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I do not want to sound annoying, but this is how I read your very informative comment:

> Compared with Debian or Red Hat, Gentoo is really a meta-distribution. It's a nice basis for creating your own distribution.

I do not want that on my production server. We're in the $SOME_BACKEND_SERVICE business, not in the distro creating business.

> In theory, Gentoo lets you mix the latest version of some packages with well-tested, old versions of other packages and generate a release perfected for your organization.

I want a hyper stable base that is tested by the masses and when possible has some big org behind it who's supporting it (and thus very conservative when changing stuff). On top of that base I might roll my own packages or include a fringy package repository. Never I want the base to be different for everyone.

> If the Gentoo release of some package, Ceph for example, isn't as up to date as you want, you can easily update it yourself and publish a new release to your servers.

This is not too hard for any distro I've used.

> In practice, many people don't understand that Gentoo is a meta-distribution and try to run it like a simple distribution, leading to arbitrary ABI breakage and chaos. If you want to run Gentoo on servers, you need to test all upgrades on build machines before rolling them out. You need to publish your own binary packages. You need to do a lot of the testing that Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, etc. would be doing for you.

So may we conclude, as GP said, that running Gentoo on production servers is just not a good idea?

> I have some friends who set up their own hosting business based on Gentoo and they seem to be doing it right. Their servers are very stable.

This is a little too anecdotal for me :)

I've done my share of Gentoo, and this system in intriguing. But when I need stability, as I need for backend services, then it will not even be on the long list.

I found some similar-level intriguing features in NixOS. I'd probably still not run it for backend services, but I might be compelled to run it on the application layer in some cases.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Largely because the previous version numbering was sometimes confusing for the opposite reason: Postgres "major" releases were sometimes interpreted as point releases. For example, 9.1 to 9.2 was major version jump. While that was understood by those who already understood the versioning scheme, it was often confusing to those outside the community.

Josh Berkus discusses this here:

http://www.databasesoup.com/2016/05/changing-postgresql-vers...
Ask IH: Feedback on this idea very much needed
Ignorance, or arrogance? I find it hard to believe that devs at the caliber Google employs are ignorant of existing software, especially when it's in the same (or related) domain.
Game dev has it's own industry problems, not simply lower pay. You might be working on something you enjoy right now, but that's not necessarily always the case, and there are plenty of crap you have to deal with from clients, publishers, and the like.

And the market is severely hit driven, so you could be working 6 months to 2+ years on a project only to see it land like a thud in the marketplace, possibly due to nothing more than a couple reviewers that clearly barely played your game before writing a scathing review, or you just picked a bad week and get completely overshadowed by other games.

I worked on 7 games for three different companies, and all of those games failed to find and retain an audience, for various reasons. You spend 4 years of your life working on projects that may as well not have existed, except for your own personal development, and the industry starts to look less appealing.

I'm working on software I have much less passion for right now, outside of the game industry, but at least it gets used on a daily basis by thousands of people (not always, I've worked on projects that have gotten binned because clients have backed out or contracts never got signed, or the lead developer quit and the manager decided to outsource the project, in this industry as well). And at least I'm getting paid quite a bit more than I would in the game industry.
I distinctly remember being dialed into a meeting by phone where someone was explaining the project requirements of what would be our first Ceph deployment. Over and over it was explained there was simply NO provision for restarting nodes without the remaining nodes trying to rebuild for the configured n+x redundancy. I completely disagreed and said it made no sense at all, until I read up all I could on the matter. No provision for patching. Period. If a node goes down, the cluster tries to rebuild.

I'm not sure what reality this design comes from, but it's not one I care to inhabit.
I no longer have twitter, but isnt it called DM/Direct message and not private message? I dont condone the spying, but I dont think I would ever pretend to think that my twitter activity is "private".
China’s J-20 stealth fighter jet lines up for combat duty
Okay, I'm tempted now, partly out of a someone-might-be-wrong-on-the-Internet cussedness, and partly out of curiosity. By what metrics would you propose measuring how consistent the systems are or are not?
Depends on the author. There were plenty of subtly wrong tables back in the day.

These were often evaluated as Newton approximation, Taylor expansion or direct series if it converged fast enough.
The echo has a separate processor that listens for the wake word; when it hears the wake word it fires up the main processor to start doing the actual audio processing. Some simple commands are processed directly on the Echo without going to Amazon's servers but the rest are sent over the Internet to be processed.
That criticism seems to conflate culture with skin. The NHL has a culture where bring the spotlight on individuals is frowned upon (For a long time having a high number on you sweater was considered showboaty). The article wants to call this "white culture" that is unwelcoming to people of colour. That seems wrong to me.
Every task is easy to the person who doesn't have to do it. I usually say this to non-technical people when they ask for a feature that sounds simple to do, in their minds. But the same fallacy is at work if you think that highly paid bankers or consultants have mindless work.
How about playing them in a different order than Joss intended? That was also a terrible sin. And moving them around the schedule so much? They seemed to really try very hard to make it fail.
A mitigating factor is professional sports offer amazing retirement benefits.

https://www.bankrate.com/retirement/retirement-benefits-of-p...
How to Install Official Firmware on Samsung Galaxy Devices with Odin
This is unequal application of the law. If this were an unoccupied house and the bill was sent to the person on file for nearly 40 years, there would be no way out of the foreclosure for poor people. The fact is that the buyers followed the law and the wealthy did not.

