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Author here. I made Small Basic when I was in MS in 2008. My goal then was to remove programming language ceremony (imports, defs, etc.) and get to instant gratification.

There are several others that are keeping it alive with a well maintained blog (https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=sm...) and a friendly forum that welcomes programmers of all age and expertise.

There's even a strong community in a Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/smallbasic/)

PS: I need to find a better host for the website.
That is true, but it still seems to not follow. I could "breach my duty" to shareholders simply by being negligent.
re: (2), jenkins is open source and the one you should use regardless.
Careful, I bought some and they were worse versions than I played. Can't recall the details, but I think KQ5 was not the CD version and KQ4 was the original graphics with some game ending bugs version too. Maybe GoG updated them since.
You actually can. Look into TCP slow start and backoff, congestion avoidance, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_congestion-avoidance_algor...
I think that they have a list of approved ISPs or some dependable way to make sure it doesn't happen on metered connections.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/windows-update...

"As with Windows 8.1, Windows 10 won't automatically download updates or apps if it detects that your PC is using a metered connection. Similarly, Delivery Optimization won’t automatically download or send parts of updates or apps to other PCs on the Internet if it detects that you're using a metered connection."
http://thediplomat.com/2014/07/china-is-spying-on-rimpac/

"“It has not entered the territorial seas of the U.S. and it is in accordance with international law regarding freedom of navigation,” Capt. James said in a statement released to the Wall Street Journal. He explained that the ship was in Hawaii’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The U.S. maintains that freedom of navigation for all international ships extend to countries’ EEZs, and it has long maintained ships inside China’s EEZ."

Thanks for playing.
I'm going to sound like an apologist, but the Cold War nuclear miltary-political calculus was very different pre-ICMB+MAD on both sides of the Soviet-US split.

SLBMs were just being developed in the early 60s, and so Cuban-based missiles represented a novel, more credible first-strike threat given distance (~20 minutes flight time).
RedHat and Samsung open source contributions aren't really comparable, despite the latter having got much better lately. Despite me being a long time Debian user, I've always appreciated how RedHat employees have always been community members first and RH employees second.

Note that systemd was not pushed to anything: several members of the various open source communities appreciated their features and considered it worth to be used and even made the default. Please read the long, technical and detailed discussion Debian had before choosing systemd as their default init system while still providing sysvinit as a supported choice: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=727708

Also Intel developers didn't design GNOME 3 for touch screens. Sure, Clutter development was at some point carried on by Intel, but most of the GNOME design comes from RedHat and volunteers. That said, it's true that GNOME cares for keyboard, mouse and touch interaction: and I'm very happy that they care about touch, thanks to them using the touchscreen on my new laptop has been a pleasure.

To answer your concerns, both systemd and GNOME see a big investment from RedHat in their development, but the developers are influencing RedHat's choices more than the opposite. Keep also in mind that a huge number of contributions still comes from non-RedHat developers for both systemd and GNOME, at the moment there's no risk that the company will drag these projects where their maintainers don't want to go.
I'm intrigued but, upon Googling, pretty at sea with all the vocabulary. Is there an explain-like-I'm-slightly-above-five for Wittgenstein's critique of set theory? It seems like he doesn't like infinity very much?
Or perhaps the default should have been "PCs on my local network."

I knew this feature was coming (wasn't paying attention to the details of it, though) and actually thought it is a great feature for actually "reducing" bandwidth usage.
Technical Interviews as Socratic Teaching
Wittgenstein was primarily interested in the linguistic applications of logic. IMO, he wasn't on the same level as Whitehead, Russell, or Curry; let alone Hilbert, Gödel, and Zermelo.

And maybe it's just my experience, but Wittgenstein was always shoved down our throats in my undergraduate and graduate classes, whereas people may have never even heard of Jan Łukasiewicz or Stephen Kleene.
Remind me again why people on HN are so keen to embrace Microsoft?

Seems like they're still up to the same dirty, user-hostile tricks as they've always been since the 90's.
The experiment with sautéed kale and spinach is worth a try. If it is made too soft though, it may not slow down digestion much.

I hypothesize that a mix of coarse vegetables, for example, one that includes broccoli, kale, red cabbage, and cauliflower, would slow down the digestion rate even more than 10 oz of kale. Replacing the kale with dino kale would make this mix even better.

I didn't drink soda with the meal, simply because I don't normally drink soda with this meal, but an experiment with a caffeinated beverage would be easy enough to do.

