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> A pseudo-filesystem is not high-overhead, unless you believe symlinks and pointers are high-overhead.

Retrieving data from multiple on-disk compressed package archives and presenting them as a union pseudofs is a heck of a lot more overhead than hitting the file system directly.

> As for App Stores, they're just like a traditional package manager but with a simpler UI and the option to buy software before downloading it.

Actually, they're nothing like a traditional UNIX package manager, because they don't handle dependencies. They're application bundles (ala Mac OS X) with a store front-end.

The OS vendors provide stable API/ABIs and comprehensive base system libraries, which means they don't need a UNIX package manager at all.

It's really depressing to see Haiku come so close to completion, only to have project direction taken over at the very end by Linux developers (literally, that's their day job), who are bringing Linux ideals to a system that was originally built as a successor to the original Mac OS.
Like I said upthread, CISPA goes further in trying to actually define what a "cyberattack" is than any other bill I've read. How would you modify the definitions in the bill?
> The OS is basically ready to release now, and instead of focusing on polish, they're bringing over one of the worst features of Linux.

Frankly, I've always thought of package managers (both at the OS and library / dependency level) to be among my favorite features in any ecosystem, be it Arch, Ubuntu, Ruby or Node.js. Even in a world where spatting files all over the system, managing complex PATH variables & dependency graphs is unnecessary, some manner of centralized package manager / installer has a very real place.

Even something as fairly straightforward as pulling down a set of binaries can be made simpler when handled by a package manager, and doubly so when compiling from source. Futzing around with make files is certainly very, very low on my to-do list.

It's possible I'm missing something fundamental, here, in which case please help me out. What is your ideal-world vision of how an OS should handle installing & managing binaries & dependencies?
so many developers hacking on google glass apps?
Completely anecdotal, but Comcast just bumped me up about 30% from 15 mbps. The customer service still stinks, and the service itself is still very spotty and unreliable.
I have a stupid question: how do you do this with HTTP Basic auth?
You are making the assumption, to my mind entirely unfounded, that there is any "forcing" going on by the correct (why, yes, I went there) side in any of the issues expressed in this thread. As an example, same-sex marriage doesn't affect them unless they choose to marry someone of the same sex.

Nobody's "imposing" anything on anyone. It is the absence of imposition to which you seem bound and determined to protest. Why?
Definitely scary - but normal. You'll have to ask someone much smarter/ more experienced than I. We're still young/'agile'...
Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/768/

TI has a pretty good gig going since they're selling a "calculator" and not a "computer". "Calulators" don't follow the same market dynamics as "computers", so as long as everyone in that market plays along and competes on features (or no one adds features) they should be able to maintain their margins ad infinitum
Really? Google/Facebook "opt-in" to something akin to this already don't they?

Care to give a few more examples of what makes it more complicated?
Agree,

He should have at least a link to the Ember project page and some intro as to what it is.

Maybe he should have a episode 0 video which explains why should someone use ember instead of just jQuery or Backbone?
You decide.. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=infoman

The domain was registered one day after the HN account was registered, first post wasn't made for 14 days (aka. when the username no longer appears in green). In his defence, if he is a shill, he's not very good at it.

Edit: hnsearch picked up a hellbanned post (it should appear on the front page, but it doesn't) at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5567259 that mentions a couple more accounts
My bash does this automatically and I do not have a ~/.inputrc file. I'm on Mac OS X 10.8.2 using the Terminal app (which is a bash command line interface). I assumed this was a default feature of bash but apparently not. If somebody can explain to me why I have this feature by default, I would be grateful.
If you're using something like Orcad or Altium, you don't own that software either; you're paying for a license to use it.
And here is the main problem with the bill. "Not incident to an actual attack" is not reflective of the language used. It's so vauge that you could drive a truck through it. Or, a $2+ billion Utah datacenter, for instance.
It seems fact at this point :(

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/google-nsa-secrecy-...
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All else being equal, of course.
I wonder if we could see a map like this for the whole world.
Yes the new Adobe building is closer to Point of the Mountain/Thanksgiving Point than it is Provo but the old Omniture offices were up near Technology Way in the Provo/Orem region. At least that is how I recall it.
ah ok. Thanks for the clarification :)
Any bill that ever allows private companies to share information with the USG is going to include a FOIA exemption, because the alternative is that no private company's management team would ever allow information to be shared under any circumstance, as it could allow the public access to trade secrets, contractually confidential information, and market intelligence.
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I think a lot of the disparagement comes mainly from interactions many of us have with a lot of these types of individuals.

