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Its easier to procure paid for software than open source in many large enterprises.

There was a culture of fear for open source promulgated by proprietary vendors and major consultancies in the early 00's - the "know the facts" campaign by Gartner and Microsoft springs to mind.

Although this idea is generally dead now, the scars live on in the purchasing and licencing approval flows at many large enterprises.

I am familiar with several organisations where a paid for software licence can be acquired with nothing more than trivial approval for the spend. Yet adoption of an open source product requires multi layer approval of the licence and recording of licence risk against the project.

There is a valid case for that due diligence but its not a particularly strong case and if it were the reason for this situation, then proprietary software licences would be subject to the same scrutiny.
Since Windows 7 I happen to only use GNU/Linux on my travel netbook and even got back to doing mostly .NET projects.
Because everything else works in a terminal, and my own mail client is so very scriptable.

(Sure you can add hooks, and things to mutt, but once you have a mail client with a real integrated programming language it is hard to move back from. Mark all messages read? A single keystroke. Perform operations on messages that are less than 24 hours old, and contain a given token in the subject? Just a short function away.)
How currency comes into existence is a different topic.

I agree wholeheartedly that bartering is the logical continuation of the drug economy in a cash free world. Maybe some pseudo currencies would also arise, creating black market banks.

Money is power. We, the public, ought to stop propping up cartels and giving power to drug lords. My suggestion is to try that first, and then see what problems remain with cash.
C3 and C4 refer to different methods of photosynthesis. C4 confers advantages in sub optimal conditions - the most obvious form is growing in conditions of water stress.

Study authors show through a whole pile of methods that the grain part of wheat uses C4 like photosynthesis while the rest of the plant uses C3 (we previously had always just classified wheat as C3).

This is an additional piece of evidence that falls inline with a large spectrum of previous evidence pointing to relatively complex distribution of the spectrum of C3 to C4 traits. Other cases include finding C3 mechanisms in use in the leafs of the ears of corn (a C4 plant).

Authors end with the suggestion that since the C4-like genes are already present, it would then be easier to breed and/or engineer wheat varieties to using higher proportion of C4-like photosynthesis.

While the abstract calls out breeding specifically, the discussion calls out genetic manipulation. You can interpret that choice as you will.
The idea of the State coming up with a method to calculate prices taking account of supply, demand and cost, was a topic of intense debates that followed the publication of that book.

See, for example, Oskar Lange and Henry Douglas Dickinson proposals, and Friedrich Hayek's rebuttals.

What I am begging you is to stop thinking you have all the right answers before getting to know what other people have already said on the topic.
Far too many have the same response to the word capitalism.
Whether or not you support the 2nd amendment, it has the majority support of the US people.

It's evil and dangerous for massively powerful companies (especially monopolies like Facebook) to marginalize the political right just because their leadership are left-leaning.
Ok I guess I don't know about twitch streamers. But professional YouTubers generally use real video cameras. Because they're not streaming live.
Just wait a bit more and things will sort out.

I am on MS OSes since MS-DOS 3.3. So far only skipped MS-DOS 4, Windows ME and Vista.
Governments always had better resources. Until they didn't. The only way a government has resources is by people providing the resources by doing work. Once people collectively deny work, it's game over for the government.

As for the 1700s, all of the wars I mentioned happened in the second half of 20th, and early 21st century, with a gigantic asymmetry in almost every relevant resource. Yet, in all three examples it took the US a whole decade of trying to win and then get a graceful exit, if that, against, basically, people with AK-47s and improvised bombs.
Submit to PLOS directly from bioRxiv (soon)
Now try and do this when you have a child :)
I do that with self-checkout machines. But I have to make an effort in not putting too much and end up getting a broken value as well
Ok, so 2006 then. I've had 3 laptops over 4 years and never had a single issue. You ancedotal is just as good as mine.
Not anymore. Saw plenty of club mates at defcon talks.
On the contrary, the grocers' prices are the very heart of the matter. You see, the Ferrari neighbor may be HFT, but so are the grocers. And every grocer wants to sell their goods at a newly-higher price if they get wind of a big buyer, because it will cost them more to restock if you buy everything. So they will naturally raise their prices. If you buy from the grocers one at a time, expect them to call the other stores (ok it's a chain grocery) to alert them. You will pay a lot for your last milk purchase, unless you stop buying because the asking price has gone too high. If you instead have milk trucks make synchronized purchases across town, you will pay the same price everywhere, and all of the grocers will be upset once they realize what happened. If you do the synchronized milk truck plan enough, the grocers may permanently raise their milk prices at the expense of losing a few other price-conscience buyers.

In reality, this occurs i the stock market because the "national market" consists of something like 15 different exchanges in a big distributed system, so there are race conditions. HFT market makers trade on all of the exchanges, and adjust their prices based on trading demand seen from other exchanges. They spend a lot of money on fast networks between the exchanges, so that they can be/beat the proverbial ferarri. But synchronized trades a la tgemilk trucks or Katsayuma's "Thor" cannot be raced against.

