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UNIX intentionally deviated from monolithic systems that had many useful features because they couldn't run on their hardware. Then, they kept that even when hardware got better with some added back in band-aid on ways and some others cleanly. Windows NT's design came from experience and strategies of OpenVMS's designer. No wonder that a cleaner, monolithic design came out of it. Took them a while to get the reliability near their ancestor, though. Haha.

Meanwhile, QNX and Minix 3 took a more UNIX philosophy approach than UNIX by decomposing the whole thing into communicating components. QNX did it fast and ultra-reliable where Minix 3 is at least reliable. Easier to update due to architecture, even live updates. They each did this with little manpower and resources compared to what went into UNIX's.

My direct comparison for UNIX is with them. It shows UNIX architecture is fundamentally flawed in terms of flexibility, reliability, security, determinism, and ease of maintenance. I'd compare Windows kernel with other monoliths on servers and desktops. Usability and stability are better than most that are still around with other attributes hit and miss (or comparable). UNIX desktops have gotten much better than before but still too many WTF moments. And more dependency hell than I used to deal with on Windows. (sighs)
There are lots of things where "the idea of them" isn't bad, but they can't be turned into law-enforced policy without leading to bad consequences.

That's not really the fault of lawyers, either.
Oh you can't trust the FDIC they are government insured. And governments collapse all the time. I gave an example. Like a I said there is only one safe place for your money. Thats in your own private bank that you build and maintain yourself.
Damaging untruths are widely punished, either as civil offenses, criminal offenses, or both, in the US and elsewhere; countries differ in details of where the burden of proof lies in truth/untruth of harmful statements, what the standard of proof required is, what degree and kind of harms are covered, and whether and how those kind of rules vary for different categories of harmful statements.

In general, these punishments reflect the common belief that infliction of harm without consent of the harmed is improper, and warrants either punishment or compensation or both.

And, anyway, ostracism is a punishment (historically viewed as a fairly severe one.)
Obviously it's just as despicable to say that the Gulags never happened.

It's not much of an issue though in Germany / Europe, no one's really claiming that, probably since it wouldn't feed into any popular / populist narratives.
> What an incredibly stupid thing for the FAA to do

Why is it stupid? They don't care at all if you decide not to buy a drone. hell, it's a win for them.
That was already available in Xerox PARC systems, by making use of function call composition in Interlisp-D REPL, Builders in Smalltalk transcript or live debugger in Mesa/Cedar.

The UNIX composition is only a novelty for those that never saw other OSes that surfaced at the same time. After all UNIX just adopted the idea from MULTICS.
When is the last time the FDIC failed versus the last time an online storage vendor folded?
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Have you created a user? If you don't create a user, and aren't acting as the postgres user, how do you expect to connect?
I appreciate it! I should probably add an about page... I didn't really think of that. You can shoot me an email at max00355@gmail.com if you'd like.

I believe the "newest" section is updated rather frequently. I honestly like to watch the way things move around so that's why I made it. I was even thinking of recording and time lapsing a day on the front page to see how things move.
I think you are being overly cynical.

It's a label that helps people. I'm one of those people. I spent so much of my youth wondering what was so innately wrong with me that my peers would take every opportunity to mock my speech, my hobbies, my mannerisms, my preferences in food, clothes, etc. I became severely depressed during high school and nearly killed myself. I felt incredibly broken, confused, and separated from my peers in every way.

My parents weren't the type to believe in stuff like ADHD or Autism spectrum stuff, so the fact that I was getting great grades/test scores/had a few close nerd friends seemed to indicate I was just bookish and shy. Teachers were the same way, nothing wrong with the quiet kid.

When I finally had a psychologist tell me about Asperger's, and I went to some of the online communities and read about all of the other people with such similar experiences, it really helped. I wasn't so broken anymore, I was just different, and a lot of other people are different in the same way. By that time, I was too old to get much help out of an official diagnosis, but just being able to put a label on it gave me some peace. Even though I am well-adjusted, employed, and otherwise able to blend in and function to a point that it's mostly irrelevant, knowing about it and having a community helped me get there. I don't see why it's so terrible to have autism be a more inclusive label if it helps people.
> I've done a bit of ember, and it seems heavy to me,

One thing about Ember: it's specifically for "ambitious" applications. The idea is that you're going to be building something which needs all those things, so it's better to have them in the framework, where best practices can be shared across projects. Once you've built out those features yourself, you've built a custom framework anyway.

An interesting point about frameworks, generally: they have a constant overhead. So for smaller projects, the framework dominates the application, but as the application grows, the application will dominate the framework.
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> deem some one being autistic without any actual developmental tests, brain imaging or even in depth psychoanalysis.

