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> This is a legitimate question, since I am not a Windows user: has it really? Or are you referring to GNU software[0], which is not what we are referring to when we say GNU is a fully free Unix replacement; GNU software is only a part of that.[1]

As far as I can tell this subsystem does nothing that cygwin hasn't done in terms of 'bringing gnu to windows' since 1995, except that it does it technically better and allows for you to use software that does not depend on already ported components without recompilation. This means, for example, that you can use a libc other than glibc without porting that libc to windows first (ie. you could use musl, which is absolutely not part of the gnu system and even implements its own dynamic linker). You couldn't do that with cygwin. At least not trivially.

> Sure they have. But that's not what the conversation is focused on: it's focused on being able to use GNU Bash and all the other Unix (mostly GNU) utilities that hackers are used to using.

Even if I concede that GNU constitutes a 'system' in the way that RMS insists (which I don't, at all. His claims are political, not technical, imo), I would not agree that using this layer constitutes using that system for precisely this reason. Using bash or even gcc is not sufficient to consider a system 'gnu', even by RMS' own statements, else OSX and the other BSD systems would be gnu systems as well. For the most part, use of "bash on windows" is literally just that. You run bash and it exists in a space that is like but not exactly the same as linux, but that part is largely artifice. You don't even get a complete /proc filesystem.

[Note: Considering I am literally referring to those RMS screeds in my posts, I'd appreciate it if you at least pretended to believe I've read them.]
I know German and I know the BDI, they are not really objective about it. Also the study is from 2011. We have 2016! The reality looks different. The amount of electricity from coal fired plants increased since 2011 but if you look from 2003 it decreased. This is true for stone coal and lignite. For the latter there is finally a phase out too.
Let this be the death knell of the "named vulnerability" sensation. Please.
I've had the opposite experience with Last.fm. I actually realized last week that my scrobbling was broken, and I wasn't particularly disappointed.

Last.fm used to be a place where I could check out bands I had never heard of. It was like the website equivalent of the friend who spends all day listening to new music, and will recommend music that is eerily perfect for you.

I feel like the "similar artists" function has changed to prioritize artists that are already extremely popular, even if a much less popular artists is much more similar to the band you are currently listening to. It's plausible I know a lot more bands than I used to, and that new bands are inherently less novel to me. However, I believe this is a trend that can be followed across almost all websites.

As evidence, you only need to look at the changes Facebook made in the same time period. They study the interactions their users make as much as any company, and they've ensured that their users spend the most time on Facebook and provide them with as much data as possible. Facebook used to show every update on the new feed. Now I rarely see posts from anyone I disagree with. I used to get a lot of my information about bands from their Facebook groups. Now the only updates I get are from the major companies I've liked, because they can pay to send a message.

I totally understand why large websites are doing this. These services are most profitable as an advertising platform. In the case of Last.fm, the people listening to John Doe and the Backup Band aren't going to make them money. This 'cultivation' has an extremely chilling effect on the variety and depth of news, viewpoints, etc. that allowed the internet to foster an explosion in creative expression.
Even though disasters with dams are terrifying, it is still just nature reclaiming its' territory. There is no ecological fallout from a dam breaking. Water's gonna water.

I'm still with you on trying to avoid this risk, but don't feel it's at all comparable to the risk of a nuclear power plant.
> Also, that blog post is terrible, and highlights why the FSF fails so miserably at it's mission. Referring to Windows as "freedom-denying, user-controlling, surveillance system" ignores the fact that most people don't care because it works.

These users do not value freedom. And that's their right, however much we disagree with it.

It doesn't make those statements false, and doesn't change the situation. I wrote that article to focus on software freedom, its purpose, and GNU.

We don't ignore the fact that "most people don't care because it works"; that doesn't make sense, because that works against our ideals.
What I find interesting in my area is that many houses are being sold for a high price above the listed tax assessment from the previous year. Then once it gets appraised during the sale process it is valued close to the tax assessment, which is much less than the agreed upon price. Which means the new owner will have to pay much of that difference out of pocket since a mortgage may not be allowed to go that high above appraisal. The current owner likely won't renegotiate because they know they can put back up on the market and somebody else will make an offer.

