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These kinds of comments almost make me not want to live on this Earth any more.
Yes. But it's not practical to just call for the abrupt elimination of any agency. First we have to stop heading in the wrong direction, then slowly unwind over time.
This is actually pretty cool. I work with a designer that often starts his process on paper, and I imagine he would be quite intrigued by something like this!
Consider the struggle for the poor startup founder who is living in a house he owns outright that's only worth $4M. It's practically a vow of poverty.
When did you buy? Ownership was much more attainable even 5 years ago.
> I recently suffered through a firmware update done via the UEFI command line, and it was incredibly painful. Every time I need to use the UEFI command line (normally for a firmware update) I want to scream.

What was so painful about updating the firmware via the UEFI Shell? I do/did it all the time this way for the diverse Minnowboard variants and cannot claim that it was painful.
That's not how evolution works at all. Evolution is not about mutations and genetic changes, it's about who is the fittest for their current environment. It can happen, very, very fast, like when new species are introduced in an environment. This can be observed in Australia with several species that were imported with human interactions. That counts as Evolution as well.
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Bingo. Async disk IO on Linux has to be unbuffered and block aligned. Making it useful only for databases that manage their own caching, and useless for file systems.

A video CDN needs lots of concurrent access to a file system.
So, why do you think it hasn't been done yet? You make it sound like there's a ton of money to be made in this "automating Goldman Sachs out" thing.
Buddy, I understand your point, I just don't agree. I've been thinking about the topic longer than you've been alive, so I'm unlikely to be persuaded by you just repeating your point ad nauseam.

I also didn't hire you as an editor, so you can take your amateur writing advice and fuck right off.
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It's amazing how much of Photoshop's basic architecture descended directly from Bill Atkinson's 1984 MacPaint for the original Macintosh — from the window layout, toolbar palette, to many of the basic tool functions, bitmap zooming, even the icons.

MacPaint: http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/MacPaint-...

PhotoShop: https://elektronikgrafik.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/photosh...
Most of the examples used (with the very notable exception of the WeWork guy who honestly seems like he’s a con artist), are buying $4M homes in SF. That would be a mansion in most of the US, but it’s a typical family home in a decent neighborhood in SF.

Also as the article points out, people aren’t using their stock to buy these places (Evan Spiegel being the exception). They are almost certainly using money they got when they (and often the rest of their employees) were offered the chance to take some money off the table in a later round of funding. Investors do this for a few reasons — they want a larger percentage that would cause more dilution than existing shareholders want to take, they want the founder focused on the home run IPO instead of potentially taking a buyout offer that would net the founder life-changing wealth but only be a single or a double for their fund, and probably more I’m not aware of. Point being, investors are fully involved participants in this — no one is being taken advantage of. (Again WeWork may be an exception — the external optics there are very bad.)

Finally, using something like Dropbox as an example, Drew has built a multi-billion dollar company and his investors (with the possible exception of the last round which was basically an IPO without the listing) are very happy. Is a $9M condo really a sign that he’s not working hard? Anyone who knows him knows nothing could be further from the truth.
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Does anyone else think this is another "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" move from MS? I don't know enough about the changes make that judgement.
This is not what he described. Removing any of these permissions must be handled by the app. The app shouldn't even know I removed a permission. It should just get empty or fake data.
I don't _have_ to "fallback". I just choose not to interrupt the extremely rich development environment I have setup in Emacs and my projectile projects by bringing in random other files/buffers.

It's akin to the same justification for why I wouldn't bother opening a random tiny file in Xcode or IntelliJ IDEA.

I don't use Emacs as just a simple text editor. I can probably count the times I've typed `emacs some/file/path.whatever` into the shell on one hand.
Thank you very much for the help!
thanks, this was interesting!
Founders / big stakeholders can live it up xor credibly ask long hours and other sacrifices for the good of the company of rank-and-file and more recent employees, but not both.
"How to Train Your Dragon" was directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois who were directors and character designers of "Lilo & Stitch".

So Toothless was inspired by Stitch and, probably, cats.
Depends how you mean exploit. Not a lawyer, but to a first approximation, doing anything in markets to elicit a response from others rather than for bona fide economic reasons is illegal market manipulation so active exploitation is rarely done at serious firms. It's usually individual day traders or offshore boiler room type groups.

Passive exploitation, as in detecting predictable future actions, is probably common, if unintentional. Most automated traders are searching for anything that predicts an imminent price change, on average. Predicting future actions and predicting prices are roughly equivalent. As you move along the continuum from straightforward arbitrage to esoteric black box quant stuff, it becomes more and more difficult to understand how or why a trade even works. I'm sure there are models that predict prices very well solely because they've locked on to some combination of tells unintentionally leaked by another algo.

