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Depending on how it's implemented, there's no real reason why it couldn't be done. For example, I could create SceneGraph_fs, which exposed the scene graph of objects as a directory hierarchy. The filesystem's toplevel directory would be organized with a /scenegraph/ directory for the scenegraph, /lights/ for the light models, and /tmp/ for a scratch space for constructing objects and staging them to be added. Each node in the scene graph would be represented by a directory under /scenegraph/ which contained one file for each distinct chunk of data the graphics engine would need to know (like a position matrix, an orientation matrix, a mesh model, a texture map, etc., depending on whether or not the directory represented a model or a transformation).

For data in /scenegraph/, SceneGraph_fs would accept well-formatted writes to a node's files as a means to update the node in the scene--for example, to translate the node, you would write a new matrix to the object's positional matrix file (the write() would return EPERM if the matrix was malformatted). To create or modify an object atomically, you could describe it under /tmp/ in SceneGraph_fs, and rename() it into place. You could manage lights and lighting data in the same way.

Of course, the graphics card interfacing happens in filesystem implementation. But, the application interacts with the scenegraph as a filesystem, not as an object.
I think this response actually came later. Apologies for that to the other poster.

This is pretty much my point. This "embedded systems use microkernels" is easy to paint in such a way that it supports either argument. Comes down almost to the scottsman falacy.

More to the point, if I were to claim that my phone is really running a microkernel, I would be ignoring the majority of the software on my phone. I mean, yes it is true. But it is laughable in that the majority of the programming on the device is not in L4. To a large margin.

Consider, you are at this point merely claiming that a state machine in your device is running in a microkernel. And, to the non-microkernel that runs the majority of the phone, it is but a device. So, we have a non-microkernel running a microkernel as a standard device.
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What are the harms of assuming it is an airborne virus? This seems like a case where, as of today, global leaders are not scared enough. A bit of misinformed public hysteria could be just what politicians need to act.
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This post is right about one thing: Speech recognition technology is good at context-specific recognition, i.e. with a small grammar, as in VoiceXML IVR applications (anyone else remember those?). This has been true on typical PC hardware since at least 2000, so it should be easy to run that kind of speech recognition locally on a smartphone.

But, last time I did anything serious with that kind of speech recognition, it still required a push-to-talk button or the like. Maybe a trigger phrase would work now.
Customer journey gameplans. It's fascinating how much attention Apple pays to retail details.
I don't know I missed this - but any chance I can apply late? :(
This is an important point. Felix Salmon has an excellent analysis of this sentiment in Scotland here: https://medium.com/@felixsalmon/why-scotlands-voting-yes-2d6...
I find that hard to grok following an admission that erlang could be used to architect systems using similar ideas. :(

That is, that you had a network transparent message passing system with high reliability is the key. That it was implemented at the OS level seems a side detail.
I think you need to teach them debugging and have someone who can examine their code to find bugs and help them learn from their mistakes and failures.

Human feedback is always valuable. Requires common sense that cannot be programmed into a computer.
The two smaller nations created from the UK after a yes vote would already be co-members of a variety of overlapping organisations/unions/treaties, such as Nato, the commonwealth, various EU-related things.

Independence, Independence with a currency union, further devolution, the current status quo and what it was like a decade ago are all points on a spectrum rather than a black and white thing.
I think we're in violent agreement here. However, it's unclear (I'd say to the point of not worth discussing) what the cost of the OS is. As far as the end user is concerned, the OS is free as are the updates. They pay the same amount for the phone regardless if it gets 1 update or if it gets 10 (and you don't know how many in advance).

Phones at full retail price have sat comfortably at the $600ish price point for quite a while.
Here in New Zealand it's 1.5 meters (almost 5ft), have had that enacted for 20+ years. There are cyclist deaths every year or so, but it's usually a drunk driver or someone road raging, in the past 10 years the only time someone has killed a cyclist to the best of my knowledge by not leaving enough room is when I truck was going around a corner and the cyclist was too, he thought the cyclist was going to stop but ended up running over him. :\ Poor bastard.
Please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
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Based on personal experience, 5-10% of drivers.

On my commute home from the office, there's a short stretch (about half a city block) between where I exit from a low-traffic residential street onto a main thoroughfare and where the road widens from 2 lane to 4 lane + bikelane. On that stretch I get buzzed uncomfortably fast and close about once a week.
Just another friendly reminder that your lawyers give advice, they do not (usually) decide. It's easy to say "kill all the lawyers" and all that, but the reality is that for every finger wagging pack of lawyers, there's a management team that doesn't have the stones to say "we understand the risk and it's worth it to proceed anyway".
Six months' exclusivity? Without knowing any other details, this sounds great to me. You get to build something, it is theirs alone for six months, and after that, well...

