skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, we need both politics and technology.

First, we need an organized and determined political movement to defend civil liberties in general and our right to privacy in particular. To an extent the EFF and ACLU fill that role, but I think we can do better.

Check out the NRA for example--I happen to oppose its mission, but I am still impressed by its effectiveness. The NRA can literally decide which political campaigns get funded. If a congressperson supports real gun control, suddenly they have a well funded opponent in the primary. We need that level of organization.

When our own ancient and tech illiterate congresspeople here in California try to ban encryption, we need to be organized so we can get together and replace them.

Second, we need technology that provides privacy by default. For example, WhatsApp for messaging. E2E encryption is not magic, but it does make mass surveillance a lot harder, because there's no central database of everyones conversations. It does a lot to protect ordinary citizens from fishing expeditions.

Deprecating plain HTTP, making HTTPS ubiquitous for the web, is also a huge win and is already underway.

Both parts go together. We need to work on the politics and on the technology of freedom at the same time.
Three black journalists talk about the L.A. Riots, 24 years later
The way systemd is structured it's next to impossible to use any parts of it outside of systemd, nomenclature is ridiculous (system daemon, what's that even supposed to mean?), it suffers greatly from feature creep, took over logging using a binary format, gained basic firewall controls , assimilated udev, incorporated a bootloader, ... and some additional things people took/take offence with: introduced to quickly, criticism was shut out instead of being debated, promises were broken, main developers behind it are quite arrogant and often ignorant when dealing with complaints/bugs... et cetera

there is a reason why Lennart is good in stirring up controversy, and it's not because everyone is just against him for no reason.

some further reading/links that might interest you:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/12/459

http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Arguments_against_...

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2608798/data-center/systemd...

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2608864/data-center/choose-...

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2608870/linux/you-have-your...

http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/10/11/0//

http://suckless.org/sucks/systemd

edit: systemd might be perfect for you or other people, I don't doubt that, it might make things easier for some, in some respects in might do some things better, but if the debate (as it is now) is whether it follows the unix philosophy or not, I don't think one can reasonably make the case that it does
> Um, yes - you can.

Systemd's own documentation[1] disagrees. Several important interfaces - which are used by other parts of systemd- are marked as not being independently reimplementable. Another way to say that is that systemd considers those to be tightly coupled.

> There is only really one component that can't be easily replaced, and that's journald.

You're contradicting yourself. If I remove all of systemd, existing daemons will need to be recompiled because libsystemd-journald.so is missing. You don't just to pretend that isn't a dependency.

The common response that we should just keep the library file is an attempt to pretend this problem does not exist. Klaus Knopper even gave a talk recently[1] about this very problem, which is causing problems (some of which have workarounds) for the next version of Knoppix.

[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/InterfaceP...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDXsw2ijRkw
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Nonetheless, from RMS' recent commentaries, it does seem like for software, he wants to replace capitalism with socialism.

Nonsense. There's nothing "socialist" about Free Software. Plenty of capitalistic companies make their money by using and writing FOSS.

Like cited in the Slashdot link in my previous comment, he's gone so far as to demonize free software that isn't GPL.

All he's doing is asking people to refrain from accepting a patch before he can talk to someone about it. What demonization?
The £50 has only relatively recently been reissued, and presumably lasts a long time in circulation.

There's an FAQ on the bank site, buried in a PDF, saying it will be considered later.
I think there is an interview where Steve Jobs said as much in regards to Sony and why they didn't own the market before the iPod.
Money is finite. Given the available evidence, I'd rather spend it on universal health-care for the poor than on scientifically unsupported medical treatments. Besides which, the largest boosts to life-expectancy have tended to come from public health interventions that cross-cut the age spectrum rather than end-of-life desperation measures anyway.

