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When was the last time you just called one of them? Or stopped by for a visit?

I apologize if I upset you by implying mass brainwashing...I just find it odd that many share the same reasoning.

In my personal opinion...social media furthers the disconnect from actual relationships and creates imaginary ones that are based on reading posts and looking at pictures but you never really get to see the real person.
"...it still advertises to octogenarian Colonels in Tunbridge Wells."

I'm merely curious - can you explain this reference to a US native?
It was a lovely design idea, but I found it distracting as I was reading. A bit like how a running video elsewhere on the page draws the eye, the cogs moving as I scrolled distracted from the text.

If they just were behind the title and opening paragraph, they would scroll out of view relatively quickly. You'd get the nice effect, but stop being distracted.
To be fair, it's because Clinton and her staff have called both publicly and privately for him to be executed, extrajudicially if need be.

I'd have a grudge too.
You can set up an application-specific password and limit its scope: https://blog.bitbucket.org/2016/06/06/app-passwords-bitbucke...
Not really relevant here, but "in camera" means literally in a room or chamber, and hence private. The modern word "camera" derives from the same word: early "cameras" like the camera obscura were literally rooms. Dark room in the case of camera obscura, which is also now a photography term with a different meaning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-space_optical_communicati...
Further, if you are doing a bunch of administrative tasks from the CLI, sudo will keep you authenticated. If you really want, you could even open up a root shell.

I think the real problem is that the Right Way(tm) to do things is completely non obvious to a linux novice. Looking back on my times starting out with linux (ubuntu 6.06), I remember a lot of similar frustrations. Really, there is no middle ground, you are either a novice or an expert, and bridging that gap is super challenging. The only real useful advice I ever received was to 1) learn the CLI, and don't assume that it is antiquated, 2) use linux for real tasks, don't just follow tutorials, and 3) If something isn't working the way you want it to, there is probably a way to change it.

Hopefully the author will use his frustrations as a learning experience, rather than a reason to leave the platform. The linux community could use more people like him.
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1. Because it makes him seem like a martyr to the cause without him actually having to do anything, just like when he implied he couldn't give a speech on the embassy balcony because Clinton's forces were about to kill him with a sniper rifle. (http://www.angrypatriotmovement.com/wikileaks-huge-hillary-a...) ...so he had his followers tune into a 3AM webcast instead, which ended up just being a promo sales pitch for his book. He is excellent at marketing.

2. The truth will not "come out regardless" if he was lying. It's very hard to prove a negative. Even if the embassy puts out an announcement saying "As far as we know, his internet is fine," Wikileaks can just say "The embassy is in cahoots with the Americans," or "It was cut earlier, and sources told me it was the gubbment." No one will care much at that point, his martyrdom point will have been made.
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And complete denial is even more confirmation, given her track record with lies. Remember when she told about how she landed under sniper fire in Bosnia and the entire thing was pure confabulation and she shook hands with a little girl on arrival?
> But that's the thing - temp labor is, by definition, disposable.

You're moving the goalposts. Your initial post, which I was responding to, said that companies treating their unskilled workers as disposable "doesn't pass the smell test." Now, when confronted with evidence, you claim that same treatment is "by definition." That's not very consistent.

> The links you provided - which read like propaganda, btw

So sorry to impinge on your bubble. Too bad I couldn't burst it.

> So it appears Amazon does struggle to get good help

How did you get there from that quote? That's not the only explanation for wanting employees that haven't been to prison, let alone the most likely one.

> and has systems set up that provide structure. Indeed, it's very controlling to the average information worker that comments on Hacker News, but just might work well within the confines of their warehouse.

These workers are people, and they should not be treated like unthinking machines.
i dont think that necessarily makes him 'pro trump'
You're right ! There are all sorts of examples of criminal grandmas - here's one I found http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Mona_Simpson


The point here is that the substance of the claims is not in dispute. It is well documented and acknowledged by the court. There are a myriad of these cases, such as where a father (Gary Johnson) was jailed for wishing happy birthday to his grown up son (http://www.essexlive.news/sons-slam-jailing-father-facebook-...).

