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Don't assume all HN users are narcissists and politically uninterested. I for one have very personal needs that are directly connected to what is going on politically and socially in the world.
Quite a good point, why would this be downvoted?
Instead of talking about setting safety and environmental impact boundaries (and allowing everything within them), people are screaming BAN FRACKING. But it gets worse. Instead of talking about banning specific resource extraction methods, people are talking about "community rights", which don't exist.

http://celdf.org/community-rights/

These people are ridiculous. Invoking the American revolution and then railing against "state and federal preemption" which was, in fact, very clearly set out by the Federalists who won most of what they wanted while writing the Constitution.

The states have all rights not explicitly given to the federal government in the constitution. Local communities are given all of their rights by the state. That's it. Trying to change that means burning down the constitution. Communities have no independent rights. They're clearly and deliberately misconstruing history to make woo woo "progressive" arguments.

The basic problem is that the activists are idiots who haven't taken the time or gotten the education to understand the problems they are trying to solve. National attention has no time for complex nuanced arguments, so the only arguments you hear are from fools. This applies to more or less every liberal cause in America, most of which I support in spirit.
In the short term, there's always a lot more risks in scraping an old system and spinning up a new one, especially in large complex organizations. However, in the long term you're really better off with modern systems.

So it really is a difficult trade off.
Well, if it's intellectual content you're after, the political environment of the United States in 2016 is a bad place to look in general; rare Pepes are just the cherry on top. (Oh, I suppose Gary Johnson must have a thought or two bouncing around in that rather square head of his, but he's so completely bereft of anything resembling rhetorical skill as to be not worth voting for even to make a point - can you honestly imagine the man at a UNSC meeting, or representing our nation to others? One shudders!)

I think that writing off the Pepe meme thing as "hate" and leaving it there is convenient, comforting, superficial, and insufficient to capture the essence of the matter. Since I no longer police my acquaintances for political compatibility or spend all my time inside a filter bubble, I've had the interesting opportunity to get to know a few Pepe posters. They're remarkable people, and from what I've been able to gather, fairly typical: young enough to enjoy drama and feel it strongly in their lives, thoughtful even if they haven't had the time or the scope to develop a broad and nuanced understanding of politics and ideologies, and very angry at the progressive left in power for what they perceive, I think accurately, to be its efforts to circumscribe for ideological reasons their thoughts, beliefs, words, actions, and opportunities. Pepe posters feel such effrontery is best met with loud, brash, insulting, and unstinting defiance. I feel it's best met with calm, thoughtful, reasoned, and discursive defiance. But I can and do respect the effectiveness of what they do, and they conversely seem to find it useful having an old guy around who's read books and thought thoughts they haven't yet found time for.

It is, of course, your prerogative to respond in whatever fashion you please to this analysis. I'm not asking you to feel sympathy for Pepe posters. They wouldn't want it even if you were inclined to extend it. I'm just providing a bit of insight into why they do what they do. Whether you're interested in understanding your political opponents, or would rather simply deride them in ignorance because they do not believe or behave as you do, is entirely for you to decide.
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How about engineering a society that is a bit kinder to everyone rather than inflicting poverty on anyone? It's also unjust for the 'burger flippers' who make your food to live in poverty.

We need creative types. Artists, musicians, historians etc are no less valuable than engineers. If the market thinks otherwise then the market is wrong.
While this is not yet officially out, since there was no announcement made, we're very close to official release. Be aware, that this may, or may not, use the images available right now, so hold your horses until the announcement is made (or accept the risk).

Regardless of that, I'd like to remind everyone that FreeBSD is not 'just another OS out there' but an important piece of technology powering lots of things we often use: from Sony's PlayStation and WhatsApp, through Netflix and Yahoo, to Juniper and PFSense networking gear and EMC storage and FreeNAS appliance - and many, many more!

So, have you donated yet? We need FreeBSD and FreeBSD needs your support!

https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/
Very refreshing compared to the usual negativity on here if you ask me.
Aren't most tweets? I recall seeing an unfiltered stream of live tweets from all over the world and the majority were incoherent garbage. I think it's the casual nature of twitter and the ridiculous length restrictions that prevent any meaningful discussion beyond short jokes and announcements.
Yes, you can debug on an FPGA first, for example, allowing you to put the hardware-equivalent of a printf statement in places where you need them.

Or, you can configure all of your flipflops into a barrel shift register, so you can read out their contents serially (and shift their contents back in circularly).

