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So they have multiple 'threads', but those threads work sequentially? Why do they even design like this in the first place? Doesn't have any benefits right?
This is interesting but how was this not wildly known already? I feel I've read plenty of articles summing up the same idea. Pumping more oxygen leads to better performance throughout the entire body?
I cannot possibly imagine that this would result in a net gain of users.
No mention of power output anywhere I can find, so I guess that's classified?

It must be stupid high if they don't think "Oh, I guess we have to shield our electronics now..." is going to be a valid countermeasure.
At that point you’re really not writing C++ at all; you’re writing assembly in a .cpp file.
The whole idea of fiat currency is a centralized power e.g. a government to control the printing, security and value of money.

How/why is a corporation better? A corporation's main goal is to profit.
Will they actually develop from scratch or just clone android?
Wow, did dang really remove all the replies to his comment? Here's what it looked like a few hours ago; it was still open in my browser. https://u.teknik.io/pD724.png

Those comments were generally respectful; I saw no reason to remove them. Seems over-zealous to get rid of any disagreement with a moderator's decision.
A bit, yes. Except in cases where people make money from a limited avaiable fund, by lying.
You don't need to involve streaming, though that is an option. You could do like we used to do with some personal computers and just have an add-on board that ran some other arch and OS. Between that, virtualization, emulation, and WINE-like compat layers you should be able to run just about anything.
LOTS of security companies do code reviews and constantly looking for security holes in OSS, it is after all a huge feather in their cap and reputation boost to find holes and earn the big $$. Imagine if they were able to find a deliberate hole in NSA provided UEFI code.
"limited available fund" ah yes, the software industry really does barely manage to scrape by, good point.
> Better?

I can empathize with your enthusiasm that you can improve the situation a little on the surface, which feels like an achievement, but frankly, I think the code still sucks a lot... There's no way I could sustain writing the kind of code I like to write in this fashion.

From an engineering standpoint, using this was probably a poor choice (again, think error messages, tooling, mindshare...)

The metaprogramming code looks ugly and brittle to me, although I'm not in a position to judge.
> funds are invested in "a collection of low-volatility assets, such as bank deposits and short-term government securities in currencies from stable and reputable central banks."

They're underestimating how difficult it will be to avoid losing money.

Bank deposits So what if Facebook and their partners don't park their reserves in mortgages and derivatives if their banking intermediaries do? Banks routinely go insolvent in recessions and financial crises.

Short-term government securities Which are currently paying negative interest rates in "stable" and "reputable" nations like Germany and Japan.

A "negative interest rate" means you buy a government obligation for $1000, and a year later you get back $997.

Can Libra reserves earn a high enough return to (a) fund their admin and security apparatus, (b) cover insolvent partners and institutions, and (c) cover fraud and abuse?

It's clear from the whitepaper that there is no upside to holding this currency, but it's not at all clear that it won't "break the buck" and actually lose money.

Sooner or later, FB partners will go to a fractional reserve model and effectively convert this "cryptocurrency" into a vehicle for inflating the money supply to a multiple of actual reserves by issuing debt.

My bet is this will happen sooner rather than later, because there's zero profit in sitting on giant pile of short-term cash.
> Quebec's sweepstakes laws are designed to protect its residents from scammers and to ensure that prizes are awarded as promised.

The solution they came up with is to make the rules so complicated that there are no sweepstakes available in Quebec! Cool.
It's unlikely that the supply-demand ratio of organs will be balanced anytime soon, or if ever we will have greater supply than demand. An organ donation registry works only if there is governmental support for maintaining and respecting the wishes of those that sign-up in the registry, whether opting out or opting in. In China's case, the government has time and again shown disregard for the rights and wishes of dissidents and those that the party classifies as threat. And as such, there is slim hope of any respect shown towards their wishes and decisions. So, I am not really sure such a system will solve anything. At least till the time the Government stance remains as it is today.
There's a weird little history of the military trying to learn from mass culture. Somewhere I read a good story about a general coming to tour the Star Trek next gen bridge set. But this time it seems more like their inspiration is the Marvel Cinematic Universe…
Why are corporations like Equifax even permitted to exist in their current form, and collect data on individuals with whom they have no direct business relationship without their informed consent? These breaches will continue until we learn that data is more dangerous to retain than nuclear waste.
Worse yet, at our kroger (0), in many higher margin aisles are cameras and lcd screens hanging from the ceilings. They turn on to show the customer that they see us. You could possibly cover your face, but I'm pretty sure store personnel would ask you to leave.

My much more sardonic and dark view are that these cameras and the associated "kroger loyalty card" are going to an internal database to show how we travel through the store, what we look at, and how long. Of course, theft is an incidental plus to stop.

