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It's time for us to accept that we implicitly modify everything we touch. Prime directive needs to have some detectability metric by which we decide it's OK for us to go gangbusters. If the native martian amoebas cannot survive with us present then they lose the evolution race, sorry.

Besides, if there are primitive life forms on Mars, it's quite presumptuous of us to assume we could so easily wipe them out.
That's a legitimate question, setting up an OpenVPN server is trivial. I am curious, have you tried using obfusproxy or an alternate way to obfuscate your vpn traffic?
I'm not a Java guy but I remember checking the language a few months ago and really enjoying it. I wouldn't mind if Java dies and people adopt languages like Kotlin and Scala instead. Of course, Java will never die, because of BUSSINESS APPS!
Zulip can be hosted internally, and there is a desktop Linux client in addition to running fine in the usual zoo of Linux web browsers.
I gave Heartbleed no integrity impact.

The funny thing is: bumping up "integrity" from zero to nonzero only gets you from 8.x to 9.x. Which is obviously ridiculous! All things being equal, the difference between RCE (which CVSS can only encode as "integrity") and anything else is night and day.

I really dislike CVSS, and I think I speak for a big chunk of software security when I say that.
AWS Re:Invent 2015 – Cloud as Enterprises’ New Normal
I love Scala but the Intellij support is lacking in that it can't always find the right import to auto-import and I have to manually add it myself. I think it comes down to the fact that it takes the compiler a lot of cpu cycles to figure out what's actually in scope with implicits, etc. I soldier through it, but it can be annoying when I have to go hunting around for the import.
> Why isn't Otto named Vagrant 2.0 or something?

While Otto may be replacing Vagrant as the preferred directly-used tool for most users, its a higher level tool where Vagrant still exists and is used under the covers.

Since Vagrant still exists and is maintained and is used by Otto (as well as being usable independently), it would be extremely confusing if Otto was called Vagrant 2.0.

> Its confusing to be "abandoning" Vagrant for a new system "Otto" when really all that is happening is that Otto is fixing issues that have come up over time with Vagrant.

The main issue Otto seems to be fixing with Vagrant is that Vagrant, alone, isn't a complete solution, a suite of other tools are needed by typical teams; Otto incorporates Vagrant and those other tools, puts an abstraction layer over them, and lets you use them together.
same, UK
Elastic Beanstalk Support for Go and Java
This Watch release isn't new internal hardware. It's simply an increase in the options you can buy in terms of case colors/materials and bands. As a watch is something you wear, it makes sense to give people more options to customize it to their personal tastes.

Also you don't just slap a faster more power hungry processor into Watch. Watch is highly power optimized so you can't add something that's more power hungry without touching everything else in the system.

It's just not correct to think of Watch as an iPhone on your wrist. It's selling point will not be that it just has an improved processor.
Seems like a good start to a useful project! I'm a bit turned off by the lack of customisation options for the servers though. I would like a bit more options in terms of what gets installed and what not (I don't need Bazaar, Mercurial _AND_ git installed f.e. and I'd like nginx i.o. Apache).

I'll definitely be keeping an eye on the project!
Refuse to participate in the scheme. Yes, it is possible (or likely) that you will be fired. But going to federal prison is a very real possibility. I visited several witnesses in prison. They are "normal" guys - the kind you see standing on the sideline of a kids' soccer game. They have kids, two car payments, a mortgage, etc. It's a tough situation to walk away from (especially because the crime is often just a phone call or a few emails with a competitor).

Keeping a conspiracy going year after year is difficult. There is "cheating" by conspirators, turnover of personnel, etc. The DOJ also has an immunity program that protects whistleblowers from criminal liability (and sometimes the company from treble damage civil liability). The immunity program makes it much more likely that someone quits the conspiracy and turns themselves in.

So while losing your job sucks, if your company is violating federal antitrust law, chances are your job is not secure or desirable anyways.
Is packet sniffing a risk on VPS?
One does not need data to support it.

Attention is your scarcest resource at any company. You hire people to add to this resource. Bad hires do not add, but subtract from this pool, by forcing you to pay attention to them rather than on running your business.

No amount of "hard data" can make that untrue.
The EV of all insurance policy is negative when measured in absolute dollars. But the EV can be positive if the value of dollars to you doesn’t scale linearly.

For example, if you have to spend $10,000 on medical bills, that might be 1 unit of disutility. But if you have to spend $100,000 on medical bills, that might be 30 units of disutility, not 10, because you just don’t have that kind of money and you will go bankrupt and your quality of life will go way down. With this reasoning, health insurance might have a positive EV for utility, even though it has a premium that gives you a negative EV for money.

