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The market is probably the most important factor for businesses using Blue Ocean strategy [1] targeting uncontested market space. However, competition is probably a more important factor in established markets. (Anyone having an alternative viewpoint is welcomed to discuss it here.)

For example, any startup has a minuscule chance to become a substantial player in search keyword advertising market today, given the resources and market positions of Google. Google had the chance because all the market leaders in those years did not have a very good product and few user were very satisfied with their search results.

Today, if you and your team are geniuses, maybe you can do a bit better than Google. But enough to entice a large portion of users to switch before Google can catch up with you? Highly unlikely. This point, to a different extent, also applies to other markets.

In addition to product-market fit, we will need to consider the strength of competition in the market before jumping in. How would our offering significantly improve a part of the user's life is they decide to adopt it?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ocean_Strategy
You're confusing the aged expatriates of technology with the people doing the work now. They're only 45 and unemployable except for sweetheart contractor deals within their 'network'.

It's disgusting how entitled they are. No, you don't make six figures working part-time, ad-hoc, in a technical capacity. No, you aren't that good, you aren't that special.

And they are so fucking boring. They think they put their time in and now they go on cruise-control and still expect to still make a tidy income on the side while they pursue their dreams of organic backyard farming or whatever. B-o-r-i-n-g.
Excuse me for asking a stupid question, I am not too deep into linux kernel randomness generation:

Why is /dev/urandom spitting out anything before it has acquired enough entropy for the initial seed? Wouldn't it be a good idea for it to initially block?
They stole a machine designed to kill others, and then used it in a reckless fashion. They are responsible, and can't use the "but my friend said" defence, I'm afraid.

If you plan to use such weaponry you have a duty to confirm whatever it is your are shooting at is the right thing. Especially if it is a known flight path for commercial airliners.

I agree with you that they likely didn't intend to shoot down a commercial, rather than military, plane but that doesn't absolve them of responsibility.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbyZYgSXdyw
I wonder, they were expecting it to be military/transport plane.

One of: http://i.imgur.com/4XgZCaH.jpg

Just "oh I wonder what this button does"?
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It's great news indeed. It seems I underestimated how many people will be having trouble building babel due to this. Next time I will do my best to make sure that it works with the latest Nimrod release.
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No matter what Linux distro I hop to, I ultimately always keep returning to Slackware. Pat really is a visionary: he's one man who has always gotten it right over 21 years, amidst a landscape like Linux, known for its chaos and constant reinvention. He should be an example to all distro maintainers.

The system is so neatly designed that you don't even notice the lack of automatic dependency resolution. This is simply because of the sheer breadth of choices you have when it comes to installing software on Slackware.

In short, it's the last bastion of sanity in Linux.
or something like "then"?
Note that Debian release do not install sudo by default, unlike Ubuntu.

So if you have not installed sudo, or do not have permission to use it, then you should use "su - " to become root, then run "apt-get update;apt-get upgrade".
As someone who works with kids (ages 7-18), I'll comment from my own experience. There isn't a lot of difference. I can't deny there some mild tendency of boys and girls acting differently in the ways described above. BUT, in a "free" environment (which is where I work) that difference is so small that I really can't say whether it's caused by latent external expectations of society and the parts thereof that still haven't caught on to the huge importance of emancipation and compassion, instead of by some intrinsic factor of the biology of the kids themselves.

That said, I can't really scientifically/rationally 100% dismiss it either.

HOWEVER, there is one really important takeaway from this, which is separate from whether it's biological or not. There may be a tendency, but it is vastly overshadowed by differences in character between individuals, which do exist, and it's important to be mindful and aware of those. If left to their own devices without too much external pressure, I see "girly" boys and "boyish" girls (ranging from minor personality traits and interests to wearing different clothes, make-up, hairstyles, jewelry). Everyone is all over the spectrum, really. And that's beautiful.

In my line of work (teaching kids computer and technology stuff), there is a group of (mostly older) women working actively to focus on girls' interest for technology. Which is a noble cause, of course. And they're doing great work ... if it was last century, when this seemed like a good idea in emancipation/feminism. They don't get it if I comment on this, think I am on the wrong side of this battle. But by focusing purely on girls, trying to show them there is also "cool stuff for girls" to do in technology, they are so doin' it wrong .. What about the "girly boys" that would love to take part in activities like this? They got left behind. What about the "boyish girls" that think this stuff is boring and would rather build a action-packed videogame or learn about XSS and SQL-injections ..

