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Excellent comment and I too am very bullish on the future.

>There is a doom-and-gloom mentality on this site; people seem like they want the end-of-days.

Everyone feels like their struggles are epic because they are the ones fighting. Everyone has struggles, just at different levels, so some minor career setback feels crushing even though you are not in any real jeopardy. People also tend to romanticize about the past, when in reality if they went back they would be horrified.

>There is no reason to cower from the ills of today; they are only a call to keep moving forward.

True but I do think that there is the problem that technology is moving so much faster than society. The curve of tech is steepening, and though I never thought I would hear myself say this, I think we could pull back on the throttle a little.
I did read the article, and it seems like a situation totally blown out of proportion.

Since the FBI began keeping track in 2005, there have been
more than 17,000 laser strikes in total—more than a fifth
(3,960) in 2013 alone. During the first three months of
2014, the FBI reported an average of 9.5 documented
incidents every single day.

Those are absurd numbers. To me, that alone immediately reads as: We have airplanes in the sky that can be tampered with far too easily.

Technological arms races are a recurring phenomenon as technology contues to evolve. This is a particularly interesting one. Think about what a massive technological upset this could be, if laser pointers are honestly so indomitable.

Planes and pilots are going to have to change, and it's going to be expensive and frustrating. And believe me, the last thing I want to see happen is for all manned aircraft to be grounded and replaced with drones.

But reading the whole article, it's obvious to me that law enforcement is fighting a losing battle, and that's a bad thing, because then what you get are fishing expeditions, witch hunts, emotionally charged propaganda and harsh penalties to make examples of people.
As I read it, you both agree that it is no good for printing on packaging, for two different reasons. Your original statement, however, gave the unspoken implication that other URL shorteners were good for printing on packaging. It was that unspoken implication that he was talking about, rather than the directly spoken statement.
Why is Firefox not supported? https://github.com/mgechev/jscapture/issues/5
We used BPF at Arbor Networks as a medium for signatures for DDoS attacks (other tools in our stack automatically generated them from statistical models), and I spent a pretty big chunk of my first year there working on ways to optimize evaluation of lots of BPF filters on NetFlow records in parallel.

The BPF virtual machine itself is trivial; any competent systems programmer given its specification should have no trouble implementing it.

What's most interesting about BPF is libpcap. There is a surprising amount of compiler theory baked into pcap, and it bears by far the larger share of the weight in making Unix packet capture applications workable and efficient (this may have changed with JIT'd BPF). I actually found this frustrating, as simple changes to the BPF VM (for instance, "vectorized" comparisons to support multiple filters) would break the libpcap optimizer.

I confess to being a bit baffled as to why things like seccomp-bpf would choose to use such a simple bytecode scheme; network packet captures uses it because of tradition and compatibility, and because a competently-designed high level filter language compiler supports only BPF.
I could send you info by email if you like - my email is in my profile. Our stores have a server on-site, and various printers and till receipt printers, not all of them attached to tills. The proprietary app we use creates a PDF, which then gets sent through to CUPS (see https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/CU... for clues on this).

If you're sending a data stream from a central server to a till printer in a store (i.e. the raw printer data is going from a centralised CUPS) that might work, depends on the broadband link.

Once the printers are on the network, they tend to stay that way. The only problem is, they have to be set up using Reverse ARP which is a bit shaky, but once you're used to the procedure it's OK.
Cooper's Law: All machines are amplifiers.
Are you seriously claiming that a large fraction of the population can, with some elbow grease, do cutting edge research? Most people I know struggle with the science they have to learn in school.
Exactly my reaction.

> I'm [..] a man pinning screaming woman to the ground in a public place

I can just imagine how this goes down. You grab the perpetrator, wrestle her to the ground violently. You have to lean deeply over her to restrain both her hands. The victim runs away. The woman you're holding starts to scream and shout that you're assaulting her. The police arrive.

You are fucked with a capital F.

> a man [..] beating a woman in public

... the victim runs away. The police arrive. The police tell the other guys in the holding cell that you're a woman-beater.

You get the picture.
Did this incident happen in San Francisco?
Let's evaluate for real, the cost-benefit of intervening physically against a knife-wielding crazy person:

-- Minimum: you'll miss the day of work, have an arrest on your record which you'll have to disclose forever and which may cost you your career, may make it impossible to enter foreign countries, and so on.

