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If you're looking to improve the CSS you end up writing - I highly suggest considering BEM [0]. It stands for block, element, modifier and defines a fairly rigid structure to build components with.

tl;dr: It promotes extremely simple, component based/modular css that is _trivial_ to refactor with confidence unexpected regressions won't pop up.

I'm primarily a backend engineer, but I do full-stack work, especially in my free time, and after seeing it used by our front-end devs at work I decided to try it on my own project - and for the first time ever, I felt like the CSS I was writing actually made logical sense in the same way any program I'd write makes logical sense. Adding constraints is majorly helpful when your language has hundreds of virtually equivalent ways (or at least seemingly equivalent) of doing the same thing - it's just setting yourself up for confusion later.

With or without any sort of preprocessor, BEM is still crazy beneficial if you have a codebase with many people touching the styles, it -

a.) promotes good css practices by limiting the usage of entirely un-necessary slow css selectors because they'd require convention to be broken (and then caught easily in a code review)

b.) promotes extremely DRY components

c.) defines a very simple yet specific way of handling style variations that make DRY component variants (eg a button component could have a red, green or blue modifier) obvious to everyone on the team in a way almost analogous to a primitive in a programming language -- most codebases don't otherwise have a defined pattern for this leading a lot of wheel reinvention and extra complexity which in turns breeds more complexity, leading to truly disgusting css.

Of course there are downsides, by putting limits on a language some things will necessarily become more difficult/complex to accomplish, but I personally find the benefits far outweigh this.

Additionally, I'm not sure how it works trying to integrate it into a mature codebase - I could see that being a challenge for some projects/CSS code styles, but I've not done that so can't speak from more than speculation.

[0]: https://css-tricks.com/bem-101/
The plague still kills people in the U.S.
>so IMHO it should support both

some of us think it should support neither (because _emphasis_ is only slightly less legible than emphasis whereas erroneous use of asterisks is very much less legible than uses of asterisks would be if asterisks were not interpreted -- and because erroneous use of asterisks is fairly common).

But _if_ the present situation continues in which asterisks (or asterisks and underscores) are interpreted, at least the interface should provide a link next to the "ago", "parent", and "flag" links that show the raw, uninterpreted comment the way the user entered it.
Unfortunately, we are not allowed to have Aereo.
People get hurt whenever a vice becomes so easily done in secret. Going to the pub to drink is one thing, drinking at home another, and ordering bulk vodka online a third. The more private certain vices become, the easier it is to fall into the trap. That's why I seriously dislike online gambling.

There is something to be said for the physicality of location-based betting. It is more healthy to at least walk from your hotel room to the casino floor than play the same games via an iPad alone in your room.
So Curve25519 is pretty much rock solid unless (a) someone discovers genuinely new math or (b) we get a practical quantum computer with enough coherent qubits to actually run the ECC variant of Shor's algorithm.

Note the qualifications around (b). Just any QC would not do... it would have to (as far as I know) have a rather "wide" coherent qubit capacity among other characteristics.

So what... Curve25519 until 2050? 2100? Hard to say and new math is always a total wildcard, but it seems damn secure.

... and as you say DH and RSA are also great with >2048 bits. 4096 bits is what I typically use.
Absolutely not.

Things that one may argue should be public: Financial backing of legislators, minutes of official meetings and hearings, votes, legal arguments for spying, and so on.

But the conversations occurring behind the scenes which ALWAYS facilitate dealmaking will never be public. It wil happen in backrooms of pubs if you insist they communicate via telnet.
The (compressed) picture quality for the basic network channels I'm paying Comcast for is technically stealing from me. And they will charge you extra if you get broadband without the basic TV channels. I ended using an OTA antenna regardless.
Yes. Many news sources reported on it.

As for the actual content in question - here's an archive of a tweet of them boasting about having Buk missile launcher, the tweet was later deleted:

http://web.archive.org/web/20140707150151/https://twitter.co...

