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This is very insightful. It is very hard to produce something that provides clear value in the microcosm (i.e. useful to developers) but is also valuable in the macrocosm (i.e. can be deployed to all targets).

One approach is to build something that solves the small problem but keeps enough options open in order to eventually grow to encompass the larger issues. I think this generally superior to the reverse approach, which tends to die from lack of adoption.

I don't know if docker, kubernetes, et. al. will actually get there. I agree that they will have to reshuffle and rethink to make it happen, but I hope that they can.
> As a result your screen will be locked until you move back in range of your Mac. At that point it will unlock on its own. Almost magical!

That's asking for trouble. It's too easy to step away with something embarrassing or incriminating on your screen expecting to return alone, and end up returning to the computer with someone who should not see that screen.

Unlocking should require (at least optionally) something more than your mere presence, such as a PIN. Unlocking should then work this way:

• if the correct Bluetooth device is near, the PIN is necessary and sufficient,

• if the correct Bluetooth device is not near, unlocking requires something more complex than a simple PIN, such as the logged in user's password.
What does concierge mode mean?
I remember being in college when Netflix streaming first came out. At that time, almost everyone I knew had a mail-order Netflix subscription. It was revolutionary at the time. I remember when they suddenly started throwing in streaming as a bonus to all the DVD subscribers. I had no idea that this was where they were going to eventually pivot. Netflix lured everyone in and changed the video rental industry with it's amazing mail-order service. Any video you wanted to your door in a couple of days.

Fast forward to a decade later when there are very few physical stores that rent movies, and Netflix turned into a service of convenience. No longer is it a service where you can get any movie you want in the next few days. Rather, it's a service where you can get something you'll enjoy in the next few seconds. I've noticed that a lot of the enjoyment now comes from TV series as opposed to movies.

At the end of the day I'm glad there are other alternatives to Netflix such as Amazon Instant Video. Getting any movie has never been easier than before. I just hit my Roku and I can watch almost anything within a minute. Thing is, we are coming off having too much of a good thing. When Netflix first started, it was easy to consume what you wanted for a low price.

Now, if you want to consume exactly what you want -- it might cost you more. I've found many movies that aren't available for rent on Netflix, Itunes, or Amazon. I have to buy these titles online to watch them! The other side of the coin is that it's never been cheaper to consume such a variety of media using Netflix. It just might not be exactly what you want. As long as it's good enough for you, though, it's good for Netflix's bottom line.
> First, udev is Linux-specific--it uses netlink sockets to listen for Linux-specific hardware events.

I was thinking about this comment, and I realized this is probably the source of most of your angst, which leaves some great solutions on the table.

systemd isn't really creating a much more significant break with the systems you like, because it's building on top of what Linux, which for the most part has already made the break.

The problem is, projects like GNOME, which have software you want to use, are integrating more tightly with Linux and specifically bits of systemd.

I think the obvious solution is a bridge/better interface. The contracts that GNOME is going to rely upon are at least going to be pretty well defined, and if you've got another system that works better, it shouldn't be hard for it to provide an equivalent, even compatible, interface.

If it really is demonstrably better, GNOME and other projects will likely adopt your interface/abstraction, and systemd will end up having to communicate through your interface. Even if they don't, it is a comparatively simpler effort for a software community to support a relatively small set of touch points that they want GNOME to be aware of, and maintaining a fork or compatibility layer is a perfectly reasonable solution (indeed, BSD already does this for Linux runtimes).

I can understand why it'd not be a perfect solution from your perspective, but if a bunch of developers contributing to a work you care about are going a direction you don't like, it's about as good an outcome as one could hope for.
I'm sorry but exactly how does Israel help the US?
I've never worked on an order flow based trade but the ways that seem most obvious to me are:
1) decreased fees with the exchanges due to higher rebate levels.
2) updated knowledge of the depth and nature of price levels making pricing algorithms more intelligent.
3) capturing the spreads on market orders.
The Microsoft version doesn't hide a local copy. The file still exists in the FS, just when run/opened, it should pull down the copy in place and open the now downloaded file in the correct program. This could be done with a similar feature to selective sync, and enabling this feature for certain folders and always syncing other folders.
It's for sale on DVD all over the place, just not available for rental.

http://www.amazon.com/Sweetbacks-Baadasssss-Anniversary-Spec...
I'm not really concerned about React-specific implementation, but rather a data structure that serves as a facade over the storage layer (either a remote server or the storage systems made available to the browser). This way the UI (e.g. React components and other view-like things) just talks to this facade and doesn't have to know anything about the network, its availability, or browser-specific storage options.

