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What do you think is a better use of Facebook's engineering resources? Having one team work on building different developer tools, or having every team put their normal work on pause to refactor their entire codebase to clean up dependencies?
Make Ruby Great Again [transcript]
"Take her to the moon for me" [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv3eI9w9YkM
Old school term from the 60's. Here's a book about it.

http://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Reality-2nd-Myron-Krueger/d...
I don't believe anything has been introduced yet. DO is just collecting user interest in Block Storage. I applied for couple of weeks ago, only thing I received a survey about what I might use Block Storage for. I wouldn't be surprised if it is still in planning phase.
Thank you for the sarcasm tag! I honestly use that on the internet lately because 63% of everything is sarcasm and then it's just a whole ridiculous mess of misunderstanding.
Mostly because £20 billion is about 4-5% of the budget in 2014 and that year there ware a deficit of £84 Billion.
Unable to understand why is the City partnering with one local ISP?
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11070584

What might you say to the Starry skeptics (?) For example: "hurdles of needing line of sight, weather and obstacle sensitivity, degradation due to exposure, antenna positioning and leasing space, plus all the required maintenance."
The principle is bull and intellectually dishonest. It's not about Teslas, but about the nails that hold most homes together: factory made. The trucks that delivered the nails and the food the workers eat... Factory made. As you sit bemoaning the evil of industrialization, using tools only made possible by that same industrialization, are you not profiting from the very same pollution you condemn? As far as those not receiving those benefits... It's not zero sum. Am I fortunate to live in a country that even still recognizes some sense of the individual and is also a country of laws? Yes. But that good fortune is not the result of someone not receiving that good fortune. My living any lesser quality of life will do me no good and will not improve the life of those poor Bengali kids in any way.
I agree 100%. I didn't intend for the quotes to sound like I was against it. Just that it was a cut and dried case of discrimination.
> ensure everything but skin color is the same

Which would be utterly obvious and ineffective. Instead, they could look for discriminatory rejection patterns.
How tough are the local police against folks living out of vans? I'm over here in Portugal. Here it's a breeze. I've got a decent motorhome & have all the basics -- living in it with my girlfriend and a dog. It's our little home. 15Mbit 3g internet is just a euro a GB. Not bad. And it'd be faster if I upgraded to 4g.

A few left turns and who knows, maybe I'd be back in the bay area. Living out of a van vs. paying SF rent seems pretty good -- waking up near some great SC surf sounds very good -- if it's not too much hassle from the police. Lots of nature spots around Santa Cruz. Any of those spots OK for a camper?
I mean, I can construct a hypothesis for the implicit decision rule (something like "rape is the only crime we care even minimally about trading off with our desire to End Discrimination") but I'm curious to see what a more generous person might conclude.
Cybersavvy lawmakers urge colleagues to use encrypted messaging, better password
I don't track you
How many do they have?
I would prefer laptops with fully free software:

https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-t400/.
African American male here, living in a major and supposedly progressive city (Washington). Just last night, I was trying to hail a cab. I was in a predominately black and poor neighborhood. Two obviously empty cabs saw me and kept driving. The third stopped for me, but made me tell him my destination before letting me in. After I told him, he said, "are you sure?".

Not a huge deal isolated, but this type of minor discrimination really gets old.
No.

EDIT: Just the compile times alone drive me batshit. That doesn't mean that there aren't nice aspects, certainly some of the syntax has been simplified by unifying two disparate syntaxes...but they could have done so much better, even there.
There's already work on that sort of thing with crash-safe.org and Cambridge's CHERI. SVA-OS by Criswell et al to a degree.

These kind of protections are for widespread use protecting legacy codebases they don't want to straight up fix or take performance hit of tools like Softbound+CETS. Incidentally, tradeoffs like that usually fail. ;)
I think I understand what you're saying, but the GP is correct, and did respond to what you said

> Someone would cry at work and they'd be coddled, yet if someone else raised their voice and showed "anger" they'd be in trouble.
History of the Vacuum Cleaner
What is a patent troll really? In VirnetX's case, last time I checked most (all?) of their patents were created in house.

There are numerous publicly traded stocks of companies that are mainly patent holding entities: Acacia (ACTG), Finjan (FNJN), Inventergy (INVT), MARA, Wi-lan (WILN), Hopto (HPTO), etc...

But where does the whole troll definition end - many mid-large corporations have patents that they do not practice or not embodied in any product - so aren't they trolls too? even if they haven't explicitly threatened legal action with those patents - competitors view those patents as implicit threats. So why not label them as trolls too? At the end of the day, every patent holder can be considered a troll in some way - so the definition of a troll really comes down to: patent troll = patent holder.
Replying to myself since I can't edit: looks from HN like maybe my son's birth did it :) A lot of things changed then, that could well have been one of them.
The reason why we use words like 'web server' is so that we don't need to carry around a 5000 word description of a 'web server'.

