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> A lot of fixes on forums constantly suggest to uninstall first.

A lot of people seeking and offering help on forums are former Windows users, who are used to doing that to fix problems. They just don't what else to do, so that's what they do.

And, sure, if you break a configuration file or package dependency, wiping the disk and reinstalling will fix that--but so would fixing the file or dependency. In my experience, the nuclear option is never necessary with Linux. Worst case, you boot off a CD or USB drive, mount the partition, chroot if necessary, fix it, and reboot.

> Other times it makes things worse.

That is very strange, indeed. D:

> buying a lottery ticket soon?

Haha, nope, been having this "luck" for years now, but it only seems to affect my Linux installs. :(
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This is a pretty good comparison, imho (lived in Cary since 2003, first for an RTP-based company, then one based on San Jose, and relocating this year to CA). I'm trading my beautiful suburban 4300sqft home on a nice lot in a neighborhood with 2mi of private greenways and very little traffic that I only paid $499k for ... for a 1700sqft ranch built in 1950 costing $1.4m and loads of traffic everywhere you look. The upside is the new job and the tech community, but I'm not 100% convinced I'm trading up re: quality of [family] life.
It is true. There are issues but they have been minor and Tesla is fixing them. My guess is that they were pushing these out by March 31st for quarterly numbers and quality control slipped in their haste.
Malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases are actually a big reason why there is a third world.
That sounds reasonable, but the article says it was also about demonstrating consensus:

"In the 1960s, refereeing emerged as a symbol of objective judgement and consensus in science."
At this point during the beta we're not supporting cstore, but it's definitely on our roadmap for the future.
We stole movable type and gunpowder from the Chinese. It's payback time.
If you're interested, here's a simple bookmarklet I made. It opens the title link at the top of an HN comments page via archive.org:

javascript:window.open('https://web.archive.org/web/' + document.getElementsByClassName('athing')[0].getElementsByTagName('a')[1].href);
The table from the report and Docker's championing thereof are also (nearly flagrantly) misleading, since Docker only supports image signing if you use the public hub. You cannot (repeat: cannot) sign Docker containers any other way, so it's barely a half feature and does not work for enterprises at all. But it says "strong defaults" in their table when describing this oddly useless feature, since enterprises are the ones most likely to invest in a serious key infrastructure and actually use signing:

https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/trust/content_trust/

> Content trust is currently only available for users of the public Docker Hub. It is currently not available for the Docker Trusted Registry or for private registries.

> Currently, content trust is disabled by default. You must enable it by setting the DOCKER_CONTENT_TRUST environment variable.

How is the complete lack of image verification until explicitly enabled, and only on public images, a "strong default"?

I'm also mystified by the row for SELinux, where rkt has Optional in scary yellow for some reason, and the other two do not. I suspect that table was the whole point of the independent review and it is fulfilling its purpose handily for Docker. I haven't even read the report and I can identify four suspicious discrepancies in that table alone.

ETA: Compare how the author describes Docker to rkt (it's rkt, not Rkt, too): http://imgur.com/a/D6nEw
Let me know when you find a place that will accept and support 180MM Bangladeshis and 1B Africans.

Kill the mosquitos. It's cheaper in the long run.
Not sure about Canada, but the whole story usually is that people with lower social class/backgrounds commit crimes more often, and that aboriginals/black people/foreigners/... etc are overrepresented in that group. Once you control for social status, there is no difference between white or non-white populations.
Unfortunately, for fans of Amarok 1.4, that's a feature, not a bug.
Bernie supporters turn me off to Bernie. I happen to agree with the guy on many (but, not all) problems facing our country and it's people.

But instead on HN, my Facebook & any story about Bernie. His supporters automatically try to counter any kind of scrutiny of the guy, his positions & his plans. For crying out loud The guy is running for president, he's not a saint and he deserves every bit of scrutiny.
Yeah Halo was it for me, and probably the only real reason I own an Xbox One (although we'll just say that Halo 5 leaves something to be desired...) I think Microsoft has stumbled recently with console exclusives. A lot of people felt that Titanfall[1] was kind of a bait and switch. People paid $60 or whatever for what was essentially a multiplayer-only game. (The sequel will not be an Xbox exclusive.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanfall
This is not "differences between CLR and JVM", but more of "why I think CLR is better than JVM".

Anyway the biggest issue I have seen in my line of work (building GPU software, and people want GPU acceleration from their language of choice) is that JVM does not provide a way to handle external resources properly. Calling garbage collection does not guarantee that the out of scope objects will be finalized. This results in either code that uses up a lot of memory or code that is very un-java like.

Yes I know try with resources exist, but the problem still exists for any temporary variables you create within the block.

