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I was trying my hardest not to comment, but this is a pertinent question, maybe even THE question when discussing Slackware.

It's true that it might seem like an anachronistic distribution in 2012. It was actually the first distro I ever used back in the day when I started running Linux full time and increasingly had to interact with it professionally, and while I've long since moved on to other distros for a myriad of reasons, I wouldn't trade the years I spent running Slack for anything in the world,for a very simple reason, and that is that the old adage is absolutely true: when you run Distro X, you learn Distro X. When you run Slackware you learn Linux.

The whole distro, from the package manager to the init scripts is built around the KISS principle. Take the init scripts for example, they're nowhere near as powerful as, say, Upstart, but they're orders of magnitude easier to troubleshoot, and if you take the time to read through them (and yes, they're actually readable and very well commented) you gain a great working knowledge of how Linux actually boots and gets everything up and running.

The same philosophy applies to every other corner of the distro. Want to learn how to compile stuff on Linux? Take a look at a Slackbuild script, everything is in there. Want to know exactly what goes on during a distro upgrade, like what packages have precendence and so on? Read UPGRADE.TXT (http://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/UPG...). I can only dream that even a small percentage of so-called enterprise software I've come across had release notes and upgrade guides this clear and well written.

Another great thing is that they maintain a policy of minimal interference with upstream code. If you come across a bug, you can be fairly sure it's from upstream and not Slackware, instead of having to examine the gazillion patches other distros like Debian and its derivatives introduce into the package.

I could continue to wax poetic about it, but I think I've given you an idea. It's not an exaggeration to say that I probably wouldn't be working in IT today if I hadn't come across Slackware in the before time. It's fun, and if nothing else it's a great learning experience.
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Why a scam company was able to raises $76 Million Series B?
Previous discussions [Aug. 2011]:

- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2895474

- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2868498
I just stumbled upon this piece on Business Insider "JustFab Raises $76 Million To Create The H&M Fashion Brand Of The Web".
http://www.businessinsider.com/justfab-raises-76-million-to-...

It kept me wonder why a company with very questionable (I will try to avoid using the word "fraudulent") business model was able to raise big money. Didn't the VCs have to do the due diligence?

I didn't have any direct experience with JustFab. The victim was my girlfriend. Back in January or so, one of her friends emailed her a link to JustFab, then she bought a pair of shoes from www.justfab.com and never visit the website again. Only 8 months later, in early September she was appalled to find out that her credit card has been charged a $39.95 fee for the last eight months. Yes, $39.95 for 8 months, without geting anything from JustFab.

I then did a bit research on the internet. It turned out my girlfriend wasn't the only victim. Apparently JustFab works like this: once you buy something from their website, you become their "VIP member". Then you will have to log into their website between the 1st-5th of each month and click “Skip This Month”. If no action is taken (either skip this month, or cancel your account), they just charge you a $39.95 fee every month.

According to the Business insider article, JustFab "will generate about $100 million this year" in sales, I wonder how much of this $100 million are from people like my girlfriend who simply didn't read their entire 2,500 words Terms of Service and were unaware that they were charged $39.95 a month for nothing.
There is already too much. Any we can take out is a good thing.
1. "it's laggy running ubuntu - what's the big deal". It's running Ubuntu with the dual-core ARM CPU on board, not the Epiphany chips. The guy is demonstrating that the boards they are shipping allow for a user friendly environment for which you can jump onto and use Eclipse to write code for the multicore chips. This has NOTHING to do with the multi-core chips themselves, and has no intent of demonstrating the power of the "supercomputer" part of the board.

2. "Why would you use this if you could just use a GPU - they're really parallel right??" - GPUs are very very different beasts to CPUs. They are great at what they do, but they are tailored for very specific problems. Look up SIMD. A tonne of general purpose programs which need, for example, a simple 'if statement' quickly break down under SIMD.

3. "This will be great for mining bitcoins" - yeah. but you can do it on a GPU so stick to that. As far I can see (and why I backed the project), this board will be great for those problems which are not immediately or easily implementable as a wavefrontable algorithm for the GPU. I'm hoping you can just write a c program utilising pthreads which will be run on the Epiphanies cores
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Hum ...? or did they?(got punked!)
i am starting to believe on negative viral campaigns
I think the reference[1] is to the person who got all his MS access suspended (including XBOX Live and other unrelated stuff) because he had some deemed illegal (by MS) pictures in his private storage. What Google examples are there of that? Google also cuts off ONLY the service you are supposedly abusing; if you abuse adsense, you cannot use adsense anymore, you CAN use adwords, gmail and others with the same account. MS seems to cut off complete access to everything.

