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a) that's not how technology works, that's not how progress is decided. somebody goes out there and makes it

b) that's just an ignorant way of thinking. similar to the poster below who wouldn't want to live with an older generation of people because of their ignorance - which just shows his ignorance; it's not up to you or us to decide how long people should live or playing out 'what if' scenarios and wondering if humanity is better off because somebody died. it's pointless

c) any technology that is available to rich people becomes with the progress of time more affordable and available to the masses

d) if you die before you reach the next solar system, what's the point of starting the flight? see the fermi paradox and the great filter. mortality could be one of the great filters for interstellar expansion

e) that's... completely besides the point of this discussion

f) we are currently at the state quite complacent and well-adjusted to our environment. no big hardships, no predators - we're the dinosaurs now. what different strain of the homo sapiens would have to evolve now randomly to surpass the current strain? dinosaurs didn't evolve into highly intelligent beings, although they've been around millions of years

g) that's a complacent and dangerous "it's always been this way". cells stopping to reproduce themselves are a malfunction, and it can be technically solved; the same way as we can repair robots, machines or other electronics

mostly fears, complacency and wrong assumptions. taken into account, but not useful as they act as distractions and take attention from the topic - which was the technological hurdles of fixing the human robot
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I appreciate the offer, but I'm currently stuck in EU railway sector and I think we both know what state is KiwiRail currently in, heh.
It's really quite different. Bellard is inspiration, he creates paths to new and interesting things. DJB's avowed goal is to put the security industry out of work by not having bugs through rigorous practices.

Bellard is what you use on your laptop to have fun, DJB is what you run in your bank to make the world go round.
> Which is interesting, because I remember quite clearly the "Snowden discussion" at the IETF, and there were consensus for an "encrypt everything Internet".

I think this is still the official IETF position. RFC 7258 "Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack" is published as Best Current Practice and has not been retracted.
Also available in some commercial distro's of OpenStack, like Metacloud.

I always cringe when people believe VMware HA == HA solution. No. It's part of a HA strategy, but 30 seconds to declare a node is dead, and then however long booting up a big server full of VM's takes - if your storage is not that great, that can be quite a while (boot storms are fun).

If up to 15 mins of complete downtime counts as HA for you, great! But that's already risking 99.99% SLA.
Rape is non-consensual sexual activity. If you want to establish a convention where "sex" only means consensual sex and "rape" only means non-consensual sexual activity, then I'll consent to that. There are far more intellectually honest ways of establishing such a convention than this sort of sideways putting words into someone's mouth.
> That's true, but why do you phrase it solely in terms of women? There are a lot of boys/men in the sex industry also.

I have never actually heard of a male being coerced into prostitution. I know that some choose it. I've heard of plenty of females being coerced.

> What do Americans call a man who runs a brothel?

A pimp.

> If you want to minimise harm, legalisation strikes me as the obvious move.

Americans in aggregate aren't interested in minimizing harm. In aggregate, our concerns tend to be about morality, and "violence" tends to not get included as inherently immoral. We care more about the relative defenselessness of a victim than that there was a victim in the first place.

That's why we favor charity over systematic aid.
It feels bloated because it's more like an environment and less an editor. Using it for small apps is like replacing a hard-drive in a fully equipped garage. You need only a screwdriver. But all those tools on the wall are making you feel a bit intimidated.
I think this problem is present in most large, well to do cities. The Guardian ran a similar story a couple of months bank.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jan/31/inside-london...
I think the URL is yourfallacyis dot com slash anecdotal? And maybe those young people were against prostitution because they believed it to be harmful to women as a class and involves extreme violence to individual women, whose stories you can find everywhere -- did you ask them?

But yes, if we define "social stigma" so broadly that it includes legitimate concern for individuals and groups, there is also social stigma against pedophilia, I guess.
Except that the German system by large does not use precedence at all. At best prior cases can be an aid in an ongoing court case. At worst, prior cases are ignored completely and only what the law says will be taken into account by the courts.
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What makes you say this? Did you read my comment to stcredzero below?
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That box could have been quite a macabre birthday present for his daughter...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI-YiaWDgB4 (The Velvet Underground - The Gift)
I wasn't meaning to be accusatory. It's common to talk about rape as "sex", but I think it also reflects a horrible lack of collective thought. Rape only necessarily involves one actor (for example if the victim is asleep) so I don't see why it shouldn't be categorized as masturbation.
> The thing about honesty to others is, as you settle into it, you find that the emotions running around in your head even out and the way you express them becomes less nuts.

