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I read general_ai's comments. I don't think your summary's fair and submit that your tone's a little aggressive.

This doesn't get things back on topic. Though, it took minimal effort to find instances of Salon running ridiculous reports. [0]

Here the real problem: these companies can't get their hands on content fast enough. WaPo produces 500 articles/day and 1200 items/day. AFAIK, because there's no real punishment for quasi-spurious claims, there's no incentive to spend marginal time vetting sources. Today, the story can be shared 100K times in the time a retraction takes place. But by then, the damage has been done, and again, the punishment isn't material. I don't think a retraction fully undoes the damage of spurious reporting.

[0] http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/01/23/salon_trut...
I always find tmux's scrollback to be vastly inferior to a native terminal's though.

There are several reasons, but the biggest is that I'm pretty sure it's not possible to get more than a screenfull of text to my local X11 PRIMARY selection.
I'd like to see the day when the methan and oxygen propellants for the ITS are synthesized from water and atmospheric CO2 by Tesla solar plants. But SpaceX could just buy the methalox from Tesla, there's no complicated partnership that would benefit from merging them.
Many companies take advantage of open source software. Some support open source through support contracts. Some which develop software release some of it, and employ devs who also contribute to projects. I'm sure there are many other ways companies use and support OSS directly and indirectly; some, don't support OSS at all.

SaaS companies are in a position where it can make it difficult for them to release their core software because it severely undercuts their viability if it's easy for people to set up their own installations.

What follows is naïve speculation as to counter arguments:

One could argue that they could differentiate themselves on better quality of service and support. It's possible, of course, but there may be enough people willing to put up with lesser quality that it may not be feasible for them to survive.

One could counter that taking advantage of community software contributions can lower their own internal development costs. Maybe, but there are very real costs when managing an open source project, including not being able to move as fast as they may want to. For example, if GitHub wanted to make a change for expediency' sake that wouldn't be appropriate for the community code, they're saddled with maintaining their own fork, which adds considerable overhead.

Of course GitHub loves open source. Their business is to provide a service that benefits open source (and closed source, for that matter) projects by providing infrastructure to manage their code. Some of their current and former employees are well-known in the open source community. I refuse to see anything nefarious or untoward (or even the slightest bit bad) about this until I see them doing something that impedes or actively works against open source. I see nothing "inconvenient" for GitHub about this. Some people are far too quick to go out of their way to look for hypocrisy.

(And as for "turning open source community ethos into hard $$$": my goodness. Yes, they make money. I hope plenty to continue to support the business, improve the service, and pay their employees well. How many community projects pay nothing for hosting on GitHub? How many devs pay to host their own projects, or fork others? The only reason I've considered paying was to host private repos: not open source. It'd be interesting to see their revenue numbers, but I suspect most of their revenue is for enterprise installs for software that isn't open source. Any corrections as to this most welcome.)

And there are alternatives for those who want open source. GitLab appears to be a great one.
why don't I see more sites using Amazon logins? I almost always see Google, Twitter and FB only.

It could be that Google, Twitter, and Facebook are truly international, while Amazon is not available in many countries. Unless your app is US or UK centered, you'd be missing out on quite a big population.

EDIT: the list of Amazon countries appears to be United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India, and Mexico.
If memory usage matters to you, have you tried telling the JVM not to use all the memory? Have you tried any of the tuning options? Can't say I've ever used app engine, but the pure java applications I've worked on did in fact use a fair bit of memory, much like windows and OSX will aggressively use spare memory for caching. Then I use -Xmx to tell it not to use all the memory and now it's much better. For a server, I'd say that this is both expected and the correct behaviour.
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That a counterexample exists doesn't really impact the claim that "many" (though they imply "most" imo) do not work this way.
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That is to an extent what regulated as a utility was about (there was other parts), it's also why net neutrality is important for more that just a fair market argument.
Sounds great, but then I saw:

$ npm install -g vgm

Nope. Nope nope nope.