IEX is intended to partially commoditize the Thor approach: take the advantage away from the grocers (HFT, market makers) and give it to the big milk buyers (institutions like hedge funds and pension funds). Retail trading is not affected one way or another.
"unattended upgrades".

Why? With VMs there is no reason, ever, to be modifying the OS with the VM still running, rather then cutting over to a new, tested instance.
If you folks have already done the legwork on this, could you please publish your setup?
wow (just checked) :)
Fake and gay.
What is interesting about your numbering system is that your expectation continue to go up (in general) yet your disappointment also kept going up.

I would have expected that expectation would have started going down after each disappointment.
A lot of the people I know who own Kindles never connect it to their computers. They literally obtain everything via Amazon or via Amazon's conversion services.

EDIT: now that I think about it, Kindles don't come with power adapters anymore, do they? So users would probably still be connecting the Kindles for charging purposes.
You would not believe how many emails I got right after the movie came out from teenage boys wanting me to put them in touch with Jolie...
The government would be seriously behind in one very important resource - troop count.
Don't bother with StackDriver if if gives ANY issues. They've been in a weird state since the acquisition 2 years ago. (But I still hope it will be fixed and become a great service at some point in the future).

Use datadog instead. It does all the monitoring things and it works flawlessly.

Also, try signalfx for the comparison. It's a good copycat but it lags behind in advanced integrations.

Disclaimer: I am NOT affiliated with any of these services. Just a random customer who [tried] to evaluate them all.
I'm not talking about comment collapsing which is essential but about story hiding on the front page.
Would Lyft iself have any value to Uber? Or would the value just be to take the largest competitor out of the picture, forcing others to start from scratch, without driver network, brand recognition etc?
The tyranny of the majority assumes that issues are always us vs. them, i.e. two choices. Often there are more than that and then no changes by government can be made. The two party system often masks this possibility.
I have had QNX drivers crash in such a way as to bring down the entire microkernel before. Address space separation doesn't completely resolve the problem, but it does make it much rarer.
It is also easier to make a living from closed source, than open source.

Not all types of software are profitable with consulting, books or donations.
Installing windows 10 was the worst thing I did this year.

My mouse would double click instead of click, had to drop enhanced power mode in using the device manger on every USB port.

I got BSOD when going full screen on youtube - had to disable hardware acceleration.

I got BSOD when pressing F5 in powerpoint....

I lost the ability to open the start menu after SP1 - a problem that exists since windows 8... I had to revert to the previous build.

If the new Microsoft means no QA... I'd rather have the old one....
Well how about that. Serve me right calling something "impossible".

Now what do I say? "Impossible without awful hackery"?
Docker Support on Google App Engine [2014]
please do, I am curious especially about the video card (I thought that assigning a card to a vm meant the host system wouldn't be able to use it anymore, so how does it work)?

Besides games I'd love to be able to have a daw working well with asio and so on, as in virtualbox this does not work very well unfortunately (I guess realtime audio is not an easy problem to solve when vms are involved)
This.
Prosecutorial Discretion + Opticon State = Totalitarianism
> I wonder if jeet is actually used in the US

Not really. Foxworthy's joke isn't that that is actually a word, which it's not; it's that that is how the phrase "Did you eat?" comes out sounding in the accent of his home, which is a couple states east of mine. (Also apparently in the accent of New Jersey, which suggests to me that this particular trait may be more coastal than specifically Southern.)
Good read and summary of why GIFs won't die (They Just Work) but really need to (They Are Too Damn Big).

I've been working on projects that want small, high quality animations as design elements on websites. Not featured video content -- just some useful, cool little animations (without sound).

Would love to use video for these.

Video file size is about 1/6th of GIF file size with smoother playback and better quality.

But to be an animated design element rather than a featured content item, the video needs to autoplay, it needs to play within the html page on all browsers/devices (yes, even iPhones...), it needs to not be cluttered up with status bars and control buttons.

Video is such a mess to work with on this level...

But GIF?

Just <img src="file.gif"> and it works everywhere.
Portable USB driver development options exist.

http://libusb.info/
That one's a little more recent. Agony was our Everquest (and later WoW) guild. We raided together for over a decade. The core of the membership was silicon valley based, and since I travel there a lot, I ended up making many IRL friends that I still hang out with to this day from it.

No, I don't MMO any more.
Using a specific company's technology is a choice. Participating in government is not. I'll always take a company I choose to track me over a government that does it by default.
It does. Kanji represent meaning; hiragana and katakana both represent punctuation.
Hack for Surviving the 2nd-System Syndrome
Somewhat related Planet Money podcast -
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/10/30/453257199/the-t...
It's 2016 and Microsoft doesn't know how to test an operating system used by the majority.

