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> have a more nuanced view on politics because of their socioeconomic status

Less nuanced, more not giving a crap because none of Trump's policies are likely to impact them.
Does everyone have a memory loss? Just a few years ago Obama was going to bomb Iran back to the stone age.

And US border force always harassed people who visited enemy countries. Several people were not allowed to enter, because they visited Iran, or other 'axis of evil' country.
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How on earth does one do research? I can't see a load of products and verticals, and pretty much all my existing products are maxed out.
This! The fact that a Firefox fork is often used as the "secure for browser" is really pretty disturbing. You have no clue what Firefox is doing 90% of the time and you probably never will.
The airport security workers didn't think "OMG IRAN MUSLIM TARGET ACQUIRED DETAIN DETAIN DETAIN".
They weighed principles of the previous century and laws that, for all they know, might have been abolished overnight against the clear intent and the messy law of the new policy of harassment and inequality of the new USA administration; and they thought holding a diplomat at the airport was the safest course of action for them.
And the only reason why the ban doesn't encompass those countries (Saudi Arabia, UAE, etc.) is because Trump has business dealings there.
Do you really think that former Prime Ministers travel on regular passports? Don't be dense.
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I think many people feel "meritocracy" has become a code-word for "allowing technical contributions to justify and excuse bad social behaviour."

Important free Software and Open Source projects are almost always community efforts. Ignoring bad behaviour which harms the community may have technical benefits in the short term (assuming the people behaving badly are skilled hackers), but in the long term their contributions may not be worth the harm they do by excluding and driving away other potential contributors.

A hostile work environment is rightly considered a problem that needs to be fixed in a professional context. For those of us doing FOSS as a hobby, it's even more important - few will spend time on a hobby where they are treated badly.

I also like the meritocracy concept. But I feel rather strongly that it is important that the "metrics" are not just technical, but social as well.
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Yes, clearly "audition via github/coding tests/open source contributions" is a code word for race/gender.
But that was half the fun of doing learning to hack on a C64. Adding coder tools typed in from MLX code from Compute! or Compute!'s Gazette and learning assembly by taking apart programs in Monitor was a deep learning experience for many beginning 6502 coders.

It's sad that they didn't last, but the chip was simply an evolutionary dead end. I've recently thought about finding one to give my grandson in an attempt to pry away from a tablet his parents gave him.

The crop of tablet/cell-addicted kids is a sad state of affairs.
That said, WhatsApp is a pretty good secure messaging app even though they got bought by Facebook.
Bluebird is faster than native promises as well.

http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/27877...
I clicked on this expecting some technical stuff and all I got was this BS social/community whining.

Well, even in the worst case where FreeBSD community is trash, they have one of the best kernel implementations and one of the best open source OS documentation.
Promises also work better with Typescript, since it's well defined which type each step returns and which the next function expects. That means the .then(a => next(a)) cascades can be typechecked well. async.waterfall doesn't seem to be typecheckable.
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It's not a company's responsibility to pay more than it owes. It's the people's responsibility to elect a government that will write rules without such gross and long standing loopholes. Or at least to elect a government that will close them after a decade or two of abuse instead of keeping them permanently.
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History teaches that for some things (like artificial light [ancient oil candles->LED]) as the price decreases linearly, consumption increases geometrically.

Imagine a breakthrough in energy generation tomorrow, (i.e. fusion, automatic robotic placement of solar cells, etc.) where the world has access to vastly more usable energy/electricity than it has ever had.

Living in this imagined future, in what ways would you personally would consume 10x or 100x the amount of electricity (or energy) you consume today?
People in Trump's camp have used the Japanese internment as "precedent" for a Muslim ban.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/us/politics/japanese-inte...
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In America, we call a version of this "redneck retirement" where a rural landowner is able to sell his property to a real estate developer when it is subsumed by urban sprawl.
1776 also has an amazing unabridged audiobook read by the author. David McCullough has a great speaking voice that will keep you interested in the material.
Isn't it a bit disingenuous to omit the fact that both Iraq and Syria have areas experiencing active warfare?

But what you seem to ignore is that the active warfare in both countries was caused by us. And in Libya too.

Think about that. Those countries are now a mess because of "regime change".
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There's a small but important trap to people who might want to use git-annex as a backup tool, namely that you can't store a git repo in git-annex.

http://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/Storing_git_repos_in_g...
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That's possible. But to me it's not totally obvious. He said the US embassy in Oslo checked/authorized his travel credentials. So either he's lying or the US embassy fucked up.

