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I can’t agree enough with your comment.

The act of defining what and isn’t “political” - is itself a political act. It used to be unacceptably “political” in the majority of Anerican businesses to be against racial segregation. Now it’s the other way around. Whether you agree with that change or not, you can’t deny that the boundaries of what is or isn’t acceptable discourse at work have changed over time. When you’re bringing up a topic or opinion at work that makes others uncomfortable, you’re trying to move that boundary, which is a political. When you’re complaining that the topic is “too political” and doesn’t belong in the workplace, you’re trying to keep the boundary where it is, which is also a political act.
Your mistake is in thinking that you can separate out politics from "work" or any other concept.

What you fail to realize is that everything is political. Everything. Politics isn't some concrete, easily identifiable thing you can point at. You can't separate out things into a "Politics" bucket and a "Not Politics" bucket.

No, politics pervades every single human interaction. Politics is in everything and everything is inherently political.
In short, it's downgrade.

Since 3G, there is mandatory mutual authentication [except for emergency calls] with integrity protected management traffic [except for emergency].

The problem is, identification and key agreement require prior set-up of the lower network layers. If a cell station indicates an error during the early stages (i.e., before mutual authentication) of connection establishment in 4G, the smartphone falls back to earlier generations.
I understand your position. But too often people who have legitimate gripes with society (like you say) are quick to classify legitimate disagreement with an attack on their identity. Disagreement over a company's diversity policies (for example) is not inherently an attack on anyone's personhood, but it is frequently interpreted as one, and with great rancor.

One definition of power that is sometimes given: "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." If the climate around things such as diversity policies effectively suppresses dissent, then the advocates of such policies have real power, whether or not they psychologically perceive it.
I find it ironic that conservative employees are arguing about increasing diversity (specifically political diversity). Usually conservatives support culture fit as a concept to bolster opposition to hiring more underrepresented minorities and women. They usually claim that diversity is antithetical to efficiency and having shared cultural values (usually the dominant culture's values) is the key to successful teams. Sadly for the conservatives they are in the out-group at Facebook. Perhaps this struggle will help cultivate some empathy to others who are in out-groups. Alas, I am not holding my breath.
And it has been my experience that people who have politics "happen" to them from "the moment [they] wake up to the moment [they] sleep" in large part simply perceive that to be their existence.

I have read countless articles and posts at this point claiming that "America doesn't care about black bodies" and that black people in America should "fear for their lives every day," all in regards to the perceived danger of police shootings. In that example, despite this perception by not only those populations themselves, but a large majority of the population at large, the facts are that 1000 people (0.000003% of the population) are killed by police annually. 24% of those killed are black. No person has a statistically relevant chance of being killed by police, and yet it is not uncommon to hear it stated that this is simply this segment of the population's "lived reality." It isn't, and that's the problem.

I actually think that this is a central theme to many of these discussions, where one population is claiming that there is a substantial disadvantage to having a certain characteristic, whereas the counter states that there is either no such disadvantage, or its magnitude is misrepresented.

In any event, I think that there is often merit to both cases, and I think what you're seeing with the Facebook group here is simply a response to the growing perception that the conversation has become increasingly one-sided in the large SV corporations. Stating, as James Damore did, that the lack of female representation in tech is not appropriately attributable to workplace bias was a fireable offense. That's not okay.
> Easily the majority of the US population
> would hold at least one of those views.

If the majority of the country holds a philosophy that favors the majority of the country, that doesn't automatically make it ethical. I won't insult you by bringing up obvious examples from American history. If you want to calibrate your moral compass, the right way to do it isn't always a show of hands.
I'm trying to understand your dates.... should I %s/2018/2017/g ?
> What makes one language sprout AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBeans and another not?

Missing features that enable higher levels of composition and abstraction.

Such as, for example, generics.

If you look at the usual punching bag in these discussions, Spring, you will see that as Java added features, the implementations became simpler.

Java's design hypothesis was: if we take away these features, median programmers won't blow their feet off accidentally. But it turns out that to get things done you need well-above-median programmers to provide tools, APIs, frameworks, leverage and that in turn, they will need to find a way to do it. In the case of Spring that's been marked by a slow retreat from heroics into progressively simpler approaches as and when Java itself allowed for them.

Spring 5, for instance, sets Java 8 as the minimum, and they went through the whole framework refactoring, cleaning up, cutting down and so on wherever that baseline allowed them to.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, which sponsors Spring, though on unrelated software. But I've spent a lot of time with Spring folks. They are smart.
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Are you saying that they should try punishing an innocent until guilt overwhelms the alleged offender? ... That doesn't seem very empathic. Seems like it would create an incentive for vigilantism too. Huh.
Your only comments on HN seem to be to criticize RISC-V.

