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As shocking as it might be, the NSA has other things to do which actually are crucial for national security. Reforming the agency will go much further than basically saying "you can't have cool servers or toilets that flush."

I know hating the NSA is en vogue but seriously. This is almost as bad as stonewalling and other hostilities toward other branches of government simply because the opposite party is in power (that goes both ways, before you think I'm attacking the right). The NSA committed grievous sin. I'm as upset about it as you. Even so, it baffles me that we would be having this conversation about water.

God, stuff like this just depresses me. And that you love it, too. That depresses me as well. It's a cheap "rah rah go Utah sticking it to the man" puppet show that is ultimately meaningless, but you and many like you just eat it up.

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Edit: Between this stupid "you're submitting too fast" barrier that I've never seen until recently on a >year account, downvoting being blessed as okay to represent disagreement, graying comments as a result which silences disagreement and causes a dogpile effect, arbitrary shadowbans in 2014, and my critique of this political theater being interpreted as defense of the NSA or an advertisement that I need the condescension of having an intelligence agency explained to me (better: I'm not going to answer your question but anybody that passed US History knows the answer), HN has done a pretty good job of silencing opposing thought. I asked a question and it's barely legible. Even now, watching people Cmd+F my username and downvote every hit between refreshes. You sure showed me for not thinking like you!

Since I disagree with many things HN holds dear, and since the people and technology have made clear that's not welcome, after six years of contributing to Hacker News on various accounts, I'm done. I can't take the technology nor the people any more.

It amazes me how hostile HN is now, both socially and technically, and yet people remain. The crowning irony is that people here complain about becoming Reddit, yet on some of the very lesser-known subreddits I've had literally life-changing conversations. Here it's just bickering to see who is more right. Nothing of value comes of this thread, or the hundreds before it. Nothing. I want a refund of my time wasted here.
Have you heard of/seen Kiva robots? If the floor could just blink to the robot, that would be pretty cool! Especially if Li-Fi is cheaper / higher throughput.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdd6sQ8Cbe0#t=13
Gnome needs a dbus api that currently only systemd supports, which is not quite the same thing.
I understand your strong opinion and since I am no sysadmin I have no technical problem with arguments. But I am not sure I totally agree with your characterization of slow pace of change by Apple or the wonderful state of Unix/Linux. Aqua was quite a break from the previous GUI and Apple changed the whole stack at one point from computer architecture to OS to graphic library. I don't know a more radical change than that for a software company. As for Linux graphic environment, I can only say that replacing X-win with Wayland is not evolutionary and it cannot come soon enough. Anyway, hopefully things will quiet down for a while and we can compare and contrast alternatives in the real world.
I've never liked this idea. What's to keep the FSF from adding a "you give us royalty-free rights to all your patents for eternity" as a clause in GPL v4?
Using Blockdiag with Pelican and liquid tags
mock ZH all you like but they were early to push Ebola, they were early on HFT improprieties, they were early on the Gold fix etc etc.
I had the pleasure of visiting the PCH Shenzen office recently. Surprisingly cool company. Through an accelerator they help make some interesting products, including Navdy.

Quite curious to see what they'd do with the Fab brand.
He's actually suggesting SmartOS[1][2] and OmniOS[3], which are both illumos distros that are very much alive, having forked from OpenSolaris over four years ago.[4]

[1] https://smartos.org/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8571961

[3] http://omnios.omniti.com/

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc
The status quo for such projects is to use Busybox, and I reckon it will continue for projects where systemd etc is too much.
Right, so you understand that this is optional, and only the 5-10% of users for whom it's a good deal should take the deal?
Dart is a Google-only dead end.

Even if Google supports it in Chrome, the other browser wont bother supporting it, and like spankalee says, it will then become another "runs best in Chrome" thing, and cement Chrome's position as the new IE.

I'm not sure if they want to do that, but Google's (mis)direction as of late means I'm not going to leave out anything.
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Many thanks for answering. However, this doesn't seem to explain it

> when there is a crop of newer ones that, if not for the older ones' inertia

since the stories that were above this one were older stories, some much older (16 hours vs 10): it seems the story wasn't pushed down to make room for newer ones, but to make room for older ones.
Meh, according to the article, NSA already has a water deal until 2021, which this bill is not attempting to change. I remember hearing about trying to cut off their water months ago; was an opportunity missed, or was it already too late then? How might they cut off the water sooner than 2021?
Where do you live? I've never seen a bill like that.

