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OpenSUSE has the option for slim installs, has a rolling release version and a LTS kernel version. I'm a big fan.

I have CentOS at work, with a couple Arch boxes that predate me. I do not agree with is statement, "updates never break anything". Ours have a history of breaking, which is why I assume they were abandoned, but we do run custom software.
Seconded.
This is also how I felt reading the news.
Arch Anywhere.
https://arch-anywhere.org/
I suppose that countries which have open conflicts with the US would be wise to do that. But I also think they already know.
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Reminder: Russia does have a vast troll operation, complete with websites, writers, commenters, TV station, fb pages and so on. https://www.google.com/search?q=russian+propaganda+machine+i...
You don't need to prove that the proof system is correct. It suffices to extract a proof of the properties you care about for the particular program you care about, and then check that that particular proof is correct. This can generally be done with a very simple proof-checker whose own correctness can fairly easily be checked by hand.
Setting aside the spy game rumors, isn't this essentially "US government prefers to purchase products made by US companies"? That if I followed the money on this I might find a Symantec or Mcafee lobbyist behind it.
Ask HN: Is it important to learn C/Java before Python?
I am completely new to programming (Though I'm familiar with basics and few facts). I want to start my way into programming with Python. Is it a good idea? Or should I really need to learn C/Java and other basic languages first?

I don't have too big career goals with programming as I'm already in another field of work. I just always wanted to learn programming and hence decided to start now.

As I will be learning this from home in my free time, please suggest few resources to get started. Books, communities, or anything a beginner should know of.
The Double Irish + Dutch is merely the most extreme example of the transfer pricing morass (and will go away in a few years). There are a bunch of other funky methods described in the wikipedia article I posted on the topic; defining and proving in court that a particular method of determining "market rate" was unreasonably chosen and incorrect enough to be worth the trouble is quite involved and, in normative terms, a big waste of economic potential (brain power on both sides is devoted to … that, rather than something useful).

As for "taxing IP licenses at the corporate tax rate", that seems nonsensical given that it's profit (aka value added) that is subject to tax, not revenue.
You mean the landing page: how we pitch the product? Or video presentation?
Funny enough I was saying this to a work colleague yesterday when I was looking at a shell script and scratching me head wondering how it was working when a variable named $RANDOM wasn't assigned a value. After a little investigation it turned out Bash (and possibly other $SHELL's?) returns a random number with each call of the $RANDOM variable. Handy little trick.
Unless you're powerful enough to make choices against the will of others.

There is an interesting series of wikileaks from European embassies showing American pressure on wide acceptance of GMO. It seems a lot of money and effort went into this. See for example this one:

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06WARSAW107_a.html

> 8. (U) Spirnak's second lecture took place at the American Studies Center at Warsaw University. Approximately 20 students and faculty attended the lecture. Again, the students did not openly object to the idea of consuming GMO's but did reflect the typical European mistrust surrounding the issue. They asked about the purpose of altering the genetic structure of food, in what is essentially a "if it's not broken don't fix it" argument that is commonly made in Poland.

In other words, people are relatively happy with the crops and want to keep it that way. Then Americans come and are pushing the technology they're controlling down people's throats, reporting the results of their campaigns via diplomatic channels. People refuse, saying they're happy with what they have. Efforts continue - this time on EU level rather than lobbying individual countries.
Thanks, every once in a while these lists are useful!
> an unbiased sample of all possible spanning trees

this also makes the mazes generated by the algorithm the most annoying to solve without a computer, but they are the most resistant to be searched in reverse of all the forward building algorithms (without explicit honeypots for trapping reversers)
And prefer redirection to cat.

whatever < file.txt

not

cat file.txt | whatever

Also, there is no need for - or z on GNU tar in t or x modes:

tar tf whatever.tgz
tar tf whatever.tar.bz2
tar tf whatever.txz
...

tar xf whatever.tar.gz
tar xf whatever.tar.Z
...

all work just fine
What if I'm already in a good shape and don't smoke? If a company gives incentives for being healthy it is fine. Otherwise, it is quite demotivating for others.
Fair example, but that's also not what I meant. The price of SNAP, FB, or GOOG stock isn't correlated with a potential buyback of only a small amount of shares back. That doesn't seem to be where the value is pegged. I don't think SNAP has done or is expected to do a single buyback in the foreseeable future. Hundreds of millions of dollars of SNAP volume is traded on exchanges per day. Where does that value seem to come from? My argument is that it comes from the same abstract consensus that makes tokens have the same behavior on exchanges, and literally just that. Nothing more. I know you won't agree, but I think you have an outdated view of what a stock really is. Newer stock offerings in tech like FB and more and more like SNAP are behaving like tokens rather than classical stocks. They show no properties of classical ownership aside from being registered with the SEC as a security.

