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Burnout struggle is real.

People could be more empathetic in general, especially in open source where others use their free time to collaborate.

I genuinely hope that Doug Wilson doesn't quit collaborating since he has already done a really good job.
Did anyone read the article?

> CNET reported that Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, was greeted with a standing ovation
I'm not sure I would expect much different than this after seeing IBM getting more and more involved in every aspect (in the form of jasnell)
> So network speeds were limited to USB 2 speeds

Given that USB 2.0 is 480Mb/s, and Ethernet is 100Mb/s, there is no bottleneck when using the Pi's Ethernet port. I really wish this myth that "Pi Ethernet is slower than dialup because USB" would just die.

Of course, like everyone else I'd love to see a new version of the Pi with Gigabit Ethernet directly connected to the system bus, and USB 3.0 while we're at it. But that would greatly increase the cost of the device and also require a newer SoC that supports such things.
Really understanding Apple's legal brief in the FBI case
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friday night drunken drama?
Glad you liked it! Podcasts are finally giving US creators the chance to match, or at least approach the quality of BBC content. There's a joke going around, two guys are sitting at a table recording a podcast and one of them goes, "Hey, remind me, are we recording your podcast or mine?"
Hacker breached accounts of 700,000 US taxpayer
>Japan is an old nation

Japan as a unified nation in the modern sense is newer than the United States of America. Prior to the Meiji Restoration in the 1860s Japan was a feudal society lead by warlords. The rule under the Tokugawa shogunate was relatively stable, but it was still a feudal society.

I don't think anyone is claiming Japan will cease to exist as a country and that the Japanese people would die out, but something with as radical a change as the Restoration (Which included multiple civil wars...) would probably not count as the nation just correcting itself. It is the effective death of one form of the nation and the birth of the other.
Meanwhile, houses in Detroit can be purchased for the cost of a month's rent in SF. The solution is obvious, no?

It seems that people want so badly to live in some of the nation's most expensive real estate that they are willing to be homeless. That's a choice. The quarter billion spent on them is an enabler. It encourages them to stay homeless.
IRL, I've actually met two people who've watched and enjoyed talks by Hickey, but I haven't met a single one who's actually tried Clojure...
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Ever since TJ handed Express, there's been a lack of leadership.
IBM owns Express but hasn't really been fixing bugs, so Doug took over a lot of the development work in the interim.

All the best to Doug and I hope he's doing okay.
I flagged the link for that reason.

What's there to discuss? People fighting? What is the context? And .. why would we want to watch?

This feels inappropriate. We're sending a huge amount of traffic to a ~random~ ticket in which someone feels betrayed.

What, what exactly, would HN like to discuss here? I mean - what is the topic? What IS there to discuss? Do we want to add helpful advice from our armchairs? Is this a way to bait out more details (from people that might know more, might be on HN)?

Seriously, how's this more relevant than a post about Prince William getting wasted?
Ah yes. It's the stupid people that have caused massive housing costs increases, massive healthcare increases and stagnant wages. Yup despite your taxes not increasing a cent since that islamofascist Kenyan took over the office of POTUS it is you that has to bear the burden of stupid people having kids.

Give me a break.
p<0.14 reads "the likelihood that the observed positive correlation between intentional homicide rate and firearms per population rate is due to random effects is < 14%"

That is not that same as "statistically insignificant" which OP uses.
Seems like a normal expression of frustration, no need to get melodramatic.
I don't think your claims are correct.

If you read a formal definition of Chaitin-Kolmogorov, you can find that the concept are essentially normalized by recursive function theory. By using the Church-Turing thesis, you can see that any program in any language can be simulated up to a constant length-multiple by an abstract Turing machine (speed isn't considered in these definitions so architecture doesn't matter much). Chaintin-Kolmogorov basically considers the log of the length of programs and then thus takes it's values as being plus or minus a constant for a given measure.
> News organizations do NOT like these impenetrable homogenous conservative culture

A good thing that Japanese people care very little about what the "Gaijin" thinks.
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> the absolute number of people -- men, women, and otherwise -- who qualify is so much larger than what HMC can support that it could admit a class of 0 men and not have to worry about "lowering its standards".

If it's admitting women it would not otherwise in order to meet its CS quotas, then it is lowering the standards. The only question is how much. By the way, if you believe that, that also implies that if they are changing or lowering standards, then you will have a hard time showing it with the very coarse statistics that elite universities tend to report, especially given the ceiling effects (things like the median or 75th percentile are not very informative when you're that far out on the tail of applicants).

> Sure, maybe Mudd isn't doing as much as it could, or is spending more money than it should.