Here's a screenshot of the VK account where their (now former) commander and defense minister (and allegedly "ex" FSB member) claimed the downing of a Ukrainian plane, later the content was deleted:

http://i.imgur.com/fi4Zkx6.png

The Wikipedia article covers all that in depth:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17
I am skeptical. The WSJ article[0] covering Lankford's claims has a graphic that shows none of those countries with even two mass shootings since 2000, including the Philippines. The Mother Jones[1] article says that only four countries broke double digits, and again, none of the countries I listed made the list. Or Mexico, which is widely reported to be rife with gang violence, including mass murders.

It appears that Lankford's paper[2] has not yet been published. When it is, and if it is available for free, we can look at the details of his claims.

[0] http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-leads-world-in-mass-shooting...

[1] http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/08/united-states-wo...

[2] http://adamlankford.com/research.htm
> The top 50% of Americans are better off than the top 50% of people in Sweden

So just hope you're not in the bottom 50%?

We should also think about what "better off" actually means. Maybe a healthy society cares about more than just individual income and "opportunity for success." Sweden, and just about every other modern country has much better health care and public services, and a much saner attitude toward work and leisure, even in spite of attacks on the welfare state in recent decades (the idea that it was some kind of disaster and had to be saved by the capitalists is nonsense).
Anne Applebaum is a very credible, very reputable journalist covering the region:

https://twitter.com/anneapplebaum/status/489806406833680384
Instead of compromising on aesthetics by putting the port on the side, it charges to 9 hours battery in 2 minutes. I don't see an issue with this design decision, just a typical Apple bandwagon.
One of the cryptographers that helped bring us Curve25519, Dr. Lange, is leading efforts to research post-quantum cryptography.

http://pqcrypto.eu.org
Of course, no one remembers: https://github.com/indutny/bthread
Where is the vacuum tube version? I have always wondered if is possible to make complex vacuum tube logic circuitry just by hand in one big container and suck the air out. In this case in a glass container because you want those glowing clock numbers to show.
I've been working on something similar for several years. (Alas, I don't have MIT's PR budget.) I call it "PinThing" and implement the pins as DC motor powered, 3D printable linear actuators. I use limit switches to detect end-of-travel, and a shaft encoder to measure distance traveled. Current goal is to make an array of four 3x5 pin blocks to make a digital clock display. One of these days I really need to finish and formally publish this project! One big challenge in the project is driving down the cost per pin to make a large array affordable -- that's why I focus on using 3D printable parts and cheap motors.

Here's a demo of one pin powered by Arduino and an H-bridge motor driver circuit: https://youtu.be/pLzDHLm01wM

Three.js software demo: http://pinthing.com
my dad is their core readership, has read it for decades - isn't alienated, doesn't use their web site.
Doesn't that defeat the whole point of it?
That's more an issue if your looking at land vs where people actually live. More people live in DC than Wyoming.

The population of Nebraska, Idaho, Maine, Montana, Alaska , North and South Dakota put together is significantly less than the number of people living in New York City.
This leaves me feeling ill.

It strikes me as especially cynical that a push like this would come from the same bent that objects so strongly to state-sponsored healthcare, but is perfectly happy to pass the coverage buck to whoever's down the line--be it insurance or ultimately Medicare/Medicaid.
biology is not my forte but- i imagine "dark data" (with context) is always more valuable than no data.
This would not be an effective method for the Southern USA. Nashville, which is most certainly up and coming, is also springing up "Hot Chicken" shacks left and right in the hippest areas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_IPCC_Fourth_A...
Why do you feel such an urgency to keep up with everything and scavenge for alternate implementations?
> If you can represent something using an append only data structure, a DHT is enough.

Can you elaborate? Is the blockchain not an example of an append-only data structure?
React is a library, not a framework. What's your router? What's your model? What's your buildchain, how do you deploy, how do you do ajax requests, etc etc etc?

