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I was expecting something about a monk who had to report to two masters at the same time; but as he reported, the state changed, so they were never synced.

These are not the koans I was looking for.
Have you seen Microsoft's Mayhem project? They open sourced it, nobody seemed to notice it existed, and then they abandoned it.

I'm using it to run my home automation system right now.
Is there anything similar in U.S.A ?
Wolfram himself has a far more detailed write-up on the development of SMP and Mathematica.

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2013/06/there-was-a-time-befo...

It might be biased or self-serving but it's more interesting than an offhand USENET recollection about a brilliant and arrogant young man.
Are you joking? Because I don't see how can you reply to my completely legitimate opinion with name-calling and pretend statistics about how you supposedly represent "95%" of HN and not be joking.
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Bicycle storage systems (indoor vertical space? outdoor enclosures?)

Bicycle security.

Foldable / Transportable Bicycles.
But, freedom!
I use Vassal to play and spectate Twilight Struggle -- hell of a lot easier than trying to find people in my area who are willing and able to play :)

Side note: interesting example of how not to manage a delayed Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/559431060/twilight-stru... -- the vitriol in this thread is pretty ridiculous.
Did the taxis protesting against Uber in NYC made the US a no-go for entrepreneur?
If not, why would it for France...
Make a working prototype AND make it public?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9797482
I'm interested as well, but I can't help but laugh at the fact that we're asking about ways to reduce the size of an 8MB production operating system/stack.
This is really great question. Love to see the calculation done to arrive at the numbers.
If the SF projects aren't being updated, then what's the issue? The information is, by definition, static.
And lets not forget the various unions for the ports who seem to be one of the major problems for shipping.
The nice thing about time standards is that there are so many to choose from!

One drawback of your approach is that I can't just see if a time = 0 mod 60 to check if we are on a minute boundary.

Your way is what is used by the GPS network, IIRC, and it works for them, so there you go.
Is there a standard method called "fault tree analysis" ?
Vassal seems to be the best way to stream board games over twitch. Love it.
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The food is rather nice.
Country? Where did you read that the entire country population is against Uber? It is actually the contrary... It is just that taxis were super violent during their protests (which definitely didn't help their case).
There is not a "high amount" of programs unavailable in BSD.

There are specialized programs that need some Linux-specific syscalls which won't run on it. That's about it.
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Isn't one big difference between a lender and an investor the default risk? If we were talking about investors taking a bath, then I'd agree - but screwing with the relative safety of loans... that could have much further reaching consequences. Also, the suffering of the Greeks - are we to just trot out the whole "will of the governed" when it is convenient for the position that we support? That is really the only good thing I see coming out of this, that a people who feels abused will retire the popular idea of where a democracy derives its power.
is it worth the size?
I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who has used any of these services.

Of course, they're not super relevant to this thread: factoring companies assess the creditworthiness of clients. Most startups have no credit.
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I used to do the same thing. Went to the gym instead.
npf is not pf, if that's what you're implying (can't tell?)
There are, of course, other lines of businesses for start-ups to get into.

It is probably true that if you're looking to disrupt how employment markets function, France is probably not a great place to focus your initial efforts. But there are lots of ways to make money outside of that.
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Lower competition - my favorite lie that I hear told in every EU country. EU is not lower competition from the entrepreneur's perspective. Anywhere in the EU is vastly higher competition.

- Unless you're doing a hyper-local product, you're competing on the global scale.

- The ratio of active investors versus serious entrepreneurs is far, far worse in France than in Silicon Valley.

- Getting good people in France to join your startup is very easy. Getting the absolute best people in the world, that's tough. Not because they don't exist in France. It's because the absolute best people want to leave France. Top talent wants to move to the #1 best place in the world for their industry, no less.

The lifecycle of a (non-lifestyle) startup anywhere in the EU is far harder than it is in Silicon valley, at every stage.

If the government continues to add serious benefits, and many other changes happen though, the balance could maybe start to shift.
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CloudFlare has an approach that may scale to the levels you are looking for; rather than storing the logs, they analyze and rollup the expected responses in realtime, and store additional detail for items that appear anomalous. John Graham-Cumming performed a talk on this topic earlier this month at dotScale:

http://www.thedotpost.com/2015/06/john-graham-cumming-i-got-...

Here is the related HN thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9778986

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We need a DBA in a box.

I'm setting up a brand new postgres solution to replace an existing highly-tuned MSSQL solution, and the pain points are all down to differing performance profiles. I have an SeoKeywordsProfile query that takes 3.5 seconds in MSSQL, and >12 hrs on postgres. Clearly there's an index that would solve my problem, but the query is 3 pages of SQL with no whitespace!

