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Is there any coordination between OpenBSD and the Linux Foundation? For example, did the Linux Foundation consider adopting OpenBSD's fork rather than auditing and fixing the original?

EDIT: What is the status of LibreSSL?
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We trade one dimension of uncertainty for two (count) when we know the count. I just write s/he or avoid pronouns altogether.
Most 'professionals' quickly reach the point where money is really more about status than anything else. Sure, there are a few toy's, but the gap between a 25k car and a 250k car is not actually that big for most day to day driving. Often a 50$ watch is more useful than a 50,000$ watch.

Rent a 35' boat for a weekend and it's a fun experience, own a 35' boat and it's a long term hassle.

Not that status is useless. Being able to afford a high status area has plenty of knock on benefits. But, where the benefits of a middle class vs poor are might be huge past that there are significant diminishing returns.

So, IMO it's really a question of how much you care about status vs. any thing else. 50 year old with 90 million in the bank are a dime a dozen in some circles, where a CFO at Google get's a long list of people paid to do what they say.
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This looks great! I can imagine this lowering the barrier for building a quick side project significantly. I have a FT job so working outside of that stack means I have to spend a lot of time figuring out configs and other non-business logic related work.

Now a question - say I have a Treeline app that works great for a little side project. But eventually the project grows really big, both in traffic and scope. Is there a way to get off of Treeline (export code?) or do you think Treeline can scale well in this case.
Yes I cook at home about 10 times per week. I use the microwave most and the stove. I never use the oven, slow cooker, or rice cooker because they take too long.
Demographic: I am a senior undergrad college student and I live off campus.
And I always complain that sodtware engineering, while having a decent initial salary progression, is a dead end career path (gaant charts anyone?), and I should have studied law instead.

Maybe the grass is always greener...
Claiming that the author is sexist for using "he" in a gender neutral setting, which has been standard practice for decades, is an over-reach.

Is "they" or "him/her" a better way forward? Sure. Is it standard practice? No. Can you infer anything about the author's attitudes by his use of standard English grammar? No.
I only cook on the weekends because I work in tech with lots of free food but I love baking and cooking. I use my stove and oven mostly and very infrequently my microwave (prefer the toaster oven if possible). I never use a slow cooker or rice cooker because the quantities are too big for one person over just the weekend.
I know the story was just a vehicle for the broader point - but I don't know that it's apples to apples re the fear. In a startup, you work hard because you fear the company dying. Practically nobody at a large corporation is afraid of it dying - the fear there is for their own career (e.g. they don't want to get fired for a failed project). To me, it seems like it's that difference that explains the different outcomes.
I've always thought building a web service is the easy bit. In my experience, back end systems fit more closely with a conceptual model than the front end. As soon as things get to the user interface, you have to deal with real world problems, unexpected workflows, interactions, user expectations, variety of platform specifics, etc. To me, UI implementation seems so much harder.
> if someone asked me if I wanted to be making $250K/yr at CorpTech or $250K/yr hitting baseballs, the choice is pretty clear (at least for me, you may hate baseball)

Well, of course. But that doesn't make the choice unclear ;)
It's not like going from an animal model to human trials or from a tiny cohort of late-stage patients to a larger more heterogenous group.

Fair point. A retrospective analysis would provide some data. The problem is insurance companies have pretty high standards (at least for cancer drug that cost a lot)!
Great question :) code is recompiled in realtime as a node app you can deploy anywhere.
You can take the code right now and download it and deploy it to any infrastructure provider you want! We provide a command line tool to sync code down and work locally or to package up and deploy.
You could say this for literally any technology. I don't understand your point.
Treeline compiles your apps to Node.js apps using the SailsJS framework. Your code is available to you at any time via a command-line tool--we offer the hosted version as an added bonus.
Depends on you / your team, how is your Linux admin skills, security and performance tuning knowledge? I would personally prefer to throw a bit more money at Heroku and not have the hassles.
The cost of a car is only weakly related to how well it suits you. I find my $12k car much more pleasant than many much more expensive cars I've tried (I admit I haven't tried anything in the $250k range).
Right, with a gun you can hurt maybe a dozen people around you. With hacking tools etc you can hurt thousands or millions.
I enjoyed HPMOR (I read most of it a year or more ago, but haven't read the new stuff), but it seems Yudkowsky is spread a bit thin.

The projects he's mentioned are all full time undertakings by someone qualified in their respective areas, so it seems excessive and naive to think they can all be addressed simultaneously by one person who's record of accomplishment to date is meager.
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The same guy (Darren aka "ibuildthecloud") is behind both projects. He is very prolific.
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There's an important related point there: regular vacations are the business process equivalent of the Chaos Monkey. Repeatedly having to do without employees for a short amount of time forces you to make your processes robust.

