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I had the pleasure of taking over Al Aho/Brian Kerhighan's office for a summer as an intern. Although, this was while Bell Labs was finishing dying -- both of the long term residents had moved on long ago.
That's not really how I interpreted their message. It's more likely that a woman is homeless due to an abusive relationship than it is a man being homeless due to an abusive relationship. That isn't saying women are less likely to be homeless due to drugs. Independent statements.
Does this feel like rent seeking to you? The internet is not young anymore. It feels like cloud hosting is little more than the giants allowing controlled competition as long as you rent their servers. The platforms are just extensions of the massively powerful systems they use internally.

I wonder what would happen if the open source community built a viable alternative to the cloud IaaS. Like OpenStack but not a failure :). OpenFlow has shown promise and could form the core for an open IaaS. Network virtualization is the hardest part.
I was at the Google Cloud conference a few months ago and spoke to a few engineers there about Spanner. When I asked them about how it would affect their other storage options (e.g., datastore, cloud sql, etc.), they said that over time, all of their internal storage systems would be moved over to Spanner. His words were "you'll be using Spanner whether you know it or not."

This engineer was clearly a cheerleader for the product, so I'm dubious as to whether that will actually happen, but it's clear that they have quite a bit of confidence in it.
The biggest issue with "desktop environments" is that they try to emulate windows.

The problem with that is that there are not only a series of widgets, but also separate programs/libraries made to do what was designed to be done from a shell.

For example, in the file manager, you can right-click a file, and decide what program it opens with. That might mean the file manager has emulated some sort of registry. Alternatively, to better integrate with the system, it might be using xdg-open.

The goal should not be to make a closely integrated system, but a loosely coupled set of consistent, simple programs that let the user control specific aspects of the OS.

KDE and GNOME have improved a lot in this respect, but they still seem to have the wrong goals.
Yes, this is the publisher. Thanks. I got the titles slightly wrong on my oc.
I have my pfsense firewall running on this, and it's been very reliable and great performance.
Yet that same kind of licencing abuse is what Intel used (and was eventually found guilty of IIRC) in the mid 2000s to cripple AMD and eventually forced them to leave the fabrication market (they couldn't afford to keep up their own fabs as a result and thus had to go fabless).

Still, the goal should be seeing proper justice served and consumers benefiting. All of the guilty parties should be punished for the wrongdoings they've done.
better alternatives than the Raspberry Pi here https://www.armbian.com/download/

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Nope, but i do hope someone makes something more complete
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My takeaway is 1 BTC will eventually worth $347,000. :)
Why not use owner's home network?
If they'd really want to do that, Alphabet has > $90B in cash.
> We didn't came up with warming it to 34-37c for no reason.

A lot of people do it because their parents did it. After you've trained your baby to prefer warmed bottles, they will likely throw a fit with room temperature bottles. I don't see how you could construct a sound study on this (because it's pretty hard to double blind warmed vs cold bottle), but you could probably do a correlation study on reported bottle temperatures vs miscellaneous infant maladies.

I was able to find that there are at least some studies on temperature in preterm infants (where better feeding response certainly justifies maximum hassle), but I couldn't find anything for infants that reached full term.
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> GCE and AWS provide hugely useful foundational IaaS, but they're incentivized to move beyond that layer and provide more custom solutions that ... lock you into their services.

To Google's credit, they are actually moving to a more open cloud environment. They started with Google App Engine, which definitely had lock-in with it's own custom API. But now they are pushing container services and kubernetes, which are really easy to move to other clouds or run on your own servers.
Hanlon's Razer[0] seems appropriate here.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
Sounds like a lot of of stereotyping with a cop-out "hey, this is the reason! (but I really don't know)" disclaimer. Got any hard data to back this up?
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Hey, whatever you like! Who's more employable?

(1a) 17 years old; high school graduate; never had a job.

(1b) 22 years old; high school graduate; never had a job.

Or, if you prefer:

(2a) 17 years old; college graduate; never had a job.

(2b) 22 years old; college graduate; never had a job.

I submit that in every case the 17-year-old is more employable.
This kind of text work is called essay, it doesn't need to follow the rules of writing an article because it's not one.

The author probably knows how complicated it's to write (he is a professional writer), and still manages to do it good enough to get some prizes for his work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow#Awards
Microsoft should be slamming themselves for embedding a JavaScript interpreter inside their OS kernel.

