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>You being near a target doesn't really make you a target either. It makes you a tragic accident.

You know, had you not worn that short skirt... well that tragic 'accident' wouldn't have happened.
An utter aside but One colour does have a tragic history:-

#RebeccaPurple or #663399

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2014/06/digital-remem...
I would imagine they did: "Ms. Amin said she and her colleagues had been hired by the show’s producers to add authenticity to the camp depicted in the episode". From my perspective this definitely adds authenticity, seems like the service was provided, if in a snarky manner. However I doubt they receive future work from the show :P
The effort to make war less inhumane dates back centuries
I'm nearing that range too.

It's not that I think older people are ill informed. They too have time, and they have experience.

Your last point rings true. It's why I say the process is just. People find the difficulty of change for something like Citizens United difficult. That's as intended.

If it's really bad, then more of us will care, and it will get changed.
The dhparam command has mostly been used with Apache, as far as I know; ssh provides its own commands as part of ssh-keygen, which are described in the man page you just mentioned.

However, the paper authors say

"If you use SSH, you should upgrade both your server and client installations to the most recent version of OpenSSH, which prefers Elliptic-Curve Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange."

That might ultimately be a simpler and safer course unless you have to deal with old clients that you don't have the ability to upgrade.
Just seen this on Twitter:

@BetfairRacing: After taking an early lead Marmalad traded at 1.01 for over £18K before getting get beaten on the line by Brasted. http://t.co/ht4mo7suyj
That's true, but I think the point is that a single screen only has one "finish" (at any given point in time?).
Exactly. I've recently posted a link to a talk about Phoenix (the de factor Elixir web framework), where the creator is talking about working on an integrated GraphQL server and (possibly) server side templates using GraphQL directly.

I personally feel this would be a game changer, much like when Rails started shipping and it completely changed the way we write web applications.
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Games also often have loading screens. I think the real counter there is that there is a big difference between waiting to play a 3d game vs waiting to read a news article.
I don't think anyone seriously imagines all the users of bitcoin switching to a new protocol. It's still an interesting exercise to try to build on it, since vanilla Bitcoin is filled with suboptimal qualities.

I don't see Bitcoin dying unless (until?) it's discovered to have an incurable security flaw.
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Dear HN,

You've been a source of great information before, and I'm sure I won't be disappointed by your advice.

I worked as a Software Developer all my career (more than 15 years now), but now I'm interviewing for a Technical Lead position. I have almost two weeks before the interview.

I'm interested in resources and advice on how to be a good Tech Lead, regarding both technology and people skills. Of course I've seen and taken note on how other leads work, but still feels like a big step for me.

The development environment is Microsoft.NET. The main product is a complex software. The main goal would be to develop it so that it is "loosely" built, split into separate modules so that each one can be modified without touching the others.
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Now that I think about it, this is pretty much social engineering. One can imagine exploiting cultural ignorances and biases similarly as part of an electronic hack.
This is a good post in that it illustrates how it's possible to write useful Haskell that interacts with the real world without weaving IO through the entire codebase (as many beginners end up doing).

I still find myself preferring to use a dependency injection style when writing Haskell. The code ends up looking similar, and more flexible, in my opinion (you can inject different dependencies based on runtime values).

Here is an example using the method described in the article vs. dependency injection to print out the current time.

Article:

class MonadTime m where
getTime :: m Integer

class MonadPrint m a where
doPrint :: a -> m ()

instance MonadTime IO where
getTime = do
TOD s _ <- getClockTime
return s

instance Show a => MonadPrint IO a where
doPrint = print

printTime :: (Monad m, MonadPrint m Integer, MonadTime m) => m ()
printTime = getTime >>= doPrint

main :: IO ()
main = printTime

Dependency injected:

data MonadPrint m a = MonadPrint { doPrint :: a -> m () }

data MonadTime m = MonadTime { getTime :: m Integer }

ioMonadTime :: IO Integer
ioMonadTime = do
TOD s _ <- getClockTime
return s

printTime :: Monad m => MonadPrint m Integer -> MonadTime m -> m ()
printTime MonadPrint{..} MonadTime{..} = getTime >>= doPrint

main :: IO ()
main = printTime (MonadPrint print) (MonadTime ioMonadTime)

Good read on the subject of being careful with overusing typeclasses:

http://www.haskellforall.com/2012/05/scrap-your-type-classes...
This is a joke, right? :)

Commercials, same as radio.
Is that group still called "African Americans" when they are born and raised in England?
Indeed. I haven't seem very much of the show, but I found its depiction of the military and suburban lifestyle to be nauseating and trite. I can't imagine they'd do any better depicting foreign cultures.
You must be young.

