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> Donald Trump didn't claim the media was manufacturing negative coverage about him, making up quotes or taking quotes out of context and altering poll numbers throughout his entire campaign?

He did make those claims, and as it turns out, the media really was doing these things --- not only against Trump, but as it turns out, against anyone not-Clinton in the primaries.

"Fake news" is psychological projection.
Reduced the size of my component from over 100k to 4.7k by switching to Svelte
Fedora LTS is Centos / RHEL
And how the heck do they make this cost-effective while still being safe? In Sub-Saharan Africa?
For most people, going to elite schools is a waste of money. For example, a high achieving student from a lower middle class family who goes to Harvard still pays the equivalent of full tuition and fees at an average state school, while they can often get a full ride at a state school.

Obviously there are a lot of ways an elite education can help you, but most people don't want to be a lawyer or go into business.
What Is Going To Happen In 2017
ArchLinux is very decent distro. If you need something that you can tweak to be the continuation of your mind, environment designed exactly for you, it is Arch. If you have some time in the beginning to read archwiki, you will avoid a lot of problems in the future. After you understand how it works, it is easy to fix whatever breaks.

For me Arch breaks extremely rarely. I use it for 7 years and remember no more than a couple of times it made me confused after an update. Most issues are covered in the wiki or newsfeed (like breaking changes).

If you need something Windows-like, you can try Ubuntu, sure. But once you need fresh drivers or recent libraries for development, you add third-party PPAs and the shitshow begins. The very idea of keeping old stable versions with just a few new ones that you really need leads to problems surprisingly hard to fix.
Analysis of 2094 tech crowdfunding project titles reveals the most used words
Wouldn't using a method that blocks mean using something like /dev/random, which is exactly what this article is against?
Scoundrels, really?

Most newspapers decided to call out Trump because – with any sense of perspective – he is unelectable to a degree that made further insistence on fake balance untenable. That is "the truth". You definition of "truth" would require journalists to reprint the phone book and nothing else – because even the decision what makes a story relevant requires a value judgement that you no longer see as legitimate.

The article is really talking about that attitude, and much better than I can. Unfortunately, the US may be past the point of no return. There is now group of people that has turned their backs on the civil society build over generations. Even republicans are having trouble adjust to the new reality where you can blatantly lie, call for violence at your rallies and (I still can't believe this one) use a presidential debate to relitigate a 10-year-old feud where someone made fun of the size of your hands. But with 40%+ believing in #Pizzagate, they now feel emboldened to a point where they have almost officially given up even the pretence of acting with a coherent ideology that aims to improve anything.

A society needs strong institutions, shared values, and a basic assumption of good faith. If you succeed with the current mission to tear down the NYT/WSJ/WashPo and the two or three other remaining actual news organizations, you'll find yourself in a world of just Mother Jones and Infowars. Are people's lives really dramatically bad so as to justify a roll of the dice of that magnitude?
That's some top notch ranting. the ad hominem-to-factual argument ratio is through the roof, and the amount of bare assertions is splendid.

It's fine if you don't agree with the post, but if that's the case you do your position a disservice by posting this inanity.
+1 I started with F22 and have never looked back since!

I also find dnf/yum a lot simpler to use than the apt-* ecosystem.
You forget, we talk about IoT.

> developing the software

Oh quickly throw some shit together, not that much of a problem.

> supporting and maintaining it.

Haha good joke.
Here's what I can say: I asked the crypto authors about the guidance in the past. They assured me the text had been updated to reflect current guidance.

When I asked Darren about this in the past (paraphrasing from memory), the response was that constraints on the implementation and/or applied by system configuration ensure that bytes from /dev/random provide the highest quality random numbers produced by the generator, and so are the most suitable for high-value keying material.

So as I understand it, yes, it's more than just applicable to the case of requests before the kernel CSPRNG has been seeded.

Also, keep in mind that on Solaris live migration may mean that your process (well, the zone hosting it anyway) is live migrated to an entirely different system and so may be hosted by a different kernel without your process ever being aware of it. So relying on assumptions about the state of the kernel is inadvisable.

If I receive any additional information I can share, I will do so.
For the curious, much of this is covered in depth in a graduate analytic number theory first course.

As fascinating as the Riemann Zeta Hypothesis is, I think something almost as fascinating is the works of Ramanujan - to this day, the genius Indian's work is studied in earnest, and amongst the most famous number theory work to this day.
Android testing done right
Doesn't help with coding at all according to my story. I enjoy coding, and did it as job for years (still do part time), but my formal art training contributed zero to all things technical.

It helps with general product solutions and obviously design and content choices and strategies. It helps with big picture concepts and with confidence in experimentation. I believe it sharpens general intuition, which could be handy in IT.

