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I'm pretty sure that's intentional friction (having to prove what you're doing is safe).
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Election days are always Sundays and even if you work on that day, your employer must let you vote. Voting by letter also exists if you absolutely can't make it.
Yeah, I think you're right about the overly rigid definition, but I also think he's right in saying modern "email" would actually expect those features. You survived without drafts, attachments, etc... but I'm guessing you are a fairly advanced, technical user willing to put up with limitations. His focus was on making something usable for typical office workers. In 1978.

I would say his definition is not "hyperspecific". Those 30-odd feature are, in fact, a pretty uncontroversially fair set of expected functionality in email systems. And the fact that he (supposedly) implemented them ahead of even the systems you were using in the 80s is worth note.
From one of the linked investor questions:

"..all our work has been funded by under $3.5M. We know how to deploy capital effectively."

Then don't raise capital like hell. Pure greed.

Money quote from your link:

"Call me old fashioned, but wanting to raise half a billion dollars for a pre-product endeavor is absolutely fucking insane."
Whenever irrational or weird things like this happen, i always tell myself that maybe people aren't stupid, maybe i just miss a crucial piece of information.

For example, who are the poeple lending that much money ? Why are they doing it ? Is this whole thing some kind of money laundering or tax evading scheme ? Is it related to central banks having 0% interest rates, etc..

You only know what happens after some time, but you always end up knowing.
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I've found it far rewarding to keep many ebooks and ecourses on my phone and whenever i feel the urge to read hn i open up that instead. I think browsing hn is our way to distract ourselves from whatever we're currently doing and after a while reading an ebook for 10 mins somewhat gives the same feeling but far less boring because there is an element of continuity involved.
Added support for AMD Lightweight Profiling (LWP) instructions.

Funnily enough, AMD already deprecated those. They're not in Zen.
> What "indoctrination" is present at the college level in the US?

There is a disturbing trend of mob rule where student activists become increasingly obsessed with the silliest things they perceive as "opression" and try to silence every voice at university campuses that doesn't toe the line with their worldview of intersectional feminism, cultural marxism and postmodern power games.

Points in case:

The idea that Yale students are smart enough to choose their own Halloween costumes made a mob of activists feel "unsafe" and they threw a fit, bullying two professors (who voiced this idea) for days until they resigned. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/the-new...

A transgender candidate (masculine-of-center genderqueer) for the position of "multicultural affairs coordinator" at Wellesley college had to pull out of the race because his opponents accused him of having become a white male and that's not "diverse" enough. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/magazine/when-women-becom...

Then there's Evergreen College. I'm at a loss of words to describe the level of crazy that went on there, but here's Jonathan Haidt's take on it: https://heterodoxacademy.org/2017/05/27/this-weeks-witch-hun...
You also have to take into account that Rust has a borrow checker that makes opaque C calls 2nd class citizens anyway. Zig doesn't have that as far as I can tell.

So it means that even if Rust had a standard C header include directive it still wouldn't be completely transparent because most of the time you want to wrap around C APIs in Rust to provide safe, borrow checked and pointer-free alternatives. There's a different philosophy I think.
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Right, but did it lead to taking Tizen to the level it could replace Android? What I like about Samsung is that they do realize and accept that the software is not their forte. Hence Android.
The FDA. Or at least, the FDA has made it extremely expensive and time-consuming for any competitor who wishes to enter the market.

The argument is that a high bar of safety requirements protects consumers (and I'll admit it does to some degree, however inefficiently), but a free market system is more efficient at producing the results that people actually care about (quality, safety, affordability, etc).

Also, patents - another government-run monopoly-maker that should be eliminated.
How much money was needed to create IPFS?

There seems to be zero interest in creating something new and open like bitcoin but instead make as much money as possible.
No, you have a habit that you don't like but it isn't an addiction. You have developed a default response, any time your brain is bored the new default is "time to check HN".

Try and swap that for a new default, something that is more productive. I use it as an excuse to correct my posture, have a walk or get a drink of water. You could get the DuoLingo app and spend those minutes learning a language.

