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Other people find it rude to recline.

I mean, I had people stop reclining because they couldn't move their seat. They look back and see me smiling because my knees block it.

Disclaimer: I'm from Europe, we usually fly in very small planes where there's literally no way to have space unless paying 2-3x the price for business class.
I went to college in the Bronx. No guns allowed there, but plenty of people holding up defenseless college students.
Well, it was a joke based on a cliche from a Batman film. In terms of wise sayings, it's on the level of fortune cookies.

But the underlying point is similar to "you are the product". People chose Sourceforge because it offered free hosting. It was for a long time the "default" choice, back in the early 2000s. They had banner ads, usually from other Linux companies, and that seemed to pay for it. It was easier to use than FTP sites.

The question always remains: who is going to pay for it? If a company is sinking, then they have only two options, to close it down or to engage in ever-shadier chasing of monetisation options. Can you imagine the outrage if they'd put up a paywall? It's basically the same politics as has made "free to play (with gouging IAPs)" the default mode of paying for mobile apps.
Couldn't find how to do it in Google, did it in my hosts file...

For this device sourceforge now lives on 0.0.0.0. May it wither there forever.
And you never had someone equally tall behind you that now didn't have enough space?
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As a tall guy, I find that my knees are at most a couple of inches from the seat in front. When the person in front of me reclines and their chair hits my knees, it's clear that I'll be uncomfortable for the entire remainder of the flight. I don't recline; I judge people who do it in front of me as selfish, and I don't want to be hypocritical.
I used to use Teamspeak and Ventrilo a lot and even ran a server. Mumble is a good open source alternative. Too bad it's hosted on SourceForge.

These guys look like they're using the same sort of tech to help remote working teams: http://speak.io/
"BestMp4ToMp3 converter" didn't give it away?
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upgrading symfony is one of the key things we are working on right now.

don't think of the demo as production, it's just a test server with some dummy data, where you can play around with features of webo.

as open source projects we welcome all the help and as many pull requests as possible :)
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While it's an interesting idea, it seems like this is suggesting trying to copy someone's short term stock wins. The current page shows someone (6 random faces, where you can't click on details without signup) making some alledly good gains over a couple of years with an unknown amount of money. (another post says you can't signup without a money transfer? yikes!)

As I understand it, you want a predictable gain year to year over a long haul. A three-year span where you gain a large percentage, offset by a large drop (which is possible if investing -- aka 2000-era tech bubble crash), results in you having significantly less money than a more subtle, even, diversified rate. Over the long haul, you may lose a lot of money by having a lot of volatility, or not gain as much. This is not to say you must choose very conservative investments, but this is why diversity in investing is useful.

I also worry that the site showcases people who made, say, 100%, by a limited number of investments over a short term. There's nothing saying these investments will hold over the long term, which means that following them is essentially random. There's also a bit of danger in investing in just what you know about, for instance, say you really follow donuts.

Various mutual funds seem unexciting because they don't offer "quintuple your money" in N months, but you'll end up with a lot of money in the end if you make regular investments.

This doesn't just have to be your 401k, it could be an IRA (if you qualify/etc), a combination or both, or some investment on top.

Obviously, a lot of people have made a lot of money investing in very specific stocks, but there's nothing to say the past history in investing in those stocks foreshadows future history, and I think the site owes people a bit of education about that, especially younger folks.

You may also wish to speak to a financial advisor.
> even though the Constitution makes no such restriction

Please don't try to pontificate about the Constitution if you have no idea what it actually says. The fifth amendment indicates that you can be deprived of liberty after due process of law. That is to say, after you get convicted of a felony, you may have certain rights restricted.
There's no way to occlude real objects. Think about it, it's just shining more light in your eyes. You can't shine "dark" into someone's eyes.

I don't believe they've promised that anywhere either. In fact where are you getting any of this information?
I'm not a tall person, but I also agree with you. It is very uncomfortable to go through a long flight on an upright seat.

I can not believe people think they have the prerogative to stop other people from reclining. It is intended functionality and we have certainly paid for that.
Don't suffer in silence, ask the person behind you. At least for me it makes no difference if the person in front reclines or not. Biggest effect is that I get to have the entertainment system a bit nearer to me. On the other hand, I suspect most people would be too nice to give a truthful answer even if they dislike it..
> The UK address. 145-157 St John Street, London, EC1V 4PY. According to a BBC report, this is the address used by a company which sells its use as a registered office address. Because there does not seem to be an obligation to check that users of the service are legitimate companies, criminals are attracted to it. According to the BBC, the address is in common use among fake companies operating "boiler room" fake share scams.

