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Ok, let's disentangle two things here:

1) slanted journalism
2) outright lies

We can point to certain cases like Iraq where we would have appreciated more objectivity and/or investigatory appetite from major news sources. This is not a new problem in 2016. Major news sources should be read carefully, especially when the government is, more or less, the sole source of the reporting.

Outright lies, like 'This craigslist ad shows Soros is paying protestors $3500', presented as fact through the same medium a and nearly indistinguishable from more honest reporting, and accepted as such are a relatively new problem, and deserving of attention and derision.

We cannot allow legitimate complaints about the objectivity of media to impugn the entire idea of reporting, and admit tabloid drivel as a legitimate and equal alternative to more honest journalism.
To paraphrase a commenter on the Times, identities aren't a problem, liberalism isn't a problem, but combined they can mutate into a regressive form of political correctness, where the inability to move on from or ignore the identity politics (on either side!) grinds any form of debate or disagreement to a halt.

Kinda like when that college professor (I forget the name) published a paper a while back showing a link between absent parents and stunted upward mobility for their children. He was swiftly accused of racism because there were significantly more absent parents in black families than white, even though the paper said little about the disparity itself.

Decades later, deindustrialization and opiate addictions are causing the same harm to white families and their children, just as predicted. But because of the accusations of racism, the warning went largely unheeded.
"so it hasn't completely been freeloading."

That's Clang/LLVM compiler that gets them off GCC's GPL codebase. It also allows them to keep more extensions proprietary if they choose. It's been beneficial to the OSS community but I'd say it's barely altruistic. An exception rather than the rule.

" The "how Apple treated BSD" phrasing sounds like there is more active bad treatment rather than not contributing enough"

Helps to remember that it's how a lack of contributions is commonly phrased. Freeloading is probably the dominant model for both users and companies far as FOSS. It's just how they word the gripe. I agree they should probably use clearer phrasing for others not deep into this subject matter.
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I have been using exactly this setup for over 3 years (6 years of Dropbox) and I'm very happy with it. It would be great to somehow sync Fastmail and iCloud contacts and calendars but I'm ok with Apple's platform lock currently.
clarification: if it gets to the point where I suspect an attempt is likely, or if an attempt is happening, I will start working towards attempting to get location information. The first thing I usually do, however, is help the caller process their feelings to help build trust upfront, even in cases of high suicidality. Speed is of the essence though in certain circumstances.
Henge horizontal docking station. Lots of extra USB ports and not that invasive of a footprint. Some people have had issues with power but I have yet to run into any.
It's not a rebuttal but if they want to start holding people to that standard perhaps a discussion about the issue of WMD's in a certain middle eastern country circa 2003 would be worth having?

Wikipedia says 4,809 coalition service members have died and 30,000+ have been wounded in that conflict so far.
If you look up Pompeo on wikipedia, he has zero credibility in the Intelligence community having no experience whatsoever.

His political credentials are: He's a tea party member, and he's a republican. That's it.

He's just saying this to compensate his lack of any experience in the leadership role he's about to fill.

Edit: I'm just interested in seeing now how many people Trump begins to annoy when he appoints Thiel from the pond/swamp.
I still don't understand why Obama isn't held accountable for this? Certainly this started under the Bush administration, but I find it hard to believe he was not complacent in the continuance of spy programs that spied on Americans without warrants.
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"The core team of Syncany is on hiatus for an indefinite amount of time. Feel free to do with the code what the license allows and encourages, but please don't expect any maintenance"

Not feasible to use this for critical infrastructure if there is no maintenance happening.
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Meaning, for Snowden, that his best bet, clearly, is to stay in Russia (or whatever country will take him)† for at least the duration of the coming shitstorm that will be the next administration.† Instead of coming back to the U.S. to face the consequences of his actions (which nearly every reasonable-minded person -- including Snowden himself -- strongly prefers).

Kind of sucks for Snowden, but more to the point, an incredibly stupid position for the U.S. to take.

† EDIT: Given that while his chances in Russia may not be best, for much longer -- his prospects for asylum in many other countries, especially in Europe, will rise quite substantially if he is explicitly threatened with a death sentence.
Sounds interesting. A quick googling fails to turn up anything, but I'd love to hear it. Do you remember any specifics that might help finding The Sound?
Ecosystem effects most likely. Most users prefer new features over stability or security. Theirs must be the same. They've followed in the U.S.'s footsteps it seems where DOD & "Trusted UNIX" vendors started with stronger stuff then gradually moved to weaker ones (esp Linux-based) for kernel features or specific apps.
I believe so. Or, to put it more precisely - I believe my chances of fixing things, and of seeing better things come, are much higher in US than in Russia. Even now.
I did rowing ('crew') at University. There's something quite geeky about rowing - there were 6 CS guys rowing in the boat with me. There's something about perfecting one stroke that you do over and over again. You don't have to be a teenager to start doing it either - most clubs will accept novices of any age.
Brooks also has a related take on this [0]. Above all I would say that identity politics on all sides puts the vital practice of pluralism in grave danger. If we reject pluralism we are lost.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/opinion/the-danger-of-a-do...
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The author's experience is consistent with my own... Most incidents of wrist/hand discomfort that I've experienced have started in cold or drafty environments. In these cases, I've found fingerless gloves have helped, as have breaks for walks and warm water rinses.

