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From the BeOS wiki page:

"It has partial POSIX compatibility and access to a command-line interface through Bash, although internally it is not a Unix-derived operating system."

From that and just browsing around, it seems to be a vaguely Unix-ish environment; or at least it has more in common with Unices than the CPM/DOS/Windows or other OS families.
Clojure matrix libs:

https://github.com/mikera/core.matrix
https://data-sorcery.org/
https://github.com/mikera/vectorz-clj
http://neanderthal.uncomplicate.org/
https://github.com/tel/clatrix
The Daily Mail is notoriously unreliable.
You are probably too young to have tested in the good ol'times the original BeOS.

It was IMHO a "revolution" that - for whatever reasons - never happened.

Don't ask me the actual "technical" details, but it was small, very, very fast, even on the limited hardware of the time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS

I have no idea if Haiku is (will be) as faster as it was BeOS at the time (when compared on the same hardware to Windows 9x or NT 4.00) when compared to a "current" Windows or Linux or MacOS, but at the time it blew away any other OS, particularly when it came to browsing the web or for music, video, etc.
Previously on HN, this popped to mind : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12922068 TLDR:A short story expressing this idea ;)
Well, "أهلاً بكم" which means "Welcome" for second person plural in English is transliterated into "Eskéndereyya" as "ählan bekom".

Note the umlaut mark on the letter "a" as it's a Hamzat Qaŧў همزة قطع and should be pronounced with glottal stop. Of course, in colloquial speech across many dialects, it softened to just a plain "a".
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Define "typical buyer". 10-15% instant energy savings would be one heck of a reason for FB/Google/Amazon/Microsoft to veer towards ARM for their clouds, especially if the vendor can plausibly show that they have more potential there.

These are servers, not hypedisruptionmarkets. Not once where there 400 % efficiency increases in a single generation of anything.
It can be in Debian contrib. As a matter of fact, libdbd-oracle-perl is in Debian contrib.

Officially, Debian contrib is not Debian, but there is no practical difference.
I was arguing based on the assumption that they are indeed doing what you described. RECs would be regulated and "not being honest" in that case would constitute actual fraud.

If it's just a public promise, sure, I wouldn't trust them either, but even then German consumer protection laws would at least require them to either keep that promise or drop that claim (and pay a fine for anti-competitive practices).
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Coworkers are not friends as a general rule. You get to choose your friends--you don't get to choose your conworkers. As a consequence, the inter-coworker relationship is a highly artificial and delicate one. Good natured ribbing has no place in it.
I think the most problematic issues is that physicists reject the wave function. I have never understood this since if you reject the wave function in standard quantum mechanics, you have nothing left.

But the pilot wave is just the wave function of quantum mechanics, albeit on a universal scale. It is in all the theories. And just because one has a "collapse", which is always approximate anyway (no delta functions for a position measurement, for example), one still has a wave function as the only object in standard QM and that is an expanding object defined on 3*number of particles in universe. But we do not experience that. We experience 3 dimensional space with rather point-like objects moving about.

Pilot wave theory starts with "We have particles moving about. How do they move?" That's the question it starts with and it answers it in the simplest way possible given the wave function: the wave function tells the particles how to move using Bohm's equation which is a very easy thing to derive. Indeed, you can derive it even more quickly than Schrodinger's equation from the same basic facts of Einstein's light quanta hypothesis and de Broglie's hypothesis.

It was a choice to inject mysticism into quantum mechanics. If you stick with trying to describe the evolution of particles, Bohm is natural. If you want to describe something else whose evolving configuration would give us our experience, then that is fine, but you have to say what that is. The standard interpretation does not as it is solely concerned with experiments and measurements with no definition of them in a fundamental way. It is more like they were trying to do regression fitting on experimental data without any understanding of what the underlying stuff was nor any interest in such a question.

