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Maybe the point is not that we get anxious about things in terms of their actual severity, we just get anxious period. Saying people should "take a "chill pill" might make you even more anxious, in fact, as they feel they are not really "supposed" to feel that way now.
Some security professionals have expressed the view that insecure endpoints represent a good compromise. That is, without the US government being able to snoop on endpoint devices, encryption would have to be tightly controlled, so that the government could retain intelligence and investigatory capability.

A more cynical view would be that many security firms sell both security and forensics/surveillance. One of those two product lines has to be fundamentally defective.

Is the position that hackable endpoints are a good compromise supportable any longer? Or has it bitten US entities in the ass enough that making truly secure computing a reality for computer users, even if it blinds the surveillance state, becomes the new goal.
To be fair, no teacher I have ever known has stopped working at 3:20 PM. Grading and planning often go far into the evening.
Why would most readers here get dismissed?
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Yep, it's marketing - can't deny that. You wouldn't believe how easy it is to fail at Kickstarter and how important preparation and good marketing is.

Yes, we've gotten a ton of good feedback that people are willing to pay for a premium version. If we hit the 2.5M stretch goal, backlit will be a possibility :). We like it, but we also did a survey of our backers that said ~50% would pay for it.
The text reads

>Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

What you're referring to is the original meaning. There are other principles of interpretation in the US judiciary. The Supreme Court has shifted from the original meaning, given that there are some restrictions on capital punishment (mostly based on age and mental handicap). Most of that development has been from the mid-80's to today.

However, to further address your point, I don't think the meaning is obvious from the text. In particular, the word "cruel" in relationship to "punishment" is not obvious to a layman.
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How do those systems manage capital-intensive projects? Bridges and dams and airliners and power grids and so on...
Especially now that redis allows loading plugins (in addition to the integrated Lua scripting support).
You could, buuuut Android phones are so fragmented that it would be really really hard to do it for every phone and have it be aesthetically pleasing. That's why we opted for the universal side mount option.
Design is a separate process and skill than implementation.

This applies to security and safety. There is no reason not to implement obscurity also.

One thing I can guarantee is that your implementation of one security-type will not be unbreakable.... and neither will mine.

Better to add obscurity than not.
"trying to recap things I've done makes me more stressed out"

Its about the same in low pressure full time work.

So to my annoyance at work my happy sea of happy freebsd has gained two unavoidable ubuntu, and ansible worked on them precisely once after initial install and then never again. Incredibly frustrating. Obviously must be a problem with our standard sshd config although ssh into the boxes works fine... Turns out ansible does NOT just use ssh, but speaks sftp which is a subtle difference in protocol and is handled completely differently inside openssh and I never use sftp other, apparently, than every time I ansible-playbook something (all scp here for generic file transfer) so I never noticed it. To make a long story short sftp is implemented in a loadable subsystem module located in /usr/libexec/sftp-server which is specified by FULL PATH in sshd_config on a unix-like OS but on Ubuntu its in /usr/lib/sftp-server. Thanks Ubuntu, wish you were a unix! Also if sshd tries to access its sftp loadable module and fails because of wrong path in sshd_config, there is no error logged to any file and running the client in verbose mode tells you nothing other than connection dropped, almost like a firewall dumped a RST packet on us. There is no way to indicate the problem, the only symptom even if you run the client -vvvv option is the connection just drops, nothing in syslog on the server side, nothing auth.log, nothing. Once the problem was found all I need to do is have ansible provide /etc/ssh/sshd_config with slightly different OS specific paths based on specific OS which is a good 30 seconds of work. So no small amount of my work time is pounding head on desk swearing and annoyed until I isolate the problem and then the fix takes about 10 seconds. Actually given that I'm pretty good at this stuff and highly experienced and I know the business problem domain very well and I know my toolset, the easy stuff is all automated or avoided or well known and all I do all day is pound head on table for hours until truly obscure problem is isolated, then implement fix in about a minute, repeat. Figuring out the correct solution is about 99% of my day and endless judgment calls takes a lot out of a brain.

