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>What if I don't like the new look of Windows or OS X? I can choose not to upgrade the entire platform, but that's it, unlike in Linux land where I can upgrade piecemeal.

You underestimate the customisability of Windows. Its ecosystem is mostly proprietary and closed-source, but that didn't stop people from modding what they could - just look at all the "post your desktop" threads that appear in various forums and you'll see lots of examples that are barely recognisable as Windows anymore. A lot of these involve little more than copying/replacing a few files, or some registry editing, so it's actually not so difficult at all.

In fact I'd say that "upgrade piecemeal" with Linux is made more complex because of all the dependencies that often arise with various apps all wanting very specific versions of libraries, multiple competing standards that do not interoperate (count all the GUI toolkits...), and emphasis on portability that tends to reduce the availability of binaries.

Some people go as far as replacing the shell:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for_...

...or even removing/replacing more fundamental components:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_remastering#Microsoft_...

As for OS X... I agree there's not much customisation going on there, but I'd attribute that more to the demographic of Apple users. If Apple had the same marketshare with Mac OS as Microsoft has with Windows, I bet there would be a ton more modding happening.

I've used both Windows and Linux, and can say that I like and hate both, but for different reasons.
I like the dauphin shaped Airbus :)
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Cleans up a lot of the cruft, you say. Interesting. Would you mind taking a look at http://phpsadness.com/ and guesstimating how many of the first ten points remain relevant to PHP7?
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We shouldn't limit ourselves to just the South. Lynching was prevalent nationwide. Though the vast majority of lynchings happened in the South, it is worth noting that the practice "spilled over" into other areas of the country. Unfortunately, any American in the early twentieth century could have partaken.

http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/64pct8rc9780252...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/01/08/lynching_map...
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Some people like the concept of having fewer boxes to plug in. That means fewer cords, fewer remotes, etc. Personally I would love to have a TV running a decent OS (as long as it still boots instantly).

Unfortunately TV manufactures do such a shitty job with the software. Both in terms of quality/performance/usability, and now with privacy issues and injected ads.
Scientific coding and software engineering: what's the difference?
Or just don't buy TVs from these creeps!
You could possibly try "grep -E" or "grep -e ... -e"? In this case you could drop 'cat' and make one pipe less.
I finally finished my book about PyCharm!

I'd like to offer 20% off for the next 36 hours for Hacker News readers. Use the discount code "HNEWS1" (without quotes).

I'll be around for the next few hours if you guys have questions.
I was literally actually thinking of this just the other day. Alcohol now gives me intestinal liquidity, possibly a result of too many years of 3-4 beer a night. And I couldn't figure out how an entire populace raised on the stuff wouldn't have had larger issues with beer than with water. I was thinking there had to be something I was missing about what I was taught (and I was taught it in college).
Good, some more high profile fiascos like this, and people will understand that it's best when they control what's wired up to what.
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Really? Is this a genuine comment? That a medieval world population of (optimistically) 500 million would produce more hazardous materials and waste than an industrialised world population of 6 billion?
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And this on top of spying on all your conversations? Sheesh, what kind of world are we inventing for ourselves.
Looks like you both copied an original source and wanted to save time by not modifying the original lib source.
There is no reason the spun up OS can't also have non-blocking IO threads.

Mirage's philosophy is mainly about reducing attack surface and unnecessary overhead. That it makes the OS so small that you can boot it up in milliseconds is just an added benefit.
We don't know. But we'll find out! We have algorithms for that.
The whole voice recognition thing seemed to me to be an unfair storm in a teacup to me, but this.... This is beyond ridiculous. My next TV will not be a Samsung, whether they fix this or not.
It sucks so much that someone else copied it?
Yes please!, Thank you very much.

On top of that, it would be awesome if you could release the repo with the source, makefiles and stuff...
I think people just need to be made aware of the potential positives.

You can have a drink and drive, you can watch a film, you can program or even sleep!

And these positives aren't even fundamental, addressing the safety gains etc..., but I think talking up these positives that will affect you the most is the best way to sell this technology. Most people don't think they are going to get hit by another car, but most people would love to be able to do something else in the boring morning commute.
Governments are doubtless enthusiastic about their introduction given that they will then have access to exquisite details for every single journey undertaken.
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It's what I call an "AHA" piece of statistics.

Lots of data right there, and nicely visualised at that, only what it actually means is unfathomable without knowing any broader context.

For instance: C++ has the greatest number of opened issues per repository, then comes Rust, then Scala. All right.

Does it indicate that they're more tricky than others and hence more bug reports?

Or perhaps that projects written in these languages are under more intense scrutiny?

Or that people watching these repositories are just more eager to step up and file an issue instead of sulking in silence (a trait of programming culture surrounding these languages)?