Television stations (e.g. the local NBC affiliate) broadcast the signal; they get paid by advertisers who give them money to air commercials on their station.
This is just nitpicking. You "just" kill a person with a gun, but you don't "just" kill a person with a missile. Any complex weapon system will require you to "authorize" the launch. Similarly here, "authorizing to assasinate" should be read as "deployed a very complex weapon". Obviously, in no way this absolves one from responsibility.
As much as I like the idea of free broadcast TV and not being dependent on cable/satellite companies ...

1) Is over-the-air broadcast TV widely used anywhere? Very few even know about it where I live, but maybe there are places where it's more common.

2) Is it essential to any group of people?

3) Could we get more beneift from that spectrum by repurposing it for something else?
I agree. Whenever I open up an Elixir project, there's a certain joy. I'm not sure what it is exactly. The language is simply a pleasure to work in.

> I've had a fling with Go

I've used Go for quite a few things, but it never felt quite right. I've come to like some of the tooling around the language while hating the language itself.

What really turned me away from Go was its community. There are a lot of people who think that they're smarter than everybody else for using a "systems language". Disagreement with the status quo is often fought back with religious indignation. Any decisions made by the language designers are obviously right, and you just need to accept that and do what you're told. I've found a lot of sexism and vitriol too. I've heard similar stories from others, but we could just be unlucky.

Elixir on the other hand has made it a goal to have a nice and welcoming community. That might change as it gains steam, but because of the leadership shown by community leaders, I doubt it will.
The investigators took a lot of similar criticism at the time.

Some psychiatrist said that the little girl was completely shocked and in a "coma like" state, so she didn't move or make any sound at all.

They quickly checked that everybody was dead from outside of the car but didn't see the girl which apparently was hidden under the bodies of her mother and grandmother. So they closed of the crime scene and started to comb everything outside the car.

Only when they actually opened the car door did they find the little girl. It was said that she didn't even react when they took her.
This must be one of my favorite comments ever on HN. The more I look at it, the more I can't decide if its serious or satire.
Don't forget his 16 year old son, killed 2 weeks later at an outdoor restaurant, together with 6 other people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulrahman_al-Awlaki

He was also a US citizen.
thats racist then
Ditto - Loved reading this. I work on similar projects but it's a tough battle to win against marketing these days.
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> Never knew you could be "racist" against a religion.

Bigotry against a cultural identity really isn't all that substantially different when the basis of the cultural identity is "race" or "religion", and bigotry against a race or ethnicity can often manifest in bigotry against other cultural identities that are correlated with that race or ethnicity, such as religion.

So, bigotry against a particular can both be a manifestation of racism, as well as being a thing substantially similar to racism independently of whether it is a manifestation of racism.
Oh. Didn't know about that. That's a confusing company name ...
Personally, the nice thing about a color name (maybe not these color names) is that it tells you what it's supposed to look like. So if you want a tomato color, you can use "tomato", and not worry that your monitor is or isn't calibrated correctly.

If you're at all color blind, trying to design using color codes is probably an exercise in frustration.

Maybe what you need is a separate tool that tells you what that specific color code most looks like, sort of like xkcd's color survey:

http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
> Hard as in loading youtube URL and go for a coffee.

You can't even to that now. Youtube videos buffer about 1m30 of videos and stops after that :(
> If you know anyone over at Hollywood, pitch for turning the problem into a movie.

That was the last RoboCop. Seems that nobody cared enough to even recognize the problem.
For what it's worth, that page gives Dropbox and Apple the same score. (5/5: 1 point on each of 5 questions.) If you find this surprising, check out their evaluation criteria; they might not be the same as yours. I find the 5th criteria somewhat arbitrary for instance, although I sort of see what they're trying to do with it.
Of course not. Many of the documents still in circulation stipulate that houses cannot be sold to black people. That was the law for many districts and FHA policy prior to the civil rights movement.
gotchya. i'm understanding the argument now. which was probably my gross misuse of the word "always".

i'm seeing there are many more instances than i expected where failures are so systematic or negligible they are not worth sharing.
If someone was bombing America, the way they were tallying the enemy combatants wouldn't really be a huge concern, to be honest.

Let's say the Michigan Militias sack Windsor, Canada. And Canada drops a bomb on their clubhouse. And a bunch of redneck young men are killed. You gotta assume they were part of the militia.
Right. Except she's not that different to the Guatemalan lady in the original story. None of those issues existed until she moved to a new location. That's why it was so shocking to me.
I don't get the big idea though. If I trick you into giving me your house key, I can break in when you're not home and go through your drawers. Read your diary. Make phone calls from your house. So? This is news?
Wow, thanks so much for the reply!

Your answer to my second question is interesting because I kind of understand the tin-foil-hat argument, but I don't totally see how Rice would create additional pressure to violate privacy. She's a civilian now and, presumably, completely locked out of the current administration.

