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> Likewise, women tend to make significantly less money for doing the same work, in the same positions, at the same company, because of (largely) subconscious biases.

I see this everywhere, and yet no citations (and when asked, I usually get referred to someones blog - not from a respected scientist completely unaffiliated with the feminist movement). Either that or I get linked to 4 or 5 default papers which have little reference to the claim.

People need to accept that bold statements like this are absolutely not excluded from burden of proof - and what's more if you live in the UK (I expect much of Europe) it's time to speak up, it's illegal to pay less based on gender.

The usual problem with this is, that the actual fact is that women earn less than men on average. That's kind of a crazy comparison - software developers earn less on average to CEOs, on average sewage workers earn less than those in hedge funds and so on.

It assumes fairly boldly that women and men operate in equal proportions in every industry (which is false).

In another note, just by writing this I'm opening myself to someone telling me to check my privilege, which is a codified way to tell me as a white male there's some secret sauce I can't possibly know about (so should be quiet on the issue). The deepest irony is that this behaviour is exactly what the movement was designed to disassemble.
I have been working from home for the past several years, and found many of the tips to be very very good. I'm fortunate to have a separate office, quiet environment etc. I love not commuting! I wrote about it in 2013 here if anyone wants to have a look: http://www.tidbitsfortechs.com/2013/08/experiences-and-reali...
Your argument works against your position, since that happened right as copyright laws were strengthened (even making DRM illegal to circumvent), not weakened.
Interesting. I wonder if these would have been used if the lost person was rich or famous.
Where should I move my BTC to assuming I can get access to my coinbase account?
The ban was put in place as a result of a real terrorist plot uncovered in 2006:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_transatlantic_aircraft_pl...
Here's another article with some more specifics:

http://outthere.bangordailynews.com/2016/05/26/outdoor-recre...

This part stood out:

On the initial missing persons report that was filed, Largay’s husband itemized a number of items that he knew she’d been wearing or carrying. Under the category labeled “GPS, PLB, Compass” — the acronyms referring to Global Positioning System, Personal Locator Beacon– the responding warden wrote: “SPOT. Left at motel.” SPOT is a company that makes, among other things, satellite-based devices that allow hikers in remote areas to communicate their whereabouts to others without the benefit of a cellular signal.

So apparently she had a beacon, but for some reason she did not take it with her on that leg of the trail.
>some how the answer should be that this is some how 100% okay?

Yep. Because governments are instituted among men and derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. There are clear mechanisms for relinquishing certain freedoms (i.e., the freedom to keep all your money) through representative government.

If you don't like taxes, get 'em repealed through the way we repeal taxes. If you don't like the way the government collects taxes, we have a way to change that too.
If the latter was the case why not just use the .gov email for state dept. business and the clintonemail.com email for international cash for favors?
I actually really like salt, just not its documentation. Like you said - it was a breath of fresh air. :)

Last time I used it a few months ago, it was while helping out another admin. He had a lot of confusion on how to do certain things, and the documentation wasn't very helpful for either of us. The solution came from github, which has become my go-to for these sorts of tools. Though, that could easily be supplemented with some better examples on their site, or in their, erm, man page.

I doubt we'll have some great tools with great documentation anytime soon (or monitoring tools!), but a sysadmin can dream... :)
Yes, it can also support local sockets as well as network sockets.
Several years ago I was developing a "robust serial console over USB" feature for Linux. THis feature allows you to have a console on, say /dev/ttyUSB0. The device doesn't have to be plugged in. When you plug in the USB-Serial dongle, you have a console. You can unplug your serial dongle right in the middle of a session, plug in one that uses a different chip, and your session is intact! Just "Ctrl-L" to refresh your Vim window where you were editing and there you are. The /dev/ttyUSB0 did actually disappear when unplugged and did re-appear on the re-insertion, but the TTY session was isolated from that, held in a suspended state.

Chopping apart the USB-Serial and TTY code in the kernel was relatively a piece of cake; but systemd threw up a wall, ironically! I got good help from the mailing list:

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-Ma...

At first I was stumped: everything should work, but what the heck is killing my login sessions when I unplug the device? I went over the code to make absolutely sure nothing would be getting a hangup signal from the TTY or the like. Through kernel printk messages, I traced it to systemd, slapping my forehead. Basically, even though the tty session was being kept intact, it was the fact that the USB device went away that systemd killed the session.

Once I solved the systemd issues, everything worked great.

systemd: it just likes to kill things, at least in its default configuration.
This is interesting:

http://jimwarholic.com/2009/04/fdd-floppy-disk-drive-emulato...
Apparently Maine is singularly treacherous for hikers due to the density and scale of it's woods.

