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Yes, your observations make a lot of sense. You are right about the industry trying to make money by selling compiler's and development tools.

For perspective, I've programmed since well before the first personal computers. When they came out I had to buy compilers and development tools from Microsoft, Borland, and others (for the Apple systems and MS-DOS and early Windows) in order to program at home. I estimate that is cost me thousands of dollars over the years; I even had to buy Emacs-like editors so I could program on a PC. Around 1985 I bought Epsilon from Lugaru Software, its a nice Emacs-like editor still sold today!! I always wonder how profitable that product has been over the last thirty years.

Because I wanted do do document preparation on something other than Word I ended up buying a number of word processors (XYWrite, WordPerfect, MS Word for MSDOS); finally, I found a MSDOS markup based system by Mark of the Unicorn (which now sells high end Midi audio gear[2]). Mark of the Unicorn's markup system was based on Scribe (described in Brian Reid's influential CMU PhD 1980 dissertation[3] for which he won the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award) that ran on PC's.

My first personal Unix system was a Dec Workstation, I think it cost me over $20,000 in 1990 for disk drive (maybe 300MB), monitor, and computer!! I put it to good use doing consulting and development, but nevertheless I am so so grateful to the open-source community for gcc, freebsd, linux, tex, and every other tool I use not just because it doesn't cost me as much to try out new things but because it has made it possible for people all over the world to access the power of computers.

[1] http://www.lugaru.com/

[2] http://www.motu.com/

[3] http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/scan/CMU-CS-81-10...
Not really. Pointing out racist behavior is not racist.
Archive.is linkage for those who can't get past the paywall:

http://archive.is/b4e7X
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China has loads of money to throw around... they get what they want.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/227059-amd-announces-ne...
> But then again, I work in a severely memory constrained environment

Then likely you're dealing with a single-threaded application where dlmalloc will work just fine. No multi-threaded contention for allocation/deallocation.
I have respect for BSD and am very thankful that there is more than just Linux (my preferred OS). One thing that I've noticed is that, warranted or not, a lot of BSD users seem to suffer from an inferiority complex. On some BSD podcasts I listen to for example, hosts and guests often drop little jabs at Linux etc, it seems very immature and unnecessary. This naming choice puts me off more than anything, might as well have called it SuperiorOS or BestOS, but I wish it luck.
Not only that, but every time I'm up against a problem building software that uses something else, it's like, "oh great now I have to figure out what their secret badly-documented variable names are and how to configure their XML/JSON/YAML/whatever"

It's a pleasure when autotools is used because in generally I know it's going to be nothing much more than

> --with-stuff/--without-stuff

and

> --prefix=$HOME/.local

and when it's not, at least I know I can just grep the shell script and figure it out pretty quickly without having to learn a whole new programming language.
An example of changing behavior that broke us not to long ago: https://github.com/docker/distribution/issues/1662 . By the time this happened we were already working on the transition, just more motivation.
Free markets?

You mean government enforced violence.

True free markets would allow anyone to manufacture an epi pen copy without being sued into oblivion while having state thugs seize your property.
The power required to fly at constant altitude and speed is velocity multiplied the force of drag.

Energy is consumed to exert a force over a distance, but we're not moving against gravity ("constant altitude"), so no energy is directly expended to fight gravity.

Now, that argument cheats a little, because there is a relationship between lift and drag: compare induced drag (drag created as a result of producing lift) to parasitic drag.
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The contextual example from C was "uint8_t * data, * buffer;" (spaces added to avoid italics), and no: a trailing comma is absolutely not allowed.
Chomsky's style is quite normal and refreshing. The Internet faux-polite censorship has eradicated that style mostly, so public conversation has largely become unproductive and boring.
Sam Harris is one of a few atheist activists who started to use denounces against religion in general as a tool against other racial groups

This is a flat-out lie. This interview between Sam Harris and Dave Rubin is very long, but it shows in detail how some people (who know better) are spreading this in an effort to shut down fair and honest discourse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQqxlzHJrU0

Edit: just to clarify, I'm not accusing you personally of dishonesty, just the people you heard this from.
Wouldn't a faraday cage be effective here? I suppose it doesn't confirm that you are being surveilled, but it would block radio signals.
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In a world where so many people do passive ETF index based investing this has the ability to move markets.

With Reits becoming their own asset class, suddenly a lot of money is going to be funneled int this space, mostly without investors even knowing about it.

And of course since Reits will suddenly pull in more money, there are other area's of the market that will have that money pulled from them.

I think the article mentions it, but Reits tend to be counter cyclical to Finance, an area that is a large part of the broad market, as low interest rates help real estate while high interest rates help banks. So people have been watching financial ETF's as one area that may be hit by this change.

