skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many reactions you can have to a lack of interest in your plan for organizational change. Quitting and moving on is definitely a contender. I am moving on, but I am taking the opportunity to accomplish several personal goals before doing so. My company would hate to see me disappear abruptly, and I've already got the go-ahead for a sizable consulting arrangement so they aren't left in a lurch.
One possibility is to take a mixed strategy approach. Companies facing this situation can buy into a pool, and then flip a weighted coin. If the coin comes up "fight" they get a team of heavy-hitting lawyers who will slug it out against the big corporations team of 100. This will ensure that at least some of the time, the bully will lose several million dollars. Thus, if the bully is given the odds, and motivated by their own bottom line, they may back down. You just need to turn the game theory against them.
I like this better than the docker post. https://bits.debian.org/2015/12/mourning-ian-murdock.html
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Have you tried manjaro?
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I guess you can argue that it's not worth the cost, but at least half of the trends you listed are in the direction of increasing utility for the consumer. Spotify or a pile of CDs? Are you kidding?

The main problem with this trend is not that it's happening, but the way that a few companies are able to position themselves as gatekeepers. This will lead to abuse or at least monopoly pricing. Unfortunately, competition isn't really a good solution. I don't want a second Spotify.
What hardware are you running coreboot on?
While I agree with everything you said, have you (speaking with candor) not been paying attention the past decade or so? A lawsuit-trigger-happy populace coupled with millienials entering the workplace has caused such collective scarring that institutions like academia and workplaces are reacting. We're now equating emotional distress with material injury, and it's having vile reverberations that won't be fully felt for decades. It's censorship wrapped in hip new packaging. It's nightmarish to witness.

This is what happens when children are raised in frictionless environments. The real world doesn't care about your feelings.

(Can't wait for the downvotes)
That's picking some major nits: whatever you want to claim is Google's internal mental opinion of GPL, the reality is they are building Android to cater to hardware manufactures, and those hardware manufactures do not want GPL, so Google has actively avoided GPL code in Android, often going to extreme lengths to build half-asses reimplementations of things that have perfectly stable GPL implementations so they don't have to rely on code using that license.
The problem is that only the name has been changed, as in nothing else has been contributed.

People expected to see some kind of progress towards the promised features, such as [0]:

- The ability to run two Android apps side by side

- OpenGL ES 3 & 3.1

- "Full OpenGL 4 for Ultimate Gaming"

- "InstaSwitch" (not sure what this even is)

- Licensed Google Play app import

- Custom, togglable UI

- Desktop friendly UI, menus, buttons

[0]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mmv/console-os-dual-boo...
tl;dr Thank goodness for sociopathic jerks
Agreed. He was definitely in a manic state, the poor guy.
I don't now any details of what happened. But, PTSD is a real thing and it can deeply effect people. Being assaulted by police and then having them charge you for the crime of trying to protect yourself is an entirely plausible cause for PTSD. I know several activists who suffer from and have been treated for PTSD based on their past interactions with police, and some have been suicidal and needed immediate hospitalization. And, the suicide statistics of veterans suffering PTSD are horrifying.

In short: Ian may have been suffering from PTSD. It may have struck very fast and very hard, so much so that his loved ones didn't have time to get him the help he needed to cope with his pain. The idea that it is not comprehensible comes from a place of privilege of never having experienced something so horrible that it caused significant damage to your mind and sense of well-being.
Holy hell. We are losing so many good people.

When I saw the tweets, I thought he just had a really rough night and was engaging in twitterbole.

What the fuck are we going to do?
I think the issue is usually really poor quality HD supplied by Apple on low end machines.
I don't have anything to offer but I hope opportunities come your way through this; it's not easy asking for help, even anonymously, with the unhealthy way that money is linked to status and pride.

Sorry if this is unhelpful, but what do you have in terms of LinkedIn and other front-facing portfolios (including Github)? I've been out of the Rails job market for a few years now but I still get recruiters who are obviously autoscraping LinkedIn and Github (literally, for any repo that is classified as Ruby) and doing cold emails. I don't know if a full time gig is something that's possible for you but it certainly won't hurt to keep those low-maintenance nets open for the occasional legitimate recruiter doing keyword searches.
Here's the original blog post, for anyone who was interested in reading it after Springer decided to reinstate its $30-per-chapter charge:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

(While I know they charge like this for most of their e-books, this particular example is embarrassing.)
Huh. I hadn't even thought of that.

If connecting to port 22 and slurping the host fingerprint crashes a customer application... I don't even know.

Like, how is their app even running?
Nice story!
Work battles are kinda dumb, but in a way, they aren't dumb-- they're a much smarter and less-deadly form of primitive warfare. We're not perfect today, but ideas like enforcing openness+honesty in a safe environment will drive us even further away from the stone age mentality of physically harming someone who displeases you.

