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Yup, generally when I come across a salient thought or idea, I load up Bicycl and input it manually. The act of intentionally trying to remember a thing by summarizing & writing it down is half the battle. Bicycl then does a really good job of organizing these micro-notes in a way that makes it easy to resurface your ideas / gems later.
This sounds like a job for an FPGA-based graphics system as a prototype.
Basho has silently gone dark since around Easter, with no indication of anything on their site; it still looks like Riak/Basho are an active, living company. Despite being hosted on basho.com, this is just a post to a mailing list, still not an official account/announcement of anything.

I have a client with a support contract and while I don't know for certain that they didn't contact someone within the organization, I know that most people, including myself, found out only when someone asked if we could contact Basho support and they were informed that it wasn't there anymore.
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I am not a Boeing engineer, but I do have some experience in avionics design.

The flight critical systems would be isolated from in-flight entertainment system (IFE). The IFE probably has a listen-only tap to flight metric info on an ARINC databus from the flight computer. I did a quick search and looks like 787 uses ARINC 667, a fiber optic interconnect.
I've been in management consulting, albeit with a firm that would probably be #4 or 5 on that list. It was early career so I don't want to overstate my expertise here - take this for what it's worth:

Consider your work-life balance. I know these places always show up on "best places to work" lists, but for the life of me, I have no idea how. Maybe it's because I'm the wrong personality fit, but if you are not a workaholic, it's tough going in consulting. The money may be better in the long run, but it's high burnout for a reason. And even if you do make that exit to the C-suite, those guys work hard too.

Not a definitive answer, just something to consider.
While I agree that Superfish was a disaster, keep in mind that it did not affect the ThinkPad line at all. From what I heard, the consumer and business lines have strong separation inside Lenovo. I have lost all trust in their consumer division, too. But it seems silly to me to discount ThinkPads based on the malware bundled with Lenovo's consumer offerings.
The point is these aren't extreme cases. This is kind of a typical poverty stricken life.
A hike was expected, but many believed it'd be another month or two, and as such was surprise to many.
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The benefits from automation still exist, even if currently the only way to realize them at scale is to steal from the rich robot owners.

Thus, working to increase automation is still useful, because it is likely that we will soon either tax the owners of automated capital more, or economically disenfranchised people will have a bloody revolution, and the new owners of the automated capital will be slightly more inclined to voluntarily share for the next 70 years or so.

The end result is that mopping floors and cleaning toilets becomes a robot job, and no human anywhere does it, freeing them up for tasks that actually require human brainpower. I think everyone needs to work, but the BS jobs we have been inventing are not fit for that purpose. Everyone needs to do a thing that is productive by the loosest definition and makes them happy. Like jarring your own pickles. Or making an online comic with stick figures. Or domesticating foxes. When freed of the requirement that people have to do work to perform certain critical functions that keep civilization running, like growing food and paving roads, people can instead put more effort into things that are niche interests.

It might be playing video games for 12 hours a day. That's okay. You don't need that guy to raise chickens for your dinner. But you might need him later, when you decide to spend 4 hours every week to play a video game, and you don't want to waste your time on one that is not fun, or too deep for that level of time commitment. That guy will soon become an subject matter expert on video games, and you can trust him to blow away the chaff, because he loves video games.

Some people still do the niche stuff even after working 40 hours or more in a week. If you think about what they can do in their leisure time, just imagine what they would accomplish if their hobby was their full time job.
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"While it might be difficult or impossible to put a head count on "Dieselgate,"..."

Well, that was kind of my point. It's no less of a scandal, and BMW still deserves to be punished, but just casually linking their actions to deaths seemed hyperbolic. Assuming the MIT study is solid, it's still possible that BMW's malfeasance has resulted in zero deaths.

I don't mean to distract from Doctorow's article -- I don't disagree with the central premise -- but "Dieselgate killed people" just struck me as casually lazy. It's the kind of probably-technically-right-but-unproven meme that, repeated enough, is accepted without question. We have enough of that in society today.
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All I get when opening this link is a "Welcome to BigQuery!" panel and a "Create a Project" button.
Swissair flight 111 crashed because of a fire that started in in flight entertainment system. Although isolated it still caused a fire that caused the highest death toll for the MD11 which was considered a very safe aircraft.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair_Flight_111
Hi guys!

We've collected leading Berlin fintechs in one place, with a focus on providing companies overviews from a candidate perspective. It's a first MVP so I'm more than happy to hear comments regarding what could be improved, especially in terms of what kind of other relevant content could be added.

