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codehusker··on In Pennsylvania, Claims of a Rigged Election May Be Impossible to Disprove
I was willing to give your post a fair shake because I generally respect all HN posters, and because you included citations. Out of convenience, I skipped the videos and went straight for the emails.

Podesta did not say "US not a democracy". That was a forward he received about a study by Princeton. There's a solid academic debate to be had on the nature of democracy and representation. I don't see how this is somehow malicious or cynical on Podesta's part. I would hope that people involved with politics have some clue about what political scientists are saying.

Additionally, oversampling is a common polling technique[0]. I don't see how using oversampling for their internal polls means that Podesta forced other polls to be conducted in the exact same manner. To claim that multiple polls by separate organizations are rigged, you need much, much stronger evidence.

I'm also not sure that a stump speech by an opponent ever rises to the level of evidence.

Even if I accept all of your claims on face value, they don't add up to "we know this election is rigged".

After that, it didn't seem worth watching the videos because you have lost credibility in my eyes because I'm not sure you're arguing in good faith. I can tell from your two other comments that you're not just attacking, but your first post comes across as overly partisan (only accusations against Ds, citing Trump as evidence), so your larger point becomes muddled.

I'm still not totally certain whether you think this a problem with Ds or both major parties or an inherent problem to a party based system or something else entirely. At the end of the day, I think we probably agree. "The bigger idea here is that political parties are willing to do anything to advance their interests and it is a mistake to allow them to self-regulate when it comes to respecting the will of the people." If that was your original comment, I think the upvotes would be rolling in.

Finally, complaining about downvotes tends to make the problem worse.

[0] http://www.pewresearch.org/methodology/u-s-survey-research/s...

codehusker··on “Curl Bash piping” wall of shame
Security is not pass/fail. What threats are enabled by this method? Are there mitigations? Are there alternatives?

It would be a mistake to group all curl pipes. Does it require elevated privileges? Is it served over TLS? Does it do any signature verification? What the heck does the script actually do?

Different levels of security are required depending on trust. I trust Debian's repository, so I feel less need to audit packages. But a random startup promising ponies? I'd like to at least skim what I can, then throw it in a jail/vm/container to test.

How is curl piping beneficial compared to grabbing the script, giving it a quick read, then executing it? Convenience is all I can come up with, and convenience often seems to be at odds with security.

codehusker··on Facebook Overestimated Key Video Metric for Two Years
On my programmer hand, I can see myself making a similar technical choice. We have auto-playing videos, we shouldn't count the views less than 3 seconds because that wasn't really an intentional view. But that means we should also exclude them from the overall view count. I don't know if FB did that as well.

On my shareholder hand, this seems slightly like fraud.

On my advertiser foot, this seems slightly like fraud.

codehusker··on Employee #1: Reddit
WebObjects for Java, 1996.

Struts for Java, 2000.

Spring for Java, 2002.

MVC is just a pattern, generalized in 1988, and even in websites without frameworks plenty of developers have structured their code accordingly prior to 2005. It is certainly more popular after 2005.

codehusker··on Build a dirt cheap, tough-as-nails field computer in a Pelican case
I avoid loyalty to any particular brand, but Pelican makes incredibly durable cases that are unrivaled by anything I (and many anecdotal others) have seen. If you really need to protect something, they are worth the money.
codehusker··on Proposed connection between intelligence and gestation time
Anecdotal, but I believe it's very common, nearly ubiquitous, among medical professionals and people who have interacted with preemies.
codehusker··on Systemd v230 kills background processes after user logs out, breaks screen, tmux
This seems to be a common story. Systemd breaks one thing, but it's okay, they have their own built-in thing.
codehusker··on Linux 4.6: What's new and improved
From a few days ago, grsecurity has a different opinion on the new security work in the kernel, calling into question the implementation of both the new write-only protection and KASLR from 3.14: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11698381

Although GKH's pithy response on G+ hits at their incentives: "it's hard watching your business model slip away, I feel bad :(" https://plus.google.com/+gregkroahhartman/posts/2rM46nj9RsL

Separately, KernelNewbies is my go-to place for high(ish) level summaries of kernel work across the entire kernel (not just headline features). http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.6

codehusker··on Cloud Native Computing Foundation Accepts Prometheus as Second Hosted Project
You may have heard of the CNCF because their first hosted projected is Kubernetes, which natively supports Prometheus metrics.

