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For a big conference (as this seems to be), yes, definitely. Partly because conferences can sadly be quite risk averse, but also because presenting is a real skill, and assuming you're already great at it and jumping in at the deep end won't help anybody.

If you are looking to get into public speaking there are no shortage of meetups desperate to get speakers booked in, on any topic you like, in almost every city in the world (try meetup.com). Once you've done one or two you'll hopefully have some video of you usefully presenting complex ideas to an audience. From there getting into a conference gets drastically easier. Spend a little time and start with that. Having some initial visibility before jumping straight to huge international conference scale is typically a requirement, and a pretty reasonable one.

I don't want to put people off public speaking; it's super rewarding professionally and personally, and we as an industry do desperately need to hear a wide variety of ideas from as many people as possible.

It's not immediately easy though, just because you're a great developer/designer/PM/other. It's famously scary, and a quite substantial skill in itself, and if you jump from zero experience to trying to present hard concepts to an audience of hundreds of people who are paying hundreds of dollars, you'll struggle, and it won't do you or your audience or your confidence any good.

Spend a little time warming up. If you're already great, waiting a month and talking at a local meetup first will just be extra practice. If you're not, you'll want to find that out in a small friendly room of nice people, not on a huge stage in a vast auditorium live streamed around the world.
What's your proposed fix for establishing privacy from police at borders in all industrialized nations despite lack of voters or media campaign backing you? Cuz I call bullshit on that.
I don't believe Hillary is involved in this. What possible benefit does it provide to her? He obviously still has communications because he's out on the Internet claiming he has no Internet access.
Similarly, I use mobile FireFox and would LOVE to know how to reflow text. That was my all-time favorite feature in any phone browser I've ever used, but the last browser I had access to with auto text reflow was the Silk browser on an original Kindle Fire.

How can I make this happen on mobile FireFox?
The industry did not jump from dumb phones to iPhone. Blackberry pioneered the market and had a stranglehold on it until Apple came along and stomped them.
I'm confused why you're trying to educate me about Arch. And you're confusing things (maybe you think of Gentoo? That one is "mostly from source, can support binaries").

Yes, ABS is used to build binary Arch Linux packages from sources. But that's unrelated. Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, RedHat, Suse - all of these do the same: Grab the sources, build binary packages. Whether you're using ABS or build rpms from a specfile doesn't matter for the discussion about upstream's (lack of!) responsibility to provide binary packages for random distributions.

So yes .. Arch is, for the sake of this discussion, working exactly like Debian/Fedora/Suse etc: The distribution (pick any from that list or any major distribution you can come up with) takes the pinta sources and builds a package from that. The end user installs a (binary) package using the distribution's package management facilities without ever touching the pinta source. The package comes directly from the distribution's infrastructure and not pinta's project site.
He's gotta sleep every once in a while.
Or they don't have anything of value that they haven't released. The idea that's he's sitting on something valuable to protect himself seems questionable to me considering he's pretty much a prisoner in an embassy for the forseeable future. I suspect Assange's ego is way to big for him to sit on anything 'juicy' for very long. He needs to keep himself and wikileaks relevant.

Also they have the ability to spread information as they see fit. See his various leaks for example. Assange isn't hosting an ftp for everyone at the embassy. This stuff goes out via torrents, mailed drives to journalists, and via Assange's army of helpers.
The only explanation is that the revelations are recent. We won't know until (if) it's released.
I'm not aware of its early history. Which were the ones that pulled it off first?
This works well for the those rare people with the luxury over control of those settings in their workplace.

I actually like the Automatic Update feature. I don't need to remember to run updates myself all the time. That said, I've been bitten by an hour-long unusable computer scenario and it's been a bummer, to say the least.
Assuming Assange is free and living.
Try out Vim Adventures to get some basic commands down. Then find Vim emulation for your editor of choice. Leave it in insert mode as much as you need at first. Slowly you'll start using more Vim commands. In a while you'll wonder how you ever edited without it.
Well it looks to me like 1980 is a mirror of 201x.

Low valuations vs super high valuations. Brash and hawkish central bankers vs anxious and dovish central bankers. 20% vs negative yields. Nobody even considering financial investments vs E-trade babies. Bruce Springsteen vs 20-something hedgies. Lowered debt (because of 60s and 70s inflation) vs record debt. Fear of inflation vs pining for inflation.

