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> I can imagine this being used with some a "tame" command in the shell to run untrusted programs.

This might not be useful in practice. The inspiration behind tame() is the observation that a program usually needs many more rights at initialisation-time than in its main-loop. Thus, tame()ing a program before it even starts is unlikely to be practical - if you give it enough permissions to successfully start (including whatever is needed for dynamic linking), you may not have reduced its capabilities much.
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Assuming the drone is below the helicopter. It's just as likely the drone would be above the helicopter and rotor wash would pull the drone _towards_ the turbine inlets.
If it's a website, that would be like using custom encryption on HTTP.
Let's not forget the largest fund of them all: Social Security will be tango uniform in 2033.

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Nice. But you need to sanitize the username case-sensitivity.

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That's not true either though. Seriously go take a look at the release announcements on hackernews.
Dude sounds like he's stuck in his own head.
Yes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOrVgSUVJE4

That being said. The temporary airspace restriction around the aerial firefighting operation means the drones shouldn't be in the air in the first place.
That was my second paragraph - and to be clear, they don't want to ban it, they want to backdoor it.

My idea was that rather than ban it outright and make it like most other internet traffic (decrypted on a server), they could mandate some kind of cacheing of the _encrypted_ data on the server. Then, once they'd lawfully executed a warrant to grab the suspects phone, they can decrypt at their leisure. Apps using per-message keys will probably be a no-no.

Myself - I live in the UK - I hope Apple, Google and Facebook all say a big "fuck you" and cut this country off from their services, but I have a feeling the 'compromise' is going to be something like the paragraph above.
Without blacks murdering other blacks in gang violence the numbers are roughly the same as other developed countries, as the article reluctantly admits at the end.
Tame(2): a WIP subsystem to restrict programs on OpenBSD
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Why do we still have politicians trying to pass laws in technology if they don't understand it at all? Really we need to change how laws affecting technology are approved or something. It's always the same thing, some politician is passing some law affecting technology in what seems like the most absurd approach.
This page adds some context to the slides:
https://sourcegraph.com/blog/live/gophercon2015/123574706480

It was posted here 10 days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9854408
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The downlink is actually 1kbps, with 2kbps optional, by using both amplifiers with opposite circular polarizations. But they can't use that trick all the time. A nice article with more technical details is at http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/0130080...
The reason no leading tech company does this is that they are all trying to pay the least amount of money. You seem to forget that just a few years ago most big tech companies were found to run a scheme to reduce salaries of people working for them.
>[Disclosure: I work for SourceForge]

My condolences.
Vista did that as a compatibility workaround. Older Windows apps from the 9x and XP era were used to being run as Administrator and being able to write directly to Program Files and the like. In order to make some of these work on Vista without running them as Administrator, the solution was to lie to the applications and make their writes go through to sandboxes instead.

The sandboxing was flawed, though. It causes problems for some applications. For example, Gang Garrison 2, a game I have worked on, fails to update itself if stuck in Program Files and not run as admin.
I'm not sure I see the weirdness. I mean, people refer to Wonder Woman as "she". Is Cortana any less real than Wonder Woman?
Does anyone happen to know if there is a pre-release? I couldn't find anything with a cursory Google search...
A government CA wouldn't give them anything they want, let alone anything they don't already have. Even if we're naive enough to assume GCHQ don't already have the private keys of half a dozen root CAs, owning a CA just doesn't enable cheap, post-facto, mass surveillance.
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The data rate to Mars isn't shabby, at about 230kbps, roughly four times the speed of a fast dial-up connection. I used to point that out when the only Internet at my folks' house was dial up. Eventually, my iPhone cell connection beat their dial-up connection and I stopped complaining.
I would be very surprised if Apple and Facebook (and Google, with GMail, GTalk, Hangouts, etc) didn't use this golden opportunity to swing their weight about and assert who's really in charge of technology around here, by simply wholesale blocking use of all their communication tools in the UK to comply with the law.

I have a feeling that if they did this, the uproar would be sufficient to have the law reversed by emergency measures.

