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In default install. Every so often I click updater and there are updates for CVEs. Why didn't you ask me Ubuntu? Why did you let me run software with known public vulnerabilities longer than is necessary?? I'm also befuddled why it sometimes prompts for password and sometimes doesn't, and I can't insure that the prompt is that of updater so I have to drop in shell and use apt. Or that it will happily let processes with updated binaries run and not ask to restart them. Ubuntu is a joke, but then half other distros are or I can't evaluate the leadership satisfactorily to know if it's a joke (e.g. as I suspected, Mint turned out to be one as they managed to release hijacked isos twice in a row). </rant>
This is fascinating but I found myself frustrated by the lack of an obvious key to the acronyms used in the rankings
I'd say that most energetic people with skills would never waste their time with such nonsense. They can make real money in the private sector.
I don't think so. The X-bow is for lowering water resistance, this is a conventional bow below the waterline, hemispherical above to reduce air drag.
Uber hates me
What if I want a vanilla latte instead?
Kodak? Around 2005 when the iPhone hardware spec was being designed? They had completely lost the digital camera game by then.
> old imperialist countries have guilt trips with their former south american or african colonies and have an easy citizenship path for citizens in those former colonies

haha, no - nothing about guilt. They only offer citizenship paths only to 3rd-/4th-generation descendants of emigrees. Allowing the natives of former colonies to easily gain citizenship in the old country is simply not tenable, old chap, they need to have the right pedigree. tut-tut.
>somewhat nebulous american ideals

The constitution and the philosophy espoused in the declaration of independence are perhaps open to interpretation but it's not that nebulous. I do agree you saying "somewhat" could either be sarcasm or you could literally mean that the "American ideals" are just somewhat nebulous other than totally arbitrary.
Also worth read is the Economist's article "An hereditary meritocracy":

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21640316-children-ric...

"Not only do graduate couples tend to value education; they also tend to have money to spend on it. And though the best predictor of an American child’s success in school has long been the parents’ educational level—a factor which graduates are already ahead on, by definition—money is an increasingly important factor. According to Sean Reardon of Stanford the past decades have seen a growing correlation between parental income and children’s test scores. Sort the students who took the SAT, a test for college applicants, in 2014 by parental income and the results get steadily better the further up the ladder you climb."

"And on top of spending on school, there is spending outside it: the gap between what rich and poor parents shell out for museum trips, music lessons, books and so on has been widening (see chart 2). In a world where lots of people do well on SATs, cultivating extra skills matters.

The opportunities for parental investment continue in higher education, which is ever more costly (see chart 3) but offers ever greater returns. Between 1979 and 2012 the income gap between the median family with college-educated parents and one with high-school educated parents grew four times greater than the headline-grabbing income gap between the top 1% of earners and the rest, according to David Autor of MIT, rising from $30,000 to $58,000."
And this itself is something that seems to vary by country. In the US, the average TV show character seems to be fairly well off, at least 'middle class' and able to pretty much work maybe two hours in their entire life.

In the UK on the other hand, a lot of our characters seem to be from working class backgrounds with a lot of money troubles and lower key living conditions. Like say, basically anyone from a UK soap opera (like Eastenders or Coronation Street). Or the main characters from Only Fools and Houses or Steptoe and Son.
I have found that physiotherapists have been far more helpful for me in coping with chronic injuries than any doctor. I only wish I had met him far earlier in my life
Have you seen what funeral directors wear? Sometimes it's like a panto costume, with weird ribboned hats and waistcoats and tails and just a mishmash of different stuff.
At least the Minimal version is serving checksums via https on community web page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD
We are all human, we deserve the same opportunities. But when mass migrations happen, they threaten the host country and also don't solve the problem back in the source country. The solution would be to make it better to live everywhere, so that people would not be so tempted to migrate. It will probably happen for Africa and Middle East in this century, as technology advances quickly.
How to vet a startup?
Fellow risk takers, I want to start a dialog about how you might vet a startup?

Hypothetically you are approached by a startup who wants you to join the team. You are interested in the startup and want to mitigate your potential risk by validating the claims being made. What due diligence can be done to ensure the startup is legitimate and has the finances they claim to have? For example, if a startup says we have $X in revenue how can you be certain this is true?

I did some searching and but didn't find any other hackernews discussions.
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I had never really put much thought into it, but you're totally right- the expectation was that a chemical company (essentially) would transform itself into a Hardware & software manufacturer. That's a might, mighty leap. That Fuji was actually able to do it is even more impressive.