Lot's of funds have spent the past 6 months positioning themselves to try and gain from this. Fortunately for most people, this won't be a one time event like an ETF re balancing but it will happen gradually.
Allegedly it creates a plasma shield which has a radar-shielding effect, in addition to reducing drag (and maybe actually moving the air). But yeah, you'd think that the RF signature would be unmistakable...
This is off-topic and bound to lead to a flamewar. Please stop taking the thread that way.
Here is how this Chinese processor claims 512 (single precision) GFLOPS: each core seems to have 128-bit NEON vector instructions, so it can execute 4 32-bit operations per cycle. The core runs at 2 GHz, so that's 8 GFLOPS per core. Times 64 cores = 512 GFLOPS. So yeah their claims check out.

These benchmark numbers you found about the Exynos 5433 are so low probably because "Geekbench 3" is not very good at reaching the maximum theoretical performance, as it runs a bunch of real-world computing tasks. In general you need to hand-code assembly loops of fused-multiply-add instructions to reach the max theoretical perf and clearly this is not what Geekbench does, look at the list of FP workloads it runs: http://support.primatelabs.com/kb/geekbench/geekbench-3-benc...
Or they could record to file only when the radio is off, and transmit directly without recording when it is on.
That was my immediate thought, if they have access to your phone at that level recording (voice, packets, gps co-ords) to a file then sending it once it has signal would be trivial. It would provide a misguided level of confidence in their security which could lead to exactly the consequences trying to be avoided.

Got a secret meeting? Don't take your bloody phone.
No: tptacek did not bother paying attention to the context; as far as I know "uint8_t * data, * buffer, ;" (spaces added after * to avoid italics) would never be valid.
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At my current job i am responsible for A LOT. I handle all of the systems, network, desktop support, call center, i write software (WMS, CMS, B2B Website), among another 50 different software development projects.

As a director i am also involved in business planning, process development/review/implementation, and i tend to be the go to person by the rest of the Director team for anything large scale they are trying to manage.

I am paid very well and i love the job but i am just having a hard time getting my arms around all of the different requirements.

I am looking for the tool(s) that the community uses to manage everything. I understand GTD i am using todoist and evernote and things are "ok".

The work i do is so diverse that i don't think any one or two tools are going to cut it but i need a way to keep track of commitments, priorities, tasks, planning (short and long term), documentation, ... you get the idea.

Tool/app suggestions are welcome but i am more interested in how you pull all of your tools together and use them as a cohesive unit. I am having a hard time defining what i "want" because i want a way to manage EVERYTHING.

Thanks!
Basically, dark matter is something that has gravitational pull, but shows no other evidence of its existence. We have seen evidence for dark matter in galaxy rotation curves, galaxy cluster interactions, and the cosmic microwave background fluctuations, so we know it's not a mistake (each of these measurements are independent and do not share common systematic errors). We know it's not normal matter (e.g. black holes), because we at least somewhat understand the physics of how normal matter works, and we would expect to see something observationally if it is just normal matter. Since it is not normal matter, using Occam's razor, we can only postulate it is something that has gravitational pull but doesn't interact otherwise. Perhaps once we figure out how to study dark matter, we can tease out some of its properties and it won't just be all lumped together as "dark matter".
any competent entrepreneur would buy or build his own government to do this.
Do you think it's fair to use this one interaction with someone he finds personally annoying to wholly declare that he can't "entertain anyone challenging his ideas"?

I don't and I'm a little tired of seeing this argument trotted out anytime Chomsky is mentioned. It's one email chain, not 60 years of activism and linguistics.
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was "racist behavior pointed out"?
zero chance of that happening without overhauling the entire government.

Hasn't it already happened a little bit in several states (without complete overhaul)? I'm of course talking about marijuana legalization. It's only some states, and only marijuana, but it's movement in the right direction.
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FP?
CowboyNeal?
GNAA?
Why cities keep growing, corporations and people die, and life gets faster
> "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."

Unless you made a mistake in your elimination, which is sometimes more probable than the apparently single remaining truth.

Not saying this is the case here, just that this basic principle should be used with great care.
Yes: the questions they're forcing people to answer when they mention race in a post are not empty roadblocks that simply add friction to posting, but are also meant to sharpen the poster's thinking process by forcing them to focus on aspects other than race.