We'd all like to act as if each human life had infinite value, but unfortunately, we don't have infinite resources to act with.
Well, if you read my comment properly, you'll realize that what I actually said is that large japanese hardware companies tend to be really bad at software. Nintendo is pretty much the one exception.
>What Lobo_tuerto asked is: Is there a similar tool that does this one thing and does it well and in a friendly manner available for Linux based operating systems?

No, he merely asked if there was "anything like this".

The extra constraints about being GUI, having the same one-task feature set, friendliness, are all your additions.

So, it's hardly the parent who "totally missed the point". At least he made a suggestion that would help the person get an Atkinson dither done.
Why Do So Many Zippers Say YKK? (2012)
Alfred 3 Beta
Even if technological progress was slowed, leading to a worse average quality of life compared to more advanced societies, wouldn't the lag be worthwhile if the society was more egalitarian by the time progress did happen?
That is a different story. If only all vendors did the same.
Introducing the Spectrum Next
Our memory is limited. Besides why clutter it? Use an external storage facility to track what needs to get done. Also, don't clutter it. Set priorities and limit your TODO list to a max of 5.

If you find that your TODO list is expanding, you're not doing it right. Reset priorities, keep the top 5 and just fucking delete the rest.

I personally only focus on the top 3 TODO items and just ignore/delete the rest. Seriously, you might think that an item at number 7 is too important to forget so you might be tempted to just let it lay there. But as all processes managing a TODO list requires discipline too. The key is to set priorities. A TODO list without priorities is meaningless.
I've started using TW and find it great for the simple to-do list stuff I need, with enough control over dependencies and scheduling.

I've tried org mode, but I just don't get on with the emacs way of working. TW, as a simple command line tool, integrates well with scripts and other apps, and a Ubersicht plugin displays the task list on my OS X desktop.

One thing that does drive me nuts, though, is its habit of changing task IDs. I know why it works like that, but it makes it harder to work with.
Xiaoma preparing to announce a special processor for smartphones
To be fair, most do.

To be meta-fair, most means those who have a brand name (those you could distinguish when you buy).
We're only 28 years away from a nice, round number!
You won't see other users processes, at least on my box however the detail is there for yours. Probably possible for it to be crippled by group policy.
Funny thing is I don't remember them ever selling them in the gas station itself. I'm not so sure it wasn't the same model as Coke/Pepsi showing up and refilling the machines.
How is it better than any of JetBrain's products?

Fairly limited without ReSharper, which makes it slow; language support is not particularly great; updates have made me lose half a day's producitvity (although that's par for the course for Windows); weird keybinds...

And of course: Windows-only, not open source and not free as in free beer either if you don't meet certain criteria.
https://inbox.google.com/

They've created a weird extension to save pages into Inbox, too:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/inbox-by-gmail/gkl...
Neural networks are used for over a decade in Context Mixing compressors like paq
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAQ
Why not? Taskwarrior has time scheduling, due dates and a calendar.
I would hazard a guess that 50s are used so little that they're not anticipating needing a new batch of them soon enough to include in this round.
The Fr8 Company is at http://www.fr8.co. They're going to make a bunch of their code available as open source shortly.
First time the actual character is more handsome than the actor ;)
IEEE also had a nice retrospective:

Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/claude-shannon-t...
And who disproportionately benefits from that arrangement? Who makes it happen? It's not the immigrants.
>If you count the number of connections on that last picture you will notice that there are fewer than there were in the first network. There were 55=25 at first, now there are 52*2=20. That reduction would be larger if I had more input and output nodes. For 10 nodes that reduction would be from 100 connections down to 40 when inserting two nodes in the middle. That’s where the compression in the title of this blog post comes from.
What I'm saying is that at no point was I confused about what they were trying to communicate, so as far as I'm concerned it makes no difference outside of just being pedantic.
It's a genre in itself. Upbeat, empty, disconnected, fake. Just like the copywriting and actors in Microsoft ads.

