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> You just compile with -lpng. If libpng is available, it will work, otherwise it will fail with a clear error message. What else do you need?

well, no you don't "just compile", because one of the most used compilers out there does not support "-l". Also because you may have multiple libpng versions on your machine - debug, with special testing flags, in your ~/work/libpng_build, etc.

Also, you may have libpng.so but not the headers. You may be compiling on Nix or GoboLinux or whatever system which does not respect the FHS. It won't work as is on OS X because you have to add -L/usr/local/lib. Users won't know what to do when they see whatever missing include error the compiler spits out.

> doing that in cmake would be a nightmare, wouldn't it?

.. it would be mostly the same than your example ? just tested and this works fine (normal practice with cmake is to build outside of src which helps):

for i in gcc clang; do
for m in "-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug" "-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release"; do #not using -g because that's something compiler-specific
rm -rf ** ; CC=$i cmake ../ $m ; cmake --build .
done
done
It's pretty scary to ride bike/scooter next to cars. Seems like a much better compromise to ride on the sidewalk when uncomfortable than the alternative. There just needs to be some sort of enforcement against ass-holery for those riding.
If the most logical syntax is

grep needle haystack

Surely

grep needle < haystack

is much closer to that form than

cat haystack | grep needle
> What is an actual phenomenon that is well modeled by a poisson process?

Time to next Bitcoin block mined. It's 10 minutes, regardless if whether you've waited 1 hour, 10 minutes, or 10 seconds.

Makes sense though, because all the failed hashes are useless, thus no memory.
Learning from coworkers accounts for 60% of all learning on the job in economy [pdf]
> The rest of the post is a rant about user tracking.

Almost. There's also:

> "The only other way we’ve found so far, which currently accounts for a much smaller portion of our revenue, is non-tracking affiliate partnerships with Amazon and eBay.

> "When you visit those sites through DuckDuckGo, including when using !bangs, and subsequently make a purchase, we receive a small commission. This mechanism operates anonymously and there is no personally identifiable information exchanged between us and Amazon or eBay.
Every investment in oil and gas exploration is a tragic waste of resources tho since the world needs to stop using fossil fuels for generating electricity, transportation, and heat. With that geopolitical games centered around control of oil and gas supplies is utterly pointless.
This protects only against use by health insurers.

If you're applying for life insurance, and you've had genetic testing done (like 23 & me), you have to reveal that fact and provide the results if asked. [1]

[1] http://cbslocal.com/2018/01/18/taking-ancestry-test-makes-bu...
Sounds like Cloud Kitchens is trying this model - https://www.cloudkitchens.com
10 days is a bigger commitment than I feel comfortable making at the moment.
RH back in the day made a lot of hay by being the go-to option for enterprises migrating proprietary UNIX workloads to x86+Linux. But I guess that market is mostly saturated by now.

What I worry about is not the fate of RHEL per se, in the end it's just a distro among others. What I worry about, as a huge FOSS fan, is the fate of RH engineering which is certainly one of the biggest individual upstream FOSS contributors on a lot of places in the stack. By comparison, the Canonical engineering team is absolutely puny. If the work that RH does disappears, we're going to see a lot slower progress in the FOSS ecosystem.
Is it required that “rise” and “fall” be boolean/digital operations? I think it would be more reasonable to characterize them as analog/continuous. That could then lead to infinite variations in rates, even just with a single character. And that’s before considering whether the characters and reader are correct in determining their current trajectory—much as in real life.
Seems that's already happening: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/oct/28/deliveroo-d...

Article lead: As appetite grows for upmarket takeaways, delivery service is setting restaurants up with satellite kitchens inside metal boxes.
> Look at 7 to 10 days of dry fasting (no food or water)

You can die of dehydration if you don't drink water for 3 days.

https://www.quora.com/How-long-can-a-human-live-without-wate...
Ubuntu has its own orchestration toolsets, and I wonder if RHAT only had the upper hand with being the incumbent in the US and buying things like Ansible and OpenShift and CoreOS.

