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>the notion of programming being a way to use the computer, not just to construct software - and the way each piece of software in the system was practically an API for my own use.

I've never used a Lisp machine, but based on your description, it sounds like the experience of using them might have been somewhat like using the Oberon system created by Niklaus Wirth- or the other way around (based on a BYTE magazine article [1] about Oberon that I read, IIRC - never used Oberon either).

[1] I thought so because this part of your comment:

>the way each piece of software in the system was practically an API for my own use

matched somewhat with something I read in that BYTE article, which was something to the effect that once you had written a subroutine in Oberon, it could be called from anywhere in the OS. IOW, in a sense, the whole OS was like a single program, that you could program. Cool concept.

Though the Oberon system might have been much less evolved, or whatever - as I said, used neither, just interested in the thing.

P.S. From the Wikipedia article about Wirth:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth#Humor

[ Wirth has reportedly told the joke that, because Europeans pronounce his name properly, while Americans pronounce it as "nickel's worth", he is called by name in Europe and called by value in America. ]
You can just as easily lose precision in FP arithmetic if you're not careful. But for engineering purposes fixed point works quite well because having arithmetic much more precise than manufacturing tolerance is no use.

Fixed point was good enough to go to the moon: https://www.netjeff.com/humor/item.cgi?file=ApolloComputer
0.2% of the population of the USA.
You could always ask at https://scifi.stackexchange.com/ and tag your question “story-identification”.

It isn’t your story, but I am reminded of Philip K. Dick’s Pay for the Printer from 1956: https://web.archive.org/web/20150509063736/http://www.americ...
But that's the term that's commonly applied to it

The terminology shapes the way people think about the topic. And people need to understand the issue to fix it. Otherwise you're just shotgun debugging.

and correcting what its called isn't fixing the issue

No, it doesn't. But presenting the issue poorly isn't helping fix it any faster, either. This entire conversation was largely avoidable had the article communicated better.
From the opinion:

> Both [the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney] protect the privilege against compulsory self-incrimination by requiring an interrogation to cease when either right is invoked.

It seems that if he had explicitly stated he did not wish to talk, the interrogation would have ended immediately. Because it was not explicitly stated, the police were allowed to continue asking questions. After several hours of being asked questions, he broke his silence and answered.

It appears that explicitly invoking your right to remain silent saves you a lot of stress.
Have you ever tried JOE? It's what I used prior to vim ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%27s_Own_Editor
"38% or whatever agreed upon percent as a national flat sales tax. And for the bleeding hearts that will scream this hurts the poor, Sentence two: The first 5,000/year in clothing tax free, and the First 10,000/year in food tax free."

1. It's incredibly telling of you that you call those who would (rightfully) point out that your scheme is incredibly regressive as "bleeding hearts".

2. Those deductions are nowhere near enough, especially if you have a family.
A thought occurs that by making this backwards compatible with Ansible playbooks, by having an AoT compiler that compiles a playbook down to pure Python and then feeds that into Mitogen, then as a migration path it could look indistinguishable from Ansible from the perspective of a playbook user.
The money gets spent or invested. Not hoarded. Invested money gets spent as well. After all, companies do not sell shares unless they intend to spend the proceeds. It's the whole point.
Justice Dept Files Suit Against Company for Not Hiring Americans
Anecdotal counter-point: my 3 friends and I split a spacious, sunny 4-bed in the mission for $6,000. So $1,500/person for a private room 15 minutes (by bicycle) from SoMa. The 'SF is so expensive that you should just live at-the-airport/in-vegas/on-the-moon and commute' argument is a bit overblown at this point.
What's even crazier is how (according to this snippet) R thinks that 10*10 is 1000 :)
Actually, no, you don't. Where I live it's almost impossible to make any kind of artisanal car street-legal.
It's the HTML doc title (often a source of slightly reduced baitiness). I prepended his name to reduce the swelling a bit further.

It's still not a great title in the misleading+bait department (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), but we prefer to use language from the article itself wherever possible. If you or anyone can suggest a better—more accurate and neutral—title, we can change it again.
Founders share their insight on achieving some work/life balance
That has little to do with money hoarding.

One aspect of wealth is that it's a capture of some local increase in human-useful efficiency. The most common use of large amounts of wealth is to buy more capital. All systems have a limit to their efficiency, and even when efficiency improvements are possible, it's often not obvious or easy to achieve them. What is easier, though, is to decrease efficiency in a neighborhood you do not own, and then use capital to provide a more efficient solution to that neighborhood's problem in a neighborhood you do own. Clearly this is bad for the greater economy, yet is a good investment for the foreseeable future for those who can afford it.
Prolog was one of the main language offerings, though it was not statically typed. ;-)
>Levandowski sold 510 Systems and Anthony’s Robots to Google – for $20 million, the exact cutoff before the wealth would be shared. Rank and file engineers did not see a penny, and some were even let go before the acquisition was completed.

