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This is a difficult matter. I'm actually on the Open Data side (not the "dark force"), but let me play the devil's advocate here.

* What if the data will be used to convince people to use less trains? Busses and car sharing are now a huge competition. What if someone would take the data and represent it in a way very unfavourable for the long-distance trains? There are multiple ways to "tweak" the statistics without actually lying.
* DB is not a single entity but rather a complex network of smaller companies and departments within them. At the moment there's no Open Data directive from the top so they basically have to decide on their own. This has at least a few problems for department heads:
* responsibility - you can easily get your head off for a wrong data sharing decision;
* losing data as the asset - departments often use data they have as a leverage when negotiating with other departments and companies, it's a valuable assed;
* data ownage question - you normally don't have "pure" data, you have data coming from somewhere else which you enhance/process, so before sharing that you have to clear if you actually have the rights to. Having a few dozen "historically grown" data sources, this may be very difficult;
* have to pay to prepare the data for sharing. Like, convert gigabyte-sized Acces "databases" into something more usable, specifying interfaces and so on. This is a huge effort, and who pays for that?
* Next, there are a few political problems like "non-discrimination" EU directives. Every public stunt for DB Netz, for instance, may lead to a "discrimination" suite from some operator. So there's a risk of legal problems.
* DB gets a few billions a year from the state to maintain and improve the infrastructure (look up LuFV). What if some clever reporter will use the data and prove that DB could have invested and maintained better? And you're getting a few millions fine from the state/EBA?

The list goes on. For decision makers the risks and dangers are obvious but the benefits are not, or at least not yet. So I'm very glad about the rising "hackathon" movement here as it is a good way to show that there may be real and direct benefits. This may really help to persuade people.
Because a million bucks is nothing for them and they obviously behaved poorly on a number of occasions.
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Basically as they say: "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly"

Over the time and many setbacks (lost stuff, not able to find stuff) I have also drifted to a very simple solution: use a file system to organize and store your stuff. This is valid equally for pictures and for music (and documents, and books, etc.). This makes sure you will never loose your stuff. Backups, search, copying etc. is provided by tested and reliable tools either from the OS itself or the standard tools like rsync. Everything else is "on top". For example you can use iTunes, Clementine, Foobar, whatever music library software you want, but keep your mp3s in folders sorted by rating/artist/album/song and you will be able to migrate between the vendors, backup, restore, script conversion (need to compress music and resize photos further for the phone to fit into 128GB limit of the sdxc card). Same thing with the Photos. I use very simple folder structure of Year/Location. Bad shots are just mercilessly deleted (power to the Paper Bin!). Super good ones a copied to Favorits. Because photos are coming from different devices I have given up on filenames for lack of consistency.

And, should the vendor drop your library management software in next 10 years what will you do? With a filesystem oriented approach you can be sure to have it available 50 years down the road, or something better comes around and you will just upgrade.
Could someone please explain how different this is from using Mono on Linux ? I mean internally that too would be running CoreCLR on the Unix-based system. Then what different did these guys accomplish?
LWN comments are generally pretty polite, I am really surprised that those sort of comments happened recenently on LWN
University should be the one place where Crocker's rules apply to all participants BY VIRTUE OF THEIR SIGNING UP FOR UNIVERSITY.

http://sl4.org/crocker.html

If scientific facts (so-called "HateFacts", think Evolutionary Psychology) offend you, it's your problem really.
I'm sorry, the page rendering (even on Chrome) with it's jumpiness and then the click to see another 1/6 of the article is more than I could tolerate to read the actual content.
> “If Kleiner wanted to look classy, it could have said, ‘This was hard fought and we obviously disagree with your view, but it’s in the interest of all parties to walk away. In the meantime, there have been lessons learned and we are going to fund organizations that focus on glass ceiling issues,’ ” Ms. Katz said.

Here in non-fantasy land, why would anyone do as Ms. Katz suggests?
I simply love NYC, seldom felt so much energy - a lot of startups and a vibrant developer community too. IMHO San Francisco is kind of boring in comparison and the weather actually isn't that much better either ;)
Yes, but as your own post alludes, the judges didn't even shut down a SCO-level fishing expedition for... how many years was that? I lost track and I used to follow Groklaw daily.

The fact that this got shut out so quickly simply points to the fact that there was essentially nothing to substantiate Pao's legal claims.
Equal pay for equal work, at the end of the day, is an incredibly low bar to set for gender equality. I would get equal pay for equal work at a sweatshop in China, but a sweatshop worker by no means has the same income opportunities as I do.