To me (someone without a tin-foil hat), I think the issue is more symbolic. Rice is a terrible human being and a seasoned deceiver of the public. It's almost like we're asking ourselves, "If you'd allow her to be part of your leadership, what else would you do?"

When I've thought about it, that wasn't enough to counterbalance exactly what you mentioned -- the idea that a single privacy breach at Dropbox could mean the end of the company. She's barely a part of the leadership and may have almost no say in what the company does. The ultimate decisions are probably still in the hands of the executive team. That's why I was a customer until very recently.

All that said, I don't understand how Rice is valuable enough to counterbalance the bad PR from the tech community. Tech-y people get small companies to adopt certain brands over others, and then those small companies grow into large companies. Maybe I'm naive, and Rice offers some amazing connections or something?

Either way, if much of the Dropbox team has your attitude and values, I can honestly say I hope the company has a prosperous, breach-free future ahead of it.
You should be, but for a different reason than if they were targeting those people specifically. Both are atrocities, but precision is very important in such discussions, otherwise we will turn into an angry mob.
Should be entitled "The tragic history of CSS episode n" where n is any number between 0 and infinity.

CSS is a complete utter crap that failed to solve the problems for which it exists. Today CSS is a broken tool that still can't easily be used to design even the most basic layout without requiring a ton of hacks.

Among a fews:

- A broken box model that the W3C picked over the one from MS. For finally adding the MS's model years later leaving us with 2 boxe models and a broken compatibility.

- Centering things? You have to use hacks even for this simple purpose.

- Building grids? Let's have fun and pick the one you prefer : html tables, display table, floats, flexbox, css grids...

- About Tables: 15 years ago everybody switche to tabless layouts for the purpose of separating markup from presentation. A few years later we got access to the table display mode in CSS because, well, not a single one from the other solution worked well to build layout. Qo we got offered the option to emulate html tables in CSS.

- They added CSS animations. What animations have to do with styling and layout? Oh it's to compensate the bad performances we got when animating things with JS.

Etc, etc, etc. CSS is just a complete mess.
Some great advice in this article. In general I'm a huge fan of the content on Interview Cake. Lots of good problems to work through with increasingly valuable hints to step you through if you get stuck.
Curiously though I always thought the show portrayed the US protagonists in a less than flattering light. I can't speak of the biggottery the 'hackers' mention ... but clearly (to me at least) the decisions made by the agents are very nuanced and show some disturbing disregard for the impact of their actions and the short-sightedness of their attacks.
1) In the US, its everywhere. Usually, the more urban the location, the more channels you can get.

2) It used to be the only way to get TV. And it costs a tiny fraction of any other type of content provider. So you could say its essential to low income people or people who think its immoral to support comcast.
I agree that the comparison with Haskell is ill fitting.

The sentiment I wanted to express is that Elixir, like Haskell, is built around function (or module) composition, is immutable, and state is idiomatically handled separately (with separate processes and message passing, instead of monads).
A racist TV show does the same damage regardless of whether the creators were ignorant or malicious. Wide reaching mediums like TV shows have a lot of power in influencing our culture. Media creators have a lot of responsibility.
The Brits really have us beat here. For Americans, take a look at this list: http://www.ukfree.tv/channels/all

On the other hand, they have to pay an annual government tax just for owning a TV.
From Norman, about 20 min south of OKC. The strides here have been huge in terms of activities. It used to be the case that there was nothing to do outside, especially in the humid/hot summer months. Now there are tons of things to do. Food is still the big issue though, if you are on the go there are no healthy choices, in fact people tend to take pride in their cheesburgers and fries (local place in Norman advertised a 2K calorie burger).

OKC is a lot more walkable though now. It would be nice to get people from Norman, Moore, Edmond, etc to the city without their cars.
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Granted, there are many types of anti-Islamic thought, everything from actually studying the tenets of the religion and arguing against it from different angles, all of the way to having ignorant, inaccurate cultural stereotypes- Islamophobia. My conflating of racism with anti-Islam is with the latter. Because people in the West are usually less familiar with Islam, it's not difficult for people to assume Muslims are "those brown people over there in the Middle East", not unlike how a medieval European might have the social construct of a "Saracen." The point is, when a show depicts Islam in an inaccurate way that lumps a bunch of different peoples and cultures together as one Middle Eastern hodgepodge, it can be considered false to life, and thus, "racist."

Anti-Christianity doesn't work the same way in the West, because people here are generally less ignorant of that religion, and less likely to lump in all white people together as Christians. Maybe it's different in the East (though probably not the Middle East, where there are substantial Christian populations), and there they lump in all Christians as "those white people in America and Europe." In which case they would also be having a racist assumption.
For an example of how the fake TV world can be used to justify real world beliefs: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/06/20/justice-scalia-hearts-ja...

