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> though, it is easier to believe that the system works as intended and people want to trust that it works as intended. I don't think America is truly authoritarian as much as it is too lazy to pay attention until either the guns are...

I wonder if people just don't know how to make a difference. I wonder what would happen if schools taught activism as part of social studies. The idea itself is absolutely hilarious. A lot needs to be taught in social studies, like just getting kids to get along adequately
Honestly, can someone explain why it took so long?

I mean, you can get IPv6 on a bunch of low-end budget VPSs. Why couldn't Amazon do it? And why cant GCE do it?

Is it a lot of work?
I'm a North Dakotan so when I think flat, I think Great Plains flat. Last time I was in the south it still had bumps.
If you posit that 50% of people like X, you survey 21 people and find that 0 like X, then the odds that you would get that result due to random sampling error assuming the original hypothesis were true is 1 in 2097152
I've got a handful in my bookmark bar that still appear to work. I think the rumors of the death may be greatly exaggerated.
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We probably won't ever be rid of NAT. The likes of Cisco, who thrive on making things enterprisey and needlessly complicated will definitely be peddling IPv6 NAT soon, if they aren't already doing it.
"Coding interviews are the devil" is my favorite HN meme. This post magically appears any time anybody mentions hiring of any kind.
Quantity changes the quality here. IPv6 address space being so large, we can afford to give everyone a virtually infinite number of addresses. Which in turn enables everything to be globally routable. I never cared about IPv6 much. Once I grasped it I am actually so so excited about it.
I know I speak for many in the BSD camp when I say we thank you too for ALL your work in our corner of the open source world.
A colleague of mine gave a talk at SRECon about the fun world of IPv6 provisioning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gjuVhph520

Granted, that isn't necessarily a pre-requisite for going dual stack (aka: just attaching a v6 address to a machine), but it shows the fun problems you run into.
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I found that Until the Light Takes Us was a bit skewed in their take on the scene. I feel like the creators had a clear thesis and highlighted only the information that backed their particular POV.

I would recommend Lords of Chaos first, as a primer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lords_of_Chaos_(book)

Before digging into Until the Light Takes Us.
We've gone through several Fitbits in our family. The build quality is terrible and the bluetooth communications is very flaky. Not going to buy any more hardware from that company.

Perhaps Pebble can inject some quality into the Fitbit culture.
The name Luca Cardelli, one of the authors of one of the recommended papers, rings a bell: Modula 3 guy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-3
The lack of time is really a perception caused by mental overload. Most people I know have extra time. They're just incredibly overwhelmed with the background noise of work. They have time, but extremely little of it is mentally useful time.
It's actually some combination of Apple and NVIDIA drivers, but on OS X, unlike pretty much every other OS, Apple insists on owning the OpenGL entry points and doing a bunch of work in its own driver before calling down into the vendor driver's OpenGL entry points. The vendor driver then has to undo some of the "helpful" things that Apple did, and work around whatever bugs are in the Apple code. For NVIDIA, in particular, the OpenGL driver is pretty much the same between Windows and Linux, and so one shouldn't be much more broken than the other, at least when it comes to core OpenGL functionality. But the OS X driver can't take as much advantage of the common code because of the Apple code that it has to deal with.
What do you mean? Sure there isn't a goal, but it's also true that some things tend to lead more success for a species and thus lead to the species with those traits dominating. Thus it's good from an evolutionary standpoint. Am I missing something?
How do you know that AWS Batch did not prove N=NP?

Maybe that is the secret sauce.
Because it should be evident that there's no way in hell we should be putting someone like her with a background like that into office.
You'd think that an Elisp implementation plus the necessary API's could be provided to make a good bulk of that code work.
What it's saying is that you have a container you use only to store the data, then share that container's volume with the target container. Finally, because it's on your hard drive, you can access it.

Basically, instead of host -> container, you do container -> container.

And yeah, the container is supposed to be effectively a new computer, but you can build images to create the auth environments you need and base everything off those.
For people paying less than 1k on their bill, or am I missing something? I feel pretty confident in the layout I... Laid out.
Fascinating. If not a hoax - perhaps an early example of schizophrenia? A rare case where an educated schizophrenic had access to bound calf skin, creating a book with their own invented language and theories?
Crunchbase shows AngelList's funds raised at $400M - there were 3 follow-on rounds with undisclosed amounts after their $24M Series B. (I have to revise my estimate of AngelList's valuation up and my estimate of the percent ownership of PH founders/employees down after this - with $400M raised, they're almost certainly worth at least a billion, and Hoover's equity share would be worth < 1%, also in line for a talent acquisition.)

