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dropping "obscure" platforms and git rounds it out.
Nice idea but can't install most plugins.
The installation by wpm or manual complete succesfully yet the plugin is not installed.
Example: Switcheroo for Wox; Wox.Plugin.SimpleClock.
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One of the largest grocery chains in Norway, Sweden and Denmark is literally called Coop.

They're really popular, they have over 1 million members in Norway and Denmark each (of a population of 5 million each) and 3 million in Sweden (of 9.5 million).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coop_Norden
Did you read Garrett's post? Prominent Linux Vendor segregates its trademarks into three packages and documents that you need to replace those specific packages (and only those) with versions that don't infringe their trademarks if you wish to redistribute.
The internet deals mostly in intellectual property, where socialism is actually working quite well. Github is essentially a communist marketplace: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"
> If the Genesis coins started moving, one might assume the price of BTC to fluctuate as a result of peoples perception on the 'supply' of this digital currency.

Though, the Genesis coins moving might also increase the price. Satoshi moving their coins would be a very monumental event---it's hard to predict how people would interpret in aggregate.
This seems to basically just be a link to http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/38467.html; I think the link should be changed to that.
A comment phrasing it as "market is people", and then comment about commoditizing... it reminds me of Soylent Green, which also is people. ;).
> Absolutely dangerous thinking is to declare cryptography off limits. With that in mind eventually you just scare more people to participate in this process and eventually be left with a tiny core community.

Cryptography is not "off limits". Cryptography is just a place where Not Invented Here approach is not just stupid, and incompetent, but dangerous.
That's horrible.
P2P in many ways IS easier. The same code is used with all peers. While client/server typically has two separate code bases. P2P either client can start in any order, while client/server, the server typically has to be running first.

There are many more examples why P2P can be easier to write.
That's a reasonable argument. I doubt however that speed of entering calculations is the thing holding people back.
> If you look at the history of TLS, you'll see how tricky is to get crypto right. There has been lots of attacks on the protocol, that no one person could've think of.

You'd hope so, but contrary to popular belief, actual cryptographers relatively rarely manage to prevent errors in the standards. For instance, Phil Rogaway warned against MAC-then-Encrypt used in TLS which led to the Padding Oracle attacks many many years before they were exploited, but the suggestions were ignored by the "practitioners" designing the protocols. In fact, the TLS example was one that is relatively easy to get right if the designers wouldn't have gone crazy and listened to actual cryptographers. Telegram will someday fall into the exact same bucket.
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There is also use by Somalis / Yemenis for dagger hilts and handles.
I don't buy it.

First off, there's always a tendency to overplay the negative aspects of the present while dismissing the positive aspects and to treat the past with excess nostalgia.

Moreover, it's very difficult for most people to grasp the significance and degree of major changes in society, culture, and the economy on short time scales while immersed in it.

I've been using the internet for more than 20 years and while there are certainly many negative developments that have happened along the way there have also been many positive ones. I would not at all characterize the modern internet as heading toward less freedom, not at all. My impression is that far more people are far more aware of issues of injustice and oppression today than was previously the case. It used to be that only a tiny sliver of "radicals" were really clued into those issues, and many of them also adhered to one or another nonsensical conspiracy theory to boot, which weakened their cases when it came to appealing to the modern world. Today I see growing kernels of increasingly less marginalized and increasingly more powerful people who have been educating themselves, participating in the conversation, and speaking out.

No it's not perfect, and it's not happening absent a lot of the revelation of lots of repugnant behavior. And it's also happening seemingly very, very slowly. But my perception is that the trend is for the most part in the right direction and strong. Giving up is the only sure way to lose at this point.

The bulk of this article seems to be completely out of touch with the way people have been using the internet, especially younger people. It's not becoming more TV-like, it's becoming more interactive and participatory. It's not retaining existing power structures. That only appears to be the case when you look at bullshit measurements based on bogus statistics like paper valuations and user counts. The reality is that the real power is in the people. In the content creators, in the groups, in the social networks themselves. The value layered on top of that or spread in-between to facilitate it is fragile and small by comparison. It's the same as in Silicon Valley. Having a billion dollar valuation doesn't mean your company is powerful or secure any more than having a billion users does. And it doesn't.

