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It's based on Arch, not Ubuntu (well not sure that's an advange for the most basic users) so it's a rolling distro release (means you do not have to update every 6 months). Arch builds package from source while Ubuntu's package system is simply offer repositories of binaries. Arch gives you more "power" in that sense.
Every few years someone tries to reinvent make, and they usually end up with some unholy mess that complicates build systems or causes maintenance nightmares, and is never quite as good.

It turns out that make's syntax is actually quite simple and appropriate if you take a day or so to learn it properly. It's such a fantastic tool that if its syntax was really that problematic, someone would have created a new syntax front-end to GNU make by now. The fact that they haven't speaks volumes: by the time you learn enough to be able to do it, you realise you can't really come up with anything better.
Couldn't tell from the guide, is this armv6 (A/A+, B/B+, Compute) or armv7 (B2)?
It's Eureqa: http://www.nutonian.com/products/eureqa/ which is fantastic for what it does.
Overall; disappointing.

I am looking for a lightweight linux OS for some old laptops I am refurbishing and giving away to homeless people, so I was interested in this.

The price thing threw me for a moment...paying for software without knowing its value?

I did the $0 hack and downloaded the iso. Stuck the USB in my worse-case system (totally broken screen, low memory etc) hooked to an external monitor, and...

Nothing, except for a screen full of mountains, which was odd because every other lightweight distro I've tried worked fine.

I think maybe it detected two monitors and used the external one without the taskbar, but I couldn't really tell. The OS definitely loaded as I tried to log off and the screen for that popped up.

An OS targeting low-end machines should definitely default to dupe-ing the display on boot.

[edit] ok...can someone clue me into what I've done wrong with the explanation of my experience with trying to use it?
I think a current bridge slowly being crossed is a move away from OO programming (along with GoF design patterns) towards functional languages.

GoF patterns provide structure (at the cost of complexity). FP patterns are simpler and succinct but aren't quite as cookie cutter and thus are less structured.

Probably the tick-tock of the pendulum swinging. As software became too unique to maintain, standard patterns were implemented. As standard patterns became overly complex, we swing back to more expressive constructs.
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The reason, if anyone is wondering, is because of their base meanings:

eleven -> one left
twelve -> two left
thirteen -> three and ten
fourteen -> four and ten

According to the OED, the only non-Germanic language that uses "one left" is Lithuanian, which uses it from 11 to 19.
Because it's based on a tax % rate vs a fixed cost of $2-5k/yr per employee. So if you want to hire 4 people for 10hrs/wk paying each of them $20/hr instead of 1 person at 40hrs/wk, it's not going to cost the company an extra $6-15k / yr to get equivalent hours of labor to do so.

You need to reduce fixed costs and make them a cost that scales with the amount paid for the labor to make doing this more attractive for companies.

Other benefits are pretty much nothing compared to health insurance, or only cost money when the employees are at the job site, so govt. healthcare is needed before 4 workers at 10 hours a week becomes more attractive to employers.

Walmart & co make their employees work part time just to avoid paying mandatory benefits. Benefits are a big cost to companies.
Good. Also there is no client needing representation, just an out dated law that should never have existed. No one is missing out on being represented(at least if it did mention someone in the article, i missed it).

Edit: i dont get the down votes, but im leaving my comment.
The listicles are the man source of clicks, both for BuzzFeed itself and the people writing articles like "You won't BELIEVE these TWENTY TERRIBLE ARTICLES BuzzFeed is running RIGHT NOW!"

Add a little bit of "Internet: Threat Or Menace?" bias from the people whose audience is skewing older faster than the general population and BuzzFeed is now terrible beyond words.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2014/09/05/tv...
Except in this case it went undetected for years...
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By the same token, I could say: "The case for gay marriage: Divorce lawyers can use the extra business."
I don't teach reading. I teach adults in years 3/4 of a 4-year degree program. They are all literate. That have issues when confronted with large amounts of "dry" text.

Finland wants to move towards skill-based rather than fact-based learning. They want students who know how to find and organize information rather than those who simply know facts. I'm saying that the oldschool skills of reading and remembering apparently useless facts is important. It gives you the necessary reading abilities to handle topics beyond highschool.
If you read a bit further, the Stripe documentation explains that it is recommended, but not required.

You can make live transactions just fine from a regular HTTP page - whether that's a good idea or not is another issue, but making Stripe payments from an HTTPS payment page is not required from an API point of view.
The interesting thing about waves of technology disruption is there is usually more than one wave in play at a time, and so a technology can both be disrupting and disrupted. The web was invented in 1989, popularized in 1995, and arguably the point where people realized "Hey, desktop apps are in trouble" was around 2004 when GMail and Google Maps came out. Even so, Dropbox was founded in 2007 as a desktop software company, and that hasn't stopped them from being worth a few billion.

