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i don't agree or disagree. I just apply basic system analysis principles which explain the observed behaviour. It is pretty valid choice to choose low latency and synchronicity as the top priorities over everything else. I just find it very funny that making such choice people frequently declare productivity increase as the goal. And even more funny when they find that productivity really went down at the end (in the case of one project - after very major feature priorities change - low latency and synchronicity make this much easier, i'd even say tempting - each sprint for several last sprints before the release, and as result there was nothing to release at all).
Putting up a dummy camera sure seems like one action taken to make people feel safer to me. It isn't the whole theater, just part of it.

Public transportation of the terrestrial variety has very little theater, and very little security anyway. Even the cameras that do work probably exist for the playback, not for the live "surveillance". I just don't think they're watching closely enough.
> I normally put a big "[DEPRECATED]" notice at the beginning of the README.

Aye. Some folks in the discussion linked to by krschultz complain that "People sometimes don't read the README and -thus- don't notice deprecation warnings.". To them I ask: "What makes you think that those sorts of people will notice anything less than an overlay that prevents them from interacting with the Github UI for that particular repo?".
Could you elaborate on why you think so? I could imagine significant cost savings from the energy that would be saved by removing all of the QoL things that go into a car for humans to be able to use them.
Reminds me of every other wannabe web programming language build in the past 10 years.
ECC RAM should be the minimum requirement if using ZFS.
I don't think he is referring to the manifesto, but to the concept of agile, and all it`s related buzzwords being promoted to sell you 5000$ 4 day courses or conference tickets.
I think he is kind of burying the lead here. The major development in Bitcoin in the past week is that several crucial players came together to form Bitcoin Classic.[0]

They have the trifecta of a majority of mining power, two of the largest exchanges, and several key developers on board. More importantly the miners supporting the project are in agreement on increasing the block size. It goes a long way to addressing most of the things Mike brings up in this post.

Mike's done a lot of Bitocin particularly by bringing to light the issues with Bitcoin core. At the same time this post strikes me as alarmist. It seems more like a rationalization of his decision than anything else.

[0] https://bitcoinclassic.com/
SourceForge fixed the +1 issue recently.
You sound snarky about this, but it's actually probably good - the government desperately needs tech talent and knowledge. With how these networks are formed, it seems pretty logical that Google/Microsoft/Apple employees would end up in gov't more than those from other companies.

Investment banking <-> public service is the classical revolving door. What's wrong with tech getting in the same game?
Wrong.

Most SSL cert CA's check DNS for email addresses and only validate DNS entries.

Lets Encrypt only checks DNS for IP addresses and issues certs based on root access to the IP addresses.

A CA DV is not equivalent to a Lets Encrypt cert.
>Poorly-driven vehicles will be with us for decades, because freedom

There is no right to drive like there is a right to own guns.
I assume in a panopticon the guards watch the prisoners. I don't think I can assume that about a dummy camera.
There is something in between nothing and a full IOMMU. I've been working with a TMS570 processor lately whose DMA engine supports an IOMPU. This hardware is equivalent to the Cortex-R/M Memory protection unit.

An MPU has all of the same protection domains that an MMU does, except for a few major differences:

- The total number of protected regions is very small (12 or so), such that the hardware cost is somewhat smaller than a TLB cache.

- To offset the small number of regions, the size of each region can be almost any power of two.

- The MPU does not perform address translation, again reducing the hardware cost.

Thus, the kernel can configure the peripheral's DMA engine to only allow access to a page or few.
ECC RAM should be the minimum requirement on any serious file server.
Interesting. Googling led me to a post[1] which claimed that Caltech uses a "pure meritocracy" and avoids consideration of race in admissions.

hackuser's original post noted that there are race-based sorting effects outside of the admissions department. To that point, Caltech's admission policy, flaws or merits of it aside, is not a counterexample to hackuser's claim[2]. That's exactly the sort of system hackuser was talking about.

[1] http://jadeluckclub.com/caltech-meritocracy-from-the-america...

[2] Which I took to be, essentially, "racial discrimination in admissions is inevitable due to selection factors beyond the control of admissions policies."

EDIT: readability.
With self driving cars, drunk drivers can't do nearly as much harm.
Many cities have local gas taxes that are used to subsidize public transport. In Quebec for example, there is a tax applied only in Montreal (where the public transport system is almost usable, compared to other North American cities), so gas is always 5-10¢/L more expensive in the city. So people living in poorer rural areas aren't affected.

Other upside: a lot of gas stations have closed, converted to apartment/condo buildings, which helps to revitalize parts of the city.