Don't get rid of your habit, just turn it into something positive.
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They are probably betting on the low probability event that this becomes THE crypto currency. I can buy a hard drive with more space than I ever need for 40 dollars. A storage service could get it cheaper, so I doubt that they are betting on cheaper file storage aspect of this. That is just a way to get the value of their currency off the ground. That may also be why they need so much money: to initially guarantee an exchange rate to other currencies.
That's incorrect, the relationship between the two are the opposite. Filecoin will be powered by IPFS and not the other way around. IPFS will still be the same project it is today, and using Filecoin (if you're already using IPFS) will be optional.
There's a nice comedy sketch on this point by Mitchell & Webb: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
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I see parallels to the 1810s in America where an explosion of banks needed virtually nothing to get chartered and issue unlimited amounts of their own currency. That went great, until it didn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1819
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I think this is called a shouldy approach to life[1] and it can cause you to feel frustrated and bored or angry. I can relate from experience when we used to go after made up deadlines. Sometimes the best strategy is to just STOP and let things be. Think of a time when you over exerted yourselves to achieve things you think were really important at that moment but the effect they have on your life now isn't that much.

[1] http://www.samuelthomasdavies.com/should-statements/
This would imply HN is not positive. There are far worse habits.
I've seen a similar improvement using the EnableProxyProtocol policy, which required a bit of code:

Time per request: 88.400 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)

versus public server via the regular HTTP proxy:

Time per request: 415.859 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)

For reference:

$ ab -n 400 https://www.google.com/
Time per request: 168.438 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
I'm picking up what you're putting down.

Pretty much the same thing happened to me. I wish I wasn't so late to the party, I could have had my house paid off my now.

Still, I dream there was a less stressful way of going about it all.
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Same frequency here. But I still find it better than checking the news/tw/fb/yt.
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I'd say that Google is not interested in the phone business. After all, they did have Motorola Mobility [1].

As other said, they are after the VR stuff, and any sale will contain that bit. They will let phones run a bit, then either sell it at a bargain to other manufacturer ( Lenovo? ) or let it slowly ( or abruptly) die.

[1] the other Motorola is doing just fine. https://www.motorolasolutions.com/
I realise the thread is phone phreaking related and that was kind of the point of your post; but in the spirit of the talk below to think more outside the box...

There's a pretty good chance in many cases you can just open the external box with some easy to get (and relatively standard) key. And hit a button. Related: https://twitter.com/MalwareTechBlog/status/90382347816752742...

This is a good related talk - goes outside the box on all the ways you can often get into commercial buildings without picking (or even in many cases, interacting with) the lock
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YYvBLAF4T8

Also good:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHf1vD5_b5I [DEF CON 22 - Deviant Ollam & Howard Payne - Elevator Hacking - From the Pit to the Penthouse]
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I guess you don't live in the same country as me where it _always_ rains.

Also plenty of people have have water damaged phones, from using them in bath, dropping then in the toilet or simply forgot to take them out of their pockets before plunging into the ocean. That you don't know these people or don't do it yourself, doesn't mean there are few water damaged phones.

Also please read: http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prEMEA42146116
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Have you ever tried to make a page? Like genuinely tried to make a page? Not spammed them with bs. I am not bitter because I couldn't spam them with low quality nonsense. Just the opposite actually, I am a longtime Wikipedia editor. I love the site to be completely upfront (contrary to my username), but their notability guidelines is mind bogglingly frustrating. They've deleted pages I've tried to make for local ice cream shops, ma and pa stores that have real stories (and real citations!), and local investors/entrepreneurs who might not be as famous as Mark Zuckerberg but are notable. It's maddening when you're work gets deleted. I've given up making newer pages and let the higher ups do it and just improve the pages once they are fairly mature. There are no real alternatives to Wikipedia with the same altruistic base vision unfortunately. The only notable sites are RationalWiki, Everipedia, InfoGalactic, and Wikia (if you can really even count that), but all of these are a mere fraction of a fraction as big and reputable as Wikipedia, so back to them I keep going (and back to deleting my articles they continue to do).
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You do recognize how terribly inefficient that is, right? In this day and age its all about scale.

Is it, tho'? It is well known that IT doesn't improve productivity[1]; all the benefits of automation get swallowed up in the extra people needed to support and maintain it. So we can assume that the ratio of bank employees to bank customers has remained constant over time. So actually there's no reason for bank's not to operate the old personal-relationship model; they would need to employ the same number of staff to do it, just locate them in branches rather than at head office.

