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It seems incomprehensible that a person should be obligated to follow a law that they cannot know without money. I haven't heard of of this fight before - but I really hope `public.resource.org` keeps up the fight.
Are you just throwing out random buzzwords to derail the conversation?

Besides the US, these tactics are being put on full display across Eastern Europe, especially Ukraine. This is besides the strategy in Montenegro, which just seems to be kill the political leaders.
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That’s really interesting - I’ve never heard that.

I only work ED these days and only a few shifts a month, but I love the interview. And I also hate the interview.

When I have worked 60 hrs a week it’s easy to develop compassion fatigue: it’s just so hard listening to story after story and allowing someone to just tell their story.

I want you to tell me in your own words, and I want to know what the root cause was that lead you to the department, and how long that bit went on for, but if I don’t cut you off and prompt you for some really weird specific details that aren’t necessarily going to roll out of your mouth. You’re the 70th patient this month and I’m currently juggling 4 stories around in me head at once - I can’t get too involved with you.

So - there my experience anyway
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IntelliJ & Webstorm are two different IDEs manufactured for two different purposes.
> Latin American countries aren't producing terrorist sleeper cells

Once again, the US isn't doing the same thing to LA as it is in the ME; when it was, LA produced anti-US terrorists, but the manifestation was difference because of the Cold War context, which both supported such terrorists and imposed constraints on them as condition of the support.

> You don't hear about suicide bombings in Venezuela or Cuba or the many other countries the US has meddled in.

The US meddling in those countries failed, though, and suicide bombings aren't the only terrorist tactic. Anti-US terrorist attacks we're not unheard of in LA when the US was successful in imposing unpopular dictators. (There's no real modern parallel in LA to the occupation of Iraq, or the US role in Israel-Palestine.)

> There are many former French colonies and you don't hear about these colonies producing homegrown terrorists to attack France.

Yes, places that France is not currently imposing an unpopular regime on or seen as currently meddling in a manner hostile too aren't generating the same kind of response current and ongoing US action in the Middle East provokes.

> We shouldn't confuse correlation with causation.

But that's exactly what you are doing with Islam, while steadfastly ignoring other factors.
If it's been more than 2 months and you get sick you can't just automatically sign up and be covered. You have to wait until January 1rst of the next year for your coverage to start.
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What will the legislative fix be? Governments can’t just decide to make these privately developed standards free for public use. So they can pay to free it up (costs the taxpayers money) or they can write their own standards (costs tbe taxpayers even more money).

Someone has to bankroll these efforts. The way it happens now is that the people who need the standards (the ones building regulated products) are the ones that pay for standardization. Indeed, they might well be ASTM members themselves (the ASTM has 30,000 members, including producers and users).

So you’re asking the public to take on a major expense to vindicate the abstract principle that, if some random person wanted to look up what the standard requires, they should be able to do so for free. That might well be what the Constitution requires. But you can see why nobody wants to do it.
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> We tried this and the improvement we got was minimalistic, so you should probably try a different approach

I can try a lot of approaches that won't improve results :) There needs to be a strong justification for thinking it would work and a high cost in trying it for this to be a useful approach to writing papers.
I pick 3 assumptions which itself show you are biased

1. Indian- Shows your racist overtone
2. Right wing conservative- Calling out sacred games explicit vulgarity and offensive violence has nothing to do with right wing or being Indian
Strange that HN allows people with racist ideas like you to spew venom here.
Cavendish is a veritable metropolis compared to some of the villages in that area (Amsden, Downers Corner, Ascutney). If you're ever in the area, be sure to check out the Brewfest Brewing Corp. in Ludlow for an incredible selection of local VT beer.
No matter what, We must need a new OS, encompassing big screen devices as well as small IOT devices. No more JAVA and JVM. I had loved it for 15 years but now I hate it most;
I am sick and tired of developing Android because of the huge fragmentation and poor compatibility of different screen sizes. Now is a little bit better than before in terms of that but the fundamental issue cannot be fixed from the root core unless the kernel and android jvm are replaced. Some Googler said "Android system was wrong from the beginning".
I would love to see Fuchsia in real as soon as possible. I've recently learnt Flutter, which is going to become the primary User interface SDK/framework of Fuchsia. I recommend you guys to learn Dart and Flutter if you are a UI developer. Be leaders of them. In a nutshell, Fu[lutter/chsia] is the future for mobile/embedded developers over the next 30 years in this AI/IoT era.
I don't think that follows.

Many of the optimizations you mention (for example the first two) may in fact be removing baggage that probably would not have been there in the first place.
People seem to forget that the final collapse of the Han Dynasty, the collapse of the Parthian (Iranian) Empire, and the Crisis of the Third Century in the Roman Empire all happened within a fifteen year period (220-235CE).

