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> you have no decent binary packages

This is completely incorrect. OpenBSD has been all about building reproducible binary packages for quite a long time now, and the ports tree is regularly bulk-built and failing ports fixed or swept out of the way. The key difference from FreeBSD is that OpenBSD binary package sets are released every six months with the base system, and you are expected to upgrade them during a system upgrade.

It's as simple as `pkg_add -ui` if you point the PKG_PATH to a remote OpenBSD distribution mirror.

One advantage of upgrading ports with the base system is that caveats are all conveniently listed in the upgrade guide for that release. E.g. for 5.4->5.5: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade55.html#Pkgup
I understand how they work just fine. Which part of my statement implies a narrow-band device? Perhaps I was unclear, but I think that I worded it such that a wide-band device was implied ("wide swath").

Regardless, jammers can be narrow-band or wide-band depending on the goal. The device in the article sounds to be wide-band, but that doesn't define the entire category.
Alternate Headline: Man vows to get money out of politics by throwing more money into politics

One thing I really don't understand about this movement to get money out of politics is what the alternative is? No money in politics? Well clearly someone has to put money into politics or you'd never see signs up, you wouldn't see commercials, politicians wouldn't have websites to post their platforms on, etc.

It seems to me like what people actually want is better politicians and the influence of money is the current reason to see politicians as poor. People have always hated politicians though, didn't we have Nixon before this big money kick? What about Herbert Hoover? Surely he'd be accused of some corporatist agenda today for his blunders.

It seems to me if you don't like how politicians behave and are influenced that the solution is to reduce their power and influence. If, and it's a big if, money is the problem, the money will stop flowing if the benefit of spending it drops. The larger government gets, the more power we give our politicians, and the more beneficial spending that money becomes. Remove the incentives and this problem will fix itself. That probably means many more complaints about why we don't have specific social programs, research programs, defense budget and whatever else we spend money on, but it'll fix the issue of the influence of money.
The modelling the book covers is the best of the best. Not sure about the content of the book itself, but the Finances seem straight on.
Additionally, walking around aimlessly in the city where I live, a lot of the time, is simply not a safe thing to be doing. While the article mentions some differences between our world, and the world of the creative thinkers, it leaves out to a certain extent that a lot of people live in densely populated cities with minimal access to green space. If I wanted to go for an aimless walk in the woods, I'd have to drive to the suburbs and find a forest preserve.
I always assumed we were paid to think, not to type.

If you measure workforce engagement by the amount of time their knees spend under the desk, you are measuring input, not output.
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SpaceX says rocket purchases violate Russian sanctions, gets injunction
Some of the user generated content is probably good. Usually bad content get more publicity. They should have a method to add mark some of the new features as permanent.

Another possibility is to have some “moderators” wit a superpower to restore a section to the backup version. I don’t know if this is difficult to implement.
You should give the latest version a try. Spring implemented JavaConfig, which allows you to avoid XML altogether. Coupled with the ComponentScan annotation, it can't get any simpler.
I found this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mKqtT8J2ms

But I'm pretty sure this isn't the one I saw.
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Just further reinforces my opinion that Google Chrome is a Bad Browser™

Not "bad" in the sense of rendering or security holes (Read: IE6), but bad in that "experiments" can be "deployed" to users at any time, and a company with the aspergian-tendences of Google has control over that.
>Markets are messy, they go through transition and disruption. That's not acceptable in a national-security context.

Then we should not beat around the bush and pretend we live in a Capitalist system when we clearly must make exceptions for only the private, for-profit contractors that we spend billions of dollars and the majority of the federal budget on.
I don't think this is true

I'm a primary source on this, having done it many times myself, and I know PG has as well. Sorry, but I don't have time to dig up examples. It might be fairly straightforward, though, if you wanted to write code against the HN Search API.
Id been under the impression that Carmen's actions were par-for-the-course for prosecutors in the US. Is this not the case?
"... general purpose home computers were replaced in the late 1980s by game consoles for those interested only in entertainment, or by PCs and Macs for those looking for more serious applications. None of these replacements were easily programmable. And while cheap and easy ways to code would eventually become generally available again for children and teens, learning how to program would never regain the place in popular culture it held in the 1980s. The Golden Age of Basic was over."