-- Probable: you'll miss many days of work due to police/legal complications. Significant chance of losing your job. Significant chance of grievous personal injury. Significant chance of assault charges which will cost you (minimum) tens of thousands of dollars to defend against (more likely >$100,000).

-- Possible: Killed by knife. Killed by cop. Jailed for assault. Jailed for murder (if attacker ends up dead, you're going to be charged for sure). Newspaper columnist heaps scorn on your actions.

-- Benefits, maximum: a newspaper mentions your name in a good way. Victim says "thank you".

Yes, everyone is wondering if someone else will intervene. But also, individually, the calculus for intervening is just terrible. Highly likely consequences include months in the hospital, months in jail, cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The joke about a knife fight is that the winner is in the hospital, the loser in the morgue. Which one of those two will you be?
This ain't worth to be here, this list is old and short and it has been replaced by Nuget. It doesn't even contain Biggy (a Flat File .Net engine not found on Nuget)

Fyi. https://github.com/robconery/biggy
Except you need to pick your own UTF-8 character to make it shorter, which is a pain because a lot of them are already taken.
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That 5-6 weeks is well outside he norm in the US.

In my experience, to get that much leave, you have to work at the same company for 5+ years. And either be highly-paid white collar OR highly paid union.

http://www.psmag.com/navigation/business-economics/the-unite...
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ebs.t05.htm
The problem isn't money, it's the fact that money has such strength in elections.

And that comes down to the electorate and the media. Public schooling doesn't result in adults capable of doing the homework necessary to figure out the issues or the candidates. The media does an incredibly shitty job of providing basic facts about candidates and issues. If you want to know the voting history of a candidate the media isn't going to tell you, for them it's a game, a horse race / popularity contest. They're just there for the story.

Add to that the fact that modern government has its fingers in every aspect of life and thus exerting any control over the government by whatever means is often an extreme necessity for many businesses and organizations, so there's a huge incentive to warp the political process. Folks of good intention need their lobbyists so that the government leaves them alone. Folks of bad intention want to twist the government for reward, either through subsidies, procurement programs, services, or regulations or other activity which preferentially hurts their competitors.

Both of these issues have become more and more important through the mid-20th century to today. In the Lincoln-Douglas debates the format was for one person to speak for a solid hour then the other to respond with an hour and a half speech and then the first person following up with another half hour response, and there were 4 such debates. Newspapers printed transcripts of those debates in full and Lincoln published a book based on them, which was were much of his fame came from initially. How different our system is today, and how utterly imbecilic and superficial it is by comparison. Meanwhile, within the last few decades the wealthiest counties in the US have become those counties around DC.

There's simply no way to squeeze money out of politics directly given the way it works now. There is too much incentive and insufficient countervailing forces to keep money out, no matter the laws, there will always be loopholes and through those loopholes the same corruption of the system will seep in. The problem needs to be fixed at its source. With better media and a more informed electorate as well as, in my opinion, a smaller government and saner laws and regulation.
I downvoted you, but to be honest, not because i think your advice is bad. (It's kind of reasonable.)

I downvoted you because, like the other top posts, your post managed to gather downvotes via emotional appeal, while posts that point out the actual social source of this behavior along with simple and effective advice on how to circumvent it, are left in the middle of this comment section due to lack of emotional appeal.
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tracedump is a single application packet sniffer that generates BPF code on the fly: http://mutrics.iitis.pl/tracedump
UK guy here; it's 5-6 weeks in addition to national holidays (which are normally 8 days/year).
As a flier for an event, yes I would and have.
Did any Intel processors have HCF? I thought that was a Motorola thing.
>You help me carry my kill home, you can have some of the meat. You help me get my harvest in, I'll help you raise that barn.

What you describe is reciprocity, trading favors or "paying it back". "Paying it forward" is something different and rarer.
I'm not sure that this is 'most of the time' some parts of our railways are also very old so they have technical failures..

In the subway, they're (slowly) replacing access gates so that you cannot access to the tracks which would reduce a lot this kind of suicide, but
1) it's very expensive
2) unions are against it, because at the same time they make trains remotely controlled..
Sure. There are people who assert that all we have to do is vote. I find that laughable. We have a controlled democracy and an illusion of choice that falls into a narrow range, all controlled by the same sources of money. It's easy to cope because I, like many people on this forum, am materially comfortable. I didn't get sucked under like the bottom tiers of the middle class.

But I am not optimistic. I think many of those ex-middle-class people will get desperate enough to start killing the people they blame for their misfortune. At that point we start to look like we've fallen out of the First World and everyone with money needs a bulletproof SUV and guards.

