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Yes! Switched back to KDE (Kubuntu + KDE 4.11 here) a few days ago. I'm really happy. I finally have a mature and stable system again. Unity was just to buggy for me (13.10) but KDE is really fast and stable. I don't want to sound like a shill here. I was happy using KDE 3.5 back in the day and hated all the KDE4 ideas... for anyone wondering if KDE is usable again I think it's the case (maybe it is for a few years longer - I did not bother to look).

However it took me a few hours to configure the system to my needs and adjust the often stupid (IMHO) KDE defaults to sane settings. But I could without problems.

Give KDE a try! XFCE / Xubuntu is to ugly and unflexible for my taste. KDE is also does not hog too much memory - without Semantic Desktop it's only about 400MB RSS (amd64) for the whole system after a clean boot. That still a lot but a little bit less than Unity and a little bit more than XFCE.
Well, pole rights in San Francisco are run through AT&T and the permitting process (while it's supposed to be 30 days) can take up to 180 days to complete.

There are still access rights required for poles because they're considered part of the secure national communications infrastructure.

You'd be surprised at how expensive it can be to lay fiber if the government doesn't want you to do it.

I hope that helps :). AT&T cried foul in KC because Google got a lot of government benefits including space, leasing and access easements. Frankly, they're right, but no one cares because AT&T is evil.

The moral of the story? Don't be evil[0].

[0]with as much sarcasm as I can possibly convey.
The kernel argument still jumps out at me, though. There are many "subsystems" to the kernel that could have easily been split to separate repositories had that been the idea for the project. Indeed, this seems to be the entire monolithic kernel debate. They do not split things out, even if they could potentially do so.

Now, in general I think I agree with your points. Your two specific points I specifically promote at work and on school projects.

And, I fully see how the large organizations you are referring to would hit this. Especially when they essentially have independent projects in development. What I do not understand is where that line is drawn. To the point that I often find myself on the counter argument at work when teams want to immediately start a project in 3 repositories because we may want some utilities used elsewhere.

Take gnome. At face value, it seems like most of the core of gnome could be in one repository. Instead, it is very highly split out and has a specialized build system to support the it. Was this strictly necessary? Or is this more to support other infrastructure ideas at play? (This make sense?)
I can see no reason at all it wouldn't happen in the southern parts of the Valley at least. It's a fairly well-off area with the income and desire for such services.
Right on. And it will 100% go over budget given the amount of work needed, ancient infrastructure, non-compliant landlords and the "I just don't give a shit to change" LA attitude.

I remember two years ago when I was the CTO of a 100 employee company in Beverly Hills just how difficult and annoying it was to get a single 10/10Mbps Fiber link to our offices.

It took 6 months from the date the order was placed to the provisioning. And it took another 2-months to go from 10-20Mbps. It's totally insane that these things take so long and it was 50% the fault of AT&T and I kid you not - 15 employees at AT&T dealing with this - and 50% the fault of the building who didn't even know what Fiber was and thought it was a back link from their telco room to our servers.

Insanity
Wouldn't overspecialization be common with most pro sports?

Playing sports is great but becoming a swimming world champion, for example, is just hours every day of swimming. Hardly world-changing or helpful outside the pool.
I only have TortoiseHG installed, but I use a standalone pageant (not the tortoise one) and TortoiseHG doesn't seem to have any problems using the keys stored in there.

Even if you just use the command line client, I think it's worth installing tortoise for the ssh support.
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The format for http://tribes.techendo.co/ has been meeting at my house and from 2-3pm we go around the circle, announcing our progress and problems, then as a group we offer our resources and help. After that we sit around and hack on stuff together and just socially chat.
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The court will take into account intention. If it can be shown that the wording was intentionally selected to work as warrant canary, it can be seen as violation of gag order.
Yes, the English term is rent-a-wreck, stemming from the company with the same name[1], founded in the sixties.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-a-Wreck
This assumes 100% gross margin. If they are buying a bundle, you probably mean TV, so they are going to have to pony up to the networks. Then they'll have to pay for upstream (I don't think AT&T etc is going to freely peer with a 750k residential/commercial network), then they'll have to pay for all the support costs associated with running a fiber network.

I'm thinking they'd be lucky to be able to use half of $18.5M/MO to pay off their $5B investment. We're now at 50 years! And that assumes they can keep their price high despite technological advancements over the next half-century (imagine paying $150/mo for an internet connection using technology from 50 years ago). Oh, and they have to wholesale it to their competitors. There is 0 chance this is happening with these numbers.
How have private attempts to run fiber in your neighborhood played out, historically?