This reasoning is less likely to apply to life insurance, because people are less likely to care about what happens after they die. But for people whose beneficiaries would suffer a lot from losing their income – perhaps they would be evicted – life insurance can be worth it.
I think it's a side effect of the expectation of not having a crap job.

For all of human history, 99.9% of people have had crap jobs.

Life gets a lot better if you are OK with that, but young people are not OK with that today.
Full recovery of 2048-bit RSA key stored in Amazon's EC2 service
Very often you just need to adjust levels and white balance to see a significant improvement on many photos. You don’t even need Lightroom for that, even more basic photo editors like OS X Photos work fine.
tl;dr: There used to be, at least it felt like it, a lot of games and social experiences and other "cool stuff" that was less about showing off how you decked out your avatar and more about either playing games with others or exploring strange environments.

An example: There was this Tetris/bingo hybrid called "Tringo" that was big in the early years. You'd buy a board, and then anyone could click on it, get a human-sized "card", and play the game against anyone else that was in the area.

There was even a reward element to it - you could set a game as pay-to-play, and then the top X players of each round would get a share of the donated proceeds.

Anyways, it was everywhere for a while. If you looked at the ingame list of registered events back then, it was absolutely dominated by Tringo.

(The guy who invented the game even made a Gameboy Advance version of it!)

Eventually, people got bored of it, and now you hardly see it around anymore.

There were lots of other gaming fads (Chariot Races, Tech Warfare, skydiving at Abbot's Aerodome..), but people just stopped coming.

Part of this is due to the server side being really quite awful at having a bunch of people in the same space. Tringo worked because those people weren't doing a whole lot other than clicking on the board in front of them.

This never really got much better over time. More than about 20 people in the same space and the server starts dropping frames (increasing "time dilation") to keep up. It gets worse if those people have any scripted bits on their avatars (and many do, since those run on the server responsible for simulating the region)

The absolute hard limit is 40 people in the same region (65535sq/m) before it won't let anyone else in, but it becomes unusable much before that.
Indeed. Sometimes it's worth making people do a little bit of extra work so that they can actually start to grok a system.

A little (but not quite) like this:
https://github.com/eggheads/eggdrop-1.8/blob/master/eggdrop....
The perks can be suspect, too. At my public undergrad, the school provided a house (paid for with student fees) on campus for the president, but when he bought a home in a neighboring town they began paying him a housing stipend retroactively as well as a car and driver. They continued collecting student fees for the on-campus house because - although it was deemed "unfit" for him to live in - they still used it as a venue for him to host alumni events. It reminded me of the racket on public funding for sports stadiums.
I don't think anyone can with say that airbnb is the sole reason prices are up. That's crazy.

Moreover, I don't think anyone can actually prove or disprove something like that (there will always be a "but did you consider that?" argument to be made). Which makes sama's earlier comment asking for proof disingenuous.

Maybe it's hard to be ethical and profitable? idk. And, I don't mean to imply EVIL(!). You don't need to be evil to ignore a piece of info that might harm your livelihood: we are all equipped with brains that come standard with a range of cognitive biases we can subconsciously choose from :)

And, that is what I was trying to allude to.

Again, not EEEVIIIIIL. Just cognitive bias.
I think the idea is that Otto is the (new) interface and Vagrant is a potential implementation. A 2.0 would hide this distinction.
New Yorker here. Short-term rentals and Airbnb in particular have had a noticeable negative impact on my downtown Manhattan neighborhood, although I'm not talking about rent. Everyone I know now has stories about "guests" who let anyone and everyone into the building, damage common areas, and make noise all night long, because really, what do they care? They are on vacation. They are here to party, and then they are gone forever.

Apartments are designed for long-term residents. Why should we even consider allowing them to become budget hotels?
The only people who will understand that code (assuming is not just generated code) will be people from competitors... maybe. People outside the business will have no clue. It will be a continuous source of false alarms. Will be really hard to filter out the crap. Other people already talked about exploits. Every day you'll live the fear of "do I run up to date SW on my car???". This is not a phone.

First you need to know the system, then you can understand what the code should do then you can have a fare chance of doing a code inspection.

I think people parallelize too much to web development or other environments a lot more exposed to public development.
People think that if you can read someone else's C code for voice communication, they will also be able to understand the C code behind a diesel injection system, air intake path, exhaust gas treatment, fuel mass setpoints calculation. If you have never been exposed to stuff like that, you cannot fully judge if the code is wrong. You may find something obvious here and there (like a loop that may go beyond the limit in theory but never in the field).