A lot of the time the "MBAs" place an overemphasis on the ideas themselves being more important than the ability to execute on them from a technical perspective (although i'd have to say that a lot of developers may have the reverse disposition)
I pay $40 for 3 mbps. Palm Springs, CA, Time Warner. Fios is not here yet. Only cable.
Just a few initial thoughts, not having dug in too deep.

The site looks great, aesthetically. But I wasn't sure exactly what your product was until I scrolled down quite a ways on the homepage. "Make learning a competitive advantage" is a good tagline, but not great for being the only text I immediately see on your homepage. Something based on the "platform for customer, partner, and team training" would serve better.

I'm not certain who your target market is, and I don't know enough about the product to really say, but there is a large gap between $0 for your smallest plan and $250/mo for the next plan. Keep reading and you can get the $10/mo/learner with the free plan (at which point it's no longer free), but my immediate reaction is the large price gap.
I used backyard as the sort of example that is always made in law school. Backyards are actually not entirely private. Say you have an illegal pool, if the cops see it from the air, you're still subject to prosecution. Or if you shared a backyard with a neighbor and were running around naked when they have free access to the backyard, it's still exposure.

What is true is that if you have a 12 foot fence and are in your backyard topless and your neighbor films you, then that's illegal because you had an expectation of privacy. Same goes if someone is being taped in a bathroom. You are in space that's not publicly accessible. I'm not 100% sure where the definitive case law on what is and is not private resides, but most of it is well defined in the physical world. So consider these three things: barriers (walls, space is not public), ownership (I own or are here with consent of who owns), and consent (I agreed to wave privacy rights explicity or de facto i.e. I'm walking down this street). These three things have to be ALL met or else you could tape people taking showers at your house legally.

With your apartment, things are even more gray because you don't have an absolute right to privacy there as your landlord can enter the premises under many pretenses.
I wish Palo Alto could get out of their limited and never very awesome metro fiber business (run by the city, like their other utilities) by getting Google as a partner. For Google, it would make sense from a marketing perspective -- if I got 1Gbps fiber at home in PA due to Google, I'd be more positively inclined toward the company in general (for working, M&A, other products, whatever).

San Francisco, I have zero hope for due to the totally dysfunctional city government, but Palo Alto, Mountain View, maybe EPA (for political reasons), Menlo Park, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Cupertino all seem pretty sanely governed.

If EPA had Google Fiber, I'd probably brave the (moderate, now) security risks, air quality, and floodplain.
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Your script should have "#!/bin/bash" at the top, which tells the shell what interpreter you want it ran with. So, yes?
To add, it doesn't even say "actual attack", it basically says anything related to security and "acting in good faith."
There's still some write-ups out there on the ultra low voltage unit and optional extended life battery that I bought with it.
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This is the best answer I've received to my concerns. You're predicting that people will move from backend to frontend for the MVC layer (or w/e will come next) and this is why you are keeping up with these sorts of developments.

Good answer.
$300 in Kansas, $30 in Provo. Existing network might make it cheaper.
I agree it's awful to use, but what I don't understand is why no one has bothered to improve the tools.

It's one of those areas where the underlying tool (either a library like openssl or NSS, or an OS feature like SSPI) could do the hard work in one place and make it simple for downstream libraries to wrap the functionality.

In other, somewhat analogous, domains that happened, but for whatever reason not in this case.
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I just bought the book! Working on something very similar (www.Disruptorsbook.com) but we both have featured different entrepreneurs and different angles. Would love to talk sometime!
I have implemented a system that adds verification. You can read about it here: https://www.btc-l.com/about#verification
The statutory "good faith" language is a problem, in that "good faith" isn't well defined anywhere. But what are the additional changes you'd make to the liability exemption to tighten it up?
I think it has become the lore that you need to be a geek to build a successful software business.

There are always exceptions.

With regards to MBA's is there any evidence that getting one makes people more sucessful in their careers?

I know it helps if you already have a job to climb the ladder, but I don't think there is much in an MBA that isn't covered in a book like "The Personal MBA" and isn't much you will learn the hard way that isn't covered by starting your own company or joining a startup.

But each to their own.
At my last company, the two other guys I worked with were both red/green colourblind. Luckily I'm not, so I could weigh in with opinions..

It seems quite common actually - I've met quite a few people that suffer it (not that this is anything other than anecdotal info, but...)
I understand where it comes from - but that doesn't justify it.

