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Accurately:

Our bodies undergo wear-and-tear, like the mailbox we had to fix last week. Only, in the case of our bodies, we don't yet have a way to fix or replace most of our parts. After a while, too many parts get worn down until they are no longer able to continue, and everything about us - the parts that allow us to think, the parts that allow us to feel - just stops.

Sadly, fixing our biology is harder than fixing mailboxes, and while we're learning more and more about how to do it every decade, we won't be able to fix everything for the foreseeable future.

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Too accurately:

So why aren't we trying harder to fix it? You see, son, society has been dealing with death for many thousands of years, and people have developed coping mechanisms to deal with its apparent inevitability. The majority of people simply don't think about it. Public figures have even rationalized death as a good thing, and boy have they said the darndest things. For example, I've recently read of someone comparing our bodies to legos in a fixed sandbox - as if people literally need to be disassembled before others can be born - and no one bats an eye! Another person pointed out that scientific progress would be slowed down without the older generation of scientists dying - sure, billions of non-scientists may die every few decades, but hey, science is a bit faster as a result!

The point is, society has created a culture of either ignoring or accepting death, and it shapes the very way we think. Sure, that culture might have been harmless back when we really had no chance of combating problems like old age, but now? The vast majority of researchers, of funders, don't even bother to think about what should be some of the most important problems of our generation. Until we have progressed to the point where it becomes blatantly obvious that the technology to combat old age exists, it is unlikely anyone will even notice it. In other words, we're all screwed and you were born a few hundred years too early.
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With stories like these, you have to know where to find the real problem. At least some percentage can be ignored whenever nerds use the word "bloat" because it's a code word for "the only things that should be allowed are things I approve" in a surprisingly large number of contexts.
It is accurate. Daesh follow wahabism, the Saudi branded form of Islam that is much more extreme as did Osama Bin Laden. The HuffPo isn't my favorite news source, but this is a good article:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-yousaf-butt-/saudi-wahhabis...
> if pretty much every website uses jQuery, perhaps we should ship jQuery with the web browser?

There's a firefox plugin that does just that! DecentralEyes - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes...

Although mostly for privacy reasons, so google doesn't know all the sites you visit.
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>this ship will almost certainly be unofficially referred to as Boaty McBoatface by its crew.

Except for the captain.
Also mood swings, being sexually aroused, etc.
Happened to the largest building in Chicago too, it's supposed to be called "Willis Tower", but I've only ever heard "Sears Tower".
Very probably, as his father was an officer in the Royal Navy, and he grew up near the naval dockyards :)
Doom would have been the superior solution to the World Wide Web.
>How easy is it to create a malicious file that matches the checksum of a known file?

I'd say not easy at all, practically impossible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preimage_attack
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Spot on.

Unlike the 90s, a lot of startups today are actually making things and making money hand-over-fist, it's insane. Too bad for the press they're obscure business models and located in places like Lansing MI and you've never heard of them, but there is tons of money to be made.

On the other hand, social networks, big data, and now neural networks are The Big Thing, so everyone relentlessly reports on them, throws money at them like the hottest stripper in Vegas, and gets resoundly disappointed when they don't live up to people's astronomical expectations.

Besides, if people generally only spend $X a year on stuff they see advertised or sold online, how much money is going to be sunk into online advertising, big data, and all that other junk until you're basically getting one dollar earned for every dollar spent?
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Probably because nobody to my knowledge has made any cogent attempt to link these speeches to any "sweet heart laws" or other special legal protections. For that matter, I'm not aware of any specific accusation that Clinton drove the creation of any such protection for a U.S. company as secretary of state, whether related to her speeches or not.

The only case I know of is the State Department's opposition to a minimum-wage increase in Haiti. And this, while I find it objectionable, was clearly done to further U.S. interests as a whole, not to favor one U.S. industry or interest group over another. It's mercantilist, but its not corrupt.

If there are indeed "mountains" of such examples, I expect that HN community should be able to come up with at least a few good examples, no? (But note: legitimate policy choices with which you happen to disagree are not necessarily evidence of corruption.)
The problem with hosting JS libraries on CDNs is that the cache has a network effect.

You only gain performance if the browser already has a cached version of this specific version on this specific CDN.
If you don't - you end up losing performance, because now an additional DNS lookup needs to be performed, and an additional TCP connection needs to be opened.

Here are a few reasons people choose to avoid CDNized versions of JS libraries.
http://www.sitepoint.com/7-reasons-not-to-use-a-cdn/

This is a 6 year old post, but it raises some valid concerns:
https://zoompf.com/blog/2010/01/should-you-use-javascript-li...
> (...) weren't even allowed to take notes on a scratchpad, when perusing them.

