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"satisfy their own nostalgia"

Latin, literature, algebra, philosophy, history, and geography are all the same. Almost no one will ever use them on the job or for "work" they're almost purely educational.

There's more to life and the world than purely vocational training.
"Linux-ng" as in "Linux Next Generation"?
> Are there any TPM implementations where the user doesn't control the TPM?

The design of the TPM prevents the user from ever fully controlling it, so complete revocation of access is unnecessary. Anything in the system/bootup can update a PCR, revoking some or all access to essential keys.

Take the chromebook I am using right now. The user can disable secureboot (which isn't actually implemented with the TPM) and use an unsigned image, but can not create an image signed by themselves.

With either boot, I nominally have control of the TPM, so far so good. But the PCR values written by the boot process will be different so I can not use keys from one boot in the other. For example, my encrypted filesystems from the google boot are inaccessible.

This is great for the security of my data if my chromebook is stolen. But it also means a web service like my companies' VPN or MPAA's movie server could demand that I use attestment to show I am using a google configured chromebook, if I did a custom boot the attestment will not have the right PCR values, so I am incapable of using the service.

> TPMs aren't needed to provide a DRM scenario - UEFI Secure Boot can do that by itself, right?

AFAIK, UEFI secure boot limits the device based on a list of public keys, but has no access to any form of secret key. So booting an insecure clone to contact a DRM protected service (or otherwise emulate the secured device) works perfectly fine.
Some do, but in most fields there are many more jobs in universities than in research institutes. Also, they have usually more academic freedom in universities. In good universities, you also have access to potential PhD students and so on..

And of course, many enjoy teaching.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6827111
I am proud of you Norway!
Can't wait for Canada to do the same.
Master/slave usually means very different distinction than client/server.

With databases, both master and slaves are servers.

IT community is much wider than the USA and doesn't care much about quirks of history of USA as a basis for confusing things up.
Stupid polemics about technical terms. That's getting annoying.
In fact, Joyent practically did was character assassination. Every time potential future employers will Google Ben Noordhuis' name, they will be wary.

In such cases, the best thing to do first is to talk to the person for clarification. You know, sending an e-mail or giving a phone call. But, apparently it's easier, more beneficial or more fun to destroy a person's reputation.

Ps. I am all in for gender equality and restoring the balance in our field. But I heavily dislike the lynching these days, before even talking to the person and giving him/her the opportunity to apologize if there was indeed a misstep.
Two-hundred year old English is perfectly readable, and it would be entirely impossible to write a paper in Latin on, for example, computer science without very creative reinterpretation.

Torturing English to turn it into a relatively regular language would make much more sense than trying to torture Latin into something remotely adequate for conveying modern concepts.
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Certainly a possibility. I couldn't find any references to linux-ng on the lkml or on https://git.kernel.org
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It's a common situation in a lot of inflected languages--words get suffixed to agree in number, gender, etc. and it's hard to escape "gendering".

What I usually do is construct the sentence to say that a person [has done something, for example], where possible. The word "person" is gender neutral by meaning, so the whole sentence comes out gender neutral in meaning regardless or grammatical gender of words. Interestingly, in Serbian, "person" has female grammatical gender, so the whole sentence comes out in that gender, but as I said it's still semantically neutral.
Made a huge miss, cannot edit in order to correct. Thank you anyway.
It's Linux, written entirely in Angular directives.
You can't wait for Canada to put a 100+% tax on gas-powered vehicles? I have bad news for you...
I agree and provide some more popular examples:

Shakespeare from around 1600 is rewarding but pretty much needs a translator into English to be understood by moderns. On the other hand Gibbon writing around the American Revolution in 1776 is modern, and is a very easy read.

The biggest issue you'll find is a variation in what moderns would consider grade level. Modern journalism is not allowed to rise about 3rd grade level reading ability because of the "need" to maximize potential readers aka profit. Bad writing drives out good writing just like bad money drives out good, or some say bad code drives out good code. (or coders?)

Gibbon is at a higher grade level of reading ability than modern average, which is going to be intimidating. I'd say its around high school level. It IS harder than the average newspaper sports page. However its not harder than any modern high school level text. Compared to a college level physics textbook, Gibbon is a pretty easy read.
Fascinating. This article (esp the part about young people not even thinking about their future knowing its already decided for them) reminds me of the novel 'Never Let Me Go' by Kazuo Ishiguro. Great novel but one of the criticism directed at the novel is "why are certain characters so passive towards their condition", "why don't they do something about it"? An instilled sense of duty is indeed a very powerful motivator.
Is this a new kernel, or a new OS (yes, I'm aware the original Linux announcement called it a 'new OS').