The CNCF is also part of the Linux Foundation's Collaborative Projects, which houses other organizations like Let's Encrypt and Node.

What amazes me about this ecosystem is the corporate partners working together in a nonprofit manner to advance open source software. I think many of us imagined a bleaker, proprietary future. There's still a long way to go.

codehusker··on Celebrating the Open Container Initiative Image Specification
CoreOS has done a lot of work to avoid a monoculture of Docker containers, and I think we all benefit from the interchangeability of different implementations/runtimes.

The future of containers just keeps getting brighter and brighter.

codehusker··on Proposal: Go should have generics
We also have the hard-earned lessons of taking DRY to its extreme (left-pad). Where you draw the "copy a little code" line is subjective.
codehusker··on Docker 1.11: The first OCI-compliant runtime, built on containerd
The Open Container Initiative is an important step towards some form of standardization for the future of containers, and I think the Linux Foundation will steward the project well.
codehusker··on Following a Select Statement Through Postgres Internals (2014)
This article was also discussed before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8449329

Pat Shaughnessy has 3 other similar articles about Postgres internals. He does a great job of combining high level explanations, visual aids, and gritty details.

Discovering the Computer Science Behind Postgres Indexes http://patshaughnessy.net/2014/11/11/discovering-the-compute...

A Look at How Postgres Executes a Tiny Join http://patshaughnessy.net/2015/11/24/a-look-at-how-postgres-...

Is Your Postgres Query Starved for Memory? http://patshaughnessy.net/2016/1/22/is-your-postgres-query-s...

codehusker··on No-Cost RHEL Developer Subscription Now Available
As a developer, it means I can now test my software directly on RHEL. CentOS is RHEL with different branding (and now supported by RedHat), but there might be small differences that creep in. Customers like hearing that you've tested it directly on their OS.
codehusker··on CockroachDB Skitters into Beta
Agreed. SQL support is a big benefit. This post does a good job of explaining why, and I'm glad they delayed the beta to implement it. Looking forward to joins.
codehusker··on CockroachDB Skitters into Beta
It's icky, but it communicates their overall goal pretty well. If a cockroach will survive it...
codehusker··on Google breaks through China’s Great Firewall but only for just over an hour
Paywalls prevent specific sources, Firewalls prevent specific ideas.
codehusker··on That Time an SR-71 Made an Emergency Landing in Norway
From your link:

> There are a few suggested derivations for the phrase. One, put forward in a 1955 edition of American Speech, is the idea that when a jet crashes on a farm the farmer may sue the government for compensation. That would generate a large enough amount of money to pay off the farm's mortgage. Hence, the pilot paid for the farm with his life.

Etymology is tough historic recreation, but it seems as plausible as the others suggested by your article.

codehusker··on Apple files final response in San Bernardino iPhone case
The CTO would likely be compelled by the courts to reveal their password.
codehusker··on Transmission BitTorrent app contained malware
I know the last time I played with Whonix it was http, so I think you're right that it's a recent change.

For tails: https://tails.thecthulhu.com/. It appears to be the same server behind http://dl.amnesia.boum.org/ based on the TLS cert.

The situation is messy to actually use https for all of these projects, but I think the issue now is organization rather than overhead.

codehusker··on Transmission BitTorrent app contained malware
Debian, Ubuntu, Qubes, and others are on https://mirrors.kernel.org.

I suspect that wiki page you linked might be out of date. It seems like all of the Whonix download links on their website are over https, like the VirtualBox images https://www.whonix.org/download/12.0.0.3.2/Whonix-Workstatio....

Whonix also runs a tor mirror, which has significantly more overhead than TLS.

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