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> equivalent in a purely capitalist system

I was using "capitalism" by its common meaning. I understand there are fantasy versions of capitalism that might be different.

> Many of the best innovation in computers came from publicly funded projects. So I don't think the commercial nature of modern computing is actually helping anything.

Basic innovation is wildly different than commercialization. I'm a big fan of publicly funded basic research. But going from a scientific discovery to a commercially usable technology is a) often very expensive, and b) not something that academia is good at.

Personally, I think commercial investment helps quite a bit. Look at the wave of mobile hardware innovation we've seen in the decade since the iPhone came out. That took tens of billions of R&D dollars, and investors and shareholders don't put up that kind of money without expecting to get it back.
Ask HN: How many of you actually identify yourself as hackers? If so, why?
Just look at some of the countries at the top of the index and you'll realize that reciprocity is far from the deciding factor.

Americans can go to many countries (even ones without a large tourism economy) despite being rather stingy with letting others in.

Far more important is assessing the likelihood that someone will try to permanently stay/work on a tourist visa.
They brought in very highly paid, smart engineers. Which have periodic performance reviews. If they don't we "we designed and implemnted X, Y, Z awesome new abstractions / features" everyone in the room bosses, employees, higher ups, marking it going to feel let down. So, we have ever more features.

"Say, Steve, what have you been doing last year?" - "Welp, just making sure things work, fixed some bugs, documentation, took customer calls. The product essentially works, people love it". "Wait, so we haven't shipped any new features, hmm, ok...".

vs the response of "We implemented fizz, bar, quux features. We tore down old zig and added zag instead. It is really the same as old zig, but now look green and re-written with latest framework we saw in HN headlines". "Oh great, you get a promotion and a raise".

I am being a bit silly, but it is only half-joking, it is how software industry often works.
This is the biggest appeal for me as well. I find that Clojure hits the sweet spot between being simple and flexible.

It has small and consistent syntax coupled with pervasive immutability. I find that when I work with Clojure, I'm rarely thinking about the language itself.

Since the core language is very small, it's un-opinionated. This makes it easy to extend it in the way you need for your particular domain.

Many languages today have the same features and allow you to do everything Clojure does and more, however most of these languages are also far more complex.

I've come to realize that language complexity has a huge impact on productivity and code quality. It's incidental mental overhead that distracts you from the problem you're solving. The more syntax and rules you have the harder it becomes to tell whether the code is doing what you think it's doing.
I was somewhat staggered in the late 1990s reading John Sealy Brown (former PARC director), in The Social Life of Information, which is otherwise and excellent book and one I'd still recommend, that the grand-daddy of technical reproduction businesses completely failed to mention its biggest competitor, the Apache Webserver, anywhere in the book (there was brief mention of the World Wide Web).

I've worked with some of Xerox's workhorse printers, multi-hundred-thousand-dollar systems that can crank out 120 prints per minute, sustained (hot-swappable paper trays, so you don't even have to stop to reload). But all of those were already being dwarfed in document presentation by a freely-available arrangement of software, with a $1,000 - $10,000 piece of server kit capable of kicking out millions of pages per day. A large print shop with several workhorse printers might make 1 million copies/day.

And at a fraction the cost.

Yeah, Xerox completely dropped the ball.
The actual real-life job might not be blue-collar, but as portrayed in The Simpsons, he walks into an interview having graduated high school and gets the job, so is pretty solidly blue-collar.
I'd say I was envious but I don't think the author would approve.
There's Chromium Inox[0] which is just a patchset on top of the Chromium build to remove much of the mothership home-calling. Inox seems to be much closer to Chromium than many of the other Chrome-privacy spinoffs. Contrary to popular belief, Chromium still has a lot of Google in it.

I always feel like artificially patching a project that doesn't care about your concerns natively to be plugging holes in a sponge boat, but I realize sometimes you need to use that boat because reasons.

I installed it from the AUR and it seems to work pretty well for the testing I do in it anyway. I don't daily driver it or Chrome.

[0] https://github.com/gcarq/inox-patchset
Ah, I misunderstood. Thanks for explaining.
How many times does he blame the queers for something in this video? :/
You're talking about the rentals game which is another story altogether. I'm talking about buying property--for my personal use as a primary house--and making money on it. Your statements about the stability of the 'burbs are not a blanket truth. It entirely depends on the city and location. You may do well in a suburb of D.C. or San Francisco but a Las Vegas, Albuquerque, Denver, or San Antonio suburb is an entirely different story. In places where there is essentially infinite room to expand (i.e. all cities that aren't super-expensive), there's little reason for someone to buy your 10 year-old home when they can build a brand new one for the same price. Thus, some of the neighborhoods lose value and go to crap. This is especially true if the original construction was unremarkable and cookie-cutter.

