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Can confirm. I have several wearables lying around no longer being used. The difference between the fitness devices that I use (smart scales, gps trackers) and the ones that I don't (pedometer/heart rate wearables) basically seems to be that the ones I use are measuring and recording data I was previously interested in before getting a device that tracked it. Ultimately, I can't get excited about a pedometer because I simply don't care about how many steps I take.

Also, the fact that the pedometers require near constant use to be worthwhile means that there's some degree of mental energy devoted to them - is it charged, am I wearing it, etc. A smart scale I step onto for a few seconds each day and my garmin head unit is only used when I'm riding my bike so there's almost no conscious overhead.
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What is the virtue of having less traffic if no one will be subject to it?

Framing "traffic" as a problem that should be solved by getting others off the roads reads as pure selfishness.

Certainly we should have less (zero) fossil fuel combustion, but we can already do that with personal vehicles.
That would be great to see!
Everything about this person's language screams guilt and flawed character. Deflecting, victim blaming, media blaming, and narcissism.
Indeed.

I have colleagues that end up writing the same god damn code over and over again because they fail to appreciate the idea of 'generic' code and 'frameworks'.
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Having started a business without worrying enough about timing, I'd say it's a pretty good article. It's easy to (arrogantly) assume the world will make way for your excellence, regardless of your timing, but it ain't always so.
This is only a tiny piece of the experience though. What about journalctl? systemctl? etc? That stuff is alien vs tail -f or ./just/run/some.sh which works with everything _except_ systemd.
But is it the fault of the "corrupt media" that bad publicity hit this company? Or is it the fault of Caldbeck?

Lashing out and claiming that it's the media's fault seems like it's trying to just redirect blame.
When this blew up a few days ago, it spread quick. It most certainly didn't start sensationalist... it was a story posted late Friday on the NYT... a story told before.

What was different this time is people started naming names. I know myself I was having a lot of conversations with people about the story... mostly because everybody who's been on the harassment of of it, and the names name are names of people who we know as the people who funded the companies of folks we know.

So sure, there was auxiliary outlets fanning the flames. But that happens for lots of stories and gets forgotten quickly.

So instead of calling it sensationalist... I'd say it was a big story. Some parties named directly came out and confirmed and apologized (McClure). The "fake news" / "sensationalist" claim is not holding water with me since it wants to discredit the story but does not do it on the basis of facts.
I believe the universe I exist in is real, but how would I know for sure?

Anyway, I haven't had to google about a pulseaudio problem in at least a few years. I've been using Linux as my primary desktop OS since 1995. I've hated Linux audio for most of that time, and I've broken it in every possible way. But, today, my Fedora system has sound that Just Works. I don't know how it Just Works (though I know it's pulseaudio), because I haven't had to learn...because it Just Works. It works for Steam games, it works for browser audio, it works for system notifications, it works for movies, it even works for audio and music software. It's pretty weird.

Anyway, from what I can tell, the bugs, misfeatures, poorly thought out implementation, etc. all got worked out somewhere along the way. It took a long time. But, it did get fixed.

Have you actually used it in the past couple of years?
until everyone starts working around flaws and missing features in the core. then the declarative files will be just a pile of hacks that in the end are just obfuscated ad-hoc script files.

and the scary part: we are not even fully there yet and it already reeks.
>Yes piece of mind is worth that, and I can attach a number to that to, we've had a car that was maintained regularly and broke down, cost of tow + taxi to go to the rental place, rental (we need a minivan => expensive) was close to 1 K CAD.

As you admit, it's for piece of mind. Because I can't imagine something like that happening to you every year if you owned a used car.
The Bitcoin blockchain is a compact serialization format used as the input to the proof-of-work function. The proof-of-work is the important part, and for that we need a centrally, agreed-upon serialization format where the latter blocks inherit PoW from earlier blocks.

A Bitcoin node can store blocks/transactions in whatever way it wishes -- Postgres, Dropbox, SQLite DB on a floppy disk -- as long as it's able to deliver to nodes in the canonical serialization format, because it's needed to verify proof-of-work (and signatures for the transactions).
I disagree, one of the best managers I had was a non-technical manager.

