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I think that your points 2) and 3) are not perfectly reasonable if you really want to reach those who are not yet using encryption.

If you look at how keychains are usually used nowadays, they are an implementation detail you could and probably should hide from non-technical users.

As you say yourself, in order to find a key, you use the search for key button. Which prompts the program to look on a keyserver. You then import the first non-expired key you find for the desired email address. Why not do this automatically? You just annoy users who have to go through two (highly non-self-evident) steps and who do neither know nor care what a 'key' is. They just want to write secure email to their friends. (and btw, does the key-search even go over a secure connection with a pinned certificate? Because else you are not even trying to avoid MITM attacks).

Is it too much to ask these users to read the manual, learn about which kind of key is the most secure yet also compatible with the GPG versions of their friends, find out how many bits theirs should have, have them wiggle their mouse (why, couldn't you use /dev/urandom for most cases?), upload their key to a keyserver, search their friends key from a keyserver, learn about the web of trust and go to a key-signing party? Is this too much to ask? Probably yes. I did not need to acquire a similar amount of knowledge about TextSecure and yet it probably transmits my messages in a more secure form than GPG.

I am not saying that key-discovery is super-easy and all these are completely solved problems. But why do you have to make it so much more complicated for users than it has to be?
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It was the Unix motto. Before GNU ruined man pages...
So what do you mean, then?

Because that, and the Android/Java lawsuit are anything but praiseworthy.

If they've done any minor good in dealing with open source, it pales with comparison to those kind of offenses...
You can't use LGPL libraries in the iOS App Store. (Well, I'm no lawyer but that was what I've been told in the past)
To be clear, I didn't mean that they had to be tied together.

If they are available as options on the same page, that would be nice tho.
Krauss talks are entertaining https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo

I'm not knowledgeable enough to criticize it though.
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BE SKEPTICAL!

Not a single mention of "signal to noise ratio" (SNR). If you are going to list compression rates you have to give the associated quality -- SNR is used in the literature.

I was suckered into "fractal image compression" by those selling the snake oil back in the 90's -- I am far more skeptical about these things now.
True enough... though there are a lot of other ways this can/could make it in the interim... much like webp through various optimizing/ha proxies. I to think GPLv3 will hinder peopler even trying to look at or support the format though. There are some legal minefields that many won't cross when it comes to copyleft... even if they wanted to many are in jobs that wouldn't allow it.
Yeah, the event loop can be a constraint but it's easier to think about and harder to mess up compared threads or channels. And really how much are you giving up? Most of the things you actually want to wait on have an async api. Maybe I just haven't built complex enough things, but I've never had to reach for web workers because of performance concerns.
Or, you know, and this seems more Occams razor, these tolls are meant to finance the roads, which have previously been paid for from general taxation.

In that sense, we have been transferring money from people who can't afford a car to those that can.

And of course we need to factor in the huge externalities from car driving. Charging the cost of the roads doesn't even begin to cover the huge costs incurred through the massive inefficiency that is ferrying single people in multi-ton vehicles from suburban homes into the city core. These aren't even hypothetical climate-change costs, it's money out of the pockets of all the people actually living in the city who pay to accommodate suburbanites by providing free parking and streets on what is insanely valuable land.

It is still far, far too cheap to have a car and do the suburban-city commute.
Essentially there was next to no way for me to actually have food I wanted, keep it safely, cook it properly, etc. Sometimes I wanted to make it to a specific destination the next day. Fast food not being an option, setting up a small kitchen setup 3x a day really would put a damper on things.
That article is misleading. Standardized curriculum was in fact one of the things people looking at Finland said was part of its success model in 2000. So this was never a "misconception".
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"I think this statement further reinforces the GP's point. Simply "stop funding the military" isn't "easy""

No one serious is seriously saying that the military shouldn't be funded. What people are saying is that maybe if the DOD actually kept track of where all it's money went, and made national defense a priority over enriching contractors, it could get by with a reduced budget.
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Would you allow yourself to be beaten if it meant your children could be free? Or would you rather let your children be slaves and neither of you be beaten?

This isn't just about slavery: it could apply to any war-like situation. But if you aren't being beaten as a slave, how are you resisting slavery? Your owner just lets you get away with not doing what you're told?

Because I really don't see how not resisting is supposed to end slavery, and I don't see how avoiding beatings is any kind of resistance.
I agree completely here. Many of my dev1s want to use the latest greatest stuff, but you will most likely not find those technologies in large stable production systems unless to facilitate some one-off service or piece of architecture that does not need SLAs.