Downside: I don't feel like the provincial government has been investing at all in public transport. On the contrary, they're investing in more unsustainable highways to make suburbans happy. 1960s nostalgia.
Besides the roles mentioned here, I will remember Alan Rickman for something else: as Master of Ceremonies, introducing the various instruments at the end of the first part of Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells II" album [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubular_Bells_II#Master_of_Cer...
2. Should I trust domains with Let's Encrypt-issued certificate less than those with paid certificates with identity validation?

No...

Lets Encrypt should not have the same level of trust as the basic DV level cert from a standard CA.

There is a security hole in ACME which is glossed over with handwaving from the fanbois.
So … how does anti-fraud work? There's no third party to process charge backs and unlike physical currency a theft can cross international borders near-instantly.

This sounds like wire transfers but everyone is exposed by default and there's no third-party monitoring for fraud. How am I wrong for thinking that sounds like everyone having to pay for their own private security service?
You don't have to tell someone that something exists for their safety for it to qualify as theater. I agree that criminals hedge a petty crime vs. getting caught. I now think of this as a sub-type of theater, one that both fakes security and deters incidents via placebo in equal fashion.

You've changed my mind.
I don't think that applies here. This is about Uber failing to provide reports about handicapped access to CPUC. At best they would have saved an engineer's salary for a couple days by not filing, but as the article states, Uber did eventually make the report (just not on time). So I'm pretty sure Uber made $0 from this and lost $7.6 million. Even $7.6 million for a late report seems vindictive to me.
Integration, miniaturization, power management, cost reduction... it's the easiest way, so when you disregard proper isolation and security, then it actually seems like the way to go.
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Are you saying none of these problems could be solved by putting a team of professionals on it? For example, maybe six PR and marketing people working full time for four years couldn't make a dent in #1?
Doesn't this all seem a bit dramatic? Throwing away the baby with the bathwater? Cryptocurrency is still in its infancy, and BitCoin is the first cryptocurrency. It's a little early to declare the project a "failure," throw up your hands and walk out of the room, just because a few people haven't acknowledged the urgency of a (very fixable) technical problem.

People disagree about the reality of global warming. Does that mean we throw out the entire system of laws of the United States and other world powers because it hasn't yet addressed this problem?

This is exactly why I never bought the concept of BitCoin as a 'libertarian' currency. There's always politics, there's always governance. It becomes political as soon as more than one person is involved. And as soon as it's political, institutions, processes, procedures, and laws become necessary - also known as "government."

I still believe in BitCoin, however. Ultimately, there's a way out of this tangle, and like with most political problems, it's a political solution. BitCoin will either adapt and scale up or stay the same and scale (way) down.
you mean like these people?

http://www.seansoutpost.com/

Disclaimer: I raised bitcoin to work on open-source anticancer R&D
I run a site that deals with alot of these people. I look at it like a risk vs reward. I think for the vast amount of calamity's that could happen, you only need to 'survive' for about 6 months before things would stabilize. If after 6 months you are still in trouble, chances are you are not going to particularly enjoy life moving forward anyways.

So with those thoughts, it almost seems prudent to just buy 1k in freeze dried food ( http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-YEAR-MOUNTAIN-HOUSE-FOOD-ENTREES-R...? ) which can last you a year if needed. The only other things you really need is water (tons of purification options out there).

The next steps are protection and information. You can get a firearm for about 500$ with ample ammo and a world radio with a solar charger for 100$.
Comments like these baffle me and I have to wonder

* Are "we" in such a huge hurry that we don't look at our scrollbar to see if there's more to the document that we're viewing?

* How did "we" get so incurious that we don't even attempt to scroll down to see if there's more information to read?

I mean -seriously- the intended audience for this particular open letter is technical people.
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No response articles, please.
/etc points to /private/etc on OS X, so it's all good.
1099 as antitrust
Is it illegal anywhere?

Wouldn't buying DVDs and the appropriate DVD player from a different region and importing them also qualify as evading geoblocking? Is that illegal in some countries?
I'm an open source project maintainer and share many of the pain points outlined in the document, but I also totally agree with you. Giving control of your project to a company means losing control and having to resort to desperate pleas like this. This is simply what happens when you can't fork it yourself like you could with an open source project.

It's likely that GitHub will alleviate these pain points in time, but the lesson is the same: let a company control your destiny and you can no longer have what you want or need when their interests diverge from yours, even if their system is the best there is and was radically better than everything else at the time you switched to it.
He's not wrong though.
It was posted at least 4 times in a 24-hour period; perhaps the latter postings were flagged purely for spam/dupe reasons. Flags aren't delimited by reason.

The original survives:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10887846

These dupes still survive (as of 0200 GMT):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10887846

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10895364

Plus the introductory article on Techcrunch:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10884242
>If your system supports it and your budget allows for it, install ECC RAM.