They are spending an enormous amount of money. When I looked at other coverage the last time I saw a self-congratulatory puff piece from Harvey Mudd, the raw numbers implied they were spending something on the order of $100k per additional woman in their CS program, a number so high I couldn't understand what they could possibly be spending it all on (taking scores of students to conferences is clearly part of it, but even conferences can't soak up that much money).

Success based on enormous per capita expenditure and changing admissions criteria is not something that could be rolled out on any kind of national scale, and is consistent with primarily poaching from an existing static pool of women, in which case their example proves nothing of interest to anyone, and the burden of proof is on them to show that this set of methods will get "more women into technology careers" and we do in fact "need more initiatives like this in academia and industry" and "We can" "change things". Instead, what we get from OP is a paucity of any kind of rigor like randomized experiments (who is better placed to try that than Harvey Mudd?), heavy reliance on anecdotes and correlational results, non-discussion of budgets and admissions, and emotive rhetoric.
Do you have any proof he had decided to take this course of action before he took office when he was making campaign promises?

I'm under the impression that the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies are extremely good at drumming up scary daily reports which wear down any president's resolve.
This is very similar to the homeless situation where I live. We had to recently break up a camp in one of the beach communities too. Many, many drug addicts (especially meth) and mentally ill (possibly due to drugs). Simply providing shelter is not the solution imo. The challenge is so much bigger than that. Drug rehab services need to be provided or even required. The easy access to drugs also needs to be addressed.

I am all for helping people that need our help. I am not for enabling certain behaviors though such as drug use. It is going to be hard to empower drug addicted homeless people if they can't hold down a job or relationships due to their addiction.

I am not saying this is the case for all homeless but at least in my area, it is the majority.

If we want to solve this problem, we need to provide shelter along with drug rehab services & require weekly clean drug tests as a requirement to keep the shelter.

Now the costs for all of that, I am sure is just as big of a challenge.
LoL that's the most hilarious and apt way of putting it :)
I imagine that our ancestors have been eating dogs for millennia. It's certainly less wasteful than euthanising them, roasting their corpses and grinding their bones to dust, which is what we do now.
"just do it"

JavaScript (or any programming language for that matter) cannot be learned by just reading. One must actually write with the language to get used to the language, as well as gain muscle memory for the syntax. Do something, even something very simple, like a console-based game (which is essentially just a state machine), or create your own pub-sub library (which deals alot with object and array manipulation), or recreate some data structure (binary tree, linked lists, rings, etc.). These simple exercises can go a long way.

These books help as well.

- JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

- High Performance JavaScript
(1) By definition, if the law provides no remedy, there is no legal recourse;
I meant the law mandating the requirement, not "all law".

It's possible that there's another law dealing with the execution of duties, similar to "honest services fraud".

I'm not saying that it exists, but I disagree that it's impossible by definition.

I do take your second point, though.
Indeed, it's possible and even mostly-supported (at least on Gentoo) to compile the code into the kernel; i.e., not as a module. I have a zfs system without kmod support (reduces a huge attack surface and just seems cleaner).
I agree with you that the code of conduct initially felt a bit eh -- but the thing is, can you really ban a troublemaker without a standard? Otherwise you start a whole drama war and leadership gets accused of playing favorites and it's just a clusterfuck nobody wants.

While it would be equally as nice to pretend everybody could just be fucking polite human beings as to pretend a true "meritocracy" could exist, that's just not reality.
A lot of people are invested in express and run production services based on it. While I agree it is unfortunate for this discussion to reach Hacker News it is also definitely important and interesting information to those involved.

I'm sure that I would want to know.
The last 5% is my last 5%, not (necessarily) the project's 5%. I.e. the difference between what is there and what I require, not between what is there, and the project's goals.
> "but even they only ever act in their own financial interest."

I'm an individual investor, and if fighting this out costs me some money, I'm pretty sure it was worth doing.
I have a CHIP, from the Kickstarter campaign. It really is a better deal than the Pi Zero, unless you have Pi-specific needs. It's much more powerful than the Zero in my testing (though not quite as powerful as the Pi 2) and the built in Wi-Fi/BT is awesome. The fact you can attach a LiPo battery and have it managed by an onboard power regulator is worth the whole $9 as far as I'm concerned.

The only downside is no HDMI or even VGA until the respective adapters come out...in June. I currently only have one screen in the house with a composite input and it's not always available for tinkering.
This happened an hour ago. There is absolutely no indication that it will be permanent - it takes a single click of a button to reopen a pull request.

The overwhelming chances are that you wouldn't have ever noticed. And publicity like this is just going to make it harder to move on.
The name sounds like it's a more common phrase where someone substituted two synonyms.

