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You have been making moral assertions in your original post on how private businesses ought to act, in order to be considered "good".

This is not fundamentally different in character than any other moral sermonizing of the past

I rather see this like the idea that business deals should be mutually beneficial, that dealings should be honest, and that companies should be transparent. You are free to disagree of course, but what I'm advocating is fundamentally about cooperation and mutual benefit. It doesn't have to be moralizing, as it's supported by the mathematics of cooperation and the non-zero sum game as well as by the lessons of the long arc of history.

Your position amounts to "Everyone should be tolerated, except those whom I don't personally like,"

To be precise, my position is that everyone should be tolerated, so long as they behave civilly. This means they should be accorded the same rights as anyone else, and that those should be held sacrosanct, until it's no longer practical to do so. This is how I'd like to be treated, so this is how I advocate how everyone else should treat people.

You even seek to arrogate intellectualism itself to your cause, implying that those who disagree with you are simply ignorant, unenlightened cretins who have not yet been properly educated.

I find that I never have to do that. Pretty much, those who are ignorant quickly reveal themselves to the world. There is objective truth and knowledge of real value. Ignorance is obvious to real experts. I've been on both sides of this equation. If one is prostrate to the truth, then rebuttals to opponents simply write themselves. Largely, they just consist of paraphrases or 1 or 2 logical steps.

Society is not perfectable, and attempts to perfect it through coercion have invariably resulted in suffering and oppression. There will always be jerks in the world, no matter how many kindhearted liberals generously condescend to try to convince them otherwise. The exact form of their jerkdom will simply change to suit the new conditions.

On this we agree. No person is God or an oracle or otherwise infallible. This is why acting quickly is often a bad idea and acting from outrage is especially so. This is why the working assumption should always be that one is never in command of all the relevant facts. Hence: due process.

You believe you have a mission to spread your views to society at large, to coerce others to adapt to your personal view of "the good." That's the problem. That sort of thing has always, always ended badly in history.

I'm against coercion. That's my whole point. Don't coerce -- Convince! Humanist values have always ended badly in history? The USA has problems, but there are many wonderful things it has achieved. I'm still betting on that horse.
I feel like it's more war than assassination. I may be looking at it incorrectly though.
More importantly, the book fails to mention affine arithmetic.
Thank you for those links, I actually tried to find something like this before implementing my own solution. I guess I didn't search enough.
The Brussels atttacks were against strategic targets though.

As for the indiscriminate killing of civilians, what else would you call the example from the article?

> in Pakistan, in attempts to take out 41 men, American drones actually killed an estimated 1,147 people (while not all of the 41 targeted figures even died).
I think it's a bit sad, really. Baring a discovery that fundamentally changes how the universe as we know it works, we'll very likely never communicate with another form of life. We'll never leave our solar system. We'll probably never even see images of other solar systems, much less galaxies. The universe is an amazing thing full of stuff that would probably sound far-fetched in a science fiction novel and we'll never even get to know whether it exists. If I could be dumber and more preoccupied with the material lifestyle of most people, I'd probably be happier.
The Dremel is a rebranded Flashforge Dreamer if I'm not mistaken. At home I have a Flashforge Creator Pro (a clone of a Replicator 2X, but with a lot of improvements) and I'm really happy with it.

It is more than (in Europe) half the price of a Makerbot and that for a printer that is certainly on par with it or maybe be even better. It scores very high in the enthousiasts category on 3D hubs (https://www.3dhubs.com/3d-printers#enthusiast)

Regarding Chinese quality, I don't have the feeling that "Made in USA" is so much better if I see how many problems there are with the Makerbot Replicator 5th generation imo. That version is notorious for having a lot of quality problems.

These days most parts come from Chinese manufacturers anyway... .
can't autocomplete hosts in the config (ssh can do that)

If you mean writing "ssh <tab>" and having it auto-complete, that's a feature of the shell (usually with some "plugin" to add support for that particular command). They added support for Bash in 2012 [1], what OS and shell are you using?

[1] https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/248
I'm pretty sure everyone involved thought the person was not innocent.

This is always true of almost everyone arrested by the police: they're arrested because they're suspects. Suspicion is not grounds for torture. Guilt is not grounds for torture either! That's what the 8th Amendment is about.

Torture is, in and of itself, a crime against humanity under international law and the laws of war. This is not a theoretical point, it was used in the post-WW2 war crimes trials to prosecute even low-ranking staff who were involved in systematic torture. The Allies executed people for torture.
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The posting says no it does not.
TBH, if you install the workflow plugins on Jenkins 1, you're getting 90% of what's in Jenkins 2.0.