There are some threads of overstatement of the necessity of ECC RAM or the opposite, but the above is the best advice. It might be more wise to invest your money more efficiently in backup resources than more expensive RAM.
"To add to this madness, even if you design your own chips and software stack, you the fab that printed your chips might have modified your design" True, changes can be so subtle, remember how the Playstation were hacked on the basis of altering the current provided to the CPU?

"His approach is clever and is known as a “glitching attack“. This kind of hardware attack involves sending a carefully-timed voltage pulse in order to cause the hardware to misbehave in some useful way" from http://rdist.root.org/2010/01/27/how-the-ps3-hypervisor-was-...

edit: typos
Chinese investors are putting money into SF real estate with the goal of exporting capital to safer havens.

Were China to choose to depreciate their currency (especially at a faster rate than they are currently) this could lead to an acceleration in attempts to export capital.

It's not clear which way this linkage works (at least to me)
The random chance is very very low. For simplicity, let's say that 50% of the hashing power agree and 50% of the hashing power disagree. Then the probability of getting 750 blocks is 7*10^-59 ( http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=binomial+distribution+n... ) There are approximately 50000 blocks in a year, so the expected time is a lot of millions of years.

This changes when most of the hash power agree. If the 74% agree then the chances are 24% ( http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=binomial+distribution+n... ). The calculation is more complicated because the intervals may overlap, but this would take less than a year.

So, when more than 70% of the hash power agree, it's time to upgrade, but 70% is a clear majority.

(Just for curiosity: With 75% hash power you get a 52% chance. With 76% hash power you get a 78% chance.)
"It's the world's tiniest open source violin"

https://xkcd.com/743/
> piracy is a massively widespread phenomenon

is a different statement than

"piracy is a problem"
> why are all projects mentioned in the _Signed by_ section based on JavaScript?

I also noticed that most of the repositories seem to be based on Javascript.

> JavaScript developers _(at least the ones using GitHub)_ are more prone to complain than other type of developers.

My guess:

Based on numerous sources [1][2], Javascript is the most popular language on GitHub. So there are more developers, more repositories, more activity involved. It just happens that one (or a few of them) talked this through and gather up other folks in their community.

[1] http://githut.info
[2] https://github.com/blog/2047-language-trends-on-github
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As a victim of this prank (in the late 90's) I can attest to a) how puzzled you feel when nothing responded to mouse clicks and b) how funny it is when someone finally reveals what was going. The sole other programmer I was working with at the time had set me up, and managed to keep a straight face for 30 minutes while he suggested various solutions (rebooting, a different mouse etc).
Yes, the amount of response articles about the Paul Graham essay was silly.

However, this is a topic that's not frequently discussed and lots of room for argument.
I feel in the near future, what we say, buy, and do will be easily available data to anyone. I think employees, Insurers, law enforcement, etc. will be able to tie data to specific IP's, and even if you have been careful not to use your real name--it won't matter.

I think we need federal laws enacted protecting privacy. I would like to see a universal Delete law. Meaning if I wanted everything from my IP address, or my name permently deleted from Facebook, Google, etc. servers they would be required to do so. It would also be a felony to sell, or even give away data.
It's how you properly process the mint for a mojito:

http://drinks.seriouseats.com/2011/05/cocktail-101-how-to-mu...

Pretty sure the parent poster was getting close to the end of the day, and could almost feel its minty relief on their tongue, hence the slip.
Thanks but I already mentioned that I found that page already and read through it. It isn't exactly simple nor would it make much sense to a kid who has never thought about this type of stuff before - Content ID, copyright, etc. Especially once you consider that Content ID came from US law and this is a Japanese child. And that YouTube didn't even bother changing Content ID into a Japanese equivalent. A Japanese speaker shouldn't be expected to garner any meaning from a random English word and acronym.
Wouldn't, say, a cryptocurrency that forces P2Pool solve this issue?
That's like those pre-hire personality tests. You just get the best liars.
Yes, a business focused on the things that make it money. Thats the purpose and the OP is not wrong on that. What he is missing is the immense power the open source community as whole has. They can boycott github and turn it into a ghost town in a manner of months. Github will then lose part of the appeal it sells to enterprise customers.
I think you are confusing bitcoin exchanges with bitcoin mining pools. 2 mining pools have 52% of the hashing power and a responsible for "producing" bitcoins. The exchanges are basically just places to buy and sell bitcoins. With regards to wither or not Chinese exchanges are deceptively manipulating the price of bitcoin I don't have any idea.
> If GitHub is kicking back and sitting on their huge valuations,

There is no longer an "if". It's absolutely true that GitHub is cruising at this time. For example: They are more interested in hiring community managers / community "heroes" instead of actual engineers in SF.
He was talking about his TV, which is unlikely to run iOS or Android. Even the TVs with Android probably cannot run all Android apps, you have to specifically target TVs.
I get that these are super frustrating issues for these people (cough guys) that maintain these repos, but there's something telling about it that it's all JS people. That last cute lil paragraph really sums it up for me:

> Hopefully none of these are a surprise to you as we’ve told you them before. We’ve waited years now for progress on any of them. If GitHub were open source itself, we would be implementing these things ourselves as a community—we’re very good at that!

