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Ousting Brendan Eich as CEO of Mozilla is a big mistake.

People who opposes gay marriage are not evil. This was the law of the land in the US since for ever until recently. For people to turn on him in supporting his belief is despicable.

I am glad the tide is turning everywhere that gay marriage is being implemented widely but punishing people for their political actions is a dangerous slippery of slopes.

Gay marriage issue is winning by changing people's mind one by one. There are tons of people that previously oppose to it. Heck even Obama 'evolved' on this issue. Are we going to revenge on them as well? (

What's next? Shall we fire pro-choice candidate as well? How about purging people that vote (Democratic/Republican) party?

We must stop ousting people on a single issue.
Well, maybe. But when you picture in your mind's eye the weight of a soft drink can, do you do it as an empty can or as a full one? I generally think of cans as full, not as empty.

It's just a qualitative comparison dressed up as a quantitative one. I don't think it's all that misleading - it's just "Wow! That's a lot of aluminium!"
A view they expressed six years ago, have not rescinded or clarified, and, oddly enough, is largely supported by their political donations going back 20 years [1].

[1] http://tim.dreamwidth.org/1845008.html
I don't like this, because it creates a network that users can connect to, on YOUR property, that YOU don't control. Comcast is literally using the property you own to spy on people that are near you. I assume that they are doing a lot to control the traffic of individuals connecting to these hotspots.
I don't think latency is the primary issue here, as you're probably really far from your users and the hop is a mild cost compared to transiting the internet.

In my mind the bigger issue is limited throughput, packets per second are fundamentally limited by this approach (tun devices, at least in linux, are generally limited to a single packet per read). Ted even alludes to a 25% reduction in traffic, though it's unclear to me what the link speed is (likely 100M or 1G). In my experience, even with the latest and greatest in linux, you're not going to see reasonable packet rates, and you're still better off doing this type of stuff in the kernel.

That said, tun devices are super cool, and a great tool for anyone to have if they need to do weird stuff like low-level network testing, so I think this is a really cool post. You can read more about it for linux here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/tuntap.t...
That I think its the elephant in the room. Many artist have an expectation of financial return. In fact many do it to make a living. And open source doesn't support that.
from crypto to bcrypt to scrypt

Hang on. I thought the consensus was to use bcrypt. Is scrypt better now?
> Yet in the end we still lost a great person doing good things on behalf of everyone. Life is weird that way, it's not all black and white.

This seems an odd way to put it. Yes, people are full of contradictions we'd rather didn't exist, and politics especially seems to bring them out. The examples are endless, from great artists who are racists to religious leaders who make powerful social contributions but also molest children. One might equally say that "evil people can do beautiful things" or "great people can make poor choices."

Either way, we're just fighting the cognitive dissonance of the two things co-existing when we wish they didn't. Which actually seems pretty black and white to me, and not weird at all.
The BT one never really worked for me. But wifi with stupid login pages is pretty broken if you want seamless access. I disabled it by putting my own modem in when I was on BT broadband.
4 miles is 12 minutes if you can sustain 20 mph door-to-door. If Bill's commute brings him into contact with traffic lights or urban traffic, he won't be able to do that.

I commute about five miles by bike in London, and it takes me about 25 minutes. There are maybe 5 minutes of full-speed travel in that time, and about 20 of filtering and waiting.

It's still a lot faster than driving, though!
Seems like that would require an unnecessary amount of overhead to do something very simple.
There is, however, plenty of evidence for a huge, huge flood at about the correct time. About 1/3 of the Black Sea was dry land until about 6000 BC [1]. The theory goes that it went from essentially dry land with forests and cities and ... to open sea in as little as 2 months, which can't have been a pleasant experience for the inhabitants.

