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> Do you really think you can design metrics so perfect that they won't be gamed?

Nope. I think it's super super hard. I think a lot of executives will say, oh we'll just add "Up or out" to dial up the competition knob, and then they'll self destruct.

Executives make great decisions all the time. Unfortunately most of those decisions involve "close enough" thinking. Up or out introduces razor sharp edges. Everything appears better than fine, hell it appears fantastic. Until it isn't. and when it isn't it's terminal.

I used assembly specifically to highlight the care that must be taken. I wanted to evoke images of bricking devices. Very few executives have the mindset that if i'm not certain i'm right, then i'm wrong. Often their thinking is squishy at the edges, and that's just the cost of doing business.

I do think if it's possible to do "Up or out" effectively, that corporation would be formidable. If gaming the metric advanced the corporation's goals, that would be amazing. But, super hard. Folks selected for being the smartest guy in the room are most likely to fool themselves into thinking they can handle it.
Read from stdin as normal, and read interactive input from /dev/tty.
I prefer to send email. Often web forms have a very small space for a cover letter, so I have to write it in some other program then paste it in.

I'm not real sure but speculate that my applications would be more successful if I sent dead trees via snail mail. That used to work well back in the day.
There are 1+ billion Android users. Are there even 1 million Ubuntu desktop users? I'm one of them.
Wow. Disappointing. This is a like a tragedy of the commons , nobody is willing to take the first step. I think severely hard remedies measures are needed, "better peer review" is not going to cut it. For example, make it a requirement that a finding is reproduced in an independent lab before publishing.
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> Mozilla should instead focus on freeing Android from it's dependency on Google.

This is cool and all, but history has shown that people somehow prefer Android with Google apps. Cyanogen has announced that they're taking Android back and all from Google and I wonder how it'll work out at the end. I wouldn't mind seeing the same thing from Mozilla or even more players, but the sad reality is that enthusiasts don't make revenue.
It's a complete waste of CPU time.
Whys it's okay when your report is “wrong”
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This is really awesome! Could part 4 be on the Schoof–Elkies–Atkin algorithm or perhaps Hyperelliptic curves? That'd be super cool
Satire, ya'll: http://mako.cc/fun/
Libre drivers or blobs?
I've detailed the process of putting Ubuntu on a MacBook on my blog https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2014/11/ubuntu-on-a-macbookpro-82-r...

It's fairly straightforward and works well.
The 1980's?
Biggest gripes:

N.B. "Long time" means an unpredictable value typically between 30-300 seconds

1. Terminal windows take a long time to become ready to accept input.

2. My "irb" program takes a long time to load.

3. Finder takes a long time to list files, even when there aren't many files in the directory.

4. Finder takes a long time to generate previews of files

Only perhaps related to slowness, but extremely annoying: incorrectly implemented iPhone sync leads to my conversational counterparties hearing the ringing chime well after the conversation has begun.

Thanks for the link to rEFInd.
Still waiting for Dell to fully support Ubuntu in their 2015 XPS 13 model. I made the switch from a Thinkpad after Lenovo burned me too many times. While the keyboard isn't quite as excellent it's still top notch and it's one of the best laptops I've ever owned.

That being said getting everything working in Ubuntu has been a bit of a fiasco [1]. Luckily after some firmware upgrades and the new kernel in 15.04, a lot of issues have been fixed, but the laptop still does strange things waking up from sleep. The worst issue though is that audio still seems to not work in a dual boot configuration. The laptop can't produce sound from the speakers or headphone jack in both Windows and Ubuntu when booting between the two OS's. It seems the hardware gets put in a strange state by either OS and it takes two full reboots after switching from Windows<->Ubuntu to get the audio device to be recognized.

Also HDPI support in Ubuntu is still a little lacking so the beautiful higher-than-retina display sometimes makes things absurdly small. I've seen a lot of progress on this front though.

I really love this device but I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss the excellent out of the box hardware support for Thinkpads in Ubuntu.