It's called "Forced Fun."
Netpbm for one does:

http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pamditherbw.html
So he's just an incorrigeable freak, filled with a low form of evil. Definitely not something you would ever find yourself doing in a moment of weakness and fear.
They don't oppose background checks.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/nra-supported-backgrou...
Why would he refuse to use a web browser, if it were possible for him to do so within his moral framework?

If you had actually read the page, you'd see that he actually does use a web browser occasionally.
As a intern, taking the time to master one of the most complex systems the company uses - ended up greatly contributing to the permanent hire of myself (which the company created a new position for).

Related: Reinvesting a lot of the money I made as a intern into books and training so I could keep up with the discussions at work.

Was hired for general front end work (mostly HTML / CSS) now a few years later do advanced JS work on Personalization, Web Analytics and AB testing.
> I actually upvoted you, for the record.

That's why I said "you and my downvoters", rather than "you and my other downvoters". I am apparently very bad at making simple points.

> But you drew a distinction between "in-house standards" and "the framework's standards"

One is used in-house for all things relevant, one applies to a framework. In that, they are distinct.

> (which are by definition probably taken from widely adopted standards).

Probably.

> If you were implying that those two things might be identical then you did a bad job of conveying that.

sigh. Two things can be true at the same time. I give up.
I mean, I'm young, fit (sorta), white, and male, so I suspect as far as biases go they are all pretty much in my favor. I just don't like dealing with a camera on me. It also took me a while to get an offer, even though I'm (not to sound arrogant or something) statistically extremely hireable given my background. (I did end up getting good offers in a reasonable timeframe though)
I think we all know why. In fact. This author implies it: the NRA actually represents the business interests of people who manufacture and sell firearms. They may mask these interests as a public service, defending your rights and hobbies and whatnot but it is always the case that they oppose anything that would reduce firearm sales and support anything that makes it easier for you to get a gun.
I work for a Japanese company and sometimes work with people from other companies as well. Most of the people around me avoid English at their best, therefore cannot not access to the knowledge on stackoverflow, also documents in Japanese are usually old or incomplete. Of course it depends on the field (e.g. Japanese documents of ruby on rails are pretty good), I am not sure about aerospace engineering, but I'd not be surprise if most of them feeling uncomfortable reading English.
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Sure, but that's a narrow niche for "push"-averting people.

Hardly something to write home about for "working smarter" in general.
This is the key passage:

The spacecraft then automatically switched into a safe
mode and, at about 4:10 a.m., fired thrusters to try to
stop the rotation. But because the wrong command had
been uploaded, the firing caused the spacecraft to
accelerate further. (The improper command had been
uploaded to the satellite weeks earlier without proper
testing; JAXA says that it is investigating what
happened.)

Going into safe mode is a thing. It happens with NASA stuff, ESA stuff, whatever. The spacecraft failed to stabilize and went into safe mode, and that's proper. Whatever glitch in the systems, this would have saved it and allowed for recovery.

But the uploaded command to shed rotational velocity was wrong. This is what caused the loss of the spacecraft. I'm sure there will be a pretty heavy postmortem on how this happened.
I posted above why I like Org-Mode. Here are a few things it doesn't do well.

1. Because it is text-based, its visual summaries are limited. Like, there's a calendar, and for org-habits a simple color-coded chart to show consistency, but that's about it. If you're looking a week or a month ahead to visually see how many tasks you have coming up, the org-agenda is text-based.

2. While org-mode can sync with Trello, Beeminder, and a couple other task-management systems, its integrations are pretty limited. If you want to integrate with Contacts or whatever you'll have to work a bit.

3. org-mode's part of Emacs, so you'll need to be comfortable with Emacs.

Contrast this with Sunrise Calendar. Sunrise Calendar grabs gmail messages and appointments, iCal, google calendar, and displays them all nicely.

Pluses and minuses, depends on your needs and what you like.
LOVE WHEN THIS HAPPENS (and so many reasons why I love Hacker News :-)

I'm in the Bizspark++ Program -- and I've had a blast playing and learning with all of the Azure products -- and I'm really looking forward to seeing improvements on Python and Bash functions.

