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Richard Stallman is also a proponent of sharing passwords

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/09/msg01810.html

Why GNU `su' does not support the `wheel' group
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(This section is by Richard Stallman.)

Sometimes a few of the users try to hold total power over all the
rest. For example, in 1984, a few users at the MIT AI lab decided to
seize power by changing the operator password on the Twenex system and
keeping it secret from everyone else. (I was able to thwart this coup
and give power back to the users by patching the kernel, but I wouldn't
know how to do that in Unix.)

However, occasionally the rulers do tell someone. Under the usual
`su' mechanism, once someone learns the root password who sympathizes
with the ordinary users, he or she can tell the rest. The "wheel
group" feature would make this impossible, and thus cement the power of
the rulers.

I'm on the side of the masses, not that of the rulers. If you are
used to supporting the bosses and sysadmins in whatever they do, you
might find this idea strange at first.
I'm in my mid 40s and active professional developer who goes back and forth between being a team lead, an architect, and a developer depending on what interest me at the moment.

I've found with older developers they fall in two camps - old set in their ways, didn't keep up with technology and its harder to teach them modern best practices. The other type are the ones who have learned a lot from their experience and are aggressive learners. I don't think older developers are ever "malleable" we are always stuck in our ways. Our ways just may be "this is the way I've always done it" or "I love technology and learn for the sake of learning" or "I learn aggressively to stay competitive".

As far as being 10x better, the other side of the coin is that it doesn't matter if you're 10x better if your skill set is more than the company needs.

If all your company needs is another CRUD app and you've gained expertise in AI, they aren't going to pay you more based on you being better.
That sounds awesome. Maybe paint some landscapes on the walls and have nice lighting in there too. Underground bike lanes for the win!
Not a bad rationale, even if consumers don’t complain. DDOS sucks up a lot of bandwidth in aggregate, and this is a cheap way to reclaim some of it.
How does the fact that he is not invested give him the right to spread false informations and throw dirt? When i see bullshit, i call it out. simple as that.

My opinion is as good as his. But my sources are much better and reliably researched and obviously not biased.
America's courts unlike the UK routinely award punitive damages. Suing someone for causing you injury in the UK may only net you the cost of your medical bills (which might be negligible) and the cost of missed work.
This was meant as an utopian near future result, which of course is only possible with some optimizations to the bitcoin software. I don't believe in the current version Bitcoin.
Yep -- CEO of ledgerx here, all these comments are all incredibly wrong.
Hey, one of the developers here! Happy to see this on Hacker news, thought the CMS is still in heavy development.
Happy to answer questions and I hope we can stay on the problem/technology/product topic and oversee all the crazy speculation stuff ;)
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Exactly. A prime example of this is the “quality” software at financial companies.
Just an fyi, the name of this library is the most common swear word in Russian.
No exactly a "side project".
This capacity is only for a fully expendable vehicle (See http://www.spacex.com/about/capabilities). Reusable payload is subtantially less, although not specified on their website.

Also it's 140000 lbs, or 63800kg.
Some hedge funds do not have any uptight culture and they will most likely readily embrace the goofy glasses and gloves. Way better than a cluster of 6 monitors.
As someone who lives in Copenhagen: that's because the cycling lanes system in Berlin is pretty terrible and is set up opposite to how it's set up here, in regards to where the cycling lanes are. Having seen it I'd never try to use it myself whenever I go to Berlin. No offense, but the way people cycle there is also scary: here I can count 100% on the cyclists (myself included when cycling) to follow the rules and behave predictably like cars do, in Berlin it's chaos; stuff like respecting right of way like cars do, obeying traffic lights, not cycling in the wrong direction and dear god stay away from the sidewalks.

I've no problem with cyclists when driving here but holy hell whenever I drive anywhere else in Europe (haven't been in the Netherlands by car so I can't judge there, though it looked fine) the incredibly bad behaviours I constantly see legit make me angry at them.
Normally temperatures in south Germany (Stuttgart, Munich) are between +10 and +25 Celsius in summer and between 0 and +10 in winter. The climate is mild and humid without strong winds. There are much fewer sunny days in comparison with US, so we certainly do not sweat while cycling :)
How were you able to update the database frequently with python? I’m trying to basically have a database that mirrors historical data on an exchange, that also updates every 5 minutes — I’m trying to decide between a node server / python aws lambda.
tl;dr: The problem isn't the "body cam". The problem is that the victims can't get at the body cam footage due to various rules put in place by departments and police unions.
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> Moore's law is gone

For CPUs, yes. For GPUs, not as far as I am aware. And rendering is the traditional GPU task.
And twitter became a successful (questionable) company with buggy code and the infamous "fail whale". You don't need good code, you sometimes just need shippable code to get by until the company executes on their exit strategy.
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British wine glasses have got bigger over the years
How unique is CloudSek's AI-driven offering?
Keeping fiat money carries a risk of losing money due to unknowable future events (zombie apocalypse?).