[1] - https://major.io/2015/02/03/linux-support-dell-xps-13-9343-2...
You're confusing strategy with the objective that strategy was intended to achieve. The real reason for Firefox OS was because

a) everything is moving to mobile, and

b) every mobile OS ships its own browser which is not Firefox.

We know from Netscape how hard it is to stay relevant against that kind of pressure, and there isn't even a way to cry "Anti-trust!" because none of these players are monopolies. They just all behave the same way.
This may very well be true, but completely ignores the context:

1. As far as the effect of the window manager: this isn't emacs+X11 in 1995: the drag on CPU/ram/battery of gecko/blink will dwarf the "weight" of the windowing system.

2. FirefoxOS maybe be leaner in principle, but the competition has vastly better hardware, both in the Windows Phone field and in the Android one, via what I can guess is a combination of subsidies (is mobile MS still burning piles of cash or has the division posted some profits?) and sheer mass scale production. So, for little more money you get a get a better device that actually runs all the apps that your friends have, and a web browser.

3. The appeal of FirefoxOS even in those low end markets was negligible (this has been discussed to death). Besides they released phones in places such as Italy and Spain, two markets were people will en masse shell out the cash for an Iphone. I found that simply baffling.
I never understood their focus on cheap phones. Firefox OS (and web technologies in general) is a poor fit for low-spec devices.
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Oh, you mean like a union? No couldn't do that, we're not communists.
Yeah, one day it's ggalitz/IodineGBA and the next, taisel/IodineGBA.
How's the battery life? Durability? Does the computer sleep/wake up when opening/closing the lid (as expected)?
Oh, that's interesting, I'm curious about about the academic scepticism, can you tell more about the university and the issues? Thanks!
enemy -> attention (this is why Russia craving for yesterday level attention today is so hard trying to pose as an enemy). Also add that 20th century had a lot of immigrants from Russian Empire territories (Jews before WWI, Russian aristocracy and just educated people running from Revolution, Jews and dissidents after the WWII). And USSR with its communism looked like something ahead, a next stage in progress forward.

That all has changed. Today in US it is absolutely not interesting to study the self-reflections of people with too much time on their hands in a society without opportunities and without good access to mental health professionals - ie. Russian literature (as well as literature of almost any other culture - because they pretty much all deep in the past and the issues they explore in many cases has already been answered). US has moved past that. People like Musk illustrate it - work, make money, improve and expand civilization. This is why the only good writers in Russia since the space flights started have been Strugatskies brothers - who explore the issues of such civilization expansion and Pelevin - who explores absence of such expansion and the resulting end-game of the above mentioned "self-reflection", ie. he finishes what Dostoevsky/Chehov started.
I have an XPS 13 2015 version but it came with Windows 8. I want to try out ubuntu on it to see if it'll run better. Is yours touch screen? If so, how is it working?

Also is there a difference between the windows xps 13 and the developers edition? I heard the developers edition is cheaper, but with less powerful hardware?
Yeah, I go back to it a lot for this reason, despite having little of the necessary knowledge to enjoy the more technical posts - I would never comment, but I can understand fully why people [often näively] do
You could just sing about an Egyptian river god instead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f2PCWYAZQc
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Looks like the book is under a free license: CC-BY-SA. Printing it and selling it is allowed.
Anyone knows what's up with foreign translations?

If the music is in the public domain and it is the English lyrics that are copyrighted, perhaps the Klingon - for instance - version is not subject to enforcement, due to lack of interest or known rights.
I think the relevant bit, amid the satire, is that restaurants, regardless of size, whose employees are caught singing "Happy Birthday" are hit fiercely by this. Ever wonder why the employees at chains sing something else?
Right, the tilde operator is supported, but the math trick in question only works on a twos-complement machine. So it's non-portable in the sense that the language spec doesn't guarantee a particular behavior.
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Provided it reacquires time as soon as it has a data connection, that's not unreasonable.