BTW, beyond the exciting development stuff that they are releasing there are a lot of issues inside the company. For example, they made it almost impossible to renew my company MSDN Premium account after talking with support guys for weeks.
I love the hacker news search. It's on every page, so no need to remember where it is. Best part- I would guess that about 3/4 of the time I search, I find what I'm looking for.
Goldman seeks to force ex-employee in Fed leak case to arbitrate
His MySQL fork, MariaDB, is still going to be GPL, because he doesn't have the ability to change the license on the code Oracle owns.
That seems way bogus to me. Fermi and the physics world believed that he had found transuranic elements. It was Hahn, Meitner and Strassman who said it was fission in late 1938 (a couple of months after Fermi got the Nobel citing that discovery, but no worries, he had done plenty of Nobel-worthy things).
In the US it's an "I read 2600 Magazine and go to HOPE and I have a point to make" thing.

I mean, it tastes good, and it does carry a decent punch in terms of caffeine. But coffee's a lot more convenient, and you spend less time explaining it.
I have one of those small keyboards with a touchpad for killing the VM (I mostly launch in snapshot mode so I don't need to shut it down :)

Another popular option is Synergy (https://github.com/symless/synergy) but I never used it.
Red Bull if you're in the US.
How is the default battery life? I had to use pretty aggressive tlp settings to get within 50% of what windows gets on an XPS out of the box.
It seems to me this seems to happen a lot more than with previous operating systems. It's quite possible Nadella changed the company's culture from doing less Q&A and "moving fast" instead.
I agree about distrust of middlemen. The analogy that i would go with is that the biggest HFT firms are like big-box retailers. Not glamorous at all (despite the math), and most of the hard work is in automation/process to manage the storefronts and inventory at scale. HFT becomes comparable to walmart, which does not engender much love.
How old is your PC? Have you run any CPU/Mem/Graphics diagnostics recently? Debugged any of the crash dumps?

These symptoms seem like something might be up with your hardware.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is definitely my favorite. I don't think Fear no Evil was that bad -- I think it was the last decent book he wrote.

I remember reading the serialization of the first few chapters of Number of the Beast in Omni magazine, and thinking how great it was. Then I got the book and read the rest, and was sad.

Don't get me started on _Friday_.
"Nootropics" is too broad, really. There's different ones with different effects. But since you mention coffee, I'd assume you're thinking about Adrafinil/Modafinil, or perhaps racetams.

Here's a study of Modafinil vs Coffee, for example. It's pretty old and has a low N, but I just mean to show that such research does exist. http://www.gwern.net/docs/modafinil/1993-warot.pdf

FDA approval, yeah that would be nice. Unfortunately there's very little public acceptance of the idea that you can take things to improve yourself even if you're already healthy. That being said, L-Theanine and Melatonin are FDA-approved.
This sounds like the kind of day which, as I lie in bed at the end of it, leaves me feeling very anxious for having effectively done nothing with it. I'd at least throw in some physical exercise -- that ought to help. Or any kind of creative activity.
We should all speak Hawaiian.
A recent Ars article related to Win 10 driver issues: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/window...
http://news.ycombinator.com/active
IMHO microkernels - and isolation in general - are just workarounds for sub-par processes elsewhere that leads to barely-working code. Fix the root cause, not the symptoms.
Is this kind of condescending, elitist remark destroying one of the few last redeeming qualities of email? That everyone can talk to everyone else outside of walled gardens?

Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of plaintext email (and use mutt at work) but it's not practical to expect the world to bend to your own narrow choices in technology so harshly. The attitude displayed here is, quite frankly, disgusting.
You are being downvoted for your misunderstanding, which is too bad.

In a nutshell, no matter how much energy you pump into your system, you will never go faster than the speed of light, relative to any other viewpoint.

That is, you would never appear to go faster than the speed of light to anyone - including somebody travelling at the same speed as you in the opposite direction.
ORM doesn't save you from understanding how code works. It is not a tool to avoid learning SQL or UnitOfWork pattern.

But it has other advantages: you can use objects for your models, you can use lazy loading and relations between models, you don't have to save modified entities explicitly. So it helps to avoid writing low level code for saving and loading data from a database. You don't have to write routine methods like "get something by id", "get tags for post" or "update a field in a table".

> it encourages the promiscuous mingling of code and behavior, and makes it very difficult to produce code which can be understood without reference to complex interactions among many instances of many classes.

That might be over-engineering. OOP doesn't require you to use every single pattern from a book or build multilevel hierarchies of abstract classes. Abstract classes and interfaces might be necessary when you try to build reusable libraries or components but you don't have to use them inside a monolith application.

