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based on http://www.randelshofer.ch/fhw/gri/holzihelp.html I came up with this:

https://gist.github.com/mar77i/46bd25504dd9e81d0ca7778efcee4...
The Internet Archive has that goal (archive.org), it’s paid for by Brewster Kahle personally.

> Is there any project which strives to preserve our current knowledge about humanity in some sort of long-term storage so that also people in 500 or 2000 years will be able to reconstruct
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What about the people who neither smoke nor drink coffee?
Sorry, I don’t buy it. I think people tell themselves that to justify why those evil smokers have hearted the system! Obviously it is ok to take a break if people are taking breaks to smoke.
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I'd certainly be very impressed if cryptocurrencies reached the point where they could affect the economy that much in the near future. The current market capitalization of all cryptos comes out to under $200 billion [1], while the US housing market was nearly $30 trillion as of last December [2]. So it would have to grow 150x somehow.

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/
[2] http://zillow.mediaroom.com/2016-12-30-U-S-Housing-Worth-Rec...
Yeah, this has nothing to do with the smoking. Just the fact that you allow your mind to wander. The same effect can be had from taking a shower.
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glad that Linus is still 100% passionate on _his_ kernel. I will start to worry for the future of Linux when Linus stops doing such rants.
Two things with that, you're assuming immutability but even a simple database entity object wouldn't be immutable. And secondly, anything over a handful of values and setting them via a constructor isn't pretty.
Website does not load. Same as https://github.com/vuejs-templates/pwa for react?
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That's fine when it's code that you wrote, but it would be really annoying to me as a user if htop (for example) started crashing on a kernel upgrade (instead of one the columns suddenly being zero).
You know about the dangers of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_smoking ?
Cool! Who's the author / editor?
We didn't use Yubikeys, but I've used a hardware module to go from encrypted request -> signed plaintext request. A compromised CPU has no way to emit a new signed request, so it can't forge a a request + computation, only fail to compute or emit an invalid proof object.

I don't know about Yubikeys, but if they can sign their emitted plaintext, they could be used to similar effect.
I think it advocates wrong attitude towards software development and I think most points made in the article are just plain wrong and stupid.

I guess the main reason for my condescending sentiment is due that the author gives 0 examples of code that requires tests vs code that does not so it is actually not.
Raymond Chen's URLs have changed but the original articles [0][1] are still available.

[0]https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031015-00/?p=...

[1]https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031223-00/?p=...
Kinda cool how it's all generated from an org-mode file: https://blog.lizzie.io/linux-containers-in-500-loc.org

Really nice example of the power of literate programming in general and of org-mode's support for it in particular.
They get bathroom break :-)
> During the next WW3 or WW4 those museums might burn down and all archaeologist might be killed in an anti-intellectual purge.

And during no particular war at all, the local government may decide to demolish artifacts and sites for political reasons. For example, China and Tibetan statues and temples. I'm not sure the original locations are very safe either.

Edit: I was actually incorrectly remembering Chinese mining destruction in Afghanistan.[1] I'm not aware of a direct attack on Tibetan artifacts by China beyond their actions to repress the religion in general.

1: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/07/ho...
Disagree. It seems like Linus’ acerbic and direct means of communicating is the only thing keeping garbage code out of the kernel. He’s also made his views on “why not be nicer” well known. People need to get over it - his project, his rules.

Plenty of other projects out there to hack on if getting yelled at when you disengage your brain is too much. Most of which don’t have the obsession with not breaking stuff for the end user...
Congratulations to you and your team for inventing what i'd call Neural Network Trolling (NNT), and thus giving us humans a way to escape the tyranny of automated decision systems.

The consequences for the future can be enormous, seriously.
Significantly more for senior quantitative or HFT engineers.
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Isn't "the real economy" by definition a social phenomenon?
Rather than hire the person who continues to do his day job at night, or who maintains an organized workstation, I'd hire the person that actually provides value to the company.
>you build and test your app live and then dump it all to a text file

The Tcl shell is really great for doing this. Since everything can be represented as a string-type, you're able to introspect your defined procedures and dump them to disk.
I was thinking in the case the civilization lost access to a lot of basic data. Then finding the magic satellite without magic radar, maybe without even knowing about the magic satellite amongst all the other satellites up there.
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Understood. But what happens if everyone in an organisation reacts in the same way? Is it a useful leadership style?
> They promise 1%/day returns

No, if you read their terms they promise nothing. They basically say the whole thing could blow up at any minute. That said, they have been around for a year. Maybe you're thinking about their earnings calculator where they use the average returns from the past 6 months to calculate approximate future earnings (which is close to 1% daily).

That said, I'm not sure it's a ponzi scheme exactly. When you buy traditional stock, you buy them with cash. When you buy their coin (their "stock" if you will), you give them bitcoin. Then you lend their coin back to them. So now they're holding the bitcoin and their own coin that you lent back to them. Now they have two assets with value that they can pay you a small percentage of. Bitcoin tends to go up in value, which again they can pay you a percentage of, not to mention buying their coin in general creates demand which drives the price of that coin up too -- more growth that they can pay a return on.

