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How is them developing their own technology not competing on merit? Did they steal the technology? Did they claim that anyone ought to use this in production? Why all the negativity? Yeah never mind let's just discourage everyone from trying to build new technology. Nobody is forcing you to use this. If it's not for you, move on. Going out on a rant about what you think their intentions are is ridiculous.

Really you come off as defensive. I don't understand how CoreOS has disrespected anyone by coming up with their own approach to the problem.

They're not writing blog posts or comments on HN, they're writing code.
Solving and Verifying the Boolean Pythagorean Triples Problem via Cube-And-Conquer
So I see this and I wonder if Gord Downie (a beloved musician in Canada with terminal brain cancer) will get access to this treatment. But my cynical self says no. Not to put him above anyone else less famous and fighting brain cancer. Just wondering.
It seems far-fetched to me that Facebook will be the company to own the voice assistant market in 5 or 10 years (assuming there is a market that exists at all).

Google is probably best poised to take leadership here. They have a fleet of phones in peoples' hands, great AI resources, and relationships with millions of businesses that want to sell things and services.

Facebook, Amazon, and Apple all seem to be missing a key component for this market, but Google checks all of the boxes.
Actually the biggest problem is actual either Full Posix or Mutable Storage.
If there is just one way in and never a way out, it's actually way easier. So practically if you don't run your database on shared storage etc and manage it "the old way". you could have something reliable by a 'never delete'.

However CAS and immutable file systems aren't that common.
They all sound like criminal charges? I anal but I was thinking more of civil remedies if possible.
>Well, hell, they show you that dossier right on google.com/account

You missed his point: Google assembles that dossier even if you don't have an account, but without an account you can't go to google.com/accont and see it.

Of course, you can't influence it either way since google won't let you request a deletion, so it's kind of moot either way.
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I have seen almost this exact same thing like a decade ago.
Surprisingly, I haven't heard of AirViz before. Their CEO is Allah Nourbakhsh, CMU Robotics Institute professor, previously(?) involved with GigaPan.
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I think fare subsidy plays a large role, but I think it's both driver and customer acquisition across every market in the world. It's gotta be very expensive for them to recruit people to become drivers.
Security:

It still won't do execute-only and true read-only memory. We've had true read-only for ages now on x86, and just got execute-only. You need these: rw- r-- --x

It still has poor support for ASLR, especially the limited-MMU variants. Even the most limited version should be able to require that the uppermost address bits be something randomish, even if it's only a per-priv-level random cookie.
I believe that your assumption of insane driver subsidies is indeed the reason they are sucking down so much money. That is a problem, because the moment that people have to pay the actual costs of an Uber ride, they may go back to taxis or driving their own cars.

The only strategy I can see with the absurd amounts they are raising is that they are trying to get enough money to sustain the subsidies until they kill all existing competition, at which point they can raise their prices and people will have no choice but to pay them - much like Standard Oil did. In today's world though, I'm not sure that such a strategy can work.

It will be interesting to see what happens. Perhaps there is a chance of success. But if Uber were a public company, personally I'd be shorting every share that I could.
Sure, but it seems as though the type of person who would use KeePass in the first place is the sort who would care.
Elon has always said "access to supercharging". Never said free. Supercharging is a high speed charging process via their stations (I think 440v). The price is completely separate from whether or not you can perform the action.
Amen to house/hop. I always felt guilty mirroring lighthouse[1] as if it was my own work, but I could only find the git repo URL from archive.org and was worried that the repo too might go down.

