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You are calling my assertions lies, when you aren't citing anything to back up any of your assertions. That's not very civil debate and won't get us anywhere.

> This is a lie. The Treaty of Rome of 1957(!) ....

The treaty of Paris 1951 [1] was established on the basis of economic trade in coal and steel, which was followed by The Treaty of Rome 1957 which established the European Economic Community which aimed to to do just that create an economic community. [2] Now, you can argue about what the people who set this up wanted and I'd agree many (Churchhill, Jean Monnet, etc) [3,4] did want a United States of Europe with a centralized European Army [4]. You could possibly say people voted on this since some of their leaders believed in this idea, and some of those leaders were elected in a democratic process (notably not Churchhill or Monnet) [5], but its a pretty long stretch.

> This is exactly what the British voted to join after de Gaulle

If you mean the EEC membership referendum of 1975, this is the actual question the Brits voted on "Do you think that the United Kingdom should stay in the European Community (the Common Market)?" [6].

That doesn't seem much like voting on being a member state of a United States of Europe to me. But maybe there are multiple ways of interpreting that, still newspapers referred to those in the yes camp as "pro-marketeers" or "Pro-Market" [8] which seems to suggest it was about economic trade and not so much political aspects of giving up national sovereignty.

I'd like to provide you with more facts about your other assertions but I don't have the time. Maybe someone else will.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1951)

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Community

3. http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/astonish.html

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Monnet#Common_Market

5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_K...

6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_European_Commun...

7. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/from-the-archive-blog/2...
It had no ads or other potential for revenue the day it came out.
I run Arch on most everything -- up to now it's worked great on old hardware as long as I'm judicious about what I install. When they stop updating 32bit, I suppose I'll switch to Tiny Core. Or rather, well after they stop updating 32bit and Tiny Core catches up.
> stuck to SysVinit and told users "you want Systemd, make a package" until long after the big distros had made the switch

Bullshit, Arch was one of the first to switch to systemd as the default way back in 2012. The only "big distros" that switched before Arch were Fedora (obviously since that's where it came from), Mageia which is based on Fedora, and OpenSUSE (but not SLES). The next distro to switch was CoreOS a full year later, and Debian didn't switch until 2015.

I'm not a fan of Arch anymore either, but if you're going to disparage any distro, at least get your facts straight.

Edit: Getting my own facts straight: Mageia was based on Mandriva, not Fedora.
We may have to move beyond Silicon to get 10Ghz.

For General Purpose IPC Single threaded performance, we basically had little to no improvement since Sandy Bridge apart from Clock Speed. SSD / IO Speed helped to fill the performance improvement gap in the past 4 - 5 years.

Now we are waiting for the next big improvement to come. If there are any.
The dev would presumably pay through revenue share, because we already established s/he is poor, making a jv where the marketing provider will ask for many adjustments from the dev because they need results fast. It's not a clear cut provider/client relationship and I'm not sure how many devs would choose to pursue this
Nothing controversial here, it's common sense. Most web stuff is built by total amateurs figuring things out as they go.
Apparently not. Your comment actually made me look it up because my understanding was that these sorts of restricted uses weren't allowed for OSI licenses.

Apparently NPOSL addresses an issue with some non-profits making warranties, not to restrict usage to non-profits:

http://marlacorinne.4parkers.com/2014/06/20/non-commercial-o...
SoA vs AoS, see also [1] [2].

[1] https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/article/39227...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOS_and_SOA
Ask HN: Did anybody else experience a weird spike in AWS charges in Jan?
We usually spend about $200.00 / month with AWS, as we bring servers up and down for R&D purposes. For January, the charge surged to over $1,100.00 for no apparent reason. Strangely, the AWS support portal has a banner up saying "we are experiencing a high volume of account and billing requests right now". Which leads me to wonder if something happened on the Amazon end which resulted in a lot of people getting weird charges in Jan. So now I'm curious if any other HN'ers can confirm any kind of similar experience.
"Why couldn't there be an umbrella organization (not gov't) that accepts donations on behalf of the community"

Why would you do that?

Why not just have people pay for it?

No overhead needed.

"But there is a good model that is already working in other fields - the grant process"

'Grants' are speculative redistributions of capital into areas that some decision making body deems worthy - but which may have no bearing at all on what companies and people actually want to use - ergo - not usually very efficient.

We have no choice in some cases (i.e. pure research) but for this stuff we do.

This is just software, it's not rocket science, there's likely a way to just have people pay for it without too much overhead.

A researcher can buy his breakfast, his home, his equipment, his computer, he can buy software as well.
Debian will likely support 32 bit until the heat death of the universe, and Slackware probably will as well. There are also the BSDs; OpenBSD and NetBSD in particular will enjoy a long life on non-x64 hardware.
Why did you disable auto-updates?
> I took at look at the variable distributions, went with a forest model after transforming some of the data.