If anything, if you agree to use a lot of power you will have a larger fixed price, but a lower per kWh price.
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>Sanborn was forced to provide Webster with the solution to the puzzle to reassure the CIA that it wasn’t something that would embarrass the agency.
Is this actually how electricity bills work? Mine has always been included in my rent, but I don't see anything like that on the sample bill for my local utility. Nor does that pricing scheme make any sense to me. Why would the utility charge you more for your second 1000kWh than for your first?

> (grandparent) I don't understand why the telcos think massively penalizing people for going over is a useful pricing model.

It makes no sense to me, either. It's like they don't actually want to sell more bandwidth.

Maybe demanding big penalties from people who accidentally go over is more profitable than actually selling to people who actually want more bandwidth.
if it weren't a monopoly, I'd agree

in swaths of the bay area, there is exactly one high speed provider
Hey, you guys didn't even want the Freedom act, this will not be passed. We all know how things go over there, across the pond, we saw House of Cards ;)
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This is signature-based virus detection, right? I thought everybody had given up on that, now that only the dumb attacks have a constant signature.
Sweden protects a convicted pedophile while pursuing Assange not proven guilty
I think what you described is code folding. Emacs/Vim has that too. And more to that. Look for the demos in my other answer in this thread.
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Astounding. That's potentially the most harmful opinion a developer could possibly hold.

The single greatest benefit of having our skill set is that we are capable, in a way that few other people in the world are capable, of single handedly building products that we can sell for the kind of money that frees us from needing to work for other people. We can quite literally create our own destiny.

And you would throw that away.

I can't even begin to fathom why you would want to live in that world.
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I think the point is that these schemes are still vulnerable to one of the most common types of malware. It speaks to the fact that by far the greatest threat to your password security is from cyber sources, and likely not from your physical desk, so we might as well take advantage of that to help people out.
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We got House of Cards from you, didn't we?
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I went to download it from the eShop about an hour ago and it said that its currently only available from your local game store. I'm pretty sure that means Nintendo pulled it because of this vulnerability, but hey, I would probably pull it as well if I was Nintendo. I'm curious to see if its available for purchase for other people besides me.
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Yes, that's a good article.

I really hoped that XHTML would win out. Have you ever looked at the HTML5 parsing rules? They codify acceptance of malformed comments and specify standard handling of bad HTML. There are pages of special cases needed just to build a tree from the tags. Check out Python's "html5parser" for the amount of effort required per input character to make this work.

At least in XHTML, the tags balance.
teekert is from Holland, so no.

The original House of Cards was British, though it doesn't really reflect how UK politics are.

Yes, Minister comes closer: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080306/

Though that implies that through the farce we get things done, which hasn't been true for a while.

Not sure what this has to do with the water supply to a datacenter though.
I had no opinion on systemd until yesterday. In fact I had a glace or two at the code and it's pretty clean and I liked the rough objectives laid out.

I installed CentOS 7 on a machine last night that we're replacing CentOS 6 on and was poked in the face with timedatectl and dbus problems for an entire hour, some of which were intermittent. Debugging these issues is a horrific pain. I lost 4 hours on it. I've never lost that much time on a system function before. This is not what I expected and there is no way I could possibly introduce that to our production environment.

I think that might why people are slightly sensitive to it.

Yes you're exactly right, but replacing something with something less stable, more complicated and more difficult to debug isn't a rational or good engineering. I'm sure many people will be fed up with systemd much quicker than what was already there.

Not impressed with a community which pushes this as stable, quality software. Voting with my feet: FreeBSD is being trialled instead. WhatsApp throwing a million dollars at it draws a lot of valuable attention and puts it in the business's mindset.

Choice is as much of a valuable aspect of open source too...
look at how many people actually contribute to systemd. It's far more than just redhat folks
IMHO, it can go both ways. It can definitely be mismanagement, but it can also be mismanagement by the VCs who have outbid each other on a "hot" company. To a large extent it is the CEOs role to maximise capital raised while reducing shareholder dilution.

I don't know the specifics of Fab, but from the outside it can be anyones responsibility. Fab was valued at $1bn because investors paid that valuation, so I'd be curious to see how Fab was pitched at the investment committee in each of the VC shops during the C + D rounds: Andreessen Horowitz, Atomico...
Ah. I largely agree that it is a distinction without a difference.

However, I would argue that it's far easier for an end-user to drop in a replacement for a DBUS API implementation than it is to drop in a replacement for a C/C++ API implementation. So... there's that, I guess. :/
I am inclined to believe that the 4th piece is written in a foreign language or otherwise multiply-encoded, or that Sanborn made a drastic error in the cryptography. The other 3 sections were solved independently in a much shorter time. For instance, the NSA was the first to crack the first three parts of the sculpture, and they did it in only 2 days. The fact that nobody has made any progress on the 4th section in well over a decade even with a known clue is hard to reconcile.

