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Fundamentally still operating in an 'anticipatory' [1] model of computing. A trending shade of pink lipstick for the old pig.

[1]: the margin of this post is too small to contain an elaboration on this ;)
What aspects of a plain wildcard cert wouldn't work for that?
I'd suggest reading any of his biographies or watching Pirates of Silicon Valley. My problem is not with Apple at all, it's with the man himself.
Certificates are not secrets.
Where is the proof that CF is doing anything remotely like what you say? All they've done is create a Github repo (which is many developers preferred platform) and say that they are moving to a more distributed governance model. All at the request of the original maintainer, Mike Pall.

They've even explicitly stated that CF will not be taking over the project; they're only helping move it to a new home and to find a group who can maintain it to replace Mike Pall. There's zero evidence that CF's intentions are to the contrary, so I do think what you are saying is completely unfounded. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
My encounter with Linux was somewhat similar but mostly from having enough with windoze. I had called a PC repair guru for the third time because of virus's on my windoze PC in 2007. He told me about a Linux but I was skeptical thinking it was more for the uber elite hackers. I tried out the Knoppix CD and then installed SuSE. I was hooked immediately. Much like the article writer's hook with being my own "superuser".

For those that haven't seen Revolution OS I would highly recommend it for much of the Linux backstory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw8K460vx1c
On my machine it lagged a lot...

Then I decided to see a video version of it, instead the sound is muffled :(

I wish I had a decent machine to see the demo properly.
They could be pointing to an environment variable or a number of things. I'm not sure if there's a good way for Github to deal with things like that without affecting at least some users.

edit:..I guess they could just validate that it's a key.
This sort of thing isn't unique to tractors. Our Haas Vertical Machining Centers are great machines while, at the same time, being grotesque examples of "no user serviceable parts inside".

This is ridiculous when you consider we have a group of electrical and software engineers with 20 to 30 years of experience in just about all aspects of technology, including real time embedded systems and robotics. In many ways we are far more qualified to support these machines than the techs they send over. I mean, we could actually design these machines from scratch.

No, you can't get tech manuals. No, you can't have access to internals. Yes, there are a bunch of secret codes and you can't have them. And, yes, you will pay $1,000 (or whatever it was, I forget) for an additional 16 MEGA bytes of memory.

No, we are not eager to jump into a $200K machine to fiddle with it. We are busy enough with our own work. It's about simple things. When a machine goes down for some silly reason it'd be nice to be able to diagnose and get it back up and running rather than waste a bunch of time waiting for a tech who is going to enter a few secret codes to do the same. I've seen it done a bunch of times and it is infuriating.

I also do understand that the typical big iron CNC user doesn't have our profile. We are not a production shop. We have a well stocked CNC shop for prototyping product designs, just like we have pick-and-place capabilities in house. We are a product engineering firm staffed with highly experienced engineers, not a machine shop.

I can see a company like Haas deciding "no way we are giving access to internals to machinist". I get it. Yet, at the same time, they have no provisions for opening the doors to more capable users. I don't even think they have a class you can take to become qualified. Perhaps the tractor industry is similar?
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It's nice to see Microsoft supporting this now that they've committed to Git in TFS/VSO. It's also good to have the latest version of Git.

Git on Windows has been stuck at 1.9.* for awhile and always in "preview" because it was never really meant for production usage since the main contributor wasn't able to spend much time on it (and even then, he didn't primarily use Windows): http://episodes.gitminutes.com/2014/04/gitminutes-28-johanne...

I applaud the work that Johannes Schindelin (and others) did to get Git on Windows for these past years of increasing usage and look forward to this project taking it to the next level.
Uh, they've raised $14.5 million[0] and have over 17 million users. This isn't a side project. Not by a long shot.

[0] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pocket
The problem is going to be getting enough information out of the machine to actually diagnose what the underlying problem is. With the belt story, there was nothing wrong with the belt but the computer thought there was. He could have thrown a new belt on it (i.e. throwing money at the problem and try again) but that wouldn't have fixed the problem. Heck, that might have been the first thing he tried. Diagnosing an issue by replacing part after part along the problem chain takes time and gets expensive fast making it impractical for anything really serious.
Great book that covers the English economy through the time of Enclosure:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Transformation_(book...
If he could actually fix the software, it's possible he could break the digital lock to get there. And it would be illegal. So what? At this point, it should be no surprise to anyone that just about everyone in America needs to break the law on a daily basis to live. It's not news. Just don't get caught. Honestly, I'm tired of reading articles about yet another everyday activity that's illegal in the land of the free. If a solution was proposed, I'd be all ears, but as it stands, no one has a workable solution for the abomination our legal and penal systems have become. Otherwise, this is just another example of freedom amongst too many to count. (NOTE: Some sarcasm present above.)
It looks impressive, but only in these superficial simple examples. If we have really complex problem, i.e., designing distributed algorithm, we need to create domain specific visualizations and these bells and whistles won't help us.
Anyone using this in the US? or Just the UK
Or to re-word this in plain English: DRM was hooking Win32 APIs in an unauthorised way, Microsoft is utilising both improved compiler tech' as well as new coding techniques to detect/fight tampering. The goal is to stop malware from hooking Win32 to steal user information or otherwise perform exploits which might raise their access level (e.g. out of a sandbox). If Microsoft wanted to avoid breaking this DRM they would literally have to make their stuff less secure and ignore modern technologies which are designed to prevent/make it harder to do exactly this.