Either way, it sounds like situations like these used to be handled a little more smoothly/amicably. If two nations are friendly to each other, and one fucks up, what's the use in antagonism?
What exactly is their "strategy" besides just posting every single PR news piece on their FB feed?

Or am I just naive in believing it's something sophisticated?
The FreeBSD project does now have a code of conduct; it is, Rice said, a "patched-up rush job". Project members still honestly thought that "meritocracy" meant "inclusiveness" initially. They have since learned otherwise, and the code is being reworked.
It really depends where you're coming from and where you've been.

If your a former Prime Minister of an allied nation, you'll probably only be detained an hour[0].

Otherwise your mileage may vary[1]. Your local authorities can probably give you some guidance on this.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/02/0...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/29/nyregion/airports-travele...
Same here. I quitted newspapers, tv, and fb. But twitter (like HN) is a good source of tech news for me. Current situation has corrupted my feed too.

Is there any nlp tool to filter out tweets by topic?
Very carefully -- not to heat up my environment. In dense cities heat output is already about 1% of solar input.
Sounds like another reason to not host global events in the USA. Los Angeles should drop its bid for 2024 Olympics; there is zero chance now.
His policy platform was literally the GOP's standard platform (excepting the Mexican Wall).
It's kind of a PIA, but I enjoy using umatrix and ublock origin. Allows me to only turn on the stuff that I want.
The article isn't bad tho… it's pretty much a transcript of a talk with the same title by a FreeBSD Core member.

The comments… yeah, there are people whining about "Marxists" "ruining projects" or something. Welp.
Access to the whole ACM digital library is $99 if you are an ACM member (which costs another $99 yearly,) so it is really $360 only if you want the printed version.
I'm confused now. Which stance are you taking?

> When technology becomes more meritocratic (e.g., audition via github/coding tests/open source contributions rather than interviews), we get more Asians, fewer non-Asian minorities and fewer women. Because meritocracy in technology fails to achieve the goal of "gotta catch them all", it must be opposed.

This seems to suggest that you don't want meritocracy. Was that sarcasm?
If there's something you need to talk about, by all means find a place to talk about it. But if what you want to talk about is how other people are stupid, maybe this is the wrong place for that. I hope that you find the healing that you need.
Azure Container Service is simply a PaaS-ish offering of Swam, DC/OS, or Kubernetes. It still spins up VMs that you can log into, but handles deployment/provisioning of the product, and makes some assumptions about your use case. It's a great way to push a button and have a "real" deployment of those services to evaluate, especially if your goal is a platform-agnostic target. I work for an Azure-focused cloud consultancy and for any serious production environment we still build out a more custom deployment using a combination of Terraform, Chef, Cloud-Init, CoreOS, etc.
>Just a few years ago Obama was going to nuke Iran back to stone age.

[citation needed]
You need to differentiate between where your company has its "real seat" (= place of business activity) and your "legal seat" (=incorporated as GmbH or LLC or ...). If your office building is in Berlin and you employ a local team (your "real seat"), it does not matter if your company is a GmbH, a UK Limited or an Estonian e-company - you are still under German tax, employment, insolvency, consumer protection law...

If you have your "real seat" in Germany, in my view, it makes sense to go for GmbH, instead of registering in UK/Estonia, because the corporate law differences are not that big.

The question if you should decide to build a company in Germany is another discussion.
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That's actually pretty comparable to how we tend to operate the Mercurial project, FYI. We tend to prefer rebase to merge for feature work.
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Unlike Windows 10, Mac OS X still supports subpixel font antialiasing (similar to ClearType in Windows 7), it is called LCD font smoothing there, e.g.:
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Even though Facebook by itself doesn't seem to provide much value anymore, it's incredible how much of a platform lock-in the have. For example, Facebook login becoming essentially a universal identity provider. The worst thing is even when you create a new account under a different name they still manage to track you down, and start suggesting adding friends from the old account. I wonder how they do this, by tracking cookies and fingerprinting your browser?
I'd say more like BSG, but also much better. Was never a huge BSG fan, but I'm loving the Expanse. There is much more focus one the world at large in The Expanse, compared to Firefly, and the intrigue and diplomacy between the players in that world. The rag-tag crew of do-gooders thrown together by fate in the small spaceship which half the show focuses on (and where the firefly comparison come in) are more shown as a tiny (but important) player, way out of their depth, in huge expansive conspiracy they can barely comprehend.
Google and Facebook have both claimed that women and minorities tend to outperform hiring scores, which is why they hire them more aggressively.