For me, that is the opposite of "redeeming".
I looked up youtube videos on how to fix door screw holes (you use glue and wood chips)

As an aside for anyone else that wants to try this next time they strip a screw hole, I find it easier to cram a bunch of toothpicks in the hole, with wood glue, then snap the toothpicks off flush with the surface.
The thing that tends to push me into agreement is that common lisp is compiled whereas scheme/guile is bytecode. If we want to use lisp for OS purposes I think it needs to be compiled for the speed benefits. Is there any other lisp or similar language that is compiled?

Maybe I just irrationally don't trust bytecode vm's.
Anyone care to explain the down votes? The threat of Jihadis using self-driving cars is a very real one.

Recently a plot was unearthed , and thwarted, in London. A state sponsored actor with ties to ISIS branch in Libya was trying to start a self-driving car rental agency.
Don't stop at proclaiming these to be merely "arguments against DNSSEC" call them what they are, arguments for nihilism. Everything is awful we should give up on the whole enterprise

Now, when JWZ does that it's funny because he had the courage of his convictions and now owns a nightclub instead. But if somebody tries to pretend this is a useful basis on which to actually make technical decisions they're having a laugh.

Meanwhile those of us who thought it possible to actually make things better rather than pouring scorn have been doing so. Rather than insisting that anything short of perfection is worthless garbage, we have been incrementally improving on the status quo so that the world you described in 2015 now seems distant.

On their own Ballot 169, the ACME protocol, expiry of the FPKI cross, RFC6962, the distrust of the last remaining grandfathered CAs, CAA, these are all small things. But assembled they amount to a situation in which the trust needed to make the Web PKI safe has shrunk considerably, and where DNSSEC (but not DANE) comes into its own.
> When it comes to national defense, how are the mainstream positions of the two parties fundamentally any different?

There are some differences, but the point I was making wasn't about the defense position itself as the position of defense relative to other government priorities.

> the neoconservative movement is much more vocal and would seem much more counterproductive

Neoconservatism can be viewed (at least in it's overt priorities; the concrete methods often seem to contradict this, at least in the short term) as aggressive exportation of the kind of government priorities on which right-libertarians and the broader right tend to agree.

Libertarians are, it seems to me, more united in the role of the state vis-a-vis it's own citizenry than it's role vis-a-vis other states, and there seem to be both nationalist (our government should provide us liberty, but maximize our collective position where dealing with outsiders) and internationalist (our government must as a matter of fundamental principle reflect our libertarian ideals, and so must all governments) strains of libertarianism that are compatible with the kind of aggressive foreign policy that neoconservatism embraces.
Look into Clevo/Sager resellers. Places like System76. They can be hit-or-miss - I've had one excellent machine that lasted 6 years, but also one terrible experience with a borked GPU that put me off of them more or less permanently. Getting any sort of support or repairs for parts that you can't replace yourself is difficult.

Still, they tend to have highly modular, easy-to-swap-out parts. Hard drives, wireless cards, RAM, keyboards, battery, it's usually all removable and they sell spares for custom parts like the keyboards. Many of their devices even have a full CPU socket on the motherboard, so you could keep a good one running for a very long time.

If you luck out and get a good one.
Happened at a company I worked for after we were bought by a larger corporation. And we were a company of 500+ employees.

Although we had a CTO that grew up with the company (used to be a programmer there) that reported direct to the CEO at the smaller, now we have no CTO and at least 5 layers in between us and the new CEO.
Has anyone tested this clause? Tesla can write whatever they want into a contract; that doesn't mean it'll be held up in the courts.
looks like an excellent use for the new functionality. Did you guys have the inside track on the launch? bc, that was a quick turnaround ;)
You may be interested to know that the Koch Brothers are leading the charge for criminal justice reform:

https://www.charleskochinstitute.org/issues/criminal-justice...

Which doesn't mean a lot of "conservatives" aren't blind to the police. But there are a large number of them who do realize the vast overreach of law enforcement, while trying to understand the best way to ensure our streets remain safe.
I find JOE much more awkward to use than nano.

micro on the other hand feels a lot more like Sublime Text for the terminal. I like it. :)
> "I regret how it was handled"

Burn in hades dude. You've got the money, if you actually regret it pay out
When I was young minimum wage was $2.35, now it's $15 (in Seattle). Seems like it's rising.
If you deal with pdf documents, I might be able to help. Mail is in profile.
Yes, I wasn't trying to say rotation is useless - just highlight that n servers still lead to n avenues of getting at traffic for all n servers, and that cloudflare did something to deal with the pfs issue. It's worse than n servers without session resumption, but better than it could be.

