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A question only intended as such: could you explain what you mean by the word "globalists"? Thanks!

e: I should clarify that I'm not being sarcastic or snarky and am genuinely interested in what "globalists" means -- I've never read it or used it, I am hesitant to look it up because I feel it might not get a fair shake in whatever I read, and was wondering how this user uses it.
The reverse, actually. Here's the trick:

Tax filing opened this year on January 23, 2017. This is the first day you can submit your return to the IRS. The IRS aims to process refunds for 90% of returns in 21 days.

In order to pre-fill a tax return (and, incidentally, to validate that your tax return is correct), the IRS needs information. You're familiar with the acronyms: W-2, 1099, etc. These are called Information Returns (IRs). Depending on the type of IR, these are due to the IRS (from your employer or bank, e.g.) by January 31, February 28, or March 31. I didn't get my 1099-INT from my bank until late-February, for example.

Now, do the math.

The IRS cannot pre-fill a return until March 31 at the absolute earliest. That ignores further processing, mailing, approval, etc. time. But for those taxpayers who filed on January 23, most had their refunds processed by February 15.

So pre-filling tax returns delays the process by 2 months.

There's a very "strange" circular logic here, too. In today's system, you shouldn't file your tax return until you have all your IRs. But you might know that you're not expecting anything in February or March, so you can file "early". But the IRS doesn't know that. They only know that you don't have that associated income when they don't receive anything by the deadline.

Incidentally, this is how fraud happens. I file a fraudulent return on 1/23. The IRS doesn't have the information to validate whether I'm lying or not: they won't receive that information for another 2 months. So the run some basic risk algorithms, then shrug and assume I'm telling the truth and pay me my refund (probably in the form of an untraceable debit card). This happens all the time, usually in the form of filing returns in the names of other people, often dead people or Puerto Rico residents (due to some arcane rules relating to income tax immunity given that PR is a territory).

(People make "mistakes" all the time. Small amounts are waived, and the IRS sends collection letters to the rest. The collection rate of those letters is very, very good. Though I have some good stories about government [in]efficiency. Those letters are not "audits", by the way, but friendly reminders. Audits are really rare, despite our fears.)

The other answer is "move up the deadlines". Make employers and banks file everything by January 15 or something. Good luck with going up against every single large employer and financial institution in the States!

And now you know... the rest of the story.
"very extroverted and have very low conviction"

I see that a lot in middle management in my company. There is this whole layer of people who are really good at going along with trends but can't make up their mind when hard decisions have to be made. As soon as someone else makes that decision they jump on the bandwagon again and take credit. It seems a really good way to climb the corporate ladder.
Verizon is the only cell company that has coverage in my home town in central Massachusetts. Thus I have used them all my life.

I recently had my first "positive" customer service with experience with Verizon switching to their unlimited plan. My bill dropped significantly. ($120 base -> $80 but really $200 -> $80 because I always go over on data)

I just noticed that I have a "phone upgrade" waiting as well. I am an Android dev and typically just buy unlocked phones when I need them and switch SIM cards. This sort of shit is why. Even as it is, Verizon branded phones are filled with crapware you can't delete. It sucks knowing that thru my monthly bill that I am subsidizing a "phone upgrade" program that I am never going to take advantage of due to the way Verizon molests Android before giving you the phone.
Counterpoint: when I was applying at Google they did ask for a full copy of my college transcript. Not sure how much weight it was given in the hiring decision, but it seemed important to the recruiter.
25 years of C++ myself. Back in the 90s I coded up all the grossest memory management blunders many times over. Long time since I produced one of those; these days I'm capable of producing some exquisitely subtle synchronisation and threading bugs ;)
I like to think of the original code as the first approximation to correct. You can always get closer to correct, but if you ever actually reach it, the universe will hit a breakpoint, and the daemons will halt their processes, grab you, and drag you and your code-that-mankind-was-not-meant-to-know off to coder heaven.

Coder heaven is nice. It has free juice, catered lunches, and foos-pong tables. Individual offices, with plenty of collaboration-friendly huddle rooms. You're only on call 1 eon out of every 4. Unfortunately, the universe is one giant CRUD app.

Probably better off not writing perfect code.
Reminds me of a comment I once saw on HN where someone suggested they avoided timing attacks by adding a random sleep.
There's no heat! Except in the community hall and church. I went in wondering how they deal with that. They never say. Burning peat? Wood? Just staying cold? Its the most important part of the consumer energy equation. Here, at 5kW per household max, there's no way they can heat using electricity.
TLP? This will fix my battery life issues?
Aren't you afraid you might be reinventing SPARQL ;-) ?
- FLAVOR: [Ubuntu Desktop]

- HEADLINE: a better software center

- DESCRIPTION: the software center's ui isn't polished. on certain page, you see improper layout, large white space. there seems to be little update to the software center in the past few years. there is not enough content marketing too, no recommended games/apps ...

