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I have problems understanding your point here. What was announced was not a new operating system but a translation layer built into Windows 10 that translates Linux system calls to their Windows counterparts.

I also bet many people would disagree with your statement that W10 is unusable and worthless without this feature.

The Windows kernel always existed and has evolved over the years: NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10. They didn't develop it as the "last missing piece of the puzzle".
"We conclude that people have a reasonable expectation that their cell phones will not be used as real-time tracking devices by law enforcement, and—recognizing that the Fourth Amendment protects people and not simply areas—that people have an objectively reasonable expectation of privacy in real-time cell phone location information. Thus, we hold that the use of a cell site simulator requires a valid search warrant, or an order satisfying the constitutional requisites of a warrant, unless an established exception to the warrant requirement applies." http://www.mdcourts.gov/opinions/cosa/2016/1496s15.pdf
I absolutely love the fact that windows download and install critical updates automatically for me. I would feel like a slave if I had to do it manually.
Thank you. Obviously that's easy to do- but I never would have thought to look there! Now I can go home and look like a genius to my wife by stealing credit from you.
It's a joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy
interesting that you bring in human suffering. Have you thought about all the lives saved and brought into existence due to the burning of fossil fuels? I'm not much of a utilitarian, but gradual sea rise is nothing compared to the degree of poverty inflicted and number of people that would never be born if fossil fuel use were forcibly reduced. And no solar can't replace it, nor wind. The only contender is nuclear.
I say this with a lot of respect, but this seems pretty noddy for a Martin Fowler article. There's not a lot of meat here and I really don't consider myself an app sec expert :-)
I wouldn't say that it has an acute immediate negative effect the gene pool by any measure, but it does certainly have an effect on the slow stochastic process shaping the gene pool. It would make intuitive sense that preventable, fecundity decreasing maladies will increase in frequency over time over many generations. Maybe that's not so much a pejorative effect as a beneficial adaptation to a new, more forgiving environment, if you look at it from the right perspective. Still I think that most people would agree that robust health in a low-tech environment is a nice trait to have in a population. Still, we're arguably pretty irreversibly reliant on fire and cooking.

Cave dwelling fish don't lose their eyes because of any immediate selection counter pressure, but from the slow reversion to the mean from no pressure either way. Or maybe the small pressure of nutrients spent on maintaining a useless organ.

Perhaps my example of my own case was misguided - I was turning blue and rushed to the emergency room as an infant, though. It was a single case provided to demonstrate a point where no single case matters that much.
> Japan"s intracity maglev is going to go almost 600kph.

No it's not. 603 is the fastest they've ever gotten the train to go on a test track, which doesn't make that the speed they'd actually run for commercial service. Their current plan is 500 with a top speed of 505. Which is really good, but also a decent ways off and involves some serious earthworks to make the track flat enough.

For comparison, the speed record for wheel on steel rail trains is currently 574 km/hr.

The rail really isn't a huge impact on the speed yet. At those speeds it really start being more about aerodynamics of the vehicles and the cost per kWh. Maybe maglev technology will change that at some point, but right now we haven't really seen results that would lead us to assume that big of an advantage comes from getting rid of the rail. Arguably the biggest advantage is going to come when someone figures out how to put the trains in a tube where the aerodynamic situation changes completely. That's why the hyperloop proposal wasn't just "use a maglev".

Maglev trains are cool as shit though, you're literally floating through the air, it's awesome. I highly recommend riding the one in Shanghai. Make sure you hit a 430 km/hr run and not the slower 300 km/hr ones, the experience is very different. It's fun as hell.
Both comments are correct - Apple supplies iCloud data with a warrant[1], but the iPhone access was going to be under the All Writs Act[2]. No judge is going to accept an argument that handing over iCloud data is going to be an unreasonable amount of work to do in response to a warrant - and Apple hasn't even attempted to argue that.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/05/new-guidelines-outline-...

[2] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/how-apple-will-fi...
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In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters

http://www.amazon.com/In-Search-Stupidity-Marketing-Disaster...
Hey, really great work on this. I think you're wrong in saying it's too early for Show HN.
Because that's what Linux was missing, a package manager...

Seriously though, if people for whatever reason are content on staying on distributions with ancient packages, something like Guix is far more suited to this problem.
I smelled it the moment I hit the reply button :)
That will be really nice. I only use Windows for Music and for development I use virtual machines. I would love to develop things "natively" in Windows.
Ctrl+Key shortcuts aren't going to work in bash (at least not without breaking other important stuff) so I'm hoping they decide to make quickedit mode more usable someday.

