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>Most of the time, when there is theft of goods, leaking of confidential information, dereliction of duty or outright sabotage, the reason really is something simple like wanting to get back at someone within the company or at the company as a whole. Occasionally, it is much more serious.

Literally the next paragraph. It would be irresponsible of him not to look into the possibility.
For switching to the real root filesystem, you want to read about the pivot_root system call, for example http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/pivot_root.2.html (the usage examples in the pivot_root(8) manpage will help).

When the initramfs PID 1 is something simple like a shell script, I believe it just exec's the real root filesystem /sbin/init after the pivot_root and that init starts from scratch. For Linuxes where systemd is the initramfs init, there's a magic internal protocol to let a running systemd re-exec a new systemd binary while preserving all of its runtime state; this is used, for example, during systemd package upgrades and can be done deliberately with 'systemctl daemon-reexec'.

(I'm the author of the original entry.)
Github signs merge commits FWIW. They're pretty good about it.
Yes, why is it mostly Bitcoin users pushing for acceptance rather than merchants and payment processors pushing for adoption makes no sense.
Waze and a company called scoop do this
MIT OCW YouTube Channel Unaccesible in India?
I was surprised to see find this out today that the MIT-OCW channel on youtube is not allowing access to visitors from India.

This is very unusual as I have been following the channel quite regularly and it seemed to be accessible one week back.

For example, the following link shows a generic `video not available in your country` message.

Has anyone observed similar issue in India or any other nation too ?
You did see him launch his car into space, right?
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Much of the context is in dotnet/coreclr #13388 [1].

At the risk of repeating the content of the blog post ... The issue was reported in August, 2017 and fixed later in the same month. The fix shipped in a .NET Core patch update in September. We attempted to get the fix into .NET Framework 4.7.2 but missed that scheduling. We're now looking at making the fix in a .NET Framework patch release.

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/13388
I appreciate the time obviously spent on this, but i see a couple errors and ommissions. C# and F# are VM languages that run on the CLR which is extremely similar to the JVM.

Also, Go and Erlang use fiber blocking threads (userspace threads). A fair comparison would use fiber blocking in Scala/Java as well using Comsat/Quasar.

I have a feeling JVM based languages would perform far better than Erlang, and possibly even as fast as Go if fiber blocking threads were used.

Edit: they're using Akka which (I believe) IS fiber blocking so part of my critique may not apply. However, Scala is known for generating somewhat slower code than Java so I would expect Java with fibers to perform 2-10x better
You've got to be kidding right? One could easily create a list of 1000s of instances of corruption and corporate warfare in the US. And in China it's worse by a couple orders of magnitude, and more visible.

Millions of people have been murdered over money let alone sabotaging a company.

Lets not call others paranoid when it's actually naivety of these problems that is the issue.
In most cases it is easier and more practical to accelerate reactions in liquid media as opposed to gases. This is chemistry not magic.
I think you misunderstand. Even with code review policies, there is still a short list of people who can push to production without going through code review. Not from a policy standpoint but from a security and access perspective.
Well.. This is what we get for the DMCA as it has absolutely zero consequences for misuse.
> Imagine if x86-64 ditched the variety of non-32/64-bit modes. Would x86 be able to better compete with ARM in power consumption?

In what way? Do you mean instruction decoding? There is very little separation between x86 and ARM on that. x86 is optimized like crazy for the common instructions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_cache#Micro-operation_(%CE...
Not really, those use a microscopic amount of area on a modern die and shouldn't have much power impact at all when they aren't being used.

You could probably change the ISA in various ways to save power, or make other uarch or arch changes - but cutting out say the 16-bit modes isn't really one of them.
We use Square, using a 6 year old iPad and the first "stand" they made. It works great. We also use it to pull up the website, control music and Chrome-cast videos. We do this maybe 1-2x a year. But it still is multi-purpose.

I looked into this new stand but the customer signature screen sucks and you can't install anything else on it.
Could I get a copy of the pre-print?
This is probably one of the few cases where mindfulness truly applies.

That having been said it isn't solving the root problem. You can't fix stupid... you can fix a lack of knowledge, experience and practical understanding - but that has to come from culture not individuals.
The Standard Model (of Physics) at 50
The book says the voice was fake. The employee "caught" her using her real voice in private, apparently she was told early on to lower her voice to appear more confident.
If the airport in question is Newark, I wouldn't make any assumptions about the driver. Circling around EWR and missing your exit is pretty easy to do in that airport. It's pretty confusing.
Over a minute to load on gigabit fiber. Jeez.
Elon Musk has built up a really uncomfortable cult of personality in my opinion and I think it results in an incredibly horrendous environment to work in.