The focus should be on the issue - i.e. people focusing on ideas and less on execution - rather than an archetype.
Bash will up/down between past commands, but it's unfiltered. This lets you type the first few characters you know you're looking for to find it faster.
This one data point may be insufficient to have 100% certainty about the opinion of Brendan Eich, but it certainly is enough for 99% certainty. I'm assuming you are a programmer? ;-) Inside a computer predicate logic works very well, but in the real world probabilistic logic usually works very well, rather than using the rule that after k number of data points your belief suddenly flips over from 0 to 1.

Your first (big) paragraph I do not follow. You did not give any justification for why it's better to get the issue into the Supreme Court ASAP while suffering the disadvantages I mentioned, rather than opposing the ban. The Supreme Court does not just take into consideration the constitutionality in some fixed legal sense. They have the freedom to interpret laws, and they do so according to the current sentiment. Just read the court transcripts and you'll see this. For example they constantly debate whether same-sex marriage will be beneficial to society or not. Since you did not reply to any of the arguments I made, I'll repeat one of them: if there would be a next ban (perhaps in a different state) that is successful, then that will go to the Supreme Court. This is no worse than prop 8 going to the Supreme Court, in fact it's better for the reasons I outlined previously. Do you think that people who are against marriage equality are doing themselves a disservice by donating to anti-marriage equality groups? I really do not understand this, but I'd love to be convinced otherwise by logical arguments.

I certainly agree with the next paragraph where you say that it would be stupid to let a difference in political belief heavily influence your job choice. However, insofar as these differences have practical effects on your treatment, chances of being fired, and mental well-being (it's bad for your mental well-being to be in the closet at work or anywhere else), it is smart to take such things into account.
It's exactly what you would expect from a company like Samsung.
I agree that "good faith" is crappy language.
Your landing page structure needs work. I didn't learn what it was until I made an effort to find out. Others don't usually do that. Plus, this is a B2B product. Why not get their feedback and close a few sales at the same time?
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I disagree with djb here: Although it's true that privilege separation rarely eliminates vulnerabilities, I maintain that it can make vulnerabilities far less dangerous.

To take an example the Capsicum people are fond of: Decompression. zlib has a long history of vulnerabilities in decompression of corrupt data, so it's a natural thing to run inside a sandbox. djb's argument is "but a vulnerability in zlib is still bad because it can return incorrect output", which is true as far as it goes, but it completely misses the important point that it prevents the attacker from accessing anything not inside zlib's sandbox -- say, connections to a database.
Not necessarily, the initialiser should do validation, and can still throw...
I-35 between Austin and Dallas is a spectacularly bad example, give that the traffic is routinely congested.

http://cbsdallas.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/i-35-texas_6713...

(Ok, that's downtown Austin; how about this one:

http://www.bartcop.com/Austin-Garbage-09.jpg )
Neither... it is a prototype. Somewhere between just a design and a product is a wide variety of other states. A single, physical item that actually functions as designed may not be a product yet (or ever) but it is leaps and bounds beyond "just a design." If "prototype" and "design" mean the same thing then a lot of people get that wrong everyday.
I work at a tech startup in Salt Lake. I don't really know who is Mormon and who isn't. I can guess by drink choices when we eat out, but we all get along just great. :)
CNN won't expose their source on this, either. Flame-fanning cowards.
And just when I finally get it to load and to my test:

The following error was encountered:

Connection to 140.247.61.57 Failed
The system returned:

(60) Connection timed out
No, these guys have been around since 2010. LocalCaseStudy started late 2011.
Google has a little spammer loose on HN. Neat.
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Thanks for this great post. After speaking with some really successful entrepreneurs, I noticed they are extremely stubborn (in a good way) even after failing several times. The odds are stacked against them but they still allow themselves several years to find a semblance of success which they can develop further. I appreciate your article. I am working on similar topics for my book Disruptors so posts like this help.
Comcast, Verizon: You're officially on notice.