The latter two have nothing to do with psychiatric or psychological diagnoses. A diagnoses is made on the basis of symptoms, it doesn't get more exact than that. There are symptoms which frequently go together, and this is how disorders get a name. Although science attempts to find biological markers for mental illness, this has not been very successful. Psychoanalysis is just pseudoscience.
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It's funny you consider 2011 vintage, my most recent computer being from 2009 and I find it modern

Well, that's because I bought my i5-2500K desktop in 2011. I just chucked in a new hard drive and it's about to get another 8GB of RAM ;-)

My previous tower lasted 8 years. I'm not a gamer, but that one got a graphics card upgrade as well....
Granted it was 15 years ago, but when I got my first credit card out of high school, the limit was $300.
Yeah, I guess "fruitless nightmare" more aptly describes my feelings for the idea of micromanaging my phone behaviors. Either way, I think this kind of data extrapolation is a lot more likely to get people who don't normally care about privacy violations to begin caring.
I have searched for generic terms such as "Portable n64" or "how to make a portable n64". As far as progress goes, I have the n64 and controller. I can buy most of the parts except for the soldering tool but ill find a way. One of my neighbors might have one. Ive also decided that i will just buy the cartridges. The thing is that Im really clueless as to this type of stuff. And I dont do to good with wires. If you have a link you can share which has an in depth tutorial on how to make one, it would be much appreciated.
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But they seem to have pivoted several times already. The founder's original patent was for a wearable device that transmits readings to your doctor.
the cavalier attitude this article shows towards inferring character assessments based on metrics makes me feel uneasy.

given the equally casual approach most technologists have towards embedding user behaviours into applications, the potential feedback loop of many companies deliberately creating habits in users, and then other firms judging those people based on their collected habits is distressing.

instead of sneaking malware and pop ups on to your computer as you browse, the malware is installed inside of you, as habits. there's no glaring pop up telling me there's something wrong with my windows license.

having uninstalled my social apps for several weeks now, i still find myself turning the phone on and staring at the homescreen for a few seconds. my eyes dully glazed over. it's more insidious than the popup, which i could close with a click. with this, i have to be mindful, and grab back the reins of my body. the process is internal.

given the research on the involuntary nature of habits, i question the ethics of creating these behaviours at all.

is it ethical to create involuntary behaviours in your users?

is it ethical to judge users for behaviours deliberately created in them by applications?

should the attention of users be better protected?

can we start developing consumer applications that aren't deliberately designed to capitalise on the attention of their users?

how can we educate people to navigate a world of applications designed to hold and capitalise on their attention?

media awareness class in high school did not prepare me for this brave new world. :P
First off, I'm not your 'bro'. And what do you mean a DOX, you yourself wrote that on this very site. Or are you saying that you consider yourself anonymous from hereon in and therefore get to spout whatever nonsense you feel like and invite people to do dumb stuff 'because you said so' and we should ignore this in the context of your other postings?

I'm responding to you the way I do because you run (or apparently, ran) an AWS hosted service.

I'm a piece of shit because you disagree with me, but it just so happens that you've been all over this thread with a continuous stream of (hopefully) purposeful mis-understandings and/or downright trolling. If you want to do that from an anonymous account go ahead but don't do it from the same one that you use for 'Who is hiring' posts.

Just like say if cperciva writes about online storage I interpret that in the context of his tarsnap business.

People here are pretty open about the projects they're involved with and so are you, if you don't want that link to be made then I suggest you don't post about your company on HN or you create a separate account to share your 'pearls of wisdom' like you do in this thread.

Oh, and your anecdote of how many years you were up and running holds zero water by your own standards.

Attacking people and their professional reputations can get your own professional reputation called into question, get used to it.
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It doesn't look like its any different then any other mac currently on the market... so I would say no it didn't.
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Now that the JavaScript trend is transitioning from "cool hipster language" to "a language that Wal-Mart uses", room is being made for a new language fad. Elixir/Phoenix seems like it may be a good candidate.
I once ran a language popularity site thing, and I think jobs are something of a trailing indicator. It takes a while for people to hire for whatever hot new thing is out.
> So? So is calling people "rapists" (without proof or conviction), but we don't outlaw it.

Falsely calling someone a rapist is unlawful and subjects the person doing it to legal consequences many places (including most jurisdictions in the US); where the burden of proof is on demonstrating the truth or falsity of the statement, whether and in what circumstances a good-faith mistake of fact will excuse the offense, etc., vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but it is certainly not a matter on which it is some widely accepted principal that people are free to make false claims without consequence.
> The "UNIX philosophy" is good, it's just that UNIX doesn't really follow it.

