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+1 on the BSD installers being some of the best out there. OpenBSD's and FreeBSD's specifically are amazing, both for different reasons.

OpenBSD's is very minimal simple ASCII input and output questions with sane defaults.

FreeBSD offers a console dialog based approach similar in some ways to Debian's installer, but in other ways different (and to my mind, better).

Both of them will get you efficiently setup from nothing to installed within minutes, and since they are very simple and well documented, both of them are easily scriptable for installing servers or laptops quickly with a specific setup or your own prompts.

By contrast, linux installers are generally larger, slower, clunkier processes and I am not sure how easy it would be to integrate any random distribution's installer into a scripted workflow.
Math is falsifiable. You can derive innumerable self-contradictory mathematical systems and we discard them because they are demonstrably useless. The demonstrability of uselessness is falsifiability.
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Yep, this is why I get lots of stuff from Anker. They originally seemed to be selling white label Chinese commodity stuff where it's not worth it to buy a 10x priced version from BigBox down the street, but I actually found that they have good versions of whatever cable or USB hub or backup battery I need. I found this basically by accident, and now I swear by their products, but it was tough to find on Amazon with the hundreds of look-a likes which don't function the same.
check out the changelog and update your broken code.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1942778

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4374865
It isn't actually as nice and tidy as it would seem because you do not have a direct separation between system configuration and application configuration.

It's a small, subtle detail that for many is less important today than it once was; however, if I have two FreeBSD systems of mostly equal versions and I want to migrate applications and/or users from one to the other, I know ALL I have to do is copy from /usr/local -- try that on your Ubuntu machine. Good luck separating the system-specific configurations from your user and application configurations.
So we need to have fun with war, to make it stop? Not quite understanding you.
> pkg install and the related pkg utilities have existed for awhile.

So have apt and apt-get. So that takes away one of the advantages of FreeBSD

> systemd isn't and shouldn't be a requirement for applications going forward. Any application that requires it is limiting its portability for unknown reasons.

True, tell RedHat that :(
But there also were non-Euclidean geometries that were discovered without any observation. It was not possible to test them until much later (and mostly because we knew where to look). Yet they turned out to better describe the world.

I think what he is saying is that the choice of the hypothesis is not only governed by our observations, it's also governed by our brain that prefers hypotheses with specific properties. Not just "simple", more like "complete", "elegant" or "solid", without unseemly ad-hoc patches.

For example, the original geocentric system with epicycles was actually much better in describing planet motions than the naive heliocentric idea of Copernicus, because Copernicus thought that planet orbits were circles and they travel with a constant speed. Yet it was accepted and worked upon (contrary to the facts!) because it was more elegant.
This. The "decline" is an artifact of the variability in the number of vehicles in transit.

http://i.imgur.com/NgwxG7Z.png

If you just look at deliveries (yellow line) you see the drop, but all the variation comes from the number of vehicles in transit quarter end (red line). Production (blue line) has been a remarkably smooth exponential ramp.
The idea that after the fact rationalization negates free will has never been convincing. Observing the consequences of a "choice" then actively attempting to rewire the brain to make a different one in the future is just as much free will as anything else. Free will doesn't require instantaneous control over decision making.
As long as humans fight for resources, there will be conflict.
> Swift allows you to dynamically check protocol conformance (e.g. in generics)

Could you explain more? Do you mean that Swift lets you arbitrarily downcast between protocol objects?

I think Rust lets you do this too to some degree with Any. We generally stick to static bounds, though.

I'd love to see if swift does something extra, and if it would be possible to add to Rust.
How much RAM is required these days?
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FreeBSD is quite coherent. Anything not part of the base system goes into /usr/local.

If you're having trouble understanding the layout of the filesystem, you only have to man hier: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?hier(7)
ZFS only needs GBs if you need deduplication. 99% don't, almost everyone is better off with compression. 1GB is the min for ZFS though it can run in a little less.
Einstein didn't do all of the physics, and Popper did not solve all of the problems of establishing a clear scientific method.
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I will point out that for people used to languages like C++, Java, Python, JS, Ruby, or Go, Swift and Rust are both pretty good choices here.

I mean, while Rust may make you think about ownership and memory management when programming (I have found this useful in all languages), both languages have a great type system and IMO learning to work with those is a far greater learning experience. So while Rust may teach you more, it doesn't teach you much more.

On the other hand, if you come from Haskell or something, the type systems aren't what you're looking for :)
Too much. I've got a 700-800 MB system.

