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I don't know if it's popular. I think people share these to seem well-read. I don't think the majority actually read the whole article, but that's just a theory. In other words, you don't need to actually have consumed something to share it.

I'd also be curious what the most shared long-form pieces of this last year were. My guess is they aren't in the tradition of long-form journalism, where the subject is the absolute focus (rather than the writer inserting themselves into the story). I'd bet the most shared pieces were around hot button or politically ferocious topics.
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They used `S` for "half", with dots for additional fractions of twelve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals#Fractions

And here I thought I'd never need to know that.
That was in other states, like New York. In SD, it was just cruelty. That's one of the reasons she went there.

"But the case was in Judge Aiken’s hands alone. If he found that she had proven the baron’s cruelty, Maggie would be granted a divorce. If he found that she had not, the baron and the baroness would remain married."
Possibly bullshit rationale for teachers:

Teaching unions have generally negotiated better-than-average natal leave policies and decent health insurance. With a small amount of planning and foresight, it would be possible to get pregnant such that the baby is born in the spring, and the post-natal leave extends to the summer break, effectively extending the leave period by an additional 2-3 months.

Teaching tends to not have a lot of cut-throat career advancement, compared to some other professions. Mostly, you get salary increases based on seniority and years of service, or one-off boosts, like completing a master's program.

Being a female-dominated profession, where the bulk of the other employees have been, are, or are planning on being mothers, there's likely more understanding and acceptance of child-related absences. Also comparatively generous sick-time policies.

Completely unsubstantiated, but people that choose to spend the bulk of their working hours with children might be more favorably disposed to them in general than people who choose other occupations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War

Cool factoid: "The schooner Enterprise (commanded by Lieutenant Andrew Sterret) defeated the 14-gun Tripolitan corsair Tripoli after a one-sided battle on 1 August 1801."
It is possible ssh is the one he was referencing from 20 years ago since it was released 20 years ago.

... thinking about which makes me feel very old (at 42) since I still clearly remember a pre-ssh world.
I'm sure they were quite happy with it. How can anyone regret their own birth?
That's probably the most "forum" links I've ever seen in a mainstream publication.
Dupe of article currently on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10723640
This reminds me of how a group of Hungarian engineers used the jet engines from a MiG-21 mounted on a T-34 tank to extinguish Kuwaiti oil well fires during the Gulf War. [0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EYRPJgZdp4
I guess I'm not as aware of the trend. My guess is that as the focus of commodities shifts from exporting intellect to exporting creativity, so, too, will the value of those contributions and the way we're exposed to them. At some point there will be a shift from the content distributors to the content creators directly, especially as artificial intelligence around curation of content gets better and better.
In combination with sun light, the carbon taken from air provides the energy that plants need to grow, however plants also need minerals from a healthy soil.

When it comes to food, baseline survival is already taken care of in western countries and we are wasting about one third of the food we produce. It's not food that's the problem, but living space and forever rising health care costs.

But you know what the irony is? We don't know a thing about what constitutes a nutritious healthy diet, as the reductionist science we've been applying is not up for this task. Even more aggravating is that trying to shorten the "raise-crops-feed-cattle-slaughter-get-meat" cycle and do it on an industrial scale (by means of replacing sun's energy with fossil fuels and do it in concentrated operations) is precisely the root cause of many of the problems we find ourselves into.

As meddling with the things we ingest has given us the modern day diseases such as cancer, diabetes, obesity and heart disease, not to mention that we're on the brink of going back to the dark ages due to the upcoming "antibiotics apocalypse".

And yet here you are, hoping that some future 3D printer will synthesize meat out of thin air, instead of fixing the real problems in our society, which is that we consume and waste too much from processes that aren't sustainable. But yeah, 3D printing will save us, seemed to work for Star Trek characters at least. Good luck with that mate.
Just like we know that abortion and death penalty are immoral. Future generations will look back at us and look at us as barbarians.
This is really a false argument. The way it works is this. In so far as Sharia law is compatible with county, state and federal laws, it can be practiced. In so far that is not, it cannot. It's that simple. Many small regions have their own local laws, e.g. suburbs, condos, Mormons, Amish, etc.
Wrong. The surveillance state does not follow laws, and it has all the dirt it could ever want on politicians. Laws are not a solution here. The first rule of security is "don't trust the network". Computer scientists and developers who build systems that require users to trust the network are uniquely culpable. This is an unpopular opinion here because many of us would like to continue collecting hefty paychecks while washing our hands of any responsibility for our actions.
> has said he'd use a different license if he could

Citation?