Here's an example of someone who built a model to detect algorithmic iceberg orders reloading: https://mechanicalmarkets.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/market-da... - he makes an interesting point that any quant data mining order book event sequences that predict strong price movements would find the same pattern easily.
Same thought occurred to me but upon reflection perhaps they're different levels of the same thing.

tricks->idioms->techniques->patterns->paradigms->...?
There are worries about those in captivity, though:

> By the time that day comes, however, the wild axolotl may be gone. That worries Gardiner and Sandoval Guzmán because the animals that they study, like many lab animals, are highly inbred. Scientists use an ‘inbreeding coefficient’ to measure how small a gene pool is. Identical twins have a coefficient of 100%; totally unrelated individuals would score close to zero. A score above 12% indicates a population in which individuals are mostly breeding with their first cousins, and is considered a serious concern by ecologists and geneticists. The famously inbred and unhealthy Spanish Habsburg kings of the seventeenth century often had a coefficient somewhere above 20%. The average axolotl inbreeding coefficient is 35%.
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There are platitudes that money doesn't really matter. Money doesn't buy happiness, etc... But in the US, money is very important. If you have to go to work every day to survive, you are working class. If you get laid off, and you have to find a new job to make a mortgage payment, you are working class.

Having money is simply a means to an end. For some people, that end is the freedom to not have to go to work every day. To focus on things they care about. To have new experiences that don't involve sitting at a desk for 14 hours straight, 5 days a week. But there are many ends. For me, I respect those who don't have to work to survive as having made it, because I know the guy driving the BMW probably financed it and is driving to work.
So simple but so clever. I don't wire-frame enough to justify buying this but I wish you the best of luck!
I just learned the other day that QuickDraw still ships in High Sierra. They just don't ship the headers in the SDK. There must be bits of Carbon/QuickDraw functionality still shipping in corners of important apps.

Pretty impressive for a graphics API that began in 1979 in Pascal and 68k assembly.
The B2B focus seems like a smart move — and it's good to see another local business which isn't focused on the government, too.
Because owners are never allowed to become employees?
Nope, the wrapper is, but a ByteBuffer also allows different allocation strategies, which is how different libraries use them.

For example, LWJGL3 has a separate stack where it allocates them.
They banned it from new display names, I guess he was “grandfathered” in.
> I would say that there are five modes, the additional one is compatibility mode as it is sufficiently different from both 64b mode and protected mode.

I would tend to add SMM (which runs in ring -2) to the list. Also (here I am not aware of the details) what about the mode that hypervisors run in (e.g. ring -1)?
They already “give money to those who need it”, by buying all those expensive things. I want the opposite. I want them to spend every dollar they have on the most ridiculous bullshit and thus move the economy forward.
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To add an angle from someone who shares your concerns about the financial industry, the high pay makes it so you can donate large amounts of money to charitable organizations of your choice.

It's actually a recommended route in the effective altruism community for those with the aptitude.
> Unfortunately that's what it will likely turn out to be in practice.

Even Microsoft specifically forbids hardware marked as "Windows compatible" from not allowing user installed keys on x86. I'd like some actual reasoning for "likely".
Well,it is a bad idea to invite your employees to your house anyways - renting space at park is very cheap and a much better idea. First you have to worry about employees stealing stuff or scoping out the house for robbery, etc. Secondly I'd be worried about liability. If someone got hurt during one of these BBQs the homeowners insurance might not want to pay out because they could make an argument you were engaging in business activities during the incident and lots of home owners insurance don't cover business activities. Thirdly, your employees might not be all that comfortable going to your house, going to someone's house, feels a lot more "intimate" than meeting in a public place, and many people aren't comfortable with going to a party at the big boss's house.
Well, like I said, some suffering I think is motivating and focusing, but after a while it certainly takes it’s toll.
http://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/9237/Sqlite.html

Really? A running 3 years out-of-date sqlite install?

Methinks some hackers smell chum in the water. XSS, remote code execution, priviledge escalation, directory traversal... and for most of these, we even have choices on how to attack! Plenty of overflow attacks involved here. Where are the idiot script kiddies when you need them to demo how this ignorance hurts?

And once in to your sql database, I wonder where else we can pivot...

Remember how shellshock shook the world, because the software bedrock was actually insecure? Yeah... your old, "stable" stuff has had holes the entire time.

Stay current. If your OS makes that a challenge, ditch it for a better one.
If you watched Elon's BFR Mars presentation, you'll notice that a lot of it depends on fully automated docking and piloting of all spacecraft. Manual control is just too dangerous and screw ups are catastrophically expensive in those situations.
First of all, thanks for sharing your great work.