But there are many more techniques.
I've been using VJS for years and can testify to its performance and ease of use. It literally took no effort to install and use.
Could someone give this code a try to see if G++ will vectorize it's tree? If this is ordered to enhance cache hits for this data then you should see some serious performance with vectorization enabled IF g++ recognizes it.
Working in higher education, including 5 years of orientation, has led me to somewhat the opposite conclusion: That students need to stop thinking of their major as the most important determining factor in their career.

I watched the job landscape change substantially from the time people were at orientation to the time they walked across the commencement stage. The advice I wish I had imparted was to study something compelling and deeply important to the student (perhaps a mix of things, like liberal arts), but to also be mindful to learn life skills, from cooking to budgeting to time management to HTML.
Telekom are toying with (super) vectoring and g.fast to avoid having to roll out fiber to every household. I guess it makes financial sense because the are still moving the Network Access points closer to homes and these are usually connected with fibre. However this will work until 500-1000Mbps at best and probably only for a few people, so at some point they have to do FTTH especially because cable providers are already pushing 400Mbps in many places in Germany.

DNS.NET and Versatel (now 1&1) have their own fibre network in some areas of Berlin and they actually do FTTH if you are one of the lucky few. I live in a pretty dense and central area of Berlin and all i get is 50Mbps VDSL, because i want to avoid the cable providers that have an inferior network. For private usage it's still okay and i have access to 1Gbps at work, but i still can't wait for Vectoring to arrive.
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I'm usually in defense of titles, but I do think that a reasonable rule is, "No question-phrased titles unless the article concludes with a convincing answer one way or the other."
Ask this guy http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/rachel-preece/graham-short-t...
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Because HN was wrong about their guidelines preventing the inevitable decline of the community and as more people have gained the ability to downvote they just do it over anything they disagree with. I haven't even been here that long and I've noticed a pretty big increase in the frequency of this type of thing happening in less than a year.
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TPP negotiations aren't doing too well either... Only Japan seems gung-ho about jumping into that basket.

It's true an Asia deal is probably a bigger deal to the US, but not because Europe is unattractive but rather because they need to get in before China (which would explain why Japan is so eager despite it being unpopular with the citizenry)
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I feel like we are swapping cause and effect here.
That was a great hard scifi movie. I hope with that and The Martian, hard sci fi in film becomes very popular.
I am not sure that classification of philosophies and philosophers is of any use. What's more important is the principles formulated and less wrong generalizations about certain aspects of reality being made. It should be called Ideas, but idealism (the notion that there is nothing exist but Ideas) is as wrong as a disconnected from reality metaphysics.

So, the seers of Upanishads and non-lamaist sects of Buddhism (Hinayana), being seekers after truth with emphasis on seeing things as they are have described most significant principles of philosophy of the mind and moral philosophy something about 6 century BC, if we consider philosophy of the Buddha as culmination of that epoch.

There is the famous two volume work by Radhakrishnan which gives obviously a Hindu centered overview of the philosophy of Indian civilization. All the fundamental ideas are there, including the notion that all phenomena are devoid of any absolute essence, are mere appearances to the senses of different aspects of what they call the whole - Brahman.

Some later Buddhist sects have rejected the notion of Brahman and maintain that the real nature of all phenomena is void.

To put it simple - Hindus got the fundamental principles right few thousand years before West.
How does this machine compare to a modern cellphone?
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Well, at least when they play videogames they are not stealing cars or dealing drugs!
This is some pretty terrible journalism. They start out with a personal story in the lede that I assume is not related to the study and whose subject was probably not informed that he'd be called "less educated" without any sort of qualification. The conclusion the writer wanted to make (that the US economy is in danger because of a declining workforce) is not reflected in the study nor common sense and the writer had to resort to finding a random economist unaffiliated with the study to parrot their conclusion. This does not belong on HN
this article amounts to a form of cultural warfare. it's singling out an "out-group" (young male gamer nerds in this case) to ridicule for one of their cultural preferences and conflating that cultural preference with a huge complex of other underlying structural problems that make it difficult for _some_ of them to get started in a long term career path right away.

honestly this kind of thing sickens me. washington post should be ashamed.
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It's off topic in an article discussing non-college educated men. These people aren't even getting to the point of selecting a major.
People are doing this wrong for ages. It is brought up with every release. That will not change.

The only way to change it, is to adapt and change the release rollout process. If it would be really a big problem for the project, they would probably have done that a long time ago. Just my guess.
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I still use GUI's as a map for directory trees, but when I use the command line, I use Bash and Bash autocompletes command/file/directory names.