I'm certain that inadequate blood flow is a major contributor to RSI, and that's probably one reason that exercise seems to help so much. Unfortunately, I think, environmental temperature is often overlooked as a source, maybe because it can affect individuals in so many different ways (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting_reaction).
That's a good point - almost everywhere I go as a consultant...their IT people use the GUI to manage things and not PowerShell.

Most places that I've seen automate things with a .NET program whether it's a service, a console app run via Task Scheduler, an SSIS package and in a few cases - a desktop app.

EDIT: I'm a programmer and not a sysadmin except for on my own network where I do prefer "the easy way" as opposed to the way where you have to do rote memorization to perform simple tasks. If I automate anything, it's also done with .NET or Node.js because I like the tools better and my stuff runs everywhere without performing any ceremonies. I do visit a lot of client sites though and I work with client sysadmins regularly. I'm on the East coast and I work in the NY/NJ/PA area. Also the reason I like bash better is because if I have to memorize anything (and I do, for Linux work)...I'd rather have it be something terse.
Poor white people are probably safe though, right? Ummmm...no.

Class and race are both complicated issues in the US, and they often are interrelated. I'm not saying white people, particularly poor white people, have perfect lives free from fear or harm inflicted by institutions. White people can also have hard lives; but it is not because they are white. That's all I'm saying.

Let's be clear though: The danger you're talking about is words on a page. That's what Twitter is protecting us from.

On that, we're agreed. I don't know that an "I hate black people" tweet by an internet troll is really where Twitter's efforts should be directed. But, the greater harm, I think, comes from the false equivalence of saying that racist tweets about white people are the same as racist tweets about black people. The historical context just isn't the same.

Yeah, but I'm black. So, where's your argument now?

I think I still feel the same way, though obviously I'm moderately surprised you're not white; I've had too many conversations with white folks who take the tone of "black folks need to shut up about racism". I, of course, think you have every right to express your opinion on the matter, and I defer to your greater experience being black (having never been black, myself).

So, thanks for making fun of my opinion?

I made fun of the opinion of white people claiming "racism" against white folks is equivalent to racism against black folks; I stand by that making fun. I think you're making fun of taking twitter seriously, at all, which is another discussion altogether.

Regardless, I'm happy you aren't bothered by racist posts about black folks on twitter. I'm not bothered by racist posts about white folks on twitter. Hooray, I think we agree!
I love the idea of ProtonMail (and other encrypted email services). I keep getting the hankering to switch to one. But then I realize how convenient and integrated Gmail is. It's really weighing my privacy vs. convenience, but I am getting close to the point where I'm ready to move it all over.
This is my first exposure to GunDB.

Do you really do conflict resolution via alphabetic sorting?
I'm white, and the police fucking terrify me.
The seL4 team, they have taken this approach with their drivers and ext2 implementation. Apparently it is part of a more general strategy [0].

[0] https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/sel4/
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It could be better, but it could be worse.
The intent of "identity liberalism" (an awful neologism: I'd prefer "identity emphatic") is to try to end otherization of out-groups. But Lilla's point is right on. The result is often divisive rather than inclusive.

My white uncle is famous for saying "You should never discriminate against people because they're different. But why do those people keep coming over here?" o_0
This article is totally missing the basics. Exercise. I promise it will make ALL the difference. Get yourself a pull-up bar, and if you're feeling extra fancy, a dip bar.

Push-ups, pull-ups, dips, and sit-ups. Every day. You'll be a coding machine. At the VERY least, push-ups. Every hour or two, take a break, knock off ten push-ups, walk around a bit, get some water, get back to work. I'll do this right at the office, often in the server room.

A good chair helps, but all of this other nonsense is unnecessary. Exercise, and nutrition is the key to basically everything in life.

As mentioned below. SLEEP.
IANAL but if Obama gave Snowden a last minute pardon before he left office, wouldn't that legally shield him from the Trump Administration?
It's the natural thing for services to be brittle. We're all human after all: a mistake in recruitment, hiring, training, scoping, managing, documenting, or etc. can cause an engineer to make the mistakes needed to make a brittle service you might rely on and that's something I think we can all agree is something you just need to accept as "going to happen."

