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With Nix it seems like the technology is there. It works. It has a superior model compared with other systems. However, it lacks a corporate sponsor or large community to make it "professional-grade". Canonical and RedHat make their money from people depending on their packages being continuously up to date. Debian has an enormous community ensuring that stable is stable and secure for the duration of its life. Nix doesn't have either, so it is up to the users it does have to be reactive.

That said, I think the benefits of Nix are real. The existing configuration management systems do not have the ability to fully understand the system. Nix does, because everything about the system is contained in the configuration file. As a consequence, you can up and down grade servers without fear of breaking everything. You can check to see exactly what changes between different versions. There is much more control and more assurance that the nodes are in the proper state.

One part of your comment which I do not understand is:

> When you can stand up a fresh VM using Ansible in a few minutes, the value of being able to roll a server back easily is hard to justify.

Isn't this also true for Nix? You just launch the image and push your desired configuration? If you mean time to write a new ansible playbook/role then in my experience, although I am fairly productive with ansible, I would not put it at "a few minutes" from nothing to a new service. Maybe you are talking about the learning curve? Nix definitely seems steeper so a clear win for ansible on that front.
Fair enough. Can't really sync without some kind of log in. But I guess you want to just use it in offline mode...?
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> There are several plausible explanations for this, one of them is that malware authors wanted to mock the Russian secret services.

Another is that FSB made it happen, either to aid in an investigation, or to break the C&C.
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This. Some of the advice only works out of context, for example:

> What's an appointment_list? A calendar

No. Chances are that "appointment" is already a thing in your domain language -- the language you'd use to talk to your customers and stakeholders -- and so appointment_list is a much clearer name than calendar, as long as we make the reasonable assumption that it names a collection of appointments.
Always keep an open mind.

I had this problem that when knowing from others that things I have known are basically incorrect but wouldn't wholeheartedly accept it, given how factually their proof is. Whenever you need to correct yourself, analyze it and be ready to unlearn.

Always remember, there are dragons in earth and you haven't seen it. Yet.
I think he made a great distinction about "kinds of data" vs "types of data". In fact, he essentially agreed with Linus about encoding information the compiler already knows.

Joel is "some kind of authority on software". So am I. So are you. Our community is influenced by its members. If you think that modern programming trends aren't heavily influenced (for better or for worse) by individuals like Joel Spolsky then you're kidding yourself.
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Never. I have a Macbook air and I only close it without powering it off.
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That's exactly the case yes, if only to test the application for a bit. Then once I establish that it's something which fits in my workflow and that I would benefit from creating an account (for all the sync goodness), create an account.
Keep on working smart and doing your best to save. I have learned my lesson the hard way. Nothing is permanent and everything is subject to change. The anxiety that occurs when you are faced with financial issues and/or a job loss can be crippling. Even to this day after all of my lessons learned I still worry about what would happen if I lost my job again and had to go back to square one.
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Google's alleged involvement with the PRISM program however, wasn't.
Yes, whenever I'm not using it.

From boot menu to booted is only about 6 seconds (gradually tweaking that to be faster).
AGPL is a market failure as I see it. I understand and sympathize with what that license is trying to do, but in practice, it just means that many companies won't touch that software (or will only touch it in a fashion where they don't modify that part of the system), meaning that there are far fewer adopters at all, and of those that adopt, fewer modify the software, meaning that it evolves more slowly than products with more used licenses.
Nothing wrong with wanting a detached home. Wanting one where it's too expensive, or getting one far away because it's affordable while continuing to work where it's expensive, probably requires a rethink.

Right now you're building experience, knowledge and savings/investments, so you should probably focus on that. So live as cheap as practical where you are.

At some point the curves will cross. If you still want a detached house, and you haven't become rich relative to where you work, then move to somewhere that you can work and live cheaply. Then buy your house.
Probably, yes. Taxis in NYC crash about half as much as other cars per mile: http://www.schallerconsult.com/taxi/crash06.htm
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I don't think it's behind a paywall; it's CC licensed. I can access it and I'm not connected to an academic network at the moment.

