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"You can have as many package sources as you want just by adding them into the PKG_PATH environment variable."

This is great! I didn't know this was possible, and it's been one of my biggest complaints about ports on FreeBSD (I don't know if FreeBSD supports something similar now, but it didn't as recently as a few years ago).

Apologies for starting the thread off with some misinformation and seemingly incorrect negativity. I have had many, many, very bad experiences with ports, mostly on FreeBSD. I made some assumptions that OpenBSD ports was equivalent to FreeBSD ports. I also based my comments on out-dated information.
Word-of-mouth strategy only works when your intended target is more than willing to share his opinion with his friends and tell everyone about you.

The problem is (according to most companies i've worked for) most good customers will just buy your product and shut up. They don't brag about how good your product is; and it's likely their friends will never know about the purchase.

Bad customers however will tell 10 friends; and those 10 friends tell another 10 friends (and so on and so on). Semi-Myth / Semi-Fact; they are basically right. You can game this and try and win more customers from negative attention but it can backfire.

Lastly, not everyone looks for new products to buy. Some people don't know they need to buy something until you market them a problem; and the solution. If your expecting customers to magically just find you; maybe you will find money magically appear in your bank account.
I don't understand why it would be reasonable to require that the phone have a backdoor which allows them to access the data if they have a warrant for that specifically, but not reasonable to require someone to give up the the password under contempt of court if they have a warrant for that specifically.

Not that I necessarily think either is reasonable, but I don't understand in what way the second would be worse?
I suppose if a person turned out to have not committed a crime, and there was a warrant against them, if they were required to give up their password, they might fail to remember it?

Is that risk worse or lesser than the risk of authorities being able to e.g. get data without a warrant via the backdoor?

I'm not really sure?
Tip: Deep Note makes an excellent alarm clock. Gradual crescendo, makes you feel pumped up to get going...
My favorite part of Kate's talk is that she not only gives stories that illustrate the issues, but also that she gives specific tangible advice for steps we can take to get closer to solving the problems. Definitely worth a watch.
Well if the trend is right, and continues, it means future generations will have to have education and a society that by default works in a critical thinking - always learning - always thinking kind of mode. This could be huge for humanity. I think it's mostly culture and societal norms that dictate the normal modes of thinking, and that most people can do just fine if they are brought up in the right environment. The other option is some kind of transformation or crash, or that technology fails somehow and crashes. Or? Well it could be a very bright future if the conditions are right and the planet allows it
> What does that look like, exactly? What are the steps to roll back to a prior version?

I am tracking the -stable branch in ports, which means I periodically sync my local ports tree with upstream and then build / upgrade any updated packages. Inside my /usr/ports/packages/amd64/all/ directory I have the following packages:

firefox-esr-31.4.0.tgz
firefox-esr-31.5.0.tgz
firefox-esr-31.5.3.tgz
firefox-esr-31.6.0.tgz

If I somehow decide I do not want the newest firefox-esr, I would:

pkg_delete firefox-esr-31.6.0 && pkg_add firefox-esr-31.5.3

And that's it.
Every country with an intelligence service is working as hard at spying on the Internet as the NSA. (Albeit with less funding.)

I haven't heard a reasonable proposal to put that cat back into its bag, and without one Rand's statement sounds impractical and misguided, at best.
Would you agree that maximizing shareholder value is not the ultimate ethic?

Yes, I wholeheartedly agree. I simply don't think that (most) investors agree with that, and will seek a change in leadership if the income statement doesn't improve.
There's some audio drift, but good to see it's close =)
I have one of the new Pi's with 1GB ram. With a fast 64GB microsd card ($21 on black friday). I've been pretty impressed with fast it compiles with make -j4.
As someone who knows nothing about Elementary OS, you are correct. I dug into the blog a bit and all I can tell is that it's Ubuntu with some Gnome skins. Why would I pay money for a free OS? What's the purpose? What need is this designed to fill? The site failed to inform.
Allow me to go straight to the point. You don't need to to move or find other company to start doing interesting things. There a bunch of problems waiting to be solved [1] in the world, a lot of open source projects waiting for contributors [2]. There's always a lot of stuff to do, just search it and you'll find it.

Now, regarding your company, first demonstrate that you can do more awesome stuff, then ask for more challenging work or find a cause to work for. If they don't have, search for companies that have and never accept the status quo. Never stop being hungry.

Don't bother moving. You can do it if you are qualified for, but remote work can be as challenging as any other work around the globe. Although I highly recommend it (relocation) to get some experience.

Hope I helped.

[1] https://research.facebook.com/blog/1522692927972019/facebook...
[2] http://www.codetriage.com/
I suspect you are using a definition for "capitalism" that's based on something other than having private ownership of capital.
In the online dictionary I consulted, dignity is defined as "The state or quality of being worthy of honor or respect."

