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The big question is, what vendors will use this system instead of their own horrible systems?
Strictly speaking, he said "Kdbus ist nich tot".

For some of the architectural chicken-and-egg-at-shutdown-and-startup reasons that systemd developers need its API not to be dependent from a user-space subsystem:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10491489

The article points to the recent announcement that kdbus has been pulled from Fedora:

* http://lwn.net/Articles/663062/
Synchronization of any kind seems to affect our minds enormously. Upon acceptance, which in itself is an immensely interesting topic, it puts us into a collective trance state, where you indeed feel like you're part of something bigger.
Samsung Smart Switch Mobile Android App Crack
Because "purpose" is totally open to [Apple's] interpretation.
They only paid the ransom because of extreme pressure from the other 100 companies in their datacentre that were also offline. The ransomers contacted them after the second, much stronger and more sophisticated attack to deny responsibility for the second DDOS. https://protonmaildotcom.wordpress.com/
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“How many of us have paused during conversation in the past four-and-a-half years, suddenly aware that we might be eavesdropped on? Probably it was a phone conversation, although maybe it was an e-mail or instant-message exchange or a conversation in a public place. Maybe the topic was terrorism, or politics, or Islam. We stop suddenly, momentarily afraid that our words might be taken out of context, then we laugh at our paranoia and go on. But our demeanor has changed, and our words are subtly altered.

This is the loss of freedom we face when our privacy is taken from us. This is life in former East Germany, or life in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. And it’s our future as we allow an ever-intrusive eye into our personal, private lives.”

— Bruce Schneier, The Eternal Value of Privacy, Wired, 05.18.06

http://archive.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securi...
You're doing the right thing in calling people first before diving into code, but I suggest you do so as part of a process - see Steve Blank's Customer Development methodology:

http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2008/11/what-is-custome...

http://www.slideshare.net/venturehacks/customer-development-...

Also, what kind of products are you building? Developer tools? B2C? B2B? Ideally you should build something at least tangentially related to your domain expertise or tools expertise.
Linus Torvalds Talks Linux Security at LinuxCon
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It's not guarded like a fortress. Unless you're including fortresses that allow the public in regularly.

It's guarded like a very noticeable landmark in London for the same reason that most targets are guarded - because of bomb threats. As they had a bomb explode in the BT tower, it's not an unreasonable thing to do.

Oh, and not all calls and data go through there. I think they still get a fair chunk of microwave comms but that's a very small proportion. If the taps are really there then GCHQ are mostly tapping BBC broadcasts.
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It is stories like these that make me feel like I would kill the driver if this happened to a member of my family. I could not in good conscience allow someone to get away with killing a member of my family due to their negligence. That they were under the legal limit for alcohol woukd not matter. I hope it neve happens to my family.
> It's sad if the only solution to (potentially) protect your privacy is to lie in court

It's court, your entire life can be dragged over the coals if there is sufficient justification for it. Privacy is not an absolute, if I have compelling evidence you have abducted a child the facility should exist to (at the very least) search your home and possessions.
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Hey Brendan, it's a honour (am serious).

I'm just going by media reports and the answers the Mozilla leadership gave at the time. It was clear the pressure was on and without you stepping out voluntarily (which was the right gesture, from all points of view), something would have happened which would have damaged the project more -- in that sense, it would have been at odd with the project's aims. I expect you share the same view, or you wouldn't have stepped down in the first place.

I was just pointing out that you weren't fired and you likely would have not been fired in any case; at worst, you would have been moved to a different role; hence "demoted", since most people see the CEO as the pinnacle of a pyramid.

Would you agree that this is a fairer representation of the historical truth, from your point of view, than "Eich was fired"?
What are these security issues and how to identify them?
> nearly all thinkpads are undergoing bios updates because of a security issue.. but cannot be done on Linux. I wonder if someone can build a howto for Thinkpads on Linux.

Nonsense. Thinkpads can update the firmware from a bootable CD whose ISO you can download from the Lenovo website.

I did this just last week with my Carbon X1. I can guarantee you that no Windows was ever involved.
From the article:

> On the web it’s mostly used on the web for favicons though it can be used for normal images.

Basically the .ico format often used for favicons comes from Windows icons (the first favicon implementation originated in Internet Explorer and MS supported .ico so people could reuse existing application icon files, though IIRC .gif files and other formats supported in web pages could be used from the start too) which are a variant of the .bmp format which has a few extra features like containing different images for different sizes (so a single file can contain separately optimised 16x16 and 32x32 bitmaps).