> Then “within two days of receiving the information tasking from Chief, Z,” they had solved parts one through three of the puzzle. They spent another day on the fourth section, but very quickly “a decision was made to stop any further work” on it. “Given the suspected cryptography, the last section is too short to solve without diverting a great deal of effort from operational problems,” they wrote in the memo.

Elonka Dunin is the maintainer of the well-known Yahoo Kryptos group, and maintains the primary reference page.

http://elonka.com/kryptos/

Wired ran an interesting article about the NSA's original crack of the scultpure, which I have quoted from above.

http://www.wired.com/2013/07/nsa-cracked-kryptos-before-cia/
I didn't say forgo the VPN. That would be unnecessarily increasing your attack service. In fact I specifically mentioned doing whatever you can to increase isolation between workloads, this includes ensuring access between dev, support and production machines is either not possible or is via careful controlled and audited means.

I only said bastion hosts are bad and generally decrease overall security because it's almost impossible to craft one that doesn't create more security holes than it closes.
I completely agree with you that Lennart scratched an itch, which is the way all good software gets started, and others picked up on it.

Where I think the systemd-naysayers have a valid point is around the tight coupling that has been introduced, and is still being introduced, between systemd and various other components of a fully functional Linux system.

To take your "just submit a patch" example - say N years from now I'm unhappy with some aspect of how systemd works. I can submit a patch, or I can rewrite that whole component from scratch. However, it's entirely possible that the piece I'm unhappy with is so tightly coupled to the rest of systemd that I can't rewrite one component of it without rewriting the rest of systemd, or convincing the systemd maintainers to accept my rewrite and bake it in as the new "official" version of that component.

Where I think the criticism of systemd is valid is that the idea of modularity has taken a backseat, and the APIs between the different components of systemd haven't been very well-thought-out. The informal spec is "whatever systemd does today is correct", which of course destroys any sort of interoperability.

And by way of full disclosure, I'm an Arch user, and run systemd on 4 systems I use everyday - home desktop, home server, work desktop, work laptop. Whatever else I have to say about its design, I use it every day, and actually like the parts of it that I use. eg, the boot time for my desktop is stupidly fast, and if I want to know about some log message, I just run journalctl. I no longer care whether the foo daemon uses syslog, or writes to its own /var/log/foo.log that I should set up rotation for, or handles its own rotation as /var/log/foo/2014-11-20.log, and so on.

And just to play devil's advocate with my own position - there's a certain point where tight coupling makes sense. Linux kernel modules, for example, are tightly coupled to the Linux kernel, and don't work unmodified when compiled against a *BSD or Solaris kernel.
so? that doesn't make systemd automatically stable enough to be used on redhat's flagship product.
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Sorry, "across the pond" pretty much says "I'm British" to me, because we say that almost exclusively about you (IME). I don't keep up with where folks are from.

Anyway, agreed, it's an off topic diversion.
Usage based pricing is fine, but make Comcast subject to the Public Utility Commission in my state.
There is a fair bit of land controlled by the United States that is not part of any state. Us Territories like puerto rico, guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, areas treated as Territories like the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa, The District of Columbia, and Federal Enclaves and certain maritime territories and territorial waters would all be available even if every state said no.

Plus it's relatively easy to cancel a contract 7 years ahead of time, then renew it before that time comes up.
Found this recently. Bindings for Haskell to Chromium Embedded Framework:

* https://github.com/fluffynukeit/bindings-cef3

* https://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/
not if you want actual wide readership, as opposed to theoretical wide readership. Ask a blogger!
Someone built a supercomputer out of 96 Nvidia Tegra K1 tablet processors
I'd like Li-Fi even for desktops. It's one less wire in that rat's nest behind the computer.
On the window title/filename? Works for me ..
>However, in 2005 Sanborn revealed to WIRED that Scheidt and Webster only thought they knew the solution. In fact, he had deceived them.
Seems to me like the people that would consider using this generally use Adblock...

I really can't even use the Internet without Adblock. I install it on every computer I use.

I don't think this will succeed. I am not willing to pay when I have other options available.
ROFLMAO... more and more applications in Windows are moving AWAY from the registry.. other than install/uninstall notations created by the installer, very few recent apps use the registry. Most use the global ProgramData or user's AppData paths for configuration. It simply works.

