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So, wait. You don't want the "System"

That's not what is said. They are against "rigged system" which from their stand [0] and their previous attempt [1] implies getting rid of corrupting influence of big money.

yet your Vice President is basically a member of the Democratic Party which
is part of the precisely bi-party, rigged System right now

That is an umbrella statement which doesn't hold the ground as there are certain people in the party who are fighting against the rigged system currently.

[0]

The singular focus of Lessig's campaign would be passing the Citizens
Equality Act, a package of reforms that would guarantee the freedom
to vote with automatic registration, end partisan gerrymandering and
fund campaigns with a mix of small-dollar donations and public funds.

[1]

He launched Mayday PAC to much fanfare in the spring of 2014, billing
it as the "super PAC to end super PACs." But it failed to play a
decisive role in any race that year. The group spent more than $10
million going after candidates opposed to measures that would lessen
the impact of wealthy donors
Give him his 2 minutes to pitch his idea. The thought is that no matter what your political ideals are, you're better off fixing voting reform first. Whatever issues you care about, you can't actually properly vote them into place. Pick your political goal - whatever it is - it can't effectively be voted upon right now unless you have significant cash.

Your primary issue right now as a US voter (Lessig says), be you Republican, Democrat, or anything else, is actually voting reform. Fix that and then you can go back to voting - and this time effectively. It shouldn't matter what other political issues drive you - you can't get any until you fix how voting itself works.
All true. My old manager laments the day when everyone on his team, independently, came to his office to tell him things had to get better or they would leave. It never rains but it pours.
The Batman Series by Chris Nolan. Haven't seen such awesome portrayal of human emotions/behaviour.

"You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
Computer scientists behave as if P!=NP, and Donald Knuth will send a check to anyone who comes up with a polynomial time general solution to 3-sat.

Or to put it another way, P!=NP is a de facto if not de jure axiom of theoretical computer science. And the burden of justification is on anyone whose conclusions are not premised on P!=NP just as it is a biologist who takes issue with evolution by saying "it's only a theory."
War Games.
I hear the owner of the .xyz TLD is flooded with requests, so if things aren't registered now, they will be soon enough :P
The average US single family home price is around $200k[1]. It's not going to go up in value by $50k because of fiber, even if you could expand your home equity line by enough to get it (and in my neighborhood where the median is something like $400-500k, you'd get laughed out of the bank). What you mean to say is "in a microscopically tiny portion of the housing market where high-tech convenience is a driver of housing cost, and housing costs are several times the national average, a $50k expenditure to call the cable companies bluff might make sense".

[1]http://www.realtor.org/sites/default/files/reports/2015/emba...
> Works for Neo4j, MongoDB, ownCloud and some others.

None of these are abandonware. All three are VC-backed companies. An AGPLv3 license is extremely restrictive for what amounts to a code dump.
Sanders / Lessig 2016 ?

Warren in the Senate. Sounds like the formation of a dream team
DevOps challenges in the Internet of Things
So, what Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are doing?
Hackers, from 1995. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/

It is funny to think about it now, but I can remember clearly how this movie got me so excited at the time. I shifted all my focus to computers.
> Use at least 2048 bits for your RSA keys

It says they only plan on "refusing all RSA keys smaller than 1024 bits" (e.g. 768 bits.

> Deprecating or disabling SHA1

SSH1, not SHA1!
Everyday for 5 Years This Japanese Artist Creates a Fun Miniature Diorama
NO encryption for custom data send to yourself or to others! Read the blogpost carefully.
> We see many copies of Firefox infested with rogue add-ons the user didn't ask for or isn't even aware of.

GoogleUpdate?

why Firefox could not remove these extension itself? I needed to remove some files from the harddisk --I doubt john.doe will be able to remove such evils

Please excuse the rant tone, these things make me feel my intimacy raped
You... really don't understand HSTS or how proxies work. Any actual secure proxy configuration would still work just fine with HSTS. Its only ones that specifically downgrade HTTPS connections to HTTP ones that break.
I wonder, what opponents of ad-blocking think about email spam? Is it different if spam ads are injected by email client? (some email and even messaging apps do this -- not to the actual mailbox, of course, but to the displayed inbox contents)
He might have had the need before seeing the ad but hadn't seen a solution.

Adverts are at their basic level a way of informing end users about what they can purchase. They are also there to try and raise brand awareness. People are more likely to trust a brand that they have heard of rather than some unknown.
I'm not sure what the author's argument is here. Is me reversing simply a nuisance and waste of Oracle's time? Is Oracle trying to obtain security via contractual obscurity? I see lots of comments here proposing that Oracle is protecting its IP, but I don't see evidence for that in the article (maybe its elsewhere, though).

