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A quick update regarding toolchain work and release time: we have now taught binutils and gcc to do the right thing for the target with respect to weak symbols and GOT entries. That has been quite a ride, but gladly dynamic linking is now working exactly as desired (that is, without depending on import/export annotation in the libc headers). Focus has now shifted back to the runtime layer, and we are working in full speed towards the pre-pre-alpha release.
> Tectonic is a commercial distribution of the combined Kubernetes and CoreOS stack.

> Tectonic pre-packages all of the open source components required to build a Google-style infrastructure and adds additional commercial features, such as a management console, corporate SSO integration, and Quay, our enterprise ready container registry.

Well, I don't care. Fix etcd before anything. Cluster recovery doesn't work well (it's an understatement), etcd has issues with high loads, and leader election has its quirks. CoreOs is barely usable at this state.

This is the kind of thing you need to expect when running a CoreOS cluster: https://github.com/coreos/etcd/issues/863. etcd is not "production ready", well, this should be taken care of as it's a central part of the system.
Exactly, many modern universities (even top 10 ones) are sadly quite broken. Extremely inefficient usage of funds, loads of bureaucrats for no good reason, and loads of people that just optimize for number of papers. These tend to stick around doing politics to get their names well-placed in the paper du jour, despite not having done much for it.

Math, and to a lesser extent physics & CS departments are less broken. But applied sciences places where I have been tend to be a trainwreck.
"very difficult"? Has the definition of "non-geek" changed in the last decade?

I know many people who had absolutely no trouble downloading various things - including software - from all the P2P networks that flourished around 10 years ago. Not only torrents, but eMule, Kazaa, Limewire, etc.

They also happened to easily infect themselves with various malware by doing that, but I'd consider it more evidence of how "non-geek" they were.

(But all in all, despite the risks, I definitely prefer and miss that era of open filesharing compared to the closed proprietary walled gardens that have replaced it.)
Sure, the EU could get all huffy, but starting a trade war over that when they are a huge net exporter to the US would be extremely stupid. Maybe even too stupid for them.
Spotify has nailed the social aspect of music sharing/collaborative playlist creation through its great Facebook integration (at least here in Norway where "everyone" uses Spotify).

From what I've seen of Apple Music it seems like they haven't bothered with the social aspect at all. Is it even possible to share what you're listening to and collaborate on playlists?

That may not be a big deal for some people, but I'm pretty confident that at least my group of friends won't switch to a streaming service where collabrating on playlists isn't super easy (or even possible).
I'm reminded of the observation that when a company declares a plan to build a giant, glorious new headquarters, it is time to sell your shares of that company.

The theory being that it marks an outbreak of hubris and will distract the upper management for years.
I suspect contractors will have to unionise to gain some form of leverage in insurance negotiations.
When Guarding Student Data Endangers Valuable Research
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9714686
I don't know too much about this so I'm a bit confused. What does a salt do if it's the same for everything?
This is a really cool and intuitive introduction to this sort of algorithms, and the example and visualization make it very accessible. Great work, I'm sure it will inspire some kids to get into ML and neural networks.
California seems like paradise for NIMBY:ers.
> Also (though this may only be relevant to Germany) health insurance for full-time contractors is private insurance with massively higher rates, instead of the "standard" insurance provided to employed people.

This isn't the case necessarily. The premium for private health insurance depends on your medical history and your age. If you're older and have chronic illnesses the premium generally will be a lot higher than say when you start out as a healthy 20-year-old. In that case you'll probably even save a lot compared to the compulsory health insurance for employees.

Besides, even if the premium for private health insurance in Germany often is higher than the corresponding premium for the state-run insurance the thing with the latter is that your employer has to pay the same amount, too. So, the actual premium for compulsory health insurance in Germany in fact is twice the amount mentioned on your payslip.
Bureaucracy, specifically the political-correctness-supporting bureaucracy is out of control in the Ivy League.
> The story in the Sunday Times suggests that they went with (a).

Is that an agreement with the The Intercept's claim that the Sunday Times will publish, without fact checking, anything the UK gov asks them to? [1]

Surely the logical, standard sequence for a story such as this would be:

1. GCHQ et al. make a statement.

2. Journalists review that statement, and give due diligence to determining the statement's accuracy.

3. Publish an unbiased article with their findings.

It seems that step 2 is missing completely, and therefore step 3 (already an idealistic goal) can never happen.

> let's set Snowden's trustworthiness aside for a moment and look at how else his archive may have ended up in the hands of the Russians or Chinese.

There is no evidence that the unencrypted Snowden archive is in the hands of the Russian or Chinese governments. Claiming otherwise is pure speculation.