Well you know what they say. Talk is cheap. Ideas are basically free. Following through is hard.

Having an abstract ideal is worthless if you are just going to squirm and excuse yourself when you don't follow through on them. Which is basically what Unix does when you question whether it follows what it preaches.
Source on that? I'd want to see some pretty convincing evidence before I'd even consider doing that. For starters you'll be paying interest by doing that, which I guess is a "good" quality from the lender's point of view, but I'm certainly not going to start forking over interest in hopes that it'll improve my credit score.
We're using Rails (in 'API-mode') with Ember. It's a great combination in my view. Thrilled to see Rails 5 providing even better support for this combination.

@steveklabnik Thanks for spearheading Rails-api! :)

Re: Ember being heavy; yes, it is a bit heavy but that has huge payoffs as your application grows.
What documentation or tutorial were you following? The first thing you need to do is create a user (or act as the postgres user on your os) and if the doc or tutorial was an official one, it should be made more clear and you should file a bug, if it wasn't then you should contact the owner and tell them their tutorial isn't clear.
> ... children who’d been subjected to the same insipid tasks year after year after year were understandably losing their enthusiasm for learning.

And yet we pretend this isn't by design! The US system is based on 18th-19th century's Prussian system which was used in their military to create more obedient soldiers. That's why school is soul crushing and so many children suffer in school. We are teaching them obedience above all else.

The system stinks.
This makes me happy too! I went to conferences back in the early 90's and they were a lot of fun, watershed moment in my life. I hope you have a great time, you'll meet a lot of interesting and good people. I remember our exchange back in August, I'm glad you followed up on it and it sounds like you are really learning. I've been studying Rand for over 25 years and I recently reread PWNI and learned some new things and I am amazed at her insight.

Regarding my comment on the article, it was really just an "excited utterance" when I realized that the "shut up and calculate" and "bury the contradictions" tactics in Physics had run its course. I really wasn't looking to engage and offer Rand as the alternative to Kant. Physicists really want answers and seem more open to questioning their basic premises, including the premise that Philosophy is worthless. I feel like there is "revolution in the air" so to speak.

I too like the Bayesian approach to probability especially the work of E.T. Jaynes. I bought his book and though I didn't fully understand it, I like the idea of probability as a generalized logic of science. In his framework the problem of induction becomes when is it valid to conclude a probability is equal to 1.0 not 0.999.... This is the key because the latter is what leaves the door open to the skeptics.

(I previously tried to PM you but the email bounced, I will try again).
Saying it's a failure assumes/implies that we know which model is perfect, and that everyone can just agree to adopt it.

Which clearly isn't the case, or we wouldn't have such vastly different systems in different states.
How likely was it that one plane would fly into the World Trade Center, let alone two?

I'm not going to go too deeply into speculative scenarios, but all kinds of business-interrupting calamities are possible with very low probability. We just had the story on the frontpage about the Juniper backdoor; do you think S3 isn't being targeted by multiple state intelligence agencies?

Basically I agree with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10772321 - by all means keep the working copy online, but have a local offline backup.
You can provide multiple viewers read-only access to session using a combination of ttyrec by the recorder, and ttyplay in streaming mode for incoming tcp connections. Perhaps using socat, inetd, systemd, etc: http://0xcc.net/ttyrec/index.html.en
I worked with people at Microsoft who then joined Talko - I'm confident this is just an acquihire if Ray isn't coming along. It's funny because those people basically left Microsoft only to come back to Microsoft, so it's a great setup for those employees since they'll get probably a nice bonus out of it; but the product itself went absolutely nowhere, I'm not surprised by this move at all.
Depending on how you count the Bacon number, I have an Erdős–Bacon number of 5 (2+3) and I'm actively working on my Sabbath number.
This is wrong. Factually. Speak with any bank at all, paying your credit card debt will never, ever hurt your credit score.

At least here in Canada.
source: I know plenty of people that pay their credit card every month, with 800+ scores.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10769986 and marked it off-topic.
>parents should stay home with the kids and play. That interaction with parents teaches kids far more than a lowly paid preschool teacher will.

Do you have kids? I have a 2.5 year who has been in a small day care setting (about 10 kids) for 2 years. The effect it has had on her social (and even academic) skills have been pretty amazing.

She is learning so much more about how to deal with other people, social interactions, ect than she ever could staying at home with me.

>[One parent staying at home with the kids] was done for centuries.

