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Seems like anything that has a "business model" probably shouldn't be your preferred blocker vendor.
If I take this statement to mean that GPL is the mirror-image of proprietary license agreements in that it is not free to use, since the stipulation is that you must publish your source code as the cost, would my understanding be correct?

No. Your latter assertion is correct: GPL code is not free as in beer. How you contort that into a "mirror-image of proprietary license" is your own interpretation, and requires a lot more elaboration on your part.

To put it in the most simplest terms: the GPL is mainly concerned with the freedom of the source code, not the freedom of the developer.
Thanks a lot for your feedback!

You can switch to a vertical mode with the button on the top right corner (||||). It should also mitigate the scrolling issue. Meanwhile we will do our best to increase performance on huge scores.

For your features requests:

-A no scroll mode will definitely come

-Yes, you're right, for now it's made for listening but not for playing we will soon add a "Performance" mode in order to smoothen the "page turns" and to do it automatically with the sound.

-That's a neat idea we will consider it

-It's already available in the display options (the second button on the top of the first page, on the right of the instruments button)

-In fact it's a good idea in order to have more space when working on a piece

-You can have multiple systems in a single page. I assume that you have many instruments. We try to keep instruments grouped, not to have instruments scattered through multiple pages when possible
Isn't that what's supposed to happen? You don't distribute small systems, you distribute big systems, otherwise the benefits of microservices are way fewer.
It's very easy not to think of a polar bear; it's hard to enter into a state of mind whereby you can guarantee that you will not think of a polar bear for the next N minutes. If you drop the guarantee part, and make it a soft requirement, then it's easy: just think of something else and forget about polar bears. Chances are you won't accidentally think of a polar bear within N minutes.

"Worse is better" makes it possible: relax the requirements, get the job done.

If you try to guarantee that you don't think of a polar bear, that is oxymoronic, because to concentrate on not thinking of a polar bear, you have to continuously hold a polar bear symbol in your consciousness, which means you're doing nothing but thinking of a polar bear.
That is a good sign. It means the ship is slowly turning around. It sucks for the employees being laid off, no doubt. However they have to do this. There is no other way. They bet big on support and services in early 2000s. So they have lots of those employees. Could they all start to learn new things adapt to the new environment, yeah, some will but not everyone will.

Heck, if they didn't lay off people, they'd still have punch-card machine cleaners and even cheese slicer designers (they used to sell those way back in the day).
Ask HN: Are 300 ms considered acceptable latency for browser-internal URLs?
In Chrome 49, the Downloads page (Ctrl+J, chrome://downloads) defaults to a new Polymer-based Material Design UI. The HTML file alone weighs 2847 lines, but what's 2847 lines of code if it's being loaded from my SSD, right?

Well, Ctrl+J feels even more sluggish now than it did before. So I check Developer Tools: 57 ms till Finish for the old UI, 306 ms for the new one [1, 2].

Add to that the time that Chrome apparently needs to somehow prepare the Downloads tab, and we arrive at a perceived load time of around 800 ms. I find this more than irritating if I just want to quickly open that file that I have downloaded a minute ago.

A few years ago, I think the rule of thumb for web pages was that 100 ms are acceptable latency that users typically won't perceive as sluggish. Nowadays, we accept hundreds of milliseconds, often whole seconds, for trivial local UIs. Yes, yes, that button click animation is pretty sweet. But is it worth 300 ms of additional latency?

I'm disappointed in Chrome. Your mission used to be "speed, simplicity, and security." (It's still on chrome://help!) Nowadays, opening a new tab takes hundreds of milliseconds. Can't you at least somehow cache this not-so-exotic action so the browser at least feels responsive?

And I'm baffled about recent industry trends. On today's hardware, I could probably boot up Windows 2000 in 300 ms. What is my CPU even doing in these 300 ms while chrome://downloads is loading? Have we simply stopped caring about latency at all?

[1] http://i.imgur.com/kODF3FJ.png

[2] http://i.imgur.com/rVj4D1u.png
Seems like a stopped clock situation in his case. That prediction is from a year ago and came to relatively little; he didn't predict this at all.
FWIW: With nothing meant to denigrate what happened here, in general, if you want real answers, use the mailing list ;)

The people hanging out on IRC are random llvm developers, random llvm users, and some random others.
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I'd be very interested to hear more about how it is after one has adapted.
Sure, this was the link that was emailed to me from Amazon, which also included the following text:

> With its built-in speaker, you can place Dot in the bedroom and use it as a smart alarm clock that can also turn off your lights, or use Dot in the kitchen to easily set timers and add items to your shopping list using just your voice

http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=14047587011&ref_=pe_184...

