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Ask HN: Using a Virtual Machine as Your Primary Computing Environment
I recently saw a comment where an individual stated he had moved to using a virtual machine as his primary computing environment. The idea was that he could just backup the VM itself and that doing so would free him from worrying about any one specific computer.

I was curious if anyone here on HN is doing this. And if so, I would appreciate hearing about your perceived benefits for doing so.
Russia Tests Parts of 6th Generation, Railgun Equipped Near Space Warplane
Finding Your Founding Customers
Well for example it could be a wealth tax... $1M of 401ks taxed just for existing.

Edit: Or maybe you;d like to talk about government's straight up taking away assets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102 . Sure they gave them cash, but that could have as easily been "401ks are cancelled, they're being treated as income this year"
You seem to keep taking my positions and reducing them to absurdity.

> So I do not think we can work on the assumption that we only need to worry about deposit taking institutions and let investment bank collapse.

I did not say that. Or anything like.

I'm consistently saying:

We should regulate both retail banks and investment banks more.

And part of that increased regulation ought to be splitting investment banking risk from retail banking risk again. Both are risky enough as is. Combining their (sometimes correlated!) risk is a really bad idea.

I agree with you that retail banks can cause huge problems (eg your UK examples). I agree with you that pure investment banks (or merely broker-dealers) can cause huge problems. Hence the need to regulate both and do what we can to prevent crises (not just treat them more effectively), while constraining economic activity as little as we can, of course.
Less breathless reporting: Facebook builds 20000-square-foot machine shop and bench lab, invites press to grand opening.
Vermont is so quaint.
ConsenSys Weekly: Supporting ETH, Mortal Hazards of Technology and More
I think the methodology here is off. It may not be that People in Florida and Alabama are looking for abortion prices. It could be people in Georgia price shopping neighboring states, then looking for taxis to get across the border.
The problem with those calculators is that they are based upon your desires, not on your customers.

If I needed $40K per year to maintain my lifestyle and I invented a cure for cancer, would I only charge $40k?

Similarly, if I needed $100 per hour to maintain my style of living, should I demand $100 to someone who wants to hire me as a doorman? He'd never pay that much.
Yep, it is pretty cool but the decision-makers at most of our client companies are slow to approve budgets for Snapchat. It has been fun to work on, it's our first big push into hardware so I've had a ball. We'd like to push our prices way down to hit weddings but our hardware needs to be overbuilt as all hell to handle the rigors of being shipped and handled by half-drunk wedding photographers :P
Why not a browser that turns off all that crap? Don't send a list of fonts, if I don't have the one you try to use, it should default back to one of the standard ones. Don't report anything about canvas setup, audio, etc. Let them translate silence.
And where would the cash to pay that tax come from? Would it be deducted from the 401(k) directly? That'd be the only way most people middle-class individuals could afford such a tax.

EDIT: My point is this. If 401(k) accounts aren't safe, then literally no method of investment or saving is safe. There's no point fretting over this one particular one. If it turns out, in 20 years, that our retirement plans have been raided by way of taxation, then likely the rest of the economy is so fucked that the lack of funds in that account will not affect you in any meaningful way, as the dollar itself will have severely lost any value as there will no longer be any trust in the US government and economy.
I don't trust facebook with the data I give it now, and they want me to trust locked hardware they made?
Sweden received many immigrants from Greece, Turkey, Italy and Yugoslavia during the 60s.
Wanna have a tantrum and smash something? Be her guest
5 minutes to fast, video feedback
That inspector is amazing, and twice as much when one considers the horror of parsing C++ (let alone gaming C++).

I would be very interested to know how many of these items the inspector in JetBrains CLion would have flagged. I have only lightly used CLion, and didn't even know CryEngine was on GitHub, but CLion does use CMake for its native build system so there's a better than average chance one could just open the project right away.
> More interesting is to scan new submissions, download the article and run a model to predict whether it's interesting enough to upvote. You can start by scanning old articles and trying to predict votes.