Thanks for the feedback :)
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Newer planes have capacitative touch now. They even rolled their own implementation of Apple cover flow.
That is what I would like to see leaked. How exactly this kind of thing start.

Who have the first conversation that we finally see as "the Estonia government want x". The same I would like to know about the free trade agreements.
More expensive loans, higher interest rate on mortgages and credit cards. Traditionally saving accounts won't be affected and still have near zero return rate thought.
What is HN's thoughts about this? Would you agree that our purpose lies in helping those around us?
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What's your strategy?
These kind of businesses are not just casually started by some random guy.
>I've met and talked to Olin kids, and also been to Olin - this doesn't surprise me one bit.

When I was in grad school, I fantasized about finishing my PhD and teaching there.

But frankly, I knew they wouldn't take me :-(
So we're supposed to just take your word for it, in the face of contradictory evidence?
s/hardware/adware/ - I was confused there for a second, but on second thought this could likely have been by autocorrect.
An important omission is that Olin is on the same property as Babson, one if the top entrepreneurship schools in the country. Olin kids can attend Babson classes and have access to Babson resources.

So, imagine an engineering college where you have a very favorable student:teacher ratio plus a 5min walk to a world class entrepreneurship education.
There is a third camp.

The ones that think cars need to be better than humans and that one death in a self driving car is too many even if there would have been thousands of deaths by human drivers in the same time.

The amount of time spent debating issues is huge. Like how a computer would handle situations that are unique to human drivers (for example, not leaving enough room to stop because you're driving too fast and following too close) or things that a human driver would perform poorly on too (should I drive off the bridge or run over those children?).

It's fine to debate issues but to use them as "show stopper" by default is irresponsible.
> It's not just random noise. A small population is more impacted by individual events so far there is often reasons for such aberrations.
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That is random noise. A small population is impacted far more by noise.

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regardless of whether you love it or not, somebody better be paying you bucketloads of overtime for that
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Even the "liberal" states have never had unlimited freedom of speech and broadcast to the same extent as internet libertarians would imagine.

The ECHR Article 10 recognises this:

"1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.

2. The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary."

.. which is how Germany can have its ban on Nazi symbols.
On C# having had an incomplete ECMA specification always lagging behind and source code made available under an obscure, non-open-source, legally tainting license acting as a boobytrap for anything commercial DOES NOT count as open.

Even now they are being disingenuous about license changes, witness for example the leadership of this project changing license from Apache 2.0 to MIT and being obtuse about the licensing of patents or about reasoning, not explaining clearly the drawbacks of the change: https://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharp/issues/3440

OpenJDK happened on May 8, 2007, that's 10 years ago and you've got companies like Red Hat and IBM collaborating on it. By comparison .NET Core was released 2016, so that's 9 years later.

And the JCP might be a farce as far as standardisation efforts are concerned, but at least you've got multiple companies participating.

I'm replying this because I'm getting tired of Microsoft's marketing campaigns on this forum.

UPDATE:

Btw I actually applaud Microsoft's open sourcing efforts, I see myself using .NET in the future and I'm actively using Visual Studio Code and TypeScript at the moment. They've got fine people there working on dev tools, they always had.

But then I also see them engaging in what's basically racketeering, threatening Android phone makers with patents (i.e. if you can't innovate, litigate), having potential for becoming one of the largest patent trolls ever. And I also see them breaking user privacy in Windows 10. Therefore my view of them is balanced, as a large organization the left hand doesn't know what the right does, etc.

I cannot love them and even though I may have forgiven them for their past attacks on Linux and the open web, I can't forget their past that easily. And before you mention Google, Apple, Facebook, or other media darlings, check my history to see that I'm consistently ranting about all of them and the malevolence of one does not excuse the rest.

What I'm saying is that "Microsoft changed" messages make me feel nausea because it's been a clear marketing campaign and people fell for it. Let their actions speak, applaud and reward them when they do good, but don't put them on a pedestal and don't do marketing for them without getting paid for it.
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It seems I'm THE most incompetent person out there that cannot get hired as a junior developer for whatever kind of technology stack, even though I have a number of years of personal experience around a variety of programming languages.

I guess it's time to move on with my life and stop dreaming big about becoming a professional programmer after all.

So, I am giving up with technology for good this time.

I'm looking for alternatives that could provide me a minimum wage.

