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Windows XP CD, there was still about 30 megabytes of storage capacity remaining.

Somebody decided to fill that extra capacity on the CD with dummy data and to have the Windows Setup program verify that the dummy data was still there.

Really? This feels like a Microsoft urban legend. I'm not convinced because I have an original ISO image of the first release of Windows XP Pro and it is (~500MB) much smaller than the size of even the smallest regular CD. It works, I've used it for many installs.

Edit: in fact only the i386 folder on the CD, which is < 500MB, is needed to install XP so if there was a hidden copy of Bob in there, it certainly doesn't fit the "30MB remaining" nor are there any files in there which are of that size with the exception of the ~75MB driver.cab; the latter contains only device drivers and the biggest one, te_protu.qm, appears to be ISDN modem firmware.
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> The core idea of CacheBrowser is to grab censored content cached by Content Delivery Networks such as Akamai and CloudFlare directly from their CDN edge servers…

Isn't this what websites do in the first place? They put their assets on CDNs, so that it can be delivered faster.

What about dynamic pages? CDNs cover static assets, but the dynamic pages have to be generated on the origin servers.
I wonder if at a certain level of development, the bottom is so low that welfare will make life slightly better but sustainable work and pay will sufficiently change the standard of living. Therefore welfare doesn't deter work because incremental standard of living (attainable only by working) is sufficiently divergent from the alternative of relying solely on welfare. I'd also wonder if by contrast in developed countries the standard at the bottom is sufficiently high or the next level up is not sufficiently different enough to encourage working to get there.

The Vox article mentions other studies in the US and Canada, particularly negative tax and earned income tax credit. I'm not sure those actually act as welfare or a one time economic stimulus. As a former recipient of earned income tax credit, 1. I definitely didn't plan for that income 2. It didn't change my work incentive (I was already working and low income) 3. I probably spent that refund almost immediately either on paying down a credit card, a car down payment, appliance, etc.

Earned income tax Had no effect on my desire to work or to increase my income; the fact that I worked full time and had a low income was incentive enough. The earned income tax was kind of like a bonus on an otherwise hard existence.

I suppose what is important here though is the question, do the program's incentivize people to move out of poverty and remove the need for future subsidization? If my hypothesis on upward mobility is correct then government welfare programs don't really do much to move people out of poverty, they are really economic stimulus and you know, keeping people from starving and freezing to death. If we wanted to address the question of deterring work, I'd suspect a lack of upward mobility is enough to deter work toward the bottom.
In MA you've got a (rotating) chunk of schools that are always on the ropes because of their test numbers. I'd be surprised if the teacher's union didn't disregard the merits (good or bad) throw their weight behind this simply to get more stability for those schools that are in danger of being shut down or reorganized. FWIW common core is somewhat redundant as well since they already have to play the numbers game with MCAS.
you think you are so smart and other people are so driven by their emotions

I don't know about everyone but it sure as hell wont work on me
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See: collateral freedom
I'm suspicious of govt-run healthcare. Look at Canada - their system is in collapse.
Sure, the grammar needs a little work but this sentence is the only glaring issue...

> He then asked this question “How is a typical call with a prospect looks like?”

Should be "How does a typical call with a prospect look?"

Also - great article! I've worked in sales and emails never worked, especially in this day and age of constant spam. Email is great for an info blast, but you will not close with an email.
it will not "convert" you, but it will make you to be better predisposed, and sometimes that's enough to advance and close a sale.
Shows up pretty obviously with git, which is the first example
?

Just do something like:

git rev-list --max-parents=0 HEAD
As in spheres at the corners? I remember it having those. Some corners had them and some didn't, same as in this.
It would be challenging to design such an experiment for obvious reasons. I've observed the cohort of children associated with my friends. Nearly all the kids started out quite curious, but by middle school there was definite segmentation, and by college it was very much a smaller subset who were still out there asking questions and following up on the answers.

I will also add that it is the curse of parenting that you cannot re-do the experiment. And so every choice you make, strict/lenient, forbid/allow, debate/fiat, talk/not-talk is full of questions about whether or not it would be better for your child if you acted in a different way. It is really stressful on the parents.
i tried many times to convince myself that i can live
without automatic package dependencies
but failed

i love the legacy of slackware, the brand
but its more of an emotional thing

at the end, i use kubuntu, ubuntu based distros have
access to ppa(s) which really make life a lot easier
for linux on the desktop

hopefully one day slackware will
give up and add automatic management for package dependencies
but until that day, its too hardcore, i dont have
that kind of time
These benchmarks are tough to reproduce (for all libs). Mithril's instructions say, "To run an execution time test on this page, run the profiler from your browser's developer tools and measure the running time of a page refresh. (Lower is better)"

There are a lot of variables that affect a full page refresh...caching, etc. I could not get those ms numbers in any scenario, not sure what I should be looking at.

