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If we're going to be one-upping each other, then let me suggest Nix, a superset of Portage.

It has many of the strengths of Portage, and even go beyond (it builds from source, and users may configure package dependencies, like USE flags on steroids -- its declarative language used to write packages is also used to configure them, so you can do more than just passing flags to a package). But it offers a substantial advantage, because builds are deterministic. The set of installed software (with all needed configuration) is determined from a config file (or many), and from this it's always possible build the same system.

This means that upgrading always end up in the same state as installing from scratch. This also mean that common packages can be cached as binaries, without risk of breakage - it only downloads a binary package when building from source would build exactly the same binary.

Nix also feature atomic upgrades and rollbacks: it only touches the running environment as the very last step of the upgrade (setting up a symlink), and stores the previous versions of packages until garbage collected, so an upgrade stopped in the middle can't break your system (the exception here being kernel upgrades). Indeed, if you interrupt an upgrade or install at any stage, just issue the command again. (also, this architecture makes it incredibly concurrent)

NixOS is a distro that uses Nix. It can provide a GRUB menu to boot previous versions of the system. When you upgrade, you can have it affect running system or only upgrade after a reboot. Either way, when you reboot GRUB will give the option to also boot the system you was using before the upgrade. On a technical level, Nix works a bit like a git repository: each package is addressed by the hash of its derivation (that says how to build it, and all its dependencies), and if more than one system version uses the same package it gets stored only once.

Coupling NixOS with Nixops, a deployment tool; and Disnix, that does service-oriented deployments (like Docker), they can help build more repeatable systems for production servers too.

Some links:

https://nixos.org/

https://nixos.org/nix/

https://nixos.org/disnix/

http://blog.lastlog.de/posts/useflags_in_nixos/
The practical differences between the platforms of the 2 parties in UK and US are really small. They both orbit around the average moving voter.

The situation is pretty similar in countries with real multi-party systems, with big parties courting the center.

There are exceptions in exceptional circumstances (eg. Syriza).
No. All that would do is make a diploma worthless. Employers would find some other way of determining where you went to school and how well you performed there.
Rest in peace Dean Potter. This CNN article doesn't do his life justice at all - the NYT did a bit better: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/18/sports/dean-potter-extreme....
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All true points, but even though almost all of your points need to be solved to have fully automated speed control, they are not necessary if all you want to do is put an upper-bound on the speed of a train as it goes through a curve. Is there possibly a curve coming up? Slow the train down unless you have positive confirmation from fail-fast instrumentation that you're on a straightaway track and that all other trains nearby are accounted for. It doesn't prevent all accidents, but it prevents some, and it might have prevented this one.

The article indicates that there are difficulties rolling out a full-service speed control system. Perhaps this tragedy will encourage them to roll out their bugfixes as they're implemented to whatever machines can accept them, rather than waiting for the entire release cycle to complete!
So that it's always positive, my prof used to say. I kind of like the simplicity of that.
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Very, very awesome article.
i've heard the same thing too, but sometimes ghostery shows stuff noscript doesn't so i use both "just to be safe" but i guess i shouldn't use ghostery?
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In a cryptographic context;

>1.12 Definition

>A function f from a set X to a set Y is called a one-way function if f(x) is “easy” to compute for all x \in X but for “essentially all” elements y \in Im(f) it is “computationally infeasible” to find any x \in X such that f(x) = y. [0]

>1.16 Definition

>A trapdoor one-way function is a one-way function f : X -> Y with the additional property that given some extra information (called the trapdoor information) it becomes feasible to find for any given y \in Im(f), an x \in X such that f(x) = y. [0]

[0]; Menezes, A.; Oorschot, P. van; Vanstone, S. (2001). Handbook of Applied Cryptography (5th ed.). CRC Press.
hmmm ublock for me (on opera) doesn't block the frame where the ad is so I see an area on the page with "cannot be displayed" so for me it looked like adblock plus is still the better option; is there one area where ublock better than adblock?
I see Saudi students daily who drive Ferraris and Bentleys. That is to say $400,000 is not meaningful at all to some, which is exactly the point. Why go to America and spend $100,000 a year on education (as in one degree) for 4 years when I can buy 10 with a couple of wire transfers.

Edit: I should say Middle Eastern and not Saudi since many are from the UAE.
Please go read the article again, and think carefully about what you're advocating for. Why do you believe that? What, precisely, is death buying us as a species that's worth 150000 lives ended every single day? In what way are we incapable of "renewal" without it? And wouldn't you prefer to solve those problems some other way? Wouldn't that be a wonderful problem to have?

