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"According to the San Francisco police, officers were called to Steiner and Union St in the city at 11.30pm on Saturday, December 26, following reports of a man trying to break into a home – that man was identified as Ian Murdock. He reportedly fought with the cops, and was given a ticket for two counts of assault and one for obstruction of an officer. The techie had been drinking, according to the police logs. A medic arrived to treat an abrasion to Murdock's forehead, and he was released so he could be taken to hospital.

A few hours later, on Sunday, December 27 at 2.40am, police were called again to reports of Murdock banging on the door of a neighbor at the very same block. A medic arrived to treat him for any injuries at the scene. Next, the cops took Murdock to the county jail where he was held in a cell.

Murdock was bailed later that day, on Sunday, after a bond, said to be $25,000, was paid. He died the next day."

-- The Register
I may be naive but I think Zuckerberg is actually trying to good rather than hoodwink India. It's a possibility anyway.
I think many people are thinking about email address validation the wrong way.

RFC 822 describes how messages are encoded when email servers talk to each other. It isn't really about email address validation and is not intended to be used to validate a form field on some registration page.

Unless you're writing an MTA or similar piece of infrastructure there is no reason you should be using the RFC grammar. Even if implementation were easy, it probably isn't what you want. For example, the spec permits inline comments but that's a nonsensical thing to have in the middle of an address you typed into an HTML form. Email addresses entered on a web form should be rejected if they contain comments, IMHO.

I think what most developers really want to know is something like: Can this given email address receive messages? Or: Does this given address actually belong to this user? Well, the only way to test that is to send it a message. At best, regex validation might warn you earlier that a given address couldn't possibly work because it's so obviously malformed. But you can't validate your way into getting people to enter their real email address if they don't want to or if they don't know what it is. If your intent is really just to help catch typos and mistakes, you'd be much better off looking to something like mailcheck [0] which will flag common typos like "foo@hotnail.com" even if they result in valid looking addresses.

[0] https://github.com/mailcheck/mailcheck
It's not only Facebook; that's why. Anyone can apply to join the program. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/internet-org/how-to-sub...
It really highlights a truism we sometimes forget if we read too many inspirational biographical one-of-a-kind success stories: businesses, in general, are soulless and will lie, cheat and steal to pad their profit margins so long as they don't get punished. If they can skirt or bend the law, they will. If they can break it and not get caught, they will. They must, because that's what the free market is -- if it makes them more money, they are forced to or be pushed out of business by someone with fewer principles which act as a crippling liability.

When you hear businesses complain about a lack of supply, it's not about a lack of supply, ever. It is bald faced lying with the intent to manipulate the market. Flood the supply with labor and the price drops -- econ 101. Let the people race to the bottom. We've seen it in tech for years; we also see it in farming. In farming it hits home quite a bit harder because these people aren't making $80k instead of $100k, they are being fired and become homeless instead of barely making enough to survive.
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Abstract: the oligarchy wants slaves to work for them. The US workers want modern wages and living standards. The foreign workers will do this because they think they're escaping at times worse conditions.

This is treason, and these oligarchs should be punished. Of course people are going to go on welfare and government aid in conditions like this. Deplorable, and disgusting. Makes me ashamed to be a citizen of this country.
Apparently there's a facility in Utah that archives all tweets. Unfortunately they have a fairly restricted API.
You "shouldn't" do anything in your spare time. Just do what you want.
the underlying problem here is not surprising... that foreign workers are more productive. if that wasn't the case the incentive for this behaviour would disappear.

regulating employment to encourage employing natives is not the solution to this problem. it quite obviously hurts the economy and makes that same problem /worse/.

no idea how to fix it though... its a tough one.
Work smarter, not harder. I have 5 kids and it's been financially taxing, but I work hard to learn the skills that will pay the most.

Overall I'd say I spend 3-4 hours a day reading up on my field, and it took a lot of practice but now it's just a habit. I learn tons of things though,and it enables me to move from job to job and increase my pay as I implement the things I learn ( and practice on my own for a bit before trying it with a client )
Are the ATI cards you've been using the absolute newest ones, or a couple of generations back?

Also, are you using the closed-source or the open-source ATI drivers?