One of the things we're working on is quantifying how different things, such as caffeine intake, affect your metabolic rate. This is the subject of an upcoming blog post.
Another point to notice is, they are probably doing this to save money on bandwidth, at the cost of the user. Commercial bandwidth connections are usually at a "wholesale" price, and consumer connections are really really expensive. They might be able to save less than a cent for every dollar users lose because of this feature.
Meanings aren't found, because they aren't an aspect of the outside world but of our mental landscape. Meanings are invented by human beings and then imposed upon the outside world. As a result, I'm sure some people have already imposed a meaning upon everything in their mental landscape, while others have not. It helps if you limit your mental landscape to only those things to which you can readily impose a meaning you find convenient and desirable, and ignore the rest of the outside world.
Why would Panama or Egypt want to block China?
Don't you actually have to specify that your connection is metered in order to that to work?

I think it's for tagging things like wireless hotspot, etc.
Same question was submitted 20 minutes earlier and is in top position on the 'Ask HN' page currently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9982884
I feel this will do more for the open web than apples non-support for flash. I think it's fantastic.
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I'm not sure I understand your comment. Are you proposing to move all the systemd features in the kernel? Why do you think it would be a good idea.

Note that one of the stated goals for systemd is to make good use of all the new fancy features are already available in the Linux kernel but not many people use because they are not portable (eg. control groups). Also note that some cool features have already been merged in the Linux the kernel after the systemd developers created them (eg. memfd).
Incredible, how does this all fit with Microsoft's 'Scroogled' campaign ?
With Windows 10, Microsoft sells you out
They do not really control the senkaku islands. At least not from chinese POV :P

And yes Dokdo (Takeshima in Japan) is a big thing in Korea.
We live by these things in the clinical lab, though we know them as the copyrighted version, the "Westgard rules". Glad to have the original, thanks!
The primary use is for the local network where this is rather a nice benefit – no CDN is going to help when you have a fixed amount of bandwidth divided by every Windows PC in the building.

It'd be interesting to see how it handles nearby node discovery since e.g. the average cable modem user often has far more bandwidth in their neighborhood compared to their ISP's uplink.
This is at best incomplete, armchair science, and at worst dangerous. The founders are all entrepreneurs / engineers, which is to say they don't have a medical degree or any expertise in biochemistry, so their argument is on the whole just skewed to deliver the argument that suits them - which is, "can I stuff enough kale in my mouth to slow down the release of insulin, and therefore reduce blood glucose".

Here's a few other things that reducing insulin does:

1. Decreases amino acid uptake

2. Decreases potassium uptake

3. Reduces brain insulin signaling, reducing control of energy homeostatis.

Insulin, in isolation, isn't bad. It helps increase muscle and improves cognition. What is bad is the way it fluctuates in the body and the ability for the body to regulate glucose and insulin efficiently. It's perfectly normal for a healthy individual to have a blood glucose reading of 140-150 after a carb-heavy meal. The key is how long does it take for their glucose to reduce back down to healthy levels (70-100). If it's 2 hours or less, you're fine. If it's longer than that, now you've got issues. Even then, acute blood glucose levels can vary wildly from individual to individual, particularly if they're on a ketogenic diet low in carbs, and that may report actually higher than normal (because you're constantly looking to the body to make glucose instead of food, so basal levels must remain higher).

Fear not glucose and insulin. Fear insulin resistance and glucose intolerance.

So getting back to the title of the article, the more practical way of making Five Guys less fattening is not to surround a burger in a basket of kale in your stomach, but to either (A) not eat the burger in the first place or (B) improve your insulin resistance/glucose tolerance. All that the article's experiment would do (in reality) is reduce your desire to eat a burger because your stomach is filled with kale - slow or fast, your body still had to break down and consume that burger. But if you exercise, eat right most of the time, and keep your vices in moderation, your improved lipid profile, fasting insulin, fasting glucose (and A1C), and insulin resistance/glucose tolerance will allow you to more efficiently process that burger so it is not as taxing on your body as it would be if you were not as healthy.
If they were going to change anything, I think the LAN-only policy they employ for Enterprise and Education should probably be the default.

That said, instead of changing anything I'd so much rather see MS take this and run with it, working with ISPs to help them understand that this traffic should be exempt (or even rewarded as a bandwidth credit) because it'll lower ISP costs and improve customer satisfaction simlutaneously.
> systemd was not introduced to decrease boot time

Might wish to check your history a bit. From the horse's mouth:

"Unfortunately, the traditional SysV init system was not particularly fast."

In fact, if you read the entire blog post, the biggest gripe Pottering keeps repeating is how slow SysVInit is, and how to address that.

http://0pointer.net/blog/projects/systemd.html

> Totally made up. systemd's DBus library provides equivalent support for usermode DBus and kdbus.

Well, it is no longer optional to compile in systemd; it can still be deactivated at run time, but the code (and checks to see which one should be used) will always be there.
Moving our Wercker CI to the new Docker stack
Ask HN: Using Git as an EMR?
I'll leave this open ended; but what are the HN community's thoughts on using git as an EMR, at least for writing history and physical documents, and keeping track of medical data such as medication, orders, and testing results?
What does the "Internet Civil Mark" mean?

