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But .. why shouldn't the most productive member of the Eurozone get what it wants, while the least productive members of the Eurozone, get whats left? Economics 101: if you reward bad behaviour, you get more bad behaviour.
Untothebreach got it right, but just to expand a bit, a user pointed out several months ago that it has long been a standard convention on sites like this to make the timestamp—the part that says "3 hours ago" and so on—into the comment's permalink, and that if we did that, we could drop the extra "link" bit.

Since HN is minimalist at heart, it seemed worth trying. Of course we'd never take that feature away—we just merged it into the timestamp, which wasn't linking to anything.

Now if I could just find the comment by that user in order to thank him or her, that'd be great... but I looked for ages and couldn't. If anyone can dig it up, please let me know.
>Microsoft eventually hired him to shut him up.

Well i don't buy that part. When I first came across sysmon/regmon/procmon, I found it to be an amazing piece of work. An extremely small free standalone program that gave you a realtime insight into the OS? Heck, if I kept a list of people to hire, he would definitely be on it!

That thing was even 1/10 of the "hello world" Go program I compiled!!!*

*(~100Kb vs 1Mb) I know Garbage Collection adds a lot to size but its still a fun comparison.
For those confused about the parity display number, the two things to keep in mind are:

1) The regions are the blue areas, not the white areas
2) Even though the parity chart displays 2^0, 2^1 etc left to right, the parity number itself is the other direction like normal binary. So, the bottom half region is the left-most number.
Sounds interesting and to be frank .. not at all far-fetched.
#!/bin/bash and then not using any features not available in sh (or using bash features that could be written trivially in sh) is definitely a linuxism.
I'm not 100% sure how most people could use this service. While in Lithuania I could get unlimited text messages (to send inside the country) for less than 5 euros (that's probably like $6), I doubt it would go for long since the text messages would be one-way and they would block me.

Surely, all providers with cheapish text messaging plans would have clauses for commercial uses?
I think this blog post is also quite a nice write-up of this puzzle, and it includes generalizations:

https://ocfnash.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/yet-another-prisone...
By the way, you’re re-defining Flash but with a canvas and JS :)
What's wrong with it? If you can't run a controlled trial, then it's hard to finger causality. You can consider parallel natural experiments as occur in different polities, but there are so often many confounding factors.

You can grow more confident in a strategy as the stats pile up, but it's not nearly as cut and dried as a physics experiment.
'Flag' itself never moved. You always had to go to a comment's item page (/item?id=123456) in order to flag it. That's by design—it's a speed bump to reduce impulsive flagging. It's been that way for years.

So the only change as of yesterday is that now, to go to a comment's item page, you have to click on the timestamp instead of a link marked "link". If people find this confusing, we'll put "link" back. Fortunately, it's the kind of thing we can measure.
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When you prosecute a company, you're penalizing the owners, not the employees. If there's a judgment against IBM, it's likely that nobody who works there will lose their job. Certainly, nobody will go to jail. Instead, the company will make less money, which may push the stock price down.

Most significantly, going forward, corporations will weigh the potential costs of litigation against the profit of doing business with regimes committing crimes against humanity. Which is what we want.
I am very happy about this. It's been years in coming!

We might finally get live updates on distros. (No thanks to Oracle, of course.)

Wonder if we can also do it that well in userspace? (How does systemd behave with patching, actually?)
Holy hell, I had no idea lynchings were so common (non-US cititizen). 600 lynchings a year, that's pretty crazy. EDIT: Oh it's over a five year period. (Not to imply that makes it better).
Yes, it's just that the fix won't happen for you when you're halfway through a patched function.
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Yes. It is funny to observe how engineers implement technology A by means of technology B and then go backwards and implement B through A. The spiral continues.
> I was thinking about buying it, but a number of the reviews I read dampened my enthusiasm.

A bit meta:

Looking for a book in a particular subject, I picked one because of a number of the reviews I read, but actually reading the book dampened my enthusiasm.

I don't know about this particular book, but if the subject is worth it it is probably also worth your time to check it out yourself :-).
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There's a story behind that buyout. Russinovich had a business called Winternals, and had written NTFSDOS [1], which allowed access to NT file systems under DOS.[2] Microsoft didn't like that, because it allowed booting from a floppy, bypassing NT's security restrictions, and resetting the administrator password, copying, or modifying files. (The concept that a computer could be secure when someone had enough physical access to boot a new OS seems silly now, but back then, the opposition was script kiddies, not intelligence agencies and organized crime.) So Microsoft bought Russinovich out. Wikipedia: "Winternals was acquired by Microsoft mid-2006. Microsoft has removed any traces of NTFSDOS..."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFSDOS
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20000126093942/http://sysinterna...
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The $1B company that prefers 40 year old coders who only work 45 hours a week
Link local addresses are not meant for application level use in IPv6 so bringing them up would only be confusing.