Also note that floods don't simply go in a straight line from A->B. In practice because towns are built on the more stable land, what you'd see happen is pretty much the worst possible scenario : the water would surround cities, first making most roads unusable (non hardened ones because they become mud, hardened ones because some parts of them collapse). Then the water level would rise until nothing remains above the water level. (I've got some experience living in Northwest Europe, and every 20 years or so you get introduced to this problem firsthand)

Of course, even though the affected area was huge, it was still a local phenomenon.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis
the issue at hand was using cheaper fabrication for lesser quality parts.

micron/crucial could still do this.

this is all about saving money once the reputation of a model has been established.
If he's in say, Redmond or Issaquah (especially the latter), where some of the MS campuses are, biking every day all year becomes less viable. There's no way I would ever bike to work in Issaquah even if it was a reasonable distance, because you spend too much of the year getting pounded by rain/snow in cold temperatures, or subject to high winds.

I do agree about Seattle proper, though.

EDIT: For reference, Gates' home is in Medina, WA, near Redmond. It appears to lie pretty close to Lake Washington, so the weather is PROBABLY relatively similar to Seattle, but it might be more unpredictable since it lies further inland...
He might mean this, since the time period is a bit more correct : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis
It's security through improbability. According to the author, there's 2^512 possible variants of his algorithm, all depending on the parameters fed to it. This means that specialized hardware wouldn't be impossible, but that it'd be highly improbable that your adversaries' hardware matches the variant of the algorithm you used to create the hash.
Maybe that fake cheese they eat on pizzas and the like.
If that were the case there would be basically no overhead and you should get full speeds.
Not just depression. Other related health issues like Bipolar Disorder are terrifyingly common in SV and other tech communities; far too many of my past and present coworkers are clearly suffering from symptoms that typically indicate depression, mania, or other issues.

Worse still, some people I know are aware and accepting of the fact that they have issues, but they refuse to treat them because they fear antidepressants or mood stabilizers will impact productivity. One person I know explicitly refrains from treating his bipolar disorder because he thinks manic episodes make him productive. :-/

No one treatment is appropriate for everyone, but far too many people are willing to throw away their health in order to chase after the startup dream, despite the fact that it can hurt everyone around them in addition to shortening their own life.
Hackers Targeted the FIFA World Cup Websites
The thing is, anything, everything he has ever said or done is invalidated by this one statement.
Or the more accessible Greek mythology.
I like that they "recommend" something, but what they really mean is demand.
I am eager to learn a new paradigm, haskell look interesting but reading the post make me thing that a great language needs someone great at explaining the core concepts, ideas and problems. Haskell for all seems to be a contradictions because to be understood by all is expensive in time and effort. Hope to learn more about haskell.
That was a needlessly hostile and insulting response. I'm merely pointing out some personal experiences, and made appropriate qualifications to that effect.

And your blanket dismissal is doubtful anyway. Here's a study clearly indicating correlation between aspartame and insulin response: http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/30/7/e59.full Cephalic-phase insulin release is a known phenomenon and could obviously be triggered by expectation of a diet drink.

Being skeptical of mainstream nutritional "science" (barely worthy of the name, IMO, and which has led to an unprecedented obesity epidemic) is in no way comparable to "anti-vaxxers". And frankly, if I noticed a very strong correlation between people I knew who'd been vaccinated and then all suddenly became autistic, I'd be asking questions too, and would be right to do so, and that spirit of skeptical enquiry is the very essence of science.
Whoa! What? Who's "spying on people that are near you"?

And incidentally, what part of "the property you own" is being used here? The cable modem, which isn't yours? The Comcast network, which you don't own? The wireless spectrum, over which you have no exclusivity? Your IP connectivity, which isn't affected?

I find it baffling that people can be so hugely resistant to such harmless ideas. Seriously, where does that come from?
Last Sunday, Comcast, unbeknownst to me, and without my permission, turned on a wifi hotspot in my house (in north Atlanta). Causing all sorts of wifi connectivity problems. A new network appeared called xfinitywifi. Did Comcast find a channel that didn't cause channel conflict? Of course not. Channel one. Not knowing what Comcast was up to, I assumed my Airport had failed and spend a couple hours swapping it for a new one. Of course, same problem. Finally resolved the channel conflict and all is working Ok now. But thanks Comcast for ruining my Sunday.

tl;dr Comsat did this to me. Learned how to change wifi channel on my router
Something like that would be great for Javascript!
I came across something contrary to that.

