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> (quote from imurdock's twitter) Maybe my suicide at this, you now, a successful business man, not a NIGGER, will finally bring some attention to this very serious issue.

This sounds a lot more like 4chan trolls than it does one of the leading lights of OSS. I know people are trying not to speculate, but I wouldn't be surprised if his account was hacked. In any case, I think you can honor they memory of Ian and still try to find out what happened to him.
I wish the other key emulators of consoles were as well managed as Dolphin. :/

My experience with pretty much every other emulator: extremely byzantine UIs, no quality control to speak of, etc tc.

RetroArch is the hope, but I'm not convinced yet.
Yes, a whitewash would never happen in the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton_Inquiry
It doesn't solve it entirely, but it helps.

- An attorney doesn't need to be afraid of not getting paid if they're supporting the side that is 'objectively right'. Obviously, most cases aren't crystal clear from the outset, but some are.

- The cost of bullying goes up in the cases where the bully loses.

But you are right, there are also instances where it wouldn't help much. This isn't a silver bullet, but there are good reasons why almost all other modern countries has adapted this principle.
Compare this(and the response to it) to the overall perception of JavaScript 5 years ago. It's interesting to see how decent tooling and some good language changes can move the perspective from largely disparaged to greatly desired.
All right, I added some pictures to the README of the repository, so you don't have to dig around to look at them :)
This sounds very plausible to me. The world is uncertain enough that it's safer to pay for it month by month rather than risk a stranded investment in the wrong thing. The only "stable" investment is real estate, which has therefore shot up in price. Physical "durable" goods are by comparison very cheap.
"This was very recent, and the facts are not yet in"

Exactly. And yet you write "He was repeatedly beaten by the police" ... "this will be easily proven".

Your post is incredibly irresponsible. You know nothing at all of what happened, all you have are the posts of someone having a mental breakdown.

And you don't just stop at what he wrote on twitter. No, you continue with literally stuff from your own imagination:

"I believe this was murder: he died from a head injury sustained at the hands of the police."

People's lives have been ruined many many times by other people jumping to conclusions before knowing all the facts. I don't know if jumping to conclusions will hurt anyone here, but you should NOT do it. Ever.

PS. This: "but he made clear future plans which weren't executed, so this will be a lie" does not in the slightest rule out suicide. People committing suicide almost always have future plans.
One thing I have wondered is how much cost there is in maintaining a conflict free environment where nobody is ever told the truth? It must be pretty large.
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You brought completely irrelevant point.
Who will investigate Ian's death? Will it be the same police that beat him up? Or their friends?
I love Debian, and all OSS/Linux stuff, and I'm just really really sad. I don't know why people want to speculate on all the twitter stuff. I'm just gonna be sad, and drink some whiskey, and make a toast to a guy who made my life, and millions of other people's lives richer by what he gave the world. To you, Ian. May you find peace and rest. Thank you.
I don't think you should go around and bandy murder accusations without more facts, as well as to get so far ahead of reality that you already know what the police will say. There simply are no facts to support any of this.

The only data there is is Ian's tweets and they are strongly indicating police brutality but nothing in there supports your murder allegation.
>being apathetic to the Governments assault on their liberty

I wonder at what point do we just decide they don't deserve those liberties and work to try to ensure we are part of the haves and not the have nots. It is a shame for the children who won't get a choice, but for the adults who choose this, at what point do we stop them from getting what they want?
It likely doesn't violate patents, but that has never stopped patent trolls.
"How is it not normal?"

Because how the hell is anyone supposed to validate their findings?
Good advice.

I had a non-tactical, non-aggressive knife in my pocket and ended up getting arrested. No previous trouble with the law... I was minding my own business on the subway.

Handful of court dates, a few grand and community service. For a tool.
I'm wondering if the name's pronounced Why You No Host?
Diane Vaughn wrote about 'normalisation of deviance' in her book The Challenger Launch Decision. The original Space Shuttle SSRB design had redundant O-rings for safety, and while a small amount of O-ring erosion (from the hot gases of burning propellant) had been observed on several occasions prior to 1986, it had never resulted in failure, so after a while, they began to accept it as normal. But as Richard Feynman pointed out, those O-rings had never been designed to erode. The first time erosion was seen was a deviance; it indicated that the protective thermal putty was not doing its job, and should have been corrected then.
Canada has some of the worst and some of the best police officers that I've ever seen. City/local police: not so hot. RCMP on the whole probably the best police force that I've had contact with.
Ah yes, writing tests, code reviews, and version control can be such a pain, why would you put up with these productivity killers?
I hope someone writes it up. It seems very strange, and we need to stop what seems to me a suicide wave in the last few years in the free software community.
>If Ormandy violated Google's vuln disclosure policies, he would no longer be doing security research at Google. Ormandy is still doing security research at Google. Therefore, he did not violate Google's vuln disclosure policies.