That's what a statistician does too... I wish statistician word is more in vogue than data science or machine learners. Statistic is the discipline of data.
I agree, the parse shutdown was organized extremely well. The open source parse server, one year of migration time and a ton of new vendors that now offer to host your parse app, all made it much easier to handle the shutdown. It's also great to see the community still working on the open source server.

That said, there are a lot of upsides to having a company work full-time on your proprietary cloud solution and ensure its quality and availability. If an open source project dies or becomes poorly maintained you are in trouble too. Your team might not have the capacity to maintain this complex project on top of their actual tasks.

Also open sourcing your platform is a big risk for a company. Take RethinkDB for example: Great database, outstanding team but without a working business model and most recently without a team working full time, it is doomed to die eventually.

Nevertheless, we try to make migrating from and to Baqend as smooth as possible. You can import and export all your data and schemas, your custom business logic is written in Node.js and can be executed everywhere. You can also download a community server edition (single server setup) to host it by yourself.

Still a lot of users even require proprietary solutions and the maintenance and support that comes with it. And often they have good reasons, from requiring a maintenance free platform to to warranties or license issues. After all, a lot of people are happy to lock into AWS even though solutions based on OpenStack, Eucalyptus etc. are available.
I'd say YAGNI applies here since 95% of systems will never need to scale beyond the capabilities of a properly-configured RDBMS. Ensuring consistency and durability with a non-relational, distributed datastore generally requires a lot more detailed understanding of its internals than with a RDBMS, so choosing one of those rather than a RDBMS is going to impose costs that should be deferred until they're absolutely necessary.
"There are still potential RadioShack customers out there. Some [...] have a professional need for a disposable cell phone."

Pretty much just drug dealers, right?
Tim Cook and Apple’s leadership
are you using SIMD in your c code? are you taking care to lay out memory for optimal cache locality? are you allocating memory too much?

when the performance deltas are small you may not be fully leveraging C yet.
Slaughterhouse Five has been my least favorite Vonnegut that I've read. However, I've absolutely loved the other few that I've read, most recently Cat's Cradle.
Depends how you pay the company as I wrote above. If you're just a poor single man op you share revenue and that company becomes your partner
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Well, I'm in the Northeast. When I'm heading somewhere to camp it's usually upstate from NYC. I'm pretty lucky in that the superchargers on the Thruway are honestly really empty at this point. I'll pull in to maybe 1 car, especially if I go further north. Paramus and Tarrytown are fairly busy but further North superchargers are not.

I have a 90D so I'd be able to make that drive in one go, although it would be close!
I came here to say exactly that.

There is still plenty of hardware work being done in sv, but maybe the manufacture is in China.
> I have an old ThinkPad T42

I have a T40p running Arch which I still occasionally use, even for development, because it's just such a pleasing machine ergonomically. So I'm a bit concerned about this as well -- but then, I've been happily using Arch for years and it's not like I've ever contributed anything to the effort of maintaining it.
Sounds good to me, the user!
I meant to reply to this. Thank you (!) for the PROSA tip. I will be studying it. I'm sure I'll have to update my (world)views accordingly!
He was a fantastic co-founder. He succeeded beyond imagination.

If we want to say it would be difficult/stressful to work with him that's fair. But at what point do you not optimize for success, for example:

Steve Jobs - Asshole score: 85%, Success probability: 95%

Nice guy - Asshole score: 10%, Success probability: 70%

Given these stats would you really partner with #2 Nice guy?
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Millions? Where?
> And now with both of those things Baader-Meinhof is going to be triggering

You know that Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof were the main founders of the terrorist organization RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Fraction)) in Germany. RAF was also the reason that grid investigation was used in the 70th (where lots of innocent people were accused wrongfully) after a RAF terror series, after which some constitutional principles were quashed. The German word for this is "Deutscher Herbst" (German Autumn; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Autumn).

These experiences lead (indirectly) to the rise of a completely new party (Die Grünen; The Green Party) and are (besides the experiences with the two dictatorial regimes on German ground in 20th century) one of the reason why data privacy is taken very seriously in Germany.

Thus mentioning RAF, Andreas Baader or Ulrike Meinhof to (in particular older) Germans is perhaps like mentioning Al-Kaida, 9/11, Mohammed Atta etc. to US citizens.
I think there's room for a 'maker' retail store. I don't think it was feasible for a company the size of Radioshack to make that transition. You probably wouldn't want it to be in expensive mall real-estate, for one, and you probably wouldn't want to start with 5000 stores, in lots of places where people into that kind of thing don't live, but focus on places where you actually have a high percentage of people in tech industries-- California, DC, New York, etc..
Hukou style register is common in Asia. Japan and Taiwan have it too.