The point of the Firefox phone was always to have an OS that was open in ways that Android isn't. That was never going to come in cheapest.
Totally agree, the best strategy would be to open up android by offering an alternative for Google Play Services. I think Amazon, Microsoft, Cyanogen, FireFox and others should band together to offer a 'third way' with open Android. Hard problem to solve would be who would provide the services and who would run the app store. Maybe the customer should be able to switch what they use. Developers would need to upload to multiple app stores, but this can be solved with intermediate services.
I don't think so. This feels very inconsistent with his approach.
I was mocking the idea that paying everyone the same has eliminated politics in academia.
You got it. Both C (C11 §6.2.6.2) and C++ (C11 §3.9.1) permit two's complement, one's complement, and signed magnitude representation of integers. With one's complement, “−” ≡ “~” so “−~” and “~−” both do nothing. With signed magnitude, “−~” and “~−” both give the same result, which is the difference between the value and the maximum integer of the same sign.
Brazilian IT companies have, in general, a bad reputation. More than a decade ago, when this happened, the bad reputation was very well deserved (I know nothing about the company mentioned, BTW). Even today, few companies pay overtime and most of them prefer to hire people as if they were small companies because that allows them to avoid paying what they'd have to in accordance to local labor laws (and allows them a higher "salary").

Of course, judges see through this, but until someone gets a favorable judgement, often many years have passed.
True, except for the fact that the author is claiming to be him. Indeed, it's a pseudonym, so arguably up for grabs, but a misrepresentation even so.
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Happened to Windows RT, IIRC Office suffered heavy input lag. Man seriously, a Duron with 64MB could do a lot of useful things like.. accepting keyboard input in real-time, it's hard to believe the software stack is that demanding today. I'm gonna release a phone with win2k on it and be rich.
I didn't get the touchscreen version intentionally. That's not to say that it's better with/without touchscreen. I just didn't want it, and wanted a lower resolution FHD screen for power savings. I know that gnome has basic support for touchscreens and just switched away from using a Surface Pro 3 with Gnome. It was just ok. I'd say you'll be fine since you've got a keyboard and trackpad as solid backup for the touchscreen.

There is no hardware difference to the windows/linux machines... the hardware on the dev units isn't any less or more powerful. You will, however, want to make sure your BIOS is upgraded to the current rev (A04 as of this posting). http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/Drivers/DriversDet...
It will take Satya Nadella many years still to convince the public that Microsoft really has changed. From the beginning to the end of the 1990s Microsoft changed from being to seen as the developers best friends to their worst enemies by extending every standard they could to lock users in.
The company I work for has deployed an on-premise PaaS using CloudFoundry. You get many of the benefits of a PaaS without the astronomical costs.

Of course, we do need a small team of excellent DevOps engineers to keep the whole thing moving forward.

They are also now starting to deploy Openstack in order to benefit from a software-defined infrastructure. It's all very cool.
Appalling (from the speech):

"More than 6,500 young men and women died in those wars"

Strangely typical that people forget that "human" is a definition that applies to more than just "American". Just take one of the wars, the Iraq war, and include in your definition of "young men and women" at least the Iraqi civilians that also died and you should have a number above 112,000+ that died.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War

This slip of the tongue speaks volumes.
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I'm going to be the voice of dissent here and say if you like the team and the project do it. It sounds like you need to strengthen your resume and this could be an good opportunity.
Most of Silent Circle is marketing, as far as I can tell. The ZRTP stuff is great, as voice verification is easy (spoofing it is hard).

But the rest? They talk about secure PSTN, but they are just using VoIP AFAIK (even if they had TDM handoffs, a ton of traffic goes over random VoIP providers anyways.) But that aside - there is no such thing as secure PSTN (outside of things like PGPfone). What benefit is there versus using a VPN and any random VoIP provider? Maybe they keep less CDRs, and if you use no calling number, that'd be a little better, I guess.

