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The people downvoting this probably haven't worked with version control systems in which it's actually really difficult to get the old versions of files. You'd think that it would always be easy, but you would be wrong.

I used to use AccuRev, and it had a number of real problems in bringing back old code. Retrieving old code was possible, but required creating 'history streams' on the project and you basically had to do a whole new checkout into a new workspace. The commands that worked with history were also sometimes rather sketchy. There was always a question 'will a revert actually succeed?' It was much safer to manually undo changes.

I never realized how painful it was to retrieve old code in that system, because I simply never bothered to do so. We designed our workflows around not having to do that.

When I first learned git and discovered you could just grab an old file with git checkout <revision> -- <filename> I was shocked. I'd never really thought about my version control system before. I just used what I was given. But, at that moment, I realized that I'd been working with a terrible system for years.
https://github.com/zfsonlinux/pkg-zfs/wiki/HOWTO-install-Ubu...

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/pkg-zfs/issues/188
"You're welcome to not participate in the credit system,"

Allow me to posit that this isn't true, and give an example of my reasoning. I will lead this by saying one thing to keep in mind is that debt is inversely proportional to freedom in my mind.

The credit system has encouraged debt in society as a whole, which definitely can't be avoided just by removing your particular self from the system. For a more concrete example of this, straight from the video I linked: before 2008 property wasn't worth anything, so they encouraged everyone to over-leverage, buy more property with the money you borrow, then buy more and more property, until everyone was completely over-leveraged and there wasn't any money left.

The 08 crash was quantifiably tied to the fucked up nature of the credit system.

Not only that, but you are speaking about abusing the system by moving away, but what I consider it an abuse of the people to encourage people into debt and away from fiscally sound policy. You could be wealthy, pay things in cash, and owe no one anything, but ask for a loan and get told no, because you are exactly the kind of customer the credit agencies (and banks) don't want.

What the banks want is people with crappy credit scores so they can charge usurious interests rates and encumber and fiscally rape people the rest of their lives. That's not a system that is just about being "welcome to not participate in", it's a system that fucks up our society for the worse and it's effects are unavoidable even if you do remove yourself from it.

On the matter of mortages and cars, etc, I would say the over-avilability of credit has inflated prices in a way that makes this a self-fulfilling prophecy. If prices were closer to actual costs, it would be much more doable.
In parens, I said I was referring to the linked discussion, which was about a researcher that had access to any FB account. IMO that qualifies as TOTALLY OWNED. The only thing worse would be a full dump of every account.

I agree this one is murkier, although at first glance the proxy method employed by the "mystery adversary" seemed promising for privilege escalation.
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No, its not. From the original comment in this thread

>sues farmers for re-planting seeds that blew onto their land

The farmers being sued never purchased or sought out the seeds in question. They blew into their land by natural processes (wind) and grew of their own course. The farmers in question then replanted the seeds that were growing in their fields.

At no point did they do anything equivalent to paying or licensing the software. Nor did they intentionally plant the first generation of plants.

Edit: In regards to the generalization comment, I was making my analogy based on the description given by the original comment. I fail to see how I extrapolated beyond the clear meaning of the description.
This is a good story and probably newsworthy. But still can't escape the feeling that it's wholly fed out by the subject.
Do you know if Github has released any public information about this? From what I can tell, they were a profitable successful company even before they went and took some VC funding and at that point they didn't have on-prem. In general, most big companies I know use the atlassian suite instead of Github for code.
What about zeros seconds?

There are several indications in your question that you are crazy.

If you are a C++ pro, why step down to web devel?

You must be crazy.

Or a liar.

But if you are established pro in C-whatever. Why. step. down. to. script. kiddy.?

You are crazy.

Well, you asked. I would say, just develop an app in RoR. Give yourself a short timeframe, two months say, and develop a tiny app in RoR or Django. See how it feels.

Do you know that iOS is C based? Objective-C, yeah, but still C.

Do you know that many web apps get re-written in low-level ( C for instance) for performance reasons?

Are you sure the language stack is your problem??
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The USPTO exists to protect investments into intellectual property and help ensure economic costs of development are distributed amongst it's users.

If you're going to generalize patents and copyrights as just "a business having costs" then you're grossly oversimplifying it.
If you modify Windows, it's still Windows.
Jira does that
Twitter trends are broken and the fix should be simple
There are real trends and fake troll trends. The goal is to identify the latter and either kill it or mark it as dubious so the audience can outright ignore it. Fake profiles used to pump a troll trend are very sophisticated nowadays: real names, real pictures, seemingly real profiles, and then there are farms of real people posting using the fake profiles. AI algorithms would have a hard time discerning fake from real while adding a captcha to each tweet would have no effect stopping it since real humans will pass it. In sum: Twitter is aware of what's going on but cannot do much to prevent it. However, it is possible to tell a trend is troll-made: the audience can easily see it. Many of these fake trends are build up in response to a real trend, in particular political issues. Once you are following a real trend you can easily spot when the fake one is bubbling up. So the audience could mark the fake trend, or down-vote the fake trend, so Twitter can post the number of down-votes next to the trend. In a way is like adding the unlike button to FB.

