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I wonder how "real" is this "safe space" trend that the US is talking about lately. Is it an actual thing or a passing trend which will be forgotten till summer?

In any case its one of the weirdest things ever, older generations accusing the younger of not being radical enough. Perhaps the youths are right though, some freedoms are just too much, we don't need to exert them, the same way we don't need privacy anymore. There is value in safety, familiarity, coziness, instead of being out in the open wind. It's perhaps some kind of alienation towards multiculturalism/multiethnicism, and the constant bickering that comes with democracy.

Safe spaces come at a cost though, as they inevitably turn to a form of terrorism, radical religious extremist groups for example begin with the formation of safe walled gardens in their communities.
Any lawyers here? Would this be considered monopolistic behavior? Or a constitutional violation?
Oh wow, that’s ridiculous! Facebook attacking Telegram to such an extent leaves a really bad taste in my mouth.
I was being facetious.
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As a die hard tester, my first question would be, "what price points did you test?"

$299, $399, $499?

For example, you said you have a 0.6% conversion rate and $99 price point point. Perhaps your conversion rate at $499 would drop to 0.3% but even so you just dramatically increased your profit

Often times mispricing (either too high or too low) is why startups fail.
> We should also add that this move is not a knee-jerk reaction to the recent certificate expiration problems that affected so many Mac App Store customers.

Any good link/background about this?
Don't you think they'd find it insulting that you are holding them to a lower standard?
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Good. The other day the App Store was down and I couldn't use half of my downloaded apps because they failed "verification". I'll be happy as a clam to see more developers move their apps off of the App Store.
I was a big fan of the old Norad Santa Tracker from when I was a kid (~10-12 years ago?).

It didn't have any fancy animations or games, just a map on Christmas eve showing where Santa had been, and some cool videos about the cities (and an aircraft carrier!) he visited that were narrated by various military (Air Force?) officers.
It is not entirely irrelevant.

Given that there are more developers familiar with HTML development, it may lower the barrier to developing plug-ins, or providing patches.
What would I do if I were starting my blog from scratch?
I went to a similar school (not affiliated with OKWU), and had a very similar experience. I tried asking certain questions which were...not encouraged. Additionally, we had: Bible-majors for men, and Christian-Education Studies for women. I saw many women who were failed essentially because they were a woman and "women shouldn't be pastors, they should be Sunday-School teachers".

The education was much more about "life-style management and shaping", than actual objective education. Basically, they told us that we can't "drink, smoke, etc", but then complained when we went and told them we were having any type of personal problems.
yes and no and no
It isn't. Manipulating 60+ million people's choice architecture (as per e.g. 7) on the other hand certainly is. YMMV but either way it's still redundant if adding a tax as a market correction functions as expected. If it doesn't, there isn't a market solution so the tax is redundant.

And if there turns out to be no negative externalities as per the IEA, then the whole thing is just one big Orwellian exercise in public health authoritarianism. But don't concern yourself, it's for your own good and won't someone think of the children ?
glances. Mentioned elsewhere in the thread.
The source of information matters. This is doubly true for statistical claims since:

* statistics are often counter-intuitive,

* they are easy to manipulate or misinterpret,

* manipulation requires significant effort to discover,

* they are sometimes correct in form but the data is biased,

* bias in the data might have been mentioned by the initial data collectors but the analyzers may omit it (either intentionally or accidentally).
I don't think the syntax of XML is widely understood. How many people really know the syntax of DTDs, processing instructions, entity references, namespaces, CDATA sections, and so on?

Tags-and-attributes are widely understood, and a format which was just tags-and-attributes would be a reasonably good format. XML is far too complex for its purpose.
They were, allegedly, turned away from a party at a school-sponsored organization (a fraternity) on account of their race.
In theory, we should all be able to evaluate the validity data on our own, so this tactic is dumb.

In reality, we have no practical way of doing this. So, whenever we cite a source of data, we are implicitly saying "This is a credible source for the statement is making. You can trust that they have done the work to make sure they aren't just repeating their own biases." And in the case of some organizations and people, you actually cannot say that.

If the American milk board makes a claim about the health benefits of milk, it is not a fallacy to be skeptical of that claim.
That may be underestimating the cost of a loop by three or four orders of magnitude.
Please don't trash YAML. If you stick to "the good parts", YAML is an almost perfect human/machine readable and editable text format.

