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Is this really true? Do you only drink pure de-ionized or distilled water? It is certainly important for some applications, but I don't know many people who find it palatable on its own. Pretty much any water you buy or get from your tap has minerals in it, and often they are beneficial to your health.
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> Who here can imagine a doctor telling anyone on earth not to eat more carrots?

Completely tangential, but I can imagine doctors treating patients complaining of Carotenosis:

Carotenemia or carotenaemia (xanthaemia) is the presence of the orange pigment carotene in blood from excessive intake of carrots or other vegetables containing the pigment resulting in increased serum carotenoids. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carotenosis
What makes you think that this wouldn't happen in a healthy democracy? You see dynasties in many other areas (business and sports, for example), so why is it surprising to see it in politics?
True, but in a typical conflict you attack enemy warriors and infrastructure in order to deny them the power to do the same to you. Since you can't hope to convince them to not attack you, you have to kill them. If a general orders you to strike a facility, their direct goal is to have that facility - and its contribution to the enemy war effort - eliminated. Terrorism, on the other hand, is about provoking the enemy into action. Victims are completely unrelated to the goals attackers may have.
If there are hundreds of thousands of these certificates, you will need a custom ACME client anyway. It is not trivial even with a presence of SNI.
I do agree that the US should break away from the two party system, as either choice seems to yield only bad or worse results for the citizens.
There's only been 3000 NBA players in 50 years. http://www.red94.net/3071-nba-players-past-50-years-guess-ma...

I wonder what the rate for lawyers is. I have cousins that are fourth generation lawyer. How many lawyers had a parent or grandparent as a lawyer? I bet it's a lot.

Are people complaining that the new Canadian PM is a child of a former PM? Maybe politicians are better if they were around politicians as children. Not just more likely to win. But actually better leaders. I don't know. I'm not saying they are. But I'm not saying they aren't either.
Yes, my response was about terrorism in the West. What happens in the East is closer to a civil war.
Well in business, you can give your kid the company, and if any employees protest you just tell them "this is not a democracy" so that's not the best comparison.
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This is why electric self-driving cars are the future. Door to door service using existing road infrastructure much more efficiently. Most public transit systems are so poorly run many will not survive.
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Secretary of State isn't one of the top three offices in the Federal Government.

Speaker of the House and President pro tempore of the Senate are both higher, and plainly more important.

It can also easily be argued that the Chief Justice and Fed Chair (granted the Fed occupies an unusual quasi-government role, it's fully within the control of the US Government) positions are far more important, influential, and powerful as far as the Federal Government is concerned, compared to the Secretary of State.
The endpoint of his thought process was to join Mussolini.

"Michels stated that the official goal of representative
democracy of eliminating elite rule was impossible,
that representative democracy is a façade legitimizing
the rule of a particular elite, and that elite rule,
that he refers to as oligarchy, is inevitable.[1] Later
Michels migrated to Italy and joined Benito Mussolini's
Fascist Party, as he believed this was the next
legitimate step of modern societies. The thesis became
popular once more in post-war America with the
publication of Union Democracy: The Internal Politics
of the International Typographical Union (1956) and
during the red scare brought about by McCarthyism."
Yeah, that's always a bit of a weird one to me too, but I'm sufficiently used to it in a British English context at this point, I guess. I don't think I could pull it off in the US without some stares.
Ding dongs that don't understand how SSL works.

Just use Cloudflare and be done with it. It takes like 10 minutes to get a totally free self hosted blog with SSL. Except the price of the domain name, I guess.
As some who cares both about accessibility on the web and security, what up-to-date browsers don't support ECDHE and what else would be reasonable to support as well?
seems so http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141125074656.ht...
This is so cool, it's even cheaper than an Arduino. This could turn into a standard embedded development, OS development and learning board for every enthusiast and students.

The cost makes it a great choice for students with less resources.

This is easily my pocket pc now.
While your point is entirely valid, it's worth remembering that while the various Bushes are related genetically, Hillary Rodham is related to Bill Clinton only by marriage, therefore it's not a hereditary link.
There's no reason advertising won't play a role on the Internet.
It depends on how the company is run. If you embrace the changes needed at 30 you're good to go until 150-200 people. If not then yeah, organizational debt will be high enough then that the org will need a good shake up.
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The only problematic aspect of this proposal is not pushing for faster vesting. Slow vesting creates an adverse incentive for managers and founders; and in the absence of any right to suspend them, removes the only leverage that employees have today: departure.
I wouldn't even think about releasing a programming language without an accurate syntax coloring definition for at least one major editor, maintained side by side.

Looking at code without coloring is like looking at a road atlas that has been photocopied in black and white.