That is the old address for Companies Made Simple: http://www.companiesmadesimple.com/

They handle all kinds of services for tens of thousands of companies in the UK, from registration, to registered address and mail forwarding.

I know this, because I used them for my startup to handle the registered address. This is because official mail has to go somewhere and the address is a matter of public record. We were in a co-working space at the time and knew that we would move on when the time came, it's an annoyance to go around updating the registered address and unprofessional to have a co-working space as one.

That Companies Made Simple is used by bad actors isn't going to be a surprise, bad actors use nearly all service providers.

They are the largest provider of registered address services in the UK, it's not a surprise that the address is in "common use". That ignores the fact that the number of legitimate businesses that use the address vastly outnumber the illegitimate.

I dislike Companies Made Simple having used them (they nearly shredded our investors SEIS certs because they didn't regard them as "official government communication"), but it's probably defamation to imply that companies using the address are not legitimate just because some small sample of them are not.
I'd like Google to store only at most N bits of information about me. That way, when I type "python" in the search bar, Google knows I'm a programmer, and am not interested in results about snakes. However, google does not know what television show I watched last night, because that doesn't fit in the N bits that I'm allowing Google to store about me.

Viewed differently, the value of N specifies how uniquely identifiable the user is.
DRM is often said to get in the way of legitimate customers, which for the vast majority of cases is very likely true. Take always-online games as an example (like that one Assassin's Creed) - a pirate has the luxury of being able to play offline, where the legitimate customer e.g. loses game progress because their internet connection dropped.
I am less worried about the needs of the person in front of me reclining than the chances of the morbidly obese person I get next to me and then am told I have to keep the armrest up because the other person doesn't fit.

Hence, put me next to the emergency exit which on some planes seems to have more room in front too
while it looks like a "fashion piece" it is a gadget, by a gadget manufacturer, with a battery, features, talks to your phone and has apps. Period. The rest is just marketing buzz.
Whenever something like this comes up, R&D is held up as the "cost center", whereas initial discovery (hit) or optimizing it into a "lead" molecule is a fraction of the cost of turning out a "drug", even manufacturing is a comparatively small expense. The majority of the cost lies in the clinical trials process. That is where a potential drug can fail and take everything down the drain. That is why the "fail-early, fail-fast" mantra has been ingrained into big pharmacy like gospel truth. However, there is no reliable predictor of "late stage" clinical trial failures for a candidate drug molecule. And trials can fail from a drug having statistically insignificant improvements in a group of target patients, all the way to, having a high (how high?) propensity for adverse effects in the patient group.

So, the solution? More fundamental research to explore indicators of late stage failure, coupled with "cheaper" clinical trials to justify a lower development cost that is enforced by legislation to bypass greedy execs/shareholders. Now, those "cheaper" trials, that is whole 'nother can-o-worms for a different thread, because it involves our willingness, as a society, to accept such risks as are part of the discovery process.
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I want to major in computer science. I have almost 2 and a half years left to get my BA degree.

I'm facing hardship. I have a car to go to school but don't have enough money to pay bills for my apartment, insurance, phone food basically living expenses without a job. And having a job I feel like gets in the way of me programming fully and focusing my degree to excel.

How do I manage this? It's tough being broke and going to school for a CS degree which is tough.
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For many there are many projects that were hosted here before dying, and because of that, SF is both the official place to download and also SF sees it as fair game to take over and wrap with malware.
It also gave us a lot of snake oil, the list is too long. Let's choose one: Pearl power ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_powder )

> In medieval Europe, pearl powder was widely perceived to have therapeutic qualities. It was used to treat the insanity of Charles VI of France (1368-1422), and the fever of which Lorenzo de Medici died in 1492.
Hope its real. Reminds me those cool expert system demos we say in the eighties, they had all the answers ... for selected narrow group of questions with very specific semantics.
Zuckerberg actually cares a lot about his privacy. Yours? Maybe not as much.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2015/05/18/tech_...

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2015/may/19/...

But isn't the PGP move a sign that Facebook cares about our privacy? Not really. The profile thing makes it easy to discover people who use PGP and email them with encrypted messages, but that has nothing to do with Facebook's content.

As for the encrypted notifications, Facebook can obviously still read those, and it can be useful to protect the data from Google. Also, if more people use PGP for email, that means less data for Google, so I could actually see this being a strategic move, too. Maybe not a huge one, but it doesn't cost Facebook too much to implement this, so why not?