I wonder if Oracle would send one of those reminders to a customer who analyzed an attack by an attacker who "broke the license agreement" by reversing the customer's copy of some Oracle software.
Re #1, thankfully we live in a republic, so your fears about the ignorant masses won't come true.
I've written many letters I've never sent. I prefer communicating in writing, anyway. And they are not all venting or letters of frustration. Some are just my way of formulating an idea, opinion or position on a subject. In addition to "getting it out," it helps me to better organize my thoughts, rather than just having them swirling in my head. I can then have some confidence that I have fully extrapolated my thoughts and provided justified for myself the way I feel.
https://github.com/chrisvana/repobuild/wiki/Motivation

(Pre bazel)
We use completely different accounts on completely different computers.
Does this run win32 applications?
how was it not corporate-speak? the recommended way to "ensure" your systems were "secure" was to "be on a supported product release"...

yeah... right from the hip. give us more money to fix the software that we sold you as a fix to the previous pile of shit we sold you.

you're an idiot.
Sample of the music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swAicg0GjNg. It deserves to be so much better known.
That's actually the point I was trying to make - this is either a blatant FUD piece or written by someone totally clueless.
> The Fed is very, very unlikely to raise interest rates in September. It's practically guaranteed not to happen. Investors are likely to bet on this today, and stocks will probably climb significantly over the next few months in response to the Fed not hiking. The bet will shift from expecting a hike, to not expecting one for the remainder of 2015.

Why would the yuan devaluation affect the fed's decision?

The stock market opened after you wrote your comment, and u.s. index is down >1% and foreign index is down >2%.
You just proved yourself wrong with your own link:

"The allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are pretty straightforward in terms of Swedish law: he's been accused of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion.

"The charges allege that Assange held one woman down using his body weight to sexually assault her and that he raped another woman while she was sleeping." (http://jezebel.com/5711600/how-aol-news-started-the-sex-by-s...)

Yeah, that's rape. Please stop defending rape. Even if it wasn't considered rape in the law, which it is, it should be.
The ending still haunts me...
You would effectively be voting for two Presidents at once, since you'd be voting for his VP as part of the package, and it's guaranteed (unless they resign or die first) that the VP will become President once the first one quits.
More recently, Ex Machina. Seriously great movie. Beautifully shot, amazing sound, great effects.. You can watch it two, maybe three times in a row.
Lovely movie. Had an impact on me, especially towards the climax. :-)
I think this is a valid concern. Perhaps an option is to pool their efforts together while capitalizing on Sanders momentum.
Money Quote:

"professional comedians face increasing difficulty in playing colleges and universities because they cannot do offensive jokes"

The more I learned about sexism, racism etc. I the less I liked the currently famous comedians.
It's actually a straw man argument, unless you show that the reasoning I laid out implies that universities will be destroyed. That's probably going to get you fighting down a slippery slope, so I'm not too confident you'll show it to be the case :)

Corporate lawyers don't need to know about rape law, for example. I am neither a law student nor a law professor. It's not my lot to tell them how to hash out their conflicts. I think they can come to an agreement that accommodates everyone; for example, exemptions from class for the period where rape law is discussed.

I think universities will survive if they treat their students as worth negotiating with rather than griping in public about how childish their students are. I went to university. I know how condescending professors can be. I think it's reasonable to infer that this recent spate of public griping stems from anxiety, because authority that is challenged always feels anxious.
That combination of sincerity and intellect would put our nation two decades ahead of its own time.
https://lessigforpresident.com/the-act/

https://lessigforpresident.com/donate/

I will be surprised if he doesn't reach his $1M goal, and much more surprised if anything substantive comes of the effort.

The "launch and resign" plan smells bad -- it seems like a hack to avoid having a complete platform, implying that the government will lack a leader during that interval, and using that as motivation to pass the act seems like a bad idea. It also raises the question of who the real VP would be.
> just pin their own CA cert.

No. No application or OS should impose it's own CA on an end user without choice. I get the importance of encrypted traffic flowing over the internet, but I also have concerns about traffic leaving my own network. Neither at my home or my business do I want an encrypted stream of traffic flowing out of my network without my being able to inspect the contents and know who the recipient is.
I smell an inside job. :D
When I was a kid: Hackers (watched it around 30-40 times when I was a kid), War Games, Matrix, Sneakers pushed me into being developer, but the most impact on my current life had American Beauty as it made me thinking about working less. Another movie that I can think of is Social Network - It motivated me to on my side projects harder.
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I just don't get why they would put up a barrier to entry by requiring Windows 10 - at least I can't think of any technical rationale.
The knights tale is my personal favorite. Not sure, how many in hacker community would like this movie, but this movie taught me very early the power of hope and dreams.

EDIT : I would love to add Lions king (animation )
I have too many to list. Here are some of the highlights that come to mind.

