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> Sl. to best someone; to defeat, outwit, or win against someone.

> ...It can refer to market share like you argue, but in a broader sense, this is at least how I understood the term eating someone's lunch.

It's still a far stretch to claim that zones win against containers. They
could if we limited the field to just technical level, and then again, I would
need to see some arguments why they actually are better.

>> So, zones provide better platform because people can go back and learn Solaris? Or what?

> No, Solaris [...] provides a better platform for learning and understanding UNIX.

You're confusing here learning unix with using it.

If one was at the stage of learning, Solaris could be fine, except there's
much less material about it for newbies (especially about rough corners and
stupid troubles, like "I ran `chmod -R 777 /'" or "I deleted my kernel"), and
much, much less knowledgable people accessible to those newbies to learn from.

Now look at professional Linux sysadmins and programmers. They already have
some knowledge about their OS and they're not likely to do a hard turn for
different OS just for the sake of "understanding UNIX", as it would require
quite large effort to just get to the point where they are already with Linux.
Solaris would need to provide a really compelling function or feature to
justify this effort, and all you said is "portability" (which most probably
won't be necessary in most cases) and vague notion of "understanding UNIX".

EDIT: It was a little dishonest on my side to suggest that main selling points
of Solaris derivatives were "understanding UNIX" and "writing portabile code".
Solaris introduced ZFS and DTrace. But while it is said that ZFS with zones
work well together, it still needs explaining why is it a significantly
better combination than what Linux provides, and DTrace seems like a very
distant benefit, less compelling each time a tool like Sysdig shows up.
India cancels visa for dissident Uyghur leader Dolkun Isa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_agent
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Up-and-coming JavaScript frameworks and libraries to watch out for in 2016
The Suicide of Venezuela
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It looks like they're slowly succumbing too :(. It took me over a minute now to figure out how to get to the videos without having to register first - their new site design makes it much harder than it was when Khan Academy was "just a site". I hope they won't go further in that direction.
Not terribly surprising. Their engineers are competent, it's just that the US (where diesels are less popular) set some rather unpleasant requirements for diesel cars, in particular insisting that they couldn't require the diesel exhaust fluid tank to be topped up by the end user and setting lower NO2 limits. In order to meet these conflicting requirements, VW cheated. I think some of the VWs they tested actually have the same engine and emissions control system as some of the US models that cheated, just without the defeat device intended to reduce exhaust fluid usage.
FBI Paid $1.2M to Hack San Bernardino iPhone
>check out the removal request policy page - it's quite humorous.

I found it childish and unprofessional, just like the reply letters TPB wrote in response to DMCA requests.
It wouldn't be hard to build in tools to aid discoverability. A 'help' function that returns a list of features for example. That's pretty much what WSDL[1] tries to be, but that's really to hard to use well. If there were a much more flexible "natural language" interface to it then it'd make finding and consuming APIs both easier and more robust.

I'm just musing on the possibility really. I'm absolutely sure there'd be difficulties in the technical implementation, and obviously it'd be quite inefficient compared to a known and well-defined API, but if it could be made to work the advantages may outweigh those problems. Plus, implementing it for humans goes 90% of the way to implementing it for computers too, so it's almost zero-cost if you're considering a chat interface to your service. It's something to think about anyway.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Services_Description_Langu...
Xiaomi's Mi Max phablet is somehow supposed to fit in your pocket
Yes, but this is wikipedia, the entire premise of it is eventual consistency. The idea being that the most recent update to a page is the correct one.
There is a lot more riding on these tests than is currently being admitted. The simple fact is that based on the tests and the impact of NOx on population health, the sale of diesel cars should be stopped immediately.

Even London has doubled the congestion charge fee for diesels.

A further step would be to recognise that petrol cars also emit NOx and that the long term goal should be the removal of these from the road.

Politically this is a hard thing to do, however some countries are forcing the issue http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/consumer-news/95237/du...

This is going to hurt the car industry in ways we don't fully understand yet. In the short term I would be end-of-lining their diesel production and restructuring to electric.
I agree. There is always a choice, although the shift may be difficult or unsettling, and some people will feel freer to make a change than others. I think one huge component of this is location.

A little while back, I moved with my family from the city to the countryside (the foothills of central Portugal), where there is a growing community of migrants from western cities, living around and alongside the local villagers, who are mostly small-scale subsistence farmers. People call us the Neo Rurals.

