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This definitely needs a citation. It sounds like internet conspiracy theory trash. Wikipedia seems to have no mention of this either.

I am especially amused by the claim that at one point there was a compromising picture on the internet, as if there is a viable way to eliminate such a thing from continued existence on the internet.
By that point it's too late? If I want to register a domain, but have no money or time, I'm not going to incorporate just to do it. If a year later it goes viral and starts making enough money to be worth incorporating, my information is already public.

If I then move it to a business address, that will prevent casual snoopers but you can buy access to historical whois records...
Cool! Well done (to your parents).
The problem with this argument is a lot of language communities grow into large communities, and often have lots of discussion areas which are not central to the language topic. E.g. they may have a place to discuss video games, or other languages, or politics. Even if they don't it's not uncommon for people to chat socially during down-time. Unless you're going to outlaw all socialising, the "off-topic" approach doesn't work for large communities.
> there is no solid reason why modern offices need to be all located in the same downtown

My experience is that working in downtown is more productive - and, fundamentally, much more fun - than working in an office park or at home in the middle of nowhere. You can learn a lot from bouncing off people who work in similar-but-not-quite-the-same fields, and just having good lunch options is a huge win.
There are other countries speaking German, that have a different outlook on privacy.

However, as usual there are parts of the german society that won't have any issues using stuff like Alexa. "I have nothing to hide" is also a popular way of thinking in Germany, history be damned.
You would be surprised. Echo was released here quite recently, and adoption, at least in my demographic (webdev) is quite high. I myself have an echo dot which I use mostly to control my lights or annoy my friends with crappy jokes and the occasional easter egg.
Neither Github nor Twitter have a code of conduct; they have a Terms of Service document. TOS, unlike CoCs, are written by lawyers because the goal is a full-featured CYA. And they generally contain the legalesed disclaimer "we're free to get rid of you whenever we feel like, for whatever reason we feel like". I'm sure twitter also has some extra community rules somewhere.

CoCs are worrisome because they tend to emulate that behaviour, and I certainly do not condone overreaching TOS, but you can't equate those two situations. It's the behaviour of people vs. the behaviour of companies.
I'm not sure how these things follow together, can you elaborate?

(1) I wasn't going to convince the harassers that they were wrong about what they were saying, and I certainly wasn't going to convince the people being harassed that they should stick around in a community that was being hostile.

(2) Most people were either unaware of the threat, or else not directly affected and stayed quiet.

(3) The CoC was something of a final arbiter to put a stop to the harassment, and I had tried diligently to do so before putting on my admin hat or pulling out the CoC.

(4) I've seen many other situations where similar things have played out. Without CoCs people would have either been banned from the project, or others would have left, being able to put a stop to something has helped.

Considering (1), the CoC wouldn't have convinced the harassers to stop either, yet considering (4), you got a different outcome than people being banned from the project. How did having a CoC accomplish this? I can see how (2) would be affected by a CoC since it gives you an easy way to communicate to people a possible threat. However, there are negative effects to that as well - e.g. politically-inclined people gaming a CoC by passive-aggressively getting under the skin of their opponents until they have an emotional outburst, then using the CoC to remove them from the project.
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Not exactly. AirBnb's core business is urban partial rentals (where they started as a direct competitor to Couchsurfing). They've been expanding into the VRBO space in the last few years, but that's a closely related segment.

AirBnb has very few properties in the high end price range and people who are willing and able to drop that kind of money on a rental are looking for a very different experience, from booking to the stay. I doubt very much that any AirBnb or VRBO owner is very concerned about either company making a move into luxury rentals.
you felt wrong. I write programs, but also add CoCs if there's more than a few folks are contributing.
Thanks, that was quite helpful.

I would say that "compress, then encrypt is bad" is the wrong message to take away from this type of vulnerability. In the case of CRIME in particular, the issue was that:

1. The attacker provided part of the message.
2. The rest of the message contained a secret.
3. The entire message (attacker-provided-part and secret) were compressed together.

We can stop there; the length of the compressed data now contains information about the similarity between the attacker-provided content and the secret.

The correct lesson to take away from this is "do not compress a combination of attacker-provided content and secrets". Compressing before encrypting is perfectly sensible. (And, by the way, compressing after encrypting isn't better, it is useless since your encrypted content ought to be incompressible.)
The error you're making is in assuming that those are always clearly separate. There are many examples of people who were talking about on-topic technical concepts but used examples or made “jokes” which were not.