Even some grayscale cues are better than nothing.

I actually run the Vim editor dynamically out of Apache to colorize TXR files. You can see that here and here:

http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/share/txr/stdlib/struct...

http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/tests/010/align-columns...

The second example shows a mixture of two languages: a Lisp dialect and an extraction language. Both have their own sets of standard symbols (which intersect: there are some symbols in common). They are correctly rendered in a different color: the Lisp words are green, and the extraction language words are burgundy red. This kind of thing is very helpful.

The Vim definition I maintain is quite accurate --- and not only for correct programs. I stuffed in rules so that errors are boldly flagged. For instance, even little things like using an undefined escape sequence in a character string or regex literal. (And it knows the exact set for all literals.) This works remarkably well; hardly any typos I make get by it.

Syntax highlighting definitions also help with formatting;
they provide the editor with nesting cues for indentation.

Working without this stuff this day and age is completely silly.
(Kalid from BetterExplained here)

Thanks, really glad the site is resonating. My goal is to ask the genuine (and slightly uncomfortable) question of "Did I experience the concept beyond the technical definition?"

For something like Calculus, I could parrot out the formal definition of the derivative, using limits. But could I describe it as "X-Ray vision", where I look at a curve and see a sequence of tangent lines? A filled-in circle and see the constituent rings?

I think we've forgotten to let people hear the song, not just memorize the sheet music.
What about Eisenhower?
IE 6, Android 2.X and IOS 3.X...

I feel like a github project page is unlikely to have a lot of visitors running IE 6.
Did you read the part in the wiki article about student unions?

>>Every year between one quarter and one half of the membership turns over, and Gregory argues this creates a situation where elected student leaders become dependent on student union staff for institutional memory and guidance.

Although Obama was president, Bill Clinton's former Chief of Staff, Leon Panetta, who is very close to him personally was Secretary of Defense and Director of the CIA while Bill Clinton's wife was Secretary of State. All top positions in the Department of Defense, CIA, and Department of State are connected to this very small group. It's amazing that Obama is president and Bill Clinton's closest allies are in top positions. Long after the Clintons are gone their influence will remain in the 'institutional memory'.
> Oddly, no previous management research has looked at what the legal literature says about the topic, so we conducted a systematic analysis of a century’s worth of legal theory and precedent. It turns out that the law provides a surprisingly clear answer: Shareholders do not own the corporation, which is an autonomous legal person. What’s more, when directors go against shareholder wishes—even when a loss in value is documented—courts side with directors the vast majority of the time.

http://hbr.org/2010/04/the-myth-of-shareholder-capitalism/ar...
If you by "in the West" you mean domestic western terrorism... maybe. Still, in the US the FBI and other gov't agencies monitor those orgs because of the potential to escalate into an undesirable state.

If you mean middle eastern terrorism jumping over into the west, I think it's fair to say that if they could, they would strike, but the threat has been managed well with the security precautions in place, but that's not to say they aren't trying to overcome their shortcomings.
You do realize that the concept of a "sugar high" is fictional propaganda invented to help enforce sugar rationing during WW2. Painting juice consumption as dangerous is silly. Not everyone is an incipient diabetic.
probably nothing up-to-date, hence I wrote older :)
Opera 12.xx being one of the older browsers that works 99% of the time, except EVERY SINGLE page with Cloudflare cert

What makes matters worse is CloudFlare lying about support level:
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/203041594-W...

They claim Opera 8, 2005 browser supports ecdhe.
Yeah, I think the language that we use in the UK in professional contexts is a lot more salty.

I prefer it, I think if you say it politely, mentioning to your project manager - "if we don't do X we will be completely fucked", is fine.
I'd love to, but I don't know if anybody is transcribing the ANTIC podcasts at this point (somebody should though, because their interview collection is an amazing picture of early home computing and has lots of parallels that would be relevant to the HN crowd).
This is nothing new. John Adams was the 2nd President and his son was the 6th President. William Harrison was the 9th president and his grandson Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd president. Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt were distance cousins. Just reading that Franklin's wife was closer in relation to Theodore than Franklin. Include John, Robert, and Ted Kennedy. Surely there would have been a greater dynasty if John wasn't assassinated.
Nixon was the Vice President under Eisenhower 1953-1961.
@vegabook your ideas are interesting and I would like to hear more about them, particularly wrt asset bubbles. if you have a blog or something you should put a link in your HN profile.
I could easily spend an hour switching through color schemes, and have done so. It shows. My wife looks over my shoulder sometimes and says that it looks gorgeous!

I believe that the color scheme is crucially important; it's a form of ergonomics. Bad colors will lead to fatigue.