Mac thrived partially thanking to the app store. why can't we have something similar under linux?
FLAVOR: ALL

HEADLINE: Colored shell prompts by default

DESCRIPTION: Color bright colors, and \w in the default PS1.

ROLE: DEVOPS MAN

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FLAVOR: ALL

HEADLINE: Speed up apt-get by move away from http to ipfs or even just https2 with quick.

DESCRIPTION: Waiting for headers...
Those uses of keylogging are about as legitimate as hidden cameras in hotel bedrooms, imo.
News and Notes on 2016 RIAA Shipment and Revenue Statistics [pdf]
The first two examples relate to codecs that are not installed by default. Most probably they should not be available for installation at all, but then it's the way that packages are available in the "universe" repository.

The third example is a valid issue, and got fixed. Apport is important to receive feedback from crashes. It is not enabled by default if you use the final versions of the installation ISOs. It is enabled only in the dev versions of Ubuntu.

Bug bounties would be interesting. Should they be monetary or should be something else (nice t-shirt). The issue with monetary bug bounties is that they make sense to money-making software and services.
Look into Amway - that's where a lot of this ideology was first cultivated. They literally took American Christianity, substituted an ambiguous notion of "business" with God, and pyramid schemed their way to immense wealth and political power. They also pioneered selling business sermons (in the form of cassette tape sets) long before this whole social media deluge of similar nonsense.
I'm confused. Are you suggesting this leaner version should exist and it does not? Or are you advocating for a leaner version that I have not heard of?
I had this exact scenario a year ago. No big deal. I was having surgery to repair a nerve after a bad finger injury. The nerve block in the arm pit was the worst part of the whole process. At one point the anesthesiologist got tired of talking to me and he went to the prep room to get my phone so I could web surf because I was bored. I even stuck the phone over the curtain and took a picture, which the surgeon wasn't thrilled about.
And there's also the possibility that the NYT et al have 1) done bad things in the past but 2) have also done good things For example, Noam Chomsky rightfully called the NYT "a bad paper" but he still read it every morning because it's one of the best sources of what's going on.
This article talks about wage growth for college only. There's no comparison to high school grad's wage growth or those with graduate degrees. You are jumping to conclusions about the value of a college degree without accounting for alternatives.

Most high school grads won't become programmers. They will work in warehouses, low level healthcare jobs, etc. The wage growth for high school graduates is worse than college graduates. It's a problem with the whole economy, not colleges specifically.
Ask HN: What are the challenges in Customer Success worth solving?
Would love to understand the current challenges of Customer Success that existing tools either fail to solve or are inadequate.
I know several people who used to work in the video game industry, and I used to as well (I still may get back into it eventually). It's much harder to convince interviewers that you can handle the work than it is for you to be able to do that work.

Granted, there was a lot I've picked up over the past few years working for large corporations, but not all of it was good. And there's just as much awful code in business applications as there are in game applications, and it's even less fun to debug them.
If all of those people who got abducted claims were true there should be some evidence somewhere and that lack of evidence, while not actually proving them wrong, definitely shifts the probabilities against them. It's like with Santa Claus, it's very hard to prove that he doesn't exist but the lack of evidence for him at all is very telling.
No, literally all the internal walls in my house are built from two solid layers of red bricks. There's no wood or metal involved. This is normal in most of the west outside America.
> The "single entry point" and "describe what you want, you'll get what you described" mindset makes it powerful, when used with the graphiql trial and error interface. We barely have to document anything anymore.

+1. It seems to me that another big advantage is speed of implementation. No matter how good your web stack is, implementing a whole bunch of separate HTTP endpoints tends to be fairly verbose and slow, and each should probably be tested thoroughly in separate modules. GraphQL mostly involves mapping data available in the GraphQL API to how it should be fetched in the backend. Lots of huge opportunities for sharing and reusing code, which is especially good for internal work where you don't necessarily need all the bells and whistles.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Mir and Unity 8 enabled by default

- DESCRIPTION: Mir and Unity 8 enabled by default with a strong push for snaps and/or flatpaks (or at least don't make it hard for users to use flatpaks on Ubuntu).
If Mir and Unity 8 aren't default in 17.10, then I don't think there's much of a chance it will be in 18.04, and that would truly suck. We've been waiting for it for a long time.
I'm the last person to say that the US mainstream media is doing a good job.

That said, I see you've been on HN long enough to not be surprised that all kinds of people can be found on here. It turns out that at least one person here was a personal friend of one of the Sandy Hook parents back in high school. Who played D&D with him, talked about Commodore computers with him, and who remembers when his roommate got mad and put peanut butter in his floppy drive.

