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With systemd you still have to fiddle with symlinks to enable/disable units (at least on the same level as other init/rc systems which have wrappers around ln).

And with a sane RC system, such as OpenRC (which technically is still SysV init, but who cares about the init process.. it doesn't do much really), I would argue the scripts are on the same level of complexity as systemd unit files for most cases (so it would be fine to use either).

But for more complex applications, such as mounting crypto devices or network configuration, these two do depart a fair bit.
Systemd chose to not go the way of simply wrapping the cryptsetup command, but talk directly to the kernel, which would be fine or even better in theory, but has the slight drawback of reducing (as far as I could tell) all error conditions to Invalid Argument (which took me then quite a bit of effort to find out what I had done wrong).
Systemd-network(d?) suffers from the same problem (doesn't use the iproute2 command, but directly speaks to the kernel) in my opinion - again it is only really useful for the most common use cases, uncommon ones become impossible (because certain iproute2 features are simply unsupported as of yet) or really difficult to debug (because you are debugging an application interpreting configuration files instead of simple shell scripts).
Hah! First thing I noticed! :-)
Take over what?
I had a guy, on stackoverflow, commenting condescendingly on my question (or was it an answer, can't remember) that I was wrong and I should edit my post with his answer instead. All would be well if it wasn't on a 6 year old post at the time, and he was wrong. Ah, stackoverflow - what happened to you? It was fine and dandy when it was all loose. Now you ask a question and it's immediately flagged for various reasons. I've noticed that a lot in programming (I'm not actively programming anymore). It's always fun until the entropy of the rigidness comes in.
hunches and gut feeling

How about decades of experience. Vermont never banned carry in any form, and now has been joined by 9 other states in "Constitutional Carry", many for some years. Washington state went shall issue in the early '60s. Florida started the modern wave in 1987. "Normal" states like Colorado have allowed concealed carry on the grounds of public colleges for years.

Experience, especially in the "50 Petri dishes" of the states, is one of the ways we figure out such things, and this "proliferation" has been a wild success.
The Google Cardboard feature only works on Android devices right now.
This sounds my daily regimen of using Ubuntu on my laptop.
Yes, but the functionality is still available as an Add-On: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups-removal
Yes, now go back to playing Call of Duty.
It's valid for other things too. Over the last couple of years I find it 'easier'/'faster' to google "that thing you do when you do that in Photoshop/Illustrator/AE/Premiere/Nuke..." and I get results I want immediately. It's faster than trying to remember, fumbling around the menus and whatnots.
I don't it. LE should love a fundamentally insecure design like Lavabit to get picked up.

When I looked at the Dark Mail draft it was incompatible with regular email. And the trust models it has were basically the same as you'd get with Gmail today. End to end remained difficult (of course).

Plus it has weird stuff. Like a field for political party on all contacts or something.
Found this article after some googling:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/cri...

>Some light digging unearthed the fact that the company responsible for this particular dark art is called Criteo, and the MD, John Buss, was happy to talk me through this relatively new technique. It's all legal, all cookie-based, but crucially its database – which learns about me and how I click around websites – anonymously links up with databases of email addresses it has licensed from other companies operating online. A match between the two, along with an assessment that I might be likely to splash some cash, triggers an email.

>How did my email address end up in the database in the first place? Well, at some point – and goodness knows how, because I do my utmost not to – I opted in to receive some communications "from selected third parties".
I'm saddened to hear your feelings on the NRA and its effectiveness.

While they, thankfully, haven't had to fight any big national gun control initiatives for some time, they are still very active at the state and city level. See their recent lawsuit against the City of Seattle and its new gun tax.
I suspect there's a lot more successful attack that resulted in monetary loss than meets the media. When I was at a venture-funded startup back in 2011, we had just raised $15M and on a fri late afternoon, our CFO received an email that looked like it came from our bank. He clicked on it and was immediately phished. Between 4-5pm they transferred $3M out of the account in multiple chunks. The company hasn't set up alerts and the bank, which was a regional one, did not have sophisticated filters to catch them. Long story short, it quickly went Dubai, Hong Kong and London. By the time Mon comes around, some of the money has been re-tranferred again to Asia and Eastern Europe.
Nontechnical material is more than welcome on Hacker News. It just needs to be interesting. But of course it's better if the content is actually readable (perhaps with a workaround of some sort).
Consultants are not employees. Consultants are allowed to take off days anytime. They're allowed to start work at anytime and end work at anytime.
Satellite That Hunts for Black Holes in Space Is Missing
We changed the baity title to the admirably less baity first sentence.
Countries can't be built.
I'm 27 and while I'm only about halfway through HOTT - it's tough - I've read all the other named books. TAPL was tough too but invaluable to wrap my head around as an undergraduate.
Cloud power8 servers
I'd like to recommend http://searx.me/.