I don't hate the registry... I'm just not in a hurry to see Linux adopt it. What's so bad about /etc/app/config or ~/.config/app/config? It works in pretty much every platform (though the paths may be slightly different). Windows does have both roaming and local data directories, which can be pretty nice (if you don't bloat them).
Yeah - I avoided it for a long time because of its reputation as a paperweight, but it's a great, multilayered, witty book.

And it's unencumbered by copyright, so there's little reason not to give it a go.
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I am not convinced that the NSA has any purpose. What do you think is necessary about the NSA?
Only "reason" i could think of for going registry is so that it could be wrapped in an ACL.

Yep, the Windows registry has its own ACL. Was bitten by that when trying (naively) to move an account's files between Windows installs. Logged in and found myself back at default settings, and changes not applying.

I wonder if this shift in mentality has something to do with the M-I contracts.
Hating the NSA is far from "en vogue"...more like, trying to avoid 2014 becoming "1984" (as in the book) is en vogue.

You're hardly as "upset about it as you" if you can't see why any act that makes their NON-AMERICAN surveillance state harder to implement is a good idea.

But then, you used a throwaway account, so I think that speaks for itself.
Let the headaches begin.
I don't even see this as a potential slightest chance.
TextWrangler and TextMate has it.
For anyone in London, it's worth seeing the Disobedient Objects exhibition at the V&A, "this exhibition is the first to examine the powerful role of objects in movements for social change. It demonstrates how political activism drives a wealth of design ingenuity and collective creativity that defy standard definitions of art and design."

It's free.

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/disobedient-objects...
Oh this is cool. I regularly teach programming to teenagers, this is giving me tons of ideas. Thanks!

What programming language/libraries did you use for the course? What's sort of background do the students have? Over what period of time is the teaching occurring? I'd love to hear more details about all that.
And if journald goes belly up, no logs for syslog...
that's a pretty naive viewpoint. they could've just as easily built the facility on a military base... then what ? trying to prevent espionage through limiting access to resources is a very ineffective way...

another point is that the law won't seem to have any effect (even if it passes by the way - no guarantees on that) on the current installation until 2021... 7 years is a pretty long term to revert a bill or make new legislation that allows other options...

afaik (I'm not a us citizen) federal law supersedes state law in the US. So it follows that you need to have federal safeguards against wiretapping and whatnot... state legislation is cute at best but seems ineffective.
Sievers appears to be an unreasonable dick. Gunderson announces to the world that systemd's DHCP client is pretty damn cool. In the same post, he puts out a call for interested volunteers.

Ted Lemon (the author and maintainer of ISC DHCP from its inception to 2003 [0]) asks for the location of the project's source repo. Sievers replies with a LMGTFY link that doesn't even answer Lemon's question. Lemon politely criticizes Sievers for his rude and unhelpful answer. Sievers fails to even apologize.[1]

Both Sievers and Poettering have pretty serious attitude issues. It's one thing to lambast a peer who frequently fails to meet the potential that they've demonstrated in the past. It's entirely another thing to try to score social points with your callous indifference and blinkered bullheadedness.

[0] https://www.isc.org/downloads/dhcp/

[1] Check the first few comments of: https://plus.google.com/+TomGundersen/posts/eztZWbwmxM8
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How is it that people are willing to believe the NSA/Federal government intercepts and archives the vast bulk of the world's electronics communication, but lacks the capability to sink a well and pull water out of the ground? Evn in the bizarre situation that this were true, the NSA could still have giant data centers in this country by the simple expedient of building them on ships.

Sorry, but the comment above is pure magical thinking. I can't take your ideas about policy seriously if you are not connected to practical reality.
What in your eyes is an "American" intelligence agency? What does the phrase "American" mean to you in general? You capitalized it, so it's an important thrust of your point and, since it's almost always a meaningless hand wave instead of a useful adjective, I want to give you a chance to solidify your position before discarding it.

Also, "throwaway" is a poor regex for "should disregard opinion". Click my profile.
Very interesting. Considering your scenario, would you advise others to not have a cliff or have a X month cliff?
RH still offers support for RHEL6, and will do so for years to come. It will be interesting to see how quickly 7 gets adopted outside of cloud instances.
IMO, no, it's false, it just sounds _so_ good.

There is obviously a feedback loop, but that doesn't mean that change begins in art.
Art is, like everything else, as much a factor as a product of the growing mindset changes.

You can certainly find examples, but if you think about it, 99% of the art didn't cause any shift.

Is the US socialist after "The Grapes of Wrath", or has race become less of an issue after "To Kill a Mockingbird"?

Was the history of Spain very influenced by Picasso being a communist, or portugal by Pessoa being anti-catholic?