And, are you using Ubuntu, or are you using some other distro? (My experience with non-LTS Ubuntu has been... substantially less than stellar over the past several years.)
Reality is somewhere between the two positions being argued.
If you're a regular middle class wage slave, there are very few ways you can reduce your tax burden. My accountant says the only way to even begin to optimize taxes in my tax bracket is to start my own business.
Yep this is simply a "we can pay workers with threats of deportion instead of dollars", except the police doesn't actually search much, if at all, for illegal immigrants. So very soon, the threat carries no weight.

Thankfully this would be expensive for the government to fix, which for once will benefit these people.

Reminds me of the 7/11 scandal in Australia, with the same principle : threatening people with deportion is way cheaper than paying them [1].

[1] http://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace-relations/7eleven-i...
This argument is a non-starter. We do indeed allow private organizations to create libraries. Moreover, the conflict of interest exists even when the state (not to be confused with society) participates. How do we make sure our public schools don't become institutions where the pupils are 'educated' to blind obedience to the current president, for example?
I think you missed a critical point from this, its not just that foreigners have lower standards, its that they do better work as well. It even quotes a guy pointing out that you get significantly worse value for money hiring americans...

thats a serious issue all of its own and makes the whole situation less conspiracy theory and more capitalism.
> The Labor Department ultimately ordered the Westin Kierland, which has a championship golf course, multiple pools, and a 900-foot “lazy river” spread over 262 acres, to pay a total of $13,500 ...

Right. So what incentive do they have to stop doing it in the future? It is not even like speeding where you get points added to your driving record and insurance premiums go up. $13k in case Dept of Labor finds time to look at them closely again is really just emptying the take-a-penny jar by the front door for them.

> Around Moultrie, the resentment goes both ways. ...

That is a very effective tactic. Get workers to hate each other, it gives them someone to focus on -- the other group, so they put less blame on the policies or employers.
Those people should:

brew install sendemail

or

brew install swacks

or just send up their local SMTP daemon as a delivery only daemon and then use simple mail or mailx to send messages.
Finally, a comment with some specific counterpoints. I appreciate it. So, you're saying that many works just wrongly conflate concepts of a group and race to the point that there's a misconception about the existence of a Jewish race? Also, given the form, that there are only 5 races in existence?
Yep. I'm glad that someone compiles a list like this every year so I'm not tempted to lose another week trying Linux again.
Buzzfeed has begun to do some serious long-form journalism and much of it is quite, quite good. It's kind of unsettling looking at the URL but it's not the first real article from them. I guess they've found a way to fund journalism -- one article per 300 clickbait ad-filled listicles.
Those tests don't look reliable.

For example I'm quite surprised that no one pointed it out, but if you look, the memcache its performance grows nearly linearly to number of threads. They stopped at 256 when it was about to take over redis.

Now if you look at workload A and B, workload A supposed to have 50/50 read/write while workload B was 95/5 read/write. You see that memcached performed terribly there. You would think that perhaps the access pattern is different but then if you look at rest of databases they perform closely to workload A. And memcached which was doing 15000req/s is doing 10000req/s on a workload which supposed to be less work.

This looks to me that performance issue is most likely not in memcached itself but in their test application, but we can't prove that because they did not release code they used for testing.
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BTW the typos strongly hint at Dvorak.
Experiences differ. Local LEOs often play roles in crime prevention or investigation. In the states I've been recently, the state patrols are strictly revenue agencies. Life for the public would improve by their absence.
Interesting. Could you expand on that, please?
It is hard to avoid a notion of morality when we are asking, how should things be? Before there are rules, there are choices.
Nope :/
Please don't write off somebody's lack of attention to typography as a virtue and clever design. It's not. Browsers display it how they are told to display it. Maybe your system could use better fonts or line spacing by default, it's arguable, but it definitely would be stupid and unreasonable for browser to enforce less than maximal width for some of your div's if not told otherwise. If anything, they already enforce more than they should (that's why normalize.css exists).

And, by the way, it's not like there's no css at all in the source. It's just UX-ignorant, so to say.
Cops are like regexes. Now you have two problems...
Or just introduce 1% revenue tax, get rid of all other taxes and tax credits?
It's odd that the article regards privately owned schools, hospitals, and libraries as absurd abominations. Private schools are a huge part of the American education system, and they're not the problem. Even when the funding is public, lots of jurisdictions in the US are moving toward privately owned schools, i.e. charter schools. The Catholic Church runs private schools around the world and is widely lauded for it. A big portion (most?) of the best American universities are private. 80% of hospitals in the US are private. Private is good.

