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So the press has picked up Wikipedia didn't get involved but what actually happened was:

* Jimmy Wales posted on his talk page inviting discussion on the issue [0]

* There was support for having articles on the main page all be related in some way to the topic of mass surveillance [0]

* A handful of editors then made a subpage and began plans for a request for comment (RfC)... [1]

Then said handful of people made a series of bungles and strange decisions (like naming the proposal "Surveillance awareness day" instead of associating with the protest) and ultimately didn't bring the RfC to the community for proper discussion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales/Archive_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Surveillance_awarene... (see history, talk page)

TL;DR Wikipedia didn't decide not to get involved in the protest, 2 or 3 editors dawdled and made bad decisions until we ran out of time to discuss it.
The most painless I have seen is the one my it colleague got at a bank: "Hi, you are fired, if you go sign the paper at HR today and you are out of here before 9:30 AM, we give you 6 months salary and an added 10K compensation for the June bonus, quite better than the legal package of 4 weeks pay you are entitled to. What do you say ?"

Consultation periods are just draining the moral of the unaffected team. Good luck if you have any work to do with the affected team.
I thought the whole point of time capsules was to store stuff in them for far longer than 30 years i.e. for several generations. Seems to shame to be digging this up now. I can still vividly remember the tech I was using back in the early 80's and all the types of biscuits that they don't make any more.
There is way too few upvotes on this.
So this might be an aside, but given all the complaints about how expensive Heroku is (despite the free tier, how they handle everything below the app, it's the gold standard in PaaS) has anyone tried out competitive services like Cloud Foundry [1], OpenShift [2] or Cloud66 [3]? Cloud Foundry and OpenShift are either hosted with similar free tiers or you can set up yourself, and Cloud66 is more for the DIY crowd being free for development environments. I do appreciate Heroku's free tier for toy projects but if you had to scale on a budget (and could handle the setup) don't know if that'd be a better starting point than the other options.

[1] http://www.gopivotal.com/products/cloud-foundry

[2] http://openshift.com

[3] http://cloud66.com
That's OK - because now it's covered in the NYT blogs. People who were previously unaware now have a little more info. A minor subset of them have looked a little further into the issue.

Little steps.
Hm, why only for developing locally?

The benefit of tmux/screen is that you can run it remotely, and reconnect to your session-in-progress at any time.
Here is nice explanation of why men's rights movement is important: http://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1jt1u5/cmv_i_t...

You might not find it as enlightening, but it offers a pretty rational approach.
Which is why it is used medically with pregnant women and newborns.
For me (as that boss), it's been much easier to fire people who deserve it than to lay off people who are working earnestly (not necessarily profitably) for the business.

So I'd never tell an employee who's part of a RIF that they're fired. The rest of what you describe is exactly how HR trained us to handle the matter.
That no longer works in newer Firefox (and I think Chrome?).
You can turn that back on in about::settings though.

edit: Ooops, someone had already made a post to this effect. Sorry.
I think you've done an excellent job of pointing out that ssh should just be capable of doing this by default. Like many such things, it's obvious with hindsight. But somehow I never thought of it before.
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CLIENT: There’s a strange symbol after the company name – can you remove it?
ME: Hmm… I don’t see anything. Does it come after the exclamation point?
It's quite clever, the script gets a reference to the function prototype by making the string "constructor" and calling (0)["constructor"]["constructor"]. Calling Function on a string returns a new function with the string as the body, which you can then execute.

Partially deobfuscated: http://jsbin.com/qiwib/1/edit?js,output
I think it is debatable whether or not a relation between words "windows" and "stable" makes any sense.
One of the reasons why the Blue Man Group perform in groups of three is because if you have one person, you have one person. If you have two people, they either agree or disagree. Three is the minimum number of people it took for there to be an outsider.
That's really awesome, and I hope it succeeds.
The think is, for any type of maintenance programming on a large system, it takes 6 months to get up to speed and be properly productive in my experience.
I hope they're correcting for the reversed causation -- i.e., if you notice you're getting pretty overweight, you're more likely to avoid full-fat yoghurt, whereas if you are staying lean (for completely unrelated reasons), you're not nearly as likely to worry about it.

