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> Der Chaos Computer Club möchte daher die schönsten im Jahr 2015 gegen Journalisten oder ihre Quellen eingeleiteten Ermittlungsverfahren wegen Landes- oder Hochverrats mit jeweils einem Freiticket zum nächsten Chaos Communication Congress (32C3) prämieren.

The meaning is a bit complicated.

The Chaos Computer wants to reward people, who have caused such investigations, with a free ticket for the next congress. Basically they want to reward whistleblowers and related.
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See also "China's Island Factory" at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29107792
Agreed. Callback hell in JavaScript is reminiscent of the GOTO-hell we used to suffer as BASIC programs grew larger. Like you said, with all its problems it was still ubiquitous and practical. So is JavaScript.
I usually JavaScript is a great second language (after you pick up Python)
python's problem is that while it goes the distance to make the simplest possible program as simple as possible, simplicity bleeds off very quickly as you add functionality.

The shortest well behaved program, for example, looks like this:

if __name__ == "__main__":
print "Hello World!"

and the shortest program that is strictly equivalent to the java program is closer to this:

class Hello(object):
@classmethod
def main(cls):
print "Hello World!"

if __name__ == "__main__":
print "Hello World!"

Based on my experience, there's a lot people learning python who spend a lot of time at the stage where they "just don't get OO", and my opinion is that the reason is the language is bad at teaching them. It's like a submarine of complexity waiting under the simplified syntax for basic scripting.
"Being under opposition control" does not necessarily imply "is not telling the truth."
I haven't read Game of Thrones so I'm probably missing some essential context.

But in what universe is "destroying the country" a rational means and "stay in power" a despicable goal?
Very true. It probably can't happen for various reasons, but I would love if windows just folded python 3.2 in as part of the default install.

Python certainly feels, to me, like the most similar language to the old QBasic. Simple syntax, with advanced features that you can use, or not use, pretty robust standard library, not great, but usable IDE built-in (I assume IDLE still comes in the install?)

One of the really cool things about QBasic was that it had support for doing such a wide spectrum of things natively, and easily. In my first semester-long high-school course, we went from Hello World, to doing VGA graphics with the different SCREEN modes and FILL, LINE, etc, making programs that could play christmas carols using the built-in MIDI commands, and doing some animations that relied on some of the old-school page-flipping techniques that we take for granted with modern hardware and APIs.

I don't know of another language that makes it as easy to do all that now. Python with pygame would be a start, but it's still much more complicated to get a window created that you can draw in than it was with QBasic.
So does that mean the WebRTC issues will be made visible to the average user?
Its a bit more nuanced because we are all people who know varying degrees of code and have already "been there," so to speak.
To learn Python I'd argue you'd have to know a bit (read: not much) of the UNIX environment and args before you jumped in, and my difficulty with it in college was that I had only learned from compiled languages with all of the libraries pre-built for me.
However, I would have bypassed all of those difficulties if I had learned how to be a "sudoer" from the beginning.
I think going the HTML --> CSS --> Vanilla Javascript route could possibly get kids coding before they lose their first teeth. Kids are already very savvy with their mobile browsers.
I appreciate your point of view, but doesn't this deny human nature, replacing subjectivity with a kind of sterile mechanistic objectivity? We can make rational choices. For instance, we could remove advertisements from public places and roads.
It's pretty benign. I'm not sure "warning you about potential phishing sites" is the sort of surprise they were trying to move away from. Would you consider being warned of a revoked SSL certificate a surprise too?
I am in France at the moment, and I have never (exaduration) seen so many feature phones... Getting a French SIM for data was an exercise in frustration even with a local helping me. I got a SIM from Bourgues Telecom by registering it to a friend's name and address. Mostly works but it is really really difficult to give them money (wtf) and they modify unencrypted HTML page image links: http://serverfault.com/questions/339780/who-what-is-http-1-1...

Sellers on second hand trading site leboncoin.com keep saying to use the phone and not email (I.e. I presume they don't have a smart phone and data connection).

One place I stayed at had been trying to get ADSL for two years, even though it was reasonably built up.

As a NZer that travels a lot, the internet infrastructure appears less than 1st world to me.
Just add registry server, that's where the magic is.
I completely disagree and I find your choice of words - "it's too deep for
you", "it's tricking you!", "it's eeevil!" to be distasteful. Seems like a
political ad for going to the "righteous side" of being against ads.

