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Does OpenBSD have so few vulnerabilities because no one looks for them (compared to Linux/Windows) or because it's actually more secure?

I have an OS I coded my self that no one has ever found a vulnerability on.
That's strictly editorializing on CNBC's part. Howard Marks is known for quite a few things and calling the tech bubble is nowhere near the top of the list.
So, do you imply that people buying bitcoins then try to sell them to their friends and family? People keep buying, then selling, then buying again, then selling again bitcoins. This hardly qualifies as a pyramid scheme, this is speculation.
I don't want to be ageist but I believe there is a correlation between your age and ability to understand a paradigm shift. I think Jeffrey Immelt and I've also heard speculation about Meg Whitman are a bit 'old school' for this role. Not solely based on age but it's a factor. The sharing economy and the idea eventually autonomous cars are the play - is in fact in my opinion a radical shift in the way thing have been, the world Jeff and Meg led.
It's probably very presumptuous to compare myself to the writer, but for me it's kind of the other way round.

My native tongue is German (but I grew up speaking Bavarian first, which is clearly German but not just pronounced differently, there are also some grammatical peculiarities...) but I started to learn English pretty early - and all things considered I much more prefer English to German. I've never lived abroad and spoken it daily for more than 3 weeks (unless you count the internet) - but going into programming it's the lingua franca, I don't think I've read even 10 German books about programming or computer science. Still, if I'm not talking daily (like with coworkers who don't speak German) my use gets rusty and faltering and so I wouldn't call myself absolutely fluent when being honest and not just padding a resume :P

Still, I prefer the sound of English, I like many more English dialects than German ones, and even puns are easier to craft ;)

But overall I wouldn't advise anyone to not learn German, at least if you like hard work, pain and humiliation.
Love LibreOffice - I've used it and OpenOffice for over 15 years. I've been heartbroken by recent releases, however - the keyboard shortcuts in Calc (and other components) have changed.

This is like breaking my fingers - I'm so much slower now. It's not just that there's a difference - I can adapt to that. It's that they've re-labeled menu entries with duplicate index keys. You can't do some things quickly now (e.g. optimize column widths with Alt-O-M-O, which worked for years).

There's a reason why MS Excel has keyboard shortcuts that make no sense - they match to menu entries from old versions, and they've kept them in so people who have been using it for decades don't have a reason to switch.

Please, LibreOffice developers, make your menu shortcuts sensible again!
>Seems a bit dishonest.

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But he has keys with him, so he's by definition not locked out. Maybe I'm reading into it too much.
A reliable, long use rocket is not exactly new either. Delta II first launched in 1989, 153 launches, 151 successes. There will be another launching this fall for JPSS-1.
A better title would be "Laurene Powell Jobs group acquires majority stake in The Atlantic" — not sure how many people would know who the Emerson Collective is.
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how do you organize and rank with hundreds of sources? I suppose you can't read it all :)
Unfortunately, that's the definition of ageist.

If you cant see what's wrong, try finishing this sentence in your head "I don't want to be sexist, but women .."
I was being a little hyperbolic, but I'm curious, do you think Musk won't make it to Mars within 10 years or that other companies will be able to do it by then too?
So? Does that mean investors should unload their Apple stock because iphones are not vital?
You can start giving tech talks in your own company. In my company we have Tech Talk & Pizza the first Tuesday of every month, and works really well. The people interested in give a talk have to add the topic in a poll, and the most voted topic is selected for the next month. It's a good idea to have some fun with your colleagues, spread knowledge, and eat free pizza!
By any chance, do you know what the rationale for this change is?

If the torrent repository were gone permanently, it would be extremely sad, since it's (AFAIK) the only way of having automated and/or bulk download of papers, for example for data mining — sci-hub.io is understandably not really suited for this.
There is utility in Bitcoins ability to transfer value worldwide, without middlemen, only requiring a cheap smartphone.

Strictly speaking nothing has "intrinsic" value, but Bitcoin can be valued because it has many qualities of "good" money like being transportable and durable, doing some of them theorically better than current monies.
The average BTC holder is not, so it's not a good option.
How is the native Wayland support these days?
It'll be Mayer/Yahoo all over again!
Thanks for the correction - fixed the typo!
Underestimated? These "underestimations" seem very accurate to me, and without a 300-million-person hive-mind, I can't imagine anything different. Any single person who isn't a politician, intelligence agent, etc., is meaningless today, and no single cause is capable of rallying enough popular support to have any impact in the first-past-the-post polls.
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You mean the black bar on the PDF? That just says "(redacted)".
Sort of, but the effect is very different due to the "temporal dead zone." Attempting to access a variable declared with `let/const` or const before the declaration will throw an error, vs just getting `undefined` for a variable declared with `var`.
Elm's JSON combinators are great.

