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Well, the reason that Leap 42.1 has a 4.x kernel is because the next service pack of SLE is planned to have a 4.x kernel as well (at which point, from my understanding, they'll sync up). The reason they didn't just use the SLE kernel is because of hardware support.

But the rest of the packages are either:

1. Directly from SLE, meaning that they have the exact same version, patches and build setup (they're rebuilt on the External OBS though). These are kept up-to-date with maintenance releases for SLE (which is what I meant by "up to date").

2. Community-managed, meaning that they were not available in SLE and the community added them.

Admittedly, the kernel is the one case I know of where this is not the case. CentOS might be comparable, but I don't know whether or not RedHat actually contributes to CentOS (we contribute to OpenSUSE).
So we, the good folks at Crowdfire, have made an AI-based virtual marketing assistant for small businesses, startups and entrepreneurs all across the world. We've been working hard on it for the past 9 months and hope it helps businesses grow easily on Twitter and Instagram with the least bit of time or knowledge required. Would love feedback on it's effectiveness and general UI. Thanks!
And youR* reply is about as useful as the whole thread, the reporting of other peoples laziness of committing with proper descriptions of their own code. What a surprise, people are lazy and it bites you in the ass in the long run wowiwow, what a surprise...

Perhaps if this type of post didn't come by every X time, it wouldn't annoy me so much.
Perl gets proper OOP, as now that OOP seems to be out of fashion!

(I wish the fashion part of our industry would disappear and people would use the correct tools appropriately. OOP still has plenty of valid cases in my opinion).
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Maybe s/he was just making a statement? Let me re-quote it, there's no judgment of any sort attached to the statement

"Bolt? That's a car for girls(at least by design)."

Any negative connotation with that is in the eye of the beholder.
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4096 bit RSA keys offer very little additional security (2048 is plenty for at least the next few years, and with a certificate that's valid for 90 days, there's practically no risk - you can rotate the key rather easily if something bad comes along), but has a fairly big impact on performance and battery life, especially on mobile devices.
My understanding of traditional backlit LCD displays suggests practically no power will be saved except in the case of AMOLED displays. Anyone know the details?
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I'm not sure if I liked data-harvesting combined with my finances anyway.
HTTP and JSON are well catered for on .NET and Xamarin. Newtonsoft.Json is the most popular. And then HttpClient has first class support in Xamarin.

In terms of view models... how long is a piece of string? There are literally dozens of approaches one could take. Or you could use Xamarin.Forms which is a MVVM framework (amongst other things).
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It's the whole positive and negative proof thing again. But the way it was dealt with in Australia is that you cannot even set up a canary (it's against the law to make any statement about whether or not a journalist warrant exists -- regardless of whether or not you told the truth). Is that a bit messed up? Yes. Do we have even more messed up laws than that? Definitely, the most chilling of which is the anti-whistleblowing laws (journalists and readers can be held accountable for disclosures of ASIO [Australian NSA] internal workings).
intel provides a tool called 'pin' that makes it possible to alter a program dynamically in runtime: https://software.intel.com/sites/landingpage/pintool/docs/65...
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Visual studio community is free if your product is open source.

https://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Visual-Studio-2013...

Q: Who can use Visual Studio Community?
A: Here’s how individual developers can use Visual Studio Community:

Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps.

Here’s how Visual Studio Community can be used in organizations:

An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects.

For all other usage scenarios: In non-enterprise organizations, up to 5 users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or > $1MM in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above.
"If I want encryption to communicate online then it all comes down to who you trust. Who do you trust?"

You trust your own SSH key pairs, for example.
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"Economies don't have wills of their own."

I totally agree with this. Economies (or markets) are tools.

When someone propose "Laissez-faire" and that the government is just interfering, he is just saying that economies have wills of their own.
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It sounds like it, but that would be on hell of a battery range if that's true.
As a Finnish person visiting Mountain View last year, I spent 2 weeks at Hacker Dojo coding on my project.

Very creative atmosphere there, and something that really doesn't exist here in Finland at that scale. Kinda sad to hear their name is being dragged down.

I felt it's a bunch of good people there, got to meet some of the people running the place too.

The next big thing could rise from places like Hacker Dojo, I wish them all the good and hopefully finding a new place.
Is this like prior work against the ECDLP which only applied to binary curves? The blog post talks about all crypto systems, but prior index calculus attacks always seem to have not applied to prime curves.