On a broader note, there's a big push for open access at the moment (as there should be), so there's no longer a need to assume that a paper is behind a paywall just because it's on a journal's website anymore.
Completely hijacking here, but if you haven't updated your profile to include an email do so now. I have gotten several interesting mails and no spam that I know of.
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I didn't think it could get much worse than my former classmate, who would name all his pointer variables after famous ghosts (casper, bloody_mary, etc) because they "weren't real", but I think your greengrocer friend still wins...
All the great empires did not have weapons that could render the planet uninhabitable a hundred times over. Don't act like nuclear arms did not change war.

No, the USA would not survive a global war versus every other power. The US has enough missile subs, secret launch bases, and distributed silos to make it impossible to do a joint strike to eliminate the entire American nuclear arsenal. But very few would survive that war - most of the planet would be an irradiated uninhabitable wasteland. I would expect you would have survivors of a global nuclear war, but it would not be a pleasant world to live in.

There is no situation where you could do a ground invasion and takeover of any sufficiently nuclear armed first world country where that country would not use nukes as a final measure. That is what they are for. I mean go ahead, try taking over Pakistan and see if they don't nuke you for it, for example.
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Nix (which is still relatively immature, in the grand scheme of things)

Nix predates all the other technologies you listed, with the possible exception of Chef, which I can't pinpoint a concrete date or even year of origin.
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With the functional composition and currification, you can get point free programming (variable-less definitions). Some people don't like it, I personally find it appealing (I like APL and such). To quote prof. Dan Grossman, lambda p: p[1] === lambda p: p.__getitem__(1) which he calls an `unnecessary wrapping` of itemgetter(1). Similar to `return true if <bool> else false` which most people would find redundant.
I had that book! Programming books were generally out of my budget back then, but I saved up for that one, which I recall being full of incredibly clever tricks. I wonder if this is the same David Webb - I guess it probably is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Webb_%28Hong_Kong_activi...

I think switching between colours at 25hz would give you pretty horrible flicker, although maybe we would have forgiven that in the Spectrum era.
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The main reason is that renting out these houses is not safe at all. Many middle class people fear that the renter will occupy the house and not move out. It happens all too often apparently and given the entirely corrupt law enforcement officials and idiotic laws home owners would rather lock it up than renting.
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This is very true. I have known tenants who adversely possess the property and make owners fight for decades before they are evicted. Generally as long as the tenant is paying rent there are very few grounds on which he can get evicted.

Most of laws favour the tenants(in one sense it is right) but it is not uncommon for them to take undue advantage. And people who rent without a contract of some sorts usually pay the price. Most of them though would rather prefer to keep it vacant than put it in any danger of dispute.
But is it? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9597348
P.S. That's quite an interesting bug report that was filed at Sun: "4514730 dosynctodr code has structure similar to game of fizzbin"
loan is not my cup of tea

Also, the mortgage rates in India are around 10-14%, compared to the US average of 2-4%.
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As another commenter implies, trait methods are statically dispatched, so there's no indirection, and very little runtime overhead[0]

[0] I'm not that great at Rust, so if there's some hidden cost to this beyond just the conversion methods themselves, someone please correct me.
San Francisco is at least more readable than Helvetica Neue. Lucida is gone, but it can't get much worse than it is now.
> With Nix it seems like the technology is there. It works. It has a superior model compared with other systems. However, it lacks a corporate sponsor or large community to make it "professional-grade". Canonical and RedHat make their money from people depending on their packages being continuously up to date.

Check out bosh: http://bosh.cloudfoundry.org/ . It has a somewhat similar philosophy with respect to immutable instances and systems at large, and has strong corporate backing.
And we know fastmail wasn't involved because...? That one prism slide listing companies was the exhaustive list of all of such programs?

Dick Cheney turns to a minion and says "I want to fuck up dombili's life. Get me his inbox." You think the minion is going to say "sorry, boss, he uses fastmail" and that's going to be the end of it?
Sad to read.

Crytek seemed to be the only international relevant game company from Germany.
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My bad, I was before my coffee.

One additional thing that wasn't yet mentioned is that freqency depends also on gravitation, so orientation of your motherboard could matter (for the curious - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zILwgQhjC_Q ). I'm not really sure it's big enough to matter though.
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You have quite the wonderful portfolio for a guy who is learning to code. What is stopping you from getting a job when developer demand is so high?
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I trust the FSF twenty years from now more than I trust someone today who doesn't use "or later version".
Any estimations?

