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C++s objects are so bad that most of the time I just end up using functions-where-the-struct-is-the-first-argument, C style

Can you explain more in depth why exactly? Is it because of e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5989734/effective-c-item-...? Or just not liking the syntax? Or private members?
Pays the mortgage. And its better than working for Wall St, the NSA, Indian body shop or random chaotic startup.
Probably 5% I don't think I'd go to 10% as that would be a fairly big hit.

Invoice related things were not the primary time drain since I paid the accountant to chase invoices however late invoices where a major concern because underlying cash flow is what makes or breaks you.

The other thing that becomes an issue is the classic "project management" issue, doesn't matter how good your process is if the people on the other side simply don't get it and that causes a lot of problems (projects stall because you can't get the data/information you need), fixed deadlines loom close and you are stalled waiting for information.

In the end if you care about producing high quality work it's incredibly stressful and frankly after 4 years I'm sick of it, I'm really looking forwards to working on internal systems for a big company, replacing "every client is a boss" with "this is your boss" sounds lovely to me.
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It Seems that actually some stuff has been ported and other
is in progress.
The gentoo guys keep tracing of it nicely:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened/Hardened_Kernel_Projec...
I walk out of the room when sports comes up....

No Interest in it at all...
People working at Facebook and Google lie to themselves that they're doing something important while working for a "cool" tech company. They're ignorant to the fact that these companies make their entire revenue from advertisements.
The people who say "I could build that app in a weekend".. You know some of them are actually right? What they maybe couldn't do is get it 100% as polished, and they may lack the marketing skills to make it go big, or the VC connections, or any other important factor.

My point is that it doesn't take that much manpower to build a working system, so it should be well within North Koreas reach. That their system is less polished matters little, as would-be competitors don't have access. And building their own system from scratch has a killer feature: None of the data will be slurped up by the US or its megacorps.
Oversight by whoever dared leak this.
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I'm always wary of this "publish to everyone, encrypted for the recipient" model (Bitmessage, I2P-Bote, etc) because if somewhere down the line a flaw in the crypto is discovered, that's your entire message history irrevocably exposed to the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe (mudbrick with straw as structural reinforcement) it already is, it was also similarly used for reinforcing statue casts (with hairs iirc)
Fb employees likely see their work in a much more positive light, i.e. fostering community and strong social ties between billions of people.
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They're not ignorant. They either don't care, or don't see source of revenue as the defining quality of their work.
Not working for Facebook, but while their business is an advertising engine, let's not pretend they do not offer something else to their users. Social media has changed the way our society works, how families, politics and friendships work, and Facebook played a big part in that. Maybe that's all just a byproduct, but that does not mean it is not an substantial contribution to society. Tesla is cool and does an important job, but it's not like they are the only people moving us forward.
Would be nice if people answering include:

- hot vs cold data ratio of the total size
- read vs write data ratio
- if read/writes are split
- how partitioning, if used, is done
- total machine(s) resources disk/ram
- average (read)query response time
- how machine/node failure is handled
We really have no way of knowing for which purpose or in which way any data that is collected about us is used by any company/person/entity.
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American sports commentary focusing on politics may be relatively new, but sports and politics have always been friends.

I think in terms of pro sports in America everything's a bit artificial (maybe because of being regional entities) and less political, but at the collegiate level the politics fly.

Who you support says a lot about your family and background, especially if you all aren't direct grads. Compare fans of Georgia Tech vs Georgia, or Texas vs Texas A&M. California vs Fresno st, etc.
Great points! Will definitely go back to review and fix - thanks man!
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Why not read the paper I linked instead of just making stuff up? Alternatively, show your math.

> When relativistic effects are taken into account, it is shown that the photon rocket can only reach energy breakeven as the accelerated mass asymptotically approaches the speed of light. Thus, any device with a thrust-to-power ratio greater than the photon rocket would be able to operate as a perpetual motion machine.

A photon rocket is 3.3 μN/kW, thus the EM drive is too efficient.
For a popular scientific view on this topic, I recommend

Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken - The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

You can find the first half of the book at http://www.nand2tetris.org/course.php
1) 7 days
2) nope
3) i do the work on you terms, you pay me on my terms. ( im not cheap, minimum is $80 an hour)
ORMs are tool. Arguments for and against them are tired and irrelevant. Use the tool if and where it helps.
It is time to criminalize targeted advertising.
If I've understood this correctly, Martian compressed soil is supposedly much better than Adobe due to its iron nanoparticles?
There's always yoga [0] [1].

I just do the sun salutation [2] a couple of times a day - takes ~5mins, reduces any back pain I get.

[0]: http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/02/20/51567525...

