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Indian employers and bosses often raise their status by disrespecting and imposing onerous work requirements on their underlings.

A few years ago I worked at a place with a lot of mechanical turks - ladies tagging pictures day in and day out. The expectation they had, and which took me a while to break, was that they were to be subservient. Make me tea, not speak up when I make a mistake, etc. They all considered it unusual that I would engage with them socially, share lunch, or laugh when they played pranks on me.

In software the situation is certainly getting better. In the past few years, I've run into considerably more places that seem like good places to work. Some foreign shops with a local presence, and a number of startups. But being a good place to work and treating employees with respect is still a big competitive advantage in hiring.
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There is a problem there: the release is Aleph 1.0 (the open source-continuation of the Marathon 2 engine) running Marathon 1,2 and Infinity.

From a historic perspective, the untouched release version of all games would be very interesting.

Not wanting to downplay the release, though, it's very kind.
The theoretical maximum for current chips is less than 16 bytes per cycle. On Haswell you can process (in parallel) 7 blocks in roughly the time it would take to process 1. The latency of each round is 7 cycles, a full AES-128 10 rounds is ~70 cycles, so effectively you can process at most 1.6 bytes per cycle, or 1.14 if you use 256-bit keys (ignoring the cost of key scheduling and overhead here).

Even if you dedicate all CPU cores to the task of encrypting memory, you still stop short of exceeding theoretical memory bandwidth by quite a bit.
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People tend to compile their C code. It's probably more accurate to speak of tendencies in how it's implemented and used then to assign attributes to the language.
I think you need some degree of self-selection. To be a good representative, you need to dive in pretty deep, and it will take a couple years to be useful at all. You also need to have the mindset to draft good legislation -- it's too easy to leave a mess of laws, which the judiciary will need to try to piece together.

If you dismiss these concerns, what you'll get are a bunch of people easily manipulated by aides, staffers, lobbyists, etc. And those people certainly are self-selected and ready to work.

But the idea to do away with traditional elections isn't so bad. A bunch of people throw their hat into the ring with a fairly low barrier to entry (some number of signatures, say), and you choose randomly among them. It would be difficult to pick a term length, though.
Very interesting! It's always fun to see "external" development in the general field of computer architecture affect low-level stuff like a CPU's cache and memory subsystems.

It wasn't super-easy to figure out who in the grand ecosystem view of things is going to have to care about these instructions, but I guess database and OS folks.

Also, if the author reads this, the first block quote with instruction descriptions has an editing fail, it repeats the same paragraph three times (text begins "CLWB instruction is ordered only by store-fencing operations").
I need to dive into it.

Do you mean it because of the formal logic being used?
It is not ironic, they and other publishers are in a Nash equilibrium. No single player can change the state of monetization world. This should be recognized as it is counterproductive and useless to shame/attack individual players.

Also HN is constantly lamenting about the ads that are easily recognized and switched off with adblock, ghostery, etc. I consider systemic bias and corruption of mass media to be much more dangerous than ads. However, systemic biases and outright lies in online media are not really obvious so HN mostly ignores that, concentrating on easy target - ads. An absurd consensus of the community in my view.
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The Controlled Substances Act of 1970 grants the head of the Food and Drug Administration authority to designate and remove illegal drugs from the schedules of controlled substances. The FDA can remove marijuana at any time and as long as the DEA director doesn't object, that is the law.

The DEA and FDA directors serve at the pleasure of the president. Thus, Obama can legalize marijuana if he wants to. He doesn't remotely want to.
Most of those things are inherent to Switzerland not the Kanton.

Zug is very bad example. It has a 2015 deficit of 140 Million almost double of last year, they have to cut deep into their savings [1]. The Kanton is destroying itself and will be forced to raise taxes eventually. [2]

[1] http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/schweiz/standard/Kanton-Zug-rech...

[2] http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/schweiz/standard/Warum-Zug-und-S...
They are talking about helping blind people and you are talking about terrible scrolling and closing the website?
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In France, there was a law passed recently, about fighting terrorism. As all "think of the terrorists" laws, it passed without a hitch ("after all, we have to be seen as doing something about these people going to Iraq and Syria, regardless of whether it is effective"). In particular, this law contained provisions letting the executive branch shut down websites without any input from the judicial branch. Reading an article about the debates among the lawmakers made abundantly clear that people who still call the Internet "the new technologies" have absolutely no inkling about how it works and what consequences their votes may have. It is also clear that many of them barely read (or don't read at all) the texts they are voting on. What makes you say that random members of the population, not beholden to particular interest groups or current political parties, would do worse?
> In the first piece of code, which is apparently new to Neovim, there's a bug waiting to happen: casting size_t pointers to int pointers will fail on big-endian platforms where sizeof(size_t) != sizeof(int), and in general, the number of casts sprinkled everywhere is indicative of sloppy coding.