That seems like a much more reasonable and even-handed approach than just simply saying race should never be mentioned.
I think the approach to decriminalization and possible legalization should always contain a means to get addicts off of the drugs which probably means it won't happen because that would likely require some form of single payer system (probably eclipsing Medicaid and Medicare along the way). The fact single payer healthcare is a bad word in both parties means this approach won't ever happen at least not with the current political climate.
Here is the pre-print version of the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06291
had to try this lsof to see it's essentially `netstat -atpu`
Fair. I've never actually attempted it in a reproductive manner, so I have no evidence there.
This should get labelled 2014. Interesting nonetheless.
Just went through this process with the Mandrill debacle earlier this year. I've found SendGrid to be on par with Mailgun (with a less wonky admin dashboard too). Both have comparable 10k~12k free sends per month.

If you're using the SMTP gateway instead of direct API integration (which is the only way I'd do it these days, after dealing with a bunch of sites that were tied to Mandrill's API), then there's not really much that needs to happen for the switch.
While I laud the goals, it's sort of disappointing to see such adherence to the idea that suppressing the expression of racism is going to fix it.
I wrote a comment in another story[0] about ibogaine, a psychedelic that is reportedly being used very successfully to treat addiction. If you haven't heard of it, you may want to investigate it since you are clearly doing a lot for your friend. In short, it stops heroin withdrawal symptoms upon ingestion, and with a single guided treatment plus a week of time at the center, it can effectively cure an addiction. It's theorized that in addition to the neurochemistry involved in soothing the nervous system, the fact that it's a psychedelic tends to help the patient face the underlying cause of the addiction, giving them the tools to treat it instead of papering it over with drugs.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12213623
DOJ lawyer who leaked Bush spy program is censured for ethics failure
I agree that the custom work will tend to move toward the back-end. I disagree that this is a narrowing of the available work. I think it expands because there are many more companies where operational improvements add more value than a digital brochure.
It's a fun read but not very technical, or rather, not technical at all. It's a story, I didn't learn anything about finance or business strategy from it.
They say predator sized drone in the article. My comment was based on that.
Strange, I've tried several over the years and Linode is still the best in their price range.
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Dark matter can explain: the large scale evolution of the universe (together with dark energy but whatever), rotational velocities of galaxies, gravitational lensing and other phenomena. No other theory explains all of these things as well or simply.

Also, dark matter is not really so exotic and weird. We already know of one type of dark matter particle, neutrinos. To think that there are other more massive particles that only interact through gravity and the weak force isn't much of a strectch in that light.
There was a great post about a week ago about books you would give as a gift.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12243611
I never noticed anything like that.
It was then that the epiphany dawned. “Every year the police get better at catching drug gangs, and the gangsters’ most effective way of fighting back is upping the use of fear and intimidation against potential informants. The most efficient way to stop people grassing them up is to be terrifying. In other words, organised crime groups were getting nastier and nastier as a direct result of what I was doing.”

This is always the outcome of a proxy disagreement, and something I heard referred to as the 'witnesses dilemma' (as a sort of pun on the prisoner's dilemma). If you testify your life might get better, but other people will make your life harder. If you don't testify your life will stay at its current level of hardness.
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There's more too it than that. The airfoil causes a net downwash, and via newton we know the acceleration of that mass of air will cause an upward force. The finer details of this are something a lot of textbooks get wrong. Wikipedia's article about it is pretty good.

With a kite the wind is the engine, the string allows the kite to use it. Or you can run on a windless day.

With a glider the tow plane or ground tow rope provides the initial energy to get to altitude, giving the glider potential energy. As it glides that potential energy is converted to kinetic energy. The pilot uses their knowledge and skill to glide to places where they can gather more energy from updrafts of various sorts. I think it's really amazing how after that initial injection of energy, it's just all just skill and ambient energy.
Articles like this make me wonder how journalists were able to do their jobs before the ubiquity of cellphones.

Here's an analogy to what's happening:

Since you're a high value journalist, a state actor has helpfully assigned an FBI-type agent as your minder. And now you're debating whether you should put a blindfold and earplugs on your minder before attending an important meeting with him in tow. Or, alternately, you're debating on whether you should add a gag to him to keep him from reporting back to his superiors.

But, the minder is resourceful. He has trained for the possibility of a blindfold. So he might remove it at opportune times and take a peek at what's happening. Or, when gagged, he is prepared to report back by tapping out a message with his fingers, using Morse code.

In short, I think it's a Sisyphean struggle to try to keep the minder from reporting back. Instead, just leave the minder elsewhere, far away from important discussions.

There is no way a few amateurs with soldering irons will be able to successfully and continually thwart state actors. Don't play their game!
Been there for several years, no incidents, their support is fast and they are smart, odd huh?
When evaluating build systems, one of my major questions is: How much "magic" will I have to work-around in order to do something off the beaten path that the build system's developers never considered?