I remember a slew of small tech companies having issues when they decided to build out there app stack with nginx fronting a nosql hotness which inevitably led to overload scenarios because of the lack of constraints/scalability concerns.

Please note : this was years ago, and I know that nginx is a great web server and mongo is a great nosql db, but without a focus on scalability, you can end up with a large headache.
Ignore the other poster's comment. Ignore these bills until they sue (if ever), and then just show up in court. Ask to see the evidence that the debt is legitimate; they will not be able to provide it. Win judgment.
Yeah I see. It was actually intended as advice for people in similar situations. Giving an example from my life was just to lend some weight to the advice, otherwise people would say "it's not so easy and you don't know what you're talking about". Sorry if it came across as a humblebrag, I didn't realize that at the time.
> almost certainly they will reach the max number of complainants and end up only paying each person the minimum.

it's like some kind of crazy realized game theory problem.
There should be a law (I know, too many laws!) that cancelation process should be the same as sign up, for example you can sign up online for many services but need to call for cancellation.
Yes, it does indeed and lots of people use it this way. Also runs on desktops and phones.
Because GPLv3 code will never be adopted in IE, Safari, Chrome and likely Firefox... that's why. A reference implementation for an unencumbered format that doesn't also have a permissive license is unlikely to see wide adoption and support.

I'm fine with GPL for a LOT of things... For others I feel that MIT/BSD/ISC/Apache2, etc are better choices.

A software application that's GPL3, great... A library you want to see make it into diverse, embedded platforms, not so much.
More like sparse array.
Anyone know of a quick trick to extract the English text from html files?
I think you would like the conclusions from this paper - http://history.nasa.gov/sp4801-chapter13.pdf :

> the value of weather and climate information itself has been shown to be relatively small as a percentage of the economy.[33] However, when dealing with weather and climate where each year billions of dollars of property is damaged and many lives are lost as a result of severe weather events, even a small improvement in predictive capability can add up to major savings.[34]

Where [33] is "A good review of some of the economic issues in measuring the value of weather information can be found in Molly K. Macauley, “Some dimensions of the Value of Weather information: general principles and a taxonomy of empirical approaches,” http://sciencepolicy.Colorado.edu/socasp/weather1/macauley.h...

That affirms 'Most estimates of the value of [weather prediction] information suggest that it is not large as a percentage of final output.'
I think they're just debunking the notion that we have already found the "alcoholism gene" in Native Americans.
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No I saw that. But this is Texas we're talking about. Texas is one of the most corrupt states when it comes to criminal justice. There have been articles written about how people end up stuck in the system for years based on only one charge of vagrancy. Lubbock is one of the worst places to get arrested in the US, for example.
You don't think a lot of people who volunteer for campaigns are just trying to "make more money" by protecting or expanding entitlement programs (or regulations about unions, or ...) that benefit themselves?
It seems driving kids in cars (to school etc) is unsafer (due to more obesity and car accidents) than letting them walk after a certain age. I think in Canada there have been no cases [citation needed, maybe a handful] of children abducted by strangers, they are always family members.
If this had time-tracking support, I would be able to migrate from Trello (time tracking provided by Trello Plus). Is this a possible feature?
The best way to think of the ZeroTier network is that it is a virtual switch. Each host on the network is connected to a port on the switch.

Since ZeroTier supports hosts connecting to multiple networks, you can setup a pretty sophisticated multi-tiered network architecture, no router needed.
>> "What's worse,..."

One man's worse is another man's best. This sounds economically optimal to me - the people using the asset (roads) are paying for them, instead of being subsidized by all taxpayers.

Also, I suspect that if tolls funded 100% of the all-in road transportation costs for those routes, they would be significantly higher than the numbers you've mentioned here. It sounds like there are still pretty significant subsidies.
I didn't go to look up bad examples. I tried, honestly, to see what PhilSci was about, how it could help. Hence reading the Very Short Intro book. Stanford's Plato is often held up on HN as this awesome site. And since I understand CompSci a bit, I figured PhilCompSci should be something I can understand (whereas I might not be equipped to judge other areas so well). In every case, I've not found any good arguments, just pontificating.

