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Best i can tell, Xfce gets it right because by virtue of being short staffed they trust X to not screw up. KDE and Gnome would rather see X get out of the way and let them do their "magic".

Sadly the latter people are now in control of "X" development, or perhaps i should say post-X development, thanks to Wayland.
> Also note that Armin has repeatedly praised Rust's text model, which is much more similar to P3's than P2's (except with static types and no messy legacy).

That is incorrect. Rust's text model has (almost) free (and copyless) transmutes from bytes to strings. Python does not. The text model of rust is much closer to Python 2 than 3 in many ways.
> Can't they still bill whatever they want?

I think contracts (between law firms and their clients) use hours worked because they don't know upfront how complicated cases will be, how long it will take etc. It's not just for "understandable pricing". Your "bill whatever they want" suggestion is basically saying that at the end, the law firm can quote whatever price they want, and the client agrees up front to pay that.
I have Bose noise cancelling headphones...possibly the best purchase I have ever made since they allow me to basically turn off the environment when on a train (or plane but I commute about 1h each way daily via train so that's where they shine). My soundy friends tell me Bose sound quality is not in the upper echolon (my hearing is not fine grained enough to hear a difference so I don't really care) but the filtering is really amazing. Not surprised they improve on that and branch out a bit. I usually listen to stuff without vocals (X meets metal: https://www.youtube.com/user/331Erock) when reading as I can't concentrate if there's lyrics.
This kind of naïveté about the legal system is dangerous.
I know someone who spent 4 years of his life in court in a case where he was obviously in the right
But every time he won, it was escalated to a higher court and it ended up costing him several magnitudes more than the sum the case was about ($10k, yes, seriously)
Just the opportunity cost lost due to spending 4 years in litigation is insane in itself

This was in Denmark, not the us. But if someone has it out for you, in any court system, they can make your life hell

And the Danish system is in many ways a lot saner than the us one anyway
So whomever actually owns the apartments that get rented pays no parcel tax?
It is usually a bad idea to take an incident that does not justify firing by itself (or belongs to a similar class of incidents) as a trigger.

The other alleged professional shortcomings were of a very different nature and that won't work well in court.
Upstream Allwinner support is a community effort, and it takes so long to convince the kernel developers to merge code that parts are generally years obsolete by the time they're fully supported. I think the upstream support may almost be at the point that C.H.I.P could use it - but they're using a single-core SoC from early 2012. I've seen patches for basic functionality like clock controllers (without which nothing works) get stuck in endless mailing list arguments about the most elegant approach, contradictory requirements from different maintainers, all sorts. It's not working.

The kernels used by actual Allwinner-based Android devices have almost nothing in common with the upstream support. They use a completely different mechanism for describing the hardware configuration, a completely different set of drivers, and are based on a kernel that predates upstream support.
There should be a special place in hell for people who abuse the most vulnerable of people.
Yes, because NVIDIA has been great contributing kernel code. /irony
>> "ultimately still is primarily entertainment and doesn't 'improve' my life in any real way."

How is entertaining you not improving your life?
> why does AMD need to be in the kernel?

Speaking as an ATI user, having the drives in the kernel means that the GPU card just works right out of the box.

No need to mess up with drivers. Just install a distro and you're good to go.
I am America. I am questioning why it is required to hire a lawyer for my example above
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Would an ordinary stepper motor cope with the temperatures? Our cheap toaster has a handle that lifts (so isn't limited by spring return); and the socket off switch is the backup for when you need to jam a form in to reach to get your crumpet out.
Although you don't say it directly but by saying that "The open drivers (nouveau) were slow and far behind in features." and then that the situation improved because of Nvidia involvement you are not being honest.

Nvidia hasn't improved performance or contributed features to nouveau.

Their changes are limited to code that is mobile chip-specific and from time to time they contribute some reliability fix that affects non-mobile chips, but only if benefits mobile.

Since Maxwell 2 (9xx+) their chips are designed to be hostile to nouveau, by requiring firmware loaded by the driver to be signed by Nvidia (hardware refuses to load firmware that wasn't signed by them). It means that without Nvidia blessing nouveau for example can't change the fan speed (but still can change clocks! how ridiculous it is?).

Nvidia contibuted signed firmware loading for non-mobile chips (so called SecureBoot), but only because it's also required by mobile. And they still have not released enough firmwares for desktop cards to be usable...
I'm the founder of a recruiting software company (SnapHop) and I will tell the recruiting industry like the real estate industry is actually shockingly difficult to disrupt. This is in part because recruiting is basically sales. Except your not selling a simple widget but a massive change. A career change for many is filled with as much trepidation as public speaking (I'll find the source shortly).