Although the Han Dynasty started coming undone in the 180s, there was a cooling period in East Asia and North East Europe that started around 200CE and lasted for most of the century. It isn't difficult to imagine a macro linkage between cooling -> agricultural output -> instability that was exacerbated by a similar reduction in Eurasian trade due to the global transition of power (in 200CE, the land route for the Silk Road was effectively controlled by four powers - the Roman Empire, the Parthian Empire, the Kushan Empire, and the Han Dynasty... this fragmented dramatically, particularly in East and Central Asia, by the end of the century).
Avoid Ad Homen attacks.

Please focus on your arguments
> This is a tragedy.

I don't think it's a tragedy. UX can be fixed (even if difficult because of backwards compatibility and social concerns). Changing the underlying technology is much harder.

git has become a de facto standard because it gets everything else right.
I believe Raskins mentions this, and other ideas, in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface

An interesting read none the less
From the guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> In Submissions

> Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.
Yes, previous commenter is doing just that. It's called whataboutism, and it's one of Trumputin's favorite distractions.
The paper dates from the time right as the PC was becoming affordable, too. A version for the following 20 years would be interesting. Ie the last 18 years and what’s likely to come in the next 2. If the economy tanks, then the OS landscape will probably stagnate. And we’ll probably see the first exascale supercomputers.
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You could charge a fee to the companies displaying the mark or those able to certify it, whilst making the standard free to read.
So? Its the same as hundreds of thousands of standards you may not even heard of, used from your cars, appliances, houses, public utilities, etc. Most of it is meant for the engineers involved and not for the end customer. But marketing people sometimes slap on the label.

These specs are driven by company to company relationships largely and not government. Heck, the law requires a car diagnostic bus for emission testing, but it never mandated the bus standard, so theres 2-3 main comm bus specs companies follow instead.

Like ISO9001, popular among companies is a process spec that requries auditing that ensures your company has a documented process for engineering, production, etc among other things. Companies slap ISO9001 compliant on fucking everything. But ultimately it means shit to an end user and only company to company relations do they care a little.
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Keep your opinions to things you have experience with.
Fire prevention maintenance...
Sound good if you're already familiar with RabbitMQ. If not I'd question how much it makes sense for low-frequency long-running jobs. Given the learning and complexity overhead that is.
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Given that they also reference Plan 9 in the article, I doubt it.
But there are hundreds of ISO specs.

In a product design alone, I may have 10-15 ISO specs, we don't stick on 10-15 labels on the outside and it would be ridiculous to stick on a sticker for a spec that just details minimum hole size spacing in a circuit board.
> Why isn't there markdown to do unordered lists on HN?

You can just leave a blank line between each list item.

* Doing Windows, Part 1: MS-DOS and Its Discontents (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17403351)

* Doing Windows, Part 2: From Interface Manager to Windows (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17423724)

* Doing Windows, Part 3: A Pair of Strike-Outs (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17470844)

* Doing Windows, Part 4: The Rapprochement (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17523926)
>Good. Because that was my point.

Fair enough, but you said a whole lot of other crap that is very much misleading in my opinion, and I was addressing all of that.

>It can only span multiple clouds now because other clouds had to ship Kubernetes

See, this is the kind of thing that makes me treat this as FUD rather than just criticism. I was running Kubernetes on AWS long before Amazon offered a service for it. If Kubernetes wasn't open source and instead each cloud provider came up with their own implementation, would that have been better?

>Get back on your real username

No thanks. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why.
How is it illegal? The specs are copyrighted material written and maintained by private entities not government.
And a immense majority (many thousands) of these specs are not required by government.

I believe just in the case of this lawsuit it involves specs that some laws required.
No, SVN is never the better choice, not even if you’re solo.

Learn some Git and stick to it, it’s a one day job. And most of the time you’ll use these commands

git clone
git add
git commit
git pull
git push
git checkout
git branch
git log

You can do some Googling for how to use them and contrary to popular opinion it’s really not much to it. Mercurial users are moaning about it, but Git has a better track record of maintaining backwards compatibility.

The advantage over SVN is in working with local or personal repositories. And forks of other projects in your local / personal repos, which happen all the time; heck, you will want to work with forks of your own repos for experiments; post-Git of course, b/c doing that with SVN is a pain in the ass.
Why would a truck need to be checked multiple times for the exact same thing and pay for it to happen? What makes stopping at each state unique and valuable to Indian society when it had stopped before?

