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Was openrc ever a part of the discussion?

I don't like the concept of a GUI/Redhats philosophy dictating system behavior when X isn't even installed.
letting the admins know that the option is available is probably a good way of changing this. (http://ycombinator.com/contact.html)
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Nightmares come true
Mama's gonna put all of her fears into you
Mama's gonna keep you right here
Under her wing
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Surely you've noticed that huge hunk of land over next to you on the maps called the mainland, haven't you? Lots of folks over here, like me, live 20 miles from town or more. Without a car, we'd starve.

Sure, it'd be great if we all lived in cities and sat on park benches fretting over the absolutely terrible state of aesthetics the cities have gotten into with so many cars -- wouldn't bikes and walking just spruce up the place immensely? -- but that's just not reality for us.
My question after reading the article is: is this bad? Is it a terrible thing that they're not growing in the USA? Apple is huge. What's really achieved by them being even bigger?

Is growth for growth's sake important?

If they continued to generate $billions each quarter, make great stuff, delight consumers all over the world, and did it for the next 20 years, I'd call that a roaring success personally.

Granted, that wouldn't make me want to buy their stock. But Apple don't seem to care about that. If their stock crashed, they'd probably take advantage of it and buy loads back, with their piles of cash. As long as they're making great stuff, in my book, that's enough.

Apple, to me, seems like a company that really should be held in a trust, or owned by its employees. Its goals seem kinda incompatible with the market and Wall Street.
Or, maybe it's "obviously" not a Starbucks because the owners of Dumb Starbucks Coffee already contacted Starbucks and worked things out and keeping mum on the topic is part of the agreement until the punchline is delivered some time in the future. That said, if this were the case, you'd think the PR response would be even less information-- silence, or "we're looking into this" and leave it.
I find the Caltrain to be roughly 100000x better than NJ Transit.
Ah come on. I'd say there's at least a 50% chance that the US military and the Department of Energy find a workable new energy source in that timeframe (I have -very- little faith in the European academics who have locked themselves down on ITER and are at this point actively sabotaging other attempts. This is beyond stupid as ITER's timeframe is known and is too little, to late. The project should be cancelled, as there's only 2 outcomes : either it fails before the collapse. Or it doesn't, in which case there's zero chance of completion).

Alternatively we could prepare for failure. The only way to do that is to make sure we have 150 new nuclear power plants built all around the country in the next 10-15 years though. That should be Obama's Manhattan project. Again, there's two outcomes : either we find something better and it's wasted money (that would be great !) or it saves our collective asses, and gives us another 100 years to come up with something better.

If the US army/govt does find a new energy source, it's likely to be a nuclear one (the only real solution to our needs), and our energy problems are over until our grandchildren die.
Would you say the same about the mainstream culture in other fields, or is it hacker culture in particular?
Honestly I don't think there will be many opportunities to work remotely for someone right out of school. I think most companies would want you to work in the office until you have proven yourself. You might be able to find some contract work here and there but it will be tough without some real world experience.
I agree, I think everything will depend on how companies embrace the new TLDS.
Wynton Marsalis on Humility, Self-Mastery, and Learning
I've heard good things about Runit + Monit together: https://gist.github.com/mguterl/279082

I'd like to see Runit [1] and S6 [2] get more attention.

Docs and easy-to-apply tutorials would be a godsend in this area. I too really want to replace systemd on Arch. Currently, this is an uphill battle due to so many packages having systemd service files, and the fact that I've never replaced an init system before makes things that much more daunting.

If only there were more information out there, or more ready-made solutions [3], I'm sure there are plenty who would be ready and willing to give this a shot.

1: http://smarden.org/runit/

2: http://www.skarnet.org/software/s6/

3: https://github.com/chneukirchen/ignite

3: https://github.com/rubyists/runit-services
I could, but I don't care to.
Uh-oh... there goes a month of productivity for me.
You're not really a 4 year old until you see your first beheading on the internet!
Wow, dotsies is awesome.
I don't think it gives that impression at all.

In JavaScript the rules for scope are clear—it's lexical scoping nested at the function level. Loops, conditionals, etc... have no bearing on scope.
> sprawl was a thing before cars as we know them came about. It's a natural phenomenon to move away from the civic center

It is to a degree: it is a sign of status to be able to afford actual land from which you can bar others, and therefore actually using it isn't terribly surprising. This has been true since before castles were invented. The main difference is that, in those times, it was understood that the occupants were aristocratic elite.

> we are just able to move father away because of cars. Before that, it was horses and carriages. Cars let us move further our, sure.

Right. The issue isn't the combustible engine; it's the attitude that comes with being a car driver, which isn't that much different from being a horse rider. This is coupled with an illusion that you don't lose the connection to the urban center as a consequence (indeed, in many places, you find that another urban center inexorably becomes necessary).