Just as when building a car one would use a word like 'engine' rather than carry around a 5000 word description of an 'engine'.

By compressing highly complex machines into single words we're able to build much large machines by treating that complex machine as a single component of the much large machine.

Furthermore, I fail to see how whether one can describe nginx in 5000 words or less means that our industry lacks the vocabulary to describe components of more complex machines built from those components.

If your developer requires a 5000 word description of nginx to type

apt-get install nginx

then they are a tool and need to be fired.

Most of the problems with our industry stem from exactly this kind of problem, rather than look at the vast array of components that do the exact same thing they are about to implement, they use something like nginx to make nginx, except instead of installing nginx they made a 5000 line nginx config file to reimplement most of what nginx already does.

If you've ever seen

{ "key" : "23", "value": "Michael Jordan" }

then you know what I'm talking about in regards to the stupidity of this industry using components to make the component it already is.

This question is like when someone says they are intelligent then someone gives them a wrote memorization test about the agreed upon symbols we use to encode those words on paper. While memory is required for intelligence, not having memorized a particular encoding of a particular word is not an indication that one does not possess intelligence.
4 now, though the first one is going on display at their headquarters. I believe the second one is going to be examined and undergo ground testing only (might be wrong on that). So that leaves just the third and now this one as candidates for re-flight.

I like being able to use the term "re-flight".
> Could you explain the legal principle, if there is one, that allows discrimination under one circumstance but not the other?

In case you're not being obtuse, the Fair Housing Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Housing_Act

It applies to rentals of full properties, but not to roommates or (some) owner occupied properties.
Stop growing gigantic monolithic repositories. This is a very stupid way to do things. Evidence: it requires you to rewrite Mercurial. Essentially nobody except Facebook has this problem, and that isn't because Facebook is so far ahead of everyone else in its engineering practices.
Toyota in Talks to Acquire Boston Dynamics from Google
Trying to muck up the short hand for Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality.
Won't it still work well for all that code that isn't actively translated code, which is probably the vast majority of software that's run on OpenBSD?

>Why not put the effort into a great MMU

The people who are writing for OpenBSD can not "put their effort" into hardware changes to entire platforms.

They can do something to improve their own OS, however.
The high velocity drone ship landing (#3) landed too hard and was deemed unusable for launch duty (Edit 1: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/731984739012251648), so realistically, it's likely just two of the four so far.

Edit 2: per mikeash, it's definitely flyable (i.e. I'm wrong), but it'll still be grounded to aid with testing efforts. Thanks for the correction, Mike! https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/734274360588926976
Is that Messages or is that the phone company that does that? Mine always come from an AT&T email account with some generic sender, like "aehcu2341@att.com".
> From US/Europe, where Zika can't go.

What? There have been Zika cases in the US.
Well, I had to scroll down to find that entry. I expected it to be in the top 3 already. Human jades very rapidly.
3) What is the US government getting now from all that cash that is not being repatriated? Is it a game of chicken? Apple is using that money, investing it in Chinese companies:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-invests-1-billion-in-didi-...

It could have been doing that in the USA. It could have acquired Tesla. It still can.

Forget creating jobs... Apple is now funding businesses in other countries that will be competing with US companies.
Containers and the direction they're evolving is the revenge of Tenenbaum:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum–Torvalds_debate

My take on that debate: They were both right, but they were optimizing for different things.

Tenenbaum was right in a theoretical sense and an eventual sense. Microkernels are better. Separation of concerns is better.

Torvalds was right in the early-mid 1990s and right in a pragmatic sense. More monolithic (or vertically integrated) kernels are easier to build and ship and are faster on smaller machines. A microkernel made little pragmatic sense on a early-mid 90s box. But keep in mind that these machines were far less powerful than a Raspberry Pi. My first Linux machine was a 66mhz 80586 clone with 32MB of RAM.

Once you have machines with dozens or even hundreds of cores, NUMA, and that host massively diverse multi-tenant work loads, microkernels start making a whole lot of sense. Once you have to containerize apps for security, they make sense too. They also make sense if we want to eliminate reboots, etc. They make much more pragmatic sense now than they did in the 90s.

Ultimately microkernels or microkernel-like systems will win.
There is a verge that is going to be crossed for cancer soon. The reason that cancer research and development is a slow, expensive, ugly morass is that 99% of the people involved are targeting biochemistry peculiar to a very small number of the thousands of relevant varieties and subtypes of cancer. A year of lab time is much the same ballpark of cost whatever you happen to be doing, give or take. So if it takes a thousand distinct cures to defeat cancer, it'll never get done.

BUT.