Mobile apps were invented in the 1990s (Newton, Palm), popularized in 2008, and (at least in Silicon Valley) it's a big topic of debate whether the web is dead. In my old job - Google Search - I was still pretty secure as a web guru. In my new job - startup founder - I feel that I at least have to do my due diligence and evaluate the technology.

Whether it's a problem for your career depends on exactly what you want to be doing with your career. There are still people making a living off of COBOL and IBM mainframes. In general, consumer markets peak about 5 years after the technology is introduced to the general public (so microcomputer apps came into their own around 1980 with Visicalc, windowing apps around 1990 with MSWord and various office suites, webapps around 2000 with Google etc, mobile just starting to peak now with Uber/Instacart/etc.) If you're founding a startup you need to account for the time it takes to build your product, so in general you want to use technologies not more than 2 years old. If you're working at a company you don't want to use technologies until the companies that have adopted them have gotten big, so it's frequently 10 years or so after adoption.
The tobacco industry has a lot of concentrated money to back up their lawyers. I don't think the anti gay marriage 'industry' has the concentrated capital on their end.
Unreal Engine 4 supports a lot of C++11 style. True, it's not ubiquitous but it is helping the upswing. It's quite the behemoth.
Why should schools be in the business of deciding to help some kids and not help some other kids?
In this case, the message you're sending is, "A human being is only as valuable as their ability to contribute."

Now guess how much you contribute to the NSA's ability to prevent terrorism. (Hint: if you're unwilling, they'll extract the value from you anyways.)
That is, printing more money is the way? Quantitative easing, as they now call it.

I also heard throwing money from helicopters is beneficial, too.
Ahah! I totally felt for it :)

I'm totally with you to prefer a shorter full-time schedule.
I don't understand the headline. It seems to be saying "Top Law Firms Won't Support Gay Marriage", this is a mark against it.

However, the article seems to be saying the opposite: top law firms are all FOR it, and those opposed don't have top representation.
I'll give the consultant answer- it depends. There are still a surprising number of employers who don't do a internet search on prospective employees, but assuming you apply to one that does, testimony would only have a negative effect if they a) found the testimony and b) thought you to be risk because of it.

As others have said a) is pretty easy to avoid if you aren't the star witness in a major trial and you have any sort of web presence (or you have the same name as someone famous.) Assuming a potential employer did hear about the trial, they are going to care a lot more if your testimony is related to something they MIGHT be doing\accused of doing. If you are being asked to testify that your ex-employer over worked employees or allowed a culture of harassment to exist, then sadly the HR person or hiring manager may worry that you'd make an accusation against them because those conditions are sadly pervasive and\or subjective. If on the other hand you are testifying that the ex employer is clubbing baby seals to make fancy watch bands, then they are much less likely to care because they know they aren't also clubbing baby seals (or if they are, you should be happy they pass on you.)

On a personal level, I'd probably ask them to get a subpoena and testify. I'm reading between the lines, but it sounds like you think it's the right thing to do. If you really believe that then it's worth doing, even if it might have s marginal effect on your some job applications down the line. Tech is big, good engineers are scarce, and most jobs will come from your personal network anyways, and the small downside is worth sleeping well at night.
Any linux distro running LXDE should be fine, take a look at Lubuntu.
I have less of a problem with downloading being illegal in general. I strongly object to censorship in a democratic society, especially without a good checking mechanism or rules about ending a blockade.
What is interesting in the US is that the composition of the population evolves a lot over time. In Europe too to a lesser degree. One could argue that the US is the oldest (and therefore most stable and rooted) democracy. But as the proportion of the hispanic population grows, from a cultural point of view, Mexico becomes sort of part of the history of the US. And not a long history of democracy there.
Entirely different desktop enviroments, eOS is based on Ubuntu and PapyrOS is based on ArchLinux.
Maybe I'm being presumptuous, but children in schools aren't the same as 40 year olds in college.
here goes nothing...

Have you ever even thought to consider that maybe there was once a really good reason why marriage was defined as a union between a man and a woman?

You know, all those thousands of years before antibiotics were invented in the 1950's, when childbirth was very dangerous, and surviving childhood was only a 4 in 5 shot?

Not to mention the hard-scrabble fact that families needed unpaid workers to work the farm to survive?

Civilization needed babies, and lots of them, to keep things moving along. Promoting a lifelong union between people who couldn't naturally have children just wouldn't even make sense in that world, since for most of human history, that was the very reason for marriage.

Now...flame on! I needed some downvote cred anyway...
Like I said, this changed my interests and career. I've written several papers on this, including one analyzing the ethical aspects of violating users' privacy to support a general cause.