So what to do? Embrace the surveillance/security state because it might keep us safe? You see some of that attitude here among the apologists. I don't like that but I have no answers.
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It's not really a new level. People have been doing it with Last.fm since before Facebook existed.
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I'm living in Rüti (which is about 30 km from Dübendorf but still in the canton of Zürich). If I do the availability-check on the fiber7-page it returns something like "that's a black-hole for us" - I'm not surprised.
The beginning of your story reminded me of the wonderful commencement speech given by David Foster Wallace at Kenyon College in 2005 [1]. It is very easy to well up with rage, but it is significantly more difficult to understand the context of another's actions. Sometimes I have to stop and tell myself "This is water" and try to put myself in the shoes of the stranger who has enraged me. I do applaud your stopping to help, and I find it unfortunate the experience was not more rewarding.

1. http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/DFWKenyonAddress2005.pdf
That guy did not leave after the police arrived and told him to leave (according to his own account, at the URL you give).
Ouch. It's 200/10 mbit/s here in Dublin, for the same amount of money (well, for the first 12 months at least)...
It's a great wrapper, but the bugs arround x64 compilation are frustrating :( Actually, it's my only problem with a nifty library i'm using

https://github.com/Buildstarted/Javascript.ViewEngines/issue...
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Branding (signalling). Same reason people post pictures of their desserts with the restaurant's name, announce party affiliation, and tell you about a band you have never heard.
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So what I pay for 15/1 at $60 a month from TWC. Oh wait... I live in a third world internet country.
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Like many here, I have aspirations of starting a company one day. At one point about 5 years ago, I tried and failed to start a company with a colleague, then tried and failed to start consulting. I hope to try again on one or both of those in the future.

But in the meantime, I have a daughter due in a few months and I know that the most important things for her are that I have a steady income and that I be around for her and my wife as much as I can. Being a (new) entrepreneur allows neither of those things. Maybe when she's a bit older I can think about striking out on my own, but for now it would be selfish to do so.

It's self-serving to set up a schedule like the OP did, then complain that you don't have enough time to spend with your family. You have no one to blame but yourself; we in the tech industry have the luxury right now to have a large demand for our labour for wages well above the median. Most people in the world can't say that and have to make compromises. We don't. To make compromises anyway is to play the martyr card.

If, as a technologist, you don't get a chance to see your daughter, it's because you prioritized something else over her.
Wow, scary stuff. I've been there with crazy people, alone, at night, at a T-stop in Boston. One thing you can do, is put your keys in your hand, and make a fist with the keys pointed outward from your knuckles. That will make punches way more effective and one good punch could blind your assailant, which is exactly what you want to do.

Another thing to consider is getting a gun or at least supporting gun rights. Not a lot of unarmed people are going to help you against a crazy person with a knife. If someone was caring a gun, they could have helped. If she were caring, then she could have put an end to this nightmare herself.

There's a saying in the gun rights community, "The second you need a cop, they're always minutes away." All the cops I know agree with that statement. It's not a reflection on them, just that they can't be everywhere all the time.

I hope her injuries (both physical and mental) heal quickly.
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We need to be doing something for these kids. I know when I was in school I was incredibly bored and underwhelmed. I'd typically understand a concept pretty quickly when it was introduced, and then have nothing to do while the teacher had to explain it a million times for the next several days, and I'd finish my tests and work much more quickly than most, too. I dunno if I was necessarily one of the brightest minds out there, but school did always come easy to me.

So, I'd do other things when I didn't need to pay attention. When I was really little, I'd act out. Doctors tried to tell my parents I had ADD and prescribe drugs -- fortunately my parents knew better (my dad had the same issues when he was a kid). Later, I actually found a healthy outlet -- I brought a sketchpad to school and drew pictures when I wasn't learning anything. Still, the teachers got upset and eventually took that away.

I feel like it would've been a lot more beneficial to me if there had been some alternative. Or, at least, if I hadn't constantly got in trouble for what essentially amounts to being bored.
I'm claiming that with some elbow grease people can increase the fraction of the population which can do the research. I'm not sure what the upper bound on the fraction would be, but so far historical record shows it steadily increasing.

We should work at it and see where we can get.

(And hopefully by the time we bump against the ceiling implants and genetics will come to our aid.)
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SageBump is basically what I see sitting on top of other news sites. Simply put, it is an aggregator of aggregators, customised to your preferences.