There's no mention of ruling this out in the article, though I didn't read the study itself to see how/if they addressed it.
> Dietary fat is what is primarily stored and leads to weight gain during caloric excess

Do you have a source for this? The sources [1], [4] you quoted don't seem to say that, at least in a way I could understand.
I think one big difference is that the SOPA campaign had a very clear-cut goal of stopping that legislation while this campaign is "against mass surveillance" which is much more nebulous. Most people on the Internet seem to agree that they are against mass surveillance, but there is a lack of clear goals and demands that everyone can get behind.
Wonder what they'll do it the US just says no.
| STG Bangalore literally turned into a slaughter house today

obligatory: http://xkcd.com/725
Does that fall under neurology? - it sounds more like psychology to me.
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x86 is Turing-complete with no registers
Whatever happened to that? I thought it was still around by still very niche.
Wait, did you just call yourself a pedophile?
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* October 26, 2013
I hope jobs will re-emerge onshore later on.

If by "onshore" you mean China, then you'll probably get your wish. Otherwise, probably not.
In FreeBSD land, nobody wastes eons of time hacking out bad code experiments like systemd and then arguing between themselves on whether to distribute them.

It's a stable system you can rely on, year by year. That's not a small upside for a server platform.
*when
Any benefits with this over running something like this? Other than it being shorter and easier for someone not familiar with console commands?

ssh -t yourserver.com 'cd /some/dir/;exec /bin/sh'
i love it how everyone is more concerned with showing how cursed (and therefore gifted) they are , instead of actually listening to the message from linus.

for what its worth , i was cursed too lol
Every time I read something about "behind the scenes" at Wikipedia, I'm glad that I never really got involved.
It's funny you mention the systemd pam module. I just recently was configuring a new Linux mint install and enabled ldap and all of a sudden noticed logging in via the desktop or ssh would hang for over a minute. I tracked it down to the pam_systemd module. Not sure what the problem in there was though.
I was thinking something similar. 3 months partial pay also seems better than I would have expected in India.

This makes me wonder, is this the first significant downsizing they experience in Bangalore? Did they think they were invulnerable to these kind of things?
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Exactly. I wrote a separate post on that: http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-encoding
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It appears he is sending a specially formatted SMS message that the iPhone doesn't handle correctly.
Old fashioned jigsaw puzzles are good for this too, though for problem-solving types perhaps a bit too hard to put down...
I don't even know you!.
I love audio courses and lecture series and since the 90s I've listened to them during my commute and pretty much any time I didn't have to listen to anything else (exercise, yard work, whatever). I was classically educated so if I think Plutarch in audiobook form or a philosophy course is entertaining, thats because I'm unusual, not because thats all that is out there.

"The Teaching Company" has rebranded to "The Great Courses" and they produce uniformly great product. Your local public library probably has shelves of their physical products under both names, probably. Mine has more than one bookcase of audiobooks and also the dvd form of some lectures. How you interpret "fair use" once you get your mitts on physical media is your own dilemma. Somehow I got on their mailing list and all I can say is never pay retail, because just like a department store, in a rotation pattern, 25% of the store is on sale for 90% off at any given time. I'm told their products are available to Audible subscribers, but not being an audible subscriber I don't know. I have probably listened to dozens of their courses over the last few decades and never been disappointed.

There are a surprising number of courses only available officially on itunes. Bulliet's "History of Iran" from Columbia U is beyond excellent, I listened to it a couple years ago and I don't remember how I "cracked it" such that my android podcast player had access, I remember it was a huge PITA but worth the effort.

Must be nice to have a training budget. Those disappeared from all my F500 sized megacorp employers in the 90s. Back when we had them, they were awesome. Right around the time those budgets disappeared, we mostly bought subscriptions to the new "Safari" service which was very interesting reading.
No governments please! Internet governance is fine as is. European opportunism and grandstanding is of no use to anyone.
AWS can do this I think but you need to use an ELB (elastic load balancer) to handle the ipv6 connection to the internet and use ipv4 between the ELB and your EC2 servers. Someone please chime in if I have this wrong.
Shame Neelie Kroes will be gone soon. She's been pushing some pretty good digital agendas with her position in the EU Commission. Hopefully her work won't be undone by whoever replaces her after the EU elections.
Please pardon my ignorance but what exactly is the difference?
What's your point? It's possible to have an enriching conversation and/or discuss things that are more than a few hours old.
Why is this comment blacked out? I don't know who it is but,
i don't like censorship. Maybe--it something with my browser? I'm kinda a new user. I knew nothing about hell banning until I spent some time here.
I do something similar. Instead of passing the tmux attach command to ssh, I attach (or create) a tmux session if the shell is a) a login shell and b) started in a SSH session. [0]

[0] https://github.com/martinp/dotfiles/blob/master/dot.zlogin
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> If they decide to leverage their "control" into something the rest of the community doesn't like, we fork it.

I hope so. My concern is that when we'll see systemd grow in size and more and more software depend on it's interfaces and components (as in GNOME with logind) at the certain point it could take an insurmountable amount of resources to maintain the fork. At this point it might be easier to give up on Linux and build around some other kernel and userland, I hope this will never happen, though.