There's https://github.com/cohenjo/pg_idx_advisor, but it only works on one specific release of postgres and not on any other.

I'd like something that could just monitor my database for a fixed period of time and tell me what indexes aren't being used, what indexes ought to be used, and make any other suggestions that might help (partition this table, vacuum that table, etc).
Yeah ... there is a ton of research out there on multi-sensor fusion; super-resolution & synthetic viewpoint reconstruction.

Even the buzzword-du-jour is getting involved[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cizgVZ8rjKA&feature=youtu.be
"We heavily explored what we thought was every possibility, ran simulations and did the math and came to the conclusion that he was just incredibly lucky."
ROTFL
Could "High Frequency Trading As A Service" be a thing? Someone provides the infrastructure and a nice API to talk with the market and runs your algorithms on their hyperfast computers at the heart of the stock exchange for a fee.
Its not hard to choose either. Hope v. No Hope.

Greece tried austerity for 5 years - its not working out.

Greece will hopefully try something new.
They need to work on a startup, speak English and stay at least six months in France.

Interesting. I expected speak French or English..
The largest factor is probably bigger planes. Southwest started out flying 737-200s; their fleet is now mostly 737-700s and 737-800s.
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That doesn't make much sense.

If they have a legit exploit, then kicking them will just make them create a new account. Or perhaps distribute the +EV betting over a bunch of accounts so that it was much harder to detect.

If they don't have an exploit, then you want them to keep betting and lose. And if you have no real basis for kicking them, then, what, your casino just doesn't pay out people that win big?

The casino's only real option here was to discover the exploit.
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Funny that the plea is for 5 hours of TV consumption rather than 5 hours of labor per day.
I meant lower competition for talent.
My uncle used to work for a major EE conglomerate selling telephone systems to countries. Are you talking on a scale like this, or something else?
My guess would be estimates of the size of the adult population, and the amount of alcoholic drinks produced and imported.
> Recursion is rarely a good idea

In the first branch, can compilers really not eliminate a tail call?

> What happens?

A stack overflow, presumably.
The ideas in this article:

1. Contain a grain of truth
2. Might be better understood by reading Csikszentmihalyi (or Heidegger, for that matter)
3. Come in sets of three
> If practically all users believe that the same answer is 'obviously correct', compiler writes might want to take this into account

The problem with this democratic approach is that most users are not qualified such that their opinion is particularly valuable.

The small minority who doesn't find it "obviously correct" may actually in some cases be the minority with a clue.

It could work if only those users are given a vote who pass a language lawyer exam.
Vassal has been used to play over a thousand different games for a decade now. It'll take Tabletop Simulator a while to get anywhere near that much traction.
The pro-open-plan side is armed with hard numbers; cost-per-employee for one buildout vs. another is easy to measure up front. The anti-open-plan side has no way of generating the equivalent numbers for lost productivity and even their best attempts at estimating them (relying on studies, etc.) are vulnerable to being dismissed as "just guessing". Hard numbers win over soft numbers.
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Yeah, I guess it depends on how good your constraints engine is versus what your constraints actually are. If your actual constraints can't be modeled, or if you choose not to model them at the database layer (e.g. for performance reasons) then you have to implement the constraints somewhere else.

I worked on a database that allowed (almost) every table to mark a row as deleted with a boolean-type column. This caused problems when you wanted to create a new row that had the same values for the table's key-columns as a deleted row. You can't just add the deleted column to the key and have all the functionality you want (multiple deleted rows with the same values in the table's key-columns). Each table could use (or not) the flag in different ways and there was no simple way to enforce consistent behavior across all tables. The constraint has to be placed somewhere else, either in explicit code, or by creating new abstractions inside the database that allow you to represent the actual constraints of your application.
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Enough in the sense that I've got everything I need, but not enough in the sense that I have everything I want.
Yes. It's a good source of information about languages of the world and SIL (the organization behind it) is the authority for ISO 639-3 language codes[1]. Some experts criticize[2] their approaches on what should be classified as a language and what should not (and should remain in the realm of dialects) as well as religious missionary background of the organization.

[1]: http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/

[2]: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/19/science/how-linguists-and-...

Edit: Correct footnote numbering.
> that's what most people are familiar with (if they are familiar with computer architectures in the first place)

They're not. There's really only two kinds of people here—those who are unfamiliar with computer architecture (99% of the population), and those who are familiar with Von Neumann architecture, and know that it's not the only game in town.
Yelp has been accused (with some convincing evidence) of running a protection racket. Phoning companies and offering to make their negative reviews less visible. When the company refuses, their positive reviews are 'flagged for review' or similar, affecting their score.