The other difficulty is spin. Spin is trivial if you put the spin degrees of freedom in the value space of the wave function. But many think of spin as real as position. It is not. It matters what the experiment is; the spin value for a particle is not defined independent of the experiment.

Bohmian mechanics gives a theory while standard quantum mechanics gives a computational formalism. Depending on your goals, the latter can be sufficient. The former tells us why stuff happens and also allows us to derive that computational formalism.
Have you lived in central Africa? I have, for a decade. I saw first hand the catastrophic consequences of misguided "help".

You are responding about subtleties ("misrepresenting 'some' data") when the problem he's going after -- misguided feel-good intervention by the under informed, is more harmful than helpful -- is very real and bigger than any given issue.

You are down in the weeds debating this or that fact, instead, come up a level and help explain to others that understanding precedes helping -- which it sounds like you agree with, and is a more important point.
> I also think NSA has a naming problem. By its very name, how can it ever be standard?

"Nonstandard" isn't referring to how people view the field, but to additional elements you add to the model. Just to throw out a weird example, here's Edward Nelson's text on the subject:

https://web.math.princeton.edu/~nelson/books/1.pdf

"Theorem 4. There is a finite set that contains every standard object."

That is, in Nelson's system, the set of standard natural numbers is finite. That finite number is a nonstandard natural number, larger than any standard natural number.

Mixing "nonstandard"(in the sense of an undefined predicate added to the base logic) with "nonstandard"(in the sense of some professors thinking it's weird) is a type error.
So cool! Language translation standardization projects are great teaching tools
This is a really fun approach.

How about an (unfinished) common lisp to go transpiler?

https://github.com/aaron-lebo/centro
I don't know (and if I did know, I couldn't say at present).

However the points raised in this subthread are absolutely correct. Having upstream kernel support is vital so that any distro boots on any h/w and so that security fixes can be applied. Having good quality drivers is important, and documentation very helpful too.

Red Hat is taking the high road here and working with server manufacturers to make sure that upstream kernels work painlessly on ARM server hardware. We don't think that ARM in the datacenter can be a success otherwise.
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Use rpm2cpio and you have a cpio archive. Not zip exactly but you could work with it outside of Redhat/Ubuntu/Suse.
Amen. We have a lot of people digging through details in obscurity; we need a spokesman like this, of good will and broad understanding, instead of the usual shysters. There is a solid need for both roles; you don't criticize an epidemiologist for not being a surgeon.
There was an interesting article on Reason.com about Bitcoin mining in Venezuela.

https://reason.com/archives/2016/11/28/the-secret-dangerous-...
Here's the IPCC's take: http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/sres/aviation/index.php?idp=6...

One interesting aspect is that for high altitude airplanes, water vapour emissions may be as problematic as CO2.
You're not "doing" anything with a quantum computer. That's just the reality of quantum computation in this conceptual framework.

And no, you can't say that about anything. In particular, you can't say that about non-deterministic interpretations of QM (most of them) because causal chains can only be traced back to the most recent non-deterministic event. In fact, pilot wave theories are among the only deterministic interpretations of QM.
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I worked in a reasonably sized organization that was heavily invested in MS products. If I had used SQL Server I would have had access to DBA's and secondary apps we were already licensing for ETL, reporting, etc... I chose postgres because at the time, the Linux drivers for SQL Server were junk. The message from our ops folks was basically, "Knock yourself out but you're totally on your own."
Monero is a more likely candidate for the winner in this category.
Sounds like it would be easier to understand if they just published the energy numbers in GJ.

To confuse things, Japan has its own scale which has similar numbers to the Richter scale but with different meaning.
If you have the money MSSQL is a better all-purpose RDBMS. The tooling is in a completely different league and there are fewer surprises with regards to performance (like PG's slow counts, paging, etc.). I very much hope PG will close the gap though.
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Absolutely agree on the performance front. If you're starting out, generally SQL Server will run well out of the box, and if you upgrade hardware and reinstall on the new hardware it'll generally work well without having to do anything else. At some point you might have to start thinking about I/O and how best to arrange files but maybe not for a while, depending on what you're doing. (Just to be clear, let me restate: I'm talking starting out here - this is obviously NOT the approach you'd take when building or upgrading a large, complex application - I'm talking basic CRUDdy type apps here.)