Except the thoughts being discussed aren't crazy because they're expressed in a crazy manner. They're crazy because their content is perceived as crazy.

What you're actually talking about is that you get feedback and adapt your thoughts in response to that feedback, rather than responding to yourself in a self-reinforcing loop of imagination.

It's just another form of self-censorship. It's, you know, a healthy and natural kind but it's not actually any different.
Regenerating existing areas makes a considerable more sense than abandoning and moving to a new plot, where you'll be faced with all of the same issues minus the existing infrastructure to utilize.
Yes, it's the damn date. It doesn't matter how well documented it is, once you have to apply a conversion to logfiles before they can be easily read, you lose all your existing workflow. It becomes a pain to use.

I never understood djb's aversion to using human-readable dates in the log files. It's not a lot of effort for the computer to produce or to consume them, so we really should push the effort onto the computer, and not onto the user.
I always though the reason I found this more enraging than the beheadings was because human life, at risk of sounding callous, is 'expendable' in that there are billions of us, with new humans being born every second, but these artifacts are literally irreplacable.

I had a conversation with my SO with regards to the destruction without mentioning my view on why it affects us so much more and she pretty much came to the same conclusion.
> they are universally derided as being on the lunatic fringe.

Yeah contradicting 100 years of development of economic theory, i.e. proposing to return to the gold standard, will have that effect.
Certain corporate companies formed a consortium to prevent encryption to ensure that monetisation of personal information would continue.

At the very last stage, the IETF appeared to be hijacked by very large telcos (e.g. ATT, Verizon, Ericsson, Comcast) to remove the mandatory requirement for TLS

As an outsider, this look likes a careful co-ordinated attack on the IETF standards process by a small number of "serial IETF professionals" who are paid by the big carriers to be inside the organisation and ensure that standards do the bidding of corporate masters. (some hyperbole there)

Waiting until the last phase restricted discussion, and used the existing momentum to complete HTTP2 standard while removing one of the fundamental reasons for HTTP2 to exist.

It is a very sad day that consumer rights have been compromised by big money. And as the Lenovo Superfish debacle showed, likely it will backfire in the long run.

Here is the consortium: http://www.atis.org/openweballiance/about.asp

Here is an summary I wrote about this topic:
http://etherealmind.com/response-open-web-alliance-lobbies-i...
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IIRC California[1] ruled that if you were an Amazon Affiliate living in California, then that constituted Amazon having a "Nexus" in the state which would make them liable for sales taxes on all their Californian sales. Rather than have to add sales tax to all their Californian sales, Amazon chose to eliminate all their Californian resident Amazon Affiliates. No doubt the same applies to a number of other states, but I haven’t kept up with the details.

So it’s not really "my state doesn’t allow Amazon Affiliates", more "Amazon took a business decision to not have Amazon Affiliates in my state".

[1] Maybe it was another state, but the principle remains the same.
Qmail may show its age, but the overall structure is sound, and one the beautiful parts of qmail was/is how it isolated everything in their own processes intercommunicating via very simple protocols over file descriptors. So you could build far more complicated mail systems by starting with qmail and replacing parts as you went.

A company I co-founded used qmail for delivery for a webmail service for ~2m users, and while we used the original qmail less and less, it was because we were able to use qmail as scaffolding as described above.

And we ran lots of services under daemontools.

Later we used qmail as a generic message queueing system for a turnkey registrar platform for .name...
Thanks - I had missed it back then, and HN didn't send me to that link when I added it.
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The people who created magic (sms based ordering system) can probably use this and serve their service worldwide without any sms cost.
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> I still have yet to see a Google website using Angular in any large capacity.

Angular is not intended for typical "websites". It's for replacing what would previously have been desktop CRUD applications. Google use it extensively for internal tooling.

It's also worth remembering that most public facing Google applications have been around for years, decades even. It would take a long time to replace one of these with Angular, even if there was a desire to do so.
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I had 6 interviews with 8 different people at a startup over about 1.5 months and ended up not getting the gig! It wasn't for a technical position, but it included different assignments and definitely put me off.

I mean after all that effort I at least expected to get a job out of it.
Yahoo advertises TLS support, so the bulk of the code Yahoo uses will be third-party extensions, perhaps openssl.
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i have. you have to look at others to confirm you played it right after the fact.

i've also done this with kata in my martial arts class, and while playing tetris.
Possibly. If their personal situation is sufficiently bleak, and there are mechanisms that are arbitrary and unfair helping to keep them in that situation. However, it's almost universally true that any given person has far more choice than they are aware of.
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I used to work as a UNIX admin, so having a home OpenBSD box to handle mail seemed like a requirement. I ran qmail and djbdns, under daemontools, because there was nothing else as secure, nothing else 'properly' designed (I agreed with the design principles behind the software) and nothing else as easy to administer (I really don't like m4).