There are multiple problems with UK secret courts and their draconian and excessive powers being wielded in venomous ways. The UK is not a safe place to have a dispute with petty public officials as they resort to these powers and others to attack those who fail to comply with 'right-think' or question authority.
What an excellent strategy to move conversation forward. Just take the peripheral argument, attack it, then act like that was the only argument ever presented.
But obviously this is only the case if they are faster.
If people start saying "we don't like this AMP thing, we'll make our pages fast on our own" then it won't be a symbol associated with things being faster, it will just be "some irrelevant google thing". But if people notice that everytime they click on one of those amp things it loads fast and all other stuff loads slow they'll of course remember that.
Because sometimes reporting can be harmful to children. Think about the sort of cases with abusive parents and relatives. It does no one any good for the details of those cases to be splashed over front page of the Sun.
Well they did say it would be unexpected.
Your [to Assange] is completely off base. Watching the interview excerpt (http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/vp-biden-on-russ...) he is clearly talking about Russia there. And he further says that he hopes the public won't know it when it happens, so it clearly wouldn't be referring to assassinating a public figure.
Ask HN: Could you recommend a charity?
I'm looking to donate a small sum of money. I'm looking for a charity that meets the following criteria:

1. Actually helps people in need.

2. Uses the money you donate towards helping people, not salaries and marketing.

3. Allows donating using PayPal/Google Checkout/Other digital payment option (I just don't trust IT volunteers with keeping my CC safe).

4. And finally, has to be non-naggy (i.e., the fact that I gave once does not mean you can spam my inbox with repeat requests).

Would appreciate your suggestions (and opinions of my criteria).
If it helps, I learned vim by following the most basic tutorial at first (vimtutor), learning how to navigate, save my changes, switch between command and insert mode, and not much more. I then forced myself to use it.

vim's defaults are, honestly, terrible. So you'll quickly run into lots of little frustrations. For each one, I'd look up potential solutions online, and if I could find a solution which was intelligible to me given my level of understanding of vim at the time, I'd use it.

Eventually, some of those solutions involved using plugins.

After a few months, I found myself culling plugins that I'd installed as I learned better solutions that either weren't intelligible to me earlier or were just too overwhelming. For instance, NERDTree is an early plugin I used, but I eventually reached a point where I never touched it, so I removed it.
>While it supposedly exists, I could not make f.lux work. This essentially prevents me from using my computer at all at night.

I'd recommend using redshift instead (http://jonls.dk/redshift/).
It's free software and does basically the same thing as f.lux.
People pitching "we're safer now than ever" do so to allay cable news and talk radio induced fears of crime rates and immigration.

There's an entirely different discussion to be had about existential threats to humanity, but

1. the majority of the populace is pre-occupied with fighting the cable news fear battle

2. the existential threats from antibiotic resistance, bioweapons and climate change require people to understand large numbers and dispersed threats. Humans tend to be bad at this on average.
I'm more than half convinced that the problem is with how these things are monetized. Basically, I think the per-view/per-click model of profit is disastrous.

I value a well-researched, well-analyzed, 3000 word Guardian piece far more than a 200 word CNN piece. But if I click through one of the former and three of the latter, I'm conveying (roughly) three times the value to CNN. And if I click a link, the 'transaction' is made (for CPC, at least); it doesn't matter if I hate the piece and click away.

This has left us in a place where you can either be niche (producing high user value) or manipulative (producing high user volume). Both interfere with detailed, consensus-reality news. Thoughtful, public-interest journalism in the vein of Murrow is the lowest-profit option for embedded advertising.

We've incentivized for a news model which is not just hostile to society, but hostile to users. I don't want my how-to guides to come as slideshows with slow page refreshes between panels, but that's what I get. And I don't want my news to come as hyperbolic fear-mongering with clickbait headlines, but that's also what I get.

So I think we're a little doomed, because humans inherently respond to drama and uncertainty, so we get a race to the bottom. But not truly doomed - I value lots of other things as well, and it's the monetization model that emphasizes our baser instincts. We don't need to nobly abandon market forces, just find a way to monetize that's based on something deeper than "pages loaded".
Yes still hiring for iOS.
But.... Imo. Top Of Mind did not last at all. Sure for 2 weeks we talked about it. But "it" was the movie. Not the fact destruction is coming.
I got bitten by this last week and again today. I had previously configured Windows 10 Pro's custom restart time such that my machine would not restart until x days later at a specific time if there were pending updates.

I've always kept on top of this every day and check each day to see if there are any pending updates and have always installed these updates within 12-24hrs of them appearing, or nudging back the restart time by a day or so if it's not been convenient. This approach has worked fine for months....until just recently.

In a recent update the "Use a custom restart time" feature has been disabled and all I can do now is specify my "Active Hours".

I even had the Local GP setting you suggested configured as well.....but Windows 10 really needed to reboot my PC, ignoring my "Active Hours" and any and all of the Local GP settings you can throw at it. Twice in the past seven days I've been given the 20 minute warning and there is damn all you can do about it....despite all of these workarounds and overrides.