I predict that within the next 5 or perhaps 10 years there will be another great shift and "implosion" of one of the current major "internet powers". Perhaps facebook, or youtube, perhaps even google or amazon. I don't think people understand the mobility of the modern technological market. You do not own users or customers, you retain them through superior service. It will probably shock people who vulnerable these mega-corps are to disruption, and once one of these big shifts happens once you are going to see a crapton of bloviation from the chattering classes about how absolutely unpredictable and ground-breaking the whole thing is, but it means nothing more than that they haven't been paying attention.
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I worked various full time office jobs for two years and now I work part time remotely and the amount of social interaction during the work day is pretty much the same (which is to say almost zero).

There's just no way I can do my job writing software with constant interruptions; it takes too much focus.
I'm often wondering if something like a mixture of the organizational setups of e.g. the Mozilla foundation, Kickstarter and Wikipedia could work for efforts like these?

Companies are the de-facto vehicle to do something interesting and worthwhile together while making a living out of it as well.

Why not take that some steps further and divorce the concept from the often more mindless than not "we have to make a profit!" shareholder value yaddayadda...?
How should government support startups?
> Cryptography is not "off limits". Cryptography is just a place where Not Invented Here approach is not just stupid, and incompetent, but dangerous.

That should apply equally to all parts of software engineering and with a big exception that says: unless you know what you are doing.
I've been under the impression that Somalia is a very good example of a practical libertarian society. Am I mistaken ?
I believe ubuntu is going to change from upstart to systemd soon?
My professional favourite is when people past in the text from our do-at-home programming exercise as a part of our recruitment process.
> Why isn't OpenBSD more widely used?

For many of the scenarios you listed, it really boils down to peer pressure.

People who make decisions know that Linux is Good (TM). Convincing them that there is a better alternative for <this particular project> requires them to grasp technical concepts that they simply don't grasp.

And then you have a lot of programmers who know that <this operating they used> is Good (TM). Convincing them that there is a better alternative for <this particular project> requires them to have some broader, often theoretical understanding understanding of things, so that they can compare approaches and judge which one is better for a particular task. A lot of them don't have it; it goes against their belief that there is an operating system that is Good (TM). In fact, they'll go to incredible lengths to ensure that any operating system is like their Good (TM) operating system.

As far as IoT goes, though, hardware and software compatibility is always a problem. Most of them are built on tightly-closed SoCs. You're stuck with whatever the manufacturer wants to support, and that's usually Linux. I guess that partly boils down to the fact that, back when manufacturers started looking into this free operating systems niche, fitting Linux in 4 MB was a lot easier than fitting any BSD. But at the moment, why they'd jump (often imperfectly) through GPL's hooks is beyond me.

> It's hard to believe it's all politics or personality conflicts.

You poor soul :-).
Seriously, MP3? Not only is it old and poor quality compared to modern alternatives, by hosting an MP3 encoder it appears you are liable for a minimum royalty of $15,000 USD/year[1], because it's a patented format.

This is why we need open codecs: Vorbis or Opus are much better quality and free to use!

[1] http://mp3licensing.com/royalty/software.html
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Or you could replace "cp" with "rsync --progess" for everything. rsync has become a habit for me and I only use cp these days when that isn't available (or in scripts that might one day run where rsync isn't installed) or for "cp -al" (which I could possibly do with rsync too).

But the strace-cp-progress hack is an interesting snippet for understanding some of the things you can do with strace.
East Africa and some parts of Asia have had mobile money solutions like this for over a decade. They are so ubiquitous in those parts of the world that many people don't even bother to open bank accounts any more.

The rest of the world is still working on "fintech"... They don't like to talk or hear about M-Pesa. So each time they do, it's a bit of a shocker.
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Except for Comcast, at&t, and time warner, who have been getting massive subsidies to improve infrastructure to far beyond what it is today. I think the case could be made that this prohibits new players from entering.
I do not accept the legitimacy of arbitrary region restrictions. It is still the moral thing to do and much faster/easier than torrenting.
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I would say that setting any missing configuration value to zero is a bug.
Sorry, I don't get it. Are you saying that the studios are forced into this situation because of earlier contracts they've signed with cable networks? Aren't contracts signed separately for each new movie that they create?
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Actually, case in point... X-Forwarded-For. This is not in a spec, people are using it as an unofficial standard. But so long as your edge removes it and then sets it... you're good.

Except Google are doing their page speed optimisation thing in the style of the Opera Mini proxy, but for Chrome users on Android. Google have chosen to populate X-Forwarded-For, so any website that wants to audit the IP address of an end user now has to read this untrusted header.

So devs will realise this, look at the header, stop stripping it at the edge, and start trusting what is essentially a string that anyone can set.
Bypass URL shortener websites with Node.js (adf.ly, sh.st, linkbuck,)
Actually, the claim made by someone[1] in one of the replies on LWN was that Mint ended up getting a license from Canonical, so if you wanted to spin off from Linux Mint, you too would require a license from Canonical or having to dive in and rip out any Ubuntu trademarks.