I have no evidence to support this, but it has been corroborated by people you can easily search for.
https://easyvoting.co/ is a solution that tackles this.
So taxis in Paris protest against a multibillion dollar company and suddenly the entire country of France is against startups ?
I agree that France is probably not the best country to launch a startup but this is a pretty poor argument.
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This is a difficult conversation to have for many reasons.

1. Driving culture and infrastructure are different from city to city

2. Individuals behave differently

3. People are very passionate and emotional

4. The data is difficult and everything is very situational

As a cyclist in Portland Oregon, I do feel it is safe to run red lights and stop signs in certain scenarios without being an ass about it. The key to it is awareness and agility. Cyclists have more awareness than car drivers, they can see and hear more than a driver. Second, a bicyclist is going slower and is able to turn out of the way and stop much more easily.

Of course cyclist don't want to stop their momentum, that makes sense. Of course there is risk involved. I'd rather focus on how to educate people to ride and drive safely. Our driving culture in the U.S.A is very aggressive and dangerous. We need safer streets and everyone needs to make an effort.
Many people wouldn't even notice "he" used for a person of unknown gender. In the spirit of equality, some use "she" instead to subvert this male-default.

In fact, the article uses male pronouns for the user -- did you think to ask how they know?
That's right; estimates of imports of alcoholic drinks are actually fairly accurate because 18th century governments had a very strong financial incentive to keep track of them due to tariffs and special taxes. (I've studied that a bit myself in the context of shipments of medicinal drugs between Portugal and colonial Brazil). I would guess that estimates for domestic production within colonial North America are much more impressionistic though.
I'm currently working on VC backed solution to this problem and I'd love to chat in order to get your thoughts and requirements. PM me and we'll chat!
I'm hesitant to say, this but...

Consensus amongst economists, is like saying consensus amongst weathermen. You need look no further than recent history. If the past 10 years (or longer if you please) have taught us anything, its that economists can be dangerously wrong. Especially if the issues are at all political.
I've looked into this issue specifically for piping, as it happens. From my perspective one of the issues with 'solving' this is basically: https://xkcd.com/927/

At the place I worked we had 3 different supplier databases, each one having been introduced to replace the last, which was never fully phased out.
I wonder that you're forgetting that this is an entire VM. Including all the other bits necessary to function, such as a networking stack, web server, etc. it's not really fair to compare it with just OpenSSL this way. It should really be compared with a full Linux stack+OpenSSL (which is at least one order of magnitude larger, and probably more like two).

Having said that, yes there are ways to make it even smaller. We're working on getting the pieces right first.
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> Why is it Yelp's responsibility to provide Google access to their data in order to get a fair playground in "Search"?

You're asking why it's a site's responsibility to ensure a search engine can index them in order for them to appear in the index. Your question presupposes that no information is required for Yelp to be featured in results. This is fallacious.

> I think Yelp is exactly right to want to protect their data from Google, and I think they're right in fighting this.

That is not what Yelp is fighting for. They want Google to link to their site, but without scraping any data. Such a thing would obviously have to be a manual edit to the ranking database and I can't believe you'd want that.
The biggest concern I have, is I haven't found one of these that really meets all my needs. I want it self-hosted, it has to be expandable with plugins, and it needs to have a wide enough userbase and dev community for plugins to be actively developed and maintained.

Mayhem, as I mentioned, is really cool (for Windows), and it has plugins, but since it isn't maintained, it's limited. It supports doing INSTEON actions, but not listening for INSTEON events, and the types of modules it can handle are limited. I had to get a separate program (PopTrayU) to check my email, because Microsoft only built a plugin for Outlook, which isn't installed on the machine I run it on.

A lot of these, bip.io included, are more heavily dependent on cloud services. If I wanted to use cloud services, I'd use IFTTT. I want self-hosted alternatives. (Why would I need a Trello plugin or a Slack plugin if I like self-hosting my data?!?! I don't mind them existing, but there should be self-hosted options here.)
You make a good point, I'd like XP to go away too, but people are still running it and sans patches it is getting even worse than you describe by the day.
EDIT: Mis-read your comment. Far less square footage is true, but the "far less" is not that much less. In the best case, it's a few scant square feet. In the worst (250 for a president-sized office, 60 for an exceptionally cramped open office footprint), it's still only about 190 square feet - which comes to around $19k a year. Still a pittance compared to the other costs of the employee.

