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> My greater point is about the arena that Ford decisively closed off with his pardon. Historically, when a Republic degrades to the point where leaders don't dare lose power, because they'll lose their freedom and frequently in time past their lives, that Republic dies an ugly death.

The other point in time where Republics die an ugly death is the point at which the leaders no longer feel constrained by the threat of being held accountable for actions while in office. Ford's preemptive pardon of Nixon -- which forestalled a thorough questioning of Nixon's actions and a determination of whether he ought to be held accountable for them -- moved the Republic closer to that point, even if it also moved it farther from the point you are concerned about (which, of course, is always the one those in power want to avoid, and not out of any concern for "the Republic".)

> Perhaps you weren't alive/politically aware back then, but the country did Move On

It did, indeed, move on to the abuses of national security apparatus by later administrations (most notably under Reagan, Bush II, and Obama, though the Ford, Carter, Bush I, and Clinton administrations aren't without issues, as well) with a similar lack of accountability, and indeed an increasing acceptance that, while we didn't like it when it was the other side doing it, such abuses were just part of what happened, and even in the most egregious cases with the clearest involvement from the top, there was no serious consideration of accountability.

The Ford pardon secured and further institutionalized the Imperial Presidency.
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> As in a restaurant, people care about the food, not the cook.

The health inspectors care about both the food and the cook, and the latter's workflow is certainly scrutinized.

If we're going to beat this analogy to a bloody pulp, the health inspector in software land would be technical debt and colleagues.

Not taking care of the process will bury the project, and the users with it. Ryan Dahl's brilliant, but I don't think his entire statement should be adhered to verbatim. It's solid guiding principle, nothing more.
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Debian (wheezy stable - latex [VM]; aptosid - surfing\reading\developing; raspbian - testing hardware)

Sabayon (surfing\reading\developing)

Fedora (packaging [VM])

Gentoo (server)

...

Plan 9 ([VM] - cpu server; 9pi terminal - developing)

...

Android (tablet)

...

RockBox (Sansa Clip)

Stupid cellular brick (Nokia's s40 Symbian OS I think)

Whatever the Xerox printer is running

Whatever the Panasonic camera is running

Windows (car's IVI)

...

No Mac, Ubuntu or Emacs.
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The good ole' days of expertsexchange!
It continues to be disappointing (which I think is the least strong word that could be used) that clang's website attempts to demonstrate the superiority of clang by comparing against the error messages from gcc 4.2, a version of gcc that wasn't even the most current when that comparison was published. This then leads to people accepting this as fact (especially amongst developers targeting Apple products who don't even seem to realize versions of gcc later than 4.2 exist, as Apple refused to continue work on gcc due to the licensing changes) an turn up in answers like this one as the "most notable" technical advantage of the product.

In fact, the error messages of the two systems are largely a tradeoff at this point, and in a project I work on that compiles using both gcc and clang (targeting MinGW and OSX) simultaneously, on multiple occasions gcc has returned the more useful error messages (even if you discount the times when clang outright crashes while trying to compile my code, something gcc hasn't done to me in a decade). Even to the extent to which clang is better (which is mostly how it will guess what you meant and then compile the rest of the file under that assumption), it is kind of insulting in an open source context to treat that as a competitive advantage when I'm certain gcc would have loved that patch as a contribution.
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Important point. Nicely said.
So far they seem like riddles to me.
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The more I see arguments of this sort, the more I can see where we're heading. Not that there's anything wrong with your argument, this is the world live - we expect our state to have access to data on citizen when the said citizen is under investigation.
Too bad communications are only going to get more digitalized. I guess that soon we will live in a world where a citizen entire communication will be stored somewhere, ready to be mined on first suspicions.
One day, the thin line that makes a citizen a suspect will be blurry enough that we'll wonder how did we get the state this level of access in our lives in the first place. It'll probably be too late then.
Just got it, finally! Gotta check your assumptions.
patio11, it's a honor to get a reply from you!

Japan is a place I'd be very interested in emigrating to. I'm from India. How hard is it to move to Japan? Do you think Japanese people would be friendly to Indians?

FYI I watch a lot of anime and read a fair bit of manga now and then. As such, I have a certain affection for Japanese culture in my heart -- which is sort of is why I want to live there.

Above and beyond, how easy is it to set up a startup or a consultancy (like yours) in Japan? A lot of countries have provisions for work visas, but sponsoring yourself (as in a startup), seems to be impossible for most countries.
That post predates `npm shrinkwrap`.
First of all, brute forcing the password is not needed unless the user fails to log in. The system is designed for the user to send the most important secret, on which the rest of the system's security depends, to a third party.

That being said, brute forcing a password is not the same thing as brute forcing a secret key. The distribution of passwords that people can remember is not even remotely uniform, and the distribution of passwords that people actually use is even more heavily biased.

