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saynsediton Linux debugging tools you'll love

+1. You can see the same effect in natural language as modern English has fewer tenses and declensions and makes heavier use of helper words, as contrasted with olde English. Same with Latin vs modern romance.

saynsediton Y Combinator Companies

So good.

saynsediton iPhone 7

I already pay my fair share, they should too.

saynsediton iPhone 7

Taxes may be the worst way to recycle money but in the absence of anything else it's a really good way. Apple's revenue far outweigh its costs. They have one of the largest cash reserves of any corporation in the world.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/22/investing/apple-stock-cash-e... http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2014/04/13/fun-numbe...

saynsediton iPhone 7

I feel like I can't buy this unless Apple pays its EU-enforced Irish tax bill. We give them money but the vast majority of it never goes back into the economy.

[Edited for technical correctness]

saynsediton Florida programmer arrested for gaining unauthorized access to kernel.org

What is your source on the shell company involvement? Couldn't find anything on that.

saynsediton The kernel community confronts GPL enforcement

Something that isn't transparent in this discussion is the fact that Linux is extremely corporate now.

By that I mean, the vast majority of contributions are sponsored by corporations.

Both Linus and Greg know that. They are keenly aware that if Linux takes a hardline GPL approach it will gain the reputation of being unfriendly to corporations. That perception will kill Linux in the long run.

When they say they "Care about Linux more than GPL" they are really saying they care about corporate Linux since non-corporate Linux virtually doesn't exist anymore.

I have nothing against that and honestly I think they have more clear opinions due to their positions as top-level maintainers. I just think the motivations and incentives behind their opinions should be clear to more people.

The people's Linux is virtually dead. People need to eat. An analysis of that phenomenon would be interesting as well but is beyond the scope of this discussion.

saynsediton FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems

BTW Your conspiracy theory that I'm a low-key "Putin fan" reminds me of medieval witch hunting. Honestly, HN really isn't a hostile environment to be a "Putin fan," but you know what is? Ukraine! rim-shot

It's sad that, in these modern, presumably more civilized, times, one can't offer a more complex analysis of world events without being labeled a "Putin fan" or being accused of being brainwashed by Russian propaganda. What a time to be alive!

Let me renounce the devil for you and calm your paranoid anxieties. I am not a "Putin fan." Putin sux0rZ! Feel better? Can you not burn me at the stake now?

saynsediton FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems

The narrative you have invented for yourself to understand me with limited information is fascinating. You have a gift for storytelling!

You should really start writing fiction. Not kidding at all. I loved Rainbow Six. Actually Clancy in general. It's just fun stuff to read. Throwing in Cyrillic makes it exciting.

As for my propaganda fix, that's kind of unfair. I mean... What's your propaganda fix? Why are you so intent on labeling me? I'm a human with a brain like you dude... we're brothers on this planet. I read Wikipedia for the most part, read the Times, the Post. I monitor CNN and BBC, also Fox News from time to time. Lots of others less so, e.g. Vox, The Guardian, Slate, The Atlantic, Vice. I actually don't watch RT much at all outside of randomly linked YT clips, I'm not even totally sure what they air... You?

Back to the topic at hand, what exactly was your point w.r.t. to the Ukraine situation? Do you disagree that it's a complicated geopolitical issue with multiple stake-holding actors?

saynsediton SEC awards $22M to Monsanto whistleblower

Laws are usually theoretical until they are broken and tried in court. Even then they are still subject to revision.

This is not anarchist in any sense of the word, colloquially or academically. It's hundreds of years (or more) of legal practice.

saynsediton A Message to the Apple Community in Europe

Just a note, precedent has little impact on law outside of countries that don't practice common law. Common law originates from the UK and Germany and France don't practice it, therefore precedence has little to no impact.

saynsediton A Message to the Apple Community in Europe

At the time, the company knew that in order to serve customers in Europe, it would need a base there.

Are you sure this had nothing to do with avoiding US tax and keeping a cash stronghold in Europe?

saynsediton FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems

"Putin fan" is not a term I would use to describe myself or anyone who is seriously analyzing the situation from a rational unbiased perspective. Nor would I use "tit-for-tat," "backstab," and "archenemy" to describe the events that have transpired.

It makes it hard to discuss/analyze history with someone who is assessing the situation in those comic book terms with a clear anti-Russian bias.

My intention was not to defend Russia but simply to give evidence on the complexity of events in Ukraine and the multiple actors involved. Personally I find this complexity extremely interesting.

Is there a specific point you want to get across? Your dramatic retelling of the events in Ukraine is entertaining and I encourage you to adapt it into a screenplay and sell it to Hollywood. Aside from that I'm not quite sure what your specific point is.

saynsediton FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems

Ukraine was in total disarray due to a violent revolution to depose its democratically elected president. The Russian annexation, i.e. intervention, was arguably done to stabilize the situation on their part. A referendum was held after the fact. Not to mention that Crimea was previously a Russian subject not 60 years prior.

I don't see this as unprovoked in the same vein as the invasion of Iraq, for instance.

The Ukrainian conflict is ineffably more complicated than they "started to like America." This sort of thinking is not productive when trying to make sense of world events. There are lots of factors at play here, economic, cultural, historical, political, and so forth.