And so on, and so on.

Or it could be one in case of C++, another in case of Rust - since they differ under so many aspects.

Wide field for wildest speculations, but no meaningful correlations identified.
Added eager loading for gorm, becoming a (almost) full-featured golang ORM ;)
I look forward to their safe passes and patience, as a cyclist and pedestrian.
On figure 4 the legend says that static code analysis made it possible to discover the chain of calls.
Will you ever be able to drink and drive? What happens when the car needs manual control?
No, the ISO setting adjusts the analog gain before conversion to digital. As you would expect, this raises the noise floor. It is natural and expected to be able to adjust speed on a digital camera, because the dynamic range of a ADC is limited, and you want to be able to use that range optimally.

For example, suppose your camera has a dynamic range of 10 stops. If you are shooting a scene with a dynamic range of 8 stops, then you get +/-1 stop of latitude where mistakes in exposure can be corrected digitally. Overexpose, and the signal will sometimes be above the range of the ADC. Underexpose, and the signal will sometimes be below the range of the ADC. You can adjust either the exposure (aperture, shutter speed) or the signal gain (ISO) to get the signal into the right range.

You do the same exact thing when you're recording digital audio: you adjust the gain so that you use most of the range of the DAC. As in photography, you can try increasing the gain afterwards, but you might get problems with noise.
Is it like $100 or like $0.01?
Look like very old idea of Bill Gates.
So this is why you release early and often, and work hard to fix the problems before your users get to them.
So... do smart TVs actually have a single feature that's actually useful to the consumer?
Graphical front-end for command-line debuggers
Is there such a things as a wanted ad?
At some points, Microsoft had two teams working on different versions of IE, in order to leapfrog Netscape. The extra team developed the "componentized" version where the browser was built from re-usable objects, where Netscape's code was still a rambling mess. (This helped Microsoft win the AOL business: it used IE even after it bought Netscape.)

The US DoJ's Janet Reno was a major factor. She forced Microsoft to sign a Consent Decree (1995?) that prevented Microsoft from tying separate products to Windows but allowed it to provide integrated improvements. The DoJ followed up with an anti-trust suit (on Netscape's behalf) over browser tying.

Microsoft won the browser case by 2-1 on appeal. However, all this bloodletting may have been a factor in Microsoft putting off the next browser, which eventually appeared in Vista. Which was late, following the Longhorn debacle, which prolonged XP's life, which enabled IE6 to get entrenched, which caused web designers so much pain.

The world might be a better place if the DoJ hadn't interfered, but we'll never know....
This sounds promising, however it could potentially be a disaster waiting to happen. Just recently HN posted this article about BMW flaw: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31093065. With this in mind, it wouldn't surprise me if someone somewhere gains access to the driverless cars. Not only to add that it can be connected to your smartphone, which is great. But then I suppose the smartphone app keeps track of where you've been. I have mixed feelings.
From the Quora thread:
"Then I took a real job for 18 horrible months and banked enough to go independent again.

Those years left a permanent impression on me."

God, have mercy...
In theory: Nothing extra to buy and decide about. Fewer chords, boxes, remotes etc. Better integrated and unified UX between live TV/recorded TV/streaming TV/downloaded TV etc.

In practice. Very little.

I'm still waiting for someone to do smart TV right with good software (Hell, just pay a couple of the XBMC devs to port the latest version to your TV) and an open platform with support for third party and DIY software.
Rust is one of the heavier users of Issues. I've started a pretty huge re categorization and triage effort, and when I started, we had around 2200 open. Earlier today I got us to 1899. Part of this is that we tracked things like 'it would be nice to have a library to do things like X,' and in preparation for 1.0, we're moving those over to our RFC repo instead, so that the main project has only bugs and internal enhancements.
"Unfortunately, long-standing myths are not displaced by anything so flimsy as documentation."

I like this guy.
They pretty much have this already. I've been researching automatic number plate recognition systems recently and it is surprising to find that the police have a ANPR database, are scaling cameras numbers up to the high thousands and keep the data (not images) for up to 2 years and expect 50 million readings per day.
The ones designing such products or the ones buying them?
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Looks like 1995 was a great year for programming languages - PHP, Java, Javascript and Ruby were released!
> Example Nicolaus Copernicus

Where is it [falsely] written that Copernicus was attacked? There's a fair bit on Gallileo being attacked for advocating Copernicus' ideas. I can imagine innocent mistakes coming from confusion of this.
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How it was put together:

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2015-February/0...
That's what I was thinking too.

Worth some extra html and style code for those benefits.
I thought the constitution was suppose to trump other laws. Is this state secrets law a new amendment I missed?
Likely in reference to their inability to deal with the conditions they faced, either created directly or indirectly by themselves to say nothing of what nature could do.