Why not follow the analogy? In 1980 people were lining up for gold when they should have been buying stocks and paper. Why not put 5% of your savings in gold? Like coins or GLD or something.
How about Hillary Clinton literally saying "Can't we just drone this guy?" [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/782906224937410562
Just paid 3.5 euros and haven't got the book, site said page doesn't work :(

My e-mail is sorhed at gmail
I think it's more "a paid / sponsored conference isn't the best place to get presentation experience". Especially when you have a plethora of experienced presenters to choose from.
Keep in mind that young is relative. In a field that still uses software daily originating from the 60's, 3 and a half years is very young.
They can't possibly isolate it to just Assange, so it must be the whole embassy.

My money is on this being an errant backhoe or similar, and Assange is just turning it into a big deal because he can.
People living in times of peace have a distorted reality field where they believe things are about to get them and the end of times is imminent. When you look at actual data, none of these are true.
How much is a 4G dataplan in London? Even when he uses 100GB that should be payable by them. Is that blocked as well? Then they have to block out that area, and that won't go unnoticed.
Most people will bomb their first conference talk (I'm sure I did). It's best to get that experience out of the way at a smaller venue, or even get some practice recording talks or podcasts for a blog before doing it in front of a huge live audience.
Well, 12 hours have passed and no one is dead or imprisoned, so more 4chan lolz here it seems. No one in their right mind working for an intelligence agency would leak on such a public forum. The risk would be too great.
I feel that sometimes I'm pro containers, and sometimes I'm very much against them. Docker does make deployments and upgrades very easy once you have the initial infrastructure set up, and you can deploy applications directly from upstream as "units" so that each deployment is exactly what you want; deploying containers helps prevent hosts from differentiating too much.

If you have the infrastructure in place to rebuild your virtual machines though, containers offer little benefit other than perhaps not having to package your software.

At work we're mostly deploying docker containers using puppet, and often when docker fails to work, I can just obliterate everything and run puppet once to re-download images and set up everything again. I would not trust docker to manage any data that I can not recover from elsewhere.

My biggest gripe is that configuration management feels like an unsolved problem. Most examples I see on the web seem to simply ignore it, or do the usual "mount a host directory inside a container" thing which has issues with file permissions and host/container UIDs clashing, and just feels inelegant.

I'm also developing a dislike of Docker on account of it simply failing to work at times for no discernible reason, and having stupid issues like IPv6 simply not working correctly.[1] It's also rather inelegant when used on a systemd-based host because it wants to reimplement most systemd functionality.

I'm still waiting for rkt to mature a bit, maybe it will be better.

[1] https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/2174
Not necessarily. If she is fearful of very damaging leaks in the pipeline, Clinton would want to make sure that, at the very least, they don't come out through Wikileaks, which has a 100% track record of real leaks and can't be denied.
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So, why does this need to be so secret?

Also, in what sense is it secret? Is there some punishment, the affected grandmother is facing for talking to the media about the case?
There is, but like all of the other wikileaks 'scandals' there's nothing there when you actually look at the context. She said it as a joke, got the room to laugh, and moved on. Read the sources, there is really nothing to these leaks.

edit with tweet in question: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/782906224937410562

edit2: Notice the colorful language: she "openly inquired" instead of "joked". The laughter "died" when she "kept talking in a terse manner". It's all doublespeak.
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To clarify: there are valid arguments against immigration and there are especially valid criticisms on how immigration is handled (e.g. I would argue the German approach has for a long time largely consisted of hoping they either go away or magically assimilate on their own). But any argument that is based either on the requirement for immigrants to abandon their entire identity or on ethnicity alone is blatantly xenophobic and dehumanizing.
Yeah, because killing Assange would re-hide the documents. Brilliant.

I'm sure they wouldn't shed any tears but it's unlikely they'll try to draw more attention to themselves.

There's really only one group large enough to do what they want, damn the consequences.
So many of these articles never cover what 'good' looks like, only bad. What does their perfect pitch look like? Which abstracts blew them away? What topic surprised them most (in a good way)?