>After that you can immediately put money in your pocket by selling the appreciated shares you own.

Ya, you can sell them to someone else. The same way you can sell the token to another speculator. This statement of yours does not establish a substantiative difference between tokens and stock.
I bet that few of them will reply that it is an extinct animal, some others that it is a cool band, and most of them that they have never heard of such a thing.
I was using Arch with bspwm for a few years, until ~a month ago when I wanted a clean system. But this time I wasn't up for the whole installation process. I know what I need, I know how to do it, and I can do it pretty fast. But it is still a lot, so this time I went with Antergos. I had this idea that using Arch with a minimal window manager and nothing more would keep me off distractions from annoying UI features, but it was a lot of work for very little reward. It is easier to just ignore what you dislike in gnome, I don't even think that I dislike anything about it anymore (compared to when I was new and came straight from OS X). Learnt a lot on the way though, totally worth it!
If anything, & is Latin rather than English :-)
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export CC=gcc -march=native
> net neutrality is a case where regulation is stopping really bad things from happening

I'm fairly anti-regulation and I from what I understand, net neutrality is a (federal) regulatory solution to a problem created by explicitly by (state + local) regulation.

I honestly don't understand why people think that net neutrality is a better solution than a (currently non-existant) federal policy to remove state and local regulations that created ISP oligopolies which limited internet freedom in the first place.
I've been a Linux user since early Slackware. Arch is the only distro I will recommend, and, contrary to its image as a tinkerer's distro, it's the only Linux install I've had that "just works" and works. Install once, and never again. Minimal, stable. Packages are updated promptly, and I never had a problem using user repo packages.
From my experience, both KDE Plasma 5 and GNOME 3 work pretty well on high DPI displays, not so much Unity 7.
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There's some app that uses the face++ api to do login using facial recognition, I can't recall the name of it off the top of my head but maybe you can find it with that info.

edit: how could I forget, it's the little known app called Alipay.\s
CentOS 7 specifies `man rename` :
rename [options] expression replacement file...

The rename example fails with "rename: not enough arguments".
Well, that's the whole separate point in this discussion - normal headlamp bulbs are 60W - so you are using 120W of power to run two of them. How many cars are on the road for a country the size of Poland at a busy time of the day? 100k cars? That's 12 megawatts of power being used every day just to run some lights - and that's not counting rear lights at all. Generating 12 megawatts of power using thousands of ICEs is a massive waste of fuel, and it's probably incredibly hard to prove that conclusively, but I wouldn't be surprised if burning that fuel caused more deaths overall than having the lights on saves. I don't know if we can find any studies that would say either way though. Automotive LEDs are still within 10-15W range each, so while better than halogens they are not free.

And finally, I think there was a Polish study that said that yeah, while with the lights on you are more likely to notice a car, you are less likely to notice a cyclist - and hitting the latter has much worse consequences than hitting the former. So it might have made things worse.
The biggest "just works" thing for me with Arch is that, because you configure everything yourself and set it up, you know what is in your system and how it's slotted together.

Less magic, when something goes wrong, you have an idea where to look.

It's obviously not going to be true for some, but for power users, it's surprisingly great. I've been on Arch for many years myself with the same story.
Why didn't you just use Arch-Anywhere?
https://arch-anywhere.org/

Besides, the manual installation process of Arch does not consist of that many steps; it takes but a few minutes (perhaps not the first time). To shorten it further you can write your own installation script or use extant ones, of which there are many (Arch-Anywhere being one).

I harp on Arch-Anywhere because Antergos != Arch and Arch > Antergos and other derivations.
You should quickly edit your comment s/yaourt/pacaur/g.

No one has recommended yaourt for years, but thanks to SEO I guess it still comes up https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_helpers#Comparison_...
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Neither Finland nor Poland had any colonies nor they had "enslaved its industrious inhabitants". So your example itself counters your point that colonization and enslavement are necessary for prosperity of countries.
Caching problems? :P
> work hard to have an inclusive and supportive community.

With the condition that you abide by the rules. It's the assurance that everyone adheres to more-or-less the same values that glues the community together.

Also, if I may venture slightly off-topic, the modern western definition of "inclusive" seems to imply "without requiring people to adhere to anything", which is the opposite of what you need to build a community.

No shared set of values ("do whatever you want" does not really count as a value) means less trust and more suspicion.

Simplest example: group A values sexual restraint and have a philosophical framework that justifies why this value is necessary for the preservation of society, group B values sexual freedom and is dismissive of the philosophical framework of group A.

