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And I agree with you. The current OS market is stale.

The POSIX era is closing, it fails to properly model non-serial or disk based data operations. Flowing data like tcp/ip connections are horribly handled in the Unix like model. Linux is a bloated monster with thousands of system calls, and the BSD's are stable but user/developer hostile (MacOSX included at a systems level Darwin has a lot of memory management brain damage).

The problem largely with drivers is a war you can't win.

Windows has backwards compatibility written into it at a very fundamental level. This was a good lesson Windows learned from IBM early on. If you write something for windows 95, it'll likely work with windows8. System32 is still System32. Most your API's, IPC, Draw calls, etc. All still exist, most are actually faster.

The biggest selling point of an IBM mainframe isn't that they are fast. It isn't they have 400+ PPC chips, each with 24 virtual processors. Its that they are binary compatible with IBM System360. If you invested 10 man years writing an application in the 1970's, it still runs today, without the need to write or fix things. It just works. You can have faith in IBM and those guys with gold medallions and bellbottoms who are now balding managers.

Does it fully make economic sense? No. The cost of IBM equipment, support, etc. Is likely way more then 10 man years of software time over 40 year history that application has been deployed.

The fundamental problem is purchaser ignorance. The purchaser may see there are more competitive solutions. But the chain of command doesn't want to invest, it wants to be comfortable. You aren't fighting silicon valley investors so much as you are fighting wall street.

Compare this to say Uber. Which solved a fundamental problem. Hailing taxi's is stupid. Lets make it easier. Ask for a taxi on your app and wait. The quality of your life has improved. The balance sheet looks the same (largely) a taxi costs X dollars. But my throat isn't sore, my arm doesn't hurt, maybe this system is better.

In The Valley the issue would largely be the same.

Linux is king.

If you actually do invent a better solution the Linux. You'll need to convince google, facebook, twitter, amazon, etc. To redeploy all of their applications to your platform. And at best you could offer maybe a 5% performance increase. 5%, to redo billions in software? That won't delay a single upgrade in the data center. Data center costs stay the same, software development costs go up. How does that balance sheet look?

I'll give you a hint. Bad. There is no market, or demand for it. At best it'll end up being another marginalized fringe OS.

P.S.: If you want to do start with Plan9 work up from there, make the kernel interface work like 3.x linux kernal so you can use linux code. Might work.

P.P.S.: Disruption is based on a better product. OS's can never be a better product. OS's fundamentally trade off speed for usability or the opposite.
The problem is for many people eating "normal" is what caused them to get so big in the first place. Most people in the US don't seem to see their diet as out of the ordinary even if they hit fast-food joints for every meal.
Just the homepage is update, the detail page still ugly, but it's a good start
The issue is about IGF lying and you give me a link to an IGF article to prove your point. They have their right to defend themselves, but that doesn't mean that whatever they say in their defense is actually true. Everything should be taken with a grain of salt, and more than one independent report should be taken into consideration when forming an opinion, especially on controversial topics.
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My takeaway from a couple of years of linguistics is that you're completely correct. Both English and German form compound nouns in the same way. It's a typographic difference more so than anything else -- modern English defaults to separating compounds with a space, German typography just doesn't allow for that.

As English compounds get more entrenched, they tend to be hyphenated -- which German also allows for, occasionally -- and then fused.

Extremely long compound nouns are rare in both languages, mostly, I'd think, because they get conceptually unwieldy. It's easier (I would argue/guess) to understand a sentence talking about what the captain of the Danube steamship company did than a sentence about what the Danube steamship company captain did. Both utterances are noun phrases and have practically the same meaning.

It's still possible that German and English speakers differ in the way they use compound nouns -- e.g. how often they use compounds instead of paraphrasing them or how spontaneously they form new, unfamiliar compounds.
I'd phrase that as, the extensively A/B tested selling page is ugly.
We think that is true. But we don't know.

Prior to this outbreak, this Ziare strain of Ebolavirus, now formally known as "Ebola virus", has never infected more than 318 people at a time, and not a whole lot more than a thousand total: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ebola_outbreaks#List_o...

I guarantee that at least one of the things the usual suspects like the CDC "know" about its transmission is wrong. Consequentially wrong? Well, we'll see.

As for this case, he was not feeling well (also described as "sluggish") for a couple of days before his self-monitored temperature spiked. Which is prompting the usual suspects to say that that wasn't a "symptom" ... which is open to question.
Free is a temptation I'm sure. Education in America through College is 'free' too, in the same sense.