The posters intention is not to start producing hardware, at no point does his project mention taping it out and manufacturing. Obviously it is just a fun side project to implement the RISC-V core ISA in an FGA. It was then made open-source on GitHub so anyone else interested can look at it. Chill out mate.
"With a half decent, consumer focused distribution, I can't imagine how anything could fall to pieces the moment someone colours outside the lines."

The complaint resonates with me, and I originally used Linux circa/prior to kernel 2.2.16.

It's hard to pin down any specific issue, but I perceive consumer Linux even today as very brittle and the user-friendliness as mainly nailing "no user serviceable parts inside" covers over everything.

For example, I have an installation where basically all I ever do is start up KDE, select the start menu to open Konsole, and run something from the command line. At least once in the few weeks I've been doing this, something got completely screwed up to the point where the interface was unusable and I went to the text-mode console, logged in as root and shutdown -r now'ed. Previously, I got an installation in a completely unusable state because I had no alternative but to power-cycle it when it bogged down.

The attraction for me is the built in programming tools, the bash shell, free software, and today, the lack of advertising and tracking - when it comes to the actual OS I'm very much the stereotypical Mac user who wants it to just work. I just don't want today's Mac hardware.

I avoided Windows 10 for quite a while, but I finally upgraded a few months ago, and so far it hasn't crashed or failed me.
It doesn't tho.

If my co-worker is donating to Trump, and talking about kicking foreign workers out of America, they're literally talking about kicking ME out of the country. They're donating money to a politician who wants to make my life harder, and make my visa process less pleasant.

I can tolerate my co-worker all day, but if they're working to make my life less pleasant and workable, they're going to feel some chill.

Sorry you're eating alone conservatives, but you're working at a place with thousands of foreign co-workers, what did you think was going to happen?
What does the Bible say about Sexuality?
Intolerance of anti-black people makes you intolerant,not tolerance of black people. That intolerance would be fine(I certainly don't tolerate anti-black people in my personal life) but I would want to make every effort to be professional and respectful towards a skinhead at work.
My kids make movies, animations, record themselves telling stories, build 3-D models, script things (using Scratch Jr. - which is totally underwhelming to a programmer, but is fantastic for this age group).

No, they don't produce documents or write code or answer e-mails. But they can't read yet, so I think that's okay for now.
"But absolute freedom of speech IS A LEFT WING OPINION"

That only holds if you're willing to perform enough mental gymnastics to somehow transmogrify the gulags, mass graves, firing squads and famines that the USSR, Mao Zedong, Cuba, Pol Pot, etc. employed to deal with dissenters into features of right wing governance.

Or just pretend these things don't count...
The other direction seems unaffected from my own cursory look around. I.e. Facebook posts still can become Tweets seemingly, although that may be from these people's third party tools.
I think this issue is tricky, because some political ideology that the "right" expresses involve a statement of the identity of their coworkers. I find that in the valley, people express diverse set of political economic ideologies, but sensitive social issues are taboo. I think people probably shouldn't view it as lack of diversity of political opinions, it's more that statements and ideology expressed at work shouldn't unfairly be targeting a particular set of identities, and that goes both ways. Like if you're white, straight, male, and come from rural America you should never feel like you're being discriminated against from people's political ideologies that target your identity, for example statements like: "I believe that the government should deport white straight males to increase diversity." If you are and HR isn't taking any actions I believe that is grounds enough to blow the whistle for hateful speech coming from the left.
#2; it is an underhanded way to trivialize attempt by one group to draw attention to their struggles.
This is pretty crazy. For people whose job is social media, this is basically the equivalent of Github just arbitrarily deciding they're going to delete all of your startup's source code without telling anyone in advance, or like Google Docs just deciding to disappear all your spreadsheets.

With only a couple months until election season, Facebook is now literally editing politician's pages and deleting the campaign material they've created to communicate with the voters in their districts.
The thing about NL is that it's totally flat and a tiny piece of land. The biking culture is a result of their geography, not anything else. For example, in Norway, where biking infrastructure is quite decent and people are generally positive about biking/being environmentally responsible, biking is simply impossible in most cases because of the larger hilly landmass and the cold snowy winters.
I’m having a hard time caring about the policies of either of these terrible companies.
I don't understand how a bail is more motivating for someone to show up to trial than the threat of arrest with no bail.

We don't have people pre-pay to not commit other crimes, why does specifically this one get it?

This is ignoring all the other, wealth disparity type issues, with bail.

Seems to me like it just privatized part of the justice system - instead of cops chasing down delinquent criminals, it's bail bondsmen.
The future of sports broadcasting has to be streaming directly from the sports themselves, surely.
The downvote button is not a disagree button.
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Is there a way to dig up the average credit score of student loan borrowers at the time they received their first loan?