Having a clear CoC is simply a shortcut: if, say, a speaker uses a bikini picture in a slide you can simply point to it and say “you broke the CoC” rather than rehashing the nth argument about how much sexualization is acceptable in a technical context. It's like the difference between having a standard license and contributor agreement versus making it up as you go along: more work up front but it avoids problems which become more time-consuming as the number of people involved grows.
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But I don't think huge metropolis are the way to go. It would be better to have many smaller cities.
Their FAQ indicates they update the index every two months, but no information on what they do with the data in the meantime.

Ideally this scanner would be a feature of a Github or a Bitbucket or a Gitlab, etc, itself. They could've decided to contact them to add this as a feature, or decided to contact repository owners, but instead they decided to sell the data publicly. Real shame.
My pessimistic guess is that end-to-end encryption will be removed from WhatsApp, Allo, etc., in a matter of time with flowery language like, "...to provide the best possible experience that our users expect and deserve, and to empower our users with choice, we're switching the default (to quick plaintext communications)...the communication will still be secure through encryption on the network from client to server to client."

Then it'll become like Messenger, where end-to-end encryption is an explicit choice (similar to Secret Chats in Telegram). Not that people using WhatsApp would really care. The stickiness factor is quite high.
A few years back Linux Voice reviewed Bitwig and they seemed to like it a lot:

https://www.linuxvoice.com/issues/003/LV3bitwig.pdf

As plugins go, many good ones are available in LV2 or similar formats so no problem on that front.
What if your workplace built over one or two parking spots and replaced them with a shower and a row of lockers?
If you read the link, you'll see that one of the people conducting the witch-hunt created an issue calling for a CoC. It's a good example of the mentality and its link to CoCs.:

"strand referenced this issue on Jun 18, 2015
Closed
Create a Code of Conduct #942"
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I know what you're trying to say, but to the average user (which Ubuntu probably targets), does it matter?

If you look at the whole product, there's much more to it than Linux. Linux is 'just' the kernel, I doubt the average Joe cares what kernel his device runs. Most probably don't know that their Android phone is powered by Linux, too. Also, this leads to the old "GNU/Linux" discussion. Where would Canonical stop acknowledging important parts of the OS? Ubuntu GNU/Linux/systemd/libinput/Mesa/Qt...

I'd also love to see Canonical mention that Ubuntu uses Linux, but I understand that for their product and their target group, it doesn't really matter (and it may seem more important to push forward the brand "Ubuntu").
It's not practical to not have devices. The only defense against loss of information is to make the information itself useless: bake strong expiration dates and revocable keys, etc. into everything. It should reach the point where losing everything you have to "the shadows" might only harm you for the next 60 seconds until all your keys change.
For those who don't know, Jack allows to plug any software, virtual instrument or sound card in/out into any other one almost as simply as it would be on a physical mixer. This is also the meaning of Freedom: you are not condemned to follow the editor choices in term of possibilities.
that's why i saw the value in them too. I don't think it changed very much since then either. See the mailing list thread about introducing one for PHP. It's not pretty.
The only computer that runs windows in my house is my dual boot machine. My parents and my sister all have ubuntu distros, because 99% of the time they just need firefox and a text editor.
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First of all, I get that CoC come from good intentions. But the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

> If someone is going to be put off by the fact that mightn't be able to say something hateful if they decided they wanted to, then I'd rather not have that person in my community.

This is the problem right here. It's so polarising! I'm not a hateful person, but you've just painted me as such for advocating a bit of liberty and temperance. With language like that you give me no choice but to take the other position. And so I won't be part of such communities. The world isn't black and white, us vs. them. It's full of persons, real people, and simplifying them like that is a mistake.

> I think that's a very negative way of looking at a CoC.

I've said it somewhere else in this thread, but codifying something is inflexible and doesn't allow for any nuance. Any set of rules will have either loopholes or vagueness. Better not to write them down, who knows how people will interpret them (see religious texts, which I'd argue were usually written with good intentions). I'm in favour of handling things on a case by case basis. So yes, I have a negative view on rules and especially written rules in general.

> The CoC was something of a final arbiter to put a stop to the harassment

You're example isn't very convincing. The CoC itself is useless, it needs to be enforced by community members. Such enforcement can and should happen without a CoC, e.g. consensus that someone was acting improperly is sufficient.

