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If you want to spend your time on earth helping to destroy the lives of poor people, work at a bank like Bank of America or Wells Fargo. They've got evil corruption down to a science.

> A 2014 CFPB study showed that about 8 percent of bank customers pay about 75 percent of all overdraft fees. And much of the time, the purchases that trigger overdraft fees are minor. The median debit card transaction that ends in an overdraft fee is $24, according to the bureau.

> Overdraft fees began piling up in Davis Clark’s Wells Fargo account after he lost his job in February. The 26-year-old fell behind on bills, including about $9,000 in short-term loans he had taken out to help cover his living expenses. Each time the lenders tried to automatically withdraw payment from his checking account — his monthly payments added up to about $550 — he was hit with a $35 charge from his bank for not having sufficient funds.

By the time Clark started a new job as a data analyst less than two months later, his checking account was negative by more than $1,400. The debt that ate up more than half of his first paycheck and made it more difficult for him to catch up on the rent and other bills. Last week, Clark opened up a second checking account with another bank so that he could avoid having his earnings eaten by overdraft fees. But with the charges continuing to pile up on his first account, he worries he will have little choice but to file for bankruptcy to clear the loans and overdraft fees.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/get-there/wp/2016/06/13/...

If you want to help people, empower your fellow humans with new technology that renders these truly evil megacorps obsolete.
I'm sorry, but "overwhelmingly pubic" is one of the funnier typos I've seen.
> Don't like "proof of work"? Go hack on various other implementations.

If this strikes you as reasonable advice or as a reasonable way to think about cryptosystems, it is probably best if you don’t attempt to work on blockchain tech.
> Ban on Chemical and biological weapons only work because no one wants to get nuked in response

Chemical and biological weapons are uniquely messy and de-stabilising. Messy because it is difficult to limit the damage to targeted enemy combatants. (In World War I, the British mistakenly gassed themselves [1].) De-stabilising because once built, they are easy for unskilled actors to clandestinely transport and deploy.

[1] https://www.webharvest.gov/peth04/20041017045619/http://www....
I mostly agree with your perspective, but Trump repeated "law and order" like a kind of mantra at the debates and I think a fear of lawlessness is a real motivator for his base.
On the question of Robots, we already have a robot accent: that digital accent that is familiar from TV and movies, which hilariously mispronounce so many wonderful words.

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/10/05/44...

I do expect that one day computerised speech will be far more eloquent and sound more like HAL and less like Paranoid Android.

But what about great robot voices like Alpha 60, Hitchhiker's Marvin and Tron's Master Control Program? I hope we keep our sense of humour in the future.
The fact that they are providing a rating instead of preference doesn't in any way prevent them from overcompensating.
This seems very similar to what Microsoft is trying to do With Azure AD and Intune
I agree with the premise halfway in the article. My generation has not grown to fear the bombs as the previous generation did. When someone of my generation is behind the buttons, I wonder if somewhere in the back of their minds there isn't a part of them that says 'perhaps in this and this situation it'd be okay to press the big red button?'.

I think the horror that war/these weapons cause will slowly drift from collective memory in mainstream western society. The warnings of the previous generation will be an endorsement of the destructive power of these weapons, instead of a deterrent of their usage.
I use WSL daily, and yes you can see your entire C:\ drive in WSL under /mnt/c/, and all the common directory commands work, so running a bash script is 'cross-platform' in that way.

That's sort of cheating though. In that instance, Bash isn't really being cross platform, so much as Windows bent over backwards to re-implement lots of Linux underneath Bash, so Bash could treat Linux and Linux (on Windows) identically.

Or to restate that: If Linux apps get to claim they are 'cross-platform' because of WSL, then Windows apps get to claim they are 'cross-platform' because you could run them in WINE.
x = numpy.linalg.pinv(A) * b

There we go. Code is math; just math that is encoded for computers. I think the problem is programmers who are not used to reading math. The problem is not math, which is meant to be read by humans.
I'm not too familiar with the whole Gulen thing in general, but I have heard that the Gulenists were an almost cult-like group that favored each other and made sure only they got into the highest levels of power.

