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Despite the cherry picking of subjects in your post, in 15 minutes...

Saudis @ NYT from a selection of recent articles:

"Trump has made it clear he is not worried about supporting human rights or freedom; [...] that all those difficult questions about gender equality and the like are going to be off the table for the next four years, and that Iran is very much on the table,” Mr. Riedel said." https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/world/middleeast/moham...

"The sale of oil provides billions of dollars in annual allowances, public sector sinecures and perks for royals, the wealthiest of whom own French chateaus and Saudi palaces, stash money in Swiss bank accounts, wear couture dresses under their abayas and frolic on some of the world’s biggest yachts out of sight of commoners." https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/world/middleeast/saudi... and https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/27/world/middleeast/saudi...

"Activists in the country have long protested its patriarchal society that essentially prohibits women from traveling, marrying or attending college without permission from a male relative, who is called their guardian." https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/world/middleeast/saudi...

"Western human rights organizations criticized both the trial and the sentences, saying that the accused were denied proper legal representation, charged over activities that should not be crimes and pressed into signing “confessions” that were used against them." https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/world/middleeast/saudi...
You can't conduct personal attacks like this on Hacker News. The odds that you're right in any particular case are low and not worth the considerable damage it does to the community. Please don't do this again.

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I thought when they seized sites, they usually went to some Akamai IP - not some overseas hosting provider. April Fools, I guess.
The docs say the test is if /etc is empty. Most packages provide some kind of defaults in /etc when they're installed - wouldn't that mean this never triggers?
While that would be ideal, from Google's point of view the number of travelers is so small that it might be more sensible to cater to the native users. Also, on average they are less likely to know how to change these settings or that such settings even exist.
>why do people (at least here on HN) stick with it despite these major issues?

Before I switched to lastpass, I had maybe 10 different passwords I shared across 100 sites. This was terrible, and now that I use Lastpass, every password is unique. So I use Lastpass because its an incremental improvement.

Is 1Password an incremental improvement over lastpass? I'm not convinced. It might be a tiny bit more secure, but nowhere near the gain in security I had from 10 re-used passwords -> all unique randomly generated 20+ char passwords. The cost of switching is high and so it would have to be enough of an improvement to justify the switchover.
The vision for Stanza is "a better, developer friendly, open source calendar system"?
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This is uncivil and the sort of thing we ban accounts for. You can't attack another user like this on HN, regardless of how wrong you consider them. Please don't do it again.

There are many reasons why users post with new accounts on HN, not all such users are 'foreign' (whatever that word means on an international site). Accusing others of astroturfing or shilling without evidence is not allowed. Somebody simply having an opposing view does not count as evidence. There are plenty of opposing views.

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I'd like to counter (but not disagree) with: in my experience, all good developers have significant sysadmin experience, whether professionally or self-taught.

As a tech lead of a team that is largely junior, I keep running into places where a lack of sysadmin-type knowledge seriously harms the ability of a CS degree holder (anywhere from BSc to PhD) to do real-world software engineering work unless they have either been self-taught in sysadmin sort of things or have had a couple years experience that has forced that sort of experience on them.

To give an example, a fresh-out-of-school CS degree holder that never played with Linux servers for fun in his own time might be able to implement some software and then easily learn to Dockerize it, but may be stuck for three days on getting it to talk to other services both locally and in a test environment because of essentially zero exposure to ideas in networking - and yet the fix to the problem takes about 5 minutes for someone with exposure to how networking works. ("What's a bridge?")

Another example comes from general familiarity with the server/client model: the rule of thumb to have a max number of worker threads equal to twice the cores available unless there is a reason to re-evaluate that.

All that said, I would still favor sticking with the CS degree as well. Basic practical familiarity with sysadmin concerns can be more or less picked up over time via personal projects and then as needed on the job, but the formal knowledge accumulated over a CS degree would be much harder to do that with. I would only suggest to make sure to spend time on personal projects that, for lack of a better term, are full-stack.
Nice unfounded conspiracy theories you have there but​ people don't plead guilty to 5 years in jail if they are innocent.
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And here I thought it would be about these people: http://www.mastodonc.com
I feel like it's very common to want some things to be stable and other things to be bleeding edge. Like, why are my only two choices "everything out of date" or "everything bleeding edge"? Why not make software for actual humans to use? I remember that being Ubuntu's motto.

