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So, regarding failures, they're actually pretty well documented. See g.. here: http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/suspensionfailures.html. First result from a google search. Not exactly some giant coverup and fraud, I think.

"> they are hugely financially liable

Liable to what exactly?"

Well, the original point made above is that there is no way to verify they do as they claim, which is to freeze bodies/heads, in the hopes that someday in the future someone will know how to do something with it. I'm assuming that if they don't actually freeze the bodies as they say, they are committing fraud. That's what the discussion was about. That's what I meant by "liable".

"[What would it take to] > convince you that it's not a scam?

Successful revival."

Well, since no one is claiming that a successful revival is possible now, or even that a successful revival will be possible sometime in the future, I don't think that's a fair thing to demand.

Again, as long as they're clearly explaining the idea behind this, as long as they're not trying to trick anyone by promising something that doesn't exist, which they aren't, then I don't think it's fair to call it a scam.

I just find it a little sad that, at least as far as I can tell, most of the people involved in this are people who really believe in the mission. They're not lying, not misleading people, giving all the facts, and yet, everyone just assumes it's a fraud or a scam.
>And while it has been suggested that miners can connect to a VPS if they prefer to remain anonymous rather than connect through Tor, this is not quite satisfying for decentralists either. Speaking to Bitcoin Magazine, hashcash inventor and Blockstream CEO Dr. Adam Back explained why.

>“It is technically possible to mine using a VPS (Virtual Private Server), but miners who do so are not choosing their own transactions,” Back emphasized. “Instead, they connect to a server that does this for them. It’s another form of centralization, at the extreme. And we already see this happening due to bad connectivity in some countries, where miners use VPS services set up in another country to win some time and increase profits…”

Is it just me or was this article generated by a markov bot?
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It may also be for the purpose of simulating to some degree the flexibility of the ribs at each level.
Or is it just not very important? Obviously, from your line of questioning, you think it is. But for the majority of software developers who only work on CRUD web apps, is it at all necessary to know this sort of stuff?
I don't know PCRE nor PIRE. Still…

…I bet you can find some input that would work differently on PIRE and PCRE. Just use an escape sequence that PCRE recognise, and PIRE interprets as ordinary characters.

Failing that, we may be able to find some input that is accepted by PCRE and rejected by PIRE; then some input that is accepted by PIRE and rejected by PCRE.

If any of those two hypothesis turn out to be true, then PIRE is neither forward nor backward compatible with PCRE. So it would truly be incompatible. I expect the provided example works on both simply because most simple inputs would work on both. Showing incompatibilities was probably not the goal of this example.
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For those of you unfamiliar with the story, this New York Times piece describes how this all happened in the first instance. One more datum on federal incompetence: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/12/us/politics/us-drops-charg...
Ah, you are right. I mean SPDY is/was by design an experimental tech.
By a adoption point of view is a failure by design.

But is good as it is: innovation break things and we need experimental protocols.

For QUIC instead I don't think there is a future.
Perhaps a better example would be avoiding multiple inheritance not because you think MI is a bad idea but just in case you wanted to switch from C++ to Java in the future and you might need to re-architect.
Actually ,people in the end do pay more, but it's subtle.

Say you we're a customer that bought an iPhone every 2 years.

Now Apple's yearly plan looks like:

1. A new iPhone every year + Apple care

2. Same price

3. Don't have to deal with salesman at carrier store.

So more people will be tricked for new iPhone every year.

And once this becomes the standard , since Apple is a status symbol - suddenly buying a phone every 2 years carries less status.
I average about 1.75 years, my last few phones I've called a few months before the renewal to ask for an early upgrade. They make these things so fragile I'm sure they're replaced way more often than expected.

I did get the S5 Active as my last phone and it has taken some abuse. Things that should have broken the screen have just left deep nicks.
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>I end up replacing mine almost quarterly.

That seems insane to me. I don't use a case or bumper, and have never crack a screen or had cause to have my phone need replacing - other than in-warranty battery issues. The phone I'm using now is the iPhone 5, from 3 years ago. Before this I've been on a 2 year cycle. And I certainly don't kid-glove my phones.

What has you replacing so often?
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My last phone lasted over 3 years, and I'm on year 2 with my current one. Are yours dying due to drops?
Interviews for what type of work? I'm assuming it's networking-related?
Lots of different approaches to encryption have pitched themselves as the easy-to-use replacement for PGP. Alas, so far, none of them have taken the world by storm.