Also, there is a difference between steering the developments in the preferred direction and outright destructive actions. As in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog.
Moot? Putting dbus in the kernel is demented. Creating a hard dependency between it and a monolithic set of interdependent systemd code is even more demented.

It's like the Linux folks looked at Mac OS X and learned nothing.

Hint: Mac OS X handles more that systemd does, and still does it in a way that maintains separation of concerns between service management, configuration management, logging, and IPC.
Sure, but it has been discussed before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6617497
Ask HN: Why do you think vulnerable code is still being released today?
Fellow hackers,
I'm curious as to why you think vulnerable code in applications is still being released today?

Why is SQL Injection still #1 (in Owasp T10) ?

As a developer myself working for a top-10 us e-retailer I saw:
- Developers not having any(or enough) care/knowledge to write secure code.
- Tight deadlines where security of an application was swept under the rug.
- Security being swept under the rug due to time, other "priorities" like new features, etc.

Curious on your thoughts or experiences?
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Wow that I did not know! It does seem they could have just put a banner/image on their front page with little effort though.
Yep. I was indirectly responding to a complaint from that thread in which the commenter wondered why Github wasn't announcing new UI features every day since the friend-starring feature was just "an afternoon's worth of work".
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If you click on the first link in the article, you end up at Kaspersky's article which states, in the first paragraph:

> This includes an extremely sophisticated malware, a rootkit, a bootkit, Mac OS X and Linux versions and possibly versions for Android and iOS (iPad/iPhone).
They'll put more and harsher regulations on American companies until they say yes. So I'm fine with whatever decision US makes, because I wouldn't mind if US companies (and the US government by proxy) wouldn't have a monopoly on EU users's data anymore.
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It's easy to find a surprising amount out about people without even any 'hacker' skills.

A friend occasionally gets email for someone with his name that lives in a different country (lastname.firstname@gmail.com vs lastname-firstname@gmail.com). He told us this, plus the country and county the guy lived in, and asked a few geek friends of his what we could find out. He had withheld some info so he could verify our results.

Within a few minutes we had his address, his immigration status and photographs of his family. Which is quite scary.

(--edit-- this was using simple online tools like google and bing, plus government websites in the country concerned.)
It's just different. From whole to 2% to skim you have big differences in how rich the milk tastes. Once you get used to one, it's hard to go back to the others.

I always drank whole milk, so skim tasted like water. Then I started only drinking skim milk, and whole tasted like ice cream.

I don't have any dairy issues but it's very, very rare that I drink milk anymore these days, but I still enjoy it.
A pretty cool improvement. And you can easily add remote directory autocompletion if you simply steal the autocompletion function of `scp`: complete|sed -n 's/ scp$/ sshcd/p'
Like the governance in England where the government decides what you should be watching? Perhaps they'll uses the French model and make it illegal to say anything critical about the French government. Or perhaps they'll adopt the Turkish attitude of jail time for those who speak the truth (if Turkey gets into the EU). How are they better than the American model of Uncle Sam lurking in the background of everyone's lives waiting for the wrong words to be written so the entrapment teams can be sent.

Government control of the internet, by any government, will inevitably lead to censorship.

Edit: to address comments

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Unit...

There is an ongoing program to introduce a broad system of default blocking of certain types of content to all Internet users in the UK. New customers have their Internet access filtered at the ISP level so that certain web sites are blocked
Perhaps you should look into how Mac OS X handles these things while still maintaining separation of concerns. Systemd is a joke of a software design by comparison.
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"globalise key decision-making (for example the coordination of domain names and IP addresses) to safeguard the stability, security and resilience of the Internet"

Sounds like they want to make the internet a more centrally-controlled thing "to protect you better". Internet does not need any central oversight and regulation. People just need freedom to move their bytes around as cheap as possible. We are capable to figure out how to build secure schemes, encrypted channels etc on our own, completely voluntarily. Everyone is able to choose tools and protocols that suit them best.
I've completed one course (why I bothered I don't know) and I've subscribed to and watched all the videos of a couple courses, and they have an absolute fixation on video even when its completely unnecessary, the videos tend to be very short, and have constant quiz interruptions. So its not going to fly as something you consume while doing something else, like driving or riding a bike or yardwork or shoveling snow or hiking or whatever. Have to stop what you're doing and fumble with the phone for half a minute, every five minutes.

