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> Nope, shitty hardware never works. Linux just hides that from you less than Windows.

And that's the thing that Windows actually gets right. A typical user doesn't know nor care about OS-hardware compatibility. He/she buys a printer and wants it to work. It is up to OS to make this happen.
If you login to the chrome browser, all of your extensions are automatically installed.
followed with a link his affiliate page -(very cleverly disguised)

You mean the page where he says So, here is a clearly marked affiliation link — do not click on it if you don’t want me to get referral rewards nor 10% off discount :)

I don't think you can get more ethical than that.

All of those three things separately are NO BIG DEAL; but all together on HN is very frustrating

I thought the information was detailed, useful, and I can personally attest to the trustworthiness of the site.

Personally I think this perfect for HN (and given that your account has been registered only ~250 days I think trying to lecture about how bad it is doesn't make much sense).
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I'd really like to know what happened to Ubuntu being supported by Dell a while ago. http://www.dell.com/ubuntu only lists one machine that you can buy with Ubuntu pre-installed.

If this had kept up, and more suppliers had joined the bandwagon, it would have been exactly the major support you are talking about. Why did things move backwards?
Gnome user here. PulseAudio is always screwing up the settings on/misbehaving with my SB Live 5.1, and there's no way to assign the rear or center/lfe outputs as headphone outputs instead, which is a piece of cake with plain ALSA (just use alsamixer to set the Wave Surround mixer to ~-16dB). Oh yeah, PulseAudio also ignores the decibel hints given by ALSA, and frequently sets the output gain to +12dB on some integrated sound cards, causing terrible distortion. Applications trying to work around the PulseAudio situation (Skype, Flash) by preventing me from selecting my hardware-mixed ALSA output have their own problems. I have many other complaints, but it's far easier to just uninstall PA and have a nice, clean audio system.
Just some nitpicking: His d5w example ignores the fact that you have to count the words first. Without visual clue - and once you are finished counting you still have to type it in. While the inferior Ctrl-Shift-Right doesn't need any mental work, you just do the counting and selecting in one.
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Edit: I see that you've changed your request. This was originally "justify the need for (say) unsafe pointers in (say) a process scheduler."

A process scheduler's job involves saving and unloading the virtual memory mapping of a process that is blocked or pre-empted, and overwriting it with the virtual memory mapping of a new process. The process scheduler must have direct access to physical memory in order to perform this transition. Any kind of pointer safety would be built on top of a virtual memory abstraction; the process scheduler must necessarily be outside of this abstraction to do its job.
The process scheduler must have direct access to physical memory in order to perform this transition.

Given that a scheduler's going to be running in kernel mode, why can it not just muck around with kernel address space and leave it to the page table to do the translation?

Yeah, I did clarify my request a little -- by safe I meant safe with optional nullability.
The first iMac was introduced in 1998 [1], while iCloud Communications say that they have been in business since 1985 [2]. Either they changed their name at some point, or they used "i*" before apple.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.#Mac_and_accessories
2: http://geticloud.com/why_icloud.html
He's probable referring to Jacob Appelbaum, the Tor developer who has been harassed by the Obama administration because of his links to Wikileaks.
My personal favourite is Nginx (pronounced Engine X)

I had no idea. I've been calling in "ninks" all this time.
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Thanks for confirming the censorship in the West regarding this topic. I would have thought I get downvoted more than only (-4) points, though. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me for saying the unsayable.

Btw: I have studied thic topic for many years and have lived half my life in the Third World to learn about this issue in practice. Who would have thought that the main problem is ideological ignorance in the West.

(And now, downvote me again for talking on topic and contibuting first hand information...)
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"you've fallen victim to the Google hype"?!

Since when has Google been hyping Go? I've only come across the Go team itself talking about Go in public. The language comes across as "a language created by people at Google" much more than, "Google's language".

The feel from watching the weekly releases is that apart from the work of the (tiny) Go team, there are more patches coming from the public than from within Google.

Hype. What hype?
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Tough luck. Life isn’t fair.

Linux has to solve this problem, excuses be damned (and it has become quite good at solving this problem – most hardware just works).
The Google hype for Go is fairly indirect: it's basically people hyping Go because it's "a language created by people at Google", as you say. Look at how the user who wrote that comment's completely star-struck -- "Go is well designed, in all apsects (sic)". It's as if he thinks it's a language straight from the Google heavens, gracing us mortals with its existence.
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For example because you could accept BitCoin right now. No hassles with trying to get some payment provider to accept you as a legitimate business. Fees might be lower, too.
It's another example of shortsightedness by the USG,but fortuitous in this case. The technology described in this article will likely be used to circumvent domestic USG intentions within 10 years.
If you like his stuff take a look at Vitsoe.com, it's the shelving system he developed. Beautiful, functional, designed to last forever. Amazing example of what industrial design can be. The philosophy of the product permeates everything the company does, it's quite something.
I'd imagine that I could develop the same skill set either way.

