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> But perhaps equally important is whether we want to live in a society where the smallest amount of "wrong speech" can subject you to almost unlimited social & economic consequences, none of it state-sanctioned.

There are two things I'd like to ask, in this discussion.

The first is whether the social condemnation of "wrong speech" is the problem here, or the social standard of at-will employment for a living. There are a lot of people who have trouble getting good employment for various reasons beyond their control. To worry about those who are already employed, especially when they make "wrong speech" about those who are not (e.g., an IAC executive talking about AIDS victims in Africa), seems to be misplaced priorities. If we truly believe that people should not be losing their living for small mistakes, we should also believe that people should not lose their living for no mistake, either, and we should find a way for everyone to live a comfortable, happy life, whether or not any employer wants to associate with them.

The second is that I don't believe that this is actually happening. There's been a certain scientist in the news recently, who resigned from his job, but has kept his knighthood and Nobel Prize. This does not seem like unlimited consequence and going into hiding and starting a new life. It certainly does not seem like a poor-taste joke made to 50 Twitter followers; the comment in question was given in an invited speech at a conference with a worldwide audience.

I believe there is certainly an incentive for the powerful to weave a story that regular innocent people are losing their lives for an honest mistake, since they want to protect their power (the same reason they have the opinions that people find distasteful: they act in accordance with those opinions, to protect their power). But I think we should be skeptical of this tale.
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Free speech is not just an amendment to a constitution. It's a universal human right that should apply in all human activities.
Steve Jobs on the Secret of Life
Yes, to "guarantee" the elimination of all consequences you'd have to restrict others from speaking them. I think there's still something to be said for wishing people would voluntarily be more tolerant, and noting that excessively suppressing and/or destroying the life of anyone you disagree with as a private citizen is still going against the spirit of a right to free speech.
Why did you choose those two functions? There are already small NPM modules like dom-events for attaching and triggering events, and qwery, or sizzle for querying selectors.
I don't know why you're being down-voted. Eich was literally driven out of Mozilla by the social backlash to personal opinions he expressed publicly. This is a fine example regardless of whether you agree or disagree with his position which I won't repeat here because it is irrelevant in this context.
I have to reiterate this; don't do it -- sort order changes and you'll run into other mysterious issues.

It's not worth the "performance improvement".
> What is wrong with this? What would be the advantage to using 1Password / LastPass over this?

My Keepass database currently has 221 entries in it. Some of these I only use once per year. There's no possible way for me to manage that without a program to help me record them.
I feel like this specific incident is a really shitty example of the chilling of free speech. And that's a shame, because it's a real issue that deserves better arguments than this one.

I can't see that Tanyolacar was wronged in any way. The article doesn't mention that he was personally disciplined; the university has not attempted to censor his speech. He hung a racist symbol on public property, with no indication that it was intended as art, and it was removed. Is that censorship? If actual Klansmen had set up a burning cross in the middle of campus, should we let it burn because it might have been intended to be art? If someone spraypainted swastikas on the walls, should they be left untouched as free expression of political views?

He made a statement (and if art is speech, than it can clearly be a statement) that was both not his actual belief and deliberately calculated to provoke an entertaining reaction. We call people who do that "trolls." He wanted to offend people, he succeeded, and now he's complaining about it. What did he expect to happen? What does he think should have happened?
After the "Bong Hits for Jesus" case, I don't think it's nearly so cut-and-dried. And that was a high school.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_v._Frederick
Of any sort? No. Only certain sorts of consequences are permitted. Turning the forces of government against you in punishment is not to be permitted or tolerated. Other forms of reprisal are permitted and accepted.

Which is why the story about a public university is disturbing. Or the story of a statute for equality being abused in an attempt to silence someone.
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Professional sysadmin (and developer) here :)

> Writing init scripts used to be a real pain

In the GNU/Linux world, yep, this is the case. Lots of copypasted boilerplate that becomes a nightmare to debug.

In the BSD world (at least with OpenBSD, where I'm most experienced), this isn't the case at all; OpenBSD ships with /etc/rc.d/rc.subr, which one can (and should) source into one's initscripts to make life much easier than even (in my experience) systemd's unit files. Set the $daemon variable, source in rc.subr, call rc_cmd, done. Sure, you might want/need to read a couple manpages, but this is the case with systemd, too.