2001: A Space Odyssey -- had a profound effect on me as a child. It both reinforced my interest in science and opened my mind to the sheer size and scale and mystery of the universe. The original Cosmos series did likewise, and I think it's far better than the remake with Tyson. Sagan just communicates the sense of awe and wonder a lot better.

Wargames -- definitely made an impression on my pre-teen self and helped get me into "hacking" (sense #2), which led here through a long and winding road.

Stand By Me -- a profound film about the end of childhood. (The Stephen King novella 'The Body' is good too, probably almost his best work.)

Primer -- the best sci-fi of the past decade. When you don't have a big budget to plaster FX all over the screen, it's got to be in the writing. Big budgets do sometimes ruin cinema.

Enter the Void -- this is a weird recent one that stuck with me. This is definitely a binary reaction film. I loved it, others hate it. It communicated the profound sense of loss that comes when you're forced to leave a thing unfinished and move on, followed by the sense of hope that comes with a new beginning. It was also just the visual aesthetic of that film. It haunts me. The artistic ethos of this film felt as if someone lifted dreams directly from my soul and rendered them on screen. Night flights over neon cities is probably what I'll dream about as I die.
I agree with Marco - I think the pendulum regarding security and privacy has swung too far, and it's entirely ethical to block such code from running on your system.

I think a form of ads that are entirely reasonable (though hard to scale), are the ones that Gruber sticks himself into his DF feed. and, ironically, they are extraordinarily effective - I can probably name, by heart, about 20 of his sponsors. And I've visited, and purchased products from many of them.
> Do you just do a blanket block for all ads, ban the big networks with the trackers along with the malware serving ones or something else?

Just because there might be a little fresh water in the cesspool doesn't mean I'm drinking from that tap. I block all of them. I'm not the one that pooped in the drinking water, so I'm not going to spend time sorting out the good from the bad.
The only jobs you need a college education are the ones that are highly technical, leaning towards Academia.

Most engineers and analysts could learn on the job or with specializations(no longer than a few months).
Rails engine to track search engine rankings
Email to the landlord, they send a maintenance person to fix the problem.

When we had a property management company, worked the same way, but they usually had someone out quicker.
Betting on the technological advances we haven't thought of yet to happen is pretty safe - but betting on them solving a particular current engineering challenge is a good way to fail.
Howard Hawks The Big Sleep. It provides a window into how America perceived itself in 1946 and it is quite different from the post-war narrative that was established over the following decades.
Elizabeth Warren isn't running for president, and you are assuming that Sanders doesn't believe he will win. Why do you assume such a thing?
It is not so much that money leads to influence, but that politicians spend most of their time fundraising. They spend so much time on it that they do not have time to govern effectively. That is his primary argument. He wants to create a system where politicians only have to worry about fundraising during the election rather than their entire term.

There is also this side benefit that whatever influence the money buys evaporates to some extent.
Not a movie, but Star Trek: The Next Generation had a profound impact on my life.

Captain Picard's level of human ethics is something most of us can only strive for. I think everyone (including Earth politicians) should take note of his supreme leadership skills, and the will become a better place.

Roddenberry's vision of Star Trek was really that Enterprise was a metaphor for "starship earth", so even if you're not into sci-fi, it's still highly worth watching. It's not really about space per se, it's about people.
There's an amusing and relatively new third case where you already have bought the product, but ad servers are dumb and will spam you with ads for that product for months, because your trackers said you searched for that product once.

It's wasteful, but in an almost ironic novel way.
Will Docker Replace Virtual Machines?
There is a docker container with everything set up: http://www.databasesoup.com/2015/07/test-postgresql-95-alpha...
> I'm being quite specific, saying that this extradition order for these specific charges should be ignored, because USA.

Wow, I never thought I'd see someone advocating that rape / coerced sex / exceeding consent repeatedly is totally fine because the person might be wanted internationally for other crimes.

Great use of logic there.
What't the advantage of Lessig's win-reform-resign approach rather than convincing a more electable candidate to commit to the same reform? If there is enough public support for Lessig to win the election, presumably there would be enough support for another candidate with more outside support (such as his designated successor) to win with the same platform.

The main reason I can see is that Lessig himself views his promise of reform to be more reliable than any another candidate's promise. True or not, I think it would be difficult to convince the general electorate that he should be trusted more than any other candidate.
Even if you got the car for free, because the manufacturer wants people to see you driving it? Sounds unethical to me.
Jurassic Park, its not the movie in the literal sense, but the fact that it was my first move I ever saw with my family in a big theatre. So every frame of it "wow" experience for me at that time.

