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Why people use shitty CDNs like Akamai or Highwinds (kinda) or MaxCDN, is beyond me. Does nobody do testing? Pick someone with a sane API and you don't have these problems. I happen to like CDN77.
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The ones that become jerks if you disagree with them are everywhere, especially here on HN, and they are usually authoritarians and narcissists. The authoritarian will use their downvoting powers and HN-cliqueness to censor a comment or get a moderator to detach a thread leg, and the narcissists are the ones going around calling people "misogynist", "racist", "anti-semite", etc.

donatj:
> So many of the worst people I know make the assumption they can never be wrong because of schooling / general overconfidence.

Careful with pointing fingers. Are you sure you aren't one of those people? In my experience 99% of people assume what they learned in school can't be wrong and will defend it passionately without a hint of doubt, especially when the subject is History, and especially when it touches WW2 atrocities. Are you sure aren't one of those people who would irrationally and angrily/passionately defend what you learned in school about gassings in 1943 if someone told you some historians think what really happened has been exaggerated?

In my experience most people react in an exasperated way as they lose all composure and start flinging insults. Few people have the maturity to entertain thoughts they disagree with at first in order to possibly learn from new ideas.
you are right :(
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I can't agree that toothbrushes are all the same. Some irritate my gums more than others. On some the brushes deform so fast they last a very short time.

So I would say that choice in toothbrush matters, for me. Same for toothpaste, largely because of taste. Most of it has this terrible taste, I prefer the ones with an added mint taste that hides the other stuff.

That said, I don't think for a second that searching for "best toothbrush" or "best toothpaste" on google is likely to answer the question, which would I prefer? You just have to try different things until you find the one you like, and hope the company doesn't rename its whole product line in two months.

Choice is good. There is rarely an objectively "best" version of anything.
I'm really digging the style of this phone. Too bad I just picked up a OnePlus Two.
They will be forced to share the subscription revenue as per tech-crunch [1].

1. http://techcrunch.com/video/youtube-red-strips-out-ads-but-b...
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I'd say that since X201 go so cheap nowadays, you might as well add $20 to that and get a X220 instead for better hinges, trackpad and CPU juice.
> It's both (all) states at the same time.

So what does that entail? Isn't this philosophy of science?
Maybe they backdoored P-256 and they think the backdoor may have leaked. That would inspire panic, especially since quite a few financial networks and military systems are protected by it.
> Why is this better than just using any SQL database?

Lots of SQL databases don't have good constructs for dealing with ranges, which make lots of operations you'd want to do with temporal data awkward (PostgreSQL since 9.2 has range types, and lots of useful features attached to them, that address this.)

Beyond that, pretty much all the normal SQL vs. NoSQL considerations would seem to apply without much change when you address temporal data, so the usual mix of ACID vs. scalability, schema enforcement vs. schemaless flexibility, etc., considerations apply.
<tinfoilhat>

What if the NIST curves were backdoored not by the NSA as a whole, but a rogue individual within the NSA, with the goal of making that backdoor available to a foreign power and/or the highest bidder?

It seems unlikely to me, because the NSA has so many brilliant people working for them, but it also seems like (at least superficially) it would explain just about every element of their reaction to this situation. They're used to being years or decades ahead of everyone else (e.g. differential cryptanalysis), and being caught off-guard would be an uncomfortable position for them.

</tinfoilhat>
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Well, compare it to the not compensation people living in the Aral sea got,and I think we can decide what might be the alternative we choose.

With growing human populations we know we have to relocate resources, but we must make them as responsibly as we can, with as limited negative impact as we can afford.

Owens was begun in the '20s? Aral sea engineering in the 60s? That's 40 years of better understanding of the repercussions of badly planned engineering projects, yet it was pushed thru regardless.
Sounds like a consequence of Youtube not being able to purchase Twitch
What is the upside for OSM if it changes licensing terms to be more amenable to those users? You say it is the tail wagging the dog, but you skip over why OSM should even care about capturing those users.

I realize that "funding" is an obvious answer, but I'm not real sure what that is supposed to look like. I also don't think the generic answer would convince proponents of the share a like terms (I'm personally ambivalent about share a like, but it's clear that a big chunk of the OSM community values it).
The Discordians promulgated a code that might be a bit more mathematically resistant. It involves this series of steps:

CONVERSION:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

STEP 1. Write out the message (HAIL ERIS) and put all the vowels at the end (HLRSAIEI)

STEP 2. Reverse order (IEIASRLH)

STEP 3. Convert to numbers (9-5-9-1-19-18-12-8)

STEP 4. Put into numerical order (1-5-8-9-9-12-18-19)

STEP 5. Convert back to letters (AEHIILRS)

They assert 100% unbreakability, which isn't true, but on a sufficiently long message one's anagram checker might give out, and then there is the task of ordering the words so generated...