The wealthy once again got a free ride from the system while working to put others in debt. This is what's broken in our system. The wealthy have the money and should have purchased the land back. Instead they used money to buy political favor. The rich probably paid more in legal expenses than just buying the land back. This is spite and exertion of power, money, and influence, plain and simple. If the rules don't apply equally to everyone, then why do they apply to anyone?
Which she does locally...no server required
For slightly more context, I wrote the first lines of Rust code for Skylight as a spike at the end of 2013, and joined the Rust core team more than a year later. :)

I was largely inspired by a blog post in June 2013 by Patrick Walton: Removing Garbage Collection From the Rust Language[1]

[1]: http://pcwalton.github.io/blog/2013/06/02/removing-garbage-c...
...for those who don't know, George Soros is a self-appointed alchemist and currency trader.

Powerful and wealthy currency traders, going back since the very invention of moneychanging, have routinely made their fortunes by either waiting and hoping they're lucky enough to have the surfboard ready for massive geopolitical tsunamis... or by being proactive and intentionally creating geopolitical volatility with social engineering, cultural destabilization, and semantic apocalypse.

Pathological altruists often whine about war profiteering, but even that sordid business is downstream of and part of a brilliant and comprehensive currency traders arsenal.

HackerNews is so goddamned disingenuously oblivious to the realities of currency trading and the thousands of years of misery it makes possible.

Ask yourself: Why is HackerNews erasing comments revealing this 100% provable history of forex?
I'm still baffled why anyone would put those voice-activated devices in their houses. Smartphones are bad enough, and I'm hoping to get rid of mine soon.
Assuming that assertion is true, which I doubt, surely they must have some interesting conflicts in their societies and lives that international literature could speak to, if only a little. There's quite a bit happening in Latin American literature that may well speak to Cubans, but is unavailable on the island. And since the government control which books can be brought into Cuba, I doubt demand is the root of the issue.
http://nakamotoinstitute.org/trusted-third-parties/
Alexa should come with a physical switch on the top of it to turn the mike on/off. Not a software switch. It should also have an LED that glows when the mike is on.

If it had that, I'd buy one.
"Little bit of planning" is not easy for me, or for anyone who values the immediacy of Prime.

The obvious solution is to have lockers at homes, i.e., a secured box on your property that only delivery people to whom you've given a code can open. You can even introduce this concurrently with smart locks, so people who feel comfortable with it can just give the delivery guy a one-time code that opens the front door.

I know this has been experimented with, and I'm sure their are challenges, bit I've never been able to understand how it hasn't been worth solving.
Stanford one on Coursera -> https://www.coursera.org/specializations/algorithms
Its WeChat. Did she really feel like she had a guarantee of anonymity using a Chinese messaging app? That seems seriously naïve.
Copycat Crimes
In the deluge of revelations about the scumminess of Hollywood types, I think his rather pedestrian foibles have been drowned out in the minds of most... I had to go google "Joss Whedon scumbag" to even remember what he was in trouble for.
I have first-hand experience:

Around 1999, I wrote a paper about information leakage from blinking LEDs on devices (one DES link encryption box, used by banks, for example, was sending out plaintext on the LEDs).

I was working for a defense contractor at the time on a classified project, and so, following procedures, we submitted the paper to NSA for approval to publish.

It took a year and a half to approve. [1]

Eventually NSA wrote back and said, "No problem! Go ahead and publish." I kind of wonder what they spent all that time doing.

[1] Actually, it didn't quite happen that way. Our paper was approved for publication very quickly, in only a few weeks; we submitted it to the USENIX Security Symposium, where it was immediately accepted. Later, NSA called us back, and in a panic, demanded we withdraw the paper from the conference. I had to apologize to the conference committee; it was terribly embarrassing, and the delay in publishing was two years.
Hoped I'd see they were working with Steven Brust, author of the excellent Vlad Taltos fantasy series, who wrote a fan fiction Firefly novel, "My Own Kind of Freedom" http://dreamcafe.com/2008/02/05/firefly-novel/

Well worth a read, though as with all things Firefly, it just leaves you wanting more...