It's unfortunate, as I'd love to have a versioned FS
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Non-euclidean geometries were useless for some time :)
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Listened to that whole thing as well, and was just as frustrated. I prefer Brian Greene's 1 minute case for the absence of free will: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBNzaXx6eKg
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I wonder how many of the products this is true for also have Amazon Basics equivalents.
This is largely why I quit Prime. I liked it when I paid $69/yr and Amazon had competitive pricing. All these programs they're rolled out ("free" Apps, "free" Netflix clone, "free" iTunes Radio/Google Music All Access clone, "free" "unlimited" photo storage) that I have no interest in, and don't want, plus the whole add-on item thing you mentioned, plus most items being unable to Subscribe & Save to, plus the intersection of Subscribe & Save and Prime Pantry being absolutely retarded (can't S&S PP-able items, can't PP S&S-able items).

Walmart is eating Amazon's lunch now, and I'm laughing my ass off. Good job, Jeff Bezos, you just destroyed your company.
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Indeed. SV has become just another government program. The sad irony for me personally is that I long ago quit a job working for the government to come here.
Well, if you're willing to tune settings there's an example on the FreeBSD wiki of someone with a laptop "running nicely" with 768M and their settings.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide

I've no idea what compromises that'll bring you, or how it would react to you pointing it at a multi TB space.
Tesla had 2,615 vehicles in transit at the end of Q1, and 5,150 at the end of Q2. So on net there are still 2,535 cars "missing" from the Q2 delivery number.

This chart shows the complete picture: http://i.imgur.com/NgwxG7Z.png
Try not taking everything so literally.
Actually I try FreeBSD as Web Server in a single core VPS (development purposes) and I'm happy with performance and stuff.
But my default workstation is Linux in this case Fedora 24 (a RH based) with Gnome 3.x
Every Roman legionary post-Marian reforms received a plot of land after their 25 year service [0], officers monetary rewards, and auxiliaries Roman citizenship for their children.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_reforms#Marian_reforms
And most of the stuff is anyway from there :)
I also think, it's somewhat of a fallacy. Most BSD users have come into touch with Linux at some point, whereas the reverse happens not nearly as often (in relative terms), and that's mainly because Linux is simply more popular.
TL;DR quote:

> The bottom line is that the difficulty of the decision is the most important factor in determining whether a player makes a mistake. In other words, examining the complexity of the board position is a much better predictor of whether a player is likely to blunder than his or her skill level or the amount of time left in the game.

That first sentence almost comically funny, especially in the context of the click-bait headline that does a great job at not revealing any useful information.

All based on playing chess, so go ahead if you like and use one experiment using one game to extrapolate to the entire world...

Link to the study, to skip that article: http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04956
The key point is that I am saying the second quote does say the null is false. This is where we differ. The actual null hypothesis they are testing is different than the one they actually care and talk about. It includes additional auxilliary assumptions that they say are wrong.

What gets plugged in as the null hypothesis is not a problem in the realm of statistics. That is a choice of the researcher. The stats algorithm worked fine.
The were very useful for modeling the structures they were used to model, and for educating on the flexibility of alternative geometries, as well as discussing the veracity of existing assumptions. So no, they were never useless. The people who discovered them and studied them knew they weren't useless, which is why they were so willing to go down that road. They just didn't make anyone any money or solve any immediate broadly applicable problems in society.
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101 comments into discussion and no one mentioned CGI? the actual morons that fucked up the project and wasted 100's of millions of taxpayers' money? how many times should they piss in our face till we actually start noticing things?
Right now, all the instruments are off during this first orbital insertion. The next close pass (Perijove 1), where the closest pictures will be taken, is around late August.

View lots more details here: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2016/0609060...
Woah, bunch of what you said hit very close to home. Was kind of waiting for you to tell me you were 33 years old, moved to Sydney from the Netherlands and ... well that you were me.

Point I was wanting to make: there's a lot of us that didn't really get that "prod" in the right direction, or even had the opportunity to study in such a focused manner.

And I sure as hell wish I had that opportunity back in the day.
I have strong philosophical/practical problems with both Ruby and Rails (meaning I "hate" them, in programmer shorthand), but I'm not sure I understand why this matters.

Isn't it better for most people using a language to use the same tools? It makes code easier to transfer to other maintainers, for starters.
See below. By "all" you mean "one," I think.

It's not even clear that the "Heminges and Condell" text was written by Heminges and Condell. More likely it was just written by Jonson.

Your priors need to be adjusted a little to work with Elizabethan texts. A good rule is that if it's printed on paper and claims to convey some factual information, it is probably in some way a lie.