Is it possible to work remotely doing any kind of job that is totally unrelated to programming?

Please advice, cheers.

P.S.: I would appreciate it if you didn't try to convince me otherwise as it wouldn't change my decision. My self-esteem is completely demolished and the last thing I need is anyone's pity.
I'm not sure I understand "target" in this context. Does it mean "a suggested rate" or "lowering/increasing the current rate over time toward this target" or "the actual rate"?
No, that's not airgapping.
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Excellent writeup! I came to the same conclusion a few years ago with Thiers' Law: good money drives out bad, http://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/speculative-attack/
They did actually merge the products around OpenServer 6/UnixWare 7. No, the names don't make a bit of sense.

While SCO licensed Xenix from Microsoft and kept the port going through 386 support, SCO Unix/ODT/OpenServer/UnixWare all descend from a separately licensed SCO System V release 3 port, not Xenix.

Disclaimer: I worked for the company that wrote the (in)famous C2 security subsystem for SCO.
-1 on GPL. Apache 2 generates very little friction.
Exactly. Leverages the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, that the product of primes is unique modulo permutations.
Are you talking about the new ICO 2.lip ?

It's got one of the most exciting whitepapers I've read. Also has a great Board of Directors and some really great advisers behind it.
Why would any entity buy bonds that when matured will not have kept up remotely with inflation? Obviously I'm missing some key idea here, I just have no idea what it is.
Of course. What's the case against doing so? Vacancies get a ton of applicants and your resume might not even get looked at. If you're looking for something new, apply to anything that interests you.
Kind words, thanks! ... so I was using lmbench last Friday to profile memory latency (lat_mem_rd), is that one of yours?
If my giving examples of how mozilla as a company engages in social politics (the buildbot one is the best example) doesn't relate to rust, I don't know what to tell you.
Commenting on my own post...sad. Just smarting about being downvoted to the bottom while the top comment makes the same point. I guess I need to be more expositional.
where can I buy one ;)

Seriously though, this would be great for getting microscopes in tightly-integrated platforms.
In app purchases for additional per-seat licences! HealthKit integration! Share the data with your health insurer! "Uh-oh, you exceeded your sitting quota by xx hours this month, so you've been charged a penalty fee of $xx. Don't forget – keep moving to keep saving!"

It's a world of opportunity...
I'm confused. Gresham's law sais "bad money drives out good". Inflation is bad, so from that follows that the money that inflates more will be more used. Okay, I buy that.

Then this:

> When the singularity is reached, I think people will be more likely to choose to spend their inflationary fiat currency instead of their deflationary cryptocurrency.

I'm lost here. People already prefer to spend USD over Bitcoin. So I understand the change would be if Bitcoin inflates faster, because then people will prefer to spend Bitcoin. But the article sais the opposite.

Or doesn't "stable against USD" mean that Bitcoin will inflate/deflat at around the same rate as USD?

Interesting article, I'd love to understand it! Anyone?
> everyone seems to agree that Facebook et. al's censorship of objectionable content is great

Hardly. Especially on the left. Including such issues as the ban on breastfeeding photos, ban on trans people using their names, and widespread failure to ban hate speech.

(I'm sure I've seen one case of someone recieving a pile of death threats, reporting them, getting told they were "not offensive", then reposting them as an image to say what sort of garbage facebook tolerates .. and then getting that post deleted by facebook. But not any of the original abuse.)
I implemented a Paillier encryption library in Clojure a few months back (which I am currently unable to open-source due to an NDA), and in researching it, I was astounded by the elegance of some of these schemes. I really hope that HE research continues and becomes the standard in the near-ish future.

Whenever I get a free couple weekends, I want to port IBM's HELib to Clojure, so that I can more easily use it for a Java project.
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Bitcoin is not, in my opinion, a system for transactions. It's essentially a store of value - that's it. If you want quick transactions, you won't do it faster with decentralized than with centralized systems. Decentralized is slower by construction
bitcoin is a byzantine fault tolerant distributed database, it's performance characteristics are different.
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Mobike != government system.
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I think if anything's going to save us from a generalised AI takeover it's this. Even if encrypting the world doesn't stop them it'll make computation too slow for world domination.
Playing devil's advocate - the power we'd be granting is the power to apply fines when you broke rules you didn't know existed, because they are case-by-case determinations.
My guess is that the Chinese miners are often well-connected in the middle-levels of the Chinese government, the parts that actually implement such policies, and only a few less-connected miners would actually get blocked, thus increasing the profitability of the miners with government connections.
It is a rate they attempt to achieve through their actions. They can influence the rate, but not outright set it due to market conditions.

