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> To recap, by having a decentralized system of users and public keys, and making git validate that the commits are signed and from the right people, we could have a much more reliable way of sharing code.

I can see that you've put some thought into this. I can also see you don't generally spend most of your time thinking about security. This is not a bad thing! Most people don't!

But it does occasionally show up in sloppy thinking about system design, such as when you reflexively conflate a commit being signed by a key with a commit being from the person who is expected to own that key. It means you didn't stop and think about how to integrate rapid key revocation in case of compromise, or how to rotate keys over time.

Or how social review systems tend towards unreliability, as reviews are left by those who are not experts and users trust aggregate numbers from such. How meaningful is a 4.5-star average from five reviewers on a cryptography library, if the reviewers are five random people whose expertise you know nothing about and are ill-equipped to judge?
Beware of strncpy and strncat
> A leader can also choose to consult them on mutually beneficial changes in working practice.

For sure, I believe people should unionize if they want to, but should be given no special benefits for doing so.

Argentina has constitutional level protections for unions, they cant be jailed, etc. They own soccer clubs, and threaten politicians families and cant be incarcerated, while also having highest and increasing poverty and lower employment.
Timed photo definitely has copyright. Continuous surveillance footage is an open question.

But the post you're replying to wasn't about copyright at all.
Writing code on top of legacy single threaded frameworks / content interfaces, under an insane holiday release deadline, while trying to enable multithreading... is pretty much my definition of hell.

I feel bad for the poor programmers who got that job.
If you like that just wait until you've tried

git -c interactive.singleKey=true commit --verbose --patch
I don't think your comment is clear at all. Do you mean the "community" or (arbitrary) toolsets of open source?
> Chicken breast is regularly 1.99 a pound and thighs even cheaper.

Why are people trotting out chicken as an example of healthy food? It is anything but:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/15/poultry-farms-anti...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rNY7xKyGCQ
Interesting concept. Did you have many sales so far? Whats your promotion/marketing plan?
> Also, wouldn’t a “1111dns4tor” prefix look better? :)

Yes, it would but the .onion addresses use base32 and '1' isn't in the alphabet used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base32
We've missed you Ryan. :-)
you may be interested in Gittorrent. I'll link to the recent HN discussion, since the original article was from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17234498

original article: https://blog.printf.net/articles/2015/05/29/announcing-gitto...
>Unless surveillance gets checked by law it will soon be world wide.

This already seems nearly impossible. As the surveillance state gains strength it becomes more difficult to oppose it and win an election. In legal means, they can fund your opposition well and they can attack you for crimes that could have been prevented. And beyond that, their surveillance is a very strong tool in an election.
Any given 711 is dramatically more likely to be in Asia than North America.
tl;dr converted ts dev talks about how he screwed over the node.js ecosystem and how everyone should therefore use his shiny new project instead :/
The shift in pronunciation wasn’t a simple and straightforward process. If you’re trying to argue that the reconstruction is faulty on the basis that the shift was >50% complete, I’d respond that nothing like that level of precision is possible. Moreover, I’d expect funerary songs to be a bit conservative in their pronunciation.
While I believe there are real dangers AI can cause, I don't know how you'd go about proving such a thing without recreating the problem in a different constructed variant.

Psychology and sociology are 'soft' sciences because you can't test people psychologically and sociologically in 'hard' ways without seriously crossing some serious ethical boundaries.

It could be argued that a lot of the decisions being made that back the design in contemporary infrastructures already are engaged in this sort of testing and behavioral modification, in ways that seem innocent from the onset, but yet still propagate across social systems in ways that are far too chaotic and complex to forecast.
There are many ways to do that are more efficient, less intrusive and provide for better UX than Cloudflare’s gatekeeper approach. However no one forced website owners to use Cloudflare, so it doesn’t matter.

> Someone has to protect the sites enough that they can stay up for traffic, Tor or otherwise.

That’s true for HTTP. You need a big corporate sponsor to allow you to host your website. Too bad when they don’t like what you have to say, right?[1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/opinion/cloudflare-daily-...
> how can users "NEVER LEAVE A TRACE TO TRACK THE AUTHOR of the original product" if the author's full name and date of creation is meant to be included in the license?