I understood what you said before. But that doesn't tell me why it's not a violation. It's like knowing something's a theorem without knowing a proof.

>They might be able to do that. Read the whole page. You'll see that extension authors can decide to either upload an already-signed extension (as is done with Android), or let Google sign it for them.

It says if they do that, then they either need to upload the private key, or it will have a different id, and I assumed the second was because Google's resigning it.

>Assume that AVG -seeing as how they're a security software company- is uncomfortable with keeping their code signing keys on Google's servers, and is uploading already-signed packages to Google. [0] What's your answer to the question I posed in my previous comment? Feel free to take some time to think through your answer.

I answered that: update the extension, but don't publicize the issue.

>[1] And -I mean- it would be EXTREMELY bad news if Google did use the signing keys they're -presumably- (for some devs) holding in escrow to replace a dev's code with some other code that Google thinks is better. That's an enormous violation of trust. I don't think you understand how very serious that would be.

I think that once Google decided not to allow unsigned extensions for some platforms, it's also okay for them to remotely remove extensions that pose a security risk. I honestly don't know if they have that capability, and a few searches didn't answer that for me.

Also, taviso popped up here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10813460 to repeat what he said on the report, and that the policy was followed. I assume he means that since the release wasn't directly exploitable, there's no problem with releasing it.
> Kim Scott, an executive coach and former Google Inc. executive in online sales and operations, is writing a book about radical candor, which she defines as giving criticism while showing genuine concern.

A key point in the article, radical candor feedback may be blunt but should also be well intentioned, not merely derogatory.
It'a quite clear after you understand semi-advanced physics that nothing could exist before the universe started.

Now, you could contest the Big Bang, but from the moment you assume it happened then I don't see nothing absurd in the sentence:
"First, when the universe began there was no God"

Because unlike you put it, this is NOT an assumption. If the Universe did had a beginning (and all measurement indicate it did) then this (nothing existed before, not even God) follows directly from the laws of physics.

In fact Dawkins greatest problem when trying to explain people this, is exactly the one I feel when trying to explain other parts to believers. They are ignorant about certain parts of science that make what they are saying impossible, and since it's fairly advanced science, they just refuse to believe it and trying to understand it.

I would welcome to discuss religion with another person from my area (astrophysics) but I've never met an astrophysicist that was religious... I guess because it would be really hard to mix both things.
BlackBerry doesn't seem to give out hard numbers for installations, but they have overviews of the market and lists of particular customers per category here: http://www.qnx.com/solutions/industries/automotive/index.htm...

It's not only worth looking how many, but what. They're in vehicles, medical devices, industrial automation, military and telecom. Those are all areas where blunders lead to loss of lives, not just annoying downtimes. Insofar as infotainment and telematics is concerned, they estimate at 60% of 2011, so it's likely your car runs QNX.
Sad to hear, my first exposure to Linux was in fact being a student at Purdue and trying one of the early releases of Debian..Ian will be missed
Call it petty, but hearing their official statement secondhand makes it feel disingenuous to me. They have more appropriate channels in place for that sort of thing, including email, their two official Twitter accounts, and their very own web site, which would communicate directly to the customers affected.
I suspect there is a market for this. My context is working with my biggest client who has used Mozenda and now Kapow to track pricing changes on 10K plus SKUs across 5 to 7 major retail sites for the past 3 years for the retail segment that they operate within. Even given that they probably spend at least $1500 a month on independent price data services - some who have API agreements with one or more sites so they can access the data without crawling.

Even with that larger scale volume of scraping there have still been sometimes that I wrote little scrapers for a site to track some changes. I don't write these little scripts very often. I will keep your service in mind for the next time this need comes up.
The Taliban are not going to have the capability to reverse engineer and produce their own copy, let along having the logistic capability of keeping it in the field.
It's a bit ambiguous from the Debian post, but from the Docker post, it sounds like the request for privacy is a request that media and others leave the family alone personally, i.e. don't show up at their house, ring their phone off the hook, etc., rather than a request that nobody discuss the circumstances of the death publicly.

> If you would like to share your thoughts or condolences, Ian's family and the Docker family appreciate you sharing them by posting a comment on this page. Additionally, Ian's family has requested that well-wishers and press respect their privacy and direct all inquiries through Docker.
Here is the blog post about it: https://medium.com/@SunilPaul/so-long-sidecar-and-thanks-74c...
It's natural for regulators to want more power - since they're good, they can always choose to not wield that power later. The motivation is the same at the smaller per-person scale, with democracy encouraging every person to think as a mini regulator - deciding whether a behavior should be prohibited or encouraged and then enforcing the majority's opinion onto the minority, rather than leaving the behavior unjudged.

