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Why the hell is CONFIG_PERF enabled in distribution kernels?? A normal server/desktop user would NEVER USE THAT. If you're smart enough to use Perf, you ought to be smart enough to compile your own kernel.

This is a brilliant example of how stupid many distros are with their kernel configurations. They need to start understanding that enabling features that nobody uses only increases the probability of problematic bugs.

Also, they need to stop enabling CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR. It slows stuff down, and as can be seen here, often doesn't do any good.
You're using the word "culture" as a shibboleth for a whole package of entitlements that people on message boards tend to believe in, and not in its conventional sense. Simply labeling my work as "cultural" does not entitle the world to access that work for free; it's my work.

Ironically, you play the opposite semantic game with the word "monopoly", whose technical meaning has already been clearly fleshed out upthread. If all "monopolies" are immoral, then you don't believe in property. Really, though, you're trying to repurpose that word for emotional impact instead of understanding; you mean it as "property rights asserted by people we don't like."
I started with NFSN and then switched to S3 after a while.
It is no different online. People online know I am homeless. Most of them step over me and move on, though all I have asked for is help figuring out how to make money online instead of going back to a normal job that was helping to kill me. I imagine this comment will get buried or ignored or negative attention, an ironic repeat of the problem people are decrying.
Was this just the result of one phone call to one person? You might have gotten an employee out for a phish.

Try giving them another call at another time of day and see if they make the same request.
Science is broken is broken.
Overpopulation is a myth. Actually in the first world underpopulation is greater risk, most European countries have a lower fertility rate than the 2.1 children replacement rate. Even at a global level the world population will reach a plateau somewhere around the middle of the century.
Yes, the state

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_heal...
bluehost.com - I don't remember why I chose them originally, but I have had my domains and hosting there for a while, and have been happy. I put a few sites on their lowest plan and they have "unlimited" space and bandwidth.
People who defend this under the heading of "it's their service, don't use it if you don't like it", or "they're doing this for your convenience" completely miss the point.

There is a reason why we had strict regulations (a dirty word on HN, I know) for "old fashioned" mail and telephone. To eavesdrop on people's private communication was considered a disgusting practice that belonged in totalitarian regimes, and an unacceptable violation of people's rights.

Modern online services have circumvented such regulations, but that doesn't make what Microsoft, or Facebook, or Google are doing any more ethical or socially desirable.

All of this casual disregard for basic ethics can't continue without a serious backlash. And such a backlash won't just hit Microsoft e.a., but our entire industry.

It's time we stopped considering ourselves to be untouchable just because the law hasn't caught up yet, or because the majority of the people haven't figured out what the fuck we're doing.

Some changes through technology are unstoppable. This however, isn't one of them. It's a choice.
The video that jere linked to is from North Carolina which happens to be where I live. The drivers test here is offered in English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. They also offer it orally, specifically for people who have trouble reading. There's a sign test, but they just show you the shape and color of a sign without text. For example, you have to identify that a red octagon is a stop sign and a yellow pentagon indicates a school zone. At no point is your ability to read english tested so it's perfectly plausible that someone could obtain an NC drivers license and not understand a yellow flashing sign with text on it.
> America is more daring, more exciting, and there are more opportunities when you have the right cards to do something. But if you had a bad hand to start with, then you're royally screwed.

This seems a little contradictory. Being daring and exciting as a country and an economy would be more like how America used to be, where the upside of having people dying in the street was that if you came here and you had drive and talent, you were much more likely to become wealthy and successful. This is in contrast to the way much of Europe functioned at the time, where a more entrenched and institutionalized class system meant that your position in life (by and large) was set at birth.

As it stands now (I believe over the last couple of decades), America performs _worse_ than every comparable developed country but Great Britain when it comes to income mobility[1].

[1]
From a study done by the London School of Economics:
http://cep.lse.ac.uk/about/news/intergenerationalmobility.pd...
If you want to make the argument that Java is good for GUI's, feel free, but you just picked the two worst examples I could possibly think of. As a Mac user, the UI for Eclipse is such a huge turn-off that it soured me on Java as a whole (back before I really knew anything about Java; today, there's plenty of other stuff to dislike besides the GUI toolkit). And Minecraft? That's not a UI, that's an OpenGL game. Nothing about the custom OpenGL-based UI it presents to users says anything about Java, or has any bearing on other Java apps you might write.
This is the most peculiar thing about the JSON mania of all. I mean your web browser programming consists of 99% DOM manipulation and suddenly everyone forgets how to do that when it comes to making Web API calls. Maybe we need jQuery for XML?
However, in this case, literally the entire text was redacted (sans the title).
Everyone should assume that text messages are analyzed by a computer and flagged as necessary.