The support for non-Gregorian output is interesting. Are there any plans to extend full support beyond Gregorian? For example, something like:

dt.plus({months: 7, calendar: 'hebrew'})
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Report the bad guys like I do, my reports constantly result in punitive action. Twitter notifies you when they take action on a report, including the user you reported. It’s pretty great!
I think the key point here is that - if a founder is raising money for a company from investors, and the founder simultaneously buys a mansion - the founder is implicitly communicating that s/he doesn't believe that investing that capital in the company is as valuable as a real-estate investment in the mansion.

Founders have a very specific job to investors: to return their money with a hefty return on investment. If the expected ROI is higher buying a mansion, then maybe the investors should invest in mansions rather than the tech start ups.
Actually the whole site (startupon.net) is a bit bizarre.

There is an article on Milo which looks computer generated.

And then translated to English; instead of alt-right it has alt-correct!

And the phrasing is really weird.
It's sort of like the Manhattan Project writ small. Back then we roasted a few hundred thousand Japanese people, and we may still extinguish life on our planet, but we ended up with some pretty sweet tech. Now we're cynically monitoring and manipulating billions of people, but we may end up with easier ways to create complicated web pages.
Am I to understand continental Europeans, for example, are in much better shape than Americans because they employ more personal trainers?
Science fiction is an entertainment, not an answer.

As for answers: answers to what? Topsoil loss (about 50 harvests left and counting)? Freshwater disappearance? Billions of sea-level-rise refugees with the inevitable resulting regional wars?

Unlimited so-called 'economic growth' has always been imaginary (it's not 'growth' in anything; it's entropy transfer as we shift from from complex and sustainable systems evolved over millennia to crude early-stage technological systems). It is not so glorious a work of the imagination it is worth destroying our real physical living home for.
Yet another incarnation of slices in D : https://dlang.org/spec/arrays.html#slicing in a store near you this time.

Yet string_view, vector_view and other range<T>'s in C++.
Yet Pythonic slices.
Yet Rust.
How censorious have they been lately?
> First you have to worry about employees stealing stuff or scoping out the house for robbery, etc.

You shouldn’t hire people with whom this is a legitimate concern.
>Surface pro has a BIOS interface, it's just stupidly inaccessible

I think you misunderstand. Surface Pro supports only UEFI, not legacy BIOS. What you are referring to as a "BIOS interface" is in fact the UEFI firmware settings. If you're having issues accessing the settings, this article may be helpful:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/4023531/surface-usi...

I'm not sure what you mean by "install your own copy of windows" but you can certainly boot from USB by following the instructions here:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/4023511
Glad to see something out of Midori becoming widespread
As Lord Palmerston said, "Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests."

Argentina's politics are certainly... interesting... but there's no question that Argentina is a strategically important country for major powers to court. Major military powers have little to fear from the San Juan in a hypothetical conflict, but much to gain from friendly relations with Argentina.
Nothing lasts forever. Intel architecture will die someday. Hopefully cleaning up a bit will help it live a little longer.
Isn’t that still experimental?

From the current aio man page:

“Work has been in progress for some time on a
kernel state-machine-based implementation of asynchronous I/O (see
io_submit(2), io_setup(2), io_cancel(2), io_destroy(2),
io_getevents(2)), but this implementation hasn't yet matured to the
point where the POSIX AIO implementation can be completely
reimplemented using the kernel system calls.”
True, iff you use that 1%. Most people never need Photoshop per se.
Aren't you distorting the concept ? if no axolotl is fit to survive in the current wild, then that's it, no more axolotl. Evolution is not only filtering but also adapting, and it takes reproduction to do whatever (be it gene shuffling or else) to improve fitness.
For me, the number one gripe with TF on Mac is the lack of OpenCL support. With the new iMac Pro coming out with an AMD Vega GPU, and the 2016 MBP having Intel graphics, I feel like it should at least be on their list of things to do. But then again, it's probably not a good idea to train on a Mac.
Did they mention dismemberment?
Having setup and attempted to administer an IRC server, I'd say that's where the barrier exists for someone wanting to create a new community outside of the huge Freenode network.
According to the commentators Houdini had more impressive wins and the game that decided the tournament (the third game shown in this article) was supposed to be a draw but somehow got blundered away due to the contempt rule.

Basically it was very close and Houdini may actually be slightly better, especially at the abstract heuristic stuff. Although Houdini creates good positions for itself, Stockfish excels at brute force and somehow always manages to turn things around as it transitions into the endgame.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Why does anyone not read the first paragraph before asking this question every time they see a link they don't care about?

