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As well they should hire qualified people. I don't want "college-dropout Facebook engineers", and the goal of something like the OTA isn't to act as Google's lobbying firm.

It's actually not at all difficult to find the names of people who worked at OTA as principal staff members. All the reports are archived at http://ota.fas.org/ with names on each one. It's a bit harder to match them up with a current profile, because well, it's been 20 years, but in my 10 minutes of Googling, here's the first former OTA project lead I managed to find today (http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/jsngrp/).

The OTA was (and should still be) a group of people with the expertise to sythesize a large body of research in a topic. You don't learn those skills making Facebook's "like" button load 20% faster. You learn them by spending a good chunk of your 20s reading thousands of pages of research for your PhD.
> We should be focusing on saner bash defaults, since it's the most common shell in use.

Bash already provides two "modes": when called as `sh` it is more POSIX-compliant, when called as `bash` it allows more bash-specific features and syntax.

Maybe `bash` invocation can remain for backwards compatibility, and a new mode be added (e.g. `sash` for "sane shell") which can be used for breaking changes in the name of safety and sanity.

This opt-in usage would avoid breaking existing scripts; whilst being bundled as part of bash would mitigate some of the chicken-and-egg and paradox of choice. Over time, `/usr/bin/env sash` will appear in more and more guides/tutorials/etc. whilst those using `/usr/bin/env bash` will continue to work, but look a little clunky.

Of course, making such a "sane mode" as part of Bash would make it more high-profile and cause much more NIMBY, politics and bike-shedding than as a standalone project; but if it has a clear, consistent "mission statement" (e.g. "safety over convenience", "consistency over edge-cases", etc.), then maybe it could avoid too much scope creep and benefit from input by lots of very knowledgable experts.
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Unfortunately Opera just wants to sell your web history.
It does: One is a criminal if the prosecution in a lawsuit can convince the judge that the accused is a criminal. Some evidence can only be collected in a panopticon which can make a difference in the trial.

It would only make no difference if the result of the trial would be independent of the additional evidence that a surveillance state could in principle collect. But this would mean that the surveillance state is not necessary.
Thanks I did know about the theory. My question was more about where are the numbers coming from?

I write shell daily, and that are not my numbers regarding "spaces on filenames issues", sorry.
Also same, but have heard better reports from those on Virtuabox 4 instead of latest Virtuabox 5 :(

I had better luck with https://atlas.hashicorp.com/gbarbieru/boxes/xenial which just got updated a few hours ago.
Ah - that makes sense. I knew their had to be an easy answer but I couldn't see it.

Thanks
Blockchains have their limitations, but generally speaking they're a useful tool for 'decentralised trust'. Enabling network nodes to trust each other without relying on a central authority is useful in a number of fields, that's why there's a buzz around them.
I refuse to participate in the evisceration of English vocabulary. If you can't guess the meaning of an unfamiliar English word from context, your working vocabulary simply isn't large enough. A staggeringly large quantity of English words are derived from common elements filched or inherited from Greek, Latin, Old Norse, Anglo-Saxon, and Norman.

Knowing the root words are sufficient to both guess the meaning of many of the 600k+ English words that are in the dictionary, but not typically used, and to formulate new, English-sounding words with intuitively obvious meanings. This is similar to knowing the IUPAC chemical naming rules, which allow chemists to name molecules in such a way that other chemists will know how it is structured, just by reading the name. (Z)-Hex-3-en-1-ol, for instance: hex means the longest carbon chain is 6 atoms long, 3-en means there is a double bond following the 3rd carbon, (Z) means it is in cis configuration, and 1-ol means there is an -OH alcohol group on the first carbon in place of a hydrogen. English is less formally structured, but it still has rules.

Truthiness = truth + -y (similar to) + -ness (quality of being)

Therefore, truthiness is the quality of being similar to truth, which is as Colbert's character described it. It follows the rules. It reads like an English word with unambiguous meaning, and is therefore adopted as though it already was an English word.

Glocalization = global + local + -ize (convert to verb) + -ation (state resulting from the verb action)

This smashes two dissimilar words (global, local) into one portmanteau that has ambiguous, unclear meaning (glocal), and then tries to extend it with regular English suffixes. Portmanteaus are less readily adopted without literary backup. Dodgson's frumious (furious + fuming) never would have made it without the Bandersnatch, and slithy (slimy + lithe) required a bit of explanation from Humpty Dumpty. Needless to say, Dodgson was much better at it than Friedman.