But you need to learn things like single responsibility principle so you can divide complex tasks into smaller parts. You have to remember that your code will be maintained by other people so it needs to be easy to understand without searching through all the codebase and hard to break.

And whatever approach you use when you have an application with large codebase written by many people it will be complicated anyway. OOP can help you to organize this code.

> ORM in a typed language

PHP is not statically typed language but you can use type hints for functions. So if you have an argument with a class name specified you can quickly look up what properties and methods the object has (and your IDE will suggest autocomplete options). And you cannot have any such information if the argument is an array.

I used to work with large applications written using "SQL and arrays" approach and they were bad. I had to spend most time figuring out what kind of array is passed to some function and how it is used to display something on a page. And it is hard to check if you don't break something by removing or changing a single element in that array. That is why I think this approach is not scalable beyond small applications written by a single developer. It has no relation to whether mixed arrays are allowed in a language or not. You can get same kind of code if you misuse collections in Java or C# or maybe Go.

You can look at Drupal if you need an example of complex open source application with those problems. It passes a lot of arrays around that are not even documented anywhere. And as an example of OOP application you can see Magento. It is large and very customizable so they had to use different abstractions.
Search is frustrating, but it works for some stuff. The devs have HN accounts, and I think they're receptive if you have any suggestions.
I'd be willing to bet a fair bit of money the underlying problem is caused by third party software, likely AV. Could make sense, given in the mini dumps the crash happens right as the Kindle is mounting as a disk.

Perhaps it's not this time, but I personally think Microsoft should do a better job of naming and shaming when third party drivers/software are responsible for crashes. Maybe even form a special team that looks out for stuff like this on forums, does root cause analysis, and maintains a wall of shame (as well as fixing customer issues).
I was introduced to Nim by Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column in Scientific American, Feb. 1958. It was there I learned the binary parity strategy that allows one to play perfect strategy easily. (Touched on in the Wikipedia article on Nim.)

I got a lot of milage out of Nim. In my first public technical presentation, I taught this to a classroom full of math-interested kids in a school district wide weekend event when I was 15 years old; and for my EE degree I used it as the basis of my semester project in Digital Design Lab. I build a Nim playing system out of NOR gates and flip-flops.

Perfect strategy for Nim is achieved by maintaining a simple invariant (call it even Nim parity) when it is your opponent's turn to move. At each turn, make a move that puts the game back into even Nim parity before your opponents turn. To compute even Nim parity, represent the number of counters/tokens in each pile in binary then xor together these binary values bit-wise.

For example with piles of 3, 5, and 7 tokens, the binary values are 11, 101, and 111, and the xor(011, 101, 111) == 001. This tells us that we have to make a move that changes the right-most bit position only so remove one token from any pile. This leaves the opponent in a position from which any move they make it is possible to respond in a way that puts the game back into even Nim parity. Eventually they lose, but your very last move will depend upon whether you are playing to win by taking the last piece or forcing your opponent to take the last piece.

Martin Gardner's column is, of course, much clearer than my explanation. In particular, he explains the a method of using ones fingers to keep the parity counts so that by just keeping one hand under the table and using the left pinky finger for rightmost (1's) bit position and ring finger for next (2's) bit position, etc. it is possible to play perfect strategy very rapidly.
Looked at the documentation and quickly gave up on kubernetes. It's nice and it solves real problem but the barrier to entry is INSANE.

And it's lacking wayyy to much documentation deploy in production on own cluster. It's probably gonna take years to improve.

I'm wondering. Did anyone tried the kubernetes on GCE?

If Google can handle all the annoying setup and makes a mostly managed service, that would be extremely attractive. Actually, that's probably the only way k8s would be achievable in production, i.e. have someone else do it.
2.5 years, it's a Lenovo W530, with updated video drivers from Nvidia. Run windows 7 just fine, Ubuntu, gaming, multiple VMs. It's a beast, just can't handle windows 10 low quality.
The way you are presenting it, and what caused you to present it, shows it is a pretense. That does not stop it being other things, but it is a pretense.
If this doesn't belong here, then all the articles about yet another thing Microsoft or Apple has screwed up also don't belong here.
The point is, this is something for the people to decide, through the established constitutional amendment process. Do we really want a company like Square deciding that it is OK to abrogate our rights?

Also, according to the link, the Obama Administration is using Operation Chokehold to pressure the banks to do something that they'd never get a law passed to accomplish. What happens when the next admin comes in and does the same things to prohibit things that they don't like?

I greatly prefer the rule of law to the rule of lawyers or bankers.
Love the live video analytics! Such a simple yet effective hack.
> I do clear cookies and history periodically, so perhaps not having a multiple year history counts against.

In that other link I posted YT suggests pruning your watched history to get better recommendations -- but that's a huge undertaking given the thousands of garbage videos that I've clicked out of in five seconds. Seems like it would be better if the algorithm only operated on data from videos a user manually "likes".
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