Keep it up, I'll be stalking your documentation updates :-)
It says they do on the NRA-ILA website. https://www.nraila.org/issues/background-checksnics/
A functor is not a box
Exactly why we should avoid more extensions. I don't see what's wrong with a config, either package.json or System.global
>I don't know about the Flow service, but the ad video is quite dumb and uninspired, just like the background music.. who composes all these identical tech ad songs ?

Ad composers with a production note: "Make it bland and copying for the Nth time, 2010-era Apple video music".

And stock music services, like this: https://www.musicbed.com/
Accepting a full time job into my heart and quitting the startup dream!
Slightly off-topic but did anyone else find it amusing that the Bank of England website does not support HTTPS? I think that's the first bank website I've ever seen that uses HTTP only.
All Rubik's cubes have removable center tiles covers; they're usually difficult to remove without the help of an Xacto knife or similar. Under each tile is a screw; unscrewing these will allow you to take the center cubes off. After removing all the other non-center cubes, once you take the center 'cubes' off (they aren't really cubes, actually more like plates) it's easier to grease your cube up.
Video of 8 SuperDracos performing a pad abort test a year ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_FXVjf46T8
Thanks, it was too easy to be a big solution.
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It allows you to implement GTD or pomodoro. I admit it will take a few hours to do or get a hang of, but it's among one of the goals of Taskwarrior to stay methodology agnostic.
Do you also prefer "standard" lengths of decimal numbers, and if so, what are those?

On a related note, I once had the weirdest bug in a C program that I couldn't figure out. It turns out that I had stylized an array of integers with preceding zeros, like: {025, 057, 112} to make it pretty. Little did I know that those zeros made the numbers octal!
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> Technology gives us a quick way to bypass government, make it irrelevant.

If you actually could do that, it's very likely that said technology would be illegal. Just as it illegal pretty much everywhere to own your own tanks and fighter bombers.

Just because you ignore politics, doesn't mean politics ignores you. And puts you in indefinite detention, or execute you.
If all of this inside-baseball is what's underpinning your point, then "wouldn't give" is indeed doing a lot of work in your original statement.
You must have a machine built for it, since I've had tons and tons of niggling little issues with systemd. Random, unnamed services sometimes fail to start or shutdown. One of systemd's big claim to awesomeness is that the start scripts run simultaneously, yet that's all thrown out the window when "Attempting to start, attempt 55 1m30s remaining" bullshit happens constantly and randomly, without enough information to debug properly.

The troubleshooting is ridiculous, too, because of the ridiculousness that comes with journald. Why does it feel the need to make me run an awfully formatted, and potentially complex set of parameters to print that? Especially considering that 9/10 times, the error message from journald is vague, ungreppable without -A or -B, and is often significantly shorter than the "use journald to print the error" output. So frustrating. I don't know how people deal with it.

That said, I'm not a fan of sysvinit, either, but I don't have to deal with as much smoke and mirror behavior with it.
>The A10 is basically a flying tank meant to be hit and survive.

Like Dale Storr's OA-10, which took a single Strela hit and went down? The A-10 is certainly more likely to be mission killed by MANPADS and AAA than other aircraft (which are liable to be destroyed outright), but those that survive are not useful for combat--Kim Campbell's A-10 was grazed by a Shilka and rendered combat ineffective; after she landed it in manual reversion, it was shipped back to the US and required months of intensive repair. That's great if your objective function is maximizing the number of airframes that are eventually flyable again after being damaged, but godawful if your goal is to actually use them to perform CAS.

>The A10 is simply put the most effective CAS tool the US Military has or ever had.

I completely agree with this, but tools only benefit you /if you can use them/. A-10s cannot survive in contested airspace, and if the not-at-all-fearsome Iraqi Army spanking them so hard that they ended up with a 10,000 foot hard deck didn't clue politicians in on that, maybe a few videos of modern SHORAD like the Pantsir which are available for $peanuts will.