Most of the things I dislike about 'Linux' are OS-level inconsistencies, particularly that most user-land tools implement their own config file formats rather than using an existing one.

systemd is a notable exception, as it re-used the .desktop format for .service.
Are you implying that BSD is unexploitable and 100% secure?
It's quite a romantic idea and somehow I like it, but it will not happen and should not happen.

There is one language that is understood/used much more in Europe than any others and that language is English, it's also the one language that is understood in most if not all civilised corners of the planet. The cognitive and all other efforts implied to change this would be just too big.

European nations hold dear to their languages, some more than others, but slowly and surely this grasp will weaken: your films are in English, your internet is in English, your smartphone defaults to English, your code comments are in English and so on.

For those who love Latin, English is not such a bad language to use; its lexicon is ~30% based on Latin.
Or perhaps "Not GNU".
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Only a readme with the famous original Linux announcement... but MODIFIED!!!!

Are we getting trolled?
Roth is actually Issac, not Isaac.
Author of article. Someone posted a static version of the page:

http://ajasmin.net/saved_page/an-engineers-emergency-kit-business-card.html

I hope you like it.

> In summary, even the best tools won't help a sloppy designer.

Sloppy engineering is bad. But excusing shitty EDA tools by suggesting the engineer is sloppy is not much better. Most EDA tools are crap at DRC (static rules that only cover geometry and physical connections) and user experience. (Most engineers wouldn't have access to very expensive tools that might be better than some.) You talk about FPGAs (I'm an FPGA/Verilog expert); have you ever looked at the logs? It's getting progressively better, but wading through hundreds and thousands of warning and info messages is not exactly the most effective way to tell an engineer that something might be wrong. Sure, you can write scripts, but the tools are shit out-of-the-box in finding problems and communicating them to the engineer. This is one example, but they're equally bad at guiding the engineer to good design practices that reduces faults, as I think they should.

Circuit design tools are worse, and engineers must rely on their experience and keen eye for detail. Some engineers don't have one or both of those. Are they sloppy? Can't the tools be more intelligent to help?

I think that there is a lot to improve in this domain, and I'm trying to do that with PCBmodE. Blaming the engineer and falling into the "digital Stockholm syndrome" isn't the way forward here.
Interestingly, DNS has gone the other way. It used to be that it was called “primary” and “secondary” DNS servers, but now the preferred terms are “master” and “slave” servers.
Will a micro-kernel architecture make sense now, given computation resources is no longer a bottleneck?
The electricity:petrol price ratio is also more favorable in Norway than many other countries, thanks to a combination of high petrol taxes but not too expensive electricity (due to the large hydroelectric capacity).

For example, in California, typical petrol prices are around $0.85/L ($3.20/gal), and residential electricity prices are around $0.17/kWh. So you get about 5 kWh of electricity for the cost of a liter of petrol. Meanwhile in Norway, typical petrol prices are around $2.45/L ($9.25/gal), and residential electricity prices are around $0.25/kWh. So you get about 10 kWh of electricity for the cost of a liter of petrol.

edit: Actually might be an even bigger ratio. I was getting the Norwegian retail price of $0.25/kWh from Eurostat [1], but Statistics Norway gives a price of only $0.14/kWh [2]. Which would make for nearly 18 kWh for the cost of a L of petrol, 3-4x better ratio than in California.

[1] http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index....

[2] http://www.ssb.no/en/elkraftpris
I don't think Cantrill's "have you ever kissed a girl" had much to do with gender equality [1]. It was just a low, personal attack on someone commenting in explicit, researched detail on Solaris performance, made by someone who was responsible for Solaris's (poor) performance.

[1] Some folk would argue heteronormativity, but that's also a different topic from gender equality.
In theory, you can get an identical VM in any of Vagrant's supported environments. So you set up a dev Virtualbox and deploy on ec2. In practice, I'm sure this requires extensive testing each time you try it.

Also, on Mac OS, the Vagrant install pollutes /usr/bin for no discernible reason. That directory is for the system, not 3rd-party software. See GitHub.app for an example of properly packaged command-line software.
Boy, that escalated quickly. No, where do you get that from?

He's implying that it would be interesting to see how that'd be done.
I'd love to help out too (mechatronics eng) - email in profile. I'm in Perth, Australia
Couple of ideas:

* offer levels of support along with the pricing tiers - larger companies sometimes require SLAs that require having someone they can call up if something goes wrong. You can charge for this.

* charge based on number of users - bigger companies have more users

It's difficult to arrive at a price point that works for both small and large companies. You need to choose whether you want more customers who pay less or fewer customers who want to pay more. It will boil down to how high-touch your sales process is. People aren't going to order a 5-digit service online in a low touch sales model.

Some business I know start-off with a low touch model (primarily because hiring full-time sales folk(s) is expensive) and then gradually raise their rates and go high-touch.
I try to always use primary/[secondary,replica]. It's still difficult, for some reason.