It's bad enough that my old DM lost his child in a senseless tragedy. But when people try to insist that his greatest pain was all a hoax, that the child he lost maybe didn't even exist, that's just beyond the pale. Maybe it's easier for me to have all the facts because I know people affected. But thousands of people know these families - have you considered talking to someone who knows them? No matter how bad the media is, some stories are about real people, who can hurt. Please consider that when you spread bullshit online.
Free from Phones, BlackBerry Posts Profit
Pick some other niche that most people don't find so reprehensible and your reasoning falls on it's face.

Should a retailer that sells bongs "for use with tobacco" and advertises on a weed forum be held accountable for people illegally smoking weed with it?

A century ago you could have used the same analogy to say that some business that has an advertising deal with a gay bar is responsible for enabling them.

Both those examples are businesses acting "recklessly." Should they be held accountable? That is a slippery slope to biased enforcement.
- FLAVOR: all?
- HEADLINE: Improve experience of using 3rd-party apt sources
- DESCRIPTION: This suggestion is more apt related, but Ubuntu could lead the improvements. Many software providers (Microsoft, Elastic, etc) are using their own apt repositories to be able to deliver updates faster than the Ubuntu release cycle, which is great. However, configuring them usually requires Googling the instructions and at least 3 commands. For example, installing SQL Server for Linux has the following commands before you can even run apt-get install (from their official documentation):

curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | sudo apt-key add -
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/16.04/mssql-ser... | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mssql-server.list
sudo apt-get update

That is not user-friendly at all. It would be great if apt could help you out here. i.e. if I type in "apt install mssql-server", it could detect that it is not in the Ubuntu sources but that it is available in a trusted 3rd party source, and prompt me to add that source to my local apt sources. It would then also automatically update that source.

Also, perhaps the Ubuntu sources have an older version but a newer version is available at a trusted 3rd party, and provide an informational message and an apt command-line flag that would allow you to add the source. i.e. "mssql-server 17.0.0 is available at the third party source 'microsoft'. To install it, run 'apt install mssql-server -S microsoft'" which would add the microsoft source and install the package.
- ROLE: software engineer
Concrete walls are rare in Bangalore. Cement bricks seem to be common these days.

Even until a few years back it was all clay bricks.

Agree with you. Full concrete homes are basically the furnace and freezer experience.
I implemented it in Python (while reading from that LISP version, a Java version, and Melanie Mitchell's "Analogy-Making as Perception"): https://github.com/jalanb/co.py.cat
Somewhat related:

A long time ago I tried to delete my Facebook and realized it only deactivates until next login. You have to specifically request that they permanently delete it or something. And, it's not even clear if FB still doesn't store your info or not after that whole process (little sketch to be fair...).

So I came up with this idea that I'd make a service called socialfacewash.com that just completely trashes your digital profile (liking random things, changing your info, and just basically obfuscating what FB thinks they know about you).

I never built it though, but I kind of wish I did. Still own domain if someone wants it.

Trend seems to be that we're not going to have protections over our own digital privacy/data for a very long time. Maybe a service that could at least mask, lie, trash, obscure our footprint for everyone else would be nice to have.
Why We Need to Be Much More Careful About How We Use the Word Cyberattack
FLAVOR: Desktop
HEADLINE: Make Unity menu and search blazing fast.
DESCRIPTION: I hate pressing the menu keybind and waiting what seems forever when I just want to start a calculator. The search bar should be/feel fast, like Mac's Spotlight.
FLAVOR: Desktop

HEADLINE: Sane power defaults for common laptops

DESCRIPTION:

Using Ubuntu on a laptop requires installation of TLP and powertop, then tweaking stuff until it works. For example I had to disable power saving for a specific HDD because it would cause random lock-ups, but it's really trial and error.

By default installing Ubuntu on a laptop should give optimized battery life by default

ROLE: CEO
Interesting! I never went in-depth into Go, apart from spending an afternoon with it to have a go at it.
>While I get that it's uncool to like Windows on HN

That has not been my experience here at all. There is a rather active, and sometimes vocal, Windows fan base around here. Misconceptions about the current state of desktop Linux are commonly seen as it seems most people around here only use either Mac or Windows.
When you see RAM listed at 4200, its the same as the 2133 but the sticks have been tested to be able to overclock to 4200.
I think being able to do the job at a "professional" level implies you have experience in the subject matter. Now, that experience may not be formal... but formal experience isn't the end-all-be-all anyway.

There are plenty of CS masters/PHD holders who write horrifically unprofessional code.
Egregious Fact Pattern Earns Bank of America a Scathing, $45+ Million Benchslap
The issue, in my eyes anyway, is when the scientific method is used as a hammer; when it's used to crush a debate.

The scientific method isn't being used to crush debate. It simply isn't being used.