I'm sure one reason so many people have particular trouble with them is because, according to the survey, the vast majority of them come from a dynamically-typed language where you'd just go `user = JSON.parse(string)`.

I think a lot of people would be helped by tacking a bunch of real-world examples onto the actual Json.Decoder docs like how to decode `[1, [3, 5], 7, 9]` (nested range) into `[1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9]`. One issue is that it's pretty hard to derive understanding from just function signatures, so a dozen quick-start / cookbook examples gives people something to chew on.

Combinators are really good at forbidding runtime errors which is a central theme of Elm, but it comes at the expense of a steeper learning curve than the weaker alternatives that come to mind: reflection and manual descent.
Known both in KSP and space industry as "asparagus staging", it's a pretty old idea. It's tough to implement in real life, though, because pumping fuel around adds a non-trivial amount of complexity to the rocket. FH might be the first ever production rocket to use it, actually.

EDIT nevermind, I didn't realize SpaceX scrapped the idea too.
> He simply founded a company that was super successful within a short time, with an idea that seems so easy that everyone thinks they could've done it and along the way some missteps were made.

Yeah, I suppose if you elide every reason he was removed he doesn't sound so bad.
Ok, but to be fair the DC and Baltimore metro areas are, effectively, becoming one big sprawl. The city centers are 50 miles apart and the beltway exburbs where much of the tech facilities are actually located are even closer together.
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I used some physics engines.
I feel the simulation quality of the one made by op is quit good, even better than some complete engines.
Empire Earth had the ability to take geographic elevation data as input to the map maker. My buddy and I did a high school presentation on Paul Revere where we imported Boston and then made a series of triggered events to show the ride. The Redcoat was Britain's special unit in the game so it ended up looking pretty good!
To be fair, he said he didn't want to be ageist, not that he wouldn't be.
What was your undergrad in and what kind of challenges did you experience while pursuing your MS? How many years of CS experience did you have before you went for your MS? I've been thinking of this as a possible and very probable path (I'm an international student here in the US, so I might have to get a masters for my visa to continue). Thanks!
Thanks. The scale is still hard to wrap my head around but I see what you're saying.

Could this tool find hardware backdoors?
My understanding of a ponzi-scheme is that you subscribe with an initial capital with a regular currency; and then you expect regular payouts in that same currency. The regular payouts pay a lot comparing to what the market pays for no-risk assets.

I don't think bitcoin fits that definition.
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They've also never made a profit and don't seem to have a clear path to profitability.
I think they are common on Intel systems, my old laptop with ICH7-M chipset has one.
not OP, but i think the overall challenge is cheaply coming up with a not-cheap product than can apply to the largest section of the limited market. Its expensive to advance the tech here, for a limited economic benefit to the company trying to advance the tech.

As the brother to a visually impaired person, I found the website fine. If only you could ship by his August 1 birthday! :)
That looks amazing. I'd buy that in a heartbeat if I ever allowed myself to buy new cars.
I'll second that. Scott Manley is THE source KSP tutorials and just plain absurd fun-with-KSP-plugins. You'll get a lot more out of KSP if you watch/follow his videos.
Yeah, I didn't think of that and it goes part of the way, but it would be nice if you could move the cursor to the exact position you want to select from, put down a third finger on the keyboard and then move the cursor. At least for me that would feel more efficient.
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An electric drivetrain is incongruent with traditional truck marketing, apparently. A great deal of this is in the visceral sensation of proximity to a powerful engine - the loud noises, the excessive exhaust, the overbearing atmospheric vibrations, etc.

Frustrating in that the most realistic option is retrofitting an existing electric car drivetrain to a small truck frame.
Depends on how you count. Is the instruction that adds register one to register two and stores it in register three different from the instruction that adds register one to register two and stores it in register four? The only difference is the register the data is stored in after the add. I can argue this either way, and you should be able to as well (though you may find one side is a lot more compelling).

Really an undocumented instruction is just anything that isn't documented, it is good practice to leave some blank space in your instruction set so that you can implement the next feature that needs a new instruction. As such we expect to find millions of potential instructions: there is nothing there but the next CPU might have something.
It comes across pretty badly in my dialect of American English to turn adjectives about people into nouns. For example, "I saw a disabled on the bus today" or "a visually impaired" or "a Chinese" without "person" afterward would all be really weird phrasing, and if you were otherwise fluent in my dialect it would imply that whatever you were about to say next was likely to be pretty clueless about that group.

