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Your comment was useful, so not totally in vein :-)

Just incited me to have a little look at powershell (read through [0], useful intro). It looks nice, I can definitely see the utility in have a simple object model for transferring information between processes. In nix land you get pretty good at extracting data from simple text forms, though sometimes it's harder than it should be.

One thing that jumped out at me there is the overhead of the commands.

430ms: ls | where {$_.Name -like "*.exe"}
140ms: ls *.exe
27ms : ls -Filter "*.exe".

Not so much the absolute numbers but the fact that there are 3 different ways of doing it and the more flexible choice is over a magnitude slower.

What happens when you add another command to the pipeline? Do they buffer the streams like in linux?

I guess the situation will improve over time but how complete is the eco-system at the moment? One area nixes will always shine is the total ubiquity. Everything can be done over commands and everything works with text.

[0] https://developer.rackspace.com/blog/powershell-101-from-a-l...
I don't think Tim Cook specifically rejects the collection of data on customers. I think he is pro-collection of data where it helps improve customer experience. His criticism is for companies whose model of business involves selling guided access to customer attention, aka Google and Facebook. His criticism is for what you do with that data. He would probably say that Apple uses its data to help its customers, while Google or Facebook "sells" out their customers.

From that communication, I read that Tim Cook is against some business models, not machine learning or data collection.
I'm a developer (I develop on OSX and Windows every day for my day job and at home for myself) and I do not use homebrew. There is not anything I am really missing, but I write C++/Obj-C and you might write something different.

It is interesting regarding the state of app design as most of the BSD or Linux software looks odd to me!
I agree that Windows has some odd looking software but they do typically offer more features - you don't get MDI under OSX.
Despite his German sounding name, I can assure you that Phil Zimmermann, the creator of PGP, is very much an American.
Why should $30.9bn of tax money be infused to an industry if the public don't gain any benefits from it?

I am all for a fair market where those who spend money on development can recoup costs, but the current system is a bit silly. First they get to use tax funded research for free, then get extra funds from NiH, then they demand 20 years monopoly with some extra years of exclusivity added from doing test trials. And when that is done, try some Evergreening schemes to extend exclusivity into infinity.

The people who are hurt by all this also just happens to be sick people, people who die because they can only afford a inferior treatment. It things like this that calls for patent reforms so the public can get what it pays for, and where investing into medical research could become a low risk/low reward instead of high risk/high reward system.
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The OpenSSD project[1] might be worth a look. If you don't fancy paying thousands of dollars, you can buy SSD controller boards and raw NAND flash chips off Taobao and assemble them together. There's plenty of information on various Chinese forums (Mydigit, Upan etc.), admittedly more towards USB flash drives. Some older flash chips are TSOP rather than BGA which makes hand soldering much easier.

[1] http://www.openssd-project.org/wiki/The_OpenSSD_Project
The internet was built on open peer-to-peer protocols. Email was designed to be p2p, not client-server like gmail is.
In the near future, the fundamental structure of the internet as we know it today will change. All of a user's data, activity log etc generated by all the 100 sensors + services that a user uses will be centralized in a repository that will be owned by the user. Different services and tools and devices will just get on-demand access to the data as and when they need it to provide a service to the user. It will also require them to contribute any activity data back to this repository. This will lead not just to solving privacy, but way better user experience and services that are not possible today due to data silos. It is sad how corporations with an objective to make money(which it should be) have misguided internet to become a siloed structure designed to benefit different corporations. This incorrect structure needs to and will be broken...
What are advantages over renting GPU enabled AWS instances?
The LHC is back in business
I'm not against drug patents, I am only stating that they prevent the drug market from being a free market by a considerable margin.
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Yes, indeed. For humans, it's somewhat just a change in developmental timing. As we age, we start looking more like adult chimpanzees/bonobos.
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The same used to be true for India, till it folded. pretty sure both pressurization tactics and bribery were at play.
considering that the cost of healthcare in the US is increasing rapidly, but also the ratio of insured citizens, no, I wouldn't say a breaking point has been reached.
Many small companies are just that, a handful of developers doing all these roles. You probably also get better outcomes in a technology/software company where people are or were former engineers/programmers. There is also manager, business, advertising, design sides that would be needed within those developers.

Part of the reason small companies do better is they are usually people that have worked in those fields deeply.

This also works with other specialties. For instance I bet Neill Blomkamp runs the 3d animation/art side of his movies really well because he was one for so long. There might not be a better 3d art/direction currently in film because he has such experience there.
Firmware is the software on the hardware, basically. If you take a hard disk and look underneath it, there is a PCB with chips on it. The firmware lives in there and is responsible for doing the job of reading/writing data to the disk in a specific format.

