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re: FreeBSD is Just OS X Without the Good Bits

The "good bits" are things like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Quark.

Sure, I'm aware there are alternatives like Gimp and [whatever]. But the alternatives are kludges for edge case experts; and not for people who need to Get Stuff Done.

PS. I operate a FreeBSD server. It's great for that.
Thanks. Trying different things to focus on. I'll probably forget the name, but I'll employ it all the same.
Which RSS reader do you all use? RSS fell by the wayside for me after Google Reader was shutdown. I thought HN+Reddit+Twitter+Medium would replace it but I still find myself missing updates from several wonderful sites that don't update regularly.
Almost certainly this. In one of the links by another commenter here, you can see a voltmeter where the guy changes the decimal. The dots are bizarrely high to be a decimal point, but right where you'd expect it if it's the bottom dot on the colon.
Does FreeBSD have anything to compete with V4L/DVB ?
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I don't understand. Ctrl-e does work fine "when you load the file for the first time".

Even to make extra sure (though I already was), I have tested it on a GIMP 2.8 and on GIMP master just now. That works.
Not sure if this works, but I was using those sound entrainment binaural beats for theta deep sleep waves, or set to meditation. There's some free frequency generators online or app store. You should try it with your headband to see if there are increases in frequency of the binaural beat frequency you've chosen in app
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> For example, if the SEC successfully fines JP Morgan a sum of $2 billion, let the key employees of that prosecution them keep $500 million and distribute it among themselves. That way the employees of the SEC have an incentive to be antagonistic to banks.

Then the SEC will start making a bunch of awful rules that will transfer the wealth of widely held companies to a few regulators.
Legal rulings and statutes, etc. are pretty far removed from the type of deductive logic that can be "openly defied" in the sense that busted math calculations or if>then statements can be self-evidently wrong.

For example, the case Olmstead v. U.S. was a big deal in the 20s when the Supreme Court said the fourth amendment protection for "persons, houses, papers, and effects" didn't apply to taps on telephone wires. I disagree with that result not because it "openly defies logic" but because my understanding of the underlying importance of privacy is at odds with those of the justices. That's not a dispute about logic, it's a disagreement about values.
So, for C++, a good document about keeping ABI compatibility: https://community.kde.org/Policies/Binary_Compatibility_Issu...
It would be nice if the readme had a short paragraph explaining what issue this is solving and how it differs from others.
Vehicle technical specifications: http://www.bloodhoundssc.com/project/facts-and-figures/vehic...

CAD drawing files: http://www.bloodhoundssc.com/cad-drawings
We're working on it - check out Popcorn Linux: http://www.popcornlinux.org

Basically, it's a Linux variant that launches a separate kernel on each ISA-island (think a set of cores), links the kernels together with a custom messaging layer and page coherency protocol to create a single system image for applications, and then provides a compiler and set of runtime tools to enable developers to write code like they would for a traditional single-ISA SMP machine but that can take advantage of the different ISAs in the system.

The short story is that there are performance and power benefits to be had, but only if you can support quick and efficient migration between architectures. I'm not at liberty to say right now exactly how that works (we're still publishing the work), but suffice to say: we've hooked up an x86-64 machine and aarch64 machine, made it look like a single system, and migrated applications between the two. It's pretty cool to watch processes move back and forth between architectures :-)
Question:

Given the relatively limited amount of static content they distribute, and what seem like only daily updates, how is there not a switch they can flip when things go south to spin the service up in another region or on another provider?

Seems like it'd be the logical thing to do given AWS is always going to have another outage, and NFLX has lots of time and smart engineers to plan and prepare for these eventualities..
Running water has own relaxing sound to it for humans I think.
Does Windows 10 as a service, not a product frighten you? (2015)
It's still down too... on a Saturday night they must be absolutely hounded with complaints.
If 3/4 of a software engineers day is communicating I hope they aren't staying at work till 9pm doing actual work.
Or just a "Bullshit" option.
There's nothing inherently wrong with NIMBYism. Would you be at all concerned if your neighbour planned to place a radio mast as tall as the eiffel tower in their backyard? The local's concerns are entirely reasonable.
Does Netflix have a standard status dashboard like other services do ?
What would you want offline to be without internet for a year?
What would you want offline if you were going to be without internet for a year ?

Suppose you won't have internet, but you will have lots of computing power and 20 terabytes of storage space. What do you cache offline for a year ? Your goal is to learn, explore, play with the data.

