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> "serious misreading"

This is profoundly disrespectful to me. Please do not speak to me as though you're the keeper of The One Correct Interpretation of Fight Club. It's absurd to me that you'd try to speak authoritatively on something as subjective as how I interpreted a story. Your interpretation to me, likewise, seems far away from (what I think are) the main themes of the story, but I'd never label your view as a "misreading."

It's not like I'm coming out of left-field with my interpretation, either. The main character says "the things you own end up owning you." A good chunk of the movie depicts a man who seems to be genuinely happier, freer, and more alive because of his radical rejection of material possessions. E.g. not caring about his condo enables him to stop working a job he hates, and so on. Yes, he ends up being an ethically-ambiguous extremist, but to me that doesn't invalidate the freedom and happiness that he seemed to achieve along the way by renouncing material possessions. Renouncing material possessions does not inevitably lead to becoming a terrorist, either. There's a lot of precedent in Buddhist thought [1] that material possessions keep a person suffering in this world, and only through freeing oneself from attachment to material possessions can that person achieve enlightenment.

P.S. I'm talking about the movie, not the book. I've read the book, but this is one of the rare instances in my opinion where the movie was better than the book.

[1]: https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
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The article says that the police had pledged to notify people of its use in the areas using leaflets and such, but failed to do so even when deploying the technology, so this is why it is labeled as secrecy.
You would absolutely be surprised how far you can get using a process’s memory as it’s official database and just dumping it out to disk periodically for persistence. I kind of want to write an article but the article can’t do it justice: It’s something you need to experience yourself to fully appreciate it and be wowed like I was. I’m sure Linux uses files for its persistence layer for most cases.
I don't recall ever writing that I'm against using C. I wouldn't go for C in many situations since go and rust are available, but it's certainly the right tool for plenty of jobs.
> such pseudo-fascist bureaucratic red tape doesn't come into being unless powerful entities who stand to benefit from the bureaucracy take advantage of the populist zeitgeist to bend political will to their favor.

I assure you it can arise entirely out of negligence, ignorance, and the mindless application of poorly thought-out rules. The impulse to look for the hidden "powerful entities" behind the curtain is an understandable but unfortunate form of conspiracy thinking, and it's unlikely to guide you to the truth of situations like the author's.
"sets" is the English word you used
I'm not arguing that they're the same. I'm arguing that consumerism has co-opted romanticism.
Fewer kickbacks if you operate inside the government.
The OP said not to give advice about kids. So the question likely is asking if he’d take advice about kids (not about child medicine) from said profession.
It is a tactic common to abusers to cut victims ties to the outside world. Here we see the same psychological dynamic at work at the level of nations.
Yup, I believe the kernel pretty much just uses linked lists (at least, all of the running processes are kept as a linked list). But when most of your resources only number in the tens of thousands, if that, a linked list works perfectly well. And I’m not a kernel hacker so I’m sure there are optimizations I’m not aware of.
> they start by, without evidence, asserting that the main thing fork() does is to insert and remove processes from a list of processes

Since fork() as far as I understand is effectively copy-on-write in modern architectures on linux, that's probably not a terrible model at least for the initial step but it does seem kinda over-simplified if you think about the rest of the lifetime of the process and the different execution models with processes on a computer vs a supercomputing cluster.

What looks like it happened is that they had a cool enough idea: with supercomputers, the scheduler is kinda like the operating system. The scheduler becomes the bottleneck in some workloads. So why not replace the core data structures and operations with a DBMS which is kinda built for this sort of highly distributed, high contention state management situation. Also the larger general idea of comparing it to an OS sounds curiously close to the mesos / kubernetes worldview of things in some ways: "the operating system of your datacenter".

Then some annoying but probably correct person was like "hey we need a basis for comparison and a benchmark because this is an academic paper and that's how systems papers must be because academia in 2018" so they shoehorned in some apples and oranges comparison and we got this.
This is immune to the attack:

bash -c "$(curl -sSLf $URL)"

The key is to download first and then run
The games slow down. Until recently, most Japanese games were tightly tied to 30hz or 60hz logic, and would speed up or slow down if forced (willfully or not) to run at different frequency. This is not strictly a Japanese games phenomenon, but I've seen it mostly in PC ports of Japanese developed games for consoles.

