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> Jesus mostly preached to turn the other cheek and didn't kill anyone.

And yet from the time it achieved the kind of power in any society from which to exert substantial influence well into the modern period, Christians were killing people -- in other countries, in their own countries, etc. -- in the name of Christ all the time. The Crusades (and not just the ones in the "Holy Land" and/or targeting Muslims) were a thing. The Inquisition was a thing. Europe's Wars of Religion were a thing. There is a reason the word "pogrom" exists.

The modern Western concept of freedom of religion isn't a direct product of some religious parallel to the Ruby's community's maxim "Matz Is Nice And So We Are Nice", its a product of the exhaustion of Western European Christians after more than a millenium of killings -- not least of all of Western European Christians by Western European Christians -- in the name of Christ.

The idea that Christianity is somehow inherently more peaceful than Islam requires ignoring pretty much the entirety of the history of Christianity.
That is interesting and I am sure there is a good point there but meteorologist is also a profession requiring a high education level. Yet the meteorologist list (Bill, Joe, Jim, Jeff, Mike, Scott) is way more similar to the football coach list to the point where 3 of the names are the same.
If the compiler could prove you never read an array element before writing (like it is most of the time in Java, and should be all of the time in C), it could optimize the entire zeroing step away. Java does this very often. And initializing your variables close to the point of declaring them is a good practice in C anyways, which should make it easy for the compiler to analyze.
Except that a case-sensitive HFS+ file system breaks tons of Mac apps that are never tested with it.
I don't see why it's a scam. Isn't an "aqui-hire" pretty standard practice these days?
It looks like it still loads the ixgbevf driver:

# ethtool -i eth0
driver: ixgbevf
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Yeah I was going to say the same thing. Even comes with X-Windows. I've toyed with getting one to use as a portable terminal, but it's too pricy. I think right now they're working on the next rev and they aren't for sale.

(plus I've heard horror stories on long waits while the units were being produced)
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It seems weird to me to have language specific sandboxing services. We should be able to execute any code safely "in the cloud" (which I'm going to charitably interpret as being automatically distributed over N machines).

You can use things like app armor profiles for runtime sanboxing or google's nacl for statically verified binaries. Heck, even java bytecode would be more flexible than javascript.
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You should let it run idle and see how long until the battery is depleted. I underestimated the losses due to efficiency with my Libretto project (boost converters run at different efficiencies depending on the power draw).

I was able to get about 4 hours on a 6600mAh battery pack powering a Pi and a 7" touchscreen with wifi and bluetooth enabled (the project draws about 8W when the screen is turned on, about 5W with it turned off).
As the primary author of the most widely used cross platform VCS, he does have to use OSX.
I see what you mean now. Although "don't like music" is not the same as "aren't into music". This goes back to the definition of what "real" music is. I'm fairly certain suburban moms (one of the suggested demographics in the article) will know quite a lot about radio-friendly music through their kids. In that sense they are an ideal demographic. I also don't see a problem with testing the hooks of songs against the market before making a substantial effort in promoting those songs -- that's common sense.
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There are very real problems with HFS+ related to reliability and data corruption. It really is quite bad. Linus's argument is silly, however, and purely a matter of taste. Case insensitivity certainly isn't the reason that HFS+ is bad.
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Can you explain this claim? He googled the sender's name and came up with news of an acquistion with that person's name. Is the claim that the email wasn't really from MarXXXX?
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> This statement was in regard to what happens inside the CPU.

In that regard, the statement is still incorrect. The link I posted above analyzes the cost at the CPU level given the optimal machine code. It estimates an upper bound of a 2x overhead per overflow-checked add. ie. not free.
That's so nice to hear. Thank you!

I'd love to make a Mac version someday, but the problems are so much worse on Windows so we're focusing there.
It's a trade-off.

As far as I am aware, there is nothing out there that can rival the cost and functionality of S3. I'm not going to avoid using it simply because there is a lack of open alternative - it's that much better that I will use it now and redevelop to use different technology if and when I have to.

After all, most of these services all have pre-made client libraries. Rewriting code to use a different service isn't likely to be world-shattering.
is there a c++ unikernel implementation?

why do people run unikernels inside vms? I thought the overhead of vm+unikernels could be more than processes+os?

shouldn't unikernels be run on bare metal?
Because you want to avoid locking your future with one particular service supplier. Particularly one that charges so much (for e.g. bandwidth) as AWS.
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The listening is still being done today in experiments. An experienced neurophysiologist (in the particular field of single cell recordings) can distinguish the sound of an actual braincell firing, or groups thereof, from all surrounding noise. Which is sometimes more convenient than recording the signal, feeding it into rather complicated template matching algorithms and waiting for results. Especially since braincells might die while being recorded from, so you have to decide quickly.
What a shitty article. HFS+ has many problems, but case insensitivity is a feature. It's good for end users. There's a case sensitive version of it, but it's not the default, and for a good reason.