Contrast this with some of the NoSQL platforms where immediately you're forced to think about topics such as sharding and clustering (I'm looking at you Couchbase) and the pain in the ass factor is much lower.

Key point: you don't need much of a clue about SQL Server administration to start using it, but you perhaps do with Couchbase, Elasticsearch, etc. From an ease of use point of view with NoSQL, I'd probably point to MongoDB as having the most approachable learning curve.

There's also no BS about having to keep everything in memory to keep performance acceptable (I'm looking at you, again, Couchbase - that's two strikes). The whole point of SQL Server and other RDBMSs is that they continue to work well when the amount of data you need to store vastly outweighs the amount of physical memory you have. Of course, if you can get everything into physical memory it will perform better but, even if you can't, it will still perform well.

Of course, if you're using SQL Server you do need to learn SQL (true for any RDBMS), which can be off-putting. It's absolutely not a beautiful language - in fact it's bloody aggravating when you write a lot of it - but it is extremely powerful and excellent for working with sets of data arranged in rows (i.e., tables). Nothing else really comes close.
I've worked for a number of companies that did pay to "be agile". It was sort of a cargo cult thing sold by middle management to upper management or upper management to other upper management.

Delivery of working software is supposed to trump everything else in theory, but in practice it often doesn't.
YMMV; the company I work at recently hosted a talk by Pete Hunt (OG React guy) who recommended people not use React.

I will say that if your team doesn't understand & internalize the assumptions of Redux it produces the worst highly-coupled spaghetti I've ever seen, spread over dozens of directories and "components".
Sort of. There is no real entanglement in this formalism, not in the way it's typically portrayed. I suppose you could say entanglement is there all the time. Macroscopic observation of entanglement via non-local correlations is really just a context in which we make the non-local connection observable.
The BeOS kernel is as totally un-UNIX-like as (say) Windows NT/2K/XP/7/8/10, designed from the bottom-up to be “pervasively multi-threaded” at a time when multi-core chips were at least fifteen years away and multi-processor systems were utterly exotic, lacking even the most fundamental UNIX precepts (everything-is-a-file; multi-user environment; GUI mandatory and in-built). It just ‘seems’ UNIX-ish at first glance because it has a POSIX compatibility layer added on top in hindsight (or foresight) to provide a standardised shell and GNU userland utilities, as well as providing the key compiler toolchain (GCC 2-or-3-dot-something, if memory serves).

HAIKU is basically a clean-room reimplementation of the public (and private) framework modules' APIs and as such doesn't even (really) descend from BeOS-proper at all.

(Avid late-1990s BeOS user, dual PowerPC 603e-133 BeBox owner, HAIKU supporter.)
Amazing! I was not around when BeOS was the thing, but I read a lot about it, and it seemed way ahead of it's time, at least to me from today's standpoint. I play with Haiku from time to time.
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This...is not possible?
> The basic idea is your experiment does odd quantum stuff until your equipment detects something whereupon you get a definite result so it's a simple way of thinking about that.

You're probably thinking of "instrumentalism" aka "shut up and calculate". Copenhagen is not instrumentalism.
They are 'on' subjects people care about enough to click.

Nobody cares about the specifics of Venezuelan currency exchange. So they don't cover it.

It's absurd to suggest they are 'not covering it' because the US government is intervening on that issue. Totally absurd.

Canada is the US #1 trading partner, and how much coverage do you see about Canada? None. We have a new Prime Minister and it barely makes the news. We have major trade disputes on going - zero coverage. Because nobody cares.

Trump, Taylor Swift, the current SJW meme, and the last 'shooting' and whatever is trending on Twitter is what they cover.

