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I'm having trouble understanding this comment, but I'll assume you mean that drawing attention to the person who mocked Ian prior to his death is unethical.

I don't believe people deserve witch hunts for accidents-- surely this man didn't want to kill Ian, just hurt Ian while he was already feeling suicidal. At the same time, I believe that we shouldn't ignore cruelty[1], especially when lives are/were at stake.

In support of this, I only posted links that lack identifying information: no names, no phone numbers, no email address, not even a link to his myriad of other accounts on the internet. I thought it would be useful for people to see that 1) harassment, not coddling, happened and 2) the persona (not the IRL person) responsible for said harassment.

To reply to your edit: "jackstorm" is a pseudonym, not the person's name. I don't see a full name in any of my posts, do you? Since you haven't read my posts, are conflating me with someone else, and have decided to insinuate that I'm a troll[2], I'll assume you're not interested in constructive discourse.

[1] "awfully insensitive" seems like a euphemism for cruel.

[2] "you can help the cause of online harassment by not harassing people online." I believe you mean the cause against online harassment.
Not a direct answer to your question, but I believe there are still A/V shops that use Amiga Hardware.
I wrote this Requiem for Ian Murdock https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2015/dec/30/requiem-ian-murdo...
I'm not quite sure what you're referring to. I might have been too young during that time. Just by the short description it sounds fairly different. Bing and Google also display ads during your searches. Whether you notice them or not. They keep 100% of the profit from those ads. We haven't changed anything besides the business model. The only reason companies like Google make as much money as they do is because so many people use their search engine and continue to generate those ads. These companies make their money from the actions of their users. Without those users there is no money. This is why BrowseU gives back to its users in the form of student loans. They're the reason money is generated from the ads and they should be compensated for that.
Honestly Linus is a genius about the social side of big projects. He managed to scale Linux development very well, even writing Git in the middle. About the technical parts in their epoch context, it is more mixed: technically before 2.6 versions the kernel had far too many architectural flaw to be considered for serious workloads (even if I enjoyed using it even from the 2.0 series); and today I actually don't know of a single programmer around me that think he is right about the approach of security. On the other hand he was one of the first high profile programmer to call the modern interpretation of C undefined behaviors by modern compiler writers insane.

But at least the beginning technical shortcomings could be explained because Linux kernel hackers of that time were unexperimented, and they actually several times silently learned from (some) NT designs and/or maybe big Unixes of that epoch (probably mainly Solaris) and adapted them not a too long time after trolling about why their previous simpler one was good enough (when it was clearly not).
The security approach today coming from people having work that long in the industry is inexplicable. (maybe it is just to early and they will just silently convert to reasonable opinions in 2016? :p )
Luck of the draw. Certain IP blocks in the Linode range are attacked all the time, as evidenced here. We had a couple VMs that were never attacked, but far too many of them were on a regular basis for us to even consider staying with Linode.
Mirror here: https://github.com/amigasource/amigaos/
> it won't provide 100% code coverage.

Yeah. 100% coverage is BS, again I go back to proof of quality.

> because the find ever-more subtle bugs

Well, yes and no. Yes integration tests are important for finding subtle bugs between different components of a larger system. No, bc an over-reliance on these instead of proper unit-testing, you end up with code bloat in your integration tests, and a maintenance nightmare because the tests are more complex. On top of that because you have so many integration tests It becomes unclear when the integration test is testing a valid API construct, vs something internal, making it very difficult to refactor code because you don't know what's expected API response vs some odd internal bug that you had to test for bc you didn't have a good unit test for the internals.
Well, it might bring down the average, but not as much as the variance, because the work is now load-balanced across multiple counters, more or less, evenly; and so, the productivity might be a bit on the higher side?
That doesn't apply to your federal but state taxes. It's basically the same as Ireland, certain states are shelters...

http://pennbpc.org/time-close-loopholes-delaware-loophole

Here’s how it works: A large multi-state corporation creates a shell company in a tax-haven state like Delaware. The subsidiary has no employees and is often nothing more than a post office box. The corporation then uses accounting gimmicks to funnel profits through the shell company, leaving no apparent income on the books in Pennsylvania. It may be legal, but it isn’t fair.
Please see section 12.2 here[0], quoted below, for a refutation of the idea that "taxation is theft":

"""Consider the argument "How can we have a holiday celebrating Martin Luther King? After all, he was a criminal!"

Technically, Martin Luther King was a criminal, in that he broke some laws against public protests that the racist South had quickly enacted to get rid of him. It's why he famously spent time in Birmingham Jail.

