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Do you think maybe part of the fiscal restraint comes from them not having much money? In the US people frequent chains that cost much more than cheaper options because it’s still affordable food for their income level. More expensive restaurants get the same reaction in the US. (Why pay $30 for a meal when I can get one for $10.)

I don’t see it as a cultural difference so much as a result of what the article is referring to.
I enjoyed reading your comment, but I think the GP meant that many self-help books start by saying "if you feel self-critical, it's actually not your fault".
It depends on what device you are writing drivers for. I’ve done a few in userspace, and it can take between 60 minutes (with simulation for testing) and a few engineers a year.

That’s ignoring stuff like filesystems, network protocols, shader compilers, or whatever else you need to get basic functionality out of the device.

Also, a given chip might require anywhere between 2-3 drivers (for something simple like a power controller) to hundreds + a stand-alone OS (for things with an embedded microprocessor, like a drive or some fpgas)

It is tedious work, but I’d love to see the BSD’s band together with a hardware manufacturer to produce a high end consumer-grade laptop with a 4-5 year production lifespan, and well-supported hardware.

There haven’t been any noteworthy hardware improvements in that space in the last 5 years (arguably a 2013 MBP is better than a 2018 one in most ways), so this isn’t as crazy as it used to be.

These laptops could be similar to Windows laptops also sold by the same vendor, which reduces engineering costs. Dell sort of does this for Linux, but they churn the models too quickly for the BSD’s to catch up, in practice.

The vendor could rotate a new model in every 2-3 years (maybe rotate form factors each time), and make it a sustainable business.

There is precedent for this in the embedded space. Look at PC Engines, for example.
That might be a herculean task - Iomega zip & jaz disks suffered from notoriously poor data integrity/longevity, and I'm pretty sure device drivers do not exist for any version of Windows newer than XP.
On the contrary, I think posing any questions of substance about life to that type of person would generate nothing more than a frustrating conversation.
As I read it, the article assumes that the 20% performance penalty measured when writing large blocks is almost entirely due to APFS performance. This seems reasonable, since the number of syscalls will be low.

However, it is then also assumed that this 20% performance penalty between HFS+ and APFS is going to be flat no matter which block size is used. I don't think this is a reasonable assumption.
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I've read through their website a few times. Whilst it's easy to find the specs and a list of banks participating - you can even find some example code on GitHub - it's incredibly hard to find out what you actually have to do to be able to access the APIs. I appreciate that banking data is sensitive, but I think the on boarding process could be made a lot clearer.
I had a hard time understanding from the article how this solves anything.
How did you get Xcode to render the box-drawing characters? Or, is that a function of printing to stdout inside of a playground?
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I'm not sure that's true. There are alternative possibilities: That one learns to predict (some kinds of) people. That one's obsessed with a series of topics that gets oneself bored when not being able to discuss, etc. There's many, many small reasons an introvert's energy is depleted, that is not just "being with people".

As an anecdotal data point, I was very introvert and I did learn to "be extrovert" and many people wouldn't notice at all, but at the end of the day I need to be alone, sometimes for days to recover and be productive again.

Even though it's anecdotal I think we can't generalize and say "introversion doesn't exist". There's a lot of factors involved. Stuff may be even more complex when dealing with an ASD.
Meltdown looks pretty much like cheating. Intel simply took security verification out of the critical path, and their public image ought to suffer for that.

Spectre is a much more complex issue. It is more of a "I would never thing of that" thing. Looks like there were people at the security community talking about it even 10 years ago, but it is certainly hard for knowledge to spread to chip designers - most of what security people study would be noise for them, and even the security people mostly ignore those.
Sibling comment by 'firstplacelast seems to have been downvoted to [dead]? Why? Why are many of her comments in that state? I can't see anything in her history that should have led to a hellban.
Note that Red Hat patented batching syscalls... https://www.google.com/patents/US9038075
Perhaps it's not everywhere. I have lived in UK, California, and Netherlands and my experience comes from there.

My point still hold though. Indians still have a value oriented view to buying. Something is not bought just because you fancy it.But I think this is changing slowly. New generation is much more willing to spend for fun.
I think its largely about protection from remote attacks.

Its a kind of "only allow logins from this device". This doesnt solve all problems definitely, but for some of us there is zero practical danger from our location and much higher danger from geographically remote locations
The argument made was about positive publicity, though that was also turned into "positive reviews" via the wonders of the internet telephone game.

GamerGate was a far more complex scenario than you're simplifying it to.
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I mostly stopped reading non-fiction books because of this. You have to wrestle through seven chapters of introductory bullshit because the author gets to the point, just because a blog post doesn't sell for $20.