Land and living costs are way less than where we came from, which means I can afford to work three days a week, rather than the 5 out of 7 days I was working before. I am fortunate to be able to work remotely (I'm a freelance JavaScript programmer) and to have come from an existing network (the wonderful Brighton, UK). Somehow projects arrive when I just need them (get in touch if you're looking for someone). But people here to do all sorts of work, and often grow food and generate their electricity to lower the base costs.

The door is open. Neighbours' children come by because they want to play. Many people home-educate / unschool. And we do pretty well as a community amusing ourselves, learning from and helping each other.

Uprooting is difficult, but I have never looked back. And it does come with some "hardships", but most of those are really joys.
France had an open primary for the Socialist Party presidential candidate in 2011.
What you say is not incorrect. But you totally miss the context of the discussion.

And you switch sides just to disagree with your last quote.
Managing the URL in a Redux app
Groucho?
Something I've noticed of late is that there are things one can criticise on HN and receive reasoned rebuttal, and other things where any criticism will receive a flurry of downvotes but little discussion.
>Those people also derived no benefit from their wealth. They invested their wealth rather than spending any of it.

I call BS on "any of it". They spent enough -- and not that much is really needed compared to their total wealth -- to live like kings, with several luxury houses all across the country/globe, yachts, private jets, parties and all.

>I don't know enough about the Clinton welfare reforms to have an informed opinion but having a job makes it a great deal easier to get another job.

It can also make it harder, as you can't go looking for a job when you're overwhelmed working two jobs or 10+ hour shifts (as many of the "lazy" poor do). Besides this all presumes there are jobs for that particular job market -- else, merely looking or at best going from one crappy job to another is not much of an improvement.

The more better of (e.g. us programmers) can take months off of work, even start a personal project, and use our savings to get by for a while before starting to look for a new job. The poor play job seeking in a harder mode. Double so when they're fired from the previous one.

>So 40% of the 10 wealthiest Americans made their own money? That sounds like the mark of a dynamic economy.

Does it really? Seems like it should be comparative -- if 60% done the same in the past, then it would be sounding like the mark of an economy becoming less dynamic...
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Reader Mode in browsers is increasingly useful for this kind of crap.

I'll add that the flipside is that publushers need revenues. I'm aware micropayments are making another go of it (David Brin is publishing an article shortly which I reviewed in draft). My thought is that that's actually the weong way to go and that what we need is superbundling, including possibly at the government level (an income-indexed content tax). Some asskicking in browser and web space to too shake out the cruft.
If you see this and think the word "dishonest" doesn't apply then it is possible your course of study has warped your moral perceptions.
And one has to wonder if the fate that befell the former Republic will also fell or cripple the current Republic.
Gee, I can't imagine why people would be hateful and violent when they're being driven further and further into poverty - and out of their homes and neighborhoods - by rent-seekers and rich dudebros. I can't imagine why they'd be hateful and violent when they're starving and homeless the next street over from 20something billionaires who do basically nothing useful for humanity.

Paris circa the 1780s is exactly right. I hope the homeless of SF build a guillotine very soon.
Becoming a digital bank
Yes I used to work for Wisetech Global. This is such a company. Recently floated on Australian Stock Exchange.
It wasn't so much that she failed, but that she faked her success.
> This isn't high risk though. It's low risk.

I meant "high risk" in the sense that the return has a high variance, with all of it being concentrated in a thin sliver of the probability; apologies if I've misused a technical term.

> The problem here is that you could make this same argument about almost anything, a la Pascal's Wager.

I'd call it a consequence of expected return being a widely-applicable calculation, rather than a "problem" per se. Even if we knew the expected returns, we'd still need a decision procedure to perform the allocation.

My point is that it's uncontroversial to avoid putting all funding into the most promising project (e.g. other Physics research doesn't wait until we're "finished" with the LHC), so there's certainly scope for allocating a small budget to more "fringe" research like the EmDrive. I'm not in charge of research budgets, but as a simplified argument we might imagine allocating funding on an exponential scale, based on expected return and risk: the most promising projects compete for a chunk of half the funds, the "second tier" projects for a quarter, and so on. Projects with lower impact are lower tier, projects with lower probability of success are lower tier. We stop once we've rounded-up an allocation to the smallest unit of funding, hence avoiding Pascal's Wager.

Also note that there are only a finite number of options to choose from, because there are only a finite number of submitted research proposals.
Their current trackers are 3G only - and most countries are shutting down (or have already shut down) their 3G GSM networks.

What? Some operators are closing 3G networks, but not, I think, "most countries". Frequency allocation is moved to LTE, yes.

