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>You're setting up quite a straw man there by making it look as though Linus's first reply to things he doesn't like is "this is a piece of shit". In fact, if you go through these threads, in almost every case there is an escalation where he explains his reasoning first, in detail and repeatedly

Yes it's true, his first responds isn't "this is a piece of shit". It's "YOU are a piece of shit".

Here is the C++ rant: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57643...

As far as I can see, that was his first post to that thread. He said his target was "full of bullshit", then proceeded into a rant about how C++ programmers are so bad he wants to deliberately keep them off his projects by pissing them off.

I think it's a good example because there are plenty of criticisms of C++ one could make but Linus does a terrible job of putting forward those criticisms. He seems to be so blinded with rage that he can barely form a coherent argument.

Additionally, as far as I can tell the people involved here were not old timer core git contributors, they were new people making an honest attempt to contribute, so the argument being put about that he only targets old hands who have a thick skin isn't true.
I wrote a review for a $35 pair of NoiseHush NS400s. They are a stereo, behind the head bluetooth headset. So they also have a mic. They sound great, and pairing them would make an inconspicuous lock that most people wouldn’t thing about being theft worthy. but they do not work plugged into the charger, unfortunately.
Hopefully, any of the justices use Verizon.
Yeah The Postal Service are another famous example: "The band's name was chosen due to the way in which it produced its songs. Tamborello wrote and performed instrumental tracks and then sent the DATs to Gibbard, who edited the song as he saw fit (adding his vocals along the way) and sent them back to Tamborello through the United States Postal Service."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Postal_Service
I used to host my client projects over the past 10 years and finally stopped (and thankful for it). Sometimes the hosting costs to the client is so small that it takes you ages to chase them for the money.

If you can automate payments and be strict on pulling the off switch when they don't pay, then that might be good.

My approach now is to get them to pay for hosting/domains, and give me their login details and I configure it all. Then you can invoice for you time separately and never be out of pocket.

The biggest pain I found is switching hosting providers, whether through saving money, better service. Getting all he clients moved would take best part of 4 months sometimes because I had more important freelance work to be getting on with.
As malicious as this may be it is pure genius. It should include a message as such:

Elk Cloner: The program with a personality
It will get on all your disks
It will infiltrate your chips
Yes, it's Cloner!
It will stick to you like glue
It will modify RAM too
Send in the Cloner!
A cultural relativist view would disagree with you. What is superior about this specific breed of American culture some think Linus should conform to? As a Swede I do not see Linus as being particularly rude. Linus seems to be of the view that people should try to cooperate despite cultural differences instead of trying to remove them and all conform to a single culture (which one should they pick?).
Actually, how he is treated in this situation is of direct importance to the matter at hand. If the USA does not follow the rule of law regarding his case, it only fans the flames.
Chess: a game that teaches serious lessons to any age
yup taste is big time for me, that's why I buy monster light blue 20 calorie. Don't care about the caffiene, don't care about the diet factor, but the taste is fun. I do like redbull but they are too expensive for the amount you get.

Never slammed an energy drink in my life. because I savor it. I stretch a monster out for like 2 hours while I'm working at my desk.
I have a couple of questions or I say, requests:

1- Please share your journey/methods
2- As a programmers how I could write ebooks on different technical topics. Will people buy books on programming languages or related things?
Physician changes focus: Renting camera gear (how Lensrentals.com got started)
I think the title is a bit misleading as the article is predominately about the robot being used as humanitarian aid in disaster areas.
I totally disagree on slowing down his writing.

think about the federalist papers for a second. Someone needed to wrote them to convince a nation about our beloved constitution. Since all eyes are on Snowden, he has the best ability to sway many minds about what he believes and what I believe to be right.
Nobody called Torvalds a rapist.

Neither does he. He's not creating a caricature, he's engaging the part of the argument that uses the same language on Linus that we normally reserve for wife beaters, child molesters and rapists. "Violence" and "abuse". It's not out of line to draw the parallel and question whether the language is appropriate for the situation, especially since the topic to begin with is language and it's appropriateness.
http://www.redmine.org/ with http://www.redmine.org/plugins/agile_dwarf works great for a free self-hosted solution.

You can create projects and subprojects with custom user elevation for each. Time tracking, reporting, etc.

UI could use some updating though
Responding to government legal demands for customer data
someone to do it, although that isn't always easy to do

Exactly. I am getting ready to self-publish and am facing this problem. So far this group: http://bookcoverexpress.com/about-book-cover-express.html looks promising, but they don't list prices, which is seldom a good sign.
Microsoft: U.S. Constitution is 'suffering' from NSA secrecy
> I am really tempted to play the "citation needed" card on that one but in my experience yelling on someone has never prevented them doing the same mistake again. Quite the contrary.

