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>"or loudly within earshot of a lot of kids."

In case you never noticed, swearing loudly within earshot of kids almost always makes them laugh uproariously. And what could be more uplifting and pleasant to the ear than the sound of the laughter of children?

I have more of a problem with cheerfully lying through your teeth to children about deceptive frauds like Santa Claus and Jesus and the Tooth Fairy and the Stork who brought your little sister.

What's worse: kids learning that adults occasionally swear, or kids learning that adults systematically lie to them?
I completely agree with everything except logging. Logging is not a complex task and doesn't need to be compatible with anything. Researching, installing and learning a logging library will probably take more time than writing your own, in my experience.
I agree, but as one astronomy professor put it, "Dem's the breaks"
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> hundreds of other kernel developers imitate his most severe tones all the time

You are making this up.

If you don't, then you should have no problem producing a handful of examples, because 100s of dev doing this all the time will have LKML and other places overflowing with them.
Yes, but he does not care about the persons he attacks not being equipped with such good verbal weaponry as he is.
Would this have really made the top of HN if it wasn't for the tone though?
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Man, I wouldn't tolerate an email like that from anybody. It's right up there with some of the most abusive management I've ever known.

Linus might be "a great guy" or "just Linus being Linus" but email like this has no place in a cooperative environment.
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That's why I'm doubtful about checking "what the constitution intended". Maybe the US just needs a 28th Amendment stating new rights about the numeric world. We've gone through 2 technological revolutions since 1980, of course the constitution is outdated.

For starters, clusters of data are dangerous in terms of privacy and theft, exponentially with their size. Is it allowed to have a firecracker at home? Is it allowed to have several thousand of them? Same goes for data, whether you're a corporation or a state.
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> open source culture has always been "colourful"

Some open source culture, yes. However there are plenty of friendly open-source communities as well. If you want to contribute to free-software and don't want to interact with a Stallman/Torvalds/Drepper/deRaadt type personality in doing so, that's a perfectly legitimate preference, and you can find lots of projects that fit the bill!
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"Hey, Michaelangelo, what is that piece of shit you're carving?"

I don't think so.
If you look at the 2013 paper from this same group you will find that this is exactly what they did (http://pulse.media.mit.edu/papers/).

Even further, they used geospatial statistics techniques to control for the effects of the income, area, and population in an area, and hence, developed a model that incorporated not only perception, but also demographics, when predicting the location of homicides.
I really enjoyed reading this even I don't understand any of what the bug is actually about. There's something about people who have taken swearing to a virtuosic level.
I don't have a clear picture what all can be deployed on this... thing. Obviously the basics of a webserver, database, docker containers, etc., but this isn't where the value is.

It appears to have a wifi antenna— can it manage a corporate wifi deployment, with RADIUS or whatever? What about LDAP? Samba shares?

Can it supply an email/webmail service which I won't have to spend all day setting up?

For the stuff configured through these fancy visual tools, I assume there's a sane and secure way to back up my config and data offsite, and do a quick restore in case of failure/loss of the hardware.
Explain that to the lawyers at Hobby Lobby.
I think you fail to understand the point. The point is not too replace a map of crime, but to help develop variables that can help explain the location of crime. Look at what they did in their 2013 paper (http://pulse.media.mit.edu/papers/) that is exactly that.

The problem they are trying to solve is that there are no good measures of perception to evaluate whether the environment affects crime or not. This is an old question for which there has been much research, as it is explained in the point 7 of their FAQ. http://streetscore.media.mit.edu/faq.html
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a friend of mine once told me that everyone in Phoenix is an asshole. I laughed and pointed out that there was no way she had met even a significant fraction of people, that human relationships are built with all sorts of biases, and there was no way she could make that assessment without generalizing to the point of uselessness.

she called me an asshole in reply.

you have pretty much the same problem here. you have no reasonable basis upon which to make that statement. it is offensive and generalized to the point of uselessness.
Only in a tautological sense. His way works to lead the people working on Linux because only the people who can deal with his way will work on Linux.

Whether Linux would be more successful with a more benevolent dictator remains to be seen.
Use this Google map of the outbreaks instead: https://maps.google.com/maps/u/0/ms?msid=2029777559498639344....