The closest I've heard similar to what you're saying is stepping outside of Science-the-process to determine what things are true using Bayesian probability. For instance, Einstein stating that his theory was correct, even if the first test didn't agree. I thought this was pretty well accepted. Other than that, what kind of outside-science thought systems are we talking about?

And more usefully, where is a short intro that doesn't come with spurious, dull, or absurd statements?
What's your opinion on Highcharts usage longterm? I find it's great to get something up and running, but I've found myself hitting limitations, especially when it comes to custom design. But it's possible I may just be using it ineffectively. I always assumed that one day I should port my company's charts over to D3 if we wanted to be serious about our data visualization (which makes up a big part of our site).

In other words, is it like Bootstrap in that it's a useful starting tool, but doesn't really scale well if you want to have full design control in the longrun? Do you happen to know any notable sites using Highcharts? Thanks in advance.
It's not a wealth transfer, it's just internalizing some externalities. The decisions of millions of people to live far away from where they work has created this situation where they all have to spend hours sitting in traffic. Maybe individually it's worthwhile to each person, but collectively it's wasting billions of hours and countless gallons of gas. The tolls are merely trying to align the financial incentives with reality. In other words, move so you don't have to sit in traffic or pay the toll.
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Or maybe open source the code after the election, just so it's not Coders for Sanders, O'Malley, Etc.
Thanks for sharing this. I actually had this exact idea last year, but BBC News implemented it better than I probably ever would have.
Rule 110 is Turing complete. Therefore anything which can implement/simulate it is also Turing complete.

The same is true of any other model of a Turing machine. If your host computer can simulate a Turing complete machine then the host is also Turing complete.
Cool idea. Btw if you want a tool that does this, the free Perforce diff/merge tool can diff images. It allows you to specify a tolerance for how different as well.
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We can run queries against events like issue open/close, labeled, miletstoned etc. so we can generate reports with time analytics. If it is just card open to close time, we could definitely bump that up or list!
The poor already use public transportation. The ones clogging up the highways are the middle class.
> the fact is you'd have to start by laying off millions of Americans and likely damaging the many smaller towns that have come to depend that income source.

They can cry me a river. Obviously it was to their (and everyone's) disadvantage for them to become economically depending on manufacturing death. They have nobody but themselves to blame.

My home town is one of these, and it's already pretty depressed. We'll all be happier after the pivot to an economy based on building things that aren't destructive and idiotic.

Other than this, I agree with every point you've made.
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Wondering why they chose row-major storage. I think it's far more common to only care about a subset of columns than a subset of rows.
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You have a curious definition of "wrong". It's not illegal, but that doesn't make it a good idea.
The fact that you have to do that to keep a reasonable price is why people are upset about it.
What if there were a good way to block ads on news sites?
I think the problem is that such tolls are hitting the lower income class hard. Unless you make a lot of money, you can't live in a city center where you work. You have no choice but to live in the 'burbs where a car is your only option.

Think about it this way: raise the tolls to something really high, say $50/day. The very rich won't stop driving, they don't care. So now we convert all of our roads from public to only for the very wealthy.
FTA:

"First, we knew we only cared about row-by-row access over the entire file; we do not need things like random row or column reads."

It sounds like they don't care about subsets of either columns or rows, and are looking to optimize table size and time for full table scans.
I don't think this post accurately represents traffic engineering or the nature of congestion. As far as I know, traffic engineers have been doing sophisticated dynamic simulations for decades. Likewise congestion is naturally more likely when a road is heavily utilized, but it's primarily a coordination problem rather than a capacity problem (cf. ALOHA vs. slotted ALOHA).
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They removed all the "Yield / Unprotected Left Turn" lights in my town, just for this reason. People simply don't understand. It's a bummer to sit and wait, but it does save lives.
(I'm the author of the library) I'm almost certain you're correct - we (thought) we had compression enabled on our feature builder and never found the root cause, but regardless we're happy with how BTables ended up for the other reasons detailed. For future use cases we'll definitely be re-evaluating HDF5!
This is an insightful perspective, and surprisingly actually makes me feel better about printers. Thanks.
There's more to culture than just language, and instructors having to perform in a multicultural environment has more side effects than just the effects on students who are directly challenged by aspects of mainstream school curricula.
As someone who regularly has to read supposedly landmark papers - with no source code provided - this is far preferable in my opinion. Computer vision is terrible for this!
You can't factor out ESL,etc students. Resources can't be spent on them without diverting them from others, and there is no way to know what we could have done if we didn't need to divert those resources.
People say nobody can afford to live in a city, and yet "inner city" is synonymous with poverty. There are plenty of places to live in most cities that are within the reach of middle class folks, but they might entail living next to some people with a different skin color, and that frightens people.