If you take the platters out of one hard disk and put it into another hard disk with different firmware, the other hard disk PCB won't be able to read it or write to it. I found this out by having a dead Hitachi drive (yes, the IBM "Deathstar" disks after they were sold to Hitachi) so I bought another identical drive and swapped PCBs but on startup the read/write head would not settle as there was a mismatch between the PCB firmware number and the firmware identifier written on the start of the disk. So, although I thought they were identical disks they were not.
You guys realize the apple watch is going to flop, right?
Actually, most of Europe, but France, is the same boat. Looks like having the some of the best pregnacy laws in the world has its advantages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageing_of_Europe
Higher-kinded types themselves, not necessarily, but the abstractions they afford are, once you've gotten used to them, a huge time saver.

I've gotten used to handling concurrency as a monad, for example, and honestly dread the time when I have to manually deal with manual synchronisation again.
I think the use of the word "ironic" was quite fitting.

Ironic: A state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result.
I've been using DuckDuckGo as my main search engine for about a year now. It is good enough for me in most cases. For the times it isn't, I use Google.

I think there is a large amount of value in both of options 1 and 2. To me, the idea of Now on Tap and Google Photos is absolutely horrifying. On the other hand, my roommate told me that the Google Photos app was perfect.

I suspect that my views will hold, but it is possible that personalization becomes too important to opt out of. I tried to delete my Facebook for similar reasons recently. I missed out on enough party invites and messages from classmates that I ended up going back.
> I work in one of those which you mentioned in Germany

That's the reason. Europe is not really the place for making a fortune. It has the "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" mindset, which leads to the fact that starting salaries for software devs (even after a PhD, as in my case), in the country where that motto is official, are within a standard deviation from bus drivers. Magnitude of this varies, but unless you're a no-life breathing for the bonus in a hedge fund, you're not going to earn 10x.

BTW, typically you don't need an accident to know what others are earning. I easily got samples of different pay grades, in different companies in two European countries, just by asking them directly. People are surprisingly open about that.
The easy answer is that they knew Apple was going to come out strong for encryption in the past few days and wanted to do a "me too."
The astonishing thing about this propaganda machine is not that it is technically proficient. It is not in any way; it is technically crude. It's just a fairly direct political control by state of the TV and papers, and for on-line, just hiring people to spread propaganda on forums.

What is astonishing is its psychological effectiveness. It seems to encompass all levels of Russian society, especially the poorer people who are cut off from anything but the state TV, but also the middle classes. And the elite is wise to shut up and pretend to believe though they surely know what goes on. The conformity to social norms is so important: if you don't condemn the Kiev Nazis, you are a fascist yourself. Any disagreement will make even friends and family members turn against you, regardless of how good evidence you have for what you say.

I know Russians who live abroad and/or are net-connected and understand what goes on, but they are simply staying quiet, because they don't want to loose contact to their relatives and long-time friends. In a way, it's an example of "The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil."
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The problem is not the high cost of drugs, the problem is the lack of R&D into processes and drugs that are not patentable. Like Stem Cells or Vitamin C. I'm not saying that these have any medical value, it's just no one is willing to invest because there is no ROI. What might be interesting is force everyone to buy life insurance and then have the life insurance industry underwrite the R&D.
Not quite. You're appleaing to the Curry-Howard correspondance, which is neat but is not used by many theorem provers. Furthermore,

> fun fix (f : 'a -> 'a) : 'a = fix f;
val fix = fn: ('a -> 'a) -> 'a

The trick is that all functions must be total, which is the crux of the matter (and why the Y-combinator exhibits the paradox, because it allows nontermination). This is why we have stuff like the polymorphic lambda calculus, in which termination is guaranteed and the Y-combinator is untypeable.
That sounds very unusual. Have you got any add ons installed? I suggest trying a clean profile to see if that helps.

Unless you have lots of content open that inherently uses a lot of memory, or something.
The VLC account has also been hijacked but without wrapping the installer: https://blog.l0cal.com/2015/06/02/what-happened-to-sourcefor...
I'm surprised the nmap.mirror site doesn't have hundreds of reviews telling people to not use it, and pointing them to the official site.

I'd be interested to see how sourceforge respond to DMCA requests.
This is very interesting, I could certainly use this for porting some of my projects to Windows. But what the website is missing is a "getting started" doc that explains how to set up a toolchain for cross (or native) compiling.
Surely possible, and proven to work at a small scale (less than 50ppl I would say). If you have people who are not afraid of leaving their comfort zone, who like to push forward, learn new things, inspire one another and are communicative, then it turns out that you can do a lot, including marketing, sales & HR even without specialists (one thing I find crucial is outsourcing the accounting, especially if you live in a beaurocratic country).