He was able to guide me back on track when I was veering too far into the 'interesting problem for the programmer, but not what the business is trying to solve' territory and also was able to clear obstacles out of the way to let me work on what it was I needed to be working on.
I've felt the same concern and still do from time to time. The truth is relationships are a mixed bag and people are all different. Some people really will think you're a socially incompetent weirdo. Other people will wonder if you're thinking that about them. And some people will just find you to be a likeable person.

Ultimately if/when some other people don't like you, well, that doesn't define who you are as a person or that you need to be fixed. It's just not the right fit between you, and that's nobody's fault. It's going to happen, and it only matters as much as you decide it matters. It really doesn't need to matter!

Be yourself, focus less on your perceived shortcomings/insecurities, and focus more on improving other people's day.
I think they mix up ego with confidence, Those aren't the same thing at all.
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Cool! Any interesting stories he can share?
The issue is that content creators rarely have any choice. If they don't work with labels, their careers are DOA.

Wait... so our responsibility is to preserve the careers of those people who produce that kind of IP - music, films, whatever counts as "art" -...

and yet we don't have a responsibility to preserve the careers of those who produce a different kind of IP - e.g. software?

If we're rejecting the predominant model of payment == ability to consume, it would seem that that's perfectly fine: we'll establish a new model that works to compensate content creators. Open source / free software models clearly do that, right? I mean, the creation of software is no different than the creation of any other kind of IP...

So why further the causes of content creators who release content under terms we refuse to be party to?

Hollywood, Big TV, Big Music, Big Software... Why consume their content under terms we don't agree with? And Software == IP == everything else I've listed.

Support those NON-SOFTWARE creators who reject terms we don't agree with.

We'll establish a natural balance, no?
Well, it's invite only, and some fairly critical exploit categories seem to be way below market value. This is especially silly because these are maximum payouts.

Apple is not lacking cash on hand, and while I know that's not a reason to spend it, I figure they could come further toward the going rate. Especially infuriating is the lack of other moral incentives beside "doing the right thing", like when you get a bug bounty for an open source component, and know that the public has free access to it. Even "doing the right thing" when it comes to Apple is morally unrewarding, since they typically treat developers and partners like dirt, and are so isolated from the rest of society.

Because of the lack of true community around Apple and their products, owing largely to how proprietary all of their products and programmes are, I don't see why anyone would do white hat security research on their platforms unless they were paid substantially and directly by Apple or an Apple customer.

From my perspective, it's enough of a smack in the face to use their products. I doubt many want to be fed what amounts to (relatively speaking) table scraps for elite security research on a platform that you don't own at the end of the day even as a customer. To have to be invited to do this just makes it completely not worth starting if your goal is to participate in the white hat market.
Ironically, this looks like a bullshit article to me. I have no idea what is the experience level of the author, but as a senior developer, several times I have "created a framework" (and a quite useful one at that) which not only made the problem solving manageable for myself, also resulted in clean readable code which is maintainable for others in the team as well.

Also, don't underestimate the real need of refactoring at times. There's no red/yellow flag here. Sure, we can keep postponing that and create bigger mess - which is a decision we do have to take at times to avoid last minute bugs, but that still doesn't mean the developer is bullshitting when he says he needs to refactor some old ugly code.
> People don't listen to RMS because he makes no effort to be listened to and constantly takes absolutist stances which only harm what he defends.

I used to feel the same way quite a long time ago before I sat back and asked myself "what is the root cause of my distaste for his method of communicating his ideals?" I found that it was because I hadn't fully grasped his views on an emotional level. This argument that "even though RMS was right, the way he said it was reason not to listen to him" falls back to an appeal to emotion -- the fact he has very strong convictions is not relevant to the discussion of whether his arguments are valid.

But to explain why he is so absolutist, look at things from his point of view. From his view, all proprietary software is an injustice with no exceptions. Any attempt to take away user freedom is similarly an injustice. Now, if you fully accepted that view, how would you act as RMS? Would you make concessions on your sense of morality and ethics? Personally, I wouldn't and I don't.

> In the case of DRM, many people have been talking about this problem for a long time.

And RMS has been talking about the more general problem of user freedom since the very beginning. Not sure what your point here is. RMS is the single reason why we have the free software movement, and that movement came from a philosophical view that is fundamentally inseparable from the other pro-user-freedom sub-movements.

