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OpenOffice and LibreOffice are already "merged". In fact in the past years, after the fork, LibreOffice developers regularly tracked OpenOffice source code repository and merged all the useful changes they could find, by either picking the original code or re-implementing it their own way.

In addition to that they also completely overhauled and simplified the build system, removed tons of dead code and translated German comments which where there since StarOffice, replaced Java components with equivalent ones written in C/C++, are in the process of switching from GTK2 to GTK3 (mandatory to get Wayland support in Linux), etc. Doing so they made the LibreOffice source code base sustainable on the long term and lowered the difficulty entry level for new contributors, while apparently OpenOffice buildbots are not even able to rebuild their software since last year...

The only useful asset which remains to OpenOffice is the trademark.
My son is taking a course at a local college, where the department assigned a $140 "custom" loose-leaf packet (basically a few chapters printed from a textbook) with "access codes" to some damned online thing.

The class asked the instructor, who said: "Access codes? No, you don't need those. And a $40 past edition of the text will be just fine."
I spend most of my time in small, private, invite-only forums these days.

As I get older, the problem with most forums is not so much lack of civility, but rather tediousness. Eventually, I have heard all the arguments, and if new comers to the forum hash out the same arguments over-and-over again, then I lose interest. Also I have found that the truth on a variety of issues is extremely politically incorrect, and so you either get a choice between forums that ban nearly all politically incorrect content or forums that are unmoderated and allow any vulgar or spiteful content. Neither are appealing to me.

I have been thinking of the of trying to start a forum for people who are very intellectually curious and not easily triggered by politically incorrect topics. Sign up here if you are interested, and you'll get an email if I decide to go through with it -- https://countersearch.net/forum
> Among many other problems, DNSSEC+DANE permanently concedes .COM, .NET, .ORG, .CO.UK, and .IO to the FVEY Intelligence Community --- the TLDs are controlled by world governments, as we all know from watching the DOJ use that control to attack file sharing sites.

I'm all for trying to reduce the need to trust one's government, but I think this is getting out of hand.

Currently, if you really want to trust the little https lock icon, you need to trust your government, pretty much everyone else's government, a whole lot of non-governmental companies of which many are demonstrably untrustworthy, and anyone who can hijack internet traffic well enough to spoof domain validation. And you need to trust everyone with control over DNS, because they can very easily spoof domain validation. That's a lot of people, any of whom can force a certificate.

With DANE, you need to trust the DNSSEC roots and the hierarchy from the roots to your domain. That's it.

So the argument that Verisign and your registrar (and presumably your government) can potentially defeat DANE is an argument against a ridiculous straw man: Verisign and your registrar can defeat the existing system just as easily.

At least with DANE, a whole bunch of other governments, registrars, AS operators, etc can't also impersonate your web site.
> The ease of hacking and the failure of our democracy to create secure, open-source digital voting (see: Diebold) and the inability to prevent vote-stealing.

For the former, we could have verifiable votes: you get a anonymous token, and can look up your vote on a public register by that token. The only problem with that approach is that it makes voter coercion (forcing someone to vote a given way) somewhat easier. However, many states already allow absentee ballots, and some (such as Oregon) do all voting by mail with no "polling booth" option, which has exactly the same property.

So, personally, I'd suggest entirely electronic voting, verifiable votes via anonymous tokens, public lists of votes (so anyone can re-run the voting algorithm to check the result), and strong laws against voter coercion (so that employer you mentioned would get prosecuted).
If a private blockchain forks how do you decide which one was the cheaters branch and which one legit?
I found this leads me into a bubble of internet that only shows me what I agree with. I've found myself going back to reddit just to get both sides of the story. It's useful when say the Trump fans post things that lefties find hard answering, those are the points that I find myself thinking about late at night.
The banks aren't using trustless consensus. They're using a third-party "uniqueness service" to prevent fraud.
It is unclear whether you are making the argument that HN users flag posts based on political leanings or flag politically controversial topics.