Studying art thoroughly over a few years by looking at other artist's work in detail and doing your own art, sharpens your command over "less is more". You become better at peeling away layers to get to the essence of things. You become better at avoiding nonsense and you may learn to communicate ideas in new ways.
I have a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from an elite university and currently help technology companies market products / bring products to market. Backstory: I've been tinkering with computers and coding since I was about 13, so tech wasn't something I stumbled on post-uni either.

Uni taught me how to concisely think through, package and present ideas to people; and to be able to pick apart unfamiliar concepts until I was able to understand and analyze them.

I've built a successful consulting business out of combining the two and acting as the bridge between engineering teams who typically have a deep understanding of the product but struggle to explain practical use cases; and marketing teams who sometimes lack an in-depth understanding of how a product works but know how to sell it. I've had CTO's tell me they can't believe I've never worked FT as an engineer. I've also had people ask me what Hegel could possibly have to do with technology but ultimately software and marketing are about people and what makes them tick.
I have a number of PCs and Macs at home (even a Sierra hackintosh) and I just prefer working on macOS.

I tried switching to Windows for work but ultimately I need iOS and macOS compilation and I also miss the macOS ecosystem too much (Alfred, Karabiner, BetterTouchTool, iTerm, etc). Also Windows is plagued by legacy software, which is not an absolute deal breaker but who prefers working with ugly outdated software?

If you have big hardware requirements moving to Windows or Linux is a no brainer. Even when money is not an issue, with Apple you are stuck with decrepit AMD GPUs.
CTRL + F "rural, poor". Nothing. Hmm.
for me the appeal hinges on the quality of being understood and the sophistication of the software. it's fairly binary - if it's natural and fluid, it's pretty cool; if it's too high friction, i completely lose interest.
Skype? Ah, 2012. We're now in 2017, and in this country Skype just isn't the standard (I'm not saying it isn't used anymore). What is the standard? Well on phones, people seem to be using WhatsApp, with a movement who swapped to Telegram. There's some people who use FaceTime, but they're Apple users. There's some people who advocate Signal, but I know nobody who uses that. Then for gaming there is Discord which I started using in 2016 which Just Works (tm), has a feature set and UI from this decennium, and doesn't require one to run their own server (unlike TS/Mumble/Ventrilo/..). Finally, in 2016 I swapped to a different phone plan; unlimited phone calls is part of my (very cheap) subscription for my phone. The disadvantage of the unlimited plan is GSM's 'bad' quality (I generally don't have an issue w/it), and it is 100% being logged by telcos & nation states. But so is Skype.

To be fair, I don't think RMS would be happy with any of my choices. Discord is open source, but the servers aren't. WhatsApp is proprietary, and owned by Facebook (Skype is proprietary and owned by Microsoft). Signal is only distributed via GCM which is a proprietary platform (F-Droid is blocked).
I don't think so, there isn't much of a market for smart, well informed conservative writing at the moment in the USA. The Republican audience is quite anti-intellectual.
I'll probably get downvoted for this but the phrase "flapping in the wind" comes to mind.
The US-EU Safe Harbor Agreement requires that US companies follow the EU's requirements for preserving the privacy and security of users, but allows them to store data in the US.
No-one has argued against bundling. You keep misreading all the comments, adding "bet you didn't know that" to the most obvious things in the world. Why is that?

> Any JS library is better when it adds only a single variable to global scope.

No, this is how you use jQuery in 2017:

import $ from "jquery";

Simple as that. Just stop using global variables.
Hopefully the FTC suing D-Link will encourage LG (and other manufacturers) to properly support their devices: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/ftc-sues-d-link-over-route...
I got my MFA in poetry before I became a fulltime software engineer. I feel a connection between balancing metaphor, narrative, description, and the mechanics of language in poetry and solving complex problems with software. Would love to hear more of your story at some point--do you blog about the the workshop at all? Good luck with your thesis, and congrats on finishing!
Considering I couldn't get basic kernel modules working on it due to the insane tool chain, I disagree that it's fine. Not to mention the bugs with the quark processor.
Smug dismissal is a behavior we already have more than enough of; please consider finding a different gear so to speak.
Fedora has really cleaned up the release upgrade process over the last couple versions. Transitioning from Fedora 24 to 25 was surprisingly painless!
"For the past three years, my assignment has been to try to help this newspaper live up to its own high journalistic standards as it covered a historic presidential election, two wars, the Great Recession, violence in the Middle East and more. I have deplored the overuse of anonymous sources, warned against the creep of opinion into news analysis and worried about the preservation of Times quality on the Internet. But, in truth, I have sometimes felt less like a keeper of the flame and more like an internal affairs cop," said Clark Hoyt, who was departing as the public editor of The New York Times in 2010; Hoyt had been serving as the NYT internal representative for the readers.

