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The influence of tech companies isn't measured in how much they donate to each party (as the article suggests) so much as it is how they use their powerful technology to influence public opinion and collude with politicians in private.
Check out how much cash the Clinton's and DNC poured into her campaign. A lot of good tech did there! /s

"The state is temporary"? How outlandish. The state will outlive you, and will crush you if the people don't use effort to coerce it in the right direction.

Tech might help or hurt a cause, but people will be the ones who are needed to win the day, not tech. But don't believe me; just watch who is getting inaugurated.
We also have regulations because consumers do care about that kid, they just don't have the resources to care every time they make a purchase.

Which is why it's so problematic corporations violate regulations, either by outsourcing the violation or outright flouting the law.

It's literally exploiting the limited computational resources of consumers to bypass their expressed wishes.
Humans are designed to obtain their goals while conserving as much energy as possible. As a rule, people will always take the lowest-effort route to get what they want. At a macro scale, this can only be counteracted by designing systems that strongly discourage specific low-effort-but-harmful routes, and even then, there will always be some sector of the population that doesn't grok the downside of taking the "easier" way.

I think one of the big things that has impacted SELinux adoption is that everyone has sort of seen it as a proactive booster rather than a really necessary part of a secure environment. I'm sure a lot of that is because lots of people are used to administering systems that were around before SELinux (and similar) was. For something that's perceived as a bonus point, it interferes far too often.

Most people don't realize SELinux is on until it does something really bad like stopping a database from restarting correctly or otherwise harming what's supposed to be a stable environment. When those are the stakes, SELinux does not have, or at least does not make immediately clear, a sufficient value proposition to incentivize the admin to fix the rules rather than just turning the whole thing off.

For example, to contrast with the OP, when SELinux stops Docker from doing something, the impulse is not going to be "Yay, SELinux stopped Docker from doing something dangerous! Thank you glorious SELinux!" Instead, it will be "Ugh, SELinux again getting in the way of stuff. I just need to disable that. I get enough headaches from Docker as-is and SELinux probably just isn't modern enough to handle my uber-charged stack with all of it's new-fangled features. Disabling!"
I thought this was going to be about being arrested for photographing cops.
> when viruses infiltrate a bacterial ecosystem, often only about one bacterium in 10 million will gain a spacer that lets it defend itself.

Sounds like, when under mortal threat, grab some DNA. Even if it mostly causes cellular suicide by grabbing its own DNA, if just one
bacterium acquires immunity, the group as a whole benefits.

Of course, group selection doesn't seem to work... but maybe the very high probability of death means this low probability last-ditch attempt is worth it for the individual - which then passes on the CRISPA machinery and the specific immunity to its "progeny"... which then have a nicely cleared out environment all to themselves... like eucalyptus after a bushfire.

Desparate times call for desparate measures; and high risk/high reward.
More young people are watching Planet Earth 2 than the X Factor
It sounds like you're saying the security position can be simplified to one dimension. It can't. Unless you're able to provide risk and exposure for all users and somehow make them the same for everyone (they're not).

Then you write that SELinux doesn't reduce the risk. It definitely does that for webapps executing wrong commands, utility services being exploited for local access, many attempts at race conditions via shared directories, etc. For example almost all interesting use cases for imagetragick exploits are severely limited by properly configured selinux. Once in a while there's going to be an issue with a trivial exploit which everybody and their dog will use to scan the whole internet before you have time to patch. This is what LSM is great to protect against.
> adopt fully the latin-character-based language

Ironically, everyone else is moving away from latin based characters towards icons, emoji and international symbols. (Really, why is O easier to learn than Off, and | easier to learn than On? At least the latter can be looked up in a dictionary. Anyone wonder what those washing instructions mean?)
What do you propose to do about the people who don't buy cigarettes and soda with their food stamps?
Pretty much everything by James Burke, including the Connections series and The Day the Universe Changed.

Both were turned into TV miniseries by the BBC (plus a successor to Connections that I haven't seen).
Yes! This is the first thing I do in a new Linux OS.

Also, the author does not mention hitting tab for autocomplete (or displaying the remaining options that match what has been typed so far).
It is worth noting that the female first person pronoun 她 is a relatively recent invention inspired by republicanism and the rise of venacular writing. Some writers in the 1920s and 30s used a more distinctive word 伊 (pronounced yi1) but over time the homophonic female Ta1 became mainstream.

What also happened then was an influential movement to fully romanise written Chinese and some of the proposals are radical even for today as they plan to do away with tones completely.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latinxua_Sin_Wenz

Pinyin was a scaled down version of these except it was never meant to replace the current writing system.
Make Windows green again
Please note: Starting with Debian 7, the minor number is not part of the Debian release number, and numbers with a minor component like 7.2 or 8.7 now indicate a point release. Basically, only security updates and major bug fixes, with new updated installation media images. This, 8.7, is not a new major release of Debian.
Try this method[1]. It allows me to run macOS virtually on a cheap laptop.

