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>Attempts to make technical pages more accessible to a general audience have been shut down repeatedly and resulted in a separate Wikipedia entirely called "Simple English".

I am somebody who goes to Wikipedia by default when looking up something, even if it's something technical, although I know that I won't get much use out of reading the article, and it is precisely for that reason.

It seems that the Wikipedia community has assumed that being able to write in "Standard English" means the articles can be as complex and technical as they wish.

I have often put myself in the mind of somebody who knows only, for example, basic networking, and tried to rewrite networking articles (or at least their introductions) to make it easier for them to understand the core concepts. Instead, the admins think it's wiser to have the first paragraph use a jargon word every other word since the reader can always click that word to be taken to its article.

It is also true that if you're going up against an admin's article/edit, their say is final and you've pretty much wasted your time.
FYI, if you click "Show all versions" in CanIUse it goes back all the way, to IE 5.5, FF 2.0, etc.
This bug is problematic for all those situations where the ssh protocol is not used for telnet-style command line, but as a transport.

e.g. Git uses ssh as transport protocol, but github (and similar platforms) don't support direct user login.
I think this is a better test:

$ openssl enc --help 2>&1 | grep gcm
-aes-128-ecb -aes-128-gcm -aes-128-ofb
-aes-192-ecb -aes-192-gcm -aes-192-ofb
-aes-256-ecb -aes-256-gcm -aes-256-ofb

(Tested on ArchLinux with OpenSSL 1.0.1.e-5)
Sure, if you're willing to pay for it. For intercontinental flights you'd need to charter something like a Gulfstream IV which runs about $6,000 per flight hour.
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Wow impressed and jealous of his thinking outside the box. Using sound to control the laser beam is just crazy and awesome.

And he's not going to patent it? Very nice guy. Also made in blender hehe.
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What about git-shell over ssh ?
I imagine Lotus notes would have fallen back to plaintext anyway no?
> (both of which are arguably "modest" by Bay Area standards today)

Not all business models and great tech companies need to be created in the Bay. Does it reduce HR risk to do so - sure, but there is an ugly side effect to this, increased risk of operating expenses.
I assume losses would be to much to transfer the energy. Locally they couldn't afford the land.
It doesn't strike me as particularly far out. It's not as if no-one has, say, hired the Mafia to rig the US presidential election for them within living memory.
As side topic, it's quite awesome the level of auditing of this protocol. OpenBSD people deserve full respect.
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Dude, look the example conversation in the article. Really look at it. There is an obvious difference between somebody nitpicking the language you use in a social situation (the example conversation in the article) and somebody being thorough and rigorous with technical details (you, your examples). I'm almost positive that nobody, including the author, would be dismissive the latter behavior. And I'm almost positive that even you would be dismissive of former.
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Unless I missed it, where does one get the continent shapes and country outlines?
You realize Line are doing around $100m/revenue month from sticker sales ?
That link's really worth a read.
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Interesting comment. Bringing up the capital intensiveness is an interesting point and really gets to the heart of how inherently insane valuing these companies is.

The archetype story in my mind of how public companies work is: A company has some proven way of turning capital into revenue. They go to capital markets. Raise money Make the revenue stream and pay it to investors as dividends. This revenue stream has some risks and companies can always fail, but ultimately they risks are small enough that companies can be treated by investors as living forever.

Obviously that story gets complicated by reality. But, it's a starting point and it has some core of truth when looking at companies like IHG.

Companies like Twitter or AirbnB essentially don't have capital investments in the same sense. They have something like R&D costs (though even calling it R&D is weird if you compare it to the R&D of companies like pharmaceuticals) but those are covered by VCs earlier on. They do have revenues and they have even more potential revenues so they have value. But, they are clearly not going public to raise capital with which to grow the business. They are going to get liquidity for their shareholders.

The other big difference with IHG is the risk profile. Twitter & AirBnB do have much more rapid growth potential. They also have much more spectacular failure potential. Even a solid company like Google could be obliterated in a few years by an upstart search engine. Facebook, Twitter & AirBnB have even moor 'gone tomorrow' potential. Twitter or Facebook might just become unpopular, giving way to the next new thing. Most users even expect them to.

I think the recent examples from Blackberry & Nokia will be repeated, with even younger companies. I'm not implying that tech companies can't last for generations. I just think they have much higher chances of losing all their value in any given 5 year interval than a bricks and mortar company.

All the underlying things are different. The concept of a company as machine turning capital, inputs and labour into revenue doesn't apply. The concept of IPOs as a way of raising capital doesn't apply. Growth potential is completely different. The idea of companies as semi-immortal doesn't apply in the same way. All those things are supposed to add up to a guess at a companies intrinsic value, the rational valuation of the company. Intrinsic/expected value is a pretty abstract concept. It's a lot more abstract when we're talking about lower chances at a bigger prize.