Gender income inequality is a matter of opportunities. It happens at the education level, where women are less likely to be encouraged to go into higher paying fields, at the hiring level, where equally qualified women are less likely to be hired for the same job as men, and at the promotion level, where women are less likely to ask for, and be taken seriously when asking for, increased position. Looking at salary differences after all these effects takes the real issue of opportunity differences, and replaces it with a non-issue of salary differences within the same position.
> This is a situation where someone who has had more influence on millions more lives than Rand Paul ever might

There's a statement I'd love to see quantified.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2015/04/17/at-50-moore...
Awesome reply; you had me with rsync. I do the same: quality over quantity, keeping it simple.
Is there a problem that solves, or is it just "because Bitcoin!"?
Yes the NYT title is a bit off. Pao was always on the hook for those fees, and KP is offering to waive them if she doesn't appeal. Note that KP already filed a separate countersuit, which brought Pao's husband to the attention of the media, before the main case began. WSJ also says Pao is not outright rejecting the legal fees deal:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-41461
Mono = LGPL and CoreCLR/.NET = MIT

Mono (aka Xamarin) are getting out of the compiler/language reverse engineering game and focusing 100% on mobile. They no longer need to clean room the MSFT implementation because the MSR license as a purple-pill. Now that Microsoft has relicensed under MIT developers are arriving in droves.

Advantages? .NET everywhere, SINGLE reference implementation/specification means no more bugs.

edit: You can see the transformation of Xamarin -> Mobile and replacing internal components from CoreCLR over at https://trello.com/b/vRPTMfdz/net-framework-integration-into...
There is no more growth (as in ever) in the desktop PC space. It's a mature market as far as the eye can see. Upgrade cycles continue to slow.

Mobile and Cloud are where everything is happening. Amazon own(ed?) Cloud, Apple & Google own Mobile. Whole generations are growing up without using Microsoft tech even in developed countries. Which of the major tech companies to arise in the past 10 years use a Microsoft tech stack? (hint: none)

Microsoft tried to take on mobile with Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 (Surface, Windows ARM, etc). They were all duds more or less and Microsoft was at risk of becoming completely irrelevant.

I think Microsoft's leadership (including Bill & Balmer) took a long, hard look and realized that Mobile has already past the hockey stick growth phase. At that point only the one or two competitors seen as leaders survive; Apple and Google have already won.

They were also at risk of Amazon and other hosting providers eating away at their server business by making it easier to deploy servers at the infrastructure level. Microsoft also critically lost developer mindshare; despite C# being a much better language than Java (and Oracle's mis-steps creating enormous opportunity) no one gave a shit.

There's a thing that happens in large organizations where a leader can become boxed in and unable to change direction. Balmer was clearly in that position and as someone who deeply cared about Microsoft he stepped down and gave Nadela the reigns. You can also bet Bill is backing him or he'd never be able to get away with making such drastic changes.

So what does Microsoft gain? Getting people to use their software. They'll never own the Mobile OS, so may as well accept it and move on.

People don't want to run Windows Servers? fine, run Linux on Azure. They might as well take your money since they sure aren't going to get you to switch. Why did they push Mobile Services so heavily for iOS? Why do they have Android SDKs? Because if they can't own the Mobile OS, they can at least grab a piece by being a really easy to use back-end for the app ecosystems.

And why open-source C# (Roslyn) and the CLR stack? Capitalize on Oracle's lawsuits over Java and Sun/Oracle's mismanagement of Java (and the years of stagnation Java suffered, though that has changed recently). They'd rather sell you developer tools, or make sure that cool new open-source projects start using C# so it makes it more natural to support Windows in addition to *nix/Mac.

Now that it's all MIT licensed and contains full patent promises I consider Mono a completely legit fork. That means even if Microsoft dropped it all tomorrow, Mono could still continue unfazed.
As a side note, there is definitely a trend in certain French academic circles consisting of using a hard-to-digest style (needlessly complex sentence structures, semi-obscure words where a more common one would have been just as good or better) to express not particularly complex. I suspect that they have a running "most over-the-top sentence" [1] contest.

1: technically known in French as "phrase la plus ampoulée", which "over-the-top" doesn't really translate correctly
Everything the AWS all-hands, Andy will mention that AWS would be as big as the retail. Andy is not a man who jokes often.

Then I do not believe Jeff wants it to leave the Amazon family.
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>what different did these guys accomplish?

Instead of taking something like Mono that was pre-built to run on their system, they took the CoreClr source that did not have a working build for FreeBsd, and got it to the point that it did.
Nope. Once the sync was lost, you were playing two different games: player A on machine A is in room 1, player A on machine B is in room 2. Resetting rand sequence would not correct the introduced error.

The only way to correct such error would be to change model to sync the actual state among machines. But that means completely different code.