At first I thought you were referring to casting `size_t` to `int` (and the converse) in general, but now I notice you were referring to pointers to `int` to pointers to `size_t`. You are right, of course, and we should be more careful about that. Nevertheless, this specific case will soon dissapear.

To answer the last part of your question:

> The whole area of code also seems to be poorly reimplementing iconv, which is actually supported in the code, but never enabled in Neovim for some reason, according to the footnote - why have two code paths to do the same thing?

I alluded to it in the article itself, and I may only guess as to what Bram's goals where, but I reckon:

1) Speed, for an important conversion like latin-1 to UTF-8, Bram might've wanted some extra juice. This is not uncommon in the Vim codebase. Possibly, one can't (or couldn't when Vim was made) rely on iconv being well-engineered. Also note that Vim was made to run on some pretty bare bones systems.
2) Compatibility: as it stands, (Neo)vim can work just fine without iconv and still do the most useful transforms. This is actually good because iconv is not available everywhere or buggy (switches for disabling it have been requested in vanilla Vim).

I haven't grokked the other encoding sides of vim (file and output), but it's possible I'll discover some things that might preclude an iconv-only approach.
More defence contractors than internal, I'd understood?
Neat! I like how it appears to have an 'infinite' capacity for expansion in any direction, though I don't know if that's a good or a bad design choice. (Could a constraint be creatively beneficial in this case?) This also seems like a good use case for ASCII art. (If you need one: I've made an image->ASCII converter you can download at www.github.com/datamine/ASCII-IMG)

Edit:

I made a quick walloftext page. I foolishly shared the link here on HN. I regret not recording a video of the mayhem as people began to pour in and edit the wall. People started having little conversations on some parts of the wall. Other people defaced them. It was all-around chaotic, like a full IRC channel with no moderation. It's really an interesting form of communication, and it was very cool to see it unfold. (Sort of like watching Twitch plays Pokemon.)
That's a very old video of some of the earliest test content in the game but it gives and idea. It was basiclaly made as soon as things started moving. I've got a more recent video on the Asciilands facebook page and hopefully video content will start making its way onto the blog soon.

Glad you like the visuals, the appeal is very esoteric but I'm sure there's enough fans of ascii stuff out there to make it work.
Yes, it is an extremely unsettling feeling. Head trauma can also cause it. This is something I experienced recently. For about a week I was disconnected with my body and reality, a feeling like my soul had lost touch with the world, and it is not something I ever want to experience again. The anxiety this feeling causes is almost unbearable. It's difficult to explain, but if anyone has experienced ketamine, I would relate it to that. Head injuries are weird, I am still recovering 7 weeks later, but I am recovering well.
Would probably work as long as the sampled citizens are truly random ;)
Oh this is too cool and I would love to hear more of how you did it. What is your backend? Firebase or something?

I made an iPad app (soonish to be universal) called Mindscope which has a similar "wall" idea but when you tap text, it opens up a sub-wall for that piece of text, which enables outliner-like navigation. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mindscope-mind-mapping-outli...

I've been considering what I could do to make a web app version of it, but web development is not my strong suit (yet).
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> Is it rational in an homo economicus kind of way? Nope.

I disagree.

It's not rational if you view it as a single transaction ever, but at the moment you begin to think of the relationship as an iterated game of possible transactions, punishing the other party at a cost to yourself can change their future behavior and advantage you over the long run.

So what you're arguing doesn't make sense in a single transaction is actually a good strategy in the iterated environment that the market actually is.

Example: if there's a correlation between you turning down their offer and them making you a better offer in the future, turning down offers in an iterated version of the game you commented on becomes a viable strategy and even rational in some situations.
> I apologise in advance if I violate any established decorum.

Not in the least—you did great. Welcome to HN! Keep up the good work and feel free to share your progress here.

