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Linux is really important, but it's the best-funded FOSS project already. No other project gets a comparable amount of time by comparably skilled developers.

An open source driver for any particular piece of hardware is only useful for that exact piece of hardware, and maybe a few generations after it. But it's usefulness dies with the usage of the hardware. Contrast with basic research, which stays around forever and can be meaningfully built on for much longer.

Research is more about underlying concepts than about actually building concrete implementations (be they software or whatnot) (though that may be part of the research process - but only as the means to an end).
and with a low enough balance it can reach -100%
I love how the Chrome Web Store defaults to blaming you: "Item not found. This item may have been removed by its author."

I can't see any reason why your app, from it's description, wouldn't met the policy. This is probably going to end up being one more case of a vague Google ban with no appeal and no detail. :/
If a company falsely says your site is insecure, and damages your sales and reputation, can you sue them for slander (or something similar)?
98 Percent of Trademarks in the U.S. Are Never Registered
Really? This is pretty much bearable is not that bad as you make it sound. Is not really unmaintainable and horrible unless the code-base doesn't has a defined specification through variables and guide lines.
I'm still trying to figure this out. I'm stuck at getting myself a D-U-N-S number. D&B can't figure out if I really exist, though they can verify my 15-years-dead father is real and could register a business.

http://www.tomvanantwerp.com/my-kafkaesque-attempt-to-make-a...
I tend to agree that the title helped drive the book’s success. Every time some idiot in the media confused the title of the book with the content more people read the book. I think if he had called the book the immortal gene it would not have got the same level of readership.
Linux or the Web, no real preference, I do all my computing on Linux except for IE testing in a VM and an Android phone.
Sure, for flavor engineering, but do they do it for raw produce?

A big part of the problem is that produce is seen as a commodity, and all the economic value is added by using cheap commodity ingredients in a highly tuned industrial process to create the most tasty and addictive food. The incentives are just all misaligned.
It could also be the net effect of the photographer directing them so that he could get what he wanted to show in one shot.

The axe is moving, but it could be moving up. Shutter time might tell us something of its speed.
Finance firms are the parasites of society, they take advantage of all the flaws in the system to make money for themselves and give their top employees massive bonuses to keep doing what they do whilst keeping their mouths shut.
What did you hate about it?
On an unrelated note, why would being trapped in a submarine be scary?

I'm sure given the right motivation and enough time you could figure out how to empty the ballasts and get out or accidentally break something and die.

Sounds like a great adventure puzzle game, and with 50-50 odds too. I like those odds better than floating away in space.
Strange, your site identifies the purpose of the plugin quite clearly.

Was this information also present on the Chrome web store?
> I was inspired to this rant the other day when watching a video of tortoises flipping each other over [1]. Early in tortoise evolution there are HUGE benefits to a male that doesn't flip his buddies over and gets all the ladies as a result.

I'm not sure if you are actually disagreeing with TSG.

Dawkings repeats several times in the book that to him evolution is not about individuals, but about genes. Heck, even the title is "selfish gene", not "selfish tortoise".

Your tortoise benefits from screwing over his competitors, but his genes might not. Like, for example, suppose there is a combination of genes for noncooperative tortoise. He leaves others to die so the next generation is all assholes like him and they die out because there is noone to help when they inevitably get in trouble. Boom, genes are gone.

In fact, TSG also tries to analyze how cooperative and noncooperative strategies may coexist in single species and tend towards some equilibrium, which depends on costs/benefits of particular behaviors. And, iirc, such crude strategies like "always defect" often ended up outsmarted by subtler ones.
Not related to this directly, but Jez Humble just joined 18F, which I found surprising, but great.
Ghana, like most countries, seems to charge import duties on all imports, with exceptions for narrow sets of preferred imports. Also like most countries, Ghana exempts certain items for personal use of the traveler from this. [0]

It really seems like the only way your couriers (who you refer to as "travelers") could avoid import duties in general -- I mean, I assuming that people aren't all purchasing agricultural parts, fishing gear, and other exempt categories of items -- is if the imported goods are being misrepresented as personal use items.

Nigeria seems to have generally similar rule exempting personal effects [1] but requiring import duty (and import paperwork!) for all other imports [2].

Again, it sounds a lot like what is going on is technically smuggling by misrepresenting imports-for-trade as personal use items.

[0] see generally, http://www.gra.gov.gh/docs/info/customs_guide.pdf

[1] https://www.customs.gov.ng/Stakeholders/passengers_concessio...

[2] https://www.customs.gov.ng/Guidelines/Destination_Inspection...
The Rise and Fall of Languages in 2013
> Genes don't "choose" to mutate any more than they "are selfish"

True, but to the extent that they "are selfish", it definitely is true that they choose to mutate, or in less metaphorical terms the mutation rate of a given section of the genome is subject to selection.

