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> I expect they'll be treated as a hardware bug and solved by releasing better hardware

When Rowhammer was first announced, people said "it's okay, we have ECC". Then ECC was shown vulnerable. "It's okay, vendors have promised to fix it in DDR4", they said. Now DDR4 is out and vendors have not deployed the fixes systematically[1] and you have to benchmark every single RAM stick to make sure you're not vulnerable.

I'd really appreciate software workarounds as long as hardware vendors keep fucking up.

[1]: http://www.passmark.com/forum/memtest86/5395-rowhammer-mitig...
Yes, it is normal. Employment laws are generally very favorable toward the employee here. It is difficult to fire someone once they are on a full time permanent contract, so companies understandably want some time to confirm that they made the right decision.
> Otoh, as an Emacs user my mouse costs about as much [...]

I didn't know a mouse can be an Emacs user. Where did you get one?
>>> Yes, deliberately. The fact there's inequality in the distribution, when there is no good reason for it is evidence of some sort of bias in the selection process.

If it's unconscious bias, it's not deliberate. And it's much more than just selection bias, it's also a cultural/social issue. It happens way before someone enters the workforce.

>>> For the reason that there is inequality between the two genders in society.

I'm not denying that.
What feedback system would that be? Wouldn't methane accelerate warming? From my limited knowledge of English semantics feedback - like in feedback loop - would mean some controlling function?
> they will be able to decrypt every other film that they have a KDM for and we should expect to see more DCP releases.

If you have individually encrypted copies, it would be stupid to not also individually watermark them on the content level. With a bit of targeted key invalidation, this could well be contained to a one time breach.
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> we have received and processed ADS-B signals collected by our autonomous boat...

I wish the article would've explained: (1) What is ADS-B, and (2) why does it matter. Without that context, I have no idea if this is significant or not...

EDIT: Given FlightRadar's business... I'm guessing it helps with flight tracking. This wasn't entirely apparent from an outsider reading that blog for the first time.
I believe it's used in the new TVR project.
Well, that was 2014. And yes, there's not much interest in putting the effort to support XP now.

That is because Servo is currently not a product. You said "I (hopefully) think this is what Servo is and will end up being.", which talks of a future where Servo is a product (which can happen, though it would be in the far future). In such a case Servo would reevaluate supporting XP (unless it is so far in the future that XP support is no longer important, in which case most probably other browsers will drop XP support too). I say it in that comment too, "we're currently a research project" and "If/when we stop being a research project, maybe, but I doubt it". I'm less doubtful now, but yes, it's possible that Servo would continue not supporting XP as a product if there was a good enough reason for it.

The reason Servo doesn't support XP is not because Servo is Servo, it's because Servo is not a product.
> reading 8 bytes from the device, binary scan of the returned value, converting from the hex format

It is not necessary to round trip through a hex encoding. Tcl's binary scan is capable of converting an 8 byte value directly into a 64-bit signed or unsigned integer. You can even request big or little endian interpretation of the bytes.

Check the "w" conversion flag in the man-page. For unsigned you'd add the "u" flag. For big-endian conversion use the "W" flag instead.
Congrats on the new release! As somebody who has built his own web-based music renderer (soundslice.com), I know how big of a project it is. :-)
Some minor things;
A link to the product in your blog header wouldn't hurt, and your back-to-school offer link for the pricing page bounces me to a login. Not sure if that's exactly the flow you intended for showing a promotion.

OH I also didn't realise if I looked at the education page i'd then see different edu. pricing.
That's disappointing, because CSS wouldn't be a viable replacement in this case - it can't animate XML attributes like seed. Or is that something they plan to support one day?
But that's exactly what the ellipsis means. What other interpretation is there? I might as well argue that 1 = 1 only if we agree on the convention that = means "equals".
> "You post an article about a new programming language, you'll get 10 replies."

A quick search pulls up results that would contradict that statement.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7436401

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10901054

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8735892

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10177716

I realize four search results isn't enough to completely debunk the author's statement, but in my experience programmers love to talk about programming languages. If you start a conversation about an interesting new language, more often than not people will want to give their input.

