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> The long game is being fully wired. By the time poor
> areas become economically important enough to be
> advertised to, they will have traditional telecoms
> servicing them.

... And by that time, they will all be users of the google ecosystem thanks to this.
OP was talking about "Chef" a server configuration tool http://www.opscode.com/chef/
> Secret service agencies have the ability to pose as whatever they want, even using "legit" certificates.

That's why I greatly prefer the WoT model to the CA model and refuse to use S/MIME in favor of OpenPGP.

That said, you could write down the checksums of the certificates you trust. Effectively you do trust checking by hand then.
Cee acute? Doesn't strike me as that horrible.
I've been doing HTML/JavaScript with my 11yr old. We're pair programming a little offline web app she can put on her iPod touch.
I'd really love to switch to linux (tiling WMs rock). But I'm developing OS X desktop software ... so switching will probably stay a wish for the next few years :/
Is it really a good idea to use Google even on the lowest layer, meaning the network itself, for the transportation of your data?

In light of the surveillance state that the US has become and the collaboration of government agencies with the tech giants, I say:

Support the small guys!
And what does this have to do with freedom zero? Apple can provide it's customers the freedom zero and pre-install iTunes. Freedom zero simply doesn't make software less good, it's irrelevant to software quality.
I have an IBM x60, x61 tablet and several recent Asus lappys, all had terrible battery life out of the box under several different distros. After fiddling they all had _better_ life but nowhere near what I got under xp 7 or 8.

It's great if the HN community can config their OSes to get every watt out of it, but the truth is the lay man doesn't know, doesn't care and doesn't want to know how to do that...
The biggest reason that cities are expensive to live in isn't so much a lack of land, it's a lack of properly zoned land. Even in limited areas like Manhattan, we have imposed extra artificial limitations on ourselves in the form of zoning laws. Remove those laws, and there will be much more housing built, and it will be cheaper to live in cities. Forced low income housing is another restriction, by only giving developers reasonable exceptions to draconian laws like minimum parking requirements if they set aside a certain portion of the units to low income housing, the government again restricts density. Better to remove ridiculous zoning laws in general, and housing will become more affordable for everyone.
The first thing I did was run the website copy through it. It picked up a few problems such as the use of the passive voice. A demonstration perhaps to not take the results at face value.
I think the definition here was Free Software, which considering it doesn't seem to have a public repository with the source code, means that it is nonfree.
> Your comments have repeatedly attacked the credibility of whistleblowers, derided their claims as factually and technically impossible, and asserted that NSA statements about NSA capabilities are wrong.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's noticed tptacek's tendency to defend "The Establishment" at every turn, whatever naughtiness comes up. There he goes again. I wouldn't be surprised if he had some ties to the government.
I understand the whole "trusting Google" thing, but RSS ain't email or search behaviour. These RSS services are simply passthrough/syndication services, and no real sensitive data is handled (unless I'm missing something else?).
The fact that you were in the cult and still defend that there were no "orders" or hierarchy makes me read the article with much more enthusiasm.
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Because when you stack lifts on top of each other in different parts of the shaft you can have multiple lifts running at once, hence multiple time the efficiency per m2. (High latency though)

Lifts are also limited by speeds, if they go too fast they make some people queasy. This is also an issue to contend with since express elevator are limited in the 'express' bit.

Edit: to be a bit clearer if you split up a shaft into 4 sections with fours lifts you can have four lifts full of people being moved, hence your bandwidth is 4 times as much. Taken to extreme you have one for every floor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster
> The slides say the NSA can "collect data directly from the servers" of these companies. Guardian states the the slides state that the NSA can collect data directly from the servers of these companies.

The slides do say the NSA can "collect data directly from the servers" of these companies. (Well, they say that the NSA uses "collection directly from the servers" of these companies, to get the quotation exactly right.) But the Guardian stated the the slides state that the NSA has root access (or similar) on the servers of these companies. It was wrong about this.

The Grauniad didn't publish a story saying "the NSA has a PowerPoint presentation in which the phrase 'collection directly from the servers' appears, but we do not pretend to offer any interpretation of what may have been meant by this". What it published was a story which said (in paraphrase) "the NSA has a PowerPoint presentation in which the phrase 'collection directly from the servers' appears. What the NSA means by this is that it has root access on Google, Facebook and friends." The NSA writer was correct; the Guardian's reporting of what he said was wrong, both in the sense that it misreported what the NSA writer was claiming, and the claim it misreported him/her as making was (unsuprisingly) untrue.
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It might be a small nuance here, but I think they were prepared to resign because the law required the AG to approve of the actions, Comey did not, and the President ordered the NSA to continue anyway. I think it is less that they disagreed with the surveillance action and more that they could not serve in an Administration that was going to ignore and overrule legal officials like that.
In the name of protecting you:

- Your government has launched a war under false premises

- Your government already ignores Habeas Corpus(read gitmo)

- Your government already reserves the right to kill you
without judicial consent

- Your government can already prevent you from flying without allowing much recourse for rectifying errors

- Your government is spying on your data and phone calls

Whatever happened to "O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave"
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Errmmm, is that _really_ asking for root ssh credentials over an unencrypted http form?

