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No doubt extremism has come about because of silicon valley, not the failure of government policy over many years, and the alienation of people in the middle east. It's not the result of twenty years of war against people who have no power to strike back except with terror tactics.

Clearly terrorism is the fault of those secure instant messaging apps that have led to the end of peaceful society. I think I saw a terrorist in a newspaper photo using snapchat.

Oh and computer games too.

Time to get my witch hunting pop-gun and dig up McCarthy.

The good news is that with encryption banned, there will be absolutely no way for terrorists to communicate in secrecy, and all communications will be intercepted and terrorism will end. Can't come soon enough.

Our governments have really, really tried to stop terrorism - I promise - it's just that really with encryption, it's kind of impossible so you can't blame them.

Thus we see the terrorists have succeeded in turning our most powerful institutions against each other. Tech versus government. The government have become the agents of the terrorists without even knowing it.
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An unjust attack on whose way of life? The girls being sold into slavery? The boys forced to fight or die? Those simply murdered?

I'm pretty sure the other 99.9% are hostages, and not half as committed to the bullshit as you think, except in stockholm-syndrome ways. Soon after they weren't being killed for not being fervent, they'd be as non-religious as we are.
"The group is wicked, of that there is no doubt. But after all that happened to me, I still don’t feel Isis is the priority. To my mind, Bashar al-Assad is the priority."

What a ridiculous piece of propaganda.
I started at $70k CAD in 2012 in Waterloo, ON right out of uni. Admittedly I had "2 years of experience" due to my co-op work terms while studying at UW. Counting for cost of living and exchange rate the US offer is probably still higher, but not 2x.

(That said, I've seen startups in Toronto offering $50k/year lol!)
> It looks like my 10mmx10mm comment was way off.

Not by too much. A mobile baseband SoC that supports 2G+3G+LTE-Cat-6 will end up in the 7mmx7mm range with a 28nm process.
Civil forfeiture requires a showing in front of a court.
A variety of apps allow you to enjoy FlashAir more
Same was done during the Tunisian revolution only to inject keyloggers.
Make sure it's bolted down too. As a rule, expect it to be about as difficult to remove as it was to install.
It wouldn't surprise me we were using fpgas to do fix decoding and we were relatively naive.
'Disorder' will always be a nebulous concept because it's an abstraction that encapsulates a dissatisfaction with the fitness of a person's psychological complexion in the context of the person's environment. Hyperactivity and a short attention span might be a disorder for a student who must focus deeply on a single concept, but an advantage for a hunter-gatherer who must integrate a large number of shallow ideas simultaneously. Thus I will humbly refrain from taking a strong stance on your questions; I can imagine situations in which each would be advantageous and in others the opposite.
There is zero evidence that any significant amount of the above number happened under circumstances like those you mention.
The value is not about performance, but security. Crypto done by modern CPUs is susceptible to many side-channel attacks. Having a separate SoC is nice, but the SoC is not upgradable with new algorithms or patches if there are any problems found in its implementation.

Also, just having a separate memory space for the purpose of computation is not sufficient. I'm arguing for an entirely separate hardware bus to load keys onto the chip, such that they never exist in CPU, memory, or the storage for the machine being used for general purpose computation, because keys there can be obtained via side-channels if other software (such as the kernel) is exploited.
Sigh. It'd be really good if MS would give out some Azure time for open source work.
Square does high enough volume to negotiate better rates than you'd expect.
They found one of the terrorists phones dumped in a garbage can outside the theatre they attacked, and got the address of their hideout from the messages, so used just regular police work.

All these guys were already on watch lists for fighting in Syria and returning just nobody seems to ever watch the watch list.
Emailing is not enough? I wonder who came up with this idea.
The `checkBrowser` function says it is from brainjar.com and used under their terms of service. On the brainjar.com terms of service, it seems to say the code is licensed under the GPLv2+.

Doesn't this make the Comcast script now under the GPL - since GPL code can only be included in compatibly licensed products. Or is Comcast violating the GPL?
Liability was to switchover from the issuer to the merchants' processors (banks) in October, so that was the big push, to off-set liabilities. My experience is about 25% require Chip and PIN.

Some consumers are registering complaints about slow lines due to C&P[1] most of it due to longer C&P processing time.

[1]http://security.itbusinessnet.com/article/One-in-Five-Consum...
Why would Intel switch to ARM?
Moving to a startup when under H-1B could be a very risky and possibly disastrous choice.

If those are companies that are illiterate on the most basic things, such the difference between an H-1B application and a transfer then there's a good chance they will fuck it up on the important parts.

Important things like H-1B renewal schedule, green card sponsorship, visa renewal expenses and so on.

You change jobs and the next thing you know is that you're stuck in the USA for up to 6 months because one of the overworked founders didn't apply for the renewal early enough.