The way he's been behaving over the past few weeks (incl. his since-deleted reference to a cult site) does not exactly help his credibility when he's making broad claims like this. He's been blaming everyone else but himself for every single little mistake and I can't imagine him lasting very long like that if not for the cult surrounding him propping up his ego.
So, the banner on the channel points to this webpage:
https://torrentfreak.com/youtubes-piracy-filter-blocks-mit-c...
Correctly rounded trig functions requires great care, and some way of knowing how much precision you need for the calculations. Doing all of the calculations at the maximum needed precision would be hugely inefficient. A high-precision version of Pi is just one of the things needed.
>Companies who ignore these things exclude themselves from the portfolios of these investors.

Sounds good to me. It seems very unwise to run your business based whatever pet project "socially conscious" investors are supporting this week.
The Monarch butterfly’s stupendous migration, dissected
What's all the C Plus Fuss? Bjarne Stroustrup warns of dangerous future for C++
Is video game addiction fundamentally different from gambling addiction?

Especially when comparing video poker machines, it's just like a video game.
Serious question: How much are these shorts pushing UP the price of the stock?
> One could easily create a list of 1000s of instances of corruption and corporate warfare in the US

Help me out.
Senate Votes to Reinstate Penalties on ZTE, Setting Up Clash with White House
Friend, I work in hedge funds. This isn’t Billions. Musk going over the deep end far more plausible than a hedge fund saboteur.
Why is it naive to expect there not to be a single point of failure like that? Code reviews are a thing.
Lets dedicate the same public funding to trains & buses as we do to roads (including accounting for the property value sprawling roads occupy) and then see if public transport is comparable to ride-sharing.

There's a reason advanced cities in Europe and Asia invest heavily in mass transit without the expectation of a commercial return, it's simply more space efficient.
There are far more people aligned against him, so it's easy for him to feel defensive. I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if there was something bad going on with their finances, but I'd ALSO easily believe that there are actors very very actively working against him and Tesla. Google and Apple can grow without restraint because until they were massive they didn't affect anyone, Tesla from day 1 flew against the grain and is upsetting hundreds of thousands of jobs from corporations to unions. His company matters if it succeeds and anyone with common sense can easily imagine a mole.
Maybe but if this is someone who drives people around for money I would expect more than some confused country mouse driving.
Who Invented Computer Passwords?
The Logitech Craft keyboard’s giant button is a tactile dream
Morals have not worked work enough with advertising who's technology is only a hair's breadth away. The sea change you allude to will have to begin further down the food chain.
Turn off "Live Location Sharing" when you are around tall buildings especially on iOS.

I commute via Uber/Lyft every day and this happens to me often and I've found that relying on the actual address instead of using location sharing gets me the best results. In most open places Live Location Sharing can be great especially in crowds or when dealing with intersections but it is too sensitive in areas with congested Wi-Fi signals or tall buildings.
I have this book. I read it while working on my senior project, which was adding the Actor concurrency model to Icon. A pretty easy read. The Icon language was so innovative. It was my secret weapon in college.
There's a huge difference between shipping a product and doing it profitably.
Regardless, its impact has been way bigger than any public transit. That impact also has been both positive and negative.
And that's why you always send plain text email.
>Many public transit companies have been around for decades and haven't figured out how to scale up to the kind of service Uber is providing.

Let's see what the long term outcome is for Uber before we give them too many high fives...
What about cashflows including goods or services?
And one can extend that to businesses as well. How many established companies have been laid low by someone with a new process built in a more modern foundation.
The ‘Ten-Minute’ Philosophy
Jail time? The SEC will just do the “this individual/corporation is important to the economy” thing and fine them some pocket change. The downside is far more limited than you might hope.
You pass by reference, not by copy. It is still passing an array to a function though
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>we need our leaders, political and otherwise, to refrain from actively pumping out conspiracy theories.

This was the leader of a company asking his employees to look out for a very real possibility. Corporate espionage is very real,this is not a chem-trails rant.
If you're seriously considering suicide, please talk to someone about it. If you don't feel like your friends can help, you can find seek professional help. I don't know where you live but there are most likely organisations that can help you with this kind of thing, even if it's just a voice to chat to on the telephone.

Plenty of people think their job sucks or feel like they don't have enough time to focus on the things they love, but if you are having genuine thoughts about suicide, you DO have options. Even if things seem hopeless and you can't see a way out, things can improve for you. Don't give up on yourself :)
I'm in India, ppl judge you for everything unless you do things they like.
At some point they will stream only certain frames of a movie and let the computer figure out the intermediary frames
> There's $10B in TSLA short positions, when the numbers get this big its not unthinkable

Yes, it's unthinkable. If a $10 billion short were to even marginally pay off, regulators would dig deep. Anyone with that kind of cash on hand is savvy enough to know that. Sabotaging a visible company, with lots of stockholders and lenders and bankers standing to benefit from the company's success, to pay off a short is something that sounds plausible in fiction but is boneheadedly moronic in real life.
Well if you wrote the array, or your program did, then you do know the length. Not a problem. Would it be nice if an array internally stored that? Sure. Does it? No. Is that a real problem? No, not really - its been solved and worked around for decades
Rising inflation does not create asset bubbles.