The only thing I really wanted out of it was the checkpoint plugin, and that's still enterprise only.
Does Jenkins 2.0 use the same plugin based architecture as 1.0?

Does anyone actually prefer to use plugins for project types rather than a hand written build script? (i.e. using Jenkins to just kick off a shell script)
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That's about the size of it.

Most people are happy just to vote. Some people try to channel the overall direction of the vote via party politics. A handful of people know that the election is merely to choose between different means to exactly the same end.

The people can vote to name the ship Boaty McBoatface. The owner will name it something else. It will steer the same course without regard to its name or to the orientation of its deck chairs.
Apparently you didn't read past #8.
It saddens me that people knew he was trapped and did nothing to help him out.
In Germany I get unfiltered internet, freedom of speech and still always feel safe. It doesn't really have to be a choice between freedom and safety, both together is possible.
Same story here, but I have been living in Eastern Europe and then Australia and then back for a few years now, paying for unblock-us and Netflix US which I signed up for while in the US.

Ever since my first experience with Netflix powered by a Roku I have been praising how awesome it is, trying to get my friends to sign up for the service.

And then the geofencing crap happened but the service was suddenly available in our country, but with minus 90 percent of the content - a lot of my friends signed up and then cancelled their subscription.

I for one am seriously thinking about canceling both unblock-us and Netflix as I suddenly feel a 'localized' citizen with no way to legally we global anymore and it sucks.
oh no! Not another set of laws. I can't remember so many.
This page has a decent amount of screenshots: https://jenkins.io/2.0/
No, piracy where the service provider you subscribe to gets paid, but the rightful license holders don't. Sometimes the license holder and the service provider are the same, in which case everyone gets paid.

But in most cases you aren't. Sure you pay netflix, but netflix just keeps the money. They definitely don't go find and pay the right people.
I mean, how does one determine whether to use an internal user DB (when there is none) or whether to piggy-back off of Unix user accounts, when running a JVM on a machine which does not use Unix style user credentials?
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Do they have to know about the Traveling Salesman Problem?
People don't invest every single dollar they have into a fund. You're always going to have a bit of money laying around, why not put it to use?

And even if one went with it: I'll be up by a multiple of 33.5k because I spent money on things that put me in a better mood to work on myself and lead me to better jobs etc. etc.
But it most of these situations some German company already bought the rights to the show. So the greedy American companies already got paid.
What does pipeline solve? When I start to set this up it looks like a build script wrapped in the Jenkins ui. So now we introduce yet another scripting language for build/deploy?
Yes, 2.0 is fully compatible with 1.x.
Missing some big ones:

Gall's Law: "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall.27s_la...

Conway's Law: "organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

Cunningam's Law: "the best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer"

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
Ask HN: $10k in cryptos stolen off my desktop from an encrypted folder, how?
I kept 500 Ether, 1,000 Litecoin and 500 PPC (and a little btc) in cold wallets in a password protected .rar file on my desktop, when I happened to check my watch address yesterday all the balances were emptied two days ago.
I made two mistakes (1) I download a lot from Torrent sites, (2) I kept ALL my "cold" storage paper wallets in one encrypted WinRar file with a 12 character password. I thought this security was enough and am still at a loss as to what happened.
The other day I noticed a program running in the Task Manager called, "Wool Department", there was no google results for it, so I closed it but it kept coming back up (on Windows). Next I got an e-mail from Microsoft about verification, then a few other sites I have not used for a long time. My email was hacked years ago, so I changed my password and did not connect the two events at all.
My Ether address: 0xea13bae3f4d94b43d2224bb8a1abb0f4e7e0e24d My Litecoin address: LhfSd3ZzJMrWawrFimQcTnCx8rYQ3XYiVG *My PPC address: PPM4tkGmx9f4LMchhCqQAn6j843KDU3ELk
I assume I will never see any of it again, but would like to offer 1/2 of any recovered funds as a reward to anyone that can help to find the criminal(s) responsible/return the funds.
Signed, not ratified, nor codified anything in law.
It functions (with easy math) as a d2, d3, d4, d5, d6, d8, d10, d12, d15, d20, d24, d30, d40, d60, d120. Almost covers all the bases for DCC.
I don't understand why disaster tourism has become a thing.
Press reports are often perceived with more credibility than direct communication. And yes - this can be exploited to run the buzz machine.
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Ok, I thought we were speaking "privilege" however now you're bringing up or conflating oppression, which to my understanding is different.

