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That's the thing when you look at it from today's standpoint and you are correct there. But jump back to January 2005. You got DTrace and ZFS and branded Zones. Way ahead of the curve. Just look at that release. But sadly it all got overshadowed by Oracle.
What makes no sense is y'all allowing your children to be spied on by Google/Apple/Microsoft/Facebook/Snapchat/NSA/GCHQ 24/7 on an age when they don't know better.
> Humanity can cope with the effects, and do so with relative ease.

People in the richer countries most likely. The main concern with climate change are the effects on poorer countries in Southeast Asia.
Sun's hardware business is mostly irrelivant, and both IBM and HP are in the process of switching away from providing hardware (Especially IBM). SPARC was already mostly dead by the time that Oracle bought Sun.

The prize Oracle was after is Java, and they have already begun the long process of squeezing large enterprises with Java "commerical" features flags.
They could colonize not to actually interact with the environment there, but for computing resources and redundancy.
Andreas Gal and I were among those calling for Persona to be integrated into Firefox ASAP, for scaling leverage against Metcalfe's Law. We had frustrating, protracted arguments about it with Ben Adida. I found resistance to the idea to be based on ill-concealed fear and loathing of dealing with the Firefox codebase, and (possibly as a consequence, not cause) explicit preference for doing a JS "shim" library and promoting it to web developers in competition with FBConnect.

That worked about as well as you would expect.

Eventually, Mark Mayo got Firefox Accounts going, but it was non-federated. In truth so was Persona: Mozilla ran the only IdP of note. Also, prior to Accounts, the protocol seemed to fork in anti-federated ways, but to me that was just teething pain, to be overcome by further evolution.

The fatal problems were threefold:

1. Facebook had huge scale and even in 2011 (browserid days) it had already won.

2. The Persona team was averse to integrating into Firefox, for whatever client population "interop readiness" pressure that might have put on servers (Metcalfe's Law is a barrier to new protocol adoption).

3. Users don't grok federated identity. Relying party? (That's the first party, the site to which you're browsing with clear intent and understanding of its identity -- assuming you haven't been phished.) Identity provider? (What's this sketchy popup I get every week or so asking me to re-login to some third party?) The whole federated Rp/Idp/browser three-body problem is confusing and looks like some kind of hack, not just phishing but popup malware.

The initial centralized or under-federated situation to me was not fatal, but could have become so if problems 1-3 didn't doom the whole effort.

Firefox OS indeed suffered from slow and half-hearted commitment from July 2011 on. Not even half-hearted: at first, it was a pirate ship. The CEO told another exec that in previous jobs, someone would have been fired for launching it via a post to mozilla.dev.platform (even though drafts of that post had been discussed and vetted by all execs who were paying attention).

Don't get me wrong, even with aggressive resourcing from mid-2011, Firefox OS might not have made it. But half-hearted, slow-rolled "investment" was worse than either "do" or "do not". No half measures, as Mike in "Breaking Bad" taught.

None of my employees called for me to be fired. You're confusing six Mozilla Foundation employees with people who worked for me in the (arm's length, for profit subsidiary) Mozilla Corporation. See http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/03/mozilla-employees-to... (which, typical of coverage at the time, fails to note those employees worked for an entirely separate org from the one I was CEO of).
Exactly. And I wasn't trying to be anti micro services or libraries. Just pointing out that confirmation bias is a big reason some folks are against them.

It is amplified when folks push them with no caveats. Some of us remember being burned in ways this allowed.
Uber is burning a lot of money. We are talking about a few billions. As a user I find Uber and its likes useful because they enable me to travel around the city on-demand. But drivers aren't making enough and a just a single bad review can literally ban a driver from driving (lock your account and you'd have to explain to Uber rere).

Can Uber investors continue to be happy with the rate of money burning? Even if Uber does go to IPO, Uber can't continue to burn money forever. There's almost a burst I am selling...
I thought they bought Sun for Java, especially the (then-ongoing) lawsuit against Microsoft?
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:) this thread isn't going to end well.....
App idea for anyone w/ mobile dev: Required to bring into school, it gives each student 45 minutes of internet per day while in the school and between the hours of open/close set by the school. Presumably those will be used during lunch/recess/switching classes/emergencies - school can see a list of all students w/ the app installed who checked into the school, could even be used to take attendance... though I guess someone could take a friend's phone to school and fake their attendance... so maybe not..
No, but it's where I live, and I was using it as an example of a non-silicon-valley city where you can find scalability related meetups.
> cleaning up user-supplied markup to at least be valid HTML

The root cause of XSS is improper user input sanitization. Usually it is in places that shouldn't allow HTML at all, where the developer forgot to properly HTML-escape the user-provided input. If not encoding it at all can slip by, then obviously not verifying that its valid HTML could too (plus, it doesn't make sense to verify valid HTML when you aren't even expecting HTML).