I think there are two factors at play:

* Generation and exchange of ideas and approaches is the most important part of software engineering on a team. Diversity of gender and background probably gives this factor a bump.

* People are biased, both consciously and unconsciously, against certain minorities. This means lower evaluation scores and weaker resumes (since the world shares the bias).

But whatever the reasons, Google and Facebook are pretty good at this whole data analysis thing, so I wouldn't discount their experiences.
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David McCullough's (author of book #1 - 1776) thoughts on Trump prior to the nomination.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eimt7yz0ID8
I don't know if he's so directly thinking that, but there's definitely an element of "I'm above these others in this room".
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Related: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
Obama did the Iran nuclear deal to start a peace process.

You're mistaking him with GWB and McCain, who famously sang Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran on stage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-zoPgv_nYg
Can you trust anything by FB? Signal seems ok. Haven't looked too closely at it though.
To their credit, race was thought of differently before the discovery of the double helix. It was only until the 70s that people commonly believed that Neanderthals became white people because their bones were discovered in Europe, and that Homo Erectus created the Asian "race" because their bones were discovered in Asia.

Nowadays race more often means skin color and a deterministic culture, with the occasional addition of crude metrics such as IQ to justify preexisting biases.
Call me weird, but I hate when a program or service uses regions or locales to determine stuff like temperatures or languages.

First of all, it often does it wrong - especially when using geographical location, which is one of the dumbest idea I've seen in computing. GPS fails when people are traveling (just because I'm in Germany right now, doesn't mean I want to see websites in German, etc.). GeoIP fails for various reasons, including VPNs and weird ISP shenanigans.

Second of all, as a person fluent in English, I especially don't want to see a translation of your originally English site. Most software and website translations suck hard. My most common gripe: using the same word in translated language for things named by different words in original, or vice versa.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-executive-order-draft-c...

> A draft of an executive order on "religious freedom" is circulating in the Trump administration, outlining a possible weakening of protections designed to shield LGBT individuals from discrimination, according to a copy of the proposed order obtained by ABC News.

If that's true, then "A lot".
What does Java have? (Don't say Android, it was popular before that.)
FWIW, Israel no longer stamps passports.
In what way "Professional"? Why have these books been picked? By whom?

The list does have good books on it but the lack-of-context around this list leaves me confused.
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Prime minister of tiny Norway is about as powerful and important as a small city mayor in the USA.

Do retired small city mayors travel in first class on diplomatic passports and expect to be free from customs and immigration rules that apply to everyone else? They do not.

He isn't a fairytale prince. When he loses his post, he can travel on legitimate documents like the rest of us.
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I've wondered this too. I have friend suggestions for my work colleagues, even though my Facebook email is my own private address and I've never emailed them from that address. It's amazing and bothersome
Same, touching the scroll wheel yields unbearable UI confusion for about a minute.
You also have to account for the "spread" in classes. If income equality is lower, there is a greater spread in income from the bottom to the top. And the inverse if income equality is higher.

Thus, you could have someone in the US start out making $30K, then make $200K over their lifetime. Due to the spread in "classes", they might have only jumped up on class even though their income went up 6x.

In Europe, where the classes have less spread, someone could have gone from $30K to $100K and gone from the bottom to the top class.

Yes, mobility across classes is greater in Europe, but the American has the bigger increase in income.
>Yes, the combined "completely ignorant" intelligence services of every western nation in the world should turn to ycombinator, where you'll enlighten us all to how it really works.

You do realize that just because you remain ignorant of facts, that not everyone else shares in that with you? Nothing I said is actually controversial or even new, and funnily enough, policymakers and intelligence services understand this dynamic as well - I'm not sure why you're attempting to generalize your ignorance to a larger audience.

But since you've asked for sources, here are some quick ones:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Mosque_seizure

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/26/world/middleeast/26saudi.h...