And although "criminal" is a very negative-sounding and emotionally charged word, in this case we have to step back from our immediate emotional reaction and notice that the ways in which Martin Luther King was a criminal don't make him a worse person.

A philosopher might say we're equivocating between two meanings of "criminal", one meaning of "person who breaks the law", and another meaning of "horrible evil person." Just because King satisfies the first meaning (he broke the law) doesn't mean he has to satisfy the second (be horrible and evil).

Or consider the similar argument: "Ayn Rand fled the totalitarian Soviet Union to look for freedom in America. That makes her a traitor!" Should we go around shouting at Objectivists "How can you admire Ayn Rand when she was a dirty rotten traitor"?

No. Once again, although "traitor" normally has an automatic negative connotation, we should avoid instantly judging things by the words we can apply to them, and start looking at whether the negative feelings are deserved.

Or once again the philosopher would say we should avoid equivocating between "traitor" meaning "someone who switches sides from one country to an opposing country" and "horrible evil untrustworthy person."

Our language contains a lot of words like these which package a description with a moral judgment. For example, “murderer” (think of pacifists screaming it at soldiers, who do fit the technical definition “someone who kills someone else”), “greedy” (all corporations are “greedy” if you mean they would very much like to have more money, but politicians talking about “greedy corporations” manage to transform it into something else entirely) and of course that old stand-by “infidel”, which sounds like sufficient reason to hate a member of another religion, when in fact it simply means a member of another religion. It's a stupid, cheap trick unworthy of anyone interested in serious rational discussion.

And calling taxation “theft” is exactly the same sort of trick. What's theft? It's taking something without permission. So it's true that taxation is theft, but if you just mean it involves taking without permission, then everyone from Lew Rockwell up to the head of the IRS already accepts that as a given.

This only sounds like an argument because the person who uses it is hoping people will let their automatic negative reaction to theft override their emotions, hoping they will equivocate from theft as "taking without permission" to "theft as a terrible act worthy only of criminals".

Real arguments aren't about what words you can apply to things and how nasty they sound, real arguments about what good or bad consequences those things produce."""

[0]: http://raikoth.net/libertarian.html#moral_systems
From the example in the article the libraries smell a lot like a reinvention of JSON schema. What am I not seeing?
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There's a lot right about this, but some factual inaccuracies like this make me wonder:

Too many layers of abstraction lead to the situation when the user cannot determine why his audio input/output doesn't work (ALSA kernel drivers1 -> ALSA library2 ( -> dmix3 ) -> PulseAudio server4 -> Alsa library5 + Pulse backend6 -> Application - in other words, six layers of audio redirection; or seven layers in case of KDE since they have their own audio subsystem called Phonon).

That's just not true. In the case of an application that directly supports PulseAudio, there are merely 3 levels:

ALSA kernel drivers -> ALSA library -> PulseAudio Server/library -> Application

In the case of an application that doesn't directly support PA (most that don't will support ALSA), it's one level little worse:

ALSA kernel drivers -> ALSA library -> PulseAudio server/library -> ALSA library (pulse plugin) -> Application

In that case, 4 levels of indirection.

If dmix is set up in the case where PA is being used, that's a bad system misconfiguration and the distro should be slapped.

So that's 3 levels of indirection for a "modern" app, and 4 if you need the compatibility layer. How are OSes like Windows and MacOSX designed? Unless they have a sound API that goes right to the kernel (and the kernel handles mixing if the hardware doesn't support it), I don't see how you can do much better than the current state of affairs, aside from having PulseAudio directly hit the ALSA kernel interfaces, which seems unnecessary.

(Note: for the purposes of debugging & figuring out why sound isn't working, I'm considering the PA server and library [or "backend" as the OP calls it] a single layer. It's true that there's an extra "hop" involved there, but in practice that's unrelated to any possible audio issue but latency, which isn't what the OP is talking about.)
Running debian now, I'd vote Y.
> apparently it's apocryphal

This shouldn't affect its value as a story, though.
Maybe old printers, old scanners and old tv tuners?

The reality is that when a new laptop is released, Windows will support everything it has from day one. If that's because of Microsoft's or the manufacturer's efforts, that doesn't matter for regular users.

On Linux, you buy the laptop and wait 1-2 years for bugs to be ironed out or even for things to barely work for the first time. Afterwards, Linux will continue to support that for a very long time while Windows may drop support after 2-3 versions because the manufacturer has no interest in upgrading drivers for the newest Windows releases. Specially for something that is not selling anymore.