We already know for quite some time that Target (1) uses your credit card as the user hash, much like a loyalty card. There's no opting out of this one.

(0) https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kroger/@39.1636963,-86.589...

(1) https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
We know the payload size and weight limits of the largest launchers, so it's fairly easy to work backwards from there and calculate the maximum achievable resolving power of spy satellites. They can play some clever tricks with adaptive optics to boost clarity a little bit but obviously the stories about 1cm resolution or reading newspaper headlines from space are ludicrous.
What a complete failure of a human being he is.

Super successful businessman through viscous, cutthroat sharp practice but an awful person. No matter how he tries to reinvent his image. Some of us older people remember who he is.
It's worth noting that the website now has "WIP" annotations on many of the claims. I'm not sure how recently these were added as this thread is my introduction to the language.

My assessment (not a language designer) is that this is something that shows some promise as a transpiled language for people who want a Go-like language without some of the common pain points and are OK with having no GC.

I would add that people who do design languages seem to think it's going to be considerably harder to deliver on the WIP elements than the designer of V thinks. In particular, I note that "direct machine code generation" is a planned item (which would be required for the faster compile time that V promises), but doesn't (as of this source code release) seem to be started - could be wrong about that. Obviously you can promise whatever you want, but writing an entire machine code compiler that will run faster than GCC and equal it in performance is a difficult task.

The goals of the project remind me a lot of Nim, and I'd have preferred to see a comparison with it rather than Rust. While I don't have a use for it myself, the designer does seem sincere about their efforts. (My "ideal" language would be something closer to a lightweight version of Rust that was simpler to use, even if it slightly ate in to what you could do with it.)
I think it's safe to say a gift for wordplay is not high on the priority list of armed forces recruitment.
You are getting downvoted, but there's truth in what you say. Microsoft's idea of a phone OS was always simply a port of Windows. If fact their early efforts failed in part because they insisted on making it a port of Windows.
Also, games that work with Wine!
Rice is also full of dust and small particles which are surely not good for your electronics.

On the other hand, iFixit’s proposed solution of disassembling the device and washing it with alcohol is not going to work for an iPhone or any other sealed, glued device with special security screws, unless you already have a full repair kit in your home and ready to go when the water accident happens.
This seems hyperbolic in the context of BMGF. The man has, by proxy, done worlds of good with the money flowing there.
Drones are regulated by the FAA. Local governments can't ban them on private property.
Gates was clear in the interview, that it only applied to him. He said "for my makeup" it was applicable. He also explained that he believed: "it was possible to over mythologize the idea of working extremely hard." He also said point-blank that he doesn't recommend it.

That's the only correct position to take. Quite simply to each their own. Who is anyone else to tell me how to spend my hours? Gates is careful to make a distinction between projecting how others should be, and stating how he chose to be.
Yes, it's a high-level managerial error (or a series of them) to make a phone that people don't like. Management's job in that situation is 1) figure out what people will want and 2) make what they want.

I think that Microsoft may not have been able to do that within their existing form. People didn't want Windows on a phone; they wanted a phone with apps. Microsoft probably tied the phone too much to existing Windows, whereas Android was much more tuned to writing apps for phones.
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It truly was a epic screwup. Without iPhone, you wouldn’t have Chrome or android.
Ericsson predicts 18 billion IoT devices by 2022. Those all need code written for them. Do you still consider embedded programming a "niche"? Maybe it's one specific case, but it's relevant and ought to be "part of the discussion".

https://www.ericsson.com/en/mobility-report/internet-of-thin...
Your brain might have associated work with failure to obtain what you were sacrificing in order to work 60 hours, i.e. entertainment, play, love, family, health... (guessing).
It’s in the link at the bottom of the “What is the Google CTF?” section.
The Woodard Projection
It's disturbing that he thinks if he made good managerial decisions, and as a result he made good phones, that he thinks he would get more customers?

It's also disturbing that one of the most successful businessmen is introspective and learns from mistakes?
Keep proven bad actors and miscreants, be it government or large tech, out of establishing standards.
How? 30-something year old Bill was quite successful, and he continued to be successful.
I'm lost on the beginners task. These things always make me feel stupid.
The NSA is a huge place, you saw only a small segment. Their primary role is to spy on US and international citizens and make sure that nothing diabolical is going on. PRISM (and other programs revealed by Snowden) showed that they have no qualms about violating the Constitution and privacy rights of citizen in pursuit of their job. I am sure there are lots of good people at the NSA just working 9 to 5 feeding their families, however don't overlook that their job is to spy on anything and everything that is going across the internet in order to look for threats to the country, whether it is constitutional or not.
It was a revolutionary technology when it was deployed in Iraq. You had roadside bombs going off constantly.