I looked at buying a house during the last bubble in Vegas and once I heard the overly obvious BS from everyone involved I decided not to bother. Once again we are looking at houses in a new state and hearing much the same BS as before. Unless we see a deal, we'll likely wait again.
The New Face in Image Moderation
I'm moving to live on a sailboat. You can keep your overly expensive first world land! :D
> They already DO get SS for fewer years, and are forced to pay into it for more years, because wealthy bankers can afford to retire earlier than people who live paycheck to paycheck.

The Wal-Mart greet is not forced to pay into SS because of the hedge fund manager's wealth.

The fact that one person can retire early does not exacerbate the financial problems of someone else.
Wow! Awesome news. Good job guys. We all have the right to be a little safer. It is running out the vile business of certificates.
True, it is 1600 MW. Sorry. But the rest is still true.
Favorite restaurant! What percent of the full business name did you use? Did you capitalize all the letters the same way or in a consistent predictable way? Did you add a word to meet the minimum character/word count? Did you actually have a favorite when you made this? Is your favorite restaurant public information?
Facebook launches “Agents on Messenger” platform with chatbots
> That said, I'd still opt for a wildcard certificate for anything enterprisey.

Let's encrypt can be used to generate a certificate for every subdomain, though it's a little more work compared to just using a wild card certificate.
A Federal Judge Compared Uber to Silk Road
They respond to that and other criticism here:

>It is also important to say that it is true that the research is only valid if you accept a) that the Guardian's community standards are fit for purpose, and b) that the moderators are reasonably skilled at applying them. Some readers may not accept either of these things, and our research is not designed to justify these assumptions.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/12/how-we-an...
While supply and demand affect Santa Monica as much as anywhere else, there are probably a _lot_ of people in the LA area who would like to be in SM but instead are living elsewhere, so if prices ever drop they will be sure to swoop in and grab a spot.

Santa Monica also has rent control, which increases pricing friction and raises prices (fewer people willingly moving = fewer vacancies = more competition for the few places that do come on the market = higher prices). This means that if housing drops at all people will be enticed to become buyers instead of renters.

I was lucky to get a spot in Santa Monica, but mostly because the landlord wasn't too concerned about maximizing rent, and we were the very first people to show up and look at the place. It was listed on a Sunday night and we were signing papers Monday at 9 AM. And this was in 2011!
And they get feed in prices for 35 years and even inflation will be priced in.
I once worked on an Austin Powers game for the PS2. I think I still have some screenshots on a CD somewhere in the closet.
I've thought exactly the same thing. Gosling's NeWS was way ahead of its time and we ended up getting there again sort of by accident with the web.
"top-tier school" lol

why must be top-tier school someone somewhere can be best at everything with out school ex albert Einstein etc
this is unacceptable
Framer.js Update
What do you see as your strategy for handling unsatisfactory transactions passing through the platform?

For example, items not as advertised, credit card chargebacks, or out right fraud?
tl;dr -- Alan Kay emphasized the message passing nature of method dispatch in Smalltalk.

A traditional OOP approach would have much of the functionality taken out of the player objects, using them simply to hold state.

Sounds like C structures. Back in the day, we were always urging and cajoling programmers to stop thinking this way and think more in terms of Objects that knew how to do things in response to messages.
Not really. Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Mahler, all were were recognized and valued. They didn't make the kind of money that some of the really fortunate musicians of the mid 20th Century did, true.
it does -- and designing the plane to shape the shockwaves can reduce the perceived boom volume http://www.nasa.gov/aero/centers_tackle_sonic_boom.html
Does this mean anything for developers? Like, do I have to change anything to keep using LE?
I had the interesting experience of working in a startup under a VP of Engineering who was a Nuclear Scientist and was part of the team the US sent to Chernobyl's sister site - exact same plans, basically - to ensure its' safety.

