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First, replace the core GNOME apps you use most frequently with lighter alternatives. Take it easy, do it one at a time. Try rxvt-unicode instead of gnome-terminal. Try Thunar or Dolphin or an mc clone instead of Nautilus.

There's a lot of non-obvious configuration options in the X11 stack. An .Xresources file can select better fonts, tweak hinting so they look fantastic, and change settings and color themes for many X applications. Out of the box, many X applications look like obsolete garbage, but they can be lightweight, functional, and awesome looking at the same time with a little configuration and love.

After getting your core apps sorted, consider an alternate DE/WM. I personally love the gaps fork of i3. XFCE is nice if you still want DE functionality.

I personally dual boot Debian Stretch and Gentoo ~amd64 - sharing a home partition. I keep Debian more or less stock on GNOME, while I rice the hell out of Gentoo with i3 and no systemd.

Check out https://reddit.com/r/unixporn for inspiration and ideas.
>Eating less meat or a carbon tax (i.e taxing the working poor) is not a solution.

The poor emit disproportionately little CO2. A carbon tax mostly taxes industry.
i'm a bit out of the loop - why/how would you be doing this? Windows has a directory now for linux files?
Works fine nowadays, Skylake + 4k MST screen.

I was an early adopter and it was a bumpy start for sure, but you expect that. Just wait half a year or so after a new processor generation and it'll be fine. Zero issues on my Haswell laptop for the past years.

Intel has full-time people working on the Linux graphics stack. I've contributed bug reports and stack traces and they have been super friendly and responsive.
No, Trump is not the God-Emperor of Mankind and does not possess century-level prescience. You can totally make a decent science fiction novel out of this, though.
Go and speak with people living around glaciers. ie. Argentina,Chile,Peru.
Ask for 5 years old pictures. Compare with present and optionaly with your excel.

EDIT: some relevant photos http://www.peruviantimes.com/20/global-warming-impact-perus-...
Non-voters are just accepting whatever the majority (er, plurality) of voters decides.
It seems like for it to amount to anything, they would also have to close down currently operational plants.
Also, isn't the entire new Linux/Windows subsystem still in beta? IIRC it's only in the preview builds and even then you still need to enable it explicitly.
I can't put into words how this makes me feel. Maybe we got too comfortable with it. Maybe we were naive in thinking it would last forever.

But fuck if it didn't have a long and epic life. Rip WhatCD. So long.
>>Life will flourish wether the coast is under water or not.

Life may flourish, but many lives won't.

>>And does it really make a difference?

It does make a huge difference to the 44 percent of humanity that lives on coastal areas.
I'm curious; why does this appeal to you?
All true, but "the scale of it all" will be truly mind boggling whatever we do, or don't do. Solving this problem will require engineering on a scale never seen before, failure to act will result in losses on a scale never seen before. So it's not a choice about scale, it's a choice about the survival of civilization.
Honestly, this should be obvious for anyone who has at least a bit of experience with Linux. It's the same reason why you use tar.[extension] when you create an archive - Tar saves the Linux metadata (ownership, permissions).

To those who claim this need to be fixed, I want to ask: how?
I mean if I modify a file in the Linux filesystem as a Windows user, what should the ownership be? Root? Some non-root user? Should we just make those files 777? Each of those solutions would bring more problems. It seems to me that there is no "one size fits all" fix here.
Anyone know specifics about the "recent events"?

EDIT: https://torrentfreak.com/what-cd-shuts-down-following-report...
I've seen lots of comparisons of Trump and Hitler, Mussolini, or Franco. Personally I'm seeing more parallels to Hugo Chavez.

Chavez wrecked Venezuela in part by trying to "purge the insiders." That never works. Problem is that the insiders know everything and have all the skills and expertise.

Chavez was a left-populist and Trump is a right-populist, but history seems to show similar outcomes for populists of any type.
So, they just codified what they have been doing for the past decade. Much like the E911/etc bill here in the US, apparently ones use of technology removes _ALL_ pretenses of privacy.
Ha, if you're ever in the area, you seem like you'd appreciate 826 Valencia's pirate supply store in the Mission district of SF.

http://826valencia.org/store/
He s/was/is retarded!
> I see no other reason for the law.

Petty attempt to force big companies to pay for Russian hosting.
Encryption is all well and good but I feel like Google's handling of root causes a lot of issues.

There are a lot of pretty basic things (like ad blocking or monitoring battery usage) that require root, which severely impacts the security of the device.