I can think of three recent examples where inflation/soft money policies triggered asset bubbles:

- gold from late 1970s to early 1980s (CPI inflation)

- US real estate late 1990s to 2008 (excessive loan origination)

- US stocks from mid 1990s to 2001 (lax margin requirement)

For example, we are arguably approaching an asset bubble right now because of a decade of low inflation and low interest rates. In a zero inflation, zero interest rate environment nobody is incentivized to hold cash(since it returns zero) or CDs thus risk assets (ie. stocks) become inflated.

An inflation rate of zero would incentivize many people and groups to increase cash holdings. With no inflation to keep at bay, cash becomes a real no-risk bet.

Those doing so would no doubt the interested in real rates of return. For years, investors in CDs endured a negative real rate of return due to inflation. This forced people out of cash and into ever-risker assets.

Throw in mild deflation, and the average Joe could make a real return of a percent or two just by holding cash. It could trigger a stampede of sorts into cash and out of stocks, which explains why central banks are so keen to avoid even mild deflation.
you don't mention or allude to automated testing. You don't have any? (i.e. 100% test coverage except flip the 1?)
Oil corporations have done that in the past. EVs were in market before but brutally stalled. I don't see that claim outlandish.
Undoubtedly desperately needed tech, but I don't understand why the geolocation couldn't be embedded in the voice call itself (14.4k modem style). It's such a tiny amount of data, it wouldn't need to interfere with the call at all, or necessarily even be audible. Why the need for a "clearinghouse" and a third-party private company service lock-in by already stretched emergency services?
What's the deal with dials lately, seems like the most rudimentary way to interact with a computer, theres a dial in-between mouse buttons, it doesn't get used for much.
I've never had a facebook account. I always found it daft that people posted their private information for everyone to see. I'm not really a people person though, so I guess I just can't relate to the value that others get from it.
"... I bet you cry during political speeches ... half-assed ... can't even believe ... "

You make a very unemotional, well reasoned and logical argument, I see.

I honestly think if we met in person we could laugh about this, and I would back off the emphathy angle a bit. It's just that the original question that I replied to was "must we" with regards to another group of people, and it's hard to explain why we must do so without looking at it from the other side.
Facial recognition isn't exclusively a domestic surveillance technology. For example, it could be deployed at national borders, with satellite imagery captured in combat zones, and so on.
I was going to say "Man, that'd be terrible to work with!" And immediately realized I'm no different than those 8088 guys in that class :) You work with what you have.
Makes sense for Elon to be on the lookout. With a short position that size, hard to tell how low some could stoop.
All I know is the fonts on HN now look weak and puny compared to the the fonts used in the blog.

I don't mean this as a joke, I am seriously having issues looking at HN fonts after reading the blog. Even my emacs fonts are broken to me now.

How can a site just steal my ignorant bliss away and ruin my entire system with something as simple as fonts!
Tensorbook Laptop
you make it sound like competing with comcast is impossible. it might be difficult, yes, but if you have less-than-shit policies in your state/muni lots of options tend to pop up.

i live in Utah, and i have several ISP options pretty much anywhere along the Wasatch Front, including fiber and wireless. i can't speak for anywhere else, but its not like its impossible.
I guess I both don't want to but I'm going to maybe step in it here....nypost? I always got the impression they were more of a tabloidish news org?
Mindfulness helped me single out most of the meaningless BS that I did in my life and work, and so I subconsciously started eliminating a lot of them.

Might make me "less productive" but did make me "more satisfied".
Worse case? More like best case.

It's not about outliers. Let's say you're at a startup and you fit some model to your first 30 customers. It works great for your next 10 customers, but fails dramatically for your first enterprise client. Why? Because the enterprise client was fundamentally different from your previous 40 customers. If you fit your model on a population in which the relationship looks one way, then try to apply your model to a population with a different relationship, it will fail.

Machine learning and statistics are both application of the same principles of probability and information theory. They work (for the most part) by modeling the world capturing the relationships between random variables. A random variable can be any natural process that we can't express in precise terms, so we express it in probabilistic terms.

This is the same principle underlying the premise that "past results do not guarantee future success." The relationships between random variables in the world that affect success in anything -- stock market performance, legal outcomes, etc. -- might not be the same tomorrow as they are today.