BTW, formatting quotes in the way you have completely breaks the reflow on mobile. I bring this up because having the same perspective isn't easy. Nobody has the whole picture and the benefit of the doubt should always be given.
Simply put, you need a better registrar. Namecheap should step up and edit your contact info to whatever you want, push out that ICANN email again, and let you ack it. We've done this many times for customers. We also don't charge $5/yr for domains. But you get what you pay for. Sorry if this sounds harsh, but these things happen all the time with cheap i-services. If your business is a little more important, you need to pay a little more for exceptional cases like this.
The other stereotype is that the poorest people are crammed into high-crime downtown areas while the middle class live out in the suburbs. I don't know which way the statistics line up.
So the next step is being put under scrutiny at border control for not having a device on you.
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Well, this post was a marketing post, not a product release. Product release posts in Azure are much more informative for a dev that this post.
It's the usual stuff: gas stations, grocery stores, restaurants, office parks.

When you had to drop your kids off to school, did you just throw them on the handlebars? What happened when you switched jobs? Did you restrict your prospective employers to a 2 mile radius, or did you just buy a new house and have two mortgages until your old house sold?

What you are saying is fine, but it only works for a select group of people (read: single). Trying to force everyone to do the same thing through punitive taxes is short sighted. There are much better ways to reduce the carbon footprint of vehicles than the just tax people who need them to get to work every day.
Compare the all-in cost spent supporting drivers (including e.g. the value of public land that's used for roads) with the total revenue received from them.
"Debuts", really? "Enhancement"? This is a restoration of what used to be standard decades ago before airlines became cheapskates. Do not let the marketing fool you; they made flying "less crappy".
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I suspect it would be easy to secure GitHub's cooperation in this, but almost certainly not for money or via a black box.
It's fine to have a hobby you enjoy, but you shouldn't expect taxpayers to pay you for it.
Well, sure, but he's describing people who have known him a long time.

>Yesterday, I got told by someone I really care about

>The day before that, one of my very closest friends and someone who I love like family told me

If these people are as close to the author as he claims, then this assumption-projection thing I don't think would hold up. They don't need to backfill with assumptions about "what would a rich guy think" because they should know the author well enough not to have those kinds of gaps.
German parent here. No one is going to destroy anything just because some agency asks for it. That's for sure ;-).
Isn't it just a very common and boring case of "Ubuntu has gotten too mainstream"? People like to be niche.
I never thought about it that way but makes total sense. Clearly you 'get' it!
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Electric bikes are becoming popular. They are fast and need almost no exertion.
What would be the annual rent on the public land that's currently dedicated to roads?
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The data is public, there is absolutely nothing wrong with this and you should put it back online.
> A spokesman for the federal agency told Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily that Cayla amounted to a "concealed transmitting device", illegal under an article in German telecoms law (in German).

Funny, but when the State does Surveillance, all of a sudden it's OK.
Oh, there's definitely a deep state and has been for decades. It's the same deep state that tried to get MLK to commit suicide. It's almost impossible to get rid of without burning down the intelligence agencies. It's got a long history of fair-to-disastrous interventions in other countries. It's not going to go away no matter who you elect, but it might be reined in a bit.

The deep cynic in me is enjoying watching the CIA flail helplessly as someone inflicts on them what they've inflicted on other countries: a disruptive right-wing leader supported by the intelligence services of a hostile power.

They've talked up "cyberwar" for so long without realising that it wouldn't be big fat obvious targets like power plants that got hit, but the machinery of civil society, parties and media. Or that internet astroturf could be so effective.
> So the trending news section went from left leaning legitimate news stories under human editors to a bunch of spam.

Geex, let me guess. You are left leaning too! People like me think mainstream media promotes the most fake news.

So it's dangerous to censor any news, being that Truth is a hot topic these days.

Disagree? I have plenty of evidence...

http://i.4cdn.org/pol/1487334551064.jpg

http://i.4cdn.org/pol/1487334952201.png

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http://i.4cdn.org/pol/1487336663207.jpg

http://i.4cdn.org/pol/1487336681334.jpg

But sure, keep supporting the censors so we keep getting more divided. I don't mind, the right wing is getting most of generation z, and more and more people see the lies as what they are by MSM - FAKE NEWS!
Or social media companies.
...reluctant to adopt systemd...