ORIGINAL: The cost per person scales directly with the cost per square footage - that's the only practical difference between an employee in an open office and in an individual office (well, discounting potential increase production and fewer sick days).

There's going to be some additional up-front construction costs when you first take over a space, but when amortized over the fifteen years (which is how the accountants will book those costs), it's going to end up being pretty small.

What other costs do you feel that I'm missing?
I wish they would decouple the money from the visa; so they can hand out more visas. I would be interested to live some time in France while I bootstrap a business. I don't need money from the government, actually I will bring my own...that's why countries should be more lenient with visas for entrepreneurs
In my opinion, the answer depends on rephrasing the question.

If your question is "Should I ditch WP for Ghost for blogging only?", then the answer may be Yes.

But if your question is "Should I ditch WP for ghost and even though I am starting with a blog right now, I may need many additional features a.k.a Plugins in coming future", then the answer is Most likely No. It is hard to beat the maturity and ecosystem of WP functionality and plugins which is the biggest reason why WP is so popular.
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Yes, I know several bands that do decent businesses booking weddings and other events through GigMasters.
whats the problem?
Having lived in France for four years trying to start a company, I can say, without question, this would be the worst idea for anyone who is serious about starting a company.

Most french LEAVE france because of how byzantine and insane the laws are towards companies (let alone startups).
The danger of having people who aren't specialized is just as great as the danger of having people too specialized.

Backend and frontend concerns are completely different, and it's fiction that you can simply wave those concerns aside and write the same sort of software anywhere in your stack.
To pick your nit, note that they specifically said reading an uninitialized or partially initialized variable, not reading the address of the same.
Lots of ways to make money without breaking the law.
If you have no working model of what is/is not correct how do you determine anomalous responses?

To Expand:

This method is already used in data logging compression (slightly) where one stores channel delta's/time stamps. Reconstructing the value ad-hoc when necessary. This is a good way to compress non-violalitle datasets.

I've actually watched the talk already. And while it seems to apply the problem is it doesn't. Every data point is important, because the real problem is comparing different tests, with time between tests to attempt to get an idea of how hardware ages. Or to test componenet swaping, where a known test is performed on several different items and in post processing the results are compared. To use the suggest method your storage solution requires knowledge of whats being stored.

:.:.:

The goal is to unify these storage solutions, and present a unified front end for querying/report generation.
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They also license brands(i.e. recently acquired skymall)

Here is a blogpost I wrote about them. http://www.davidmelamed.com/2013/11/22/what-customers-really...

Here is a Fast Company feature about them http://www.fastcompany.com/3021229/chaim-pikarski-the-amazon...
It might have been a limitation on my services or a misconfig on my part, but I have my ghost instance crash a couple of times, and was unable to recover it. I love the interface, but haven't reinstalled it until I could test it on another hosting platform. I think it is a quick and simple way to get setup and start blogging.
> If the compiler was able to determine that there is a code path whereby j might be undefined, should it be allowed to remove the body of the loop, even in those cases where the programmer knows by other means that "j >= 1"?

No; rather, the correct logic is that compiler must preserve the body of the loop if there exists the possibility that it can be reached by a valid code path without any undefined behavior (j is defined, and so forth). Only if the compiler can prove that no well-defined execution path can reach the body can it remove it.

(A bad idea to do without any warning, though. If undefined behavior is confirmed, it should be diagnosed.)
If this is the case, we should appeal to the author's sense of decency.

The concept of 'koan' is far too unique and beautiful to be watered down.
Perhaps the best property of ANKOS is that it is a clear demonstration of what sort of trouble you can get into when a book doesn't have an (effective) editor.

I'm certain there is a small, interesting, well written book hiding in all that verbiage somewhere, but it's well hidden.
I agree with you in general, but specifically, how is this statement offensive? It seems pretty obvious to me that if someone has less stuff, they won't have to spend as much time taking care of said stuff, and that some people may make some bad calls to care for their valuable stuff in an emergency situation instead of focusing solely on their own safety or their family's safety. We see it so often that it needs to be mentioned in fire safety drills that you shouldn't dawdle around in a burning building to collect your stuff, and that you hear of people in evacuation areas staying behind because they don't want to leave their homes.

I was reading a book the other day about a guy who chose to sell most of his possessions and live in a van with his wife, and he had several stories of being able to simply drive away from emergency situations, where the people with more stuff were (or felt) stuck and had to suffer through it. He drove away from power outages, flood areas, fire areas, etc. For this and other reasons, he felt a lot happier and safer than when he lived a life with a lot more stuff.