By changing the license file.
"Copyright (c) [year] [fullname]"

I don't think it's possible to comply with this license because the license text itself will already contain enough information to track the author.
Health care professionals also have agendas, see the Raimer story. [0] I'm not familiar with the waiting requirements, but it concerns me that there is a push to let children transition. The "waiting period" of turning 18 is apparently too long. Despite having it's theraputic value demonstrated, suicides among those who transition remains high. [1] (The paper linked attributes this to harrasment and discrimination, obviously some disagree.) Plus, there is new attention coming to people who transition and decide to go back, showing that it's obviously not always a successful treatment even though it is billed as such. [2]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer

1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5178031/

2: https://theoutline.com/post/349/a-story-about-discovery?zd=2...
the login/signup process is rough.. I'm still playing with firebase for auth

What benefit is there to me in signing up on your site?
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I would recommend reading Oppenheim's Signals & Systems book. It's important material for many subfields of EE.
You're right that these facts are highly location-dependent, but can you please cite your claim that food prices are rising faster than wages somewhere? I am rather doubtful.

Housing is an entirely different matter.
Hmm, I last tried this in the Windows 7 days with one of those ISOs from MS. The license key on the sticker didn't work, and neither did punching it into the activation phone line.
Yes any given transaction is valid once it is in a block but without continuous mining it's still worthless because it cannot be spent without a new block being mined. And since mining has to be pretty continuous or the whole thing becomes unusable because of loooong processing times the maintenance of the whole network kind of becomes maintenance of the transactions.

Even lightning would only last for a while without new blocks being mined because adding funds to your 'lightning channel' requires a transaction to be placed on the blockchain to open a channel.
> The data is that the rich don't stay rich

This is, of course, yet another lie that must be told to justify what is a deeply evil system. Dig a little deeper [1] and you'll find capital concentrations are extremely enduring, particularly those tied to fixed assets like real estate.

The thread is full of all sorts of highly motivated reasoning and half truths to try to avoid what is a very simple and very obvious truth: all the economic surplus is being captured by the rich. Not most, not the majority, absolutely all of it [2]. In such an environment it should be obvious -- even if difficult to admit it -- that the poor can't do anything but fuck off and die. Or did you think the falling life expectancy and falling birth rates were just blind luck?

[1] https://qz.com/694340/the-richest-families-in-florence-in-14...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/27/upshot/the-benefits-of-ec...
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Judging by the entirety of my social feeds, the hysteria is really in big part just virtue signalling of hatred towards Microsoft.
Every time I see a comment like this, I think of http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05/entitlement-issues.htm... .

It should be an even exchange: you pay for the product as it is, not as you want it to be. Yes, when real life intervenes and the 12 novel epic doesn't get completed because the author dies (R.I.P. Robert Jordan) that is a bummer, but even then I find it very confusing when people go "I'd rather not even start reading until the entire thing is done" (and personally I think Sanderson's end to the Wheel of Time was very nicely done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wheel_of_Time).

To the degree that the world of modern software and release early, release often have trained people to expect a constant treadmill of content I think that is a net negative: if you're worried about the author's pace stop paying and resume when they are done. "what's to keep him or any other author from walking away at that point?" sounds like you expect him to be chained to his desk until his output meets your expectations.

"As a consumer, it's bad enough when I'm left in this situation when there's been no money exchanged (such as a series cancelled with the plot mostly unresolved)." just sounds incredibly entitled.
One small lesson being not to deploy friends from the same area in the same unit where they are all likely to be killed at the same time:

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-pals-battalions-of-the-fi...
I hope that you’re using some of the many community resources to help learn. I personally don’t have time to join the IRC channels, but those are great for point in time help, the users forum, stackoverflow, and reddit are all good resources too.

Many of the Rust users have all gone through similar learning hurdles, and are very helpful when asked. Often there are tricks that newcomers are unaware of for working around some of the Rust idiosyncrasies. I encourage you to reach out.

The official community page has a lot of resources: https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/community.html
i'm not sure what you mean by "outlandish statements and attitudes".

when he said "this project is done now" my takeaway was that he didn't anticipate the popularity of node. and "so wrong" was him acknowledging that he was very obviously mistaken.
There's a long tradition of licenses with a rebellious spirit, either deliberately or incidentally drafted in such a way that makes them hard to interpret. Before this "GLWTPL" there was the WTFPL, the JSON license, etc.

People who choose such a license should be aware that they are making downstream adoption of their product more difficult. (For some authors that is surely the point.)
Quoting Milton Friedman:

>I think the Austrian business-cycle theory has done the world a great deal of harm. If you go back to the 1930s, which is a key point, here you had the Austrians sitting in London, Hayek and Lionel Robbins, and saying you just have to let the bottom drop out of the world. You’ve just got to let it cure itself. You can’t do anything about it. You will only make it worse. You have Rothbard saying it was a great mistake not to let the whole banking system collapse. I think by encouraging that kind of do-nothing policy both in Britain and in the United States, they did harm.
Maybe it's to bypass dumb corporate dirty word filters.
Nobody said you had to leave it in there.