All papers are online at staff.fnwi.uva.nl/j.j.vanderham/research/articles.html
This is exactly why I enjoy reading HN.
As a 21 year old software developer, I do not understand how can someone be arrogant, just opening github makes me acknowledge what I still need to learn.
To see how development is going after the recent funding campaign.
What new technologies can I get a job in?
I'm a self taught programmer, looking to give myself a way into the industry by learning something where perhaps there isn't so many in the field already. I'm pretty interested in low level stuff, as well as machine learning, but really I don't mind - I just want to get some hard dev experience down in industry.
>unbiased and rational way than almost all writings I've encountered.

You need to encounter more writing. His approach is good but you should avoid propagating fallacy to cheer on a champion of critical thought.
"I hardly see them hiring a 40 years old with kids that will ask for a salary higher than the CEO."

This preconceived notion that a manager or CEO must earn more than their employees doesn't make much sense. It's just a status game. If that developer (regardless of their age) has skills and experience that the company needs, and those skills are harder to find in the job market than management skills, it makes sense to pay them a higher salary.

Nobody questions the fact that baseball players and movie stars and investment bankers are paid several times more than the president of the U.S., so why shouldn't developers who are in high demand be able to make more than a CEO?
If the word (I think you mean "kynttilä=candle"?) is pronounced correctly, the last character sounds like an "ä", which is a completely seperate character from "a". In fact, you can't even have an "a" in the same word with a "y" due to the vowel harmony rules.

The thing that makes Finnish alphabet very easy, is that every character corresponds to one sound (with the exception of "c", which can be either "k" or "s", but it isn't actually used in Finnish (it just exists for legacy and compatibility with Swedish)) and vice versa (with the exceptions of "w=v" and "å=o", but, again, they're not used in Finnish)

That is, a character will always sound the same, regardless of what is around it. There are no silent letters. No things like "ea -> ee" or "ph -> f" (if you write two different characters, you also pronounce two different sounds). No single vowels that randomly became long vowels (like English "ski -> skee" rather than "sky").
They explain use cases for testing without HTTPS, but make it clear that TLS is required for production use.
> Danish police fired a total of 49 shots over the year

A few points to consider:

1) Denmark population 5.7 million. USA population 320 million. The USA has a number of metropolitan areas with more people than the entire country of Denmark.

2) Denmark is probably a lot more homogenous than the USA. The USA has been a "melting pot" for immigrants (legal, illegal, former slave, religious zealot, etc) for hundreds of years. Things are going to be a little "rowdier" here than in the "old world".
I think the problem is that what we have now is much worse. Today we pay people to not work, as in quite literally by earning less you can take home more. Plus, if you don't work, then you can do all sorts of other productive (cost reducing) things with your time, and you also don't carry all the associated non-deductible costs of working.

The slope of progressive taxes and regressive subsidies is bewilderingly high. Particularly if you have higher health care expenses or anything which might be considered a disability, the first $90k of gross earnings for a family of 4 is almost entirely going to the State & Fed.*

As more people "catch on" to the math we see more people dropping out of the labor pool. The story in the media is it's because people have given up on finding work. But I think a significant portion of it is because it's simply not worth working. Not everyone has figured out yet how much the Fed will pay you to not work, but when you do the math I think every middle-class worker should be very angry about it.

Now I'm not sure we want to have a system where everyone is paid exactly the same amount no matter what, but I'm pretty sure that a system which pays less as you pay more taxes is broken.

* If you take the total market value of all subsidies available to a family of 4 earning nothing, and add in the all-inclusive taxes paid as a result of a family of 4 earning $90k (at about which point subsidies have gone to zero), together those numbers will add to about $90k.

If we get more technical, the numbers are actually shifted up by about $30k, because of the standard exemption and child tax credits, the first $30k of income doesn't count. So really it's $30k - $120k where you're effectively working for the Fed.
I was all ready to rant about how much I hate semicolons where they are unnecessary...
I'm not entirely sure what the whole hullabaloo is all about. I mean, the Govt should restrict itself to recognizing unions for finance/medical purposes, and possibly regulate adoption.

The Republicans (modulo Ron Paul ?), who are usually too enthusiastic for having less Govt, always fall back on regulation when it serves their idealogy. Meh.

I don't think this is a case of Money, either. If that were the case the GOP would never have taken the stand they do now.