Encryption is such an obvious target because it enables nothing besides hiding. Society/government can never see the value in anything that serves to keep society/government out of individuals' business, even though the former only exists on the proceeds of individual autonomy.

So in essence, the crypto/software war is self-defense against govermment/society. Not in the sense of overthrowing or repudiating the entire concept, but in the sense of holding the Schelling point of freedom of speech/thought versus a society/government that, through the same information technology advancement, would otherwise seek to subject them to totalitarian regulation (even if by the majority).
Yes, there's a handful of arguments, but at some point in the introduction he says (I don't have the book in front of me, so this is my best memory) that the main argument in the book will be the Boeing 747 Gambit, presented in Chapter 4. This is why I read the book. Then, he goes on to describe how unlikely it would be for God to form completely by chance. In order for this argument to make any sense, he has to assume that God happening by chance is something happens inside of the universe (or some universe).

There's a few too many straw-men running around here. I'm attempting to summarize my view of an argument, and asking if that's correct.
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That sucks - I had a similar issue back when I was contracting; it happens to the best of us.

Unfortunately, I don't have a project for you, but I wish you luck! Keep at it, you'll pull through!
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Debian even had a BSD flavor for a while. https://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/
Haskell absolutely allows mutable references and arrays. See IORef [1] and MVector [2]. Notice how the functions that perform mutation are monadic. That's Haskell controlling the side effects and making sure that they don't pollute pure code. The ST monad stuff [3] that wyager mentioned is even cooler because it allows you to bundle up side effecting stuff and actually use it in pure code in a completely safe way, which is something that you can't do (without the dubious usafePerformIO) with the IO monad.

[1] https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/librarie...

[2] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/vector-0.11.0.0/docs/Data...

[3] https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/librarie...
Under your scheme, do workers in the military enjoy privacy while they work? If they don't how do you protect the citizens? If they do---and if they are the only people who enjoy privacy in your land of forced transparency---how does this not stabilize to a military dictatorship?
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I was in an accident and emergency ward on a friday night in a central London hospital recently. Something that took me by surprise was the number of patients there in the company of the police. They were there to be treated for injuries, rather than mental health issues, but i was impressed by the conduct of the policeman attached to the very drunk guy in the bed next to me; despite the fact that the drunk guy was screaming and threatening people, the policeman patiently tried to get him to calm down, at one point promising him a cup of tea if he behaved himself, and then actually delivering on that promise.

I don't know if that was typical. I don't know if policemen treat drunks differently to the mentally ill. And god knows the Metropolitan Police are not exactly famed for their kind and gentle treatment of the denizens of the city. But in at least one case, a guy was okay.
That's an impossible thing to do right, you let it it it might turn ugly, you take it down you get this. Dang made the right call here, I've been in that position several times with camarades/ww.com and it is extremely un-nerving. The problem is that since the authorities were the apparent main cause of the problem here there would likely not be much positive effect from alerting them (something I did do in the cases where it might have made a difference and in at least one of those it did).

Police are one of the more blunt instruments in the toolbox. What possibly would have helped if someone close to Ian spotted this and would have done something about it but one can easily imagine that those people all follow Ians twitter feed and would already be better informed than any of us.

Secondguessing is easy.
No I didn't...it's only irrelevant to you because you are not trying to understand what I'm saying.
OK, if it's in cars (even if only one CPU per car, or even only in high-end cars), then yes, that certainly is "widely used". (In terms of numbers shipped, not necessarily in terms of "design wins" - but then, Windows doesn't have that many "design wins" either.)
Hmm. 1960s was a particularly fashionable decade so less of it was thrown away. Lots of Art Deco stuff survives (1920s) for the same reason although the manufacture was quite poor.

Also Plastics technology improved and started to be widely used during the 1960s. This took into the 1970s to be widespread.
I don't think the Valve fanbase is even close to being fed up with them, unfortunately.
Dogs and by extension wolves are capable of eating a vegetarian diet. They seem to only be carnivores because they lack the ability to cook their foods.
kFreeBSD is still alive, though not a formal Debian port.
I think it was a typo potentially meant to be '@jackstormwriter' who as of recently's account is now private, but everything before it still cached on google.
I have run into the same "multi-threading is hard" attitude among younger programmers. I believe that kind of attitude to be a career limiting mistake. In the interests of scalability, you may have to accommodate multi-process oriented concurrency anyway with such as techniques as message brokering, or CAS style counters available in various databases; however, it is always going to be cheaper to manage a pool of threads in a single process than to manage a pool of processes. In the data center, most bare metal servers have lots of cores where multi-threading really shines. I have noticed a trend in AWS to offer more single vCPU EC2 instance types for those unwilling to learn the joys of thread pool executors and linked blocking queues.
Similarly, back when I used to maintain Stackless Python and do merges in from mainline Python, my benchmark was to only have the same set of failing tests post-merge for the same merged revision.