Source: http://nytimes.com/2010/06/13/opinion/13pubed.html
This is more about sovereignty than GDP
That is not an answer to his objection.

If you follow the equations of the wave packet of the particle arriving to the wall (or CCD) detector, you then need to solve the equation of the interaction of the particle + all the particles in the wall or the CCD. The challenge of the collapse is that simulating anything beyond a few dozen quantum particles is too demanding. Mathematical models that simulate millions of particles need to make assumptions (typically they are too hot, too cold, too strongly bound, so you can ignore most effects - think 1D Ising model, Bose-Einstein Condensates, Photon gases, etc). But the full description of a particle + all particles in a detector still escapes us.

Therefore the transition between: superposition of paths -> particle lands at specific points has never been truly explored. The best description currently involves decoherence. Many theorems have been proven (and experiments done) in that area. The gist is that as you add particles to a system (2, 3, 4, 5, 10, ...) the superposition effects slowly cancel each other out. Another angle is the monogamy of entanglement (the more particles are entangled, the weaker the entanglement between any 2 particles). The idea of decoherence is that as things get larger, the weird effects of quantum physics become more "dilute". However, going from double slit to macroscopic reading still has many assumptions along the way.

Take the above explanation with a grain of salt (as I have tried to make it accessible).
when RMS uses the term, he means Free as in Freedom not as in free beer.

What he means by that is software that allows their users to: use it, study, modify and share it.

He doesn't mean price. If skype would charge a million dollars but still provided those 4 freedoms RMS wouldn't have a problem with it.

That philosophy has brought the world Linux, Apache, WebKit, LibreOffice, Ruby, PHP, MySQL, MongoDB and many other GPL software.... and has obivously influenced the creation of Open Source that althoug are similar in practice their underlying philosophy is different.
Chomsky: Obama should issue a general pardon to undocumented immigrants
I don't think the line is that sharp. The NYT was peddling completely false stories and attributing them to anonymous administration officials. I'm not willing to say that's not fake news; their sources had/have complete deniability to the point that there's no way that we can say for sure that the stories weren't being directly inserted by the government especially being largely laundered through a single fake journalist[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller
Agreed. I never really thought about it, but currently, is there any security at all? For example, is there anything to stop a 6 year old from ordering a ton of stuff?
You really really don't have to buy from Apple if you don't want to. I'm considering a surfacebook for my next laptop, and the Surface Studio would be a really cool (but expensive) way of replacing my iMac. Apple doesn't have a monopoly on computers, if they work for you great! If not, there is plenty of competition.

They do seem to still have a monopoly on decent track pads, perhaps we should get the FTC and DOJ involved :).
"These and other concerns (for example the fact that ACME-script for Let's Encrypt requires root access and is able to overwrite server configs) make us refrain from supporting Let's Encrypt on our shared servers. We hope for your kind understanding on the matter."

This is one of the problems I've had with LE, and the community defends it by saying that there are other tools, and forks of tools you can use, when the problem with those is that they could easily go out of date if LE changes anything and they'd never be fixed. Updating your certificates needs to be done in a reliable and contained manner, but nobody wanted to admit that LE tools doesn't do that.

I don't recommend LE unless you're actively maintaining a server and can invest the time into creating your own contained update script. I know hosters like Dreamhost have it built in and will auto-update for you, which is nice.
> And how the heck do they make this cost-effective while still being safe? In Sub-Saharan Africa?

PrEP (as in the daily pill) is actually incredibly cost-effective. We already have distribution networks for HIV medications, because we need to treat people who are HIV+ with ARVs. So expanding those to be used by people who are HIV- is really straightforward.

The advantage of this proposed approach (the implantabable pumps), of course, is that it'd be more akin to an IUD, which is preferable in situations where people have reliable, but infrequent, access to medical care. That's a situation that applies a lot of rural and poor areas in developing countries.

We've already been looking into making PrEP available as a vaccine that would be effective for six months at a time, so I don't think this is particularly shocking of a proposal. (Which is not to say that it wouldn't be amazing if it works out - it would!)
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13344370 and marked it off-topic.
You'd need a second #define, something like:

#define ARRAY_ELEMENT_NAME int_ptr
#define ARRAY_ELEMENT_TYPE int*
#include "array_template_impl.h"

And then use ARRAY_ELEMENT_NAME only in the definitions of ARRAY and ARRAY_FUNC, and use ARRAY_ELEMENT_TYPE instead everywhere else.
Depends on the country.

If you live outside of the US even big manufacturers like Dell give you very limited hardware options.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fake_news_websites
Absolutely YES. Java EE is used everywhere by large multim=national companies who build enormous robust systems to small dynamic start-ups that love the microservice architecture.

There are a plethora of online learning resources, free and paid, that will teach you everything you need to know about the multitude of APIs.