And believe it or not, there is still competition for IP. Technical strategies of doing something in certain ways giving supplier X clear advantage in some field. Why would X share his knowledge just like that? We are talking about huge money. Never seen Google share the source of all they do.
What implications will this have on performance? Will one phone with TSMC's Chip out/under perform the other phone with Samsung's Chip?
Well out of all the cases against health insurers in the US this isn't much of a case.
Unless you are in a risk group (the old pre-2010 CDC, and the current, WHO, European, Canadian and rest of the sane world recommendations) this isn't something you need, and considering that the flu shot is one of the highest complication risks vaccines currently out there (I am not anti-vaccination nut job, all vaccines should be taken as recommended by health professionals), with fairly limited effectiveness and pretty much it's only offered "over-the-counter" in one country since 2010 (when the CDC decided to change it's recommendations, or well issue 2 separate ones one which is aligned with the WHO and another that says well anyone over 6 years should get it) and that's the US.

Unless you are in a risk group this isn't a major health issue for you, all studies point that this is a very limited effectiveness treatment and unlike most vaccines doesn't provide a heard immunity effect since even vaccinated people will be contagious if they get the flu even for a strain that was covered by the yearly shot.

This vaccine is intended to give at risk groups (people with chronic lung diseases, elderly, infant, people with a compromised immune system and at risk workers such as medical professionals, people that work on pork and chicken farms etc.) a better fighting chance it doesn't not provide an immunity to any flu strain.

P.S.
That nasal (LAIV) vaccine the one that is given in the US to pretty much everyone is the worse of the bunch, it's the only version that actually contains the live virus which can both give you the flu and make you contagious, this is the one that you are supposed to call sick after you get it if you need it but hardly anyone actually does it.
I kinda wanna put spy on my linkedin page now
> So I feel like the reason I like Vagrant is because it does it's one job well, then gets out of my way. Doesn't sound like this shares that philosophy.

Seems to me it might, if you view its "one job" as coordinating a bunch of lower level tools that each do their own "one job".

Well, and assuming it does it well.
Regardless of what Wikipedia says, chemists distinguish between molecules and atoms.

Diatomic oxygen is extremely rare in the universe, because it's extremely unstable. Oxygen would rather be bonded to pretty much anything rather than itself, including hydrogen. [citation: go burn some hydrogen]. It's common round these parts due to some rather bizarre nonequilibrium chemistry [aka life].

What we know about the prevalence of various molecules is a combination of what we know about the prevalence of atoms combined with what is thermodynamically stable. It goes hydrogen, water, methane, ammonia, carbon monoxide, I think? At this point it depends on local conditions, temperature and so forth, but the stability of water combined with the prevalence of oxygen makes it basically unassailable as the second most common molecule after H2.

Can you see why instead of "forcing someone to provide references" it would be better to ask someone nicely for references?
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Just a quick glance, but it seems to me from these sequences that the 3GS and the 4 series were very good, even in respect to the next versions. What do you think?
Funny that you include garbage collection as part of what we should be doing, in an article about software in cars. Garbage collection is almost never the right answer for software in embedded systems.
My understanding is that AirBnB was originally envisioned as more like couch surfing, but with money involved. I have never done it, but from what I have read, couch surfing really is about sharing your home. It is not just about finding a place to sleep, but about meeting people and making new friends. I have read articles about AirBnB where hosts talk about time spent with renters in their own home and how the social piece is as also important to them, not just the money.

I am not saying you are outright wrong to feel the way you feel, but I am saying that for some people, AirBnB really is about sharing their home and their lives, not just subletting for money.
Minimal Fall Outfit Idea
While I agree with the general idea, I also hope that, if there are more advanced civilizations out there and they find us, that they don't consider us "native amoebas".
Microsoft deploys first major server application on Ubuntu
We're not debating the multiverse theory or alternatives to the standard model, we're literally literally talking about the stoichiometric ratios and chemistry of the universe, a field of knowledge that is as fundamental to astrophysics as the concept of fusion itself.

If you can't provide a single citation to support such fundamental statements as "H20 is the second most common molecule in the universe" outside of irrelevant Wikipedia articles, they are worthless, HN moderator and community standards notwithstanding.
"Looking forward to trying housetrip, there really need to be a solid alternative to AirBnb."

I'm just passing though this thread and have almost zero experience with airbnb, but I have used VRBO several times per year since 2005 and it's been wonderful.

I've used it in several countries, in many states of the US, for studio apartments up to 5BR houses. It's great.

It's like the craigslist of this category - sort of ugly and old fashioned looking, but it works.
Annotated Version of John Bell’s Paper on Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradox (1964)
http://www.isup.me/facebook.com says it's down as of now. But it works for me, from Denmark.

edit - Actually checked the link provided by OP and felt humbled.

*edit - ran the test again. error rate down to 28%
Yes https://github.com/Houshalter/amabot
I do have that hostility to art criticism of which you speak, which is what prompted me to post. I know nothing about art, so I should have kept my mouth shut, or at least been less insulting. Sorry.