I certainly can't speak for a16z in this particular case, but in other talent acquisitions the VCs usually prefer cash to shares in the acquirer. If they wanted shares in the acquirer, they would've invested directly in their funding rounds. Among other problems with taking shares, it opens them up to potential conflicts of interest (particularly relevant for a16z + AngelList), and it leads to having large positions in companies of which they don't have board seats or any significant visibility.

Ryan Hoover gets "FU" paper money in the form of AngelList shares; he has to wait for AngelList to have its own liquidity event before he gets to realize any of those gains. Still, if his own startup is foundering, that's probably a better bet than going down with the ship.
The pay, company reputation (as a good employer AND top place technically), appearance on a resume, possibility of working on something cool, and actually managing to get through their interview is always going to appeal to people.

I'd work at google if I got an offer, because why not. I know it's a big company and everything, oh well.

I'd settle for passing the interview though. Don't like failing. :P
There will be very soon. They announced it today during a session on ELB.
I agree on the serial port thing. That's one device which I think should be architecture-standard. I can't imagine bringing up firmware or debugging a kernel without a low-level system serial port. It also makes remote management a lot easier, because the remote console can hook into that in a standard fashion.
nice article, but i think its the wrong metric. as others on here have noted, its energy not time that is the true finite resource. i have only about 3-4 good hours of focus per day. who cares about free time when thats the bigger constraint?
Contact them. When you get the new one, try the fix above on the old one to see if you can get it fixed.

I'm concerned about this acquisition. The few people I know with Fitbits have had nothing but trouble with them.
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Is it fair to judge Solaris by the fact that Oracle has mismanaged it? I don't mean to imply that Solaris necessarily had a brilliant and uncomplicated future before the acquisition, but it turned it from a product developed as a (profitable?) labor of love into a tool to extract ransoms from hostages. A vote of no confidence from a parasite just speaks to how valuable it is to the parasite, not any inherent value.
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> ESRI/ArcServer is just too expensive for smaller organisations especially once you add in the cost of licensing SQL Server or Oracle.

I spent most of a year 2yrs ago trying to sell support for QGIS and PostGIS and GIS support in general to local municipalities but that died a very slow death as I had no idea how to sell to any government agency :(
Looks awesome! When're you opening up the invites?
Yes and no. Interviewing is definitely something you can become good at by practice (I can confirm). But I can tell you that studying algorithms and data structures for interviews (which I would not have done otherwise) has made me a much better engineer and I've taken a huge amount of knowledge from it that I use very often. So it's more like one of those exams that taught you a lot, even if you don't remember everything after a year :)
One of the most satisfying parts of my job is getting first hand access to seeing so much interesting infrastructure.

I specialize in water, so getting access to the treatment plans is my favorite. Drinking water plants are mostly off limits for the public but I've gotten tours of a few.

If you're around the NYC area try visiting the Brooklyn Wastewater Treatment Plant. Those egg shaped digesters are really well designed. I even heard of a couple getting married there.
But now Carrier has got some incredible PR for being a good guy to employees and will probably sell more than enough extra to cover that 65 million.
Haha, I have never read Salesforce docs.. I must say though that I'm pretty happy with their docs. Sure, they are dense. However, they have most of what you need if you spend the time to read them. I MUCH prefer comprehensive docs to those that are lacking..
What are LoB applications?

I think you suffer from an extreme case of imposter syndrome. Looking through your comment history, I conclude you are more than capable of working there. Whether it would fit with your location/work-life-balance/life goals, I am not sure. Google gets an inflated reputation as do many other prestigious firms. The interview process contains a large element of chance.

1. I would suspect that anyone who has a passion for including more high-level thinking in the classes they teach has the right approach to technology. Let alone that you actually teach a programming course to begin with.

2. Many of your comments show insights into computing and algorithms that I would say are of the same caliber of those of my friends who work at Google.
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Ask HN: CANBus vs. Ethernet vs. MODBUS
Environment is moderately noisy, think automotive, marine or light industrial. The requirements are that you need to potentially send the same message to more then one end point. 80% (by volume) of messages are relatively small in nature, say < 100 bytes, a few (< 10%) are as much as 1k in size.