I don't know what that means for how companies are valued. I suspect there is more systemic risk as this stuff moves to public markets.
I'd rather put this as a vote for proper os level privilege management/access control. You shouldn't need to trust OpenSSH to limit user privileges.
Happens for me, too.
> What about git-shell over ssh ?

I guess that gives the same problem. The exploitation allows to execute arbitrary code, as you would do by launching commands from, say, bash.

I don't know git-shell, but I guess (from the manpage) it restricts the allowed commands. The exploitation of the bug would allow a malicious user to execute a command instead of git-shell. A good example of command could be /bin/bash.
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Revisiting Aaron Swartz's rewriting Reddit
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit

How far have we come on the Django versus Others debate- Your comments please
Xbox One only launches with a couple more retail titles. PS4 launches with a dozen or so more PSN titles.
McDonald's already has a green logo variant:

https://www.google.com/search?q=mcdonald's+green+logo
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Sorry for being thickheaded. I want to clarify the point of contention. The way I understand it ... the company wanted him to sign the release without "any real consideration". The claimed consideration was the employer would pay the employee his owed wages. I totally understand that this is not real consideration - they owed the employee this anyways. But what kind of consideration should/could he have expected?
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There is no debate about the hardware, really. The PS4 is the more powerful console in every single way.

What makes the Xbox One hardware interesting is the Kinect.
> the satirical political TV comedy Yes, Minister

Actually a documentary, as someone pointed out years ago. Great quote.

(Something else depressingly well along the way to being a documentary is Terry Gilliam's 1985 movie Brazil.)
I based mine on some else his blog as well and open sourced mine as well in hope others benefit from it. I am glad to see most jekyll/middleman/octopress users open source their blog. Without it, mine wouldn't look as good as it does. What I have added is a way to turn jekyll a bit more into a CMS by automating the generation and deployment: http://born2code.net/blog/2013/05/27/simplify-your-jekyll-pu...
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Naww their feels got hurt.
Legislatively-prescribed limits like this on work, for me, would be too statist.

Now, I very much believe in the spirit of the concept. Bertrand Russell hit the nail:

http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html

But through legislation, no. It needs to be a culturally grown movement.

Also, the US has a higher Human Development Index rating than France:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Deve...

and on whatever the Legatum Prosperity Index is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legatum_Prosperity_Index

and Germany's OECD's Better Life Index (using the "weigh all of these equally" measure):
http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/#11111111111

I would argue that standard of living is higher in the US.
I think https://github.com/mbostock/topojson is what you're looking for
That, and the usual low-level hardware access that consoles have always had. That counts for a lot, especially later in the console's life.
There are plenty of ideas for addressing the surveillance problem but perhaps it is time to take a step back and look at the "big picture". In any conflict, no matter how big or small, there is considerable advantage in having advance knowledge of your opponent's intentions. In military conflicts the invention of telegraph, radio, aircraft and satellites has more or less solved the problem with blindly marching into an area and getting annihilated. Nobody ever suggested that these technologies should be banned in order to create a level playing field.

It is going to be the same patttern with all forms of electronic communication. The spectre of weapons of mass destruction (anything that can kill more than one person at a time) is the justification/motivation for government and law enforcement to monitor everything online. Whether it has merit is kind of besides the point. It is an advantage, perceived or otherwise, that is not going to be given up, under any circumstances.

Another part to this is whether conspiring online actually constitutes a crime. People can chat all day about terrorist plots but until someone actually goes out and starts building a bomb or procuring weapons has a crime really taken place? Only when a society can decide on the answer to this question will it be possible to address online surveillance.
Interesting theory. I'd be interested in reading the multi-page version, though possibly he'd be happier spending his time on his more constructive educational output. But maybe two distinct voices calling for royalty-free codecs with different strategies is better than one united front anyway.

I noticed that Brendan Eich (edit: sorry it was Robert O'Callahan http://lwn.net/Articles/572540/) challenged people recently in a comment (sorry can't recall exactly where) to name anyone who has done more for the cause of royalty-free codecs on the web than Mozilla.

Clearly he didn't just forget about Google (in fact I think he brought up Chrome's H.264 support in the same comment), so he obviously thinks their contribution doesn't measure up to Mozilla's. I'm not sure I agree.

Now Mozilla's done all sorts of good stuff (hiring many of the Xiph team is just the latest in a long list) but I think the big corporate moves of Google with Android, WebRTC, Hangouts, Youtube, buying VP8 etc. which might add up to literal billions in investment in royalty free codecs are probably going to have more impact overall.