The focus on dangling markup is because a CSP policy that prevents unauthorized JavaScript from executing (no inline scripts, remote scripts from trusted hosts only) can resolve most of the XSS issues, but it doesn't resolve leakage of information over other channels (such as via images).

While CSP could be used to completely block images from external hosts (and thus solve the leakage issue), you sometimes do want to allow users to inline external images and so an alternative solution to prevent sensitive information from being leaked is required.

Edit: haven't seen ptoomey3's comment while I wrote mine. He explained it better :-)
I agree with every point. But while they are employed, they have money to spend both in the economy, and potentially to save for learning new skills.

It's not a cure in-and-of itself, but it is something which can help jumpstart everything else (and it frankly needs to be done regardless of the side benefits of providing employment).
times might have changed since I did this last, but go to youtube and look up "compiz linux" (added linux just in case compiz matches something else ).

I used to run XFCE + compiz, which you configure using a program called ccsm. It's not hard, either use apt-get or click on the "software" icon from the start page. Install compiz (and maybe compiz-extras or whatever), and ccsm (again, times may have changed so it might be called something else).

That will get you a 3D accelerated desktop. You can let your desktop be a rotatable cube, rubbery wobbly windows, real opacity/transparency, and an accelerated magnifying glass/zoom effect which I used quite a bit (hold down windows key and the mouse wheel zooms you in/out). It also supports inotify, so its windows-like when you put a USB in you'll get the little dialog box saying "USB stick inserted". Highly recommend you give it a spin.

Over time, I got over the coolness of it, and just switched over to xmonad so I dont even need the mouse (much) anymore.
I do appreciate this, but word clouds really are a terrible visualization method for text data. With regard to the python example, I cannot grasp at all if the frequency of self and None are similar or drastically different. The table on the value is more informative and less likely to misread.
If you want to go this route, go with the acer cloudbook 11" instead. Model: AO1-131-C9PM

I am running linux on it, but getting it up and running was a bit of a chore (you have to futz with the bios, close lid to suspend does not work, resume from suspend only works 90% of the time).

However, Acer rates it for 8 hours under windows 10. With "sudo powertop --auto-tune" it consistenttly exceeds that under linux.

The screen is passible for a low res tft, and there is no fan. Keyboard is fine (unlike most ultrabooks I have used). The touchpad really wants you to set up libinput instead of the synaptics drivers (palm detection isn't great under synaptics, but even with that, the touchpad is better than many ultrabooks I have used)

It is based on a braswell soc, which is probably why the Linux compatibility is so good (most of the peripherals are in one standardized chip...)

However it is a netbook. I'm not sure how android emulation would perform.
I know this is not a popular statement on Hacker News, but this development model existed for dozens of years before Github, and it will persist long after Github is gone.

The entire concept of a 'pull request' is a very recent fad, one with many drawbacks -- most of which have been enumerated by the very development teams you're insisting should adopt PRs. The largest single problem with PRs is the implication that we all have git repositories with a shared authentication mechanism. It's very difficult to enforce this sort of thing in a developer environment as diverse as these large projects have.

Sending patches via SMTP is arguably the most inclusive possible development model and I really value its availability in projects to which I contribute.
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Very intriguing story. I see how you guys have put so much effort in to your product and how it turns out great. I think you cant call yourselves a startup anymore. Now the future should be decided as a well established company
"There were many striking examples, and I don't want to turn this into a listicle, so let me discuss just three. Wegener showed how to prevent heat from moving into a volume. Now you might think this is just insulation, but it's not. At the border of an insulated volume, you have a temperature gradient. These gradients then distort the temperature field around the object in a way that, if you were to measure the temperature, you would know there had to be an object in the center.

The metamaterial, which consists of rings of copper (high thermal conductivity) and plastic (low thermal conductivity), guides the energy flow around the hidden volume in such a way that on all sides, the temperature gradient looks exactly as if there was no object between a heat source and the cold sink."
The Omni folks got this working for OmniOS[1]; we would love SmartOS support on AWS, but (as one might imagine) we at Joyent don't have an immediate commercial interest in it. That said, we do have a clear indirect commercial interest in it, and we would happily engage/encourage any effort for SmartOS on AWS. Given that it's been done for OmniOS, it shouldn't be difficult...

[1] https://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/Ec2Ami
You're right, both stories do seem plausible, and we're getting both sides presented through a third party who might or might not have an editorial slant as well. Still, here's the part I noticed more than anything:

"In the fall of 2015, he took a refresher course in the conduct of science, which covered topics such as ethics and misconduct. The course reminded him that, around June 2015, a member of Rubin’s lab had told him about the alleged data fabrication in the Cell Stem Cell paper."

