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That's great, but I want to talk/share things with anonymous strangers who aren't my friends who share the same disease I have. That's my need, not this. This is superfluous.
Apple computers were 10.9% of FY 2015 revenue. That percentage has been steadily dropping pretty much ever since the iPhone came out and revenue has not been growing.
> No, you're talking about all signed addition.

No, I'm talking about the ones that won't overflow. Some can be statically shown to not need a runtime check.

> If you're dependent on GCC/clang extensions to C, then you're not compiling to C.

I'm not saying that. I'm saying require either the target compiler (which the user is in control of) to provide a flag to give signed overflow the proper semantics (which would be useful if the user happens to be using clang or gcc), or fall back to requiring some asm for the target system which provides the needed semantics.

This would all be up to someone to configure for the target machine. Not a big deal once per architecture.

> At that point there's no benefit over just compiling to GIMPLE or LLVM in the first place.

Well if GIMPLE or LLVM was available for all of the targets that C compilers are, then I'd agree.

But they aren't. So I don't.
I agree with you on all of this, except that I don't think this article really relies on Magical ARM ISA Performance Elves. All it's saying is that the counter-theory ("Magical Intel Process Mastery Performance Elves") kept getting trotted out for years as a way that Intel would be able to get past ARM dominance, and never came true.
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What would "A big company created from scratch" even mean? With the exception of a spin-out from an existing large company (which can arguably still count the history of that company back to its formation), under what circumstances is a company "big" when initially created, rather than starting small and subsequently becoming big (quickly or slowly)?
Agreed, "crowd funding" is an inexact term- I described it that way to help explain why some people think the project is novel. Certainly there is a lot of arbitrariness as to what belongs on a list of "top crowdfunded projects".
I would love to have a business that is "continuing to survive" on 25 billions in yearly sales.
My own experience and observation - http2 is going to very awkward to enable on Centos until openssl is updated to 1.0.2. (supporting ALPN as required by Chrome).

I'm not prepared to custom compile something like openssl, especially when it requires frequent updates.
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I know there exists apps with similar functionality. Klart is made to help myself and other makers/developers/designers to capture and organize design, copywriting and marketing inspiration. I'm tailoring features for this group and trying to make it as simple and easy to use as possible, with great functionality :).

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But like you said, we don't know that. At this point, that is just speculation about a fact we have no reason to believe happened at all.
> Why does it matter who wrote it?

Because it's often trotted out as an indictment against one man in particular, and his political party in general.
>Are you suggesting Haskell can generate object files, shared objects, and binaries for my systems without compiling to C or C++ first?

Of course, that's what ghc does by default.

>How would it get the file formats and calling conventions right?

The same way every other compiler does. What systems are we talking about?
This all sounds very accurate, though it seems to me that it was the interaction between the x86 and the Windows monopolies that allowed this to happen. An Apple phone seems like it could have moved from x86 with greater ease than the more open Mac OS X moved to x86 previously. Android seems like it was built from the ground up to avoid this particular issue by keeping everthing a level above the bare metal so I'm guessing Apple would plan for it too, even if not by shipping a VM. But they'd still have leverage.

So that's yet another economic reason that Intel wouldn't have wanted to sell chips to Apple in this space.
The DAO isn't actually worth 120 million. For one, it's based on the price of ETH, which would completely crash if you attempted to sell even a few million worth.

Secondly, everyone can withdraw their funds from the DAO before any funds are sent to projects. Many have invested because those who invested early make money from those investing later, since the number of "DAO tokens" you get per "ETH" has gone down over time. (cough pyramid cough)
It's not just that. Hackborn spent many years denying that Android was janky as fuck, or making excuses for it (e.g. https://plus.sandbox.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/...).
Just to add to what jotux already pointed out. $5 is an order of magnitude too much for the systems I work on. Calling a string handler can mean $0.35 more per unit cost for the extra space needed. Across 10k units, this matters enough to care.
HN mostly doesn't treat reposts as dupes once well over a year has passed, which is the case with this one.
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I do wonder what would have happened if Intel had concentrated on being a custom chip maker. With a continuing of advancement in a low-powered x86 core and custom options, it would have been interesting. I guess when both game machine manufactures skip Intel to get AMD you really have to wonder where they thought things were going. A company so against customization that it closed its bus from third-parties probably isn't going to do well in a custom world.
What an odd time to invest in Apple. Its in something of a slump with how it missed the mark on wearables and in something of a milquetoast design/innovation phase in general. When the watch came out Apple was selling for nearly $140. Now its $93. The market is not showing strong confidence in Apple, at least in the short term, and there's nothing on the Apple roadmap that says big growth in the future.