That's good, though. PGP is the only one that's given true safety. Everything else has broken, either in theory or (mostly) in implementation. The problem is a social one, and it doesn't need to be solved quickly. It's fine if it takes several more decades before we find the right model.

Those that want to protect themselves can do so. Those that don't, don't. Not such a bad outcome, all things considered.

It seems like PGP's web of trust model was the mistake, anyway. There's not much wrong with the model of "here's my pubkey, and now you can send me data securely." The key can be intercepted or subverted, but what changed since the 80's was the rise of instant messaging. In 2015, you're often talking to people in realtime, and you want to talk and send data to them securely. To do that, you're exchanging keys in realtime, over some kind of chat program. (Even emailing someone a pubkey counts as a form of chat.) In that context, the web of trust is unnecessary.
Do you have a good recommendation for introductory to intermediate level guides for understanding the aspects of networking you find important?

I learn a little bit about intra-DC networking on the job, but I've never needed to use anything else yet.
Lotus Cacaphony.
You have to stop at some point. Or do you go in depth into the workings of >10Gbps transceivers? the quantum mechanics of optical fibers? how to they manufacture top-notch photodiodes anyway? You can literally spend a lifetime in these depths.
"The point of HN is to be smart, and smart people rarely resort to offhandedness to make their points."

The point of HN is to discuss 'Anything that good hackers would find interesting.' This isn't the same as being smart. I don't think it's a good idea to use that language as the basis for trying to influence someone, as it's easily interpreted as an underhanded suggestion that others are not as smart as you, and it implies that smartness is the major relevant scale with only one notable axis; omitting knowledge and experience, for example.

Nor does it seem useful to equate "smart" to "serious" or a lack of "offhandedness". Shows like QI, the puns in scientific journals (eg, in Angewandte Chemie at http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/10/13/those_zanies...), the IgNobel awards, and the humor of David E. H. Jones in his Daedalus columns, etc. strongly suggest that your observation of a strong anti-correlation between those traits is more a personal belief.
It doesn't matter what it's "for" - I've seen quite a few sites where it's being used to render static content. Well, at least what should be static content (i.e. articles/blog-posts, basic index or portal hompages). example: http://www.intel.com

I don't intend to single out Angular. I'm talking about any framework that renders empty pages. For example, http://www.meteor.com/ renders an empty body tag, and I doubt their homepage requires interactivity.

(I'm not talking about anybody that uses a framework but still renders an actual document)
>You have whole industries (gaming, video streaming, VoIP) that will laugh at you if you send time critical data over TCP and rightly so

Skype uses TCP, no? Laugh, indeed.
Completely agree. The trend toward phone sizes that are impossible to use with one hand or fit in a normal size pocket baffles me. I tried looking for an iPhone 5 size Android phone recently and even the "mini" versions of the flagships were huge.
Motorola Droid; Samsung Galaxy Nexus; LG G2. Each of these has lasted about 2 years of daily usage. I put the Droid and Nexus into service as alarm clocks for another 2 years apiece.
When it comes to the advances in modern communication technology, more money is thrown at building it in one mid-sized, low-rise and incredibly expensive US city than in most of the rest of the industrialised world put together.

When even the people trying to "disrupt" traditional bricks and mortar business and supply chains see "miles from Sand Hill Road" as a major factor in their startup's potential to raise revenue and exit, it's hardly surprising that the effects of technological progress haven't been sufficient to counteract the effect of massive population and income increases on the value of an essentially fixed supply of land.

Given the weight of evidence of what actually happens to land prices over time, I think the burden of proof is very much on the futurists to make the argument that people owning land where globalised world business is increasingly centred aren't going to continue to cream off significant percentages of productivity increases they generally haven't contributed to.
If the language you're trying to parse happens to be regular, then regular expressions are the perfect tool for the job. They're simple, reliable, and impossibly fast.

When you think about it, a search engine is mainly about finding key words in a huge pile of text, without caring much about the structure of the language the text is written in. That use case is totally specifiable by a regular language.
`m()` actually outputs plain JS objects.

m(".hello", 'world')

outputs

{"tag":"div","attrs":{"className":"hello"},"children":["world"]}
An intellectually honest person could give serious consideration to your argument while also acknowledging the possibility that higher revenue to local government won't necessarily be used in ways the residents expect. Just look at the City of Bell scandal[1].