While I see why you see that as interesting, I think that submissions should not be filtered by a computer based on content for quasi-ethic reasons.
I would look at Google trends rather than autocomplete. Their autocomplete tries to be smart and doesn't reflect actual search traffic.

See: Why won't my parakeet eat my diarrhea.
Compared with most cities, there really aren't many playing children or other people in the road (you'd set autonomous vehicles to avoid Little India :-) ), the roads are impeccably maintained and there's virtually no traffic.
Is the author confused, or am I confused as to the proposed armament on this plane? Does it have a railgun or some sort of EMP generator, or does a railgun generate an EMP? (I don't think it does, because other railgun articles never mention it.)
Some additional info: your phone number is identifying the transfer target, and is associated with your debit bank account number behind. So you don't have to share anything additional, if your friend or the buyer has your phone number he can initiate a transaction.
They make it look like they live in the homes to pay no capital gains tax. These homes generally aren't used as homes but investments. It takes a lot of work and luck to even rent a small apartment.

Source: I was just reno-victed I had a front row seat. My new apartment had been available for 30 minutes when I put the deposit down. It was pure luck that I found somewhere to live . It's not sustainable.
The comments, probably.
Singapore is a country that is less than half the size of houston,tx. It might be more manageable there compared to many other places.
Looks like it only returns words that begin with consonants because of the "a". If you search for

"how much does an * cost in"

You get different results that begin with vowels as well as acronyms/abbreviations.
> performance. sshfs is dog slow

I'd started using ssfs for something and found this slowness issue. I asked my mentor about what could be done to improve it, and he said "If you're using sshfs, you've already lost".

'scp' is very slow as well. Anything bigger than a small text file gets rsync'd. Small text files get scp'd, because remembering rsync flags is a minor annoyance :)
Do you see real economic opportunities in the Django-CMS space that will lead to people investing effort in it and improving it to the point where it is an option for the kind of people who use Wordpress?
But they represent a sample of the people who would have voted if they could vote (the first elimination), and who will vote in the actual but not the primary (second elimination).

(I have nothing to say about the people who never vote unless they're not in swing states).

So really it is much closer to 50% of the country that chose Trump or Clinton.
Ask HN: Feeling trapped by the visa. Advice appreciated
I got moved to the US (Bay Area) under a non-transferrable visa. I knew that it wasn't possible to change employers before I came. But I liked the company, and was ok with that.

Fast forward a few months and a few organizational changes and I end up at a completely messed up corner in said company. The formerly pleasant work environment now seems to have been conjured up by Dante.

Other than leaving company and country(and feeling like a failure, plus I feel like I've come home) what are my options ?

Options I've considered:

Internal move. May or may not happen, may take months. Working on it anyway.

Changing to H1B. Not guaranteed, long horizon(maybe an year, if I get lucky on my first attempt)

O-1. Not yet possible, but may be with a lot of work and lawyer assistance(based on another HN thread).

Creating my own company is not allowed by the visa. Nor is working on my own.

What else is there?

I can't trust my brain in my current state of mind(and yes, I'm seeing a doctor, no worries) so I am enlisting the help of HN.

Now it would really be a good time to be able to answer that YCombinator application question (about hacking a non computer system).
true but 30 or 40 times the average programmer? and I am say this as some one who is a transplant list in the UK
Tell the hiring manager that companies aren't built to show career progression/build a resume, they're built to fill a customer need. You prefer to spend your time thinking about how to better fulfill your customer's needs than checking off boxes for your resume.
Microsoft's war against Chrome battery life now includes Win10 notifications
How to Build Your Own Demo Website to Land a Full-Stack Engineering Job
The drivers for desktop GPUs are MIT licenced, most of the others seem to be GPL.
HTTP/2: Faster and better than HTTP 1.1, but is it more secure? [pdf]
WW3 PLANET X 10 TRUMP SENT TO VISIT PUTIN
> Even most refactors are done behind a flag