I wonder if this is a sign of the internal politics at BH as 85 year old Buffet gets closer to retirement/death. The younger guys want to make their mark and betting on a typically galloping horse like Apple is a nice way to start the pissing contents with others wanting to run BH after Buffet goes. If Apple does a massive rebound then the guy who made this call will be seen as the young whippersnapper who 'knows tech' and can take BH into the 21st century.
So true: "When you present a new idea or make a request, everyone is silently asking the same question: Will this go away if I ignore it?"
The important distinction being, I can sell my shares of Amazon or Google almost instantly on the open market. The same cannot be said for a company that chooses to remain private.
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I don't think so. The backend would simply lag behind major releases a bit. It's not going to use all of the compiler internals, so updating it will only be a little extra work if the HIR (or maybe MIR, depending) changes.

If Rust has plans on building a large amount of their internal optimizations on MIR, then I would think MIR would be fairly stable too, which makes this even less of an issue.
It's going to be a toy project for now. If it works out, it'll be maintained against a specific version of the Rust compiler (stability is important in industry). And if that works out even more, perhaps Rust will accept patches to put it in-tree.

Of course, in-tree would be better. But it isn't a requirement.

But none of that is important at this point.
It's not a bad deduction but it is completely wrong. All major carriers in Japan sell iPhone, and all carriers (including many small ones) will sell you a sim card you can insert into your unlocked iPhone that you bought in Japan.
The top player in the PC space, Lenovo, maintains about a 20% share. So Apple is not doing so badly at 10%. They are a top-5 computer manufacturer by share.

In the most recent financial data I could find, Lenovo reported total company revenue of almost $13 billion, and Apple reported Mac-only revenue of just over $5 billion. So again: not the leader but doing a lot more than just surviving in the PC space.
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What are some leading outsourced AWS DevOps providers?
What are some of the leading dev ops shops that do network and security operations for companies hosting on AWS. Tasks would include emergency 24/7 server support, scaling and optimizing cloud infrastructure, log monitoring, package updating for security.

Our specific stack - all on AWS, built with Puppet and CloudFormation. We use EC2, RDS, S3.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11705556
I mean, it's not exactly a short list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Discon...

I'd also add that it raises a serious point: if we cannot depend on products to exist past the team that creates them, are we really producing products at all? Or merely engineering time leased at the rate you consume advertising?
You have just enumerated the "passing resemblance" noted above.

Connotations matter.
Well I for one like your rare HN comments post-Ars, because they're much less constrained. Though... I do miss your write ups on Ars too.
Hey Rich, Bublé looks interesting! Ever going to move onto ES2016/17/etc features? Can't imagine myself just being satisfied with ES2015 for years to come.
Yes - I used that plan too and it works great. Only minor issue is that it doesn't provide domestic data roaming in case there's no native T-Mobile coverage. But if you're in an area that has good T-Mobile coverage and if you're not doing a lot of phone calls this plan is definitely one of the best options.

Also afaik T-Mobile officially states that only 100MB of tethering is included, but it seems that they haven't enforced this for some time now.
Interesting. I suspected this was the case. I've been contemplating writing a wordpress plugin, and although most of it would be bog standard templating, I would like to be able to do some simple image processing. Being unable to shell out an external binary is unfortunate. Tangentially, Can you comment on being able to depend on the GD module being present (I'm guessing no)?

Based on your new business model, I suspect that you did not have much success with the pay-as-you-go approach? Like you, I'm contemplating having an up-front fee, but having to support said users with an external API for all time would suck. I was hoping to do it all on their end, but that may be more trouble than its worth.
Is there any stock or asset that would beat the S&P500 on an absolute basis for all time periods? No. Therefore you can play this game with every single asset class, without exception. It doesn't mean anything, and that is why your comment is misleading. Just looking at a selected time-range and finding underperformance doesn't tell you anything at all about the historic performance of an asset.
Except those seeking abortion services aren't pushing their beliefs on anyone. It's like they're giving people a... a choice, instead of dictating to people.
Do you have any evidence that "better people" (according to what measurement?) generally are the ones who get better pay?

The places I've worked it has generally seemed pretty arbitrary and largely down to who are best at negotiating. I've yet to work anywhere that have taken an anything remotely objective stance to measuring productivity and rewarding staff accordingly.

The closest I've gotten was working for Yahoo, which at least tried to gather feedback, but the system was still inherently flawed by being based on managers ranking staff members without any kind of formalized system to ensure the rankings were objective.