But 3G modems fall back to 2G (GSM) which is'nt going away any time soon in most places (yes, there are exceptions), and 2G is quite enough to send location info.
I did a quick Google and there's a few free whois API services that would fit the bill. They (presumably) all return the same data. So.. whichever works.

Alternatively a far more interesting (but much more difficult to set up) solution would be to use chrome.runtime.connectNative to execute the native whois command on the user's OS.
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It depends on how you look at it. Thanks to Wikipedia (this was back in 2002-2006) I was able to bypass the problem that half of my university lecturers were researchers first, and teachers a distant second.

Key computer science concepts went from being incomprehensible to being remarkably easy, and I didn't need to spend a small fortune on textbooks either. So to some extent, a revolution has already happened.
They look like a REST API over a messaging system. API's are meant for machines to communicate, not humans.
Instead of battery, you could turn the key inside a mechanism that would produce the energy needed to open the lock ;-)
I don't see how this is for "Hackers"? It has nothing about security applications.
What the Guardian neglects to add is that (IIRC) the German auto industry had placed a big bet on diesel engines as far back as the early '80s, and that the German government has enormous clout in the EU and seems to love German export industries with the same fervour that the US and UK governments adore their national financial sectors.
I want to share my design assets I created during last years (royalty-free)
I miss this as well! Stanford still has this and calls it the open door policy

I really hope something like Campus Housing works out. They had a great idea but didnt execute. With the right group of people I'd be super down to live in something like a dorm again.
Given that this behavior was studied decades ago, why has it taken so long to record the brain's activity when sleeping in a new place? Is neuroscience that new of a field such that relatively obvious findings are publishable in top journals? Or am I oversimplifying the results acquired in this study?
No, Burton Cummings.
The 99 software versioning scheme
Chris got lucky - he is lucky he is not under criminal investigation for hacking or even spying. It is a sad fact that all too often the people who bring attention to data breaches and security issues, get targeted and accused of hacking. The people involved do not want to admit they are at fault, so try to justify this by saying the whistle-blower / good Samaritan are criminally accessing the data.

If one discovers a security issue or data breach, it is best to either do nothing, or at most raise the issue very anonymously.
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Powershell on itself does have really nice design decisions, but does not interact well with the whole system, leading to interoperability, portability issues and being clunky to use, in my view. It looks like PS is designed more towards DevOpsing (let developers do some administrative tasks in a familiar environment) than systems administration. Some of the rough edges I have encountered in the past:

The whole point about piping objects (.NET class instances, sort of) around is really awesome, except that even on 8.1 (did not check on 10) standard utilities like ipconfig output wall of text, which has to be string-parsed.

To be fair, there are cmdlets for most if not all subsystems, except that wrappers are sometimes too shallow, e.g. System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController returned by Get-Service does not expose delete(), so you have to resort to WMI. I have not used PS extensively enough, but would not be surprised if some tasks would require one to resort to wmic, netsh or similar tools.

Powershell is not automatically updated, so you can find anything between 1 to 5 and anything portable has to be written for 1. e.g. Get-Service, which is in global namespace, is available since 3. IIRC W7 ships with 2.

Powershell allows to use .NET directly, e.g. spawn process with [System.Diagnostics.Process]::Start, except as with above, you have no idea which version of .NET is available on target system.

I found no other way to gain administrative privileges except for relaunching itself in administrative context.

PS ISE could be used to incrementally write and debug scripts by directly fine tuning each command, except that it is non-interactive, so utilities asking for password are kind of painful.
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Not my experience at all. In hotels I tend to sleep like a baby, often better than I do at home.
For most people nowadays the word hacker means a guy who pirates stuff and steals your facebook accounts, but the original meaning is just a clever programmer.
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Not the same at all. Remember that slaves were kdinapped from their home, shipped thousands of miles, saw their women raped to make more "product" and had their descendants forced into the same system. If you want to opt out of the corporate system you can in today's world, without worrying that slaves catchers and their dogs will be sent after you, and you will be tortured if they catch you.
Yup. That’s also my solution. Sadly, we’ve had to deal with doing other things recently, too, as our software was run on servers with the timezone set to UTC, but the hardware clock being 3 hours ahead of UTC (this is common especially on old Windows installs).

The result was that the displayed time on the server was local time, but if we sent it to the client, we got 3h offset there as well.
See also the definition of "hacker" in the Jargon File: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html
TLDR: By excluding some business expenses from a financial report, one can turn the report with losses into a report with profits. And everyone is doing that if that leads to some additional profits/investments.
I've started downvoting comments that are XKCD links and nothing more to encourage context-giving and discourage needless repetition.
Bots may be cool, but DigitalGenius thinks it found a better way
I use Vim for pure text editing,IDE for complex projects code editing also in Vim-mode.main-stream IDEs(Visual Studio,Intellj,Eclipse) have Vim editing feature.
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Great idea, looks cool as well. Good luck.
Visits Hacker News, pretends not know what 'hacker' means in this context. Nice try OP.
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ES2015 modules do not take HTML/host environment into consideration. There is still some spec work missing there.