Cory Doctorow's plug https://boingboing.net/2008/02/18/steven-brusts-unauth.html
Ok, but does this space vehicle have a name?
Curious as to where this demographic gets hired, as it is rare for me to find a JD out there that doesn't ask for a degree in comp sci/soft eng.
I think this is a very well reasoned argument that makes sense within your logical and philosophical framework.

What it doesn't take into account is different meanings to the term "fair" or the morality of a system based on staunch individualism.

> Ostensibly, this is "fair", since you use the same rule to fund everyone, but clearly it isn't actually.

I actually find the situation you outlined extremely fair and would find it quite unfair to apply different funding principals to different schools based on demographics.

I suppose one of the problems I have with the concept of privilege is that I find it promotes a very dangerous mindset. Having grown up poor and non-white and achieved success through hard work, more often than not I saw people being held back by their own sense of victimization than any sort of systematic oppression. The concept of privilege exacerbates that and thus is counter productive.
>a walled garden with omnipresent surveillance and advertising

So... a shopping mall? A school? Any corporate job? A walk through downtown? "In-network" minutes and long distance charges on your phone? Religious institutions?

Whatever Facebook is doing wrong for society, they are standing on the backs of giants. Walled garden or not, surveillance or not, advertising or not, people have never been as free to socialize as they are today. If there is something negative on your Facebook feed, you are solely responsible for it being there. It takes two clicks to make it go away forever.
Haha, I love hearing other uses of this. For me, "all y'all" is usually followed by "can fuck off" or "are about to get your asses kicked". I'm not violent, but it means I'm _really_ frustrated.

Funny!
Can't activelt promote legislation in a dictatorship
It's a good glue language, like Python. Better than Python in the sense that its internal representation is based on tagged values instead of ubiquitous pointers: for example, 43243 represents itself and isn't a pointer to a some reference-counted PyObject representing an int.

And because Emacs Lisp a lisp, you get extensive syntactic malleability that you can use to build DSLs and convenience facilities.

Elisp is actually a very nice little language.
My read on this article is that the author of this article is a young American having less sex.
Why Bitcoin isn’t money
This is absolutely not true.

The normal flags you're looking for are: noout, noscrub, nodeep-scrub. Do your maintenance. Unset those flags.

The noout is what tells Ceph to essentially not shuffle data when OSDs go down. This is also referenced in the article.
Same concept! And I bet there is a similar feeling for Texans and Aussies (may I use that term?) when speaking of the wild regions.
It depends on the application. I can easily imagine supercomputers running Gentoo, since Gentoo lets you build the world with risky optimization flags that just might work for you. I can also imagine high-security environments using Gentoo because Gentoo lets you eliminate unnecessary dependencies that may be a security risk.

But honestly, I think most people who run Gentoo do it for the learning experience and for fun. :-)
"God, please end poverty in the world"

"I'm sorry, I didn't get that. I'm sorry, I didn't catch that."
The Iliad as Lawsuit
Same here. I told my roommate/landlord I'd be totally against a Alexa/Google/Siri mic/speaker in the house. I see so many people in tech who have them that it's scary.

I've thought about making my own open source version using something like Jarvis.
Industrial Espionage and National Productivity [pdf]
Common genetic risk variants identified in autism spectrum disorder
Security minded people should install more physical switches to outlets for this type of thing.
What about philanthropists who are very poor? E.g. A homeless person giving you his last good pair of gloves because you look to be freezing?
> Why should anyone pay to beta-test the product?

I guess the pioneer of that was Microsoft and Windows 95.
https://hubski.com
It was a mistake cancelling this series, the books won't cut it.
i wonder what the I/O speed of those crystal drives are...
Grandparent was clearly making a statement about WeChat private messages not being private. That's how I took it anyways.
I was that young once. Even back then, the stock market was "obviously" worthless. If I have a hundred bucks, what the fuck good is having a hundred and five bucks in a year? I needed tens of thousands of dollars in order to fell like my life had changed.

So I ignored the stock market, and gravitated to poker. Same shit, different day. Chasing big returns because they're the only kind that would've moved the needle.

I don't think it's that bad or good, just natural, even in a more exuberant-feeling time. Everyone in parallel comments is talking about "it's because they don't think they can get a 9-to-5 and a house like their parents" as if having a steady job and being like your parents was ever an aspirational goal. Parents are boring! Nine to five is boring! Actors, athletes, rock stars, billionaires - that's the real goal. This wasn't created by social media, it wasn't created by 2008, it goes back decades at least.

Picture yourself being 15-20 years old. There are basically zero non-lottery-ticket opportunities available to you to make serious money. Your opportunities to exercise full-on adult agency are still fairly limited.
* Your immediate employment opportunities are things like fast food and pizza delivery
* You won't have a college degree for years even if you think you'd graduate into a middle-class type of job
* Even if you doubled down on your schoolwork, you won't generally be separated that much from the rest of your class. And grades aren't directly translatable into money and popularity, anyway.