He told me that overwhelmingly what went wrong at Chernobyl is that the head of the plant consistently ignored all of the alarms and monitoring in place, because he was overconfident at what the results of his test would be. He apparently died in the control room.

Interestingly, one thing the Russians did notably different was to have a big guy, I want to think at the sister site his name was Sergei, basically live in a hut next to the cooling lake, which was uphill from the plant. In the event of a disaster, he had a humongous mallet he would use to slam open the valve, draining the lake.

... or maybe this was all made up, I couldn't tell you tbh, but it sounded legit to me. ;)
This is a pretty cool initiative — I looked into beamed propulsion a bit while teaching a course this past fall, and it seems to me that if we (or human technologies) are going to reach a star in our lifetimes, this is by far the most likely way. Still very challenging though.

For a quite detailed recent treatment of optical/IR propulsion see this paper by Philip Lubim:(http://www.deepspace.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/A-R...)

For a thorough, if somewhat outdated, treatment of the “starwisp” idea using microwaves rather than optical/IR lasers, see this paper: http://path-2.narod.ru/design/base_e/starwisp.pdf by Robert Forward.

To poll the success of this overall endeavor, as well as start to make predictions about which components will/won’t work, Metaculus is launching a series of questions —check it out if you have expertise or opinion: http://www.metaculus.com/questions/#/?order_by=-publish_time
What's the range of latencies here? What types of projects really need the lowest latencies?
It’s Time These Ancient Women Scientists Get Their Due
An Open Letter to Y Combinator
It's "Dad rock" because it worked. Cheerleaders never, to my knowledge, sang Miles songs on the way back from a football game.

"We're not about to do a free-form jazz, uh, exploration in front of a festival crowd!" - David St. Hubbins, "Spinal Tap."
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=20812
Apply HN: SpotMarket – A market-space for small scale famers and local vendors
Shopify meets eBay meets Craigslist meets Uber for small scale farmers.

SpotMarket is a real-time web based application allowing farmers to post items they have for sale (think Craigslist) where vendors receive notifications letting them know what is available in their local market (realtime deal-flow ticker). Vendors can also post up what kinds of things they are looking to buy locally helping farmers understand demand profiles in their region.

How many times have you heard the term 'the spot market' on the news in a newspaper and never really thought about what it actually means?

The reality is the 'spot market' is whatever price a farmer can get for their goods based on traditional relationships or technologies (think phone/word of mouth)

SpotMarket aims to change all that by establishing a more efficient, user friendly platform for farmers and vendors to be aware of what is available locally and provide a mechanism to establish pricing and demand trends. Plus a way to get produce from the farm to market (restaurant/grocer).

The working theory is that there is a viable market emerging around what would traditionally be called 'back to the earth' or 'buy local' movements making use of mobile / real-time / web technologies. (think food hubs with more market focus (price discovery / market intelligence))

Business model (revenue streams):

- Basic market participation is free to avoid any friction (no membership sign up required up front).

- Value added market analytics/metrics collection and analytics will be the core of the value proposition. user registration, usage tracking, pricing metrics will be collected and used to provide insight and market intelligence for a subscriber based revenue stream. (Google analytics)

- Simple storefront and payment processing will also be offed as a value added service (Shopify model)

- Shipping and transport logistics offer an opportunity for an Uber-style model of third-party transport logistics.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only case you have to worry about is having "return" on the same line as the thing you want to return. And you have that problem whether or not you use semicolons in the rest of your code.
So the whole thing should weigh in the order of several grams, yet it should be able to deflect 100GW of incoming radiation near perfectly (otherwise it will instantly vaporize) while maintaining structural integrity under the acceleration of 60,000g for two minutes?