> Yes, it's contributing to climate change, and we need to solve that problem, but I don't think the solution is removing dependance on cars.

The problem that I want to solve is a fundamentally broken social structure incapable of doing things like opposing the NSA in a meaningful sense and the IDL is an exception rather than a rule. Cars contribute to this problem by weakening the social basis by which we commit civic action and by disenfranchising the core of our human populations (the percentage of human beings in urban centers broke 50% a long time ago) in order to service the more far-flung.

This is the essence of the city. Everything is connected. Our democracy is broken and this is part of the reason. People complain about how no one cares about the real issues. Why not? In part because they're exhausted from their commute. Certainly there are other reasons, but this is one and it's big.
I see a number of parallels between playing jazz and creating a new business. Both involve a need to understand "the rules" that historical success imply, the need to collaborate in an improvisational way with co-workers in real time to please customers, and the need to master a complex set of skills to compete with others who are watching and learning from your performance as you start to succeed.

Here is a key graf from Wynton Marsalis "The Humble Self"

The first level of mastery occurs over self. And the first test of
mastery over one's self is humility. True humility. [...] Do you
know how you can tell when someone is truly humble? I believe there's
one simple test: because they consistently observe and listen, the
humble improve. They don't assume "I know the way."
This suggests there are land owners who are growing rich on the backs of the prosperous tech community.

I always find it strange that articles on this topic go directly from wages to rent prices without acknowledging there is a human making the decision to raise rent in between. It's as if people have begun to believe that the relationship between demand and increased prices is a physical law rather than a societal tendency.

Consider the following alternatives. 1. A land owner decides not to raise the rent on their properties. (It might shock some to know that people do, willingly leave money on the table for all sorts of reasons) 2. Regulation fetters rent increases to prevent people from having to leave their homes.

I think there are many good examples where the above do not, and have not happened. But I take issue with the blindspot, or purposeful omission, of such discussion. Perhaps I am being overly harsh on readers of such articles, but I suspect that by omitting these considerations, you decrease the chance that one will call for property tax controls, rent caps, or organize local property owners into a self-regulating body to limit rent increases.
Stop telling me how to code
The random number generators used by these sites are hardware systems that use micro fluctuations in ambient temperature (for example) as a source of entropy and they are very careful to use enough bits of entropy for every card shuffled.

It's amusing to realize that they could just read from dev/urandom with zero risk. They're probably not running Linux, but still.

So, for anyone who's wondering if you need this, or if this adds any extra security: probably not. There's no reason not to use the extremely well-tested and well-understood /dev/urandom.
Because "stopped growing" might easily convert to "started declining" soon (a part of which is evident by the sales charts shown in the article). And that'd be worrying for them.
Ruby is lame
The Viral Rise and Fall Of Flappy Bird
This is really cool, that they are making parallelization easier but does anyone else feel like every time they add new syntax to java it becomes harder and harder to read?
A few more bike lanes and bike storage space on the commuter train goes a long way. I live 20 miles from work and prefer to leave the car at home.
This is not an investment
I wonder will the "Its obviously not a Starbucks" comment hurt Starbucks' case against Dumb Starbucks. Usually, these things get brought to court as an attempt to trade off the "real" brand...
I was a student that skipped high school and went straight into my local college curriculum. It actually worked out great in my case, albeit largely because I chanced across several high quality instructors that were able to challenge me.

I am glad I followed the curriculum as well, though. In the end, you'll need to take calculus (et al) at some point, and taking it as soon as possible meant that it could help form my mind earlier, and allowed me to progress beyond even sooner. Specifically, I followed the sequence: differential calculus, integral calculus, multivariate calculus, differential equations, and linear algebra (and then I transferred to Berkeley's math program). That's a lot for a young mind to soak in, and the type of student these classes select for make an excellent social environment as well (inevitably, the type that likes learning).

If I were to make a recommendation between following the curriculum, and pursuing extra-curriculars, I'd say: do both.
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Lockhart's Lament [0] comes to mind.

[0]: http://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/devlin/LockhartsL...
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Isn't it more opt-in because you need to put a link somewhere on the public www before Google can find it?
PR, especially deciphering it, and understanding how it works, should be one of the mandatory subjects every student should take alongside, science, math, and personal finance. There are "Logic", "Marketing" and "Critical Thinking" but those don't quite cut it. It needs to be something like "Influencing Public Mind" and it should be chock full of examples of propaganda campaigns, how they worked and effects they had.