I think about the implementation of this am immediately confronted with unpleasant visions of deranged homeowners associations in Bel Air and Encino losing their damn minds. I imagine city planners and project managers haggling over just how far down the priority list they can push isolated ranches in Sun Valley and Sylmar. And keep in mind that these maps don't reflect elevation, or places like Hancock Park where literally the entire neighborhood is subject to Historical Protection Zoning guidelines, and the residents have enough money/political clout to have Congressional bans on tunneling[1] enacted in their favor.

The last mile in LA is a bitch.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_Park,_Los_Angeles#Histo...
That's not a language issue but a library issue, and modern Java libraries are not like that at all. Hell, Scala programs use them just as much as Java programs do.

If anything, Java is showing that it can clean up years of cruft (Java EE 7 is pretty neat, and even the JDK is finally being modularize) while maintaining backwards compatibility. This is the kind of thing Enterprise wants and needs.
In Provo they bought the already-existing Fiber network for $1. It was really a case of the city reaching out and saying, "The current group that runs this is so incompetent we're willing to give it to you, so long as you provide free Internet access for 7 years."
You can actually make it automatically convert in both directions with just an import. But it is good practice to do it explicitly.
In my opinion, for a typesafe language, this is a good way to do it.
totally agree. it's the chance that the weaker player might win (or the stronger one lose, depending on your point of view) that makes people pay attention. it's what actually happens that counts, not what's statistically likely to happen.
What's the consequence for violating such a gag order anyway?

I'm pretty sure Apple has the cash to pay any fine they can come up with, it's just a question of do they have the balls to try it.
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Ask HN: why are my 'show HN' posts ignored every single time?
I've been working hard on a really cool Google Analytics app (http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/app/googalytics/34a0d886-d541-4362-80b6-62f61733f0a9) for Windows 8 and I'm really proud of it. It's ranked as #1 top paid Business app in the Windows Store, and it received some nice press coverage. WPCentral posted about it for example: http://www.wpcentral.com/googalytics-windows-8-simple-way-access-your-analytic-data. We also got Google to retweet it: https://twitter.com/googleanalytics/status/390141635826159616.

I posted it here on HN multiple times, but it just keeps being ignored by everyone, and floating off the 'new' page. Meanwhile, people who built something far more simple and/or spent less time on it keep reaching the frontpage with their 'show HN' posts. I know most people here run Apple, but isn't it fair to just appreciate the effort someone else put in his project even though you won't/can't use it? I always vote up 'shown HN' posts when I see someone has built something nice, even though it's for a different platform, or I'm simply not interested in their product.
I'm not implying that YC isn't worth it, just asking. For the record, I think it probably is worth it, but I'm wavery on that thought. 5-8% is a lot.
Yep, I haven't modeled this out. If anyone wants to do the legwork, compare the cost of a 2014, 2013, 2012, and 2011 basic package honda civic, and the maintenance cost estimate for the next year of each. I'd expect the depreciation from 2-3 years in life to be a small fraction of 0-1 years, with slightly higher maintenance.
Sorry, I'm going to disagree here. My generation worked our asses off getting Obama elected, and was really the driving force behind his election (to my shame). Yet, as soon as he's in office, all his promises to us, all his soothing words, all his assurances of change, were out the window. Other than some lame alternative to single-payer health insurance, and (only after major prodding) some gay rights advances, he's become George Bush II.

So what's the morale of this story? Choose better next time? He sure had me and a lot of my very smart friends fooled. Vote? As a generation, we not only voted, we pounded on doors, argued with family, gave major money, made up the team that built his fundraising website, which basically carried the election, on so on. Vote third-party? Well, they're politicians, too. Subject to the same motivations and personality types. Who's to say they won't turn out exactly the same?

And yes, there are good cops and bad cops, but mostly (if you spent time around them, as I have in a professional capacity), you'll find that they're highly trained to think of themselves and their own safety and needs first and are mostly indifferent to the population they are supposed to serve. Unlike quite a few lawyers (at least initially), they are rarely driven by any concept of justice, but rather by power, excitement, camaraderie, and steady pay. Justice and service rank a very distant fifth and sixth after those four.

By the way, if those cops hadn't found the drunk guy outside your house (could have happened easy enough, he could have easily collapsed inside his own apartment or behind the bushes and quietly passed out), it's quite possible that they would have just assumed you were the crazy person and hauled you off to jail for filing a false police report and on suspicion of being mentally ill.
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This has actually crossed my mind lately, i looked into leasing a van for business purposes and i did "back of the napkin" calculations on hypothetically starting my own used van leasing company. I couldnt make it worth the hassle. Does anyone have any of their own basic business model calculations?
Rise up and walk:
US has a similar company with correspondingly similar alliteration, Rent a Wreck (http://www.rentawreck.com/). Despite the name, they seem to rent newer model vehicles at market rates.
This is correct, but you do need to understand that there are technical limitations to twisted pair. Even if AT&T or $TELCO runs fiber to the node everywhere, twisted pair has gigantic line loss issues over long distances. We really need fiber to the prem or frankly we're just messing around.

