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People are busy. If you want your patch considered, you should be bumping it and reaching out to people who can merge it. Man page improvements are generally a shoe-in, just get someone to pay attention to it for a few minutes and it'll get in.
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> I'd prefer it if the NHS was resourced to a level

You know what a great system for allocating resources in an incredibly complex system is?

Prices.
Yes, because Snap doesn't support different repositories easily and everything atm is based on Ubuntu base-images. Also the license is GPL+CLA allowing Canonical to relicense it under a proprietary license. Furthermore they require AppArmore for some features which some distros can't use (it isn't part of the mainline kernel AFAIK).
And most of that come out of upstream not having a farts care about API stability!

Thus distros have to work around that by freezing lib versions and any software depending on said lib version for the support period of the distro release (5-10 years).

What is "funny" is that Debian here is doing no different from what RH had been doing with RHEL for ages, yet Debian gets all the flak...

Never mind that xscreensaver has a very prominent splash screen with JWZ's email on it on every launch. Maybe if he didn't want every idiot on the net emailing him, he should not show it in their face all the time. He may be brilliant in some ways, but sometimes he can be an raging asshole.

Hell, sometimes i wonder why he keeps supporting Linux as he seems to have no love for anything but Apple these days.
While it doesn’t seem ethical or “good”, in a certain way I kind of have to appreciate the way how Amazon pits different municipalities or companies against each, extracting maximum value for itself. They play from a clear power position, and by doing so remain in this position.
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Your patches are your responsibility. Bump them, reach out to maintainers directly, etc. Manual improvements are easy to review once you can get someone to.
It's most definitely illegal in areas where it is not allowed/regulated.
> Faculty must be allowed to do research 90 % of the time

God no. This is exactly the problem that most undergraduate campuses in the US are grappling with right now. Pedagogy (you know, the purported reason for the existence of universities when they were first established) is taking a backseat to research, with students not deriving nearly the value from college that they should be. Most newly-minted PhD candidates want to create rigorous research programs, even at small liberal arts colleges, much to the detriment of those who matriculate (and who consequently accumulate ludicrous amounts of debt).

It would be much better for academia to have an honest conversation with itself and note that some people want to teach while others want to do research, and send the research-inclined to non-teaching institutes like IAS, LLNL, the Broad Institute, etc and the teaching-inclined to work with undergraduates. The outliers who fall in the middle of the Venn diagram can choose for themselves which direction they want to go.

It also would help if workshops to develop pedagogical techniques weren't almost universally optional for grad students and the ones who do engage in them get looks for wanting to do them instead of doing research... this may be just an impression on my part, but I really felt like grad students I've encountered who prioritize teaching over publications get marginalized.
If my memory serves, one requirement of high-tier datacenters is that they have redundant electric lines leaving the building from opposite sides and in opposite directions. I guess it must be the same for optic fibers.

I fully agree with you on your last sentence. One should wait for a bit more than a vague declaration reported in a newspaper before giving unsolicited advice.
Sure you can.
Sketchy stuff. The two drugs that come to mind are Xigris [0] and Celebrex [1]. There is so much money to be made and so few incentives to be rigorous in the trial process. It's no surprise we get cases where big pharma companies cook the books on efficacy and go to great lengths to ensure there is a market for their latest "blockbuster."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drotrecogin_alfa#Marketing_con...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celecoxib#Fabricated_efficacy_...
> DNF doesn't support flatpak yet,

DNF probably won't support flatpak, as it is something entirely different. Gnome Software does support multiple backend thought.

If you want to install/update/remove flatpaks from command line, just use the flatpak command ("flatpak update" will check all the configured flatpak repositories for newer versions and update whatever is available).
> Have you interviewed in many startups? "Sober view" is not what you'd get from a founder hard-selling you on any role. Try "wildly optimistic, unrealistically so".

Don't join those companies. I've spent over a decade in the startup industry, I've interviewed at a ton of startups. Most startups are not worth working at.

> Eh. Unless it's a late-stage startups (which is not the typical scenario), it's very hard to know what will happen. You can model some events, but the key question remains unanswered: how successful is this going to be?

Right, that's exactly what I said...in the case that it's not successful it's not like anyone is getting rich, so in that case it's not like employees have been "screwed out" of options.

In reference to Skype: they did absolutely poison the talent pool look at you remembering and posting this article. Are you or anyone reading this thread ever going to consider working for Skype? Why else would TechCrunch cover it?

Not only that, the agreement that Skype offered did not change, so a bunch of people signed a shitty agreement and are then upset that it didn't work out well. This is not the rug being pulled out from underneath engineers, this is engineers not understanding what they are signing.