Aside from the reprehensible precedent and philosophy engendered by this proposal, it seems the implementation details are something akin to insane, i.e. "Any site that allows exposure of ideas would have to store this information of its members." That certainly seems far from a "simple requirement", nor does it seem very wise from a security and liability standpoint for site operators.
Yep, 'Scroogled' they called it.
If a Microsoft can get away with sharing customers resources like this, could a bank do the same? When forming an account, they add some default opt-out service to "share" resources between accounts in order to help people get a better loan experience.
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It's in private beta and we're looking for someone to head marketing.

If anyone's interested (or want some beta invites), feel free to drop an email to hi@scroogeup.com
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> Classes might not be what everybody needs but this pretending that hello world can be written in 1 line is just inviting people to write sloppy code.

IMV, sloppy unstructured code is a fine place for many (especially very young) programmers to start, and it simplifies the onramp significantly (and, actually, for simple scripts, relatively unstructured code in python is sufficient for lots of real-world uses, too.)

if __name__ == "__main__"

...is the k of thing you need only if you are deliberately designing something to be used as both a script and a library, which there are very good reasons to do for many real world python files, but it certainly is not universally necessary. And using classes for hello world is excessive Java-ism.
Stock prices are more complex than that. In general they don't follow normal distribution.

Then they have some sort of trend.

Then they might be autocorrelated.

Then sometimes they have some seasonality.

Also different time series are correlated between them to some degree..
My internet connection has been very slow today. I suspect a lot of Windows 7/8 users got their Win10 upgrade over P2P.
from __future__ import print_function
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Russia and Venezuela had a joint military exercise in the Caribbean sea last year, it made the news, but not much else.
>> A military conflict that would be launched by China so far away from it's coastline makes no sense where US has dozens of nearby bases

How does a military conflict between China and US even look like, I always thought it immediately escalates to nuclear war.
Author of the post here. I agree. But that has always been the case. My best understanding is that AWS focuses on system correctness and leaves experience to the ecosystem.
For feedback, you want "Show HN" rather than "Ask HN" so it will get listed under "show" in the HN top menu. The rules for doing a "Show HN" submission are here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

I don't use WordPress, so I won't be able to help much. One thing I did notice on your site was the use of the word "opinionated" to describe your plugin. (i.e. "Pluginator is an opinionated scaffolding tool"). I know what a scaffolding tool is, but I do not know what an "opinionated scaffolding tool" is. The term "opinionated" tends to have an aggressive and negative connotation/association that you might be better off avoiding.
‘Big Environmental Data’: 5 Key Insights from 5 Minutes with Dr. Paul Jepson
The slide illustrations are brilliant. Refreshing to see that level of art direction at a tech conference.
I'm interested to see where this concept goes, particularly in its stated mission to provide an educational experience for the underserved. Most non-traditional students, no matter how motivated, simply don't have the time or resources to trudge their way through the traditional college experience. Should we not be concerned about educating them as possible as well? I believe so, and some of the barriers to traditional college for someone in their 30's, say, requiring a student be physically onsite, just seem absurd.

I think it's also important to note that this is not intended as an all-out replacement of traditional colleges, just a potential alternative. In an institution as old and important as this, cultivating innovation rather than hiding from it is absolutely vital.
> it would be neat to see an open technology solution for the purposes of monitoring

It's trivial to do so. Decay of Cs-137 releases a 662 keV gamma ray that is easily measured and the count rate is proportional to the source activity (or ultimately the total amount of Cs-137 present). You can calibrate an inexpensive NaI detector such that it will tell you how much Cs-137 is in a given volume of water. If you place it next to a pipe that has a constant flow rate, you can infer the average amount of Cs-137 in the liquid flowing through the pipe. It's something that you can build in an afternoon if you know what you're doing and have the equipment.

This is pretty much how they monitor liquids for contamination in a real plant, except they use more detailed spectral measurements to monitor multiple isotopes. If you ever have the rare opportunity to go into a reactor control room, there will be a display somewhere that reads out this exact measurement.
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That's 700 million potential factory workers, military support staff, and soldiers, and the factories are already built, US companies paid for many of them.
In theory, China could build islands across the pacific and setup bases and missiles along the US west coast.

The average depth of the Pacific Ocean is over 14,000 ft (almost exactly 4.3 km).

That's a lot of dredging.
> * sysv removed http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/NEWS?id=2d1...

> We have won. Now remove all remains of our defeated enemy as fast as we can. As said in the beginning of the systemd crusade against the UNIX infidels: »You can patch it out.« It is no more there.

