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Audiobooks I have Read Recently: (Sanderson is Awesome)

* The Reckoners #1/#2
* Stormlight Archive #1/#2
* Mistborn #1/#2/#3
* Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures As the World's Most Wanted Hacker

Digital Books:

* How to Win Friends and Influence People
* Malazon Book #1
* The Forever War
* The Martian

Things on my List:

* Think and Grow Rich
* Watership Down
* Rainbows End
* Snow Crash
* What is Zen
* Wool: Silo
* Founders at Work
* Light Bringer
* Hyperion
* The War of Art
* Atlas Shrugged
* The Demon Haunted World
* Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
* Joe Abercrombie's books
* Rich Dad Poor Dad
* Founders at Work
* Fear the Sky
* Daemon -- EDIT ADDED

Things I recommend:

* All of Brandon Sanderson's Books
* The Kingkiller Chronicles
* How to Win Friends and Influence People
* Issac Asimov's short stories and Foundation series
* The Forever War
* Gentleman Bastards
* Ready Player One
* The Martian
* A Wizard of Earthsea

EDIT:
Short Reading I Recommend:

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No it doesn't:

from https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204659:

> Admin Framework

> Available for: OS X Yosemite v10.10 to v10.10.2

> Impact: A process may gain admin privileges without properly authenticating
Description: An issue existed when checking XPC entitlements. This issue was addressed with improved entitlement checking.

> CVE-ID

> CVE-2015-1130 : Emil Kvarnhammar at TrueSec
I find it curious that pain points is given the inner quotes treatment whenever the JP Morgan CEO uses that term. It's almost like such a concept didn't exist before startups started addressing it.
Currently plugged into my laptop:

* Two monitors
* Mouse
* Keyboard
* Speakers
* A/C power

Now, I don't carry most of those things to the coffeeshop with me, sure. But what percentage of a laptop's use is in coffeeshops, versus at home or the office? I understand that tradeoff is at different places for different people. But one port feels like it's trading off way too much utility -- exactly how much space does a second USB port take up?
That's a reference to CmdrTaco's review of the original iPod.
Well said. Honestly.

So, let's play out the theories:

1) The pension managers WERE some of the most sophisticated investors on the planet.

So what the hell happened? You originally called them "irresponsible." Now you've edited to call them "stupid." What's your theory about what happened to these world-class investors? My point being, they can't simultaneously be in the "most sophisticated" class, and also in the "irresponsible" / "stupid" class.

Kickbacks? Got overly greedy and mis-fired? It could happen to literally anyone? Bad luck?

2) The pension managers WERE NOT some of the most sophisticated investors on the planet.

I agree with your assessment that they SHOULD HAVE BEEN. So what the hell happened? Did they lie when they were hired? Did they have a great track record (luck?), but flubbed this? Or did the person who hired them and put them in charge (the mayor?) trust someone they shouldn't have?

The real victims are the pensioners, and this story should be investigated. If not on their behalf, then as a lesson for other pensioners, pension managers, and the people who manage pension managers.
What sort of issues do you notice?

I've been using Bluetooth mice for a long time and have never experienced any jumpiness. Currently I'm using a Microsoft mouse, but I used a Logitech one before (they seem to have given up on Bluetooth though). Neither has given me any issues on my MacBook Pro.
I'm reading "The Beam: Season 1" by Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant
I've found that CAs sometimes actually do require the country to be present for some reason. Anyway, in case it it useful to someone, here's a one-liner to generate a key and CSR:

DOMAIN=example.com sh -c 'openssl req -sha256 -nodes -new -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout "${DOMAIN}.key" -out "${DOMAIN}.csr" -subj "/C=US/CN=${DOMAIN}"'
I did not have at all this experience interviewing @ Facebook for a mobile position.

Questions were reasonable and the interviewer gave nudges / prompts when it was obvious you were stuck on something.

They really seem to take recruiting very seriously and it showed.
Unfortunately this sentiment is why software is plagued with an unhealthy culture of constantly needing (/wanting) to learn new languages and frameworks.

The "elite" developers (who often don't actually maintain real production apps, or need to live with the consequences of their design choices) begin to fad over a new language. O'Reilly publishes a book and sure enough... Influential senior developers who obsess over these elites start fangirling, leading them to convince their bosses/teams/companies to also adopt this new "cool" technology. As the popular tide of generic bandwagoners rises, the "elite" developer begin to feel the pressures of wanting to redefine their identity again, and soon jump ship to switch to the next hot thing.

Then the process repeats...
I've been using bluetooth mice for years. No issues.
Is "they're tasty" a valid justification? Perhaps you're a vegetarian, but if you aren't there's a logical inconsistency there. If you are, kudos for walking the walk.
Serverless Slack Bots
CNNIC had provided "unauthorized digital certificates for several Google domains" and in an update on April 1st Google said that "To assist customers affected by this decision, for a limited time we will allow CNNIC’s existing certificates to continue to be marked as trusted in Chrome, through the use of a publicly disclosed whitelist" - http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.ro/2015/03/maintaining-...