But if you can afford the time and effort, then home-schooling is a whole different process with a substantially different goal. Instead of babysitting its about engaging your youth in lifelong learning. Its got the advantages of personal attention and customized plans. The child is relieved of the risks of institutionalization, while taking advantage of the facilities as needed.

Its not such a radical notion, to manage the education part of your child's life in much the same way you provide food and housing. In America, home-schooling before the modern age had a different name - it was called 'schooling'.
While I cannot claim to have read the entirety of any OS X libm version that were (and remain) available, I have read enough of that to make a general prediction:

OS X's libm contains only assembly functions re-written from scratch, originally in PowerPC assembly and then in IA-32 and x86-64, to be faster, more accurate and more standards-compliant than the FreeBSD versions.

I hope that this announcement will at least result in some interest in the versions that have been released as open-source and are still available, because this is beautiful code. But I am an optimist.
More like if you invented a sub Reddit/interest clone today, this is what it would be (an app instead of a website).
Try "journalctl -e" or "journalctl --since today", it seems like by default it will load all available logs which leads to this slugishness.
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I fork this to create my own version, I am wondering how to change the logo and use my own app id?
I actually tried, but couldn't get the keywords right for the search.

Excellent feedback.
Calories = calories is all you need to know.

Unless

* You care about your productivity or health, in which case getting sufficient balanced nutrition is important.

* You care about body composition eg going on a diet is liable to lose you large quantities of lean body mass which sets you up for rebound weight gain down the track.

* You are one of those rare people who are affected by hunger. If you are one of those people you might want to consider the effect of diet composition, adequacy and timing on your appetite.

I also note: sample of one. Duration: 2 months (of people who lose weight over a 2 month period only a small fraction keep it off). Statistical significance: 0.
And on the preface to the 2nd edition of SICP, I noticed this quote from Alan J. Perlis:

> Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

which seems an echo.
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It doesn't really spike it, it barely moves it. Its glycemic index is 18, I can't find its insulin index, but it's low.

Dietary fat does not have any effect on insulin, btw.
"Weeks of programming can save hours of planning."

This is where experience really counts. Younger developers who don't know any better will invent another logging framework, I guarantee it.
Silverlight did not fail because WFP is a bad technology.

Silverlight failed because the market for flash-style browser plugins was drying up and moving to JavaScript.
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I googled "libqrencode". Is it really QR code encoding?
The biggest problems for me having nothing to do with science and everything to do with social pressures / self control. I was on a keto diet (low carb/high fat) and lost about 45 pounds. Then I started having to travel for work and giving into going out to lunch because I don't want to appear anti-social. For a while I was able to make low carb choice but some places just don't have that option. Also have been skipping the gym because of money (can't afford a second membership) and time constraints (work 8-6, drive back to the hotel to be on calls until bed time) on the project. I put all of the weight back on. Within about 18 months I lost and gained 45lbs.
Don't be silly. Its the dozens of disenfranchised young people in our game club that motivated the game, not the other way around. They were frustrated and disappointed that every time they built a Magic deck, another edition would obsolete it. They felt like fools; they gave up on the game. This was a way to get them interested in gaming again.
The logo is at assets/img folder, to change the app id, you need to register at http://cloud.google.com/consolse and replace it in the app/app.js file
I'll pay it, but it makes it way harder for casual users to secure email. Where do I point them now? That's an honest question.
> Of course calories in/calories out explains your weight loss/gain. I haven't seen a single study that shows anything except this.

Have you seen one that actually claims to prove it? I was looking for something conclusive, and have come up with a lot of explanations why the numbers diverge (atwater factors are inaccurate, everyone is self reporting, BMR not properly estimated, etc, etc.).

A theory that works for 70% of the cases and fails to explain the remaining 30% is WRONG, even if you have no better competing theory.
Beautiful.

I also find this a good test of Apple's bold claims about the speed increase in the latest version of Safari - and, true to what they say, it does seem smoother in Safari, at ultra-high, than in Chrome.
This is like saying.

"I get shot going to work every day. But I bought a bullet proof vest, so life is okay."

Iron bandages don't solve problems, they for a short time work around them. Except because nobody actually like writing systems level code, they stick- forever.
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I have to agree. I was interested in Linux before Ubuntu took off and because the mainstream. Now when I have a problem I sometimes end up on Ubuntu sites, and the answers there are far from the best.
I'd imagine most people are getting to category pages via google searches.
A LOT of meetings and travel, I imagine.
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I have gained about 15 pounds of muscle in 3 years from lifting. To put on muscle you need to have the protein intake and carbohydrate and protein intake timing is also important.