This has been my only thesis from my OP. If you disagree with me, you're saying the Ukraine situation is as simple as Putin being an evil invader. I think that is a flawed, incomplete, and unproductive analysis of the situation. If you are interpreting me as defending Russia you are totally missing the point.

saynsediton FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems

It's undeniable that the euromaidan protests had a strong right-wing nationalist component. They were violent and essentially terrorized the country.

This essentially led the president of Ukraine to resign. That right-wing faction then controlled Ukraine's government, and is still very strong in Ukraine.

We immediately recognized that new government and provided them with aid. That is insane! In the west, their only saving grace was that they were anti-Russian.

saynsediton FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems

Yes Russia's actions were more severe, that much is true. I'm simply putting it into context. Ukraine is of the utmost importance, so I can see severe circumstances culminating in severe actions. Again, these present circumstances were slowly aggravated by the US over the passed 20 years, that can't just be ignored. There are lots more chapters to this story that we haven't even discussed.

I don't see Russia offensively invading other countries right now, Ukraine seems more like a defensive move after lots of US-led political meddling in Ukraine specifically (this is NOT normal http://youtu.be/AmkvO_IwsZ0). When Russia initiates unprovoked military invasions on other countries (which some publications have speculated on) then I will gladly unilaterally condemn their foreign policy. Right now it all seems very gray.

saynsediton FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems

I never said I didn't appreciate it but context also matters. Tactics matter, I agree, but so do intentions. Russia has more to lose than America has to gain. If Ukraine joins NATO, Russian then borders NATO. Ukraine is essentially their queen on the European front. There would be no Ukraine crisis if we hadn't courted ex-Warsaw pact countries into NATO in the first place. You need to appreciate that, unless you think Russia should be destroyed. I'm an advocate for peace and balance so we would subjectively disagree at that juncture.

There is a reason we gave Poland to Russia after WW2. Buffer countries ease tensions between superpowers.

saynsediton FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems

Ukraine is not an isolated event. It's yet another chess piece in a long and drawn out American/Russian chess game that's been played since WW2.

Yes, Russia is being bullish on Ukraine. This is happening after America has expanded NATO into multiple ex-Warsaw pact countries eastward of the Berlin Wall after an agreement was made for that not to happen. http://spiegel.de/international/world/a-663315.html

Given that there is evidence that America was also meddling in the future of Ukrainian government, it's not hard to see that Ukraine is an important geopolitical asset that both superpowers are willing to manipulate. It's not as simple as Putin annexing Ukraine for some evil world domination plan, it looks more defensive than offensive on their part in the grand scheme of things.

The fact that your friend was wrong does not make all geopolitical analyses that are more complex than Russia being the bad guy and America being the good guy incorrect. Any argument that the situation is morally clear cut is overly simplistic and harmful.

saynsediton FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems

Thanks!

saynsediton FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems

That's not evidence of a Russian-specific crash. All markets across the globe had a correction in January 2016. According to your chart, Russia has apparently bounced back, just like the rest of the world. This is the DJIA: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI?p=%5EDJI

Do you have a more specific source?

saynsediton FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems

I don't believe I justified any of Russia's actions. It's a complicated situation and there are lots of questionable actors...

For example, there is credible speculation that the US funded anti-Russian neonazis in Ukraine http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/04/is-the-u-s-...

Am I saying the US is "bad"? Am I saying that Russia is "good"? No, I'm saying proxy conflicts like this are gray and complicated and it's not a typical "good guy" "bad guy" situation.

saynsediton FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems

Russia isn't the only country that violates international treaties and its own constitution...

Ever heard of Victoria Nuland, assistant Secretary of State for European affairs during the Ukrainian crisis? "Fuck the EU" she said: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957

saynsediton FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems

I wasn't aware their economy had crashed. Could you provide a source?

saynsediton FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems

Ukraine situation is way more complicated than Putin simply annexing it. Lots of history there and lots of US meddling as well as Russia.

Additionally, our economic system is far from perfect too. Ever heard of occupy Wall Street? Lots of wealth inequality here.

Awareness of the facts does not a Russophile make. Russia is a global superpower and it acts like a superpower, as do other superpowers.

saynsediton There are no particles, there are only fields (2012)

Consciousness exists as much as the color blue or the soft hum of a clean sine wave — it's qualia.

Our interpretation of the physical world doesn't necessarily exist anywhere but in our minds.

saynsediton The Arctic is warming twice as fast as rest of the world

What should we do? Does anyone here know?

saynsediton Does a compiler use all x86 instructions? (2010)

Just read the output of your compiler for simple functions. objdump -d, or, cc -S

saynsediton A huge crack is spreading across one of Antarctica’s biggest ice shelves

If you're ready to do something about this, consider volunteering for http://brandnewcongress.org

saynsediton Int 80h (2001)

Those example words have precise meaning, "performant" does not. Engineers should communicate using precise language, like other technical disciplines.

saynsediton Int 80h (2001)

"Performs well" has no concrete meaning. It almost always requires a second question for clarification, e.g. "What does good performance specifically mean here?" Or "performs well compared to what?"

Scientist, doctors, lawyers, and other engineering disciplines use precise words. Software engineers should too.

As more and more people use "performant" fewer and fewer people will understand what good performance actually means. I wouldn't be surprised if this encourages a culture of wasteful premature optimization.