Hell, try to explain what this even means:

"Our Silent Network provides the backbone to our encrypted communications service. There's no sharing of our dedicated network. We have custom-built servers, CODECs, software and hardware that ensure security integrated through design"

Custom built servers? Like what, they assembled Super Micro servers or FB's server spec? Or what? 100% dedicated network? They ran fiber? Or they mean they bought some Ethernet switches instead of using AWS or some colo's switches? And new codecs? I guess it's possible but if they've outdone all the other audio codecs out there, that's worth taking about concretely. Not to mention that's a huge breakthrough, on top of the crypto work. (Or do they mean ZRTP is the custom built codec?)

Seriously everyone: go to this page[1] and tell me if your BS meter doesn't redline.

Custom built PBX? Does that mean FreeSWITCH or Asterisk, or something else? If it is one of the open source systems, where are the CVEs they've found and upstreamed?

Custom built HD network? Wtf does that even mean?

And Blackphone? Last I saw it on HN, it was a closed source system, zero mention of baseband processor security. I thought it was Android based, with a few apps thrown in but I don't recall offhand.

SC has some great tech guys and the people I've met seem nice and sincere and I've no doubt they are acting in good faith. But the stuff their CEO and marketers say make it come off very scammy.

1: https://silentcircle.com/silent-network
As of 4.0, yes. 4.1 may be a different story, but as of rc2 I didn't think it was worth it and rolled back to 4.0.x. Another user has written a great arch wiki page on the general issues here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dell_XPS_13_(2015) , but I have no problems right now running on my patched kernel (linked to above, though I'm actually building a new package right now).
Thank you for this great link. Brilliant stuff. Not sure if this is intentional, but the text in the very last section isnt hyperlinked.
As a counter example, most of the most profitable and selective law firms are lock-step top to bottom.
I agree email is a bit more preferable.
China's CO2 emissions have been plummeting lately. What's going on?
Like good old Gnome 2, Mate DE is very nice if you do not want buttons that takes 10% of the screen.
I see some Apache licenses on Github, but that seems to be tools built on top of the actual libs, and any blobs probably aren't on Github to begin with.
Well, isn't the author _why? I don't think publishers typically identify themselves as "authors" on Amazon.

I'm reminded of that time when the UK police were cracking down on people selling Mozilla CDs:

http://slashdot.org/story/06/02/23/1330220/uk-government-con...
Many who work for universities are not academics in the usual sense.
So when your local diner's staff sing your kid happy birthday they are breaking the law?... whoops just saw the next comment haha
OP is the one who made that emulator apparently (another comment in this thread has details).
According to this analysis linked from the article, there are several challenges in Time Warner's copyright claim, so common sense might even one day prevail:

> The claim that “Happy Birthday to You” is still under copyright has three principal weaknesses. Most significantly, there is a good argument that copyright in the song has never been renewed. [...] Second, the first authorized publication of “Happy Birthday to You,” in 1935, bore a copyright notice that was almost certainly not in the name of the owner of copyright in the song. Under the law in force at the time, publication with notice under the wrong name resulted in forfeiture of copyright protection. Third, the current putative owner of copyright in “Happy Birthday to You,” can only claim ownership if it can trace its title back to the author or authors of the song. Yet it appears that the only possible authors to whom it can trace title are Mildred and Patty Hill themselves, and there is scant evidence that either of them wrote the song.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1111624
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Firefox OS isn't any better than Android when it comes to vendor walled gardens. Mozilla doesn't enforce in any way any openness of the platform - it just provides the open OS. It might be more complete experience than what AOSP alone delivers, but it's still up to vendor to provide, or not, any freedom when it comes to usage of the device.

Heck, your platform doesn't even need to be open to be able to market it with Firefox OS brand! They have a set of rules you have to fulfill, but basic stuff like unlocked bootloader isn't even part of them.
So instead of negotiating pay, candidates will negotiate titles (except for women, presumably, who will continue putting themselves at a disadvantage in a new way). And instead of salary envy you get title envy. And instead of uncertainty and negotiation over raises, you get uncertainty and negotiation over promotions. And by the way, if you have ever worked for a large corporation with salary bands, you know that this is exactly what happens there.