For complex organisms, you can view this as the genes with high mutation rates "taking one for the team".
I was curious what their standards for indents were:

"Use soft-tabs with a two space indent."[0]

Ugh, I work in Gov (DOD) and we recently switched to two spaces (I'm a Java/PhP dev and have always used 4 spaces) and was hoping to use this to support a switch back, guess that's a no go...

[0] - https://pages.18f.gov/frontend/css-coding-styleguide/format/
Somewhat related: there's an online German opsec magazine aimed at mujahideen, named Kybernetiq.[0] It's pretty slick. The first issue[1] included a GPG tutorial and a review of a "jihadi" messaging app (they don't recommend it).

[0] https://twitter.com/kybernetiq

[1] https://archive.org/details/kybernetiq_magazin
SCSS/SASS/LESS are NOT CSS, I wish people would stop treating them as the same.

* Caution, rant below *

I also get really annoyed when people introduce SCSS/SASS/LESS in introductory texts. Confuse a beginner right out of the gate with these template languages that were made to work around CSS, which works perfectly fine, but is just slightly inconvenient because it doesn't offer near-programming-language levels of sugar/complexity.

/rant
Otherwise get a copy of sheepshaver and a couple binaries
How do you tell when to fridge them? Slightly mushy?
Thank you all. Hard to pick...
Historically being promiscuous was associated with a low effective fertility. The reason why is if you are a peasant the resources required to raise a child to adulthood need both a mother and a father. The children of single mothers just starved to death.
Not having read the article, it definitely seems like peak ycombinator.
I take it you're not from a rural area. I was splitting wood when I was the age of those girls. It's not as dangerous as you make it out to be.
The Passport running BB10 is best computerphone I've ever used. Hopefully BlackBerry continues to at least put out security updates until the hardware is close to obsolete.
I don't think I'll ever fully understand the Python --> Go transition, I sometimes have to shrug and attribute it to the power of big company backing. I think the drain has mostly been from Python web and networking programmers, probably a bunch of devops scripters too, but with web pretty much everything else that offers easy to use and high performance web servers out of the box is a cause for drain too, so I think the transition to Go directly is probably less severe than what one might think from HN submissions. Python is much more anyway and will remain a strong choice for many areas for years to come. For your point 2 I agree completely, for the few reasons that I can kind of understand why one would do Python --> Go, Python --> Nim (among several other viable options) ought to weigh in as a better choice based on the same reasoning, and Nim offers other extra reasoning criteria to sweeten the deal. I'm not sure how to target Go users other than to consistently show their favorite domains are done better with another language.
In San Francisco, anyway, having "a decent apartment to myself" and "a decent car" already seems like a huge extravagance. Median 1BR rent is $3,620, add $300/mo for parking and let's say $300/mo for a car lease, you're at $4,200ish before any sort of food, travel, etc. Even if you're making nominally $120k/year, you need a lot of frugality to make that work.

I remember moving to SF and making ~$110k, and renting a ~$2500 studio in a mediocre part of town with no car (I got a motorcycle eventually) and it was difficult to save any money, even if I wasn't bankrupting myself.
Amusingly, the top picture on their page mixes 2- and 4-space indentation:
https://18f.gsa.gov/assets/blog/css-guide/css-guide.png
There are competitors today and there were others in the past.
I haven't had many positive experiences with daily stand-ups, so I'm heavily biased against them.

For the record, I didn't like doing oral reports in front of the entire class in school, either.
Facebook Moves to Ban Private Gun Sales on Its Site
We currently do not but these are things that we are looking into as we get feedback from current deliveries and quickly iterate. We are open and transparent and let the travelers know what things Shypmate covers and what we don't.
I was personally in the room, and in agreement, when running a real grown-up AS with carrier transit was proposed to Chris Aker as early as 2010, maybe 2009, to avoid this very scenario and many others like it. It's not really news. I have tremendous respect for the engineer who proposed it and fully believe he could have executed on this when Linode still had four facilities and 360 MB Linodes were the norm. I'm not saying that to toot my own horn (really, I'm not "I told you so" or arrogant like that), but there are very specific reasons that this wasn't done for as long as possible. I lack recent context, but the Linode decision-making culture was for many years completely driven by one individual who worked to spend as little on infrastructure as humanly possible.

Even once growth really took off and revenue started making these big shifts in strategy viable, the mindset was still to be lean and scrappy. The minimal capital expenditure strategy had benefits early on and allowed Linode to maintain an incredible margin and support explosive growth, but they were too slow to start thinking like a grown-up company when it started to matter, and it's coming back to bite both on security (with almost zero investment; just enough to pass PCI-DSS) and things like this.