What do you think?
The FBI paid more than $1M to crack the San Bernardino iPhone
Surviving artifacts are not a very good and coherent source of information for future archeologists, alien or human. After all, we are still kind of unsure about construction methods of Egyptian pyramids, which are less than 5000 years old.

And past civilizations at least seemed to have cared much more about longevity of their creations than we do, we can not even store our digital photos reliably over a decade without active replication. Without projects like this, future researchers will have to put the whole picture together using only plastic bottles and broken vinyl records :)
It was enough for Orange. But think about demand elasticity. Perhaps there are 100 other Oranges for whom the bounty was not enough.

Clearly the bounty was not enough for the mystery attacker / researcher / hacker / whatever that Orange discovered exploiting the same hole.
Don't worry, it came from the Federal Reserve's printing press
I remember playing around with REBOL a long time ago and it seemed useful and practical, but for reasons long forgotten I never used it. Maybe licensing? RED does look cool and I hadn't heard of it before, thanks for the tip.

Don't have any experience with Nim, but I share your interest for the same reasons. Haskell and I don't get along, maybe I'm too old and set in my ways?

Did you catch the link to/discussion of Little shared on here a few days ago? It might be of interest. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11530097
The subtitle quote indicates that the tool was bought outright.
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Agree but I think it's still a little eye-rolling because the implication is a degree of self-importance that may not be justified.
The 90% figure is Monsanto's figure not independently tested.

The Roundup corn was grown in the neighbouring field.

The Schmeisers had to sue Monsanto in the small claims court for $640, because Monsanto refused to remove the corn, nor would they allow the Schmeisers to do so.

They would only remove the corn if the Schmeisers signed a gag order which they were not prepared to do.

The Schmeisers ( now growing mustard as their seedstock no longer belonged to them ) paid their neighbours $640 to remove the corn.

The facts are the opposite of what you suggest.
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Yes why does the man not own all the third world's land or at least everything that can grow on it, and make all the world's farmers into sharecroppers held hostage by the innovative capitalist who privatized nature? Why? Slavery has many forms, this is but one of them. Seeds are free, they have always been free, and we should tell capitalist to work out a different model if they wish to operate in this field which has been open source and libre for million of years.
If anything, the revolving door probably leads to tougher regulation...

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-06-26/strict-regu...

"Here are some possible theories of the financial-regulatory revolving door:

...

2. Regulators want to get higher-paying jobs at banks, so they try to be diligent, fair, competent and zealous, so that the banks are impressed by them and hire them.

3. Regulators want to get higher-paying jobs at banks, so they are hard on banks in ways that force the banks to hire lots of ex-regulators -- to understand complicated rules, say, or to work as monitors for regulatory settlements.

4. Regulators want to get higher-paying jobs at banks, so they are hard on banks in general, hoping that the banks will hire them to just shut them up."
A Militia is armed people. Because Militias were a good thing for the people, a right to bear arms shall not be abolished.

But anyways, the reasoning is just reasoning. The right is pretty clearly spelled out and stands on its own.
Agreed, there are tons of hotels and restaurants and things to do in the area, just not necessarily in walking distance (which is easily ameliorated by taking a fraction of the money saved from cheaper hotels and renting a car).
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There is no free market of labour. Under penalty of death you are forced to sell your labour. Ultimate buyers market.
Long-term, I am not very bullish on Google/Alphabet. More than 90% of their profits come online advertising, something that can be easily blocked for life with a simple browser extension/plugin. Some worrying figures[1]:

* US ad blocking grew by 48% to reach 45 million active users in 12 months up to June 2015.

* Ad blocking grew by 41% globally in the last 12 months.

* US ad blocking grew by 48% to reach 45 million active users in 12 months up to June 2015.

[1] https://blog.pagefair.com/2015/ad-blocking-report/
I doubt it was worth it. It wasn't even the terrorist's phone. It was owned by their employer. The terrorists destroyed their personal phones prior to attack.
The two are unrelated. They could spend all their cash on buybacks and the earnings would be the same.
From the link:

>Fact: Monsanto has never sued a farmer when trace amounts of our patented seeds or traits were present in the farmer’s field as an accident or as a result of inadvertent means. ... The misperception that Monsanto would sue a farmer if GM seed was accidentally in his field likely began with Percy Schmeiser, who was brought to court in Canada by Monsanto for illegally saving Roundup Ready® canola seed.