Disclaimer: this is what I read in previous HN post; I did not try (and will not try) Skydrive until fully debunked. I have no mercy, interest or would ever use services that automatically cut off multiple services for something I do with my private storage. If I cannot post photos of my kids playing naked in a pool in our garden on my private storage then what is that private storage for exactly? Showing those scary American family portraits (example: http://iso-100.com/images/photos/SlacumFamilyPortrait.jpg) and that's it?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4265086
SF is entertainment. It isn't really surprising it neglects things like officers spending time managing and doing paperwork in favor of always being on watch, or avoiding issues of supplying the ships, and other topics. They aren't fun entertainment.
I have tried reading this font, and had a lot of trouble although not dyslexic. What I gather from your posts is that greatest importance is having a font with letters highly distinguishable from one another (so they don't become misinterpreted). As an idea, a set of random dots can be added around each letter. As the person encounters the same letters while reading, they would encounter the same set of random dots for those letters. I am not sure if this would work, but it can be done and tested.
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> it just means we're imperfect.

And it also means we failed to fix that.
Is this a serious paper? I can't judge at all if it is, because I cannot find any useful definitions, exact statement of the claimed theorem or proofs.

Then again, I'm not an economist (coming from a mathematics backround), so maybe this is the expected form of a paper here?
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But it's taking carbon out of the ocean and releasing it into the atmosphere. The issue becomes, how long does it take for the released atmospheric CO2 to be reabeorbed back into he ocean? Does it do more harm in the atmosphere or in the ocean?
Much better than what I saw at a Hackathon earlier in the week. It was Tech and Art (Dev's and artists collaborating) which was a great event. Though one project was a 'Pastebin magazine' and consisted of them finding tweeted pastebin links, putting them in Word/Indesign and printing them out.
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Google obviously doesn't give a damn about games, even less than apple does. The play market is a disaster for discover-ability.
The ability of some traders to make consistent significant profits should be an "existence proof" of the inefficiency of markets. The EMH is just wrong.
Sure; which is why you have an update process - the includes checking for potential issues, and involves several avenues of upgrade (apt, direct, etc.).

With proper due diligence on our part I trust the package maintainers to make less mistakes than if I have to do it all by hand :)
.98c weaponry is certainly scifi for us today, but it's possible that some time in the far future the requisite technology will exist. Although in practical terms it's probably easier to create .98c bullets than actual, steerable missiles (which is even more challenging).

However, your point about the difficulty of steering a .98c projectile is a little out of place. The point of shooting someone with a weapon that can travel that fast is that you can catch them with their pants down. Such a weapon effectively travels at 50 times the speed of light from the perspective of the target. This is because it is racing any light or signal which would give the target warning of its presence. For example, by the time a ship has had warning that such a projectile is an entire astronomical unit (the distance from the Earth to the Sun, 150 million kilometers) away it will only be about 10 seconds until it hits the ship (the light will take about 8 minutes to travel, but in that time the projectile will cover 98% of that distance, and by the time that light reaches the target the projectile will actually only be a little more than 10 light-seconds away). And such a projectile need only be a few microns in size in order to unleash the explosive power of hundreds of kilos of TNT, so you probably aren't going to detect it at all. So all you have to do is wait until the enemy is sitting in port and you blow their ship up from across the solar system.

Of course, weapons such as that fundamentally change the whole nature of warfare, so speculating about them is problematic.
I think this demonstrates, in a clever way, the types of absurdities that result from assumptions economists make about markets and the people who act in them :)
Do any of those work with Siri? That's the big value for me. When the new Maps work it is pure magic (sorry for the iMeme but it really is).

-Looking straight ahead, grab phone and hold down Home button.
-Siri chirps
-"I need directions to foo"
-"Here are directions to foo"
-"In X miles turn Y on N"

The only time I touched the phone was to hold down the Home button. Never once looked away from the road. It's amazing.
Bollocks. Abstract economic theories may be based on these assumptions but the majority of economists make a living on the fact that the market is not efficient.
"primarily", because the LLVM / clang project had its origins in academia (before the project and its team got acqui-hired by Apple), and because the project is open source, and thus still gets some amount of community contributions (probably not a huge proportion of the overall effort, though).
It doesn't seem that hard to me to understand Ludum Dare: it's basically NaNoWriMo, but a month earlier, and for games instead of novels.
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A while ago I studied a paper where the author proposes using high frequency trading to exploit price patterns. If that can be done profitably it would mean markets aren't even weak form efficient! Lately however there have been emerging views that "efficiency" is not black or white but a continuum. i.e The market will only be efficient enough such that the marginal cost of making the market more efficient is equal to the marginal benefit of doing so.