A constantly repeated quote from Linus is precisely: "Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did." from a 1997 interview according to https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds

I've never heard Torvalds say anything regretful about using GPL. When I heard him in person just last year, he clarified his dislike of GPLv3 while emphasizing his preference and like of GPLv2.

And anyway, I didn't say anything about "top billing". The fact is, Linux itself is, admittedly, absurd billing for Linus given that he is the leader of the kernel project but is among thousands of people who make it happen. GNU is not a term that credits Richard Stallman. GNU is a community project with a particular political aim. And my point all along was just about some practical way to differentiate Android from the other primary Linux-based systems, and "GNU/Linux" is a way to do that.
One more thought....

If you're planning on staying Front End, you don't actually need that much math. Just Algebra mainly.
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Yep cause building subways, high speed rail systems, and upgrading the national power grid doesn't make economic sense.
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Libcloud is great and will solve your public key issues if I understood you correctly.

https://libcloud.apache.org/

https://github.com/apache/libcloud
>The new deal will not, on its own, solve global warming. At best, scientists who have analyzed it say, it will cut global greenhouse gas emissions by about half what is necessary to stave off an increase in atmospheric temperatures of 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. That is the point at which scientific studies have concluded the world will be locked into a future of devastating consequences, including rising sea levels, severe droughts and flooding, widespread food and water shortages, and more destructive storms.

>But the agreement could be an inflection point in human history: the moment at which, because of a huge shift in global economic policy, the inexorable rise in planet-warming carbon emissions that started during the Industrial Revolution began to level out and eventually decline.

So, is this really cause for celebration? This last paragraph reads as though there's no agency here. We agreed to half of what's necessary. Not to mention VW-type sleights of hand that mean we're not doing what we've said we would do in the past, when things were less dire.
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Seems like we've got to be pretty close to Blade Runner home photos now, where you take a couple of pictures from two angles and then can use probability to look behind things, etc. The NFL sometimes shows the ability to blend two camera angles together by time-locking them.
Are there details about how this will affect regulations in the US?
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Let's say many experts thought an alien invasion was quite likely to happen in the next 100 years (the way many experts feel about AI). At that point preparation starts sounding pretty sensible, no?
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I meant in the context that if somebody gets your sync password they get everything.
The solution I use to this issue, which I think is fairly straightforward, is to put any sensitive information such as credentials, or things that others don't care about such as aliases to company directories or running company-specific scripts, in a private repo. Then I put that repo as a submodule in my public repo. Anyone can look at or clone my public repo, but only I'll be able to initialize the submodule.
> They were absolutely outstanding men relative to their peers. Check your PC bullshit.

Honestly, setting aside anachronistic moral issues, I don't think they are any different than a random selection of modern US politicians.

Read through their letters and through contemporary news articles and you get the impression that in some ways they were even more fractious and petty. The vapid insults and conspiracy theories they published aimed at each other often make even Trump look good. (Probably the biggest misconception I had was that the 'Founding Fathers' got along pleasantly even if they had the occasional intellectual disagreement. Nope, not at all. And their political positions existed on a much, much broader scale than I had ever imagined.) They don't come across as remotely exemplary characters even compared to their peers.

Then you have things like the Alien and Sedition Acts, where even white men were arrested and prosecuted for criticizing the President, and you realize we've got it pretty good these days. Frankly it seems almost incredible that the early republic survived.

I think the real lesson to learn from the early days of America is that the right circumstances and processes can make a workable union out of even a hugely disparate population - but that there are still limits. Early America made it only because the shared sense of values and community was just enough.
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Perhaps I’ve misunderstood the problem, but the second solution shown here doesn’t seem to be correct: it always adds a trailing 0-height entry to the skyline, yet there could be an existing building touching or overlapping the newly added building, whose height is then lost.

For example, the code given appears to make

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evaluate to

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when if I’ve understood correctly it should be

[(1,2),(3,1),(4,0)]
Strongly disagree.

Legal protection provides a recourse after everything happens. Technological measures don't let it happen in the first place. Or, well, to be more correct - make it significantly harder to happen.