I think productive work is one means by which individuals can become more worthy of honor and respect.

Thoughts?
That's the view from the US and Europe, but the lives (or at least the incomes and energy consumption) of the poor in developing economies are improving.

Perhaps the benefits of increased productivity in the developed world are simply being counter balanced by increased global competition and an equalization of lifestyles.
all the non-systemd codepaths were explicitly removed in gnome 3.14. two revisions ago.

As GNOME 3.14 is quite different in many incompatible ways with 3.16[1], the fact that they're making that old code work, and updating it to 3.16 is not exactly a trivial task.

they haven't implemented any systemd interfaces. they have essentially redirected the systemd calls to proper utilities supported on OpenBSD (such as ntpd), which is defined as a "shim"; GNOME thinks systemd is there, but in reality, the apps that handled stuff before systemd are still handling everything while lying to GNOME.

1. https://blogs.gnome.org/ovitters/2014/09/07/systemd-in-gnome...
Some content is evergreen. The software May account for that. With linked documents, the URI may be different as well.

The last meaningful discussion was about three years ago. The first was close to seven. The HN community has grown since both those times, but still deals with CPU memory.
The interesting thing about adding hundreds of trillions of dollars in raw mineral resources to earth's standing economy is that earthly real estate will become more valuable until we find some place else to use all this stuff.

Seems like there might be an interesting intermediary phase, maybe something like a gilded age, until we figure out how to exploit these resources under a framework of instantiating extra-terrestrial colonies.
The man is such a disaster in so many other ways, that getting one thing right is more of a half-cup of punch in a turd-bowl.
take pains to blackhole web analytics servers with my hosts file

There are many projects online that do that for you. All you need to do( just once ) is to download the file and add custom domains if you have some, but this is usually not required since everything that doesn't break the "web experience" is blocked by default.
I was part of the original group of early access developers. If anyone has any questions regarding ARC feel free to contact me.
Working without safety regulation is harmful. Working 21 hours is not.
Which just leads to people having to get multiple jobs, with the added stress and commuting it brings.
That's your chance to do something that is worth for the world. IMHO you should not let it pass. Good recruteirs will not judge you by that. If they do, they aren't good recruiters. And good companies should have good recruiters.
I somehow get the feeling that all you do is shilling for GitLab on HN.
> ads are paying less and less

Do you have proof of this on a search level? On a display level, I'd agree with you, but anecdotal, things seems as competitive as ever in search.
My advise as a fellow entrepreneur and programmer...
Get a job if you need to pay rent but never stop trying! Start another startup! But this time try to do it better. I think its worth it even if you fail again.
AIR?? Really? Can you provide any stats to support that?

I'm not against AIR. On the contrary, I had high hopes that it would become the STANDARD for cross-platform desktop deployment. In a mobile-first world, desktop apps are lowest priority and last to be deployed to an ever shrinking base (ex. compare iOS quality to OSX).

A single code base such as AIR could be critical for smaller apps for OSX / Windows / Chrome.
Why would you be more worried about corporate surveillance?
> There are many project online that do that for you.

Can you give an example?
Maybe limiting yourself to noprocrast and https://news.ycombinator.com/best, so you only get the best articles? Granted it's not sure you will be interested by what gets the most upvoted, and the community can pass on things interesting to you...
A politician pledging something? I'm sold. Sign me up!
Corporations are not as worrisome as government because their power to act on that data is less. No company in america is going to bust down my door with rifles or throw me in prison because I think things they don't like. The worst they can do (assuming the government doesn't totally break down) is refuse to do business with me. But the government can do a lot worse and have a history of doing a lot worse.
I honestly think that between POTUS Rand Paul and NSA mass surveillance programs, the latter is the leser of two evils.

It would be very nice to see other candidates making similar pledges though.
Is entry of mathematical equations also visual, or that still requires learning the markup syntax?
While true its not clear you can click "Custom Price" and input $0 dollars.
Thank you for insightful comment
Practice. I play guitar and I can now impress my mom and some friends, after years of practicing hard. But I'll never play as well as Slash or Tom Morello or even as good as the kids that sit and jam in guitar shops. It doesn't bother me (ok the kids does a little because they are clearly showing off). My point is that it is a good thing that many people are much better than you because it means there is so much left to learn in the field you are studying.

Btw, is it this competition? https://code.google.com/codejam
It most likely frees them to go to their second job, now that their salary has been cut proportionally to the fewer hours worked.
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It's true.

I love unsupported assertion day!
The NSA is also very concerned about having access to real encryption.
What makes it expensive and hamfisted?
Isn't that what they said about Barack Obama?
Unused and less-used skills deteriorate over time. For skilled professions, how much time practicing is needed to counteract this?