Back to the GNU/Linux world, the complexity of SysVInit is not a hard dependency of using shell scripts for daemon management; there's very little stopping a GNU/Linux system from adopting a BSD-style rc system, rc.subr, etc. and making life significantly easier for sysadmins. Alternately, there's very little stopping a GNU/Linux system from implementing shell scripts in something significantly less horrendous to use, such as an interpreted scripting language (like Perl or Python or Ruby). SysVInit and BSD-style rc-based init both have a distinct lack of hard requirements on how initscripts are implemented, so long as said scripts are valid executables.

> Maybe there's something to be said for "sysadmins who want to be able to model the entire boot process and run-state in their head" but with correct information about dependencies and so on, I personally think that's something computers are a lot better at solving.

Would you not want to be able to model the startup process and run-state of the software you write in your head? Why should the underlying operating system be any different? If you have to rely upon external tools just to be able to reason about the execution flow of something - your server, your program, your recipe for lamb vindaloo, whatever - chances are it's way too complicated and needs significant refactoring.
Just throwing this http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide (it's listed 2 indirections deep so will probably be missed)

Every time you have an issue with the shell, go there.
Looks like he already has corporate sponsorship from Dell: http://www.sudo.ws/history.html

Not that I disagree with the sentiment.
That was voluntary, so I'm not sure what its relevance is to that comment.

It's also hard to be an effective leader of a company when it is known that you desire many of your employees not to have civil rights, and there's no reason for Mozilla to spend its money on an incompetent CEO. (Note that I'm not saying that Eich is incompetent on technical matters, or even incompetent as a manager in the abstract, just an incompetent CEO for the company he was CEO of.)
The flaw in your scheme lies in the fact that "it's simple enough to remember" ... this would imply that if one were to target you they could likely correlate your credentials across multiple leaked PW databases and guess at your scheme. That of coarse has plenty of assumptions...
Would access to two of your passwords make the rest an easy target? that would be my fear with a system like that.
Suppose that rather than expressing anti-PC opinions, the person facing social ostracism made a statement like "I have a left breast, here it is on camera". Suppose folks who disapprove of revealing breasts then wrote to her employer, publicly criticized her, and other such things.

Anyone is free to exercise their free speech, but that right does not protect them from being expelled, fired, or censored at a private university.

http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/charlotte-laws-hunte...

Is this a sentiment you support?

Strangely, I've never seen any of the people pointing out that the constitution only applies to the government (in the context of conversations like this) expressing similar sentiment on the topic of revenge porn, doxxing homosexuals, or similar things.
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Few unmanned spacecraft flown to date are in principle more complex than a Toyota. If you did 1-unit automotive production runs, and 1-unit production runs for most of the parts rather than using standardized templates, things would be expensive there too.
Except that you'd still only need that same 1kg thruster on a 500kg satellite that you'd need on a 10kg satellite. Which is what I was talking about.

With satellites and chemical thrusters, it's pretty much "the lightest possible". Thrust to mass ratio is almost irrelevant. Almost any thruster will have the thrust required.

And I'm kind of surprised by the ion thrusters. I wouldn't assume that they had the thrust required to stationkeep in LEO - the drag in LEO being as high as it is.
This is a standard term in virtually every computer warranty. What you're saying is that manufacturers, when repairing their products, should NOT restore them to original working condition, but instead preserve arbitrary modifications customers have made. That sounds untenable, and isn't something required by the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a purpose you are presumptively referring to.
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> My own theory of depression is that it is your brain's way of getting you to change something in your life that is counterproductive to your future wellbeing. Sometimes it isn't entirely obvious what exactly is causing the depression, but if you evaluate all aspects of your life and ask yourself "is this what I really want?", you will eventually figure it out.

Utter crap. If I thought long and hard enough, my depression that was bad enough to cause psychosis would resolve itself? At 12, I had something in my life (good parents, happy home) that was causing me to be unable to get out of bed?

Clinical depression (major depressive disorder) is not related to your circumstances. That is what distinguishes it from situational depression, which many people experience. I was at some of my worst when my external life was at its best.