That's really not that surprising. Notes would need to be derivatively classified, and would require special transportation out of the SCIF that they were taken in. Additionally, I doubt any congresspeople's offices are SCIFs that would be allowed to store such sensitive information.
This is so true. I see Agile be incredibly effective for teams with a single focus, and no (or very minimal) matrixing of team members across other teams. Once you start matrixing team members or adding additional focus, you start getting the 45 minute long stand ups. It's nuts.

One insanely massive benefit I've seen from agile for any team is time blocking via sprints. Getting 2 weeks of effort without changing priorities is a huge win in our company.
I legitimately do not understand why webdevs insist on learning new, equally complicated API's to do things that raw HTML/ CSS/ javascript are already perfectly capable of doing just as easily. Not only do you have to write your code, but you also have to learn the new API for the framework flavor of the month.

So much about frameworks just flat out doesn't make sense. Are you honestly telling me that it's more efficient to make a second DOM in a language with much more overhead than the native C++ implementation? Best case scenario is that you consume twice the resources. There seems to be a serious case of monkey-see-monkey-do in the web development community.
I guess in that case I would appreciate a cortisol bomb preventing me from cashing out at an ATM at gunpoint.
Moreover, the current Saudi state (dynasty?) was established using the same method that Daesh is using.
I'm not talking about policing, I'm speaking of justice systems which do go back quite a ways into history.
Why is that not clearly expressed in the plug ins overview?
You can't do bulk data collection without spying on a significant amount of innocent people, can you?
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Not far different from the name of a book, probably named after the song - http://www.amazon.com/Listomania-World-Fascinating-Graphic-D...
I'll bite: it seems like you don't understand racism at all, either.

A society split in "race-based" groups that co-operate towards common goals on an equal basis is still "racist". There are no oppressed and no oppressors, but the concept of "race" is still built-in and hence produces a racist society. (For the record, there are several examples of this sort of approach in history, some even ongoing.)

The only way to avoid this trap is to reject the concept of "race" as anything that you can meaningfully define. This has to be done by everyone, be them oppressed or otherwise.
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I always wondered why that airport was called MSY.

However, I can think of one counterexample: JFK airport in NYC. It used to be called Idlewild, named after some golf course I think, but was renamed to JFK (with the airport code JFK) back in the 60s. No one knows what "Idlewild" is any more.
Monetary interests or Wahhabism extremest religious interest?

60 Minutes had a great show Sunday which actually drew more connections than just the two hijackers living with the FBI informant. I felt after watching there are too many "coincidences" for them to not be involved.
I'm sure the society of the future will be way more humane than the current one, or at least not worse. I don't consider it as a problem.

About rat, you have a point, but there was recent experiment where cryopreserved rabbit kidney was successfully reimplanted and worked as intended. Also there was a recent brain preservation competition, and the winning method was shown by SEM microscopy to preserve very fine synaptic structure. You can google these things if you are interested (I won't post the links to avoid looking like a shill or a fanatic).

Looks like a better alternative to 20k$ (as was said earlier in this thread) euthanasia + perhaps 10k$ for funeral expense.
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I think there's only shades of truth there. Regardless of where skin tones lie (which generally is within sRGB!), Adobe does cover most of CMYK (whatever failings CMYK may have).

Spoony's comment further down, which links to this: http://www.astramael.com/1 is much more on the spot and provides a very interesting comparison of the three with actual examples.
The solution to this is including a checksum with the link to the file, and if the checksum doesn't match, don't load the file.

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres... though it isn't universally supported yet.
If you gave modern-age people a choice: to live a short life or live a long life while limiting their rate of childbirth (or ceasing reproduction altogether), I think many would choose the former. Having a choice is always better than having none.

Also note that your current (probably?) western lifestyle puts several times more load on the environment than mine 3rd world-like one. It is the wasteful lifestyle choices made by living people that are really a problem, not the quantity of people in itself.
Respectfully, I don't think that's what he's saying.

If we want to look at this formally, we see he is stating three things:

1. That we seem to apply inconsistent standards of responsibility to CEOs. Are they ultimately responsible for the outcomes of the companies they lead, for good or for bad? In current practice, we seem to selectively apply praise and eschew blame. He wants to point this out.