Mozilla's localForage is a good tool specifically for abstracting away the client-side storage mechanism from the UI logic. Aside from that I have looked at Flux and its stores would be the place where you would implement such a facade.
He's probably suggesting that it's risky, because it is. Laypeople should know what they're getting into. I've had the opportunity to invest a sizable chunk of change into the US equity market twice in my life: once in 1999, and again in 2006. I lost my shirt both times. The stock market is not for everyone. It is not always a magical money-increasing machine, although it might "statistically" and "historically" produce positive returns over a long enough term.
You can see cumulative failure rate vs age here (last graph)

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/
While I applaud them for reducing fees, I don't think key problem facing retail investors in America is $7-$10 trading commissions from brokerages. If you think that a $7-$10 trade commission is significant barrier to investing, you are not thinking about investing correctly.

The key problem I see with the investing world is that 1) most Americans lack a basic understanding of how financial instruments works 2) the media & investing culture encourages a speculative investing mindset that makes most people act like gamblers rather than rational thinkers 3) the incentives are misaligned - financial institutions are not incentivized or built to encourage people to invest smartly.

None of these problems are solved from zero trading commission structure. To be honest, this seems like a feature that day & algorithmic traders would care about rather than a normal investor. You could even argue that zero commission trades will exacerbate the issue by pushing the investing mindset to be even more short term focused; this mindset is what causes most investors to lose performance.

This seems more like a clever PR angle for Robinhood ("we are helping real Americans") rather than something impactful. I doubt their aim & monetization strategy is geared towards the everyday investor.
Apologies if the experience with some other knives differs greatly. I'd gone from not really having a chef knife to having a Shun, and the difference in sharpness was just nuts. I haven't felt the need to sharpen it yet -- not that I can claim to be a superb judge of that, but to me, the sharpness is still very much there.
I would think the professional/algorithmic traders would have done that the millisecond the news came out. By the time you're hearing about it at lunch, it would be too late.
I normally find it annoying when they run endurance tests like this using only one drive of each brand and treat the results as particularly meaningful. However, in this case I think the failures may suggest things about the drives underlying architecture not just who picked the best sample from the bin.
As the pool of liquidity increases the price volatility decreases. When you compare the early charts to now there are smaller RELATIVE price swings.
It's a bit tricky to understand the details, but I think I've got some of it figured out.

There's "research" and there's "research subject to regulation." The federal law says that all research by or directed by federal departments is subject to this law. It also says that everyone, including you and I, who are doing research subject to regulation (which includes drug development) are also subject to the law.

That is, even without MD 917, all research in MD which is subject to regulation would have been subject to the law.

However, this leads to a gap. Anyone doing research, but not research that is subject to regulation, and not research which is funded or directed by a federal department or agency, is not subject to these ethical requirements.

The MD law (see http://www.oag.state.md.us/Healthpol/hb917letter.pdf) is meant to close the gap, and include research which is not subject to regulation by a federal department.

The "minimal risk" section you pointed out is for expedited review. That is, the research still needs an IRB, but the IRB can use the expedited review process instead.

OkCupid didn't have an IRB, so the minimal risk section doesn't apply.
This is terrible. One of the important benefits of the long tail is ensuring works are always available, never lost. Maybe when Netflix finally shutters their collection the Internet Archive should absorb it somehow.
Cinephiles, just like audiophiles before them and bibliophiles a bit later, simply started their own torrent trackers.
Nice perspective, but perhaps a bit misguided. Netflix would LOVE to have every single movie ever made by man on the service, but there is more at play than just "get the file, now stream it".

The entire mainstream film industry is doing everything they can to make sure generic streaming services like Netflix and Amazon don't become as large as they could, and our current legal framework involving distribution of content is quite hostile to these services.

This is also following the concept that storage gets cheaper as time goes on. More movies = more storage fees, but I don't think this overhead is nearly as large as some would assume.
The reason why I asked is because I've been using Heroku for a few applications and I always seem to notice a slight delay when I navigate to a URL (they don't keep your server running if no one has accessed the app in over an hour) and I noticed a delay when I visited your page so I was merely curious.