[1] https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/14/sunday-times-r...
Red Hat makes most of their money providing services around their distro, rather than from selling the distro itself. (Source: Friends at RH).
It's the equivalent of open-source, but for knowledge.

It's like: "Here's the content for free, if you like it, support it by buying the ebook"
It is entirely possible to use AGPL code commerically. You just have to give a copy of the source code to your user. This is no different from RMS selling copies of Emacs and giving the customers the code afterwards.
The even cheaper version of LocalTalk was Farallon's PhoneNet, which used cheap and available RJ11 phone cables rather than the more expensive Apple DB-3 connectors, and a terminator on each end that was basically a resistor crimped into an RJ11.
> Do you think reddit currently has a good set of ideals?

Ideals aren't granular and are difficult to assess if you ascribe morals to them. They are standards of perfection. Is freedom of speech "good"? I quite like it, at times America has stood for it, China has had a stance firmly against it. Ideals prescribe consistency. Reddit has embodied the ideals of freedom, community & recursive self-improvement.

> It's rare that I see someone say that "reddit is good" without some qualification like "make sure to unsubscribe from the default subreddits" or "only subscribe to the smaller subreddits".

Television is good, make sure not to watch primetime news. Mass market content caters to the lowest common denominator. Reddit tried to reposition itself as a mass market media company, sort of like yahoo[0]. The "front page" is something that "could" appeal to anyone. It is just like the ycombinator mantra "Make something a few people love rather than something a lot of people like", that is basically defaults vs. your fav "underground" sub.

> If reddit as it is presented to a new user is bad, where are the good ideals?

This is one of the problems with the narrative. "Reddit" is a disparate set of small communities loosely bound by some overlapping users and a URL.

America is bad.

Evaluate that statement. Are people in Idaho "bad" because some people in NY are "bad"? Is NY "bad" because people on Long Island, are "bad"? Reddit isn't one contiguous community. It is tens of thousands of communities. Some of them share users, but there are so many viewpoints on reddit that it is silly to say "Reddit does/thinks/is X" unless you are referring to corporate decisions, or something very general.

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html
Wage and price controls have a history of toxic failure. It might make more sense to focus on increasing supply to meet demand.
> make semi-permanent fixes myself

You could always use libspotify.
> As a website owner, you want to ensure you serve humans, and as a web service provider you want programmatic access to your content to go through your API instead of being scraped through your heavier and less stable web interface.

I'm not sure as a website owner I want to only serve humans. What happens if someone bookmarks my site with a service like Delicious or Pocket or Pinboard and that site wants to scrape metadata from my site? Poor user can't see the metadata because I have a strange preference for human over robot users.

Oh, sure, those sites should get API keys, right? Err, no. Why should someone need to be able to parse arbitrary JSON and have to sign up with an API key for every site they visit?

Your web site shouldn't be (significantly) heavier or less stable. In an ideal world, if you followed REST properly, there'd be no real difference between an API and a website: both are just hypermedia representations of the resources you make available.

You can put data inside HTML (microformats, RDFa). You can use content negotiation so that you can have the same URLs serving up different content types.

Also, by filtering programmatic access, you'll piss off a lot of geeks who use stuff like PhantomJS to automate boring tedious shit that your website probably makes us do. I have little scripts that do stuff like automatically download invoices from suppliers for accounting purposes. All in order to prevent a security threat that shouldn't exist because you shouldn't have to rely on filtering particular browser types for your site to remain secure.
In the US you get paid more while not sick. So if you consume at "civilized country" levels while earning at US levels, you'll be fine.

It's a bad idea to force employers to take on large fixed-cost obligations when they purchase labor - this creates rigidities in the market and disincentivizes purchasing.
My problem with Facebook is that they didn't diversify their products much (except for Oculus). Once FB is not fashionable anymore and users are using another platform (see WhatsApp and why FB bought them) it will be the end of FB. Can they reinvent themselve? not sure, but they surely need to invest more in R&D and diversify their products like Google, instead of putting everything on IM/Social.
Obviously, there is no point in using a random salt when your key is public. There will be no point in using salt when they generate a random secure key ("We need to improve this password situation by moving a secure password into a system-level key store.") To be fair, there's no point in key derivation at all if the goal is to have a fixed or randomly generated key, so I don't know what they were thinking. Unless this password is provided by user.
Meanwhile, Greenwald in a tweetstorm:

"Dear pro-govt BBC journalists: even NSA admits it has no idea how many docs Snowden took. Is this too complicated?"

"Could the journalists who a) attacked Sy Hersh for using anon sources but b) accepted this Sunday Times report please identify yourselves?"