2. He personally believes the CEO is ultimately responsible; however...

3. At the end of the day, he just wants society to apply a consistent standard, one way or the other: either the CEO is the ultimate point of accountability for all things, or she's not. He almost "doesn't care" which one we choose, so long as we choose one.

Now, you're free to criticize the dichotomy he raises in those points. Maybe you find it overly reductive or absolutist. If so, fair.

(Personally speaking, I believe the buck should stop at the CEO, insofar as she is the chief executive of the company, tasked with understanding and directing all of its actions. If she took deliberate part in any alleged deceptions, that's certainly worse than if she negligently allowed the deceptions to take place. But in either case, she bears some responsibility. Not the same degree of blame, but the same mantle of responsibility. It's her company, and whether she deliberately misguided it or was simply asleep at the wheel, those are both derelictions of the CEO's responsibilities. Sure, the BOD outranks the CEO, but the CEO has a much closer relationship with the day-to-day operations of the company.)
I would thoroughly recommend EVERYTHING by Adam Curtis.

Power of nightmares especially in relation to "terrorism". But also the others.
> You don't think that eventually, the cumulative tens of millions of dollars might have an effect on their thinking and decisions?

And I'm sure all these donors' interests are aligned, right?

And, to be a little less flippant, I do think that the company a person keeps affects a person's thinking. So if a company can buy their way into Hillary Clinton's circle, I accept that they have managed to buy some amount of influence. But I think this influence is negligible compared to Clinton's formal advisers and organic professional network. You also have to remember that most of these companies have far more effective ways of influencing government than paying for some lousy speeches, none of which is Clinton's doing.
Perhaps it's just a lesson to have your science locked down and proven before you make all kinds of promises to investors. And if your science is broken, don't snow people over with a board of directors that Fortune-50 companies can't even muster.
These are the voyages of the starship, McBoatface.

It's five year mission...
Ha :/ Too real.

> we're all screwed and you were born a few hundred years too early.

It's not a great option, but cryonics seems way better than nothing. (Under the assumptions that the preservation is reasonably high-quality, the storage facilities stay operational, humanity doesn't destroy itself, and advanced medical technology gets developed; see waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/cryonics.html )

An example of someone who wanted to live a long time but was genuinely screwed and was born a couple hundred years too early:

The rapid Progress true Science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon. It is impossible to imagine the Height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the Power of Man over Matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large Masses of their Gravity, and give them absolute Levity, for the sake of easy Transport. Agriculture may diminish its Labor and double its Produce; all Diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting even that of Old Age, and our Lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian Standard. O that moral Science were in as fair a way of Improvement, that Men would cease to be Wolves to one another, and that human Beings would at length learn what they now improperly call Humanity!
-Benjamin Franklin
> no one knows what exactly property of language makes it unique.

The book Adam's Tongue delves into this. The author distinguishes "Animal Communication Systems" from languages by their linguistics. There are several things that you can isolate in human languages that you never see in animals, though some animals, like bees, come close.

Finally, he presents a hypothesis of how language might have evolved in humans in the context of savannah scavenging. The thinking goes that scavenging an elephant after it dies requires extremely rapid cooperation, because the window of opportunity is a few days at most.

My feeling is that you're never going to be able to find one thing that separates us from animals, that looking for that one thing is bound to fail.

http://www.amazon.com/Adams-Tongue-Humans-Made-Language/dp/0...
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>Death is not a part of life, it is its destruction.

Life and death are part of the same simultaneous process. For a living thing to grow, it must die at the same time. Death is life's change agent.

"Controlled death of cells is as much a part of embryonal development as is cell proliferation and differentiation."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8801138
I have this dystopian Foxconn style vision of sweat shops where they force people to unwind stacks in binaries compiled without frame pointers because they're using a register starved architecture and they think that using SP as a general purpose register will make their code run faster.

Now that I think of it, I'm beginning to understand the suicide nets.
I think most people, including myself, would like to live forever. Whether achieving that is desirable or not is a larger discussion than I have time for, but I will say that if you take a broader perspective of the self, then death is not quite as sharp and painful as it first appears.

As Peter says, "[my children] will grow up with me in their DNA, on Youtube as endless conference talks, and in writing."

I think there are interesting ideas around seeing individuals as part of a greater whole. Not even in a spiritual sense, but just in a plain biological sense. It's rare to consider things that way, but it makes me feel better about my place in the world.
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> it's just saying that our understanding is factually incorrect.

There are many different views on animals currently, I personally think we don't have anything they don't just more of it- more complexity and nuance. This gap exists between any two species being compared (human vs clam, human vs dog, dog vs clam).