Michael Jensen has been doing some research on the benefits of honesty-- you should check out his controversial research on integrity [0]. I think he'd support the idea of calling out managers who hide their opinions from you. Further, Google has done some HR research[1] that has called "psychological safety" the #1 driver of team effectiveness.

[0] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1511274
[1] https://rework.withgoogle.com/blog/five-keys-to-a-successful...
Via Wikipedia, science is defined as:

> a systematic enterprise that creates, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.

The key word being "testable". The fallibility (or falsifiability) of scientific hypotheses is the great strength of science: We can improve, or prove wrong, our understanding.

Dawkins writing celebrates this, and I think it's unfair to characterize his passionate (OK, sometimes strident) advocacy as "unquestioning" fanaticism.

If it's a "leap of faith" to accept the axiom that we can refine/invalidate knowledge through experimentation, then "a leap of faith" isn't a very profound deed.
I agree children should not be able to install a contact-accessing app.
Jupyter Notebooks are great, I use them a lot for scientific computing and data analysis.

The critical missing features in my opinion are 'undo' and proper integration with Git (or another VCS).
How high is your rent?
Ok, so I think I'm half way there. Is passing a function pointer, or any pointer for that matter, the way it is done in C, related to lambdas?

I understand the use case of passing functions. Can be quite useful. Ok, still not fully there but I think I'm starting to understand what you are talking about.
> I don't think I have ever seen a compelling reason for the US not to convert to metric.

It's expensive, the benefits are minor, and our system is fine (it could be better of course: a switch to nautical miles would be nice, and making a gallon 256 cubic inches would be great). I've never seen a compelling reason to convert — and neither have Americans in general.

> Every other country faced the same expense and learning curve.

If every other country jumped off of a bridge, would you? The French system really isn't as good as it's cracked up to be.

French units optimise for abstract unit conversion (e.g. inches to feet or millimetres to kilometres); standard units optimise for concrete manipulation (e.g. dividing a gallon into cups, or a litre into decilitres). The thing is, unit conversion really isn't that common compared to manipulation (after all, what do units of measure exist for if not to manipulate objects?).
I meant to say, let's fight criminals tomorrow or wait for the family to release more information.

Also please note this message on Debian's site from his family:

"His family has asked for privacy during this difficult time and we very much wish to respect that."

https://bits.debian.org/2015/12/mourning-ian-murdock.html
This type of review has ruined any tentative faith I used to have in Amazon reviews.
Could be trying to pass the buck to script-kiddies though. If I were trying to stay actually anonymous, I'd let the "Anonymous-branded" account take the credit
I should probably post this on a throwaway... but this hit somewhat close to home.

A few years ago I was going through a very tough time. I lived in the UK at the time and went to california for a meetup. After even more personal crap happened, I went on a walk seriously considering suicide.

Kept trying to call friends, family, nobody picked up, it was the hardest day of my life to get through. Next thing I knew I found myself on top of a tall building at which point I had the clarity to figure out I really should talk to a suicide hotline.

Unfortunately I didn't know the number and internet abroad was impossible to get at the time, so I ended up calling 911. Funny that, it turns out when you do that in california, you are considered a "danger to yourself" and must be arrested.

Still I figured it was the better solution and let the cops take me. I ended up in handcuffs for the day, was roughened up quite a bit, treated like cattle until I was sent off to a ward for 48 hours. My belongings were all taken and I was not allowed to call anyone overseas (where the only people I knew resided). When I pleaded for help, I was threatened to be put on indefinite hold.

Everything I remember about this sucks. It's honestly a miracle I got through it alive - CA tried very hard to help me kill myself. Had to fake being happy and well and all of this being a terrible mistake to be released when the time was up. I later got much better, higher quality help when back in Europe.

I learned one thing: Don't have mental health issues in the US. And if you do, don't talk to the cops. Never talk to the cops.
Thank you, you people are awesome!

I just needed to get the correct keywords to google and came across:

http://postscapes.com/cellular-internet-of-things-developmen...

The dataplan on some look very reasonable, like $1/MB/Month, but the hardware itself seems cost prohibitive.

I mean, the Dash costs $59 or the Electron at $39 just for the board to send over 2G? You can get a disposable cellphone for < $10 complete with LCD screen and that worm eating game!

I guess I'll just need to wait another year or two until economies of scale kicks in...
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He said on Twitter that police beat him up once, and then a second time after following him home. I hope there is a real investigation, this is enraging.
@jackstormwriter just locked his tweets. Does anyone know who this guy is or his connection to this whole affair?

just curious considering his tweet: 6:00pm: @jacksormwriter wants me dead
Without giving too much detail in public, police were called to my house and I had just finished putting my children to bed. The officer was talking to me and then asked me to step on the porch, after doing so they had asked if I had been drinking - I said yes I had wine with my dinner, why.