I worked for a company that did some work for Kodak - both directly and indirectly - around some of their software initiatives & partnerships with mobile manufacturers. They were not pretty or well-run projects, to be sure.
Here's a memoir from Brad Paxton, a family friend. Might be worth checking out (disclaimer: I'm related to the editor) since he was a VP who had a lot to do with high-tech projects during this time:

https://www.amazon.com/Pictures-Pop-Bottles-Pills-Electronic...
Sure refuse to pay my cell phone bill and switch to one of the 3 competitors. Luckily cell phones are not a monopoly so have options.

It won't come to that though. They will listen to a complaint and reverse a charge I didn't authorize.
From the very article you mention, there are respected counter-points:

"In 1988, Rhodes University professor Julian Cobbing advanced a controversial new hypothesis on the rise of the Zulu state; he contended the accounts of the Mfecane were a self-serving, constructed product of apartheid politicians and historians. According to Cobbing, apartheid historians had mischaracterised the Mfecane as a period of internally induced black-on-black destruction. Instead, Cobbing argued that the roots of the conflicts could be found exclusively in the labour needs of the Portuguese slave traders operating out of Delagoa Bay, in modern-day Mozambique, and of the British colonists in the Cape. The resulting pressures led to massive displacement, famine, and war in the interior, allowing later Afrikaner settlers to seize control of most land.[11] Among those involved were European adventurers such as Nathaniel Isaacs (who was later accused of slave trading)[12]"
I think that in this day and age we ought to have a way to share knowledge so that we aren't repeating the same (completed) research unknowingly.

In maths it is thought to be beneficial to come up with a diferent proof of the same theorem though, so maybe in computing the similar idea that coming up with another implementation/demonstration/proof has value too
We tested a few commercial options out there (Filepicker most recently), but the issue consistently ended up being that uploading is such an important part of our app, that if it's down even for 20-30 minutes a month (which they all were), it's a big headache, and results in cancelled accounts.

We ended up plugging in the AWS JavaScrpt S3 SDK. We trust their uptime much more, and browser support is pretty widespread. It came with it's own headaches (namely, client side clocks being out of sync, and AWS rejecting uploads due to some security checks), but once we got everything figured out, it became incredibly stable.

It works by uploading files directly to your S3 bucket. Setup wasn't seamless (notably, setting things up with AWS Incognito), but in the end, we're incredibly happy we went this way.

We still use 3rd parties for resize images that are uploaded (namely, Cloudinary, which has been fantastic), but decoupling the upload logic from the usage logic has helped tremendously, and affords us reliability in that we control where the file is stored, how it's name, and are not tethered to a 3rd party (other than AWS).
I must mention that I did not go to Kenya or other neighboring countries. I started my trip in Uganda and worked my way down.

The difference between Rwanda and Uganda/Tanzania as an outsider is immense. The roads are in good condition and there are no speed bumps because the drivers are not reckless. Bodaboda drivers will give you helmets! (granted, they probably are so old that offer no protection). Little trash on the streets. Uganda/Tanzania are filthy filthy countries.

I briefly mentioned that genocide and only because of the context of economics. Rwanda derives a fair amount of money from the UN and other international grants post-genocide. I met a fair amount of volunteers because of these programs. I found that the current government has down a decent amount to recognize the genocide. There are memorials at most mass burial cites. The genocide museum is very well done. It is not the Rwanda genocide museum, but simply a genocide museum. It covers all the genocides in recent history. Ultimately, there was little to do in Rwanda (a 4 hour nature hike was $50!), so I left after 6-7 days. Spent most of it relaxing by Lake Kivu.
Infinite growth is possible and it is what our societies aim for. But, in its deepest, it is a pseudo-growth, because prices rise, but eventually salaries must eventually rise again to match the prices.. So, in the end, everything gets back to the same relative levels!
When people started getting rich off of their homes.

I grew up in Vancouver, BC and when you suddenly see a $500,000 home sell for $2,000,000 a few years later, real estate starts to look like a pretty good investment.
> The world needs more houses with more people in them.

Really? Is it impossible to have a fun and healthy society without a rising population? That sounds like a pyramid scheme.
No you host from your own domain.

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/hosting-static-website

Gives you a site at your name.com

Only missing link is the HTTPS which you get with cloud flare
Why does PETSCII have upper case and lower case reversed?
> OTOH, pretty much everyone's social group is full of people who bought a home that has significantly appreciated in value if they've held it 20+ years (and also saved them a ton in housing costs).

A) Inflation adjustment. Yes, the I grew up in hasn't quite doubled in value since 1989. In the mean time, the SP500 has grown 500 percent.
B) Interest expenses add up. Renters don't pay principle or interest on principle.
C) Some markets are hotter than others, and more volatile than others. SFBay for example, has had huge swings.
D) Tax subsidies aren't calculated for long term returns. Mortgage interest deductions and capital appreciation are the two big ones.

> Does this statistic really translate into "don't worry, you won't be priced out of any booking metro area"?