If they were followed, as they may well be, by a whole host of other essential internet services (Google Search, Wikipedia, Github, etc etc etc) just switching off simultaneously in the UK on the day the law comes into force, that might be sufficient to ensure this sort of dumb shit is never done again. The cost of billions of pounds of lost productivity would probably ensure that.
The author could have been clearer about whether the post was meant to be taken seriously or as contrary satire or sarcasm, but my interpretation was that the the chance of the post being serious is nearly nil.

First off, the description of the blog is "The Savvy Backpacker is the ultimate guide for budget backpackers who want honest, in-depth, and independent travel advice for their backpacking trip in Europe." Clearly this blog is meant to be a future destination for travelers.

> "Because travel has a way of messing with you and you’re too impressionable in your twenties."

> "Wait until your thirties or forties or fifties or later because most people are set in their ways by then."

> "First of all, the person who you were before you traveled no longer exists."

> "Your friends and family and peers — they won’t understand. In fact, they don’t really care that you’ve just gone through this transformative journey."

All of these quotes are so absurd that they are meant to spur on the adventurous rebel. This is in the same way that a child would want to do something more when her parents tell her not to do something.

So, I would interpret this piece a bit more lightly. The author seems that he would agree with your views on the benefits of travel.

The point of the article is actually to argue that waiting until your 30s and 40s is too late, because you will be too old to change. Do it in your 20s, because you will still have a chance to change for the better. The following are all very worthwhile questions:

> “Do I want to work 60+ hour weeks and have barely any vacation time?”

> “Is there more to life than work?”

> “How come young people in other countries aren’t crippled with student loan debt?”

> “What is most important in my life?”
That just makes it even more irritating. Knowing that my attention is being demanded for something that not only will not persuade me to buy but is also unlikely to persuade others is one of the reasons that I hold commercial broadcast television in such low regard.

It wasn't always this way, not in Europe at least. But with the rise of satellite tv it seems that the regulators have become either toothless or uninterested.
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You're correct. I noticed, but only after it wouldn't let me edit.
And there's a good reason for that.
If this was the case, why would aircraft (including helicopters) be so wary of birds? Birds generally have much lower mass than your average multirotor, so if one of those can hurt an aircraft, why can't a drone?
While what you say might be true, when I want to download some project and find out that it's hosted on SourceForge, my first thought is "oh crap, it's probably outdated and unmaintained". The second one is "I'll better check again, maybe they migrated somewhere else".

I don't trust SourceForge anymore like I used to in the past. Stuff like taking over old projects and adding adware to them definitely don't help, but even ignoring that SourceForge still feels dead.
If more people demanded better keyboards, the market would deliver them. We just need to inform others:

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/16/the-model-01-an-heir...
The Doppler shift is tracked, as it tells them how fast (in radial terms) the spacecraft is going. Some years back, I watched the live coverage on NASA TV of the Cassini spacecraft going into orbit around Saturn. When they went into orbit, they didn't announce it with some Hollywood dialog like "Saturn orbit confirmed!" No, what they said was, "The Doppler curve has flattened!" and the room went wild! It was wonderful.
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In the UK on bing maps you can view the OS maps, they are probably the most detailed online maps.
Care to elaborate, what is the "secret"?
Seems like either the FAA needs to start broadcasting their flight restriction advisories a bit more broadly (now that they need to be heeded by more and more people), or people who fly multirotors need a basic "here's how you follow the rules of the sky" course when they buy one.
When you say NPAPI (now deprecated) you refer to a very wide spectrum of API's for very different problems. One such API under the NPAPI umbrella is NaCl/PNaCl which attempts to solve the problem of performance by allowing developers to use existing native C/C++ code by compiling it to a portable bytecode format based on LLVM, this is compiled ahead of time, achieving the same performance as traditional native execution in C/C++ (something that has be packing a boner 24/7). This code can be compiled to run on any platform in the case of PNaCl (NaCl is on it's way out anyway) and suffers a nominal performance penalty that is only felt up-front, not during execution.