And subsequently donate a sizable amount to Google's Project Zero for revealing this malpractice before attackers had a chance to exploit it in secret.
> I wonder what would happen if the open source community built a viable alternative to the cloud IaaS. ... Network virtualization is the hardest part.

I would think that the hardware itself is the hardest part. Companies move to the cloud because it reduces their internal OPs team, and you can scale up and down hardware extremely easily.
While the Internet Archive sells and supports their scanning hardware, and there are community plans if you wanted to build your own, since you don't have a budget and don't want to do it yourself, perhaps the National Library of Australia's "Trove" project is a better avenue:

http://trove.nla.gov.au

They're a partner with IA as part of the Open Content Alliance, and they provide complete end-to-end non-destructive scanning and hosting services through the Trove site and software:

http://help.nla.gov.au/trove/digitisation-partner-guidelines

150 magazines * 100 pages * AU$1.65 for a "journal" page is AUD$24,750, plus whatever it will cost you to "negotiate and document reproduction permission with copyright owners."

(For that price you alternatively could buy the Internet Archive's scanner, but you'd still need labor to operate it. Or, for US$1750 you could get the parts for a DIY book scanner, and then use the rest of the money to hire people to build and operate it, which might cost less, maybe. The results wouldn't be guaranteed, however, as they would be through IA or Trove, and you'd still need to host it and the content somewhere.)
It may end up being a question of whether Alphabet wants to be in the business of providing rides or simply in the business of providing tech. There will be a company that owns vehicles, books trips, handles payments, etc. It might make sense to bring it in house, but there are also good reasons to have it separate.
There's a lot of clones, which is a good thing, but they are kind of a mixed bag on software support.

The one advantage of the Raspberry Pi is it's the one with the most of everything. Other noble competitors, like the Beagle, are pretty good too but getting anything to run on them can be really frustrating.
> I'll take new over used.

The irony is that most corporate class hardware will last until well beyond obsolescence before breaking. I've heard people say they don't want to buy a refurbished ThinkPad because they're worried about longevity.

Those things will outlast any consumer grade laptop you buy today.
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> the $30k in bitcoin ransoms people have ponied up?

Smokescreen for your $N if you're a rogue agent selling your exploits to another organization - or simply claiming some part of the ransomware pie? Just because the NSA as an organization is paying the price, doesn't mean you as an individual agent are.

Of course, this requires the gumption to think you'll get away with it.
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Why do you assume that domestic abuse is more often directed at women?

http://time.com/2921491/hope-solo-women-violence/
The logs might be pretty big, so it might have a significant impact on people on metered internet connections.
Who's the demographic for the iPad? Is there one?

My iPad is relegated to being either an eBook reader or a Spotify player for my bluetooth speaker. Can't really be bothered to use it for anything else, the iPhone 7 plus is more than enough for most other tasks. Also can't see it becoming relevant for any sort of serious creative work with applications like Lightroom, Photoshop, Movie editors etc, those are all super shortcut driven once you become a power user and have to crunch through a ton of work.
They certainly aren't independent statements.

Share of homelessness due to an abusive relationship + share of homelessness due to drugs + share of homelessness for all other reasons = 1.

If one of those variables goes higher, one or both of the others must go lower. On the assumption that one of those reasons gets more common "all else equal"... both of the others will go lower.
Not sure why this links to a tweet, here is the source article:

http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/williesworld/article/The-...
I'm assuming you mean the first ones without human chaperones? Because I've seen plenty of self-driving Uber cars shuttling passengers around the streets of SF over the past year.
Relevant: http://lesswrong.com/lw/kg/expecting_short_inferential_dista...
We have tried with BoltDB. Its performance is really bad. It is just badly implemented, acquires a global mutex lock across all reads and writes. We wouldn't have written Badger if BoltDB worked for us.

RocksDB performs much better and is the most popular and efficient KV store in the market, being used at both Google (Leveldb) and Facebook. Therefore, the benchmarks are against that. Without spending time generating benchmarks, I'll bet that Badger would beat BoltDB any day.

The idea of using B+-trees with value log has potential. One would need to do some obvious optimizations to decrease the frequency of writes to disk. Because SSDs have to run garbage collection cycles, which can affect write performance in a long running task.

But, I think it would make a great research project. And if it comes out to be better than our current approach of LSM tree in read-write performance, I'd switch in a heartbeat; because I think B+-tree might be a simpler design.
You want a curated software store/repo. The computer itself doesn't need to be locked down to get the benefits you're talking about.
I had an UberLUX in London a few months ago and I had a very nice experience with a professional chauffeur (complete with black suit) in a Mercedes S-Class.