As it relates to your earlier comment "This scenario of yours is used to justify policies such as California’s Prop 13," you should consider that Prop 13, which amended the California constitution, was adopted overwhelmingly by voters in California in 1978. If Californians don't like it today, they can repeal or change it. That's how our system works.

Why haven't Californians done away with or amended Prop 13? Polls consistently show that the majority of Californians continue to support Prop 13's limits and interestingly, even proposals that would eliminate Prop 13's tax treatment for non-residential properties are losing steam[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Bell_scandal

[1] http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-ln-support-prop...
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It depends on what kind of data you are talking about. There are legislative / regulatory requirements for some data, as it is required to be public. Other data is required to be private. There are vendors that have systems you can buy off the shelf, specifically for schools/districts, and other vendors that have more generic solutions that you can customize yourself.

But it is hard to even start such a conversation without knowing what you are really talking about.

You might get some value from having your superintendent talk to other districts - you may be able to share solutions. Also, NYSSBA has some partnerships with software vendors, so if your district is a member, there may be some answers from them as well.
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Could someone explain what this implies?

As a non-mathematical person who sometimes uses these tests in biological experiments, I find it frustrating why statisticians can't just give us something we could indeed use with confidence that it actually tells us what we think it tells us...
An odd choice of document to back up your argument. I can't think of any unix programs that use anything other than human readable dates and times in their outputs, for instance.

Further, nothing is stopping any implementation be independently reusable, whatever the choice of format. That's an irrelevance.

Essentially, it's not a technical decision. Trying to back up your preferences with tech reasons is besides the point. I just think that anything that makes it more difficult for a person to read the log files is a bad choice. If you can choose who has to do the extra work, human or computer, you should always let the computer do it.
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Skype does many things, not all of them the greatest. For instance, it breaks all my HttpListener-based .NET code when it is running.
I'm another person who hates running but do it moderately as it's a very efficient form of exercise.

I also do intermittent fasting, which also change you leptin levels. One thing I've noticed is that I have less hunger pangs when fasting when I can do a run in the middle of the day.

Also, I find it easier to find motivation to exercise when fasted than not. As a matter of fact, I only run on days I fast these days. There was another article earlier this week about this study which says exactly that and theorise that it might be an evolutionary thing, if you're skinny and hungry, you need to hunt, if you're satieted and fat, you're OK with just napping for a while.

*edit: Adding the article
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I wonder if this subscription model will finally end up with Apple selling refurb iPhones from the Apple store... would be nice to have that available
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I don't use either framework, but for whatever reason I find the Mithril example markedly easier to read. This is simply a matter of taste.
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It's still not entirely clear to me why or how Xi was being investigated in the first place. There was a mention in an earlier post on HN that he had some incidental contact with Ross Ulbricht of Silk Road.

However, the indictment gives a couple hints on this topic. There are multiple mentions of FISA and CIPA, US laws dealing with national security and spying. Perhaps the US was spying on the people Xi was communicating with?

You can read the indictment here:
https://cryptome.org/2015/09/xiaoxing-xi-files.pdf

All of this seems like overkill for what was supposedly a violation of an NDA.
It looks on-topic, autotranslation: "Cross-compiler for the Raspberry Pi 8192eu NIC driver" https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?act=url&...

In the autotranslation, the code blocks get mangle and appear like:

<span class="notranslate" onmouseover="_tipon(this)" ...>

But this is a English speaking forum, so this submission will be probably ignored (or flagged). Do you have an official English translation? I think it will be more successful here.
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This goes on the list of interview questions that's great at letting the interviewer claim pretty much any candidate they want to discard is unworthy of the position. It's the tech community's variant of a voting literacy test.

If you ask me "how does the internet work" and what you really want is details on the underlying protocols, at around the range of TCP/IP, why aren't you actually asking for that? Your question is so broad that it's not shocking in the slightest that most people pick a different focal point for their answer, especially given the already hostile interview environment and the added agitation provided by such an unclear question.

If your goal is to elicit and understanding of somebody's background in TCP/IP and the surrounding protocols, ask them a question about that. If that's not relevant for the position (it's almost certainly not for most "full-stack" engineers), switch to asking questions that are relevant to the work they'll actually be doing.
Clicked through two links to get to the original article and there is still no mention of how efficient these cells actually are. Printed cells have been around for a while, but efficiency has been so low that you you would need something like a square meter in direct sun to charge your phone.
It's not a separate issue at all: the entire point is that making all request come from the same source - which can happen in more opaque way with obfuscated WebAssembly. "Joe's Music Blog" would just hit the "insert ad" button on a future website authoring tool, and the automation can build everything.

