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> why are we defining portability at the operating system level when network portability works so much better

A lightweight POSIX-capable system has real value today. Operating systems need to be in more places than just the data center. IoT devices don't have the resources to run a VM or any other fancy containerized environment. POSIX was designed to be used on systems with comparable resources to what many embedded processors now have. It makes sense to leverage the existing codebase where possible.
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Assuming that everyone uses asphalt shingles, which is definitely not the case. For example, the German Wikipedia article for asphalt shingles describes them as "a typical GDR roofing". Germans tend to prefer clay/ceramic tiles on their homes, which can easily last 50 years and more.
I listened to it on Audiobook and definitely didn't retain crap. But it's interesting. There were a lot more moments of "pause and reflect" probably listening to tens of hours of audio-book instead of a 20min video.
Fair enough, thanks for replying.

One and three I can see, I figure two could just be quality of installation - other types of shingles could be installed mis-aligned too.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, it's true. It might not jump out at me, but that is indeed just me.
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Great response, answered it for me already.

The MOQ is 300k units; we're at economies of scale but it's still a new technology. You're right on the made in China, Suzhou, Shenzhen etc. Bingo also on the third point.
It only lasts about a few minutes/miles, but I agree, it would be nice for the behavior to be calibrated across states.
DC is definitely better for charging batteries but most of those other appliances don't require inverters. Converting AC into heat, light, or rotation is pretty simple.
You're wrong, I'm not lamenting progress.* The fact that our computers are so much faster now is pretty cool. But the fact that I NEED today's computer just to read an article or buy something online is absolutely ridiculous.

* Well, aside from the indirect effect, where the needing-the-hotness leads to dumping toxic waste in far off countries we don't care about.
Definitely a sensationalized clickbait headline that's not backed up by the article in any way.
The actively exploited window is 7 days, but the "normal" window is 90 days, which is far, far more than the Microsoft cadence. 7 days is plenty for a kernel level, actively exploited privilege escalation vulnerability, in my humble opinion.
How else will they make up the lost gasoline tax revenue?
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Just out of curiosity, what is the difference between using Consul and SNMP?
China has the same level of regulation as other industrialized countries. If it doesn't pass in the US it won't pass in China either.
And yet we trust software to do things like run our credit card transactions and withdraw money from our bank accounts.

The resistance [from several in the industry not just your comment] to making voting happen via software really concerns me.
My wife and I purchased a house in 2015 and remodel it. The roof is 25 years old and needs to be replaced. We have patched it up and have been holding off because I knew this was coming. Everything in the house is LED and Engerystar, etc. The 2 big power items are the hot tub and the heated floor in the bathroom. My power bill in my area has 3 levels and the 1st level is not enough for any reasonable usage. With the fully efficient house, removing the hot tub and heat floor I am still pushed to the 3 level of pricing which make my bill $300 per month. This as my new roof + the power wall is a no brainer for me. Where do I sign up ;)
I think an electronic system that prints a paper receipt which gets stored separately would provide the best of both worlds.
But is it carbon-neutral now?

Let's remind the whole picture here: We want to come back to global greenhouse gases emissions on 1990, because they were balanced by nature's absorption. It often happens that the cost of building solar panels, transporting them to the location, disposing them before their estimated time-to-live and getting rid of all their chemicals emit more carbon than we save by using electricity from the solar panels.

Another bias is: By making energy cheaper, does it encourage the use of said energy, thereby offsetting the gains? "I've saved 20% of carbon emissions compared to having a petrol-based SUV" tells another story than "I don't have an SUV".

Greenhouse gas ecology is hard. The only way to avoid doing those analysis would be to tax carbon emissions for the side effects they produce. Then we would be able to just by the cheapest, which would also be the most energy-efficient.
I have 5 cars.
Why would your employer fix you to a specific version of chrome? Thats bizarre.
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Well, the question is whether the increased safety (assuming your neighbour doesn't share your voting preference - I don't know if vote counting is usually done by two people from different parties, or something) is worth the increased cost. It seems unlikely to me.
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>I asked in GitLab and everyone said they didn't want to code in a browser for usability reasons.

Can't speak for anyone else but I'm constantly battling to keep my browser from crashing due to too many tabs. Namely Chrome and Firefox on Linux and OSX. I open tabs, then forget to close them. Even as I write this Chrome is popping up alert boxes saying so-and-so page has stopped responding, do I want to Kill or Wait? The thought of adding a fairly heavy-weight SPA IDE to that mix is not attractive.

