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> Who's "we"?

We as an industry in general.

> Low-level has changed significantly in meaning

Not that much, actually, just shifted to the other domains.

> but no one's going to do direct register writes.

You'd be surprised. People even do bit-banging now (could you imagine bit-banging a VGA port directly in the past?).

> Modern hardware isn't usable at that level.

Is something like VC4 GPU modern enough? People do work with it on a very low level, thanks to the open specs. See this for example: https://github.com/mn416/QPULib

Actually, all the modern GPUs are getting simpler and more unifirm, so it's getting easier to hack them on a low level.
From my workplace (in Germany) I can see the trash containers of a supermarket. And from time to time I see a senior citizen getting some food there.
Black presidents of US?
to put that speed in perspective, thats about 1/6 earth's escape velocity.
Bitcoin breaks $500 for new 1-year high
"Odds are far better than good that your high performers are achieving what appears to be high levels of productivity by building technical debt into the application by taking shortcuts whether intentionally or unintentionally"

This is repeated over and over in almost every management book; managers are starting to believe it. In the book "The Phoenix Project", Brett, the most technical guy, was the high performer to fix almost everything. The moral in that story was that Brett was also the Fire Starter. No, management need to feel high performers below them actually belong there. Unfortunately technical skills fade and once good managers become bad and incompetent. Worse, most technical managers were never technical. Just this week I had to put out a fire most certainly not caused by me or my code. I inherited a mess from outsourced workers. Any requests to improve the code base were met with disapproval. Some of our custom code interfaces with an external system that has an API. When we upgraded to the latest version of the external system; it became more strict on what it allowed. To help with the migration, management paid many thousands to have three "experts" on the system come in and help make transition to the new version go smoothly. I was not on the migration project. However, when sh@t hit the fan I was called in. Testing was poor and they went live. The three experts could not find the cause of major problems and certainly no one else on the team was willing to step up. I had to spend the entire week becoming an expert on the external system and quickly fix the problem. Yes, I am a high performer and I did not cause the fire. It is because I roll up my sleeves, get to work and never give up. I'm sorry if that scares some management. That they actually need some people.
It's actually doing an entry burn to slow down before hitting the atmosphere, you can see it starting here: https://youtu.be/zBYC4f79iXc?t=27m34s

Also your calculation is not correct: You add another vertical 4,200 kph of free fall starting from apogee, but didn't factor in that of course the vehicle also slows down as much in the 2 minutes before reaching apogee. Since MECO is at about 65 km height at 8,300 kph, it will also have 8,300 kph at 65 km height when falling down again (minus a little atmospheric drag).

You also can't just add 8,300 kph horizontal (and it's not actually all horizontal, look how quickly the altitude is rising around MECO) and 4,200 kph vertical speed. Those are not scalar values but vectors, so you need to apply pythagoras for vector addition. 8,3 km/s horizontal plus 4,2 km/s vertical speed is just 9,3 km/s total speed.
Refugees get housing not accessible to regular citizens like a bed in a tent, gymnasium or another large building you need to share with a huge number of people in which you don't have any private space.

Regular citizens will get their rent payed for by the government and subsidized housing, if they require welfare.

You've got to be mental or completely incompetent at identifying and comprehending trustworthy news sources to believe refugees are somehow better of than citizens or even immigrants.
Lenny: http://www.soundboard.com/sb/itslenny
The occupants don't survive, but it's better for munitions to burn out slowly and upwards than quickly and outwards, turning the tank into a grenade.

Other tanks, infantry, passers by will be glad for it.
Just answer and say you will call the police because you are on the "Do Not Call list". Or just say you are not interested, not interested, not interested, good buy. They will not put you off the list until they have got an answer.
I think trade and mutual self interest is the best way to prevent global conflicts
Which prison do they go to?
I would say that's a little generous. I've also worked at companies of similar size to this where it isn't uncommon for managers to just ask programmers to randomly generate a number so they can lie and claim they've implemented some functionality.
"But, Mr Vonklaus, isn't it true that issuing a command that implicitly creates an idenfity itself an act of identification? Or did you expect us to believe they delivered it to Abe Lincoln himself?!"
It's paid, but I personally think Haskell Book[0] is much better. I can say its better in both helping form a deep intuition and teaching how to use Haskell in the real world.

A lot of my imperatively biased coworkers have bought this book and have no complaints. Some go as far as claiming it's the Haskell K&R and I'm inclined to agree.