Never the less, even in Sunni areas, I dont think it would be helpful to describe the issue suffered by say Shias as Sunni privilege. This representation is apt to create a greater wedge between the groups.

Now, as it pertains people in general, within neighborhoods with a majority class there are oftentimes a classification of people who while may suffer disadvantage outside their neighborhood will most likely experience advantage in their neighborhoods. So let's say a recent poor immigrant from Bolivia going to a south Asian neighborhood, or a Bangladeshi going into a Mexican neighborhood. These two may experience privilege in one area and lack of privilege in another.

Or, see how easy it might be for you to get a stock boy job at a Mexican supermarket in for example LA, versus how easy it might be for a Mexican national to get the job.

So privilege can be found among the many groups within the US itself, not just among whites, as might be portrayed. It's something for which we can find expression, if we look enough.
That enforces that the mean value should be close to 60, but doens't say much about whether it is fair in that it should have also have a uniform distribution.
Thanks for going into detail, as this is my view - developed over several instances of observing such programs, and, in actuality, having worked in a back-office support role for a firm that actually sold these programs. Your write up is essentially what I was alluding to, and I appreciate you sharing your perspective so I don't feel, well, uselessly paranoid or underwhelmed by the "offer" in the grand scheme of things. Now that you mention it, I wonder if dropping some information on the 'Wellness Caller' about my ADA-protected disability and then asking if they're HIPAA compliant would be a fun little wrinkle to explore...
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Singapore is a country. Why is not taking a 'Smart Country' approach?
For random stuff that should not be synced, much like .gitignore. That'll vary depending on the person, but for me it's usually for Mac/Windows crap (.DS_Store, Thumbs.db), temporary files of any kind, node_modules, and a few others.
the more complex a software system is, the more the people not involved in its creation will criticize the colors and placement of buttons on the UI.
Great support teams are built on habits, not rules
The key numbers from the Press Release:
The Company posted quarterly revenue of $50.6 billion and
quarterly net income of $10.5 billion, or $1.90 per diluted
share. These results compare to revenue of $58 billion and
net income of $13.6 billion, or $2.33 per diluted share, in
the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 39.4 percent compared
to 40.8 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales
accounted for 67 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

So not really a surprise from what they announced at previous quarter.
There's a difference between being against any use of force that could have collateral damage, and firing anti-tank missiles into populated areas. The former is tragic, the latter is sheer stupidity.

Fortunately weaponized lasers are coming. Those should succeed in reducing collateral damage almost entirely. All that needs fixing after that is the often-faulty intelligence, and weeding out gung-ho idiot drone operators.
I seem to recall that this is exactly what a brand new installation of Thunderbird with Enigmail will do. I don't know if the newly generated public key is published anywhere, but that's a simple configuration change.
Yes, Encryptr and Crypton (the framework and server) are both fully open, in that you can run with your own server. SpiderOak also provides a public free server. https://github.com/SpiderOak/crypton - Erin @ SpiderOak
Firefox was created to be a browser in which the developers and the community can have a voice, rather than having all decisions made by the enterprise. I know there are many heroic stories and tales, but after all those are the two goals.

Why are there laundromat, 99 cent store, Deli place and a bus stop next to a street full of homes? Next to a college campus you'd find Deli and street food vendors? Of course one can give out free food and you can always choose to work from home so you never have to deal with pedestrian jam or the smoke coming from the grill. For example I can skip WSJ paywall by not registering any account and not reading any WSJ online articles. That's fine and the anology of this is finding a suburban home. The public Internet is like New York City, so many people, so many business, so much to navigate (but of course as a NY resident I can get tired of the city myself). If you want no ads, you have to lobby a group of politicians (actually companies) and convenience them your plan is better and is more profitable. The thing is that once there is a collation of business opportunity, uniting that knot is very difficult because everyone has a piece in it. Few people want to bet on new plan.
> A big problem is that chained floating point operations are a O(sqrt n) martingale.

Mostly false; see
https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Mindless.pdf

It is true that an arbitrary, independent sequence of n floating point operations can potentially lose up to 2n bits of precision. However, it is false that most scientific computing code has such structure. On the contrary, the loss of precision in numerical algorithms can be estimated quite well using standard techniques of error analysis, especially when there is underlying matrix structure to exploit. The growth of error in properly written numerical code should NOT grow exponentially with the number of floating point operations. It should be bounded by intrinsic properties of the underlying matrix, such as its condition number or spectral norm.
These are the right questions. Drones have been determined to be the most effective military weapon at this time, both militarily and politically (the American public doesn't want to send troops in but they also don't want these groups to exist). I think there is a dilemma here.
I have never heard of yocto. Could you quickly explain why you prefer it to Arch ARM?
I'm no expert, but I don't think the "metric" in "Metric TSP problem" means "embeddable in a 2-D space." If you pick random points in a 500-dimensional space, the graph is metric.