If you're talking about tech skills then I'm a Python guy. I would also like to get into C or C++ at some point. I am trying my hands at Django now, and I'm not totally sure how I feel about it. I hear that Rails is better for web development, but it doesn't scale well.

Aside from that, I'd love to have a project that I have a lot of influence over. That's not something you can easily get at a company like Google.
that's just awesome.
Registration is not a necessary condition for enforcement of trademark rights (although it obviously helps). In some jurisdictions, of which the USA is one, an established history of use can be sufficient to establish rights to a given mark.

So while iCloud Communications do not appear to have a registration for the marks, that doesn't mean they have no rights to them.

http://www.uspto.gov/faq/trademarks.jsp#_Toc275426680
"I don't even think you have to go to "extreme" cases of people who are disabled in some way, and use FB to communicate."

My family's found that to be true. I grew up in San Diego but all the rest of my extended family lives abroad and FB's been a huge boon. It's way richer than email and more convenient than phone or IM.
So you made... Like, $3,000?

Awesome.
Ugh, I wish I could delete the above comment. I made it as I was in a hurry to leave.

Is this Google's answer to iCloud? A context menu?
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90-95% of FB's current employees didn't join "a startup", they already had masses of funding at that point.
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Don't make me laugh, cool tech at farcebook... NOT.

Warmed over AOL training wheel walled garden bullcrap is not cutting edge. Whoop De Dooo, its got an API.

Sorry but I left AOL years ago, and guess what, no one cool ever worked for AOL or Farcebook.
--and to have the front of the notebook off the ground (e.g., resting on/against my knee) while the back is on the ground. Well, you can do that with a Macbook, but (1) you stress the hinge and (2) you will probably move the screen a little.
An article on what learned blankness (or helplessness) is about: http://lesswrong.com/lw/5a9/learned_blankness/
Of those 2,000 employees only about 300 are actually engineers, if I recall correctly. But the point is, I guess, more about quality then quantity.
True, although they claim they have a trademark in arizona. Their main argument is that of unfair competition, because they prove they are using the bussiness name for years now.
First, finish lectures by Professor Gilbert Strang. http://web.mit.edu/18.06/www/

To my memory, session notes of CS229 is good enough for understanding SVM and gaussian distributions. Also watch youtube videos. http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs229/materials.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzxYlbK2c7E

If you just want to use the libraries, you can stop here.

If you want to know more, read chapters 1-3 of nonlinear programming by Professor Dimitri Bertsekas before convex optimization. http://www.athenasc.com/nonlinbook.html

Then, you can try to finish EE364 and watch the videos. http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee364a/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McLq1hEq3UY

If you want to roll your own algorithms, you have to know some optimization tools. http://cvxr.com/cvx/

And there is some statistics knowledge you have to fill in. I used these: http://www.stat.umn.edu/geyer/5101/ http://www.stat.umn.edu/geyer/5102/ R is used in the courses.
No, we also use HipHop, on a scale of about 8 mostly million users. It cut down our resource and response time drastically. I have not used Cassandra, but I am sure for some use cases it's great.
Garbage Collection, Garbage Collection, Garbage Collection, where is garbage collection?
Do you think the same approach you had in 2004 is still "valid" today?
I take it the post refers specifically to the bright engineers who work at Facebook. I think he's right. Take Bret Taylor for example. This guy made Google Maps while at google, a tool that seriously changed a business. While at facebook do you know what he did? He converted their APIs to the (unfinished) oauth standard and in the process also deprecated a ton of features that were available to developers. They also released 4 widgets. ZERO innovation there , in fact the platform was more feature-rich 2 years ago. Taking a look at the documentation reveals how crippled and unfocused it is at this time.

On the other hand, there's twitter. Now that's a company that could use a few good engineers to stop the embarrassing downtimes.
For people not used to the HN / Reddit point system this requires some learning. I had my fair share of "I second this" posts and took my down votes.

As long as HN is growing and new people, who are used to pin boards and mailing lists without a voting system, come in, you will have this problem. Just down vote them if you have ability.

Maybe, this should be more emphasized in the FAQ [1]. When I signed up here recently it was not obvious to me, that such posts should be avoided.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
You can escape the purely functional part (to do IO for example). This library does however provide 2 implementations: one in the IO monad and one in the ST monad.

If you use the IO monad one then you can do whatever side effects you want. It's up to you to use the rest of the code in a responsible way (which means that you can write code C style if you want).