Both good and bad examples are important, but articles like this that include only the rejected outlines just feels quite discouraging.
This is indeed the trouble here. Because the family courts are (for some very good reasons, like protection of children) held _in camera_, (which counterintuitively for english speakers means no cameras, nor direct reporting allowed), we don't have many details. This is of course something which we might be able to fix better with newer human-information technology approaches, or more oprn meta-processes regarding feedback loops for justice. But, it's a torny problem. We used to trust the authorities. Often, they mean well, but they can be corrupted by specific interests in specific cases (rich people networks), or make grave errors due to institutional cultural corruption.
The ISP could do it in theory with filtering based on traffic patterns. The use of cryptography in the embassy plus where the normal traffic was going would determine how effective it was in terms of just hitting him.
Which is exactly why I deplore the term "terrorist". The U.S. throws the term terrorist around with reckless abandon while proudly parading its strategy of "Shock and Awe"[1] and weapons like the "Daisy Cutter"[2] around on CNN. How are those two examples anything other than naked attempts to instill terror in it's enemies???

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_and_awe

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLU-82
A lot of the comments here are complaining about the last point in the article (the n00b), asking how on earth you get started if you have to have presented before in order to present. The article is telling you exactly how to do that:

- Speak at local user group meetings. Most of my local meet ups are constantly calling for speakers, and it's an excellent way to get practice at presenting in a lower stress environment. It's not always small audiences either, I've seen and given talks with 50 or more attendees at a local meet up. As for getting accepted, organizers are always in need of talks, and organizers are not getting 6 submissions per month, they're usually lucky if they can fill every month with a talk, so you're much more likely to be accepted.

- Maintain a blog. Writing articles on your blog is practice for writing a talk, and gives you a steady stream of ideas that can be turned into a presentation fairly easily.

I'm going to add a couple more:

- Give a lightning talk at conferences you attend. As well as giving you practice, you are also visible to all the attendees, including people who will be selecting talks at future conferences you submit to.

- Submit to smaller, more focused or more local conferences. You can't expect to be accepted at huge popular conferences speaking in front of hundreds of people on your first try. Submitting to more focused conferences gives you a better chance of being accepted.

These steps aren't going to make it so that you're immediately accepted at large conferences, but they give you the start the article is claiming you need. And finally, if you're rejected, don't give up. Conferences do take chances on new speakers (although probably not all new speakers who submit a talk), and being rejected doesn't mean your talk is bad, or that your skills are bad, just that you didn't get it this time.
Yeah, the best way to cure a flu is to shoot yourself in the head.
I was genuinely alarmed when it came out that Facebook use averages 50 minutes/day. I have trouble believing that it can possibly be good for the world to have that number rise.

More broadly, the best thing I've done for my focus and mental health is slowing and controlling my information intake. Disabling push notifications, choosing aggregators over direct feeds, and reading international sites for domestic news have all helped reduce and refine my intake. Beyond technical approaches, I've pushed news out of my social media feeds and self-imposed a ban on on-going "personal drama" news stories (Casey Anthony, Oscar Pistorius, etc).

This has been good in itself, and has also come with surprising side benefits. I read more long-form content, not by force of will but because I have less occupying my 'media consumption' time. I also consume more "pre-digested" stories - that can lead to spin issues, but it also cuts down on emotional immediacy. I'd rather go through an interesting historical account of a crime than hear about every stage of the unfolding investigation.

I've come to value "no new inputs" time more than almost all of my active input stretches. I can't overstate the value of that processing time.
Unlikely, there are clearly moves being made today against Russian-backed and allegedly Russian-backed propaganda outfits. RT just had its bank accounts frozen in the UK as well. Also, have you ever heard of LTE?
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I honestly believe this is a routine last-mile internet outage (they happen with some frequency!) that paranoid people are seizing on as some big conspiracy.
In my (Western European!) country, a women was just arrested after being convicted in 2000. I don't know the Swedish legal system, but it doesn't surprise me that such a thorny issue takes a long time.
Very true, I am just worried, and clearly not thinking completely rationally.

I guess time will tell.
Well, modern carts like 3DS are quite different from old cart systems in the sense that they are handled more like storage devices than extension of the memory. I think GBA was the last system that allowed for example running code directly from the cart, without loading it first to RAM.
The hardware list should be correct. The ARM machines you linked are Acer Chromebooks 13s (CB5-311), not Chromebook 11s. The 2016 11s are Intel Bay Trail, and supported.

GalliumOS has good-to-very-good support for almost all Intel Chromebooks, but does not support any ARM models yet.

GalliumOS works very well on the 2015 Pixels. It was a lot of work to get there.

And as with all Linux laptops throughout history, you should definitely check the hardware compatibility list first.
First off, you can't talk 'to a company', but will need a specific idea on who's the person / function you want to get feedback from. Companies aren't people ;)

Cold email / LinkedIn should actually work fairly well for this. If it doesn't, your approach might not be specific enough, the person you're targeting might not be the right person OR your problem hypothesis is flawed.