The downvotes are most likely due to the negativeness of the post, coupled with an ambiguous argument.
You should also think about the context in which the statement will be used. Is your statement normally the bottleneck? If not, does it matter if it's 3x slower for light workloads (which are fast anyway) as long as it's 4x faster for heavy workloads(where the performance difference can be felt)?
Goes back to an old stock prediction scam. You choose 1024 and send 512 the prediction that a stock will go up and 512 the prediction that the same stock will go down. Each day you repeat this process only with the group where you were right. So, 512 -> 256 -> 128 -> 64 -> 32. Eventually you have a small number of people that think you can predict the future and you can ask them for money that you will invest on their behalf.
when they really get there, all current public crypto is just broken. Symmetric is just weakened; basically you need to double the keysize. And there's prob a backlog of messages those actors can then decrypt.

Besides that, everyone needs to move to post-quantum public key cryptographic algorithms. Seems there's usable methods already now, except the signatures will be enormous untill some other, better post-quantum methods are proven safe.

~~Here's an overview of the SOTA there from 32c3 ; I was surprised how usable it already seems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=424LHQQB2DE ~~ EDIT: shit, sry that's not the correct video; I'll find it in a sec, I hope..

Or, if you're a bank or a state or otherwise can have a direct 1hop link to your communication partner, you can just use quantum cryptography for extra, physical assurances.
So let the website owner supply a wallet address so Brave doesn't have to hold onto the money?
Bko is a trolling you.
Had a shot. It's slightly buggy, but holy crap is it fast.

I'm not a C programmer, understanding what happened is a bit beyond me but:
1) to compile on linux it needs the -pthread flag passed to it, Makefile is missing that (compiles fine on OS X)
2) decompression over stdin appears to be effectively impossible, still demands in input file. Compression over stdin works fine.
Yes, the person I was replying to was asking about what to do if you don't have jsonb.
The OP explains what the ASF expects in this regard.

"In the case of Apache OpenOffice, needing to disclose security
vulnerabilities for which there is no mitigation in an update has
become a serious issue. In responses to concerns raised in June, the
PMC is currently tasked by the ASF Board to account for this
inability and to provide a remedy. An indicator of the seriousness
of the Board's concern is the PMC been requested to report to the
Board every month, starting in August, rather than quarterly, the
normal case. One option for remedy that must be considered is
retirement of the project. The request is for the PMC's
consideration among other possible options."
yeah, you're definitely off topic. Prosopagnosia is an interesting phenomenon but it's not related to what Bloom was discussing or what I was elaborating on.

Bloom's discussion was a highlighting of the ways in which cultural transmission of events imbues the sensory perception and recollection of memory in every person in society with a certain kind of filter which he describes by analogy as if it was some sort of group mind.

my point of elaboration was meant to emphasize that when we examine the contents of consciousness, we necessarily are limited to examining our own consciousness qualitatively. Reporting on the consciousness of others is only ever capable of producing yet another stimulus in our own input stream that we would interpet the same way we interpret any other exogenous stimulus. Despite that, this does not imply solipsism. Only an admission of the limitations we are faced with in this examination.
Didn't knew until today that there are 7000 mAh batteries which can fit in samsung phones, interesting. Why do you think the companies are not going for these kind of batteries in the first place?
Based on this plot, my naive reaction would be to decide that DBSCAN is the best algorithm, as it recovers the (qualitatively) best clusters in each case. Anybody has experience with DBSCAN? What are the downside?
Assumption: End-to-end encryption to the name on the certificate.

Reality: Someone else (Cloudflare) claims to be the name on the certificate, whereas in reality they’re not.

That’s the textbook definition of MITM attack, whether you like it or not.

Of course all CDNs work like that. No one’s claiming otherwise. Cloudflare is just bringing all the ways internet is fundamentally broken to the forefront. Their unapologetic and extensive abuse of those design flaws (captcha pages) are a constant reminder of just how a hopeless mess the internet is.
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It seems reasonable even on a massive chain. Some people do need to keep the whole archived part of the chain, and anyone who wants to verify it can do so, while day-to-day transactions can just compress that part of the chain down to a hash.