All in all, I remember we added the multiplayer code at the very end. If we decided to sync state rather than exchange keyboard+mouse, we would not finish on time.
Yep! And I quoted the article's quote from a critic.

I felt it was worth pointing out one of the most patently ridiculous things I've ever heard, and the fact that it was given play really tells you how the NYT leans.
With cooperation, yes, without it, no. A password doesn't need to be too long to grow the key space to large enough all the computers in the world couldn't scratch the surface.

Of course, there are many other factors that can significantly decrease or break the security of AES.

TL;DR xkcd.com/538
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> some other factors I'm probably forgetting

The verified phone numbers of 800 million people [1] and the ability to act as a gateway drug to other Facebook services [2]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp#Acquisition_by_Facebo...
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Not taking photos is equal to deleting them. And this is the hard part - which to delete?

Not sure how much, how far you travel and how various activities are you participating. When I bring my photos from a distant country people are interested to look at them. And different people find different pictures interesting. Some people want to see all the pictures of penguins, while others like to see architecture. Others still happy to see tens of different motorbikes from a trade fare. Often the ones I thought were worth deleting are the interesting ones for the people.
So unfortunately deleting them right away (or not taking) is not an option to me.

Also as usual - telling people stop doing things they like is hardly helpful.
You think that because those are the stories you're aware of.
They are shifting away on their reliance of selling the OS to make their money. Putting "Windows" first was part of what was tearing Microsoft apart from the inside and was looking to leave it in the past. They no longer put that much weight on selling Windows licenses. I hear Windows 10 is even going to be a free upgrade, a la OSX.

So what they gain from all of this is getting back into the ring. It also polarizes Windows to a desktop OS (where it belongs) vs Server OS.
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I would be interested to see what others have to say about the different co-op program running at the University of Toronto: instead of the multiple 4/8-month co-op terms we have a single 16-month co-op term between 3rd and 4th year. You're encouraged to find your own internships after 1st and 2nd year, but the career centre provides (basically) no aid. If you do however find work those two summers you end up with the same amount of work experience in the end, but with several of those terms (potentially) at the same company back-to-back.
I personally chose UofT over Waterloo because I accepted the line of 'companies are more open to hiring students available for a longer time because they get more out of training, so you'll have better opportunities available' at the time. However, I can see many arguments for and against both co-op systems.
It's hard for me to be objective about it as I've yet to see the long-term consequences, and I've managed to get pretty great internships every summer plus my coming 16-month term. I'd really like to hear other opinions of people who may never have heard of such a program (both in what's better for the student and what's better for companies who run internship programs)!
Niice. Looks way better than `curl -si <url>`. Thanks!
Tetris effect/hypnagogia is maybe what you're talking about, it happens to most everyone given the circumstances http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia
People aren't productive-- not in the long term-- when pushed to work longer hours.

Sure, but this business model doesn't care about that. Get people in, work them 'til they're burnt out, then get new people.
OT, but since this is such a common problem all over the world, I'm wondering: Are there any escrow services to ensure payment to contractors, and any arbitration services to mediate such problems between the parties before they are forced to lawyer up?
But no one clicks on ads on mobile.
> I can tell you this because they kept her around for quite a while.

what alternative did they have? A lawsuit "they gave me bad performance/fired me because i'm a woman"? A lawsuit which they would lose with much higher probability and much higher damages. They could only wait until she leaves on her own.

>People had trouble working with her possibly after she brought up issues of sexual harassment and discrimination

People had trouble working with her possibly because she is a total jerk - she complained that the assistant of her colleague was sending brain scans of dying from cancer mother from office.

Wrt. promotion - promotion isn't something employee is entitled to. If you think company doesn't value you enough - get an offer at other place and you will immediately see how much your company really values you. Did Kleiner tried to keep her when she was leaving? Seems like they didn't. Why? Because she is a woman?

Now at Reddit she installed "no negotiation" hiring policy. She seems to be unaware that in case of good employees it isn't the prospective employee who negotiates, it really his current employer who doesn't want the employee to leave. Probably her former employers has always just let her leave easy, without counters :)
> purple-pill

What does this mean? Googling it led to interpretations that I doubt apply here... ><
I really want to disagree. Assuming the code is correct:
- proper handling of system calls and EINTR,
- do not call illegal functions in signal handlers,
- proper synchronization to avoid race conditions,
- etc.
it will work just fine.

The problems with today's systems does not lie in compilers. It lies in vastly increased complexity of the code itself.

Back in 96 we had a few sprites, with some animation sequence, sound effects. State of an object was kept in a few integers. Collisions were done using really stupid algorithm that would probe special mask in level builder with a circle consisting of 16 points, so we can get a vector pointing away from the wall. Etc.