This is why I like to say that people who know English well are sesquilingual, because you need to know a little bit of several other languages to know that many of the words.
That's a website bug; the software itself is Free Software, but the download site incorrectly wrapped it in a default click-through EULA. Fixed internally, and the change should propagate to the download site soon.
They GPG-sign the cryptographic checksums, see the .gpg files. If you don't verify the GPG sig, with Canonical's signing key obtained out of band, the checksum by itself is pretty useless as you describe.

PS. anyone know of a CLI download tool that supports this format of GPG signatures?

edit: why the downvotes for the parent? it's a fine question
> then that person is a sexist.

Whether you think is sexist or not, you can't deny that sciences, maths, and computer science are male dominated. By the end of high school years that can be clearly seen as well. At least I saw it. And my claim was that I saw it more in US than in an Easter European country.
are all the users students? how many different schools?
Ummm I assumed it was the server one, perhaps I'm mistaken. Ubuntu/*64 have typically been headless.
To sell your web history themselves.
Very cool! But sounds a little poetical - makes a good story anyhow.
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Interesting. So is the content stored in the tag? Is there more privacy, in the sense that the tag shares the content rather than a username? I wish they had these details.
I'd be willing to wager this will change very quickly, no later than end of 2018.
Very cool -- bookmarked for future projects.
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It's from an old 4chan thread:

https://imgur.com/gallery/rgfZm2d
Just to sell All your web history themselves.
I assume (correct me if I'm wrong) its OK for a company to have an employee maintain their Wikipedia page (i.e. the employee is being paid).

What about a contractor? In other words, I'm wondering where the line is on paid editing being a bad thing.
> But to me it makes no sense to allow anyone to profit from a substance that causes this much harm.

It's possible to use heroin daily for the remainder of your life and have a better health outcome than a cigarette smoker.

The drug war makes heroin use more dangerous. Now you have dirty needles, cut drugs, highly inconsistent doses, lack of free treatment/therapy, fear of police and the legal system that leads to reluctance to seek medical attention, etc. And of course black market violence still exists here and abroad.

"Like most opioids, unadulterated heroin does not cause many long-term complications other than dependence and constipation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin#Adverse_effects
Well, yes, I'm not completely ignorant of how TLS works, so that was of course my first thought on discovering fb2k lacked any interface by which I could tell it to trust my server cert. That's why, in the process of investigating the issue, I added the root CA cert I'd created, and used to sign the server cert, to the Windows certificate store.

That was enough to stop applications using the Windows TLS stack, such as Internet Explorer, from complaining any longer about being unable to verify the certificate. It didn't change anything about fb2k's behavior, though, which led me to surmise that fb2k was doing something wonky in its TLS implementation.

On the other hand, there's a forum thread from late last year [1] in which the fb2k developer appears to have addressed the issue at least in part, by making it possible to whitelist hosts and thus bypass certificate validity checking. That's...hardly ideal, but it would probably have solved my problem, if it existed four years ago when I last tried to get this working.

The same thread includes more information on the same kind of problem I was having; from it I can surmise that if I'd created an empty CRL and had my root CA cert point to it, I probably would've been able to get it working. Would've been nice to know that four years ago, too. But it looks like I'd have needed to hook the process with a debugger and monitor system calls to find out about it, and I wanted to listen to music more than I wanted to use unfamiliar tools to debug unfamiliar API calls made by an opaque binary blob.

In any case, if I'd gotten fb2k working four years ago, I probably wouldn't have been motivated to keep hunting for a solution until I found Subsonic, which serves my remote-streaming purposes better than fb2k ever will. So however frustrating it was at the time, it's been all to the good in the long run.

[1] https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,110065.0.html
the checksums are gpg signed.
A bit of a tangent, but it reminds me of how Apple loves to say in their announcements that whatever product is "the best X we've ever done." Well of course it is, why would you make a new thing that's worse than last year's?
Well he ended up leaving, so they didn't get him as a developer either. That's a significant catch 22 in a lot of these companies.

There's no path for promotion beyond "developer" without becoming a manager, but then you're not doing the work you're great at, so there's a disincentive to promote you, but the developers want to have career growth, so they get restless and eventually leave the company for a different one, usually getting a salary boost but possibly still being stuck as a 'developer' because they saw no advancement at their previous company.

I'm struggling through a similar situation now, although I have project management and team lead experience, I was never officially promoted because they were small companies and didn't want to bump my salary (or believed they had a flat heirarchy and "titles were meaningless").
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Because not only did the engineers who built it consider how the architecture would ensure security, they wrote all of the considerations and design choices down.[1] Even if they were completely wrong about everything, there's no reason to simply ignore all the thought that's been put into this problem.

[1] https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/bcantrill/public/ppwl-cantr...
But why are US Presidents and Benjamin Franklins on the notes, rather than just former Treasury secretaries?