[1]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/01/12/yoga-key-relie...

[2]: http://yogasite.com/sunsalute.htm
i would just make a naive implementation, instead of searching for the optimal tools and solutions.
Than an average engineer? Maybe. An average someone from general population? Citation needed.
And who says electrons exist as physical objects. They're just a mathematical abstraction physicists use to predict the results of experiments.
> I just end up using functions-where-the-struct-is-the-first-argument, C style.

I've been saying this for a while: of all C++/Java-style OOP we're mostly saving uniform function call syntax (cf. go, rust, nim, D and a bit C++17) !
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you cant swing your arms while typing though. im thinking wrist censors for input and vr like helmet or glasses for output.
A person has a need; a company wants to satisfy it. Whether the offering is actually good for the person in long term is said persons' decision to make. Currently fashionable imperative that society has to force it's members to good choices and protect from bad ones is, in my, opinion, deeply immoral, and strips society's members from their ability to make meaningful choices.

Now, this particular story includes teenagers, and I agree - the people who we are not yet take as adults _should_ have some protection and guidance. But as person closes to the 18 (or 21) years, this protection and guidance needs to gradually go away. We cannot pretend that a 16 year old and 9 year old are on the same responsibility and mental level.
Maybe we are lucky that admission rates into MBA programs are not that high.
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Does not pay as well as Wall Street. Not sure which one is less ethical, though. Also, both provide useful services but destroy a lot of the ecosystem they operate in.
The problem with your argument, that 'society is in the long run not willing to pay for harmful activities' will cause self regulation in an untrammelled capital market, is that the information and execution systems just do not exist for society to make such decisions in an informed and timely manner.
> The irony is that America's historical appreciation of immigration (one of the best ways to mitigate cultural blind spots) has yielded a backlash against the lack of a cultural bedrock, and become a double edge sword itself.

Only for people who refuse to appreciate that immigration as a whole is America's cultural bedrock, and not merely the effect of immigration from a particular group or region.
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Introducing Repairer - An on demand repair service.

Website: https://hammadn.wixsite.com/repairer

We get your damaged products repaired for you as fast and as cheap as possible and deliver it back once it is repaired!

We'd be taking watches, clocks, smartphones, lamps, spectacles, laptops, modems and other common household products initially.

We've planned to launch in New Delhi, India initially and would be expending to many other cities all over the world pretty soon.

Would love to have your valuable feedback and suggestions.
as citypw posted it on:

https://lwn.net/Articles/703000/

We don't have such leap of faith in KSPP due to there are several exploitable bugs( CVE-2017-0358, CVE-2016-1583, CVE-2016-0728, CVE-2017-6074, CVE-2017-7184, etc), which can be turned to "massive" exploitations in past couple of months. And it's just the tip of the iceberg in past 16 years:

https://lwn.net/Articles/721122/

There are tons of features from PaX/Grsecurity, e.g: PAGEEXEC/SEGEXEC/ASLR/KERNEXEC/UDEREF/MPROTECT/RAP/etc. None of them are created by KSPP even though some vendors integrated some of features( weakened usually) into hardware in recent years.
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In languages like Lua you can always mediate what look syntactically like setters.
I've just signed up but I see it's only in private Beta, will you be launching anytime soon? This would really help me show my work faster to some of my clients before setting up a staging server!
Repeat after me: "If I don't pay for the product I am the product."

Teaching this to schoolkids is necessary for public mental health.

I'm sure FB, like gouging pharmaceutical companies, employs risk managers who plan just how far they can go with this sort of thing and still get away with "issuing a formal and lengthy apology."
Especially advertising targeted at children. The way I see it, an advert is a business proposal and children do not have the autonomy to engage in a deal.
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I did physical therapy for lower back pain & sciatica. I was told the disc do have blood flow, just not much, but they will heal after being squished. It takes months for my back to heal if I screw it up, so maybe that's what's going on.
I just bought a used one for $100 and removed the rails and put the controls on my desk behind the keyboard. It was ok at around 3kph.

The one I bought was a bit too narrow though so the rails have gone back on and I just use it for us intended purpose now.
None. I have a license but no car and ride public transit because it's more convenient and often faster.
..which demonstrated that it's primarily about the network, and not about what you're learning
"Core Infrastructure Initiative has been funded by 19 big corps( $1.9 mil per year) and organized by Linux foundation. KSPP was funded by CII in the begining"

That $1.9 million is for the whole CII.

According to the CII annual report for 2016 (https://www.coreinfrastructure.org/sites/cii/files/cii_annua...), CII provided $80,000 in funding to support Emese Revfy and David Windsor on GCC plugins.

