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I think HIPPA is a great example precisely because it goes beyond "don't disclose this", it also regulates "safe storage requirements", whose purpose is ultimately to make unwanted disclosure (through breaches, rogue employees, etc.) less likely, of whatever scale. (e.g. my plaintext password for a service shouldn't ever be disclosed to even a single person.) I think we're in agreement about people generally expecting professionalism.
Might have a name clash issue with Sungard's iWorks Prophet, a commercial financial modelling tool.
If you're interested in seeing something open sourced and you have time but not money, consider offering to do some of the requisite cleanup work under NDA.
A looter and griefer is a valid profession in the game just like in the real world there exists professional hitmen. It is an actual occupation which puts food on the table, yes, but…
Audio from the talk:

https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk247/bsdtalk247.ogg
Good luck making it faster than rsync.
I find it irritating to see cheap jabs at Linux/GNU/GPL in most BSD presentation I check out. It doesn't prevent me from using it, but it's just childish. Focus on your strength, not what you perceive as weakness elsewhere.
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If you're more into this than I am:

What will 1) achieve here? Isn't the biggest problem ~elsewhere~ (i.e. my ISP sucks, and all the gazillion devices on the route might buffer far too much data)? Put differently: Can I make a difference, even if it's "just" for me?
(I .. cannot, I guess - I'm stuck with a crappy cable modem/DECT base/wifi router combination from my ISP. But I'm interested in general)

Regarding 2): Is that recommended? Last time I checked most of CeroWrt was sent upstream, so is there a big difference between a reasonably current version of OpenWrt?
I hadn't seen the start screen of the C65 yet. It looks great. The project seems to moving at high pace too.
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Well, that's great and all but be careful not to be to flippant about it.

It's a very different business model, with different advantages and disadvantages that are very hard to compare directly. It's not an easy decision to make.

My current project was Closed Source for a year and a half and has now been Open Source for a year.

Open Source was always something I thought about, and sometimes people asked, but the thing that made me flip over was the realisation one morning after some bad sales meetings that with either a Open Source or Closed Source project, making a project that users both actually want and you can get some money for was very hard work, and if I was going to do all that work anyway I may as well do the one I personally preferred.

So I Open Sourced it, and I feel I did so from a position of strength. It's been a great year for the project, and I don't regret it.

I've also been on the flip side of that; Open Sourcing a project from a position of weakness. We had talked about Open Sourcing it from the start but never did, then the project never took off and in the final stages before we finally killed it we Open Sourced it. It never gave us or anyone else that I know off any benefit, and was a waste of time.

Thanks nirvdrum for a honest and good post - I'm actually talking about Open Sourcing my project in a week and would like to quote your blog - with a link and credit, of course. Good luck for the future ...
You are correct; Good art has an amplification effect on what already exists. It translates an experience that affects one person (the artist, or a character in the artist's imagination) to an experience that resonates for a larger audience.

If a work of art has enough emotional impact to change the habits of thought, then it is plausible that it could change behavior as well; but here it may be difficult to discern the primary work of art from second-order effects: the discussions that arise in response to or in criticism of the art. These second-order effects may drive the actual impetus for change.
"Even the linux die-hards have essentially grasped the necessity of systemd (Even though they're going to hate on it for awhile longer)"
That was one of the bits we had always intended to open-source. There was a real need for decent HTML sanitisation in Go.

When I find the time and energy (between the new job and getting married in a month), I still want to add CSS sanitisation to the mix as well.
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Exactly and that's what made UO so awesome - you could actually roleplay for real. Subsequent MMOs lacking the option to be evil and "harm" other players are missing such a vital part that I feel they belong to a completely different genre. I hope I will experience another game with the same dynamic interactions one day.
Let's hope they take these pointers to heart, discuss and move forward. It'd be great to have an even stronger FreeBSD in 10 years' time.
Yeah, when the Linux phenomenon was new, they used to make just as bad (or even worse) jokes at Windows’ expense. But they don’t anymore. Why is that? Maybe they gained enough acceptance that they don’t feel they have to, anymore. In that case, the fact that FreeBSD still does this is a symptom that FreeBSD does not view itself as having gained common acceptance.

EDIT: Toned down possibly inflammatory language
Three main reasons for this.