Is it gambling?
There is no universal metric to gauge productivity of software engineers.

The added value a software engineer produces with his work in a single unit of time has a huge variance. Furthermore, it can range from negative to positive.

I.e, it does not matter how long one works. The only thing long work hours of a software engineer communicate is that they work long hours.
Hi,

-Can you explain why the use of ternary logic is red flag? I can explain why it is not but you have to justify your statement first. You calling the use of ternary logic a red flag must be based off of something I assume.

-They used a custom Hash functio called "Curl". But they now replaced it with KECCAK-384. Curl is now being reviewed by a third party.

-For this, I will let CFB (one of the devs) to explain. https://medium.com/@comefrombeyond/cfbs-comments-on-https-ww...

-wallet is a nuisance for some users I agree. But majority of users are fine with the wallet. Of course you can only hear those who had problems.
I never knew this.

And I heard plenty of stories about the Berlin air raids from my father.
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Thank you. I have already been getting some pretty good practice in ignoring any of the current paywall sites. It's a great way to cut down on distraction. If the best content sites do this, then I can ignore the rest as well.

I feel they should all get paid and I would rather that model rather than ads. My comment sounds negative, but I think it's a good move. I have switched to newsletters which give headlines and summaries.
Very useful in fact to improve on the prank by putting a small array of chirpers and vary the location. :P
1: By using a ternary number system, the amount of devices and cycles can be reduced significantly. In contrast to two-state devices, multistate devices provide better radix economy with the option for further scaling

2: Why is explained here: https://blog.iota.org/the-transparency-compendium-26aa5bb8e2... - CyberCrypt is hired to review and audit it.

3: The wallet is secure and does what it needs to do, no, it's not very pretty or user friendly but it works. A new wallet (Trinity wallet) will be released very soon.
Not out of the box. At the moment there's only about 20-30 crypto-assets that have established support.
Maybe they have the same ad with a different picture for older people? Or have researched that it's only worth targeting this group - from the CTR point of view? There are so many legit possibilities where it would be absolutely OK to target job ad by age.
Better than nothing, however?
The tourist layer (default on mobile) is great with all the data OSM has on bicycle paths.
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I still find that Louvain-la-Neuve have failed to build a city for cyclists, but I can't pinpoint exactly why. There are very few people who bike there, almost zero bike parkings despite being a car-free city. The city is small but still, some places are quite far by foot (>30 minutes walking from one side to the other).
It is possible to find it with a bit of hardware like a microphone. Very easily by taking multiple level measurement and some multilateration.

It gets hard when there is more than one.

The problem with identifying it by ear is that you get already some 20-30 cm precision at best unless you've trained in echolocation like some blind people.
For such a small device it could well be a whole room.
I think a fair market cap target to work with is $7.7 trillion market cap for all of bitcoin. This probably seems high but there are a lot of lost bitcoins.

This is 27x the current market cap so if the current price is $16704 a good target is $451,008. Prices above that would seem excessive to me.

I shared some of my reasoning here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15840591

You are not going to get 1000x higher prices than the current price, my opinion. It's not justified. On the other hand, 3x, 5x and so forth prices are easily justified given what bitcoin "is" and the role it can serve. This remains so even if transaction prices are very high, the blockchain is very slow, and there are more liquid and easier alternatives. This is because bitcoin serves as a kind of "gold" for various usages of that term. The only difference is that when you hold a piece of gold in your safe, there is no physical possibility that due to a coding error in the fabric of the universe, it disappears from your safe.

However there is a very large possibility of bitcoins disappearing entirely, due to a coding error. It is very important to hedge against this or account for this possibility.
I think it will. The internet has been around for 20 years, and we're only just figuring out some of the good things to do with it (and stumbling over a million crappy ways to use it).

I see bitcoin as a proof of concept that was much needed, so it grew legs and became a "real thing". Something better will replace it (and I wish I knew for sure which it would be so I could "bet" on it now! ;) ).
Don't pretty much all VC investors bet that the particular company is going to get a 3x+ increase in value?

Expecting something like that is a sign of a speculative and risky investment, but there are quite a few asset types that have such expected returns if the result is the returns instead of a bust.
But that's exactly the problem. Twitter started the blue check as verification and then it slowly transitioned to mean "valuable member", through, I imagine, employees taking small steps at a time ("hey, we only blue check famous people, so we might as well report that on the shareholder meetings").

Thus, the blue check slowly became something different than intended, and realizing this and having a second check for that ("blue is only for verification!") would have solved the problem.
Catch 22: the lack of traction/adoption is the main point that stops me from exploring it more.