Only select people under investigation would have their entire text message conversations read by a human.

Does the NSA store all text messages? Yes, more than likely. Do their employees snoop on US citizens? Nope. Can other agencies have access to this data? Yes, Patriot Act.

There is a very easy way to test their capabilities. Send a text message with keywords involving bombs and political figures and see what happens. I'm not going to do it, but it would be an interesting experiment.

Information is critical in the world we live in. It's troubling that any secretive organizations would be able to have this much power over citizens, but the alternative is much scarier. The US has to maintain information dominance on the internet. Allowing other countries to dominate the internet could tip the scales of power. The US carries the big stick right now, if China gets the upper hand (and they are trying unimaginably hard) then what? What will the sleeping dragon do? I have nothing against China at all, but the unknown is scary and I simply would rather the US maintain indisputable dominance.
Places with good weather have huge visible homeless populations. (I have traveled all over the United States, and have been to all fifty states. AFTER EDIT: I have been in, and have lived in, gritty "skid row" neighborhoods of large United States cities, and have lived in Los Angeles.) Places with lousy weather, like the place where I grew up and now live, certainly have people who are "homeless" in the sense of not having a secure legal right to occupy a particular place at their own discretion, but most people with that lack of legal right to choose their living circumstances are indoors during cold winter nights. There is much provision of emergency shelter in the United States, by both governmental organizations and private charities. There are also both federal and state programs for providing free or heavily subsidized leaseholds for housing to poor families, and private charities that build single-family homes for poor families. People are more visibly out on the street in the United States mostly on a regional or seasonal basis.

Since quite a few of the comments here mention Europe, my question (as someone who has never been to any part of Europe) is where do people live in Europe if they have no personal funds to buy or rent housing? Do they live in housing operated by some unit of government, or where?

All of the above said, yes, I am not sure that United States social policy is a model for anywhere, and perhaps hackers working on social policy here would be helpful. There are already enough empty housing units in the United States to house everyone who needs a house. The tough policy issues are in allocating people to houses (or houses to people) and looking out for other aspects of everyone's welfare.
Because nothing communicates "STOP" better than A GIANT F'ING RED GLOWING STOP SIGN AS BIG AS YOUR TRUCK RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE. ('shouting' to convey the brain-slamming scale of the message it communicates, not yelling at you.)
Why not link directly to the post?

https://plus.google.com/106189723444098348646/posts/aqy6DvvL...
"When Miami-Dade Fire Rescue arrived five minutes and 10 seconds after the first emergency call, they began to pull passengers out of the window. Lopez, now out of gauze, told rescue workers that the victims were all Jehovah’s Witnesses, and couldn’t receive blood transfusions because of their faith."

Sigh.
Can you explain your question? It seems obvious that you can take something that is not proven as an axiom and try to use it in some practical applications. Maybe to disastrous results if it ends up being wrong, but no worse than what is already a risk with bugs in implementation.
And the rest of the Western world, like it or not, is able to spend less on defense precisely because -- thanks to some unique events in the 20th century -- the US is effectively providing a defense subsidy for all of its allies.

I'm not advocating, just saying. Perhaps European countries would have to spend more if the US did not concern itself with the rest of the world? Food for thought.
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They already provide my e-mail hosting (significantly better spam management than GMail, where about 20-30 were getting through per day) and static web hosting is included.
How does it get power? Cord out through the bottom?
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Am I the only one who get really tired of the endless copying and imitating of Apple UIs? Look at the picture in the tweet, every single element from the gradient in the switch button, text shadows, color tones of icon and background to the section gradients. Sure, it looks nice, no doubt. But it's so un-original!
I'm not sure that the handling of a single document, especially one that happens to be about intelligence gathering procedures, should be THE standard by which we judge transparency.
I was under the impression that all civilized countries do have such laws - the impact on accidents and fatalities is really huge.

Throughout almost all of Europe cargo haul & bus drivers hours are regulated (registrating devices at the vehicle + enforcement by traffic cops), and you can't take a truck across the continent w/o rest unless you swap drivers.
Why you people hate MongoDB? It is great to start with NoSQL, and for new little projects.
It can't hang down lower than the height limit. Trucks that are over by just a few inches will not even feel the hit, as seen in the other videos posted here.
I have to imagine they contract that work out. Unless doing that was my business, I wouldn't want to touch that training set with a thousand foot pole. Well I wouldn't regardless..., but you see what I'm saying about encapsulating and isolating that.
> I don't know a single parent who would list or even hint that they needed "recreation" when deciding to have a child.

Your friends are not a representative sample of the population of the united states.

Those who choose to have children are responsible for providing for them, not their neighbors.