Hostile Arc? Adverse Frown? Obviously that's not it. Semicircle could be a lot of things.
>> If you want companies to behave in an ethical fashion, you need to align legal, social, market, tax, and other incentives in order to push them in that direction. Expecting them to do so out of the goodness of their hearts is quixotic: they have no hearts with which to be good.

You mean, if I want the big companies to do good (or "not do evil") I have to
pay up to them?

But the people who make up those big companies also have to live in the same
society as everyone else. So they should already have an incentive to do good
to those societies- they will personally benefit from that good-doing. Why do
they need me, or anyone else, to provide that incentive?

We all live in the same world, we all have a responsibility to be morally
considerate in it. "Companies" are not "amoral entities", neither are nations.
Because they are groups of lots of people, who all are subject to moral
judgement.

"I was just following orders" is not an excuse anymore, and neither should "I
was just doing my job" be.
Housing and the homeless topics keep coming up on HN and in my social circles. It's frustrating.

My real frustration is in fact with our cities are incentivizing businesses to create jobs while not creating more housing supply nor using that capital to improve our city like solve homelessness. This is unethical and despicable.

The city is not run by the techies who work here. The city is run by rich companies AND entrenched groups.

Entrenched groups are the older long-time homeowners looking to push the value of their own homes, the non-profit communities that want to protect their neighborhood's culture and the longtime renters who want to keep their rent control. There are countless entrenched players who push the status quo and the majority of them don't have that much money. Whether you agree that "keeping neighborhood culture" is important or not, we must first acknowledge that doing so is contributing in some way to housing prices.

I believe rich companies are not inherently evil. Many wish to help their employees by encouraging cities to build new housing alongside their new offices. However, when push comes to shove, companies will prioritize their office over new housing projects. New offices are also a lot easier to sell to many of the entrenched players.

How do we combat this all? We vote! Oh wait...

Unfortunately, those who have recently moved here (who tend to be techies) tend not to vote and many cannot simply because they haven't yet lived here long enough. Additionally, those who commute (most people) cannot vote in the locations where may be truly relevant. For example, if I work at Twitter but live in Oakland, I cannot vote to encourage more housing to be built in San Francisco.

The other big problem that many ignore is that many of us cannot vote in cities because frankly, we're not American. At last I counted there are over 250,000 Canadians alone that live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Don't forget all the other TN, H-1Bs, L-2, non-visa aliens and families that live (and more than likely, rent) here. The Bay Area likely has the most non-voting capable residents in the US. I would guess that up to 10% of Bay area residents cannot vote.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11184896 and marked it off-topic.
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Radio 4 documentary about numbers stations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvr6o7fBcTY
Actually, if I understand what Linus says here[1] correctly, porting modules from other OSes to work with linux seems to be ok, writing closed source modules specifically for linux kernel is not ok. But overall still a gray area.

Other kernel devs indeed claim that everything that links with a kernel is a derivative work and EXPORT_SYMBOL / EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL distinction means nothing.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2003/12/3/228
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How many homeless people have you talked to? In my (anecdotal) experience just chatting with people, there are plenty of “lost my job and now I’m homeless” folks in SF. These tend to be a bit less visible than the mentally ill though.

More generally, many homeless people become mentally unstable or take up mind-altering substances after a while living on the street. It’s a really stressful, socially alientating situation, and in general the folks who end up homeless are those with less family/friend support. When you’re stuck feeling like a social outcast with no particular purpose, under the daily stress of figuring out how to eat, find a bathroom, sleep, shower, etc., it’s hard for even the toughest person to stay mentally sharp and optimistic.
Are you suggesting bussing all of the homeless to Detroit?
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> Oh, I don't doubt it. I just think you still need to learn how to spot them and how to avoid them.

No doubt about that from my end.

Also, if you have any leads on work please feel free to direct me to its location.
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Or, more probably, because I've actually read the spec and understood what IMAP really tries to do, saw how widespread its usage was in so many languages, and imagined what could be possible with a protocol we already have. I have toyed with it in the past already, and intend to do in the future because just everybody has it, with or without their knowledge, and can use its power.

Yes, IMAP is messy and inconsistent and hard to parse, if you blindly read examples and try to build a naive parser out of that. When you're trying to do as much as IMAP tries to do starting from scratch, that's barely surprising. Still, IMAP already has many tools, libraries and software that can be re-used.
Can you expand upon that?
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Low IQ immigrants have not caused most of these issues, they simply compound them and add to the overwhelming burden that already exists. It takes a special kind of stupid to not realize that these increased costs eventually have to be paid in one form or another.
> What can I do to increase the ratio of women in CS/Engineering?