That's analogous to continuing to use a software license after your agreed-upon contract is up, not torrenting.
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Use good old `window.location.replace(...)` - things will still be bookmarkable, but won't clutter history.
I guess there is no ramifications to consistently fucking over black people in criminal prosecutions. right?

This is whitewashing. In all the ways you can apply it.
> I do UX and design work

Seems like you should be able to whip up something for yourself then.
Where else does it come from?
It's about par. Some security firms will charge $1M/year and over. Corporate enterprises involved in intelligence gathering for the government (i.e. ATnT, Apple, Google, Microsoft, basically any "free" and paid tech service) can make a lot of money depending on how many accounts they pass off to the FBI,NSA, etc... If you're using any service in the US and the "West", even the "free speech" stuff like ytcombinator, reddit, they'll pass of information and can charge for it.

edit: Apple's encryption fight, for example, is a bit of a wash. It's basically to lure in more users which they can charge more for. The more value the user has for their privacy, the more companies can charge for access.

They are all corporate enterprises, and their responsibility is to profit for their shareholders. When the government offers a legal profitable offer, they have a responsibility to take it. If they are found not to take it, and a group or party finds out and can prove it was a profitable venture, they can attack the company with the courts.
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That was 100% unexpected by me when I heard about his nomination.
Wow. This is incredibly dishonest. Monsanto sues farmers for re-planting seeds that blow onto their land, spraying all of their crops with roundup (killing the non-Monsanto plants), and re-planting the survivors.

If you don't believe in patenting plants, fine. But please don't try to convince people by telling them that Monsanto sues poor, hapless farmers for things they can't control, which is what your summary implies.
I just read that the Xilinx XCVU440 FPGA has >20B transistors, and that's one generation old (20nm, UltraScale+ is on 16nm finfet). Insane.
It's the only major visible factor I was able to discern during my short visit.

I'd love to see some counter proposals as to why that's the case in Vancouver.
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Yes, the CIA, FBI, NSA, and all the lot have the entirety of our financial and communications records stored away.

But there's no evidence anywhere. Sorry. Right.
Yeah, take Ubuntu and their repos, throw out Unity, find a way to get a Java release from the last few years, do the graphics drivers dance, and you have a very solid, reasonably compatible development environment.
I imagine part of it is explained by the fact that when I did a search on a mobile device, nearly 90% of the front fold was ad.

http://i.imgur.com/S5nClc4.png
Also lived down the street from them (right near Shoreline and Central.

The traffic will be horrible on Shoreline and 101. Thank god I don't live there anymore.

But yes, plenty of good options in the area and surrounding areas.

Also, for touristy things, people should consider going up to some wineries in the Santa Cruz mountains. Pichetti, Ridge, and some others are great options and fairly close.

But seriously--the traffic...
If you're ever going through Southern Utah, between Vegas and SLC, don't do it... my last ticket was for 6mph over. Pretty pricey, for what it was at that.
> no protection against data exfiltration

That's a big assumption
I did the same some years ago, moved from client-server intranet systems to web development, the reasons probably the same: market demand. It took me a year to land and master a web stack, but I tried many. In the end I am mostly using node.js in the back-end and backbone in the front-end. If you don't fool around like I did and choose a stack up-front I would say 3 months is enough to be able to do production level apps.
Stock buyback is not revenue.
My refutation is in the linked discussion.

And I'm reasoning from economic first principles, not experience in the field. From first principles, I don't understand the argument that $10,000 is fair. At least, I don't understand that argument any more than why $10 is fair - which is my point, that it's arbitrary. And in my arbitrary opinion, $10,000 is grossly low compared to the relative work involved and money at stake.

The FBI just paid $1M to access one guy's iPhone. The vulnerability in the linked discussion, which was guaranteed access to any FB account, was a $10,000 bounty. IMO those numbers need to be a lot closer together.

Edit: $15,000
The overwhelming majority of impressions do not result in clicks, so there is plenty of room for clicks per page view to increase.
And here I thought the guaranteed monopoly period of a patent -- in order to recover development costs -- was the business' reward for public disclosure of the technology.
Huh? Android 6.0 Marshmallow? It's on my phone right now.

And the next version (N) is already announced:
https://developer.android.com/preview/index.html

This comment does not really make sense.
> The USPTO exists to protect investments into intellectual property and help ensure economic costs of development are distributed amongst it's users

It could also be looked at, "The USPTO, and Congress, have allowed patent and copyright holders the ability to rent seek far beyond what was ever intended when the USPTO, copyright, and patents were first conceived."
And because they didn't get to see their precious All Wits Act request struck down setting a precedent against them. A few million to be able to keep invoking the AWA would definitely be "worth it" in their eyes.
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Kind of painful to read such an accurate account of my own psychological failings while currently carrying out such failings (procrastinating by reading this article)
Actually, the court would issue such an order _because_ it knows better: without it, you basically have little leverage when you try to enforce the same in the foreign country in a court that actually _has_ jurisdiction.