To start with:

1. Wikipedia text: 20 gigabytes

2. Hacker news: 6 gigabytes

3. Reddit:

4. All Debian packages with source:

5. All stack exchange data dumps

What else ?
Great point and well said. Except I'd add that the LSAT is heavily focused on deductive, formal logic (particularly the logic puzzles section) and most of the rest is semantics. That's very removed from what lawyers actually do (which I think you described well, it's just that the LSAT isn't very representative of that).
I could imagine a scenario where a specific target was identified by the version of several potentially vulnerable packages they installed. The NSA monitors when this target is online (possible even through Tor) then listens to a specific set of upgrade requests for debian during that time.

Probably waiting for an upgrade into a version that they have found a vulnerability in.
A few important facts for the casual observer.

* I-131 has a half life of 8 days

* statistically significant cancer rate increases are only seen when exposure happened under the age of 20

* cancer risk peaked 15 years after exposure

* the 30-year survival rate for related thyroid cancer is 90%

(don't worry about drinking milk these days)

So if you were a kid at the time, it happened to rain in the short time when atmospheric I-131 concentration was high after a test, and you drank a lot of milk... you had a noticeably higher chance of a fairly low risk cancer around 1980. A real risk to be sure, testing was stopped for a reason, but let's not blow it out of proportion or claim millions of people are still at risk.

And don't forget to notice that your risk of dying in a war is drastically lower as a direct result of these weapons. A direct result of their creation has resulted in relative peace unprecedented in the history of human civilization. War between major powers now seems impossible and old fashioned, though unfounded fear of these weapons was used for decades after WWII as an inappropriate game to control populations and fight-out conflicts between states that could no longer actually go to war.
Wayback machine [1] if 20TB of storage space is enough for it.

[1] https://archive.org/web/
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They do this all the time. They switch back and forth between regions very frequently to test exactly this scenario.
You should really send that to EFF or Tor or to people at the defcon, CCC or blackhat conference
Jamie Dimon admitted that he violated Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which carries a prison sentence of up to 20 years.
Weren't these water rights sold a hundred years ago when the aggressive agriculture and population didn't exist?
I think you might underestimate the scale here. It's more like, it's "always on, in all regions, with as many providers as they can". This is a company that's had to innovate in basically every possible business space it can to keep delivering what it has been.
I'm still on Windows 7. Windows 8 was such a disaster that if Windows 10 has any pieces of Windows 8 in it, I don't want any part of it.

And then, after all of those disastrous forced upgrades, I simply don't trust Microsoft anymore. I'm on Windows 7 until I somehow accidentally upgrade.
2020 is my drop-dead date. I have some older XP laptops that I shutdown that I want to use to experiment with Linux. If things go well I might jump ship sooner.
Metric system, round numbers messing with daily Seattle weather stats
Rails guy here of 10+ years (started before 1.0).

Still use the generators. It sets up the model, the tests and fixtures all in one command. It's a productivity win for me.
Is there a good reason to still be using Prolog? I used Prolog back in the day, but is it still the tool of choice for some projects?
That one didn't seem like a hoax, just a neat idea that wasn't really possible to make into an actual product. (as in, it kind-of worked but wasn't going to be physically possible to make into a remotely satisfying product)
If someone is making money from it, someone else is (most likely) losing money from it as well.

When the lightbulb was invented, Edison made lots of money, but I am sure candlemakers had plenty of incentive to fund research that hypothesized that lightbulbs emitted toxins.
Insolation is usually given as peak power with no clouds or other shade when talking about solar panels (unless you specifically say you're talking about average power over a 24hr period). I think it's probably just a typo in the article.
Yes, you are right. Infact I was wondering the same too. They also make sure their systems are resilient by testing out scenarios as simple as one instance going down [1] to a whole data center going down [2] and yet this happens. I guess we have to wait till the post-mortem report comes in on this.

[1]- http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-in...
[2]- http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/07/netflix-simian-army.html
Do any consumer sites have that? Seems like more of an enterprise-SLA type thing.
RSS feeds rock! Just needs a bit of tweaking to lower the noise, which is still very low, and best of all - untouched by algorithmic sorting, compared to social platforms like Twitter, Facebook etc.

Some interesting feeds we've created using Feedity are listed at https://feedity.com/featured.aspx

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Woah 360 Degree Timelapse of UNESCO World Heritage Site of Nepal
Working fine on my end.
That's because capitalism isn't a form of government. It's an economic system. Communism is both a form of government and an economic system (although there is variance in the form of the economic aspect of it).
God I love those questions.

They're essentially essay questions- come up with reasonable-enoguh assumptions and get on with business.

We don't do a -ton- of stuff like that, but I've found that if you can't estimate with any rationale, you're probably just not very good at whatever domain you're asked to deal with.

For example, 'what sort of architecture are we going to use to make this system', 'how many simultaneous users are we expecting', 'how many requests per second can we handle given this hardware', 'how much memory do we really need- if we quadrupled it, what would that get us', etc.