Like, I presume it's pretty common for an actual human not to want their wifi to be bricked by an update. I presume it's also pretty common for an actual human to want a version of `youtube-dl` that works. It seems user-hostile to force a user to choose one or the other.

And before you say "but PPAs", PPAs are a workaround that have various flaws (you need to use google and copy/paste code, instead of just using your package manager as a package manager) (and they're only available for certain repositories) (and many of them are unofficial). Ubuntu/Debian already maintain up-to-date repositories, why not just allow users to selectively install software from them?

(I wasn't sure what to put for ROLE/AFFILIATION, honestly; I saw other people being vaguely specific and I tried to copy them)
I believe you actually do. Sure you can ask nicely but he has voting control of the company so until proven guilty what more can the board do?
I use org mode for my calendar, which is great as it seamlessly integrates my ToDo with my Appointments.

At work we use Google Calendar extensively, which means other people often make appointments for me. To pull in and push items from my schedule.org, I use org-gcal - https://github.com/myuhe/org-gcal.el
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/29345...
I've been personally told by multiple different people who scoff at AI risk that it will be totally fine, so it's not a straw man.

The median expert estimate for when we'll be 10% likely to have human-level AI is ~10 years.

AI risk research didn't receive a penny of funding until the last few years, and is still funded at way lower levels than a lot of things that have dramatically less impact.

In nearly every debate on the topic I've seen (with a few exceptions), the people concerned about AI risk have carefully considered the topic, are aware of the areas where there's still a lot of uncertainty, and make clear and well-hedged arguments that acknowledge that uncertainty; meanwhile the people who scoff at it haven't read any of the arguments (not even in popular book form in Superintelligence), haven't thought about most of the considerations, and have a general air of "assuming things will probably be fine". That's not a straw man, that's just direct observation of the state of the debate. People are doing serious academic work on the topic and have thought about it very deeply; the standard HN middlebrow dismissal is both common and inappropriate.
Look up the aol browsing database and you'll remember why this matters. Data is never as anonymous as people think it is.
OK, Gnome is better than saying OK, Google. I still can't believe Google decided NOT to give its personal assistant a name and personality.
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I might not be very advanced user. Configurable how? When generating fonts? Or in an editor? Most editors that I use do not have these configuration options.
I disagree with this sentiment.

>Everybody has to do everything.

Everybody needs to have _at least some degree of familiarity_ with everything, yes. But that has always been the case. There is not and there never has been a job posting for someone to design algorithms and do nothing else, nor to deploy HTTP servers and nothing else.

I expect that if you pick any part of any software/hardware stack, anyone with a reasonable amount of experience would be able to give real-world examples where familiarity with several (and sometimes all) other parts of that stack are not only beneficial but sometimes necessary. I also expect that illustrations would be able to found from any point in the history of computing, up to and including now.
Smallcap market here is fun (read: it's pretty stupid). Otherwise, I'm just more used to reading Australian news, more local people on twitter, etc. It's just more in my 'sphere', and I know a lot more about the local companies than I do about the U.S. counterparts.

I have an IB account, but even setting that up to trade properly requires owning a company. I did wake up early and trade the US options market a little while ago & that was pretty great. Might play with some algorithmic stuff I have that works on the ASX, but on the US, just need a load more data.
The individual stores may, but you are right the company as a whole doesn't.
Because U of T engineers decide to stay in Toronto out of the goodness of their hearts...?

If an engineer stays in Canada it's certainly not because they're being adequately compensated.
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An upgrade that doesn't fail without a useful error message because some package locked in a specific old version of something.

An upgrade process that doesn't involve editing some files based on hints from Stack Overflow.
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> This selection will certainly put a dent in Waterloo's reputation, though with any luck they'll be able to capitalize on it in some capacity due to their proximity.

Highly doubt it. Waterloo is known for being mediocre/trash for CS research. People go to Waterloo to get into industry and not academics.
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There is another reason. `make -j4 && make install' would be faster than just `make install' (multi-process vs. single-process).
Finally a font which thinks about other latin based lanuages, and even cyrillic and greek, not only English. Some fonts do this, but few take care to show it in their marketing material.

