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Absolute travesty that the immense amateur translation scene wasn't mentioned in the article. Chinese web novels that are 1000+ chapters long, with around 2000 characters per chapter, are being actively translated by a growing translation community.

If you like flat characters and lot's of humor and adventure, you should check out /r/noveltranslations
California already removed the death penalty in 1972 then later reinstated it. This resulted in killers like Charles Mason being relieved from execution and denying many victim's family member from obtaining a measure of justice they wanted.

Since being reinstated only 13 people have been executed. And none in the past 10 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Californ...
Best practices for documenting electronics projects for the community
I used a Linux desktop (Ubuntu, specifically) for a few months at work this year, but ended up switching back to OS X. The number of basic, table-stakes stuff that was still utterly broken in day-to-day usage was astounding.

(Since someone will inevitably ask, because they personally never have any issues: off the top of my head: the barely-adequate Alfred replacement forgot its keybinding on the daily. Unity's hotcorners would stop working randomly until I cleared and reset them in the prefs. Mouse acceleration was a disaster on my bluetooth trackpad so I wrote a bunch of calls to the synaptics command line util to reset it to something close to reasonable -- but it would randomly reset and I'd have to re-run the script. HiDPI support is a random mess of things working well or appallingly depending on author, toolkit, time of day, and orientation of the sun. The typography situation is awful -- every third person will point you at a different guide to "fixing" it, but they just result in different kinds of awful. The GUI would hard-lock occasionally and no amount of keyboard poking would get me to a TTY I could reboot from -- seemed to be something Systemd was doing. Getting simple system logs is cryptic bullshit thanks to Systemd's binary mess now, naturally. Etc, etc. I could go on for days.)
One counter to this argument is that, while the CPU has thousands of cycles to do compression while an old 5400 RPM spinning rust drive seeks or writes, a modern SSD like the new Samsung 960 Pro can write data at 2100 MB/s, giving the CPU perhaps one cycle per byte, which makes compression difficult.

The counter to my counter, of course, is that specialized silicon for compression can easily keep up with even these speeds. In fact, Sandforce SSD controllers build in compression to boost read and write speeds!
... in very small area, namely the us.
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You bring up a very good point that I hadn't really thought of before ("... is it reasonable to care about anyone who can't be bothered with MX records?") but that has caused me to stop and think.

I manage e-mail systems with thousands of users and a fair number of domains as well. In most cases, I also manage the authoritative DNS servers for these domains so I make sure that all the appropriate records (MX, TXTs for SPF, DKIM, etc.) are set up properly.

You're right, though. If example.com hasn't bothered setting up an MX record for example.com -- even if mail is hosted on the same machine as identified in the A RR -- they probably aren't worth worrying about. It seems reasonable to conclude that they really aren't too concerned about being able to receive mail.
Stop trolling, please. It's a 53.6Wh battery.
As I said previously, someone needs to bring negligence suits against some IoT vendors, wholesalers, and retailers. Start with the retailers, like Amazon. They'll find the supply chain for you as they try to pass the buck. It worked with hoverboards.

There's a problem at the China end with crap low-end devices driving out the good ones. Here's a good example: solid state relays, useful little devices for safely switching AC power with a logic level signal. Look at this Fotek solid state relay on Amazon.[1] That's a counterfeit. Fake manufacturer name. Fake UL and CE marks. Here's UL's warning notice on counterfeit Fotek solid state relays, and how to recognize fakes.[2] There are lots of unhappy customers; the fake ones have been reported to overheat, melt, or stick in the ON condition. Every Fotek relay on Amazon that I can find is fake.

The fakes are real solid state relays with grossly exaggerated power ratings. For real ones, cost goes up with power. The fakes all cost about the same regardless of nameplate power rating. Here's an especially bad one: a "100 amp" version.[3] The real Fotek, in Taiwan, doesn't even make a 100 amp version in that form factor - the terminals aren't big enough for 100 amps.

The result is that nobody is selling legit solid state relays on Amazon. They exist; you can buy them through Digi-Key or Mouser. They cost about 2.5x the fake price. But Amazon has been totally conned. (The ones on eBay are fake, too.) Worse, if you're a legit solid state relay maker in China, you have a hard time selling. The counterfeits have pushed the price down too far.

Back to hoverboards. There are now UL-approved hoverboards. They don't catch fire. Heavy pressure on China suppliers worked. That needs to happen with insecure IoT devices.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Frentaly-24V-380V-Solidstate-Arduino-...
[2] http://www.ul.com/newsroom/publicnotices/ul-warns-of-solid-s...
[3] https://www.amazon.com/Industrial-FOTEK-Protective-SSR-100DA...
what a monumental shit this guy is... google keep hitting low and low. pity.
I run a rival site to these. Can you email me a description of what this kind of plugin would do? (support@pinboard.in)
>Google management just publicly overrode them regarding an Apple vulnerability a week or so ago.

Don't remember this. Can someone point me to a link?
How is that a major concern for data centers? I thought drives typically stayed in a data center machine until they died too. And even if you were swapping them around, you'd only have a requirement for a certain newer OS, not the exact same physical hardware.
Cool, I'll take a look. I've evaluated a couple identity management solutions, but for the most part we don't need it. We have an AD/ADFS/SAML/etc... setup that works great for the most part.