First, we originally chose the C language because it is much much simpler. One can master the language without too much pain, and you end up having much more control on what you are actually doing (there's little chance a line of code does not do what you read from it... while in C++ you may have hidden behavior behind even the simpler operation such a + or *).

Secondly, and this is probably a matter of taste, C++11's lambdas are just awfully designed. Their syntax overloads, with a totally different meaning, some tokens such as []. As in many situations, C++ design committee tends to chose the most complicate possible design, without taking readability into account (maybe conciseness is the main goal of their syntax choices?). On the other, the blocks syntax makes is very clear you are dealing with a function-like object with very similar syntax. The choice was made to have a clean and readable syntax.

Third point, C++11 just didn't exist in 2009. There were drafts but support from compilers was just nascent. RHEL in 2009 was at version 6 (very young release) which ships with GCC 4.4 (and GCC 4.7 as an experimental toolchain). The most common RHEL was version 5 with GCC 4.1. RHEL officially supports C++11 since RHEL 7 which ships with GCC 4.8 and was release on June 2014.
> the end I'm much happier that buro9 found a way to keep it ticking over

It's worth noting for people that don't know, that I ate my own dogfood. The communities and forums I run are now hosted on Microcosm.

So when we were facing the "What next?" moment, I knew I had to install and setup my own instance of the platform just to give my users an uninterrupted service.

What I did, was for every customer already on the platform who had stuck with us, loved what we'd done... I offered them space on my instance.

I never wanted to leave even a single customer in the lurch. I think it sucks that startups do, especially if a way can be found.
I saw a joke about the GPL and comment on systemd? GPL joke was unnecessary, though it does comment on why companies may prefer *BSD; the systemd bit - well threads passim here on HN say Linux users are tearing themselves apart enough without help. And I read it as that Linux is onto something good here and FreeBSD should follow.
I was thinking it could lead to an interesting conversation about the good old days in UO but maybe I was wrong.
Nope. Those would be teachers and trainers.
Yes, getrandom is not an alternative arc4random implementation, it's a lower level interface. Even the programmers writing for Linux should actually locate arc4random implementation that they can use. And before somebody even considers calling getrandom directly he should evaluate how hard is to just implement getentropy from getrandom, it's harder than it looks at the start, if I correctly remember even Ted Tso's first attempt was wrong -- here's the better (I don't know if it's the last):

http://lwn.net/Articles/606552/

int getentropy(void *buf, size_t buflen)
{
int ret;

if (buflen > 256)
goto failure;
ret = getrandom(buf, buflen, 0);
if (ret < 0)
return ret;
if (ret == buflen)
return 0;
failure:
errno = EIO;
return -1;
}

Note the magical 256 number. It's important.
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I didnt find this talk very visionary (I saw the similar one at EuroBSDcon). Power management needs to be better, add something like systemd thats not like that. Vision in (existing) operating system development in terms of ten year projects is actually quite rare, mostly there are incremental changes. OSX is maybe an example, go for usability, and ZFS is another, make a radically different file system. Windows NT perhaps as well.
Labeling people is easy, but it doesn't lead to fruitful discussion. You just end up talking past other people. If you wanted to discuss the propriety of abiding by the law, I'm sure there were more appropriate threads to do so.
Regarding “A centralized event notification system”, I predict that D-Bus will soon have this position in Linux, certainly when kdbus lands.
Regarding the centralized configuration data, I don't know how to feel about it. Sure, it would be good but most recent attempts at it usually involve going the Registry way.
You posted the github link yourself... (Fork button is top right).
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You don't have to get to grid scale for 25 kWh to seem like not much.

Your average, underfunded community or educational theater has 150-200 lighting dimmers, each at 2.4 kW. I can consume half a megawatt (200 circuits x 20A x 120V = 480kW) in 6 keystrokes.
I loved it entirely. It was literally the first thing I read after the front page (I always read comments before the article).

I understand HN reason for not wanting countless thanks as it adds to scroll and doesnt add to the discussion... but it would be nice if they had a simple collapsible thread like reddit so once you got the gist or saw things are getting repetative you could jump down to the next main comment
There are actually a great many efforts in this regard. You mention Freedom box and Sandstorm, which are only two of them. I'm working on http://nymote.org and it'll be built using Unikernels (specifically, Mirage OS - http://openmirage.org). Targeting the home router is something we've been working on for some time but the work stretches from deep tech to human-computer interaction.