Members of group A will be extremely weary of members of group B, and will be concerned about how they might start influencing their children, for example. So they will avoid them. Vice versa, members of group B will be suspicious of group A members, because when you see people being suspicious and avoidant towards you, you tend to become suspicious of them as well.
For me, the biggest point in favor of Arch is that it is a binary distro that seems to be closest to "vanilla" - meaning that packages are generally built directly from upstream, without heavy distro-specific patchsets applied by maintainers. There's still plenty of patches, mind you, but they're usually there to ensure that it builds and installs correctly in Arch environment, not to change functionality.

I also find Pacman to be noticeably faster than all other binary package managers. I just did a full package upgrade on a laptop that hasn't been upgraded since the beginning of this year, and yet it was able to compute a (fairly lengthy) list of packages to upgrade faster than I could blink.
Well, I argue that they did foresaw its business viability. They invested heavily in DL before any one of their competitors. Of course there were researchers everywhere working on that, but there are researchers working on everything. What is the most difficult part is recognizing that it can be taken to mainstream and betting huge resources on that. Of course no one argues that Nvidia CEO is the first man in the world that saw GPU/AI applicability. But of those in positions of power in the tech business community...
What real world value? What does that even mean to have "real value"? Selling advertising now has "real world value"? How?
FB allowing people to bid on eyeballs of random people surfing their site has as much real world value as pieces of paper with dead presidents on them (or imaginary coins on a blockchain). The only reason it has value is because we agree it's valuable.
There's an update to that ad: "This is your brain on drug policy".

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AKXN6Vdr3g0

Spoiler: same actress.
I'm running opensuse so I have my office 365 in a browser, :(

As an aside, opensuse is a great linux for laptops. IMHO, it has better hardware support then Ubuntu and it's a more consistent experience moving between the console and different GUI's.
Not at all, in fact in a lot of places Python is taught first. Best advice would be to pick one language and learn it thoroughly. Later on learning your next language will not be so difficult as you'll find a lot of the concepts are shared, so you can build upon what you know and just look for the differences. Your third language will be even easier again as you have a bigger 'toolbox', so to speak, to draw on yet again. And so on.
Skidders and trucks in the mud vs rockets and barges. Same difference. The toys he gets to play with are just different. Probably way less dick jokes, facial hair and steel toe boots on a SpaceX job-site though.
I mean the decentralised services of today, no need to write a snark response. THink XMPP, or Mastodon.
Imagine if this feature gets added to PowerPoint, or Webex/Skype?
The European countries would quite likely be similarly rich if - if you look at such countries that didn't have colonies like Switzerland or Ireland, they've done ok.
You'd still have escape sequences for those cases.
And the US doesn't?

By the way "propaganda" and "public relations" are exactly the same thing.
That's what the grandparent hinted at:

> As long as we can lose fear without also losing concern, we'll be alright.

I read this as fear being the emotional reaction to a threat, and concern being the rational reaction. You can say "this is a problem, what can I/we/government do to fix it?" without also having to say "OH MY GOD WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE", but it needs to be learned. (Which reminds me that the Enchiridion of Epictetus is still on my reading list.)
Arch should probably be compared to Debian unstable, not testing. Testing can be pretty slow, especially close to the next stable release - and that's by design.
For phone-based biometrics, the PIN has always been a backup for the fingerprint/face recognition, because these things aren't 100% reliable. Not even considering any security aspects here, just practicalities, like your hands are dirty or your face isn't being recognised (perhaps you've got bandages on your face or whatever). Having the PIN as a replacement is a good thing in these cases, otherwise you could be locked out of your device when you actually want to use it.

For 'extreme' security situations, you might as well just have a long secret PIN and no biometrics.
Assume that all these countries have had different levels of exposure to slavery, meaning the total amount of GDP can be attributed to slavery, and that would be thus lost if they abolished slavery and refused to trade with companies or individuals which use slavery (e.g. place an embargo on American cotton unless it's certified).

I mean, it's a fair assumption: slavery was abolished in France in 1794, in the United Kingdom in 1833 and in the United States in 1865. Germany mainly traded with it's European neighbors, which didn't use slave labor in their territories.

Then how can all these different countries have similar levels of GDP per capita and similar growth paths, despite their different levels of exposure?

Furthermore, there currently poor countries which relied on slave labor for much longer. Brazil only abolished slavery in 1888. Morocco, in 1922. And if we include serfdom, Russia, in 1861.

Unless you mean metaphorical slavery.

I grant that it would take much more sophisticated analysis in order to properly exclude any confounding factors, but that's kinda the point, really. I don't think you really thought this through.
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This need is actually being exacerbated by the likes of FB.
That wouldn't be smart unless they consider US a hostile country. As long as they benefit more from the relation with the US the spying stuff won't ban any US product.
The interoperability between the protocols is indeed difficult. But pushing a standard protocol is, I think, the best way to promote this compatibility.

