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Please for any issue you have let us know in the issue tracker: http://github.com/owncloud/core/issues

Many times grave errors like file deletion are really hard to reproduce because of special setups or other errors, that’s why we need logs and more info to be able to properly debug.

Thanks!
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Obligatory LYAH link :):

http://learnyouahaskell.com/

I gave this book to a lot of programmer friends, and most were very enthusiastic after finishing the book. Even if you never use Haskell in the real world, learning its abstractions makes you a better programmer (and sometimes annoyed by the lack of type system features in other languages ;)).
Yes, they do, but it is shared, copy-on-write (read-only for .text), meaning that although each running process has it mapped into its memory space, there is only one copy in physical RAM.
Maybe for desktop ppl that's hard. That's not a problem for me though. I need eyeballs. Any thoughts on free to play?
It does take a while, but, for me at least, it did eventually become natural.
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I sympathise completely with your overall point, but it's worth pointing out that the per-capita comparison isn't completely fair - Medicare covers the elderly, a group that have tremendously high per-capita costs relative to most of the rest of the population.

This isn't to say that the system isn't massively inefficient, just that it's maybe not quite as bad as that stat suggests :-)
I think it's the advertising part ... I know I had the same.
When our current education system was first conceived (with the notable exception of universities), back during the industrial revolution (minor updates notwithstanding), the goal was not producing capable citizens: The goal was to produce capable labourers.

To a large extent, our education systems are still stuck in that "teach kids to behave, then teach them how to earn money" mentality. We keep kids away from their parents to allow them to earn money, and while we're in control of what the kids do for 5-8 hours a day, anyway, we should turn them into the employees we'll need 10 years from now.

And that is where your statement, though technically correct, is (I imagine unintentionally) little misleading.

Schools have been turning out people like this for the past 2 centuries, because for people who have no influence on the political process, the more fundamental skills of critical thinking, creativity and scepticism are simply not required. If you're a salesman, a nurse or a factory worker without the right to vote, you don't need to be able to form an opinion on the best way to recover from an economic depression. So these are incidental skills: usually not actively discouraged, but by and large not aimed for.

The kicker is, you do need those skills in order to participate effectively in a democracy that's better than "watch a lot of television and vote for the man in the best suit once every four years". Over the past 100 years, we've moved away from excluding people from suffrage (mostly). This means that it's not just the (relatively) well-educated white male bourgeoisie that needs to have critical thinking skills. It's everyone.

Our education system has not yet adapted to this 'new' reality. It still aims for capable workers, not capable citizens. Our education system is vastly better than it was 150 years ago, but our standards have gone up even further.
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Right, call control with asterisk, and GSM stack in software.

As far as I was aware, the GSM processing isn't much more intensive than equivalent: Ethernet packet assembly + TCP/IP + HTTPS?

I thought all the DSP happened in USRP. So out of that, you get a bit stream, that is sliced into frames, and then processed like any network stack?
He publishes all of his books at: http://greenteapress.com/
We're already there, but it's not 15 minutes. You can buy bio-hacking equipment fairly cheap (maybe not allowance cheap, but "Hey, mom, dad, can you buy me a chemistry set?" cheap) including those used for DNA replication.

I don't know how well they've tightened specimens for scientific study, but there was a scandal not too long ago where anyone who bothers to fill out paperwork could order anthrax and smallpox for research purposes from a lab.
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Trivial or not, working within an existing library provides a level of maintainability you just don't get when you toss in something like Tornado to do the tiny bit of your app that requires a persistent connection and websockets. Even if all I got was django's router and views, it's save me the awful headache of having to graft Tornado and Django together, coding under two entirely different library sets.
> getting to know people's level for what they are offended by, and thereby measuring their rationality and whether or not they're worth talking to seriously.

So you're saying you disagree with (IMO) the central assumption in the article?

> People who would be level-headed about evenhandedly weighing all sides of an issue in their professional life as scientists, can suddenly turn into slogan-chanting zombies when there's a Blue or Green position on an issue.

Most people have such a Blue vs. Green issue. I'd wager that if you wanted to commit social suicide you could easily manage to offend over 95% of your friends by simply choosing your trolling topics carefully (without name-calling). But that hardly means you should dismiss your friends.

> nowadays it's just too easy to dismiss it as "trolling",

I suggest Gulliver's Travels, if you haven't read it. It's still very current.