Other alleged problems like crime, bad schools, etc would clear up easily if some people who cared about making a community moved in and took some responsibility, but nobody seems to want to do that.
If you used a credit card - you should have asked your credit card company to do a chargeback. I've only done about 4-5 in my life - and every time the credit card company always went in my favor. One time was even a scammy ebay seller - wouldn't talk to me so I contacted my credit card company told me to send the item back to his address and I would get my money back (the item in question was defective and did not state it in the ebay auction).

Unfortunately some people do abuse it - there was one guy who admitted on DSLreports forums that he uses his credit card to buy all items off ebay. And if he doesn't get it in 2-3 days he does a chargeback - even if he gets the item later. Which, I'm under the impression that when that happens Paypal may yank the funds from the seller's account. I don't agree with it - but I understand why.

My experience with Paypal disputes on the other hand...
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It's why I stuck with client-server architecture and battle-hardened code over web apps wherever possible. Never regretted it. ;)
I thought kindergarten would be equivalent to Croatian "vrtić" too, but it seems to be the year before 1st grade. Before that there is a spectrum of programs like daycare or preschool or playgroups which are more like what the grandparent described. I've no idea why kindergarten took on such a specific meaning in the US.
> If the pro rata amount is so small that it cannot be distributed in a way that is economically feasible, payments will be made, instead, to Cy Pres Recipients selected by the Parties and approved by the Court.

The cy pres structure here is a clever twist, but it's still lame and might be a solid ground for objection and appeal: http://www.forbes.com/sites/wlf/2014/11/26/seventh-circuit-c....
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I generally agree w/you .. I was referring to the professor who was interviewed, not HN users. I would say that the drug war component of mass-incarceration seems separable, and easier to solve than the violent crime component. It seems better strategy to me to go after the low hanging fruit, look at the results and then plan the next move.

I would worry that trying to solve the whole issue at once, like the professor seems to suggest, would be a non-starter politically.
Could you go into greater detail about how the only known-good implementation of raft is in Idris? Never heard of raft before you mentioned it (i don't deal with distributed systems day-to-day), but I am reading the paper now.

and what's ants?
I think we were down to about 80ms per test on that one.

I've since had projects with 9ms per test and it's hard to go back to thinking 80ms is 'good'.
You raise a good point. People talk about taxing the rich more, but guess what? There aren't that many rich! In order to substantially raise gov't spending, the middle class will need to pay more.

This reminds me of a Canadian election back in the 1990s. The NDP (left wing) wanted to fund more programs by increasing the taxes on the "rich". So someone asked who the "rich" were.

A family of 4 making over $60,000.

At least they were honest!
Except uBlock Origin is actually the one you want, not uBlock itself. Some sort of drama with the creators, one of them split off and made uBlock Origin which is a better iteration.
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I find most shocking the difference between say 5 years and 15 years is quite small.
For us it's a combination of a timesheet (so we can get paid) and a run down of time spent (vs estimated) on specific tasks. Those are the two important bits.

For reference: http://www.plusfortrello.com/p/about.html

EDIT: To clarify, since it's being used as a timesheet, we need a timer.
To the rich, the middle class is poor; they just haven't finished making them quite as destitute yet.
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All I could think about was how funny this would be if it turned out to be a recruiting firm gathering user details and the lawsuit was fake.
Nice observation! Yes, you're right. To double check, http://teaching.about.com/od/Information-For-Teachers/a/Bad-... says (in the US context) "A major part of a principal’s job is to identify which teachers are effective, which teachers need to improve, and which ones are ineffective and need to be dismissed."

Though it's not the complete truth. In the US, some school districts have policies that a teacher can be fired for having a bad score based on a 'value added model', where the scores of the students are compared to a model of what the scores "should" have been, and used to assign an effectiveness score to teachers (including, say, the score for an biology teacher when the tests have nothing to do with biology - https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/04...) and even the custodial staff (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/04... ).

The principals have little say in the results of these decisions.
You mean this? http://www.epermittest.com/road-signs/left-turn-yield-green

Isn't that just a normal green light on a two-way street? Do you mean all intersections should have protected left turns?
uBlock Origin is better, Adblock Plus also does the acceptable ads program (they started it).
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