BCC (bitconnect coin) is also traded on half a dozen exchanges. So, there are a lot of legit companies taking a gamble on it if it's a ponzi scheme. Also, ponzi schemes don't normally give you an asset in return that you can exchange elsewhere that is documented on a public blockchain; bitconnect does (unless you lend that coin to their trading bot).
> Is this actually a problem which current archaeologist think about?

That's not really an archaeologist problem. But there are a few projects to do things like print off wikipedia on low acid paper and store it in vaults.

Also the memory of mankind project is storing ceramic tablets in a salt mine.

https://www.memory-of-mankind.com/

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161018-the-worlds-knowledg...
I agree with how he's saying it. He's being honest. He's letting you know where he stands and what the rule is, without any kind of hidden message or room for interpretation. The other guy? Not being so honest.
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You could put in an orbit that would have a predefined reentry in the future. Design the satellite to survive reentry and somehow safely land in a way that relies on a mechanical system that wouldn't degrade like electronics in space would.
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It means that software is robust enough to be safely deployed on airplanes or vehicles so that safety is not compromised. Imagine if there were some bugs in the software that could potentially endanger safety of plane full of people.
lifthrasiir also sort of touched on this (and I endorse their comment), but as a thought experiment, imagine what word processing formats would look like if MSFT hadn't owned .doc, but instead, WordPerfect and maybe two other competitors also shared the format.

When a popular format can't be unilaterally controlled by one actor, both the users and the market as a whole tend to be better off.
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It's a pyramid scheme in a sense that you depend on others to keep buying the bitcoin. If everyone suddenly lost trust in bitcoin you would lose everything, because technically, it has zero real value.

That's why all the "bitcoin enthusiasts" keep hyping it up. They know that once the mania stops, people who didn't cash out will be left holding the bag.

Currently, it's nothing more than a speculative asset. You might as well invest in high-yield risky stocks.

The blockchain itself is pretty great though.
> The main threat that HTTPS everywhere secures against is preventing your ISP from analyzing your traffic in order to build and sell an advertising profile on you.

That is not true. The main threat it protects against is MitM (man in the middle attacks) that allow someone to redirect all traffic to a website through their machine and thus see all the data including your password.

HTTPS when combined with root certificate trust is very effective at preventing these kind of attacks. Without it, using any shared internet at all (such as a company, school, or coffee shop) to log into any website or enter your credit card would be trivially easy to hack.

Seriously, I can boot up Wireshark, go to my coffee shop and easily see every non-HTTPS communication going over the network. IM messages, emails, and in cases like this post suggests... passwords too.

Edit: As a side note... I do this all the time to reverse engineer the wireless protocol for IOT devices since most of them do not use HTTPS yet. I use it for personal use but it could be used for harm as well. For instance, if the security cameras are IP cameras over HTTP I could probably intercept the password and use it to remotely turn off the cameras.
No idea. It's very difficult to time the market.
Among the large organisations using internal Wikis is the CIA:

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/...

As with other technology, a key element of adoption is actually creating a culture of use and support, as well as internal advocates and management buy-in.

I'd argue that if your organisation doesn't presently have a wiki, it's well behind the times. Though that may be a bit of a bias on my part. Looking through NNGroup (Jacob Nielsen's Internet usability site, which focuses strongly on intranets), they're not heavily mentioned, though they do turn up.
There is a massive difference between a 6 month old and a 10 year old and both would be considered children.

In that time period all of the brain infrastructure to do single shot/transfer learning at speed is developed. So showing a 10 year old a picture of an elephant with relevant label could probably be learned in a single shot. Not so with a 1 year old.
> I don't understand what option one has to do with any of this, if you can switch keys there's nothing any amount of extra hardware can do. In that case, just use the key you switched to.

Take TLS/HTTPS as an example. The underlying assumption is that your browser's and/or OS certificate store are trusted. If an attacker compromises your machine and adds a new certificate to that "trusted" store, all secure communication is broken. That is the inherent weakness of public-key crypto.

Back to the Yubikey scenario. Let's say a remote server R wants to talk to the Yubikey Y on your PC. Y initially generates a key pair and then (somehow) securely delivers the public key to the remote server R. Clearly, whenever R sends something to Y, an attacker wouldn't be able to decrypt the message unless it has the private key which is securely stored on the HSM.

Scenario (1) above was looking at the case of an attacker who somehow "tricks" R into updating/replacing/revoking the original public key and inserting his own key into the remote key database. If successful, the attacker could then intercept all inbound communication from the remote server and decrypt it.

> The sales page promises the following, but I didn't quickly find any details on how it works:

It looks like marketing speak to me honestly. If the computer/server the Yubikey is talking to is compromised, there really is nothing stopping an attacker from using the Yubikey to perform arbitrary encryptions and decryptions.
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There is certainly research that standing for longish periods of time is bad, so neither sitting nor standing desks are really a solution, but I would be very surprised if moving were bad.
> As a side note, the debate is not that simple. Vaccines work, but many vaccines are manufactured without what many would consider proper testing, and using toxic substances banned in different countries.