"Data from large, epidemiologic studies support the existence of an association between artificially-sweetened beverage consumption and weight gain in children."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2951976/

One thing to keep in mind is that studies of diet and nutrition are always very hazy and go back and forth constantly. Human lifespans are long and diets are complex, so it's difficult to say whether or not any one thing is "harmless." Saturated fats were thought to be a major cause of heart disease for a long time, but now that's apparently no longer true.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230367840...

I don't think comparing anti-diet soda drinkers and antivaxers is really a fair comparison. Soda and artificial sweeteners aren't in any way beneficial for anybody; vaccines save countless lives.
I refuse treatment because I am afraid of the reaction of the people around me (family, friends, coworkers, employer) upon hearing I am being treated for psychological problems.
http://www.aerasec.de/security/advisories/html-bomb/bomb-htm...

Modern computers don't choke on ten million X's on a page, but the fans do spin up wildly. Maybe smartphones die with this.
I've slowly come to the opinion that laziness is not the best idea, even from a pure mathematical point of view. There are large mathematical benefits to using a strict language like SML. One important benefit to me is that strictness allows you to have an equality operation with a very strong mathematical guarantee, namely that the types for which equality can be automatically defined are precisely the types for which equality is decidable (always terminates). A lazy language throws that out the window. In a strict language you can define both a type of guaranteed-finite lists with decidable equality and a type of potentially-infinite streams, while in a lazy language you only have the latter.

I wrote about it in more detail here: http://slepnev.blogspot.ch/2014/06/is-laziness-wrong-for-equ...
Hi there. I have found this quite useful. Was just wondering if there was a reason why there is no more than 5 images supported? The webapp says it is getting 6 files but it doesn't display any when I select 6 images, 5 seems to be the max.
It came from multiple companies collaborating to create it.
There's this[1]. eog doesn't choke on it, but it takes 4GB of RAM during processing. After it return to 2GB.
WARNING: Will decompress to potentially 5GB of RAM.

[1]: ftp://ftp.aerasec.de/pub/advisories/decompressionbombs/pictures/picture-1G-19000x19000.png
Is it the limited number of cells that makes it not resemble a spreadsheet or another feature?
One can use the shared library loader to invoke binaries that do not have executable bit set, comes in handy once in a while.

$ cp /bin/chmod .
$ chmod -x ./chmod
$ /lib/ld-2.19.so ./chmod
./chmod: missing operand
Try './chmod --help' for more information.
> being CEO is basically a constant stream of bad news."

Aw, poor CEOs (I'm one)... Perhaps ask an ER nurse how her job compares.
Do you have any examples I can look at?
You don't own the bandwidth either.
it is Senseboard from 2001
I think they are the same people reviving the old product which somehow failed at that time.
Job Board for Go Developers in India
Test-driving the NBN: Slow, anti-competitive and stifling innovation
Hippocrates on Illness
I'm a huge tracker music fan, I didn't know about the Deus Ex OST. My introduction to tracker music came from Epic games like One Must Fall 2097, Epic Pinball and Jazz Jackrabbit. It's really interesting to open a lot of these tracker music files up and play with the samples, have a look at the comments left and marvel in the way the music works.

Some other good sites to look at:

http://modarchive.org/ - huge tracker music archive site

https://www.scene.org/ - demoscene information and archive

https://pouet.net/ - demoscene information and archive
Buridan's Principle by Leslie Lamport
I have not had a problem on nixos on my VMware fusion box, or the same set up on my desktop. Nixos has nearly atomic package management so it is easy to set and deconstruct environment or try multiple solutions out in parallel in different profiles.
Lenovo did this with the last Thinkpad I ever bought.
> Marc Andreessen, who manages one of the most successful portfolios of startups in the history of startups, has "absolutely no understanding of portfolio theory"?