As for esr, he's saying much more than that. He's claiming that, after you have read Derbyshire's article, you're supposed to answer "no" to those 5 questions. There are a lot of implicit assumptions in there.

I answered "yes" to the 5th question, i.e. I concluded the author is probably racist, but that doesn't imply my answer is result of my emotions clouding my judgement. It could simply be that my definition of "racist" is different from esr's. Interestingly, someone mentioned in the comments that Derbyshire admitted elsewhere being a "racist and homophobe, but a tolerant one".
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What a bizarre exaggeration of the parent comment. The comment about Denmark appears to serve as an existence proof, demonstrating that there isn't any inherent property of tax systems that means they must necessarily be convoluted and evil.
It depends, sometimes you really do need the big complicated thing and you don't have time/money to develop it in house.

Sometimes though you can make do with something significantly simpler if you restate the problem slightly and move the pieces around.

You might be able to do the core of the job with a cron job and some command line tools rather than the fancy SaaS platform with graphs and everything.

Building on top of the fancy SaaS APIs and then trying to scale down when you want to move away is a lot more difficult than starting with the simpler approach and then scaling up when you really need that extra functionality.

Believe me, I've done it in both directions.
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I had to deal with this a while ago and I found out (sorry, but I don't have a reference handy) that underscores are prohibited in the second level domain (example.com), but are ok in any further levels (šķaudiens.example.com). Basically subdomain names can be anything that your DNS server allows them to be, just as email addresses can be whatever your SMTP server will handle.
It got much worse after that.
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I'm going to launch a new product and I want to provide the users a way to submit feature requests. The code is hosted on Github but it's a private repo so the issue tracker can't be used. Is there a service equal to the functionality of the Github issue tracker(So no getsatisfaction)?
Thanks for the response. I will look into this as it's something I am interested in. Can you give me an example of a site using it? So i can get a feel for what's possible
It's not massively hard, but it's also not trivial either, and most ISPs have a "If it's not broke, don't fix it" policy for fundamental things on their network.
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Might want to check this out: https://github.com/PeerKit/peercdn

It's written with PeerJS, by one of the other creators of PeerJS, same as OP.
The article is not behind a paywall for me.
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In that case, Java allows for a very similar thing with fork-join. If you want to see exactly how, in two weeks I'll release an open-source library that wraps Java's fork-join as Go-like lightweight threads, only more preemptive and with better scheduling.
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It also seems like a tractable problem in that upstream providers can test for the vulnerability and shut down uplinks for non-compliant customers.
Why 5? We have a riak cluster running of 3.
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There are a few avatars that I don't think gave permission - Steve Jobs, Sienfeld, etc.

as an aside: I'm looking for cute fun avatar style images, depicting fat people, in a variety of styles (photo, animated gif, cartoon, etc) under permissive licencing.
Defaults to F though even though it knows where the user is located - for pretty much anywhere outside of the US I would think the default should be C.

[Mind you - it does remember your choice - so its not that bad]
I doubt the acqui-hire was for $30m. I would believe probably $3m, structured as $1m each over 4 years, with each person getting 100k in the first year, 200k in the 2nd, 300k in the 3rd and 400k in the fourth. Lots of these "acqui-hires" get reported in the press at some stupid number. I know a couple that were reported way off. The original journalist says "it sounds better", and then all the secondary sources just quote the figure from the first.
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This one is brilliant: Mathematics for Computer Science.

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr10/cos433/mat...
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"Here at Basho we want to make sure that your Riak implementations are set up from the beginning to succeed. While you can use the Riak Fast Track to quickly set up a 3-node dev/test environment, we recommend that all production deployments use a minimum of 5 nodes, ensuring you benefit from the architectural principles that underpin Riak’s availability, fault-tolerance and scaling properties."
Even this becomes annoying when you have to wait for the page to load to see it's content and is heavy but not media content heavy. Something like Google+ or coursera pages.
An essential part of "figur[ing] out what the world looks like" is recognizing that humans are hard-wired for emotion, and that we all have a responsibility to understand the emotional impact our words and actions will have on other people.

"Don't get offended" may be an important message for you to assert to yourself to avoid losing your cool; but if you find yourself telling someone else not to get offended after saying or doing something offensive to that person, there's a good chance you are using this argument in a self-serving manner rather than the spirit of enlightened rationalism.

