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> Ocaml's compiler is also slow

Umm, no it isn't. I'm not sure I'm aware of a faster compiler. It's so fast most people don't even realise that they are running the byte code version (ocamlc) rather than the native code verison (ocamlc.opt).
Law school is so competitive precisely because there is more supply than demand. You're arguing against yourself.
I don't understand the first line of your comment.

Mind clarifying?
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I hope Windows 7 support will never end, I refuse to put my hands on Windows >= 8
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The non-poaching agreement didn't apply to engineering talent.
Which seems pretty amazing to me. Granted I'm not a Java developer, but it seems like such a basic feature of any language.
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This 'busy-bragging' epidemic must be stopped
There’s not going to be any more security fixes.
I just bought an old ~2008 netbook that came with a fresh install of XP on it. I was shocked at how slow and unresponsive it was. I really don't imagine windows 8 would improve the situation at all, quite the opposite, I suspect the machine would be completely unusable.

Reinstalling Arch with XMonad as a simple display manager and the netbook is now seriously snappy. Boot time is just a few seconds from start to surfing... and that includes typing 'startx'.

Obviously few people would be techie enough or want to go through the evening it took to set it up. But really the difference between free for a working machine and $199 for a pile of sludge is a bit much in my opinion. I imagine there is a huge gap here for Linux to fill for all that old hardware that still works but needs an OS that will still work with it.
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To clarify:

What's wrong with any hardware RNG that produces 0's and 1's straight from observing natural phenomena like
"thermal noise, the photoelectric effect, and other quantum phenomena", as wikipedia puts it[1].

How can they do better than that; specifically, what do they mean with "demonstrably unpredictable values"?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generato...
I doubt that you can do take these batteries on international flights at all: http://www.britishairways.com/cms/global/pdfs/lithium_batter... states that no Li batteries with >160wh are allowed on board or in checked baggage. The Trontium has 290wh.
https://access.redhat.com/site/support/policy/updates/errata...
How is this even legal, if it contains actual trontium?

Who wants to walk around with a radioactive material in your pocket, irradiating your genitals?

Scary idea.
I assume you mean a specific release? Because several distros have been around since the 90s.

XP isn't a specific release. It has had 3 service packs, the 2nd of which could have been called a new version of Windows had they chosen, and has had continual bug fixes through its 12 years.
Nope, I got it. I conflated "data" and "purchases", mainly because they are both transactional, and the difference between pure data and physical goods is decreasing by the day.

Thanks for pointing out the difference, though. I should have been clearer in my comment.
See: https://metacpan.org/pod/PPI
For $299 I can sure buy a lot of lithium ion batteries. There are already many such products out there that are very cheap. 290w/h is 58000 mah at 5v. I can buy a 11,000 mah pack for 29.99 on Amazon and surprise it weighs 1/4 the weight. Even if I bought 5 of them to equal the energy capacity it would be 1/2 the cost. (But it is not a REACTOR) There really is nothing novel at all about this product, and it is overpriced. I guess I am doing something wrong when shoving 3 lbs of commodity Li ion batteries into a tube and making some fancy name can yield a 100% profit margin.
Honestly, the article takes it to the extreme. There is provided to evidence of wage theft or even attempt.

Other commenters have pointed out, however, that restricted trade contracts are illegal which is what forms most of the basis of why this is illegal.

I still haven't been convinced it's unethical, but I can see now why it's illegal.
Another poster pointed out that the satellite just reflects the signal back to base stations on earth, which could have been upgraded since 1996.
For some reason users who post links don't want to read them. From the first paragraph:

"Despite its designation as a thorium reactor , it was essentially a normal on uranium fission ( 235 U) based reactor"

Additionally, a lot of the recent hype on thorium reactors is that they are actually molten salt reactors (see the oak ridge national lab experiments - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment). By using a liquid fluoride salt, you can run a thorium reactor at ambient pressure and high temperatures, leading to safer operation and better utilization of thorium in feed stock. I think one of the main concerns for this implementation is material durability and corrosion resistance. If we can figure this stuff out, this reactor model looks promising. See Kirk Sorensen's company Flibe energy and the wiki for the LFTR - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LFTR.
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Windows 7 (and 8, and 8.1) are actually quicker than XP on most machines, given that your PC has >=1G RAM.

Obviously it's difficult to beat XMonad's startup speed. However, the problem with old machines is not the OS, as the OS itself barely consumes any resources compared to browsers, for example. So you might save X MB of RAM by using XMonad instead of Gnome or Windows, but it does not help if a Chrome tab needs 100 MB (The Verge front page, for example).
Er, what's trontium again? Must have missed that in Chemistry 101.
Dear diary: My most bizarre moment on HN so far. Someone referenced my tiny (ugly) birth town in a discussion about energy.