[1] https://techsviewer.com/install-macos-sierra-vmware-windows/
Which you will only find in children's books or on names.
I don't understan why some people feel a foolish rush to come and discredit the GIMP devs, and "discreetly" demand that everybody else should invest their money in X or Y project because i like them and they're not GIMP. I dislike the word «shill» but it's a correct description of those people.
> GIMP is free software and ethical

Implying that non-free software is unethical? That's a rather rude thing to say.
A differing opinion would be that he identified correlations. Both guns and steel stem from discoveries and inventions (e.g. gunpowder and smelting), not from physical resources unique to Europe.
dupe, please check before submitting! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13400672
This is why I like just using coffeescript. Nicer syntax than ES6, with the same speed as optimized basic Javascript (because that’s what it compiles to).
In the spirit of sharing: one of my favorite lines in my bashrc is the alias of `rm` to `rm -i`. This prompts for a confirmation. You might not need it but I deleted some important, not-yet-checked-in-git files in the past by accident.

If you want to delete everything and don't want to keep typing yes just do `yes | rm bla`.
> "several states have created an entirely novel phylum of law: the civil violation of a criminal prohibition."

I've always wondered. If these things are civil trials isn't it unconstitutional for the traffic court to have a sign saying "you don't have a right to a jury" (as it does in SF)? The constitution guarantees a right to a jury trial in all civil cases with a penalty greater than $20.
There's also Catalan: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/nov/22/catalan-langua...

and the possibility that Catalonia might break away from Spain: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/10/catalan-indepe...
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> It's even more a shame to see something become proprietary

I wouldn't call this a "shame". A project as complex and significant as GIMP/paint.net may take a lot of time to maintain and to improve. If you can't find a persistent way to fund yourself, turning it proprietary becomes a tentative option. I understand and respect the decision of the developer of paint.net. As open source developers (I am one of them), we are responsible not only for our users but also for ourselves and our families. Everyone has a life after all.
Very clever concept. I hope it catches on. I'm a big fan of reminders, journals, dailys-- things we don't really think about, but should.
Why is there a line of death to begin with?

The picture-in-picture attacks seem serious enough to warrant a new kind of browser.
i used samsung galaxy for a couple of weeks. and no, mi does not copy samsung certainly.

samsung is loaded with utter crap default apps. asus follows this path with so many uninstallable default crapps.

i never rooted my mis and always update community roms. the default crapps are minimal.

mi phones (and miui) are ways up from others. it takes effort not to notice. buy one, play with it a couple weeks, and u never want to use other android phones.
What's a chromeless browser?
> In this musical analogy, the act of measuring the spin somehow shifts all the intensity of the chord to one of the notes, which we then hear on its own.

People can accept that measurements and observables are operators which act on the wave function (which can be expressed as a linear combination of eigenstates of the operator in question). People can even accept that some observables cannot be measured simultaneously, because they do not commute, and cannot share eigenstates.

People cannot accept that particles can only be found in eigenstates of the observable in question, without some mechanism to explain why this happens. If a particle's measured value can only be one of the eigenvalues of the operator, it begs the question "which eigenvalue is it going to show us?". Alternatively, if nature let us measure the expectation value instead of "one of the eigenvalues", then quantum mechanics would not be "weird" at all. Too bad, nature isn't like that, or maybe, be thankful that it is.

> But if the corrections to quantum mechanics represented by the new terms in the Lindblad equations (expressed as energies) were as large as one part in a hundred million billion of the energy difference of the atomic states used in the clock, this precision would have been quite lost. The new terms must therefore be even smaller than this.

I always see people (physicists) complaining about String Theory, etc. because they play around in regimes which are too small for us to actually work with. We have observed macroscopic effects which are due to a build-up of quantum mechanical effects (superconductivity, solid state, etc.). It would be expected that a correction to quantum mechanics would also make macroscopic predictions...
If you are suspected of doing something illegal (speeding) because your car was photographed using photo radar, I'm reasonably sure the 5th amendment applies to the police or prosecutor asking you to answer any questions about that accusation.