People who can't take care of their children should be discouraged from procreating: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Prevention
And yet, with this solution, no repair is needed for either the truck or the infrastructure.

The vehicle is able to be removed under its own power, the driver is not injured, there is no debris.

If you are in a vehicle behind a truck that has damage to its top, you very likely will have damage to your vehicle from flying debris.
I live in San Diego now, but I just moved back here from San Francisco. I've lived elsewhere in America. I never felt the disparity as much as I did in SF. I walked around being intensely aware of my privilege and it was uncomfortable.
And because they have a pretense in China sure they cooperate with China. As far as I know they have no presence in the DPRK though, as they are not even allowed to sell there.
I also received calls for help when she got a new cable TV receiver that would not work with her 720p TV because of HDCP

This is lamentable, for sure. But, at least products exist, ready to go and on the shelf, that would work and are interoperable. Consider for a moment in a world of maximum freedom (without "Intellectual Property" at all), no one could really profit making this kind of stuff, and it wouldn't exist at all. What would be left? DIY?

So instead the moms of the world should buy all the parts for an HTPC, assemble it, and then read up in the MythTV wiki how to make it all work? Is that really a better future?
Programmer is a broad term. What area of programming interests you?
I believe the issue is what happens to all the other data that's not related to the intent of the surveillance. For example, if you're talking to your spouse about a health issue, your sex life, etc. If that's not the target of the surveillance, the government shouldn't be retaining it.
My assumption is that it's not as big of a deterrent because greasy smudge marks are so much easier to spot on a screen vs a pen.
I don't understand the purpose of this website. Yes, universities, the government and certain institutions fail at science (we all are aware of the publishing rat race and countless instances of misplaced priorities). However, scientific progress is incredible & undeniable and to discredit it due to the angst of certain people is weak. If you love science and are sick of academia, you have options, or make your own options. I have a problem with this website because its simply a bi%$#fest.
Object-oriented design patterns in the Linux kernel, parts 1-3 [2009]
I'd way rather hire someone like this than someone who has their resume sent by a recruiter.

One thing Scott; "it’s how stuff just get’s better" should be "gets better."

Good luck!
Some questions to ask yourself if you want to be a data scientist
Internet Explorer will even tell you how long each plugin takes to start. You can see the stats in [Gear icon]-> Manage Add-ons. My slowest plugin is actually Google Chrome Frame :p
Part 2:

http://lwn.net/Articles/446317/

Part 3:

http://lwn.net/Articles/336262/
If you can't pull a Nintendo, there's no shame in going SEGA.
The entire point of FOIA requests is to allow access to previously undisclosed documents that aren't legally considered secret.

The notably weird thing here is that they released a completely redacted document rather than just declining the request. Is there some minimum amount of text required to be considered a response?

Politics aside, this is certainly one of the strangest things I've seen in a while.
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Square should admit that their real purpose is to track the customer without their direct permission and sell the data to the highest bidder.

Square is for morons who love Facebook profiling coz it's free.
Sad, when the alternative is no device there, and the owner of the tunnel/bridge can sue the truck owner for damages.
Hey guys,

Just a quick note to let you know that we just unveiled support for mobile web video recording / uploading. (iOS 6.0+ and Android 2.2+). You can check it out by pointing your mobile browser to CameraTag.com and clicking on the "click here to record" box.

For all you webtech geeks- WebRTC soon to come :)
What happens if Google decides to send Go the way of the RSS reader, the SMS search, and the dinosaur?
Water screens are very simple (and old) tech. It's just a perforated tube and a projector. This is much more interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gusJeslMbLc, but still a weekend project, not billion-dollar research :)
Some time ago, a similar move ended successfully for Microsoft.

All the best!
FBI: Impersonation, intimidation and scams, yep that’s the Internet
Melon: A Headband and App that Measures your Mental Focus
Just like he said. Iteration. It's how stuff gets better.
>6/1000 risk of infection

I know this is probably statistically true at some level (when using real statistics), but I do wonder how the statistics move for wealthy individuals at places like Mayo vs the national average. I would imagine the rate of infections at world class hospitals is lower than at a clinic in Englewood, but I wonder if it's enough to swing the statistics in electoral surgery's favor.
But the daft thing about iMessage is that no-one even knows they are using it. Most non-tech people I know don't even know there are two types of message. They've installed Whatsapp to message their friends on iPhones. When I say that iMessage is free they don't really get it at all.
>There is nothing intrinsically morally wrong with high levels of wealth inequality.

That would depend on your moral system, wouldn't it?
First ever discovery of an alien planet with the help of Einstein’s
The Biggest Problem in Design
Just saying that a single example doesn't prove a pattern.