This was because people often got in trouble for writing things that other people didn't want written. So think of it a little like the Soviet Union. Except in the Soviet Union, there is only one KGB.

Eg, if person A is an earl and person B is not, and person B offends person A, person A can pretty much do anything to person B, up to and including having person B whacked. And there are a lot of people with rank A.

In an environment like this, you're going to develop a literature that is very careful about writing some shit down just because it's true. So nobody really trusts anything in print. So why not be in the habit of constantly embroidering, which is after all an art form of its own? What you write down is what should be true, according to whoever you want to please today.

So it's not that the Elizabethans were all chronic liars, or whatever. But decoding what really happened in a period like this, from the various lies and embroideries that people wrote on paper, is never a task to be taken lightly.
Immoral? Pretty much illegal in most western countries. It is called fraud. But Valve isn't innocent in that mess, Valve created that market, no different from the patchinko system in Japan(where gambling is pretty much illegal, but they invented "tricks" and schemes to circumvent local laws, and it works exactly like these websites).
But I thought BSDs where more monolithic and coherent systems. How is drawing a distinction between base system and non-base system make that true? If anything Linux embodies that philosophy much better. There is no ad-hoc and arbitrary decision between what is part of the base system and what is not. The system as whole is coherently laid out without drawing any base/user distinctions. Daemons are daemons, binaries are binaries, tools are tools, configuration is configuration and they all go in predictable places to become part of the overall system.
You can also blame the US history books. Unsurprisingly, our role is played up a good bit.
All you're saying is that people don't trust these things. You've not demonstrated any rational reason that they should trust these things. So that stigma was rightfully earned, there was no baby in the bathwater, and therapies that informed doctors do not prescribe are therapies that are not known to work. And it is not your doctor's business to experiment on you when the outcome of a treatment is not reasonably certain.
If they're anything like the casino barges in the Katrina wake, the answer is "No": http://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/4024377.html

That's not to say they can't be designed to withstand hurricanes. You need a very, very sturdy pier to anchor them in place, but it's not impossible to imagine such a thing.

The good news is Rotterdam doesn't get a lot of hurricanes, and nor does San Francisco or Seattle.
You disagree? Then burn it down point-by-point.

Otherwise, ... do you have anything substantive to offer beyond being rude?
OP, can you explain in more detail how you found out about those “secret” flights?
There are definitely people running ZFS on systems with less than 1GB of RAM. I'm not sure if anyone is running ZFS on a system with less than 512 MB of RAM.

(FWIW, at one point the amount of address space was far more important than the amount of RAM -- amd64 systems with 1 GB of RAM would run better than i386 systems with 2 GB. I'm not sure if this is still the case.)
Problem: Who wants to spend a lot of time learning to teach when you don't really see this as more than a requirement to get that job? Which I completely understand, I don't blame the professors. Having tried a little bit of teaching myself, it's just very, very time-consuming to prepare yourself for doing it really well.

At university in the 1990s I preferred learning from (good) textbooks over most lectures, and today there's the Internet - I've actually gone back to learning with >50 courses on Coursera and edX over the last few years. So I think the problem has shrunk significantly since you can choose to learn from great teachers more easily than ever. But I'm a "pull" person when it comes to learning, meaning I don't even want someone to tell me what I'm supposed to know, I prefer to go out and look and select and get it myself.
Linux is fine for ordinary computing and many specialized tasks but some areas are better served by BSDs.

If you require the integrity guarantees offered by ZFS and still want the efficient resource allocation of containers you will not get around FreeBSD or a Solaris based distribution.

If you need a system that is secure by default you will not get around OpenBSD.

If you need the portability of Linux coupled with a license that lets you freely redistribute in order to sell an appliance you will be hard pressed to get around NetBSD.

By the way, ZFS will run fine on small VPS since the RAM cache can be turned off. You still get instant snapshots and rollbacks, efficient replication and integrity guarantees.
Very good point — that's why good abstractions are such a win. With functions, I don't need to think about all the code needed to read the body of an HTTP request; I just read it.

That's also why I think that macros are so valuable: a single macro can abstract away an extremely complex and tricky piece of code into a single line, or two.

With the right abstractions, we can turn 10^6 projects back into 10^3 projects.
The big idea is to realize, internalize beyond any doubt that the brain is evolved set of highly specialized structures, some very ancient, some more recent, which communicate to each other.

The emotional and instinctive parts are more fundamental and more important than language-related parts, and what we call or reflect as thinking is mostly feeling and sensing, to which verbal augmentation is merely a, well... augmentation.)