I spent a long time trying to understand why DJB's software wasn't considered the gold standard and installed by default on all Linuxes and BSDs. I read lots about arrogance, but couldn't see any - I could only see a commitment to solid software.

Eventually the only theory I was left with was that perhaps the 'UNIX way' was something people didn't really understand, or didn't want to invest time into understanding. I'll draw a parallel with vi editor[s]: Those who invest time into understanding the vi philosophy are happy working with it and would rather not use anything else. Others think they (we - you might have guessed I'm a vi user) are somehow ultra geeky or hardcore. Maybe this is why there's a preference for server software with a shorter learning curve, too.

The thing I really didn't 'get' was that to me, djb's tools had no learning curve, because they work 'the UNIX way'. Perhaps this is why those who like[d] his software never made their voice heard enough, or did the work, to get them into mainstream distributions: They don't understand why others don't see that they're great.

There could be other reasons. For example: I gave up running my own mail server when I got sick of dealing with spam and couldn't find a decent web interface. I think squirrelmail was the best I could find at the time and gmail was so much better. Sorry, squirrelmail! Perhaps it was easier to integrate anti-spam software with other mail servers. Perhaps I never found out because I refused to use other mail servers, having seen all the security advisories. Maybe my refusal to consider 'insecure' software meant I was blind to the advantages of sendmail and postfix, rather than simply others being blind to the advantages of qmail.
I've never thought about this topic before, and from your comments it shows you have given it careful thought, so probably this is going to have some fundamental flaws, but I was just thinking:

We do seem to have found solutions, however imperfect, in other domains where workers were always vulnerable. How do you know your new tech gadget wasn't produced with child labour, or in some horrible sweatshop? There's a long list of things, probably including at least labour unions, investigative journalism, and a lot of legislation.

But for all those things to work, it has to all be a somewhat legal enterprise to begin with. You probably can't build a brand for a brothel-chain that's widely recognised to treat their workers well, if that's an illegal activity.

What strikes me as patronising about the nordic model, that you mention up in the thread, is this: if I'm legalising your job, but still go after your customers, that means I'm still not taking your job seriously, or?
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It's not about what people believed in the past or what they believe now, it's about what they might believe in the future.

By erasing all traces of other religions (and even all traces of other philosophical trends), they essentially make their god "The One And Only God". How could future generations believe in anything else than Allah's almighty existence when apparently everything men did or do is about Him?

They are reshaping History in order to shape the future.
Thankfully the browser and server vendors can do an end-run round this by simply not supporting http2 without encryption. Then no matter what the standard says ordinary users will be protected and it'll be one more reason for sites to move to https everywhere. The article discusses this in TLS mandatory in effect
I did, and your comment referencing Gail Dines. It seems to me that you're way over-reliant on theory to the point that you're missing the forest for the trees. Try pretending to to people outside your social circle that you are engaged in prostitution, or dating a prostitute, or variations on that fictional theme.
>> being on the lunatic fringe.

> I think this is (slowly) starting to change.

Abolitionists were once thought of as being on the lunatic fringe. Now we accept their position as philosophically correct. As for libertarians, I entirely agree with those that point out national sovereignty as being inconsistent with humanist values.

However, just because you are philosophically correct, that doesn't mean you aren't part of a lunatic fringe. The differentiating factor is how you interact and propose to interact with society at large.
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I guess you cannot say that yourself for fear of appearing to brag, but a project such as Tokaido is an EXTREMELY complicated task to tackle. So well done. And thanks for all the hours you're sinking into commercial and non-commercial projects alike, committees and everything.
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If they have computers, or if you can get them ones, Minecraft is a good idea. Highly moddable, in multiple languages, huge communities and Redstone! Plus, it's fun.
That's just in the beginning. As your volume increases and your stats are ok (low bounces and complaints) you can ask for a quota increase (+ speed increase) which is usually granted. It'll take a few days until you are up and running with a bigger list.
Had to look up what a backscatter zombie was; apparently it's what happens when you accept bogus mail (spam) into your mail queue without checking if it is actually deliverable -- thus end up bouncing it once the queue is processed for delivery -- and typically then sending it back to a forged address -- ie: you become a spam gateway (spammers send you email with sender-addresses they want you to try to send spam to...):