_REALLY?_
The skepticism shown in other comments is healthy but IMO misinformed and/or misguided.

This study confirms past results such as [0], which shows that adding some Lactobacillus rhamnosus to the diet of mice modifies the expression of GABA receptors (the ones sensitive to bnezodiazepines, like Xanax), and reduces their anxiety (which can be assessed reliably). The effect is mediated by the vagus nerve. If the nerve is cut, the effect disappears.

In the same vein, [1] found that the pulmonary exposure to Mycobacterium vaccae promotes the growth of serotonin and norepinephin neurons in the brain of mice and makes them "less resigned" [2].

I'm sure there are plenty of similar results.

The sample is relatively small, but not inappropriate for a fMRI study. There are statistical tools adapted for these situations like SPM [3], provided they are used properly (and I wouldn't be able to assess whether or not they were).

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[0] http://www.pnas.org/content/108/38/16050

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1868963/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioural_despair_test

[3] http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/
I think it's more about trusting google to keep the service running.
Here's the video for folks who prefer sentences and context:
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Let me jump in as somebody very familiar with two of the tools mentioned in the OP--sqlachemy and alembic.

> posts about why they are evil

There are legitimate flame wars to be had about ORMs being "evil", but they all have to be had in the context of using them to solve a particular thing. It is true that ORMs do not solve all problems for all people, but it is also true that they solve some problems for some people. There is no point in hashing it out without knowing what OP or me or you or some particular person is doing.

> being able to do arbitrary schema migrations is considerably harder

Being able to do arbitrary schema migrations is not a feature anybody is seriously suggesting, either for SQLite, sqlalchemy, alembic, or any other tool. What is being suggested is merely that SQLite support ALTER TABLE, a very particular, well-defined feature that has been standardized since at least 1992. In the intervening two decades I am not aware of any serious proposals to the effect that the standardized behavior is flawed, although there are various vendor-specific extensions. If you would like to raise an objection to the standard, I would be greatly intrigued.

> I couldn't find an explanation as to why they think the copy and adjust approach would be so hard

All snark aside, four out of five SQL vendors support alter table. They would be doing this logic solely for SQLite. Why would they do that? The path of least resistance is just to tell people to migrate to MySQL. That's what people who need migration support end up doing.

> alter table is very infrequently mentioned

You seem to anticipate that users will discover that SQLite does not support alter table correctly, and that following this discovery they will continue to use SQLite. My experience is at variance with your anticipation.

Specifically, I don't post to SQLite-users, first and foremost, because I am not a SQLite user, because it does not support alter table. The sampling bias would actually preclude you from hearing about any really critical feature requests.

> you would have to wait years before it is present on SQLite versions used by stable/enterprise distributions

Literally an argument against doing anything to SQLite ever. Is this a common objection to feature requests on the mailing list?

> You'll also need to establish what you want to happen

OP needs to establish nothing, this has literally been decided a full eight years before the first line of SQLite was ever written.

I know you're thinking "SQLite is fine, go use MySQL if you need this alter table nonsense". And that's precisely what people who do a lot of migrations end up doing. I've migrated every SQLite codebase I've committed to this year to either MySQL or Postgres or NoSQL. Every last one.
yes, not only that but I'm getting bored by people pretending they're doing anything good just because they've (finally) realized that using non-free software suffers from collaterals

I'm bored by people pretending they've gone free just because they managed to replace OSX with some exotic gnu/linux distro (and with exotic I mean whatever which isn't mainstream)

And I'm bored by people upvothing posts like this

And I know someone will tell is me who is wrong (and boring) but listen, that is just your opinion, as this is mine. One thing isn't opinionable though, svbtle isn't free, so this post really isn't a good one, for me

And if your story is about "how you reinstalled some random gnu/linux", well that is a 20 years old story; what is an hacker (news reader) interested in? the .Xmodmap settings?

The fight for freedom today seems to me to have been moved for the great part somewhere else, on the webapps. How about we "return to freedom" by debating on how we get rid of all these non-free web applications?
The "Five Eyes" agreement has had a big impact in the other countries (United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.)