You're right that most startup options are worthless, but not all are, and that doesn't mean you can't reason about which are worthless and which are not.
> they only have to be better than humans and that bar is not set very high

It’s not, but driverless car manufacturers seem intent on pushing their cars out before even reaching that low bar.
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The safety driver will be sitting in a call-center-like office and taking remote control when the car requests it.
update installed apps: "flatpak update"

list whatever is available in repository: "flatpak remote-ls repo-name", i.e. "flatpak remote-ls flathub".

list installed packages: "flatpak list"
GNU deprecates man pages in favor of texinfo, not no documentation at all.

https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Documentation.h...
> They need to back to something

Like, say, backed by international oil market?
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I see optional protocol methods as hints to the other developer that if you want to implement those methods, you can, the data is there.

At least that is how I use them in Obj-C, which is proving to me to be the more flexible alternative to Swift (despite the hype that Swift is amazing in every use case).

This roots back to one of my main problems with Swift: it doesn't adequately support the in-code conversation between developers. For example: no header files to quickly digest key object interfaces and concepts. The language feels like it is optimized to solve compiler problems and point out null value bugs at the expense of outputting joyfully easy to follow code.
I'm not suprised. This is what they do. When you think about it a lot of Amazon's business is partially subsidized by the tax payer. They pay less for the roads the drive on, they get huge tax breaks to open new wearhouses and headquarters and their workers' low wages are subsidized by welfare. The great deal you get and their ability to kill their competition is partially paid for by your taxes.

http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-not-paying-taxes-trump...

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/may...
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Yea I noticed that back when I lived outside of the Bay Area. At some point in the 90’s, single family home developers went out of their minds and started building these ridiculous Borg cube homes right out to the lot lines. Awful.
Re: despite Apple nearly going bankrupt in the intervening period.

Indeed. Apple got lucky 3 times: the first was that the first spreadsheet, VisiCalc, was written for Apple II first, out of sheer happenstance. It was a blockbuster that propelled hardware sales. Apple II's were otherwise considered too expensive.

Second was a boom in "desktop publishing" which saved the Mac. Macs were far more expensive than CPM & PC's per processing power, and the nice GUI alone wasn't enough to justify the price for most consumers in the early years. However, desktop publishing, a field that didn't really exist when the Mac was built, took advantage of the graphical nature of the Mac and jolted its sales. (If Amiga had better coddled desktop publishing software co's, Commodore may have also survived.)

The 3rd was the return of Steve Jobs. Apple would probably have sank without him.
It's only effectively passing costs off to other consumers if Amazon is paying less than the total cost in the first place. If they're paying something heavily discounted but still profitable for the electric company, nothing is being passed on to others.
The license file is new and the other distributions probably aren't as scrupulous as Debian is about licensing. The license itself seems pretty clear:

3. "You will not, and will not allow any third party to" (iii) "use or make the Software available for the use or benefit of third parties"
>Consider the implications of a 95% devaluation. That means any foreign debt, which was already problematic, just went up by 20x. It means your iPhone, which was already too expensive, just went up by 20x. WTF.

At risk of sounding inflammatory, every time someone complains about inflation, the response is "don't worry, that means your wages go up by the same amount".
There would indeed be little incentive for a lot of businesses (specifically IT but also others). There are, however, other industries where this sort of career path already exists and with less rework could implement an "open-hire" program.

Edit: I didn't really address your question. While there would be little incentive, there would not be none. For instance

a better public image (like being an equal opportunity employer, but even more so)

I believe they would end up with a more loyal workforce (but this is debatable and even if true it would be difficult to quantify)

but...

They might also upset existing employees who were hired under a more traditional process

There would be less incentive to pursue higher education if this were common practice

In short...I am tempted to look for a way to make it work, but also torn because I know that the needs of the business take a backseat to philosophical ideals. I do, however, believe that this could be implemented in certain industries and be a net-benefit to all
http://archive.is/BGO4G
Notion looks really cool. Does it work offline?
Has Intel been taken over by agents on the payroll of AMD?
I had the same aha moment just recently, but with thai. It also made it easier for me to progress, as I stopped dwelling on "why doesn't it follow the rules I know of!".
That is just because they used the wrong version of Socialism.

They just need to switch to a working version and they should be good.

/s
A current anecdote that somewhat echoes the article:

My wife has an HP Chromebook. She loves it.

She has no idea that it's made by HP. If I told her she would probably forget.

Now she wants to replace it with a newer, high end Chromebook. It might be an HP, or it might not, but either way she doesn't care.
If I go to Disney World, and, being a curious person, see something interesting and wander into an unmarked restricted area while checking it out.

