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Buying the Unix Programming Environment by Kernighan and Pike
Speaking as someone who is becoming more and more interested in UNIX history, can someone tell me if "The Unix Programming Environment" is available to buy anywhere as a DRM-free ebook? I will buy a paper copy, if I have to, but prefer a digital one.
They won't. Software oddly, managed to avoid dealing much with the Govt because no one understood it, customers were overseas, it brought in much needed foreign exchange. Software succeeded in spite of all this.
Don't forget Stratagus(formerly FreeCraft).
No, you can't. For certain english-language shows, the walking dead is an example, you can only choose between native regional language subtitles with that menu - there is no off option!
RailsConf 2016 in Kansas City, MO, USA http://railsconf.com/
What do you use it for? I love the idea of Echo, but I can't think of enough I'd do with it to warrant buying one.
Exactly. I've had to explain to many people over and over our tax bracket structure. They keep thinking their entire money is taxed at a specific rate when you earn that much.
Looks like an instant winner for anyone who wants professional quality video and editing options with just one device!
what's ironic is that (as far as I remember my history) Yardley went public because he was angry that the USG shut down the Black Chamber, putting Yardley out of a job. Incidentally, that shutdown was effected by Secretary of State Stimson (the same Stimson that later re-directed the targeting of the a-bomb from Kyoto to Hiroshima and lied about the military nature of Hiroshima, entirely because he had honeymooned in Kyoto) who received some of the Black Chambers reporting and replied with "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail."

The past of the Black Chamber and the present have some parallels (down to the same telecom company being complicit - AT&T) but the motivations of Yardley were opposite those of the present - he wanted the government to keep breaking codes! After becoming essentially persona non grata in the US, he traveled to China to break Japanese codes and then later traveled to Canada to break Nazi codes (until the US discovered his involvement, and threatened to cut the Canadians out of the signals intelligence loop unless they fired him).

If you're looking for a friend of transparency in Yardley, you're not going to find one. His disclosure was a political ploy.
This is how DEC feuled Google, and Microsoft feuled Amazon, and Google fueled Facebook.
It doesn't surprise me in the least. Germany is a country of insane regulations and rules. They absolutely love paperwork - all the Germans apologized to me when I first moved here and set everything up - and have a very strict way of operating. The American way of doing things, as the article briefly mentions, is very different. I'm not saying it is better or worse, just different. This is a cultural thing that doesn't magically change overnight. I know I still get annoyed at how different things are sometimes compared with back in North America, but that is the way things operate here and you have to learn to play the game otherwise you will lose.

The credit card thing is also true too. Cash is king here and I routinely see people with hundreds of Euros of cash like it is nothing. I always see people paying for groceries with 100 Euro notes. Furthermore, I know Germans are much more concerned with personal security and privacy that there is also going to be a push back about having to share personal information with an American company.

Also I live in Frankfurt, and, to be honest, I have no idea why people even use taxis. To get from the Hauptbahnhof to practically anywhere in the city is only a < 20 minute U-Bahn ride. Also, the public transportation in Europe tends to be insanely good and efficient so a ride-sharing app will also have to compete with this as well.
Have to give it up for Webstock (http://www.webstock.org.nz/16/) and Beyond Tellerrand (http://beyondtellerrand.com), which are more towards the design/culture of tech side but consistently great.
Frictionless Digital Transformations (Part I) the Innovation Process
General rule seems to be one page unless you have a decade+ of experience.
Also don't forget that the Bretton Woods Conference laid the foundation for the USA to take the lead in the post-war world financial system.

Selection of the USD as the worlds reserve currency had a lot to do with our prosperity in the post-WWII years.

BTW, the USA consciously saw to it that Britain was significantly weakened financially at the end of WWII for the USA to emerge unopposed.
The author is simply highlighting the disconnect between critics ratings and audience ratings for Netflix shows.
Do you want to work somewhere who thnga that your non-work 10 years ago is more important than your recent work?
Yeah brass eye is great!
(I'm from Ireland so I've seen all that stuff)
For most of that time, the USA was more a collection of halfway sovereign states than a singular nation. It would be weird for the shared government to reach into the individual states and tax their citizens. The appearance of the federal income tax coincides with the gradual restructuring of the country to be a single strong government with geographical subdivisions.
> Nevertheless, if war with the West should break out, Soviet soldiers would surrender by the million. Disciplinary or penal battalions would not prevent this from happening. And the Politburo has no illusions about this.

From the author, who is admittedly biased since he was a dissident officer who eventually received political asylum in the west. Dysfunctional does not necessarily mean non-functioning, just that it's operating in a way that will eventually impede its operations. Perhaps a similar example of dysfunction in the U.S. military would be the ridiculous sums we give to contractors.
Republicans in the 1950s were not the same as Republicans after Nixon and Goldwater.