I'll start thinking Facebook actually cares about my privacy when the Messenger uses Axolotl or OTR as well as ZRTP. Until then, I'll remain skeptical of Facebook's privacy intentions.
That's the problem with these questions, the expected answers are steeped in poor engineering practice. When a string needs reversing a library call is always the best first answer. Always. Always. Always.

Because the library call has already been debugged.
This is all such a shame. GitHub is to Sourceforge what HN is to Slashdot.
That's it, we need a open source community website that manages and links to the mirrors (HEANET, etc.).
Once I almost got my laptop crushed because the person sitting in front of me reclined their seat and it caught the laptop's screen (it was standing on the tray). If only I had this "knee defender" it wouldn't have been a problem. I mean, how is that guy supposed to know they shouldn't recline at this very moment? If they can't recline because of knee defender, they will ask me and I'll be able to save my laptop from danger.
That was more true in the 60's, and so we never spent the time to try bringing this to production. We don't need to make all of our nuclear reactors capable of producing weapons-grade material anymore, and I don't think there's much objection to new reactor types on those grounds.
We need a open source community website that manages and links to the download-mirrors (HEANET, etc.). There is no need to backup the downloads, just back up the source code and friendly take over the control over the mirrors.
Excellent answer. I think the real difference between a junior and a senior is not so much in coding skill; some juniors are really brilliant coders and can fix any problem you throw at them.

But a senior has more experience with the "why" behind the coding. What are the requirements in terms of schedule, user experience, stability, maintainability, performance, development process, QA, etc. A junior can be great at one of these, but a senior has to take responsibility for all of them. So you need to understand the needs of all the stakeholders outside the dev team. (At least the basics; functional details deserve an expert of their own.)
I use Cygwin as my terminal environment for everything that works. Any fs operation involving lots of files (e.g. find) is slow. Copying files is slow. CIFS in particular seems much slower via //server/share in Cygwin than native \\server\share.

One way to really see the latter is to try to create a git clone using the --reference option against a repo on a mapped drive; msysgit using the drive letter is OK, but cygwin git against the same repo via /cygdrive/mapped is very slow.

Edit: by 'everything that works' I mean everything that interacts with the terminal in a standard way. There are some command line utilities which output to the terminal some way other than stdout, making them very difficult to use in cygwin.
Google Play won't let me install it, saying it's incompatible with my Nexus 4 (on Lollypop)
SourceForge was sold in 2012 to a conglomerate company named "DHI GROUP INC" or "Dice Holdings Inc" that owns the following companies:

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Great write-up, even though some enthusiastic conclusions are far from solid.

>>>> the logo similarity convinced us beyond the shadow of a doubt that Mobisoft LTD is the development company behind mSpy

>>>> Why would mSpy move their data from Amazon ... Incidentally, in September 2014, the FBI has arrested a CEO of another spyware company called Stealth Genie ... Could the ease with which the US authorities were able to take down Stealth Genie has caused the Ukrainian company to move to an alternative infrastructure? We believe that the compelling answer to this question is obvious. Yes.
So far, thankfully I've never had a person in front of me, who would have decided to recline their seat. Although I'm mainly travelling with Ryanair, so I'm not even sure if that is possible on their planes. But for me, 1.94m tall, even a thought that someone would try to take away some of my space on plane is simply infuriating.

I have experienced this in buses and trains, on trains especially. There this can be tolerable, because there is a much more space (at least where I've experienced reclining), and people mostly have been very understanding and kind of afraid that someone from the back will start to shout on them.

In any case, it as well quite a sad thing, that whether there is enough space to be able to recline or isn't, we have a situation were we are unable to sort this out between ourselves.
Thank you for your review.

I'm sorry you didn't like the shellcode section (I disagree on the "time consuming" part), but I'm happy you found my course useful.
The way you talk you're most definitely not a beginner, so maybe you didn't need my course :)

I hope beginners won't find my course too difficult. I
learned exploit dev on my own in about 5 months so I know how difficult it is to get started.

Honestly, I'm probably the one who got the most out of it. Writing such a course teaches you a lot.
Mozilla do a lot of work besides Firefox. They have Thunderbird, Firefox OS, Rust, Servo, Bugzilla, etc etc.

Brooks' estimates suggest that cost of development increases with the square of the length of the code.

Likewise, a single developer should expect to achieve around 10 lines of code per day on an established codebase. This is about $45 per line of code at SV rates.

Mozilla has over a thousand employees on its various projects, and this income is necessary to keep them in work.