I've seen comments from many experienced hunters/hikers how say they live/hike in the woods up there and all of them mentioned how easy it would be to become disorientated.

Here's one for instance:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/2r32uy...
Worry not. Any democrat candidate on the ballet will beat trump. You can't win an election on the rich, white, male vote.
Which seems to be the opposite of the modern instinct to get high and get a mobile phone signal.
"I really dislike the idea of having one project handling everything on a box .... The day you have a security issue in systemd we are all fu...."

I've heard this argument a bunch, but looking at the actual systemd approach doesn't really convince me that it's the case. There are dozens of binaries, dozens of maintainers, hundreds of contributors. It's comparable to a project with a bunch of parts (think Gnome or KDE only at the systems-level), rather than one big black box that does everything.

If there were a single "systemd" program that did all the hundreds of things that the systemd system does, it would be alarming and impossible to maintain. But, it's not. They may be more tightly coupled than some like (I quite like systemd and still find it a little uncomfortably coupled in many places), but that's partially a symptom of doing a bunch of things in new ways. No one built the interfaces needed to do what systemd does in the past, so building systemd took reinventing the universe in some regards. That's actually some of what you're getting when you get "systemd"; things that aren't part of the init system, but existed in some form before and are now being replaced by systemd-provided services.

"But yeah there are some real good things in systemd, maybe they should just be taken out of it and spin up in a new project ;)"

That becomes more feasible over time. Right now, there's a lot of moving parts. Another reason for the tight coupling is that the way things work together is still evolving as people learn the shortcomings of this new architecture.

systemd is not perfect, but it is a bunch of little pieces working together. A security issue in one of those pieces doesn't necessarily mean we're all fucked any more than a security issue in one part of any of the old systems necessarily meant we were all fucked.
I tried really hard to learn systemd, but I am in the process now of moving to a systemd free distro. It's such a mess.
Ask HN: Not sure what to do here
One of the founders of the startup I work at threatened me today when I said: "If you're not going to pay me what I'm currently getting paid, I'll probably quit." I was trying to be transparent about my feelings when saying this and they fired back with: "I'll sue you and take your shares back!". My shares haven't vested so I don't really care too much about that, but I am scared they'll try to drown me in legal fees from suing me.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks...
I recommend unfollowing (or even unfriending) those people. You will no longer see their drivel in your newsfeed.
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That server was for only unclassified data though. Some stuff was later called "Classified", but many innocuous things are classified.
Yes, you can disable it if you have root on that system where you're trying to use tmux or whatever.
To your own, safely generated, bitcoin wallet. Ethereum or the official client on a clean install, for example.
Super interesting, but the audio level is too quiet for my laptop even with everything set to max. Can it be downloaded from anywhere?
It's a combination of ideas. I liked the idea of the polywell, but there was another project that also peaked my interest, plasma focus. One of the researchers described why their idea was better than the others, and it was quite convincing. Plasma is a dynamic system and their design works with the plasma dynamics instead of against it. This led me to the idea of a dynamic polywell, where the negative potential in the center could be tuned to oscillate. Maybe there is a sweet spot or harmonic that will cause fusion.

I have no idea if it will work, but is an interesting project and something attainable in the garage. If nothing else hopefully it will at least be a fancy plasma ball lamp.

More on focus fusion:

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/184280-focus-fusion-has-c...
For lifting, I prefer to work out late in the evening, because:

1) I don't feel I have to "save" energy for anything else, and

2) it helps make me sleepy.

It also helps that I bought a membership in a gym 4 minutes from my house, leaving me no excuse for avoidance.
Yes, let's look at all the dns records created, edited, removed and theorize all possible devices that could have been connected or not.

Wouldn't a better rendering of all of this be a video from Taiwanese animation?
> all they can do is sign it

The US legislative process lives and dies on building alliances and horse-trading. A word from the President and/or his/her promise of future help in other matters is hugely valuable. A law going through Congress and a law going through Congress with support from the President are two very different things in practice, and would be disingenuous to say that's not the case.
setcontext isn't Posix, so corysama is the best kind of correct. But setcontext exists on most flavors of Linux, FreeBSD, and OS X, so you can basically assume it's supported.
What laws regarding handling classified information were broken?

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0330-mcmanus-clin...
Sources at the time told me IBM were planning on buying Sun (for the hardware/Telco business) and avoiding anti-trust problems by spinning software off to Red Hat (Java, ZFS, Solaris, etc). They got cold feet over the spectre of bribery investigations against Sun.

I weep for the parallel universe in which Red Hat had been in a position to open all of Sun's technologies properly.
Many people don't have an "angel" like that to ensure they get justice.
How can you copy an API without looking at the original API? They might not have looked the implementation, but if the API itself is copyrighted, won't looking at it suffice to be infringement?
Despite all the ipads and what note I have found a pen and notebook to be the better note taking equipment than anything else.