What's concierge mode?
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Yes, but if the logs are just for debugging an application, it usually doesn't matter. Application logs are useful for figuring out why an application crashed, but shouldn't be relevant for figuring out why a system went down. However, if the app crashes while some log information is still in the system buffers, the system will still write them out, even if fsync() is never called.

It's been a few years since I looked at this, but it seems like there's only a small window that data will stay in the buffer before it will get automatically flushed. The nice thing about this automatic flush is that it won't cause the application to block.
Boot time most definitely impacts my cloud computing setup. If your servers are pets then, no, boot time is not important to you. However, my cattle are constantly being brought to life and killed again. When I need additional capacity to handle a spike in load, I want it right now, not in 5 minutes.
Actually it's incredibly uncommon. There are hundreds of thousands of engineers, far fewer "technical cofounders" and even fewer venture capitalists.
I've been using stumpwm for a while.. Apart from the "python instead of lisp", what would be the main differences or advantages of Qtile?
The interest you get rarely beats the cost of the dilution of your currencies value through printing of new money.
I understand why Netflix can't license new material, but why don't they have a comprehensive back catalogue? I'm sure they could easily license those b&w movies that play all day on TCM without commercials.

Their movie selection is actually pretty dire, there's no new movies, very few classic movies, so you are left mostly with regrettable B-movies from the 90s.
Isn't a large part of this problem with the content producers and the contracts Netflix has to sign with them? I would think that if Netflix could have any movie or TV show in their streaming library they would but there are other interested parties that prevent that.
This is bothersome although I'd note that at least some of the Woody Allen movies listed are available streaming on Amazon (for a fee) and for purchase. But it's reasonable to ask whether we hit a point where at least DVD reissues (once initial inventory is used up) don't make financial sense any longer.

For the past decade or so, we've been living in a world where we could obtain the vast majority of movies as DVDs through some channel pretty inexpensively and painlessly. At the moment, it looks as if that process will become much more fractured and less reliable.
That doesn't work because you need the javascript as well.
> Fiat currency is printed on the whim of governments, effectively defrauding the citizens of every country in the world through value dilution. Bitcoin is a technological innovation which allows for a constant and known rate of currency generation. I'd prefer to intrust my pension to maths than to a civil servant with an economics degree. This aspect shouldn't be overlooked or taken lighty because it disrupts the power, ergo the control that governments can wield over their citizens.

Yawn. If people as a whole cared about 1% of what you just said there'd be revolutions in every country yesterday.

Money is inherently a social thing. You provide goods or services today to earn a social credit and be able to acquire goods and services after you retire. Your pension is useless without an economy made up of ordinary people who don't care about maths and cryptography but feel they owe you something. They only care about power governments can wield over citizens when things go really wrong. And when things go really wrong you can't buy potatoes with a hard drive.
I wrote this last year, but the notion was kicking around in my head for (I think) years prior. The notion that many (most?) of our running programs have an unbroken lineage that goes back decades is still something that is fascinating to me.

When doing systems research, I often argue that we have to treat computer systems like mini-universes: there's enough complex interaction of parts that experimentation is the only reliable way of figuring out what, exactly, is going on. I'm fascinated that we have have to use the scientific method to understand our own creation. This biology parallel is another component of that.
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As far as I'm concerned, Netflix streaming is for television. When a movie I want to watch is available, I just consider that a bonus. Someone I know who used to work for Netflix once told me that people come to streaming "for the movies and they stay for the TV."
Purple is blue+red, so my son who has a very common color deficiency can't tell purple from blue at all. They look completely the same to him.
i suppose one difference would be that browsers don't have a web server process built-in (or most don't)
> she's also stopped helping other people when they're out sick, because it can only possibly lead to either 1) Her doing more work for no recognition,

This rings especially true for me at my current company. Everyone says around here that the most important skill you can learn is "expectation management".

When given a task that is supposed to take 1 week, the absolute worst thing you can do is complete it in 2 days. Actually, 1 day, or 1 hour would be even worse.

Doing that will only open the flood gates to dump an ever increasing workload on you, while receiving zero recognition.
it means everything is manual. I manually process the videos test "clients" send me
More configurable, but certainly not better. It's a major pain to set up, since everything (fonts, titlebars, desktop panels, icons in various contexts, scrollbars, cursors, GTK equivalents to the above) has to be set independently, and many things still aren't capable of automatically scaling at all, like checkboxes, anything using KWebView (like konqueror or khelpcenter) or Aurora themes. Some parts of (say) Amarok's interfaces completely glitch out when scaled past a certain point.

