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Another reason not to use Skype is that their support is pretty poor.

They've deleted Skype numbers from my account without warning. Someone linked my and my wife's account because we used them on the same PC, and refuse to unlink Skype and Microsoft accounts.

I'd love to find an alternative, but given that everybody already has Skype accounts the lock-in is pretty significant.

Don't much like the alternatives Stallman proposes. Using long distance phone calls seems worse than Skype, phone companies have provided governments with even more access to user data than most tech companies.
I've got a solution for this that I've practiced for the last couple of years: presents for children only. The annual pointless spendfest is the dark side of a consumerist economy.
If you or your friends and family are offended because you haven't bought them a gift it's their problem, not yours.
"We have your name and address. Stop talking about the connections between Wikileaks and Putin." That's why.
I thought alacrity was faster. If not, I will still use st. But alacrity can still become a GUI terminal later and will have some usage for me.
Thanks for destroying the web, btw!

Open FTP servers are an asset, not a risk, as they're ideal for distributing downloads, uodates, packages, etc.

Thanks to your efforts, many groups which used to provide all downloads via HTTP and FTP have since stoppes the FTP access, and don't provide wget-able HTTP URLs either.

Congratulations, now I have to run a full browser on my servers to be able to download many packages.
Microsoft has been around for almost 50 years, though. They must do something right?
Actually the JVM support for dynamic languages (invokedynamic) was only added after .NET, thanks to IronPython project, created the DLR first as a side project, then eventually released it as part of .NET 4.0.

I imagine only those of us that work regularly with both platforms get it right, when each got what, and even then it is easy to lose track.
very well.

could you atleast put up the gitter and allow us to sign up there. mailing list feels very "commercial"
I don't like it one bit, but they're taking the internet to its logical conclusion. At least they're only doing it for public figures it seems, for now. It is probably totally legal too.

This is what radical transparency looks like, by the way. It is consistent with and logically flows from Assange's long-stated philosophy. Basically, what the crowd on this website was defending when Wikileaks first came onto the public scene.

Here's what Twitter has to say about verified accounts:

>What types of accounts get verified?

An account may be verified if it is DETERMINED TO BE AN ACCOUNT OF PUBLIC INTEREST. Typically this includes accounts maintained by users in music, acting, fashion, government, politics, religion, journalism, media, sports, business, and other key interest areas.
Thanks for putting so succinctly what I rambled on about in my comment. This analysis is missing a distribution of celebrity ages.
How will hams get access to the old FM band?

The band will immediately be re-assigned to other licensed services.
What is a good solution that allows dialing to pots? Google voice and what else?
It's usually the opposite. The pressure is actually stronger when you're a manager. As an individual contributor you're not involved in a bunch of meetings, where management discusses issues, priorities, hot topics etc. It's harder to give a status update as a manager on a task rather than the person handling the task. And you're not talking to your teammates about your mini task in your project at a standup, you have to report to people who have more impact on the future of the company than you do. So any wrong info and the concequences are huge.

A typical breakdown would be:

- %30 about coaching your team members, hiring, 1-1, career path

- %50 status update to upper management, talking about
issues and stressful stuff

- %20 hands-on

Being an Individual Contributor is actually more enjoyable in a long run when you look at the salary gap... not worth it.

Last but not least, interviewing for a manager position is really painful when you're coming from the outside. People often have a lot of frustration due to their previous managers who screwed things up. But they had to stay quite for a while. So when it comes to judging their future direct report, there's no filter. It won't cost me my job if I tell people you're not the right candidate/manager for our team during an interview briefing. So finding a manager job is super tough. You'll have to stick with the same employer for a while or you'll have to go back down as an IC, land a job, then work your way back up to a manager role. How painful is that?
Which would you prefer?
I helped building the one in libfirm and I agree. The x86 architecture is quite regular and we have not used it for others in practice. However, for all irregularities I have come across I could immediately see how to model it in theory.
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One idea is to s/K/T/ but it'll quickly get flamed into oblivion.
Nice analogy. Expanding a bit, if a popular walkie-talkie brand from 20 years ago starts failing today in a way that switches it to aviation frequencies, I believe the manufacturer would be on the hook.
"At least they're only doing it for public figures it seems"

Public figures are those we elect and put in government service, at least that was the original intended definition. Seems we've drifted from that definition into a rather dystopian one, with Assange.
It will be immediately used with for long-distance Wireless Internet.

