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Mozilla is a political organisation fighting for the open web and information freedom. Those are politics most of us here probably support but that doesn't make them non-political.

[I'm guessing that the down votes were for describing Mozilla as a political organisation but it is just a guess. Responses can change my mind, down votes alone can't.]
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Even if your belief were true, it is an odd definition of a "flourish" that assigns all weight to the material dimensions of a society and none to the moral.

It becomes particularly odd when discussing the leadership of an organization with a substantial moral component to its stated mission [1].

[1] http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/
> so it's a death blow to this brand in the long term

That's exactly the problem. See you you used it as a 'brand'?
Great list, thanks!
The analogy would be that google bought googletube, which they did not.
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Nope. I'm referring to something different in kind. I think it's fully okay for rational individuals, separate from emotion, to come to the conclusion that working with a specific person or business doesn't align with their long term interests in how they feel a society should be run.

I believe, however, what was on display during the Eich incident was nothing of the sort. It was a direct example of mob mentality[1], which is a very distinct mode of thought that operates more off of emotion, peer judgment, and myopia than rational thought around what we should consider unjust and punishable if the case were brought to, say, a formal trial.

The concept is kind of a fundamental underpinning in modern judicial systems. I personally think that "mob" mentality is on the rise given our current configuration of clickshare happy, shallow media outlets, but this is a harder thesis to defend and beyond the scope of this comment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_mentality
The U.S. Military’s Campaign Against Media Freedom
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I was once away for a while where the only access I had was to one of these. I ended up partially bypassing the paywall after a couple of hours of poking around.
Great reference, I hadn't heard of this before. Thanks for the link!
Interesting link. Goes to prove that test prep in the easily measurable metrics (enrollment in prep courses, tutors) has negligible effects. Somehow the writer manages to waive away all unequal environmental factors due to income with that one proof, (even turns it on its head: "black people actually do more test prep!") which speaks volumes about his agenda.
This is a good point. Flourishing does not imply moral behavior. I think the "flourish" comment is an embellishment to my main argument, which does center around the morality of holding somebody accountable for a view they expressed six years in the past.

Taking it a step further, I do feel that, given enough space, I could defend the idea that a society's moral imperatives are quite tied to how it gets its corn-pone [1]. This is several levels beyond the scope of my comment, though.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/cornpone.html
A curious case of rolling your own crypto and security through obscurity. Well, interesting thoughts but I'd be extremely hesitant to put any of this to use (as the author says in the last line).
Here in Belgium they do the same, if you have one of their new DOCSIS3 modems it is activated automatically. Although their hotspots are for their customers only.
If you disable it on your router you can't access other people's hotspots.
The speed is limited to 1Mbps per user so it wouldn't impact you much, knowing that euro docs is can go up to 300 Mass (if not higher)

Personally I love it, it's perfect for when you're at a friends house and want to check out something real quick.
Or, you know, that the name 'Jules' is used for males the vast majority of th time.
You aren't getting it. The issue isn't that CloudFlare doesn't proactively seek out such sites. The issue is that when they are advised a site using their service is a DDoS service, and provided proof of that, _they don't care_ and continue providing service to it. The proper action would be to investigate the abuse complaint, try to conclusively determine if it is true and if so, terminate service to the site.

They don't do that, but continue to sell their DDoS protection service (beyond the free tier), so they are indeed a racketeering operation.
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I presume Comcast have put something in the small print of the terms and conditions saying they are allowed to do that.
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As a kid I used to take copyright protection apart on cassette based games, mostly on Z80 based computers so I could add infinite live pokes and stick a trainer on the front. I remember Elite on the ZX Spectrum (I played it mostly on the MSX, although I never got round to cracking it). The copy I had used a funky loader used in games released by Firebird.

The Firebird bleepload was interesting in that it had a small leader tone and loaded small blocks of data, checked them with (IIRC but I could be wrong) a CRC, incremented a block count and then loaded the next block. Because this was all done at the standard spectrum loading speed it actually made games take longer to load than normal, but had the supposed advantage of being able to rewind and retry a block if it didn't load successfully, or as was the case for many people, continuously fail to load a block successfully.

There were a fair few releases of Elite, I remember there being a version that used a terrible copyright protection mechanism called Lenslok (I first saw it in a game called TT Racer). Lenslok was a plastic prism that had to be calibrated to your TV each time you loaded a game. It would display two characters mangled in a way that supposedly could only be read through the prism (but you could just document the characters that came up when you had the lenslok viewer and then look them up when you didn't have one.