I assume .ico and .bmp files are fairly rare now, presumably completely unheard of for new sites/apps, but you can't drop support because there are enough of them out there on legacy sites that it would break things people care about.
> You mean the same public that accepts and sponsors a "royal" class in 2015?

We make money from the royals, does that change your opinion?
Alas, society can't call us programmers engineers simply because "our job is difficult from a technical perspective". Otherwise, doctors are engineers, athletes are engineers, and suddenly the term "engineer" doesn't mean anything anymore.

I do think we programmers in general deserve more respect from society at large for what we do, but pretending to be something we are not (engineers) doesn't help our case.
It's strange how much it looks like web development

I saw a talk that discussed this - it's deliberate. Flutter is intended to be a lot friendlier to web devs, to let them bridge the gap between mobile web and mobile native.
That's a remarkably trivial result.

Also, Docker is apparently more efficient than LXC, despite the fact that Docker is nothing more that a bunch of UI on top of LXC - either directly or with even more intermediation (libvirt/systemd)?
Well you could always just make a new submission linking to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10512999 and see if it got upvoted enough - but maybe would be better if the new submission could incorporate the previous comments rather than just link to them
EU Gives U.S. 3-Month Ultimatum to Reach Data-Privacy Deal
A lot of people on prescription opioids don't want to be on them, but they may be the only legal thing that helps with the pain. And then addiction and physical dependence become an issue.

Neuropathy is a case in point. Many people don't respond to SSRIs or SNRIs, or the side effects simply can't be tolerated. The next step is opioids.

I for one would much rather use a plant, rather than opioids that cause addiction, physical dependence, and potentially a life-ruining downward spiral of misery.
Anyone that is curious about grsec and comfortable installing a gentoo overlay would have no problem installing grsec on their own; especially if gentoo was not their normal distro. You are not doing anyone any favors by making grsec look like a Sisyphean task without gentoo.
"The UK Trident system is highly dependent, and for some purposes completely dependent, on the larger US system."

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmselect/c...
Arch Linux has a working out-of-the-box config too. The guy who contributed it to Arch Linux is Daniel Micay, who was also quoted in the WaPo article.
So the alleged flaw in pg's reasoning is his assumption that the best applicants from two large groups of humans should turn out to create equally successful startups on average, if the selection process is not biased.

Is this really such an unreasonable assumption, given that pg restricts the applicability of his bias test to groups of equal ability distribution and that we can assume that both groups have roughly the same amount of capital at their disposal?

The question is if the "equal ability" qualification is sufficient to make sure the distributions are roughly similar. But that is not a mathematical issue.
> Nothing sinister about them at all

Although they've made taxing a car a painless and efficient process. If that's not suspicious from a government agency I don't know what is.
I'd like to see a breakdown of file types at e.g. imgur.com - I'm guessing more than 0% are bmp images, and there isn't a compelling reason for a browser to not be able to view those.
> Just wait till you learn of the French VDM...

The doctor gave me a cream for it... cleared up nicely.
Depends how you define "plastic". There are a number of really nice carbon fibre fiddles in the "serious" price range that may give up a teeny-tiny fraction of the absolute best that can be achieved with the best woods, the best varnishes, the best luthiers, the best alignment of the stars and the correct sequence of profanities and vulgarities uttered during the production process, but for that minor loss you get excellent instrument-to-instrument consistency and the ability to play with the same sound under wildly varying conditions of temperature and humidity. Part of the problem with acceptance is that once the price gets high enough, people want "a real one", and Cremona never smelled much like carbon fibre.

Boosey & Hawkes used to make a wonderful series of woodwinds (clarinets and oboes) in aligned glass-fibre-reinforced resin with the same sort of advantages - and disadvantages - with one extra little niggle: they weighed a bloody ton. (I owned a B&H clarinet I haven't picked up in a little over 20 years. There's still a discernible dent in my right thumb, something one never got in a persistent way from wood or the student-oriented plastic or Bakelite instruments. Much nicer sound than anything of wood at twice the price, but I can understand why they didn't sell too very many of them.) I'm sure they could do much better now, at a cost - but then there's the acceptance factor to deal with. At least ebony has problems associated with it that spruce and maple don't so far; it will probably be easier to accept good synthetics over bad or hyper-expensive wood before too much time goes by.
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Thanks for sharing this, it was really informative. I agree, we have to find ways to fight back and stand up against this stuff at home. Telling yourself that you can just retreat to the Nordic countries (like they're some kind of utopia - give me a break) just leads to a false sense of security and increased complacency.
I'm not sure how long Apple will let the current situation stand. As it is, developing with React Native is more flexible than with their own frameworks, which I can't imagine they're too happy about.
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Spoken like a true american.