For example, we store almost all our parameterized test cases in YAML because we can then use these files as inputs to test runners in JS, Python, Go, etc.
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I wish someone would do something about the way these "Safe Spacers" make me feel!
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Collectd + Graphite / InfluxDB + Grafana. You shoudn't need to ssh on a host to see those metrics.
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I'd love to use Confluence, however, it's incredibly resource intensive and requires a lot of admin time. Furthermore, JAVA is something I know little to nothing about so it makes me a bit uncomfortable.

For distributing documentation I really enjoy using MkDocs (http://mkdocs.org) or Daux.io (http://daux.io) as both are written in markdown and then generated into responsive HTML/CSS sites that can easily be versioned with Github or Bitbucket or any other version control application.
It's just because XML is a bad choice. It's a standard for creating markup languages, but use in HTML failed because it's more verbose and doesn't cope at all with user errors.

For data serialisation it's just insane. The only reason to use XML to serialize your non markup data is that it's a web technology and you have parsers everywhere. Mapping data back and forward between your data structures and the XML representation is a huge pain in the ass, as there's no natural mapping. For some formats like SVG you basically have to keep data as a DOM in your program.

> And while XML is complicated there are far more complicated formats (YAML).

While the Syntax of YAML certainly is more complicated, totally I would say that it's less complicated without all the XPath, Namespaces etc. you additionally need. YAML maps fairly direct to data structures of programs and the complexity is there to get human readability and edit ability. Something XML doesn't have when used for general data.

> TOML

Is basically just a specification of the largely unspecified INI format, which is older than XML. This is just a format for human editable configuration files, for which we have experience that XML really really sucks.

> JSON

Very simple data format that maps directly to data structures of all common programming languages. The fact that JSON beat XML where XML is at home, in the web shows pretty clearly that JSON is the better format for data serialisation.

TL;DR: Use the correct format for the use case. XML is for markup, not serialisation. JSON is for serialisation, YAML is a better readable JSON e.g. if you mainly use the data for debugging, INI(/toml) is for configuration files.
Uhhh... the final point in the mailing list message is this:

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> 12. This message is about the future and there’s a lot to work out. It’s explicitly not to announce changes in daily activities at this point. People using Thunderbird will not see any change in the product they use. We have started this conversation early because Mozilla works best when our community is engaged. This is how we gather the people who are interested, and enable those folks to engage productively

---

So this is exactly not a case of confronting people with made decisions, but discussing long term strategic considerations in the open. Bakers message is actually remarkably explicit about this, discussing various pros and cons explicitly out in the open.

---

> 10. The fact that the Foundation is facilitating these discussions does not necessarily mean that the Foundation is or is not the best legal and financial home for Thunderbird. The intent is not to make technical decisions about support of Thunderbird by Mozilla employees, or merging repositories, etc. Point 6 above is the shared organizing principle for both of us.

---

So Mozilla is actually not talking about no longer supporting Thunderbird, they are talking about decoupling the projects, possibly within Mozilla. When did it become hip to just randomly hate on Mozilla for everything? I use Firefox daily, and some random Pocket icon appeared there. I don't know what it is, it took me one right click and one left click to remove it from my toolbar, done.
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Very cool visualization... I wonder how they get their data?
The cases where people are asking for classrooms to be "Safe Spaces" the way you're describing them are the minority. Most people are asking for exactly what you're suggesting - provide warnings for people that might need to remove themselves, but have uncomfortable discussions in the classroom. The whole idea of a "trigger warning" doesn't work any other way.

At Mizzou, they demanded a separate "safe space" because they were literally being sent death threats, which is a separate way to use the idea, and which, in the light of the past week's events, were not unwarranted.
After I just got profile manager figured out to distribute our Sketch licences at the office... Hope there's some option to manage those licenses.
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Please stop posting paywall'd articles
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Do you have any examples? link to repo? Thanks!
In the name of hating on PC for completely irrational reasons everything is fair game for certain people.

You see, they hate it so so much. Ugh, so icky.
HN thread here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10560634
It might be. But what about the discussion? Is focusing on a native mail application not inline with their mission statement, given all the privacy issues of late? And your point doesn't address the issue of implementation. Firefox is one initiative out of many initiatives in Mozilla's portfolio. And the web is not the browser. So I, personally, would say no, focusing on a browser to the exclusion of all other aspects of the Internet is not inline with that mission. But, I'm one of many users, and without open dialogue, it's impossible to say whether other Mozilla users agree with me.
Ha ha. I remember writing a comment raising the problem of competence of software developers, given that anyone can call himself a developer and that we still have so many developers writing new sql injections vulnerabilities and making other security 101 bad design decisions. The reaction was to say the least hostile. It's all about budgets, bad bosses, etc.