If you want a good critique of HFS+, check one of John Siracusa's many rants[1].

Also, Gruber is not the author of Byword:

Even John Gruber of Daring Fireball and author of Byword…

[1] http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7/12/
Yeah, I think you'll find most people who get called terrorists think they are on the side of good and in the case of Islamists, doing the work of Allah. Not that Christians and atheists are immune to killing people for what they think is a good cause. Indeed probably majority of the killings in the last century have been of that nature.
Can Google remove "Don't Be Evil" from their core values yet?
I was formerly the CTO of .CO, so it's shameless self-interest. :)

If you're considering what TLD to use for your next project, .CO gives you a ton of great freebies with their membership program[1]. Worth a look.

EDIT [1] whoops forgot the link thanks pc86 http://www.go.co/members/
"Indeed, although the participants in our study sent and received roughly the same number of emails during both weeks, they reported doing so in approximately 20 percent less time during the week when they checked their email less frequently."
Have you heard of or experimented with applications like inVision[0] or Ramen[1]?

[0]: http://www.invisionapp.com/
[1]: https://ramen.is/
In general case only. For most of typical code, it is quite obvious.

If your program makes initialization depend on many conditions which makes it hard to analyze for the compiler, you're probably writing very fragile code that will soon bite you with UB.
I believe I'd pay out of pocket at a reduced rate, but I'm not 100% sure.
I'm typing this on a Frogpad now. Due to an injury I've used it as my main keyboard for years. Unfortunately the company is all but defunct and the layout is propriety. For years I've been meaning to write script to set the keyboard layout of a full size keyboard to it. That way I can stop paying hundreds whenever an old Frogpad appears on ebay.
I think you mean Linus, not Linux.

While tastes are certainly subjective, the exploit caused by this brain damaged design was not subjective, nor a matter of taste.
> And you think that Islam promotes this "bodily harm/threats" ?

Classic strawman.

> You sure are a delusional one.

Of course I am, since, obviously I think that Islam promotes 'bodily harm/threats'.

In case you did not understand that paragraph, it was directed at the people who perpetrate those acts, not towards Islam.

Note how you changed what I said by adding your own interpretation and then took issue with the modified version.

That said, just like there are plenty of passages in the bible that call for violence and the most heinous acts to be perpetrated against others so there are such passages in the Qu'ran.

Note that I'm equally upset with those that would use either book (or any other book for that matter) to impose their view of what the world should look like on others. Religious fanatics - fanatics of any kind, really - will use such texts or any other that they can lay their hands on to try to find excuses to act in whatever way they think will further their cause, including threats and violence.

I'm just one shade less upset with those that are apologists for such fanatics.

Islam is definitely not the only religion that has been hijacked in this way, every other religion has its own share of problematic characters. But it is up to those that subscribe to those religions to deal with that and to condemn it in the strongest words possible - without caveats like you have done - to make sure that the would-be fanatics hear loud and clear that they are no longer part of the religion or group they profess to serve.

As long as we have a process of so called radicalization where creepy old men acting in the name of religions to try to brainwash impressionable kids into committing acts of violence we will see more of this.
Yes I remember now that the Valve SteamOS devs recommended to use SDL2 instead of going directly on the OS APIs, since it takes care about a lot of small problems and differences. So basically SDL would take the role of DirectX.
Need 20 people try our RFID blocking wallets prior to crowdfunding campaign
We use a polyblend of aluminum and copper which from our tests provided stronger protection over a greater range of RFID frequencies. Everyone on this email list (even if you don't get a free wallet) will get hooked up with a very nice discount code for their help/support. First group of crowdfunding will be sold for ~$20 and MSRP will be ~$40 so it should be substantially cheaper than most leather wallets let-alone the RFID blocking wallet.

Also to keep in mind, this has been a work in progress for almost a year, we have working models and have done a small run of production. The money from crowdfunding will go towards scalability and making cost/unit cheaper.

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As far as I know, the biggest reason not to rely unconditionally on AWS-specific offerings is the same reason to avoid vendor lock-in elsewhere: They've got you over a barrel when it comes time to re-negotiate pricing. Amazon has a pretty wonderful history of price cuts, but when Google comes in with a better deal (or you want to hedge your bets with a hybrid cloud-type thing), it's waaay harder to find analogues of things like Kinesis and SES and Elastic Beanstalk.

There are definitely some PaaS-type offerings they have that aren't as scary (RDS/MySQL, for example, and ElastiCache/Memcached, etc.), but if you're trying to bounce systems between clouds, or deploy the exact same configuration everywhere you're running, the only real answer is to rely on compute resources (basically EC2) and build your own stuff. All the clouds have Linux servers.
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HFS+ and NTFS both suck pretty hard. There seems to be some kind of pessimism filesystem principle in popular mainstream OSes.

