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Well, perhaps a hole in one is a bigger deal for amateurs, so they are more likely to honour the tradition. The article give the odds of getting a hole in one as 7,500 to 1 for a pro and 12,500 for an amateur, which doesn't seem like a huge difference, but presumably pros will play so much more they'll get many more holes in one.
I found this on the research group's youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsjDnYxJ0bo
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Cloud technology, specifically abstracting away physical machines and storage locations and allowing applications to gracefully scale their resource demand up and down based on rules and monitoring are useful to any large IT shop, regardless of the location or ownership of the datacenter.

Further, many institutions and corporations are organized in such a way that they function as a number of smaller groups contracting resources from a central IT provider, and in this configuration, a private cloud can be an immensely useful way to divvy up resources without having to work out down to the physical machine who owns what.
If you read the gcc bug, he is rather professional.
First time with Linus?
There is a difference between sugar coating and showing a basic level of respect. Clearly expressing valid criticism without resorting to vitriolic language is something most people will have to work on, but as you say, it's very important for a functioning workplace.
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So, if we can't work in sublime subtlety, we better become savage barbarians, as if “balance“ was hostile to civilisation. To not insult and to not swear is not to speak in “sugar-coated phrases“.
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Many systems (including the Solar System) are stable over short time periods, but the stability of the Solar System is actually unknown over longer time periods. As an example, one of the numerical experiments Scott Tremaine has done has been to simulate the solar system, but to perturb the initial conditions of the planets by 1mm (that's one millimeter!). Over ~100 million years, in ~1% of systems Mercury actually crashes into Venus! [1]

[1] http://www.ias.edu/about/publications/ias-letter/articles/20...
Arent diversity and gender issues orthogonal to this? You can have room full of diverse women, man, blacks, whites, young, old swearing a lot. You can have young-white-male-only group talking nicely to each other (while still being exclusive club rejecting anyone else).
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> Torvalds writes code that makes half the world function reliably

He does what?
His reasons are bullshit. I don't care how frustrated you are, learn to control your emotions. Its very much possible to be direct without being an ass. Probably more effective too.
Linus Torvalds says something thread on HN.

Prediction before clicking: Half of the thread, or more, will not be about what he says, but about his tone and "professionalism."

Never change HN. Never change.
Interesting analogy, but in a way I don't think you meant. Problem bears are translocated or killed. That's not due to taking things personally but to prevent future bad interactions. If your analogy has merit, shouldn't we do the same (metaphorically) with Torvalds?
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> Yea but at one point we need to figure out what to do with our lower-educated part of society.

Why do you assume they are not capable of figuring out what they want to do themselves?
> They don't have that ability;

Yes, they do. What stops private parties from colluding? Nothing. What stops your local ISP (in most locations, in a position of local monopoly) from denying you access, even without participation from websites? Nothing. What stops them from doing this for their own reasons, which you might not necessarily agree with, and possibly don't even know? Nothing.

And the actual point that you keep evading -- what stops other parties from approving of ideas and speech that you disapprove of, and vice versa? Nothing. What stops them from oppressing you, the way you want to oppress others, in a way that enforces this diametrically opposed configuration of approval and disapproval? Nothing. What stops them from considering every idea and form of speech that you've ever perpetrated, and every idea and form of speech that you stand for, to be vile, and to do everything in their power to censor, silence, and oppress you as a result? Nothing.

You have evaded once again, and lost by default. Thanks for your time, anyway.

P.S. I didn't call you a piece of shit, the hypothetical oppressive parties in the hypothetical scenario did. You lose by default for putting words in my mouth, as well.
P2P evernote clone without a central storage server, and fully open source. Synchronization through encrypted email between arbitrary pairs of clients. With all the NSA revelations I've come to the conclusion that only "trust no one" is secure, where you do not rely on any third party to have privileged access to your content, only to relay encrypted streams of it.

I've been hacking on a javascript implementation for syncing near-arbitrary json data in this way, but it's slow-going and I have too many distractions. Right now it sort of works for everything except arrays, arrays are tricky to sync. https://github.com/jsebrech/minisync
They tend to be correlated though don't they and there's often a common root of "I don't care who you are, take me as I am, it's your problem".
I initially felt the same, but imagine if you'd spent countless hours getting to the bottom of an obscure bug that turned out to be a completely bone-headed compiler problem outside your control. Sometimes I think Linus goes a bit far, but this time I think he's justified in his venting his irritation
> His reasons are bullshit.