Being safe from criticism.
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They don't even have the keys to turn over for BES (unless there are backdoors)

This article refers to BIS... the consumer servers. Once the server is on foreign soil, its governed by local law.

That's the way the world works.
There's an app for Norad Santa Tracker now as well, we used it last year and discussed the different places he had been.
" lld is not at feature parity with gold yet, so it is too early to make a conclusion, but we are working hard to maintain or improve lld’s speed while adding more features."

LLD does not yet support string section merging, which iant mentions is the slowest part of gold.

So "so far so good", but "jury is still out"
LISP, a semi-functional language, was originally invented to solve the biggest, hardest problems. Scheme, Common LISP, Ocaml/ML, and Haskell have all been used in large systems with good performance. Entire OS's were written in LISP's with some benefits that modern machines still don't have:

http://www.symbolics-dks.com/Genera-why-1.htm

Note: And some that are laughably obvious and available today lol.

So, yes, what people use today is an accident of history. That includes COBOL, C, C++, OOP languages, HTML/CSS/JS, HTTP-centric everything, and especially whatever crap is being built on them next.

If you're curious, here's the history I put together on C language and UNIX in numbered list form. You'll see how IT evolution often works in practice to give us lowest common denominator. And afterwards people swear it was product of good design and great achievement. (rolls eyes)

http://pastebin.com/UAQaWuWG
Fastmail is fantastic and their policies and pricing are fantastic as well. Really happy with them, and moreso after this story and the recent DDoS troubles they went through.
This is one of the biggest problems for careers in general, which is a lack of clear pathways for advancement.

It is particularly bad in software fields because the field came into existence in a time when unions and similar kinds of thing have been in decline, and also due to the nature of the work.

Two answers to this are: (i) choose better jobs (ii) try to solve these problems yourself in your local environment as best you can. Putting these together you get (iii) move into management, (iv) start your own firm, etc.

To solve this problem on a general level there has to be some elevation of the standards of software management and that is a good calling to be a manager today. I've seen people in their 30s, 40s, and 50s make stupid mistakes in management of and communication with people that I made when I was 22 and was fortunate to be corrected by the department head of my graduate school so that I learned not to do it again!

http://www.theuniversityfaculty.cornell.edu/memorials/fitche...

There is definitely a conflict that arises out of how when you work for firm X you get a huge amount of specialization insofar as (i) the specific code base you use, (ii) the domain, the people, the procedures, all that, (iii) the tools, be it ColdFusion or Haskell or Gnu automake or Visual Studio or whatever
So a foundation with a 300 million Dollar budget can't support the most widespread free mailing software out there? A software that shares many parts with the Firefox browser? This makes no sense to me. It's ridiculous that they stop this project instead of going full stem forward to make it finally great. They are not that far away to malomg it a viable free alternative to Outlook (and they'd have happy followers)
Is this a real comparison you are really making? Between discrimination against African Americans and discrimination against nerds?
The Pakistanis just played this stupidly. The article says "The Pakistani government wanted to be able to monitor every message and email sent via its phones, it said." That's ridiculous, of course no firm would agree.

What you have to do instead is to say you want to have access to records that may help against terror, everything approved by a court of course. Then create a court, make it process as many requests as you want. You appoint the court so it will rubber-stamp whatever you want (you must let 1% requests fail for plausible deniability). Make Blackberry complicit enough that they have no face-saving if they make it public. Viola! You have a spy system going.
Thank god there are some developers who have the balls to stop with this "Store" app distribution bonanza brought by the mobile phone. Someone should give Microsoft a hint.
s/smoothly/in the same crappy but standardized way/
Anyone else not getting the mentioned popup when launching the new Sketch ?
You are not wrong about the "physical product and distribution" part, but the article says they paid $100K for web development alone.
I can't speak, or at least not much, to the changes that occurred in the 70's.

But they are still happening today, and they are decidedly NOT in response to parents. At all. In fact, parents have very little power to effect change at a SUNY school as far as I can tell.