It's kind of impressive that Apple and MS have managed to make such balls of crap work as well as they have.
What about douchebag? Josh, Chad, Tyler, Brad etc?
Ran UnixBench

c4.2xlarge
https://gist.github.com/karlseguin/a659ef87b3a4a5d590e9

c4.8xlarge
https://gist.github.com/karlseguin/0f38b9ad87ebd54375da

i7-4770
https://gist.github.com/karlseguin/5a6a45ace2048545b6c3
And Airbnb was spamming Craigslist posters (https://growthhackers.com/companies/airbnb/ - but of course selling cereals is the anecdote preferred by storytellers), and I have freelancer friends who got totally screwed by YC companies ("We can't pay for your work right now but we'll hire you and give you tons of equity right after demo day!" ... only to never respond to their emails ever again. Yes, the few of my friends to whom this happened could have been less naive, but still shitty).

The vast majority (but not all) of startups do dubious things. That's to be expected in an environment that glorifies "breaking things" and worrying later if what they're doing is legal or not. Being YC affiliated does not change that in the slightest bit.
There's a big difference between caring only about money and making any money at all. To equate the two is ridiculous.
Part of the point of intensive retreats is to create suffering. In this way you can examine it and potentially be free from it.
Google Discloses New Unpatched Windows 8.1 Privilege Escalation Flaw
Yesterday's discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8876319
You're right (I appreciate the thoughtful response). I see what you're saying. And I agree with you on the principles of being tolerance being a good thing. I'm reminded of the Hindu-Muslim riots in India or the more recent events in Burma. I think the enlightenment and the dark ages and lessons form them are parts of western history, not shared by other cultures. (Although the Serbian conflict doesn't reconcile with this view if they're to be considered western beneficiaries of the enlightenment). What they have experienced is western imperialism.

What I would argue is the viewpoint that the Muslim world or any other region that isn't us, needing to inherit or adhere to our viewpoint, as being short sighted.

I think I'm finally starting to see jacquesm was saying (I feel like a dumbass now). I just reread his original comment on the world not moving in lockstep. It will take time, hopefully some economic development, infrastructure & some super connected smart people who are part of the local & global community. I interpreted his comment to be a slight against an entire culture, which, thanks your comment I am able to see past now.
Wahhabism and other extremist versions of Islam have a significant following. Polls regularly indicate support or acceptance towards extremist views within Muslim communities. It's therefore not as simple.
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I don't even understand why he doesn't like case insensitivity. I can't think of a reason to have two files with the same name that vary only in capitalisation.
I wonder if they read your personal Gmail account to see if you're considering other offers? Or if you've corresponded with other people about their proposal?
As an anecdote to counter another anecdote, I've never had these problems with Windows iTunes. I've used it since getting the HP branded iPod back in '02 (I think), and my music library has grown into the upper tens of thousands of songs since then.

It's caused me to believe that all these people trashing on iTunes have broken computers, because the software plainly doesn't do half the crap it's accused of doing.
As a developer I could see case-sensitive file systems as more "proper" and predictable. But as an everyday Mac user, I'd be annoyed if I accidentally selected "upload.png" instead of "Upload.png" and sent the wrong file.
Also its possible to screw up a system that way, but its easier / lazier to just install the wrapper package that takes care of everything including dependencies.

So on freebsd, pkg install nvidia-driver, or on legacy linux apt-get install nvidia-driver and you're all done.

Someone looking for trouble could do it the hard and dangerous way, but why?

Also commercial software other than possibly games, is dead man walking and is dead on FOSS platforms. Sure, go ahead, pretend its the 80s and try to charge me money for an editor, or a compiler, or pretend its the 90s and try to charge me for a web browser or a database, its just not happening.
Autotools, gcc, needed libraries, binary blob drivers for the video card, a terminal emulator and vim with a bunch of scripts.
Accessing certain states of mind requires momentum above all else. Thus it is very valuable to meditate intensely for sustained periods of time. Otherwise, most people have little chance of breaking through.
For those who prefer AWS blog posts over the product page:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-new-c4-instan...
Yeah those days are over .. the survivor of the OpenPandora project - EvilDragon/Michale Mrozek - is the owner of the DragonBox Shop, and he has been the only trustworthy guy in the project so far, which was severely hamstrung by the financial mis-management of the originator of the project, Craig Rothwell. That is all water under the bridge now - EvilDragon has been selling the OpenPandora through his shop, and he is the principle organizer of the sequel to the Pandora, called the Pyra.