Remember, I'm just speculating and suggesting caution. Nothing would make me happier than to be completely wrong about technologies like WebAssembly. I just think that it's a bad idea to underestimate the ingenuity of people that see dollar signs when they look at a new tool. If it I'm wrong and ad-blockers continue to work in a WebAssembly world, then there's no problem.
Given the fact that these adblocking discussions on HN have increased to 2 or 3 times per week, I imagine there will soon be an ad network that concentrates on serving unintrusive/ non- dark pattern ads. However, I currently do not know of one, perhaps you could list some of these?

FYI, your tone sounds accusatory, as if you already know oska has no such whitelist, and you are just proving the point that oska is just some freeloader that wants free stuff.
The vast majority of the time when I'm looking for something I'm not looking for a web app; I'm looking for a web page that I can instantly read and find what I need. Imagine going to a library and finding out the books had unskippable autoplaying videos and animations every time you turned a page, and you had to wait before you could see the text.

Contrary to the trend, not every site needs to be a web app. I feel like all the features of HTML5 are leading to something a lot like the Flash-only sites that blossomed during the late 90s and early 00s; just as inaccessible and user-hostile, except even more resource-consuming. The fact that it's built into the browser instead of a plugin and standardised does not make any difference to the end result.
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The article seems to imply that any work of art created within the context of an organization must be regarded as propaganda by default. "The Mystery of the Third Planet" was produced by a studio, which according to wikipedia enjoyed an "unprecedented degree of artistic freedom" [1]. Yet this film is mentioned right after the remark that "children were a key target of propaganda with space-themed films and cartoons cranked out for a younger audience." I don't really disagree with this way of categorizing certain art as propaganda but I'd like to see the same line of thought applied more often to Hollywood.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuzmultfilm#History_during_t...
It's not pretending, it's truth. You never own your land; you're just renting it from the local government with ownership entailing a bit more control over what you can do while it's "yours".
> Or use a language

You mean use clojure(script) , don't be shy ...
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> should be forcefully taken from me, and sent to Africa?

You don't see irony in that statement?

America/Europe doesn't have to help Africa now just like they didn't have to hurt Africa for centuries before.

In general, you should clean up the mess you made. But when your meddling makes things worse, I agree, leave Africa alone finally.
Could you provide examples of the Soviet films that were so influential?
Did they ever fix their protocol?

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jun/58

How do they prevent man-in-the-middle attacks on their customers, even if their server is the one performing the attack?
This is what happen when you have a industry that depend on deliberate deception to generate revenue. Once people start to find out they construct counter-measures to protect them self and the industry start to create counter-counter-measures in order to sustain itself.

As a Internet user I expect and consent that a website can provide useful content when I access it. I do not expect nor consent that the website give me malware that tracks me, nor do I give the publishing website permission to store and sell sensitive and private information about me, nor do I expect the site to fill my screen with excessive and intrusive sound and images that has the intention to deceive and distract me.

The historically solution to this problem has been for government to step in and create regulation that prevent the deception. Advertisement in TV, movies and radio is heavily regulated where the Internet space has so far not been touched. Alternative the industry could try fix this themselves by applying some self-restraints but so far the path of least resistance has been for users to take control of their own computers and deny the industry by technical means, ie ad blockers.
"There is simply no reason NOT to encrypt anymore
Even to people not very interested in protecting their privacy, there is simply no reason anymore to let the spies look into their mailbox while they can have exactly the same product with automatic encryption."

Actually, there are good reasons not to: Spam filtering. People have forgotten how bad spam was. It isn't possible to fight spam centrally when all email is encrypted.

Pretending that there aren't any downsides isn't the way forward. It's important to be open about the issues at stake, then say what's possible with the tools that can be created.
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Sorry but that needs a rather large asterisk applied to it. In the current era of 120Hz LCD displays and a Billion dollar market for video games. It's becoming very evident that the "best", not in a AAA title sense, but in the 'so popular it becomes a sport with professional players" sense, games are those that have put a LOT more effort into the implications of their network synchronisation algorithms. Some game engines have extremely long tail lives as popular mods take advantage of reliable network behaviour to create gaming experiences that don't infuriate passionate players keeping them alive many years after the game that wrote the engine moved on.
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