Clearly, if you can choose to put someone that really has nothing to do with the issuance of fiat currency on the notes, you could put anyone on them, and anyone includes women.
Per the release notes [0], upgrades from 14.04 aren't enabled. They will be enabled with the 16.04.1 LTS release, in 3 months time.

[0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes
HN coolkids downvoting advice that makes software more portable and reliable. What a fucking shock.
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"Comp" or "layout" would be the more technical terms for that, though I've found they're generally less understood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_layout
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Thanks! I will look seriously at this. My next business will definitely not be within the clutches of HM's finest.
Indeed, it was nicknamed the Office of Technology Assassination back before it was properly terminated with extreme prejudice.

It's really fun watching scientists and engineers, real experts, build all these things the OTA and its allies assured us was either impossible or beyond the foreseeable future state of the art.
> But then, the simple fact that you're using a SIM card bought from a known SIM-trafficking criminal makes you worthy of interest.

Do you think someone who bought a sim-card from someone else is going to "register" that card with authorities? "Hey, I just bought this card, so you can't follow me. Where do I update my info?"
The point of issue 1 is that sometimes you don't know that the program will run for a long time. So a way to send a program into the background while it is already running, would be nice.
Didn't they make that move about 8 or 9 months ago?
http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2015/08/19/bootstrap-4-alpha/

> "Moved from Less to Sass. Bootstrap now compiles faster than ever thanks to Libsass, and we join an increasingly large community of Sass developers."
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Crows get at a lot of human rubbish to pick tasty stuff out of it. In Japan, garbage cans in many places have to be locked-down and covered with nets to deter crows. If that hasn't killed them off already I doubt some intentional feeding will. It might make them a pest if you don't want them around, though.
Is http2 supported on xenial now? It wasn't as of beta1 -- http2 was considered 'experimental' and wasn't included in the builds. We're using the PPA instead.
It's not banned, but it's "strongly discouraged" and any such affiliation must be disclosed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest...
I envy the people who get to drop IE8 support.
I love how "reliability" of a source changes from article to article even in similar topics.
The problem with your "point" isn't the point itself, it's that you demonstrate illiteracy in the science of the last 100 years or more while making your point. There were always the limits of what we know, but we also got better in knowing where the limits are, and they aren't in the infrared and radio area effects.

We (as humanity) do "mess with the stuff" and we (as in scientists) even know exactly where and how much we (as in "political and economic forces") do that. The amount of fossil fuels use is one good example. And having huge nuclear stockpiles ready for launch is another. And we "know better" (as in knowing that the effects won't be desirable for "us") even now, but look how many forces pretend we don't.

Having basic scientific literacy actually matters, otherwise you'll fall worrying for pure distractions, like "you should worry that mobile phones emit radio waves to your brain." No, either forget it, that's pure distraction, or at least, learn a little of physics, you'll benefit from that.

And we don't have to wait 50 years. We already know the exact problems that will be much bigger in 50 years if we don't act.
Indeed, edge cases keep hitting you, until you know them and howto work-around them. Is that a shell specific issue? that is a universal issue I think.

A big problem, is that people that underestimate an unknown technology, does not take the time to learn properly that technology.

Many programmers think they "know" shell (and many beginners), so they don't invert more time and tests, and then they keep facing corner cases, facing known and documented and solved issues, etc...

You are asserting, than learning bash is harder than learning the corner cases of other more advanced languages. Is that what you say? do you think that "bash" has more corner cases than ... (?)

How we can patch that? With a web shell?

Totally true, I've miss totally the point.
"SSchäuble" was also used when referring to him in general.
"safe eval". What does that even mean?
It's not ultimately intended to catch criminals, it's ultimately intended to gather dirt on dissidents and rivals for sleazy purposes.
I actually like Quora a lot. I see that it gets a lot of hate on HN and I've never felt it was wholly deserved. I understand Quora had some hostile practices in the past towards users and has made some bad decisions at times, and I've even spoken against their login policy here on more than one occasion, but I have to say that I'm still fond of the overall product and experience. It's exceptionally polished and it certainly has succeeded in producing a valuable resource which improved upon or fixed many of the issues of Yahoo! Answers. I hope Quora continues to find success for years to come.