Would be more useful to stress-test the lib by implementing dbmonster [1] and speedtest* [2]. These perf tests have the benefit of being good visual comparisons and also stressing the browser's GC to evaluate how efficient a lib is at minimizing overall mem usage and reducing jank.

I've been working on a DOM view layer lib [3] that does exceptionally well in both of those. (more demos and docs coming soon).

EDIT: added domvm dbmonster demo [4]

*speedtest is ultra-slow in FF for all libs, the winner is surprisingly innerHTML. still need to narrow down the cause to open an FF bug.

[1] http://joelrich.github.io/fastest-dbmonster/

[2] http://rawgit.com/crysalead-js/dom-layer/master/examples/spe...

[3] https://github.com/leeoniya/domvm

[4] http://leeoniya.github.io/domvm/test/bench/dbmonster/
That's exactly what they're afraid of. "This will be on the MCAS" is a phrase heard disturbingly often overall but disturbingly little in math/science classes compared to English and reading/writing. The schools have learned how to teach to the MCAS and don't want to have to learn to teach to common core.

The public employees unions basically run the state so when a topic that affects them comes up they get their way.
I prefer

git init && git commit --allow-empty -m "$(basename (readlink -f .))"
California's DOT Admits That More Roads Mean More Traffic
Great news. I'm looking for uses already :)
Interesting, but on the other hand affordable cities are not the cities that are desired, the price being often a supply and demand relationship. That Paris is an expensive city can only mean that the demand far exceeds the supply. San Francisco for example is amongst the most expensive cities on earth and personally I don't get its allure for software developers, especially given that we can work from anywhere, but it's probably about the potential. Software developers, much like artists, want investors and an audience.
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They were erased from history to hide their failure over some wild uncivilized Gauls.
It depends on what you want, and why you're asking.

Personally, I use Ubuntu 14.04 LTS because it worked straight away, gives me nearly everything I want, and just gets out of the way and lets me work.

Ask yourself why you care? How will it improve your life? How will it help you get more done?

How much time you'll waste tinkering?
Ask HN: Where do you want to work?
I'm 21, graduating college in May, have a solid resume and experience, and want to explore the world a bit. Where would you suggest I apply to (companies) or travel to (locations)?
OpenGL, interesting. Someone knows more about this choice?
I'm not an expert... but you don't want your C/C++ code stack overflowing or running out of memory in an uncontrolled way.
Your C/C++ can do graph reduction by working on a structure in a loop. Then you'll be able to better monitor resources.
I work for a firm that builds databases primarily for health and human service organizations. We usually work on the Salesforce platform (because of the aforementioned donated licenses), and develop client and program tracking systems that are closely aligned with the organization's business practices. We also do some work helping them implement donor and/or volunteer management systems. My portfolio is primarily supportive housing organizations, so I help develop outcomes tracking, client enrollment and withdrawal tracking, and case management.

I got here by working in non-profits for many years as an operations person, learning database technology, and then finding a firm that combined those two!
Pull up,pull-up ,pull-up
Yeah I was looking at kind of making a heroku setup on my servers sorta like Dokku, but I'm not a real big fan of Dokku. And I wanted to use CoreOS and Docker, but I realized that I can't just include all possible programming languages into a container to be built. So I've opted out of that and just build custom containers based on the app I am deploying.
I'll bite. Here is a sample from my daughter's math homework this week:

Bobby's teacher asked him what the value of the 5 in 582 is.

He answered that it was in the hundreds place. Did he answer the teachers question? If yes explain why. If no what is the right answer?

Bonus points if you can explain the intention of asking the value of a numeral in a larger integer.
I don't know a ton about Common Core (I don't have kids and I'm not a teacher). However, I know enough to agree with you that, assuming they got it right, Common Core should be a terrific thing. However, I spent some time helping a young relative with her math homework and it didn't inspire much confidence. Not because the assignment wasn't attempting to teach the things you mention (once I figured it out, I thought it was a great assignment), but because the assignment's instructions were vague and apparently incomplete. I struggled t figure out, based on the instructions, what the finished product should even look like. If they want to get parents on their side, they have to at least make it so that parents can check students' work, if not understand it themselves.
Multiple Rails App on Single Server
At the moment I doubt that holding bitcoin is cheaper than the credit used by typical credit card issuers. Meaning that I don't think Coinbase has an edge over other issuers when it comes to costs.