Facetious comments like this help nobody. There's not a site in the world "just" using react + webpack. And I say this as someone who works with a react and webpack site.. oh and backbone, and gulp, and rsvp, and requirejs, and another 70 lines in package.json.
There's precedent for things that get delivered to you being yours to use, even if you didn't order or pay for them. While I am aware that it is absolutely not the same thing, there is a law that anything sent unsolicited to you in postal mail is yours to keep, no questions asked. This is to prevent a type of now-dead fraud that involved doing that, then billing people for it.

It's really the responsibility of the cable provider to correctly filter services, if they want to charge for them. And you'll probably find that if you call up and try to "complain" about this, that they'll do nothing and tell you to do as you like, as it isn't even worth their time to bother about... putting a rather low bound on the degree of harm you're "inflicting" on them even in the worst case.
This was kind of interesting, I like the idea of using data like this, you could probably get the same results with yoga studios and cash4gold's.

That being said I want coffee and fried chicken now.
> I'm suggesting the top 50% in America are better of than the top 50% in Sweden.

I'm asking you what that sentence means. Comparing groups is a tricky business. The richest half of Americans are better off in total? In the mean? In the median? Does it mean that the Pth percentile American is richer than the Pth percentile Swede, for all P>50?

I'm ignoring, for the moment, the ambiguity in which Americans are the "top" ones and what if means to be "better off". (wealth? income? education? lifespan? self-reported happiness?)

Maybe it would help if you point to some actual numbers by some social scientists that back up your claim.
That sounds awesome, I don't quite understand it that about pipeline but maybe in future! hehe
Traditionally, index calculus attempts for record discrete log calculations attempt to balance the "precomputation" step and the individual log calculation much more closely than in this work. This is more efficient if you only intend to perform one discrete log. One of the contributions here is that because of the massive reuse of primes, it would be more useful in a practical attack to shift much of the work into the steps solely dependent on the primes.
My totally unscientific estimates tend to be about 1 minute for 2048-bit primes and 20 minutes for 4096-bit primes.
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>If you know everything you say and do is recorded

Intelligence agencies didn't want us to know that, we learned it from whistleblowers.
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The Keith Cirkel articles, mentioned earlier, are great. I also found this one, today: http://beletsky.net/2015/04/npm-for-everything.html

It's less detailed, but also shorter and easier to digest.
Coding is so much more pleasurable on my 24 inch IPS dell monitor than it ever was the laptop. I also know some developers who swear by their 28 inch screen monitors.

I was using a Thinkpad for about 8 years before I got myself an Intel NUC (i7 processor, 128GB SSD and 16GB RAM) for a total cost of under $800 (if I recall correctly). The Intel NUC is literally half the size of the Macbook mini and was a breeze to put together.
> No, because nobody would do that and the NSA has no legal authority with which to force that. Companies wouldn't agree to this because they have everything to lose and nothing to gain.

Not claiming I'm well read up on this but wasn't a big part of the leaks that companies were cooperating with the NSA in secret?

http://www.wired.com/2014/01/how-the-us-almost-killed-the-in...

"Gellman wanted to be the first to expose a top-secret NSA program called Prism. Snowden’s files indicated that some of the biggest companies on the web had granted the NSA and FBI direct access to their servers, giving the agencies the ability to grab a person’s audio, video, photos, emails, and documents."
There are lots of important points in this set of articles, but a few stand point:

- Congress has not defined what "assassination" means; and since they haven't defined it, the Executive Order 12333 is effectively meaningless. https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-assassination-comp...

- IMEIs are used to track targets. Can IMEIs be spoofed?