Technology is changing very rapidly. As a software developer, I need to put in some amount of time keeping up with the changes. Someone specifically focused on web stuff would probably need to put in even more time keeping up. Lawyers will have to keep with new laws, and case law. I understand it's typical for licensed professions to require members to have ongoing education in order to keep their licenses. How much time keeping up is needed to stay current?

If you try to force a 20-hour work week, what do you do when people try to evade this by taking multiple jobs? What do you do about independent business owners who only employ themselves?
One thing I'm confident in is that the further Rand Paul makes in the election process, the more discussion and awareness of mass surveillance's threat to democracy itself.
It would not affect my decision to hire you. In fact, I'd probably admire you more for doing the right thing.
On the other hand, many times hiring managers are just looking for a reason to discard your resume to narrow down the talent pool. Anything negative gets you tossed. They see this. Maybe it's a good sign, maybe it's a bad sign. Either way it's something out of the ordinary that will take more time to evaluate. Better just toss the resume. There's still another stack of 100 candidates to go through...
Where are they getting pushed out to?
If you can't vaporize them (and you can't) what happens?

The failure of hubris isn't necessarily in obnoxiousness. It's in shortsightedness.
Does anyone know if there are any web services built around Elasticsearch that would do this?
You can't estimate the market value of the materials at the time when harvesting them becomes feasible, and you can't estimate the costs with any accuracy either. Other than that, very informative graphic.
This seems like a slightly more plausible version of Newt Gingrich promising a moon colony if elected President. And by slightly more I mean something that he would most likely not fulfill once in office. All candidates promise big things to get elected and most of those things never happen.
> Albeit with less funding.

Latvia deploy surveillance potato! You now scared!
Are you saying that work, not people, is what is worthy of honor and respect?
L1/L2 cache levels are transparent optimizations over the top of register--ram, so eliminating them in a RAM-bound application would save you transistors (power usage) without losing performance. But although a few certain RAM-bound applications might perform equivalently, you've destroyed all other classes of application in the process.

Power efficiency is more complex, often it's better to briefly burst then get back to sleep faster, rather than drag things out at 100 MHz, but a specific answer would depend on many factors.
when things like this happen now I just think "What will John Oliver say about this?"
Could you expand?

Your comment doesn't really add anything to the conversation, expand my knowledge, or even explain why anyone should value your opinion...

I don't mean to be rude, but it was a rather harsh comment, without much (if any) addition to the conversation.
This obsession with hours might be the root of the problem.

Most businesses have given up trying to measure produced value per worker (and certainly don't reward based on value produced). The 40 hour work week just means that it is expected that you work 40 hours a week, 48 weeks a year (give or take, depending on vacation practice/laws) -- in order for the employer to pay you "full benefits". That typically includes ideas about a living wage (not in all parts of the world), and some form of social safety net, such as health care, insurance etc.

A 20 hour work week, would just mean that the expected time most need to put in, to get the basic salary/coverage would be cut in half.

I don't think a smooth, nor easy transition is possible -- you can look at like doubling hourly wages, or halving all prices, or through some other lens: but I think that we are getting accustomed to thinking of hourly pay, hourly wages/compensation etc is part of the problem.

The idea of a work week: that one can work "full time" for one employer doesn't really say that much about how much time one puts in -- it's more about what responsibility that employer have for the employee. And the "norm" of 40 hours is used as a guide to compensate extra for overtime, or to reduce compensation for people that can't or won't work "full time".

Maybe the best way forward, if one believes that some form of "fair" distribution is possible under capitalism, is to have all businesses be 100% employee owned. It's not entirely clear why anyone else should benefit directly from being able to pay less for work put in by workers, and pocket the difference. Especially considering that a lot of the capital invested might be borrowed money -- which under fractional reserve banking is just money made up out of thin air and given to those that need it the least.
http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/index.php is what I use
I would rather work for a company that appreciates the value of my open source involvement and encourages me to develop it further.
No explanation in this comment either
That only works if the fixed costs of a worker (benefits) are negligible at best. If employers need to keep on paying for health care, then it's always cheaper to overwork a worker unless the overtime makes it more expensive. So you need govt. health care for one to get rid of a fixed cost of employees before it becomes feasible for companies.

Also a single worker can produce more work until exhaustion effects start kicking in than a single worker. That equilibrium is probably around 40hrs. Communication and management overhead alone adds more fixed cost to adding an employee.

But if you look at the charts of average work weeks, you'll notice that they are going down. In parts of europe, a full time worker is becoming something between 30-40 hrs.
He's also against the President being allowed to execute US citizens with out charge or trial.
Any successful scam is very productive in the economic sense. Does that make the scammer worthy of honor and respect? If Bill Gates gives away a billion meals to starving African children then he is 0% productive (no revenue!). Does that make Bill Gates unworthy of honor and respect?