[1] http://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/McKinsey-Why-IT-does-n...
I could be wrong, but I don't think a LISP macro can transform the structure of the code in the same way that the JSX pragma turns an XML tree "inside-out". For example here's the source for the Babel JSX transformer:

https://github.com/babel/babel/blob/master/packages/babel-pl...
This is an absurd comparison—major sports teams bid for extremely scarce talent, and they generally have the revenue to support large talent purchases (which have never been anywhere close to the price of Neymar).

No file storage startup with minimal operations needs or deserves this much money. They’re not in an industry with high initial fixed costs and they’re not labor-intensive like an Uber or Instacart.
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> This is what you call "a theory", but it's one with no evidence to back it up. Can you point to other videos of electric grid damage that look similar?

I'm not sure what you're getting at here, have you not seen high voltage lines blow up before personally? Or are you just making a point in this regard? Because the flashes of lights you see on the horizon etc during a heavy storm knocking over transformers and main lines is a pretty widely known thing.

I don't understand why you're demanding evidence of it, but:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29O9rzJZurQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLVFyhyghZo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqAGYXwj6XM

etc
"That said, one thing I've learned is that you can't please developers.

The same people on this forum that are deriding "personal communication" in favor of more formal communication are the same ones that complain about project managers and "unnecessary" status updates and communication."

I agree with all of your points, except this one. My own view is that managing a technical team is just extremely demanding, and many managers simply aren't up to it. Developers are educated, intelligent professionals who spend a lot of time thinking and talking about a range of specialized technical stuff. If managers can't keep up with their team on their own resources, they end up asking for more of the team attention to compensate. And from the point of the view of developers, that is unecessary communication that they don't get value from.
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I'm extremely bearish on ICOs. I almost never seen any real-life use case in the wild. There was some push a couple of years back when some retailers started accepting Bitcoin, but I almost never see this thing now.

It's absolutely dead in India, for instance, a market of 1.4B people who would, presumably, be Bitcoin's target customers
Not necessarily. Back in the day I generated thumbnails for lots (and lots) or very large images and getting the best performance is tricky. Most of the time running multiple processes just ends up causing massive context switching and slowing down the whole thing. Even multithreading turns out to be bad, most of the time. I got the best performance by forcing GraphicsMagick to use a single thread and spinning up multiple operations. I wonder how this app would deal with something like that.
No, that not. monies are too important for many. But if they would consider such, hypothetical, i think it would be a great motivator for ipv6 adoption.
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I have been reading Fabien's book over the past few nights and it has been enormous fun.

Programming for most of us has moved a long way from the metal our code eventually executes on. And it's quite fun to go real low level and understand at an almost atomic how to make a computer do what you want it to do.

That's why this (and Michael Abrash's earlier Graphics Black Book that served as inspiration for this)is so much fun. As an kid who grew up playing games on these machines at that time it all seemed like magic. With quality documentation and the power of nostalgia you can now fully understand (and appreciate) what the likes of Carmack achieved in the early 90s on these machines and now we too can go in and hack around and achieve the same results.

I hope the book does well and Fabien can do the proposed 486 and Pentium companion editions.
That would be nice, but damn there are some entitled brats in that thread. Open source sadness.
Yep, and that makes widgets a more interesting target for follow-up studies than a treatment that has been shown to result in no clinically significant improvement. It really is that simple.
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How else should they handle it now? I see no real alternative.
The equivalent tool is docker-machine, not docker compose.

Though they de-emphasised that tool in favour of Docker for Mac and Docker for Windows which interact directly with the platform hypervisor to create a Linux VM.
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I would love it if that ever happened to any company. Sadly,
I suppose there exists a Nash equilibrium, where every actor can't act in a way that will decrease the effectiveness of the plan. Problem is that it's way too computationally expensive to calculate one for a 10 player Hold'em poker game, let alone an economy with millions of decisions and actors.
As long as this ends up turning IPFS into an ultra-popular internet protocol, then I'll be happy.
A lisp macro see a code block as a tree of symbols/primitives. It can do anything. This means that it is easy to write a library with a nice dsl, but hard to read other people's code.
The image from the paper is very interesting and I'm surprised they didn't include it in the article: https://i.imgur.com/zs8RWIz.png
It takes quite a long time and a significant amount of money to perform the necessary studies and get the FDA approval. The time factor alone makes it difficult for a competitor to react efficiently if the main or sole provider for a drug or device increases prices drastically.