Have I committed a crime? There were no doors, no locks, no signs to tell me that this area was restricted. Just because it wasn't on the map and may have not had a clearly marked entrance, doesn't mean that I should have known it was a restricted area.

Most criminal tresspass laws require at least clear signage or a previous communication, and even then, the area has to be clearly defined. You can't just wave your hand and say 'if you go over there, you're tresspassing'

There are some large(20,000+ acres) areas near me that are used as ATV playgrounds. The ATV riders are not authorized to be there, and the land owners have taken some steps to put up signs. They are not consistent or ubiquitious, and the properly lines are not clearly marked or identified. Being that the area is not surveyed, law enforcement is very reluctant to charge anyone with criminal tresspass because they can't even tell themselves where the legal property lines are.

Imagine trying to convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt?
Wait another 15 years...
Gamers must be one of the most hard to support crowds out there, but also one of the most passionate about the
Product and rewarding. Treat them well <3
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Deceptive [original] headline ["Amazon Isn’t Paying Its Electric Bills. You Might Be
"]: Amazon is surely paying all the bills it negotiated.

Economically-questionable conclusions: although individual secretive utilities might on occasion make dumb deals, they'll charge households whatever the market & regulators will allow, and then charge Amazon whatever the market & regulators allow.

And utilities would like Amazon as a customer because of the efficiencies of scale it'd provide. They'd not want Amazon at-a-loss, that then requires making other customers to pay more – and if utilities already had the market-power or case-to-regulators to charge others more, they'd already be doing it.
How do you suppose these dogs are learning from stories of other dogs getting hit? Reading the news paper?
Ok, we've done a s/Illegal/Gambling/ on the title to make it less misleading. Thanks.
It sounds like that's what was happening.
If your macro isn't changing execution semantics, it probably doesn't need to be a macro.

This is why (if needs to be a special form if your language is eager, but you want to have short circuit conditionals. If you language is lazy, lots of things DON'T need to be macros.
Yeah. The new license explicitly says the microcode cannot be redistributed.
Condo's in the redmond/kirkland area are absurdly expensive, 350k for around 8-900 sqft
It should be illegal for municipalities to throw huge tax breaks at companies so they don't have to fight to the death for each and every scrap.

This should also apply to stadiums where, for reasons I cannot even fathom, small cities throw billions into a building that they don't own, that has an astonishingly short life-span, and for which they derive very little in the way of actual benefits.
I've seen the same thing. Here is my take on it:

Everybody at [Big Software Co] knows the software is buggy and bad, but the client doesn't, [Big Software Co] just hopes it works well enough that the client doesn't reject it outright or refuse to pay.

While [Big Software Co] works out the kinks in it's software at the clients expense it blames the failures on implementation problems user error or whatever it can to keep money coming in while it fixes the software. [Big Software Co] hopes that the client eventually sinks so much money into the software that they can't leave and also X months into the deployment it works just well enough to keep them on the hook.

This pattern repeats over and over and over again in almost every industry. You see this same type of thing in construction too, where [Big Construction Co] deliberately underbids to get the contract, then runs up the cost WAY beyond what anybody expected over time, the municipality, or whomever contracted with them can't leave as they've already sunk so much money into [Big construction project] that they can't cancel and have nothing to show for it.

This is almost SOP for every giant company in every industry anywhere, often times these companies are so big that the left hand doesn't even know what the right hand is doing so to speak, as the two are separated by so many internal layers / business units or whatever.

The only reason people get into bed with these giant companies is that whoever is signing the cheques on the buy side irrationally feels that [Big Software Co] can actually deliver because they are so big.
> They don't pay for the roads

They do pay taxes...
Okay I was wrong: AppArmor is part of the mainline Linux kernel. I think it were some Ubuntu-specific patches then which were required for some of the sandbox features. I will try to find where I read it again.
Trade war with China puts 50,000 US IT jobs on the table
Can you please not post ideological battle-style comments to HN? They're not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Do you think perhaps it's not worthy of celebration that advancement happens, even at a slower pace than you would like?
Want things to make it into STABLE distros quicker, do not break APIs because the latest bling bling framework/language/whatever got released!
Petro (cryptocurrency) is backed by Venezuela's oil market, not international oil market.
Incidentally that would have prevented Venezuelan currency and debt crisis in the first place.

I seriously doubt that any bank would give out bolivar-denominated loans with fixed interest rate that is below 100%. I could take a two year debt with 10% interest easily.

Venezuelans are already earning more gold farming RuneScape than actually farming.
At some point we'll probably transition to a proper secret vaulting solution, but for now I'm taking advantage of SaltStack's GPG renderer to embed GnuPG-encrypted values into our (Git-versioned) configuration data:

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/renderers/all/salt....