He doesn't need to be above average there. Just like PG, he (mostly) invests in technology he actually comprehends, unlike some other delusionary VC from the investment banking world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnfOOoTOrDE

28c3: Geeks and depression panel
I hope that it always defaults to channel one. That way in an apartment complex all the xfinitywifi can conflict with eachother and at least leave some channels open for real wifi networks.
The alternative to a van is not a bike. I have four kids. We aren't riding our bikes to soccer practice and church.

Sneering at van owners does not advance the conversation.
heh, HN syntax ate the stars...
I agree. Not that the FDA is always right, but after the debacle with saccharin they wanted to be sure that aspartame was safe.
I am glad to hear from Chelsea. Does anyone's know how she is fairing?
The scrypt paper includes comparisons to bcrypt: https://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt/scrypt.pdf decide for yourself.
A writeable open VCS would also make heartbleed-like vulnerabilities more likely. As such the OP's comments should be evaluated as potential astroturf. Were the NSA looking to introduce new and effective backdoors, and we know they are, this would be one way to pressure IBM/Weitse for access.
> I experienced that dpkg would gradually lose track of the state of the system and become less and less useful over time.

Similar experience with ubuntu and upgrading to different versions was my motivation to use nix. It was made worse by my efforts to install cutting edge versions of numpy and scipy at the time.

> But I hope they didn't get too carried away with solving the problem of being functional... that's not a real problem.

Heh, they are practical bunch, well at least good chunks of nix, nixos, hydra are written in perl and nixops is written in python. I think the main argument for the former was they all knew perl at the time and want to make sure it was reasonable to port to several systems including cygwin on windows thought it is no longer has tier one support.
They can't stop you from putting their cable modem in a Faraday cage.
look at this map - http://www.btfon.com/maps
Most ER patients recover (I would hope). It also wasn't a plea for pity.
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It doesn't just assume knowledge of the language though. Assuming knowledge of Applicative, Monad and Functor is fine but as the current top comment says there is a lot more than that. Most of which you wouldn't find in a normal Haskell tutorial/article
I think the actual problem was that someone typed "hostname " (that is "hostname" and 2 blanks), which did set the hostname to " " (a blank). Yeah sure changing it back may work (it didn't for the colleagues that told me that).

Here is another one:
I once shut down a server because I wanted to know how to shutdown & reboot. I typed "shutdown -h" (I thought that would display help-pages :)

It was the option to "halt" immediately.

We needed to open a ticket to start the machine up again.
An Online Gaming Journey – Pt. 1: Escapism, Friendship, and Drama
> "China used as much concrete in just three years as United States in one century"

I'm sorry, maybe something was changed in the article, but that quote doesn't appear there.

The quote from the (current?) article is:

"China used more cement in the last three years than the U.S. used in the entire 20th century"

Which seems like a perfectly valid comparison to understand how much the world has changed, which is what the quote was all about.

What's the issue?
Given that ISP supplied routers usually come with crap wifi ability - does broadcasting a second SSID reduce the other signal even if nobody is using it?
I wonder if routers could be exploited via this second SSID and access gained to peoples home/office networks.
Why does he think you need to build millions of ASIC/FPGA/GPUshaders, one per parameter? Couldn't you just build one "über"-ASIC/FPGA/GPUshader? Is there something magical about "gsha.c" that makes it impossible to implement in hardware?

Isn't the cost of an ASIC containing an MD5+SHA1 algorithm about the same as the cost of an ASIC containing only one of them?
Earth – The Pale Blue Dot in an Infinite Universe, Our World, Our Home
The alternative to a van is not a bike.