This card is probably appealing to people who have some other reason to deal with bitcoin, but I don't think it is going to get the general population to open a Coinbase account.
Not sure where those estimated costs for running MongoDB on AWS came from. It jumps from a single t2.micro instance (which you can get for free) straight to 3x m3.2xlarge instances at $1500/month. That's a pretty big jump. There are at least 6 instance types between the two. Like 3x m3.medium instances with 500GB gp2 EBS volumes would cost $300/month. That's the on-demand pricing, you could probably save some more with reservations given the stateful nature of MongoDB.
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@coldcode, was that SmartHeap? The 90's was the era of 3rd party tools for memory pooling and GuardMalloc for debugging.
What We Talk About When We Talk About the Common Core

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/what-we-talk-about-when-w...
Great advice for all start ups - from experience at many companies, quite a few career salespeople miss a number of the points mentioned here. The value is so easy to extract - we should all be able to let the grammar pass for a man that is taking the time to share - especially where his first language is not English.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=438936

If that's correct, you're close(r).
Eh, clarity of code is more important, in my opinion. If you run out of stack, get a better computer.
Pipes predates Direct3d by a lot. It was first release, IIRC, in Windows NT 3.5. At that time it was novel that a PC had OpenGL.
This is why TCO (Tail call optimization) exists... but of course not all recusion is tail recursion, but I think it can always be written this way, and should always be for arbitrary depth recursion.
It's running at 15fps in my browser. I remember the original ran at 60Hz 15 years ago in a computer a couple orders of magnitude slower.
Google is replacing PageRank with RankBrain and when this is complete they won’t know why certain pages are offered as the best results.

Google is well aware of the problems of machine learning:

http://research.google.com/pubs/pub43146.html
The Prentice-Hall Series in Computer Science has a lot of timeless content. C.A.R. Hoare was an outstanding editor.
pwd -P

would be equivalent and more portable (POSIX compliant[1]) than

readlink -f .

which doesn't work on BSD-based systems.

[1]: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009696899/utilities/pwd...
That bonus question.... wow
I actually got to the point where I had to drink coffee to be able to sleep. I was at Starbucks near close and got a venti latte with six shots. I said to the cute barista girl it was to help me sleep but I think she thought I was being sarcastic, she left that week so I am left with the thought that she thought I was a dick.

I can't recall where it is but a US University has a coffee room where many inventions were thought of mainly due to the social nature and brains revved up by coffee.

And there is also a theory of the age of Coffee Enlightenment in England in the 17th/18th century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_coffeehouses_in_the_17...
I think this is an unfair characterization of my comment. I didn't imply she published "mediocre papers". I don't think anyone intends to publish mediocre papers. Everyone is trying their hardest and believes in their work.

What I'm arguing is that she, like you apparently, aren't seeing the situation from the other person's perspective. Telling everyone else they are "wasting time and clogging the system" is just a game of "he said, she said". It's a battle nobody will win.

Papers are subjective. Notice Leslie Vosshall continues to publish frequently in these top 3 journals after her FASEB post (2012). Is she really being honest with herself? It is pretty easy to come up with reasons why anybody's papers should or should not be published in the top 3 journals. Again, its subjective.

What we need is not a pointing fingers solution, but a meritocratic one like the internet itself. We need data-driven decisions and not yes man/woman editors and wink-wink, nudge-nudge 3 crony reviewers behind closed doors.

It continues to baffle me as to how the scientific community can be so scientific about their research and yet so unscientific about how they communicate this research. Technology is making more science possible, and yet we stick with thousand year old practices of evaluating and communicating science?
What value does the link add? Which URL has more information? Should all of HN go through this blog to read the actual information? No. It's blog spam.
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MA isn't dropping the common core curriculum, just the test.
Fixed (regarding the master branch) and it already tracks the current branch you're on. Go ahead and give it a whirl :)

I could add the functionality to determine which branch does actually have the oldest commit, but I find it more intuitive and useful to go the first commit of the current branch that you're on...

Thanks for the feedback.
I'm curious what was the responsibilities of your own orchestrater?
what are examples of situations it had to handle?
> So far, it's been very hard to use Bitcoin for everyday stuff, ...

https://gyft.com/

https://www.egifter.com/

https://cryfter.com/

https://purse.io/
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No, I would say the right answer is 500. However, if he said it's in the hundreds place then I would say he understands the concept of place values.
Honestly I thought it would be much worse than that. If you're not a total germophobe it should be OK.
I've read (part of) this book and used it to implement a toy compiler. It helped me a lot in getting a better understanding of Haskell and other functional languages. This is really an amazing book, well worth investing some time into. It starts from simple definitions and concepts and builds up on them - very easy to follow even with little to no previous knowledge of the field.
The answer is either 'yes', because the 5 is actually in the hundreds place, or 'no' because the value of the 5 is actually 500. You can answer either because of incomplete information/context to the question (which might be provided by surrounding questions or class work).

