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The observation stated in this 'paradox' isn't even true, and if it were true it wouldn't be a paradox.

First, it's not even remotely factually true:

- It's easier and easier to use computers while avoiding more and more 'proprietary' software. 25 years ago you could barely do anything without a paid for operating system, now you would be considered a bit of an idiot if you tried to suggest a major datacenter running anything but Linux. The same goes for office applications etc, there used to be nothing at all, now there are multiple high quality options. The same goes for web browsers, and look at the demise of Flash and IE6-only websites. So for basically every category, the last 25 years has been a story of going from complete dominance of proprietary shrink-wrapped software to one where open source alternatives are almost as good or much better.

Secondly, if it became true, it wouldn't be a "a statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory."

- A lot of or even most of the 'proprietary' software being created has no real value as open source to begin with. Lets say Twitter open sources their mobile client, then what? Are you going to modify it and use your modified version? That is absurd, virtually nobody would do this because of the difficulty of even running your modified version on a platform with trusted computing, but lets say you don't care about that. What is the benefit of doing so? So you can tweak a font or add a button? Twitter is releasing all of the open source they can extract from their codebase that they think people would actually find useful, look at all of it: https://engineering.twitter.com/opensource/projects . The fact that the twitter.app for IOS isn't open source is 'meh', there is nothing interesting or hard about that app, and you can find a dozen open source equivalents , some of which are actually better.

So the claim is false, and if it is someday true, it's not even surprising, much less a 'paradox'.
Gogs is super quick, well designed and powerful. If it has all the features you require, I highly recommend it. Rolling updates were quite simple, swap nginx from one Docker container to another and you're good to go.
"The auto reset was executed by a county information technology employee, according to a federal official. Federal investigators only found out about the reset after it had occurred and that the county employee acted on his own, not on the orders of federal authorities, the source said."[1]

[1]http://abcnews.go.com/US/san-bernardino-shooters-apple-id-pa...
Cut off fingers?

How about simply photographing the fingers, or, at worst, just fingerprint the dead without removing the digits (which I assume is SOP)?
> The first thing to know about Nest’s culture is that it’s a family. They expect loyalty, trust

> Building and shipping hardware products requires an orchestra, not a band.

> Building a phenomenal, time-tested brand requires extreme discipline, and often, a relatively ...

> The dedication to the brand is one of those things that as an employee can seem onerous and taxing ...

> To me, doing great work is a habit, not an occasional outcome

This article is a series of sound bytes with zero information on what it's actually like to work at nest. Sort of like this person's job at nest was more like a club where he was playing pool or something. Not sure what this guy did, but clearly it can't have had many stressful deliverables.

According to his twitter page this person is a software engineer who moved to Product Management.

I bet that a place like Apple and Nest is like that : nice and easy on project managers, very hard on engineers. A company like Google, by contrast, From their products, I expect that mostly the company sides with the engineers, not the PMs.
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https://github.com/SerNet/verinice
Very fun topic to think about. My $.02: Together with the genetic diversity you need food, lots of food. I bet if you look up the average hunter-gatherer village size, that's about the maximum size of a population you can support on just hunter-gathering and perhaps some basic farming.

To get a civilization that could support even a modest town large enough to support small mining operations and general trade you need the most important technology we've spent the past 10.000-40.000 years developing and which I don't see any technological shortcut to: The potato, banana, the chicken, the cow, etc. Superfoods, without which a civilization won't get very far and which will definitely not just exist on a planet that's never seen human cultivation.

(There's a fun survivorman episode where he gets dropped in a jungle, and after a day or two of hardship he stumbles upon an abandoned farm, instantly the whole 'surviving' aspect is gone and the rest of the episode is about him trying to live comfortably (i.e. not being eaten by ants at night), the difference between a bleeding edge modern mango and sucking on a wild berry is stark (the episode is called "Grenada Jungle"))
That works for Qwest's CEOs, but probably not Apple's.

If this is the endgame, it's good that computers exist. Without Twitter, the public might believe absurd lies.

Nowadays, the lies would have to be pretty nuanced to have an effect.

Of course, there's something to be said for overwhelming power. If those in the government really want their way, and all three branches refuse to yield, and none of us can control who are in those branches, is there really anything we can do to stop it?

Luckily, this is roughly as likely as the moon disappearing. For now.
Well, on the bottom of the page it says "Innovation Alliance" which is "[...] a coalition of research and development-based technology companies representing innovators, patent owners, and stakeholders from a diverse range of industries that believe in the critical importance of maintaining a strong patent system that supports innovative enterprises of all sizes."