>just because they might be against an enemy with better anti-air doesn't negate the need for boots on the ground, which require CAS for maximum survivability

The CAS you get is better than the CAS you don't. If your primary CAS tool is the A-10, then being against an enemy with even the slightest anti-air capability means that you don't get any CAS at all.

>Most likely the Stealth B2s or RQ-170 Sentinel would be sent in first to quickly take out as much of the AAA as possible

The RQ-170 is a phenomenally expensive unarmed recon drone that the US operates a handful of. The B-2 is useful for striking an enormous number of fixed targets, but is not designed or intended to be employed in a SEAD/DEAD role against anything more mobile than theater-level air defenses. No SEAD weapon in the world is capable of striking air defenses that it isn't fired at, and as a result anything flying at low level is vulnerable to SHORAD whose operators use the advanced tactic of parking it in a treeline and waiting until they hear a jet to engage it.
I really don't understand people who think politics is something we need. Why? Why do you need a select group of people to tell the rest how they should live their lives?
You're getting downvotes but I know you're right. People underestimate crazy but it always shows up.
I'm just surprised that they didn't depict one of the most dramatic moments of his life (his death). I mean, suicide by poisoned apple? Maybe they didn't show it because it isn't 100% confirmed, but that event could basically have been ripped from a movie script into real life.
Just wanna make sure you have these in your feed: Revolutions Podcast, History of Rome podcast (finished, but with 5 years of content), Dan Carlin's Hardcore History.

Idk, the "get together and discuss" podcasts vary widely in quality. I find that the way the hosts talk really determines whether I like it. I really enjoy My Brother My Brother and Me (A comedy podcast around answering YahooAnswers questions), and listening to Boars, Gore and Swords helps me solidify and digest what I watched in Game of Thrones.

But some of the discussions podcasts are just babbly. "One bad mother", "Throwing shade". There's very little content.

Even RadioLab does me wrong sometimes, but that's probably just because I have a basic science education and Robert Krulwich is an idiot. Radiolab suffers from the balance fallacy, argument to moderation, and false dilemma.
"Claude Shannon" is actually "Amazing Genius" encrypted with a one time pad.
It gets a fair amount of hate on HN for taking narrative liberties with Turing's actual life story. I won't deny that it does, and anyone who's genuinely interested in Alan Turing would do better to read about him and his work.

But the movie is a dramatization, not a documentary. Because of that, it got the general, non-CS-major public to care about Alan Turing. I'd say that's a pretty decent accomplishment.

I actually had a conversation with my mom about Alan Turing after she saw the movie. That's saying something. She still needs help browsing the web beyond AOL. She thought computers were "unhealthy" and borderline "dangerous" until very recently. I'm pretty sure she thinks her router contains the entire Internet on it. These are the kinds of people who need to be exposed to Turing, and "Imitation Game" breaks through to them. Great. I'll take that as a net-positive.
Sometimes they do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njBvpxhsa_Y&feature=youtu.be...
The divide is between those who live off investments and those who work. So since capital gains are taxed at a lower rate than labor, there is some tax rate bias against labored work. Although it is progressive, the capital requirements for entry are high so it is unlikely for low earners be able to benefit from this.

from capital gains wiki: The tax rate on long-term gains was reduced in 1997 via the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 from 28% to 20% and again in 2003, via the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003, from 20% to 15% for individuals whose highest tax bracket is 15% or more, or from 10% to 5% for individuals in the lowest two income tax brackets
There is no reason to keep the A-10 around if its only role is a Maverick/Paveway truck chilling at altitude and plinking targets with Sniper/Litening. There are plenty of aircraft that can do that /and keep doing it when there are angry little men on the ground who don't want them to/, something the A-10 can't do.
I disagree. Value classes are a great tool in my arsenal, and not just for extension methods.