Consider: we can send all our email as non-enveloped postcards and rely on the laws that our correspondence privacy is protected. But for some reason we don't. Why we still send send out our Internet correspondence completely unprotected is beyond me.

It is important that we have laws, so we can get a legal recourse if something goes wrong. But it's extremely naive to think that no one would violate those laws just because they are in place.

Even more, I believe that technological measures must come first. Because if a law comes first, the public relaxes, thinks they're safe now, and few bother about actually putting a lock on the door.
One thing that I love about rcm is how well it handles the case of host-specific dotfiles. Between my laptop, school servers, personal servers, etc., I access a lot of servers running different software that need to be configured differently. However, there are a lot of things, like aliases for example, that work regardless of the platform.

Rcm lets you specify which files should always be linked, and which should only be linked on a specific host, which means I factor out my dotfiles into "modules" and load exactly the right ones.

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> It's not at all clear to me that this prevents the internet from getting more secure.

It means people can keep using their insecure clients instead of being forced to upgrade to something secure.
11,000+ people die each day from burning renewable fuels

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I was speaking on the US, and the difference between the experience of Millennials vs the Boomer parents.

It seems like runaway costs, more than anything. Tuition and room and board have nearly quadrupled[1], while the amount of money that it is possible to earn in the kind of low-level, part-time work that a college student is capable of fitting in has sort of stagnated. I was able to earn $5-6k over the course of a summer working, which isn't a whole lot different than what my father, for instance, was able to earn in his summers in the 70s. That might pay my tuition for part of one term, whereas it paid his whole year. Meanwhile, housing costs have rocketed up as well, and the price of gas was $4/gallon, rather than $.50.

[1] http://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-table...
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I'm willing to remain optimistic on this front, because even if nothing meaningful is accomplished with this specific accord, it does not rule out more in the future. Getting all of these nations on board to do something about climate change (even if that simply means acknowledging its presence and their contributions to it) is a step in the right direction toward solving the problem meaningfully. The wheels of international politics turn slowly without economic or military consequences to fuel them, and sometimes (unfortunately) as the lowly ones we have to take what we can get.
Massive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10715680
It's cause for celebration as better than many expected to happen, but for sure many reasons to still be both skeptical about implementation and the results even if targets are hit. It's progress, at least.
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> As a result, all language in the accord relating to the reduction of carbon emissions is essentially voluntary. The language assigns no concrete targets to any country for emissions reductions. Instead, each government has crafted a plan detailing how they would lower emissions at home, based on what each head of state believes is feasible given the country’s domestic political and economic situation.

I fail to see how this summit differs from previous summits without anything being legally binding.
The algorithms support streaming, but that doesn't mean implementations in (in this case) Python libraries still might not do so. Although I can't understand why they wouldn't, presumably they just wrap the same C libraries everybody else uses, and a streaming interface wrapping another stream (i.e. file, socket) should feel very natural and easy.
You're way off. The people and politicians knew to get a grip on this decades ago when they discovered all the abuses of CIA, etc. They had two main choices:

1. Create accountability mechanisms a la GAO working alongside these organizations ensuring they follow the law and imprison offenders.

2. Create a court that approves most of what they do, never imprisons offenders, and operates in secret.

America went with No 2. Further, most of those caught red-handed didn't do time. Americans also didn't push hard for reform with their votes. Intelligence and oversight fought back and forth but effective immunity let their corruption and power expand over time. It went into overdrive post-9/11 where people not only didn't do crap: they encouraged giving secrecy, vast power, and criminal immunity to the very groups that failed pre-9/11.

So, this didn't happen in a vacuum and isn't today. American's apathy and frankly ignorance is what gave scumbags a series of blank checks with immunity. Americans didn't do anything learning about Iraq WMD's, 2008 frauds, Snowden leaks, and so on. Largely nothing but griping. Meanwhile, in Iceland, they straight up overthrew their dirty government after 2008 abuses and passed new laws protecting their citizens. Exactly what Americans have to do.

Let's say they don't. Then, Congress continues passing police state style legislation, secret agencies bribe our ISP's/whoever, fabs eventually get compromised, dissidents are harassed via many means, opponents with dirt are jailed via parallel construction, patent system will be used against tech companies trying to solve it, and so on. Damn near pointless to try to technologically solve a problem that a country's citizens and politicians are creating and expanding with laws that can attack users of the tech.