Anyway, I wonder if solutions to NP-complete problems can be approximated using a market.

EDIT: According to the paper, they can.
Does any of you know if this edition adds/removes chapters? Should I buy first and second edition or this one will suffice without losing any information?
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I was surprised to read this. I assumed that Windows 8 only contained the 'desktop' to give developers time to convert their apps to work on metro and that Microsoft would deprecate the desktop in Windows 9 or 10. If they did do that Windows would become a closed platform. With this restriction in Windows 8 Windows is seemingly more closed than OS X. Apple restricts certain features like iCloud to App Store apps but restricting apps from using the main UI on your OS is another matter.
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Upvoted, I hope you get some more upvotes because this clearly is fraud or close to it. Some porn sites use this tactic and it should at a minimum cost them their merchant account.

Charge back as far as you can, most banks will do this up to 6 months no questions asked.

Credit card rebilling in a card-not-present situation is one of the few things where a consumer has a bit of power.
I haven't used Slackware, but all of the points you mentioned are valid for Arch Linux as well.
Have sent an email :)
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Okay, you don't get to say "cube" or "exponentially". Rewrite those sentences, then.
>Economics is clear when explaining its foundation: Markets are only as efficient as its participants are rational and fully informed.

Plus even more assumptions: that participants cannot game the system (by influencing laws, abusing power or monopoly, bribing others participants, controlling public opinion by friendly or owned mass media, forming cartels, etc).

Oh, and "rational" doesn't just mean "clearly thinking and clever", but also perfect calculating actors in a game-theoretic way.

Oh, and there are no factors outside of direct market control, from natural disasters and resources, to foreign country policies and such.

So all those hold even remotely true only in some magic unicorn land.
Well, there are no advertisements on your desktop and nobody's replaced normal search with sponsored search, so that's two things.
The question is not 'can traders make a consistent profit' but rather 'can anyone make a profit using just publicly accessible historical data alone' this is the essence of EMH.

Most professional money managers make their gains by actively interviewing companies in a form a stylized intentional financial journalism if you will.
How long until some of the translation startups get this in just about every language?

(If you have contacts with one, please forward the idea. Come on HN, let's make this happen)
Thanks for the insights & fun facts.

After also reading this: http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2012/09/29/onward/ I still don't get what this actually means for the future of BS, is it good news, or bad news, is everyone too polite?

Good to be remembered here of Foundation again. I was recently asked for BS alternatives and couldn't named any.
>No, it's based on them being true enough that other approximations are less useful models.

That is, in wishful thinking.

No other field has a worse prediction track record that economics.
Thank you for your incredibly detailed reply. Tip #7 does not work for me as I am located in a country surrounded by minimum wage workers, and the kind of work I am getting locally is also quite subpar in terms or pay and expected/required quality.

If anybody on HN would like to hire a highly capable and skilled full stack freelancer, I am open to small and large scale work. Please email me at protoweek at gmail. Thank you! :)
This conflict looks succinctly like bottom up vs top down thinking. Neither is more correct.
>but the majority of economists make a living on the fact that the market is not efficient.

Actually they make a killing on the fact that their are interests and money to be made based on their BS advice and predictions.
And with Gentoo. Not trying to start a Distro flamewar, but if someone wants to learn distro independent Linux, then he or she should try his or her hands on LFS. The next best thing after LFS would be Gentoo.
Great point. I am certain that NP-complete problems that can be efficiently approximated can be approximated by markets. No reason why you can't replace algorithms and expertes in your ensemble or regret minimization framework with humans.
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Which is why Debian doesn't do upgrades-for-the-sake-of-upgrades in Stable. Anything you get there is a security fix, and the notes will tell you if there's an unavoidable functionality or config change.

It's also why you can easily set up your own repo in two stages: one that updates from upstream automatically, so you can test changes, and one that never updates except when you specifically update a package: that's the one that your production runs on.
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Now you just need to point to some traders who are able to make "consistent significant profits".
If he priced it too low, he would be going against his own teachings...
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I'm sorry for your gf's loss, but from what you have described I don't see anything justfab did wrong here. Next time read the terms first before giving credit card info!
That applies to the strange, pre–iOS 6 iPhoto-specific map tiles. OSM is acknowledged in the new app's acknowledgements, but so far there are places where the Maps.app is less detailed than the basic OSM database – but no doubt this can and will get better.
"The market will only be efficient enough such that the marginal cost of making the market more efficient is equal to the marginal benefit of doing so."

Do we have a model of what markets are like under this type of model? It is not clear to me that prices are even close to what efficient ones might be under this situation (though they could be).