Given 8.5/100000 suicide rate in US and 10.27/100000 in Singapore, what would you choose, 999989 well educated, well developed in mathematical and analytical thinking, highly proficient in solving unknown problems individuals, or 999991 lower than average (US has notoriously low education standards), highly afraid of math, often leaning towards social and gender "sciences", overconfident and self important, yet having very little skill practice or general knowledge, individuals? The answer is pretty obvious.
Astonishingly so, since it's actually a very good article. Only one or two (minor) flaws in a long article about a technical subject, written by a journalist, is a good tally.
Sweden is higher on the suicide rate per capita and has fallen down on PISA recent years.

Neither stats does say much.
I investigated Flutter some time ago after seeing it mentioned on HN, and it is quite fascinating - as an Android user. It has a stated goal of 120fps on all UI elements, which would be a huge step in bringing sluggish-feeling Android up to the levels of iOS.

But Flutter is also intended as a cross-platform framework for iOS too. That part I'm less sure about, though if it lives up to its promise, it would be great. Overall though, far too early to tell. Using Dart might not be popular, but if you don't already know Objective C/Swift and Java, it might not be any worse than today.
> Android is inherently always going to be insecure as long as it's running with GSM, which is fundamentally broken

So because of the mostly theoretical threat of baseband vulnerabilites, we shouldn't bother securing the software running on the application processor? What if I told you that x86 suffers from similar "there's an omnipotent co-processor with access to your memory" issues?
> The industry is entirely broken in terms of what it values.

Couldn't agree more. I feel that we, as entire IT industry, have failed to provide robustness, security, and privacy after dozens of years of development of Internet technologies. Just take the recent vulnerabilities in Android and iPhones, used everyday by millions of people worldwide. How could that happen after so many billions of dollars invested in the development of the major technology used nowadays? We failed miserably and don't even understand the root problems.

Of course, completely different thing is functionality: here we've seen tremendous improvements over the years - which is very positive - but that's another story.
And terrorism is such a broad term these days, especially with regards to "cyber-terrorism".
Thanks, whipped down thoroughly, I must have had my wires crossed with other policies I liked. If this gets through anyway, I seem to have been rate limited.
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I don't see anything in that says that a UK sub needs US input to launch - in the worst case they don't need any input to launch (they don't have PALs).

Of course, there are dependencies on US systems for lots of things and if the US withdrew support for our Tridents systems we probably couldn't operate them for very long (months - probably, years probably not).

Is it completely "independent" - of course not - it's a US system and there are very few scenarios where the US and UK wouldn't co-ordinate an attack. But does the UK need "permission" to launch - not as far as I know.
If this thing is so tiny and light, why can't they simply staple some rubber bands on it?
Less dependencies usually means less bloat.
Worse, it's about the easiest statistic to manipulate, if you know that is going to be a Key Performance Indicator.

(Having said that, the mean is not difficult to manipulate)

There's an important game theory issue to KPIs:

- if everyone is behaving perfectly, then why bother checking the stat?

- if someone is behaving maliciously, and wants to game the stat, will they be forced to actually improve the situation?

A malicious actor barely has to break stride here.
"The Future of the British bomb", John Ainslie

http://www.swordofdamocles.org/pdf/future.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFaCpYRMKB8

Short version - not great. Plastic just doesn't make for a very musical sound. If you want an explanation of why, I can go into the physics behind that.

Source: musician of 25ish years.
Remove the extraneous angle bracket to fix the link.

Mac OS X's exposé does some funky stuff to that image :)
Well, Grsecurity did maintain their own Linux fork for the past ten years with an excellent security track record. The issue is that mainline is not interested in merging it, leaving most users vulnerable (since using a Linux fork in a production environment is something most users aren't going to do, even if there are clear benefits).
The creepiest implication with this is if you get the wrong person in power at the right time, they might be able to keep their party or interests in power for an atypically long time, given access to these new tools. We all know that keeping one political interest in control for any extended period of time is never good.
Unlike our local cathedral[0] which some say won't ever be completed because the construction seamlessly transitioned into the maintenance phase -- allegedly it will be covered by scaffolding for all of eternity.

There's a fun local legend about this being the result of a lost bet with the devil[1] (originally used as an explanation of the centuries-long pause during construction but now extended to the present day).

Amazingly enough you wouldn't know this by looking at photographs. As the scaffolding moves across the façade over the years, crafty photographers have managed to capture every last inch of it always making sure you can't see the scaffolding.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_Cathedral

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eifel_Aqueduct#The_aqueduct_as...
The US can withhold targeting data prior to launch, or switch off guidance after launch.