The problem isn't that they are being checked, its obviously the fact theyd have to stop at each state to pay a tax or do the exact same regulatory oversight multipl times... instead of just flashing some paperwork from a prior check? Ideally at beginning or end points?
A while ago I joined my girlfriend for a few doctors' visits because of chronic pain. I definitely noticed that with most of them it's really hard to get a word in. You go in, they ask what the problem is, barely listen for a few moments, order tests and then proceed with what they want to do. It feels like the patient is just a thing that needs to be processed as quickly as possible.

I don't recall a single visit where there was a real exchange between patient and doctor.
Perhaps they are trying to use your site to test if the cards are already reported as stolen and blocked. A few years ago the owner of CandyJapan had a similar problem. Read the article and the comments in the HN submission:
"Candy Japan hit with credit card fraud" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10237697 (293 points, by bemmu, on Sept 18, 2015, 204 comments)
You are right. The default implementation in Linux returns -EISDIR, but filesystems are free to change it to something else:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/2a56bb596b2c1fb612f99...

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/search?p=1&q=generic_read_...
> A VC already has the finances, they aren't constrained by the original argument of "demanding" a higher price for their salary. They have already attained wealth and now choose to pour some of that wealth into funding other ventures.

I know you're done debating, so I'll leave this here for your education.

VCs are fund managers who work on behalf of their LPs (Limited partners, or fund investors), with very few VC funds being self-funded by their managers. Most VCs are not independently wealthy by first-world standards and most LP money comes from large institutions rather than individuals. Angel investors are a different story, but they are working with much smaller amounts of capital.

> A VC doesn't need a founder. They can setup a company themselves and pay market rate for the staff to fill positions.

While there's nothing legally preventing them from doing so, most LPs would be very upset (and likely sue) if their fund managers took their cash and directly founded companies with it. The closest thing that exists to something like this are "Entrepreneurs in Residence" which are often not directly involved with managing the fund.
An interview with Kip Thorne [1] (who recently won the Nobel Prize for physics [2]) on the science in the movie and a book about the science in the movie that he has written [3]

And a slightly breathless account of how working on developing the visuals for the film drove development of new code and led to new insights [4]

Needless to say, I'm a fan of the film.. :D

[1] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/parsing-th...

[2] https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/20...

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Science_of_Interstellar

[4] https://www.wired.com/2014/10/astrophysics-interstellar-blac...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17570093
Piping tar works much faster too. It also allows preserving metadata.
I’m talking about competitors to GKE, which is the entire thesis of that point and that you refuse to acknowledge, which is why you’re knee jerking FUD. I’m a solo developer. I make a Kubernetes app. Do I think Kubernetes is great if I have to build a CloudFormation thing to spin up all of its infrastructure and run it myself, or would I rather pay big company to do it?

The latter.

GKE. EKS/etc. They exist for that use case because that’s where the lock in happens. Now you’re a Kubernetes deployable and too dug in to get off. For a while, your only option was GKE or (God help you, at first) running it yourself. Now other vendors have stepped up to compete, which is the exact situation Google wanted. They shook out the Kubernetes issues with the early adopters with ops experience, then went after pure developers, and had first mover advantage on that customer until the others were forced to respond. I wish I could tell you how many teams I’ve consulted with who when I say “where are we deploying?” immediately say Kubernetes on GKE without a second thought. That is what Google wanted.

This doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out, but if you work on Kubernetes I wouldn’t expect you to know this strategy firsthand. It would come from Diane or her people. You’re just having a hootin’ and hollerin’ grand old time building some open source software with a foundation (ooo! So OpenStack!) and mindshare and all the cool kids surrendering their startup to go all in on Kubernetes. Meanwhile, you’re supported by Google, and in fact were conceptualized, to drive sales to Google Cloud. Sorry.

Did you ever ask yourself what the higher level point of Kubernetes is? Like, why throw an entire team on shipping an entire new infrastructure category just to open source it? To make operations better for the industry? Google competes on operations. To use public company capital to chase a hobby? Think about the leadership decision to initiate Kubernetes, and why it was made.

> but you said a whole lot of other crap that is very much misleading in my opinion

The entire comment was quite clearly in support of Google’s decision calculus to not replace Borg. Your rebuttals are honestly more misleading, in my opinion, than my points, because you’re personally wrapped up in it and that’s coming across.
Part of the reason I love this movie is that Kip Thorne was a technical advisor. And as this paper shows, some new science resulted from the movie-making process.
I knew nothing of that Excel story before this article, despite being generally familiar with a lot of MS and Windows history. It definitely seems more obscure than it should be, at least to me.