One year I was told that the group my team was in had too many "above expectations", and since two out of four on my team were ranked above expectations they had to arbitrarily drop one down to "meets expectations". (Not at any time while I was there did I see any kind of attempt at creating a uniform definition of what "meets expectations" or "exceeds expectations" meant; had a manager with high expectations? sucked to be you)

Since that directly affected the raises I was allowed to allocate, and since the ranges were in percent of salary, that decision cost that person several thousand pounds a year on an ongoing basis that I was unable to adjust for the following years, because some HR drone was making the reports from line managers fit his idealised curve without making any attempt at verifying whether or not the reports matched reality.

(as an aside: the origin of socialism, from Saint Simon, was the idea of a meritocracy)
I'm just here to set in stone and state for the record that I believe this will be a losing play. My reasons are here:

Rationale here from a comment over 3 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11035168

> last time I was on an airplane (December), every single older woman over the age of 60 had an iPhone. This means that it's not only reached critical mass (the late majority on the technology adoption curve has been achieved), but now it's no longer hip.

> I'm not sure what will be next, but I'm guessing it won't be Apple's.

> Were I gambling man, I'd have shorted Apple's stock right there after that airplane ride.

So when I'm wrong, y'all can roast me proper.
> the recruiter needs it because he needs to know if you're bother going to say yes to an offer

Recruiters usually have roles to fill, rather than candidates they are trying to find roles for. They can give a range to a candidate, and ask if they'd be interested. They don't need to be given a number.
Right. In fact, an business entity that doesn't go through the formalities of becoming a legal corporation, LLC, etc., may expose its members to unexpected legal responsibilities. E.g., if the agreement were seen as forming a general partnership, each member would be jointly and severally liable for all legal liabilities of the partnership.
Stoned is ambiguous though. Nobody thinks it's ok to drive with a BAC of 0.4 but 0.04 is generally considered legal.

The question becomes what's Stoned? Detectable is not a reasonable limit nor is can't stand up.
Ahh, thanks. So it sounds like it's probably not in the same class as the pump-and-dump "XYZ Corp is about to blow huge!" penny stock shams that are out there.
Great citation, have an upvote.

My wife is from the southern Salento where, as the wikipage itself shows, a different term is used. As it is common in Italy often dialects radically change withing a dozen kilometers.

Anyway, I do have good friends from Taranto, and this never came up; then again, there are so many synonyms of 'penis' in Italian and its dialects that if we were to avoid all of them we would have to rip out half of the dictionary.
From an emotional standpoint I see why this would be an issue (everything you do in public being recorded forever is a bit intimidating) but from a logical/philosophical standpoint, how is this different from someone with a photographic memory? Is it that the images can be shared?
So that doesn't change my statement at all. The friendliness and welcoming largely depends on the color of your skin.
I hate to say, but this looks like a bunch of people sat around and went "everyone seems to be using WhatsApp, what's WhatsApp missing?"

Except everyone uses WhatsApp, because it doesn't have all that stuff - it's just simple. And everyone else is on it. Case in point - Telegram is kinda nice. Has some good features, and it's pretty simple. But I probably wouldn't have it installed, if it wasn't for the one group I need to use it with. Literally everyone else I converse with daily with through WhatsApp. My friends, my colleagues, my relatives, my parents.

Trying to persuade anyone to try something new is hard. Trying to get my parents to use something new, and then trying to explain how to set up an account, what this does, what that does - just not going to happen. Especially if everyone else is using something else.

But good luck to Google, I look forward to giving it a try :-)
Just wanted to chime in as a former six year Android user that I miss intents the most.

I'm using my phone much less for certain activities. For instance, I share to instagram less because it's not in thr iOS share drawer for some reason.

I think the arguments leveled against Android elsewhere in this thread are solid...maybe even the UX one against intents. I certainly don't suggest an Android to anyone in my parents' generation, except my former-programmer uncle.
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>Please don't bother us old guys with comp-sci fundamentals

No shit, I have been programming C++ for 20 years. Recently someone stuck in a room with a laptop, not connected to internet, and asked me to format C strings to use in a printf (for a C++ job), something I haven't done in 20 years. Maybe it's my fault for abstracting all of the ugliness away with the use of libraries and C++ functions.
I could have told them when to use such silliness. Which is when you need to have something that is really performant, that gets called a LOT. After writing game engines, most other performance requirements are trivial.
> Of course, that's what ghc does by default.

ghc by default can generate object files for systems it doesn't know about? That sounds positively magical. How does it work?

> The same way every other compiler does.

Every other compiler that targets native code for these systems has first-hand knowledge of the file formats. If Haskell doesn't require that knowledge, I would love to hear about how it works.