See the technical details:

> Built-in speaker for voice feedback when not connected to external speakers

My Echo news is a mix of Text2Speech and audio, so I'm not sure that it would work for News.
Good to know. When I switched from windows to ubuntu I saw WebStorm start-up improve 2-3x. Haven't tried VS.code yet but I've found JetBrains products to run very well on linux machines.
Corporations have perfected layoffs done in such a trickle or way as to prevent triggering the WARN act and other legislation. It's sick but just a fact of life. See also how they've perfected dodging taxes in offshore shell companies (and blow off criticism with the line 'we are just following the laws as written').
Torrent's can work without a tracker BT supports peer discovery via DHT and few other distributed protocols.
A Raid 5 could work, since you are not writing the same data. You would need a hardware coprocessor to handle generating the checksums at 4GB/s though.
Edit: Even if Apple were to require authentication before updating the software it doesn't matter because of the third immutable law of security:If a bad guy has unrestricted physical access to your computer, it's not your computer anymore. The FBI can still load FBIOS directly into RAM since they have physical access. But this is a much more cumbersome procedure since they need to pull parts off the board and probably need to spin a new PCB and they can't automate it the same way as if they were to do it purely through code.
IBM and Microsoft were instrumental in stopping the abolishing of business method patents - and surprise surprise, now they use them to patent troll other companies:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/11/20...
Yeah, the statistical chance of the same thing happening on both drives is the same, but the chance of it happening at the same time is pretty low.
I've been working on exactly this mission over the past several years in a framework I'm calling Maki: https://maki.io

We're approaching our 0.3 release, which will provide the minimum viable framework for developing fully peer-to-peer applications. There is much work to be done with regards to documentation and design, so we'd love to welcome anyone who wants to help to our community.
I switched from OSX Yosemite to Windows 8.1 a while back.

I have had substantially fewer problems with Windows 8.1.
What advantage does that give the company?
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Only the original copyright holders can sue for violation of their copyright though -- an end user (BMW customer) has no recourse fafaik.
I've deleted my post, but in this case, I was speaking to two actual LLVM developers, not just random dudes on IRC. Anyway, it's not their fault, "get what you pay for" and all that, and like I said, I like and use LLVM and really can't complain. :)
Translation: they use ssl on the wire, but don't encrypt anything when storing data.

Exhibit #13435245 for why Fire devices are purely consumption-oriented Amazon endpoints, not real tablets.
Much lower salaries with no long-term liabilities?
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Sounds like you are speaking specifically about the sitemap. Agree that they serve a good purpose, though you don't need robots.txt to have a sitemap.
But if they get the stops right, does it matter if the line is a little vague? I mean, I just want to see all the routes, the lines don't matter. Big bulging stops with thin dottet splines connecting them would convey the important info even if it looks like the bus is flying.
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I was at IBM from 1999 until my layoff in 2002. It was the 9th layoff for our group (Websphere). These layoffs suck and the stress nearly killed me. Back then the layoffs occurred after the dot com bubble burst. Lately I've been hearing lots of rumors from investors of wide spread belief of a tech bubble about to pop again. I'm guessing IBM is aware of this speculation and trying to be ahead of the game this go round.

They hate to see their stock price drop and I'm very glad I'm not in a situation like that anymore.
What do you mean by "fully consistent" in the context of the SIP feed? The SIP isn't required to be consistent in the CAP sense of "consistent".
This is a great post; we do almost this exact thing for our training videos.

Each online course we teach has its technical lecture/demo portions recorded using the Mac's built-in QuickTime feature for making a screen recording. The Mac is able to record the audio from the same mic in use by GoToWebinar.

During various breaks throughout the day, local watchers upload the files to an S3 bucket. Lambda receives an event notice for the new file, runs an elastic Transcoder job to encode for streaming (along with a watermark and thumbnails), and dumps the result into a different bucket. Then it hits an API endpoint for an LTI add-on I wrote for Canvas LMS that we use to manage access to and streaming of the recorded sessions (via CloudFront signed URLs), granting the currently in-session course section access to the video. I have an update I need to finish writing for our LTI tool that will use the thumbnails on the time scrubber bar to help with seeking in each video.

It also drops entries in SNS, which pings our chatbot (a Hubot we call Walken) to keep us notified of its progress.