Using a Multiface (which was a hardware device that would jump to a special area of onboard memory with a hex editor when a special red button was pressed) and a debugger you could pull the loader apart, find the jump to the decompression/game start routine then usually step through to the code, patch the jump to lenslok out (although I preferred changing the code that checks user input to always compare to itself in case any later checks would match, some people would just jump to the successful code entry address too) and then modify the loader to patch the code or jump to the address on start.

The multiface also had the ability to dump out the contents of memory to disk as a snapshot, but it would check to see if the multiface was there afterwards as it's own form of copyright protection. This again was pretty straightforward to patch out, but felt like cheating, and if you hadn't already cracked the loader then if you wanted to dump out the loading screen you'd risk losing the bottom 512 bytes IIRC due to the menu that popped (but I might be wrong, it's been nearly 30 years since I've used one).
By the way, another good source regarding the making of Elite (the original one): http://www.edge-online.com/features/making-elite/
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It's not an on/off switch. Still, he's fudging numbers and images to bolster his point when, by your very point, he has no real need to. It's distasteful.
>It drives me batty, because it really is not true.

Of course it's true. Just look at how you think there are separate categories for things that are necessary, things that help people, and things that bring in money. The subset of the final category which excludes the former two categories consists of busywork and arbitrary rules we are nonetheless forced to deal with.
They don't infringe on anything IMHO. This is a fan site promoting the use of the companies products. This is not the same as using the tm to sell look alikes.
If sites adding massive value to a brand over almost a decade can expect to be noticed and acquired how is that bad for ikea.
In 30 years you will go from a free thinking liberal to a reactionary dinosaur without changing a single opinion. When you find yourself out of step with "the kids", remember this.
>> except maybe to use linux

Huh? Who are you comparing Apple against? It sounds like Google/Facebook/Twitter but they are advertising honey-pots rather than product companies.

The more accurate competitor category includes Microsoft, Samsung, Dell, Sony, HTC etc. Like Apple, their first business is to sell product... but they will sell adverts too if they can.
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AFAIK the way it typically works is that subscribers to the ISP's service get access for free, but others have to pay.

So if you're an xfinity customer, you can use their public wifi hotspots. But if you're not an xfinity customer, you have to pay.
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I think test prep helps a ton for standardized tests. It familiarizes you with the subjects and testing format. Which means when it's time to do the real thing, it's all old hat.

The article only mentions the average score increase, which is useless without a distribution. Because a great many kids have no interest in improving and are just being forced to do test prep by their school and parents. It won't help kids that don't care.
> I like it when package prices have to be shown next to sensible unit prices, it really simplifies the comparison, regardless of any psychology that has been built into the packaging.

This is standard consumer protection law in many places such as the EU and Australia.
Precisely that.

It's rather a pain in the ass for antivirus products, which tend to have a nesting limit to prevent these kind of shenanigans.

There are much weirder things you can do. With knowledge of what's packing it and if the packer doesn't bail out on expanded files (like, say, LZMA2 used in XZ does, but the older LZMA doesn't), you can make a small file which tickles every worst-case performance/size wrinkle in the cruncher and comes out very large!

I thought executable compressors had reached a plateau until Mentor/TBC & Blueberry/Loonies came up with crinkler - http://crinkler.net/ - which is a compressing linker specialised for demoscene 4ktros, and cheats like a motherfucker.
Try reading that and not cry at the end. What a full life. Such a hard worker and still so much time for family.
Well, for one thing we haven't found any other anthills and that's very weird. Other than that, just

Stay Calm
and
Keep Doing Science

until you've scienced everything. The analogy with ants is weird, in that ants don't seem to be sentient and don't appear to have ant scientists that are trying to understand the mysteries of the universe. That makes it a bit hard to answer you on the level of the analogy, as such an answer would need to start with "assuming ants were sentient and had physicists, ...", from which point on the rest would be pure anthropocentric conjecture. We humans are a bit unique in that there are individuals who go "well I'm bored, guess I'll go observe the sun, moon and other bright discs in the night sky for decades and record their movements as precisely as I can, so that some other person, most probably of a race I've never seen from a place far beyond any horizon I've viewed, can read them centuries later and use them to come up with a heliocentric model of the solar system and from there on other mad toffs with nothing better to do could come up with the theory of gravity or something".