Client/server just makes no sense though.
To be honest, that would make my day, I wish gas was triple the actual price.
Many NASA or ESA websites do not look one bit better. I don’t think this is something inherently Indian.

SOHO: http://soho.esac.esa.int/home.html

Phoenix: http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/index.php

Kepler: http://kepler.nasa.gov

Those are all quite terrible websites.
Oh no, another free software project on github without software license.

Good thing someone thought to fix it: https://github.com/torvalds/linux-ng/pull/4
Some folk would argue that women reading the node docs (edit: source) would get the idea that Node devs think of themselves as being all male.

(for the record, I would have merged the request, as I like small fixes and think it's a good change, but I think Joyent's lynching of Ben is disgraceful)
yeah, thats the one.
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False dichotomy.

Master/Slave is not exactly same as Master/Client.

You can have a Master Unit with replicating or horizontally scaling Slaves and often the very same Master Unit is also a Server to one or multiple type of Clients. (NFS is a good example.)

I think it is a pretty similar case to racism, if you want to stop it, "stop talking about it."
I put it in quotes because I didn't know the exact term I was looking for :)
Umm, if you've succesfully jailbroken, then you should be able to modify it so that it's not "looking for updates for a console running in developer/unsigned mode".
At least they have jobs.
Another option you may want to consider is to create 2 different brands. One for large customers and one for smaller ones. It could be 2 different websites but with the same backend system.

Usually large customers don't like to use the same tools as smaller ones, and smaller ones may feel your system is too "high end" if they'll see an option with a 10K pricing tag.
You can create a smaller brand with only email support and charge less.
I'm not a developer. I just learned HTML/CSS so I'm a wannabe but there's nothing that I know less about than command-line interfaces.
It is certainly not a frequent topic in The Netherlands. Some people will say hij/zij ('he/she') or explicitly use 'zij'. But both feel a bit awkward, because 'hij' (he) has been used in a gender-specific and neutral sense.
No. Simultaneous (locally bonded) connections do not have great enough threading integrity to bridge the two streams together.
Haha nice, this was my first thought as well!
Likewise, I would have merged it also. I still don't think it affected the way that they would use Nodejs though.
> Latin lives on in English

Only through borrowings. English is a Germanic language.
Sharing only one post a day (only one no more)
There are many social networks around and people sharing billions of things with each other. But, everything gets lost in the jungle. So its a nice a idea to share a post a day and make it more sticky.
> No one should be threatened for either supporting or not supporting a political cause or brand of activism.

You should read before commenting: the problem wasn't his choice of wording but rather how he turned a trivial change into an argument and reverted another committer's action complete with a threat.

If he didn't want to get involved, simply ignoring it was by far the easiest course of action. Instead, he twice chose to escalate to an unnecessary level of confrontation.
All these arguments apply equally to gold. Also, gold was becoming a money slower because millions of market participants were not one click away from each other to figure out why is this new metal is any good and whether they should make a bet that it will become more and more useful as money.

The truth about USD vs Bitcoin is that Bitcoins you can own and USD you cannot. http://blog.oleganza.com/post/67362431718/you-can-own-bitcoi...

When someone "cashes out" into USD he doesn't really want to cash out in a lot of USD as it's a poor store of value by design. It's controlled, monitored, expensive and leaks like crazy. You can cash out into Maserati, but it's also not a good store of value. Therefore we see that more and more investors remaining with BTC are making a huge bet - a bet on universally accepted money. People who want to cash out quickly do so already without bringing price much down.
Benevolent account highjack imo.
Maybe was just deleted: https://github.com/torvalds/linux-ng gives me 404s now.
Huh? I get a 404 and can't seem to google anything interesting...
Yesh! Same here.
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"Robot" is etymologically derived from a Slavic word for slave ("Rab" in Russian, apparently).

The existence of robots is not problematic. Treating a human as a robot most definitely is. The existence of slaves, in the sense of things entirely controlled by other things, is not a problem, but treating a human as a slave is a problem (outside of consensual BDSM practices[1], I guess).

Words change in meaning constantly. Whilst I can see the appeal of linguistic conservatism, the facts of life in this matter really are not conservative. The use of "slave" to refer to devices that are controlled by other devices is only a little over a century old, so it's still quite a new coinage, but words can often change meaning on even shorter timescales. Quite a number of words in common usage today derive from words with different meanings and, over time, these origins tend to either be forgotten or come to be disassociated from the derived word such that we no longer perceive them as the same.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance_and_submission_(BDSM)...
Something hit me while I was reading this article. Anytime you have seen a bitcoin article, usually on HN, but also elsewhere, it almost always shows a US Dollar figure for the amount and never the bitcoin amount. Why, because as this article suggests. Bitcoins are a commodity and not a currency and when we want to try and relate to bitcoins we use what we know which is Dollars. Good luck to all of you techies who read this story and are now trying to convert your bitcoins to dollars today.
I am a Norwegian myself, and you just entered the big issue in the environment debate here. There are a lot of activists criticizing the fact that if we are exporting oil, it doesn't help with all the "green" measures we do. However, there are even more people thinking that it does not help anyone if we stop exporting oil, because the same amount of oil is getting burnt everyday regardless of what we do. So the only thing we will achieve by stopping to export oil, will be to "make a statement", and probably other nations will produce more polluting oil, due to a less environmental-friendly production process. We achieve a lower standard of living, and we will probably make no/small impact on the environment by stopping. I actually understand both arguments, so it is hard to take a stand.
It appears to have been deleted at 13:28.