"Just think really hard about why you've got a broken limb and it'll reset itself!"
The debate about whether students are being insufficiently challenged in terms of opinions and beliefs appears to be a growing one, and it ties into the debate on academic freedom on college campuses that has existed since at least the 1800s. It's somewhat distinct though from the more generalized debate about Free Speech in overall society, and I have to wonder in this case if The Economist (and many others) aren't picking the wrong correlation here. While the exact reasoning changes over the decades, "so and so professor should be pressured/fired for saying something I don't like" remains constant and the answer was the tenure system. I think the modern decline of tenure positions is actually much more of the actual, root cause of any problems we're seeing right now. Overall popular opinions are always in flux and new trends come and go, and right now extreme sensitivity towards anything that might make someone uncomfortable seems to enjoy popular support. But just like with previous trends, if a professor had tenure they'd be equally free to argue back as hard as they wished and tell students to either successfully convince the professor, shape up, or suck eggs.

It's true that in many cases economic pressure on some colleges have become heavier over the years as public funding has evaporated, but economic pressure is still economic pressure and has always existed with the same natural result. Money talks. Counteracting that natural trend with mechanisms like tenure is much more important and lastingly useful then trying to apply bandaids to any particular trend of the day. With a strong basic framework ensuring that debate can continue even in the face of popular consensus, there is a much higher chance that the marketplace of ideas will succeed and prevent any permanent fall into a local minima. It's somewhat disappointing that The Economist of all places would fail to explore this, with even the very word "tenure" not showing up at all.
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The link I posted has some context that makes it clear that the statement is about radio interference. Various press statements about the system say that the satellites will turn, for example, search "Progressive Pitch" here:

http://spacenews.com/virgin-qualcomm-invest-in-global-satell...

(or on my earlier link or Wikipedia)

But it must not be thruster based.
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> If you'd like to know what that does, you can just look up the bash source of `/etc/rc.d/rc.subr`, another bash script.

Ouch... Shell (or Bourne Shell to be exact), not bash.

Bash is a type of Shell and it's not* even available (thank goodness) on either of the BSDs in their base system (only as a port and/or package).

On OpenBSD, the actual command line interpreter is actually Korn, not the Bourne, Shell.
I think the example in the first paragraphs of the article (the Klan effigy with candid camera) is not the strongest one; it was a weird device for data collection, not really speech. The problem is better illustrated by some of the other articles: leftist students attacking things they disagree with, not by responding to them, but by going to the authorities and claiming to feel "unsafe". They have in many cases abused Title IX, claiming that this book or that lecture creates a "hostile environment" (i.e., lying without shame), because they know it's a way to trap an opponent in a lengthy, biased pseudo-judicial process. In these kinds of attacks, it's not about getting a conviction, because the leftists know their charges are false. Instead, "the process is the punishment". They want to make examples and terrorize others into self-censorship. These attacks are happening all over the country and they are not just good people taking it too far -- they are malicious and intentional.
You have 1st amendment rights everywhere, but a private institution is allowed to ask you to leave if they don't like what you say in public or in private. The only exception to this is discrimination laws: If you can show that they asked you to leave because you are a member of a protected class, then they are in trouble.
I understand that it can happen for highly-ranking people , who are also public persons and speak for the company. However, I don't understand policies like the one that reddit recently established, that programmers who get hired must "commit to diversity". This looks a lot like the holy inquisition, it has nothing to do with their expected job performance. You either "think this way" or get fired. I thought it took all sorts to make a world.
It sounds like the purpose of these values is to provide guidance. From your piece:

> It’s a framework that we can turn to whenever we’re faced with a difficult decision, whether it be about how to best architect something, how to prioritize our time, who to hire, or how we interact with each other.

Why would you then leave a growing priority vague and up to interpretation? Isn't that exactly the type of miscommunication and lack of guidance you're trying to avoid?

P.S.
I do think the exercise is great and don't want to sound unnecessarily critical. Especially for such an important part of companies (people) and common issue in engineering organizations (management), though, it seems like one of the first places you should put a stake in the ground in terms of action, guidance, and specific commitments.
"Regardless if he is quoting someone else for the use of the word 'pussies', people are going to scream at him for being a sexist misogynist."

At the very end of the article, he uses the term himself, without quoting anyone:

"Stop shit posting. It’s for pussies."

"Somewhat ironically - complaining about terrible content is, in itself, rather meaningless and terrible content."