It takes money to make money, and you don't have money. Looking for moonshots is a somewhat rational action in that situation - it's the only one with any chance of producing the desired outcome.
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind for next time. Is there a way to edit the title now?
I don’t understand why this was downvoted
I meant ananlogous in the sense that Cuba was a Soviet base, and that it was previously a sphere of influence. Having Soviet missiles off the coast of Florida made the US uncomfortable in the same way that Taiwan as an unsinkable aircraft carrier makes the Chinese uncomfortable.

I didn't mean that was the only reason that China is interested in Taiwan. I was trying to contextualize it for American readers.
Wait, so the idea is to see other people for "who they are"... but they won't do the same. It sure can "restore faith in humanity" and yourself, but what happens when you get hit with a dose of reality? That everyone struggles... individually. And most people don't actually care about you. Back to depression it is?
Maybe even, "Here's a reasonable sounding, but unproven, possible explanation for why some people report that certain drugs give them life-changing experiences."

And the TLDR: The part of your brain that some claim "invents your identity" is temporarily shut off, leading you to see alternate possibilities.
Here's the reality. The people that CREATED the situation were the immoral and unethical ones. If he doesn't cash in, someone else does. Or even worse, it grows exponentially until it collapses in on itself.

Maybe look at the idiots running those governments and their finance people when you want to pass judgment. Easy money is easy money. He had to have the capital to take advantage anyway.
I didn't assign any ethical value to the word. And if you have a much broader sense of reality to existence than most people, "life or death" is a meaningless term. There is, or there is. There is no other. If you can consider "is", then you "is" :).

And not to encourage current reality behavior that is disapproved of, but I would say that a highly disagreeable situation is a motivation to choose "NEXT".
What UI/UX improvements would you like to see?

I agree with the grandparent post - it's simple, consistent and dependable :). Also, customizable!
How do we know what she says is true?

I mean, I think it's true, solely based on the things I know about China's surveillance... But it does not mean we should just take this tweet as a fact...
While we are on apps that are supposed to be private, does https://signal.org/ work as well as it claims?
My gripe with VLC on Mac is that the fullscreen mode is not a real Mac full-screen. It just maximizes. There is no way to put it besides another chrome tab for example (quicktime and any other program lets you do this)
For clarity, we also support almost all Rack-based frameworks in Ruby (including Sinatra):

https://www.skylight.io/support/advanced-setup

We should probably update our copy to clarify this point in the prominent places where it isn't already clear.
> feeling like I'm missing out

On what?

Have you tried blocking HN during certain hours, but allowing it during lunch break and late evening?
What do you think of this proposal that, at least for a short time, there indeed was what could be considered Tibetan Zen? https://tricycle.org/magazine/lost-tradition-tibetan-zen/
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Huh, that's a good point. I've never met anyone like that though, so my worldview is limited, I guess.
Have you looked at exchangecalendar (EWS) https://github.com/ExchangeCalendar/exchangecalendar?
Agree. My young son was recently in a car accident. As part of the agreement with the insurance company he got some compensation. But this is in the form of an annuity with yearly payments when he turns 18. This protects him from parents looking to blow the money and from him blowing the money when he turns 18.
I agree, the cases that bother me are the ones where it's painfully obvious the commenter didn't read the article. I enjoy reading counterpoints and is one of the main reasons I read the comments.
I unplug it when I don't want to listen to music or put together a shopping list.

...which is when the device stores everything it hears, ready to send it to the mothership as soon as connectivity is reacquired.

No idea whether it already does this but a small battery and a bit of flash go a long way when it comes to overhearing that which was not meant to be overheard...
I'm surprised we haven't seen any warrants from police/FBI that would require wire tapping using one of these devices.
Is this kinda what you're talking about:

http://www.primalunleashed.com/intel/SCIF.htm (seems to be from a videogame)

https://scifglobal.com/ (looks like a contractor that builds the things)
It is not a straight-forward admission of guilt, but it is much more of an admission than you usually see in these sorts of cases. It seems pretty clear that the new CEO thinks they had some real ethics problems at Uber, and is sincerely working to straighten things out.
I think you misinterpreted me a little. I think the reason that lawyers and doctors cannot "jump around" is not because, for example, a lawyer cannot absorb the information required to be both a good corporate lawyer and a good litigator, due to it being too much. They can. It is that the system that they choose to be in (law/medicine) demands the individual to be certified and formally trained to such an extent that it cripples this kind of professional mobility. This is not true in software. Not because of any other reason other than society is catching up. Unlike the fields of law and medicine, where those fields are growing "linearly" with society. It is also the reason that I do not by law require to be a chartered engineer to perform my job to the full extent.
Yes. If you expect commercial iot products to use unusual custom hardware you are out of your mind.