- Military Aged Males are considered enemy combatants. Effectively that means all males ages 18-49 are considered enemy combatants. Since you're guilty by association, your age makes you a target.
I haven't paid for cable TV in a long time. We've got netflix and amazon prime, and pay the $20/mo for sling during college football season (I would gladly pay less for an NCAA streaming channel..). Everything we watch is covered by those.
I still believe that web programming is one giant hack built upon other hacks with a right and "wrong" (hack) way to implement everything.
What metrics you decide to keep are ultimately what you will try to optimize too. We are what we measure.
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From a mathematical perspective, all of the mainstream curves, from the NIST p- curves to the Brainpool curves, are solid.

There are four reasons people use Curve25519: it's faster in software than most implementations of the other curves, it was designed to be mostly misuse-resistant, so you don't have to be as careful checking parameters (a very common vector for ECC curve attacks), it's designed to be simple to make leak-proof implementations (unlike the NIST curves, which are hard to do in constant time), and it has the Dan Bernstein brand.

But if we're talking about index calculus attacks, the NIST curves do fine there too.
I live in one of the more affluent areas of my town. In is a dental implant center a single title loan store. In the same area are 5 starbucks and a few locally owned coffee shops.

The title loan shop I always wondered why it was there since I assumed it didn't get much business. What I'm confused about though is the dental implants. Perfect teeth are completely disposable income.
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Theranos' area of interest, diagnostic microfluidics, is nothing exotic or new to the giants in the diagnostic industry.

I spent a number of years with one major company in this field, and back in the 1990s they already had a decade of R&D, and countless millions of dollars, invested in this area. It was a difficult area of research back then and it continues to be.

The idea that one scientist could come up with a concept to outsmart those companies is certainly possible and makes a very compelling investor story. But the reality is probably a little bit different.
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On a home we purchased, the house antenna that was mounted on the chimney picks up clear HD channels of the local stations that look wonderful.

Paying for TV doesn't make sense nowadays. If a home doesn't have an antenna on the roof, I would recommend it as an upgrade for anyone interested in the local channels.
Middlebox = proxy.
I do this with Windows 7's included Media Center as a PVR. I was surprised when checking out popular "media center" software that most of it seems to concentrate on playback of videos and not support being a PVR.
The full searchable PDFs of the Drone Papers are available here:

https://www.documentcloud.org/public/search/%22Project%20ID%...
I was hoping it would use something inspired by NNTP, since "decentralized Reddit" is basically Usenet with voting.
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This is specifically what I was thinking about. Try commuting via public transit for 100% of your daily needs and keep a tally of how much time you spend sitting at stations or stops waiting for connections.

Obviously the city and infrastructure would cause this to vary, but my experience using public bus transit anywhere in the US would be a good hour less (at minimum) of jog-possible leisure time every day. And that's if you live in a relatively convenient transit location (typically not cheap).

You may be able to read a book at a stop, but you aren't jogging / spinning / doing yoga.
> No, because nobody would do that and the NSA has no legal
> authority with which to force that. Companies wouldn't agree
> to this because they have everything to lose and nothing to
> gain.

You might say the same thing about every social engineering victim ever. Nothing to gain, why do they help? Someone asked for help / seemed like the had the authority / was afraid for no reason.

Additionally, from my experience, monitoring after decryption isn't too hard to pull off. It takes a lot of time, money, and expertise to secure the inside and egress of the network and there is very little pressure on most companies to exert themselves to defend at those layers. Further, most networks aren't properly segmented and the attacks that tend to gain access to one machine (like a windows or mac laptop) on a network can be pivoted to access more restricted places. Given how open companies tend to be (practicing zero opsec), it's even very easy to know who to attack and have reasonable estimations about their machine's worth inside a network.
Statement from Theranos
Criminals who commit identity theft don't care what you find cringey. She (and people like her) are vulnerable, and that's a fact worth knowing.
ironically Peckham ranks the Most Dangerous Places in London
http://www.thetoptens.com/most-dangerous-places-london/
The current report is the Fifth from 2014, you link to the entry about some criticisms of the Fourth report completed in 2007 and I don't understand what these mean to you. I don't see anything really significant that disproves the overall conclusions.
Do you know if anyone can get their blood tested or do you need an doctor's order? Their prices seem quick cheap and it would be nice to get some periodic readings for my chronic health problems.
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TiVo Roamio OTA edition.