Think of it like setting the temp on a thermostat. You are attempting to achieve a temperature through the use of a device to put energy into a system, but there are other factors that contribute to the actual temperature achieved.
Whenever I read articles like this I'm reminded of this quote by Richard Buckminster Fuller

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."

IMHO this is what Bitcoin is all about. Not a get-rich-quick scheme or whatever insults some people throw at it, but a sound, arguably better alternative to fiat currencies.

Aside:
If you haven't yet gotten into the fancy dancy, drama sprinkled ICO, Scamcoin, and Altcoin world I cannot recommend it enough. It's hilarious, like the cambrian explosion of cryptomoney.
You might want to try pairing a portion of the time. I've been pairing part time on a side project and it's going really well. We pair about twice a week on harder work or stuff that involves decisions that aren't really undone. On our own time we then work on more mondaine stuff. It's great because there is always opportunity to be productive of the scheduled don't align, but at the same time you have just enough pressure to keep going while also having the safety net of being able to pair with someone if you get stuck. So there is little opportunity to procrastinate which I usually do when stuck.
>I love my work, and doing something 80-90 hours a week that I love hardly seems like a problem. :

I think his point is that regardless of the measures you're taking, your health will likely suffer.

I'd hazard sitting a lot in a 40 hour job and moving around the rest may be safer.
See also:

* Accelerating the JDK release cadence http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2017-Septembe...

* Faster and Easier Use and Redistribution of Java SE https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/faster-and-easi...

Oracle will also ship binary distributions of OpenJDK, and OpenJDK will become the canonical JDK distribution.
There is a sense in which it is not possible to write a similar book for other languages. Erlang's "Let it crash" design philosophy is more or less unique among languages used as much as more than Erlang. This means the definition of 'trouble' which requires troubleshooting will tend to be different when trouble is not an error in business logic. Likewise the details of implementing solutions will be different, for example handling a high frequency of crashes by making 10x the number of concurrent actors available to the system.

{A Love Song to Erlang} I think Erlang is a beautiful piece of engineering design as engineering design. I would not say that about any other language and find other languages beautifully designed for other reasons. But Erlang is an engineer's tool designed based on engineering principles. The abstractions are engineering abstractions...but with garbage collection.
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As a hedge against a market collapse?
I guess whether or not it's a good thing would be an interesting discussion. Is civil disobedience sometimes a good thing? I think most people would say "yes". But our examples have been by individuals. Is there a role for civil disobedience by corporations?
This isn't a publicly accessible system like a webserver. This is an entertainment device on a plane.
My understanding is that the gesture began as a kind of pat-down to show that neither party was hiding weapons in their sleeves (think "roman" handshake -- clasped at the forearms), and gradually evolved to what we have now.

Similarly, I heard that clinking glasses originally came from the host pouring some of their drink into your cup (and vice versa), thereby mixing the drinks and proving that neither cup was poisoned. Eventually this evolved into the symbolic tap we do now.
You're 33, you're not on the 'older side of the programmer market.'

If anyone tells you that, I suggest you take a long hard look at who they actually are.
> to whoever accepts Bitcoin

Double_a_92 is pointing out a distinction -- USD is pure legal tender, that is mandated by the US government to be accepted for payments of debts. Bitcoin is not.
Watch what people do, not what they say. Technology founders are either capitalists already or aspiring capitalists. In theory they support redistribution as long as it doesn't come out of their pockets or equity. You can't call them far left on the economical scale. That makes that label meaningless which it is anyways. Americans should stop agonizing about what's left or right, Democrat or Republican and start thinking about issues. There are tons of problems this country has that can't be explained or solved by labeling them left or right. When I came to this country I thought it's a pragmatic country that gets things done but now I wonder it's just a bunch delusional ideologues based on the public conversation.
we have an opening on my team right now, for a Senior Performance Engineer (https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/865018). My team is kinda small, so we can't hire everyone (much as that would be great), there's a lot of hiring elsewhere in the company, and I regularly work with different teams.
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> Will governments around the world begin to make their currency deflationary in order to make it attractive?

rofl

If you want people to use currency more, you make it inflate faster. This guy does not understand macroeconomics.
Someday in a Vernor Vinge-ish future, software archeologists could discover a dead programming language that is being used at the core of their ancient starship's libraries.