Uber services aren't all Priuses with signs saying "Please rate 5-stars!" hanging off the front-seat head-restraints.
What's the point of the comment then?
I find your comment particularly indefensible given the actual facts involved. At the very _bare_ minimum, to pretend to give a fuck about the lives of the Americans about to lose their health insurance requires a cbo score and more than 1 hour of debate. To pretend that the express tradeoff of the bill isn't American lives in exchange for ~680million in tax cuts for income above 125k/year feels intellectually gross. An honest analysis would simply restate the Republican argument for the bill, that this tax cut was needed now because it will allow for greater tax cuts in the future tax reform bill.
and yet he goes on to say exactly that.

Hey, I'm not claiming this is actually reality, but did you know that women aren't as good at their jobs as men, and that's why they get paid less?^^

Yeah, I didn't think that putting a little disclaimer at the top was really good enough.

^^ Making a point about doublespeak. I think this statement is total BS.
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It's not a crazy thought to think people may actually sue the government.

Under centuries old law, all someone would have to prove to make the government liable is that the government (1) was the cause (2) of damage (3) that was the result of their negligence. The negligent part will be tricky, as the NSA was probably using the best tech available to protect their secrets. Also, proving #1 may be tricky as most of the information you would need to prove it is highly classified.
> Any organisation which attempts to do so will fail very quickly, due to the fact that (i) workers must be kept employed, not disposed of when machinery that does a better job becomes available (ii) workers would have to be paid much higher than in those firms that do not operate as co-operatives. These two facts mean that such an organisation cannot compete. A good analysis is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAxajtiRatg

If it is true that communist societies are superior they should not be bombable by capitalist societies. But if you are claiming that capitalist societies are inherently more unjust to favor people with capital, communist socieities as inherently more unjust in a way that favor people with political power

> Labourers sell their labour-time to the capitalist, and that commodity has the use value of creating labour, which is transferred to the products. The labour is crystallised inside the products which are made, and those are appropriated by the capitalist at the end of production. If the worker owned his labour, the products at the end of production which the capitalist re-possesses in order to sell would have no more value than when they entered the factory as raw materials and machinery. Therefore the capitalist could not make any profit.

This is pure nonsense on many levels.

What about the value derived from the risk taken by the enterpreneur ? What about the value derived from the work done by the enterpreneur ?

Also value is subjective. A hungry person will pay more for a piece of bread than a satiatated human being. This again is a source of profit ( and no, its not oppressive if there is competition to establish a fair price )

> Capitalism requires land and property owners; if those land and property owners cease to exist, capitalism must also cease to exist. As such, the system which creates the force for people to choose between starving and wage labour is perpetuated by the whole class of property owners, i.e the capitalists.

The difference, again, is that the wages paid can be used to climb out of this position. This option is not available in slavery. Employee-Employer relationship is mutually beneficial, not oppressive

> Why is work unenviable?

Do you work for Google ?

> There are various motivations for wanting to work, too; the desire for credit,

> wanting to improve the conditions of the society you live in

> the desire to help other people in your community, out of necessity for something you want to see finished, for mastery, as a hobby, etc

This does not ensure that the important and necessary work will get done. Also it does not ensure that the work which contributes maximum to the society is preferred over other useless work. I prefer to live in a world where important work gets priority even if it means I have to perform unenviable tasks for limited periods of time
If you were an early adopter of FB it was exclusive to college students and had a much, much more "mature" audience to myspace. That factor alone attracted a huge crowd that myspace couldn't touch. In terms of UI and whatnot, myspace never really forced/required users to use their real name which I also feel gave FB a huge advantage going forth. The rest of the UI myspace could have copied though (but by that time it probably was too late).
The topology explanation is about what I had in mind for motivation. I think to appreciate cohomology, I need appreciate what problems in homology it makes easy to solve. To appreciate that I need have the vocabulary of algebraic topology.

One way to maybe then to describe homology is it gives you way to take about shapes and surfaces in the language of algebra.
I'm curious what kind of vulnerability it was. A buffer overflow? Stack corruption? A memory safety issue at all, or something else?
Good point. And this is the thing I noticed most in the article. Have read a few other articles here in the past. But here the author stressed this point.
Do owners generally connect their cars to their home wifi? (I don't know, is this a thing with Teslas?)