EDIT: Okay, I stand corrected on ad blocking. Access to detailed battery stats however is locked behind the BATTERY_STATS permission which isn't accessible to anything except for system apps. That aside, there are other basic things like backup that also require root.
Pixel Security: Better, Faster, Stronger
Windows 10 has an entire Linux subsystem now. They've implemented the posix APIs and there are other blog posts where people have gotten things like i3 running natively in Windows. It's only in the preview builds and you have to specifically enable it.
> Another good one: it is popular opinion that the Church viewed heliocentrism as a heretical position

You bet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliocentrism#1616_ban_against...

In February 1616, the Inquisition assembled a committee of theologians, known as qualifiers, who delivered their unanimous report condemning Heliocentrism as "foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture."

This even landed Copernicus a spot on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (posthumously) even though he had been a Catholic cleric himself.
> I want the most qualified heart surgeon

This is not a question of diversity, it's a question of skills and accomplishments. Several countries have immigration policies to allow for the import of exceptional talent in in-demand fields [1][2][3].

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-worker... [2] https://www.immigration.govt.nz/new-zealand-visas/apply-for-...
[3] http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/index.asp
Kinda neat they link directly to some source code in a blog post.
It's also used by all the major financial-management apps like Mint.com and Bank of America Portfolio Manager

https://www.mint.com/how-mint-works/security
Pixel/Google does not motivate a threat model under which to evaluate or understand their design and marketing promises, but we can take a hint from "protects your data if your phone falls into someone else's hands." - Namely thefts of opportunity.

Unlike other phone manufacturers, Google does not promise potential customers that your data will be protected from Google, it's partners and from law enforcement and mass surveillance programmes.

Therein this product doesn't provide a stronger security posture that competitors - and furthermore it's threat model and security properties do not meet what are in my opinion minimal reasonable requirements.
Wait, really? Do you have a link?
I'm honestly speechless.

Let's hope that a better tracker will form from the aftermath.
Suppressing the unused variable warning is:

- unrelated to the dangling pointers

- not suppressing a warning about a memory safety problem

- not effecting the lack of warnings for the memory safety problems: remove the `(void)y;` line and there's still no warnings about the dangling pointers.

Seriously, you are focusing on something irrelevant. Either pretend I didn't write that line, or pretend it was std::cout << y << std::endl;. The fundamental fact remains that the compilers do not warn about the major problem of handling dangling pointers, despite both of these being fairly trivial cases, just a tiny step up from pure stack allocation.

Yes, C++ compilers do have some warnings for some things, but the interesting warnings for this topic are insidious memory safety bugs like dangling references, not the basic unused variable ones. Rust warns about both, C++ compilers catch only the second one: the code I wrote is wrong for two reasons, and neither of those reasons is the unused variable.

If you're going to tout the quality of C++ compiler's warnings, they better flag as many cases of problems like use after free (and use after move), dangling references and iterator invalidation as they can, but I've never had a C++ compiler warn about any of these (other than the most basic case of returning a reference to a local variable).
This is really interesting. One solution would be social norms expressing scepticism towards pundits that made bold claims without publicly placing a large bet corresponding to the position.
Sorry - not post related:

#2 spot on HN, 2 comments, submitted 28 minutes ago.

Is this normal? Never seen that happen on HN before. Just curious
I'm not quite seeing who you think would be encouraged here. Bad JSON output is usually created in a rush by someone who didn't test their output. It's unlikely that someone who does test their JSON output would become lazy because a few lenient parsers exist.
Yes, this is an application where the blockchain wouldn't necessarily be stupid.

I don't see it as necessary, to be honest, and given the frequency with which people lose access to their wallets/have them stolen, I'm not entirely sure the bulk of domain owners would want bearer instruments to be the sole way to manage (or lose) their domain.
The term mulatto is almost intrinsically offensive, as the two most likely etymologies mean "mule" or "foreign". It has a strong pejorative connotation.We have several polite terms for the President and others of mixed ancestry, like "multiracial", which is more accurate, comprehensive,and descriptive than "mulatto"
And if you can afford it, you really should use RAID 6.

The amount of RAID 5 arrays I've seen die during the rebuild process (because one of the other drives, with an equal level of wear of the failed drive, failed due to the increased IO) is non-zero.
LIBOR-style indeed.

What's wrong with market based prices?

The other issue with LIBOR is that it fails to take into account the volume that a supplier can move. Taking the average/median of a number of suppliers that are willing to sell one chicken doesn't say much.
>We'll see the same stuff from the USA, most likely never.