I'm sure Erdogan did blow the story out of proportion (it benefits him to do so), but I also think that Gulen and his followers are not fault-free.
Seems to be a critical piece of info that the author detained. A job with, for example, Google versus a job with BitGold+Plus would make a big difference in this kind of decision.
> PC as in Windows, or Linux/Mac? Big titles like Quake and Unreal were available on PC (meaning x86-32 plus Windows or x86-64 plus Windows in my post though things like Wine have been amazing for me).

Counter-Strike was way more relevant at that point, but that doesn't change the basic fact that pretty much all the major publishers gave little to no attention to the PC sector during that time.

Case in point: While Halo 1 and 2 still had Windows ports, the following Halo games didn't get them, same situation with Gears of War, first game got a Windows port, none after that until recently.

> Whether they were boring or not is a matter of opinion (I wouldn't say missing out on say Resident Evil is any issue).

That's a matter of personal taste and preferences. Personally, I really enjoyed RE1+2 on my Playstation back then (Just like Metal Gear Solid) which was also my last console before gaming exclusively on PC, skipping the whole sixth console generation, which already led to a bit of a backlog due to many interesting GameCube/PS2 titles.

Wasn't until late in the seventh generation (Xbox360/PS3) that I got back into console gaming, mainly due to the lack of certain genres on PC (Third Person games/backlog of exclusives) and the consoles/games gotten more affordable at that point.

If it wasn't for my interest in MMORPG/RTS/western RPG games I'm not sure I could have held out that long back then, as I also enjoy the occasional JRPG/Arcade Racing Game/Third Person Shooter, which had been rare to non-existent on PC back then.

> Personally, I don't like consoles because I got nothing with this whole Trusted Computing thing. Instead I got a Steam Link for 5 EUR during Black Friday.

There's something to be said for getting tons of games very cheaply from a still functioning second-hand market. Getting a cheap used PS2+tons of games or a Wii+tons of GameCube games offered a lot of game for very little money. Steam had a phase where this worked somewhat well too, but it feels like over these past few years good deals have mostly been replaced by tons of shovelware 99 cent games for card collections or having to wait for Summer/Winter sale events.
> It’s a new technology because it enables a new human behavior.

And what is that? Most of what it’s credited with seems shakey at best. E.g. it’s not really decentralized is the vast majority of the mining is done by two or three large groups.
> looking for something that could replace big desktop monitors and annoyingly unportable laptops

Tl;dr: wait for Xmas.

A current design point: gaming laptop; Windows; SteamVR; a virtual desktop like http://bigscreenvr.com/ ; HDMI dummies as mentioned by @sgtmas2006, so Windows thinks it has more monitors; RDP/VNC/etc to a linux VM. All off the shelf.

But gaming laptops are likely "annoyingly unportable laptops". If you can segregate when you want portable vs monitors, something like a Lenovo X1 Carbon is portable, and has Thunderbolt 3, so you can plug in a rather less portable external gpu enclosure.

Current HMD resolution is still quite low. If you use big desktop monitors for their resolution (eg, lots of text), rather than merely their size (eg, vision impairment), that's a problem. If the big monitors are full of little terminal windows (eg, ops), I saw a report of someone being happy.

https://varjo.com/ , despite its website, appears on track[1] to release a much higher resolution HMD this year. For only "under $10k". With that, you could just render your big monitors. Current software support is unclear.

So a takeaway could be "wait for Xmas 2018".

> what to expect if I were to buy a headset and plug it into my laptop running linux

The HMD shows up as a normal monitor. (In future, that may require telling `xrandr` "yes, I know it's an HMD, just treat it as a normal monitor please".) From there, it's like google cardboard. There's a border region you can't see, and each eye gets half the screen. If you close one eye, you can just drag/open windows and use them normally. I open a full-screen browser window, and render stereo for 3D. The pixels are magnified, and can easily be seen individually.

