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If by "cpu server allocator" you mean cluster/distributed scheduler, no there's no such thing. late in the life of plan9 an attempt was made to craft something like that on top of it but by then both BL and the public had passed on the system. You have to remember that "cluster" as a term postdates this talk. A network in the view of Plan 9's creators in 1990 was composed of heterogeneous hardware and you made the choice beforehand whether you wanted to run on the big multicore system, the one with the faster I/O, or the one that displayed graphics. a homogenous entity of cheap COTS systems where everything looked the same and you made the choice where to run based on availability took another decade to materialize.

Plan 9 did implement lightweight processes by the time it was open sourced in 2000 using coroutines (http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/2/thread) which were a C port of the primitives used in the Alef programming language, which never made it to open source land. Alef appeared in 1992.
If you use homebrewon Mac. you'll find yourself using --with-qt more and more often. Because fuck X11
These are point-to-point links so it's not "shared" bandwidth as with, for example, cable modems. It will be dedicated links between the endpoints.
>Co-founding PayPal and then following up with Tesla and SpaceX aren't too shabby

He didn't co-found Paypal, and was an early investor in Tesla, not a founder. He did found SpaceX.

This isn't to take away from his accomplishments, just pointing out the inaccuracies that are perpetuated in the media that make him seem larger than life.

>but he's never been fired from his position as CEO as Jobs once was.

Wasn't he fired from Paypal after they acquired his company?
It's far from clear exactly how much of a tax rise would be necessary. Present social assistance programs are astoundingly wasteful and could be by and large replaced with a simple BI scheme.

Of course, there might be a bunch of social workers, bureaucrats, administrators, and other folks living on BI as their primary income for a while, but part of the point of the system is to take away the stigma of that.
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Notwithstanding the other replies, there are no authoritative sources for word definitions in living languages. Words mean what their users intend.

A relatively recent example of this is the word 'literally' which used to, and still does, mean 'in the literally sense; exactly' but has also come to mean 'not literally true' when used for emphasis, as in: I have received literally thousands of emails).

Words!
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> If a=0 we have capitalism, a=1 communism.

I realise you're intentionally oversimplifying, but it's worth pointing out that Marx wrote page up and page down to complain about simplistic ideas about redistribution, including simplistic ideas put forward by other socialists and communists about the practical politics of redistribution.

To Marx, under socialism it seemed reasonable to push individual incomes closer to an equal proportion of their contribution to production (but even then distorted in various way by welfare), while under communism he made the point that distribution would explicitly be unequal not just as a side effect of imperfections, but as a fundamental property of the system, because the goal according Marx would be for distribution to follow need independent of your ability to produce, and peoples needs are wildly divergent.

Under no circumstances did he advocate a "flat" equal distribution per person (nor anything similar to that). Instead he explicitly argued for unequal distribution. In the Critique of the Gotha Program, he wrote:

"Further, one worker is married, another is not; one has more children than another, and so on and so forth. Thus, with an equal performance of labor, and hence an equal in the social consumption fund, one will in fact receive more than another, one will be richer than another, and so on. To avoid all these defects, right, instead of being equal, would have to be unequal."

He then went on to argue the famous "from each according to ability, to each according to his needs!" [as a goal for an advanced communist society] after explicitly pointing out the unequal nature of such redistribution, and went on to write:

"Quite apart from the analysis so far given, it was in general a mistake to make a fuss about so-called distribution and put the principal stress on it."

Instead, according to Marx "any distribution whatever of the means of consumption is only a consequence of the distribution of the conditions of production themselves" - in other words, it is the working class control of the means of production that is important; redistribution would follow from that - an argument that e.g. the Bolsheviks either learned from or ignored, depending on how cynical you are about their intentions, when they started reigning in their early experiments in worker control in favour of the control of their party.
> Great ideas but ...

The problem is the comparison point.

When original Gtk/Gnome came out, it was a WAY worse BPOS than Unity or Gnome 3 are today.

The trick was that when Gtk/Gnome came out there was no existing solution. So, even a bad one was okay.

The problem is that the new solution is competing against an existing solution that has more than a decade of development behind it.

It would take a Herculean effort to win that comparison.
> Community is the single most important factor in whether or not a technology will succeed in the longer term or not.

I'm not so sure. I wouldn't make that statement about Java for example. Technologies that succeed in the longer term have some merit to them. If it was just about community, Lisp would have ceased to exist, and yet you typed your comment in a web app written in a Lisp.

Plan 9 is the Lisp of operating systems. Why does my gut say Plan9-as-a-service is an undervalued startup idea?
> Opening line: "Let’s face it: Elon Musk is probably a time traveller sent back to help us leave earth behind and achieve the next phase of human evolution."

You always have to be careful with lines like that. Chances are that in some future history book Elon Musk will not be remembered as the person that 'helped us leave the earth' but as the great grandfather of the first inter-planetary war.