I say this because it is one of the subjects that will have a direct impact on everyone's life. Every day on TV corporations, government officials, other governments, basically anyone who wields power and resources will vie for people's mind and support. And while doing that they will employ sometimes basic and sometimes sophisticated propaganda techniques. It can thought of a "practical Critical Thinking" or "Practical Logic". Propaganda determines who will be the next president, the next Congressperson, the next State Supreme Court judge.

Great work at a propaganda campaign is what put Obama in power. Ad Age didn't give him Marketing Campaign of the year in 2008 for nothing. He was ahead of Apple and Coke.

http://adage.com/article/moy-2008/obama-wins-ad-age-s-market...
If you have any text labels in the diagram, the font will be consistent with the rest of the text.
They lost? I didn't get that from the wiki:

"The court ordered mediation in the case, and on April 1, 2010, the parties reached a closed settlement agreement."
AOL is likely not a covered entity under HIPAA. Do they furnish health care in the ordinary course of business? No? Then stop there, they're not covered.

Supposing they were covered, "an employee of AOL" is likely not specific enough to make any statement you make about them personally identifying.

You can certainly claim that your boss talking about you in public was a traumatic experience, but that's kind of thin gruel in a court of law. (IANAL but I have to know just enough about HIPAA to be dangerous, due to (probably) actually being covered by it, by means of BAAs with some clients of mine which explicitly transfer their HIPAA obligations to me with regards to data under my care.)
plenty of people freelance right out of school - or with no school.

One route is building up a profile on Odesk, Elance or Freelancer.com. It's a hard grind but it guarantees freedom.

Another angle is a remote job, check out weworkremotely.com or build a relationship with the company you want to work for. eventually it could turn into a remote contract gig.

I also recommend TropicalMBA podcast and their membership community, the Dynamite Circle. We are location independent entrepreneurs traveling the world, doing our thing. Tons of folks in Chang Mai, Thailand and Saigon, Vietnam.

Currently I am a freelancer living in Chile, about to relocate to San Pedro Guatemela.

p.s. read the Four Hour Work Week ASAP
Audio engineer here. All this means is the speakers in Dell laptops are crap.
"Without an entity to claim credit for this activity,"

Your conclusions are premature.
I’m not sure how exclusionary rhetoric follows from that. It just doesn’t make any sense to me.

Also, I think that statement is just outright wrong and misleading.
Parking is the primary reason why I'm so excited about self-driving cars. A much more efficient usage of cars and roads when you basically have an automated version of Uber's heatmaps. It would truly provide for everyone's transportation at a very personal and granular level ( the problem with public transportation being that it doesn't take you to exactly where you need to go) while freeing up all that real estate all over the place for better things. Bet you traffic congestion and per capita pollution levels get nicer too as the traffic becomes more efficient.
Optimistic?

If ever there were an example of "appeal to an irrelevant authority" as a mode of argument, this overlong and histrionic essay would be it. Does it really matter what Moby Dick is about? Arguments should stand on reasoning and evidence, not pretentious allusions.

And then, of course, we get to fascism.

The sad thing is, I pretty much agree with the writer's sentiments, but this essay isn't going to convince anyone of anything.
I think the lambda syntax makes it considerably easier to read.
It wasn't a MITM. Although I've done that too, ARP flood the router and redirect the traffic through myself. Only works on sites where they didn't peer validate the SSL cert.

These were just packet dumps, wasn't associated with the WAP. It's hard to remember the exact details but I believe I was dumping the packets and decrypting them with the WEP key then piping them into a C program which just applied the decryption key to the packets.
> A land owner decides not to raise the rent on their properties.

If a landlord has fifty prospective tenants (as they surely will if they're offering the best deal in town), how should they whittle that down if not by raising the asking price?
Yeah, I saw that when looking at their program. Do you think the program will be recognized on an equivalent level with a standard master degree by hiring businesses? My other concern with the online program is that the class selection is somewhat limited currently, but I'm sure it will grow as the program ages.

The cool thing about the online program is that the classes will be offered for free to all (not for credit). http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/education/masters-degree-i...
One simple change would be to replace time-based "gravity" dragging items down as they age. Instead, gravity could be based on the number of users who have "finished" consuming the content. Perhaps by just clicking "Back" to the aggregator, or by explicitly acknowledging the completion. There could be three buttons: Like, Dislike, and Saw But Don't Care. In the algorithm to drive items downward, time would be replaced by the count of all three actions. Long-form content would then not be penalized so much (but would still be disadvantaged by users who dislike or don't care about long-form content, of course).

A New page might also need to be sorted differently, e.g. by putting items with zero count at the top, and ignoring time as with the front page.
I can now say Amazon supports IPv6 internally throughout most of the infrastructure.
Well, it's habit for a reason. Not every locale they visit is like Honolulu & Waikiki.
Is it me or is it strange to put emphasis on getting into companies with a "fratboy culture"? Pardon my language here, but if it's a fratboy culture I stay the fuck away. Those are not jobs you want to aspire to.