If the government didn't do credit checks, which I don't remember them doing on mine, then wouldn't this be the epitome of predatory lending?
Then why is there such pushback against the Equal Rights Amendment?
The question isn't "can I produce stuff on an iPad" it's "is this the right tool for the job", human ingenuity being what it is. Take the average $1000 phone and for most producers it's a worse tool than a $100 laptop.

> I wrote the 32-page business plan for my music label almost entirely on Pages with a bluetooth keyboard. Kids can do the same for schoolwork.

I would argue that if you need a third party add-on that changes the primary input method you've essentially turned the device into a laptop/chromebook. It's not the right tool for the job, you've just turned it into one.
You can't have peace with people who want to kill and oppress a significant portion of the population.
The party platform isn't the beliefs of every member of the party. Indeed, it's be absurd if every member of either party agreed with every line from a multi hundred page platform.
$ pandoc file1.md file2.md -o file.docx

Tada, I two files into one word file.

It isn't difficult. TeX and LaTeX have been doing it since the 70s and 80s respectively.
Jesus, what kind of crime allegation gets that kind of bail set?
That's a good point. I believe it's due to the fact that American-style conservative views are so fringe in Europe that no one takes them as a threat no matter outlandish they are. But in many European companies, signaling yourself as a supporter of the local far-right party (whether it be the AfD or the FN or the SD or whatever) can be grounds for blacklisting and ostracization. Still, the question remains: does that make Europe a monoculture?
Part of American conservatism is the moderate but solid consensus that homosexuality is morally wicked. Some people want to stay true to their convictions, rather than ignore the moral deviancy of the world. Some people truly believe that homosexuality is a danger to children and the spiritual health of society. Sometimes they feel like they can't speak out against homosexuality just because they work at a liberal workplace.

Another part of American conservatism is the dignity of the white race and the heritage of whiteness. That includes proud narratives of true heroic sacrifices against the brutish north, and a discussion of how blacks and other minorities play the victim card to create an emotionally hostile atmosphere for white youths. An unjust atmosphere where blacks, asians, and latinos are promoted at the cost of white children.

On a front page Reddit post on the top comment with regards to NYT's hiring of an asian intern who suggested that white people had biological deficiencies due to sunburning vulnerability, was a discussion of the extinction of the white race, and how white reproductive rates have been going down. As well as a discussion how blacks, asians, and latinos cheat their way into college through blind liberal favoritism, an ideology which seems to dangerously ignore that race is the fundamental way human relations work, and that the suggestion that we should all hold hands and put aside our racial differences is an unrealistic Disney vision.

And of course there is a discussion on the biology of sex, and whether liberals are being blind in thinking that women need active promotion in the workplace. That's of direct workplace concern. And do black and Latino people need active intervention in tech, like women?

Americans need to resolve their issues beyond rolling up their sleeves and going to work. There are decade-long wounds coming. Voting is not political negotiation with your peers. It's just an up-or-down bullet.

A lot of Americans also think it's their prerogative to form a religious business, especially a Christian-oriented business. On the flip side, is it okay to have a Muslim-oriented Google? Or a Christian oriented Chick-fil-A which donates to ban gay marriage?
Make your own website and you won’t have to worry about this.

I’m mostly joking. Who makes their own websites anymore?

Frustrating seeing users caught in the crossfire of policy updates for tech giants.
Yep, at this point I, and I imagine many others, have experienced first-hand that HN is not the right place to be having this sort of discussions. There's a certain orthodox Overton window to the conversation here, and stepping outside of it is often punished with flagging.

Ultimately I don't care, I don't have a horse in the race of keeping HN a safe, civilized, good-faith neutral space for conversation. It just means this sort of dialogue has to be moved elsewhere. I'm happy to talk purely tech, but politics seeps into everything these days, so it's hard to avoid.
Sure, but saying you'd fire the majority of the US population in the name of tolerance is absolutely contradictory. The notion that a blanket firing of 45% of the adult population is an act of tolerance is ridiculous.

Sure I do think there are some views that should not be tolerated and employees who advocate them should be removed - none of the four listed there come close to it, though.
When intelligent animals pay their lives for their presence on your plate, then your dinner choice is no longer an entirely personal decision.
Good point! Advertising for "the best minds". One of my math professors was almost an NSA recruiter ;) I was never good enough to get the pitch, however :( I found engineering math to be much more useful.
I suspect the problem is that people spend so much time at work they no longer have meaningful social lives outside of work.
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There’s also a difference between propaganda- especially foreign propaganda and free speech.
Yes. I don’t support the use of violence, and those who commit violent crimes should be prosecuted.