There is a war going on in Mosul, Americans involved, and since the start of that action there's been zero coverage.

It's because people don't care enough. That's it. There's no conspiracy.

You want details on Mosul go to AlJazeera. You want details on Canada go to the CBC. etc.
Two big use cases are building your own compiler in Python and doing some JIT compilation (E.g. regex matcher or similar) to gain some perf.

LLVM is fantastic but not everyone wants or can use C++ in their project.

I've been doing prototype compilers in Haskell, but Python might also be a nice choice.
I remember when MingW or Cygwin users were complaining that AVs were detecting "Hello world" binaries as malware too.

IMHO AVs started becoming anti-user when they began detecting "hacking tools" and keygens/cracks/patches (there are certainly some which do have malware, but detecting software that does exactly what it claims to do is going beyond that.) That's acting in the interests of corporations, not users. It's rather authoritarian and I don't want that at all.
What if the "stacking" is simply using multiple hash functions in parallel, i.e. not storing one hash but a bunch of hashes all done with different hash functions? Would that not make finding a collision that works in all hash functions nigh impossible, with the trade-off that you're potentially giving away more information about your input data?
I have visited a few countries and the airport trains have always been complete rip offs. Nagoya in Japan is an exception - the airport express costs a whole ¥360 ($3) more than taking a local train.
The US, China, et al would likely be able to blackhole most of the Bitcoin network packets on the backbone and definitely could simply take down the network with a traditional DoS. Ever won a fight for bandwidth with your upstream router?

The real question is whether they could use protocol or cryptography weaknesses to break it with less effort. Something like a weakness in the hash or signing methods could allow them to disrupt the network state in a basically unrecoverable way with many fewer packets and not requiring a persistent attack.
Guy's phone gets stolen, so he makes a film from spyware on a new phone
A subtle point here for me was that I found the vibration of the Pebble v.1 to still be rather loud and to draw the attention of anyone near me to my wrist. It's rarely mentioned, but I think the biggest feature upgrade when I moved on to the Apple Watch was how subtle the "tap" vibration was. It means that I am unfailingly aware of a notification, timer, or alarm firing, and a person I am in conversation with is never aware that it happened. The ability for it to deliver different patterns of taps is also nice, for instance, turn left or turn right are recognizably different tap patterns when using the watch for navigation.
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The best-known case about this is partly a myth or misconception:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Blitz#Coventry_and_Ul...
Ceremonial getters/setters weren't my point, they were just a common theme I've seen in a lot of OO code that I used to help show my point, which was that some languages tend to have more boilerplate than others (and thus, lines of diff is not a good metric for "Programming Language Popularity").

This was definitely an apples to oranges comparison, and I specifically said I was comparing code from different languages - it's a bit tough to do so without comparing apples to oranges, especially when you're comparing "Shell" to "Java". In fact, my whole point boils down to the fact that IMO, the original post was making an apples to oranges comparison - it was comparing lines of diff from various different languages, some of which require more boilerplate than others, and then declaring that it was providing stats on "Programming Language Popularity".

Obviously it would be possible to write very succinct one-liners for Java, C#, or "Shell" (not to mention the fact that the whole goal was the square a number; no functions or classes were really needed), but I still tried to write code in the style that I am used to seeing. You're right, my code wasn't using C#-specific abilities like auto-implemented properties, and I did try to make it look slightly more Java-like.

You are right, C# hasn't required the same ceremony since C# 3.0, but there still are quite a few people who seem to be oblivious to that (in my experience at least). Furthermore, I still count 2 instances of "get" in your code and an instance of "set" as well, so while your getters/setters may not take as many lines as the ones I wrote, you still had to explicitly declare them, which to me is still a bit ceremonial, but I can see how to someone who does it all the time, it may seem like nothing :)
Get a team of high level economists in your central bank and economic advisory board.