In that case it's worth dealing with it as it is not how it should be.
To simply swing to the other extreme, and when the OP isn't even advocating for that, isn't much of a counter-argument.
I wish! But aside from the butterfly ThinkPad I am unaware of any laptop with moving parts keyboards.
Indeed. People are forgetting we have a whole piece of math - called probability theory - for dealing exactly with that stuff. It can tell you whether or not doing X is an evidence for you being Y (or evidence against it).

The important thing is - probability theory doesn't depend on rhetorics. Someone speaking the "nothing to hide" argument, or someone else finding arguments against it convincing, doesn't suddenly invalidate Bayes' theorem! Trying to argue from principle is a mistake because reality doesn't listen to principles. The only relevant question is whether encryption/Tor/whatever is or is not currently an evidence for/against being an evildoer, and how strong that evidence is.

Those considerations do include things like loss of utility because of false positives / false negatives, too. So for instance, it may be so that evildoers are more likely to use encryption than general population, but there's so much normal people using encryption that you can't get evidence for being evil out of just noticing that a person uses encryption (the same considerations explain why so much of what TSA is doing is security theater).
For the most part, they are not kernel security issues.

Those get fixed. There are places where the kernel could be further hardened, but would break software.

Most of the security issues that we talk about have to do with process permissions and runlevel. The runlevel of systemd and it's various components is actually my #1 security concern. Has nothing to do with the kernel.
To turn the pro surveillance statist phrase around, "if they are doing nothing wrong they have nothing to fear."

The US government was/is doing things that are illegal immoral and unconstitutional. Tattling is the right thing to do.

Pompeo's friends wouldn't be at risk if they weren't willing participants in the crimes done by the government that Snowden revealed
Google and Facebook are experimenting with drones, balloons, etc. to deliver Internet to their next billion customers, who live in impoverished areas with little network infrastructure. If it works, this seems like a much more attractive solution.
What would have been the options if one is not able to perform this magnificent feat of reverse engineering? Buying a new GPS unit? Is that a serious investment?
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This is the ending of neoliberalism, with its focus on identity politics while staying cozy with business, and the re-dawning of the FDR liberalism.
>Being good at business is, in large part, only serving profitable customers.

I strongly disagree with that notion. Even if you know in advance who will be profitable, you often gain more customers by servicing all customers (or at least the vast majority).

Two examples:

1. A lot of internet companies are built on servicing everyone, and extracting money from a tiny subset (github is one example).

2. If one in every thousand customers costs me more in support than they pay, that's one thing. But becoming known for good support will be more profitable than becoming known for kicking customers who ask too many questions.
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I have similar library and I use the following approach. I have "lib" directory in the project and I have those jar files there. Also there's simple install.sh script which calls "mvn install:install-file" for every jar-file. So developer has to run install.sh script once and he's done.
Also, have you never heard a black or latin comedian making fun of supposed white characteristics that make them seem "uncool", "nerdy" or "not hip"?

Sure, and it causes me no harm. I don't lose out on jobs because of it, I don't have a hard time finding housing because of it, I don't feel excluded from civic institutions because of it. Some people of color do feel that way, and racism in our culture and society empowers those differences.
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I don't think Snowden should be killed, but I do agree he should be prosecuted and jailed for life. He committed treason. The reason is moot. I know many will disagree, but he should answer for his actions. Let a court - non-military that is - decide.
This is so 1984 it's disturbing. I'm a hardcore Google fan with tons of photos of my children saved to their cloud. All of my business-critical, financial, and personal messages are stored up there. Losing access to all that is like losing your basic human rights. It's scary how dependent I am on this one company for being able to participate in the modern world....
How do you arrive at the pricing model for this? $100 per month $300 per month? How is that justified?

Also how do you win against competitors? Is this project something that couldn't be duplicated in a week or so? No disrespect intended, maybe there is more to it that I'm seeing.
I've just got started with beets. It takes a lot of work to organize a music landfill that has accumulated over 15 years, but it may be the best tool for the job - even if the job will consume man-days.

MusicBrainz Picard never cut it for me.
This is an interesting side to HN. The BBC article is pretty dull, the comments are far more interesting.
Please do!

It's even possible to do modern web stuff on OpenBSD. Erlang and Elixir run on it, as does Postgres. Phoenix framework pretty much works out of the box.
I really don't think one can emphasize the health and life benefits of any sort of full-ish body strength training. I'm a huge proponent of full body movement based barbell training, but exactly like you said, pushups, pullups, that sort of thing makes every aspect of your life better. No one has ever regretted getting even a little bit stronger.
Yes, I've seen those and FOIA'd for the rest (no luck). But this isn't the same as forcing ISPs to censor specific websites.
Just checked out your listings for Dallas. May need to actually talk to some locals some of these places are not what I would call kid friendly.