[1] - https://lwn.net/Articles/665350/
I had read it yes (and missed that part), but curiously that part refers to Fedora (which was traditionally more liberal), not RHEL
>>South America has a long tradition of interchangeable strongman governments, none of whom had any real interest in advancing the needs of citizens

I can think of 6 democratically elected socialist leaning governments attacked / disposed of by the US and US based interests and am barely knowledgable of Latin American politics
Ahhh that's super cool!
There is a big gap between "this obviously looks bad" and "I have an exploit for it". There are many things that one should obviously not do and you can legitimately strongly advise against, but are not easy to demo an exploit for. The bar for accepting potential security issues should never be set as high as an exploit demo.
There's a nice model of a gyro monorail shown in the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGYXJjRfgTM

I may be possible to do the same with Lego Mindstorms - certainly you can make self-balancing two-wheel robots: http://robotsquare.com/2014/07/01/tutorial-ev3-self-balancin...
Unity for example, needs a forked glib to be compiled and work. And only Ubuntu uses this forked glib. I don't know about Mir.
Possibly, but it sounds like the money is coming from a ton of sources and it may not have been available for infrastructure - for instance, some of the money is a building improvement loan from the store owner.
Well the problem is the rental store can't let people hold on to the movies, so they need some sort of incentive system to stop people forgetting to bring it back. Online of course doesn't have that problem.
The people taking DNA samples agree with you. It's not like they just really want a sample of rhino DNA. They're keeping them so that maybe some day we'll be able to use that sample to bring back actual rhinos.
Yes but there's an interesting discussion on LWN.
That is because silphium was exploited to extinction, much like the rhino.
That anyone can believe circumcision "does no harm" is almost unbelievable to me, it's simply fascinating that such a view isn't even considered outlandish in much of the US.

The foreskin has an important mechanical action to how the penis functions during sexual activity, in addition to containing numerous nerve endings and protecting the glans. The procedure itself is often incredibly painful and traumatic for the boys it is performed on, who are too young to be given general anesthetic. The amputation also leaves a scar for life, causes penile curving and desensitizes the glans.

Circumcision became popular in the US specifically because it was a way to damage the penis in a way that would prevent boys from masturbating (seen as a severe sin by the religious conservatives at the time) while not preventing sexual procreation.
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> A more standard-friendly solution is MPEG DASH

Standard friendly yes. But not nearly as widely supported. Apple HLS runs on adroid, iOS, a large number of set-top-boxes, flash and now javascript.
If you can't get it otherwise, you won't hear me complaining about how you get it. I say get it however you want.
This is completely ubiquitous in Kenya. Highly recommend chatting with friends/acquaintances from there to understand how the country really runs on "Pesa", as they call it.

A cool Kenyan Uber driver gave me an amazing unintentional lecture on mobile payments the other day. It's just amazing to see innovation force its way through when the establishment sucks (ie, most Kenyans being essentially locked out of the financial system prior to this).
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Who decides what they "need", if not the user in so much as what they "want"?

I'm terrified of others prescribing what's "needed" because someone else has decided what what's "wanted" isn't the best for them.

That's no freedom at all.
Are they really co-operatives? I thought they were just regular supermarkets with a loyalty card and a political wing (!).

Now I think about it, the fact that 24 of our MPs are members of a political party funded by a chain of shops is really weird.
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Less features than Linux, still written in C with the same Unix security model and thus not fundamentally more secure.

There is of course the advantage of being more obscure and thus less likely to be exploited, but most people probably consider desktop Linux obscure enough and companies usually don't care about such security mitigations.
Actually quite a large percentage. Plant patents are a huge business [1].

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_breeders%27_rights
>, but the reality is that the strongest criticisms of Theranos have more to do with business structure than their blood tests.

No. The strongest criticism has been characterizing Ms Holmes as a fraud and Theranos as a sham business that took 400 million of investor money for vaporware. I don't know if they deserve such harsh characterization but those are the accusations that have been leveled at it.

>I’d rather have Theranos and those like her out in the world solving these problems.

On the contrary, if Ms Holmes turns out to be more showman than scientist, it may prevent other investors from investing in future legitimate biotech companies. If Theranos goes down in flames, we hope that it doesn't unfairly taint other fledgling business with real products that need capital to bring them to market.