I would have to put so much effort in convincing customers and management to not go the (now almost default?) Kubernetes-route, that it's risky trying something else. A small hiccup in Nomad, would be enough for the pitchforks to come out.
YES! I've been running FVWM since I was a kid! I want to switch to vtwm though because it cross compiles more nicely.
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Could it be that someone, in some obscure regional mathematics journal already proved abc conjecture in 30 pages. No one took his work seriously enough, and his work would be discovered by accdent 100 years after publication?
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Except for max run time limitations and recurring long startup times, sure. No free lunch.
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Lets draw an analogy with the physical world to see how it works there (often terrible, cringe worthy analogies, I admit!). If I buy a product, I should have to read the manual, sure. Afterwards, before using it. If some tool has a dangerous side effect or important feature I should take into account the salesman would have to tell me about it. Beforehand. If I buy a CD, but I can only play it on computers and not on discman or CD player, it has to be advertised as such. Well, at least it was that way in the 90s in my jurisdiction.

In the previous century I did not expect any tool to send back data about usage (including my private data). Back then it was called phoning home [1]. It was very much frowned upon. Although, as the internet took off, it started to become more rampant as a way to verify software. For example, I remember a personal firewall trying to phone home to verify it was licensed which you could block with... itself. Later they fixed that, but you could just use a hex editor to fix that.

Nowadays we've migrated from pay to use model (proprietary software) to service for your privacy model (SaaS). We get disillusioned that things are free when in reality they're not. In the physical world, but more so in the digital world. We don't know how we are paying, and that's a problem. [2]

> I see this like those people who go and buy a house next to an airport then go crazy complaining to the city about airplane noise, they benefit from cheaper prices (because most people don't actually want to live next to an airport) but then feel entitled enough to feel everyone else should bend over backwards for their personal preferences.

No, those people knew beforehand what they were buying. We don't, else we'd change those settings right away. Claiming that people consent to their privacy being discarded is dishonest. They don't fully understand the effect of their actions. The developers do know, but they don't care, maybe cause they're aspies who can keep distance from that --I'm not sure.

As for people who live near an airport, I happen to know a tad bit more about that with regards to the airport near Amsterdam (I live near Amsterdam). It all depends on the flight routes (the lanes for landing and take off). For example, I don't hear any airplanes except in the summer because then that specific route is used more. Not every 15 minutes though like my aunt who lives a few km from one lane in the Green Heart on a boat with a beautiful land. With, during the summer (winter etc less), planes going over. Low. Every. 15. Minutes. It would drive me nuts.

> Produce a digital wasteland IMHO...like the tariff wars that (partly) led up to the Great Depression.

How so? Look back at what I wrote here [2]. Don't you think the GDPR will make it very transparent to users because they have to give their consent?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoning_home

[2] See other [2]
> I don't see how this is relevant to the topic.

At least please read up and educate yourself before conditioning others into your opinion.

> Also he claims have been debunked by the IOTA team

only that they haven't been debunked[1].

Curl/Kerl should be reason enough for anyone to run away screaming. If somebody peddles a secure e2e encrypted messaging app based on an untested freshly invented hashing or encryption algorithm everyone would agree it's wrong. Why should the behavior displayed by IOTA team / management be treated with silk gloves? Whenever I see somebody vouching for IOTA I can only imagine 2 reasons:

1) person doesn't have a clue about basic engineering / security principles
2) person owns IOTA ans hence is personally too deep invested to be unbiased

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4807429/4807429-634451121504...
I think you're sort of right but not really.

If the benefits of running k8s outweigh the effort of kicking a few patches upstream. Further, if nobody is kicking patches upstream, where exactly are out open source solutions coming from?

I would counter argue about the times jenkins has bit me in the ass, but actually, most solutions will when you go deep enough.
Low altitude too. Especially local. Get an MRI sized electromagnet in there, might be sufficient.
I think he meant the job offer.
Nice work! This seems really slick :)

How has your experience of building with IOTA been? Is there a good SDK / documentation somewhere? I've just started digging into Ethereum and so far I've been a bit disappointed by the standard of the tooling... :/
I mined sia and eth together because there was a dual mining program. The idea behind it is kinda nice, I'm not sure I actually need the service right now... but I'll hang on to the 1k SIA I mined in case that changes.

I'm not expecting a speculative leap in value as amounts of siacoin mined are huge compared to the likes of ether or btc...

Do you need Sia to start hosting? I think you can just go for it.
But what about Aziz' Light?
Maybe because it was created by trolls, voyeurs, like facebook. Unlike Google.
If "Complexity is always exponential." then a 10KLOC project should take less than 1/2 of the 2 days time that you estimated for a 20KLOC project. Which is contrary to my experience.

> This tweak is almost a no brainer in pure python 3.