There is no reason to believe we will never ever find out some fundamental properties of the world, given enough time. If something exists, it can be interacted with and if it can be interacted with, it can be studied. If we can't interact with it ourselves, we'll make machines to interact with it. If we cannot make machines to interact with it, we'll study the results of other things interacting with it that we can observe. If it cannot be interacted with in any way via any method, its existence is largely a philosophical question.

It can be argued that we don't (and won't) have the absolute most simple, exact and perfect formulations for the rules of nature, but arguing whether those rules have a one true form and if there aren't equivalent ways to state them is again a largely philosophical question.
That's exactly the plan if I interpret the article correctly.
> GSHA will almost certainly give up collisions than SHA, but collisions are not a practical concern for password hashing or KDF operations.

Pretty sure collisions are a practical concern for password hashing... More collisions = more "valid" passwords for a given account.
Traffic shaping shaping implies dropping packets. You could try to buffer some of them to send them later when bandwidth is available, but you would run out of buffer space very quickly. Buffering and flow control is best left to the endpoints. Packet loss is common on the internet and protocols are designed to handle it well.

In this example I would rather be worried about the additional latency/overhead of copying all the packets to user space and back.
It lists services (i.e. postfix) but I can not see any way to configure them. Services like postfix, slapd don't just work, they need to be configured first.
What a wonderfully well-written tribute to a full, productive and and worthwhile life.
Unless you hold more general opinions about "always being progressive". The left of 1950 are still just as left in 2014.
Indeed. The biggest weakness is that users aren't well trained in ensuring that the page they're typing their username/password into (to access one of the public access points) may not be genuine.

I know I've seen some faked BT Openzone login pages in the UK, luckily the BT Wifi App is clever enough only to attempt to login to the real webpage.
Yeah...until someone on the guest wifi owns the router. I'm not saying it is, or isn't, likely -- I don't know much about Comcast's Arris Touchstone Telephony Wireless Gateway Modems, but it is a risk. Then again, so is someone hacking your wifi network...
It's part of this strange double standard we have for spies - their guys are liars, our guys are cunning. Once upon a time "our" meant "our country". Today it seems to mean "our values". I think that's an improvement.

And to be honest I think Chancellor Merkel, who by all definitions should be cynical as hell, was genuinely shocked by the Stasi like extent of PRISM et al. So I think Snowden did reveal, in convincing ways, that the NSA had gone far far beyond what many thought practical and most thought sane. No matter how cynical a business leader you might be a small part of you thought "everyone" did not really mean everyone till Snowden
It's a shame Comcast seems to be rolling their own system rather than joining the FON network. The great thing with FON in principle is that you can use it around the world although in practice it doesn't work very well, in my experience.
But if the cost of finding any of the "valid" passwords increases faster than the number of "valid" passwords (collisions), it's still worth it.
>> He wants you to think he's comparing the last 100 years. In reality he's comparing two different time periods because U.S. acceleration ruins the wow factor.

> That's an amazingly pedantic and petulant response to what appeared like a perfectly valid comparison. The US economy became the world's largest one some time in the 1920's, which means at least 70 of the 100 years in the 20th century was when the US was the world's largest economy and growing

According to [1], in 1900 the US had a population of ~76M, China ~496M. And according to [2] the US reached 200M in 1967, 300 2006. In In 2012 China is estimated to have a population of ~1351M, the US: ~318M in 2014.

So lets say the numbers are for 200M people * 100 ~ 20000 "M person years" for the US, and 1300M * 3 ~ 3900 "M person years" for China. So that's 6.6/3.9 "megatons/M person-years" ~ 1.7 for China and 4.5/20 "megatons/M person-years" ~ 0.225 for the US. Now I'm not sure how the original article uses the sources[3], but being conservative, it lists production numbers for US cement in 1997 and 2001 as 75 mega ton and 85 mt respectively. Now, if we take 80 * 3 * 33 we get 7.4 gt, rather more than the 4.5 gt number -- so it would appear most of the US cement was produced in later years, and so multiplying by 100 years might not be correct (and 200 M might be too low wrt population).

All in all, I'd say they're interesting numbers, but rather meaningless without more data.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_populatio...

[2] http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-10-17-popula...

[3] http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/mcs/
This is pretty much true. You could replace our sun with a black hole of the same mass, and nothing would change in terms of planet's orbits.

The image of a black hole "sucking" things in like a vacuum cleaner is hugely incorrect. I think this perception comes about from the funnel image we often see representing black holes.
This review is slightly less impressive if you are aware of the other (official) Elite games, "Frontier: Elite II" and "Frontier: First Encounters".