To me, that's bad software design. 40 years ago, developers used to sync their logic to the refresh cycles of the target machine's display. That's amazing, but also something that should not happen in 2018 (or 2010 or 1998).
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Thanks for the info -- but are these capable of running Linux on RISC-V in an FPGA, not just a bare-metal RISC-V?
Americans instinctively assume “boffin” is derogatory because it’s totally absent from American parlance (iOS autocorrects it to “bogging” in US), so without the cultural context it just sounds like a goofy word, like “doofus.” In an American context, it’s not a word that sounds as if it’s being spoken with admiration, so the true meaning is counterintuitive.
You are allowed to travel for business meetings under ESTA/the visa waiver program, same as a B1 visa.
https://nl.usembassy.gov/visas/visa-waiver-program/

I think attending meetings of a US parent company is a pretty common use case. It is an elitist rule but what isn't.
they had posters.

> Lots of people didn’t seem to be noticing the posters at all… from a basic data protection point of view they’re not informing people well about what data they’re collecting or what is going on.

i don't think data protection applies to state surveillance. if people knew what data the state collected about them, it would defeat the point.
That's the best part! We let them style their own website, so they can show off their own aesthetic!
If you believe that the bad results overwhelmed the good results. Are you sure that is true? Consider that 40% of marriages are between people who met at work. That's a lot of good outcomes.

Most of my socializing and friends come from work. What a sad world it would be if work was strictly for work.
> You don't live in rural NY, do you?

No, I just pay for their welfare while they are busy voting for Republicans.
Wow first time heard someone capable of repair a Tesla. I always was assuming Tesla cars are designed to be hostile to repair outside their own factory (partially due to inherent complexity, and market strategy as well).

Also huge respect to his belief that things people bought should always be repairable by the owner (with some reasonable learned skills).
My first guess is that a lot of this happens somewhat behind the scenes. Senate committee asks what's been done to keep the bad people out, bureaucrat replies with new 20 item checklist. Next year it's 40 items... Insane senators certainly want lots of public showboating, but also probably believe in their mission and try to apply the screws even when voters won't know.
> Currently only macOS is supported.

Does anyone know why this is or how to get this working on Linux?
> A man who seems to be genuinely happier, freer, and more alive because of his radical rejection of material possessions.

This man is a terrorist and is responsible for the death of Robert Paulson, and (possibly) many other people in the explosions at the end.

Most Buddhists AFAIK do not supplement their Buddhism with terrorism.
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It'd be cheaper if this were a real service: http://lifefaker.com/
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I did not realize they were using an open standard.
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is it weird that i prefer vim rather than fancy IDE for almost everything?
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US immigration is on par (or worse than) third world countries. Having been in it for 10 years now, I highly recommend people to consider doing business in some other country.

At the end, there is only so much time left in life. Do you want to spend months and years pandering to third world bureaucracy or do you want to be quick, efficient and productive in this one single life you have?
To anyone who thinks this is ridiculous, try browsing the search results from the Google News tab:

https://www.google.com/search?q=hacker&tbm=nws

In the US, it would be unusual to find someone outside of tech circles who thinks the term "hacker" means something non-malicious.
I am honestly not sure why Americans get to travel to Schengen without filing any paperwork while the reverse isn't true. I can show up in Paris CDG with a passport and get let into... all of Europe, hardly any questions asked. You would think the Europeans would get fed up with the arrangement and start imposing similar requirements reciprocally.

Ed: ah, they are a bit fed up at least https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/us-nationals-to-be-f...
Unfortunately, I think that before society really figures this out there’s going to be at least one “lost” generation, that will be seriously hurt or screwed up and by such groupthink.
I think literally your entire comment is specifically making that point.
That sounds like rumor, but Canada does require eTA (basically same thing) for everyone who's not from the US.
> Who lobbies for our awful travel system?

American voters. American paranoia causes things like "Extreme vetting" to be totally acceptable. The consequence is global businesses need to move things out of the country.
I think the SF/BA reps and senators are already pretty well-aware that our borders are terrible, but they lack the political situation and/or acumen to do anything about it.
Lots of ugly and false assumptions you're making in this comment, but I'll bite.

Billions of people want to come to the US. Many more than want to go to, say, Argentina. So our immigration laws need to be a bit more strict to restrict what could be a flood of immigrants to a more manageable flow. This is necessary for cultural and economic reasons, to promote unity and stability, which make America great.

Second, we are understandably paranoid about security, which also leads us to more restrictive immigration laws.

That said, nearly a million people immigrate into the US each year. Most Americans like legal immigrants contrary to what propoganda you may read or hear, considering we are a nation of immigrants.
I'm a white male with long scraggly blonde hair and this happens to me in basically every developed country.

Obviously long-haired hippies pose a security threat.
> He put tarrifs on Canadian steel ffs

Doesn't Canada put tariffs on the USA? Aren't they also “fucking up relations” with us as well?
How is this different to lots of coppers activly looking for suspects? We have so much intrusive CCTV here I can’t quite get the complaint. Was it just the introduction with lip service to community engagement?
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It's true; I've seen those threads as well. And I don't disagree on the fundamentals. But people can and need to respond to problematic comments without getting aggressive—for the sake of the community, if not for the person being attacked. Otherwise we end up with a cage match. I know you know this, but perhaps the explanation is helpful to others.

