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eh, any app that maintains compatibility with jdks < 7 can't use the WatchService and it's low level system specific API, which includes buttload of enterprise app and but the most recents IDE that are starting to drop jdk 6 support.

then there is indeed the PEBCAK as you say, but you can't really blame people that knows the proper solutions if they have weird jdk to support.
Revolutionary responsive user interface framework is emerging
What is going to happen in 2016
Thus, esoteric philosophy will return to the world.
Most entrepreneurs are, unfortunately, very much like gambling addicts. It is also unfortunate that the casinos (app stores) don't provide accurate information about risk vs. payoff.

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By necessity, entrepreneurs are self-delusional.

Unlike VCs, entrepreneurs have no spread of risk. It is important to realize that it is in the interest of the VC that the entrepreneur remains delusional.
Reso responsive user interface framework is emerging
True, but PG doesn't consider selling your time as starting a company, you're not talking about the same thing
> As wealth accumulates at the upper end of the income spectrum, it has a self-reinforcing and accelerating feedback effect: greater wealth purchases greater political and social influence, which enables even greater wealth production, often at the expense of the poor and the less wealthy.

A case for wealth accumulating on top can be made, if you believe wealthy individuals, on average, are better at allocating funds for a given "common good objective" than the government. In that case you would expect them to be more intelligent and benevolent in their allocation of this wealth as well as less susceptible to corruption (financial, moral, ideological) than the bureaucracy.
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Point proven!
Uber’s No-Holds-Barred Expansion Strategy Fizzles in Germany
There's something inside him
Sacco was home-bound for a year and now carries a stain on her character that will be with her for her entire life. All for a badly executed joke that was liberal in its intent.

Sure, plenty of people have it worse in this world, but that does not mean what happened to her was "fine" and that she was/is totally "fine".

Nuclear war. Global warming. NSA spying. Democracy getting hijacked. Perpetual war.

All these issues depend on level-headed, reasoned debate. Mass hysteria will only make it more likely that we succumb to these threats.
I was really on board and thought it would be insightful and interesting.

It's just an article aggrandizing the author! It spends most of its time discussing how sensitive and unique the author is and how they're way above joining a group because they haven't found one that is perfectly suited to every little slightly different permutation in their thought that they insists makes them unique from everyone. It's not about being horrified by herd behavior, it's about the author not getting the recognition they think they deserve from the herd.
I'm as adverse to reinterpretations like this as anyone but what might be more interesting or actionable would be evidence of what data Google are collecting and how Google are using this data.
Pinochet is the first person that comes to mind. He was capitalist wasn't he?
i would have to disagree. SpaceX and OneWeb are making strides to do LEO satellite internet[0] and the successful recapture of the F9 rocket means that launch costs are going down. Couple that with the commoditization of cellphone hardware and there will be many distributed systems in space by 2020.

Google has bid on spectrum bandwith, don't have time to cite but Chris Sacca mentions it in basically every interview, just to keep Telecom players in check. They are an ISP now and have other holdings in the space.

Facebook is trying to bring internet to india.

People are building their own networks.

NYC announced it would put wifi in where phonebooths once stood.

> BTC marketcap is 4B

It has a cap of ~6.5[1] according to coinmarket. Obviously not a lot however the upside potential is large and there are many uses for the technology. Ethereum and Stellar are pretty awesome and Patrick Collison helming stripe might be keen to expand their BTC. So if stripe increases the infrastructure and people become more receptive it will become larger. I am not saying that it will replace u.s currency next year but obviously paper money isn't the currency of the future and clearly there needs to be oversite on how money is created. So something like BTC will obv win long term.