Like I said, Chinese government still want's to prevent uncontrolled rural-urban population transfers and formation of slums. Undocumented immigrants in United States are analogous problem (citizens versus immigrants).

But the system has been radically changed. If person can show that they have work or house after six months they can stay and get their children in school etc.
I guess that particular case makes sense. Straight LLVM IR would probably be a security risk anyway unless they built a fairly solid verifier.
This. Because of the massive amount of hiring the big 4 do their entire interview process is available online. Sure there are variations depending on the interviewer you may end up in a room with but for the most part they all follow the same format. Anyone who really wanted to work at one of these has to study and practice how to interview for THAT company. Sure there is still some element of luck / right time right place in play but most people who fair interviews at the big four just don't put in the time required to prepare.
I think if you replace Elixir with Erlang, the beginning of the hype cycle argument goes away since now we are talking about rock solid software backend that is decades old (from the 1980s) and powering a large chunk of the telephone switches in the world.

If I am not mistaken Elixir is primarily a front end that generates code for the Erlang VM (BEAM) supported by the Erlang OTP backend.

Having said that the questions remains, why doesn't Erlang get the same hype? I am hazarding a guess that a majority of developers still work in the imperative style and switching to the functional side takes a bit of relearning in the way you think.
And there was LINE.
CNN is "certainly not fake news" in the sense that the articles aren't wholly made up. However, I've seen many an article where an inflammatory headline was not directly addressed anywhere in the content of the article. I suppose that kind of thing is merely "clickbait", but I consider it disqualifying for a news agency that wants to be taken seriously.
The promise that WASM holds IMO is for portability, not (merely) performance. How cool is it that I could write a game or application or library in C/C++/Rust/golang/swift/etc and expect it to be able to run on any modern CPU but also a browser?
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Multilib is different concept from x32 ABI. Typical usecase for multilib is running i386 binaries that use i386 ABI on amd64 system (or sun4m binaries on sun4u, mips32 on mips64...), x32 ABI is alternate ABI for amd64 that uses 32bit pointers, but all other amd64 ISA extensions.
OpenBSD and NetBSD both support i386 if you're looking for a BSD option.
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No scrolls found because they were stolen:

>> "Although at the end of the day no scroll was found, and instead we ‘only’ found a piece of parchment rolled up in a jug that was being processed for writing, the findings indicate beyond any doubt that the cave contained scrolls that were stolen." -Dr. Gutfield
They do take time, but they are also helpful for planning purposes (I will do X and Y if given Z amount of money). There would need to be some sort of application, but it doesn't need to be as elaborate as (say) an NSF proposal. I would imagine community engagement or recommendations would also be a valid criterion to elevate a proposal's score.
> For whatever reason, statistics seems to be in the midst of a serious branding problem.

Many of them don't know how to code. And the stat program of most of these universities doesn't require any real coding classes. The professor give you code templates and you tweak it to get the result. But the stat classes are really good to handle data.

Data science in general like Chapman Hill and UC Irvine seems like a really wide range of stuff from data analyst, a lil programming, data visualization, etc... I don't feel like it goes deep enough in what Statistic does imo.

Most are stuck with Tableau and SAS. Pharmacy companies uses SAS. Startup companies and tech companies uses Python and R.

I'm speaking from one data point sample, my current stat grad program. My undergrad is comp sci and I did a few years in the tech industry before coming back to grad school.
"as a business owner ... I would never hire you"

Darn.
Looks like mostly not-desert to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Ethiopia#/media/F...
But can it run wine?
The C# button doesn't seen to actually filter the results, perhaps due to the #?
Pentium D does support x64 as far as I can tell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_D

> The Pentium D brand refers to two series of desktop dual-core 64-bit x86-64 microprocessors with the NetBurst microarchitecture, which is the dual-core variant of Pentium 4 "Prescott" manufactured by Intel.
HAha that was a typo! There's a hacker space in Kansas City is named hammerspace, subconscious substitution
> WebAssembly is all about the size of the binary and parsing overhead.

I don't think this is a good assessment.

WebAssembly needs to pass through a complete compiler backend before it can be executed.

WASM needs to be parsed, an in-memory representation is produced (probably LLVM IR), data flow and control flow graphs generated, a whole bunch of optimizations take place after which normal instruction selection, scheduling and register allocation and assembly take place.

This task is comparable in complexity to a JavaScript interpreter with a JIT compiler. However, JavaScript engines have optimized for a fast startup where the interpreter quickly starts running the program (while JIT'ing and optimizing in the background).