So yeah, my point is, biological tendencies or not, they are (in my anecdotal experience) vastly overshadowed by individual personality characteristics.
What did it get you thinking??
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Spanish air controller, “Kiev downed Malaysian Boeing #MH17”
Slightly worthless comment, but I think that is the first web site I've ever seen typeset in Computer Modern. Strangely, it looks rather nice to me (not that I think Computer Modern is particularly an attractive font, but my massive exposure to it over the years has given it a certain quality of reassurance).
Wish there was a cliffnotes version of this long-winded article. Best of luck to the kid though.
Spanish air controller, “Kiev downed Malaysian Boeing #MH17”

http://slavyangrad.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/spanish-air-cont...

@spainbuca Twitter account "disappeared". Google cached version of the account: http://goo.gl/CnuDCC
Funny thing is that the heart symbol actually was naughty parts originally... ;-)
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Honestly I'd submit to http://plaintextoffenders.com/ and let them find out indirectly.

The alternative is to email webmaster|security@domain anonymously and hope for the best.
It's nice for speed and the fact that you don't need to use a library any more, bit isn't more secure than JS Crypto was before.
Sounds great -- I'm hesitant to wordsmith further. The previous title was correct, too, it just led me to the wrong first impression. aLIGO is "on the verge of detection", on timescales of years. For a project begun in 1992 or earlier, that's real soon. Everyone in the experimental detection community is excited and upbeat.

For the skeptic sibling comment -- there remains a non-negligible chance that aLIGO will see nothing. If it reaches its design specifications and sees nothing, it would force mainstream astrophysics to rethink a lot of widely-held beliefs regarding neutron star abundances and merger rates.
Your story bought me to tears, as I started to remember my baby that died in 2010. He was premature and I don't think it's related to the case of your son.

I wish all the best for you, hope that your son manage to grow up and live his life, in the best possible way. All my prayers for your son and the others fighting on that.
Where does JSX + Coffeescript integration exist now?
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Is there something non-petty we should be killing each other over?
It seems that the Lato webfont (https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Lato) encounters some troubles with the Linux environment, maybe an antialiasing problem.
I think a better analogy here might be:

You won't understand the fuss about keyless entry if your car doesn't have locks.
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No need, you are the greatest CEO of all time. At least better then the ones at Google.
Yep, and I still get errors (letters completely disappearing every few days) with it turned on.
Same here! That first Mandrake boot was magical so different from windows (KDE3) yet so functional. I remember burning my first CD with K3b, that worked perfectly and it was just as functional as the expensive Nero!

Man those were the days, having to manually mount your usb stick with the 2.4 kernel. Dropline Gnome (still alive I see http://www.droplinegnome.org/) made Slackware a lot easier to keep up to date and pretty and slapt-get provided a nice update mechanism. I went to Gentoo afterwards and then to Arch, I haven't looked back for years now. To bad DO dropped Arch support so now I'm using Debian on the server VM's.

Remember Patrick got sick and the whole community was sending drugs? Nice.

And that whole drama about jumping version numbers...
The problem with that is that a library can't count on pthreads: the application might call clone directly, without going through the libc wrapper, which calls the atfork callbacks.
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> Hasn't somebody realized this is a risk

It's horrible what happened, but you can't call it a risk. There's a bigger risk from them taking the bus to the conference.

Heck, there's a bigger risk just all being in the same building.

Also, when I read the article it made it seem like these 100 were the top people in the field, but other replies made it clear that while it's a big loss there are a huge number of people in the conference.
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Received by email at 6:30pm on a Friday night.
Text copied (incompletely) from here, I believe: http://glenavalon.com/pirireis.html

But even better is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piri_Reis_map

Which links to (comparison to modern accurate maps):
http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/pseudosc/piriries.htm
And, in case anyone missed it, there are things that are OTC here in Canada that are Schedule III in the US. My personal favourite is what is variously called AC&C or 222, a tablet containing 375mg ASA, 15mg caffeine and 8mg codeine phosphate — perhaps the best safe combination for occasional migraine-type headaches. (You need to register and sign for them in Quebec, a measure that's intended to prevent bulk purchases, but you're on your own say-so elsewhere; you merely need to ask at the pharmacy counter and they'll give you the safety drill if you're a first-timer.) Useful damned things to have around if you're susceptible. But totally illegal to have without a scrip in the States.
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Tragically, the Ukrainian government has had an incident.