They then arrested me and refused to tell me why - their exact words were "you know why" and took me to jail. I then had to bail out of jail and upon doing so, found out they arrested me for "being drunk in public". For drinking wine, hours prior, in my OWN HOME.

I went to court and no charges were filed and the whole thing was dismissed.

But not after I lost several thousand to bail, and I had no recourse at all.

There is a lot more to the story of this particular officer but this arrest was exactly as stated above.

It almost cost me my job as well, had I not had the ability to bail out. All for nothing.

If you drop all charges / do not charge someone with anything then the police should have to not only pay all my bail feed back, but I should be able to go after them for false arrest.
That's not what I said but whatever.
Ongoing discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10813524
It's not even a matter of "politicians wanting more power." The public wants the government to have power over people, because they are (reasonably or not), more scared of other people than they are of the government. People fall on different places on the spectrum for how they weigh the loss of privacy versus the need for security, but very few are willing to say "we need pervasive unbreakable encryption, whatever the consequences to law enforcement." Even terrorism aside, very few people are willing to give up the power of authorities to investigate, say, the transactions of suspected financial criminals.
I agree. But I can't blame him for not wanting to involuntarily dedicate his life to fighting this bullshit. Given the choice between fighting a vastly corrupt and hostile police force, facing merciless prosecutors, being covered by the media, many of whom are hostile, being judged and discussed online, losing the career that you spent your life building, and never being able to leave any of that behind... and not having to deal with any of that? I don't know. I can understand how one in that situation would make this choice, especially in the heat of the moment. Aaron Schwartz made the same call.

It's a tragedy. I desperately hope we get more information.
All links on HN that are deleted say "[dead]" so it's just an unfortunate coincidence.
I am sorry to see your comment was downvoted, as it is quite correct: if you read the actual court documents, this is the argument that was made surrounding fair use, and despite their attempts to lie and say they were, Google could not be shown to be trying to build a compatible product (as it is pretty obvious even to non-technical people that they aren't and never intended to even try). Back when this was first being published I wrote a much longer comment pointing out all of the intricacies and quoting the court opinion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7723853
I don't know. Assaults of any kind tend to mess you up. Just from personal experience, the last time I was robbed (I've been robbed three times in my life, but only the last time as an adult) I remember becoming irrationally violent. I remember thinking that, had I had a gun, I would've killed "the motherfuckers" without flinching. In retrospect, I would've probably regretted that for life. I can't even imagine getting that agitated about something nowadays. And yet, at the time, it all made "perfect sense" in my head.

I guess in my case I was externalizing the violence towards the assaulters, but who knows what's happened to Ian? Everything is conjecture at this point anyway.
Hope things turn around for you.
Nix perhaps?
The hardware setup is not clear. Are you running YCSB client and the database on the same single A3 instance?
"Right, because most Linux proponents are kernel hackers."

They don't have to be. All they have to do is not go around smugly suggesting they know better than kernel developers and they're ok in my books.

Incidentally, precisely how many of those research kernels have become widely used, mainstream kernels capable of high-throughput?

And do you really think it has turned out that way because the whole industry is full of blind dumbasses? I think it's a far more likely proposition that they understand something you don't.
PassPoint uses 802.1x and client certificates/PKI to authenticate. I have the Boingo Wi-Fi service client cert installed on my iPhone and it automatically connects to any -Passpoint network via a WPA2 connection and authenticates with the installed cert. It's really nice for traveling.
>You're not going to get fired or anything.

You won't get fired, but what might happen is that you get a reputation for being "that guy". The "guy who's always complaining about unit tests". Or, "the guy who emphasizes process of 'agility'". What then happens is that the moment you speak up, management tunes out. They know what you're going to say. They know what you're asking for. And they've already told you no. At that point, you're basically screwed, organizationally. You have a reputation as a troublemaker, which will make transfers difficult. You're not going to get the desirable assignments on the product that you're currently working on. So even if you don't get fired, your life is often made so miserable that you leave.
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Linux users often take the idea of 'self-examination' way too far and it turns into 'self-disparagement'.

The fact is, if you vet your hardware and use a major distro (Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Fedora) you'll wind up with a perfectly functioning Linux desktop or laptop.

You think about it, OSX only runs on a few laptops. Linux runs perfectly on more laptops than exist for OSX. Windows run on many laptops, more often than not quite well, not always perfect though, despite being bundled together.

I've been using Ubuntu on a ThinkPad T530 for several years, it just works. Couldn't be happier. Everything works BTW, function keys, fingerprint scanner, everything.