Ubuntu runs Systemd, it's a modern distro - if someone wants to take Openshift core and other components and run it on Ubuntu, it will happen.
EU to ban various single-use plastics by 2021
relevant line:

> The CoreOS corporation was purchased by Red Hat in January 2018 for a purchase price of $250 million.[71]
Yes, we are complicit.

For some that means careful reconsideration of petrochemical usage, with the intent of gradually reducing usage and focusing on alternatives and strategic workarounds for the post peak-oil future.

For other's that means "drill-baby-drill" and race to bottom out the price of oil to the point where it's cheaper than water (actually, it already is if you consider bottled drinking water)-- without consideration for the fact that petroleum is a finite resource and there's no "free-refill".
How do you conclude that it 'works great' for your company?
Do truth-in-advertising laws apply if IBM were to change course from a stated goal?
I've really got to wonder at the people who would stay at a company that treated them like utter garbage ... especially if they're experienced ... and especially in this job market.
Where do you see any of that represented in Red Hat's business performance? Their growth has been strong the last five years and shows no sign of high stress or decline being imminent. They're tracking to solidly double their sales over four years from the end of fiscal 2015.
IBM to Acquire Red Hat
My perception is that IBM (and HP, Oracle, etc) will buy a product company, and then IBM-ify it, and then just sit on that product for years with minimal improvements.

That is my fear for Red Hat. Successful product companies are hungry - IBM is not.
This resonates with me more easily than the tone of the OP. Slack is a very good tool. For some reason, bashing it is all the rage now, but most of the criticism is misplaced and unsubstantial. FWIW, I use Slack even though I work alone, just because the integration with various 3rd parties makes it a fantastic notifications hub (which I can silence/relay/amplify at will).
As a Red Hat employee (opinions my own, not Red Hat's, etc) and though not involved in any discussions like this, I can see some potential for it being a good move. There's a lot of work being done to a) move things from mainframe to distributed and b) help people squeeze the last bits of utility out of their mainframes. That requires knowledge on both sides of the house.

The world is going to open-source distributed systems built on commodity hardware, which Red Hat has done a great job of building a business model around. For old established companies, though, the migration is a lot of work, and there are _definitely_ still plenty of large companies who have purchased/leased mainframes for long periods of time, and would like to modernize, but also can't afford to throw everything away and rebuild from scratch. There's a lot of work being done already between the two companies to run Go, Docker, Kubernetes, etc, on mainframe, and for companies with mainframe resources, being able to get a little more utility out of those sunk costs is very attractive, and something Red Hat's expertise has (and would continue to, presumably) help accomplish.

That being said, I'm pretty surprised at the news, and I'll be watching closely to see how things go.
Stripe is also on Ruby. I think we should separate Ruby and Rails in performance comparison. Python and Ruby are definitely on the same scale.

>Shopify is likely the largest RoR site at 80k requests per second but since it's served as tons of different domains it doesn't really count.

And Different DB etc... Last time I said this I got massively downvoted for it. I think Github is possibly the largest RoR site out there.
I bought an electric scooter (Zoom Stryder EX). It's really fun and works really well for my 4 mi commute.

However, it's pretty hard to get into the habit of riding 23min to work when I can drive in 11min. Also I like to listen to podcasts in the car, and I don't feel comfortable doing that on a scooter (I feel like I need to monitor surroundings more.)
>Red Hat to operate as a distinct unit within IBM’s Hybrid Cloud team

I read this as "everything aside from the cloud stuff will be gutted"?
I think that hosting the jdk sources using a bunch of Python scripts on top of mercurial was a big mistake, or perhaps it was not a mistake when Java was opensourced more than 10 years ago, but it's a mistake now to not use gitlab/github.
As you said the mercurial repository as stability issues, and when it works, it's super slow.

Java need a previous version of java to bootstrap because javac is written in Java. And you don't need x11 if you build the headless version.