Out of curiosity, can Atom (https://atom.io/) load a remote IDE into its separate memory space? Only best-of-both worlds I can think of.
What an interesting comment on the state of corporate relationships; Google actively delayed disclosure of an impactful vulnerability for Apple (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12795332).

I wonder why they would not do the same for Microsoft?
If you rely on printing things, don't update to Chrome 54.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=658606
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We use /gif instead of /giphy, which uses RightGif: https://rightgif.com/. Ironically RightGif does have a business model while serving up better gifs 90% of the time.
JavaScript also lacks (and apparently will always lack) a weak reference type, which Flash supports at the very core, for example weak event handlers.
Fair enough. I've seen full J1772 charger stations, but you're right that I haven't seen full CCS stations. As the number of CCS-capable cars increase, we should see improvements in station capacity and reliability.
Amazon Fire wasn't really strange. It was only an experiment in as much as being one of Amazon's first forays into hardware. Otherwise it was pretty standard, iirc.
I'm not opposed to electronic voting but our systems seem to be really broken. There are a number of ways to handle this, all of which require strong transparent auditing.

The main reason I want to get sane electronic voting is so we can vote online from home. Given the inability of democrats and republicans to come up with any acceptable method of handling voter ID, though, I'm pretty confident that it won't happen for decades if ever. In the meantime at least my state does vote by mail.
If it's ok to tack on here, how do you convince developers to move to Cloud IDEs? I've been trying to convince my team, but they are glued to PHPStorm and thus my attempts to move them meet steady resistance. The value-prop for me makes sense though, get out of the business of trying to maintain a vm on everyone's machine. Granted maybe we could solve it in other ways with containers or such but Cloud9, Codeanywhere, and some of these other tools seem like the right thing to move to.
I'm not one of those people that actively does much about ads or online privacy. I have friends that obsess over the stuff and probably spend as much time as I do online just adjusting custom uBlock/whatever else lists.

But I finally switched off of Chrome on Android and over to Firefox where I could install uBlock because of these fucking Taboola ads. Trying to read sites and the entire page would be jumping around as my phone slowly struggled its way into loading and displaying them.

Sorry, ad industry, I'm not going to take the time to weed out the bad actors. As soon as you annoy me enough that I feel I need to do something I'm taking the nuclear option and blocking everything - it's just easier.
I'm not sure that storing ints would be more resistant to fraud than storing as doubles. You could easily manipulate the vote by randomly switching X% of votes like so:

if wrongVote && rand() < X:

FlipVote()

This would have the same effect as fractional voting, even if you store as integers.
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> The demand that "I want my browser to be exactly the same speed as it used to be, but also support all these new features"

Wait wait wait, hold up. I don't want my browsers to support those features. I just want to not need them in order to read a goddamn news article or access a web store. The problem isn't that these technologies are available, it's that they're unavoidable.
> Producing food without following proper hygiene regulations? Disrupting the medicine-industry by testing your headache-pills on your customers (those regulations are only slowing us down!)?

It would have been even worse than that because it could have potentially killed other people, too.
It might be better to say that home PV and EV and battery storage go hand-in-hand (since that allows you to dump your surplus battery into your car at night), which appears to be Tesla's strategy. It would help if the battery storage were big enough to fully recharge an EV, but that's not strictly necessary unless you do a lot of driving.

Solar panels on cars are another option. I used to think that was a bad idea, considering that an electric vehicle uses vastly more power than solar panels could ever hope to generate. Then I thought about my own driving patterns; On a typical work day, I drive about three miles to work, park in the sun for 8 hours, and then drive three miles home. With an electric vehicle and a solar panel on the roof, I might not even have to plug it in except on long trips. Even if that wasn't true, if a solar panel could save me, say, 10 full charges per year, it's probably worth a little extra weight and cost.
Chrome 54 Printing Results in Missing Characters
That was a design error, this is presumably a simple bug fix. It's also being actively exploited.
Just in case anyone else is dealing with missing characters when printing from Chrome v54.
Google did not claim they were aware of active exploitation of the Apple vulnerability whereas for this Windows one, they claim knowledge of it being exploited actively.
I have to agree. To this day, I still prefer the NextStep UI to the OS X UI.
Easy!
To have invested too much time in Computer Science.