On October 4, 2001 they accidentally shot down Siberia Airlines Flight 1812, killing 78.[1]

For what it's worth, I do agree with your sentiment.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia_Airlines_Flight_1812
These numbers are somewhat misleading, and the phrasing may confuse people.

> The fastest python solution using an ORM is a tenth as fast as the Java solutions

This may be true if your bottleneck is the ORM in the first place (this is relatively easily verifiable by running a profiler on your python program, comparing the results against (e.g.) EXPLAIN ANALYZE output, etc.)

I run a service with a decently-sized database (over 100G); so far all the bottlenecks were at the "query execution in the DB" level. I use lower-level SQLAlchemy primitives to form the queries, and check the resulting raw SQL against the raw SQL queries that I had designed for the DB before. If you know what you're doing, SQLAlchemy will know, too.

Use cases and situations vary. But the way you phrase those particular benchmarking results is somewhat misleading.
Slighty off-topic: Over 100 points and zero comments? Is this article so good that there is literally nothing to add, does the comments section at lwn.net serve as an appropriate outlet or is there some other obvious reason I’m missing?

Back to topic: The comments there mention that binary-compatibility with other unices might have been a reason to have per-architecture syscall numbers, but fail to explain why the more recent architectures (x86_64 and arm, e.g.) would keep that compatibility – certainly tries to run, say, HP-UX binaries on Linux any longer?
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Is it only me or does this news story has conspiracy written all over it?
Exactly. Thus we have get what we deserve, less scientific advancements and quality of life. If only we could get rid of his perpetual self-damaging instinct.
It just throws me out to the home screen, is there somewhere else I need to look for crash reports?

I have plenty of space, it crashes after about 1 seconds of processing the movie.
Chrome 38 release for Mac on dev channel is now 64-bit.
It's only you.
Almost a quarter century, primarily one man, hat off to Patrick Volkerding!

(I used Slackware from 1994 to ~2005.)
The support for the dialog element is great, but is it a bug that the scrolling example scrolls the entire page (and moves the dialog offscreen) when the inner scroll bar hits the bottom of the div? Or is that just a limitation of the polyfill?
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Yes. But it would break userspace to change it now (because some init script might block trying to read /dev/urandom)
unfortunately, a planet with humans in equilibrium is but a wishful thinking, considering peak oil and soon uranium and methane, too, so 'peak energy' will likely soon be upon us, with solar, wind and geothermal energy only partially replacing them.
I've always been keen to try Slackware (probably dating back 10 years or more) but always been too daunted by the installation instructions.

I tried again today - it's completely different from what I remember and very straightforward. I am installing it now (under VirtualBox) - wish me luck!
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I think about Patrick's illness almost every time I brush my teeth. If I remember right, he got some bacterial infection after swallowing dislodged oral flora, or at least that was the working theory.
What are you, a compiler? :-P
That's just horrible :(
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> Why are they all flying across the entire world

That's how the better conferences work.
So, does this mean that security issues are causing the end of the Unix "everything is a file" philosophy?
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A site explaining the mystery: http://www.diegocuoghi.com/Piri_Reis/PiriReis_eng.htm
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I worked on a HDL based in Haskell as an undergraduate project[1], and I'm about to start a PhD exploring the design of HDLs.

>dependent typing

I definitely agree with this. When you're writing a program to generate code, the distinction between compile time and runtime is essentially meaningless, so the boundary between types and values in Haskell ends up being a huge hassle for no good reason. It's also hard to explain the difference between numeric values and numeric types, when there doesn't need to be one in the first place.

I didn't realise Nimrod had this feature, so I might need to take another look at it.

>functions doesn't work to well as an abstraction in HDL

I'm not sure why you'd say that? Functions work great for abstracting chunks of combinational logic. Arguably one would prefer a more constrained abstraction though.