As for tracking and controllers... attention to linux largely evaporated when VR transitioned from niche to chasing the Windows gaming market. I know of nothing usable with Windows MR HMDs. (There was/is? a project to unpack their odd camera format, and then one might run say ORB-SLAM2 for tracking, but that's all diy). And doesn't gget you Windows MR controllers. For Vive, there's SteamVR and WebVR, but I believe both still require major setup effort, with buggy results. http://idav.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/ResDev/Vrui/ exists. As do low-level Vive device drivers.

> ... with intel graphics

Ah, that is very not mainstream. I know of only my own stack[2] easily available. And that's for Vive tracking. Tracking Windows MR HMDs then requires taping on a Vive controller, or diy software dev.

So unless your usage patterns happen to mesh nicely with rather severe current tech constraints... using VR to replace big monitors isn't quite ripe yet. Maybe by Xmas. But once that threshold is passed, I expect a rapid and large impact.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/12102/varjo-announces-shippin...
[2] https://github.com/mncharity/node-webvr-alt-stack
So it's backlash time already?

A lot of technologies get a lot of hype over the years. But often the backlash is no less ignorant or fashion driven.

Is there a silent majority of us that look at these hype trends, consider them, and make a level-headed decision to see if they fit our problem? I never got into micro-services, because I worked on small teams and it seemed like over-engineering. But it's an idea that I tucked away in the back of my head, that I'd still use if the situation calls for it, HN backlash be damned. The same goes for nosql databases or dynamic scripting languages or anything else that's now irrationally hated.
And HP-UX, Ultrix, Tru64, and probably a few more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-UX

I used HP-UX for a while; it was good. In fact I first wrote this Unix utility [1] (and later an IBM developerWorks article about it) on an HP-UX system, for a big manufacturing client. HP-UX was pretty stable and had a good patch management system. Had some good tools from HP on top of the OS, such as GlancePlus, Ignite-UX, Process Resource Manager, etc., and another high-end one called MC ServiceGuard.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tru64_UNIX

Edit: Sorry, forgot to add the link I quoted above. Done now:

[1] https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/09/my-ibm-developerworks-art...

It's a tutorial on the topic: Developing a Linux command-line utility (in C).
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To take your example - assume I target you personally, and beyond the list of Google searches, I managed to get hold of the list of times (with minute-or-better precision) you made requests to Google Search (say, I hacked/subpoenaed your ISP). Taken together and if large enough, the two datasets would allow me to build a statistical profile of your possible interests - even though in the original dataset you're bucketed together with lots of people, each time you do the search (second dataset) you're bucketed with different people.

Gaining access to other data - like e.g. your country of residence + aggregated popularity of search terms for each country - would let me refine your statistical profile further.
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I used peak oil because I knew somebody would trip up on the wording. Peak oil describes both sides, either we run out (we aren't) or we just wake up and stop using it altogether (batteries are expensive, doesn't have economies of scale, and pricing is kicked down to the consumer).

It's easy to say battery is going to replace oil in a country where you don't see poverty or people don't live on a $1 a day. Oil demand will increase in majority of the world where people are still poor.
That's some pretty incredible confirmation bias in action
Sales issues, which any organization can and will have if they don’t very closely monitor what their sales people are promising and doing. Being a bank is not the red flag characteristic here.
Our filesystem provider could definitely use some performance work, and we're discussing redoing it at some point in the next minor version release or two.

Personally, for quick interactive stuff, I just `ls` when I'm sitting on a non-Windows machine. My finger muscle memory just does `ls -al` and `rm -rfv` when I'm sitting on a Linux box.