The answer could be "X person borrowed my car", which isn't, itself necessarily covered, however the answer could be "I was driving my car at that time", which is definitely covered by the 5th amendment. Since one of the possible truthful responses counts as testimony against yourself, you don't have to answer the question at all, otherwise non-answers could be seen as implicit confessions.
Shouldn't they need something more solid than an assumption to hit you with legal penalties?
Show HN: Multi-Language Thesaurus Query/Replacement Plugin for Vim
Rather than trying to remember all those commands for moving around in your command, I recommend turning on vim mode for the command line, and remapping ESC to "jk".

bindkey -v
bindkey -M viins 'jk' vi-cmd-mode

Then you can edit your command line the same way you would edit a line in vim.
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That's not true in California, at least. Plates stay with the car unless they're vanity plates.
Their battery banks are some of the best on the market.
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I see it mentioned so often, but in practice... is that really an issue for you? You need to have root privs with unrestricted access (or at least hardlink creation in the directory explicitly allowed by apparmor) for that. That means the attack would have to look something like:

1. gain access to the system (unrelated exploit) 2. elevate to root with profile which can create hardlinks at all 3. have access to a directory unrestricted in the profile 4. have local, unrestricted application which can be exploited by hardlink manipulation

This is theoretically possible on some systems. But it's a massive effort and fairly easily mitigated by having a profile for all running services which disallows hardlinks in the first place. As far as risk of service exploitation goes, this should be a fairly minimal one. (and requires targeted approach)
I think most people are "realists" as Weinberg mentions in his article. A lot of people (including myself) have bashed on so-called "instrumentalists" like Hooft, but after reading this Weinberg article, I am grateful for people like Hooft who are not here to "give up" and accept that there are necessary unknowns, and that there might be something going on underneath it all -- the Einstein way.
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We still need more tech workers, and can't train them fast enough.

In the current bubble economy, that is. What happens when there is the inevitable downturn? How quickly people forget the late 2000s (let alone the early 1990s), where one was lucky to get a multi-month contracting gig.

For years, a bunch of coworker friends have gotten together for a White Elephant party after Christmas. During that era, more than half the group members experienced unemployment for long stretches of time... even while H1-Bs continued to be issued, and the entire H1-B quota was always consumed. And these were software engineers with over a decade of experience.

I had started an unrelated business (not in the software industry) and fared comparatively well.
This is the part that confused me the most. Why wouldn't they just make the new owner get new plates? It's completely trivial.
I was definitely talking about adoption ;-). See my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13400707
You actually don't have to put ! In front of make. Vim has makefile integration. If all you're doing is typing make, you can do :make. For a custom build command, you can set the variable makeprg, and :make will execute that instead. On my phone so it's hard to type examples, this blog post gives more info:

https://jbernard.io/2011/09/30/vim-makeprg.html
I don't know the mechanics of how apple works with retailers but honestly all rules are off for them. With respect to Best Buy's margin - its not a flat rate for anyone, its typically negotiated for each vendor based on a great number of things. In general, Apple's ability to bring customers into the store provides massive leverage to them so they can push back on Best Buy pretty hard to get a better deal.
> If we all worked 3 days a week it would be enough to pay the rent. If we all worked 7 days a week it would be enough to pay the rent.

This is wrong. The reason rent is going up is because there's more demand than supply. Reducing the amount of money everyone has by a constant factor (in this case 3/5) will not change the supply/demand imbalance, so it won't solve the problem. Put another way: the reason rent is so high is to prevent some people from being able to purchase the product. There's not enough of it to go around. You're basically blaming the best known system for allocating scarce goods for the fact that scarce goods exist.

If you look at countries that try to act on the above notion, you'll find that high prices are replaced with impossibly long lines. And shortages. This is because reducing the price will only increase the demand for that good.

A better world view would be: if the baby boomers hadn't all had kids at the same time, we wouldn't be experiencing housing shortages. This theory (though incomplete) at least puts demand increases front and center. You could also blame cities for not allowing/supporting the construction of new housing. That theory (though incomplete) at least puts the supply shortages front and center.
In California the plates stay with the car, not the owner. Other states are different.
That badge seems pretty unprofessional to me. I would discipline my employees for that sort of behavior, especially if it occurred at my own conference.
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bash is an extended clone of Bourne shell, though, and sh dates to 1977.
The can. Maybe... your can.
What are the books banned in camp Guantanamo?
>Getting sick needs to have some kind of downside to it.

Yeah it would suck if illness affected your ability to be physically active, gain and keep employment, be part of a happy relationship, enjoy hobbies, etc.

It's great that you've found a way to punish people financially so those ill freeriders don't get off Scott free.
You should be more concerned about that social network bar that floats on the left of the page on mobile and literally prevented me from reading your article.
> You have to be a reckless fool to be that smart and get into any car without wearing a seatbelt, let alone a McLaren being driven by a daredevil like Musk.

Exactly. I've been calling BS on this whole story and getting downvoted.