> Steam, the #1 platform, doesn't enforce DRM.

That's blatantly false. steam_api.dll implements DRM.

> Who do you fault for alternatives not developing/not catching on in the ebooks/video world? Consumers for making the wrong choices? Companies for not trying hard enough? Governments for not regulating consumer rights?

Governments pandering to publishers for several decades in strengthening the power of copyright through WIPO and similar treaties. Those publishers then had an enormous amount of power over artists. Combine this with the propaganda campaign by those publishers of "intellectual property"[1] to indoctrinate people into thinking that the ethics of property are at all applicable to things that aren't property.

So, at the end of the day, it's the fault of publishers making the government write laws that then unfairly strengthens the publishers' grip on the industry (where the industry is basically any artistic industry), and then using that control to convince the public that the status-quo is entirely justified and not unethical.

By the way, publishers mistreat artists all the time. So literally the only people that benefit from this system is publishers, not the people who actually make the things that you enjoy.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.en.html
Having worked 20 years, I'm getting me and more tired of one thing: a meeting that includes a manager that you need to explain every obvious thing to.

It's no problem with clients, stakeholders, new hires, or even unreasonably thick coworkers, but a manager that having less than a minimal domain knowledge trying to 'summarize' or 'weigh together' a lot of things they do not understand is just so utterly unmotivating.

I have the research on my side: the most influential factor on job satisfaction is if your manager can do your work. https://hbr.org/2016/12/if-your-boss-could-do-your-job-youre...
Linus wrote git because BitKeeper was taken away from him due to the Andrew Tridgell incident, not because he disliked BitKeeper; he didn't even mind that it was closed source.
Can someone explain how the GPL covers Grsecurity at all? It sounds like it's entirely their own code they wrote themselves and have all the rights to. It just happens to be something that their customers are going to use with GPL Linux. They're not distributing any GPL code are they? I can't believe a derivative work can include something that is merely compatible with GPL code but doesn't actually contain any. Or does it? Have they copied and pasted GPL code into the Grsecurity patch? In that case, then it does make sense that it should be GPL'd too.
We are defined by how we act in trying moments.

He might be disappointed, but how he is acting doesn't come off as reserved and respectful. He made a judgment to associate himself with Caldbeck, and instead of making proper reparations he's digging himself an even larger hole. He's not a victim in this. He helped put Caldbeck in a position of power.
this is all nice when you ignore the tons of bug reports everyone else is getting because you decided to treat your users as testers.

why do you think linus is complaining? because he can't get sound to work on his own box or because kernel invalid bugs are over the roof thanks to bogus init?
I sure hope so... I've had to revert several Ubuntu machines to upstart and I have to "sudo service restart network-manager" 3 of 10 times my primary desktop starts (so I scripted it..)

Based solely on my personal experience (which is mainly Ubuntu desktop and server) Systemd is a hot broken mess. To me it feels like good goals with poor implementation.

I actually miss how simple init used to be... I understand the motivations for improving it, but if I had to choose ease of grokability or better boot times, I'll take grok every time.
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> pedestrians should reign supreme again

This is deeply classist. Those of us who can't afford centrally located real estate (and therefore need motor transport of some kind) should lose more of our lifespans to the commute, so that people who can afford centrally located real estate don't have to bother with crosswalks?

The inconvenience of sticking to sidewalks and crossing with the light is so small, and the quality-of-life impact of additional commute time so large, that this is a really weird trade to make.

Certainly they can and should improve the rate of actually yielding to pedestrians where they currently have right of way, but it will become basically impossible to live beyond walking distance of your workplace if pedestrians are allowed to wander in front of your bus at any time and make it wait arbitrarily long.
Yeah, I was going to use the NY fed reserve bank as an example, but I know about the rumors and didn't want to open that can of worms.
Let's not get too cocky here. Copying went both ways: https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/nasas-newest-cargo-s...

And the pork barrel project extraordinaire: http://aviationintel.com/yak-141-freestyle-the-f-35b-was-bor...

