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Mozilla and Google no longer have any sponsorship agreements. And I can guarantee you that to most developers in Mozilla, that agreement never gave any technical or political credence to Google and its actions.

Why are people downvoting this? He's not making the argument, just explaining that people will put up this strawman.

Liberty Mail is an equally bad name. Don't conflate technology with freedom. Call it Electronic Messaging or something instead.

DMCA is about copyright, there's no copyright violations here. Furthermore, DMCA is an American law, and does not apply to India. Finally, even if it was American law, it's not a law for the government to use, but rather the citizens.

This is what happens when you let people take any action if they scream 'terrorist'.

You can have up to date packages with NixOS too. Just have to change the default channel.

If you don't pay extra care to updating Arch, it's possible that an update will brick your OS install requiring a fresh install. Granted, they usually tell you on their websites when this happens along with how to not brick your OS, but you have to be diligent to check every time.

The author answered, and it's hovering at the top of the comments.

The equivalent to copying information would be building another house with equivalent materials that has the same floorplan as your house, not taking your house itself.

"right to the residual income from its resale" sounds like a very weird right to me, and doesn't really come from any sound ethical foundation. In fact, it's exactly the opposite for physical goods. If I buy a deck of cards, and then sell (or give) it to somebody else, I've technically deprived the creator of the deck of cards of residual income from resale, but they don't have a right to it from the first sale doctrine.

Rust is able to be almost (unsafe blocks) free of segfaults without runtime overhead. That's the core feature that Rust provides with lifetimes.

The Rust compiler can (and does) have bugs, but they get weeded out over time. But so can whatever proof system or proof checker is used on SEL4.

As for integer overflow, yeah...that's a hard problem with Rust, and unfortunately, unlikely to be fixed.

They haven't been sent an NSL at the time of the writing of that post. They don't have details on what the attack is, only that they think there is going to be one.

To be fair, GC was always a big TODO item that became less and less important to implement until there were no go reasons to implement it in the language core (as you can implement it on top of the language), and removed from that list.

The other two are really part of the same coin. Having green threads involves having a runtime that has to be started. Deciding to remove the runtime means removing the green threads.

Wouldn't profits going to Sony and the MPAA already be antiethical to most hackers?

Yeah, it looks like the entire legislative approach is wrong and doing more harm than good. It'd be nice to see more focus on education and building up knowledge. Perhaps even a well designed website (including first-class mobile support) that we could link drug users to that describe the effects in an easy to search and digest format. If people want to do stupid things to themselves, let them.

We've found that legalizing marijuana has so far been helpful. I just hope it's not the last step.

Every organization has its share of problems. Microsoft has quite a lot of them. They are working on some of them, but others linger...

The unfathomable part is that Android would not be free software.

JavaScript isn't full of bugs nobody has bothered to fix. It's full of specified behavior that cannot be fixed without breaking backwards compatibility. That said, the issues are well known and actually bypassable.

Whether you should be using it for the problem XSLT tries to solve is another question. Probably not, since there are other templating languages.

I still listen to Gorillaz, but I don't use EJBs.

Alright, fair enough. This is different because it's the actual documentation.

Also, I just realized that this page wasn't here yesterday. Congrats on releasing!

The github URL was at the top of Hacker News on Friday. Do we really want to see the same framework at the top two weeks in a row?

Because it has nothing at all to do with the article.

Except WHATWG is made of many of the same members as the W3C.

As an IRC OP on a server with mostly non-technical channels, I can guarantee you that people are not mostly well-mannered. They are welcoming of others though.

Elixir is currently at v.1.0.2 and following SemVer. I'm guessing that counts as production ready by your definition.

You can use whatever database `app` you want, such as Ecto.

"Furthermore, it highlights that the companies' embrace of complex encryption techniques is making it even harder for GCHQ to spot potential threats in the "204 million email messages, 100,000 tweets and a million Facebook posts" sent every minute."

You mean just like it is hard to spot potential threats in physical mouth to ear communications?

Why is it okay to look at internet data for threats but not okay to put listening devices on every person? Seems like it's the same flow of data coming in either way.

It's not ironic. Sharing freely is part of the free market. Price points of zero are not disbarred.

Safehouses every 500 meters seems like such a small scale...why did you choose that number and not something more distant? I'd think 800 meters would be a better distance.

"libnih" - I have no clue what this does, so I immediately read it as 'lib not invented here'. Otherwise, yay...more unstable software.

It would make most security bugs caused by unsafe by default memory management which do account for a high percentage of security bugs, but logic bugs also cause security issues. See for instance SQL Injection attacks.