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The Empire is meant to be fascistic, basically Nazism In Space, in broad strokes, owing to the pulp science fantasy nature of Star Wars (originally envisioned as a Flash Gordon reboot.)

Beyond that, it's impossible to say that Star Wars universe does or doesn't subscribe to any particular political ideology because it encompasses a galaxy's worth of planets with their own particular ideologies, to whatever degree the franchise realizes them.

I don't know exactly what the Jedi and Sith are... other than the Jedi are supposed to be Good and the Sith are supposed to be Bad. The Jedi have some kind of quasi-ascetic warrior monk bureaucracy that reminds me of what little I understand of what the Samurai might have become during the Edo period. The Sith are apparently just violent sociopaths.

Although you could say the same about Star Trek, if you didn't focus so much on the Federation - the Federation is more or less explicitly Gene Roddenberry's vision of a communist utopia, but it also has the Romulans (a fascist military dictatorship), the Ferengi (capitalists,) etc.
Problem is the article is entirely wrong to be dismissive of the effects of the drug war. The author says that prisons aren't full of low level drug offenders, and I believe them. But that doesn't mean it's not full of people who
• violently assaulted a user who stole or didn't pay for drugs.
• violently assaulted a dealer in order to steal their drugs and or cash.
• murdered someone they believed was cooperating with the police and implicating them in drug trafficking.
• sold drugs while being armed with illegal weapons in order to protect themselves and their illegal business.
• etc.

The entire premise of the article is wrong, rendering it moot.
That's not what GP's comment is about.
> WhatsApp has something like a billion users. Virtually none of them asked for end-to-end encryption. They don't know that they want it, but they got it anyways when Whisper worked with WhatsApp to add Signal Protocol to WhatsApp.

> But just because they don't want it doesn't mean they don't need it. Many WhatsApp users badly need messaging security that works better than their alternatives. They don't know it, but with the flip of a switch, they got that security.

Most of them probably don't know they have it, either. This is a good thing: People can be safe without knowing how safe they are. The industry should be moving more people towards secure defaults.

Yes, security nerds will want something harder to attack in the middle. That's fine: They can build their own perfect security tools, and nobody will use them.
>But putting "VACCINES CAN KILL" as a headline in a mass-circulation paper would be just as wrong

So you admit it's true, but it's wrong to write it as a headline?

It's interesting to see people put their head in the sand regarding the Signal/Whatsapp security flaws.
Thanks for checking this. Very few laptops support this, and its badly documented. But it's IMHO the difference between good and superb Linux support.

Run sudo acpid, will start the daemon in the background.

Then run acpi_listen. It will block waiting for events. E.g. if you press media keys, un/plug the adapter, etc you should start seeing events. One per line.

Just leave it running on battery for a while. Hopefully it has events at 1% or 5% discharge intervals. Or at least for critical battery levels, when you cross the 10% or 5% level. Emergency thresholds can be usually controlled through a variable in sysfs.

These events are needed to write udev rules that get fired by the kernel. Thanks!
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Read the letter in full (I'm not being flippant, I mean it sincerely), as it addresses this exact issue.

There's empirical evidence that people switch off to SMS. In places like Egypt, people share phones, swap SIM cards routinely, and Signal's nondelivery behavior is a non-starter. Zeynep does research on this and has written a lot about it; it's fascinating (and depressing) reading.

The point is that these are not hypothetical scare scenarios. We have the data and that's why it's so urgent to chastise this kind of reckless coverage.
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Ah, maybe they upgraded it then. I know that so far it had only been USB 2.
Care to elborate on such bold statement?
I like that the "lip" on the Mirra 2 drops off more quickly so it doesn't press into you.

The Embody is another Herman Miller option.
Come on, don't be so naive. It sounds like a pretty obvious smear job: "he deserves to be locked up, he's sexist!" And after the mere allegation of sexism, you're happy to see someone dragged from their home in the middle of the night and locked up against their will without due process! It's absolutely disgusting. The woman with delusions of assassination plots is the one who needs mental examination, and I don't think it's fair to take any of her complaints seriously given that evidence.

Edit: how much you want to bet this guy's got a different skin color than his accusers?
You don't understand the concern. People who are worried about encryption by and large weren't using WhatsApp to begin with. The problem is people who aren't worried about encryption, but should be, and were being silently and effectively helped by WhatsApp's Signal Protocol feature.

The only message those people are getting is "WHATSAPP BAD, SWITCH". And switch they are, but not to Signal (none of their friends on are on Signal). Nope, they're adopting insecure alternatives, where they can actually talk to their peers.
Hi Dan,

I recall well all the meetings and arguments from the early days. The commitment to Firefox OS (née B2G) was late. It came after two years from B2G launch in late July 2011, until after Ben Adida left in July 2013. Mike Hanson took over for Ben on the identity team side; Fernando Jiménez Moreno from Telefónica (https://github.com/ferjm) did the B2G-side work.