Programmers also love to talk about their ideal working environment. Things like office chairs, keyboards, monitors and office perks are important to them because the majority of their time is spent at work.
Would you pay for it? If yes build a list of competent developers, ask them if they would build it and lunch a funding campaign. Give all the money to them and donate yourself. Building software is hard, building what you asked for is even harder.
Potential buyers in developing countries don't just take broken cars to the fancy service stations to get them fixed by the licensed mechanics. They do most of repairs themselves with whatever scrap parts they can find for few bucks. I really, really doubt Ox could provide cheaper spare parts. Also, for big portion of people around the world that have no stable income and access to credit, it's much easier to pay 2k$ or so for an old truck and and get additional money for repairs when it's needed (or even buy another 2k$ truck) than paying 10-12k$ even if that means zero expenses (which is unrealistic) over time.
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Every one of such systems that are non-cooperative, and all players have perfect information (of rules, strategy sets, and associated payoffs).

Rarely does this happen in the real world.
Same in Germany.

The market for mobile Internet access here still suffers from this...
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Still, a 'low-end' Barco good enough for smaller cinemas is definitely less than $100k these days.
Yes, but I think the Ox changes the economics, if it really works as presented. I've family in Congo DRC. We could buy four of these and some spare parts for 50,000 USD and start a bush taxi business for one high value route. The income will pay for repairs and salaries plus some profit to accumulate. I'd expect to expand the fleet slowly yet surely. The main risk as always, theft rather than lack of demand or revenue.

More over, the vehicles would not fall in value, much or at all. Assuming, again, the claims of the makers are true.

There is money to spend in such countries, via the diasporas, agencies, local wealthier people. The difficulty is always to avoid being ripped off.

And the purchase price is going to fall a lot when the Chinese clones hit the market, which they will.
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Given that those man-pages are a community open source project much like the kernel, the best way to see it fixed is to contribute a fix:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/contributing.html
Fresh fruit or flowers from remote parts of the world are often flown to the UK via backloads, i.e. planes that would otherwise be empty. So the ecological cost is not as great as you may think.
Why don't you guys look into creating a marketplace for the scores created by your users? Or make it way more prominent if it exists. I want scores, but I don't want to make them myself.
I'm fairly sure that harwoodleon is referring to positive feedback.

Negative feedback acts to oppose a change (think heating system temperature control). Positive feedback acts to amplify a change, and can result in runaway changes [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_feedback#Examples_and...
What I find either funny or depressing (can't decide), are the number of younger people (as in too young to be using computers in 1992) who read "Snow Crash" before reading any other cyberpunk and 1) fail to get that it is actually is a satire of Neuromancer, etc. and 2) think that Stephenson was amazingly prophetic, not realizing that a lot of what he was writing about already existed, albeit in simpler forms. 3D avatar environments are really just an aesthetic improvement over MUDs (Multi User Dungeons/Domains), which were multi-user text-based games that were all the rage in 1992.
Prior discussion from the Geekwire article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2975122
> "The remote computer is used only for file storage and does not require any server-side code."

And thats serverless?
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dS space is really simple; you only need a cosmological constant to power a uniform metric expansion, and no matter to retard it. The far future dS space approximation has only localized matter, namely mostly isolated gas molecules and (swarms of) black holes, each occupying their own Hubble volume, as all their non-gravitationally-bound neighbours have disappeared across the horizon.

Unless something really unexpected arises to retard the metric expansion of space -- and many working scientists are looking for that, since it would be amazingly cool -- that we see right back to the surface of last scattering, the "in theory" part looks very sound.

"If I cannot create it, I do not understand" -- well, get yourself a very fine spectroscope and a monochromatic radiator (or an ideal blackbody, or anything with a highly predictable emissions and/or absorption spectrum) and probe the infinitesimals in the Poincaré group, which is the isometry group of Special Relativity (and which, incidentally, is what fundamentally defines Minkowski spacetime). https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Modern_searches_for_Lorentz_viol...

An experiment or observation inconsistent with infinitesimals, or preventing the far future dS state implied by observed energy-densities, would be groundbreaking.

Although your objection to a physical infinity, or physical infinitesimals as their complement, are aesthetic ones that conflict with experiment to date, don't let that stop you from thinking about, or even proposing, novel, objective, and repeatable experiments that probe the abolition of real numbers.

Just today Baez just helped you out a bit: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.01421
The first iteration around 2004 was great. I think it worked without Javascript, was fast and had a clean interface (just like this site).

The current one definitely suffers from the second system effect. I also avoid it and actively search for other locations with the same content.
Aircraft broadcast ADS-B signals which contain tracking information, which is used by live flight trackers to map out each flight in real-time. The problem is that there are large blind spots when aircraft go over oceans due to the lack of receivers, so this is intended to increase coverage.
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Over the years, I've switched between several daily TODO lists. I used a plain sticky note in the beginning where I outlined all the tasks I had to do. After that I used Steven Covey's time management matrix, but I found that I'm not using all of its quadrants and some important and urgent tasks were never done on time. Currently I have a TODO list with two columns -- Making, for the long-term things I have to provide substantial amount of undivided attention to; and POSS (projects, organization, skills, social) -- for tasks which require frequent context-switching. It was greatly inspired by Paul Graham's "Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule" article [1].