Agreed.
What you call "free speech issues" I call private property issues. If someone enters my home I can ask them to leave if I don't like what they say or how they say it. Going even further if I don't like something someone said while they were off my property I should be able to prohibit them from being on my property.

As for death threats, I don't think those are ever justified outside a self defense scenario.
That's not true (your 2nd paragraph), and I speak from experience (of course, i cant speak for everyone.

There is a saying that "happiness is a state of mind, not a state of thing". There are always things to strive for, regrets to be had, if not merely because there are not enough time in the world.

Learning to be content with oneself? I was talking to a friend lately that told me "we (as in me and him) only keep living because we believe the future will get better". If you tell us to accept who we are yadda yadda... you can follow the conclusion.
Actually, since javascript has an eval function, shouldn't it be straightforward to support it in the browser?
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I've been using the Netflix "HTML5"[0] player for what seems like at least six months. Check your playback settings and flip the "Use HTML5 player" switch.

[0] It's actually the EME player, which uses a binary blob for video decryption. But, The Industry calls this DRM scheme HTML5 video decoding, so whatever.
The good news is that you don't have to implement initscripts as shell scripts. I recall at least one GNU/Linux distro that used Python for all its initscripts, for example. Really, as long as the "script" is executable, a SysVInit-based or BSD-rc-based system doesn't really care (unless it's doing something strange like calling a specific interpreter on each script - i.e. calling `sh /etc/rc.d/rc.*` or somesuch).
Is it literally just the titles that you're talking about? I don't see why companies couldn't max out the title with "Senior Software Engineer" but continue giving rewards like more money, vacation, creative leeway, etc.
Quality is there. Price might be a bit inflated, but that's marketing.
While I agree that there are many similar options for a book-type common notebook, I still have to find a reporter notebook that beats the overall quality of Moleskine's Reporter.
Given that national news seems little more than tired and ridiculous propaganda (for the last decade and a half at least) whatever happens to the outlets is of little concern to me.
Example links:
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If you're still relying on the global namespace you should stop. When I require('jquery') I'll name it what ever I damn well please, and you better get used to that because ES6 modules are here.
vi is a posix requirement, emacs is not. If the system you're working on has ed, it'll have some version of vi or vim as well.
Is that the link you meant to post? Did it change?
I'm a little skeptical of the motive to 'promote a discussion and debate on racism' when Americans already discuss this subject extensively on an ongoing basis. I don't mean that I think the professor's a racist, but that he's offering this as a weak excuse for a poorly-thought-out publicity grab.

Consider a paralell situation: I gather a vast number of texts condemning Nazism and fascism, and fashion them into the shape of a giant Swastika, which I then install across the street from a Synagogue. The small-scale content (the individual anti-fascist textual works that pattern the surface) are not going to deliver anything like the same impact as the large overall shape, which (like the figure of the Klansman) is still a potent historical symbol of oppression and intimidation. Making a large thing that is guaranteed to elicit a fearful reaction and then complaining that people should have approached the fearful thing for a closer look before complaining about it doesn't strike me as a very effective way to communicate.

Or an even simpler parallel: if I run at you brandishing a knife, you probably won't appreciate any subsequent explanation that it's performance art designed to shake you out of your complacent ways and teach you how to live in the moment, even though it may turn out to have such an effect. I'm not in favor of speech codes, but given the increasingly high cost of university education and the consciousness among students that they are financing a good deal what appears to be a pretty cushy academic environment, I don't find it so surprising that they expect to be offered a comfortable campus. Insofar as we've commoditized education, is it surprising that students exhibit consumer behavior?
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"Voluntary", with a gun in his head.
You can browse it:
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That only follows if you believe that viewing an advertisement is a discrete event with a discrete outcome, and has no outcome on future actions. Considering how much advertisement happens when you aren't in a position to immediately buy something, and how much research has gone into advertising and human perception, I don't believe that. Brand recognition works, at least in a lot of cases.

But that doesn't even matter. I believe you agreed to a trade, in this case attention for content, and what justification do you have for not following through on your end? It's not within your rights to decide that your portion of the trade doesn't really benefit the other party so you will withhold it, if they have delivered on their portion. That is their decision to make.
Press ctrl+alt+shift+d . The video resolution will appear, along with a bunch of other debugging info.
dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9722537 submitted 4 minutes earlier.