[0]http://www.wired.com/2015/06/elon-musk-space-x-satellite-int...

http://coinmarketcap.com
And finally, if you have someone who is willing to work as school clerk, given how much do these jobs pay and how interesting they are, this person will likely not understand the complexity of these issues

I think that is naive -- the general population understands perfectly that Google tracks users and uses that information to display ads. The GAFE apps are covered by different terms of service that restrict the collection of information, but Google draws the line in plain English in their GAFE/GAFW copy:

We do not scan for advertising purposes in Gmail or other Google Apps services. Google does not collect or use data in Google Apps services for advertising purposes. The situation is different for our free offerings and the consumer space.

I think the reason why schools go for GAFE is clear and simple: the choice is between having personnel on staff for maintaining servers, computer labs, and troubleshooting students' devices; or outsource it nearly for free to Google.
"Justine Sacco didn't suffer a "devastating online lynching". She got a ton of nasty tweets and emails, and she got fired from her job. "

you can't be serious. clearly the term lynching was not literal, and that seems as close to a description of an "online lynching" as something can be.
It is mostly signaling + one upping each other.

But they managed to turn me from moderate liberal (in the EU sense, I guess I am raving socialist by US) to complete nihilist. I want to see Trump elected just to piss them off.
$ cat ~/.ideavimrc

set clipboard+=unnamed

That sets IdeaVim to use the system clipboard by default. However, this has the same effects as making vim use the system clipboard by default: for example, executing ci" will pull the text between the quotes onto the system clipboard, overwriting whatever is there. Personally I prefer this behaviour in vim, emacs (with Evil, obviously), and IdeaVim though. YMMV, but it is possible!
Gregory Hays discusses his translation of Marcus Aurelius (2002) [video]
Broken link!
>This is a very hard case to make when Graham's money quote, at the start of the essay, is from a Nobel-Prize-winning economist saying, pretty much in so many words, that rich people get rich by taking stuff from poor people--which is exactly the claim Graham is arguing against.

Not quite. All that Graham attempts to show in the essay is that rich people could, in principle, get rich without taking stuff from poor people. No-one really disputes that this is in principle possible. However, as Stiglitz points out in the book that Graham chooses to quote out of context, this doesn't appear to be how the rich have in fact got rich over the past decade or two.
> 2. Since libertarianism is, by definition, fully supportive of the rights outlined in the constitution, being anti-gun / gun-grabber / endlessly wanting more government restrictions on what is a fundamental constitutional right makes her not a libertarian. The criticisms levied against her on this front are correct.

Actually true libertarian would think even the constitution as too restricting and prefer the world to be sorted on raw power alone. Realpolitik all day all night long.
You know what really grinds my gears?

Trotting out the old trope of a "security vs privacy" dichotomy. It's not true. It doesn't stand up to the most rudimentary analysis. But we hear it, unchallenged, all the time. What about security measures that increase privacy, like door locks, tall fences, or thick doors on airplane cockpits? Security and privacy are fundamentally aligned. That's why even in the US 4th "privacy" Amendment the wording is about the right of people to be SECURE in their person and belongings.

The truth is, what we're offered is reduced security AND privacy. I've never figured out what we're getting in exchange.
> The Taco Bell answer? xargs and wget. In the rare case that you saturate the network connection, add some split and rsync. A "distributed crawler" is really only like 10 lines of shell script.

As someone who has had to cleanup the messes of people who started with this and built many hundred line dense bash scripts... please do not do this.

> I made most of a SOAP server using static files and Apache's mod_rewrite. I could have done the whole thing Taco Bell style if I had only manned up and broken out sed, but I pussied out and wrote some Python.

I feel sad for whoever inherited this person's systems.

"Write code as if whoever inherits it is a psychopath with an axe who knows where you live" is something I heard pretty early on in life and it's been pretty useful.
It's like the lovechild of colorForth and TempleOS... the ultimate in OS outsider art.
I found flights to Milan on flychecker at € 70
yeah, but with metric it's bloody obvious when a calculation is wrong.

I'm always amazed at why the USA still uses the imperial system...
It was actually a well-executed joke. Quite acerbic.