Re: general approach, I've seen great response rates with a template like this one below.

Hi <NAME>

It looks like you’re an expert on <SPECIFIC FIELD YOU’RE SOLVING A PROBLEM FOR> - I would love to get your opinion on something I’ve been working on.

<ONE SENTENCE TEASER>

I’m not looking to sell anything at this point, but would love to understand if something like this would actually help you with your job.
I don’t want to build the wrong thing!

Would you be willing to hop on a brief call with me sometime in the next week? This would only take a few minutes and if we’re onto something, you’d be the first to know about it.

Best,
X
I agree and then I got a little mad. My version 1 is outdated and the updated ebook is a full price cost for me. Why are some ebook companies charging full price for revisions of books purchased?
> this is a global phenomena and needs to be seen in that perspective

You are correct that it's global, though like many negative-cultural things, America is currently clearly "leading" the way, and the west of the developed world is trailing far behind, though, unfortunately, they are trying to catch up.
Ask HN: Advice on leaving a company
Hi guys. I'm a Venezuelan guy who's working for a company in the UK. This company pays me 150 dollars per month for doing stuff for them using PHP, Javascript and frameworks like AngularJS and also correcting SQL Server scripts.

Unfortunately there many things I strongly dislike about the company; among which are:

- Lack of clear objectives: There is more than one manager for every project and there are conflicting orders among managers

- Working extra hours without pay; this is something that happens a lot with urgent tasks however, I would expect a least a pay for this.

- Bureaucracy... A lot of it; decisions can take a long time to be enforced, even though there are like 25 people working there.

- I sometimes have to work in 5 projects at the same time; and all with deadlines for the same day.

- Low pay... Like I said, 150 dollars.

I haven't left yet because:

- Fear of failure, this is something I admit; I might have impostor syndrome because many times I really don't feel qualified for job openings; I applied to this one although I didn't feel qualified either.

- Situation of my country; since I don't have savings because I spend most of my salary buying food and the inflation here is massive so normally when leaving a job you'd need to have at least what's necessary to live for 3 months.

- I have had suicidal thoughts recently; I know this is personal, but it's good to put it because I need you guys to have the whole context of the situation. I'm looking for professional help on this though

What I'm thinking of is maybe using a freelancer page like Upwork or Freelancer, however I see many clients wanting websites to be done in one day or things like that and I'm worried this is the trend.

What do you guys suggest me to do?

I really hope I don't sound like a whiny person. Thank you so much in advance for your replies
He is only a loser because he had an unreasonable goal: "I want hundreds of thousands of pounds/dollars, for a showerthought and to control the production of an easily copyable device with mere pennies of raw materials in it"

If he had a reasonable goal like "I want a bunch of retractable selfie sticks" then he would be a winner too.

He has lost nothing and now can buy selfie sticks for $10. Why doesn't buy a bunch and put his logo on them and resell them for $30?
>Yeah, because killing Assange would re-hide the documents.

Did this stop Putin from murdering x amount of journalists? I suspect chilling speech is the ultimate goal and some petty revenge as well. Also maintaining the perception of being a "strong man" ruler who does whatever he wants.

>There's really only one group large enough to do what they want

I think you're vastly underestimate the intelligence agencies of many countries here. The CIA bogeyman gets you instant upvotes on reddit/HN but the reality is that the top 30 or so nations have impressive intelligence organizations with far reaching abilities. Cutting an internet line at an embassy in London isn't exactly the moon landing here.

Until we hear some technical details of some vast and highly technical attack that only the US can perform, I'll remain skeptical of such claims. The reality is that cutting or DDOS'ing lines is a trivial attack. This isn't Stuxnet and you guys know it.
Problems related to data science mostly. Developers, Product Managers, Marketing departments are going to benefit from this. What do you suggest should I talk to people who are decision makers or someone who is going to benefit from it directly?
Yes, sources matter if all you do is to look at the information and it's source. But if you look at the information and you can find independent verification of rejection of the information then you can form a conclusion that is a lot stronger than just speculation based on info+source.

Possible facts:

Assange has had his internet access shut down (probably true)

Assange has been extradited (status unknown at this point, you seem to want to discredit it based on the source I simply withhold my judgment until there is more information about this)
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Definitely most likely.
That may be, but it's tough to use a customized vim on your local machine, and then switch to a stock install on a server somewhere, no?