LL addresses are used for stuff like router advertisement, neighbour discovery (IPv6 equivalent of ARP) etc. You can't use link-local addresses without extra gyrations in socket API (scope id) so they cannot be usefully passed to normal apps.
You should clarify - that's the minified JavaScript!
And now USA practices much more humane (but also widespread) approach of locking the same people in prisons.
Any particular reason for choosing Indiegogo? I love the idea of #MakeinIndia!
Again, telecommunications is a strange beast. To make the one chip to do all of what is called 4g, you need something like a dozen related patents. Ditto for basically every telecommunications product out there.

That's why the auction for the 600 Nortel patents was so important, they all need to cross-license from each other in order to build a product. Yes, having those patents means you've got more weight to swing around in the patent war, but you can't really build a telecommunications product without licensing a bunch of patents.

Again, theoretically this is an awesome idea. But in practice, this is really just government-sponsored theft from Qualcomm, and the only reason that Qualcomm is going with the flow is because China would be a huge market to lose. So they used to make $100 and they now make $65, or maybe even $25 due to reduced patent licensing? Better than $0.
>> and the equipment was leased.
>What does this have to do with anything?

I believe the point is that IBM retained title to the equipment and was part of an ongoing business relationship. If they'd sold equipment to the South Africans, then anything after that was out of their hands (excepting perhaps a support contract). With a lease, every time it came up for renewal, they would have the option not to renew and pull back the equipment.

In general, I feel like you're looking at this as if it were a single over-the-counter transaction at a moment in time. Reality for an installation like this is that IBM were likely engaged directly with the S.A. government for a period of years, over which time it's likely that they got SOME sense of what the government was using this system for.
For the account - earthworms have endorphins too. But whether they dig for cannabis roots is still unknown. This needs additional research.

(UPD: see Nature. 1979 Jun 28;279(5716):805-6.)
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Don't be exact, as it is so volatile. $2215 now, for instance.
Black on white racially motivated murders in recent times far outpace those numbers.
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etcd 3.0 :-)
What is this trick called?
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Until the users want a new feature - save/load, say - and you can't add it without breaking the toaster in the office kitchen. And so the users bugger off to play Candy Crush Massacre or whatever :-)
I don't work for SAP, I do work in the SAP space (which extends far beyond what many people perhaps realise). I do use OpenUI5 quite extensively, so these are my thoughts, coming from direct usage experience.

You're wondering if it was useful. For me, it is extremely useful. It's a toolkit that has many features; I'll talk about a few of them.

It has full MVC support, where I can choose to define my views declaratively, in different ways, or imperatively, in JavaScript - I choose XML almost every time because, ironically, it's the most clean and concise and like other declarative approaches, it prevents me from mixing up my controller logic with my views.

It has server-side and client-side model support with very accomplished data binding mechanisms, all the power and features I need to handle collections, objects and individual data properties in my apps.

Many of the clients I work for are international and multi-language support (including RTL) is a requirement that OpenUI5 satisifies with ease.

There's plenty more, but the bottom line for me, when it comes to libraries, toolkits and frameworks is the question: "Does it make me more productive?" With OpenUI5, the answer is a resounding "Yes".

I've had conversations with many people about libraries in general, and more recently with toolkits like this in particular, and there will always be personal preferences, strongly held opinions, and even biases that are hard to explain. For me, the bottom line with any abstraction is that question above.

FWIW, I gave a lightning talk on OpenUI5 at FOSDEM a couple of weekends ago: http://pipetree.com/qmacro/blog/2015/02/openui5-at-fosdem-20...
It would be interesting to know to what extent Qualcomm was doing this.
Oh man, they become well employed (not paid) once they get to jail.
>When your OS kernel handles scroll bars, you're doing something wrong.

it's pretty core to the idea of windows though. kind of like a printer - i wouldn't be surprised if a printer driver was in the kernel. or age of empires, which is a Microsoft property. just load it into the kernel in case you need it and you dont need much DRM, if people end up buying it it can get unlocked.
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That's what I was wondering. I switched from Dropbox to btsync a few months ago, when I filled up my Dropbox (and Dropbox became inaccessible in China). The sole disadvantage (which is a direct and logical result of all the advantages), is that the syncing computers need to be online concurrently. In every other way I've found it superior to Dropbox.