If it really applies to all curves and is not an April Fools joke, then this will hurt the usability of Bitcoin, Keybase and other systems that assume EC keys can be easily encoded as text.

edit: It is confirmed as an April Fools: https://twitter.com/EllipticKiwi/status/715711942531264512 ...
If it's not a joke, it seems it could be related to these:

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/10/a-riddle-wra...

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/10/why_is_the_ns...
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What does this mean for red hat and the ecosystem of linux distros (eli5)?
> like removing the library from repository, what happened to left-pad

This was entirely npm's fault for allowing it. They recognized that and fixed it. Nothing to do with tiny modules. Moving on.

> but also suddenly changing interface and/or call semantics, bumping only patchlevel part of version number

This is actually less likely with tiny modules. If it were a large module like underscore, and its just changing this one tiny function a little bit, its okay if they bump the minor verision number, right? Well, it broke your program because out of those 100 functions you were using exactly that one.
Right but "fortunately" we can do that with marginal labour, which is more or less what we observe.

The great thing about globalisation is that it does seem to be a standard of living equaliser.

The bad part is that it's a long way to the bottom if you live in the west.
> than paying someone to maintaining it yourself

You do realize that this is probably THE reason to open-source a piece of custom software after you've built it, right?

...I imagine that they expect the community will do X% of the maintenance work now, so they can save Y%, so win-win for both the company and the community. Also, you increase the probability that any new hires will be at least mildly familiar with your in-house stack if you open-source some of it (think TensorFlow).

Free as in beer is the best answer when you have reasonable expectations that the community will really embrace the product and you'll get back "free as in beer" upgrades and bugfixes to the software you won't otherwise have the budget to properly maintain (and properly document, btw! think of all the free tutorials that will be written for this after it gets popular!) :)
While I don't agree, I do have to say that Plan 9 did get a much better mascot in the form of Glenda.
"Even bigger than the Apple Pencil" ahahahah.
Note that LinkedIn will offer to connect you to people whose contact book contains you - it's not necessarily because you uploaded your address book.
It's just my opinion, but I think the Chevy looks awful compared to the Model 3.
Why do they make it so cluttered? Are there no design guidelines to follow as to create a more user friendly version?
NB: The bus station in Vauxhall (linked) wasn't designed by Zaha, but by Arup's architecture dept
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Here you go[0] organized by e_d_g_a_r. As far as I've heard the show up rate is pretty good.

[0]: http://www.meetup.com/sv-ocaml/
Its Apache licensed .. so it means can i use it directly in my company replacing the existing commercial products like Tableau / Looker?
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Relevant discussion on Reddit pf

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/3ck2rr/all...
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Here is also my config if anyone is interested (also A+ on ssllabs.com): https://gist.github.com/alex-min/158f35f604b24e163ae9, feel free to copy it. (or suggest improvements !)

I also recommand https://sslcatch.com which sends you a warning email if your certificate is about to expire. I have a crontab to renew it but this can be also helpful just in case.
When everything becomes a human right, you cheapen the entire concept. So many times I read in the news "this latest issue is a human right, and that thing, etc, etc".

Let's keep human rights to the basics.

If your goal is privacy as a human right, then make that the human right, and stop there.

Not the tool you use to accomplish it! Next a computer will become a human right, and then electricity, and a keyboard. Where does it end?

Encryption is a tool, not a goal in and of itself.
> O(q^(1/24)) ... While still exponential complexity,

I call April's fools!
I will say that I started using Perl5 recently (big python fan). I expected everything to be crusty and bad. CPAN worked great, and the doc...my GOSH the doc is sooo good. It is everywhere. In my command-line, gazzillions of websites. I forgot what it was like to not be dependent on StackOverflow.
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I am a person, therefore a subset of people. I am interested. QED. Not to mention that that wasn't the only thing I mentioned, it was just the first because it's the most important.
Certainly in the open source community, but MS SQL server is a really nice DB and has been for a while.
I wish people wouldn't post april fool's crap like this.
This is hilarious, well done Google :).
Would you say the same if we replaced "families" for "economies"?
Lol there are probably less than a dozen people on the planet the fully understand elliptic curves to the point where they could make real progress on the ECDLP problem. This is clearly April Fools
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Was easy in the past when we didn't have books or candles around.

Let's go back to australopithecine principles, so we can all sleep better. Except someone will need to stay up to look out for predators.