I also think you gloss over the difficulties of being a landlord. Great tenants are the exception, not the rule. There is good money to be made in the rentals game but the markets in which you can do this are limited and strongly favor the landlord who has owned for decades and bought in at 1970s prices (SF, LA, etc.). For most people in average American cities, the best you can hope for is to cover expenses and build a little equity. It's no slam-dunk for the average Middle America landlord.
It would be nice for this ranking to be expanded to include employment/work access beyond tourist visits.

I'm working on acquiring an Italian passport not because it will allow me to enter more countries without a visa (an American passport is fine for that) but because it allows long-term working/residence in EU countries. Unfortunately, this ranking doesn't capture that dynamic.
Dear 2016,

You haven't figured it out yet, but we consider advertising unethical.

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I once read an article where the CEO of ARM reasoned against raising prices because its partners would then have less healthy businesses. I never forgot that piece of wisdom.

But now with this acquisition, is there any room for such generous mentality?
The problem with ARM is that the most likely suitors don't dare buy them -- if Intel, Apple, Microsoft, or Google bought ARM Holdings, the others (all rivals) would start looking for an alternative architecture to run on and the licensing fees would take a nose dive.

It's one thing to license an architecture from an independent, scrupulously neutral third party: another entirely to gamble your business platform's future on a rival's goodwill.

Softbank isn't an obvious direct platform-level competitor for Intel or Apple or Samsung or the others, so may be an acceptable acquisitor who won't frighten ARM's licensees into abandoning ship.
> You'd have a higher standard of living in Cleveland at $100k than in San Francisco at $250k.

This is a good example of how "standard of living" is kind of a meaningless concept -- to someone who values "enough backyard to play catch in," you're correct; to someone who values "not living in Ohio," you're completely wrong.
It's worth noting that Eastman Chemical, which was spun off from Kodak in 1994, is doing just fine as a Fortune 500 company with about 15,000 employees and a market cap of $10B USD.

It's stock is up some 200%+ since the spin-off from Kodak in '94 (compared to 400%+ for the S&P500).

If you had kept your Eastman Chemical stock after the spin-off from Kodak in '94, sold your Kodak stock, and reinvested the proceeds into Eastman Chemical, you would have more than doubled your capital, not including dividends.
No, I think it can be objectively evaluated.

I was born as an American citizen, but would probably prefer to be German (social benefits, EU access, etc.) or Emirati (a fantastic gravy train).
None this time, just the CIA.
I think it was "made in Taiwan" around then. Japan was a rich, developed nation and investment into China proper hadn't really started.
I hadn't seen your post before I posted, but there's Chromium Inox which tries to remove the Google from Chromium you might want to check out.
> This issue was reported to OPENSSH developer group and they have sent a patch ( don't know if patch was released yet).
(thanks to 'dtucker () zip com au' for his quick reply and fix suggestion).

Is this another incident of pre-mature announcement? I expect a patch TO BE MADE AVAILABLE before someone disclose this vulnerability. Or any kind of vulnerability, to be exact.
Never mind if they are competent enough to misuse it today; giving Google data assumes they won't *become8 competent enough to misuse it in the future.

Collection isn't what you should be worried about. The problem is that the collected data is persistent and combined with other data in the future. Just timestamps from the browser can paint a surprisingly fine-grain picture of your pattern-of-life. I'm sure far more interesting interpretations can be found with the many machine learning techniques and other analysis methods that are currently being invented.
I can't imagine this will be true. What's wrong with advertising? It's how I know about things!

The depths to which advertisers go to with tracking feels rather unethical at times, however.
> But I detest trying to shut someone up

This is your imagination. Challenging someone's ideas is not shutting them up.

Especially if their ideas are as misguided, and yes, racist, as to believe the whole continent of Africa was unable to develop without the help of the white Europeans.

> I personally don't know whether Africa was on track to have civilization without colonialism

Are you seriously suggesting that there was no civilization in Africa before colonialism ?

You know, I'm not trying to shut you up, by this point you're so far off, that it doesn't even make sense to have a conversation. Or said much more succinctly:

The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it, and ain't nobody got time for that.
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If you are female, have you had your progesterone levels checked post ovulation?
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Black veterans shooting police. Why do we pay these people to miss the obvious and spend time intimidating protesters before GOP convention and not attending to the blatant fact staring them in their incompetent faces?
Virtualization is easier than it looks. It’s also more crucial
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When their art is ready, which might be never. It's art after all, not a product.

When I was gainfully employed by a large telecom, very little of what I did found its way anywhere near the market.

