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I would like to see the face of a non-technical police officer that get to handle the reports of death threats. A person who develops and gives away software that makes people lives easier for free is so provocative that harassment, death threats and general hatred is directed at him. The actions of those people is then defended by a community because the developed software do not follow good design principles or is considered flaky and unoptimized.
Why is the python implementation so much more complicated than the doom one? Are they supposed to be the same?
The Ninth Circuit effectively struck down Venice's enforcement of giving tickets to people whom appeared to be living in their vehicles. That case is why Palo Alto backed off on its towing and ticketing campaign. LA hates homeless people more so than Silicon Valley.

But it's part of larger issue of subtle, shameful discrimination based on economics and status akin but different how African Americans were treated in the 1950's South. The homeless and poor need a Civil Rights movement. Even if it won't change attitudes of snobs and bigots, there is room for additional protections and tighter limits on police harassment. (There should be federal protections to providing food for the poor because it is illegal to feed the homeless in parts of Florida. In other parts of Florida, it is also illegal to use blankets or any other materials to protect yourself from the elements. Basically, these laws make it illegal for some people to be alive, and those types of laws have no place in America.)
I am saddened that I have post this anonymously, but there is still a lot of stigma regarding mental health.

Much of what the author says about the psych ward aligns with my limited experience as a patient, but, please, if you are suicidal, delusional, manic, uncontrollably angry, or paranoid, check yourself into the nearest emergency room. Even if you do not think you are threat, you can still physically harm yourself or others if you do not seek help. I speak from experience. The psych ward is there to get you stabilized and get attention quickly.

But in my, again limited, experience, the state of inpatient psych treatment in the US is terrible, especially given the cost. If you want anecdotal evidence that something is deeply wrong with our health care system, try spending a week in a psych ward. But it is all we have right now, and spending time in the psych ward is still better than harming yourself.

Sadly the outpatient system isn't much better. In many cities there is a chronic lack of psychiatrists. I think many Dr's have become jaded by the number of patients requesting treatment and can overlook more serious cases. Also, in my opinion, too many psychiatrists have become 'prescribers' and not involved enough with their patient's therapy. In which case they can loose touch with the effects of the medication being prescribed.

I am Bipolar Type II, and, while treatable, it can be a very dangerous illness. It can wreak havoc with your life and the life of others.
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First, I believe everyone should be using uBlock (Origin) [1] anyways. Second, I'm looking forward to seeing how Firefox's built-in tracking protection will evolve[2]. Also, should be interesting to see how Safari's new blocking framework changes the game.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

[2] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection-fir...
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It's probably also worth noting that Debian's systemd it (thankfully) configured to debian pool.org servers by default.
The NSA has re-interpreted the meaning of the word "relevant" (for investigation) in order to collect millions of people's data at once. How can the FISA judges ever approve that?

Also, you're forgetting that a federal Court has just said that the Patriot Act NEVER allowed for bulk collection. Yet the FISA Court allowed it. Why?! But that's what you get with a secret spy Court that has no accountability.
They might have been annoyed because they expected to put the work in production soon... haha
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Seriously? The DOOM prng is just a table with a pointer stepping through the values. The Perlin code generates values based on the Perlin algorithm.

The values in the DOOM table could have been generated by Carmack throwing a dice many times for all we know and just tabulated the results.
random_number = 4// just tested it with a dice
I've had this exact conversation more times than I care to remember. Not only does upper management not care but they probably told him off (as they did me) for not sacrificing his integrity and reputation to BS you into staying with promises they knew he couldn't deliver.
The extension doesnt block google analytics, the lists do.
First off,

rsync -a / backupserver:/backups/server1

would be a better comparison; full server state never properly stays in /etc.

Do you actually do that though? Multiple times a day? How easy is it to roll back to a previous state?

Given Dockerfiles, a better comparison would be rsnapshot, since intermediate steps are important, and maybe that last "yum upgrade/apt-get update/whatever" broke something (on dev, of course) and you want to roll back.

How do you compare two related file system images? Is there something more advanced than "diff -u"? How does that handle binaries? Will that map backwards and say what command resulted in changed binaries? Can I submit a code review for the changes between the two states like I could for a Dockerfile which is plain text?

Docker isn't quite a configuration management system like Chef or Puppet, but there's a lot of overlap.
Sure.

> You're being kind of absurd and stupid here. Supplying a broken timeserver as a default is inane and silly. Please accept the pull request.

How persuasive is this type of language? How likely is this to change people's attitudes?