Mind you, decryption by the intended recipient is equally complex.
Actually not such a crazy idea! There are always parts of verified implementations that aren't verified. And who knows, maybe they got some of their proofs wrong!
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They just committed an update to the FAQ[1] to answer that question :)

EDIT: The update has been merged and is in the FAQ now[2]

[1] https://github.com/twitter-fabric/galley/commit/0b540ff71b2d...

[2] https://github.com/twitter-fabric/galley#how-is-galley-diffe...
Matt Green's blog post discusses this possibility, and a plurality of the paper is dedicated to debunking it. To explain how, I'd have to restate stuff that's in the paper and already on this thread, so it'd be better if you just re-read it and then said what part of the arguments you found weren't persuasive.
It's a triple store that doesn't suck.

If you want to know the advantages of triple stores, there's a lot out there.

One key strength is that triple stores have a "schema as data" approach, meaning that schemas can be made to follow rules on the fly based on the data contained within them. Nothing that application code can't do, of course, but the entire purpose of these kinds of databases is to find a way to have data be as self-descriptive as possible.
Well, is a pay per view article, so I can not guarantee it, but it seems that this is not about coral colonies breaking down and bleaching; Is more complex.

Coral bleaching is a condition when coral colonies either die suddenly exposing the white skeleton, or lose their green/blue colour so the coral is alive, but in trouble. This condition can be triggered by many factors: Too much grazers, other corals, coral killing bacteria, protozoans, storms breaking and displacing the corals to areas with inaccurate light or currents, hot water... and also chemicals

But what the Dr. Craig Downs and other members of the Haereticus Environmental Laboratory have found is, instead, that the planulae are damaged by chemicals.

A planulae is like a tiny flat slug, (hence its name: Plane = flat, ula = small) swimming freely in the sea. Planulae are wandering "coral babies", not coral reefs. They do not have an skeleton still.

When a planula settles in an appropriate place starts promptly to creating its inner skeleton. As appropriate places are limited, natural mortality in planulae at this phase is very big, with or without chemicals. The problem is that in sunscreen lotion presence it encases itself in its own developping skeleton instead, and die. And this happens even at very low doses of oxybenzone in the water.

So what is the real effect of this?

Unclear, still. We need to pay more attention to the younger colonies. The long term effect of the chemical could be even to increase the diversity in the area.

Let suppose that we wipe some planulae of the population. Lots of empty spaces are available for the other. Fast growing dominant species with small planulae could be taking the majority of the loses. In this case more opportunities will appear for the more delicate slow growing corals, or for species with stronger planulae, or for corals reproducting in winter months. We could have a sucession, without any visible trace of bleaching.

If all species are sensitive, something that we do not know still, eventually we'll have a collapse of the reef for this, but not tomorrow probably. Oxybenzone has been around since 1980 at least and many reefs in heavily populated touristic areas are still here. I'll bet for the "natural" succession theory.

Adult corals could just try to create some resistence. Colonies can live for hundreds or even thousands of years, and they are poisoned by its neighbourgs almost every single day of its long life, with not noticeable harmful effects. They coevolved and are really customed to deal with many types of chemicals.
I am using Emby as a central media server. Emby takes care of the hosting and indexing of the material. Then I have multiple Kodi clients that consume the contents from Emby.
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I believe you may not have addressed what your tech lead is worried about. He/She has to make sure that everyone can do what you are trying to do from an architectural standpoint if you are all going to build upon it.

You are outlining the benefits, but JavaScript is very different from other languages and can be hard to understand, let alone master all of the libraries based on it.

If you can address those issues, then you may be able to convince your lead.

I've been on both sides of the coin here. When deciding on a platform or language, I usually choose what is going to be the easiest to use, or what has a high adoption rate which will provide the documentation and Q&A information online.
What if we write down that knowledge and pass it to the next generation, letting them iterate and refine the ways of parenting?
Huh? Maybe it's a joke, but "auto" in C has nothing to do with auto in C++.

In C auto just defines the storage location (and is kinda useless), not the type (which you still need to define).
I wish Clojure had those features, too. But I don't miss reader macros for all the reasons that Clojure doesn't implement them, though you don't have to use them where they do exist.

In my experience, though, the lack of full TCO in Clojure actually makes people write more readable code in many cases (because you can only recur from a tail position in Clojure, you always know where to look).

On the other hand, does Scheme have STM? Agents? Refs? I'd miss those.
Allergens, minor genetic mutations, mouth feel, flavor, aftertaste, scent.

Me? I just buy the prettiest box, not necessarily the shiniest.
pigoon balloon! I just finished re-reading the trilogy but Oryx and Crake was the best of the three.
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As much as I'd love it if things turn out as rosy as depicted in TFA, I'm not totally convinced.