I am quite sure we all acknowledge modern man is very capable of wrecking the environment, we are however able to prevent much of it and even correct it. It never ceases to amaze me the amount of dangerous materials we work with everyday that never impact the environment
> What happens when the car needs manual control?

Then the notion of driverless cars has failed.
That's really not contradictory unless you take it incredibly literally.
Isn't Tez good for DAG's?
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Part of the reason is that they don't know how often they see people under the influence of drugs, because it's not something that will be paraded in front of someone who is clearly anti-drug - unlike alcohol - because of the legal risk.

So their image of drug users is drug addicts with so severe problems that they are "visible" in wholly negative ways, because outside of a few self-destructive people or activists, for the most part the only ones that will expose their use publicly, or to people who make it clear they are against drugs, are the ones unable to hide it.

I used to think all drug users were the kind of broken down addicts you occasionally see on the streets too, though I felt pity for them rather than express the kind of unfeeling anger you'r describing from that Facebook user.

That first changed over time as I over the years met more and more drug users who were fully functioning, and mostly entirely normal people (using drugs ranging from cannabis to heroin) and was forced to accept that not only were they not all broken down wrecks, but many of them were not even addicts. Including some of the ones using some of the hardest drugs.
That's the whole point in unit testing, agile methodologies and all the other processes - to make programmers like parts of a machine and easily replaceable. Having worked for one large investment bank, the work was really boring, and in my team hardly anyone lasted much more than a year. But they had the money to keep hiring and essentially throw more money at the problem.
I only had a brief look, but I find the recent decline of Ruby quite interesting.
Correct link: http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/camera-2.0/
Ah .. but shutter sound does support a purpose: it lets people know that a picture is being taken.
They're shipping gcc 5, but configures it to use a C++ ABI compatible with older gcc versions, for reasons that does not have anything to do with "they can't even build their distribution with it".
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I think Spark on Yarn on Mesos co habiting with Docker on Mesos managed by Twill is the future.

I just need to take a big breath every time I say it though.
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You can hover with a mouse the bitcoin price and it will show you amount usd.

Probably it is Gate's idea and many others :)
At the level of a journey they already have a lot of coverage for that data with ANPR although this would increase granularity:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police-enforced_ANPR_in_the_UK
My apologies: I wrote that post in a fit of anger and I wasn't careful in how I spoke.

You're absolutely right that the choice she was presented with was no choice at all. She prefered alcohol over housing in the same way that Stephen Hawking prefers sitting over walking. That was the point that I was trying to make - there are people who cannot make rational decisions on these matters.

As for the drug war, my wife has tens of thousands of dollars of medical debt because some bureaucrat decided that it's more important that my mother-in-law be punished for being an alcoholic than that a child might have a warm place to sleep at night. Punishing addicts makes as much sense as punishing cancer patients.
Excuse me for going off-topic, but heck, Hadoop itself was released 3 years ago. It's a testament to how insanely fast things change in web that Hadoop is no longer considered "modern"...
Coffee, tea, tobacco and alcohol are all "raw" products. Coca Cola was engineered to taste good. If all drugs were legalized I'm sure we'd get some excellent space cookies or strawberry flavored psylocibe products.
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The only "Smart" feature I use on mine is Amazon Prime Video, and that's just because Amazon are too damn stubborn to support Chromecast streaming. The app on the TV is slow, clunky, and occasionally decides it doesn't feel like playing any video today.
I think the more interesting part is the comments that crept out of the wood work days after the article was posted to HN.

hautit 5 days ago (1 comment - account created 324 days ago)
Get over it, CBInsights, your UX sucks.

theUXclub 4 days ago (brand new account)

CB Insights, cheap and creepy as always. A 'low-drama' group of people that decided to tweet and share the story all over the place claiming something like 'Look! They copied us!'- Your UX is bad as hell, I wouldn't be very proud. Plus, your site is Bootstrap (a framework created for people who have no skills or time to invest on CSS or design), did you also invent it and they copied you as well?

frumpywooly 4 days ago (brand new account)

"...12 folks from their team have signed up for our free trial since September including the CEO, head of product, designer, product manager and a senior ruby developer." CBInsights, creepiest company in America
What a great way to make sure you only get emails from rich, tech-savvy people.
Seems like a good context to recommend the wonderful 'Simple Made Easy' talk by Rich Hickey, the creator of Clojure.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
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Lots of people watch the Super Bowl for the ads.
Practially speaking, design is legally indefensible as intellectual property - if you actually paid lawyers to make a case for you, you'd only be depleting your own war chest to make your copycats go through the relatively small hassle of a redesign. The only effective way to counter it is loudly naming and shaming the companies responsible.