And there you have your evolutionary basis. It's not a bug, it's a feature.
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Damn Reddit caught this as April fools much faster than HN
https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/4csvhs/ecdlp_can_be...
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You don't honestly expect me not to defend myself, do you? Your definition of "flamewar" is vastly different than that of the rest of the interweb.
I was too busy being upset by how awful the site looks on mobile devices.
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I hope for April 1st prank as this is after I adopted ed25516 ssh keys with the public part consisting of only 80 chars plus comments and the private key taking only 254 characters in base64 so it can realistically be typed manually from a backup printout.
I was going to chime in that even Neil Armstrong and Gene Cernan were opposed to it but it turns out that may not have been the case. [0]

0. https://www.quora.com/Why-were-Neil-Armstrong-Eugene-Cernan-...
Brian D Foy has a WordPress site up for Learning Perl6 with some pretty random blog articles. I'd say he's 1-2 years from publishing which is both frustrating and good. The language should be solid by then.
They don't have to force you to lie, they can perhaps compel you to cooperate with law enforcement by either handing out the signing keys or by signing a message prepared by law enforcement.

Law enforcement doesn't have to tell the truth all the time, and deception is constantly used through out the legal system.
Well at least all the money goes to charities!
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> [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIZxTQP1ifo

Now we just need a Haskell compiler which actually bothers to provide the "pretty essential for sanity" for global uniqueness. Currently, I count zero compilers in common use which do.
Yes, I'm aware of that, thanks. I haven't yet ever come up against that limit, thankfully.
How else are you going to define the overall rigor of colleges than by the required curriculum for all students who attend them? Here I'm returning to the wider scope that includes those small institutions that have every student read and discuss "the great books" with their peers and one or more facility members who have a clue, and others that might follow such a model of rigor.

Here's a neat story about how one student was implicitly recruited to one of them: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/dec/06/shimer-coll...

Jibran Ludwig – recounts to me the strange tale of how he ended up here. One night two years ago, when Jibran was 15, he was sitting in an Amtrak station in upstate New York reading Plato’s Republic and getting annoyed by the translation. The Greek gods had been given capital Gs, which struck Jibran as an erroneous Christian reinterpretation, and so he decided to abandon the book and try and find something closer to what Plato had intended. It was election night. The woman sitting opposite Jibran had an iPhone. So he went over to ask her the results.

As he approached her, his Plato in his hand, she looked alarmed. “Oh,” she said after a moment. “I thought you might be one of my students and I didn’t recognize you and I felt embarrassed.” She explained that she was Susan Henking, president of Shimer, “and Plato is the kind of thing we read”.

“If the president of this college thinks I might already be there,” Jibran suddenly thought, “maybe it’s where I should be.”
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There is a study done by a market analyst (Wayne Eckerson) about Building vs Buying BI, he has some good insights based on surveys as to why some companies chose to build and some choose to buy

71% of those who chose to build the BI tools said they built because "We can customize the functionality better"

51% of those who buy say "Buying enables us to provide best-in-class BI functionality"

The study:
http://www.jaspersoft.com/sites/default/files/confirmation_f...
It will probably be able to drive itself to a charging station. :)
I wish i could express as elegantly as you just did all the issues with most complaints around Perl 5/6, my love for how elegantly you did it.
I'm confused. The splines used in e.g. Inkscape (and Adobe Illustrator) are Bezier splines, right? And they allow local control of direction, with control-points on the spline. Are these also the splines used by SVG?

What exactly is different in the splines of metafont?
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Interesting example about the TV switching off. That would of course be inconvenient but there's already multiple large industries and consumer level smartmeters that will turn things off when electricity demand is high in return for cheaper energy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_demand_management

The basic reason for this to exist, even before renewable energy was a thing, is that, as you point out in your comment, building enough capacity just to serve a peak that may only last for a few hours a year is stupidly expensive. So you take the money that you would have spent on a power plant that would only run for a few hours and you give it to people for turning down their air con or their blast furnace for a few hours, keeping a portion to yourself for being so clever. Free-market solutions that save customers and utilities money, save energy, and save the planet. Everyone is happy!
Correct. Holmes is a figurehead being used by a group of "interested individuals", as I've been saying since Theranos started appearing in the news.

It may not have been blindingly obvious to most, but coming from a place where I am intimately familiar with the machinations of the plutarchy, this immediately struck me as a simple "let's screw with the market" type scam.

This makes double sense when you consider that between about 15 and 10 years ago when Theranos would have been brewing in the minds of the old boys club that run it, biotech was considered THE hot stock area among the overmonied class. They've cashed in, neatly.