(I'm one of the moderators.)
Of course I (and the OP) can build one ourselves... but I want one that's easy to use. Ideally, just plug it in and configure its wifi access, and create some kind of "peer group" for it that my friends can join remotely with their own devices.

Then everyone in my peer group gets an encrypted backup of my files, and I get an encrypted backup of theirs.

The main difficulty will be making sure this baby has seriously expandable storage. I have terabytes of stuff to back up. So do the people I want to connect to. This thing needs to scale up to 10-20TB min to be useful today.
Because the net effect is that it makes your influence proportional to your amount of money, which is already an issue nowadays. You may as well call for census suffrage.
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Does anyone have an update on the utility of building a startup in SF? Except maybe for the (certainly large) class of "interacting with real world" or "local" startups (like Uber or Grubhub) I feel like you could gain so much more by even being outside of LA or something instead.
Very impressive. I'd say that your age group and your relationship status have a very dramatic impact on your ability to pull something like this off.

Imho if you've already "done your time" somewhere else, this option becomes a lot less palatable.
You can start a failed company in a lot of cities. Congrats on living in sf on the cheap but it really isn't useful information to help aspiring startup founders.
You could pull something like this off in Vegas and live a lot more luxuriously. Yeah, you're stuck in the middle of the desert, but some folks in the startup community really seem to dig it out there.
The access to people you have here (for advices, fundraising, selling your company, etc.) can't be found anywhere else. That doesn't mean you can't do it anywhere else, but here it's just much easier.
Any other Sunset start-ups out there?
"The problem with this is that it assumes either a monopolistic seller or explicit or implicit collusion between sellers. Because if the market has vigorous competition then engaging in price discrimination will only drive the customers being discriminated against to your competitors."

That's why gp used a movie theater as an example. The movie market depends on state authorized monopoly in the form of copyright. The result is that price discrimination is more legitimate and more beneficial to producers and consumers than it would be in a competitive market.

Of course, copyright exists as a trade off. The benefits of promoting the arts are worth it even though monopoly is bad, as long as the system is administered reasonably and competition exists between different producers of copyrighted works and each has a monopoly only on his own product.

The economics of a complex trade off like that are not a guide to how other open markets should work.

And even well intentioned state monopolies can be run badly and become a disaster. Just look at software patents.
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I'm trying to see if a bootcamp angle to this works in the valley: http://interviewkickstart.com .

My only revenues are from people paying to come for practice with some very good teachers/interviewers.

I help them thru their job search afterwards, but don't take any placement revenue from anywhere. That helps me advice the candidates (and the companies) in a neutral, truthful way, without conflicts of interest. Candidates like that and that's maybe one reason why my batches are going full.

I've poured myself into making this successful. Fingers crossed for the future. All ears for suggestions and advice.
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Deceptive headline. The stewards have virtually zero impact on English Wikipedia. They mainly help with administering the tiny foreign language projects that don't have a big enough community to run themselves, like Cornish Wikiquote.
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I think self-selection is a huge part of the current problem. People who are drawn to political power, are likely also drawn to military power. I think this contributes to the never-ending war-mongering the U.S. does.

Lobbyists, special interest groups, etc. would have no power, since they can't help you win an election. People are most easily manipulated for casual decisions with low value. If they had the responsibility, I think most people would rise to the challenge. If they can't, we need to end juries immediately.
For most of the people on this planet, soft beds and flushing toilets are unattainable luxuries.

As the majority, maybe their world is actually the "real world"?
Better Linux drivers. Open source and integrated into the mainline linux kernel.
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I'm working on a shell tool for managing tinydns + git + Apache + daemontools.

Long story short. It's a nice frontend written in Perl that parses your configuration files and based on templates modifies them.

So this gives you the opportunity to do :

server-tools repo add https://github.com/any/repo.git --domain www.new-site.com --site html --site-home path/to/public

which will clone git repo, add www.new-site.com as a domain for this server ( modify tinydns config ) and create a new vhost for apache that has a root path/to/public.
Move outside SF?
I worry about my father in this respect. He's getting on a bit and has been in and out of hospital with heart problems for about a decade now. He also has about 1TiB of crap on a NAS that I'm going to have to go through. Most of this is recent but there are thousands of files going back to TRS80 and early MSDOS systems, through 25 years of windows. All of this is code, mostly in BASIC and C. Everything he's ever done he has kept.