I fail to see any material difference.
No, there totally isn't. I'm returning an Ubuntu certified Dell m3800. The hardware specs on the thing are amazing, but Ubuntu has no centralized method of controlling the UI, much like in Windows, it's up to the developer.

All the crashing aside, when I scroll from the left to the right side of my screen, I get 3 different cursor colors and sizes. Some apps are unusable on the 4k screen because of font DPI scaling.

The crashes are insane. When I turn it on, sometimes there is screen corruption before it even boots. Sometimes it works fine until it gets to the grub screen, but then it corrupts.

Sometimes it never boots up and gets stuck on the ubuntu loading screen. Sometimes it never shuts down and gets stuck there too. Sometimes the thunderbolt monitor works, and sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes the touchpad works and sometimes it refuses to pick up multitouch unless I'm pressing firmly with the flat side of both fingers hard enough to almost click the button. Sometimes it registers button clicks when I'm hovering my palm or finger over the touchpad.

It has been a nightmare. I was trying to move away from Mac OS X because I'm so tired of their lack of uniformity to keyboard commands. Each application decides if ctrl+arrow is going to be line home, page home, or previous word... I'm a system architect and that stuff is important to me. However it just isn't worth the struggle and I'm going to return this laptop tomorrow and order a Macbook Pro. I need 4 cores and 16GB of RAM. My Macbook air's 2 cores isn't enough for me to run the number of virtual machines I need to be able to use together.
Low volume is one of the reasons that arbitrage was so difficult with Bitcoin. While an individual could be somewhat profitable, it just couldn't provide adequate returns for a medium or large organization.
I was born and raised in Belarus and all these books:
Evgeny Zamyatin, We
Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
Andrei Platonov, Foundation Pit
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Valentin Rasputin, Farewell to Matyora

were in high school program for Russian Literature in 10-11th grades.

Except for "Fyodor Gladkov, Cement". Never heard of it until today, had to look it up. Appears that this writer was in his prime in Stalin's times. Without reading his books can't say it's 100% crap, but the fact that he received 2 Stalin's Awards makes me think that the quality of literature there is not that good and he was more ideologically right for the communists than got recognition for writers talent.

You can check http://www.briefly.ru/school/ for list of mandatory Russian Literature for School Program. I'm sure, that for Foreign reader it will be more than enough to start with these books first, because they quality is tested by ages.
I find it a fun coincidence that the guy's last name, in whose name the domain is registered, is also Hill.
Same with OSX/FF38
The author is _why, isn't he? It would be misrepresentation to claim otherwise. The person making money here is the person who submitted to Createspace, who is effectively the publisher (along with Createspace as well)
Is the confusion with vitess intentional ?
https://github.com/youtube/vitess
Ask HN: Do you take holidays off?
In the USA, today is a holiday and most people are off work.

Like many people on HN (I suspect), I have too much work to do and too little time to do it. So instead of resting, today I am trying to be as productive from home as I normally am from my office. I'm always unsure whether this a good decision.

How do you know whether to take a day off or work instead? What are the factors that influence your decision? And are you working for your normal job, a side project, or a new startup?
The 1st gen CR-V had this - turned out it was susceptible to people having a lot of "stuff" on their keychains. Over time it wore the parts inside the ignition switch and the car would shut off randomly. So to avoid problems, have only the minimum on your keyring.
Thanks, I did not know that the phrase had originated with Lippmann.

The bibliography looks interesting, I'm aware of the broad outline, but not the details.
"Outside of reduced competition, two other advantages to lockstep are eliminating salary negotiations and increasing transparency"

I never knew that this was called "lockstep salary", but it's essentially how all of the unions work.

It hurts many employees because it takes away all your negotiating power.
so you want iOS, but don't want to pay for it. great market for Mozilla to break into!