If someone would rip the videos off Coursera, strip out the unneeded video, concatenate, and upload to archive.org it could work out pretty well.
I'm not a chemist so this was a bit difficult to parse for me. As I understand it, you're suggesting that the effect is not caused by the fat per se, but by some compound that is dissolved in the fat. Am I correct?
Sure, but the issue at hand is a law that will introduce some accountability to a state organization not civil revolution.
Well, that's approximately my experience too. "Meh, just ship it."
I'd rather trust a medical doctor to assess medical topics than a psychologist.

And exactly what 'nurture' are in-utero babies - the subject of the testosterone / interest tests - subjected to anyway?

You've read the book. Sum it up for us.
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You may be right and I am mis-remembering the source!!
Maybe there's a category of people who eat healthier and are leaner, and they could buy whole milk because they consider it's healthier too.

It may be a statistical bias...

Like "people who eat foie gras are leaner", which is probably true too.
I disagree. The 400-odd Windows machines under my command are incredibly stable, reliable and well performing.

It's not Windows 98 any more.
If that's the ★nix philosophy I don't want to be a ★nix person any more. Seriously, even my VMS machines have python installed, and a script I can read is a lot better than one I can't, even if the one I can read has an extra dependency.
As a french, I'm quite surprised about what you are saying for France. We have a lot of satirical newspapers, TV shows, etc. Where have you seen that?
I think that the question of ad supported monetization of non-profit open source projects should be discussed without emotional knee-jerking.

And yes, I think that if you focus on the global context of the activities of Mozilla, ads will be a net positive for users.
Don't work with PG, he's evil!

Come and work on Wall Street and be evil yourself.
>the severance and extended benefits are far more generous than any layoff I've been through here in the states.

IBM is pretty generous with the severance in the US too. Something like a week's pay per 6 months worked, capped at 26 weeks. If you've been working there a while, that's a half year of salary. Plus there is generally a month notice, in theory so you can find another job internally.
I don't like it when corporations interject themselves into politics. This goes for companies that support my politics as well as companies which oppose them.
"The Unix Philosophy" is what everyone outside of Unix calls good software design. Using modular, decoupled components is standard industry practice for most developers with just a few years of experience, and these practices have evolved from half a century of engineering experience, such that we know how not to do things, even if there's no right way.

You wouldn't make a "god object" in C++ or Java for example, and nor would you tightly couple every class in your OOP system by refusing to provide abstraction boundaries. Well, you might do if you're strapped for time, but you would probably consider it a "hack" that needs amending.

That's how some people see systemd, as a hack. It's tightly coupled to the kernel it sits on, and it's a leaky abstraction that exposes much of that to userland processes that depend on the systemd api. In turn, those applications are (or will be) tightly coupled to linux.
It's even better if you grew up drinking skim or 1/2%.
For what it's worth, this is broken when the target directory contains spaces/wildcard characters, etc. I would suggest you consider using something like the following to generate the command line you pass to ssh:

printf -v cmd 'cd %q && $SHELL -l' "$target_dir"

Also, dropping the ':' and just having an additional argument would make your life a bit simpler. What's with the array assignment just to invoke the command? Seems a bit unnecessary. The microoptimizer in me tells me you should use 'exec' as well :).
Exactly. I kept waiting for that to come up in the story and it never did. Would love for someone less lazy than myself to look at the actual paper and find out if this is addressed.
That's a dangerous tool to be releasing this early but hey if you can why not :)
>> did you ever expected THIS kind of DOGGY release from MOZILLA?

I have NOT expected that Mozilla will release their canines into the wild internetz. That definitely may contradict generally accepted paradigm that internet is feline-dominated.
Would be nice if the Usage section was a bit beefed out. Now one either have to look at code or install it to find out how to specify a contact to send message to. Seems like good stuff though.
This is precisely why I recently trashed my last few Linux machines and moved them over to FreeBSD. Well to be honest it was because it's absolutely tiresome not having a cohesive well documented system to rely on without the politics and collection of dickhead advocates and pseudo-religious leaders around my ass like mosquitos. Oh and ZFS, MAC, audit, decent ACL support, binary upgrades etc.

However I agree that there is little motivation to move if what you have works. I did mine during a hardware refresh.
That is not the correct origin of Doge http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/doge

PS it's pronounced Dohj
You just described both my development environment, and my production environment. Neither needs an overly complicated init system to work.
This is complete bullshit. The civilization is dying because of addiction to cars and private households (urban sprawl)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPS1y81b1Bw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugv0OY6LyuE
http://www.postcarbon.org/

This has nothing to do with sugar. Regarding the cardio-vasculous system, the viscous fats (everything besides the plant oil and fish fat) are really dangerous. I feel the chalestirol clogging my vessels every time I eat the viscous fats.