Then say as an option you wanted to add reasonable quality video and still images to the same network occasionally.

Which topology, physical and protocol infrastructure would you think makes the most sense? The field is green so no predisposed environment is defined and it is open to definition.

Appreciate any feedback/input.
In the US this back and forth is orders of magnitude more expensive than that haven of efficiency, Western Europe.
So then why make them at all? To prepare for when selling them is a necessity?
Most are moving to digital formats, it's just very time consuming when you have stacks of 24x36 plans. Our firm has an entire portion of a building dedicated to just paper storage and we have interns scanning old material every day.
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I'm not going anywhere - only suggesting that soon we'll have to PC ML.
Hmm, I've never heard that proposal before. Is anyone seriously investigating the use of ground-based lasers to clear orbiting debris? It's plausible that a powerful and well-controlled laser could damage large satellites, but could that be done carefully enough to safely deorbit them instead of breaking them apart? And would the lasers be capable of clearing smaller pieces of debris?
To the author: Have you tried to use a logarithmic frequency scale in the spectrogram? [1] That representation is closer to the way humans perceive sound, and gives you finer resolution in the lower frequencies. [2] If you want to make your representation even closer to the human's perception, take a look at Google's CARFAC research. [3] Basically, they model the ear. I've prepared a Python utility for converting sound to Neural Activity Pattern (resembles a spectrogram when you plot it) here: https://github.com/iver56/carfac/tree/master/util

[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/feature-requests/176/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_scale

[3] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub37215.html
Norwegian black metal gets all the attention because of the church burnings, suicides, and murders, but musically there were much better scenes, IMO. The two that I like are Greek and Czech black metal, each of which had their own distinct sound.

You could not pay me to listen to Burzum. Mayhem hit on some nice atmospheres early on, as did Darkthrone though I prefer their first album (which was death metal), but other more popular bands from Norway like Enslaved, Satyricon, Immortal, Emperor, Gorgoroth, etc. never did anything for me. A few of the more experimental bands from Norway like Ulver and Arcturus are worth checking out, but all in all black metal is not my cup of tea :)
I pay for Washington Post and NYT. Honestly, I couldn't live without them. Not for your typical daily news, but for the truly interesting stories.

It's good stuff. I could spend hours.
I just wanted to thank you publicly for all your hard work on this. The community will benefit greatly from this. If I recall, correct me if I am wrong, didn't you also port FreeBSD to the Alpha many moons ago? I loved the Alpha and it broke my heart when it died. Sad panda :(
After an update about a year ago, it only requires being nearby (nightstand works for me) and uses sound to do the sensing.
Not OP, but LOB stands for Line of Business and the TL;DR is that it is any application which fulfills a critical business need
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_of_business
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Open-minded comments like this are why HN is my sanctuary in the general terrible attitude of the internet nowadays.
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Interesting.

I guess nobody had a bad trip?
Given how hyped the company was, I doubt they got participating preferred terms. Otherwise looks ok.
This is awesome! Can Google update the docs so that the links for external zipkin integrations work? They currently link in circles and there's no info on how to integrate into OpenTracing/Zipkin
> My life has not been impacted in any way except having a little more free time.

Here's the thing. It's a bit like herd immunity. It almost doesn't matter if you in particular read the journalism or not. It matters if nobody reads it. (Mostly for the social effects, but partly because then the industry can't afford to do real journalism for anybody).

At that point things start to fall apart; that's when ill-informed power-brokers put dangerous options like Brexit in front of even-less-informed voters.

Not reading a newspaper may not have impacted your life much. Living in a world where vastly fewer people are reading them already is.
Worth giving a try with humans anyway.
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With Zipkin and OpenTracing you can force spans to be recorded despite the sampling, so if you know something errors (middelware, catches etc.) you can almost guarantee that you'll record your trace if you set things up correctly.
Are you sure you don't want to say the exact opposite?

Something might look good, simple and logic, but you might discover in the end, after a long time, that it wasn't well fit to your use case.

On the other hand, something can be horrible, inconsistent, poorly documented and extremely hard to master, but might turn out to fit just exactly one specific use case.