Most go to the grave with their masterpiece unstarted, much less signed. Free your mind.
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I feel like this problem is already solved with iam ec2 instance roles

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/iam-roles...
Intel doesn't exactly shy away from purchases either; is it likely that the only reason they haven't made an offer anti-trust regulations?
If you're collecting disability and this is literally what's keeping you sane, it's amazing what you can achieve.
piracy didn't die out with rum and parrots.
It's an ongoing problem especially around failed states:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_attacked_by_Soma...

basically whole towns/villages live symbiotically with pirates which makes it difficult to do anything about it. They just commandeer the ship, steer it to their home port, and await the payout.
So anytime now the first nations people are going to be kicking out all of us from the USA, I guess.
If someone can suggest a better article, we can update the submission.
Headphones, earphones are popular and portable, so they are everywhere: http://www.crazysales.com.au/headphones-earphones/
And as long as you stay away from his Twitter account, you can keep thinking he's coherent.
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SoftBank is buying ARM for $32B
Well, some forward looking companies trying to avoid being disrupted now really invest in or set up completely separate subsidiaries to explore this new areas of growth. They even go so far as to have completely different management and buildings.

The upside to this is there's no existing bias in management decisions for the new company. Instead, it offers them a potential insider look, and understanding of this new technology..and when the time comes for a pivot, they have something solid to build on.
Thanks, we updated the link from http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeType-..., which points to this.
The smaller ones would be using services like Twilio, I would imagine. Does Twilio insulate users from this at all?
That's really interesting thanks! I wonder if the army of lawyers protection also holds for ARM. Or perhaps there licenses are cheap enough that people don't care.
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Perhaps better, the father of timesharing.
It is not generosity. It is knowledge of your own business model.

ARM wants to earn 1penny on every chip sold, but to put chips everywhere. So increasing royalties, but preventing market expansion is bad. Especially with the internet of appliances rapidly approaching.
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I worked for a subsidiary of Kodak around 91' and can offer a small view. My impression was that they were very aware of what was coming. They came out with the PhotoCD during this time. If you look at it was really a way to lock people into film for a longer time since you still needed to take your negatives in to be transferred.

I also remember taking a photography class in 95 and having the teacher say right at the beginning that in 10 years everything is going to be digital. My impression of the time is that everyone knew what was coming.
Google replaced "Don't be evil" with "Do the right thing": https://www.engadget.com/2015/10/02/alphabet-do-the-right-th...
Bonus points for including code in python to solve arbitrary logic puzzles.
Maybe this explains why SoftBank recently chose to sell its controlling stake of Supercell for about $7.3B USD -- they needed the cash for something bigger.

SoftBank had purchased Supercell for about $2B only a few years ago, so it was a genius investment. Will be interesting to see if they can turn ARM into another one of those.
You need to look at this tool and understand what it does.
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You shouldn't be allowing password authentication in ssh in the first place.
It will most likely go the opposite direction.
I'm kind of surprised Apple didn't swoop in and buy ARM long ago. I guess as others mentioned that might mean all the Apple competitors using ARM chips would flee and leave them with a lot less partners.
Very much this. If this deal goes through, I have a feeling that we may see ARM begin to give way to RISC-V. Perhaps it might happen slowly at first, but the mobile space is already prepared for a switch given that Android is virtualized and Apple is switching to abstracted "bitcode."
It’s great when high school students volunteer to help local senior citizens. Makes everyone feel great, and can be a huge help to the seniors. There are plenty of retired people who have time to engage with technology, and could get a lot out of it, but aren’t able or willing to dive in without some hands-on help and support.

Side note, if Briana ever reads this: the extensive listings of awards and affiliations in this piece are kind of distracting
This definitely matches my experience.

My great grandparents were solidly upper class (they owned a large paper company). Since then, there has of course been wide variation in outcomes, from my mother making $10k/year to my aunt who owns a highly successful architecture firm.

Yet absolutely everyone in my extended family went to college. Values and norms persist longer than money.
A very large percentage of compilers for statically typed languages include algorithms with worst-case exponential time. For instance, the celebrated Hindley Milner type inference algorithm, which is "almost linear" in practice, has worst-case exponential time (the reason it rarely comes up is that programs rarely have deeply-left-nested let bindings). Anyway, type checkers that employ constraint solving can be a lot easier to reason about and extend than alternatives (and give way better error messages, which is probably the second-most-important thing a type checker does).
I'd love to see rational or even an explanation of how/why he imports graphics inline with his source code for the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geYBLxYEITo

Watching it fly by is throughout the code... I can't even imagine how it'd be useful
Unlike Apple, Kodak was caught in a very hard place. With film they would collect revenue for every picture taken, through the film itself, developing, and printing. With digital you could make money on the cameras themselves, but your per-picture revenue opportunities were limited - this was the great attraction of digital. It's not the same as Apple replacing devices one-for-one.
> I really miss that in other languages.