Please note - the first load time, and subsequent loads after configuration changes can take up to a minute, I am working on improving this, but alot of data is polled from multiple sources so it is not an easy fix.

It is currently in beta but it "should" hold up for a few thousand users. I am ready to receive feedback so please feel free to give me pointers and your thoughts.

Any questions? Try the Information menu on the top right, then the Why? and How? tabs for a full explanation, or just ask me here.

Oh finally if you like it please upvote and share it! Sorry to be a beggar, I simply have no funds for marketing this experiment.

Thank you
Sounds like a fun way to remember the details of each day. Could also be a way to get decent snapshots without fumbling for your phone, since the frequency is so high.

I think the Narrative camera looks nicer and is smaller than Sensecam. http://getnarrative.com
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This very much reminds me of the time when I tried to get a work-permit for Poland back when it was still firmly communist. The never ending back-and-forth, fear of reprisals from higher up for misplaced chalkmarks or stamps and so on was quite similar. I eventually did get it (I still have it), one of very few westerners that ever did.

The most heard question was why on earth I would be trying to get into the Eastblock when everybody else was trying to get out.
Interesting: the URL no longer takes us to the announcement, and the link on their press page supposedly to their press release is now broken.
The setup I'm trying to achieve is minimal. On site, there would only be a printer which is connected to the internet via ethernet port (or wireless). From off site, I want to send an http request to the printer (As an aside, I'm trying to make the request secure somehow).

The http request would look something like this ideally:

curl -X POST --data-urlencode 'html=<html><head><meta charset="utf-8"></head><body><p style="font-family: Comic Sans Ms; font-size: 36px;">YOUR MESSAGE HERE</p><p>YOUR EMAIL</p></body></html>' http://remote.bergcloud.com/playground/direct_print/Q9UCCLRT...

So I wouldn't have the luxury of having an on site server unfortunately.

PS - I couldn't find your email in your profile. It was empty when I clicked through.
No such list is really complete without the first rendition of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_(1940)

For reasons, which become immediately obvious, it was lovingly nick named "Galopping Gertie"
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While he didn't, I consider it to be an outcome with a relatively high probability, considering that China is the new superpower, and it is more oppressive and controlling (though, from a South American point of view, less hypocritical than the U.S., which is in denial of being oppressive and controlling).
While this is pretty neat, is there still a market for URL shorteners? It's been mentioned in this discussion already that Twitter does it automatically already - iirc, that was the main use case for shortened URLs. The other use case is gathering statistics (how many people clicked on my link), but the URL doesn't need to be short for that, a simpler redirect service would work just fine for that.

The final one is simple printable URLs which people can enter easily. That's also a valid use case I think, but mainly if you can create your own URL, i.e. shorturl.com/hackernews; a random collection of numbers and letters is hard to type in on a cell phone and easy to mistype.
Democracy is an unstable isotope of government, with a short half-life; unless overthrown, it invariably decays into leaden bureaucracy, which generally comes as something of a relief to all involved. Skipping the democratic phase entirely, and going straight to bureaucracy, seems like it will save a lot of trouble and time.

Also, "rules [being] made centrally and applied to diverse populations with different priorities" is a more or less inevitable failure mode of federalism, however administered. (In fact, it's arguably the point of federalism.) As can be seen in the brief but instructive history of the United States, the representative-democratic method of rule is no insulation against this trait of the federal republic; indeed, a federal system offers broader scope than any other for the periodic paroxysms of popular madness which beset any democracy. These produce schisms between sections of the polity, and as these injuries heal, they form keloid plaques of bureaucracy which not only help seal the immediate breach but also help buffer the polity against future democratic spasm.

Such proliferation of nonfunctional tissue is harmful to the organism in the long term, but from the individual point of view, life in a moderately senescent bureaucracy is often preferable to life in a young, agile, athletic democracy, simply because the former offers a vastly reduced likelihood of major upheaval.
Facebook wants to listen to your brainwaves but are thwarted by reality. So far.
Reasonable criticisms of Aaron Swartz did not become unreasonable when Swartz committed suicide. What you are probably perceiving is an unwillingness to introduce new criticisms unbidden for someone who has died.
Damn, I'm paying $80/month here in Australia for 3 mbit/s. The local exchange has been maxxed out for the last 10 years. Its possible we have the worst Internet of all developed countries.
> I confess to being a bit baffled as to why things like seccomp-bpf would choose to use such a simple bytecode scheme;

Maybe they envisioned a hardware implementation?