I was browsing Linus's repositories at the time and it disappeared mid-load.
Ah man, I was just working on a pull request. Not that he accepts pull requests, he apparently hates them..

https://github.com/d-snp/linux-ng/commit/b71ef5e3b1caa61dac0...

edit: I accept PR's though, let's make a big list of likes/dislikes and slap him with it ;)
As a confused Belgian, what is meant by "Unlike traditional bank accounts, where you would never share your account number on national television, Bitcoin public addresses are secure"? Giving out your account number in Belgium is pretty secure, nobody can do anything with it beyond putting money on it.

What's different in the USA? What extra info are you handing out by giving your account number beyond "this is a 'bank address' that you can use to send me money"?
Your spin attempt ignored the part where he reverted someone else's commit with a threatening message. Nobody would ge talking about it if he had simply ignored it or asked Isaac about it first.
We should never have a single language, as no one can represent all the cultural characteristics.
The repo has been deleted. (for late comers, it contained a README with the original Linux announcement.)
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Betteridge's law of headlines: any headline asking a question, the answer is "no".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

VLM's law of economics commentary: anyone describing something as a Ponzi Scheme has no idea what a Ponzi Scheme is and is just trying to baffle/intimidate the reader.

(It might very well be a fraud / scam / ripoff / whatever but it sure as heck isn't a Ponzi Scheme)

This is a disease finance is unusually susceptible to. For a good laugh try to ask any joe 6 pack what a junk bond is, and all you'll get is babble about some hollywood actor said they're bad, or some vaguely anti-capitalist blather. You'll never, ever, get to hear what they actually were or how they fit into the context of finance during that era.
He focuses on one usecase of bitcoins, while completely ignoring the other. Yes, bitcoins are being bought with the expectation that their price is going to raise in the future, and this clearly is not sustainable. But they are also being used to transfer money between individuals. There the price fluctuation doesn't matter that much (if the merchant immediately converts into USD).

Lately there have been many people saying bad things about bitcoin. I think those are people who had bitcoin on their radar a few months ago but didn't invest. And now they are just grumpy because they missed the opportunity.
This is as good a place as any to ask this question.

Do we actually know how many large mining groups we need to make up 51% of the processing power of the block chain (hopefully that make sense, from my understanding of bitcoin).

There has been a number of changes to the bitcoin protocol, which have been made in a short amount of time and unanimously, from what I can see. That implies to me that bitcoin is in practice much more centralised than we are sometimes lead to believe, and that moving to bitcoin is just switching from one shadowy control group to another.

I would be happy to hear evidence that I am vastly overestimating this problem.
Nope, the components mentioned (distribution, retail margin, marketing) are at least 20% of the total cost, think close to $100 for the costs - if your parts (including volume rebates) are near the retail price, then it's not "close", it means taking a serious loss.
No no no, if you argue like this you have already chosen the wrong battleground for this debate. Your Email and meta data is not open to everyone but only to a (")trusted(") third party: to law enforcement. People (rightly) assume that the stuff that most of the people want to keep private from their peers (conflicts with their spouse, sexual orientation and kinks, financial status, health issues) isn't of interesting to the NSA data analyzer.

The real problems arise if data is put together and interpreted against your will and probably without your knowledge. Imagine an ad network that combines your location profile, your Payback data and name/address and sells that to an insurance company which decides to not have you as a customer, because your are probably overweight (drives by car, no visits to any places associated with sport, buys a lot of food). Or imagine an automated alarm that is triggered when you try to enter the country, because you travel with three coworkers from Iraq and you have written an email to your friend telling him you intend to "devastate the USA" (meaning to beat the American branch of your company in a friendly soccer game after work). You cannot rectify these misunderstandings as nobody is telling you why you now always get the special attention of the TSA or why your insurance application is denied.

This is the stuff I really dread in the current focus on big data.

A great article on the same topic: https://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/12...
It's a matter of degree then. Saying "doing work to change pronouns isn't worth it to me" is one thing - you may find the benefits of that too trivial to be worth your time.

Rejecting (multiple times) work that has already been done for you leans much more in the direction of some sort of agenda.
Not completely. s/minix/linux/ on the original announcement