In the future, it'll probably be more helpful for you to think of Saudi Arabia as not another sunni gulf state, but as the caretaker of the most sacred site in Islam, Mecca. Once you understand the centrality of Mecca's importance, you can see why the Ulema have such power in the country and why Western attempts to break their power directly will most likely be framed as an existential threat to Islam and beg severe blowback. Again, there are uneducated critics who are completely ignorant of the regimes attempts to break the power of the religious fundamentalists, and somehow believe weakening the monarchy will somehow pacificy the country, instead of handing over more power to extremists. Those people should be ignored because their ideas are terrible.
Ah, haven't been in a few years. Is it because of the above issue?
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It's like 1980/1984 again. :-(
Why is called a Muslim ban? The Muslin world is around 1.7 billion people, and dozens of countries (almost 1/3 of world population):

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/Muslim_Percen...

And we have over 3 million Muslims in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States

People seem to label everything in politics with a positive or negative name, depending on their beliefs.

The left and right are so noisy with their claims, I'm having a hard time filtering through all the noise. If we could use a little math in our labeling, we wouldn't get an equality on the ban being for "Muslims". Perhaps we could have our Deep Learning machines come up with Classification names.
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I've lost over that amount in stocks before I learned to never invest in a company that is not making sales. It always takes longer than you think, and while you wait your investment declines in the form of dilution or debt.

It's the same thing for your own startup. Do not take on debt unless you have a sale, and the debt is for fulfilling the order.

On the brighter side, I eventually made the money back through my investments and you will do better next time. It seems in business there is no way to learn other than the hard way - I learned more about psychology than finance.

Also, since you were extended credit, you probably are doing better financially than it sounds. That is, you have some asset backing the debt. So the greater challenge is forgiving yourself and moving on rather than the financials.
The article shows an excellent example of 'moving fast and breaking things':

< In comparison, Python started on CVS, moved to Subversion
< in 2004, then to Mercurial in 2009, and is now moving
< over to GitHub.

I used Python around 2004 and 2005, and never went back to it for my personal projects.

I would rather prefer 'moving slow and preserving things'. Any body here remembered how things went when Linux moved from OSS to ALSA? And now there's this systemd.
>Are there (tech) news-sites which do not have this 10-100MB bloat with three js framweorks and gifs, ads and whatnot?

The HackerNews comment section, with the added benefit of it being more informative.
I want meritocracy.

I don't think meritocracy (at least in tech) helps promote "diversity" (where diversity is a code word for "women and non-Asian minorities"). (The latter claim is broadly supported, albeit in convoluted language, by the social justice types who oppose meritocracy.)

I'm perfectly fine with this; "gotta catch em all" is not one of my goals. It is, however, the goal of many social justice types, so they necessarily oppose meritocracy.
It wasn't Obama. Hillary was very nonchalant about it, though: https://www.reddit.com/r/DNCleaks/comments/5945ho/hillary_ju...

(as always on Reddit, don't vote if you arrive with an external HTTP Referer header or you risk being banned 3 days on the whole site for participating in a voting brigade)
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I think you are conflating fajitas position and that of the "social justice types".
Wow the visualization is great. Probably not as useful as a standard weather website, but blown away by the design.
Nobody said it was a Tor exploit. It's just a deanonymization technique, which like most, rely on social engineering (convincing the user to push a "Save File" button).
Google never gets any credit. I used Google Now before Siri exploded the world. I listened to a machine learning series, which started like: "... applications include Facebook's facial recognition, Amazon's product recommendations, Google's image search, and Apple's self-driving car." Apple's car? Google is the world king of ML, and you gave them image search?
Saving money for future investments can be done with a so called Ansparabschreibung. This is a depreciation for an investment in the future. If later you decide not to invest you have to dissolve the Ansparabschreibung and then you have to pay taxes for the money in that year.

This might be attractive if for example you made some extra money this year which would raise your tax rate. If you know that you will make less money next year you can shift the extra money into the next year, reducing the total tax burden. Whether this is legal if you do not really plan to invest, IANAL. How would they prove it?
Agreed. I use FreeBSD every single day for development. It fucking rocks.

My only gripe is we're still waiting for KDE Plasma 5...
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> NET or COM [1] (this predates Internet)

What could you possibly mean by that? The .com TLD was introduced in 1985, with microsoft.com registered already in 1991. Microsoft COM was created in 1993. (Of course, "the Internet" in any sense of the word predates all of this.)
There are quite a few people who are technically very capable and at the same time socially dysfunctional. They are great if they can have their own corner of the project. But can be a disaster in areas where interaction is required.

There is also the opposite, people who are busy communicating, who generate lots of noise and never do anything.

So yes, merit should be defined as getting useful things done with rough consensus and not as brilliant code that then split the community.