Not sure how to filter the non-2014 outbreaks, though.
Whatever you think of his language and attitude, the guy deserves some love for working a Goonies reference into a complaint about the GCC compiler.
is Linus cursing a bit really anything new?

at least the conversation around it is amusing. I may never enjoy anything as much as the convoluted logic of people who want the world to work hard to not personally offend their sensibilities
Anybody care to give a layman/HS explanation of why this might be dark matter?

It's been a long time since High School chemistry class, but as I remember it, spectral emission lines are caused by electrons changing orbital levels and thereby releasing a photon. So dark matter has electrons? Er, would that mean that it's not dark? Why wouldn't this just mean that we've missed an orbital level somewhere?
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It's not about whatever privileges he has, but his aptness for possession of those: I claim that he is not a good leader for Linux, acting irresponsibly, humiliatingly, and inconsiderately. He acts like a dictator, spewing derogatory and impolite phrases around, and people he targets do not have any chance to defend themselves as an army of people volunteer to defend him with childish arguments almost immediately, as if they were organised. A project this crucial to our communities functioning cannot be lead and represented by Torvalds, I say. And this shaves 15 karma off of my HN account -- not that I care the slightest but -- as if it was spamming or whatever, and not a criticism of an important figure in tech world.
As an atheist, I would feel great about taking money, house keys, login passwords and encryption keys from religious people, to take care of their pets, servers, possessions and left behind loved ones after the rapture. http://www.aftertherapturepetcare.com/ http://eternal-earthbound-pets.com/

It's the religious people who are looking forward to rapture and armageddon who are the sick dirty ones: http://www.raptureready.com http://www.raptureready.com/faq/faq11.html http://rr-bb.com/showthread.php?73593-Our-God-of-Israel-is-a... http://rr-bb.com/showthread.php?162998-Every-mans-challenge-... http://rr-bb.com/showthread.php?194237-Need-To-Edit-My-quot-...
And in the GCC bugzilla Richard Biener of gcc is willing to say the following about the behavior. This all feels like much ado about nothing.

so that spill is right before the asm and we immediately re-load it into
a register required by an asm constraint (stupid register allocator).
I didn't realize certain accomplishments allowed someone to be a total and utter dick - to ignore all decorum, respect, and human kindness to others. The more you know...
I wouldn't say it's accepted. IT and engineering staff are often given very little respect outside of their own departments in organizations, but they're tolerated.

I hope we see the "shitheads get ahead" mentality give way, or at least recognize that we're first and foremost facilitators of business and that working to earn respect from coworkers is an important part of that.
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Generalize much? I have worked in different teams.

The "being an-unfriendly-*" problem has often to do with tight timelines and problems/bugs that seem completely weird. Frankly, that can drive you nuts.

It's not really an excuse, but it can probably explain some behavior.
You mentioned that you know about general software development devops already, why and what do you think is different for data science workflow?
Agreed, but spiritual gatherings are often centered around questions or issues that are important, fundamental, and/or relevant to daily life.

That's something you generally don't have as much with other types of communal activities, and it's something that, in my experience, creates tight communities much faster, and bonds that often go deeper.

It's like friendships. There's a gradual strengthening over time, but usually the big 'jumps' are caused by personal or interpersonal crises; moment of vulnerability.
You're ignoring the opportunity cost of not keeping that $200,000 in the "rich family's" deposit account or asset portfolio. If I buy something to use for $200k, I can't invest that same amount to convert it to $300k (assuming the same 20 years @ 4%), so I effectively lose 100k over the same period for the same reason. While they're certainly not equivalent, they're closer than you suggest.
"Canonical engineers will deliver an Orange Box to your office, that is yours for two weeks for $10,000 plus travel and accommodation"

They need a copy editor. That's a very awkwardly worded sentence.
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Check this map instead
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The authors already did that analysis, but they incorporated population, area, age, income and perception of safety into a statistical model used to predict violent crimes.

It is important to go beyond the bivariate case here. Comparing streetscore to crime is too simple to be meaningful if other co-variates are not taken into account. For the full description (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...)
"If everywhere you look, everyoneais a jerk, you might be the jerk."