Death is an accident: it's the result of an evolutionary process that selects for reproduction but pointedly not for longevity.

And we've already curtailed many of the large-scale forces of evolution, for the better. We go to great lengths to help people survive who would have simply died if born mere hundreds of years ago, let alone thousands of years ago. Would you let them die for being "unfit", so that evolution works more efficiently?

If the cure was available within your lifetime, in reality rather than in a hypothetical, would you really choose not to take it? Why? What would you possibly have to gain by doing so? You mentioned not wanting to lose your loved ones; presumably they wouldn't want to lose you either.

But if you feel so strongly about dying, nobody's stopping you. I certainly don't think it's sensible to force anyone to accept a cure for mortality. On the other hand, attempting to prevent others from creating and using such a cure would be tantamount to mass murder.

Please, think very carefully about the implications of what you're advocating before repeating the romanticisms that have sprung up around death. Death is bad. Aging kills a hundred thousand people a day, and other causes kill another fifty thousand. Let's make it stop, and the sooner the better.
I had absolutely no clue. But in my defense I have not been in the local job market for some time. If it is such common knowledge, why has not anything been done so far?
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It does amaze me how little attention this got vs. e.g. 'About the supposed factoring of a 4096 bit RSA key' esp. given another related article did well 'UK government quietly rewrites hacking laws to give GCHQ immunity', but there we go.

The veracity _is_ questionable, but if true it's of huge importance and very frightening. It sounds like the typical incompetencies of a poorly managed company, but applied to one of the most sophisticated nuclear delivery systems in existence. I really hope this gets looked into, I for one am going to write a letter to my MP to ask them to investigate.
I'm a little creeped out.
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I've worked on a large website where all backend servers were running RHEL5. We had pretty good tooling, deployment, config management. We could launch and kill new physical and virtual servers with particular "roles". We did not, however, re-image servers for every deploy. Our deployment/configuration-management would make sure the correct versions of all things were installed, including stand-alone code, services under daemontools, crontab entries, system users, packages, and more.

In most cases, no-longer-specified items would be removed. BTW ansible sucks for this aspect (I use it extensively at a new place) ;)

My point is that, the modern attitude of "you can't trust what's on a server unless you build it from scratch or apply an image" is not the only valid way to do things, and is somewhat defeatist, like we're no better than windows where you can't guarantee that anything can be cleanly uninstalled / replaced. Is your package manager that bad?

Yum being dog-slow was very annoying. Updating all server lists for every yum command was very annoying. I customized various modules and scripts to use "makecache" and "-C" where appropriate, but that was an annoying task. And yum was still slower than I'm accustomed to a linux package manager being.

Finally having a couple of years experience with yum, I can confidently say that pacman (archlinux) and apt (debian) are worlds better. Maybe zypper and dnf make rpm not suck; I probably won't find out for a few years.
I can't remember using a wireless keyboard in the last decade that had any noticeable latency. Even a cheap HP Wireless Elite that I tried on a whim recently had no visible latency as I typed.
I was previously borderline addicted and one big negative is: I found it impossible to concentrate. After 3 cups my mind would become restless. It's the reason I quit because I couldn't get any work done.

Get citrus fruit on your desk, as well as bananas. That will keep you going for ages.
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Most "free" markets don't have perfect competition, nor perfect information, nor rational actors. It's possible for Microsoft to provide a terrible service and for no better competitors to emerge.

Consider last-mile telephone lines. It's wasteful to have ten companies each spend billions of dollars digging up the same roads to lay the same cables - and it's a nearly-impossible barrier to entry for new competitors. Sure, anything is possible with "sufficient capital", but fundamentally it's an inefficient waste of time and investor money to recreate a service that already exists, and the investors will be correspondingly scarce.

Most countries have enacted legislation enforcing fairly shared use of such lines (breaking up monopolies in the process) because cooperation is fundamentally more efficient than competition as effort is not wasted in duplication.

As a result, the ISP/telco market in civilized countries has since escaped from that stagnant local maxima with its high barrier-of-entry, to a more agile, more competitive state where smaller players have a fair chance of competing. I'm not sure if this includes the USA though (c.f. Comcast/TWC merger complaints, single-ISP areas, the "Worst company in america" award, unending complaints on /r/technology &c).
Or just move the freaking down vote button. Change the row layout from

up/down user time

to

up user time down

That will make it a lot harder to hit the wrong button.
Really depends on how you read. If you read "this note means this finger", yeah. But if you're reading intervals and translating to "play the root, then the third, while sustaining the fifth", then different clefs are just like reading in different key signatures.
I've love to see some sort of blind visual latency test between a wired and quality wireless keyboard. I've been using wireless keyboards since around 2005, am fairly allergic to latency in any device, but couldn't imagine going back to the shackles of a wired keyboard or mouse now.
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Some public transport there works well. I've taken BART from the airport to a hotel downtown and it wasn't a bad way to get there. I felt safe, should I have been concerned?