Ubuntu weren't alone in that.
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> After a century or two, most countries would be significantly uninhabitable

It's bad, I know, but this seems off by a few orders of magnitude. This appears to be a general problem when reasoning about radiation.
If posting individual issues in each project, likely to be seen first by contributors is a bad idea, how is creating a paid search engine likely to be used by people who specifically want to find secrets and not likely to be used/seen by contributors a good thing?
If you can ssh into your machine, it will tell you in the initial welcome message. I've been running it on my server since soon after release (I've only ever updated), and I've just now logged into it:

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When I was in semiconductor manufacturing, we tried using a hafnium oxide layer in the capacitor dielectric for our DRAM. It did not go well, if I recall correctly (10 years back). Not for design reasons -- we were using it for its dielectric properties, not its ferromagnetic ones -- but for process reasons. It was hell on the diffusion furnaces. Flakes everywhere, wafers sticking. Lots of angry morning meetings.
Thing is, density restrictions help neighborhoods survive extreme growth. Connection to your neighbors, and retention of the qualities that attracted you to the city in the first place are vital for a city to retain their population.

Regulation certainly needs to be updated, but favoring density is not always a good thing.
Yep, narcissism is a bitch. Especially when it perpetuates denial that the common factor in one's issues is oneself.
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But off-topic discussions in e.g. Github PRs? I don't think it belongs in the code base. If there were such a code, it could be shown/available wherever the discussion is taken place, e.g. forum, mailing list instead.
> WhatsApp is from Facebook and it implements the Signal protocol which offers end-to-end encryption

You have no way to know what is actually running on their servers.
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The physical behavior of a horse is better understood than that of an electron and might make it easier to consider the subject at hand, though. We know what path the horse will travel and we know that when the horse reaches the barn, it will go splat (well, in this case the barn will go splat). There are several competing theories that could describe what happens with the electron and the exotic particle, though.

Also, it's fun to picture a horse travelling at relatavistic speeds :)
That's why GoF book is available in the library.

People write more concrete tutorials and publish online. Abstract literature is for researchers and Concrete literature is for people who need a quick solution.
The best way to master C++, although perhaps not the most practical, is:

- Build a time machine

- Go back to 1988 and get hold of Bjarne's first book and a Zortech compiler

- Grow old, tinkering with and constantly keeping tabs on the language's evolution.

In this way, what seems to the modern neophyte like a massive indigestible meal is actually presented as a procession of smaller courses, most of which are an improvement on the ones preceding.
What's interesting about this, is Cayla is just a bluetooth speaker. The accompanying Android app is what people have been modifying, not remotely but locally. I think the entire thing has been blown out of proportion. Give anyone physical access to your device and they can do a lot worse than make a bluetooth speaker say some offensive words...
> I think sometimes yes.

Damaging democracy to impose your ideal on the majority is called tyranny. Simply put, you are a totalitarian. Now note that I am not judging. I'm just trying to be accurate and to the point.
Would it be against the GitHub terms of service to do such an email?
This is a bad argument. Just because there’s a lot of chatter about Swift, doesn’t mean there’s more Swift code than ObjC out there. Of the 31 apps I have installed on my jailbroken phone, 9 contain libswift libraries. Of course, that doesn’t even mean the entire apps are written in Swift; most of the uses I see are for app extensions probably because they’re a more recent addition. Worse on my Mac – 7 out of 94 non-Apple apps installed.

You don’t throw away good code just because “eh, I like Swift better”. Couldn’t imagine having to justify rewriting good code to my employer. If it works, you keep shipping it till it breaks, then when it does break you spend a while fixing it and continue shipping it. Only when that becomes unviable do you consider rewriting it, and depending on the developer/project situation that may very well be in Swift.

Microsoft fell into the trap of rewriting good code with the failed Windows Longhorn project – for what was meant to be a minor release, they burned a heap of time rewriting large portions of Explorer (taskbar, start menu, folder windows) in C#. Explorer in all beta releases since the rewrite began were very unstable. They scrapped it and kept the existing C++ codebase. Fast forward now, Explorer still runs great in Windows 10 with the same C++ code, right? See also the Joel on Software article everyone usually links when this topic comes up: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

Music, Calculator, and a minor part of the new Messages app were rewritten in Swift in iOS 10. Dock was supposedly rewritten in Swift in macOS Sierra, ditto Notification Center. Plenty of Touch Bar code is Swift. I think the fact that they’ve started to use Swift with new non-framework code is pretty important. But I’m certain there will still be ObjC in service for way longer than Apple removes its last line of it from the codebase. It can’t just be phased out like Rosetta or Carbon, especially when 3rd party apps are what keep iPhone sales up.
Actually upstart came before systemd.
"People who can code in the world of technology companies are a dime a dozen and get no respect. People who can code in biology, medicine, government, sociology, physics, history, and mathematics are respected and can do amazing things to advance those disciplines."

Damn, that's some truth. What I've learned in the last few years is that I take a lot for granted because I've been working in this field since the early 90s. There are tons of businesses that would benefit from someone who knows how to use Excel really well.