In other words, don't use "don't get offended" as an excuse to be a douchebag.
I much prefer this solution. As someone who can have over 100 tabs open with potentially a dozen YouTube tabs amongst them, having to hunt down all the YouTube tabs after a browser restart is a serious pain!

Also frequently FireFox crashes for me are due to it hitting the 4GB memory limit (well closer to 2GB obviously), so restoring all tabs would just result in Firefox crashing again. Restoring them piece meal lets me close down ones I do not need, thus allowing me to get FF's memory usage down to acceptable size.
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Very different concept: the digital currency in Cryptonomicon was centralized, to be issued by a bank or bank-like institution that owned massive gold reserves and could thus be trusted. The anonymity could be guaranteed because the bank would operate in national state that guaranteed anonymity by law (a so-called data haven).
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List of prohibited usernames and subdomains?
Hi,

For my SAAS application, I allow people to register a subdomain as well as a username.

I'm building a list of prohibited names:

subdomains:
www
www2
admin
mail

usernames:
admin
root
administrator
postmaster

any other suggestions?
meh. While some constructs are great (class , modules , ...)
some others dont make sense at all, unless you are using Visual Studio. Is typescript a javascript for Visual Studio or a language you can really use without MS tools ? Also the fact that you cant compile to 1 file automatically all your scripts and you need either AMD or Common JS defeats the purpose of having modules for client side scripting.
Tech, video games, etc.. journalists have a very different use case for RSS, which is exactly using it to monitor dozens of other information sources (including their competitors). I think they match the definition of power users, perhaps more than you and I, because that's the primary tool for their job : they will routinely have hundreds of RSS feeds and will skim quickly through thousands of items a day to look for the information that they haven't treated yet.
RSS is perfect for that matter and it is precisely the opposite of what marco and you claim is a poor usage of RSS.
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I have built this Event Driven JS framework over Twitter Flight. It has support for more tighter models, with event triggering on changes etc. I was not able to think of a good name. Could you suggest something?
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I find those 21 nested callbacks strangely elegant.
That was one bit of Cryptonomicon that bothered me - the Sultan simply decided one day to guarantee anonymity, but he was an absolute monarch so he could just as easily decide one day to remove anonymity.

[Mind you, that is a minor niggle - Cryptonomicon is one of my favourite novels]
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I haven't used it (for any of my sites), but a site that did a Show HN yesterday (http://instantname.me/) used https://www.uservoice.com which I liked.
Half correct. Yes, people used to make fun of the comment all the time. But the only sentiment anyone has submitted on the topic in at least last 5 years is the exact thing you just said.
Yes, it could be a pain unless it was just imported in one or two files. In practice though I've not found collisions in package names to be an issue, simply because of the layering of packages - the top level package is really the only one which knows about these adapters and imports them - it then presents an interface to the world which is under its namespace, so the only worry for uniqueness is the top level pkg name really.
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IntelliJ already provides decent support for it, including auto-completion. I assume with the new pull-based type checker similar things can be done for vim, emacs, etc.
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By having a "reasoned debate" about the very purpose of critical thinking, you are falling into the same trap by discounting the importance of emotions and irrationality in people's decisions. It's not only that critical thinking is not required -- it can often be undesirable.

This is a quote from Paul Krugman:

Last year the Texas G.O.P. explicitly condemned efforts to teach “critical thinking skills,” because, it said, such efforts “have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/11/opinion/krugman-the-ignora...

He is critical of this conservative mode of thought, but these are values that can have merit. Jonathan Haidt discusses that:

http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.ht...
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People are afraid of freedom and in same time are saddened by having not enough control. Failing to realize there is no sweet middle spot.
I have two, US and IE. The US passport is only used at the US border (per law). Not many countries have a problem with the Irish.
Make an interactive tutorial for monads. After 5 articles about it, who were all very different, I still don't know how to code one.
You should bring it in-house as soon as it becomes critical for your business. Only startups that aren't profitable yet should bet their skin on so many hosted services as long as they allow them to grow faster (that's not a given, sometimes SaaS/PaaS are complicated to use and unstable).

When you are raking in profits, you'd better use some of them to secure your business and make it independent of such risks. Which is the point the blog post seems to be trying to make.
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Infant mortality is calculated differently by different countries. What counts as infant mortality in the US often counts as a still birth etc in other countries.
Quite relevant after the Adria Richards debacle. That said, if you consider the amount of abuse she got from her post, "don't get offended" as a matter of principle asks for more moral fortitude than most people possess.
Is Persona reviving the old Microsoft Passport?