But if I need to do some heavy sorting/filtering, I'd much rather save the minutes wrestling grep/awk/sed/xargs than save the minutes on execution (or the hours on having just done some operation based on some grep/awk/sed/xargs work that I didn't properly test).
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Most of the aliases use a consistent naming pattern too, which I appreciate.
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Ben Thompson has some awesome writing on tech titans, and their role in the economy. Here's some definitions: https://stratechery.com/2017/defining-aggregators/ and here's an some writing on why they are not necessarily bad monopolies: https://stratechery.com/2015/aggregation-theory/.
Linus' swearing falls in line perfectly with the FOSS movement -- to not conform to corporate hierarchy and societal norms.

Like others said, his language helps drive the point home and leaves more of an impression. It also humanizes Linus as well.
> That said, it's an early time to have a tremendous amount of impact.

It seems easy to forget that early actors of Bitcoin are either in jail or hiding. Why do you think this generation of actors will have a different fate?
I haven't been to Walmart in quite a while but their UX used to be horrible. They had buttons with white lettering and the button background used to cycle between light blue and white. Half the time you couldn't read what the button was for and the other half of the time it was difficult to make out.
I distinctly remember saying "IN-tri-gyou-ing" (intriguing) for a bit as a kid.
Would you be able to tell the difference on a GSM cell phone call?
What about the other way around? Much of Google is US-gov't-funded
I have absolutely no idea in which way "Heretic" wouldn't rhyme with "magnetic". I mean, mag-net-ik and he-ret-ik rhyme to my ears :)
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Control of oil is about who extracts it and what currency they sell it in. There is plenty of oil but we are always told that it is scarce. All of this was established in the Standard Oil days when there was a glut of oil meaning that nobody could make money at it. The trick was to manage the supply so the price was high.

This is not to deny that we are burning the oil at a silly rate to therefore run out. However, the story of scarcity told along the way is not quite what the peak oil believers would have you believe.
It seems like half of his pronunciations are how natives might say it, and the other half as 'over-educated faux authenticity'.

Which one did he get political heat for?

Also, language has been about politics for thousands of years...see the shibboleth story in the Judges(old testament, ~3400 years ago).
Personally I have learned that TDD and unit tests are only useful in OOP settings that have side effects and have mutated state overtime. But with a more FP approach all you need to do is verify the feature works since you know that state can't change the output.

I kind of also feel that TDD has a kind of cult like following, especially with the Rails crowd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdzqTGmEcZE
Those in my circle of friends who made something of themselves came from difficult backgrounds that didn't encourage them to do what they're doing now. Granted, this is anecdotal, but this is the perspective I'm coming from. I myself have always been averse to encouragement because I don't like doing things to please people or for reasons other than purely my own, but I'm probably a minority when it comes to that.

When it comes to women, I do think there's a widespread cultural problem of discouragement that tells them they are either not smart enough or won't be happy doing X. That is something we should definitely change, but if we instead encourage women into things they're not terribly interested in, we're not going to get the results we delude ourselves into believing are attainable. Removing barriers is preferable to tilting the playing field, which should be insulting to everyone.
Exactly.. It's sort of possible.. if nothing goes wrong and you remember to run df in posix mode and you manage to parse the output correctly.
What kind of C# are you writing, is it a compiled exe you're distributing or is there some way to run C# script on windows?

I've done almost nothing with PowerShell due to the brutal syntax, would love to use a nice language like C# or Python for the control structure (logic, looping, etc) and then just calling out to PowerShell when needing to execute a function. Seems like that should be a possibility, although passing data through may be problematic.
I think this is being misunderstood/reported around the web. This is not a thing yet. It's a design, an idea. No word on if or when it will really be used.
Is it a conspiracy that the US controls the global media and people just buy up whatever they read? After all, Russia was able to exploit this very fact into their favor.

Is it a conspiracy that the World Bank and US backed institution shackle poor countries with debt by corrupting their leaders to do their bidding? Talk to people from South America, they will have a very different opinion of US: See Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras. Talk to Iran and Afghanis. Talk to people on the receiving end of US "freedom". I mean a fucking institution that was supposed to document Amazonian language ended up displacing entire communities so US companies could dig oil out of it. But whose narrative did you buy? The only one they show to American citizens. How about United Fruits? How about the Shah of Iran who conspired with Roosevelt's grandson to kick out his own father to sell off the countries oil only to have the wrath come back in a non-secular fashion? How many 'dictators' who fought against American corporatocracy are alive?

