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>10-20 years ago, claiming "in the future, the FSF will destroy itself because RMS waded into a controversy he didn't know how to back down from" would have gotten responses of "oh, yes, of course"

This is an excellent way to view recent events. My compliments to the author!
Per OP article Torguard was hacked to
I'm amazed that I scanned a bunch of comments and it seems like no one read the article and noticed that it's not actually a proper SciAm article, just an Op-Ed.

Let me repeat, this is not a proper SciAm article in which some actual academics condense their interesting research into something more easily understood by people outside the field.

This is an Op-Ed. It's an opinion. And more specifically, it's an opinion from someone who is most certainly not unbiased.
> In this case BoA are saving money but in exchange retain additional layers of staffing, that require oversight, and ultimately decision makers willing to take risks.

I think some companies, like BOA, look at this as the safer alternative.

We all assume that large Cloud providers are bulletproof. That's just because we haven't seen them taken down yet. Someday we will. Just wait until there's another major world conflict. These global companies with outsourced IT will be in ruins because politics and digital DMZ's will keep them from acting cohesively.

For an organization like a bank that's worth over $400b that layer of staffing, equipment, oversight, and all the inefficiencies are a $400b insurance policy that you will be able to continue operating regardless of geographic or political events outside of your control.
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The lack of top level inference is a key part in getting great compiler errors: top level inference can be convenient, but it also leads to spooky action at a distance errors.
> Right now, the bank estimates its private cloud is 25% to 30% cheaper than public providers, though it also recognizes that probably won't last forever.

I am glad they shared this situation. We often here marketing telling us that public cloud is always better. It's nice to see different perspectives being shared and some details around them.
Yes, here's a link: http://sealevelstudy.org/sea-change-science/whats-in-a-numbe...

edit: the video in the link also provides an animation of the effect
"no one could know" is ridiculous. A proper security team vets all of its vendors and ultimately writes security issues like this into contracts.
Not if you are in a sealed room with the smoker.
> military action against China

What? For what? In case you didn't know "military action" means people die. A lot of countries aren't democracies. You want to bomb them all?
"Medicare for all" is redefining medicare. You can argue semantics that it's not the same as before but that is the point of the term, that it's a new and improved iteration.
What is the source of the gist you linked?
They had these (JavaStation-1) where I went to university. They were kinda meh as I recall.

That is, until about six months to a year after they were installed. They now had linux installed instead. They still had wonky proto-optical-mice (required a special metallic reflective mousepad), but there was remarkably less latency in using them and IIRC they still had a window manager that looked similar to the one that came w/JavaOS. Struck me as a pretty clever way to recover the value of these nodes.
Just few hours ago, while driving, I was driving and thinking of one of the books - Little Book of Semaphores.
I need to go through some the algorithms and try to formally verify them in COQ, since I'm learning how to do formal proves.
Google Correlate will shut down on December 15th 2019 as a result of low usage
Just so I'm getting this straight, in a setting where your entire goal is to make a company want to work with you every day, it's discrimination to turn you down because you did not make them want to work with you? Listen, companies have their own cultures, and if you're not a fit to that culture, bringing you on runs the risk of ruining the culture they have been building and making their employees quit. I turn down every single person who acts in a way that convinces me I do not want to deal with them day in and day out, and I haven't regretted it once. Sure, we probably miss some good people, but we have a specific culture in place that we all enjoy, and I don't want to feel uncomfortable or have to walk on egg shells around my team.

These cries of discrimination are getting a bit out of hand. You may just be rude in an interview, and that will 100% result in me turning you down. It doesn't matter much to me if you're an "Aspie/ADD" or if you just found out your wife cheated on you, I don't want you around me all the time based off the only data point I have. To blame the interviewer for your behavior, whatever the reason, is outrageous.

I think interviews aren't the best way to find out if someone is a going to be a good engineer, but to be a good team member, you have to have good interactions with the team.
Knockoffs aren't the only reason to not commingle. For example, maybe I start a business called "Fresh Batteries" where all batteries I sell have at least 2 years until expiry. I don't want those commingled because a battery with one year until expiry isn't bad, it just isn't what I'm selling.

My hypothetical batteries might be more expensive but depending on your needs, they might be a better value.
China's authoritarian government works. And that scares the shit out of the West. But instead of channeling that fear toward some productive outlet, we decided to bury our heads in the sand. Trump is just a symptom. So we continue to let our infrastructure and cities crumble and use the spectre of China to block any useful reform. Freedom!
They are a private company and have every right to do whatever censoring they want.

Players have every right to protest their games because of that decision.

If Activision/Blizzard thinks they can make more money in China than they can in West, then they have absolutely no obligation to listen to what Western players want. That's just capitalism.