Fair Park is in a sketchy part of town and basically no mans land outside of September-October.

The 6th floor museum is about the Kennedy Assassination. Doubt many kids would find that interesting.

I was really surprised to see Twin Peaks and Bone Daddys on there. You know these are basically Hooters, PG-13 versions of strip clubs. A Bike gang met up at one in Waco and shot the place up.
Yes, but would likely create a tremendously yuge backlash from the intelligence community, and turn them against the Democratic party for a very long time. You think Wikileaks and Hillary's emails were bad? Piss off the intel community and have them turning their mighty tools of deception and surveillance on the entire DNC...
Unless you live in developing world. In which case labor is typically cheaper than hardware
Thank you very much! I'll give that a try!
I received my MS in CS a year ago this month and it took me 5 years to do it. I had to take pre-reqs and was taking one class a quarter as I was working full time. That being said, something that is very important is SO buy in. There were times I was spending 40+ hours a week on homework/lecture while working 40 hours a week. My wife was supporting and understood that I had to not spend as much time with her as she would have liked because I just didn't have time.
This is a really good idea! I have to try this too. I have a couple of projects that I really dread, and I think part of it is how much effort it is to set up the dev environment after working on other stuff.
I don't think that would stop the T admin to kill him (i.e unofficially).
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Exercise has helped my back pain ( I exercise 3 times a week) and my wrist pain sometimes comes back but only if I have been playing video games in addition to coding for a full day. Even then its pretty rare now. I do use ergonomic mice and keyboard though.
> Are you talking about National Security Letters? That's a complex topic.

Indeed it is complex, but the end result is still the same. Sure, they don't have to fight the law, but I also don't have to trust them with my data. Nor does Russia, and I'd even argue that it's stupid for Russia to do so.
Your list has to include 'sleep' also. Then I agree with you.
Yes, no doubt the ergo stuff is good preventive measures. I don't skimp on cheap chairs, keyboard, mice or mattresses. Exercising for sure is helping you in every aspect of your life, not just sitting at the computer.
I haven't tried an exhaustive list of UML and diagramming tools, but every other year I try a new one.

PlantUML was one of the first I've ever tried, and nothing beats it so far. Sometimes it's not as flexible as I would want it to be, but maybe that's why I like it so much? I think I've almost learned to use it to only care about being able to express what I want to, and if it doesn't look exactly how I want it to look, but it still lets me express what I want to, I'm happy enough.
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> Best fuel economy is to accelerate rather strongly to cruising speed, getting into top gear quickly

I have noticed that if I am accelerating strongly then up shifts happen between 2500 and 3000 rpm, otherwise the up shifts happen very much at 2000 rpm. Once I am in one of the upper gears then I tend to avoid heavy footing and accelerate gently.

I noticed if use a heavy foot, the box tends to down shift. This I have noticed in just the plain vanilla D mode and not Sport mode which tries to shift at top of the rev range. I don't regularly use the Sport mode.

On typical motorway driving, I keep at 70mph to 75mph between 2300rpm to 2500rpm. That is the rpm range and speed at which I have been able to get 40+ mpg.

I could try the "strong acceleration" theory and see if I get any better mileage... but I guess I won't see a massive improvement.

> People look at me cross-eyed when I tell them I run 40+ psi

Interesting. How far above the manufacturer spec is that :-)

My car is a touring/estate/wagon style and the due to the extra weight, the rear tires are rated at 2.5 bar / 36 psi ! Which I personally find to be very high. But I stick to the manufacturer specs.

Depending on how quickly you change your tires you may not notice the wear. I am too paranoid about driving on sub-par tires and so far have stuck to changing all four tires after 24 months.
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Has been officially announced.

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Was identity politics a concrete thing or a construction? It seems HRC bet her entire campaign on that and it backfired spectacularly. Were they hoping that it would catch on? Based on what evidence?
A lot of people in the comments recommend getting a personal domain, but doesn't that just move the single point of failure to the registrar? For example, quoting NameCheap's TOS: "In the event of termination [..], You agree [..] that Namecheap may take control of any domain name associated with the terminated Services." (https://www.namecheap.com/legal/universal/universal-tos.aspx)

A single company can still wipe your online identity. Is there any solution for that? Maybe getting a domain directly from ICANN somehow?
Hmm, I hadn't thought of that. While I think your latter point is a bit ridiculous (but not implausible), I agree that there would be a lot to lose from a pardon and very little to gain.

After all, Snowden gave up his right to autonomy in 2013. His life now is entirely within the hands of history.
Obama should still pardon him so he can have his passport back.