In fact, it explicitly states you have to get it out of there.
You're talking about District Heating[1], and that's been around for decades in hundreds of cities. It's the source of the steaming manhole covers that are a fixture of noir imagery.

Denver's got the oldest continually operating system in the world, and within the last decade or so, they added a cooling loop, as well. Instead of a boiler and a cooling tower, you can subscribe to a steam loop and a chiller loop.

The problem is once again of gradient. It makes thermodynamic sense to pipe steam around, because of the large gradient between steam and ambient. But servers don't make steam. At best they make warm water only a couple of dozen degrees over ambient... and warm water doesn't have enough energy to heat buildings very effectively.

That said, and as someone already mentioned, people are doing it anyway. Seattle's internet exchange pipes its water across the street to the Amazon towers[2].

BTW, Seattle's Georgetown steam plant might not be making steam any more, but the one down by the market is still operating as Emwave Seattle[3].

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

[2] https://blog.aboutamazon.com/sustainability/the-super-effici...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Steam_Company
The effect is still there after controlling for SES. There may be other correlates of race that matter here, though. Diet comes to mind.

I would love to see a good study that tries to disentangle the various correlations here...
What about databases? What functionality would you expect for this to provide which you shouldn't be providing?
Previous discussion, w/ response from GitLab

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17244624
Speaking of OpenBSD, does anyone know what happened here and how true it is?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/12/fbi-a...

It would certainly jive with John Gilmore's story on how the NSA worked through the standard bodies to keep IPSEC easily exploitable by making the design too difficult to implement properly:

https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg12...

Their behavior around Simon & Speck and how they refused to reveal details on how exploitable they could be also seems to be similar to their previous tactics.

This is why it's worrisome that Google intends to implement Speck in Android and have pushed it to the Linux kernel, too.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

More details on how the NSA has been sabotaging open source projects here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwcl17Q0bpk
> This was likely inspired by an event preceding the Nanking Massacre

There is about no likelihood that Tolkien heard about a despicable war crime committed by an Axis power, involving an evil, flagrant disregard for human life, and decided to use that as material for two of his "good" characters. Nothing in Tolkien's works, worldview, or influences aligns with that sort of thought. This is the author who despised German publishers inquiring about his Aryan descent, even though, being of German heritage and a prominent scholar of Anglo-Saxon/Norse/Germanic literature, Tolkien could have perfectly flattered the Nazi mythology [0]. But in your opinion, while hating Hitler and the Nazis for treating Jews as second-class citizens (in 1938, when the persecution was not yet elevated to mass execution), he simultaneously decided, "well, this Japanese massacre of innocent civilians sounds like a fun bit of material, I'll use that"?

More realistically, the influence, as most of his influences, is in Anglo-Saxon and Norse literature, where accounts and songs of battles often make them appear almost like sport, with contests and even gamification. I suppose that is one method of mentally bracing oneself for such a horrifying activity, and for attempting to process the event afterwards. It is part of a common mindset of soldiers at war, one that even the Japanese murderers were engaging, albeit in a perverted misuse. In that view, both Tolkien and the Japanese were drawing from a (very) distantly related source, but much different in purpose, and certainly neither influenced by the other.

[0] https://io9.gizmodo.com/5892697/whats-classier-than-jrr-tolk...
Plus, it's easy to turn your eye blind when the closed platform you use is made by bunch of supposedly cool guys. When it's not-so-cool company that actively fought with you not that very long time ago, it becomes way harder.
title should be:

"SCM/CM is not free as in beer"

Really want git? Hire a CM mgr/team to manage your code. Been that way before 2010 (yes, it did suck). Doesn't matter if it's done in-house or out-house.
People hate posts that strike to close to home.

I've haven't had any neighbours swatted, but I have had friends online targeted. It is something that can haunt you for years.
Or just plain extinguish.
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OP was incredibly immature and the resulting discussion was worthless.

> I do not need any help from you thanks. This is aimed towards Ryan

Yikes.

Also, calling everything a horrible miscarriage is not a discussion.

Pointing out the problems with something is easy. Anyone can do it. What's hard is evaluating problems in relation to the trade-offs that were made. Only amateurs think everything is "horrible" as if there are never trade-offs.

I agree with my sibling: it's only good example of worthless Github issue "conversation".
The problem isn't the surveillance. Surveillance is just modern technology being applies as a means to an end. History shows that you can't stand in the way of technological progress for very long unless you're willing to be an authoritarian police state to do it).

The problem I see it is one of a divided society. The people who create and operate the laws and the surveillance dragnets do not worry about being subject to them in their fullest.