I've previously asked co-workers and even bosses who work too hard to take time off for exactly this reason.
Sutro Tower is unappreciated? Not among my friend group. I have friends who have suggested Sutro Tower would make a great tattoo.
I see this as a slightly more flexible docking station. I don't mind having a hub on my desk. Connecting one cable when I return the laptop to my desk would be amazing - currently it takes 3. I need peripherals frequently - but only at my desk.
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Agreed- the frontend is where the magic really happens. Our goal is to arm developers like us with a clean, transparent, and secure abstraction layer so we can focus on building awesome user experiences.
Boot2Docker and RancherOS are also meant to be hosts for containers.
Thanks for your questions!
We are testing both cancer and non-cancer drugs.

1. We agree, the reason we are using cell culture is because it is very fast and allows us to test many combinations at once. We have improved standard cell culture conditions and continue to do so to mimic the patient's brain as much as possible.

We confirm our results using in vivo mouse models where we have injected a patient's brain tumor cells into the mouse's brain.

2. Another great question, we prioritize the results based on safety first, then efficacy. Since these are exclusively approved therapies there is existing software that can predict toxicity interactions. We will also have a group of pharmacists that will validate the safety of the combinations.

3. This was one of the first hurdles we encountered after we started the company. The drugs we are testing are mostly off-patent generic drugs that are cheap for patients to buy directly without reimbursement from their insurance company.

If it is a more expensive drug, we can help the patient and their doctor appeal to get reimbursement on the rationale that the standard of care for grade 4 brain cancer is ineffective.

We will be starting a feasibility clinical trial as soon as we can for the purpose of publishing data on the safety and feasibility of this approach.
Not to nitpick, but your CEO page is a bit misleading.

> "a two year contract is required." [1]
> "There are no contracts, overages, fees, or license charges at rsync.net." [2]

[1] http://www.rsync.net/products/petabyte.html

[2] http://rsync.net/products/ceopage.html
We're essentially in agreement--backend development should be the easy part, but it often ends up being needlessly complicated and broken. So many backend systems are made up of the same basic components, but they end up being rewritten all the time because they don't work well together or are poorly documented. Treeline aims to make that 80% of your app that's always the same and basically automate it for you, leaving you to focus on the creative part (the special sauce that makes your app great).
Yea tablets always seem to get detected as "mobile" and so sites render a layout that's way too big for the screen.
My prediction: HPMOR will not win a 2016 Hugos.

Why? Some smarter folks I trust for their opinions believe otherwise. It's also because I haven't read the damn novel and they have, or so I assume.
Wll thats pretty awesome :)
I'm hoping we don't have to patch everything tomorrow but.. ;)

On a side note - a lot of libs start to implement their own crypto because "OpenSSL code sux its terrible and buggy!" impression. This scares me. These won't get much exposure and will most likely be full of implementation bugs that nobody will ever review - except bad guys and the NSA.
I like how xterm doesn't even make the headline.
My thoughts;

1) There is a large amount of "guesswork" on the part of oncologists. I can well imagine YC would fund a startup that provides more data.

2) That is a valid point, although it may be that this technology may reduce the use of ineffective combinations, as much as find more effective ones.

Disclaimer: I'm not physician etc. and this isn't medical advice.
It happens a couple of times every month in our production databases. If it required locking tables we would have to schedule downtimes during the early mornings every time this happens would would have been a pain.
Shame about the price and the inability to put more than 8GB in it. (and the fact that dell are still stupid about global availability)
Yeah, I live right by the thing and love staring it when the fog is rolling over it. Would not call it unappreciated.
Yes a Pannini sandwhich is delicious.
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I only use my ipad occasionally. For me the most annoying thing is that it constantly thinks I am trying to highlight text for copying. I have never once actually tried to copy text on an ipad (where would I paste it ? It's not really a device for editing text). Infuriating. Maybe there's a setting somewhere that I could change.

TLDR; The more things change the more they stay the same. Developers still struggle to build systems that suit more casual users.
Oh, that makes more sense when it's parsed that way! English is often ambiguous. If you're familiar with Meredith's work, the fact that this thread is all basically because of a parsing error is all very funny.
>People joining in the next few years probably won't know to swipe from the top or bottom until they do it by accident.

This happened to me, I went from ios 5 to 8. I had to google "where is spotlight ios 8" to learn to swipe down.

What would I have done if I were a novice user who didn't know spotlight existed? I might not have found it for months.
You're welcome. I have to say I admire your candor; if you're thinking about returning the money then I'd say definitely discuss your exit options with an attorney. Of course everyone wants to pivot, it's human nature to postpone unpleasant decisions in the hope that something will change tomorrow, and if someone else is footing the bill then it's doubly tempting. I'm sure you're familiar with the sunk cost fallacy too. It's no fun feeling like the only pessimist int he room when everyone is predicting that you're going to have that Great New Idea any day now.