Google's obviously pissed a lot of folk off along the way, but I'd say that's more a measure of their success than failure.

Obviously I'm not privy to the conversations that Mozilla and Xiph are having with various industry participants but from the outside, probably mostly due to leverage from Android, Google has basically everyone (Qualcomm, Samsung, nVidia, Intel etc.) on board with VP8/9 now with the exception of Nokia, Apple and Microsoft (who, not coincidentally, were the exact same group that killed Theora as a lowest-common-denominator fallback video in the W3C--because our cute cat videos and educational animations are so much better as gifs--as well as being the three companies most threatened by Android). I don't see failing to convince them as a PR failure, quite the opposite I'd consider convincing them some kind of miracle.

On the subject of Apple, Microsoft and Nokia, have any of those three publicly committed to using Opus? I mean Microsoft helped build it (via their Skype purchase) but as far as I'm aware there's nothing but ominous silence. Monty seems hopeful but not certain, which doesn't fill me with confidence.

It's particularly relevant as WebRTC just failed to name an MTI video codec mostly because "people might ignore that part of the standard" yet, as far as I'm aware there's no clarity that the aforementioned will even implement WebRTC itself, never mind support Opus.

They're all still happily ignoring Xiph's Flac, many years later, so there's plenty of precedent for ignoring widely used and popular free codecs long after any patent bogeyman fades from view.
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OpenBSD people? OpenSSH people!
"You are not 100% committed."

Added to my big-picture_manager RubyGem.

https://github.com/guangnan/big-picture_manager
Okaayyyyy... Let us be ridiculous. Why do you assume all of space will not belong to India for all of time?

Why do you assume Mars has zero wealth? Over the long term, this "loss" of wealth will result in helping humans (not just Indians) harness that wealth in Mars and other places.
Blackmail by any number of actors
Think about the consequences. In the example conversation, they were simply describing the progress of another employee. Is this person telling you to do something? Not really. Is this person telling you how to think about something technical? Not really.
openssl aes-256-cbc -a -salt -in privateKey.txt -out privateKey.aes

It's that simple to do cold storage. Do it from an offline live CD boot, save the file to USB, and print it on a piece of paper just to be safe. So much confusion around something which is essentially protecting a string of text.
The Telegraph is a serious, respectable newspaper; quite a way out on the right (at least by British standards), but with integrity, and open about its biases. The Guardian is more or less equal and opposite; again a serious, respectable paper, but one that caters to sandal-wearing vegan hippies. New Statesman is a very respectable magazine, probably analogous to The Economist (and with a similar right-wing but socially liberal stance). But yes, between them these are about as good as it gets, pretty much the opposite of "the fox news of europe".
hey dclara.
Actually we've tried that but put it on the side for the moment. Certain sites had iframe buster and it would swallow the whole page, which was irritating. Actually we solved that issue recently so we might as well get it back. Thanks for the tip!
There is far more risk from local machines and blatant gerrymandering of districts and selective targeting of minorities to deny them the vote.
Why not just use CSS3 animation?
My word, did you study any history? Fawkes wanted to assassinate (not nobly duel or anything) the King to replace him with a more repressive King.
How to fill 90% of free memory?
Man-made earthquakes are becoming a real problem
Just fill /dev/shm via dd or similar.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/shm/fill bs=1k count=1024k

(option #2 is to limit the amount of ram available to the kernel via grub.conf, see my comment below)
They were making enough money to pay the AWS bill; it was the salaries that were too much. They were profitable per-user, they just didn't have enough users.

(by 'much' I mean volume, not amount. Developers are expensive.)
>Then again, in reality NSA wouldn't have been able to wiretap him or track him down independently, since they can't conduct direct surveillance domestically by policy.

LOL.
Could you elaborate on

a) communication latency
b) addicted to information and
c) instantaneous species-wide communication.

and how those are greater risk factors?
There's no such thing as sufficient liquidity.
"Clearly the money could be better spent working out new ways to kill people remotely from an armchair on the other side of the planet."

You jest, but space is the new way to show off your nation's military prowess. It not-so-subtly shows competency with ICBM technology. North Korea did just that when they attempted to display their latest ICBM tech to the world by "launching a satellite into space" a few years ago.

A lot of people seem to be overlooking the military applications here. India has a shaky relationship with Pakistan and (like it or not) space superiority will become the next "air superiority" militarily in the coming decade or 2.
knowledge preceeds creativity. We cannot be creative without knowing the limit.