Most of your other points about mass transit are quite valid. E.g. "lugging" groceries. But why not "think different"? Can't you purchase in small quantities from neighborhood stores?

When I grew up in NYC it wasn't uncommon to shop just a block or two from home. You bought 1 loaf of bread, 1 quart of milk, a few pounds of potatoes, etc. It was easily possible to carry that stuff back to the apartment. It wasn't only possible, it was what you had to do. Hardly anyone owned cars.

I wonder what percent of residents of San Francisco own a car? How many use a car daily?
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We've had some home invasion robberies in neighboring parts of town. We won't open the door unless we can see who it is first.
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>“Kills your market worth as a professional”

That is the most brutal review on an educational programme I've ever read
I wonder if you can capture USSD traffic with this. USSD is the tech the brings you the little menu or message that pop up on your cell phone's screen usually after dialing a short code like *122#. They're usually used to check your prepaid account's current balance but in Kenya and Somalia, USSD is what powers the mobile banking applications.

If you can capture that traffic, what I would like to know is if its encrypted. If it ain't, someone could do a lot of damage with this thing.
To be fair, using PC keys might annoy ~10% of the population if you include Linux users, not half. They actually make an Apple version of the variant that does have printed keycaps.

But yeah, the stated purpose of the blank keycaps is to force you to become a better typist (citation needed as to whether it actually works).
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I agree with @dogma1138. This device isn't for people who are paranoid about security. I am in NYC. They made attempt on my premises 4 times. These mofos came in broad daylight. I got cameras and sensors everywhere plus alarm service. They have multiple lookouts on phones. Another walks off the road, head facing down. Will knock a few times not facing door. Two times he had a hoodie. After no response they will start. In one incident the cops came 8 hours after. Seriously!!!
Your link seems to be down. Any mirrors?

And btw. I wasn't even talking about HSR across country - this issue is debatable. What's IMO not debatable is the necessity of efficient local public transport within population centers, be it on (underground) rails, designated road lanes or street rails, I don't really care, as long as it's mass transport.
It is just amazing how the hole "grew" in 8 years, from 1979 to 1987. And then, there has been no change in 24 years, from 1987 to 2011, despite all that was done.

More incredible, though would be to expect the anomaly to be elsewhere but at the poles, since the formation of the ozone requires sun-rays, as explained in the article.

But what is really a revolution in Physics is how those sun-rays actually make a curve to enter the Earth by the south to cause harm to Australians and New Zealanders...

As anyone actually living on this planet may realize is that, because of the position of the sun and the planets in the solar system all aligned at the ecliptic plan, the sun in the southern hemisphere rises and sets from a northeast to a northwest position (opposed to the northern hemisphere, from a southeast to a southwest point).

So, unless the sunlight is doing big turns, it is impossible for any eventual anomaly in the ozone above Antarctic to have any relation to skin cancer in any country in the southern hemisphere, since the sun and the position of Antarctic and really at diametrical directions.
I found this article useful.

What I was really hoping for was a layman's translation of the maths on wikipedia [ie. how to implement]. But this is a good jumping off point for figuring out which black box to use.
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> The most important thing in my opinion is to not fall into the trap of just playing something over and over again, hoping for incremental progress

My problem, in a nutshell. 12 hours at a time of useless activity, but it's so darn fun and addictive...
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I will save everyone some time and quote the only definitive statement in the entire article.

>"Most people buy rooftop solar panels because they think it will save them money or make them green, or both. But the truth is that rooftop solar shouldn’t be saving them money (though it often does), and it almost certainly isn’t green. In fact, the rooftop-solar craze is wasting billions of dollars a year that could be spent on greener initiatives. It also is hindering the growth of much more cost-effective renewable sources of power."