On topic: It didn't look impressive. :)
I think that Microsoft made a great example of long term support, but I have to agree with the big red "Honestly, it's time for a change" at the top of the page. It's a twelve year old product, I'm honestly amazed to find any users left. Yeah, many businesses may be using XP, which sadly includes almost ATM in the US, but this end of support has been coming for a long, long time and upgrading to newer, likely better software is something that needs to be done.

Additionally, am I the only person who has no major problems with Windows 8.1? Yeah, Metro isn't great on my non-touchscreen monitor but I'm not going to avoid using it because I don't like the UI. (In all fairness, I only run it on a gaming PC and my school/work machine runs OS X...) I'd love to see more lower and middle end options that run Linux, but until then I think ending support for XP is actually a good thing. You can't be hung up on old technology forever.
> We created Trontium to drive humanity forward

Startup people are fucking hilarious
This website is really well done. I love the 'Honestly...It's time for a change.'

Not sure why ending support is controversial for some people. Support for XP HAS to end at some point. It doesn't make business sense for them to keep putting money into it.

I don't think anyone would suggest they should still support MS-DOS, so why XP?
Interesting that these pages avoid any direct reference to Windows 8. It's only referred to as "the new Windows".
I'm testing windows 8.1 on a couple samsung N145 Plus netbooks it's a lot better than 7 runs. They are still crap though, but less crap with 8 on.
I recently realized that I like plays. Movies have mostly replaced them, which is a shame.

However, there are things that movies can do that plays definitely can't do, and the reverse is true as well.

I think that there's room for both!
Windows is still being supported -- just not Windows XP. Linux is only supported as far back as version 2.6, and that support is similarly ending soon. Linux 2.4, which was released around the same time as XP, is no longer supported. I'm not sure how it follows from Linux's history that Windows XP should be open sourced.
trontium is not a name of a chemical.

If you look at the spec page it says "lithium-ion battery pack".
Is this going to become the new "I don't own a tv", where people think its hip and they feel the urge to tell others about it?

Here's one of the few jokes I ever came up with:

Q: What do you do if you want to find out whether somebody owns a tv?
A: Nothing. If they don't have one, they'll tell you.
No need for hits. It's a tiny blog.

Relevant xkcd though: https://xkcd.com/1053/
Ask HN: Client won't pay. What should I do?
I'm a freelance software developer and worked on several projects with a client. After I delivered the last one he disappeared. Stopped responding to my emails. Deleted our Basecamp project. Basically I had no way to contact him.

Up until this point the client had been great to work with, always paying on time and he had always been happy with my work.

Admittedly this final project was delivered quite late due to unexpected health issues of mine but we never set a firm deadline and he never expressed any issue with the delay.

6 weeks after delivering the final project and not receiving payment I found out he had a new company and made contact through their customer service number. He made an excuse that he was pulled off the project and didn't know I hadn't been paid. I was obviously untrue but he promised to pay immediately.

One week on and he has started screening my calls, still not paid, and his emails have gotten slightly aggressive/very defensive. He claims he didn't pay because my work was 'shit'.

I am based in the UK and my client in California. The amount he owes is not huge but it is a significant amount to me. If he was based in the UK I would pursue it through the small claims court but I'm not sure if that is possible as he is in CA.

What do you recommend HN? I've tried to remain professional with this client despite his unprofessional attitude and emails. I know of several 'below the belt' ways I can disrupt this clients business (nothing illegal obviously) but I would rather not resort to childish behaviour. What are my options?

tl;dr My client won't pay. He tried to disappear - I found him. Promised to pay but has missed several deadlines I set to pay and ones he set. What can I do?
Microsoft should do whatever makes the most sense for them and their customers...which probably is not to continue to support XP.
This is a textbook ad hominem attack. It's trying to discredit someone using insults, and it is considered a logical fallacy. It's not the insult that makes an ad hominem, it's using with insults as an excuse to dismiss someone's arguments.

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

It doesn't help that the OP's insult premise, despite its frothing anger, is your garden-variety, vaguely conspiratorial hate of evil rich people. This sort of stuff should come with a big [CITATION NEEDED] for those of us who don't believe the rich are a big conspiracy of fortunate sons, out to get the common people.

But what's most ironic is that Soros being one of the world's top finance guys gives him more credibility, not less; unless you believe he has a nefarious plot to make billions by lying in magazine interviews or something.
It doesn't help me to know that an anonymous person had tipped an anonymous vendor. That doesn't add much value.

However, it would be sufficient if I could somehow determine that someone that I knew had tipped the vendor.

Of course, I don't want my friends to see that I had tipped someone, or all of those of whom I have tipped. I just want it to be possible that they can see my tip, within an aggregate poll, only if and when dealing with that vendor.
Thanks for writing this, and sorry for your loss.
> Fun fact: the original Satoshi bitcoin code included a partially completed distributed market system. Check out the file market.cpp in version 0.1.0.

