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> It's interesting to imagine ZFS and zones bringing containerization a decade earlier

I have a legacy production environment that is Debian based OpenVZ and Nexenta. Containers and ZFS were in heavy use a decade ago, the marketing just wasn't there to make it "cool" like Docker.

Sun was great at many things, but they were never great at marketing.
Oh, plenty of people have government pensions. It's just that when city & state governments made those promises, they were lying. It is the will of the people of Illinois, for example, not to pay retired government workers what they're owed, and we'll see that enacted shortly. Social Security will similarly implode when the total needs of Boomers surpass the total income-producing capability of Millenials in the next couple of decades.

Having a pension is not in any way, shape, or form an excuse to not have private retirement savings. Other people can and do routinely decide to render pensions worthless, and there's nothing you can do about it.

If you aren't the sole signer on the account where it's held, the money isn't yours. If anyone has the ability to pilfer it for their own purposes, they will, and you should act accordingly.

Accepting a pension in lieu of additional income is a staggeringly bad idea that no one should ever under any circumstances dream of considering. You wouldn't accept salary in a way that can be retroactively withdrawn, you shouldn't accept retirement savings that way either. As long as we live in a world where Republicans are allowed to exist, trusting a government to pay you is phenomenally stupid.

It's extremely good news that the US has mostly discarded the idea of giving out pensions.
Because Oracle do not sell to the sort of people who read Hackernews, they sell to people who read Financial Review and CIO Monthly or whatever. Same as SalesForce, Adobe, and a whole bunch of other "enterprise" software businesses that most dev's ignore or write off as pointless.

I worked at a place where I saw two renewals for AdobeCQ licenses paid while I worked there at ~$600k/year, all the time we were using Alfresco underneath (and I see now that site is running on Sitecore...)
This makes me really sad. I'm originally from San Diego and left when I was 18. At one point my mother was even homeless there (alcohol abuse). A lot of homeless people travel up and down the coast (meaning, this could spread). Many of them refuse treatment or can't abide by the rules of the house, so they get kicked out.

I'm living in Saigon now. While millions of people here are painfully poor and have almost nothing, they almost all have somewhere to live. There is drug use, but it is really looked down upon. I see signs everywhere warning people able the dangers. People seem to take care of each other more as a clan, as a family, as humans.

I recently went back to San Francisco to sell everything and move to SE Asia full time. I'm never going back. The homeless in SF was awful. MUNI and Bart have people openly defecating, shooting up and sleeping in the stations. Nobody does anything about it.

It is a really sad situation.
> Model ≠ Reality, yadda yadda.

I think im a fan of what is described as quantum bayesianism in the article, that quantum mechanics is basically a probabiltiy theory, and this probability theory is required to express our expectations from measurements (quantum mechanics encodes our beliefs about what will be observed given some knowledge about a system) and this is fundamentally a "retreat" because we dont know how to describe the underlying reality. even though calculating the probabilitoes may be very precise.

but i am havig trouble distinguising quantum bayesianism from the standard "model vs reality" fare as the motovation seems very similar
If you are fine with sideloading apps, NewPipe is a free software YouTube client app that supports that and many other features.
> What's the real cost of just leaving those formula around?

Maintenance.

When unused and unmaintained projects and formulae pile up in Homebrew, we end up spending a tremendous amount of time and effort patching mostly unused software for a very small part of the userbase. That dis-proportionality hurts the 95% of users who expect timely and well-tested updates to major packages.

We used to provide a "boneyard" tap for unused/unmaintained formulae, but even that led to a lot of requests for support that we simply can't provide. If something is being removed from the core tap, our current recommendation is to put it a personal tap[1].

> The culture of deletion surrounding the long tail of digital artifacts just doesn't make any sense.

Keep in mind that the "artifacts" in question are still available, since Homebrew and all Homebrew taps are just Git underneath. You might not be able to build an old formula for compatibility reasons, but all prior work is available for reference.

[1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/How-to-Cre...
That makes sense, so it's to generate thumbnails/resize uploads.

Could it be some node package that has a dependency on imagemagick?

What I'm having trouble wrapping my head around is so many people being aware of imagemagick and reading through it's documentation to learn how to use it.
But China is rich and has tons of gold reserves to pay Iran with.

Moving gold is risky for individuals, but manageable for governments, certainly big powerful ones like China or India. The question is not whether it's more risky than a wire transfer but whether, when a wire transfer isn't possible, gold is workable.

I don't think the US would try to sieze shipments being made by another country, say by shooting down a Chinese or Indian air force plane. That will have major consequences, and be treated an act of war.
"ChromeOS is not included for logistical reasons."