Microsoft first implemented this in early 2000s, I remember Microsoft Passport marketing the single sign-on feature, it did not catch up.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/technology/20SOFT.html
Huge fan of paper as well. I think Merlin Mann called it the "ultimate ubiquitous capture".

A lot of people just keep thick journals, but I like A6 cards that I compile into slim exercise books. I just capture anything that comes to mind on a card[1] and let them sit on a pile. Then, after some time, enough stuff has accumulated and I review the cards and compile them.[1]

It has the sweet spot of not having to commit to something big (meaning it circumvents the urge to make it perfect, usually preventing you from writing it down in the first place), is reasonably flexible if you use masking tape to glue in the cards (there are some books that I could take apart completely and reuse) and can be stashed and sorted easily.[2]

[0] https://plus.google.com/photos/111011776153281260419/albums/...

[1] https://plus.google.com/photos/111011776153281260419/albums/...

[2] https://plus.google.com/photos/111011776153281260419/albums/...
My kindle goes two weeks of heavy use between charges. At some point, these things are just going to have solar cells on them.
Relying on "strong leaders" are one of biggest downfalls of humanity.
Not relying on yourself is one of your pitfalls, it will go on and on and on until enough is enough or you will die and someone else will take place in pitfall.

Loathing politicians, looking for savior, looking for strong political leader, waiting for someone. Protesting against yourself on the street. Putting someone in charge then putting them away with hope that someone else "good enough" will take place.

Age of heroes are gone.
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As an expat, absolutely nothing. It drops off the credit report after 7 years.

Now before everyone gets indignant. I was a Verizon customer and had taken a job abroad. 18 months into my 2-year contract I called to say I'm leaving next month and want to cancel. The fuckers wanted to put me on a 2-month pause, stop the line for 2 months add 2 more months on the contract. I told them this was a permanent move and I didn't want to bother, just shut it down. Then they wanted to hit me with a $250 cancellation fee, not prorated. I referenced the part of the contract about coverage but the rep wasn't hearing it. While at the airport I called them and paid my final bill (they charged me to pay by credit card over the phone, too). Told them to cancel the line and goodbye.

I got a few very large bills in the mail after that, a few creditors calling my Google voice line, and then silence. It's been that way for 6 years.
I think the same thing is true and I have a very strong suspicion that the reason people are not more outraged is because they've been conditioned by film and television to believe that the government has those powers and uses them routinely.

I don't know whether to point the finger at writers of fiction for our lowered expectations or not, but I'm sure it contributes.
Secret and probably illegal monitoring techniques cannot be used in court, because defendants have a right to know how evidence was obtained so they can challenge it, and it then wouldn't stay a secret.

Just because they don't currently have any methods they can base a court case on and put on public record doesn't mean they don't have other interception methodologies (whether through cryptographic weaknesses, CA attacks, compromising servers at Google / DropBox, cooperation from / insider double agents at Google / Dropbox / CAs, backdoors installed on clients, compromising user or employee login credentials and so on).
It is really fascinating to see how this kind of problems still attracts mostly "technocratic/by the numbers/binary" solutions.

This being said, i think almost every idea in this area should be given a chance, should be tried out ... we don't have anything to lose but at least a little to win given the current democratic processes and their postdemocratic endemic failures.

We clearly need new/additional democratic tools. This could be such a new one. Not a perfect one but let's see how it works out. HOW it fails.

Finally, any hints towards non-technocratic tools & solutions in the area of new-democracy? (other than liquid feedback)
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The majority of monad "tutorials" are notoriously terrible. Have you read "You Could Have Invented Monads! (And Maybe You Already Have.)"? If no, you should try it, it's a rather nice article. If yes, where did you get stuck with trying to implement your own?
Last year I was woken up in the middle of the night by my girlfriend, who was terrified by a voice that seems to come from the lounge. I got up, opened the door, and there was a bright white light. My girlfriend was even more terrified since she could only see me and the light shining on me from the lounge. It was the television. It turns out that when we were channel surfing earlier in the evening, we switched to a channel that wasn't broadcasting anything, got distracted, and the television goes into sleep mode after a while when it's on such a channel. At 3am they started broadcasting some video loop, basically of a white background with a little text, and a woman's voice announcing something.
Wow, did this game just come out? I remember it being developed years and years ago!
So... after 15+ services, what do YOU do?
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