing data breach in July, was reportedly running Linux on its servers, as do many companies."

This from a reporter who's "specializing in privacy, security and surveillance.". How sad.
Yes. Having your newly installed linux box connected to the internet after a base install without first enabling a firewall (or configuring the existing one to block a bunch of default allowed items) wasn't as bad as the same thing with a windows box, but it was still bad. Circa 2000/2001 I believe you would likely be infected or hacked by some SSH or Apache worm within a few hours.

Windows around the same time, maybe a few years later, was much worse though. They actually had to patch a bug where the system would boot after install and the firewall might not come on until a second or two after the network, and there were so many exploits and worms that systems were getting exploited in this very short time-frame.
Any evidence for that? The link he provided simply says that executive compensation doesn't count as SR&ED expenditures for the purpose of determining the amount of R&D expenditure that qualifies for reimbursement. So far as I can tell, it says nothing about the definition of net income, and the definition of net income for the purpose of the qualifying income limit is simply the normal taxation one that allows you to deduct executive pay.
This is a beautiful thing. I'm eagerly awaiting when NVM arrives in AWS to see if I can put this to work.

Intro here
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/introduction-to-th...
But you have to ship it and store it.
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Sheldon, meanwhile, has found "solace" in the arms and brainwaves of Amy Farrah Fowler, a somewhat dour neuroscientist who appreciates
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Sheldon's mind almost as much as Sheldon does. But we sometimes suspect that Klingon Boggle, Halo tournaments and Mordor texts written in elvish script are more his true objects of desire. Friend Howard Wolowitz also found—and actually married—Bernadette Rostenkowski, which means that most of the show's initial main characters have a main squeeze now. The only exception is astrophysicist Raj, a guy who, until Season 6, wasn't even able to talk with women unless he was drunk.

"I'm not sure what Chuck Lorre [the show's creator] has against smart people," Chicago Tribune blogger Maureen Ryan wrote early on in the show's run, "but with the foul sitcom The Big Bang Theory, he tries to have his revenge against anyone with an IQ above room temperature. … Even if the jokes on this show weren't tired and mean-spirited, it would be hard to care about any comedy that hates its own lead characters so much."
I would just like to add that multiple concentrates from different locations are frequently blended before being smelted into a refined product, so, even more to your point...
Not my experience at all.

I've never noticed my Spotlight indexing, except for when I've upgraded the OS. Items also come up very easily for me. I mostly use it to launch apps and it finds those for me with very few keystrokes. Maybe 1-2 gets me to the apps I use the most. For documents, it works well for me too, but not as good as the apps.

You can always try https://www.alfredapp.com/, but even in their blog they admit that with Yosemite kinda changed the game for them.
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they are. back in the day they were charged with terrorism, principally. Among sabotage and other crimes. One of the rare examples of terrorism being used outside of either a wartime threat or leftist organization/labor union.
You're experienced in an environment (HPC) where polling for communications works great for compute/network intensive programs. InfiniPath didn't use interrupts, basically, and its latest evolution as Intel's Omni-Path probably does the same thing. Even Mellanox InfiniBand doesn't use interrupts when doing HPC-ish things.

This Intel library means that the network and storage can use the same event loop. It will integrate beautifully with Omni-Path's user-level library.
But the relevant comparison is to batteries, which are more efficient.
I'm glad there are others who think the same way! Like always, probably more topic-specific solutions will lead the way to a hopefully universal collection of knowledge.
The anticlimate change lobby had its pockets sooooooo greased...
I haven't looked at DPDK specifically (I'd like to) but most such libraries I've seen poll on their own in their own thread. If the application has to tell it to poll, then it's cooperative multitasking; we all saw how much fun that was in Windows or (pre-OSX) MacOS. Polling introduces a classic latency/resource-consumption tradeoff. If you do it too much, you waste resources. If you don't do it enough, you get crappy latency. This is why interrupts were invented, and they work quite well when used correctly. Whether the storage or networking stacks in the Linux kernel uses them correctly is left as a point for the reader to ponder. ;)
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Even if the jokes on this show weren't tired and mean-spirited,
Nit pick: Electrolysis is more like 70% efficient, but once you add the losses from compression and turning that hydrogen back into electricity, your 30% figure sounds about right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water#Efficien...
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Great vision, but it's really the fault of a horrible trend in the liberal arts.

Liberal arts is supposed to be about passing down and building upon wisdom and culture gained over thousands of years.

Instead, at most universities, it's an uncriticized and unaccountable platform for instructors' personal agendas. Political agendas are common, but it's more than that: it's about self-promotion and self-aggrandization.

And the education is more confusing than enlightening. Vague, unintelligible jumbles of keywords pass for brilliance and depth.

I've had really good teachers in liberal arts, and they are amazing. But unfortunately that's the exception rather than the rule.

In other words, fix the liberal arts, and then maybe more people will appreciate them.
> The fact that you don't hear about it is largely because employees tend to be better at whining to the media when they don't get their way than shareholders.