In NZ the PM has kept quiet basically and it's blowing up in his face. And may it get worse.
> This story needs some historical context. This is pointed out in the blog post, but the main reason for wiretapping King wasn't his civil rights advocacy, but his communist leanings.

How does that make it any different? It was not illegal to support communism.
This is why I prefer web2py. Unfortunately all jobs I can find are for Django. :(
Where did you read that they had observed a reduction of abdominal sensations in the probiotics group?

It is not mentioned in the press release, but I would be surprised if they had not assessed this.
Feels like a scriptkid resume...
Eh, that's a false trade-off. I'm more productive on a free OS, which I can customize to my needs (since I can choose a the best window manager for me from tens of good alternatives and so on).
God always wins.

The World is perfectly just.

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Ask HN: Which TLDs will be most resistant to takedowns?
As a US citizen, I currently hold a private .com. Although I do not plan on being in a situation in which the US government would seek to take down my domain, I would still like to at least be informed on the issue.

Which TLDs are most resistant to US takedown? Which are the least resistant?
Are there any good links that can explain to a (legal) layperson why?
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> So basically the probiotics had nothing to do with it, and it was actually the dairy product?

No. The dairy had some effect in one of the tests (but not on the others), and the probiotics added to that.

That's the very point of having a dairy control group: exclude that the effect is solely due to taking dairy.

Had the results been equivalent in both groups, your conclusion would be correct.
What does esotic mean?
What, by mentioning that there is a group of people who blow my mind, I'm being partisan? What is the matter with you? Did a liberal frighten your mother?

Did I say "all conservatives" are inconsistent? No. I said there are people who simultaneously believe Obama is after their guns, but the NSA is just peachy keen, and I find this astonishing, and you think I'm being unfair to the poor little snowflakes.

Good day to you, sir.
Great, now we get access to the worlds corporate secrets too. I wonder which companies will be the beneficiaries..
If you send between 1 and 4 paragraphs from one of four different works, a day, it doesn't take that long to send the 2048 bytes necessary to create a public key, or the 512 necessary to give the hash of one.
yeah thanks for pointing that out, I'll fix that

btw, I meant to say "exotic"
I wrote a full C compiler that goes from PDF-like source code with graphics to x86_64 machine code.

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/HolyC.html
ASCII may be American in origin, but it's become the global standard, and it's all we have in common. Even Japanese keyboards have ASCII character input.
Seriously, this algorithm (along with Levenshtein distance) should be taught in high-school.
The differences in connectivity between the periaqueductal grey and the cortex are interesting.

The periaqueductal grey is a key nucleus in the pain pathways. The probiotics group shows an increased connectivity with the prefrontal cortex, wich suggests an improved ability to control and reduce pain perception.

The rest of the description is too vague for me to interpret.
Well, I <3 eOS, and I am developing for it, and chat to the devs on the daily (#elementary-dev on Freenode). Great guys, great OS.

Thing is, it _does_ take away a lot of the "choice". It's very Mac influenced, and has a "convention over configuration" and "opinionated" view on how things should work.

This is not a bad thing, if it fits you (like it does for me!). However, a lot of hackers on here won't be keen, considering their opinions on Unity anyway ;)

Do give it a spin in a VM and see what you think, however!

Personally, I have a Samsung Series-5 ultrabook 13", running Ubuntu 13.04 - it's brilliant. I've used Linux as my daily on my laptops since 2005 :)
That is possible, though what we're seeing is the result of the PR response of the NSA taking effect. The NSA does not have any incentive for the truth to be revealed, only for the public to stop worrying about it.
> I often drop $39 on random Ruby, JavaScript, or web design ebooks.

I'm sure you do, but unlike me, you're rich. I practically never buy any books, but I'm interested in buying your guides.

When I first saw the $50, I was a bit disappointed and felt like it was expensive, especially for an independently published PDF.

Then I realized that I do want one reasonably bad, and that each book is potentially highly valuable, so I guess the $50 price can be considered justified. It's just that I'd like to buy several, but I'm not sure I'm comfortable doing so at that price point.
Yep.

The mind reels.
Right, there is something no one here it telling you.

Older people are bare faced liars.

Why? They operate primarily out of fear. They are scared for their job, business, mortgage, possessions, status, kids (you!!), their investments, health care, etc, etc. But more than anything, they are scared for them selves.

Why? The more you have to lose, the more fear and paranoia you acquire.

The older you get the LESS wise you get. In fact, you become more bigoted, judgemental and finger pointy.

The problems in this world are NOT created by the young. Note how the world's problems get worse as average life span increases.