0: http://haskellbook.com (for those struggling financially, the authors request you contact them to work something fair out)
I wouldn’t say there is title inflation as much as command inflation. The services fight over how many commands they have. This controls how many officers they can promote and how much budget they can request. Like other government agencies, the goal is the expansion of the bureaucracy’s influence and power. This is indirectly correlated to the number of commands.

Although I’m not a fan of the current batch of senior leadership based upon my experience in the Navy and further illustrated by the evidence uncovered in the article, I wouldn’t say the people who are Admirals haven’t worked their way up to that title. The military is definitely top heavy due to the pension system, but not, in my opinion, due to title inflation as you would think of it in the civilian world.
Siri's 3 minute response to a simple question.
Suppose a non-negligible fraction of the population demands Islamic, Hindu or Christian food. Should that also be labelled according to some law (rather than the current voluntary label system)?

Certifications for software are a very different thing because they are based on actual safety and functionality, not a faith-based preference.
> the energy of its momentum

Huh? Energy and momentum are two _different_ quantities related to the movement of an object. I was talking about using the energy _instead_ of the momentum as an indicator of damage.
It's interesting to look at QNX's implemention of POSIX. In QNX, the POSIX library mostly makes calls for interprocess communication, using MsgSend and MsgRecv. That's the real underlying primitive. Not files. MsgSend works like a remote procedure call - you send data and wait for a reply. (There's a timeout mechanism available, and you can time out anything that blocks. Real-time OS, remember.)

QNX lets you make anything look like a file, by writing what QNX calls a "resource manager". This takes over a subtree of the pathname space, and the library turns create, open, close, read, write, and ioctl calls into the appropriate MsgSend calls. That's how you write a file system under QNX as a user process. But there's no reason to turn things into files unnecessarily. Displays are not files, for example.

QNX has what looks like a Berkeley sockets interface, but "send" and "recv" call the same thing as "write" and "read". You can use read and write on a socket. I think you can use "send" and "recv" on a file system, too.

If you're going to have one primitive, MsgSend and MsgRecv are a better choice than files. But it's easy to get that wrong. Mach botched it, and for decades, microkernels had a bad rep.
> "I utterly fail at any sympathy"

agreed
They aren't editing links that already have an affiliate though, it only adds an affiliate if the link doesn't already have one.
Completely wrong. UIWebViews can render your modified HTML.

There are many Apps that do that, and Google already did that, with their data compression feature.
Money? Did you print those money yourself? Did you issue that currency yourself? No. Those money belong to the state. The state giveth and the state taketh away. You're just allowed the right to make use of those money for the purposes of trade. As long as your wealth is in state-issued currency (whether on paper or in a bank), it's not yours. If you want to truly own money, print your own, hire your own army and become your own nation.
Holy shit. I'm so sorry. I can't even begin to imagine what hell this must be. Is there no hope for change of the laws and how society deals with this?
Yeah, motorcycles are very popular in my area (rural Midwest) and literally every day (not an exaggeration) I'm out riding I see at least one driver doing something that could potentially have devastasting consequences.

I, myself, have been hit head-on twice on a motorcycle in the last 10 years.

The first time I was lucky, had a split-second of warning, and managed to escape any major injuries.

The last time, on 2013-10-13, I ended up with two broken wrists, a broken leg, and numerous contusions, scrapes, and scratches (initially, they also thought my ankle and nose were broke). It was four months before I could walk normally (the first three I couldn't walk at all). Because of how my arms were wrapped up (from my fingertips to the upper bicep), I couldn't bend them at my elbows and couldn't even wipe my ass for the first two afterwards. After the surgeries on my wrist, I was at least able to do that. I wasn't allowed to lift anything over one pound for the first six weeks.

I now have a titanium rod ("intermedullary nail") from my right hip to my knee, two steel plates in my left wrist, and one steel plate in my right wrist.

My life was forever changed -- and I was the equivalent of a helpless baby for almost three months -- all because an 18-year-old kid was texting on his phone and made a left turn in front of me at an intersection.

I hope your wife's wrists eventually stop giving her pain. Mine is sporadic and intermittent but will likely never go away completely, so they tell me.
The distinction is merely accounting. "Saving for retirement" is just calling dibs on future production. You still need strong young backs to harvest the wheat to make cereal for old people, even if those old people pay for that cereal with money they "saved" for retirement.
Offhand, do you know what you'd do in the case where someone would call 911? (Or whatever the local equivalent is?)

That's one of the benefits of the POTS and Cell networks that the various IP-only services have yet to provide. I'm just curious as to if you do without, or have a deactivated cell phone or something like that that you use instead.
Wow. Yikes. The deleted text is very significant.
I don't know. I'd say Orwell did an excellent job of predicting North Korean society.

