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The Many New Features and Improvements of the Linux 5.0 Kernel
I used to reboot into Windows to run games. Thanks to Proton I don't bother anymore. In fact I dread booting into Windows now because I know it's going to spend 30 minutes patching itself and then reboot on me.
That's neat! I'm writing a web framework for Python that has some built-in features to make testing on localhost easier: you can pass it the file name to an existing certificate or it will generate one itself. The disadvantage to the no-setup required autogeneration is that you need to add a security exception on first use and every time the root expires. `mkcert` could definitely help with not training web developers to perform unsafe actions.
I have been doing DevOps since before it had a name.

Been running on AWS for the better part of 8 years now and running multiple production environments for clients and as an employee.

Over the years, I have seen the term "DevOps" slapped on so many things I don't even know what it means anymore.

For some, it's a culture, for some, it's a team, for some, it's a role.

SRE is now getting the same treatment. No idea what it means most of the time.
I'm torn. On one hand I shouldn't feed the trolls, OTOH it sounds like you genuinely believe that "random people" from Central America are equivalent to the US.

Many Central American countries, including El Salvador, do not have the rule of law that we have in the US. They're overrun by gangs [1]. It is a legitimate claim to asylum. "a random person in the US" does not have this same claim, so, no, they do not have enough grounds.

The United States of America has historically been a bastion of freedom. It's no BS -- we need to live up to the inscription on the Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore."

My ancestors (now me and my descendants), likely your ancestors, benefited from legal immigration and didn't even have an asylum claim. The 19th and 20th centuries also saw the demonization of various European immigrant groups. Don't buy the hype, your fortune/misfortune is not impacted by immigration. Globalization has had a WAY bigger impact and was/is inevitable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_El_Salvador#Gang_invo...
>(ex. no security cameras inside or out showed Manafort entering the embassy).

rofl. you don't think there are video cameras both inside and outside of the embassy?
Okay, but that's kind of overshadowed by the massive irony of Wikileaks asking that this memo be kept secret and it promptly leaking.
Sure, deals are bilateral. Good luck trying to get the EU to give up one of its core principles to a country that cannot even get its government to agree on a consistent negotiation position.
While it is true, isn't only after the first 100K USD or so that you have to pay taxes on??
Yes, you could call both of them subsets. But one is so small that for most purposes is incompatible for anything but the simplest uses. While the other lets you run an almost identical codebase on two platforms. There are plenty of people who only ever write ClojureScript and couldn't care less about the JVM Clojure, because it really is that close.

And yes, as other mentioned js-cl is trying to do something similar, and I hope it works out!

Sorry bad wording on my part, was just reiterating the point that Parenscript maps closely to regular looking js, while cljs abuses js quite heavily.
If wikileaks treated all documents handed to them equally, maybe that would be the case.
From following the debate on Brexit, I think it was rather (rightly or wrongly) primarily about EU immigration.
>Their behavior is consistent with what you'd expect from an intelligence agency. Such as well-timed releases during the 2016 US Presidential Election which seemed to heavily favor a candidate with strong ties to a foreign government well known for their intelligence capabilities.

Alright... Help me understand how this does not reflect WaPo, CNN, NYT, and others in an identical way.
> They lose most of their accent, and they just sing in "neutral English".

There's no such thing. It may be the case that most commercial music is sung in approximately a General American (or maybe sometimes the otherwise largely deceased affected Mid-Atlantic) accent, but that's probably more about commercial market appeal than anything else.

> The British accent contains more intonations, which one cannot use when the intonations are dictated by the music.

It's quite possible to sing music in any of a number of British accents.
There was no false dichotomy in what I wrote. Our return on taxation is a horrible healthcare system and an extremely effective military. I mentioned nothing about level of spending. I mentioned the returns on said spending. Of corse we could have a powerful military and a good healthcare system but we don’t. We have the former but not the latter.
"Defamation List v1.3"

Is this in version control somewhere? Github?
Anecdotally, I am sure there are people who wish that the USA was more conservative, and who would leave if there were an appealing alternative.

But given that this spike in potential ex-pats corresponds with two years of unprecedented bad leadership by a largely Conservative/Traditionalist President - I find it hard to believe that this has anything to do with Conservatives finding America to be too left-leaning. If that were the case, such a spike would have been seen during the 8 years Obama was president, not after two years of Conservative domination of the American government.

Furthermore, pinning all of this on the economic theory of Liberalism is either oversimplification, or a complete misunderstanding of leftist ideologies. If anything, the left is becoming less liberal, and more socialist.