All this shit is Americans' fought. Their common sense should've told them giving God-like knowledge and power to already-dirty groups was stupid. Doing it with secrecy and immunity was stupider. Not doing anything post abuses was foolish. My money is on them still being fools aiding surveillance state 5 years from now. They have to wise up and remove the internal threats' legal authority before technical solutions have a chance.
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This is a classic case of the perfect vs the good. The question is not whether SHA1 is “acceptable”, but whether it is better than the alternative, which is plain text for users that cannot do SHA256. It’s graceful degradation.

The number quoted of $70K to crack SHA1 indicates that it is non-trivial to hack. Which means adversaries could break the encryption, but could only afford to attack a small number of people. Which means that SHA1 is effective for a large majority.
About the same as when Jewish people support Beth Din in place of American law - it's fine so long as American law is also respected.

(There are problems with religious legal systems of women not being able to get divorces; of abused women not getting help and support; and of abused children not getting help and support and the abusers not facing justice).
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I heard a bit about it in the news, the previous government was very much against this bill, is that it ?
I have Page Up and Page Down set to cycle through the directory stack, so they are similar to the back and forward buttons in a web browser. Except that mine is circular.

I can't take credit; I found the idea on the web somewhere and made refinements. I can't remember anymore which parts were mine and which were from the web.
Ok. And portions of Sharia law are not compatible with country, state, and federal laws. There are people who believe that full Sharia law should apply to Muslims. And some who believe that full Sharia law should apply to non-Muslims as well. I would consider these stances to fall foul of "giving it on all occasions their effectual support".

Now on one hand everyone supports potential laws that are not laws. That's how new laws get passed. Something wasn't legal. The public said it should be. And it was. For example gay marriage.

On the other hand some people think it should be legal to murder an apostate. Codifying these differences in language is difficult. But that doesn't mean they aren't different and should not be treated as such.
The reality might be quite everyday like the strange case of David Rodinsky [1]

I'm just wondering why those early-mined bitcoins have not been touched...

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/books/1999/may/22/books.guardianr...
For what it's worth, the joy from the attendance on the final verdict felt like this time it mattered.
Bingo. Used to be if you were going to give a writer a dozen pages, several very experienced people went through the piece with a fine-toothed comb. The writer was contracted because he was top of the pack. Used to be if you picked up an article in a mag like Playboy, you knew you were in for a ride.

Now long-form journalism just means "long". The editorial staff is dead and the gatekeeping process has been destroyed. Now the only thing you know starting in on a long article is that it's going to take a while before you get to the end.
"Legal protection provides a recourse after everything happens. Technological measures don't let it happen in the first place. Or, well, to be more correct - make it significantly harder to happen."

It actually prevents many things when the law is clear. Your email example misses the entire point. So, let's use it to illustrate the point. I create an encryption system to protect email. It gets large uptake to point NSA and FBI are pissed by it. With current laws, they will feel free to:

1. Hit me with a FISA warrant to order a backdoor or key leak.

2. Hit me with court order to do the same.

3. Parallel construct some dirt on me.

4. Use NSA TAO or TAREX to smash my systems for their benefit.

5. Use FBI to raid my stuff or seize my property.

6. Have me audited by SEC or IRS depending on my company structure.

We've seen stuff like this happen to leakers, supporters of Wikileaks, companies resisting subversion, etc. You can build all the tech in the world but it's not that helpful if legal system is set up to destroy the user or developer easily. Those laws need to be rolled back. Only the people can do that. They don't give a shit enough to act. So, it's a political problem rather than technical one.

Feel free to continue to deploy and use tech to protect yourself. Just know the bigger problem is what's enabling their surveillance dragnet and police state problem in first place. The things that can get you with or without crypto. The things that have to go away to maintain democracy.
Thanks - great discussion there.
No even when speed matters sometime lz4 is the best answer. I wrote a data sync that worked over 100mbps WAN and using lz4 on the serialised data transferred far faster than the raw data. Not just on network you can often be processing data faster (specially on spinning disk) since the reduction in disk I/O can in some cases can actually make the processing faster.
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Minor complaint. I couldn't find how to restart the tutorial.