So, I doubt they would treat StartSSL any worse than they treated China.
Bitcoin is going to break the backs of governments anyway - they can create their own digital currencies, but there's no guarantee that people will use them!
Cool, that solves it. No need to choose :) Thanks.
I think the viable alternatives are pretty much poison or more predators.

Feeding them is going to result in an even greater population. Moving them probably isn't viable (they will just do the same thing in the new spot).
Because more ports are unnecessary. It's really that simple. And Apple has a strong track record of breaking from the past to bring us into the future.
Add "Deamon" by Daniel Suarez to your list.
Some are, yes. We're talking about the top CS students at schools like Stanford, Berkeley, CMU and MIT - these kids are in the top 10% of the top 1% of students. They may not be making major decisions on day 1, but they expect to be able to grow into a role where they are at least a voice at the table within a year or two.
i believe its not its own city. 2 posts for venice should be part of los angeles. you can still have venice its own section if u want, but excluding it from los angeles doesn't make sense.

what u have is too simplistic.
I'd imagine Snow Leopard is vulnerable to the first exploit mentioned in the post.
The Bible, definitely

PS:
Proverbs 22:29 is a motivation for me to always improve my craft

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will stand before kings; He will not stand before obscure men.
Don Quixote. Touches on a lot: perception, value, narrative, ethics, creativity. Above all it is funny as hell and beautifully written.

Types and Programming Languages, Benjamin Pierce, slightly intimidating mathematically for me but worth diving in, lots of interesting ideas, I'm only through to the second chapter.
If you can't tell by the substance of the story, it does say in relatively small print at the top "Culture | Fiction".
But you can plug it into a projector, a charger, and have a USB plugged in all at the same time with the Apple USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter. This is pretty expensive though.
>I see "wages would rise to match the value contributed by employees, which would reduce the surplus that businesses can extract."

I understand that theoretically the wage would be negotiated to the point where it was no longer attractive to poach or be poached and everyone's life would continue along swimmingly. The problem is that I don't believe this would happen in the Real World. There is just too much emotion involved, and perception is too fickle, for this to work out well for anyone. The industry's productivity would be deeply damaged, not just from the high-level executive POV where you're comparing year-over-year profit-dollars-per-employee, but also from the tangible, objective POV, where it would take much longer to get things done.

There's a reason that anyone who gets caught up in a poaching war takes effort to avoid that situation from occurring ever again, and there's a reason that employees aren't going out and more actively inciting bidding wars no matter how fun it sounds in theory to have two or more companies tripping over themselves to outbid each other for you. Putting aside the actual economic realities that would be incurred, employees have real emotional needs that would be difficult to meet in a poaching culture. People need continuity and camaraderie. People need a sense of accomplishment and contribution. Those things are not going to occur if 25% of your workforce churns over to the competitor and back again every year, and like I said, while I understand the theory that the churn would eventually stop once a "market price" for the labor was stabilized, I don't think that's how it would play out in real life; I think the entities would commonly harbor feelings of resentment and betrayal, and I think many participants would adopt other combative emotional stances, that would deeply impede the industry's function.

I'll have to do some research and see if I can find some real-life data that may credit or discredit this theory.

We also need to acknowledge that anti-poaching agreements can be interpreted in various ways. My understanding is that most of these agreements bar active recruitment or incitement of sitting employees at members of the pact, but they do not bar hiring an employee away if he seeks you out. There may be exceptions and this may have changed depending on the interpretation of different persons in the HR dept. I definitely believe that refusing to hire employees who seek out employment externally due to your no-poach agreement is uncool.
>Once a good is produced, the harm to the labor is already done. Banning things "after the fact" is pointless. By the time you've identified a "sweat shop" to "ban the shoes" you can already take appropriate actions against the fact it is a sweat shop, y'know?

Sometimes you only have jurisdiction over the point of sales.

>You punish the sweatshop, not the person in possession of a given good.

If you cannot punish the sweatshop because they are not under your jurisdiction, then the only thing you can do to discourage profit from flowing to the sweatshop is to punish those who benefit from it's product.

>We hold people to legal contracts they failed to consult a lawyer on all the time.

Considering many are too poor to afford a lawyer... I don't see it as a major difference. I actually see the contract law in much of the modern day world as allowing for the exploitation of the lower class and less informed.

>You are an adult. You have to take responsibility and do your own research and/or decide which sources of information you trust.

Once again, why can't we just say 'you are a person, you have the...'? What is magical about being an adult that suddenly makes taking advantage of someones lack of resources and information acceptable (if not admirable)?