See https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!searchin/bl... for more information.
Yes, but what Ben is proposing is that instead of being a functional division, it would be it's own business unit reporting it's own profit-and-loss. That might even mean having it's own engineering team, it's own design team, it's own sales, etc, etc. Maybe not all of those, but certainly some of them.
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This article basically says that having a wealthy non-working elite is bad. However, I'm not so sure. This non-working elite won't simply sit staring into a wall all day. Aren't many of them likely to get into cultural and artistic stuff?

Take language, for example. I think it's interesting to look at French. Seems like the guttural r became common after the French revolution. Why would anybody use that sound for communication? It's basically the same sound that you make when trying to get rid of slime from your throat. I can imagine that French used to be a really beautiful language, back in the day when France had an aristocratic elite. Seems like the French working class has basically ruined it. Or is this just a coincidence?

The English language in the USA has not suffered as badly. But I find it interesting that Americans put more weight on the r sound than the British. I've come across people who like the guttural r because they say it makes them sound more "authoritative". I guess people who have poor self-esteem often compensate with brand-name clothing and other status symbols. Maybe they compensate with language, too? Other than that, a non-working elite will have much more time to develop a refined taste, which in the case of language, is something that everyone will benefit from (assuming everybody else ape this elite).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guttural_R#French
That inspires a bit more confidence, but it actually does take a lot to embarrass the medical system into fixing itself. Many, many people have written indictments of the medical system. Based on recent events surrounding drug prices, it takes a congressional hearing to effect change. :)

For your startup, I suggest that you first convince a couple people who are from the medical system to be (informal) advisers. There are just so many "miracle cures" out there, created by charlatans (or worse). As a potential investor, I wouldn't even initiate due diligence unless you had already convinced a couple doctors or researchers from respected hospitals or universities that your company could succeed.
Diesel vehicles kill people, period. It's very difficult to reduce emissions sufficiently to change that but it's nigh impossible to ban diesel cars and trucks from the road. Given that, the only reasonable alternative is stringent tests that push diesel technology to the limit in terms of minimizing health impact. Which is what we have. Could the tests be better? Certainly. But that doesn't excuse the cheating. Imagine if airplane manufacturers had been found to be cheating on safety tests. That's how serious and how immoral this cheating is.
Looks great! So how do I buy one? Is it still in development?
Much of the transition has already happened - most applications have already moved on from C to safer languages. What's coming is either the replacement of C libraries (Rust, very careful C rewrites), or perhaps bypassing them entirely (OCaml unikernel work).

I would fear more for proprietary systems. Open source is relatively innovative and adaptable.
It's opposite for me. I have hard time sleeping at someone else's house. I have to lay down for hours before I get to sleep. I get best sleep in my own room.
I've heard that reading from /dev/random tends to "steal" entropy from /dev/urandom or something. I'm not sure. But if you only use urandom, you're safe. Here, from a quick search: http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/02/25/safely-generate-random... http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/
In pop culture, hacker is someone who breaks into computer systems.

For better understanding of the term, see "hacker culture":

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture
I usually end up seeing new submissions on Hackr.io - Gives me a fair idea about what's trending and I learn a few among those.

http://hackr.io/latest
> The simple fact is that based on the tests and the impact of NOx on population health, the sale of diesel cars should be stopped immediately

Extremely disingenous. You know what happens when the sale of diesel cars/taxis/buses stops? The old ones get driven longer.

You know what vehicles create the lion's share in NOx emissions? The ones built and sold before 2000 when Euro3 emission standards started limiting NOx emissions. The majority of London "quaint" TX4 black cabs are of this toxic variety, as are the majority of their buses. (This is probably similar to much of the rest of Europe). Taking 50 new diesel vehicles off the street will do less than upgrading a single one of these legacy vehicles to a state-of-the-art diesel engine. Your proposed policy would be counterproductive.
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Direct debits are remarkably easy to cancel though. No need to find the place you subscribe to, just call your bank, done. Bank required to refund in the event of an incorrect charge, with no time limit.

Much, much safer for recurring payments than continuous charge authorisation on a credit card where you have to contact the charger to cancel (or wait for your card to expire).