And whatever laser sources we're using must track this smartphone-sized object during these two minutes across several million kilometers. Perfectly. (It also means that whatever course deviation the object experiences must be anticipated seconds before it happens, because at the end of the two minutes the object will be ~10 light-seconds away.)

If they could pull this off it will be the next Apollo, but I'm skeptical.

Edit: Just realized we have even more problems, about the reflective coatings. If the laser is green, by the time it's flying away at 0.2c, the laser won't be green any more thanks to the Doppler effect! I'm too lazy to calculate, but it will definitely shift toward the red. So whatever reflective coating we use must be able to work near-perfectly over a wide range of spectrum.
Yea I think so, it's only for them to keep you from storing everything up there forever when it could just be stale data.

I think it's fair if these are supposed to be daily backups to do this esp with cloud data and having to provide "unlimited" space to everyone using the product.
Oddly the most practical use for this is as an interstellar weapon. You don't need to solve the problem of communicating back to Earth, you just need a little terminal guidance.

If an iPhone weighs 100 g and we use a non-relativistic formula for energy at 1/4c, that is 2.8 x 10^14 joules, a ton of TNT equivalent is about 4.1 x 10^9 joules, so that is a cool 70kT -- The impact velocity would be high enough to break the Columb barrier as well, so you might get a nuclear boost to the yield as well.
I really like Patreon. https://patreon.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/204606315-What... it's continuous crowdfunding.
Let's build a mass driver around the circumference of the Moon. Like a cannon in a particle accelerator shape.
Tesla updates Model S
I imagine the goal posts will for ever be moving when it comes to defining what art is, but ultimately optimizing for human emotional sentiment does not seem that difficult a problem. Art is mostly just a combination of past works optimized for the modern audience. Seems like the perfect problem for AI. We often judge a future AI in terms of how well it could replicate current things but the real question is what happens after it perfects that replication? AlphaGo alone shows that the AI is likely to discover new styles that we failed to examine before, why can't the same happen with Art?
Under the Hood: Instagram in 2015
> I'm not saying all gets() can be eliminated. But the Java practice of having 20 private member variables mirrored by 20 public gets()/sets() is not what OOP is about. It's actually about as opposite to OOP is you can get!

Maybe people are just confusing different sides of the same concept. There are smart objects as you mention and dumb data holders that are used to pass 'messages' around. The classic anemic data model, with objects that operate on said data.
> Even if I concede that GNU constitutes a 'system' in the way that RMS insists

Remember: back in the day, there was no way to run a free Unix-like operating system. GNU provided a way, and nothing else existed at the time, though BSD also emerged as free.

The distros that followed are derivatives of GNU. Ubuntu is a derivative of Debian GNU/Linux, which actually recognizes this fact.

> sing bash or even gcc is not sufficient to consider a system 'gnu', even by RMS' own statements

The article mentioned Shuttleworth describing an "Ubuntu environment"; this seems to imply more far-reaching goals.

I can't say what the result will be. I hope that others will explain it to me, or that there are many useful articles on the topic, because I can only watch and listen to what others are doing.

> [Note: I have read those links many times, you can stop linking to them in every level of this conversation you engage in now, I think]

I link to them in many threads because they will not otherwise be seen by the person I'm responding to.
> It makes no sense to blindly apply free speech principles based on majority/minority. By that logic we ought to amplify the voices of neo-nazis and other undesirables simply because they're a minority that would otherwise go unheard. To the contrary, I believe we're better of banishing them from the campus instead.

There would be some hope of that if university students and admin had the slightest awareness of the 'Streisand effect.' They don't and they end up raising awareness of speakers and ideas they are scared of. It's comical. Free speech wins eventually, and that's net positive.
New Threat Can Auto-Brick Apple Devices
Man of Constant Sorrow is almost certainly not about the music industry. Its roots haven't been definitvely traced but many people think it was a Celtic folk song.
You can expect at least huge difference in how open sans bold text is rendered between platforms. On some (OSX) it's very very bold, on some other far less (font-weight bold/700).