>None of the problems you've stated with my position can actually be "solved" in a reasonable manner because the freedom for adults to make stupid choices [due to ignorance or otherwise] is a fundamental right they have [even if you think they shouldn't have it].

What if I think that freedom should happen at 13 instead of 18? Or 23 instead of 18? Or when you can past this comprehensive test instead of 18?
Science does not care if it offends the left or the right and frankly the center is more reasonable. Starvation comes from bad logistics not some disproven Malthusian claptrap.
If you have two external monitors you are not the target market for this machine. At least not as your primary machine. I'm planning to buy one for when I'm out to meetings or traveling. Still keeping my bigger and more connected MBP 15'' for my desk.
Strange story.

I'll refrain from projecting too much onto the author, and instead say that his characters' relationship to alcohol is downright alien to me. As is their relationship to women, who are apparently without exception unpleasant, disapproving control freaks:

>your mother—not to mention that wife of yours—would never forgive me if I helped you find the place

>So far as Mrs. McHintry is concerned, I work late on Mondays. If she complains about the smell of booze on me, I tell her I had a beer on the way home to wind down

> The evening wore on. I had to phone an increasingly exasperated Donna a couple more times

> I do recall the frequent appearance of terms like “skunk,” “loaded,” “all on my own,” “lush,” “douchebag” and even a tentative “staying with my mother awhile”—we both recognized this last as an empty threat, because … well, you remember your grandmother, don’t you?
They already have a mips chip programme aimed at supercomputers, although they are not as performant as xeon.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson#Supercomputers
> Wildcards are explicitly banned by browsers and CAs when making the EV requirements: otherwise you get .company.com being used for bankofamerica.com.company.com like what happened with DV certificates.

Name validation is supposed to, and generally does, forbid "." in the part represented by the .
> We hope that a third world is what will emerge.

That's a rather unfortunate choice of words. :P

Joking aside, I feel like two issues are being conflated here.

Art does have value, but translating that value into monetary results for artists is an age old problem, and not one that has suddenly propped up due to the accessibility of art. Art has been a trade funded by patrons, a past-time for the wealthy, a public service funded by the government, a religious service funded by the Church, a consumer item and increasingly as of recent, a free service in exchange for advertising/analytics.

In all these forms, artists have been concerned about either their freedom of expression, their livelihoods or both.

Monetizing art has always been difficult, and just because it has value doesn't mean people care enough to pay for the real stuff... they'll settle for what is available, familiar and fills the gap (one of a bajillion examples: The Monkees).

Many things have value, research into climate change or lung cancer, space exploration, winter-prepping your garden... it doesn't mean that people (a) will pay for it (b) can pay for it.
Funny, I saw a similar post on HN today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9347228

It's about a startup residence in Morocco, startups came and work there for one month
I think there are two issues being conflated here, the push to encrypt all the things, and common sense encrypting things when you're doing sensitive stuff like entering PII.

For the first use case, using HTTPS, whether it be self signed, expired, bad domain, or whatever the failure mode, is strictly better than using HTTP. It's that simple, because you're providing a layer that does not exist otherwise. Hell, at least if you're getting MITMed, it's you vs the one attacker, not you vs the government and every other kiddie with a copy of wireshark.

For the second one, we care a lot more about the authentication bit.

and an expired certificate is still invalid.

..for no good reason whatsoever. If renewing a cert required a rekey, that would be one thing, but it does not. If an attacker has compromised your private key, nothing is stopping them from going out to your CA with a fresh CSR in hand and regenning the cert themselves! The functional difference between an expired cert and a non expired one is how loud the browser whines about it - you're just as secure, identity has still been verified to the same degree. It's arbitrary and pointless and bureaucratic and causes more problems that it solves, and needs to go away.

if I'm an issuer of certificates I would expect that if I said a certificate I issued is expired, it would be treated as such.

If you're an issuer of certificates, you have a vested interest in making the process to become a competitor of yours as annoying and expensive as possible. (How'd that ~$30k WebTrust audit work out for some of the CA's recently?) You also have no differentiation in product - once you're an accepted CA, your cert is as good as VeriSign's and provides absolutely nothing that theirs does not.

What this means is that the vendors trade on fear, much like antivirus companies used to (and kind of still do) - creating this bogus perception that a signed SSL cert is anything other than a signed SSL cert depending on who you paid and how much.
Reintroducing predators seems to be the only alternative to population control by rifle. But being maimed by wolves is probably not a more peaceful death than being shot.
Especially if you drive there. Taking the train to the airport is pretty safe, too. (Planes are safer by the metre, trains safer by the second.)
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Exchanging money for a physical artifact isn't the only way to make a living. There are a few systems in place like Kickstarter and Patreon to fund artists without necessarily limiting the output to backers. And of course the crowdfunding model isn't limited to those sites. There are other models that fall in between having one person pay you to make art and having 10k random people pay for your art. http://www.copyblogger.com/20-steps-1000-fans/
So, when it's time to move to a different stack, do you train your old team or can them? Or worse, relegate them to only maintaining the old stuff until the new stuff is in production?