If anyone here has a better solution, I am all ears.
I do indeed, but you didn't need to Google; the parent mentioned it (which is why I abbreviated it).
A friend wanted to buy the ex grow op house and he couldn't find a way to ever get a mortgage on it. And he works at a bank selling mortgages. So while some houses may be trashed by grow ops they are all assumed to be trashed and there is no way to remove the black mark from the property.
The joys of the information age...
Came here to post that documentary (the entire series of which is freely available, btw[1]). I think you misinterpreted it slightly, however. The documentary presents evidence (strongly denied by the Norwegian social scientists interviewed) that male and female brains are wired differently, to be good at and enjoy different activities. It even goes so far as to show studies that link receiving an excessive amount of the opposite sex's hormones during prenatal development to developing the stereotypical interests of the opposite sex early in childhood.

When a very egalitarian, gender neutral society like Norway exhibits more "traditional" gender distribution in the workforce than a less egalitarian one, the Norwegian social scientists thought this must be because of institutional sexism, or cultural brainwashing reinforcing gender roles, or whatever other excuse you've heard a million times. The documentary instead posits the idea that in a society where you are truly free to do what makes you happy, maybe it's normal that less women than men would want to be engineers and less men than women would want to be teachers or nurses.

Whereas in "somewhat free" societies that have higher numbers of women in "male" jobs, these societies are usually much less affluent than, say, Norway. So of course people will end up doing jobs that they may not particularly enjoy, they have to to survive. It's not mild social pressure "daring" women to go against the grain or anything that could be imported, it's economic pressure forcing people to take whatever jobs are available (or indeed, having jobs assigned to them by a planning committee).

Humans are adaptable, of course. When an intelligent person is forced (directly or indirectly) into a role that they may not have chosen themself, they will most likely learn to be competent. And both intellectual outliers and people (as mentioned above) with prenatal hormone mismatch can account for people that do exceptionally well in a role dominated by the other gender. But the question is, are you really making society better if you are forcing average people into certain roles to fulfill your political goals? Or are you increasing the amount of unhappiness in the world and perhaps even driving down the average competency in that field?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjernevask
"I bought a $140,000 car that I can only get in through the passenger door. Oh well!"

(if you didn't read, this is pretty close to a synopsis of one of the affected customers quotes).
The first one is definitely an issue, because then discriminatory bias governs what happens to the people caught in that gray area. That sucks, hard.

But for the other two? If you're smoking pot illegally and decide to be a jerk to the police... I'm not entirely sure I'd be sympathetic. They don't have to arrest you, but you don't have to be mean to them.
Maybe, or maybe it was the basic understand that the communist dream can only come true if everyone, men and women, equally work towards it. In my parents' generation (I'm born in the GDR) there was no debate about feminism. Women were expected to work, childcare was available, it was free and it catered to people who had to work 40h/week. Sometimes I was in kindergarten from 8am to 8pm.

I still remember how I did not get jokes about inferiority of girls when we emigrated to Western Germany - I simply had never ever heard one before.

What speaks against your theory is that men died on all sides in WWII, but in the West (read: democratic societies), women's rights developed in a distinctively different/slower way.

PS: Yes, it was not all rosy, childcare was dual-use, it was also used for indoctrination of the youngest and even to some degree to control/check on the parents.

EDIT: It's probably revealing that my initial impulse is to consider this story as irrelevant because it focuses on the gender. Yes, after 26 years in the West I understand why it is relevant.
>the washington post

their agenda and the political leanings of their new master is clear

http://fair.org/home/washington-post-ran-16-negative-stories...
It's a "minor issue" that your door slams into overheads because the proximity sensor fails? Is Tesla repairing the damage to whatever was hit too?

I've heard of a whole lot of "glitches" excused away that, frankly are not particularly excusable for a car that costs more than many people's homes.
Can I get a link to something that confirms this? I'd like to be able to use this point in conversation.
I'm not a designer and I mostly fail to have a designer's eye for such things. But here the icons seem really clear:

security - a stylized lock.
connectivity - linked members of a chain, which are connected.
WLAN - expanding circes of a radiowave
login - a human head on an upper body

All which exist as icons for decades in other UI. In this case there seems to be a design constraint of only using circles, semicircles and quartercircles. That fails most in case of the Wifi Symbol which needs concentric rings. Here those are just simulated. And the metaphor of chain links for connectivity strains. But that was also the case when it stands for hyperlink.
It should also be noted that a common practice in medical environments is to cover any control panels with a static-cling plastic sheet (usually light blue color, I imagine everyone is using the same brand) that can be quickly replaced between patients. So make your legends large and high-contrast.
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Locky Changes Communications and Spreads with the Nuclear EK
Exactly the same complaints could be made about the bottom of the smartphone market ($100-200 range). Higher end smartphones may have improved more than high end laptops over the past few years, but mid-range to high end laptops are definitely nicer than they were 3 years ago.