Stop using nodejs to write simple shell tools, particularly when it's just a wrapper for another tool and could be done in a couple of dozen lines of shell script, with no dependencies.
> The ultra-performance professionals ... often do their own builds and then keep upgrading them.

I think this claim stands in pretty stark contrast to the history of Apple products in the professional graphic/video sector.

Even for people doing stuff like CAD that is less sensitive to image quality and more performance-oriented - nobody at a company of any real size (say >25 users) assembles their own hardware. I'm sitting two feet from an HP Z400 workstation that my (architect) father-in-law snagged for me when his company upgraded their CAD workstations.

The reality is that assembling PCs, debugging them when hardware breaks, etc is not free. Once you approach a certain scale (I would imagine this is roughly around the point of a single tech) it starts becoming worthwhile to externalize the cost instead of hiding it in salaries. For a price, Dell or HP will make sure that you don't have to worry about your hardware. If you hire a bunch of new people, a bunch of new boxes will show up tomorrow. If you have a PC crap out, they'll get it back up tomorrow.

Of course they do charge for this, and they make a profit doing it (i.e. they charge more than it actually costs). Once you are at a really huge scale, it might be worthwhile to bring it back in-house and have someone do it full-time. But like any managed service, it's a viable proposition at certain scales. You buy Amazon AWS instead of running your own servers, a lot of businesses buy HP or Dell workstations instead of worrying about it themselves.

Power-gamers are pretty much always individuals, who (like tiny startups) are price-sensitive and build their own hardware. When you don't have an income stream tied to the product, it's worth spending an evening building it yourself. Although this still assumes a power-gamer with some decent knowledge of hardware. First-time builders have a bit of a hump to get over, and beige boxes sold for family PCs drastically outnumber the power-gamers.

Still though, to the more general point, Apple still has some pretty serious mind-share in the professional market, although it fades year over year especially when they're pushing shit like the trash-can Mac. I think it's premature to say that Apple can never succeed in the professional market, especially given their historic inroads in that market.

But again, they do themselves no favors by not upgrading their hardware. The current base model Mac Pro GPU uses the workstation version of the Radeon HD 7870. The high-end model uses the workstation version of the Radeon HD 7970. That's pretty ancient in tech terms, especially now that NVIDIA is moving away from Kepler. It's three generations old, they should have moved on to Fiji-based chips a year ago.
OK. Trying to restate your premise:

1) There are cities in the US that currently have intentional murder rates higher than aggregate medieval European ones.

2) There are points in history where the aggregate murder rate is better than the current one.

If I understand those 2 correctly, I'm no longer arguing that the data doesn't agree with that. That was a misunderstanding on my part about what you were suggesting.

Now what I'm saying is that it is largely not germaine to the article as:

A) in 1926 when the article makes its first sample point, the aggregate rate in the US at least, was worse than now and

B) specific city numbers in comparison to aggregate numbers are not revelatory as you have no idea what they were historically (at least from the citation).

The current aggregate number is clearly much lower than the current St. Louis number so if we assume a linear correlation in those numbers then the St. Louis number would be worse in 1926. If we aren't going to assume a linear correlation between the aggregate numbers and the city specific ones, I'm fine with that, but I'd like to know why as none of the data sets imply that city murder rates have changed.
I was a little surprised that he author disliked "heavy" things, yet kept reaching for the absolute heaviest tools in their respective categories:

- Rails (just about the heaviest web framework ever made for ruby, despite it's wide appeal)

- Ember (I absolutely love ember, but it is by far the heaviest modern JS framework... I don't include things like ExtJS)

Also, I routinely use the heavy/light distinction, but it seems in a completely different way. I almost don't care how heavy something that run on the server-side of a web application is, on the back-end "heavy" generally translates to "contains complexity I'm not willing to deal with". "heavy" on the frontend for me means both in footprint and complexity.
What, people who live in cities don't have freedom? And the user you replied to wasn't talking about space available like in a truly rural setting, they were talking about how it's impossible to live in a suburban or rural setting without centering your life around the car you drive.
Scrollback is implemented as a patch: http://st.suckless.org/patches/scrollback
It will be interesting to see if self-driving cars lead to parents being more comfortable with their children exploring.
Crime is not the problem, traffic is. I grew up in a blind alley, and the whole town was really low in traffic. I started cruising around with my bike together with the neighbors at age 7, and we met a car every 10 minutes, tops. They slowed down to a stop, mostly, when they saw us.