1984 is not really science fiction, but a political fantasy showing the worst a society could become with modern technology. As with all dystopias, it is a warning more than a true and consistent world.

I co-ran the UC Davis branch of the Students for an Orwellian Society 10 years ago. The idea of doublethink, of encapsulating dangerous ideas in pithy slogans, of massive government surveillance -- those are all very relevant today. They serve well for helping to frame a debate. But still, I've never felt the urge to reread 1984, which in some ways proves Asimov correct. It's not amazing as fiction, but full of interesting ideas.
gross minimum wage in france is about 1500EUR
Thanks, I didn't consume enough coffee today.
Even if there's originality, OKCupid isn't the creator, though. They at best have a non-exclusive license for the user's text. That doesn't give them DMCA rights.
Not exactly. It can be protected from by a multi-layered whipple shield, kind of like what was proposed to protect spaceships from meteors.

On the other hand, it won't be something you can line a ship or a plane with, so yeah... Always shoot first.
My first issue is the "who can afford it" part. People shouldn't get more justice when they're wealthier and less when they're poorer.

My second issue is that more money gives a plaintiff access to legal tricks that can overwhelm an opponent with less money. One example is to bury the opponent with discovery.

My final problem is that Thiel is not using the justice system to get justice for himself. He's sticking his nose into another person's complaint. That isn't how our courts were intended to work.
> In Berlin, capital, you see more people that are searching for food, empty bottles, and are in hartz and people look at them as dead animals.

Context for the bottle thing: Germany has a deposit on bottles that gets refunded in cash when you return a bottle to any supermarket. It's up to €0.25 for plastic bottles which is quite a bit, so some people collect bottles that others have thrown away. (This is also why it's nice to put your bottle next to the bin rather than in it if you're not returning it yourself – saves people the hassle of rummaging around in there.)

I can't personally confirm the "looking at people like they're dead animals" thing, although I do admit that you get a bit jaded when you've been asked for spare change for the third time in a row on the same S-Bahn train.
Looks like it fails to identify Tor Browser 6.0a5-hardened...
> Nike filter live

What is that?
He's a college-educated electrical engineer with IT consulting experience. Why can't he find a job somewhere?
> Everyone should be encouraged to have at least two

Why?
The so called "demographic crisis" ignored current technological development.

We don't need more people without jobs.
Really ?!?! Your biology degree is NOT ENOUGH ! You have NO training, NO education, and NO expertise on matters concerning pest control products. Your assertion is possibly the STUPIDEST we have ever heard ! That is all you know ?!?! You know NOTHING !
Officially supporting families who have more children than their income allows encourages bad parents to have (and neglect) more children so that they can claim additional benefits from the government.

We would be better served by loss-of-income insurance, where people who made reasonable choices based on their income and then lost it would be able to continue supporting their families.
> And before someone jumps in with the "SpaceX-is-propped-up-by-the-government" canard

Well, actually, any flight to the ISS is a total waste of money as virtually no science is done there. It's just a bunch of people trying to stay alive in a bacteria-ridden tin can.
I'm also reminded of this nice Wikipedia article (in French) about Captain Haddock's insults: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocabulaire_du_capitaine_Haddo...

Apparently those were used to replace actual swear words, that may have been inappropriate for children.
Cue them saying something along the lines of “our goal is to prevent tracing, not fingerprinting”. But I hope they’re hard at work on a fix regardless.
It's kind of like with automatic weapons - some of them are capable of firing so fast that they'd eat through your magazine in a second or less. That has little to do with how they're actually used though.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11790158
I'd love to know how they solved the barrel erosion problem.

A rail gun is as satanically simple in theory as it is satanically hard to engineer.

A coil gun won't have this problem, but unfortunately the magnetic fields are harder to get than the electric ones.
Many refugees are also living in fear of arson attacks. I am not sure if that's the type of free accommodation you would opt for.
A website where you could pledge to do this and list your phone number might be a great idea. This would be the equivalent to a honeypot server. If enough people got on board then the business model of spam calling would collapse.
You have obviously previously been relying on a context-sensitive IDE. Those things exist for Python too, or you can turn a text editor like Emacs into one by installing various packages.

It's true that there are limits to what they can do, since Python will let you do some pretty funky stuff, but you were nowhere near those limits.

Regarding the missing API documentation: Python programmers will often have a Python shell open and just experiment with stuff in there with instant feedback.