The other problem similar to health care is regulation and compliance but mainly it is because the industry is a very human industry despite all the big-data machine learning promises. Getting rid of recruiting is like getting rid of sales.

The big players in the industry are pretty much equivalent to google and facebook -> indeed and linkedin. The problem is you can only make so much money on advertising so they are trying to automate recruiting but still rely heavily on a service based approach (that is you still need humans). This is because advertising exacerbates the signal to noise ratio.

When google enters the industry (which I believe they just did recently) expect linkedin and indeed to become even more service based (ie highly efficient super recruiting firms).

Consequently cutting edge recruiting software has now become more focused on marketing automation which is what my company does (albeit we are more focused on the traditional inbound aka websites instead of the annoying email nagware you have seen). That is giving recruiters better tools to do their job.

That being said my recent idea is instead of giving recruiters (or corp talent acquisition marketing) sales automation what if we give individual candidates that software? That is give the candidates drip campaigns and automated sales replies and beautiful personal career portfolio websites. That is allow smart candidates to sell to recruiters and company at scale.

I haven't figured out the monetization for it or the actual demand but I think it would be interesting and potential disruptive empowering candidates.
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But most judges are making subjective decisions and not just "running code". The US constitution is law; can you compile it into code such that a computer could tell you whether a particular piece of legislation was unconstitutional? If you could, why hasn't such a computer replaced most of the US Supreme Court?
Disk is cheap, but how you attach the disks starts becoming an important cost component as you add more disks. :-(

IOPS aren't cheap, and you will find out just how much that matters the moment you have to replace a disk in a pool with a lot of data in it. Resilver times of days can be pretty agonizing in a home setting.

I won't build a pool without at least double redundancy per rotating-drive vdev, meaning at least 3-way mirrors (zpool create foo mirror disk0 disk1 disk2 mirror disk3 disk4 disk5) or raidz2, as I have had to go to backups for failures during resilvers of raidz (never again!) and 2-way mirrors.

3-way mirrors conveniently provide high read IOPS. OpenZFS does a good job aggregating and scheduling writes to the point that writes are mainly choked by random reads. (Very full pools induce quasi-random reads while hunting for space in metaslabs, which is the main reason writes to very full pools perform poorly).

2-way mirrors are only really fine for vdevs that have negligible random-access penalty (and thus likely high IOPS), or where rebuilding an entire pool from backups takes time comparable to resilver and scrub times when dealing with a replacement leaf device that might fail during resilvering (you cannot know the data on the replacment device is OK until you have read it, which generally means scrub-after-resilver), or errors reading the surviving leaf device(s).
Sadly, unless you really know what you're doing, you have to pay a lawyer to respond to their lawyers, and that process can be dragged out in any number of ways, either intentionally or just because the system has a lot of process and red tape.

In addition, they can request to do things like:
- Request a court order to stop you from doing any further side work until the case is settled
- Depose all your friends and co-workers
- Seize all your equipment for analysis
- Change the venue to another state if corporate HQ isn't where you live, requiring travel for you (and your lawyers) for meetings

You can, of course, object to all this in front of a judge...but that requires a lawyer too.

This all adds up over time, and every phone call, letter, meeting, or appearance in court costs hundreds of dollars per hour (and usually billed in whole-hour increments) for your lawyer to represent you. Eventually, some people can no longer afford to defend themselves.

Note: IANAL - these are only things I have witnessed personally.
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Don't you just turn it off at the wall... if you don't have completely useless wall sockets.
Hence the major version number bump...
> If you only ever hear positive things from someone

That rule seems overly strict perhaps? Like if someone only says positive things, but only occasionally, then there is still a signal there.
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I think the problem for me is that they did these changes and made a big song and dance about Python 3. If they had have called Python 3.0 v2.9 instead everyone would have been clear they had to migrate.

PHP has been successfully deprecating features for decades now and cleaned up their code base; they have never had a schism in the way Python has so you can argue all you want about legacy, or people preferring 2.7. The reason this happend (and is still happening) are human not technical.
You can pass some, but not all efficiency gains on for a net win. Windows would cost billions if Microsoft only had one customer.
There is/was no such thing as an assistant called "Google Now". That was an illusion/poor branding.

There's "Voice Search", typing into the Google search box with your voice.