For long-term plans, I keep a simple text file categorized by projects where I plan ahead for about one or two weeks and put deadlines for my plans. I derive these plans from my long-term goals, for which I store the big picture in various mediums (Trello, E-mails, text files, written conversations, paper, etc.)

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
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Who are Flightrarad24 clients? Why do they care about planes in the middle of nowhere :) ?
I use the simple notes app on my Huawei phone. It's just notepad.exe basically but helps me a lot
oh. it's going to get a whole lot worse. you can count on it.

I think it's pretty much 100% that we will see geoengineering attempts within our lifetimes, maybe even within the next 20 years. Probably dust injected into the atmosphere.
Times are changing. I am very happy for these new developments.

If you have the right friends, and hang out with the right group of people, you can get sometimes unencrypted material, just like in the old days you could get film reels. But a 35mm film projector was relatively affordable, this new digital stuff is still crazy expensive.
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Indeed, our signup link in the header + fixed to the our auth page, we will change it to our homepage :) Thanks for the feedback for the back to school, we will check that.
I do not see anything strange in it. Author seems to be forgetting that while there is a myriad of frameworks and programming languages, we all share similar work setups and needs. Also, while a newbie might be afraid to talk with 'pros' about advantages of hygienic macros, he knows what headphones make him comfortable at work. I would redefine 'metaprogramming' as 'stuff that most of the programmers have in common'. That's why they talk so vividly about it.
Ah, psychology. Must be what the "OneDrive team" is using.

So you have all these people who bought Lumia phones, enjoying 30 GB of cloud storage, 15 of them acquired with the phone purchase.

Cut it down to 5 GB with an announcement in a blog post, and watch the customers leaving in droves.

Problem solved.
They always have really good pictures though, if someone made a plugin that overlaid the article with a good one while keeping the pictures it would be great.
ADS-B signals (from my limited knowledge) are transmitted by aircraft showing some basic data like location, altitude, speed, callsign, aircraft model and a few other things. They only have a range of a few hundred kilometers so a website that does flight tracking using a global network of (volunteer) receivers, it's a step in their coverage to be picking up signals over the oceans.

Also it's just cool.
Start your own business?
Methane has a greenhouse potential 25 times that of CO2.

You're probably right though, it's probably not too diffuse and generally impractical.
There actually are people who would pirate a game but then buy it if it's not available for download. I suspect they're a fairly small group though. Too bad we don't know how large it is in comparison to the group of people who don't purchase before they get to try a (likely pirated) copy, or the people who don't buy games with DRM (I'm mostly in this group).
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Thanks for your participation.
I hoped this was about high level future programming stuff :/

Like arguing with AI on the requirements of a new project it will implement.
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Yep, that's the video I had in mind.
Pretty much. The $28 million was a loan from Ivar Krueger and one of the stipulations for the loan was monopoly of the matchstick market to which Romania evidently agreed.

Considering $28 million in 1929 in todays monetary value is roughly $3.3 billion, I'd say Romania got a pretty good deal in the end.
First, pretty cool idea! I have to try it, but it looks good at the first glance.

I think you should add a bigger "Download" button to your download documentation (i.e. here: http://www.pibakery.org/docs/install-mac.html).

It's good to have the explanation for beginners, but for people that just want to get the software (and kind of know what they're doing) there should be a bigger button in addition to the text link. :)
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while i love the platform, fr24 filters results so you arent likely to see ultra-cool stuff. adsbexchange does a more open job of not filtering submitted data.
Don't get me started about pre-widescreen episodes of Family Guy. I don't know how they ruined them, but they're all ruined with horrible, burned-in interlacing artefacts.
Quote from OA

"In 2000 the British government used their help to design a special auction that sold off its 3G mobile-telecoms operating licences for a cool £22.5 billion ($35.4 billion). Their trick was to treat the auction as a game, and tweak the rules so that the best strategy for bidders was to make bullish bids (the winning bidders were less than pleased with the outcome)."

I'm thinking best price for HM Government was paid by UK customers?