Yeah it's a little weird, but out of the context of other FOIA requests it doesn't make much of a point.
Would be great if you solved it. I think you can just create a made up organisation to test. Think it's pretty common to not only work on individual private repos. If you would like to email me when/if you're done it would be appreciated!
Huh. In my part of the US, it seems the only people who use it are kids who have iPod touches and no cell phones.
Same in Honduras
Create vs print: I was indeed talking about printing money (which doesn't necessarily mean actually printing notes).

If I recall correctly, inflation is hardly a bad thing. Okay, super-inflation is a bad thing, but I'm talking 5-15% a year. As if controlling inflation would ultimately cause unemployment. As long as we keep it smooth, and the salaries rise along with the prices, then it's only a tax on savings. Plus, inflation seems to be heavily and negatively correlated with unemployment (I'm not sold on that idea, but as far as I know, it seems plausible).

I also agree that there is such a thing as living above one means, even if it's a whole country. I disagree however that printing money (with the intention of destroying most of it later) instead of borrowing it at a significant interest rate would necessarily cause inflation. Or are you implying that your government is by nature unreasonable, and will systematically abuse its power to print?

Possibly. But then, if I can't trust my government with that, I can't trust it with anything (starting with taxes). If it's a problem with this particular government, we have elections. If it's a problem with any possibly elected government, then maybe it's time to change the governance itself.
+1 for bluehost. I put my personal site on there and occasionally use it for other small projects. It's really good for what it is.
I think my son is about to drop down to 1 nap so I totally get it!

If it weren't for my partner going part time to help in the afternoons I'd be working all night long anyway, which is obviously not a feasible long term solution & can really take a toll on your sanity after a while.
No. http://gizmodo.com/5955244/watch-this-bridge-destroying-doze...
I can't help but think that they should've done this 2 years ago. While it's true that this could have accelerated the exodus of users from BB to iOS/Android, I think a cross-platform, successful BBM would've been an invaluable beachhead in the mobile environment for RIM as their device marketshare plummeted. BBM could have then served as means of keeping users who gave up their BlackBerries in the BB ecosystem and helped to attract these users back to the BB platform when their latest, more modern devices were released.

At this point, at least among young people, I feel most former BBM users may have simply moved on and the prospect of using BBM on their new devices may just not be an interesting one anymore. Perhaps I'm wrong about this, though. Regardless, I think it's a good choice on RIM's part to launch a multiplatform BBM, I just feel like it would've been much more valuable to have done it a lot sooner.
People like me who have no desire to have them perhaps? I think that's the best place to start. Also more people will probably choose not to have kids when there is more social acceptance of the choice and we are honest with ourselves about the realities of bringing more human life into this world. I like kids and want every measure of support we can provide to people who have chosen to have them - we just need to be clear on the realities and I think much of the rest will take care of itself.
What do you mean by not being able to help? I really encourage you to volunteer at a shelter if you haven't. Not only will you feel amazing by doing it, but you'll also hear so many good life stories, which I think will help you get over your phobias of the homeless. We tend to make up stories in our head to prop up our own just-world hypotheses, but the reality is that there are a lot reasons why people are homeless.

Sure, you'll hear from the guy who got hooked on drugs and pissed away his money, but you'll also hear about people who had work in construction and industry whose jobs dried up during one of many economic downturns while at the same time dealing with rising rent costs. Getting back into the game isn't easy either without clean clothes, a place to shower, or even a phone to be reached at for an interview. A lot of what we take for granted (like wearing $300-1500 outfits for interviews) simply isn't available to homeless people.
Do you really thing the law will "catch up"? It seems that things are headed in the opposite direction, and I don't see changing course anytime soon.
> You can NOT have a single domain of expertise as a
> programmer, and be a great programmer

Nobody said anything about great programmer.

edit: And you're defining great only one way: Someone with multi-domain expertise. Certainly someone who is expert at databases can be a great programmer too.

edit 2: great is measured relative to the problem at hand... If you have a deep technical problem, then multi-domain expertise doesn't really give you any edge. If you have a business problem that needs a technical solution, then having expertise in both the business side and technical side is an advantage.
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> * no VM, only a run-time (cross-compiling is trivial though)

There are native code compilers available for Java.

> * concurrent by design

Java was there first
About 20 years ago I ran across a study of homeless people in NYC. It turned out that a lot had lead comfortable middle class lives, and like most of us with the resources to handle one economic setback. Then two things went wrong. The first drained their reserves, the second put them on the street.

A particularly common combination was a health problem followed by foreclosure.

It has been 20 years, but I have seen no reason to doubt that the same pattern would be largely true today.