A bit of context: I'm born physically disabled, my parents fight to make me follow a 'normal' education. When I was 9 I realized that if one day I wanted to have a normal life I should be good at something. Since I was already spending 12 hours a day on my computer (to take my school lessons and to play with my friends) I decided to become a developper. 15 years later I'm triply graduated in computer science, I know a lot of things in nearly all major fields of CS and I have a good position in an important digital security company. I'm recognized by my peers and valuated by my hierarchy.
I intensively tried to date for two years. First regular women, but I was massively rejected for obvious reasons. Then, disabled women, but I just can't because there's a too big educational/societal gap.
I don't regret all the feelings I had doing CS stuff, even if it was just the illusion of pleasure to learn and master stuff. I only regret to, at one point, have confused my goal and how to reach it. Everything has a price, I was sure I was able to pay it, but now, I know I wasn't able to.

If I had to do a thing differently, I would leave 'normal' school when I was 9, my life would have been a lot easier.

I'm far happier now, I only do things that give me an immediate rewards and I'm here for my friends who have been patient enough to wait for me all these years.
The average consumer is awash in debt. The guy next to me just bought some truck for around $40k with a 72mo loan. His wife leases some BMW 3 series, and can't drive on the weekend.

They eyeroll at my 2002 Honda, and I eyeroll at their $1000/mo payments.
most of this thread is concerned with the desktop. but powerpc is widely used in the automotive systems. Those systems are running either some form of Linux, an RTOS or a bareboard exec. The modern powerpc SOC's are available in very wide temperature ranges (-40..+125) which makes them attractive for automotive. The QorIQ ppc's are used in networking also.
Was that Apple vulnerability actively exploited in the wild during the delay?
Facebook.com/ObamaWhiteHouse is a naming collision waiting to happen (president Michelle?)

Go with Facebook.com/whitehouse44
Those systems are made by massive companies with a hugely vested interest in NOT screwing up because screwing up would massively screw up their revenue.

Voting systems do not have that.
Pet peeve: meaningless projections into the far future. The "battery prices keep tumbling" chart is a complete fiction. They took two data points and extrapolated a smooth e^-x function, which portrays a untruthful appearance of accuracy. Two points fit whatever curve you want to fit. Including this graph is worse than having nothing.

Question: how would I complain to Bloomberg about this?
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For better or worse, consultants are often paid by clients for sounding like the smartest person in the room. Bullshitting convincingly is very much part of the job.

Anyway, if the technique is good enough for Fermi [1] or Drake [2], what's the problem?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
Canopy Labs (YC S12) is hiring a SysOps Engineer
This is an onsite position in Toronto, Canada.

We are looking for a skilled and energetic SysOps engineer who has worked with Linux and AWS in production.

MongoDB and Mesos are also part of our stack, so if you’ve worked with these technologies, great! However, even if you haven’t - we’re looking for a candidate who enjoys learning on the job, and who can point to instances where they have picked up multiple technologies in a past role.

We would like this SysOps role to evolve into a DevOps role. The successful candidate will show interest in learning about continuous integration, version control and infrastructure as code.

When you join, you will be expected to:

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A solid candidate will have these characteristics:

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This is our nice-to-have list - if you possess any of these skills, you will stand out:

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To apply, please send us an email with your resume at: jobs@canopylabs.com
wasm may well be much more efficient and less resource intensive than JS. Seems likely enough, given the analogue of ASM on most machines.

But, then again, most people don't write ASM. They target it. So in practice, the performance of apps taking advantage of wasm will have a lot to do with compilers and the culture/choices developers bring to writing the software targeted at the browser-as-runtime.
I think the happy medium would be to add a link to search in the top bar but not the actual search bar.
The cynic in me says this is just going to be used as another way to track and ID users (let's say a Dell sensor behaves differently from a Lenovo sensor)

That aside, it's listed as Windows Insider Preview Build 10586+ only. Does anyone know if there's any other releases of Windows planned before the "Creators Update" (aka Redstone 2)? That's a while to wait to fix some of the problems with Anniversary.
Not knowing how to make people laugh at the right moments.
I love your attitude and wish more people were the same. It's a kind of jealousy that exists between people and I think speaks to the general unhappiness of most people in modern society. If people were happy in their lives, they wouldn't want to bring down successful people.

A google search for "unearned pleasure" comes up with lots of interesting results. I would expand that to the idea of "unearned success", which I think is implied to be a bad thing in our society.

There's a limit of course, but I wish our society was less focused on consumption and competition and more interested in trying to help make the average person's life less stressful and more fun.
None of the vulnerabilities are in Chrome?
This is the method of conspiracy theory, is it not? A peculiar observation is made, analyzed obsessively, and fitted into a speculative narrative.