For Graal, the goal is to replace c1 and c2 (the two JITs used by Hotspot and written in C) by Graal in order to have only one JIT written in Java. But Graal is competing with c2 which has tuned over two decades, so currently you can choose if you want to use c1/c2 or c1/Graal when running Java. We know that Twitter is running Graal in production, i've no more info on that.
It Red hat and later canonical were bought by some companies.

This is going to be a big setback to open-source software as both compaines contribute a lot to Linux distroes.

Smaller companies will find it hard to rely or choose a distribution.

If IBM acquires Red hat, I hope they leave it alone.
Titanic II to set sail in 2022, following original route
>But is his work really worth putting him on the same pedestal as Newton?

Sure. Hawking's work greatly extended our understanding of black holes is fascinating and important to our understand of both the origin of the universe and it's ultimate demise. For the question of "What was the Universe prior to the Big Bang", the Hartle-Hawking state is, at current, one of our best answers - likely a singularity of both space and time, meaning that the idea of a boundary for the beginning of time isn't something that actually exists.

Newtonian physics are important in that at the energy and mass levels we experience life in, they work out to be close enough to how things actually work as to not be meaningfully distinct.

But they're not actually (the most) correct. Special relativity, general relativity, and quantum mechanics show that we have more correct understandings of physics than Newton's, and certain ideas of Newton's are incompatible with our current understanding. Gravity is an interesting and simple one - with Newtonian physics, the apple falls to earth. However, Galileo would have disagreed with Newton, had they been able to discuss the topic. Leibniz did disagree. Newton was a believer in an absolute frame of reference in the universe, whereas the underpinning of general relativity is that all frames of reference are relative - that if you use the apple as your frame of reference, it is the earth falling towards it. And this wasn't something new that came from Einstein and Hilbert - Galileo recognized this, Leibniz recognized this, etc. Even when Newton was using Galileo's principal of relativity to develop Newtonian physics, he diverged on this fairly central part.

In fact, the work of Einstein and others has shown us that gravity is almost certainly not a force at all, that mass is not attracting mass over a distance.

TLDR: Newtonian physics aren't actually "correct", yet we venerate him because of how important of a body of work they are. Hawking's work on black holes and singularities is important to our understanding of where the universe came from and how it will end.
This was improved over recent months by Slack.
The comparison of AI to the Internet doesn’t really make sense: “nerds” are still the ones building out applications; only difference is that those applications can be used by a wider audience. The comparison could be that “nerds” build out AI systems, and that they’re used by wider audiences—this is what is already happening; look at assistants like Siri or Alexa, recommendation systems like YouTube’s, etc.

I think what this article is getting at, is the notion that AI will become “professionalized”: the role of “AI specialist” will be as common place as software engineers; the salary premium will close. All of this is banking on, however, the idea that AI systems will needed and be implemented by most companies—which I disagree with.
It seems that what you are describing though would tend over time to result in a search engine that is principally geared towards returning commercial results rather than amateur/hobbyist results since the interests of search/potential advertisers are always going to be in closer alignment then hobbyists who will almost never be running an ad campaign.

This has been my main criticism of Google's direction the last 15 years or so. Seems like search results use to populate handsomely with personal sites and blogs run by hobbyists uninterested in extracting a dollar from the visitor. If the search results could return either (a) a link to a book sold on Amazon or (b) some Phd's site discussing the topic it seems likely that (a) wins and (b) gets buried somewhere on page 2.
Reactive Sudoku solver using custom elements with lit-element
I've read this article three times now on HN and it's not yet had much response....

Is it the blatant self promotion? It does touch on a few real points though, that one would expect would strike a cord.

> You can’t buy up a big bookstore and then a big diaper store and a big pet supply store and, finally, a big grocery store, national newspaper, and rocket ship and then act surprised when people start wondering if maybe you’re a bit too powerful."