There's no financial model that will support building fiber networks except the obvious societal benefit. Having fast fiber everywhere is incredibly valuable from both a social and economic perspective. To put it bluntly, GDP goes up when internet gets faster.

Now, the costs will always be wrong for a fiber network. I question why LA would do this instead of building a WISP (wireless ISP) that would deliver speed over radiowave. Forget tearing up all the streets, just put radio towers on the buildings! The costs are lower, the bandwidth is fast and the rollout is asynchronous (you roll the radio towers as you sign people up).

Source: I come from the Internet and stuff. My credentials: Comcast fiber rollout, AT&T sales, Avaya consulting and 2600hz (open-source telco infrastructure).
> They sure as hell don't plan them out and make sure they will be able to provide for them.

But they don't start from a position of being dirt poor, in a situation where they don't have land to farm.

They start with having land, and seed, and health. And then HIV/AIDS kills the family, removing a generation, leaving young children and grandparents to farm. Or there's a drought, lasting five years, destroying crops. Or there's a flood, destroying livestock. Or their main crop (eg Quinoa) becomes fashionable, driving up prices, leaving them without food.

The sentence I'm responding to is: _People who reproduce when they don't have a reasonable expectation of feeding their offspring._ but actually people are successful farmers who's life changes after multiple, year on year, disaster.

http://www.irinnews.org/printreport.aspx?reportid=94947

That article gives a pretty good overview of the multiple events that cripple farmers.

See also the slide show "Too Poor To Farm" http://www.irinnews.org/photo/?id=43
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Well, you would say that, wouldn't you?
Considering that Pentagram recently bought World Chess and their World Chess Championships it looks like there'll be changes made in the running of world chess but not sure if they'll do away with the World Champs.

http://www.designweek.co.uk/news/pentagram-brings-chess-into...
Linux user for 15 years, Debian/Ubuntu exclusively for the past 7 or so. IMO, it's without question that the Desktop experience is better every year, now to a point where it just works 99.9% of the time (in my experience, anyway). Haven't had a any problems with sound or multiple monitors in a while (using both Nvidia and ATI video cards).

Of course people will and should use whatever they want. I have to touch Windows and Macs regularly as well and they're not without problems. Each will have its pros/cons like anything else.

Sounds like you're annoyed with people asking you why you use OSX. I've asked that question myself in the past. I assume people make informed choices, so I'm always curious about the reasons. Personally, I don't mind people asking me why I use Linux.

I will say that the Desktop experience still is the weak point compared with how solid everything else is. Xorg is a pain, but I haven't had to touch it in a few years (defaults have been working fine for me), so that's been fine.

The reason I keep using Linux is not because it's perfect, but because the breadth of amazing and ridiculously easily accessible free software available for the Debian ecosystem is unparalleled (in my experience, anyway).

I can run the same software on servers, desktops, laptops, in the cloud, on crappy old hardware in a way not possible with Windows or Mac. I don't have to ask for permission or deal with licensing issues. I can focus on GSD* instead.

* getting shit done -- see other thread :-)
Definitely going to check this out!
The difference is, I've heard of them. I haven't heard of the people behind Knock. It's all just a matter of perception.
Yes I meant the standard produced by TC39, of which Ecmascript 6 is the new version. My apologies for loose use of terminology.

I would be somewhat happy if ES6 was finalized next month, but if it slipped (again) I would not be surprised. You'll also have to forgive me if I am skeptical of claims about the increased speed of future standards. The burden is on TC39 to prove this to me and I reserve the right be skeptical based on prior evidence until I see otherwise.
Software engineer designs logic. Software developer translates that into code? I don't know.
My degree is called "Software Engineering", and is accredited by the Australia Institute of Engineers, of which I am a member.

So, in Australia at least, A Software Engineer is a "real" Engineer.
Yes, and that's anti-competitive. I'm not arguing that AT&T was planning to build a network, but just gifting a fiber network to Google isn't exactly fair competition.

