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Pretty much everything you said is wrong. There are indeed ports that occasionally require you to rebuild a bunch of downstream packages, but the default for a while has been to move the old libraries, etc into /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg so that new stuff will continue running.

Regarding rolling back/forward, the ports system allows you to create binary packages from your build. So, if you're in a production environment, the old version of the package still is there, ready to be reinstalled with all your compile flags intact.

Verification is also something that ports does. Because ports work with the pkg system, installing a port installs it in a package, with hashes and everything. Auditing's a no brainer there.

Furthermore, the ports system allows you to build everything within jails dedicated to port building, so every time you update, you get fresh packages with no legacy dependencies.

Oh, and one more thing. That's just the steps FreeBSD has made. OpenBSD does not have a rolling ports tree, the ports tree is tied to a specific version, which creates binary packages by default, without installing the port to your filesystem. So, again, you get everything apt and rpm can do, plus you get a level of flexibility that they can't match.
Uh, Gmail on Android doesn't let you sign out without delinking the account from your device...
Wait, what? You need security, such as encryption to get privacy? How is that a clash?
I wonder if Yahoo will get back on track. Marissa is doing an extraordinary good job. I would say that if all measures Marissa is doing don`t help Yahoo, nothing can help Yahoo.
Direct solar desalination as you suggest has a limit of about 4 sq. meters/liter/day. (Says http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_desalination ). The L.A. Department of Water and Power delivers some "545,910 acre feet of water to 694,705 accounts" (http://sustainablecities.usc.edu/research/Chapter%203.%20LAD... ). That's 673 million cubic meters.

To replace that water with desal would require 7E9 sq meters or 7 379 sq. km or 2849 sq. miles, or about 4x the size of the L.A. metro area. Assuming I didn't drop a few powers of 10.

There isn't the space for that in L.A. There's also pumping costs to get sea water up and through the desal system.

Reverse osmosis seems to be the way that everyone is going. Including indirect RO through solar power. Power is a lot easier to move around than water.
It is easy to fall into a nihilistic, hopeless attitude when faced with problems of this size. While this problem can affect anybody, I suspect the these feeling about feasibility of change affect the people that create modern technologies in a specific way: it distracts and hides just how much power we retain, that cannot be collected by the people trying to place themselves at the top of rapidly centralizing power structures.

The power I'm referring to is the power retained by whomever is actually implementing the world we live in. A tyrant can issue all the orders and threats they want - unless someone caries out those orders, the tyrant is just making a lot of hot air. Implementation is what matters in the end, and I think the readers of HN have a pretty good idea who it is that will end up implementing our future.

So the next time someone asks you to implement some bit of the surveillance state, use your power and let some bit of that future go unimplemented. It may be a trivially small thing that may not affect much in the long run. Those little things add up, and the message it sends is important.

I realize that it is hard to take a stand. There is always the possibility of being fired - or worse. Just remember that the engineers working around technology have an advantage over the typical "protest" crowds of the past: the people that want to use the surveillance state need engineers to make their tools. So take advantage of any little bit of power that you have and hold the line in some small way against this creeping tyranny. Above all, remember that tools like this very forum are available.

I'm not saying there is no risk, and I'm not saying there won't have consequences. What I am suggesting is that unless we start making these principled stands right now, the situation is only going to get worse, and the sacrifices required to fix this situation only rise with time.

Please. This is our future, and as clichée as it sounds, there is a lot of truth to the idea that the real power comes form strength in numbers.

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/* speaking of the power held by engineers... I suspect "work to rule" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule ) could be a particularly effective tool in the hands of the people the keep important parts of the world running */
What's the point of comments like this?
Generally speaking, an economy that depends on such a small number of participants for financing is setting itself up for unpredictable revenue stream, which results in pretty rough times when some of those guys decide to take the rest of the year off, or "spend more time with the family".

US wealth calculations are also so heavily biased towards real estate prices that any year house prices head downwards, the balance of wealth shifts towards the top. Any time the housing markets stabilize and grow, everybody is suddenly more equal.
Wow. Austin "overcrowded". It has less that 2500people/sq mi. I've heard it all now.
It is almost 8 years ago. Do we anything new to learn in this area?
Using Pascal Script
> I wrote the sorting algorithm in as3isolib

Oh neat. I don't recognize your username, but I submitted the first entry in the logo contest for that library in 2008, which ended up being fairly close to the final logo.

> Flash is certainly alive and well.

There's plenty of developer activity, but I'm pretty sure Adobe only has a life support team maintaining most things now.

AS4 was cancelled, so Falcon was the last notable language change. Most of the AoT iOS/Android targeting stuff was completed years ago, so now AFAICT it's just being kept compatible with new releases.