Of course, what's going to happen to btsync as a "product", I don't have a clue. But given the fact that you can host a private tracker and essentially run the whole ecosystem yourself means that the worst that could happen is it might become abandonware.
Assuming `bash` is in `/bin` is definitely a linuxism. It won't be there on BSDs, and even when there's a bash there it may not be up to date (e.g. on OSX where up-to-date software is installed via homebrew or macports and the binaries are not in /bin)
Oh man, I'd forgotten all about the fiasco. Wikipedia has a nice roundup of the lifetime hosting shitstorm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextDrive
Nonsense.

If the company signed a 100-year lease 30 years ago, should it no longer have to honor it?

If the company agreed to pay pensions to its employees 30 years ago, should it get to stop paying them?

If the CEO of Chrysler retires, can I stop paying the loan on my car?

The point of a corporation is that it's a durable entity (NOT a person, but a person is a good analogy much of the time). That's why corporations can own property, be insured, get loans from the bank, and otherwise enter into contracts -- because there will be an entity there tomorrow that will be accountable for those transactions -- regardless of who owns its shares or who is on the payroll.
That's another good reason to start saving as early and as much as you can.

If you're interested in this topic, there's a good subreddit [0] with much information on how to start.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/
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- This is not another messaging service, this is a software that powers such services.
- People could host this on their own and use it for their applications instead of opting for other such services if it suits their use cases
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Not that it matters too much for the current ecosystem, but Lisp Machines had this 25 years+ ago.
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You need the right people to know who the right people are.

Uber is just not well equipped for this. They could do it certainly (throw enough money at it), but their risk/reward is not in the right place.

(But it I mean setup a research team and at least type, I don't expect a self driving car for decades. Maybe a sort of road train that only drives on pre-marked routes would happen first.)
It is not modern if GNU/Linux is the only deployment option.

I love the ability to run the cluster in any OS that has a JVM available, from big commercial UNIXes, Windows, *BSD and GNU/Linux distributions.
I'm not sure that carriers keep the IMSI tower association records (vs. call or data transmission logging information). This would be a tremendous amount of information to retain, since a given phone is always associated with at least one tower and may be re-negotiating its association thousands of times per day.
Military families have a ton of existing social and community support structures to help ease the difficulty of military deployments. Startup culture is not developed to nearly the same degree.

But there are possibly easier solutions to consider. I'd recommend that people with families consider flying back every week or so for a few days. Working remote for a few days and then spending the weekend with the family will be fine, and I've seen lots of people keep that type of arrangement going for many months.

It's very common in the film industry for people with families to work remote on location for most of 12-24 months.
Interesting -- does HTCondor solve the same problem as Hadoop? I know it is for running batch jobs across a cluster.

How big are the data sets? How does it compare with the MapReduce paradigm?

I see there is this Dagman project which sounds similar to some of the newer Big Data frameworks that use a DAG model. I will make an uneducated guess that it deals with lots of computation on smaller sized data (data that fits on a machine). Maybe you have 1 GB or 10 GB of data that you want to run through many (dozens?) of transformations. So you need many computers to do the computation, but not necessarily to store the data.

I would guess another major difference is that there is no shuffle (distributed sort)? That is really what distinguishes MapReduce from simple parallel batch processing -- i.e. the thing that connects the Map and Reduce steps (and one of the harder parts to engineer).

In MapReduce you often have data much bigger than a single machine, e.g. ~100 TB is common, but you are doing relatively little computation on it. Also MapReduce tolerates many node failures and thus scales well (5K+ machines for a single job), and tries to reign in stragglers to reduce completion time.

I am coming from the MapReduce paradigm... I know people were doing "scientific computing" when I was in college but I never got involved in it :-( I'm curious how the workloads differ.
How do you guys deal with conflicts of interest? For instance, suppose hypothetically someone is building a startup who's goal is to eat the company who's CEO is in your list of YC partners... How's that going to work?
So much negativity on this comment. It's a statement. This is the generation of tl;dr. SAT scores are down, IQs are down since the Victorian age by 10 points. What percentage of the population would read the entirety of that article, let alone a single book 100 times? That comment is both sarcastic and ironic. Perfect.
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Surprising they didn't even speculate that maybe labor market fluidity might be a bit higher than it used to be.
Lawsuit seems unlikely, but it is certainly hostile to screen readers (though, it's quite possible to create a set of hidden DOM nodes that expose the structure of the page to screen readers. See google docs)
That's because the <title> element only contains "LKML: " on the thread, and "LKML.ORG - the Linux Kernel Mailing List Archive" on the main page.