Unfortunately many click-bait "journalists" were simply too thick to understand the satire.
Challenges for Taiwan’s Civic Hackers in 2016
That doesn't do it justice and there's more to it than that e.g. the readability (and 'debugablity') of the new code.

I note that the post does have a very useful summary at the end, which is a 90 sec read (there's even a ToC at the beginning that can take you straight there). I've copied it below in case that's useful.

"QubesOS provides a desktop environment made from multiple virtual machines, isolated using Xen. It runs the network drivers (which it doesn’t trust) in a Linux “NetVM”, which it assumes may be compromised, and places a “FirewallVM” between that and the VMs running user applications. This design is intended to protect users from malicious or buggy network drivers.

However, the Linux kernel code running in FirewallVM is written with the assumption that NetVM is trustworthy. It is fairly likely that a compromised NetVM could successfully attack FirewallVM. Since both FirewallVM and the client VMs all run Linux, it is likely that the same exploit would then allow the client VMs to be compromised too.

I used MirageOS to write a replacement FirewallVM in OCaml. The new virtual machine contains almost no C code (little more than malloc, printk, the OCaml GC and libm), and should therefore avoid problems such as the unchecked array bounds problem that recently affected the Qubes firewall. It also uses less than a tenth of the minimum memory of the Linux FirewallVM, boots several times faster, and when it starts handling network traffic it is already fully configured, avoiding e.g. any race setting up firewalls or DNS forwarding.

The code is around 1000 lines of OCaml, and makes it easy to follow the progress of a network frame from the point where the network driver reads it from a Xen shared memory ring, through the Ethernet handling, to the IP firewall code, to the user firewall policy, and then finally to the shared memory ring of the output interface.

The code has only been lightly tested (I’ve just started using it as the FirewallVM on my main laptop), but will hopefully prove easy to extend (and, if necessary, debug)."
Labels are stupid anyway.

I got detained by police on a demonstrations in support of gay rights and democratic elections. But at the same time, I believe that flat tax (not flat tax rate as in % of income, but flat tax as in constant amount of money per month) is the most just form of taxation. Not even remotely feasible, of course, and it would be very stupid to even try to implement it, but still, the most just in theory.

Now — does it make me left or right?
Google emulates 1980s-era Amiga computer in Chrome
This is a dumb argument when the alternative also involves the exact same human nature.
> and she got fired from her job.

Can I fire anyone with tweets I disagree with? Lets say SJW-s?

Losing a job over speech done outside of the employment is wrong.

The fact that it was caused by "our" guys - in two years when the pendulum has swung back - they will be the ones that will be victims of the mob.
What is the US median wage? All I ever see are SF developer salaries on here, which are way higher than most parts of Europe.
Disagree with the DI/IoC comments - for more complex projects, it allows dependencies to be pulled in in a nice terse and readable fashion. Runtime complexity also can be harder to manage, as it often ends up in a spaghetti of knowledge in scattered code. DI isn't a particularly complex construct to grasp.

The benefits of mocking are often understated - it is not only to isolate logic, but for longer term maintenance, it is for also easily being able to detect what change breaks what part of the code. When people write more integration tests than unit tests (I have found many developers guilty of this), what often ends up happening is that when someone breaks one of those tests due to having to change behavior of code from new business requirements or maintenance (i.e. abstracting out common behavior), it can become very tricky to untangle what exactly broke, and how to fix it. Not that there isn't value in those types of tests, but without being paired with more controlled unit tests, there is a huge con that hampers productivity of teams.

Ideally, one should have the ability to easily mock and make testing each piece painless & clear, so that finding bugs/breaking changes can be made clearly and consciously. Not all tests need to mock, but having that level of control greatly helps on stable & quick iteration of code.
How to grow your reading habit
Realpolitik is by definition not ideological, while libertarianism very much is. Quite different approaches.
(second thought); I am not sure if the internet changed so much - there seems to be a fixed percentage of people who read and investigate things / are ready to hear alternative viewpoints, etc. These people were reading blogs in the olden times and are probably doing so right now.