Here's an example. Say Haskell only supported Windows on x86_64 and I'd like to build my Haskell program for Linux on PowerPC. Are you telling me Haskell on Windows could generate Linux on PowerPC executables and shared libraries without first-hand knowledge of the instruction set, calling conventions, and the ELF file format?
I'm guessing you haven't been to Japan in about 5 years. Everything you said is wrong today.
I guess the point of the article is that this is a failure of some sort but it never really makes a strong enough case. The closest it comes is trying to make some sort of assertion that the executives at Intel should have been able to predict the future. If I were inclined to hate the company for some reason, I would find this emotionally satisfying, but I'm not, so I just find it to be a recap of things everyone already knew, expressed with an unjustified tone of smug finger-wagging
However, that location X is not always feasible to move to and work from. So it's worthless to discuss all location X. Instead, you should be focusing on locations Y, which are.
Buying low is not a bad place to start for an investing strategy.
Yes, the only thing anyone should take away from this data is, we currently do not have reliable data on impairment vs intoxication on THC. Need controlled studies to collect it
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Think about how many of the major and wonderful companies we have today wouldn't exist if this were true.
The old joke back in high school: Drunk drivers ignore red lights, stoned drivers wait for the stop sign to turn green.
The point is that compared to the struggles of previous generations, current-generation late-20s people in the First World have worries far higher on Maslow's Hierarchy [0]. Personally, I think that's a good thing -- I'm not worried about being drafted into the war like my Grandfather, for example.

Inequality though brings some dissonance into play: two similarly aged people sitting side-by-side on BART may have VASTLY different worries, even though they look alike; one worries about self-actualization, the other worries about how they'll eat because the BART fare cost almost as much as their daily wage after tax.

It's good that people from different backgrounds and different futures coexist and are neighbors -- we sometimes call that "diversity" -- but standing up the worries of those groups next to each other makes one group seem frivolous. "I can only afford a $700k house, so I'll never live close to Campus!" vs. Fight for 15.

I think the struggle of people "further along" always seems silly to the people "below" them. Worrying about cubical life can seem silly and entitled to someone struggling to pay rent + feed kids; worrying about harvesting tax losses & capital gains rates (or whatever it is rich people worry about) seems silly and entitled to cube drones. I'm sure there are some better illustrative examples here that are less money-focused, but I'm out of time.

Anyway, point being, I'm not passing judgement about anything, just trying to unpack it a bit.

[0]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Ma...
Maybe there's a key distinction between THC levels in the blood and bioavailable THC. THC is extremely lipophilic, so it might get trapped for degradation.
> which renders the 51% attack moot.

Well, I'm not sure I'd use such absolute language. For one thing, people can still perform a 51% attack and try to influence decisions covertly, without triggering a split.

Also, the spectre of a 51% attack required for some major compromises to be made in the DAO design- Having a company that can arbitrarily split at any moment is likely to have a major impact on the future operations of the DAO.
Paul Otellini came up on the x86 marketing side. He fully believed that Intel Architecture was the ultimate, therefore everything else was no better than 2nd place.

BK came up through the fabs, and therefore is more open to fabbing others' designs (Intel Custom Foundry) because it drives volume. However, he has overseen one hell of an awkward reduction in force (I'm ex-Intel, but still have many friends there). Small offices were told they were closing, and a few weeks later they were told where they should relocate to keep their jobs, and a few weeks later they might learn about the relocation package. It's almost as if they drew a line on a spreadsheet filled with numbers and now they're struggling to figure out how it affects the stuff they still want to keep. Odd.
Richard III is an English play, set in England with English characters. It's performed all over the world by local actors in the local language. I don't hear anyone crying foul or claiming that Shakespeare is being blackwashed.

The real outrage isn't that a non-Japanese actor is being cast to play a Japanese character, it's that their casting decision is based on what they think will result in the highest ticket sales.
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This sounds like a terrible idea. From the founders' standpoint, you are presumably getting nothing other than cash. Doesn't the best investment money also come with expertise and guidance?

From the investors' standpoint, these are going to be the absolute riskiest plays on the planet, yet professionally produced kickstarter videos will make them think product is just about to roll off the production line once they have enough money.
I thought that was the goal of google wave?

I keep a close eye on Apache wave but the movement needs some new vitality, I see it hanging on a small handful of courageous and incredible volunteers albeit, needs more devs.
Simply repeating a lie won't make it true. You've been shown repeatedly that it is available. The fact that you do not like this is irrelevant. It is already being used in hatcheries in Germany. It is on track to be fully implemented on all farms in the entire country by the end of the year. There's no way to pretend that is not available.
letsencrypt-aws looks to be designed specifically to automate updating ELB certificates, and doesn't seem quite as suitable for provisioning certificates for standalone EC2 instances, for example.

I've had good results using https://github.com/sorah/acmesmith which also uses the dns-01 challenge via Route53, but saves certificates to an S3 bucket that can be fetched from any EC2 instance granted the proper permissions.