I wish there was a culture where good essays would actually sell for $20. Something with a "perceived value per word" review score maybe.
We had a lot of m5 and c5 servers randomly die. It was as if someone was running chaos monkey from Netflix in our VPCs...
Areas where OpenEmulator is better: GPU-shader CRT emulation that looks almost just like a real CRT (I have real monochrome and color CRTs for my Apple IIe, and did a lot of comparisons while implementing double hires support for OpenEmulator). Also, better disk emulation that (because of a quirk of how it works) can handle some copy-protect schemes better.

Areas where MAME is better: cross-platform, and you can set breakpoints and debug etc. More devices. Probably more positives, but I'm not super familiar with it. I mostly used it to compare bugs while working on https://github.com/zellyn/a2audit :-)
What, you don’t think India is developing? Cause it sure as hell isn’t developed. Malnutrition is increasing in India as people have more opportunity to eat tasty but not particularly nutritious food. Open defecation is common over very large parts of the country. If you go to Mumbai there are migrant workers sleeping on the street all over the place. It’s getting better but there’s no way in hell it’s developed.
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Do they not deserve to brag about it? Heck they among others are who found the flaws as well as Broadpwn, Cloudbleed, Heartbleed among others and deserve credit for the work they have done, imo.

Think the constant ragging on Google that appears on HN is becoming a little too much.
Where in the code does it indicate this?
Totally fascinating. Reminds me of this NYT piece about an artisanal pencil shop: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/fashion/a-pencil-shop-...
Because inequality is really low, almost everyone’s poor.
It’s actually the other way. Cooking is expensive in US. You spend a lot of money, buy recipe books, spend a whole lot of time cooking a mediocre meal. Now we have more options like Blue Apron but even those are expensive.
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Mac Zealots will believe what they want. Ignore them.
Unless you left them near something magnetic at some point, allowed them to mildew, or left them in a very hot car, they're quite possibly still readable. They are remarkably stable over time. See all of 4am's work for examples :-)
Wayland is an attempt to replace X11. PulseAudio is a (now decent) attempt to clean up the Linux audio space.

There are attempts being made. Your comment is too vague to be falsifiable, though. Would you mind being more precise as to what you'd like to see changed?
It's not clear to me what the userland has to do with "the idea that the system is a multi-user network server in 1983." Pretty much any PC GUI out there today would be at least recognizable to a Windows 3 user OR a Unix workstation user--one of which was based on a multi-user network server but the other was not.

There are alternative models out there. There are Chromebooks where you basically live in the browser (which many people do anyway for most of their computing) and there's the app store model we see on phones and tablets.

I guess there's a potential for new paradigms that blend the flexibility of current GUIs with simplicity but I'm not sure a multiuser server foundation has much to do with it.
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> Windows has various locations where apps are typically installed or dumped (Program files, Program files x86 , program data, app data...)

To be fair, neither Program Data (which is effectively ALl Users AppData), nor AppData are endorsed as application installation locations by Microsoft. For a variety of reasons. Chrome started quite a trend, though for installations without admin privileges to install to AppData for convenience.
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Just because plebs can't understand triples doesnt mean they should have the right to seem (and potentially show them to someone who does). It might even get people to learn or write software to make sense of whatever data structure. In any case it shouldn't be up to the data borrower.
It prevents you from doing a dictionary attack on its hashes.
Never heard that before, thank you!
They don’t have a family and/or live an empty life?
IDK, whatever you do someone is going to ge upset.
Ask HN: StartupSchool with MBA-like topics?
I am running a pretty successful SAAS startup, I have master's degree in CS (pretty useless btw). I do not want to waste any more time in school to do the regular old fashion MBA, but I need some more 'business' education.

I listen to podcasts, audiobooks and read blogs on this topic, but I would like to have some well-organized list of topics that I should cover. I want to know I am not missing any important subject that I should learn. I also want to make sure I am learning from successful people, not random bloggers.

Is there something like startupschool.org but focused more on MBA-like topics?
In my limited experience, families with working women were very happy to eat out. Families with stay-at-home wives or who lived with parents were often keen to invite me for family dinners. Many did have "servants".

I don't want to overthink this but some of the value in "eating in" sometimes feels like taking advantage of the fact that there's usually a woman at home whose 'job' it is to cook.

> > In West eating out is the default choice

Huh? if you're fresh out of school, maybe. Certainly not in families.

> > even those who can't afford it will choose to eat out

How does that even work? Anyone piling on debt to eat is, well, seriously lacking in financial planning.
> Governments are not friendly.