(Just for clarity: I'm not saying this is one way from not systemd to systemd. I recognize that plenty of systemd supporters use this style of communication.)
Yet another random number generator that depends on global mutable state and therefore unsafe to be used in multithreaded context.
The first snippet uses the CommonJS [1] standard (a way to import packages into a JS file that is used by Node, webpack or browserify for example).

The second snippet uses ES6 modules [2]. Babel actually transpiles those ES6 modules into CommonJS modules when used in a Node.js environment (which is the case with a build tool).

Since even IO.js doesn't support ES6 modules for now and you're likely to use a build tool in order to use babel, you shouldn't use ES6 modules in a build file.

[1]: http://www.commonjs.org/
[2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
The NSA asks for "general warrants" and you think that's "reasonable"?

NSA: Can we spy on everyone at once?

FISA: Why yes of course you can - BUT, you have to fill out this form first...and do it properly or we'll never approve you!

NSA: Oh..but that's such a drag! Okay, fine, we'll do it.

That's kind of what seems to be happening.
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"Not being allowed to" is a pretty good reason to not use ntp.org I think.
Thanks for sharing. Taos was one of the OSes I was really interested as an undergrad student.
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Please don't post stuff like this to HN.
The economic meaning of demand is a very structural term.

It doesn't relate to any legal or moral value like obligations, entitlements, transitory requirements or some perceived rightfulness of the intent.

It's just the observable ambition of an entity (persons, companies, other structures that produce agency) to gain a good or service.
> Very quietly, very securely, very aware, he has been preaching the dogma of Open Source

By the end of 1998, Stallman had formulated a position: open source, while helpful in communicating the technical advantages of free software, also encouraged speakers to soft-pedal the issue of software freedom. Given this drawback, Stallman would stick with the term free software.

http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch11.html
Math is pure = not mutable, and that code is mutable. Damn barbarians try to desecrate math!
I'd wager it's just random
That's irrelevant, however. If systemd is going to ship with a default nameserver then it should be using the correct and public NTP pool, rather than servers from a random company who hasn't made any commitment to providing reliable UTC time to a public audience.

And if it's using a service like the NTP pool, it needs to have a vendor prefix. Not because this has anything at all to do with the notion of being a "distribution", but because the prefix provides a means for the pool to identify traffic originating from default-configured systemd instances, and cut it off if it suddenly starts to behave in a way that would degrade the rest of the network.

Or they can simply ship with no default. But you can't have it both ways, both setting a default server and claiming not to be a vendor in every sense meaningful to an NTP server operator.
If they had truly solved this problem they wouldn't need to take you to "the big game" to do sales - you'd be taking them to "the big game" to be customers...
Thanks! I'll make a website page for package proposals, meanwhile a simple email to info@stablelib.com (or a comment here) will do :)
I have always thought this. It can take up to 6 months to get properly up to speed on a large project. So for those 6 months you are maybe averaging 50% productivity. That's basically 3 month salary a company is loosing by swapping staff. How many people get offered that sort of month to stay?
I was thinking of that too. Do you think that would add additional latency as the entanglement needs to boot and initialize? It also feels like we would be wasting some bandwidth because the tampering of the pipe will give us 1-bit of information rather than the pipe providing us with four.

But hey, it is FTL anyway.
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So how does the FISA court determine that "3-hop" people (millions) are "suspicious, then?

The standard for an NSA "general warrant" is FAR, and I mean FAR weaker than for a regular warrant. Literally orders of magnitudes weaker, to the point you could barely consider it a "standard". Especially when the FISA court approves for for 3 months at once (and now for 6).

What kind of "warrant" is that? Does that sound reasonable to you?
Then this library from Google would interest you https://code.google.com/p/cpp-btree/

It exposes the standard STL container interface. Although it was primarily intended to be used as a map or a set, if I remember correctly they also had b-tree backed large vectors that outperformed std:: vectors in random reads. I seem to have lost the url for that post/comment.
I've never even thought about this when applying for jobs and didn't notice my name negatively affecting my chances (aside from a female name I also have a very foreign sounding name even though English). I figure if someone is going to discriminate against you based on your name/implied gender/whatever that company is probably not one you want to be working for anyway.
The headline introduces an element of doubt in something that was previously reckoned to be conclusive. I'd say it's pretty effective.
Is there a good reason for systemd to not use those pool servers?