Writing history should be left to the future, there are no shortcuts so we'll have to see how it all plays out.
Well, there's 10 GHz of available in this band (71-76 GHz and 81-86 GHz) and full-rate gigabit can be achieved typically with 750-1500 MHz of spectrum (depending on vendor and, mostly, modulation).

In addition, this spectrum requires a license (as low as $75, IIRC) and they are pretty easy to get in this band ("lightweight licensing").
Peak-power output would be less for an inclined rail (vs the vertical shaft solution).
Wouldn't the initial cost savings be offset by the ongoing challenges of dealing with a big moving chunk of hazmat?
AFAICT, that's just for the public access points, though, yes?
Subsurface, a program for divers, was another high-profile switch. High profile because Linus started it. If he and a bunch of other pretty smart kernel hackers can't figure out GTK, that says something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON0A1dsQOV0

On a related note, GNU Radio has a foot in both Qt and WxWidgets and intends to focus on Qt going forward.
The community around Java is mindbogglingly large. That community was bought-and-paid for rather than grown organically but there are more ways than one to skin a cat.

The lisp eco-system is more like a collection of communities of very small (individuals?) sub-communities.

What technology underpins the web-app here has very little to do with the success of the community interacting here, though for sure there are many more lisp capable programmers here than on most other programmer hang-outs (lambda the ultimate excepted).
> He's pointing out that the existing systems work fine and have for years, and that's the full extent of his post

That was my point: there are well-known limitations to those systems which are the stated reasons for developing systemd in the first place. It's reasonable to disagree about the priorities or the approach which systemd uses but instead pekk instead just pretended that there aren't any unsolved problems.

> You're doing it right here: anyone who disagrees with you is a troll

Here, try filling in the blanks: “[ ] is hard to do with SysV init. I don't like the way systemd does [ ] because [] and prefer the way [] does [] instead"

See the difference?
I stand corrected then. His PR machine had me fooled. Granted, he does seem to find himself in the middle of a lot of successful businesses.
Quick googling of news ontologies reveale plenty of established knowledge models. Why does the world need one more?
Feels very much like news.google.com.

With the voting on GN being time and search traffic? I am not sure how the determination on GN ordering works, but the idea of human curated news seems an even more sensation driven principle than the current network news industry.

Even HN falls victim to sensationalism on a regular basis, and I presume most of HN's users are somewhat invested in the quality.

I am not meaning to detract from the effort, but the outcome for such a scenario seems pretty repeatable. Especially with the history of non-niche vote driven news outlets/sites, and their predilection to not be viewed as quality, definitive, or substantive.
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But the surprising thing, even to Hamilton, was that network availability went up, not down.

I'm not sure why that was a surprise, KISS, applies just as well to networking as most other parts of the data center.

Networking, and storage (to a lesser extent) seem to have enterpriseits. By that, I mean the companies involved in it do everything in their power to maintain their high margins. One of the ways they do this is adding features that everyone just has to have (or so sales will tell you). Even when many of those features are things that should _NEVER_ be actually used in practice, due to their affects on performance or reliability (take WAN accelerators for example, otherwise known as how to make your network appear faster 90% of the time and completely non functional for the remaining).

What I really wish is that the amazon's, microsofts, googles, facebooks, etc would get together and actually release these switches/etc they are building. While I imagine they never will because they view it as a competitive advantage. It sure would be nice to have some of this stuff available for medium sized data centers without having to spend $$$$$ with the established vendors just to get something that can do 100Gbit.
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I dual boot with Windows 8 for games. Windows 8 will work without UEFI, but I haven't found any information about how to downgrade an existing UEFI-based windows 8 partition to legacy bios, or if it is safe/feasible to do so. In particular, the non-existent bootloader. (Windows, as usual, seems to take the approach of "wipe + reformat", which is not exactly optimal.) If you have any ideas, feel free to let me know.

And regardless, this is a temporary solution.
>Really? Do you think that users will stop wanting interactive web apps because of some minor technical complaints you have about the stack?

No. I think customers will stop wanting extremely javascript heavy interactive apps when they start to realize that 95% of the time they can have something that is cheaper and more reliable that isn't so javascript heavy.

Are you dying for hacker news to become a one page ember app?

Didn't think so.

Users don't really care about this stuff unless all that javascript brings huge gains (e.g. for a mapping app).
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8635698 with an added question mark to the URL
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8635698
Probably should mention Inferno https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system) too, though afaik it doesn't have any kind of automatic distributed execution either.
They won't do it live unless they are _really_ sure it will work.

Even if it's just a test that they know has a reasonable chance of failing, that's not how it will be portrayed in the mainstream media (see: the F9R-dev RUD)
>Employ talented and inspired people

>Give them meaningful objectives

There
Yet it still takes years.