Mylan reportedly also used a few more anti-competitive tactics like contracts with schools that lower the price for them, but prohibit the school from buying any competing products (see e.g. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mylan-new-york/new-york-to... )
Risk and reward should be in balance if you want to see Bitcoin as the type of currency people would actually use as a significant part of their economy. The first miners may have risked some (real) money, but that is nothing compared to the massive wealth¹ they would hold if Bitcoin ever did supplant local currencies — even if people used it just for coffee.

The amount of (untaxed!) wealth owned by those early miners would dwarf that of Gates and Buffet. That kind of Ayn Rand level of capitalism doesn't seem to agree with most people — although it does seem palatable amongst Bitcoin aficionados.

1: https://cointelegraph.com/news/who-owns-bitcoin-universe-fro...
> I'm looking forward to Matrix eating all of their lunches. There absolutely no reason to have competing standards in this space. A horrible duplication of effort.

That's exactly what any other protocol evangelist would say, be it IRC, XMPP...
Yeah agreed. I just wasted 2 hours this week compacting my qcow2 docker image for my mac (by filling it with zeros). It was totally unintuitive that deleting images didn't free disk space.
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I like the style. It's somewhat reminiscent of _why's Poignant Guide to Ruby. (I wouldn't be surprised if the inspiration were actually in the reverse direction.)
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The VR tech, you mean the Vive?

There's talk of spinning off the Vive portion of HTC.

Besides, the Vive is based on Valve's tech, HTC is mainly handling manufacturing only.
I kind of hate it. Lots of nagging notifications and it has a bug where it'll render a little 120x40px window in the top right of my screen and have to restart the app to get rid of it.
No chance that I'll jump into another new load balancer product from Amazon any time soon. ALB has significant deficiencies that AWS don't warn you about, and you only find then at tens of thousands of RPS.

Still waiting on that fix, AWS.
You could say that we're applying lean startup principles to to social engineering :-)

There are still lots of dogmatic and theoretical Marxists of various flavors, but since the financial crisis the left has become more agnostic and pragmatic. Wait until you see the next phase of our cunning plan.
See frameworks like:

* Galen: http://slides.com/netzartist-de/galen-tdd-css
* Quixote: https://github.com/jamesshore/quixote

It does sound interesting to me (well testing with good coverage on appropriate elements, rather than 'TDD' per se), but I've never had a chance to get it running on a project. It feels like the type of thing you'd need to do from the beginning if at all.

Could be useful especially around 'baseline' things on the site, that you're not expecting to change, e.g. do font-sizes, block-level padding, grid alignment, brand colours, etc.

EDIT:

Just to add, so I think the basic premise of this type of visual testing is that you're testing imperatively (i.e. "when I'm on the homepage, the navigation should be flush to the top of the screen and should have a 100px gap between it and the primary header") vs using something like Wraith where you're testing declaratively (here is a screenshot of the homepage; the actual homepage should look exactly like this ±5% variance).

It's roughly equivalent to integration tests (how does my nav 'integrate with' the Window, the header, etc.) vs functional end-to-end tests (does the homepage as a whole work). Given your point of view, that can either give great savings in debugging things (as you've more specificity about what has changed that caused your funky layout) or could be a complete waste of effort. The answer is probably somewhere in between :)

I would be interested to hear if there's anyone using a CSS test framework like Cucumber/BDD style tests — as the Galen slides above mention, your designer is probably subconsciously checking things on the page, but they're being exact about it — if we could distill that precision into BDD tests and allow our test framework building blocks to grow over time, would you be able to create a suite of reusable test statements that can be written up by design by themselves?
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Also, it's unlikely anyone will ever still see this, but coincidentally this research paper came out a few days ago about this exact issue: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0144860917... .
The ZCash team are one of the most academic teams out there (for cryptocurrencies), which is a very good thing. The more serious cryptographers that get involved in cryptocurrency the better.
I star everything I find interesting so I may find it later, but in reality I did this maybe a handful of times which makes my stars ~99% meaningless.

Not saying everyone does this, but I doubt my behaviour is rare and I wouldn't read too much into github stars as they are too cheap to create. Look for actual use.
Of course there are. All members of MRL are professional academic cryptographers. There's Surae, Sarang, Shen, etc.
Meanwhile the background and "academic" activities of most of the academics behind Zcash are quite sketchy despite their fame. People will come to see this before long.