Elixir has a pretty good lisp-inspired macro system. And it's hygienic by default, too.

And Elixir's pattern matching actually makes manipulating the forms even easier.
> What many at the time didn't yet recognize was that there was no business model in digital cameras that would employ 100 thousand engineers, managers, factory workers, technicians, and staff

I believe you meant to say "that there was a business model".
Yep, that's why I said they were not completely responsible.

Believe it or not I appreciated the 10pm part. It was fast enough, and at least once it allowed me to fix a mistake before it occurred.
Definitely Finish as a language is completely unrelated to any Germanic language.
The technical reason is that the microcode isn't designed to be run in parallel -- it does DMA transfers between main memory and texture memory, and such. I don't understand why running it on the GPU would help anybody.

For personal / drama reasons, the main author of libretro (squarepusher / twinaphex) has a bad track record in the emulation community, but this isn't the time or place to talk about it. Just know that not a lot of people in the scene hold a very high opinion of him.
This is basically my life as a high school programmer except I never thought it was interesting enough to write a Medium post about. Newsflash: old people want to use technology but can't. You can help them learn how. It's not difficult.

If I sound snarky it's because this reads like a college essay which while not problematic of itself makes it extremely distracting to read as someone who is not an admissions officer.

Nonetheless it's still cool and vitally important. I just wish it had a less clinical feel to the writing.
The ECC algorithms used today rely on the "Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem" and are very much vulnerable to (a version of) Shor's algorithm. Some would even say they are more vulnerable than RSA due to the much smaller key sizes (requiring less qubits).
It goes beyond money though.

My parents technically earn below the federal poverty level. They definitely could not have afforded the expensive private education I received.

Yet from a young age it was always expected that I would attend college and a huge emphasis was put on education. Educational values endure across generations more effectively than wealth.
Yes, if you look at bigger companies like Google, teams and individuals have Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that are tracked and used to evaluate performance. The trick is to define your KPIs to align with the organization's values. Some useful metrics to look at in terms of software development are: Mean time to delivery, mean time to recovery, bugs per line of code, number of deploys per time period. Really it comes down to delivering business value, usually defined as return on investment (ROI).
>> So those more adept at learning, the metaskill of acquiring new skills, are best positioned to weather the coming technologic changes, and thrive under new conditions.

Or, some are merely older workers, who by the time they acquire a new relevant skill, their working life would have ended.
About half was health related film (X-rays and such) and was sold off as another company who's name escapes me. I'd heard that one building was demolished but I believe most of it is still there
The idea behind this application is basically to show strong ties to Germany (often including significant savings or investments) and that you are not just keeping the citizenship for the safety net.

Additionally to what you said, you can stay German citizen without any approval if you acquire an EU or Swiss citizenship.
So, what does it mean exactly when they say that these kinds of problems are in the same class as Sudoku?
It's not that black implies death. Rather: what color goes well with death? In the west that color is black.
The article focusses on function overloads, which are not a part of Hindley-Milner (so yes, a red herring in this case) and not necessarily exponential. The fact that Swift is exponential here is an implementation shortcoming and little more.

Swift's type checker does also have an exponential path for protocol constrained generic parameters which is functionally equivalent to the exponential path for classical Hindley-Milner. However, there are "pseudo" linear optimizations for this too that Swift should also consider.
A randomly selected unix system has a 99.999% chance of being a Linux system. Nobody cares about the other variants except for their own developers and a few historians and hobbyists.

For that matter I have no idea why you think freetype is even unix software. It builds and runs on numerous non-unix platforms.
Does anyone know how (if) currency conversion is done with amounts this large? I imagine with the volatility of the GBP right now this could have been more expensive if the conversion was done a few weeks ago.
Old money has just had a longer time in Europe to convince everybody that new money doesn't belong. Europe also had royalty.

I wouldn't consider either of these things something to proudly stick to.
Time for another opensource browser but this time which does not drink all the ram. Probably with the same dev tools.
my comment referred to a choice between carbon tax vs. cap-and-trade for reducing emissions, which seems unrelated to ethanol credits.

I just think taxing coal/oil/natural gas as it's produced and sold, based on how much carbon it contains, is easy and effective, enforcing a carbon credit system is hard and prone to shenanigans, fraud, corruption.

Economically they're essentially the same and the shenanigans are a massive bug. But politically, shenanigans are a feature.
Ok, but I think you are being kind of picky. We are having a discussion about an article which alleges willful obstruction of FOIA requests by government employees. I think it's clear in this context the comment is not talking about murder, securities fraud, or what have you.