Theranos is absolutely nothing special - apart from perhaps being a special interest entity.

The thing is, they won't have been setting out to create human suffering - it won't have even crossed their minds that that would be a side effect - they will just have been thinking about the market, and how to separate their less guileful chums from their cash. Theranos' medical negligence is "just collateral damage".
Well, two flavor of hell. Metal doesn't fracture. So it shields you for a while, but it it can also hold you hostage.
Ah, yes you are correct. Thanks for pointing out some of the finer historical notes! I bet there are plenty of people here that would be impressed to know how much P6 has to do with Haskell. I think the general impression isn't one of lots of advanced ideas but Hey Perl finally got a decent object system which is kinda sad lol.
What fucking media and marketing are you even talking about? I am a Tunisian citizen and I have never heard of this guy until these last couple of days.
"In April and May 2015, a test to measure prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, failed quality-control checks 22% of the time. The PSA test is used to help detect prostate cancer."

Ouch....
I see a string of class action suits in the future.
> network -> disk -> ram -> L2 cache -> L1 cache -> register

It's more and more like network/disk -> L3 cache -> L2 cache. DRAM is pretty slow.

Because PCIe controller is anyways on the same chip as L3 cache, there's no reason to send the data on a long trip to DRAM and back. Until, of course, when the cache line gets evicted for reason or another.
Have you ever heard of Henry Kissinger?! The man practically wrote the book on realpolitik (although he didn't, von Rochau did)!
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That's a bit of an odd reason to change the whole goal, isn't it?

So we track the kinds of things that we can measure and that we hope correlate with happiness, but we carefully check that they keep doing so. We shouldn't let one of them (like "maximize production") become the end goal itself!
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Encryption is therefore also an enabler of the rights to freedom of expression, information and opinion, and also has an impact on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly, association and other human rights

I haven't been following the whole encryption debate in detail recently, but it seems there's one point which hasn't been discussed much: What about encryption which works against users' freedom, things like DRM, "trusted" boot and the whole idea of mandatory forced trust, etc.?

On the one hand, I'm against government surveillance. On the other hand, I'm also against DRM and user-hostile locked-down systems. Government surveillance, breaking DRM, jailbreaking, rooting, etc. all rely on cracks, the "imperfect" nature of security in some form or another. That's why I think this is a particularly perplexing issue, and bluntly saying "encryption is good and we should have more of it" is not seeing the whole perspective.

Relevant story: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
Right, but that's PR versus reality. They say "disrupt", we say "defraud".
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I didn't find this one particularly funny, until I saw the picture of the guy using it in 'portrait mode'. Well played
At a guess... I'd check the date.
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I think the car has to have a HUD...surely...
An immediate thought here is that learning data may be better than learning code. When I was just starting out I was an "admin assistant" at various companies - I lost track of the number of poorly structured Excel spreadsheets I found that contained all of the data required, but in a format that made them utterly impossible to parse programatically.

Not that people shouldn't learn to code if they can. But learn to use Excel, and when you should turn that spreadsheet into a database. You don't need to learn a new programming language for that, just some broad concepts.
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It was me as well, 7 months ago I weighed 245, ate a shocking diet and subsisted on energy drinks and coffee.

Last year I got diagnosed with a serious spinal condition and resolved to fix as much as I could.

I now weigh 182lbs, lost 12 inches of my waist, don't drink any energy drinks and my coffee addiction is down to <4 a day.

I work out for 30-45 minutes everyday without fail mostly bodyweight and callisthenic exercises with swimming a couple of times a week.

Blood pressure is normal, resting heart rate dropped by 10 back to 70.

The pain from the spine condition has halfed as have the meds I take to stay functional.

It's been a hard journey 1500 cal a day for 6 months was brutal but I'm now at maintenance weight and the time would have passed anyway.

My advice: if it bothers you, fix it!
It's kind of obvious that no one can live if we only have services and money printing.

Someone must produce something (and preferably something with a high price / cost ratio), this applies to manufacturing as well as agriculture.

The biggest news (and very sad at that) is that "making things" is so far away from the mainstream economic models that formerly common sense rules are worth a headline.
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There is an information asymmetry when I buy an apple at the farmer market. That doesn't mean that every time I buy an apple I'm getting ripped off by the seller.
Expect it to break a few times a year though.

Nothing you can't fix but I thought you might want to be aware of it up front.
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Can you give some examples of these. Interested in reading more about this.
Maybe it could charge itself at charging stations?
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