How does this work without cloning vast swaths of code and saying:

if (feature)
loadModuleA();
else:
loadModuleB();
The scary thing about this (well, one scary thing) is that we, as a worldwide community, needed to be making hard decisions about the climate two or three decades ago, to stave off the worst of the impact of climate change. We're several years too late to stop it, and we still have half of our government (in the US) utterly denying the problem even exists. The decisions that need to be made now to stave off complete disaster are too extreme for even the non-insane elements in our government to support, because there's a whole segment of the population that still believes in fairy tales spun by the oil and gas industry.

The human mind is just terrible at grasping problems on the scale and timeline of global climate change, and it's plausible that it'll be the end of life as we know it in another few decades. All the assholes who denied it was happening will be dead, already, of course...so they won't care. I just don't see any significant movement on solving these problems; despite cool stuff like electric cars and renewable power becoming cheaper than coal, emissions are still increasing worldwide, not decreasing (and, again, it needed to begin decreasing decades ago).

I'm an optimist in the general case, but when it comes to climate and the environment, I see little reason to be optimistic.
> despite having about 3 developers

If one of those developers is Matt Dillon low numbers are rarely a hinderance. He turns out an awful lot of superb quality code, ever since the days of DICE on the Amiga. That ended up generating faster code than either of the "professional" offerings, including Lattice. Lattice C on MSDOS later became the first two versions of Microsoft C.

One of the people I respect most in this industry.
Clint and Scott Eastwood: No Holds Barred in Their First Interview Together
A few important segments that really seem to get buried in the rest of the text.

"This is not to say that Chinese government regulation drove Uber’s deal with Didi, which was clobbering Uber in the ride-sharing market; in fact, Uber felt it was treated fairly by a government interested in transportation innovation. According to reports on the ground, Didi used its local knowledge to act more nimbly in satisfying Chinese customers.

...

Google’s retreat came in 2010, so it’s fair to ask whether those regulatory issues still exist.

...

To be fair, the American marketplace has not exactly been a fertile ground for Chinese internet companies hoping to break in. Though many of the really big players — Baidu, Alibaba, TenCent, WeChat — have moved on from clone-ish beginnings and actually come up with important innovations, none have made an impact here. But that’s due more to a lack of resolve than any regulatory barriers."
That is certainly the orthodoxy of our times, and yet I am strongly skeptical in this instance. If you adopt an open source CMS the expectation is that the core and plugin dev teams will handle the overwhelming majority of code maintenance work. This leaves your team to focus on maintaining whatever customizations were coded for a particular project. Ergo code cleanliness outside of your own repo should be largely irrelevant to the project budget.
Hong Kong Bitcoin exchange says it was hacked, trading suspended
They dropped support for 32-bit hardware ages ago (3.8 was the last release with 32-bit support). That message is just in the release notes every time.
Only if there is a particular value in getting the whole country to shift at exactly the same time.

What harm is there in, say, letting a suburb of Pittsburgh try it out. Then extend it to Detroit and so on.
Ford has been making some progress on driving in snow.[1] Volvo is working on it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vShi-xx6ze8
In NYC, I've heard that quite a few drivers have an agreement with the taxi owner that makes it barely-profitable for them to do more than a given number of rides - and with a rain, that number is achieved much earlier in the shift.
How to Start a Project
Yes, and Canada received many refugees from Syria. That's a far cry from allowing unrestricted migration which is what SF does. There are no border patrols outside the city. You do not need a passport to get in. Other cities literally pack up their homeless and give them free bus tickets to SF!

Sweden, on the other hand, forces people to learn the language before they can even get a job. Those who won't or cannot do that end up in Germany instead.
I can foresee several phases in the development of "robocars".