Testing has already started.
Sure, I just posted a link to make it easy to find their comment. I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt that this is an accident and they're working on it, but I'll believe they care when the fix is live and I can see it with my own eyes :-)
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I did do that years ago and enjoyed it. But I missed programming so went back to that. Now I am moving slowly back to management again with lessons learned. That said, I have always had a management title and as I do not believe in daily standups, open plan offices or stack ranking, so I never had those experiences as a programmer. Nor did the people we employed.
The majority needn't buy it for it to make billions for Amazon.
Amazon have an API that you can legally use for free.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/latest/DG/Wel...
tl;dr: because non-free JavaScript. Also tracking.

Okay, thanks for your opinion RMS.
Only with cheap radios.

Any advanced receiver will be constantly hunting for the best backup channel so the change over is undetectable.
>Public figures are those we elect and put in government service

The courts disagree with you on that point, also including celebrities, business leaders, athletes, etc.

Position in government is only one avenue by which people exercise power or achieve fame.
"Even gangsters live in fear of Japan’s gun laws" (2013)

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/01/06/national/media-n...

"Under current laws, if a low-level yakuza is caught with a gun and bullets that match, he’ll be charged with aggravated possession of firearms and will then face an average seven-year prison term. Simply firing a gun carries a penalty of three years to life. And for the “accomplice” reasons above, a yakuza boss may decide a death sentence is more appropriate if his thug miraculously gets released on bail before going to jail.
One mid-level yakuza boss told me, “Having a gun now is like having a time bomb. Do you think any sane person wants to keep one around the house?”
Looks like the tweet WaPo links to was deleted. So probably WLTF realized it's kinda very bad idea.

I think what they are trying to do is a standard journalistic thing of building influence network, but they managed to say it in a very creepy way and of course WaPo grabbed it and run with it.
This is true of all IM that isn't based on open protocols and has mandatory end-to-end encryption. Which is why I use tox [0].

[0] https://tox.chat/
Stallman won't like it but Facebook Messenger has voice calling built in now and it works very well. I was calling someone in SE Asia from rural Massachusetts recently and the quality was great with very low latency. It felt like a natural conversation given the connectivity challenges on both ends.
> Am I on the hook for patching all the systems in the field? What are my obligations here?

If you sell even a single device to Europe, you have, depending on category, for 2 or 5 years to patch every single flaw that appears.

In the first 6 months, if a user reports a flaw, you have to patch it anyway, no matter what it is, unless you can prove that this problem was caused by the user.

After that, you are liable for the rest of your life (and this pierces the corporate veil) for any and all damage your products do, or can be abused for.
The disadvantage of radio broadcasting is that it ties up valuable spectrum, has only one direction, and only allows a limited number of channels.

The advantage of streaming internet is that it allows unlimited channels, while only using bandwidth for one channel at a time for each user.

Depending on the number of channels you wish to provide, and the number of users in each area, there is a point where Internet streaming is way ahead.
Thanks for the link to the research paper, it's a good read. Are you aware of any event sourcing frameworks/datastores that use one (or more) of these strategies to tackle the problem of schema evolution?
Yes... a world in which Sarah Palin is apologizing to Assange isn't one I understand very well.

How they respond to the Trump administration when it's in power will tell us a lot about what's happening at wikileaks.

But it seems like the world needs more diversity in Wikileaks-like services. I feel like they have done important work in the past, and it would be a shame for that to end.
I don't, personally, recall the last US election that was settle by a shoot-out.

It seems most modern democracies get by fine without civil wars.

Or: what, exactly, are you suggesting.
I second it, even if the book has a few issues here and there, it was one of the best books I read on the subject.
For me, the problem is that the smaller a service is, the less reputation they have to lose by screwing everyone over. I don't know who you are or that you won't inject ads or affiliate links into my site in a few months (or sell your domain to someone for a few quid that will). (This doesn't mean I think your intentions are bad; I just think it's a bad idea to trust people you don't know on the internet!).

I don't mind included scripts on my page from huge orgs that have a lot to lose by doing bad things but there aren't that many companies that fall into this (Disqus did, but possible shouldn't ;))
Interesting. I can't see myself using it for work though, which the majority of my Skype calls tend to be.
Reason to use skype:

So your dead account doesn't get immediately compromised and you screw your friends over in the process as your account starts sending out malware-infested links.

glares at the seven or so users in his blocked list, users that jumped ship to Telegram and left their Skype accounts open to exploitation
Children and the odd litigious adult maybe, but not nation states.
Yes, that's what the grandparent is saying, this is a bug in the runtime, which you can't fix by updating libraries, you have to update the compiler/interpreter (depending on the language).

This is not a unique occurrence.
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Another interesting thought experiment: what if time (rather entropy) is the only thing that exists? While highly likely to be untrue, it's an interesting mode of thought: as matter dominated beings we naturally approach conclusions from the perspective of matter.
Is that the default? It really seems like that should be the default..
The term's not something I've heard a lot, but is a "framebuffer terminal" the thing that engages outside of running a graphical session?