When I read a story, hear a song or watch a movie and I might _feel_ something or my world-view may have been moved. But I look at a painting or sculpture and I feel nothing. It doesn’t feel right that a critic has to explain to me that my perception is being experimented with.
"The modulus of resilience and the modulus of toughness were calculated from the area under the engineering stress versus engineering strain curves, as outlined in Appendix C. Both are useful for determining the amount of energy the students can absorb before yielding and fracture."
Based on the title I expected the charts to include some, uh, ratios...
OpenCL implementations of codecs aren't even as efficient as CPU implementations. Just because there's some pixels in there doesn't make it a good fit. They are entirely useless.
And it's free!

http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
It's been 4 years since this article... I think it's safe to say that the answer is yes. Not much has changed since 2011 in terms of economic health as it relates to the young.
That's not how radiation works.
What are the well known kotlin shops? Are there any companies hiring explicitly for kotlin?
The agreement with the food supplier is irrelevant.

If a customer walks into your free-food restaurant and finds the conditions unsuitable to them, they should leave. If they refuse, you should kick them out.
We simply don't know how likely life is to arise given the right chemical conditions. We also don't know what those conditions are.

It may still be that life is so unlikely that it only happens on one out if every billion planets where the right conditions exist.
I have tried it, but just don't hold up as well as Heroku. I still use and love Heroku, but would be nice to have a similar option I could host anywhere on my terms.
yes https://github.com/Houshalter/amabot
C++'s goal was to introduce a newly popular paradigm (oop) on top of an existing rich ecosystem (c). Scala's goal was to introduce a newly popular paradigm (fp) on top of an existing rich ecosystem (java). They both suffer from poor tooling, long compile times, and feature bloat with several predominant styles of writing it.

To dismiss the similarities is disingenuous.
It's not that the logs themselves increase the integrity of banking transactions, it's that they find bugs that increase the integrity of banking transactions.

Say that you've built your system like any good highly-available system so that you rigorously check consistency of the program invariants, log if there are any anomalies, and then either try to recover or back out with a user error if something goes wrong. You've configured your monitoring to alert if any of the consistency checks fail. Now you get an alert that you've errored out and served a 500 on one in every million requests.

For Reddit, Facebook, Google, or other free services, it's no big deal: one in a million means that you're serving a couple hundred, maybe a few thousand 500s per day, max, and then the user just refreshes and gets over it.

But in a financial transaction app, this is a big deal. The basic assumption you have to make is that if you have a consistency problem that your monitoring caught, you probably have consistency problems that you didn't catch. And the right thing to do is investigate until you understand what is going on and what the impact is. So you pull the logs of all surrounding requests, you pull the logs of any requests that were in flight at the same time, you pull the logs for the user that initiated the request and see exactly what they were doing. And then you try to reproduce the problem, test for it, and fix it.

The difference is entirely in the tolerances built into the system, and how that dictates that you respond to errors. In some domains, a one-in-a-million error is a "well, we'll catch it next time" event. In others, a one-in-a-million error is a "drop everything you're doing, fix it, and ensure that no similar errors exist" event.

BTW, the strictest tolerances usually are not in B2C companies, they are in suppliers of large B2C companies (or the government). The bank is completely willing to risk a few hundred dollars per customer on an ATM card, but if the ATM vendor loses that money without it being part of the spec they gave the bank, they've lost the contract. Most of these enterprise B2B contracts are based on trust, and if the customer observes you losing money accidentally, they'll wonder what else you're doing accidentally.
in the past i have used cloud9 and nitrous.io for teaching, and i had students clone a template repo with exercises and lessons. this is awesome to me because its a much more structured way to manage projects, especially for students who haven't used git before.

one tool which i have built with my co-teachers in the past is a problem generator that tracks which concepts the user has "mastered" based on the number of problems they have solved for a given concept. we had a naive problem generator that used templated problem specs with randomly generated values: https://github.com/pftp/pftp-web/blob/master/practice/python...
have you considered anything of the sort for students who want more practice?
>but they don't have the corresponding maturity or morality to safely wield those skills.

Or their morals differ from your own. They may lack your morality, but that does not mean they lack morals.
> Wikipedia defines a molecule as "the smallest particle in a chemical element or compound that has the chemical properties of that element or compound" which means that atomic helium is a molecule.

No it doesn't; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecule cites that as an earlier, less precise definition than the one that's commonly used today. The definition right at the top of the page is quite clear that by the usual definition, a single atom by itself does not constitute a molecule.

> The purpose of [citation needed] is not to take the wind out of your statement but to force you to provide the necessary evidence to back up your assertion.

In polite discussions, attempting to "force" your conversational partner to do anything is kind of discourteous. If you're honestly seeking information, then by all means feel free to ask questions. But whether you intended to or not, your responses are coming across as very adversarial and dismissive.