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Indeed; you'll note that while those of us who compose the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy are still buying guns and ammo at record levels, we're not using them for such, we're still trying the "electing different people" approach. And that's why so many of us are at this point willing to try using such a blunt instrument as Donald Trump....
People with functioning senses of humor and an outragometer that isn't dialed up to 11?

I mean, come on. Mr. Burns couldn't send that email seriously.
It died few years ago for me. I scrapped my big honking tower (I would not even call it desktop as the only logical place was the floor) and purchased: MBPr that works as an actual desktop computer if I am not on a trip, attached to Thunderbolt display, Synology NAS to store data, and small Linux computer for Linux-y server-y stuff precisely the paperbook size ESR describes.
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Yeah, I understand that HN isn't supposed to be a replay of mainstream front pages...but some celebs are transcendent -- especially someone as dominant and skilled in his work as Prince was. Bowie got a decent amount of discussion here, seems like Prince should warrant a mention, particularly because of how young he died.
I snooped around to figure out a way to bypass Wired's block (and was successful), but in the end I just don't care about their content. It has definitely fallen off the radar for me.
I'm honestly sorry to tell you this: the experiment didn't work. Turns out when we took away the reason for private interests to be interested in these children, the lives of the children didn't improve. It just means now nobody cares if they die anymore. The situation is unfortunately getting steadily worse as before they had companies keeping them alive for profit, and now they have nothing.

I agreed with your point of view years ago. I think everyone did. But the experiment failed. Pretty sad really. Yet another good anecdote on the infamous "don't fix what you don't understand".
The Curie is a nice little SOC and it will be available to purchase. If you read the press release associated to the recent internal reorg at Intel they mention IoT as one of their focus markets.
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By and large I agree. As a programmer, I generally feel like the sysadmins which I work with "hide" how they do things and aren't transparent enough about their role for me to know why I should respect them. I've seen some do amazing things and then I recognize the difficulty but I don't feel their is enough collaboration between the two sides
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The W540 has really awkwardly placed Ctrl and Fn keys, and the trackpad is terrible. Not sure what the timeline is between W520 and T450. But I do know that the W520s were the predecessor to the W540, and it didn't have all those issues.
I think it's probably because the headline called it a clone, which sort of implies 1:1 feature parity. It's neat, but it's not a clone.
If so, we should start seeing effects on pricing: as the volume of midrange computers drops, price goes up until it gets close enough to that of a high end computer. At which point people who would normally buy midrange computers (like us devs) end up buying $3000 Xeon workstations instead.

Luckily, gamers are keeping the mid range market alive, and it seems quite likely that VR enthusiasts will ensure that it stays alive for a few more years.
<nit> Memory Alpha is a wiki (generic), not a Wikipedia (trademarked).
Someone got killed recently because Waze took them to a same-named street but in a bad neighborhood in Brazil
Facebook didn't get COMPLETELY OWNED. A third party product they were using for some backend line of business process that lived in a DMZ got COMPLETELY OWNED, and the researchers were unable to escalate privileges beyond it.
Ones that are actually appropriate to the discussion.
This attitude is the exact reason why Python 3 hasn't been getting the uptake that was expected back when it was released.

For me Python's strength is the libraries not the language, Python 3 decided to not support all this libraries, so calling it laziness for users to not immediately move to python 3 is a really bad way to put it.
one thing I've learned is that too many people on HN have absolutely NO sense of humor.
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Then came the converted battlecruisers - the capital ships of the day

Only sorta. Battlecruisers had compromised armor in exchange for greater speed. Battleships were the capital ships prior to WWII. Battlecruiser's large size combined with greater speed made them a great platform for conversion into carriers, though.

I predict that in the next major conflict, aircraft carriers will be utterly useless, most of our big flat-tops will be sunk in the first couple months, and the bulk of combat will fall to a large fleet of inexpensive drones.

Really, this depends on how the next "major conflict" is defined and who it is against. A "mobile base for bomb trucks" is what they are now, and that's not technically useless. If the biggest powers are smart, then the rest of the conflicts on this planet will be economic or through proxies or take the form of a "cold war." The strategic win will be to enlarge the context of human activity while claiming as much of that as possible. (Failing to of course, but perhaps one's cultural descendants will look kindly on the "old country.")
I see. I suppose you think Vietnam was winnable then? Methinks you need to read some John Paul Vann.

Grenada was moral warfare? I am at a loss to understand you here.
How does performance like this compare to the TFLOPs on a supercomputer? I.E. how does one draw parallels to the performance you can get versus what we've been historically able to do with http://www.top500.org/statistics/perfdevel/?
More importantly, what failure modes does it have? Do you have to have GPS lock to takeoff? What if you lose it while flying?