(Not saying anyone here is a jerk. That quote kind of changed my perspective on a situation)
Yep, summer 2001 was the "Summer of the Shark Attacks" because of a couple of high-profile incidences. The news media played it up as some sort of epidemic although there was no significant difference in the numbers. This went on until September when a bigger story came long.
Rubber gloves.
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That seems promising. Would be great to have FIFO and LIFO storage mechanism here like in redis!
I'm quite certain it unrelated to this. In a lot of cultures swearing is just more normal and accepted (in their native language)
Definition of prude from Webster:

> a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum

So prudishness doesn't always have to be about sex either.
Self deprecation can be a disarming marketing strategy, but only when combined with humor to make it palatable.

Your self deprecation is coming across as all negative here, and there's no humorous payoff.

Recalibrate your tone.
> Copying(but not depriving you of it) without accessing (reading) is technically not seizing

If that is a tortured definition, then it's the same tortured definition used here (as well as many other places) to justify music and movie piracy.
1. The letter was to a user of the compiler, not to its author.

2. Linus is a Finn, their culture is a bit different, people who post on LKML know this.
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That's not a tautology. There's a non-circular flow to the reasoning.
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Well, for one thing a C compiler is a considerably more utilitarian creation - "Hey, McDonalds, Big Macs taste like shit".

And of course even purely artistic creations have always been subject to quite blunt appraisals - you won't have to look far to find them about, say, Jackson Pollock's paintings.
If you think those English curse words are severe, you should never hear the Dutch curse words [0].

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In general, churches in Australia are not tax deductible.

Some of the activities they perform may be, but that requires a relatively complex separation of accounts where one "business" is deductible, but the other is not.

It can be done, but my experience is that most churches don't bother since the administrative burden exceeds the value.
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He has not insulted any people though. He has said bad things about the piece of software called gcc-4.9.0, but he has not once in that email adressed a person in a negative way.

Plus, the bug report he filed towards gcc is entirely matter-of-fact and polite.
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Actually, the people he targets do have a chance to defend themselves. What many neglect to mention is that he doesn't blow up at everybody, but only at respected developers (kernel or otherwise) who he expects to know better.

Torvalds' management is one of the major reasons for Linux being successful, and sane. Look at the contemporary Linux userspace: it's in an absolute state of chaos, constant reinvention, poorly documented and composed of all sorts of brittle and baroque libraries.
I give you an upvote for reasonably stating your point, and introducing some very valid points.

I agree that his brash tone, as portrayed on HN, is detrimental to the development of the Linux kernel. I would also posit to say that there would be many examples of him encouraging and helping kernel contributors, but they don't make good headlines.

I think that Greg Kroah-Hartman is actually doing a damn fine job as the stable branch maintainer, and anything Linus says should really just be taken as the passionate words of someone who doesn't want to see their creation diminished.
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Well quoted. It's always fascinated (and worried) me how the human brain allows for the elevation of certain people to God-like status, and then excuses behavior they would normally find abhorrent.
Most people consume Twitter a lot more than they produce tweets.

I almost never tweet from work, but I have the OS X app open most of the time (without any need to hide it where I work).
Pollack and others were funded through CIA programmes to demonstrate the power of the creative free thinking West.

Listening to the God-awful Jazz they play at my local coffee shops makes me wonder just how effective this campaign of psychological warfare was.
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It takes a certain type of person who has the grown a sense of technical entitlement and the necessary confidence to believe they're right and that they belong, even when Linus is making up a dozen colorful insults for the things they've done. That certain type of person could be anyone, but there is a strong bias towards those who can find role models that resemble themselves, those who were encouraged and had the resources to get into tech at a young age, etc.
I should perhaps have been a little more clear: I didn't mean to imply there were no scripting languages for java, just that they weren't first-class citizens of the platform (Beanshell being an exception -- but perhaps it too suffered from being a bit heavy?).

It's interesting that Gradle seem to be moving away from Groovy -- especially considering the section on configuration: It appear they're moving towards a functional-flavoured architecture -- and at the same time further specializing Gradle -- so that it'll (probably) be a better build tool -- but also quite useless for other tasks/customization. Or rather; it would appear the project will not be much of a driver in improving Groovy for projects that need some form of dynamic configuration etc.

On the other hand Gradle will (presumably) serve as nice architectural model to follow for other projects (move towards a functional style, rather than programming dependencies in a procedural manner with a hacked up xml dialect).