It's kind of neat to see improvements made here if that's the case. Not everyone will make extensive use of this, but having proper support for a lot of modern conveniences is never a bad thing.
If Wikileaks is indeed connected to Putin, and they are intended to prosecute you for talking about it, don't you think Putin has more resources to find out where you live than Wikileaks? I mean, of this (hypothetical) tandem, I'd rather be afraid of the guy with trillions of dollars, nukes and one of the best intelligence services on the planet than of a guy that has to hide in Ecuadorian embassy.
Unless you've ordered a pony before in which case it'll be happy to have the company.
"Every one would be living in a little bit of a different world and all the computer tech guys would be living in a completely different world with out RMS."

Someone else would've likely done the same thing sooner or later.
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And honestly, having both used Lightning and USB-C… USB-C is a dog. It's terrible. It doesn't attach as securely and it's yet another female-masquerading-as-male connector with a bunch of microscopic moving parts that will inevitably wear out and/or fail.

I could not be happier with the Lightning connector, I just wish Apple had opened the standard or proposed its use for USB.
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You don't need to be Facebook friends to complete a call but I can still see that expectation being an obstacle to establishing one. Is there a space for a very simple WebRTC call application? It seems like everyone is focused on video calling or more full-featured products.
Not a pass, no. However software attracts a level of attack the is pretty much out of the realms of any other industry though. A fair few countries seem to weaponise software in peacetime, and use what they create.
Either that, or more like:

"Here's why X CNN writer is supporting a war in Iran - his wife's cousin is an executive at Y weapons maker."
Your stumps reminded me of a challenge of skill called "hunker hauser". Might be a different audience/market for a similar product.
Prison rape is kind of a meme in the United States, but apparently about 2% to 4% of inmates are sexually assaulted annually here[1]. I'd say that prison conditions are pretty horrible in the U.S. too.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_rape_in_the_United_Stat...
doesn't it mean some kind of global lock ?

i'd be curious to see the impact on benchmarks for parallelization.
It seems like you missed the tone. The OP is implying that if they didn't give a quote for the sorry, the journalist will write them saying what they want them to say.
I recently read a blog post from Paul Graham titled, "Change Your Name." He suggests that "if you have a US startup called X and you don't have x.com, you should probably change your name." Taking this in to consideration, I decided to change the name of my side project. However, I soon discovered that its nearly impossible to acquire a good ".com" due to domain squatting by companies like Uniregistry Corp. It seems like domain squatting / speculating is the driving force behind goofy startup names, and maybe its time to just start using other TLDs. Anyway: What do you think about domain squatting and startup names Sam?
Is there any usable alternative for voice calls? Ring and Tox had problems setting up connection from android to debian linux last time I tried both of them.

I really want to replace Skype with something so I can stop using Google Play. Signal is not an option as it is only available via Google Play too.

[0] https://ring.cx/
[1] https://tox.chat/
Can that state exist?
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Are you the author of the blog? Scrolling the code snippet keeps causing prev/next post page changes. It's really frustrating are you able to fix it?
There's Amazon Pantry, which has you adding items to a box, which is only sent when full. Thus the mark-up remains quite low.
If it reacts to any voice, it's unusable for anyone with kids. Shopping really has to be locked down to authorized people's voices. Is it even legal for kids to order stuff on the internet?
Those who say we live in simulation, are they saying that there is a creator(s)?
WikiLeaks' online presence was taken over in October, when riseup.net got an NSL to give access to the email accounts associated with the WL Twitter accounts and other WL properties. Around that time WL removed some insurance file torrent links from wikileaks.org, distributed new pre-commitment hashes, and stopped responding to PGP-encrypted email.

People who work for WikiLeaks are still probably involved, but they are no longer in control. Ever since late October, their behavior across all of their Twitter accounts has been markedly different.
His post gave concrete examples of how things look a little like hacks, while yours can literally be summarized as "technologists are ignorant of biology," which is a non-sequitur.
Why would you add the overhead?

* Dead simple design.
* Easily hot-swappable without expensive proprietary connectors.
* Low cost solution that provides adequate bandwidth.

This isn't something that will perform better than a proper server with actual PCIe lanes, but it will perform better than a blade from two generations ago that didn't have that kind of backplane bandwidth and it will cost less to manufacture.
So instead of working with Chelsea Manning, they're doxxing Chelsea Manning?

Once upon a time Wikileaks was about holding governments to account. Apparently that was too hard because privacy violations appear to be the theme these days.
Ask HN: What is the best Linux distro for a development laptop?
Recently I upgraded my 2yr old laptop (now it has 16GB RAM, 275GB SSD, baklit keyboard) and now consider which linux distro use as main OS.