Unfortunately I still think this is going to be kind of a shitshow as long as they keep the black box nature of conhost. The terminal apps OSX and most linux distros ship with are fairly bare-bones too and I doubt reprogrammable 256-color mode is on microsoft's roadmap.
That's a damn good idea. I completely agree, a job interview is something that you need to practice to be good at. Just doing code exercises isn't enough. Having someone do a real interview is the best way.
It's not a Mac-only thing, it has been used on Linux and Windows for decades.

http://www.drdobbs.com/windows/windows-apps-and-exception-ha...
Has anyone seriously proposed that the survival of our species is at risk from climate change?
Even more surprised that no one seems to recall that they did exactly this back in the day. There was a version of the NT4 kernel that could run Unix programs. "Great, the program selection of Unix with the stability of windows!" people sneered, but still there was a market for it.
You can protect master; it disallows pushes.
It's "completely idiotic" to think that mining can only be done with fossil fuels.

Energy is fungible. It doesn't matter if it's energy intensive, industry and mining can succeed without fossil fuels just fine.
He's referencing Stallman's infamous stance on the nomenclature of Linux
It might have to do with increasing state subsidies for and regulations requiring renewable energy[1] as well as major, image-sensitive investors like CalPERS wanting to get rid of their fossil fuel holdings. These could both increase the price of SUNE et al relative to a straight business fundamentals value.

[1]: e.g. http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-jerry-brown-clima...
The key reasons that drew me to Ethereum and keep me interested are:

a) I get excited about smart contracts, they're what I hoped Bitcoin would offer years ago. The idea of a DAO, controlled entirely on-chain, is IMHO groundbreaking. Solidity is a simple language, and it's ridiculously easy to write and publish basic dApps over ipfs. Most of the downsides (need for oracles for instance) apply to all blockchains.

b) The planned implementation of light clients and usage of events, would mean ethereum network access could be embedded into virtually any app.

c) The sharding plan for scaling seems solid enough, and the team behind Ethereum has proven themselves capable, dedicated, and open with communication.

d) Bitcoin development is a mess and I don't see it improving much. The offchain efforts all look like rent seeking to me (aka RSK will take 20% in perpetuity). None of them are viable today, but I can write Ethereum apps now.

e) Ethereum may get out executed in the future, but I don't see anything in the landscape right now that will do it.
Hopefully? Sorry for bursting your bubble but Windows 10 is the ONE way to go, from their perspective.
MetLife Defeats U.S. Government's Too-Big-To-Fail Labeling
Eh, that doesn’t answer the question, though.

"We never were forced to build an additional backdoor" could just as well mean "because we already had one"

EDIT: 10min after posting already at -2? Seriously? Please post a comment why you disagree instead of just downvoting.
Kevin Gallo just announced that there'll be more information live at Build at 4:30pm PDT.

https://channel9.msdn.com/?wt.mc_id=build_hp
I can imagine him muttering to himself, "I can't believe I have to write this." But then I think of all the people I've worked with, and then think of all the "developers" ThoughtWorks must have worked with...
Some people stood to lose money.

This was unacceptable to them. So they got to keep their money, and sacrificed the future of the planet instead.
This Porsche Magazine Ad Brings the 911 to Life as a Floating Hologram
Gates and Allen on the Future of Personal Computing (1995)
Yeah, that just happened to me this week. I'm sitting here wondering what I said wrong in my reply email.

Was I not enthusiastic enough? What was it?
MIT Digital Currency Initiative
Wow - I wish I had known about this a week ago. I spent a few hours building an Austin "travel guide" for friends and family, but the best thing I could think of to use was a Google Doc + a Google Map. I even thought about starting to build a web app like what you've built. I'm definitely going to port my scrappy little Google Doc into Map Me soon.

A couple of comments:

- Tags are really useful, but they are too hidden in the UI. I don't know that most regular users would know to go to the "Filter" menu and then click "Tags".

- The biggest issue I have so far - in the Classic view, I can't see a way to get my descriptions to show up except at the individual pin level. It would be very useful if they could display in the list, like in the Story view.

- Nested categories would be great.
Arrgh! I wish I'd known that six years ago. It'd have made life so much easier. I was trying to figure them out from reading the source code...
Algorithms as Microservices
For the Western US, the problems aren't so bad. There's a coastal mountain range along most of the California coast. In LA, a few places such as Venice/Marina Del Ray may need seawalls, but except for a few areas areas, three blocks inland is at least 100 feet above sea level. LAX is 121 feet above sea level.

The SF bay has more problems than the coast. Parts of San Francisco may need seawalls, and bayfront development such as Redwood Shores needs to be stopped. Google HQ is in trouble; they're on fill and only 10' above sea level. But once you're south of US101/CA237, you're OK in most of Silicon Valley.

In the southeastern US, things are potentially much worse. There's no coastal mountain range. Florida is barely above sea level now. Miami floods regularly. New Orleans is partly below sea level already.