It would be interesting to hear why logistics prevent reporting this. And it would be REALLY interesting to see the ChromeOS figures.
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https://www.pullrequest.com - Can't personally vouch for this, since I haven't used it, but seems to be an option.
Guys don't miss the "Launch Promo" video, you'll regret it for the rest of your life if you do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l644fAxGzlw
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In case anyone else is wondering a "ring" is a queue data structure which provides a different set of trade-offs. The documentation specifically compares it to a linked list:

The advantages of this data structure over a linked list queue are as follows:

* Faster; only requires a single Compare-And-Swap instruction of sizeof(void *) instead of several double-Compare-And-Swap instructions.
* Simpler than a full lockless queue.
* Adapted to bulk enqueue/dequeue operations. As pointers are stored in a table, a dequeue of several objects will not produce as many cache misses as in a linked queue. Also, a bulk dequeue of many objects does not cost more than a dequeue of a simple object.

The disadvantages:

* Size is fixed
* Having many rings costs more in terms of memory than a linked list queue. An empty ring contains at least N pointers.

http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/prog_guide/ring_lib.html
Income is one factor, but it's still a crap shoot even if both make similar salaries. That's why divorce lawyers make such a good living.
Interesting, I'm a phd-drop out in computational biology, working as a data science consultant: I use mathematics including multi-dimensional statistics, linear algebra, and calculus everyday. Being self-taught, I'm very self conscience about the math I don't know, but so far, not knowing differential equations doesn't seem to have hurt me. I actually just ran into a problem that uses Hamiltonian dynamics, so maybe I will end up learning differential equations, but it does seem like the course, as taught many places and in the Dover books I own, presents either no useful conceptual insight, like why I learned geometric algebra, or a powerful toolset, like some multi-dimensional statistics.
> This study is significantly flawed.

Is there a particular way you think it could be improved or do you just think that we shouldn't try to empirically compare something like flat vs non flat buttons?
wouldn't the compiler theory be one of the most greatly affected research fields?

Why would it? What techniques do you propose to use for what tasks?
Agreed in large part, though it still incents high hurdles for new upstarts to compete with successful incumbents.

I wonder if we wouldn't see a shift in grocery store form with the substance remaining as today.

Rather than buying a bottle of Coke from Star Market, you might be buying a consigned bottle of Coke, with Star Market serving only as the marketplace (avoiding Star buying the bottle from Coke), and where Coke is paid directly by you as part of the transaction. Grocers operate on a terribly thin net margin as it is. They would have a lot of incentive to avoid additional transactions in the supply chain (and there's some societal benefit to keeping grocery prices low).

I'm not so much arguing against [though I do oppose a transaction tax] as I am brainstorming how the implementation of such a tax would create different behaviors in the market to compensate or avoid the tax.
That's an interesting observation. This hasn't been my experience. I think it may partially also just be misunderstanding, though. There are obviously more than just 2 groups of students: those that get it with no studying and those that struggle with the material.

I'll agree with you that the top part of the distribution that "just get it" are not going to be the best teachers. But, I doubt the bottom portion are either. Rather, students in the middle, who struggled to understand the material, but ultimately came to a good understanding are the best group.

Granted, I'm just speculating and leaning on my own experiences. So, I really am interested to hear otherwise.
Honestly, I look beyond socialism/capitalism/consumerism to something more like the Venus Project or Resource based economy as something we should attain to, though it's a bit utopian to think we'll ever get their in the current political climate...maybe someday...

I voted for Bernie personally -- not a full out socialist... but I do think single payer + ubi + free college makes sense -- take the stress out of living paycheck to paycheck... at least somewhat... Not saying make everyone a millionaire and inflate the crap out of thnigs...but there needs to be some equilibrium...

One good policy might be capped CEO pay at say 200 * average employee salary. In this way - for CEO to get a raise, average salary must go up -- this can happen either by raising across the board or by moving more people to management and increasing upward mobility. Any money the CEO makes over 200* from that company is taxed at 100% including benefits, stocks, etc...
meh, I got in 2012 and still regret not putting in more, spending too much time mining (rather than just investing), not having enough resources to make as much of a difference to my future, getting into Ethereum only this year, keeping other weirdo coins that are worth nothing now, etc.

If you got in 6 years ago, you might just have a different set of regrets and blessings.
With the current divorce rates, the odds are greater than 50% that bank balances will come into play eventually. Love doesn't pay the mortgage at that point.
My company requires we need to report that stuff. Also need to take a training every year on what you can accept and what you can't.
I think, from a different perspective, teaching things can help you to understand them more deeply - so if there are areas they are still unclear on, the next set of students can help ask the right questions so they can learn.