I just want to avoid paying the stupid premium on stuff like the enterprise version of Slack just for AD integration.
the master branch of sel4 is always passing verification, for the verified platform: armv7-a on a Sabre Lite.

the x86_64 verification is coming out soon according to the roadmap.
Specifically, you need uMatrix. I use uBlock Origin, and it doesn't block the video at all.
The 2015 model (non-touch) has been my daily driver for a few months, and I prefer the feel of it over current MacBook Pros. The palm rests are slightly soft/rubbery in a nice way, but they are fingerprint magnets.

If you look around you can find it for $600 (refurb).

The Dell appears to be more likely to survive getting wet than Apple's laptops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8211HNs4eY

So... for 1/2 the price you can get a machine that you might like better than a MBP.
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Compilation, Big Data and Machine Learning applied to Supply Chain. We are profitable, fast growing and largely bootstrapped. Supply chains are incredibly complex, and we need a compilation engineer to get those challenges addressed at scale.

At Lokad, you will benefit from the coaching of an awesome dev team. You will gain skills in modern compiler design, and how to compile with a cloud platform as your target. Our codebase is clean, documented and heavily (unit) tested. Our offices are quiet (no open space!), bright, and you can get three monitors.

We are a C#/.NET shop, and you will be developing under Visual Studio, the source code being versionned in Git. Our apps are hosted on Microsoft Azure. With .NET Core coming this year, we anticipate a few strategic migrations toward Linux.

We expect a vivid interest for compilation. A taste for low-level high performance computing and distributed systems is also a big plus. Contributions to open source projects are also highly regarded. We are located 50m from Place d'Italie in Paris (France).

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Who is hiring product managers? (November 2016)
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Our developers utilize all the latest technologies and the platform contains a number of highly innovative technical features that differentiates it from anything in existence and the road map of feature/functions will continue to build on its uniqueness. The product has a front-end written entirely in Java/TypeScript, Angular, Node.js and a back end utilizing RESTful web services (.NET WebAPI), CQRS and MongoDB.

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The company is young, energetic and driven and we work closely together at our office in Mayfair. We are looking for a new team member to join us who has experience with the following technologies-

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It is a close knit team currently comprised of 3 developers and we are expecting to grow rapidly over the next year as we take more clients on board and expand the product's functionality so it is an exciting time to join.

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I can't respond to all of the above but a couple stood out to me:

- iTerm2 is a far cry from my typical Emacs set up...I would take e-macs with ansi-term/shell buffers over iTerm2 any day (on Linux).

- Homebrew is a shim to get Linux-like packages to work in the limited terminal/shell environment of OSX (at least IMO). I would take `apt-get` over `homebrew` in a heartbeat.

- Spotify actually has a native Linux client and I have used it without a problem for awhile (https://www.spotify.com/us/download/linux/). Although it looks like it lost its dedicated developer earlier this year: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/03/spotify-linux-no-developm...

There is definitely a creativity suite void (Photoshop, Lightroom, etc.) but you could consider setting up a Virtual Machine on Linux with VT-D passthrough to be able to use those sorts of applications.

For me, I spend most of my time basically in a terminal or in an IDE...and for that, Linux fits quite well...but yeah...
Photoshop Lightroom
- Windows: both run fine (sometimes faster)
- Linux: GIMP + darktable? Pretty capable really, but a lot of people have strong opinions on anything that isn't Photoshop + Lightroom
Sequel Pro
- Windows / Linux: MySQL workbench covers a lot of the same territory
iTerm 2, Homebrew:
- Windows: Ubuntu on Windows or (cygwin, mingw, console2) + (chocolatey, oneget, ...)
- Linux: Plenty of solid options for terminal emulators, pick your favorite distro and it will have a solid package manager. I would argue that Linux has been doing terminal and package management longer and better than Mac + Windows
Sketch
- There have been a plethora of web-based UX/UI design tools in the last few years that don't suck.
Transmit
- I'm probably the wrong person to ask. I'd just use the terminal, but maybe Filezilla?
Alfred
- A lot of built-in search and hotkeys on Windows and many Linux distros, add additional tools on top for a lot of flexibility.
Reeder, Airmail
- No suggestions here... looks nice
Spotify
- Spotify on Windows or Linux

Windows has decent HiDPI handling, but probably not as nice as Mac. Linux if you want to take the time to tweak it can work pretty well on HiDPI (I'm on a MacBook Pro running Linux in xfce).
I don't know Latin, but from the word "alumnae" I would expect that to be the plural feminine ending. Of course in the one case it's a noun and in the other it's an adjective, so I may be way off base.
i wanted to love the XPS sooo much. they have a great linux team and it's damn near perfect were it not for two glaring flaws (imo):

1 - the webcam. what the hell? it's on the bottom right of the screen. if you videoconference often this will drive you insane -- the angle is so bad it borders on being useless

2 - the trackpad. (obv nothing matches apple here), but the xps in particular sucks (and oddly is not mentioned in any reviews i saw). for programmers, having the cursor randomly move while typing is just not acceptable.. from what I read the hardware was picking up noise from somewhere else in the system, causing jumps in the cursor. the latest drivers filter this noise in software, but this lead to increased latency. end result is weak. sold the machine :(
A lot of companies hire through recruiters most of the small ones will work with you corp to corp. which means you get a hire rate and no benefits. you need an llc or corporation setup.
Sure! I found Solar Fields by looking for Mirror's Edge remixes and stumbled onto whole songs. Solar Fields has several albums, it's a massive group and I think it's just one guy.