And there we go, talking shit about someone talking shit, all while complaining the when someone else talks shit it is not acceptable.

> I don't care how frustrated you are, learn to control your emotions. Its very much possible to be direct without being an ass. Probably more effective too.

Well, apply the same logic to yourself before requiring it from someone else.
Linus has earned the right to that tone, care about Linux or not. Now when some unknown emulates it, that's the time to take note (and ignore that person ever after).
That may be so but I'm pretty sure that pretty much every study that's been done on this says insulting people is demotivating and generally destructive behaviour.

Linus can believe what he likes but the evidence contradicts him.
Seriously. If a community/somebodey cares more about how something is said more than what is said, said community/person lacks the allegedly so important professionalism.
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It might be fine for Linus to adopt such a tone, because he knows enough to moderate it up and down according to circumstances. It makes him more expressive. Note that the bug in question really does indicate some serious mistakes in the compiler, with serious consequences, and along with the invective he provides plenty of information. The problem is that hundreds of other kernel developers imitate his most severe tones all the time without such technical detail and even for technical issues where Linus himself wouldn't express disdain that strongly. That lack of "dynamic range" makes them less expressive, so nobody can tell when they're expressing justifiable concern/outrage and when they're just being dicks out of habit.

It's like the second amendment of developer communication. That sort of verbal weaponry should be available, but its use still needs to be justified.
>Well, you spoke for the non-English speaking world too, and you don't even belong to it, unlike the parent. If anything, he was less paternalistic.

I thought it was obvious I was speaking for myself. Or are you mistaking me for the GP?

By the way, how do you know I don't belong to the non-native-English speaking world?
Is it? Cosmologists constantly keep adding Dark Matter, Dark Energy and yet they can't explain things like the results of the experiment in this article. Could it be that the solution is much simpler? Could it be that we're simply misinterpreting or miscalculating some of the data?
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Another fact, that recently struck me, also seems to make inequality larger. I'm not quite sure how to put it into words, but I'll try.

If we take an average middle class family and a rich family. Both want to build or buy a house. Let's suppose the houses they want cost the same, e.g. $200.000. The rich family pays $200.000 and is done. The middle class family however, will have to take a loan of, let's say, 20 years at 4%. This family will eventually pay almost $300.000 for that same house.

So because the rich family can buy things without loaning, they actually pay less. This might seem obvious to some, or most of you, but it still strikes me as "unfair" (though it's perfectly fair that you pay interest on a loan).
I do think the foreigness is part of it. Danes in particular treat English swearing much different than Danish swearing. If you used seriously off-color Danish words in a professional environment, people would be shocked; but you can say "fuck" all you want, because it's foreign and doesn't really carry any weight.
There are also business rates. (For non-UK readers: property tax on commercial property.)

I'm surprised at the implication that because of all this shit they're spending money on - shops, employees, expansion, etc. - they must be profitable. (Maybe they are, I don't know. Maybe they are stashing it away elsewhere. It would certainly make sense for them to do that.) But it doesn't automatically follow, because profit is what you have left after you've paid for all this stuff. All this expenditure is in fact bad for the bottom line.

You can't even argue that the money has to come from income, and that therefore the very fact of their profitless expansion is evidence of sharp practice. People have been known to lend out money! Sometimes they'll do it merely in exchange for a share in your business. If they like the cut of your jib, you don't even have to be making money yourself in the first place.

...which is why I'm sort of surprised to see this line of thought implied on HN ;)
That could be because it uses Flash (using JW Player Premium specifically).
By the nature of things, anything that compresses some input data must necessarily lengthen other input data, since you can't get away from the fact that there are only so many input files that can be represented by the output number of bits. In fact, it will almost certainly lengthen many more of the possible inputs than it shortens.

I once heard someone describe compression programs as 'expansion programs with interesting failure cases', and so, of course, the best compression program to use depends on exactly which failure cases you're interested in.
I'm not sure which C extensions do you mean, but Clang supports most of the same GNU extensions that GCC does. Indeed, it's one of the goals of Clang to be compatible with GCC whenever possible. However, there might be some things that are not (yet?) supported.

And the kernel can be compiled using LLVM and Clang, but not quite in all configurations. But compiling mainline kernel for x86 using LLVM was achieved some years ago.
How do you "create a few accounts"? I was under impression that once they ban you, it's over. Same person can't create more than one account. And can't create another one after a ban.
Can anyone give a layperson's explanation of what exactly GCC 4.9 is doing wrong here? I'm not fluent in Assembly and/or compiler internals. What's changed from 4.8?
How do you define "prudish"? Does it have something to do with sex or body functions?