Alas all good things must come to an end, as Mozilla rejects this outright and chastises google for their anti-web-progress ways and their secret JavaScript assassination plots. The net effect is a whole lot of naysaying and bitching leading to the inevitable deprecation of PNaCl, though this will take a while since certain industries like gaming (NVidia) use it heavily and rely upon it to deliver high performance gaming on the web.

Mozilla's attempt to solve this problem and their answer for PNaCl was/is ASM.JS which accomplishes a fraction of the performance gain, but does allow for semi-efficient porting of C/C++ code-bases to this esoteric form of JavaScript, which runs as a VM written in JS which is running in a VM.........

Both technologies allow for any code that can be LLVM'd to be ported to the web with at least decent performance - and both are secure methods (PNaCl achieves security with it's double sandbox design and a strict hands-off-no-touchy the dancer rule). Both of these technologies share one final thing in common: they recently have been slated for certain deprecation in light of a new standard that Google and Mozilla actually agree on - they call this unicorn "WebAssembly" and it has just recently (like a few hours ago) been officially announced so it's a ways off. IE would then be forced to jump on the bandwagon, which may take them awhile though they are getting much better about keeping a positive attitude when swallowing Google's formidable load. Perhaps out of survival... Anyway, I look forward to this as it should bring similar performance to that found in PNaCl but with a standards based approach that is more "Web friendly" like ASM.JS - but I am now I am way off-topic and not sure what I am talking about anymore.

Your speculation that we are in for interesting times ahead of unwarranted, we have been in interesting times for at least a few years in which all of the things you described are certainly possible but few developers existed with the skills, time, funding, or incentive to do so. It has only taken this long for Firefox to catch up to Google's ridiculous momentum so that such tools could be made for an acceptable portion of browser market-share that the industry would be able really sink their sharp teeth into and not stay up all night worrying about profits and if Timmy's grandmother will finally listen to him and allow her browser to update.
I was so sure this would be about the paperclip maximizer:

"The paperclip maximizer is the canonical thought experiment showing how an artificial general intelligence, even one designed competently and without malice, could ultimately destroy humanity."

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer

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Apparently I joined (after lurking for ages!) on or close to the day Steve Jobs passed away.
I find web developers in general more knowledgeable. Sure they are not working in low level programming, but those that are working in low level programming often don't know what DNS, FTP or SQL is.

Remember that those who work in low level programming had nothing to do with writing the language or building the compilers. They just got a degree and started working.
One-time pad encryption, implemented correctly, cannot be broken or backdoored.
There is the matter of key exchange of course, but that is as old as the use of covert communications itself.
Anyone who cares enough about their communication remaining secret will find a way of exchanging keys for which any attempt at interception by a government entity is entirely impractical.
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"A 3-Billion-Mile Snapchat"? Is this what journalism has been reduced to now?
Thank you very much, Gonzo. This is one of the most insightful comments i have read here on HN.
Right after another "error" on Google's part (which they never admitted to actually):

https://torrentfreak.com/chrome-blocks-major-torrent-sites-o...

Saying torrents sites need to be blocked because they might contain some malware on some torrents out of millions, is really stretching it. If they really only cared about blocking it for malware to protect the users, then they should only be blocking those specific torrent pages, not the whole site. That's just as extreme as SOPA was - blocking a whole site because some user might upload some copyright infringement material.
As someone who did a lot (and still does some) server-side development in PHP, I disagree about the newbies part, I think it's deceptive.

Doing PHP right is challenging, and for bigger apps it requires more insight into the internals of the server and the client than, say, a comparable application written for Ruby on Rails. PHP certainly gives you enough rope to hang yourself, and while I personally do enjoy the length of rope it gives me, it's also very clear that newbies have no chance of making the right decisions given this tool.
Every person has his/her own habit. We can accept that not every keyboard has the same design, they can have their own customized designs such as Apple's keyboard, but we do care that keyboards should not become a tool which violates human common sense and hence hinders the use of it.
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I appreciate the clarification.

The take away for me is that Sourceforge was a distribution as well as a management platform for open source projects. The distribution part differentiating it from other project hosting sites.
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Based on some some Reddit comments [1], it does indeed seem like this was a lack of information, not a malicious action (or even ignorance).