I'm not sure about Macs, but PC-DOS/MS-DOS came with BASIC/BASICA[1] or GWBASIC[2] (or QBASIC[3] in the 90s with MS-DOS 5.0). I wrote a bunch of little fun programs when I was 12-13 in the BASIC that came with DOS.

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[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QBasic
This is admirable, but I don't think the rhetoric is realistic or effective. "Government has failed us. More than 90% of Americans link that failure to the influence of money in politics."

Most Americans also think we spend 10x as much money on foreign aid than we do. The cause of the current economic malaise is a factual issue, not a matter of public opinion.

I have a sincere question for the people who support Lessig's statement quoted above: how can America's current woes not be easily explained by deindustrialization and automation reducing the need for labor, thus putting labor in a disadvantageous position relative to capital?

I go into CVS or Wal-Mart, and see everyone using automated checkout machines with a few cashiers hanging around in case anything goes wrong. Ten years ago, those didn't exist, and there would be a long row of cashiers. Is campaign finance really responsible for the woes of the middle and lower class, or is it technology (and other factors that make Americans of average skill more fungible)?

I wonder if the focus on campaign financing doesn't mistake correlation for causation. I think people mistake the degree to political decisions are caused by the money, rather than the preferences being communicated through the money. For example, if you're a big corporation with hundreds of employees in a Congressman's district, you might advertise in support of him, to communicate the message that raising taxes will lead to reduced employment. What causes that Congressman to vote against raising taxes? The money that was spent, or the message that was communicated with that money?

I guess the bottom line is that rich people and corporations don't need to bribe politicians. In the modern economy, where they can replace most workers with machines or outsource most work to China, or even renounce their citizenship and live as an expatriate in Hong Kong, they have all the leverage. They use the money to communicate their preferences to politicians afraid of contravening those preferences.
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I have come full circle in a way. I started learning Java in school and built a few, small things for Android and the desktop. Then I was "all like;" I am going to learn the hotness which was(is?) Node. Node is what it is and I didn't really care for it. Then I moved on to Python and I really like it. Python is awesome for many, many things but GUI applications are not one of them. I have since returned to some Android development and I am diving into a CRUD web app in Java. Simple stuff, but it needs to be fast.

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You're really, really in to the strawmen, huh?

Shutting down many of the roads in cities, where the effects of cars are most pronounced, wouldn't remotely cause the "messy collapse of the existing civilization", and is a meaningful partial step.
Genuinely curious : i've been playing with dependency injection, and really never got to understand the true use of it.

I mean, what's the point of being able to replace an implementation outside the source code itself ? You'd still have to extensively test the thing and recompile it...

Is there more to it than just being able to replace a class by its mock up, for unit testing ?
What I'd like is a folding tablet similar in concept to [1]or Microsoft's Courier [2] with two iPad sized screens. Given how thin the current iPad Air is, or the MacBook Air for that matter, and still possessing decent horsepower, this seems particularly feasible these days. Give it a stylus input device for note taking. You can turn it over laptop style and get custom input layouts for different applications. Balance the thickness/weight of each side by balancing battery on one half, processing power on the other. I've been imagining a device like this for 20 years, maybe one day it'll happen or I'll try my hand at hardware hacking.

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Do they want me to put my credit card and personal information in an insecure form? I'm trying to figure out if this form posts to a secure endpoint. I don't think it does.
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There was a bug I fixed the other day that was shortening the edit window on comments. That fix was temporarily lost when the server restarted, so my guess is that you were affected by the rejuvenated bug—in which case, sorry.

The fix won't be permanent until I find a few hours to get back to the damn code. But at least it's live at the moment.
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I'd be very curious to see if it's age dependent.

I agree that I absorb more with the printed page, but I wonder if this is habit or conditioning. I didn't grow up reading material on a device.