Compare to GnuPG: the attacker needs access to your computer before he can even attempt to brute force your password or try to capture it.
Yes, people have orders of magnitude better comfort in metros and buses. You can exit the city metro or the city bus every minute. You can sit, stand up and walk in them. The buses for longer distances have the toilets and can stop whenever somebody really needs it. Here you'd be locked in the slanted chair for half an hour where you wouldn't be even able to stand up or stretch the hands! Sounds awful and has real implications on the public acceptance.

Especially after the first case of somebody going sick after he enters the tube and having to remain in it the next 29 minutes. Imagine you sitting next to that person. Imagine you being that person. Imagine your kid being that person. Imagine the press ("Mother watched her kid dying for 29 minutes in Hyperloop"). Imagine the reactions. The project would be dead for good after a few such cases.

You can't put normal people in the capsules for astronauts and just think "what could possibly go wrong." Health issues and effects are real problems and have to be considered. The public is used to car traffic accidents. It won't be so for the whole new transportation suited only for astronauts. This can be the start of the grand failure.
Outside Lands actually tweeted out the link earlier, so it certainly wasn't a private site.
I reluctantly started to move away from the Amiga as a primary OS in the late 90s and finished some time in the mid noughties. I've kept going back to AROS in the hope that I can get something Amiga-like going, but there's so much more that needs to be done to make it usable on a modern laptop.
Sounds like a good time to pull out A Random Walk Down Wall Street again, for the uninitiated: http://www.amazon.com/Random-Walk-Down-Wall-Street/dp/039333...

I wonder how well tulip bulbs are doing these days.
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This is a pretty thin hook to hang a political rant on. Summary of the article: there is a gasoline tax, and there are aviation taxes. Therefore, taxes will stifle the hyperloop! Government bureaucrats!

More likely answer to the headline question: they will do the same thing with the hyperloop as with the maglev (ignore it).
The simplest solution is to simply rsync the VPS (or just the important data) onto another storage device to which you have access.
well written, I can totally relate, esp the part about company culture
You mean this https://github.com/d5/node.native? Godspeed.
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Not as far as the security of the system is concerned. If you can comply with one then you can technically comply with the other, and the users are at the mercy of your decision on that matter.
Yeah I wish desktop OS' had this feature. I suppose we'll be heading there. The ability to not deny but send a blank list is better than the former too. Do you know if CM is doing fine grained? I suppose it would be better of AOSP themselves did it.
oh wow, no doubt! Tricky move, sis!
Try offering technical support as a service. People who are scared of "limits" are not usually scared of paying for an enhanced faster level of support... even if it is just your normal support anyway.
Icahn wouldn't be above sending a tweet like that to raise the price before unloading shares. His goal is to maximize his return, not that of his twitter followers.
You don't need to preach. Use the workflow that makes you the most productive, mention what you're doing to others, and roll with what happens.

As a personal example, I'm not sure anybody had heard of or used Jenkins when I arrived. We now have an automated build, multiple levels of testing, static analysis, etc. I installed it and did some initial configuration, but others took on the majority of the work because they bought into it.

Couple other thoughts

- For CI, mention it to the team, have examples to back up where it helped, and offer to set it up. Shouldn't take too long and it'll pay back as soon as you catch some busted code (yours or theirs)

- While Subversion may not be as highly regarded as Git, it works just fine. So I wouldn't consider that a negative, just a different tool.
Incidentally, HN is a GitHub blog RSS parser ;)
It's aimed at commuter traffic--as somebody who has routinely made a backpack's worth of clothing last a week on trips, I also don't think that the luggage is that much of an issue.

The bathroom critique is again silly--it's a thirty minute trip; if you can't hold it that long, you probably need to repeat preschool.
Icahn saying that a company is undervalued isn't meant as idle chatter. He has in the past repeatedly tried to buy out companies that he has thought to be undervalued. It seems shockingly unlikely that he'd try to LBO Apple, but if there is one person who could do it, it'd be him. A buyout offer can drive stock prices up 25% - 50+%.

The fact that the message came through Twitter rather than a press release doesn't matter: the markets moved because Icahn is buying up Apple stock.
Why do airport shops ask to see your boarding pass?
the key part of that is the C in SCI. an SCI merely means you've been pre-screened to be allowed access.

it still requires stakeholders delegating access to said individuals for different [sub]compartments.
Yes, my personal blog does expose quite a lot about me. In a way that's the intention of one's blog. However, I don't think copying my personal information here is appropriate.
Cool, thanks for the thorough reply.
The capacity of the proposed system at 28-person capsules every 30 seconds is 3360 pph at peak. Three thousand more people per hour would crush the Bay Bridge?
I don't think they appreciate how utterly annoying maintaining that position will prove to them.
I'm guessing most people didn't know Patch existed before this story surfaced, and they now associate Patch with "that asshole AOL CEO who rage-fired a random employee for no good reason." I'm not sure this is the type of PR that they want.