"Next in the Sunday Times RT @DieZauberer Next they'll be telling us he has chemical weapons that could reach Britain in 45 minutes."
For remote work, W2 income is poisonous. You can't deduct health insurance premiums, mileage, or other expenses related to your work.

I much prefer 1099 income coupled with passive income from rental units and investments. With 1099 income you have to pay the other half of social security tax, but you get to deduct a lot of work related items including the social security tax.
shouldn't that protection already exist just in the file permissions of the cookie storage?

this doesn't really protect much from other users since other users don't have access to the file in the first place, and doesn't protect from the user that owns the browser process.

which is probably why the bug still exists, adding a randomly generated key only adds another easily passable obstacle
If the US got its hands on Russian or Chinese intelligence, that would be negative too?
Maybe Apple is using it as a decoy to draw attention away from the Apple watch.

It's funny though since Apple said "Hey Apple Records in England we want to name our company Apple oh no we'll never be involved in selling any music" is getting more involved in music each decade.
This is misleading. If you follow the links to the Chromium bug tracker, you'll note that Chrome integrates with the GNOME and KDE encrypted password managers when they're available. If they're not, it falls back to storing passwords itself with obfuscation, which is the best it can do. (On Windows and OS X, it uses CryptProtectData and the Keychain API, respectively.)

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxPasswordStorage
There's no such thing as AES-CBC iterations, it's the number of iterations for PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA1.
I haven't looked at the caller code but are you sure that only the cookie code is using this function? The function looks pretty generic and it might be used somewhere else as well...
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I have been writing a guide on how to set up a desktop system with NixOS, but I’m not quite finished yet.

I wonder how high the interest in something like that would be? I can throw up an unfinished beta version of it if people are interested.
A /56 is the recommendation (and what my ISP gives me), though I wouldn't be surprised if a lot actually use /64 blocks. There's still an enormous amount left anyway.
> ..otherwise the UK government could not make the claims they're making here..

Don't forget the UK government got hold of 58,000 documents from Snowden's archive when they detained David Miranda at Heathrow: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10276460/David-...

Even if the NSA/GCHQ got hold of the "entire archive", they have no way of knowing for certain that what they have is indeed the entire archive.
I think something like this is needed because `rent control` for existing tenants is already there i.e you are not allowed to increase rent with existing tenant.

In Berlin, there is interesting issue now. A friend lives in a apartment for 12 years, pays only 250 €. He says rent was increased by only € 1 during those years. If he moves to some new place, he will have to pay between 900 - 1000 € for same type of apartment cause rents are raising fast.

So either they should allow to increase rent to existing tenant or control how much landlord can raise for new tenant.

Otherwise, I will be paying 900 € whereas my neighbour next door will only be 250 € for same apartment cause she is living there for years.
Something that has always annoyed me in my local area is that, when renting, the cost of an apartment is relative to its size, not to its quality. So you could have an apartment that is twice the cost, twice the size, but still has the same crappy washing machine and no dishwasher.

I would happily pay double the rent for a similar sized apartment but one with lots of nice touches, such as luxury appliances and such. I've often thought that if I ever rent out a property, I'd fill it with nice things and then charge more - high end coffee machines, in-wall speaker systems, nice furniture, etc. Perhaps there's a reason that landlords don't do that, though.
No, you're right. Democracy IS the best way to run a currency. Let's run our companies as democracies too, that's certainly a good idea! This way everybody has a say in what Microsoft and Oracle do. Oh wait, that's a terrible idea.
You see, if you don't like bitcoin you don't have to use it. You can use any alternative currency or cryptocurrency. The same way that if you don't like your Internet provider you can use a different one. But if I don't like my government or my government's currency, I'm stuck with it whether I like it or not (unless I emigrate, which can be a huge barrier). How is that better? Democracy is NOT the be-all end-all way of making decisions, it is an extremely mediocre way of doing it, in fact. Do I really have to enumerate all the ways in which free competition is a much better system than corruptible, manipulable, easily persuadable majority voting?
What does SJW stand for?
I wanna be black
I wonder how many people are using KDE or Gnome these days. I'm pretty sure I'm using something other than KDE and Gnome on my Linux installs.
Why would they used DHCPv6 instead of SLAAC?

It seems more complex, and I don't see any advantages. SLAAC is like the "default" for IPv6, while DHCP is something on top of it. Plus it's usually not enable out-of-the-box on all devices.
One typical arguments I see against rent cap is that it makes the housing availability situation worse, forcing people out of the city. But if say 40k new people move to Berlin in a year I see no reason why any form of market system wouldn't want to at least have some scarcity and keep things to 40k-1 max. What Berlin has seen over the past few years within a non-capped market is exactly this. 40k per year with only half that amount in new housing created [1]. My argument for cap is that if the market cannot make for sustainable living I think there is reason to consider cap, despite it meaning a bias on seniority in city.

http://www.inspiration-asia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/B...
Actually `furnished` is not really norm. I understand your point though.
Hadn't heard of MOG, although I had heard of Beats Music, but unfortunately neither were available in the UK.
Some problems aren't really solvable. All you can do is move the suckiness around.