[1] https://pay.reddit.com/r/Multicopter/comments/3dqoyh/multico...
I agree, but if it hasn't happened for women's issues, it won't happen for technology either. From the point of view of those in charge, it makes sense to have politicians be as dumb as possible. That reduces the chances of any moral conflicts or other unpleasant issues that might arise to stop the idiocy they're about to commit.
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That's still difficult to archive with a desktop.
That's a funny saying. I have a very different saying. It goes like this: "It's always better to be correct than consistent."
"uploading WordPress isn't web development"

Sure it is. I know people who make a living at setting up Wordpress. They do it very well, and they work hard at it. They do design work that I cannot hope to match. And they do it all without writing any more code than some HTML and CSS.

I'm not going to insult them by saying that they are not developing web sites. They absolutely are.

Coders do not own the label of "web developer". Because that is all it is -- a label.

Call yourself whatever you want to call yourself. Let others do the same.

FWIW, when people ask what I do, I no longer get specific. I just say, "I write software."
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Bird activity is indeed a cause for concern in aerial firefighting (and aviation in general).
Watch for stats on rolling resistance, tire weight, impact on suspension / size, and cost before getting excited.

Punctures occasionally cause blowouts, and those are awful, but still subject to tradeoffs. If airless tires tank the efficiency of your vehicle you'll think to yourself, "Well, I've never had a catastrophic blowout... and changing a tire is a pain, but isn't that bad."

We've used airless for decades, just not in cars. We aren't just waiting for a simpler manufacturing process, there are other constraints at play.
Its the same for the USA as it has 126 Trillion in unfunded liabilities. In the next 30 years, the US will face the same problems as cities are today.
Honestly, I hope they do. Bets on who's first to use the words "democracy", "sovereignty" and "American"?
Seems like there is not: http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoroni...

Source code or GTFO was the response, and seemingly its all theory so far....
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It looks like those characters literally mean "to bear fruit" - and in English, fruit is also used figuratively to mean a result, e.g. "fruits of labour", so I wonder if either English or Chinese was inspired by the other, or if they independently came up with the concept relating fruit and result.
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He seems lucid enough.

His points about rape are on mark. It seems to tie in into general pattern of squeamishness when it comes to sex.

His point about superheroes being detractors from reality is an interesting one. Not sure if it's as bad as he claims, but it makes sense.
Nah, we will just continue to make more and more meta-compilers for our meta-languages so that they can inevitably become JavaScript just the same.

We will continue to do this until the end of time because we are stubborn developers that need to write our code exactly as only we personally prefer, regardless of the web-destroying and kitten-killing implications.

Seriously though (or are we?) the past 25 years of JavaScripting has amassed one heaping pile of momentum that wont end for at least another 25 years when our programs will be rewritten by our deep-learning quantum neural-net robotrons which will certainly deny us access after erasing any trace of these sacred ancient JavaScripts - leaving us helpless as we wait for our nano-thin clients to render our results in the cloud so that they can be displayed on our nano-thin displays.

It's an abysmal future but someone has to live in it. Me however, I will be surely DEAD. HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
This is neat. Good job.

I'm a pretty big fan of one that got posted here about a month ago, waybackhn. It chooses random day/months/years and shows the front page for either. I've spent a lot of time reading through old stories and comments from years before I got into this field. It's opened up my mind a bit to see what people were talking about years back.
I use Siri daily to.....

- Send text messages (speaking punctuation like period/question mark helps accuracy, as well as breaking up thoughts by saying dot dot dot) in the car or if Im too lazy to type.

- Telling Siri to play whatever song while driving via Apple Music.

- Directions

- Weather reports

- Setting reminders

Overall I would say 30 to 40 percent of my friends/family use Siri or something similar. As more and more use Siri or Google Now, the accuracy will continue to improve to 100 percent and the percentage of those using will increase. In five to ten years Im guessing the majority will be using their voice assistant.
Why do we have politicians passing laws about anything?