Neither are corporations. Uber is not your friend.
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True in normal conditions, but our neocortex is highly adaptable. I can’t remember the studies, but there have been cases where a grid of actuators was taped to the body of a blind man and hooked up to a camera mounted on his head. In time, he was able to “see” edges based on the signals coming from his skin.
The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley had some crazy ideas, but lacked some depth I was hoping for.

Nine Fox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee was also pretty good—had a rough start but ended well.

Collapsing Empire by Scalzi was quite solid and well paced.

Of books not released in 2017, I read The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi—it probably had the most 'new' sci-fi ideas out of the books I read this year, which made it both a bit of a challenge and interesting read.
With all the problems that big heads carry, human heads have done nothing but grow since our ancestors started walking on two feet.

I guess the only answer available for you is: evolution does not work that fast.
I would have agreed with you that conservative spending is a good thing a year ago. But, after ready many economics books and data analyzing many other countries including USA, China etc. I'm convinced that non-conservative spending would/could improve businesses and overall progress (GDP, Health, Living Index) of a country. I feel like India is missing out on this by a long margin. If you compare the number of business loans and the amount (personal loans, other loans as well) across many countries it might show what I wanna point out.

Any thoughts?
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Hibernation works good, taking into account that Turn Off really means Hibernate.
In the "Get most active nations" section the URL being queried is:

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And "ener" is the id for the energy subject.
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This sounds exactly like the problem Linus described with centralized version control systems in his Google Talk.
I think I was trying to point out, debt-driven economics is not such a bad option
Hmm. Seems you're correct regarding the review. I must have mistaken the Giant bomb review I read for it. The journalistic impropriety did not include a review, just positive press.

Whomever stirred the pot, honestly, doesn't matter in this context. In the end, both sides used the mobs to their own ends. Both sides were contemptible in the end. It wasn't the mysogynists who attacked Total Biscuit (not to mention his wife and children) over his commentary about the journalistic impropriety angle, who sent him death threats.
You're speaking of Singularity and it's "software isolated processes", which amounted to static verification of IL before AOT compiling it to x86. From the perspective of Sing#, the only way to express IPC was in the form of protocols, which were essentially formalized function call dances between two processes.

Singularity would be just as vulnerable to the recent bugs as contemporary OSes are, possibly more so because there is even less timing uncertainty when crossing privilege domains, making the attacks even easier
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Same here. It’d also be great if the variables were a bit easier to interpret.
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Ok so I'm not completely insane, everything felt like molasses this week and that's why.
Trickle down is not the libertarian ideology. No serious academic economist AFAIK actively promotes "trickle down". It's a left-leaning strawman.
what? i cook all the time. better food, cheaper, often quicker. you just need a little bit of skill.
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Yes, he's collaborated with Eric Drexler, the author of Engines of Creation at the Forsight Institute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engines_of_Creation
I think the whole point of cooking for yourself is so you can get better at it.. The first few times you cook an omelette, it might suck, the Denny's $4 breakfast might be better, but it won't take long for you to surpass that point.
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So I'm not a Windows expert but I've done file system work. If windows is reasonably smart it will support files with unallocated blocks. Setting the length to 8GB is not the same as writing 8GB in any reasonable file system.

I'd retry with a script that actually writes the data.
That's a really unfortunate abbreviation. That word is also common slang for male anatomy in the States.
That's a very succinct way of putting it, thanks.

Almost every economics discussion at these very high levels suffer from sweeping all-encompassing generalizations (about an entire country) that happen to fit perfectly neatly into their political worldview.

Especially for India, which is notorious for having a government economic regulations that fluctuate wildly depending on what province/city you're in. Where you can drive a truck across the country and require 5 different licences/paperwork just to appease each local arrangement. Not a good country to generalize.

A great overview of the complexity of the economy of India: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVwIZzGHxwc
cooking is not expensive in the US. you can make it expensive, especially in buying over priced appliances, utensils, and other kitchen gadgets. however raw foods are well priced and when you work out complete meals.

to avoid mediocre meals work you way up the difficulty chain and make sure to adhere to recipes. the number one way to make a mediocre meal is lack of preparation and the second is to short cut a recipe.

plus when you get the hand of it you can make larger meals and freeze/store what you don't eat then so you have something tasty all week long
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Is it possible to reduce national debt? Sure, some nations occasionally miscalculate and have a year or two in which the budget is balanced and the debt doesn't grow, but afterward their debt continues its inexorable rise. Some resourceful and wise nations like Norway have never gotten on the debt elevator, but has anyone ever gotten off?