That jack example was a real example. I was disassembling some greenbean processing equipment to move it across the plant floor (a scrubber/rinser, iirc), and decided to take a shortcut. It probably would have taken my hand if I hadn't have been stopped. You can be damn sure I never made that mistake again.

This may seem alien, it may seem like something I should have been able to get through my thick skull with kind words after the immediate danger was neutralized, so I'll give it some background:

Lots of things can take limbs on a farm; damn near everything has a warning label about that. Most of the time the labels are for stupid shit like "make sure you have this turned off, unplugged, and disabled before you stick your hand in there". Most things you do have very long drawn out procedures that seem over-engineered for the sake of safety (similar to the procedures people being trained to use firearms will learn). It is very easy to become complacent, particularly when you are being worked hard, but when somebody chews you out for something for five minutes then you know that in this case something is deadly serious.
Since this forum is about hackers and developers, do developers buy ebooks related to programming or other technologies? Any tips or stats available?
This is normal for lexers in whitespace-insensitive languages. In spirit this is similar to allowing "foo+" (plus after "foo") or any other token concatenation.

If this is an error in the language, the parser easily catches it.

Some languages AFAIR allow "units" to be attached to numbers so some use cases are actually valid. In any case, it's a higher-level decision the parser makes.
I think you both make valid points. What does that make me? Unqualified trash?
How would that work though? Wouldn't it mean that in order to access the info he is talking about, you need something more than knowledge he has in his head - like physical access to something?

But then, in the worst case scenario - how could Snowden access it himself if he needs the documents?
We currently work by mixing down everything and exporting the files to dropbox. And what you're describing is one of the main pain points I'd like to fix by using the same software and sharing the same project files.
This is an interesting take on that problem:

http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/tech-companie...
This is like a dialogue from a spy movie, the good guy is on the run trying to save his country, while this very nation is hunting him down.

I think Wesley Snipes plays the good guy! :-)

Jokes aside I salute Snowden, he's doing a very very brave thing.
We should come up with a hacker salute for his cause.
The article linked earlier gave examples where people were prosecuted based on evidence collected from secret programs without a warrant: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/us/double-secret-surveilla...
daily stand-up meetings

You just lost me.
> Are the geeks on HN that were yelled at senseless during PE better at basket-ball or sports ? I Thought so.

No, in fact I hated P.E. and sports, and you know what happened? I chose not to participate. I had no interest in sports, and I was not cut out for sports, and so I did not participate.

> Oh I don't say that encouraging someone with swearing or cursing to rise the adrenaline is bad. Cursing someone or yelling at him to get information conveyed ? Ridiculous.

Linus is not a professor, he's not here to teach. When people go to work on the Linux kernel they have huge amounts of experience and it is expected that they already know what they are doing. That expectation is critical, and they are held to the highest standards.

> When do we really man up and just punch the other guy in the face ? That should make sure he doesn't make the same mistake again since we just associate something physically to make things connect.

That's an entirely facetious statement and not remotely related to what Linus is doing when he calls people out on their mistakes. But sure, what the hell, I'd say we can draw that line right about at the point where someone's "contributions" start to have a net negative affect on the development of the kernel. I'd say that's just about punch-worthy.

> Right. Because on the farms, they are dumb enough to let newbies who saw a cow for the first time in their life on the tractor when real dangerous work is needed. I have worked on a farm for some days and my SO's cousins are all farmers. They ain't that dumb.

I recommend going back to the farm for more than a few days.

> Yes, it does. We don't need cursing words as big punctuation sign to get our attention focused on the task at hand. We need words like "now, listen boy, this is dangerous and this is how you do it safely". It works as well and you don't perpetuate violence and intimidation disguised as manhood.

Since we just went right back to where we started, I can see that there's probably no way I can convince you of my (or Linus's) position. I'm okay with that, I think I've laid out my arguments fairly well and you have yours. I still disagree with a lot of what you say, but that's fine, in a week or so the only place this argument will exist is in our HN comment history.
Wow, this would bypass the execution constraints we put on the upload directories. Usually I make an uploads folder rw-rw-rw (0666); it would take another attack in conjunction with it, but that's really something.
I think there's a pretty clear analogy between Programmer Anarchy and Free Market Economics.

Each posits that regulation (whether by central managers or external forces like government agencies) hinder progress. Supporters of this view claim that spontaneous order is superior to any order that does not allow individuals to make their own choices of what to produce, what to buy, what to sell, and at what prices, due to the number and complexity of the factors involved. They further believe that any attempt to implement central planning will result in more disorder, or a less efficient production and distribution of goods and services.