Not only has Microsoft made the right decision, but it was really the only decision they could make. They cannot just ignore new security technology because some DRM was written to exploit Windows back two versions ago. It sucks that users get caught in the middle, but DRM always kind of did that by its nature (legit users get caught between the publisher and pirates).

The short is: DRM is malware, Microsoft secured Windows against malware, DRM broke.
> If I responsibly reported to the manufacturer a month previously?

I'm not an expert on responsible disclosure, and I think reasonable people can disagree on the best course of action. I think selling exploits on the black market is always unethical.

> I couldn't even remove the useless bloody thing.

Right click, "Remove from toolbar".
There is a strong current of blind faith right now that private services/products are automatically the most efficient choice. Really there's a lot of market conditions that need to be in place before that's likely for a specific product or service, but careful consideration gets overrun in the bigger meme of gov't bad/companies good.
I'm convinced that LAPD has a few Stingrays set up at LAX - my phone shows full service but the connection is terrible and I always lose about 30% of my battery life between touch down and getting in a car.
> I often see this on HN: ideas are nothing; execution is everything.

Counterexample: designing TCP/IP was an expensive, R&D-intensive process, but it's pretty easy to write a TCP/IP stack given the RFCs.
> Its crazy that even today diehards defend the DOJ's insane war on MS in the 90s.

Its crazy that even today, diehards continue to misrepresent the DOJ prosecution of MS in the 1990s.

> Do you guys really want to pay for browsers or every single thing in a OS ala carte?

The basis for the DOJ prosecution of MS wasn't that it was illegal in general to include a browser or similar application as an included feature of an OS, it was that it was illegal for a market participant with monopoly power in a particular market to leverage that monopoly power in an effort to monopolize an existing distinct market.
Even after all these years, sometimes something like this article makes me stop and think how awesome it is, and how fortunate I am to have had Linux and open source available. Having the freedom to learn about and tinker with everything is incredibly cool, and one reason I don't think I'll ever give up Linux as my OS for... pretty much everything.
You may want to check out this TED talk and the corresponding site. I think its basically what you are talking about.

- http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski?language=en

- http://opensourceecology.org/portfolio/tractor/
How were they blocking personal hot spots? The article doesn't get into details. Since they were providing their own wifi, they weren't using a jammer. Were they blasting deauth packets at any hotspot not on their whitelist? Were they using mdk3?
This surprised me too. Of course I'm not surprised to learn that the term was used before it was popularized for iOS devices, but I'm VERY surprised to see it thrown about so liberally in this article. I really don't remember the term back then.
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Well, airports charge carriers a lot of money to have a cell site at the airport.

Roaming customers are very, very profitable and devices will frequently connect to the first, strongest signal they see.
https://vimeo.com/opensourceecology
since the upstream project seems to be left to die at Brocade

Indeed, Brocade closed sourced the main product in 2012 and left the community edition to die.

Thankfully the Vyatta core was forked in 2013 (renamed VyOS) and is under active development as a free open source project. [1]

[1] http://vyos.net/wiki/Main_Page
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Yes, they can sue you for damages.

If they demonstrate that your use of their trademark caused brand confusion and they lost business as a result they can sue you for those lost earnings.

If they can demonstrate that a significant portion of your profits are due to inappropriate use of their trademark then they can sue for those profit.

They may also sue for punitive damages if they can prove that infringement was willful as opposed to accidental.

Google around for trademark infringement (http://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/committees/intellectu...)
>was that humans have so far been able to compete with technology

Once a ditch digging machine was created, the machine outcompeted humans in that niche, humans were still by far better generalists. A better way of looking at this would probably be systems biology. Machines started as the corollary of a specialist lifeform. More and more they are evolving into a generalist lifeform. As they become more generalist they will directly compete with a larger population of the humans. This will push more people into specialist roles in society. Any specialist lifeform runs the risk of extinction if the environment it depends on is significantly altered or disappears.