The real culture war going on right now appears to be between Capitalism vs. Socialist Policy & Traditionalism vs. Progressivism.
Nobody's going to do that, they'll just say "Use ubuntu" and close your ticket.
I'm the author of this post. The article has been updated to clarify that I accidentally published it one day before the embargo lifted. GitHub will formally announce the news tomorrow.
Well, it mostly tells you about what Assange worries about his public image.
How is that hate speech...
Quite the opposite. It is not the presence of video cameras both inside and outside that is disputed, but the presence of footage of Manafort.
You can have your case re-reviewed. Urban legend is that after the third time they just magically approve it. There's a whole group of lawyers that specialize in getting people approved for disability benefits.

People on disability skyrocketed after the turn of the century. It's very easy for the overweight to qualify for heart/breathing problems.

At first glance you would assume that $804/month is a low enough amount to keep people from applying. It won't even cover rent in many places. Even a $10/hr job will pay double that in gross pay in a month.
I was under the impression that you only pay taxes to USA while living abroad if you move somewhere with lower income taxation than the USA, in which case you deduct the taxes paid to the other government from US taxes and pay the difference. This means most people don’t have to pay taxes to the USA while abroad because most countries tax you more than USA federal income tax rates.
> How strong the UK negotiation position is can currently be observed.

There's a lot of scaremongering going around. The "no deal" scenario is terrifying for the EU as well, especially if the Britons don't pay the 39b and shut down their market.

Unfortunately, the current EU administration has a track record of self-inflicted wounds (e.g. Russia sanctions), so this is the most likely scenario now.
The US health care system is a very well run billing machine with average (compared to other developed nations) health outcomes as a lucky side-effect.

I pay $6000+/year in health insurance in the US + deductibles + co-pays + + + and I don't even know if they'll cover me when shit really hits the fan - but hey, I'll get a flu shot "for free".

Check profit margins for companies in the health care space, they're pretty good.
Not very knowledgeable of margin of errors but does 1,000 people, not women, really give you enough data to represent 30+ million females between 15-30?
The MD cause more damage than he can possibly pay for if found guilty. The state was the beneficiary of this fraud.
Anecdotal evidence is interesting because it prompts you to consider the mechanism by which that one case might arise, and it also proves that such a thing is possible. It's basically a statement with the logical qualifier "There exists...".
No discussion about co2 and climate change is relevant or complete without discussing the role of ch4 (methane), a much more powerful greenhouse gas.
Waymo CEO: Autonomous cars won't ever be able to drive in all conditions
I dont think it matters? I didnt say it was evil, interestingly enough you did

Cambridge Analytica is still the instruction manual

Its almost like your response was on your clipboard for anytime you saw CA in a sentence

How would you expect me to respond to that.. sorry that Obama’s team isnt getting credit?
An old thread[0] used different terms like “commandos, infantry & police”; or “pioneers, settlers & town planners” but which correspond roughly to your “startup, scale up & optimize” description, to explain the 3 stages of a company’s lifecycle.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9159398
How do you comment on PRs for code review?
What do you use for opening PRs?
That doesn't seem to jive with the aerial photos used to make the WPA model. Some roads are clearly covered by the dunes, which means the roads were built through the dunes without clearing the dunes entirely?
It’s up to you to report it and it’s a crime not to.
Got a link for the curious?
I have perfectly working nVidia binary drivers that allow me to subject OpenGL to novel and creative abuses without problems. The rate at which I discover driver bugs has gone done a lot.

Mesa, in contrast, had floating point texture formats blocked because of suspected patent issues until a few weeks ago. These are ste mandated formats in the OpenGL standard so Mesa was never technically compatible. And these formats do matter a lot in practice.
You are a hater for saying he is a hater.
People don't suddenly become politically aware at 18. Paying taxes and graduating high school doesn't grant you deep political insight.

>The biggest impacts on their lives are from their parents' circumstance or decision making.
While yes, their parents generally have the greatest direct control over their material conditions, the assumption that they then can't have any insights into political conditions that surround their parents, and their own, lives is absurd.
For example, the gun violence high school walkouts were conducted by plenty of fifteen year olds, whose lives are directly affected by political conditions.
American citizens pay US taxes, full stop. As the comment you're replying to says, this is very unusual among countries. Canada doesn't work the same way.

Although you don't get double-taxed, so if you're living anywhere where the tax rate is higher than in the US you pay nothing to the US. If you're living in a tax haven like the Bahamas then you do pay a substantial amount.

Even when you're not paying you have to continue filing US tax forms, though, which is annoying and complicated in international tax situations.
Jerry Brown
The US has tax treaties with pretty much every country that's a viable destination. [0] Double taxation is not really much of an issue. What is an issue, however, is that there still exists the requirement to file an annual return which can be a pretty expensive proposition over the years, especially if a person is retaining an accountant to handle things (as they should given the complexities of US non-resident citizen returns).