That being said, there is a very real difference in scale between a punch and assault with a lethal firearm.
As a long time OpenLDAP user (ie. probably going on 20+ years at this point), and as somebody who will be rolling out LDAP again on a long-term project on RHEL 7.5 shortly I have a few questions about 389DS. I've considered migrating to it for this project, but I just have too many open questions regarding setting it up right now.

1) I need support for both RFC2307 and RFC2307bis. I haven't found any good documentation on how to set these up from scratch with 389DS where it's fairly trivial to make them work together with OpenLDAP and the memberof overlay.

2) I also have a need for an equivalent of the Tacacs schema that works with the mavis-Tacacs fork that Google maintains. Will this schema work with 389DS?

3) Same goes for the sudo.schema that is provided with sudo - does this work with 389DS?

4) Same goes for the ppolicy.schema (password policy) schema (ppolicy overlay) and memberof overlay. What are the equivalents of these for 389DS?

5) multi-master replication - OpenLDAP makes this a breeze, but not so sure with 389DS.

Finding information about how to implement these things from scratch seems extremely hard for 389DS. Granted, it was also hard for OpenLDAP, but that work is behind me now. I have serious misgivings about trying to reimplement all of this on 389DS within my given timeframe.

Other things that irk me about this decision:

a) I really dislike the Java console - doesn't feel like it changed much since the 1990's. It's still slow, ugly and doesn't feel like it integrates well.

b) feels like a weird choice to drop the openldap-server packages but not the openldap-clients package. Are they going to provide a replacement for the OpenLDAP client libraries eventually as well? Is there even a good alternative (ie. API compatible and replacements for all the command line utilities) to openldap-clients?

While it seems like an easy decision to move on the surface, most OpenLDAP deployments have a massive amount of customisations to make all the third-party applications work, and 389DS making those kind of migrations easy doesn't currently seem like one of its strong selling points.
Replace "Nazis" with "Jews" and see yourself for what you really are.
Peoples' definition of 'reasonable' has absolutely changed. That's essentially what the Overton Window describes: The set of viewpoints which are considered 'reasonable'.
Usually, it's a conservative saying in front of his group of foreign co-workers "I think it's great that Trump is cracking down on all these foreign workers stealing our jobs".

Then they wonder why nobody wants to get lunch with them.
I can see your math, but actually it was nothing like that (but I didn't realize the extra info would be interesting to anyone - my fault). I should have given more information, now it sounds a bit misleading, but it's incredibly frustrating that corporations get away with this.

It was a 2.5% loan that balloons up to 6% loan after two missed payments, but that's not the confusing part.

Interesting loophole, when he was sent back to Mexico - his payment lapsed for 6 months before I was made aware that payments were being missed. They claim they are not allowed to disclose when payments are missed (but I'm allowed to be held responsible as the co-signer of course).

Student loan laws have a maximum amount of interest that can be charged and are not allowed to change the payment. They are allowed to redirect all payments to interest until all penalties are paid.

Long story short - 12 & $130 = $1560 in payments made little to no difference...$70 to be exact. Even more annoying, all of the payments post showing principal being paid (and then it's "retracted" to pay for interest the following month). Each month it would show the principal being repaid at $33 and then the following month would be the same exact balance as the month before.

I had to call the help line to figure out why $33 principal reduction never lead to a lower balance....and that's with me paying attention to the details.

I paid it off for my friend and wish nothing but the best for him, but no one should have to deal with the joke of an industry like Student loans.
I think a lot of it stems from the dorm-ification of workplaces. Because the ROI is so good, employers want you to think of work as more of an institution that is heavily tied to your identity rather than just a place of business. You're not an employee at Google - you're a Googler. Once you leave, you are a Google Alumni. The end result is that your whole self is brought into work because the boundaries between personal and professional life are heavily eroded.
If you google for “downvote disagree hn” you’ll find references from mods that downvotes are valid for disagreement.

Disclaimer: haven’t voted anything in this thread
Holy shit... Literally ten years of Facebook posts and people's comments on them just up and disappeared from my profile. How is that ok?
Other employees requesting management to shut down a group asking for diversity suggests that there is a problem with diversity. They think that they're a majority and that management would be receptive to such a request.

Of course management refuse to take action. They're already under public scrutiny and it seems the rebels have just expressed their desire to speak, they haven't spoken yet, so it would be a little harsh to crush them so soon.
Because they track what people like and give people more of that.
The history of almost every institution in America is that of non-blacks forming overt and covert alliances to arrest the progress of black people. For over a decade after the civil rights act, mortgage lending was organized to keep black people out of "white" neighborhoods. Shall we do away with the 30 year fixed mortgage?