Rather, these seem to be directives coming from Albany (or beyond) and disseminated at conferences that are attended by Student Life "professionals."

For example, go to just about any state school (including a SUNY) and take a walk around the Student Union. I'll bet that you'll notice that it is swarming with state officials - typically students who work part time for the state in a "Student Activities" office.

Maybe you'll see one of their managers, a "Director of Student Union Services" or something similar. Ask how many people worked in that office 10 years ago vs. today, and I'll bet that, more often than not, you'll find that the size of these offices have increased by 50% or more during that time.

The consequence is that student governments, who traditionally ran all the operations of Student Unions and did a great job of it, are now pushed out of this function, in favor of state officials and state directives running them instead.

And these state directives almost always include infantifacation of events and decor in the Student Union.

I have observed this phenomenon at SUNY New Paltz, Binghamton University, the University of Connecticut, UMD College Park (although the food co-cop there is amazing and serves as a partial counter-example) and half a dozen other campuses.

Every time I ask about it, I'm told that it's part of a nationwide trend.

It's bullshit. It's very expensive (compared to the shoestring 2.5-3.5 million dollar budgets that student governments typically work with) and it's making Student Unions spiritually and academically hollow.
In that case, could the XUL dependency be removed from Thunderbird?
So cutting down on the sugar should tell the body to use more fat as an energy source, yes? In your opinion, where can I read about this stuff without resorting to websites that make extraordinary claims about crazy diets without any scientific basis? Or do I have to stick to publications?
Is it safe to say this is a kin to AT&T blocking calls from T-Mobile? I can't see how this isn't going elevate the profile of Telegram.
Outside of those that are controlled by right-wing Christian extremists, I'm not aware of any government in the US passing laws to restrict first amendment rights. Care to elaborate?
That's like saying Twitter is the same as Google, just because principal founders came from Google.
Question coming from a long-time sysad whose experience is almost entirely batch and PowerShell, what does it mean to write "testable" code?
Well, that's just like, your opinion, man.
> The other way to see progress on `dd` is to issue a signal 3 (USR1, iirc) to the dd process. kill -3 <dd pid>

Be careful with this on some distributions and compilations of DD. Purely anecdotal evidence, but in college I had a friend imaging a very large (5400RPM) drive and about 10 hours into the process he lamented that he wished he could see how far along it was.

I popped open a terminal, ps -A |grep dd, kill -USR1 $PID, and it just exited.

He was rather pissed that I lost him 10 hours.
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Go on. How does the first amendment protect you from me and my associates shunning you for your offensive speech?
Steam does this to me as well sometimes. Why can't these stores use some kind of encryption that can just validate "Yes at some point in the past this has been purchased on this computer" and leave it at that. Always online frankly seems excessive.
What, they don't watch enough DS9 for your tastes?
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While the generating & updating of documentation and pushing to a server may be "too technical" MkDocs makes it pretty easy to deploy to Github Pages or generate the HTML to a static directory that can be deployed to a private location.

You could have a simple git hook that looks for new commits and re-publish HTML files and then deploy those with something like Deploybot (http://deploybot.com/).

In terms of authoring the content it's simple Markdown formatting, pretty simple to get the hang of. However, it lacks the file upload functionality you're asking for.
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> That would be suicide

Most big companies commit suicide. If you think OS X and the MacBook Pro users are being neglected now, just wait until they have the car.
> Isn't it possible for a CA cert to have authority only for *.foo.com?

Technically, you can do that with name constraints. In practice, you can't because many SSL implementations (like, say, OpenSSL[0]) won't honour it, so it'd effectively be an unrestricted root CA for those.

[0] http://blog.codekills.net/2012/04/08/adventures-in-x509-the-...
I think there's plenty of room for small, independent list apps in niche verticals. But the original article isn't looking for Basecamps. They're looking for a unicorn.
I'm not religious, but this is spot on slow clap.
...similar cultural experience...

No one besides you is discussing a cultural experience. The rest of us are discussing irrational reasons for fearing for one's physical safety.

...white supremacy blog that tells you that you have it just as bad as everyone else...

The blog doesn't claim this, nor does the DOJ data table which it reproduces.

Its really a fascinating argument.

You have indeed invented an interesting argument.
I consider my neighbor being able to utter blasphemy as an encroachment of my civil liberties.
Thunderbird is still a thing people use? That's probably the biggest news to me.