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Some people attach a mirror to the wall behind their monitor. This allows them to focus on something in the distance as well as the monitor.
> Guccifer2 is a cover for APT-28/APT-29 (GRU).

How do you know? The NYT keeps using the passive voice ("believed to be tied to the Russian intelligence") or saying that some unnamed "American intelligence officials" told them so. Even when they name the officials, they don't say how they determined it.
I wonder if Linus would consider a stable ABI for kernel drivers these days. Make it stable across one each major version.

So much of the kernel source code is driver code. The old approach was always to release the source code for your driver and they'll incorporate it in the major source tree.

WIFI- and GPU-drivers still are very much binary only and don't have source code released.
I don't think this is the problem at all. Ubuntu, for example, is perfectly usable and a very good alternative to Windows.

The main problem, I'd say, is that there really isn't much of a reason to switch. People who buy a computer don't have any incentive to go through the with hassle.

If computers came with Ubuntu pre-installed I'm sure people would use those without a second thought.
Seems like to compensate for day to day weight/water fluctuations one would need to track the trailing activity and food data for a period of days prior to the data analyzed. I'm thinking 3-5.

.2 lbs/kilos lost is mostly a rounding error. Our weight could fluctuate that much on a daily basis from the amount of salt consumed.
> Heroin destroying lives is so complicated because most of it is societal based, it's not the drug destroying lives in current society.

How is this different from marijuana?
Based on the paper, the title should include "WAS" or "FIXED" or something like that.

And in a side note, that's why I dislike that journalists have been trained to remove so many words from headline copy by default.
Learning how to set all of that up is a massive barrier to entry for the technically average or below-average person. With a modern phone, all you have to do is turn it on and you're good to go.
> unless it can get apps that people just have to have.

Which is hard for it to get. Developing an app for desktop Linux means targeting a small group of people who are willing to endure frustration in order to run code whose source is available. Unless you are have some other revenue stream besides your customer, you can't make it more than a hobby.
I think some people are more prone to nicotine addiction than others. I smoked moderately for about six months, while dating a smoker. Once we stopped dating, I dropped the habit completely. If I'm drunk and everyone around me is smoking, and someone offers me a cigarette, I'll take it and take some half-hearted puffs, and typically toss it half-smoked.
Long-term rehabilitation using brain-machine interfaces triggers partial neurogi
there's much more to memes than image macros

that's like saying "seen one painting, seen them all!"
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I've purchased in the past just to support (and to keep going the illusion that I'll create some audio for /me/ in the future).
you may be conflating cause and effect. disappointing lives full of depression, anxiety, and boredom leads to both apathy and drug-use (self medication). it's a mistake to believe the drug use is the underlying cause of a person seeming unhappy and apathetic.
You can access it as a consumer, but you cannot use it in the continuation of culture.

Very important point.
Sorry for the crosspost/copy-and-paste:

For me personally this worked quite well for reducing bodyfat:

Intermitted fasting[1] and lifting weights 3 times a week[2] and being on a cutting regime[3] (cutting on the rest days with low carb and loading on the workout days wiht more carbs).

In the beginning IF was quite difficult but after a while the body get used to it and also I tend to have less cravings during the day. On the loading days/workout days I often have a hard time to get enoug calories because I feel full. I am using MyFitnessPal to track what I eat but it's more about the macros and not so much about the exact calories (but it's also good to get a feeling how much calories different kinds of food has)

[1] http://www.leangains.com/2011/03/intermittent-fasting-for-we...
[2] http://stronglifts.com/ [3] http://www.lgmacros.com/standard-leangains-macro-calculator/
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> Google could switch out everything GNU or Linux in Android with BSD or whatever next year.

What are you trying to say? You could make the same argument for any piece of software in existence.
This is my reason too. The only forms of exercise that I don't deeply dislike for their own sake are prohibitively expensive or require a commitment of 3-4 hours at a time.

I exercise instead when it becomes a pleasant way to accomplish something I have to do anyway. For me the trick is to find good ways to incorporate exercise into activities I'd be doing anyway.

When the weather is nice, I walk to work because there's a lovely tree-lined route and it's much more enjoyable than standing on a loud and crowded subway. If the elevator line is 15 min long, I'll walk a few flights of stairs. And of course, the subway itself plus living in a walkup means a handful of flights daily. And maybe I'll get off a stop early and walk half a mile home, stopping for groceries along the way.
Matthew Green has a very readable yet technical writeup of this attack:

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2016/03/attack-of-we...
In my world, Linux has also taken over the desktop. For my personal needs, I would never consider OSX or Windows for that task.

The desktop feels currently like a neglected area. OSX gets more iOSified with every release, whatever Microsoft does gets booed, regardless if it's good or bad.

Much functionality that used to be on the desktop has wandered into the browser. What desktop you're using isn't as important as it used to be.