Edit: It is rather frustrating right now, since even the basic hello world examples didn't work anymore, because Text lost some functionality.
Microsoft isn't the first to look at "promotion velocity."

The US military does same with with commissioned officers (called "up or out"). If you're passed over twice for promotion you leave. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_or_out

Hmm, after looking at that page I see this is quite a common practice. I hope my competitors use it!
From a copyright standpoint in the US, you can copy the glyph outlines of fonts (usually some form of bezier curve or in some cases bitmap) without violating copyright. They are completely uncopyrightable.

Most fonts though (TrueType and OpenType) have a hinting language in them which is code and it is copyrightable since it is computer software. This means you can't just copy DIN font files themselves and distribute them freely without permission.

You can however take the outlines from the font, recreate the hints manually and then distribute it.

That said, there are such things as design patents and of course, trademarks. Design patents aren't used too much, but do protect the design itself. Trademarks of course allow you to protect the name.
I had the luxury of other people talking too much. If not for that, I wouldn't have known.

Hell, how did you even knkw a bad reference was given?

I was able to find out what was said. Again, if all someone had said was "I don't like him", that wouldn't have been an issue. This person made negative, fraudulent claims about me and my past work performance in front of enough people that it was impossible for him to hide his tracks.

People who do bad things are usually awful at keeping secrets. There are exceptions, of course, but generally the traits that incline a person toward malice and petty conspiracy are not traits that make a person good at keeping secrets.
China is actually a great example. They are today stronger than Russia, they are a target themselves of NSA spying, and like Russia they are resentful of the "U.S. led international order". So much as China thumbs its nose at the U.S. by pushing back against U.S. presence in the Western Pacific, they'd have every reason to host Snowden as a cause célèbre. That would certainly have involved less air travel for Snowden as well!

But Wikileaks told Snowden to go to Russia, and in any event China told Snowden to leave. Why would China do that? Because Snowden wasn't their asset...
Woah, this is great! Probably need a screen informing the keybindings.
The article mentions corrections beyond 500ppm. I worked on time synchronization (using PTP instead of NTP), and when we are talking about "cheap oscillators" we mean those specified at 50ppm (50us per second) which you find in every Ethernet card. In reality we measured +/- 8ppm. Yes, the drift changes over time, and you can see in the log when a door is opened in the morning. But NTP can only reach milliseconds precision anyway, so there is plenty of time to react. Whatever the problem is with those PCs mentioned in the article, using a temperature-controlled oscillator would be overkill.
Well, HN seems to be interested in chess, so this assumption wasn't THAT absurd :D
... And the email address needs to go in the "about" box, not just in the "email" field.
There's nothing in the contract between Sony and Spotify that's all that surprising. Even the large looking advance of $45M is only a small fraction of what Spotify would have paid Sony each year.

If anything, the "unfairness" of the contract terms is a reflection of the HUGE amount of leverage the record labels have because their content is so valuable. Is it evil for the labels to attempt to maximize their profit while minimizing Spotify's?
There are things that operate like doors but are not actually doors. So when you are explaining how it works, you have ambiguity to resolve.
Author here. The figure depicting the workings of APC cache was just an example of how opcode caching in PHP works. The thesis was published just today.
Great idea ! Has been on my list for a while as well ;-)

> Originally I tried it in JavaScript, but iOS strips lat and lon info from photos when they're picked with a file input field.

Yes, that is how far I got. Good you went a step further.

I think there are options for expanding: because a photo is easier to share then a location plus it tells a lot about the location itself. Better then some numbers of shortened url.

Combined with compass navigation the user does not need internet (Apple, Google maps) to still be able to navigate to a location.

And why share just one photo ? Share a collection: interesting buildings in a city, or the best places with cakes (based on just the pictures of those cakes :-).

I still think a concept to think about more. Please continue.
I tried contacting you on your contact page, but I got an error ;-)

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So, how do we contact you?
Comparing commissioners to national members of parliament isn't fair, they are doing completely different jobs.