Now, I don't know if you have a prospect to make money out of the side project or what your financial situation is, so I wouldn't advise you to do anything drastic, but I suggest you pick a date in the near future to review, and if you still feel the same way when it arrives, then announce your decision and disentangle yourself in an orderly fashion (having first worked out what that would involve). Lots of luck.
That's funny; I think that's the only part of what the document proposes I like. -- Well, okay, that's not really true; there are a lot of bits that just make sense, either because they hurt performance for little benefit (holes in arrays) or they're just dumb (arguments.caller). But I don't like gratuitously locking things down in a way that makes highly dynamically-typed code harder to write, where it doesn't seem to solve a real unavoidable performance problem: for example, the ban on constructors leaking 'this', and the oddly specific recursion limitations. In general, the document seems to express the sentiment that only statically typed code matters, which I think is short-sighted. I also dislike, among other performance-unrelated changes, the "let's fix C" syntax bits, such as banning fallthrough, which is just likely to annoy programmers familiar with C (who are used to writing code that relies on it on occasion).

However, making nonexistent property accesses silently return undefined is just an amazing way to ensure typos in property names never get caught. I don't think `foo.bar || baz` is much to sacrifice - Python, for example, has getattr(foo, 'bar', baz), which works fine, and has the benefit of returning foo.bar if it exists at all, not just if it's a truthy value.
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> I don't think security is produced by picking one language or another, but I do believe that it's harder to write secure code in a language like C than a language like Java or Rust. There are simply way, way more ways to shoot yourself in the foot.

The trouble is that everything is a trade off. It's very hard to get a buffer overrun in Java but that doesn't make Java a good language. It tries so hard to keep you from hanging yourself that it won't let you have any rope, so in the instances when you actually need rope you're forced to create your own and hang yourself with that.

For example, you're presented with garbage collection and then encouraged to ignore object lifetime. There are no destructors to clean up when an object goes out of scope. But when it does you still have to cleanup open files or write records to the database or notify network peers etc. Which leaves you to have to manage it manually and out of order, leading to bugs and race conditions.

In other words, C and C++ encourage you to write simple dangerous bugs while Java encourages you to write complicated dangerous bugs.

That isn't to say that some languages don't have advantages over others, but rather that the differences aren't scalar. And code quality is by far more important than the choice of language. BIND would still be less secure than djbdns even if it was written in Java.
- This is one of the reasons we have started with Glioblastoma Multiforme (grade 4 brain cancer), as it has been grown in serum free suspension cultures (the neurosphere assay) by many labs for the past decade or so. When we eventually look to move into other cancers we will need to re-engineer the process.

-Since all of the drugs are FDA approved we don't have to apply to get compassionate use as you would if you were obtaining an experimental therapy outside of a clinical trial. The approved drugs can be used at a doctor's discretion as an off label prescription within our current system. As for safety please see my response to the first comment.

-Yes we are going to be sequencing all of our tumors. The difference between our approach to this versus existing personalized medicine sequencing is that we're more interested in using biomarkers in the future once we've identified a patient population that responds to a certain drug combination.

This is our long-term goal, to use a patient's biomarkers to predict drug response that we can then validate in vitro and in vivo rather than just relying on empirically physically testing drugs on a patient's cells.
I remember a few years ago here there were lots of front page posts criticism skeumorphism, and commentors criticized it as well. Flat design was all the rage.
No, but you might see "This author..." sometimes instead. Economist does pretty well, but personality still seems into some of the non-editorials.
"DISCLAIMER: This open source project allows you to download the code that powered version 2.21 of the application. Subsequent versions contain Google-specific workflows that are not part of the project."[0] The Play Store version is 2.49[1], but I also don't know what "Google-specific workflows" really entails.

[0] https://github.com/google/google-authenticator-android/wiki
[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
To quote Mitch Hedberg: "My roommate said to me, 'I'm gonna go shave and use the shower; does anyone need to use the bathroom?' It's like some weird ass quiz where he reveals the answer first."

You have a problem and a solution in this post.
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Absolutely. I've been known to break out the breadboard to that end. But soldering irons and arduinos are a level of too much... erm... wires, for what I'm thinking. Not to mention that making it control what you want takes time and debugging and perhaps a sympathetic operating system or app.

How about forgetting the electronics, and seeing controllers as just another UI problem. Software, implemented in plastic.

What would you want to build if it were that easy? Custom controllers for games? Custom games? MIDI Instruments? Dashboards with physical elements? Home / media center controls? POS interfaces? Hardware usability testing prototypes? Kitchen gadgets?