What's most responsible for crushing debate today is (empirically false) post-modern social constructionism coupled with female mother/protector ethics. Jordan Peterson is one of the best people on these (and many, many other) topics:

https://www.youtube.com/user/JordanPetersonVideos
The link seems to be down.
Above 8 gigs per module you're going to need buffered ram. Check in the ECC section.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Wayland

- DESCRIPTION: Get with the rest of the community. Bite the bullet and get unity working on wayland.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: PhD candidate
Node.js Streams and Reactive Programming Primer
> the software updater should never ask me "Please restart the computer to begin using your updated software" again.

Is it still a thing ? I've been using Linux Mint (which is based on Ubuntu for updates) and I haven't been asked to reboot my computer in years !
I'd wager that is more to do with its geography and wealth of natural resources in a land that was more or less ripe for the taking from the natives.

Think of it like starting a game of Civilization at renaissance/industrial age tech with democratic government on an island with abundant resources and no real enemies.
MantisVPN – Protect your Privacy
I basically do not take issue with your dissection of terms here.

However I have seen another bit of your logic elsewhere and strongly disagree with it: the idea that mislabelling (or even correctly labelling) something "does an injustice" or "is a disservice" or "would be offensive to" people who died in the past at the hands of someone/something. We only have an obligation to make the lives of current and future people better: people who have died because of hatred would surely appreciate us doing our best to combat hatred in the modern world.
WeAreDevelopers Conference 2017
FLAVOR: Server, Core

HEADLINE: Better security, GRSECURITY kernel by default

DESCRIPTION: Come on now, guys, you know it, grsecurity kernels.

ROLE: DEVOPS MAN:
At first I hated it and didn't get why the looooong introduction to the canvas (that part could have been much shorter). But eventually I think he did a great job explaining the subject to people with close to zero knowledge, and his step by step approach, while tedious, was awesome.
The "screentime" argument, not a very good one. Trump has had more criticism and negative press flung at him than probably anyone alive EVER in just the last year, from almost every country on earth. Eastern Europe was getting just as much anti-trump media as the United States. I guess you could call that "screen time" too.

Just saying Trump had more screen time is a small picture of what the media have been doing to Trump. The lack of screentime for Clinton was a benefit as we saw. We actually saw correlation with lower national polling the more screen time she got. The more she was under wraps (remember the LONG countdown since she had had a press conference, it had been something like 250 days I think). Many talking heads were saying that was on purpose.
You're just describing long-distance commuter wage-slave conditions. Last resort if apartments in the city + SFH's in the burbs are both too expensive.
Squeezing the Joules Out of DRAM, Possibly Without Stacking
I started development on Texas Instrument calculators. On most of those, you could only have one letter variables in its TI-BASIC programming. I lucked out and convinced my parents to spring a little extra for the TI-85, and it had a lot of extra goodies, including named variables.

I credit a lot of my initial understanding of how programming works to making various text-based games on those calculators while only half paying attention to class in high school.
I didn't install it myself, but I thought it's possible to interact with that daemon from common browser? Also it's possible to start custom web crawls?
I'm a major REST advocate (spoken at conferences, written about it in books, etc) and I've been using GraphQL for a few months now and after an initial learning curve I love the flexibility.

But in my opinion, the answer is: write code once, expose both interfaces.

Here's what I mean...

I've been writing my APIs as GraphQL first. Then putting a very light wrapper around GraphQL to expose a REST interface. The REST interface is gold standard (HATEOAS, Json-API, etc) yet it is only a few lines of code. I just have a dictionary of REST -> GraphQL mappings and transform the GraphQL result to Json-API.

Then I also expose the GraphQL interface. So users that want to use GraphQL can.

It's a win-win and it didn't take me any more time to develop than just REST. As an added bonus, the GraphQL code is inherently easier to unit test by nature.

GraphQL has a lot of flaws (for one it has nothing to do with graphs -- nearest I can tell the name is only because it was first used for Facebooks graph database) and things like pagination and error handling have no standard way to do them. But it is very flexible.
Heat, RAM puts out a lot more than you might think. That said, for low power devices like cellphones you can use different packaging and cut latency.

Also, AMD for example uses stacked ram (HBM), but that needs very special packaging and active cooling. http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/h... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Bandwidth_Memory
It seems like the Feds' case depends pretty heavily on the fact that he initially advertised the software on a forum that was devoted to malicious computer hacking.
Just one bad apple?

Seriously?

I think is very hard to not find anything deeply rooten in the alternative media/conspiracy/whatever...
Sadly, the ctrl+alt+f# trick doesn't work for me (OP). I wish!

And btw (should have mentioned this): ThinkPad W530 running nVidia drivers.
ECC Memory and AMD's Ryzen – A Deep Dive
You think security research should be illegal?
Yes agreed. I have this issue too.
Because it's designed to frustrate your ISP. The problem with running it in Chrome is that google is probably already grabbing everything you do in the browser, so who cares if Comcast is too?
Would be meaningless because the chrome store auto-updates addons.