[1]: https://github.com/Ericson2314/lighthouse
Hmm. How about a supercharge on demand service?
This article has almost no content. Here's a much better set of links and comments on C++ static analysis tools:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/97454/c-static-code-anal...
So then the question is, why is that not checked by default. I made my intention clear by installing the ad-blocker.
Eh, plenty of sites have broken on umatrix for me, and I need to go in and whitelist certain servers. Bloomberg for instance I needed to whitelist alternate bloomberg domains and disqus for comments.
Not just stored: http://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-scans-chats-and-posts-for-...
Mandatory vacation at tech companies
Does the middle and senior management put the same time in? I guess they have a much higher financial stake in things so even experiencing the horrible results first hand might not dissuade them.
So you just give money to people with no strings attached, and when they spend it however they like, you take their kids away. That is pure evil mastermind, a bit like imperial British did with Aboriginals in Australia.
NASA is listed as one of the competitors, but really, NASA is also driving a great deal of this innovation through contracting rocket use (for ISS refueling, etc.) to private companies. They are creating the market.

A real question is: what is a viable business model that will necessitate these rockets? Aside from space tourism and placing satellites, what successful business ventures might exist at lower $/orbit capabilities? Even free access to orbit might not result in ancillary profitable businesses.
It cuts both ways. If you're coding and you decide to go home early, it is also exceedingly unlikely that your absence will kill someone.
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Oddly enough, he never made that claim re:men and women. I wonder why he focuses on certain ethnic groups.

There's a lot of rationalization going on here for people that usually are quite capable of critical thinking.
>You aren't the customer, KeePass 2 advertisers are.

Well certainly those advertisers will leave along with the user base. This sort of silly attitude is what keeps a lot of people from using free software to begin with.
>algorithmic timelines telling me what happened while I was gone (trust me, twitter...I would have gotten to it eventually), prioritizing what shows up (trust me facebook, I do a very good job hiding content on my own)

Absolutely! At least give me an option (even if it is buried nineteen pages beneath about:config) to switch to a simplified reverse chronological stream. Until this happens, I've in followed everyone on Facebook. If you didn't send something specifically to me, then no I definitely didn't see it. (:
With all the malwaretising going around on even "reputable" networks, using an adblocker is simply a basic step for maintaining enduser security, much like antivirus software.

"Attack of the malware blockers" would be a more accurate title.
<strike>I'm running uBlock Origin and still getting the notification about adblocker. They seem to be running some sort of detection mechanism.</strike>

I was running standard uBlock and didn't realize it. Origin seems to bypass the detection.
For getting to/from the airport in my own city, I still use the old limo driver that I was using before Uber took off. Literally the same guy, not just the same service/company. When friends or family members fly down to visit I sometimes book him for them as well.

It's about the same price as Uber (I voluntarily pay more because I tip him generously), but it's a 100% guaranteed fantastic experience. With Uber, you never know who your driver is going to be. I've had some pretty bad ones and some pretty unfriendly ones who made me or someone with me feel uncomfortable.
To be honest, the what of the performance has not been specified. I take it to mean the add impression performance.
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It just seems to generate a lot of false positives in general. I've seen it on desktop (OS X) Chrome too, with no ad blocker installed.

As far as I can tell, it fires incorrectly when the page is loading slow for whatever reason (and presumably some external JavaScript doesn't get loaded fast enough to disable it).
Taught Not to Try
>Why are you calling it paternalistic

Because you are talking over artists' heads like they were little children unable to understand how enslaved they are.

If an artist says, I feel enslaved (and some probably do), I take that seriously, and I would have a very close look at those contracts.

But if an artist says I am acting voluntarily and I demand restrictions on free music downloads, and a consumer of music such as yourself says no you are being enslaved and therefore I feel entitled to free music downloads in the name of fighting big bad media companies, then that is too obviously self-serving for me to take at face value.
Urbit's network is federated, not decentralized (although it could be).

Currently, you get a planet under a star under a galaxy. Galaxies are all discoverable under galaxy.urbit.org, and have a hard-coded public key in the kernel.

If I start up a planet under ~doznec under ~zod, and I want to talk to someone else, I first check if I already exchanged public keys with them and know their IP address. If I don't then I ask ~doznec (my parent). If they don't know, I ask ~zod. If they don't know, then I ask the galaxy that is the ancestor of the person to route me to the client, either on my behalf if I'm behind an extremely restricted NAT or just send me the IP and let us handshake. Galaxies are essentially root CAs.