After that end of workday I had no interest in talking about SSH or ansible or any of that, in fact it took near 24 hours to cool off from that one and write this post, went home, ate an awesome homecooked meal, took whole family to hiking trail and tried to catch pokemon, generally hung out and had a good time and enjoyed the nice park and nice weather. My wife used to program PBXes and did something with ACD call routing on an old fashioned physical PBX (don't remember the language, its all obsolete now replaced by VOIP and doesn't matter) but even back when we had similar-ish jobs I think we both just need time to chill out away from work. If work is stress, I don't need constant stress or constant work, no interest in talking about work outside of work.
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How does this compare to the user experience on Remix OS?
I still have lilo on my slackware-based machine. And you know what, while I have countless troubles with grub (couldn't find the initrd, couldn't install itself to the MBR though it pretended there was absolutely no error, etc, etc), LILO never failed me: when you run "lilo" if it says "installed successfully", well at least it's installed.
Nevertheless Feynman made many successful lectures to the public and undergraduate students and was able to explain things as complex as quantum electrodynamics in layman terms. Recently I tried explaining how Akka clusters work and what partitions are to a completely non-technical colleague. Not only was I able to explain the parts I understand well in a way that she understood, I also quickly found out there are parts that I don't understand at all.
By premium you mean backlight, right? 13" is not an option so far?
I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't get this at all
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Remix is unabashedly better of a user experience right now. It has to be. They rewrote Android to be a desktop OS - you can't get more integrated than that. However, two things:
1) they had to break Android, which means no more access to Google services, including the play store.
2) you have to install Remix OS, getting rid of your Android Os. Which wouldn't work on a phone. So you still have to stick with multiple devices.
You mention that you can write code on the Superbook, but I've yet to find any good ide in Android. Any plans to create or partner with someone to get something like Atom running in Andromium/Android? Do you have a particular favorite that you always use right now?
Cathedral is never built by one person. It's not even entirely designed by one person. But you have people responsible for quality, instead of "anything goes" ad-hoc development.

You mentioned Common Lisp - it's a great example of a cathedral. A language carefully designed by a committee, which took into consideration all the previous Lisps that were in popular usage. You can tell there was a lot of thought behind the process.

As for Emacs and the bazaar, I think this is a good case study of good and bad aspects of bazaars. On the one hand, you have an incredibly flexible tool, which turns it into a perfect test environment optimizing workflow with text-based tasks. You have people writing Emacs modes for anything including kitchen sink, and it turns out many of those experiments offer superior workflow than standard, dedicated applications (especially when it comes to interoperability and maintaining focus/flow).

On the other hand, Emacs often requires you to hot-patch stuff here and there, and its language support is usually worse than that of a cathedral-like IDE dedicated to a particular programming ecosystem. And I say it as an Emacs lover. I still prefer Emacs to IDEs, but that's because of the flexibility benefits, which are unparalleled. But I'm not deluding myself that Emacs has better support for Java than IntelliJ, or better support for PHP than Eclipse, or whatever. For language ecosystems requiring complex tools to back them up, it's a PITA to set up your working environment in Emacs. Hence the negative side of bazaar - you don't get as much focused effort to make something of high quality.
Except that in plumbing industry we have artificial barriers in form of licensing. I wonder when time will come for similar barriers in software development.
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Hi HN! I want to reduce my footprint on FB, i.e. delete all posts and photos, unlike all likes, etc. I'd like to keep the account active, so simply deactivating isn't the way to go (yet?)

I did some digging and there seems to be some Chrome extensions that - according to reviews - can give mixed results.

Most of what I could find - including past posts to HN - were 4 or 5 years old. So my question: is there a recent, go-to tool that you know of which can help me achieve the above? Or should I try my luck with the random years-old tutorials you can find online?

Thanks!
Criminal justice resources are stretched thin, and it's in no one's interest to throw out a dragnet and haul in a bunch of iffy cases.

That's a nice story. In reality, it takes more resources to solve hard cases, so they won't get solved. Instead, some random poor bastard will get charged and will plea out.
We're definitely considering 13" for our next version. But we want to deliver this version out first. 13" would require us to design a new shell and also source a few more components, including new packaging. Gets a lot tricker.
But don't you know that software developers are the best and most noble population in the world, bravely suffering for the good of humanity? </sarcasm>

I would love someone to try and complain about RSI to someone who's been a construction worker for 20 years. "But you get fresh air and exercise!" Ha! According to this source, 8.2% of construction workers have carpal tunnel: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4476336/
And CTS is generally the least of their worries!
> languages are more expressive, safer

Not generally, no. Maybe the popular ones become so, but that's mostly by rediscovering the languages of old, which had better safety and more expressive power.
There's degrees of risk associated with the type of construction work you do. I know someone who used to be a pipe fitter. Unless he showed up drunk at the job site (which may have happened a few times, hah) I don't think he was ever at risk of being run over by a backhoe or having something dropped on his head.

Roofers, on the other hand, have extremely high risk of severe injury and death. Those guys are nuts! If I was in charge of OSHA regulations for roofers I'd make sure that no one was allowed to get on to a roof without being attached to some kind of harness that would catch them if they fell. Or surround the home with airbags or something. It seems far too easy to slip, trip, or just plain ol' fall in that job.

I've personally witnessed a young man (roofer) fall from a roof once (on to a big pile of bricks). I found out later that he wound up paralyzed.