If you don't move to a new stack, how's your retention?
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Why is the parent being downvoted? This post doesn't come across to me as off-topic or offensive in any way.
payment processors like Visa, MC, etc., really shouldn't exist

Agreed. When it's cheaper for a large company to do checks (physical or ACH) then we can pretty much assume that putting electronic money in the hands of for-profit entities like Visa and MasterCard is a real mistake. The cost of a credit card transaction is too damn high.

I will grant that a (US) government agency is cumbersome and inefficient and risible, but putting that amount of control in private entities is a mistake on many levels.
This article is making the argument that removing some of these deer is beneficial to the environment.

(In the sense that a controlled deer population results in greater diversity of plant species over the long term. Of course the relative value of plant species and deer are subjective)

There is very little young cedar, directly as a result of deer. If you drive along US 2 in the UP of Michigan, you can see that all the trees along the road look like they are trimmed. It is from deer browse, they eat everything they can reach.
Oh! Second time in as many days that's been a reference I've missed.

The specs on the MacBook look marginally worse than the Macbook Air, though. Just confusing to me, why I'd buy this one and not the Air...
Neat! What if the treaty didn't stipulate that the "pilot" must pilot the craft - the purpose of the human was to ensure that the "human cost" of war remained at a reasonable level as to thwart senseless violence. Seems like an interesting exploration - who would the "pilots" be, and what (if anything) would they be expected to do while in the craft?
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Except for the processor speed, this could easily be my work laptop. I would prefer having only one thing to plug-in at my desk, as opposed to the power / USB hub / monitor setup that I currently have. Even with an Apple Thunderbolt monitor I would still have 2 things to plug in.

At all other points in the day I'm running on battery power, so I don't need any ports.
I just finished that book last night! It is a must-read for people in systems engineering. I learned a lot about what kind of errors can happen...
No, its more about celebrating and recognizing the strengths of those who are less boisterous.
Apple has a long history of dramatic changes in ports, which is usually met with derision yet, not long after, becomes the industry norm. I've seen such "why is unclear" rhetoric when Apple dropped floppy drives, RS-232 ports, Centronix printer ports, prior keyboard/mouse ports, VGA, etc and went exclusively (or nearly) to CDs, USB, FireWire, assorted video (jumping to the best as available), and other connectors.

USB has done well, but is lacking: high power (both directions), extremely high data rates, flippable, and generally able to hub a bunch of wires into a single connector (power included). Yeah we can live without the USB-C's aggregation of all that, but for the target market (leading-edge ultraportable) it's a good improvement.
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1) So /usr/local is now writable by users? Most software doesn't run as root regardless of where it's installed... I think you mean that you can install into a user prefix without admin privileges, which does make sense for certain packages (if different users require different versions, or something like that).

You can probably accomplish something similar with yum/rpm though by using the downloadonly plugin and using relocatable rpm's (though probably most distro rpm's are not relocatable, but that doesn't stop someone from creating a custom repository of relocatable rpm's and offering a script that does something like yum-downloader --resolve --destdir=~/.myrpms ; rpm --prefix=~/.local/ --dbpath=~/.myrpmdb -Uvh ~/.myrpms/* )

2) So? A repository of rpm specs or the debian equivalent could also be stored in git...

3) Maybe that's nicer, but it could probably build a .spec file (or the debian equivalent) as well in the same DSL which would be superior.

4) Probably because you never installed a kernel or other system package using homebrew

5) Yes homebrew, a third-party hacky collection of scripts necessary because OS X does not provide basic tools for managing software, is an example of superior OS design by Apple?
Regardless, that is what developers have come to expect. Not that semver is adopted wholesale, but at least don't break the API without incrementing the major version.
I assume the plan is hubs as docking stations. USB 3 allows to host and draw power at the same time, right?
Added thanks!
There is little correlation between the domain of a submission and the amount of points it receives on average. (The exception is the more niche posts by more renowned programmers)
Firstly, that's a rather odd argument. I wouldn't assume I could kill some old or sickly person in some remote region of the world where there were no doctors. Why does the same logic not apply to an animal? It may not apply, but at least make the case, rather than leaving it an assumption.

Secondly, I'm not sure how we can assume that the old and sickly animals are the ones being killed when humans hunt. I would assume it's a statistically higher percentage of them, but I would also assume it much less statistically relevant than with a bow, and that less than with a spear. On the other end of the spectrum, I would imagine killing deer by dropping a bomb on them would result in no statistical difference in the kills compared to the normal herd make-up. Technology lessens the "we kill the old and sickly" argument.
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