...were it possible for others to learn what your were doing, perhaps they would sign up quickly on the first day of the seventh month....
I decline to do them. I've never asked a candidate to do that. Our hiring process is unique, we just pay candidate to build a small feature - interviews rot, 20h of work shows me what I need to know
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> Do you think there is a magic pot of money that corporations can draw from to pay the tax?

Yes it's called the CEO's 30,000x higher salary.

> Why should companies even pay tax in the first place? The owners should pay tax on profits, but why should the corporation itself pay tax?

Because a corporation's losses cannot harm the owner's personal wealth. A corporation therefore should pay taxes in order to cover that particular expense to society.
Server side stuffs, configs, installing, checking logs &c
In your opinion, what would be the advantages of a Mac OS X based on BeOS rather than BSD Unix? Or is your point merely that a Unix monoculture is inherently bad? (I think it's more like a common ancestor than a monoculture, though perhaps the descendants haven't diverged very far.)
True. The bad news is the article specified Britain not the UK as a whole and the population of Britain is twice CA.

The innumerable articles on the topic seem to miss the point that its not necessarily a poverty thing as a quality of living thing.

Poverty in the USA means poor health and very high crime and awful living conditions. And there's a cultural correlation with trash blowing around in the streets and run down buildings. I've spent some time in Ireland (I don't like on the US coasts so I can afford international travel) and poverty in Ireland merely means they can't afford luxuries. I never really found a slum in my wanderings of Galway and Dublin but all US cities have slums.

I have also spent time in Huntsville Alabama, mostly in the neighboring military base, decades ago. I can hear the coasties snickering already, but its really quite nice other than the humidity. So Britain being as poor as the deep south really isn't all that bad.
> You mean a single-user host? Mainly just reporting critical issues to the user.

(Yes, I read the rest of your comment :))

This is exactly what syslogs are supposed to do. Logs are just so insanely much simpler to get right as implementation artifacts. The key is no not log to a dozen different files scattered across /var/log, but to do it in a centralized manner (syslog, journal, whatever you want to call it).

It would be trivial (heck, someone's probably alread done it) to just listen for anything reported at "CRITICAL" level to the syslog and report that in a UI. Why on earth would you implement something as complicated as SMTP just to do that?

If you're concerned about monitoring X number of machines, having them send e-mail is decidedly not the way to do it. You'd use something like syslog forwarding (see rfc5424) and central aggregation/metrics.

EDIT: If there were a standard format for "syslog-over-email" then I could at least partially understand, but as it is you're going to get arbitrarily formatted messages from arbitrary programs. Not very useful.
Sorry to whomever made this: it just doesn't work (as art, humor, or whatever, unless "whatever" is to demonstrate something that doesn't work; in which case it works well.)
One obvious reason to think otherwise is that existing EU countries can veto the entry of new members, and Spain's government is unlikely to want to encourage Catalonian dreams of freedom. Belgium is already a federation and Belgians are famous for not being very invested in a Belgian national identity so they probably wouldn't care much.
I have a license for Fever, but it lost its sparkle for me due to slower sync. I could fall back to it if needed, but I use FeedBin right now.

The period between when Reeder lost Google Reader and when it gained new sync options temporarily killed RSS for me, as every other app I tested just made me wish for Reeder. It's one of my favorite apps of all time.
At that time it was the only way we could have done it that I'm aware of. We're talking 1985-1989 here! Feel free to disagree with decisions made almost 30 years in the past.
Maybe to have an existing Sequoia portfolio company pay an inflated all cash amount for Docker which effectively lets Sequoia pull money out of the portfolio company without diluting its equity from said portfolio company?
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Symbian and QNX, then you have a micro-kernel for the whole software stack.
As the parent comment states, the question isn't will Ebola completely change it's infection vector to become airborne. Someone who has Ebola today can cough blood. If you become infected from someone coughing blood on you, does it matter that the infection came from the blood on their breath or from virus on their breath?

It seems that virologists are answering the wrong question and getting caught up on semantics, perhaps to prevent more hand wringing and panic.

Edit: removed statements about Reston, as they seem to have been remembered incorrectly from Hot Zone, the book about the primate-only Ebola outbreak in Virginia in the 90s.
U.N. Sees Need for $1B to Fight Ebola
I don't think you can really separate "private persons and corporations" and "governments," because the same people often switch back and forth. Goldman Sachs is the obvious example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs#Personnel_.22rev...
Not strictly true, actually. Mojang isn't a publicly traded company, so they could have in theory sold themselves to whomever they wanted for whatever they wanted. It doesn't sound like Notch was in it for the money, and he famously derided M$. Sounds almost like he wanted to do a deal with Lego, a bunch of non-money stuff screwed that up, and when M$ showed up with $2.5B, he said "Fuck it. Give us the check and I'm out".
Often these types of articles go in one ear and out the other of people with irrational fear of the unknown or are incapable of understanding the way a researcher might discuss the topic. I feel this is often the case simply because those spreading misinformation love to use very charged words that incite a lot of emotion while those in authority to speak on the subject use terms with strong meaning in science but have much less impact in regular speech.