When I heard they bought the Philadelphia building, for example, I was very surprised because that's not the Chris I knew. We lobbied for a Philadelphia office for years. Could be a good sign regarding decision-making culture for the future, but hard to say.

Don't read me as bad blood or anything, as I wish Linode no ill will (I actually hope they can turn this perceived slump around), it's just educational to see the consequences of choices and mindset catch up with a company. I learned a lot about management style while working there and contrasting with subsequent employers.
CodeWarrior remains my favorite IDE of all time. A diamond in the rough.
What do I (as a user of some of these apps) actually do to avoid problems? I noticed an update for Sequel Pro earlier today, and I went ahead and updated it. But it seems that if the vulnerability is with the updater itself, then is updating the apps using the potentially-mitm'ed updater a prudent thing to do?
My best friend is a devout atheist and he likes to quote dawkins and hitchens and other high priests of his religion. I use these terms purposefully. He's every bit as fervent as any hell fire and brimstone Baptist.

We are/were both raised in, and still live in, the "Bible Belt" as well. I've studied most world religions, have read quite a bit in that arena from the esoteric like "A Course in Miracles", "The Book of Urantia", Meister Eckhart, much of Jiddu Krishnamurti, the Tao Te Ching, etc etc to formalized things like William James's the variety of religious experience.

I've had my own, I would say spiritual rather than religious, experiences that are deeply personal and beyond the rationale of atheists. I have seen firsthand how introspection and quiet-minded observation can provide insight and intuition.

However, I also I went to science magnet schools starting in pre-school, work in IT, and am quite a rational pragmatic individual.

I consider myself to be an agnostic at the moment mostly due to a lack of options. I don't consider it to be a "weasel term". Uncertainty is ubiquitous in life. How is this topic any different? There's always Pascal's Wager ;)
I can’t speak for the OP, but my experience with giving the book to people who say they hated it, is that for some people it questions too many of their basic assumptions about the world. They can’t rationally argue against the content so they are left with irrational hate.
That's a ultimately a "problem" with the initial language design. If you design it with the intention of using auto formatters you won't run into these issues.

I originally didn't like braces in go, but then I realized there's just enough in there to make auto-formatting easy.
My personal favorite are those people who are living in a rent controlled apartment that they split with a partner and pay $700 on.

They say "$2k for an apartment? That's way too much! Why don't you move to [place]?"

Honestly if you haven't rented an apartment in the last few years, you have no idea. You also have no idea how lucky you are to get that rent control subsidy.
Brazil’s Distributed Generation Connections Triple in 2015
An odd article. I suppose it was written at the time (2012) to capitalize on anti-GS fervor, while at the same time not actually covering anything bad they did. Because in the grand scheme of their criminal activities, this is an absolute nothing burger.

In fact, without other info, I'm inclined to side with GS on this one. Some things that would make the story actually interesting include: what were/are GS's connections with senior execs at the L&H co, or at Nuance. Without intent, there's no story here, just incompetence in the worst case.

Otherwise it seems like a simple case of a mom n pop team getting in way over their heads and penny pinching at the wrong time. The abnormally low transaction fee (guaranteeing poor service), lack of other DD, failure to instantaneously hedge out their exposure to the acquirer's stock, etc. Also they probably knew the deal was too good to be true at the time, hence the rush to take the all stock deal. Afterwards, seller's remorse and failing to accept their part in the blunder. Very typical.
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You are mixing terms, resulting in pretty cheap rhetoric. If I tame wolves and chose their mating partners — it's breeding. Same with crops. It's not what people call "genetic modification".

If I cherry-pick genes of one organism, attach them to a virus and infect other organisms with that: now that's what is called genetic modification.

I won't argue which is better, it seems like a hot topic for some people. But I can completely understand how somebody is OK with the first one and not so much with the second. It's like a difference between choosing an engineer to construct your house, and making your own modifications to the final construction project. You have to be completely sure you know what you are doing to do the latter. Some people doubt we actually know what we are doing. Sometimes looking back it's hard to blame them.
When you get the one click wordpress install on some hosting companies, you also get a lot of preinstalled plugins.

These plugins only bloat your website.
> Our nameservers are now protected by Cloudflare

How? I thought CloudFlare only protected HTTP? Can you have it reverse proxy a DNS server or is Linode using CloudFlare as the host for ns1.linode.com now?
Wasn't carbon ditched like a decade ago?
If you increment the number 3, you get 4, but 3 has not changed -- it's still and always will be 3.
I find it very questionable how major tech companies have started to enforce their political, ethical, or religious views on their customers, without any regard for the width of the cultures and views on the planet that they cater to.

Google and Facebook both seem to believe themselves to be the morality police pretty often, particularly on how they handle adult content. As private companies, they have every right to do so, but I find it has a chilling effect on the freedom of the Internet, now that so much of our Internet use is locked into these tech companies' products.
Much worse things than that happen if you use ECB mode, for whatever it's worth.