Can someone explain for me how Free Basics would be harmful for anyone? If there's an alternative way to bring full internet connectivity to people who currently can't pay for it, wouldn't that alternative beat Free Basics in the market? The article briefly mentions "public internet access" as an alternative, but the Indian government has already failed the 400 million Indians without electricity, and 1 billion without internet. "The Indian government can probably get the money somewhere" reveals a total misunderstanding of the scale of the problem and places a laughable faith in the Indian government, the incompetence of which is in fact the single largest factor holding India back. Why not give market solutions a chance?
Without wanting to be like "I know more than everyone about art", I have "moderate" insight into the contemporary side of the art world (a couple of friends are dealers in NY, I take a passing interest in goings on and auctions etc) and from what I've seen Time isn't taken as seriously as publications like Art+Auction. It's entirely possible that I've missed something though but I wouldn't call this guy an Ebert of art.
911 is police, fire, or ambulance. But which combination shows up is decided by the dispatcher, not the caller, so you can't call 911 if you want to be sure that police won't respond.
Interesting list.

One of the biggest issues for me personally is the split effort. There are >300 distributions actively maintained, 300 projects whose sole purpose it is to package the kernel and some userland-stuff to make a usable operating system and provide for update mechanisms. 300 projects who spend resources on creating documentation, websites, giving support to users, ...

And the simple truth is: It does not matter too much which distribution you use, far too much weight is put on that. How much of what you do is distribution-specific? The type of init-system (mostly not important for a Desktop), the update mechanism, packages available, available/supported Desktop Environments / Window Managers, anything I forgot?

Most of the time you are running a browser, editor, terminal, video player, torrent client, openssh, steam, are using some version of python, ruby, perl, php, ... it quite simply does not matter whether you do these things on Fedora, Ubuntu, openSUSE, ArchLinux, Gentoo or FreeBSD.

Linus Torvalds described it in a similar manner once (too lazy to look for the link, but basically something like "I don't care too much about what distribution I use, I mainly work on the kernel anyways")

We are users, as such we use an Operating System in order to use programs.

The fragmentation probably mostly is rooted in the fact that it is quite easy to create your own distribution, and that many out there are head-strong people who are not patient enough to work their way up a command chain (regarding distributions with a democratic structure) or to succumb to what one dictator is saying. And some projects are just boring to work on, for example GUI-stuff or the code-monster Xorg.

I would not want to bundle all 300 distributions into 1, but (and this of course boils down to my opinion) 20 or so would do. It is important to have alternatives, like non-systemd distributions, rolling releases, source-based distributions, et cetera, but 300...

And if the focus is less on having 300+ distributions and more on making 20 or so distributions great, quality would rise without a doubt, not only ease of use, but also support, documentation, et cetera.

btw: Visited this page from Firefox, was greeted by the following:

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Except the ones made by their contractors would be $30k apiece for the same thing.
Stats show you're much more likely to be killed by someone you know, not a random cop walking the beat.

Everyday crime prevention and hunting for food aren't the only other reasons to own a gun. They can be used for sport, like target shooting. And home protection doesn't just mean stopping a home invasion. For example, I've lived through hurricanes where my community was without electricity for multiple days, and I've seen looting firsthand. In that type of situation, having a gun can be a beneficial deterrent.

Honestly, I find this whole idea of protecting yourself from cops with a gun to be asinine. I'm not saying it would never happen, but in general, the second you pull a gun on a cop you've dramatically increased your chances of getting shot, repeatedly. Any other cop who comes on the scene will shoot first and ask questions later.

I don't have hard stats to back that up, but I do know that if you get into a confrontation with a cop, your best bet is to practice de-escalation techniques. Be calm and respectful until their adrenaline levels have dropped. Mentioning or drawing a weapon will escalate the situation.
> ... alternative way is to use the linker ld as follows:

Good to know. I've always used objcopy to do the same. But this looks saner because it uses the native arch by default.
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This is why I don't like to use metaphors when discussing net neutrality. The current regulatory question in India is very specific: whether telecom services should be able to differentially price data. The internet is in a class of its own, and arguing net neutrality as an abstract principle applied to other contexts blurs the issue.

Free Basics just happens to depend on differential pricing, and Facebook is running a campaign to preserve Free Basics, hence it has become lightening rod for the debate.
They've been combatting organized crime for decades.
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There are many potential reasons I can think of. Some are completely off the wall random or wrong:

Poor decision making. You'd be surprised but many don't quite know how contraception works and just believe God will take care of it. Some don't mind because they think they'll get more govt. assistance if they have another kid. There is a status perception in the community. Some think they'll fix their relationship with their partner if they have another child.