Honestly, I'm all for further discrediting an already-discredited campaign, but this seems like a genuinely bizarre way to go about it.
What this article tries its damnedest to elide is the narrative-wrecking fact that Holtz, confronted with a standard request to demonstrate that his product meets regulatory standards, took his ball and went home. /Exactly/ why he threw a tantrum is anyone's guess -- but there doesn't seem to be any real good possibility. Either his product couldn't meet standards and this is an attempt to obfuscate that inconvenient fact, or he withdrew a working product because he was so affronted by the fact that the NHTSA dared challenge him -- hardly a defensible, or confidence-inspiring, behavior.
It's mainly the lack of a javascript JIT.

You can get a JIT for 32-bit x86 and ARM. You can get a JIT for 64-bit x86, ARM, and PowerPC.

In the modern world, no JIT means no web.

Right after that problem, those old PowerPC machines face a lack of RAM and a lack of well-accelerated 3D. It was typical to have 64 to 256 megabytes of RAM, with an upper limit of 1.5 gigabytes. There might have been a 3D accelerator, but it couldn't work in full resolution/color fast enough to keep up with modern compositing needs.

For us older people, these are all silly big numbers for reading web pages. Wasteful frameworks and advertising have bloated up the web, requiring us to follow the crowd in buying faster hardware just to get the performance we had two decades ago.
Is the interface the competitive advantage of the modern age
Christ, Google. At least the workaround is relatively simple - print to PDF (using Chrome's built in option) and then print that from another reader.
I personally think it is due to a lack of true innovation, most cloud IDEs are just copies of native IDEs minus the performance benefit. The browser is a powerful platform and when you combine that with a server you have something very capable, but you have to think creatively to harness that power.
there are cryptographic voting systems that would allow results to be verifiable and for voters to verify their vote was counted. That and FOSS voting software would probably help .
What's that, core duo? Core 2 duo? I'm quite pleased with how well those devices are holding on.
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I wonder if this is a good time to buy solar city stock.
I have no idea how you're going to fit all that on a tie or a pocket protector.

Some history on uniforms of those that have most closely attended the Zee herd: https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/waywewore/waywew...

I must say, this guy here, he's really onto something:

https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/waywewore/waywew...

Such power, and so much blue.

In all seriousness, please share your tweaks.
biased which way?
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That's significantly less important than voting. And the incentives are properly aligned: the bank is responsible for making its systems secure, and if they lose your money they have to refund it. Voting? Not so much. Lost ballots? "Woops :) sorry."

If the voting machine vendor executives faced actual personal serious jail time for botched counts, I might be more inclined to trust it. Then again, I bet you a tenner they'd suddenly have a lot more fail safes in place.

Aligned incentives is absolutely, 100% required for anything to work in our society. It's what we're built on. Otherwise you will always be swimming upstream.
Why is this on HN? If we are going to open Pandora's Box here, we need to be posting regularly about how HC is breaking the law and how Google, Facebook, and Twitter are suppressing free speech. I don't think anyone wants to go there so these posts should be removed.
What is the average household exactly? One of my neighbors are baby boomers whose 30-year-old daughter still lives with them. They have four cars (two for the dad, one for the mom, one for the daughter). Across the street is some kind of flophouse -- a 2-bed 1-bath house, whose occupants have no less than 7 cars. It causes no end of consternation for my wife and I who have merely one car each, and we often can't park in front of our own house because the neighbors are taking up all the spots.
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Google says their sandbox prevents it, but https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb1... says Chrome's embedded Flash is affected.
There currently doesn't appear to be a Richard Nixon to say 'shut it down.'
Has it any remarkable features other than "it's written in Rust"?
No, "hypocritical" would be disclosing critical vulnerabilities in a competitor's product after a week of notification, when you yourself stop shipping security updates for your mobile operating system after two years; instead suggesting "buy a new phone!" as the solution. But no one would be that sleazy.
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Maybe I'm heavily misunderstanding how this whole thing works, but isn't it basically a django-allauth/passport.js/omniauth/... packed as a [micro]service, with an "click link in email" for the fallback algorithm, and a planned "self-hosted" option (not sure how it would be any conceptually different from classic OpenID)?

Calling this a spiritual successor to Persona looks like a big stretch to me... Maybe I got it all wrong, though.

(And still I don't like it anyway, because my pet peeve is not having identity providers at all - one's identity must be something they can actually own, not something they lease from a provider, be it an email service or domain registrar...)
Immediately? No. But this is the beginning of the end for JS.
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seems analogous to criminal masterminding.