Ken Levine (of BioShock fame) calls this the "circus of value." The disparity between economic terms and their moral/intuitive counterparts grows very large in certain important limits.
I don't have any memorized. This is what I do, search online for: +hosts +block
It's been generally well understood in the market that CTR has been crashing the last couple years, even while impressions have been up.
Even as someone familiar with Elementary OS in the past, I can't figure out what's new with this release.
>The Azure organization, just like all of MS, takes privacy and data management super seriously

Hah! So is that why Microsoft fired its chief privacy adviser in 2011 for telling a group of MS' National Technology Officers that “If you sell Microsoft cloud computing to your own governments then the FISA law means that the NSA can conduct unlimited mass surveillance on that data”, because they take privacy seriously?
I agree that the government can do a lot worse and that governments certain have in the past. That said, the more comfortable the relationship between government and a corporation the more likely one is to benefit from the resources and pull of the other.

A corporation won't bust down your door when they can just have LE do it on their behalf. The iPhone 4 leak comes to mind...
http://www.fastcompany.com/1628188/police-raid-gizmodo-edito...
People have been conditioned into thinking libertarians are the devil, basically.
This is not surprising. Rand Paul, similar to his father Ron Paul, has very libertarian political views which means they prefer no government involvement, not just in the Internet but anywhere. This is not as good as it sounds.

For example, he doesn't support FED in controlling money supply. But FED was instrumental in making USD the most stable currency in the last 100 years.

He doesn't like energy regulations and believes free market should dictate the energy prices. Too bad when California deregulated their energy market, the prices went up 10x in some cases due to market manipulations by Enron and similar.

And then there is his religious agenda like anti-abortion, anti same-sex marriages, anti mandatory vaccination etc...

Just because he supports one or two policies we like, doesn't make him good candidate overall. Even a broken clock is right two times a day.
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I agree with you. It doesn't matter how thin the wrappers are or whether they preserve the API, the problem is all code is supposed to call them.

It's no problem to call $timeout in your Controller code or whatever, but what if you want to require a module that uses `setTimeout`? Either the module has to have some way of passing in the timeout function it should call, or you'd have to have a shim that monkey patches it or something.
I thought that by joking with Snowden in the way that he did, Oliver was trying to humanize him.
Explanation of what? Why Rand Paul would be a bad president?
I would be interested in understanding how he proposes to balance US national security interests with scaling back the NSAs capabilities and Total Information Awareness. I am aware (totally ;)) that Rand Paul is considered a bit of a 'dove' and in that way represents me and many other citizens very well.

However, this dovish attitude failed to express itself before when it came to ISIS - just as it is likely to fail in the face of the Wolfowitz Doctrine - the primary US national security concern has been for the past 25 years that there should be no nation that grows mightily enough to challenge the United States. The defense industry is so bent on this doctrine, and the US allies and obligations so tangled up in it, it would take at least a full 8 years of effort to unravel. What's more, these absolutely radical changes to the United States would alter it inexorably (I'm not saying terribly) from its current state (perhaps closer to 1800's traditional America).

Provided the current challenges to US power, a retirement of global bullying would seem to represent a peaceful option in the short term - but its exactly the sort of thing that causes long term defense strategists heart attacks.

What's more - the NSA capabilities means are disjoint from their ends. I'm not sure whether Paul means to say that he would reverse the NSA's ends to apply their capabilities toward American citizens: thus ending surveillance - but then only by the same sort of policy that is represented by the FISA courts. He could possibly mean that he would scale back the NSA's means, but doing so would be absolutely untenable to anyone close to Washington especially as cyber is seen as one of the key weak areas of US defense. On this note does anyone know who would make up Rand's security council? Is he proposing to elect general doves?

Overall, the statement that he would end surveillance means nothing. We need to know how he would propose to end it. What would it entail? What trade-offs are being made on interacting fronts?

I applaud the lip service though. Even if it's bunk, let's hear some more promises to end mass surveillance. (I'd also like them to mention the DEA, FBI and other intelligence orgs - it ain't just NSA). Clinton?
I agree that the website it poorly designed, but you can download Elementary OS for free. Just enter 0 in the "Custom Amount" box.

> I dug into the blog a bit and all I can tell is that it's Ubuntu with some Gnome skins.

Not really. The eOS developers wrote a whole DE(Pantheon) and the included applications from scratch. The website does a very poor job of explaining that.
No, but corporations can lean on the government to do that on their behalf. Such as forcibly evicting a tenant from a foreclosed home [1] or confiscating equipment from a journalist who wrote about your unreleased products [2].

[1]: http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2012/10/15/florissant-police-arr...
[2]: http://gizmodo.com/5524843/police-seize-jason-chens-computer...
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