Now what happened is that the online audience got much wider - now my guess is that this added audience did not result in more people reading and investigating stuff - its the same old number. (the author probably lost touch with his former readership while in prison, but eventually they will come back - if the author is still valued, but that's a separate question).

The net can't make us more curious all by itself...
What happened to Sacco was without question unjust. And nowhere did I suggest it was fine. Mobs are a morally neutral instrument that can be used for good or evil.

If people just wanted to make the point that it's unacceptable to attack an unknown person based on a single tweet (regardless of how bad the tweet is), then that's fine. Except people extrapolate from the Sacco incident to make sweeping claims about political correctness and mob behavior.

Level-headed debate is just one part of the puzzle. There's no point in having a debate if the outcome of the debate doesn't matter because the people who are having the debate are disenfranchised. At that point protests are needed. This isn't "mass hysteria". People protest because it works.
I meant fragmentation is good, I misspoke. I agreed with a lot of PGs evidence but drew the opposite conclusion. Fragmentation in that people are less tied to companies, countries, organizations, and religion.

I hope this means that as these descriptors fade, people will relate on individual levels and cooperate. Essentially, this is how society improves and the "income inequality" will be offset by the better measuring stick quality of life. i think that fragmentation in pgs sense, from companies and old patterns, is good.

Smart people are getting wealthy and, while am edge case, Elon Musk has had an impact on earth that it could accelerate the pace of technology by decades. So it doesn't matter if income goes down, people can fix the world for a lot less than they used to be able to and things tend to approach their marginal cost.

Tl, dr
am bullish on the individual, technology and less structured institutions.
"Looking at heart disease and cancer, the US does better.."

No it doesn't

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OECD_countries_by_heal...
One could argue that the (U.S.) government has already succeeded in overtaking privacy.
You're probably thinking of deduplication (whose memory requirements is ~320 bytes per deduplicated block, and which generally requires way more than 1GB per TB, it's highly variable depending on storage load but I've seen quotes from 5 to 20GB/TB). Most users don't benefit from deduplication and it's usually recommended not to enable it unless you do demonstrably get large benefits from it (on FreeBSD, `zdb -S` will simulate and estimate deduplication benefits).

1GB is the recommended conf for ZFS on FreeBSD, it will benefit from more (and may need some tuning below 2GB) but even that's not a requirement, the FreeBSD wiki's ZFS tuning page quotes "ZFS running nicely on a laptop with 768 Megs of physical RAM" with tuning (and provides configuration values).
Recently, I have found myself drawn to a range of people who describe themselves or are described by others as “libertarians” – only to find once again that there’s a hymn sheet of horrors that many seem to sing from.

[...] Another commonly displayed “libertarian” approach that I struggle to respect is the puerile desire to offend, bolstered by the dubious claim that this is somehow a noble and worthwhile antidote to the equally tedious culture of taking offence.

[...] There is no evidence whatsoever that anyone’s personal liberty is furthered by such infantile sneering; yet swarms of supposedly liberal followers rejoice in this toxic effluence with excited applause, like an encouraging mother will celebrate her toddler’s first shit in the potty.

I long had libertarian-ish leanings, but I agree with the author's points above. By coincidence, in another tab I was just reading "The Fable of the Cardiac Surgeon or Why I Don’t Support Libertarian Organizations" - http://www.philosophyinaction.com/blog/?p=663. It's an interesting read for those of similar mind.
Yes, of course. I should also have linked to the Unikernel+Docker demo [1], which is taking legacy software and using Rump Kernels and the Docker toolchain to deploy unikernels (to show how all these things can create a multiplier effect in terms of benefits).

It would be great to get a list of live unikernel deployments listed somewhere to address questions like this when they come up.