[ed: per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15360922 the window is 18 hours]
This is a popular perspective among some technical folks but it's a bit insular. You could tar employees with some tag, there must be space to separate good and bad executives.

A lot of technical folks seem to have very little understanding or even interest in what for instance marketing and sales do. There are generalizations and often anecdotal knowledge that passes for understanding.

Developing software is just one small part of the process of creating value. Software does does sell itself. Creating demand and getting customers is incredibly difficult, expensive and unpredictable. If your target is advertisers based on users then acquiring users and advertisers is equally challenging.

As a thought experiment, get the best technical team and develop a product. Now after it is done, then what, how to do make money, how do you sell it or get users?
why would they want a self driving car, and not just a car?
Worst thing is, the bullies don't care about it either. They just need an excuse. It's hard to believe how ruthless kids can be to each other. School was forever ago, but I still don't miss it.
> Download binary for your architecture
> Put somewhere in your $PATH, I use /usr/local/bin/
> You're done.

Otherwise, your package manager'll probably have it, I know that Homebrew does as well as the AUR.
Productive investments are good for the economy.

Are they? Or are you defining "productive" circularly here?

If I'm wealthy and I invest in derivatives or complicated tranches, is that "productive" because it's enabling further circulation of money, or is it "productive" because I can gain more capital on it?

Given that there's an infinite supply of ever more derived tranches, I suspect that my definition of "productive" different from yours here.
They actually use KaTeX [1], which is much faster than MathJax, supports server-side rendering, but supports a smaller subset of LaTeX than MathJax.

[1] https://khan.github.io/KaTeX/
Well, there is Shen. Static typing, I think it can do dependent typing... Doesn't have the affine types of Rust tho. Not sure how it works out to use in practice.

Discussed here, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9297665
"Tax cuts always have a higher impact on the wealthy because, well, they pay more taxes."

They also get the most income and wealth.

"This isn’t a bad thing. That money won’t dissapear. It’ll get spent or invested (either directly or indirectly by a bank if saved)."

Maybe. But that also doesn't mean it'll be used for something good for society, rather than Uber for Dogs.

"Tax cuts are good."

Tax cuts are a thing. By themselves, they are neither good nor bad. How they're applied is the difference. If a tax cut causes government revenues to drop to the point where they can no longer properly fund public schools, it's not the wealthy that are going to be hurt by it.
Which is actually really nice for a non-standard editor like this.

If you are on another computer and want to use it, just download a single file and run it, no need for root.
Could you please not argue like this on HN? It crosses into the sort of testiness the site guidelines are designed to exclude.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sorry. That is just a stupid mistake from our team member
I thought the same thing, until I read the following line and got me covered:

https://github.com/kosenko/ui/blob/master/example/native.cpp#L11
In general, it has to be a "regular" laptop, and not an ultrabook. The ultrabooks have gone to soldered in RAM and SSDs to save space.

Try looking at ifixit for repairability scores. They take the laptops apart and show you the internals on the reviews they do.
https://www.ifixit.com/laptop-repairability

Of course, cross reference the repairability score with your desired performance and price. Pick any one.
> The fact is that there is an absolutely enormous (and growing) amount of value in a fully trusted hardware stack. Apple has taken a lot of flack from "right to repair" over issues like not being able to "repair" the Touch ID, but I haven't seen any great answers over how to allow any random 3rd party to repair Touch ID without also meaning any random malicious 3rd party (including legitimate repair shops in some scenarios) could replace it with something hostile too.

A trusted hardware stack isn't one that's been locked down by a company, it's one I can modify and control.

In short, I trust that Apple will control any hardware I buy from them, and I trust Apple will always work in Apple's best interests. I cannot trust that Apple's best interests will always align with my own. I cannot trust that Apple's best interests currently align with my own.

> I think a well crafted system might be able to square this via dual chains that an owner could pick on purchase and appropriate manufacturer liability mitigations. So for example you could choose "only Apple may ever modify the trusted core of this device" or "anyone with the key can" and in each case Apple would utilize a separate root private key.

Only if I could revoke the manufacturer's ability to modify my hardware.

> In the latter case Apple would also be relieved of all liability for any damage ever done due to a 3rd party Touch ID repair

This is obvious.

I agree with the rest of your post.
As someone who used to drive trucks, they're actually quite common, and similarly proportional in numbers to refer trailers vs dry vans, which I want to say is 5-20% of the industry.
All housing is affordable, otherwise it would never be bought or sold.

"Affordable" in this context is a misnomer that just means "subsidized."
I like Nice Editor or ne.

This one, micro, looks interesting. I’ll give it a try.
Throughout the whole article, the author gives the impression that her husband is a stereotypical man. According to stereotypes, typical men don't want to call "the guy" to repair things when they break, especially when it costs a lot of money.