Maybe that was right on time. I don't think so: Facebook Connect was even more entrenched, and Android installed base was climbing out of the Gingerbread 2.3 swamp. The commitment may have been massively massive once started, from your point of view. However, it was almost two years late precisely because we had to argue endlessly, from executive level down, against Ben's preferred non-Firefox/non-OS browserid adoption strategy: the JS shim library.
But it was there yesterday ( https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mLbutO... )!

Another victim of bad IT management and transition planning.
If they have more RAM, they're either using a different CPU, or using higher-power RAM chips.
Ah. Namespace collision.
Government is not a place where modern collaboration tools thrive. This has less to do with "broken IT" (though that's part of it) and more to do with the government's unique legal, oversight, and compliance burdens, and a lack of modern collaboration tools that can accommodate them.

The projects in which we are most successful are also not projects where people can easily contribute remotely. Some agency teams allow remote work but the jury's still out in my opinion as to whether these people are as effective as others.
Would they make more money if they let visitors from other platforms know it's a macOS app? No. That's why.
Yes, definitely build up a good runway or you'll find yourself negotiating from a position of weakness when you look for a job with urgency.

Another thing would be that employer preferences differ with regional factors, so get opinions from some local friends who have done this.

Finally, as you might already know, you must realize that this is a gamble. I'd play in a way that I have some guaranteed upsides(learning, fun, experience, autonomy), bounded downsides(loss of income, loss of seniority, stress) and unguaranteed, unbounded upsides($$$..$$$).
I'm using Fedora 25 as of 2 days ago along with some repos that were listed from the Korora project. I've been blown away by how smooth this experience has been so far.

This is the first time in years of experimenting with desktop/laptop linux where I've been able to say that it's close enough to gain mainstream popularity.
The people who signed this letter are the who's who of the study of cryptographic backdoors. What makes you believe you understand this subject better than they do?
Zenbook UX32LN - I've got it since 2015 and still can't stop feel how amazing machine it is. Running elementaryOS on it (linux), coding in Node.js, python, cordova, rails and everything works like a charm.
It is a very large piece of the long-term puzzle for how airlines are still in business despite having lost money consistently.

http://www.npr.org/2011/11/29/142909836/is-bankruptcy-busine...

That said, consolidation through mergers has happened recently. We will see how that plays out going forward.
You're saying the entire security community has put its head in the sand. Why do you think the top people in the field have signed this letter? I'm asking sincerely. What do you think you understand that they're missing?
That depends. Much of "the government" of trek seems to be handled by the military or at least military leaders. That is no doubt a product of the need to involve the known characters, but we do see little to nothing of elected officials. Some characters (spock) bounce seemlessly between military and what we would today call civilian jobs (ambassadors). The military and its meritocracy, as oppossed to civilian democracy, is at the heart of trek government.

That is probably a statement about US cold war politics, but i think matters today given the new cabinate being enshrined today.
Depending on the model you might be able to get a new battery. Of course it could add $50-$70 USD to the price.
This is awesome. The way that (often foreign, often on J1 or H1B or student visa) students are treated in major labs is often horrible. If this destroys Rubin's lab, so much the better. Maybe he can serve as a warning to other PIs.
This comment shows a lot of ignorance about the importance of the space program in general

That comment also showed a lot of literary license to make a point. Of course we got more out of it than a breakfast drink and an alternative to show laces. But one must first convince me that your list of innovations would not have been developed without the space program. I argue it simply accelerated the process.

But I still hold that whatever came out of Apollo effected my life in a peripheral way, if at all. The iPhone is an example. It was over ten years after Apollo 11 that I owned something with an integrated circuit (to my knowledge). 38 years until the iPhone. In contrast, it was a matter of a few years before the mobile computing device post-iPhone changed the way we communicate and gather knowledge. The mobile phone had a direct impact in many ways, and almost immediately. The space program had indirect impact, and took years in most cases.

But I imagine we're both right in our own way, and just talking past each other. Like any other nerd battle in the vein of "Star Wars vs. Star Trek".
The day before, Discord did high-quality a write-up on why they chose Cassandra [1], and now this post hits explaining how one of the world's most popular and trafficked service has engineered their infrastructure; it's like a dream.

I'll echo the praise I wrote earlier, that insights like this aren't only some of the best content to hit HN, but become some of the most valuable resources for designers who have yet to face a scaling issue, but know they will soon.