How does one sit inside a fast race car, wear no seat belts, car gets wrecked in crash and he comes out -- in his own words -- "without a scratch".

There are no photos or any evidence anywhere in the media that such a crash occurred, or that Theil was involved in it
Thanks for your report. Fixed just now.
No one was landing booster rockets again after launch in the 60's...
Why can't browsers do image differencing to detect when the page contains something pretending to be the browser or OS chrome, and plaster warnings overtop?
What is wrong with the Pilot Wave Theory intepretation? I'm ok with FTL information transfer, and so Bell's inequalities are satisfied.

And anyway the other interpretations DO NOT rule out FTL information transfer. For example if one entangled electron flies into a black hole then we would be able to know its spin by measuring the other one even if light from it won't reach us.

Also there is this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner's_friend
Who is rachelbythebay?

(Don't expect an answer. This is a rhetorical question)
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I sold my plasma for a semester or so in college for gas money, before I got a "real job" on campus. I was making around $60-75/wk, which wasn't bad at all. The people there were all either college students or super sketchy people; it was right next to university campus.

I didn't (and still don't) feel like I was taken advantage of at all; it was better than flipping burgers.
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From https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html:

> A program is free software if it gives users adequately all of these freedoms. Otherwise, it is nonfree. While we can distinguish various nonfree distribution schemes in terms of how far they fall short of being free, we consider them all equally unethical.

For people who think that users deserve the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software they use, nonfree software is indeed unethical. Even more so when the software is used by the developers as an instrument of injust power.
They still receive their benefits. The negative income tax allows for them to spend money freely.
Elasticsearch implementations being held for ransom
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There's a language/dialect called Dongan which is written in Cyrillic without tone markers, and is to some extent mutually intelligible with Mandarin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungan_language
>If the seller left his plates on the car, well, that was a mistake.

That's not always the case. In some states the plates are "owned" by the vehicle, not a person and are transferred with the vehicle on sale.
Yeah, and their configuration is mostly automatic; running the tasks starts their respective server and injects the client-side code to connect to them in the build.

boot-reload will hot reload new code on file changes, and optionally run a client-side hook. I use it to remount my react views. boot-cljs-repl provides a REPL into the browser you can use from the cmd line or directly in your editor. I'm using it with emacs-cider, but there are clients for most major editors.
Here in the UK you're allowed by law to take photos in public but you will get hassled by the police if they feel like it an no amount of being right will help you then. You cannot win. It's OK if you take photos with your phone but owning an SLR is basically terrorism.
It undoubtedly will, if words are even a meaningful concept at all.
I can agree that blocking legislation is much, much easier than passing it.

On the other point, I lean Republican, and I'm more inclined to agree with 464192002d7fe1c. A lot of leftists love to blame the Republicans for being obstructionist during the Obama administration. But were you paying any attention to Obama's attitude? See [1]. He basically says "I won, deal with it, if you don't like it, then go win some elections". Well, they did, and they obstructed him in exactly the spirit that he invited. And in roughly the same spirit that the Democrats obstructed GWB during his term.

A good leader accepts the political situation and seeks to work within it. If your political opponents have control of Congress, you better learn how to compromise and work with them to get things done. This might actually involve not getting everything your way and sometimes doing something that the other side wants. Whining that you can't get the things that you want done is poor leadership.

I'll grant that there's a big divide between the two sides, and neither side is innocent in perpetuating it. But who can be the bigger person, lay off the name calling for a while, and make some compromises? Evidently not Obama. Maybe Trump will? I guess we'll see soon enough.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2013/10/17/pr...
I wouldn't go so far as to predict a long term upward trend, but prices are not going to continue their historic exponential drop. Like I said, cost reduction achieved by shrinking the node size (i.e. Moore's Law) was the main enabler for the exponential drop, but that trend has ended. This is common knowledge for anyone who follows the semiconductor industry, if you want data look it up yourself. Prices will surely still drop, but only incrementally. In particular, the PPU of SSDs will not be competitive with HDDs for the foreseeable future.
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It's also a bit self selecting - there's a lower chance those that change the defaults will fall for these attacks anyway.
Safari on both iOS and Mac have changed their Modal dialog alert that sites can trigger to be visually distinct from OS dialogs, which is a small welcome change. http://imgur.com/a/wRElN

Also worth nothing that in Safari the modals don't block the rest of the browser (I believe at least Firefox does this as well?) and are fully contained to its own tab.
80% of the H1B holders today are from India. And they cannot reach that step; because the wait time to reach there (485-EAD) is 70+ years.
When it's politics, it's not "trolling" -- it's sampling the constituency's appetite for the candidate, and getting early testing poll / focus group data feedback for free.
As opposed to having your manager DB lost or compromised by a trojan.