As for the Linux eco-system - major browsers work, Steam works, there's a phenomenal ecosystem around Linux if you do any sort of programming, data science, etc... I really have nothing to complain about these days.
> Otherwise you get weirdness like this: 12:00 AM occurs before 11:00 AM on the same day.

I too prefer a 24-hour clock, but when I don't use it I always use 'midnight' and 'noon' (or, sometimes, '12:00m' for 'meridiem'), just to be completely clear.
I'm sorry, this is just plain stupid. Giving cops inaccurate weapons is not going to make them less trigger-happy, you'll just wind up with more bystanders shot. Yes, the NYPD does have a problem with heavy trigger pulls, whether you agree or not. Many expert sources have pointed this problem out. If you want to hit a target, a heavy trigger pull makes it more likely you'll torque the gun and miss your target. Going back to revolvers isn't going to fix that (though at least the revolvers were heavier so maybe the effect wasn't as bad).

If you want to argue about police tactics, recruitment, training, or purpose, this isn't the place for it. This is a thread about pistols and trigger pull weights.

As for military duty, that should be a plus for police duty. Military soldiers have to learn about things like "rules of engagement" and had very strict training about that. If they saw combat, then they are also much less likely to lose their demeanor when dealing with a rough situation, because they've already seen much worse. The cops who have all the problems seem to be ones who were never in the military, and probably would have been (or were) rejected if they had applied: basically thugs who want to play soldier and never got the chance. Notice that you never hear about problems with military police (MPs) shooting people unnecessarily, despite the extremely high numbers of non-white people in the military? I think there's a reason for that.
I think a few notes to the Policy makers are in order right now.
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I'll throw this out there as well. . .

Windows 10 IoT OS is available too, which is built for something like this.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/WindowsForBusiness/windows-i...
It's just the continued infantilization of adults.
Just dont call it SKYNET, you be sued by Hollywood then for copyright infringement or something...
This is not an admonishment of you, but a reminder to everyone. Don't ever talk to the police. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
I never knew that, that's pretty neat.

I was curious where the Deb came from:

>It comes from the names of the creator of Debian, Ian Murdock, and his wife, Debra.

https://www.debian.org/intro/about
Bullshit. Police beat the shit out of people, unprovoked, every day. They murder 12 year old boys without hesitation (Tamir Rice). They'll kill a woman in her jail cell because she knew her rights and tried to exercise them (Sandra Bland). They'll chase down (stealing a car to make the chase more exciting) and execute an innocent man because he happens to be black and trying to go into the bank where he has an account (Larry Jackson, Jr.). I could type all day and not finish the list of unarmed people who did nothing wrong who are dead by the hands of cops. The number who've been beaten by police is astronomically higher.

Ian is a well-known quantity, and what we know is that he was extraordinarily kind and generous. I don't believe for a second that he did anything to deserve to have a police officer beat him up. Not all police are vicious bullies, but I'm more willing to believe Ian had the misfortune to cross paths with a vicious bully than I am to believe he deserved being beaten up.
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...what exactly is missing?

Okay, the paragraph about projective spaces and degrees of freedom is a bit of mystery to me, but the actual concept seems to be simple enough. Should every article utilizing matrix multiplications to describe linear mappings spend time rephrasing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_%28mathematics%29 i.e. a basic linear algebra course?
exactly. the ideal system would be lots of artists making middle-class salaries (e.g. $35k - $90k) and producing content meaningful to smaller groups, but we have a handful of multi-millionaires making prurient content and local artists getting next to nothing. it's really prescient of the larger loss of the middle class.

If only people wouldn't spend money on cheesy, raunchy music and distribute their spending more evenly to smaller-time, more interesting artists... but I don't know how to raise the level of discourse around that. I would love to hear a wider variety of music on the radio!
I'm Debian user and very grateful for all the wonderful things that Debian enabled, thanks Ian for creating it.

It's very sad when people pass away like that. Aaron Swartz and Ilya Zhitomirskiy also come to mind.
GP is not pretending anything. Further, taking a position on technical tradeoffs (your example) is an orthogonal concern to defining leadership structure, which is also distinct from the possibility of making bottom-up changes. No one is proposing anarchy here, just people fixing what they can.
Because of course the concept of social etiquette was just recently invented this generation.
And Ubuntu's "trunk" too, unless you counted it as a remix already.
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> Let's make a day be 86400 seconds (already a SI standard), and then you can divide that into tenths, hundreds or whatever.

Why not keep the day as it is, which can be conveniently divided into halves, thirds, fourths, fifths, sixths, eights, ninths, tenths and twelfths, as well as any multiples of those you like?
Very few people know the cause of death right now, but the speculation is pretty convincing to me that it was suicide after allegedly being a victim of police brutality and rape by police officer.

Of course, this isn't confirmed. But if it is, oh the anger.

Even if it isn't, this is a damned shame.