>They also reduce the price of testing dramatically and present the results in a prettier, easier to read format.[...] If all Theranos ever did was make that industry more convenient, faster, and prettier using standard tools, isn’t that impressive enough on its own?

The author is mixing up the romanticized idea of a desirable end state with the actual execution by Theranos. All media outlets are totally on board with the idea. (Who doesn't want cheap and accurate blood tests?) The WSJ and others criticize the execution.

There are serious questions about ethics at Theranos. Both ethics in science and ethics in business. The author does not address that at all. Time will tell if this criticism is unwarranted and Ms. Holmes will ultimately prove her doubters to be wrong.
So you're saying that studios sign away all current and future distribution rights for all current and future movies that they create to an exclusive distributor for a particular region? It's not done on a per-movie basis? That is so crazy...
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I recommend the docu-movie "I dream of wires". I think it's on Netflix.
I find this approach quite interesting, I'm not depressed myself (I have not been diagnosed with clinical depression, at least) but I am diagnosed with an anxiety disorder.

At first glance this sort of approach seems also to be applicable to some anxiety disorders, but from how I understand cognitive behavioural therapy, applying such a method might be a bad thing to do...

Some anxiety disorders makes you, such as mentioned in the article, "[...] procrastinate over all kinds of jobs from the most basic domestic tasks to the really important stuff [...]". One consequence can be that you rely on others to make you do them. For example if you have an anxiety disorder and you get anxious over planning a trip, you might tell a friend to help you do it. Now the anxiety could take another form, which makes you get anxious if you have not had your plan, as in this example, reviewed by a friend.

This could make it worse; You have task X that makes you anxious (planning trips, in the example), you invent task Y (seeking help from a friend, in the example) to relieve your anxiety for that task, but now when you try to perform task X, you get anxious if you have not done Y. Meaning to solve the underlying problem of breaking your behavioural pattern, you have to not only solve the behavioural pattern that makes you anxious over X, but also stop using Y, which was not there from the beginning (or might have been enhanced from applying this new behavioural pattern).

This is how I have come to understand a part of cognitive behavioural therapy, and I could definitely see how, if I were to use an app like this, I would start using it to relieve my anxiety by inventing a new behavioural pattern (i.e. using the app) that does not solve the problem, but instead induces anxiety over not using the app.

This article makes me then wonder, could a similar thing happen to someone with depression? (EDIT: Perhaps like p4wnc6 mentions in a comment below.)

It was pointed out to me that there might be a form of an app however that might be good in the realm of cognitive behavioural therapy in application to anxiety. One method of facing your problem is to get a realistic view of your expectations and realise your behavioural patterns to be able to break them. For example, one method is to have a thought-diary, where you record your thoughts on a regular basis so that, even without reviewing past entries, you at least start consciously thinking about what thoughts are, for example, inducing anxiety. So perhaps a tool that would help you recognize thought/behavioural patterns would be more safe (in the sense of the philosophy of cognitive behavioural therapy) to use.
Useful approach. There's still a missing link for a perfect workflow: being able to export the CSS properties generated this way into a pre/postprocessor framework (bootstrap, zurb etc) instead of overriding the resulting CSS.

A note to the author, and a wish: please stop abusing the term unicorn just for the sake of having catchy trendy titles, unless there is a meaning in "the unicorn workflow" I'm not aware of.
>We all need a reason to get up in the morning, preferably one to which we can attach some meaning.

Author makes a generalization here - one I have seen first hand not to be true on many occasions.

My first job was effectively working 2-3 hours a day in a medium sized company (>400 employees). The company inherited local market monopoly and a lot of employees had shares after privatization from communist era - which kept the communist hiring/work policy for almost 15 years after the fall of the regime.

Very few people actually disliked the fact that they accomplished little to nothing in their 8 hours at work, a lot of them were involved in stealing (drivers using company gas for their cars, reselling raw materials, stealing product labeled as "defective", etc.)

I would say 95% of the people were not only happy but probably proud that they were getting decent salaries for below reasonable amount of work (by any standard). There were people who didn't like that kind of environment and incentives (myself included) but we were in minority. I would say that what separated us from the others was ambition - we actually wanted to accomplish something in our career and majority of people working there were perfectly happy where they were.

Eventually the financial crisis hit, the market shifted, company profits went to shit, employees dumped their shares in panic and all of those incompetent people found themselves on the street with no career prospects after 20+ years of doing practically no work. The guys who were semi competent were long gone by then.

My point is - this sentiment of needing to accomplish something at work is not shared by everyone (some may pay lip service to it but in practice won't behave accordingly) it's not something I would generalize.