FP12 was supposed to be a huge jump, but now 12-17 (and the accompanying AIR APIs) have come and gone without pushing things forward meaningfully.
In practice, an "X hour work week" means employers are required to pay a multiple of the usual wage for hours worked past X. So you can allow/require employees to work longer, but it'll be cheaper to employ more people for fewer hours.
Right, which is why trying to hide the fact you testified might be a bad idea... If someone won't hire you because you testified against a criminal employer... You probably don't want to work for them. Since, as you said, companies hide their true colors, this way you can know before being hired.
If my group wanted to hire this person and HR rejected them for this reason, I would quit.
Could you elaborate on Reno's weather? I read the climate section on Reno's Wikipedia page but it's hard to get a good sense of the actual weather.
I can't think of anything special about this instant, but look at prevailing conditions: the employment-to-population rate has plummeted in recent years [1]. The number of zero-margin-product people on disability has skyrocketed [2]. Income inequality has increased markedly [3]. Yet our GDP has increased tremendously during that time [4].

We just don't need as many person-hours as we used to need. The trend is only going to continue. Except in the case of people with exceptional cognitive endowments (like most of the HN readership), there's a labor glut.

We could just wait. The trend will continue. Eventually, things will come to a head (or several, under a guillotine). Instead, let's gracefully adapt to increased productivity by increasing the cost of labor. That's how we can let the population as a whole benefit from this productivity miracle.

[1] http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12300000
[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/us-disability...
[3] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=gini+coefficient+unite...
[4] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=United+States+real+GDP...
"integrity or other nonsense"
Defining 0^0=1 has issues. Example: a(n)=1/exp(n), b(n)=1/n. Then both a and b converge to 0, but a^b is always exp(-1) (and hence does not converge to 1).
This..

When the rubber hits the road this is what happens and worse
> (What happens if I want to work more than 20 hours a week?)

I have friends in France who sneak into their academic research labs after hours because of this exact reason (well, not 20 hours, but set max work hours)... seems super silly to me.
And we know the work they were doing will not be filled by anyone else.
Check your spam folder.
Few more decades and surely she will do something breakthrough!
She is given way to much credit imo. Any male CEO by now would be cursed but most stockholders in this situation.
Do you really think, that this can only happen in Europe? (I know, that you meant history, but I am wondering, if humans are so much more democratic in the US? I for my part am sure, that in my country there can be a violent (or covered) dictorship again very soon).
> These folks were not being arrested, they were being detained

Yes, and you still need to follow lawful orders when being detained. You can't say "I'm not getting out of the car until my mother arrives, understand?". You can't pull back when an officer tries to forcefully remove you from the car, or put up your fists as if you are going to punch the officer. You can't do that 10+ times and imagine that you will not get maced/tased/etc.

> Any officer can make that claim, its a BS claim that is used to justify aggressive force

You know, isn't it weird that the officer had this "BS" claim, and it turns out that the person who was tasered did have marijuana on him, and was charged with possession and intent to sell? Source: http://washington.cbslocal.com/2015/04/10/virginia-police-in...

> Innocent until proven guilty

It was a reasonable search because there was probable cause.

> its up to the officers, who are using force, to justify that force.

The officers didn't use force until the person started resisting their orders. If he would have just stepped out of the car, and let the cops search him(where they would eventually find the marijuana he was planning on selling), no force would have been necessary. He would have just been arrested and charged with intent to sell. Now he has resisting arrest on his record too.

> The smell of marijuana is a tactic used by police to try to upset you

Or, you know, the officer did actually smell marijuana. I agree with you that a cop can make up the reason, but that cops can never smell weed, and it doesn't seem to be the case here since there actually was marijuana in the car.

> These people had every right to stay in the car

No, they didn't. Probable cause was established and the officers were within their rights to ask them to step out of the car so a search could be performed.

> They're only trying to provoke you into doing something they can then use to justify their force

No. They did not provoke the kid to refuse to get out of the car, and they did not provoke him to pull away multiple times when pulling him out of the car.
Genymotion is actually pretty good when compared to the standard terrible emulator. (still neither of them hold a candle to the iOS simulator)
This corner of Virginia is plagued by disgusting behavior of police and other officials. Neither you nor your family are safe if you happen to be in Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Norfolk, or Portsmouth. The police departments and commonwealths attorneys in these jurisdictions have a disgusting perversion of the concept of 'equal protection of the laws,' they simply decide that some individuals deserve to be abused and the perpetrators of crimes against them shall be unsanctioned, free to roam the streets and able to possess firearms. Certain people in the community are free to commit crimes due to their political or social connections, and they are protected and permitted to hold government jobs within various agencies of these cities such as the police departments and school boards.
You are completely incorrect, and you should research your claims before posting on the internet. Minors have a right to access to their legal guardians when they are under arrest, not when they are being detained.
Same here, however I've recently been doing some android and if you Install Genymotion it's actually not as terrible.
Detectives lawfully obtaining a warrant and performing their search within the limitations of that warrant is not a problem. That's what law enforcement is supposed to do.