Certain choices are obviously bad, like hues that make comments or other elements almost impossible to read; insufficient contrasts and so on.
Well, I'm not actually sure if there's any problem with asymmetric keys, now.

I think, since asymmetric keys depend on factors of big prime numbers, they are vulnerable to quantum computers actually. Whenever those start working, keys become easily breakable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography
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How that probably works is that with this distinction, you know at a glance which windows on your desktop are editor windows with code and which are command lines (or possibly editors that have suspended to the background to go to a command line).

It's ... meta-syntactic-highlighting for your entire desktop! Different types of windows are colored differently, just like different kinds of identifiers in one window.
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Perhaps you'd like to define what a blockchain means outside the context of Bitcoin?

Is SCP a Blockchain? Is Hyperledger? Is Tendermint?

Is every database that uses a replicated log a blockchain?

Are Certificate Transparency logs blockchains? Do Merkle trees count as blockchains?

It's a meaningless term that was never used or defined in the Bitcoin paper.
I don't think that's what it's saying. When people are scared out of their minds they tend to respond reflexively rather than rationally, and in the case of terrorism they tend to do things that make things worse (confer legitimacy on the "enemy," give them the war they want, invade Iraq) or things that are totally tangential or even orthogonal to the problem (warrantless domestic wiretapping and mass collection of phone data; giving law enforcement tools and training brutally put down protests; invade Iraq). The author just wants us to respond to terrorism in a rational state of mind, when we at least have a chance of doing things that make the problem better, not worse.
Extended essay for the speech: http://electricliterature.com/are-we-alone/
> is that they make it seem like the best course is to do nothing

When "doing something" is worse than "doing nothing", then yes we should do nothing. Off the top of my head, the things we've done because of 9/11:

* Create DHS

* Begin TSA security theater

* Start illegal NSA metadata collection program

* Afghanistan + Iraq ("not related", but had support from misinformed public) wars.

A good thing I can think of: more secure cockpit doors. On balance, yeah, I wish we had done nothing after 9/11. On the other hand it's not impossible for good actions as a result, but we have a pretty bad track record of it.

The importance of putting the _actual_ consequences in perspective is to let you at least consider that maybe we don't have to do anything sometimes. It's like the 80/20 rule or anything with diminishing marginal returns: to actually achieve flat out 100% safety and security is going to be an extremely expensive endeavor both in monetary terms and in how our society and ideals have to change.
He is working backward from his own personal preference and working awfully hard to justify that as if he came to that conclusion for logical reasons.

People often think they are acting logically when frequently they are working backwards to write narratives that justify the way they choose to act.
If you live in a city like New York City, your chances of being killed by terrorism is surely more than someone living in Provo, Utah. I wonder how the statistics would look when taking location into account.
That reads like an advertisement, but I have one myself and it works pretty well.

Downsides:

- Hooking it up to the existing wiring wasn't possible in our case, because of electrical incompatibility. Definitely research this ahead of time. Charging is every few months it seems if you turn on motion detection.

- It makes just one sound, and it's rather annoying. I really wish I could upload a different sound.

- Prior to the last recharge, but before receiving a battery alert, we had a few cases where you had to press the button a few times before it worked. But that was a few months ago, and it has been working reliably since.

Upsides: everything mentioned in the article.
Quite frankly there is a need for a third party (an honest broker) that come handle all this on behalf of employees, along with salary, benefits, 401k, and other related financial matters.

When people cannot balance their checkbooks, and cannot make simple financial planning for the next 6 months, how are they to understand these seemingly complex structures.

UNLESS SOFTWARE.
This is what Bruce Schneier said after the Boston Marathon bombing:

As the details about the bombings in Boston unfold, it'd be easy to be scared. It'd be easy to feel powerless and demand that our elected leaders do something—anything—to keep us safe.

It'd be easy, but it'd be wrong. We need to be angry and empathize with the victims without being scared. Our fears would play right into the perpetrators' hands—and magnify the power of their victory for whichever goals whatever group behind this, still to be uncovered, has. We don't have to be scared, and we're not powerless. We actually have all the power here, and there's one thing we can do to render terrorism ineffective: Refuse to be terrorized.

There are things we can do to make us safer, mostly around investigation, intelligence, and emergency response, but we will never be 100-percent safe from terrorism; we need to accept that.

How well this attack succeeds depends much less on what happened in Boston than by our reactions in the coming weeks and months. Terrorism isn't primarily a crime against people or property. It's a crime against our minds, using the deaths of innocents and destruction of property as accomplices. When we react from fear, when we change our laws and policies to make our country less open, the terrorists succeed, even if their attacks fail. But when we refuse to be terrorized, when we're indomitable in the face of terror, the terrorists fail, even if their attacks succeed.