The workflow was:

1. Bomb goes off

2. Plane lands, disk packs taken off, loaded into computer

3. DVR type interface, zoom to the time/place where the bomb went off.

4. Rewind. Observe some guys messing around with something on the side of the road.

5. Draw a box around their truck.

6. Run the tape forward. Computer automatically tracks the truck. Observe where truck goes back to.

7. Run the tape backward. Observe where truck came from.

8. Kick down two doors that night.

9. Integrate this with your mobile phone tracker. Observe all phones that came to either of the two addresses within a time window.

10. See what other places these phones went to. Find places that are common to multiple bombings. Repeat.

11. You now have the leadership chain.

Roadside bombs essentially stopped being a problem. This was attributed to the "Anbar Awakening", but my belief is that it was essentially due to these two technologies.
Yeah that's a good way to make everyone just skip your whole province. Just like how all the big headquarter offices moved to Toronto from Montreal in the 1970s, Quebec keeps shooting themselves in the foot. This chart shows everything you need to know:

http://www.newgeography.com/files/cox-toronto-evolve-1.png

By all means they should be the dominant city in Canada instead of Toronto, or at least equal. But they are so obsessed with mirroring France's obsession with rules.

Canada almost always ranks near the top of the Economic Freedom Indexes (higher than the US), while France is in the middle ranking below most post-soviet eastern European nation states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_Economic_Freedom
Didn't know Linux kernel had 16-bit support.
> worlds of good

Besides the bill and melinda foundation, which is funded by virtual blood money, what other good have they done?
I wonder how practical this actually is... There is of course almost no technical details provided but based on the dish this likely doesn't have more than a 30 degree beam width (and likely a smaller effective beam width).

It's impossible to tell from this video but the drone may need to stay in the beam for a certain amount of time before it gets taken out. I'm guessing this is more of a "we're heating the electronics beyond their operational capacity" than "we're inducing surges in the traces and overloading circuitry" kind of killing.

The video in that story shows it moving and it's not fast... Even a $50 toy drone can really cruise. So I'd question it's ability to track a moving target much less take out a swarm of them.
They are 3D Lissajous curves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lissajous_curve
Would not be surprised if this strange FAQ is part of the puzzle
Indeed, overqualification is usually just an excuse.

Many hiring managers are not adequately qualified to judge a candidate; so if they can just be satisfied that two candidates both have the "required" skills (the list of which is often ridiculous), the manager will want the cheaper candidate.

Unfortunately, at many companies the added cost value a more experienced candidate would bring would be wasted anyway. Unless management and upper management are high performers, a skilled senior worker will be see some of their advanced capabilities ignored or even stymied by the poor decisions above them.
Can someone explain to me what Apple gains by dropping 32-bit app support?
> You could possibly cover your face, but I'm pretty sure store personnel would ask you to leave.

Now that sounds like fun. Is there a store like this on the San Francisco Peninsula so I can try it and see what happens?
Of course it’s private information. It’s certainly not public record.

It’s possible with two of them. Great. Let me know when it’s mandatory for all of them.
I'm a Linux fanboy that hates desktop Windows with a passion.

However, both I and everyone I know that has ever used a Windows phone (there were several of us at work) absolutely loved the platform when compared to Android and iPhone. I'm running a top end Google phone and still missing my Nokia Lumia Windows Phone. That phone had a great OS and was Rock solid.

The problem was nobody wanted to give it a try. The hardware looked bad, but it honestly didn't need to be as good as Android as it wasn't as bloated. This is somewhat anecdotal, but dual core Windows Phone7 ran smoother than quad core Android at the time.
I disagree. Guaranteeing that the system behave as if operations have relative ordering is not the same as making sure an operation explicitly happens due to its side effects. They are entirely separate problems. A valid optimization for the former but not for the latter would be to coalesce redundant operations.
Didn't know that that existed... Looks really nice!!!

(Although, technically, to be really secure, you'd have to audit the entire RF spectrum AND lower frequency wavelengths, i.e., ultrasonic AND have to figure out what to do with signals that are intermittent and/or frequency hop!!! Then of course you have the power supply lines and the ability to send super-low frequency signals via all of that... In other words, you'd have to audit all wave frequencies from all connected devices, simultaneously, and keep in mind such possibilities as frequency hopping, and intermittent periods of silence... like if someone really wanted to be stealthy, they could send something like 1 byte per hour... and that hour is randomized, so it's actually a random interval between 50 and 70 minutes... and/or hide that in random radio noise... the possibilities are endless... <g> (This is why I leave security to the security people and just assume that no information is private anymore...))

But, all of that being said, your link looks really nice, and I didn't know that existed before! It looks cool and worthy of experimentation!
More specifically the obvious management error here was (tremendously) underestimating the iPhone as a product. I remember the comments from Microsoft calling it an overpriced toy, while Google was crafting their Android strategy early.