[1] http://unikernel.org/blog/2015/unikernels-meet-docker/
SJWs are a new breed of idiots we have to deal with.
I don't know what is more out of reality and funny, Daniel Eran Dilger or the people in the forums.

Sometimes I think that Appleinsider is a strange social experiment
Don't they already have software like this? The old scam where they say 'we have detected suspicious activity in your account' has to be based on something, right?

But yeah, it's pretty obvious that if anyone says you can 'get rich quick', then it's a con or something dodgy is involved in it.
Wow!

He's seems a little self-aware of his own wealth, and what exactly he's given society?

Sorry--I read this bloated, post holiday, thesis, and was not impressed. Why take so long to say a few thoughts? The're just thoughts?

Yes, we rebelled, or "fragmented".

Yes, unions are not perfect. (Good luck getting rid of certain unions, like any Union San Franciso. I have seen entire buildings go dim when the painter's Union went on strike.)

If I were a psychologist looking for a theme to his writing it would be basically two thing; He is one percenter--trying to rationalize his own wealth? He trying to look for flaws in society that makes it o.k. to be very wealthy?

Paul--take a basic writing class. You need to funnel your thoughts. You could take out 3/4 of your sentences, and your readers would have a better grasp of what you are trying to convey.

Paul--certain unions will never go away.

Paul--this is the downside to being very wealthy. You are living the "dream"?

I wasen't going to read that essay another time. I think we are about to see a lot of tech billionaries wondering if they ultimately ruined the party, or helped it?

Let's get real. In the U.S.--a lot of us didn't have to worry about missing out on the party. All we had to do was try. Now--it's not as easy.

Do I fear the future. Yes--I do. Do I think tech will make things better. No--I don't. That is unless we get serious about overpopulation.

I have a question to any developer here. We are constantly trying to make tech easier. We all know, and like DRY. What's going to happen in a few years when our skills are no longer needed? Even local politians are writing our obituaries. Willie Brown said, 'I'm wondering what we are going to do with all the future homeless tech people.'
It's not an exact quote, but it was said in retort to a complaint about all the homeless we step over every day.

My hope is we don't turn into Mexico. A country where someone like Paul couldn't take a leisurely walk in the park?
There's a choose your statistic problem, but it is ~$28,000 or $29,000 (that's based on the estimated median individual wage among employed persons (which I think wage implies employment)).

https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/netcomp.cgi?year=2014

I guess income inequality measures result in less favorable comparisons than basic measures of wages.
Selling 80% equity
So we met this middle man from china, who say there's investor interested in investing in us for 80% of our shares. In return he will give us 400k. We have another option, which is 150k for 30% of our company shares. We now own 100% of the shares completely, so we are deciding on which one to take. Our country is not based in US, but rather a small country, which has a small customer base.
Due to NDA, I can't disclose on what the app is doing. My partners are leaning towards giving the 80% equity, which left us 20% I don't wish to give up that much because I'm afraid it will get burn out too quickly and therefore we can't raise another round of fund due to our small equity percentage left. Moreover, I didn't get enough background check of that investor (in fact, we havne't met him yet but he's quite interested in our app). My partner is ambitious, he wants to expand quickly into other regions (especially mainland china which has very large users base). However, I suggest to him that we should start small and make sure our product succeeds here first before expanding in other regions. Of course, the downside is that China is able to replicate our product very quickly. In fact, they can replicate a lot of apps now very quickly (and probably efficiently). So I can't really argue against this.
So what's your take on this guys?
It's funny how the tweets directed at Sacco constitute a lynching, but the killing of Mark Duggan, a person of color, by the police in the next sentence is whitewashed in morally neutral terms as "the death of a young man in Tottenham". The protest that followed is condemned as "looting and destruction", the racial aspect not even deserving a mention.

Tweets directed at a white woman: Lynching.

Killing of a person of color: "death of a young man".
They could figure it out but there's no value so why bother.