Since you have developed custom layers on top of open-source software to fit your particular usecase and load profile, and host all this in-house, have you considered monetizing your infrastructure for outsiders who may have similar needs?

Today, one has limited, unpleasant choices: either pay out the nose for something like AWS or Google Cloud to get elastic scaling and the captive storage systems that can be made to handle these kinds of workloads and still have to write a fair bit of custom glue to get all pieces to play nice, or you can build out the servers yourself, but have to employ dedicated talent with the requisite expertise. Either way, the barriers are fairly steep; you could tap into an under-served market should you choose to sell IaaS (edit: or, more accurately, PaaS). Has this conversation come up in the past?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13439725
Also, there's this in in episode 26 of Season 1 of the Next Generation, in which a group of people who were frozen and kept alive in the 20th century are found and unthawed on the Enterprise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQQYbKT_rMg
> Federal expansion programs are not sustainable.

Is the federal government sustainable? How many employees is enough? Have we already passed that?

Would it be better if we privatized the road crews?

> [Programs] ... They can help, but ultimately you need the private sector to create jobs by selling goods and services.

Well, you do need to create value as opposed to just shuffling it around. But creating roads is enabling much of that private sector earning.

Couldn't we imagine this with a minimalist government and a network of private toll-roads that collected the same or greater "tax" on the local businesses? How does the private aspect help?

> At the end of that 6 years, construction moves on. Money goes to another state, or another part of the state outside of a commute. What do you do then?

I imagine they'd total up the road length across the state, divide by maximum lifespan, and hire enough people to fix every mile by the time it would fall apart.

Yes, in a big state you're unlikely to circulate the same people from corner to corner, but thankfully roads tend to be found in close proximity to people, so I imagine the road crews could all be kept busy (for the most part) around where they each live.

We already do this - my city employs full-time construction people forever. The only decision would be to hire more, and how many is too many.

But if we aren't fixing each bit of road by the time it falls apart (and we are not) then we know we don't have enough.
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This requires splicing SSL connections, which requires installing custom 3rd party root CA certificate, which in turn requires complete and unwavering trust in your filtering software vendor.
Bashing "wealthy capitalists"?

Declaring most of my hard-earned paycheck to be someone else's "human right"?

Attacking the middle class for not being receptive to class warfare rhetoric?

Hopefully you can see why Thiel might characterize these sorts of opinions about the future as Marxist ideology, long ago discredited by history.
I'm not doubting you, but I'm curious if you have a link/source regarding the tanks and rocket launchers
Probably because the world of TNG, at least that of the Federation, is the diametric opposite of the Randian universe?
As someone who was born and raised in a communist country, I too "fear" communism, as well as its harbinger: socialism. Unless you're Norway (a tiny country with massive natural resources and an enormous sovereign wealth fund) that shit has been shown repeatedly not to work, and millions of people have died conclusively proving this point. No, thanks.

Edit: folks, before you make fools of yourselves, _please_ read the textbook definition of what socialism actually is. Thanks.
> I'm not a kernel dev, but I have to ask: what's wrong with mailing lists?

No way to vote on comments, no formatting or embedded images (which work with all clients, including the web UI), no way to edit comments after you've posted them, no easy way to subscribe/unsubscribe to just one individual thread... need I go on?

> Unlike your examples of GitHub and Gitter, they're unencumbered FOSS

So use GitLab and RocketChat then.

> It also has advantages of being federated, accessible offline, easy to write bots for, etc.

Fair point. I think RocketChat is working on federation, and GitLab and RocketChat both have well documented APIs, but for the most part you're correct that email is superior in these points.

> I don't see any dichotomy between using email and having a nice UI. I certainly find my email UI (Emacs + Mu4e) far nicer than any Web site I've ever seen.

That may be true for you, but not every new developer is going to come into your project with that kind of setup. They'll be reading your plaintext, hard-wrapped emails on Outlook or Gmail while struggling to set up filters so they only have to read emails from the mailing list about threads or topics they're actually interested in. A web UI ensures everyone has a great user experience right out of the gate.

> As for GitHub pull requests, I've never actually seen the appeal.

All the advantages mentioned in my response to "what's wrong with mailing lists" above, plus inline code review, immediate feedback from CIs, linters, and code coverage analysis tools, and integration with the issue tracking system.

> Once I've cloned a repo and made a change, why do I then have to "fork" the repo, add a new remote to my clone, push the changes then open a pull request; when I could instead run `git send-email`?

Personally I've never found the process of creating a fork to be any sort of inconvenience. Maybe you'd be interested in the `hub` CLI though: https://hub.github.com/
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I ran into this once. I decided that I knew well enough what I was worth so when they asked what salary I was looking for, I gave a number.