You'd need to keep enough of the chain live for all "live" transactions; that would likely have a time bound (days, perhaps). People who run a "full" client that verifies the complete blockchain then just need to have enough storage for the complete transaction volume over that time period. (And people who only need to worry about their own transactions and don't care about verifying other people's transactions can hold onto even less data.)
And hey, if you want to make more money, offer a service which makes payment verification/notification really easy to integrate for publishers.
How would you ensure the validity of the part of the blockchain you are reading from IPFS?
Not anymore, unfortunately. Metafilter used to be a great community 10-15 years ago, but these days it is a heavily censored echo chamber.
why is this news on site like Hacker News?
I would also add a caution to constrain the scope of parallelism in the implementation to only those bits of code that actually benefit from it, and to be extra cautious when refactoring an existing serial implementation into a parallel algorithm.
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I think you may be misremembering the medication. I take 1200mg of Gabaptentin/day for ulnar neuropathy; I don't think that 75mg would accomplish anything.

And FWIW I code all day long.
Many hospitals banned latex but your point probably applies to it's replacement too.
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Ask HN: How do you deal with disk space and docker deployments?
Just started to have some work with Amazon EC3 and in the same day I got to fill 25 Gb of disks with the volumes, images and containers.

Is there a common sense strategy to prevent this? for the current moment it feels that I will always need more disk space
I think it would be solved by requiring a comment with each downvote. The motivations for an upvote are obvious but a downvote should have to explain why, even if it something as simple as "citation needed" or "factually incorrect, here's why."

I often get the sense that anonymous and unexplained downvotes carry a sense of "this post is so obviously wrong it defies the need for explanation," which means that nobody learns anything from the exchange.

EDIT: I got downvoted for this comment and I have no idea why
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> browsers are hiding the URI prefix

Maybe browsers should stop with that idiocy then.
It would be more interesting to look at what kind of birds are killed.
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Not in a formalized way, as far as I can tell but I'm not the first person to ever mention that idea. I think I've seen a Chrome extension or two which do it.
> So, if you're using 1x1 convolutions, I think you're basically having a neuron per pixel, so you're forcing your fully-connected layers to learn the spacial correlations of pixels, instead of capturing that information in a convolutional layer.

Saying "a neuron per pixel" doesn't mean anything, really, that way of thinking isn't helpful unless you're looking at small multi-layer perceptrons. The right way to think about things is that you have tensors and layers that compute new tensors from old tensors.

A 1x1 convolution only 'sees' the feature channels of a pixel, and does the same thing to each pixel. So a 1x1 convolution on a grayscale input (e.g. a 1x28x28 tensor in the case of MNIST) does nothing, basically, other than scale and bias every pixel by the same linear function. It doesn't "force the network to learn" anything, it's just totally pointless.

One of the uses of 1x1 convolutions is to collapse the feature dimension when you're deeper in the network (e.g. 100 channels to 10 channels) to reduce number of parameters subsequent layers need operate on. It's a "channelwise fully connected layer".

I think you're thinking of (and perhaps what the author was thinking of) is the practice prior to convnets of collapsing the image into a vector and then doing a fully connected layer on it. That indeed doesn't exploit translation invariance of natural images, requires the net to learn the same features in every required spatial position at great expense, and so on. But that has nothing to do with 1x1 convolutions.
No, not an outlier. Metafilter used to be great, but it has definitely deteriorated into a toxic echo chamber. Opinions that do not fit in with the groupthink are not tolerated there.
> The Shuttle even helped Reagan inadvertently bankrupt the Soviet Union, as the Soviets decided they needed a rival orbiter, and cloned the vehicle at terrific expense

Yeah that line of reasoning is pretty popular. "Soviet Union collapsed because of Reagan's masterful tricks. Look how great we are, we beat them"

Reagan didn't have any measurable effect on the collapse. But I guess it makes us feel better saying "We won the fight". Even though in reality the opponent's cancer finally got to him and he collapsed in the ring.

Russian shuttle Buran was in some way more advanced than ours: it could land itself automatically. It used an interesting programming and guidance system. There is even a vestige of it alive today:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAKON

https://drakon-editor.com/
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In the context of banks, where there are a limited set of semi-trusted entities and multiple trusted third-parties, I seems that most most solutions to prevent cheating offers is either really similar to a trusted third party solution, or offers no major benefits, but comes with many drawbacks.

In cash transactions, it's hard to beat the speed of a trusted third party with a deposited "float" for ensuring that you can pay at the end of the day - even a bad day where a part defaults.