Imagine if we didn't have a standard protocol for emails (SMTP/IMAP/POP) but instead several protocols built using JSON on top of HTTP. We would have to take most of our time to work on broken transport libraries and fix incompatibility issues between all those solutions. Hopefully we have a standard (even if it's not the best one) and we can "just" build on top using the many existing libraries and projects out there.

I think that such "social standard" should be build on Internet protocols (TCP/TLS/DNS/IP…) and not Web only (HTTP), even if it's "easier". Also instead of re-starting from scratch I prefer to improve something existing like XMPP that have flaws but is already an industry standard with a strong community, many libraries/clients and servers deployed all across the world.
Specially when you have players around with unlimited cash.
There is an opposite use case which will make me consider getting an iPhone X for a long time.

Every so often, I leave my phone at home and I need my wife to get some info from it. Or my phone runs out of batteries and my wife's phone is there, and I use to to make a phone call.

With Face ID, these possibilities go away.
I think all of the 'other package managers' are just wrappers around pacman to give more functionality. I haven't seen any competing completely different package managers.

Packaging, yeah, some stuff is only AUR, but that's generally a better starting point than "well here is the source". In general, 99% of what I use is available in proper packages. Obviously that'll depend on what you use.
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Ask HN: Programs that help aspiring entrepreneurs to build solid solutions?
I have spent my last ~5 years in an amateur startup ecosystem fueled by govt funds. As a developer or problem solver, most my challenges were minimal. I'm planning to take a break and want to spend a couple of months on learning new skills. I was considering to attend something like [Oxford Fintech Programme](https://getsmarter.sbs.ox.ac.uk/oxford-fintech-online-programme-hm/), but preferably offline. Few programs in my mind were [CodeX Stanford](https://law.stanford.edu/codex-the-stanford-center-for-legal-informatics/) or [Berkman Klein Center fellowship](https://cyber.harvard.edu). I know these things are not easy to get in, but I would love to give a try.

Do you have any experience with any similar programs/ fellowships? I'm interested in multidisciplinary programs to compliment my Computer science/ Electronics knowledge and build a solid solution to real world problems. Let me know if you came similar programs.

thanks.
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Slow file writes - working with WLS I found that integrated ms antivirus really doesn't like my python scripts for some reason. Turning off "ongoing protection" speed up things considerably.
I'm becoming quite convinced that long-term this might be Apple's biggest selling-points (and they realize this).

In precisely the areas where Apple has or might end up having difficulty competing with the likes of, say, Google and their massive datasets, the focus on privacy and security might very well be enough for consumers to go for the 'inferior' product.

For example, I've considered switching away from Apple for my new phone, but the security of the iPhone (or so I've read multiple times here on HN) is enough to keep from even considering a switch to an Android device even if everything else were better on Android.

The same goes for my photos. I'd love the features Google Photos offers, but I just don't feel comfortable uploading them all to their servers. While Apple's implementation of these features might be inferior, at least I can keep things on my (secure) devices.
This is one of the most beautiful things I've seen. The effort and time and collection of talented people required to do this is just awesome. All thanks to the universal love of Tetris.
In theory it could be a revolution I guess, in practice I'm not sure it would mine enough coin and so generate enough income to be worth it.

But having an equivalent using GPU in application like games may be profitable.
I used to be a line guy in CFC for a couple years. As cool as being part of historic battles was, the sov grinds really can wear you down. The propaganda also became painfully transparent to the point that it was cringe-inducing drivel intended to keep the meat grinder going. I'm not saying that was never its intent in the first place, but it certainly had more swagger in the early days.

Around when TEST collapsed I jumped ship over to NC./PL's side of the fence. It was far more demanding, but the game actually became fun again. When you have (at the time) the largest supercapital fleet in the game on short notice ready to back you up, it was possible to do stupid stuff like take a dozen guys and go kill some dude's titan on a whim.

Sov grinds were oddly more fun as well, because we were incredibly outnumbered in subcap fights. I recall defending one system against about 1200 CFC players, and our numbers were about 300. We'd switch between AHAC/Ishtar/T3 doctrines, with enemy fleets dying faster than they could reship from nearby staging. Good times, but even that turned into a grind after a while.
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Seems kind if close to my description... Need to try it out. Wonder why I never hear of people using this; maybe my ignorance.
If it's implemented in the same way as TouchID, you can always fall back to PIN.
True, but that adds an extra burden for programmers... and if proof systems are ever going to gain widespread acceptance (that'll be the day!), the ergonomics of using them need to be improved. (That is, having an extra manual step is not acceptable.)