When it comes to economics, true free markets almost never work. Some form of governing agency is necessary to safeguard social and environmental values. I imagine a similar form of regulation is beneficial to commercial software projects. However, without appropriate data, this (like the author's points) is only speculation.
Let's not beat around the bush. This is exactly the type of insidious tripe that wants to make everyone the same, that wants to live in a gingerbread world where they hold hands and sing Kumbayah. We tell kids in school and adults to "be themselves and be an individual", yet, your way of thinking wants to remove any individuality and homogenize them so every one is polite and considerate of everyone else's garbage opinion as if they all had equal weight, They do not. Telling people they are doing something dumb, even in harsh terms can be useful, as it will drive the point home. That's not to say be mean, but, be direct and upfront.
19 Groups Sue NSA Over Data Collection
"...one of my specializations was to teach our people at DIA how to keep such information from being compromised even in the highest threat counter-intelligence environments (i.e. China)."

Interesting. Is it from a technical/IT standpoint or more of a "social engineering" one? Or a bit of both? That's a genuine question because I really don't know how feasible this type of work could be when done from within the US.
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She also didn't say she was "victimized" in any way.
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I don't think it matters which specific model, as long as it is as large as your field of view can accommodate, supports high native resolution, is elevated to eye level and placed at the back of your desk, and preferably accompanied by one or two identical twins.
Here's the Wired article from 2007:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/esp_pr.html
If that were the case, there would need to be at least two other parties who share his ideology specifically enough to decrypt the data only after he's presumed dead. They would also need to remain secret in order to not be targeted simultaneously.

Not impossible requirements, but they seem unlikely.

The question is: Can you automate it to remove the human element?

Assuming Tor is perfect, could you create N co-conspirator hidden services that need checked in with periodically to not work together to decrypt it? Assuming the check in would be able to detect duress, that might be a viable system.
> in no way anarchistic to maintain it.

I don't see why not.
based on the longevity of soda, I think Redbull is in a better position as far as future, as long as they aren't discovered to be poison upon futher study. GoPro has to work a lot harder to innovate as well as market like mad.
I'm not insulting you. The law of conservation of energy is insufficient to support your claim because your claim relies more on the particulars of human physiology than on the basic physics. If it were all down to physics, then my car would get fat when I put fuel in the gas tank and didn't drive it. But even though my car and my body are both governed by the same laws of physics, the details are different.
As Joshua Foust points out, Snowden gave some info to Der Spiegel that they chose not to publish which seems to conflict with some of the "no harm" statements here:

SPIEGEL has decided not to publish details it has seen about secret operations that could endanger the lives of NSA workers. Nor is it publishing the related internal code words. However, this does not apply to information about the general surveillance of communications. They don’t endanger any human lives — they simply describe a system whose dimensions go beyond the imaginable.

http://joshuafoust.com/dangerously-naive-or-a-liar/

The Guardian and Washington Post also decided to not publish the majority of the Prism slides for similar national security reasons, even though Snowden's initial push was to have them all published (and almost immediately after receipt by the Guardian and WaPo).
Not true, we'd be happy to work with Mac developers. It's just that we don't have the skills in house. Any takers?
Disclaimer: I work for the company featured in this article.

I think this view is a bit myopic. Just because the controls are imprecise, doesn't mean the games can't present a deep experience. Certainly existing FPS games and RTS games would not do well on a touchscreen device. The reason why games on mobile and tablet platforms have done so poorly up to this point is that they merely try to emulate a genre of games that was built from the ground up with a different platform in mind (PC or console).

When GoldenEye first came out, the controls were abysmal compared to what was possible with Counterstrike on the PC. But console developers eventually learned to adapt (dual stick controls) and change the feel of the game to be console appropriate. This needs to happen for mobile and tablet as well. My hope is that the push to create meaningful gaming experiences will engender innovation in this space that nobody has seen yet (new game genres, new input methods, etc).
No worries, SP-117 is extremely effective. FSB or any other intelligence service have ways to make people talk. Such naïveté.
My personal rule of thumb is do not say something written that I wouldn't say in person, especially if I am using a profanity language.

Obviously not Linus' rule...
Anyone who's ever followed the kernel dev mailing list knows this.
Want to bother attempting a compelling argument to that effect?
Having experienced abusive behavior in the past, I feel strongly about neither engaging in nor tolerating it. But when I read Linus' rants, I don't get the feeling of someone being abusive. They're vociferous and profane, but they don't seem mean. Instead it feels like there's always a wry chuckle hidden in there (yes, even in "Mauro you are full of shit"), a sort of "You see what I have to put up with" winking to the side, and a kind of nimbleness in how he can take up or drop that tone very quickly.

