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> Lisp machines were always meant as workstations for programmers rather than office users

Lisp Machine were initially developed inhouse (MIT, Xerox, BBN, ...) as workstations for AI software development. They were also used for early non-AI stuff, since they were object-oriented, had a GUI and were hardware extensible.

The commercialization by Xerox, Symbolics, LMI, TI, and some others did also address developers initially - but at some point in time the machines were also deployed in machine rooms in production as servers or as systems for 'end users'.
That happened once interesting software was developed and need to deploy - remember that the early stuff was all financed by the military and they also deployed some of the stuff which got developed - some really fancy stuff like battle simulation systems, where the Lisp Machine created and maintained virtual worlds for training soldiers.

For example Symbolics sold a whole range of machines and software to graphics&animation. A lot of the early computer graphics you saw on TV were done on Symbolics machines. The users then were graphics artists, animators, 3d graphics experts, ... Thus the user interfaces and the machines themselves needed to be made end-user friendly. A bunch of the machines were deployed in production. For example Swissair used a software running on TI explorers to optimize the sales of flight tickets - it was interfaced to their booking software running on mainframes. It was extremely difficult to port that software away from the TI Explorer and for many years they bought all remaining used TI Explorers all around the globe to keep their system running - long after TI has exited that business. There are a bunch of other users of Lisp machines who were not programmers - for example in military.

It was also thought that Lisp Machines could run as embedded systems in weapon systems (autonomous submarines, cruise missiles, ...), onboard a space station, and in other settings - that was then not really happening. But for example AT&T Lucent had a Symbolics designed Lisp Machine board for a rack-mounted installation and they were switching nodes in a telephony network switch. Thus the operating system of that Lisp Machine was stripped down for use in embedded systems (called Minima).
Yeah sure I just meant they aren't just saying it's awesome and not actually use it. I don't know about ATP but a lot of the apps that sponsor Mac Power Users are apps the hosts used before sponsorship was even considered, so I trust them a bit more.
Not every college is free in Germany.
Security is an arms race, in a quite literal sense of the term.

Arms races don't really ever end, except for truces/treaties or total victory.
Trade dress

I got an inkling from the word combination and context. Looked it up anyway:

Trade dress protection is intended to protect consumers from packaging or appearance of products that are designed to imitate other products; to prevent a consumer from buying one product under the belief that it is another.

Trade dress is a legal term of art that generally refers to characteristics of the visual appearance of a product or its packaging (or even the design of a building) that signify the source of the product to consumers.[1] Trade dress is a form of intellectual property.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dress
Slightly different subject but does anyone know the state of play in (for want of better term) "public mesh" provision - having routers talk directly to neighboring routers and forming advocates local networks (possibly with mobile included?)

It's an area I often think could truly bring about decentralisation but it seems quiet
I'm not making $200k. And if I was living in a place where I could make $200k, then I certainly wouldn't be able to save $80k -- not when the average 1BR apartment in that area was going for $2100 per month in 2013, and there has been at least 20% YOY compound growth in the years since.
Your version number is an IP address. Among the many problems that can occur, like leaving out --ppapi-flash-version= or putting a space after it:

exec /usr/bin/chromium --ppapi-flash-path=/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libpepflashplayer.so --ppapi-flash-version=$(grep version /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/manifest.json | cut -d '"' -f 4) "$@"

If it is for vanity then as another comment suggested include it in the name:

python3 --version
In the time it took to write this comment I rewrote Windows 10 in rust twice.
HHVM 4.0.0
> RPCs failing is not really a problem.

Hmm...

1. Software applications are written with little error-handling on networking errors. During a network outage, such applications may stall or infinitely wait for an answer packet, permanently consuming memory or other resources. When the failed network becomes available, those applications may also fail to retry any stalled operations or require a (manual) restart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_compu...

Infinite retries aren't "not really a problem". If the server isn't there or can't be reached, it isn't there or can't be reached. This is not a problem software/infrastructure can paper over transparently. You can try your best to mitigate, but that's hard, and often makes things worse.

I remember a colleague trying out CouchDB. His takeaway was that all error-recovery attempts by distributed CouchDB servers made things worse. So you could use it as a semi-decent single-instance DB, but mercy on your soul should you be so brazen as to attempt to use the distribution features.

> heavy investment in microservice tooling.

And what percentage of microservices is that?

> costs in terms of infrastructure and latency

>> Or if they don't fail outright, have unpredictable latencies

Hmm...
You be seriously claiming that? It's literally an easily provable falsehood. Just because there are some pension funds investing in stocks and VCs doesn't mean it's a meaningful component, they are one of the smallest pieces of the pie.