Maybe I'd be the only market, but I think it would be a big blurring of the line between hacker and maker culture.
I don't understand this argument. For example, if I use a language that doesn't allow buffer overflows to happen, I've eliminated an entire class of security bugs being caused by programmer error. Why would you not want to use such a language? Performance and existing libraries will factor in to this obviously but I don't understand why you wouldn't consider security built into the language as a benefit.

Yes, security issues are found in Java and every other language, but when these are patched all programs that use that language are patched against the issue. The attack surface is much smaller.
As someone who runs Linux and ChromeOS on my personal laptops, was looking at the XPS, and just ordered a Pixel, I can answer that:

1. Chromebook is zero-hassle. It's great that Dell is putting native Ubuntu on their laptops, but fundamentally those are still machines that were designed for Windows first and awkwardly adapted to Linux. They'll always have a few niggling issues that a designed-for-ChromeOS machine won't have.

2. I prefer ChromeOS to Linux. The ultra-minimalist ChromeOS UI is just amazingly clean and elegant, in a way that none of the Linux desktops are (and I say that as a huge fan of GNOME 3).

3. The high-DPI version of the XPS 13 is more expensive than the Pixel (and might not be the one that gets released with Linux, they haven't announced it); high-DPI is a mandatory thing on an expensive laptop now for me.

4. 3:2 screen is the perfect aspect ratio, and the XPS isn't that.

5. USB-C charger is sweet.

But the XPS 13 looks like it'll be a nice laptop when the Linux version comes out. Still, I wish Dell would design Linux-first laptops rather than trying to awkwardly retrofit Linux onto designed-for-Windows machines.
Can you handle apps with background tasks? In my experience, the backend systems basically end up being a large repository of jobs that need to get backgrounded, and handed off to other systems.

I would be even more excited if you could find some way to create and manage those effectively.
I would be annoyed too if people consistently assume something about me which I'm not, on the other hand, the second meaning of 'he' is to refer to a person without reference to sex.[1]

[1]http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/he

I hope I'm not explaining in a patronising manner.
For me, neither website renders without javascript. A blank screen's a poor first impression. Maybe it's a pet peeve but I'm sure I'm not the only one who blocks JS by default.

Also, making the panels on the right of the landing page opaque would aid readability.
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I'm kind of surprised about the lack of interest in this, considering the recent shitstorm about the listening speaker from Amazon.
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Very cool! I'd love to follow up with you if you'd be interested, imaging is a major problem in this disease.

1. Great question, this is why we'll be focused on newly diagnosed glioblastoma patients. If they do recur and have a surgery to remove the recurrent (and hypothetically mutated) tumor, we would test that tissue as well and compare its drug response profile as well as any biomarker changes.

We'll also be using in vivo xenografts to try to model mutations/regrowths, by continuously observing treated mice to see if we get a regrowth. The mice have faster metabolisms than humans so tumors can sometimes regrow faster in them than in patients.

If we have a regrowth in a mouse, we could then culture that tumor in vitro for a screen to develop a plan to treat a patient's recurrence before it occurs. This has been proven out already as a strategy by another company using xenografts, Champions Oncology.

2. Since this LDT regulation change is still in motion we are observing it very closely. In discussions we've had with experts on the topic they have highlighted that any changes will be implemented gradually over time.
What surprised me is that when scaling vertically they stuck with Intel. Have IBM/Oracle really become that irrelevant?
Ironic that a post about usability has a typeface that's really hard to read.
tl;dr: our huge, highly-dynamic financial models are really expensive to run. Please use your own resources and consider helping us get the Java ecosystem up to a state where we could do something like this without reinventing Java inside our niche. =)
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It is absolutely the #1 most visible landmark in the city.

When you are hiking far the north up the coast -- say, Mt. Wittenberg -- you can just barely make out the city to the south ... it's so tiny ... and you can distinctly see "the big bug." Or, from Mt. Diablo, or from Russian Ridge down on the peninsula. This is in addition to being visible from practically everywhere within the city itself.

It's an amazing landmark and, I've come to be quite fond of it.
Neither is a dwarf's ability to build things. They're both abilities and not personality traits.
Note that the Plank paper claimed to support arbitrary N+M, but was then amended six years later identifying a critical flaw that invalidates its claims. Nevertheless, the technique can be adapted to work for up to triple parity.

So better than most, but still not arbitrary. And the limiting factor seems to be write performance.
Think about how many console games run at 30fps. Then consider that a fully framebuffered game running at 30fps, even under ideal conditions, has 70ms of latency by the time a frame finishes displaying. 40ms isn't a big deal.
Hope that it can be installed Windows easily. I love this screen but ChromeOS/Linux is not good.
11.9% at 300M. So, 2.52B valuation. About 20+% of company sold in current raise!