Most of this work is in academia for now but as soon as there are business models that work, we expect to see real deployments (beyond the hobbyists).
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I absolutely dig the money argument. A bad junior manager will probably make much more money than a jedi developer. Therefore many people choose to be a bad manager instead of a happy, good, developer.
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This is the latest in a long line of such things, including the LOGO turtle, Big Trak¹ and Lego Mindstorms, to name but a few examples. It always seems to be a great idea, and certainly some people enjoy them in the intended fashion, but they never seem to take off in the way the creators envision. Maybe it is a question of cost, in which case this is the way forward – ever smaller, cheaper things.

① https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Trak
Extensions are how new features come to an established language... C11 standard mostly standardised stuff that was already supported as extension by most compilers. Most of the time, extensions are created because features are missing from the language (alignement requirement for example), compiler could do a better job at optimising the code with better hints (noreturn, restrict, strict-aliasing, ...), or we could simply make the job of the developper a bit simpler/safer (nested functions, _Generic, blocks, ...).

IMHO, the main benefit lost by using bleeding-edge extensions is portability, which may or may not be an issue.
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I posted this as much as a note into the stability of the Internet as a commentary on scalable application architecture. I'd love to hear commentary from people who have implemented buffers internally as part of an architecture and whether they implemented smart feedback channels like RTT or faced difficulties like those mentioned here.
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If you want to see what battles are like you should watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdfFnTt2UT0

It is a new trailer CCP (makers of Eve) made with real player communication.
You are very right with thinking that some people take WoW leadership in raids, etc. as a job. That's something I overlooked.
Relatively inaccurate, even if full of colors. The original work:

http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0606246
He never said it was cheap and accessible, what he said was that it was decentralized. In other words, no one could stop you from doing any of those things, the fact that it was harder to get online is beside the point. The vast majority of services were running open protocols, and there were really no gatekeepers except for DNS I suppose, but even that is a decentralized protocol even if the registry is centralized by necessity.
Is fun that a lot of Linux systemd haters are going to move toward FreeBSD which is moving to a systemd-like init :D

FreeBSD is just like Linux but on late of 5 years

Google for "Freebsd vs Linux 2014 performance and features"
Is fun that a lot of Linux systemd haters are going to move toward FreeBSD which is moving to a systemd-like init :D

FreeBSD is just like Linux but on late of 5 years

http://assente.vega9.com/it/freebsd_vs_linux_2014_performanc...
Not all oDesk offers are $5/hr

If you have good portfolio and know how to write good cover letters you can easily get jobs at $25-$35 hr.

The key is to apply only for jobs where the client has good history of payments. Each oDesk client has an average $/hr rate, so keep that in mind.

Good luck!

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What's wrong? Why did you change the title to "Ruby programmer trying out Meteor.js" while the original article is simply "Meteor.js: Getting Started" ?

Also, the article does not even mention Ruby once!
I find it alarming that releases are EOL after 1 year, whereas RedHat Linux releases are supported for 10 years.
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Strangely it seems there are better resources on the internet helping to learn to write viruses on 64-bits than to learn writing a good 64-bits code for other purposes.
a real eye-opener. was planning to use lemmings in a startup demolition company, but now i know they won't do. will have to get back to the drawing board...
Sure you can game sales to some extent. You can game the specific commission system. That's why it's very important for the specific incentives of the commission system to match the specific goals of the company.
No. Porsche tried to buy VW, neatly made it but ran out of money during the financial crisis. VW took advantage and the deal reversed.

Note that Porsche SE used to own Porsche AG directly, but now VW owns it.

To quote your link:

In July 2012, it was announced that Volkswagen AG was taking over the Porsche AG automotive company completely, which bears the same name, but is only a subsidiary of Porsche SE.
I think it's refreshing.
Something is seriously wrong with the gif slider on the front page. It eats unbelievable amounts of memory and makes my machine much less responsive. Are you actually hiding the gifs properly when they're not the slide on display? Are you doing opacity transforms on them? Whatever it is, it's extremely noticeable.