Your comment is quite literally just wrong. Your average American has relatively no direct stake in financial systems. Notice the word "average". Most people on HN tend to mistake that for meaning them. You are not average if you have enough wealth to think that investing money is normal, even in pensions. Estimates of the percent market investment tied up in pensions is something between 5% and 15%

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2013/ted_20130103.htm
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/13/heres-how-many-americans-hav...
https://protectpensions.org/2018/01/02/united-states-without...
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That is easy. Go to https://www.usresistnews.org/profiles/colin-kaepernick-found... and donate.
Today's middle class fair better than medieval royalty. So what?

We're not comparing today's poor to yesteryear's.

We're comparing today's poor to today's robber barons.
They don't pay me, but I love eero and so do my friends who have them. I'd believe that power user podcasters would, too.
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But is there any evidence that debatable calls (or no-calls) are cheating? Or is it just human error, compounded by the facts that (A) the rules are too complicated, (B) not everything is reviewable, and (C) officials aren't full-time NFL employees?
> If you don't currently have a cash flow that would allow you to make a $500/month student loan payment, don't take out that loan.

Student loans are all about future earnings potential, right? This argument seems to fall apart when you realize you aren't shopping for a mortgage or car that you can _currently_ pay for.
The progressive to-do list could add a whole slew of other things. How about free housing, electricity, internet, food, clothes, phones for all? But at what cost?

The thing I don't get about the socialist movement in America is where does it stop? Aren't we supposed to make our own living?

I think if you know someone who is in need, then help them. I can't take this idea that it's the government's job to take care of everyone.
Amazingly some people do have principles.
It terrifies me how entrenched the Google suite is becoming, and more 'open' APIs will surely further that position. It's the default for most community / cross org collaboration and note-taking in my line of work. A huge amount of stuff gets done in Google docs.

And then Google ban your account for some random reason and you're suddenly barred from participating, your voice can no longer be heard, and who knows what happens to your existing contributions. I've not seen it happen first hand, but there are enough stories of people getting frozen out.

One alternative, which the Wikimedia community use, is Etherpad. It's ok for text editing but less polished.

People talk on HN about moral decisions about Google / Facebooke employees. Should that level of scrutiny apply to 3rd party plugin authors who help consolidate market share?
I don’t deliberately go out my way to offend anyone but nor can I be responsible for offending someone looking to be offended, it’s a fine line.

Though this thread has been fascinating.
How? By restoring the marginal tax of 70% to income over $10m?
> How much did college cost in Germany?

Most universities in Germany are public and thus quite cheap. But note that while they are quite good in terms of quality of education, there is hardly any handholding offered. Many Germans say that this is two birds with one stone:

1. Mostly free tertiary education

2. Students learn a lot of self-responsibility

So it is a very different system from the one in the US.

So it makes much more sense to compare US universities with the few private universities in Germany. Under https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19139246 I wrote something about that topic. TLDR: If a university does not make an offer that you can pay off your "tuition" by a fixed amount of the salary that you earn in the next 10-15 years after graduating, you should be wary, since this shows that the university does not believe that its respective course of studies will (in average) give a decent salary to its graduates.
There are lots of details, but I would vote that it should be fairly simple, and connected to few facts beyond your IRS income. There should be no incentive to rent a bigger house, or move to an expensive city, beyond the usual salary/rent tradeoffs. (And no cliff-edges, so perhaps it's max 15% of the income above twice the poverty line?)
You can somewhat combat that hurry up and wait attitude by making yourself feel more scarce. I typically say something along the lines of getting booked often and quickly so I can’t make any promises on being available after one week. This puts some pressure on them to respond within a week. In most cases if I haven’t heard back in 2-3 days they are gone for good.
People used slower-than-C languages throughout the 1980's and onward: for instance BASIC-s (eventually Microsoft's Visual Basic starting in 1991), Ashton-Tate's dBase and its derivatives ("xBase").
What exactly is .Net in this context? Every time I think I understand it someone throws a curve ball. Is it c#? Is it a set of libraries?
Most skis still have wood cores. Nearly all freeride/powder skis.

And while I love throwback equipment for a sport like golf, skiing is dangerous enough that I'd rather have the best modern equipment available.
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Yeah, there's a reasons that the safety was introduced.
Both you and OP are conflating "woman" and "female" (i.e. gender and biological sex).
Regardless of whether or not Elway was being misleading, the problem is that Kaepernick is suing the NFL because he says there is collusion to keep him out of the league. The plain fact is that he can't get a job in the league because he's too expensive.