There has been only one brand that I can recall to have bought because of
"hidden" advertising. Budweiser. I used to see the characters from my favorite
series drinking it while eating pizza or other delicious food, and whenever I
passed by it in the market I had this feeling that it seemed to taste real
good. It's piss. I have never bought it again, and I was fully conscious that I
thought it was good because I established a relation between it and people I
like eating food I like while drinking it. Even if I had not seen this
relation, I would not mind. I for one do not want to see the day when trying to
sell your fish the best you can - without deceive - becomes immoral or illegal.
Before someone says I'm being "tricked in a deeper level" and buying other
stuff without noticing, I don't pick brands. I pick whatever is cheaper at the
moment since I'm both frugal and unemployed.
There are linters to handle syntax issues like tabs for spaces. Furthermore every text editor I've ever used has supported automatic handling of tabs/spaces and how many to indent.

Not sure on publishing but maybe try packaging it properly (I believe python apps can be wrapped into .exe files) and putting the package into something like dropbox folder?

It's 2015 and these problems are solved already.
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As a philosophy major I'll try to give the simplest way I know how to explain this. If you are testing a scientific theory, what might be some criteria for evaluating that theory? First you want the theory to be verifiable, probably also falsifiable, you also want it to be able replicate your results, independent observation is another. There are other criteria obviously but I'm not going to be able to explain an entire branch of philosophy in one post, so bear with me. The Hole Argument comes in as a thought experiment where you have testers in different spacetime "holes" who are independent observers, replicating the results of a scientific experiment, the question to be answered is whether or not independent observation is a good enough criteria for evaluating a theory since the testers are epistemically blind to one another or if theories should be held to some higher standard. That's the short of it.
The mathematical models of space and time suggest that there might be a philosophical stance where "spacetime" itself is a physical object. What this means, really, is that one might want to talk about situations where two choices of spacetimes differ in configuration.

The problem with this POV is that "internally" we're only able to perceive certain things and, indeed, these things are ignorant to changes in spacetime configuration. This is exactly the power of this mathematical formulation.

So the Hole is a thought experiment where you construct two differently configured spacetimes, ones you might want to distinguish between, and then show that the perceptions of these two cannot differ in meaningful ways.

And then one should question as to whether or not they want to believe with any fervor that spacetime has a physical sense.
You could create a "Standard" account for your day-to-day. Then no need for virus protection. ^_^ To install software, you'll have an extra step of typing in the admin user name and password. Nice.
There is this idea that small teams with great leadership are more effective at innovation.
When I signed up for my most recent 401K, there was a really slimy Edward Jones dude pushing some fund they called the "perfect retirement fund for a mid 30 year old" or something to that effect. As soon as I asked about management fees he bumbled around and started talking about the other funds they offered. Its going to be really tough to differentiate yourself as the "best investors". Differentiate yourselves on "best 401K platform" its much lower hanging fruit is all I'm saying. Once people are in the platform use historic performance to help them make the best decisions.
They are not being sued. They are listed as suspects, and the DA is determining if there is a case or not.
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The act of creating software is a craft. Designing the architecture for software is what I'd call engineering, but there is still a lot of craft involved in most software architecture.

I don't think there is any art in it, unless the software you are building it supposed to be an artistic project. But that is not unique to software, painting itself is a craft, painting in a novel thought-provoking way is art.
What I'm really looking for is a tutorial about autoconf, automake, and friends.
That's not software, it's malware.
I worked in the Quarter for the better part of two years. The criminals are criminals; the transients are part of the character of the area. Where else in the world do you have a mix of movie stars and millionaires living alongside musicians and artists working hard to survive?

As hard as he tries, the Quarter is still in New Orleans. White washing it may make it more appealing to moneyed types and tourists, but it comes at the cost of turning the Quarter into a shell of what it once was.
Relevant legal analysis (in German, by a lawyer): http://www.internet-law.de/2015/07/ist-das-landesverrat.html

The key point is that state secrets can only be those pieces of information that must be kept secret in order to prevent a grave danger to the external security of the Federal Republic of Germany. Netzpolitik.org published information about the internal structure and plans of Germany's domestic intelligence service, which is highly unlikely to affect Germany's external security.
Given the various names for that stretch of water, I'm surprised the NYT doesn't spin the article by calling it e.g. the West Philippine Sea. Maybe because South China Sea is more recognizable in a headline?
which is why solar installations need to focus on the industrial scale instead of throwing money at individual home owners, which by the way excludes a significant number of people.

There is zero reason to subsidize home owners installing wind or solar energy however you could get better results by subsidizing their purchase of power generated that way.
If you describe Clojure as "(a LISP library for Java developers)", I am not going to read your paper.
Or how about maybe close US military bases on German soil.
> PHP is not the new BASIC. Combine the HTML/CSS/JavaScript arguments above, and throw in setting up Apache and a thoroughly bloated namespace. PHP is a poor candidate.