$50 box and $9.99 a month subscription. All the great tivo features, access to apps (netflix, youtube, etc) and a great FAST user interface.
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It's a great rule for any metaprogramming task. When writing a macro, or reflective intercession, make it a shim that wraps non-metalevel code, so it's decoupled, testable and yes debuggable.
The market for content has shifted. At one point it was just about writing content for Google because Google doesn't know quality content from bad. This lasted for a really long time, beginning with Adsense about 2003 (because targeted content could bring in CPMs up to $1000) until eHow and the content farms finally began to get beat up in the rankings.

Then, about the same time that started to fade Facebook unleashed a traffic boom from the news feed. Newspapers, blogs, and content sites have benefited immensely from this. In this case it is not so much "clickbait junk" be re-written articles stolen from someone else. Take a look at a news site like the DailyMail, that is what is going on more or less. DailyMail is an interesting example because the content is produced so quickly that it is common for basic mistakes like the people in the photos being mislabeled or a male being referred to as a female and so on. Imagine how accurate the alleged facts are in that type of content!

I suspect the era emerging now is going to become a lot more difficult for both writers and content publishers. Not just because of the eventuality of internet ad revenue growing with the rate of inflation but also the big platforms (Facebook, Google) continuing to plug their leaky boats (which leaked for a very good reason.)
> > Don't use out-of-the-box Diffie Hellman params

> Wrong answer. Standard primes are fine; just avoid the small ones.

Sure, that's what I meant insofar as the out of the box params are apparently too small in many apps/libs. The links I gave cover it pretty well, I think, no?
I guess $250-400 isn't "cheap", but for easy: http://www.channelmaster.com/Antenna_DVR_s/336.htm

Our family has used their previous model for years with great success. Dual tuners, program guide (picked up OTA as well), and no fees or subscription.
I've read all of those! (I actually discovered Karl Schroeder from your blog; for which I thank you. I gather _Lockstep_ addresses the same subject, but haven't read it yet.) Although they're very much focused on going substellar objects, e.g. brown dwarves or dark giants, while I'm thinking of the vastly more common asteroidal bodies. It's not a subject I've seen addressed very often.

Here's the paper that crystallised the idea for me:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1201.2687v1.pdf

Also, yes, fiction --- I'm not enough of a scholar for non-fic.
Yup, totally!

The second paragraph of the README states:

This protocol is intended for use while developing OP_RETURN based protocols. Mature protocols should switch to a custom OP_RETURN method that uses as few transactions as possible to store data.

We're using Blockcast underneath Open Publish... we needed more than just the 80 bytes in a single OP_RETURN because we needed a few different content-addressable keys. We use a combination of IPFS, BitTorrent InfoHash, SHA-1, as well as a URI to where the ACTUAL content is posted.

Open Publish is also a digital asset protocol so it very much benefits from the "colored coin" properties of the Bitcoin blockchain.

But yes, content itself should be stored and distributed using IPFS, BitTorrent, or HTTP, it only makes sense to use the Bitcoin blockchain for things related to payments and ownership, like with the Open Publish protocol.
Subscription is a deal breaker. I just want to be able to pause and rewind free TV signals. I'm willing to pay once for a device to do that but not a subscription.
Seems only sporting to also include a link to their PR response to the WSJ article: https://www.theranos.com/news/posts/statement-from-theranos

Typical PR drivel. It's also a bit rich to complain about scientific inaccuracy, and boast of opening things up to the FDA, when the Theranos testing platform remains to be thoroughly investigated in the peer-reviewed literature.
Doesn't look like plagiarism to me. Who is trying to misrepresent it as their (or their institution's) own work?

I see no real reason for the URL change either, since both articles are the same. Edit: The esciencecommons blog has many more links in the article next, never mind!