All I'm saying is just to be conscious and careful when buying into such narrative from a party with a long history of manipulation. Have you gone out and done your own studies whether to check their narrative is true? Does the average HN user have the resources and technological powers to verify the results for themselves?

Or are you one of those people who think the US goes around all over the world spreading 'freedom' for the sake of the good of those people?
I was really surprised at how polite Linus was being in this e-mail, for Linus. He's obviously being very cautious and contemplative, here.
Woah, it seems like you feel very strongly about this subject, is that interpretation correct? Why is that?

I feel like statements such as

>games are not important

are very unfair. Same with your assumption that a game developer will be I guess a capitalist slave? What about indie developers? Crowdfunded developers? Dwarf Fortress?

Some indie games that have exploded, off the top of my head:

* Flappy Bird

* Shovel Knight (crowdfunded)

* Divinity and Divinity 2 (crowdfunded)

* Stardew Valley (single developer)

* Minecraft (was a one man passion project)

* Terraria

> I know we all here love code, but objectively speaking, it's not the best thing in the world

What gives you this perspective? Speaking as someone who has tried art/literature, I think it's a false narrative that the "starving artist" is happier because their work is more "fulfilling" or something. I tried that, and yea I loved my art and I loved pursuing it, but it didn't pay the bills, and I still had to have just a regular job to keep it up. A sales job, keeping me at a healthy but relatively insignificant 40k/year, limiting my travel options and forcing most of my time to be spent sustaining my ability to eat and pay rent.

Then I discovered programming - still a creative endeavor! I can work for a company, freelance, work from home, work much better hours, and at that paygrade I could afford to get solid savings that grants me the confidence that I can retire at some point to pursue my writing full time, if I want.

As for medicine, my conversations with friends who have to put up with 10+ years of medical schooling at massive costs only to suffer through 60-80hr workweeks and claw their way up the medical ladder have convinced me that that path is not something I would like to entertain.
nonsense. There is no evidence whatsoever that spacex's launch of Zuma was anything but a success. Also, in what way is this the most damaging possible timing?
You can download and install PowerShell Core 6 completely side-by-side with Windows PowerShell 3.0. We even have a portable ZIP you can drop down wherever: https://github.com/powershell/powershell/releases
Great time to get into apps as everyone is so focused on Blockchain. By the time that bubble implodes, investors will want a brand new, fresh, ready-to-be-invested in app to throw their money at.
Honestly, I just really want to try gruit beer. I've never been a fan of hops, so I've always been really curious what unhopped beer tastes like.

(edit: I mean, I already drink a lot of malt-forward lightly-hopped beers like scotch ales, sweet stouts, and bocks, but I really want to try a beer with no hops at all)
I'd argue it is, though, especially as people aren't born with the inherent ability to solve problems that cause pain, it acts as a good rudimentary indication that damage is being done. And even grown people, intelligent people in fact, might be more prone to doing things they know are bad for them if they aren't given pain feedback.

It might not be a perfect system, but the existence of unpleasant feedback is necessary when there isn't inherent knowledge of the inner workings of the body. And in regards to low-information, that doesn't make it unnecessary, just inefficient, but it's still allowed humans to diagnose problems for ages. It tells you where the problem is, and what intensity it is.

Saying that pain can be improved upon doesn't make it unnecessary.
Do you have more information on these 'protected proxies' that you mention? My understanding was more that it was each client was given a health check of sorts & was either allowed, or not allowed after meeting a certain number of criteria.
Take a look at Google Cloud IAP -- it's essentially a stripped down version of BeyondCorp for public use on Google Cloud. I've used this as a customer of Google's with great success, it really does just work.

Disclaimer: I work for Google Cloud.