LOL. I can't tell if this is "go-fuck-yourself"-level passive aggression, or mindless hopefulness that there might actually be a universe in which Github (or a company like it, with hundreds of millions of dollars of venture funding) could be open source. If I worked at Github, my first thought after reading this would be "mmmmm yeeeeaaaaaaa y'can g'fuck yr'self", while the second thought would be "yea, you're not wrong". Generally, passive aggression gets you nowhere when you're asking for something from someone/something who owes you nothing (I know, I know, they "owe" their customers everything).

The Node/React/JS community is hilariously entitled, petulant and childish. The tone of this whole letter is so god damned millennial, it's mind-boggling, because they're not wrong about anything they're asking for. But it's how they ask for it that leaves a dry, acid-y taste in your mouth.
It adds up really fast. $7/month for an instance then $20/month for ssl (even if you don't want the wildcard) and add another $9/month for backend.

$ 36/month in 12 month is $432/month

That is indeed a cheap service. However, relatively expensive for people not making a profit for their projects.

It would be nice if Heroku lowered their prices occasionally as well.
> I have said exactly the same thing the entire time

This is a lie -- you keep changing your claim to keep up with the facts other people provide you with. Examples below.

> What I said, over and over, is you can not turn velocity into light directly, you have to transfer that velocity to something else.

That's not what you said originally, and you are now lying. You said that "Kinetic energy does not become heat and light. Kinetic energy is velocity." Both statements are false (velocity is one of many examples of kinetic energy but the reverse claim is an error of omission), and I provided the literature references, which you refused to read.

You earlier said:

> Friction might cause objects to equalize in velocity, but can not actually reduce velocity (only share it amongst the objects).

Totally false -- velocity is not conserved, energy is conserved. There's no conservation of velocity law. If you were a scientist, if you knew anything about physics and possessed intellectual integrity, you would drop a lump of clay, watch it abruptly stop at the floor as it efficiently converts velocity into heat. Or two billiard balls on a collision course, or two protons at the LHC, etc. etc..

> Clearly I'm not the teacher for you.

"The teacher?" You're utterly ignorant and a narcissist to boot. You're severely mentally ill, unfortunately there's no cure for malignant narcissism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malignant_narcissism).

We're done -- you have to learn this on your own without embarrassing yourself further in this public forum. Have a nice day.
That sounds more like politics to my ears, FWIW.
You think investing in improving infrastructure tech is a waste?
I think you have the morality exactly inverted here.

It's their money, and ought to be theirs to do with as they please.

Those who would force them to spend it on something else are the people employing coercion. It's they who are in the wrong, morally.
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If the product people at GitHub don't understand the sales/marketing impact that GitHub's free offerings have on its paid offerings, then they need to hire new product people.

I think it's plausible that the authors of the "Dear GitHub" open letter already realized the truth of Julian's response, which is why they posed their request in the way that they did.

This gives GitHub three choices. They can react positively, remain passive, or react negatively. If they react negatively, they have the risk of a PR shit-storm, which will negatively impact new customer acquisition. If they remain passive, they risk the chance that the attention to this campaign will grow and their reputation will decline. This will negatively impact new customer acquisition.

However, if they react positively, they show good will toward consumers of their free offering, and they show would-be paying customers their willingness to improve their services. This will positively impact new customer acquisition.

Were this request not made in the open, GitHub would not need worry about any of these outcomes, and would therefore not be forced to react.
Why distributed version control? You need a central place to pull from and push to, to ensure that forks and patches are not duplicated everywhere... ;)
The page talks about it a bit, but in an attempt to differentiate itself from the usual, mildly paranoid "prepper" content, it does its best not to get hung up on more outlandish scenarios, such as fighting off zombies and surviving for months without water and food.

I basically tried to approach it from the perspective of threat modeling / risk management for real life; and by that metric, incidents such as losing a job are far more likely than a zombie apocalypse. I have seen far too many people in the Silicon Valley discover that the hard way :-(
Yours is the survivor that gained traction. There were earlier (and perhaps later) postings that were flagged (I'm guessing because of duplication rather than nefarious intent.)