Are we really complaining that LSB script support has been moved out of PID1 to a separate binary? Wasn't one of the major point for critics that systemd has too much in PID1?
'Arguably'.
Why would you give filth a name at all [0]? I would not trust any news source that gives a name to filth, especially one still based on a name it calls itself.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehumanization
I work for a company that is solving this problem. We sell electronically controlled locker banks that the carriers deliver to: http://luxerone.com
I would LOVE to see some form of PANDA integration with a tool like this. https://github.com/moyix/panda
Having this kind of analysis on a PANDA replay / snapshot would be great.

The combination of the two would be a perfect reverse engineering toolbox. This is great on its own and to use side by side though.
1) No installation, compilation, or packaging required

2) Runs essentially everywhere

3) Practical (lots of jobs, syntax is close to that of other important languages)

4) Easy to share your creations with friends (see 1 above)

5) Has REPL, garbage collection, closures, objects, recursion, anonymous functions... soon to have TCO.

6) Can be a compilation target for other languages

7) Good libraries for media, 3D graphics

8) Hard for a beginner to trash the machine (at least with browser-based JS, Node of course is a different story)

Yeah, it's pretty ugly in spots (it's certainly not as aesthetically pleasing as Scheme), but there are some real advantages there.
This is addressed in the article:

"Now, in his conversation with Frodo, Bombadil implies (but avoids directly stating) that he had heard of their coming from Farmer Maggot and from Gildor’s elves (both of whom Frodo had recently described). But that also makes no sense. Maggot lives west of the Brandywine, remained there when Frodo left, and never even knew that Frodo would be leaving the Shire. And if Elrond knows nothing of Bombadil, how can he be a friend of Gildor’s?

What do we know about Tom Bombadil? He lies."

The only word we have is Bombadil's. Not that I buy this interpretation, but your complaint is addressed there.
I think that the other guys point is that the US has enough influence in both these countries to cause them to block their canals to Chinese trade.
Do you know any male nurses?

There actually are things driving men out of the field. Look at how many head nurses are male. Men in nursing is a problem as well. But this isn't NurseNews, it's HackerNews.
Actually, Win10 looks a whole lot more subversively aggressive in the quest for "user convenience". Free upgrade! ads in you Start menu. Friends easily join your secured network! by offering password to anyone who asks. Better upgrade distributions! by choking your bandwidth and abusing data caps. Every objectionable feature can be turned off! if you have any idea it's on, and nigh-unto-punitive limitations imposed for opting out.

IIRC, Bill Gates famously sent a memo amounting to "you've got to be kidding me" regarding user experience in a current/new version. Maybe it's time for a repeat.
I guess it is mostly a matter of taste, like whether one favors functional programming or imperative programming. Set theory is being used successfully in formal systems, so in principle there is nothing wrong with it.
> Nothing will educate people about the difference between protocol and content like making a ton of customers angry by banning them without cause.

When people think of torrenting copyrighted material as some sort of talent that they are proud to have (I've meet plenty of people who are actually feel proud/clever to torrent games/movies/shows) - they honestly think Comcast is/would be a bad company for disconnecting them.

At an undisclosed university they had a wireless system which you had to login with your university login. Students would login (thus giving the ability to track usage to the individual student) and torrent copyrighted material (they actually had to send out a campus wide email about it telling people to stop). That's how out of touch with logic people are. To my knowledge no student was prosecuted but if the RIAA/MPAA was angry enough I'm sure a lot of students would have a really bad day.

My point being - they won't be able to understand why the ISP is banning them - they will just think it's unfair.
This is indeed true; read any interview with Carmack from right before HW acceleration became mandatory.
I was impressed by the efficiency of it too, does anyone have any idea how the creator did it?
Advertising works because most people are not consciously present most of the time. But one can learn to distinguish oneself from ones default thoughts, which are just recordings that get cued up by triggers. And be present.
Pretty cool, I wonder how the features compare to IDA pro. The graph view from the screenshots looks nice.
It seems that that would trigger a different set of problems - confidentiality issues, rather than conflict of interest. So yes, still bad, but a different rule-set, perhaps?
It's actually not that noisy normally, just the clatter of keyboards.... until there are problems with something, then it can become pretty active. Most people stick with Hipchat or email for routine communications like getting stuck on debugging a piece of code or where to eat lunch -- unless they are talking in one of the break rooms, or they duck into one of the conference rooms. People tend to be pretty cognizant of the open office so if you hear people talking, it's generally something worth listening to.
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With ICBMs with 12,000 mile range, it doesn't either.
Is anyone compiling a list of the settings I'll need to check when I finally make the jump from Windows 7 to 10 in a few months? I'd like to be on a newer OS, but between this and Cortana and some sort of XBL overlay that apparently messes with game performance, I'm going to need to do research into the optimal setup first.
Is this because of the "trading" element? Otherwise it would be divulging company secrets?
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