(At the time I was still 100% MS-DOS; I never encountered Windows until 3.0. Plus I was young enough that my main exposure to business/spreadsheet software was through my dad, who was a loyal 1-2-3 user and remained so for many years afterwards.)
Not to be critical, but I find this article to be uncompelling.

I began working out when I was 13. After college post 2010 I experimented with Testosterone, from 200mg a week to 600mg a week. It’s a whole underground culture.

My own experiences were exactly like the stereotype— increased libido, increased muscle mass, increase strength, increase mood swings. The sex drive is palpable. It’s ferocoiously potent, increasing sexual stamina, confidence, euphoric feelings of dominance.

I have coached many pupils in the realm of Testosterone injection. Every single one has experienced the same side effects.

I want to stress something. The endocrine system is vastly complex. Every hormone influences a cascade of other hormones. For this reason, maintaining health (strenuous exercise and a sound diet) is essential for ensuring those side effects are predictable.

For example, when testosterone levels are high, the body naturally wants to convert excess testosterone to other hormones— namely estrogen.

High estrogen can cause all sorts of side effects, including bloat, fat gain, mood swings, acne, and gynomastia. (Think what happens when a woman gets her monthly period... her body is flush with estrogen, and all the accompanying side effects).

To remedy this, you take estrogen blockers. Or AI’s (aromatase inhibitors, which is the enzyme catalyst responsible for converting T into E).

However, some estrogen is good. It is what causes a lot of that well-being and euphoria. Block all estrogen and energy levels plummet.

This is just one. There is DHT, or di-hydro-testosterone, which is 10x more androgenic than testosterone. There is cortisol. There is insulin. There are effects on HGH levels.

The list of cascading influences on the endocrine system is complex.

What else effects hormones? Exercise- circulation and digestion.

Diet. What food you consume effects your sugar levels, which effect your hormones. Your fat and cholesterol consumption affects your hormones. (Cholesterol is the base fat molecule that the body uses to manufacture all other fat based hormones. Without it, hormone levels are depressed, and the endocrine system functions sub optimally).

I say all this because it’s complex.

Human organisms are complex.

If you don’t understand or appreciate the complexity, you’ll ascribe cause where it’s undue.

There is no magic bullet.

We are a complex organism.

I will say, however, that testosterone is powerful.

I am no longer on it today, and I look back and think about how powerfully it affected me psychologically, physically, and emotionally. It definitely can change your life, and you can get addicted to that change. It’s empowering.
And if you use XML, all you need to do, is to add another forward slash after the filename. And now, the network, the host and the data have become one: Everything is a node (or an atomic value).

But hey, that's stupid. Let's not do that...!
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This is a timely comment. I've been aware of quaternions for rotation for decades but only learned yesterday that rotation matrices can be used for some use cases. I'd never heard this small fact until then and now I stumble across your comment!
In this thread there is a repeated meme of "Borg is way more scalable than Kubernetes, and will always be so".

But this ignores a lot of the history of Borg. When Borg was first created, it was not nearly as scalable as its current incarnation. We hit scalability bugs and limitations all the time! (I was working on a team which was exploring the scalability limits of MapReduce, which was often very good at finding the limits in Borg and other systems it interacted with.)

Over the years many many Borg engineers have taken on many projects, both in solving bugs and rearchitecting major pieces of Borg with the intention of making it scale better (to run more jobs at once, utilize machines better, increase the degree of failure and performance isolation between jobs, and scale up to manage larger clusters of machines). Many of the lessons learned went into the design of Kubernetes, but Kubernetes is still much newer than Borg, which means it has fewer years of the "identify a scalability bug and squash it" feedback loop.

What is really needed to drive that loop is a major customer pushing the boundaries of scalability and identifying bugs. My guess (from the outside) is that the main users of Kubernetes have been pushing the limits in other directions, which has meant the team has been prioritizing other things (such as improving usability, and adding features) in their development efforts.
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Ha! Thanks for that, I'm mostly a lurker here so I was surprised to learn HN puts everything on one line, I thought indenting it was the only way to have a bulleted list.
Yup, I do use it. From a security and convenience standpoint it's just so much easier than whatever I could have come up with myself. But yes, the pricing sucks. I don't have a good answer there unfortunately.
Was OS/2 tied to the PS/2 and MCA? In my first job out of school in the early 1990s, all the developers had OS/2 workstations. It was a good OS, stable, multitasked well, and from memory Microsoft didn't really equal it until Windows NT4 or maybe even 2000. From my perspective OS/2 didn't fail for technical reasons, it must have been IBM trying to recapture the PC as a proprietary platform when the market really wanted something that would run on any PC clone.