It shows results from various different search engines which you can choose from.
Well, the U.S government is the single biggest purchaser of guns & ammo in the world.

Not even close. E.g. they annually procure by an order of magnitude less small arms ammo than the 12+ billion produced in the US alone for civilians every year (and that doesn't count the seconds that ATK sells to us from Lake City).

Similarly, by now we civilians are every year or two buying as many new guns as all the governments in the US have in their active inventories (not going to count old stuff in Cosmoline, which they should sell more of to us, next up are 10,000 M1911s, maybe).

Nope, any existing companies that manufactured so much as one smart gun would be boycotted by us civilians and go out of business, as Colt is close to doing for various reasons including depending too much on the DoD, and, yeah, that smart gun flirtation and general cooperation with the gun-grabbers.
"A handgun is much better suited for that."

I'll take "What is a carbine chambered in a pistol round for $200, Alex."

The SUB-2000 uses the 9x19 round, so it's basically a pistol with better ergonomics.

Defending a home with a full rifle round in close quarters, say a .30-06 or 8mm Mauser, would be kinda silly--but that carbine is fine.
Like when you are looking at live debugging information that is scrolling fast but you are still able to pick out problems?
FBI Given Powers by Supreme Court to Hack Any Device They Want, How They Want
Well I guess it all comes down to how you feel about tax cheats.

Given the current state of US tax law it would be a far better to simplify the rules and thus making it easier for the IRS to do its job within its current budget. Everyone recognises this, but given the political constraints it appears to be impossible to do.
* Checks CofH pants and Chrome messenger bag, yep, both YKK.
Legally speaking a consultant only must be paid 1 hour per pay period to bound to their contractual agreements.
I used the word "nearly" for a reason, the numbers are very close and the method of categorization is not known to me (folks like to lump suicide with homicide when it furthers their argument). So "more" isn't an order of magnitude and the absolute number is so low that a use of it in justification for any endeavor would be a disguised appeal to emotion.
How does a barrel shroud make shooting easier?

All it does is keep you from burning your hands accidentally.
Key feature for me would be the ability to switch/manipulate tasks through the keyboard only. Nice PoC!
Well, that's your self-confidence problem. It's not my problem, so don't try to impose it upon me.
That was 2004. Now it becomes more and more clear that Iraq war made all the region into an unpredictable situation. We might believe the world leaders learned a lesson. Obama even took the case during election campaign as if he is different from Mr.Bush

But later he DID the almost same thing in Libya, which had the same ideology based motivation to bring down dictatorship and promote (pretend it was done by its OWN PEOPLE) democracy and universal human rights.

That's very dangerous and most people might not notice: Politician seems understand the situation in their talk, but their behavior shows the opposite.

Just imaging: an idiot is silly in most things but just extremely good at one thing: pretend to be very smart and can successfully deceive every body INCLUDING himself. He would have overwhelming advantage over another seems dummy but actually smart guy.

(Recently I've witness Obama behave the same delusional way again in a dialog with Charlie Rose. To most audience, Obama seems reasonable person and gave convincing reasoning but he was actually based on an illusion which happened to be shared by public. )
+1 for Econtalk; while they're interviews, Russ Roberts doesn't try to pass as an "unbiased" journalist, which might grate some people, but I find it makes for more interesting discussions.
Well, if you want to fund lawsuits, the Washington state based Second Amendment Foundation is a better bet, and I'll bet they're a party to that lawsuit as well.

They are the only other effective one as I count them, but you have to donate money to them, a simple membership will just line the pockets of whomever is mailing out their stuff.
Michigan bills would make hacking electronic vehicle systems a felony
Regarding needing to implement a custom sync engine, what would you want that isn't provided by https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/chrome.storage.sync?

Genuinely curious.
So Ladar Levinson closed his company because he refused to provide a backdoor to his customers email encryption ?

This seems similar to the Apple case, was Tim Cook just too big to bully ?

Snowden had his own encryption or used GPG so a Lavabit backdoor encryption key would not lower the entropy of Snowden's encryted emails.

Was Levinson's gag order lifted ? Why did Lavabit have to close but Apple didn't ?

[EDIT] Levison was not jailed.
Other forums have an announcements page or a box at the top of the page template for bulletins. It might undermine the minimalism of the site a bit, but it could only be used for special occasions.
Yeah, binary logs are a bit insane.
Most of those areas are regulated by boards and committees of dentists, pharmacists, food specialists, etc.