At rspective (http://www.rspective.com/#team) we are 11 people, _everybody_ is a software dev with strong technical background. E.g. we get lots of sale opportunities despite the fact that no-one in the team has any real experience with sales. We hire people by ourselves. We run marketing actions/campaigns. We are pragmatic, we figure out how to do things on our own. 2 years on the market and it works out perfectly for us so far.
> Don't know if it's any good --- never tried it; it says it's about half complete, but I don't know if it's a useful half.

There are at least two parties working on it who have interest in certain features to be working: It's the NuGet shell within MonoDevelop, so custom PowerShell hosts need to work as well as a bunch of things needed by NuGet. Then one of the more prolific developers actually gets paid to work on Pash to support features related to PowerShell add-ins and a few others. (My own efforts so far were mostly bits and pieces, missing cmdlets (there are still a lot of those), test cases, and weird parser behaviour, mostly due to my history of golfing in PowerShell – golfed code makes for some fun tests of edge cases.)
"Cancer Doctor" - really?
The only reason I can think of is OP wants to avoid the inevitable drop in prestige and decision-making power once the suits roll in and regard every engineer in the firm as an interchangeable cog in the machine. A better question is "is it possible to build a company with engineers in executive positions?" and the answer is "yes, but it might not be enough, cf Google."
true, I should explain better....

I was sort of referring to the fact that most functional languages are also dynamic/meta-programming type of environments, not compiled to straight non-modifiable all-ROMable code that absoutely will not change at run-time.
Those are the features that are frowned upon, not the functional programming features.
So for examnple, a LISP or Haskell that compiles down to a straight binary that is all static is absolutely possible, but you do lose out on the nice features.

There has been research into a SIL4 jvm, but I cant find any product that came out of it.

Bare in mind that you need 100% traceability, 100% code coverage, etc all the way from your byte-code down to bare-metal, thru the JVM/runtime/etc.

>http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/embedded/embedded-java....

Thats just plain old embedded Java... nothing to see here, we're talking SIL rated java... its a different animal
Now I remember why I don't like VirtualBox. There's always some problem when I use it. In this case, I followed the exact instructions. I have a non-functioning trackpad in the guest, which sometimes happens, and sometimes not. In the OS X installer, I also can't select the disk to install to. And when I powered down the VM and powered it up again, I get an error message "Error loading kernel cache (0x9)". That seems to be fixed when you follow the FAQ for "Stuck on boot".

The non-functioning trackpad I can get around, by rebooting until it works. Anybody had the problem where you can't select the target disk in the installer?

Edit: got it. You have to format the disk. In the installer, go to Disk Utility and "erase" the disk. This formats and partitions it.
Sourcecode: https://bitbucket.org/psiphon/psiphon-circumvention-system
"and it's already coded we just need to merge it in"

Any manager worth their salt will know that maintaining code is 10x more expensive than building it in the first place, and if it's user-facing code you're even adding an implicit promise that the feature isn't going to be removed again. I strongly doubt the "oh but it would be so hard to build that" argument counts for much.

That said, I've no idea about what kind of place Facebook really is.
Keeping it's citizens alive, healthy and able to work is very profitable for a country since more able bodied citizens means a better economy.

Most companies only care about how much insurance they have to pay and their bottom line they have no reason to keep an eye on the big picture.

If an employee gets sick for too long or dies they will just fire him/her and get someone else to replace them.

The citizens health is a big picture thing that only a government has the incentive of maintaining.
Let me be honest

The non-sw knowledge of your average Sw.Eng. is abysmal, even though on HN there are exceptions (sometimes, surprisingly)

At the same time, the "I think I can do it!" spirit is high on Sw.Engs.

So you'll have a lot of people thinking they can do "HR, marketing, sales, recruiting" while fumbling at it.

Here's the simple fact (and even then): beyond a small scale it's easier and cheaper to have somebody else doing it.

Especially for things like accounting, legal, HR (Payroll/recruiting) etc.

Possible profit of your time per hour doing your specialty: $lots

Possible profit of your time per hour doing something foreign to you: $0 to negative
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One should sue for trademark violation. I'll chip in if anyone is fundraising.
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I think he meant GPG. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Koch
When the ssh access to internet is available from office, it is really easy to have uncensored internet with only portable applications (putty and chrome):

My putty setting to access my ubuntu box from my office has a SSH port forwarding: L6128:127.0.0.1:3128

On my box, sudo apt-get install squid

I launch chrome with the command line option --proxy-server=127.0.0.1:6128
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I don't think anyone can genuinely make that call without the actual numbers. And I wouldn't trust those that are not truly independent. I agree that it is not completely black & white, but I would be surprised if someone is not profiting from it heavily - and possibly the wrong people paying for this (ethically / morally).
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I think they already have a nice, as they say on the page: if you want a one-off mumble server for a raid etc for free.