> It has to be said that the premise of oOlite is based upon the Elite Universe, however oOlite is really a new concept, with so many new features, new ships, weapons, stations, missions etc that it is a unique game in its own right.

No. Oolite is not an expansion of the original Elite and really should be compared to FFE. One might as well compare modern Libreoffice to MS Word 1.0 for DOS (the age difference is about the same). No critism of Oolite, as FFE was extremely buggy and Oolite is a solid foss replacement.
I can't think of a single plausible situation in which git is not superior in every way to all the other version control systems.

I don't want to get into an emacs/vi style flamewar but other VCSs have their own advantages, and are better in some situations:

- I prefer SVNs handling of trees/subtrees. I can checkout and work on one small part of a large project.

- Fossil has ticketing and wiki out of the box. It is easier to set up a server and enables true distributed offline working.

- Mercurial is easier to use for the most frequent use cases.
Looks like the demo is down.
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Yes, the government's implementors were rabidly anti-democracy. Which is is what we'd expect from some rich slaveowning elites, who looked down aristocratically on their fellow countrypeople as "the mob". John Adams wrote:

"if we take into the account the women and children, or even if we leave them out of the question, a great majority of every nation is wholly destitute of property, except a small quantity of clothes, and a few trifles of other movables. [...] if all were to be decided by a vote of the majority, the eight or nine millions who have no property, would not think of usurping over the rights of the one or two millions who have? [...] the time would not be long before courage and enterprise would come, and pretexts be invented by degrees, to countenance the majority in dividing all the property among them, or at least, in sharing it equally with its present possessors. Debts would be abolished first; taxes laid heavy on the rich, and not at all on the others; and at last a downright equal division of every thing be demanded, and voted."

This is the "tyranny of democracy" they feared, an Orwellian notion. I recommend Graeber's "The Democracy Project". He was one of the many Occupy founders, and is every bit as "American" as any of these government guys.
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Ice cream, mayo and cheese are staples? I'm guessing you're based in North America. :)
Being able to communicate with people who are not developers is a useful skill to have in life outside of work too.
I think that perspective is needlessly individualistic. You can take a view that something isn't in someone else's best interests. The bigger issue with Mozilla is that people feel it represents them, and it does in its lobbying for the the open web. If it is led and represented by someone who you feel[0] is opposed to your very being it is hard to imagine it representing you and easy to see how you could oppose the appointment.

[0] Some may see opposition to gay marriage as opposition to homosexuality. In some cases this is probably the case in others it may not be.
Its good to see more Astrophysicists using HN. I am very much interested in studying the workings of the cosmos, but I am not a professional degree holder in space science. I do freelance software development, but want to catch up with astrophysics too. Is it possible?
Calm down a bit. For one you're incoherent, second what you wrote can be read in two different ways which is why you're getting a whole pile of downvotes. I understand what is at stake for you here so I'll write this comment instead of downvoting you, if you want to help your cause if you're getting riled up like this then you are actually doing it a disservice.
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That was my first thought when I started reading these comments.

The part in the article about tech CEO's being "less free" than other people was too much...I mean seriously.
That 'mass mob' was quite vocal but definitely still a minority. It's a pity that Eich decided to add insult to injury, if he had not done that I'm pretty sure Mozilla would still be headed by him. As it was I don't think he left them much choice.
That's an excellent solution to an awkward problem.
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I doubt it. Marxists are Marxists, but I wonder how many of them were into gay marriage etc, in the 1950s.
Ah. I feel a bit stupid for taking that so literally.

So, when i delete a directory, whenever possible, i use the rmdir command. rmdir refuses to delete a directory which isn't empty. It's a really handy safety check. If a colleague dropped a tilde directory on me, the process would go:

Well, i'll just delete that.

$ rmdir ~
rmdir: /home/twic: Directory not empty

Oh bugger, of course. Better quote it.'

$ rmdir '~'

Right, now i will proceed to give my colleague a Chinese burn.
How does it compare to BSON?
> People who work against gay rights will not be able to work. This is a good thing IMO.

No, it is not. People who work against gay rights should not be in a position to decide who gets to work and who does not. That is a good thing. But people who work against gay rights should be given a platform, and should then be shown publicly how ridiculous their position is in order to educate them and whoever was listening. Bigotry is best dealt with by education, not by shunning.