I've been thinking about this specifically. How long until there is government interference?
But I'm not talking about VR, I'm talking about AR, which is basically enhancing the real world with digital imaging. This is the same what the room is doing with projectors. But AR has more benefits, such as being mobile, projecting anywhere you look at, etc. You can QR code any object you want.
You are spreading false information. This is absolutely not correct.
This is a good answer.

I say this because most applied research is not done in a manner that would meed any kind of academic standards.

When you look at this history of the Valley, it has more to do with dropouts than PhDs - rather, it has more to do with 'those doing' than 'getting credentials'.

I almost feel that for the most part PhDs belong in Academia, and that whatever high-end work we do in industry should be called something else.
How do 10 days of no water not result in certain death?
i have exactly opposite way of thinking, they should prove i stole something, not me worrying about carrying receipts during multiple shops visits
Judging by IBM’s history over the last 20 years I suspect this is akin to putting Satan at the wheel and giving him a bottle of Jack Daniels.

Several layers of abstraction down the line I get the feeling this will hurt us ansible and centos users now they have been pulled under the umbrella.

What happened to companies standing tall and alone?
What is Gab, the fringe social network used by Pittsburgh shooting suspect?
Sorry, but giving out potentially harmful "medical" advice is certainly a reason to have a comment flagged.
Red Hat has a significant remote workforce. IBM famously fired theirs. Can we expect IBM to do the same to Red Hat's?
Editors: This really should be the top link. Additionally, there's more detail in the email sent to RedHat employees, published here:

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-ibm-creating-leading-...

Edit: Notably, from Jim Whitehurst's email:

> ... When the transaction closes, as I noted above, [Red Hat] will be a distinct unit within IBM and I will report directly to [IBM chair, president, and CEO] Ginni [Rometty].
Show HN: Image Recognition and Face Detection API
R.I.P. Red Hat.
Their J9 JDK alongside with WebSphere AS.
Welp, just as I got hired to work at Red Hat. :(
This is terrible news, I really hope this deal does not go through, get blocked by shareholders or by anti-trust laws.

I also remember that IBM is not doing good - profits are decreasing and their software and services division fail to produce any innovation for the last years.

Did IBM need to buy whole RH to strengthen their cloud offering? Couldnt they just partnered with RH cloud division, leaving RH Core team independent?
RH fell behind the times. Their paradigm of a stable though an older kernel was suitable for the times when kernel wasn't that stable and things in the industry were developed slower than today. I work in a big enterprise space and usually we do Ubuntu if we can and SUSE Enterprise if we can't :), i recently tried Docker/Kubernetes on a recent RHEL - looking at the kernel version i already didn't expect the stuff to work and of course it didnt work (no complete namespaces features support). Their push for their own custom software platform instead is a good match for IBM.
It seems like most of the private companies who act in the public's interest are newer ones that are either run by a founder, or still influenced by the original founders ideas from not long ago. Does anybody know of any good counter-examples off hand? A lot of older/larger corporation have pretty bad reputations

(I guess I mean as core business practices, not just "we had a good quarter and can hire some extra interns to give them a start in their careers / donate to that art exhibit")
A nitpick: OpenShift is a project founded directly by Red Hat.
In the case of "virtual restaurants", centralized, high volume kitchens are much more cost efficient - for example they can get salmon for $6/pound instead of the $9-$11/pound restaurants pay, and can save maybe up to 85% on labor.

So thinking that a small business could play in the "virtual restaurant" industry, is probably not realistic.
Oracle2.0.

Good news for fedora thou
Progressive taxes focus on income, not on wealth.

Very few people get wealthy from income (in part because it's taxed so heavily). Usually, wealth comes from capital growth.