[0]: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/international-businesses/unit...
I don't believe I've ever heard this phrase uttered by someone who wasn't an arrogant prick.

I don't think there was any need for that.
I think you are confusing a conceivable narrative for a well-reasoned explanation.
Even if the doctors could be sued directly is that necessarily better than going after the flawed system with the additional hope that the individual is dismissed?
It’s paid out based on how much you contributed. Flat rate doesn’t mean everyone pays the same thing, it means same percentage.
Partially it's just really hard to move, visas can be hard to come by and moving away from family is difficult. For what it's worth though my parents currently live in Amsterdam (and love it) and my in laws moved to Canada. My cousin moved to New Zealand, my uncle to Rome, and my wife is trying to convince me to go to England. It's obviously an outlier case but about 1/4 of my family has left and they all seem to prefer being out.
Asciidoctor – A fast, open-source text processor and publishing toolchain
The bizarre call for secrecy and extremely long length are reminiscent of cult communications. I get the image of Assange ranting for hours while some faithful deputy uncritically types up every word.
I'm curious if GitHub is now a loss leader for Microsoft, or if personal subscriptions were a small portion of their revenue.
How are other countries able to criticize American immigration policy if they are not immigration-friendly themselves?
"aren’t satisfied with the returns on taxation"

Ironic as American expats are still taxed, unless they give up citizenship.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/when-us-citizens-liv...

https://www.americansabroad.org/us-taxes-abroad-for-dummies-...
Huh? The nVidia binary blob drivers work perfectly on Linux. Noeaveu is garbage and it's a shame that it's the default on popular distros.
Have you looked at vcpkg? It's the simplest way to use third party libraries on Windows in my experience. Many popular open source libraries are supported out the box by vcpkg now.
>>Same reason batteries in your phone or laptop are each a different shape and non-removable.

What? Most laptops on the market today have removable batteries, to the point where you can buy spare battery packs for them for long trips. Same with a lot of smartphones.

Unless of course you mean Apple products.
> I have to say that even on Windows, driver stability leaves much to be desired (for Nvidia in my case).

I agree. That is why I tend to leave my Windows box really bare. It has Steam with some 4-5 games on it and my Music Production Software. Every other endeavor is tackled in Linux.
The UK has significant liquidity requirement.
Ready or not, a lot more AI-powered services are coming in 2019
"Oops" we got a big industry exclusive. Our bad guys!
I thought disability is the new unemployment insurance for people who can't find a job. Once you have no other options you apply for disability.
> Someone who has renounced their US citizenship is forever barred from ever getting citizenship, and their children are typically also barred from getting citizenship. In addition, they will pretty much always be denied a visa for entry, and they are ineligible for visa at arrival, and may have difficulty to get even pre-applied visas for visiting such as B-1/B-2.

This does not appear to be true, can you provide sources?

The State department's website makes it clear that you'll be treated as any other "foreigner", and a Google search shows plenty of articles noting that while _near impossible_, there is at least a possibility you can regain citizenship - but you'll be competing against the entire world.

Also, your children can get their citizenship if they were born in the U.S., as long as they apply within 6 months of their 18th birthday.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-lega...
Exactly, happiness is so fleeting it's very difficult to describe your entire being as happy or not. I certainly experience very happy moments, but also sad, angry, frustrating moments. These short and temporary moments should not be used to judge the general quality of your life.
Why should I get excited about decent compatibility when I can stick with perfect compatibility? Linux gaming doesn't suck compared to linux gaming 5 years ago. It's still crap compared to Windows.
Is there a pressing need to replace wood? I think, at least in the USA, most wooden goods are made from cheap soft woods that grow quickly, and can basically be treated as an agricultural commodity. Are trees inefficient at converting light/water/nitrogen to cellulose?
> I almost stopped reading.

It seems the article wasn't for you.

> fundamentally unrelated to the point

The point (I got) was that life became overwhelmingly busy in other ways, freeing the author from obsessing over the hand-licking behavior, which sometime during this period went away on its own, almost unnoticed.

Generally, when an author includes a ton of irrelevant details, it's possible that they need advice on writing well, and it's possible that the details are actually relevant to a point which you may have overlooked.
> Secondly, why would the JWT continue to grow?

I replied to your other comment more completely, but thought this part was worth answering as well.

If you are using JWTs for stateless authentication/authorization, you need to include the identity (which doesn't grow) AND the list of authorizations (which might grow).