I'm just as bad really but I've kept it down to a mere 18Gb and it spans back to my first serious programs on Acorn RISCOS in BASIC and ARM assembly. I still fire up and emulator and fix bugs in them occasionally. They are still useful despite being old.

Nostalgia is painful sometimes however as not all those files are readable and perfectly preserved.
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Let's make some mayhem and test this a little together at http://walloftext.co/robots.txt

Edit: Seems like we gave it the hugh of death.
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> Because not everyone wants what docker offers...
Yes, I can understand this, but more specifically? That's hardly in the way of reasons.

> To me LXC is the real deal, while docker offers limited convenience at the cost of flexibility and platform lock-in.
I'm not really sure what makes liblxc the "real deal" and "libcontainer" not? Would you care to expand on this though? The true flexibility you are alluding to is, I believe, provided by the kernel itself? Are you deriding libraries that abstract interfacing with these features? Where is the platform lock-in coming from? Docker has been making inroads into many non-linux platforms, even Windows recently.

> and then docker (or whatever the other hip thing of the month is)
Are you suggesting Docker is a "flavour of the month"? That's... A unique perspective. In any case, as a counter point, I'd like to offer up that RedHat itself has partnered with docker via OpenShift. If one were looking for linux flavour of the month, I RedHat would be the LAST place they would look.
Ok, we took "direct" out of the title.
Agree with this.

- Crashes
- Copy and paste is terrible
- Pasting from Excel etc ends up as an embedded picture so the receivers can't use it
- Soo slow to search for anything
- mailbox always full
- no webmail access for me

We were forced to migrate to Lotus Notes a few years ago after a merger and one of our regional offices refused to. They were right.
It's not hardware, but the CrashPlan backup software (supporting Linux, too) has a nice way to "backup to a friend". You just have to "friend" each other on the backup (!) social network and you can select your friend's computer as backup destination and vice versa. While not default, there's an option to not store the encryption key with your account (otherwise there's some escrow going on in case you lose your PC).
The problem is not that they would do worse. The problem is that they would be entirely dependent on the information they were provided. Anybody who gives them that information has their own opinion, and whether they want to or not, that opinion informs the way they dispense information. This means the random members of the population aren't deciding based on objective evidence. They can't really form their own opinions if every bit of information is biased one way or another.

That is why I said it was similar to a trial-by-jury. The jury isn't versed in law or in the details of the case, so they get all the information they need to make a decision from the lawyers presenting the case. That leads to situations like one we had in my home country: A woman was sentenced to life in prison for a murder without any evidence. None at all. She had motive and was 'an asshole', and that was enough for the jury to be sure she did it.

If there was a way to objectively give them the facts of the case and the knowledge they need, the system would be perfect, but unfortunately that's not possible. And until it is, i would rather have people making decisions based on their own badly informed opinions than people making decisions based on others' opinions with a veneer of legitimacy.
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So I guess everywhere around SF is also the same sort of price range? I mean I don't think Steve McClure cares too much if you had to drive 90 minutes to see him right?

I'm just surprised at what people go to to be really in downtown SF. That money could arguably be better spent making sure that the founders/employees eat more than cup noodles for the first 6 months, if it means driving 90 minutes to go to meetings or events.
It is called the ultimatum game. Edit: I originally had this mixed up with the dictator game.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game
It's a huge disadvantage unless you're doing something that depends on access to a large number of high-quality (but expensive) engineers and/or rich people.

Building a tool for programmers? The valley might be your place. Building a fashion startup? Go where people are fashionable.

Building a search engine? There are a lot of search people here. Building a service startup that requires warehouses, inventory and/or logistics expertise? Go to the places where logistics people are running warehouses.

Building a streaming video site? Many of the best network engineers in the world live in the valley. Building a two-sided marketplace for used children's clothing? You might want to go somewhere that people can afford to have children.

Building yet another on-demand, Uber-for-X service where the value proposition is weak/nonexistent for people who aren't workaholic techno-utopians? Yeah, OK. You could probably only do that sort of thing here. San Francisco is the world capital for people who have more disposable income than incredulity.
This article talks about it at length, but doesn't really name the game though.

http://www.psmag.com/magazines/magazine-feature-story-magazi...
http://www.yourworldoftext.com/ has been doing something similar for about the last five years.
how is it possible that the canvas seems to be infinite area?
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