So at what point does the rest of the world intervene?
Actually, I'd worry less about the Bloods and the Crips: they're businesspeople, and as long as you aren't involved in their business (pushing drugs), you probably don't have too much to worry about. The police are a different story, because to them, we're all "the enemy".
I'm closer to the "nothing to hide" sentiment too (and personally I believe that a lot of privacy we take for granted is a historical aberration created by urbanization and is doomed to be removed by the progress of technology). Nevertheless, reducing the series of laws to the question of "will this particular law allow the government to see my dick (and if so, under what circumstances)" is useful, because it focuses on the things an average citizen can understand and relate to, while at the same time revealing that not every surveillance law actually implies snooping on private data.

"Dick pics" are actually a pretty good example of something one clearly doesn't want to share with third parties, but may not be aware that they're already sharing (or can be sharing under circumstances that may not be immediately obvious).
I haven't been a big fan of many of the UI changes in the past few years, but I realized the other day that these changes have actually resulted in _DEATHS_.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/obituaries/2016/06/20/obit-...

Cause you know, having the shift level position indicate what gear its in, just isn't "cool"...
I'm very worried about the content. So many recordings in my library are sourced there; many aren't available anywhere else, not on the internet or in stores. A sad day indeed.
Typo:

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-monkey-and-apple.htmlv <--

It should be http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-monkey-and-apple...
Edit: The following comment is incorrect. I checked the guidelines and they've actually revised it to explicitly say you have to use WebKit for apps that browse the web.

> Apps that browse the web must use the appropriate WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript

Original comment:

AIUI the only real restriction here is against executing downloaded code, but you should be able to still write your own competing engine as long as you use JavaScriptCore to execute JS. That said, you can't do out-of-process execution or JIT compilation, so your engine won't be as fast as WKWebView, which means it won't be competitive and so there's not much reason to go through all the effort of making a new iOS browsing engine if users aren't going to want to use it.
Enormous amounts of testing prove that those "tiny" helmets do in fact help a lot. Cyclists aren't normally exposed to the magnitude of forces that motorcyclists are in crashes, due to their lower speeds, but they're still exposed to speeds well above those that are normal for human bodies to be propelled at, and in an environment surrounded with very hard, unnatural surfaces (concrete, asphalt), so the forces they can experience are well above those the human skull is designed to protect.

I had a friend in college who worked in a university lab testing bike helmets; this was 20 years ago now. They're only gotten better since then.

But it's true, bicycling helmets don't do much for protecting your face. But that's not what they're designed for; they're designed to reduce or prevent brain injuries from knocking your skull on the road or a curb. A full-face motorcycle helmet would be even better, but there's a tradeoff there in weight and ventilation (and cost), things that are more important to bicyclists than motorcyclists. Even a lot of motorcycle helmets aren't full-face and don't protect the face at all. But the idea with safety equipment isn't to completely eliminate all possible injury, it's to reduce risk to a reasonable degree; for the injuries you're likely to experience as a cyclist, a good cycling helmet is designed to protect against those. But it's not going to help keep a branch from poking your eye out on a backwoods trail.

Finally, the charge against bike helmets from all these anti-helmet people lately isn't that they don't help prevent injuries (they absolutely do), it's that they allegedly cause more accidents by making car drivers more reckless around cyclists. The claim has nothing to do with physics, and everything to do with psychology. Personally, I think it's a terrible argument to make, and if there's any truth to it, it simply shows that we absolutely need to mandate that cyclists are provided with physically separate roads from cars. Considering how dirt-cheap cycling trails are to build compared to car-roads, how much better for the environment cycling is than driving in cars, and how much public health would be improved by more cycling (which would reduce healthcare expenditures greatly, and also improve workplace productivity and reduce sick time, all important factors for good capitalists), there's simply no excuse for governments to not be buildings lots and lots of safe cycling paths and encouraging cycling.
Not true for either of them.

Apps can use the VPN API to do ad blocking without root, and there are tons of ways to do more battery monitoring without root, like the built in battery monitoring...
I recently discovered that Firefox for Android support uBlock Origin.
I live in the Seattle area and I see people doing "dumb ass" things on the road every single day.
Well I'm puzzled because my email is not public on my Github profile and I don't recall it ever was :S
Pick your favorite:

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

There are others. But no, they don't become the new standard.
>Typing is hard to beat in terms of bandwidth / strain

We type only because we can't talk to computers (although it starts changing). Voice control would easily beat typing.
I have never heard of this. Does anyone else still use Soulseek? I recently started using it again after years and there's tons of obscure experimental artists. Still going strong.
Ode to the 12-inch PowerBook G4, Apple's first desktop-quality laptop (2015)
Violating the timing specs for PCI signalling would put the whole system into an undefined state. It's possible you could glitch the thing on the other end into doing whatever you want. Who knows?
> However, on the desktop, many different application want to read and write keys. Tray applets, the system config panel, even your media player...