A big question is what this does to Mississippi River flooding. A higher sea level means less river flow and more upstream flooding.
Clippy’s Back: The Future of Microsoft Is Chatbots
You can already run vim from the msys git distribution
Doesn't Goldman Sachs fire the bottom 5% every year? This constitutes just 3% of BlackRock's employee head count.
Stack Overflow's flawed survey and the persistent challenge of diversity in tech
Docker-compose-rule
Devil's advocate, they might not have had to build a new tool.
Downvoter here: I downvoted early on because you're making an argument that seems to me both not particularly good and off-topic to the post you replied to.

OP posited: “Apple's been taking a number of steps over the last few months to show that they take Safari/WebKit development seriously. This is another positive step in the right direction.”

You basically responded, “They're still not as good as I want them to be!” It's a point that has nothing to do with the original comment, which was about improvement, not perfection, and about how seriously they take Safari/Webkit development, not about their release process (which remains roughly the same as it has been for the past many years).

Additionally, regarding the workarounds you mention: they are unnecessary in a “normal environment with rapid updates” only when those developers decide to fix your bug. Again: rapid updates are only useful if your bug is being addressed. I've got workarounds in my code for issues in Firefox that probably won't be fixed anytime soon, and features that Firefox and Chrome support poorly that they won't support well for a while, etc, etc.

I'm not saying Apple couldn't be releasing bug fixes for Safari on any platform faster—they certainly could. But you made an unrelated complaint as a reply to a specific comment, and your argument seems suspect to boot.
Well, for starters Google Spanner has almost nothing to do with CRDTs.

For another it would be really weird for Spanner to expose something CRDT shaped since Spanner is a strongly-consistent distributed database which depends heavily on global order and read/write locks driven by meticulously coordinated multi-site global wall-clock time and consensus groups.

In some ways it's almost the opposite of what I want... with exception of the fact that it's also distributed. I want extreme availability with lazy, weak coordination.
How I negotiated for an additional $15,000 at Yammer
This is an important point. In large part the california drought was exacerbated by how much water the livestock industry consumed: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-13/cows-suck-u...
Hopefully they'll include emulation for ptys, which will make it very easy for you to run your terminal emulator of choice instead of relying on on conhost.

If they're smart, they'll allow a Linux ABI exe to sit on one end of a pty, and Win32/UWP exe on the other, so people can use a native Windows terminal emulator instead of needing Xming or similar.
you've just failed my attitude test because you started talking about attitude :) The reason for that is that chalking something up to attitude as a first or major explanation usually is just mental cheating on your part - in the particular case of whiteboarding issues there may be a lot of reasons for different people other than attitude, i'd venture to guess that attitude is never a reason (until of course it is a director/VP candidate and one of my friends suggests the candidate to write a sort, any sort ... even here i think the first was [lack of] such ability and the attitude was only masking it :)
They have their own container technology with a docker API.
Finding Weev-Able Printers
I think you got your second sentence a little twisted around. I've never seen an "A" player command a 5x multiple on a median or "B" player.

I think "A" players are the best bargain in the software world...
Like someone already replied on the article, the store looks so much like an apple store. Is it people that have some one trick pony working at these stores?
My advice is do not stay in the hype creating phase for too long, but who am I to be giving advice.
The marketing is looking so much like apple, a pretend status symbol that everyone must have, and the goal of Tesla is to sell everyone their cars. (unlike luxury car manufacturers who sell status symbols but don't want everyone to have one of their cars because that would void the status symbol status.)
I like the cars Tesla makes, I wouldn't mind more of those driving around!
It's a good start, covering SQLi and XSS vulnerabilities. It would be great if it covered CSRF vulnerabilities too. I think those are possibly the three most common dangerous vulnerabilities in web apps, and this page would be a perfect resource if it had those three.
There is plenty of evidence China is working hard to close their dirty power generation plants and move to clean energy.

Here's something from late 2015:

China is totally crushing the U.S. on renewable energy
http://grist.org/climate-energy/china-is-totally-crushing-th...

Here's one that is just a month old:

China set to surpass its climate targets as renewables soar
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2079179-china-set-to-su...
I think the idea is to look at the actual problem causing climate change.

Unless your post was satire. Putting seawalls up everywhere that might be affected seems like the wrong message to take away from the article.
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Ask HN: Where to work as a new PhD Grad in the IoT systems?
> Capital really does not live to stay in one place - it always wants to work. If you have 10 million dollars in the bank - you will be burning money just due to inflation.

Yeah, I've heard people explain it to me before. I don't fully understand it but I appreciate the fact that inflation is not always a bad thing and neither are taxes.

For example, if the people who owned all the land wanted to leave it fallow then they'd have to pay the tax on it somehow so they have an incentive to not leave it fallow.