Start with curbing hyperinflation. That's been done before several times. Do what is known to work. There are some macroeconomic PhDs whose wet dream is to have a case so clear cut like this where they can make a difference. Put them in your central bank and have them get to work.

Remove price controls right away on just about everything that is price controlled. Same for supply control/management.

Get the minimum wage back down. Hell put it too low until you have a partial equilibrium to intuit a "correct" MW level to base it on.
This comment boils down to: you're wrong and you're stupid.

Also, and quite ironically, you have misinterpreted and are misapplying the D.K. effect. Can you care to explain why the above wouldn't be true? Does an extra layer of bad crypto diminish the effectiveness of the good crypto? It doesn't seem like it would, and OPs statement reads more like a reasonable logical assumption, but I know very little about crypto, which is why I ask.
The British did significant amounts of data analysis and traffic analysis. e.g. estimating German tank production by looking at the serial numbers of captured / destroyed German tanks.

I don't recall anything about the Germans doing the same thing.
I'd go one step further: the pivot to fitness is what killed Pebble.

Pebble's first KS campaign resulted in $10MM in pledges. The second campaign resulted in $20MM. The third campaign resulted in $10MM.

The second campaign revamped the interface and added capabilities for voice input and other "productivity" features. The third campaign added a heartrate monitor, more fitness features and the Core, a separate device specifically targeted at runners.

Also, Pebble only started bleeding money in 2015, which would presumably be when the pivot to fitness started. Pebble had lost the "innovation" advantage to Apple (and the various Android Wear devices that had sprung up before) but had evidently carved out its own highly successful niche.

It's the typical startup problem: they were brilliant at one thing and all their users loved them, but that was too small a niche to justify their investments so they had to expand or pivot and died in the ocean instead of succeeding as a big fish in a small pond.
Uhh ... yes.

It didn't say it's the best, which it probably isn't.
clearly, this is fluff. the trouble for me is evaluating whether this fluff is a float: 'we will outlaw zcash', or a flop: 'the authorities should outlaw zcash'.
When I was at SCaLE 11 conference a few years back I had the pleasure of learning about haiku from one of the creators. He was demoing "big buck bunny" in HD on some really tiny and underpowered hardware.

As a comparison the had builds with other operating systems and they could not compete, they ran very choppy, like 3 fps.

I suggest you try it out. It's refreshing to tinker with an OS that is so fundamentally different. When I went home I installed it on a few machines I had, which were collecting dust. Tinkering with haiku sort of reinvigorated my original wonder of computing from when I as a kid, for a couple months.

Later at the conference, I was helping at the Python booth, and I asked if haiku supported Python. The haiku guy was not sure but he got it to compile and run about 4 minutes later, and it worked!
I was at the Zoologischer Garten station last night.

Not much to say except frankly it's far cleaner than the SF trains the GP is talking about. (I was also in SF civic center station less than two months ago, and thus feel qualified to make this statement as a first person observer.)

Berlin certainly has its own aesthetic. Berliners seem to take graffiti incredibly seriously, for example (lettering three stories high on the top floors of a 15 story building? "Sure, why not" is apparently the thinking). But hordes of junkies? Do I feel in danger? Absolutely not.
How many malicious compilers have you actually seen in the wild (in 2012, when that post was written)? And indeed if there were any, why would an AV not just detect the compiler itself?
That is an artificial restriction if C. Also see how ! In Rust is also loosing it's artificial restrictions.
Tesla introduces fee for owners who leave their cars at Supercharger stations
Reasons I won't read your article:

It throws a big fucking javascript overlay in my face as soon as I visit the page.

https://medium.com/@stiobhart/javascript-overlays-are-the-po...

https://medium.com/@stiobhart/the-face-shitting-continues-9e...
Anyone know if there's going to be a version of sql express for Linux? I couldn't find any info on it last time I looked
Figure out what else you can export. Borrow and spend on public infrastructure projects.
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