For instance, I know one project where someone decided to write a relatively large Python plugin for Excel. One essential component was a button that put up a shell so you could experiment with the Excel COM API live. So you could access the sheets and write stuff into cells and see Excel update them.

If you write Python like you write .NET or Java code, you'll probably only see the downsides. Getting a taste of the upside requires adjusting your coding style. It's going to take some time. And yes, there are of course downsides, language design is a trade-off.
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There are two different factors at play here.

One is that until recently it was very difficult to form a limited liability company (GmbH) in Germany, requiring a fair amount of founding capital (currently €25,000). In 2008, the "UG (haftungsbeschränkt)" was created as a new type of limited liability company; it only requires €1 of founding capital, but also to set aside one quarter (I think) of your profits to add to the capital until you reach €25,000. This option was not available back then, and it appears as though Mr. Huber became fully liable for his business's accumulated debts (which must have been considerable to wipe out both his retirement savings and result in the loss of his family home).

The second problem is that until 1999, there was no viable way to deal with a personal bankruptcy. Basically, once bankrupt, it was nearly impossible to get out of it without your creditors' consent. The personal bankruptcy reform of 1999 changed that – though the process is still pretty onerous – but probably too late for Mr. Huber to recover in any meaningful way.
It depends entirely on type of his business entity.

If he founded a GmbH (the most common type of business entity in Germany), his private funds are protected in case the business goes bankrupt.

On the other hand, if his business was a GbR he can also be held liable with his private money.

This are just examples. There are a lot of different business types out there with different liability implications.
The changing of the law is long overdue. Parts of it have been nullified by the highest German court in 2011 already. The conservatives probably won't do anything unless the EU forces Germany to update their laws.

Society is fine with it, with very few exceptions. As long as I don't include the right winged xenophobic/islamophobic idiots to society. Unfortunately they've gained a lot of strength lately.
Ooh! Ooh! Churchill quotations!

Lady Astor: "Sir, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea."

Winston Churchill: "Madame, if you were my wife, I'd drink it."
QnX is one of the under-appreciated gems in the OS landscape. I still hope that RIM will entirely open-source it and I'd happily contribute a good sized chunk of money towards a ransom.
So I have no experience of this, and I'm perhaps being insensitive but...

Would it not have been possible to continue using your old name for legal purposes, and just use your new name in all other contexts?

I can certainly imagine various downsides of doing so, but if the name change process is that onerous, perhaps it might still have been better overall?
refugees were given decent housing in germany before. now they are housed collectively in pretty inhumane conditions
Yeah the median 'media' person has no problem with lawsuits against "racists" or "climate deniers". Low-level government employees should know that only their bosses are entitled to leak with impunity.

The Gawker lawsuit scares 'media' people because some of them realize that someone might hold them accountable for their shoddy (or nonexistent) research, poor sourcing and clickbaity content.
My company makes phone calls to past customers when their subscription expires. Switching to text message + phone call increased response rates 10-fold.
Torbrowser includes patches to Firefox that make it more difficult to fingerprint individual machines, however this is at the expense of making it trivial to identify as Torbrowser when javascript is enabled. It doesn't appear possible to fix.
A more likely consideration in China and Russia are one of the few arms suppliers out there. So, even if we don't fight them it's likely we are going to fight older versions of their gear.
I think the GP is not saying the problem is with government - it's with the people who take government contracts and inflate the costs to take more money for themselves.
Please don't post this sort of rant here. If you have a substantive point to make, you're welcome to make it thoughtfully, but not to just vent rage. It lowers the signal/noise ratio and invariably takes threads in a poorer direction.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11793276 and marked it off-topic.

Edit: ok, since so many of you protested, I must have gotten this one wrong. I've put that comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11793372) back where it was, and marked this comment (mine) off-topic instead.
It was open source for a while under Harmon, and free for non commercial use. I wish I'd downloaded it all back then. I'd like to see a QNX-like OS in Rust.
> no nation or ethnicity has a moral high ground to stand on

There are quite a few old and small countries and ethnic groups that have reasonably good human rights record in the post-Columbus times. See Iceland or the Sami people for example.
> extremely dissatisfied investors,

I'm one of those investors and I'm not aware of any of my fellow investors being dissatisfied.

> an estranged and angry founder

All of the founders currently work for reddit (and are quite happy doing so as far as I know). Who are you talking about here?
...including statistics?
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Managing Application Performance in Hybrid Clouds
To be precise, the personal bankruptcy law in Germany came into effect in 1999.