At DEFCON someone demonstrated dropping drones from the sky by spoofing GPS coordinates to inside an airport. Funny, but it guarantees I won't be buying one of them because of the potential for harm to my camera, etc.
The zillion artificial satellites and other crap and debris orbiting the bigger, lusher body is probably a hint to said explorers, even with atmospheric orbital decay and perturbations over a long time scale. Earth orbit is our calling card for some time, even if we all die.

Especially if they have decent midrange sensors to display nearby craft, Earth will look like a swarm of bees. Run any orbital debris simulator if you don't believe me. It's a mess up there.
everyone is a pundit with the benefit of hindsight. Intel made the best decision with the available best information. Moreover, Apple is a notoriously difficult partner that will extract every penny from its suppliers. What if Intel did invest few billions to support Apple and then Apple went ahead and did their own chip, like they do now, leaving Intel with costs that cannot be recouped. Same pundit will say "Intel was stupid to spend so much on Apple."

Love it or hate it, Intel still has the right technology and products to appeal to a broad market and make good money. One cannot expect to win every market, you can try if it makes sense and you should know when to walk away.
Was going to post the same thing. Just glad it was said.
He died young. Fame kills.
Surely the exact submarine detection capabilities of a carrier group are a major military secret? It would be crazy to acknowledge a submarine that didn't announce itself even if you did or could have detected it.
No. That's a rather modern invention of the 1970s. It was to create a state militia, that's why it talks specifically talks about a "Militia" (capitalization original). It's prima facie absurd to think that the very document that defines treason as "levying war against [the United States]" and talks about using "Militia to [...] suppress Insurrections" would also codify insurrection as a good thing.
Wow. It has 15.3 billion transistors. It's amazing we can buy something with that many engineered parts. Even if the transistors are the result of duplication and lithography, it's an astonishing number. Creating the mask must have taken a while.

Does anyone know what the failure rate is for the transistors (or transistors of a similar production process)? Do they all have to function to spec for a GPU, or are malfunctioning transistors disabled or corrected? What does the QC process look like?
The feeling I'm getting from this article is that the positions of both sides are being smudged out of recognizability. There's a trace of a sensible argument being made on both side, but they're both completely unsupported in that article. Pending further sources, the only conclusion I can come to from this article is "completely insufficient information".
It works out well for me. Forbes blocking me is kind of a negative reinforcement technique that reminds me that their content is mostly click-bait shit anyway. I used to go to their site, try to read their content and leave in disgust. Now I seem to remember not to click on their links. Saves time.
That's my point: They're assuming the aliens want to know about detailed, encyclopedic subjects. But what if they just want to know about Kim Kardashian?
I briefly played around on StackOverflow and StackExchange Security as Nick P. I remember doing exactly what you describe a few times where some bullshit or sometimes wisdom from other comments/answers needed attention. One, which didn't mention other author, got changed to accepted answer and was about half my karma haha.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16062432/protecting-java...

I figured the site was addictive like digital crack early on. Wisely avoided spending too much time on it. Anything like that. (Pauses to look at address bar.) Or did I...?
I'm actually not sure the VM is making that much difference, which is surprising, although it's pretty much only running nginx, and having all the bare-metal virtualization stuff enabled has helped a lot with performance.

This is with core-M, so in many ways the things to watch out for are screen brightness and anything which makes the processors ramp over 800mhz - that actually seems more damaging than processes that just wake a lot
Really hoping the last part will shed some light on the closure of Truecrypt and the full story of the authorship.
What is the Czech connection?!.
A jerk owns a drone? Better pick on the non-jerks!

A bad guy used encryption? ...
I have to agree that there are a lot of bad programming jobs out there, but there are some really good ones, too--many times in places that aren't obvious. I'm speaking only from my own experience here, but I'm currently working at a big-name company and they pay well but the work is boring as hell and the culture is not to my liking. I've worked at smaller/no-name companies and had a vastly better experience--more diverse work, more opportunities to develop new skills, and a much friendlier culture as well.

If you have any interest in staying in the field--and I hope you do--don't limit your view of potential jobs to just the high-profile companies. Talk to some of the smaller shops around, you might really like what you find.
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This is not a meaningful summary of the complexities of the lawmaking process of a multinational political entity.
I'm trying to imagine under what political circumstance the Roth IRA would have its basic premise completely up-ended. Between a breach-of-contract and a gaggle of irate retirees, I see no slam-dunk here at all.
It's just not worth tickling the dragon's tail. What would be the motivation for anyone to even try (except for maybe government-sponsored hackers in China who are probably safe from extradition and personal blame)?