I wonder if that pendulum ever swings back.
"Your reasoning is flawed."

"GNU/Linux took over server and mobile. Nothing stops it to happen in desktop anytime soon."

Going off of first order logic, this is literally the textbook definition of flawed reasoning (at least without some compelling evidence that A implies B).
Exactly -- it only stops you from creating function-likes that have multiple return types (not closures, because closures aren't locally generic anyway). If you really need such behavior, regular generic functions or traits will work, e.g. `.collect()`
Depending on the hash used, it could be subject to a length extension attack. That was one of the big engineering goals for SHA3, to not be susceptible to those.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_extension_attack
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The fact is, if you use your computer professionally and switch to linux, you start to understand what user interface efficiency is

That highly depends on what you do with your computer professionally though. So it might be a fact for some, but completely false for others.

I'm using a tiling window manager with pretty much any program customized to the point of being unrecognizable.

I played that game for years but gave up afterwards. Maybe I was doing it wrong but I spent just too much time to my liking on it. Now I'm more in a mindest of 'if you can't build me software which I can use almost as-is, I'll look for something else'. Not always ideal either and sometimes there are no alternatives so you'r stuck with crap after all. And yeah maybe I'm not using my computer as efficiently as possible (looking at some collegues though, I'm a wizard compared to their 'let's use a mouse for everything and double-clik to make sure it hits'-style), but I'm getting work done.
> And that means more pretty than functional.

Not really. I mean if you think about it, the original Macintosh looked like shit even compared to its predecessors; what was it, something like a nine inch screen in black and white, even greyscale it could only do with migraine-inducing dithering. But it could do desktop publishing when pretty much nothing else could, and Macintosh programs mostly used a consistent interface so you could figure out how to use them, and these functional advantages got people to buy the computer.

Linux Mint looks as pretty as Windows or Mac OS, and Ubuntu would if they'd change the weird purple color scheme, but what happens when a client sends you an Excel spreadsheet? What happens when you want to plug in a second monitor? What happens when you want to play a triple-A video game? What's the battery life like on a laptop? Those are functional issues that need to be solved.
Are you suggesting that Hillary realesed the emails to get an anti-Russian sympathy vote?
"How 100,000 people bought a 95 cent book from radio shack and made nothing".
I don't see why you make that comparison. Many distros (Ubuntu comes to mind) certainly cater to the same market as Windows and OS X, and do it very well.
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steam OS looks promising as to get the gaming people to see that games run superior under open source Linux, specially when you need speed and accuracy in operating system functions , my hope that Linus and the linux foundation support valve breakthrough.
The media produced there comes of the same forms/motivations telling the same stories again and again.

1) Profit-driven

2) Gov't-funded (state welfare art to reinforce state propaganda tropes)

3) Promotion of a social cause everyone already knows about or already half-heartedly believes in

Everything produced of the above 3 forms will be forgotten within 20-50 years and adds nothing to the discussion and advancement of art, culture, or philosophy.
And as other people have pointed out, neither should we present building a company as the pinnacle of human achievement simply because it's how a large number of people on HN want to spend their time.
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"And that means more pretty than functional."

You can have aesthetically pleasing and functional at the same time - they aren't mutually exclusive. Making the interface attractive doesn't mean 'dumbing down' the interface either.

Ubuntu is arguably the most popular Linux Desktop distribution and their model of UX development is to have a dedicated UX team designing the Ubuntu desktop experience. Presumably they read feedback from the community of Ubuntu users but ultimately, they make the final call on UX decisions.

The model for open source code contributions just doesn't work for visual and interaction design. (Or if it does, I've yet to see a successful example that wasn't an exception rather than the rule).

When there are too many participants in the visual and interaction design of a program or OS, you end up with a project pulled in every direction and pleasing to no-one. But if you go the opposite route and limit design decisions to a dedicated UX team or sole designer, you end up generating resentment from contributors or users who feel their input is being ignored.
Yes, i do understand that was written by the author. That's why i used quotes.
Neither will medical grade heroin usually in non-excessive quantities, and people consume that too whilst living perfectly normal lives.
its legal to advertise pharmaceuticals. why should there be a special ban for advertising cannabis?

if your objection is to "mass-brain washing", I think you're gonna have a lot of 1st amendment trouble arguing that case legally.
Why should one need a library card to use a library internet connection? Last time I used a public computer in the UK they were free for everyone with a time limit. But in Raleigh, NC, only registered card holders can use them.
The brain has dedicated subsystems for different aspects of spatial and visual understanding.

Certain groups of cells (place cells, grid cells) are known to be involved specifically in the ability to track one's own location and movement within the external world. This ability is likely a very old and important evolutionary invention in the development of higher animals, thus very sophisticated and well integrated with other functions, particularly memory. Think of the method of loci, known already in Ancient Rome and Greece, or indeed how quickly one learns to navigate a new city (or a video game level, say). This probably explains the phenomenon the author describes.