And the guy isn't getting offered his job back, which makes this whole apology completely devoid of merit.
Android is not really a variant of a desktop, it just uses the kernel, which is not desktop specific in any way, and everything above (from the libc up) is either custom or non-desktop specific.
it is now 2%. but it already looks quite scary
Comfort is proportional to room, there are plenty more than 7% of the population that would refuse to ride in a windowless box they can't even sit upright in.

Remember there are two passenger compartment mockups, this is the smaller one we are referring to: http://i.space.com/images/i/000/031/716/i02/hyperloop-passen...

Unscientifically I'd bet less than 25% of people would be willing to ride in that for more than 10 minutes, much less 30-40.
> English classes in the U.S. spend a lot of time teaching people how to write five-paragraph essays: one paragraph of introduction, three paragraphs of argument, one paragraph of conclusion. But outside the classroom the five-paragraph essay form is worse than useless: it's actively harmful.

What also does not help is imposing limits (generally minimum pages) on students, so they feel they need to pad their papers with worthless content. Things like that become habits in normal writing after some amount of time. I did have some technical writing courses at my university that at least tried to emphasize saying what you mean as clear as possible without a lot of fluff, but only engineers and computer scientists were require to take them as far as I know.
Wow, 75% of your portfolio in one stock? I am more of a chicken investor: hugely diversified over the US and International markets.
> So let me get this straight ... for thousands of years, support for the needy was provided by local religious institutions and local efforts.

No, for thousands of years, we had an economic system in which the needy who were physically able to work were likely to be able to do work in the most common jobs available (largely, barely-better-than-subsistence farming), where the needy that weren't able to work might get some support from religious institutions (not necessarily local), individual authorities or, where it existed, the state, or elsewhere, but mostly just suffered and died. (And were often criminalized.)

Evolutions of property arrangements (including those that enabled capitalism), population density, and industrialization eliminate the easy access to basic work in the developed world (in exchange for more productive work where work was available) before much changed in the way that the "needy" were treated.

> Here come the neo-liberals. Anything even remotely related to religion needs to be eradicated, so we can't keep doing things the way we used to.

Neoliberalism [1] is not particularly concerned with religion, pro or con, nor does it generally support replacing private charity with public social support (it generally opposes public social support, and isn't particularly enthusiastic about private charity, though forced to choose between the two -- or just as a convenient way of selling opposition to public support -- neoliberals will back private charity, including religious.)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
I shop at Trader Joes for preference because there are no coupon codes to collect, no loyalty cards to remember, and the prices are consistently good. The food quality is outstanding, I the selection is excellent, and they're plenty busy. Also, my understanding is that their employees are paid far better than those at other grocery chains, and they're certainly smarter, more cheerful, and helpful.

Frankly, I think coupon hunting is a complete waste of time, and the slightly higher margin I might pay at Trader Joes instead of optimizing my shopping around another store's coupon system is more than compensated by the savings in time, stress, and mental energy.
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Indeed - just got it!
I am working on a solution to this very problem: http://raven.enterthemist.com
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The pendulum has certainly swung away from ATI/AMD.
Is it cheap if you replace it regularly?

The Core2Duo Macbook I bought in 2006 is almost as useful (albeit with an SSD now) as it was when I got it. It runs the latest OS and has decent enough graphics.

Most Windows systems just don't age as well (exception being perhaps an Thinkpad, but then again, that's cost equivalent to a mac anyway).

For phones, the argument is skewed by mobile operators as that service cost over a 2 year period greatly exceeds the cost of the phone itself.
>"...[U]nfortunately, from what I've read (particularly what's in the Abelson report, see below), I don't think the DOJ was listening to MIT in this case anyway; the US Attorney's office had its own view of the case and wasn't receptive to alternative views..."

>"I'm also curious what 'involvement with the prosecution' you think MIT had. Have you read the Abelson report? It's quite comprehensive in its treatment of what involvement MIT had at each phase of things."

I'm very skeptical of any internal investigation conducted by an institution that exonerates it from all wrongdoing. While I have tremendous respect for Prof. Abelson as a person and an academic, it was obvious from the outset that he was interested primarily in protecting MIT's reputation rather than seeking the truth. Nor am I the only person that thought so. See e.g. http://business.time.com/2013/07/31/aaron-swartzs-father-bla...

Prof. Abelson began his investigation with an outright statement in The Tech that he didn't expect to find any wrongdoing. That very statement is the hallmark of either an inept or a biased investigator. A true investigator enters his task with no preconception of what its result will be. To do otherwise is to invite confirmation bias.