http://serverfault.com/questions/111938/how-might-i-stop-bac...
Funny, SICP isnt on the list. It's always mentioned in these list, and it's probably one of those books that everyone recommends, but no one has ever read.
the source this time is probably twitter:
https://twitter.com/b0rk/status/573535058797031424
You're weirdly defining "social stigma" as only including stigma which is unjust? As used in common speech, there is indeed "social stigma" against pedophiles. The third time someone tries the trick of a contrarian and unconventional personal definition of a word to put words into someone's mouth to create a false impression of an unsavory position, it's time to simply break off the interaction.
Perhaps so, but I disagree with this thesis. (mainly because I don't subscribe to Marxist assumptions about the nature of class conflict and find them overly simplistic).
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I initially stated that you are just doing self improvement and dunning kruger isn't informing it.

you haven't said anything that disagrees with what i said, neither does the paper. at best you are applying half of it, the positive side. cherry picking?

if you're competent and you assess your work and it appears to be bad, then dunning-kruger says that it is not as bad as you think.

if you're incompetent and you assess your work and it appears to be good, then dunning-kruger says you don't have the competence to make that assessment and it's probably not good work.

if you had somebody competent in to assess your work instead of you, then that would probably be a more accurate application of it.

sure self improvement works, but self assessment doesn't really and that's the main take away.
> It makes me sad that programmers in this decade don't seem to be taking that much influence from him.

For a while, his stuff had weird licensing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qmail#Copyright_status
The concept of a MVP is that if it's simple and possibly ugly and people still want to pay money for it then your 'real' version will be a success.

Sure, you can add superb design to your MVP - but that won't help you with collecting more of the data you're after. You will just have wasted more time on a possible dud.
Some dogs really are dicks... And I'm saying that even though I love dogs.
Yeh, but is Assange's view on Sweden influenced by a general fear of being deported to the US, or fear of being found guilty of sexual offences?
So glad that there is finally a study that proves this as a fact.
I think the OP means "Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective" http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/
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The problem is that the rules of man-woman interaction are not well defined (especially since the traditional family was destroyed last century). Is there a way to look at girl in a cute pink dress and tell whether she is there to just present a tech topic or she is also open to potential dating? Women are a passive gender, so the way they dress is one of the few ways to send a signal.
+1 for Clean Code. I just recently read and reviewed it: http://henrikwarne.com/2015/01/03/book-review-clean-code/
Interesting -- I'd be curious to see what actual musicians would say. It really depends on the type of music you're building with it, I'd say.

I'm not primarily a keyboardist, but I use them; in this case it would surely be tricky to play anything that uses the black keys much; your hands have patterns memorized that (I'd imagine) would be tough to adapt to having the black keys on a separate row.

But because it's MIDI, it really does depend on what you're building, and it might not matter. Recording simple snatches of melody would be fine if you keep away from chromatic lines -- e.g., if you want to add a line that's in C minor, just record it in A minor (all white keys except maybe the G#), then transpose it in a few seconds.

You wouldn't play the Flight of the Bumblebee on it, though.
Are you saying they are opt out? because I think that is what you are saying? Way to miss the point.
It's not that bad, usually. The "thousands of dollars" events are quite rare (unless you insist on buying a breed which needs hip-replacements).

In most cases, bills of that magnitude only arise in a context where euthanasia would have been a viable option anyway.
I have been using it for almost 1.5 years and really like it. It takes a moment to set up and has way less features than Mailchimp (less third party integrations, segmentation features etc.), but the price is awesome and Amazon SES is also very cheap. I haven't been using it with Digital Ocean (so don't know how well that works).

Amazon SES also has very good IPs. If you check them on https://senderscore.org you will see they usually rank above 95%.
The only problem is Amazon SES strict policy against bounces and complaints. So your list has to be very clean and ideally double opt-in before you can send. Also Amazon SES starts you out with 10k emails/day and 5emails/sec. You need to ask for a quota increase (which was always granted in my experience) before sending higher volume faster.

My tip: If you have some old/invalid emails that you know will cause problems with Amazon SES, send to your most active (recent openers and clickers) first and then gradually introduce your older emails. Monitor your bounce and complaint rates to stay below 5% and 0.1% respectively.
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> I spent a long time trying to understand why DJB's software wasn't considered the gold standard and installed by default on all Linuxes and BSDs.

His license had a "no modifications" clause, for one thing.