Fortunately most of the responses did just that (i.e. responded cogently without being aggressive) and were the more effective for it.
An all-hands meeting seems to be a classic example of "business" assuming they're employed by a non-US entity (even if you work for a US-based company/org, they may have a non-US entity employing you).
Exactly - he gets to look at it like that. A lot of people don't have that privilege.
Is the software to create a public cloud on Power chips a thing? Can Xen run on power? Or OpenStack?
The sad part is that Twitter started as a SMS relay, ans SMS has had a system for splitting and joining long messages for ages...
Why not start with checking the user agent?
When climate change forces an entire country to seek higher ground
We should revoke all their visas.
People who get what they ordered aren't newsworthy? I buy all manner of stuff from amazon and haven't had much trouble. One time I got something that wasn't quite right (my two pack was missing one) but they immediately refunded the cost and I got to keep it. Reports of fraud have been somewhat concerning, but I see no reason to change anything. Their experiments with their own courier delivery service have been far more disruptive, but the great AI in the cloud has learned my address work best with UPS and everything is back on track.
At the end of the movie they say that they evacuated all of the buildings before the explosions. We could sit here and argue "well maybe they didn't get everyone out" (which I'm guessing is why you said "possibly") but the movie explicitly says that the buildings are evacuated.

Sorry if I came off harsh or aggressive in my other reply. I just got heated. I'm going to stop here, because in my opinion your perspective is too black-and-white for us to have any constructive conversation.
For as long as I can remember, news television has been a total joke. There's Democratic News and Republican News and both are obvious liars. I never read newspapers so I don't know if those are any better but I imagine not.
Even more useful, you can use `:earlier 1f`, `:earlier 2f`, etc. (and `:later 1f`, etc.) to go back and forth to however many times the buffer was saved until the moment it was opened. So, for example, if I edit a source file that works, save it, see I made a mistake when I run it, try to fix it, save it again, and see another problem, I can go back to when it was working by doing `:earlier 2f` no matter how many changes and undos I've made.

EDIT: As to how granular it is, besides :write units, you can specify days, hours, minutes, seconds, or individual change units (the kind that u, g-, and g+ work with. So, `:earlier 10` is the same as `10g-`.
Please don't post partisan flamebait to HN.
Please don't post personal attacks to HN, regardless of how little someone knows. Maybe you don't owe them better, but you do owe the community better. The container is fragile here.
I'd guess they are hoping to find drugs on you, rather than, say, box cutters.
Ah right, thanks. Yes this always looks backwards to me. The body of a loop should be inside of it. But here it is the body of the loop. That is very strange.
In principle I don't disagree with you; the US certainly had its share of purely bureaucratic boondoggles (e.g. Veterans' Affairs). And were it not for the TSA, our almost systematically acerbic customs officers, overbroad do-not-fly lists, the excessive systematic distrust placed on foreign visitors (e.g. by requiring visas even from close allies), and (most recently) travel bans designed to cut off families from each other, I would agree with you in this specific case. But these aren't just happenstance resulting from bureaucratic fumbling; these are conscious policy decisions.

We did after all just experience a national episode of confusion by a seemingly organic process (fake news) which turned out to be orchestrated by a foreign power for its own benefit. It's not unthinkable to me that (purely as an example) Russia also tilts public discourse in such a way as to make it politically untenable to dismantle, or even let stagnate, these self-destructive security apparatuses.

It's entirely possible the answer is very simply, "the xenophobic voter block really is so committed and influential." No conspiracy there, and that's a very useful answer. It tells us exactly where we need to focus our energy to fight these policies. I personally doubt that xenophobes are so educated about international travel as to pay sufficient attention to the workings of the visa system that it matters to them in the voting booth that Swedes need visas for nerd conferences, but I could very well just be biased.
You can see these at the zoo?
Or better yet:

curl $URL

less $FILE

bash $FILE

This attack only works at all if you download something and execute it immediately without looking at it.
This seems mostly harmless (insofar as tailing random innocent people could be) but also a collosal waste of time that could be spent doing nearly anything else.