Because if that's what you think most native-English-speakers think of when people use these swear words, you're wrong.

There are plenty of swear words that have nothing to do with sex or body functions that shock people just as much or more than those that do originate with those things.
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People in IT are assholes. I've only worked in retail, food, biotech and IT but IT has been my least favorite because of my coworkers. I see the shitty attitude is just an in-general IT thing and accepted.
Good point. I've been misinterpreted by some pretty emotional interpreters, too.

I'm not going to name and shame the interpreter in question, but the person who originally wrote it was the same person who wrote the compiler in question, Richard M Stallman. ;)

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Yes they're completely orthogonal. Linus (seemingly) doesn't care about a person's race, creed, gender, or sexual preference. He cares that they are breaking Linux (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75), spreading misinformation about Linux (http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/linus-torvalds-remove-...), releasing software that breaks Linux (GCC 4.9.0), or being generally, and consistantly anti open-source (http://youtu.be/iYWzMvlj2RQ)
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>There have been so many studies, blog posts, and anecdotes about sexism in tech

I am not aware of any studies, otherwise I would have read them. Blog posts and anecdotes - are useful for acting on individual cases of sexism, but because they are, by definition, limited to one or two cases, taken out of the whole, using them as arguments for widespread sexism is wrong (in the sense of incorrect).
There is indeed evidence of significant cross-cultural differences in both [1,2,3]. Cursing itself is universal; but its contextual, relative social acceptability as offense and interjection varies quite a bit across societies.

Put in another way: even cursing that you might perceive as self-evidently "aggressive and rude" --in the limbic sense of the word-- might be perceived quite differently by someone from another culture. And viceversa (eg American-style drunken loudness, to think of one).

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Swearing-A-Cross-Cultural-Linguistic-S...

[2] http://www.gelfand.umd.edu/science.pdf

[3] http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/05/15/1317937111.full...
> From this point of view, any being that is both omniscient and omnipotent cannot change his/her mind, if said being changes over time, this implies s/he will make decisions now based on how s/he will feel about things later, after taking her/his own evolution into account.

You see, the problem is that people think of the evolution of an omniscient deity as a strict linear progression from cause to effect, but actually it's more like a great big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey... stuff.

:P
The Box is more than a history of container transport and its world-changing impact. It's a real lesson for entrepreneurs: Visionary takes on tradition-bound oligopoly; regulators can't cope with radical concept; international standards committees are about settling past political grievances and settling for laughable compromises, rather than setting the best course future efficiencies.

Highly recommend, as did Bill Gates, who ties it explicitly to developments in computing:

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Good point. Bears are being forced into close proximity with humans due to urban sprawl. Their existence is threatened daily.

Look too closely and the analogy breaks.
Yes, but "Fook" isn't actually a swear word anywhere except Scotland, so it's ok.
It is doing two things wrong, it is moving a constant value to the stack and it's doing it before increasing the stack pointer, so it's momentarily outside the stack area. If an interrupt hits during the instructions the stack is broken, the interrupt service routine will increase the stack for its own use and overwrite that value.
they had to say some pre-determined words the whole time, and they regressed back to the level of pre-6 year olds

Only slightly related, but this is why I listen to audiobooks every night to fall to sleep. If I'm listening to someone else, I almost literally can't "think" so my brain chatter is basically eradicated and I fall asleep. I know it's not the same for everyone, but I basically turn into a mindless automaton if I'm actively listening to someone else as I'm an extremely verbal thinker.
Hey while your right, the storing of IP addresses does require HIPAA compliancy, it can be solved with a simple SSL certificate and acknowledgement of nothing being stored.

Procedure codes are an alternative method of inputting bills into the database, as sometimes procedure names are too lengthy. Every bill has either: CPT, HCPCS, or ICD code, all of which are non identifying, and unique to each procedure/diagnosis.

Thanks for your concern though and please email me if you want to continue discussing:
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Yeah, evil-mode just doesn't play nice with lots of emacs utilities.

It's a good idea to use evil-mode only in code/text buffers and stay out of it when using e.g. GUD debugging. This, unfortunately, means that you're going to have to learn two sets of keybindings, the vanilla emacs ones and vim keys.
See the bug report linked by e40[0] for explanations. Interestingly, the bug actually exists since 4.5.0, it just doesn't trigger because of different optimisations being applied elsewhere.