Short answer? Because other people on this site upvoted it to the front page, it must be interesting.
That actually seems a bit odd; it's not like vi is big.
Thanks!

No, there's no plan to do that. The trouble is that Luxon has no idea how the Hebrew calendar works; it only knows how to output the non-Gregorian stuff because your browser already can via the Intl.DateTimeFormat API. Luxon finds some interesting ways to abuse that API to add some neat features like internationalized parsing and full time zone support, but there's a limit there. To add 7 Hebrew months, Luxon would actually have to be able translate arbitrary Hebrew dates into timestamps, and I can't think of a way to make it do that without any real knowledge of the calendaring system.
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When someone says something like "Wake up" it's a pretty reliable indicator they're off in conspiracy theory land. The reason they didn't find anything is Hillary deleted thousands of relevant emails from a server she shouldn't have had and the only person who could call her out on the lying took the 5th.

Wake up indeed. Do you really believe what you write?
> Why is Lichess better than chess.com?

Mostly because Lichess is written in Scala[1], but the engine probably helps a bit too ;-)

Love the tagline, "lichess.org: the forever free, adless and open source chess server"

[1] https://github.com/ornicar/lila
Yes! It's a simple and easy editor to use. It's one thing I really miss when I use a non GNU based NIX that doesn't come with it pre-installed.

It does everything you need it to do for quick configuration edits, and doesn't get in your way.

Have you ever tried to use the equivalent 'ee' editor that comes installed on other NIX? It's painful.
How long would you expect them to host your data for free?
Maybe if you're a literally-every-second-of-my-time-is-money sort and never, ever cook, and you're also socialized to a certain standard of living and never eat cheap take-out or low-end frozen meals or whatever.
I think vi is probably more ubiquitous though, especially since it’s included in busybox which powers almost all imbedded Linux hosts. Still a good idea to learn a little vim
You can do this today; install and maintain an OStatus compliant app on your own domain (gnusocial, mastodon, et cetera)
Unless you're throwing massive (40+ people) parties ever week it's more economical to buy an average sized house and rent massive space for when you throw huge parties
Well, we are glad you told us.
Good point. Owners can become employees, but there are much more benefits to being an owner that employees never really have access to, so unless the owner doesnt have the skill or capital, I don't see why an owner would want to be an employee. Sometimes employees can't even fathom making 1MM+ on a business deal because employees think in terms of their salaries.

Owners become employees when they accept too much outside investment. They become employees of investors...and investors buy ownership.

I think the balance of power is primarily affected by two things:
1) Barrier of entry into starting a business, such as laws that inhibit/regulate small businesses, or independent workers (owners)
2) Regulation that gives bigger businesses an inherent advantage over smaller businesses, such as limited liability, indemnification, bnakruptcy, mandated group health insurance plans, etc.

Sure, an owner can make 1MM per year and only pay the employee 100K.

But I think the question we really need to understand is, what's stopping the employee from quitting and starting his own company? I don't know the answer.
It seems your point is that people should have freedom of movement and freedom to work in the US, and that is a laudable goal I think many here are sympathetic to.

But that is not the issue being discussed. Visa abusers are companies that use the poor design of the H1-B visa system to underpay engineers (which many argue suppresses wages in the market at large). Because H1-B visa holders cannot easily switch employers while keeping their visa, their employer has extreme leverage over them, which they use to underpay pay them.
supply and demand
Did you realize that Torvalds did not have anything to do with Linux 2.6.32.70?

He offloaded the whole project onto another team (who mostly backported fixes) that kept it going until early 2016. The rest of us were already in Linux 4.X territory by then.

If you cant maintain it, you can pay someone.

Or, thanks to Github, lets talk about letting the code-literate userbase sort it out themselves. Assuming they care enough.

Or, we could pivot this discussion to the "evils of Capitalism" and whatnot since that userbase probably needs to eat.
I've been making a game that can target Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, and IOS with one codebase in C#.

I have a production system in F# (also .net) that is linux only. Developed on linux and runs on linux.
Less censorious than Twitter.
I don't understand your comment, could you clarify a bit? Are you saying that Python's slice operator is a copy of D's? Or that there's some sort of contiguous memory guarantee with some sort of Sliceable in D? In Python?
Here's an example of one of the options, it's ~$100 less if configured with Ubuntu-16.04:
http://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-laptops-and-noteboo...

Canonical posted a short review of the available Dell models recently: https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/11/14/new-dell-precision-ma...

(HN on the article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15702680)
Linux has had its share of regressions: KDE 3-> KDE 4 and the accompanying destructions of amazing apps like Amarok 1.4. Gnome 2 -> Gnome 3. The period where Ubuntu tried to replace everything with half-baked Mono apps, etc.
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