The message is that cortex is by no means is everything or even most essential. The ancient, animal, non-verbal parts of the brain are still doing most of the job. As a consequence the popular myth about human's pure rationality should be discarded. We are still animals. The crucial difference is obviously a language and hence abstract thinking (in that order - we think in language labels we attach to everything, including feeling and moods). But this is not the whole picture.

So called Fast Thinking is working of the ancient, animal parts of the brain.
When I hear sharing I think of shared ownership, and Rust steers you strongly away from that. See for example the awkwardness of global or thread-local variables in Rust.

If you are referring to borrowing, Swift's answer is not class types, but inout. inout is not as flexible as Rust references, but it does not use reference counting. In most places where a Rust function would return a mutable reference, the analogous Swift function would take a closure that accepts that something as an inout.
Which device are you using for your SailfishOS? I am planning to install it on my Nexus 5.
Unless you're buying a specific product Amazon has become a worse mess than eBay. Shill reviews and shoddy, awful products. I'll never understand why they made the marketplace choices they did - they've ruined their brand in my eyes.

If you're searching for batteries or some such, the search is terrible. Far too many items that don't meet search criteria included, far too much reliance on their worthless star rating.

They're ok to buy a book, CD or a known brand item. For anything else it's too much of a lottery now, I spend my money elsewhere.
> anything I install from source sits in /usr/local

To be fair, this is the norm on Linux too. I have never used BSD as a desktop operating system, but everything I've installed from source also sits in /usr/local. It's the default install directory for most Linux build scripts and I feel dirty if I add anything directly to /usr that the package manager isn't aware of.
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Then me using ICQ and MSN transports with XMPP 10 years ago was just a fantasy and all the transports installable for ejabberd do not exist ? It's all just potential ?
I have not check out these videos in particular, but when I went through Khan Academy I thought they were doing a remarkable job at explaining.

Try https://www.khanacademy.org/math/differential-equations/lapl...
I don't want that separation in a consistent and coherent system. User vs base is artificial. What I care about is the end result the overall system accomplishes and base vs non-base doesn't really factor into that. What does it matter to me if nginx is part of the base system or not? I need a web server. Arbitrarily choosing apache/httpd vs nginx to include as part of the base system is incidental complexity where I stand from.
I had the same experience. However later when I encountered new properties of fourier transforms, such as the convolution theorem, fast fourier transform and the fourier transform of boolean functions, I felt my acquired intuition no longer fitted. Did you also experience this? If so, how did you get past it to that "next level"?
So basically a thing is not useless if you know it's not. I can accept that :)
I've been pretty happy with the ergonomics of the Kinesis Freestyle 2. The fact that it's 2 pieces means it can be adjusted to fit your body and desk exactly which is more than can be said about any other fixed body keyboard.

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Think of the flipside: by paying to store it you are paying to run the risk that your research will be invalidated.
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... and I may well come to change my mind as to the wisdom of my decision.
> Fun fact: My son's initials are QA.

I named my son Nand and my daughter Ada. ;)
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The study only looks at positions in which there is a defined set of moves that can be shown to be winning (endgames), and treats all non-winning moves as "blunders".

Then it considers the "difficulty" of the position, as the proportion of moves that are "blunders".

So, assuming you're looking at any other than a perfect player, this seems like it will inherently be true in any game.
Have you read the article? It isn't an ad-hoc distinction. You get the base system with a FreeBSD install. It includes the kernel and everything else that makes it a "FreeBSD system". This is stuff maintained by the BSD team. Everything else is an add-on.

If you blew away /usr/local, you would be left with a pristine (mostly) BSD install.

An analogy is a base windows install and all the associated tools and drivers. Anything else you install on your own is an add-on.

This distinction is hardly arbitrary.

Edit

Seems to me you have a hard time understanding what a "base system" means. This is what the article is trying to explain, and it seems to have gone completely over your head; I can't help with that.
Anecdote time, once when I was younger I was a programmer. I should work on a java program. ( was a piece of shit and mess) refactoring will never happen ( costs money ) so i switched programming to baring a sysadmin.

Valuable lesson I learned: code will be unlikely rewritten or recaptured. It costs money.

But at least you get the chance to upgrade hardware and software once in a while, because it wants out of support or breaks down.

I net this java program is still a mess and runs somewhere.

Thanks to this code I realized programming isn't something I want to do 24/7 :)
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I have used webflow to start my own business. Second year into it. I guess in addition to Vlad I also owe thanks to HN!