Perhaps one of the core issues have been projects mixing complex configuration requirements (eg: routing for tomcat) with simple requirements (eg: username/password etc -- stuff that works well in a ini-like format). I suppose that if you've determined you need complex/powerful configuration, you'd be hard-pressed to include a second form of configuration in your project. After all simple xml files are almost as readable and easy to work with as ini-files... And yet, for a lot of projects, it's ended up being a bit of a mess.
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I put Buddhist, but consider myself atheistic to many concepts, but agnostic to others (see: Simulation Argument), and pan-theistic in general - as in, the term reflects a unity of the Universe that any true Cosmos fan should come to see, for instance. (Proof of such is hard won by sceptical scientists.)
Stats with this kind of options are could be seen as rather divisive and can give a false impression if interpreted without nuance.
> imagine if you'd spent countless hours getting to the bottom of an obscure bug that turned out to be a completely bone-headed [...] problem outside your control

I imagine everyone on HN has been in this situation many times during their careers.
That's not what's being discussed. Tyrannosaurs made a descriptive claim, mh_ questioned it. You're acting like mh_ made a normative claim.

(And you're using the shitty rhetorical tactic of sarcasm, which allows you to tell someone that they're wrong without making any claims of your own, or even understanding what they're saying.)
The study regarding car crashes also looked into the correlation between whether or not car crashes only killed the driver or other people too, and found a clear correlation in additional deaths:

Murder-suicides leads to more "accidents" with head-on crashes etc., while "clean" suicides with nobody else involved tends to lead to an increase in "accidents" that don't risk other peoples life.

"Influence" is a fantastic book. Though it's downright chilling in how it tears apart the illusion of how much control we have of how we act.
Not sure what you mean by "the theory." Ebola is not airborne. It's relatively easy to isolate in areas with good hygiene and medical care.
Seems like even though people went after this, there's not been much innovation, last few decades. Most of the new stuff looks quite incremental. It almost seems like we are losing our edge in our ability to build from the ground up. This is because we are part of a system that maintains an eagle's eye on new ideas. We need to take some of that pressure off us so that we can think a bit outside the box.
I'd be surprised if GCC maintainers take it personally. Software bugs are a fact of life. You should see how angry people get about JVM bugs.
Synchronous persistence APIs should be considered dangerous. Often they solve the immediate problem, but when you eventually need to move to an async storage solution (and in JavaScript any significantly complex task eventually becomes async) you are left with code that presumes sync behavior. This makes it difficult to refactor.

Providing an API with callbacks or better yet promises forces you to write future-safe code.
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It really isn't that big of a deal, even though it does come off as immature.

A professional would handle it like this:

1) He or she wouldn't choose to use such phrasing himself or herself, but also won't shy away from being firm and asking hard questions if they need to be asked.

2) If somebody else chooses such wording, the professional will engage his or her thick skin and ignore it, instead focusing on the parts that actually matter. It's resolving the problem at hand that's truly important, not wasting energy getting worked up over phrasing that somebody chose to use when describing the problem.
Correlation is not causation.

It'd be a lot healthier if malleable, hero-worshiping younglings could get their heads around the fact that sometimes their flawed, human heroes accomplish their greatness despite their outrageous flaws and not because of their outrageous flaws. Then we might end up with fewer kids affecting the asshole-ness, misogyny, alcoholism, or misanthropy of their idols thinking it will make them better programmers, writers, basketball players, or mathematicians.

But noooo, it's all "Linus did X, so I'll do X and be cool like Linus!"
English is not, as far as I know, Linus's first language. I presume that any "verbal weaponry" he possesses is adopted and adapted from the "greater developer lexicon" (I just made that up) he absorbed through years of mailing-list / IRC exposure.

Yes, good debaters shouldn't resort to emotionally laden language, but the best debaters just ignore it in the first place.
Imagine the value Trello brings you today. Imagine the value it brings you with these two features.

Is it really different enough that it crosses the threshold of being worth using?

I find that hard to imagine. How much time do you spend looking at archived boards? What would you do with two lists in a column that you can't do today with one list that has some "subtitle" cards?

I'm asking because I'm genuinely curious to know use cases like that, not rhetorically.

My own problem with Trello (that I use a lot despite that problem) is that I feel the need for more than one view of my data, i.e. sorting it in more than one dimension. Perhaps having the ability to have two boards with the same cards. Unfortunately, I cannot imagine any good UI for this.
@georgiapeach is exactly right. There's nothing here for me to attach to regarding the most important part of your messaging: The game itself.

Tell us what's good about it; that's not marketing, that's communication.
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