Electricians and plumbers are also relatively low risk depending on the work they do. You'd think working with high-voltage electricity would be higher risk than it is but with modern (insulated) tools and training it's quite safe.
YES! We want to. Please reach out to us Atom guys. We're working with some friends working on a cloud IDE, but this is an area where we admit theres a gap in software. We intend to close this gap.
You actually NEED arbitrary code execution during builds. Allow me to explain...

Let's say we have a make format called dmake. It invokes $CC with the specified arguments for each file, and links them together into a binary/so/whatever, putting it into the build directory and cleaning artifacts. Okay.

Now say that you start a new project in rust. Well, crap, dmake doesn't work. You have to use rdmake, which is built by different people, and uses a more elegant syntax - which you don't know.

Then you write Haskell, and have to use hdmake - which of course is written as a haskell program, using a fancy monad you don't know, and python has to use pydmake, and ruby has to use rbdmake, and scheme has to use sdmake, and lisp has to use ldmake, and asm has to use 60 different dmakes, depending on which asm you're using.

Instead, we all use make. Make allows for arbitrary code to be executed, so no matter what programming environment you use, you can use a familiar build tool that everybody knows. Sure, java has Ant, Jelly, Gradle and god knows what else, and node has $NODE_BUILD_SYSTEM_OF_THE_WEEK, but even there, you can still use make.

That's the power of generic tools.
My wife is a Physical Therapist. She put her resume on Career Builder (after graduation) on a Sunday Night before bed (11pm-ish), by 7am already had two voicemails, and had more than 8 more voicemails by noon Monday.

Just a data point, but it happens to other fields as well. Also, FWIW, she's making about 80k and if she commuted into Seattle, I see jobs posted there for 100-110k quite frequently, for non-managerial positions as a PT. She claims she could make more (at least hourly) as Home Health or a inpatient retirement home type of situation, but likes outpatient too much.

Granted, that's about it, unless she opens her own clinic or goes into management, where as 110k in Seattle gives me some room for salary growth. She also doesn't get other compensation so my point is more about demand of PTs being pretty comparable.
Thanks... just did - used 'sales' for the category. ;)
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Can you clarify what exactly is so impressive about this software? I read the article, and I don't see it.
the US has started to demand extraditions of people as fugitives, ... See Kim Dotcom.

and

if you wear a tie and are white, there's not much to worry about in the US

The first of these claims seems to contradict the second.
> On top of that, your boss is often an asshole (there's none of the white collar world politeness).

Being an asshole has very little to do with crude language.
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>Hopefully that attitude will make him wildly successful when he gets older, but it's currently tearing our family apart.

Willful, defiant children were considered a good thing by in early American Virginian planter colony..
A plumber we had in recently said electrical work is boring and it's no wonder electricians are miserable all the time, whereas plumbing is actually fun :-)
A few items that would make me buy two $200+ versions of this:

Video extension for multiple monitors. For example the ability to plug my phone into a dual monitor setup for coding.

A 13" primary monitor.

Touchscreen on the primary monitor for those annoying times when you forget it's not touchscreen.

USB ports on the device so I can plug in a wireless mouse and keyboard.

Standard Linux OS virtual machine or rooted a la chromebooks.

Then I would carry my phone between home and work and plug it in both places. No more need to carry a laptop. You could pick one of them up and take it with you for travel. That would be beautiful.

I currently tote my 13" laptop around and plug in an extra monitor and wireless usb mouse/keyboard at the endpoints.
I respectfully disagree. Alot of jobs plumbers do is that kind of easy jobs (just like most software devs are really writing CRUD apps.) Even redoing old plumbing in the house is super simple - soldering copper pipes with all the tools available is very straightforward.

I will say the same about welding. After very little reading i was able to make my own tig welder and even modified it later to weld aluminium (which requires AC vs DC normally, and spark starter)

This all information is readily available on internet if you know how to search for it. And that's what today's software developers are good at - finding quickly solution to something unknown.
>* Both life sentences (or multi life sentences) and death penalties are seen as cruel and not permitted in most of Europe.*

Yeah, but the US is shaped by the Old Testament morals of puritan religious nuts who left Europe...
> If they did examine the terms, as you said supply and demand would ensure the terms are fair.

Only if all parties have all the information. The person being hired has now idea how desperate the company is for their skills, how much they're willing to spend, or even if the pay being offered is good for the location/position in a lot of cases.
Apparently one can still get to the google play store [1], similar to Cyanogenmod missing Play Store out of the box.

Is there inspiration or parts you can share with Remix?

[1]: http://liliputing.com/2016/01/remix-os-for-pc-how-to-install...
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Here's the actual site: https://www.oldnyc.org/
I like the tree metaphor.