Only a few actually manage to avoid this. Note how they are repeatedly referenced here and other places.

The young are free to think freely because they have less to lose.

Im 40. My life is over. I see a world that is a total mess. I want you and your your generation to fix it. Not for me, my useless generation and the useless generations before me. Forget us. Do it for your selves. You see the disaster, correct? Get your generation together and create the world you need and want. Your generation , like no other generation, has the tools to do it. So, to quote bloody Nike, JUST DO IT.

Best of luck. I'll keep a look out for you.
I haven't read it, but if the excepts are anything to go buy, I was right. Books that have as many interpretations as there are readers (as opposed to a good mystery book that has four or five and gives the actual answer in the end) are as useful as the output of /dev/urandom. I freely admit that plenty of people disagree with that (or Lost wouldn't have been as popular as it was), but I still believe Joyce to be a bad writer.
Pretty cool. I would love to have something like this in Sublime.
Has Canonical abandonned the 'Ubuntu for Android' project?
"I'm not interested in the semantic argument."

Stop making one then.
I've got encfs running on both MacOSX amd Linux, storing encrypted partitions on Dropbox, gDrive and BTSync.

What that isn't giving me yet is Dropbox style iOS integration. (though there's a promising looking BoxCryptor iOS app,mi haven't made time to test it yet)
I don't have this functionality. Could you explain if I have to enable something for it to work? It would be a great help, since I have that letter in my last name...
Wondering how the routing is working.

If my neighbour and I are 30km apart, and covered by the same balloon, does our traffic get turned around on the balloon, rather than hoping to the base station and then back again? I have to assume yes.

If we are 30km apart and we are actually connected to two neighbouring balloons, will they route traffic between them, and again, not via the base station? Again, have to assume yes.

So do I get a single IP address, or do I keep changing when the balloons are overhead? I assume I get a single IP address, but my home router is actually going to have to do some intelligent next hop routing.

Mesh networking is a challenging area when the base stations are fixed, with weather effects and moving end users an issue. Even more challenging when your "base stations" are moving, weather effects are significantly greater, and you're super limited to the amount of onboard processing you can do.

Assume it has to be something like BATMAN. http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/open-mesh/wiki/BATMANConce...
Not sure what you mean here by the establishment. I see him defending google, and rightfully so. I think google is one of the few companies who have been fighting for the privacy rights of users. It would be a shame if other companies saw the effort google puts into this, only to be tar and feathered for something they might not be guilty of.. Those other companies might decide its not worth sticking their neck out for users..
Really? So the slippery slope isn't real? The police is already being trained to treat protesters are terrorists, which is also what's happening in Turkey right now [2]. When are you going to protest about it? After the revolution and others suffer and die to preserve your freedoms?

Wake up and smell the coffee. The slippery slope is real, and there are clear patterns here that you'd be wrong to ignore.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/29/3816158/occupy-movement-w...

[2] http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/everyone-who-enters-the-tak...
Also, I'm not selling myself as the only good guy around who always makes good decisions.

I use and need a replacement for gmail, for todoist, for linkedin and probably a few others.

So what would an hacker, returning to freedom, suggest as replacement?
So write and apply such modification scripts manually. It's not difficult, and you can tailor it to your table's unique or unusual properties, as needed.

I've seen too many people waste far too much time and effort with automated migration systems, for what amounts to very little saving even in the cases where it does work well.
I believe it's also a popular word press theme. Which also caused a fair amount of controversy for looking like its ripping off svbtle
"Special characters may not work."

I guess we should change our root passwords to "root123" so upgrading becomes easier.
Glenn Greenwald's 'Epic Botch'?
Were you under arrest? Because if not, you could have walked out of there any minute you wanted to.

Anyway, watch The Lives of Others (or just the beginning, available here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu-NJA4Y1RI) to see it from the other side. It is a very good movie.
> I'm bored by people pretending they've gone free just because they managed to replace OSX with some exotic gnu/linux distro

Isn't it better than just doing nothing? What are you planning to do to do any good? What do you think the average non-tech guy should do?
But now every user of SQLite needs to deal with a library that's larger, and includes non-critical functionality that goes unused.

The whole point of using SQLite in the first place is to avoid such overhead, knowing full well that some non-essential functionality is being lost as part of this tradeoff.

I think it's far more important to keep SQLite small and nimble for the many users who are facing constraints beyond their control (imposed by limited hardware resources, for instance), rather than bloating it for the sake of a small number of users who are unwilling (or too lazy?) to write proper manual migration scripts now and then.
call me old school, but Ctrl + P should do print