Is it dumb for them to do this? Maybe. But they have every right to make that mistake.
Lots of financial firms love to hire mathematicians (see Renaissance Technologies for a famous example). So you could probably secure your financial future relatively easily if you wanted to.
Openland is great
See my sister post for link. The difference between ice and water is that water can freely move over the Earth's surface while massive icebergs cannot.
Isn't that what tags are for? Search by tag?
I spent most of a year living in Cambodia. I met some amazing people there. People who had put way more effort and work into improving their lives than anyone I had met in either the UK or Australia. But they were still (comparatively) poor. And that was never going to change, because they just didn't have the opportunities there that we take for granted. In some places, birth and family is more important than any amount of effort, talent or intelligence.
How does the English idiom goes?

"ignorance is bliss"

Sure, it's just an idiom, but it definitely sound like it applies to you when you make a racial comment like that.
Exactly. Jeff Bezos tweets something that gets Xi’s panties in a ruffle and AWS is blocked in China and Bank of America can’t do cross border payments... no way should such a big company have their eggs in such a basket.
It’s got some of the most ridiculous margins and price gouging of any business out there.

You and enterprise software should get together and have a introductory meeting...
Might want to look into GNU Shepherd. The whole thing is written in Scheme.
> At the same time, everybody seems to accept that the chance of getting cancer in your lifetime has risen to about one in three for men and one in five for women. And nobody knows why.

I'm not sure exactly what time interval you're making that claim over, but isn't a large part of it people not dying from plague and flu and having good medical care to live into old age in the first place?
You know, everyone says this but every server I worked on (several thousands) which used sysvinit I cant remember any issues with startups that couldn't easily be scripted around.

I still dont understand what issues are fixed with systemd and I am aware of many it has created.
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Well, to be fair, it’s only “highly unlikely” that anyone on Earth has an IQ of 210.

Given that seven sigma deviation should occur one time in 780 billion and that there are ~7.8b people on Earth today, then there is a ~1% chance of a person with an IQ of 210 being alive today :)
Benchmarking the Thermal Properties of the Raspberry Pi
> MX Linux is a cooperative venture between the antiX and former MEPIS communities

Ah! SimplyMEPIS (a live version of MEPIS) was the first gnu/linux system I booted on my (dad's) P3 desktop computer in circa 2003-2004!
https://mbylstra.github.io/html-to-elm/ <3
Incognito mode.
> for some reason it did not happen.

Part of the organizational allure of migrating to the cloud is being able to rationalize headcount. Hybrid clouds, while bringing a lot of potential upside, are complex. While you can potentially reduce the scale of labor involved, you still have to retain all of the core skillsets you already have to maintain your on-prem locations. Then add headcount to optimize the cloud deployment, _plus_ the ever elusive skillset of the individuals that can marry the two in such a way where you show operational savings from the hybrid model.
Think Complexity https://greenteapress.com/wp/think-complexity-2e/
Simply seeing what servers you connect to can reveal a lot about you. Where you work, what social media accounts you have, what apps you have installed, what you are interested in reading etc. HTTPS doesnt help you with that.
Folks are generally misinterpreting the 'cost' of the cloud by mostly looking at data centre costs, margins etc.. The 'TCO'
or 'Total Cost of Ownership' of cloud services is generally much lower than otherwise.

The cloud is valuable because of the variety of features, immediately available, at very large scale, run by very credible people with $0 in capital expenditures.

In most cases, it's worth far more than the price, which is why it's so popular.

In very, very few cases is it 'cheaper' to run one's own cloud given the massive operational overhead of hiring people with very specialised skills, risks all over the board, the enormous planning, extensive investments.

Wallmart must have 1000's of trucks but they don't 'roll their own' delivery vehicles, because there's an inherent degree of specialisation in making vehicles.

So yes - in some specific cases it makes sense to 'host': say Dropbox, just wants massive cheap storage, or Google, has special needs & scale & ability, or some entity has very specific privacy requirements - and of course I wish there were more variety in providers, especially localised ... but the cloud is essentially now the default hosting option and that's not going away because it makes a lot of sense.

The surpluses generated by such services are vast - it's a big step forward for everyone. Companies using AWS are probably profiting more in surplus than the margins in AWS.
The switch over time is around 30 seconds. When your power is restored from the grid, it switched back seamlessly.

Fuel is a great question. I have never looked at the consumption. Mine runs off the natural gas line, so I have no tank to fill. With this setup I feel I am in good shape for short and extended outages.
You only really need 1 person to physically pair, and then they can authenticate other people wanting to share it.
AFAIK education is a prerequisite to employable citizens and employable citizens is a prerequisite to taxable citizens.

I dont think education is a subsidy, so much as an investment.
I think you mean 33.6k (or 33k6). V.34 tops out at 33.6k so unless you were using a non-standard protocol on an extraordinarily clean copper connection, you wouldn’t have gotten that.