That said, the relative importance of the various spatial-visual subsystems of the brain probably depends heavily on the task, and perhaps also varies between individuals.
> I'm often using CLI versions of GUI programs because the actual user interface is superior. Some TUI programs have no rivals in GUI form.

I have my own list here, but I'm curious to hear yours to potentially add to my list. Thanks for the great post.
That would be the quickest way to allow Linux to be supplanted: being able to incorporate its drivers into your own operating system without constant maintenance would allow you to pass what's by far the highest hurdle in gaining acceptance, being able to run on "everyone's" hardware.

ADDED: it might also indeed fix one of the biggest problems with Linux on the desk/laptop. For example, in moving through Debian starting with lenny, skipping jessie (systemd) and moving to Ubuntu LTS 14.04, I've had both sound devices and my Wacom tablet stop working and start working again.

This was both severely annoying and expensive in the former case (had to buy a $$$ PCIe sound card to cover for inexpensive and utterly standard USB devices to use Skype (or any other VOIP system) and play music)). Still better than Windows, which I abandoned after XP, and still believe was the right move, but....
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Irish court orders alleged Silk Road admin to be extradited to US
Who even uses features exclusive to desktops anymore? I do for development, I'm sure video editors and the like do, but which ordinary consumer does?

The future of desktops I see is something like:

Chrome OS: 70% of computers for ordinary use

Windows: 20% of computers for gaming

OS X: 5% of computers for video editing

Linux: 5% of computers for development
Looking forward to "How I drink six cans of Coke a day, yet still run Berkshire Hathaway".
I think that exaggeration of the dangers of a drug can lead to an excessively strong counter-narrative. Unfortunately it is part of political play for major nations to state any case on anything to its weakest or strongest form, and not anywhere inbetween -- as if adversaries are going to negotiate the truth down to the middle, so we mind as well start at the extremes.

Children should hear a realistic profile of effects for different substances, among other things.
Perhaps desktop Ubuntu has indeed gotten significantly better over the past 3 years since I switched to OSX?
ok, I just found it strange that in the discussion about an article about Linus the most-quoted bit is something he didn't say.
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I have web access at my cities public library, but that's it. They have a fiber connection, wifi, and lots of working space but you can't even access github, Dropbox, or most vps's
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> We used to say something similar about MUDs. Don't start, because you'll end up spending days and nights on a terminal in the basement of the library and your work/outside life/everything else will be put on hold.

> Multiplayer games... the drug of nerd generation X?

MUDs, MUSHes, Doom, Quake, Starcraft, shit posting on Reddit, dropping knowledge bombs on HN[1] ... the venue changes but it's all the same waste of time. Not necessarily a bad thing either.

[1]: Feel free to swap HN and Reddit.
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As history as proven time and time again, the crowd loves a good witch hunt. Demonizing, deriding X is an incredibly effective tool of governance.
Gnu didn't take over anything, there is no GNU in android.
1. Do games even run better on Steam OS? Last I checked they ran quite noticeably slower.

2. Steam is still a proprietary platform, though I can see how their support would benefit all distros' gaming capabilities.
Is there anyone on here who uses DAW's seriously, and has tried Ardour? Can it compete with the big boys?
Install Virtualbox and try it out. I'd say it's gotten way better.
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Nobody disputes the value of end to end encryption. That's not the issue.

The problem of encryption is that it changes the relationship between government and individual in a way that has never been seen before. If a person is suspected of committing a crime the police have always had the ability to intercept mail, record calls, search property etc and obtain evidence. They can't do that now.

You can argue the pros/cons of this new world order. What you can't argue against is the natural inclination of many people to simply maintain the status quo.
How else do you start without millions in the bank?

SV is a lot different than it used to be.
This should read: "A hacker votes for Donald Trump"
> Why even bother with such half-baked solutions? In almost every case it's utterly transparent that these solutions exist for the benefit of the compiler and runtime author, usually because of intentional or unintentional technical debt--a direct or indirect dependency on the C or kernel stack.

There is a significant faction of language designers that disagree, and think that keeping coroutines shallow is important for developers writing and reading the code. This post from Dave Herman<(involved in JavaScript and Rust) sums it up: http://calculist.org/blog/2011/12/14/why-coroutines-wont-wor.... (The comment from Tom van Cutsem is also a good rephrasing: http://disq.us/p/9jcee9.) Note that the argument is not as applicable in languages with racy multithreading (like C/C++ or Java).