The strange thing is that is well understood in biology, but for some reason when we apply it to people we think it doesn't work that way. Most people are limited in their ability to significantly retask. If you think you'll take a bunch of 50 year old accountants and turn them into (good) computer techs for the 15 years before their retirement, I would guess it won't go so well. As the rate of change increases because of technology this becomes a bigger and bigger problem as specialisation takes time to achieve and by the time you become well learned the entire field you are in could be automated.
Maybe you should post it on Show HN?
It would seem that an additional source of information (e.g. a nearby seismograph bolted to bedrock) would be the solution to this problem. This is analogous to a blind person trying to identify whether a sound is a recording or the Real McCoy. The solution is to either somehow make him able to see or to allow him to use some other sense (e.g. touch) by which to measure the origin of the sound. If he hears a dog barking, then if he sees/feels a dog, he is almost completely assured [0] that it is a real dog that was barking and not a recording playing from a machine.

Thus, adding another sense (a seismograph and sightedness/touch, respectively) would seem to eliminate the problem. If this is correct, then such problems are more ones of a lack of relevant, heterogeneous information and less of a lack of logical expressiveness of probabilities.

[0] = I say "almost", because knowledge is a fundamental philosophical problem. The usual means to "almost" assurance is, as I am arguing, to employ more heterogeneous sources of information until the only logical alternatives to what you believe are absurdities (e.g. impossible).
most structures like that will have repeaters in the building for each vendor. they are common in many buildings which have site line issues to include basement level boosting
I agree - I've been saying for years that we are getting "Inflation Needs, Deflation Wants". Necessities get more expensive, whereas niceties (from discretionary spending) have their prices squeezed.
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Sorry to just be offering high-level first-impression criticism, but I'm having a tough time following the main visual/slides on https://www.swipe.to/. I kept trying to read each slide, or to figure out what the ordering was supposed to be, or to figure out which slide was first, but they just keep changing really fast, and the transitions from one slide to the next is often jarring / completely changing the view.

Perhaps it might be easier to digest and understand if there was an indicator to show where the slides started/ended, and/or longer pauses between each slide? Or perhaps to have more obvious transitions between slides? Or maybe to slim down what's depicted in the main slide deck there to demonstrate a narrower slice of the product? (it seems like maybe you're trying to show a little bit of everything there)

The slide deck lower down on the page is easier to follow, for example, because I can follow what the user interactions are that are leading from each slide to the next.
Cell towers don't need to be a freestanding structure. There are tons of micro towers hanging out on existing buildings.
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We're still figuring out pricing, but each base ("database") has a custom API (the endpoints correspond to your specific schema) that you can use to build a website: http://airtable.com/api
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People editorialise titles. Your suggested box would almost ask for editorialising.

Yes, exactly! And that's a Good Thing in the cases I'm talking about. Let's quit throwing the word editorialising around like it's a pejorative. Editorialising serves a purpose and is actually needed quite often.
These can also be found in BOS and CLT, probably others.
Funny product...
I was going to post the same suggestion regarding coworking spaces, a co-working space and building a work schedule will help you a lot.

Patrick's advice is spot-on as usual.
> Ping 127.2.88.33 on your console now... you'll see replies.

People's results here might vary depending on their operating system. For me, these pings were returned on a vagrant box running ubuntu, but dropped (not blocked) on the host system.
This is entirely possible. However, when the data being measured is about complex human behavior (i.e. time allocation, productivity, work habits, etc...), I don't think we are even a little bit close to accurately representing reality. If we were "pretty close," then sure you could justify making decisions based on that data, but I don't think we are close enough for that.

Even just the "time worked on X" example is too complex to track. It is deceptively "simple." It seems like (especially to managers) employees should be able to work on a task for awhile, and afterward record how much time they spent working on it. However, it isn't that simple.

In reality, "working on X" might actually mean working on X along with several other things such as email or web browsing or talking to a co-worker or answering the phone. With reliance on self-reporting, and without some sort of monitoring system, it is unreasonable to expect this metric to be accurate, yet this is how many (most?) time reporting systems work.

Managers are making large-scale decisions based on this data. It looks like accurate data, it has fancy graphs and charts and reporting...but it isn't actually very accurate. An employee might report an hour spent on a project, when really only 40 minutes of that hour were spent on the project work, while the remaining 20 minutes were spent on various interruptions and extra tasks. This inaccuracy isn't much of an issue for informal uses, such as sticking to a personal schedule, but for driving decisions as part of a greater pool of data, it is misleading.