Yes, we hate PHP. Hurrr! It is so hard to setup Apache to run it especially considering how easy it is for Python. OH, and yes, PHP doesn't have a CLI! PHP is only good for web because I say so.

What? PHP does have a CLI? It is in fact the same process to set it up with Apache (mod_wsgi/mod_php)? It is also possible to build an emulator in PHP?! (http://phspectrum.sourceforge.net/) NOOO! PHP is only good for web and it is used by mindless guys (a certain asian population like it a lot!!!) so all of this is irrelevant!!!
Windows 10 has been available for developers to test their apps on for over 9 months and well publicized. It looks like VirtualBox didn't bother to take advantage of that window. It's likely not because it's free and open source (I've ensured my FOSS projects work on Windows 10 since the first public test version), it's likely because it's Oracle. Note that the first bug you linked is 4 months old but was ignored for months and the first comment posted to it just 10 days ago.
2: You only need insurance to drive on public roads otherwise it's optional.

3: 20k is < 1 bad accident.

4: Drum breaks don't mean much human physical reaction speed is to slow to safely tailgate period.
I would definitely agree with you now, but this article was written in 2008. Maybe the landscape was a little different then? But I guess even then, Python wasn't really 'everywhere'.
How about minecraft written in python? https://github.com/fogleman/Minecraft https://github.com/boskee/Minecraft

or python bindings to original minecraft http://www.jjinux.com/2013/05/drawing-sierpinskis-triangle-i...

http://python-minecraft.readthedocs.org/en/latest/contents.h...
Original Tweeter here. If you want to read more about page weight here are some articles I've written on the subject:

If anyone wants to check the math here are the data points (taken from http://httparchive.org):

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ag3KlStPARROp03IWZN1...

If you're interested in the problem of page weight you can read more here:

https://mobiforge.com/research-analysis/understanding-web-pa...

https://mobiforge.com/design-development/measuring-page-weig...
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> It isn't turing complete

It is!
>In meatspace, I just don't look

Honestly that sounds impossible, practically dangerous.

Just go out in a park, people are walking billboards. Clothes, shoes, accessories they all seem to be plastered with logos. Along the road, billboards, many of them electronic flashing messages. Oh and logos over everything, everywhere. Big yellow arches. Communications companies love sticking their corporate image on every surface they can. Oh and a soda company that love putting red and white on everything they can.
What a pity they destroyed those reefs.

Besides that, artificial land is nothing new, a good chunk of NL was made by manipulating the sea. Even so this is clearly a 'landgrab', but not much different other than the time in which it happens (the present, rather than a few hundred years ago). NL did it with the colonies and plenty of other countries did it too. A lot of that has reverted over the last 3 decades but there are still quite a few remnants such as Cyprus (claimed by the Turks and the Greeks), the Falkland islands (UK vs Argentina) and a whole bunch of smaller ones.

The world map will always be in flux due to territorial disputes like these, in the end it is all about money.
I consider the way they hid the "block third party cookies" option a surprise.
Mozilla is so dependent on Google and other companies' money, they can't be completely trusted to offer the best privacy out of the box.

The fact that Safari has 3rd party cookies disabled by default whereas Firefox hasn't... is both telling and sad.
I found this site, which seems to be a self-proclaimed .su registry: https://www.register.su/
I wrote this blog post about Networking for Introverts a few months back: http://introverted-entrepreneur.com/networking-for-introvert.... I hope it is useful to you.
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Yes. I understand that this is about "my" Windows 10 install sharing data about "you." I should have been more clear (and, unfortunately, the editing window has closed so I can't clarify). But if you re-read my comment with this in mind (as I had intended) it remains the case that while this a Bad Thing, and I see the analogy to revenge porn, it also is radically different in degree from revenge porn on several morally significant dimensions.
Ok, updated. Thank you!
Perhaps make it more clear that only Portsmouth is the only city for now?

I kept searching for London / Croydon / Brighton expecting my city to update.
I'm pretty sure you haven't heard me complaining about the imperfect/perfect Internet this would offer, or whether we should wait or not for something more/less neutral, so your reply is totally misguided.

I have 7 years of experience working in telco business. I don't mind "rich" companies investing in this solution (something else you got wrong), what I mind is telcos in the loop.

Oh, BTW, besides the experience with the soul-crushing telco business, I also have experience at that third world thingy... You see, I've grown in a third world country. Born '85, had no idea that compact discs (CD) existed until '94.
Gauge transformations in physical theories can lead to possibly unpalatable conclusions if you believe a certain way.