In any case, we're talking about web applications. Which would be the use case that angular2 doesn't fit? And which the one it fits? Because I don't remember angular2 being advertised as something that has a very specific use case.
Definitely justified. Most civil engineers are state licensed which is a years long process in itself. Just to become a certified Engineer In Training I needed a 4 year engineering degree and a 6 hour exam. To become licensed you need 5+ years of experience and an 8 hour exam.

I'm not arguing against those safeties, but I believe there can be improvement in the regulation process. The NJDEP has only recently moved to a digital permitting system.
> When you realize all of the toys are part of an extremely successful strategy to keep you at the office as long as possible

Ugh, I can't believe how often I see this repeated with zero evidence to support it.

I work at Google. The office is a ghost town by 6:30. The work life balance on every team I'm aware of is great.

Saying the perks are some underhanded strategy to keep people around hugely insults the intelligence of the people working here or at any other office for that matter. Do you honestly think there are people that are like, "God, I'm miserable! I've been here 16 hours and I hate my life but I just... can't... stop... playing foosball!" Damn you, Google, and your nefarious perks!

No, that doesn't happen.

The reality is that skilled software engineers are in very high demand and companies compete very hard for them. Salary is part of it but perks are a huge component. No matter how much cash you make, for eight hours of the day, you are not spending it on fun leisure, you are at work. So companies understand now that they have to make the workplace appealing too to keep talent.

They also find, no surprise, that happy, stimulated people are productive, creative people too.

> Please don't ever get the impression that Googlers are somehow above you, because they're not.

I totally agree.
Sorry, but this has been bothering me for a long time and I would like to address it here.

The myth that Apple writes their own drivers for non-Apple GPUs is absolutely untrue, and I am amazed that it is so widespread when there is very little justification for it.

Apple's involvement with the graphics stack is about the same amount as Microsoft's. They provide the common APIs and the OS support, but the hardware is the vendor's responsibility.

There was precisely one moment in time when this was at least a third true: When Intel had subpar GPUs and offensively bad drivers. Since then, the work has transitioned back to Intel.

Nvidia writes the drivers for the Nvidia GPUs. AMD writes the drivers for the AMD GPUs.

Why are their drivers horrendously bad? Well, for Nvidia, Apple is such an increasingly small market that there is very little financial incentive for Nvidia to care. For AMD, there is slightly more of a reason to care because any market is a good market for them, and I speculate that this is a large part of the reason we've seen fewer and fewer Nvidia cards in Apple products: Apple can get AMD to care, but not Nvidia. When you only use non-Intel or non-Apple GPUs in a very tiny percentage of your products, it's hard to justify paying a ton of money out to incentivize a vendor to care.

There is very little reason why AMD or Nvidia or even Intel would share enough details about their recent hardware with a company that is becoming increasingly self-sufficient.

There are plenty of feedback loops at play here, and plenty enough reasons to see why non-Apple graphics drivers on Apple platforms would be poor. I can't for the life of me see why the assumption that Apple is writing these drivers would make sense.
In the interview for my first job after university I was asked a Unix trivia question. I said "Oh, I dunno... Most of my Unix knowledge is swapped out to the man pages!"
Laziness.

Why bother with the hassle of explaining yourself and face the possibility of a negative outcome if you can just say "because terrorism" and bypass all that effort?
Corporations are of course amoral (not immoral) entities. They are a product of their incentives, in good part.
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In addition to the answers other people have given about not wanting AWS IP space blacklisted, people who are intending to do use services for nefarious purposes have a nasty habit of paying for them using stolen credit cards.
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From personal experience and from some other people I know, there are really no such things as bad trips. Only uncomfortable trips with often uncomfortable truths or revelations about the world and/or yourself.

(Obviously I'm not counting extremes like dosing someone and throwing them into a haunted house. That would be a bad trip.)
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Yeah, plus even when you get down to machine code, those instructions can be implemented as microcode in the CPU. Then you have things like the lisp machines. Or V8 compiling bits of javascript to machine code while it "interprets". What exactly defines a compiler gets pretty fuzzy.
Imagine a very compact, compressed representation of the most complicated CPU on the planet. How many MB do you think that would be?
It doesn't sound like marketing to me and I appreciate your response. You could have just as easily ignored my comment.
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