To be honest, the author's culture is alien to me and I only have stereotypes (TV and movies, mostly) to go on.
Why don't we just pay for services instead of buying products? This pushes the problem of maintenance to the service provider, thus making it more efficient and thus cheaper and more environment-friendly. Also, it completely eliminates the problem of planned obsolescence.

There are some downsides, such as that usage of the service outside the contract becomes impossible, so contracts should be sufficiently broad (and not targeting just the average people). And you don't "own" your product (which could be a psychological problem). But I guess that's about it.
Keep reading that wikipedia article especially the "Disadvantages" section:

* Capital flight (people invest in other countries with more sane tax policies)

* recessionary effects, including job loss.

* huge burden on small business owners that are barely making a profit

* Incorrect, unequal or subjective valuation of wealth

* Disproportionate effect on seniors

* Wealth taxes had high management cost and relatively low returns.
What's even better is that subsidized housing is generally subsidized by passing on the costs of the subsidy to the unsubsidized units in the development.

That is, if it costs the developer $500k per unit, and they're required to sell 200 of their 1000 units for $100k each, the $80M subsidy gets added onto the cost of the remaining unsubsidized units at $80k each. This effectively removes supply through removing development projects that cannot make an open-market profit while handing out the mandated "affordable housing" subsidy.

It's truly Orwellian that regulations that make housing less affordable get called "affordable housing".
> I may be missing something fundamental, but what is the point of a cleaning service, if not a clean house? Is there some other benefit to be gained from a cleaning service?

Not having to worry about a clean house. And a service is probably going to do a more thorough job that can be repeated. Hence, she asked him to arrange for a cleaning service. She did not, apparently, explain why she wanted a cleaning service, but he also did not ask her that.
Anecdote related to the part about ignoring the box:

My wife pointed out to me recently that I don't put away things if she leaves them in strange spots (out-of-place scissors, maybe). After some discussion, we both came to the conclusion that this is a side-effect of growing up with my mother.

In my childhood home, if you put something away in the wrong place, that was far worse that not having touched it at all. So I grew up conditioned to ignore mess that I didn't know how to fix.
Please don't get testy when someone else gets testy. It degrades the discourse as much as the other, and provokes worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is why I don't think of programmers as engineers.
> the monetary system simply won't work forever at the trajectory its on.

It can under a fiat money system (which we've had since 1914). If you or I borrow money, we have to pay it back. That's not so for the government with fiat money. It can just print more money anytime, or do the equivalent (issue more bonds), and it can do this forever.

This is why the dollar today is worth just a few cents of what it was worth in 1914. (The 1914 dollar was worth the same as the 1800 dollar.)

Check out "Monetary History of the United States" by Friedman.
State or city? Could the city let them?
Amazon wouldn't need a brick-and-mortar operation. Just log into your account and print out a postpaid shipping label. They keep your purchase history; so, you could look up the order and click a link next to the item. There are far more Post Offices than any shops they could make a deal with.
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Will BPF replace ftrace? From what I understood he was able to do everything ftrace could by using BPF and BPF was more efficient.
It's as real as you want it to be: http://ultronbrowser.io/
> I actively do not want anyone but Apple to be able to mess with the hardware authentication chain on my iPhone

Why doesn't encryption sidestep this issue for you?
Just like how you say the work engineers do is not magic. That literally 1000s of other people can do it.

That's also true of marketing, sales, and product development.

Takes sales for instance, sales is knowing your clients needs, and knowing how your product fits into those needs and then having a shit load of conversations about how your product fits clients needs. There isn't any magic. You can contact more people, and you can convince a few percent more people to buy your product.
People are mentioning (not complaining) that it's not a replacement for vim/emacs because the discussion is on a web site largely frequented by software professionals. Toy tools are not well-regarded here, nor should they be.

It's like complaining on a site oriented towards construction workers to stop comparing something to pro-grade tools and just bask in the wonder of someone making a slightly better Craftsman ratchet. Cute idea and maybe worthwhile, but not especially relevant to professionals.
If 10k families expanded elsewhere 101 would suck even more when they commute into Google's offices. I think the point is to put work and amenities close to where they live.

My city of 15k supports its own school district and restaurants. A neighborhood of 10k families (not sure what population that would translate into) certainly could. But I'm not sure if that's in their plans.
Valve is largely paralyzed and if you aren't in the group of cool kids most of that self-actualizing stuff in the HR document/propaganda material doesn't really apply to you.

Enough people have left because of it that the bloom is well off the rose.
Why is the law that way? A lot of places in the world have way higher density and they're doing just fine (maybe even better - you can't get anywhere in the valley without a car and it's really a nuisance).
I found this recent article on the history of Velodyne interesting: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2017/08/08/how-a-34...