Prepare to be disrupted.
CA makes it impossible unfortunately. I wish you were right, but this state is setup to allow every crank to block any sort of development.
Yes, I flagged hours ago.
I got only the "preparing results"... I think I took the site down! Now none of my three browsers can connect.
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Note that there's nearly a decade of experience, research, and development between the "UNIX security holes" course djb mentions in that paper, and today; Capsicum is not just an implementation of mid-2000s privilege separation. I believe the examples he presents (xine-lib buffer overflow obtaining access to a user's files, or one web page in browser stealing from and corrupting other pages) are capable of being generally addressed by Capsicum.

djb's stance seems to require "avoiding bugs," a laudable bug extremely difficult goal for most programmers. Capsicum aims to make it easy to minimize the damage possible if a bug is exploited. Capsicum-enabled gzip is a good example: an exploit in the decompression code is limited to modifying the content of the output stream.
Ha! It's a nice thought, but the various compatibility modes are not actually identical to the real versions of the browsers. Close, yes, but there are bugs/features that only show up in the real versions.
Or if you ignore them they go along and do what the corporations want. What you need to do is vote out the incumbents during the next cycle. Irregardless of the party.
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I think Dan Bernstein is an absolutist, in the sense that he believes error-free ("invulnerable") programs are commercially achievable. I don't agree, but I think his perspective sheds some pretty valuable light.
Someone running a simulation you're in is not a deity, just another person in a position of great power.
The title is a bit misleading -- the story is not that Samsung used devious marketing methods, the story is that they were caught. Any number of companies hire shills to post phony endorsements, the trick is not to get caught.

In fairness to companies like Samsung, if everyone is doing it, to stand on principle is to risk being trounced by those who don't.
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Marketing-fraud.
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Don't spend the energy debating this now. Wait until after you call your representatives and then comment.
Have you looked at Teksavvy? They sell a cable package in Ontario that gives you 60 mbits for a bit over 60$ (more after tax and all that)... You can get pretty decent download caps with them (it starts at 75 gigs/month, but I have upgraded to 300 gigs/month for a bit more. they also have an unlimited option).
>>>>"choosing to focus on their strengths instead of role-playing Steve Jobs paid off."

This a thousand times.

Too many times I've heard founders bragging to me about how awesome their website looks while completely missing how crappy the user experience is which is driving away business. Good to hear these guys really focused on the core of the business and what made it great.
I was hoping for 2000x battery life for my laptop...
One of the umbilicals on the second stage prematurely separated.

Definitely a bummer. Way to play it safe.
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Another important point is that the attacker already has the ability to affect the decompressed output, since they are presumably responsible for the compressed input.
My personal anecdote: When I lived in a small town with fios and Time Warner and Comcast, every offer was far cheaper and better than when I moved to a much bigger city with only Time Warner.
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Always cool to see different DFS options out there. That said, I personally won't find this very useful. It does not appear to have any POSIX support and thus only would work as a API/library accessible storage share. Hadoop at least has ways of mounting, although I personally haven't used them.
It is so commonplace that I am not even surprised to hear about it anymore.
Thanks – that's similar to what cooperadymas was saying.

Who did you mean by "their"? We are soliciting feedback on our more B2B channels too. But I'm posting here because a) it's a startup and HN likes startups and b) I like HN and wanted to share. :)
I imagine that Google will be working its way north, up through Orem and Bluffdale where the NSA, Adobe, and a number of other large tech companies are. There are some SLC suburbs up north that are running failed fiber networks, too, so I imagine they'll eventually fill in the Salt Lake area.

I'm surprised about Utah, even with the existing fiber. The population density in most of the valley is really low, and the installation cost to subscriber potential must be higher than it is in more compact urban areas.
I just downloaded the iOS app, and you aren't really missing much. It looks like a proof-of-concept for using Firebase SDK, not a real intended for users app.

Crashed twice within the first few minutes, just a bunch of pins floating around SF with no indication of route, etc.
> The real universe is actually continuous rather than discrete at the macro-scale (ie: relativity).

But the 'real universe' appears discrete on the smallest level, and I don't believe physicists will ultimately settle on a theory in which two completely different sorts of theories take over at different regimes and the macro-scale theory is not reducible, even in principle, to derivations and predictions of the micro-scale theory. The quantum theories will eventually predict the relativity-scale results./

> In addition, a "video-game universe" runs on a programmatic logic with discrete conditionals rather than our universe's equations that don't branch.

How would you know? What governs quantum randomness?
Their old office was on the old Word Perfect campus (now called Canyon Park), near Provo Canyon.
The article this one rewrote explains the why much better.

https://readwrite.com/2013/04/17/intel-acquires-mashery

It'd be kind of interesting if you dropped an api layer in the firmware more or less like ipmi but sharing the ethernet and using a modern style key and role approach. Use the same strategies to manage all your bare metal as you do to manage instances.
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