The intention of the question is to find out if the child has understood the concept of place values, and I think the ambiguity of the question is there so that you can accept either answer that demonstrates that the child understands that the value of a digit changes based on its location, and that the location of the 5 in 582 notates a 'hundred' multiplier.

While I think the structure of the question might be off putting, asking about place values makes plenty of sense to me. I recall being taught place values in the mid to late 90s up here in Ontario, so it's not exactly a new fangled thing.

edit: used less broken sentences.
1987 was the year I first got access to Usenet (via FidoNet). It's interesting to think how long it would take to download a 30MB book at the time. Of course it would have been considerably smaller since it would have probably been a text file or perhaps LaTeX.

When a CS book is relevant this long, I feel like these kind of ruminations put me in the right headspace to receive it.
You can use C# in Unity. I was under the impression that most people do.
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Ramping up the Autopilot team at Tesla to achieve generalized full autonomy
Of course, not all OS kernel plus userland are the same size. However, we aren't talking about "smaller" we are talking about "small". Small being something you can write and/or fully understand. If you wrote your kernel and userland or at least understand every part of it then, congratulations, you made your point. But if you don't, your OS/userland is smaller but it isn't small.

And probably most developers could write an OS/userland by themselves given enough time but it would probably be a long time before it's practically useful or secure.
You should try to gradually decrease the amount you drink and not just suddenly stop drinking.
Perhaps I'm not reading the right sources, but I never see anybody talk about how much work it is to get benefits, at least in the U.S. Once the county welfare office is involved in your life, you have a demanding new boss, always demanding paperwork -- forms, paystubs -- and phone calls to straighten things out when the paperwork goes wrong. It's not like somebody shows up out of the blue and gives you an envelope full of cash every month.
I agree that it would be more informative to stress-test using a more real-world use case, I was just in a hurry and used the render benchmark from Mithril.js.

however I think that any benchmark may be skewed to favor a particular implementation. for example, Simulacra.js doesn't batch updates and render asynchronously, it's purely synchronous, so one could set up an artificial benchmark to thrash the DOM by setting different values over and over again in the same tick.

also I haven't yet committed the benchmark I used in git, will do later so that people can reproduce it.
I don't know exactly what the standards are but the assignments and tests for first graders are poorly designed.

Emphasizing understanding at the expense of mechanics for basic arithmetic skills is a mistake. Especially, for kids at that age who are just beginning to develop these cognitive skills.

In addition, like the poster, glesica, mentioned below, the questions are often vague and tricky word problems where most of the work is just guessing what they are asking.

My son hasn't actually learned any arithmetic skills beyond what he learned in kindergarten.

Maybe it works better as kids get a bit older but I have found it to be a disaster.
Well that "industry" could start to use cryptocurrencies.
Wear gloves.
It's a weekend game project to defeat boring weekend. 2048 for console loving people.

Playing 2048 on console is actually pretty fun. It's implemented in Python.
Just like leaking an album, blogging about a paper jeopardizes it's earning potential so its not commonly done. Earning potential in science is prestige, grants, jobs, etc.

Publishing/broadcasting whether its music, words, video, or code has always been about doing something first. Seems like human nature. Don't see that pyschology changing any time soon.
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this is correct, and Mithril's docs also point this out. domvm uses rAF internally to debounce changes but it can be toggled off (and IS toggled off [1]) for perf tests to make it 100% synchronous as well (via domvm.useRaf = false).

would be very interested to see Simulacra's perf in those, when ready. thanks!

[1] https://github.com/leeoniya/domvm/blob/master/test/bench/dbm...
to all the down voters: I would like to know the reason (I thought I followed the guidelines)

and for the record (again), I really live in Africa

the main reason this story qualified as a "news" in the first place is because he's (Mark) is pretty important/influential & with that, normal people like me have questions for them - that's all I did, asked an interesting question (especially from my pov)

thanks
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I can't really explain... I can try thought...

It make a clear picture of the decay of Rome, it make you see what people thing, what are their values, why the behave the way the do... Everything is completely clear.
Because closed-access journals (which are sadly still the prestigious ones) prohibit pre-publishing elsewhere.
A very small survey for book readers in india
It doesn't matter what distro you use. You don't want to be friends people that judge you based on your distro of choice. At the end of the day, just pick the one that is easiest to set up on your hardware. For me that is Ubuntu.
The kids and football thing is about building a rapport so the next time that you call they remember you, or will at least take your call. This is important when for example someone may not be buying right now. If they say we will be looking in 6 months time and you only call back in 6 months time they will be unlikely to remember you. If you call them every month by the time the 6 month marl comes around you are speaking to them regularly and may pick up some other business in the intervening period.
On Keeping Your Stuff to Yourself
The New China Syndrome: American business meets its new master