Also "Man from Earth", It was my first movie that made me realize sci-fi genre is lot more than fancy cgi.
isn't this still vulnerable to the attack reported up-thread where whatever malware just goes and changed about:config before installing their plugin? (and the reason that the addon opt-out is being removed from ff42)
Matrix trilogy is one of the finest movies I love to watch again and again. It's so metaphorical and allegorical.
"Lessig said he would serve as president only as long as it takes to pass a package of government reforms"

Well that will take longer than two terms. Congress doesn't even play along with the people who are incahoots in rigging the system. It's beyond ridiculous to believe they will play along with their own destruction.
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner. It showed me that our surroundings can be almost completely different from one another's with only a minimal subset of common characteristics.
> We see many copies of Firefox infested with rogue add-ons the user didn't ask for or isn't even aware of.

Like Pocket or Hello?
The author did refer to the act of reverse engineering their code as "sinning". So yes.
So what you're saying is that Lessig's candidacy is like regular expressions.

If a Republican's primary problem is voting reform, and the way he goes about fixing that problem is to ensure that a solid Democrat gets elected president ... well, now he's got two problems.
> People are more likely to trust a brand that they have heard of rather than some unknown.

Is this a good thing?
I whitelist ads on websites now, and I wish I could do the same on my phone. I think someone here or on reddit mentioned, and I had the same experience, trying out IE Edge and it being a decent browser, but as soon as the autoplaying video ads start, I downloaded FF, added uBlock and didn't look back. I use the same browser setup on my phone, and now and then I use some apps that emulate a browser (like Reddit is Fun or HN app), and the experience is wholly broken. I was reading an article and it was miserable - the fixed header for the site plus fixed footer for the ads took up about 1/3rd of the real estate, not to mention they were jittery and I couldn't focus because I'd scroll too far, then the ads would load where I was reading.

There's no ethics involved with me. Poor experience? Get blocked. Decent experience? Welcome to the whitelist
It's not about quick exposure - he's written about this idea in "republic lost" - it's an intellectually honest attempt to fix the corrupting influence of campaign financing not being dependent on the people alone. Currently politicians are dependent on the funders and the funders are not the people.
Centralized is just a degenerate case of decentralized.

Stand up a dedicated server running syncthing and poof!, you have a centralized syncthing.
For several years I used the password 'joshua'. As a kid, I figured that nobody would figure it out.
I've got about 150GB (but well over 100k files) and it only really lags on the Raspberry Pi. One thing I could suggest is that you change how often it rescans your directories for changes (I set mine to 6000 seconds versus the default 60). That might make a difference.
agree, the message doesn't match reality on this one.
I would expect to see a code snippet on host sites which does a bit of pass-through disguising, so that what used to be "iframe src=skeezy_virus_mill.ru" looks local. That seems consistent with the arms race in progress...
Not without a restitution possibility. I will not pay anything for domain parking or site rehashing (sedo, quorra, expertsexchange), but I would pay for e.g. stackexchange or eurekalert.
The current model can't work. The internet is becoming unusable due to ads. I am not sure how it will evolve, in terms of paying for content, but this is surely not the answer. I expect that we will be paying for content in some form. Perhaps a Spotify-type model where you pay a monthly fee and the fee is distributed to content providers.

On the issue of ethics, I'd say it's not ethical to spread out a small amount of content across six pages just to get more page views. It's bad for advertisers and for consumers.
I had to recently roll my own signage solution and have built something I think is pretty compelling using Yocto[1]. I'm using CuBox-i devices running Linux and Midori (which is based on WebKit). I don't know if it does accelerated rendering but the boxes are much more powerful than Pis (and are a lot less dev-kit-y than Pis). If nothing else, hopefully a pointer to Yocto will be useful to you - it's pretty great.

[1] https://github.com/luciddg/kiosk-yocto
Vim – Cool tips to improve productivity
As one of the users (js-ojus) of `drive`, I can say that it is shaping up nicely! Keep the good work up, odeke-em!
sh*t. ;)
Hence the need and desire for approximation algorithms. Often, you can give up a tiny amount of precision in exchange for dramatically increased performance - if you can make an assumption.

For instance, computing cardinality of a value over a huge dataset (distributed or otherwise) that is assumed to be evenly distributed would take memory proportional to the size of the dataset for 100% precision. Implementing a cardinality approximation algorithm like HyperLogLog++ lets you get a pretty close to accurate result for this calculation but with far fewer resources. There are many others and I think it is important to consider this trade off when it is appropriate.

Of course, it makes an assumption that the data is distributed more or less evenly.
In what sense was the web built on "XML and Java"?
Well, that’s not a limitation of statically typed languages, but a limitation of go.

Just like Generics.

Java, for example, does support Optional types similar to Haskell’s Maybe.

Haskell in supports them, too
Thanks, I'm hosting on a nonstandard port on a server. I put the main page inside a frame hosted on GitHub pages for a better URL, but this broke the links. Fixed now. :-)
Internet's Own Boy

Its important to watch movies that make you blind mad occasionally
Any chance of seeing any docs covering this? For example, addressing the overall architecture?
It becomes mainstream. We are at a point where we get less content, because revenue for content-creators is impacted by blocking.