One good thing about muscle is that it can burn fat quite happily. Unlike the brain.
Which text are they removing in this redesign? Amazon has always been a fan of displaying big banner images with embedded text.
The binary logs are append only. The bug tracker entry says that they got "some corrupted logs" but not how. People get corrupted or truncated text logs all the time, they just ignore it because "oh the log ends midway through a line? eh".

The ridiculous "oh my god my logs will be always ruined thing" is a beat up by those who need to assassinate something about systemd, because it's always been devoid of any technical accuracy or discussion.
I think you should read my second sentence in the original post again. Working hard does not guarantee success - we both agree on that one. I hope we can also agree that unless you do work hard you are unlikely to achieve success.
Airbnb already negotiates with individual cities to charge taxes for certain rentals (look at Portland).

As soon as they're big enough, they will start supporting these taxes and pushing for laws that require collection, as it makes it more difficult for others to enter the market the way they did.
While what you said may seem logically correct, there are a myriad of privacy protections that corporations are expected to adhere to regarding the information customers entrust to them. One reason for these protections is that the "resolution" you've suggested --- that the customer can simply choose not to use their services --- provides no protections against future-use of information. Say a customer chooses a vendor that sells his information after he ends his service with them. Under your strategy - the customer would have absolutely no recourse since he has no leverage against that vendor. He's already "walked" so to speak - yet they still may have information of value about that customer.

Take another example. A medical facility cannot take customer information about a person with a specific ailment and sell that information to advertisers for the purpose of earning a commission on the sale of those targeted ads. There are laws forbidding how that information is shared.

The following link outlines some of the state and federal laws specific to California, but each state has their own, and the federal laws obviously apply to the entire United States.

http://oag.ca.gov/privacy/privacy-laws
Charge for them to be searchable. That way, people can lookup strings or patterns being sent to their server and see what attacks they match up against.
It would be really cheap for the rest of us to provide
"the basics", e.g. a flatscreen TV (get the cableco or DirectTV and/or Dish to donate service), Internet connection (ditto on trying to get it for free from a provider) and if needed a computer, and then it won't be that onerous. Historically to my knowledge we typically haven't gone the prison route outside of special cases like Typhoid Mary.
Sorry if my tone is harsh; the frustration of the young people in my club has rubbed off on me.

The evil part is all projection. The objection I (we) have is with the apparently manipulative program of cycling cards to make you keep buying new ones. Its not a mistake to think this is happening - its the process you describe. We're not the only ones to think this way - the game designers felt the need to defend themselves against the accusations as you so helpfully pointed out. Thus we can't be the only ones to be frustrated in this way.

You're convinced all the marketing is ok, not an problem. Fine, you have the money to sink into it. But we're not all like that, we're not all apologists for the company.

And some of us have done something about it. Do you blame us? Is it wrong to find another way to deliver a card game that solves some of the admitted problems with existing ones?
I'm highly suspicious that syslog can actually be faster in such a situation. If you can't seek to the disk quickly, then it doesn't matter what you do - logging will be slow if you need to flush frequently.
Or went to university a decade or so ago, where instead of XCode it was emacs, instead of git it was cvs, and so on ..
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Those where not pre packaged.
When it's just about minimum standards, nothing's stopping your legislative to vote for stricter policies -- right? Although I'm often worried that national legislators will point to implementations of the EU minimum standard as being enough and/or more stricter laws being a competitive hindrance.
I recall working with a very detailed map of Germany a long time ago and seeing two nearby towns named something like "Herman" and "Munsterville". Years later I tried to find them again on a different map and failed. I often wondered if they were inserted as a joke by a mapmaker.
I am software Enginner from Colombia, I move last year from Spain to Dublin, at least 25% of the staff in the company where I work are in ther 50s, my suggestion, move to UK or Ireland
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really beautiful..

thanks for sharing
What's up with HN downvoting any comment containing mention of low-carb diets ?
They work for tons of people. It's interesting argument as to why they work (do people just eat less, if so why or is there some other mechanism ?) but denying that for many people cutting out curb solves willingness to eat too much problem is just ridiculous.
It's also experience of many people that keeping calories in range on standard/high carb diet is constant struggle while it's easy on low carb. How is it possible that comments containing this information + something from personal experience are constantly downvoted on this site?
Remember when you are looking at hotel chain valuations that they generally don't own the hotels, but just franchise the brand. There are other large companies involved that own the hotels.
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going to the Gym is also a great way to put on weight

given a calorie surplus.
I'm on 38.0.2125.104 64-bit Linux. The alert now says "WebGL is not supported on this device :(" so maybe it's a Linux thing.
> I learned that a chicken thigh loses over 40% of its weight from grilling...