$80,000 in funding isn't exactly going to pay for all of grsecurity to be successfully upstreamed overnight. Emese and David have been doing fantastic work, and I'm really, really glad that CII has provided funding for them, but CII is only providing project-based funding for specific work items, not a continuous stream of money to fund the KSPP. Seems a bit unfair to criticise the KSPP on these grounds...

[disclosure: I've sent the occasional minor patch to kernel-hardening in my capacity as an employee of IBM who sponsor the CII, opinions my own, I don't know anything at all about our CII funding]
Multiple closures can overlap in their referencing of some set of variables. Objects can't really do this, so they're not that similar.

Only the most simplistic application of closures (one unique set of instantiated variable slots per closure) matches object encapsulation.
A good question here is "What is the best form of regulation?" In some cases, media focused on business activity or industry groups perform better at regulating the market than government. One example is the food industry. An outbreak of salmonella or other food borne illness that is heavily reported by the press is far more damaging and a much stronger inventivizer for food manufacturing facilities to maintain safe production standards than the FDA or USDA.
I did but the one I bought was too narrow so I've put the idea on hold for the time being.
"Dakika" means "minute" in Turkish. Thumbs up for that!

I couldn't give it a try yet but I'll surely do when I have some time.
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Hey, thanks for sharing.

As a Cassandra devops / data modeler myself, I would be fascinated to read more details about your scaling challenges. Do you guys have an engineering blog I could read?
I love walking
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The bill would mean requiring strong cryto. That's interesting to defend cryto in the future...
DynASM isn't that portable... not remotely even near LLVM
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My physician strongly recommended me to walk at least 10 000 steps every day. I prefer to walk fast and for a long distance, it gives me a really huge productivity boost. However I try not to think about work during my walks, it is more effective for me. When I get back to solving problems after a walk I get an enlightment almost all the time.
Only the condition code was removed. Otherwise the parent is right and there really is an enormous amount of instructions. Fortunately less than intel, but still a lot.
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Probably less pressure and bureaucracy than Wall Street though
Nanjing. Unit 731. Korean comfort women, Korean cultural genocide.

How do you propose we win a war against people like that?

It took not one, but TWO atomic bombs to force a surrender. Tokyo was prepared to fight to the last person. The only way to win that war was to bomb them into oblivion. That was a choice the Japanese made. The Japanese military engaged in unimaginable atrocities and despite being nearly annihilated militarily, they continued to fight. How do you stop an empire with absolute zero regard for humanity? The Japanese has plenty of opportunities to surrender but they kept fighting and fighting and fighting.

As far as America's military budget, the raw numbers are irrelevant, what is relevant is percentage of GDP. The US ranks 11th in the world at 3.3% with 18 countries at 2% or higher. So the "half a trillion" hyperbole is silly. The US also spends a half trillion on government-funded R&D spending and spends a higher percentage (and raw amount) than the entire EU. The US also is ranked number 2 in spending on renewable energy. The US also spends more on swimming pools, airports, and education than any other country. They spend more in health care than anyone else as well.

My point, citing half a trillion as some kind of outrageous amount is ridiculous given the US GDP is $18 TRILLION per year. The US also ranks 18th in the world on per capita GDP behind such countries such as Luxembourg, Ireland, Monaco and Brunei.

The US military is highly visible and obviously subject to a lot of criticism, but how many people talk about the French Army's frequent and continual adventures in Africa? France has forward deployed troops all across sub-Saharan Africa. How about the British Army in the Baltics and Poland? The British Army in Kenya and Sierra Leon?

It's fair enough to debate military tactics, however acting like the United States is some kind of military outlier just isn't supported by the facts. On a per capita basis and as a percentage of GDP, the US military isn't all that remarkable in terms of expenditures.
No but they could if they wanted to. Maybe I don't even like their power, even without thinking that it's realistic that they'd do it.
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For those that want to perhaps burn more calories or for whatever reason want to make it more challenging I recommend rucking.

That is take a backpack and put like 35 pounds in it.

I highly recommend it.
Economists consider around 5% unemployment healthy, allows for people to retrain and move jobs and it's better to have some slack in the system while people move around.
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We're going to send out more invites on a weekly basis. So you should get something this week.
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> A person has a need; a company wants to satisfy it. Whether the offering is actually good for the person in long term is said persons' decision to make.

A company doesn't "want" to satisfy anything; it needs to make money. We're talking mega-corporations with armies of psychologists and data scientists, pouring billions of dollars and collective man-centuries into learning to manipulate people to act in certain ways, irrespective of their own self-interest, on a massive scale... versus individual human beings with inherently limited time and access to information and, on average, predictable behavioral patterns. The most successful ad isn't the most helpful, informative, or even honest, it's the one which acts the most like a mind virus.
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"Just because I label development an assembly line doesn't mean treat your developers like machines."