Even if you bought a laptop from someone in another state on Craigslist with cash and connected to public Wi-Fi (without a cellphone on your person, of course)... I still would not feel confident that NSA couldn't track you down if you gave them a good reason to.
The article has several tables that juxtapose the specs of the previous, current, and new generations, and I think that you will enjoy reading it.
the "Wikipedia" mistake came from Pegg himself. The article did (however poorly) cover your nit and mentioned it was part of the Wikia group of wikis.
One of the dirty secrets of crisis response is that authority is already delegated by donors to NGOs, by giving them money. No blockchains or software required.

The funding campaigns which happen in the hours after an event happens do not raise funds for the response effort; they merely piggyback on it for marketing effect.
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I really admired him.
They aren't that bad compared to other brands, but compared to what they used to be, they are quite a bit worse.

This is partly because travel distance has been reduced to make devices thinner, and also because of perplexing layout choices.

Edit: I should probably point out that I was just talking about the keyboard here.
Savior of the planet? Bitcoin without mining is just fiat money sans government.

Bitcoin is not necessary. The environment is. Easier solution is stop operating a power plant to play speculator on play money.
That was my concern. Hence asking for more specific information.
>What would be the motivation for anyone to even try except for maybe government-sponsored hackers in China

For the lulz
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Wikipedia may well be going the route of Kleenex, Xerox, Coke, and Google. When a product is so strongly identified with a brand, people just don't care to distinguish between the two.
> No built-in stuff like curl or wget (yes, there's a simple webrequest thing and aliases, but they're clunky).

wget is a built-in alias in Powershell. 'Wget' alone gets you an object of course, with the status code, headets, etc. included. (wget http://google.com).Content gets you the content.

Seems about the same as basic uses of wget. Can you go into more detail?

The verbosity doesn't bother me too much personally: it saves me a lot of time remembering commands and there's tab completion, and of course there's aliases.
He was truly creative. Much can be learned from him and applied to a variety of efforts.
There is an implicit "without exploitative downward pressure on wages" clause to the sentence every time people say "_______ isn't paid enough"

You forget that no assertion of values makes sense when divorced of context.
Could any computer crime be reasonably interpreted as treason given the fairly strict definition in the constitution?

Treason against the United States, shall consist only
in levying War against them, or in adhering to their
Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall
be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two
Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in
open Court.

It wouldn't surprise me to see the government try to claim "cyber warfare" meets the bill for "levying War against them", but I can't imagine the supreme court letting that stick.

edit: If you provided hacked information to a foreign power I could see that being considered giving aid to an enemy. My original question was more focused on the actual hacking itself than what you do with the information.
Just fielding a "couple thousand lbs" of explosive over hundreds of miles of water is very difficult and expensive. You also have to consider the survivability of a modern carrier. These things are built to take significant hits.
Another great installment. It is more mind-bending to me each week, the level of planning, the number of ties Le Roux has to so many different places and people with varied histories and interests. Even assuming conservatively that only 50 percent of what is written is fact, it is still crazy to think about.

It is quite a story, Le Roux going from a gangly teenager hunched over his computer to a man who is able to amass a small commando squad at a moments notice...it seems as though Hollywood would struggle to come up with such a plot.
> After a two-year stint, he spent another year with a similar outfit, Triple Canopy.(The Panama Papers leak recently revealed that Triple Canopy, which has received more than a billion dollars in U.S. government contracts over the past decade, operated a series of shell companies overseas.)

This. One million times this is true journalism, making seemingly worthless bits of information into an expanding web of knowledge, where 99% readers would have no clue.
> No, they are saying it filters out some portion of the defendants.

Yes, they filter out the ones who

- believe in polygraphs and

- believe they would fail
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Most of those energy-intensive services are providing a useful service that makes the energy expenditure worthwhile. Bitcoin has some novel features like its decentralization, but I don't believe its benefits outweigh the deliberately energy-guzzling architecture. That is, of course, just my opinion.

The bitcoin network's integrity basically boils down to "Waste so much energy that a single adversary couldn't possibly waste more energy than everyone else." It then rewards individual actors for wasting more energy to make sure that stays true.
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The exception being content creation needing graphics horsepower and for the near future, the requirements from VR headsets like Vive and Rift.
Good point. That should be factored in.
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This is fascinating. We live in the cyberpunk future that William Gibson and others wrote about in the 1980's. The former US soldier in this article even sounds a bit like Gibson's character Armitage from Neuromancer.
dupe:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11543705

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11543668
IBM's Power9 and its future Power 3.0 ISA CPUs, which should increasingly focus on deep-learning/big data optimization combined with Nvidia's GPUs which will increasingly optimize for the same, should make an interesting match over the next 5+ years.