Also of course most of the missing markets are the contingent and future ones, which suggests the ways in which things might be biased (forward planning, the firm, the business cycle etc) which are quite important inefficiencies.
I skimmed it quickly too, but I think you've misread. The "interesting" claim isn't the 3-SAT encoding; it's earlier where he claims that markets "naturally" have to solve NP-hard problems, in particular that to optimize an investment strategy you have to solve the Knapsack problem. (?!) It's hand-waving nonsense.
Honestly - stuff like this reinforces a feeling I have had recently that the social sciences are nothing more than pseudoscience dressed up most of the time.

Economists have essentially no idea what is going on and neither do their financial compatriots and the EMH is by far the clearest example of this.

I'm trying to make it a personal rule that anything outside of the hard sciences (math/physics/chemistry/statistics etc) is bullshit to me until further notice.

I mean really - I do advanced math and statistics in moderately complex systems - AI/robotics - and I can barely wrap my head around them. I shake my head in disgust at those who apply platonic and unrealistic theories to the extremely complex system that is the world. Indeed, the surety they display in their theories amuses me, because to even think that one can reason about the entire world all at once is, in fact, hilarious.
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Hey Josh! All very interesting points. TelAPI is built on top of a FreeSWITCH.

Can you point me towards some of your work? I'd love to learn more about what you're doing with the underlying stack.

Thanks man
Works perfectly in Brazil (no buses though)
Meanwhile, an enterprise with hundreds of trained economists (read: The Fed) used this magical unicorn training and prevented the Great Recesession from becoming the Great Depression II. All using economic theory. And if it wasn't for political interference/inaction, we'd be even further ahead, thanks to them.

I know people hate to hear that, and it's en vogue to rip on the field of economics, but it's true.
" the old adage is absolutely true: when you run Distro X, you learn Distro X. When you run Slackware you learn Linux."

Dont you mean, "when you run slackware you learn slackware"? Otherwise the old adage is not true.

With the exception of the ssh keys I can not remember running into a problem that debian introduced into a package. Which packages have you had trouble with in debian?
It's grokkable magic :) The Debian package format has nice functionality for deploying software such as the seed database, the script hooks and dependency checking via apt.

Keep in mind it's also possible to run your own apt repositories and have your machines source from those, allowing you to define what specific software runs on your farm, down to the smallest detail.

All in all apt can give you a very flexible setup :)
So, "worksforme", for a car-driving lifestyle in California?

One of the main critiques has been the removal of transit directions. It was missing Shibuya station. For heaven's sake, that's like missing Grand Central Station. People in NYC would be shorting APPL...

Well, it's a FUBAR on that scale. It's just not visible if you drive a car, especially in California.
Stefan humbly omitted a reference to his excellent treatment of breaking up a monolithic giant. It's well worth a watch, so here you go: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Breaking-the-Monolith
The Economist is overly gloomy about the EU I feel; every week you get pounded by more and more 'this will end badly' stories about the EU.

That said, I do really feel the 'good enough' vibe here in the EU; most people I talk to who have companies (just started or older) have the 'it's good enough this way' attitude. 'We' generally don't want to be billionaires or even have billion Euro companies. Once you are making insane profit margins and have a fat company bank account, all employees are happy, growth is stopped and the goal becomes to sustain that situation. I know great entrepreneurs here who started out with crazy plans; once hitting that point (and that can be any revenue mind you; for some companies it's E10 million/year, for others it's E100 million/year, but rarely more than that) they find it good enough. I think a lot stems from that feeling of not actually wanting to be 'the biggest', just wanting a stable, sustainable company producing profit margins year after year to lick your fingers by.

Edit: read the comments; 500 biggest companies in the world, 132 US, 166 EU and France has more than the UK. Didn't check those things, just copying here for completeness.
I thought this was common knowledge. Yes, they are only distributable through the store. Yes, the only sideloading is from Visual Studio. Anyone who's spent a little time researching Windows 8 will probably already know this.
How long before we see "a group of doctors produces an open cancer cure in a weekend hackathon".
KISS, "know your system."
This kind of armchair criticism is not particularly enlightening, or productive. You can still make useful and largely correct predictions without understanding all of the dynamics in a system.

After all, all science amounts to an approximate model, even your vaunted "hard sciences".
One distribution has done that. Your comment was a nice dig at Ubuntu but offers very little to answer the OP's question.
Go Slackware!
Really sleek, very nice minimal UI. More "fast and fluid" than Windows 8!

Love it, certainly going to use it when I need a video player. It even has full screen!

Edit: Even better, it's responsive to browser width changes!