The problem is that a warrant _isn't_ required to search a cellphone, laptop or any other personal device.

Those devices can be seized and searched at the border, and any data the device sends at any other time can be intercepted by Stingray style devices or as part of a mass data collection program. And law enforcement agencies are pushing for more access, more of the time. I don't think they should have any access, unless they have a valid warrant for a specific crime
Strangely, I and everyone I knew at 17 managed to make it through 17 without resisting arrest.
Pareto principle at its best.
This is an example of the Pareto Distribution, and it's entirely expected.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution
Sure, the revenue structure based on the assumption "10 guys, most of them hedge fund managers, will make over a billion dollars, guaranteed" seems sustainable.

Most of such income is off one-time events http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2013/12/20/mark-zucke... You can hope they're repeatable, and that works during the boom years, but during the bust years it becomes a "California double whammy" - not only your projections are over-blown, but the high-income tax events (which tend to be IPOs or big hedge fund wins, judging by the caliber of people stuck with multi-billion dollar tax bills) have also been eradicated by a stagnating/falling economy.
On a side note Safari on desktop and mobile do not support .webm
Racist Hatred (1968)
These 20 % get a lot in return for the taxes they pay. In general taxes are good because the are dues we pay to enjoy the numerous vital benefits that government provides for our society.
What could I be a victim of? I would, and presumably always will, follow lawful orders from a police officer. Maybe I'm just crazy.
Uh, they should fix that. That's fucking stupid. And doesn't give yahoo an out. It's dumb to treat users like that.
Well in this case you have to speak out.. to atleast signal to the next set of scammers to not mess with you.
I think overcrowding really means congestion to most people. Any quick population spike will cause congestion as infrastructure takes time to scale.

Some forms of congestion:

1. Traffic

2. Reduced parking

3. Waiting at restaurants longer

4. Housing and living costs becoming quickly unaffordable

5. Longer commutes and travel times.

6. More noise
If you manage to safely (that's the keyword here) send toxic waste in space, just shoot it straight into the sun, that's way more eco-friendly!
I am sorry for not having a huge hard-on for men in uniform that drag teens,
by tasers and pepper sprays, out of their cars while they're not being a threat
to anyone.

For what reason? Ah right, he smelled pot.

Bravo officer of the law! Everyone feels safer now. His family would be so proud.

This looks like something I'd see in a movie about a 3rd world country with a corrupt government and a police state. Not in a country that touts democracy, freedom, justice and equality.
No, the Pareto Principle explains why the top 20% earn 51.3% of all income. An extremely progressive tax policy explains why the top 20% pay 83.9% of all income tax. There's nothing naturally occurring about our tax policy.
She should have as long as Yahoo is in the black. It's appetant stockholders greedy for short term gain that are screaming to lay-off gainfully employed people. People that are producing real and substantial profit quarter after quarter.

She should pull a Dell and drop the pack of vultures hoping for a takeover. Then she could continue to do the awesome surgery to rid Yahoo of its cancer.
Yeah, there are good reason why we don't let crime victims organise the investigation or decide the perpetrator's punishment. Crime and law enforcement are not the only consideration in this case; if I'm a journalist or activist, I don't want those who I antagonise as part of my work to be able to access my data by leveraging their power and connections. More generally, if I'm a citizen, I don't want those with more guns, more money and better connections than me to be able to intimidate into silence the journalists and activists I rely on to provide a counterbalance.

Unfortunately, it seems to be much easier for a lot of people to imagine themselves as a victim of some high-profile crime (of the kind that perhaps happens to .01% of the US population every year) yearning for justice than to visualise the full extent of the small and large influence on their everyday civic life.
Speaking with some degree of frustration, this reminds me of a cliché of Tea Party followers arguing along the lines of "well, if I became rich, I wouldn't want to pay taxes either" and generally being more eager to defend the interests of an imaginary future version of themselves than their own ones.
Fix the Gini coefficient[1] and this will be fixed. Also if you want to pay less taxes there is a simple way of just earning less, etc. Cause it's so much better to be poor and/or have no job, right?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...
Because we tax income, not wealth?

I'll bet there are plenty of people in the 20% that owns 80% of the wealth and pay no tax at all.