Phase 1 - dedicated lanes for robocars, to mitigate problems with the still-dominant human-piloted cars. Robocars capabilities at primitive level, will likely have human-usable controls.

Phase 2 - once their safety and compatibility have been established, robocars will freely mix with human-piloted cars. Robocars will accommodate errors committed by human-piloted cars, and will no longer need human control.

Phase 3 - robocars dominate the roads, while laws and economic structures (e.g. insurance) will favor robocars. Robocars will have localized coordination capability.

Phase 4 - robocars will act in concert over large (metropolitan) distances to smooth traffic flows. Human-piloted cars will become as horses are today - a hobby for the rich.

Admittedly, I am mixing adoption phases with technological ones.
"The T" ??? What's Massachusetts going on about?
> Are people going to be okay with getting no interest and instead paying large-ish fees every month to cover the cost of bank branches, ATMs, debit cards, websites, money transfers, checks, and so on?

Looks at bank statements: .... Zero interest, check. High fees, check. I'm pretty sure... that's how it already is? What bank do you recommend? Hook a brother up.

> If depository banks are going to be very risk adverse they won't be earning much on the use of those demand deposits

You realize that this is how it used to be, right? Up until 1999. I don't know about you, but I got more interest and paid fewer fees back then...

I think this is oversimplifying things overall. Higher risk doesn't necessarily mean higher return in general, and definitely not when dealing with tremendously large pools of capital as depository banks do. There is a limit to how much total capital you can invest in a given level of risk, and what return you can actually achieve in practice for that level of risk. It's fallacious to think that regulating the types of risk depository banks can participate in and how much total risk they can take on would necessarily lessen their returns over the long-term in practice.

Moreover, on an operational basis banks are more profitable today than possibly ever. So, those fees and low interest rates are paying for more than all their services, by a wide margin. (At least as of the last time I looked into this.)
How one man faced down a 'noodle cartel'
Jumpy Llama – most addictive game on ios
Jumpy Llama is a simple arcade game made for iOS that is simple to pick up yet impossible to master. The controls are one touch and scoring is achieved by flipping the llama as he flies through the air.

Use the flips to buy some outrageous hats and capes for the llamas.
Kentucky and Florida should make some sort of deal.
This really needs to take into account hardware instruction support. The hardware instructions are quite fast.
Was it Ronald Reagan or Nurse Ratched? Or both ( in series )?
Boston subway system.
As others have mentioned, taxes are vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. I was fortunate (or not :-)) to have a mother in law who was both a CPA and ran a tax business. In my case I got to consult with her on a variety of "what if I did ..." scenarios. In the case of my Sun stock it was clear of the option restrictions but having been acquired (remember that $10M+ of "future" wealth?) I had a pretty incredible "income" on paper. But really it was all about restricted stock (as part of the acquisition) and 89b elections etc.

Anyway, the meta question of whether or not to pay off my house was real (my mother in law advised against, after all you get the mortgage deduction). The endowment question is also good and I find myself in the Vancouver situation in a house that I probably wouldn't spend as much as its "worth" to live in it. Future risk/reward never goes away.
Chinese civilization is different from western civilization, specially in its habit to absorb other culture, instead of conquering them. China had a Mongol dynasty, a Manchu dynasty. But it never rode to the other side of the world to force remote populations to change their religion or political system.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10628212
The first version of Voxel Quest (with source) has been released
> So there was no real reason not to implement them as function calls. Then there was no real reason not to think of them as function calls.

Indeed, and this was the insight discovered by Guy L. Steele Jr. while experimenting with implementing the Actor Model in Lisp, which was one of the insights that lead to the development of Scheme. At some point, while reading his code, he realized that actors and closures were implemented with roughly the same code, modulo alpha conversion, and thus a message pass was the same as a function call.