A member of the European parliament is one degree removed from public vote, just as a member of a national parliament. A European commissioner is two degree removed from the public, just like a European head of government. A minister in most member states is three degrees removed.

If you don't consider the vote in the EP for commissioners as a real vote because they can't pick their own candidate then it's three degrees removed as the candidates are picked by the heads of governments.

In any case I can't see how it's less democratic than the election system of any member state. The commissioners are as far away from the public vote as almost any member of government in the member states.
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I understand pushing back against the idea that Go is a scripting language.

Arguing that Python isn't a "scripting language" is a complete waste of time. That ship sailed at least 5 years ago, if not 15.

And Python is still very, very slow, and very difficult to make multicore (if you disagree, compare with Go), and there are plenty of domains where it should not be chosen as a result. Yes, I know about PyPy, but that project's performance characteristics are very strange and certainly isn't "it just speeds up Python code by 10x, all the time"... sometimes it does that, sometimes (rarely) it slows it down, mostly it does something in the middle that certainly doesn't bring Python anywhere near C.
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Thanks! That's cool you tried the same thing!

Cool idea about the collections.

Another extension of it I also thought about is a version with some kind of node.js backend that's a little bit like Yo except whenever you and a friend have it open it points you at each other so you can find each other on foot as long as you have a decent internet connection and good GPS accuracy.
You can also visit the page on a16z that will let you download a free ebook of the old posts. There are also links to other sites that have archived the content (including this submission).

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I think after the ignition switch fiasco the CEO and company has been cooperative in the investigation and actually admitted fault...which seems very rare nowadays. I think it's something to applaud and I hope other companies follow the footsteps later. I hope the punishment is less for "good behavior"...otherwise other companies will see this and say wth...why cooperate if you will get fined and punished just the same. Might as well not cooperate and hopefully have the lawsuit hit a dead end. This doesn't change the fact that people died and there was a coverup...but to see people actually fired..and the CEO apologize...I mean how many bankers were fired for all the crap they did to the global economy. I know, people didn't die but the reach of screwing up people's lives was pretty broad.
I'm not sure it's a great idea to host the binaries, although it's unlikely that you'll get any complaints from the publishers.
This is a cool idea. I see it as a great utility for taking newer versions of photos years later or even just remembering where you parked.

Curious though when I installed it I only see kilometers but the screenshot on the website shows imperial units and I don't see any way to change it. Is there a way?

Edit: yeah just found the swipe to change units. I'm all for supporting apps and developers but $2 just to switch units? No thanks. Uninstalled. That's insane.

Edit 2: the biggest issue about the price is perceived value. Making this app cost $.99 or $1.99 itself? Not bad in my opinion. Development isn't free and I probably would have paid that. But when you move to an in-app purchasing model now the perceived value is a free app that is gouging you $2 just to switch from metric to imperial. Maybe the intent was to have as many people try it as possible and to hopefully make a little money from it but the way the in-app purchasing is structured it makes me feel like I'm being taken advantage of.
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He's not responsible for anything. He was legally required to leak when his bosses ignored his reports. You can't be "responsible" for doing what you're required to do.

Besides, the NSA mass surveillance programs are next to worthless.

Moving from collecting 5% of the uninteresting communication in the world to 99% is irrelevant when it's the 0.0001% that isn't so easily collected that we're looking for.

A program of mass surveillance like that is only good for things that aren't a national security risk, such as stopping drug dealers, counterfeiters, etc. Perhaps useful, but nothing we need a massive secret-police force able to tap everything for.

What we need are military trials for treason.
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I've been using Scala for years and have been eying Rust for a while. Nice to see lots of the things I like from Scala carry over. In particular this seems like a less magical version of Scala implicits, which seem incredibly cool at first until you realize that a particular library or framework implements implicits for everything, and tracking down the source for a given function involves guessing the signature or chasing down an implicit implicit conversion chain that gets you to one.

One thing I'm not sure about though, the article talks about implementing the Into trait, then quickly segues over to From. When would I use Into, when From, and do they both lead to the same end (I.e. a function that takes Into<Whatever>?) I've looked at the docs for each, and maybe I just haven't had enough coffee yet but the distinction isn't too clear.