"They are machines, human machines."

Contradiction.
The response cycle for the Chinese government is vastly shorter than what King George's government was dealing with.
That is all nice but i don't see what is the point of trying to convince me that i shouldn't like something i like :-P. Regardless of how good OpenGL is in representing how GPUs work or why it is still around, it doesn't change the fact that it is still around and i like using it.
Probably not. Hiring is expensive and time consuming, as is training up new employees.
A bit like hitting the broad side of barn, though, isn't it?

I've been seeing a ton of backlash against Facebook lately. I know there's always backlash against Facebook, but I've been seeing a lot more of it. Especially devs calling out other devs for working there.
What tool do you use for this? Also, are you targeting ASICS or FPGAs? I think for ASICs there are probably a ton of custom non-public tools that use C++, one is for example described in http://scale.eecs.berkeley.edu/papers/krashinsky-phd.pdf, the Mill Architecture people seem to plan the same, but I haven't seen any in the open so far.
AFL streaming right now is broken due to the rights deal. Telstra paid such a small amount compared to 7 and Foxtel for the online rights that they had to accept a lot of restrictions, such as only steaming on mobile devices and no tablet full screen.

I suspect Foxtel will be in a similar position to ESPN come the next rights deal, where they can't afford to pay as highly due to people cancelling cable. Hopefully though that just results in a better streaming deal.
But it isn't for white collar. It's for workers operating tablets and embedded touchscreens as parts of machinery.

They have all kinds of embedded Windows and Linux there, but they have more holes than Swiss cheese.

For white-collar workers you can integrate this with e-mail and workflow solutions, needs additional work but will make that company worth $10B.
If you manage to offend 8 people above you in the org chart (without winning others to defend you), and you get fired solely because these people don't trust you, what's the case against that?
You're often still the product even when you pay for the product.
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Are we really comparing the DPRK with the US? This thread has jumped the shark. Anyone in the US could be a dissident -- it's called the first amendment. Unless you are from the People's Republic of Fantasia, there's a good chance your country isn't a shining example of freedom either. But, it seems that the fashion on HN is to complain about the US at every opportunity -- even within an article about North Korea.

This could be a story about Hilter and people would find a way to engage in moral relativism.
Thanks! that surely looks interesting and I will check it out in more detail.
However I was looking for something more summarized and using metaphors for the layman.
X Forwarding and TCP Forwarding is also insecure. Not everyone has the same threat model, but for the average person it's a bad idea to do agent Forwarding unless they fully understand the consequences. This doesn't mean the OpenSSH team should remove it.
And people wonder why airlines overbook...
>> You can never morally justify war against civilians, sorry.

> Civilians are responsible for their governments.

So the attack on the WTC was justified in your opinion?
If your company closes? Like if they go out of business? What if they don't have the money?
chances are you were in a good and balanced mood to begin with, because you didn't have to rush and take a quicker alternative.

I used to run part of the way to school because I was notoriously late. At the end of the year I aced the gym class mile run, but overall my unreliability caused much concern in other topics. I maintained for a time that exercise is vital for a healthy mind, but because I didn't exercise on purpose, I couldn't take advantage of it.
You can't really ship all of the grsec, because some compile time settings break userspace apps. Other options disable things you want on laptops, like power management registers. Basically your need to opt-in to grsec and you need to know what to configure afterwards. Or enable only selected few features and not get the whole protection.

On top of that, you can't use the latest kernel version until grsec is ported to it. And probably more reasons I don't know about yet. Basically, it's not one-size-fits-all solution - Ubuntu would create more problems than solutions if they just dumped it on users by default (or at least without a proper migration path with lots of deprecation time).
> Most "sports" fans are generally not "sports" fans. They are STANFORD fans. Or Arkansas fans. Or Michigan fans. Or Packers fans. Or Golden State fans. Or what have you.

> Firstly, if you are not a fan of any team or school or city at all, then nothing in heaven or earth would get you to watch ESPN anyway.

You're missing something big here: Gambling.
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Recently I was watching on Netflix a show about 80s in US. It showed how funding for AIDS research was forced by activists. Though it might be a common incident, but it changed my perception how any type of funding seems forced either from outside by activists or by sympathizers who are in control of funding.

People clearly seem to justify funding to their favorite cause as progress to humanity. However a progressive or otherwise agenda is itself purely politics.
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The question was about the main kernel package in a distribution. Lots of distributions had optional packages with grsec support.