Also recently found there is a sister group called H.U.V.A. Network that's pretty good too but has a slower and darker feel.
Exactly. I do not personally know of anyone that fluently speaks the original languages (I know people that have taken classes in the languages, but even they rarely read the originals, sticking to translations).
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Whoa, missed this. Sorry for the late reply.

I have! I like Scrivener as well and it's very powerful but its "does everything" functionality has led to some bloat in the UI department. Ulysses seems more thoughtfully designed but doesn't have the same breadth of features.
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The Foundation also had psychic powers, pocket-sized nuclear reactors, and people accurately predicting political events occurring hundreds of years in the future. Just because Clarke wrote it doesn't mean it's hard SF.
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The Pacifist's Guide to Civilization 6
That is precisely the kind of polish that I love to have in my Vagrant instances. But it's not the kind of polish I want in my desktop environment.
StreamX is a kafka-connect based connector to copy data from Kafka to Object Stores like Amazon s3, Google Cloud Storage and Azure Blob Store

Skills : Java, Understanding Kafka, Cloud Object Stores (s3/GCS/Azure blob store)

https://github.com/qubole/streamx

License : Apache V2

Currently, this has support only for s3. We want to add support for other cloud object stores. Also, we would like to support different output formats(ORC to start with). Feel free to create issues and we can discuss there.

For any more details, mail praveen.seluka@gmail.com
I wrote on their forum about why they "shouldn't" use seL4, and definitely shouldn't port it to Rust:

https://discourse.redox-os.org/t/why-not-port-sel4-microkern...

If the goal is trusthworthy, reliable software, then you should use seL4. If the goal is to yell about how great Rust is, you could port seL4 to Rust.
Initial patches to add an MC layer for RISC-V
I think one of the best takes on this issue was a quote from a death penalty critic in the documentary film "Deadline". He said, "We all agree that we should have a system that kills John Wayne Gacy but there is no way to create a system that kills only John Wayne Gacy."

Meaning that, there are certain cases where we are 100% certain of a persons guilt and can mostly agree that that person should die but how do we ensure a death penalty is used exlusively in those cases?
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All Thinkpad laptops can support at least 3 different screens.

The default shipped screens are okay-ish.

The IPS displays have a reputation of good quality but you gotta pay extra.
> This resulted in killers like Charles Mason being relieved from execution and denying many victim's family member from obtaining a measure of justice they wanted.

I weigh that measure of justice as less meaningful than the potential execution of innocents.
I'm confused, what exactly did the teen do that was wrong? This doesn't event seem that bad, hardly something to be arrested for, much less sent to prison over it! Besides, he said it was an accident and he's just a kid, it's absolutely ridiculous that people are getting so worked up over something like this.
From [1] :
"(ii) For purposes of this exemption, “good-faith security research” means accessing a computer program solely for purposes of good-faith testing, investigation and/or correction of a security flaw or vulnerability, where such activity is carried out in a controlled environment designed to avoid any harm to individuals or the public, and where the information derived from the activity is used primarily to promote the security or safety of the class of devices or machines on which the computer program operates, or those who use such devices or machines, and is not used or maintained in a manner that facilitates copyright infringement."

So it seems like it's all going to be gauged in how the material is presented/hosted. The way I read it is "disclose the details of the bug and source, ok. but once you start hosting an executable like './rootmysystem' or './disable_copy_prot' then you're entering the grey area." (Or rather the decision would probably be made based on whether your website looks like one that encourages or promotes infringement versus one that promotes security.

[1] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/10/28/2015-27...
​OpenStack expands both its customer reach and deployments size
I don't understand why a hardware manufacturer hasn't done to Linux what Apple did to FreeBSD and sell a quality laptop with tightly integrated hardware and Linux software. I just have a feeling that if I switched to a "Linux-ready" laptop from Lenovo or Dell I'd still be fighting with the wireless config and external display compatibility like I've always had to.
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shameless self promotion

I have created music specifically designed to engage/distract the 5 year-old in my mind so that the adult in my mind can actually get work done.

The tracks introduce elements in a layered presentation that keeps the content the same but creates emergent properties as the already introduced elements interact with the newly introduced ones.

Almost all tracks are at 120 bpm and in the key of C using the pentatonic scale.

I find that the result is enough variance to keep the 5 year-old's attention but enough sameness to not engage the adult.

(and no I do not have a dissociative identity disorder; it's just a metaphor.)

https://soundcloud.com/shawndumas/tracks

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edit: I am not smart...