Even if so, uploading gigabytes of data every day is going to be noticed. While I'm sure they have the legal right to do so (via their TOS / EULA) they probably still don't want to emphasize that they're gathering that much data (unless you opt in to their fleet learning stuff).
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You are correct in the zero sum outcome for the //ENTIRE// homeless population; however you are not correct in the sense of a hypothetical subject being homeless.

A singular case subject/family could be homeless for MULTIPLE reasons or None (other than other of course) outlined above.
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> You are correct in the zero sum outcome for the //ENTIRE// homeless population; however you are not correct in the sense of a hypothetical subject being homeless.

This is wrong. What's correct as a description of the entire female homeless population is equally correct as a probability assignment for one element of it.

Your second sentence is unrelated to your first, and also applies equally well to the entire population as to an individual sample from it. It is arguing that the sum I describe is in fact more than 1. That is defensible, but it won't make the statements independent; they aren't.
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The trick is that a translation of a point (a1, ..., an) is essentially a shear of a point (a1, ..., an, 1) - a linear operation in R^(n+1). But because the points that are of interest lie on a (hyper)plane that is not a vector space - it does not intersect the origin - a shear looks like a nonlinear operation after projection to R^n.

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"Are there systemic forces that point this direction,"

When you can "contribute" to the community simply by clicking a delete button, rather than actually adding new and useful information, you're bound to get this sort of situation.

StackOverflow mods are appointed to police content. The more content they remove, the more it looks like they're doing their jobs.

It's the same with Wikipedia. Deleting someone else's hard work counts as a "contribution". It shows up in your profile just like writing a new multi-page article would.

When the same credit is awarded for for destroying as for creating, the destroyers are always going to win.
Maybe the law should say 'security patches or open source'?
I don't think people come always before ideology. Imagine a medival king saying "But we have all these great torturers, we havily invested into them, they are the best of their kind and they bring great results. We can't stop torture now."
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How do you make sure that your users are using the latest React JS code ? Some of my users do not close their tabs or browser window and they keep on using the old code. How to make sure that does not happen ? TIA
One thing HN does well is having reasonable mods.
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Good point. Night time with glasses and reflections could be a mess.

Might actually be easier with a near IR camera and a couple small LEDs for illumination, as I believe the retina is much more reflective in that range.
problem is That a lot have terrible hardware support. and virtually no community following.
I found this kind of misleading download buttons to be very common for free (no-cost) Windows software, and I also can't understand why Google is unwilling to put a stop to it. I'm pretty sure that this class of advertisement can be quite reliably identified with machine learning techniques, of which Google is so fond.
The CVE database or Open SSL, are good examples how much safer open source actually is.
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>Tipping culture also introduces uncertainty into pricing, and means that nicer people pay more and jerks get to pay less, for the same service.

Why is someone a jerk for not tipping? I pay for service provided - give me a receipt with the amount and I'll pay it, no problem. Let's end tipping, folks...
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My grandma uses it for Internet shopping, email via Mail app, and banking via an app. She no longer has a computer. The security model is much better for her.
I'm a CentOS desktop user at work and Ubuntu at home. I love my Linux. Objectively, the parent poster is correct. For all MS's faults, I've had no less problems updating Ubuntu systems than I've had or seen with MS systems.

That said, CentOS is _rock solid_. The packages are old, but maintained by Redhat upstream and do not break on updates. The only thing I recall seeing break on a CentOS update, including point releases, are Firefox and Thunderbird extensions as Mozilla apps are updated eight version numbers from one ESL release to the next.
I thought "God Created the Integers" by Stephen Hawking was a pretty good high-level view of the history and progression of mathematics. It did give me some 'aha' moments about things I knew but never realized how they were developed.
It seems they're popular for routers running pfSense. Just make sure you get a CPU that supports AES-NI, because pfSense 2.5 requires it.
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Elected officials in charge of the NSA isn't a desirable result. They will just replace the leaders with people loyal to them and we're in the same situation.
Dollars have the disadvantage that they can only be coarsely targetted. A timely, laser focused argument will always beat whatever keywords Kellyanne Conway happens to be spamming millions of viewers with today. Campaigns at that scale just can't scratch the same itch. The trouble is laser targetted arguments take much more time to formulate, so you have to use them sparingly. The tau comes in handy.
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Humans are building a zoo for themselves.

And turning the world into farms.

What do you see as pros and cons?