For this particular subject, my money's definitely on the "just works" solution.
As a matter of fact, we don't. I've yet to see a working post-employment society; and the society we have today is unable to function when unemployed to employed are five to one.

Your nurse will have to pay like 90% tax, but this way you can never afford to hire her in the first place. The whole thing breaks down. Our economy taxes individual profits, because corporations evade taxes; but then if nobody has to work, we can't have revenue from taxes and can't pay anyone anything.
Maybe this is an opportunity for a startup -- steal Netflix's DVD rent by mail business and offer a very extensive catalog. Seems like Netflix would be happy to cede that market.
Did they redesign their protocol? I jumped on the TextSecure bandwagon.

http://www.cryptofails.com/post/70546720222/telegrams-crypta...
My guess would be some sort of fingerprinting in the browser like this: https://github.com/Valve/fingerprintjs
To me it feels like they are both trying to solve the problem of modifying state in a react app.
Flux is probably more manual, by explicitly creating actions that modify state in a store that is listened to by components.
With these cursor type solutions you pass down pieces of state through the component hierarchy (not outside of it as in flux's case), mutating the data as needed.
Maybe it's useful to think about flux as being action centric, and cursors data centric?
I'm still wrapping my head around Flux and am not entirely convinced its a good thing yet.

I'd love some input from users of om or one of the pure js solutions how it works for them. For example, how would one go about monitoring state outside of a component? Think submitting analytics events when a user does something.
Actually it's a fact that they're doing that since they're playing the spread and by definition that means offering liquidity. The debatable point of course is whether it counts since they might yank all liquidity in response to unexpected movements and thus weren't offering usable liquidity.
Whine whine whine, I have a mac, whine whine whine

get a computer with actual expandable storage
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"productivity improvements in farming destroyed the small farmer"

Because the productivity improvements required large amounts of capital in the form of land and equipment.

In most of the software world capital is not anywhere near as important as it is in other industries. The main input is labor.

I wonder what would have happened in the farming industry if land and equipment was free. I suspect the split of profits between employees and employers would be a lot more even.
Nah... It just sidesteps the issue by solving the actual problem.
How was the apple Touch ID (thumbprint) icon created [animation]
Yup, we have top-men that are in charge of keeping an eye on firmware, if we see a need in an update, we'll do it.
That sounds plainly better. Being pixel agnostic by allowing everything to scale as the user pleases will allow a broader range of users to configure their system as they prefer it. (Last I checked, OSX on retina devices couldn't even use the actual resolution of the screen without third party extensions... A problem I don't have in Linux with a high-dpi screen).
Wow, thats news to me. Its been there since the A7 apparently and is used to process the fingerprint sensor data:

"The Secure Enclave uses encrypted memory and includes a hardware random number
generator. Its microkernel is based on the L4 family, with modifications by Apple.
Communication between the Secure Enclave and the application processor is isolated
to an interrupt-driven mailbox and shared memory data buffers.

Each Secure Enclave is provisioned during fabrication with its own UID (Unique ID) that is
not accessible to other parts of the system and is not known to Apple. When the device
starts up, an ephemeral key is created, entangled with its UID, and used to encrypt the
Secure Enclave’s portion of the device’s memory space."
Seattle's awesome local movie repository, Scarecrow Video, is reinventing itself as a non-profit to survive in the new environment. A recent Kickstarter [1] has offset operating costs for the near future.

They have four copies (2 DVD, 2 Laserdisc) of Sweet Sweetback:

https://www.scarecrow.com/45/search.html?keywords=sweet+swee...

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/644154729/the-scarecrow...
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Outside of world cinema, Netflix is good only for the kids stuff. I find myself watching more and more stuff on Vudu recently. A good, but kinda neglected service is GoWatchIt (http://gowatchit.com/), which helps me follow upcoming titles. Another complaint: the 500 movie limit is a joke and having a single queue vs multiple queues is something that should already have been implemented over the years. At least, add the ability to filter within "My List" by genre, etc. I'm really disappointed by the dead-slow pace of development at Netflix. The lack of tools to see more movie info is also displeasing.