And that's not even a matter of overfitting. That's just your ever-present real-world threat of having all your modeling work invalidated by forces outside your control. Overfitting happens when you, the data scientist, fit your model to random noise in the training data. An overfitted model will have bad generalization performance on held-out samples, even from the same population. It's not always easy or possible to detect overfitting, especially with small training sets.
"I find it really hard to believe that the majority of a garbage crisis is caused by tourists 'tossing their trash wherever'"

Nobody said anything about a "garbage crisis". The comment that started this thread was that if you're in a foreign country, you shouldn't litter and you should learn how to say please and thank you in the local tongue.

The fact that people are arguing about this subject is telling. Never in my life have I said "oh, there are no trash cans here. I guess I can just toss my litter anywhere because the local officials didn't plan properly for my presence."
It's like these people haven't heard about Cinnamon.
>Note that it's also least necessary at border crossings.

Says you. It could replace the fingerprint and retinal scan for all we know, plus you don't have to actually physically interact with the person crossing. I don't think it will, but it seems perfectly reasonable to deploy this technology at the border. I see no issue with the definition of "border areas" either. Seems reasonable to assume that if someone has recently crossed illegally, that, assuming they haven't gotten picked up by vehicle yet, they are likely to be found within less than 100 miles.
I was careful not to say "third-party" maps app. They may have been making excuses for their own mistakes, but drivers have told me that sometimes the built-in Uber maps also get the wrong location.

I have no idea if that's true and have always been confused about whether the driver app even has maps built into it.
Depending on your brain structure and circumstances travel can have a different effect on different people. I have some form of 4D memory - I can go back to any place i’ve seen, including my dreams and spend time there any time I want. The sights, the smells, the sounds. As a result I don’t feel a need to travel to the same place twice, but I do miss the people and the food at every place I go. So in a way with every trip, I leave a piece of me behind and I miss it, until no place can ever be perfect for all the precious people it’s missing.

Others I know see travel as therapy, as an escape. They photoshop the people out of their photos to keep the place pure and go back to it by looking at albums. They enjoy the experience of being in the warm water of a favorite beach, and would do anything to go back there as often as possible.

Travel should not be limited, but there needs to be an international protocol of conservationist behavior that we all abide by whenever leave home. More people have the means to travel every year, and likely a safe thing to do would be to print a protocol brochure/terms of travel if you will, and request agreement from everyone as a part of the ticket purchasing or customs process.
This is exactly how I describe it to people. I've been playing since closed beta and put more than 1000 hours into it, still can't beat all the end game content (in a good way)
can't into remote?
It looks to me like it worked perfectly. The subjects increased their ability to recognize that they would better do something else meaningful. If my colleagues became less interested in pointless busywork, that would improve my life as well as theirs.
A process spawned from initramfs can certainly live on but you wouldn't want to do that because that would prevent initramfs from being unmounted. By switching to the new root you can run real binaries. You can also not switch the root and also run real binaries from the new mount but that's not very convenient is it?

Pivoting root is not the complicated. The complicated is the process of detecting and setting up the real root filesystem which can involve loading kernel modules to dhcp negotiation to http requests and more. Dracut handles all these.
Can you provide examples of explicit corporate sabotage (e.g. criminally stopping production in a factory) being lightly punished by the SEC?
Did you play since 3.2? They finally "finished" the main game and there are 10 acts now (in 2 parts) and I'd say that since the final boss is the only one that gets a cinematic cutscene .... bit more memorable these days!
In the actual game, the FPS kills their otherwise really fun UI. I finally got to play it at 40 FPS or more recently and it makes an insane difference to how it all feels. It doesn't feel clunky or broken when it's running properly. You also start to understand some of their choices when you play for a while and feel the built in pacing of the game. It's not a flashy fast paced space call of duty. Every interaction is more drawn out, and forces you to be a bit more patient and thoughtful.

I also have to point out that it runs smoothly for me and many others, but it is an alpha game that's supposed to be cutting edge in a few years time when it releases. Expecting it to run well everywhere has been one of the huge drawbacks of open development as they have ended up doing a few performance passes that really didn't need to be done yet. It's not meant to be a released game. It also loads in less than 40 seconds for me now as they implemented level streaming.
Runs on my iPhone 6s. A bit clunky, but usable.

Will try my iPad Pro later.
Honestly, if it's not intended for general use, I don't think it's worth it to complicate the build process, and complicate the process of setting up a dev environment by installing a whole new compiler toolchain just for a couple of small functions.
> Note that it's also least necessary at border crossings. As a non-US citizen I'm already required to give my fingerprints and retinal scan to border control agents.

I think your argument assumes that the US government has already captured either a fingerprint or retina scan of all of its persons of interest. I don't think that's a safe assumption.
The latest update (Incursion = large dungeon building) is super good and worth coming back for
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