There are range of new approaches to cancer that are not particular and specialized to a very small number of cancers, or that can in principle be adapted with comparatively little work to target different cancer types from a common core platform.

This is what will produce meaningful control of cancer: attacking the commonalities present in many or all cancer types.

The best and most promising approach here is interdiction of telomere lengthening. All cancers must lengthen telomeres. They have to. If they can't, they wither. So block telomerase, block ALT, and cancer goes away. You can either block these mechanisms globally for a while, long enough to kill the cancer, but not long enough to kill the patient due to stem cell depletion, or combine this with any of the targeted delivery mechanisms under development to turn it off only in cancer tissue.

There are a few labs working on aspects of this, more on the telomerase side ( e.g. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-05/cndi-csa05111... ) than the ALT side, because ALT cancers are only about 10% of the total, and ALT is still not completely cataloged. ( See: http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/42444/... )

SO.

It is foolish to talk about cancer as a thing that medical science cannot get to the bottom of. There are very clear approaches to get to the bottom of cancer and fix it.
Sure, it is a limitation on freedom of speech. Copyright is also a limitation to freedom of speech, as are libel and slander laws. In a society where free speech is absolute, if I have more money than you, I can destroy your reputation, and possibly your entire life, by spreading false information about you, and you would have no recourse. Is that a good thing?
> I'm in favor of a lower corporate tax rate and making up the difference in taxes on those worth >$10 million.

Doesn't that mean that each rich person would just start a tiny personal "corporation" that owns a lot of very nice things and gives its one employee free access to the company car, yacht, mansion, etc?
> Why not put the effort into a great MMU so that every allocation is its own "page" for the purpose of triggering page faults on overruns?

Do you perhaps mean "every allocation is its own address space"? I guess that would require pointers that are double the size of regular pointers (the first half pointing to the address space, and the second half being an index into that space).
Ah good, thanks. That might have been the one I was thinking of then that was just going to be examined. This flight though was also a high velocity landing so it might have similar issues if that's the case.
Maybe we could find a way to release the energy poured into writing wonder battery articles for extremetech and their ilk, that would beat everything else out their considering how dense they are.
Unfortunately, that reduces opportunities for graft and corruption in the cities that host them, as well as eliminates the main source of bribes that IOC leaders thrive on. Simply won't happen.
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> There should be massive fines for patent trolls to deter this kind of behavior. Patenting abstract ideas with no viable product should not be allowed.

Then start with fining large corporations who each hold numerous patents that do not ship a corresponding "viable product" for.
That's legislation, not a principle. If I ask "why is mortgage interest deductible", the principle is "because it encourages homeownership" - not the 1986 Tax Reform Act.
EFF to FCC: Prevent ISPs from Following Your Every Internet Move
The E2 Dynamic Multicore System
I think that, if someone had to actually write a book like that (and it sells, so people do want to know), that kinda reinforces my point... ~
Not sure about cryptographers, but he sometimes comes out as a conspiracy theorist in matters of security. I think he has a ton of followers. And he is a good orator. I've resigned myself to believe that he really doesn't have a view into what's going on in security. I used to be a fan. I have his red book. I've read it and found it to be shallow and useless.
Nope, wrong. It took as much damage as any returning stage could be expected to, but is still reusable.
AngelFire users said to be relaxed about the unfolding situation.
I'd be tempted to toss that into QBasic where it might reasonably run. Then start renaming variables and creating functions in QBasic. Slowly turning it into a modern program but have it run at each stage.
At least 3 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/731981135454986240

4 including todays one, granted nothing wrong happens in transportation.
> an IDE that was not unusably slow and buggy

Can't argue about the UI stack in general, but IntelliJ is a dream compared to anything Microsoft have ever produced.
NetBSD is going through some similar security moves currently (extending PaX[0]), and iiuc, there are special considerations required for Java/jvm, because of the bytecoding process. Does anybody know if my understanding is correct (that a page will have to be both writable and executable) and if so, what are OpenBSDs considerations for this ?

[0] http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2016/05/15/msg029...
I live in the Pacific Northwest, and for a brief moment I parsed this as the Olympic Mountains.
I'm gonna have to back vessenes on this. It's really a very compelling experience. I'm sure there will be many games/experiences that you play seated, we do still sit in cars/planes/giant robots in real life after all.

However I very much doubt that such experiences will be the overwhelming majority. Dodging bullets and moving around to see things from different perspectives is WAY too fun.
I wonder if booking "Super Hosts" helps avoid the problem? Obviously not a full solution (they tend to be clustered in urban areas), but these hosts seem to be "pros" (often multiple listings, etc) and may be less likely to reject guests.