I've read enough arch druid report articles and listened to enough peak prosperity podcasts to be rather cynical about claims that technological progress will deliver us from overpopulation and resource shortages.

http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.de/
http://www.peakprosperity.com/featuredvoice
I'm not sure why ISO vs other containers would be a matter of legal methods. I've ripped plenty of my DVDs and never thought for once to keep them in an ISO. Using MKVs allows me to compress the size and still keep extra audio tracks, subtitles, and chapters.
I love the flexibility and speed that CDNs provide however I hate the fact that if you are outside the US CDNs get very flaky very quickly. Most of the large providers don't have a Point of Presence (POP) in Africa and large parts of Europe, Russia and Asia are not covered (i.e don't have a close POP). CloudFlare and Akamai are the only companies that have POPs in Africa, it's unfortunate that small players can't use really use Akamai. Aside from the location problems, the lack and / or pricing of HTTPS / TLS really sucks.
Is genius being misdiagnosed as Asperger's?
This is a concrete step forward.

I think you wait until people survive early trials to call it real.
I enjoyed your blog series on serde perf.

One thing I noticed in this example was that the D example worked pretty much exactly like I want serde to work in that it was able to deserialize a subset of the overall document and the Coord struct didn't need to exhaustively cover the individual json data objects. If there's a way to do this in serde, an example in the docs would be really helpful.
Have you considering using anything like AWS or Heroku? I know you say in the article you want to keep it simple but services like those can hide this complexity for you and their solution is likely to be more robust. Also, if you're only using a single Digital Ocean droplet at the moment, you will have to consider the changes you'll need to make when you require more than one droplet or the droplet you're using goes down.
Looks like a fun project; good luck!
This web-on-the-desktop thing is this generation's Java desktop applications/applets. Same back-and-forth.

Proponents: Almost as fast as native! Look at this V8 benchmark! Cross-platform for free! Why would you use anything else?

Skeptics: Yeah, but... insanely bad memory use, large package size, painful battery drain, and whatever your benchmarks say, noticeably worse real-world performance.

Proponents: But... cross platform for free! V8 benchmarks!
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> i18n isn't that hard

I don't agree. I think it is very hard.

You even mention some of the problems! Law, tax, language, getting 4 translations done quickly enough for you to release new things on a regular basis
this is not a good design in my opinion. you have a big opening on top leaking light.

When I use oculus, sometime light leaks through the nose opening, that ruins the immersive feeling (because you will see the glare of the screen, or see light when the scene is supposed to be dark).

one of the required materials is "Google Cardboard Lenses", where do I get those? If I had cardboard, I would not dissemble it. I can't peel off pepperoni from one pizza in order to make another pizza.

also, the two examples you gave for the lenses, both links seem to point to the same http://www.folovr.com/img/lens.jpg
It's a very interesting talk but from what I saw that's not a terminal guidance package by any means. The antennas would need to be too big to fit into a missile. Also it doesn't work very well in an urban environment as the end of the talk shows.

There's a huge difference between targeting the radar of an aircraft or a ship or a mobile SAM site and targeting a cell phone.
Dr Bruce Charlton is Professor of Medicine at Newcastle University, and Reader in Evolutionary Psychology. He is the co-author of a forthcoming book on genius, and has many interesting insights in other posts at the blog above.

In particular, many of his observations about the nature of creativity and its treatment by modern society seem to relate quite well to aspects of the hacker archetype.
Also hyperpigs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Races_in_Revelation_Space#Pigs

(not really horror)
Iirc, you can replicate the two-slit effect using drops of oil on water. This by introducing a wave in the water and watch it carry the oil drops as distinct units.

Except that such a (pilot) wave is exactly the kind of hidden variable that Bell's theorem disputes.
Also keep in mind the Peugeot sourced 2.8 V-6 was not the first choice or the choice of aspiration DeLorean had intended to either turbo charge the Peugeot engine or use another engine type that would also have forced induction. From what I understand, either the other supplier found out his plans and pulled out, or Peugeot threatened to pull out if their engine was turbocharged. I am looking for the reference, and will update when I find it.
Realm Java 0.84, with Async Queries and Transactions on Worker Threads
Yeah there's nothing about Plex or any apps that requires a Plex Pass. When an app for a new platform is in beta it is put behind the Pass, but that's it.
http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-potent...

Intelligent un-creatives are, I think, those relatively-few all-rounders among high IQ people: those high-IQ individuals with balanced abilities - including a pro-social (compliant, docile) personality .

Whereas potential geniuses have a significant element of unbalance, such that extreme abilities in one or more domains are not balanced by extreme abilities in other domains.

Therefore, in potential geniuses extreme high abilities are not held in check but are instead given free-rein.