He then goes on to explain that the costs are low only because of unsustainable federal subsidies. He does not mention what source of renewable power it is that is so much more cost effective than solar. Nor does he mention what the "greener initiatives" are or why solar is not green. No evidence provided whatsoever. Solar is in fact "green" and sustainable. And in my opinion it is the best source of renewable energy available to us. The rest of this article is spent talking about the subsidies and why they are bad. And he says that if the utilities erected solar farms, we could have sustainable energy at 5 cents per kWh. This is true, but the utility companies have refused to implement solar in any meaningful way. Whether it is because of greed or red tape does not matter. Continuing to burn fossil fuels to generate our energy is out of the question and if the utility companies do not reform themselves people are going to buy those panels and eventually prune themselves from the grid entirely. And everyone knows that the utility companies are going to drag their feet until the brink of disaster.
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While the equivalence between RSA and integer factorization is still an open question, the Rabin (exponent 2) trapdoor permutation is tightly equivalent to factoring.

Furthermore, for most groups the DHP is polynomially equivalent to the DLP. The requirement for this to be true is that there exists an elliptic curve with smooth order modulo the Diffie-Hellman group's order. Such smooth-order curves are hard to actually find for large groups, exponentially so (this is a fine example of the chasm between uniform and nonuniform reductions); but for elliptic curves groups used in practice, it is possible to find them. In other words, an easy way to break the DHP in smallish elliptic curve groups would lead to ECDLP solving with only polynomial overhead.
Ok, I've read it. I agree it is serious. But I think it's also wrong. Monopolies can be abused in ways that make it almost impossible to compete against them. Let's use Windows as an example. Some companies that sell Windows boxes also sell Linux boxes. (Dell for example.) Of course, the Linux boxes are less popular. But why not sell a computer that can dual boot? People would be a lot more willing to experiment with Linux if they didn't have to install it themselves. Indeed, around 1999 a young company was trying to popularize its new operating system: BeOS. I am quoting from this site:

http://birdhouse.org/beos/byte/30-bootloader/

"[...] Be was engaged in enthusiastic discussions with Dell, Compaq, Micron, and Hitachi. Taken together, pre-installation arrangements with vendors of this magnitude could have had a major impact on the future of Be and BeOS. But of the four, only Hitachi actually shipped a machine with BeOS pre-installed. The rest apparently backed off after a closer reading of the fine print in their Microsoft Windows License agreements. Hitachi did ship a line of machines (the Flora Prius) with BeOS pre-installed, but made changes to the bootloader -- rendering BeOS invisible to the consumer -- before shipping. Apparently, Hitachi received a little visit from Microsoft just before shipping the Flora Prius, and were reminded of the terms of the license."
In USA, a contract about illegal activity is not enforceable.

And judges can compel secret information and seal the info in private court documents.
> Well whats the other alternatives?

E-mail.

An ftp server.
Yet they are under the CNN.com domain name, not cnnusercontent.com . therefore CNN.com 's reputation should suffer for it. (hello, Google PageRank team!)
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I'm often that second guy, and it's one of my favourite past-times.

My recipe:

1. Go out,
2. alone,
3. with a book,
4. and drink a glass of wine.

It never fails me. Often I don't even read the book - it's just a handy crutch. If you do tire of gazing slowly at the surroundings, reach for the book rather than your phone. Never pull out your phone.

It's amazing how many little conversations I have with passers-by, the staff at the cafe, the person sitting next to me, or, equally lovely, just nobody. I just look around. I absorb the world for half an hour without really having to be doing anything, and certainly not with anyone.
Hm: wireless, runs on batteries, has a screen so you can still use the peep hole.

But... requires an obvious camera on the other side of the door.
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Perhaps he meant dodgy in the sense of "dishonest". I.e. ignoring the spirit if not the letter of the Berne Convention?

I'm by no means a legal scholar, but this story was apparently published in 1981. Russia agreed[1] to Berne protection for 1973 and later work. So why is the full text of the story available at that link?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_Russian_F...
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The big downside is that you cannot see who is at your door while you are home. Imagine you are standing in the hall, or behind the door, or near the door and somebody knocks. You don't want to get out your smartphone and unlock it to see who is there, you're right next to the door!

This thing needs a screen.
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One writes down what s/he sees. The other writes down what s/he does not see.
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Browsing through the code, this looks a bit rough around the edges and untested. I'd wonder how it compares to similar packages for Spark, Hadoop or Flink. Lack of numbers and users make me wonder if it's anything more than someone's PhD project at CMU.
There seems to be a proliferation of dubious Masters degrees that, although not as fake as this Pakistani diploma mill still seem more like money-making schemes than worthwhile credentials.

I know a number of people who were in high school with me, who, although academically quite average, and lacking Batchelors degrees are getting "fluffy" masters degrees from overseas universities, including MBAs.

It looks like we are moving from the era of grade inflation to the era of degree inflation.
The article was about suicide statistics. Your belief that welfare moms should be the most prone to suicide is probably false.
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