I notice this myself when I'm teaching people things - in many cases I erroneously come off as "the expert" in things even when I mostly gained expertise in it by responding to the very questions that people are asking.
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I'm sure austrian school purist would tell you that a storm is coming quickly to correct that insanity, if it was one.
Probably, although I work for a government department that uses Oracle extensively but no new projects are on the platform, eventually everything will be migrated off it (mostly to the SQL Server hosted on Azure).
Unfortunately, most industries on the internet are winner-take-all due to the network effect. Without significant government intervention, which comes with its own problems if done poorly, monopolies on the internet are nearly inevitable.
One quirk of Mac OS flat design - i can never find the "contacts" icon - very odd. This is one of the more skeumorphic designs still, too. I guess just the dull brown without much color, easy to overlook.
Flat UI makes interfaces harder to figure out. Many examples here: http://uxcritique.tumblr.com/
What really baffles me is that the likes of Warren Buffett support WFC despite uncovering such wrong doing. I mean, what WFC did is completely unethical. Buffett, who practically epitomizes ethics, should have taken some action financially. He acknowledges that what WFC did was wrong, and he also acknowledges that more wrong doing might be uncovered. He still believes that WFC is a good long term investment.
One possible reason could be that this malpractice stemmed from one or two individuals who are now fired. So there could be reason to believe that the bank as a whole is still fine.
and since it was introduced (back in 2003), there were only 2 exploits discovered! (one RCE, one DoS)
So, the reason you're not putting it on Cydia is because not many people are going to buy it? Ok.

The argument that people will have to buy it again to access it makes no sense, it doesn't matter.
BSD guy here -
My heirarchy would be more

better bsd's > not as clean bsds > solaris > linux

with not as clean and solaris being on roughly the same footing- much like SMF requiring XML, solaris code, while very clean, seems very overengineered and not as elegant to me.

that said, i really haven't hacked enough kernel code to deserve to be commenting, so yeah..
This is an argument against the authoritarian character of the Apple App Store and by extension it's operating system that doesn't allow you to use anything else. Does anybody actually like having a walled off heavily regulated user experience after they've spent so much money on a device?

Or are people still just pretending they do. Without having even so much as the option of installing a third party application without going through the Apple App Store. Seems like stretching it, nobody can like that.

He should be able to sell the App standalone. There is no technical reason why not, it's a political one from Apple to artificially limit this functionality. They spent money making sure you couldn't do it.
Not just that, but it's incredibly shortsighted as well.

Human life has positive ROI, as evidenced by the fact that our species has done better in the world over time. The largest returns are highly unpredictable too - the majority of "origin" stories for the greatest contributors to moving our species forward have come from modest beginnings.

So disadvantaging large swaths of the population with poor access to quality education or healthcare biases the system against the masses, and as a result, reduces the productive potential of that population segment. A janitor today may not be the next Steve Jobs. But his kid might, if given access to a good education and not burdened by needing to accept a "safe" work choice to support his parents.

In addition, that janitor is likely putting a much larger portion of his wealth back into the economy directly by purchasing "things." And in a global economy that revolves around mass production, it would make sense that economic policies favoring the spending power of the masses would be a key factor in the pace of innovation and moving industry at large forward.

If only Wall Street can afford 4k TVs, they'll be watching a lot of upscaled 1080p content. It's not until the janitors, electricians, etc (i.e. the masses) can afford the sets that they'll see the majority of content switch over to 4k. (This is a knowingly superficial but illustrative example of a larger principle).

Even in my own case - I have a pre-existing medical condition. If it weren't for Obamacare, I wouldn't have been able to co-found my startup, which last year (first operational year) did $350k in sales, and this year looks like it may hit $700k. I'd have needed a job that provided good group health insurance, and our company simply wouldn't exist.

We like to talk in the entrepreneur community about the need to take risks to be successful. But too often the community turns a blind eye to the fact that if you cut away enough of the public safety nets, the only people that will be taking risks are the people that either (a) have a personal safety net already, or (b) have such poor judgement in risk assessment that they are destined to fail.

Social programs and policies aren't "entitlements" or things we should be doing from simply a moral standpoint - they are economic "growth" programs and make a great deal of sense if you look at the broader picture and with a perspective of 10, 50, 100 years instead of fiscal quarters.

Income inequality unchecked is going to destroy our national competitiveness the same way an executive cutting themselves a massive salary and underfunding corporate reinvestment is going to drive that company into the ground. We're cutting national reinvestment in order to further advantage the previously successful (several generations past in many cases), at the cost of the potentially future successful.
Hmmm. A kiloton is pretty close to 1000 tonne, or a gigagram. So kilotons per kilogram is a fancy way of saying "about one million". :-)
Ironic that the Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos.
Maybe you're okay with these, but others aren't. No matter what payment model you chose, some people will be pissed off.