Politicians will argue for gun control, enact laws that erode our freedoms, half-ass healthcare and approve funding for surveillance dragnets that will be used to make an end run around civil liberties. In the back of their minds they know that they have armed security, that no enforcement agency will risk using those laws to abuse politicians, they don't have to worry about healthcare and they can afford a good lawyer to convince the court that their civil liberties have been violated.

The people and organizations that actually implement these bad things don't rock the boat because when you're on the inside whatever bad thing it is doesn't apply to you. Cops are exempt from gun laws. The three letter agencies don't use secret courts to handle issues with their own personnel and don't send information requests and gag orders to each other. People in the healthcare industry know how all the tricks to play and strings to pull to get themselves good enough coverage at a fair price. The agencies operating the stingrays, using ALPRs to catch people with weed on their way out of states where it's legal, kicking down doors and shooting people's dogs don't have to worry about being subject to it themselves because of the thin blue line. And all these people's salary depend on them not rocking the boat over the fact that they enjoy some perk that is not available to the peasantry at large.

If all the bad authoritarian crap society does was done to everyone with at least a token attempt at being impartial we'd do a hell of a lot less of it.
The DLR is level 3.

The video is from 1988 (good find!), but the only accidents ever to have occurred were under manual override.

The Copenhagen Metro is an example of a level 4 underground system. It's fairly new, so the tunnels all have an adjacent walkway which can be used in an emergency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Railway#Accide...
I know four police officers. One works a desk job now, one just moved to work a crime free affluent New England town.

As for the other two on the street. In the last two years, one had a shotgun pointed at his face from three feet away by an angry drunk man carrying two guns and four hundred rounds of ammo. (Nobody ended up hurt.)

The other spent a month in the hospital after being shot, two other officers with him were also shot and wounded, and a fourth officer there killed.

This isn’t to say that there aren’t officers or even entire departments that are too trigger happy, but that many places in the US fundamentaly require armed officers ready to shoot someone to stay alive.

The typical playbook for Suicide by Cop involves involves attempting a deadly attack on a police officer. In a world with perfect police in which police officers only used deadly force when threatened with deadly force, this would still result the attacker being shot.

So while there are real problems with policing in America, I don’t see the popularity of suicide by cop being the result of trigger happy police shooting innocent people.
It never was libertarian in the first place. Here's what they have to say about their stance:

> What, besides free trade and free markets, does The Economist believe in? "It is to the Radicals that The Economist still likes to think of itself as belonging. The extreme centre is the paper's historical position." That is as true today as when former Economist editor Geoffrey Crowther said it in 1955. The Economist considers itself the enemy of privilege, pomposity and predictability. It has backed conservatives such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. It has supported the Americans in Vietnam. But it has also endorsed Harold Wilson and Bill Clinton, and espoused a variety of liberal causes: opposing capital punishment from its earliest days, while favouring penal reform and decolonisation, as well as—more recently—gun control and gay marriage.
Maybe it should be more explicit:

> No person shall, without the authority of the copyright owner or the law intentionally remove or alter any copyright management information.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1202
More permissive, as it doesn't force you to "NEVER LEAVE A
TRACE TO TRACK THE AUTHOR of the original product".
https://curecoin.net/

https://foldingcoin.net/

https://gridcoin.us/

http://primecoin.io/

Probably many more
The ones that stay monetized are getting targeted by anti-lgbt group advertisements. Which of course spawns "let's react" videos, which are hilarious in a life gives you lemons kind of way.
What a compelling argument.

Union membership is the lowest ever, and so is wage growth.

Too much kool-aid, I think.
This article is a week old.

The timing of it on HN smacks of the discussion from last month based on the NYT article that the Chinese government employs people to patrol internet discussion forums and write "America is just as bad!" posts to distract people every time an article comes out that paints China in a negative light.
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OK, that's fair. I'll edit my comment.
Sorry that wasn't more clear. I've been working with the product so I forget.

You can keep track of saved articles and things you've read.
And when you read the comments of a story, when you see it on your feed again it shows you the number of new comments since you read it.
I've been involved in projects which were teetering on the edge of my ethical boundaries, knowing full-well they would/could easily be abused... but I knew if I didn't do it, I would lose/quit my job and then somebody else would just do the project. Even if say, 90% of programmers turned the job down, there are enough hungry people in the world who would gladly do the job in order to feed their family/buy a lambo/etc., regardless of ethical implications.
Nothing to do with Musk credentials, I just think in the context of car / factories there's a lot of people as knowledgeable as him. Jobs was dealing with a different field, computer tech is a little weirder, and a lot more to do with culture / brand, which Jobs exuded.
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