There are also unknown, reputationless urbits called "comets". Their names, instead of being a number that maps to their hierarchy in the network, is the hash of their public key. This way, if you send a message to ~some-commet you are essentially using a pinned certificate. You still use ~zod for the initial sync of urbit files and TURN in the case of NAT, however. I don't see any reason why this can't become a DHT instead of using ~zod, however.

You can verify peers public key out of band if you want, or even add the peer to your known ships list manually if you are paranoid. You can even change the hard-coded galaxy keys in the source code, and then spin up your own galaxy...it just won't be trusted by anyone else on the network, and is probably a bad idea.

I'm not really sure what you mean by "classic plain text protocol"? Urbit builds its own network stack on top of UDP, that provides "exactly-once"(ish) messaging. All messages are just Nock nouns sent over the wire, with native support for RPC messages. You can just run `|hi ~haptem-fopnys "how are you?"`, and we have an IRC simulacra called :talk that you can switch to with ^X (type `;join ~doznec/urbit-meta`
> Anyway, I'm very curious whether it ultimately turns out that, as advertised, Rust's performance characteristics really are as good or better than C++'s[1].

From my limited experience, Rust's performance is comparable to C++ throughout, with the added safety guarantees that Rust is known for.
Is France hitting the other big companies with tax shelters or singling out Google for some reason? I'm not sure.
If publishers would get together and come up with a single micropayment system, I'd gladly pay them 10 cents or so for each article -- the same revenue that they'd get from the ads I'm blocking.

But I'm not going to give out my credit card number to dozens of sites where I can "pay just a few dollars per month" to access their content.

I don't want an annual subscription that renews automatically, and I'm probably not going to look at another article on that site for weeks, months or maybe never, so I don't want to pay dollars for an article that they are willing to show me for a few pennies worth of ad revenue -- just let me give them the pennies directly.
'Free' has exactly two specific meanings on the context of software. Sorry to burst your bubble. The version you are referring to is irrelevant in the minds of the vast majority of people who use software.
Why are these political hit jobs being posted on HN ?
Yep it is statistically correct.

For anyone interested in the potential reasons: one of the most posited ones is that the creators of the tests are inherently biased. i.e. if someone creating an IQ test is a white male, chances are white males will have an advantage on the test.

This has some degree of experimental evidence behind it, I remember in one of my psych classes we learned about a study where test creators tried to create tests [and succeeded] where certain races or locales would score higher [primarily by having people in those places or people of that race create the tests]. It's very hard to create a "general intelligence" test that isn't biased in some fashion [and many say it's impossible]
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Yes, software can make discovery a lot more efficient.

Apparently they're not willing to pay for it.

> Investigators have “limited” technological means and would need “extremely efficient software” worth about 200,000 euros to speed up their work.
Shame on you.

Why are you and other devs are collaborators in behavior that should _never_ be tolerated?

I don't give a FF how 'smart' (sic) Curtis is.

When he crosses the line, YOU have a moral choice, and you should and will be judged accordingly.

Do nothing to reinforce the line, enforce no consequences?

_You are a coward, you are complicit, and your place should be removed from the table as well._

_Smart (sic) does not excuse anyone. Arguably, the expectations should be higher._
A guess: they have payment, display, and click logs for adwords + adsense purchased in or targeting France, and want to calculate some sort of revenues...
I'm not evaluating the container features in isolation. Considered by themselves, they might be perfectly coherent. The problem is that every feature of the kernel with a namespace of any sort needs to be aware of those container features, and namespaces leak into each other unexpectedly, because most of them are very old and were implemented long before anyone considered containerization.
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I've been using C for over 20 years and I'm sure I would be caught out by these...

...but...

The fact these curiosities are not an issue in day-to-day work and C is (one of) the most popular languages around today mean that they aren't too serious.

When you have a knowledge of the hardware and are working at that level day-in day-out then issues like this really don't bother you that much.