Maybe developers should ignore what an angry minor claims, try it out, and see what actually works. We're certainly doing that with our camera app, Noctacam (noctacam.com. It will be subscription-only, at 49 cents a year. We'll see how it goes compared to an upfront payment.

The JetBrains model still has all the issues I pointed out above. Which is not to say that it doesn't have other benefits. Every payment model has its problems.
> What's bad is inequality in opportunity

Agreed.

> and there's less of that here than in most other countries.

I've seen evidence that the US is actually not doing that well on this scale, particularly measured against other wealthy democracies.

What's particularly painful for people is that there's less equality of opportunity here than there was 40 years ago. I do think we need to do something about this, though it's not entirely clear what.
Los Angeles has such a service, including a decent mobile app. It's worked well enough for me for non-emergencies, like reporting unsafe road conditions or discarded furniture in alleyways. Don't know if they have special features for emergency situations.

https://myla311.lacity.org/
I don't seek to eliminate wealth; that's a terrible policy IMO. Moderating its growth and concentration only slightly is far less disruptive or fraught with unintended/unknowable consequences.

An annual wealth tax of 10% would wipe out most wealth concentrations within 50 years. I think such a level is absurdly too high, though.

Looking at Switzerland as an example, I think 0.25% to maybe as much as 1% range is far more reasonable (roughly in range with their wealth taxation today) with a per-household exemption of $1MM or thereabouts [to prevent nuisance calculations over $10 in taxes].

> note how these benefits only arise when the investor liquidates his investment

"essentially devoid of the concerns of financial catastrophe" is a tremendous benefit that confers to the wealth holder without need of spending the wealth.
Debian publishes statistics gathered by the optional "popularity-contest" package at http://popcon.debian.org

I can't remember whether the default is opt-out or in with the current installer.
Trig is artificially hard in calculus. When you get to complex numbers it all gets easier. But they don't teach that until later.

One thing I learned at Berkeley was that there are two kinds of problems: linear problems and problems you can't solve. The trick (EE 120 Linear Systems) was always how to transform a complicated problem into a linear problem. Yeah we used complex numbers as part of the trick to get to linear problems.

Maybe Sheldon Axler will do Calculus Done Right.

I agree that calculus sans trig is a good idea if you aren't going to use complex numbers.
In line with that, I tend to think of them as my goto for laptops. The first laptop I ever owned was a 12" PowerBook and it was solid and every part worked well with the whole. Every Apple laptop I've owned has had that same polish.
If an app is done, build another app, rather than downscaling the company. There are many unsolved problems.
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* Button *
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This button above submits the information. I can make it many different colors, go with flat design, or skeuomorphic.

If i test it long enough, one of the designs will be a clear winner. Even when i repeat the test, i may get the same winner, concluding that it is the best design to go with.

But in the end, it's not about the button. It's about the information i want the user to submit. If they filled up the form that came before it, the effect of design is minimal at most.

Edit: also in this day an age, I'll be totally happy with designs that don't attract attention, especially when people think the do.
Sorry washpost, but I'm going to go with 'boats' over some super kewl internets startup. Preeety sure they would have found another way to communicate if needed.. another way to get people out, not so much.
Because, like Oracle lawyers coincidentally enough, they're probably fishing for a settlement.
That's not always the case, but the notion of "unconscious competence" is relevant here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_stages_of_competence

"Unconscious competence" is particularly rife in the functional programming community. An inability to explain does not necessarily mean you just "got it", but if you've understood it, you can't necessarily explain it.
Source of the reference is War Games (1983). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DGNZnfKYnU
Features which were in the pipeline already from Sun days.
"Do no evil" -- unless it affects the bottom line, of course!
I would love a regulation for companies that they must make all user contributed data freely available for everyone. This way YouTube (and Facebook and Twitter and...) would not be a data silo but just one of many access portals to that data.

I know this is a question of values, of what is considered "just". But for me it would feel fair if all the 20k reviews of the nearby mall on Google maps would not be Google's property but belong to everyone, since many many people contributed to it out of goodwill.
No, it was a very minimal kernel that did just enough to handle the hardware and schedule threads. There was no memory management; everything ran in a single process.

Later versions started looking a little bit more like a conventional operating system. For instance, a file system was added in 3.0 to support the removable SD card.
For starters, rather than simply using flat design elements in place of existing design elements they could adjust the entire UX of the site to be "flat".

If you want to see how useful wings are, build a plane.
Perhaps the election of Trump and the near-election of Sanders showed him and people like him that current economic practices were creating an unstable sociopolitical environment. It's in the best interest of the rich to keep people from revolting.

Edit: To those who are downvoting me, could you please explain why? If there's a flaw in my statement, I would love to learn it.