More often than not I would have failing tests in official Python release version tags, which became par for the course.
I did not define Dawkins' beliefs as fanaticism. Don't inject words into a point that I never made.

What I said is that Dawkins injects a large degree of faith into his opinions on science vs. religion. Do you deny that? Dawkins himself admits that he (and science) don't know everything about the beginning of the universe, life, evolution, etc. I agree with him there. I also agree with him when he questions why we would inject God into our attempts to observe and understand natural phenomena, thus complicating our research with an attribute that cannot be observed. However, he still does use his imperfect knowledge on many scientific subjects to reach a conclusion that makes him "6.9 out of 7" sure that God doesn't exist. Whether you like to admit it or not, that is faith.
My rule: anything that can be answered in 10 seconds of Googling is a bad interview question.
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So now you're moving the goalposts with "design wins". Just what are the design wins of a SysV Unix clone like Linux, pray tell? It's hard not to be on the offensive when you seem to beg for it. Where did the Windows comparison come from?

The design wins, of course, should be obvious to anyone willing to do a modicum of research.
Yes, one user takes control and the other participants have their video synchronized whenever the user in control pauses and plays.

The setup is prohibitively complex. I'll invest some time into having hands-free fetch/setup (possibly using OTP releases) and resubmit HN.

Thanks for your feedback
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which, may have even been an intentional typo as to point attention his direction but NOT set off an @mention notice.
I have often found that two things work well for this:

* have your antennae out for anything that seems weird (weak signals, indeed) in your conversations about the work

* check references (as an interviewee). That's a fancy way of saying, look to see if anyone you know knows someone who works there, who can give you the straight scoop.
This is actually true--improvement on a design is not patent infringement, and you can file your own patent for an improvement of someone else's design.

That having been said, patent trolls don't really use patent infringement, but the threat of an infringement suit. They send threatening letters and wait for their target to realize that the court battle costs more than paying the fee.
Sure, but that doesn't make it ok to spam people. By the same logic, you could say it's perfectly fine to receive lots of unsolicited email spam. Just because we already receive a lot doesn't mean we want any more.
I went back and looked earlier today, and that is what I found, also, except that I didn't find him talking about lawyers and did find him advising Ian to "lay low" (presumably so the police wouldn't seek retribution against Ian.) I didn't find anything from that other guy that was anything other than sincerely trying to be helpful. (Of course, there could have been deleted tweets.)
Sad to hear this.

I wish that someone who felt so desperate would not be in a manic state, and use their considerable funds (if he made 1.4 million last year alone) in a campaign against police brutality. A life like a Christian monk from the medieval era or a Buddhist of freedom. As far as his "career being over" as he said, someone of his stature would have been gladly supported by generous benefactors as he spent a life crusading against injustices even if he spent every dime he had.

He likely had other demons going on, but this is reaction is something that someone very justice minded, someone who would demand libre software like Debian would do.
That said, Debian is the most respected distro in the world. Hearing Ubuntu mentioned so much next to Debian is like nails on a chalkboard to me, but as an extension Mint has an Ubuntu base and straight Debian base available, and even SteamOS is based off Debian. So almost everything noteworthy, quite a legacy.

An injustice in the software that governs our lives is bad enough, but injustices outside are hard to swallow. RIP Ian.
I'm a strong advocate for this and to an even larger extend some of the improvements that Trailblazer project have introduced.

Reform, a component of Trailblazer, uses virtus for coercion and Dry::Validation methodologies described.

it's worth a look for anyone who found this post enlightening.
I recall a good definition of prayer by Mr. Bierce in this connection:
“Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.”
You mean a case that you just pulled out of thin air?
Yes. I'm advocating for people to make as many details of their life open and transparent on the Internet.

Unfortunately, society is currently built in a way that coerces me into keeping secrets (i.e., private key encryption, credit card number, ridiculous laws everybody breaks because privacy makes it easy to conceal). I would much rather live in a society that's built in a way that I can be honest about myself and not lose everything in exchange.

There is no debate that one needs to keep some secrets in today's society, but unlike most of you I believe this to be a necessary evil due to the current nature of the system, not something we should strive for in the long term by making privacy more accessible.