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The linked site actually says "North America", which has been incorrectly editorialized to "USA". This is misleading because their announcement appears intended to also cover Canada.

“pass” in this context refers to a GPG-encrypted file based password manager: https://www.passwordstore.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pass_(software) https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pass.

“pass” itself can be used in many contexts, but is primarily a desktop command-line tool. “Password Store” is the Android client for it.

I've written a series of posts on practical "recipes" for how to use Ledger (one of the leading plain text accounting systems) effectively in more complex situations beyond the basic tutorials: https://felixcrux.com/blog/ledger-practices

My mom started a blog about her triathlon experiences after retirement, including being part of Team USA at world championships: https://triathlonatretirement.blogspot.com/

Thank you!

Do you have any suggestions for how the formatting could be better? Is there something outright broken in how it displays in your browser, or is something simply sub-optimal?

Content warning: Be aware that the linked article opens with a large photo of bodies of killed civilians. It is not explicitly "gory" but it is upsetting.

If the author happens to read this: Please consider not putting that front and centre without a warning.

If a mod happens to read this: Please consider adding a content warning or similar to the link title or somewhere else prominent.

A previous discussion of my writeup on this awesome feature: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19520966

Hey! I'm really glad it was useful to someone. Thank you for the kind words :)

I've written a series of guides on how to use these tools in practice, here: https://felixcrux.com/blog/ledger-practices

I'll take any chance I can get to link to this wonderfully sprawling 1996 article from novelist Neal Stephenson about the laying and landing of transoceanic cables: https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/

Yes it's long, but it's so worth it!

Emacs, same as for everything else.

Another similar example is Tracy Kidder (a writer, not an anthropologist) being embedded with a team at Data General, resulting in the fantastic book "The Soul of a New Machine". I can't recommend it enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine

Not as originally implemented for use in the Linux kernel. It's meant to identify the original author, who is signing off on agreeing to contribute the patch as open source.

See https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches section 11: “Sign your work”.

> On a more serious note, it's kinda scary to what lengths people will go to continue doing what they've always done, even if it destroys their very homes.

The thing is, in this case, not continuing to do what they've always done would effectively also destroy their homes. The mine is the town, and ceasing production to save the existing town site would just result in a lot of empty buildings once ~60% of the population has to move elsewhere for work, and the remainder follow because they were only there to support the miner population.

One would hope so, but I suspect that they don't care about public perception, and a surprisingly large slice of the public would actually be supportive of punitive treatment of prisoners' families.

Because of this (quoting from the article):

"To impress state corrections officials and gain their business, JPay spends heavily on industry conventions attended by agency heads with contracting authority. During a 2012 convention of the American Correctional Association, the company threw what it called an “END OF THE WORLD PARTY” at a Denver wine bar that bills itself as “about you, and your inalienable right to the unbridled enjoyment of food and wine.”

The invitation, printed on a disposable beer coaster, promised “a bash, JPay-style: fuerte tequila, hand-rolled cigars, a live mariachi band.” Conventioneers could catch a JPay shuttle leaving from the hotel “ALL NIGHT LONG,” it said."

I'm very happy with my Samsung Series 9.

Different marketing people mean different things by "full HD", so I'm not sure if it meets your specs, but 1600×900 is decent enough for me on that size; and it really, really is a gorgeous display.

Battery-wise, when I was travelling and had wifi/bluetooth off, low screen backlight, etc, it was pushing 9 hours.

Are you saying Statistics Canada's alleged underestimation of productivity since the 1960s stems from the Harper government's policies?

Well, not entirely. He also explained that the original test counted sub-domains that the primary page owner also controls as non-upgraded third-party ones, whereas someone performing a SPDY roll-out would most likely also upgrade them. The table then showed exactly how many resources that were counted as "non-upgradeable" were in fact most likely upgradeable (most or even almost all of them).

A slight tangent, but the very last line makes me wonder: "The Latin crest of Pixar University says it all: Alienus Non Diutius. Alone no longer."

Is it possible that would be more faithfully translated as "Lonesome no more"? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slapstick_%28novel%29)

It sounds like the app has some credentials set up in it that are just not correct. You could try checking your account manager (under Settings) to see if you have a Facebook account listed there, which you can then delete.

I have the Nexus One, with the Facebook app, and can confirm that this is not supposed to happen.

That particular ball may have been dropped in Facebook's (policy) court, not Google's.

That is incorrect. Name policy violations can result in your Google+ profile being suspended, but nothing at all will happen to your Gmail or other services.

Gmail accounts only get shut down if the user is a spammer, or under 13 (blame the law), or some other extreme circumstance like that. Having a non-"real" name will not cause that.

Can you point to some examples of Google suing other mobile device manufacturers? If so, how many of them are offensive suits, and how many are defensive moves in response to being sued first?

I see your point; and I think most of my confusion stemmed from the fact that I thought this was made by Microsoft. I simply didn't read carefully enough, and was under the impression it was part of a Microsoft official marketing campaign (like the Google Chrome comic books or something).

I love the business hustle view at the end of your comment, though!

I think it's fairly telling that the analysts appeared to treat the decline in stock price as a punitive measure, rather than offering any kind of explanation for why Page's silence means the company is worth less than it was last week.

I find this rather bizarre, not least for the incredibly short cartoon skirt. Who is it aimed at? Do the creators think that they will win over some mythical basement-dwelling anime-loving "nerds" (male, of course) with this campaign?

Is this what the marketing department thinks tech-savvy people are into?

EDIT: I mistakenly thought this was made by Microsoft; of course a more careful reading on my part would have made it obvious that it is not.

Presumably you're merely allotted 2.5 hours. How you spend them is up to you, but the resulting essay is graded.

I desperately hope that the "social" features are implemented as an add-on (presumably installed by default) that can be removed by those who do not want them.