If it is getting the job done cheaply and efficiently that required and better than the alternatives it is the best technology to use.
It's not dangerous if you have navigational skills. Most people, however, do not, or haven't developed theirs very effectively. I see it myself sometimes with other hikers at the front of a group—they take a wrong turn and suddenly have no idea where they are and start freaking out rather than just backtracking. Fortunately they're in a group, generally of people who can navigate and do know where they are, but when someone with poor navigational skills gets into that situation it usually leads to panic and bad decisions.

It's not at all extraordinary that a hiker of her age decided to go backpacking alone (which in this case she didn't—she was with someone else who left). It's a very common thing for people to solo hike and backpack. Carrying a small amount of gear is not a problem either—it's the norm. But navigational tools of some sort, even just a micro compass and a map, are generally considered an essential.
Apparently, according to the third message in the report.
What the poster meant with that statement is that you don't need worry or obsess about the long term reaction of all your hundreds or thousands of followers/friends/acquaintances and what they will think the way you do with something like Facebook (really any other network). In my opinion, this is a major problem with those sites. You automatically and subconsciously become your own personal "brand manager" and "self-marketing team", and are subjected the output of everyone else on the network who is doing the same thing. It's greatly magnified version of the old "you only see everyone else's highlight reel" dynamic. A lot of studies are coming out with interesting results on this and related issues.

On Snapchat, the communications are all shortly lost to the sands of time, like most real-world interactions. This has a big effect on how people orient themselves with the app.

I'm not saying it is or isn't worth $XX billion, but it's not something to disregard without any thought.
I just got a weird email from Coinbase last night. I've had an account for ~2 yrs now but haven't been very active. They sent a message soliciting me to log in for the first time that I can remember. Here's the text of the email:

Subject: The Economy of the Future is Here!

Wow - the price of bitcoin nearly doubled in the last year! We noticed it's been a while since you bought bitcoin and thought you might want to get your stake in finance 2.0 sooner rather than later.

Sign in to your Coinbase account now to instantly purchase bitcoin and start participating in the economy of the future.

The kind of email that makes you think...what is the agenda here?
This is the best case version (for her), and what her camp wants people to believe. Its hard to see that it's true though. The IG report is pretty clear that she willfully violated recommendations and warnings about security.

I'm inclined to believe accounts like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9149363

Perhaps she wasn't furtively planning to take over the world, but the evidence points to more than her just wanting to use a Blackberry - it really seems (to me) like she took significant measures to avoid keeping records.
I hate hate HATE systemd. That doeant mean it doesnt have its positive points, however.

Example: I love service files.

If they would just make everything modular/optional, I wouldnt hate it nearly as much
As someone who's spent a fair amount of time hiking, it really depends on the maintenance of the trails. There's also often false trails even on maintained ones. Humans tend to be far more confident about their directionality than they are, and factor in weather or a dark mostly moonless night and its easy to hike in circles. Once lost and without easy landmarks, finding your way back is difficult as even if you locate the trail you're looking for, its uncertain if you're actually on it without glaringly obvious geographic markings to match to a paper map. We humans easily overestimate our ability to navigate.

I do agree though, not packing a GPS unit with a charging mechanism was a bad move. The one time when I really needed it was the one time I was hiking in white out conditions on a very remote mountain in Cascades and my buddy had an GPS (mind you in the early 2000s, thus archaic by today's standards), Setting a way point at the trailhead made my night a lot more pleasant rather than shuffling down a mountain in a blizzard, and hoping to end up near where we started. I wasn't unprepared and had a paper map and compass, and knew eventually we'd hit a forest service road but it could have made for a very long night in the cold as we marched back to our vehicle.
That's treading on hallowed grounds man. How can you teach newbies to use nohup now?

"Oh, first you have to talk to the machine's administrator to reconfigure systemd, if you're on Linux. Or just use FreeBSD, MacOS, Solaris, or ... Cygwin".
I'm working on an assembly like product but a little different. if your interested feel free to email me(in my profile)
I can't prove some of the more out-there theories aren't true, but they just don't make sense to me.

Given the sheer volume of email she sent from her blackberry (lunch meetings, when to get up, where to go, can you print this, happy birthday, etc) it's pretty clear it's her primary way of communication. So that explains her refusing to take no for an answer from the NSA.