Also- if a person locks up when they're thrown "How would you move mt fuji", there are going to be a lot questions that I'd be concerned about getting answers out of you for...

For a Sr or higher person, I'd hope to get some reasonable answers.

Am I off?
No, these loans involved actual fraud. It's more like Toyota removed every form of safety testing from their manufacturing process and changed it to a 'wave at the foreman if this car has any defects' policy. The specific lies would be from factory workers who were told that they needed to produce x cars per day and that saying a car has a defect will get them fired, but the bigger lie is Toyota selling millions of cars knowing that they were labelling all of them as roadworthy but hadn't even attempted to verify that (and that it was literally impossible for the workers to have verified it when they had one guy testing the brakes on 500 cars per day). But that would probably actually be prosecuted because it's easy for people to understand 'Toyota lied about having verified their cars were safe!' and hard for people to understand 'Countrywide lied about having adequate underwriting practices to ensure that their loans were valid!'.
If you have any comments or suggestions...

You can add " / cover" to the background: CSS definition on the body or add the separate property "background-size: cover;" to make the image not tile on larger screens.

Great writing, I really enjoy your vérité style.
For comparison, most crop plants get 1-2% solar to biomass efficiency on the high end.
Can you please point out exactly where I said that 80% of card readers are broken? You keep stating this figure as coming from my mouth and are using it as an avenue to call me a liar.

Please, go ahead, show me.
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A similar plot point occurs in The Imitation Game, the Turing biopic that was released last year or so.
There are WAY better plants than trees for this. Switchgass is often listed as one of the best options.

You literally just cut it down, let it dry for a bit, and throw it into the exact same plants that burn coal.
actually that law predates the explosion of the student debt market. it was intended to close a loophole - lore goes that law school graduates would default on their student loans just after they passed the bar and got their first law firm job
I'm having fun watching the outrage on the Twitter feed.
They should disperse that cash to the taxpayers.
Youre wrong
Is it excessive? It certainly doesn't seem to be BS. It's published in a reputable journal (which doesn't make it true). It discusses several of the questions raised by Animats directly (though I wouldn't say it answers them conclusively).

I do agree that the university press release isn't going to critically evaluate the work of its own researchers. That's too bad, perhaps, but it hardly renders the original result uninteresting.

Artificial photosynthesis may be old, but the advances in this work appear aimed at overcoming precisely the problems Animats raised, like catalyst preservation and efficiency.

Put another way, just because a university gushes about the work of its faculty doesn't mean the faculty's work is crap.
Interesting, I cannot login on their website, but I can access it on my phone.
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The dust bowl was caused by a natural drought combined with individual farmers using bad practices.

The US Government paid an army of researchers to solve the problem and go into the field and teach the farmers about soil erosion, etc. Also the rains returned.

There is nothing in common with the two events.
Thanks so much for posting a list of 6000 mostly broken links.
Who says they haven't?

As far as spying goes, the game has evolved to the point where it's not really embarrassing any more. Everybody knows that everybody does it, and there's pretty strong resistance to going public. If anything did get discovered it'd probably be used for disinformation or behind-the-scenes political capital if not just destroyed. Finding a box of electronics at the bottom of the sea isn't quite the same as capturing an enemy pilot in a spy plane [1] and it's gotten to the point that embarrassing yourself for being spied on is just as bad as embarrassing an adversary (or friend) for doing the spying. Plus, how are you going to attribute blame anyway?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Gary_Powers
I live in Massachusetts, and the stores near me have recently switched from accepting swipe cards to using chips (in the same cards). It's worse, for silly reasons. With a swipe card, you can swipe any time while the cashier is scanning your items, then after they finish scanning they indicate they're done and then it asks you to confirm the result. With a chip card, if you insert the card before the cashier is done scanning, it won't work; it'll give an error and you have to take it out and reinsert it after they finish. On top of which there's also a ~20% read error rate.
It's also not entirely static, there's a lot of checks in place because of licensing models, and beyond that there's different encoding and quality levels of streams to support various clients.
It's up for me.

Why is it that, whenever a major site has a glitch for a few minutes (less than an hour here), someone runs to the 'net to post about when, by the time most people see the post, the site is back up? Why can't we just leave it at, it's a Saturday night and Netflix tried to install and transition some new software and it didn't go as smooth as they thought but now it's back up?
What's with the tone here? You sound pretty angry while making an argument that largely boils down to "different tools are better for different use cases".
A good type system, yes. Something like TypeScript though? Only checks that variable types match. We're a far cry from ML/Elm/Scala/Haskell here.

So the only thing it helps is get rid of bad tests (eg: tests that check a function return any string...tests you shouldn't write even in a purely dynamic language).
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Do the pension fund managers not have a fiduciary responsibility to actually investigate the mortgages in the CDO?