What happens if distros don't change the default away from *.systemd.pool.ntp.org?
P for "Game logic/behaviour", M for "Miscellaneous".

http://doomwiki.org/wiki/Doom_source_code
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> It is simply about how people are systematically depressed and feel lost, having worked for industrial super-machine their whole life - a machine which is now gone

This has nothing to do with the youth caring for the lone elderly. That is what this story is about. There is no story in the US not because the elderly aren't dying alone, but because the youth don't care. And more are dying in the US. And plenty are dying everywhere.

Just because a culture made a reputation for itself as hard working and obedient it does not follow that there is systematic depression. If you don't care to highlight the real cause of this completely separate problem, then you are just racist.

Also, many who are dying in their 80s and 90s retired long ago. There are even stories of working elders happier and healthier for having the motivation and exercise they otherwise would not have. Japanese work ethic has nothing to do with this story or with your drawn bigoted conclusions.
Ah Taos! One of serveral very interesting OSes from late 1980s and early 1990s. Grasshopper, Jaguar, Oberon are a few others from the same era.

Its probably my age and not keeping up with the research, but it feels like there were more diversity and cool things going on in OS reserach and R&D back then.

Though the development of VMs and OSes for IoT and mobile devices is probably a good counterpoint.
I don't understand his reasoning. What's wrong with registering systemd vendor? Does it put any obligations? It's just a DNS record.
I'm also curious to see how things evolve with the countermeasures: http://www.businessinsider.com/former-google-exec-launches-s... (a terrible idea imho).
The problem isn't necessary the laws, but the fact that there never seems to be any punishment for abuses, so the NSA just learns the laws don't apply to them, and keep doing whatever they want. If our representatives actually punished them, we'd be in a different situation.
Haha, just wanted to link that. To draw people's attention: this article explores results of replacing this array of numbers with predictable values.
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> And in both, it is for what amounts to the same
> mathematical issues: to avoid discontinuities, in
> either the function or its derivatives, that give
> rise to undesirable artifacts.

My guess is that with the cos/sin modulation the time can be precisely followed by a stock ntp client that doesn't know anything about "google time" and needs some time to ramp up/down the observed clock drift, as you said: Because the derivative doesn't jump.

But if you deploy special ntp servers that know about your exact method of leap-second handling (as, I suppose, google does on all servers which are sensitive to sub-second time offsets) you don't need a steady derivative: you just set adjtimex(freq-14PPM) at -10 hours before the leap second and adjtimex(freq+14PPM) at the end. And this will lead to even tighter timing, as the percieved frequency offset (from the point of view of an NTP daemon doing time interval measurements relative to a server) will disappear completely. So maybe that's why they now use a simpler method?

The other explanation I could think of for introducing this simpler handling is that google may have switched to PTP on their networks: As the measurement precision is much higher (jitter much lower) than UDP based ntp even a simple NTP client will be able to quickly and precisely follow the discontinuous clock drift at the beginning and end of the smearing period.

Just for illustration purposes, here's aplot of the "google lie" clock offset going from 0...1 (cos...), and the modulation of the clock frequency (sin):

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+%281.0+-+cos%28pi+...
Oh, fair enough. Not all people want the same things, and their needs change as a moving target with stages of life. Someone people live more externally while others don't really care so long as enough of Maslow's HoN is met. I know a Harvard grad gal whom hates shopping more than I do.
Does anybody else hate barbecue sauce? I personally hate eating sweet food. For me sweets aren't food.
I'm seeing a few more homeless people lately in Palo Alto and Redwood City. I'm also seeing a lot more "Help Wanted" signs for low end jobs. Housing has become so expensive, though, that there are now homeless people with day jobs.

There's one homeless guy with a long beard who's been panhandling on University Avenue since at least the 1990s.
To be honest, I've never seen anyone attacking Lennart as a person on HN. At least not in the not dead comments. Did I miss it?

There's a lot of attacks on what his doing, people despising him as a project leader, and criticizing him for the way he interacts with other projects. And what's wrong with that? I see what he's doing with his projects as replicating MS's EEE strategy.

Do we need to defend as a human being everyone who we think is doing something you can't stand? Do we need to write for example that Elsevier management hurt the world of research, but I'm sure they're sensitive and good as humans?
There was a post about tampering with randomness in Doom some time ago with some interesting hn comments explaining the reason for this design: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9429889
I love the list of architectures mentioned:

"Inmos T800 transputer, Motorola 680x0, PgC7600 (see article in this issue), Intel 80386/80486, Acorn ARM and Sun SPARC"

Of these x86 and ARM dominates the world today.
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Hello HN!