C.F. quote below from [1]

"The auction confrmed our view that industrial-organisation issues are more important than the informational issues on which the auction literature has mostly focused. In particular, the problems of attracting entrants and dealing with alliances and mergers are likely to remain major preoccupations of tele-com-auction designers for the foreseeable future. Tackling such problems sensibly requires high-qualit ymarket research that keeps pace with developments in an industry that can change its clothes with bewildering rapidity. We also need more theoretical work on the industrial-organisation implications of major auctions."

(Basically the high bids lead to mergers & consolidation)

[1] http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/users/klemperer/biggestpaper.pdf
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Microsoft's own solution: http://manifoldjs.com/
In addition to that, I fail to see the relation between people who like to talk about programming through whatever medium ('metaprogrammers') and people who like to have decent tools to work with. Literally every developer I have ever met wants to have a decent computer, multiple screens, fast internet, and access to the proper software tools required to work efficiently.

It strikes me as an incredibly stupid argument to make if anyone thinks you someone is spoiled for preferring good tools to do the job. Imagine a mechanic who can only use even-sized spanners, or a drywaller who can only use 5-liter buckets at a time.
Hi, That's a suggestion that comes more and mores. This a way we may go in the future however that a strong move that requires ressources and a bigger team :)
Moreover there is still so much to do on the editor is self.
Immigration is still a pretty new thing for most of central Europe.

There weren't a significant number of visibly-foreign immigrants in Germany till the 60s or 70s and it took a couple more decades before those were seen as anything other than 'temporary guest workers'.

The UK and France (and even more so the US and other "New World" countries) had at least a few decades head-start for culture to get around the idea of immigration.
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I liked his "Missile Gap" -- a novella that combines the Cold War and alternate history in a way that I really liked. I agree with you about the "Atrocity Archives" -- and I love Cthulhu and spy stuff, so you'd think I would have liked it, but I just didn't like the way it didn't take itself seriously -- all this winking at the reader takes away all drama imho.
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For me a chair is important. I don't really care about perks and other stuff but knowing that I sit around 8 hours every day for a couple years in a good chair is as important for me as the work station.

And in most of the startups I worked so far there were only cheap chairs not so good for my back. In a way I understand the owners: they have startup they should buy the cheapest things possible because they don't know how long their startup will survive, but I like when someone makes an effort to provide good working conditions for the programmers.

I also used to care about the noise level, but again working in startups I had to get used to noisy open spaces.
I work with big catalog data, and with lots of human input. We have these internal classifications but people mis-assign items all the time.

I was horrified when I learned about the state of our datasets. The only reliable features are the ones that are exposed to the customers on the website, because when they're broken people can actually see them.
The problem is that these things are designed to stay on indefinitely, once ratified. Also, it builds on the most debilitating feature of government: There are only ever things added to it, almost never subtracted. The only realistic ways of achieving large scale government reform seem to be revolution (not necessarily bloody revolution) and losing a major war. But those come with their own downsides.
I really think flutter is cross-platform-apps done right. Its rendering engine, its reactive programming model. Its superior to how we write android, ios and web apps.

Also, writing a Flutter app is super easy! Its easier to build a demo with flutter, than it is to write the same web-app demo imho.

Would be cool if Google actively starts building their own apps in flutter. And increases the number of widgets in flutter.

I am really considering building my next production app in flutter!
I remember that the designer of the auction did various mock auctions beforehand getting maths PhD students to do the bidding pretending to be the various mobile companies. I was a postdoc at the time and didn't take part myself but some of my friends did.
Do you have a link to a worked out example that is made much easier by this?
Love the idea as well! I'm not able to test this right now, but I was wondering if there's a block for setting up an encrypted Pi? If so: awesome! If not: are there plans to implement it?
Republics can also be democracies. "Democracy" includes the many types of representative democracies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy .

Most of the people I've talked to who make the argument that a republic is not a democracy base point to Federalist #10. But Madison was comparing a "pure democracy" - "by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person" - and a "republic" - "by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place".

The section at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republicanism#Democracy_and_re... highlights how "democracy" now is something a bit more broad than was used 225+ years ago:

> In contemporary usage, the term democracy refers to a government chosen by the people, whether it is direct or representative.[32] Today the term republic usually refers to a representative democracy with an elected head of state, such as a president, who serves for a limited term; in contrast to states with a hereditary monarch as a head of state, even if these states also are representative democracies, with an elected or appointed head of government such as a prime minister.[33]

> The Founding Fathers of the United States rarely praised and often criticized democracy, which in their time tended to specifically mean direct democracy;
I saw the title and thought: "holy shit!". Then I saw that it's from the daily mail and knew it wouldn't be true.
You're doing a good job. Ignore the cynics.
The solution that is ending software patents which should not be a thing in the first place