Plenty of people of people in the lower 50% do pay taxes.
I think OP's concern is that he'll lose out on even getting an interview. Basically, employers will get his resume, like what they see, google him then decide to pass
What you have shown is that the _limiting form_ 0^0 is not always equal to 1. The _value_ 0^0 is still equal to 1.

Similarly, floor(−1/n) converges to −1, which tells us that the _limiting form_ floor(0) is not always equal to 0; but the _value_ floor(0) is still equal to 0. Nobody uses this to argue that the value of floor(0) should be undefined or context-dependent.
"Regarding rolling back/forward, the ports system allows you to create binary packages from your build. So, if you're in a production environment, the old version of the package still is there, ready to be reinstalled with all your compile flags intact."

This doesn't sound equivalent to:

yum install httpd-<specific-older-version>

To me. What does that look like, exactly? What are the steps to roll back to a prior version?

"Verification is also something that ports does. Because ports work with the pkg system, installing a port installs it in a package, with hashes and everything. Auditing's a no brainer there."

I now see this is true; apologies for misleading statements above. The pkg_check command seems to do what is necessary here. That's great!

"Furthermore, the ports system allows you to build everything within jails dedicated to port building, so every time you update, you get fresh packages with no legacy dependencies."

Again, what does that look like? What are the commands? How long does it take?

"So, again, you get everything apt and rpm can do, plus you get a level of flexibility that they can't match."

I think we may both be speaking from positions of ignorance. I'm gonna go install an OpenBSD VM and fix my ignorance.
The Gini coefficient explains why the top 20% earn 51.3% of the income. It doesn't explain why they pay more than 80% of the income tax. The reason for the latter is an extremely progressive income tax code.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient#Limitations_o...

The Gini coefficient has a lot wrong with it. A country where everyone is uniformly poor would rank higher than the US even if the poorest person in the US is better off.
Well they did try to make an Amiga games control as a last hail mary of sorts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_CD32
So you are arguing that someone in the 39.6% tax bracket gets 164% more "in return for the taxes they pay" than someone in the 15% tax bracket? (Or infinitely more than someone who pays no income tax at all?)
There has to be a mechanism for people who are truly passionate about their work, like artists, scientists, programmers, to follow their passions as far as they want. The danger, of course, is that intra-organization competition pressures people to work longer and longer hours. I'm willing to accept that risk so long as we make a shorter work week the default.

We're talking about an unusual case, though. You have to realize the most people hate their jobs. They're not following their passions. They find work tedious, uncomfortable, and frequently demeaning. For these people, the bulk of humanity, a cap on working hours frees them to do something they find much more interesting.
Tell the law firm to f*%k off. Attorneys are vultures and just care about themselves (spent most my life working with them). You are just toilet paper to them. What is the benefit of testifying?
Marketing and Advertising are different things.

Marketing is the interface between the consumer and the product or service and it includes advertising but also customer support, the design of the box, what channels you distribute through, etc.

Word-of-mouth is a marketing strategy as much as anything else is, but if the success of the product mattered to me I would think that "If you build it they will come" is an antipattern.

Certainly some brands have strong relationships with advertising. Warren Buffet makes sure to be the #1 advertiser in all media with those GEICO ads (which now even mock themselves) to keep the media sweet. Years back, Pabst Blue Ribbon got bought by a corporate raider who was too cheap to spend money on ads, but now a lot of people think PBR is cool because it does not run ads.
NEXT BIG FILM MAKER?? THOUGHTS? CHECK OUT HIS BACKGROUND. Love THIS
Only 30 years, but it already feels like history.
Do you think you can go your whole career making everyone like what you do?

If not, do what you think is right. You'll be your best critic and fan, pay attention to what's good for you.

Separately, if you want to spend your life working for soulless corporations, then the publicity could hurt you.

If you want to work for good people that understand real issues, they'll appreciate what you do if you handle yourself honorably.

This reminds me of John Boyd's famous question: "Do you want to be somebody or do you want to do something?"
I was thinking the same thing. It's fun to speculate on your own genius while attempting to also be humble. Interesting blog post though.
You don't happen to work for the Internet Research centre, do you?
Well, what percent of income to they make? Article is behind paywall.
There were so few comments in this thread I ended up reading through the comments in the other ones. One of those links is far more rich in discussion.
Russia, and most of the western world for that matter, including England et al, don't have the same free speech protections for all kinds of references to others the way the US has. Anti-defamation law is a thing in other countries -- and lest people start to pity them, they should know that they like having their own customs and laws, thank you very much.

Besides, most of them don't have other BS for balance, like say the death penalty or crazed tea-party/bible-yielding/Obama-is-the-devil populations...
Seriously, it is way too late for this. You can't change the math, which is what crypto is. Now that people know it, you can somehow remove that information from the world.