The above is an easily manageable one compared to all the horror scenarios that a mismanaged H-1B immigration can be.
Momentum scrolling breaks UIPickerView in strange way (iOS)
Yeah, the U.S. government has really shown themselves to be responsible stewards of other people's data.
Electron was indeed originally called Atom Shell, and part of Atom. But it's a general purpose shell for cross-platform apps - it basically provides a native application shell hosting Chromium. And lots of apps - including many that aren't developer tools - are built on it. While VS Code uses Electron, and we contribute to it, we've made a lot of design choices differently from Atom in building the editor and rest of the product.
Unfortunately so.

I think the response should be a careful, cursory action that acknowledges the public demand for retaliation, but all else put into the long game of building resistance to radicalised violence - working on education, poverty, etc amongst the communities where agitators source members. We should be encouraging people to find common ground rather than react aggressively, even if that is the gut response.

I am very irreligious, but there was a great comment on HN the other day about a fairly orthodox Christian finding that they had more in common with a fairly orthodox Muslim colleague than with other atheist co-workers.

Often the political and public reaction after an event like this is to focus on differences (language, clothing like burkas, etc) rather than things like a love of family, of food, sport, music and so on.

I live in Australia and our new prime minister is far, far better at this than the previous us-vs-them dog-whistler.
Agreed. But it is not only open-sourcing their own technology, it's earning money off of other open source technologies (which is perfectly legitimate). Want to run Linux? Pay Microsoft. Want to run Redis? Pay Microsoft. Want to run the next great open source project which I will invent tomorrow in my basement which will go on to be used by millions of users? Pay Microsoft.

BTW it may sound like I'm being harsh on Microsoft but actually I think their strategy is brilliant. It legitimizes Open Source in every single way and shows the world that you can make money off of it - lots of money.

Open Source developers should be rejoicing now that they have been vindicated after so many years of not being taken seriously and even being called "Communists".
in San Francisco, I'm starting to see post-Square registers crop up. For example, Revel ( https://revelsystems.com/ ) is also iPad-based.
Interesting to see that other projects also consider client side Crypto possible by calling server side macros. Well done!

This is my project where I do it too : https://github.com/zubairq/coils
I sympathize with the position you're taking, their marketing is certainly pursuing the busy-body yuppie audience. I think if you spend some time reading comments and posts from users of Soylent online you'll see a lot of people are buying it because it is inexpensive and nutritious, while still requiring very little time to prepare. I acknowledge that, as an example, a healthy and cheap meal can be made from beans, rice, and frozen vegetables, but it takes non-trivial energy to make that every day, which is hard to find on a consistent basis after working or studying all day.

I certainly see Soylent as a means to improve public health and the state of mass food production. I think if you take an honest look at Rhinehart's blog posts about Soylent and his other (somewhat radical) personal experiments you'll find that his pursuits are similarly aligned.
Ask HN: Is college even worth it if you're worth your salt as a programmer?
Let say you're consistently getting offers at mid-high sized startups and a few "mainstream" companies. Or if you have a few indie projects that generate you some side income. Is there any point in going to college at all?
This shouldn't be possible with https enabled website right? Or am I missing something?
The Hidden Benefits of Open-Sourcing Internal Projects
What about people who think it's simply unjust when innocent people are killed in the name of some religious/political end? E.g. I know that there is almost no chance that I'll be the victim of gang violence. But that doesn't mean I have to just accept the existence of gang violence in my community.
Well, of course Korea asserts Dokdo as part of its territory, and a small circle of water (of radius 12 nautical miles) around it as its territorial waters. (I don't think Japan recognizes it, but of course they wouldn't.)

It's just that Dokdo was not used as a baseline (base point?) in drawing EEZ boundaries between Korea and Japan. So, outside the 12-mile circle, Dokdo is located inside the "middle area" which does not belong to either nation's (currently accepted) EEZ.

IANAL, but I was under the impression that it was Korea who refuses international arbitration. (I mean, why would Korea agree to it? Even if the probability of the "international arbitration" deciding that Dokdo belongs to Japan is 0.01%, it is 0.01% too much.) Maybe you are talking about a different kind of arbitration.
We'd burn logic to chips once a week. That was back in 2011, however.
It's right on spot, if you're on H-1B, there's very little reason (or time) to switch jobs if green card sponsorship in not on the table.
They've done similar before

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5482178

Back then it was to alert folks who were hitting bandwidth quotas and you could make the argument they were trying to help but this one, ugh.
Not when you may not have a correct email address for your customers. (Which is often, for an ISP.)
Oh no. You get the browser notice, the email, the text message, and then finally two days later a phone call that will KEEP CALLING until you acknowledge it through a series of key pad press prompts.