It translates to "don't worry, you're better off renting a house anyways."
You are right, I forgot the adversarial nature of these requests. I am not sure less paid, less meritous people would work better though.
The chemical grouping is halide, yes, but the Xerox precursor company was indeed called Haloid.
When you think back on it, this was the true genius behind RSS aggregators. I could still read your blog when your blog was not working, because Google Reader (or your favorite aggregator) had already downloaded it once. It's too bad that RSS died.
Part of the rights of individuals is self-determination. If a people want to pick and choose who they admit into their community, that is their right. If they want to close their borders to the rest of the world, that is their right as well.

The fact that everything dies in the long run doesn't mean that those who hold their nations and cultures dear today should not work toward their preservation. An argument from nihilism isn't convincing to me. You and I will die too, but that shouldn't stop us from pursuing the good life in the meantime.

Besides, it's not a given that all current nations and cultures will die. They will certainly change over time, but it could very well be that the first human colony in another galaxy will fly an American flag. It's unlikely, but who knows.
Not everyone is solely motivated by money.
Fascinating, and worrisome.

This paragraph jumped out at me because of the numbers involved:

"Starting in 2012, 34 people went from Aarhus to Syria. As far as the police know, six were killed and 10 are still over there. Of the 18 who came back home, all showed up in Aarslev and Link's office, as did hundreds of other potential radicals in Aarhus — about 330 in total."

If a small town like Aarhus harboured 34 people that joined ISIS and 330 potential radicals in total that does not bode well for the rest of Western Europe.

Those numbers, when extrapolated make the problem a lot larger than I thought it was (and I actually thought I was over-estimating).

Aarhus has a population of only ~320K, so that's 1:1000.
Are you really saving by owning a home vs renting? Your equity could be invested elsewhere plus you are spending money on maintenance, which you don't fully recoup when you sell. You are locking up equity in a non diversified asset. There are non financial benefits of home ownership, but I'm not sure it makes financial sense
I was about to suggest the same. Just have your cronjob dump its environment for you so that you can simulate it more accurately.
Find a sports physician. Ask around at a good powerlifting, strongman, olympic, or maybe even crossfit gym. (What is a good gym? They should have a lot of people squatting/dl over 500, and a handful 800+. There will be names on a leaderboard.) They'll know doctors that help you work through injuries.

And foam roller your it band. Every evening, and maybe every morning as well.

edit: with the it band, make sure it is your it band. Check with a good pt person that you don't have weak butt muscles (I forget which.) There's a simple test for this that involves lying on your side and raising a leg, but I don't think I can adequately explain it in text.

source: 10 months on crutches and a very tight it band.
That seems to be caused by market forces. Customers expect CPU's that are backward compatible by themselves and do not depend on few tens of MB worth of binary blobs for backward compatibility, microcode of modern x86 CPUs does not count as such blob as it's essentially invisible (it can be patched, but the CPU still looks like x86 when you don't load any blobs into it). (edit: it's also probably immaterial whether such blobs are or are not opensource)

Also, TIMI is probably not good example of how to implement high performance ISA abstraction as it's about abstraction first and performance second. Transmeta's x86 CPUs and things like HP Dynamo have better approach to this problem.
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> What I find silly is, is the gov't really subsidizing housing in the end?
> Offer a tax deduction on mortgage interest and people can afford a higher price so competition drives prices up and everyone ends up in the same place.

Exactly: it's a tax subsidy to sales agents (and others whose income depends on the transaction price). Homeowners don't get anything out of it except that their house has a larger $ on their list of assets. It doesn't help them buy a better house (since everyone in the same income bracket can afford the same house).

It's pitched as a middle class benefit though, so simplifying the system would be greeted with howls of dismay.

It does screw those of us who pay cash for our houses BTW.
over the long run (>5 years) the data suggests buying is better than renting
I'm skeptical of your explanation because there are no "hangers-on" in that social class (the nouveau-riche have to worry about that) and status is only loosely correlated with wealth.
There already is a CSS framework for hackers, it's called CSS.
Sometimes I think nostalgically about my DOS 16 bit programming skills - all quite useless today. It's hard to give that up.
I want more people to own homes. I want more houses contructed. I want lower house prices. I want more home owners. Please do not conflate my distates for homeowners greed for a distate in home builders. Home building is great. Home owning is passing the buck around.
Christensen's book, The Innovator's Dilemma, is well worth reading.

I don't think it's one of Christensen's examples (it's been a while since I read the book) but IMO the all-time greatest blunder of this type was Sears closing down their catalog operation the same year the first graphical web browser was introduced. The younger readers may not remember this, but there was a time when the Sears catalog sold everything. You could even buy an entire pre-cut house that would be shipped to you for assembly.