(You can follow EvilDragon and see his involvement in the community here: http://boards.openpandora.org/user/1-evildragon/)

I'm the happy owner of two of the original first batch Open Pandora machines, and was lucky to get them (F5 for the win) .. I've signed up for the Pyra too, as I really believe that EvilDragon, and his minions, are a fantastic group of like-minded adventurers, and I have absolutely zero hesitancy in recommending him to anyone interested in this project. He has been a stable part of this whole party ..
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David Cameron in 'cloud cuckoo land' over encrypted messaging apps ban
Have you seen his coding conventions?

http://www.terathon.com/wiki/index.php/Coding_Conventions
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. This was also my understanding. I highly recommend Mark Kurlansky's Nonviolence: History of a Dangerous Idea, which discusses non-violence in the history of early Christianity:

http://www.amazon.com/Nonviolence-History-Dangerous-Mark-Kur...
These are pretty generous limits. What's your plan for paying for it?
I upgraded my Portfolio by duct-taping an rPi to it. :)
As an Australian, it's worth pointing out that Red Flag represents the radical far left.
So pot is good for something - keeping people from being lifelong stooges of the FBI.
Maybe.

Thing is, he's the equivalent of a grad student, which is the official place to start your apprenticeship in learning Science, which is what he was doing (see what he does praise the PI for). The only people in a lab who are lower in status are undergraduates and technicians.
In some of those cases, it could also partly be people adapting their names after those legends. For example, a budding guitarist called Michael who loves Mick Jagger choosing to go by the name of Mick. As Michael is a far more common name than Mick, it would only take a small proportion of 'Michael's to do that and suddenly 'Mick' makes the guitarist list.
I guess his complaint is that lower(str) == lower(ostr) is more code than str == ostr...? :)
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>our tests provided stronger protection

What materials do other RFID-blocking wallets use?
Would be great to see someone make a small keyboard/screen accessory that can have one of these plugged into it:

http://www.highsnobiety.com/2015/01/12/intel-compute-stick-t...

Maybe we'll see it this year, I predict ..
The article is objectively misleading. The title reads "What happens when you install x", but instead they proceed to install x, y, and z. Is it so surprising that when you "click next to install program y", that program y is installed? Download.com doesn't promise not to bundle software, it promises not to install bundled software without the user's consent, which is obscured in this demo. I'm not saying that Download.com is doing the right thing; I'm saying that this article is failing to isolate where the problem really is.

Furthermore, they complain about things that aren't related to Download.com at all. For example, they install YAC and then complain that YAC is installed and working as advertised. Again, it obscures the actual investigation. Consider that this isn't Download.com's recommended apps; it's simply the most downloaded applications. Just because a lot of people download something isn't an assurance that it does something useful. Go to the Editor's Picks for that, which includes many useful and clean programs. Or even the Top Downloads of all time, rather than Last Week.

By obscuring the results of the demo and failing to distinguish between things that should happen and things that shouldn't, HTG makes it harder for us intelligently discuss the Download.com ecosystem. They fail to educate users about bundled software and how to avoid it. Instead, we're just regurgitating vague opinions that the Windows ecosystem is terrible.

The title should read something more like "What happens when you blindly install applications a lot of other people installed" which makes it much easier to discuss whether Download.com is really at fault here, or who/what is. For example, does Download.com have a responsibility not to report and index statistics such as most downloads last week, so that users can't be tricked into thinking that Download.com recommends they install those programs arbitrarily?
So????
"I'd say that it would be quite against what most would individuals would want. And if ownership/possession is indeed a natural concept that we as a species have"

Do you really want ownership, or do you really want access? For example, if you could hire a car at no cost and at no inconvenience, what benefits would you gain from owning it?
Yes, there are certainly some experts, but also people that have done only dozens to hundreds of hours who have made enormous progress.

As for not having time, most of these folks have worked up to 2 20 minute sits per day. Myself, I take a single 40 minute walk and meditate each day. Thats not so much especially considering that I'm also getting exercise.
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I think your own cluster of for-rent machines would outperform the price performance of S3 wildly. Using e.g. Riak or something similar.

(I haven't done this particular pricing calculation, but everything else in AWS seems awfully overpriced, so why not S3?)
For the first time in 10 years, I just ordered a Windows 8.1 laptop (I live in a small town, I want to start teaching some free classes at our library, and thought I better also have a Windows laptop).

Someone commented on Amazon that he had to spend 2 hours removing crap-ware from the model I ordered and said he wished he would have bought directly from Microsoft. I looked, and Microsoft sells the same laptops with "signature" branding: this means that they sell you a crap-ware free system. So, I stopped the Amazon order and for the same money bought from Microsoft. I intend to only install Java 8, IntelliJ, git, ssh, and probably Pharo Smalltalk when I receive my new laptop.

A little off topic, but a few weeks ago I wiped my MacBook Air clean by reformatting the disk, did a fresh install, and just installed what I need for writing and development work. Now my MacBook Air runs faster and I recovered a lot of disk space.
One of the main points of this thread is that Apple specifically targeted people who _weren't_ trying to install it.