Not really. Preindustrial revolution life was much more communal and based around large, multi-generational family units.
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> "so, what do you do?"

You don't have to say "I'm unemployed to that answer". You can still say you're a programmer, if you're a programmer! Even better, you can start a little project and call it a "startup". Tell 'em you're a hip little entrepreneur - that's even cooler than being employed in some circles. :)
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You're right, you're no expert. You are giving extremely bad advice here. If you charge things to your credit card and wait until the statement is generated, then pay in full during the grace period, it will show on your credit report (and thus result in an improvement in your credit score) and will not result in finance charges being imposed (which is always a sign of financial irresponsibility).
I gave up cell service when I left my job for an extended international backpacking trip. I attached my cell number to google voice (along with my parents' house phone) and started receiving messages and making calls when I had wifi. Over time, I got used to this and realized that I had been using my smartphone almost entirely for time-wasting activities.

When I re-integrated into professional life, I got a pay-per-minute burner smartphone to cover me for the infrequent cases when I need to make a call or get directions, and I don't have wifi.

Wifi is so ubiquitous for me now (at work, at home, at restaurants/bars/etc) that adding a cell phone does nothing more but give me opportunity to be distracted when I out in the world, living life.

When I had a smartphone that was always connected, I would turn to it for novelty at the faintest hint of boredom. Not having it available has unconditioned that behavior.

So yes, while I still maintain a smart device that has my music and that I can do things with through wifi, eliminating my constant connection to the digital world has been a net positive for me.
>In the given context of safety and a request for only female caretakers, is the conclusion that male caretakers are unsafe for female patients?

A fun way to view the world: swap gender for race and see how it reads.
I don't really understand the point of the Wolfram Language. It feels like a language with a humongous standard library that tries to cover everything?
No, but the Masters definitely reads as a B.S.++. I think the Ph.D. is qualitatively different. It puts you at risk of looking over-specialized, while opening you up to jobs that require that degree of specialization.
Look at LinkedIn to see if long-time employees have gotten promotions. See what their turnover is like (if people are dropping like flies, particularly in a certain division/team, you can bet it's not a very safe place). Also see what kind of side projects develop out of the team. If you see tons of internal tools and useful "hackathon"-esque features, you can bet there's quite a bit of autonomy to be able to develop those kinds of things.
If not now, then soon. The MS/MEng is for sure the new BS. I had a hiring manager from a local firm come in and say: "Yes, we are hiring entry level talent right now, masters students like you guys are in high demand and...."

The sentence betrayed his logic, that a MS is now entry level.

When asked if there were questions, one student said:"Wait, are masters now an entry level requirement or preference?"

He relied:"Yes, they are a requirement, and they are entry level not just in terms of comapny structure, but in terms of pay too"

This was bioengineering, by the way.
Maybe you are being downvoted because you seem to have no problem whatsoever with the idea of exiling millions of people solely based on their ethnicity / faith?
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I feel like this is backwards. 30 years ago you could potentially work your way up the ladder without a degree. Now you need a degree to get a job working in a coffee shop, because college degrees are so ubiquitous that they've become a prerequisite for employment at many places.

Sure, you could do some learning on your own now, but you could also do that 30 years ago, and I'm not certain most employers are going to put much stock in self-directed education regardless, not when there are so many underemployed college grads available.
Soooo it's basically a head-facing microwave dish? This issue is brought up in the FAQ, but I don't buy their answer. "Nothing is one hundred percent and everything depends on other factors." seems pretty non-specific and hand-wavy to me.
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Yes, it could be. The trade-off is usually measured by the cost to the company of re-creating or losing the data entirely. So for some stuff such a system is feasible, for others it isn't and then you'll have to compromise. Log data for instance does not need to be stored like that unless there are legal rules saying that you have to keep it no matter what.

For each business this is a delicate affair and you should spend some time on figuring out what you really absolutely have to have and what you could lose without losing the company or getting in trouble with the law.
>Lastly the reason ini over yaml is purely that this can preserve comments and doing the same for yaml is a lot more work i did not have time for :)

Was that the only thing that bothered you about YAML/pyyaml or were there other things you'd like to see fixed?
What do they call the algorithm that takes a sample of text and determines if it is Trump or not? I suppose naive bayes can do that?

How much sample text do you need, and is there even a way of answering that question?
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I think the typical use-case for general purpose CPU cores in FPGAs is for all sorts of random bookkeeping/scaffolding to support the main custom logic, for example handling the UI or something like that.

Kinda contrived analogy would be that while SQL is good for getting data from DB you still usually want to hand over the data to some more general purpose language app for display or whatnot.