Interesting you single out 1953. There was a recession the very same year! Not a lot of data on it (some JSTOR papers I can't access), but restrictive credit policies, massive military Keynesianism and housing supply shortages are listed as causing factors. Go figure. Then, of course, another much more severe recession hit the Eisenhower period again (but nowadays mostly forgotten) in 1958. Unemployment soared to 7% nationwide and in particular places like Detroit up to 20%. It's difficult to tell how it was alleviated, but this wealth advisor's [1] retrospective analysis claim a highly modest and fiscally conservative response (no great deficits). Wikipedia also cites a 2011 book "Eiseinhower and the Cold War Economy" which claims that some deregulation of mortgage loans helped in the recovery.

So, I can't immediately tell if a "locked-down economy" was the cause of the boom, or if it happened in spite of it. The post-WWII boom began as early as 1946, so I'm uncertain.

[1] http://bradleyandco.blogspot.com/2009/02/as-bad-as-1958-rece...
Just for clarification, this is fuel for RTGs which power spacecraft that are far away from the sun, not fuel for spacecraft propulsion.
In which case they could say "we collect the following data for the following purposes". By leaving a big vague hole into which unspecified data is poured for unspecified purposes, they are bound to arouse suspicion.
If you want to try this in your browser, the guy who built this $10 device also used the same APIs to put Alexa/Echo in the browser.

http://sammachin.com/hacks-and-projects/alexa-in-the-browser...
According to this[0] Netflix has 65 million subscribers who watch 100 million hours of Netflix a day, which works out to around 1.5 hours of Netflix per day per subscriber.

In 2014 [1] people in the US watched an average of 2.8 hours of TV per day.

I think you make a good point but it leaves me asking is filler important and if so why? Are viewers going to watch filler if they don't find anything good on Netflix? My guess is that live events like sports and news are the two elements of TV which Netflix can't replace.

[0]: http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/netflix_statistics-fa...

[1]: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.nr0.htm
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10829000 and marked it off-topic.
Celebrate the /joy/ of coding June 17th in Rotterdam, the Netherlands at:

http://joyofcoding.org

If you live near by and want to do deliver a short talk or lead a workshop, have a look at the Call For Sessions.

Video from last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI2yOM4tODw

Disclaimer: I'm co-organizing this event.
Trade was a very small part of the US postwar economy. The economic boom was almost entirely Americans making stuff and selling it to other Americans:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/11/19/opinion/11191...
We run a small-ish (~300 people) un-conference every year in Vancouver, BC that has been going strong for the past 4 years. If you are looking for something a little more spontaneous and less polished where you can really engage with the software community and something that isn't centered around a particular language, framework or company then it is worth a look. Also it is inexpensive, thanks in part to being an un-conference and in larger part to great sponsors.

http://www.polyglotconf.com/

The 2016 conference details will be announced shortly in the new year.
Looking for a summer 2016 software development internship. Interested in iOS mobile development as well as full stack web work.

Location: Southlake, TX

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Listed on resume

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rjos2pif0hse22h/MichaelHuangResume...

Email: mhuangw@gmail.com
Exactly! I want to support stronger privacy but this just smells like someone wants one big payout for themselves. IF it were found that Google were sharing student information with anyone, including the government, things might be different (well not the government anymore thanks CISA) but I could understand if they were caught selling the information to others or snooping on their users' emails and using that in a court case (looking at you, Microsoft you can't undo that).

Articles like these hurts privacy because they cause noise where none is deserved and people just get tired of hearing things like this that they ignore legitimate worries like CISA.
Sry about hijacking the thread, but tbh, I don't have fun in any niche-tech stack conference (e.g., Scala conference, PyCon, generic startup competition hackathon), does anyone have recommendations for the most subversive tech conferences?

e.g., DEFCON, Chaos Communication Congress, HOPE or Demoparties from the DemoScene or BioHacking conferences?
American in TZ here. I'm skeptical of FB motives but the Free Basics user experience is undeniably good -- it just works. I put up a few screenshots from Free Basics on Tigo Tanzania in a recent blog post (link in profile).
Easy answer - it removes divisive politics from the equation. No more "the rich don't pay their fair share" from the left and "what's mine is mine" from the right. Both of those are powerful tactics that the bureaucrats employ to keep us bickering while them and their cronies rob us blind.
That doesn't answer the question though. Why not just add all (or some) of the aforementioned stuff to tmux? Tmux is an established, widely used piece of software. Any improvements would be much more appreciated there.
Please stop taking HN threads on generic ideological tangents.