Mind you, it's hard to see it as security theater (they won't admit it's happening!). It sounds like they have a power envy thing going on vis a vis the FBI, but even the actual marshals doing it seem to think it's dumb. If it were the FBI just tasking FBI Surveillance Vans onto random people without a predicate, there'd potentially be hell to pay as they generally have regulations on what is a valid reason for opening an investigation.
Global businesses love hiring people from outside the US because they love paying them a far lower salary than a US citizen would command.
> Many more than want to go to, say, Argentina. So our immigration laws need to be a bit more strict to restrict what could be a flood of immigrants

I disagree with this statement. The immigration laws of the United States need not be more strict; if anything, they should simply be more fair. The biggest problem with our laws is that they leave far too much up to discretion. If you turn in this stack of paperwork and if the person reviewing the application finds that you have met the requirements and if the person reviewing the application doesn't simply say "denied," then you may receive a visa.

Decisions of immigration, visa, and consular officers are not reviewable by any court or administrative body. You are not even entitled to know why you were denied. The reviewing individual may simply deny you for no reason at all.

That's not fair.

> Second, we are understandably paranoid about security

I also disagree that our paranoia about security is "understandable." I don't believe that it is. Virtually every action we have taken since That One Big Attack By Terrorists That Everyone Cites has shown that we're less paranoid about security and more paranoid about looking secure. Those are two almost totally different things. This means that our government takes wild actions that make us look secure--like simply banning all nationals of several countries, even people who happen to be dual-nationals of those countries--while accomplishing little.

That's unwise.
I'm surprised that there are any Iomega Zip drives still functioning after all this time. Mine suffered the click of death like many others.
> Instead of pointlessly debating each other on this app, a platform designed to capture attention and manipulate emotions

Someone probably write this same thing about news papers when they were a recent invention. Television also.

> these people should take time to research and then carefully write an essay. Once they are satisfied with their opinions, they could share their thesis with the public and request contestation.

More people than ever before are now university educated, or presently attending university. That’s got to help counteract the misinformation trend.
The idea is to distinguish between "curl http://x" and "curl http://x | bash", in order to only give malicious content when the user pipes it straight to bash (presumably they aren't looking at the content in this case).
> US-friendly Western country.

Wouldn't that be Eastern countries, technically speaking? unless you used it as a synonym for "First" world countries.
React adopted displayName to avoid "the function object doesn't know its name" issues, as well as names being mangled by minifiers (or, in the future, stuff like WASM).
You can still care about yourself more than the person but at the same time want something from them badly enough that you'll reverse this when you interact with them. It's called sucking up.
So yes, curl bash can be dangerous. But it's just so darn convenient. And when it's coming from a very prominent trusted source like for Get Pip or Amazon AWS it's hard not to just go with.

Surely there's some compromise middle ground? Let me download "safe-curl-bash" (scb) that only runs a script if it's trusted in some manner? Maybe the checksum matches from a crowdsourced database.

"Sorry only 9 people have declared this script valid and your threshold is 100. Here's a cat of the script and we will ask you if it looks valid or not or don't know."

I also think it's a bit more realistic than the, "anyone who does this should be reading the script first to check that it's safe." Yes, and I check the passenger jet for flaws before I board, too!

Just spitballing.
Meta posts like this one (posts about the forum itself) are addictive: it feels like they're interesting, but actually they are not. They're more like a waste product of the community, consisting of the same half-dozen points over and over. We've learned over the years that such discussions need to be managed like weeds.

In this case the post added nationalistic flamebait (cruising for a fight about China). That's close to the worst kind of flamebait we see, actually, because it leads to flamewars where people bash each other's countries. Since the post combined meta and flamebait I decided to join the words together.

As for that search query, it shows you that the countless active HN discussions about China aren't for or against China as a whole.
That thread has some beautiful photos. This one is my favorite[1], it's amazing to me how intricate the math of an object can be at a microscopic level.

I mean look at the black and white 2x4, top one 2nd from the left, my mind instantly just wanted to plot that in Matlab and gaze at how complex the equation is!

[1] https://twitter.com/ferrisjabr/status/1022890070531960837?s=...
They can make specific requests. It's just like tweeting at CEOs: terrible for democracy, but often surprisingly effective.
It's interesting people are talking about Trypophobia with these pics but I can't see it.

As compared to normal artistic works that purposely trigger it which I can see quite easily.
> Global businesses love hiring people from outside the US because they love paying them a far lower salary than a US citizen would command.

In other words, they don't want to hire workers who want high pay but not be world class. Global businesses want people who are exposed globally, are sensitive to global markets and people and are worth the global salary they command.

Why would a "global" company hire an entitled person of any nationality who just wants higher salary while looking down on people of other countries?
I recently got rid of mine. If you got it before they made the batch of really bad ones, and stopped using public drives when everybody was getting click of death, they could last ok (but weren't nearly as useful). Also, if you put in a dead disk, you needed to turn off the drive and get the disk out quick.
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