For the curious; content of market.cpp and market.h: http://pastebin.com/aa82ajub
> open source XP

And who would publicly maintain and support it? Security researches may find bugs or even write patches for it, but IT departments aren't likely to deploy them any time soon.

Besides, it encompasses lots of third party software whose right holders might be hard to find or simply wouldn't agree.
I don't think there are. Red Hat offer up to thirteen years, with the last three years being in the 'Extended Life Phase', which is very limited compared to the first ten.

https://access.redhat.com/site/support/policy/updates/errata...
I still have a couple of clients using an accounting package I sold the first version 1.0 copy of in 1988. Thank gods for DOSBOX, is all I can say.
Well, there's this: https://github.com/Sanqui/2048-gb

It was posted on HN but didn't really take off, sadly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7434529
My thought (as a non techie) is that it's just easier to ask for everything.

Need to use an open source library in building your codebase? No need to analyse everything to see which permissions it does or doesn't impinge upon. Want to add a new feature down the track? No need to consider whether it changes the user permissions.

And I'd be surprised how many people are turned off by the number of permissions - I'll almost always back off if there are any, and if I really want to use the product I have to trust them to do no evil. My guess is an awful lot of people are always living in that trust space, especially if they don't understand the tech.
I don't know if you'll ever see this, but... what is the price for one of the taxi-rickshaws? I'm really curious about costs around the world.
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the new Windows

Is there anything Micro$oft won't slavishly copy from Apple‽‽‽‽ [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad_(3rd_generation)
First review of Windows 8 I ever saw described it as a brilliant advertisement for Windows 9.

Personally, I can manage it -- knowing about Windows+D, Windows+C and Alt+F4 makes it minimally usable -- but I don't like it.
I recently bought a TV and discovered that MTV is nothing but shows about kids having kids! What ever happened to the music? Matt Pinfield? Kurt Loder?

Your joke is a good variation on "how can you tell if someone is vegan?"
I'm a complete crypto noob, but if i do

keybase encrypt maria -m 'Grab a pint tonight?'

(from their front page) and Keybase.io (or my connection) happens to be compromised, won't it be possible for compromised-Keybase to send me the wrong public key for username "maria", thus allowing others to read my message?

I guess the same could be said about someone posting their GPG key on an unencrypted mail or usenet post, though, so maybe the problem is mostly hypothetical.
Really? Using physics that you[0] don't understand to justify some kind of pseudo-science?

[0] I refer to Soros, not to k0mplex
I'm sure Emacs has a "unix mode" hidden in there somewhere. Inside it, I bet there's a full complement of GNU utils. Sed should be in there somewhere.
"Nitwit". I guess Hacker News discourse devolves in a slightly more civilised fashion. To really show me I'm wrong, or have asked a particularly stupid question, next time consider stronger language.
This isn't clear about "how" cracked it is. If it is going to take an attacker a year of CPU time, I'm not going to be too bothered. If it could conceivably run in a few minutes on a mobile phone then it's much more of a problem.
It has three high power voltage converter circuits which are needed for it to support USB Power Delivery. Those are more expensive than the batteries and no other device has three of them.

Lithium-ion packs are measured at 3.7 volts, not 5.
Was trying to refrain from making negative comments on this book, having recently read it, but I can't resist just a few to save some people some wasted time:

. The style is very 'motivational speaker', written by a self-confessed 4-time MLM 'business owner' - lots of fluff and padding - and what is with the 'Laws' he keeps making up? And the long drawn out explanations with terrible analogies?

. Nice tone of misogyny throughout. Yay!

. Much of the content is obvious and covered in the most basic of entrepreneur guide material. In fact, this link is so useful because it sums up all the most useful parts of the book. Trust me, the words surrounding these are of no further value.

Read it, sure, even skim read it, but don't expect any answers if you're already up to speed on the basics of scalable business models and the need for hard work to get where you're aiming for.
I take your point about the value of placebos, but homeopathic practitioners don't have a monopoly on the placebo effect. And homeopathy diverts people from effective medical treatment. This kills people.

And these safety incidents aren't accidents -- they're an inevitable consequence of people taking unregulated substances as if they were medicines. When people swallow these preparation, or drop them in their eyes, or shove them up their nose or their ass, I don't think it occurs to them that nobody has checked whether this is a safe thing to do. I think they should be made aware of this.
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Does not work in Opera (the normal one) at all. The plates are jumping like crazy.
No, the key is not to offend people who don't particularly need to be offended. You aren't talking about "freedom", you're talking about being abrasive for no good reason. There are rude words that you may freely use to describe that sort of person, should you wish.
Would have been nice if TechCrunch did some testing / reporting, instead of accepting / repeating. Not that I'm surprised, just would have been nice in this area.
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Companies that want foreign talent should setup branches in the originating countries. Countries will not grow when their talent is poached. Immigrants also put local workers into unfair competition when their home countries offer social programs such as free higher education.
Sadly that javascript miner is stupidly slow.
You could have a top Hacker News post and still only make pennies.
It's sad I can't edit my message anymore. Thanks for lightening it up.