It's almost worse when the stack is new because there is so much of the wheel that has to be reinvented again.
I mean absolutely no disrespect by this: if enabling automatic tab completion stymied you a year ago, running FreeBSD (or other operating systems with a similar ethos) as a main install may not be for you just yet. Play with it in a VM with snapshots, use it as a learning experience for how to manage, break, and fix a *NIX install.

Personally I run Ubuntu on my work desktop so I can focus on work and not managing the OS. I run a private irc server on a busted old desktop running Arch Linux for the opposite reason :)
He created a company that acquired another company. Combining these companies together created Paypal and Musk was the largest shareholder in this entire thing. So yes, he did co-found Paypal.

"just pointing out the inaccuracies that are perpetuated in the media that make him seem larger than life" - You don't have a great track record so far, noting you have just made some incorrect statements yourself.

On that note, I've seen quite a few people come to this conclusion. They hear about him doing good things and think he must have some ulterior motive. They see him release patents and think he MUST be doing it for some secret business advantage. But no. That's just him. And now that you say it, I do actually think he is larger than life.
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That is an awesome plugin. Thank you for posting this. I wouldn't have known about it otherwise. I'm working on an extremely image heavy site and this is perfect. It even lets you chose between "lossy and lossless" compression.
If any article needed a date in the title this one does. Seen it on HN a few times now.

(can HN have code that checks for dupe links from the past and forces the year in the title, if so, just as an additional signal to long term readers? That'd help a lot.)
>On the one hand, these holes would be vertical, which is harder than horizontal

I don't think this is the case. We dig vertical holes all the time for wells, geothermal, and pilings for buildings: http://www.bdonline.co.uk/Pictures/web/r/r/g/CCTV_17_foundat...

Look at all of them! For one building!
This looks very interesting! Can someone with more understanding than me explain what this is about? :)

EDIT: Found this: http://zelus.di.ens.fr/
WHY MILLIONAIRE BUY Gonkai Phone?

1.) Complete failure of security in 'convergence' to the smartphone.
too much centralization and the firmware has plenty of rootkits.

2.) Most USA citizens own their home and Hurricane Katrina - New
Orleans turn their major assets into WEALTH DESTRUCTION.

3.) Yes, I carry around a 'personal book' on lightweight paper that could
easly be 'obliterated.' WHY CARRY an apple phone, flash it and
the ARMED ROBBERS and 'predators' follow you?

4.) Sure I am a bit extreme. Sure I made money the HARD WAY.
paid my way thru school by part time work, scholarship, etc.

5.) Hey MILLIONAIRE - I PAY CASH to local merchants/friends/
room-mates. Plug in LIVE CD - Gentoo preferred or openbsd
and THE CLOUD TAKES CARE OF YOU.

6.) OK. so I wear the tux and the bicycle is 50US$ used. upgarde it
100 $US. Paying for an expensive car and parking it in New York City?

7.) RUSSIAN JOKE - ancient - So, the scientist wears the supercomputer
the size of a wristwatch. on wrist. BUT the catch is he has to
carry a suitcase full of heavy lead batteries.

8.) OH, ahhhh. some of the equipment is hammmraddddio using
the newwwer open source software. So, the 911 service CRASHED
IN Seattle, WA? AGAIN?? AGAIN?? not a problem for the

MILLIONAIRES....

riding a bicycle. making a chinese food delivery and traveling by
private plane arrangements means the SILLY VALLY Vulture
Capital guys have a harder time to track MR. Mobius of Templeton
or Mr. gongkai.

LOL, suckers enjoy your aaaple dumb phone.

PS. moving most of the 'infrastructure to world diversified VPS.
even CLOUDFLARE is a single point of failure.
What about depleted Uranium? 19G / cm^3, 1.7 the density of lead. No idea what the cost is, but I can't imagine that waste material would be that costly.
It's under consideration in IE so now would be a good time to vote for it since it's so much cleaner than srcset:

https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/257854-internet-explorer-...
Part of the basis is that most citizens simply don't have the time to have informed opinions on topics such as this, and hence we'd end up with a lot of ignorant opinions voted in, because the majority don't even really understand what the issues is.

In theory, a republican form of government can help with this because the representatives job is to learn about such issues and vote intelligently.

Some of the issue with the current US politics is that ignorant people insist that their ignorance is as good as a reasoned opinion, and demand that elected officials vote that way rather than from a reasoned position.

I'm not saying the secrecy part is the core, but rather, that officials should make choices that seem counter to the opinions of most voters, because most voters' opinions aren't actually aligned with their interests, purely because not everyone has time to know about every topic and have a reasonable opinion on it.

In a republican government, you should vote on your representative based on the method he takes to voting (eg, how well he's doing at becoming educated and translating that in to votes) rather than how well he matches your uninformed opinions.