Most people I know in the open source world barely use any fancy features like tv tuners, fingerprint scanners, touchscreens, or even printers. From reading some comments here, these are usually the people saying "everything is fine". I do think everything is fine for open source developers but no so much for regular users. And if the focus can be on the latter, then I guess everybody will benefit at the same time.

EDIT: typing this from Fedora 23 on a laptop with a NVIDIA card that is disabled because I got tired of bugs in nouveau and the constant hassle of updating the kernel and the GPU drivers stopping to work. I'm happy with the ingrated graphics though so my next laptop won't have a dGPU, probably.
I really disagree, strongly. It takes time and perseverance, but you can spread better ways of working.
> Personally I don't think you can be "unhinged" without being mentally ill

I consider that attitude to be deeply unfortunate and to be unfair both to the temporarily unhinged and to the long term mentally ill. If you had a term that was an alternative to unhinged that didn't make your socially conditioned prejudices twitch, I'd have preferred you shared it rather than simply attack both groups for using language that they consider to be accurate (because then you wouldn't've managed to insult most of my friends in one tone deaf unconstructive reply)
The “Chad” bug
This always seems so ridiculous.

It's easy to bar an individual whose IQ is too low, but it's a trivial matter to fake having a lower IQ than you really do.

Obviously no recompense for the plaintiff in this case, but now that the cat's out of the bag ... if you really want a job that only wants to recruit idiots, you know how to get it.
I used to work in video production and I never spoke to a person that currently used Amiga anywhere. I realize this is totally anecdotal, but the Amiga hardware must be pretty tightly integrated into your workflow if you're still using 20+ year old hardware that's a tiny fraction of the speed of more flexible and standardized desktops now, with software that you can easily and cheaply hire someone out of college to operate since they probably have already trained on it.

Perhaps a few TV news outlets are still using it since the turnaround there is so tight that everything needs to be "just so" to meet your deadlines, but even then, I have difficulty believing with the move to digital and HD that you could even get your footage onto an Amiga and work with it. I can't believe the hardware could handle HD.
That seems too be the general trend with UI design these days. Less and less content, more space and the little content that's there gets made less prominent with low contrast. I find it quite upsetting.
Lyft Line recently added this option. You can wait 10 extra minutes to save a few dollars.
The key takeaway:

> But today's IRS report suggests the biggest reason the super-rich paid lower tax rates over the last decade was the fact that Congress lowered taxes on the super-rich, particularly taxes on capital income.
Having it as a separate app allows me to do this: https://i.imgur.com/2b1rkb6.jpg
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> So there is nothing to be gained unless you have a 68K or PowerPC Amiga or one of the PowerMacs that could be hacked to run AmigaOS.

Or, you know, an emulator, which you could likely run in a browser now that MESS has been compiled to Javascript.
Read the linked post. It explains why the distinction needs to be made between identity and authn/authz.

Point being biometrics is a bad idea to start with. CapitalOne doing this means they are failing to make the same distinction much like a 6 char password minimum etc. etc.
1,300 metric tons of CH4 leaked per day seems massive. Total anthropogenic U.S. emissions are 30 teragrams - 30 million metric tons (http://www.pnas.org/content/110/50/20018.full.pdf). An extra half a million tons of this stuff per year is probably not good, although I'm not an expert and the data seems subject to some controversy.
Hi Tom. I was anticipating a response like this and I'm glad you shared your perspective. One of the reasons this piece was difficult to share is that the last thing that I want my customers thinking about is failure.

Let me clarify one thing (and perhaps I should do this in the blog post as well?). Our team cares incredibly deeply about our commitments to our customers and their data. I 100% agree with you that we can _and should_ double-down and work through the weekend when that's what it takes to maintain that commitment.

The thing is, we already do that, and our team was already doing it at the time I wrote this message. People at Keen take their responsibilities to our customers and to each other very seriously. That's why we haven't had another loss since then, now almost 12 months later. When I wrote this message, the problem wasn't that people weren't working hard enough. It was that we were stressed out and burnout was becoming a risk. In this situation, reminding people to take a deep breath and get some perspective seemed to be really helpful.

There definitely is a time and a place to rally and to push through, and we have plenty of experience with that too :)
bla bla bla.. bunch of lines and lists all of which are refutable easily. sure linux is far from perfect (and far from bad, too) and thus there are a lot of potential valid criticism, none of which this article mention.

Therefore, the author just spent time typing down a load of BS/FUD probably intended for people who don't seriously run Linux on the desktop nowadays. wow:

So many items are misleading. Some of the links even lead to resolved bugs, did the author click them?
Or the "no alternative to SMB". well duh... linux users... use SMB. simple as that.