In all fairness I think the author of the article has probably just had it up to the back teeth with Windows 10 and the seemingly new ways it finds to totally fuck up your working day. I've been a MS developer for 20 years, I really like Windows 10 but I've gotten pretty close to the author's levels of exasperation myself over the past few days with some of its control freakery.
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I have little work experience (mostly academic), so bear with me. Maybe go to the higher ups with this and tell them that you are willing to put the extra hours in but expect to be compensated? Maybe they'll tell you to go for it maybe they'll tell you to slow down for a while. Either way you get an answer and some rational expectations about the future about your compensation and appreciation as an employee.

Lots of negativity and hostility here to the OP btw. Op might do us well to give us some more info (big corp or startup for example?)
I was under the impression that voting rings and whatnot are already something that dang and the other mods watch out for; we as users don't need to see who downvotes us. If we could see identifiable information about downvotes, it would be too tempting to downvote THEM out of revenge.

I don't think I would do such a thing, but I don't even want to have such knowledge color my reading of future comments. Part of the intention of HN is that we read and vote on comments for their merits and contribution to a discussion -- even if we don't always agree with the author -- and I would not want to discount someone's writing just because they downvoted something I wrote.

Maybe if there were a one-way hash of usernames we could see for who downvotes, we could have public insight into the insight of voter rings ("____ has downvoted my comments 3000% more than anyone else ...") without the chance of contaminating our perception of others' discourse, but I doubt that we have better info than the mods already have about posters.
Assange actually has said that he has info on Trump, however, the info is nothing worse than what Trump already says publicly. (http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/08/27/wikileaks-info-dona...)
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This seems to be an issue with any type of site. I had a similar problem with Reddit. I found that eventually people lose interest. At the end of the day losing internet points isnt the end of the world.
>. when a single person down-votes another persons comments in mass in a short period of time, or on a sustained basis. Revenge down-voting, that is.

You are assuming a person's motives based only on behavior.
If hundreds of pieces of direct evidence don't suffice, then I'm not sure what does. The Clinton Foundation has done countless extremely illegal and unethical things. Between CTR, the Bernie fiasco, the fake Craigslist ads, the "public and private" positions, I'm not sure how you can say that HRC isn't trying to create an alternate reality.
Sudo timeouts can be changed:http://lifehacker.com/make-sudo-sessions-last-longer-in-linu...

Hardware support can be a genuine issue. The fault lies with Logictech in this case. If I was an arrogant Linux-head, I'd probably say that your time is better spent configuring i3/emacs/vim than getting their latest shiny toy working.
As mentioned–you can't, but I noticed that if you have an iPhone with 3D touch (6S or 7) you can skip the AMP page and go directly to the real website by hard-pressing the link. That brings up the preview modal thing, which you can hard press again to make full screen.
Wouldn't "copied" be more appropriate? Unless the spider has patented or copyrighted the genes.
> - Speak at local user group meetings. Most of my local meet ups are constantly calling for speakers

Our local python user group regularly attracts 100+ people crowds and they always have space for speakers. If you want to try dipping your toe, it's hard to screw up a 5 minute talk.
I think Detroit and other manufactures are fearful of automation. If you ask them what the future looks like its driving assist technology. Fully automated driving kills the emotional experience that is used to sell cars.
It's an oversimplification. The embassy is not Ecuadorian soil. But the embassy itself is inviolable, and while that privilege is not absolute (it has been routinely broken by countries around the world), violating it is a big deal, which is why the UK hasn't simply hauled Assange out.

But no, Ecuador does not have a vote in whether Assange can be extradited. The UK and Sweden do because they are both parties to a treaty that says they do.
>the 'rape victim' still did not mind having dinner with him afterwards

>the fact that they'd had intercourse several times before

I don't care what you think about this specific case, but statements like these show a great deal of ignorance about how most sex crimes happen and the relationship between the abuser and the victim.
Ok, thank you for the information.

> That is assuming the current system is not good enough.

Where I am, the current system seems sorely lacking, for example regarding the number of homeless, social mobility, existing public infrastructure, education, healthcare...

> Generally, migrants move to countries with opportunities.

Apparently 10% of unemployment is enough of an opportunity for migrant going to Western Europe (Spain: 22.7%, France: 10.5%, Italy: 12.4%, Greece: 25.6, Portugal: 13%...). But I think the migrants going in those countries are mostly refugees, which might not stay long term, so not providing the economic benefits you talked about.

Edit:

So, it is possible that the afflux of refugees in Western Europe will cause a diminution of social benefits since it would strain even more a failing system and not provide any long term economic benefit since they would have gone back home, once the crisis finished (and I hope it will end before long).