The ST monad version is quite nice, it lets you use the hash table as if it was modifiable, but only inside the ST monad. Looking at it from the outside, it's still purely functional, and within the ST monad you're restricted to purely functional programming and the facilities provided by the ST monad. This makes it a safe alternative when you want to use a hash table for performance reasons but still want to limit what side effects that can be used.
The US Government isn't some big monolithic entity with one goal, it's made up of many factions, each pulling in a different direction.
"Its pretty clear.. that you are a SHILL (or a community fan of LowEndBox) as you phrase it... whatever you want to call it. your impact is still negative and the same."

Open community, ne?

"I find it highly suspicious that your ACCOUNT STARTED the SAME TIME this was posted."

Of course, I found that this site/post even existed through a community.

"You are FAR too sensitive to deem comments as an ATTACK on the site; or deem it as non-valid. Frankly, there is nothing for you to defend. As I stated; theres nothing wrong with his technical write-up. I just highly question the motivations of being posted on HN with such a title, promo code, ads, etc."

I'm just defending the 'questionability' part - there is nothing questionable about this article being posted here, nor is it complete spam.

"FRANKLY, what you are doing text book 'Gaming HN'."

It's not a very fun game, if a game at all.

"And Heres WHY: 1) You just started your account today for this post"

Yes. I only found out that this place existed through a community.

"2) You have your comments upvoted and down vote dissenting comments by your confederates"

Sure, someone else might have been voting me up, but I don't have access to downvote anyone. Please try again. (I've also upvoted some other members of HN's group here - eh)

"3) You keep on telling people to go to " BuyVM .net" which by the way has LowEndBox.com as its biggest advocate"

It's only the "biggest advocate" because it won a voting contest - if another company won the vote they would be listed.

"4) You have a very intimate knowledge of how LowEndBox operates, (if he does affiliate links, or has a WebHostingTalk account, or if he makes money from his ads)"

It's kind of easy to figure out if you actually visit the/any site often. Who doesn't make money from ads?

"Come on you can tell me if you are Francisco Dias - the guy that runs BuyVM and markets almost exclusively at LowEndBox (You just got caught!)"

Nope. I'm not Francisco, sorry. I'm just a satisfied client.

"Please stop trying to Game HN and HN users."

There is no "game," sir, I don't know what you're trying to play.
Indeed. Also netbooks or whatever they were called. Almost exclusively Linux in the beginning, but then almost every supplier started to use Windows.
Amazingly, ICE (Immigrations and Customs Enforcement) is censoring parts of the Internet in the US, while we try to export the uncensored Internet to the 3rd world.

I guess the Internet should be free, as long as you don't violate copyrights...
Almost exactly the same experience here.

First month = $495 in expenses. $20 for my first month webhosting. $99 for Dreamweaver (I was still hand-coding HTML). $375 for that damn Verisign SSL certificate.

First month I made $300, so was a little in the red. Second month I made $700 and was profitable ever since.

First 10 musicians were just people I knew. After that were friends-of-friends since the first 10 were so happy with my service. Then some people started mentioning it in their newsletters, and more strangers kept signing up.

That whole first year, the site did almost nothing. I didn't even know PHP+MySQL at the time, so it was just a hand-coded HTML site that let you put a CD in a shopping cart, and enter your payment info. Whatever you entered was emailed to me, and I'd copy it by hand into my merchant account to charge their card, then copy it by hand into a label printer to mail their order, then copy it by hand into Eudora to email them a thank-you email.

Though this was 1998, yes I think the same approach applies today.
An alternative way i've used to test Twilio till now is get a DynDNS account and point it to my home laptop. Infact my home router has a DynDNS option to fill in my username/password, so it can query the latest external domain assigned to it. This is useful if you're on a DHCP and don't have a static IP.

You get a domain like blah.ath.cx that you can use.
I think the point he made that "the internet is stale" resonates heavily with something I have always been feeling and wondering about the twitters, myspaces and facebooks... the whole "web 2.0" shenanigans.

Those were by no means "new inventions", it has all been there before on the web just on a different scale.. and now the non-techs are catching up and celebrating all the "great, new technology".

But the last truly revolutionary inventions and "paradigm shifts" certainly did not happen during the last 5-10 years and yes, on the whole the web IS pretty stale IMHO - and I dare to say you can see just how stale it really is by how much every new "genius" website gets praised and hyped as if it was an invention like electricity and just lifted us from the dark ages into the future.
As one of these non college educated $100k+ autodidacts I feel no particular attraction to the title, in fact it is faintly annoying. Yes, I do vaguely dislike people who value academic success over any other. However, as a (also self-directed) student of history I know how much real science has been done by the hobbyist and so the "tweaking the nose of the establishment" angle doesn't really work for me.
Statistics on when posts are submitted can be found here:

http://blog.itlater.com/whats-the-best-time-to-post-to-hacke...