That would seem to violate everything we know about public relations, i.e. it's a whole lot easier to get your voice heard when you have money.
That's effectively like saying the murder problem isn't because of ONE murderer. Why bother arresting a murderer?

If Exxon-Mobil is guilty of falsifying information, they should be held accountable. Period. Whether other companies are also guilty is of no consequence to Exxon. They should be held responsible as well.
Maybe, but all the people who had aneurysms about it would have been even louder.
Rather sparse on direct, attributable quotes from "security experts"
Oh my god please yes. HN is terrible to use on mobile. Look:

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transform: scale(2,2);
margin-right: 10px;
}

I just improved usability on the site by like 100% for mobile users. In two lines of code. HN, please get on it.
I think it's just an artifact of inflation/growth. They make a profit directly if you measure in constant dollars, it's just that by the time they pay out they're paying out more nominal dollars than they took in in premiums.
This is a really crappy article. Light on technical details, and wrong on some. The Post should ashamed to publish this.
Talent or toxicity?
The viewer's head isn't stationary, so you have to have a perspective for each possible eye location.
Go electric. Hydrogen is a zombie technology.

Twenty or ten years ago hydrogen seemed like a pretty good way to go, and these products are the end result of projects started way back then. But batteries have pretty much leapfrogged hydrogen in every way, and I can't see hydrogen staging a comeback.
Well, we can't know the future, but I'd like to draw a parallel. A few years ago, Java offered the promise "write once, run anywhere". It worked pretty well until a major OS decided "nah, not gonna happen here".

What's different this time?

It is popular (Java was and still is), it is backed by a big company (Java too), it only needs Javascript, which all devices have (Java only needs a JVM, which all devices used to have).

Well, I sure hope for all the folks involved it really is the future. At least, it may well be for the next few years.
The White House published the full thing as well, along with descriptions and summaries of each section:

https://medium.com/the-trans-pacific-partnership
It's really important that programs like Canadian SR&ED are being scrutinized in the context of startups, and on that theme I'm really happy to see this discussion.

I think it's more interesting to see how Canadian founders can shape these sorts of policies over the next 5-10 years, and this is a great starting point.
this is a fantastic design.
He also returned the company to profitability, and brought it back out of bankruptcy, without which it's very much possible that all of the staff rather than "just" 1/3 would have had to find new jobs.

It's perfectly possible he could have managed without, or with fewer, redundancies, but pointing to redundancies as evidence he's not thinking of staff is short-sighted.

It sucks to have people lose jobs, but the solution to that is not to have companies hold on to unsustainable amounts of staff to the extent where they are at risk of failing.
THe article seems to miss a crucial point: if everything is so screwed up, why it has been the dominant technology for 24 years? I mean, we are all still there alive and breathing.
H in HTM stands for "Hierarchical". This means, that it can, in principle, construct more general, more abstract SDRs (patterns) based on many low level SDRs it sees. Thus it's plausible to see forming of ideas out of sentences, or something similar. This is how it can build a world model, and then run your input through multiple levels of abstraction, as many as needed to give a high confidence answer.
Too funny! From DHH's blog post:

Angels? Really? You’ve plucked your self-serving moniker from the parables of a religion that specifically and explicitly had its head honcho throw the money men out of the temple and proclaim a rich man less likely to make it into heaven than a camel through a needle’s eye. Okay then!
It's certainly true that the polled-mode driver model doesn't interact well when the application needs to use other APIs that don't provide a polled mode. However, SPDK can be used in conjunction with a polled user-mode network stack so that a storage application can operate fully in user mode without any user-to-kernel context switches or hardware interrupts.

It's definitely not a drop-in replacement for a kernel storage stack in the general case, but rather an optimization for specific applications (e.g. storage appliances) that can be structured to take advantage of the polled/no-interrupts model.
Yes, clickbait.
Haven't noticed that! Thanks for reporting it. Will get right on it.
> “There is no way in hell the problem there is the kernel,” Torvalds said. “If you run a nuclear power plant that can kill millions of people, you don’t connect it to the Internet.”

He is so right.
Or is it killing the hen to ensure the other hens can continue eating and being happy?
Not at all, you need money and a good sob story. Nobody cares about the sob story of the rich hedge fund which isn't making as much money as it could be, they want sob stories with blue-collar workers sitting at a kitchen table looking balefully into the camera.
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I really like the illustrations. Any idea what tools were used for the animations?

Thanks!
Maybe they were back in the day but according to the Anti-Defamation League they are not today. Nor is any homegrown extremist group.
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> Cisco continues to dominate routers, despite China's attempt to steal from them and clone their products.

Huawei revenues are already on par with Cisco, at least that one worked out pretty well.
Thanks for the note p4wnc6. I definitely understand your position. This is why I included my email in the post and encouraged folks to email me if they are interested in learning more about Spire.

I'm happy to hop on the phone with people interested in Spire if there is a potential fit. Please shoot me an email if you'd like to get in touch! Darin@spire.com.

Cheers,