VS Assistant, a Google's chatbot interface.
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Depends on what you mean by "required". Is it required by law? No, probably not. If you actually want to win your case, however, you're going to need a lot of knowledge about the laws in question as well as court and legal proceedings to stand a chance, or your opposition's lawyers are likely to win the case on some sort of technicality because you didn't provide some document at the appropriate time or something like that.
this is pretty cool!

the unicode part is not very seamless though even in python-future
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/927/

Edit: I don't understand the downvoting here; adding Python 2.8 to Python 2.7 and Python 3 is the proliferation of new standards which is what the XKCD is talking about.
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Are the other standards inclusive or repressive?
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-- (we don't want to have a revolution at our hands)
not entirely true - http://python-future.org/unicode_literals.html

it's not 100% seamless, but its almost there.
... You can't have your cake and eat it. If you want Unicode everywhere then you use Python 3, because it's a breaking change. Saying you'd want it in Python 2 is a confused way of saying "I need to use Python 3".
Ok, I must have read something wrong, but what they are saying is that children put more trust in people giving them useful clues than people giving them not useful clues. Something that seems quite reasonable.

Which makes me confused by this quote: "... it suggests that children may not be as savvy as previous research has suggested."

Obviously a "helpful" clue that doesn't improve your chance of success (they always succeed) isn't really helpful. Isn't it quite savvy to recognise that?

If someone has gotten a better understanding of what they are actually trying to say I'd like to hear it.

There might be an interesting result in it somewhere, as it could be interpreted to imply that only slightly challenging kids in an educational context could lead them to believe that their learning efforts has no use if the challenges are adjusted to never let them fail. But I don't see how the results could be interpreted to mean what the title says.
>> So even if no one ever uses it, it still renders the old one obsolete?!

> This is a strawman, because I don't think this ever happens (feel free to give an example). There will always be people who try to use new standard; they may abandon it later, but they will at least try to use it.

...I thought it was obvious I didn't mean the case where literally NO ONE was using it, but apparently it wasn't. Sorry. My point was, if it doesn't catch on, then does it still render what came before it obsolete? Is it only about time and whether it fixes some things from before? Not about whether it's actually used, or whether it introduces other problems, or whether the previous technology is still in widespread use, or a million other factors? Really?

As for Python 3 being used and more every day, yes, I never claimed it was obsolete or dead or anything else. I'm just saying Python 2.7 is being used too, and hence it's not obsolete either as you seem to think. You claimed it was, so I asked for your definition of the term. You're rejecting the standard one and you still haven't given me one that you're willing to apply to things other than Python. Not to mention I don't see why software deserves special treatment for the word's definition here.
http://python-future.org/unicode_literals.html

nope - you can mix them in python 2 code. The way it should have been done in the first place.
Are you implying Python3 is repressive?
It sounds like you're working alone? Getting feedback is key to learning, and it's hard to do that on your own.

1. If you have skilled coworkers doing code reviews (or contribute to an open source project that does code reviews) you will get a lot more feedback.

2. Writing unit tests will provide some level of feedback, but it's not as good for learning as human feedback.
This actually feels kind of good to me as someone who's trying to get his code into the kernel. Big guys are not getting any special treatment. It feels fair.
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As a person with an insurance background, I think Malcom Gladwell put a good theory forward - eventually insurance won't underwrite football due to the violence. Schools won't have it at younger ages (brain issues), High Schools might save the money (other sports), and then the pipeline to the NFL gets a lot smaller. The quality of 'on the field' product would suffer. The empire contracts, life moves on. It's not necessarily that the cultural capital will go to worthwhile things, it's simply the removal of engaging in a perceived negative.
I envy you. Really. I tried to be that guy who got selinux right. I couldn't.

For years I were that guy who told it's friends they are morons for turning it off.
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I wonder if there's a case to introduce Boomers to The AV Club "Wiki Wormhole"[1] series to show the internet isn't all memes and cats and uh, things we don't want to show them they can find for themselves if they really want...

[1] http://www.avclub.com/features/wiki-wormhole/
This (and the replies on this thread from Linux supporters) shows how far away Linux is to be an acceptable alternative to Windows on the desktop. Instead of welcoming such a big hardware manufacturer with open arms and try to reach a compromise (and understanding that a company is not going to devote infinite resources to something that's not really as profitable as Windows, because you know, companies are created to make money, not lose it - they aren't not-for-profit orgs) the kernel maintainers choose to focus on purity and style crap. Well, enjoy your pure code and your 2% desktop marketshare. The next time you recommend Linux to someone, when he finds out his graphics card doesn't work well you can put the blame on the hardware maker as always.
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I believe the GP is arguing that the same exact motives can happen in non-profit hospitals (as in the tax designation). This amounts to (at most) no more than a different route for the profits to those setting these policies. IMHO seeing this as a separate issue makes about as much sense as seeing false advertising to be separate problem depending on whether the corporation files as a C-corp or S-corp.