Kudos to CB Insights for doing exactly that. Not only will it make the copying more trouble than it was worth to Techlist, but the threat of public embarrassment will help deter copycats in the future.
A bit disappointing that a hacker community's first reaction is to position against smart TVs.

Smart TVs are awesome, we just need open source firmware for them in the same way that we have DDWRT/OpenWRT, XBMC and such.

Imagine the control scheme using a wiimote-style pointer, built-in webcam, quad core CPU and an API to give you access to your viewing habits, or interface with other smart devices around your home.

Right now, I turn on my ps4 and the channel doesn't change automatically and turn on game mode, why? I have a smart TV, it should know exactly what I want to do.

I do still think this is a bug, and not intended by Samsung. My tv doesn't seem to be affected by it.
True. Well, some of us had that experience with NT 4.0 ;-)
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I'll be relocating from a mid-size city to a larger one, likeky NYC. That does explain a bit of the pay difference, but even after cost of living it's still a nice doubling of take home (after 401k, etc.).
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I'm fairly doubtful that the present state of AI is able to deliver a driving program that equals the skill of a competent human driver. Moving around requires a lot more understanding than is generally believed.
I think I maybe have ADHD, (not just ADD), but medics REFUSE to even TRY to diagnose me, because of all the ADHD drugs abuse by students and obese people (in my country, Adderall actually entered the list of illegal drugs, because of its abuse to 'cure' obesity).

Saturday, while trying to finish a task for my startup, I took LOADS of caffeine, and it didn't work.

I suspected I might be addicted, and tried yesterday to not touch anything with caffeine.

Had horrible withdraw symptoms :(

And still can't work properly (I work in random spurts, usually I work more if it is a new or interesting task)
A most telling point is the comment about how driverless cars would keep to the speed limits and how 'boring' this would be.

I think this comment is interesting because it contrasts the safety of driverless cars with the freedom and control of being the driver - and the responsibility that carries. As the article notes, "who would be responsible in the event of a collision" still needs to be considered. Ultimately, I see driverless cars as just another point on the question of "how much freedom/control/responsibility should people have over their own lives, as opposed to leaving it to someone/something".

With around 2175 road deaths in the UK in 2012

Out of 499,331:

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/vsob1/death-reg-sum-tables/201...
So, not only plagiarizers but active smear campaigners too...
Brick Mason.

First project - a pizza oven.

http://diy.blogoverflow.com/2012/08/building-a-brick-pizza-o...

2nd project - the planting beds (blue half wall) and fireplace in the middle

http://imgur.com/E5dqTAh

I actually quite enjoy it, but have run out of landscaping tasks that require brick work, haha
React is traditionally used for outputting DOM, but in this case components are overriding its hooks to perform another side effect—updating the canvas. This just shows the power of the component paradigm. Just like React Native does it with iOS views. Other view frameworks (Ember, Angular, Riot, whatever) don't even come close to being able to express this, because they're so tied to DOM itself.
I cannot imagine how anyone didn't get that I was making a joke. Originally I ended by saying that I'd draw the line at including all of creative suites (photoshop, illustrator, etc) would be too much, since it's a third party and Microsoft shouldn't be playing favorites with what's in the kernel like that.

in essence i was agreeing that a microkernel is no place for a scroll bar!
I can see a lot of use for them inside of city limits, to the point that human driven vehicles could get excluded. Yet I would rather see it implemented in public transportation, from full size buses down to smaller "pods" or the like. The smaller one's could be ideally suited to serve the handicapped or special needs.

Long haul trucks also look ideal, long before your own car goes that route.

As to mention about boring and speed limits, why wouldn't speed limits increase? As the technology improves one can assume there will access controlled lanes if not entire highways for automated vehicles. The US has HOT/HOV lanes that would make perfect sense to convert to such use.
GM once used an in-house version of Modula-2 for its embedded controllers [1]. I wonder if they regret the switch to C in light of all the bad press about remote vulnerabilities[2][3]. It sounds like the biggest problem is that features are exposed without any protection, though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-2#Modula-GM

[2] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/car-hacked-on-60-minutes/

[3] http://www.caranddriver.com/features/can-your-car-be-hacked-...
Why is that better? (Not trying to pick a fight, just curious how this would lead to a better outcome.)
No, the design is not copied. Period

This is like saying a blog copied another blog because they're showing sequences of articles in a vertical column that scrolls.

That style of heat map is not unique nor exclusive to a site. Nor it is to use shades of blue.

Oh wow they have a blue bar graph with a red line, "they're stealing our IP!!!!"

"Oh the fields are the same" Similar software needs to deal with the same data, obviously.

This article is enlightening. It's free publicity for the Y Combinator company, and I'd take them more serious than a company that greatly overstates their IP.