Those are big claims without any supporting evidence. From the sounds of it, you're repeating the anti-vax claims about mercury.
No they don't. At least one of them has a number after it.
Weather Timeline. Seriously, it's really good. Looks amazing and is just intuitive. Honestly most of the apps (Weather Channel) suck compared to this.
> For every creative person this is suicide.

One of my greater recent personal concerns has been why my 'new ideas' bin remains empty for so much longer than it used to. Several culprits exist, but it's clear that constantly having a way to amuse or inform myself with a wide variety of fresh, new entertainment or factual minutiae to "fill in the cracks" of my day is a major perpetrator. I just remarked yesterday how I don't hardly mind standing in line any more.

Back when I worked on a production line (with the shortest breaks allowed by law), I would fill napkins with all kinds of scribbles for at least half of my break time. A similar thing happened with text files in a very different setting, when my duties consisted of waiting for a phone to occasionally ring.

The big question is how to properly cultivate the type of boredom that leads to this creative mental state. Neither of those situations I mentioned are ones I would choose to experience again.
It is fairly amusing that the universities want to pretend that "salary" part should be nearly zero for those who work on a research at the universities.
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Bitcoin isn't suffering from a lack of uptake, right now.
I'm so tired of people trying to validate and prop up cryptocurrency with horrible comments and logic. Hanging a mediocre Van Gogh above your toilet? Unbelievable.
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That's a cool idea, but it leaves everything pretty manual. LastPass already offers the ability to automatically update your passwords for a large number of the biggest/most used sites that seems to work pretty well:
https://blog.lastpass.com/2014/12/introducing-auto-password-...
Have we solved the issue of server-side rendering + code splitting? I see both in features, but last time we attempted this, we had to give up one of those features.
Not automatically but you can use something such as Gasmask (https://github.com/2ndalpha/gasmask) to easily manage your host.
When they say, "Hey we're going for coffee, want to come?" you could reply "Sure, I'll come for the walk!".

I don't think anyone is going to call you out, it would be quite hypocritical of them.
"Linus has made it incredibly damn clear what "no user space regressions ever" mean."

Absolute shame he doesn't even know the basic definition of 'regression' and uses the word incorrectly in every way.

Breaking shit is simply breaking shit. It's not a regression unless something was broken first, then fixed, then the SAME ISSUE comes back in a later code change.
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> The way he speaks in this email is ugly, wrong

If that's the way problems get solved, then he's right in using it

If you ask nicely and people don't do it, or keep ignoring it then you up the tone
Does it need to? This is the rule for Linux development. Other kernels need not follow it if it doesn’t make sense.
> We really need to stop excusing Linus's behaviour. Just because we may happen to agree with what he is saying doesn't mean we also have to agree with how he is saying it.

I couldn't agree more.

More than ten years ago I was involved in the Monotone project. It was a VCS which was an ancestor to Git and a contemporary of Mercurial.

That project really prioritised good conduct, and having a well functioning community. It was a huge awakening for me. Insisting, gently, upon respectful and kind behaviour made it a project I'm proud to have been a part of.

I'm still grateful to graydon, pcwalton and all the other folks that made it such a great project to be involved with. In free software we need more leaders like that, who set the right example.
Why isnt radar used for pyramid? If we have ground-penetrating radar it should work for pyramids, no?
> acerbic and direct

Isn't this just swearing?

> the only thing keeping garbage code out of the kernel.

I'm not sure if I'm buying that. It's possible, sure but on the other hand: It's not because the other way (i.e. communicating in a nice way, without all the swearing and direct attacks - which is imo not the same as direct communication) hasn't been tried that somehow proves it won't work.
E.g. I know repos where one maintainer is kind yet gets things done, and another one seems to have borrowed his communication style from Linus and gets less done. Because people just give up, being sick of being yelled at in an unpolite manner. Is it that hard to be respectful, even when disagreeing?
Despite the fact that they can be used for similar purposes, the underlying formats are radically different.

TAR is a 'Tape Archive'... the metadata for each file is adjacent to the file contents itself. (Which is what you'd expect for a format designed for a linear access media like tape.)

For ZIP, there's a single unified directory structure that can be used as an index into the file.
Well, smokers randomly leave for smoke breaks several times daily. Non smokers don’t do that. So smokers get more breaks, even if non smokers could step outside for 15 minutes at a time theoretically. Also it’s socially acceptable for smokers to do this, less so for non smokers to randomly leave for breaks. Can you explain what you’re not getting?
Yes we have.. with "pages" we can do that now. I can explain more if needed :)
> Still not sure what you're saying. What do you mean by "negotiate"?

OK, then what do you mean by "consensus"?

> As long as we're using Wikipedia, the article for consensus in computer science explicitly mentions Bitcoin.

Yes, and wrongly, too. Especially that the specific problem of establishing
consensus that the Wikipedia page talks about has, since its very first paper,
the impossibility proof at 1/3 of the participants, compared to 1/2 for
Bitcoin (which means that Bitcoin is something different than consensus with
Byzantine faults).
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Good point. I changed.
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In some ways we all are but I think we are forgetting the most important aspect. Using it for payments. That utility use case is more important because at some point the price will go down
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