Don't get me wrong, I'm in favor of faster fiber as an almost universal ideal, but you can't just give google assets because they're google. That's setting a terrible precedent.
I've basically freshly come to C++ in a work environment, and C++11 is all I've learned so far. Range-for loops and smart pointers and move semantics are wonderful. I still haven't adopted to a perfect idiom for calling functions, though: It's straightforward if I call a function and it returns a single object with move semantics. But what if I want to mutate multiple things with a function call (say, go through a vector and throw out indexes below a certain threshold, updating an unordered_map so as to specify the names and locations of certain columns). Do I return one, while changing the other by reference? Do I return a pair or a struct that only exists for me to quickly unpack? Do I make the function void and change both by reference?
Bitcasa is 100 dollars a year for unlimited data. By comparison 20 dollars a month is expensive, even if it is a great service.
>Vote! Convince others to vote. Every election is a potential revolution, which is why we have them.

How'd that work when you brought in Obama?

Until America adopts a preferential voting system it'll be stuck with a two party system, and neither party will be "revolutionary". They'll be ever-so-slightly off center in whichever direction they hope to pick up votes.
Why did Microsoft sabotage Skype so that governments could more easily intercept communications?
Well could you imagine if Microsoft or Apple tried to change their desktop environments?
The balance then is specific subpoenias for individuals authorised by a judge, with the individuals being informed after a reasonable period (say 9 months) which information was subpoenaed.

The library could potentially even give anonymised information that might give reasonable suspicion, eg let us know when someone rents these books together and we'll go get a warrant.

The sad thing is that the west currently has exactly this balance in place, but by pushing too hard everything is going to go underground or overseas. We're losing the exact capabilities we need to fight bad actors, thanks to the NSA's greed and short sightedness.
Have you seen the issues since the maintenance? SDN stability and performance was the key driver as well as updates to OVS.
"I want to design it in Congo, assemble in Congo, and sell it in Congo."
Easy:

0% APR + new car warranty + lemon law protection + 0 miles > whatever APR you get on a used car + 30 day at best warranty + 40k-60k miles
Some of it has to do with the seriousness of the work at hand.

Some of it is just mental... "engineering" as opposed to "developing".
The website is absolutely atrocious :-/ 90% ads, incredibly inconvenient navigation. DrDobbs keep living in the 90s.
80k as a US Average translates to about 120k in San Francisco, adjusted for cost of living. According to the startup jobs on angellist, SF is paying average salaries (adjusted for cost of living): https://angel.co/salaries

PS: Where are these 200k salaries? I have 7 years of experience and would happily switch for <redacted> more money each year.
I think you're talking about the MS06-001 vulnerability (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms06-00...) with Windows Metafile (WMF) files.

This is a bug in the parser for TIFF files that allows for arbitrary code execution. MS06-001 was based on removing a "feature" of the WMF format (SETABORTPROC) that allowed for arbitrary code execution for legitimate, albeit antiquated, reasons.
The normal IANAL applies, but I think that once the gag order has been granted, the rest is just details, and is left to FISA as the presiding court. If the argument that the court has agreed with thusfar is: "saying that this action exists harms national security", then why would a judge tell them that when asked directly, they must lie, but then permit them to not lie by omitting a key line in a filing? To answer your specific point, I just don't think there is another court to take this to.
Right, people only value their data once it's gone. Here's an idea: free and seamless backing up of your data, but if you want to access it in the case of loss, you pay through the nose.
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Apple has more subtle canary. Yours is totally obvious.

The court will consider intention. If it can be shown that the wording was intentionally selected to work as warrant canary and has no other function, the case is clear.

Your canary has clearly only one purpose: revealing the warrant while thinking you are smartass and get away with it.
Is there public case history where an individual or corporation has been forced to publicly state untruth or false facts for the sake of national security or other state need?

With the warrant canary meme spreading, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Section 215 warrants include warrant canary clauses. I'm curious about precedent and the legal arguements (pro and con) for doing so.
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Please show me this 3 month break AngularJS took in the Github activity log: https://github.com/angular/angular.js/pulse
> * 95+% of the time they are helpful and create better outcomes for society.*

That's "one 9." If you are black, that service level is practically a guarantee you will experience a catastrophic failure.
Putting aside the irony of this article sitting next to the "Statistics Done Wrong" article, a cumulative average to detect a gender/race wage gap is absolutely insane.

Here's a short list of factors that could contribute to the results the article in OP has:

-Lower number of years working in the field due to taking time off for maternity leave, or going back to work after raising a child. I suspect this is probably the biggest single contributor to the pseudo-gap in the article's charts.

-Concentration of male/female developers in different subfields. Ex: men may be more inclined to work in security penetration, which may pay higher than other disciplines

-Male/female college degree/other pedigree rates

I'm no statistician, but I think these factors are more than important enough would have to be taken into account when trying to figure out the size of the gender wage gap.

Don't forget to leave a comment telling me why I'm wrong when you downvote my comment for being unproductive.