They said, "oh that's outside the band for this position" so I replied, "that's unfortunate" and asked what we can do about it. There was a quick back and forth ("would you be willing to come down?" etc.), then I forget whether I suggested it or she did but I found out there was a more senior title with a higher salary band.

So that's how we solved the issue: after confirming with a VP, I got a fancier title and the salary I wanted, they got me in the right bucket on their comp grid.

The point is that you shouldn't walk away nor should you budge just because they say "that's outside the salary band. Maybe they're looking at the wrong band.
The other commentor is right. It doesn't even remotely describe the workings of the economy, especially at the galactic scale. Why do Ferengi care so much about latinum? They still have access to replicators. Episodes frequently involve exchange of goods at variable prices, obviously blowing the command economy idea out of the water.
Actually, Chris, I think you misunderstand my comment.

Thompson sampling (and Bayesian Bandits in general) can be applied with a model for estimating conversion that is more complex than P(conversion|A). It can include parameters for time of day, day of week and even be non-parametric.

If you do this, you the standard Thompson sampling framework with nochanges* whatsoever will still kill losers quickly (if the loss is big enough that seasonality cannot save it) and will also wait until it has enough data seasonally to make more refined decisions. This is very different from simply waiting for an even season point to make decisions.

You do need more data to understand a more complex world, but having an optimal inference engine to help is better than having a severely sub-optimal engine.
Wasn't there like a whole bunch of EMH's running a whole ship or something. They are sentient. Star Trek makes no sense whatsoever in that the holodeck is so real you can fall in love in the holodeck. So why does anyone need to go anywhere. You can stay wherever you want, safely, and be wherever you want to be and explore whatever robots or holograms running around in ships have explored.

Most of the adventure, if that's what this is about, is carried out by the executives at great risk to themselves. It seems that there is a huge crew of peons who just make the ship run. And also the ship blows up all the time like no one's business. From a realistic point of view the Star Trek universe seems insane.
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I've really enjoyed the book The Linux Programming Interface by Kerrisk as a guide for learning some of these types of low level concepts.

https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Programming-Interface-System-Ha...
You left a four paragraph reply after beginning by announcing that you hadn't read the article, then ending by saying you don't care regardless. Those are strange motivations.

Boy, nothing slips past you, eh? Were I to give an honest self-assessment, it's because the article I didn't care about (but did, in fact, read albeit skimmed) gave me a jumping off point to talk about what I want to talk about. It's a common human affliction.
Meitu denies selling collected user data, blames China
I would also like to add that you should get to mvp as fast as possible so that you can charge for whatever you've built.

I think a lot of devs focus too much on coding and not enough on revenue. Make sure the feature you're adding has value, or else you're just wasting your time.

I also made the mistake of using the project as an opportunity to learn new technologies which is dangerous because it can eat into the time it takes to ship.
This is obviously fake; real rednecks can't afford an Oracle license.
http://www.okamura.jp/en_ap/products/seating/luce/

Looks funny, but when you sit it goes down.
The argument that people can just "not drive Uber" would be a fine one. Except that Uber has a history of drastically changing their compensation structure overnight.

This fall in Toronto, they reduced their UberEat compensation by half, overnight. People have rent, invoices, bills, and have car payment and comes to expect a certain amount of money to come in after week, and when you do those kind of changes overnight without warning people, this is just pure evil capitalism.

They use the same tactic when they open a new market, they advertise certain rate, people buy a car or rent a car to start working for Uber, and then few months down the line they reduce the price, and again, and again, and again, and then people are stuck with a car where they have to drive twice as much to bring back the same income.
Exactly. You couldn't build OpenSolaris without proprietary blobs, the build process only worked correctly inside Sun's network, code contributions were not accepted. Under Sun the OpenSolaris project had already started to take technical decisions behind closed doors more and more (it was easy to confirm this from their bug tracking system that differentiated between public and private tickets). I dont understand why people think Sun was the open source god in the sky. Perhaps too much emotional attachment from the "good old days", but I can't relate.

6 or so years ago I thought Solaris would have a fighting chance. I was naive.
Little Snitch can do this also, called "Automatic Profile Switching".
The logic behind this seems off?

Signal and whastapp have different behaviors regarding this. (Signal does not have the issue of re-sending messages as was previously reported here).

This letter signed by a lot of very serious security cryptographers means that there is a consensus among the community about the "best" behavior in terms of security, trade-offs, etc.

If there is indeed a consensus about what the "best" behavior is, then both Whatsapp and Signal should adopt this "best" behavior.

However Whatsapp and Signal do not have adopted the same behavior. So the consensus does not seem to be there, otherwise both Whatsap and Signal would have adopted the "best" consensual behavior.

So by first order logic... There is no consensus on this?