That said I can see why firms would be wary of taking a contrarian stance in the current climate.
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Don't be afraid, I would always hold someone with ethics above a peer of comparable ability and background. Testifying against someone who has done wrong would only prove an ethical standing.
I would say it is probably present everywhere, but in different forms and to different degrees. My hunch is that it is most present in companies whose core business is not technology (software/hardware), but it's just a hunch.
That's on Obama. I don't see how that has any bearing on Rand.
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The government already has the legal ability to make vaccines mandatory. They are rightfully hesitant to use coercive force, though.
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Ok so if I understand your and mdturnerphys answer correctly, photons are not affected by the higgs field (but are affected by gravity, hence the mystery)?
While I agree that it's not the government's place to be involved in marriage, I doubt marriage will ever be taken out of the laws. If only for tax reasons alone, most (married or planning to be married) people will be against abolishing the laws that give them a tax break. Plus, marital status is deeply intertwined with many laws/regulations.
Defined by who? when? The problem with the argument you have presented is it lacks any kind of historical accuracy.

There are plenty of records dating back centuries to millennia which encode a whole Smörgåsbord of unions man and woman, man and women, man and man and the rarer cases woman and woman and woman and men and probably more that I have missed.

Humans did not just congregate somewhere in 10,000 BC and declare marriage is a union between a man and woman. Nor did they declare exactly what marriage was or the roles and responsibilities of the people involved and indeed today we can see some remnants of that - the concept of marrying for love verses an arranged marriage for example.
I had the pleasure of sitting next to Dr Moorer's wife on a flight recently. Was really cool talking to her about her husband's work for a few hours.
I am not downvoting you or flaming you, as you are trying to engage in a debate, not being "needlessly negative".

However, that's a rubbish argument ... (Slight flaming then)

raising children is a good argument for stable marriage, irrespective of sexuality, and history is full of non typical arrangements (raised by grandparents, adoptive parents, neighbours etc)

Homosexuality has been more or less socially acceptable at different times as well (from nearly compulsory in Sparta or Ancient Greece to well he is the king, so we may as well)

No, the case against gay marriage has always been the case against dissent and the case for obedience to a central authority. It seems there are "social norms" at the case by case level and those at the official lip service level. A society that has less dissonance between those in my opinion has less tolerance for dissonance between other stances (like superstition vs science).
I played many great html games. Seldom of them can run/load successfully in all mainstream browsers. Some run/load failed in IE, some failed in FireFox, etc. And the differences of fps between different browsers are very large. In some browsers, a game may run smoothly, but in another, it is very laggy.

Flash still has the advantage on the consistency.

But how long Flash will still keep the advantage is really a problem for Adobe.
Woa. Wait a minute. They're merely asking for a donation, which can be set to zero. What's the issue with that? This entitled attitude is what irks me about the OSS movement at large. To a larger extent it puts me and people like me off of open source. More projects should take this approach. I thought that it's free as in Liberty, not as in ride. That's what we're constantly told.
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its a double negative. top law firms will _not_ touch the case _against_ gay marriage.
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Russia was finding her own way after the first world war and it didn't work out so well for most of Eastern Europe.
An old friend of mine was kicked out of his prestigious East Coast law firm for being gay. He moved to Palo Alto and continued his career. (I don't know exactly when this happened, but I'd guess it was around 20 years ago.)

My, how times change.
> "A human being is only as valuable as their ability to contribute."

No, that's not exactly what I am saying at all. Not just their "ability", their willingness is equally important. Even if you don't care about the outcome, the effort should be rewarded somehow. Because in real life you rarely get anything for nothing.
What about unstable upstream packages?
Is there a way to stop an update from potentially breaking your system?
I presume a troll? At 25 I graduated as MSc (physics), had not worked a day in the industry, and began my PhD studies. At 26 I figured computer graphics where much more fun than running quantum physical simulations in a lonely cellar and began my software engineering career. At which point I was still pretty clueless of the complexities of software engineering in the industry.

The time limit is not age but how much experience one has doing software engineering projects. One needs several unders ones belt, preferably some that have actually shipped so that one sees what the end user implications of the said products are. How long this will take? A couple of years? Hard to say.
You way missed the point man. It's about campaign promises not the Vietnam war.

Besides, Eisenhower was a republican.
The standard you walk past is the standard you accept. (a line from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaqpoeVgr8U , if you've not seen it)

Can you live with yourself ethically if you don't testify?

Are there ways that telling the truth about what you witnessed could actually be an advantage to your career?

Say, for example, that you witnessed sexual harassment and were put on the stand to talk about that. Sure, there may be some shitweasel who won't hire you because you "snitched" - but there may be a woman founder of a healthier and more profitable company (http://qz.com/361602/companies-run-by-women-perform-better/ , just sayin') who takes your having testified as a positive, rather than a negative, signal.

Integrity counts for a lot. If someone doesn't want to hire you because you showed integrity under difficult circumstances, did you really want to work for them in the first place?

Now if you're worried about testifying because you yourself behaved unethically, that's a whole other story.
I'm not using Arch at the moment, so I'm not sure, but I believe you do not have to update all packages at the same time (unless some are required for other packages updates) and usually such changes are tested by the community before being released widely... but if someone else knows better, please correct me.