I'd like to believe that most atheists with some background knowledge in evolutionary biology would agree with me. I also think that different animals have very different levels of spatial reasoning, emotional, social intelligence, etc. Its multidimensional.

In short I don't think its fair to assume all people have a one dimensional, human vs animal POV. Plenty of people consider humans to just be other animals.

For example say my border collie can reason about as well as a 2 year old, perhaps he has the emotional intelligence of a 6 year old.
There are a few reasons I take the stance I do. (as a slight edit, sister post Jonnathanson summarized my broader point far better than I could have, whereas my below is more a "more on why the current system isn't great")

1. We are currently living in a world without the constraint I propose, in which CEO comp is often a pro-factum given and attribution of blame almost unheard of. I do not pretend that the system I propose will _always be correct_, but I do believe it would motivate better behavior, as tighter accountability often does in other systems even if it doesn't necessarily "make sense".

2. Given the innate ambiguity of most of these situations, who gets to make that call anyway? (fault of failure). Is it even possible to make? My bet would be in many situations, difficult at best; but there is a massive power discrepancy currently at play, where executives have significantly more control over message/direction/response than those they can saddle with blame, so I suggest structuring systems in ways that help offset that imbalance. Does this put more duress on CEOs to take responsibility for their employees? Yes, and despite what I conceded above re: "making sense" not being necessary, I truly do think that sort of responsibility does "make sense" especially in a world where as CEO you take a massive percent share of those employees value. To coopt an old turn of phrase, "No free lunches."
That wouldn't make it the name, that would make it the nickname.
> How easy is it to create a malicious file that matches the checksum of a known file?

As others have pointed out, it's quite difficult. But here's another way to think about it: if hash collisions become easy in popular libraries, the whole internet will be broken and nobody will be thinking about this particular exploit.

Servers won't be able to reliably update. Keys won't be able to be checked against fingerprints. Trivial hash collisions will be chaos. Fortunately, we seem to have hit a stride of fairly sound hash methods in terms of collision freedom.
> Everyone involved in covering it up should be tried as traitors, as I don't just say that as a hyperbole.

Don't expect them to speak out then.
A part of me feels sad for Theranos. I wanted them and Elizabeth to succeed; more the latter, actually. If she had succeeded (I still hold out hope), she would have been a terrific role model for young women everywhere.
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I think the author latched on to a PR piece from 16.04 release. Yeah that has the word security in it a few times.

But X11 was there before and installing random packages on your Desktop (or piping stuff from curl to a root bash, etc) is not secure. That is not controversial, I'd think.

> Matthew Garrett, a [...] security developer at CoreOS.

There might be a slight conflict of interest here. Although I am all for exposing security threats and issues regardless, Ubuntu has been advertising LXD, Juju and such technologies which somewhat compete with CoreOS, so I can understand why they'd want to move quickly to discredit it.

The whole adorable teddy bear thing is a bit childish perhaps. "Oh look how evil the new Ubuntu is, it lets evil teddy bears eat your data".
US aircraft carrier top speed is classified, but "in excess of 30 kts", typical inflatables top out at about 30 kts, though there are faster high-performance designs. I don't think it's clear that inflatables are faster than carriers, but they are more maneuverable (can change speed and direction much more quickly), which is more important outside of a long-distance chase.
So, were can I play Doom in the browser?
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Sounds like a pretty empty way to approach life. You've never considered that reading more around a subject than just the facts might open the way to greater insight? Or are you genuinely of the opinion that everything in life can be expressed in bullet point format?
The problem I have always had with agile is that it's held up as an "alternative" to waterfall, when in reality it's orthogonal to the two areas where waterfall excels: top-down project planning and contracting / expectation-setting with stakeholders.

Agile is something that team programmers really love for its team-building qualities, but stakeholders / project sponsors / angel investors will always think in terms of deliverables and timeline.

Waterfall project management is useful because it provides a framework that stakeholders understand. It is also a requirement any time you are dealing with a bureaucracy of any sort, where deliverables and dates will be required.

TL;DR don't use waterfall to break down tasks and assign work, use agile for that. Use waterfall to understand and communicate your project from your stakeholder's / customer's point of view.
I was there at the beginning of Ion back in my Amazon days. We may well use it in my current job, too!
Another perspective, adopted by millions is simpler, and more joyful to explain. This life is temporary, but a life with Christ in heaven is eternal. Our christian funerals are often celebrations about a journey on earth well fought.
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If I avoid using/installing Snap packages, do I avoid the security issues the author is alluding to in his post?