Wow, seriously? Does that depend on whether the chicken is raised on farm (in open spaces, with enough room to run around) versus in battery cage? I would expect it matters a lot (the taste is _very_ different to me).
In the case of the unnamed road it kind of makes sense. They named it, the name stuck. It's only fair, I think.
You are right. Haskell is an academic research vehicle while Erlang is a pragmatic "industry-strength" (i hate these buzzwords, but they are useful generalizations) functional language.

In theory, we could re-write almost any part of OTP in Haskell, in practice, however, "runtime is hard" and the biggest selling point of Erlang is that its runtime and standard library (OTP) has been evolved for almost 20 years and is based on the same principles of a functional language (except, perhaps lazyness by default) as Haskell.

In other words, while Haskell is a "playground for researches of type theory in context of programming languages and compilers" Erlang/OT is a "telecom industry-standard toolkit".

A close analogy, in my opinion, could be the pair of Scheme/Racket and CL. The first was mostly an academic teaching and research tool, while second is a pragmatic (but unfortunately bloated) tool-set.
Well they do in a sense. It's the difference between growing up in a family like Roald Dahl's 'Matilda' and in a family that encourages growth. I also think that having a family member in the software development would make the transition into the world of work quite a bit easier. But in the end the right attitude can trump any of these things, which is what the author discovered. I am happy for him.
Cool demo. I like it.

I'm looking forward to a plugin-free web! Now if only we could get people to upgrade from IE8 and 9.
Here's the fun part, if I start a company and get my friend to invest $1 for 0.0000001% of my company. What's my company's "valuation"?

"Valuation" is such a terrible term, all it really means is "the ROI expected by the investors". We try to make it very complicated with analysis of term sheets and growth rates and all that, but it's just a gamble on the part of the investor. The only difference between gambling and investing is that a gambler doesn't get to set the size of the payout if they win.

It's an effort to predict what the company could sell for if an interested buyer made a concerted effort to buy it, but until that happens, it's just a made up number and not newsworthy at all.
$ cd source/Libm
$ git status
... snip ...
new file: Source/Intel/nsa_random_number_generator.c
new file: Source/Intel/nsa_random_number_generator.h
**CARRIER LOST**

Disclaimer: yes yes I know, it's discouraged, but the point remains that it has become virtually impossible to trust a closed sourced OS, and steps backward like this do little to improve things.
It feels pretty good to click the link on my iPad and see the leaves. Apple was the last hold out for WebGL. Hopefully, we'll see a big spike in WebGL usage.
No. I know what the Europeans are actually researching. Google seems usually to think in terms of the knowledge they gain from universal data availability. Driving, to Google, is an outgrowth of mapping.

The Europeans are looking at a scaled approach of driver assistance. There are cases where automation is already making driving safer and easier, on the road right now in production cars. It's a much more holistic and interesting approach, and while it will make use of data if available, it's not locked into it.

So no, they're not coming up with "the solution" - they're coming up with a wide variety of solutions, with much fewer limitations in the aggregate.
This article reminded me of an NPR piece I saw a few days ago about "When Women Stopped Coding"[1]. The theory goes that without having prior knowledge of working with computers, people cannot compete in many introductory computer science classes. Computers had been marketed like toys, to one gender: boys. Because of this, it was rare for women to have prior computer experience, and so struggled and dropped out of CS.

It made me reconsider what "technical privilege" really means and why I think it's a valid thing. Exposure to computers and technology outside of the classroom is definitely becoming more common, but not the kind of hobbyist interest that this article talks about.

[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-wom...
Just out of interest, have you ever played around with chroot? eg for SFTP or perhaps you've installed ArchLinux lately (chrooting is the standard way to install ArchLinux these days)

Having a different /etc doesn't require a hypervisor, you're just telling the kernel that a PID's "/" is actually "/usr/local/containers/guest01/". Linux / UNIX has been doing this stuff for years and years.
I think you're underestimating the amount of platform-independent code in a typical app.

Looking though a random sample of non-game apps on my iPad, I'd guess that about half would have a significant chunk of code which is not OS-specific, including: Gmail, Spotify, Anki, Google Maps, Facebook, Twitter, Penultimate.

I also don't think that the choice between C and Java as the common language is so clear cut. C would get you some speed benefit but Java has GWT for porting Java to Javascript, and and a huge range of other tools and libraries. In the end I think it would come down to how comfortable your development team was in each language.

(Disclaimer: I'm a Java developer)
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I believe it's the opposite. Compliment : positive quality. Complement : making a whole.

ps: not native english speaker.
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I don't think so. I didn't try to download but I can see it on Appstore.
Not to mention avoiding organizational problems that younger developers will blithely lead them into?