So in cases like a nuclear facility, a republican form of government should probably just ignore the uninformed objections and do it anyway, which is the sentiment that your paraphrasing was based on.
I came from sysadmin background and regularly have to compare AWS, Azure & GAE. My company is PHP shop which use only IaaS & PaaS.

Basically nothing beats AWS on IaaS and Azure seems to be the best for PaaS. I'm comparing in term of cost, feature and ease of implementation/maintainability.
Oh you're right, it does. I never knew they were used in that device, but I do have a couple of those displays.. If you search ebay for "oled display," you'll see them listed over and over in different variations for $5-10.
No, the additional load is not worth it. It would be one of the least sustainable things you could do due to all of the heavier columns you'd have to use.
you can get an mp3 player for less then $2 if you supply the SD card and headphone... try aliexpress for example: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Wholesale-Retail-Sport-MINI-C...
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If he doesn't want to elucidate his point, its basically trolling, no matter what your experience. Its a line designed to draw a rise out of people - that's it.
> 150 years ago [...] there are plenty of folks still alive who heard about it from their elders.

"Plenty"? Care to flesh out your math, here? I'm working under the assumption that newborn babies make horrible first-hand witnesses and (75 years later) equally horrible second-hand listeners, and that not that many of either are going to live to 75 before talking about their knowledge.

It's probably more precise to say: "A lot of people here know a story about it", the same way a lot of Americans know about the Mayflower.

> Southerners remember

I think you're subtly equivocating here. The "remembering" going on is not at all the same kind as, say, "New Yorkers Remember 9/11".
This is wrong.

1. Digging mine shafts is dramatically cheaper than structal tunnels. They dig exploratory shafts frequently to roughly these depths for well under $1m

2. Using a disused mineshaft would have a negative cost associated with it because the security associated with keeping it safe is non zero.
18,000 kg is just 1.58 cubic meters of lead.

You can have a much much heavier weight.
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Yeah, but if they're a quarter as efficient and cost a tenth as much, then we might have a winner.
Those are some good examples of using the Par monad.

I was once asked during an interview to transform a tree into a linked list. The interview went pretty well, but immediately after leaving, I was struck by l'esprit de l'escalier and this nice one-liner (featured in the article) popped into my head:

toList = foldr (:) []

It's the identity function on lists, but it can actually transform any Foldable into a list as well, and it's very efficient. O(n) for trees, very little overhead, and lazy. I believe it's used in a number of Haskell containers.
I love how every Tom, Dick & Harry with a bit of math & engineering thinks he can "dispel the myth" of HN Idea X with two minutes of off-the-top-of-his-head equations.

Read about these two:
http://www.gravitricity.com/#people

Do they seem like complete morons? Do you think they haven't studied this just a little bit more than you have? It doesn't mean their idea is good or will work - just that you aren't going to rip it apart with two hastily written paragraphs.

People who ask questions about the costs, process, etc. are in the right spirit. People who think they can show off how clever they are really make me /facepalm
> unless you think that there's a way for the government to shutdown every road.

Isn't that what they* did in NYC during 9/11? And whenever the president comes to town, they'll shut down whole corridors. Now, it is inconvenient (not to mention expensive), and so they don't do it often. Also, our road systems are pretty fragile outside of cities, there are very few corridors where your car becomes basically useless if they happen to be shut.

* I assume you are being US-centric here, correct me if I'm wrong.
Just because those are the stated reasons for developing systemd, that doesn't mean that those are the actual reasons, nor does it mean that other init systems don't work (even though they could be improved - into, say, OpenRC).

And that definitely doesn't imply that the poster was a troll. You didn't even address that. That is a personal attack, and is typical of how systemd supporters shout down the opposition.

> Here, try filling in the blanks: “[ ] is hard to do with SysV init. I don't like the way systemd does [ ] because [] and prefer the way [] does [] instead"

> See the difference?

So anyone who criticizes systemd and doesn't fill in those blanks is a troll?
It seems, for many of the reasons stated below, that feature detection in JavaScript will never be a sufficient solution. But clearly asking web developers to manually parse and interpret UA strings is asking for trouble.

Does anyone know if there is an authoritative database of user agent string, their associated browsers and the features of those browsers?
That's actually implemented as part of Data.Foldable [0]. Super canonical!

[0] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.7.0.1/docs/Data-Fo...
Another important fact is that the rich and poor treat resources differently. The poor tend to consume while the rich tend to invest. (This is also the justification of stimulus targeting the poor.) I.e., if you tax the hell out of some rich guy, he has less money to put into Uber or SpaceX.
I will be impressed if they actually manage to build BRT. BRT projects in the US tend to suffer from "BRT creep". Although the upfront cost is significantly lower than rail, it is still much more expensive than normal buses, so most localities don't have the political will to build BRT without removing most of the features that make it rapid.