Also, please avoid going on about downvotes in HN comments, as the site guidelines ask:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Usually two is the optimum for me, with one for entry level positions. I like a clean, tasteful design that stresses focus and brevity with a small dose of creativity (pointed eye candy, unusual hobbies, etc.), but not overdone. CTO at a small to medium startup here.
By the way, a number of countries have a flat income tax:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_tax#Countries_that_have_f...
You might find your posts to be more persuasive if you started advancing an actual argument rather than trying to see how many times you can type “nonsense”. You might not agree with Holly Wood but she at least stated several ideas which can be debated, whereas your statement has nothing except an unsupported assertion that we should trust your authoritative judgement.
No, invokedynamic is not mandatory for lambda.
It's a proposed translation, which has the advantage to make lambdas that do not capture values to be seen as constant by the VM.

But you're right that certified Java 7 VM must have an invokedynamic opcode.
Those same people also understand that the word "pussy" means "vagina". I refuse to believe that everyone is truly under the impression that these are two completely independent words with no relation whatsoever. This is the same argument that leads people to believe that it's okay to call someone a faggot if you're not literally talking about gay people and I don't buy it.

Moreover I don't see what "hoops" you have to jump through to see why using the word in that way could upset some people. We should use language which isn't divisive.

Finally, the "pussy" thing is kind of secondary to me to "man up", which is also far from ideal to me in terms of phrasing.
A flat tax disproportionately hurts the poor. Losing 15% of your income when you can barely make ends meet is much worse than losing 15% of your income when you're making a million dollars. It looks fair mathematically, but it's anything but.

Of course, the current crazy tax structure ends up being fairly flat. Poor people pay different taxes, but the proportion is the same. But it would be better to fix that, not codify it.
It's my understanding that the Soviet style organization is basically a continuation of the normal Soviet ultra-centralization-of-everything policies that extended from the military organization to centralized hot water boilers in Soviet cities. The Soviet education system was pretty good, by WW2 it had turned a territory with <28% literacy (for Women it was ~13%) into an empire with >75% literacy. In later years the number was no doubt near 100%.

It works to a point for command and control, but greatly reduces tactical flexibility and decision making. As we've also learned from the GWoT is that centralization makes it easier to disable an organization and that distribution of concerns can enable forces to be much more resilient to losses.
Right. The main source of linkrot isn’t that a webpage was carefully moved from place A to place B (in that case you could just use google to find it again), it’s that the webpage content isn’t maintained anymore. It's just gone.
The 2016 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

June 22-24, 2016 - Denver, CO

https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc16
Germany has fully free college education and labor fully involved in management. It is a good example of capitalism that benefits the middle class rather than the US system that increasingly feels rigged against the common man. It is great that a smart poor man can become a billionaire- but what about the rest.
Well, you have to confirm they are of your same political party before you give any consideration to their arguments. If they are from the other party, even reading the piece would clearly be a waste of time because they are wrong.
One of the more impressive things about the Echo is its far-field mic. I've used a lot of different voice recognition technologies, but Echo blows everything else away in terms of being able to speak in a normal voice from the other side of the room and have it still understand you. The actual intelligence behind the service may be lacking (or at least behind some of the competition), but for a general-purpose home application, the mic (in my opinion) is a significant part of Echo's reliability and success.
One page. Regardless of experience.

The point isn't to list everything you've done (it's not an academic CV). The point is to convince me that you're worth interviewing, and give me a bit of context for the interview. You can do that in a page no matter who you are.
Thanks for the inspiring answer. How have those competitors reacted?
What Is Kanban System and Kanban Board? (scrum vs. Kanban)
Was the boom because of that, or despite it?

At the end of the war, the US made up about half of the world economy. It was the only major economy not smashed by the war. That seems like a recipe for economic success even if mismanaged.

I'm not saying that the high taxes actually hurt, only that it's hard to tell just from observing success.
During that time the US Federal Government was funded through tariffs and through selling land on the western frontier.
Ask HN: Getting to North America: Working or Studying?
I graduated in Economics in mid 2014 and immediately joined a huge corporation as a Trainee. Subsequently, my country's crisis got worse, and like many companies, mine had massive layoffs. I managed to stay, but there there is no trainee development program anymore nor any career prospects. I also do absolutely detest the work and feel like I have so much more I could give to the company, but I'm stifled by my insecure manager.
I've been looking for another job for a year, and while I landed a few good interviews, nothing worked out.

My background:
- While I am an economist, I love technology and I'm a half-decent programmer with experience in data analysis and data manipulation.
- For years I've been looking to leave the country for several reasons, but mostly lack of security and bleak economic outlook for years to come. I've been to North America a few times and it seems promising.