For a 4-mile trip to the office, it can be. Nothing prevents him from using a van when going to soccer practice with the kids.
Successfully gaming an aptitude test seems like a good demonstration of aptitude anyway.
I hope Americans can elect a president that will pardon Manning and Snowden in day one of presidency. If a presidential candidate can at least promise to do that, then we'd have a pretty good sense that he or she is going to be a pretty good president regarding government transparency, media freedom, basic rights, and so on.

At the very least the question of pardoning them should be asked in a live televised debate, to see how the candidates stand. If none of them are willing to commit to that, then there's a very high chance US will continue on the dark path is currently on.
Defense Officials Preparing for Civil Breakdown
Since I seem to be the only one awake I will comment on Chelsea's op-ed. She raises the really important point of journalists needing to be able to be able to report on what is actually going on for the American public to be able to make an informed decision. What I wonder is how we (by we I mean the greater tech community) can do to make this happen?
For cable, the other wifi network is served on a different docsis channel, and shouldn't affect your speed - at least not the part from your router to the other end of the cable.
Comcast should be paying property owners for the privilege of using their building for a commercial/advertising service, deducting some percentage from the monthly bill. There are various benefits Comcast receives from having this turned on. They make their wifi coverage map larger and more competitive thanks to your location. They wouldn't have that blip on the map if you weren't paying property taxes.

Additionally, there is the profit benefit, assuming they will charge non-subscribers when their free 10 minutes is up.

WiFi services are competitive because of coverage, and therefore geographic location. When they are attached to buildings they need (small) amount of power and physical protection. You're providing all of this to Comcast, for free, to build their coverage network. I think compensation is warranted. In more expensive areas, both in terms of rent and location-based taxes, this becomes even more important of an issue.
This article is full of hyperbole and half-truth - I'm not a fan of Comcast (my cable TV costs too much for the few channels I actually watch), but let's get some facts straight.

There may be bandwidth bottlenecks in Comcast's network (the reason for the NetFlix peering charges) but they're not between the fiber-optic transmitter and the home. The HFC network (hybrid fiber-coax) has effectively seen a huge increase in capacity due to the elimination of the analog channels (which consumed 6MHz of bandwidth each). Each 6MHz channel now digitally carries 10-12 MPEG compressed channels.

The rest of the available bandwidth can be used for data transmission and with the adoption of the MQAM, the same modulators can be switched between video and data as bandwidth demands. SDV (Switched Digital Video) and DOCSIS 3.0 both help manage the infrastructure's efficency - you probably can't even use all the bandwidth Comcast could provide from the head-end.

From the head-end to the Internet is another matter - because the large cable operators grew through acquisition, it's uncommon to have similar data capacities between their "systems". Since Comcast's backbone capacity is miniscule in comparison to their "last mile" capacity, the real problem is where to inject NetFlix data and how to transport that data to each head-end. If NetFlix could peer into each Comcast head-end, this wouldn't even be an issue.

(Disclaimer: 20 year CATV industry veteran now in higher education)
Interesting, is there a description of how it works or cheats?
I think that's what boozahol is for
why not post a link to the Guardian article directly? http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/ju...
Does this open the door for people to capture their outgoing traffic which will include the traffic of people who are using their router? If you use the ComcastID and connect to someone else's router your non-encrypted traffic is up for grabs?
So... It's a beta and some limits aren't up to native spec because of things like the UIWebView currently being backed by an OpenGL ES 2.0 surface (instead of 3.0, which is only available on the iPhone5s)?
The Case of Data Islands Within an Enterprise
Comcast owns it, if people don't like it they should buy their own modem/router and then it won't be an issue for them personally (and who wouldn't buy their own router anyways?).
But, it only makes it unbreakable for 50% of passwords? Would it not be better to have an alternating scheme, i.e. MD5 -> SHA1 -> MD5 -> SHA1 repeated 100,000 times, rather than choosing a scheme deterministically at the start.
Why not? What's wrong with taking your kids to soccer practice with a bike?