Edit II: assuming, of course, that the majority of migrants arriving in Europe are refugees, which seems to be supported by the figures provided by the documents ("The European Union also received
an unparalleled number of refugees recently—about
1.25 million first-time asylum " p. 14).
> I'd suggest you read actual books on personal finance and investment.

Oh boy have I ever. And not a word was retained. Total gibberish. No idea how I can code but not understand finance.

Honestly, I don't have the time to 'get into' finance beyond reading up a couple hours a week. Just need a simple guide, my only goal is to leave my money somewhere for 20 years and not touch it while it grows so I can make $20k/year off my investments eventually. Not looking to day trade or do any of that. Been looking at Canadian Couch Potato (I'm in Canada) and Mr Money Moustache.

I don't have any lofty aspirations. I only want this apartment to be paid off for free every month, at which point I'll have the freedom to wake up every day and do whatever I want.
I once thought the same thing. Then I started working with in the terminal environment on a regular basis. It forced me to learn vim as an IDE. I'm surprised to say that once I got in a groove with it I find regular text editors painfully slow in comparison. I employ vim bindings to intellij my Web browser and anywhere else possible. I challenge you to watch this video, spend a few days trying it out and report back to this comment https://youtu.be/5r6yzFEXajQ
Aluminum is highly recyclable (although energy-intensive). I personally wouldn't assume there's less environmental impact. The structure of a hypothetical ceramic iPhone case would be different enough to make it hard to asses this claim based on materials alone.
Anecdotally, this is exactly the sort of thing I have never needed while using vim on a server. Just let me modify content in the word hole...
I use https://github.com/jonls/redshift on Linux instead of f.lux. Installing with "sudo apt install redshift-gtk" should get desktop integration (I don't run Mint, but it works great on stock Ubuntu).
I had over 100+ domains with StartSSL's free service. They worked for my needs. Revocation cost a lot of money for something that was not my fault.
Tunbridge Wells is a well-to-do town in Kent, southeast of London. Octogenarian = > 80 years old. So I think what he means by this phrase is "typical retired conservative voter: wealthy with traditional views".
But it is not part of the guest country. So Assange is still residing in England, not in Ecuador.
For me, intent. Saying that buying the drive is a political act is a recognition that there are consequences to the system that makes it available. But there's not necessarily any intent to engage with those consequences when a drive is purchased.

Writing the manufacturer a letter questioning their practices would be activism, it is done with the intent to change the consequences. I guess you could also engage with the intent to prevent change.
I'd also recommend getting locked in the solitary confinement cell for a few minutes at Alcatraz, it's quite an experience (though it certainly takes a bit of trust to get over the fear that they won't let you out).
You should check out effective altruism

https://www.effectivealtruism.org/

Focus on donating to high impact charities that use the money effectively
Solving energy storage on that level is a non-trivial task. People don't understand just how energy-dense liquid and solid fuels are, but you essentially need geological-scale solutions in order to replace them (pumped-storage hydro or compressed-air in deep caverns). Those require specific geological formations and in the case of pumped-storage hydro has a pretty negative environmental footprint. You take a mountain range and you flood it and drain it on a daily basis, anything that used to be there is now underwater half the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...

There is about 740 TWh of pumped-storage capacity available worldwide. If we gave every single US household a Tesla Powerwall (6.4 KWh) it would add up to 0.7936 TWh of capacity. If we keep the US average of 2.55 people per household and scale that up to the 7.4 billion people worldwide (2.89 billion households) that's still only 18.49 TWh. One per person worldwide, 44.8 TWh. Maybe double that if we give every person on the planet an electric car that's tied into the grid too.

So if we gave every person a Powerwall, that's 6% of the presently extant pumped-storage capacity. And it's certainly not like we've made any sort of systematic attempt to fully exploit pumped storage, if we are doing worldwide solutions then we can go a lot farther on the other side of the equation too.

Again, people vastly underestimate just how great liquid fuels are at storing energy in comparison to how shitty batteries are. We're talking about liquid fuels having more than 100x the energy density of a lithium-ion battery here. Batteries are convenient from a design perspective but they are wildly inefficient from a density perspective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density

If anything, the advent of cheap clean electricity from nuclear should shift us toward synthetic liquid fuels for the energy density involved. There's nothing stopping you from pulling carbon out of the air and synthesizing it back into a long-chain hydrocarbon. It's also significantly cleaner than fossil-derived fuel.

The Fischer-Tropsch process has been around for a century and there's lots of neat modern tweaks to it. It just takes a lot of energy (more than you get out of it obviously) but if we have lots of nuclear power then why not use it as a dense energy-store over batteries? It saves us a heck of a lot of rebuilding infrastructure too.
You mean Elm?
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