This also assume you're looking for a full house/flat, not a room, but I think that's probably the majority use for AirBnB these days.
Just to be clear, SteamOS is not needed for Steam Link and I've never used it. Steam Link just streams content from your PC.
Heh. Muphry's law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law) demands that you use 'regretfully' instead of 'regrettably' (http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/275034) when chastising someone's language.
Only a few frames of the actual landing, but here was the live stream.

https://youtu.be/zBYC4f79iXc?t=2290
Thanks for #1. Can you explain how the loophole actually works in practice for a large company? From my reading, it seems like it would apply mostly to issued corporate bonds, with the interest paid to bondholders deducted from tax liability. If that's right, then I'm not too clear on how it's an unfavorable loophole.

In what way is #2 a silly motive exactly? Economics does not operate in a social or governmental vacuum. Corporations exist because societies (and the individuals that compose them) support them, and thus have a rational reason to expect them to use profits to actively participate in those societies. The reason why tech companies hold more cash overseas than other big US industries is fairly well-studied. From [1] "Keeping money overseas is particularly easy for technology and pharmaceutical companies whose profits stem from intellectual property that can swiftly be moved." It's more difficult for non-tech big businesses to use the available legal tricks to claim money was generated overseas.

The key word in your #3 is "can" since it's not at all clear what they will do in actuality, nor is it clear that it will actually be good for the US [2]. You also seem to be assuming that there are jobs and supplier contracts domestically that companies aren't investing in as a result of overseas cash, but I have yet to see any evidence of that. In fact it would seem that the whole existence of these massive overseas funds implies the opposite since operating revenue is obviously far in excess of costs (otherwise they wouldn't have huge profits that need to be dumped overseas) and money has been extremely cheap for years even if companies did need additional funding.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-04/u-s-compan...
[2] http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240529702036331045766237...
> That's legislation, not a principle. If I ask "why is mortgage interest deductible", the principle is "because it encourages homeownership" - not the 1986 Tax Reform Act.

Intentionally obtuse it is!

The reason it's permissible is because the exception is permitted under the Act. It's not predicated on some vague legal principal (nor, for that matter, is your example - that's a policy reason, not a legal one).

If you want the policy justification for permitting discrimination in one case but not the other, it's exactly what you outline above: there is a significant difference between renting out a portion of your own home, and renting a property exclusively for business purposes (i.e. real estate investment): https://fairhousing.foxrothschild.com/2010/06/articles/fha-b...
Too much money is at stake (advertisers, networks, etc) for the Olympics to be postponed, but if they move it, I wonder if there is anywhere in the world that could be ready to host it at that time. London deconstructed much of their infrastructure, so they're out. Beijing perhaps? Honestly, Los Angeles could probably handle it by housing the athletes at UCLA and USC and expanding the geographic range of events down to San Diego and up towards Santa Barbara.
all the very rich people don't really need to keep investing
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Some details would be a little more helpful.
Such things exist already, it's a question of whether they want to invest in changing their hardware for a slight benefit.
Per the author, the '? -> ?? -> ???' is actually a small amount of non-categorized data. (I listened to Robin give a short presentation on this earlier.)
Weird anecdote. Grief can lead to health damaging anger, when sometimes you need to cry. Pardon the metaphor but it really feels like leaking the pain out instead of keeping it rotting inside your head.
That still relies on the second `curl` fetching the same instructions as the first (an invariant that a really nasty web server wouldn't have to obey). Wouldn't it be better to use a `tee` to make sure that what you read with `less` is exactly what's executed?
> Nope, wrong. It took as much damage as any returning stage could be expected to, but is still reusable.

Edited my comment with source tweet from Elon.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/731984739012251648

It's very likely not going to fly again.

Edit 2: per user mikeash, it's definitely flyable (i.e. I'm wrong), but it'll still be grounded to aid with testing efforts. Thanks for the kind correction, Mike! https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/734274360588926976
I don't think it really matters where the internship is. I completed my internships in places that I did not want to move after college. It was more about getting the experience and having that experience on my resume. I wouldn't suggest limiting yourself to internships in the place you want to ultimately end up.
Allocate the page write-only. Write write write. Change the page to executable-only. Run.

Firefox already got this treatment for its JavaScript compiler.
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The number of String Theory papers, PhD candidates, and conferences was staggering.
The midwestern states host 60 million Americans and such cities as Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Omaha, St. Louis, and Wichita.

Surely you aren't serious in suggesting that no economic activity of note occurs there and that these 12 states need the Olympics as a quadrennial boost to business?
Umm... what? You realize that those Olympics were not remotely global, right? That holds as much value as suggesting that England host it because "they host the EPL every year and no one thinks it's unfair"
"And not the fuzzy kind of constitutionality that pundits like to fight over."

Lots of stuff the government does that pundits love to fight over is also called out as forbidden in the Constitution. Doesn't stop the government.