But how do you define "intersecting paths" there?
There technically is a size limit --- and, for some constructions (like GCM), the size limit is potentially meaningful. But it's (a) enormous and (b) irrelevant, because the LRNG rekeys itself regularly. You can't extract random bytes from /dev/urandom fast enough to beat rekeying.
I think a lot of Americans would object to that, in part because our drone strikes have very specific targets--they are not intended to cause general terror.

That said, from the perspective of people on the ground, there is no doubt that they are generally terrifying and horrifying. While the strikes might help degrade ISIS leadership and operations, they also help create extremely strong anti-US emotions by killing innocent men, women, and children.

The hard question is, what is the alternative? Ignore ISIS? That's dangerous. Put boots on the ground? Not going to happen--the American people are sick of that. So perhaps drone strikes are simply the least terrible of several terrible options.
There's an aesthetic difference in rolling different sorts of dice, they have a different look and feel, so game developers could reduce all rolls to some standard die like d6, but rolling a variety of dice is "more interesting" to players.

There are systems that are all d6s, there are systems that are all d10s. There are systems that like to pick dice based on the whims of what seems most interesting to players.

Games are typically more about fun than practicality.
Seems like a rip off of 'Dunder Mifflin Infinity'.
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That's certainly a valid argument on a case by case basis, but as discussed in the article drone strikes are seen as a contributor to radicalisation... which makes it deeply ineffective, or even counter-effective, on a long-term policy basis.
And let us not forget about the whole Drop Dropbox scenario which was very popular on HN at the time it was released: http://www.drop-dropbox.com

And that Dropbox was one of the companies in the whole PRISM scandal.

I still use it, mostly to transfer files between my devices, but there's no way I'm gonna be using it for anything sensitive. Everything sensitive goes to my organization's ownCloud installation which I completely trust since... well, I'm the one maintaining it.
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The expectation was $2.00 EPS, Apple reported $1.90. AAPL is down in after-hours trading right now, at 95.91 from 104.35 at market close (as of 5:20 PM).

This is a significant earnings report as it's the first to break 13 years of continuous growth. Revenue was down 13%.

• Q2 EPS: $1.90, down 22% YoY, versus expectations of $1.99

• Q2 revenue: $50.6 billion, down 13% YoY, versus expectations of $52 billion

• Gross margin: 39.4% versus 40.8% last year and expectations of 39.47%

• iPhone unit sales: 51.2 million, down 17% YoY, versus expectations of 50.7 million

• iPhone ASP: $644.25, down 2% YoY, versus $651 expected

• iPad unit sales: 10.2 million, down 19% YoY, versus expectations of 9.4 million

• Mac unit sales: 4.03 million, down 11% YoY, versus expectations of 4.6 million

• Q3 revenue guidance: $41 billion and $43 billion, versus expectations of $47.35 billion
I have to imagine this will be entirely too slow to do any heavy lifting. Low level matrix support is really important otherwise your convolution is big fat nested loops.
I find that pieces like this one skewer the debate. The debate should be about war and the use of force, not drones. What's the alternative to drones? It's either boots on the ground, or not waging war. I think a lot of people, including myself, would prefer the latter. But if we're choosing between boots on the grounds, and drones, we should look at the facts. I don't have them at hand, but I have a strong suspicion that drones are the better option if you care for the people, both American and native. If you abolish the drones but continue the war, that's not a particularly desirable result. So let's focus on the negatives of war in general, not the negatives of a particularly effective technology that it can be waged with.

I think the aspect of operators' mental health which the article brought up was very important, though. These people are soliders, but are they treated as such? Why are they not given more support? Why are they not selected more carefully and given better psychological training beforehand? It's a budget question, of course, but it still desperately needs to be addressed.
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I've read somewhere that a free falling elevator is almost impossible due to its automatic brakes.
I was just pointing out that "specifically to torture innocent people" was misleading and wrong.

>Suspicion is not grounds for torture. Guilt is not grounds for torture either! That's what the 8th Amendment is about.

Morally, you have a point. But from your mention of the 8th Amendment, it looks like you're talking legally, in which case only US citizens and people covered under relevant international agreements have such rights.