I for one think it is very important that any attempts to prevent this behavior don't leave loopholes for non-profit hospitals, so keeping this in mind here is actually very important.
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I started enjoying some US sports broadcasts better in two ways: 1) Switch to SAP for Spanish, or 2) Put on 5.1 surround and turn down Center channel to Zero, which usually eliminates the Commentators and leaves the ambient crowd and on-field noise.
The kernel developers don't really care about the GPL either, sorry to say. They don't go after violators, nor does the Linux Foundation, it seems. Linus himself has said that going after violators is in bad taste and poisons the well, vs just trying to be buddy-buddy and get them involved. Because obviously they'll just move away from Linux or whatever if you're a dick to them (except in the case where Linux effectively subsidizes their existence, making their product even possible). So, don't be a dick, and they'll come to you when you buy them a beer or whatever.

Which is clearly the reason why there aren't actually 14,000 different Android kernels and 2,000,000 different kernels for your $50 router running around. Because they all get involved, of course, from being so buddy buddy.

Naturally, this attitude costs Linux developers nothing at all for the most part, and keeps their lives easy (no legal shit, no hard times) -- while absolutely hurting users who can't get the source to their devices, and completely eviscerating the social/political capital of a license like the GPL, and all the people who use it.

When literally the biggest GPL success story can't get off their ass and prosecute license violators, who actually will care when you try to use it as a tool, one which actually has teeth to back it up? Why use a license if its major champion treats it like a complete piece of trash, a worthless bargaining chip, a chip which is only possible because of an effectively unique, lighning-in-a-bottle position?

If the kernel developers just don't give a shit about proprietary vendor kernel forks (I really, really don't think they really do, at least nobody with actual meaningful, large scale influence cares at all), and want to force involvement by "getting them in the cycle" and being buddy-buddy and just not-giving-a-fuck about people outside the source tree, making sure constant churn is how people have to keep up -- they should just use the BSD license.

It seems to have worked out pretty OK for LLVM, and this is basically their operating philosophy, too. At least then, maybe another project can arise that actually takes its own license terms halfway seriously...
Good answer, although I would argue that rings in the sense that the author describes confer money and status. Rings that only give you monopoly money, such as HN points, are not really going to lead you to compromise your integrity. They are not really rings in the author's sense, they are just silly games or pastimes.

VC money, on the other hand, is real money... And you need "introductions" to get it. They almost outright admit that the entire thing is an inner ring.
If it is anything like the law in the UK, there is probably an exemption for B2B business communications. (I.e. the law protects consumers not businesses.)
I love getting junk food every once in a while. It 'improves' my life because I enjoy it. Eating a lot of it regularly would not.

I'm not judging anyone and I'm by no means saying that it's easy to discern how 'junk' a form of entertainment is. I'm just saying that I started wondering whether this quality food I'm having a lot of might just be cleverly dressed up junk food. Specifically in regards to 'quality' shows like GoT and Westworld.

I really don't mean that in a pretentious way. I watch stuff that most people would probably consider junk, so that would be hypocritical of me.
This. What happened to if you have nothing positive to say then keep shut?

Positive praise, if rare, with neutral (or no) feedback otherwise, can have a similar effect.
Also with fewer and fewer children getting hooked the NFL week continue to delayed.

Their marketing campaign was to go after children like the tobacco industry.[1] With head trauma coming to the forefront the NFL is going to the back of priorities.

[1] http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/nfl-football-...
> IMHO you still have your rights, but when you're outside the country, you can't expect the government to automagically recognize you as a citizen among the foreigners who don't have the same rights as you, and hence may not be able to exercise them.

Apparently even that is not true, because the US can actually assist foreign governments in detaining and torturing their own citizens [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13145227
I'm not trying to make anything or anyone "look" any particular way. I'm trying to present an argument against the undeserved misuse of a label that carries a negative connotation and that is carelessly thrown around in this industry far too much in order to dismiss technologies people don't consider smoking hot enough for their tastes.

How in the world was my definition "arbitrarily-chosen"? I literally chose definition #1 on Oxford English dictionaries. That's arbitrary?!
> It marks the beginning of the code freeze period.

Some parts of the code are getting frozen: [0]

> This means that from now on, new features or
code redesigns won't be accepted; only targeted bug fixes that don't look too dangerous will be allowed in. The freeze will get increasingly more strict...

[0] https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2015-November/11...

Edit: My bad. See below.
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