I see two ways out:
#1: Applying for a Master's degree somewhere in North America. While I would like to specialize in something related to Data Science, it feels like I just left school and what I really want is to do actual meaningful work.
#2. Landing a job in North America. While ideal, it sounds unlikely that someone will hire a candidate who doesn't have a Visa yet, nor has some extraordinary skill.
I have about three years of work experience, but not in a single field (mostly Operations Research/Management and Finance/Treasury).
Is there a mobi or kindle version of this somewhere?
Nothing like preventing principal-agent problems by greatly incentivizing state representatives' propensity to pork barrel projects through funds for the massive principal-agent problem known as representative democracy (Bretton Woods still had convertibility to gold).
95% of books are not good, therefore writing books creates no value. The article makes a similar claim, but there is no mechanism that connects the part before therefore with the part after - it's assumed to be self evident. But that's nonsense. If you make such a claim, the onus is on you to explain how is it that failure rate, whatever it is, leads to value being not X, not Y, but <= zero
You reinforce my point. Buying products from overseas was not viable because their capacity was bombed to hell. Not many electric washing machines coming out of these places after the war:

[UK] http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/world_war2/scotl...

[Japan] https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-PR-Japan/img/USA-PR...

[Germany] http://cdn.history.com/sites/2/2013/12/berlin_ww2-P.jpeg
the internet needs sarcasm tag
A better link might be http://flatassembler.net/docs.php?article=design which helps explain wtf this is and why anyone should care.
Thank you for a fantastic answer - this is incredibly helpful!

Because of the nature of this small market, it's unlikely my research would go unnoticed by either competitors. Should I care? Is there advantage to asking customers what "better" means discreetly or can/should I do this publicly?
This is what is going to make Echo the next big computing platform. The voice recognition just works. It's like being on the Enterprise.
If you want to give up control of your company and product this early and this cheap, you way as well sell 100% of it now. Also, are your prices in Euros, US Dollars or Yuan?

Anyway, keep saying NO while there's any uncertainty.
"To err is human. To really fuck up requires root access."
So it's okay for landowners to make money off capital, but software developers should be serfs?

That's real messed up.
The majority of the public like the content the BBC produces. They don't think any further than that.

Yes, it is messed up.
Did reality TV begin with Real World on MTV? What about shows like "Cops"? I think that predates Real World.
Ever tried to call somebody while cooking? As a dad who spends most of his home time in the kitchen cooking and cleaning and parenting, hands-free tech is glorious.
This is not true. I've been playing for 16 years and now I play multiple times a week on Steam; the lobby certainly DOES list games, that's nonsense, I just loaded it right now. None of the people I play with (quite a few) have the problem you're describing.

The dev team has been constantly improving things and we now see fewer bugs today than at any point in the past, and it's continuing to improve all the time.

Yes, it still out of syncs sometime, but such is life for those of us playing games from '99.
> Graham's selfishness and greed is disgusting.

Personal attacks are not allowed here. Regardless of one's views of economics, toxic comments like this one poison Hacker News. Please don't.
> In the end private property is indeed theft, more exactly the imposition of someone's moral values over the other's by intrinsic force (if you "steal" you might go to prison or worst).

What you're pointing out is a monopoly called "The Legal System": a single dispute resolution system everyone must adhere to without choice (Government/Mafia). This monopoly is often based on geolocation. Property will be inherently aggressive if one is forced to use a specific dispute resolution system.

Everyone withholds stuff from others: it is 100% universal. In this way, the notion of "property is theft" can not hold because everyone (even animals) do it: consciously or subconsciously.

There is then the system of dispute resolution. This defines if a particular act of withholding was an act of "theft".

The combination of withholding + dispute resolution results in what we call property.

Competing dispute resolution systems is really that free-market people hope for. Dispute resolution systems do not have to be based on geolocation. In fact, people form millions of these unique systems every day, freely, without resorting to monopolies or the lowest of low dispute resolution: killing one another.

> The sooner we realize this the better, there's no second-guessing about it.

So ya. Property in and of itself is not theft. Forcing others to use a specific dispute resolution could be viewed as the theft.
Well that seems to be of very marginal utility to me, but I concede that it might be a much bigger deal for others.
Is Signal a good, generic conference? I keep getting Twilio's emails about it but have never considered going as it seems about as interesting as a Google Maps API conference, ie: only focusing on using one company's very specific product family. That said, if you're doing anything telephony or messaging-related, it would be a good one for sure.
This is very conspiratorial, but it'd be interesting if Facebook intentionally shut this down to show its new user base how vital it is to their lives. By giving new users a service and then taking it away, it could drum up support for reinstatement. Wouldn't put it past Mark to pull something like that.
Hundreds of Armed Right-Wing Militia Members Take Over Federal Building
>some conservatives would like to ban the BBC from producing popular content.

Friends of Rupert Murdoch.
Do you get enough exercise? The kind of exhaustion you get from spending all day and night programming doesn't make you tired in the right way like physical work does.

Watch out for the blue light coming from the screens, too.
...iOS? Surely you mean OSX. This would be impossible to play on a touch interface.
The signature is just a bit of evidence to check if you dispute a charge. It isn't a 99.99% key like in encryption.
All we want is your firstborn child.
Flexible working can make you ill, experts say