*

This means that potential geniuses are all, more or less, unbalanced - at least by the standards of most people; and this unbalance can come out in terms of (more or less severe) psychotic symptoms (such as a tendency to hallucination, delusion, loose associations of thought, trance states), or psychopathy (selfishness, emotional coldness), or an impulsive and willful personality, or prone-ness to intoxication (as a cognitive self-manipulation), or extremely narrow interests, or a refusal or an inability to do what is required or expected...

*

There is no single pattern of unbalance - but I think it probable that all genuine P-Gs (and all true recognized geniuses) are qualitatively different from the norm as an intrinsic consequence of being unbalanced (unbalanced abilities being necessary to that creativity which makes them a recognized or potential genius).

They are all significantly oddballs in some way or another - eccentrics, mavericks, irritating, unreasonable, nutters, nasties... not team-players.

Recognized geniuses come from potential geniuses which come from those with specialized high abilities that are significantly un-checked and unbalanced; and such people are troublesome to have around, predict and control.

At any rate, the current ruling elite have implicitly decided to exclude such people from organized power - so while modern society has some potential geniuses, we have no actually recognized geniuses.
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Ask HN: Why are programming communities becoming so politically correct?
I've been trying to find a new language to get into, after becoming bored with Ruby. I find that a lot of languages out there are intentionally maintaining communities that strive to shelter people like Adria Richards. They want to make sure that nobody is 'offended' and I think the idea is to somehow safeguard the community from those who might inhibit its progress, but I believe that it in fact does the opposite.

If we traveled back in time fifty years and showed people off the street video of a black president, mosques next to churches, and women having equal pay beside their male counterparts, there would be a considerable portion of people that would describe the whole thing as 'offensive' right?

I want to find a language I can really sink my teeth into, and go to conferences and attend meetups, but not at the expense of my dignity. I don't mind offending people, I don't mind when people are coarse to me, I don't mind hearing the truth spoken as it is, and I can appreciate people that get to the point and don't sugarcoat everything to avoid offending someone.

What should I do?
What a horrible, unsupported, vapid presentation.

And what's with the slide of an African American woman wearing a fast-food uniform, captioned "I know some of these words"

Is this presentation a representative example from the Clojure community?

No thanks.
No, what I call C is the same on every platform. Otherwise, all those "crap load of ifdef statements" wouldn't work. What is called the C standard library on each platform is different, because as you said C itself does not define a standard library. So yes, I did pick my example very appropriately.
Traits do a lot of what one can do with typeclasses (they're mostly just different names for the same thing), what differences are you thinking of?

Also, traits objects are existential types, and closures & functions are as first class as they are in Haskell (main difference is a bit more verbosity).
Depressingly, common usage now seems to be that # is pronounced "hashtag"; even Wikipedia says this:

Number sign - also known as Gate, Hashtag, Hash (Key) or Octothorpe, amoungst others

Note the order... I can only think that most people pre-Twitter had no idea that # was called a hash and thus hashtag's victory, of sorts, wasn't really that much of an achievement - essentially a change in popular conception from "I don't know what that thingy is called" to "The hashtag thingy".

(I also love "octothorpe", but I would only use that name to be deliberately confusing.)
Are the spreadsheets doing real number crunching? Do they use XLLs and VBA, or just worksheet functions?
Another thing people may not realize is how cloud connected sensors could be used.

Let say you want to know if people are having less sex (well, it may come out from the search or browsing history but maybe not) and you want to use this information to target advertisements of services or products.

So how would you do that using cloud connected sensors?

Easiest method is to use CO2 sensor in the bedroom (assuming that this is the place where usually people do have sex). Rate of CO2 production is correlated with the rate of energy usage and spike in CO2 levels around certain time may mark people having higher bodily activities (and when located in the bedroom it usually means sex). Change in the frequency of these spikes may mean the change in the frequency of having sex. As ads do not have to be that precise, this is probably enough data.

Another method is to use a temperature sensor. As higher bodily activity would consume more energy, it should then rise the room temperature that could be detected with sensitive enough temperature sensor. This method is more evolved as the spikes in the temperature could be also caused by the rise in outside temperature or the temperature difference might be very small when windows are open, or may be caused by fall of temperature outside that heating system tries to over compensate.

But it is likely that there exists distinguishable change profile and it is likely possible to mitigate outside effects with additional sensors.
Does it sync your playback across devices and allow you to sync items for offline viewing? That's the main reason I paid for PlexPass, but would switch back to a complete open source option if it does that.

Although I also enjoy the ability to share my server with family and keep a separate kid-friendly profile for my daughter.
I wrote a channel that might help[0]

[0]: http://mikew.github.io/ss-plex.bundle/
Public torrents are a no go unless you put your torrent client behind a VPN/Proxy (like PIA), private torrents are ok
Let's see where things stand a few months down the road. For now, ad blocking is on by default, without exception.