Fast forward, we are living in a city of 30k citizens now, though on the outskirts; there is a major road about 200m away, and although we have a tight speed limit in our area (30kmh), I'm not sure we can allow roaming around before age 10. Cats are run over all the time here, people just don't look before going around corners. And then there's the occasional report (or rumor?) of people trying to spirit children away from their parents in the local mall.

That being said, maybe I felt a lot safer as a kid in the same circumstances.
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"Looking at initial drafts of the Affordable Care Act early in its history versus what ultimately passed Congress is a depressing reminder of how willing Democratic partisans are willing to compromise their values in terms of playing ball with an enemy team..."

They made no attempt to compromise on the ACA. They didn't need to -- they passed it with zero GOP votes in the House and almost zero in the Senate. They didn't even let Reps or Senators see the bill before the vote!
I know that there is an option for integrating tmux's internal clipboard with X11's but I haven't bothered with them because I prefer to keep the clipboards of the various terminal apps I use separate.
Many years ago in 96 or 97, my colleague tried to upgrade Oracle DB by running "sudo /path/install.sh" from the root folder. Little did he know that the script did "rm -rf *" on one of the first lines :)

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That sounds like torture - I'd rather be waterboarded!!

That being said, you raise an interesting point.
It appears to be a notebook backed by containers, so you could presumably use:

docker container diff
I just use tmux's native copy/paste mechanism, using the keyboard. Using that it's possible to get the full scrollback buffer, or any part of it.
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Ask HN: What is your approach to donating to nonprofits?
For example: All things equal, do you try to consolidate and make your donations to the best organization on the issue you care about, or do you try to widely distribute the donations to as many suitable organizations on the issue as possible in order to maximize the number of approaches to the issue? How do you judge donation options as best/good/bad - particularly, are there non-obvious factors you look at?

Thanks
The PS4 southbridge has 256MB of RAM, runs FreeBSD, and downloads game patches and such. This seems far more ambitious than a BMC/ME.
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Perhaps you didn't mean it this way but your comment takes the form of the snarky dismissal, which is something we need less of on HN and is particularly against the Show HN guidelines:
https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

All new work is vulnerable to easy dimissal, so it's important not to spray this sort of pesticide on it.
I think about the future and it's relation to mind. For example, we hear a rustle in the jungle, consciously or not we take action against a future in which we are eaten by a tiger.
Siegel points to this regulation over time in his definition, good stuff.

Your self improvement is related to the future too. Do you mind if I ask, what kind of tigers do you run from?

BTW. Thank you for the info, this might be worthy of a detour :)
Seconded. People see crap they don't like and escalate to some 3rd party without at least making a token effort solve it first get a special place in hell.
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It's anecdotal but it doesn't seem that ridiculous, at least, not in the face of your criticism which seems to be 'think of the disadvantaged kids'. Disadvantaged kids may have had even greater constraints and lived in a more dangerous world but that's a point in favour of the article - they had to get around and so did anyway.

I'm going straight to hell for using this as an example in a pointless forum argument but since we got here (and I'm rationalizing it to myself that it's somehow your fault, sorry) - Emmett Till's mother put him on a train in Chicago and sent him, by himself, to visit relatives in Mississippi. At age 14 he was expected not only to travel solo cross-country but to safely navigate an actually dangerous, pointedly racist world. The demands on disadvantaged kids were even greater but the fact that they couldn't ride their bikes to the municipal pool doesn't mean they just sat at home under the watchful eye of their governess.
They're still common here in the US too. Nothing has changed except typical irrational emotional kneejerk reactionary people who want us to believe that this well intentioned nanny state is taking away our rights. It's a mixture of typical conservative stupidity and obnoxious condescension.