If your applications directly read and store configuration keys belonging to other applications, you have way worse problems in your architecture than configuration file format.
>Unlike other phone manufacturers, Google does not promise potential customers that your data will be protected from Google, it's partners and from law enforcement and mass surveillance programmes.

Are you referring to Apple? Because they don't promise that either.
Sure, there's been good journalist work compiling the state of the art here: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nsa-documents-atta...

But also, being familiar with the cryptography you are attempting to have conversation about is a basic starter. For example, there were attacks listed in the prior comment following the "oh there's a ton" header. You seemed to have glazed past those, but they are familiar topics to those who habituate themselves with the technicalities of cryptography and its practice.
JSON isn't just about human readability, it's about being a 'good enough' standard for data exchange. What binary format would you use that people could parse as reliably as JSON?
Easier:

Just use the table on that page to sort. 2016 isn't anything extraordinary.
truly? it's just music, hippy.

go bang your bongos.

you're all idiots.
I was on an Assembly project that tried to do this, think it was called "Flipside". It never went anywhere, IIRC required coders didn't materialize.

Having been inspired by sama's dialogue regarding the downside of unfriending those with opposing views (on the election), I've militantly kept up on opposing Facebook friends' perspectives, giving conscious effort to see their point(s). I see the value in adding opposing news sources to my feed, but the rancor I see (on both sides) is a turn off. Haven't found reliable opposing sources that don't require that I, at least at some level, apply a sort of what I've come to refer to as 'normalizing' their points. So much emotionally charged rhetoric- I guess the 'sizzle' factor sells, but requires additional calories burnt to see through & try not to be disproportionally influenced by.

Maybe a sub-Reddit or sub-Voat -type thing could be built which includes meta-rating elements to allow for rating bias leanings. Dunno what kind of software might already exist that could do this kind of thing for cheap.

tl;dr:
A failed Assembly project tried this recently
It's hard to create a fair Facebook feed of opposing views
A Reddit/Voat -type board with meta-elements to track bias might exist cheap
> Nobody pays for a lump of code, they pay for a tool that solves a problem they have.

Of course they're paying for code. They're paying for code that does something useful, and which may or may not produce value for their business. You can't separate the two.
Linux Mint rocks for ease of setup and use.
I completely agree. My only argument was with the word "just." It's a massive problem, and if we were a rational civilization we would be doing everything possible right now, before it's too late. It should be as high a priority as if a civilization-ending asteroid were on a collision course with the Earth.
Wow, that's great news if it's true.
You'd sell more, until the competition lowered their prices to compete. At that point, everyone in the industry (including yourself) would be making less profits. Great for consumers, bad for your business.
And yet every now and then I'll be stopped waiting for a blocked intersection to clear before advancing, and the asshole behind me will start honking.

I live in the Seattle area though, not NYC.
Or if you care about the data, make a proper backup, don't fall for the fallacy that RAID is backup.

RAID is for data availability, not backup.
Well, my problems with Trump voters (or as I think of them, "the Idiocracy") start waaaay back in the sticks.

You see, I've seen "Gremlins II".

To me, voting for Donald Trump is like voting for Yosemite Sam. This is so much worse than Governor Schwarzenegger. I wake up in the middle of the night and experience a shock when my mind presents the thought, "President Trump". It's like Arthur Dent's early morning scream of horror as he recalls that he's stuck on prehistoric Earth. And this is all before we get to the racism, climate-denial, and so on.

Tuesday night he sent his spokeswoman Hope Hicks to tell the press pool that he's in for the night. Then he bails and goes to dinner without telling the press, leaving Hicks to pick up after him. So either Hicks lied to the press or her boss burned her. The whole thing is unpresidential in my opinion, and no racism in sight.
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No, it makes a terrorist organization.

(Also, there's zero fighting men on the shooting side, under these conditions it's more like people taking potshots with Hellfires).
> It's not a good way of accurately gauging the political spectrum but I'm not sure I'd say it doesn't work at all.

As it fails in such a modest charge, I'm comfortable saying that it doesn't work. The only variable that it would come close to measuring is individual freedom vs collective comfort. A multidimensional representation would do a better job, but it would quickly become so complex that it would be useless - as most people hold contradictory ideas.

That is why far-right does not accurately describe alt-right, think of it as a second dimension on the traditional spectrum.