BUT I wouldn't apply that inference to someone with a foreign accent, even a British accent. It's a fine point of style that I can't assume will translate across dialects. (For example, "I saw a German on the bus today" would be much less weird than "a Chinese" to anyone speaking my dialect. How do we know? We just know.) So here I think mbrookes has the wrong idea.
"Obscure" enough to run Windows though
Apparently there is no release for Debian 8 Jessie. Is everyone on 9 already?
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Despite what HN may say, remote working is still fairly rare and highly competitive. Managers will want to see butts in seats for a long time.
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I thought, in this century, economists no longer differentiate between money, bonds, gold and stocks. They are all "assets". What they look for, instead, is the distribution of return of these assets. (that is volatility)
That's sad to hear. Possibly you could demonstrate "We defend against XXX attacks, compare that to the iOS app which defends against XX"
It has absolutely everything to do with Unity - or at least it had, when Unity 4 single-threaded physics engine was used. AFAIK KSP now has a properly multi-threaded physics engine, and works much faster.
And if you have a phone with force touch you can force press the keyboard to do the same thing!
> Is "mass adoption by non-tech users" the goal?

I would surely hope so. Why bother with installing another "universal communication platform" if you will be only able to communicate with a small subset of your contacts. (And all of them will by on skype/whatsapp/whatever-else anyways, since that's where majority of their contacts are as well.)
But wouldn't a lower frequency be at the cost of spatial resolution due to the longer wavelength?
Back in 1980, they used to publish books full of this stuff and put it next to public telephones!
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Yeah, that's pretty terrible. My GNU/Linux machines have months long X11 sessions with firefox, libre office, hundreds (I've hit the window limit) of xterm windows, and lots of other stuff open while waking up and sleeping (s2ram) multiple times every day.

I've them crash once every few years after I'm done setting them up, usually it goes down because I run out of power or want to update the kernel. There's no good reason some GUI should die because of waking up from sleep.
That was when the game used Unity 4? KSP used to have a single-threaded physics engine. AFAIR they replaced it now, so it should handle much more complex objects without destroying the framerate.
Same here...and then add on that I'm actually over 40...and oh boy, does that code get tougher to track. Funny how in some circles deep and long experience in tech is respected...but companies often look at me and ask "What will you do for me lately?"...and look at my age, and likely assume that I'm slowing down; when just the opposite is happening, i'm speeding up in terms of complexity of tech i'm diving into. Weird; but i feel your pain!
Thanks for sharing this. You mention banking - protecting money seems like a much higher incentive for blue team than say, the security of a forum or online game server.
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The popular opinion is that if you start a rocket company you will fail but if Musk thought that he would fail, he wouldn't have started SpaceX. He thought he could succeed in rockets = he thought he could make money off rockets. Musk is a businessman just like all the others, he just has a public persona/PR team which appeals to "nerds."
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"'cause they're old fashioned like that"
^ lol. Good point.

Thanks for the advice! I value experience too, but I've found that in my previous industry (actuaries/insurance), they didn't really value experience as much as exams or education. I'm glad software engineer roles are different!
Nature versus nurture either way it's all your parents fault...lol.
The sample is definitely biased because it is only Indeed data, but I disagree about the scaling. I think using percentage of overall jobs that are "tech" is fine. It's their attempt to neutralize metro areas that overall use Indeed less than others.

Since this is only looking at populations greater than 1 million, I think an area with an overwhelming percentage of tech jobs such as your hypo 99% would be very interesting to anyone hunting for a tech job.

Again, this is Indeed, so job seekers and employers are the target audience of this post.
I was confused by this, too. I could have sworn they were signing previous releases, but I'm not sure.

I did check the SHA-1 of my download, and it was correct.
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Thanks for the advice!

You suggested online courses - do you mean bootcamps and things like Codecademy, or actual college online courses?
Disclaimer: ex Skype employee.

Looks like a Skype clone from 10 years ago to me.
I cannot see this working in the long run. Many people naively think that Skype switched from full p2p to partially p2p to server centric because of some evil plot designed by Microsoft. This is all wrong. Skype abandonned full peer to peer because it does not work if you want something fast, reliable, and feature rich.

1. Asking users to enable upnp is a joke. I would never do that, and anyone doing so should consider the security implications of doing so. Unfortunately, since they want to stay pure p2p they have no other possibility to solve the "both clients behind a NAT router" problem. This is why Skype relies on STUN like protocols => not possible in pure p2p.

2. Peer discovery in pure p2p is SLOW. Skype understood that and switched to hosted "supernodes" with their IPs hard-coded in the client. It's the only way to have reliable peers to introduce you to the network.

3. You WANT dedicated peers with good connection and 100% uptime.

4. You cannot efficiently have shared states in pure p2p without an identity server. That would require the clients to bring their keys with them on every device, not very practical.