If her motivation was to block FOIA requests, then why did she do literally all important and confidential communication on paper, which falls under FOIA? Then why did the entire administration accept her use of a private email server if she didn't have an obvious reason why she needed one? If her real motivation was to dodge FOIA, then why was the NSA stonewalling? The FOIA hypothesis raises far more questions than it answers.
What about user-specific CRON jobs? Does this prevent them from running?
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Numerous readily available examples suggest that it has, however.

Would you share some of those examples? I've heard this argument made before, and I agree that undermining alternative models is both logically possible and a plausible concern in practice. However, the only examples anyone has come up with so far have been some form of derivative work with questionable added value.

Lacking any more compelling evidence, I tend to come back to balance that copyright is one economic principle that clearly can support the production of many useful works, and there is little empirical data to suggest either greater harms or better alternatives. But of course that position ceases to hold if and when such data is found.
I'm not sure if you misread my questions or I misread your answer. I'm asking about new opportunities this precedent allows, not existing ones it forbids. For example, the private WoW server case was ruled in favor of Blizzard. With this new precedent, would a court come to the same conclusion?
This is 100% inaccurate

That story leaves out significant details, and his description of the reason is wrong. He leaves out significant prior sources and reasons, to the point your statement "It was not created to help artists or whoever" is simply wrong.

Wikipedia provides a far better history with extensive sources [1]. Note for example the section "Early Developments" where they list precursors to anything in your source as having significant components of individual and author rights.

Note also in the US copyright law was started by author guilds wanting author protection, and the first federal copyright act in 1790 was about protection for authors, not for printers. This was an extension of many states laws that had passed author protections.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright_law
I'm thinking about something like assembly but with some changes.
It seems to me that anything associated with Bitcoin becomes a target for hackers.

site relates to bitcoin = eventually hacked
Or rather, systemd breaks an entire class of things, but it's okay, they have one and only one built-in thing.
Donald is a test as to whether or not you can win an election on white votes. The rich, white, male votes are probably the one cohort of whites he's least likely to get.
Antibiotics aren't generally that profitable in the US. The first reason is antibiotic stewardship: make a really great antibiotic and nobody wants to use it unless they have to. The other reason is that the way antibiotics are reimbursed in the hospital setting prevents charging a price that makes it all that profitable.
email me in my profile. I'll let you know when it's ready to launch.
> We had OpenGL in the old days too. Pretty much straight from the beginning of the GPUs.

Someone missed out on the early PC days ;-) An example of what I'm thinking: Standardized-ish PC hardware (CGA, EGA, VGA, et al) might be abstracted by the programming language's libraries, but devs often reached below the abstraction, manually twiddling registers in the hardware. There weren't really standardized "drivers" for a lot of the available hardware.

OpenGL was opened in 1992, but it was only toward the late 90s that any (consumer-level) GPUs actually implemented it.

My apologies if you're mostly talking about non-consumer hardware.
I think she must have gotten lost and disoriented while very close to the trail and then spent a lot of time walking in the wrong direction without paying enough attention to be able to retrace her route even back to that first place where she realized she was lost. At some point she realized that moving was getting her more lost and she stopped. But at that point she was too far away from the trail for the searchers to find her.

In fact, I wonder if at the end, once she'd set up a permanent camp, if she stayed put because she was flat out afraid she'd get lost again if she left the camp even to go a few yards. This might have been a legitimate fear, but there is a way to handle it -- you leave "blaze" marks on the trees as you pass them so you can retrace your route. But maybe she wasn't familiar with this technique.
My suggestion is to take a deep breath, then consider the net worth of your comment, then do one or all of the following:

Read paper yourself.
Google it.
Look at the discussion in the previous HN thread, which is referenced in this thread.
Thanks for posting these links. I didn't know about the PhD thesis and the InfoQ article is the best introduction to Nix that I've read yet!
> Using floppy disks and old hardware and software doesn't sound like a problem if it still runs and does what it's supposed to do.

That's great reasoning, until the day it stops working.
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It's a direct counterargument to what you're saying.

You're saying that due to 20 years of affirmative action policies where a black person who is less competent than a white person is able to put an identical item on their resume, it's reasonable to expect that a black person with an identical resume as a white person is less competent. Is that a mischaracterization?

I said that the scientific consensus is that the opposite is true, that a black person has to be more competent to be able to put an identical item on their resume. Therefore affirmative action when considering resumes is reasonable.

> ... non-racist [1] ... [1]: And indeed, the studies mentioned in the article showed that blacks and whites exhibited the same bias toward black resumes.

This is generally taken to mean that black people are just as racist as white people, just like women can be just as sexist as men. I'm not sure why you're concluding that non-racists can be racially biased (which seems to me like a contradiction in terms).

> Furthermore, regarding the studies mentioned in the article, there are some important question that need answering

What answers to those questions would change your mind, and what answers do you believe should change my mind?