However, I often struggle to correctly format the YAML dictionaries in which I've embedded GPG-encrypted data. It is so tedious---especially when changing an encrypted value---to have to encrypt the secret, paste it into the Pillar SLS file, and carefully re-indent each line. It's especially tedious using Emacs, as a bug in yaml-mode treats the leading "---" in the GPG message start/end markers as signaling the start of a new YAML document, preventing me from highlighting the entire file and running indent-region.

Fortunately, there's an easier way thanks to the Jinja renderer's import_text function. First, save the secret in a file with a name that ends in ".gpg", as Emacs' EasyPG Assistant (EPA) will transparently decrypt such a file on read and re-encrypt it on write. Second, use import_text to load the ".gpg" file into a variable. Third, reference this variable in the appropriate Pillar key like any other Jinja variable, filtering it through yaml_encode. Your Pillar SLS files go from looking like this:

#!jinja|yaml|gpg

a-secret: |
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: GnuPG v1

Base-64-encoded message text...
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

To looking like this, with the added bonus that changing secrets becomes much easier:

#!jinja|yaml|gpg

{% import_text "a-secret.gpg" as a_secret %}

a-secret: {{ a_secret|yaml_encode }}

Make sure to add the armor option to "~/.gnupg/gpg.conf", otherwise import_text will throw UnicodeDecodeError exceptions.
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Yes, I forgot about Andy's Thai Kitchen. My Thai friend recommended that one too.
setup pagerduty unfortunately.
"who didn't really understand how to work well in a remote environment, '

I think on average remote workers need to be more mature and self-sufficient while at the same time very open to communication. It's definitely harder to hire for.
If I buy some of their petrodollar cryptocurrency what is the mechanism which I can redeem it for oil? If I'm willing to pay shipping will they send me a barrel?
There are couple alternatives like http://bropages.org/ and https://tldr.sh/ How UM is different?
> There has never been a law in the US limiting the number of doctors available.

My understanding is that the supply of doctors is limited by the amount of residency slots and that is limited somehow by whatever professional association licenses doctors.
I'm going to be 'that guy'....

> How we automated our office doorbell using 3 products already available.

Wrong usage of the word 'hacked' in the original title.

A more hacky way to do it, would have been getting a voice modem dongle that takes SIM cards, and writing software directly to detect/answer the incoming call, verify it's the doorbell, post to slack and wait for auth., then play a WAV back out through the dongle (like a voicemail greeting). Same result, less dependence on 3rd party services, learn a lot in the process.

It's all well and good using 3rd party services if they are available, but sometimes these articles are akin to me writing a post on 'how I found something on the internet using google'.
On the one hand, I'm more productive and valuable than ever because I have wisdom, which comes with time. I was good at this and successful when I was 20, but I wasn't in a position then to know what the ceiling is for a 20 year old vs. a 40 year old.

And after 20 years I have my perfect toolbox. The languages, frameworks, editors, etc. that work best for me, that are an extension of myself and make writing code as easy as speaking English. We compare these things as if their objective qualities matter most when we should discuss them more subjectively. (Or at a minimum, context-specifically.)

The downside is, the industry values and rewards knowledge, not wisdom. I slowly drift further from what the industry wants me to be, or the industry slowly drifts further from being what I want. The work takes less effort than ever but finding an environment I enjoy working in is getting harder. That's the fire I'm having trouble keeping up. I don't know how if I'll continue in technology through retirement or not.
Europe is full of active self-identifying communist parties, many with seats in the various parliaments. Or how about the yearly ritual of masked French far-left activists wreaking havoc on the streets. Why is no one banning these violent extremists?
I don’t understand it. It seems like all upside for companies like Amazon. Tax breaks, cheap utility bills, reduced red tape. What’s in it for the municipalities? It couldn’t just be the promise of jobs, could it? It doesn’t take that many humans to run a warehouse or data center.
That’s the exception and not the rule and when it changes it’s typically just around the corner and you can do show infos on the old gate.
Some companies compensate you for colocated offices.

In certain areas you can deduct your expenses from your taxes.

But yeah, you should certainly take this into account when you are discussing your salary.
As the sibling comment talks about, I think DJT's tweeting pattern helps. He often uses short sentences, so with Markov order 2 (every three words generated is a quote, more or less), there number of seams per sentence is lower. (By seams, I mean places where the generated text seems disjointed because the Markov chain consists of two non-semantic or semantically ambiguous tokens.)
The internet is not a building, but to follow the analogy, HTTP by design has no unlocked closed doors — only open doors and locked doors, with an explicit and clear distinction between them.