Disclaimer: I'm old :).
Is it possible to build a cheap, distributable kit to test the quality of a newly-laid road? Let me elaborate: in rural economies, the quality of roads has a direct impact on prosperity. Within India, richer states almost always have very good rural roads - helps get produce to market on time, people to hospitals, etc. Unfortunately, road construction is often a corrupt business, and contractors lay poor-quality roads and skim government funds. If we can empower rural communities to effectively do a quality check on the roads laid in their area, it would really help them. They could then file applications under the Right to Information Act to understand why the road was not constructed to mandated quality requirements.
Calling Lawrence Lessig "man", implying "some random guy" sells him very short. He has stature and form in this field. hint: try google and wikipedia
There are some very interesting things you can do with generators in regards to asynchronous flow control. Personally I'm in favor of the Promises, however. Unfortunately some current implementations are broken in terms of error handling. Chrome just swallows exceptions that happen in Promises, in a lot of cases.
This is a huge problem that we're chipping away at.

I'm only starting to get involved in the energy group, but I know that we've had a project focused on providing off-grid solar energy (http://sharedsolar.org/), as well as some software to model the costs of grid rollout across countries such as Myanmar (http://networkplanner.modilabs.org/). The idea is that this research would later be used to back funding proposals from entities such as the World Bank.
Also, it is just me or is the donation page using HTTP instead of HTTPS?

Maybe naive, but that's a showstopper for me.
Linux Kernel Names
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Remote is possible only in the US, because of regulations, right?
I think the stakes are really higher with a computer than a car. We use computers to communicate and transact with others. It's a tool for us to learn and acquire skills, connect, trade in business etc. It has almost become an accessory for the human brain. So it's important that users remain in control of their devices, can learn how they work and not be dependent on a few chosen ones.
I'd really prefer not to see things like this on HN. Even an old edition is still under copyright.
And there goes Germany ... blocking Snowden from personal testifying
You post is formatted awkwardly so I'm only guessing at your issues. Forgive me if I am misunderstanding.

"you have no decent binary packages" - OpenBSD encourages the use of binary packages. The OS is shipped with them. You can use ports (compile from source) if you like, but packages are preferred. [0]

There are no binary updates for the base system (maybe in 3rd party, but not from OpenBSD). You do have to compile but there are only a few per release and not mandatory if they don't affect you. Here is the heartbleed patch [1]. Very simple and contains the instructions in the patch.

[0] Ports and Package Docs - http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html
[1] Heartbleed Patch - http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/5.5/common/002_op...
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A lot of people love to hate on Java, but it's a surprisingly dynamic language and there is a ton of great testing, networking, and many other libraries available.

One of the things I appreciate about Java is the ability to take large teams and just have their stuff work together, without having unhuman discipline around super subtle rules (eg: C++)

Also, IntelliJ is a must have!
or to sword fight: http://xkcd.com/303/
I would be more forthright - the Haskell book was a travesty that never should have been published and I wouldn't want to inflict it on anyone (I have experience with all three of Haskell, quant finance and modelling & analytics and I am confident in saying that the Haskell book is useless).
PSA: You should wait to donate as your credit card information will be relayed unencrypted over HTTP on their donation page (http://mayone.us/fec_compliance/).

I'm hoping they'll fix this soon.

EDIT: They've added SSL, so go ahead and pledge!
Disclaimer: I'm the author of Nawak, so I'm pretty excited about this.

The Nimrod programming language is finally featured for the db tests (at least on i7. Not sure what happened with ec2 and peak, as neither jester nor nawak seem to appears in the results).

It fares pretty well when the database is involved.

Look for the nawak micro-framework, in the top 10 both for fortunes:

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r9&hw=i7...

and updates:

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r9&hw=i7... )

And there is room to grow. That micro-framework will not be the best for the json or plaintext tests, but once the database needs to be involved, it is trivial to add more concurrency: firing up more workers (1-3meg each in RAM) acts as an effective database connection pool (1 database connection per worker).

edit: Why should you care? Nawak (https://github.com/idlewan/nawak) is a clean micro-framework:

import nawak_mongrel, strutils

get "/":
return response("Hello World!")

get "/user/@username/?":
return response("Hello $1!" % url_params.username)

run()

Benchmark implementation in 100 lines here: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...
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