This is a good example. The article's quotes use plenty of words like "remote chance" or "highly unlikely" which don't seem to drive home the point that its "so nearly close to impossible its not worth humoring". Meanwhile, New York Time's publishes an article read my many more viewers with comparisons to the Plague, using terms like "hyper-evolution" and really ridiculous comparisons that are just taken out of context for the sake of fear.

Its no wonder you get such "stupid" responses on news article comments, the entire thing is written to rile up readers and get an emotional response while hiding the actual science.

Heck, even reading the two articles side by side you get very different stories of the same event (regarding the Ebola lab tests between Pigs/Monkeys in 2012). On NYTimes they indicate that Pig -> Monkey transference was possible then the Monkeys all had to be euthanized to "contain the outbreak". Meanwhile SA article states that the virus was never capable of going Monkey -> Monkey.
California, which is what is under discussion, uses "reasonably necessary", not "as determined by the cyclist", which in law generally means an objective standard (as that term is used in law -- that is, reasonable to an outside observer, in practice the trier of fact of the case in which the requirement becomes an issue), not a subjective one (i.e., not the judgement of the person to whom the requirement applies.)
There is no startup joke so stupid that it will not eventually become a real company.

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Moving box contents: Moveline

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Sorry but when I'm writing my hobby projects I don't have to worry about supporting a 13 year old browser.
> The exact thing you seem to want, which is "what does a LISP programmer need to know about WL?" doesn't exist,

I would want a spec of the basics of the language. Not a collection of vague statements and some examples.

> The tutorial goes into more depth [2].

A tutorial goes into more depth than the main documentation? Really?

If you read the tutorial, you see that the compiler is far from being able what a modern compiler for Lisp, SML, OCAML or Haskell does. The Wolfram compiler is mostly there to speed up some simple numeric processing. As you can see the parameters need to be numbers or 'logical variables'.

> compilation can speed up execution by a factor as large as 20.

Which is completely vague...

> For more complicated functions, such as BesselK or Eigenvalues, most of the computation time is spent executing internal Wolfram Language algorithms, on which compilation has no effect.

That more or less shows how primitive the compiler is.

> Compile can handle approximate real numbers that have machine precision, but it cannot handle arbitrary‐precision numbers

...

> An important feature of Compile is that it can handle not only mathematical expressions, but also various simple Wolfram Language programs.

Wow.

> Thus, for example, Compile can handle conditionals and control flow structures.

Really.
What are the harms of assuming it is an airborne virus?

Oh, I donno, maybe panicked and unneeded responses to that hypothetical scenario when sober but aggressive responses to the present very real and already deadly situation are sorely need?

Just what comes to mind...
Interesting. Are stores that unaware of what's out of stock that they'll incentivize customers through you? Is the assumption that the person is in the market for the item in the picture, and you'll try to sell them the item through the app?
What's fantastic about this is that even though the class is at Stanford, everyone from around the world can follow along just as easily. Stanford is opening up more and more of its opportunities to the general public, which is awesome. Another one I'd recommend taking advantage of is Stanford's Hacking Hours:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/750201348380852/

This is a weekly on-campus meetup where people hack on their projects in a collaborative environment. It's open to the general public, and anyone nearby with code to write is welcome to come work on it at Stanford.
Reminds me that they have this exact sort of setup at Mgmt consulting firms. Seems to work excellently for them.
In a few months it's flu season. A large part of the population will be sneezing and coughing. I don't wish to find out what happens when someone with ebola is introduced in such a system (e.g. infected doctor returning to the west). But your call for silence on the subject is nothing but short-sightedness.
> Not "subjectively feels comfortable doing," but "reasonably considers to be the safer choice".

"reasonably considers" is not in the law. "Reasonably necessary" is, but nothing that suggest that is a subjective consideration of the person subject to the requirement rather than an "objective" (as that is used in law, which isn't exactly the normal sense) determination applied to the facts.

Again, I think that you err in assigning subjectivity, and your only support is words that normally in law invoke objective standards.
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Because consumption is harming the environment. That said, clearly both sides of that coin aren't particularly great. What's the third option?
What fundamental thing would change if Apple changed the foundation of their desktop OS to something other than Unix?