Go to youtube, go to Lynda.com and go to Pluralsight.com, there you will find all the resources you need for free or very little cost to learn Java EE.
Please don't post like this here. As the topic gets more divisive, comments need to become more civil and substantive, not less.
Not sure if you're joking or not but it does return a result for me. Try again more carefully.
I think it's related because they discredit themselves by rebroadcasting government lies, then they say "But don't you pay attention to that PatriotTruth2016.com website, that's fake what we broadcast is real and when it happens to not be true, well it's a truthful rebroadcast of some information that just happened to be false.

Also, being a faithful transmitter of the government line is not something to aspire to. Everything Pravda ever published was true insofar as it was the official line of the government of the USSR. If the NYT is the Pravda of the USA then I think we might just be better off with PatriotTruth2016.com.
I also was at the demonstrations and I also think that there was no realistic alternative to a reunification.

But at the time people were discussing different ways of performing the reunification. The SPD under Lafontaine proposed a slower approach rather than an immediate reunification. He made the point that because of the crumbling infrastructure and desolate state of the economy, a unification wouldn't be easy, resulting in unemployment etc.

These warnings turned out to be true, and people should have known. But people didn't listen and voted for CDU in great numbers, because they promised it all. And I think one reason for this is that the warnings also came from the old media, so many people thought "They've been lying for so long, this must be false."
I forgot to specify I'm looking at non-US numbers. Apple's been hiking foreign market prices quite a bit. Also, the markup gets worse when you venture into higher specced builds.
Visual Studio, or any kind of VM will easily chew through the high end CPU and RAM.
Il Nuovo Disco Di Flores Del Sol: “Contigo”
> No Google, AppStore and Google Play means back to the 90s.

Not really because then Yandex App Market would just spring up overnight. There's technical know-how in Russia and the funding to make sure things get built to keep the money flowing domestically.

(Amusingly, I'm posting from the back of a Yandex taxi)
Basically with most package managers you start from some base system and then execute commands which change the state of the system.

With a functional system you describe what kind of system you would like and it gets built for you. See https://nixos.org/nixos/about.html
Fred Stevens-Smith (Rainforest QA): Morphing into a Rocketship
That's not a great characterization of your link. The Enquirer has a very good record for a publication so venerable and vicious, and rarely loses libel suits. People tend to confuse it mentally with the Weekly World News, which was awesome, proud to be fake news of no consequence, and shelved in checkout lines right next to the Enquirer.
I just saw this while watching Netflix :)
Can you just TLDR for me and tell me what should I use instead to get great movies without ads for $7/month?
proposed a slower approach rather than an
immediate reunification

And that was out of the question. I too would have left the GDR immediately if that would have happened, and pretty much everybody I know too.

It's not true, that's all. We voted for reunification because we wanted it, that's all. A clean fast cut was the right way to go instead of continuing to muddle through. It was impossible to do a "smoother" transition - not unless the BRD would have disallowed people to move there and would have forced us to remain!
>Debian: slow to upgrade and doesn't support newer hardware

zzzzzzzz

This is said so often it's not even fun anymore. Debian stable is made for servers, for stuff that's not going to move for ten years and is supposed to be up 99.9999% of the time.
Run testing and your problems are solved. Recent hardware is supported, relatively recent versions of all software are in the repositories, depending on the maintainer. Or run unstable if you're feeling adventurous
Your also is misplaced, I called it poor journalism, not something to aspire to.

The point is that "fake news" hit the lexicon based on the completely made up bullshit and now people are confusing the issue by trying to broaden it out to include poor journalism. We have the words to talk about them separately, I'm not going to give up trying to get people to do that just yet.
1 to 2 screen frames per key input, not 1 to 3.

But I acknowledge there's a general problem with the slow screen refresh rates we have. What are people doing if they want an ergonomic FPS shooter, or a video decoder that must decode videos with arbitrary video and audio rates? Probably ignore the problem and drop a frame here and there.
"There is no serious evidence for the simulation theory."
Well, there are weird effects that would make sense in a simulated world (like superposition until observed). But the argument is a statistical one.

Can a world be simulated in a computer?

If yes, how many worlds and individuals are simulated at the same time? (And it may make sense for example market research, science etc. Of cause the simulation will run much faster then the real world).

Then there is a problem. If the world CAN be simulated and MUCH MORE simulated individuals exists than real persons it is more likely for you to live in a simulation than in the real world. A point worth thinking about.
It's "poor, rural and less educated" in the article, shame on parent!!
The WSJ is as much to the right as the NYT is to the left, which in actual terms is "not that much, as long as you understand that newspapers have an opinion section that is separate from the newsroom.

There's a sort of "from first principle" theory of journalism currently going around that I can only assume is a misunderstanding of some middle-school civics class. In that world view, any mention of "cars" is evidence of bias in favour of those who believe cars exist.