I don't think it's necessarily a knockout argument, but it at least helps me sleep with what we've chosen for JavaScript.
I have/had stomach ulcers and was self medicating for a long time before getting it treated. Now it's mostly habitual. Your body builds up a large tolerance rapidly, like 10x difference when you are a daily user vs casual user. I can see why your friend takes a break once in a while. If I smoke 0.5 gram (about 5 large pulls from a pipe), the effects wear off in about 2 hours. If I take a break for two weeks, one tiny pull from the pipe will last about 4-6 hours or longer. I might not feel clear headed until the next day.
It isn't. It's just that the effects of heroin use today is much worse, even though the drug if consumed in reasonable quantities of medical grade supply is one of the safer opiates.

The biggest problem with heroin is an adulterated supply, cut with anything from other - often more dangerous - drugs to brick dust, putting the user at substantial health risk both due to the stuff they've put in it and due to uneven doses.

The second biggest problem is societal condemnation that makes it hard for those who function well on heroin to seek help if something goes wrong.

Marijuana is less likely to be mixed with other crap, and you're less likely to face condemnation if you tell someone you use it.

Other than that, heroin has a higher potential to cause damage in itself. You certainly can overdose on it, and damage yourself seriously with it in ways you'd find impossible with marijuana. But you can also use heroin your whole life with few ill effects if you have a clean and predictable supply.

In terms of addiction we like to treat heroin is if it is insanely addictive, but there's little indication it's worse than alcohol in that respect (not that alcohol is a standard to aspire to when it comes to addiction potential).
Finding something that I actually enjoy doing and doesn't cost an arm and a leg. Oh, and not having to either be active before waking up properly or work a second shower into my schedule.

I might consider a treadmill or stationary bike desk if I didn't have to commit to buying it before knowing if I'll like/use it. Or didn't have to figure out how to build one myself (in a carpeted NYC apartment with a hammer and screw gun but no saw) and then somehow lug it to work on public transit.
Click "System Peeker" in the top middle of the screen, under "Planet Looker"
That's not that much money, they need grants from OSS foundations, OSS like that need to get better at funding. How many millions the Mozilla foundation gave away this year ? and to only what, 8 projects ? The Gnome foundation could also help , instead of the financing dubious programs I won't name. But I guess it's better to waste money on hype rather than supporting well established projects.
At the time, I was on that trajectory -- trying to get recruited for college-level track and field. All of the other state-caliber athletes (my competition) were intensely weight training.

What messed me up wasn't the fact that I was weight lifting (I still have remnants of my high school athletic physique now even as an engineer who sits and codes for 10+ hours a day), but rather, overtraining and incompetent coaching.
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I really enjoyed this recap of a manager's time at RadioShack.

http://www.sbnation.com/2014/11/26/7281129/radioshack-eulogy...
From that email it sounds like there was more concern about the front-end side C/C++->LLVM-IR than the backend side, so this wouldn't affect that. As for the backend side of things, I know nothing about Plan 9, so I can't comment if their dialect would require modifications to this could base. However, I can't imagine that making the changes to support Plan 9 natively in LLVM would be significantly more onerous than changes required to this backend. In fact, a lot of the ABI work may have been done already since I believe Go shares the Plan 9 ABI.
Is Wikileaks announcement that the recently murdered DNC staff member was the source of the leaks, not Russian hackers, credible? I don't know, and in anycase I consider the source of the leaks to be much less important than the contents of the leaks.

When we watch a good magician, they entertain us by using misdirection. Unfortunately, when the deep state and the media they control use misdirection it is not fun or entertaining, it is about getting the population to go along with policies against the public's interests, against the interests of peace and prosperity, etc.
Take a look at Convox as a fast way to bootstrap managing instances, ECS, and load balancers via CloudFormation.

We have ALB working already.

https://github.com/convox/rack/pull/1045

Disclaimer: I work on Convox.
Top banker at major Investment bank on Wall street. From what i understand smoking marijuana there is like having a soda..in certain branches/areas anyway.
One thing I've never been able to get a clear answer on, is when you "lose" fat, how long does it take for the number of fat cells to go down? As I understand it, at first fat cells just deflate (not the right word) are will easily plump up again and that's one reason why it's hard to keep weight off. What's involved in actually ridding the body of the extra cells (outside of mechanical means)?
The improvements are better coverage of possible LLVM IR, and significant bug fixes to make this actually work.
Smoking appears to be more addictive than nicotine by itself. Pure nicotine in low enough doses has a fairly low addiction potential, and is mostly benign. But smoke, and you get the whole combination of other cigarette content, social pressure and ritual.
I doubt that Trump or his campaign would be actively lobbying the Russian government.

There is plenty of motivation elsewhere to do so. Russia would be a major loser given that Hillary would far more decisive and bold with her foreign policy decisions. Assange benefits because a Trump government would be more amenable to immunity negotiations. And Wikileaks benefits from all the publicity.