Of all the things about Apple that could be changed, I'd say the underlying technology of their OS is the least interesting.
I did a bit of testing at my previous employer, where I was the hiring manager, but it was in the interview (so candidates had no choice). I think that is a nice compromise--the candidate is fairly far along in the process, and you can still learn a lot about a developer with a small project. Granted, these were junior positions.

As far as (b), I have no experience in this, but I can think of problems for a non technical person to fulfill. If confronted with doing this, I'd just ask the hiring manager to list 2-3 pressing problems and have the candidate outline a solution to one of them. Maybe I'm missing the thrust of your question?
It should be obvious, but taxing consumption disproportionately affects low-income people who are the least able to afford it. Conversely, as the sister comment alludes to, if a person has less money, they are far more likely to spend the money that they save from tax breaks.

See also: the declining marginal utility of money.
> Cost simply isn't how it works, the mutations are completely random. It has no direction other than chance as to if it becomes airborne.

A random walk on a gradient tends to go downhill, and becoming airborne is a long uphill trek.

Theoretically possible, but unlikely to the point I'm more concerned with other things.
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Diversity. It would have been BeOS vs UNIX vs Windows, instead of UNIX vs Windows on the desktop.

All monocultures are bad.

What happened is that now young developer generations think that UNIX and Windows are the only OS in town and disregard all the other ones out there being used.

As such they only focus their efforts into UNIX way, instead of trying to come up with new ideas.

For example, how to move away from C for systems programming, when C is married with UNIX? This is just one example.
Unless birth control reduces immigration, I don't see why that would necessarily be so.
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That's awesome. Is the wifi network open for non students? This is an issue at UC Berkeley :(.
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One that is not likely to destabilize the bicyclist in the best judgment of the driver. If you can't figure that out, then you should probably maintain a separation of greater than 3 feet.
Thanks, angersock. Not sure why it got modded. We were pleasantly surprised that it climbed to #9 on organic upvotes, disappointed when it got knocked to #54. I posted it. I manage the blog where it was published, and I don't know what we did wrong...
The emergence of "superbugs", bacteria resistant to antibiotics, is a well-known phenomenon and the basis of recent pressure on physicians/providers to discontinue prescribing antibiotics to humans when bacterial infection is absent, e.g., a viral infection is the problem.

The use of antibiotics in animal-raising industries has long since been suspected of contributing to bacterial resistance. The article points out how this happens and specific instances where it did happen.

Living in Oregon I remember when the Foster Farms incident occurred. At the time, poor hygiene practices at the farm were blamed, and the grower promised to comply with demands to clean up their act. However, I don't recall that grower's antibiotic use was reported or discussed as part of the problem, though if it was it was kept low key and escaped my attention.

Given the range of growers' experience reported in the article, and difficulty of FDA maintaining oversight (so many growers, so few FDA inspectors), it would make sense to simply ban the use of "medically important" antibiotics in the chicken and other animal-growing industries.

I've seen it happen, people are made seriously ill or die because of treatment-resistant bacteria and we are all at risk. Health care workers are especially vulnerable given the greater chance of exposure to resistant organisms.

OTOH consumers of chicken and meat products can help themselves by assiduously adhering to hygienic practices when handling uncooked meat, and make sure foods are adequately cooked to destroy potential bacterial contamination. While incidence of contamination is low, it's not nil, and taking these precautions is only prudent.
Absolutely, there are guest codes for everyone who shows up.
Not quite identical. Trailing slash.

We're working on a new de-duping system. The current dupe detector is deliberately left porous so that reposts of good stories that didn't get attention won't be killed as dupes.
If anyone is looking for a lawyer, I'd highly recommend Gabe Levine: http://levinebakerlaw.com/attorneys/gabriel-levine/

He's shares some advice on his blog (http://mylawyergabe.com/) and gave a great presentation with Mike Monteiro called "F*ck you, pay me!": http://vimeo.com/22053820
Running the Dart VM on a Chromebook in Developer Mode (without Linux)
Crashed ios safari :-/
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I'm working on ways to better convey the global structure of programs (2013)
Why not just connect to their Google calender and pull it ahead of time
Right. This would certainly seem to be extremely close to the textbook definition of tortious interference (though it may require you to already in negotiations), whereby a occurs when a person intentionally damages the plaintiff's contractual or other business relationships. This tort is broadly divided into two categories, one specific to contractual relationships (irrespective of whether they involve business), and the other specific to business relationships or activities (irrespective of whether they involve a contract).
He does mention Flanders, and Catalonia which is likely the first to go in Spain.
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lol, just by opening it?
They wouldn't though. The UK (or what remains of it) would be a member of those organisations. Scotland would be a member of almost none of them.

There is certainly a spectrum of different levels of devolution, but make no mistake: there is a massive chasm at the point of actual independence. It changes everything.