On the gaming side, I do hope they continue to optimize for VR. I think AMD is even slightly ahead of them on that.
Exactly right. Why would we want to let the "enemy" know our capabilities? If they're not a threat, ignore it. There is a reason the Allies were careful in choosing to act on decrypted messages after they cracked the Enigma.
Aye, fingers crossed :)

I've been living in Edinburgh for the last few years, and absolutely love it. I'd be delighted to stay and live in an independent Scottish state.
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With Zsh:

> touch {dark\ red,green,light\ blue}{cheese,fish\ fingers,fruit}
> ls -1 *(cheese|fish)*([1,5])
dark redcheese
dark redfish fingers
greencheese
greenfish fingers
light bluecheese
> for i in *(cheese|fish)*([1,5]) ...

Since that's shell globbing, it can cope with any spaces, newlines etc.
Thanks for the reply and tips, but my question was on more of choosing self or managed hosting?
I agree with you there 100%. HN is nothing but a bunch of snooty-mcpucker-butts...
> The way to kill a carrier strike group today is to make them run out of bullets.

Nuclear powered vessel (all latest carriers?) + lazed weapon = you'll never run out of ammo.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2014/dec/10/us-navy...

"The US navy demonstrated its new 30-kilowatt laser weapon system in the Persian Gulf, near Iranian waters. The device, which is 30 million times more powerful than a laser pointer, is capable of targeting mounted weapons systems on fast-moving boats, and destroying drones in mid-flight. According to the navy, a much more powerful 150 kilowatt system is currently in development"

This was two years ago.
The way to kill a carrier strike group today is to make them run out of bullets.

Western military planners seem to have a blind spot here. Back in the 1980's, it was projected that NATO would slaughter Soviet/Warsaw Pact forces in a ground conflict -- for one month. At which point, western forces would have run rapidly through their ammunition and supplies, then the advantage would return to the less technologically advanced east. (Then NATO would bring out the "tactical" nukes.)

It's probably economic in nature. It's profitable to sell the government lots of expensive toys with sexy capabilities on paper and high ongoing maintenance costs.

All of U.S. military doctrine is based on the assumption that manpower is the limiting resource.

That didn't even absolutely work in WWII.
I think more to the point Christopher Reeve lived for 9 years as a quadriplegic.
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For $10,000?

Today?

$10,000 to build something with a range of several hundred miles (any closer and the launch platform would be detected before they all launched).

$10,000 to build something such that 90% of them carry sufficient, collective explosive payload to cripple or destroy a carrier.

$10,000 to build the autonomy needed to get around jamming, GPS hijacking, and to track a moving target. I guess, once they're close enough, they can spot the shape of a carrier pretty effectively. But depending on their launch distance and speed, the carrier may be wildly off from where they expected it to be.

If electronic countermeasures weren't a concern, the swarm could spread out, locate the target, and relay coordinates to all others in the swarm. But jamming makes this a difficult proposition, after the first attack.

Then, this, if it works, is a $100,000,000 attack on a single carrier group. And a literal sunk cost at that, these won't be recoverable and reusable.
I never thought of Tcl to be used in safety- or security-critical systems. It's certainly simple and easy to use. We played with it for agent-oriented programming back in the day. Had serious, design-level issues for security and was harder to parse than some others (eg LISP's).

Rather than just a critique, I'm curious where and how you use it with what benefits it brings you? I could certainly see it in UI or untrusted parts. Maybe also during development in a way that auto-generates C or something that runs in production.
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Don't forget the giant (possibly illegal) payouts to keep big customers (Dell in particular) Intel-only. $4.3 billion to Dell between 2003 and 2006.

http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/23/technology/dell_intel/
Eh, maybe.

I'm from Galway originally, and I've been casually eying up the situation in anticipation of a Brexit disaster. So far I haven't seen anything outside of Dublin that's wowed me, but would love to be proven wrong.
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This is pretty much why we shouldn't be trusting centralized services at the scale of Facebook. Given that two researchers got that far, sooner or later another will actually manage to escalate the privileges. And then, I'm not sure what we should be more afraid of - leaking it all to public or some three-letter agency using it for nefarious purposes...

Seriously, don't do Facebook. Not even once.
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