Could they not be prosecuted along those lines?
If you search around the communities - there's an STM32duino forum where the EagleCAD design files for #myStorm have been placed http://www.stm32duino.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1276#p16407

It looks like they have 512K bytes of 10nS SRAM on the back of the board - but it's neat how the $5 Rapberry Pi-Zero plugs in at one end - some cool overall pics on Twitter if you search #myStorm
cp `which ruby` ~ ; lldb ~/ruby
It's not just a factual error, its kind of a sore spot to many people.

TypeScript is a pretty bad type system, but compared to Java and other mainstream ones, it looks like it "pushes the envelop".

Because of this, we're stuck with an half baked, crappy type system designed for mass consumption, and people adopt it with a round of applause.

That's no excuse to me an ass in response to your post...but it's part of why you'll see answers like that.
You're right: that is pedantic -- in the worst sense of the word.
See also: http://25thandclement.com/~william/projects/timeout.c.html
I'm using Linux as my desktop system (including for gaming) and drivers situation feels OK. Unless you use some really weird hardware, Linux drivers aren't usually a problem. Especially with Intel being pretty open and AMD opening things up (GPU wise), it's getting even better.
From the "FreeBSD is good for servers, not for Desktops"

> If even this is too much effort, PC-BSD is a full-featured desktop system built on top of FreeBSD, with an easy-to-use installer and the option of commercial support.

Seriously, it is this sort of "the user is so stupid if they can't compile their own software easily" attitude that turns me off about projects like FreeBSD. How hard is it to simply not say this stuff, and gain a lot more users into the bargain? Just say something friendly, like "If you would prefer an OS that works out of the box, PC-BSD is also available".
I know a few people who have contributed and none of them are rich or famous. Your own personal experience at a small company apparently is not representative of the world at large.
I understand the site isn't static, but fundamentally what they are serving are static video streams. Encoding for video streams of varying quality levels is entirely pre-computed, and thus seem like static assets. Anyways, my gripe is that I am not seeing the good reason(s) for not having a working failover plan ready to go at all times for the service driving a publicly traded company. Even scale doesn't seem like a good reason, as I'm sure Google GCE would love to get a few slices of the Netflix pie. So I'm just left perplexed..
Well that's what they do now. The only fines that go to people are whistleblower cases and they get a percentage (and aren't government employees in charge of making the rules!).
Immediately QuickCheck comes to mind (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck).

Folks have written (possibly less powerful) implementations in Python (https://github.com/HypothesisWorks/hypothesis-python), Javascript (https://github.com/jsverify/jsverify), etc.

FWIW I've found them fragile and lacking for my use cases - but I bet fuzzing style testing tools could be pretty valuable in certain cases.
Really? On the http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/ IceStorm site - If you look carefully at the table of supported devices - the ICE40HX4K-144 is there - 2 rows from the bottom
I wasn't aware 40-70 million black people had died by police brutality in the US. I mean listen, it's a problem, but are you actually trying to stretch that far?
It appears as if it just came back up for my region. Literally in the last five minutes.

Obviously people's mileage may vary, since it could be region dependant.
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Linux is not Unix. Never has been and moving further away from it. (Ignoring the very recent version in January which got certified somehow)
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newsbeuter.
The fight against Uber reminds me so much of the early aughts where, helped by the efforts of the ufcw (in the same way thos fight is often supported by another group seeking to restrict labor supply via law, taxi companies), there was a popular fight against wal-mart. It experiences the same problem: the company is a canvas upon which many people find they can draw their gripe with how society works, and in a way which will catch headlines for relevance.

Some of these gripes are legitimate, but all gesture to the rest of the crowd denouncing today's symbol of "libertarian evil" to signify that all these folks, and by extension the informed in general, support their particular cause and gripe.

Lots of people think uber represents some social problem, but I would guess for most of them, "lack of socialism" isn't what they had in mind.
FreeBSD is a professional operating system for professionals. It bothers me none if a 15-year old redditor can't handle getting his games to work on it.
Well that was poor description of what It's a proof of. Could someone provides details of what it actually is?
I am so eternally grateful this concept is getting traction now!
Having spend a large portion of the last 4 years building up tenqyu, which solves location-based augmented reality with easier parking, engaging urban sports games, and global event aggregation.

Happiness!
If you read the blogpost on #myStorm that describes the hardware
https://folknologylabs.wordpress.com/2016/07/21/a-perfect-st...

It sounds like this board is going to be available for $30 and you add your own Rasp-Pi - but the $5 Pi-Zero plugs straight in on the end of the board.

There's an ARM M3 acting as FPGA programmer, GPIO, ADC and up to 512K bytes of fast SRAM on the flip-side of the board.

For $30 that seems a bargain!