I guess similarly with inflation and capital. You can leave your money doing nothing but there is a penalty for doing so (because inflation).
Reversing burn out is not easy. I was working crazy hours in my last job and managed to get a far better gig. I thought 2-4 weeks off would do the trick and help me reset. It took a lot longer. Stuff I did that helped:

1) Play mindless video games into the night. I kept having nagging guilt in my mind and had to force myself to ignore it.

2) Buy some books. I have them sitting on my desk. Just haven't been able to will myself to read any fiction (feel guilty about indulging myself). I did manage to read a few non-fiction books that I was interested in. So, baby steps.

3) Hang out with friends/spouse. Realize it is okay to do NOTHING for a bit.

I'm lucky this time. My passion has come back and I can code better than ever. But I am taking this experience as an important lesson. Need to be careful to not get burned out in the future.

Edit: I also let my online learning subscription (won't name it since I have nothing bad against their product) expire on purpose.
I am curious to see how Microsoft execute on the implementation of the user model for this: would user accounts used while running bash (or other utilities) correspond to actual Windows accounts (and integrate modes like "Run as administrator" with "sudo" calls from within the shell) or whether accounts for these binaries would exist separately (the demo video linked in one of the comments shows everything running as 'root' but it is a preview after all). I guess we will find out.
There's already a site issuing "DOIs for Blogs" and other less conventional forms of content[1]. I'm not sure it's less reliable than established journals, though.

[1] https://thewinnower.com/posts/archiving-and-aggregating-alte...
Do you mean calculating driving / walking / cycling directions from A to B? If so, it's definitely on out roadmap!
> it just looks like they're incompetent.

They just hacked into an iPhone, something Apple has been claiming for a long time was impossible. Even Apple has no clue how they did it.

Incompetent they are not.

You're looking at political theater, that's it. But there's little incompetence flying around.
Simple way of burning less oil is taking subsidies from all the industries that get them, like meat, dairy and eggs.

Luxury foods are really the biggest greenhouse gas footprint. Cows produce more than 60% of our methane footprint, and on a 20 year scale methane is around 80 times more potent than CO2 for global warming.

Taxes can be a solution but you have to take subsidies too.
TL;DR: GSW owner since 2010 believes his brilliant management brought the team to where it is.

I beg to differ, and put the blame on the unforeseen rise of 2009 draft pick #7 to be the greatest shooter ever.
+ a class A coach (THAT I'll give to management).
This chart tells a very different story.

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/japan/gdp-growth

Japan has been suffering from low inflation and at times deflation. This means that debts do not shrink with inflation. I think the stockmarket and property markets have been pretty flat too over the period. What growth there has been has been assisted by "extraordinary" (well they were before 2008) monetary measures and growth in government debt to 230% of GDP.
Of course Mac Users think it's about them - everything is about them.
> Widespread corruption is yet another issue hanging over our civilization which we've never had to deal with before in our history.

Nope. For example the reason Catholic priests cant marry/have children is because the church felt this would stop priest filtering money from the church to their families.

Otherwise a great rant to read. I've very much with you in believing corruption is the cancer of society. And no country will excel while they allow it to to be a significant part of a nations economy.
Self-Criticism and the Academy
Full-stack developers should be generalist in nature to make sure the issues that cross domains (front/backend, etc) are taken care of. Also, they can plug any gaps in the development that crop up from time to time (eg: someone on vacation, or next feature needs more back-end people). The downside is that they will not be spectacular or as quick at any one domain.

Basically, a full-stack developers specialization is to be flexible and have knowledge and experience in working the entire application stack. Another way of thinking about it is that they are like a general practitioner doctor/dentist, while they generally don't do surgery, they can refer you to the correct specialists who can and take care of any minor/common ailments. This is also why you don't want an entire team of them is that they don't go into depth in any domain.

I don't doubt that the current full-stack education path does a poor job of education on issues that specifically cross domains or when a task is better suited to a specialist.
Don’t forget Tay:

http://uk.businessinsider.com/microsoft-deletes-racist-genoc...
What happened when venture capitalists took over the Golden State Warriors
Just like IE finally giving its way to W3C, Windows is finally giving its way to POSIX.
> Maybe it wouldn't even be enough to pack up and move all R&D out of the US (e.g. injunction on US sales until the foreign Apple company complies).

There are already state level bills proposing this in CA and NY [1]. Those bills would fine manufacturers $2,500 for every phone sold in those states that isn't capable of providing decrypted data. The language originally comes from a white paper by Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance. Feinstein-Burr are working on a similar federal bill which was supposed to be released late last year, then this month [2]. It has obviously been delayed by the public's response to the SB Apple case.

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160122/06200833403/calif...

[2] http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-cybersecurity/2016...
A "whitelist" tor solution that isn't whitelisting tor by default is really lame. Approximately 0% of website operators will think to enable that so tor users are generally still treated like garbage visiting any CF protected website.