Here is a list of some(?) of their members: http://innovationalliance.net/about-us/

Qualcomm, Dolby, Cantor Fitzgerald, ... looks like they have a huge pile of patents and money.
Correct - today it's a congressman or mp, 100 years ago it was a lord or governor, before that, the aristocracy.

We still have an aristocracy, or plutarchy, in fact. I come from deep within the belly of the beast and know the people who know the people and you would not believe how bent it all is. Everuthing happens behind closed doors, we just see the punch and judy show after the event.
Maybe the use of such words increases toxicity by 250%?
I'm going to the pet shop right now to ask for an Anomalocaris.
I don't know, but evidently the manufacturers think it's "low enough". This is definitely the kind of security which is about increasing the resource spend per attack rather than guaranteeing impossibility.
It is not the amount of light but rather spectral changes that may be responsible for myopia, http://iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2127682
I'd love to believe that twitter could be a counterbalance, but it can also be an amplifier - any lie repeated long and loud enough becomes truth - particularly when twitter streams are "algorithmicly driven", and can therefore be filtered to give whatever sentiment more precedence.

Haa twitter stopped trump's rise?
Touch ID requires your passcode after 48 hours. So, only if the phone had been previously unlocked with a passcode, kept powered on and charged, and 48 hours had not elapsed, could the government use a corpse fingerprint to unlock.

The device in question is an iPhone 5 and doesn't have a Touch ID sensor, so the question is moot anyway.
https://www.b.agilob.net/choose-gitlab-for-your-next-project...
Is there a Phabricator vs GitLab shoot-out anywhere?

The GitLab people are always posting here, so it seems the stuff you can read here about it is rather biased.
Can you put the data back again, though? Last I saw it wasn't possible to use the API to, e.g., add issues owned by someone else. (I was wanting to migrate mailing list archives off SourceForge.)
The GH issues hint this is not maintained? The site itself seems to be working, though.

Although since recently I have been using https://github.com/technoboy10/crossorigin.me without any downtimes or ssl issues. (I am not related to any of the two projects in any way, though.)
That's not the information reported by Reuters this morning [2]

"San Bernardino County reset the password on the iCloud account at the request of the FBI, said county spokesman David Wert."

Sounds like both sides are blaming each other for the event.

[2] http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0VS2GC
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I was more interested into technology rather than society. I'd love to see that episode of survivorman.

ps: random collision, I was just watching this http://typotalks.com/berlin/2012/speakers/single-speaker/?ti... when I realized it's similar to your vanished survivor mindset.
You could write a good film script here;

how some secret 3 letter agency has gone rogue and has a long and complex plan to incite a couple of people to terrorism, making sure they conveniently die, leaving no witnessed.

This shadow group then invoke the hearts and minds of the people, through the fear of a series of terror acts to relinquish their privacy rights, happily accepting a legal precedent to remove encryption from the masses. Their end goal being total population control and surveillance on order to control the masses on behalf of a secret and powerful governing elite.

A bunch of FBI agents suspect this secret group have programmed these people to commit these terror acts, and since they are now dead they need to recover the data from the phone to prove this dastardly conspiracy.

Starring Matt Damon as the one rogue ex-agent who brings the whole almost perfect plan crashing down, and Liam Neeson as the FBI agent who is determined to bring this shadowy elite to justice.
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Hang on, if it's legal for them to ignore letters if they feel like it why would they ever accept a letter which causes them to lose money?

(Or is this just "consumer protection in the US does not work", again)
They would probably drive around slowly rather than get a ticket.
Out of curiosity, is it possible to DIY your own SMS notification system?

Are there volume limits that would get you blocked from carriers (ie. AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile) even if you have two way consent?
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Very much welcomed. Like all protocols, unless they are pushed by industry players, they won't take off in any meaningful way. Take IPV6 for example; out compteted by its predessor IPV4 because swathes of industry players chose not to support it. I hope this is not the case for HTTP/2 as turning it on is trivial these days and more often than not, it's a small flag in a config file and boom, we have HTTP/2.
Windows 10 on Chrome here, I see the same as the Windows 7 user above.

Actually, it renders perfectly on Edge; so the problem is probably with Google Chrome.
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They could have used base 36 and made it 16 characters. That would have made it at least feasible to remember.
This seems like a huge conflict of interest. The meter maids are essentially being paid "extra" for every ticket they write now. How is this not the equivalent of a meter maid not writing you a ticket if you give them some cash?
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Why would this comment be getting downvoted so many times??