For whatever reason, gun control is the one area where politicians refuse to consult specialists, thus resulting in bills as ridiculous as the AWB.
Curious: what would happen if a bunch of these popped up all over the place and used end to end encryption between each other making email truly secure between each other? Would such a thing be possible? Adopt Mega's model where they store the private key, but encrypt it with the user's password and only the browser has the decrypted copy.
Yes and it should. The economy isn't a static thing. It should adapt based on demand. If suddenly demand went down, then prices would fall until they were low enough that the remaining supply can be sold off.
Yes, Washington state went concealed carry in 1961. Its crime rate rose and fell in step with the other states over the years - concealed carry did not suppress that rate after it was introduced. If you want to argue that concealed carry directly reduces crime rate, Washington state is something you should remain quiet on.

I've read a lot of stuff around concealed carry over the past decade for internet debates, and interestingly, concealed carry debaters will claim absolutely any reduction in crime rate as being due to concealed carry (despite no clear link), which started proliferating rapidly in the '90s... and totally ignore things like the incarceration rate, which rose rapidly in the '90s as well.
Is the part about him legally changing his name really true? All the sources say so, but surely there are laws and regulations around name changes in the US. I have a hard time imagining the IRS having him down as the symbol.

Also, changing your name can't be a legal way of getting out of contracts, can it? If it is, then someone should let Ke$ha know...
I feel a bit of that from 99%, but not from TAL and Serial. Though I'm still mourning the loss of David Rakoff.
Don't forget about starter pistols for telling runners when a race starts. Also flare guns for signalling, although that might not count as a "real gun"?
You need to understand, Facebook,Google and co have hard time hiring engineers in US ... the ones they have to pay fairly ...
I know this might be a stupid question for some, but I have to ask anyway because this will drive me crazy trying to figure this out on my own.

Why is this a 'theory', what makes this different from a documentation different design patterns in programming languages?
You can't really jail Tim Cook if all the engineers quit because they refused to write a backdoor
There's a difference between learning about programming languages and learning about programming language theory. The class you linked is squarely in the former camp. It's a bit confusing because they use PLT to stand for "Programming Languages and Translators" where I usually see it referring to "Programming Language Theory".

Honestly, "programming language theory" is a bit of a misnomer. It's less a theory for programming languages and more a theory of CS from a language perspective. (Where theoretical CS is a theory of CS from a computational point of view.)

Programming language theory is interesting in and of itself and is fairly distinct from the sorts of things you'd learn in a normal programming languages course or by implementing your own language. I'm not saying either of those is useless—I'm a big fan of doing both!—just that they accomplish fundamentally different things. Your advice is good if you just want to implement a programming language; the linked repository is good if you want to explore PL theory.

PL theory shares a lot with formal logic and the foundations of mathematics. The main areas are things like type theory (a special approach to formal logic) and semantics (akin to proof theory or model theory).

What you'll learn by reading the books linked above is almost completely disjoint from what the class you linked covers.
Target shooting isn't just practice for killing things. That's as absurd as claiming "racing is just practice for running people over".

Target shooting is a sport all on its own, and is probably the single most prevalent application of firearms in the US.
Indeed, another example of this is how NBA basketball players are worse than all the amateurs on the streets!

And lets not forget how the cousin of your boss that enthusiastically read some tutorials on the net is a much better programmer than you.

Or maybe the argument magically only applies in the realm of gun use?
You have to pick the time and place for this kind of discussion man. As much as I don't want SJW political rants to seep into technical discussions, so too many people will not have any interest in what you are saying because you're hijacking the topic at hand.

You can understand this point of view right?

Complaining about down votes, as well as breaking all the other guidelines that you are.. is guaranteeing you will get more down votes, regardless of people's opinion of what you're saying. If you want to persuade, you need to change your strategy.
I think they mean looking for the value/path that doesn't make sense.
Did I miss something about a change in Netflix' geo-ip policy?
As a former professional scientist (I will always be a scientist, just not one who earns a living from science), the problem is not money directly, but the encouragement of students into becoming professional scientists when there is no money to support them when they finish their training.
I really hope people don't think this is a surprise. Before the web, Mac programmers relied on a set of HyperCard stacks from Apple to look up function calls and all kinds of obscure info. It was awesome. Every programmer I've ever known since the 1980s has always had reference materials within easy reach. That's just smart.
And yet, the vast majority of gun usage (at least measured by ammunition consumption) is non-destructive recreation by civilians.
Ha! You type "P" for the symbol-- so he doesn't have his own Unicode codepoint?