5. In case the network collapses, there is no way for it to go up again without supernodes.
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That's an oddly specific reference to read here, since I'm typing this on a Q6700. I have definitely noticed the same thing as this machine is still perfectly usable and faster than quite a few modern laptops.

Of course, this years processors are faster, but I can't imagine another point in time when ten years of progress would produce so little effective change.
It's not really an argument against Unity per se, but low KSP performance had everything to do with that engine - because it ended up being CPU-bound through single-threaded physics. This problem is now solved, from what I remember.
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> comparing a new language TS with the old AS3 is not fair

Sure, but that's the comparison invited when one says that AS3 is still better than what's out there today.
Somebody also forgot to read Coinbase's user agreement.

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This is great and really fun.

10 rounds with changed payoffs has some really interesting results.
Punishing cheating from both sides, regardless of how high, still leads to the cheaters taking over.
But if you increase the payoffs for both sides cooperating, even if it's just by +1, you already eliminate all the cheaters very quickly and even the copycats are gone pretty quick, leaving a population of only cooperate.

Sure that's for the 10 round game without any of the other players, it's still very interesting how even in that setting it seems more beneficial to reward good behavior vs punishing bad behavior.
> I am a heavy mouse (and trackpad) user and have been for decades. Editing and refactoring code for me is all about the mouse.

It's a very interesting and surprising statement to me. For me the mouse is absolutely nowhere near convince of selecting text with keyboard. When your editor allows you to jump between paragraphs, words, ending and beginning of line (so pretty much every editor) it seems to be relatively easy to rapidly jump to place that one wants to select with couple of key strokes.
There's a lot of people generally locked out of their accounts, myself having tried to get in for a week. In time for this fork or not I'm getting harmed by not having access to my funds. I'm really pissed off
I'm not sure this is always true. GNU Coreutils offer much more functionality and are preferred by many for this reason.
Between Raleigh and Durham, it's mostly sister-sites for larger tech companies. Personally, I've worked at NetApp, Citrix, and now Nutanix -- all within 25 minutes of my house in Cary.

Not much of a start-up scene, AFAIK.
I'm a regular reader of Howard's memos, which are usually pretty on point and thought provoking (the rest of this memo generally fits that description, thought mostly just says things are expensive.) In this case, however, I'm pretty disappointed in the lack of nuance in his argument about cryptocurrency. This is the guy who advocates "second-level thinking" to beat the market and/or peers, and is usually very focused on the details of a situation.

Beyond the weak backup of his main arguments, I felt the most striking issue was his contrast between cryptocurrency and gold:

What will happen to Bitcoin's price and liquidity in a crisis if people decide they'd rather hold dollars (or gold)?

The irony is that many aspects of Bitcoin were inspired by the limited quantity of gold (there is only so much gold, with increasing cost to produce it as you reach that limit). Gold has been around a lot longer, but cryptocurrencies could gain similar acceptance if their security, usability and everyday utility increase.

Gold and dollars are not immune to the concerns he raises about liquidity and price. When you're starving, a bar of gold doesn't help very much.

I think his arguments about a bubble in cryptocurrency have some validity, but not without caveat and nuance - they are more of truisms as written. Of course emerging asset classes and technologies will overshoot. But that doesn't take away from the fundamental realization that, at least for now, cryptocurrencies provide value to those who use them. This might be for money laundering/black market activity as people below have pointed out, but its still valuable for them. The value might also be for easy cross-border money transfer and risk mitigation when dealing with government manipulation of currencies (see Venezuela and Argentina.)

Either way, I'm not sure cryptocurrency is really that useful of a place for a firm like Oaktree to be investing in, because they are credit guys, not macro guys. That said, former credit guy Mike Novogratz invested heavily in cryptocurrency and seems to have done well thus far: https://www.coindesk.com/hedge-fund-founder-invests-10-net-w...
Oracle could have gone to courts and stopped Google. Oh wait, they did and failed.

It is sad that Oracle's legal could not deliver on copyright or patent cases.
In what way is my summary terrible? I stand by it and I have the facts to back it up. When somebody says:

> If you are a white cis man (meaning you identify as male and you were assigned male at birth) you almost certainly should resign from your position of power. That’s right, please quit.

No reasonable person can make such a blatantly unfair demand and then accuse me of uncharitable interpretation of their opinion. In fact, I find it horrifying that someboy so unhinged as this woman was allowed to lecture in a university.
Most people just want their desktop's drop shadows and window dragging effects to work fast enough. There's plenty of appeal in saving battery and money from a faster GPU that you aren't going to use.