The timing estimate I made assumed 4 changes per minute. That's already pretty no-brainer. Are you suggesting it should have been faster than that? I don't know how. Not all of the strings needed to be converted to byte strings.

> python-future provide all the helpers for that

First time I heard of it. I thought we were supposed to be using 'six', which is where I got the shims from.

If I understand correctly, that package should not be used for Python libraries which want to maintain Python 2 compatibility. That is, if I have library X, and some of my users are on Python 2, then I shouldn't use python-future because the 'standard_library.install_aliases()' call modifies builtins, which may change how Python 2 works for those users.

> 4 days of porting for an entire project one time in a 25 years old language feels ok in my book.

Yes. My point is that I think your original numbers are optimistic, not that they are fundamentally flawed.
I did use a Nokia till very recently. Now I own a smartphone with lineageOS. I haven't really made up my mind what I like better. Dumb phones are quite limited but come with a great battery life and almost no bugs thanks to their limited capabilities. The smartphone otoh requires charging at least every third day and I am not even 100% confident that the alarm clock will always "just work". It is kind of useful at times (offline navigation with gps, for instance) but also a bit of a time waster.

Tough call.
I agree with you, though I think the "green check" should be an internal status. They even already have a designation for them - "Very Important Tweeters", but they conflated that with verification status.

Keep the Verified checkmark, but have a separate internal flag that designates a user as a VIT. Most of the time someone will be both. But in cases like Milo, you can take away the VIT, but keep the Verified checkmark.

Problem solved.
EU is WAY ahead of the US in many areas. I daresay that's because corporate monopolies have a bit less power here (Europe).

The older folks in the US (the same group who put the US in the situation it's in now) are still writing paper checks, putting them in envelopes, and sending them through the postal service. Sure, you can send a bank wire, but the sender will pay $15-30 for the privilege, and the receiver often has to pay $15 or more as well. Oh, and it can take 1-2 business days; and the receiving bank may decide, based on whatever reason, to hold the funds for 10 business days.

Things are slowly changing with US banking, becoming slightly more modern; but it's still the dark ages.

I'm amused when I visit family in the US and hear local people expressing superiority over the rest of the world, while Kenya has been doing mobile banking for 10 years.

Anyway, until you've lived in the US, you don't know how sucky banking is. Any extra-bank financial system in the US is better than what they have now!
> No, it actually is a ludicrous bet. No rational investor would ever make this investment.

Do the math: Given the extreme volatility (https://www.bitmex.com/app/index/.BVOL) of Bitcoin that price is not unreasonable for that call per conventional means of valuing options.

And every party that is long bitcoin and who isn't selling that position is implicitly taking that position as well: in the sense that, at least in theory, they could also sell those calls but have not (yet). Or perhaps your argument was that no rational investor would own Bitcoin at all? :)
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place," Schmidt tells CNBC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6e7wfDHzew

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument
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>>>if not most, early childhood specialists encourage the practice.

Citation please?

Obesity is a huge risk factor in cosleeping with infants.

Older children do not need to cosleep, it creates behavioral insomnia, enmeshment and increased anxiety which speaks more to the mental health of a parent than the well being of the child.
uh -- who does naked options at ledgerx?

and yes, the data says 3600 for the call, which is the definition of a premium. nothing missing, guys. seriously. do more thinking before you post.

seriously no joke, I am the CEO there, former trader at Goldman so I sort of know what I am talking about with this type of stuff. You guys do not. It's hilarious to watch this conversation.
Whenever I see somebody still commenting about Curl I can only imagine 2 reasons:

1) You lived the past several months in an island without any internet so you are not updated with the current status of the issue.

2) person invested in primitive blockchain-based coin and is personally too deep to accept innovative solutions
In this case it's not just mentioning. It's a twist of thought. This kind of comments can promote thinking outside conventional borders.
I agree with you.

The thing is, software architecture kind of the same job as coding. So what the "architects" you describe really do is equivalent to writing code on a piece of paper. That is, doing one of the most mentally demanding jobs imaginable, but without the tooling to protect them from their own confusion. No surprise then, that it later turns out the architecture doesn't make sense. Without a tool like a compiler to call you on your bullshit, it's too easy to start engaging in fuzzy thinking, and the longer you're not exposed to such practical verification, the more your thoughts will become fuzzy.
Which one's the more comprehensive ? CS50 from Harvard or this ?
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Yes true. What I meant:

Safari 5.1 (Win32 version, discontinued) comes with several MacOSX user mode libraries ported to Win32 DLLs.

Older iTunes and QuickTime (like 5 years ago) came with MaxOSX libraries ported to Windows too - at least from what I recall.
no he is right. Moore's Law in its original meaning is gone, and with GPU we are just shifting goal posts to pretend it still applies.