[0] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61904
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And some of us have worked for businesses where everyone is so busy being aggressive and showing how much of an alpha male they are that nothing gets done and all the customers are scared off. Not to mention potential employees.

Whether or not Linus admits it, the same thing is happening with the kernel (wrt to contributors, the "employees" of an open source project). I know system developers who could make valuable contributions to the kernel but who refuse to work in that kind of atmosphere. And I can hardly blame them.
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I've worked quite a bit on this object. The Perseus cluster is one of the most interesting galaxy clusters in the sky and is the X-ray brightest (and so well studied). There's star formation, bubbles of relativistic plasma bubbles generated by the central black hole, presumably heating the surrounding gas and preventing catastrophic cooling, sound waves generated by the inflation of the bubbles, a giant nebula producing emission lines. You could give several talks about this object... Some nice pics here of the central galaxy, NGC1275: http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/papers/ngc1275/

We'll have to wait to see if this result can be replicated by others and we'll look at the results from ASTRO-H when it launches. If you examine at the original paper (http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.2301), it's certainly not cut and dried dark matter emission (yet).
If you are that worried about being caught Tweeting at work wouldn't you be more concerned about generating a public tweet with a timestamp showing you posted it at work?
The LLVM project recommends delta:

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My belief is that the analogy breaks even looking at a distance. Relocation policies aren't based on taking things personally.
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Really cool stuff. My mother's church would benefit from using this kind of software. They are a pretty disorganized.

I like seeing labor of love side projects actually turn into something cool and useful.
Sounds like you need to be give each device a name. Jarvis!
> Linus can believe what he likes but the evidence contradicts him.

The evidence shows that his way works to lead the people working at Linux.
There is something of linguistic importance going on here with respect to diversity.

If you hear a group of people casually swearing on the street, it's clear that you are absolutely not welcome to join in with them, unless you already have extremely close cultural connections to that group (or you want to have a physical fight).

Language like this creates an in-group (who are comfortable with this scenario) and an out-group (who are uncomfortable).

I would suggest that Linus is doing this deliberately, and there may be some advantage to that - he wants to work only with an in-group of people who are passionate and rigorous as he is, and harshly exclude everyone who doesn't fit this mould. It is acceptable for him to exclude some false negatives if it successfully excludes people who are inappropriate for the work.

In doing that, it's not a coincidence that the in-group is mainly straight white males (closely similar to Linus) and the out-group is everyone else.
(just to play devils advocate)
How do you figure "the evidence contradicts him" ?
His attitude: launched & maintains the largest free collaborative dev known to man (?) which has generated squillions as a by-product.
Yours/My attitude: makes some friends

seems to me he has some runs on the scoreboard (and some facts on the ground)
I think it is more related to the fact that it is an external project (I assume with different community interactions). So all that "Linux being himself" it's not that accurate.
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He isn't a peer though. It's like how the hermit at the top of the mountain will smack the novice martial artist for making little mistakes. That doesn't make the novice resentful. Instead, he's glad for the training.
Exactly what privilege is he excercising here?

He's stated that GCC 4.9.0 is doing some "seriously crazy shit" as a response to a bug report on the Linux kernel mailing list.

He at no point has insulted the GCC developers, the submitter of the bug, or anyone else who regularly reads the LKML.

I'm not sure why you see defending the Linux kernel code against a problem in GCC 4.9.0 (with exact examples of why GCC is breaking the standards) is exercising any privileges, other than those granted by being the creator of Linux.

I personally think that Linux, Git and recently, Subsurface definitely justify his behaviour here. If you want to argue with him, send him an email. He'll be glad to reply. Otherwise, don't complain about his behaviour on HN. It's the internet equivalent of talking about people behind their back.
If you go back to the original Reuters article[1] (first link from your Wikipedia aritcle), there's a few nuances that most people bringing up parallel construction don't point out:

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"...Today, the SOD offers at least three services to federal, state and local law enforcement agents: coordinating international investigations such as the Bout case; distributing tips from overseas NSA intercepts, informants, foreign law enforcement partners and domestic wiretaps; and circulating tips from a massive database known as DICE. ...

...Wiretap tips forwarded by the SOD usually come from foreign governments, U.S. intelligence agencies or court-authorized domestic phone recordings. Because warrantless eavesdropping on Americans is illegal, tips from intelligence agencies are generally not forwarded to the SOD until a caller's citizenship can be verified, according to one senior law enforcement official and one former U.S. military intelligence analyst."

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE...
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