As to the asymmetrical part of your comment, definitely true in my experience there. I could go into detail on the technical reasons why that was the case, but don’t see the point unless someone wants me too.
If I’m remembering your previous posts correctly, you’re quite aware that mental health is absolutely a part of this.

Yes. I do a poor job of making that clear because I feel so strongly that physical health and mental health cannot be neatly separated. "A sound mind in a sound body."

To me, (a lack of) "passion, willpower, and consistency" really sounds like someone with low energy due to a hidden health issue.

I was called lazy until I got diagnosed with a genetic disorder in my thirties. I've often joked that life got a lot better "after they found a better name for my condition than lazy and crazy".
I continue to be amazed that any business of more than a few hundred employees would ever consider using off-prem hosting. Cloud services are there to bootstrap a business, not maintain it.
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There is hidden and overt censorship. I actually find it absurd that we allow our children to use social media software developed by a hostile foreign power.
I didn't get that from his talk. I think it was more of a, "BSD should have a system layer. How can we make one that's way better?" .. that doesn't do all the things people hate systemd for doing.
Do you need a chat app?

What if your team just used a number of email mailing lists for channels, direct emails for private messaging, and having bots send notifications via email?

Emails give you rich content, asynchronous messaging, cross-platform support, history, threads, and more.
Getting me to look at the platform requires the platform solving a problem I have. Not running away requires good documentation (tutorials, how to's, and technical reference)
> It wasn't until Blizzard banned a HS player that people got riled up.

Correction: It wasn't until Blizzard banned a HS player during a US/China trade war that people got riled up.
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1. Knuth. Skim it all then keep as a reference. Dive deep into anything that catches your fancy.

2. "Programming Pearls" by Jon L. Bentley IMO this is the most concise yet accessible gateway to the inner Mysteries of Computer Programming. Read between the lines, the prime thesis is implied not explicit.

3. "Thinking Forth" by Leo Brodie (Available as a PDF here: http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/ ) Most software is grossly too large. This book shows how to grok and extract the essence of your problem into minimal code. (Chuck Moore had a 3D wireframe CAD program he used to carry around as a deck of punch cards in his shirt pocket.)
> No one was ever going to be able to read your emails.

Except for Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Apple of course, and whoever they have to answer to depending on where you live.
I mean no offense but this is a crap answer. They're asking for book recommendations.
I loved the Whats App founder talk at the YC online class (I don't have the link either). I paraphrase: "we decided to make a messaging app just when that was the best, most profitable thing we could possibly have done." There was a ton of experience and talent behind it, but they acknowledge that they got lucky and timed it perfectly.
they sell alcohol at CVS?
Nobody can write robust C. The correct answer is Poettering should've switched to Rust. With few exceptions, any code base that has not yet done so should be considered brittle and bug-prone.
The last 20 years are littered with examples of China allowing foreign companies in, forcing them to share IP with domestic partners, and then shutting out those foreign companies once domestic companies no longer need their foreign partners.

There's even huge knockoff Blizzard theme park in China.

It's not some hypothetical concern, it's standard practice. The Chinese market is not a good bet for foreign companies.
Pick a project. Work through that project using free tutorials. Only pay if you can't get info for free. You can always get info for free.
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I disagree, but let's accept it as true for the sake of argument. This is civilization. The question is, is it still right and good? Being born into civilization automatically makes you indebted towards it, because of all its affordances?

I think that's morally wrong, and I don't like this attitude as a matter of principle.
Is it a racial comment when the leader of a country uses that exact quote to describe how they will deal with anyone who threatens the harmony of China, including the situations that the grandparent was referring to?

https://supchina.com/2019/10/15/well-grind-you-up-and-crush-...
"Medicare for All Who Want It" was not his proposal from day 1. That talk started after he accepted large donations from the Healthcare Industry.
My point is that the mathematical simulation is more precise because you've exactly stated the model and ran it. While doing it verbally allows for all kinds of interpretation and is therefore much harder to interpret.

I apologise but I also really sincerely don't understand your verbal reasoning in the context of this particular paper. They took two underlying distributions and managed to produce something that looks like a real world one. I'm not sure what you're trying to say that's equivalent to that?
> The third concern is what has dominated the news cycle as of late: Facebook’s decision to not fact-check any posts or ads from politicians. This is largely being framed as aiding President Trump in particular, which is probably both true and also an unsurprising complaint from the Second Estate used to having monopoly control over fact-checking.

Does he mean the American second estate, i.e. the legislative branch? Or does he mean the Nobility?

And what does he mean by Monopoly Control?