Wealth taxes focus on wealth. Unfortunately, it's very hard to reliably tax wealth because making wealth tax efficient is highly incentivized at every level: not just offshore vehicles, tax exiles etc., but also governments trying to encourage investment effectively subsidize wealthy people increasing their wealth.
This is a cloud play ... But they're like late by a decade, hmm interesting times!
This is the CEO of DDG deliberately spreading FUD to innocent people on platforms like Quora in my book. And he's a regular visitor there hijacking many threads promoting his business. I reported his out of place promotional answers once or twice, saying if the CEO of a company is spamming, will it not count as a spam (as opposed to normal people)? Quora didn't remove the answer, for some reason. This one is of course a slightly relevant answer here, but again with his usual dose of competitor bashing and spreading FUD that is a little out of taste for me personally.

Also, may be he's speaking it just for the sake of promotion and doesn't take it too seriously himself, but the quality of search results can definitely be greatly improved when you know more about a person than just their search keywords (or even their country). If he actually believes what he says on Quora, I won't place my bet on his business doing too great in the future.

1. The first example (what he writes in his answer) - when I type "dishwasher" in DDG, every shopping website it lists on the first page is from USA, and I don't even live in the same continent. Even when I enable my country results through the button shown on top of the page, the shopping websites are not even the top ones in my country. When I type that in Google, it lists not only the top e-sellers in the country, the most popular local stores in my area as well. What will the advertisers achieve when they don't even know which place I live in? Who will sell me that dishwasher?

2. When I type Zoo, it's pretty damn clear I want to search a zoo in my area. DDG's results even when country is enabled are plain stupid. Write in Google, and it tells me exactly what I want to know.

3. When I type 'Jaguar' in the search box, all top link results are of the Jaguar car, but all the top image results are the Jaguar animal. Google is much more consistent here.

I can give tens of examples of why personalization of search results is not that bad an idea for the value it adds. Of course, there are very important negative side effects to it, and that's why we have DDG. But I would have respected his opinion much more had he acknowledged that personalization of search results adds a great value, but also has other consequences, like any balanced personal who can see both sides of a coin.
> Whats the issue with your home not being worth the debt you took on?

Good point. The problem would arise if I lost my job, had to broaden the cities I apply to jobs for and I had to sell my house to move to a new city.

Presumably, the market would contract forcing employers to downsize. My employer would downsize and I would get caught up in it. I would then have to choose to keep the house but limit my job prospects or cast a wider net by applying in other cities. At that point, I would have to realize a loss on my house, potentially tapping into my already constrained finances.

However; best case scenario I wouldn't lose my job and I get to weather a deleveraging in the house I just bought.
I agree that for the dominant tech titans, reducing costs is the next phase. Amazon has saturated the US market for Prime accounts...Apple has found a near-term ceiling for phone prices...etc etc

The most obvious tool for juicing margins in the next two years is in reducing costs (headcount or salaries)
No. They can do whatever they want.
Big BlueHat
So now everyone will be wearing blue pyjamas and talk about Watson while not delivering anything.

Seriously.

Can anyone explain why this would be good?
The author tries to take a correlation ("crazy people say crazy things online") and argue it's causation ("crazy things online make people go crazy in real life").

We've seen this argument a million times before with the boogeyman du jour. For example: heavy metal and video games caused Columbine.

The problem is that violent crime has dropped as internet use has gone up. And violent crime has also dropped since social media first became a thing. So even if this is "a thing" -- it's not a widespread trend.

Personally I don't think the medium matters. If Columbine or Ruby Ridge or Waco or Oklahoma City or 9/11 happened today, I'm sure all of these people would have some sort of social media trail for us to look at and say, "a ha, this is why this person was radicalized!" followed by, "Twitter and Facebook and Google need to do a better job censoring their platforms."
Red Hat tends to employ people through offices in low/moderate COL areas or as fully remote. It would have been my #1 prospect after leaving the Bay Area. People who've already established lives in places like Raleigh may not find a comparable job so easily.
Students can get a mortgage without proof of income https://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/vancouver/canadi...

I can't imagine it can get more blatant than that
Just to confirm, PL means “programming language”?
Can anyone walk me through the reasoning behind all this IBM hatred? What's going on? I thought they just sell mainframes.
Went they the primary driver of eclipse?