It "reminded him"? As in, someone told him his supervisor was falsifying data, and that didn't warrant even taking notice until something had to jog your memory? While the general circumstances -- student makes false allegations vs supervisor maliciously treats student -- are both plausible, this one line, if accurate in truth and accurately worded, makes me pretty skeptical.
I always try to subscribe to individual blogs whenever I see individual posts make it on HackerNews. It gives me a good pool of stuff to look at that often gets overlooked.

I think it'd be interesting to import the OPML file into a separate RSS reader (so not to pollute my already quite large list of subscriptions) and comb through the daily individual posts.
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If I see their "Download our app!" page, doesn't that mean that I either went to their site directly via URL, used a non-Google link, or skipped the Google widgets? How would they increase their revenue by annoying me? If I use a site I only go there via search once.
Rising sea levels will swallow major coastal cities, not just "beach homes". Entire island nations will cease to exist.

Acidifying oceans are destroying marine ecosystems necessary for generating food and oxygen for the rest of the planet.

Rising temperatures might cause the release of frozen methane from ocean floor deposits and arctic permafrost. Methane accelerates greenhouse warming.

Melting ice could dilute the salt balance that drives major ocean currents and plunge Europe into an ice age while the planet bakes.

People are alarmed because the Titanic of society is cruising calmly toward an iceberg, and it takes an awfully long time to change direction, and no amount of technological advancement can swallow trillions of dollars in floods, droughts, famines, and barren seas.
It obviously differs quite a lot depending on the type of customer.

An example where I have seen the type of relationship-building salesperson outperform the aggressive kind of sales person: sales to large, stable incumbent companies in Europe.
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It rebooted on my the other night while I was actively using it :(

Granted I was up later than normal (~2:30 AM) but that's pretty bad.
Yelp used to be good until, among other things, hyperemotional crybabies destroyed it.
This seems right to me, by the principle that "actions speak louder than words". Presumably actions also speak louder than words that weren't said.
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I have no idea, I've not lived here long enough to find out.

Probably.
This was written not long after USDS was founded, and I recall thinking even then that many of his comparisons were not entirely accurate. The comments you read here are going to be more complete and up to date.
this "article" is 484 words. it's so vacuous I'm surprised it wasn't published as a tweet storm.
> People in the richer countries most likely.

Why do people here always say that? Are you expecting the consequences of Global Warming to follow some predictable pattern? Or that previously existing capital will suffice to fight long-lasting changes?

I can't imagine any of the above being true. Maybe for a short while, but not on the long term.
Fastest way to make money from my idea?
My two cents is 1.Keep your job and hack on your projects at night/weekends. 2. You'll make better decisions for your projects/businesses when you are not worried about how to pay rent.
3.Use Steve Blank's startup manual to validate your idea before you even write one line of code.
Good luck
Funnily enough, I vaguely recall that the crack for an older version involved setting a rule where the app would block its own traffic to their own license server. I'm not sure that validating a license counts as data collection, but still pretty funny IMO.
In the timeline where they fund a dozen 'protect the internet' campaigns, where they issue grants to a dozen open source projects, where they print up banners, stickers, websites, etc.

If you like, marketing is how they _keep_ their install base.
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Yes, but the problem with him is that he's a mentally unsophisticated sociopath who is being led by the nose by anyone who will say nice things about him. This is a guy who will subsidize coal over wind and solar because "I don't wanna lose jobs."
Speaking of statistics, on a related note, The Guardian keeps a tally of people killed by police in the US:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/...

Looks like numbers for January 2017 isn't in yet.
Does anybody know if the author has a public portage overlay for her setup?
> The design decision referenced in the Guardian story prevents millions of messages from being lost

So it's a classic tradeoff - convenience vs. security, and the Guardian story correctly reported it.

> and WhatsApp offers people security notifications to alert them to potential security risks.

which is not enabled by default.

Sounds to me like apart from the hyperbolic use of the word "backdoor" (which apparently has now been removed), The Guardian is in the clear here.
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A screenshot demonstrates a place where it CAN run (and potentially where the devs run it), but doesn't EXCLUDE anything.

You see screenshots of windows programs all the time with just a sidenote somewhere that is like "oh yeah, and for linux and mac too"
> At around a billion records, you start getting into distributed/scale-out systems