If you dont agree comment. HN users can be so passive agressive sometimes
Also, eyes constantly do micro-movements even when one stares into the screen or looks at green fields or when one sleeps. They are more similar to heart in that respect than other muscles.
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I disagree. I live near New York and have only gotten a parking ticket one time. There was construction scaffolding up on the street, covering signs, and new signs had been put on the scaffolding itself indicating it was ok to park there. I still got a ticket, and tried to appeal online, but my appeal was denied. I should have taken a picture with my phone, but I didn't. The fine was excessive (around $200).

NYC is constantly under construction. Signage is blocked by scaffolding, garbage, snow, you name it. I'm sure the residents on the street know exactly where you can and cannot park, but someone unfamiliar with the neighborhood is a target for excessive parking fines. This seems like a patently unfair system that is rigged against tourists and those from out of town.

Disclaimer: I live in CT.
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Hearing the news I couldn't help but think about the first game I've ever played, "La Abadia del Crimen", a version of "The Name of the Rose", for Amstrad CPC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Abad%C3%ADa_del_Crimen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDBDAVxwIxo
> I often get requests from people from the OCaml academic community asking if we have any available positions, and the answer has so far always been no.

I don't understand what you're saying. Are those applicants to Red Hat, or developers asking to contribute to libguestfs that you say no to.
NYC has mostly moved to a digital system where you can pay with a credit/debit card and get a paper receipt to put on your windshield.

In many smaller cities, however, they still have old meters that take coins and have a timer. There is really no incentive for small towns to upgrade their infrastructure, as requiring coins probably means they will be able to write more tickets, as people increasingly carry less cash.
If you do not have a lot of training data use a rule based approach. I like Clara and the Jena rules engine but you could get pretty far w/ sequential rules written in ordinary code.
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Keras is a very high-level library compare to tensorfuse. Tensorfuse is primarily built to easy migration from theano to something else.
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It just doesn't do it for me, for my general benchmarking purposes. You really have to dig down to do comparisons, and they felt unfulfilling.

Serverbear.com, despite having not been updated for years, still feels like the best UI, and best quick snapshot for performance, and makes it easy to compare performance. It's not perfect, by a long shot, but it's the closest to meeting my needs until I'm presented with something better.
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How does ethereum run without AT&T, Deuthche, NTT, Telefonica, Verizon, etc.

You're always on someone else's network.
That's essentially Apple's concern, isn't it? That they will want to increasingly rely on this version of iOS, and eventually accidentally compromise Apple's security model?
The author has failed the open letter litmus test, where the positive result is reserved for thoughtful discourses of potential public interest or concern. This Medium post read more like something you tell your friends after a few drinks - and even then, they would be silently thinking, "We're all in the same boat but I haven't sunk yet so quit complaining!"

At the end of the day, the author - like anybody living in the free world - has the choice to pack and move to a more accommodating work/home situation.
Lol... I have never used fewer commercial applications like today. 10 or 15 ago I struggled with buying or downloading expensive software because computers were not much fun without that back then. But now... Just out of convenience I have an OS X computer, didn't buy it myself though, I would be perfectly fine with a Linux computer too. My web browser(s) are open source, same is true for my mail client, my shell, almost all of my dev tools.

It's quite amazing, computers are so much more fun with open software.
Scalia was hoping mad about the Obamacare decision that, among other things was an attempt by the state to force a citizen to buy a product. I won't rehash the arguments, they are well known, but the short answer is that Scalia would likely be opposed to forcing a company to build something. If the 'something' existed already, there might be a different argument to make considering that there isn't a 4th Amendment question (as the perpetrator is dead.) The idea of the state to compel an entity to build something (which is the same as forcing them to buy something as they must spend money buying the labor to build it,) would be, in Scalia's view, against the Constitution.

The plaintiffs would have to prove with substantial weight that there is a national security issue (i.e. An imminent threat.) That would be hard to prove as the government is really just investigating and fishing as opposed to having proof there's a nuclear launch code on the phone. I would suspect the 9th Circuit would rule in favor of Apple.. As such a 4-4 Supreme Court would by default result in the 9th Court decision standing.
And the moral of the story:
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>there's at least a record that I purchased something from them. I'm still way ahead of someone who paid cash and doesn't have his receipt!

Debit card?
I could be wrong, but I think the implants used to correct myopia are normally fixed-focus, and sit in front of the eye's natural lens rather then replacing it, so you don't lose the natural ability to focus close up (accommodation).