None of which should be taken as a claim that I am an expert computer user. GUI's and the command line place different cognitive demands on tasks and provide different efficiencies: it's harder to automate tasks with the GUI and it's hard to see the lay of the land on the command line.
For many years (in the 1980s), the Bogdanoffs claimed (for instance, in the back covers of their popular science books) to be "authentic geniuses", with combined IQs > 400 and two (2) PhD's each.

This was, obviously now, not true, at least for the "PhD" part of the claim, so at one point they had to try to pass PhDs for real. It took them quite a bit of time and effort, and this effort, as I had been told at the time the "affair" was unraveling by mathematicians who had been involved in this process, was to call famous scientists of their time over the phone asking them questions about the subject of their thesis (after all they were some sort of journalists so at least they knew how to ask questions), and transcribe the answers. Unfortunately they only understood the words of these conversations but not their meanings, which explains why their thesis can look like some genuine science if you look at the sentence level, but doesn't make any sense when you try to find any meaning in it.

Some recent discussion about the affair (in French): http://sciences.blogs.liberation.fr/2015/07/02/les-bogdanov-...

What's doubling truly sad in this story, IMHO, is that:

1) While the are obviously not the scientific geniuses they claim to be, they are even not good science popularisers, they are actually really bad.

2) There are still people, and not only people attracted by pseudoscience or the bizarre aspects of their personality, that take them seriously. I remember, for instance, that that have been interviewed in recent years on France Info (national public french information radio) about the Higgs boson discovery or their recent books.
I get x11 errors when attempting to launch on OS X 10.11

Anyone know a work around?
You're thinking of fitting the levels into the maximum number of pages that could fit into memory. That was hard, but had nothing to do with the CD capacity.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4yu2es/semile_...
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A recap of the replicability crisis in social psychology
Well as I see it there are only two possibilities:

a) They let their people vote on it before ratifying the finalised treaty (maybe let them even vote multiple times until the result is right, the EU likes doing that)

b) They know for some reason or another that they will be able to enact it (they control media, the courts and the men with guns which definitely helps)

How is it any different? Well both parties start out a negotiation not knowing what the other sides limits are in certain areas, having society not interfere allows you to not give away this information to the other side.

If the negotiators are acting in the interest of their own people then you could assume that they will know quite well how far they can go.

So hopefully the result of such a negotiation will be a treaty that is acceptable to your population and beneficial in the way you wanted it to be.

My problem is not that there are secret negotiations, but instead that it is an immense uphill battle against mainstream media and politicians to get them not to ratify a treaty they have negotiated.

In most cases they do not allow us to vote on it, and the media acts as if they are directly controlled by politicians. And if they let us vote they'll repeat it indefinitely until they get the result they want as I wrote before.

To me the EU acts like a dictatorship that monitors it's populations closely and responds (only where absolutely necessary and often with lies - see their lies that there definitely wont be an EU army before the Brexit vote) to ensure that they wont revolt. But they certainly have their goals and they try to bring them about no matter what. You cannot vote if you want to achieve this goal, they wont even tell you what their goal or vision exactly entails. (except for some utopian phantasy nonsense, but they've dialled down on that since it is obvious that no one buys it anymore)
First of all I think this article is completely delusional. I've yet to meet that many people who don't want a good job with good pay. The actual catastrophe that's happened is the massive loss of manufacturing. Vaclav Smil has said "In every society, manufacturing builds the lower middle class. If you give up manufacturing, you end up with haves and have-nots and you get social polarization. The whole lower middle class sinks."

And that's exactly what's happening. For all his faults (including mass manipulation and being a possibly-tyrannical demagogue) Trump is right about one thing - free trade is not always great and the loss of manufacturing was not "value added" for everyone in the US. But of course discussing this means opening up the whole argument about how economics is broken and you can't do that, as it would threaten stability too much. But anyone who looks into it can see it if they wish. Look into Jonathan Goldsmith's appearance on Charlie Rose when GATT (precursor to the WTO) was announced. He predicted the whole thing and what was going to happen. And he tried to warn us.

Link to video - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4PQrz8F0dBI

See 1 minuet or 3 minute mark
I don't quite understand, the FreeBSD site has version 12 available and listed as it's current release where as 11 is only at rc3, which is strange that 11 is clearly older than 12?

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/12.0-CURRENT/amd64/Latest/
Actually, the last thing we need is more mediocre, uninspired STEM graduates who joined these fields simply because their parents made them do it or because they expect to make big bucks.