Before last season he met with the Seahawks about the backup position and apparently wanted anywhere from $3-5 million to be the backup. There are very few teams that would waste that salary cap space for a backup QB, when that can pay for another player or two who can actually contribute to the games. The Seahawks declined signing him, and got a backup that only cost them $700k for the season.

It's hard to win a collusion case when you have job offers but you just don't like what they are paying.
I've been using Eero for our home wifi for several years now. It works reasonably well and the family settings are great for controlling screen time for my kids.

I also use it to help control my own screen time. With eero I can set up a schedule to force myself to unplug from work and the internet on a regular basis.

I'm hoping Amazon makes Eero Plus free for prime users.
This is such a great analogy.
> I find myself reading the news backwards; rather than "the brain uses space-orientation to map other things", it's like "it's interesting how many things can be represented in a space-like manner that we may not have otherwise thought they could be".

It could actually be spatially related in the brain too. Neurons are situated spatially and spatial constraints, ie. they have a limited number of connections, and the closer two neurons are spatially, the faster they can signal each other. The neuronal connections also rewire each other based on reinforcement, which could very well consistent of moving related concepts closer in your physical brain (at least important ones).
What about when you want a concurrency safe language? You can still have concurrency bugs, like race conditions in languages that are only memory safe.
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Where can I find the original presentation from Microsoft's engineer?
Does traffic that currently goes through Eero products also go through their cloud servers if they have any? I don’t have these products so am wondering if this is something they do. For sure it’ll be an area of concern.
That doesn't explain why Jen or Karyn in the article took out large loans for vanity degrees.

People make bad decisions at every age. The way to fix this problem is to make colleges suffer penalties for loan defaults. Then maybe they would think twice about selling onw year vanity grad degrees for $50K to people who can't afford it.
These are fungible. (We're already averaging out volatility)
That sounds like a nasty surprise. Could have bought your dad a few weeks' unpaid leave (in Monaco!) if you'd known. I didn't know (but am not that surprised, sadly) that they re-calculated every year.
> Why go to grad school if the school isn't paying you to be there?

Because you need to in order to be a doctor / psychologist / counselor / MBA.
At the end of the first chunk just ret. When the second chunk is generated, also emit a thunk which calls the first chunk and then calls the second chunk. Should be quite nice and efficient and will leverage the return history buffer. You're right, this stuff is fun.
I think gp means that this code is allowed to be used in products that choose to limit the end users freedoms.

(I don't mean that as a plus or negative, but as just a statement on one of the largest philosophical differences between the bsd-style and gpl licenses: Who's freedoms are being protected? Those of the final end user or those of the developer?)
Hah, followed this twitter post, https://twitter.com/LaurenGoode/status/1095084761796685824, from another commenter that leads to the Eero CEO on an episode of Too Embarrassed to Ask from 2017. This question from the interviewer is now pretty ironic:

> KS: I say one of the biggest things is that you don’t want Google messing around in your home. Honestly, half of my decisions are made like that, and now I don’t want as much Amazon in there because I buy everything now because I’m at Whole Foods. It’s fascinating. Part of it is that idea as an independent. You don’t want those two or three companies to really dominate every single data interaction you have, which is a plus for you guys, presumably.

> Our business model is to sell you a premium product and that’s our business.

From https://www.recode.net/2017/8/11/16135384/transcript-eero-ce...
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God, what an inane example of pedantry.

I have an idea for a version string format, and you know what? I’m going to keep it to myself because it is obvious to me that know one could ever possibly care enough to read half a word about it.
No. Never. Graduated high school in '88. All I heard from infancy was the 'Education!' chant. It was understood that 'Education!' was the answer and the rest would fall into place. Every degree is equally valid and damn anyone that dares claim otherwise.

No thought given to the fact that a large fraction of people aren't really capable of intellectually challenging tasks and professional class behavior, and I mean from the womb.

Just 'Education! Education!'
This is actually correct.

Wealth and Democracy: How Great Fortunes and Government Created America's Aristocracy by Kevin Phillips

https://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Democracy-Fortunes-Government-...

Similarly, the USA previously decided three times to explicitly create its middle class. The New Deal, the Homestead Act, etc. Policy choices which were hard fought and narrowly won.
This paper's an interesting read, about writing an OS in Go:

The benefits and costs of writing a POSIX kernel in a high-level language

https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi18/presentation/cutler
I have a soft spot for Semitic Versioning [0] myself.