And what is he trying to imply with the word "unsurprising" here?
Looks like the anti AWS submarine is being deployed. Arr.
Dropbox. Basically, you can create a new notebook and all pages under that notebook are organized in a directory hierarchy. I've done this for just under a decade without issue.
I have recently forked the elm language to produce a much better language.

please come to our discourse

https://discourse.pine-lang.org
@dang or mods - I'm surprised that this isn't merged with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21311475 ; is there some special value in keeping them separate?
I am glad it works for you but I am not comfortable or confident doing this, unless i have a really firm grasp on the technology and that is the exception rather than the norm, these days. Estimations tend to be driven by customer expectations rather than technical limitations. If i estimate too high I look bad. Even if that is based on previous experience. If i don't deliver in the hoped-for-timeframe i might get fired. catch-22. Much better to not do it at all, if the business allows it (if it doesn't then it's still important to make keep hammering on estimation psychology ).
The whole argument seems naively flawed to me: given a certain individual, with some defined IQ and personality, there are problems that they won't ever solve, no matter how much time they live. I'll never write a single novel, Georges Simenon wrote 200 of them. The average person wouldn't discover relativity, or write Mozart's music, in any amount of time.

It's not true that abilities scale linearly. Not even the difference in the amount if work people can perform is linear: there are people that can start successful companies in the time it takes me to set up an appointment with the dentist (weeks of procrastination).

Frankly it doesn't surprise me at all that this research comes from my country: a country that is deeply suspicious of success and, especially in the public sector, of any form of reward based on results. In fact the study finds exactly what most Italian public employees (such as university researchers) ask for: indistinct financing for everyone without the need to show anything for it.
I've also seen it either not bring up the firewall (load iptables rules) or suddenly decide to take it down (remove the rules).

I'm not sure why it did that, as I didn't have time to dig into the why while trying to deal with the result.
You’re writing this with the assumption that they were not explicitly told what to do by the Chinese government.
> There are plenty of people in America who continue to chase money long after their safe retirement is assured.

I mean take a look at rich (m/b)illionaires. It's a life style they can't give up.
I'm tempted to agree with you, although in the case of Epic it was about stuff like a Chinese company owning a minority stake, or devs choosing Epic as a launch platform (for actual upfront money).

This time someone on a public American stage was shut down to cater to a foreign, Big Brother-like government. It's a little less forgettable.
> They’re also not based in a Nordic country, which I find misleading.

Ironically, Lithuania is a part of Northern Europe, but because of the data retention laws they have to pretend that they are based somewhere else[1].

[1] https://vpnscam.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2018-08-24-09...
Copyright 2020. Spooky.
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> I'm actively preparing to move all of my machines over to BSD

You remind me of all those people who are going to move to Canada "any day now" because of Trump.
Because I'm smart _and lazy_. I'm 'rich enough' as it were.
I think you're right on target with that observation. A compromise of limited liability and aggressive infrastructure upgrades may be the way to go.
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Ummmm... Hustle and prep get you absolutely nowhere if you're hustling and prepping for the wrong thing or doing so the wrong way.
Blizzard has support tickets but like almost all companies the people answering the tickets are totally disconnected from the people making the decisions and filing a ticket won't do anything more than get a empty "we're sorry" response
You could also give most of it away to a favorite charity, keeping however much you feel comfortable in owning.

There's a really interesting documentary called "Born Rich", which was made by one of the heirs to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, where he interviewed a lot of his friends who were all also born in to very wealthy families. They all had different ways of dealing with their circumstances, and I remember one of them did reject his family's fortune and tried to live an "ordinary" life.
I have worked with a lot of people with Asperger's over several years, I don't recall anyone but neurotypicals being rude to me.

While I'm sure there are rude people with Asperger's out there, rude neurotypicals can potentially be damaging in a far more efficient manner by knowing how to twist the social norms to give the pretence of staying within their boundaries.
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Cigarettes and alcohol too. Radiowave effects, even if they do cause anything, are quite easy to mitigate in humans by wearing clothing with carefully positioned electrical conductor insertions.
Genuinely curious why your posts are being downvoted?
> This is why the slogan "Billionaires should not exist" is not without merit.

> Remember: a million seconds is 11.57 days. A billion seconds? 31.71 years.

That was insightful and I am telling you: I am going to use your argument from now on---it was just beautifully simple and clear!
EU data watchdog raises concerns over Microsoft contracts
Just because the host is in the EU doesn't prevent the US from monitoring it.

EU hosts are almost certainly monitored even more by US agencies than US hosts.

GDPR doesn't fix any of this.

"Europe furious, 'shocked' by report of U.S. spying"

https://www.cnn.com/2013/06/30/world/europe/eu-nsa/index.htm...
Any moral framework that attempts to justify outright lying in order to obtain personal gain at others' expense is not only not normal, it is also indefensible.