Thumbs up for the examples and not ignoring the rest of world! (personally I find the fonts too "narrow" fow my use)
Aren't filesystems databases? The "arbitrary ascii-file nonsense" is just like storing text fields in your database.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Option to auto-hide the Unity top panel

- DESCRIPTION: The same way you can optionally auto-hide the Unity sidebar launcher, I wish I could do the same with the top panel for not having always go to F11 fullscreen mode to enjoy a distraction-free user experience. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/nmDsOMj.png

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: end user
Attacking another user like that is a bannable offense on HN. Please don't do this again.

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But I still think the articles conclusions are meaningful: namely that, in our overly hurried world, we need to make space to breathe, to think, and to rest. If we're constantly racing off to the next thing, or sitting at our desks trying to force a solution, or sucked into TV or our various devices, we leave no room for our minds to percolate on problems, explore solutions, etc. And we tend to worship those who sleep as little as possible. How radical would it be if we started admiring people who take naps, who go on long walks, who sit and leave space for thinking without pulling out their smartphone or turning on the TV?

Before smartphones came along I did some of my best thinking on the toilet. Now it's become time consumed with reading drivel on my news feed. And I don't sleep enough, and personally can see how my productivity and emotional health is impacted. Tough times which require greater self discipline, I think, than times past.
I was expecting something more damning. But I guess they could have published the info, and the reason they didn't is not very convincing. It suggests they are more after the publicity than after a reputation of publishing anything and everything.
I actually agree with just about everything you say, I see the problem with it as well. But since I don't see any other solution and lack the ability to change society on the fundamental level needed to solve this problem, then I feel like I "Have to play the game".

Yes we don't know at all how it will turn out, but I at least think that I can't be worse of than if I hadn't gone to university.
I return HTTP error 429 (Too Many Requests) when a single IP address has 100 requests queued. Anybody who gets into that situation is using the API incorrectly.
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They have a shitty curl|sh installer script, but it should be possible to extract a regular deb line and gpg key out of it.
This is applicable regardless of who's in charge of the national security apparatus.

Not that encryption does much good against the state anyway; they'll just throw you in jail until you give them what they want:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/justice-naps-man...
it's a much narrower glyph than the type I'm used to.

Exactly this. Maybe if I'd be staring at it for days it would be ok, but right now it feels uncomfortable to read, to the point I'm probably not even going to try. Then again, just like the other commenter I always come back to Consolas or something so similar that it's hard to distinguish.

On a sidenote: what is the font is this textbox I'm typing in?
You've broken the site guidelines more than once by posting uncivilly. We ban accounts that do that, so please don't do that.

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I don't follow Ubuntu packaging policies specifically but isn't this what the $RELEASE-backports suites are for?
My problem with google code and codeplex is that they should have autoexported to github. Some projects may have value even if their creator could have died.
Do you have a choice not a believe him :)
Iosevka is awesome! I've been using it for a while now. I started with inconsolata, went to anonymous pro, and then iosevka. I'm very happy with it. I like the fact that it's narrow because now I can have my editor split in three.

Lately I've been trying out operator mono. Still not sure if it will win over iosevka.

Very good job be5invis!
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The problem isn't solved until the last magstrip-accepting ATM is decommissioned. Unlike retail goods, the money is just as useful no matter which ATM you draw it from.
> Not that encryption does much good against the state anyway; they'll just throw you in jail until you give them what they want:

It's clearly not effective against active, targetted collection by the State, for the reason you mention, but, presuming the encryption itself is secure, it's useful against passive, dragnet surveillance by the State.
Targeted advertising. One of them (I forget which) was MITM adverts into pages.
I think that there is probably a large overlap between the population of people who believe this and the population of people that don't really know what bytecode or JIT compilation are.

In fact, I have asked a number of people under the impression that Java is slow to explain why they think it is slow. The answers have two flavors:

1. Its high level abstractions are computationally expensive. Sometimes this idea is supported by saying that garbage collection is very slow, sometimes by saying that the inability to directly manage memory means that it is done inefficiently, perhaps even inescapably so.

2. Compiling a program to an intermediary language that is not assembly but must be instead executed by something else (in this case, the JVM) must be slow.
That problem is that type of problem that is well suited for a prolog system with a constraint library.
The Cold War didn't end after the fall of the wall, IMHO.

We've been fighting a repeat of the 80's proxy war in Afghanistan for nearly 15 years. Roles reversed, though. Russia arms the Taliban, just like we did in the 80's with the Mujahadeen.