I think part of the way to get really good in this business is to start very early -- and that unfortunately leads into questions of wealth disparity among other issues. If you come from a household that gets their kid a computer to mess around with that already comes with economic biases.
Rejected from the app store for using Google analytics
One possibility is that local restaurants and cafes got together to bring in customers to the general area. Already saw a comment on yelp from a local cafe who has seen their business rise dramatically.
Or maybe history doesn't end in a few decades, maybe technology doesn't completely shut down beyond the immediate planning horizon. In which case it's not at a constrained resource at all:

* Current helium consumption is 30,000 tons/year

* There's 3 billion tons in the atmosphere (replenished at 3,000 tons/year), which we already know how to extract (liquefy air and distill the cryogenic liquids), and only lack a few orders of magnitude of industrial capacity

* 1,000 terawatts of D+T fusion, a modest extrapolation (100x humanity's current energy level), would yield 100,000 tons/year of synthetic He-4. Numbers for fission are worse

* The planet Jupiter is 10% helium
...but he clearly thinks that the $7.1M in healthcare spending is something that should have to come out of the workers' 401k.

Which is utterly reasonable. AOL has allocated $X for employee compensation. The law mandates health care go up by $7.1M, so something else must be cut by $7.1M.

This is certainly bad for workers who prefer the 401k benefits to whatever Obamacare benefits are costing $7.1M (and it seems like this is many workers). But that's a problem with the ACA - blaming TA for that is silly.
One that you might note in your argument is how the store so far has not sold anything - it has merely given away coffee as part of a supposed "grand opening".

That makes the commercial infringement part less plausible.

Sure, the handout talks about selling stuff. The handout may not be what they use to defend themselves in court if it comes to that.
Read the VLC story. That time hasn't passed.
I dunno, presumably all of the equipment is leased, they probably aren't paying the employees much more than minimum wage, I bet it's within the show's budget. (Especially if it ends up only being open for a day or two.) If the experiment is successful they should end up making money.
If the parking lot is not full, how do you figure?
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The only possible reason this would sell is if the buyer stripped everything and kept the MIDI for an 8 bit game based on the movie "Pretty Woman." So, never.
No it isn't. Some hipster tried to be funny, and didn't.
AFAICS, the arguments about restarting pid 1 on upgrade being a problem also apply to sysvinit, which has been restarting itself on upgrade for 20 years.
This is why I use VLC. On the white polycarb apple macbooks the audio is really quiet. VLC made it useful by allowing me to turn the audio up louder (up to 200%). No damage to speakers here.
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What you cannot answer is this: How can final cause -- purpose or motivating reason for something -- arise out of nothing? Indeed, the intelligent person recognizes that such an idea is non-sense, and rejects it out of hand.

I can indeed answer this, and I will. Also, it strikes me as bad form to imply that someone who disagrees with you is unintelligent because they do not reject the ideas you want them to reject.

Now to my answer: purpose arises from lack of purpose because purpose itself is merely emergent behavior in the neurons of our brains, arising from the laws of physics.

You get purpose, or reason for being, from a priori purpose or reason. I work in order to have money. I want money in order to buy food and shelter. I want food and shelter to continue to survive. And so on.

You never get purpose, or reason for being, from nothing.

You still have to show that purpose, itself, exists in any form other than a chemical arrangement in our brains. For that matter, you have to define the "nothing" from which purpose is supposed not to have originated, before I can agree that, indeed, that sort of "nothing" is incapable of creating "purpose", or even agree that such a definition of "nothing" is tenable.

But in so doing, you are demonstrating teleology. You have a goal.

I may have a goal behind this comment, but behind that goal is an emergent phenomenon of the laws of physics, and as such, my "goal" is not incompatible with my claimed nonexistence of teleology.
SF is not a car-based planning problem. SF is a NIMBY-ism gone the way it always goes.
I am amazed how well the TTC works in the snow.
my partner owns a nokia lumia.

She loves it, but it has had to be taken back to the shop we bought it from twice so far, because apparently everytime Microsoft releases an upgrade, it effectively bricks the device during the install attempt.

It amazes me how badly Microsoft seems to manage its software compared to Apple.

OTOH, she does love it.
And it didn't. This was the commit that actually happened: https://github.com/madrobby/zepto/commit/2ed0123eaddc023a857...

Notice the code comment. I took it out for the example in the blog post to illustrate how we would deal if there was never a code comment in the first place.
You don't have a method for watching videos that are blocked outside your region?