Even though productivity is at an all time high, for example, these traitors still want us to believe that people used to work so much harder and dressed so much nicer. These are huge deals to these worthless dumbfucks, who will also tell you that just about everything is worse than it used to be. They're too stupid to think for themselves so they go for these comfort zone lies without even checking.

Why is this? Society is a lot more civilized than it used to be. People have a lot more freedom to be who they are and the conservative traitors cannot handle it. These lies about people being more slovenly or helicopter parenting and all this other stuff is primarily an invention of the conservative/treasonous/poisoned mind. Don't believe the bullshit, people will tell you endless "back in my day" trash.
von Neumann died in 1957. Was he really first registered owner?
Could this be as simple as, gravity has an effect on telomeres length?
But...

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Interesting. Thanks for the pointer to dvtm. I'm not sure I can see using it when I'm already fairly hooked on tmux, but it does seem kind of nice.
They could,. Unfortunately, it requires a huge investment and needs a lot of highly skilled staff, who are currently working on its mainstream product. Also, when you've done your new chip design, you still have no hardware devices and no software to run on them.

It's taken roughly 40 years to get x86 to its current position, and almost as long to get ARM to its current position. For how many years would you have to invest in a new architecture (ie lose money) before you could compete with them?

AMD has just done a new chip design (Zen) but it's x86-compatible because that's where the software is....
Meanwhile, GitLab is also a business focused on turning open source community ethos into hard $$$-- part of their core product may be open source, but they're not a non-profit.

(One might even say that Gitlab is even more focused on turning open-source community ethos into hard $$$, because GitLab takes open-sourced community contributions to GitLab CE and rolls them directly into their paid, closed-source GitLab EE. Not that I'm suggesting that's necessarily a bad thing; I just want to make it clear that this isn't a Mozilla-style "take contributions from the community for the community's sake"-type thing.)
Not around where I live. They hang out about 15 feet away.
I wonder if they did it for a marketing reason.

The fact that the game was so large that it came on two disks and needed to be installed to a usb drive could be seen as a positive to some gamers.
> "Organize a community of Open Source developers who want to build tools to help local Democratic parties and clubs."

...this may be an unpopular opinion, but even though the GOP is atrocious, the Dems haven't really given us a good reason to give them our support either. That's the hard part for me anyway, I can't in good conscience lend support to either of two ruling parties.

> "Use our community to bring the voice of the Open Source community to our elected leaders and government."

...just so the DNC "leaders" can collude behind closed-door meetings to push whatever candidate and corporate agenda they want on us come election time, hoping we'll turn out no matter how disappointing the candidate.
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Arguably, it's better to elect flawed but representative people. How else are people to learn?
> MS tried it, and that was pretty much a disaster.

Do you mean the Windows Runtime subsystem? How is it a disaster?
Really long load time on browser, like a couple minutes. I'm used to circuitjs, which loads & simulates instantly.
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> regressive tax that mostly punishes the poor for smoking

"The poor" need to reevaluate their priorities if smoking is their choice for spending their limited resources. How else should activities that are bad for society be discouraged?

It's interesting that the rich are much more likely to choose not to smoke even though they are the ones who can actually afford it. I'm not sure what that means but it's interesting to me.

Smoking rates go down by level of education but is that cause or correlation?

What makes poor people want to smoke more than rich?

> If cost of living issues were really their number one priority then these sin taxes would be the first to go.

Not sure about this. Cost of living IMO is about affordable housing, food and transport. You know, the actual essentials, not non-essential "luxuries" such as poisonous addictions.
...and does it not support pasting from the X clipboard ? It's not accepting in my installation, anyway... :/
And I want to paste it into a non-terminal application running locally while the tmux is on a remote host?
This is two years old...