Universities are places of complex politics. I wouldn't trust any investigation by an employee of the institution under investigation, much less a professor who's beholden to the very administrators he's investigating for funding, offices, and staff.

Also, MIT didn't seek leave merely to redact names of employees, although I see no reason why those who participated in these terrible events should be shielded from public opprobrium, but also any information in which MIT has a privacy interest. For an attorney, what that means is any information that could potentially implicate or even embarrass the university. I stand by my original statements.
Has it occurred to you that not everybody has perfect health all the time? You can't actually expect that you wouldn't get sick the first minute after you enter the tube. Then imagine yourself having to remain there next 29 minutes and die!

This would happen. A lot. Then imagine who'd use that cleverness after the first such case and after every next.

I'd rather say "it's aimed at astronauts" than "commuters." Astronauts are thoroughly checked by medical teams and prepared before their trips, would you suggest such checks and preparations every time for everybody entering the tube?
He noted (just today!) that he'll be working on a subscale demonstration of the technology.
You could do that anyway. It would be much effective to exploit someone's lost cellphone.
I coded in an alert with "WTF?!" as the text in an unlikely logic path once. I like having something unique so I know where it came from. Came up in a demo in front of the (govt) client. Luckily they had a chuckle at my expense, but it could have been so much worse. I've got back to either contextual errors or just "foo" for the lazy ones.
I've been using clang/LLVM in my FreeBSD system for several months now, and I've noticed that clang builds faster than gcc, and I've not had any issues with reliability, so I don't see what the problem is here.

Also, as noted in the comments on StackExchange, BSD licensing vs GPL may be reason enough to discontinue the use of gcc in FreeBSD systems.
What do you mean by "open"? Can the data be used for startups and other commercial purposes?
so, anyone want to go work for this guy yet?
"[contemporary hunter-gatherer women] view many men as more trouble than they are worth. If the men are hanging around, they usually eat more food than they provide, and demand more care than they give one's children."

Mating Mind by Geoffrey Miller referencing Marjorie Shostak
Have you heard about the 4th Amendment?
There was a time when battery-less electronics might have excited me, but these days dis-connectable batteries/power supplies and real, hardware off switches seem like important, useful features for just about anything.
That is what John Malone thinks will happen (de-bundling).

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100637283
Why not? I't s already copied in numerous commercial databases by now. You did publish it, after all.
both approaches are totally fine. just depends on your objectives and volatility tolerances.
At one point I would set up some sort of reward for myself for finishing or hitting some milestone in a project. Normally my reward was eating fast food you might want to choose something else something you want to do but don't do often.
they will do the same thing with the hyperloop as with the maglev (ignore it).

The US government didn't ignore maglev, they did a lot of study (including paying for me and my boss to travel to Germany to perform noise and vibration measurements on the TR08) and offered to help finance starter systems. It didn't go anywhere because it was hella expensive, not because of apathy.
If you just have some application data that you are looking to back up, it is pretty straight forward to back stuff up to Amazon's S3 or glacier (depending on your usage of said backups). Storage is relatively cheap and the amazon api is pretty when using either s3cmd or boto.
You're right, it is a bit silly and it doesn't have to be made into a big deal. But it's also information they had no right to disclose, and furthermore is completely unnecessary. Why did they even need to put the person's name in the list? The owner certainly could write in with their name, and that could be used to identify the card easily.
I'm pulling that amount from the cost of attending a school like Harvard (60k/year, not accounting for YOY tuition increases). The reason a lot more people don't do this is 1) irrationality when it comes to evaluating the brand of colleges, and 2) People don't tend to think in terms of opportunity costs, especially spread over 4 years (which is what the 240k represents).
Nice effect. I really like how it made the sound of a fan spinning up, and then showing me my desktop and an application crash notification.
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This guy is either pretending to be an idiot or really does not appear to understand just how complex everything is. The whole "thing" that is "fucked" is there to manage that insane complexity. If you don't have good tools, good libraries or don't know how to use them, you won't be able to deliver on your promise of "solving the problem", because you will be overwhelmed by the complexity monster.

I'm sorry, I just can't get over it. "Just solve the problem" - I hate that attitude. That's how shitty software is born. Incompetent schmucks give birth to unholy, unmaintainable, monolithic code because they think it's okay to not know your shit as long as you "solve" the problem.
"But tweeting about a private meeting with the chief executive of a publicly traded company not your own doesn’t feel like the use case the agency anticipated."

Shouldn't this be the headline? Why isn't this considered as illegal insider trading if the contents of the meeting are not disclosed?
The investing success of value investors of all kind would not be possible if the premise of his book, the efficient-market hypothesis, was correct. Warren Buffett's track record is a repudiation of it.