It certainly wouldn't be the first time. Mostly, people just get used to it and live with "Nature is a perverse bastard."

I don't know how much I like the tone: I may be reading it with a bias. But hey, who knows where the next insight will come.
I think it matters, if only because it's more efficient to complain about the big corporations that everyone is familiar with than about some unknown startup few people care about.

If you only have limited time and energy for activism, you have to go for the bigger targets (to make it easy to collaborate with other activists) or go for the most local targets (because you may have a comparative advantage).
> For all we know, some problems in P could be so difficult as to preclude any practical algorithm.

You can actually prove that given any (concrete) subclass of P that there is a language in both in P and harder, by a simple application of the time hierarchy theorem.
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I think he (my friend, not Kim) ended up deciding he preferred his fake friends because they were so much better at being "friends". His real friends would call him out and tell him to get real when he started getting too full of himself due to his new wealth. His fake friends were always supportive regardless of how outrageous his behavior became (and it went way over the top). I guess it is kind of a selection bias effect and the same thing that leads to big-headed bosses surrounding themselves with yes men. I wonder if Kim fell into that trap.
Why do you ask this?
Yeah, I think it's a continuous tension in software development, and for various reasons I have a hunch that it's useful to kind of try to nudge the JavaScript world towards the appreciation of basic, stupid, non-fancy simplicity. Actually that's true for way more than JavaScript. I felt the same thing very strongly the last time I installed desktop Ubuntu... I can sometimes get slightly obnoxious in my nudging, because "moving parts" complexity irritates me on a visceral level. Which can lead to NIH syndrome... By the way, Nick Bostrom uses the term "infrastructure profusion" to describe a particular nightmare scenario of AI, and I think it's evocative, so I've started to think of human intelligence as prone to this profusion, too. A perfect example would be something like if you had problems with your multiple JavaScript build tools and so you started a new build tool project to coordinate all your other build tools... Call it something cool, like "Leviathan"!
console.log("Hello") is not more complicated than print("Hello").
For the callbacks it is actually possible to not use them. See how to: http://www.xul.fr/javascript/no-callback.php (and it is even very simple). That is just a matter of style.
Ah, good to know! Got any links?
That's the wrong question. The right question is how much Yahoo paid mozilla to do this. At a guess, a lot less than the $145M that mozilla got in the past from Google.
If 90% of all egg-crackers are short, it's likely that there's a huge problem driving tall egg-crackers out of the field.
Actually solar is so cheap right (real prices), that the price of the solar panels themselves (1$/Watt) are only 25-30% of the total installation cost (3-4$/watt). Inverters add onto that but over 50% of the cost is on the "soft" part of the installation (permits and labor). We need to innovate on the labor portion if we want to drop costs even more.
A free market for kidneys?
Probably the best point here by far.

I didn't start learning to program because I wanted to program, I learned to program because I saw a file called GORILLA.BAS in one of the folders on my MS-DOS machine.

Once I figured out I could open it in QBASIC and just press F5.... that was it... I would be a programmer for my next 20+ years and counting.

EDIT:

I would also like to point out how important the QBASIC IDE was as well. F5 to run. Put your cursor over any function and press F1 and it gave you a full description. It fixed your syntax (somewhat) as you coded too. It would highlight the line where the error happened. It literally held your hand through creating whatever you could dream up at the time.
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I agree with your assertion. Javascript is as ubiquitous and horrible as Basic was in the day. One of the WORST languages to learn as a first.
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Actually some of it on SEP is written by undergrads which is kind of awesome in my opinion but it is certainly vetted before being posted.
Because it was submitted yesterday :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9975022
Sounds like FreeBSD's POLA

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/f...
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It's not only for VCs, it's also for attracting new hires.
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Maybe Python has all these qualities, but it is - different -. If you learn programming with Python, you have to relearn it again to use any other common language, Java, C#, JavaScript etc...
Dyndns has been a thing for years. It's not particularly hard to set up, but it's just another thing you need to configure. And I suppose it's an external dependancy.

(Decentralised protocols run quickly into "Zooko's triangle": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle )
Honestly, I found that kind of disappointing, because one of the things I like most about Python is its metaprogramming capabilities.

I'm honestly not fond of languages like Rust that try to restrict mutability. The only one of the new breed of languages I've found that I really like is Nim.
Have you ever tried to write, say, a short story?

I'd argue that it is far, far, far, far, far easier and takes far, far, far less skill to make a 1,000-line piece of code work than it does to make a 1,000-line short story 'work'.
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