The font may have an ambiguous license, but it appears that it was meant to be widely distributed to promote Prince. Is it available anywhere? I could make my own, but that wouldn't be the same.
Been there, bought the mug: http://www.nullisland.com
"especially considering that cube wasn’t released
until 2013"

This cube is different than those released in the 1970s?
One of my great regrets with leaving my last job was that: I had little FP experience, and we had one guy with a lot of it. We had done informal teaching sessions, and had planned to try to write blog posts / record podcasts of our little sessions, precisely for the reasons you mentioned, hoping that it would help others absorb the material more easily.
The value, as I see it, of the NRA is more its ability to efficiently mobilize 5 million members around key issues. I liken relying only on smaller, fractious orgs to when we had small state militias and no formal army.
The section with the "ugly" examples demonstrates some unintended consequences of the memory model. In particular it demonstrates a counterexample to the first theorem of the original JMM paper [1] which sought to establish that independent statements can be reordered without changing program behavior under the memory model. This got me worried since the theorem provides justification for some of the optimizations actually employed by the JVM.

I dug a bit deeper and found a pending JEP that calls for the update to the JMM to fix these issues: JPE-188 [2]. This links directly to the "Good, Bad and Ugly" paper.

I also found a presentation from one of the authors of "Good, Bad and Ugly" that may make some of this more accessible: [3].

[1] http://rsim.cs.uiuc.edu/Pubs/popl05.pdf

[2] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/188

[3] http://pan.vmars.tuwien.ac.at/jtres2009/slides/jmm2.pdf
Why would they accept it?

Most scientific climate change reports call for massive problems in a century, not a year. All of the people that voted will be long dead and we don't really know what things will be like in 100 years.
Avoiding the systemd thing here too, bsd for the win. Plenty has been said about it and some will never understand what is wrong with it.
It's an interesting story that would have also been interesting (to me) if it had been male monks dedicating over a decade of work to cataloging stars manually.
I've heard several different reasonings over the years. I don't think it actual got him out of a contract but it allowed him to screw the record company. His new 'name' was difficult to market and they had the rights to the 'Prince' name, not his new one, so any new merchandise they created would not be matching the name he was now marketing himself under. Fans are going to listen to him and not the record company. So all in all he was just screwing them out of money and making their job difficult but it didn't actually end any contract.
Hello? That's a laundry list of possible items. Pick one, and then we can start talking about your "reasonable compromise". As noted previously, up to now all we've done is give things away in these so called compromises.
If this is true, it proves that this rich individual was paying his fair share in taxes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11582441
You seem to have missed the GP's point - go scan through the admittedly silly but illustrative cartoon linked. Gun rights have been repeatedly nibbled, sliced, and cut away over the past century, all in the name of "reasonable compromises". Said "reasonable" "compromises" have progressively eliminated a large swath of gun ownership rights and put the average owner in constant risk of felony.

Example: an individual may own an AR-15 lower receiver, or even machine one themselves. If, however, they drill one 5/32" hole too many in that receiver, they are guilty of a felony. If they own a pistol based on the AR-15 platform and disassemble it at the same time and in the same space that they're disassembling and cleaning an AR-15 rifle, they are committing a felony. These examples are thanks to complex rules based on "compromises".

Gun owners have given up rights time and again, to zero gain of their own. That's not a compromise. A compromise is your asking me to give you half of my cake in return for half of your pie.
What geocoders use (0,0) as an error condition?

Outputting a valid value as an error flag seems like a pretty bad idea - is this actually common?
well I am all for keeping them around for the self defense aspect alone though I did for a long time love target shooting; boy it gets expensive fast. The police aren't there to save you, they prevent crime by penalizing it but mostly when it comes to violent crime all they can do is figure out what happened and hope to find the perp
No director is perfect. Oliver Stone had a few duds, but he also made some excellent movies: JFK, Any Given Sunday, Platoon, Talk Radio, Wall Street...

If you have to criticize him, you could say that his recent movies have not been up to the bar he set in the '90s -- but it definitely was a very high bar.

I'm much more worried about Gordon-Levitt playing Snowden, from the trailer he looks pretty bland.
I haven't tried obtaining a CCW in Chicago because the idea of wandering around Chicago carrying a gun seems totally ridiculous to me.
Alcoholic beverages have the advantage of making contaminated water drinkable without losing much in the way of calories in the original grain. A really clever solution to a problem of how to avoid dysentery when your water supply is not safe to drink.
Oh yeah, we are talking about different use cases. I'd never advocate anything that would make an IWB draw any slower than it already is :) For the more block inclined, MIC trigger guards are nice for winter jackets.
Flare guns fall under the same air transport rules that full-blown firearms do. They must be transported in a case without ammunition that is locked and openable only by the owner.
Happened to me several times to find my own answer/question on SE, or one of my work colleague's.

However, even more often I find answers that I upvoted in the past (sometimes I deliberately look for them, sometimes by accident). When I see an upvote from myself, I can be sure I can immediately use the answer because I already verified it in the past. SO is like a big, googleable, writable public wiki for me, with annotations.

It amazes me that many colleagues do not have an account, or have an account but never write or upvote anything.