Emotionally violent people, in my experience, aren't like that. They get stuck in anger, and the situation is usually about them personally (they've been insulted, are not getting their due, no one recognizes how smart/gifted/good they are, etc.) I don't read that in Linus. His ego doesn't seem so involved in those rants, which is probably why, even when he's yelling, there's an accompanying lightness.

I have no idea how accurate that impression is. One would have to know someone personally to say.
> Linus isn't a drill sergeant

That's right, he's actually a lieutenant in reserve of the FDF.

He got his start of leading men by training a bunch of recruits for FDF, and his leadership style "management by Perkele" very closely matches the one found all over in Finland among other reserve leaders (Finland maintains conscription, and officer training is considered a very good experience for leadership roles even outside the military). Not an imitation.
The question I have is this: will they be able to get rid of all these damn remotes I have to deal with? Every device (projector, receiver, cable box, video switcher...) has its own damn remote!

Oh, and before anyone asks: yes I've tried those fancy universal remotes. The problem with all of them is that power buttons for most devices act as toggles and there's no way for the universal remote to know which devices are on and which are off. This leads to annoying situations where some devices are getting switched on and others off every time I hit the power button!
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I can see two problems with this:

-- A naive linear scan for a lookup will not scale as the size of your database grows larger. You should be looking into space-partitioning trees, or approximate methods like locality-sensitive hashing.

-- Euclidean distance is a terrible metric for kNN on non-metric spaces, which is what your movie example is. It will also be beaten to a pulp by the Curse of Dimensionality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality#Distanc...
First, everyone already knows Apple is making a TV, because Steve Jobs literally admitted it in his biography.

Second, looking at the acquisition of a gesture startup as evidence for a TV is pretty far-fetched, because odds are whatever TV experience Apple has been working on, the UX part has been figured out for quite a while. If anything, this type of gesture support either has already been implemented or would be slotted into the roadmap for 2nd or 3rd generation TVs, I'd guess.

The discussion with media companies about commercial skipping, if true, is definitely a sign that Apple is starting to get to the "ink on paper" part of launching a TV product, though.
It makes sense to me. I know I wouldn't want to autocorrect my users' messages to something potentially offensive to either them or the recipient. You see the same done in Android with Google's default keyboard (and most others).
Shouldn't the interpretation of our Constitution be left to the Supreme Court? I mean, the Constitution explicitly grants the Court those powers.
I would love it too. I spent some time working on one, ten or so years ago. I have forgotten the actual power measurements but I came to the conclusion that a laser powerful enough to kill a mosquito in the ~10 ms my tracking system was able to locate it would be too dangerous to leave running with people around, because even if my "never shoot when there might be a human in the background" algorithm worked perfectly (ha!), even just a stray reflection off a nearby shiny surface would be enough to potentially cause permanent eye damage.

Microcontrollers have improved dramatically since then, so perhaps it would be possible to track mosquito flight instead of just scanning for mosquitos and blasting away whenever one shows up in your crosshairs, but unfortunately we'll never see any commercial applications now that Intellectual Ventures has stuck their toe in. Might be fun to try it again as an open source hack project, though...
Can we assume that if he is the part of the secret key then if somebody does something bad with him we will lose all the secret docs?
you know xfce is present in a default slackware install? :D
I think he comes off as naive and more than a little pompous, but I guess it's in the eye of the beholder.

This is my take too. If he had had more knowledge about the historical background of the other countries he has visited, and especially if he had STRONG knowledge of another language, he might view the position of the United States in these matters a bit differently, and might resolve the trade-offs about what to disclose and what to keep secret quite a bit differently. On my part, as I have said in another HN comment, I would take Snowden's claims more seriously in general if he were on United States soil preparing to face trial for his alleged wrongdoing, ready to bring forward any defenses he thinks he has to possible criminal charges. Right now, part of what Snowden is saying with ghostwriting help from Wikileaks is not making sense.
>You may rest easy knowing I cannot be coerced into revealing that information, even under torture.

I have several close friends and family members who have been to SERE(Survive, Evade, Resist, Escape) School. One of the first things you learn, is that EVERYBODY talks when they are being tortured. Forget all of the nonsense you see in movies and television shows. If Putin wants to know what Edward Snowden knows, he will.

Even if they don't choose to go the direct physical route by inflicting pain, there are other ways. Sleep deprivation and near-starvation cause your mental state to degrade rapidly. Eventually, no matter how strong willed you may think you are, you are going to start talking.
Yup. The ads are removed on your client, not on their server, so advertisers end up paying for impressions that you never see (if they're paying for impressions).
They invented a demo, thus ensuring that nobody will ever be able to produce a product.