I see others are mentioning Stack Exchange, but I think the two communities are entirely different. Stack Exchange is good when you have a very precise question which likely has a very precise answer and can easily be categorized into a very precise topic. If any of those three conditions fails, you're more likely to just meet hostility there than to get an enjoyable discussion.
Thanks, I think that is what I meant.
As a full stack dev that doesn't really have time to deal with CSS, I'm really glad bootstrap exists (and things like wrapbootstrap.com)
DNS is not leaked, it's a https proxy and opera passes URL there without any local resolution.
Cool idea! But man, Gary Bernhardt's WAT talk, even though i saw it at least 10 times, still cracks me up...
There are quite a variety of blockchain technologies that are now available - some of them have greatly improved throughput, though there's always a tradeoff. None of the extremely high throughput systems are permissionless - they usually rely upon having a pre-approved "federation" of consensus checkers.
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> It's amazing we're not all dead yet, isn't it?

Tens of thousands of living things that used to call this planet home are extinct thanks to our meddling. I'd say that's proof enough we're badly f'ing things up.
In general, Europe tries to have consistent policies regarding commercial activity, such as mobile data communications. Otherwise you run into odd arbitrage situations, or scenarios where people dodge legislation/laws in one country simply by hopping across the border, potentially putting businesses at a commercial (dis)advantage based on the country they are in, which is counter to some of the EU objectives.

If Germany begins tightening up laws (beyond just ID for SIMs) regarding data communications, but other countries don't, and you can roam your data between them - it creates an incentive for people to just ignore Germany as a supplier, and hop across the border and chose someone more flexible.
That's the point they only go after people scamming grandma unless some influential person pushes them to do otherwise.
> That kind of work is not glamorous and highly controversial. Ideally there should be some sort of cross distro/OS working group (Debian/Ubuntu, Red Hat, SUSE, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X, etc.), similar to the working groups that standardize the web, where such proposals can be made, voted on and adopted.

Like the Austin group, the technical committee that constantly releases updates to POSIX and the Single Unix Specification? http://www.opengroup.org/austin/ http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
Does this mean your target budget is $10/month? (I'm just asking for clarification, and to understand how you think about it).

Second, what are you looking to run? A Java-based web app? Does App Engine's free tier not serve you better?

Finallty, and it's perhaps poor form to point this out, but we (and AWS) will end up blowing out your budget once you include networking while OVH/Hetzner/Digital Ocean won't. Compute Engine isn't a VPS, we're giving you a small slice of a machine but it's connected to a crazy awesome network that we bill for by the byte. When you compare that to a bundled, heavily-overcommitted across tons of customers VPS networking offering the dollars don't work out.

Disclosure: I work on Compute Engine and care a lot about our pricing.
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Same here. I have many problems with Wikipedia, but this article made me like Wikipedia more, because they have to deal with individuals like this.
Also playing first person games. It is a weird feeling when the buttons "disappear".
Most interesting thing I saw was apparently even multi billionaires still end up with several remotes on their table. That's just sad.
"safe-eval lets you execute JavaScript code without having to use the much discouraged and feared upon eval(). safe-eval has access to all the standard JavaScript API of the underlying engine. It is implemented using node's vm module." [1]

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Conveniently next up on my Kindle reading list is a book about why we should look at the number of neurons in a brain rather than the brain volume when thinking about how intelligent a creature is.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/human-advantage
> through wasting superlative amounts of energy and destroying the atmosphere

It's true, Bitcoin does spend a lot of energy to provide proof-of-work, the underpinning of distributed trust in the blockchain.

But you might find proof-of-stake[1] interesting. It requires far less energy--no repetitive hashing. It could also provide stronger protection against sybil attacks, requiring the attacker to spend far more in real terms in order to obtain a 51% stake.

The Ethereum blockchain is planning a move to proof-of-stake[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-stake

[2] http://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/9/why-does-ether...

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In the end, it's about controlling citizens and predicting their behaviour, not protecting them.
> 6. No crapware

It didn't come with Windows?
This 2 minute video explains the value of blockchains at a high level quite well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r43LhSUUGTQ
Renders nicely in desktop browsers and I'm a big fan of the mobile app.

Am I missing the login option?

Minor suggestion - I'd like to see more items on a single page. Could I have the option to condense the item UI vertically? Perhaps put the age, author and comment count in another column?
One guess is that our brains are "lazily" allocating neurons to tasks, since we have so much space available compared to most animals. The signals are simply allowed to branch out / propagate much further (and redundancy is probably involved too). The paths are simply built where the signals goes.

But when it is constrained, and there's still enough of all the important brain structures, the density (interference?) of different signals probably causes them to propagate much less such that the processing of each signal will get processed by fewer neurons, and the same functions are still achieved.

Kind of like a space optimized FPGA design vs a lazy one that uses all the logical elements because there's no need to be compact.
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I've used them both on big enterprise software products and they are six and one-half dozen to me. There is not a wrong choice, they both kickass in a lot of ways and have their own small frustrations and annoyances.
'Ctrl + z', 'bg' and 'fg' are for that.