Maybe they forgot to keep the "unofficial" in the title?
To add to this, If you want to send fast worldwide SMS reliably and without much hassle, use twilio or plivo or other such web sms gateways.
If you want to send SMS locally, for cheap and willing to hack your way around, give GoSMS a shot.
Given the time a modem takes to send an SMS, with a single modem connected, the rate of sending SMS is low (~1 message / 5 second).
Thanks for the feedback and its good to hear your concerns.
Yes, you can use strings as tags but we recommend using Semantic Versioning just as GitHub recommends for Releases [1]. At some point we may choose to only build tags that match semantic versioning, to be decided. Unlike using just GitHub as source repositories we have some over what we serve and that's the difference.

If you make a conscious decision to release, add release notes and a tag why would you delete it? Especially if you want others to use your project. Its just not part of usual release workflow. Right now you can still get the binary for a tag that has been deleted because we cache it. We will probably add restrictions to prevent building another binary with the same tag.

[1] https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software
The large binary size of a Go program has nothing to do with "garbage collection". It's because the binaries are statically linked against the Go runtime. Try compiling a static C "hello world" program and it will be comparable in size to the Go binary.
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Wasn't there some project about trying to find the independent bits of information among all the people in the world? So that if you answered a 33-question (2^33 is about 8.5 billion) true/false survey, your answers would be distinct from anyone else's.

Well I guess you could do it with longitude, latitude, and timestamp of birth, but I think it was supposed to be a personality survey.
Which ones of those use cases does Celery not fulfill? I currently use cron, which is pretty bad, and have an eye to move to Celery in the future. (Because it seems legit.) Will be pretty disappointed if it can't handle those reqs as they seem pretty standard for a job scheduler.
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LuneOS is probably more applicable. http://pivotce.com/2014/09/01/official-release-of-luneos-and...

LG hasn't given me a TV to hack on =) so I have no idea how much things have changed under the hood. I liked the Samsung TVs till the recent overly invasive creepiness (mic, ads etc.) Maybe I'll get a LG next time.
I remember it without the parentheses, too.
That's not always a bad thing. If everyone is standardized on a particular IDE (or features for IDEs), you can be insanely productive.

Shouldn't shrug off good tools, either
Cost of storage is already almost-infinite and almost-free, and yet Dropbox is thriving. Any big (or even not so big) tech company could have built Dropbox, and yet none did; they all produced a half-assed attempt that failed miserably in the marketplace.

Recently, it was reported that an MS me-too product was incapable of dealing with file paths of a certain length. In 2014!

I think this line "a feature not a product" is really really misguided (to avoid using a stronger word); a feature perfectly executed is precisely what a product should be.

So let's talk again in 5 years and see how Dropbox is doing, yes.
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Is ProcessSystemCallDisablePolicy somehow similar to seccomp on Linux? I understand that seccomp allows to selectively allow/disallow individual system calls while this disallows all win32k calls. But I don't know how similar these features are in the security impact.

Apparently, chromium - which uses seccomp on linux - uses ProcessSystemCallDisablePolicy on windows: https://src.chromium.org/chrome/branches/1312/src/sandbox/wi...
And they can't rationalize why you're saying it'll take months to implement save/load.

The newest SimCity is a great example of this.

"zomg offline mode should be really easy for you guys to write! Why haven't you yet!?" "well... ...technical debt and design decisions that are at odds with that..."
See @vathpela

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"Apparently Intel's Galileo build scripts that they distribute to users just clone my damn grub-0.97 repo off github."

https://twitter.com/vathpela/status/563808755213557761
"Which isn't a thing I knew when I deleted it Tuesday."
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Related: Without Sanctuary (NSFW)

"Searching through America's past for the last 25 years, collector James Allen uncovered an extraordinary visual legacy: photographs and postcards taken as souvenirs at lynchings throughout America."

"Without Sanctuary is a photo document of proof, an uncartiring of crimes, of collective mass murder, of mass memory graves excavated from the American conscience. Part postal cards, common as dirt, souvenirs skin-thin and fresh-tatooed proud, the trade cards of those assisting at ritual racial killings and others acts of mad citizenry. The communities' best citizens lurking just outside the frame. Destined to decay, these few survivors of an original photo population of many thousands, turn the living to pillars of salt", said James Allen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGrXCOIx6QQ [5m]

http://withoutsanctuary.org/main.html