This is a good criteria for languages as well.
More on the entertainment side of things, not too challenging, but fun: http://www.monumentvalleygame.com (iOS)
It's more that NPR's write-ups are usually quite good.
And let me guess, you went over on a 30-day (or 60 or 90 max) tourist visa?
Try getting a Chinese work visa from a startup (or one you found). USCIS's new rule proposal allows entrepreneurs to stay legally in the U.S. an initial 2 years.
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/737769180087353345
> Ugh, The name reminds me of Tru64 from DEC in the 90s..

So I wasn't the only one!
Journalist enters country, has bags searched. Customs officer: "This smartphone case is not allowed in the country."

Oh well, we tried.
What does this do to the cost of real estate overall? I'm in no way versed on investing, let alone in real estate trusts, but $900B seems like a lot of money.

Is there an impact on the cost of housing in general?
Implicit assertions test is often used to "prove" biases, but honestly I have never seen a large (or any) number of publications that proves it works.
I've worked for the really rich. In my experience/opinion I don't think they're evil but are focused on having more for the sake of having more. They grew up in such a way that they believe they are more skilled/harder working therefore more deserving of wealth than others. They also resent those that don't do what they do but complain about not having enough wealth (even though society would stop functioning were that to be the case).

There's usually something missing from their combination of empathy and understanding which would allow them to care about the negative ramifications they're having. Look at Bill Gates, I don't think he's a bad person but he hurt a lot of people in industry and consumers to build Microsoft to what it is by destroying the competitive landscape. Steve Jobs is a better example, he proactively colluded to suppress wages and paid money for an organ that would only prolong his life but could have saved someone else's (seriously, I consider that an evil move).

One suggestion for you, it sounds like you're very angry about your current work environment. Maybe it's time to find a new place?
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Amazon claims another victim as Rackspace finally goes private
While you can generate unique hostnames of name servers per user you can't assign all of them unique IP addresses (at least in IPv4) as dns resolving doesn't have anything like vhosts (why should it?). So there will be overlap. Which is not a problem as long as the set of name servers for one users doesn't overlap the set of name servers for another user for a single domain.

So you confirm that a set of name server belongs to a user by verifying that its domain record has those name servers configured. You then don't allow another user to control the same name servers for that domain as long as the domain record still points to them. New users can then freely create new name servers but the domain still uses the servers assigned to by the domain owner.

What DO does is that it allows any user to control the name server for a domain if the previous owner gives up control of them. It should only do that, once the domain records start pointing anywhere else.
He'd still have to pay. By neutering it he means that nobody with bad intensions should be able to use the domains. It is neutered now, but if he was allowed to change DNS entry to point to localhost, he wouldn't have to pay Amazon.
What I was saying is that that is really unintuitive. Cons has a specific meaning and clojure redefines it creatively. That's not a good thing. If your function isn't cons than don't call it that.

Also, lisp pairs are very useful.
FYI - You can already buy this sector with the Vanguard REIT ETF (VNQ)
Exoplanets are dark matter. They do not emit light, so they are dark. You can't see an exoplanet, you have to look for stars that wobble.

Asteroid belts are also dark matter. If a remote star has an asteroid belt, it wouldn't be easily detectable, since it probably wouldn't elicit the kepler-style wobbles and flickers, or if it did, perhaps less obvious/detectable events.

Based on this, the astronomical fad terminology is flawed, since it seems to claim that only stars matter because only stars are matter (and the luminous gas of nebulae too, of course). The layperson finds intrigue in the term Dark Matter, because journalists are trying to sell a story.
Please note that this does not seem to be any improvement for citizens of "US treaty countries", e.g. most northern and western european countries. Where the needed capital investment is only needed to be substantial to get an E-2 investor/entrepreneur visa. E.g. 100-150k of initial investment needed as far as I know ;)
It actually doesn't. New grads at Google were getting ~$85k in 2006. By the CPI, that's ~$101k now. If "graddie" salaries were any less than that, wages would have actually decreased.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.skylerapp....
And that's really unintuitive and confusing. Especially coming from common lisp or scheme.
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Get ready for attack posts by the DigitalOcean/Vultr crowd.
Consider a helicopter nearly hovering, but moving forward at a walking pace.

To maintain the hover and prevent the helicopter from falling out of the sky, the engines are consuming large amounts of power. To move it forward at a sedate pace only requires a small expenditure of energy to overcome drag.

If it was on wheels, a human could push it across a hangar with little effort. A human definitely could not hold a conventional helicopter in the air by lifting or by pedaling to turn the rotors.

The reactive force lifting the helicopter should not be thought of as drag.