Don't glorify the terrorists and their actions by calling this part of a "war on terror." Wars involve two legitimate sides. There's only one legitimate side here; those on the other are criminals. They should be found, arrested, and punished. But we need to be vigilant not to weaken the very freedoms and liberties that make this country great, meanwhile, just because we're scared.

Empathize, but refuse to be terrorized. Instead, be indomitable—and support leaders who are as well. That's how to defeat terrorists.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/04/the-bost...
Well, Romania as well as Hungary and Bulgaria are fully European cultures. Sure, there are historical influences and economic contexts that made them different than mainstream Western Europe, and one can quote "Balkans" as a different attitude, but in terms of mindsets and value systems EE and WE are in the same category, different than India, China and other geographical regions. Not passing a judgement value here, just pointing out the similarities and the reason why US/WE people can work easier with EE people than with, say, Chinese - just as those Chinese would work better with Vietnamese or Indonesians, etc.

As a particular element to note: say what you want about it, but behind the Iron Curtain education was taken very seriously in sciences and engineering (maybe less so in the so-called humanistic areas because those would risk to come in conflict with the official communist doctrine). The technology and labs in the universities were sometimes lacking, but they surely made up in terms of solid theoretical education. So the foundations were there for competency when the computer age dawned - what generally lacked was (still is) the capital.
You're free to your opinion in the same way a government is free to not enforce any "intellectual property" rights a corporation may attempt to exert.
Pass signed messages to one another and accumulate them into a consistent record, yes. But when all the entities are known there's no need for proof-of-waste mining.
I still don't understood how that followed. What am I missing?
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Great idea Sam. I assume going forward you will be asking for less equity for your LPs.
This is an old post. It's worth noting that 10/20/30/40 grants did not work (duh!!) and companies (at least the smart ones) have moved away from them. It's also worth noting 83b / early exercise is very common now (hurray!) and can essentially double the value of the equity to the employee (only if they can take advantage of it). ISOs are very toxic.

One last piece of advice if you're trying to value the equity in an offer: keep in mind IPOs usually require share prices >= $10 and reverse splits are a favored tool to make that happen.
I think it's unfortunate that he doesn't go into greater detail on the "considerable problems" posed by employees selling their options (or similar transactions). From the simple perspective of fair dealing with employees, it seems obvious that employees should be able to do with what they've earned as they will, so there must be some legal reason that this is inconvenient. If he actually thinks that the incentive argument is strong enough to override the moral argument I would be skeptical, but would love to hear a fully fleshed out argument, given that employers could instead change vesting schedules if they think employees don't actually deserve to own those shares at those times.
Yes, refugees like Tsarnaev tend to influence.
I think this is largely explained by Hayek's 'Problem of Knowledge in Society': http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw1.html

Direct Democracy was impossible and representative democracy was necessary because it was impossible to aggregate the wishes of a populace.

Mass telecommunication solves or at least paves the road to solving this problem.
Ab abusu ad usum non valet consequentia :)

Colloquial translation for those of you playing along at home:

The burden of proof lies with he who affirms not he who denies, since by the nature of things, he who denies cannot produce any proof.

(This is the classic statement of the presumption of innocence, and also one of the core principles in the dawn of Enlightenment era science, where it was adapted into our modern understanding of scientific skepticism.)

>That which is said in Latin seems deep.

Just because something is abused does not mean that a proper usage of the same is also wrong.

We're also attempting to communicate solely through well known quotations, which poses its own set of unique constraints.
Of the canned ones in Vim, what do you think of "fnaqevan"?

By the way, something is wrong: my Vim isn't responding to ":set background=light" (or dark). The colors change, but not the background.
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Gas prices at the pump are absurdly low relative to either the direct costs of maintaining the infrastructure cars need and covering state subsidies for oil, or compared to the indirect costs in people killed in car accidents, health problems caused by smog, or CO2 emissions disrupting global climate. These could also be paid for via road tolls, higher parking fees, car taxes, etc., but gas prices are one of the more convenient possibilities.

Gas in Europe is something like twice as expensive.
I understand the broad strokes here, but an extended example would clarify how exactly this prevents XSS.
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Having a diabetic brother made me research a lot of stuff so I beg to differ.

If nothing else, high and uneven sugar levels are a recipe for getting fat and to get insulin resistance.

Excess glicose floating around in your bloodstream is harmful. You want a constant, baseline level, but the rest should be removed asap.
What about search going social. It seems to me that I find a lot of my information on the social media now like Facebook. It just seems like i search a lot less now than i used to. Its not that people search on social media. I get fed information relentlessly and i have little time or energy left to google anything.