You wouldn't get $1M out of that Kickstarter. You could literally just change the default search engine and compile Firefox yourself.
Proof of work is replaced with lottery which determines a set of verifiers.

Choosing verifiers is based on external oracle (e.g. average temperature for group of cities).

Prevention of sybil attacks is proposed in three forms:

* annual fee enforced by the system

* proof of stake

* external authority

Paper itself is full of weasel words. "Very", "efficient" etc are repeated over and over. Also, 3 patent applications.

At first glance it does not look like an improvement over Bitcoin, because it does not work.
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I have duck duck go set as my default, but when I want to get something specific and quickly, I often have to use the "g!" option. DDG works well for more "mainstream" searches but for niche stuff the results are not as good.
"tall guy" is a qualitative statement, not quantitative.

I'm 6'4". My knees always touch the seat in front of me - reclining helps me angle my legs a bit more so I have a few more positions for my legs, particularly on 8+ hour flights, which I often take. It also helps my back hurt less, and often means a significant difference (>1 hour more) in the amount of sleep I get on a flight.

I'm not sure why using the seat as it's meant (particularly in response to someone else using the seat in the same way in front of you) is perceived as selfish.

Granted, I often purchase Economy Comfort/Plus/Premier seats on redeye flights of more than 6 hours, but sometimes it's not an option.
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A quick web search turned up only with some shady or dysfunctional shorteners, is there something good out there I'm missing? Ideally with an easy API.
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Agree to a certain point. When Google wants to make suggestions based on preferences of other people (known as collaborative filtering), how do you suppose that information is computed?
> Disclaimer: I'm from Europe, we usually fly in very small planes where there's literally no way to have space unless paying 2-3x the price for business class.

In my experience, domestic US flights and even some transatlantic flights with US carriers, are just as bad unless you pay extra for more premium carriers or upgrades, just like in Europe.
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I really don't understand this. Say you have late-stage melanoma, and you go to an oncologist. Either there is a good treatment for your disease, or there is not, judged objectively by the doctor from clinical data. Where is the room for marketing in this?
I honestly wonder if those measurements get adjusted over time or if the baseline of "average human height" (which I hope was factored into the calculation) was taken in the 50s? 60s? (when was commercial flight "mainstreamed"?) - as various studies show that it's been going up.

Will our ancestors (again +10cm[0]) in 100 years still mutter about reclining seats? :)

[0]: http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/3780/20130902/averag...
50000 downloads is ridiculously low for any popular software package. Besides, VPS are not that fast at serving static files as you think. My VPS-hosted site became like 10x as fast when I made it pull 100kb-ish javascript files from a CDN instead of off VPS harddrive.
That is unfair to GitHub.
The real winner here is the link to this IETF mailing list post: https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg37103....
good point malcolm. i definitely agree with your point on choosing who to align with -- this process has been a good learning experience on picking the company you keep.
That explains why these kind of news have been entirely absent from slashdot (with the exception of that one heavily castrated entry).
It's amazing how thoughtless and selfish some people are. I young woman in front of me had a child who was pretty disruptive, but for some time I was able to distract him and he eventually calmed down. As soon as he did the woman punched the recline button and literally slammed the seat down. If I had been using anything other than a netbook it would have been toast. And as a reasonably tall guy my knees certainly didn't appreciate it.

This is why we can't have nice things.
It just seems weird that this feature would stand out when compared to everything else Scala has to offer.
Slashdot and Sourceforge, is it 2006 again? ;)
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The question though is whether the fissionable material is usable for weapons in any practical sense.

In the Integral Fast Reactor, for example, you end up with a mixture of the four isotopes of plutonium. It's impossible to use that mixture for weapons, and it's much harder to isolate the Pu239 than it is to enrich natural uranium.

In some thorium designs, the fissionable U233 (bred from thorium) is mixed with U232, which is also very hard to separate and makes the material unworkable for weapons. (However, this is not true of all thorium designs. Chemically separate the protactinium and it will decay to pure U233.)

If you had one of the nonproliferating designs and were silly enough to attempt using it for weapons production, you would need much larger and more sophisticated enrichment facilities than if you just enriched natural uranium. If you get your startup fuel from other countries, you can forgo enrichment facilities entirely, making it very clear that you don't have a weapons program.
Some carriers are making the exit row seats a paid upgrade.
To be fair, they never implied that a sizable portion of businesses using that address are illegitimate (though some people will read it that way). If I say "Twitter is in common use among ISIS members" that doesn't mean that most twitter users are ISIS members.
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