Here's the problem: attraction is highly asymmetric. Many are attracted to few.

Shrink a pool of heterosexual individuals to a pool to 3 men and 3 women -- the outcomes will still be asymmetric, with the majority of participants not getting who they preferred.

No scheme, no twist, no app, no idea can change this, until the cyberpunk vision of affordable beauty is a reality.
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You could blur the image as well. I have tried a similar approach with blur quite awhile ago: http://www.cssdesk.com/VYN67
Change the image URI to see it work on another image.
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> For like, all of the frameworks that the cool kids are using, IPv6 is handled transparently and out of the box.

Yeah, except for golang. go applications don't work on IPv6-nodes, and issues have been open for almost two years now.
The language I've seen for the rule is increase 10% of local market rates, not the base rate of the house itself. So your neighbors rent would increase by more than %10 of their base.

Or did I miss something?
"It is truly amazing to read the rationales on here avoiding this idea."

No its not. If you read the original article or this link dissecting it, it raises so many questions it makes any free thinking person skeptical. Please read the link and then explain to me how the HN rationales expressed here are "truly amazing".
Anyone know of a modern day equivalent to this? This book is about living off the grid and a sort of anarchistic lifestyle, but it is super dated. Would be interested in a modern day take on this.
I got then straight of their website, but 100 USD is probably what it costs to renew a license.
That doesn't sound right. Size is usually a rule of thumb and typically above or below average amenities either raise or lower the price, respectively.

My buddy is working on increasing this transparency though. They're in the Seattle area and looking to provide home buyers market rates for a given feature. e.g. this house should be $X cheaper because the windows are Brand Y
Maybe it's something you should think about that the first attack you can think of is an ad hominem one?

I am not bemoaning having a minority opinion, rather the inevitable personal attacks that follow, yours being a benign but still pertinent example.

And I'm not an immigration critic: I am totally in support of allowing immigration to the people who help the country. And, before you assume, that doesn't mean they have to be white or european. Note also that "help the country" can't just be defined by the usual hand-wavy bs of "diversity helps everyone" because you might as well say magic/underpant gnomes.

Where do you live in Europe or US that you don't see these effects?
The main problem of online dating is that men usually are looking for sex while women for long-term relationships. Add to that the fact that in most dating sites the analogy of men to women is at least 3 to 1 and you realize pretty soon that it's a lose-lose game for most people.
Has it ever been established that the documents he leaked contained information on operatives?
There's resistance for things you'd imagine should be no-brainers. For example, an expansion of the Stevens Creek bike path is encountering major resistance: http://www.cyclelicio.us/2015/sunnyvale-nimbys-threaten-stev...

Cooperation is hard work.
In theory MAM-A Silver or Gold CD-R media, but you'd need to check if they (still) are really archival quality. I didn't way back when because Taiyo Yuden was judged to be good enough (and that might have been before Mitsui/MAM were making high quality media).

It's also possible there's good Bluray recordable media; I switched to LTO tape instead of going in that direction.
I believe that any improvements which are such that a source file still has only my name and copyright notice on it fall under the original license.
The original license forbids changing the license:

"Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer."

If you want to appropriate the code as GPL, you better do most of the work in new source files, or else change the file so significantly that (according to your lawyer) you're justified in replacing or altering the original copyright notice.

Anything that has only my name and my copyright notice on it is mine, even if it was modified. Whoever modified it acknowledged that it's mine by preserving the notices. It smells a lot like copyright assignment, and I suspect that very argument would easily succeed in court. I don't see how you can argue with a straight face that A. U. Thor is making an infringing use of your work, by taking an excerpt from a file which is "Copyright 2013 A. U. Thor".
My Guesses are:

1- Facebook: Will go bust and be bought by a conglomerate (non IT Group or Microsoft). They will be the "Lehmans Brothers" of the next crisis.

2- Dropbox: Likely to go bust. No diversification and a lot of competition.

3- Twitter: Will be hurt but can survive,due to appeal to Marketers/News/..etc.

4- Google: Will likely drop a lot of products and concentrate on search and self driving cars.

5- Apple: Will become the new Microsoft.
It sure it, just type 'override' when the 'access denied' prompt is shown.

sigh I hate what tv/movies have made people believe about tech.
Detroit CIO Beth Niblock has publicly acknowledged the issue with plans to do it differently in the future.

http://imgur.com/FwLSilU