Designing a harmonious and consistent UI under these conditions is difficult.
Their highly developed guiltcraft will slash through those disagreements like butter. It might just give them the competitive edge they need.

I guess being cynical does not give me mine.
Thorium reactors are always being touted as safe (run away reactions shut down the reactor by design) and produces relatively little waste (with comparatively short half lives). And they don't produce anything remotely related to weapons capabilities.

I cannot verify that myself, but my friend who is a nuclear engineer is a fan, and it doesnt contradict what i've read about it.
Thanks! My faith in them has been restored :)
Very promising IMO. Lots of new stuff going on in their 'distributed' project:

- https://github.com/dask/distributed

- http://matthewrocklin.com/blog/work/2016/02/17/dask-distribu...
The naming / marketing of the vulns helps get the word out about the vulnerability. However, it's definitely something that should be reserved for those vulns that affect a larger number of systems severely.
I believe the issue is that the code gets parsed as a function expression that is being indexed by a series of strings in comma expressions. This happens instead of automatic semicolon insertion jumping in and then giving you the "expected" code.

As a brief aside, TypeScript could help catch this sort of thing with its `--noImplicitAny` flag turned on.
Inequality on screen: The sexualisation of men–not women–in film has worsened
The only problem though with using a strict pattern system is that it will, I believe, more than likely miss the nuances which a brilliant songwriter can weave into a structure. The song might be 90% as good, which makes a lot of difference I think. Max Martin is an absolute genius in this regard, and his years of success reflect that. He's also a musician, though he is truly making his living as a songwriter/producer.

Here's a great break-down of "Shake It Off" from a songwriting perspective, which kind of reveals the simplicity is deceptive in some ways:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5EWn6s65o8
>Faking ID scans adds a whole layer of law enforcement on top.

That's why nobody has ever used a fake ID at a bar!

> but in germany the fake itself is punishable by law (up 10 ten years).

https://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/267.html 5 years.

But producing fake scans isn't covered by this law, scans aren't even an official document. In fact, it is illegal for a german company to ask you to send them scans of official documents.

> You'd also need much more information to create a convincing fake id scan of your intended victim

To fake a good enough passport scan you'd need your victims name. That's all the rep is going to have.
No, "the Internet" just coopted the major label business model.
YOUR ACTIONS SPEAK SO LOUD I CANNOT HEAR WHAT YOU ARE SAYING.

git clone --depth=1 git@github.com:git/git.git
find git -name '*.c' -type f | xargs grep -P '^( {4}|\t){4}' | wc -l
11375

git clone --depth=1 git@github.com:torvalds/linux.git
find linux -name '*.c' -type f | xargs grep -P '^( {4}|\t){4}' | wc -l
732937

Stupid shitty broken software.
With arq there are multiple layers that would have to be broken to get to the data. Still a risk, obviously - and one worth considering. I bet in the scheme of things though there are much easier ways to access this data available now.
How does turret19.local talk to commandserver.local? I imagine there has to be someone on the middle who says yes 192.168.1.24 is actually the command server and not camera3.local or public webserver.local

How is it supposed to work? How can LE know that you are 192.168.1.24? Maybe we'd need some kind of certificates that are only valid within a certain zone? How would that work?

Thanks.
Augmented Traffic Control: A tool to simulate network conditions
I disagree. If low latency is a priority, Storm has little competition. Checkout the benchmarks done by Yahoo engineers.

https://yahooeng.tumblr.com/post/135321837876/benchmarking-s...
We're actually built on top of fin-hypergrid, which we chose for its speed. We're handling all the reactivity in the backend.
I read the entirety of the document, and I can assure you I'm pretty fucking outraged at what was done.
Workhorse quickly became an important part of GitLab, after starting as a hobby project by Jacob. It's exciting to see how such an initiative grew.

As always, we're here for any questions.
Considering Docker? Consider Security First
Do you view prostitution as rape?
I was there, it was an interesting thing to see that's for sure.