That is all stated as fact in the Parliamentary report. Not sure which part you disagree with.

Sure, you might be able to sneak a launch and hope they don't detect it, but that's a little farcical for a £100bn defence programme I would've thought.
It's astonishingly similar to react:

* StatelessComponent ... (props) => (<Tags />)

* Widget build() ... render()

* setState() ... setState()

etc.

Not quite sure how props are passed but it does have that concept... anyway if you're going to copy something might as well change some of the names of the functions :^)

I'd say React benefits from not having a bundled UI library, instead using native components (and obviously includes web). Google would have been better to go with embrace and extend on this one.
We're making progress towards linux and windows fyi

http://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/linux-windows-su...
Probably because firmware vendors are not accustomed to working that way. Maybe they are more willing to submit their firmware this way? Time will tell.
They would detect if the acceptance criteria were biased. This is a good thing, since after you've measured something you know if a change is in order.
Yaybahar reminded me of my own experiments: When i scratch stuff (like balloons etc) i am able to perceive electronic-like sounds and create bass lines for my music classes by recording them.

It's weird how the electronic is the new natural, in that, we recognize natural sounds as imitations of electronic ones.
If you want to adopt a functional style, then there is little benefit to using `this` instead of regular arguments or closures, which are more versatile and follow more straightforward rules. I think most JS developers have been confused over the value of `this` more than once.
But Pharo by Example comes with a Pharo version suitable with the book, you just hasto download it and use it. Of course, is an old Pharo version (1.1, I think), but enough to learn and jump to the newer versions.
There is an update of the book coming soon too, btw).
Because it's superior to the alternatives, despite the security issues?

The malware problem did not affect Windows' popularity either.
I used to be a security freak guy. Using the Gentoo Hardened, GRSecurity PaX/RBAC, customized ACLs, etc. IMHO is a high-quality piece of software, very polished and well-designed... I'm a Ubuntu guy today. For my small business, such level of security is too much time consuming, drawing me back. It's kinda sad.
See also: [1]

[1] https://github.com/ryankiros/neural-storyteller
The point of the post is to relax the "equal ability distribution" assumption. If the distributions are identical, any disparity in outcomes must be caused by bias.
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Oh, OK. It wasn't clear that there's a relation between `national security advisor' mentioned early and that name mentioned later.
I just inspected the page with Chrome and changed the font and background colors, worked like a charm.
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Not only is there nothing sinister about them, one of the primary reasons devs join GDS is to play a small part in making the government better.
I agree. The Permissive Action Link(PAL), a remote security device for nuclear weapons, was typically used when the state is non-nuclear, yet is a member of NATO. They are secured and deployed by USAF members. But the UK is not one of these states. In fact, you can find evidence that they do not use the PAL on their own weapons, so most likely they do not have them deployed on any of the NATO nuclear weapons stationed in the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_the_United...
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I'm specifically talking about teen suicide rates, not whole-population suicide stats.

Additionally, your stereotyping of the rest of the world as self-important is not the right attitude.

p.s. I do not live in the U.S.
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>For instance if you typed in the password the day before you were arrested, that's probably a good sign you know it. If you haven't used it for a year and claim you forgot it [you might get off]

That sounds incredibly draconian.
Thanks for the write-up Chris. Now I understand why I couldn't follow the path of logic you were laying out in our original discussion in PG's article's comments.

The main problem I was having is that you are assuming our observation variable is the latent skill or potential value variable (which you're calling x here). However, the article by PG was talking solely about the average of returns (let's call it y).

So the reason I was confused is that, assuming that the outcome of a startup is dependent only on x, we are really observing y ~ f(x) = \int_0^1 g(x)h(x)dx, where h is your cut-off criteria for x, g(x) is some unknown payoff distribution for a given skill level, and I'm assuming our x is in [0,1] without loss of generality. So in essence, the real problem here, even if you could see all of the individual returns for a given portfolio, is that you have to perform a very, very difficult deconvolution problem. And I'm pretty sure it's non-identifiable without some other information or additional parametric assumptions.

Thinking out loud a bit, let's assume that y is actually log(return), where a return of 1 is breaking even and 0 is losing everything. Since log(0) is undefined, most startups return 0, and very few exit for less than 1, I would think we could model this as a point-inflated normal distribution: p(y) = c * \delta_0 + (1-c) * N(\mu, \sigma^2). Given this, we could then model our latent parameters (c, \mu, \sigma) as being functions of x. Since the model is separable, we can even just look at the zeros and non-zeros in isolation. Then we can come up with a test from there, but I'm not really sure what that test would be at this point. Anyway, that's a completely different line of thinking, but it seems much more tractable in practice.