You're also a bit disingenuous on your laptop complaints, the best selling laptop on Amazon in that price range has a 1080P screen, 4GB RAM, a decent i3 Broadwell (which is faster and uses less power than its equivalent Sandy/Ivy Bridge processor you would have gotten 3 years ago). Crapware is only a valid complaint if you choose to use Windows and are incapable of taking an hour to install a clean copy when you unbox it.
I realize I'm an outlier -- but I'm not fond of solar. Though when I was younger, I was an enthusiastic supporter. But now I realize that a 30 year life-span for solar panels means that there will be a huge recurring cost associated with solar. That is a huge cost to our society. And the more we use solar then the larger that cost will be. In contrast, Wind Turbines and their blades can be repaired and continue to work for much longer. On top of that, I understand that in some countries there are neighborhoods who share ownership of wind turbines - largely eliminating the Big Utility middleman who might extort profit (as is so common here in the United States.) The role of the utility becomes power transmission rather than monopoly sourcing of energy.
TL;DR: Pay attention to arcane details or don't use containers for security related stuff. Also grsecurity.

Honest question: Are illumos zones or FreeBSD jails better designed or is just nobody looking for kernel bugs there? From a usability perspective both win (IMHO) against this Linux mess.

This document is really great through.
Lol. It's a great idea, but I would hate to go through airport security with that board tucked into a battery holder. The entire package just screams "secondary inspection".
We have a TON of mosquitos in the late spring through late autumn seasons. Those asian tiger mosquitos. They bite all day long. You can't go out and expect to avoid them unless you're doused in Off, and even then it's no guarantee.

Last year my daughter got bit so badly that both of her legs looked like she had a huge rash. It was just a string of mosquito bites combined with a sensitivity to them that exaggerated an already rough problem.

All that said, I'm not sure I'm pro-extermination. We have a lot of bats that come around and eat the mosquitos around dusk. I'm sure they'd find other things to eat, but I like seeing them skim the pool for a drink and then eat a few dozen skeeters while they dart around. I also don't like people playing god with this type of stuff. The butterfly effect is real, and if we exterminate them all, we won't know what the effect is until it's already too late. Realistically, the earth adapts to whatever we do to it. Long after we're gone, there will be tons of interesting life forms. That still doesn't make me any less uneasy about it.

I don't know.
Monsanto, $42.7 billion.
AMEN to that! I also keep them for a machine with lower subversion risk. Unlikely given most didn't even use the Ethernet. Fortunately, I've got other options for now so I can remain a MGS, Final Fantasy 7, and whatever machine. :)
Would you say it's a... gateway drug?

Badum-tish.
are those the guys who said it's a myth that the government played a central role in the development of the Internet?

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100008723963904444643045775390...

WSJ is not even a shadow of what it once was.
The Puget Sound population is actually 4.2 million as of 2012 [1], assuredly a bit larger now. I'd call it a moderately-large metro area.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puget_Sound_region
It says both - those "C# has" bullets are under a "CLR has…" header.
You’ve Been Washing Your Hands Wrong
he just means here are all kinds of piddly effects that will throw it off. If you switch the thing on and you get a huge effect size with high signal/noise you don't need to worry about stuff like who is standing near the tank other than to worry that they're being irradiated with fast neutrons.
Just out of curiosity, can't this be implemented with `nvm` and some sand boxing? Why did you choose to use docker?
If you can fix that, you can fix any human problem. It is like the P=NP of human problems.
Smallbore is the sport you're talking about.

The Soviets were very good at it and made some fine rifles, I used to use an old Vostok in high school, cheaper than a German Anshutz, and almost as good.
Yes, but it's not all about processing efficiency. I'm sure lack of availability is mentioned, especially where there isn't money or population density

In the states, we could use it in a different way; to encourage community. If nobody recycles their goods, industrial processes can't help. Watching these machines and immediately building a new thing out of them really drives home the usefulness of recycling. It's 'cool' to watch and fun to do.

I grew up in Houston, Texas; some people recycled sometimes, but most people I knew (in affluent areas, so plenty of waste and education) just didn't care. My college apartment complex didn't have recycling at all despite a center within 10 minutes.

Our fathers mostly worked in oil / fossil fuels, where environmentalists block critical infrastructure for both good and inane reasons. (One inane example, a small town refused to allow an increase in the throughput of a natural gas pipe extending along a river; this put it at higher risk of explosion). People who recycle are the enemy; they are the guys preventing them from doing their jobs.