What are your experience with various linux distros as main OS? Which one is the best? How looks like your dev environment?

For me are important these points :

- Ability to run virtualized systems (Windows, other linux distros)

- Good battery management

All necessary dev tasks and experiments will be performed in virtualized systems.

Thanks
If you generate them on-demand based on the resources included in the page how can you ensure that XSS attacks on the page aren't going to result in hostile sources being included in the CSP headers? I'm curious as to what the rules would look like that define a fluid list of sources that can be expanded based on page content but not vulnerable to inline XSS attacks.
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Maybe they'll accidentally delete the production database and then realize they don't have any backups. You know, as is tradition?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sidekick_data_loss
Yes, it's a joke.
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Craft them something? I mean, you don't have to gift expensive things just because.
There's a recent @wikileaks tweet saying only they can make official statements : https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/817538212709203968

The link you posted still mentions the others though.
Just adding my 2 cents.

I've found the writing of Clojure Programming to be very dull, to be honest.

Sure, it is clear and detailed, but it gets boring after a while.

I think the Joy of Clojure is a better read (at least for me). The upside about Clojure Programming is that it covers the language's syntax right upfront, which (IIRC) Joy of Clojure does not.
In theory :) But I didn't even know there could be effectively anonymous verified accounts like this one. I doubt this organization is officially registered in any sense, but it is verified by Twitter. Reading https://support.twitter.com/articles/20174631 it seems it is sufficient to have "A verified phone number, a confirmed email address, a bio, a profile photo, a header photo, a website" and also "If the account is a corporation or company account, the name reflects the real name of the corporation or company", "The profile and/or header photo reflects the person, the corporation’s branding, or the company’s branding". Looks like "copy of your official government-issued photo identification" is not needed in organization case.
Microsoft has acquired very few products, and of those a shockingly slim number have succeeded.

I can only think of Excel as being the real survivor here. Others, like SoftImage, were a fleeting acquisition. Many more were buried alive.
I think this is a very good thing.

We need more accountability from public figures. Moral fibre is a rare element among the top 1%. If they can't regulate themselves, then someone else ought to do it.

We need an incentive for people to pay their fair share of taxes and to behave ethically - Protecting your public reputation is a good incentive.

The law is simply useless when it comes to ethical matters - Radical transparency might be a better solution.

Public figures currently have way too much control over their public image.
Roll your own with any VOIP software?
I think that's probably pretty on point. Thanks.
This is apparently from 2012 but not labelled as such.
I've wondered about this. I think I'm gonna see a psychiatrist soon and just present the anomalies in my background and see if they come to the same conclusion...
I think the original question was querying if the runtime is statically or dynamically linked.

It's also possibly a subtle dig at go, because unlike other languages go does not use dynamic linking, meaning bugs in libraries require recompilation (has positive effects too).
Good question!

The answer is, depending on country.

In Germany, all children of any ages can buy anything with previous approval by the parents. From age 7 on products costing less than the monthly pocket money cna be bought with approval after buying, from age 14 on all products.

So, as a result, you might have a 4 year old child ordering something online, and have to honor the order (just as 4yos frequently are sent to fetch bread from the neighbourhood bakery).

Obviously, cultural values affect this heavily — while in Germany and Japan this is normal, in many areas of the US people below 16 are not expected to act on their own, or buy things, so it can be obviously different.
The criteria for "verified" status have changed recently and I'm pretty sure it now includes a group much larger than the law's definition. There are quite a few JS developers with the tick mark, for example. And I doubt they'd count as celebrities.

And even for public figures, there are and/or should be (depending on jurisdiction) limits. Their family, for example, are people with their own rights, often don't fit the "public figure" definition, may be minors etc etc.

I also don't remember ever defending radical transparency, and I wouldn't even characterise Assange's actions as consistent with it. Or could I have an archive of his emails, please?
My blog is hosted on GitHub Pages; I don't have access to web server logs.
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Wow, those docs are pretty good!
I just want to go home and delete everything on my DVR!
Reminded me of this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5foq14/if_were_a...
CORS headers. Not enough logic in static configs - needs app-logic (but just a bit)
Thanks, didn't see this one! Apparently WaPo should update their article then, though replies to that tweet point out that @WLTaskForce is still mentioned in @wikileaks's profile. Quite a confusing story.
Free software was not necessarily an inevitability, but efforts to accelerate that certainly pushed it forward.

The problem now is this rampant hostility towards all proprietary software of any form for any purpose. The FSF is still fighting the same pointless war against proprietary operating systems when the real threat is IoT junk, cars, and medical devices full of unauditable code.
What is riot.fm? Maybe https://riot.im/?

Is it able to do at least audio calls?
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