And it's still ~half the price if you want to go with their paid option (unless you destroy/recreate your d-o droplet between uses -- then those 5/month would go a long way).
Yes, thanks for correction.
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Pharmac works fairly well in NZ - although it's not nirvana, there still are issues around what drugs they fund (Pharmac provides the drugs they select at cheap prices, but if they choose not to fund a drug because they don't consider it cost effective enough, you have to pay full price yourself).

However, I'm not so sure it's a good model for the world or for the US market, because it's actually quite selfish. NZ is able to get drugs cheap because the US consumers are paying extremely high prices which cover the development costs. If everyone was buying drugs at the price we pay in NZ, there would be far less incentive to develop new drugs.

With NZ being such a small market we can get away with it without having any impact on the development of drugs, but we're lucky that the Americans are picking up the development tab for us and we would have a problem if they stopped doing that.
It could definitely be possible with some kind of niche technology consulting company.

I'm limiting it to niche technologies because, like others have mentioned, operating at any significant scale will eventually necessitate specialization, even for a consulting company (marketing to acquire customers, designers to build good looking software, managers to shield developers from abrasive clients, etc).
If you take a look at various discussion forums, where Democrats and Republicans play it out, you'd be surprised.

But note that the argument was not that people will explicitly say "it has Patriot in its name and therefore this law is patriotic", but that it creates a mental image and uses the positive association with the word to frame it as such.

(A similar argument against this kind of naming can of course be found in 1984, with the "Ministry of Peace" etc).
Thorium msrs could be a panacea for humanity - but they won't get adopted, because nuclear weapons aren't a byproduct, and that's a drawback in the eyes of our bellicose political classes.

Edit: you're welcome to downvote the truth, but it won't change it.
LHC experiments to start taking data at 13 TeV
What's the origin of the phrase in quotes?
"Incentive"? Really? You mean a president looking to be reelected for another 4-year term has an incentive (as opposed to a moral imperative) to prevent future illness in people who're 20 today where the symptoms will become visible 30-50 years down the road?

What is that incentive, and how is it stronger than the incentive to create jobs or lower prices right now for people who vote today by allowing some environment-destroying industry to expand, said expansion being the cause of future illness (a hypothetical or maybe not entirely hypothetical example)?
The author is making one fundamental mistake in their analysis of the apple watch: it's a fashion piece, not a gadget. If you look at it as a gadget; it will come up short, because it's lacking for all reasons they identified.

Just take a look at their pages for it: http://www.apple.com/watch/apple-watch/ tons of focus on the physical design details, with the actual interface and such taking the back seat.

And with prices ranging from $349 to $17K, it's pretty easy to see it's more fashion than practical.

The fact is, there is a market of people who want this & who bought this, and that's what matters. Yes, it's role as a gadget is questionable, and you certainly do not need it for anything; but people like it anyway.

I don't know that it will flop, in the end. Battery life and features will improve, and new versions will come out that people will buy. Eventually it'll do phone calls and probably have a camera, which will have a whole Dick Tracy appeal to it.
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Anyone care to tl;dr this or give a comparison with bitcoin?

Most of this stuff is way over my head.

I'm about to go to bed, but I'll definitely give it a read in the morning.
Because nuclear weapons aren't a byproduct of this kind of reactor, and that renders it useless in the eyes of politician-warmongers.
That was a controversial decision; typesafe is not always entirely aligned with the wider community.

And you're not exactly contradicting me. They are an "advanced" feature partly because they're not found in (many) other languages.
Don't use awk for parsing XML/JSON, there are excellent tools like html-xml-utils or jq that already do that well:

$ sudo apt-get install html-xml-utils jq

$ curl 'https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=cake' | hxclean \
| hxselect .web-result:first-child .snippet

$ curl apy.projectjj.com/listPairs | jq .responseData[0]

Though I'd typically use Python's BeautifulSoup for anything major with html, there's just too much bad html out there ;)
Deploying Linux apps on Windows Server is easier these days (Hyper-V).

If you really need decent POSIX OS on Windows just use virtualiztion.
People who believe that nuclear reactors are so great and safe can probably save a lot of money by renting property next to a nuclear reactor. Have you done so? Would you like a reactor to be built next to your house?
I find myself extremely frustrated by this website. Where is a code-sample, or any description of how it works, or what it is? Why this strange "tour"? Just put all the information on the first page!