However you're right, there are now accommodating lens implants which could correct myopia and presbyopia simultaneously, or be used for people who've had their lens removed due to cataracts. It will be pretty exciting to see how they develop.

http://www.londoneyehospital.com/treatments-services/synchro...
> Without Twitter, the public might believe absurd lies.

People still are people, with all their positive and negative sides. Some technological advancement is unlikely to change that.
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Most articles bashing/unbashing github always forget what to me is the real point. The problem is not in the git part of GitHub.

GitHub is a social network: star, fork, comment, popularity. The fact that some devs would see github as the only place to be to get to make their contributions "public" it is acting more as a social network and less about a git hosting tool. That's the real lock-in.

That's also GitHub's value. It is the largest social network of developers.
My assumption about it being forgotten is predicated on the person doing it not having authority.

I'm basing all this on this snippet from the article:

> It was then that they discovered that the Apple ID password associated with the iPhone had been changed. (The FBI claimed earlier Friday that this was done by someone at the San Bernardino Health Department.)
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In fact it's even easier. In the IP address you can embed an identifier for which office/datacenter, which department, which VLAN, etc. This makes it much more powerful and expressive.
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I can't think of a single thing the government has done in the name of surveillance and security that have actually helped catch any terrorists.

All those body scanners at airports? How many terrorists have they managed to catch?

(Meanwhile, TSA agents steal items from baggage all the time)

If all that surveillance couldn't catch the school shooters, the Boston bombers and this couple, is the only solution even MORE surveillance?
Yeah, a simple solution to a simple problem, and guarantees maximum reach in the process.
Easily solved, as we're free to attach any internal versioning scheme:

2016-01-01T11:51:10+00#R#+Feature#(Semver 13.0)
2016-01-07T10:50:21+00#R#Fix#(Semver 13.1)
2016-02-11T09:31:44+00#R#-Feature#(Semver 15.0)
2016-02-20T10:20:51+00#R#Fix#(Semver 15.1)

(I'm prefixing it with Semver because it's defined.)

This scheme is mainly about making the date and time an intergral part of a versioning format, which in turn makes it easy for machines to figure out the age of components, and automate checks.

Perhaps tags could then help add more information.

So just search for "$Version:" across multiple platforms; text files/scripts, videos, pictures, executables, etc.

Problems: Text encoding. A search may have to cover all variants. UTF-LE, UTF-BE, UTF-8, etc, but if written in isolation, it should be UTF-8.

There could be established standards for where to store such information, to optimize lookup for specific data formats.
Good luck NATing v6
> You can find the nascent but growing list of publicly listed projects here: https://gitlab.com/explore

Gitlab often comes up in these discussions. Ok, it comes up every time. Several times in the past I've went and checked it out and it seems interesting except...I couldn't find any actual projects from the main gitlab.com page, aside from the gitlab CE repo itself. So thanks for posting that link!

I have to wonder why it's not more prominent. And where's the search to find repos? I regularly find useful repos on github by searching for them. Discoverability is important to me.
Could you refer me to good modern resources? I am fluent in C programming and would really like to get started with Pascal and Object Pascal using FPC and Lazarus. I really think the language adds a lot of nice things compared to C without sacrificing C's advantages and without becoming C++. The only problem I'm currently facing is finding resources to learn.
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This has my bullshit detector ringing loud and clear, sorry.
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This reminds me of the philosopher whose name I can't recall now who claimed that consciousness came into being some 3,000 years ago
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Per the comment below using Cloudfront for "secure, performant egress from S3", are there any other solutions that immediately come to mind? Working in Shanghai and AWS Beijing doesn't have Cloudfront as a service; separately, everything has to be kept in-country due to regulatory reasons. Ultimately I am looking for non-expiring links to password protected private folders (low volume) to serve to clients which I believe don't exist. A little out of my element SysOps wise; using the excellent SteveLTN https-portal docker image found on GH wrapped around JWilder's Nginx-proxy with some Flask, Mongodb, Redis thrown in the mix (hopefully someday soon). TIA.
Not disagreeing, but it also has some terrible downsides. We have much cleaner energy sources now, so it's not so good for humanity now!
Or "of course Bill Cosby is guilty"
Stackoverflow has undoubtably made me a better developer.

Sometimes you get stuck on things that are blockers and time consuming but there isn't a lot of learning value there.

Saving time on these kind of blockers means i can spend more time on learning concepts and higher level things that help me become a better coder.