Elastic Transcoder is quite fast compared to encoding locally, and this new workflow means I can have hours of videos from each day's session posted and available for streaming within about 20 minutes of the session's end (I upload files during an AM break, at lunch, at the PM break, and at end of day).

For our students, it seems like magic. They can spend lunch breaks (2 hours) reviewing video of that morning's sessions to help with anything that they didn't quite "get" during class. We love it, too.
Sure. Actually we rarely get even that, except on domestic transfers. 1MB/sec is best-case, torrent-only scenario ~1-5AM. Makes you value mirror operators.
I disagree - I think the variety of cheating techniques (not covered by GGP's tl;dr) was interesting, especially given the monikers. I found the Coughing Doctors and the Italian Foot Soldiers to be quite amusing

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> users wanting full control over the devices they own

I would have to disagree. Users buying an Amazon device do not want full control, otherwise they would have bought something else. That's the implication Amazon is working under in order to be able to sell these products at the prices they're selling them. You're talking like Amazon and Apple are committing the same 'sin'
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The economy is not a thing that exists without society. Using it to refer to a specific object is at best a metaphorical shorthand for real phenomena or a dangerous fetishism. "Economy" is an ancient concept, perhaps one of the oldest human concepts. "The economy" is new. The way we use words changes, the way we use words is related to the way we understand the world. I really don't care what specifically you think the term "the economy" refers to in this context: I'm talking about the word, not the referent. I made an observation about a shift in the way we understand economy. Here: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/02/28/283477546/the-i...

> No, it's an observation of human behavior. When I see a large scale change in human behavior, I will change my opinion. What purpose do you debate on an internet forum that doesn't boil down to 'status seeking'. Think of all the the things we do all day that are essentially motivated by 'status seeking'.

Um, do you honestly think i gain any status at all whatsoever with anyone because i argue on the Internet? Like, you have no idea what else could possibly be the result of conversation?

i don't think you have as deep an insight into human behavior as you think you do. You still haven't supported the assertion. Either your definition of status seeking renders the statement banal and vacuous, or incorrect. I'd like to hear what your definition is and your justification. What you see in human behavior isn't good enough: we see the same raw reality. We interpret it in different ways. Acting like your interpretation is just obvious doesn't cut it, especially when we're talking about the intentions of human beings. It is quite impossible to directly observe intention. It can only be interpreted from behavior.
The civility rule here has nothing to do with points.
They may have just confused "crate" shipping (some small-scale local deal) with container shipping. It's hard to tell; the link to the claimed source goes nowhere, and a look at the current version of the named report (rp_data-breach-investigation-report-2015_en_xg.pdf, free download) says nothing about shipping piracy.
It was a "cold email" tool. I think the product listed below it (ContentMarketer) on the homepage does some of the same things.
I half expected the document to present statistical evidence about how programmers tend to behave, and use that to generate advice for compiler writers.

The article is a nice read (and doesn't present that kind of statistical evidence), but I'm still wondering, has anyone done a significant study of how programmers work? I would be really fascinated to read an analysis of, say, data taken from full-time software engineers at a given company where all of their actions are recorded (key-strokes, compiler runs, error messages, etc.). Similar to how online competitive gamers have their actions recorded to the microsecond to identify weak points.

It would even be interesting to know, e.g., what is the net average number of lines of code created/deleted per day?
The reason why certificates expire is because they will become easy to crack as computers get faster. So this would effectively be removing the expiry date. Now you can crack any old certificate and sign things claiming that you did it before the certificate expired.
According to the article IBM bought Softlayer and has only just launched BlueMix.

I tried Bluemix and found it unoriginal and a cit crap. Not that the world of cloud services moves according to my preferences, but I'm not seeing it used anywhere else either.

If IBM is "prominent" in cloud services it's from acquisitions. Whereas AWS pioneered the cloud industry.

This is certainly "doing things right" in that it's providing a great exit route for startup founders in the cloud industry. I'm not sure it's "doing things right" for IBM itself.

IBM looks like it's being run by accountants. You can tell because they think they'll get the same results from someone on a H1B visa as they will from their veteran employees. Accountants can never get their heads round the fact that technical folk aren't fungible.
Rudely dismissive comments are not allowed here. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't.

If you know more than other people, politely help them learn. If you can't or don't want to do that, please don't comment.
I had no problems either, and i don't really speed read...
That said it's most likely because my brain has a look forward / glance over paragraph mode which is probably engaged all the time.

To verify this i took a print screen and it was considerably harder to read.