Syria, another blatant proxy war, is probably a better example. We're arming rebels and providing support to fight Russian (and therefore communist) interests. Sounds just like the Cold War to me.

With the recent Russian propoganda campaign (see: "fake news") going over so well that they took to celebrations in the streets, expect a lot more funny business in elections in the West.

France's election seems to be the next plaything for Russia to influence, it's setting a precedent that will restore Russia to superpower status if allowed to continue unchecked.

The power of the internet works both ways. Information, and therefore misinformation, is spread more quickly than ever. Propoganda has never been easier to dress up and present as fact. Nor have people been so willing to eat it by the spoonful, as long as it validates their own opinions and/or biases.
Would you please not post unsubstantive comments to HN?
How long has the GPL Mafia been saying this?

Do you see many vendors being forced into change?
While my bank (credit union) has deployed ATMs with chip readers, they've been slow to deploy cards with chips. As near as I can tell, they're replacing the debit cards on their regular cycle.
I, on the other hand, get the feeling from reading the article that the author understands that this performance difference was due to implementation differences, but wanted a more attention-grabbing title.

My subjective impression is that this is the first time the author has come across this sort of consideration in implementation and wanted to write about it. There is nothing wrong with that - in fact, I think it's great! It's just that the title leads one to expect, well, quite a bit more.
We all knew this was coming, but it's somehow still a shock.
Please don't post like this here, regardless of how wrong someone else is.
What about nearsightedness? I can read print just fine, but restaurant menus hung up high are the worst.
They offer 2x margin with the normal rules against pattern day trading with <25k balances, which is pretty mediocre.

There are much better options for high-risk (reckless) trading, like 500x Forex accounts, "binary options", and lots of other nonsense enabled by offshore jurisdictions.

For an easy example of how reckless/risky these alternatives are, look at FXCM/Alpari/etc after the 2015 EURCHF action.
What does "shutting it down completely" mean if all published projects are still available read-only? If I'm understanding correctly, all published projects were already read-only by then, so what changes when they shut it down "completely"? Is it just a behind-the-scenes switchover to the "lightweight archive"?
Absolutely – and in the case of corporations, I'd say there is still a lot to do to improve the law governing their behaviour. But since chances for that seem to be quite low currently, and because even a perfect legal system cannot always capture every eventuality, there should be certain behaviours that are generally frowned upon, just as there are for people.

One example I recently heard was from a woman who was fired after attending her husband's funeral. That probably happens less than a dozen times per year, and might just not warrant a law. It still shouldn't happen.

(The problem, of course, is that with people our sense of morality is largely guided by other peoples' reaction to our behaviour. Corporations will never have the same sense of shame, and the closest analogy – boycotts – rarely work)
Actually, it does pretty much ignore all other languages given its width. They did it as narrow as possible (with latin letters) and just shoehorned all others later.

> Finally a font which thinks about other......but few take care to show it in their marketing material

Almost all commercial fonts do this. Just take a look around.
Looks like the author gets this, at the end they reveal what the difference was.
if you've not tried it already take a look at "M+ 1M light" - I run it at quite a high font size - it's similar but less ornate to Iosevka

on the whitespace - Sublime and Atom have a setting to put an unobtrusive dot or line which I find useful
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and April Fools begins... Ouch
What date was that article published again?
There's often no need to explain everything in detail to get the gist.
Is this a problem? I have nothing to hide.
I know the 'you screw me up once, I'll never trust you again' principle is very human, built into our genes probably, but just like in real life people can change. So suppose SF did change for the good (I didn't check yet, but it seems so according to other commenters) then maybe it's time for bit of open-mindness and some forgiveness?
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FYI - you will not have a good time buying and selling stocks onesie-twosie when it comes time to filling out your tax return

This used to be true, but these days your brokerage has to do all the hard work for you (like calculating basis). They send you a 1099-B; you copy numbers. It's almost exactly as much work if you make one trade a year on your birthday or daytrade across ~100 stocks.
Does a thing like a million a year engineer exist?

I feel like this number would make more sense for a pool of researchers with a strong lead than a single person.
Did H&R Block software not support your specific brokerage? Pulling in consolidated 1099s from major brokerage houses seems to be a relatively well-solved problem in tax prep world.
This is something I am interested in, but the fact that you don't have a website about this app boggles my mind. I have simple questions like, how much of a pain in the ass is it to import your current holdings.