This happens at every 10% starting at 90%.
I spent 10 months traveling and contracting in hostels, and struggled through some pretty shoddy and slow internet connections; However, Taghazout was the one place I couldn't find a consistent internet connection. I only lasted about 2 weeks trying each cafe and even some of the more expensive hotels, but the bigger problem was the power dropping out every 2 hours or so. I tried to get myself to be able to with develop offline, but unfortunately the product ending up getting more and more tied to SaaS products and I wasn't able to stay in Taghazout for longer.

I was curios to see where they found to setup and it turns out they are actually in the adjacent town. I can think of a couple other good reasons to setup somewhere else, but I imagine reliability is part of the reason they are located in the next town over.
Emailing the ISP provided email that I never use is probably not enough.
I have worked in the electronics industry for over a decade and this is the first time I've ever heard the phrase "vertical interconnect access", so I suspect it's a backronym.

Looks like some others at Wikipedia are similarly surprised:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Via_(electronics)
Its just a system, neither fair nor unfair. Designed with certain interests in my mind.

As a good software engineer you can live pretty much anywhere in world, either live with the consequences of accepting US system or move somewhere else. Over time it will get better but complaining that its not fair will not solve it.

For your mistakes, don't blame the employer. If you disclose them your needs they will take advantage. Also you were not a bonded labour while at your big financial firm you could have applied to other position and get better offers.
What is the simpler answer that you think I've overlooked? Corruption in government is not exactly a new phenomenon...
pretty sure it means you own comcast now. i would like to talk to you about canceling my service.
While it does not do anything to HTTPS connections they still get routed through their proxy causing slow downs.
1.math prereqs at UW:http://courses.washington.edu/css490/2012.Winter/lecture_sli...

2. math prereqs at UCSC:http://people.ucsc.edu/~praman1/static/pub/math-for-ml.pdf

3. math prereqs at UMD: https://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~hal/courses/2013S_ML/math4ml.pdf
The terms of service facing the public are not necessarily the terms which Comcast may have negotiated with the copyright holder.
Maybe on credit cards. Probably not on low value debit card transactions, specifically the fixed fee.
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Square has a habit of wasting a bunch of energy on bad ideas: half the company worked on Square Wallet, which was a dead-end. Half the company worked on the Starbucks integration, which is now known to be a money pit.

I sort of think this means that they're undervalued. All they have to do is stop throwing time and money away and they'll be a lot more productive and profitable.
And look at what the Beeb decided not to report:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151118/08474732854/after...

"""Yet news emerging from Paris — as well as evidence from a Belgian ISIS raid in January — suggests that the ISIS terror networks involved were communicating in the clear, and that the data on their smartphones was not encrypted."""

I guess that wasn't "on message."
Is there an example of this in action Jarred? I'm on a Comcast connection right now (DSL was too slow). Looks like it has been happening for a while -- from 2013:

https://gist.github.com/ryankearney/4146814

Blog post: http://blog.ryankearney.com/2013/01/comcast-caught-intercept...

So also used when you near the monthly traffic cap (if your area has active caps).
A well-deserved endorsement from a Microsoft employee. (Assuming your HN profile is up-to-date.)

The kernel I start with is indeed derived from the same one that project started with.
I don't understand - are you saying I was wrong? If so please tell me why or recommend me some reading. I do know that other countries are able state-fund education, but I don't concretely know why they're different. I just assumed that "jumping to guarantee more loans" is an obviously bad idea.
CableOne does this for lots of different stuff. If you're over your bandwidth cap, if you haven't paid your bill yet...

Come to think of it, we have had a rocky relationship, they and I.
HTTPS Everywhere can't happen too soon.

This is abusive. Imagine if anyone else had access to pus you notifications by intercepting your communications. Imagine Uncle Sam interrupting your calls announcing you haven't submitted your tax returns yet. Because that's basically what's happening here.
so it shouldn't be beyond reach of a motivated developer able to set aside some time to learn. MOOCs and organizing study groups with friends/co-workers can help a lot here as well.

I'm in the middle of that process right now. I only took Calc I in college and that was 20 years ago, so I have decided to work my way through a Calc sequence, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, and Probability and Statistics through a combination of MOOCs, "X For Dummies" books, Youtube videos (hello, Gilbert Strang!), Schaum's Outlines books, Khan Academy, a mammoth stack of college maths texts that I've picked up at used book stores, and questions on stats.stackexchange.com, math.stackexchange.com, learnmath.reddit.com, etc.

I'm doing the Ohio State MOOC on Calc I now on Coursera, and accompanying that with the Gilbert Strang "Highlights of Calculus" video series[1]. So far so good. I definitely think this stuff is learnable if one is willing to put in the time and work, even without going back to taking "on campus" classes at a university.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFW_V3qDH5jRyfpD9uiq6...
""They may want superficial diversity, because for them diversity is a code word for 'more of us.'"