I am a university undergrad student developer. Does anyone have a spare domain that I could use for my projects ( of course opensourced ). I would be glad if someone could help me out :)

Thanks
This is a great perspective that likely rings true for a lot of larger companies.
no. noscript is not necessary. ublock can block every javascript until I allow it for a website.
I had 3 addons before I started using uBlock: noscript, ABP and request-policy. uBlock replaced them all and is much better. It has a nice clear interface and gives an even biiger amount of control.
Even those who don't subscribe to consumerism (myself included) have to admit there's a difference between living in a car and living in even a sparsely appointed 400 sq ft studio or 1 bedroom apartment. My comment was just an attempt to reflect on the psychology that allows people to sacrifice almost all living standards in the pursuit of a goal (something akin to ''if you understand the why, you can live with almost any how...'').
> But if you want to develop cross platform native looking software... Qt is absolutely it. Only option.

If you want to develop cross platform native looking software, Qt most certainly is not the only option, wxWidgets is. In fact, as you yourself pointed out, Qt isn't really native, just tries to fake the native look and feel. wxWidgets actually is, as it's a thin wrapper around the native toolkits.
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Great post! Am I the only one whom, when seeing such "simple" problems, thinks "Thank goodness I didn't have to answer this in an interview, on a white board."
Title: "Early bird programming vs. night owl hacking – which is more productive?"

but it mentions nothing about productivity in the article.
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(I accidentally downvoted you while I was trying to upvote you. Sorry.)
I attended Northeastern University where PLT Scheme (now Racket) was the first programming language I ever learned in a classroom. Matthias Felleisen, the second poster in that thread, is a professor at NU and co-author of How to Design Programs:

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/

I recommend this book for anyone interested in learning more about Racket.
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So what do you do, and why did you choose to live in the van?
Would Timetravel module work for your use-case: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/contrib-spi.html#A...
there's an accepted answer here which i found straight away by googling "Fork Bomb"

http://askubuntu.com/questions/159491/why-did-the-command-ma...
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They are allowed to use pool, they just have to apply to use them.

The linked thread has someone from Google telling systemd that systemd should stop using Google's time servers.
Did you explain to the company why you decided to stop the process? If not, maybe that is one thing you could have done. Otherwise it sounds like what you did was perfectly appropriate.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+LennartPoetteringTheOneAndOnly/...

"German language source code comments are not acceptable in the systemd source tree, according to our coding style conventions. In preparation for merging LibreOffice into systemd I have thus started translating a few of their source code comments from German into English." - Lennart Poettering
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Thanks a lot :) My email id is on my profile. I'll wait for your email.
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Come on, you can get a .link domain with a name you want for a year for less than $3. Why ask for a spare?
Can I check: how irrelevant was the work to the applied for position?

But to answer your question: cancelling the recruitment process is totally fine. It's much better that you politely tell them now than go through the process and tell them later.
Bonus "easter eggs" from the rkt source:

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Demo Room: http://s3.amazonaws.com/o.oculuscdn.com/v/test/social/avatar...
For anyone missing the reference, here's the obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/221/
I love the NDA part. Looks very transparent and opensourcy..

I wonder if there would be interest in a real community driven whitelist. One without money involved or a dominant company applying it.

edit: This might work under the premises that there is (1) such a tool/list itself (2) a maintaining community and (3) a set of adblockers to support the list.

(1) is pretty simple. It's a list of ad-placements followed by a set of exclusion filters. This one needs to be transparently editable and commentable (both the ad-placement and the filter list edits)

(2) is a bet, I admit. I could imagine that if there is a serious interest in the allowance of unintrusive ads than this would be not a problem if enough reach is provided.

(3) is again an easy one. There are only so many adblockers out there. One key differentiator to ABP is that they don't allow ads on default. If that stays the same and the exception list is treated as an opt-in addition, I can only imagine benefits for those blockers.
The only losing party is ABP since their overall impact might be reduced due to the lost of their monopoly. Since lists need to be transparent, their list could be used to start off and improve further maintainance.
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It's more than 10$ here :'(

https://in.godaddy.com/domains/searchresults.aspx?ci=83269&c...

and I'm just looking for some help O:)
Thanks to lots of great community feedback and input, xtypejs now has a home at [http://xtype.js.org](http://xtype.js.org), with great documentation, user guide, and lots of examples.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9770107
I'm not essentially looking for something to maintain. I just want to test out my projects for the time I'm in university. Since am not looking to make any profits from this, I just thought why not ask if someone has a spare one. Just a thought O:)
I was seriously hoping that someone had some feedback. Quite telling that there's basically nothing to be done.
NoScript related HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9794895
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