From that, take what you will.
1) Set goals.

2) When you aren't getting there (or not in a timely manner or what not), analyze why.

3) If possible, find a good sounding board,* someone who will listen to you but not try to fix your shit for you, instead will ask you things like "now what are you gonna do about it?"

4) Use that as a means to figure out the next step and take it.

5) Iterate.

*Sounding board: Someone who will listen and help you think things through and get clarity. They shouldn't be too touchy-feely sympathetic. You don't need a shoulder to cry on. That is not their role. You need constructive feedback from someone who doesn't care if it hurts but also isn't intentionally cruel, just blunt and lets the chips fall where they may.
Neither Firefox nor Chrome started as grassroots community efforts, however.
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Exactly. But though you emphasize it with <sarcasm> it still might contain a lot of truth [1]. Its known as the "Mephisto Principle":

Mephisto: "I am a part of that power,
that constantly wants to do harm
and constantly creates the good."
(Goethe, Faust 1) [2]

As an example, let's assume that, soon, human race has to become interplanetary in order to survive. Now, are we more likely to get there with threat of inter-human war and large defense funding? Perhaps. Until recently, I used to call DARPA money "dirty" and insulted many fellow students this way. But I'm starting to realize this might be naive. Without DARPA Net I might not be able to have this discussion here.

[1] If I had the choice I would go back in time and prevent it. But that would still be a difficult decision. I guess this play of thought does not not lead to anything useful. A more useful question might be: Would you like to prevent a future world war. Sure!
[2] http://www.maxeiner-miersch.de/mephisto_e.htm
On the other hand, FaceBook has built a platform where those sorts of endeavors could start from.

For instance they could put traffic info on everybody's page (with option to disable, of course), that would indicate the probability of encountering congestion on their usual travel routes in the next few hours. People could then use this info to plan their journeys better and thus relieve the strain on the roads. Since 'everyone' has Facebook and checks it multiple times per day, the service would have massive reach from the onset.

It's also big enough to sign deals like integrating FB into the cars themselves. Imagine buying a car that would read out your FB voicemail or wall posts as you drive along, voice controlled. If it wasn't something big like FB, the technology could be there but people wouldn't care.
Yeah, I've been following the naiveuser Jupiter dissection. There is no Silverlight runtime. A new library has been developed on top of DirectUI, similar to Win32 on WinNT. It is not WPF and it is not Silverlight. It will probably start as a subset and end up as a superset. Some parts will not map directly from Silverlight. It looks like the animations have a new model. You will have to port your SL app for this to work.
no, the biggest problem is that i never got the extra keys (eject, volume mute...) of my dell to work under linux, nor the second earplug output, and it pissed me off because i actually paid for them. also, the day i was like "you know what? i want to compose some music again, maybe i'll regain the interest" i was not able to find a semi-decent audio program for linux. this stands true for the day i was like "the new wacom bamboo tablet is so cool! i want it, who knows what i can do with that and photoshop".

i installed windows back and in a day i had all my extra keys, the second plug, photoshop, cubase and my wacom working.

i'm on a mac now, and they make the software for the hardware and the hardware for the software and i'm on the rich side of the market so adobe and wacom make software for my os of choice.
Arguably, GNOME / KDE / XFCE are all worse than Windows Explorer or OS X default window manager.

Really? I've always thought of good window managers as one of the big selling points of the Linux experience. Moving and resizing windows just seems so much more cumbersome to me when I'm using either. Perhaps you meant to talk about the file manager?
The majority of everything has always been fluff. It's just we remember those parts of the past that weren't fluff, and forget 97% of it. Otherwise our heads would be entirely fluff.

I vividly remember the fall of the Berlin Wall, just about the time I was getting married. Until this spring, I had a similar tendency to think that geopolitics "nowadays" was drab and boring. Evolutionary punctuation only just happens so often, but that doesn't mean evolution has come to a screeching halt. (Or rather, it has - just that it will continue with a screeching lurch when it's good and ready.)
Any examples? HTML5+JS does look quite rich as a presentation layer. Well, rich enough for Apple to build iAds on it, WebOS to build its UI layer on it .. and, on the topic, even MS is basing the Win8 presentation layer on it.

Is your point only about the presentation layer or about other parts of .Net?
On the other hand, if I were a senior official in the US Government, I sure would want to be the first to know all about renegade gatherings in countries which I do not approve of.