Exactly true. Case in point: that poor Asian girl who got booed by these people after talking about black racists.
I wonder what's in it for them? Sending an email should be enough to comply with DMCA. Are they paid by some copyright groups or just being a pushover?
Even if encryption made it easier for a terrorist to organize, it also has made it easier for dissidents to organize against oppression.

Although, I suppose that the government sees both as a problem...
I think, It is good news for disease like Marfan syndrome.
I made an open source project for exploring D&D maps
As a certified psychologist with the authority to diagnose autism in one of my practicing states, I'd be highly interested in meeting with this woman. I find it very unlikely that she could make it through 46 years, marrying, having children, working jobs, generally getting by with high functioning autism.

Having worked with countless children and adults who have / had Aspergers (no longer exists as of DSM-V) and other degrees of autism, stories like hers don't add up. There's a good chance that her psychologist did what many psychologists do today: misdiagnose. Her story does not include one piece of solid evidence that something is seriously abnormal.

That's not to say she does not have autism, but there would have to be a glaring issue with her social, behavioral, or mental functioning, which likely would've prevented her from living a relatively normal life for so many years.

Just because we fit criteria or because we have problems in our lives, it does not mean that we have to give our issues a name. If there's a particular problem, then seek help to alleviate it and stop boxing ourselves into these qualifications and descriptors that essentially mark as fixedly abnormal.
> she should work on reducing crime perp stats for black people.

You're suggesting that a vice president of strategy at a multinational corporation should take on the responsibility of reducing crimes committed by people of her own race? This makes about as much sense as suggesting a Java programmer should do something about reducing the number of methamphetamine users.
You post on Hacker News, which is a marketing vehicle for YCombinator. Your content helps make it more attractive to prospective startup founders, which lets YCombinator reach their target market with virtually no marketing expense.

Why is sending usage data to Microsoft saying "exploit me", but contributing free marketing to YCombinator is something you do daily?

The world doesn't have to operate on zero-sum principles. There's nothing wrong with helping someone or something out "just because".
> Click the button below to confirm you received this Copyright Alert and to close it.

> <button>Close this message</button>

Ahhhh, enterprise IT and corporate counsel synergy at it's finest.
What assets does their proxy proxy on https connections?
Probably not, or rather your development experience will be more valuable.

It may be a barrier in 5-10 years, but you can worry about the problem then.

The main thing is to be continually learning and maintaining a network. If you aren't going to do that, go to college.
A gorgeous quote from the article:

"I propose banning words," he said. "There's evidence [to suggest] that they're being used by terrorists to communicate."
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There's a lot of videos on YouTube of people using Fresnel lenses from old projection TV's and melting various things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrje73EyKag
I'm glad they're responding to negative public opinion in the only honorable way, driving themselves out of business. It's so rare to see a corporation with values.
Yes, I've seen CableOne banners get magically injected into web pages. Sometimes for things as trivial as advertisements.
The first generation Square readers were basically the read head from a tape recorder soldered to an audio plug. All of the signal processing was done in software, and even that was pretty simple - magstripes are low bit-density binary, after all. The readers were simple enough that they made the first few hundred by hand, in San Francisco. Once they started mass producing them they were dirt cheap.

Gradually that's changed, though. Pressure from the credit card industry and other payment processors forced Square to start encrypting the magstripe data so that malware on smartphones wouldn't have access to the card numbers (I don't know whether this is a legitimate concern, but the pressure was strong). So Square started putting integrated circuits (and batteries!) into the readers.

Now, with the chip readers coming out, they're starting to be seriously complicated hardware.
Cloud synchronization is a very common use of a password manager. Many people load their password manager files onto Dropbox, GDrive, etc. Assuming authenticated encryption is properly used and care is taken to avoid leaking metadata, this should be a non-issue.
It's possible these genes contributed no significant evolutionary advantage and their prevalence is just an accident of history. For instance, Genghis Khan's Y chromosome isn't found in a large percentage of Asian males because it confers a selective advantage, he just happened to be in a position to reproduce much more than most.
I searched for lock picks on taobao.com, but found no results. It turns out that only locksmiths are allowed to buy/own lock picks in China :(
HTTPS is good and all, but the real problem is ISPs which don't want to be nothing but a transport provider. Every IP packet I send into their network should end up at its destination, with best effort, completely unmodified, and vice-versa.

That said, in my experience datacenter and enterprise ISPs tend to be far more "pure", so if you want a truly unmolested connection a possible solution could be to use a VPN to a server that terminates in one of those.
OK, I'll bite. What do you think is the easiest?

Keep in mind what I said about configuration. Distinguish configuration from source code. Proper configuration s within the user's control and can be anticipatory and preventative.

Whereas poor quality code in a closed source program is outside the control of the user to fix and usually requires knowledge of someone exploiting it before it will be fixed. This is, unfortunately, after the fact.

Proactive versus reactive.