Of course, the real message-passing called for by the Actor Model became more practical with the introduction of tail-call elimination, because that meant that the stack did not grow out of control as the actors delivered their results via messages to the next actor. I have a feeling that the discovery of closures-as-actors and the discovery of tail-call elimination went hand-in-hand, and possibly even continuation-passing style.
Relevant: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-09/u-s-impose...

'“Economically counterproductive tariffs have artificially made solar panel prices in the U.S. the most expensive in the world,” Shah said. CASE was formed to represent most of the U.S. solar industry against the petition.

Solarworld AG, a German company with a factory in Oregon, persuaded the Commerce Department in 2012 to apply tariffs on imports of solar cells from China.'
And here is the initial result of all that: http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/florida-didnt-save-money...

Followed by the end of it: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-declines-to-appeal-furth...
The same is true of Obama and Romney in the last election. It shouldn't be presented as a property unique to those two candidates.
Hack Everything – Re-Purposing Everyday Devices (2012)
One of the big news stories right now is how people are unhappy with the idea that other people want to relocate to other places.

I'm guessing that even more people wanting to relocate in the future would be slightly unpopular.
Looks like it's even more than that in New York.

http://fairreporters.net/health/prices-of-cigarettes-by-stat...
May the force live long and prosper with you :)
Out of curiosity, why do you think that that is?

How do you feel about that?
I just tried it on Windows, 4 processes each acquiring the lock 100,000 times and doing no work while holding the lock, and it took about 2000 ms. I don't think that would become the bottleneck for a lot of applications.

EDIT: Corrected the numbers, I had a bug, previously it said 4 processes with 10 million locks per process and 750 ms. It is still pretty fast even if 250 times slower than initially claimed.
Don't kid yourself thinking that the US is above those tactics. They might use some other techniques but it is in many regards just as protectionist as China.

One common theme is completely exaggerated fines leveled against foreign companies. Look at the banks: while doing very little to punish U.S. banks (if you take net transfers into account) who where without a doubt the main culprits in the sub-prime crisis and thereby causing a global financial crisis, the U.S. almost exclusively punished foreign banks - and with that also foreign tax payers - for wrong doings like dealings with countries the U.S. dislikes, etc..

Another striking example is the fines imposed in Volkswagen. While it certainly was immensely stupid to cheat on the emission test, the fines are completely over the top: $16b and counting. After every state and agency is through with VW, it might be $30b or more. At the same time, U.S. car companies that caused actual casualties with there shoddy engineering are left of the hook with a slap in the wrist.

Some sources:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2014/12/22/isnt-it-s...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/business/dealbook/volkswag...
At work I'm running django-cms on Python 3.5. But not on the specific platform setup that tutorial is for :)
Slack gives you a unified chat stream and a simple, buttery-smooth onboarding process for the tech-naifs. Jabber does neither of these. I'm not fond of Slack in particular, as it's ridiculously expensive and the main chat window is too widely spaced, even with mods.

I use jabber with a friend, and frequently messages go to his other laptop, which he doesn't see until he logs onto it. Same in reverse. Similarly, history isn't unified. You can get around these problems by having your own centralised jabber chat client (like bitlbee), but that's a technician's answer, not an answer for the general public.
First, I said "many", and how many would you require me to produce to be satisfied?
> while the highly-skilled workers continue to wait in a queue that may take 20-50 years.

According to https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/bul..., the only category which is waiting for 12 years are indians, because consulting companies like infosys (aka bodyshops) bring large number of low skilled engineers to US, using scam schemes, creating backlog.
High skilled engineers from rest of the world are waiting for green cards for 2-3 years only.
> while the highly-skilled workers continue to wait in a queue that may take 20-50 years.

According to https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/bul..., the only category which waits for 12 years are indians, because consulting companies like infosys (aka bodyshops) are bringing large number of low skilled engineers to US, using scam schemes.
High skilled engineers from rest of the world are waiting for green cards for 2-3 years only.
I hear you, and yet WordPress usage numbers speak a lot louder than our grumbling about messy codebases.