At least exceptions ensure (...) - at least in Java - that errors are forced to be dealt with in a certain way.

bulte-rs - orkoden: 0 - 1; I love Java for it's exceptions (and "the IDE's" telling me to catch them all).
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Also potentially safer failure mode: in a run-away vent, it heats up, melts through a plug in the reactor base and drains out into a settling pan, which stops the reaction dead.

The worst thing about modern nuclear power is we won't shut the old reactors the hell down, so when you get a Fukushima it's because at every junction proposals to replace it were held up, but no one would brook just shutting it down either.
One of the goals in the OP:

>* Allow users to maintain a pseudonymous identity that carries
anonymous trust across transactions.

i.e. anonymous as in it's difficult to establish a real world identity for sellers not anonymous as in no persistent identities at all.

Bootstrapping such a marketplace is obviously difficult, since it's never safe to buy from someone without reputation but everybody starts without reputation - it might be possible to demand some proof-of-work-money to establish a marketplace identity, but I'm not sure where the money would go.
GitHub is good because it doesn't re-invent the wheel - it uses Git. If Github had rolled their own system it probably wouldn't have taken off.

Keybase.io is very much rolling their own system. I think that answers the question.
Escrow services would have to be an integral part of the architecture.

The buyer pays the vendor via an, initially, unsigned multisig 2-of-3 transaction, and the goods are sent when the buyer, the vendor and the escrow service each hold a copy. When the buyer receives the items, he signs the transaction and sends it to the vendor, who signs it and it's valid.

If a dispute occurs, the escrow service will have to decide the case, and side with whichever party it finds most credible. A reputation system for escrow services will be as important as one for vendors, as far as I can see, and they need to be compensated for their service, of course.
Forget about distributions, names, etc. Imagine you have a software that is critical to your business. You tested it on a specific version of an OS. Continued support means that you can keep using that OS and your software will very likely continue running on the OS without problems, and if there is something broken by a patch, then you can go and complain to them.

If your software runs on Ubuntu 7.04, you suddenly upgrade to 13.10 and your software stops working, then I don't think Canonical will take any responsibility or help you.

I know MS is not perfect in this either, and SP2 introduced quite significant changes, but fundamentally it's the same OS, same look, same UI paradigms, etc.; and they at least intended to keep themselves to the rules described above.
I'm not disputing the general point; it is still long term support but isn't it much more reasonable to measure the time from the product's replacement not it's launch?

Vista was launched January 2007 so the support period after XP was the current product is 7 years not 12.
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No. Quantum entanglement does not allow for transmission of information faster than light. And therefore does not allow you to suddenly move objects from one place to another.

What it does allow for is the synchronization of random data between two places faster than light. So two receivers can securely find themselves in the possession of a shared encryption key, that can then allow them to send information in a way that intermediates can't intercept.
If the keybase tool uses certificate pinning and if keybase.io is using SSL (likely), then a compromise of your connection would also need to be a compromise of the keybase tool on your machine (to defeat the certificate pinning, though if they can compromise the tool installed locally, you have other things to worry about).

You are right however that keybase.io themselves might be compelled by the government (or criminals if you make a distinction there) to serve up modified public keys.
I think you're mixing up a couple stories there, but it doesn't really matter that much. Just to fill in the details (and because the alternative is for me to start responding to work emails which I just don't feel like doing this morning): Babbage was concerned about the quality of mathmatical table books, which were used for calculations before we had modern calculators and slide rules weren't mainstream. The figures in them were computed by hand, and some were so bad there was an error on every page, which made them useless for scientific work and dangerous for industrial work. The Difference Engine was designed to print out pages of figures using a little printer attachment.

ENIAC was ininitially put to work calculating artillery trajectories, once the programmers figured out the bug where the shell kept going after it hit the ground (oops!).
Have to agree with this. Lately I've noticed that the best thinking on ideas I do is about 60 minutes after I leave some group collaborative session for generating ideas.

Hence a flurry of emails and actual forward progress afterwards.
You're right. That keyboard is not USB powered. That's why we're making adapter cables. I'll be posting a tutorial on the site later today with pictures, but the general idea is that you can buy an adapter cable for whatever device you have and then set its voltage requirements in an app.

https://trontalk.com/filedata/fetch?photoid=147