And, even if it doesn't grow, JWTs are quite large compared to the HMAC of a random token. HMAC size: 64 bytes, JWT size: several hundreds of bytes, easily a few kb, if we put more than the bare minimum.
Can you bootstrap a startup on the side?
The real price of the internet: Your data in the post-privacy age
Tried installing Linux on MBP last month. Ran away screaming after 30+ hours of dealing with drivers issues. I do this every couple of years, hoping that finally THIS time I can get off Windows. Next attempt will be circa about 2021 probably.
There's little need to mine the moon for He3, because it's easier to get net power from deuterium fusion, and the output of deuterium fusion is He3 (and tritium which decays to He3). There's some neutron radiation from deuterium fusion, but that's probably easier to deal with than sifting through millions of tons of lunar dirt.
How can you say this when the current understanding is that Guccifer 2.0 was a persona operated by the Russian military? Even if Assange was acting in good faith (a big assumption) , he was used to push Russian propaganda.

There's no question he was a tool of the Russian government.
Most places you'd want to move to have extradition treaties with the US.
We are human BEINGs not human doings...but as makers, we're obsessed with what we're doing rather than being. To solve this problem for myself (and its one in my experience that will keep cropping up over and over again), I try to reframe the question "what should I do with my life" to how do I want to "Be" - and then work backwards towards a set of values I won't compromise when working on anything. I'm constantly pulled between working on more creative vs. more potentially profitable enterprises. Ultimately, I want to be creative, a story teller, and I want to be helpful. So my "values" are: 1) I only work on things bigger than myself (meaning I work with teams, not alone) 2) I tell stories (meaning my work is always geared around a narrative - I'm a designer / writer / marketer rather than an engineer because of this) 3) I help people directly (meaning I won't work on projects that don't have an impact).

In my experience, when I work from those values rather than towards very specific goals, the flow of life tends to take me in really interesting directions I wouldn't have found otherwise.

PS> Maybe just work in Healthcare AI?
I've been using Pingdom's free plan to monitor one site for many, many years. I'm guessing that SolarWinds has had this in the plan for a while, as the free tier likely has very few conversions since going from free to paid is a bit of a jump to ~$10/month ($120/year).

For someone who just wants to know if a site is up or down, and has a dozen cheap or free services to choose from (I also sometimes use UptimeRobot), it's not a market Pingdom really caters to anymore.

Anyways, this is also the reason I built Server Check.in[1] a few years back[2]; mostly for my use, and it's been a fun ride! Building a distributed, microservice-ish thing over the course of 7 years has been interesting. Would love to answer questions about it if you have any.

[1] https://servercheck.in/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4901350
A new Confederacy located in the former US South.
Most laptop batteries are standard lithium ion cells in a specially molded case.
As I recall the development of Planetary Annihilation was a clusterfunk of bugs and really bad performance. I kickstarted it, and remember getting it to work on linux. Put even though it ran, it did so 15 frames a second, even on a powerful machine. I actually just gave up on the game as the developers released it, even though it was still unplayable for me - and going by steam reviews - numerous others (mostly windows users I would guess).

I guess it makes sense now that they 1.0'ed a barely working game, with such an animosity towards users reporting issues.
Nope, you sue the state or SS and get your money....eventually. Sucks but
I really think it would be a lot harder than testing gasoline.

For starters, with gas and other things like it, there is a supply chain which is pretty tight. If one supplier starts giving bad gas, you can blacklist them and move on. With batteries you'd have to test them after every single use, because you don't know what the last user has done to them.

Then they need to be physically inspected, because a puncture or deep gouge or crack or something could cause big issues.

Then their actual capacity needs to be tested some how. I'll admit that I've been outside of the battery ecosystem for a while, but years ago it wasn't all that easy to "spot check" a random battery to find it's health and capacity. Most devices would gain that knowledge about a battery over a few charge cycles. You need to make sure you know it off the bat, and you can't be wrong or I'll lose faith in the company and the tech.

Then throw in the complication of different sizes, different shapes, different technologies, different requirements (this isn't just the "gas" part of fuel, it's also the "gas tank", so one size will never fit all), and now you are maintaining huge banks of different kinds of batteries all while charging them to the right amount without degrading them, and checking that users didn't run them in below freezing to almost 0 percent which would reduce the lifetime and aren't damaging them in any way which would be very unsafe.

In an ideal world, it sounds like a great idea, but I just don't trust that it can be pulled off without making the user's life worse than if they didn't do it.
> The truth is, I have met some people who wish they could leave to go somewhere more conservative.

It's ironical because it's mostly conservatives who seem to be against immigration (into America) and yet they want to migrate to another country.