They basically had Amazon, and threw it away. Now they're essentially nothing but a subsidiary brand of K-Mart.
The unfortunate fact is that government officials, whether at the DOJ, the FBI, or any other agency have absolutely no incentive to follow either the letter or the spirit of the law. There are never any consequences for the individual government employees who break the law, so there is no reason for them to follow it. What's worse is that the only government officials who are ever held accountable for violations of law or policy are whistleblowers who shine light on wrongdoing.

When the law ceases to be a social contract under which we all agree to operate and be equally judged it loses its moral authority. Without moral authority law carries no more weight then the threats of violence wielded by those with the most power and society falls apart.
I understand that abstract idea in the big picture, but I am interested in the specific history of how that played out at Kodak.
> "I think we could call that homesickness, cultural rejection, or a few other English words that are similar (though from the Russians I know that are versed in English, they disagree and say homesick misses how deep of a feeling тоска has."

тоска sounds to me to be a mixture of homesickness and patriotism. I personally suspect your Russian acquaintances that are versed in English are overlooking that homesickness without patriotism can be a deep feeling.

For example, when I've been away from the UK for a long period of time, what I've found I miss the most is the sense of humour. That's not to say other countries are lacking a sense of humour (and there's plenty of other enjoyable facets of all the countries I've been to so far), but there's a particular style of humour that is particularly prominent in the British Isles (including Ireland) where we 'take the piss' out of ourselves as much as each other. To others, that might seem like a strange thing to be homesick about, especially in a deep way, but I assure you that when you're tired of pretense you can miss it a lot, just as much as any wistful dreams of the motherland.

P.S. Google Translate converts тоска into 'yearning', I wonder if that sits better with your Russian acquaintances.
Do yoga. Get an MRI see WTF is going on with your tendons or CT scan. Older people typically get these types of injuries 60+. Its possible your straining yourself too fast. Your body has to get "used" to working out then up your workout. Your muscles need to support your activity level. You can't make your tendons "stronger" they have to be stretched out / warmed out. Im not a doctor. I don't know what i'm talking about BUT i been working out all my life. My 2 cents. Gud Lucky. ;-)
Perhaps by "home ownership", you really mean "owned by the bank that holds your mortgage" is at 60%?
Certainly Kodak did a lot of things wrong but there's a common meme straight out of Marketing Myopia [1] that, had they only thought of themselves as a photography company rather than a film company, all would have been well. This is basically nonsense.

Even had Kodak been more aggressive about cannibalizing its film sales with digital, it's unclear how much of its expertise and competitive advantage would have carried over. In any case, it wouldn't have nearly replaced the film consumables business in terms of revenue and profit.

Fujifilm did do better--mostly, current camera line notwithstanding--by branching out into other areas of chemistry. Good read from The Economist here [2] but Fujifilm had tough times too and I believe that they were also significantly smaller.

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

[2] http://www.economist.com/node/21542796?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/the...

[Second link fixed.]
Use a function that prints then returns its parameter:

list(1, 2, 3, 4).reduce{print(_) + _} == 10

Use it if you or your language hasn't defined such a function:

list(1, 2, 3, 4).reduce{it:= _; println(it); it + _} == 10

In fact, any name for it will do.
That is the dependent typed aspect mentioned. This is actually done in Idris with VerifiedSemigroup and other verified instances.
The patent doesn't cover the result of an unaligned load. It covers the specific mechanism of doing an unaligned load using two instructions and a shifter to get the two pieces into the right place in the target register. You can read the claims here: https://www.google.com/patents/US4814976.
Good point! I meant for your primary residence, you're paying that interest regardless of if you own a home or rent. So I don't factor that in when it comes to a primary residence. This is a different story for investment properties.
Scandinavian countries host more refugees per capita than most nations on Earth, so that's probably why numbers look so high. Also, this sort of programs inevitably carry a physiological amount of fraud (problems affording a flat? Pick up the phone and declare yourself ex-jihadi...).
> Don't know about quality or UX experience, though.

UX should be fine but Fedora uses RPM so might have a bigger risk to end up with broken or incompatible packages, not sure though maybe things improved lately.
Except for the migrant workers, who built said infrastructure and are often compared to slaves. It's not easy for them to leave.
Do you plan to colonize the stars, or wait for this sun to die out?
I agree with the citizenship test and the criminal history test. I think English at a conversational level is good too for practical reasons but that matched with the visa sum would select for more wealthy and hence educated immigrants. That isn't an issue, but given that many illegal aliens are filling unskilled jobs that Americans are unwilling to fill seems to suggest to me that the general desire is for unskilled immigration, not skilled. I mean this is hackernews, just look at how many H1b visa stories make the front page. Generally, people benefit from low skilled labor while they suffer from skilled immigrants who would compete with them while accepting lower wages.