While "following your dreams" needs to be tempered with a strong dose of reality, it really is important that young people discover their aptitudes and life-path. If that means getting a BA in literature and possibly floundering for a few years then so what? A well-rounded liberal arts education is a perfectly fine preparation for many jobs in the world of business. Do we really need to have college students reading and analyzing the insipid PMBOK instead of the great works of literature?
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Just by today, I've enhanced it to be much more convenient to profile and diagnose.
I hope it will be helpful to you and I am willing to hear all your comments. :)
> The only reason I and a lot of other people use Linux on desktops is because everything we work on runs on Linux servers

That may be true, but there are also a lot of people (myself included) that just prefer a Linux OS. I like having a choice of desktop environments. I like that a huge amount of software is freely available and just a "suda apt-get install" away. I like that there's no shitty bloat-ware on my systems.
The other part of my comment I didn't write because I thought it would basically be evident without spelling it out: problems like poverty and income inequality aren't solved by tech innovators.

The actual problems that do exist in the U.S and the rest of the developing world are social problems. No amount of big disruptive thinking (by tech folk) is going to solve them.

If you look at SV's attempt to solve medical problems, you start to see where regulation and oversight are necessary for the difficult problems. Then you see why large governments, large companies, and exceptionally smart people with the backing of those organizations are the ones who need to solve the problem.

On top of all that, there's so often no actual intent to solve those problems. Poverty in the US is a big problem because the people who are capable of solving it just don't care enough to. In the case of government, voters are too self interested in the short term to push for it - how many times do you see complaints about hard earned tax dollars being used for poor people?

Even when the tech people do try to solve a social problem because the public has decided to care about it, attempts are misled and ineffective. If you look at the problem of diversity, companies are tryin to solve their problems at demand side. Big companies compete for female engineers to boost their numbers and smaller companies can't match their offers. This looks good on Apple's diversity report, but the problem is disguised, not fixed. Actual solutions, like encouraging women to become interested in STEM when they're young are few and far between.

So yes, I'd like tech innovators to focus on solving non-problems with life enriching innovations (slack, twitch, twitter, facebook, steam, VR, AR, bluetooth audio, etc) then waste time on misguided attempts that are way out of range for them.
Adblock filter list that filtered entire websites for annoying features (full screen modals asking for email).
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I loved Quest for Glory (or Heroes Quest, as it was when my sister and I purchased the first one) when I was younger. We totally mini-maxed it, spamming "pick nose" and sneaking everywhere to max out our skills (and of course we were a thief, because they could do fight and do magic as well.)

What sticks with me, however, is how the story gave the player freedom while still remaining engaging (exactly the points the article makes). So-called computer RPGs focused on the most boring parts of role-playing---combat---and completely ignored the thing that makes RPGs what they are, the player's role in creating the story! Bards Tale and Wizardry games that are contemporaneous to Quest for Glory are decidedly weaker sauce. Games like Ultima that tried to create an open world mostly ended up filling that world with bland variations on the same theme, and lost any narrative drive through endless side quests. Although we ground like only kids with nothing better to do can, there was no need for excessive grinding in Quest for Glory. You could push the story forward fairly quickly, and every puzzle had multiple solutions.

Totally agreed with 32bitkid that Deus Ex is the closest contemporary game to Quest for Glory, combining strong narrative with player freedom.
What do you think of the tendency of publicly punishing high-ranking politicians and government employees for their private, legal sexual behavior? For examples, the resignation of David Petraeus and the censure of Mark Sanford.

Then there are the CEOs who are fired, err, "step down" for having an affair - which again, is entirely legal. For example, Ashley Madison's CEO Noel Biderman, and GE's CEO Jack Welch.

Plagiarism is not illegal. (Copyright infringement is illegal, but it's possible to plagiarize without infringing on copyright.)

What do you think of the trend in Germany of punishing high-ranking politicians for plagiarism in their published works?

Because it seems to me that the US tech industry is not all that unusual. I suspect it's more that we know it better because we're tech people.
I think you mean "mass flag videos", and yes it still seems to be an easy avenue for abuse
I use the zim notebook wiki. Physical Notebooks are great in that you can dump all your thoughts in it. So you can go into your next task clear headed. Unfortunately, I tend to misplace notebooks a lot.

Zim is quite flexible as in it can be used as a wiki or a to-do list. Bonus points for allowing nesting of tasks. I sync between laptops using Dropbox. I doubt it has a mobile option. This is the option closest to a notebook.

Zim or physical notebook, The most difficult thing is that we have to use the tool diligently to reap the benefits. One can often let the practice slide due to time/work pressure. If done properly, you realize how much of your cognitive processes are actually devoted to just remembering the list of things to do