WASM has (or should have) two motivators: enabling near-native performance and allowing other languages to be compiled and executed in a browser. Based on this article, there's still a long way to go with performance. Most browser APIs are not accessible from WASM without some wrappers, so there's still work to be done before other languages become a viable replacement for JS.
Furthermore, in large companies, charitable contributions are probably handled by a completely different organization with monies coming out of a completely different bucket than sponsorships being paid out by some marketing department or other.
Plus it's waaay more likely that bugs in application code will haunt you even more. Especially the lack of things such as foreign keys and other constraints.

Schemas can be straight jackets, but in many situations they're actually closer to life jackets.
They can definitely sell. It is upto buyers figure out how to charge. Considering the prices it is almost certain most Tesla sold there would be chauffeur driven. So it would not be big deal once the owner/family is dropped to work/shopping/home driver can spend hrs in getting car charged.
You are running out of time.

I'll be 34 this year and life is great.

Set a big Mission for yourself, have great experiences and human connections.
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So to avoid re-opening the debate of Python 2 vs Python 3, let's take this point of view: The Python 3 language may, or may not, have been an improvement, and the transition from 2 to 3 may, or may not, have been done correctly. Everyone has its own opinion on this. But at the end this problem concerns the Python community.

From the Arch developers point of view, the Python developers decided to release a new version of their language. They were going to support python 2 for a while, but the direction that the language was taking for the future was Python 3, so one day or another Python 3 would become the standard, so doing the switch was the good decision.

As said by @tbranyen the work of adapting shebangs have been done on the Arch side anyway, so I don't see a problem for people developing their projects in Python. Also Arch users are mostly power users (you need to understand quite a bit about linux to install it) so they are usually able to handle python 2 vs 3 errors quite well, especially as it is known than Arch use Python 3 by default.
They should have mentioned Best Buy's Geek Squad. They had the "get some help from a guru" covered. That's what RadioShack could have done.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/electronics/geek-squad/pcmcat138...
Everyone wants to get feedback on their own music, but very few find the time to give others feedback.

Last month I launched SynthShare to help producers get constructive feedback on their tracks. The app is a 1 for 1 feedback exchange system. For every track you give feedback on, you will receive 1 feedback. The more feedback you give, the more you will receive. You can upload a mp3 file or stream directly from your Soundcloud page.

There are a few features to maintain quality feedback. First, users must provide at least 100 characters of feedback. Second, track creators can rate the quality of the feedback they receive which will affect karma scores. And third, I moderate all feedback.

Currently, you can obtain feedback from all experience levels. However, I am exploring ways to allow users to be matched to specific experience levels in the future.
> it won't really (and by really I mean rigorously) explain (and by explain I mean prove) much of anything

Sentence would be a lot shorter if you had just said "it won't rigorously prove much of anything."
"Google’s AMP currently has > 100kB of blocking JavaScript that has to load before the page loads"

Wasn't it that Google was claiming that by using AMP, you can actually make web pages load faster as it is a stripped-down form of HTML[1].

From what I am hearing from the author (Dan), bare html with minimal JS and CSS should (in theory/reality?) load pages faster.

https://moz.com/blog/accelerated-mobile-pages-whiteboard-fri...
That's a bold claim; Sure it is theoretically possible, to have two versions of the same C program take either 500ms or 8ms purely due to memory layout.

But I would like to challenge you to actually do it! I.e. same number of calculations, on same amount of data and a factor of 60 run time difference, with only the memory layout as actual difference between the two implementations.

Up for it?
That's an interesting idea. I think ultimately you need to trust the people you talk to though if you're discussing something private with them.

There's no technical solution to copying and pasting the conversation - try as you may, someone can always get a hook in there and dump the raw text out. Any technical measure you take against this is just as effective as DRM - a total half measure, vulnerable to everything from reverse engineering to the analog hole. The only solution is a social one.
Can I suggest you edit your title? I thought someone on our team had written this but, in this context, "lessons learned" is kind of misleading.
Have you ever got totally irrelevant job offers from tech recruiters?
No press good for the NSA doesn't mean that no press for them is good for the rest of humanity (everyone has to consider NSA as a threat, really, not just non-USA-persons). Is is good for even US taxpayers to not know where $60+ billion dollars a year go? Is it good for US taxpayers to not know that every byte of Internet communications gets stored for later use against them?

I don't think so.
It's increadibly easy (although the computer will spend hours crunching) to make a boot disk for pretty much anything using buildroot. That honestly sounds like a better plan for underpowered hardware than expecting a major distro to support it.
And a chance of getting killed by an atomic bomb before 1945 is zero :)
Ubuntu and RHEL had Upstart for years before Arch made the switch to Systemd. SUSE beat them to it, too.

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

New init systems were widely used long before Arch officially implemented them. Talking about facts, yours seem to be "alternate facts".
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