But yeah, I was trying to figure out if he was talking about some property of the cipher or some property of "encrypting analog video".
Uh-oh, the attacks started again a few minutes ago:

http://status.linode.com/incidents/mkcgnmjmnnln
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While it has become fashionable and easy to cease believing in God, humans are wont to continue believing in Authority.

Why, for example, that despite professing to uphold the gene-centric evolutionary understanding humans, who are otherwise flesh and blood bodies, can't help but think inside the restrictive box of self/ identities .... while granting authority to select set of identities - not just clergy men, but authorities in various forms.

Modern social justice movements are another example of this authority-complex, wherein victim-disciples "pray" to the Government-God to "bless" them with advantages and "fight" against the privileged-evils. Does not anyone recognize a familiar pattern?

Belief in a supernatural being (God) is but a symptom of something much more sinister about humanity. It is one thing to question a belief, but entirely another thing to question the need to believe itself.

Refer to the Milgram experiment for the classic study done on Authority: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
In the article they mention that the AntiSky decoder is included in the reference documents describing the decryption procedures.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2699846-Anarchist-Tr...

Basically they grab a frame from the video, then run it through AntiSky, no intermediate steps. AntiSky works against the VideoCrypt scheme, ergo that must be what they're using (or something so similar as to make no difference).

The other post discusses why they would use such a dated analogue system. I also think that off-the-shelf systems would have been pretty attractive as an interim fix. Most stronger encryption is going to need to go over a digital link with error correction, which is not something that's trivial to retrofit.

As for the "most sophisticated arms company" thing - do bear in mind that about half of the US's predator drones were still broadcasting unencrypted video feeds in 2012, despite the fact that we knew insurgents had been tapping into them for years. Israel is more responsive than most militaries, but it still does take time for equipment to go from lab to mass field utilization. Those timeframes are typically measured on the order of decade(s) especially if you're talking about deploying additional satcom capability or something like that. And during that timeframe they were actively switching to something else.

http://www.wired.com/2012/10/hack-proof-drone/
Crystal Quest was developed by someone else. All of the games in the Soft Dorothy repo were original to John's company.
You do know that Pascal’s Wager is logically flawed [1]?

1 http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Pascal's_wager
Could mean anything from them being able to intercept video from the tail cam to them just tracking the drones based on signal / radar information.
All the imagery from the Israeli drones is from circa 2009-2010.
It's a natural/normal reaction to have negative feelings towards the H1B worker. However, the people to blame are American companies (Big Business/Corporate America), U.S. universities & colleges (who charge foreign student 3-4 times higher tuition by offering chance to work in the US and then provide American companies with cheap labor via the F1 OPT loophole), corrupt politicians in Washington DC (most are bought), the US Dept of Commerce and the Dept of Labor.

The wage metric to use in the hiring of an H1B worker is the top end of the salary range of that job description for the city or area PLUS a 10-20% premium. This ensures that the company really needs to bring someone in. An entry level engineer in SF/SV would have the tier 1 salary apply to them while a senior engineer would get the higher tier.

The problem isn't just the definition of 'prevailing wage' or the use of the lower tier 1 salary figures for senior positions. The problem is the lack of enforcement by the goverment agencies approving these visa applications.
Good question - we (Infoxchange) have had a large database of providers centred around services for disadvantaged and at risk people in Australia since the early 90s, it goes back so far that we used to offer this information up over BBS - and we actually ran the very first 'online' search engine in Australasia, back then I think it was actually called 'the info X change' or something quite corny like that but hey - it was the 90s!

I gave a talk on the history and journey with search and our database of providers back in 2014 - those slides are still very much relevant and contain some screenshots from the mid 90s of someone accessing the data via mosaic - check out: https://smcleod.net/search-a-journey-of-delivery-on-a-budget...

With regards to AskIzzy, it's essentially a front end that accessed data from our services & providers database which is called 'Infoxchange service seeker', that platform is a number of Python app that use Elasticsearch backed by PostgreSQL with PostGIS, it has its own set of front ends for various purposes and has a pretty flexible API to query data, which is what is used by things like AskIzzy to get the information they need.

With regards to updating data - that is obviously the hardest part, we all know garbage in = garbage out, so we tend not to like the idea of scraping or anything like that. Many service providers do not have the technical skills or infrastructure to expose the the state of their services online but are more than happy to fill out a small status update form on a website, email an update to one of our systems etc... We also have a dedicated team of database updaters that make regular stop ins with service providers to ensure their details are correct.

I should also mention that we are 100% non-profit, charitable organisation - so we're not making any money off AskIzzy or any other platform / service we run and were very transparent about that.

* sorry for any typos - wrote this reply on my phone