Gates appears too bitter to acknowledge this.
The link is redirecting me back to HN post. How’s this on the front page?
It’s possible that that could be the case, but it’s a poor assumption that it will be the case. Especially as it’s such a useful feature they likely would have mentioned it.
They follow Lissajous curves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lissajous_orbit
All users of windows phone I know liked it, some outright loved it. It got a number of design decisions right.

Lumia hardware was good, and the camera was more than excellent. Software was lacking but it could be improved to maturity.

Too bad we now have two players and not three or four (blackberry). This is indeed not because of lack of engineering prowess or customer interest.
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Seems like the same rationale as cooperative multitasking modes for RTOSs on microcontrollers without memory protection - each "thread" might handle different I/O requirements (polling game controller button input, setting up the next frame on the GPU, filling the sound buffer, etc.), and as long as none of them crash, they can all get enough CPU time to be soft-realtime.
How would you do something like this [1] using those?

[1] https://godbolt.org/z/Aj5bJ8
That’s less of a surface area to support, maintain, or to have to worry about security vulnerabilities.
Does someone do in-depth posts/videos/talks about any of these (Google or FB) CTF challenges by breaking up what is happening, what, why and how they tried per challenege and how did they finally come to the solution step-by-step?

These things have always intimidated me and I'd love to know more.
I know a few folks that bought backups and run them to this day.
He hasn't lied about anything.

If you do a search in these comments for people who have actually given him money, I think you'll find that none of us have done so under the pretense that all the features he listed on the website are finished.

We're also not "buying" anything. We're supporting a developer who is writing a language we would like to one day use. How else is it going to get written? Do we expect somebody to toil away in obscurity for no pay for 5+ years first?

I would consider it money well spent even if he never finishes it. I'm voting for the language I want with my wallet.

Yes, this opens me up to making me feel like a sucker if he is a scam artist. But, he's delivered things in the past and he's delivered things even since the last conversation. Most frauds don't ship.
I think some jurisdictions have laws requiring that, probably as an anti-gambling thing.
Unlimited vacation is literal for me. I will abuse the shit out of it until told otherwise. Quite frankly, it doesn’t bother me one bit.
Enjoy your two-weeks. A lot of companies in the valley now have "No Allocated Vacation" - which, in many scenarios, means you get Christmas off and that's about it for quite a stretch. (And also, of course, means they don't have to pay out your vacation when you leave - as you never had any coming to you)
They say that the next best solution is to just leave the powered off (assembled) phone exposed to air.
So why bother at all? Just give it some different name altogether.
> they insisted on making it a port of Windows

They rushed it and used Windows CE when they realized they were too far behind.
> The earth is not a point, nor is the moon or any other body.

From a gravitational perspective, this doesn’t matter as long as you’re outside of the body: you can treat the object as a point mass located where the center was.
What I find interesting is that he still doesn’t realize that because Microsoft was dominant in specific plays (desktop OSes, productivity software, e-mail clients) it was precluded by internal culture from innovating on mobile.

Their success blinded them to the fact that mobile and tablets comprised a completely different functional and experiential environment, and so they kept pushing a “Windows everywhere, Outlook everywhere” strategy that failed to create a smartphone market they initially owned, failed to take advantage of the business mobile market Blackberry created, failed to take advantage of the premium consumer mobile market Apple created, and failed to take advantage of the mass consumer mobile market Android created (despite their last bite at the mobile OS apple — so to speak — being quite good).

Nothing breeds failure quite like success even, evidently, in hindsight.
> Without iPhone, you wouldn’t have Chrome or android.

How is that?
I know that. Or at least assumed that. I just wanted to clarify what my GP was asking as I felt people were taking it too literal.

Like how women in the US carry purses. I've never been to another country. Do all cultures use purses? If they do is it both genders or only one? I don't know.
Microsoft owned the smartphone market with CE, once palm went under. But they let it languish. You can see this happening today with Google's decisions to pull out of tablets, and close a number of products.
Sorry but I can't credit him with anything much. Al Capone ran charities too.
Absolutely awesome. I have a serious thing for programming on old consoles, specifically the Sega Saturn, and this is a very fascinating manual.
Unless your carbon footprint is that of an Uttar Pradesh subsistence farmer there's no reason to point fingers
> However, both I and everyone I know that has ever used a Windows phone (there were several of us at work) absolutely loved the platform when compared to Android and iPhone.

Rubbish. Their CE phones were awful, and lots of people hated Micrsofts Windows phones and their laggy tiles.
Yes, that is part of creating inline assembly in C or C++ code:

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Extended-Asm.html
No, the subthread was just detached and marked off topic. Scroll down a bit more to find it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20251706. This is a common moderator action on HN.