In securities, there is perhaps some room for a blockchain solution, as the infrastructure is much more complex and underdeveloped - due to the historically gigantic margins.
> The point is rather that one of the two categories (drugs) has a positive counterweight to its negative effects while the other does not.

That's a value judgement. I would argue it does have a positive counterweight as people spend money to buy the product. That's pretty much the purpose of a market. To tease out the value people put in certain items and to direct resources into said products
It's the tyranny of the average - just look at the responses here:

"LOOK AT THAT AVERAGE USER! Yes that one! The average Joe! THIS IS what you'll use and nothing more. You don't need anything else!" -- This is the argument you hear in these kind of topics. If it's not usable for an "average user" it doesn't need to exist. No tolerance for choice on modern "free" market of electronics.

It's pretty much the endgame of the hoteliering effect (Is that the right translation?) - the market converges to the point where all the players offer pretty much copy-paste services and the choice for consumer is lost, because the differences between competitors are too small. At that point the market simply ceases to function properly.
> Who exactly would use this product?

People who value their privacy and don't like to be tracked
Because this investigation would never have happened if it weren't for a hacker?
Interested.
Pretty sure it was the US' model first.
That doesn't make sense. A web browser is just a TCP connection after all. If the port isn't open on the server there's no way to connect to it.
I doubt this message will propagate further than technical forums - you're just going to have suck up the homogenization, pasteurization, retail branding and consumer promotion of a once great technology
Any high-level thoughts of running a physical startup workshop like this in the Midwest?

Is making tech things by hand still something people are excited about?

All thoughts/suggestions greatly appreciated!
So, how are they reproducing? I was under the impression that only the queens are fertile; are ants just long-lived enough that they can maintain their numbers through the periodic addition of ants falling through the hole?
I don't know roadrunners specifically, but in general birds don't have a great sense of smell, and don't much use it day to day.

A visual warning would work better for birds. I wonder if there is something about the fence that makes it "invisible" to roadrunners.
No you wouldn't. There are many niche 'simple high end phone' products, the majority of which fail, despite forums full of people claiming 'take my money', 'I'd be first in line' etc.

The reality is that these products are as expensive or more as regular products (because small batches), and everybody wants a different 20 pct of the full functionality.
Could you explain a bit more why - in practice - you think Bazel is 'next generation' compared to Make?

Every time I've encountered Bazel thus far in the wild I've found it an atrocious experience.

I haven't yet found anything I prefer to simple Make, and even auto tools while awful, are at least completely a known quantity.
Yeah,

On FB, there can be groups that are entirely uncivil and groups that are fairly - it depends on who sets them up and for what purpose, it doesn't necessarily depend on the subject matter.
I'm allowed to have a different opinion and value judgement without trolling. You're not contributing anything to the conversation.
> If the system was designed right any infrastructure could be distributed (put a bitcoin address and a notification URL in your HTML or something dead simple like that) and development could be sponsored by interested parties if needed. There wouldn't be any need for a fee.

You need a fee because otherwise nobody will do (or is doing) the work to implement it.
Would you say good to a ban on alcoholic drinks? They do a great deal of damage directly and indirectly.

Education, not prohibition, is needed.
It's well known among people who know about these things.

My mother, on the other hand? Me: "What if your laptop is stolen?" Her: "But it has a password."

And she's far from the only one -- just in my anecdotal life.
Wrong. There are codes describing density and building height. Palo Alto city council will never change these rules, indeed, they seem intent on making them more stringent.

You go ask the billionaires in ProfessorVille how many of them are interested in changing zoning to triple density in downtown without any corresponding improvement in transportation infrastructure (most of which is not under the control of Palo Alto)
I don't know that that's true; there's nothing that would stop the antibacterial soap companies putting out advertisements that explained why the government is wrong, similar to what happened with vitamin supplements in the 90s.
Recreational drug use and anti-bacterial soaps are a pretty poor comparison.

Frankly, it's apples and oranges IMO.
> "Appropriate redactions have been made for classified information or other material exempt from disclosure under FOIA"

So, I'm confused. I thought they said she _didn't_ mishandle classified information.