At my organization, upper management is trying to use time reporting data to come up with a total cost for various initiatives. This is the kind of scenario I am talking about. Managers don't typically sit and watch everyone work, nor do they discuss time reporting entries individually, so all they end up seeing is the data. This separates them from how that data is generated and leads to inappropriate reliance on that data. From their perspective, it feels like reliable data that can be used to assign a cost to various projects, but the data probably doesn't adequately support that use case.
"... the site I just showed you will help Chrysler sell cars, because it distributes information to customers far better than Chrysler’s dealers can."

almost 20 years later, and nothing has changed. I'm trying to buy a specific car, and the Internet knows everything, dealers know nothing. The salespeople and dealers know less about the cars on their lots than the consumers do.

The consumers know about new models before they're even announced; dealers don't know about them until they show up. Dealers can't tell you when a certain car will be built or shipped, you're lucky if they can even tell you when it arrives at port and is on a train or truck destined for their dealership.

I'm spending a lot of time online where "insiders" sneak information about production numbers and ship dates and tracking and so on, and the "official" channels are utterly worthless.

It's amazing, disastrously bad. And we pay for it. I can't way to see the dealership model die.
Quite a few people at my office (tech) have these and seem to love them.
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Yes but we like to be all pretentious about death and sex before we go.
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>Grab ssh private keys from autoprovisioned EC2 user’s home directory using 301 redirect to file URI (after all, we’re running as root, we can read them).

This is not a fair assumption to make. Maybe they are running a LSM like AppArmor.
What has he done to you to make you so upset about him?
I'd rather have no titles and an accurate tag cloud.
I just think it's a young person thing.

Pushing 40, if I went back to college, and all the kids were taking cots to the engineering building to sleep on while somehow getting ready for a final, I'm sure I'd have nothing to do with it. I'd push the midnight oil if I could, then I'd go home, sleep snug in my bed, and be back bright eyed and bushy tailed at 5am to get started again.

But when I was 20, I'd be there with my cot, no question.
The way we set up the car financing feature is that it actually sends an OLE call to another Windows computer that launches an Excel spreadsheet that does the calculation for you, and then OLE messages the information back and shoves it onto the Web page.

If you came across something like that today it would probably make the DailyWTF
IPFS is a cool tech, for sure. But it looks like IPFS is focused on "high throughput content-addressed block storage model, with content-addressed hyperlinks".

The file-transfer needs of DIST is simply for a decentralized method of firmware updates--as outlined in the IBM ADEPT paper.
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Amazing vision is true. Narcissist is true. Compassionate and Steve Jobs don't belong in the same sentence.
He rejected his own daughter for many years - but he secretly admitted it (the Lisa computer).
Pirates of Silicon Valley + feedback from Woz + Gates on the movie is worthwhile to understand Steve, as is Issacson's biography on Steve Jobs.
I have very mixed feelings on the man.
That's the point of using physical projectiles, not light beams. You watch. That's how you know.

"Watch" may mean using something like a phased-array radar to measure it more precisely, if you wish...
Not to mention that airports can also be rich RF environments, and extra sources of noise pose extra complexity.
Tesla is trying to change that by getting rid of dealerships.
I would see the average farmer as a little different to your average car/cellphone user. As the article points out, getting things fixed quick and the ability to do it yourself for cheap are critical factors for many farmers and an integral part of their daily lives.

I've worked on many farms and always spent a large chunk of my time fixing a tractor or other farm implement.
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LuaJIT supports goto out of the box, as well as many other Lua 5.2 features, some behind à compiler flag.
FYI: if you can get there, you might be able to help by assembling the bankers' boxes, which doesn't require too much lifting or bending. (I was there yesterday for a few hours: some people assemble the boxes, others take the boxes and fill them, and then we stack them.)
>That's why MS can bundle IE and Edge with the operating system today and nobody cares, including the US government.

No, the only reason MS is suddenly bundling more, including Anti-Virus, is because the judgement expired in 2011.

>If you want to have a bad time, be a monopoly and pretend you're more powerful than the US Government,

Or from a realpolitik stance, if Netscape has more friends with the Clintons than you do (which they did), you're going to have a bad time. A lot of "careers" were made at the DoJ over this asinine case, that changed nothing for the better.
Depends what it did at the time :)
I am, yes. But it's quite transparent most of the time. It's the kid with bad breath, greasy hair, and foul odor in the corner of the computer lab with a stack of books next to him that I would believe is truly stressed and finishing a project.

It's the kid who has pajamas on but still looks great, carries one book, a pen, and a coffee back and forth across the quad 6 times a day that I wonder about :)
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