One a higher level (subconscious perhaps), you can think people who have not much going on for themselves, and see themselves basically stuck, will give up on reaching whatever goals they might have had and instead choose to procreate, hoping at least on of their children will reach those goals.

At least back in the day I heard families were large, but child mortality and mortality was high too. It was expected many would not make it, so it (again perhaps subconscious) a hedging strategy -- have more children.
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Like plus aliases (chad+foo@), Dialer can find chad()@. However the parentheses cause at least 2 minor annoyances (desktop Gmail doesn't let me email such an address, and the Android contact editor won't let me edit the contact.)
My comment was also purely anecdotal as well, and biased towards public access and small market TV stations (ie high school run A/V Productions).

Regardless, your point is probably valid, but I have to imagine there is at least a handful of A/V enthusiasts taht swear by the RGB based computers.
I think you have not read my comment. I am not asking how to make more money, I am wondering how people with low paying jobs can keep up with financial expenses of having 6 kids
It's all of those things, but since we have an excess of police and not of those other public servants it's typically the cops who arrive first. Even the cops who wouldn't interfere with paramedics at work are likely to harass people who need paramedics in their absence.
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Yeah tons of games are running in WINE, but many of them have small bugs there and there (I use WINE all the time). Witcher 1 had some bugs related to the health bar not being visible at some point.
More kids don't really cost all that much more than 1 kid.

Especially if you live in a good community: You hardly have to buy anything (clothing, furniture, etc), you just borrow and lend from/to neighbors and family.

Pretty much the only extra expense is food, and food in the US is not very expensive unless you eat out. And once you reach the stage where you buy in bulk prices really go down.

For example: That crib you bought for one kid - you can use it for 10 kids for the exact same price, the same is true for almost all child expenses.
> PS4 APU is comparable to 7790

Yeah, but the APU drivers may not be comparable. That's one piece we won't know until we see actual benchmarks with it, if they manage to get 3D acceleration working.
I am not able to download Programming Challenges book.
The Debian manifesto, written by Ian can be found here.

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ap-manife...

Not only is the manifesto a vision for a better way of doing a Linux distribution, Ian was able to build an organization that was able accomplish the vision.
Nor are you what? I said I agree with Piketty and Marx.

Anyhow, the example was just rhetoric. The point is that communism started because people thought it was unfair that there was a rentier class who essentially monopolized wealth because they had inherited wealth. And communism fell because people thought it was unfair that people who were lazy made the same as people who worked hard.

Studies have shown that most people in western societies prefer inequality as long as someone has less than them. They think inequality is 'fair'. Why do you think people value celebrities and rich people? People are happy with our 'lottery' system, where anyone can become rich, even if the majority don't, and even if the average struggles...
Why would they do that, and why would any corporations deal with corporations with a history of cheating?
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As long as you're learning, you should do whatever feels right. Don't overthink it. You can always switch things up if you feel like you're overdoing anything.

One benefit to doing your own thing, is that it can help beef up your github "portfolio". But, don't feel beholden to that or anything.
I agree with you "100% in spirit", but feel the need to point out that RFC 5322 (822 is ancient...) is for MIME, and thereby isn't what is even used "when e-mail servers talk to each other": it is the format of the e-mail message itself that is used only within a mailbox (when either your client or, if you are using IMAP, your server parses the message).

The actual standard used by e-mail servers talking to each other is 5321 (which you might still know 821 ;P), the standard for SMTP: this protocol actually has a different way to write comments and escape characters, as it is embedded into a different structure (which I think decimates the arguments people tend to make that you should validate comments).

Years ago I was working quite in earnest on an e-mail server suite, and at the time I was extremely deep in the various standards, and wrote a comment that goes into somewhat more depth on the semantics of e-mail verification. The example I was really happy with is the notion that you would never ask your user to HTML escape their username or password ;P.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4486872
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It should be mentioned that currently 40% of Indian children are enrolled in private ("independent") schools, which in turn make up 25% of the K-12 schools in India[1]. The public school system is viewed as such a poor education that demand for private schools is high, and thus can be quite affordable too; as low as $2 per month[2]. Which even in India is within the reach of most families (minimum wage there is ~$225/month).

[1] http://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/role-of-private-sec...
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/31/world/asia/for-indias-poor...
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