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Once we commit ourselves to write some C code some kinds of failures are expected and the ones you point to are of that kind. The topic here are actually the ones not expected by a C programmer who wishes to use the API function. I don't want this discussion to digress to talking about some other languages even if we all know they exist and can avoid the kind of errors you describe. That's still off topic.
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I;m not diminishing achievements you mentioned and I'm very well aware of them. You must admit however that not all of them can be attributed to FOSS, and all of them are quite low-level compared to what average user needs to be able to use it effectively.

I just wonder if we need 10 major Linux distros none of which is easy to set up and use to an average user. (sorry, even Ubuntu is still not there)

I am a big believer in open web and it makes me cringe every time I see a new cool technology that uses closed protocols (or rather APIs) as it happens with IoT right now. But it's hard for me to attribute it to anything else than lack of leadership from FOSS community.
I think what they are trying to say is that FreeBSD should adopt systemd ASAP! (trollface)
As a completely non-technically-inclined person, can someone explain how this is intended to yield electricity as output?

From what little I do understand, the enormous surface area of the crushed gravel acts as a very efficient heat transfer mechanism, so it can cool(or heat) the Argon, depending on which chamber one is looking at.

The pistons are there to cycle the Argon between high and low pressure.. Presumably to keep the gas flow going. But can't this be done with just the pistons and without the pressure gradient? (edit: nvm this part; the heat energy is obviously generated by this pressure gradient).

Then comes the time to get the heat energy out for actual use. The article mentions that the gas flow can be reversed. So presumably the gravel that was previously being cooled, will now be heated. Isn't this just exchanging the heat between the gravel and gas? How does this yield net energy output?
Would love to see a how-to tutorial on using this to test and visualize different strategies on paper.
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That's a point release. Red Hat point releases are also not supported for 10 years (you follow along the point releases on the major version for that length of support).

It seems to be pretty much the same on FreeBSD. However, the support for major versions is also shorter. E.g. 8.0 was released in 2009, and 8.x is not supported anymore.
Too bad they are still illegal to use in California:

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IIRC it was a link to a review (techcrunch maybe?)
You say that sarcastically, but isn't that the very basis of using a republican system rather than a direct democracy, and a well known problem with direct, majority-wins democracy?
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Yeah that was when the Iphone was first released in 2007, continued for a while. But by 2011, the app store was already becoming a behemoth, a huge source of profits for Apple, an effective content-curating tool and a close Apple-unique marketplace that they could compare to the Playstore and say 'we've got more and better content, get an iOS device'.

In other words, by 2011 nobody at Apple was telling developers 'web apps instead of native please'.

Meanwhile, in the past years they did effectively cut things like WebGL on iOS because it was a threat to native app performance in the browser. (iOS 8 finally, long overdue, changed this, now that the app store is there to stay.) Or say blocking Nitro on anything but Safari, say Chrome, not a problem for regular websites, but a problem for JS heavy web apps.
There is a standard API. It is called SWIFT. SWIFT is not just a network, but a standard message format. Participants in the SWIFT network can also receive messages from outside the SWIFT network.
Last time i checked, neo4j REST API had a really limited support for transactions ( no way to have multiple request be part of a single transaction). Since go doesn't have a native client, i wouldn't use this combo for neo4j has my primary db.
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- Ability to launch any diff app (including Apple FileMerge), by calling a custom AppleScript script (this also gets around the restrictions imposed by the app sandbox). Sample script for FileMerge provided.

Correcting my earlier post, actually TextWrangler (one of the natively supported diff apps) is free of charge, and now with the custom diff script users can connect to other free diff apps as well (such as FileMerge).

Will soon be adding the possibility to purchase Premium functionality outside the Mac App Store, probably within a week or so.
Can these boards be used in the rain, or when the road is damp? Where I live, roads are wet ~40% of the time, so if not this would be a huge no-go.
The homepage hogs my memory; but I think it's not your fault, opening the imgur link also killed the Chrome tab. Maybe the images are too big?
To Professor Harvey!

I had him back in 1997 in CS61A. Will never forget that class. It was way oversubscribed due to some administrative issue. So he had the whole class on Day 1 take a test: Write a app in any language you know to solve the Tower of Hanoi (http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~shidi/cs61a/wiki/Towers_of_Hano...). Whoever passed it was in the class.

It was damn intimidating. My first ever lecture in my first ever class at Berkeley, first time at a university and first time in America. I'm still a little proud I could do it back then.