Lockheed entered into a "partnership" with Yakovlev, copied the blueprints, and dissolved the "partnership", while pocketing hundreds of billions in US government largesse. The end result even looks similar.
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Please no. That would be like if Gandalf wielded the One Ring. I've no doubt the result would be very functional and well engineered, but it would be awful in other ways.
IMO, this is not actually an attempt at an ad hominem, which is probably why it comes across as "the poorest attempt [you've] seen on HN recently". Ad hominem attacks occur when someone tries to discredit the validity of a claim by disparaging some irrelevant aspect of the person making the claim.

For example: "Don't believe my opponent because he is Jewish/Black/White/etc."

In contrast, there is no ad hominem fallacy if someone says: "Don't believe my opponent — he has an ulterior motive, and I think he has conflicts of interest as well."

This is basically what the GP said: the media has ulterior motives (profit), and they may have a conflict of interest (if their industry is also predominated by white men).

I'm not saying I agree with all of what the GP said, but I think it's inappropriate to call this an ad hominem attack. As you point out, he doesn't supply citations for his claim of media homogeneity, but this isn't exactly rare on HN.
What's bullshit about Luxe? I mean, besides wondering how they can make it profitable. I never used it but that's because I have an intense distrust of valets, and I don't think their communication about the experience before you try it was sufficiently detailed (like I don't remember if they had an extra charge if your vehicle is a manual or if they mentioned that all drivers can handle both types), but the concept is great. When my office was in Seattle, I found a lot I could pay $15/day not too far away, but cash only, that's about the cheapest you'll find. Without it Luxe would have been more tempting because you could pay them a very similar daily price, drive directly to the office, hand over your key, and work until you're ready to leave and they drive it back right to the office. They also had extra services like making sure your car would be washed sometime during the day.

It's not much different from food delivery (or grocery delivery), but it seems hard to make a profit. Food delivery companies from arbitrary restaurants have been a thing for a long time, it's great that now there's enough floating VC money to support lots of competition, maybe this time one of them will find out how to be profitable. And the VCs of that one will make a handsome return.
If you open an old version of the patch, you'll find that it adds, removes, and changes lines in the middle of existing Linux functions. If it's not a derivative work, I don't know what is.
In theory, a perfect bugless system that enforces a certain DSL upon sysadmins who won't have to maintain startup scripts is a good thing. A thing which systemd is not.
'New Zealander' isn't really demonym, since it's a noun rather than an adjective. 'New Zealand' is both the name of the country and the demonym:
'The Russian prime minister' -> 'The New Zealand prime minister' (but you can't say 'The Russia prime minister')
Curious as to what you think it needs? I've found it perfectly adequate for my purposes, and fairly intuitive to set up.
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Here's something I don't understand... Why do so many people hate systemd but not macOS's launchd [0]? Don't they serve similar purposes? I've been digging into macOS for a few months now, and I'm pretty happy with their defaults.

EDIT: I don't know why I'm being downvoted for asking a genuine question. I'm not a linux expert, so I'd love to hear your criticisms.

[0] http://www.launchd.info
I don't think it's at all reasonable to refer to Grsecurity as "snake oil". I think it was a mistake to say that, and you should probably retract and apologize.

You don't have to like Grsecurity, or recommend it. Lots of people don't. But you're a professional working in this field and what you've written on this thread doesn't meet that standard.
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Can you provide an example and explanation of rule 2 on page 9?
I understand about Theorem 1.
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> 3. Outbid the black market for iOS exploits

That will never work. Zerodium and others are just middlemen that sell to the US/CA/UK/AU/NZ government. They aren't selling these exploits to random companies or underground hackers.

The NSA will pay an unlimited amount of money to have iOS remote 0days sitting on the shelf because they might have a small window where say, an ISIS leader's kid left his iPhone in the room during an important meeting.
if they cared they could fix the bug too.

Google is now a huge, slow corporation.

you don't get promoted by working on old and boring projects. everyone fight to get into the new sexy rewrite of something that is already somewhat successful. yeah they can screw up and kill features, but users will continue to use ensuring your promotions.

in a huge corp, do not assume that just because the little support guy understand your pain, the engineers behind will move a finger.
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It is different because it's currently a crime by default. If someone wants to add to my contract that saying "riboflavin" out loud can get me fired and sued for damages, I'm gonna want a ton of extra money to cover the ubsurd risk.
A technical manager could have done that as well, may be a little earlier than when it went "too far". Just my opinion.