The question is, why do you want to increase the ratio of women? Is it just for the sake of increasing the ratio? That's not the way to go then.
These interactions may be convoluted, and at times surprising, but at least they're deterministic.

This (the fact it's deterministic) is what makes Twitter so useful for me, and what drove me away from Facebook (with its stochastic Timeline).
Why is SMTP slower? You can open a connection, authenticate and then send as many emails as you want. Doesn't seem slower than sending POST requests with their headers and such.
If you look closer at the most prolific users they are not accessing it via the site, but via either the official app or a third party app/service (i think Hootsuite is popular with heavy users, as it allows them to track and post on a number of "social media" services).
So I set up a cloud instance (20GB disk, 512MB RAM) and tried this.

$ find
.
Killed
$ ls
ls: Memory exhausted

but indeed, cd'ing up a level and rm-rf'ing the directory full of files seems to succeed--my 'strace rm -rf' is busy spewing unlinkat() syscalls right now.
No, you can be arrested for failure to appear in court when summoned regardless of the basis, even if the basis of the summons is not itself an arrestable offense.

Further, the summons wasn't about student loan debt, per se, it was about an unpaid default judgement.

What led to the arrest wasn't the student loan debt, it was a series of failures to follow court orders or even respond to lawsuits.

Constitutionally, you cannot be arrested for inability to pay a debt (including a student loan debt) in the US. There are a whole lot of real problem cases of systems set up in such a way that one could argue that people are, in fact, arrested for what amounts to inability to pay a debt, and that's a real problem (John Oliver did a good piece on this a while back) -- but this isn't one of them. This is someone arrested for just ignoring court orders and hoping they would magically go away. The fact that the orders ultimately stem from a student loan debt is rather beside the point.
Basically yeah. An object can have one delegate object, which implements a set of required and optional methods defined in a protocol. So the delegate can add customized behavior to an object without subclassing.
I click on the link. Massive popup menus on the right partially obscure my view of the article. I close the tab. Next!
An average IQ one std dev below other groups does not preclude the existence of individuals who have an IQ two std devs above an average member of the other group. https://antidem.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/glantons-law/
That's right. And even if we assume `rm' does build those gigabytes, `find
| xargs' should not. xargs is smart enough to build commands with chunk of the
input and execute them one by one. The job can also be done with one of the
several programming languages, Perl oneliner being my choice.

Actually, this could be a good interview riddle, along the lines of fixing
`chmod a-x /bin/chmod'.
from the downvotes, il semble que vous êtes le seul a ne pas parler français dans ces contrées ;)
Goldeneye works quite well on a rpi2
I just read a long list of github issue comments about express out of curiosity about the backstory here. It does sound like a bad day for Doug, but you can also see the frustration building over a three month period; sometimes enough is enough - straws can break backs.

Managing open governance is tricky, even with good participant trust. And it seems like Doug can't work on this stuff during work hours, i.e. nobody is paying him for it. So those are additional stressors. Hopefully he can find a happy place again, but I would be surprised if it involved express unless he was hired by someone to work on it.
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> It's possible that there's another law dealing with the execution of duties, similar to "honest services fraud".

I was taking that as a case of the law providing a remedy for the offense in question, as part of some more general provision, so I think that our disagreement here is mostly just semantics rather than substance.
I find singular "they" too kludgey to tolerate, and I'm tired of people drawing offense where none was intended, so I just formulate my sentences to avoid gendered pronouns. It's not likely to help, since the people who are looking for offense are going to continue to find it somewhere, but I feel like I've done my part.
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You can also join the militarily or devote half your time to applying to scholarships.

I know people who have done both. Paying for college has many different opportunities, you don't need to pay with loans. That is just the most "convenient" thing to do. Hell, I'm even doing it!
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I don't think anyone is questioning whether your work resonates with a whole subset of people; I think we're questioning whether conferences and a full inbox are all the evidence we need to accept broad pronouncements about the state of an industry.
And it was me who did it!
I strongly disagree. I have zero interest in today's bloated AAA games. Simple games like Tetris, Mario + romhacks, or Civ II have given me collectively more fun that I would ever have playing some insipid shooter or uninspired pay2win fantasy game. I wouldn't trade them for any of today's games, which I consider severely flawed in many ways.
> generic maps but no other containers

Yet it feels like magics. Why just maps? why not sets, with useful set methods ? (union...) . It doesn't feel consistant in a statically typed language. It also feel like a mistrust of the developer. Go doesn't trust me enough so I can implement my own typesafe containers ? or does Go asks me to do the compiler's job by writing code generation tools ?

And there is no maybe[T] or we wouldn't need multiple return values when dealing with errors. If there was a maybe[T], we could chain functions and only deal with errors in the last return statement.