> The Globe and Mail reported that Scalia came to the defense of Jack Bauer and his torture tactics during an Ottawa conference of international jurists and national security officials last week. During a panel discussion about terrorism, torture and the law, a Canadian judge remarked, “Thankfully, security agencies in all our countries do not subscribe to the mantra ‘What would Jack Bauer do?’ ”

> Justice Scalia responded with a defense of Agent Bauer, arguing that law enforcement officials deserve latitude in times of great crisis. “Jack Bauer saved Los Angeles . . . . He saved hundreds of thousands of lives,” Judge Scalia reportedly said. “Are you going to convict Jack Bauer?” He then posed a series of questions to his fellow judges: “Say that criminal law is against him? ‘You have the right to a jury trial?’ Is any jury going to convict Jack Bauer?”

> “I don’t think so,” Scalia reportedly answered himself. “So the question is really whether we believe in these absolutes. And ought we believe in these absolutes.”
In most places a bicycle is given specific rights to use the road.

Generally such laws include things like:

1) May use the turn lanes when turning.

2) Must ride to a specific side of the road unless: You can keep with the speed of traffic, there is not enough safe distance for a car to pass you, or it is not safe to ride on the side of the road. (These rules are generally true of any vehicle that drives slower than general traffic.)

3) Protections to the bicyclist. Either in the form of "vulnerable traffic" laws, or specific bike protection laws.

4) There are even places with laws preventing bicyclists from using the sidewalk.

5) About the only place a bicyclist isn't allowed to ride is on high speed traffic areas like a freeway/highway/etc.

6) Protections for the bicyclist against negligent drivers such as mandating safe driving distances, when to pass, and protecting against specific activities that may endanger the bicyclist.

I do agree that a bike path is certainly much safer (and perhaps more scenic) for fitness, but many people are interested in traveling to a specific location. (Ex, the beach or a park. Riding along the coastline. Etc.)

The main problem with biking on the road isn't that you are doing something wrong... but that drivers do not respect you. Tailing too close, not giving you the right of way when you have it, etc.
Not only are Jews a race, they are the race most interested in racial-genetic studies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-chromosomal_Aaron
Also, flaxseed oil goes rancid rather quickly in comparison to other oils, and polymerizes into semisolid or solid forms. This process begins as soon as the seed hull is cracked. If you're trying to change the diet of an entire city, it is probably better to promote unmilled chia seed and whole oily fish or krill. Unlike flax seed, chia seed can be digested without milling.

There's also something to be said for algae and algae oil, but it isn't likely to be useful until someone works out how to change its flavor to be more palatable.
The are only so many women in tech because 95% of jobs in tech suck balls.

1. entry level with zero career progression

2. agile-scrum micro management

3. task oriented, big picture is for business (grown ups)

4. pay is good, starts above other jobs but hits ceiling after 5y

5. introverts only (95% time is spent sitting inside your head)

6. working with code (inanimate matter) is less interesting than working with people,

7. most often you're surrounded by nerds who don't have a life

Surely the above isn't the case if you're in a successful company, but 90% people maintain legacy internal app in a big corpo.
I should have written: the notion that individuals should fund everything is a cop-out and woefully insufficient.
See [1], which is a request to tender: "Tromsø Municipality will contribute to the initiation of construction of a powerful and progressive fibre-based broadband network in the outskirts of the municipality of Tromsø". I assume that means the town itself already has it.

Or [2], a press statement from Luleå's largest fibre broadband provider, back in 2012.

Both places are in the Arctic, Tromsø is 3000km from Amsterdam. NYC to London is only 5,500km...

[1] http://www.publictenders.net/node/1956874

[2] https://www.telegeography.com/products/commsupdate/articles/...
>many people, seeing only stereotypes, come to believe them.

Seems like the local education system has failed if people can't think critically or rationally. Blaming the arts is wrong and only treats the symptom. Do you believe that all information needs to be carefully controlled so that people don't get the wrong ideas? If so, what are you doing on an open/liberal/libertarian forum like HN then? Anyone can post anything here, pretty much. Seems to me that you're going your own advice by being present here.
> If the thread is about Dropbox in relation to their security/privacy, then yes, it's relevant

Arguably, security is an issue for anything that contains user content. Dropbox's business is enabling users to share content.

I could see that the issue might not be appropriate everywhere but I think it's appropriate here.
Well, it apparently can't even depict terrorists correctly, because suggesting that Al Qaeda and Hezbollah would ever work together is just ludicrous.

And I can totally see why Lebanese would be pissed off at seeing Hamra street completely misrepresented in that way.

And even if the show isn't supposed to depict "average Muslims", do you really think all the viewers of the show will get that nuance? If all of the Arab/Iranian/Pakistani characters in the show (and the show doesn't seem to make much a distinction) are painted with a broad brush, that sends a certain kind of message to viewers.
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