(Poor nations who have had debts forgiven are excluded from this question.)
In my opinion, the whole Application Bundle/AppDir/PortableApp/whatever concept is just so clearly the right way to do application management that I have difficulty understanding how anyone could think otherwise. It's simple, intuitive, conflict free, fits perfectly into the file management metaphor, etc.
Isn't eating out part of the job for many people in DC?
How people feel about push notifications – eh, meh, yeh
Probably because its a much simpler core like all the other chips that are immune. It simply doesn't do the the logic that would get the chip in trouble.
I’m not sure that a bare denial laced with a petty insult really does much for your point.
Very well said. Thanks for the anecdote
From October, 2016.
Windows... On a server? interesting
For those interested in the history of windows, I also recommend a recent episode of .net rocks about the parallel history of windows and .net:

https://www.dotnetrocks.com/?show=1500
I found this course pretty interesting, since it gives some perspective on what sorts of guarantees people want that DL doesn't provide, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend starting with it unless you have a theory bent.
Cooking is practically free in the US. Many people in the US don't know how to purchase produce and also choose to purchase gadgets. All you need is a simple pan or a pot and some heat. None of that is expensive. Plus, you can get recipes over the Internet for free when needed.
I thought this was supposed to be prevented by your cipher mode?
Thanks, that worked, although YouTube affected, too. Well, better than unexpected auto-play.
Tldr: quit your job and move to an island nation with savings & income from your harvard-educated husband; it's much less stress inducing!
I'd never heard of social media integration. That is true bullshit, and I wonder what the analog is in Chrome.

But what's wrong with DRM? DRM sucks, but I don't know why it's in someone's interest to not be able to watch Netflix in their browser.
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This is great! But it's delaying me from hitting the grocery store for coffee and bacon. I'll definitely be playing with this some more. I haven't touched BASIC since high school.

Just as an aside, there is another [great] project with a similar name "OpenEmu": http://openemu.org/
OpenBSD. I don't think the PTI patches are quite ready yet. Either way I'm not too worried.
The author is obsessed with fitting things with a logistic function and drawing wild conclusions even when it directly contradicts itself.

You can't have the rate of publication be a logistic function and the cumulative publication be a logistic function. The derivative(i.e., rate) of the logistic function should be 0 at both tails which isn't S-shaped anymore.
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Edit: Love your name, love the reference.
I store my important documents on Google Drive, and have tarsnap back up that folder twice a day. Code gets backed up to private repos on Github.

In the past I've used Backblaze and can really recommend it -- good interface and reasonable pricing for unlimited storage.
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The guy who proposed this committed suicide because no one believe him:

https://www.wired.com/2008/01/ff-aimystery/
Depends what is meant, HN or The Economist. I think the parent meant HN.
interesting.

on the same topic, i been also curious of something and wonder if anyone have the answer to this.

lets say i have a track playing just one note (to be specific, a frequency measured in hertz, lets say 528) for one minute and we want this to be as pure sounding as possible.

what is the best approach to do this?

in addition, if the audio file is in WAV and we convert them to mp3, do we still lose a lot of quality even though we are just playing same note for 1 minute?

how cam we achieve playing the purest sound without music file taking up too much space?
Purely tag based filesystems are not better than hierarchical filesystems because hierarchy is meaningful. The 'pritam' in `/home/pritam` has a different meaning than the one in `~/Documents/taxes/pritam`.

> Yeah, the filesystem wouldn't work so great if you have thousands of tiny files... but I'd probably argue that you shouldn't have thousands of tiny files in the first place. If your program needs tens of thousands of tiny files then it should probably use something other than the filesystem

That's dismissing a core feature of many production file systems today, some of which are used precisely because they support this feature.
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Then it's no coincidence that insanity is slowing things down to effect the ongoing illusion of security.
Wikipedia has a long page on the etymology of tea and how to say it in various langages in the world:
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The best way to get better at cooking is to consider recipes, and then cook how you want to cook. Baked goods are an exception to that, until you get really good at baking. For some types of baked goods, I'm almost to that point...

There is a class of American recipes, designed for a mythical 1960s housewife, that amount to little more than dumping various factory-manufactured prepared goods together. Ignore those altogether. Although the meal might be edible, it won't improve your cooking.
The metal piece which clamps the horse hairs to the wooden bow of a string instrument (cello, violin, viola, etc.) is also called a ferrule.
> Biking to and from work.

I enjoy backing to work and back, but entitled drivers (park in bike lane, dangerous passes) make me really nervous and shoot my stress up instantly potentially negating the relaxing benefits. How do you handle that?