So the ease of readability to me was because the word blinked at least once in the correct order and it registered even if i didn't get to it yet.
Since you mentioned it in your post. What benefit is there to Slack if the internet archive can load the chat page? Is there any value to Google to indexing the slack app? There's nothing of value there to anything other than logged in users so why would they build for anything with the access level similar to an unregistered user?

On the other end, their home page should be accessible and some I can't check right now, I can only guess that it is.
Optimally a compiler's version of a language is better defined simply by it's definitions. It's just problematic if the behavior is changed between versions, eg. for the sake of optimizations. It's also bad if undefined behavior is expected to be reliable where the original implementation wasn't intended to be meaningful in the first place.

If those two cases are hard to tell apart, the process of announcing this is at fault, I guess, e.g. the error messages and warnings, the documentation, the info hidden in discussions on the mailinglists or in bug reports, but the gcc docs seem fairly extensive and I can't claim to have read it completely or the c standard.
I could've sworn they had to walk that back: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-disney-technology-h1b-...
It's awe inspiring to see fifteen terabytes of solid state storage in that little box.
I think what feels right is best and best found by trial and error (but learned intuition can get you to the goal faster).

I'd do it like this (mine on the right): http://screencast.com/t/JxsySVfG

Less space between blue title and actual headline and smaller paragraph spaces within normal text, so reading flow is not disturbed by it.
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I enjoyed and took plenty from the Cluetrain when I read it in 2004, my final year as an undergrad in Australia. It resonated for me as a kid who loved the web for it's freedoms and the disconnect from mainstream commercial interests in the 90s. I could see what lay ahead.

It remains on the list of books I still recommend people. Not because it can be applied directly in it's entirety today, but rather because it captures a time and a place. I still feel there are still plenty of insights to take away.

I'm also reminded of HSTs closing passage to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:

“Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era—the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run . . . but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant. . .

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.

...

And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave."

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”

Who know's what we'll think of influential books of recent years (of the top of my head: the Lean Startup or Rework, which I also love), in 2025.
Just to clarify, your ideology requires legally enforced social engineering to deny an aspect of biology?

That should be the hint that your first principles are incorrect.
WTF!? I already posted this exact link 4 days ago and it got almost no attention :D Sometimes HN is weird.
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And I'm supposed to feel bad when raising corporate tax rates are discussed.

Sometimes, I'm quite the fan of China taking its executives out and executing them for breaking the law.
The largest expense for these companies is salary, so yes, we are those companies in the form of their employees.

It's a triple win: Israel gets defense, US gets technology, High-tech employees get jobs.
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See, these types of comments are (again) why people have negative opinions towards silicon valley types.

You may be right, but a good sign for whom, exactly? For the people who lost their jobs? For shareholders? For fans of IBM the company?

Sure, yes, I agree that IBM probably has to shed people in order to stay competitive. However, it's not the fault of the people who are being affected by this, as by and large they were not responsible for IBM's decision to get more and more into support and services.

(an aside: it's not clear those are the people being affected, I'm just responding to the parent comment)

Instead, I would say a better discussion is: why is it that when IBM made a bet that did not play out, that they have cut people's severance benefits signifcantly? Why is it that we treat this as a necessary evil, instead of something to be disappointed about? Why are we not holding IBM up to be responsible for the well-being of their workers?

I'm not arguing that this isn't something that IBM should have done. I am arguing that we shouldn't talk about layoffs as a "good sign", and I think we should try to keep in mind the lives of the people affected.
No, that is pretty bad, and that specific example has been noticeably slow for a while.
It's approachable and easy to use. That was the intent. But that doesn't mean its not powerful. It's built on top of a entity-component model (similar in many ways to that of game engines like Unity) that makes it highly extensible and customizable.

The arguments are well articulated in this post: http://ngokevin.com/blog/aframe-vs-3dml/
> It's the consequence of their bet everything on services approach while the global economy stalls out.

Yeah that was their strategy the last 10 maybe 15 years. That doesn't work anymore. They have to change. It certainly sucks for folks who work in services, but I can't see IBM doing well keeping tens of thousands of people trained in that until retirement just to provide jobs or to be "nice".

I understand it has been around for more than a 100 years. At some point large swaths of people had to be laid off, just because of the changing business landscape. I would guess when they switched to mainframes from mechanical tabulators, some people had to be let go.

> Their financial engineering was so good, they even snookered Warren Buffett, likely ultimately costing his shareholders billions in losses.

Hmm, not sure, I don't think Buffett is easily snookered, he is not an amateur investor.