Or another funny point - I'd like to see the author play with a windows laptop using optimus (its a POS), or seriously gaming on macosx with all AAA titles (oh, they dont exist, too bad, yet people still love it as desktop...)

Then there's list that "affect every linux user".. none of them affect me, I'm such a special snowflake!
Not even one. Not even the video acceleration one that seem to be his "biggest point". Firefox uses gstreamer with hw acceleration support and h264 on youtube. In fact, my laptop uses much less power playing youtube videos on linux that on windows (turns out I do have a watt meter and I did use it when I got the laptop).

So yeah.. maybe the author should inform himself a bit before typing random things.
Really?

I was pretty sure that the one and only job of a Coroner in the U.S. was to report cause of death.

I was also under the impression that if cause of death is not natural, then the local authorities are supposed to open an investigation.
One line typically reduces the average wait time as well. In the multi-queue scenario, it's common for a register to go unused while a queue remains at another register.
Anker instantly offers free replacements to anyone who posts a bad review.
Use Plasma 5 (which is "KDE5" if you will). KDE4 is not even supported anymore on some distros.

It fixes most remaining annoyances of KDE4 and has been really stable for me. Even kmail 5.5 is a huge step forward compared to the buggy kmail 4.x
Most of the these articles never consider state/local level income taxes. For a person in California the total top capital gain tax rate is more than 33%. This is actually the second highest in the world.

If you consider the regular income tax its even much worse, currently the combined income tax rate in California is more than 50%
> they're so diverse that it's impossible to formalize them into strict laws.

More diverse than the stars in the sky? It's a bit rich to suggest that psychology and art can't be formulated into strict laws. Pop music and advertising are some great examples.
intel drivers are awesome (and made by intel, mind you)
Maybe but I'd bet if you surveyed all the corporate jets out there and found what percentage were being treated as personal taxable income you'd find it pretty low.
its nice to hold oneself to a high standard, but this is not what the article is about. most issues cited are non-issues/have been fixed over the past year. seems just like a random rant.
I don't know about "get what you pay for", but when you buy something called "WooPower", you shouldn't expect good power.
I think this was big enough that they had to comment. Publicly leaked personal information might be enough to start a lawsuit (IANAL). But I agree, props to them for going against their SOP, and actually communicating.
> Cops think twice when they know there's an equalizer in the equation.

What exactly do you mean by that?

The reason I'm asking is that everything I've read or heard from law enforcement acquaintances is that cops are much more likely to draw their weapon in situations where they think guns are present. That is, they might be less likely to "beat the shit [out] of you", but they are much more likely to shoot you. If a cop is bent on subduing me or doing me harm, I'd much rather they rough me up than shoot me.

Also, I just have to say that if you feel the only thing standing between you and police brutality is your gun, you must inhabit a very different mental space than I do. I grew up with guns (in rural Alabama), and I'd probably have one now, if my wife weren't against having one with a child in the house. I can think of many reasons to own a gun. Protecting myself from the police is not one of them.

I really don't get people who think their guns will protect them from the government. Ultimately we, the people, are the government. What protects us from overreach and abuse of power these days is strong encryption and better transparency laws.
Ha. Agreed. I'm surprised you got downvoted for your content-full post. I've made worse shitposts and been upvoted for them. You addressed each point. They may have been negative cynical but still substantive. "Please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News" was said to me recently.
> This suggests one of two possibilities: either Theranos’ customers received test results generated by equipment that no federal official checked for accuracy, or Theranos wasn’t using the proprietary technology

This claim is really interesting. I'm very curious to see what happens next in this saga. It seems like Theranos could make all of this go away if they simply demonstrated that their devices work. Hand them to a third party (or multiple third parties) of scientists and let them validate the claims and use the devices.

Since they haven't does this mean the device doesn't work or isn't reliable? Or is it something else?
we're soon in 2016, 4 years later. you might want to try again (with arch in particular).

I've zero issue with Plasma 5. I plug my laptop into the projector and it just works ;-) I used to have that problem as well, like everyone else. But honestly its been a thing of the past since 2 years or so.

Also, using Plasma ensure I don't have to fiddle with configuration. It's not as leet as stumpwm or many others, but its certainly more customizable and more easily than OSX - while still working out of the box, just like OSX.
Quirky is a platform for advertising individual product developer ideas. C&A is a marketing+product company that builds products based on consumer research and iteration.

IOQ, Quirky is a vanity platform like Print-on-Demand book companies, not a business enabler.