Today, collisions, physics, presentation - all this is thousands of times more complex. More code, more bugs, more issues.

For that reason, it would be very difficult to write keyboard-state driven multiplayer today.
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A better link is http://www.qbhouse.com/sg/about/ which kind of explains what it is. And as far as I can see it's all about cheap, efficient haircuts. I can't see how this is a thing! Of course, I'm not sure how Krispy Kreme got to be such a phenomena here either, so what do I know. But, the duration of my haircut never struck me as something I really needed to optimize.
Right. Remember Peter's Principle:

Selection of a candidate for a position is based on the candidate's performance in their current role rather than on abilities relevant to the intended role. Thus, employees only stop being promoted once they can no longer perform effectively, and "managers rise to the level of their incompetence."
Kettering University does something similar but it is 3 months school 3 months work for the entirety of your schooling. It is very hectic but if you like things fast paced and the ability to work in your field of study its pretty awesome.
This is like a case study in why any computer architecture from the metal to the top should try like hell never to lose determinism.

If only to have deterministic test cases...
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I think everyone is overlooking a major benefit that the co-op program brings, to the school as a whole. I feel the co-op program at Waterloo is responsible for the awesome entrepreneurship/startup culture that I don't think exists anywhere else, including places like Stanford or MIT. I believe Sam Altman even once talked about how Waterloo have the best track record when it comes to startups. This culture is the reason I was really set on Waterloo when I was deciding where to go for school.
Hi, article author here: it was the pitch shifting behaviour in particular that I wanted to explore when I modified the random table. Early versions of doom (<1.4) did it, but they accidentally removed that feature with a rework of sound code in 1.4 and onwards (including all versions of doom 2). It was originally applied to all but two sound effects, with special casing for chainsaw sounds (less variance afaik).

There were, however, three distinct zombie death noises, independent of pitch shifting.
> SQL Server, VS etc will now come onto the *nix stack. And there is a ton of demand for that

Doubtful SQL Server on the 'nix stack has much demand nor will it gain traction. In all OS' not Windows... Oracle, PostgreSQL and MySQL/MariaDB dominate. Not because SQL Server isn't available, but because they are all very solid very good SQL servers.
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Not necessarily. The x87 implementation (which is relevant to everything PC, prior to SSE) of IEEE 754 internally uses an 80-bit extended precision representation for floating point numbers. Numbers are rounded to 64 bits for loads and stores of course...

Now, what do you suppose happens during a context switch, when a second process wants to use floating point math?
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I read it as an auto-corrected typo of "poison pill" :-)

http://www.neowin.net/news/microsofts-net-poison-pill

This news, however, is a very positive step. Can't wait for Build next week...
This is one of the most fascinating things I have seen about math in a while! Exactly the sort of interaction we hope to encode into Mathbreakers (which is roughly Wolfram Alpha meets MineCraft).
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There's also a ton of great stuff highlighted at Awesome Elixir [1] and Awesome Erlang [2]

[1] https://github.com/h4cc/awesome-elixir
[2] https://github.com/drobakowski/awesome-erlang
I stand corrected. My point about different systems still stands.
This is great.

Reminds me of my first (and only) trip to NY. I somehow ended up lost walking through Brooklyn and came across a little bookstore. In there I found a book called "N walks in New York" (or similar). It was organized around a single stroll through each neighborhood in each borough, touching on elements of history, food, and typical tourist destinations. The walks would sometimes be point to point, other times a loop, but always took me through interesting streets I would never have thought of going through myself. I ended up doing these walks through every part of Manhattan, and some more in Queens. Was well worth the $15 or so I paid for it!
I know that this is a useless point to make because of the prevailing political propaganda, but Krugman is a highly trained, accomplished and creative academic economist, he provides exactly the kind of "sophisticated commentary" that you say might last. David Brooks I agree could be replaced by a robot.
I've been looking for something like this for a long time, not just for new photos, but for old family photos too. Another thing that I've really wanted was the possibility for anyone to add different tags to photos. So it could be people's names, places, objects in the photos, date (even generic "1980's", or just a year with no specific month or day if they are unknown), etc. Allowing anyone (from the group of people you allow to view or tag the photos) to add tags helps with old pictures where the person uploading it might not know who certain people are. And someone might see it and say, "oh that was at great grandpa's birthday party up at the cabin" and add his name and other tags to the picture. Then with the tags you can do cool things such as "search for all pictures of my dad and my grandpa together before 1975" or "search for all pictures of my aunt with a horse", etc.

Also, I love the idea of being able to host the content myself. It might be a little more of a hassle, but then you don't need to worry about the service shutting down or removing features. Making your code available to others would be nice, but if you have a decent implementation it's certainly something people would pay for as well.
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