Here's an example where a French court issued a court order to a US firm:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LICRA_v._Yahoo!
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You "launched", really? Maybe internally, but I haven't received even an email confirmation that you've got my "signup request". As far as most of us are concerned, you launched a video.
Same. I have heard no anecdotes of people being invited yet either.
Should there be any limits to patents? If not, why not? Because the US government has said so? And that's enforced by privately negotiated treaty with other countries, without the consent of their citizens?

I'd be worried if I didn't think I'd be able to drop seeds into a PCR machine in ~10 years, and dump their genome online in a matter of hours. I'm not worried.
Yup, they launched a video not a service.
There is no such thing as cost-free health. You pay for it though taxes.
Yeah, you're probably right... thank you, heh.
Since the article exfiltrated data, no, it is a fact.
It wasn't released? https://source.android.com/source/downloading.html
Uncertain: how I feel after reading that article. I had trouble following it and taking something grand away from it.
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I think I must have just picked the wrong courses but I wish caching was covered more in the comp sci/engineering courses...not just the technical aspects of it, but how the implications of caching (and invalidation) are a great window into thinking about how to design for the real world, and the overall difficulties of information transfer between humans. Even though I never work on anything of such scale, I always like reading about caching architecture and implementation from shops like Facebook, just because it's easy to imagine how it connects to our information problems at the individual level...e.g. asking someone out on a date based on stale information about their relationship status.
Thanks for the thorough response.

> But generally speaking, the social ills of the DTES are associated with addictive IV drug use (heroin) and crack cocaine and not with social drugs like marijuana.

So it's still related to drugs one way or another.

Would you say "safe" drugs like Marijuana would improve the situation?
> More than 90% of their profits come online advertising

actually, it looks like this may be the first quarter where their non-advertising revenue was over 10% of their total revenue. $2,071 out of $20,091	(in millions). Growing 24% YoY isn't too shabby, either.
I understand you folks worked together in some capacity, but you're really incorrect here.
If a population is going to grow and eat rice anyway, it may as well be the rice that provides vitamin A. It's not like the vitamin A is free either; better to be rid of an external dependency when possible. Whole teach a man to fish thing...
Lots of Firebase - wild guess, but I assume Firebase support will be integrated in Android Studio extending/maybe replacing the current Cloud-Endpoints feature (which is unfortunate, because I use it extensively).
Monsanto was one of a number of manufacturers that the DOD ordered 2,4,5-T from, and they warned the US Government about the dioxin issue literally decades before they stopped using it, and they tried to raise at least some awareness of the issue before many other manufacturers even knew about it.

From the article that you linked:

Additionally "Boehringer, which used the relatively safer low-temperature-process since 1957, in the same year warned the other producers of 2,4,5-TCP, which were using the high-temperature-process, pointing out the risk[vague] and providing suggestions how to avoid them."[28]

Internal memoranda revealed that Monsanto (a major manufacturer of 2,4,5-T) had informed the U.S. government in 1952 that its 2,4,5-T was contaminated.[29] In the manufacture of 2,4,5-T, accidental overheating of the reaction mixture easily causes the product to condense into the toxic self-condensation product TCDD. At the time, precautions were not taken against this unintended side reaction, which also caused the Seveso disaster in Italy in 1976.

The employment of 2,4,5-T by the military rapidly ended, according to the American Cancer Society, following the convincing results of a study in 1970 that found 2,4,5-T could cause birth defects in lab animals.[30]

So yeah, Monsanto warned the US government of the problem 10 years before the start of Operation Ranch Hand, and they were ignored. And I can't really fault a chemical company for manufacturing chemicals when the DOD orders them.
Never said there weren't costs to it. You're essentially opting out of a middle class lifestyle. That didn't bother me 10 years ago. Now I want those things, and I'm finding that consumer credit is practically the only way to get them on a reasonable time frame. They simply cost too much to save up for.

Consumer credit is the parent that loves you no matter what and will always take you back no matter what you say to them or how badly you fuck up. Being a market industry, naturally that love is predicated on them making money off of you, but still, it adds to modern life more than it takes away. And I find it a mark of maturity to recognize that fact.
This is all true, but it assumes optimal data retention by retailers, and a government agency with the skills (and willpower) to do the legwork.

In reality, I would expect that one or more of those elements in the chain to be broken. Retailer lost their backups. Changed systems, threw out the old one. Doesn't keep records that far back. Etc.

I agree there is a possibility they could track all these steps, but it would require everything working perfectly (from the authorities' POV)