(I do realise that this is a slightly contrarian view these days, but there is an awful lot of unjustified C-bashing around currently).
It's simply a fact that ethnic groups differ in IQ.
I'm not blaming the Russian people. I'm blaming the USSR, that is the regime in power at the time.

I guess what went wrong in this debate - and it was my fault as well - is that for a democratic country, we can often get away with using sloppy language that conflates "country" and "people". But for undemocratic regimes, that no longer works.
At the same time, a tired doctor is going to miss things, and is going to make shitty decisions.
As noted in the footnotes, at a cost of $160MM to them based on this verdict! Oops indeed.
I can see AR taking over the workspace, where you put on an ergo headset and see a digital overlay of multiple screens.
They tried all kinds of models. People rejected them for free stuff with ads. So, it's correct to build on the only thing that works for most content most of the time. The market is the problem.

Here's a nice write-up on the beginnings:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/advert...
No this is the real release. Beta came out in feb (https://iterm2.com/news.html)
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> I can't give up Debian's package system, though

Why not? What would you miss from it?
> "It's pretty much a fight between David and Goliath", [the prosecutor] said.

Really? France, a sovereign G8 nation, calling Google Goliath? How are they measuring size? Google's market capitalization is $500 billion, is this more valuable than the country of France?
I went to this lecture a couple of days ago.

Alexandr's Haskell lectures on pragmatic Haskell are really good. He focuses on how to get stuff done with Haskell and not so much on the obscure, theoretical parts of Haskell most people focus on. Those are important too, but not as many people focus on actually making stuff with Haskell.

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No, I'm saying that in many cases UBI is far too low to have any effect at all. Unless you put it at $100,000/year.
It can't possibly be any worse than developing for Salesforce.
My employer offers a few options for health insurance. At the time I was a young and healthy 29 year old (or so I thought) so I was enrolled in the low cost high deductible option. It costs less than $200/month between both the employer and employee portion of the contribution for that plan today -- at the time (in 2009), it was less than $150/month, but our costs went up significantly with the advent of Obamacare. Total medical bill came to about $350k, down to $250k with insurance co's negotiate rates, of which I was responsible for approximately $5k. I was sitting on a pile of cashed earmarked for a mortgage downpayment at the time ... so I didn't have to go into debt over it, but even if I had, for most people $5k isn't a bankruptcy event type debt.
This is how marriages are arranged between families.
The logic only looks terrible until you follow the course of actions, read the arguments, understand the situation, and realize that actually it's a pretty fair and balanced process.
What scares me about this is the "bubble" it creates, see [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble

(even mentions Facebook's news-stream)
I get what you are saying. The code is not very readable for an engineer well-versed is C-style languages.

That said, I was a systems engineer and did a lot of C++ but now don't really understand it anymore because these days it's incomprehensible to me especially after c++11/14 (and I coded in c++ for many years!).

Same goes for javascript - with es7, the language syntax is changing very much (and imo, not for the better). They just keep adding features for no reason.

I just hate that languages at some point try to behave they are some sort of library with non-stop changes :/ So, despite not liking Go syntax, I like the people behind Go. They don't want to change it too much for no reason (yes yes, we need generics). I like that philosophy.

In fact, C is pretty much the only language which has held on to it's core syntax to me.
If Uber has a moat of any sort to protect itself from competition, I'm not seeing it.

Once Uber has executed a tactical blitzkreig in a new city and incited a pogrom against the cab drivers, and fought the legislative battles with resistant city councils; the door is open for any rideshare company to glide in on Uber's coatails and take advantage of all that costly trailblazing without paying a dime.
> They have a fleet of phones in peoples' hands, great AI resources, and relationships with millions of businesses that want to sell things and services.

Facebook has all those except a fleet of phones. But they have an app installed on practically every phone.
My understanding from friends in the medical field is that doctors also nap during their shift. Obviously not as beneficial as a good night's sleep and probably depends on what's going on during their shift but it does alter the comparison a bit.