You start planting trees, maybe it's in an empty field, or maybe it's in an old forest. At some point it takes root and multiplies. People help plant your forest in unexpected places and it expands. At some point you try pruning and controlling the trees. And at some point a forest fire destroys it making way for a new forest to grow.
Don't be afraid to think outside the box. You likely have someone in your network who is a good fit. Especially if you're technical. Yiu don't need another technical founder, you need someone who's good at biz dev and marketing.
>In fact, you pretty much have to program in your free time in order to keep up with all the new paradigms and frameworks

Lol no. If I'm coding it's not free time, and if I'm coding to learn it's professional development, not recreation. "Coding is a lifestyle" is such a scam.
This is dumb, you're dumb.
From what I've observed, each of the wheels on the center pivot has its own controller to keep the system in line. Some appear to have GPS controllers. The issued with having a large linear arm is re-connecting the water supply every time the arm moves.
Cheap with a poor customer experience? They'll fit right in at Walmart.
Hilarious as long as you aren't the one that implemented it..
Additionally, no teacher I have ever known has had the summer off. Summer is when they do catch-up work, lesson planning, etc., the technical debt payback of the teaching world.

(source: three parents/step-parents were school teachers)
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One thing that _really_ annoys me about swipe-to-archive on gmail is that, if you do it accidentally, you can't swipe back to undo -- you have to actually tap 'undo'.

My muscle memory just seems programmed to swipe back in the direction I came; and this seems much more intuitive. It's such an annoyance that I've now disabled the swipe functionality.

Does Fastmail implement this better? Or maybe I'm just strange...
I guess the motto of this comment section is the big question: Why?

I am truly curious about the why, seriously. Is this used in real life, for what?
I'd like to see your anthropology cites for "tribal organisations", please. Especially for those larger than a hundred thousand members.
I'm amused by the CIA's use of the metric system in the manual. If only the rest of the US would follow ...
Moore's law is just an observation, and the only way chips can actually be made is through sustained, coordinated, and meticulous teamwork.
For anyone who sees this and is inspired to get ReBirth RB-338 going, know that modern versions of Windows no longer have support for 16-bit software... but it works great in Wine.
>I don't like or agree with it, but the legal meaning of the 8th Amendment is not obvious from its text. That might be the first sign that we're getting it wrong, actually.

Exactly. Old those BS "needs to be interpreted" Amendments and old laws are really problematic (including the "well-armed militia thing"). Law should be clear, not some divine (or "founding father") decree that gets interpreted according to the whims of those in power.
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My music of the time was more singer songwriters, balkan gypsy, modern jazz and death/black. :-)
I don't know the answer to #1.

Regarding #2, indeed appears to be some kind of job site search engine, a la google, as most links I've clicked on there have sent me to some recruitment/agency/etc. website... but sometimes you find direct links.
To be fair, most programmers also have never experienced a recruiter literally cold calling them sight unseen with a job offer. It's usually "hey can we chat, I know of a great company..." which is so different from a job offer it's meaningless.
Saying a person is "expressing tendencies" is tremendously different than making a diagnoses of a disorder. I didn't say anything about the person actually being one.

It doesn't take special qualifications to make a basic observation.
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What's the problem with that, exactly?
I've read almost every book (certainly over 90%) in my local village library when I was a kid (no internet = lots of time). It was quite small library, and you could go between the shelves and choose something by yourself which I still think is great. I hate libraries where you can't just go choose sth without knowing what exactly. Half the books were old and had handmade gray paper covers over them with handwritten titles and authors. I loved it. So it's not that I'm anxious about libraries.

I used huge university library like 5 times at most, because I could spend a few hours going to library, waiting in queues, waiting for the book, etc, and then having to remember to give it back, or I could just pirate the book in 5 minutes without standing up from my chair.

Piracy is the ideal library. It's more convenient than going to library, and more convenient than buying a book or even ebook. We should just stop pretending and find a way to fund authors with that in mind. And the immorality of it is hard to justify, when it's basically "I can get this book legally for free anyway, just wasting my time and restricting access to others".
>We just don't like the implications of the real meaning and look for ways around it.

Or, you know, the real meaning has not stood the test of time, and we should not hold centuries old texts as holy scriptures, like fundamentalists who try to hold close to the "original" intent?

Those guys (always guys) also had slaves and did "cruel and unusual punishments" to them on a whim, for another example...
Another question, how does it all work internally? Is it just an USB Hub? Would I be able, for example, to connect my main Laptop to the Superbook and use it as another screen+keyboard+mouse?
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And the company has no idea of whether the person being hire is as good as he pretends to be. This uncertainty goes both ways.