Aggree on we need more creativity and a piece of certificate does not mean a job.
View source. ;)

It's jasondavies.com/maps/world-110m.json which is from http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/110m-physical-vect...
I agree on that! I also like the new look of WordPress but the auto update option is not effective for all sites. Specially for developers who don't want to get clear the coding mess after every update.
I think the biggest problem with this idea is the question of who gets to decide what the social norms and what is "acceptable". Our social norms are influenced by the media, the politicians and laws that they pass, so certain people in power positions will have an advantage. You can see this in a lot of countries (latest with gays in Russia, but countries like Iran and Germany are historic, extreme examples).

If for instance gays and atheists are exposed as "deviants" in the media, but corruption and hiring prostitutes are downplayed as something "every politician is doing", then it doesn't really matter who shares what: The openly gay, atheist politician will have a hard time (and perhaps be put in prison) while the corrupt ones walk free.
The most "Life" like one I came across:
http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,3,1,1,1,2,2,2,1...
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I think it was covered so widely because everpix did a great job on pr and getting the story out there. I assume the story will help with either generating more offers for investment, sale, or employment for the team.
Who was the last president to try to stand up against these agencies and what happened to him?
I've never understood the praise for Old Man's War; I read it, and it felt like a Heinlein tribute act, with no creativity or originality, and saying nothing that Heinlein and his contemporaries hadn't already said. Did I miss the point?
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While is support premise of the article, I have difficulty in accepting the fact that our democratically elected and funded government will continue to spy on us and is beyond our control.
I agree with you that replacing white with purple is not consistent, but I don't agree with your conclusion.

Depression is not something (as far as the current state of knowledge goes) that can be completely eradicated. The study was about comparing depression rates globally. In that context, taking the average (or mean, but let's assume it's distributed normally) depression rate as the 'baseline' (i.e., the middle) is not that strange. This way, the map shows not absolute depression rates, but rather the position of each country relative to the baseline value. Which is, I think, what people are most interested in - if you tell me 'country xyz has a depression rate of 2%', most people have no idea. The whole study is not about absolute depression rates, but about rates relative to other countries.

I'd even go as far as defending the purple. Remember, cartography is not about choosing color according to a rigid logical scheme, it's about conveying information. Now, I think these colors convey the message of which areas in the world have the highest depression rates, and which ones the lowest, quite well. If white would have been left in as the color for countries with baseline values, those white blobs would have been distracting and would have looked as if no data was available. Instead, what we have is a map that shows in a visually uninterrupted way the rate of depression relative to the baseline, with intensity increasing where you go further away from the baseline.

You proposal for using white to red would be OK if it were about showing absolute depression rates, but that's a far less interesting way of looking at the data.
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Personally, I use `.` as an alias for a very flagged `ls`, and `..` as an alias for `cd .. && .`. It clobbers the existing `.` but it saves me a good bit of time navigating directories.
That's right kids: Any reform of the status quo is literally communism.
I assume that cruise ship passengers are generally aware of this and purchase med-evac insurance so that they get helo'ed and / or jetted to (e.g.) top hospitals in Houston or Miami rather than (e.g.) Port-au-Prince.

Or do passengers run into this as a regular problem?
"they always think they know what's better for you than you do. Take your nanny state regulations and bother someone without their own brain."

Do you think people should be able to own and have their own nuclear weapons? How about biological weapons? What about murder? Should that be legal?

If you said no, then you do agree there needs to be some "nanny state regulations". We only differ on where the line should be drawn.

When people "grow up", they realize that the general populace isn't too bright. The world is filled with nutjobs, idiots and crazies. People who are downright evil. People who are sociopaths. Letting the "free market" sort them out is a fairy tale for the young and children.

I don't mean to sound condescending or harsh, it's just that I was once a libertarian myself (in my early to mid twenties.) I came to realize what a horrible ideology it was and when you see people making the same mistake you made, you can't help but try to help that person out.
It seems like there are two paths to sustainability in a startup:

1) Become profitable early and stay profitable. This gives you the luxury of not relying on outside investment, though the option to take funding still exists.

2) Grow, grow, grow. If you take a million dollars today and come back for more money a year from now, you need to justify that the million dollars produced something.

Everpix did neither. They weren't profitable and their growth did not justify the money the took.
UPDATE: My initial price may have been a problem, so I lowered the price of the book. It can now be purchased at a minimum price of only 99 cents.

Thanks again to everyone who commented and supported my work.
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This is why I try and avoid speculation. A portable Google store? What a let down. Here I was imagining massive portable data centres.
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> Hardly enough to make the $100k 54 kW system worth it

Perhaps the operative bit is "California state incentives cover about 60 percent of that price."
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