> friendly syntax and semantics ... I don't think Haskell or Idri based languages will catch on.

Bluespec took the approach of modifying Haskell syntax to look like Verilog. It's mostly quite effective, but I think they went slightly too far in throwing out some useful syntax features. Most notably, there are no lambda expressions in Bluespec, even though it could support them trivially.

>HDL programmers are not generally good at programming

I think this is a chicken and egg problem. HDLs suck, so there's not really any good practice to learn. Also competent programmers who can see the deficiencies tend to avoid the field.

I'm working with Bluespec in a team of mixed EE and CS backgrounds, and the EEs are learning much better programming practices as a result.

[1] https://github.com/aninhumer/mantle
In BBC's Museum Mysteries docus, in the Topkapı Palace episode, they offer their theory for this.

They think that Piri Reis (commander of the navy at that time) obtained maps from ships that passed through the Bosphorus. He was then able to draw a current map of the world from all the diverse information.

They basically explored the world without ever leaving home.
Indeed. Heck, even someone with FlightRadar24 (an app the price of a cup of coffee) could probably deduct what plane that was. Let alone if you have advanced equipment.

As you say, they just got their hands on equipment and had little clue how to handle it. They are also fully responsible for what happened.
"Best structured" is definitely true - part of the reason we can use it to power all the new Eventbrite APIs is because we can easily remove one or two pieces and swap in our own without breaking the rest. Makes my life a lot easier!
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Yeah yeah, they are all strong independent languages that don't need no monads. What do I care.

EDIT: you don't strictly need something like monad transformers, though. In general, monads are just another type class. A special one since IO is implemented with them, but other than that, they are not essential.
Is it normal to advertise salaries in job listings? I've really not seen this very much, but then I'm not in the west coast of the US
> Data ownership will not be solved by technology.

Yes, it might sound disturbing to many, but I'm afraid this is an area which could possibly be push forward massively only by some major government regulation kicking in. In a data-driven economy we live in it would be naive to expect companies to be interested in giving up on user data.
If you think things haven't been changing enough, or aren't still changing, you aren't paying attention.
Woah, where did Haskell come from all of a sudden?
Not exactly true. That would only apply if we were talking about all flights on average and ignoring the unique situation of flying near the Ukraine - Russia border right now.

I would say the risk is dramatically higher in that region - clearly - than for your average flight. It's a war zone in which they're now shooting down planes flying at high altitudes.
Try[1] in Scala standard library is also similar in concept. Erik Meijer covers this subject very well in his talks[2].

[1]The Try type represents a computation that may either result in an exception, or return a successfully computed value. http://www.scala-lang.org/files/archive/nightly/docs/library/index.html#scala.util.Try
[2]http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/Keynote-Duality
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Nope.

Netflix, on the other hand, has paid good money for a very fast and reliable connection all the way to the Level3/Comcast PoP.

For yet another analogy in this thread - if your server was instead sitting in a data center with an open 10GE ethernet port or two, right next to a Comcast router, yes, they should just install the extra NICs and wire the things up without for the price of supplies and installation.
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Excuse my ignorance but I would have thought that the Ukrainian airspace would be restricted due to the ongoing 'conflict'. Surely they could have used a different route no?
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Erik Voorhees's response, at length:

http://moneyandstate.com/reflections-right-privacy-response-...
Interesting; Slackware was my first distro (dozen floppy disks) as well. I too am interested in not having policykit or much of the modern desktop stuff.
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> Population isn't enough, and can be a curse. Europe saw
> a tremendous economic boom following the Black Death,
> largely because financial and real capital was concentrated
> in fewer hands, and populations were reduced below
> carrying capacity.

I won't dispute that there was both a population decline and an economic boom following the Black Death, but do you have anything to back up the assertion of causality? Could the boom not be more parsimoniously explained by the inflow of wealth from the New World? Indeed, perhaps the Black Death dampened this boom and ultimately delayed the industrial revolution.
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Does anyone know why the MH17 story was kept off HN yesterday?

I kept seeing it appear in new and then on the front page and then it would vanish. I guess admins were deleting it? Is there a policy reason why it isn't something 'good hackers would find interesting' ?
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You mean like slapt-get? What would be the best one?