Yeahhh.... no. I remember running a 250-300,000,000 row postgres table of Wikipedia links on my 2010 Dell XPS and it functioning fine, if not a bit slow (it had a huge index on an array column). Good machine, but ancient now.
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Follow-up question: Aeron or Mirra 2? I'm in the market for a new chair and Herman Miller seems like a solid brand. I was considering the Aeron but the Mirra seems interesting as well.
It's in the repo. There is no guessing necessary.
Regarding years of experience this quote from Code Complete book could be useful "If you have not learned the language/framework in 1-2 years, more years won't help you" :)
No. It's blocked in Russia.
You're forgetting to factor in all the other countries who look at how the hegemony can spend $100M on blowing up a neighborhood like it's nothing, and therefore decide to kowtow to the demands of the powerful, lest they suddenly come down with a case of terrorism themselves.
"that didn't work"
One of the things that stands out to me personally is that Illumos/ Solaris values debugging (both in-situ and postmortem) far more than other platforms. Both ZFS and dtrace are brilliant examples of this as well as mdb but I'm much less well versed in the later. If you're interested I'd recommend browsing through posts of perhaps to two largest Illumos deployments.

https://www.joyent.com/blog

http://www.circonus.com/blog
I used an Atom-based netbook as my primary dev machine for a while as a student, and it was ... okay, but not recommended. I used GUIs, but not full IDEs. (I highly recommend KDE's Kate text editor.)

I've since upgraded to an Intel i3-based system which is much better (for a total budget of $450 including doing my own SSD upgrade). Both machines are Asus.

If you want to use an IDE, make sure you also get a big enough screen for it.

If all you need from Linux is Bash, Cygwin will be enough.
In the UK college is for 16-18 year olds, university in the UK is the equivalent of a IS college.
Is the keyboard backlit?
Nope, it's quite different from Little Snitch.

They're nice-looking, but don't have anything that even remotely resembles rules. All it can do is deny or allow all traffic, on per-application basis. If you want your email client to talk to only your email server but not anywhere else (as a security precaution) you'll have to use built-in Windows firewall facilities to set up such a rule.

Rule management is coming in v2.0 - or so they say - but it's not yet here.

---

Outpost Firewall used to be a powerful interactive firewall for Windows, but it's dead those days.
Linus disagrees.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56546...
I think that the attributes mentioned also scale down to fit any leadership role.

That said, it's really kind of "well, yeah, of course". Generally if you have integrity, vision, and the trust of the people you work with (or who work for you), you're going to be perceived as a leader among that group of people.
I just got a new MBP 13", without the touchbar.

The keyboard is terrible, IMO, compared to prior models. The keys are shallower, and give less; compared to e.g., a Lenovo Thinkpad (I also bought recently), it's like typing on the desk itself. No give. My "a" key gets stuck, and it's not two weeks old. Before you buy one, go by an Apple store and type on one for yourself.

The adapter situation is nuts. the MBP 13" w/o touchbar has two USB-C ports — that's it. You're effectively using one for power, leaving you with a single port that basically won't plug into anything you have. If you have a pre-existing dual monitor setup, AFAICT you're expected to sink ~$200 into adapters and hubs. (Note that most hubs seem to come with a USB-C port, so you can get a USB-C hub that will add several USB-A ports, w/o losing any USB-C ports.)

Otherwise, it seems like a MBP. Apple did finally start putting a decent amount of RAM in them. This one has 16GB compared to my last MBP's 8GB (which Chrome just devours…)

It ironically has a headphone jack though.
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Yes, with most being under 18 and those who are 18 are almost finished in college and will leave for employment or university.
I too have a Herman Miller Mirra. It would be the perfect chair if only it had a headrest. Aftermarket headrests exist for the Aeron, but I could not find any for the Mirra.

Beyond the adjustability that comes with the Mirra, I like this chair because the seat is actually a flexible mesh, rather than a traditional soft cushion. This is best for me, because it allows me to sit longer. By comparison, traditional soft cushions eventually become not-so-soft, and this will lead to pain in my tailbone. Mirra helps me avoid that pain, so I can sit longer.

I have a IKEA MARKUS too. It is perhaps even more comfortable due to it's height and headrest, but because it lacks a mesh seat like the Mirra, it's not great for long periods of sitting. (IMO)
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I don't recall there being one actual day, since we didn't go bankrupt (no company debt), we just ran out of money to keep running. I took no salary for the last year and lived on my credit cards to try to keep the company running (founders, DON'T DO THIS), so it was more a process of me realizing I was completely tapped out. I really had trouble giving up on the dream. I had been hoping we could pull out a breakthrough and make it work, but it didn't happen.

There is one day I remember very well. I had decided to throw in the towel and start looking for another job. We had been operating in a college town, and I knew the job prospects were poor there, so I took a few weeks to look for a job elsewhere. I was contacted by my apartment telling me I was being evicted. I drove back to get my stuff out and clean up. By the time I arrived, it was night. The electricity had been off for a few weeks, so the lights were out. It was a hot Florida summer, and there was no A/C, so I stripped down to my shorts and using a flashlight I moved my stuff into my car. Then I cleaned it as best as I could by the light of the flashlight. I still remember cleaning out the fridge which had been turned off for weeks, with the bugs in it jumping on my bare chest in the flickering light. I was thinking "This is not my life".

I survived that. You can survive this.