I don't know. Great artists know when to stop. I can't help but feel that this discussion crossed that line some time ago.

[0] https://github.com/ajalt/fuckitpy#versioning
Ubiquiti's consumer stuff is kind of bad (AmpliFi). I like their small business grade gear however (Unifi, and EdgeMax). Definitely wouldn't recommend it to most consumers however, it is Prosumer/Enthusiast level or above.
It’s not imo.

I mean theoretically my 2700X has slight worse performance per core (though not at the same price point, not fair to compare a 350 processor with a 600+) but it doesn’t matter when I have webpack running with 4 threads, type checking on a separate thread, a DB server and IntelliJ all running with not remotely a stutter.
Wait until you look at a general purpose cross-application robotic process automation tool.

The only reason they don't have more penetration into dev mindshare is because their tech stacks are generally in the dark ages (looking at you, BluePrism and Automation Anywhere!).

That said, I've been pretty happy with UiPath, both from an openness perspective and a technical one. They've got a free trial license to test drive it too, which is nice compared to the usual "Call us for a quote" sales BS.

https://www.uipath.com/developers/community-edition-download

If anyone wants to chat enterprise process automation, feel free to hit me on email. It's been my weird niche for the past few years. Username.co at gmail.
Nope, I don't think anyone who disagrees with me didn't read the article.

The thing is, logical people when they read about 3 deaths per year don't propose applying the same social burden as to avoid 100,000.

You ask questions, but don't answer. How about addressing the fact that a comparison of something that costs 88,000 lives to 3/year is grossly out of line? How about you write out exactly what you propose instead of innuendos? Maybe include pros and cons without any hand waving? You know, dealing with those details you seem to support.

Using reason means understanding 3 < 88,000. It's not opinion. That's logic.

I didn't say you were inferior. I said you were emotive and didn't use reason: if you can't handle such a call out, then you might not have a place in a serious discussion. We've all been there; having taken unreasonable stances. Whether you choose to stay there is your choice.

How about addressing privacy concerns for LGBT?

How about you answering questions on margin of error improvement based on the proposed changes? After all, you are the one proposing new things; the burden to prove your new solutions good is on you. Not that you have shown any desire of understanding this burden of proof thing. Asking for changes WHILE requesting others prove your numbers... it shows such a lack of understanding of how dialectics work. Reverse burden of proof isn't opinion, again, that is fact; you are wanting a change that you are asking others to prove/disprove.

Your opinion on inappropriate behavior is, as you used to put my perspective down, just that, your opinion. Last, you telling me what to do is... laughably authoritarian.
I don't understand what you mean by conservation of gravity. Do you mean conservation of mass? There is literally nothing else than mass and some universal constants that determine the gravitational force.

As for "no magnetic monopoles" - this one isn't actually a law, there's nothing in any of our physical theories that says you cannot have magnetic monopoles, it's just that experimentally nobody's ever found one (and we've looked pretty hard).

It's important to note about magnetic monopoles that the magnets we know are not made up of magnetic monopoles, they are made up of magnetic dipoles. No matter how small pieces you break a magnet into, even going down towards atom-sized bits, the pieces still have a north and a south pole.
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Not that Cutler, phew.
Don't omptimizers already do quite a lot of analysis to output what you mean rather than what you say? I can think of quite a lot of bitwise shift/and and shift/or patterns that should be automatically convertible to single-instruction pext/pdep's
Generally speaking getting a visa after you are accepted is pretty easy. Your visit has structure, a clear deadline, and nay number of student/internship/etc visas may apply.

Visas for “I just wanna go to USA for a meeting” are harder if you aren’t from a visa waiver country.

(funnilly if you are from visa waiver land, getting visa after acceptance is more work than for the interview because you actually need one)
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I see the inherited wealth of opportunity and culture. I don't see the "be born rich and hoard your wealth with an iron fist". I'm not trying to keep the children of factory workers from valuing college, or trying to make it impossible for them to go. I'm trying to encourage them to go, and to choose majors that will let them get decent jobs. The wealth that you're talking about, I'm trying to give away.
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Most mutations are dead ends. Consider CRISPR to be an affordable scanning tunneling microscope-like device that you can use to move atoms around fairly easily. Now consider how hard it would be to take an x86 CPU and add a new instruction or change some existing instructions using that device. Most changes you make simply won't produce a functional CPU.

You could do it entirely by accident, but it's very unlikely.
Everything is expensive in AK.
Yes, I don’t think race conditions should feature in a list of memory safety issues. However page faults can be not fine - on some hardware it can be a hard fault.