I want to build one of these with my dad and set it up so that the neighbors and their kids can come by, watch the plastic churn and have a new doodad to bring home. He would love it, they would love it (minus some terrified parents) and it would be a pretty great thing all around.
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> There was Al Jazeera America, but it couldn't make itself profitable. But we still have Al Jazeera English:

Al Jazeera is a non-profit ran by the Qatari government. It was never meant to be profitable. It did shut down because oil prices went down and the Qatari government had to make some cuts.
You were basically saying "None of those were TRUE Marxism -they were perverted, etc.". So in that form basically anyone with any issues with capitalism can be dismissed by saying, well, what east Asian and western economies are living under is not true "free enterprise" capitalism, so don't knock it.
However, the reality is we've tried a variety of both and they are known values and the ones we _can_ talk about and anything else is pure speculation and quite beside the point.
So this is what the future is like.

Imagine you're on the freeway when suddenly a chip malfunctions and your doors open. How exciting!
I hardly get any notifications on my phone. I don't have facebook/twitter/etc installed, and I have a strict no-texting policy.

If I really want to focus I put my phone in airplane mode.
I suggest never to call the garbage collector with the expectation that anything in particular will happen--not in CLR and not in the JVM. Also, do not use finalizers for this!

JNI and P/Invoke are not really that different except that P/Invoke is a lot easier to implement. But CLR does not know how to cleanup unmanaged resources automagically.

edit: I removed my notes about "try with resource" and AutoCloseable
Canada to push for making sale of marijuana legal
Sense of smell is very important when it comes to becoming a good cook.
This..... this is the thing every architect attempting to roll containers out to production needs to read and re read

Complexity at scale:
Orchestration frameworks (Rancher, MESOS/Aurora, Docker Swarm, LXD, OpenStack Containers, Kubernetes/Borg, etc) are only recently catching up to the container craze, there are too many competing models to list. Many have questionable or unaudited security or leave major requirements out, such as secret management. While containers may be easy to get working within a workstation or a few servers, scaling them up to production deployment is another challenge altogether, even assuming your application stack can be properly ``containerized''
The GPS tracking collars researchers use on wolves last something like a year or even two. Their batteries are more powerful than a couple AA's, of course, but that should at least give a starting point for some back of the envelope estimates as to what you could do with a smaller power budget.

A lot depends on how often you actually need to gather GPS data, and how often you need to report it. A GPS can use a relatively large amount of power while first getting a fix, but then updating that fix later, if it hasn't moved too far, will use a lot less power.

The datasheet for a GPS module should tell you the power consumption during various operations, and how long those operations can take, so you can figure out the power needs for a given updating schedule.

You could probably do some clever things, like include an acceleration sensor and only update the GPS when you infer from the acceleration sensor that you've moved.

Similar considerations apply to reporting data. Frequent reporting will use more power than saving up the data and sending it one bigger batch, because there is overhead in setting up a connection to whatever you are reporting to.

There are commercially available GPS trackers that run for two weeks on two AA alkaline batteries or three weeks on AA lithium batteries. I don't think the ones I saw reported wirelessly...they were the kind you have to retrieve to get the tracking log, but this suggests that an AA GPS tracker with wireless reporting with enough runtime to be quite useful is feasible for a lot of applications.
Well, as I mention in another comment [0], I'm uncertain as to whether the prospective bill will actually pass, and thus the "interim" situation could become the ongoing status quo. Additionally, such a situation would also include all the geopolitical risks I mention in that other comment, too, and could thus put the Canadian economy in peril.

I'm a supporter of legalization, but I think half-measures can lead to avoidable, unforeseen negative consequences.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11538708
Probably I'm biased because I had a dengue fever infection a few years ago, but I don't understand the commenters here.
Humanity as a whole burns millions of tonnes of coal, manufacturing millions of tonnes of products which are just thrown away, releasing who knows what chemicals into the rivers and oceans, not to mention the radioactive waste. And seriously you are worried about killing mosquitos?
I'm not familiar with the exact history leading to the fork of Amarok. Did the 2.0 version make a change to that effect, or was it just seen as going in a different direction overall than the userbase behind the 1.4 fork liked?
Mainly the start menu. Just because they aren't "random ads" like a Coke video, doesn't mean they aren't ads. Showing offers to buy software is definitely an ad.

I think there's pop-ups for Office as well as pre installed "apps" that are just links to buy.
> I've found that executives will often try to poke holes in the predictions, especially if the ML solution is risky or potentially threatening to them

In particular, automation that reduces headcount reduces their justifiable budget and therefore power within the firm, salary and benefits, and external status. For an example of the latter, Havard Business School asks you how many people you are currently managing when you apply for an MBA.

This creates a strong incentive to block any attempts at automation or increased efficiency, especially when said inefficiency is not reflected on the KPIs used to gauge the executive's performance. Customer satisfaction and error rates are rarely measured well, nor with a refresh rate sufficiently high to be such a KPI. Blocking is easiest to do by seeding mistrust in the person attempting to build the automation, and in the automation itself.

Part of being an effective data scientist/big data engineer/whatever the buzzword du jour is consists of figuring out what KPIs the executive wants to maximise and sell him on that instead. The good old "work on making your boss look good".